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Ep 66: Opportunity of a Lifetime
This one covers one of my favorite stories, Ralph A. telling us about the opportunity of a lifetime. Enjoy the wanderings, for how often to lift weights on a maintenance plan to the latest hobby and books I'm reading. I finish off with a...
Ep 65: Nik-i-sode
Random thoughts, recent news, and books I'm reading. Capacity for luck, creating a long term high, towels vs toilet paper and what happens when you're not prepared for the best day ever. Let's do this!
Ep 64: Nik-i-sode
These are all the thoughts for the podcast gathered since mid-way through November, from wild ideas about waves and tides to the idea of 1st vs 3rd world consequences and finishes up with what books & movies I'm recommending. Enjoy!
Episode 22: Pete Scobell & Traumatic Brain Injury
We asked Pete to come on because of his work with treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and bringing awareness of what TBI is (a concussion) as well as the best ways we currently know to treat it. Funnily enough, the most advance treatment for TBI so
Episode 21: Steve Underwood, Wild Fire Expert
Steve Underwood is the Fire Management Officer out at Mesa Verde National Park and a 26 year veteran of fighting forest fires. He is also one of the most well read folks you’ll ever meet. In this podcast we talk about many different famous wildfires,
Episode 20: Billy Waugh, Special Forces & CIA soldier
When Robert Young Pelton suggests you look somebody up for an interview, we think it’s a pretty good idea to follow up on that, which is how this episode with Billy Waugh came to be. Having not heard much about Waugh before RYP mentioned him, I was sto
Episode 19: Robert Young Pelton on Southern Sudan
I signed up a while ago for the RYP newsletter, so when it dropped into my box on Monday I wasn't surprised. It was a quick note from the man himself about a recent piece he'd done for VICE on South Sudan. I asked if he wanted to come pimp the piece on
Episode 18: Phil Zimmerman, Cryptographer Extraordinaire
Phil Zimmerman is one of the world's experts on cryptography, which is the study and application of ensuring that no one but you and the person you're talking to can understand what you're saying. In 1991 Phil invented the way that we secure email commun
Episode 17: Victor Davis Hanson
Victor Davis Hanson, author of a number of books on military and more specifically ancient Greek military history as well as farming from the agrarian hoplite perspective, joins us for this episode of the Paleo Treats podcast. Having been inspired to gro