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Apr 25, 2021 • 51min

Healthcare's Major IT Factor

The U.S. spends $4 trillion a year on healthcare. COVID has accelerated the adoption of telemedicine and spawned major investments in testing, machine learning and artificial intelligence -- rapidly moving hundreds of billions of dollars to new frontiers. There's still plenty of waste. But also a feeling that new opportunities abound. We talk to a physician-investor and a healthcare banker about the landscape.
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Apr 18, 2021 • 55min

Risk-Onward

A seemingly relentless bull market in all sorts of assets -- from stocks to crypto to real estate to newfangled NFTs -- has traffic booming at Investopedia, where veteran business journalist Caleb Silver is editor-in-chief. He rejoins us to discuss ... just about everything.
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Apr 12, 2021 • 53min

Top Chef's Brittanny Anderson

Brittanny Anderson, who is competing on this season of Top Chef, on her journey from wings and flair at Hooters to national culinary stardom. In 2019, we interviewed her in front of a live, hungry audience.
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Apr 2, 2021 • 56min

On Sayman's Terms

The story of software engineer and entrepreneur Michael Sayman, a child of immigrants who as a teenager taught himself how to build apps. After supporting his parents during the Great Recession, he joined Facebook at age 17 -- becoming a reluctant Silicon Valley celebrity. His book is App Kid: How a Child of Immigrants Grabbed a Piece of the American Dream.
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Mar 26, 2021 • 53min

The Legends of Ricardo "Monkey" Morales

Cold Warrior; informant; demolition expert; spy; mercenary; cocaine provocateur; Nazi hunter; quoter of military histories. Four decades after notorious Cuban exile Ricardo "Monkey" Morales was killed in Miami, his son, Rick Jr. is piecing together Dad's tormented story.
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Mar 21, 2021 • 45min

Live: Poets & Quants

Poets & Quants founder and editor-in-chief John Byrne on the costs and rewards of the MBA degree; remote learning; the search for meaning in business careers -- and much more. Recorded live with the University of Richmond's Robins School.
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Mar 12, 2021 • 48min

Till the Ends of the Earth

PBS NewsHour foreign editor Morgan Till on the Middle East, China, Myanmar, vaccine diplomacy and other geopolitical hard choices confronting the Biden White House.
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Mar 5, 2021 • 49min

World War Tech

Apple vs Facebook. Google vs Apple (only when Google isn't paying Apple). Microsoft vs Amazon. Facebook vs Google (when they aren't busy tag-teaming). Amazon vs everything. The Economist's tech and business editor Tamzin Booth on Big Tech's multi-trillion-dollar battles, collusions and consolidations.
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Feb 24, 2021 • 54min

Grammy Hopeful

Iran-born, Canada-raised actor, playwright and all-around funnywoman Tara Grammy on the hustle, big breaks and side-gigging that got her to where she is today. Plus, Iran's former queen came to her show ... What the heck is SNL waiting for?
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Feb 18, 2021 • 45min

The Brawling Twenties

Amy Walter, national editor of The Cook Political Report and host of Politics on The Takeaway, on the battle for the soul of the GOP in the wake of the Trump presidency. We discussed the Capitol riot; Elections 2022 and 2024; Mitch McConnell; the Electoral College; demographics; swing voters; Georgia; North Carolina; much more.

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