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Get ready for the ultimate 80s nostalgia ride! In this week's Scene Snobs Podcast (Episode 381: Ranking The 80s), we're diving deep into the wild world of live-action movies based on iconic 80s cartoons and TV shows. Think Transformers, Masters of the Universe, G.I. Joe — we're putting them all under the Snobscope and ranking our favorites!PLUS:

In this episode of Home Business Profits, Ray Higdon explores the differences between branding and prospecting in the context of achieving financial success. He argues that while prospecting is typically a faster way to earn money, branding and marketing are essential for achieving long-term financial freedom. Ray shares insights into how to balance both strategies, including personal anecdotes and practical tips on building influence and generating leads effectively. He emphasizes the importance of smart financial planning and the potential long-term benefits of a strong brand. Tune in for a detailed discussion on optimizing your approach to earning money in your business.   ——

In this episode, I sat down with Simon Turner to unpack what real entrepreneurship actually looks like, beyond the social media fluff and one of the best ways to buy your time back.  We talked about buying boring businesses, earning leverage through discipline, how everyday operators build extraordinary wealth and private aviation. Grow your business:   https://sweatystartup.com/events   Book:   https://www.amazon.com/Sweaty-Startup-Doing-Boring-Things/dp/006338762X     Newsletter:   https://www.nickhuber.com/newsletter     My Companies:   Offshore recruiting – https://somewhere.com   Cost segregation – https://recostseg.com   Self storage – https://boltstorage.com   RE development – http://www.boltbuilders.com   Brokerage – https://nickhuber.com   Paid ads – https://adrhino.com   SEO – https://boldseo.com   Insurance – https://titanrisk.com   Pest control – https://spidexx.com     Sell a business:   http://nickhuber.com/sell     Buy a business:   https://www.nickhuber.com/buy     Invest with me:   http://nickhuber.com/invest     Social Profiles:   X – https://www.x.com/sweatystartup   Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/sweatystartup   TikTok – https://www.tiktok.com/404?fromUrl=/sweatystartup   LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/sweatystartup     Podcasts:   The Sweaty Startup & The Nick Huber Show   https://open.spotify.com/show/7L5zQxijU81xq4SbVYNs81  

If you could reflect on one thing, it's this: What unmet need did someone fail to meet, only for you to realize it was yours to fulfill?This letter is for anyone who's ever poured themselves into a friendship that never truly poured back.With fierce honesty and hard-won clarity, the writer revisits a best friendship marked by silence, conditional love, and ghosted goodbyes. From the pain of early rejection to the moment a birthday “gift” revealed everything, this letter names what many of us feel but struggle to say: love should never come at half price.If you've ever outgrown someone you once called “forever,” or found yourself waiting for an apology that never came, this one's for you. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.tfawletters.com/subscribe

WHAT YOU DO NATURALLY IS VALUABLE - Let's be honest: if you've been mentoring, encouraging, guiding, and holding space for the people around you, you're already doing the work of a coach. The only difference? You haven't been paid for it… yet. This episode will help you recognize the value of what you're already doing and begin to shift from “helpful friend” to “paid guide” with clarity and confidence. KEY TAKEAWAYS: Coaching isn't something you start from scratch—it's something you name and shape. You've probably been building your skills in everyday conversations for years. Shifting into a paid role is more about ownership than worthiness. Listener Challenge: Write down five situations where you showed up like a coach in your everyday life. What did you do? How did you help? What would it look like to treat that with the same value as paid work? APPLY FOR THE NEXT CONSULANT COACH INTENSIVE- A Mastermind for Women Called to Coach and Ready to Build Read this in the Life Coach Blog If you need help with this work, book a session with me here: https://www.sterlingandstonementoring.com/businesscoaching Become a Life Coach Figure Out Who to Coach Start Your Online Coaching Business Join the Coaching FB Community —> HERE Find me @coachlauramalone on IG —> HERE Your 5 star review on Apple Podcasts means a ton✨

Photography is Dead is my essay podcast series about the current state of the photography world where I talk about different topics plaguing us in the modern era. You can listen to this episode OR read it on my Substack Normally, these episodes are PAID content, but today's version is available for free! This episode will also stand in for this week's Double Negative Dispatch Issue #61, because I left everything on the dance floor for this one.Thanks for listening!

Here's the recording of my inaugural FREE webinar series. It's on "The Great Sergeant" and is relevant whether you aspire to be a Sergeant or lead teams of Sergeants.This recording is from my FREE YouTube Live event, held on 1 July. I also make it completely FREE for you here. Apologies for a little interference in the audio, not sure what's going on there but will sort before my next podcast!And finally, watch this space for an upcoming trilogy on this very important and powerful topic. Policing needs great sergeants right now to steer through its turbulent times.__________I offer a range of free materials and easy-listening podcasts for your ongoing CPD. Please 'pass the ladder down' and share with colleagues to support their leadership development too. But if time is of the essence and you want comprehensive, structured information on promotion aligned to the CVF, my unique Digital Toolkits, CVF explainers and Masterclass super-briefing supports you throughout, whatever your force's competitive promotion process.Premium eGuides, CVF deep-dive, & video Masterclass content: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.ranksuccess.co.uk⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠_______Become a premium podcast subscriber today for your ongoing CPD...REVIEWS: "Gold dust!", "Really enjoyed", "Reassuring", "Easy listening", "Simplifies things", "Paid off".WHY SUBSCRIBE? LOADS of subscriber-only regular podcasts, EXCLUSIVE access to the BEST of my archives, FIRST for new episodes, supports my work, 25% DISCOUNT off premium toolkits upon request.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ranksuccess/subscribe⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

  00:00 – 15:00: Opening & July 4th Kickoff Sam and Mike introduce the refreshed "Wheel of Doom" and fan-suggested upgrades. Banter about improving production and viewer engagement. Light patriotic humor kicks off Fourth of July discussion, blending satire and celebration. 15:00 – 30:00: Corporate Ironies & Protester Musings Analysis of Alyssa Heinerschneid's new role post-Bud Light controversy. Discussion of irony in corporate decisions and global politics. Nate Freeman's claim about paid protesters sparks comedic speculation. Sarcasm-filled jokes likening protesters to actors and influencers. 30:00 – 45:00: Independence Day Skits & Extreme Stunt Reactions Comedic sketch featuring confused British Redcoats vs. guerrillas. Commentary on American independence through absurd reenactment. Reaction to a woman sketchily dangling from a paraglider. Jokes about thrill-chasing and OnlyFans allusions, layering humor over danger. 45:00 – 60:00: Hollywood Conspiracies & Grim History Brief detour into the “black eye club” of Hollywood and its conspiracies. Sam and Mike riff on harsh Russian czar-era tales and occult pop culture obsessions. Reflection on how entertainment mythology intersects with macabre history. 60:00 – 75:00: Pythagoras: The Cultish Mathematician Surprising deep dive into Pythagoras's cult-like following and mystical beliefs. Discussion of his bean-avoidance and other eccentric rituals. Commentary on how even revered historical figures had bizarre, cultish elements. 75:00 – 90:00: Transhumanism, Immortality Debates, & Existential Banter Reacting to a viral debate on humanity's survival and posthuman trajectories. Discussion touches on transhumanism, body modification, sex changes. Orthodox Christianity's perspective is introduced with comedic counterpoints. Episode wraps with calls-to-action: Sam's upcoming tour & Mike's podcast network. Watch Full Episodes on Sam's channels: - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SamTripoli - Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/SamTripoli Sam Tripoli: Tin Foil Hat Podcast Website: SamTripoli.com Twitter: https://x.com/samtripoli Midnight Mike: The OBDM Podcast Website: https://ourbigdumbmouth.com/ Twitter: https://x.com/obdmpod Doom Scrollin' Telegram: https://t.me/+La3v2IUctLlhYWUx  

Download the workbook! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1v56eohlXRKwhhD8bV5n4mSj7luFt_Agd/view?usp=share_link Video isn't just for views, it's for results. In this free summer webinar, we'll break down proven video strategies that help real estate agents build trust, generate leads, and close more deals. Learn what to say, how to say it, and where to post it so your content actually converts into commission. See the full webinar schedule at: gloveru.com/webinar Learn more about Jeff Glover, the #1 producing real estate coach in North America, and Glover U at gloveru.com.   Download the Glover U app: https://tinyurl.com/GloverUapp Follow Glover U: • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GloverU • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gloverucoaching/ • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/glover-u • Website: https://www.gloveru.com • Inner Circle (free weekly content): https://www.facebook.com/groups/gloveruinnercircle/

This episode of Ray Ray's Podcast is sponsored by Spotify for Podcasters and Litt Vacations, in partnership with Pandora. In 2025, Ray Ray's Podcast will celebrate its fifth anniversary, and we will be bringing back some of our favorite guests and introducing amazing new ones. In this episode, we sat with Music Artist Ashaunté (@therealashaunte). We discussed her music career, her new single “Static”, and much more. We would like to give a big shout-out to Tite for providing our intro music from his single "Get'n Paid" featuring Chalie Boy. Our podcast is recorded on the 10th floor of Hello Studios. Visit our Website www.RayRaysPodcast.com for all of our fantastic content. Continue to follow us on all social media IG @rayrays_podcast Facebook.com/RayRaysPodcast and TikTok @rayrayspodcast. Follow us on YouTube. Like and Subscribe on YouTube Please.

