David welcomes Jason Leopold of TruthOut.org and the curious case of Hesham Zubaidah. The brother of Abu Zubaidah, the first senior al-Qaeda member captured after 9/11. Unlike his brother, Hesham came to the United States eager to pursue the American dream and take advantage of everything America had to offer. After 9/11, this all came […]
David speaks with climber Jim Davidson about his new book The Ledge. In 1992, Davidson was descending Mt. Ranier when he and his partner fell 80 feet into an icy crevasse. After watching the death of his partner and suffering severe injuries of his own, Davidson found the strength to pull his way out of […]
David speaks with author Donna Johnson about her latest book Holy Ghost Girl: A Memoir. As a child, Johnson spent her years traveling on the road as her mother worked as an organist for big tent revival preacher David Terrell. A truly polarizing figure, David Terrell spent his years preaching from town to town to […]
David welcomes in jazz singer Virginia Schenck to chat about her debut album VA. Though she spent most of her adult years teaching music, she had a secret desire to perform on stage. Though this desire had gone mostly unfulfilled, a chance meeting with jazz great Bobby McFerrin that finally made Virginia decide that jazz […]
David is joined by Peggilene Bartels to tell her incredible story of becoming King of the village of Otuam in Ghana. Peggilene, aka King Peggy, was born in Ghana in 1953 but moved to the United States in the early 1970s to work at Ghana’s embassy. After spending almost 35 years living in Maryland, Peggy […]
David speaks with writer, comedian, and “Daily Show” co-creator Lizz Winstead about her new memoir Lizz Free Or Die. In this collection of essays, Winstead talks about her Minnesota upbringing and how becoming a comedian was a secondary plan after finding out that she wasn’t allowed to become a Priest. Original Air Date: 05-23-2012 Part […]
David chats with Atlanta Braves legend John Smoltz about his new book Starting And Closing: Perseverance, Faith, And One More Year. The book focuses mainly on Smoltz’s last year playing baseball and the time he spent with the Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Cardinals. While based on his final season in 2009, the book […]
David chats with Peter Bergen about Bergen’s latest book Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search For Bin Laden From 9/11 To Abbottabad. In 1997, Bergen was the first Western journalist to interview Osama Bin Laden for CNN and gave Bin Laden his first opportunity to declare war against the United States directly to a Western audience. Since […]
David speaks with author Terry McDermott about his new book The Hunt for KSM: Inside the Pursuit and Takedown of the Real 9/11 Mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Along with his co-author Josh Meyer, McDermott traces the pursuit of a man who wasn’t even on the government’s radar immediately following 9/11. Original Air Date: 05-15-2012 Part […]
David chats with Tim Arango, the current Baghdad bureau chief of The New York Times, about the rise in culture and the arts in Iraq. After years of suppression, culture and the arts have taken a bit more significant role in the country than it has in the past. The interview focuses mainly on a […]