Mr. Ed Malloy is the mayor of Fairfield, Iowa, the home of KRUU 100.1 FM.
Ed recently spear headed a campaign, which got Fairfield designated, as
one of Iowa’s great places. The town will receive a five hundred
thousand dollar grant as a result. Mr. Malloy is also a successful
businessman who is currently President of Danaher Oil.
Buddy Biancalana is the former first round draft pick and shortstop for the Kansas City Royals. He was the star of the 1985 World Series and received the highest number of MVP votes for any position player. Mr. Biancalana is currently coaching professionally as well as working to develop peak performance in athletes. Buddy has appeared on Late Night with David Letterman and the Today Show.
Jonathan Freeman is a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army having recently returned from a tour of duty in Iraq. He has his BA from the University of Michigan and has an MA from Harvard University.
Steve Posner is a Lecturer at the University of Southern California. He is also an expert on the Middle East and the author of Israel Undercover, Secret Warfare and Hidden Diplomacy in the Middle East. Mr. Posner’s newspaper commentaries have appeared in the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, and the International Herald Tribune. Steve holds Masters degrees from the University of Southern California and Harvard University.
Tim and Laya Hawthorne. Tim is the president and founder of Hawthorne Direct, America’s leading long form advertising agency. Tim has also worked for CBS and ABC Television. Laya is the producer, director, and writer of a documentary that was done for the non-profit organization, World Teach.
Mr. Ari Berman is a contributing writer for The Nation Magazine and a Nation Institute Puffin Foundation writing fellow. Ari is a graduate of the Northwestern University. Ari has appeared on MSNBC and the Fox News network as a political analyst.
Mr. Ed Petersen is a former agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He retired from the FBI in 1987 after twenty-seven years of service. During that time Mr. Petersen investigated a wide range of federal violations including general criminal matters, international and domestic terrorism, and foreign counter intelligence. He has also served as the director of security for major league baseball. Mr. Petersen is currently one of the directors of Buckley Petersen Global, a private investigative and consulting company.
Dr. Stanley Cheren is a medical doctor who is a former faculty member of Boston University Medical School. Dr. Cheren has published numerous articles including a series on violence in sports, which appeared in the New York Times. He recently returned from Guatemala where he has been working with a Maya village to improve the community’s quality of health care. Dr. Cheren is a graduate of Harvard University and Tufts University Medical School.
Dr. Pedro Noguera is a professor of education at New York University. He has also been a professor at the University of California Berkeley and Harvard University. Dr. Noguera is the author of several books and over one hundred and fifty articles. He is considered one of America’s leading authorities on urban education. Dr. Noguera has appeared on numerous television and radio programs including the O’Reilly Factor.
Mr. Kevin Clawson is the president of the non-profit, Reach the Children. Reach the Children provides underprivileged children opportunities for self-reliance by strengthening families and communities.
They operate in fourteen countries throughout Africa.
Ms. Mary Lou Johnson Pizzaro works for the U.S. State Department and is currently stationed in the U.S. Consulate’s Office in Lagos, Nigeria. She works closely with the local community there and has also done State Department work in South Africa. Ms. Pizzaro has degrees from the University of Nebraska and Harvard University.
Gil Alba. Former New York City Police Department Dectective, Mr. Alba now heads up Alba Investigations, www.gilalba.com. Gil has appeared on numerous radio and television shows including MSNBC, CBS News, ABC News, and the O'Reilly Factor.
Mr. Boxer worked in the Clinton White House and is now the country coordinator in the Republic of the Congo for the non-profit, the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs,
www.ndi.org/.
Dennis Raimondi interviews presidential candidate Barack Obama
U.S. Congressman Dave Loebsack
US Congressman Dave Loebsack grew up in Sioux City, Iowa. Dave attended Iowa State University, where he earned a Bachelor’s and a Master’s Degree. Dave then went on to earn a PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Davis. In 1982, Dave moved back to Iowa and became a political science teacher at Cornell College in Mt. Vernon. Today, Dave has the honor to serve as a Professor Emeritus at Cornell College.
Congressman Loebsack is currently serving his first term in the United States House of Representatives. He represents Iowa’s Second Congressional District which encompasses much of Southeastern Iowa. He serves on The House Education and Labor Committee and The House Armed Services Committee.
Michael R. Otterson
Michael Otterson has served as director of media relations for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints since 1997. Mr. Otterson was born and educated in England. For 11 years, from 1965-1976, he worked as a journalist on newspapers in Britain, Australia and Japan, with emphasis on politics and business
Helen Thomas
Commonly referred to as "The First Lady of the Press," former White House Bureau Chief Helen Thomas is a trailblazer, breaking through barriers for women reporters while covering every President since John F. Kennedy.
For 57 years, Helen also served as White House correspondent for United Press International. She recently left this post and joined Hearst Newspapers as a syndicated columnist.
Dennis Raimondi discusses a wide range of topics with Ms. Thomas from JFK's wit to Richard Nixon's shyness to Bill Clinton's blown chance for greatness to her dismay with the mainstream media to her well-documented friction with the current White House administration.
Whitaker currently serves on several committees in the Iowa House - the
Administration and Rules committee; the Natural Resources committee;
the Public Safety committee; the Transportation committee; and the
Agriculture committee, where he is vice chair. His political experience
includes serving as Assistant Majority Leader of the Iowa House and
serving as Van Buren City Supervisor.
"Hannah Riley Bowles" is Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School and on the staff of the Center for Public Leadership. She is engaged in research on negotiation and leadership. She is interested in how people negotiate for resources and opportunities to advance into leadership positions and when gender differences tend to arise in negotiation expectations and performance. She teaches and has conducted case research on leadership in crisis and complex multi-party conflict. Earlier in her career, she was a research associate at Harvard Business School, Strategic Environmental Associates, and Conflict Management Group.
She was a technical advisor to the Minister of Natural Resources, Energy & Mines of Costa Rica and served in 1995 on the Costa Rican delegation to the UN Climate Change negotiations. She was fellow at the Argentinean National Institute of Public Administration, the West German Parliament, and Oxford University's Forestry Institute. Bowles is the faculty director of Women & Power, the Kennedy School's executive program for women leaders from the public, private and non-profit sectors. She won the Kennedy School's 2003 Manuel Carballo Award for Excellence in Teaching. She has a DBA from the Harvard Business School, an MPP from the Kennedy School, and an AB from Smith College.
Former Iowa Congressman Jim Leach has recently been named the new director of Harvard University's Institute of Politics.
Mr. Leach has agreed to take a leave from Princeton University, where he is the John L. Weinberg Visiting Professor of Public and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School.
Prior to his arrival at Princeton, Leach served 15 terms in Congress as a Republican representative from eastern Iowa. During his congressional career he served as chairman of the House Banking and Financial Services Committee and the Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs, and was author or co-author of several significant pieces of legislation, including the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, reforming the financial services industry. He was educated at Princeton University, Johns Hopkins University, and the London School of Economics.
This will be the former Congressman's second appearance on Speaking Freely.
Sondra Ward - Recently appointed as Director of Strategic Marketing for the Stephen Sondheim Center for the Performing Arts in Fairfield,
Iowa, Sondra had recently served as the spokesperson for the Tennis
Channel based in Santa Monica, California. Ms. Ward has her Bachelor's
and Master's degrees from Stanford University.
Craig Jessop,
Music Director, Mormon Tabernacle Choir
When Jessop became music director of the Choir in October 1999, he stepped into a position tailor-made for him. Not only had he served as the Choir's associate director from 1995 to 1999, he had also been a member of the Choir for four years during college. Growing up, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir was his musical inspiration.
Under his leadership, the Choir has continued to live up to its tradition of excellence and has explored new territory in the musical and performance realms. As the music director of not only the Choir, but also the Orchestra at Temple Square and the Temple Square Chorale,
Jessop draws on the strengths of these three entities and combines them as appropriate to enhance the level of musical excellence in performance.
Mr. Steven White is a producer, director, and actor. Steven’s grew up in the film industry. His father was a cinematographer for Cecil B. DeMille. Steven is currently the founder and president of the Shakespeare Ensemble Company based in Fairfield, Iowa.
Walter Frederick ("Fritz") Mondale was born in Ceylon, Minnesota on Jan. 5, 1928, the son of Theodore Sigvaard Mondale and Claribel Cowan Mondale. He spent his boyhood in the small towns of southern Minnesota, where he attended public schools. After he helped manage Hubert H. Humphrey's first successful U.S. Senate campaign in 1948, he earned his B.A. in political science from the University of Minnesota in 1951. After completing service as a corporal in the U.S. Army, Mondale received his LL.B (cum laude) from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1956, having served on the law review and as a law clerk in the Minnesota Supreme Court.
This week on Speaking Freely, host Dennis Raimondi has a short interview with Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giulliani. Giulliani, the former mayor of New York City, who was traveling through Iowa, is the Republican national frontrunner, though he is presently fourth in the polls in Iowa.
A lawyer, businessman, and politican from the state of New York, Giuliani served in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, eventually becoming U.S. Attorney.
Giuliani later served two terms as as Mayor of New York (1994–2001). Giuliani gained international attention during and after the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center. In 2001, Time magazine named him "Person of the Year" and he was knighted by Quenn Elizabeth II.
