Confab

What do you get when a show has two Confab virgins? I can tell you that it doesn't involve appeasing the god of some volcano. (We never treat our new guests like burnt offerings.) We do, however, tend to get them a little tipsy with alcohol, at which point they spill intimate details that they otherwise might have reserved for a weekend in Las Vegas. The rest of the evening is spent begging to have those segments edited from the show.

Our guests this week:

• Elizabeth Carbajal
• Melissa Frank
• Richard Huff
• Schelley Olhava
• Keith Vaitkus

Topics included:

• The Ethics of "Bodies, The Exhibition".
• Malcolm Gladwell's book, Blink and Women's intuition.
• Changes in the dating ritual as you age.

You can listen to the show here. (32.8 MB MP3, 59:39 minutes)

Our next confab will be November 2, 2006!

Last Thursday's Confab was a blast - two-plus hours of rock-solid, lively conversation. The problem came later, when we had to decide what to put in to the final cut. (Honestly, a hard choice - it was one of those evenings!)

Our guests this week:

• Andy Boyer
• Rachele Cawaring
• John Costello
• Richard Huff
• Gavin Shearer
• Jeff Smith
• Keith Vaitkus

Topics included:

• Rachele's efforts to start a financial consulting firm
• Saving for retirement and private accounts
• Insurance & incentives in Canadian health care
• Bounded choice theory
• The idea of outlawing inheritance

You can listen to the show here. (38.6 MB MP3, 48:10 minutes) Our next confab will be October 19, 2006!