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Business, culture, and power in motion.
Full Disclosure with Roben Farzad treats business as a cultural weather system, not a spreadsheet. Recent conversations move from LinkedIn job strategy and long-term investing to Hollywood dealmaking, Iran, Cuban exile politics, YouTube music memory, and viral restaurant discovery.
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Full Disclosure with Roben Farzad is an interview-driven show about the business of culture and the culture inside business. It moves quickly. The conversations usually begin with a person, then widen into a system: hiring, investing, streaming, foreign affairs, political identity, social media, music memory, or local food fame. Recent episodes show that range clearly. Deepali Vyas turns a job-market conversation into a case for crafting a public story and building a LinkedIn footprint before graduation. Sam Ro makes long-term investing feel less like mystique and more like emotional endurance, where volatility becomes the price of admission. Claire Atkinson frames the streaming race as a destructive land rush that reshaped Hollywood and left legacy media fighting over scale, rights, and regulatory risk. Nayeema Raza brings questions about journalism, foreign affairs, capitalism, social life, and the appeal of asking supposedly simple questions in public. Professor of Rock Adam Reader connects YouTube success to vinyl, 8-track, cassette, CD, MP3 memory, and the thrill of hearing artists explain songs firsthand. Tara Grammy brings the mood down to earth with a difficult conversation about Iran, war, hope, and comedy as a way of processing tragedy. Eliott Rodriguez uses South Florida, Cuban immigration, MAGA politics, and a possible congressional run to test how exile memory changes across generations. Kent Burris turns restaurant videos into a story about curiosity, discomfort, small restaurants, and social media luck. The show can be funny, but it is not loose. It can be grave, but it rarely becomes static. Its best mode is the follow-up question: a point gets summarized, challenged, translated, and tied to a larger public argument. The result is a smart, rangy interview program for people who want culture, money, media, and politics in the same conversation.
Made for: For listeners who follow media, markets, politics, creators, and public life, and prefer interviews that keep pushing toward consequences. It especially suits people who like practical career and money talk alongside bigger cultural arguments.
What sets it apart: The show’s strength is its ability to make a guest’s niche feel connected to the larger economy of attention, power, and identity. It moves from anecdote to system without losing the human texture of the conversation.
The business of culture. The culture of business. Policy; media & tech; entrepreneurs and more.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Robin Farzad makes the economics surrounding culture legible through brisk interviews built on practical, consequential follow-up questions.
Robin Farzad conducts interviews by following the machinery behind a subject: who carries the risk, where the money moves and which incentives shape the outcome.
Bank-heist laundering math meets Hollywood merger chess, so your curiosity never stays in one department.
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A practical look at making career experience memorable to employers.
Dipali Vyas comes through as a high-demand recruiter with a rare level of public visibility, from a social audience of more than a million to a LinkedIn network that has already hit its ceiling.
A grounded conversation about learning finance late and staying invested when fear makes every decision feel dangerous.
Sam Rowe frames long-term investing through the experience of coming to finance later than expected. Paying off student loans pushed him to sort out his own money, and that personal reset feeds into a wider interest in financial education and plainer communication.
A sharp, compact look at streaming's damage and the maneuvering around Warner Brothers.
Claire Atkinson joins Robin Farzad for a brisk, pointed look at a diminished Hollywood after Paramount's huge acquisition of Warner Brothers, with the damage from the rush to streaming at the center.
Tara Grammy's comic perspective gives a tense Iran conversation its human scale.
Full Disclosure sets Tara Grammy's comic instincts against the anguish of watching Tehran under bombardment. In conversation with Robin Farzad, the actor and playwright talks about using her social media reach to help people in her native Iran, while holding a hard tension in…
A Miami political conversation where family memory gives exile politics its emotional charge.
A veteran Miami newsman frames South Florida politics as a living argument with family memory, Cuban exile identity and the pull of a possible congressional run.
A grounded look at chickens and hydroponic micro farms as two very different answers to everyday food production.
Eggs and indoor growing share a practical frame as Ian Stewart, sitting in for Robin Farzad, speaks with Britt Uciak about her family's chickens and Mark Oshima about hydroponic micro farms.
A sharp true-crime conversation about bank robbery, casino laundering, IRS scrutiny, and the price of making stolen money look routine.
How to Rob a Bank treats true crime less as a chase story than as a problem of financial disguise. The episode follows a cerebral Northwest bank robber who uses legal sports betting to wash stolen cash, dividing wagers across casinos so the winnings can pass as legitimate.
Dan Pashman revisits food science with Kenji López-Alt and rotating live comedy guests.
Des Moines mornings with bite-sized arguments.
Milwaukee food news with bite and butter.
Tiny food stories, treated seriously.
Fast opinions, warm chaos, be normal.
Philadelphia food, reported one kitchen at a time
Host Ian Stewart interviews backyard chicken owner Britt Uciak about raising four hens in Henrico County for eggs and composting.
Host Roben Farzad interviews Seth Porges, director of the Netflix documentary 'How to Rob a Bank,' about the true story of Scott Scurlock, the 'Hollywood Bandit.' Scurlock robbed nearly 20 banks in Seattle during the 1990s using elaborate disguises and lived in a treehouse.
Veteran journalist Ray Suarez discusses his book 'We Are Home' and America's complex relationship with immigration, including historical patterns of immigrant assimilation and rejection.
Deepali Vyas tells Roben Farzad that the job market has shifted into a "low fire, low hire" cycle and that CEOs now want AI fluency rather than generic hype.
Full Disclosure with Roben Farzad talks with Sam Rowe, founder of Ticker, about why he moved from Wall Street operations into long-term investing coverage.
["Claire Atkinson joins Robin Farzad to unpack Paramount's proposed acquisition of Warner Brothers Discovery, with a price north of $100 billion and roughly $79 billion of debt shaping the whole discussion.
Robin Farzad interviews Nayeema Raza about her podcast 'Smart Girl Dumb Questions', which explores big questions about capitalism, relationships, and modern life in an apolitical, accessible way.
Robin Farzad interviews Adam Reader, the Professor of Rock, about his journey from a music-loving kid to a YouTube historian who interviews legendary musicians like Brian Wilson.
Tara Grammy says many Iranians see “a 1% chance” of change as worth the risk of war.
Elliot Rodriguez links his own family history in the 1950s to today's ICE arrests, asking what would have happened if his mother had lacked papers and concluding that "it wasn't okay" then or now.
Robin Farzad interviews Kent Burris, the Texas grandfather known as DineWithKent, about his viral social media success helping small restaurants.
Barak Ravid of Axios discusses the Gaza crisis and its global implications, including the role of Donald Trump and the conflict with Iran.
Middle East correspondent Greg Karlstrom discusses how the Iran-Israel war is reshaping regional power dynamics, weakening Iran and strengthening Turkey and Syria.
A rewind episode of Full Disclosure featuring highlights from recent interviews on media industry decline, tariff policy volatility, and Jamaican cuisine.