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Come Together Podcast with Ephraim Herschmann

Long form podcast looking to bring people together!

Recent Episodes

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July 14, 2026

#166 Nathaniel Gillis / Demonologist / Understanding "The Phenomena" / Hitchhiker Effect / Religion, Fairy Tales, Movies

Nathaniel J. Gillis is a religious demonologist, author, and lecturer. He has sought to redefine the nature of haunting phenomena, ghosts, and "high strangeness," with a particular theory linking demonic entities to other paranormal categories. He argues Djinn, demons, aliens, and shadow people may all be variations of the same underlying phenomenon. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE9XS-jLGjZbA9KcjsXvFQIu9jmvNh6WD https://www.instagram.com/thenathanielgillis/?hl=en
July 12, 2026

Psychology Series 11: Roy Baumeister / Social Isolation & Alcohol / Performance & Overthinking / Conformity & Cults

Roy F. Baumeister is professor of psychology associated with the University of Queensland (Australia), Florida State University (USA), and Constructor University (Germany). He grew up in Cleveland, the oldest child of a schoolteacher and an immigrant businessman. He received his Ph.D. in social psychology from Princeton in 1978 and did a postdoctoral fellowship in sociology at the University of California atBerkeley. He spent over two decades at Case Western Reserve University, where he eventua
July 8, 2026

Science Series 10 / David Kaiser / How the Hippies Saved Physics / Quantum Physics & History / Black Holes / Black Matter

David Kaiser is Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and Professor of Physics at MIT. He is the author of several award-winning books on the history of modern physics, including Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics (2005) and How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival (2011). His latest book is Quantum Legacies: Dispatches from an Uncertain World (2020). Kaiser co-directs a research group on early-universe
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July 6, 2026

#165 Uriah Kriegel / Philosophy of Consciousness / Morality & Religion / Collective and Individual Morals

Uriah Kriegel is a Professor of Philosophy at Rice University. His official research area is the philosophy of mind, but is interested in virtually all the perennial problems of philosophy, as well as the history of tackling them. He is focused on three main projects. The first concerns the value of consciousness: what epistemic, ethical, and aesthetic value might our conscious experience have, and why? The second concerns the nature of moral awareness: are the most foundational forms of moral
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July 3, 2026

#164 Moyara Ruehsen / Financial Crimes / Pig Butchering (not literally) / Romance Scams /

Moyara Ruehsen is an award-winning educator, who has spent over thirty years in the industry in both the private sector and academia, training the next generation of financial crime fighters in both the public and private sectors in the U.S. and around the world. She is currently the founder and president of the FinCAT Group, a group of experts that provides training to law enforcement, government agencies, and the wider community. Podcasts Mentioned: The Perfect Scam Stolen
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July 1, 2026

#163 / Exploring Collapsing American "System" / Careers versus Work / Prayer and Meditation

Solo episode rambling about why young Americans don't buy into the societal "game" that previous generations have, the difference between a career and a life, thoughts on prayer and meditation, and recapping the last five guests / episodes!

Reviews

Good Honest Conversation

"Ephraim does such a great job keeping the conversation flowing and interesting. Great questions that invoke a honest dialogue."

JBocock | Nov. 12, 2025