This Week's Show

Mickey Edwards & Buddy Biancalana on Speaking Freely w/ Dennis Raimondi Thu at 8am

dennisraimondi — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:20:47 -0500

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. 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.

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. read more »

Speaking Freely With Dennis Raimondi

dennisraimondi — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:00:32 -0500

U.S.SENATOR JOSEPH BIDEN OF DELAWARE. Listen to my exclusive interview with Senator Biden who Senator Barack Obama has just chosen as his Vice Presidential running mate in the 2008 Election. I sit down with him for a full half hour and discuss his stance on all major issues. The interview was done a few months ago during the Democratic primary.

ANDREW EDLIN. Andrew is the author and star of 'Churchill' a one-man play about Sir Winston Churchill.The play is in two acts; the first an hour, the second half-an-hour. Churchill agonizes in his wartime bunker below London whether to resign as Prime Minister. As he tries to decide he reviews his uniquely eventful career, filled with history-changing events and people, glorious speeches, pithy comments,funny stories, and all the wit and wisdom that has made Churchill beyond greatness into an imperishable legend.www.churchillplay.com read more »

Michelle Obama & Ed Peterson on Speaking Freely w/ Dennis Raimondi Tue 1pm

dennisraimondi — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:24:30 -0500

Mr. Ed Petersen Jr. has been working in the Redemptory Clonard Monastery, in Belfast, Ireland in the Ecumenical and Peace Ministry. He recently completed a three-year program funded by the International Fund for Ireland entitled the Clonard Reconciliation Project. This project aimed at building friendships between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland.Mr. Petersen is a graduate of Yale University where he was captain of the varsity basketball team.

Michelle Obama is the wife of United States Senator and presidential hopeful Barack Obama. Ms Obama has her BA from Princeton University and her law degree from Harvard University. (Originally broadcast in January 2008). read more »

Paul Fauerso on Speaking Freely w/ Dennis Raimondi Tue 1pm

dennisraimondi — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:36:31 -0500

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. (Originally scheduled for last week's show.)

Jim Leach, former United States Congressman from Iowa, has recently been named the new director of Harvard University's Institute of Politics. Congressman 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. read more »

Matt Dalio & Constance Brenneman on SF w/ Dennis Raimondi Thur 8am

dennisraimondi — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:19:10 -0500

Matt Dalio is the Founder of China Care Foundation, Inc and President of its Board of Directors. His passion for China started when he lived for a year in Beijing, China at the age of eleven. Even at a young age, Matt Dalio was able to see the difficulties suffered by many special-needs Chinese orphans, and in 2000 at the age of 16, he founded an organization that would aid in giving these children a better future. Mr. Dalio is a graduate of Harvard University.

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. read more »

Speaking Freely With Dennis Raimondi

dennisraimondi — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:05:51 -0500

Professor Hannah Riley Bowles is Assistant Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University's 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.
Mel Sauerbeck is an awarding photographer. His photos have appeared in major magazines worldwide including Time, Life, People, and Sports Illustrated.During his career, this style-making photographer has traveled the world, photographing everything from heads of state in their palaces, to monks along mountain paths, to models on the catwalk, to children in remote villages.

Robby Benson & Camie Bargerstock on Speaking Freely w/ Dennis Raimondi Thur at 8am

dennisraimondi — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:42:21 -0500

This Week's Guests: Robby Benson & Camie Bargerstock

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.

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.

Next Week's Guests: Laura Dawn & Andy Zelleke

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. read more »

Michelle Obama, Bill Clinton & Jim Leach on Speaking Freely w/ Dennis Raimondi Thur at 8am

dennisraimondi — Thu, 15 May 2008 01:00:34 -0500

Today's show will present rebroadcasts of three key interviews.

Michelle Obama is the wife of United States Senator and presidential hopeful Barack Obama. Ms Obama has her BA from Princeton University and her law degree from Harvard University.

Former President Bill Clinton graduated from Georgetown University and in 1968 won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University. He received a law degree from Yale University in 1973, and entered politics in Arkansas. His wife is presidential hopeful Senator Hillary Clinton.

Jim Leach is the former United States Congressman from Iowa. He has recently been named the new director of Harvard University's Institute of Politics. In 2002, he voted against authorizing the use of force in Iraq. read more »

Marci Shimoff & Stephanie Brancaforte on SF w/ Dennis Raimondi Tue at 1pm

dennisraimondi — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:40:33 -0500

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. read more »

Mickey Edwards & Tom Morgan on SF with Dennis Raimondi Thur at 8am

dennisraimondi — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 03:28:38 -0500

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. read more »