Spotify has been put into the media thanks to Joe Rogan and Neil Young. However, Spotify has actually been a debated topic for some time now. Journalist, Mark Dent, shares his investigative findings on how the billion dollar streaming service, is failing all of its artists. Bio: I'm a journalist based in Dallas and sometimes in the Kansas City area, where I'm from. I write about business, tech, urbanism, sports, religion, changing cities and ephemera from the 90s. I'm currently working on a book...
Apr 12, 2022•55 min•Season 3Ep. 76
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Apr 10, 2022•58 sec•Season 3Ep. 76
In this episode we'll be discussing the Third Front, a covert industrialization campaign that took place between 1964 and 1972 in China's remote, mountainous interior. This little-discussed campaign actually formed a crucial part of China's Cold War policy strategy, and despite its clandestine nature cost billions of yuan in resource and personnel allocation, as well as for construction and transportation. The Third Front was part of China's preparations for war with either the US, the Soviet Un...
Apr 08, 2022•39 min•Season 2Ep. 77
I'm currently at war with HP (horrible company) so I can't upload content, but I've got some great episodes lined up. For now here's an episode from a great podcast I listen to. This episode explores the history of the Russian and Ukrainian peoples, explaining the commonalities and differences in language, history, and culture. The second half of the show explains the modern history of Ukraine and Russia's attempt to absorb them into the Russian and Soviet Empires. The final chapter explains the...
Apr 01, 2022•19 min•Season 2Ep. 76
The war on terror began and ended on 9/11 (2001-2021). Today, I spoke with three former military intelligence professionals, about their experiences and knowledge surrounding this war. Bios: Kyle Reynolds is a former Korean linguist and served as a signals intelligence analyst on board the MC-12W ISR plane in Afghanistan. After leaving the Army, he worked as a political analyst in Southern Afghanistan. Stu Velasco was an intelligence analyst with 3rd Special Forces Group from 2012-2016 and a con...
Mar 22, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Season 2Ep. 75
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Mar 19, 2022•56 sec•Season 2Ep. 75
Did you know the average American has 7 pairs of blue jeans? Did you know they never go out of style? Author of Jeans: A Cultural History of an American Icon (used to make the film Riveted: The History of Jeans), Professor James Sullivan joined me to talk about, well... the history of blue jeans. They are the blue, in America's red, white, and blue. Bio: I'm an author, longtime Boston Globe contributor and freelance journalist. From 1995-2004 I was a pop music and culture critic for the San Fran...
Mar 08, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Season 2Ep. 74
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Mar 06, 2022•59 sec•Season 2Ep. 74
Today, Dr. Rob Goodman, author of Words on Fire: Eloquence and Its Conditions, drops in to discuss rhetoric. From Cicero to Facebook, we delve into the evolution of this integral speaking and writing tool, as well as explore the extreme rhetoric entrenched in modern politics and how this art of persuasion aids the news in problematic ways. Shortened Bio: Rob Goodman is Assistant Professor of Politics and Public Administration at Ryerson University. He received his Ph.D. with distinction from Col...
Mar 01, 2022•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 73
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Mar 01, 2022•1 min•Season 2Ep. 73
Our continually expanding, 14 billion-year-old universe is riddled with planets that could potentially sustain life; so, where is it? Economist, prolific author, and founder of "The Great Filter," Professor Robin Hanson, offers a possible explanation. In today's episode, we take a deep dive into understand “Grabby Aliens,” and the future of humanity. There are two kinds of alien civilizations. “Quiet” aliens don’t expand or change much, and then they die. We have little data on them, and so must...
Feb 22, 2022•56 min•Season 2Ep. 72
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Feb 21, 2022•52 sec•Season 2Ep. 72
Rwanda has been heralded as an African success story by the international community: its people, ravaged by genocide, have become unified and prosperous under Paul Kagame’s regime. The conventional narrative of Rwanda’s post-conflict development is challenged by today’s guest, journalist and author, Michela Wrong. Her book, Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad , tells the wild story of Patrick Karegeya, as she reveals the dark and compelling reality of a...
Feb 15, 2022•1 hr 23 min•Season 2Ep. 71
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Feb 15, 2022•46 sec•Season 2Ep. 71
Dr. Jay Lemery, Professor of Emergency Medicine at The University of Colorado School of Medicine, joins me today to discuss the relationship between climate change and human health, the growing field of climate medicine, as well as the advocacy required to affect realistic, positive change for our planet and ourselves. Bio: Dr. Lemery is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and is Chief of the Section of Wilderness and Environmental Medici...
Feb 01, 2022•35 min•Season 2Ep. 70
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Jan 30, 2022•50 sec•Season 2Ep. 70
Reddit has 52 million active users a day, and 1 in 4 people ages 25-29 use Reddit. Today, I chat with social media researcher and author, Dr. Elliot Panek about his recently published book, Understanding Reddit. We covered the evolution of social dynamics within this understudied network of communities. Bio: Elliot Panek studies the uses and effects of digital media from sociological and psychological perspectives. He is the author of Understanding Reddit , and has published research in top-tier...