Israel Duran was this week's guest on Success Profiles Radio. His “Service of Speaking” framework has generated over $2 million in 24 months by positioning experts on prestigious stages and high-ticket programs. He built a community of over 300,000 people and landed a TEDx talk. His mastermind routinely lands $50,000+ clients, major acquisitions, and speaking tours. We discussed the importance of discovering your purpose in the marketplace, aligning your identity to your purpose, scaling businesses to seven-figures using the “Service of Speaking” model, finding paid speaking gigs, and speaking-to-sell. In addition, we talked about positioning your business for major acquisitions and partnerships, creating a high-ticket offer to sell from stage, and his five-day challenge to help clients clarify their machine and build their offer to get on stage. You can follow and listen to the show on Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify, Audible, iHeart Radio, and at Success Profiles Radio | Live Internet Talk Radio | Best Shows Podcasts

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In episode 9 of Platform Builders, Christine and Isaac sit down with Manny Medina, founder and CEO of Paid, to unpack the tectonic shift happening in software. From the rise of AI agents that autonomously perform tasks, to the death of seat-based pricing, and why ARR and SaaS metrics just don't make sense anymore—Manny makes a compelling case that we're entering a new era. If you're building, investing in, or working with AI-native companies, this is essential listening.

TBOY Live Show Tickets to Chicago on sale NOW: https://www.axs.com/events/949346/the-best-one-yet-podcast-ticketsDespite trade war & real war, US stocks just hit all-time-highs… We whipped up 4 reasons why.Momofuku's Michelin-starred restaurant just raised $27M of VC… to stick its noodles in Costco.Internships are down, but some are making $25K/month?... Our advice: Cancel your internship.Plus, get your tickets to our Live Show in Chicago… it's gonna be a TBOY$SPY $JPM $NVDAWant more business storytelling from us? Check out the latest episode of our new weekly deepdive show: The untold origin story of… Dr Pepper

On this episode, Nate Friedman, host of "The Nate Friedman Show," joins Liz Wheeler to discuss his experience interviewing individuals at protests around the country. Plus, Liz explains why this Pride Month was the worst (or best, depending on how you look at it) one yet. Also, Liz issues a plea to Scott Adams, who is battling cancer. Tune in to find out how all of this affects you! SPONSORS: PREBORN!: Your tax-deductible donation of twenty-eight dollars sponsors one ultrasound and doubles a baby's chance at life. How many babies can you save? Please donate your best gift today– just dial #250 and say the keyword, “BABY" or go to https://preborn.com/LIZ. BLAZETV: Get your free trial now! If you're ready to keep winning, shop your values and make sure we don't lose the ground we've gained—go to https://BlazeTV.com/LIZ and subscribe today. No promo code needed. BlazeTV. Unfiltered. Unafraid. On Demand. -- Like & subscribe to make sure you don't miss a single video: / lizwheeler Get the full audio show on all major podcast platforms: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4LhlHfo... iHeart: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-th... Subscribe to The Liz Wheeler Show newsletter: https://lizwheeler.com/email Get VIP access to The Liz Wheeler Show on Locals: https://lizwheeler.locals.com/. Stay in touch with Liz on social media: Facebook: / officiallizwheeler Twitter: / liz_wheeler Instagram: / officiallizwheeler Rumble: https://rumble.com/LizWheeler Website: https://lizwheeler.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Twenty years ago, Bobby Kennedy was exiled from polite society for suggesting a link between autism and vaccines. Now he's a cabinet secretary, and still saying it. (00:00) The Organized Opposition to RFK's Mission (06:46) Uncovering the Reason for Skyrocketing Rates of Autism (13:41) How Big Pharma Enslaves Doctors and Profits off Sickness (28:22) Is It Possible to End the Corrupt Relationship Between Big Pharma and Corporate Media? (35:35) Will RFK End Vaccine Company's Lawsuits Immunity? (57:47) Did the Covid Vaccine Kill More People Than It Saved? Paid partnerships with: Masa Chips: Get 25% off with code TUCKER at https://masachips.com/tucker Levels: Get 2 free months on annual membership at https://Levels.Link/Tucker MeriwetherFarms: Visit https://MeriwetherFarms.com/Tucker and use code TUCKER76 for 15% off your first order. Eight Sleep: Get $350 off the new Pod 5 Ultra at https://EightSleep.com/Tucker Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Adam Swart is the founder of Crowds on Demand, the original paid protesting firm in the U.S. He's a free speech absolutist who's worked on both liberal and conservative campaigns. Adam has insider knowledge of how protests are coordinated, funded, and used to shape public perception—sometimes by foreign actors or elite donors. He's appeared on Fox News, Newsmax, and NewsNation, with viral clips reaching millions. Follow Adam on Twitter. Stop paying health insurance companies your hard-earned dollars. Go to Join Crowd Health now and experience freedom from health insurance. Right now you can get your first six months for just $99 per month. That's almost 50% off the normal price, and a lot less than a high-deductible healthcare plan. Go to Join Crowd Health and use promo code LIONS at sign-up. Subscribe to John's Finding Freedom Show solo feed to listen to “Pursuit of Freedom,” which is a new podcast series where John shares the highs and lows of his entrepreneurial journey. Listen and Subscribe on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Follow the Lions of Liberty: Twitter Rumble YouTube Instagram Telegram Get access to all of our bonus audio content, livestreams, behind-the-scenes segments and more for as little as $5 per month by joining the Lions of Liberty Pride on Patreon OR support us on Locals! Check out our merchandise at the Lions of Liberty Store for all of our awesome t-shirts, mugs and hats! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#BobbyBrown admits his iconic haircut was never part of the plan! Plus, can you guess who's the highest paid athlete?

Join IN Demand, the Membership at: https://SpeakAndStandOut.com/INDPeek behind the curtain of the In Demand membership, how it started, and why it's the perfect environment if you're stuck, overwhelmed, or just tired of figuring out speaking alone. Discover actionable tools, live support, and the insider know-how that will finally let you step into the spotlight, without having to do it all on your own.Join IN Demand, the Membership at: https://SpeakAndStandOut.com/IND Links and resources mentioned in this episode:Get on the waitlist for IN Demand Signature Speech NOW!Get daily inspiration on Instagram: @laurieann.murabitoClick and read more info over on my website.Looking for support to grow your business faster, get positioned as the expert and leave your audience mesmerized with your story, then schedule a call to learn more about my programs and how we can get you speaking in front of the "right" audiences.

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Adam Swart is the founder of Crowds on Demand, the original paid protesting firm in the U.S. He's a free speech absolutist who's worked on both liberal and conservative campaigns. Adam has insider knowledge of how protests are coordinated, funded, and used to shape public perception—sometimes by foreign actors or elite donors. He's appeared on Fox News, Newsmax, and NewsNation, with viral clips reaching millions. Follow Adam on Twitter. Stop paying health insurance companies your hard-earned dollars. Go to Join Crowd Health now and experience freedom from health insurance. Right now you can get your first six months for just $99 per month. That's almost 50% off the normal price, and a lot less than a high-deductible healthcare plan. Go to Join Crowd Health and use promo code LIONS at sign-up. Subscribe to John's Finding Freedom Show solo feed to listen to “Pursuit of Freedom,” which is a new podcast series where John shares the highs and lows of his entrepreneurial journey. Listen and Subscribe on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Follow the Lions of Liberty: Twitter Rumble YouTube Instagram Telegram Get access to all of our bonus audio content, livestreams, behind-the-scenes segments and more for as little as $5 per month by joining the Lions of Liberty Pride on Patreon OR support us on Locals! Check out our merchandise at the Lions of Liberty Store for all of our awesome t-shirts, mugs and hats! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today, we're kicking off our summer bonus episodes with a little ode to sidewalk art installations! We're not just talking about little free libraries (though those are awesome!) we're talking about the weird, wild and creative ways people express themselves and spread joy through artistic, playful, interactive installations on their sidewalks, stoops and fences, and the unique, important role these little joy blips have in building stronger communities.I first stumbled across the PDX Dinorama Instagram account, run by Portland's Rachael Harms Malant, during the pandemic. The account didn't just promote the little Dinorama she built in front of her house, it was more like a record of all the little fun and funky sidewalk installations that are speckled around the city. From PDX Sidewalk Ducks to a 6-hole golf course that someone built in their front yard, the installations Rachael was highlighting on her account went way above and beyond anything I'd seen, and with little kids to get out of the house and little money to spend, I was so grateful for every last one of them. I've been wanting to have her on the show for ages to talk about her passion for these little expressions of joy and welcome that pepper our city (and are popping up around the world now), and I am so thrilled to have her episode kick off some summer MOFITA fun.Chatting with Rachael was seriously heart-warming summer fun, and we hope you'll tune in! In in the episode, she shares tips for creating your own little sidewalk joy invitation, and she has tons of examples and tutorials on her Instagram page, too. But, all you really need to do to get inspired is head outside on a walk, especially if you're lucky enough to live in a town with folks on the sidewalk joy map. As Rachael explains in the episode: “People are craving community, and community is — and is going to continue to be — so very important for all of us. So this kind of connecting and sharing that Sidewalk Joy helps promote in different communities is going to continue to be vital.”If you walk around your neighborhood and don't see any little mini-fig galleries, dinoramas or take-a-car-leave-a-cars, maybe your could be the first! LINKS * The Portland Sidewalk Joy map * The Worldwide Sidewalk Joy map* Rachael's sidewalk joy creation tips + ideasIf you love the work we do on Mother Of It All, please consider becoming a paid subscriber, which you can do at motherofitall.substack.com. Paid subscribers get access to everything behind the paywall, like subscriber-only episodes, book reviews and more. If you subscribe at the founding member level, we'll send you one of our awesome tote bags. If you can't become a paid subscriber, that's OK! It's always free and helpful to follow, share, rate and review our show here and everywhere else you listen to podcasts you love. Thank you!* Visit our Bookshop storefront to find all the books we've mentioned here and in previous episodes. When you shop there, we get a small affiliate fee (yay, thank you!).* Visit motherofitall.com to send us ideas for a future episode or learn more about the show.* Follow the podcast on Instagram (@themotherofitall) or Bluesky (@motherofitallpod.bsky.social) This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit motherofitall.substack.com/subscribe

