Episodes (Page 3)
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Morgan Housel's 'The Art of Spending Money' goes beyond personal finance to explore how wealth connects to freedom, simplicity, and contentment
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Bill O'Reilly's 'Confronting Evil' examines history's most destructive figures
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James discusses obsession as a double-edged gift
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Danny Rensch reveals extraordinary story of growing up in an Arizona cult where the leader took him at age 10, separating him from his mother for a decade
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Charles Duhigg's 'Super Communicators' offers practical methods for genuine connection in a politically and socially divided world
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Martin Suarez holds the record for longest continuous FBI undercover assignment, living as cartel drug lord 'Manny' while smuggling billions in cocaine
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Brian Keating and James explore the paradox of needing both humility and chutzpah to achieve great things, citing Talmudic wisdom and the Dunning-Kruger effect
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Brian Keating's 'Into the Impossible' extracts lessons from interviews with Nobel Prize winners on focus, curiosity, and the trade-offs of specialization
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James reflects on obsession as prerequisite for productivity
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Rick Harrison built pawn business into legendary empire by recognizing pawn shops as the oldest form of banking
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Tristan de Montebello rose from zero speaking experience to World Championship of Public Speaking finalist, developing replicable techniques through UltraSpeaking
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Astro Teller, Captain of Moonshots at Alphabet's X, led projects including self-driving cars, Google Brain, drone delivery, Google Glass, and quantum computing research
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Matt Smith's 'The Preparation' (co-authored with Doug Casey) proposes a practical four-year alternative to college built around intensive 3-month 'cycles'
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Case Kenny reframes relationships as 'settling up' rather than 'settling down'
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James Altucher and Joseph Jacks explore Bittensor's decentralized AI ecosystem as potential competitor to centralized giants like xAI's Grok 4
The TAO Pod
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Johnathan Walton, a TV producer turned con artist hunter, shares how he was scammed out of $100,000 by someone posing as an Irish heiress and reveals the 14 universal red flags used by professional...
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James Altucher discusses specific investment predictions for Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tau, and stablecoin-related tokens like Curve and Aave on the Smart Humans Podcast
Slava Rubin
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Ryan Holiday and James Altucher explore how public figures lose their grounding when ego and narrative collide, using RFK Jr., Jordan Peterson, and Tucker Carlson as case studies
Ryan Holiday
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James and Ryan Holiday discuss the tension between creativity and truth, exploring the illusion that creators must weigh in on every issue in polarized media
Ryan Holiday
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James Altucher and Doug Hill challenge the assumption that college is necessary for success, arguing that rising tuition, guaranteed student loans, and outdated curricula make it a poor financial d...