

Full Disclosure with Roben Farzad
Roben Farzad
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Aug 28, 2023 • 1h 1min
Reimagining This Show
Nine years after Full Disclosure's debut, a creative self-audit -- featuring co-producers Claire Morgan and Case Graham ... and, back by popular demand, my little brother Ronnie Farzad.

Aug 18, 2023 • 52min
Hotel Scarface on Full Disclosure
Book meets pod! A special supercut of Hotel Scarface characters on Full Disclosure -- from Mollie, the "cocaine cowgirl," to the Miseducation of Nelson Aguilar; to salutatorian-turned-doper Owen Band; to Rick Morales, Jr. piecing together the life of his infamous father, Ricardo "Monkey" Morales.

Aug 15, 2023 • 50min
ICYMI
Highlights from recent episodes, including Disney's summer from hell; Chef Keya on going national; Ben Smith on launching Semafor; and the former top editor of Money on leaving media to teach at an underserved high school.

Aug 6, 2023 • 52min
The New News Thing
Ben Smith on why he left his media column at The New York Times to launch news startup Semafor with the CEO of Bloomberg Media. His book is Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral.

Jul 31, 2023 • 52min
Building Keya
Keya didn't even have an oven in India. But a decade and a half into her new life in Virginia, she's become a cake-pop mogul, Food Network champ and, now, the force behind Keya & Co., whose masala potato chips are a first foray into grocery-aisle stardom. She discussed personal tragedy, pivoting during Covid and the learning curve of taking her brand national.

Jul 23, 2023 • 1h 8min
Disney Minus
The Walt Disney Co -- venerable multinational entertainment blue-chip -- is broken, what with ESPN in free fall, streaming losing billions, linear TV collapsing and management succession in doubt. Oh, and a huge talent strike. Could CEO Bob Iger have to break it all up? Guests: The Media Mix's Claire Atkinson; and Shipyard Entertainment's Neil J. Patel -- who in a past life managed strategic alliances for Disney.

Jul 17, 2023 • 55min
Meet Me Half Way
Investopedia's Caleb Silver joins us again to discuss markets and the economy at the midway point of 2023.

Jul 8, 2023 • 52min
What Matters
Craig Matters, formerly managing editor of Money and executive editor of Fortune, on leaving magazines to teach at an underserved public school.

Jul 3, 2023 • 51min
ICYMI
In case you missed it: highlights from recent episodes, including our live show in Charlottesville with CBS Face the Nation's Margaret Brennan; Chef Jeremiah of Food Network and Rick Ross fame; indie bookseller Mitchell Kaplan fights back against Florida's anti-book movement; and Julia Lee on her memoir, Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America.

Jun 24, 2023 • 51min
Chef Jeremiah's Great Leap
The in-demand Miami chef discusses his journey, from culinary school to learning the ropes on the international Michelin-star circuit to Food Network, multimedia content-creation, mobile hospitality and becoming a personal chef to rapper Rick Ross. Now, brick-and-mortar...