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Where We Go Next
by Michael Callahan
Not the usual questions. Not the usual answers. Where We Go Next is a podcast focused on in-depth conversations with the people changing the ways we think, create, and live.
Episodes
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124: Resisting the Arrogance of Certainty, with Andy Mills
If you listen to podcasts, you’re probably familiar with Andy Mills' work. He was a co-creator of The Daily, the award-winning podcast for the New York Times that attracts millions of listeners each week. He’s also created, produced, and edited Rabbit Hole, Caliphate, and The Witch Trials of J.K....
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123: A Field Manual for Veterans, with Rob Sarver & Alex Gendzier
Rob Sarver is a former Navy SEAL. Assigned to SEAL Team 3, he completed seven deployments during his service. Rob's awards and decorations include the Bronze Star Medal with a combat "V" device and oak leaf cluster and the Combat Action Ribbon with a gold star device. Rob is the Co-Founder of...
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122: Striving for a Life of Service, with Danny Miranda
Danny Miranda is the host of The Danny Miranda Podcast and cofounder of Alignment Academy. David Perell Interviews Me | The Danny Miranda Podcast 305 - YouTube Living In Alignment With Nick Sweeney (Danny's return to the podcast) - YouTube Follow Danny on X: @heydannymiranda Follow Dany on...
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The 3rd Annual Very Special Boxing Day Episode, with Jay Shapiro
This is the 3rd Annual Very Special Boxing Day Episode of Where We Go Next, with longtime friend of the show Jay Shapiro. We discuss: • What Jay's been up to in Madrid over the last year • Jay's new book • The upcoming addition to the Callahan family • Jay & Michael's holiday traditions • What we...
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A Welcome Respite
To get the most out of The 3rd Annual Very Special Boxing Day Episode, watch The Thing (1982) and Funny Games (1997) by December 26th. Thanks for sticking around. Very Special Boxing Day Episodes: The 2nd Annual Very Special Boxing Day Episode, with Jay Shapiro A Very Special Boxing Day Episode,...
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Re-Release: Going to Space, Reusing the Entire Rocket, and Flying Again in 24 Hours, with Andy Lapsa
Andy Lapsa is the co-founder of Stoke Space, a reusable rocket company started in 2019 with the knowledge that fully and rapidly reusable rockets represent the inevitable and necessary future of the space industry. Prior to founding Stoke, Andy was one of the original three members of Blue…
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121: The Inner Workings and Outsized Benefits of Artificial Intelligence, with Harper Carroll
Harper Carroll is an AI and Machine Learning software engineer and educator known for making complex AI concepts accessible to a wide audience. She has multiple degrees from Stanford University in Computer Science specializing in AI, and industry experience at Meta, working on augmented reality…
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120: Hot Gossip, Hard-Nosed Reporting, and the Tabloid That Changed America, with Susan Mulcahy & Frank Digiacomo
Susan Mulcahy and Frank DiGiacomo are former reporters for The New York Post and co-authors of Paper of Wreckage: The Rogues, Renegades, Wiseguys, Wankers, and Relentless Reporters Who Redefined American Media. Susan worked on Page Six from 1978 to 1985, including three years as editor. She has...
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Re-Release: Black Culture Is Not a Monolith, with Bertrand Cooper
Bertrand Cooper is a writer and education professional based in Los Angeles. Drawing on twenty six years of deprivation and a Master's in Education Theory and Policy, his writing explores the depictions of poverty in society. Who Actually Gets to Create Black Pop Culture?, by Bertrand Cooper I...
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119: The Virtues of Being a Black Sheep, with Salomé Sibonex
Salomé Sibonex is a writer, artist, and co-founder of The Black Sheep, a publication that frees people to take the path less traveled. She's given talks at FreedomFest and LibertyCon on how creative freedom allows us all to forge our own path—if we dare. The Black Sheep Ground News gathers news...
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118: Making Paleontology the Next TikTok Trend, with Harrison Duran
Harrison Duran is a field paleontologist whose popular social media accounts document his preparation and excavation in the American West. His videography and storytelling convey the work and skill required by paleontology, as well as its significance to our understanding of the natural world....
