Billy Cooper is the father of the late Kevin Cooper, aka Cole Summers. At 7 years old, Kevin started his own business, at 10 he remodeled his own house, and at 14, he wrote the inspiring book Don't Tell Me I Can't: An Ambitious Homeschoolers Journey with Billy Cooper.

I asked Billy about Kevin's upbringing, his education, and fond memories. We get to celebrate the life and memory of Kevin.

Joel Bein, CEO of CareerHackers.com, is on a mission to help more people find a career that makes them come alive. He encourages us to follow our curiosity by learning-out-loud. Joel talks about his journey from music teacher to CEO of CareerHackers. He talks about the opportunities that can be found when you really go after something. 

Links: 

https://events.careerhackers.com/supercharger 

https://careerhackers.com/  

Chapters: 

00:00:00 Joel Bein https://joelbein.com/ 

00:02:37 Follow your curiosity  

00:05:30 Do work that makes you come alive  

00:07:48 Supercharge your career https://events.careerhackers.com/supercharger 

00:13:06 Learning UX/UI with no experience https://www.linkedin.com/posts/careercrash_uxdesign-userexperience-changingcareers-activity-6980451308713463808-VANL?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

Health food entrepreneur Lizanne Falsetto and I discuss how she built a health food empire that sold for 217 million and how she is now disrupting the dairy industry with betterland milk.

We talk about how she pioneered the protein bar industry. We also talk about her latest venture - making milk without cows from fermented whey proteins.

She shares what it takes to be an entrepreneur, how she became so damn smart (my words), and things you can do to improve your odds of success.

Links:

https://www.lizannefalsetto.com/

https://www.woobars.com/

https://www.betterlandmilk.com/

Bryan Caplan and I discuss the ideas of the iconoclast social critic and psychiatrist Thomas Szasz. Dr. Caplan won the Thomas Szasz award in 2005 for his paper, The Economics of Szasz: Preferences, Constraints, and Mental Illness. We have a wide-ranging conversation about Szasz, his ideas, and how to help ourselves and others when struggling with life. Dr. Caplan shares some of his personal experiences with depression during Covid and how he got out of it.

Related Episodes

Bryan Caplan on Parenting: https://youtu.be/JM0dGLRgko0
Anthony Stadlen on Szasz: https://youtu.be/wzVVLgpgLBA
Jeffrey Schaler on Szasz: https://youtu.be/7wySu4S1w14
Christopher Lane on Shyness: https://youtu.be/GrV46aVkNvM
Irvin Kirsch on Antidepressants: https://youtu.be/PtubmyA3BgU

Related Videos

John Nash on Schizophrenia: https://youtu.be/SizS1nOOeJg
Take These Broken Wings (Documentary about Schizophrenia): https://youtu.be/EPfKc-TknWU
Titicut Follies (Mistreatment of Involuntary Patients): https://youtu.be/e-wVwtN5f-U
Crazywise Film: https://youtu.be/IXnmBIYaIZE
Jim Van Os on Schizophrenia: https://youtu.be/sE3gxX5CiW0

