Finneran's Wake
140 episodes - English - Latest episode: 7 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingFinneran’s Wake – where the ART OF CONVERSATION lives.
Here, no topic is untouchable, no idea inadmissible, and no one too heretical to be heard.
As the great French essayist Montaigne once said, “To my taste, the most fruitful and natural exercise of our minds is CONVERSATION. I find the practice of it the most delightful activity in our lives”.
It certainly is the most delightful activity in my life. I want it to be so in yours as well.
To that end, I humbly welcome you to my channel.
Here, we'll exercise our minds together. Here, we'll practice this delightful activity as friends. We'll engage, now and forever, in the art--the highest and most human art--of conversation!
With affection,
Daniel
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Race, Sports, and Revolutionaries: Black Quarterbacks in the NFL | John Eisenberg
December 18, 2023 02:25 - 1 hour - 90 MBJohn Eisenberg is a sports columnist and an author. His latest book, Rocket Men: The Black Quarterbacks Who Revolutionized Pro Football is an eye-opening account of the history of black quarterbacks in the NFL. It’s available for purchase everywhere books are sold. In this episode, John and I discuss: The intersection of race and sports; Is the NFL systemically racist?; Kyler Murray’s “Homework” clause; Patrick Mahomes; Warren Moon; The Colin Kaepernick Controversy; A brief hi...
What is Culture? | Marcus Collins
December 10, 2023 01:17 - 59 minutes - 81.7 MBMarcus Collins is a marketer, cultural translator, professor, and an author. His first book, For the Culture: The power behind what we buy, what we do, and who we want to be is now available for purchase. I strongly recommend it! In this episode, Marcus and I discuss: The definition of “culture”; The difference between “fast” and “slow” culture; Is our culture good? Cultural Icons: Michael Jackson, Beyonce, et al; “Go Woke, Go Broke”--Is it true?; Multiculturalism; The Univers...
War, Douglas MacArthur, Israel, Hawaii & Investing | James Ellman
November 20, 2023 02:46 - 1 hour - 88.3 MBJames Ellman is an investor and author. His latest book, “MacArthur Reconsidered” treats its subject in a refreshingly unbiased way. With a steady hand, James carves away the hero-worship, and leaves us with a true picture of America’s most controversial general, the iconic Douglas MacArthur. For those of you interested in military history and politics, this is an excellent book! In this chat, James and I discuss: MacArthur’s life; His military record and the reason(s) why ...
Slavery, Freedom, & The Unsung Heroes Of The Underground Railroad | Scott Shane
October 27, 2023 01:17 - 1 hour - 107 MBScott Shane is a reporter, a research fellow, a lecturer, and an author. His latest book, Flee North, tells the story of the two men responsible for freeing hundreds of enslaved people and establishing the Underground Railroad: Thomas Smallwood and Charles Turner Torrey. In this episode, Scott and I discuss: Thomas Smallwood; Charles Turner Torrey; Frederick Douglass; Harriet Tubman; Escaping from Enslavement; The Middle Passage from Africa; The Origin of the Underground Railr...
John Muir, Yosemite, & The Fight To Protect America’s Crown Jewel | Dean King
October 22, 2023 21:22 - 1 hour - 104 MBDean King is an author, a journalist, and a documentarian. His latest book, Guardians of the Valley: John Muir and the Friendship that saved Yosemite is available at all reputable booksellers. This book, of which I strongly urge you all to get a copy, tells the fascinating story of John Muir, Robert Underwood Johnson, and their historic effort to protect Yosemite from the water-hungry pols of San Francisco. In this episode, Dean and I discuss: The life and writings of John M...
Manliness, Modernity, Business, and Beauty | Logan Wright
October 06, 2023 01:33 - 1 hour - 86.7 MBLogan Wright is the founder of Greco Gum. Greco Gum sells a premium mastic gum sourced from the Greek island of Chios in the Aegean Sea. Chewed since time immemorial, mastic gum offers a plethora of health and aesthetic benefits: it satiates hunger, cleanses the teeth, sharpens the mind, strengthens the muscles of mastication (those with which you chew!), and transforms your wilting jawline into that of an absolute Adonis. Personally, I chew it every day and can’t recommend it h...
