The latest Pickens Podcast features my chat with Ed Rollins, one of the most interesting and accomplished political operatives of the past three decades.

This week’s Pickens Podcast features a very smart guy, Leif Wenar, who wrote a very smart book called “Blood Oil.” It is a serious look at the way OPEC and others have manipulated the industrialized world into dependence on their oil.

The Pickens Podcast episode for this week features my conversation with two former U.S. Senators who have each served as Majority Leader. Tom Daschle (D) and Trent Lott (R) may represent the last time in our lifetimes we will have seen two men, with opposite views, from different political parties, work together to solve great problems. “We worked to find common ground.”

As the NCAA March Madness Tournament kicks off this week, my 21st podcast is with Joe Nocera, New York Times columnist and author of the new book, “Indentured: The Inside Story of the Rebellion Against the NCAA.”

My latest Pickens Podcast episode is a chat with former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge. We touched on a number of topics including the dispute between Apple and the Department of Justice as well as the fracking boom in the Marcellus Shale.

The proposal has sparked immediate backlash, with critics blasting it as an impossible production tax, the death knell for the already struggling oil industry, and an unfair policy that would render gas at the pumps more expensive for consumers.

Few people enjoy a better understanding of global geopolitics than former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove. Last week, he and I chatted about the energy revolution the world is currently witnessing. Here are my five takeaways.

This week’s Pickens Podcast is among the most enjoyable we’ve ever done. That’s what happens when you spend time with old friends, and I’ve known Karl Rove going back to the 1980s.

T. Boone Pickens discusses the U.S. economy, risk of recession and the price and production of oil.