Chapters:
00:00 Intro to Bryan Caplan https://twitter.com/bryan_caplan
00:35 Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids https://amzn.to/3NZcxQg
00:56 How did you discover Thomas Szasz?
01:33 The Untamed Tongue https://amzn.to/3NYtTwI
02:07 Insanity: The Idea and Its Consequences https://amzn.to/3aAp3bn
02:34 Myth of Mental Illness https://amzn.to/3ANgIvp
02:57 Ceremonial Chemistry https://amzn.to/3P4IBU5
03:25 How long did it take you to understand Szasz?
06:13 What do you think most people misunderstood about Szasz?
08:14 Heavy drinkers respond to incentives https://wp.me/p8ReVr-1i5
10:55 How homosexuality got declassified as a disease
11:41 Transvestism
12:34 The Useful Lie https://wp.me/p8ReVr-1eT
12:56 Responsibility
14:34 Criticisms of Szasz
15:42 Szasz as a philosopher of mind https://wp.me/p8ReVr-rs
16:34 Scott Alexander https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/10/07/contra-caplan-on-mental-illness/
17:53 Drapetomania https://g.co/kgs/5qVtCe
18:06 What was it like to meet Szasz? https://www.econlib.org/archives/2012/09/thomas_szasz_a.html
19:29 Suicide https://amzn.to/3RuQS5w
20:05 Why do you think Szasz wrote so much?
21:00 Did you get pushback when writing your paper on Szasz?
22:19 Shakespeare and Szasz
23:24 Has Szasz helped you in your personal life?
27:12 Brittany Spears
28:27 Addiction is a Choice https://wp.me/p8ReVr-9U
29:05 Karl Kraus https://wp.me/p8ReVr-1hz
29:51 Szasz's political beliefs
31:13 Suicide
32:29 Epicurus https://epicurus.net/en/menoeceus.html
32:54 Julian Simon https://amzn.to/3P4Kct3
35:17 Surround yourself with friends
36:11 How do you stay productive?
37:51 Lucretius http://classics.mit.edu/Carus/nature_things.html
39:01 How do you deal with depression during Covid?
41:16 Faith in Freedom https://amzn.to/3caLvIq
41:38 Free will https://econfaculty.gmu.edu/bcaplan/freewill
43:38 Writing advice
44:45 The Baader Meinhof Complex https://youtu.be/2UPrDdb0r70
46:43 Economics of Szasz http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/bcaplan/pdfs/szasz.pdf
49:50 Rational vs. Irrational
52:53 Schizophrenia https://amzn.to/3AK5yb3
56:10 Biographies of schizophrenics https://amzn.to/3IBtJu0
59:15 Hearing voices https://youtu.be/sE3gxX5CiW0

Mark Eglinton talks with me about his adventures in writing, and his latest book on John McAfee's life called, No Domain: The John McAfee Tapes (https://amzn.to/35cIHr8).

Chapters:

00:00:00 Mark Eglinton https://twitter.com/MarkEglinton

00:00:33 How did Mark become a writer? 

00:01:30 From caddy to writer 

00:05:30 Do the work, just do it 

00:06:00 Where do you start? 

00:08:20 How do you start? 

00:09:20 Get some distance from your work 

00:10:27 Writing is the sexiest job ever 

00:12:00 How is the money in writing? 

00:12:15 Make shit happen 

00:13:10 How Mark started working with John McAfee 

00:14:28 John McAfee is The Great White Whale 

00:15:45 Was John telling the truth? 

00:19:00 Working with John was like being in a James Bond movie 

00:20:45 John's relationship with his kids 

00:24:10 John's early life as a programmer 

00:25:40 John's work for NASA 

00:27:44 John applied math to relationships 

00:29:00 Did John ever work hard? 

00:29:34 John and methamphetamine 

00:30:28 John didn't want a corporate life 

00:31:40 John's outlandish spending 

00:32:23 John McAfee and yoga 

00:33:15 John's yoga books https://amzn.to/3wBV4Z1

00:34:50 Amanda Milius https://mobile.twitter.com/amandamilius

00:35:55 John McAfee weeps 

00:37:27 John understood the human spirit 

00:38:25 John leaves Belize 

00:40:00 John marries Janice 

00:41:00 John on the run in the US 

00:41:40 Was John just paranoid? 

00:42:18 Janice ties to poison John 

00:43:10 John cancels the book project 

00:46:30 Was John broke? 

00:48:00 Canonic books on bitcoin 

00:49:40 Books as NFTs 

00:51:00 Will tech control us, or will we control tech? 

