The Hobcast with Jeremy Hobson

As he prepares to leave office, New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson talks with Jeremy Hobson about his time as Speaker, the movement to defund the Police, and the tension between liberals and moderates in the Democratic Party.

Jeremy Hobson speaks with Sterling HolyWhiteMountain, a writing fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA, about his upbringing on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana, and his writing career. His fiction piece, Featherweight, was recently published in the New Yorker Magazine.

Jeremy Hobson talks with Beth Fouhy, longtime political reporter and current partner at the public affairs firm Finsbury Glover Hering, about the elections results in Virginia and what they mean for Democrats, Republicans and the country going forward.

Jeremy Hobson speaks with Bryan Legare, seascape ecologist and manager of the shark ecology program at the Center for Coastal Studies, about his shark research and the health of our oceans.

Jeremy Hobson talks with longtime business journalist Roben Farzad, who hosts public radio's Full Disclosure and is a resident of Richmond, Virginia. They discuss three interconnected stories: inflation, reconciliation and the upcoming gubernatorial election in Virginia.

While in Athens, Greece, Jeremy Hobson speaks with business lawyer Dimitri Diakopoulos about COVID-19, the booming Greek economy, China and the Biden Administration.

Jeremy Hobson speaks with former NFL player and part-time Provincetown resident Esera Tuaolo, who made history coming out as gay in 2002 after nine seasons in the NFL. After his football career, he has excelled as a singer, a chef, and an advocate for LGBTQ rights.

Jeremy Hobson talks with Philippa Soskin, an emergency room doctor in Washington, D.C., about how the pandemic is playing out on the front lines and what needs to be done to get it under control.

Jeremy Hobson speaks with Eric Hundman, assistant professor of political science at NYU Shanghai about China's economy, its people, and its perspective on a number of important global issues.

Jeremy Hobson is joined by CBS News Business Analyst Jill Schlesinger to talk about the challenges facing employers and employees as they figure out what workplaces will look like post-pandemic.

Jeremy Hobson speaks with Provincetown musician and drag queen Qya Cristál about music, gender identity, and race.

Jeremy Hobson is joined by the BBC's Pooneh Ghoddoosi and the BBC's Rich Preston to discuss the collapse of the government of Afghanistan and the Taliban takeover of the country. Ghoddoosi spent years anchoring BBC News and has reported from Afghanistan. Preston is a BBC World News and BBC World Service presenter who covered the fall of Afghanistan live on air. 

One of California's top political reporters, Scott Shafer of KQED, joins Jeremy Hobson to discuss the upcoming Recall vote,  California politics, wildfires and more.

As the Hobcast HQ of Provincetown, Massachusetts becomes national news because of a July 4th outbreak of COVID-19, Jeremy Hobson speaks with Paolo Martini, Chief Scientific Officer of Rare Diseases, Hematology and External R&D at Moderna.

Femi Oke, host of The Stream on Al Jazeera English, joins her old friend Jeremy Hobson to talk about what the Hobcast will be.