Jun 3, 2018         4 
How Bernie Won: Jeff Weaver Bernie Sanders' Campaign Manager

Bernie Sanders' campaign manager discusses his new book, How Bernie Won, and we discuss how Bernie applied his thinking about Bottom-up.

May 24, 2018
Facts, Fake News, How to Fix the Problem: Nathan Bomey

Nathan Bomey is an award-winning business reporter for USA Today. He's the author of a new book, After the Fact; The Erosion of Truth and the Inevitable Rise of Donald Trump

May 20, 2018         3 
Forgiving; Trump, Hillary, Stein, Bernie Supporters: Mandy Bass

Mandy Bass is a success coach and author of Taming the Takalosh. She was brutally assaulted and injured, only to turn around and forgive and become friends with her crazed attacker.

May 13, 2018         1 
Drawing to Save Ourselves: Margaret Welty; Art from the bottom up

Art professor Margaret Welty is on a mission to put drawing into all our lives. Why, because it empowers and potentiates who we are.

May 1, 2018         11 
Time to Cure the USA's Exceptionalism, with David Swanson

David Swanson's new book is Curing Exceptionalism; What’s wrong with how we think about the United States” What can we do about it? I love this book. It is so, so needed.

Apr 17, 2018         7 
Dennis Kucinich on Running for OH Governor Against the Democratic Establishment

Dennis Kucinich is running in the Democratic primary for Governor of Ohio. We chat about his positions on issues and his relationship to the Democratic establishment

Apr 10, 2018         2 
Mind Games Plutocrats Use to Manipulate the Masses; Roy Eidelson

In Political Mind Games, psychologist Roy Eidelson presents a unique and illuminating framework for understanding and combating the manipulative ploys of the 1%. He explains exactly how the rich and powerful mislead the American people--about what's happening, what's right, and what's possible

Apr 7, 2018
John Trigonis; Mastering Crowd Funding

John Trigonis is the author of Mastering Crowd Funding. A Filmmaker, Trigonis is Indiegogo’s head film campaign strategist, working behind the scenes on successful film, video, theater, comic book and gaming campaigns. He has helped thousands of filmmakers, artists and authors world wide create compelling crowdfunding campaigns that reach or exceed their goals.

Mar 2, 2018
Ben Berkowitz's SeeClickFix.com Makes Civic Connecting Better, Easier

Ben Berkowitz, co-founder of SeeClickFix.com discusses how his app and website is being used in over 300 cities around the world to help people connect more effectively with civic services, and make it a lot easier to report problems and see the progress on the problems being fixed. This is a very bottom-up service that enhances the connection of people and government.

Feb 22, 2018
Cecil Bothwell; Exposing the Real Billy Graham

Cecil Bothwell, is an award winning investigative reporter and author of the book, The Prince of War; Billy Graham's Crusade for a Wholly Christian. Cecilbothwell.com Bothwell writes: "Billy Graham was a preacher man equally intent on saving souls and soliciting financial support for his ministry. Graham's message was principally one of fear:

Feb 20, 2018
Four Arrows: An Indigenous Take on The #MeToo Movement

Four Arrows wrote an article, "And Then Mother Earth Said “Me too," which described the indigenous, Native American perspective on the #MeToo Movement.

Feb 4, 2018
Sociopathic Society, Bully Nation; Interview with Charles Derber

Charles Derber says the Left, since the sixties, has abandoned the class politics of bottom up organizing and moved toward identity politics. This has created a tremendous opening for right wing populism with its own perverted appeal to workers while allowing them to exploit their own white nationalist identity politics. Derber defines what identity politics is and the issues you has with it?

Jan 20, 2018
Social Media & Inbound Marketing Expert Jeff Bullas

Jeff Bullas is a mega expert on Social Media and Inbound marketing, also called Content based marketing. he discusses ways we works, the tools he uses and strategies. For example, most people tweet something one to three times. He tweets 100 times a day.

Jan 14, 2018
The Anatomy of Evil; Michael H. Stone, M.D.

Michael Stone has studied over 800 violent criminals-- murderers, torturers, rapists, to come up with a scale of evil. We discuss the definitions of evil, history, and new, modern, forms of evil behavior that did not exist 50 years ago.

Jan 7, 2018
John T. Harvey on Why We Should Blame Economists

John T. Harvey says says, "Mainstream economists have next to no knowledge of the schools of thought that did the best job of forecasting the Financial Crisis." He's professor of Economics at Texas Christian University, an author of multiple books on economics and he’s a blogger at Forbes.com.