00:52:00 Extras associated w/ the NFT 

00:55:40 Canonic is seeing into the future 

00:57:25 Steve Bannon 

00:59:40 Mark on Twitter https://twitter.com/MarkEglinton

01:00:00 Mark on Twetch https://twetch.com/u/68864

Low-Mileage Running is a short guide to running faster, injury free. It focuses on avoiding injury while optimizing your training. The book provides practical training advice, workouts, and sample training plans for the 5k to Marathon. Throughout this book, I share how you can maximize your training and reduce injuries while running fewer miles. By listening to your body and focusing on quality workouts tailored to your event, you can improve your performance and avoid injury. Download the free PDF book here: https://aaronolson.blog/books/

Chapters:

00:00:00 Opening Credits 

00:00:11 Introduction 

00:00:36 How I Got Started 

00:02:17 A New Approach 

00:05:12 Quality Workouts 

00:06:25 Stress + Rest = Adaptation 

00:07:42 Creating Quality Workouts 

00:08:02 Time Trials 

00:09:52 Race Time Predictor https://www.runnersworld.com/uk/training/a761681/rws-race-time-predictor/

00:11:25 Intervals 

00:12:56 Tracking workouts 

00:13:54 Intensity 

00:15:19 Training the Central Governor 

00:16:53 Recovery 

00:18:40 Training Guidelines 

00:18:43 Economics of Running 

00:19:46 Listen to Your Body 

00:21:12 Adjusting on the Fly 

00:21:33 Take a Holistic Approach 

00:22:24 Follow the 80:20 Rule 

00:23:15 Find the Minimum Effective Dose 

00:24:15 Race Your Way Into Shape 

00:25:46 Similar Workouts 

00:26:19 Train Performance Not Physiology 

00:27:13 Cross-training 

00:27:50 Strength Training 

00:28:19 Stretching 

00:29:10 Sample Training Plans 

00:29:51 Training Plans Guidelines http://aaronolson.blog/low-mileage-training-plans/

00:30:29 5k Training Plan http://aaronolson.blog/low-mileage-training-plans/low-mileage-5k-training-plan/

00:30:52 10k Training Plan http://aaronolson.blog/low-mileage-training-plans/low-mileage-10k-training-plan/

00:31:16 Half-Marathon Training Plan http://aaronolson.blog/low-mileage-training-plans/low-mileage-half-marathon-training-plan/

00:31:42 Marathon Training Plan http://aaronolson.blog/low-mileage-training-plans/low-mileage-marathon-training-plan/

00:32:17 Jeff Ford Interview https://youtu.be/FG4dJmqPOQA

00:33:30 Conclusion 

00:34:26 Closing Credits

I talk with David Gornoski about René Girard's ideas on the role of scapegoating in society. David says that Jesus turned the traditional role of scapegoating on it's head. He maintains that Christ changed the course of society by destroying the pagan use of scapegoating.

Chapters:

00:00:00 David Gornoski https://aneighborschoice.com/

00:01:00 Jeff Diest https://mises.org/profile/jeff-deist

00:01:40 Science and U Show https://aneighborschoice.com/show/science-and-u/

00:03:45 Things Hidden Podcast https://aneighborschoice.com/show/things-hidden/

00:04:00 René Girard https://amzn.to/3MZYtqq

00:08:30 Scapegoating & The Science 

00:11:00 Jesus Changed the role of Scapegoating 

00:13:25 Mimetic desire 

00:16:14 The left and mimetic desire 

00:18:40 The traditional scapegoat 

00:19:40 Jesus and the scapegoat 

00:21:05 What's wrong with scapegoating? 

00:23:18 Since Christ came, scapegoating no longer works 

00:27:35 Marcionite Christian Church against COVID https://aaronolson.blog/2021/11/26/marcionite-christian-church-and-the-covid-scam/

00:30:00 Christ inverts the scapegoating mechanism 

00:34:00 Myth helps us contain violence 

00:35:09 The Gospels reveal the disgusting sausage-making of scapegoating 

00:37:00 The emphasis on the victim is a modern phenomenon 

00:37:42 How does this affect an atheist's worldview? 

