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Warren Buffett disciple Tom Gayner started at Markel Corp in 1990 and reinvented the insurer into an investing powerhouse with diverse holdings. Gayner's eye for good values (financial and cultural)helped propel Markel's stock to 93 times where it traded upon his arrival. We talk about his career, markets and the lost art of "value investing" in go-go-growth 2018.

Investor and b-school case-study darlings Facebook, Google and Amazon now sport a combined $2 trillion in value and enviable swathes of market share. The Economist's U.S. tech editor Alexandra Suich Bass on how the triumvirate's dominance is bad for consumers and competition.

Democrat Abigail Spanberger, a former CIA officer, is trying to ride this year's growing blue wave to win Virginia's 7th U.S. Congressional district. President Trump is unpopular, grassroots activists are buzzed and Democrats think the incumbent is vulnerable. The seat has been held by Republicans since 1971; the Tea Party snatched it in 2014 and Trump won the district by six points.

The Council on Foreign Relations president and veteran diplomat on the volatility of international affairs in the era of Trump. We discuss Haass's latest book, A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order. [Twitter @FullDRadio | Facebook.com/FullDRadio]

Bloomberg Gadfly's Shira Ovide on tech's heady year...and the tensions and risks going into 2018. Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Google, Netflix, Snapchat. Uber. Twitter. WholeFoodsPrime. It's all here.

Top-ranked financial advisors Dalal Salomon and Daniel Ludwin (Salomon & Ludwin: $1 billion in assets) on the increasingly tricky questions facing investors after yet another huge year for markets. Complacency is rampant. Nothing is really cheap. Who even remembers volatility? What's a correction? Is cash necessarily trash?

Do call it a comeback: How Patricia Williams went from a violent and hungry childhood, drug-dealing, teen motherhood and prison ("I've been shot twice and hit by a dump truck!") to breakout fame on the national comedy circuit. Her hot-selling memoir is Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat -- and you must read it. But first listen to this episode.

Alfred Spellman and Billy Corben of Rakontur -- the award-winning studio behind "Cocaine Cowboys" and ESPN's "The U" -- on stage at WNYC to make sense of Big Media & Entertainment's decline. Is anyone truly doing digital profitably? Who pays for journalism anymore? And Miami ... just what is it about Miami?

Eli Lake of Bloomberg View on the increasingly uneasy plate tectonics of international relations in the Middle East, from Saudi Arabia's feud with Iran and its implications on Beirut; to Israel's newfound love for Riyadh; and Syria and Baghdad's debt to Tehran. Oh, and has anyone seen Lebanon's Prime Minister?

Brandcenter chief Helayne Spivak started out in 1973 as a Madison Ave receptionist. She endured rampant sexism to work her way up to copywriter and then decorated industry exec. "#MeToo", she now says, in this season of confession for victims of sexual harassment and abuse...in Hollywood, corporate America, newsrooms...just about everywhere.