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[ Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:30:11 EDT ]

Dave Barry's Money Secrets

Every 8 seconds, another North American baby boomer turns 60. That's about 11,000 each day and 4.5 million each year. So what will it mean for society? What will it mean for you? David Gardner talks about the changing face of retirement with Ken Dychtwald, author of The Power Years:A User's Guide to the Rest of Your Life....

[ Sat, 07 Apr 2007 12:31:17 EDT ]

The Power Years

Why should you avoid using the word"spacious"if you're trying to sell your house? What happens when you build a bagel business on the honor system Economist Steven Levitt shares some unconventional insight from his book, Freakonomics....

[ Fri, 30 Mar 2007 22:31:52 EDT ]

Freakonomics

We talk with A.J. Jacobs, author of The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World. It's a book about a quest to read the entire Encyclopedia Britannica from A-Z. He also joins us for a game of Fool Fact or Fool Fiction....

[ Fri, 23 Mar 2007 20:45:13 EDT ]

The Know-It-All

Jeff Foxworthy went from $30,000-a-year IBM repairman to successful stand-up comedian. His best-selling books include You Might Be a Redneck If... Foxworthy talks about the serious business of comedy....

[ Fri, 16 Mar 2007 18:22:12 EDT ]

Jeff Foxworthy

A pimp dreams of becoming a rap star. It's the plot for the Academy Award nominated Hustle and Flow. In 2005, David Gardner talked about the hustle and flow of moviemaking with Hustle and Flow director Craig Brewer. Craig Brewer's latest film Black Snake Moan opens this weekend....

[ Sat, 10 Mar 2007 04:14:04 EST ]

Hustle and Flow

Bowling, guessing the weight of an ox, the Space Shuttle and the stock market -- just a few of the things we talk about with New Yorker magazine financial columnist Jim Surowiecki, author of The Wisdom of Crowds....

[ Fri, 02 Mar 2007 22:23:37 EST ]

The Wisdom of Crowds

Richard Nelson Bolles on his career-advice classic, What Color Is Your Parachute?...

[ Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:56:27 EST ]

What Color is Your Parachute?

Are there parallels between how couples approach sex and how they approach money? David Gardner talks finance and romance with sex therapist Dr. Ruth....

[ Fri, 16 Feb 2007 20:31:58 EST ]

Dr. Ruth

[ Fri, 09 Feb 2007 18:43:04 EST ]

The Know-It-All

We celebrate this age old question with best-selling business writer Po Bronson, author of"What Should I Do With My Life?"...

[ Fri, 02 Feb 2007 16:35:47 EST ]

What Do I Want To Do With My Life?

[ Sat, 27 Jan 2007 01:58:21 EST ]

Terry Bradshaw led the Pittsburgh Steelers to four Super Bowl victories. The Hall of Fame quarterback has since scored big success on television. In this week's Fool Radio Flashback, David and Tom Gardner talk pigskins and profits with Terry Bradshaw....

What's it like to work as a sanitation engineer? A golf ball diver? A chick sexer? David Gardner talks odd jobs and dirty jobs with Mike Rowe, host of Discovery Channel's Dirty Jobs....

[ Sat, 20 Jan 2007 00:16:08 EST ]

Dirty Jobs

It's that age-old question: does money buy happiness? At the very least, can money help you make a good down payment on happiness? David Gardner weighs those questions with Laura Rowley, author of Money and Happiness: A Guide to Living the Good Life....

[ Fri, 12 Jan 2007 22:18:39 EST ]

Does Money Buy Happiness?

He's the best-selling author of books such as Liars Poker and Moneyball. Now New York Times contributor and author Michael Lewis talks about his new book, Coach: Lessons on The Game of Life....

[ Fri, 05 Jan 2007 20:48:59 EST ]

Lessons on The Game of Life

A conversation with film historian Jeanine Basinger about the business behind the Frank Capra holiday classic....

[ Fri, 29 Dec 2006 06:46:13 EST ]

It's a Wonderful Life

Where did Kiehl's go right? Where did Krispy Kreme go wrong? And can you really build a business around mismatched socks? David Gardner talks about the power of marketing with Seth Godin, author of All Marketers Are Liars: The Power of Telling Authentic Stories in a Low Trust World....