This week on Speaking Freely, host Dennis Raimondi has an interview with former Ambassador Joe Wilson, who came into KRUU-FM studios.
Wilson was in town stumping for Hillary Clinton. Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, is the CIA covert operative allegedly outed by administration officials in retaliation for Wilson's Op-ed piece in the NY Times. Wilson's personal and direct challenge caused the President to withdraw claims Bush made in his 2003 State of the Union address that Saddam Hussein was seeking yellowcake uranium for nuclear weapons, the White House's central justification for invading Iraq.
Plame has just released a book, "Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House," about her experiences which led to Dick Cheney's chief of staff Scooter Libby being convicted of perjury. Libby's sentence was commuted by President Bush this past July. 'Fair
Game' was the term the president's then-chief strategist, Karl Rove, used regarding the vicious smear campaign unleashed against Plame and Wilson, in hopes of softening the serious blow to White House credibility.
Michelle Obama, wife of United States Senator and presidential hopeful Barack Obama. Ms. Obama received her BA with honors from Princeton University and her Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Obama
Jacob Soboroff, representative of WhyTuesday.org
Why Tuesday is an effort to make America's democracy stronger through increased voter participation.
www.whytuesday.org
Mr. Ari Berman is a contributing writer for The Nation Magazine and a Nation Institute Puffin Foundation writing fellow. Ari is a graduate of the Northwestern University. Mr. Berman has appeared on MSNBC and the Fox News network as a political analyst.
Mitt Romney (born March 12, 1947) was the 70th Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Elected in 2002, Romney served one term and did not seek re-election in 2006; his term expired January 4, 2007. Romney is a Republican candidate in the 2008 United States presidential election.
He is a former CEO of Bain & Company, a management consulting firm, and the co-founder of Bain Capital, a private equity investment firm. He also served as president and CEO of the 2002 Olympic Winter Games held in Salt Lake City.
JACQUELINE MUREKATETE
Internationally recognized for her work as a humanitarian, speaking out for victims and survivors of genocide. Jacqueline was not yet ten when she lost her immediate and extended family in the Rwanda genocide of 1994. Her story has been featured in the NY Times, the Washington Times, NPR, CNN, PBS, NBC, ABC, and other leading media outlets worlwide.
BEN COHEN - co-founder of Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream. Founded in 1978 the company sold in 1999 for over three hundred million dollars. Ben is a member of Businesses for Social Responsibility. He is currently campaigning for presidential hopeful US Senator John Edwards.
Josh Romney, the thirty-three-year-old son of presidential hopeful, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. Josh is on the campaign trail for his Dad. Josh recently visited all ninety-nine Iowa counties.
Allan Cox, the author of Your Inner CEO, and founder of Allan Cox and Associates, Inc. Allan has authored seven previous books, including the best seller, Confessions of a Corporate Headhunter.
GOVERNOR BILL RICHARDSON OF NEW MEXICO
Governor Richardson is currently a candidate in the 2008 United States presidential election. He previously served as a U.S. Representative, Ambassador to the United Nations, and as the Secretary of Energy. He was chairman of the 2004 Democratic National Convention as well as Chairman of the Democratic Governors' Association.
GUSTAVO COLLANTES OF HARVARD
Gustavo Collantes is a Research Fellow at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, who focuses on energy and climate change policy, particularly as they relate to transportation, and the economics and politics of low-carbon energy alternatives.
Gustavo will be at the Kennedy School of Government, while retaining collaborative research with the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California at Davis. Until recently, he led the Policy and Business Strategy track of the Hydrogen Pathways project at UC Davis.
Jackie Dodd, wife of U.S. Senator and presidential hopeful Christopher Dodd of Connecticut [D]
Jackie Dodd spent 20 years working in national security policy, foreign affairs and trade for the US Government. As CEO and Vice Chair of the Export-Import Bank during the Clinton administration, Mrs Dodd visited over 90 countries around the world, leading trade negotiations and opening new markets to US goods.
Prior to her executive branch experience Mrs Dodd worked on issues of national security in the Congress, she holds a MA in National Security Studies from Georgetown University.
Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut.
Senator Dodd served as a U.S. Representative from Connecticut from 1975 until 1981, when he became a U.S. Senator. He served as general chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 1995 to 1997. He is now the state's senior Senator. He currently serves as Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee.
Congressman Tom Udall of New Mexico.
Congressman Udall serves on the House Appropriations Committee's Subcommittees on the Interior and Environment; Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education; and, the Legislative Branch. He is also the Co-Vice Chair of the House Native American Caucus and a member of the Bipartisan Rural Caucus, the Democratic Hispanic Working Group, the Education Task Force, and the Congressional Law Enforcement Caucus, among others.
He is currently campaigning on behalf of Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico who is seeking the Democratic Party's nomination to run for president in 2008.
SENATOR HILARY RODHAM CLINTON
Senator Clinton is the U.S. Senator from New York, and a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2008 presidential election. She is married to Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States, and was the First Lady of the U.S. from 1993 to 2001.
MRS. ELIZABETH EDWARDS
Mrs. Edwards is the wife John Edwards, the former U.S. Senator from North Carolina who is currently seeking the Democratic Party's nomination to run for President in 2008.
Representing John McCain
Dennis Raimondi speaks freely with Iowa Senator Charles Grassley
Charles Ernest "Chuck" Grassley (born September 17, 1933) is the senior United States Senator from Iowa. He is a member of the Republican Party. He chaired the Finance Committee from January to June 2001, and from January 2003 to December 2006, and currently serves as the committee's Ranking Member.
Grassley has been ranked as high as the third most powerful senator. A late December 2007 poll shows Grassley remains highly popular in Iowa, with 66% approving of his job.
Barbara De Angelis, Ph.D. is a best-selling author, popular television personality and sought after motivational speaker, who has been a pioneer in the field of personal transformation. She was one of the first people to popularize the idea of self-help in the 1980's and one of the first nationally recognized female motivational teachers on television.
Barbara is the author of fourteen best-selling books which have sold over eight million copies. Her first book, How to Make Love All the Time, was a national bestseller and launched Barbara's career. Barbara has written regularly for magazines including Cosmopolitan, Ladies Home Journal, McCalls, Readers Digest, Redbook, and Family Circle.
This Week's Guests:
FORMER U.S.CONGRESSMAN MICKEY EDWARDS. Congressman Edwards was a member of Congress for 16 years and chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee. He was national chairman of the American Conservative Union and one of three founding trustees of the Heritage Foundation. He has taught at Harvard and Georgetown and is now on the faculty of Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and a vice president of the Aspen Institute. He has been a regular columnist for the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles
Times and a weekly commentator on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. He lives in Hingham, Massachusetts and Washington, DC.
Congressman Edwards is the author of the book RECLAIMING CONSERVATISM. How a Great American Political Movement Got Lost and How it Can Find Its Way Back.
Marci Shimoff is a best selling author. Her most recent book HAPPY FOR NO REASON: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out, soared to #1 on many national bestseller lists including Amazon and Barnes and Noble.com, and has debuted at #2 on The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal bestseller lists.
Marci is the woman's face of the biggest self-help book phenomenon in history, Chicken Soup for the Soul. Her six bestselling titles in the series, including Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul and Chicken Soup for the Mother’s Soul, have met with stunning success, selling more than 13 million copies worldwide in 33 languages and have been on the New York Times bestseller list for a total of 108 weeks. Marci is one of the bestselling female nonfiction authors of all time. In addition, she is a featured teacher in the international film and book sensation, The Secret.
OMAR MCDOOM IS A RESEARCH FELLOW AT THE BELFER CENTER AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY'S KENNEDY SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT. His research agenda covers civil wars, genocides, and ethnic conflicts, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. His current research project looks at Rwanda's genocide and in particular the question of civilian participation in violence. He spent a year interviewing genocide perpetrators in Rwanda's prisons.
FORMER MINNESOTA GOVERNOR JESSE VENTURA.
Governor Ventura was elected in the Minnesota gubernatorial election of
1998 as an Independent and member of the Reform Part. His victory is
considered one of the greatest political upsets in U.S. history. His
most recent book is entitled, "Don't Start the Revolution Without Me."
ARTHUR S. BERGER, THE UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MUSEUM'S SENIOR ADVISOR FOR EXTERNAL AFFAIRS
In this position, he focuses on the Museum’s international relations, VIP and Development-related outreach, and key aspects of the Museum’s public relations.
Camie Bargerstock designed her a curriculum entitled The Cultural Organization of Death and Dying in which she studied America's perceptions, rituals, and systems surrounding death, dying, and grief, a reality she observes as rooted in a culture of fear and denial. She envisions a new paradigm, one that nurtures and embodies the end of life journey as a part of life and creative rite of passage worth crossing.
Robby Benson
is an American film and television actor, television director and educator. As an actor he was nominated for the three Golden Globe Awards. As a director Robby helmed over 100 episodes in television, from Friends to an entire season of Ellen.As a composer Robby has written scores for films, received two RIAA Gold Records for songwriting for Diana Ross and for The Breakfast Club soundtrack. Open Heart the musical by Robby Benson will open at Fairfield's Sondheim Center June 20.
Laura Dawn is a political activist and singer/songwriter. She has been the Cultural Director for MoveOn.org and the MoveOn PAC since March 2004.She appears on Moby's latest album Hotel, and she toured the world with him for 7 months in 2005.
