HELLO FUTURE with Kevin Cirilli

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HELLO, FUTURE with Kevin Cirilli is the daily podcast where tomorrow’s biggest questions come alive. Are aliens already visiting us? Could your next job be in space? What if satellites could find lost cities, or stop the next wildfire? What happens if America loses the space race… or if every satellite went dark tomorrow? From Mars to UFOs, from flying cars to “civilization starter kits,” each episode blends science, technology, and imagination with the real choices shaping our world. It’s smart, fast, and curious, built for anyone who’s ever looked up at the night sky and wondered what comes next. This isn’t science fiction. It’s the future, knocking on your door.  Kevin Cirilli is the founder of meet the future™ (mtf.tv). Cirilli has advised some of the nation’s leading military nonprofit philanthropists and policymakers and he is an emerging playwright. As a journalist, he is the former Chief Washington Correspondent for Bloomberg Television and Radio, where he covered the White House, Congress, and global economic policy while anchoring a daily geopolitical business affairs program. Before founding mtf.tv, Kevin appeared across nearly every major network — including CBS News, MSNBC, CNN, FOX News, C-SPAN, NPR, and Yahoo Finance — providing nonpartisan political and economic analysis and conducting exclusive interviews with some of the most influential figures of the 21st century. He was also a media fellow at the Atlantic Council in the Global China Hub. He has reported from across the United States and around the world — including assignments in Israel, Vietnam, and Saudi Arabia — covering pivotal moments in global affairs and the people driving change.

  1. HELLO FUTURE: Episode 2: Leveraging AI to Pivot Into Careers — Education for Employment

    3D AGO

    HELLO FUTURE: Episode 2: Leveraging AI to Pivot Into Careers — Education for Employment

    AI isn’t just disrupting classrooms — it’s rewriting career pathways. In this episode, Kevin Cirilli spoke late last year with Michael Hansen, CEO of Cengage Group, about the rise of “Education for Employment” and how adults are using AI to reskill, pivot, and compete in a rapidly shifting labor market. With more than 3.5 million people already trained through Cengage Work programs — and hundreds of thousands enrolling each year in allied health, cybersecurity, and high-demand fields — the future of work is becoming modular, digital, and skills-first. Hansen shares lessons from transforming a legacy print publisher into a modern edtech portfolio company — and why affordability, accessibility, and speed now define workforce education. We discuss how AI tools are accelerating upskilling, how employers are reevaluating degrees versus demonstrated competencies, and why lifelong learning is no longer optional. If the first industrial revolution reshaped factories, AI is reshaping human capital. The question isn’t whether workers will adapt — it’s whether institutions can move fast enough to keep up. Meet The Future: https://mtf.tv/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    15 min
  2. HELLO FUTURE: Episode 1: Kids Cheating in the Age of AI — Crisis or Catalyst?

    MAR 5

    HELLO FUTURE: Episode 1: Kids Cheating in the Age of AI — Crisis or Catalyst?

    Artificial intelligence has entered the classroom — and students are using it. But is this the death of academic integrity… or the beginning of a new learning model? Kevin Cirilli sat down late last year with Michael Hansen, CEO of Cengage Group, one of the world’s largest edtech companies serving more than 12 million digital learners, to unpack what’s really happening in schools and universities right now. As generative AI tools blur the line between assistance and dishonesty, educators face a fundamental question: are we policing students for using the tools of the future — or redesigning education around them? Hansen, who led Cengage through bankruptcy and into a 70% digital transformation, explains how AI is reshaping testing, credentialing, and the very definition of knowledge. From AI-powered student assistants to subscription-based course models that challenge affordability, this conversation goes beyond headlines to explore the structural reinvention of education. In a world where machines can write essays, what does human mastery look like? And are we measuring the right skills for the economy students are actually entering? Meet The Future: https://mtf.tv/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    11 min
  3. HELLO FUTURE: Episode 3: The Varginha Case — Testimony, Democracy, and the Sol Foundation Approach

