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Roben Farzad
The business of culture. The culture of business. Policy; media & tech; entrepreneurs and more.
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Jul 31, 2023 • 52min
Building Keya
Keya didn't even have an oven in India. But a decade and a half into her new life in Virginia, she's become a cake-pop mogul, Food Network champ and, now, the force behind Keya & Co., whose masala potato chips are a first foray into grocery-aisle stardom. She discussed personal tragedy, pivoting during Covid and the learning curve of taking her brand national.

Jul 23, 2023 • 1h 8min
Disney Minus
The Walt Disney Co -- venerable multinational entertainment blue-chip -- is broken, what with ESPN in free fall, streaming losing billions, linear TV collapsing and management succession in doubt. Oh, and a huge talent strike. Could CEO Bob Iger have to break it all up? Guests: The Media Mix's Claire Atkinson; and Shipyard Entertainment's Neil J. Patel -- who in a past life managed strategic alliances for Disney.

Jul 17, 2023 • 55min
Meet Me Half Way
Investopedia's Caleb Silver joins us again to discuss markets and the economy at the midway point of 2023.

Jul 8, 2023 • 52min
What Matters
Craig Matters, formerly managing editor of Money and executive editor of Fortune, on leaving magazines to teach at an underserved public school.

Jul 3, 2023 • 51min
ICYMI
In case you missed it: highlights from recent episodes, including our live show in Charlottesville with CBS Face the Nation's Margaret Brennan; Chef Jeremiah of Food Network and Rick Ross fame; indie bookseller Mitchell Kaplan fights back against Florida's anti-book movement; and Julia Lee on her memoir, Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America.

Jun 24, 2023 • 51min
Chef Jeremiah's Great Leap
The in-demand Miami chef discusses his journey, from culinary school to learning the ropes on the international Michelin-star circuit to Food Network, multimedia content-creation, mobile hospitality and becoming a personal chef to rapper Rick Ross. Now, brick-and-mortar...

Jun 18, 2023 • 1h 14min
Book Values
Author Julia Lee on her memoir, Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America; and Books & Books and the Miami Book Fair's Mitchell Kaplan on resisting the creeping book bans of the culture war.

Jun 11, 2023 • 1h 3min
Five Decades of Covering China
Mike Chinoy, CNN's first Beijing bureau chief, on China 34 years after the Tiananmen Square crackdown. We discussed Taiwan, trade, Covid, the surveillance state and cracks in Xi Jinping's consolidation efforts at home and abroad. Chinoy's book is Assignment China: An Oral History of American Journalists in the People's Republic.

May 25, 2023 • 60min
Live from Charlottesville: Face the Nation's Margaret Brennan
CBS Face the Nation's Margaret Brennan discusses politics, world affairs, the state of TV news and her career ascent. Taped for an audience at Charlottesville's historic Paramount Theater -- in celebration of WVTF Radio IQ's 50th anniversary.

May 23, 2023 • 52min
ICYMI
Barry Ritholtz on work from home vs productivity; Mo News's Mosheh Oinounou on Big Media's digital fumbling; a Stanford dermatologist on AI and machine learning in the detection of skin cancer; the young woman who went from hunger and homelessness to running for Virginia's House of Delegates