Andy Zelleke is the co-directorof the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School. Prior to joining Harvard’s Kennedy School faculty, Zelleke was a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.His articles on corporate governance have appeared in Sloan Management Review, Harvard Business Review, Directors & Boards, and Corporate Governance: An International Review.
Laura Dawn is a political activist and singer/songwriter. She has been the Cultural Director for MoveOn.org and the MoveOn PAC since March 2004.She appears on Moby's latest album Hotel, and she toured the world with him for 7 months in 2005.
Dennis Raimondi speaks with Broadway and popular star Randy Jones who will be featured in the Stephen Sondheim Center production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor live in the studio. Dates & times of the show are as follow:
July 11-13, Fri/Sat 7:30pm & Sat/Sun 2pm; July 17-20 and 24-27, Thurs/Fri/Sat 7:30pm
& Sat/Sun 2pm. Also,
the world premiere of Banjo Boy will be August 8-17.
Constance Brenneman is currently an On-Air television host for My 64 Cincinnati, cable channel 11, and an intervention counselor working within an alternative school in the Ohio Public School System. She is completing a documentary on the Maharishi Effect, or Superradiance Effect called Waves of Peace. Constance has guest starred on the ABC TV shows "The Practice" (1997) and "Alias" (2001) and co-starred in the feature film Swing (2003/I), shot in the San Franscico Bay area and directed by Martin Guigui.
Austan Dean Goolsbee is a senior economic adviser to the Obama campaign. He is an economist and is currently the Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Graduate School of
Business. He is also a Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation, Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a member of the Panel of Economic Advisors to the Congressional Budget Office. He has been Barack Obama's economic advisor since Obama's successful U.S. Senate campaign in Illinois..
Singer/songwriter Paul Fauerso Paul founded the Loading Zone in 1966. They were the opening act for such legendary groups as The Who, Rod Stewart, the Grateful Dead, Sam and Dave, Big Brother and the Holding Company with lead singer Janice Joplin, and dozens more. Paul went on to write and record music inspired by the teachings of His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
AWARD WINNING TEENAGE CLASSICAL PIANISTS REBECCA WEN, MEIGEN YU, AND JOHN WEN ALONG WITH THEIR TEACHER FEILIMN LIN. John Wen was this year's winner of the Annual Chopin Youth Competition. They will be performing this Saturday Sept 6 at 7:30 pm at the Sondheim Center of the Performing Arts. www.icpianists.com
RABBI ABRAHAM COOPER
is the associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a leading Jewish
Human Rights organization he helped found in 1977. For over three
decades, Rabbi Cooper has overseen the Wiesenthal Center’s
international social agenda ranging from worldwide anti-semitism, Nazi
war crimes and Restitution, to extremist groups and tolerance
education. Rabbi Cooper'S editorials have appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, Toronto Star, Le Monde and the Japan Times. www.wiesenthal.com
Dr. George Weiner is one of the chief authors of the Obama - Biden Plan to Combat Cancer, announced by Senator Obama September 5, 2008. Dr. Weiner is an Iowa cancer doctor and researcher who worked on the plan in a personal capacity. He also serves as Director of the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Iowa and is the chair of the Iowa Consortium for Comprehensive Cancer Control.
James Glave is a former magazine senior editor and a onetime editor for Conde Nast’s Wired News. He has contributed to numerous other publications including Wired, Details, The New York Times Magazine, and This Old House magazine.
His most recent book is "Almost Green."
www.glave.com
Mr. Paul Dalio is a second year student in New York University's Graduate School of Film. Graduates include Spike Lee and Martin Scorsese. Paul is currently working with world renowned film director David Lynch in setting up an online TV station.
Anne Raimondi will discuss her non-profit work in Bali, Indonesia over the last two years. She will give her impressions of what it is like adjusting to living and working in a foreign culture - the challenges and rewards.
Sam Oppenheim is a photographer and author. He spent the last year working on his new book, Encountering India From Kashmir to Kanyakumari: A Year Long Photographic Odyssey. Sam is a teacher in the New York City Public School System.
Jack Garcia is considered by his peers and leading FBI experts to
be the most successful undercover agent in the history of the Bureau. He was featured this week on CBS 60 Minutes discussing his book, "Making Jack Falcone, An Undercover FBI Agent Takes Down a Mafia Family."
In his 26 years of service with the FBI, Garcia is best known for his undercover role as "Jack Falcone," who penetrated the Gambino crime family of La Cosa Nostra in New York for nearly three years. The case resulted in the arrest and conviction of 32 mobsters, including the top members of the Post John Gotti Gambino crime family.
Dennis Raimondi interviews Ralph Marino.
Dennis Raimondi interviews Mario Orsatti.
Joseph Mario Orsatti has been with the David Lynch Foundation since its inception in 2005. He has traveled throughout the US and Europe with David Lynch speaking at education conferences about the use of the use of the Transcendental Meditation
technique for helping at-risk students. He helped to organize the "Change Begins Within" Benefit Concert at Radio City Music Hall with co-host Paul McCartney in New York City. .
He will tell us about preparations for the concert and what it was like back stage the night of the event.
Dennis Raimondi interviews Mike Robbins.
Dennis Raimondi interviews Pete Fuentes.
Mr. Ed Petersen is a former agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. During his time with the Bureau, Mr. Petersen investigated a wide range of federal violations including general criminal matters, international and domestic terrorism, and foreign counter intelligence. He has also served as the director of security for major league baseball. Mr. Petersen is currently one of the directors of Buckley Petersen Global, a private investigative and consulting company. He will discuss his role in solving the case of the kidnapping of former Exxon executive, Sydney Reso.
Mariel Hemingway,
as the granddaughter of the illustrious author Ernest Hemingway, was
destined to be in the public eye. But at just thirteen years old,
Mariel became famous in her own right as she made her feature film
debut in Lipstick. Four years later, she earned an Oscar nomination for her role in Woody Allen's film Manhattan.
Mariel is an actress, model, yoga instructor, mother of two teenage
girls, and one of the leading voices for holistic and balanced living.
She is the author of Mariel Hemingway's Healthy Living from the Inside Out. Her new book, just out, is Mariel's Kitchen: Simple Ingredients for a Delicious and Satisfying Life.
Ariane de Bonvoisin is an author, entrepreneur and an
expert on change. Ariane graduated from the London School of Economics
at age 19, then went on to receive her MBA from Stanford University. In
2000, Time Warner tapped her to become the managing director of a new
$500 million digital-media venture fund. She also worked with talk show
host Charlie Rose. De Bonvoisin began working on First30Days.com in
2006, and In May 2008, HarperOne published her book, The First 30 Days: Your Guide to Any Change (And Loving Your Life More). She has appeared on the Today Show on NBC and the Early Show on CBS
U.S. Army Colonel (ret) Dan Nolan was one of the first
a growing group of army officiers who have beeen pushing the military
to go green as part of national security. They are known as "the green
hawks". While in the military, Dan was a principal advisor to General
Tommy Franks. He also commanded the 1st Armored Division Artillery. Dan
is a graduate of the United States Military Academy West Point. [Click
on Colonel Nolan's pic for a recent New York Times piece on Army Green.]
Lisa Nichols is a contributor to two of the largest self-development phenomena in history: She was a featured teacher in the hit DVD The Secret, and she wrote two books in the bestselling Chicken Soup for the Soul series.
Lisa Nichols has appeared on Oprah, Larry King Live, and Extra. Ms. Nichols has been featured in O, South Africa, The Oprah Magazine, and was a guest life coach on NBC's Starting Over.
Richard Downes
is a seasoned international journalist; Richard Downes regularly
cohosts the most popular daily RTÉ radio program "Morning Ireland" and
reports for television news and for the RTÉ current affairs flagship
"Prime Time." During the 2003 war, he stayed in Baghdad and covered the
collapse of Saddam's regime from within. Vincent Browne described him
as "the best reporter covering the war." Downes lives in Dublin with
his wife and two young children. His latest book is In Search of Iraq: From Baghdad to Babylon.
Sarah Reinertsen
was the first female leg amputee to complete the Ironman Triathlon
World Championship in Kona, Hawaii. Sarah was born with proximal
femoral focal deficiency, a bone-growth disorder that eventually lead
to her becoming an above-the-knee amputee at the age of seven. She was
featured on the cover of Runner's World and was named one of the first eight "Heroes of Running" in the magazine. Ms. Rienertsen has also appeared on the cover of Triathlete magazine and Max Sports & Fitness magazine. She also scooped up the well-deserved ESPY award in 2006.
Michelle A. Rhee is the chancellor of the District of Columbia Public Schools system. In 1997 she founded The New Teacher Project, which in ten years has recruited 10,000 teachers in twenty states.
Chancellor Rhee currently serves on the Advisory Boards for the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ); the National Center for Alternative Certification (NCAC); Project REACH of the University of Phoenix’s School of Education. Chancellor Rhee is an Ex-Officio Member of the Kennedy Center Board of Trustees.