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Re-Release: Solving the Crisis of Boys and Men, with Richard Reeves
Where We Go Next will be back to its regularly scheduled programming next week. Until then, enjoy this re-release of Episode 68, with the brilliant Richard Reeves. Reeves is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and writes for a wide range of publications, including the New York Times…
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117: The Things We're Afraid to Talk About (But Should), with Sarah Hepola & Nancy Rommelmann
Nancy Rommelmann is an investigative journalist, columnist, and author - most recently of To the Bridge: A True Story of Motherhood and Murder. Her work appears in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Reason Magazine, and her Substack, Make More Pie. Sarah Hepola is the author of the...
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116: The Unintended Consequences of Great Design, with Carissa Carter & Scott Doorley
Carissa Carter is a designer, geoscientist, and the academic director at the Stanford d.school. She's the author of The Secret Language of Maps: How to Tell Visual Stories with Data, and teaches design courses on emerging technologies, climate change, and data visualization. Her work on designing...
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115: Spaceships, Silicon Valley, and Psilocybin, with Ashlee Vance
Ashlee Vance is a feature writer at Bloomberg Businessweek, host of the innovator-focused travel show Hello World, and the New York Times bestselling author of two books: Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, and most recently, When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits...
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114: Our Complicated Relationship with the First Amendment, with Jonathan Turley
Jonathan Turley is a law professor, columnist, television analyst, and litigator. Since 1998, he has held the Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law at George Washington University Law School. He has served as counsel in some of the most notable cases in the last two decades, representing members…
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113: Freethinkers Only, Please, with Meghan Daum
Meghan Daum is the host of The Unspeakable Podcast, co-host of A Special Place in Hell, the author of six books, and the founder of The Unspeakeasy, a community for free-thinking women who crave honest conversations about subjects that don’t come with easy solutions. I Wasn’t Canceled. I Was...
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112: 40% of Kids Don't Live with Married Parents and Why It Matters, with Melissa Kearney
Melissa Kearney is the Neil Moskowitz Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland. She is also Director of the Aspen Economic Strategy Group, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. The Two-Parent...
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111: The Hidden Forces Driving Our Online Behavior, with Steve Rathje
Steve Rathje is a postdoctoral researcher in social psychology at New York University. Broadly, he studies the psychology of technology, and explores how polarization and intergroup conflict interact with social media and artificial intelligence. He is also a science communicator with over one...
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110: The Mounting Evidence That COVID-19 Leaked from a Lab, with Alina Chan
Alina Chan is a molecular biologist at the Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard, and a co-author of Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19. She was a member of the Pathogens Project, which the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists organized to generate new thinking on responsible, high-risk...
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109: Bringing the World’s First Solar-Powered EV to Market, with Steve Fambro
Steve Fambro is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Aptera Motors, which is aiming to deliver the world’s first mass market solar-powered electric vehicle. Aptera Motors Ground News gathers news coverage from around the world, empowers free thinking, and makes media bias explicit. Subscribe through my...
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108: Investigative Journalism Is in Jeopardy, with Nancy Rommelmann
Nancy Rommelmann is an investigative journalist, columnist, and author. Her on-the-ground reporting includes covering the war in Ukraine, the fight over abortion rights in Kansas City, and Donald Trump’s New York trial. Her work appears in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Reason Magazine,...
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107: We're Getting "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion" All Wrong, with Chloé Valdary
Chloé Valdary is an American writer and entrepreneur whose company “Theory of Enchantment” teaches social and emotional learning in schools and diversity and inclusion in companies and government agencies. Theory of Enchantment Enchanted Dojo TED: How Love Can Help Repair Social Inequality, with...
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106: Making Media for the Middle Ground in an Era of Extremes, with Gen Kimura
Gen Kimura is a YouTube creator and documentary filmmaker tackling controversial political topics via on-the-ground reporting with average citizens and inquisitive interviews with relevant experts. Gen's YouTube Channel Bridging the Bias newsletter Squatters Invaded America. Here's How. - YouTube...
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105: Religious Cults, Fringe Science, and the Need for Belief, with Ross Blocher & Carrie Poppy
Carrie Poppy and Ross Blocher are the hosts of Oh No, Ross and Carrie!, an investigative podcast with over half a million downloads monthly. Whether it's joining secretive religious cults, searching for the paranormal, or experimenting with alternative medicine, they bring a skeptical yet...