Adam Swart is the founder of Crowds on Demand, the original paid protesting firm in the U.S. He's a free speech absolutist who's worked on both liberal and conservative campaigns. Adam has insider knowledge of how protests are coordinated, funded, and used to shape public perception—sometimes by foreign actors or elite donors. He's appeared on Fox News, Newsmax, and NewsNation, with viral clips reaching millions. Follow Adam on Twitter. Stop paying health insurance companies your hard-earned dollars. Go to Join Crowd Health now and experience freedom from health insurance. Right now you can get your first six months for just $99 per month. That's almost 50% off the normal price, and a lot less than a high-deductible healthcare plan. Go to Join Crowd Health and use promo code LIONS at sign-up. Subscribe to John's Finding Freedom Show solo feed to listen to “Pursuit of Freedom,” which is a new podcast series where John shares the highs and lows of his entrepreneurial journey. Listen and Subscribe on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Follow the Lions of Liberty: Twitter Rumble YouTube Instagram Telegram Get access to all of our bonus audio content, livestreams, behind-the-scenes segments and more for as little as $5 per month by joining the Lions of Liberty Pride on Patreon OR support us on Locals! Check out our merchandise at the Lions of Liberty Store for all of our awesome t-shirts, mugs and hats! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Psalm of recognition of the fragility of life as well as God's eternal nature. Combined here with the Irish traditional song ‘Casadh an t'Súgain,' it broaches the subject of how we might live with “wise hearts,” recognizing that from dust we came and to dust we return. Importantly, this paraphrase emphasizes that we return to God ~ our maker, to whom we belong in life and in death and who will redeem all of our brokenness.Continue your reflections with the accompanying journal, which includes further questions for reflection and some invitations to prayer and practice.Paid subscribers receive a free journal PDF, or you can purchase a paperback versionVisit the Celtic Psalms website for scores/books, mp3s, CDs, and videos for From Dust We Came Find out more about the Habits for the Spirit course: an 8-week online course exploring habits and daily spiritual practices to promote wellbeing in body, mind, and spiritFollow Kiran's monthly reflections on Bless My FeetPsalms for the Spirit is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit psalmsforthespirit.substack.com/subscribe

