Come Together with Ephraim Herschmann

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 set, May 1977: Get Shown the Light, released by Rhino Records in May 2017. In 2022, his debut novel, Merch Table Blues, and his first prose poetry collection in a decade, Beyond the Edge of Suffering, were both published.https://www.peterconners.net

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 interdisciplinary Laboratory of Translational Plasma Research. Her research focuses on applications of plasma, the fourth state of matter, for cancer treatment, wound healing, skin diseases, and viral diseases. She is recognized for introducing a major shift in philosophy in plasma medicine – as a method to stimulate immune responses for treatment of diseases. She has participated in several clinical studies in Germany and USA. In recognition of her contributions to the Plasma Medicine community, she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2024.She is the current President of the International Society of Plasma Medicine and the Chair of the International Workshop on Plasmas for Cancer Treatment. She serves on the International Scientific Advisory board for many international research programs. and editorial boards of several international journals and as an ad hoc reviewer for others.Her research is funded by National Institutes of Health, Department of Energy, United States Department of Agriculture, The Kerith Foundation, and many private companies including Campbell Soup. She has mentored numerous PhD, Masters and bachelor’s students in their research projects and careers in The US and in the EU. In this emerging field of plasma medicine, she has published over 55 papers and 4 book chapters. She has presented over a 110 conference papers and more than 40 invited talks.https://drexel.edu/medicine/faculty/profiles/vandana-miller/

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-jahnke-institute-of-integral-qigong-and-tai-chiKripalu Center Link - https://kripalu.org/people/dr-roger-jahnkeEsalen Institute Link - https://www.esalen.org/faculty/roger-jahnke3 Minute Breathing Exercise for Health - https://www.eomega.org/videos/3-minute-breathing-exercise-for-good-healthhttp://IIQTC.org

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.davidgarrow.com

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 simulations to sci-fi fantasy adventures. He was a primary member of the team that developed the critically acclaimed and award winning Conduit first person animation system. After spending a few years working at Magic Leap developing the next generation of story telling for mixed reality, Mecca is currently "at home" working as a creative lead with the amazing Universal Studios Creative producing the next generation of rides, lands and attractions for Universal studios theme parks world wide. He is also a multi-patent holder (some of which include character animation technology) and work with almost every single major animation and VFX studio directing next generation character performances for our theme parks around the worldhttps://www.tony3d.com/animation.htmlhttps://www.animschool.edu/InstructorProfile.aspx?teacherid=102

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. Part crime thriller, part dark comedy, and part fish-out-of-water storyhttps://a.co/d/003EOUXF

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 program. In July 2026, Kinzer testified in front of Congress regarding the MK-Ultra program for the House Oversight Committee’s Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets.https://stephenkinzer.com

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-jLGjZbA9KcjsXvFQIu9jmvNh6WDhttps://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 eventually was the first to hold the Elsie Smith professorship. He has also worked at Harvard University, the University of Texas, the University of Virginia, the Max-Planck-Institute, the VU Free University of Amsterdam, the University of California at Santa Barbara, the University of Bamberg, the Russell Sage Foundation, and Stanford’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.Baumeister’s research spans multiple topics, including self and identity, self-regulation, interpersonal rejection and the need to belong, sexuality and gender, aggression, self-esteem, meaning, and self-presentation. He has received research grants from the National Institutes of Health and from the Templeton Foundation. He has over 750 publications, and his 49 books include Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty, The Cultural Animal, Meanings of Life, and the New York Times bestseller Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength. The Institute for Scientific Information lists him among the handful of most cited (most influential) psychologists in the world, and Google Scholar indicates that his work has been cited over 325,000 times in the scientific literature, with over 60 of his publications having been cited a thousand times each.Recent books: The Self Explained: Why and How We Become Who We Are; The Power of Bad; The Science of Free Will.Follow Dr. Baumeister on Substack: https://rbaumeisterexistentialcontrarian.substack.com/https://roybaumeister.comhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Baumeister

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 cosmology with Alan Guth in the MIT Center for Theoretical Physics — a Leinweber Institute (CTP-LI), and has also designed and helped to conduct novel experimental tests of quantum theory. A Fellow of the American Physical Society, Kaiser has received MIT’s highest awards for excellence in teaching. His work has been featured in Science, Nature, the New York Times, and the New Yorker magazine. His group’s efforts to conduct a “Cosmic Bell” test of quantum entanglement were featured in a documentary film, “Einstein’s Quantum Riddle,” which premiered on US Public Television stations in 2019.https://web.mit.edu/dikaiser/www/https://www.hippiessavedphysics.com

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 awareness emotional, rational, both, or neither - and what difference does that make to our grasp of right and wrong? The third main project is in fundamental ontology: what ontological categories do the basic units of reality - "the alphabet of being" - belong to, and how can we tell?He is the author of several books and articles including:Brentano's Philosophical System. OUP 2018.The Varieties of Consciousness. OUP 2015.The Sources of Intentionality. OUP 2011.Subjective Consciousness: A Self-Representational Theory. OUP 2009.

