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98: The Stanford Law School Experiment with Tim Rosenberger
Tim Rosenberger is a JD/MBA student at Stanford University, where he is President of the Federalist Society. On March 9, Judge Kyle Duncan was invited to speak at Stanford Law by the Stanford Federalist Society. The title of his talk was "The Fifth Circuit in Conversation with the Supreme Court:...
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97: Reinventing the Internet with Standard Notes CEO Mo
Mo is the founder and CEO of Standard Notes, a privacy-focused note-taking app. Standard Notes features end-to-end encryption, advanced security, and unique privacy controls. Standard Notes' code is completely open-source and independently audited by leading security researchers. It is an ideal...
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93: The World's Greatest Free Speech Champions with FIRE's Nico Perrino
If you've listened to this podcast at all, you know how big a fan I am of FIRE. Until recently, FIRE stood for the "Foundation for Individual Rights in Education," but as of last week, they have expanded their mission and are now the "Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression." To me, FIRE…
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92: Harvard to Hollywood with Futurama Writer and Lawyer Patric Verrone
In college, Patric Verrone was an editor of the renowned Harvard Lampoon. He graduated from Boston College Law School and briefly practiced law before becoming a TV writer. Early in his career, he was a monologue writer for The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny...
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91: Fixing Potholes with WWE Superstar & Knox County Mayor Glenn "Kane" Jacobs
Wrestling fans know Mayor Glenn Jacobs as WWE Superstar Kane. Mayor Jacobs has been with the WWE since 1995, and since 2018 he has served as the mayor of Knox County, Tennessee. He is also the author of the excellent book, "Mayor Kane: My Life in Wrestling and Politics"—likely the only book in...
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90: The History of Standup Comedy with Wayne Federman
Wayne Federman is a standup comic, actor, producer, writer, comedy historian, and USC professor. He has been in about 90% of my favorite comedies: 40-Year-Old Virgin, Step Brothers, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The League, Community, Always Sunny, Tough Crowd, 50 First Dates, Knocked Up, Crashing…
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84: The Mind of the Censor with Robert Corn-Revere
Robert Corn-Revere is an attorney and partner in the Washington, DC office of Davis Wright Tremaine. Bob is one of the country's preeminent First Amendment lawyers, having argued on behalf of Playboy in front of the Supreme Court, defended CBS Television and Viacom in an FCC proceeding resulting...
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83: Fighting for Academic Freedom in Canada — Dr. Rima Azar
Dr. Rima Azar is an Associate Professor of health psychology at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick, Canada. She was suspended from her position, and banned from campus, following complains about her personal blog. She’s fought back against the suspension. Last June she spoke with Jordan...
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82: The Rule of Law is a Myth — John Hasnas
John Hasnas is a professor at Georgetown University Law Center and Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business, and the executive director of the Georgetown Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics. John has written some of my favorite pieces of academic legal writing including The Myth of the...
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81: Dr. Michelle Drouin on the Intimacy Famine
Michelle Drouin is a professor of psychology at Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne. She has served as a forensic consultant, expert witness, and she is an internationally-recognized researcher and speaker. Dr. Drouin focuses her work on issues related to technology, relationships,...
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80: Dorian Abbot Returns — The Latest on Academic Censorship
Dorian Abbot is an associate professor of geophysical science at the University of Chicago. Dorian first made national news when he challenged the university's diversity hiring practices. (To hear that story, check out our conversation on episode 43.) In August, Dorian published a widely…
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79: MMA Fighter Ryan MacDonald on Victory and Defeat
Ryan MacDonald is an MMA fighter and UFC veteran with a professional record of 11-2. He is also the owner and coach of 6910N1 MMA & Fitness in his hometown of North Platte, Nebraska. Ryan is coming off an impressive finish last week at Art of Scrap 3 against fellow UFC veteran Willie Gates. Ryan…
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77: Education Innovation with Acton Academy's Shannon Falkenstein
Shannon Falkenstein is a co-founder and Executive Director of Acton Academy in El Salvador. Acton Academy is an innovative form of education that aims to move students from receivers of knowledge to self-seekers of knowledge. Acton blends state of the art software, projects with real world...
