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First, apologies for missing a week. Producing these takes a lot of work and I needed I week off. - Jim Our guest this week is Balazs Szelenyi, Associate Teaching Professor at Northeastern University. From his university bio: Balazs Szelenyi received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1998 and teaches...
Published 06/12/24
Peter Mulvey joins the pod in person, sitting side by side with Jim in the Slabmedia offices this week. We talk about his career in songwriting, hitting a little on themes and methods, but also on inspiration, and a long history of work. Jim mentions Peter's TED talk about his book Vlad the...
Published 05/30/24
Ben Soto joins the pod to talk about The Monk and the Philosopher: A Father and Son Discuss the Meaning of Life which is an extensive conversation between Matthieu Ricard and his father Jean-François Revel. Ben found this book particularly fascinating, given his interest in Buddhism, science, and...
Published 05/22/24