The Future of Automobiles

Jack Hitt is the cohost of the podcast Uncivil, which won the Peabody Award in 2018. His most recent book is Bunch of Amateurs: A Search for the American Character (Crown, 2012). He’s a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine and Harper’s, and his nonfiction, for which he’s won the Livingston and Pope awards, also appears in the New Yorker, WIRED, and Vanity Fair. His book Off the Road: A Modern-Day Walk Down the Pilgrim’s Route into Spain (Simon & Schuster, 1994) was made into the 2010 motion picture The Way.

Larry Rifkin's career in Connecticut broadcasting spans a 50 year period including the majority of his time spent as the chief programming executive for Connecticut Public Television. There, he become associated with mega-successes, including Barney the Dinosaur which he discovered in home video and brought to PBS and the placement of UConn Women's basketball on television. As a result of these achievements and 50 regional EMMY's during his tenure, Rifkin was inducted into the New England Chapter of the National Association of Television Arts and Sciences Silver Circle in recognition of lifetime achievement. He was also a talk show host on 1320 WATR from 2010-2017. He is now the host of America Trends podcast, which focuses on emerging social and political issues in our country. "No Dead Air" describes his journey in broadcasting.