What is going to cause our extinction? How can we save ourselves and our future? End Times is a compelling work of skilled reportage that peels back the layers of complexity around the unthinkable--and inevitable--end of humankind. From asteroids and artificial intelligence to volcanic super-eruptions to nuclear war, 15-year veteran science reporter and TIME editor Bryan Walsh provides a stunning panoramic view of the most catastrophic threats to the human race. In End Times , Walsh examines thr...
Oct 15, 2019•48 min•Ep. 62
This is a special talk with Alex Pang, critically acclaimed author, scientific history researcher, writer, and lecturer. Alex is passionate about helping people to balance work and life -- while becoming more productive in the process -- through deliberate rest. He is the author of a three-book series on work optimization, which recognizes the value of rest in creative and prolific lives, blending science and history to better understand how we can live and work better in the digital age. More i...
Oct 08, 2019•53 min•Ep. 61
Avengers: Endgame co-director Joe Russo discusses his movie in celebration of the in-home release. He chats during the "We Love You 3000" tour which was created as a way to thank the fans who have invested so deeply in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) -- making it the single most successful franchise in film history! About the film: Marvel Studios' "Avengers: Endgame," the climactic conclusion to an unprecedented, 11-year cinematic journey in which the Avengers take one final stand against Th...
Oct 01, 2019•41 min•Ep. 60
"Everyone teaches us how to save. Nobody teaches us how to spend!" Personal finance expert Ramit Sethi shares highlights from his New York Times bestselling book, " I Will Teach You To Be Rich" . Ramit writes about money, business, and psychology for a million readers each month at iwillteachyoutoberich.com. Ramit's advice has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, and the Tim Ferris podcast. Ramit's book, I Will Teach You To Be Rich, is a two-time New York Times ...
Sep 24, 2019•51 min•Ep. 59
Meet Alex, a photographer on a holiday with his family in the south of France. Meet Abe, a music producer with a baby on the way. Two men–both fathers, husbands, and sons–take us on a journey you will never forget. The finest actors of their generation, Academy Award® nominee Jake Gyllenhaal (Sunday In The Park With George) and Tony Award® nominee Tom Sturridge (1984), had audiences roaring to their feet at the sold-out engagement at The Public Theater. Now Sea Wall/A Life, from the visionary cr...
Sep 17, 2019•56 min•Ep. 58
Dr. Junella Chin and Wendy Nguyen provide medical and consumer perspectives about CBD applications in modern medicine and culture, and co-host the popular Artemis Radio Podcast ( https://goo.gle/2GJ8asR ). Wendy Nguyen is a former banker who quit to start her successful fashion blog & YouTube channel, " Wendy's Lookbook ". She opened Artemis, the only minority woman-owned CBD shop in New York. Her local shop in the West Village curates 25 high quality CBD brands. Nguyen became an entrepreneu...
Sep 10, 2019•55 min•Ep. 57
Sleep is one of the most important aspects of our life, health and longevity and yet it is increasingly neglected in twenty-first-century society, with devastating consequences: every major disease in the developed world - Alzheimer's, cancer, obesity, diabetes - has very strong causal links to deficient sleep. Until very recently, science had no answer to the question of why we sleep, or what good it served, or why its absence is so damaging to our health. Compared to the other basic drives in ...
Sep 03, 2019•57 min•Ep. 56
Robert Greene returns to Google to explore his latest and most monumental work yet, "The Laws of Human Nature" . In the talk, Robert discusses how to detach from one's emotions to better understand intrinsic motivations in order to make better decision and master self-control. In addition to his latest book, Robert has authored the 5 international bestsellers " The 48 Laws of Power ", " The Art of Seduction ", " The 33 Strategies of War ", " The 50th Law ", and " Mastery ". Get this book here: h...
Aug 27, 2019•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 55
Heidi Schreck, Mike Iveson, Thursday Williams, and Rosdely Ciprian from the Broadway production of What the Constitution Means to Me discuss their groundbreaking play. The play was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Direct from its revolutionary Off-Broadway run, "WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME" has arrived on Broadway for a limited engagement. This boundary-breaking play breathes new life into our Constitution and imagines how it will shape the next generation of American wome...
Aug 20, 2019•54 min•Ep. 54
According to the 2018 World Happiness Report, the world's happiest countries tend to have high values for six critical variables found to support well-being: income, healthy life expectancy, social support, freedom, trust and generosity. Denmark is consistently among the top 3, while the USA are slipping down the rankings. So what is happiness? What are the important factors for governments to take into consideration when working to increase happiness and quality of life among their populations?...
Aug 13, 2019•56 min•Ep. 53
If you think the world is coming to an end, think again. People are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives, and while our problems are formidable, Steven Pinker believes the solutions lie in the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science. Is the world really falling apart? Is the ideal of progress obsolete? In this elegant assessment of the human condition in the third millennium, cognitive scientist and public intellectual Steven Pinker urges us to step back from the gory headl...