Road Trips, Twizzlers, The Civil War & College Football | John Banks
October 03, 2023 01:57 - 1 hour - 104 MBJohn Banks is an author, editor, a journalist, and a Civil War aficionado. His latest book, A Civil War Road Trip of a Lifetime is now available for purchase! The book is a really fun travelogue-cum-history that you’ll definitely want to add to your shelf. In this wide-ranging episode, John and I discuss: Being an aficionado v. being an academic; Ernest Hemingway; American Literature; Journalism; History; Writing books; Strategies to improve sleep; Road-tripping; How to fuel...
Camping, Architecture, Nature, And The Hidden History Of S’mores | Martin Hogue
September 26, 2023 18:51 - 1 hour - 102 MBMartin Hogue is an author, architect, and a professor at Cornell University. Martin’s latest book, Making Camp: A Visual History of Camping’s Most Essential Items and Activities is available everywhere fine books are sold. I can assure you, this conversation will inspire you to unfold your tent, unroll your sleeping bag, throw some logs on the fire, and reconnect with nature! In this episode, Martin and I discuss: Assembling the greatest camping party in history; The rugged,...
Blues Guitar, Communist China, SRV, and The Allman Brothers Band | Alan Paul
September 21, 2023 01:30 - 1 hour - 95.8 MBAlan Paul is an author, a journalist, and a musician. He was the founding member of the Beijing-based blues group, Woodie Alan, for which he served as the frontman. Along with a delightful autobiography about his life as an expat living in China, Alan has written oral histories about Stevie Ray Vaughn and The Allman Brothers Band. His latest work, Brothers and Sisters, covers the release of the Allman Brothers Band best-selling album and the ways in which it impacted American ...
Rockets, Race Cars, Cameras, and Extreme Weather | Scott Schilke
September 07, 2023 20:22 - 1 hour - 105 MBScott Schilke is a photographer who specializes in capturing breathtaking images of rocket ships, race cars, and extreme weather events. At the youthful age of sixty-two, after having worked in property management for four decades, Scott spurned retirement and embarked upon a new career. When all his buddies were slipping into the long-deferred idleness of their “golden years”, Scott became a professional photographer. Now, he spends his days (and most of his nights!) photographing...
Exposing The MYTH of The Free Market | Naomi Oreskes
September 02, 2023 01:22 - 49 minutes - 68 MBNaomi Oreskes is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. She is the author of many books, including Why Trust Science?, The Collapse of Western Civilization, Merchants of Doubt (upon which an acclaimed documentary was based), and, her most recent work, The Big Myth. Professor Oreskes is a veritable mine of information (forgive the pun!) After obtaining degrees in Geology and the History of Science, Professor Oreskes worked in the mining ...
Jackie Kennedy: America’s Most Alluring Lady | J. Randy Taraborrelli
August 24, 2023 16:41 - 1 hour - 108 MBJ. Randy Taraborrelli is an author, editor, reporter, journalist, and biographer whose latest work, “Jackie: Public, Private, Secret” is now available for purchase. (For what it’s worth, I strongly encourage you to get yourself a copy!) Some of Randy’s other popular works include, Madonna: An Intimate Biography; Jackie, Janet, and Lee; The Hiltons; Sinatra; Michael Jackson; Becoming Beyonce, Cher, Diana, and The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe. In this delightful conversation, R...
Raw Milk, Metaphysics, and Marxism: Nourishing the Mind and Body | Sally Fallon
August 10, 2023 20:17 - 1 hour - 87.7 MBSally Fallon Morell is an author, a farmer, a businesswoman, and the founder of multiple organizations dedicated to human flourishing. And how, as humans, do we flourish, you might ask? Simple: it all begins with our nutrition! Inspired by the under-acknowledged genius of Dr. Weston A. Price, Sally has popularized the “Wise Traditions” Diet, a natural, wholesome, elegant way of eating to which countless people subscribe. In this wide-ranging episode, Sally and I discuss… The ...
