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Hosted by Charlie Zeitlin · society · EN
The Straight to It podcast hosts conversations with leaders in government, journalism, business, the arts, and beyond. Each episode shares the story of a new guest and provides listeners with an understanding of fascinating people and the work that animates them. Tune in every two weeks for conversations with guests that have included a member of the U.S. Congress, the Editor of Foreign Affairs, and an Emmy-winning film producer.
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Signup to Generate a PitchThe Straight to It podcast hosts conversations with leaders in government, journalism, business, the arts, and beyond. Each episode shares the story of a new guest and provides listeners with an understanding of fascinating people and the work that animates them. Tune in every two weeks for conversations with guests that have included a member of the U.S.
Straight to It is hosted by Charlie Zeitlin. The show has published 94 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Ep. 94: Public History on a Presidential Scale with Dawn Hammatt, Director of the Bush Library and Museum." (19 October 2026, 25 minutes), "Ep. 92: How AI will change the workforce with Tommy Rosenkranz, Chief Product Officer at Constrafor" (27 September 2026, 28 minutes), and "Ep. 91: Education tailored for every student with Neeru Khosla, Founder of CK-12 and Owner of Seattle Seahawks" (17 September 2026, 40 minutes).
Straight to It publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 28 minutes across 94 episodes.
Booking probability for Straight to It is 34%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Straight to It requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Straight to It's contact route on record: verified email.
Charlie Zeitlin hosts Straight to It, a society podcast with 94 episodes published.
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In this episode, I interview Dawn Hammatt. Dawn is the Director of the George H. W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum in College Station, TX. Dawn also served as director of two other presidential libraries: the...
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In this episode, I interview Tommy Rosenkranz. Tommy is the Chief Product Officer at Constrafor, building an AI-native platform for construction subcontractors' back-office work. Constrafor lets companies use AI to...
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In this episode, I interview Neeru Khosla. Neeru is the co-founder of CK-12, an educational nonprofit that provides learning materials and AI support to millions of students worldwide. More recently, Neeru became the...
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In this episode, I interview Jonathan Weber at KALW's studio in San Francisco. Straight to It was recently featured on Bay Made, KALW's series highlighting local podcasts. I was lucky to be joined by such an incredible...
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In this episode, I interview ProPublica Climate Reporter Alex Cuadros. Alex recently published a major investigation into Hilcorp, a company owned by oil billionaire Jeffrey Hildebrand, and its relationship with the...
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In this episode, I interview Andy Nettell. Andy, with his wife Marcee, founded Stellar Books & Ephemera in 2022. Based out of Sequim, Washington, Andy and his wife focus on selling rare Americana. This past February, I...
In this episode, I interview Dr. Alice Siu of Stanford University’s deliberative democracy lab. The lab is devoted to research on democracy and public opinion using Deliberative Polling. It is a process that includes...
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<p>In this episode, I interview Lara Hall. Lara is the Museum Curator of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library. Lara worked as an archivist, organizing the over 45 million documents housed at the library, for...
<p>In this episode, I interview Dan Kurtz-Phelan. Since 2021, Dan has served as the Editor-in-Chief of Foreign Affairs, which for the past 100 years has been one of the leading publications covering foreign policy...
<p>In this episode, I interview Professor Ray Madoff of Boston College. Ray focuses on philanthropic policy, the rights of the dead (including the dead's ability to control their bodies, reputation, and property)...
<p>In this episode, I interview Peter Wicks. Peter is a scholar-in-residence at the Elm Institute whose research focuses on the contemporary applications of Aristotle’s ethical and political thought, the history and...
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<p>In this episode, I interview Tony Haile. Currently, Tony is the CEO of Filament, a company that aims to revolutionize professional networking through smaller, private spaces for connection. Previously, Tony was on...
<p>In this episode, I interview Sherri Franklin. Sherri is the founder of Muttville, a senior dog rescue in San Francisco. After understanding how wonderful senior dogs can be and seeing how inhumanely they are treated...
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<p>In this episode, I interview Janet Lindow. Janet founded the Rural Behavioral Health Institute to address the startling issue of rural youth suicide. For the past 12 years, Janet's career goal has been to improve the...
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<p>In this episode, I interview Matt Zeitlin, the Co-Founder of Rookly. Matt and his co-founder, Amir Moazami, have known each other since they were six. They played chess together growing up, and both eventually won...
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<p>Our guest today, Sunni Khalid, is the News Editor at KALW, a public radio station that has been broadcasting for over 80 years in the San Fransico Bay Area. </p><p>He has reported from over thirty-five different...
<p>In this episode, I interview Sam DeMello. Sam founded Evive, the leading digital health platform for gambling behavior change, serving partners across the nation. They bridge the critical gap in care by reaching the...
<p>Earlier this month, I was lucky to have an awesome conversation with David Steinberger. </p><p><br></p><p>David has over 25 years of experience in the publishing industry. He has served as CEO of Arcadia Publishing...
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<p>In this episode, I interview Jim Irizarry. Jim has been working in elections for over fourty years, and currently, he is the Asst. Assessor-Clerk-Recorder & Asst. Chief Elections Officer for San Mateo County. We had...
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