• A Celebration of the Life of Kevin Cooper aka Cole Summers
    Dec 10 2022

    Billy Cooper is the father of the late Kevin Cooper, aka Cole Summers. At 7 years old, Kevin started his own business, at 10 he remodeled his own house, and at 14, he wrote the inspiring book Don't Tell Me I Can't: An Ambitious Homeschoolers Journey with Billy Cooper.

    I asked Billy about Kevin's upbringing, his education, and fond memories. We get to celebrate the life and memory of Kevin.

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    38 mins
  • Joel Bein on Hacking Your Career
    Sep 30 2022

    Joel Bein, CEO of CareerHackers.com, is on a mission to help more people find a career that makes them come alive. He encourages us to follow our curiosity by learning-out-loud. Joel talks about his journey from music teacher to CEO of CareerHackers. He talks about the opportunities that can be found when you really go after something.

    Links:

    https://events.careerhackers.com/supercharger

    https://careerhackers.com/

    Chapters:

    00:00:00 Joel Bein https://joelbein.com/

    00:02:37 Follow your curiosity

    00:05:30 Do work that makes you come alive

    00:07:48 Supercharge your career https://events.careerhackers.com/supercharger

    00:13:06 Learning UX/UI with no experience https://www.linkedin.com/posts/careercrash_uxdesign-userexperience-changingcareers-activity-6980451308713463808-VANL?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

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    20 mins
  • Lizanne Falsetto on Entrepreneurship & Building a Health Food Empire
    Sep 3 2022

    Health food entrepreneur Lizanne Falsetto and I discuss how she built a health food empire that sold for 217 million and how she is now disrupting the dairy industry with betterland milk.

    We talk about how she pioneered the protein bar industry. We also talk about her latest venture - making milk without cows from fermented whey proteins.

    She shares what it takes to be an entrepreneur, how she became so damn smart (my words), and things you can do to improve your odds of success.

    Links:

    https://www.lizannefalsetto.com/

    https://www.woobars.com/

    https://www.betterlandmilk.com/

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    24 mins
  • Bryan Caplan on Thomas Szasz and The Myth of Mental Illness
    Jul 14 2022

    Bryan Caplan and I discuss the ideas of the iconoclast social critic and psychiatrist Thomas Szasz. Dr. Caplan won the Thomas Szasz award in 2005 for his paper, The Economics of Szasz: Preferences, Constraints, and Mental Illness. We have a wide-ranging conversation about Szasz, his ideas, and how to help ourselves and others when struggling with life. Dr. Caplan shares some of his personal experiences with depression during Covid and how he got out of it.

    Related Episodes

    Bryan Caplan on Parenting: https://youtu.be/JM0dGLRgko0
    Anthony Stadlen on Szasz: https://youtu.be/wzVVLgpgLBA
    Jeffrey Schaler on Szasz: https://youtu.be/7wySu4S1w14
    Christopher Lane on Shyness: https://youtu.be/GrV46aVkNvM
    Irvin Kirsch on Antidepressants: https://youtu.be/PtubmyA3BgU

    Related Videos

    John Nash on Schizophrenia: https://youtu.be/SizS1nOOeJg
    Take These Broken Wings (Documentary about Schizophrenia): https://youtu.be/EPfKc-TknWU
    Titicut Follies (Mistreatment of Involuntary Patients): https://youtu.be/e-wVwtN5f-U
    Crazywise Film: https://youtu.be/IXnmBIYaIZE
    Jim Van Os on Schizophrenia: https://youtu.be/sE3gxX5CiW0

    Chapters:
    00:00 Intro to Bryan Caplan https://twitter.com/bryan_caplan
    00:35 Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids https://amzn.to/3NZcxQg
    00:56 How did you discover Thomas Szasz?
    01:33 The Untamed Tongue https://amzn.to/3NYtTwI
    02:07 Insanity: The Idea and Its Consequences https://amzn.to/3aAp3bn
    02:34 Myth of Mental Illness https://amzn.to/3ANgIvp
    02:57 Ceremonial Chemistry https://amzn.to/3P4IBU5
    03:25 How long did it take you to understand Szasz?
    06:13 What do you think most people misunderstood about Szasz?
    08:14 Heavy drinkers respond to incentives https://wp.me/p8ReVr-1i5
    10:55 How homosexuality got declassified as a disease
    11:41 Transvestism
    12:34 The Useful Lie https://wp.me/p8ReVr-1eT
    12:56 Responsibility
    14:34 Criticisms of Szasz
    15:42 Szasz as a philosopher of mind https://wp.me/p8ReVr-rs
    16:34 Scott Alexander https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/10/07/contra-caplan-on-mental-illness/
    17:53 Drapetomania https://g.co/kgs/5qVtCe
    18:06 What was it like to meet Szasz? https://www.econlib.org/archives/2012/09/thomas_szasz_a.html
    19:29 Suicide https://amzn.to/3RuQS5w
    20:05 Why do you think Szasz wrote so much?
    21:00 Did you get pushback when writing your paper on Szasz?
    22:19 Shakespeare and Szasz
    23:24 Has Szasz helped you in your personal life?
    27:12 Brittany Spears
    28:27 Addiction is a Choice https://wp.me/p8ReVr-9U
    29:05 Karl Kraus https://wp.me/p8ReVr-1hz
    29:51 Szasz's political beliefs
    31:13 Suicide
    32:29 Epicurus https://epicurus.net/en/menoeceus.html
    32:54 Julian Simon https://amzn.to/3P4Kct3
    35:17 Surround yourself with friends
    36:11 How do you stay productive?
    37:51 Lucretius http://classics.mit.edu/Carus/nature_things.html
    39:01 How do you deal with depression during Covid?
    41:16 Faith in Freedom https://amzn.to/3caLvIq
    41:38 Free will https://econfaculty.gmu.edu/bcaplan/freewill
    43:38 Writing advice
    44:45 The Baader Meinhof Complex https://youtu.be/2UPrDdb0r70
    46:43 Economics of Szasz http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/bcaplan/pdfs/szasz.pdf
    49:50 Rational vs. Irrational
    52:53 Schizophrenia https://amzn.to/3AK5yb3
    56:10 Biographies of schizophrenics https://amzn.to/3IBtJu0
    59:15 Hearing voices https://youtu.be/sE3gxX5CiW0

