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Robert Scoble is an American blogger, technical evangelist, and author. Scoble is best known for his blog, Scobleizer, which came to prominence during his tenure as a technology evangelist at Microsoft.You can find him on X: @ScobleizerHis podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/robert-scoble4
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My guest, Emmanuel Maggiori (PhD), is a 10-year AI industry insider and author of the book Smart Until It's Dumb: Why artificial intelligence keeps making epic mistakes (and why the AI bubble will burst). He has developed AI for a wide variety of applications, from extracting objects from satellite images to packaging holiday deals for millions of travelers every day, working as a data scientist and software engineer for various clients. After studying software engineering in Argentina, he completed his PhD at Inria, the French national IT research lab.He joins me to discuss the dangers of AI and where it can excel. Is AI delivering on its promises? Is AI as good as we think it is? What can humans do better than AI? Do we need AI tools everywhere or are we putting it to use where it is not needed? Is there too much pressure to implement it everywhere? Is it overhyped? Should we be worried?
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These days, wars arenât merely fought on battlefields. The battle is also for public sentiment and perception. Whether weâre talking about government propaganda, or the massive spread of lies on an unprecedented scale due to speed of transmissionâit is not something to be dismissed lightly. On this episode of Forbidden Conversations, I talk to combat veteran and national security/military analyst, John Spencer about the state of modern warfare, Russiaâs war crimes in Ukraine, the situation in Israel, what âdisproportionate responseâ really means, and the difficulty of fighting both mis and disinformation.I also encourage you to read his insightful article for CNN about whether Israel is actually committing war crimes in Gaza.John Spencer is an award-winning scholar, professor, author, combat veteran, national security and military analyst, and internationally recognized expert and advisor on urban warfare, military strategy, tactics, and other related topics. Considered one of the worldâs leading expert on urban warfare, he served as an advisor to the top four-star general and other senior leaders in the U.S. Army as part of strategic research groups from the Pentagon to the United States Military Academy.He is the author of three books: Understanding Urban Warfare, (Howgate Publishing, 2022), Connected Soldiers: Life, Leadership, and Social Connections in Modern War (Potomac Books, 2022), The Mini-Manual for the Urban Defender (John Spencer, 2022).Spencer currently serves as the Chair of Urban Warfare Studies at the Modern War Institute at West Point, Co-Director of the Urban Warfare Project, and host of the Urban Warfare Project podcast. He serves as the Chair of Urban Warfare Studies with the Madison Policy Forum, a New York based think-tank. He also serves as a Colonel in the California State Guard with assignment to the 40th Infantry Division, California Army National Guard as the Director of Urban Warfare Training. He is a founding member of the International Working Group on Subterranean Warfare.You can find him on X at @SpencerGuard.
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My guest, Gurwinder Bhogal, is a writer examining the intersection of psychology and technology. On this episode of Forbidden Conversations, we explore some of the ideas central to his workânamelyâways in which we tend to get fooled in the digital age. Why have we seemingly abandoned reason? Is the Internet really rotting our brain, or do we share that responsibility? We have more data available to us than ever before, but it isnât necessarily making us more knowledgeable. And thereâs few of us that have been able to avoid the Kruger-Dunning effect. Why is it that smart people believe false things? And why is it so difficult for many of us to change our minds?
Most importantly, what is the antidote?
After working in web development on projects like Microsoft Bing, Gurwinder left the tech industry to pursue a career as a freelance writer. His work has featured in UnHerd, Quillette, Areo, The Humanist, The Sunday Express, and on the blog of the counter-terrorism think-tank Quilliam. He also writes at
Gurwinder gurwinder.substack.com and you can find him on Twitter.
