Topic: Emmy Award

Host Greg Carlwood introduces author Paul Shatzkin, who has written biographies of two pivotal 20th-century inventors: Philo T. Farnsworth and T. Townsend Brown. Shatzkin, a former Emmy-nominated videotape editor for ABC and The Barney Miller Show, discusses his transition into chronicling the lives of obscure scientists. The segment establishes the theme of "off-the-books" physics and the suppressed history of television and gravity control.

Investigative journalist Del Bigtree joins the program to discuss his transition from producing the daytime talk show The Doctors to investigating vaccine safety. Bigtree argues that while pediatricians are held on a pedestal, their medical school education regarding vaccines is often limited to administration techniques rather than biochemical ingredients or safety science. He emphasizes that journalists play a critical role in auditing government and scientific claims when regulatory bodies fail to do so.