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 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 ScamStolen

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.comhttps://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 Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University, as well as a BS in Computer Science from Penn State University.His work covers a broad range of topics and has been published in top-tier journals across marketing, statistics, and psychology. His research has been featured in The New York Times, Financial Times, and other major outlets.https://www.davidgal.net/abouthttps://business.uic.edu/profiles/david-gal/

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 Research, the Maynard Award in the Journal of Marketing, and the Best Paper Award in the Journal of Advertising. She has served as Co-Editor of the Journal of Consumer Research and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Consumer Psychology.https://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/directory/amna-kirmani

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 Science, Policy Studies Journal, and AAAI/ACM AIES, and featured in outlets like the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, The Atlantic, and MIT Technology Review.https://danielschiff.comhttps://www.cla.purdue.edu/directory/profiles/daniel-schiff.html

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 Intelligence History. His work has appeared in the International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, Intelligence and National Security, Just Security, The Washington Post, The National Interest, and the Los Angeles Times. Jeff is currently revising his book manuscript, The Spy and the State: The Story of American Intelligence, under contract with Oxford University Press.PUBLICATIONS:Book Talk with Dr. Michael G. Vickers, By All Means Available: Memoirs of a Life in Intelligence, Special Operations, and Strategy, ThinkJSOU, December 6, 2023. “Not for Self, But for Country? A Crisis for U.S. Counterintelligence.” Just Security, May 9, 2023.“Military-Intelligence Relations: Explaining the Oxymoron.” International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence. 36, no. 4 (2023): 1067-1084.“Coordinating Intelligence: An American Drama in Three Acts…of Congress.” International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence. 36, no. 2 (2023): 423-443.Book Talk with Dr. Rory Cormac, How to Stage a Coup: And Ten Other Lessons From the World of Secret Statecraft, ThinkJSOU, February 8, 2023. “America and the Intelligence Revolution.” NWC Talks, U.S. Naval War College production.“The U.S. Intelligence Community’s ‘MacArthur Moment.’” International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence 33, no. 4 (2020): 666-681. 

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 rotate cohosts on to the show. By opening up the right seat, BIDS creates incredible conversations that aren't possible on other shows. ​With over 900 episodes, his show is a leader in the veteran creative space. He is also the creator of the Prison Chronicles, an 8-part limited series from the Break It Down Show.As a media consultant focused on podcast, Pete helps people, projects and companies get the most out of their podcasting goals. His professional services include Executive Producer, Consultation and media-host training. For more on Pete, or to inquire about his services, email to [email protected] has authored and published several peer-reviewed articles focused on aspects of modern conflict. He is a recognized expert on modern combat, culture and communication. To discuss projects with Pete email him directly at [email protected]://www.youtube.com/@PeteATurner

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, including: Representatives, Roll Calls, and Constituencies; Congress--Keystone of the Washington Establishment; Retrospective Voting in American National Elections; The Personal Vote (coauthored with Bruce Cain and John Ferejohn); Divided Government; Civic Engagement in American Democracy (co-edited with Theda Skocpol), Culture War? The Myth of a Polarized America (with Samuel Abrams and Jeremy Pope), Disconnect: The Breakdown of Representation in American Politics (with Samuel Abrams), Can We Talk: The Rise of Rude, Nasty, Stubborn Politics (co-edited with Dan Shea) and most recently, Unstable Majorities Continue. Fiorina has served on the editorial boards of a dozen journals in Political Science, Political Economy, Law, and Public Policy, and from 1986-1990 served as Chairman of the Board of Overseers of the American National Election Studies.https://politicalscience.stanford.edu/people/morris-p-fiorina

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 experimental plasma science and engineering in the areas of in-space electric propulsion, advanced space propulsion, rotating detonation engines, plasma-assisted combustion, atmospheric pressure plasmas, plasma treatment of soft and biological materials. His is an Associate Fellow of AIAA, and a member of APS and IEEE.https://www.uah.edu/eng/faculty-staff/kunning-gabriel-xu

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 few. His expertise has supported favorable outcomes for clients including merger approvals, divestitures, and settlement agreements from price-fixing to monopolization claims.

