In this interview, Ted Geballe discusses his life and career. Topics discussed include: his early life in San Francisco and his family; undergraduate and graduate work at University of California, Berkeley, working with William Giauque; his career at Bell Labs; his recruitment to Stanford University by Marvin Chodorow; the history of Stanford's Department of Applied Physics; his work with Mac Beasley on the research group Ted-Mac Amateur Hour and later with Aharon Kapitulnik and Beasley on the research group KGB; Stanfords reputation, the growth of independent labs at Stanford, and Applied Physics relationship with the Department of Physics and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center; his time as director of the Center for Materials Research; the evolution of superconductivity research;Conductus; the Geballe Lab for Advanced Materials; Wolfgang Panofsky; Ginzton Laboratory; John Linvill.