Episodes

Peter Richardson has written critically acclaimed books about Hunter S. Thompson, the Grateful Dead, Ramparts magazine, and radical author/editor Carey McWilliams. A longtime lecturer at San Francisco State University, Richardson has also written for The Nation, The New Republic, Los Angeles Times Book Review, and the San Francisco Chronicle. His newest book Brand New Beat - The Wild Rise of Rolling Stone Magazine, is available now https://www.ucpress.edu/books/brand-new-beat/hardcover

Solo episode recapping the last six episodes and guests, some rambling about a North Carolina road trip, Hugh Wilford's new book on the CIA, and more! If you enjoy, please like, subscribe, rate, and / or comment! https://www.cometogether-podcast.com

Jacob Haqq Misra is the Chief Operating Officer and a senior research investigator at the 501(c)(3) organization Blue Marble Space. His research focuses on understanding the conditions that allow life to survive on Earth, the possibility of detecting signatures of extraterrestrial biology or technology, and the possible futures of life in the solar system. He is the author of the book Sovereign Mars: Transforming Our Values through Space Settlement. He also leads Project Janus, an ongoing study...

Patrick Dunn is a researacher, writer, and teacher – now a Ph.D student in Comparative Studies and a teaching associate at Ohio State University. He investigates religion and its complex channels of influence in the modern world. His current projects focus on UFO/UAP and contact modalities, secrecy, and anomalous spiritualities. From 2013 to 2023, he lived and practiced as a full-time monastic at Great Vow Zen Monastery and was ordained as a Zen Buddhist priest in 2018. He holds an M.A. in Ph...

Nissim Ellman is a structural engineer and close friend of mine. This debate, while often heated, was conducted in good faith, humor, and fairness (starts ~20 minutes into the episode). We talk about the economy, inflation, American politics, Israel (from an American and Jewish perspective), Tucker Carlson, individuals and collectives, and more! PS: The computer died after our last break, and, considering it was past midnight, we agreed to continue again another time soon. Have fun! Cometoge...

Dr Yih Choung Yu is a tenured Professor and Department Head of electrical and computer engineering at Lafayette University. His research interests include bioengineering; signal processing; control applications in electromechanical systems and medicine. https://www.lafayette.edu/our-faculty/people/yih-choung-yu/

Peter Connors has published nine books of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry, and edited dozens of volumes of poetry and prose. His nonfiction books – Cornell ‘77, Growing Up Dead, JAMerica, and White Hand Society — have garnered him a reputation as a leading chronicler of the Grateful Dead, jam band, and countercultural community. In 2017, his book, Cornell ‘77: The Music, Myth and Magnificence of the Grateful Dead’s Concert at Barton Hall, was included in the Grammy-nominated Grateful Dead box se...

Dr. Vandana Miller, MD is a Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Institute for Molecular Medicine & Infectious Disease at Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the USA and a member of the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. In 2019 she was an invited visiting scholar at INP Greifswald, Germany and at the University of Bari, Italy. As a physician-scientist, she now leads the inter...

Solo ramble summarizing the last five guest episodes and some thoughts on ancient religious wars that appear to be manifesting in today's world. Plus, the background to my relationship to Seattle and returning for the first time in six years. Please Review & Subscribe, and if you have any feedback, would love to hear from you!

Roger Jahnke, OMD, has dedicated his professional life to sharing the healing traditions of China. He is the director of the Institute of Integral Qigong and Tai Chi, in Santa Barbara, CalifORNIA, and author of The Healer Within and The Healing Promise of Qi. He is also the developer of The Breath Medicine System, and is a teacher at the Omega Institute, the Esalen Institute, and the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health. QiGong Institute Link -https://www.qigonginstitute.org/category/52/dr-roger-...

David Garrow is a Pulitzer Prize winning historian, author, and professor. He wrote the book Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (1986), which won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.[1][2] He also wrote Liberty and Sexuality (1994), a history of the legal struggles over abortion and reproductive rightsin the U.S. prior to the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama (2017), and other works. https://www.davidga...

Tony Mecca is a professional animator for over 20 years spanning major feature films, games, mixed reality, and most recently - theme park attraction ride and creative development. He has animated on everything from VFX heavy realistic style shows like Snow White and the Huntsman, RIPD, and X-Men Days of Future Past to fully animated cartoony blockbusters like Rio 2 and Hotel Transylvania 2. Before feature film Tony worked in video games animating everything from super realistic combat simulatio...

Mike Mahoney is the author of the book, Land of Broken Toys: Kosovo, and a retired New York City detective who somehow found his way from Manhattan to the Balkans. After his time with the NYPD, Michael spent two decades working internationally for the U.S. Department of State, the United Nations, and the U.S. Department of Justice as as police and security consultant. Land of Broken Toys: Kosovo is a fictional account, based on real of events, from Mr. Mahoney's one year police mission in Kosovo...

Stephen Kinzer is an award-winning foreign correspondent who has covered more than 50 countries on five continents. His articles and books have led the Washington Post to place him “among the best in popular foreign policy storytelling.” A former New York Times correspondent, he has published several books and writes for several newspapers and news agencies. His most recent book, Poisoner in Chief, is about the secret CIA program MK-Ultra, and Sidney Gottlieb, the scientist overseeing the progr...

Solo episode catching up on my life, reflecting on where I look for truth, knowledge, and news, and recap of the last five guests!

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

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...

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 ...

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...

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

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!

Dr. Heather Spence is a marine biologist, musician, composer, and pioneer in acoustic monitoring. Her unique blending of science and music has led her to be featured on National Geographic, funded by the National Academy of Sciences, and chosen as a TEDx editor’s pick. Heather combines her expertise in marine biology, behavioral neuroscience, and sound to explore the power of listening.

Adam Friedman is an Israeli American photographer, musician & movement enthusiast. www.adamjfriedman.com

Tom Hamilton Jr. is an American songwriter, musician, producer, and the lead vocalist and guitarist for the bands Brothers Past, American Babies, Ghost Light, Joe Russo's Almost Dead, Bill Kreutzmann's Billy & the Kids, and Electron. His new album, I'm Your Vampire, is available for purchase and streaming! https://www.tomhamiltonjr.com https://ffm.to/imyourvampire.OWE