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Scot Galloway interviews David Brooks, who is in Ann Arbor now at the University of Michigan. How could we get time with David Brooks? Perhaps a “Policy not Politics” topic with Al Haber and Ron Suarez.
Claude: Here are podcast title and tagline options across different angles, given the broad scope you’re covering — from civic AI to broadband equity to peer-economy platforms, with guests spanning David Brooks to Al Haber:
Big-tent / civic mission angles
- The Commons Reboot — “Rebuilding civic life for the AI era.”
- Signal & Civics — “Where community, code, and conversation meet.”
- The Republic of Us — “Conversations on rebuilding what we share.”
- Civic Frequencies — “Tuning in to the people remaking democracy, data, and the public good.”
Generational bridge angles (leaning into the Al Haber → David Brooks span)
- Port Huron to Prompt Engineer — “Six decades of organizing, from manifestos to models.”
- The Long Conversation — “Movement elders meet the builders of what’s next.”
- Founders & Frontiers — “The people who started movements, and the ones starting them now.”
Network / ecosystem angles (tying your specific projects together)
- The Verdant Stack — “Community agents, public broadband, and the tools we own together.”
- Public Goods Podcast — “On the infrastructure — civic, digital, and human — that belongs to all of us.”
- podCOIN Conversations — “The economy of attention, expertise, and exchange.”
WCBN / radio-heritage angles (honoring Tony’s 50 years)
- The Long Wave — “From college radio to community AI — fifty years of listening, still going.”
- Free-Form Futures — “In the WCBN tradition: no format, no gatekeepers, just the conversations that matter.”
- Open Mic, Open Source — “Independent radio meets independent tech.”
Punchier / brandable
- Built in Common — “Tools, networks, and movements made by the people who use them.”
- The Agency — “On human agency in an age of artificial ones.”
- Co-Op FM — “Cooperative tech, cooperative media, cooperative everything.”
A few questions that would help narrow this down: Is the show more interview-driven (one guest, deep dive) or thematic (multiple voices per episode)? And do you want the title to foreground the AI/tech angle, the civic/community angle, or keep them balanced? The Al Haber + David Brooks pairing suggests you’re drawing a long arc across American civic life — if that’s the spine, something like The Long Conversation or Port Huron to Prompt Engineer leans into it explicitly.