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Is freedom of speech really under attack? Are things getting worse? What is causing many people to be worried about too much free speech? Why are these issues of particular concern on campuses? Is cancel culture literally claiming lives?Thereâs probably no better guest to tackle these questions (and many more) than Greg Lukianoff, attorney, New York Times best-selling author co-author of The Coddling of the American Mind with Jonathan Haidt, and the President and CEO of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). Lukianoff is also the author of Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate, Freedom From Speech, and FIREâs Guide to Free Speech on Campus. He is the Executive Producer of Can We Take a Joke? (2015), a feature-length documentary that explores the collision between comedy, censorship, and outrage culture, both on and off campus, and of Mighty Ira: A Civil Liberties Story (2020), an award-winning feature-length film about the life and career of former ACLU Executive Director Ira Glasser.He has been published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, and numerous other publications. Heâs also appeared on shows like CBS Evening News, The Today Show, and NPRâs Morning Edition. In 2008, he became the first-ever recipient of the Playboy Foundationâs Freedom of Expression Award, and he has testified before both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives about free speech issues on Americaâs college campuses.His upcoming book (co-authored with Rikki Schlott), The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us AllâBut There Is a Solution, is due to be released on October 17.Follow him on Twitter at: @JonHaidt---The FORBIDDEN CONVERSATIONS Podcast is a series that takes on topics that don't always get attention or are more challenging to tackle and seeks to address them through civil discourse and nuanced exploration. To view all episodes so far, visit here.Want to listen only? Find us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.---Find more essays and podcasts at: http://www.katherinewrites.com
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My guest is on this episode of Forbidden Conversations is Adam B. Coleman. We speak about the increased radicalization in the world, hypocrisy, the state of journalism, how "culture wars" affect regular people, boycotts, the laptop class vs the working class, and more. Join us for a random conversation.
Adam is the author of Black Victim To Black Victor, op-ed writer, public speaker, and the founder of Wrong Speak Publishing. He is a columnist for Human Events, a frequent contributor for The New York Post & The Publica, and has articles published in Newsweek, The Federalist, The Epoch Times, Daily Mail, The Post Millennial, Unherd, ScoonTV, Free Black Thought, Life News HQ & Human Defense Initiative.
You can find him on Twitter & Instagram: @wrong_speak or on Facebook. You can read his musings on his own Substack.
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Carol Roth explains how much control the WEF might actually have on society or whether itâs a conspiracy. Are we really on the precipice of a ânew financial world orderâ? Is the social credit system just something thatâs restricted to China? Whatâs the role of âBig Techâ? Will we all âown nothingâ and âbe happyâ? Why are companies really adapting ESG? Whatâs happened to the American Dream, is it dead? And what can we do to empower ourselves? Or is it too late?Carol Roth is a ârecoveringâ investment banker; entrepreneur; TV pundit and host; speaker; economic, business, and financial commentator; content developer; and New York Times bestselling author. Her books include The Entrepreneur Equation, The War on Small Business and now, You Will Own Nothing (out 7/18/23).
Carol has worked in a variety of capacities across industries, including currently as an outsourced chief customer officer (CCO), as a director on public and private company boards, and as a strategic advisor and C-level consigliere. Carol connects the dots on financial, business, and economic issues for novice and pro audiences alike. She is also the creator of the Future File legacy planning system and software (FutureFile.com). Carol advocates for small business, small government, and big hair. Coming from a blue-collar family, Carol has worked hard to seize the American Dream, and is fighting to preserve that opportunity for all Americans. For more information or to connect with Carol, visit CarolRoth.com.
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Freely Ashley is a former leftist turned independent conservative that shares political and cultural commentary on YouTube, TikTok, and Twitter. With a refreshingly healthy dose of common sense.
Iâve always found it rather interesting to learn about what it is that causes people to change their beliefsâwhatever they might be. How does someone become entrenched in one belief and what allows them to challenge their own point of view? As youâll hear in our conversation, Ashleyâs beliefs were rather entrenched.
We also get into some topics that were more âunscheduled,â like abortion. A contentious subject, and yet, despite our differing views, we are able to hold a civil discourse around itâunlike so many of our peers. Which brings us to another subject: Why is it so difficult to have conversations with those around us who disagree? What happens when people resort to personal attacks? And what happens when people on each âsideâ take extreme positions?
Sure, our views might not exactly align on a number of topics, but what Ashley and me share is a willingness to not view our ideological opposites as âenemiesâ or âevilâ and to try and understand how other peopleâs views are shaped, as well as to try and find some common ground.
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Thereâs unfortunately a level of concern that comes from having a conversation about vaccine injury in the current climate. On the one hand, one worries that a group would use such a case to spread radical claims and conspiracy theories to fully discredit vaccines in the service of sensationalized narratives. On the other, there is always those perfectly willing to dismiss and gaslight someoneâs personal experience as something thatâs just made up or exaggerated. Something that often happens with those dealing with the consequences of long COVID as well.
But we must be able to have these conversations openly and with nuance, or else weâd never be able to confront the reality of things.
And the reality is that with any medical intervention there is always a riskâsomething that has always been the case with any vaccine/treatment. Why should pharmaâs answer to COVIDâthe mRNA technologyâbe any different? In fact, in this case, it has had much less time to be tested, studied, and examined. The question is, whatâs the extent of this impact?