00:40:27 How did Jesus save the world? 

00:41:20 Jesus liberated us from the scapegoat mechanism 

00:42:55 Belief vs practice 

00:44:27 Big tech censorship 

00:45:25 Dr. Lisanti, antibiotics and cancer https://aneighborschoice.com/michael-lisanti-interview-on-his-breakthrough-antibiotic-solution-for-cancer-metastasis-atp/

00:49:00 Christianity is about an arch in history 

00:50:00 Jesus and skepticism 

00:53:42 Fleischmann–Pons Cold Fusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion

00:56:00 Ancel Keys 

00:57:33 CBC René Girard Documentary https://youtu.be/g8Y8dVVV4To

I talk with Staton Peele about the nature of addiction. Peele believes that addiction is a life problem, not a brain disease. We talk about the ideas that he has been writing about for many years.

Chapters:

00:00:00 Stanton Peele https://peele.net/

00:02:43 Failure is redefined as success in addition science 

00:05:05 Life Process Program https://lifeprocessprogram.com/

00:07:33 Most rehab sets a person up for failure 

00:09:01 A non-disease approach is more realistic 

00:10:11 Harm reduction 

00:10:49 The entire addiction field is built on bullshit 

00:11:55 What is addiction? 

00:13:41 Opioid addiction 

00:16:37 Mindfulness 

00:17:11 Responsibility in addiction 

00:19:19 What does a person gain from addiction? 

00:21:57 Brain science BS in addiction 

00:22:05 Life needs to come online with their values 

00:24:20 Human motivation and experience help a person quit 

00:26:23 Dealing with addiction as a disease makes it worse 

00:28:52 Freud and secondary gain 

00:31:14 My job is to open a window for a person 

00:31:46 You have the power to improve yourself 

00:31:48 Encouraging a person is the most essential ingredient 

00:33:25 Labels hurt a person 

00:36:21 Therapeutic State https://amzn.to/36n63KJ

00:36:31 Jeffrey Schaler https://youtu.be/7wySu4S1w14

00:37:20 Addiction that causes the most deaths 

00:42:43 Addiction to alcohol 

00:45:08 Living a good life prevents addiction 

00:48:04 Labels can be crippling 

00:48:57 Life Process Program https://lifeprocessprogram.com/

00:49:23 Peele.net https://peele.net/

00:49:37 Books by Stanton Peele https://amzn.to/3q5p7Va

00:52:35 Stanton's Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lpp-podcast/id1494188367

00:53:03 Stanton's YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSYridYK8h1uXu0Gx0Kl2Og

I talk with Joel Bein about music, writing, creativity, and taking action. Joel is a conductor, author, director of Growth at Crash, and writer of The Daily Job Hunt. He recently released his book, Do It Now.

Chapters:

00:00:00 Joel Bein https://joelbein.com/

00:00:27 Crash https://crash.co/

00:03:13 Unleashing creative power 

00:04:58 The Daily Job Hunt https://sparklp.co/6e19a560

00:06:22 Bias for action 

00:06:38 Connection between music and creativity 

00:09:51 Joel's book, Do It Now https://amzn.to/3q2o5sM

00:10:37 Music vs writing 

00:14:09 From blogging to a career in email marketing 

00:18:02 Self-directed learning 

00:23:35 Getting started at Crash 

00:25:22 Pitching crash 

00:27:45 What did you do to get a job at Crash? 

00:30:10 Is your job exciting to work at? 

00:33:05 What is it like to write for 150,000 people per day? 

00:34:56 The Daily Job Hunt 

00:37:10 How do you manage social media? 

00:45:22 Getting started on any project 

00:47:04 Why did you write this book? 

