Between The Beats

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Between The Beats episodes

  • David McCloskey - author of The Persian

    About the author:

    David McCloskey is the author of the novels Damascus Station, Moscow X, and The Seventh

    Floor, and is cohost of the podcast The Rest Is Classified. A former CIA analyst, he worked at

    Langley and in field stations across the Middle East. He lives in Texas.

    https://www.davidmccloskeybooks.com

    Interviewed with Chaz on KVLF on 10-07-2025

    About the book:

    Kamran Esfahani, a dentist living out a dreary existence in Stockholm, agrees to spy for the Mossad after he’s recruited by Arik Glitzman, the chief of a clandestine unit tasked with running targeted assassinations and sabotage inside Iran. At Glitzman’s direction, Kam returns to his native Tehran and opens a dental practice there, using it as a cover for the Israeli intelligence agency. Kam proves to be a skillful asset, quietly earning money helping Glitzman smuggle weapons, run surveillance, and conduct kidnappings. But when Kam tries to recruit an Iranian widow seeking to avenge the death of her husband at the hands of the Mossad, the operation goes terribly wrong, landing him in prison under the watchful eye of a sadistic officer whom he knows only as the “General.”

    And now, after enduring three years of torture in captivity, Kamran Esfahani sits in an interrogation room across from the General, preparing to write his final confession.

    23 min
  • Jane Eisner - author of Carole King: She Made the Earth Move

    Carole King: She Made the Earth Move (September 16, Yale Jewish Lives), is the first biography of this extraordinary artist. Drawing on numerous interviews as well as historical and contemporary sources, this book brings to life King’s professional accomplishments, her personal challenges, and her lasting contributions to the great American songbook.

    Journalist and author Jane Eisner places King’s life in context, revealing details of her humble beginnings in postwar Jewish Brooklyn and exploring the roots of her musical genius. Readers will come to understand the ways King’s four marriages intersected with her artistic production, her fruitful collaborations across genres, her conflicted relationship with fame, and her engagement with politics.

    Jane Eisner

    Interviewed live with Chaz on KVLF on 09-30-2025

    17 min
  • Shelby Bobosky - Executive Director of THLN

    Joining us today is Shelby Bobosky, Executive Director of the Texas Humane Legislation Network—a Texas-based advocacy group working to improve animal welfare laws in the Lone Star State. While National Puppy Mill Awareness Day was observed this past weekend, the message remains urgent and important: Shop shelters first! Shelby is here to shed light on the realities behind puppy mills and what we can all do to help.

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    Texas Humane Legislation Network

    Interviewed live with Chaz on 09-23-2025 on KVLF

    16 min
  • Dr. Peter Solomon - Author - "100 Years to Extinction: The Tyranny of Technology and the Fight for a Better Future”

    Live interview with Chaz 09-17-2025 on KVLF

    Dr. Peter Solomon is a scientist, educator, successful entrepreneur, and author. His current mission: to warn the next generation about the threats posed by unchecked science and technology.

    100 Years to Extinction explores the urgent threats—scientific, technological, and geopolitical—that could lead to humanity’s downfall, and the possible solutions that still lie within our reach. The goal is to raise awareness of the real dangers we face on Planet Earth and inspire action. If we are to avoid extinction, we must come together as one global community—what Dr. Solomon calls the EARTHLING TRIBE. It’s time to MAKE EARTH GREAT AGAIN.

    https://100yearstoextinction.com/

    21 min
  • John Gertz - Author - Reinventing SETI: New Directions in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

    Interviewed live on KVLF on 8-25-2025

    John Gertz is a leader in the field of SETI, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, having served three terms as chairman of the board of the SETI institute and he currently serves as the only layman on the Breakthrough Listen Advisory Board. He has published a number of peer reviewed theoretic papers on the subject of SETI.

    Reinventing SETI: New Directions in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligenceby John Gertz
    • Provides a digestible and captivating overview of cosmological topics related to the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)
    • Disputes past and current SETI processes and introduces a new and unique plan for locating intelligent life in outer space
    • Discusses the possibility of First Contact with intelligent ET life in our own Solar System, and how humanity should prepare for such a meeting

    https://global.oup.com/academic/product/reinventing-seti-9780197800416?cc=us&lang=en&

    21 min

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