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  • Mark Eglinton on the Enigma of John McAfee
    Mar 26 2022

    Mark Eglinton talks with me about his adventures in writing, and his latest book on John McAfee's life called, No Domain: The John McAfee Tapes (https://amzn.to/35cIHr8).

    Chapters:

    00:00:00 Mark Eglinton https://twitter.com/MarkEglinton

    00:00:33 How did Mark become a writer?

    00:01:30 From caddy to writer

    00:05:30 Do the work, just do it

    00:06:00 Where do you start?

    00:08:20 How do you start?

    00:09:20 Get some distance from your work

    00:10:27 Writing is the sexiest job ever

    00:12:00 How is the money in writing?

    00:12:15 Make shit happen

    00:13:10 How Mark started working with John McAfee

    00:14:28 John McAfee is The Great White Whale

    00:15:45 Was John telling the truth?

    00:19:00 Working with John was like being in a James Bond movie

    00:20:45 John's relationship with his kids

    00:24:10 John's early life as a programmer

    00:25:40 John's work for NASA

    00:27:44 John applied math to relationships

    00:29:00 Did John ever work hard?

    00:29:34 John and methamphetamine

    00:30:28 John didn't want a corporate life

    00:31:40 John's outlandish spending

    00:32:23 John McAfee and yoga

    00:33:15 John's yoga books https://amzn.to/3wBV4Z1

    00:34:50 Amanda Milius https://mobile.twitter.com/amandamilius

    00:35:55 John McAfee weeps

    00:37:27 John understood the human spirit

    00:38:25 John leaves Belize

    00:40:00 John marries Janice

    00:41:00 John on the run in the US

    00:41:40 Was John just paranoid?

    00:42:18 Janice ties to poison John

    00:43:10 John cancels the book project

    00:46:30 Was John broke?

    00:48:00 Canonic books on bitcoin

    00:49:40 Books as NFTs

    00:51:00 Will tech control us, or will we control tech?

    00:52:00 Extras associated w/ the NFT

    00:55:40 Canonic is seeing into the future

    00:57:25 Steve Bannon

    00:59:40 Mark on Twitter https://twitter.com/MarkEglinton

    01:00:00 Mark on Twetch https://twetch.com/u/68864

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  • Low-Mileage Running: A Short Guide to Running Faster, Injury Free
    Mar 20 2022

    Low-Mileage Running is a short guide to running faster, injury free. It focuses on avoiding injury while optimizing your training. The book provides practical training advice, workouts, and sample training plans for the 5k to Marathon. Throughout this book, I share how you can maximize your training and reduce injuries while running fewer miles. By listening to your body and focusing on quality workouts tailored to your event, you can improve your performance and avoid injury. Download the free PDF book here: https://aaronolson.blog/books/

    Chapters:

    00:00:00 Opening Credits

    00:00:11 Introduction

    00:00:36 How I Got Started

    00:02:17 A New Approach

    00:05:12 Quality Workouts

    00:06:25 Stress + Rest = Adaptation

    00:07:42 Creating Quality Workouts

    00:08:02 Time Trials

    00:09:52 Race Time Predictor https://www.runnersworld.com/uk/training/a761681/rws-race-time-predictor/

    00:11:25 Intervals

    00:12:56 Tracking workouts

    00:13:54 Intensity

    00:15:19 Training the Central Governor

    00:16:53 Recovery

    00:18:40 Training Guidelines

    00:18:43 Economics of Running

    00:19:46 Listen to Your Body

    00:21:12 Adjusting on the Fly

    00:21:33 Take a Holistic Approach

    00:22:24 Follow the 80:20 Rule

    00:23:15 Find the Minimum Effective Dose

    00:24:15 Race Your Way Into Shape

    00:25:46 Similar Workouts

    00:26:19 Train Performance Not Physiology

    00:27:13 Cross-training

    00:27:50 Strength Training

    00:28:19 Stretching

    00:29:10 Sample Training Plans

    00:29:51 Training Plans Guidelines http://aaronolson.blog/low-mileage-training-plans/

