Full Disclosure with Roben Farzad

In case you missed it: highlights from recent episodes, including Chuck Todd live at the University of Richmond; ex Miami Playboy bunny Francine Fox; Hollywood producer and former Netflix executive Erik Barmack .

Turney Duff, author of the bestselling memoir The Buy Side: A Wall Street Trader's Tale of Spectacular Excess, on coming to New York without a clue and a dollar; making it big as a hedge-fund trader; cocaine; more cocaine; emotional unavailability; fatherhood; losing it all; and his hard-won sobriety. Duff consulted the hit Showtime series "Billions."

Erik Barmack of Wild Sheep Content -- a veteran of Netflix and ESPN -- on Hollywood's seemingly neverending retrenchment; the prospect of neverending, user-generated reels on Insta, YouTube and TikTok; login fatigue; hopes, fears and hallucinations around artificial intelligence. Lots, lots more. Barmack writes for The Ankler.

Politics guru Chuck Todd, formerly of NBC's Meet the Press, on the issues, personalities and various realignments driving Election 2026. We also discussed his career journey, from Miami to George Washington University and The Hotline... all the way to striking out on his own in the great wide open of YouTube and social media. Recorded for an audience at the University of Richmond's Modlin Center.

Former investment banker and NY Times bestseller William Cohan on his latest book, Money to Burn: The Unvarnished Truth About Leon Black, Apollo, and the Rise of a New Wall Street. Also discussed: Paramount's debt-laden buyout of Warner Bros and how no price tag seems to deter the uber-wealthy likes of Elon Musk and today's private-equity players.

Former Miami Playboy bunny, drug smuggler and serial cheater-of-death Francine Fox on her new memoir Pirate Bunny.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: highlights from recent episodes -- including Shashank Joshi, The Economist's new Washington bureau chief; the duo behind The Wall Street Skinny; and Pulitzer Prize-winner Jonathan Kaufman on his book, When America Roared: How the 1980s Saved, Then Broke, the Country–and Led Us to Today.

Jonathan Kaufman on his new book, When America Roared: How the 1980s Saved, Then Broke, the Country--And Led Us to Today. And child-of-the-'80s Dan Goldman on the graphic novelist life in the algorithmic dystopia of the 2020s.

Shashank Joshi, The Economist's new Washington bureau chief, on Trump's Iran dilemma, the bipartisan backlash to data centers, Democratic Socialists' ascent, Midterms math....much more.

Ron Insana -- a CNBC OG (he joined its predecessor network in 1984!) -- is a regular on MSNOW and Substacks on "Message of the Markets." He discussed the ginormous, mind-blowing buildout of A.I.; the Fed and Treasury's interest-rate bind; and what he calls an "E-shaped economy."

The Washington Institute for Near East Policy's Holly Dagres on the United States' stop-and-go / stick-and-carrot impasse with Iran. What started 2026 with grand talk of regime change has lately turned into a staredown over the flow of crude oil through Hormuz. Dagres curates The Iranist, a newsletter widely followed by Iranians and the diaspora.

NPR critic-at-large Eric Deggans -- newly announced as professor of journalism and media ethics at Washington and Lee University -- on Paramount's contested, politicized buyout of Warner Bros. (and CNN); NPR's talent flight; how his students consume news vs. noise; and moving to Virginia to join a university that still carries the name of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

Impersonation machine Mattie Conaghan -- a lapsed ad writer -- on comedy as business development in the age of social media. Gary Belsky, former editor in chief of ESPN The Magazine, on everything from the network's lean(er) years to sober investing to making an impact in 2026's troubled media world. Plus, surreal stories throughout.

Kristen Kelly and Jen Saarbach, best friends since the second grade, on surviving the investment banking grind and Global Financial Crisis to launch The Wall Street Skinny. The millennial-moms-with-mics are now HUGE on the socials...

Gray Montrose -- attorney, activist, small-batch farmer, social-media phenom -- on Virginia vs. data centers; utility mega-mergers; affordable housing; environmental justice....lots more.

Ankler Media's Janice Min on the frenetic merging and acquiring -- "murders and executions," according to American Psycho -- reshaping a Hollywood that has seen far better days. But so much homogenization is also giving small-batch creatives their first big chance in a long time.

The Bulwark's Bill Kristol -- he's been a Cold War Democrat, a Bush 41 White House Republican, and now a Never-Trumper -- on the Iran morass, Netanyahu's month from hell, Mamdani's New York and building a new-media insurgent during the last stand for legacy outlets.

Sarah Feinberg -- former head of New York City's Transit Authority; she helmed the Federal Railroad Administration and was on Amtrak's board, and is now on Southwest Airlines' board -- on reimagining NYC's massive network of trains, planes and automobiles. All of which is in global focus with the Knicks' title and droves descending on the city for the World Cup.

Alice Fulwood, The Economist's U.S. business editor, on the global A.I. craze, China's stagnation, the Federal Reserve's bind and the success of America's franchising culture.

Investors Ben Carlson and Paul Merriman, a tandem of truth tellers -- together for the first time. Think of it as a raucous WrestleMania...but for sedate students of the market.

Full Disclosure meets The Media Odyssey in this special crossover episode with Evan Shapiro and Marion Ranchet. The episode covers a wide sweep of interconnected stories: the proposed Paramount-Warner merger, the editorial independence implications of foreign money in US media, the GameStop-eBay bid as a case study in social media-driven market manipulation, and the state of M&A activity across th...

Fresh off 12 award-winning years as the Wall Street Journal's tech guru, Joanna Stern discusses her bestselling book I Am Not a Robot: My Year Using AI to Do (Almost) Everything.

Dr. R. Vann Graves, executive director of Brandcenter -- mentor; military veteran; ad exec; C-suite whisperer -- on breaking through in this incredibly difficult job market for new graduates.

Face the Nation's Margaret Brennan on dizzying developments in international affairs. We discussed Iran hanging on and firing at its neighbors; diplomacy through South Florida; Russia and Ukraine's violent stalemate; Hormuz and triple-digit oil; Netanyahu, Havana, Caracas, Damascus, lots more.

Since fleeing Cuba for Miami in 1961, Raul Diaz has witnessed all manner of criminal mayhem, from terrorist bombings to rampant corruption to Miami's explosion of cocaine-related homicides. This all took a major toll on both his health and family life; Diaz finally found sobriety in 2012. His new book is Killing the Lieutenant: Fighting Miami's Cocaine Wars, Hunting Griselda Blanco and My Fight to...