How are fraudsters trying to take advantage of the pandemic? How many cases does the Department of Justice handle? How does their focus change during different presidential administrations? We do a big deep dive into the history of the Department of Justice and how huge its grown. Our guest is Associate Deputy Attorney General Bill Hughes. We discuss the call of public service, the complexities of his role, and his office's response to criminals trying to take advantage of the pandemic.

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You've taken 3 modes of transportation to meet up with your confidential source on a story involving a high ranking government official's corruption that you've been working on for months. You hope you're not being followed but aren't sure. You stop short when you see a Secret Service Vehicle with tinted windows parked a half block down the street. What happens next? Our guest, Politico Health Care Reporter Dan Diamond shares this incredible story and weighs in on a wide array of topics from our handling of the coronavirus, hypocrisy, the challenges of trusting sources and reporting and a lot more.

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How does a video game get made? What's the most important leap forward in gaming history? How did an industry who's greatest achievement was to bars and a ball on a screen grow into an industry worth hundreds of billions of dollars? Our guest this week is Sunny Sidhu, a former developer with MIT Games Lab and Insomniac Games who now works on the forefront of the games industry with streaming and VR technologies.

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Quick, think of an example of a sustainable fish. Not easy is it? One would be hard pressed to find someone who was opposed to making seafood sustainable. There's not really an argument or 'another side'. But man, is it complicated. Can a regular consumer be expected to know Chilean Seabass caught in the Falkland Islands is sustainable but if it's caught near the Crozet Islands it's likely not? There are so many challenges to this movement and my guest Bart Seaver is out to meet them. Bart is a chef, author, National Geographic Fellow, and Sustainability Expert. He has incredible perspectives on the evolution of seafood in our diets as well as our views of fisheries. Bart was also terrific in discussing his own unique journey from working with chef Jose Andres to writing several books.

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How can coaching Little League lead to a million dollar idea? How many apps make money? Our guest this week is Ted Sullivan, founder and former CEO of Gamechanger. Ted sold his company to Dick's Sporting Goods a few years ago. We chronicle the company's rapid growth, the moment where Ted believed they would go out of business, the drive to create one's own business and a lot more. Danny uncovers some numbers about how truly unlikely it is for an app to be profitable and how much money is pouring into youth sports courtesy of competitive parents.

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You want to be a rock star? You need to play a show for 2 people and get stuck in the rain and still keep pushing. Our guest this week is former Walkmen lead singer and successful solo artist Hamilton Leithauser. Ham was really insightful about his journey from being named the lead singer by default, when he knew that he and his bandmates could actually make it, to finding his voice as an artist. Plus, Danny delves deep into the music industry, it's evolution, downloads, and how we consume our music.

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How do you start off as a neuroscientist and end up as a guy that makes beer? Ben Evans of Hellbender Beer took that incredibly unique path to his current role as lead brewer for the successful brewery based in Washington, DC. How much beer do we drink in a year? How much of a market share do Craft Beers actually have? What's it like to have to dump out dozens of kegs of beer because of the tiniest error? We get into all those questions and all the things I learned about beer in this week's episode of 'You Seem Interesting'.

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How do you cultivate a source? How can you trust that you are not being used to further an agenda? What are the hidden challenges of condensing hours of reporting into quick soundbites on live tv in front of millions? Mary Bruce of ABC News was sensational on these topics and a lot more. Plus, we go into how much news delivery has changed over the last several years, how cable news has changed consumption, as well as Mary's incredible journey to national television.

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How long do cases last? What do tv/movie portrayals about the FBI get wrong? What's the dumbest way somebody got caught? In this episode, we go in depth on the humble beginnings of the FBI, it's parallels with crime in America, and the volume of cases it handles today. Plus, a fun convo with Special Agent Robert Dane, who is part of a task force assigned to track down some of the most dangerous fugitives in America. He was terrific on a number of topics including tv/film portrayals of the FBI, the extensive training agents go through, how complicated cases can get, and a great story about a suspect slipped up and got caught.

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Comedian Rory Scovel talks starting out, success, fear, growth, the creative process and a lot more. Danny breaks down the likelihood of attaining the level of success Rory and precious fee others have.