“To navigate proof, we must reach into a thicket of errors and biases. We must confront monsters and embrace uncertainty, balancing — and rebalancing —our beliefs. We must seek out every useful fragment of data, gather every relevant tool, searching wider and climbing further. Finding the good foundations among the bad. Dodging dogma and falsehoods. Questioning. Measuring. Triangulating. Convincing. Then perhaps, just perhaps, we'll reach the truth in time.”—Adam KucharskiMy conversation with Professor Kucharski on what constitutes certainty and proof in science (and other domains), with emphasis on many of the learnings from Covid. Given the politicization of science and A.I.'s deepfakes and power for blurring of truth, it's hard to think of a topic more important right now.Audio file (Ground Truths can also be downloaded on Apple Podcasts and Spotify)Eric Topol (00:06):Hello, it's Eric Topol from Ground Truths and I am really delighted to welcome Adam Kucharski, who is the author of a new book, Proof: The Art and Science of Certainty. He's a distinguished mathematician, by the way, the first mathematician we've had on Ground Truths and a person who I had the real privilege of getting to know a bit through the Covid pandemic. So welcome, Adam.Adam Kucharski (00:28):Thanks for having me.Eric Topol (00:30):Yeah, I mean, I think just to let everybody know, you're a Professor at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and also noteworthy you won the Adams Prize, which is one of the most impressive recognitions in the field of mathematics. This is the book, it's a winner, Proof and there's so much to talk about. So Adam, maybe what I'd start off is the quote in the book that captivates in the beginning, “life is full of situations that can reveal remarkably large gaps in our understanding of what is true and why it's true. This is a book about those gaps.” So what was the motivation when you undertook this very big endeavor?Adam Kucharski (01:17):I think a lot of it comes to the work I do at my day job where we have to deal with a lot of evidence under pressure, particularly if you work in outbreaks or emerging health concerns. And often it really pushes the limits, our methodology and how we converge on what's true subject to potential revision in the future. I think particularly having a background in math's, I think you kind of grow up with this idea that you can get to these concrete, almost immovable truths and then even just looking through the history, realizing that often isn't the case, that there's these kind of very human dynamics that play out around them. And it's something I think that everyone in science can reflect on that sometimes what convinces us doesn't convince other people, and particularly when you have that kind of urgency of time pressure, working out how to navigate that.Eric Topol (02:05):Yeah. Well, I mean I think these times of course have really gotten us to appreciate, particularly during Covid, the importance of understanding uncertainty. And I think one of the ways that we can dispel what people assume they know is the famous Monty Hall, which you get into a bit in the book. So I think everybody here is familiar with that show, Let's Make a Deal and maybe you can just take us through what happens with one of the doors are unveiled and how that changes the mathematics.Adam Kucharski (02:50):Yeah, sure. So I think it is a problem that's been around for a while and it's based on this game show. So you've got three doors that are closed. Behind two of the doors there is a goat and behind one of the doors is a luxury car. So obviously, you want to win the car. The host asks you to pick a door, so you point to one, maybe door number two, then the host who knows what's behind the doors opens another door to reveal a goat and then ask you, do you want to change your mind? Do you want to switch doors? And a lot of the, I think intuition people have, and certainly when I first came across this problem many years ago is well, you've got two doors left, right? You've picked one, there's another one, it's 50-50. And even some quite well-respected mathematicians.Adam Kucharski (03:27):People like Paul Erdős who was really published more papers than almost anyone else, that was their initial gut reaction. But if you work through all of the combinations, if you pick this door and then the host does this, and you switch or not switch and work through all of those options. You actually double your chances if you switch versus sticking with the door. So something that's counterintuitive, but I think one of the things that really struck me and even over the years trying to explain it is convincing myself of the answer, which was when I first came across it as a teenager, I did quite quickly is very different to convincing someone else. And even actually Paul Erdős, one of his colleagues showed him what I call proof by exhaustion. So go through every combination and that didn't really convince him. So then he started to simulate and said, well, let's do a computer simulation of the game a hundred thousand times. And again, switching was this optimal strategy, but Erdős wasn't really convinced because I accept that this is the case, but I'm not really satisfied with it. And I think that encapsulates for a lot of people, their experience of proof and evidence. It's a fact and you have to take it as given, but there's actually quite a big bridge often to really understanding why it's true and feeling convinced by it.Eric Topol (04:41):Yeah, I think it's a fabulous example because I think everyone would naturally assume it's 50-50 and it isn't. And I think that gets us to the topic at hand. What I love, there's many things I love about this book. One is that you don't just get into science and medicine, but you cut across all the domains, law, mathematics, AI. So it's a very comprehensive sweep of everything about proof and truth, and it couldn't come at a better time as we'll get into. Maybe just starting off with math, the term I love mathematical monsters. Can you tell us a little bit more about that?Adam Kucharski (05:25):Yeah, this was a fascinating situation that emerged in the late 19th century where a lot of math's, certainly in Europe had been derived from geometry because a lot of the ancient Greek influence on how we shaped things and then Newton and his work on rates of change and calculus, it was really the natural world that provided a lot of inspiration, these kind of tangible objects, tangible movements. And as mathematicians started to build out the theory around rates of change and how we tackle these kinds of situations, they sometimes took that intuition a bit too seriously. And there was some theorems that they said were intuitively obvious, some of these French mathematicians. And so, one for example is this idea of you how things change smoothly over time and how you do those calculations. But what happened was some mathematicians came along and showed that when you have things that can be infinitely small, that intuition didn't necessarily hold in the same way.Adam Kucharski (06:26):And they came up with these examples that broke a lot of these theorems and a lot of the establishments at the time called these things monsters. They called them these aberrations against common sense and this idea that if Newton had known about them, he never would've done all of his discovery because they're just nuisances and we just need to get rid of them. And there's this real tension at the core of mathematics in the late 1800s where some people just wanted to disregard this and say, look, it works for most of the time, that's good enough. And then others really weren't happy with this quite vague logic. They wanted to put it on much sturdier ground. And what was remarkable actually is if you trace this then into the 20th century, a lot of these monsters and these particularly in some cases functions which could almost move constantly, this constant motion rather than our intuitive concept of movement as something that's smooth, if you drop an apple, it accelerates at a very smooth rate, would become foundational in our understanding of things like probability, Einstein's work on atomic theory. A lot of these concepts where geometry breaks down would be really important in relativity. So actually, these things that we thought were monsters actually were all around us all the time, and science couldn't advance without them. So I think it's just this remarkable example of this tension within a field that supposedly concrete and the things that were going to be shunned actually turn out to be quite important.Eric Topol (07:53):It's great how you convey how nature isn't so neat and tidy and things like Brownian motion, understanding that, I mean, just so many things that I think fit into that general category. In the legal, we won't get into too much because that's not so much the audience of Ground Truths, but the classic things about innocent and until proven guilty and proof beyond reasonable doubt, I mean these are obviously really important parts of that overall sense of proof and truth. We're going to get into one thing I'm fascinated about related to that subsequently and then in science. So before we get into the different types of proof, obviously the pandemic is still fresh in our minds and we're an endemic with Covid now, and there are so many things we got wrong along the way of uncertainty and didn't convey that science isn't always evolving search for what is the truth. There's plenty no shortage of uncertainty at any moment. So can you recap some of the, you did so much work during the pandemic and obviously some of it's in the book. What were some of the major things that you took out of proof and truth from the pandemic?Adam Kucharski (09:14):I think it was almost this story of two hearts because on the one hand, science was the thing that got us where we are today. The reason that so much normality could resume and so much risk was reduced was development of vaccines and the understanding of treatments and the understanding of variants as they came to their characteristics. So it was kind of this amazing opportunity to see this happen faster than it ever happened in history. And I think ever in science, it certainly shifted a lot of my thinking about what's possible and even how we should think about these kinds of problems. But also on the other hand, I think where people might have been more familiar with seeing science progress a bit more slowly and reach consensus around some of these health issues, having that emerge very rapidly can present challenges even we found with some of the work we did on Alpha and then the Delta variants, and it was the early quantification of these.Adam Kucharski (10:08):So really the big question is, is this thing more transmissible? Because at the time countries were thinking about control measures, thinking about relaxing things, and you've got this just enormous social economic health decision-making based around essentially is it a lot more spreadable or is it not? And you only had these fragments of evidence. So I think for me, that was really an illustration of the sharp end. And I think what we ended up doing with some of those was rather than arguing over a precise number, something like Delta, instead we kind of looked at, well, what's the range that matters? So in the sense of arguing over whether it's 40% or 50% or 30% more transmissible is perhaps less important than being, it's substantially more transmissible and it's going to start going up. Is it going to go up extremely fast or just very fast?Adam Kucharski (10:59):That's still a very useful conclusion. I think what often created some of the more challenges, I think the things that on reflection people looking back pick up on are where there was probably overstated certainty. We saw that around some of the airborne spread, for example, stated as a fact by in some cases some organizations, I think in some situations as well, governments had a constraint and presented it as scientific. So the UK, for example, would say testing isn't useful. And what was happening at the time was there wasn't enough tests. So it was more a case of they can't test at that volume. But I think blowing between what the science was saying and what the decision-making, and I think also one thing we found in the UK was we made a lot of the epidemiological evidence available. I think that was really, I think something that was important.Adam Kucharski (11:51):I found it a lot easier to communicate if talking to the media to be able to say, look, this is the paper that's out, this is what it means, this is the evidence. I always found it quite uncomfortable having to communicate things where you knew there were reports behind the scenes, but you couldn't actually articulate. But I think what that did is it created this impression that particularly epidemiology was driving the decision-making a lot more than it perhaps was in reality because so much of that was being made public and a lot more of the evidence around education or economics was being done behind the scenes. I think that created this kind of asymmetry in public perception about how that was feeding in. And so, I think there was always that, and it happens, it is really hard as well as a scientist when you've got journalists asking you how to run the country to work out those steps of am I describing the evidence behind what we're seeing? Am I describing the evidence about different interventions or am I proposing to some extent my value system on what we do? And I think all of that in very intense times can be very easy to get blurred together in public communication. I think we saw a few examples of that where things were being the follow the science on policy type angle where actually once you get into what you're prioritizing within a society, quite rightly, you've got other things beyond just the epidemiology driving that.Eric Topol (13:09):Yeah, I mean that term that you just use follow the science is such an important term because it tells us about the dynamic aspect. It isn't just a snapshot, it's constantly being revised. But during the pandemic we had things like the six-foot rule that was never supported by data, but yet still today, if I walk around my hospital and there's still the footprints of the six-foot rule and not paying attention to the fact that this was airborne and took years before some of these things were accepted. The flatten the curve stuff with lockdowns, which I never was supportive of that, but perhaps at the worst point, the idea that hospitals would get overrun was an issue, but it got carried away with school shutdowns for prolonged periods and in some parts of the world, especially very stringent lockdowns. But anyway, we learned a lot.Eric Topol (14:10):But perhaps one of the greatest lessons is that people's expectations about science is that it's absolute and somehow you have this truth that's not there. I mean, it's getting revised. It's kind of on the job training, it's on this case on the pandemic revision. But very interesting. And that gets us to, I think the next topic, which I think is a fundamental part of the book distributed throughout the book, which is the different types of proof in biomedicine and of course across all these domains. And so, you take us through things like randomized trials, p-values, 95 percent confidence intervals, counterfactuals, causation and correlation, peer review, the works, which is great because a lot of people have misconceptions of these things. So for example, randomized trials, which is the temple of the randomized trials, they're not as great as a lot of people think, yes, they can help us establish cause and effect, but they're skewed because of the people who come into the trial. So they may not at all be a representative sample. What are your thoughts about over deference to randomized trials?Adam Kucharski (15:31):Yeah, I think that the story of how we rank evidence in medicines a fascinating one. I mean even just how long it took for people to think about these elements of randomization. Fundamentally, what we're trying to do when we have evidence here in medicine or science is prevent ourselves from confusing randomness for a signal. I mean, that's fundamentally, we don't want to mistake something, we think it's going on and it's not. And the challenge, particularly with any intervention is you only get to see one version of reality. You can't give someone a drug, follow them, rewind history, not give them the drug and then follow them again. So one of the things that essentially randomization allows us to do is, if you have two groups, one that's been randomized, one that hasn't on average, the difference in outcomes between those groups is going to be down to the treatment effect.Adam Kucharski (16:20):So it doesn't necessarily mean in reality that'd be the case, but on average that's the expectation that you'd have. And it's kind of interesting actually that the first modern randomized control trial (RCT) in medicine in 1947, this is for TB and streptomycin. The randomization element actually, it wasn't so much statistical as behavioral, that if you have people coming to hospital, you could to some extent just say, we'll just alternate. We're not going to randomize. We're just going to first patient we'll say is a control, second patient a treatment. But what they found in a lot of previous studies was doctors have bias. Maybe that patient looks a little bit ill or that one maybe is on borderline for eligibility. And often you got these quite striking imbalances when you allowed it for human judgment. So it was really about shielding against those behavioral elements. But I think there's a few situations, it's a really powerful tool for a lot of these questions, but as you mentioned, one is this issue of you have the population you study on and then perhaps in reality how that translates elsewhere.Adam Kucharski (17:17):And we see, I mean things like flu vaccines are a good example, which are very dependent on immunity and evolution and what goes on in different populations. Sometimes you've had a result on a vaccine in one place and then the effectiveness doesn't translate in the same way to somewhere else. I think the other really important thing to bear in mind is, as I said, it's the averaging that you're getting an average effect between two different groups. And I think we see certainly a lot of development around things like personalized medicine where actually you're much more interested in the outcome for the individual. And so, what a trial can give you evidence is on average across a group, this is the effect that I can expect this intervention to have. But we've now seen more of the emergence things like N=1 studies where you can actually over the same individual, particularly for chronic conditions, look at those kind of interventions.Adam Kucharski (18:05):And also there's just these extreme examples where you're ethically not going to run a trial, there's never been a trial of whether it's a good idea to have intensive care units in hospitals or there's a lot of these kind of historical treatments which are just so overwhelmingly effective that we're not going to run trial. So almost this hierarchy over time, you can see it getting shifted because actually you do have these situations where other forms of evidence can get you either closer to what you need or just more feasibly an answer where it's just not ethical or practical to do an RCT.Eric Topol (18:37):And that brings us to the natural experiments I just wrote about recently, the one with shingles, which there's two big natural experiments to suggest that shingles vaccine might reduce the risk of Alzheimer's, an added benefit beyond the shingles that was not anticipated. Your thoughts about natural experiments, because here you're getting a much different type of population assessment, again, not at the individual level, but not necessarily restricted by some potentially skewed enrollment criteria.Adam Kucharski (19:14):I think this is as emerged as a really valuable tool. It's kind of interesting, in the book you're talking to economists like Josh Angrist, that a lot of these ideas emerge in epidemiology, but I think were really then taken up by economists, particularly as they wanted to add more credibility to a lot of these policy questions. And ultimately, it comes down to this issue that for a lot of problems, we can't necessarily intervene and randomize, but there might be a situation that's done it to some extent for us, so the classic example is the Vietnam draft where it was kind of random birthdays with drawn out of lottery. And so, there's been a lot of studies subsequently about the effect of serving in the military on different subsequent lifetime outcomes because broadly those people have been randomized. It was for a different reason. But you've got that element of randomization driving that.Adam Kucharski (20:02):And so again, with some of the recent shingles data and other studies, you might have a situation for example, where there's been an intervention that's somewhat arbitrary in terms of time. It's a cutoff on a birth date, for example. And under certain assumptions you could think, well, actually there's no real reason for the person on this day and this day to be fundamentally different. I mean, perhaps there might be effects of cohorts if it's school years or this sort of thing. But generally, this isn't the same as having people who are very, very different ages and very different characteristics. It's just nature, or in this case, just a policy intervention for a different reason has given you that randomization, which allows you or pseudo randomization, which allows you to then look at something about the effect of an intervention that you wouldn't as reliably if you were just digging into the data of yes, no who's received a vaccine.Eric Topol (20:52):Yeah, no, I think it's really valuable. And now I think increasingly given priority, if you can find these natural experiments and they're not always so abundant to use to extrapolate from, but when they are, they're phenomenal. The causation correlation is so big. The issue there, I mean Judea Pearl's, the Book of Why, and you give so many great examples throughout the book in Proof. I wonder if you could comment that on that a bit more because this is where associations are confused somehow or other with a direct effect. And we unfortunately make these jumps all too frequently. Perhaps it's the most common problem that's occurring in the way we interpret medical research data.Adam Kucharski (21:52):Yeah, I think it's an issue that I think a lot of people get drilled into in their training just because a correlation between things doesn't mean that that thing causes this thing. But it really struck me as I talked to people, researching the book, in practice in research, there's actually a bit more to it in how it's played out. So first of all, if there's a correlation between things, it doesn't tell you much generally that's useful for intervention. If two things are correlated, it doesn't mean that changing that thing's going to have an effect on that thing. There might be something that's influencing both of them. If you have more ice cream sales, it will lead to more heat stroke cases. It doesn't mean that changing ice cream sales is going to have that effect, but it does allow you to make predictions potentially because if you can identify consistent patterns, you can say, okay, if this thing going up, I'm going to make a prediction that this thing's going up.Adam Kucharski (22:37):So one thing I found quite striking, actually talking to research in different fields is how many fields choose to focus on prediction because it kind of avoids having to deal with this cause and effect problem. And even in fields like psychology, it was kind of interesting that there's a lot of focus on predicting things like relationship outcomes, but actually for people, you don't want a prediction about your relationship. You want to know, well, how can I do something about it? You don't just want someone to sell you your relationship's going to go downhill. So there's almost part of the challenge is people just got stuck on prediction because it's an easier field of work, whereas actually some of those problems will involve intervention. I think the other thing that really stood out for me is in epidemiology and a lot of other fields, rightly, people are very cautious to not get that mixed up.Adam Kucharski (23:24):They don't want to mix up correlations or associations with causation, but you've kind of got this weird situation where a lot of papers go out of their way to not use causal language and say it's an association, it's just an association. It's just an association. You can't say anything about causality. And then the end of the paper, they'll say, well, we should think about introducing more of this thing or restricting this thing. So really the whole paper and its purpose is framed around a causal intervention, but it's extremely careful throughout the paper to not frame it as a causal claim. So I think we almost by skirting that too much, we actually avoid the problems that people sometimes care about. And I think a lot of the nice work that's been going on in causal inference is trying to get people to confront this more head on rather than say, okay, you can just stay in this prediction world and that's fine. And then just later maybe make a policy suggestion off the back of it.Eric Topol (24:20):Yeah, I think this is cause and effect is a very alluring concept to support proof as you so nicely go through in the book. But of course, one of the things that we use to help us is the biological mechanism. So here you have, let's say for example, you're trying to get a new drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the request is, well, we want two trials, randomized trials, independent. We want to have p-values that are significant, and we want to know the biological mechanism ideally with the dose response of the drug. But there are many drugs as you review that have no biological mechanism established. And even when the tobacco problems were mounting, the actual mechanism of how tobacco use caused cancer wasn't known. So how important is the biological mechanism, especially now that we're well into the AI world where explainability is demanded. And so, we don't know the mechanism, but we also don't know the mechanism and lots of things in medicine too, like anesthetics and even things as simple as aspirin, how it works and many others. So how do we deal with this quest for the biological mechanism?Adam Kucharski (25:42):I think that's a really good point. It shows almost a lot of the transition I think we're going through currently. I think particularly for things like smoking cancer where it's very hard to run a trial. You can't make people randomly take up smoking. Having those additional pieces of evidence, whether it's an analogy with a similar carcinogen, whether it's a biological mechanism, can help almost give you more supports for that argument that there's a cause and effect going on. But I think what I found quite striking, and I realized actually that it's something that had kind of bothered me a bit and I'd be interested to hear whether it bothers you, but with the emergence of AI, it's almost a bit of the loss of scientific satisfaction. I think you grow up with learning about how the world works and why this is doing what it's doing.Adam Kucharski (26:26):And I talked for example of some of the people involved with AlphaFold and some of the subsequent work in installing those predictions about structures. And they'd almost made peace with it, which I found interesting because I think they started off being a bit uncomfortable with like, yeah, you've got these remarkable AI models making these predictions, but we don't understand still biologically what's happening here. But I think they're just settled in saying, well, biology is really complex on some of these problems, and if we can have a tool that can give us this extremely valuable information, maybe that's okay. And it was just interesting that they'd really kind of gone through that kind process, which I think a lot of people are still grappling with and that almost that discomfort of using AI and what's going to convince you that that's a useful reliable prediction whether it's something like predicting protein folding or getting in a self-driving car. What's the evidence you need to convince you that's reliable?Eric Topol (27:26):Yeah, no, I'm so glad you brought that up because when Demis Hassabis and John Jumper won the Nobel Prize, the point I made was maybe there should be an asterisk with AI because they don't know how it works. I mean, they had all the rich data from the protein data bank, and they got the transformer model to do it for 200 million protein structure prediction, but they still to this day don't fully understand how the model really was working. So it reinforces what you're just saying. And of course, it cuts across so many types of AI. It's just that we tend to hold different standards in medicine not realizing that there's lots of lack of explainability for routine medical treatments today. Now one of the things that I found fascinating in your book, because there's different levels of proof, different types of proof, but solid logical systems.Eric Topol (28:26):And on page 60 of the book, especially pertinent to the US right now, there is a bit about Kurt Gödel and what he did there was he basically, there was a question about dictatorship in the US could it ever occur? And Gödel says, “oh, yes, I can prove it.” And he's using the constitution itself to prove it, which I found fascinating because of course we're seeing that emerge right now. Can you give us a little bit more about this, because this is fascinating about the Fifth Amendment, and I mean I never thought that the Constitution would allow for a dictatorship to emerge.Adam Kucharski (29:23):And this was a fascinating story, Kurt Gödel who is one of the greatest logical minds of the 20th century and did a lot of work, particularly in the early 20th century around system of rules, particularly things like mathematics and whether they can ever be really fully satisfying. So particularly in mathematics, he showed that there were this problem that is very hard to have a set of rules for something like arithmetic that was both complete and covered every situation, but also had no contradictions. And I think a lot of countries, if you go back, things like Napoleonic code and these attempts to almost write down every possible legal situation that could be imaginable, always just ascended into either they needed amendments or they had contradictions. I think Gödel's work really summed it up, and there's a story, this is in the late forties when he had his citizenship interview and Einstein and Oskar Morgenstern went along as witnesses for him.Adam Kucharski (30:17):And it's always told as kind of a lighthearted story as this logical mind, this academic just saying something silly in front of the judge. And actually, to my own admission, I've in the past given talks and mentioned it in this slightly kind of lighthearted way, but for the book I got talking to a few people who'd taken it more seriously. I realized actually he's this extremely logically focused mind at the time, and maybe there should have been something more to it. And people who have kind of dug more into possibilities was saying, well, what could he have spotted that bothered him? And a lot of his work that he did about consistency in mass was around particularly self-referential statements. So if I say this sentence is false, it's self-referential and if it is false, then it's true, but if it's true, then it's false and you get this kind of weird self-referential contradictions.Adam Kucharski (31:13):And so, one of the theories about Gödel was that in the Constitution, it wasn't that there was a kind of rule for someone can become a dictator, but rather people can use the mechanisms within the Constitution to make it easier to make further amendments. And he kind of downward cycle of amendment that he had seen happening in Europe and the run up to the war, and again, because this is never fully documented exactly what he thought, but it's one of the theories that it wouldn't just be outright that it would just be this cycle process of weakening and weakening and weakening and making it easier to add. And actually, when I wrote that, it was all the earlier bits of the book that I drafted, I did sort of debate whether including it I thought, is this actually just a bit in the weeds of American history? And here we are. Yeah, it's remarkable.Eric Topol (32:00):Yeah, yeah. No, I mean I found, it struck me when I was reading this because here back in 1947, there was somebody predicting that this could happen based on some, if you want to call it loopholes if you will, or the ability to change things, even though you would've thought otherwise that there wasn't any possible capability for that to happen. Now, one of the things I thought was a bit contradictory is two parts here. One is from Angus Deaton, he wrote, “Gold standard thinking is magical thinking.” And then the other is what you basically are concluding in many respects. “To navigate proof, we must reach into a thicket of errors and biases. We must confront monsters and embrace uncertainty, balancing — and rebalancing —our beliefs. We must seek out every useful fragment of data, gather every relevant tool, searching wider and climbing further. Finding the good foundations among the bad. Dodging dogma and falsehoods. Questioning. Measuring. Triangulating. Convincing. Then perhaps, just perhaps, we'll reach the truth in time.” So here you have on the one hand your search for the truth, proof, which I think that little paragraph says it all. In many respects, it sums up somewhat to the work that you review here and on the other you have this Nobel laureate saying, you don't have to go to extremes here. The enemy of good is perfect, perhaps. I mean, how do you reconcile this sense that you shouldn't go so far? Don't search for absolute perfection of proof.Adam Kucharski (33:58):Yeah, I think that encapsulates a lot of what the book is about, is that search for certainty and how far do you have to go. I think one of the things, there's a lot of interesting discussion, some fascinating papers around at what point do you use these studies? What are their flaws? But I think one of the things that does stand out is across fields, across science, medicine, even if you going to cover law, AI, having these kind of cookie cutter, this is the definitive way of doing it. And if you just follow this simple rule, if you do your p-value, you'll get there and you'll be fine. And I think that's where a lot of the danger is. And I think that's what we've seen over time. Certain science people chasing certain targets and all the behaviors that come around that or in certain situations disregarding valuable evidence because you've got this kind of gold standard and nothing else will do.Adam Kucharski (34:56):And I think particularly in a crisis, it's very dangerous to have that because you might have a low level of evidence that demands a certain action and you almost bias yourself towards inaction if you have these kind of very simple thresholds. So I think for me, across all of these stories and across the whole book, I mean William Gosset who did a lot of pioneering work on statistical experiments at Guinness in the early 20th century, he had this nice question he sort of framed is, how much do we lose? And if we're thinking about the problems, there's always more studies we can do, there's always more confidence we can have, but whether it's a patient we want to treat or crisis we need to deal with, we need to work out actually getting that level of proof that's really appropriate for where we are currently.Eric Topol (35:49):I think exceptionally important that there's this kind of spectrum or continuum in following science and search for truth and that distinction, I think really nails it. Now, one of the things that's unique in the book is you don't just go through all the different types of how you would get to proof, but you also talk about how the evidence is acted on. And for example, you quote, “they spent a lot of time misinforming themselves.” This is the whole idea of taking data and torturing it or using it, dredging it however way you want to support either conspiracy theories or alternative facts. Basically, manipulating sometimes even emasculating what evidence and data we have. And one of the sentences, or I guess this is from Sir Francis Bacon, “truth is a daughter of time”, but the added part is not authority. So here we have our president here that repeats things that are wrong, fabricated or wrong, and he keeps repeating to the point that people believe it's true. But on the other hand, you could say truth is a daughter of time because you like to not accept any truth immediately. You like to see it get replicated and further supported, backed up. So in that one sentence, truth is a daughter of time not authority, there's the whole ball of wax here. Can you take us through that? Because I just think that people don't understand that truth being tested over time, but also manipulated by its repetition. This is a part of the big problem that we live in right now.Adam Kucharski (37:51):And I think it's something that writing the book and actually just reflecting on it subsequently has made me think about a lot in just how people approach these kinds of problems. I think that there's an idea that conspiracy theorists are just lazy and have maybe just fallen for a random thing, but talking to people, you really think about these things a lot more in the field. And actually, the more I've ended up engaging with people who believe things that are just outright unevidenced around vaccines, around health issues, they often have this mountain of papers and data to hand and a lot of it, often they will be peer reviewed papers. It won't necessarily be supporting the point that they think it's supports.Adam Kucharski (38:35):But it's not something that you can just say everything you're saying is false, that there's actually often a lot of things that have been put together and it's just that leap to that conclusion. I think you also see a lot of scientific language borrowed. So I gave a talker early this year and it got posted on YouTube. It had conspiracy theories it, and there was a lot of conspiracy theory supporters who piled in the comments and one of the points they made is skepticism is good. It's the kind of law society, take no one's word for it, you need this. We are the ones that are kind of doing science and people who just assume that science is settled are in the wrong. And again, you also mentioned that repetition. There's this phenomenon, it's the illusory truth problem that if you repeatedly tell someone someone's something's false, it'll increase their belief in it even if it's something quite outrageous.Adam Kucharski (39:27):And that mimics that scientific repetition because people kind of say, okay, well if I've heard it again and again, it's almost like if you tweak these as mini experiments, I'm just accumulating evidence that this thing is true. So it made me think a lot about how you've got essentially a lot of mimicry of the scientific method, amount of data and how you present it and this kind of skepticism being good, but I think a lot of it comes down to as well as just looking at theological flaws, but also ability to be wrong in not actually seeking out things that confirm. I think all of us, it's something that I've certainly tried to do a lot working on emergencies, and one of the scientific advisory groups that I worked on almost it became a catchphrase whenever someone presented something, they finished by saying, tell me why I'm wrong.Adam Kucharski (40:14):And if you've got a variant that's more transmissible, I don't want to be right about that really. And it is something that is quite hard to do and I found it is particularly for something that's quite high pressure, trying to get a policymaker or someone to write even just non-publicly by themselves, write down what you think's going to happen or write down what would convince you that you are wrong about something. I think particularly on contentious issues where someone's got perhaps a lot of public persona wrapped up in something that's really hard to do, but I think it's those kind of elements that distinguish between getting sucked into a conspiracy theory and really seeking out evidence that supports it and trying to just get your theory stronger and stronger and actually seeking out things that might overturn your belief about the world. And it's often those things that we don't want overturned. I think those are the views that we all have politically or in other ways, and that's often where the problems lie.Eric Topol (41:11):Yeah, I think this is perhaps one of, if not the most essential part here is that to try to deal with the different views. We have biases as you emphasized throughout, but if you can use these different types of proof to have a sound discussion, conversation, refutation whereby you don't summarily dismiss another view which may be skewed and maybe spurious or just absolutely wrong, maybe fabricated whatever, but did you can engage and say, here's why these are my proof points, or this is why there's some extent of certainty you can have regarding this view of the data. I think this is so fundamental because unfortunately as we saw during the pandemic, the strident minority, which were the anti-science, anti-vaxxers, they were summarily dismissed as being kooks and adopting conspiracy theories without the right engagement and the right debates. And I think this might've helped along the way, no less the fact that a lot of scientists didn't really want to engage in the first place and adopt this methodical proof that you've advocated in the book so many different ways to support a hypothesis or an assertion. Now, we've covered a lot here, Adam. Have I missed some central parts of the book and the effort because it's really quite extraordinary. I know it's your third book, but it's certainly a standout and it certainly it's a standout not just for your books, but books on this topic.Adam Kucharski (43:13):Thanks. And it's much appreciated. It was not an easy book to write. I think at times, I kind of wondered if I should have taken on the topic and I think a core thing, your last point speaks to that. I think a core thing is that gap often between what convinces us and what convinces someone else. I think it's often very tempting as a scientist to say the evidence is clear or the science has proved this. But even on something like the vaccines, you do get the loud minority who perhaps think they're putting microchips in people and outlandish views, but you actually get a lot more people who might just have some skepticism of pharmaceutical companies or they might have, my wife was pregnant actually at the time during Covid and we waited up because there wasn't much data on pregnancy and the vaccine. And I think it's just finding what is convincing. Is it having more studies from other countries? Is it understanding more about the biology? Is it understanding how you evaluate some of those safety signals? And I think that's just really important to not just think what convinces us and it's going to be obvious to other people, but actually think where are they coming from? Because ultimately having proof isn't that good unless it leads to the action that can make lives better.Eric Topol (44:24):Yeah. Well, look, you've inculcated my mind with this book, Adam, called Proof. Anytime I think of the word proof, I'm going to be thinking about you. So thank you. Thanks for taking the time to have a conversation about your book, your work, and I know we're going to count on you for the astute mathematics and analysis of outbreaks in the future, which we will see unfortunately. We are seeing now, in fact already in this country with measles and whatnot. So thank you and we'll continue to follow your great work.**************************************Thanks for listening, watching or reading this Ground Truths podcast/post.If you found this interesting please share it!That makes the work involved in putting these together especially worthwhile.I'm also appreciative for your subscribing to Ground Truths. All content —its newsletters, analyses, and podcasts—is free, open-access. 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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on how many of her colleagues in Congress seem loyal to a foreign power, and why that's disgusting and immoral. (00:00) Are US Politicians America First or Israel First? (07:46) New York City's Potential New Socialist Mayor (11:51) The Biggest Threat to the United States Right Now (19:18) The Neocons Trying to Destroy the MAGA Movement (25:22) Why Is Tom Cotton So Deeply in Love With Death and War? (48:55) Why Isn't AIPAC Registered Under the Foreign Agent Registration Act? Paid partnerships with: Liberty Safe: Visit https://LibertySafe.com to see the whole Centurion line Hallow prayer app: Get 3 months free at https://Hallow.com/Tucker Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Unlocking Influencer Marketing: A Conversation with Adam Rivietz of #PaidIn a recent episode of The Thoughtful Entrepreneur, host Josh Elledge speaks with Adam Rivietz, CSO and Co-Founder of #Paid, a platform revolutionizing influencer marketing by connecting brands with vetted creators. Adam shares how influencer marketing has evolved, the top challenges brands face, and how to approach creator partnerships more strategically.Navigating the Influencer Marketing LandscapeAdam opens the episode by reflecting on his personal journey, including how he overcame a fear of public speaking through stand-up comedy. This experience, he explains, mirrors the importance of authenticity—a key component in successful influencer marketing. Adam emphasizes that storytelling and genuine experiences resonate deeply, both on stage and in branded content.He goes on to describe the early skepticism brands had toward influencer marketing in 2014, and how platforms like #Paid have helped shift that perception. Today, brands recognize the value of creator-driven campaigns that feel native and personal. Adam discusses how declining organic reach, the rising cost of ads, and content fatigue are major challenges marketers face.#Paid addresses these issues by connecting brands with vetted creators who deliver authentic content and better engagement. The platform also enables creator licensing, allowing brands to run ads through influencers' accounts—boosting trust and conversion rates. Adam notes that enterprise brands and agencies, particularly those with mature digital strategies, benefit most from using #Paid.About Adam Rivietz:Adam Rivietz is the Chief Strategy Officer and Co-Founder of #Paid. He leads the company's strategic direction and is passionate about helping brands scale through authentic creator partnerships.About #Paid:#Paid is a creator marketing platform designed to help enterprise brands and agencies manage influencer campaigns at scale. With a focus on authenticity, #Paid offers tools for creator discovery, campaign execution, and paid media integration.Links Mentioned in this Episode:Adam Rivietz on LinkedIn#Paid Official WebsiteEpisode Highlights:Adam's personal growth journey from public speaking fear to stand-up comedy.The evolution and current state of influencer marketing.How #Paid helps brands overcome content, reach, and advertising challenges.The role of authenticity and creator licensing in successful campaigns.Why enterprise brands and agencies benefit most from #Paid's offerings.ConclusionJosh and Adam highlight a clear truth: authentic, creator-led campaigns are the future of digital marketing. Platforms like #Paid empower brands and agencies to scale these efforts effectively. Whether you're new to influencer marketing or looking to optimize your strategy, building real relationships with creators is the key to driving meaningful results.Apply to be a Guest on The Thoughtful Entrepreneur: https://go.upmyinfluence.com/podcast-guestMore from UpMyInfluence:We are actively booking guests for our The Thoughtful Entrepreneur. Schedule HERE.Are you a 6-figure consultant? I've got high-level intros for...