There are more qualified people to answer that particular question than me, so Iâll leave it to them.
My discourse on this episode of the Forbidden Conversations podcast focuses on just one case and the personal experience of one person. That someone happens to be one of Australiaâs most revered music photographers, Michelle Grace Hunder. She's photographed the likes of Billie Eilish, Dua Lipa, Shawn Mendes, Drake, Lauryn Hill, Mark Ronson, Kendrick Lamar, and Ruel.
What makes her case particularly noteworthy is that itâs more than a mere claim based on conjectureâit is documented and her unfortunate injury has been officially diagnosed as caused by the vaccine.
In our far-ranging conversation, we discuss Australiaâs strict lockdown laws, the mandates, her dealings with the medical system, her injury, how her experiences ultimately profoundly changed her views, and whether sheâd be able to trust institutions again.
As photographer Michelle has two separate portrait series in the National Sound and Film Archive of Australia, has published âRISE,â a photographic book detailing her personal journey into the world of Australian Hip-Hop after shooting with literally every major player in the Australian Hip-Hip scene. She also spent four years on a major personal project called "Her Sound, Her Story" celebrating Women in Australian Music, across all genres, with her project partner, Claudia Sangiorgi Dalimore.
Her unique style captures the raw energy and emotion of live performances, and her photographs have been featured in numerous publications and exhibitions.
Find her on her official website, Instagram and Twitter.
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Many of us only hear about opioids from one perspectiveâgenerally that of doctors over-prescribing them and patients getting addicted. Or worse, some of them ending up on the black market. Iâve heard many such stories myself, including directly from those who were affected by these addictions and struggled to get out from under them.
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, in the United States alone, an estimated 2.1 million people had an opioid use disorder in 2019 and opioid overdoses accounted for over 47,000 deaths in 2018. According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, in 2020, 1.7 million people in the US had a substance use disorder involving prescription pain relievers.
Such statistics have led to what my guest on this episode of the Forbidden Conversations podcast refers to as the âopioid prohibitionâ and it affects him personally.
Peter Pischke has been disabled since age 18, starting with chronic pancreatitis, further developing diabetes, severe eyesight problems with photophobia (extreme light sensitivity) and autoimmune issues. His health condition is very painful, but the current state of medicine and regulations around opioids have made him unable to get effective pain treatment.
What make his alternative perspective valuable is that not only does he have personal experience dealing with the lack of access to opioids for his pain management, but also because he is a disabled journalist who investigates health and disability issues, especially the opioid crisis and its devastating impact.
He challenges the myths and stigma of opioid prohibition while promoting evidence-based policies. His work has appeared in publications such as Reason, Newsweek, NY Daily News, and USA Today. He is a member of Young Voices. You can find him on Twitter @happywarriorp or tune in to his podcast with Baen Books, CultureScape, where he interviews the geek creators who shaped nerd culture.
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When Peter Santenello was 24 years old, he took his $20,000 in saving, left the U.S. for the first time and spent the next two years travelling around 50 countries, debunking for himself the fear-based narratives that he was taught in his youth and learning about the world around him.
Today, he does much of the same for his 1.6M YouTube subscribers who tune in to his videos to help them discover cultures, places and stories that the media so often fails to capture. Whether itâs the Hasidic Jewish community in New York, Chicano culture in East LA, the Amish, Skid Row, Compton, a Native American reservation, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, or the U.S./Mexico borderâwhat distinguishes Santenello from most is his tremendous openness and curiosity when it comes to capturing these stories and unique communities. And heâs often willing to go places where much of the mainstream has more often tended to ignore.
In this episode, we discuss why some cultures tend to be more widely misunderstood, why his work has resonated so much with audiences, how he keeps his own views and biases from tainting his coverage, how he decides what topics and cultures to cover, how heâs able to gain the trust of the people featured in his stories, the increasing polarization in our media coverage, and whether heâs found any universal truths throughout his many adventures and conversations.
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As of late, Iâve become increasingly aware of how specific words have been infecting our consciousness. How the oversimplification of language and, hence, concepts has been doing harm to our society and discourse. I call that: Word misappropriation.
This phenomenon occurs when groups of people pillage a particular word or term, declare their own definition of it and then insist that the rest of us accept that very definition and all the beliefs systems that follow it.