Jack Garcia is considered by his peers and leading FBI experts to be the most successful undercover agent in the history of the Bureau. He was featured on CBS 60 Minutes discussing his book, " The Making Jack Falcone, An Undercover FBI Agent Takes Down a Mafia Family." In his 26 years of service with the FBI, Garcia is best known for his undercover role as "Jack Falcone," who penetrated the Gambino crime family of La Cosa Nostra in New York for nearly three years. The case resulted in the arrest and conviction of 32 mobsters, including the top members of the Post John Gotti Gambino crime family.
This will be my third in a series of interviews with Mr. Garcia.
Tom Newmark is the author of books on herbal and natural medicine, and is the co-founder of the Sacred Seeds Sanctuary in Costa Rica . His company, New Chapter, is working with the Missouri Botanical Garden and leading botanists, to create a network of living medicinal plant gardens around the world. There are now Sacred Seeds Sanctuaries in Costa Rica, the United States, Peru, Madagascar, and Vietnam, and it is Tom’s goal to have thousands of Sacred Seed gardens in life zones from the tundra to tropics.
Pedro Noguera, PhD, is a professor in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University. He is also the Executive Director of the Metropolitan Center for Urban Education and the co-Director of the Institute for the study of Globalization and Education in Metropolitan Settings. An urban sociologist, Noguera’s scholarship and research focuses on the ways in which schools are influenced by social and economic conditions in the urban environment.
Noguera has served as an advisor and engaged in collaborative research with several large urban school districts throughout the United States. He has also done research on issues related to education and economic and social development in the Caribbean, Latin America and several other countries throughout the world.
Patricia Parker is the founder of KIDS FOR KIDS, an organization that helps children living in remote villages in Darfur, Sudan, who live lives of inexcusable hardship. It is the only organisation created specially to help children in Darfur. By strengthening whole villages they are enabling people to return to their homes - conflict resolution in practice. www.kidsforkids.org.uk
Steven Farber is the president of Extreme Leadership, is a leadership consultant and speaker, and the author of the national best seller The Radical Leap. His current book is Greater Than Yourself.
www.steverfarber.com www.doubleday.com
Mr. Francis Thicke is running as a Democrat for the office of Iowa Secretary of Agriculture. Francis and his wife, Susan, are owners and operators of a grass-based, organic dairy near Fairfield. Mr.Thicke has a Ph.D. in agronomy/soil fertility and previously served at the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington,D.C as National Program Leader for Soil Science for the USDA-Extension Service. He has served on the Iowa Environmental Protection Commission and the Iowa Food Policy Council at the appointment of Governor Tom Vilsack.
Robert and Daphne Cook. Mr. Robert Cook is the President of the National Indian Education Association and is the Principal of Pine Ridge Reservation High School in Jackson County South Dakota. Ms. Daphne Cook is the Executive Director of the Alliance of Tribal Tourism Advocates.
Mr. Francis Thicke is running as a Democrat for the office of Iowa Secretary of Agriculture. Francis and his wife, Susan, are owners and operators of a grass-based, organic dairy near Fairfield. Mr.Thicke has a Ph.D. in agronomy/soil fertility and previously served at the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington,D.C as National Program Leader for Soil Science for the USDA-Extension Service. He has served on the Iowa Environmental Protection Commission and the Iowa Food Policy Council at the appointment of Governor Tom Vilsack.
Timothy Patrick McCarthy is a Lecturer on History and Literature, Adjunct Lecturer on Public Policy, and Director of the Human Rights and Social Movements Program at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard University's Kennedy School. Dr. McCarthy's research agenda focuses on the relationship between human rights and social movements in three main areas: race relations and civil rights; LGBT politics, policy, and advocacy; and modern-day slavery and human trafficking.
Reverend Irene Monroe is the Coordinator of the African American Roundtable of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry at the Pacific School of Religion, a Huffington Post blogger, and a syndicated religion columnist. Reverend Monroe is a graduate of Wellesley College and Union Theological Seminary at Columbia University, and served as a pastor at an African-American church before coming to Harvard Divinity School for her doctorate as a Ford Fellow. Monroe has been profiled in O, Oprah Magazine. http://www.irenemonroe.com
Jonathan Freeman joined the US Army and in 2005 deployed to Taji, Iraq as an Artillery Officer attached to an Armor Company. He deployed again to Iraq in February 2007 to train an Iraqi Army unit. He left active duty in April with the rank of Captain. In June of 2008, he joined the Obama for America campaign as the Deputy Director of Veterans and Military Families Outreach. Since then, Jonathan has been working for the Obama Administration at the Pentagon as the Deputy White House Liaison.
Jonathan Freeman joined the US Army and in 2005 deployed to Taji, Iraq as an Artillery Officer attached to an Armor Company. He deployed again to Iraq in February 2007 to train an Iraqi Army unit. He left active duty in April with the rank of Captain. In June of 2008, he joined the Obama for America campaign as the Deputy Director of Veterans and Military Families Outreach. Since then, Jonathan has been working for the Obama Administration at the Pentagon as the Deputy White House Liaison.
Richard Lazarus is a professor of law at Georgetown University. He also serves as the Faculty Director of the Supreme Court Institute. Professor Lazarus has worked for the U.S. Department of Justice in both the Environment and Natural Resources Division and the Solicitor General's Office. He is one of America's leading attorneys in the area of environmental law and is the author of the book, The Making of Environmental Law.
DAVID LYNCH - David Lynch is an award-winning director, writer, and producer. His work includes Eraserhead, Elephant Man, Wild at Heart, Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet, Lost Highway, Straight Story, Mulholland Drive, and INLAND EMPIRE. His latest book Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity.
Mr. Lynch is founder and chairman of the Board of Trustees of the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace. http://www.davidlynchfoundation.org/
Ms. De La Puente-Forte, a graduate of Maharishi University of Management, is a humanitarian aid worker whose focus is Women's rights. Ms. De La Puente-Forte began her work in Calcutta working on an HIV & AIDS project. She also worked in Bangladesh where she founded a project to help adolescent girls who were the victims of early marriage. She then went to Honduras where she worked for the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM). Devanna has worked in Darfur with the International Rescue Committee, as the Gender Based Violence program manager.
Eben Lazarus is a third year economics major at the University of Pennsylvania. He was recently an intern at the DC think tank, the Center for Global Development. Eben is currently in Senegal, studying the economics of the region. He will then go to Mekhe, Senegal to work with a microfinance company. Eben will be speaking to us live from Senegal.
Wayne Fortin is the Founder and CEO of Trauma Intervention Programs of San Diego County, Inc. is a non-profit, volunteer organization of specially trained citizen volunteers who provide immediate emotional and practical support to victims and their families in the first few hours following a tragedy.
Mr. Ed Petersen is a former agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. During his time with the Bureau, Mr. Petersen investigated a wide range of federal violations including general criminal matters, international and domestic terrorism, and foreign counter intelligence. He has also served as the director of security for major league baseball. Mr. Petersen is currently one of the directors of Buckley Petersen Global, a private investigative and consulting company
Neil Cunningham is an American actor who has appeared in numerous movies. Among them: The Taking of Pelham 1,-2-3, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Sweet Dreams, Alice's Restaurant, On the Brink, and One Across the Ground. He most recent role was in the HBO movie, You Don't Know Jack. Directed by Barry Levinson and starring Al Pacino the film is about Dr. Kevorkian.
Peggy O'Neill is an advocate for positive living. Having triumphed over many challenges as a business women standing only 3’8” tall, Peggy now soars high on the wings of success! Celebrating her uniqueness, Peggy has gone on to become one of the nation's top transformational leaders and diversity experts. Peggy is the author of two books. Walking Tall: Overcoming Inner Smallness, No Mater What Size You Are, a personal-growth book for teens and adults, and Little Squarehead, a self-affirming, children’s picture book.
Ari Berman is a contributing writer for The Nation magazine and an Investigative Journalism Fellow at The Nation Institute. He has written extensively about American politics, foreign policy and the intersection of money and politics.
His stories have also appeared in the New York Times, Editor & Publisher and The Guardian, and he is a frequent guest and political commentator on MSNBC, C-Span and NPR. Ari was a cohost at KRUU for a year and a half during the presidential primaries of 2007-08.
Richard L. Strauss served as the nation's first-ever White House Radio Director, holding the position for three years (1993-1995) during the first term of the Clinton Administration. In this newly developed role, Strauss created and implemented radio communications strategy for the Executive Office of the President, in addition to coordinating, producing, and syndicating President Clinton’s weekly Saturday morning radio address.
Enjoy this KRUU-FM special featuring Speaking Freely host Dennis Raimondi interviewing Mr. Jerry Jarvis.
Mr. Jarvis served as personal secretary to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and is a past National Leader of the Transcendental Meditation Movement. The Dharma Foundation benefit Saturday night at MUM's Dalby Hall will feature a live hookup with Mr. Jarvis.
Speaking Freely airs Tuesdays at 1pm.
Past archives available at http://kruufm.com/station/archives/34.
Michael Badnarik is an American software engineer, political figure, and former radio talk show host. He was the Libertarian Party nominee for President of the United States in the 2004 elections, and placed fourth in the race. Badnarik's political philosophy emphasizes individual liberty, personal responsibility, and adherence an originalist interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.
Keelan Dimick is an award winning jazz pianist having taken first place honors at the prestigious Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival. He is currently a student at the Manhattan School of Music.
