Tom Wright ( @tomwrightasia ) is an award-winning journalist, co-author of the New York Times bestseller Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World , co-founder of journalism studio and production company Project Brazen , and host of the Fat Leonard podcast. What We Discuss with Tom Wright: A deep dive into the shadowy world of corruption, money laundering, and embezzling by the shadiest shysters among the elite. How does an investigative journalist uncover mi...
Dec 21, 2021•1 hr 20 min•Ep 602•Transcript available on Metacast You've met someone who checks your boxes for marriage material, but there's one problem: medical issues may mean they've only got three years left to live. Should you propose and hope for a miracle? We'll examine this and more here on Feedback Friday! And in case you didn't already know it, Jordan Harbinger ( @JordanHarbinger ) and Gabriel Mizrahi ( @GabeMizrahi ) banter and take your comments and questions for Feedback Friday right here every week! If you want us to answer your question, regist...
Dec 17, 2021•56 min•Ep 601•Transcript available on Metacast Metta World Peace ( @MettaWorld37 ) (aka Metta Sandiford-Artest, aka Ron Artest) is a former NBA All-Star, author of No Malice: My Life in Basketball or: How a Kid from Queensbridge Survived the Streets, the Brawls, and Himself to Become an NBA Champion , and host of the Mettaphorically Speaking podcast. What We Discuss with Metta World Peace: How did Ron Artest become Metta World Peace , what were some of the considered alternatives, and why did he later change his name to Metta Sandiford...
Dec 16, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Ep 600•Transcript available on Metacast Spencer Roberts ( @Unpop_Science ) is an ecologist, photovoltaic engineer, musician, and writer who specializes in exposing corporate science propaganda and greenwashing. What We Discuss with Spencer Roberts: Is there really such a thing as sustainable seafood in industrial nations ? Logistically, how "dolphin safe" can a can of tuna be (and how endangered is that tuna) ? Will the escalating amount of microplastics found in seafood lead to human extinction? Is the climate-rescuing promise of "re...
Dec 14, 2021•58 min•Ep 599•Transcript available on Metacast A medical issue has rendered your therapist colleague mentally (and ethically) incapable of providing care for others, but she hasn't accepted this. How can you support management's efforts to establish reasonable cause for termination without feeling so guilty? This and more here on Feedback Friday! And in case you didn't already know it, Jordan Harbinger ( @JordanHarbinger ) and Gabriel Mizrahi ( @GabeMizrahi ) banter and take your comments and questions for Feedback Friday right here every we...
Dec 10, 2021•52 min•Ep 598•Transcript available on Metacast Gary Vaynerchuk ( @garyvee ) is the chairman of VaynerX , the active CEO of VaynerMedia , and the author of several bestselling books, including #AskGaryVee: One Entrepreneur's Take on Leadership, Social Media, and Self-Awareness . What We Discuss with Gary Vaynerchuk: With so many platforms at his disposal, why does Gary continue to write books? Where does a workaholic like Gary stand on the concept of work/life balance? When do we quit if something isn’t working? How do you know if you&r...
Dec 09, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Ep 597•Transcript available on Metacast Andrew Gold ( @andrewgold_ok ) is an award-winning BBC and HBO journalist who interviews the world's most controversial and inspiring figures in his On the Edge with Andrew Gold podcast. What We Discuss with Andrew Gold: What Andrew discovered while making a documentary about someone claiming to be a modern-day exorcist. Is professional wrestling "real?" What you can buy in an exorcist's gift shop to keep the "demons" at bay. The multitude of benefits Andrew enjoys when making documentaries abou...
Dec 07, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Ep 596•Transcript available on Metacast When your significant other confessed his bisexual tendencies, you began to wonder: can you ever really give him everything he needs to be satisfied in a relationship? We'll try to find answers to this and more here on Feedback Friday! And in case you didn't already know it, Jordan Harbinger ( @JordanHarbinger ) and Gabriel Mizrahi ( @GabeMizrahi ) banter and take your comments and questions for Feedback Friday right here every week! If you want us to answer your question, register your feedback...
Dec 03, 2021•47 min•Ep 595•Transcript available on Metacast Joshua Fields Millburn ( @JFM ) is best known as one half of The Minimalists , where he and Ryan Nicodemus write about living a meaningful life with less stuff. Their latest book is Love People, Use Things: Because the Opposite Never Works . What We Discuss with Joshua Fields Millburn: How Joshua found that having more stuff -- including more money -- really isn't the key to success or happiness. The average American throws away 81 pounds of clothing every year when 95% of that can be reused or ...
Dec 02, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Ep 594•Transcript available on Metacast Steven Pinker ( @sapinker ) is a psychology professor at Harvard, one of the world's leading authorities on language and the mind, and an author of several bestsellers. His latest is Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters . What We Discuss with Steven Pinker: Why, by most metrics, older generations are mistaken when they proclaim: "Things were better back in my day!" Alternatives we might consider if Universal Basic Income can't sustainably solve the problem of housing and ...
