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Come Together with Ephraim Herschmann

by Ephraim Herschmann

Thoughtful conversations, storytelling, and interviews to bring people together! Search keywords (psychology, history, music, etc) that you're interested in for best results!

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  1. #176 Justin Gregg / Human & Animal Intelligence / Improv & Comedy / AI & Marine Mammal Communication

    Dr. Justin Gregg is a scientist, bestselling author, and performer who has mastered the art of making people laugh while they learn about what makes us uniquely—and ridiculously—human. A senior research associate with the Dolphin Communication Project and adjunct professor at St. Francis Xavier...

  2. #175: Tech Companies TAKING OVER Entertainment / USA & Russian Diesel Oil / 5 Episode Recap

    My thoughts on some big hires that Hollywood is making from the tech world, including Paramount/Warner, Sony, and Disney. Also, gas hopefully to get cheaper (in the short term) if Trump's easing of sanctions on Russian diesel occurs, and recapping the last five guests on the show! If you enjoy,...

  3. #174 Universal Disclosure Podcast / UFO's, The Paranormal, and Religion / Astral Projection / Paranormal Experiences

    Reverend Stu and Mike are the hosts of the Universal Disclosure Podcast, a pairing that is genuinely unusual in the UAP space: Mike is a credentialed MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) investigator with real field experience, the former is an ordained Christian minister based in Melbourne, Australia. They...

  4. Music Series 10: Professor Dave Elke / Playin' in the Band /Studying the Grateful Dead / Research & Instagram

    Dave Elke is a guitar player, producer, and tenured faculty in music and recording arts at Butte College, in Chico, California. Having begun working at Butte College as a guitar teacher, Dave was able to develop two books for guitar instruction, and eventually wrote a third book that is used at...

  5. Entertainment Series 16: Tom Sito / Animating Golden Age of Disney / Who Framed Rodger Rabbit / Animation & Studio Styles

    Tom Sito is an American animator, animation historian and teacher. He is a retired professor at USC's School of Cinematic Arts in the Animation Division. In 1998, Sito was included by Animation Magazine in their list of the One Hundred Most Important People in Animation. Tom Sito served three…

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  6. History Series 8: Peter Richardson / Rolling Stone & Ramparts Magazines / Hunter S Thompson / Grateful Dead

    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…

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  7. #173: 6 Episode Recap / Asheville & Carolina Mountains / CIA History / Response to Professor Jiang (to Come)

    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

  8. Science Series 13: Jacob Haqq Misra / Life in Space / Earth in 1000 Years / UAP Advisory Council

    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...

  9. #172 Patrick Dunn / Zen Monasteries / UFOs & Religion / Technology and Consciousness

    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,...

  10. #171 DEBATE / Nissim Elmann / Economics / US Politics / Israel / Tucker Carlson

    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)…

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  11. Science Series 12: Dr Yih Choung Yu / BioEngineering / EEG/ Brain Controlled Drones / Science Collaborations

    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....

  12. #170 Peter Conners / Grateful Dead & Philosophy / Iterations of Jam Music / Growin' Up Dead / Cornell '77

    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…

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  13. Science Series 11: Dr. Vandana Miller / Plasma Biology & Medicine / Plasma as Wound & Cancer Treatment

    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...

  14. #169 RECAP of Last 5 Guests / An Ancient Religious War / Seattle, WA Revisited

    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…

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  15. Health Series 7: Dr Jahnke - Roger / Chinese Medicine / Qi & Balance / Western vs Eastern Medicine and Perspectives / Mind-Body Relationship

    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…

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  16. History Series 7: David Garrow / Martin Luther King Jr / The FBI & MLK / Writing Barack Obama Biography

    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...

  17. Entertainment Series 15: Tony Mecca / Animation / Video Games / Motion Capture / Theme Parks

    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...

  18. #168: Michael Kell Mahoney / Retired NYPD / UN International Police / Writing & Publishing Fiction

    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,...

  19. History Series 6: Stephen Kinzer / MK Ultra / Sidney Gottlieb & The CIA / "Poisoner in Chief" Book

    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...

  20. 167: Building & Recovering / Where to Search for Truth / Isolated News & “Playing the Game”

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

  21. #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…

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  22. 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...

  23. 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...

  24. #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...

  25. #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 financial crime 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...

  26. #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!

  27. Science Series 9: Dr Heather Spence / Marine Biology / Music & Acoustics / Dolphins & Snapping Shrimp

    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...

  28. #162 Adam Friedman / Disclosure Day / Capitalism / Evolution and Humanity / Non-Human Intelligences

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

  29. Music Series 9: Tom Hamilton Jr. / I'm Your Vampire Album / Joe Russo's Almost Dead / Music & Humanity / Billy and the Kids

    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...

  30. #161 David Gal / Marketing and Perception / Consumer Behavior and Psychology / Apple's Marketing Dominance

    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…

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  31. #160 Dr Amna Kirmani / Marketing & Advertising / Marketing Psychology / Moral and Predatory Marketing

    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,...

  32. #159: Disclosure Day / 3rd UFO File Drop / SpaceX / Humanity's Future with AI

    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 :)

  33. #158 Daniel Schiff: AI Education / Human Purpose in the Future / AI & Human Competition for Resources

    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...

  34. History Series 5: Jeff Rogg / American Military & Intelligence History / China / The Cold War

    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...

  35. #157 Pete A Turner / Middle East Military Spy / Break It Down Show / Understanding Motivation & Communication

    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...

  36. #156 Morris P. Fiorina / Political Instability / Political History / Journalism & Media / 3rd Parties and Anti-Authoritarians

    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…

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  37. Science Series 8: Gabe Xu / Understanding Plasma / Plasma Physics, Propulsion & Space / Plasma Biologics & Water Cleansing / Plasma UFO's

    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...

  38. #155: Thomas Massie and the Populous / Crumbling Empires / Economic Slavery

    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!

  39. Economics Series 3: Nicholas Hill / Working DOJ / FTC / JetBlue & Spirit / Anti-Trust & Monopolies

    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.…

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  40. Entertainment Series 14: Lawrence Levy / Taking PIXAR Public (IPO) / Steve Jobs / Eastern Philosophy / Search for Meaning

    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...

  41. Science Series 7: Tim Pickens / Rocket Science / Hybrid Propulsion / UFO’s / Missing Scientists

    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...

  42. Entertainment Series 13: Ben Fritz / Movie / Theater Industry / Disney News / Paramount & HBO

    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...

  43. Science Series 6: Sidney Perkowitz / AI & Replicating Humanity / UFO’s / Science Ed & Sci-fi

    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…

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  44. #154: White House Correspondence Dinner Manifesto / Civil War Between Empire & Homeland

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

  45. #153: Dalton Lauer / Newlywed Life / Finding Purpose and Self / Post Capitalism / Self Expression

    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.

  46. #152: Brian Malow / The Science Comedian / Moon Landing / Stand Up & Science / SciFi

    Brian Malow is a standup comic, public speaker, science communicator, video and audio producer, photographer, interviewer, 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.…

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  47. Science Series 5: Larry Sherman / Understanding Alzheimer’s, MS, Parkinson’s / Music & the Brain

    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...

  48. Music Series 8: Steven Rings / Bob Dylan History / Dylan Genres / Dylan Covers / Dylan Voices

    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...

  49. Music Series 7: Chris Reali / Understanding Music Business / Records & Streaming / Rock n Roll

    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/...

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Thoughtful conversations, storytelling, and interviews to bring people together! Search keywords (psychology, history, music, etc) that you're interested in for best results!

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