Full Disclosure with Roben Farzad

Roben Farzad
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Feb 17, 2025 • 1h 1min

Abigail Spanberger Live

Virginia gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger -- previously a three-term member of Congress and CIA officer -- on Trump II vs. Washington; foreign affairs; culture wars; and the Democrats' messaging problem. Taped before an audience at the Virginia Museum of History & Culture.
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Feb 9, 2025 • 56min

Backwash

It's "innovate or die" in craft beer -- the recently booming industry that survived the pandemic only to face lagging sales, drinkers' shifting preferences (seltzer everywhere) and even tariffs on the horizon. Andrew Coplon of Craft Beer Professionals and a pair of brewers talk to guest host Ian Stewart.
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Jan 31, 2025 • 56min

Richard Stengel

Rick Stengel on his journey to and from the top job at TIME magazine to traveling the world as Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs.
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Jan 27, 2025 • 54min

Hamilton Lane's Erik Hirsch

Erik Hirsch, co-CEO of alternative investment management house Hamilton Lane, on getting Americans across generations to better save, invest and diversify -- as sobering demographic and market realities take hold.
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Jan 16, 2025 • 58min

Ray Suarez

Veteran newsman Ray Suarez on his book We Are Home: Becoming American in the 21st Century, which illustrates the nation's volatile relationship with immigration. We also discussed staying alive in journalism -- despite ageism, rampant layoffs and increasing hostility from Washington and Big Tech.
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Jan 8, 2025 • 34min

Morgan Till of PBS News

Morgan Till, PBS News foreign affairs and defense editor, takes us around the globe -- from Canada to Greenland to the Mideast to Panama -- as Donald Trump returns to the White House.
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Dec 20, 2024 • 52min

Liz Ann Sonders of Charles Schwab & Co.

Liz Ann Sonders, chief investment strategist at Charles Schwab & Co., on markets, the Fed, inflation...lots more. The 53-year-old brokerage house now has more than $10 trillion in total client assets.
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Dec 12, 2024 • 54min

Syria, Suddenly

Hussein Ibish on the sudden fall of Assad's Syria -- a 54-year dictatorship that collapsed in days. What does this mean for the U.S., Iran, Russia, Turkey, Israel ... the Mideast's entire disordered-order as Donald Trump returns to the White House?
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Dec 8, 2024 • 53min

ICYMI

In case you missed it, excerpts from recent interviews: Brandcenter chief Vann Graves on the lessons of earned media and Election 2024; true crime bestseller T.J. English on his latest, The Last Kilo; Hollywood insider Janice Min on cable TV's last stand.
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Nov 26, 2024 • 56min

T.J. English on The Last Kilo

True-crime bestseller T.J. English on his latest, The Last Kilo: Willy Falcon and the Cocaine Empire that Seduced America. We go into the backstory of getting Miami's fabled cocaine king to go on the record; the long arm of the law, over more than four decades; and reconciling legend and Hollywood with the sober truths of spending so much of a life in prison.

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