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.

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