Episodes

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

David Gal is an expert in marketing, consumer psychology, and decision-making. He has consulted on matters such as marketing strategy, antitrust, survey methods, and consumer behavior. ​ He is the Head of the Marketing Department and Professor of Marketing at the University of Illinois Chicago, and serves as Co-Editor in Chief of Consumer Psychology Review. Previously, Dr. Gal was on the marketing faculty at Northwestern University. He earned a PhD in Business Administration and an MS in Mana...

Dr. Amna Kirmani is the Dean's Chair of Marketing, and a Professor of Marketing at the University of Maryland's Robert H Smith School of Business. Her research interests include morality, persuasion knowledge, online communication, and branding. Her work has been published in several journals, including the Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Marketing, and Journal of Consumer Psychology. Her papers have won the Paul Green Award in the Journal of Marketing Re...

Solo episode talking about the new Steven Spielberg movie "Disclosure Day", some files going back to the 50's in the new UFO document dump (and the timing of it all), and Elon Musk's SpaceX IPO. All opinions are subject to change and are my own :)

Dr. Daniel S. Schiff is an Assistant Professor of Technology Policy at Purdue University and founding Co-Director of GRAIL, the Governance and Responsible AI Lab. Before academia, he served as the founding Responsible AI Lead at JP Morgan Chase & Co. and Secretary of the IEEE 7010 standard, the first industry AI ethics standard. His research on AI governance, deepfakes, public attitudes, and education has been published in venues including the American Political Science Review, Management Scienc...

Jeff Rogg is an assistant professor and senior research fellow at the Joint Special Operations University. Previously, Jeff was an assistant professor in the Department of Intelligence and Security Studies at The Citadel. He was also a postdoctoral teaching and research fellow in the National Security Affairs Department at the U.S. Naval War College. He currently sits on the boards of the International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence and the North American Society for Intelligenc...

Pete A Turner is a former Army combat spy with over 1000 missions in conflict zones in a variety of countries, like Bosnia, Egypt, Iraq and Afghanistan. His daily missions took him off-camp to find the people, information and secrets that enabled commanders to win. Today, Pete uses his “Ground Truth” focused collection techniques on the Break It Down Show (BIDS). BIDS illustrates life through the experiences of fascinating people. One of the things that makes BIDS unique is Pete's desire to rota...

Morris P. Fiorina is the Wendt Family Professor of Political Science and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution. He received an undergraduate degree from Allegheny College and a Ph.D. from the University of Rochester, and taught at Caltech and Harvard before joining Stanford in 1998. Fiorina has written widely on American politics, with special emphasis on the study of representation, public opinion and elections. He has published numerous articles and written or edited thirteen books, inclu...

Gabe Xu (pronounced shoe) obtained his B.S. in 2006, M.S. in 2009, and Ph.D. in 2012, all in Aerospace Engineering from The Georgia Institute of Technology. His graduate research involved experimental testing and analysis of Hall effect thrusters to improve their performance by modifying the magnetic and electric fields. He joined the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at The University of Alabama in Huntsville in 2012. His research as a Laboratory Director at UAH involves expe...

Solo ramble on Thomas Massie losing his congressional seat, Americans experiencing economic slavery, how we suddenly become humble when dealing with China, and the rising of new social orders!

Nicholas Hill is an accomplished economic expert specializing in antitrust and competition economics. With extensive experience advising private clients, the Department of Justice (DOJ), and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), he has testified in federal court and the FTC’s administrative court. He has conducted detailed antitrust assessments in industries including agriculture, chemicals, consumer products, healthcare, media and entertainment, publishing, software, and transportation to name a ...

Lawrence Levy is a lawyer that was selected by Steve Jobs to be the CFO of Pixar Studios, tasked with taking the company public in 1995. After leaving Pixar's Board (upon the purchase of Pixar by Disney in 2006),he pursued his passion for Buddhist Philosophy and meditation. He co-founded the organization, Juniper Foundation, and is the best selling author of the 2016 book "To Pixar and Beyond; My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History". https://lawrencelevy.com https://...