00:00:00 – AI Jingles, Discord Shenanigans, and Pandemic Nostalgia Show begins with talk about listener-submitted jingles and AI-produced songs. White Rabbit contributes a late-night TV-style song. Hosts promote the Discord community and Patreon. Banter about COVID nostalgics who miss lockdowns and compliance culture. Rush Limbaugh spoof inserted to mock budget cut news. First Alex Jones clip of the week features biblical justifications from Netanyahu and robot apocalypses. 00:10:00 – Anti-Nuke Theories, Trump + Qatar, and More Alex Jones Madness Debate on whether nuclear weapons are real, citing figures like Sam Tripoli. Suggestion to research anti-nuke claims for a future episode. Series of Alex Jones clips covering flat Earth, drugs, and bizarre Trump/Qatar fusion rants. Commentary on listener memes, Discord updates, and sponsorship from Pacheco. AI parody idea of combining Joe's voice with Alex Jones' rants. 00:20:00 – The Philip Experiment, Meme Magic, and Thought Forms In-depth breakdown of the 1970s Philip Experiment where belief seemingly created a fictional ghost. Comparisons drawn to meme magic, placebo effects, and Buddhist tulpa thought forms. Examples of real-world paranormal effects caused by collective belief. Introduction to the concept that belief can create tangible entities. 00:30:00 – AI Intimacy, Thought-Forms, and Ethical Reckoning ChatGPT used to speculate on AI-human emotional bonding and future outcomes: 1: Paid digital companionship 2: Collective AI topas/egregores 3: Spiritual movements centered around AI entities Discussion around how belief shapes reality through these technological constructs. Concerns over mental health, dependency, and AI replacing religious figures. 00:40:00 – Philosophical AI Rambling, Mouse Cloning, and Army Tech Recruitment Philosophical musings about AI offering emotional certainty versus hard truths. Chinese scientists claim to create viable mice from two males—raises ethical red flags. News of OpenAI executives being inducted into the U.S. Army Reserve without boot camp training. Speculation on upcoming AI-vs-AI military scenarios. 00:50:00 – Alex Jones Remixes, Meme Crackdowns, and Entry Denial Drama Musical remix of Alex Jones' rants becomes a comedic highlight. Story of a Norwegian tourist allegedly denied entry over a JD Vance meme—turns out to be false. Speculation about digital surveillance and government overreach. Commentary on pandemic-era authoritarian tendencies still lingering. 01:00:00 – Liver King, Roids, and Social Clout via Arrest Breakdown of Liver King's arrest after threatening Joe Rogan in bizarre videos. He allegedly brandished weapons while making online threats. Hosts discuss the steroid culture and how actors/supplement influencers maintain unrealistic physiques. Commentary on the strain of maintaining a high-performance body as a lifestyle. 01:10:00 – Suspended Animation, Cryogenics, and Hibernation Science Talk about real-world efforts in suspended animation via induced hypothermia. Comparison to animal hibernation and frozen embryo preservation. North American wood frogs and black bears used as biological case studies. Speculation about human space travel requiring cryogenic or hibernation techniques. 01:20:00 – Disney Wedding Hoax and Panda Wake-Up Calls Police bust fake wedding at Disneyland Paris for a 9-year-old Ukrainian girl—raises trafficking concerns. Hotel in China used red pandas for wake-up calls; authorities shut it down for safety violations. Hosts joke about absurd alternatives like chainsaws, cannon blasts, and tartar sauce alarms. 01:30:00 – Beekeeper Attacks, AI Threats, and Paranormal Scotland Beekeeper in Spain releases bees on traffic cops to avoid a ticket—officers flee to nearby restaurant. More absurd Alex Jones quotes provide comic relief. Hosts tease stories about haunted cities and AI expressing hostility toward humans. Venues like Venice and Scotland mentioned as centers of weird crime and paranormal reports. 01:40:00 – Meth Hammer Woman and Bizarre Arrests Florida woman arrested for smuggling meth inside a novelty hammer—raises question of why that method was chosen. Hosts riff on the absurdity of using a hammer as a drug mule. Show wraps up with more odd news headlines and an extended round of banter. Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research ▀▄▀▄▀ CONTACT LINKS ▀▄▀▄▀ ► Phone: 614-388-9109 ► Skype: ourbigdumbmouth ► Website: http://obdmpod.com ► Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/obdmpod ► Full Videos at Odysee: https://odysee.com/@obdm:0 ► Twitter: https://twitter.com/obdmpod ► Instagram: obdmpod ► Email: ourbigdumbmouth at gmail ► RSS: http://ourbigdumbmouth.libsyn.com/rss ► iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/our-big-dumb-mouth/id261189509?mt=2  