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76: Seeking Justice for Ross Ulbricht — Lyn Ulbricht
Lyn Ulbricht is the mother of Ross Ulbricht, who created the marketplace website Silk Road in 2011. In 2015, Ross—a first-time, nonviolent offender— was sentenced to a double life sentence plus 40 years without the possibility of parole for offenses related to his operation of Silk Road. Since...
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75: Carla Gericke From Apartheid State to The Free State
Carla Gericke is an author, activist, and attorney. She was born and raised in South Africa during apartheid and began practicing law in her home country. Carla then won the "green card lottery" and immigrated to the United States, where she practiced law in Silicon Valley. Carla eventually left...
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73: Dez Jones on Purpose Through Fitness
Dez Jones is the founder of Dez Fit Club LLC. He is a fitness trainer, macro-nutrition coach, and motivational speaker. We talked about Dez’s childhood growing up with a single mom and three brothers, surviving and thriving through faith and discipline, sculpting the body of a Greek god,...
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72: Comedian Chrissie Mayr
Chrissie Mayr is a stand-up comic and podcast host. She hosts the Chrissie Mayr Podcast and Wet Spot on Compound Media. We talk about Chrissie's life growing up on Long Island, how she got into both comedy and politics, mixing the two, and much more. Chrissie has stand-up shows coming up in…
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70: The War on Small Business — Carol Roth
Carol Roth has over 25 years of business advisory experience. She is a recovering investment banker, entrepreneur, TV pundit and host, and New York Times bestselling author of The Entrepreneur Equation. She also hosts the podcast, “The Roth Effect.” Carol's latest book is “The War on Small...
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69: DJ Bonics on Pittsburgh, Wiz Khalifa, and Skipping School
Brandon Glova, AKA DJ Bonics, is best known as the DJ for Wiz Khalifa. He can also be heard DJing for Q102 in Philadelphia and serves as a host on the CW in the Twin Cities. Bonics has been a longtime DJ for 96.1 KISS-FM in Pittsburgh and previously DJed for Go Radio 95.3 in Minneapolis. We talk...
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67: Rebecca Trent on Comedy as a Business, Art, and Family
Rebecca Trent is the owner and operator of The Creek and The Cave comedy club, which recently moved from its longtime home in New York City to Austin, Texas. The Creek has helped launch the careers of a number of successful comedians, include Mark Normand, Donald Glover, Tim Dillon, and the…
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65: Matt Balaker on Comedy Legend Greg Giraldo
Matt Balaker is a comic, writer, and author of "Greg Giraldo: A Comedian's Story." Greg Giraldo was one of the great standup comics of the early 2000s. He was a regular on Comedy Central's Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn, Lewis Black's Root of All Evil, and the network's annual roasts. Before…
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64: Pamela Zembiec on Service, Loss, Remembrance, and Moving Forward
Pamela Zembiec is the author of “Selfless Beyond Service: A Story about the Husband, Son and Father Behind the Lion of Fallujah.” The book beautifully details her relationship and marriage with Marine Major Doug Zembiec. Doug was nicked-named the "Lion of Fallujah" for his heroic leadership…
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63: Jonathan Rauch on Defending Truth
Jonathan Rauch is a Senior Fellow in the Governance Studies program at the Brookings Institution. He is a contributing editor of The Atlantic and author of numerous books and articles on public policy, culture, and government. In 1993, he published “Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free...
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61: Jonathan Zimmerman on Free Speech and Why You Should Give a Damn
Jonathan Zimmerman is the Judy and Howard Berkowitz Professor in Education at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is one of the foremost education historians working today. He is also the author of "Free Speech: And Why You Should Give a Damn," which features drawings by the Pulitzer...
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59: Ian Rosenberg on The Fight for Free Speech
Ian Rosenberg has over twenty years of experience as a media lawyer, and has worked as legal counsel for ABC News since 2003. Ian is also an Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker, and teaches media law at Brooklyn College. His new book is "The Fight for Free Speech: Ten Cases That Define Our First...
