Full Disclosure with Roben Farzad

Roben Farzad
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Jul 23, 2024 • 1h

Just Joe

Social media darling "Just Joe" Altier -- self-proclaimed blue collar musician -- on making a living in the era of disruption from TikTok, Spotify and AI. Plus, Def Leppard, Rush and Cyndi Lauper.
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Jul 17, 2024 • 51min

ICYMI

In case you missed it: Netflix's "How to Rob a Bank;" The Economist on the solar revolution; former CIA director Gen. David Petraeus.
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Jul 1, 2024 • 54min

We Cannot Comprehend the Solar Revolution

The Economist's Hal Hodson on how solar energy is rapidly eclipsing our fossil fuel-based reality. The implications are revolutionary -- from clean water and A/C for the poorest populations; to a Saharan land grab; to solar-powered carbon vacuums; to fatter corporate profits. And so many dividends we cannot yet imagine.
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Jun 21, 2024 • 53min

Netflix's "How to Rob a Bank"

Seth Porges on his hit Netflix documentary "How to Rob a Bank" -- which tells the stranger-than-fiction story of the 'Hollywood Bandit,' a treehouse-dwelling ex-meth dealer who evaded authorities as he hit bank after bank in and around Seattle.
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Jun 14, 2024 • 51min

Gen. David Petraeus

Former CIA director. Professor. Commander. PhD. The 37-year military leader is now a partner with investing colossus KKR. We discussed the Middle East, Afghanistan, Ukraine, China, frontier-markets investing and Petraeus's bestseller, Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine.
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Jun 10, 2024 • 52min

ICYMI

Highlights from recent episodes, including Slate's head of audio Alicia Montgomery; Chicken Fiesta founder Harold Vega; and Larry Ingrassia, author of A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery
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May 22, 2024 • 54min

Author Lawrence Ingrassia: A Fatal Inheritance

Lawrence Ingrassia on his book A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery. The veteran journalist, who lost his mother, two sisters, brother and nephew to cancer, discusses the painstaking detective work that has gone into understanding his family's Li-Fraumeni Syndrome.
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May 19, 2024 • 54min

Filmmaker B.K. Fulton

Soulidifly Productions' founder and CEO B.K. Fulton on reinventing from the top executive ranks of Verizon into a career as a prolific filmmaker and Broadway producer.
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May 12, 2024 • 52min

Chicken Fiesta

Restaurateur Harold Vega on leaving the violence of his native Colombia for the U.S. -- where he bussed tables and accumulated the ambition and capital to found Virginia rotisserie empire Chicken Fiesta.
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Apr 30, 2024 • 56min

Alicia Montgomery

Alicia Montgomery, Slate's head of audio and a longtime NPR producer, on the converging and diverging words of public and for-profit media. Slate, a 28-year old digital media OG with a roster of hit podcasts, just had its most profitable year on record.

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