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.comhttps://a.co/d/07inl1Ld

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 the President's Spin."Ben has won awards from the Los Angeles Press Club and the Society for Advanced Business Editing and Writing and edited coverage that won awards from the National Association of Black Journalists and the New York Press Club.https://www.wsj.com/news/author/ben-fritz?eafs_enabled=falsehttps://www.benfritz.nethttps://x.com/benfritz?s=21

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 Science”, and Frankenstein, How a Monster Became an Icon”), plays, and has appeared for media presentations and lectures on CNN, NPR, the BBC, The Tribeca Film Festival, and the NASA Space Flight Center. https://sidneyperkowitz.nethttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Perkowitzhttps://scholar.google.com/citations?user=oReQfj4AAAAJ&hl=en

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, 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. 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.comhttps://www.instagram.com/sciencecomedian?igsh=a3JqOTY3NzdlYWxr

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-phdhttps://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-ringshttps://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 Barrett is also researching neural plasticity and musical training, improvisational music and creativity, and exploring the biological basis of musical performance. https://karenchanbarrett.comhttps://iha.ucsf.edu/people/karen-barrett-phdhttps://amp.profiles.ucsf.edu/karen.barrett

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, and Jaimoe’s Jasssz Band, the lineup is a direct extension of the ABB family. The band enjoys regular appearances by Jaimoe, the last surviving original Allman Brothers. https://alanpaul.nethttps://alanpaul.substack.com/abouthttps://x.com/alpaul?s=21https://www.instagram.com/alanpaul66?igsh=MW42dDdmNHlqNzVsYw==

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 Not Funny: How the Right Makes Comedy Work For Them (University of California Press, 2022). https://www.libarts.colostate.edu/people/nickmarx/

John Perkins is an author and former Chief Economist (and/ or Economic Hitman). He was an advisor to the World Bank, the UN, IMF, Fortune 500 corporations, and government and business leaders in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and the United States.His 11 books on economics, shamanism, and transformation have sold over 2.5 million copies and been published in over 35 languages.https://johnperkins.org

Marc Eliot is a New York Times best selling author of more than a dozen books on pop culture. He has published over 30 books including Walt Disney: Hollywood’s Dark Prince, a biography on Cary Grant, and American Rebel: The Life of Clint Eastwood. He has two books in the works. Marceliot.net

Solo episode recorded at 4 AM. I talk about - The Jewish concept of exile / the exiles that Jews been in and continue to live through, and what is different about this one (Edom).- The lack of vocal leaders that embody and spread traditional orthodox Jewish philosophy and perspective (like Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, the Lubavetcher Rebbe)- Israel’s internal confusion and identity crisis.- Who is speaking for Jews around the world, and should they be the voices representing them? - America’s become a passive country, and it needs more people to step up as leaders.

Dr Golnosh Sharafsaleh is a geriatrician and co-founder of Golden Oak Medicine in Asheville, North Carolina. She is also the author of Life, Love, and the In -Between: A Geriatrician’s Journey Through Aging and the Meaning of Life. https://www.geriacademy.comhttps://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/life-love-and-the-in-between-golnosh-sharafsaleh/1148927214

Dr Lisa Gabel earned her PhD in physiology and neurobiology, and an MA in Psychology/ Behavioral Neuroscience from the University of Connecticut. The research in her laboratory focuses on investigating the neurobiological mechanisms and underlying neurodevelopmental disorders (translating findings from genetic animal models to humans). Additionally, Dr. Gabel colleagues a multidisciplinary research program aimed at developing and improving EEG based brain-computer interface devices.https://sites.lafayette.edu/gabell/

Dr Ben McAllister is a physicist, science communicator, and audio producer based in Melbourne, Australia. He obtained his B.Sc and Ph.D from University of West Australia, and studies dark matter, particle physics, ORGAN, and quantum technology. Additionally, he is the co-host of the science podcast The Uncertainty Principle, has produced episodes of the Naked Astronomy podcast, and joins the annual National Quantum and Dark Matter Road Triphttps://www.bentmcallister.com

Amy Binder is an SNF-Agora Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. She earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from Northwestern University in 1998 and my BA in Anthropology from Stanford University in 1986. Amy is also the author of multiple books, including Becoming Right: How Campuses Shape Young Conservatives, and The Channels of Student Activism: How the Left and Right Are Winning and Losing in Campus Politics Today.https://soc.jhu.edu/directory/amy-binder/

Adam White is the author of Motown: The Sound of Young America, with Barney Ales, and has written about music, the music industry and Motown for more than 40 years. Adam is a former editor-in-chief of Billboard, and co-author (with Fred Bronson) of The Billboard Book Of Number One Rhythm & Blues Hits. His work has been Grammy-nominated, he has written for the Library of Congress, and his voice has been sampled by Public Enemy.https://www.adampwhite.comhttps://www.adampwhite.com/westgrandblog/