Become a LION! Courageous, Carnivorous, and FREE | Dr. Robert Kiltz
July 09, 2023 22:50 - 1 hour - 131 MBDr. Robert Kiltz is a physician, businessman, YouTuber, potter, pilot, and poet. (I challenge you to repeat those last three words as quickly as you can without stumbling!) One of America’s leading experts on the Carnivore Diet (of which he’s been both an advocate and adherent for the past decade), Dr. Kiltz has bravely questioned the dietary guidelines we’ve been fed by our medical “establishment” for countless years. His intrepidity is truly inspirational– Like everything e...
Quarks, the Cosmos, Carmina Burana, and the Big Bang | Dan Levitt
July 06, 2023 21:00 - 1 hour - 122 MBDan Levitt is a director, documentarian, and an author. His latest book, What’s Gotten Into You: The Story Of Your Body’s Atoms, From The Big Bang Through Last Night’s Dinner, is now available for purchase! For the promulgation of good science to the general public–in a format and a language that is accessible to all–we look, now more than ever, to trusted figures like Dan. As you can see, his passion for science is infectious. I learned a TON from (first) reading his fine book...
Bulls, Booze, and Broken Bones: A Cowboy’s Story | Barry Brown
July 03, 2023 01:08 - 52 minutes - 72.6 MBBarry Brown is an author, cowboy, horse breaker, bull rider, and rodeo competitor to whom the nickname, “The Bionic Bull Rider” has been, I think, very fittingly applied. Barry began competing as a bull rider at the tender age of 15. Despite its perils, he fell in love with the sport, in which he continued to participate (either as a competitor or a judge) for the next four decades of his life. During the course of his long career, he broke just about every bone in his body. Fi...
Peter Freuchen, Arctic Exploration, Cartoons, Country Music, and Whiskey | Reid Mitenbuler
June 25, 2023 19:00 - 1 hour - 153 MBReid Mitenbuler is an author, a journalist, and an Air Force veteran. His latest book, Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, An Epic Journey, A Lost Age tells the untold story of the twentieth century’s most interesting man. Peter Freuchen was a Danish explorer, globetrotter, novelist, journalist, actor, and game show contestant. An imposingly large man (he stood over 6 '5”) with a wildly unkempt beard and a stiff wooden leg, the very image of Freuchen invites curiosity. Wanderlus...
Dominate Each Decade: How To Stay Fit In Every Stage Of Life | James Flood
June 24, 2023 01:45 - 41 minutes - 57.1 MBAlas... How quickly (and imperceptibly!) the years accrue! Before you know it, you're departing your second, and entering your third (or fourth, or fifth…) decade of life and wondering, as you pass another milestone, celebrate another birthday, and add another number to anno domini: "How should I tailor my fitness regimen to my (advancing) age?" In this episode, resident fitness guru and recurring guest, James Flood, outlines exactly what you should do in each decade of life ...
5 Things To Do Outside The Gym To Optimize Your Time Inside The Gym | James Flood
June 13, 2023 23:49 - 57 minutes - 79.3 MBThe beard is back! Recurring (and undeniably burly) guest James Flood joins me to discuss the five most important things you can do outside the gym in order to optimize your performance once you re-enter. In brief, he advises you to focus on: 1. Hydration (with electrolytes) 2. Nutrition 3. Sun exposure 4. Cold exposure 5. Sleep Or if, like me, you prefer alliteration: 1. Salt 2. Sustenance 3. Sun 4. Shiver 5. Sleep Focus, my friends, on these five simple things not only t...
Movies and Madness, Through a Psychiatrist’s Eyes | James Charney
June 06, 2023 23:47 - 2 hours - 179 MBJames Charney is a psychiatrist, cinephile, professor, and author. His latest book, “Madness at the Movies” examines the mental disorders by which Hollywood’s most infamously deranged characters (Travis Bickle from Scorcese’s “Taxi Driver”; Norman Bates from Hitchcock’s “Psycho”) are afflicted. The book, written for a popular audience, is an extension of a beloved course (also entitled, “Madness at the Movies”) that he taught at Yale University for many years. A physician by t...
Welcome to Finneran's Wake!