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58: Caleb Mason on Fourth Amendment Lessons from Jay-Z
Caleb Mason is a former federal prosecutor and a current partner in the Los Angeles office of Werksman, Jackson & Quinn, where he focuses his practice on complex litigation, including criminal defense. In 2012, as a professor at Southwestern Law School, he published an article titled "Jay-Z’s 99...
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57: Robert Corn-Revere on Defending the First Amendment in Court
Robert Corn-Revere is considered by many people to be the preeminent First Amendment lawyer in America. He is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Davis Wright Tremaine and an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. He has argued and been involved with some of the most significant and...
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56: Marine Veteran Matthew Bradford on Service and Sacrifice
Matthew Bradford enlisted in the Marine Corps out of high school. In September 2006, his unit was deployed to Haditha, Iraq. In January 2007, Matt was severely wounded after stepping on an Improvised Explosive Device in Haditha. Matt lost his vision and both of his legs. After a long rehab, Matt...
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55: Alfred Regnery on Publishing Controversial Books
Alfred Regnery spent nearly 20 years as president and publisher of Regnery Publishing, which was founded by his father in 1947. Regnery Publishing is responsible for some of the most significant books in conservative thought, including William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “God and Man at Yale,” and Russel...
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54: Comedian Lou Perez
Lou Perez was the Head Writer and Producer of the comedy channel We the Internet TV. He now hosts The Lou Perez Podcast in addition to producing sketch comedy, stand-up, and opinion writing. We talk about some of Lou’s sketch work, including the great "Wolverine's Claws Suck"; the personality of...
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51: Reed Kuhn on MMA Analytics
Reed Kuhn is a Silicon Valley executive who moonlights as an MMA analytics expert. He has been known as the Fight Scientist, writes a weekly MMA analysis column for ESPN, and authored the book "Fightnomics: the Hidden Numbers in Mixed Martial Arts and Why There's No Such Thing as a Fair Fight."…
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50: Charles Kesler on the Crisis of the Two Constitutions
Charles Kesler is a professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute, Editor of the Claremont Review of Books, and host of Claremont’s "The American Mind" video series. His new book is “Crisis of the Two Constitutions: The Rise, Decline,...
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47: John Lindsey on the Sexy Side of Self-Storage and Entrepreneurship
John Lindsey is the co-founder and president of the Lindsey Self Storage Group. He is also the author of the upcoming book, "The Sexy Side of Self-Storage: An Insider's Guide to a Necessary Commodity." Lindsey Self Storage Group: https://lindseyselfstoragegroup.com/ –––– Support the podcast and...
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43: Dorian Abbot on Academic Freedom and Aliens
Dorian Abbot is an associate professor of geophysics at the University of Chicago. He recorded a series of videos explaining his concerns about how his department was implementing diversity initiatives. In response, students submitted a letter asking for him to be sanctioned. Dorian on Twitter:...
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41: Paul Matzko on Censorship and the Fairness Doctrine
Paul Matzko is a historian and the editor for technology and innovation at Libertarianism.org. He's also the host of the podcast Building Tomorrow. His first book, "The Radio Right: How a Band of Broadcasters Took on the Federal Government and Built the Modern Conservative Movement," was...
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40: Wil Willis on Military Service, Hollywood, and Manhood
For 15 years, Wil Willis served as an Army Ranger and Air Force Pararescueman. He has appeared in TV and movies since 2005, including the all-time classic Beerfest. From 2015 to 2020, he hosted the hit History Channel competition reality show Forged in Fire. He is also a writer and producer and a...
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39: Avery Dellinger on the Business of Comedy
Avery Dellinger is the General Manger of Helium Comedy Club in Indianapolis and has been a part of the comedy industry for over 20 years. Get tickets to a Helium show at https://indianapolis.heliumcomedy.com –––– Support the podcast and join the Honest Offense community at...