Jan 25, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 69
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Jan 23, 2022•59 sec•Season 2Ep. 69
Did you know Russia likely has more sleeper agents in America today than during the cold war ? I was glad to welcome Filip Kovacevic on today's show to talk illegal KGB agents. Where are they? What is their goal? And what is life like for one of these agents? Bio: Filip Kovacevic is an adjunct professor in the Departments of Politics and International Studies. As a Montenegrin author, social justice activist, and geopolitical analyst, Prof. Kovacevic has lectured and taught across Europe, the Ba...
Jan 18, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Season 2Ep. 68
Where is extraterrestrial life and why haven't we seen anything, dead or alive, yet? I mean, Matt Williams tells me maybe we have already with Oumuamua Oumuamua, but that's still up for debate among researchers. Why haven't we confirmed anything outside our planet yet? Enter, the Fermi Paradox. In today's episode, we discussed some more proposed solutions; The Zoo Hypothesis, The Dark Forest Theory, The Great Filter to name a few covered. (Part 2 - episode 66). Bio: Hello all. I’m a space/astron...
Jan 11, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Season 2Ep. 67
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Jan 10, 2022•32 sec•Season 2Ep. 67
Where is extraterrestrial life and why haven't we seen anything, dead or alive, yet? I mean, Matt Williams tells me maybe we have already with Oumuamua Oumuamua, but that's still up for debate among researchers. Why haven't we confirmed anything outside our planet yet? Enter, the Fermi Paradox. In today's episode, we discussed the ins and outs of finding other lifeforms, along with Matt's favorite theory for this dilemma, the Transcension Hypothesis. Bio: Hello all. What can I say about me? Well...
Jan 04, 2022•1 hr 23 min•Season 2Ep. 66
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Jan 02, 2022•59 sec•Season 2Ep. 66
Alexey Kovalyov has been a journalist pretty much his whole life. As a writer in Russia, Alaexey's focus is about bringing real news to the people of the country. What makes this such a challenge you ask? Russia's government has the power to claim any person and/or newspaper, a foreign agent at will. Any Friday, you can see a new list of who has been labeled the latest enemy, for any reason they deem necessary. One of Kovalyov's own newspaper companies, Meduza, was one of many to fall victim to ...
Dec 21, 2021•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 65
In today's episode, I was glad to welcome Professor John A. Bargh on the show to discuss the unconscious mind. What is it? How does it affect free will? How does it affect us? How can it manipulate us? And much more. Bio: Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science, and Professor of Management, Ph.D., 1981, University of Michigan The Automaticity in Cognition, Motivation, and Evaluation (ACME) lab focuses on unconscious or automatic ways in which our current environmental surroundings cause us...
Dec 14, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 64
Many of us are familiar with the civil war; what it was fought for and what took place. What many of us don't realize is that within this war, and many others, there is a whole other war taking place. I was glad to welcome Dr. Holly A. Pinheiro Jr., on the show to talk about this war. In particular, the struggles that the families faced during and long after the war. From getting pensions to paychecks to medical care to safety and even security, countless atrocities took place around this hidden...
Dec 07, 2021•56 min•Season 2Ep. 63
Latin America has been plagued with drug use, human and drug trafficking, organized crime, violence, corruption, gangs, and much more. On today's show, I was glad to welcome Jonathan D. Rosen to share exactly what has been taking place, and what can be done to fix it. Bio: I am an Assistant Professor at New Jersey City University. Prior to this, I worked as a research scientist at The Gordon Institute at Florida International University. I also worked as a Research Professor at the Universidad d...
Nov 30, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 62
Big data is a big deal! Today, I was glad to welcome Viktor Mayer-Schönbergeroday on the show to discuss how impactful data information and security is, along with how our mental frames change the world. Bio: Viktor Mayer-Schönberger is the Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford. His research focuses on the role of information in a networked economy. Earlier he spent ten years on the faculty of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He has published eleven books, including th...
Nov 23, 2021•54 min•Season 2Ep. 61
Catherine Baab-Muguira recently finished her book, "Poe for Your Problems: Uncommon Advice from History's Least Likely Self-Help Guru." Today, we talked about Edgar Allan Poe's life story, along with what life lessons we can all take from a man whose life was filled with disaster. Catherine's Bio: I grew up in South Carolina and Richmond, Virginia, a middle child in a big Catholic family. I majored in English at the University of South Carolina, and did an M.A. in Creative Writing at the Univers...
Nov 16, 2021•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 60
It was a pleasure to talk with Tim Tate about the story of America's best spy; Micahel Goleniewski. Author of the book "The Spy Who Was Left In The Cold" (soon to be released in America titled "Agent Sniper"), Tim Tate read hundreds of once-classified CIA documents, and interviewed many to truly understand Goleniewski's story. Goleniewski, a.k.a. Agent Sniper, has a story filled with betrayal, drama, and even pure insanity. Tim Tate is a best-selling author, multiple award-winning documentary fi...
Nov 09, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Season 2Ep. 59