[ Fri, 22 Dec 2006 03:21:27 EST ]

All Marketers Are Liars

He's a key player in the boxing and business worlds. Heavyweight champ and cooking icon George Foreman talks boxing, business, and bad investments....

[ Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:36:59 EST ]

Heavyweight George Foreman

He perpetrated one of the biggest white-collar crimes in history, a $300 million carpet-cleaning fraud called the ZZZZ Best Corporation. Barry Minkow is now a fraud buster and the author of the book Cleaning Up: One Man's Redemptive Journey Through The Seductive World of Corporate Crime. David Gardner talks with Minkow about investment scams, corporate corruption, and his not so magical carpet business....

[ Fri, 08 Dec 2006 23:27:09 EST ]

Cleaning Up With Barry Minkow

Time magazine called him one of the world's 100 most powerful and influential people. Now John Bogle weighs in on the current direction of America with his new book, The Battle for The Soulof Capitalism....

[ Fri, 01 Dec 2006 21:32:41 EST ]

John Bogle On Capitalism

Ken Dychtwald: The Changing Face of Retirement

[ Fri, 24 Nov 2006 19:27:13 EST ]

Why should you avoid using the word "spacious" if you're trying to sell your house? What happens when you build a bagel business on the honor system Economist Steven Levitt shares some unconventional insight from his book, Freakonomics....

[ Fri, 17 Nov 2006 17:35:54 EST ]

Freakonomics

[ Sat, 11 Nov 2006 07:37:11 EST ]

Humorist Dave Barry

[ Fri, 03 Nov 2006 23:30:17 EST ]

Jeff Foxworthy

[ Sat, 14 Oct 2006 02:43:22 EST ]

The Widom of Crowds

The phenomenally successful Pampered Chef company calls itself "the kitchen store that comes to your door." Started in a Chicago basement in 1980, the company is now owned by Warren Buffet. David talks about the recipe for business success with Pampered Chef founder and CEO Doris Christopher....

[ Fri, 06 Oct 2006 16:52:39 EST ]

The Pampered Chef

Price-to-earning ratios, stock prices, market cap, the Dow Jones Industrial Average... the stock market is a sea of numbers. Mathematician John Paulos knows a thing or two about numbers. He is the author of Innumeracy, A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper and A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market....

[ Sat, 30 Sep 2006 02:36:28 EST ]

Author John Paulos

Richard Nelson Bolles on his career-advice classic, What Color Is Your Parachute?...

[ Sat, 23 Sep 2006 00:32:51 EST ]

What Color Is Your Parachute?

What's it like to work as a sanitation engineer? A golf ball diver? A chick sexer? David Gardner talks odd jobs and dirty jobs with Mike Rowe, host of Discovery Channel's Dirty Jobs....

[ Fri, 15 Sep 2006 21:53:35 EST ]

Dirty Jobs

We celebrate Labor Day with best-selling business writer Po Bronson, author of What Should I Do With My Life?...

[ Fri, 08 Sep 2006 20:18:00 EST ]

What Do I Want To Do With My Life?

The family-owned business that popularized candy corn has since become the Jelly Belly Company. David and Tom Gardner talk cash and candy with Bill Kelly, vice chairman of the company, and chairman of the National Confectioner's Association....

[ Fri, 01 Sep 2006 18:47:15 EST ]

The Busines Of Candy Corn

David and Tom talk with Cassandra Peterson, better known as Elvira, about the business of being the "Mistress of the Dark."...

[ Sat, 28 Oct 2006 00:57:35 EST ]

Elvira: Mistress of the Dark

A.J. Jacobs, author of The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World. It's a book about a quest to read the entire Encyclopedia Britannica from A-Z. He sticks around to play this week's game of Fool Fact or Fool Fiction....

[ Fri, 20 Oct 2006 16:52:56 EST ]

The Know-It-All

Twenty-nine years ago this month, Elvis Presley left the building for the last time. David and Tom Gardner talk about the business of Elvis with Elvis Presley Enterprises CEO Jack Soden....

[ Fri, Aug 25 2006 10:40:51 EDT ]

Elvis Presley Enterprises

You might be familiar with the expression, "When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping." But what happens when the going gets sad, or even disgusting? We explore how our emotions influence our buying, selling, and other economic decisions with psychologist Jennifer Lerner....