For over 14 years Rabbi Simon Jacobson, as Editor-in-Chief of VHH, was responsible for publishing the talks of the late Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe. He has been interviewed on over 300 radio and TV shows, including CNN with Larry King, the Charlie Rose Show, and the CBS News Show, “The Best of Us.”
Ali Stephens has taken the fashion industry by storm appearing in campaigns for Prada, CK Calvin Klein, Chloe, Gap, Uniqlo , Lacoste, Bergdorf Goodman, Neiman Marcus, George Rech, Karen Millen and shooting for publications such as Vogue, V, Numero, Dazed & Confused, Another & POP. Following up her debut in Milan, Ali opened the Spring 2009 Calvin Klein show and shot the CK Jeans campaign with world-renowned photographer Steven Meisel, securing her place in model history.
Dr. James Handlin is an experienced educator having been the headmaster of three private high schools. Dr Handlin is also a poet having been published in numerous magazines and journals. He was chosen along with Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams, and Amiri Baraka, among others, to have a poem put in marble in New York City's Penn Station.
Leonard Pitt is an author. His latest books is Paris Postcards-The Golden Age. He is currently working on a one man show with director Arne Zaslove. In 2009, Mr. Pitt and James Donlon opened the Flying Actor Studio in San Francisco offering a two-year program in the art of physical theater.
Grandmother Mona, a Hopi, Havasupai, Tewa elder. She serves on several United Nations committees on indigenous people's issues and is a featured author, speaker, and educator on indigenous people's human rights. Vanessa Vidal is currently the National Leader of the Global Mother Divine Organization in the United States. She is a trustee of Maharishi University of Management. MUM is hosting a gathering of the International Council of the Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers 1-3 October 2010.
Dennis Raimondi interviews Michael Cuddehe.
Michael Cuddehe is the managing member of Seven Trust Global Advisors and the author of Chronicle of Catastrophe, A Contemporaneous History of the Bush Years.
Roy Eaton is a past winner of the Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin Award. He made his American debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra performing Chopin’s F minor Concerto under George Schick. Mr. Eaton is currently on the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music.
Speaking Freely host Dennis Raimondi talks with Ari Berman about his new book HERDING DONKEYS, an in-depth look at the Democratic Party from Howard Dean's adoption of a 50-state strategy through Obama's triumph in 2008 and beyond.
Robin Lim is the founder and head of the Bali-based non-profit Bumi Sehat and is the subject of the award winning film Guerrilla Midwife.
John Munro is an assistant professor of History and Political Science at St. Peter's College in Jersey City, NJ. Mr. Munro is a speaker and expert in the field of character education with emphasis on the impact of bullying/harassment in schools and the workplace.
Jennifer Hamilton was trained as a nurse at the University of Iowa. After the passing of her sister, Jennifer was drawn to the study of conscious dying. She has been involved with hospice care for the last ten years.
Mr. Lothar Pirc is an international proponent of Ayurveda and holistic health. He is the President of the award winning Maharishi Ayurveda Health Center in Bad Ems Germany and President of Maharishi Health Center in Lancaster, Massachusetts. Dr. Karin Pirc is the first individual outside of India to be awarded the prestigious India "Global Hakim Ajmal Khan Award" for best Ayurveda physician 2006.
United States Congressman Dave Loebsack is the Representative for Iowa's 2nd Congressional district. He serves on the Committee for Armed Services and the Committee for Education and Labor. He was elected to his current post in 2007.
Mr. Philip Goldberg is an author and public speaker. His latest book is titled American Veda.
Speaking Freely with Dave Butler - Ramone Menture
Mr. Andrew DiDonato is the author of the book, Surviving the Mob. It is the amazing story of one man's journey from being a part of organized crime to becoming a respectable citizen.
Don Hansen is a pioneer of American surfing. He is celebrating his 50th year of owning an operating Hansen's Surfboards, one of the world's top surf shops located in Encinitas, one of the epicenters, in the world of surfing.
Meital Dohan is an Israeli actress, who is perhaps best known in the U.S. for her recurring role in season 2 of Weeds. Meital was born in raised in a small village in central Israel. She began studying acting at thirteen, and later joined Nissan Nativ – a highly prestigious acting school regarded as being the best in Israel. Ms.
Despite being deaf since birth, Stephen J. Hopson enjoyed fifteen years of extraordinary success in the turbulent world of Wall Street before switching gears in 1996 and becoming a transformational speaker, author and eventually a pilot. His latest book is Obstacle Illusions, Transforming Adversity Into Success.
Meredith Leighton is a dietician working for Fresenius Medical Care of North America. Ms. Leighton discusses nutrition and health. She focuses specifically on kidney health as March is National Kidney Health Month.
Paul Dalio is a fourth-year graduate student at the New York University's prestigious School of Film. He is currently working on a project with filmmaker Spike Lee. Paul discusses his work in film and also his experiences dealing with and understanding bi-polar disorder.
Lawrence Roeck is an accomplished director of feature films and documentaries. Most recently he directed the international art forgery movie Carmel-by-the-Sea starring Lauren Bacall, Alfred Molina, Hayden Panettiere and Josh Hutcherson. He also filmed Clint Eastwood for the Morgan Freeman narrated documentary produced by Warner Brothers. The Eastwood Factor.
Scott Eastwood, son of legendary actor and filmmaker, Clint Eastwood, is a film actor. Scott has appeared in the films Flags of Our Fathers, Pride, and Gran Torino. Lawrence and Scott are currently working on The Crags, an action thriller that will premiere in 2012.
Rick Cutler is a jazz drummer and pianist. He studied at Julliard and with jazz great Chick Corea. For eighteen years he served as musical director and keyboardist for tap dance legend Gregory Hines.
Mr. Cutler was one of the original percussionists for Leonard Berstein's "Mass" which was performed for the opening of the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. He has performed with the likes of Lisa Minnelli, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Billy Eckstine, and Donna Summer to name a few. He currently tours as drummer for Lisa Minnelli.
David S. Ware, the legendary jazz saxophonist. Ware's band became the avant- garde supergroup of the 90's. Wrote one critic, " His knowledge of functional harmony is above and beyond that of virtually any other free saxophonist. He is a true heir to Coltrane."
Joe Kapp is the former quarterback of the National Football League's Minnesota Vikings. He was also the quarterback of the University of California at Berkeley where he led the Golden Bears to their last Rose Bowl appearance. He finished fifth in the Heisman Trophy voting. Kapp is only one of seven players to have played in the Rose Bowl and the Super Bowl, and he is the only player to quarterback in the Rose Bowl, the Super Bowl, and the Grey Cup.
Joe Kapp is the former quarterback of the National Football League's Minnesota Vikings. He was also the quarterback of the University of California at Berkeley where he led the Golden Bears to their last Rose Bowl appearance. He finished fifth in the Heisman Trophy voting. Kapp is only one of seven players to have played in the Rose Bowl and the Super Bowl, and he is the only player to quarterback in the Rose Bowl, the Super Bowl, and the Grey Cup.
Host Dennis Raimondi talks with jazz legend Paul Horn and his wife singer/author Ann Mortifee, an amazing discussion on music, life and the art of improvisation.
Paul and Ann are keynote speakers for this weekend's Music & Consciousness Symposium at MUM on Saturday, May 14th and 15th. On Sunday at 7:45pm they perform in the Golden Dome with special guests Ed Sarath and Eugene Watts of the Canadian Brass. Tickets available at the Chocolate Shop and MUM Bookstore.
Gregory Carroll is the CEO of the American Jazz Museum in Kansas City. Prior to coming to the museum, Mr. Carroll served as director of Jazz Studies at the University of Colorado. He is a vibraphonist and continues to perform with his own group, Midnight Blue Jazz Quartet.
Speaking Freely host Dennis Raimondi speaks with Brahmachari Girish Varma and Harris Kaplan.
Sean O'Harrow is the Director of the University of Iowa Museum of Art. Prior to his appointment at the University of Iowa, Dr. O'Harrow was the Director of the Figge Art Museum in Davenport. Dr.O'Harrow received his BA in Art History from Harvard University and his doctorate from Cambridge University.
Patricia Parker is the CEO and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the non-profit, Kids for Kids, www.kidsforkids.org.uk Kids for Kids helps children in the remote villages of Darfur, Sudan where over 4 million people are struggling to survive. The non-profit provides long term self sustainable projects identified by the communities themselves. It was one of three nominees for International Charity of the Year at the UK Charity Awards.
Dal LaMagna founded the company Tweezerman in 1980 and built it into a multi-national, premier personal-care-tool brand that practices responsible capitalism and corporate social responsibility. Part of the company’s mission is to benefit all stakeholders: including financial partners, employees, customers, vendors, the community and the natural environment. His latest book is Raising Eyebrows, A Failed Entrepreneur Finally Gets It Right. http://www.dallamagna.com/dal-lamagna-biography
Singer, song writer Eli Lieb. After ten years in NYC, Eli has returned to Fairfield where he has been writing and recording music. He recently completed a CD and will be performing at the Sondheim Center Friday July 8, 2011 at 7:30 pm. In the last year, Eli's recordings posted on youtube have received close to one million hits.
Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Kopser of the U.S. Army is the head of ROTC at the University of Texas at Austen. Lieutenant Kopser is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.