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104: The War for Critical Minerals and Our Electrified Future, with Ernest Scheyder
Ernest Scheyder is a senior correspondent for Reuters and the author of The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives. The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives Ernest Scheyder at Reuters If You Liked This Conversation, You'll Probably…
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103: Making Movies is Hard (But Worth It), with Liz Manashil
Liz Manashil is a feature film writer and director, a distribution consultant for independent films, and the co-host of Making Movies is Hard, a podcast about the trials and tribulations of independent filmmaking. Bread and Butter (2014) Speed of Life (2019) Making Movies is HARD!!! Podcast...
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102: The Art and Technique of Directing Actors, with Judith Weston
Judith Weston is a sought-after coach and teacher to first-class filmmakers and actors around the world, and has been supporting them with workshops, consultations and books for nearly 40 years. Her first book, Directing Actors, was originally published in 1996 and a 25th Anniversary Edition came...
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101: Uncovering the Hidden Truths in Political Memoirs, with Carlos Lozada
Carlos Lozada is an opinion columnist at The New York Times and co-host of the “Matter of Opinion” podcast. He has won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism, and is the author of What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era. His new book, The Washington Book: How to Read…
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100: When Victimhood is Leveraged for Personal Gain, with Andrew Boryga
Andrew Boryga is a writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic. His debut novel Victim, from Doubleday Books, is out now. Victim andrewboryga.com If You Liked This Conversation, You'll Probably Like These Episodes of Where We Go Next: 44: The…
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99: How to Reset and Retrain Our Brains, with Tali Sharot
Dr. Tali Sharot is a professor of cognitive neuroscience at MIT and University College London, and the founder and director of the Affective Brain Lab, a cognitive neuroscience research laboratory dedicated to unraveling the mysteries of the human brain. She’s the author of The Optimism Bias: A...
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98: The Corrosive Costs of Vulture Capitalism, with Grace Blakeley
Grace Blakeley is an economist, journalist, and political commentator. She is the author of Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialization, The Corona Crash: How the Pandemic will Change Capitalism, and her newest: Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of...
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97: Climate Change Comes for Small-Town America, with Jonathan Vigliotti
Jonathan Vigliotti is an Emmy and Edward R. Murrow Award–winning CBS News national correspondent and the author of Before It's Gone: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small-Town America. Before It's Gone: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small-Town America If You...
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A Very Special Crossover Episode with the Converging Dialogues Podcast
This is a Very Special Crossover Episode with Xavier Bonilla, host of Converging Dialogues - a podcast focused on honest conversations about philosophy, psychology, politics, and important social issues. Listen to Converging Dialogues Where We Go Next will return as a weekly show on April 2nd!...
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96: America's Broken Primaries are Tearing Us Apart, with Nick Troiano
Nick Troiano is the founding executive director of Unite America, a philanthropic venture fund that invests in nonpartisan election reform to foster a more representative and functional government. Since 2019, Unite America has invested over $50 million to help win three major statewide ballot...
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95: The Government Is Seizing Innocent People’s Property, with Billy Binion
Billy Binion is an associate editor at Reason magazine, where he writes about criminal justice and government accountability. He has been published in Newsweek, the San Francisco Chronicle, HuffPost, The Saturday Evening Post, and the Washington Examiner, among other publications, and his work…
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94: Helping Millennials Build Healthy, Loving Relationships, with Dre Smith
Dre Smith is the founder and CEO of Relationship Restored, a podcast network that delves into all things related to establishing and maintaining healthy romantic relationships. He's also the Executive Podcast Producer & Head of Podcasting at Urban One and the Co-Founder of All About It Social…
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Guest Appearance: The Local Maximum
On Episode 92 I had the pleasure of speaking with Max Sklar. He's a software engineer, with a focus on machine learning, content discovery, and Bayesian inference - all of which we talk about during his episode. He's also the host of The Local Maximum podcast. Max's podcast appeals to me because…
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93: Solving the Childhood Independence Crisis, with Lenore Skenazy
Lenore Skenazy started the Free-Range Kids movement and wrote the book, “Free-Range Kids.” Now she is cofounder and president of Let Grow, the national nonprofit promoting childhood independence. Lenore says our kids are smarter, safer, and stronger than our culture gives them credit for. ‘Old...
