The Lunch Hour with Washington Signal

Marlo Oaks is an American investment banker and government official serving as the Utah state treasurer. He was appointed to the position by Governor Spencer Cox on June 29, 2021 and succeeded David Damschen. Marlo spent 17 years managing institutional portfolios at Farmers Insurance ($24 billion) and then at Intermountain Healthcare ($7.5 billion) where he also oversaw the Treasury function.  Wat...

Kevin Cirilli is a political reporter for Bloomberg. Before joining Bloomberg, he worked at The Hill and Politico. Prior to coming to Washington, he helped cover the Jerry Sandusky scandal for Newsweek/The Daily Beast and Philadelphia magazine. While at Penn State University, he was a recipient of the Damon M. Chappie Award for Investigative Journalism and was campus editor of the student newspape...

Clifford May is an American journalist, editor, political activist, and podcast host. He is the founder and president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a think tank created shortly after the 9/11 attacks, where he hosts the podcast "Foreign Podicy." Watch Full-Length Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Lunchhour_FNW

Karol Markowicz is a weekly columnist at the New York Post and FoxNews, a contributor at Spectator World, and a contributing writer to Washington Examiner magazine. She has written for USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Time, Forward, National Review, Daily Beast, Business Insider, Haaretz, and many others. Watch Full-Length Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Lunchhour_FNW

Elizabeth Nickson is a Canadian writer and journalist. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, she was European bureau chief of Life magazine. In 1994, Bloomsbury UK, Knopf Canada and Steidl published her novel The Monkey Puzzle Tree , an account of the CIA brainwashing trials in Montreal in the 1950s and 1960s. In 2012, HarperCollins US published Nickson's Eco-fascists, How Radical Conservationis...

Phil Kerpen is an American free-market policy analyst and political organizer. He is the president of American Commitment, a conservative 501 organization which he founded in 2012. He previously served for over five years as the vice president of Americans for Prosperity. Watch Full-Length Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Lunchhour_FNW

Roger Marzulla is an American attorney who served as the United States Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources from 1988 to 1989. He is a founding partner at Marzulla Law, LLC in Washington, D.C. Watch Full-Length Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Lunchhour_FNW

Rob Gordon is a staff director and senior policy advisor for the House Committee on Natural Resources and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. Gordon was also a member of Donald Trump's presidential transition team, a group of advisors tasked with recommending presidential appointments for the incoming administration. Watch Full-Length Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Lunchhour_FNW

Nick Gillespie is an American libertarian journalist who was editor-in-chief of Reason magazine from 2000 to 2008 and editor-in-chief of Reason.com and Reason TV from 2008 to 2017. Gillespie originally joined Reason's staff in 1993 as an assistant editor and ascended to the top slot in 2000. Sarah Siskind is a science comedy writer. She's the cofounder of HelloSci. Com, a consulting grou...

Kerry White is a politician who served as a member of the Montana House of Representatives for the 64th district from 2013 to 2021. He is a member of the Republican party Watch Full-Length Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Lunchhour_FNW

On part 2, Chad Wolf talks with Derek Maltz. Derek is a retired Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent. Mr. Maltz was the Special Agent in Charge of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), Special Operations Division (SOD) for almost 10 years before he left the federal government. Mr. Maltz also previously held the position as the Chief of the New York Drug Enforcement Task Force, whic...

Marc Joffe is a senior policy analyst at Reason Foundation. After a long career in the financial industry, including a senior director role at Moody's Analytics, Joffe's research focuses on municipal finances, alternative asset investments, transportation policy and federal, state and local fiscal policy. Watch Full-Length Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Lunchhour_FNW

In a special mini-series for The Lunch Hour, Chad Wolf talks with Steve Murphy Javier Pena, the DEA agents responsible for investigating Pablo Escobar and the Medellín Cartel Watch Full-Length Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Lunchhour_FNW

Tim Stewart has been a founding partner of three consulting and government relations firms: American Capitol Group, Energy North America and most recently The Bennett Group, a business-consulting firm founded in 2011 with his former employer, Sen. Robert Bennett. Stewart is currently the president of the U.S. Oil and Gas Association. Watch Full-Length Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Lunchhour_F...

Chris Pilkerton is an American lawyer and former Acting Administrator of the United States Small Business Administration.  Ja'Ron Smith is an American political advisor. He served as a Deputy Assistant to the President and deputy director of the Office of American Innovation for Donald Trump from April 2019 to November 2020. Watch Full-Length Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Lunchhour_FNW

Robert Emmett Tyrrell Jr. is an American conservative magazine editor, book author and columnist. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of The American Spectator. Watch Full-Length Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Lunchhour_FNW

Paul Teller is the Executive Director of Advancing American Freedom. He served in the Trump White House as Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs, and then Director of Strategic Affairs for Vice President Mike Pence. Watch Full-Length Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Lunchhour_FNW

Steve Rauschenberger served for fifteen years in the Illinois State Senate, holding various leadership positions, including Assistant Republican Leader and Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. Watch Full-Length Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Lunchhour_FNW

Mike Frederickson is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Systems Innovation Engineering (SIE).  He was the Director of the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Electronics Manufacturing Technology Center from 1996 to 2017 where he was responsible for developing and executing technology programs that directly improved the affordability of Navy platforms and sensor systems. Watch Full-Length Episodes...

Dr. Clay Routledge is Vice President of Research and Director of the Human Flourishing Lab at Archbridge Institute and coeditor of Profectus, a magazine on human progress and flourishing.  Watch Full-Length Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Lunchhour_FNW

Kenneth Mehlman is an American social entrepreneur and businessman. He serves as a member, global head of public affairs, and co-head of KKR global impact at investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. Watch Full-Length Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Lunchhour_FNW

Philip King Howard is an American lawyer and writer. He has written on the effects of modern law and bureaucracy on human behavior and the workings of society. He started The Common Good, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization which advocates simplifying government. Watch Full-Length Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Lunchhour_FNW

E. Donald Elliott is the Florence Rogatz Professor (Adjunct) of Law at Yale Law School and a leading academic scholar, as well as practitioner, in the fields of administrative and environmental law. Watch Full-Length Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Lunchhour_FNW

Thomas E. Ayres is the General Counsel of the U.S. Department of the Air Force. In this role, he also serves as the Air Force’s Chief Ethics Official and Chief Legal Officer, providing oversight, guidance and direction for legal advice provided by more than 2,600 Air Force military and civilian lawyers worldwide. Watch Full-Length Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Lunchhour_FNW

Pastor Corey B. Brooks, founder and Senior Pastor of New Beginnings Church of Chicago and founder and CEO of Project H.O.O.D. Communities Development Corporation has become a leading voice and presence in the fight against the violence gripping Chicago’s poorest neighborhoods. Watch Full-Length Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@Lunchhour_FNW