Cold Warrior; informant; demolition expert; spy; mercenary; cocaine provocateur; Nazi hunter; quoter of military histories. Four decades after notorious Cuban exile Ricardo "Monkey" Morales was killed in Miami, his son, Rick Jr. is piecing together Dad's tormented story.

The Legends of Ricardo "Monkey" Morales

Javelin anti-tank missiles. Turkish drones. Artificial intelligence. How Russia's Ukraine invasion is disrupting long-held assumptions about deterrence and military technology. Guests: Chris Rogers, founder of the defense and aerospace practice at investment bank Harris Williams; and Morgan Till, PBS NewsHour's foreign and defense editor.

A Call to Tech

We are on the brink of the age of Chinese electric cars all over American roads. Here's what you need to know. Guest: The Economist's Simon Wright.

China's Great Volt Forward

True-crime bestseller T.J. English on his latest, The Last Kilo: Willy Falcon and the Cocaine Empire that Seduced America. We go into the backstory of getting Miami's fabled cocaine king to go on the record; the long arm of the law, over more than four decades; and reconciling  legend and Hollywood with the sober truths of spending so much of a life in prison.

T.J. English on The Last Kilo

Hussein Ibish on the sudden fall of Assad's Syria -- a 54-year dictatorship that collapsed in days. What does this mean for the U.S., Iran, Russia, Turkey, Israel ... the Mideast's entire disordered-order as Donald Trump returns to the White House?

Syria, Suddenly

Liz Ann Sonders, chief investment strategist at Charles Schwab & Co., on markets, the Fed, inflation...lots more. The 53-year-old brokerage house now has more than $10 trillion in total client assets.

Liz Ann Sonders of Charles Schwab & Co.

Morgan Till, PBS News foreign affairs and defense editor, takes us around the globe -- from Canada to Greenland to the Mideast to Panama -- as Donald Trump returns to the White House.

Morgan Till of PBS News

Veteran newsman Ray Suarez on his book We Are Home: Becoming American in the 21st Century, which illustrates the nation's volatile relationship with immigration. We also discussed staying alive in journalism -- despite ageism, rampant layoffs and increasing hostility from Washington and Big Tech.

Ray Suarez

Erik Hirsch, co-CEO of alternative investment management house Hamilton Lane, on getting Americans across generations to better save, invest and diversify -- as sobering demographic and market realities take hold.

Hamilton Lane's Erik Hirsch

Rick Stengel on his journey to and from the top job at TIME magazine to traveling the world as Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs.

Richard Stengel

It's "innovate or die" in craft beer  -- the recently booming industry that survived the pandemic only to face lagging sales, drinkers' shifting preferences (seltzer everywhere) and even tariffs on the horizon. Andrew Coplon of Craft Beer Professionals and a pair of brewers talk to guest host Ian Stewart.

Backwash

Virginia gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger -- previously a three-term member of Congress and CIA officer -- on Trump II vs. Washington; foreign affairs; culture wars; and the Democrats' messaging problem. Taped before an audience at the Virginia Museum of History & Culture.

Abigail Spanberger Live

Licensed therapist Julie Potash Slavin -- who circles the planet as DJ Hesta Prynn -- on where the dance floor meets the couch. CNN called her "the leading voice in music and mental health."

DJ Hesta Prynn

Ken Adelman, who served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and Arms Control Director for Pres. Ronald Reagan, on the Trump administration's post-post-Cold War view on Russia -- and where that leaves Europe, NATO and the transatlantic order.

Ken Adelman

A backyard-chicken enthusiast on churning out eggs -- suddenly the most valuable food in the world. And the brave new world of raising fresh produce through micro-farming. Ian Stewart guest hosts.

Greens, Eggs and ...

Veteran TV news executive Jonathan Wald -- NBC; CNN; CNBC; MSNBC; Amazon's Election Night Live -- on the season of cable spinoffs and streaming consolidation and consternation.

Jonathan Wald

The tables have turned! For the first time in Full Disclosure's storied history, I, Roben Farzad, am interviewed -- and by a favorite journalist: Mosheh Oinounou, the exec. behind digital media empire Mo News. We discuss anxious markets, the economy, avocados, grievance, headline volatility, factory towns...the works.  

Mo ... Roben?

🎙️ Rick Stengel on TIME and the State Department
🎙️ Ray Suarez on the American immigrant experience
🎙️ Zoe Schiffer on Elon Musk

ICYMI

The professional journey of musician Thomas Dolby, the synth and MTV pioneer who hit it big with “She Blinded me with Science.” The British polymath has been a tech innovator, producer, author and professor at Johns Hopkins, among a thousand other things. Ian Stewart guest hosts ... with a fanboy chime-in by Roben Farzad.

Thomas Dolby

Gradually...bit by bit...shard by shred...coin by button....a storied river gives up thousands of years of history. London Mudlark and micro-paleontologist Alessio Checconi on his finger-wrinkling love-affair with the River Thames.



Mudlarking the River Thames

In case you missed it: highlights from recent shows. Mudlarking on the River Thames; raising chickens in a Virginia backyard; and a Full Disclosure first -- a journo who I admire, Mo News's Mosheh Oinounou, interviews me about nervous markets and the economy.

Former Richmond Fed president Jeffrey Lacker, a member of the Shadow Open Market Committee, on tariffs and the inflationary hangover; Pres. Trump vs. Fed Chair Powell; and the peculiarities of post-Covid economic life.


Jeffrey Lacker

Jamaica House and Carena's Jamaican Grille founder Carena Ives on starting from scratch three decades ago, expanding, surviving disasters and snagging national renown with the help of Guy Fieri. 

Restaurateur Carena Ives

Bestselling author Bill Cohan (House of Cards; Power Failure) on Elon Musk's Wall Street-to-Washington playbook; Big Media's last stand; nostalgia for the golden age of glossy magazines; and how A.I. will both help and threaten beleaguered junior bankers.

William D. Cohan

Dan Colarusso, CNBC's senior VP of news, on spinning off from Comcast; keeping talent after the cord is cut; making a living in digital; co-piloting with A.I....and much more.

Dan Colarusso

Jenny Van Leeuwen Harrington, CEO of Gilman Hill Asset Management, on the art of dividend investing -- the subject of her new book.

Jenny Van Leeuwen Harrington

Social media phenom "Career Hannah" -- Hannah Zhang, 29 -- on the ambitious college grad's guide to the riveting / deflating / why-did-I-sign-up-for-this? world of twentysomething corporate life. 

"Career Hannah"

AnnMarie Grohs, founder and owner of expanding fitness boutique BOHO Studios, on the business after the pandemic. Ian Stewart guest hosts.


BOHO Studios

In case you missed it: highlights from recent episodes. Jamaican restaurant guru Carena Ives; bestselling author and Wall Street veteran William Cohan; former Richmond Fed chief Jeff Lacker. Back with you newly the week of June 27... 

Greg Carlstrom, veteran Mideast correspondent for The Economist, on how the region will contort to rebalance after the Iran-Israel war (assuming it's over). We discussed back-channel diplomacy; Tehran's path ahead; Pres. Trump's perspective; Syria; Lebanon; Gaza, Saudi and beyond. Carlstrom's 2017 book is How Long Will Israel Survive?: The Threat From Within.



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