POSTHOC Salons LIVE w/ Susan MacTavish Best - Intimate Conversations on Topics of the Zeitgeist

Susan MacTavish Best

The POSTHOC Salons Podcast brings the live salon conversations from Susan's living room to the world. At each salon she interviews one of the world's experts about their life and their points of views in an intimate setting. Each podcast brings intelligent insights on the topics of the day to people who are curious about the trends impacting their world. Enjoy! And if you want to host your own salon, visit our sister website www.thesalonhost.com

  1. 05/12/2025

    North Korea With Jean Lee

    Today’s guest is Jean Lee, one of the world’s foremost experts on North Korea and a journalist whose reporting has reshaped how we understand one of the most secretive countries on earth.Jean co-hosted the BBC World Service’s acclaimed podcast The Lazarus Heist, the gripping true-crime investigation into the billion-dollar cyberattacks tied to North Korea — from the Sony Pictures hack to global financial crime rings and crypto-gangsters. She led The Associated Press coverage of the Korean Peninsula as bureau chief from 2008 to 2013, and in 2012 became the first American reporter to join Pyongyang’s foreign press corps, opening AP’s Pyongyang bureau. Over the years, she has made dozens of extended reporting trips into North Korea, visiting farms, factories, schools, military academies, and private homes — gaining rare access and insight into daily life inside the country.

    56 min

  2. 17/09/2025

    The Geopolitics of Rare Earths & the Shadow War for Global Tech Supremacy

    Susan MacTavish Best interviews Jim Kennedy,  President at ThREE Consulting & Caldera Holding LLC.  Susan and Jim discuss the economic, national security and geopolitical ramifications of China’s rare earth monopoly.  Live music from Queen Esther and Firas Zreik.

    1h 14m

  3. 26/05/2025

    Robots Amongst Us - A Salon Discussion

    Susan MacTavish Best interviews Ali Kashani, CEO and co-founder of last mile robot delivery company Serve Robotics (NASDAQ: SERV). Musicians Queen Esther and friends perform live. About Ali Kashani: Dr. Ali Kashani is the co-founder and CEO of Serve Robotics, the maker of Level 4 autonomous sidewalk delivery robots that has received investments from Uber and NVIDIA.  Founded in 2017 as the robotics division of Postmates, Serve has completed tens of thousands of deliveries for enterprise partners such as Uber Eats and 7-Eleven. Ali is a serial founder with multiple exits, including smart-home hardware maker Neurio (sold to Generac) and Lox (sold to Postmates). Following Postmates acquisition of his venture, Ali launched Postmates X, the internal innovation unit that created Serve’s award-winning robot. Ali received his Ph.D. in Robotics from the University of British Columbia in 2012. He is the recipient of Canada’s premier scholarship, the Alexander Graham Bell Fellowship, and has been awarded over 15 patents.

    1h 12m

  4. 07/12/2024

    The Current State of Journalism with Hind Hassan

    I'll be speaking with Hind Hassan, the 2024 winner of The Neal Conan Prize for Excellence in Journalism.  We'll be discussing her life, experiences, and views on the current state of journalism.  With live performances from Posthoc's artist in residence, Queen Esther & pianist Sharp Radway.

    1h 5m

  5. 26/09/2024

    World on the Brink with Dmitri Alperovitch

    I'll be speaking with national security expert and geopolitical thinker Dmitri Alperovitch. Dmitri recently published World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century. With live performances from Posthoc's artist in residence, Queen Esther.

    1h 25m

  6. 31/07/2024

    A Brief History of Intelligence with Max Bennett

    The History of Intelligence with Max Bennett.  Max is the author of The Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains, and is the cofounder & CEO of Alby, an AI company based in NYC. This salon features music by Queen Esther & Friends and is supported by a grant Posthoc received from Templeton World Charity Foundation (TWCF).  Templeton World Charity Foundation’s Diverse Intelligence (DI) initiative seeks to break down disciplinary boundaries and build a new scientific community. DI is a multiyear, global effort to understand a world alive with brilliance in many forms. Its mission is to promote open-minded, forward-looking inquiry in animal, human, and machine intelligences. TWCF collaborates with leading experts and emerging scholars from around the globe, developing high-caliber projects that advance our comprehension of the constellation of intelligences.

    1h 4m

  7. 01/07/2024

    Ethics of AI Chatbots, Religion, and Robot Love with Neil McArthur

    Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics at the University of Manitoba.  Neil is a specialist in the philosophy of human rights, philosophy and technology, sexual ethics, and research on alternative sexualities. He is the co-editor of Robot Sex: Social and Ethical Implications (MIT Press) and Fragile Freedoms: The Global Struggle for Human Rights (Oxford University Press).  He is particularly interested in the intersection of sex and technology and is the co-author of “The Rise of Digisexuality: Therapeutic Challenges and Possibilities" where the authors argue a new sexual identity is emerging: digisexuality. Digisexuals are people for whom technology is an integral part of their sexual identity, and who may not feel the need for human partners.

    54 min

  8. 09/06/2024

    Trial Verdict & the Trail to the White House - Reporting on the Frontlines w Lisa Ferri

    Posthoc Salons founder, Susan MacTavish Best, interviews Lisa Ferri about her experiences covering the Trump trial, the verdict, and what she sees ahead in the media landscape in the run up to the Presidential election.   Lisa is an Emmy award-winning journalist who's spent three decades covering politics and culture inside some of America's most storied newsrooms: 60 Minutes, MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show and Deadline White House, ABC's Good Morning America and World News Tonight.

    1h 33m
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The POSTHOC Salons Podcast brings the live salon conversations from Susan's living room to the world. At each salon she interviews one of the world's experts about their life and their points of views in an intimate setting. Each podcast brings intelligent insights on the topics of the day to people who are curious about the trends impacting their world. Enjoy! And if you want to host your own salon, visit our sister website www.thesalonhost.com

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