These are often the beliefs, and definitions, of very specific and aggressively vocal groups of people and often have little in common with objective reality. In this way, at worst, words become weaponized. At best: Objects of mass confusion. If we canât even agree on the definitions of words and discuss them openly, how could we possibly begin to approach discussing what it is that they really mean for us? What happens when words are robbed of their true meaning?
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What happens when filmmakers and creative people begin to self-censor?
This episode of the Forbidden Conversations Podcast has me going back to my cinematic roots as I get to speak with, Chris Gore, the founder and publisher of one of the top independent film review websites FilmThreatâwhich he started as a zine in 1985.
In addition to to FilmThreat, Chris also hosts the â FilmThreat Livecastâ on YouTube and is the author of several books, most notably The Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide. Chris is also a filmmaker, having written and produced My Big Fat Independent Movie and directed Attack of the Doc. Chris has hosted shows on FX, Starz, IFC and appeared as a regular on G4TVâs Attack of the Show. His documentary about Attack of the Show and G4TV is coming to VOD on April 24th. For all the details, â visit hereâ . You can find him on Twitter at â @thatchrisgoreâ & â @FilmThreatâ .
Like Chris, I used to run a popular online magazine that was dedicated to covering filmâas well as other topics. Mine shut down circa 2003 or so. But I had continued working in film and television interviewing hundreds of actors and filmmakers, producing creative content on sets, and as a unit publicistâsometimes even getting to travel with productions to exotic locations like Morocco and, well, Paris.
Throughout our time working and playing within the entertainment industry, both of us have observed the industry around us change. Artists in particular became affected by the self-silencing plague, unable to freely express their artistic impulses for fear of offending the wrong colleague or executive and see their career ended. Audiences suffered as result, too, exposed to sanitized content. Or worse, narratives that overtly push agendas over telling compelling stories. âTodayâs writers canât write subtext,â says Chris.â And while we saw more representation on the screen and off, there were many important voices who got unfairly pushed out because they didnât check off the right boxesâor if those particular boxes were already checked off by âtoo many people.â
Those are just some of the topics that we cover in our far-ranging conversation.
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My guest on this episode of Forbidden Conversations is Buck Angel, a motivational speaker, filmmaker, entrepreneur, and human rights activist. He is also someone who identifies as a transexualâa female who lives as a man. Born female in 1962, he never felt female and struggled with his identity until he had the opportunity to transition later in life at age 28 when it was still a very new phenomenon.
A major component of Buckâs message is about self-acceptance and he has sparked many conversations, making appearances on HBO, National Geographic, Netflix, The Tyra Banks Show, Dan Savage, Howard Stern, Much Music, and many others. Heâs also been written about in Forbes, Esquire, VICE, BuzzFeed, The Village Voice, Rolling Stone, New York Times, and others.
And now, on this podcast.
Regardless on where you sit on the trans debate, I hope that you can watch this episode with an open mind and I suspect that it may challenge some of your views. One of the things that I really respect about Buck is how open he is and how important it was for him to ensure that I wasnât tip-toeing around anything during our conversation. In fact, thatâs what tends to keep us apart rather than bringing us together.
My intention with this episode was to provide a nuanced perspective and representation. Too often, we are exposed to the most extreme examples within the âcommunity,â whereas the truth is that there is no such thing. Trans people are individuals and have a diversity of opinions/views.
I hope you listen to our conversation with an open mind. If nothing else, I made a new friend. Please follow Buck on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
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Masking. Standing 6 feet apart. Showing vaccine passports whenever you enter a public space. Whether you agree or disagree with such measures, those are just some of the ways we were asked to comply during the pandemic. Pupils of history will recognize that this situation is not unique and that compliance has been used both for good and evil throughout centuries. The psychology of why we agree to go along with thingsâsometimes ones that donât logically make sense, or go against our moral reasoningâis fascinating and complex.
The Milgram Obedience Experiment had participants deliver what they believed to be electrical shock to another person on the orders of an authority figure. The Stanford Prison Experiment in the 1970s had participants take on the roles of guards and prisoners and showed how people would mold into whatever expectations came with their social roles. The experiment had to be terminated after only six days after the "guards" had started displaying abusive behavior towards the "prisoners." Group affiliation, size, and power dynamics all play important roles when it comes to compliance and these experiments also revealed how easily peopleâs behavior can be manipulatedâeven when they are aware that they are part of a study.
My guest on this episode of FORBIDDEN CONVERSATIONS is Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, a physician specializing in psychiatry and author of three books, including most recently, The New Abnormal: The Rise of the Biomedical Security State (2022). He is a Fellow & Director of the Program in Bioethics and American Democracy at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and a Senior Scholar & Fellow at the Brownstone Institute.