May 30, 2023 22:03 - 2 minutes - 3.33 MBWelcome to Finneran’s Wake – where the ART OF CONVERSATION lives. Here, no topic is untouchable, no idea inadmissible, and no one too heretical to be heard. As the great French essayist Montaigne once said, “To my taste, the most fruitful and natural exercise of our minds is CONVERSATION. I find the practice of it the most delightful activity in our lives”. It certainly is the most delightful activity in my life. I want it to be so in yours as well. To that end, I humbly wel...
This Book Has Had the BIGGEST Impact On Me (So Far This Year!)
May 29, 2023 19:00 - 25 minutes - 35.3 MBI realized, while reflecting on the last few conversations of which I partook, that I twice made reference to one special book: “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” by Milan Kundera. Kundera, a Czech-French author who is (at the time of this posting) an incredible 94 years of age, is an extraordinary man. Twice expelled from the Czech Communist Party, he’s a reform-minded liberal bohemian (in the best sense of the word) to whom my friend and prior guest, Noah Charney, introduced ...
Escaping the Secret Police, Studying Ancient Greece, and Defending Human Rights | Svetlana Slapšak
May 28, 2023 01:01 - 2 hours - 183 MBSvetlana Slapšak is an author, editor, anthropologist, philologist, expert in gender studies and the history of the Balkans. Born in Belgrade, Serbia in 1948, she now resides and works in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Svetlana is the type of person to whom I could talk for hours: the breadth of her experiences is exceeded only by the depth of her reading (which, I assure you, is unfathomably DEEP, indeed!) In this conversation, Svetlana and I discuss: Her upbringing in post-War, Sovie...
Nietzsche, Shakespeare, Aristotle, And The Soul Of American Politics | Glenn Ellmers
May 23, 2023 19:10 - 1 hour - 136 MBGlenn Ellmers is an author, journalist, political scientist, and fellow at the Claremont Institute. The late Harry Jaffa–of whom Glenn was a student–is the subject of his excellent 2021 book, The Soul of Politics (of which I strongly urge you to buy a copy!) His forthcoming work, The Narrow Passage, will be released in the Summer of 2023. Glenn is a true renaissance man; he can write and speak as fluently about Aristotle and Machiavelli as he can Shakespeare and barbells. In...
How to Outsmart Your Brain, Procrastinate Less, Read More, and LEARN More! | Dan Willingham
May 22, 2023 02:19 - 58 minutes - 80.2 MBDan Willingham is a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia and the author of many celebrated articles and books. His latest work, Outsmart Your Brain, offers invaluable advice for the student whose goal is to maximize his or her fullest learning potential. But you don’t have to be a student–enrolled at a prestigious university or an expensive high school–in order to benefit from his wisdom; We can ALL afford to become better learners, more discerning readers, and m...
Canada’s FUNNIEST Young Comedian! | Neema Naz
May 16, 2023 21:26 - 44 minutes - 60.9 MBNeema Naz is a comedian, an actor, and the creator of The Estupid Club and NeemaNazTV. This conversation–my first with a REAL, card-carrying comedian–was an absolute delight! Of course, if you’re among his quarter-million followers on Instagram, this will come as no surprise; Neema is not only an immensely talented actor, but a refreshingly candid person. In this episode, Neema and I discuss: His origin story; the role of his parents (who immigrated to Canada from Iran) in h...
The Tension Between LIBERTY & SLAVERY At America's Founding | Edward Larson
May 09, 2023 22:09 - 1 hour - 95.5 MBEdward Larson is a lawyer, historian, professor, and Pulitzer-Prize winning author. A distinguished professor at Pepperdine University, his most recent work, American Inheritance explores the tension between liberty and slavery in America’s founding era. In this episode, Professor Larson and I discuss: The importance of April 19th, the day on which the American Revolution formally began with the Battles of Lexington and Concord; The reasons why the American Revolutionary War w...
