Alfred Spellman and Billy Corben are the duo behind the Miami-based movie studio rakontur. The two are perhaps best known for their 2006 documentary, "Cocaine Cowboys," which recounted the early-1980s South Florida drug wars. Spellman and Corben boast a string of successes and a cult following. And they’ve redefined the Hollywood business model with their unique approach to filmmaking. They share their trade secrets with host Roben Farzad. They are also joined by Robert “Bobby Black Tuna” Platshorn — America’s longest imprisoned nonviolent marijuana offender. Platshorn served a 30-year sentence for smuggling pot into Florida. No surprise that he was once the subject of a rakontur documentary. 


Full Disclosure with Roben Farzad: The Disruptors

How steep gambling debts, credit-card debt and a debt to society brought two troubled men together and on the straight and narrow: a true story.

Full Disclosure with Roben Farzad: Indebted

Lawrence Ingrassia on his book A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery. The veteran journalist, who lost his mother, two sisters, brother and nephew to cancer, discusses the painstaking detective work that has gone into understanding his family's Li-Fraumeni Syndrome.

Author Lawrence Ingrassia: A Fatal Inheritance


Full Disclosure presents Jerry Parker, famed Turtle Trader and CEO of Chesapeake Capital 

Go Midwest, Young Turtle: Jerry Parker's Journey

Here's Lakshmi beating a piñata and dancing to this track, no shit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxDEpEzRT64&feature=youtu.be

The second half was written especially for Sean Rameswaram's "STUDIO 360’S SIDESHOW LIVE! LAKSHMI WEARS THE HAT" event, May 27th 2015: http://www.thegreenespace.org/events/thegreenespace/2015/may/26/studio-360s-sideshow-live-lakshmi-wears-hat/

Oh yeah.

THE VIDEO

The Lakshmi Singh Drop (video in description)

Trevor Rabin, longtime guitarist for the band Yes, recalls the life of his pal Chris Squire, the band's bassist and co-founder.

Remembering the CEO of Yes

Eurasia Group president and Time foreign affairs columnist Ian Bremmer joins us to talk the Middle East, Vlad Putin, oil and the 2016 election.

The World According to Ian Bremmer

Miami dodged catastrophe when Hurricane Irma swerved. Even so, much of its downtown ended up submerged. Keeping the sea at bay has rapidly become costlier and more complicated for this Pan-American boomtown, whose skyline holds record foreign wealth. What if...? I talked to condo power broker Alicia Cervera Lamadrid and the Miami Herald's Nick Nehamas. We're on Twitter @FullDRadio

Miami Water Torture

The concert Nada Surf performed for a taping of Full Disclosure at RVA's National. You can hear the band's interview on iTunes at link FullDRadio.com and on NPR.org / NPR One

Nada Surf on Full Disclosure (Full Set)

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