Dr. Kheriaty also serves as Senior Fellow and Director of the Health and Human Flourishing Program at the Zephyr Institute, and Chief of Medical Ethics at The Unity Project. Dr. Kheriaty holds the positions of Scholar at the Paul Ramsey Institute, Fellow at the National Catholic Bioethics Center, and serves on the advisory board at the Simone Weil Center for Political Philosophy.â
Dr. Kheriaty graduated from the University of Notre Dame in philosophy and pre-medical sciences, earned his MD degree from Georgetown University, and completed residency training in psychiatry at the University of California Irvine. For many years he was Professor of Psychiatry at UCI School of Medicine and Director of the Medical Ethics Program at UCI Health, where he chaired the ethics committee. He also chaired the ethics committee at the California Department of State Hospitals for several years.â
Dr. Kheriaty has authored books and articles for professional and lay audiences on bioethics, public health, political theory, social science, psychiatry, philosophy, religion, and culture. His work has been published in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Newsweek, The Federalist, Compact, The New Atlantis, Arc Digital, Public Discourse, City Journal, and First Things. He has conducted print, radio, and television interviews on bioethics topics with The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, CNN, Fox, NPR, EWTN, and Epoch TV.
On matters of public policy and healthcare he has addressed the United States Senate, the California Medical Association, and has testified before the California Senate Health Committee. Dr. Kheriaty has consulted on Covid related ethical issues during the pandemic for the UC Office of the President, the County of Orange Healthcare Agency, and the California Department of Public Health.
Find him on Twitter and Instagram.
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My guest on this episode is none other than the wonderful writer, host, podcaster, and comedian Bridget Phetasy. This happens to be our second conversation, with the first taking place during my appearance on her own terrific podcast, Walk-Ins Welcome. So, in a way, this is round two for us. We decided to just let loose and see where the conversation takes us, but we make a lot of stops along the way. We talk about rising extremes, the right fighting with the same tactics as the left, labels, political homelessness, how to avoid falling into thought traps, trusting your own opinions, nurturing an audience that feels empowered to disagree with you, the economics of being an independent speaker, and how to deal with noise of social media.
Bridget Phetasy is a writer and stand-up comedian. She incorporates vulnerability, satire, and mischief into themes about independence, recovery, wellness, and the critical importance of dialogue in our daily civic life.
Bridget has contributed to a wide variety of publications such as SpectatorUSA, Huffington Post,Playboy, Tablet Magazine, The Washington Examiner, The Federalist, The New York Post, Mel Magazine and New York Daily News, sharing her opinions, advice and stories of struggle, faith, grit and resilience.
Her weekly podcast, Walk-Ins Welcome, has become staple listening for many influencers in the social media space. Her relaxed and conversational style provides an easily accessible environment for the sharing of important and topical ideas.
Her YouTube show Dumpster Fire is a satirical commentary on the ridiculousness of the 24-hour news cycle, the culture wars, media, social media and humanity in general. Bridget is passionate about issues related to addiction, recovery, mental health, sex, and relationships, and is honest in sharing her own experiences. She is a fearless advocate of free speech and tackles the topics of self-censorship and cancel culture with vigor, providing a refreshing dose of common sense in an increasingly insane culture.
Find her on Twitter, Instagram, and consider joining her community of supporters.
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What responsibility does an employee or executive have to its corporate employer when it comes to limiting or using their freedom of speech? Does a corporation have the right to control speech? What about their spouse's? What happens when itâs at cross-roads with their own agenda or image? Is some speech deemed more acceptable than other? Thatâs at the core of much of our discourse on this episode of FORBIDDEN CONVERSATIONS where Iâm joined by Jennifer Sey, who had risen through the ranks at Leviâs over her 20+ year tenure at the company and was on her way to become its CEO, until she was pushed to resign due to her vocal opposition to public school closure at the height of the pandemic.
â¶ïž WATCH on YouTubeJennifer Sey is an American author, filmmaker, business executive and retired artistic gymnast. She was the 1986 USA Gymnastics National Champion, and a 7-time member of the U.S. Womenâs National Team.
Her first memoir, "Chalked Up," was published in 2008, and detailed the systemic abuse of children in the sport of gymnastics. She also produced the 2020 Emmy award-winning documentary film, "Athlete A.â
Sey began working at Levi Strauss & Co. as a marketing assistant in 1999, rising to Chief Marketing Officer and then Global Brand President. In January 2022, she was asked to resign because of her vocal opposition to the extended closure of San Franciscoâs public schools.
