David Kestenbaum
David is on the Planet Money team, and is such a skilled radio reporter that sometimes we have to pinch ourselves to remember that this is his second career. His first? Nuclear physicist. No kidding. PhD and everything.
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Act One: Just Another Kind of Outdoor Game
There are two tiny Spanish towns on the African continent protected by multiple layers of razor wire, cameras and guards.
Act Three: The Run
David Kestenbaum retraces the steps of Steve Snyder, a man who found himself running for love.
Act One: Believing
A private basketball coach teaches a young student some things his parents don't agree with. David Kestenbaum has the story.
Prologue
Guest host David Kestenbaum talks to producer Diane Wu about a list she keeps of things she means to know. Sweet potatoes vs. yams.
Act One: How I Learned To Start Worrying and Fear the Bomb
Earlier this month, North Korea fired an intercontinental ballistic missile… one powerful enough, news reports said, to reach Alaska. People were shocked.
Prologue
Host Ira Glass talks to producer David Kestenbaum about what it was like to be a kid magician.
Prologue
If there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, why haven’t we heard from the extraterrestrials yet? Producer David Kestenbaum explains The Fermi Paradox to host Ira Glass. The possibility that we are alone in the universe makes David sad.
Act Two: The Enemy of The People vs. The People.
Mike Wilson, the editor of the Dallas Morning News, recently got some hate mail from conservative readers. They think that the media—and his paper—are biased.
Act Two: A Dave in Court
A judge in a suburban New Jersey courtroom wants the people who come before him to see the rules as fair. Including our reporter, David Kestenbaum.
Act Two: Say It Out Cloud
Our producer David Kestenbaum spoke with some people who are in the grand gesture business: skywriters.
Act Six: A Change In The Office Climate
Two civil servants who do not like our new President weigh their options. Quit? Stay? Stay and fight? Producer David Kestenbaum reports.
Act Seven: Nicholasville, Kentucky
Donald Trump has promised to get rid of Obamacare. Producer David Kestenbaum talks with someone who’d lose their insurance.
Act One: Money for Nothing and Your Cows for Free
Planet Money reporters David Kestenbaum and Jacob Goldstein went to Kenya to see the work of a charity called GiveDirectly in action. Instead of funding schools or wells or livestock, GiveDirectly has decided to just give money directly to the poor people who need it, and let them decide how to spend it.
Act Five: Wednesday, Tuscaloosa AL
This week Southerners were still digging out in the wake of last week's tornados. David Kestenbaum, from our Planet Money team, heads to Tuscaloosa, Alabama where he finds that facts are not so easy to hold onto.
Act Three: I Worked at the Kennedy Center and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt
In the 1970s, Dave Kestenbaum's cousin Dan Weiss got promoted from stocker to gift shop manager at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC. It was a good job... except for the fact that the place was bleeding cash because of apparent embezzlement.
Act Two: Weekend At Bernanke's
Though the name of the Federal Reserve includes the word "federal," it's not actually part of the government. It's an independent institution tasked with something very simple, but very huge: Creating money out of thin air.
Act One: Fire Sale in Kansas City
David and Chana buy a toxic asset, from a guy named Wit Solberg, who used to work on Wall Street and now helps small banks who've been saddled with toxic assets. Turns out...it's hard to buy a toxic asset.