Recorded March 18th, 2026
Live from New York City
at the Comedy Cellar (Village Underground)
This special live event on March 18th, 2026 brought The Moynihan Report to an in-person audience for a timely discussion on the AI revolution. As automation accelerates, the case for a guaranteed income has moved from the fringes of academia to the center of the national stage.
The evening featured a structured, rotating panel of experts across policy, technology, academia, and history. This wasn’t just a broadcast — it was a conversation.
Using the 2WAY platform, both our in-house and remote audiences had the opportunity to engage directly with the panel during a dedicated Q&A session.
Moderated by Michael Moynihan, a veteran journalist, co-host of The Fifth Column podcast, and former Vice News correspondent known for his sharp cultural and political analysis.
Andy Mills is an award-winning journalist whose work has fundamentally redefined the landscape of modern digital storytelling. As a foundational member of the original team behind The New York Times’ “The Daily”, Mills was instrumental in crafting the intimate, cinematic soundscape that transformed daily news into an immersive habit for millions of listeners worldwide. His career is marked by a rare ability to blend rigorous, high-stakes reporting with an avant-garde approach to sound design, a skill set he honed during his influential tenure at WNYC’s Radiolab.
Mills reputation as a master of the long-form audio documentary was further solidified through his lead production role on Caliphate, a groundbreaking series that took listeners into the haunting inner workings of ISIS.
Currently, Mills is the creative force behind The Last Invention, a high-profile series for Apple Podcasts that investigates the existential trajectory of Artificial Intelligence. In this project, he pivots his lens toward the “godfathers” of AI and the skeptics who fear we are witnessing a self-sustaining technological snowball effect. By questioning whether AI represents humanity’s ultimate achievement or its final mistake, Mills continues to occupy the intersection of philosophy and breaking news. His work on The Last Invention serves as a sonic deep dive into the accelerating momentum of the future, delivered with the same curiosity and technical precision that has made him one of the most influential voices in the “Golden Age” of podcasting.
Acknowledged by former presidential candidate Andrew Yang as one of those who helped shape his thinking about the concept of universal basic income, and described by historian Rutger Bregman as “by far, the most effective basic income activist out there,” Scott Santens has lived with a crowdfunded basic income floor since 2015 and has been researching, writing, and speaking about UBI around the world since 2013.
He is the founder and CEO of the Income To Support All Foundation, host of the Basic Income Show, author of Let There Be Money, and also serves on the board of directors of the Gerald Huff Fund for Humanity. His home is in Washington, D.C. where he moved to from New Orleans in 2022.
Karl Widerquist is a professor of philosophy at Georgetown University-Qatar. He specializes in distributive justice—the ethics of who has what.
He is a researcher, writer, and advocate for Universal Basic Income; the cofounder of the U.S. Basic Income Guarantee Network; cofounder the academic journal Basic Income Studies; and former co-chair of the Basic Income Earth Network.
He has published 11 books, including Universal Basic Income: Essential Knowledge (MIT Press) and The Prehistory of Private Property (Edinburgh University Press). He has appeared in many media outlets including The New York Times, The Guardian, and The Atlantic Monthly, which called him “a leader of the worldwide basic income movement.”
Meghan Joyce is cofounder and CEO of Duckbill, a pioneering AI consumer application that is both improving day-to-day life and redefining the future of work. Duckbill combines cutting-edge generative AI with human expertise to provide a personal assistant for everyone.
Prior to founding Duckbill, Meghan served as COO of Oscar Health, where she oversaw operations, technology, clinical, marketing, and new business lines from growth stage through and post-IPO.
Before that, Meghan held a variety of leadership roles at Uber, including Regional General Manager of US & Canada, the company’s largest P&L, from Series B through IPO.
Meghan started her career as a consultant at Bain & Company, an investor at Bain Capital, and a Senior Policy Advisor at the United States Department of the Treasury. She serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Guardant Health, the Boston Beer Company, and WBUR, and is a Henry Crown Fellow and member of the Aspen Institute’s Global Leadership Network.
A frequent speaker on AI, technology, and the future of work, Meghan teaches an annual class at Harvard Business School on general management and is regularly sought after for her insights on effective leadership.
Meghan holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an A.B. in the History of Science from Harvard College.