Dr. Alan Hodder is a professor of literature and religion at Hampshire College. He is a leading authority on the American Transcendentalists and is the author of Thoreau's Ecstatic Witness as well as Emerson's Rhetoric of Revelation. https://hampedia.org/wiki/Alan_Hodder
Originally from South Africa, Ms. Tanell Pretorius moved to London where she enjoyed a successful career as a fashion model. She also worked for Wallpaper Magazine where she wrote on art, design, architecture and travel. She is currently working on the Dream Green Series with James Moore and Stuart Tanner.
Keelan Dimick is an award winning jazz pianist. Mr. Dimick is a student at the Manhattan School of Music where he studies with the with world renowned piano teacher, Gary Dial. Keelan Dimick with be performing this coming Saturday, July 30 7:30 pm at the Sondheim Center for the Performing Arts.
Brian Finnerty is the U.S. communications director for Opus Dei, an international Catholic organization. Brian Finnerty has been quoted in numerous print and broadcast outlets, including The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, CNN and Fox News.
Paul Anderson is the Seattle Times and ABC's KOMO 4 News career columnist, TV co-host of weekly show, "How to Get a Job in Seattle," and nationally recognized speaker. Mr Anderson will be giving great advice on effective job hunting.
Ryan Olson just returned from participating in Occupy Wall Street protest in NYC. He will give us his observations and insights on the protests.
Mike Ragogna has been a singer song writer since the age of fifteen. Mr. Ragogna has worked in all ends of the music business. He currently is a regular contributer to the Huffington Post and host the radio show Mike Ragogna 2.0 on KRUU-FM. Recent interviews include Smokey Robinson, Herbie Hancock, Tori Amos, Graham Nash, George Benson and John McLaughlin.
Michael Sternfeld will discuss a course he is teaching, The Art of Ramayan, Ramayan as Art. He will also discuss the classic Indian literature.
Chandrika Krishnamurthy Tandon was a partner with McKinsey and Company before forming Tandon Capital Associates, Inc., a financial advisory and investment firm. She shares her management and financial skills with students as a member of the Board of Overseers of New York University’s Stern School of Business and the President’s Council of International Activities at Yale University. Ms. Tandon will be giving a benefit concert for the Maharishi Vedic Pundits, Sunday, November 6, 7:45pm at the Sondheim Center for the Performing Arts.
Dr. Carol Christ is the president of Smith College. Smith College, located in Northampton, Massachusetts, is a liberal arts college and one of the Seven Sisters colleges.
Dr. Christ has her B.A. from Douglas College and her Ph.D from Yale University. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_T._Christ
Ms. Tina Atherall is the Executive Vice President of the non-profit Hope for the Warriors. Hope for the Warriors supports wounded U.S. service members and their families. www.hopeforthewarriors.org
Singer/songwriters Mike Ragogna and Theo Shier.
Mr. Ragogna has worked in all areas of the music industry and is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post. They discuss Theo's entry into the music industry.
Mr.Greg Ryan has made more than forty trips to the Appalachia region that includes many of the impoverished areas in the coal mining communities of West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio and Pennsylvania. He transports a twenty eight foot box truck filled from floor to ceiling with food, clothing, furniture and baby items for those in need. At Christmas a special trip is made to transport approximately 20,000 toys to be distributed to the Christian Appalachia project based in Louisa, Kentucky.
Phil Black went to Yale University where he starred on the basketball team. Upon graduation he joined the firm Goldman Sachs. Deciding that was not for him, he enlisted in the Navy and became a Navy Seal. In 2000, he returned to civilian life and attended and graduated from Harvard Business School. He then returned to Goldman Sachs. Once again, he found the investment world unfullfilling so he packed his family and headed for San Diego where he joined the fire department. Mr. Black is still with the SDFD and also runs the company he founded, FitDeck, Inc. www.fitdeck.com
Dr. Ron Abrons is an anesthesiologist at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. He is also an Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa Medical School.
Clinton Emerson is a former Navy Seal and the author of the book, Escape the Wolf. He is a respected authority on preemptive risk mitigation for global travelers.
Steve King is the U.S. Representive for Iowa's 5th congressional district, serving since 2003. He is a member of the Republican Party. King is considered an outspoken fiscal and social conservative.
After winning the 2002 Republican nomination, he said that he intended to use his seat in Congress to "move the political center of gravity in Congress to the right."
Robert Roth is the Executive Vice President and Heather Hartnett is the Director of Communications for the David Lynch Foundation, DLF.
Most recently the Foundation's focus has been working with school children dealing with traumatic stress and with veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress.
syndrome. www.davidlynchfoundation.org/
Rick Santorum is the former United States Senator from the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He was the chairman of the Senater Republican Conference, making him the third-ranking Senate Republican from 2001 until his leave in 2007. Senator Santorum is currently seeking the Republican nomination to run for President in 2012.
The 3rd part in a series of interviews with Paul Jones.
Swami Atmavidyananda is a swami of the Ramakrishna Order of India. He is currently the treasurer of the Vedanta Society of Southern California. He is also campus minister for Hinduism at the University of Southern California and has served as secretary and president of the University Religious Conference at UCLA.
Glen Fullmer is the Director of Communications for the Bahai Faith in the United States. He also served as an information officer at the Bahai World Centre, in Haifa, Israel. From 1995 to 1999, as communications manager at the Bahai Office of External Affairs in Washington DC, he supported diplomatic efforts in the defense of the persecuted Bahai community in Iran.
Dr. Don Ingwerson was appointed to the Christian Science Committee on Publication for Southern California in August 2006. In this capacity, Dr. Ingwerson oversees all media and legislative relations on behalf of the Christian Science Church.
Radanath Swami is a monk in the Krishna-bhakti lineage. He is a member of the governing body of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. Radhanath Swami has been instrumental in founding the Bhaktivedanta Hospital in Mumbai, India. His is the author of book, The Journey Home, a memoir of his search for spiritual truth.
Zen Master, David Rynick, has been studying and practicing Zen Buddhism for over thirty years. Mr Rynick is the founder of Boundless Way Zen and is the author of the forthcoming book, "This Truth Never Fails - A Zen Memoir in 4 Seasons".
Join host Dennis Raimondi as he speaks with Jonathan Freeman.
Jazz pianist Keelan Dimick is entering his senior year at the Manhattan School of Music in New York City. Keelan is three-time winner of the prestigious Lional Hampton Jazz Festival. He will be performing at the Sondheim Center on June 1 along with trumpeter Benny Benack.
CNN Chief Political Correspondent Candy Crowley visits KRUU-FM for an interview with Speaking Freely's Dennis Raimondi.
She is in Fairfield to give the commencement address to the graduating class of 2012.
Dr. Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee is a Sufi Teacher, author, and lecturer. He will be discussing his latest book, "Prayer of the Heart in Christian and Sufi Mysticism". Dr. Vaughn-Lee lectures worldwide and is the founder of the Golden Sufi Center in Northern California. He recently appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show.
Award-winning jazz musicians Benny Benack III and Keelan Dimick. Benny is a trumpet player who has won every major jazz trumpet competition in the United States and has played with the likes of Wynton Marsalis. Keelan is a jazz pianist who has won the prestigious Lionel Hampton International Jazz Competition three times. Both gentlemen are entering their senior year at the Manhattan School of Music in New York City.
Richard Incorvia is school teacher at Maharishi School in Fairfield, Iowa currently developing on-line technologies to revolutionize how students learn in the clasroom. Lessonadventure.com
Filmmakers John Aramian and Louis Ferrarese discuss their recently released documentary film, "Arthur Avenue, Little Italy in the Bronx." There will be a special showing of the documentary at this coming weekend's All Things Italian Street Festival. [Click on pic to see a trailer.]
Speaking Freely host Dennis Raimondi interviews sgrouples.com founder Mark Weinstein.
Dr. Donathan L. Brown, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor at Ithaca College and Editor-Elect for the Journal of Race and Policy. Dr. Brown conducts research at the intersection of race, rhetoric and public policy, particularly pertaining to African Americans and Latinos.
Brother Elias is a Catholic monk of the Trappist Order. He is currently the novice director at the Holy Spirit Monastery in Conyers, Georgia.
Dr. Jack Springer is a Medical Doctor with advanced training in tropical medicine. He is a member of the faculty of the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine in San Diego, California.
Jack Garcia is a retired FBI agent and the most notorious infiltrator in the history of the Bureau. He is the author of the book, The Making of Jack Falcone. The book became an instant New York Times Bestseller. A movie based on the book and Garcia's life is currently in the works with actor Benicio del Toro cast to play the lead role.
Steven Druker is the author of the recently released book, Altered Genes, Twisted Truth: How the Venture to Genetically Engineer Our Food Has Subverted Science, Corrupted Government, and Systematically Deceived the Public. The book tells the story of how the massive enterprise to reconfigure the genetic core of the world’s food supply was born, how it has routinely advanced through illicit means, and how it is subjecting our health and the health of the environment to unacceptable risks.
Master artist/instructor/curator William Teeple, founder and director of ICON Gallery in Fairfield, IA.
Philip Goldberg has been studying India's spiritual traditions for over forty years. He is the author of 19 books, his most recent being, American Veda. Mr Goldberg's blogs appear regularly in the Huffington Post.