Seyâs latest memoir, âLeviâs Unbuttoned,â not only recounts her rise up the corporate ladder and the events that led to her ouster, it also gives an unprecedented, insiderâs view of the cruel, exploitative hypocrisy that underpins woke capitalism. She is a mother of four, and now resides in Denver with her family.Twitter: @JenniferSey
IG: jenseysf
Substack: jennifersey.substack.com
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This time, author, journalist, environmentalist, and former gubernatorial candidate Michael Shellenberger joins me on the FORBIDDEN CONVERSATIONS podcast to talk about âhomelessnessâ as well as a bit of TwitterFiles discourse thrown in for good measure. We discuss the real problems, ethical and practical challenges, as well as potential solutions.
MICHAEL SHELLENBERGER is founder and president of Environmental Progress, an independent nonprofit research organization that incubates ideas, leaders, and movements. Michael is a Time Magazine "Hero of the Environment," and Green Book Award winner. And he is cofounder of the California Peace Coalition, an alliance of parents of children killed by fentanyl, parents of homeless addicts, and recovering addicts.
Shellenberger has ran for election for Governor of California twice.
Shellenberger is a leading investigative journalist who has broken major stories on crime and drug policy; homelessness; Amazon deforestation; rising climate resilience; growing eco-anxiety; the U.S. governmentâs role in the fracking revolution; and climate change and Californiaâs fires. And he testifies and advises governments around the world including in the United States, United Kingdom, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, the Philippines, Australia, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany.
Shellenberger has been called a âenvironmental guru,â âclimate guru,â âNorth Americaâs leading public intellectual on clean energy,â and âhigh priestâ of the environmental humanist movement for his writings and TED talks, which have been viewed over five million times. He has been a climate and environmental activist for over 30 years. He has helped save nuclear reactors around the world, from Illinois and New York to South Korea and Taiwan, thereby preventing an increase in air pollution equivalent to adding over 24 million cars to the road. Michael lives in Berkeley, California and travels widely.
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The latest guest on the FORBIDDEN CONVERSATIONS podcast series is none other than Zuby, an independent rapper, author, podcast host, public speaker and creative entrepreneur. Born in England and raised in Saudi Arabia, Zuby is a graduate of Oxford University.
On this episode we discuss his roots going from selling CDs on the street to building up a loyal following of over 1.7 million on social media. We also talk about a high profile incident that had him caught in the middle of guns blazingâliterallyâand an attempt at politicizing and unfortunate situation. We dive into a changing political landscape, Zubyâs evolution from musician to commentator, his outspokenness, why weâre so divided and what makes engagement more productive, the role of community, and much more.
Zuby has sold tens of thousands of albums independently, performed in 8 countries, and gained 25 million+ online video views. His podcast 'Real Talk with Zuby' has surpassed 5 million downloads and reaches thousands of listeners every week.
He has been featured on The Joe Rogan Experience, BBC, Fox News, Sky News, The Adam Carolla Show, The Rubin Report, The Candace Owens Show and The Ben Shapiro Show, amongst others.
You can find him on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube.
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he conversation with my latest guest on 'Forbidden Conversations' was sparked by his insistence that he does not believe that there is such a thing as âbad people.â Naturally, we had to discuss his claim. But before we got around to it, we also end up covering an assortment of other topics including how we can communicate better, the trouble with social media, humanism in the age of hysteria, and more. What has made me interested in ANGEL EDUARDO in the first place is his humanistic approach towards difficult subjects and his creation of the rhetorical concept of star-manning.
ANGEL is a writer, musician, photographer, and designer based in New York City. He is currently a Senior Writer & Editor for the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). He previously worked as Managing Director of Messaging & Editorial for the Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism (FAIR), and continues to serve on their Board of Advisors as well as a FAIR in the Arts Fellow.
Angel graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from CUNY Hunter College in New York City, and contributes a column for the Center for Inquiry titled Searching for Better Angels, where he writes on topics such as science, morality, communication, and skepticism. His writing has also been featured in Quillette, Newsweek, Areo Magazine, and The Caribbean Writer, among other print and online publications. Through his work at FIRE, Angel hopes to continue promoting a culture of free speech, free inquiry, and freedom of expression through honest, good-faith, and compassionate engagement with people across the political and ideological spectrum.
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