Episodes

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://...

Tim Pickens is a senior propulsion scientist at VALT Enterprises, and is President and CTO of Pickens Scientific out of Huntsville, Alabama. He has started (and sold) several commercial Space Technologies companies, and has worked with organizations such as Blue Origin, Bigelow Aerospace, Burt Rutan’s Spaceship1 (a Paul Allen Project), and Teledyne Brown Engineering.

Ben Fritz covers the entertainment industry from The Wall Street Journal's Los Angeles bureau. He was previously the Journal's artificial intelligence editor and its West Coast U.S. News editor. Before joining the Journal in 2013, Ben covered Hollywood for the Los Angeles Times and Variety. He reported and hosted The Journal podcast miniseries "With Great Power: The Rise of Superhero Cinema" and is author of the bestselling books "The Big Picture: The Fight for the Future of Movies" and "All th...

Sidney Perkowitz is a scientist and science writer. He is the Charles Howard Candler Professor Emeritus of Physics at Emory University, where he has pursued research on the properties of matter and produced more than 100 scientific papers and books. As a creative, Sidney writes specifically to the non-scientific community, finding alternative methods of educating the public on science history, concepts, and events. Dr. Perkowitz has written books (including “Hollywood Chemistry”, “Hollywood Sci...

Thoughts on the White House Correspondence Dinner Manifesto, what’s driving the vi*lence, and how economic strain can lead to moral regression.

Dalton Lauer’s a real estate agent in South Florida. He had a 7 year long Air Force career in Security Forces. Dalton was based in Hawaii, South Korea, California, and traveled 24 countries in between.

Brian Malow is a standup comic, public speaker, science communicator, video and audio producer, photographer, interview, and event host. He has worked with the NSF, NASA, Google, Apple, Microsoft, and produced live videos featuring Nobel Prize winners and young scientists around the world. Brian has interviewed Brian May, Elon Musk, Neil deGrasse Tyson, among others, and is available for off world appearances, if transportation is provided. https://sciencecomedian.com https://www.instagram.c...

Larry Sherman is a Professor of Neuroscience at the Oregon Health and Science University, and is the President of the Oregon and Southwest Washington Chapter of the Society of Neuroscience. He has over 100 publications related to brain development and neurodegenerative diseases, and is the co-author of the book Every Brain Needs Music: The Neuroscience of Making and Listening to Music. https://www.ohsu.edu/people/larry-sherman-phd https://a.co/d/05U9W6Or

Steven Rings is an Assistant Professor of Music and the Humanities at the University of Chicago. He is a music theorist whose research focuses on popular music, voice, and transformational theory. His book What Did You Hear, The Music of Bob Dylan, explores the virtues and imperfections of Bob Dylan’s music making. https://music.uchicago.edu/people/steven-rings https://a.co/d/04cRdKak

Christopher Reali is an Associate Professor of Music (Music Industry), and has received a PhD in Musicology at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He published the monograph Music and Mystique in Muscle Shoals. https://www.ramapo.edu/ca/faculty/christopher-reali/ https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=45zfd3qs9780252044519

Solo episode summarizing last four guests on the show, and some rambling about falling down the AI rabbit hole. Plus, some thoughts on Open AI as a company, Sam Altman, and what makes humanity human. Check it out! Like, rate, and subscribe :) ♥️

Dr Karen Barrett is an assistant professor at UCSF (University of California, San Francisco) with a joint appointment at the Institute for Health and Aging at the School of Nursing and department of Otolaryngology at the School of Medicine. She is also a classically trained pianist, a faculty member at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Her research focuses on the neuroscience of creativity, complex sound perception of cochlear implant users, and the impact of music on the aging brain. Dr...

Alan Paul is a podcaster, best-selling author, journalist and musician. His last three books have been instant New York Times best sellers. He is widely regarded as the foremost expert on the Allman Brothers band and is an experienced public speaker and interviewer. He’s also the author of Big in China: My Unlikely Adventure Raising a Family, Playing the Blues, and Becoming a Star in Beijing. He plays in Friends of the Brothers, featuring members of the Gregg Allman Band, Dickey Betts Band, an...

Nick Marx is a professor of Media and Visual Culture at Colorado State University specializing in media studies, media industries, digital media, and American politics and culture. He is author or co-editor of several books, including Sketch Comedy: Identity, Reflexivity, and American Television (Indiana University Press, 2019), The Comedy Studies Reader (University of Texas Press, 2018), and Saturday Night Live and American TV (Indiana University Press, 2013). Nick's most recent book is That's...