Open the FLOOD Gates! James Flood’s Bio, Inspiration(s), and Diet | James Flood
May 06, 2023 01:56 - 34 minutes - 48.1 MBIn this inaugural episode of “Finn and Flood” (a segment focused on vitality, fitness, and wellbeing!), I sit down with my good pal, James Flood! Aside from being an all-around swell (*swole*) guy and a dear friend, James is one of the most knowledgeable trainers I know, with many years of experience in the gym upon which he never hesitates to draw. In this episode, James pulls back the curtain to reveal a bit about his past; how he discovered wellness and fitness; who his inspir...
Achieve RADICAL Physical Transformation! | Marty Gallagher
April 30, 2023 02:35 - 2 hours - 168 MBMarty Gallagher is an author, powerlifter, trainer, and coach. Bearing nicknames such as the “Iron Monk”, the “Carefree Psychotic”, and the “Hibernian Hulk” (okay…I just made that last one up!) Marty is one of those rare specimens around whom legends are formed. A champion powerlifter before the age of twenty, Marty has spent the entirety of his career (spanning over five decades) improving his technique, refining his philosophy, teaching the fundamentals, and making everyone ar...
Become an ART EXPERT in just 12-Hours! | Noah Charney
April 25, 2023 01:34 - 1 hour - 96.4 MBNoah Charney is an art historian, lecturer, author, and expert on art thievery. His latest book, The 12-Hour Art Expert, is the perfect entree for the layperson (like me!) who’s interested in learning more about art, but doesn’t quite know where to begin. It’s scholarly, but not abstruse; simple, but not condescending; thorough, but not tedious. Oh–and its pictures are absolutely stunning! Read this book, and you’ll be able to walk into any art museum with a breadth of knowled...
How Elite Ivy League Schools POISON Everything | Evan Mandery
April 06, 2023 02:03 - 2 hours - 171 MBEvan Mandery is a professor, lawyer, (former standup comedian!) and the author of eight books. His latest work, Poison Ivy: How Elite Colleges Divide Us is available for purchase at all reputable (and even some disreputable) booksellers. I highly recommend you go out and pick up a copy of this important book. Evan is one of those rare polymathic types from whom you can learn just about anything. An expert on capital punishment, he can easily expound on law, fiction writing, com...
South Carolina, Secession, and the CIVIL WAR | Eric Lager
March 04, 2023 03:42 - 47 minutes - 65.1 MBEric Lager is an academic and entrepreneur who lives and teaches in South Carolina. A native of Illinois, Professor Lager obtained his Ph.D in antebellum American History from the University of Tennessee. He currently lectures at The Citadel–that famous Charleston military academy from which so many valiant rebels took their degrees! When outside the classroom, Professor Lager spends his time, well, outside! He is the founder and operator of a burgeoning little business, “Charle...
Life Lessons From The Internet's SLEEP Guru! | Jason Stephenson
February 22, 2023 03:18 - 1 hour - 134 MBJason Stephenson is the founder and host of the wildly popular YouTube channel, “Jason Stephenson: Sleep Meditation Music” to which some 3 million people (and counting!) are subscribed. Since joining the platform in 2011, Jason’s videos on sleep, mindfulness, meditation, music, nature, life, and breathing have amassed over 700 million views–a number to which I’m honored to say I’ve contributed! In this conversation, Jason and I discuss… His tumultuous background and how it led h...
Nikki Haley Announces Presidential Bid; Fetterman Hospitalization; Train Derailment in Ohio | Our Thought Bubble
February 18, 2023 03:00 - 54 minutes - 74.4 MBMy dad joins me to discuss Nikki Haley's announcement to run for President, John Fetterman's second admission to the hospital, and the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.
China’s “Trial Balloon” Drifts Across the Country. Does Our Government Even Care?
February 06, 2023 03:39 - 17 minutes - 24.7 MBOn a bright, sunny February day, a couple of curious Montanans happened to look up and notice a peculiar flying object. At a slow, leisurely pace, what appeared to be a massive balloon was traversing their picturesque and boundless sky. Word started to get around that it might belong to a hostile actor. Only then did the Biden administration announce that, with a high level of confidence, this was no ordinary balloon, but a special SPY balloon deployed by the Chinese governmen...
