Henry Gee sits with me for a few more minutes for a lively and upbeat conversation on how the human race will meet its fate.  Will it be over population?  Underpopulation?  Climate change?  Or will we finally succumb to extinction debt.

This week we tackle one of the hardest questions that man has ever tried to answer:  How life started on Earth.  Once that is answered, the rest of evolution falls right into place.  Dr. Henry Gee is an evolutionary Biologist, and has chronicled the entire 4.6 billion year timeline of the Earth in his latest […]

When he isn’t hounding the studios to use his paper-saving app, Steve is using his connections to make movies of his own.  The List is his first feature length movie, and we discuss the fifteen year journey he went on to get it produced.

Climate change is altering our entire world.  Global industrialization is coughing up billows of carbon dioxide, and tremendous deforestation has stolen the worlds most beautiful carbon cleaners.  A lot of those forests are being cut down to create paper for the endless scripts Hollywood produces on a daily basis.  One man is fighting against this […]

I have always been intrigued by famous social experiments, like the Standford Prison Experiment, and Milgram’s Obedience Experiments, so imagine my pleasure when I came across Gina Perry’s ‘The Lost Boys’ which outlines the Robber’s Cave Experiment. My guess is you haven’t heard of this one before, and that is a shame. The point of […]

The English Language is one of the most difficult languages to learn, mostly because it has strange, and extraordinarily inconsistent spelling conventions.  Why?  That is the question author and language expert Arika Okrent answers in her book Highly Irregular.  In short, English is a Germanic language spoken by barbarians, altered by the French, influenced by […]

We are living in the Golden Era of fleeting fame.  A popular YouTuber/TikTok Star can hit the scene in January, have millions of followers/views by June, and then be a part of the ‘Where Are They Now?’ montage in December.  Contrary to what most people think, fame is never given, earned, achieved, or even permanent.  […]

During the holiday season, there is one thing that unites us all as a people no matter if you celebrate Christmas or not:  Christmas Songs.  In some years as early as October, Jingle Bells, Rudolph, Silent Night, Frosty the Snowman, along with others, bombard the airwaves and slowly bring us into the Holiday spirit.  But […]

In 2016, the legend was that megastar Prince had a bank vault filled with thousands of unreleased recordings, and since he was the only one who knew the combination, it was possible that this vault would be sealed forever.  Luckily safecracker extraordinaire Dave McOmie called to the scene.  Listen as Dave recounts his toughest job […]

Anyone who has seen Oceans 11, The Italian Job, or Bad Santa knows that if you are going to steal millions of dollars in cash and/or art, you need a master safecracker on your crew to break-in to the vault where said valuables are being held.  But how exactly does this work?  Luckily we have […]