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Apr 7, 2023 • 1h 3min
Disintermedia
Showrunner / doc maker Nayeema Raza ("On with Kara Swisher") and the rascally SoCal creatives behind NPRmageddon on breaking through in the great, wide, overcrowded open of 2020s multimedia.

Mar 31, 2023 • 52min
College's New Moneyball
Miami, San Diego State and Florida Atlantic in the Final Four? Could we be entering a brave new era of parity across college sports? After all, star student athletes can now get paid and even flex some free agency. How will this affect all of sports? Guests: Sean Gregory of TIME -- who once played in March Madness -- and Greg Burton of VCU's Center for Sports Leadership.

Mar 26, 2023 • 50min
The Diversified Rock Star
Kevin Griffin, frontman for the band Better Than Ezra -- a prolific songwriter, producer, lecturer and festival impresario -- on thriving through the three decades of music-industry dislocation. His new book is The Greatest Song: Spark Creativity, Ignite Your Career and Transform Your Life.

Mar 16, 2023 • 49min
Herbal Remedy
Veteran market-watcher Herb Greenberg -- Empire Financial Research and the "Herb on the Street" newsletter; a regular on CNBC -- on the need for perspective amid 2023's banking panic. Discipline and independent thinking has historically rewarded investors.

Mar 10, 2023 • 52min
Inflation's Inflection
NPR Planet Money's Mary Childs on inflation: recognizing it; living with it; profiting from it; hedging against it; fighting it. Does the Federal Reserve have to sink the economy in order to rescue it?

Mar 7, 2023 • 52min
ICYMI
In case you missed it, a rewind back to recent interviews, including new-generation ad exec Omid Farhang; acquisitive chef Mike Lindsey; CNBC media correspondent Alex Sherman and the exclusive Underground Kitchen's pivot to feeding the food-insecure.

Feb 26, 2023 • 49min
The Velvet-Roped Underground
Do well. Do good. Do both. The Underground Kitchen, one of the most exclusive fine-dining tickets across dozens of cities (refresh browser, hope, refresh browser), is now also bent on nourishing the food insecure. How these paths converged.

Feb 19, 2023 • 50min
Media's Urge to Merge
Streaming viewership just surpassed traditional TV. But profits are elusive, costs are out of control and there's just so much login fatigue right now. CNBC media reporter Alex Sherman on who needs to merge with who. Plus, a flashback to our interview with the kidney doctor who became a full-time Apple guru.

Feb 12, 2023 • 50min
Restless Restaurateur
Chef Michael Lindsey -- Lillie Pearl; Buttermilk and Honey; ML Steak -- on how he and his wife / business partner went off on their own during the pandemic to open seven Richmond restaurants (and counting)...

Feb 6, 2023 • 50min
Free Agency
Omid Farhang on starting Majority, the award-winning Atlanta creative agency that markets diversity as "the ultimate competitive advantage." His co-founder is NBA Hall of Famer Shaquille O'Neal.