HeyJaredLet's Talk Media with Vedant Akhauri
Let’s Talk Media is an interview podcast hosted by media professional and award-winning podcaster, Vedant Akhauri.
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- Sep 11, 2026
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Inherited Grief: Being Gen Z in a Post-9/11 World (opens the original)
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Marking the 25th anniversary of September 11th, host Vedant Akhauri breaks from the standard interview format of Let's Talk Media for a solemn reflection on how Gen Z carries the weight of 9/11. For those who were infants in cribs or born into the post-9/11 era, the tragedy doesn't exist as a personal "where were you" memory, but as a world understood secondhand through stories, history textbooks, and media artifacts. In this episode, we discuss: Media as a History Teacher: How a generation piec
Not a Real Enemy: The True Story of a Hungarian Jewish Man’s Fight for Freedom (ft. Co-Author, Robert Wolf) (opens the original)
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How does one family survive the brutal Nazi forced labor camps of World War II, only to find themselves trapped under the paranoid surveillance and repression of Stalin’s Soviet regime? In this episode of Let's Talk Media , host Vedant Akhauri sits down with retired radiologist and co-author Dr. Robert Wolf . Dr. Wolf joins the show to discuss his award-winning biography of his father, Not a Real Enemy: The True Story of a Hungarian Jewish Man’s Fight for Freedom (co-authored with Janice Harper)
Courtroom Realism vs. Fiction Thrillers: How to Write Legal Suspense (ft. Author, Jon Gegenheimer) (opens the original)
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How does a former military counterintelligence interrogator and veteran trial lawyer use his high-stakes real-world experience to write authentic, deeply gripping legal suspense, and what does Hollywood get completely wrong about the courtroom? In this episode of the media interview series, Let's Talk Media , host Vedant Akhauri sits down with veteran trial attorney, elected court official, and former counterintelligence specialist Jon Gagenheimer . Jon discusses the intersection of law, history
Alternative Historical Fiction : The Joel Knight Menace Series (ft. Author, Jeff Kildow) (opens the original)
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How does a retired aerospace engineer and Air Force veteran use his technical expertise and family military heritage to write gripping, historically authentic espionage fiction? In this episode of Let's Talk Media , host Vedant Akhauri sits down with Jeff Kildow. Jeff served in the U.S. Air Force maintaining the supersonic "Hound Dog" cruise missile during the Cold War and grew up on his father's stories of flying transport missions in Alaska during World War II. Today, he translates those rich
World War II: Family Stories Of Courage And Survival (ft. Author, Dr. Caroline Crocker) (opens the original)
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In this episode of the media interview series, Let's Talk Media, host Vedant Akhauri sits down with Dr. Caroline Crocker, a scientist turned author who has dedicated her retirement to preserving the raw, personal histories of her parents and grandparents during World War II. Dr. Crocker started with Early Dog Stories , but then pivoted into WWII books, focusing on civilian survival, systematic abuse, and wartime trauma that echo across generations. Brave Face : Chronicling her mother's survival
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