How 3 Gamblers Stole Millions From Casinos - Kit Chellel
Imagine you're smart enough to go to Wall Street, but instead you move into a Vegas apartment with six other guys and spend the next decade quietly robbing casinos blind — that's the wild true story K...
30 Apr 29min
Historian: This Event Created Trump, Giuliani & Rupert Murdoch - Heather Ann Thompson
Today's guest has done something I didn't think was possible: she made me understand the world I grew up in better than I understood it when I was living it. Heather Ann Thompson is a Pulitzer Prize-w...
28 Apr 34min
Fmr Goldman Sachs CEO: What Surviving The 2008 Financial Crisis Taught Me — Lloyd Blankfein
Lloyd Blankfein is one of the most consequential figures in the history of American finance — a kid from the Brooklyn projects who climbed to the top of Goldman Sachs and steered the firm through the ...
23 Apr 54min
April 2026 Q&A: What Trump is Really Like, Repeal Citizens United, Declining US Dollar
We are back with another Open Book Q&A — the episode where you ask, I answer, and nobody's feelings are guaranteed to survive intact. From repealing Citizens United to what Trump is really like behind...
16 Apr 28min
World's #1 Thriller Writer: "STOP SCROLLING and BE HUMAN AGAIN" - David Baldacci
David Baldacci has sold 150 million books, and when I picked up his first novel — Absolute Power — I was a 32-year-old lawyer who thought he had life figured out. What I didn't expect was to walk away...
14 Apr 28min
The Anthropologist Predicting Society's Collapse - Jitske Kramer
My guest today is Jitske Kramer — corporate anthropologist, bestselling author, and one of the most original thinkers I've had on this show. We're getting into tricksters, liminality, and why the mess...
9 Apr 27min
The Truth About AI They Don't Want You To Know - Sebastian Mallaby
Sebastian Mallaby is back as a repeat guest on Open Book, with a brilliant new book. He spent 30 hours inside the mind of the man building superintelligence, and what he found should wake all of us up...
7 Apr 31min
