The Rob Burgess Show

Hello and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess. On this our 255th episode our guest is Robert Nickelsberg. Robert Nickelsberg worked as a Time magazine contract photographer for nearly 30 years beginning in El Salvador and Central America from 1981 to 1984. He is the author of, “Afghanistan – A Distant War,” published by Prestel and “Afghanistan’s Heritage: Rest...

Hello and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess. On this our 254th episode our guest is Dr. Donna J. Nicol. Dr. Donna J. Nicol is the Associate Dean of Personnel and Curriculum in the College of Liberal Arts and a professor of history at California State University Long Beach. She is the immediate past department chair and professor of Africana Studies at CSU Dom...

Hello and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess. On this our 253rd episode our returning guest is Ash Burgess. You first heard Ash Burgess on Episode 16, Episode 26, Episode 27, Episode 39, Episode 58, Episode 63, Episode 77, Episode 86, Episode 91, Episode 100, Episode 124, Episode 130, Episode 136, Episode 142, Episode 143, Episode 148, Episode 151, Episode 154...

Hello and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess. On this our 252nd episode, our returning guest is … me! I am a 32-time award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in print, radio, online and television. I am currently a Reporter for Financial Planning Magazine. Most recently, I was Technology Reporter for Wealth Management Magazine; Editor of the Wabash Pla...

Hello and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess. On this our 251st episode, our returning guest is Jonathan Fowler. Jonathan is the all-time most frequent guest of The Rob Burgess Show. You first heard Jonathan Fowler on Episode 2, Episode 10, Episode 20, Episode 21, Episode 29, Episode 30, Episode 31, Episode 32, Episode 34, Episode 35, Episode 43, Episode 48, E...

Hello and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess. On this our 250th episode our returning guest is Ray E. Boomhower. You first heard Ray E. Boomhower on Episode 213 of the podcast. Ray E. Boomhower is senior editor of the Indiana Historical Society Press. He is editor of the IHS’s quarterly popular history magazine, “Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History.” Boom...

Hello and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess. On this our 249th episode, our returning guest is Jonathan Fowler. Jonathan is the all-time most frequent guest of The Rob Burgess Show. You first heard Jonathan Fowler on Episode 2, Episode 10, Episode 20, Episode 21, Episode 29, Episode 30, Episode 31, Episode 32, Episode 34, Episode 35, Episode 43, Episode 48, E...

Hello and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess. On this our 248th episode, our guest is Robin Bernstein. Robin Bernstein is the Dillon Professor of American History and Professor of African and African American Studies and Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University. She is the author of “Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Sla...

Hello and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess. On this our 247th episode, our returning guest is Jonathan Fowler. Jonathan is the all-time most frequent guest of The Rob Burgess Show. You first heard Jonathan Fowler on Episode 2, Episode 10, Episode 20, Episode 21, Episode 29, Episode 30, Episode 31, Episode 32, Episode 34, Episode 35, Episode 43, Episode 48, E...

Hello and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess. On this our 246th episode our returning guest is Ash Burgess. You first heard Ash Burgess on Episode 16, Episode 26, Episode 27, Episode 39, Episode 58, Episode 63, Episode 77, Episode 86, Episode 91, Episode 100, Episode 124, Episode 130, Episode 136, Episode 142, Episode 143, Episode 148, Episode 151, Episode 154...

Hello and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess. On this our 245th episode, our guest is Randy Fertel. Randy Fertel is a writer and philanthropist dedicated to the arts, education, New Orleans, and the environment. Fertel holds a Ph. D. in English and American literature from Harvard University and is the author of A Taste for Chaos: The Art of Literary Improvisa...

Hello and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess. On this our 244th episode, our guest is Mark Rank. Mark Robert Rank is the Herbert S. Hadley Professor of Social Welfare at Washington University in St. Louis. He is widely recognized as one of the foremost experts on issues of poverty, inequality and social justice. To date he has written 10 books on a range of su...