Dec 10, 2017
WTF With Tech Visionary & Venture Capitalist Tim O'Reilly

Tim O’Reilly, the author of WTF; What’s the Future and Why It’s Up To Us, launched the first commercial website. He's probably the most influential tech publisher. He’s organized incredible conferences bringing together some of the most influential digital leaders, including Tim Berners Lee. He’s credited with being one of the Web’s earliest evangelists, and with helping create the terms Web 2.0, Open Source & Maker Movement

Nov 26, 2017
Henry Giroux on Trump Authoritarianism, Neoliberalism & Rabid Individualism

Henry Giroux on Trump Authoritarianism, Neoliberalism & Rabid Individualism Henry Giroux, author of The Public in Peril: Trump and the Menace of American Authoritarianism and, America at War with Itself, discusses, Trump's ...

Nov 19, 2017         5 
Riane Eisler; Transforming from a Domination to a Partnership Society

Humans were, for much of early civilization, equal partners, without male domination. Then things changed, Male domination swept in with nomadic herders. Now, we need to take steps to get back to a partnership society and partnership economics.

Nov 12, 2017
Filmmaking for Change; The How and History of Social Impact Films, with Jon Fitzgerald

Jon Fitzgerald, is the author of Filmaking For Change. We discuss the history of social impact films and what's involved in making them, and that it's become much more easy and affordable to do.

Nov 5, 2017         3 
Standing up to Globalization with Localization; Intvw w Helena Norbert Hodge

Helena Norbert Hodge is the author of Ancient Futures, producer of Economics of Happiness, my favorite documentary. And she's organizing workshops around the US and the world on the Economics of Happiness, exploring the implications of globalization and advocating for localization.

Oct 26, 2017
Cormac Russell: Community is not a noun It’s a verb

I've been wanting to interview Cormac Russell for a while. He's a kindred spirit who gets Bottom up and Top Down thinking better than most. Even better, he has developed brilliant approaches to apply Bottom up thinking to healing, strengthening and building community. His thoughts on how Top down approaches to community, particularly professionals work, are brilliant and a huge threat to the existing system. I love disruption

Oct 15, 2017         5 
George Monbiot Discusses Creating a New Story to Replace Neoliberalism

George Monbiot Discusses Creating a New Story to Replace Neoliberalism, going into detail on the history and nature of neoliberalism, and discusses the essential need to provide stories to move people to embrace political values and principles

Oct 8, 2017         9 
Zeitgest Movement Founder Peter Joseph, Interviewed by Rob Kall

Zeitgeist Movement's Peter Joseph on Rob Kall Bottom Up Show Peter discusses his vision of the future-- economically, technologically, culturally.

Oct 1, 2017         1 
Making Music Using Artificial Intelligence

This podcasts starts with an introduction that uses music I "created" using an artificial intelligence (AI) aided online music creation program. I interview the CEO and founder of Amper Music, the company that created the website.

Sep 24, 2017
All You Want To Know About the Alt-Right; Interview with George Hawley

I interview George Hawley, author of the book, Making Sense of the Alt-Right

Sep 1, 2017         5 
What To Do About the Monster Internet Platforms: Trebor Scholz on Platform Cooperativism

Today's guest is Trebor Scholz. He is a scholar-activist and Associate Professor for Culture & Media at The New School in New York City. His book Uber-Worked and Underpaid. How Workers Are Disrupting the Digital Economy He co-edited Ours To Hack and To Own, the rise of platform cooperativism, a new vision for the future of work and a fairer internet.

Aug 27, 2017         2 
Chris Whipple discusses The 2nd Most Powerful Person in the World: White House Chief of Staff

After the president, the White House Chief of staff may be the most powerful person in the world. Success as president requires a White House chief of Staff effectively empowered to do the job right. Chris Whipple wrote the book, The GATEKEEPERS; How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency

Aug 20, 2017
Bottom up Health and Well Being with Marilynn Preston

Marilynn Preston, is the author of Energy Express, America’s longest-running syndicated fitness column. Her latest book is All’s Well. We talk about Bottom up approaches to health and well being.

Aug 13, 2017         10 
Yaneer Bar-Yam; Applying Complexity Theory to The World's Hardest Problems

Yaneer Bar-Yam is Director of the New England Complex System Institute, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, author of Making Things Work; Solving Complex Problems in a Complex World. He’s used complexity theory and quantum mechanics theory to predict that the Arab Spring would happen, and applies these approaches to social problems, health care, education, warfare, terrorism and more.

Aug 6, 2017
Bottom Up, Local Economics with Anthony Flaccavento

Anthony Flaccavento is the author of a brilliant book. I just love this book “Building a Healthy Economy from the Bottom Up”. He’s been an organic farmer for twenty-some years. He’s ran for congress as the Democratic candidate in Virginia.