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Conflict of Interest

Kevin Ellis

It’s called Conflict of Interest because I do a lot of different things. But I believe in citizenship. So you gotta write and speak up. There is a country worth improving, despite its massiv...

Episodes

20 of 85 episodes

Solving the Housing Crisis in 90 Minutes

A former mayor and a non-profit housing leader team up figure out our housing challenge. One wants to build faster with a lot less regulatio...

94:19Oct 1, 2026

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

Whether it's AI, Peak Oil, the Strait of Hormuz, or climate disruption, our future will be vastly different than how we grew up and what we...

54:13Sep 18, 2026

Howard Dean and the Future of the Democratic Party

In our latest LIVE audience show Vermont, the former chair of the DNC and presidential candidate says he would vote for AOC for president, t...

80:48Sep 14, 2026

Social Murder and Corporate Violence (Marie Gottschalk)

It is not the street crime that is wrecking the country. It is the corporate criminal violence that we ignore in favor of putting small-time...

46:57Aug 11, 2026

LIVE: True Justice with Sarah George

The reform prosecutor in Burlington, VT opposes cash bail and favors treatment and community justice over prison and prosecution. As communi...

84:18Aug 3, 2026

LIVE: In Conversation with the Democratic Candidates for Governor of Vermont

Aly Richards and Amanda Janoo come from the same county and went to rural elementary schools. But their approaches to government are differe...

84:22Jul 6, 2026

Community and Connection with Erica Heilman

The Peabody winning journalist/podcaster talks about small town Vermont life and the characters that make life real. And we did it LIVE befo...

77:39Jun 22, 2026

Bernie Sanders: Origin Story

We don't actually know much about the progressive icon and that is exactly the way he wants it. But for those who want more, who need more,...

48:03Jun 1, 2026

Ben Cohen Wants His Ice Cream Company Back! (LIVE)

The corporate overlords that own Ben & Jerry's want the profits but not the social responsibility. Cohen says he wants "less money - more ju...

69:26May 8, 2026

When Did the Jan. 6 Rioters Become Who They Are? (Dr. Paul Howes)

Turns out shortly after birth. My psychologist classmate explains how MAGA got that way. And a lot more.

52:49May 1, 2026

It's Only Drowning (David Litt)

How did an Obama speechwriter find himself getting rolled in the freezing Jersey shore surf? A search for something better, some common grou...

37:45Apr 4, 2026

What is the CIA For? (Tim Weiner)

The Pulitzer Prize winner discusses his new book about the role of the CIA since 9-11. What should they be doing? What are they getting wron...

44:15Mar 21, 2026

Jeffrey Epstein, Trump and the Untouchables

Gates, Summers, Prince Andrew and the rest of them thought they were untouchable, that the rules didn't apply to them. How did we get here -...

48:25Mar 6, 2026

ICY Minneapolis with the former US Attorney on Minnesota

Andrew Luger was the top cop in Minnesota under Obama and Biden. He says the ICE surge was a failure because it violates what law enforcemen...

37:53Feb 16, 2026

William F. Buckley Jr. and the Road to Trump

How did we get here? Buckley had a lot to do with it and writer Sam Tanenhaus lays it all bare in his fabulous biography of the conservative...

59:29Feb 9, 2026

Molly Gray Feels Liberated

Why does a former Lt. Governor of Vermont lose a race for Congress and then return to run again for her old office. Welcome to the "Pain Cav...

39:20Jan 18, 2026

What Can I Do? (Nick Mucha from Patagonia)

There is a book that tells you how to be an activist. Tools to Save our Home Planet tells you how to start, how to stay at it over the long...

33:19Dec 29, 2025

The Police Officer of Twitter (John Harwood)

Freed from mainstream media, John Harwood is right there to correct every lie on Twitter with a mix of old-school journalism experience and...

44:28Nov 25, 2025

Off Year Elections (Luke Albee)

How the Dems victories affect shutdown, presidential aspirations and everything else.

35:49Nov 10, 2025

“Why is this appropriate?”

My federal judge classmate tells Trump he cannot send national guard troops to Portland. Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Richard Read expl...

38:52Oct 27, 2025