Jeff Schechtman's "Talk Cocktail"

"To discover to the world something which deeply concerns it, and of which it was previously ignorant; to prove to it that it had been mistaken on some vital point of temporal or spiritual interest, is as important a service as a human being can render to his fellow creatures..." John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty"

Thursday, July 29, 2021

A Car for the Ages: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings - A Conversation with Earl Swift

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While everyone has their own personal list, we could all maybe agree on some of the most iconic cars ever made. The VW Beetle, the 1968 Ford...
Friday, July 23, 2021

Bill Gates Has Always Shown Us Who He Is: A Conversation with Tim Schwab

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Two years ago if you convened a focus group to give an opinion on Bill Gates and his foundation, the response would have been overwhelmingly...
Sunday, July 18, 2021

What AI Really Is, Whose Making It Happen and What It Means For The Future: My conversation with Cade Metz

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When Hal asked Astronaut David Bowman to “open the pod bay doors,” it was as if our most primal fear of machines came rushing headlong into ...
Monday, July 12, 2021

How We Got To Globalization Today: A Conversation with Jeffrey Garten

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In the period immediately following WWII, the United States dominated the global economy. We had won the war, and the economic status that ...
Thursday, July 8, 2021

A Constitution of Knowledge: A Conversation with Jonathan Rauch

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Some days it seems that everything we’ve taken for granted with respect to the functioning of America and American democracy is under siege....
Tuesday, July 6, 2021

We Are Our Information: A conversation with Caleb Scharf

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We are awash in data and information. So much so that we wonder if it has any meaning at all? But what if the very existence of the informa...
Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Amazon, Bezos and a Global Empire

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Back in 1953, it was reported that Charlie Wilson, then head of General Motors, said that what’s good for General Motors was good for Americ...
Monday, June 28, 2021

The New Addiction to Outrage: Our American Psychosis

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There once was a time when we were, if not united, at least we had a common set of cultural touchstones. Movies, TV, sports, even the three ...
Tuesday, June 22, 2021

Reasons for Hope in Rural America: A Conversation with Gigi Georges

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In an effort to make urban American understand rural America, particularly since the 2016 election, books about rural America have become a...
Friday, June 18, 2021

A Conversation with Chris Matthews:

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I think we can all stipulate that we are at a precarious moment in the relatively short history of American democracy. Even among those not ...
Tuesday, June 8, 2021

The Secret Service and its Time of Reckoning: A conversation with Carol Leonnig

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Think of all the things you have believed in that have recently been shattered. That the government might protect us from a pandemic. That C...
Monday, June 7, 2021

What Happened In Wuhan? Why the Lab Leak Theory Has Gained Traction

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Fifteen months ago most of us knew very little about viruses. Today, spike proteins, mRNA, and monoclonal antibodies are household words.  P...
Friday, June 4, 2021

Campaigns Matter: A conversation with Edward-Isaac Dovere

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Ever since 1960, the campaign memoir has become almost a genre unto itself. Over the years many of these books have shaped our view of polit...
Saturday, May 29, 2021

With The American Experiment on the Precipice, It's Good To Know Our Shared Origin Story: A Conversation with Historian Patrick O'Donnell

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As divided as we are today about the state of our current politics and the debate about facts, it seems that at least we should be able to a...
Monday, May 24, 2021

Why New York is New York

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Many of our great cities are known for one or two things. Detroit certainly for the auto industry, San Francisco for the 60s and Tech. Houst...
Sunday, May 16, 2021

The Notorious Maxwells

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We have a fascination with scoundrels. Especially if they are public figures. We love to build them up, to celebrate their success and then ...
Thursday, May 6, 2021

We Need Uniters, Not Dividers: A Conversation with Tim Shriver

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One year ago fear stalked the world. That fear created a common bond. We celebrated those on the front lines who walked into danger, we wor...
Thursday, April 29, 2021

How the Rich Really Live and Why We All Should Care

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Almost as wide as the wealth gap in America is the gap in the way we view wealth. We look at it as a monolithic thing. Yet part of the coun...
Sunday, April 25, 2021

A Time When Oscar Winning Movies Really Mattered: The Making of Midnight Cowboy

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Great art, particularly movies at their best, reflect the times in which they were created. In 1968 political assination paralyzed the nati...
Wednesday, April 21, 2021

The Founding Mothers of NPR

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Origin stories are usually part myth, part apocryphal and they often come to define the culture and sometimes the products of the companies...
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Jeff Schechtman
Napa, California, United States
I grew up during the Kennedy Presidency. It was a time when the best and the brightest sat center stage in the nation's psyche. I've always remembered the story, that at an arts gala at the White House, Kennedy looked around the room and proclaimed it "the greatest gathering of talent since Thomas Jefferson dined alone." Without the benefit of such trappings, I've had the opportunity, for the past nineteen years, to have a seat at an international banquet of ideas and history. My radio program provided me a unique opportunity to "travel" around the world and speak to thousands of the most imaginative thinkers and leaders in the arenas of politics, religion, journalism, business, popular culture, academics, science, economics, history, and medicine. During these years, I have taken many people with me on this journey. It has been a momentous time. The trauma of politics, the onslaught of technology, the insights of science, and the changes in the human condition make this a period almost unequaled in history. I'm excited that technology has now made it possible for me to take more of you along with me on this journey.
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