Full Disclosure with Roben Farzad

NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik on all things streaming, ATT-Time Warner, newspapers, Apple News+, CNN, Fox News, "login fatigue" -- and Elmo taking his talents to HBO.

Recycling's Rude Reckoning: With China turning away Americans' bottles and cartons, the stuff is piling up and increasingly being landfilled or incinerated. Kate Daly of the Center for the Circular Economy at Closed Loop Partners and James McGoff of TemperPack, a sustainable packaging startup, on the hard choices needed to dig out.

Kristen Cavallo, the first female CEO of the Martin Agency, on leading the 52-year old advertising shop out of its #MeToo crisis. We discussed the work-life juggle of single motherhood; the ad industry's nagging existential doubts; and getting brands to actually stand for (or against) something.

A single mother, family tragedy and the grit she and her community tapped to build her small juice business into what she hopes will become a national chain.

NY Times business editor Ellen Pollock on the headlines: the bull market at age 10; Facebook and Tesla's latest pivots; AT&T and Jeff Bezos trying to do Hollywood; GE's lost decades; the huge trade deficit; the hiring binge across biz news ... and much more.

Can you do right by local farmers and the earth and do well for yourself? Livestock farmer Erica Hellen of Free Union Grass Farm and microlender Hunter Hopcroft ("Microcroft") of Slow Money Central Virginia explain how.

Filmmaker Michael Mann (Miami Vice, Heat, The Insider) and investigative author Elaine Shannon on the DEA's global pursuit of elusive evil-genius drug and weapons kingpin Paul Le Roux. Murder. Encryption. Coercion. Evasion. Corruption. N. Korea. Liberia. Missiles. It's quite stranger than fiction.

Chef Brittanny Anderson's journey from pieces of wings and flair to national culinary stardom. The Virginian behind Brenner Pass and Metzger Bar & Butchery is now a James Beard Foundation semi-finalist who has competed on Iron Chef. We interviewed her before a live, hungry audience.

Writer and race-relations interlocutor Samantha Willis, veteran Richmond Times-Dispatch's political commentator Jeff Schapiro and VCU Prof. Judi Crenshaw on the scandals in Virginia, where racism is crashing into #MeToo in a full-on crisis for Democrats -- and the state's global reputation.

Veteran personal finance writer Lauren Young of Reuters has always been my workplace big sister. We spent years together at BusinessWeek and the now-departed SmartMoney. Now on my radio show, Lauren discusses shutdowns, savings, the markets and the giant impact left by our hero, investor-champion Jack Bogle (1929-2019).

Weijian Shan went from childhood hunger in Mao's famished China to running Asia's biggest private equity fund. China's economy has exploded in size in the 30 years since the Tiananmen Square crackdown, lifting hundreds of millions out of poverty. He discusses the opportunities and perils of the country's unprecedented trajectory.

The story of an immigrant who came to the U.S. from Lebanon with a young family and powerful drive to work and provide. He learned how to cook and acquired his own little nook ... 25 years later, Westwood Fountain diner is a Richmond institution.

The Economist's deputy editor Tom Standage discusses the world in 2019 -- from wobbly markets to China to Moscow to Facebook fatigue, rogue princes, spy craft, negative interest rates, the western hemisphere's populism and second and third thoughts on Brexit. Also: plastic straws, Joe Biden and cleaner, greener "meat."

New York Times best-selling author Dan Lyons on his latest book, Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us. Dan used to write for HBO's hit show "Silicon Valley" -- and was on staff at Forbes and Newsweek.

Legendary investor Tom Dorsey on the return of volatility to a market that he says flashes some similarities to 1987. In 2015, he sold his shop Dorsey, Wright & Associates to the Nasdaq for $225 million

Panera Bread founder and chairman Ron Shaich on the many ups and downs that went into growing the hit restaurant chain. He now manages Act III Holdings, a $300 million fund that invests in brands focused on long-term results.

Too big to boycott? Too developed to disrupt? Too sticky to uninstall? Facebook is that global social network that people both love to use and love to hate. Can Zuckerberg & Co just keep getting away with bad behavior?

How high school soccer coach Ian Kelley leveraged social media and all-around resourcefulness to turn an abandoned used-car dealership into the Sugar Shack Donuts empire.

10 years of the Reformed Broker: the financial crisis awakening and reinvention of Wall Street icon "Downtown" Josh Brown.

CBS chief Congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes, NBC White House correspondent Geoff Bennett and ABC political director Rick Klein on the many moving parts of the 2018 midterm election. Recorded for an audience at Virginia's Museum of History and Culture.

Longtime Cisco CEO John Chambers and co-author Diane Brady on the lessons learned from growing a once-sleepy Internet-equipment maker into a 75,000-employee multinational. Their book is Connecting the Dots: Lessons for Leadership in a Startup World. Chambers now runs venture capital firm JC2 Ventures.

Former Richmond Fed president Jeffrey Lacker on the lessons learned -- and morals hazarded -- in the wake of the Great Meltdown of 2008.

Just as teen smoking visited record lows, Juul (a startup that's now valued at $15 billion) came out of nowhere to offer adolescents flavored, concentrated vape hits of nicotine. The FDA calls it a public-health crisis. We talked to marketing veteran Robin Koval of Truth Initiative about the tricky new battle to save teens from themselves.

Kristen Cavallo, the first female CEO of the Martin Agency, on leading the 52-year old advertising shop out of its #MeToo crisis. We discussed the work-life juggle of single motherhood; the ad industry's nagging existential doubts; and -- swoosh! -- getting brands to actually stand for (or against) something.

Family-office investment managers Brian Broadway and W. "Biff" Pusey, Jr. on the difficulty of preaching and adhering to risk-avoidance amid the longest bull market in U.S. history.