Hello and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess. On this our 243rd episode, our guest is… me! This is my 17th solo episode of the podcast. The others were: Episode 41 - Rob Burgess Episode 62 - Rob Burgess [II] Episode 84 - Rob Burgess [III] Episode 100 - Rob Burgess and Ash Burgess Episode 117 - Rob Burgess [IV] Episode 131 - Rob Burgess [V] Episode 135 - Rob Bu...

Hello and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess. On this our 242nd episode our guest is Alexandrea J. Ravenelle. Alexandrea J. Ravenelle is an Assistant Professor in Sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, a Faculty Fellow with the Center for Urban and Regional Studies (CURS), and a 2023-24 Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar. Her newest...

Hello and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess. On this our 241st episode our guest is Bella DePaulo, PhD. Bella DePaulo, PhD, is the “leading expert on single life” and has been described by The Atlantic as “America’s foremost thinker and writer on the single experience.” Dr. DePaulo coined the term “single at heart.” Her TEDx talk, “What no one ever told you a...

Hello and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess. On this our 240th episode our guest is Staff Sergeant Aquilino Gonell. Staff Sergeant Aquilino Gonell is a Dominican immigrant, former U.S. Army soldier and Iraq War veteran. For 17 years, he was a United States Capitol Police officer and was one of four police officers who testified before the House Select Committ...

Hello and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess. On this our 239th episode our returning guest is Ash Burgess. You first heard Ash Burgess on Episode 16, Episode 26, Episode 27, Episode 39, Episode 58, Episode 63, Episode 77, Episode 86, Episode 91, Episode 100, Episode 124, Episode 130, Episode 136, Episode 142, Episode 143, Episode 148, Episode 151, Episode 154...

Hello and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess. On this our 238th episode our returning guest is Ash Burgess. You first heard Ash Burgess on Episode 16, Episode 26, Episode 27, Episode 39, Episode 58, Episode 63, Episode 77, Episode 86, Episode 91, Episode 100, Episode 124, Episode 130, Episode 136, Episode 142, Episode 143, Episode 148, Episode 151, Episode 154...

Hello and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess. On this our 237th episode, our guest is Dr. Jonathan M. DePierro. Jonathan M. DePierro, PhD, is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Associate Director of Mount Sinai's Center for Stress, Resilience, and Personal Growth. He is a clinical psychologist as well as an exp...

Hello and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess. On this our 236th episode, our returning guest is Jonathan Fowler. Jonathan is the all-time most frequent guest of The Rob Burgess Show. You first heard Jonathan Fowler on Episode 2, Episode 10, Episode 20, Episode 21, Episode 29, Episode 30, Episode 31, Episode 32, Episode 34, Episode 35, Episode 43, Episode 48, E...

Hello and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess. On this our 235th episode, our guest is Noam Bardin. Noam Bardin is Founder of Post, a platform built for real people, real news and civil conversations. Prior to launching Post in 2022, Noam founded and served as CEO of Waze, one of the world's most talked-about startups through its acquisition by Google in June 2...

Hello and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess. On this our 234th episode, our guest is Jean Pfaelzer. Jean Pfaelzer is a public historian, commentator, and professor of American studies at the University of Delaware. Her books include, “Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans,” “Rebecca Harding Davis: Origins of Social Realism” and “The Utopian...

Hello and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess. On this our 233rd episode, our guest is Thom Hartmann. Thom Hartmann is a progressive nationally and internationally syndicated talk show host. Talkers Magazine named him America’s no. 1 most important progressive host and the host of one of the top 10 talk radio shows in the country every year for more than a deca...

Hello and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess. On this our 232nd episode, our returning guest is Eli Merritt. You first heard from Eli Merritt on Episode 229 of the podcast. A political historian at Vanderbilt, Eli Merritt has written about the dangers of demagogues to democracy for The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Seattle Times, Chicago Tribune, Newsday...

Hello and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob Burgess. On this our 231st episode our returning guest is Ash Burgess. You first heard Ash Burgess on Episode 16, Episode 26, Episode 27, Episode 39, Episode 58, Episode 63, Episode 77, Episode 86, Episode 91, Episode 100, Episode 124, Episode 130, Episode 136, Episode 142, Episode 143, Episode 148, Episode 151, Episode 154...