Videos of Paul Pelosi's Beating and Tyre Nichols' Killing Released
January 29, 2023 03:54 - 15 minutes - 21.2 MBLong withheld from public view, the video of Paul Pelosi's cudgeling by David DePape was finally released by authorities in San Francisco. The harrowing clip, widely accessible on YouTube, shows a flat-footed officer intervening to separate the two men. Pelosi, an elderly man in his 8th decade of life, suffered a fractured skull and was knocked unconscious for about 3 minutes. By all accounts, he has not yet, and perhaps never fully will recuperate from the injuries he sustained t...
Did Steven Crowder BETRAY Conservatives?
January 26, 2023 03:09 - 19 minutes - 26.1 MBThe fourth realm of the the ninth circle of Dante's Inferno is reserved for those who betray their benefactors and are unfaithful to their friends. In the fallout of the Steven Crowder/Daily Wire controversy, some people are prepared to open up the gates of hell and toss Mr. Crowder into its fiery depths. In this video, I give my opinions and a little bit of commentary on the situation, as I understand it. Embarrassingly, the microphone failed to capture the music for the intro!...
Hey (Doctor) Jill!--Did Hunter Remember to Close the GARAGE door?
January 17, 2023 03:12 - 1 hour - 87.9 MBIn this episode of "Our Thought Bubble", my father and I discuss the shocking revelation that President Biden was in unlawful possession of classified documents dating back to his tenure as VP six years ago. This is the same infraction, a "strict liability" crime, over which the FBI raided former President Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate. More importantly, it appeared to be one of a few crimes on which House Democrats and Biden's DOJ were hoping to indict him. That seems less likely t...
How to think, journal, and live like a STOIC | Brittany Polat
December 20, 2022 21:35 - 1 hour - 152 MBStoicism–named for the stoa (or covered walkway) under whose cooling shade Athenian citizens gathered and philosophers lectured–is a philosophy whose influence has stretched across the ages. It was, so many centuries ago, a philosophy to which much of the classical world subscribed. Today, despite our distaste for all things “old” (how boring!), it remains a school of thought from which we can derive many benefits. Brittany Polat, who’s devoted much of her life to studying and pop...
Warnock’s victory, the “Twitter Files”, and Trump’s (Unconstitutional) Proposal | Our Thought Bubble Ep. 3
December 18, 2022 03:50 - 1 hour - 83.7 MBHello there, friends! On this episode of “Our Thought Bubble”, my father and I discuss… The results of the Georgia Senate run-off election, of which the Democrat incumbent, Raphael Warnock, was declared the victor; the fulfillment of our prediction that this would, in fact, be the result; our opinions on the man whom everyone loves to hate, Elon Musk; Musk’s recruitment of Matt Taibbi to divulge the much-anticipated “Twitter Files”; Donald Trump’s response to their release; our ...
Has America Gone Race Crazy? | Charles Love
December 01, 2022 23:19 - 1 hour - 93 MBCharles Love is the Executive Director of Seeking Educational Excellence, the host of The Charles Love Show, the co-host of the podcast, Cut the Bull, and the author of two books. Race, much more than class, persists in being the chief issue with which American society grapples–the timeless, contentious issue over which so many of our fights are still waged, and to which there appears to be no imminent resolution. In recent years, this struggle seems to have worsened, and one migh...
Donald Trump’s Announcement and Our Response | Patio Politics - Ep. #2
November 27, 2022 04:27 - 1 hour - 60.6 MBThe web’s most dynamic (and handsome) father and son duo are at it again! In this episode, we reflect on the huge, earthshaking, history-making announcement for which we’ve all been waiting: Donald Trump will seek the presidency in 2024. Should he succeed in escaping the Republican Primary with the Party’s nomination, he’ll likely face down the dotard of Delaware, Scranton’s senescent son, Joseph R. Biden–the unintelligible incumbent against whom Trump battled, and to whom he lost...