[ Fri, Aug 18 2006 23:53:04 EDT ]

The Emotions Of Shopping

Seen the movie Wordplay? Well, before Wordplay, there was Spellbound - the unlikely hit documentary about The National Spelling Bee. The filmmakers gambled and maxed out 14 credit cards to finance the project. David and Tom Gardner talked with the Producer of Spellbound about the ABC's of moviemaking and money....

[ Fri, 11 Aug 2006 22:17:27 EDT ]

Spellbound

[ Fri, 04 Aug 2006 21:09:28 EDT ]

Does Money Buy Happiness?

[ Fri, 28 Jul 2006 18:20:09 EDT ]

All Marketers Are Liars

How much are you saving for retirement? How much should you be saving for retirement? And why is Ben Stein worried? David Gardner does some retirement planning with actor, author, and economist Ben Stein....

[ Sat, 22 Jul 2006 04:55:50 EDT ]

Ben Stein on Retirement. Anyone? Anyone?

The tennis legend and cultural icon serves up some thoughts on business....

[ Fri, 14 Jul 2006 14:35:56 EDT ]

Billie Jean King

[ Fri, 07 Jul 2006 13:10:52 EDT ]

Freakonomics

[ Tue, 20 Jun 2006 21:50:46 EDT ]

Cleaning Up With Barry Minkow

[ Fri, 09 Jun 2006 21:07:28 EDT ]

The Changing Face of Retirement

Lessons on The Game of Life with Michael Lewis

[ Fri, 02 Jun 2006 21:10:30 EDT ]

He's the best-selling author of books such as Liars Poker and Moneyball. Now New York Times contributor and author Michael Lewis talks about his new book, Coach: Lessons on The Game of Life....

Wal-mart is a business with 1.6 million employees in the United States alone. It does more business than Target, Sears, Kmart, J.C. Penney, Safeway, and Kroger combined. And more than half of all Americans live within 5 miles of a Wal-mart store. David Gardner talks about the big, big business of Wal-mart with Charles Fishman, author of The Wal-mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works -- and How It's Transforming the American Economy....

[ Fri, 02 Jun 2006 21:05:09 EDT ]

The Walmart Effect

[ Fri, 19 May 2006 21:03:14 EDT ]

John Bogle On Capitalism

David Gardner talks jobs and job hunting with Richard Nelson Bolles, author of What Color Is Your Parachute?...

[ Fri, 05 May 2006 21:09:01 EDT ]

What Color Is Your Parachute?

He's a key player in the boxing and business worlds. Heavyweight champ and cooking icon George Foreman talks boxing, business, and bad investments....

[ Fri, 28 Apr 2006 21:05:48 EDT ]

Interview: Heavyweight George Foreman

Roomba, Scooba and More: iRobot CEO Colin Angle

[ Mon, 03 Apr 2006 14:46:12 EDT ]

A robot that vacuums, cleans and disarms explosives. David Gardner talks about the business of robots with iRobot CEO Colin Angle....

Netflix is the world's largest online movie rental service, with more than 4.2 million subscribers and access to over 55,000 DVD titles. So what does the future hold for the DVD rental giant? What is the future of video-on-demand? And does Netflix really believe in "throttling"? On this week's Motley Fool Radio Show, David Gardner talks DVDs with Netflix CEO Reed Hastings....

[ Mon, 03 Apr 2006 10:39:35 EDT ]

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings

What's behind the slowdown at the box office? What's an Oscar really worth? Film critic Leonard Maltin talks money and the movies....

[ Sat, 25 Mar 2006 12:45:49 EST ]

Film Critic Leonard Maltin on the Oscar Biz

Roomba, Scooba and More: iRobot CEO Colin Angle

[ Mon, 06 Mar 2006 15:31:31 EST ]

A robot that vacuums, cleans and disarms explosives. David Gardner talks about the business of robots with iRobot CEO Colin Angle....

Terry Burnham on 'Mean Markets and Lizard Brains'

[ Sat, 25 Feb 2006 00:10:11 EST ]

Does the animal in you keep you from making smarter investment decisions? Host David Gardner talks about the biology of investing with Terry Burnham, author of Mean Markets and Lizard Brains: How to Profit from the New Science of Irrationality....