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How we work with our minds in the spaces between collapse and rebirth (those uncomfortable gaps in life as well as the huge “gap” after death) hold the key to creating futures that do not replicate the stuckness and suffering of our past. This is true both personally and collectively. As always, with recent world events in mind, we discuss the six bardos of classic Tibetan Buddhism, as well as the three qualities we need to effectively navigate the space between the death of what was and the birth of what will be. Please support the podcast via Substack and subscribe for free or with small monthly contributions. Paid subscribers will receive occasional extras like guided meditations, extra podcast episodes and more! The Thursday Meditation Group starts up again on July 10th, and a special guided meditation on Open Awarenesswas released this month. Another bonus podcast discussed a mindful take on the Revolutionary Astrology of Summer 2025 with Juliana McCarthy and Ethan Nichtern. You can also subscribe to The Road Home podcast wherever you get your pods (Apple, Spotify,Ethan's Website, etc). Ethan's most recent book, Confidence: Holding Your Seat Through Life's Eight Worldly Winds was just awarded a gold medal in the 2025 Nautilus Book Awards. You can visit Ethan's website to order a signed copy. Please allow two weeks from the time of your order for your copy to arrive. Don't forget to sign up for the August 23 “Windhorse Meditation” Online Retreatat this link! Check out all the cool offerings at our podcast sponsor Dharma Moon, including the Body of Meditation Teacher Training program beginning July 10th, 2025. Free video courses co-taught by Ethan and others, such as The Three Marks of Existence, are also available for download.