Dennis talks with actor/comediene Cindy Williams, who starred in the "Laverne & Shirley Show" and the seminal movie "American Grafitti." Cindy discusses her career and upcoming performance for the Sondheim Center production of Nunset Boulevard. That's right, folks. Cindy will be in Fairfield for one night only Thursday, November 15th.
Timothy McCarthy is a professor of History and Literature and is the Director of the Sexuality, Gender, and Human Rights Program athe the Carr Center for Human Rights at Harvard.
He is a founding member of President Obama's National LGBT Leadership Council and serves on the board of the Harvey Milk Foundation.
Xander Mozejewski is the survivor of a near fatal motorcycle accident. This young man is an inspiraton for all who face adversity in life.
Tobias Grace is the Editor emeritus of the magazine Out in Jersey. He will be discussing issues and challenges facing the LGBT community.
Hossein Alizadeh is the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission's Regional Program Coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa.
Malika Zouhali-Worral and Katherine Fairfax Wright are the directors of the award winning documentary film, "Call Me Kuchu." The film explores the struggles of the LGBT community in Uganda, focusing in part on the 2011 murder of LGBT activist David Kato. Click on the pic to view trailer.
Ging Cristobal the Project Coordinator for the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission for Asia and the Pacific Islands.
Jonas Wang was the Co-Chair of Queer Students and Allies while at Harvard. Jonas did a range of things at Harvard, including doing research on LGBTQ asylum and refugee cases. Jonas also won the prestigious Ames Award, given the the two most outstanding "unsung heroes" of each Harvard graduating class.
Ryan Thoreson is the current President of the Harvard Gay and Lesbian Caucus, and an expert in his own right on LGBT civil rights issues. He's a former Rhodes Scholar, has done work in South Africa, is now at Yale Law School.
Dr. Eric Topol is the former chairman of cardiovascular medicine at the Cleveland Clinic. He is currently the Director of Scripps Translational Science Institute in La Jolla, CA. Dr Topol is considered the world's foremost authority on wireless medicine.
His new book is titled The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How The Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care. It’s about how social networking, smartphones and connectivity will change the medical field. Dr Topol was recently featured on NBC News with Brian Williams.
Doug Rauch is the former President of Trader Joe's. His current work is with Urban Food Initiative, a non-profit solution to the issue of “food waste” and hunger/obesity by bringing high quality, nutritious food at affordable prices to the underserved in our inner cities.
Miriam Katz is a New York based curator and writer. She has organized exhibitions and performances for MoMA PS1, The Kitchen, Art21, Columbia University, and Deloitte Consulting. Ms. Katz has written on the relationship between comedy and art and recently conducted a panel discussion at MoMA on Andy Kaufman's Influence on Contemporary Comedians.
Ms. Kelly Rappuchi is known for her work as an instructional consultant, curriculum strategist, researcher, and writer. Ms Rappuchi recently collaborated with Dr. Ron Heifetz, professor at Harvard University and the founder of Adaptive Leadership, on an innovative program for developing advanced leadership skills.
Dennis Raimondi interviews classical musician Paul Jones
Dr. Candida Moss is a professor of New Testament and early Christianity at the University of Notre Dame.
A graduate of Oxford University, Dr Moss earned her doctorate from Yale University.
Her latest book is The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom.
Dr. Eben Alexander is a neurosurgeon and the author of the NY Times best seller, Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife in which he describes his 2008 near-death experience. Dr Alexander has served on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and Duke University Medical Center.
Keelan Dimick is an award winning jazz pianist having taken first place honors at the prestigious Lionel Hampton International Jazz Festival. He recently graduated from the Manhattan School of Music. Keelan will be discussing his participation in Fairfest 2013.
Timothy McCarthy is a professor of History and Literature and is the Director of the Sexuality, Gender, and Human Rights Program athe the Carr Center for Human Rights at Harvard.
He is a founding member of President Obama's National LGBT Leadership Council and serves on the board of the Harvey Milk Foundation.
Dr Norman Rosenthal is a world-renowned psychiatrist and author whose research in describing seasonal affective disorder has helped millions of people. He is currently Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown Medical School. I will be interviewing Dr. Rosenthal on his latest book, The Gift of Adversity.
Join host Dennis Raimondi as he talks with Martin Erik Erikkson.
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Dr. Constance D. Shabazz is CEO of Health Resources Consultants in Chicago. Dr. Shabazz also serves as clinical consultant for the Bureau of Primary Health Care under the U.S. Department of Health Resources and Services Administraion. In addition, to having her MD, Dr. Shabazz hold a Masters Degree in public adm from Harvard.
Dr. Donathan L. Brown, is a Professor at Ithaca and is the Editor of the Journal of Race and Policy. Dr. Brown conducts research at the intersection of race, rhetoric, and public policy, particularly pertaining to African Americans and Latinos. Dr. Brown received his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University.
Andrew Tint is the host of the radio show, Generation Y, and is assistant manager of KRUU 101.1 FM. He will be discussing the Millenial Generation. Andrew is a recent graduate of Kenyon College where he was the lead broadcaster for Kenyon atheletics.
Dr. Marie Danzinger is a lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Her teaching, research, and consulting explore policy communication skills and strategies for leaders, managers, and advocates.
Andrew Tint is the host of the radio show, Generation Y, and is assistant manager of KRUU 101.1 FM. He will be discussing the Millenial Generation. Andrew is a recent graduate of Kenyon College where he was the lead broadcaster for Kenyon atheletics.
Speaking Freely's Dennis Raimondi talks with Ed Asner, an American film, television, stage, and voice actor and former president of the Screen Actors Guild.
Mr. Asner is primarily known for his Emmy Award-winning role as Lou Grant during the 1970s and early 1980s, on both The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its spin-off series Lou Grant, making him one of the few television actors to portray the same leading character in both a comedy and a drama. In 2009, he starred as the voice of Carl Fredricksen in Pixar's award-winning animated film Up. In early 2011, Asner returned to television as butcher Hank Greziak in Working Class, the first original sitcom on cable channel CMT. He is currently starring in a Canadian television series Michael, Tuesdays and Thursdays, on CBC Television and has appeared in the 2013 summer series The Glades, in the episode Killer Barbecue.
Dr. Rick Hanson is a neuropsychologist author of Buddha's Brain, Just One Thing, and Mother Nature. He will be discussing his latest book, Hardwiring Happiness, the New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence.
Dennis Raimondi speaks with Mike Ragogna about a wide range of topics.
Join host Dennis Raimondi as he talks with Jonathan Freeman.
Joseph Kopser is a retired military officer. He is the the co-Founder and CEO of RideScout, a startup smartphone app created to increase transportation efficiency by getting people out of their cars and into other public, commercial, and private options. Mr. Kopser is a West Point and Harvard Kennedy School graduate.
Tom Newmark is the chairman of the Greenpeace Fund USA. He also serves on the Board of the American Botanical Council. Mr. Newmark is currently sponsoring the Tropical Farming Systems Trial in Costa Rica.
Rustin Lippincott, executive director of the Fairfield Arts & Convention Center and the Fairfield COnvention & Vistors Bureau, talks with Dennis about his tenure at the helm of Fairfield's signature facility and upcoming events.
Join host Dennis Raimondi as he speaks with Mike Ragogna about the music industry, making money from your music, and how the industry has changed in recent years.
Lucien Carter runs the creative intellectual property asset management firm Sheffield Strategies. Mr Carter has also worked in various positions in government and politics including two years on Capitol Hill for US Senator Edward M. Kennedy and the successful election campaign of Governor Deval Patrick of Massachusetts. Before founding Sheffield Strategies, Lucien worked in legal and business affairs with Oprah Winfrey Network and 20th Century Fox. Mr. Carter received his BA from Harvard and his Law Degree from UCLA.
Join Dennis Raimondi as he speaks to Andrew Tint for the third part of the Millennial series.
Mr. Eli Lieb is a singer song writer and an internet sensation. He has had over 17 million visits to his postings on youtube. His music video Young Love has had over 1.2 million viewers in the last five months. Eli is currently residing in Los Angeles.
Join host, Dennis Raimondi as he talk with Michael Lang on Speaking Freely.
Mr Philip Goldberg is an author and speaker. His most recent book, American Veda, explores the influence of vedic knowledge on western culture. Mr Goldberg will be discussing his recent Indian lecture tour.
A facinating discussion with Tommy Edison, the blind film critic. Blind since birth, Mr Edison discusses his unique perspective on film. He has also worked in radio for over twenty five years. http://blindfilmcritic.com/
Steve Briggs is the author of the book, India Mirror of Truth, A Seven Year Pilgrimage. Mr Briggs will discuss his time in India visiting ashrams and holy places from Kerala to the high Tibetan plateau.
Ben Nelson was the president of the online photo hosting and printing service Snapshot at the time is was purchased by HP. In 2010, he started the Minerva Project to develop a university that would deliver an Ivy League education at a fraction of the cost of traditional universities. http://www.minervaproject.com/ Minerva will have its first undergraduate class September 2014.
Joining "Speaking Freely" is the new Fairfield Action News Team, represented by MSAE Middle School.
Captain Jonathan Freeman of the Maryland National Guard will be the featured guest. Captain Freeman did two tours of duty in Iraq and one tour of duty in Afghanistan. He is currently a PhD candidate at the London School of Economics.