    MAR 3

    HELLO FUTURE: Episode 3: The Varginha Case — Testimony, Democracy, and the Sol Foundation Approach

    In 1996, witnesses in Varginha, Brazil reported a cigar-shaped object crashing into a field, followed by claims that three young women encountered a nonhuman biological entity and that additional beings were recovered — some dead, one possibly alive. Nearly three decades later, the case resurfaced in formal discussions that included written testimony, video statements, and the attendance of Eric Burlison. On this episode of HELLO FUTURE, Kevin Cirilli speaks with Dr. Peter Skafish — sociocultural anthropologist and co-founder of the Sol Foundation — about how serious institutions should approach extraordinary claims. Rather than sensationalize, the Sol Foundation applies academic rigor and a “whole of society” framework to questions raised by UAP, including legal, political, scientific, and cultural implications. This conversation explores how democracies process testimony, how standards of evidence evolve, and what responsible inquiry looks like when confronting the unknown. Meet The Future: https://mtf.tv/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    26 min
  4. HELLO FUTURE: Inside the Sol Foundation — A Serious Approach to UAP

    FEB 26

    HELLO FUTURE: Inside the Sol Foundation — A Serious Approach to UAP

    The Sol Foundation is bringing academic rigor to one of the most controversial subjects of our time: unidentified anomalous phenomena. In this conversation, Dr. Peter Skafish — anthropologist, philosopher, and Sol co-founder alongside Garry Nolan — explains how the organization is building a “whole of society” framework to address the legal, political, environmental, and cultural implications of UAP. Rather than speculate, Sol focuses on governance, pluralism, and how humanity might responsibly engage with the possibility of nonhuman intelligence. This is a grounded, serious discussion about science, policy, and what preparedness really looks like in the 21st century. Meet The Future: https://mtf.tv/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    16 min
  5. HELLO FUTURE: Trump, Obama’s “Aliens” Comment — What Did They Really Mean?

    FEB 24

    HELLO FUTURE: Trump, Obama’s “Aliens” Comment — What Did They Really Mean?

    When Barack Obama acknowledged on national television that there are objects in our skies we “don’t know exactly what they are,” it wasn’t a punchline — it was a signal. On this episode of HELLO FUTURE, Kevin Cirilli sits down with sociocultural anthropologist Dr. Peter Skafish to unpack what that moment actually represents: not proof of aliens, but a historic shift in how governments talk about unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP). From disclosure politics to the limits of scientific language, Skafish explains why the real story isn’t science fiction — it’s how institutions, democracy, and human imagination respond when confronted with the unknown. Meet The Future: https://mtf.tv/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    23 min
  6. HELLO FUTURE: The Diagnosis AI Caught: How One Patient Outsmarted a Missed Cancer

    FEB 19

    HELLO FUTURE: The Diagnosis AI Caught: How One Patient Outsmarted a Missed Cancer

    February is National Cancer Prevention Month—a moment to talk about early detection, risk reduction, and patient empowerment. But this episode asks a harder question: what happens when patients do everything right—and the system still misses the signs? On HELLO FUTURE, host Kevin Cirilli sits down with Steve Brown, whose cancer story didn’t begin with a diagnosis, but with months of uncertainty. Multiple doctors. Endless tests. No clear answers. It wasn’t until a wildfire evacuation sent him to a new hospital—and an AI prototype he built himself—that the truth emerged: an aggressive blood cancer hiding in plain sight. In minutes, the AI flagged a bone marrow disorder human review had missed for months. That near-miss became a mission. From his hospital bed, Brown built CureWise, an AI-powered platform designed to do what overstretched systems often can’t—connect the dots. CureWise transforms fragmented medical records into clear, personalized insights, translating complex oncology data into plain language and simulating a virtual tumor board powered by AI agents modeled after oncologists, hematologists, and geneticists. This episode is about more than technology. It’s about agency, trust, and what the future of healthcare looks like when patients are informed, empowered, and finally equipped to ask the right questions. Meet The Future: https://mtf.tv/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    17 min
  7. HELLO FUTURE: The Future of the Olympics (Part 2)