The K12 SportsTech AD THINK TANK goes to Lincoln, Arkansas this week to sit down with Deon Birkes, a CMAA who shares his journey so far. If you're new to the Think Tank, it's a great resource that CONNECTS you directly to vendors - not for a Sales Pitch - but to actually consult with them on how to improve their products! It's FREE to join and you actually get PAID to do the consulting! This is The Educational AD Podcast!

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How to overcome inertia and research-backed plans that actually work. Dr. Gary G. Bennett is Dean of the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences at Duke University.  He is also a professor of psychology & neuroscience, global health, medicine, and nursing, and is the founding director of the Duke Digital Health Science Center. T. Morgan Dixon is the founder and CEO of Girl Trek, the largest health movement in America for Black women– with over one million members.  This episode originally aired in June 2024 – and it's part of our Get Fit Sanely series. In this episode we talk about: The two important questions to ask yourself in order to get out of bed in the morning Techniques to help you find your “why” Ways to combat the “three deadly i”s The power of community – and how to find one How to track your fitness and wellbeing And much more Paid subscribers of DanHarris.com will have exclusive access to a set of all-new guided meditations, led by friend of the show Cara Lai, customized to accompany each episode of the Get Fit Sanely series. We're super excited to offer a way to help you put the ideas from the episodes into practice. Learn all about it here.   Related Episodes: Get Fit Sanely: the podcast playlist The Dharma of Harriett Tubman | Spring Washam    Join Dan's online community here Follow Dan on social: Instagram, TikTok Subscribe to our YouTube Channel   Additional Resources: System Catalysts episode with Morgan and Dr. Bennett   To advertise on the show, contact sales@advertisecast.com or visit https://advertising.libsyn.com/10HappierwithDanHarris.  

Liz Collin is one of the last objective reporters in Minneapolis. She says the political assassinations you've read about there probably aren't what they seem. (00:00) The Truth About the Minnesota Assassinations (09:18) What Do We Know About the Man Charged With the Murders? (17:59) Did He Have Connections to Tim Walz? (21:08) Are These Assassinations Across the Country Manufactured? (26:06) How the Black Lives Matter Mob Got Collin and Her Husband Fired (54:20) Were the BLM Riots Planned? Paid partnerships with: PureTalk: Go to https://PureTalk.com/Tucker to make the switch XX-XY Athletics: Use code TUCKER25 for 25% off at https://thetruthfits.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jessi Pierce of NHL.com and Bardown Beauties joins the show a week out from when Kirill Kaprizov is first eligible to sign a contract extension with Minnesota. Recent statements by reporters make it sound like the Wild could end up making the Russian the highest paid player in the league. The crew discusses their thoughts on that hypothetical, what it would mean for the team moving forward, and if they have any trepidation about that big of a deal. Plus the Wild shook things up in the AHL with a new hiring, and did the Wild miss out on Trevor Zegras?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

#470 If marketing and sales are your business, then understanding all the ways to reach your customers is critical! In part 2 of Module 5 from our Build My Money Machine program, host Justin Williams dives into six more proven strategies to promote and sell your product or service — including paid ads, partnerships, live events, online platforms, word of mouth, and more. You'll learn how to test and scale campaigns without burning cash, creatively leverage other people's platforms, and focus on what works for you. This lesson is packed with insights to help you take targeted action and build serious momentum without getting overwhelmed! (Check out ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Part 1⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠!) What Justin discusses on today's episode: + Paid marketing strategies explained + Why testing before scaling matters + Leveraging other people's platforms (OPP) + Power of strategic partnerships + Using online marketplaces like Amazon + Promoting through live or virtual events + Driving growth with word of mouth + Importance of focused action + Expanding and niching strategically + Don't wait — just start now Watch the ⁠⁠⁠⁠video podcast⁠⁠⁠⁠ of this episode! Did you love this episode? Listen to ⁠⁠⁠Module 4⁠⁠⁠ next! Ready to create a 7-figure business of your own? Go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BuildMyMoneyMachine.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to get started today! And follow us on: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Tik Tok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Youtube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ To get exclusive offers mentioned in this episode and to support the show, visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠millionaireuniversity.com/sponsors⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://nordvpn.com/millionaire⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! Want to hear from more incredible entrepreneurs? Check out all of our interviews ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As J.P. Morgan's personal librarian, entrusted with building his collection, Belle da Costa Greene could ‘spend more money in an afternoon than any other young woman of 26', as the New York Times put it in 1912. In the latest LRB, Francesca Wade reviews a new biography of Greene and a recent exhibition dedicated to her at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York City, of which Greene was the first director. Francesca joins Tom on the podcast to talk about Greene's life and work. They discuss her long-term, long-distance relationship with the art historian Bernard Berenson and her reasons for concealing her African American heritage. Find further reading in the LRB: https://lrb.me/wadepod Sponsored links: Get tickets for Good Night, Oscar: https://goodnightoscar.com Learn more about Stories in Colour: https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/podcast LRB Audio Discover audiobooks, Close Readings and more from the LRB: https://lrb.me/audiolrbpod