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38: Casey Mulligan on Advising the Trump White House
Casey Mulligan is an economist and author. Currently, he is a Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago. From July 2018 to June 2019, he served as chief economist for the Council of Economic Advisers in the Trump Administration. In 2020, Casey published his most recent book, “You’re...
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36: Dr. Jacob Teitelbaum on Overcoming Chronic Fatigue
Dr. Jacob Teitelbaum, MD, is a board certified internist and nationally known expert in the fields of chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, sleep and pain. He has authored numerous books including the best-selling "From Fatigued to Fantastic!" Dr. Teitelbaum's website:...
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33: Journalist Alec Klein on Losing a Career and Finding Faith
Alec Klein is a best-selling author and award-winning journalist who formerly wrote for the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal. His investigations helped free prisoners who were wrongfully convicted of murder and other serious crimes. He has helped dozens of excessively sentenced prisoners...
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32: Kelly Carlin on Growing Up with George Carlin
Kelly Carlin is a writer, actress, producer, and student of Jungian psychology. She created and performed a solo show, A Carlin Home Companion, detailing her experiences growing up with her father, the legendary comedian George Carlin. Kelly has worked as a producer for The Green Room with Paul...
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31: Randy Barnett on Supreme Court Cases Everyone Should Know
Randy Barnett is the Patrick Hotung Professor of Constitutional Law at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches constitutional law and contracts, and is Director of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution. Professor Barnett has written eleven books, including Restoring the Lost...
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30: Krista Large on Maintaining Health During COVID
Krista Large holds a BS in Dietetics and Nutrition from the University of Mississippi and is a certified nutritionist and personal trainer. She is also the owner of Living Large Wellness (https://livinglargewellness.com), where she provides virtual 1:1 coaching on health & fitness. Follow Krista…
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27: Army Veteran Mary Dague on Living with Battle Scars
Mary Dague is an American hero and legitimate badass. She is a former Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal Specialist and veteran of the Global War on Terror. In 2007, Mary and her team were recovering an IED in Iraq when the bomb exploded, taking both of Mary’s arms. For this, Mary earned a Purple...
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25: Tom Amenta on Going to War and Coming Home
Tom Amenta is a former Army Ranger who served two tours in Afghanistan during the Global War on Terror. On top on that, he’s worked in radio, founded a successful lifestyle apparel brand, was a producer on Range 15 (the first all-veteran produced feature film), and most recently worked in…
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24: David Rubin on Owning a Gym During a Pandemic
David Rubin is a 25-year veteran of the fitness industry. He has owned Courage Fitness Durham, a functional group fitness and personal training gym in Durham, North Carolina, since 2008. –––– Support the podcast and join the Honest Offense community at https://honestoffense.locals.com YouTube:...
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23: Lawrence Lessig on the Life and Legacy of Aaron Swartz
Aaron Swartz was a programmer, entrepreneur, writer, and activist. He was deeply involved in the development of RSS and the organization Creative Commons. Aaron was also a co-founder of Reddit and an early contributor to Wikipedia. Because of his online activism, Aaron was prosecuted for multiple...
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22: Human Rights Lawyer Maxo Gaston
Maxo Gaston is a civl rights and human rights lawyer. He served as an Assistant State’s Attorney for Cook County (Chicago), Illinois and as a legal consultant for the Human Rights Law Network in Delhi, India. Many people talk about changing the world for the better; Maxo has dedicated his career…
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19: Former ACLU President Nadine Strossen on Hate Speech and Censorship
Nadine Strossen is a professor at New York Law School. From 1991 through 2008, she served as President of the American Civil Liberties Union. Nadine is the author of “HATE: Why We Should Resist It With Free Speech, Not Censorship,” which has been praised by free speech advocates across the...
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18: Professors Ron Collins and David Skover on Lenny Bruce and Free Speech
Ron Collins and David Skover are two of America’s foremost legal scholars on free speech. Together, they are authors of The Trials of Lenny Bruce, in which they detail the legal troubles of Lenny Bruce–a standup comic and free-speech pioneer who paved the way for every comedian who came after…
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