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92: Bayesian Thinking and the Future of Artificial Intelligence, with Max Sklar
Max Sklar is the creator of the Local Maximum, a weekly podcast exploring current topics in tech, math, and political philosophy. Over the past five years, he has hosted many discussions and debates with top engineers, authors, and entrepreneurs. While working at Foursquare he wrote their city...
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The 2nd Annual Very Special Boxing Day Episode, with Jay Shapiro
This is the 2nd Annual Very Special Boxing Day Episode of Where We Go Next, with longtime friend of the show Jay Shapiro. We discuss Jay's move to Madrid (hasta luego, Mexico City!), what Jay's been up to with the Dilemma Podcast, and we analyze The Green Knight, the 2021 film adaptation of the...
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91: Free Speech Isn't Just for People We Like, with Kat Rosenfield
Kat Rosenfield is a culture writer, a columnist for Unherd, the co-host of the Feminine Chaos podcast, and the author of five novels. Her latest is called You Must Remember This, a Knives-out style whodunnit, which is now available in paperback. You Shouldn’t Be Fired for Being a Jerk, by Kat...
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90: In Defense of Free Speech, the Eternally Radical Idea, with Greg Lukianoff
Greg Lukianoff is the President & CEO of The Foundation for Individual Rights & Expression. He is the author of Unlearning Liberty and Freedom from Speech and co-authored the 2018 New York Times bestseller, The Coddling of the American Mind with Jonathan Haidt. Most recently, he co-authored The...
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89: Harnessing the Revolutionary Power of Nuclear Energy, with Nick Touran
Nick Touran is a Ph.D. nuclear engineer with expertise in new nuclear reactor development and old reactor history. He's worked on new reactors professionally for over 15 years, and has run the public education website, whatisnuclear.com since 2006. He believes that nuclear energy can help the…
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88: Pursuing Truth, Goodness, and Beauty in Education, with Daniel Scoggin
Dr. Daniel Scoggin is the co-founder of Great Hearts Academies. Over twenty years ago, he started as the headmaster of a classical, liberal arts academy in Tempe, AZ. In 2004, Dan authored the original Great Hearts business plan. Great Hearts now serves 26,000 students at 42 schools in Phoenix…
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87: Mentoring Kids Without Fathers as "The Internet's Dad," with Rob Kenney
Rob Kenney is the creator and host of the YouTube Channel, "Dad, How Do I?" offering technical, practical, and fatherly advice about all aspects of life. His channel has grown to 4.5 million subscribers since launching in April of 2020, and he has come to be known affectionally as "The Internet's...
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86: How Civility Can Heal America, with Alexandra Hudson
Alexandra Hudson is a writer, speaker, and the founder of Civic Renaissance, a publication and intellectual community dedicated to beauty, goodness and truth. She was named a 2020 Novak Journalism Fellow, and contributes to Fox News, CBS News, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, TIME Magazine,...
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85: Crafting Beer and Community in Small-Town America, with Gary Fish
Gary Fish founded Deschutes Brewery in downtown Bend, Oregon in 1988. It began as a small pub that focused on handcrafted food, house-brewed beer and the purpose of bringing people together. Under Gary’s leadership, Deschutes Brewery has grown to become the 10th-largest craft brewery in the…
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84: Understanding Testosterone: The Most Controversial Hormone, with Carole Hooven
Carole Hooven is the author of T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us. From 2002 until 2023 she was a Lecturer in the department of Human Evolutionary Biology, and served for many years as the department's Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies. Her "Hormones and...
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83: Building Autonomous Vehicles to Clean Up Outer Space, with Trevor Bennett
Trevor Bennett is the co-founder of Starfish Space, a fully autonomous satellite servicing company. He earned a PhD from the University of Colorado where he was a NASA Space Technology Research Fellow and one of Aviation Week’s 20 Twenties. Trevor has worked at both NASA Goddard and JPL on…
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Not the usual questions. Not the usual answers. Where We Go Next is a podcast focused on in-depth conversations with the people changing the ways we think, create, and live.
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Michael Callahan
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