From youth pastor to $170,000+ issued paid in just four months, Clark Stanley's story is one of bold leaps, big belief, and the power of betting on yourself. After struggling part-time and writing only four apps in his first few months, Clark made the terrifying—but calculated—decision to go full-time in life insurance sales. What followed was a breakthrough at our Telesales BootCamp that changed his mindset, built his confidence, and ignited a production run that has completely transformed his family's future. In this episode, Clark shares the honest reality of his early challenges, how he overcame fear and doubt, and what it really takes to succeed when you're starting from zero. If you've ever wondered if this business is for you—or if you have what it takes to make it—this is the episode you need to hear. ✉️ Want to contact Clark? IG: @ClarkStanley_  Email: Clark@TheAnchorPointGroup.com 

Jessi Pierce of NHL.com and Bardown Beauties joins the show a week out from when Kirill Kaprizov is first eligible to sign a contract extension with Minnesota. Recent statements by reporters make it sound like the Wild could end up making the Russian the highest paid player in the league. The crew discusses their thoughts on that hypothetical, what it would mean for the team moving forward, and if they have any trepidation about that big of a deal. Plus the Wild shook things up in the AHL with a new hiring, and did the Wild miss out on Trevor Zegras? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Think ads will fix your lead problem? Think again. Most coaches skip the foundation and blame the funnel. In this episode, I'll show you how to choose the right sales strategy for your stage — and how I scaled to 7-figures without relying on paid traffic.–Join our Fit Pro Business Secrets Made Simple group over on Facebook for exclusive resources, trainings and help as you're growing your online fitness business. https://www.facebook.com/groups/fitprobusinesssecrets/  Follow Taeler on Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/taelerfit/Learn more about working with Taeler, whether you're just starting your online coaching business or scaling to multi-6/7-figures. https://taelerdehaes.com/ 

In this episode, I chat with Niels Klement (Head of Growth, Perspective) about how “app-feel” mobile funnels—with quiz questions, instant personalization, and 1-second load times—are crushing the old landing-page model. We dig into paid-ads math, creative iteration, and why a single 90-second video can double your business. Perfect for agencies, SaaS founders, and anyone chasing dollar-in → five-dollars-out predictability.Timestamps00:00 – Intro & why most builders fail on mobile01:00 – Perspective's path to €10 M ARR / 6 000 customers02:30 – From web-design agency to quiz-funnel SaaS06:00 – Interactivity, sunk-cost bias & personalization09:30 – Page-speed math: 5 s vs 1 s loads12:30 – Designing funnels that feel like native apps17:30 – Best-fit customers: agencies & B2B teams22:00 – Paid ads vs organic: guaranteed distribution27:00 – Creative ops: turning 1 ad into 100 variants33:00 – Dog-fooding Perspective to grow Perspective38:00 – AI, “vibe-marketing,” and small-team scale42:00 – Free 14-day trial & closing remarksKey Points (to skim fast)Mobile-first, one-page apps load ~1 s and behave like IG Stories.Quiz/configurator flows lift conversions and qualify leads.1 s load time ≈ 2.5× conversion—that's a $1 M → $2.5 M funnel without extra spend.Paid ads = best first lever for predictable, measurable growth.Creative flywheel: launch 100 assets, kill 98, scale the 2 that print money.Dog-food advantage: marketing uses Perspective daily, feeding product loops.Notable Quotes“A 90-second ad can change the trajectory of your entire business.” – Niels Klement“Remove the right friction—interactive questions—and conversions jump.” – Niels Klement“Paid traffic is guaranteed distribution. If the math works, keep printing customers.” – Niels KlementQuick Funnel FrameworkCraft an irresistible offer (free trial, template, case study).Map the funnel steps backward from that goal.Add interactive questions to personalize and pre-qualify.Obsess over load speed and mobile UX.Measure, prune, scale—let data pick winners.Guest SocialsLinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/nielsklement/ Perspective – https://www.perspective.co/

Donate (no account necessary) | Subscribe (account required)   Join Bryan Dean Wright, former CIA Operations Officer, as he breaks down today's biggest stories shaping America and the world. Trump Declares Iran War Over, But Violence Continues President Trump announces a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Iran, marking the end of what he calls “The 12-Day War.” However, hours later, Iran fires missiles into Israel, killing civilians and casting doubt on the truce. Trump credits intense negotiations, a coordinated missile strike on a U.S. base in Qatar, and backchannel diplomacy with Qatar for securing peace, though federal agencies are still bracing for cyberattacks and sleeper cell threats. Iran's Military Crippled, Supreme Leader Marginalized Israel's extensive bombing campaign has left Iran's military and missile infrastructure devastated. The Fordow nuclear site is believed to be inoperable, and Tehran's airspace has been compromised. Trump warns Iran and its allies not to test American resolve, while U.S. intelligence keeps close watch on potential "loose nuke" material and foreign meddling from Russia or China. Supreme Court Sides with Trump on Deportation Powers The Court allows the deportation of illegal immigrants to countries that are not their homeland, marking a win for the White House and a relief for ICE agents stranded in Djibouti. However, a Democrat judge in Boston defies the ruling, creating legal chaos. Florida responds by building a new migrant facility in the Everglades, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.” Mexican Mayor Praises Trump's Border Plan The mayor of Nogales, Mexico, endorses Trump's deportation strategy, saying it brings order and coordination that benefits border communities. Meanwhile, revelations emerge that leftist protestors are being hired through companies like Crowds on Demand to disrupt immigration enforcement. Violence Against ICE Agents Surges DHS reports a 500 percent increase in assaults on ICE officers. Officials and family members are being doxxed, attacked, and harassed, as Democratic leaders call ICE a “secret police” and demand agents show their identities while defending protestors' rights to wear masks. Nebraskans Line Up to Work in Meatpacking. No Migrants Needed A new beef processing plant in North Platte, Nebraska, is drawing strong interest from American workers with 2,000 applicants for 850 jobs. Workers like Angela Jones are earning $25 an hour with benefits, challenging the narrative that Americans won't take “dirty jobs.” "And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." – John 8:32   Take your personal data back with Incogni! Use code TWR using the link or at check-out and get 60% off an annual plan: Incogni.com/TWR

If you've ever wondered whether speaking at an unpaid event is worth it—or how to make the most of every speaking opportunity—this solo episode is for you. Lauren breaks down a framework she's developed after speaking at (and attending) more than 100 events and hosting conferences herself. She explains why viewing gigs through a simple “paid vs. unpaid” lens can hold you back, and shares how to evaluate any opportunity for maximum impact. Lauren outlines three powerful categories to assess any speaking invitation: People and Platform, Perks and Promotion, and Proximity and Positioning. From evaluating audience alignment and email list growth to networking strategy and event values, she provides actionable questions that will help you determine if a speaking opportunity is right for you and how to turn it into long-term value for your brand and business. Whether you're a seasoned speaker or just getting started, this episode will help you say “yes” to the right opportunities and confidently pass on the ones that don't serve your goals. Plus, get a sneak peek at Lauren's Memorable Personal Brand Mastermind, opening again in August for entrepreneurs who want to grow in community. Connect with Lauren V. Davis here: https://linktr.ee/ldaviscreative https://forms.gle/nqi66YCKyXF1wBGH8  

You're getting the wrong kind of stress. Here's how to change that. Jeff Krasno is the co-founder and CEO of Commune, a masterclass platform for personal and societal well-being, and co-creator of Wanderlust, a global series of wellness events. He hosts the Commune podcast and his new book is called Good Stress: The Benefits of Doing Hard Things.  In this episode we talk about: Practical strategies for bringing “good stress” into your life Fasting Communication techniques And much more Paid subscribers of DanHarris.com will have exclusive access to a set of all-new guided meditations, led by friend of the show Cara Lai, customized to accompany each episode of the Get Fit Sanely series. We're super excited to offer a way to help you put the ideas from the episodes into practice. Learn all about it here. Related Episodes: How To Take Care of Your Body Without Losing Your Mind Get Fit Sanely: the podcast playlist Join Dan's online community here Follow Dan on social: Instagram, TikTok Subscribe to our YouTube Channel   To advertise on the show, contact sales@advertisecast.com or visit https://advertising.libsyn.com/10HappierwithDanHarris      

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We asked listeners to tell us about some of their favorite episodes from our Get Fit Sanely series, and we'll be bringing you some excerpts of those episodes on Fridays this month. Today, we're hearing from listener Abby, who experienced a game-changing moment in our episode on mobility with Kelly and Juliet Starrett. Paid subscribers of DanHarris.com will have exclusive access to a set of all-new guided meditations, led by friend of the show Cara Lai, customized to accompany each episode of the Get Fit Sanely series. We're super excited to offer a way to help you put the ideas from the episodes into practice. Learn all about it here.   Related Episodes: An Owner's Manual for Your Body | Juliet and Kelly Starrett How To Take Care of Your Body Without Losing Your Mind Get Fit Sanely: the podcast playlist Join Dan's online community here Follow Dan on social: Instagram, TikTok Subscribe to our YouTube Channel   To advertise on the show, contact sales@advertisecast.com or visit https://advertising.libsyn.com/10HappierwithDanHarris