More than a million couples will turn to TheKnot.com this year to help plan their weddings - weddings that have an average price tag of $22,000. The big money in marriage has translated to big business for The Knot, which recorded record earnings this week. And shares of The Knot have more than doubled over the last year. David Gardner talks about the engaging business of wedding planning with Knot CEO David Liu....

[ Sat, 18 Feb 2006 00:17:49 EST ]

Interview: Knot CEO David Liu

[ Fri, 10 Feb 2006 21:02:42 EST ]

What's behind the slowdown at the box office? What's an Oscar really worth? Film critic Leonard Maltin talks money and the movies....

[ Sat, 04 Feb 2006 00:15:54 EST ]

Film Critic Leonard Maltin on the Oscar Biz

Roomba, Scooba and More: iRobot CEO Colin Angle

[ Mon, 06 Mar 2006 15:31:31 EST ]

A robot that vacuums, cleans and disarms explosives. David Gardner talks about the business of robots with iRobot CEO Colin Angle....

Terry Burnham on 'Mean Markets and Lizard Brains'

[ Sat, 25 Feb 2006 00:10:11 EST ]

[ Sat, 18 Feb 2006 00:17:49 EST ]

Interview: Knot CEO David Liu

[ Fri, 10 Feb 2006 21:02:42 EST ]

Disney acquired Pixar this week in a $7.4 billion deal that makes Pixar CEO Steve Jobs the biggest shareholder at Disney. Can Steve Jobs bring his magic touch to The Magic Kingdom? David Gardner talks about the big developments at Disney with Alan Deutschman, author of The Second Coming of Steve Jobs....

[ Sat, 04 Feb 2006 00:15:54 EST ]

Alan Deutschman on Disney-Pixar Deal

[ Sun, 29 Jan 2006 20:19:15 EST ]

Cheech Marin is perhaps best known for his role in the comedy duo Cheech and Chong. He's also one of the leading collectors of Chicano Art. The comedian, actor and art collector talks about the business of comedy and the business of art....

[ Fri, 20 Jan 2006 21:56:00 EST ]

Interview: Knot CEO David Liu

[ Fri, 10 Feb 2006 21:02:42 EST ]

[ Sat, 04 Feb 2006 00:15:54 EST ]

Alan Deutschman on Disney-Pixar Deal

[ Sun, 29 Jan 2006 20:19:15 EST ]

[ Fri, 20 Jan 2006 21:56:17 EST ]

[ Fri, 20 Jan 2006 21:56:00 EST ]

NPR: Fool Flashback: Independence Air CEO Kerry Skeen

[ Fri, 20 Jan 2006 21:56:00 EST ]

Independence Air is the latest casualty in the historically challenged airline business. The company stopped flying for good this week, two months after the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. David Gardner reflects back on our conversation with Independence Air CEO Kerry Skeen in August of 2004....

3M named George Buckley as its new CEO this week. Buckley was CEO of Brunswick, the boating and bowling company. David Gardner reflects back on Buckley's recent Fool Radio appearance....

[ Tue, 10 Jan 2006 10:56:32 EST ]

NPR: Fool Flashback: 3M CEO George Buckley

NPR: Joel Greenblatt's'Little'Stock Market Book

[ Fri, 16 Dec 2005 21:06:14 EST ]

David Gardner talks investing with Joel Greenblatt, the founder and managing partner of Gotham Capital, a private investment partnership that has achieved 40-percent annualized returns since its inception in 1985. Greenblatt's new book isThe Little Book That Beats the Market....

US Airways and America West merged in late September and shares of the new US Airways are up around 60 percent since the merger. What's behind the company's take-off on Wall Street? Is the merger a match made in heaven or a marriage of inconvenience? David Gardner talks with US Airways CEO Doug Parker....

[ Fri, 02 Dec 2005 21:06:32 EST ]

NPR: Interview: US Airways CEO Doug Parker

It's a name familiar to bowlers and boaters. Founded in 1845 as a maker of billiards equipment, Brunswick is now a Fortune 500 company with a number of different businesses - marine engines, power boats, recreational equipment, and bowling centers. David Gardner talks with Brunswick Chairman and CEO George Buckley about bowling, boating, and the business of Brunswick....

[ Fri, 25 Nov 2005 21:08:50 EST ]

NPR: Interview: Brunswick CEO George Buckley