    FEB 12

    HELLO FUTURE: The Future of the Olympics (Part 2)

    HELLO FUTURE hosts Jeff Fellenzer, the USC Annenberg Professor of Professional Practice in Journalism with more than three decades of experience across sports management, news media, higher education, and entrepreneurship. Fellenzer — who teaches courses on sports, media, and technology, has been a Heisman Trophy voter since 2007, and has interviewed generations of icons from John Wooden to Olympians and media leaders — brings a rare vantage point on how the Olympic Games must evolve in the coming decade. In this episode, we explore the future of the Olympics through the lens of media transformation, fan engagement, and global culture. Jeff shares insights on how emerging technologies — from immersive viewing and real-time analytics to AI-driven storytelling — will redefine how audiences experience the Games. We also dive into the shifting economic and cultural forces shaping how host cities, broadcasters, athletes, and global audiences negotiate relevance and resonance in a crowded attention economy. This is not just a sports conversation — it’s a forward-looking exploration of one of the world’s most enduring global institutions and the media and technology currents that will determine its future Meet The Future: https://mtf.tv/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    13 min
  8. HELLO FUTURE: The Future of the Olympics (Part 1)

    FEB 10

    HELLO FUTURE: The Future of the Olympics (Part 1)

    Jeff Fellenzer, the USC Annenberg Professor of Professional Practice in Journalism with more than three decades of experience across sports management, news media, higher education, and entrepreneurship. Fellenzer — who teaches courses on sports, media, and technology, has been a Heisman Trophy voter since 2007, and has interviewed generations of icons from John Wooden to Olympians and media leaders — brings a rare vantage point on how the Olympic Games must evolve in the coming decade. In this episode, we explore the future of the Olympics through the lens of media transformation, fan engagement, and global culture. Jeff shares insights on how emerging technologies — from immersive viewing and real-time analytics to AI-driven storytelling — will redefine how audiences experience the Games. We also dive into the shifting economic and cultural forces shaping how host cities, broadcasters, athletes, and global audiences negotiate relevance and resonance in a crowded attention economy. This is not just a sports conversation — it’s a forward-looking exploration of one of the world’s most enduring global institutions and the media and technology currents that will determine its future. Meet The Future: https://mtf.tv/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

    8 min
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HELLO, FUTURE with Kevin Cirilli is the daily podcast where tomorrow’s biggest questions come alive. Are aliens already visiting us? Could your next job be in space? What if satellites could find lost cities, or stop the next wildfire? What happens if America loses the space race… or if every satellite went dark tomorrow? From Mars to UFOs, from flying cars to “civilization starter kits,” each episode blends science, technology, and imagination with the real choices shaping our world. It’s smart, fast, and curious, built for anyone who’s ever looked up at the night sky and wondered what comes next. This isn’t science fiction. It’s the future, knocking on your door.  Kevin Cirilli is the founder of meet the future™ (mtf.tv). Cirilli has advised some of the nation’s leading military nonprofit philanthropists and policymakers and he is an emerging playwright. As a journalist, he is the former Chief Washington Correspondent for Bloomberg Television and Radio, where he covered the White House, Congress, and global economic policy while anchoring a daily geopolitical business affairs program. Before founding mtf.tv, Kevin appeared across nearly every major network — including CBS News, MSNBC, CNN, FOX News, C-SPAN, NPR, and Yahoo Finance — providing nonpartisan political and economic analysis and conducting exclusive interviews with some of the most influential figures of the 21st century. He was also a media fellow at the Atlantic Council in the Global China Hub. He has reported from across the United States and around the world — including assignments in Israel, Vietnam, and Saudi Arabia — covering pivotal moments in global affairs and the people driving change.

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