Bigfoot vs. the Health Insurance Beast: Why America Still Doesn’t Have Universal Healthcare
Bigfoot vs. the Health Insurance Beast: Why America Still Doesn’t Have Universal Healthcare Dave Pederson talks with Wendell Potter, former Cigna vice president of corporate communications turned health insurance whistleblower, author, journalist, president of the Center for Health and Democracy, and editor-in-chief of HEALTH CARE un-covered. After spending nearly two decades inside the insurance industry, […]
The Union-Busting Industrial Complex: Pinkertons With PowerPoint
When workers start organizing, corporations rarely improvise. They call in the professionals. In this episode of The Bigfoot Manifesto, Dave Pederson talks with Professor John Logan, Professor and Program Director of Labor and Employment Studies at San Francisco State University, about the modern union-busting industrial complex: consultants, management-side law firms, captive meetings, surveillance, delay tactics, […]
Bigfoot vs. the Child Care Desert: Why Raising a Family Became a Luxury
Parents pay more than they can afford. Child-care educators earn less than they can live on. Providers still struggle to remain open. How can all three be true? Dave Pederson talks with nationally recognized family-policy expert Elliot Haspel about why America’s child-care crisis isn’t a personal budgeting failure—it is the predictable result of treating essential […]
Markets Built for Humans: Nick Hanauer on Why Trickle-Down Broke America
Nick Hanauer joins The Bigfoot Manifesto for a conversation about Markets Built for Humans, his new co-authored work with Eric Beinhocker, and why America needs to abandon trickle-down economics once and for…
Fund the Cryptid: Universal Basic Income and the Right to Say No
Universal basic income is usually presented as an anti-poverty program. Scott Santens argues that it is also a foundation for freedom—the ability to refuse an abusive job, leave a dangerous situation, care for family, or pursue meaningful work without risking homelessness. Dave Pederson talks with Scott about what UBI actually is, why it should be […]
Markets Built for Humans: Nick Hanauer on Why Trickle-Down Broke America
Nick Hanauer joins The Bigfoot Manifesto for a conversation about Markets Built for Humans, his new co-authored work with Eric Beinhocker, and why America needs to abandon trickle-down economics once and for all. For fifty years, Americans were told that if we cut taxes for the rich, weakened labor, deregulated corporations, let monopolies grow, and […]
Bigfoot vs. the Server Farm: Who Pays for the AI Boom?
Everybody says AI lives in “the cloud.” But the cloud is not weightless. In this episode of The Bigfoot Manifesto, Dave talks with Danny Caine of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance about the data center boom powering AI, Big Tech, and the next major infrastructure fight. These massive server farms need land, water, electricity, tax […]
Bigfoot vs. The Union-Busting Machine
The real monster isn’t hiding in the warehouse. It’s in the scanner, the algorithm, the productivity metric, the union-busting meeting, the legal delay, and the idea that workers should be grateful just to survive. In Episode 27 of The Bigfoot Manifesto, Dave Pederson talks with Derrick Palmer, co-founder of the Amazon Labor Union, one of […]
Bigfoot vs. the Right-Wing Media Machine: What MAGA Reads When We’re Not Looking
Howard Polskin of TheRighting joins Dave Pederson to track the headlines, podcasts, traffic charts, and outrage narratives shaping MAGA media. What happens when millions of Americans are living inside a completely different media weather system? In Episode 26 of The Bigfoot Manifesto, Dave Pederson talks with Howard Polskin, founder and chief curator of TheRighting, a […]
Bigfoot vs. the Monopoly Machine: Amazon, Dollar Stores, and the Fight for Local Power
What if the real monster eating Main Street isn’t hiding in the woods — it’s hiding in the checkout button, the delivery truck, the dollar store, the grocery aisle, and the corporate boardroom? In this episode of The Bigfoot Manifesto, Dave Pederson talks with Stacy Mitchell, co-executive director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, about […]