Steven White is an actor, director, and producer. He will be discussing his upcoming production of Ravenscroft, a delightful, funny, intricate, grown up "who done it." The play opens this coming Friday, January 31 7:30 pm and Sunday Feb 2 at The Sondheim Center and then two more weekends at Spayde Theater, MUM.
Hospice workers Jennifer Hamilton and Liza McClure with be discussing both their new company Thresholding: Customized Palliative Services, www.thresholdingcare.com and the death cafe they are hosting www.deathcafe.com
Mike Ragogna (aka the encyclopedia of music) will discuss all aspects of the music industry. He is recently back from Mexico where he interviewed music legend, Carlos Santana. Mike is a regular contributor to he Huffington Post.
Learn all about the business of City government with regular guest state fourth ward city council person Michael Halley.
Stay informed & keep up on the local and state haps. Shows archived as well.
Author Dean Sluyter will be discussing his new book, Cinema Nirvana, Enlightenment Lessons from the Movies. Dean uses some of the great films of the past seventy years to teach lessons on enlightenment. http://www.deansluyter.com/content/cinema-nirvana
Ms. Jackie Laulainen is a travel blogger at TheBudgetMindedTraveler.com She is also author of The Aspiring Travel's Handbook: A Preparation Guide to International Travel. Jackie has been to over 35 countries in the last ten years. Ms.Laulainen resides in Bozeman, Montana.
Andrew Tint is the host of the radio show, Generation Y, and is assistant manager of KRUU 101.1 FM. He will be discussing the Millenial Generation. Andrew is a recent graduate of Kenyon College where he was the lead broadcaster for Kenyon atheletics.
Speaking Freely talks with James Larew, whose provided legal services for over 25 years to Iowans
Speaking Freely talks with Richard Incorvia about MSAE's Fairfield Action News, and the documentry he's making.
Speaking Freely talks with Marianne Williamson, who is running for Congress. Marianne Williamson is an internationally acclaimed spiritual author and lecturer. Six of her ten published books have been New York Times Bestsellers. Four of these have been #1 New York Times Bestsellers. A Return to Love is considered a must-read of The New Spirituality. A paragraph from that book, beginning "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure..." is considered an anthem for a contemporary generation of seekers.
Marianne’s newest book, A Year of Miracles: Daily Devotions and Reflections was released in December 2013. Marianne's other books include The Age of Miracles, Everyday Grace, A Woman's Worth, Illuminata, Healing the Soul of America, A Course in Weight Loss, The Gift of Change and The Law of Divine Compensation.
Mary Willingham works in the Center for Student Success and Academic Counceling at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Her research includes studies on the NCAA and university admission procedures with regards to college athletes, and thier gaps in basic skills. Ms.Willingham's research findings have recently been the subject of national news.
Speakinking Freely talks to Mike Ragogna about music.
Speaking Freely talks with Dan Kane.
1:30pm | Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, one of the country's leading progressives, is the longest serving independent member of Congress in American history. He will be the main dinner speaker on May 17 in Clinton, Iowa at the “Hall of Fame Dinner for 2014″ hosted by the Clinton County Democrats.
There will be a pre-dinner social hour with Congressman Dave Loebsack and Senator Jack Hatch, followed by dinner and a keynote address by Senator Sanders.
To obtain tickets online, click here, or contact Jean Pardee at 242-8111 or jmpardee@mchsi.com
Edgar Barens is the director and producer of the Academy Award nominated documentary film, Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall. the film follows the final months in the life of a terminally ill prisoner and the hospice volunteers, they themselves prisoners, who care for him.
Speaking Freely sits down with Rob Stowe, of Harvard, to discuss climate change and what needs to happen to fix it.
Jimi Petula is an American filmmaker, entrepreneur and educator who is known for his Mentor/Apprentice approach to learning. He is the founder and CEO of RRF, Inc., which offers mentor based courses in film, recording, and radio.
Brian Morrow is the Co-Founder and Creative Director of Shark Pig in Los Angeles, CA. He is currently producing a film on the life of film director Hal Ashby. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Ashby
Rekha Basu is an opinion columnist for the Des Moines Register. She also appears weekly on the "Rekha's Voice" segment on KCWI TV. Her colunns cover politics, culture, human rights, and social justice.
Louise Lawrence Israels is a holocaust survivor. During the German occupation of the Netherlands, Louise and her family spent three years hiding in an attic apartment in Amsterdam. This interview is part of Speaking Freely's series on holocaust survivors being done in collaboration with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC.
Dennis interviews Johanna Neuman on The Holocaust
Speaking Freely talks to Ed Petersen Jr about his work in Ireland.
Speaking Freely continues its Holocaust memorial programming with Dora Klayman.
Speaking Freely continues its Holocaust memorial programming with Julius Menn.
Speaking Freely continues its Holocaust memorial programming with Steven Fenves.
Speaking Freely is joined with Marcel Drimer, a holocaust survivor.
Speaking Freely continues its series on survivors of the Holocaust, being done in collaboration with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.
Jacqueline was born on April 23, 1935 in Paris, France. Her father, Frits, ran a food import-export business and her mother, Ellen, took care of Jacqueline and her older sister, Manuela.
Jacqueline had a normal childhood before the outbreak of the war in 1939, but everything changed in May 1940 when Germany invaded France. Click here for full bio.
Brent Roske is an Emmy nominated writer, producer, and director. He is currently putting on an original play, Lincoln's Last Interview which will be performed in the Capital Building in Des Moines on August 23. Mr Roske is also working on a film called "Chasing the Hill" starring Richard Schiff and Robin Weigert.
Engel is a Brooklyn based artist originally from Haiti who is the subject of the soon to be released documentary, "Someway, Somehow." A Swedish artist recently painted a portrait of Engel which last month was featured at the National Portrait Museum in London, England. http://vimeo.com/30752622
Dr. Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee is a Sufi Teacher, author, and lecturer. He has lectured worldwide and been a guest on many TV and radio talk shows including the Oprah Winfrey Show.
Swami Tyagananda is a Hindu monk of the Ramakrishna Order. He is currently the head of the Vedanta Society in Boston and the Hindu Chaplain for Harvard and MIT.
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Dennis Speaks with Phillip Tomlinson
Interview with Richard Blakley
Dennis speaks with Jeff Shipley
Dennis interviews Donna Cleveland
1pm: Amalie Nash, an award-winning Michigan journalist, is the new editor and vice president for audience engagement for The Des Moines Register and DesMoinesRegister.com.
Nash has spent the past three years at the Detroit Free Press as assistant managing editor for metro-state news. For the past 15 months,
Nash also has coordinated the Gannett Michigan network of news sites, which includes six newspapers and one TV station.
Dennis speaks to Ben Woolf
Today's guests are filmmakers Peter Rader and Lisa Leeman. Their current film, Awake: the Life of Yogananada, recently opened to rave reviews in theaters nationwide.
"Compelling....enough to make a modern soul look inwards." NY Times. Awake, will be playing at the Orpheum Theater in Fairfield, IA and the Apple Fresh Pond Cinema in Cambridge, MA on Friday November 7.
http://www.awaketheyoganandamovie.com/filmmakers/
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Ben Gulley is an American operatic tenor. He is a member of the SONY/BMG recording group, the American Tenors. The winner of the Metropolitan Opera's 2009 National Council Distict and Regional Competitions, Mr. Gulley recently embarked on his first national solo tour. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxE5oR5JwAo
Dennis speaks with Andy Lorusso
Dr. Scott Terry is a licensed therapist and the Director of the Ardent Counseling Center in Chicago, Illionois. Dr. Terry also offers counseling services in Iowa. http://www.ardentcenter.com
Andy LoRusso, the Singing Chef, is the author of the best selling cookbook, Sing and Cook Italian. Mr. LoRusso is also a recording artist and celebrity chef. He has cooked and performed the world over. www.singingchef.com
Richard Beymer,
aka Ben Horne of Twin Peaks, Oregon, filmmaker, tap dancer and koolaid stand entrepeneur, is scheduled to resume shooting on the vaunted series this summer. Beymer's unauthorized autobiography is entitled "Impostor: Who Am I When Not Being Who I Think I Am?"
In the summer of 1964, Beymer made a documentary on the activities during the Mississippi Summer Project. The film "A Regular Bouquet" documents the day-to-day lives of the people who registered Mississippi voters in 1964. That period of time became known as Freedom Summer.
Dennis speaks with Daniel Ponneman
Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton talks with Speaking Freely's Dennis Raimondi about the upcoming Iowa caucuses.
Dennis Raimondi interview Johann Svenson
Speaking Freely
Interviews with prominent people from business, politics, sports, entertainment, and non-profits.
Dennis’ angle is to ask intelligent and thought provoking questions and allow guests to speak in detail about their area of expertise and interest. He tries to have people come on who represent diverse points of view.
Claire Hoffman about her book GREETINGS FROM UTOPIA PARK: Surviving A Transcendent Childhood, her career and perspectives on life this Tuesday, May 24th at 1pm CT on KRUU-LP 100.1. [Rebro THU 8am]
Claire works as a magazine writer living in Los Angeles, writing for national magazines, covering culture, religion, celebrity, business and whatever else seems interesting. She was formerly a staff reporter for the Los Angeles Times and a freelance reporter for the New York Times.