Nov 30, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Ep 593•Transcript available on Metacast Thinking back on how you've navigated your life, you're concerned that certain human interactions reveal a tendency toward behavior that our former guest, behavioral expert Thomas Erikson , might categorize as psychopathic. Weighing the evidence for and against, you really want an answer to this question: "Am I a psychopath?" We'll try to get to the bottom of this and more here on Feedback Friday! And in case you didn't already know it, Jordan Harbinger ( @JordanHarbinger ) and Gabriel Mizrahi (...
Nov 26, 2021•55 min•Ep 592•Transcript available on Metacast Jordan digs into what it takes to push past the mental boundaries that keep you from realizing your full potential — with Chase Jarvis ( @chasejarvis ) of The Chase Jarvis LIVE Show . What Jordan and Chase Discuss: Handling debt after graduation. Zooming out on the timeline of your career and understanding why patience is key in the long term. Why nothing you do is ever wasted. Even if you’re working as a barista at Starbucks, you are building skills that can be applied in other...
Nov 25, 2021•1 hr 21 min•Ep 591•Transcript available on Metacast Andy Norman ( @drandyno ) directs the Humanism Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University, is the founder of CIRCE , and is the award-winning author of Mental Immunity: Infectious Ideas, Mind-Parasites, and the Search for a Better Way to Think . What We Discuss with Andy Norman: Like our bodies, our minds and cultures have immune systems , and they can break down under certain conditions. How the root cause of contemporary divisiveness is a compromise of these mental and cultural immune systems. W...
Nov 23, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Ep 590•Transcript available on Metacast You dared to set a boundary with your parents: you would only communicate with them if they were respectful to you and your family. This means zero tolerance for name-calling, swearing, threatening, or yelling at you or your husband whenever there's a disagreement. Now they've leveled false accusations against your husband for being abusive, going as far as involving the CEO of your company and the police department! Of course you've cut them off completely since then, but you're wondering: will...
Nov 19, 2021•55 min•Ep 589•Transcript available on Metacast Sammy "The Bull" Gravano ( @gravanothebull ) is the host of the Our Thing podcast, former second-in-command of the Gambino organized-crime family who played a major role in prosecuting "Teflon Don" John Gotti, and subject of Peter Maas' Underboss: Sammy "The Bull" Gravano's Story of Life in the Mafia . [This is part two of a two-part episode. Make sure to catch part one here !] What We Discuss with Sammy "The Bull" Gravano: How does someone growing up in a relatively "normal" family get involved...
Nov 18, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Ep 588•Transcript available on Metacast Sammy "The Bull" Gravano ( @gravanothebull ) is the host of the Our Thing podcast, former second-in-command of the Gambino organized-crime family who played a major role in prosecuting "Teflon Don" John Gotti, and subject of Peter Maas' Underboss: Sammy "The Bull" Gravano's Story of Life in the Mafia . [This is part one of a two-part episode. Be on the lookout for the conclusion later this week!] What We Discuss with Sammy "The Bull" Gravano: How does someone growing up in a relatively "normal" ...
Nov 16, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Ep 587•Transcript available on Metacast Your grandpa is allowed to cope with the grief of recently losing your grandma in any way he sees fit, but you're concerned that the young woman he's about to marry is part of a larger plot to grift him out of his life savings. What can you do to protect him? This and more here on Feedback Friday! And in case you didn't already know it, Jordan Harbinger ( @JordanHarbinger ) and Gabriel Mizrahi ( @GabeMizrahi ) banter and take your comments and questions for Feedback Friday right here every week!...
Nov 12, 2021•53 min•Ep 586•Transcript available on Metacast Timothy Snyder ( @TimothyDSnyder ) is the Housum Professor of History at Yale University and author of Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning and On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century . What We Discuss with Timothy Snyder: Democracy has to be an ongoing activity — not a waiting game for the next election cycle. How fragile a democratic republic can be against the concentrated efforts of would-be tyrants — and that the United States is not ...
Nov 11, 2021•59 min•Ep 585•Transcript available on Metacast Anderson Cooper ( @andersoncooper ) is a broadcast journalist, political commentator, 18-time Emmy Award winner, and author of Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty . What We Discuss with Anderson Cooper: How Anderson got his start in broadcast journalism without relying on his famous, wealthy family connections. Why experiencing the loss of a parent early in life drew Anderson toward learning how to survive in extreme circumstances and report in places torn by conflict. What grow...
Nov 09, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Ep 584•Transcript available on Metacast Happily married for 20-something years, you've started to fixate on what it might be like to be married to someone you've been mentoring, instead. And even though you know this mentor-mentee fantasy could only end in misery, you're having a hard time putting it to rest. What can you do? We'll tackle this and more here on Feedback Friday! And in case you didn't already know it, Jordan Harbinger ( @JordanHarbinger ) and Gabriel Mizrahi ( @GabeMizrahi ) banter and take your comments and questions f...
