
Full Disclosure with Roben Farzad
The business of culture. The culture of business. Policy; media & tech; entrepreneurs and more.
Latest episodes

Feb 11, 2021 • 1h 4min
Live Mind: Rebuilding The Franklins
Can we leverage the network effects and audience "hive mind" of a live show to help a guest with a life problem? With the University of Richmond's Robins School of Business, I interview a young father whose family and work lives were devastated by COVID. Professional mentors and community members hear his story, interview him and help him figure out the best paths ahead.

Jan 27, 2021 • 51min
Public Mediator
Veteran journalist, speaker and author Celeste Headlee on the open letter, "An Anti-Racist Future: A Vision and Plan for the Transformation of Public Media" -- her collaboration with more than 200 people in the industry.

Jan 21, 2021 • 54min
The Low-Carbon Investor
Serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist Josh Felser on the surging excitement for sustainable investing. We discuss gut-friendly cattle feed, regenerative farming, battery storage and the power grid, timber credits, solar, Tesla...and lots more.

Jan 15, 2021 • 49min
COVID-19 ... '20 '21
Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding is an epidemiologist, health economist and senior fellow at the American Federation of Scientists. In January 2020, he was one of the first U.S. doctors to sound five alarms on COVID-19. What he's learned in the catastrophic year since ... and what he wishes the world would learn.

Jan 8, 2021 • 55min
Stern Disciplines
WSJ tech guru Joanna Stern on how gadgets, subscriptions and social media have taken over our lives -- for better and worse. We discussed working from home, the consumption of news and becoming a digital pioneer at a 132-year old newspaper.

Dec 28, 2020 • 1h 20min
Who Was Bernie?
In this special double episode, Full Disclosure meets the book Hotel Scarface: Who was Bernardo De Torres, the Cuban exile linked to the JFK assassination who in 2018 died homeless and alone in Miami? Fernand Amandi, Joan Mellen and Jefferson Morley on the dark legend.

Dec 17, 2020 • 55min
Fear and Loathing in Hollywood
Documentary makers Billy Corben and Alfred Spellman (Cocaine Cowboys; ESPN's The U; 537 Votes) on Hollywood's most disruptive year in memory.

Dec 9, 2020 • 53min
National Public Reinvention
What is "public radio" in 2020? NPR chief marketing officer Michael Smith on disruption and opportunity in the New Golden Age of Audio.

Dec 4, 2020 • 54min
ECON 2020
Financial Times contributing editor Brendan Greeley on economic policy's year-2020 crash course.

Nov 23, 2020 • 54min
The Economist's World in 2021
The Economist's deputy editor Tom Standage on the magazine's "World in 2021" issue. We discussed COVID, international relations, Biden's many challenges, Brexit, tech, risk, the Mideast and various new (and not-so-new) normals.