Bottom’s Up! A Tipsy History of Politics, Alcohol, and Prohibition | Mark Schrad
November 20, 2022 03:48 - 1 hour - 123 MBMark Schrad is a professor in the department of political science at Villanova University, over whose “Russian Area Studies” he presides as director. Professor Schrad is the author of three books: The Political Power of Bad Ideas; Vodka Politics; and, his latest work, Smashing the Liquor Machine (to which, if interested in their purchase, I’ll include links below). We sip our spirits, imbibe our beers, and become giddy over the prospect of tasting an evening’s dram of liquor, wi...
Reaction to the 2022 Midterm Elections, A Focus on Florida, and the Damage Done by Donald Trump | Patio Politics - Ep. #1
November 16, 2022 03:50 - 1 hour - 114 MBIn this (experimental) episode, my father and I sit down in the shady comfort of our back patio to discuss the shocking results of the 2022 midterm elections, in which the Republicans vastly underperformed even the most modest of expectations. At the time of this episode’s posting, it appears that the Democrats will have gained at least one seat in the Senate, secured a few contentious governor races (most notably in Arizona and Michigan), and totally avoided the “Red Wave” in the...
Lessons from a Lawyer turned Yoga Master | Ignacio Zuleta
November 04, 2022 02:42 - 56 minutes - 78.2 MBIgnacio Zuleta is a Colombian lawyer, writer, and yogi. Born into politics, raised in the capital, trained as a lawyer…Ignacio’s career path appeared, until the transformative age of thirty (that strange moment in the life of a man at which epiphanies most often occur–just ask the Buddha, Joseph Smith, and Jesus) somewhat predictable: he’d ascend the ladder of his profession and society, accumulate wealth, acquire status, maybe run for office, and luxuriate in the fruits of his la...
The Death of Boring History | The Pop Historian
November 01, 2022 01:26 - 1 hour - 91.2 MBThe Pop Historian is a general historian with an exciting, eclectic new channel on YouTube. “The historian must serve two masters: the past and the present”. In compliance with Fritz Stern, the late German-American professor of history at Columbia University by whom the above statement was issued, the Pop Historian has undergone to do just that. In a highly original, accessible, and entertaining way, he has packaged fascinating bits of history in a series of compelling videos, u...
Is Libertarianism Alive in Florida? | Hector Roos
September 20, 2022 21:59 - 1 hour - 140 MBHector Roos is a candidate representing the Libertarian Party in Florida’s gubernatorial race. For all intents and purposes, your choice of political party in America is binary: Republican or Democratic, or so you’re told. Doubtless, this preserves us from the pitfalls of a parliamentary system, but isn’t it frustrating to know that, in this freest of lands, your options are so narrowly constrained? Libertarianism offers a much-desired alternative. Hector Roos is here to offer e...
Discovering the Truth About America's Past | Carrie Gibson
September 16, 2022 02:23 - 1 hour - 113 MBCarrie Gibson is an American-born, Cambridge-trained historian, journalist, and author. America, a wild outpost for British Puritans, speculators, merchants, and malcontents began in the year 1776, no? And it wasn’t until the year 1863, on whose dawn Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, that we all began thinking about slavery, right? While these are, no doubt, important dates to remember, the real history of America (what we might call, Spanish America!) stretches much f...
A Cuban Immigrant Answers: Is America Worth It? | Ernesto Crespo
September 08, 2022 18:57 - 53 minutes - 49 MBMil gracias to my brother and friend, Ernesto Crespo, for accompanying me on my first recorded and filmed interview/conversation (of which, in the coming weeks, I hope to have many more!) His remarkable story, to which hundreds of thousands of Americans can doubtless relate, will always be a source of inspiration to me. From him, you'll learn what it was like to grow up in Cuba in the 1980s under the regime of Fidel Castro; how the island struggled during the "Periodo Especial" ...
What President Biden (And All Of Us) Can Learn From Lincoln
September 06, 2022 19:34 - 16 minutes - 22.1 MB"With malice toward none; with charity for all". It was with magnanimity, solemnity, and humility that President Abraham Lincoln addressed a wearied nation divided in two. He was careful not to cover his political opponents (of whom he had many) in opprobrium. He sought, instead, a higher, nobler road toward unity and reconciliation. President Biden, in his speech on the "Soul of America" chose a different, lower path. In the process, he succeeded in inverting Lincoln's precept: ...