Nov 05, 2021•49 min•Ep 583•Transcript available on Metacast Robert Greene ( @RobertGreene ) is the author of multiple New York Times bestsellers on power and strategy. His latest book is The Daily Laws: 366 Meditations on Power, Seduction, Mastery, Strategy, and Human Nature . [This is part two of a two-part episode. Make sure to catch part one here !] What We Discuss with Robert Greene: The benefits of cultivating profound dissatisfaction with your own work while it's still in the process of being created. Why the attitude you have of the world has a fe...
Nov 04, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Ep 582•Transcript available on Metacast Robert Greene ( @RobertGreene ) is the author of multiple New York Times bestsellers on power and strategy. His latest book is The Daily Laws: 366 Meditations on Power, Seduction, Mastery, Strategy, and Human Nature . [This is part one of a two-part episode. Stay tuned for part two later this week!] What We Discuss with Robert Greene: The one simple reason why Robert Greene's work resonates among the hip-hop community's most accomplished artists. How seeing the world through a lens of radical re...
Nov 02, 2021•58 min•Ep 581•Transcript available on Metacast Grieving the loss of a sibling while still finding your footing at a new job is making it impossible to perform optimally , and you're worried your employer -- while overwhelmingly supportive of your plight -- may be forced to let you go. Is there anything you can do to manage your grief and find a way forward before it comes to this? We'll try to help with this and more here on Feedback Friday! And in case you didn't already know it, Jordan Harbinger ( @JordanHarbinger ) and Gabriel Mizrahi ( @...
Oct 29, 2021•48 min•Ep 580•Transcript available on Metacast Yeonmi Park ( @YeonmiParkNK ) is a North Korean defector and activist whose harrowing experiences are chronicled in her book In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom . [This is part two of a two-part episode. Catch up with part one here !] What We Discuss with Yeonmi Park: Why there's a black market for poop in North Korea. How the people of North Korea are kept isolated from the outside world to the extent that they use a different calendar, have never heard of Shakespeare, an...
Oct 28, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Ep 579•Transcript available on Metacast Yeonmi Park ( @YeonmiParkNK ) is a North Korean defector and activist whose harrowing experiences are chronicled in her book In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom . [This is part one of a two-part episode. Please stay tuned for the conclusion later this week!] What We Discuss with Yeonmi Park: Why there's a black market for poop in North Korea. How the people of North Korea are kept isolated from the outside world to the extent that they use a different calendar, have never ...
Oct 26, 2021•1 hr 13 min•Ep 578•Transcript available on Metacast Your narcissistic sister with special needs thinks nothing of "borrowing" thousands of dollars from you to invest in every sure-to-lose scam that comes her way, and now she wants to "borrow" more to check herself into an assisted care facility (which would make your life easier if you knew that's where the money was actually going). What should you do? This and more here on Feedback Friday! And in case you didn't already know it, Jordan Harbinger ( @JordanHarbinger ) and Gabriel Mizrahi ( @GabeM...
Oct 22, 2021•51 min•Ep 577•Transcript available on Metacast General Michael Hayden ( @GenMhayden ) is a retired United States Air Force general, former Director of the NSA and CIA, and author of Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror . [Note: This is a previously broadcast episode from the vault that we felt deserved a fresh listen!] What We Discuss with General Michael Hayden: How does an intelligence agent view cognition, cognitive bias, and psychology differently from a policymaker? What is The Unpleasant Fact an intelli...
Oct 21, 2021•1 hr 17 min•Ep 576•Transcript available on Metacast Benjamin Hardy ( @BenjaminPHardy ) is an organizational psychologist and author of books about willpower , self-limiting beliefs , and teamwork . His latest offering (co-authored with Dan Sullivan), is The Gap and the Gain: The High Achievers' Guide to Happiness, Confidence, and Success . What We Discuss with Benjamin Hardy: If you measure your current self against your ideal (often chosen and defined by other people rather than yourself), you’ll never be happy because there will always be...
Oct 19, 2021•1 hr•Ep 575•Transcript available on Metacast You've been secretly chatting with an old flame whose torch you still carry , and you even met in person to discover that these feelings are mutual. But there's a big hitch: while you're now single again, she's in what seems to be an otherwise happy marriage and is mother to three. Now you feel frustrated, jealous, and even heartbroken because you can't be with her. Or can you? We'll try to help you find answers to this and more here on Feedback Friday! And in case you didn't already know it, Jo...
Oct 15, 2021•52 min•Ep 574•Transcript available on Metacast David Buss ( @profdavidbuss ) is considered the world’s leading scientific expert on the evolutionary psychology of human mating strategies. He is the author of several books on the subject, most recently When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault . What We Discuss with David Buss: Why , from an evolutionary standpoint, the reproductive interests of males and females sometimes diverge. Why metabolizing alcohol differently makes women more susceptib...
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