00:49:06 Derek Sivers https://sive.rs/

00:53:05 Coercion vs Voluntarism 

00:55:04 Acting from interest and motivation 

00:56:38 How to be more creative 

00:57:24 What tools did you use to write this book? 

01:00:34 Asking for feedback on the book 

01:04:51 Conclusion 

01:06:43 Joel's book: Do It Now

I talk with Dr. Kevin Conners about natural, supplementary, and alternative options for cancer.

Chapters:

00:00:00 Dr. Kevin Conners https://www.connersclinic.com/

00:03:10 Rife and Electromedicine https://amzn.to/3pZwpcM

00:04:25 Frequencies and electromedicine 

00:08:25 Immune system and cancer 

00:10:25 The Truth About Cancer https://amzn.to/37s8yfB

00:13:30 Frequencies for different types of cancers 

00:16:25 Quality of life 

00:17:00 Success rate of traditional medicine 

00:18:00 Hoxsey Therapy https://amzn.to/3tP2fdC

00:18:15 Side effects of chemotherapy

00:19:45 Pharmacratic state against alternatives https://youtu.be/JuLsL3_eBWw

00:25:10 Robin Feldman https://amzn.to/3pVvpXh

00:25:15 Per Bylund https://youtu.be/sWe3Bv5Durc

00:26:10 Can the body fight off cancer? 

00:27:10 Conners Clinic 

00:28:45 Testing 

00:29:10 Self-care 

00:30:40 Success of alternatives 

00:32:35 Goal is to stop replication 

00:35:45 Combined care 

00:37:00 Cancer prevention 

00:37:10 Avoid toxins 

00:38:30 Detoxification 

00:39:00 Plastics 

00:40:00 Soy 

00:40:20 Hormone driven cancer 

00:41:20 Fasting 

00:48:40 Ketogenic diet 

00:50:50 Supplements 

00:54:28 Things to avoid when you have cancer 

00:56:45 Chemotherapy 

00:59:40 Fasting and chemotherapy 

01:03:00 Stay calm do your own research 

01:04:00 Spontaneous remission and background rates

The ideas presented in this book are based on the ancient wisdom of Stoicism and the more contemporary Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT). By putting the advice into practice, you will be able to more easily overcome adversity and better control your emotions.

When we experience intense emotions such as anger, depression, or anxiety, we assume that something outside of ourselves caused our feelings. But, according to REBT, it is our underlying beliefs about our circumstances that control our emotions. By changing our underlying beliefs, we can change how we feel.

According to Albert Ellis, founder of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), we make an error when interpreting our emotions. When we experience intense emotions such as anger, depression, or anxiety, we assume that something outside of ourselves caused our feelings. But, according to REBT, it is our underlying beliefs about our circumstances that control our emotions. By changing our underlying beliefs, we can change how we feel. The therapy presented in this book is based on the ancient wisdom of Stoicism and the more contemporary Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT).

By putting the advice into practice, you may be able to get better control of your emotions. By following a simple, common-sense approach to confronting your unwanted beliefs, which influence your emotions, you may begin to get a hold of the underlying cause of your unwanted feelings. At its core, REBT is the idea we make ourselves miserable, most of the time. We are the cause of our unwanted feelings, and we can change our feelings by changing the underlying philosophy behind our feelings.

REBT is based on some of the philosophies of the Stoics, especially Epictetus, who said: ”Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them." For Ellis, achieving tranquility of mind was not about changing what was going on in the external world, but rather, changing our underlying philosophy of life. Events themselves don't cause us to be miserable, it is our beliefs about the events that control our emotions. By changing our underlying beliefs, we can change how we feel.

Chapters:

00:00:00 Opening Credits 

00:00:15 Introduction 

00:01:17 Who Was Albert Ellis? 

00:05:51 A Guide to REBT 

00:15:14 Practicing REBT 

00:16:51 REBT Self-Help Form 

00:18:45 Conclusion 

00:19:23 About the Author 

00:19:32 Closing Credits