Aug 06, 2019•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 52
Comedy Sex God is a hilarious, profound, enlightening romp around the fertile mind of stand-up stand out, podcast king, and HBO superstar Pete Holmes. Pete Holmes is a comedian. Maybe you've seen his show, Crashing, on HBO. Maybe you know him from his podcast You Made It Weird. Or The Pete Holmes Show! Or his videos with FrontPage Films. Maybe you saw his hour special Nice Try, The Devil, or his half-hour Comedy Central Presents. Or on Conan. Or Jimmy Fallon. Or maybe you saw him on VH1. Or hear...
Jul 30, 2019•58 min•Ep. 51
Surgeon, public health researcher, and MacArthur fellow Atul Gawande discusses his #1 NY Times bestseller, "Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End. " Modern medicine has transformed the dangers of birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But when it comes to the inescapable realities of aging and death, what medicine can do often runs counter to what it should do. Through eye-opening research and gripping stories of his own patients and family, Gawande reve...
Jul 23, 2019•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 50
Michio Kaku is a world-renowned physicist, futurist, and author of numerous bestselling books including Beyond Einstein , Parallel Universes , The Future of the Mind, and Physics of the Impossible . In this talk, he discusses the groundbreaking first image of a black hole as well as a range of topics related to his latest book, The Future of Humanity , in which he explores how humanity might gradually develop a sustainable civilization in outer space. Get the book here: https://goo.gl/CGQTSp Vis...
Jul 16, 2019•41 min•Ep. 49
We will are joined by Aaron Sorkin, Jeff Daniels, Gideon Glick, Celia Keenan-Bolger, and Gbenga Akinnagbe Jackson as they discuss their box office record-shattering play, To Kill A Mockingbird. Jeff, Gideon, and Celia are all nominated for 2019 Tony Awards for their performances in this production. Tickets and info via https://tokillamockingbirdbroadway.com/ Read Gbenga's NYTimes OpEd here: https://goo.gle/2JTBkYB Moderated by Ben Fried, Google CIO. Visit http://g.co/TalksAtGoogle/TKAM to watch ...
Jul 09, 2019•54 min•Ep. 48
Everything we've previously been taught about negotiation is wrong: people are not rational; there is no such thing as 'fair'; compromise is the worst thing you can do; the real art of negotiation lies in mastering the intricacies of No, not Yes. These surprising tactics—which radically diverge from conventional negotiating strategy—weren't cooked up in a classroom, but are the field-tested tools FBI agents used to talk criminals and hostage-takers around the world into (or out of) just about an...
Jul 02, 2019•53 min•Ep. 47
Join Bill Hader (Saturday Night Live, The Skeleton Twins, Hod Rod, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Tropic Thunder) as he discusses his hit show Barry, now streaming on HBO Go and HBO Now. About the show: Disillusioned at the thought of taking down another "mark," depressed, low-level hit man Barry Berkman seeks a way out. When the Midwesterner reluctantly travels to Los Angeles to execute a hit on an actor who is bedding a mobster's wife, little does Barry know that the City of Angels may be his sanc...
Jun 25, 2019•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 46
Dr. Sophie Bostock is a Sleep Evangelist at Sleepio, whose research interests include the links between sleep, well-being, health and performance. She has been awarded an NHS Innovation Accelerator Fellowship, collaborates with colleagues at the Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute at the University of Oxford, and has featured as a sleep expert for the BBC, The Times, ITV, and TEDx. Sleep is a cornerstone of mental health and well-being. Yet as the case for sleep grows, so do the temptatio...
Jun 18, 2019•56 min•Ep. 45
New York Times–bestselling author Sloane Crosley discusses Look Alive Out There—a brand-new collection of essays filled with her trademark hilarity, wit, and charm. The characteristic heart and punch-packing observations are back, but with a newfound coat of maturity. Sloane gives an inside look into how she writes her stories which include scaling active volcanoes, crashing shivas, befriending swingers, and squinting down the barrel of the fertility gun. Please visit https://goo.gle/2XZtn7Z to ...
Jun 11, 2019•47 min•Ep. 44
Nicholas first stepped onto the entertainment scene as a singer at the age of 16 in 1996. Two years later, Nicholas filmed his first movie "Young and Dangerous: The Prequel" and won "Best New Performer" at the 18th Hong Kong Film Awards. At the age of 21, Nicholas received the "World's Best Chinese Artist Award" at the World Music Awards in 2002, making him the youngest Chinese awardee. In 2003, Nicholas founded "Post Production Office", which was the pioneer computer graphic and special effects...