    00:30:29 5k Training Plan http://aaronolson.blog/low-mileage-training-plans/low-mileage-5k-training-plan/

    00:30:52 10k Training Plan http://aaronolson.blog/low-mileage-training-plans/low-mileage-10k-training-plan/

    00:31:16 Half-Marathon Training Plan http://aaronolson.blog/low-mileage-training-plans/low-mileage-half-marathon-training-plan/

    00:31:42 Marathon Training Plan http://aaronolson.blog/low-mileage-training-plans/low-mileage-marathon-training-plan/

    00:32:17 Jeff Ford Interview https://youtu.be/FG4dJmqPOQA

    00:33:30 Conclusion

    00:34:26 Closing Credits

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  • David Gornoski on Jesus Christ, René Girard and Scapegoating
    Mar 19 2022

    I talk with David Gornoski about René Girard's ideas on the role of scapegoating in society. David says that Jesus turned the traditional role of scapegoating on it's head. He maintains that Christ changed the course of society by destroying the pagan use of scapegoating.

    Chapters:

    00:00:00 David Gornoski https://aneighborschoice.com/

    00:01:00 Jeff Diest https://mises.org/profile/jeff-deist

    00:01:40 Science and U Show https://aneighborschoice.com/show/science-and-u/

    00:03:45 Things Hidden Podcast https://aneighborschoice.com/show/things-hidden/

    00:04:00 René Girard https://amzn.to/3MZYtqq

    00:08:30 Scapegoating & The Science

    00:11:00 Jesus Changed the role of Scapegoating

    00:13:25 Mimetic desire

    00:16:14 The left and mimetic desire

    00:18:40 The traditional scapegoat

    00:19:40 Jesus and the scapegoat

    00:21:05 What's wrong with scapegoating?

    00:23:18 Since Christ came, scapegoating no longer works

    00:27:35 Marcionite Christian Church against COVID https://aaronolson.blog/2021/11/26/marcionite-christian-church-and-the-covid-scam/

    00:30:00 Christ inverts the scapegoating mechanism

    00:34:00 Myth helps us contain violence

    00:35:09 The Gospels reveal the disgusting sausage-making of scapegoating

    00:37:00 The emphasis on the victim is a modern phenomenon

    00:37:42 How does this affect an atheist's worldview?

    00:40:27 How did Jesus save the world?

    00:41:20 Jesus liberated us from the scapegoat mechanism

    00:42:55 Belief vs practice

    00:44:27 Big tech censorship

    00:45:25 Dr. Lisanti, antibiotics and cancer https://aneighborschoice.com/michael-lisanti-interview-on-his-breakthrough-antibiotic-solution-for-cancer-metastasis-atp/

    00:49:00 Christianity is about an arch in history

    00:50:00 Jesus and skepticism

    00:53:42 Fleischmann–Pons Cold Fusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion

    00:56:00 Ancel Keys

    00:57:33 CBC René Girard Documentary https://youtu.be/g8Y8dVVV4To

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  • Stanton Peele on Addiction
    Mar 16 2022

    I talk with Staton Peele about the nature of addiction. Peele believes that addiction is a life problem, not a brain disease. We talk about the ideas that he has been writing about for many years.

    Chapters:

    00:00:00 Stanton Peele https://peele.net/

    00:02:43 Failure is redefined as success in addition science

    00:05:05 Life Process Program https://lifeprocessprogram.com/

    00:07:33 Most rehab sets a person up for failure

    00:09:01 A non-disease approach is more realistic

    00:10:11 Harm reduction

    00:10:49 The entire addiction field is built on bullshit

    00:11:55 What is addiction?

    00:13:41 Opioid addiction

    00:16:37 Mindfulness

    00:17:11 Responsibility in addiction

    00:19:19 What does a person gain from addiction?

    00:21:57 Brain science BS in addiction

    00:22:05 Life needs to come online with their values

    00:24:20 Human motivation and experience help a person quit

    00:26:23 Dealing with addiction as a disease makes it worse

    00:28:52 Freud and secondary gain

    00:31:14 My job is to open a window for a person

    00:31:46 You have the power to improve yourself

    00:31:48 Encouraging a person is the most essential ingredient

    00:33:25 Labels hurt a person

    00:36:21 Therapeutic State https://amzn.to/36n63KJ

    00:36:31 Jeffrey Schaler https://youtu.be/7wySu4S1w14

    00:37:20 Addiction that causes the most deaths

    00:42:43 Addiction to alcohol

    00:45:08 Living a good life prevents addiction

    00:48:04 Labels can be crippling

    00:48:57 Life Process Program https://lifeprocessprogram.com/

    00:49:23 Peele.net https://peele.net/

    00:49:37 Books by Stanton Peele https://amzn.to/3q5p7Va

    00:52:35 Stanton's Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lpp-podcast/id1494188367

    00:53:03 Stanton's YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSYridYK8h1uXu0Gx0Kl2Og

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    54 mins