Jun 04, 2019•54 min•Ep. 43
When math goes wrong, things can get expensive. Or absolutely hilarious. For this talk we invited YouTube personality (Numberphile, standupmaths), math communicator, comedian, and one third of the Festival of the Spoken Nerd, Matt Parker, to share his favorite math mistakes from his new UK #1 bestseller, "Humble Pi - A Comedy of Maths Errors". Matt exposes errors on the Two Pound Coin, very specific rules for trains operating in Switzerland, and how simple unit conversion slip ups can cost billi...
May 28, 2019•1 hr•Ep. 42
Paula Pant is the founder of award-winning website & podcast Afford Anything and a writer and speaker specializing at the intersection between managing money and designing your lifestyle. She speaks to audiences about the philosophy of money -- what purpose does it serve in our lives, and how do we manage it in a more thoughtful, conscious way? In this interview, Paula Pant discusses a range of financial topics including the anti-budget, growing the gap, whether it's better to build a side h...
May 21, 2019•58 min•Ep. 41
As a part of Talks at Google 5-part podcast mini-series in partnership with the Google News Initiative, this episode you'll here from Daniel Bramatti of Abraji speaks the future of news and collaborative reporting at the first Google News Initiative Innovation Forum in London. Launched in 2018, the Google News Initiative is Google's effort to work with the news industry to help journalism thrive in the digital age. To learn more about the GNI, please visit http://g.co/TalksAtGoogle/GoogleNewsIni...
May 17, 2019•7 min•Ep. 40
Bringing the funk to Cuban rhythms (and vice versa), Cimafunk embraces the piquant playfulness of timeless Cuban music with 21st-century style, referencing timba as well as trova, and continuing where '90s cult band Yerba Buena left off. Cimafunk, who was by all accounts Cuba's 2018 revelation of the year, is poised for international discovery. Cimafunk visits Google New York to perform music from his latest album, "Terapia," and engages with Brett Perlmutter, Head of Google Cuba, to discuss the...
May 14, 2019•55 min•Ep. 40
Comedian and former Saturday Night Live cast member Colin Quinn, the satirical sage from Brooklyn joined Googler David Windmueller back in February 2019 to discuss his off-Broadway show Colin Quinn: Red State Blue State, where he laid bare the absurdities, hypocrisies and calamities on both sides of the political divide. Regardless of which side you may find yourself on, Colin came to "own the libs, the conservs and all of you in between." Visit http://colinquinn.com/ for more info. Visit YouTub...
May 07, 2019•45 min•Ep. 39
Nimai Delgado discusses how he used his mechanical engineering background to optimize his health by choosing the right fuel for optimal human performance and became an elite professional bodybuilder on a fully plant based diet. What is most shocking, is that Nimai has never eaten any meat in his life. He was raised in a Hindu farm community in Mississippi and describes how his unique childhood experiences shaped his perspective on life. Nimai has gone against the grain his entire life and learne...
Apr 30, 2019•44 min•Ep. 38
Nick Frost (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, The World's End), Lena Headey (Game of Thrones, The Brothers Grimm), Florence Pugh (The Falling, Lady Macbeth, Outlaw King), Jack Lowden (Dunkirk), and WWE wrestler Paige join us to discuss their latest movie FIGHTING WITH MY FAMILY, based on a true story. About the movie: Born into a tight-knit wrestling family, Paige and her brother Zak are ecstatic when they get the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to try out for the WWE. But when only Paige earns a spot...
Apr 23, 2019•42 min•Ep. 37
As a part of Talks at Google 5-part podcast mini-series in partnership with the Google News Initiative, this episode you'll here from Dmitry Shishkin of BBC World Service about the future of news at the first Google News Initiative Innovation Forum in London. Launched in 2018, the Google News Initiative is Google's effort to work with the news industry to help journalism thrive in the digital age. To learn more about the GNI, please visit http://g.co/TalksAtGoogle/GoogleNewsInitiative . You can ...
Apr 19, 2019•13 min•Ep. 36
One of the world's most prominent Buddhist monks, Haemin Sunim, joined us at Google in London to talk about self-care, discussing that only by accepting yourself - and the flaws which make you who you are - can you have compassionate and fulfilling relationships at home and work. About the book No one is perfect. But that doesn't stop us from imagining ourselves smarter, funnier, richer, or thinner, and how much happier we would then be. Love for Imperfect Things shows how the path to happiness ...
Apr 16, 2019•47 min•Ep. 36
Tyler Perry discusses his new movie "A Madea Family Funeral", which opened in theaters March 1st, 2019. This is moderated by De'Arra and Ken from the DK4L YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/dk4l About the movie: A joyous family reunion becomes a hilarious nightmare as Madea and the crew travel to backwoods Georgia, where they find themselves unexpectedly planning a funeral that might unveil unsavory family secrets. Visit YouTube.com/TalksatGoogle to watch the video....
Apr 09, 2019•45 min•Ep. 35
