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Ryan Wilson is a Body Transformation Coach. On the podcast we discuss recent and upcoming UFC cards, performance enhancing drugs in professional sports, and Ryan's method for training his clients.

Ryan Wilson Website - www.rwilsonperformance.com.au

Ryan Wilson Instagram Account - https://www.instagram.com/rwilsonperformance/?hl=en

David Milne is an artist based in Melbourne who was originally born in Scotland. He is highly regarded within the Contemporary Australian Art Scene, and abroad. He is currently represented by Metro Gallery in Melbourne and has previously exhibited over 21 major solo shows in Italy, Japan and China.

Often referred to as the 'Contemporary Alchemist', David draws on the symbology of early 17th century alchemy to explore the impact of technological advancements on our planet.

Peter Doherty is an Australian veterinary surgeon. A lot of his time is also spent researching immunity to influenzas at Melbourne's Peter Doherty Institute, for which he is the patron and the institution's namesake.

The Doherty Institute is a joint venture between The University of Melbourne and The Royal Melbourne Hospital. It houses a group of infection and immunology experts who are leading the battle against infectious diseases in humans.

In 1995 Peter was awarded the Albert Lasker prize for discovering how the immune system recognises virus infected cells. The following year he received the Nobel Prize for the same discovery. Peter was also named Australian of the Year in 1997 and was awarded the Order of Australia in the same year.

On the podcast we discussed the vaccine rollout, 20th century history and the origins of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Dr Steven Quay is a scientist, an author, an entrepreneur and the CEO of the Seattle based company Atossa Therapeutics. He is also the author of a recent paper in which he, using a Bayesian analysis, came to the conclusion that the COVID-19 Pandemic had its origins in a laboratory accident in Wuhan. In this conversation we discuss Dr Quay's paper in detail and talk about the public dialogue surrounding the origins of COVID-19.

Dr Quay has over 360 published contributions to medicine and has been cited over 10,000 times. He holds 87 US patents and has invented 7 FDA-approved pharmaceuticals which have helped over 80 million people. He is the author of the best selling book on surviving the Covid-19 Pandemic, titled Stay Safe: A Physician’s Guide to Surviving Coronavirus. He received his M.D. and Ph.D from The University of Michigan and was a postdoctoral fellow in the Chemistry Department at MIT with Nobel Laureate H. Gobind Khorana. He was also a resident at the Harvard MGH Hospital, and spent almost a decade on the faculty of Stanford University’s School of Medicine. Dr Quay and his company also work tirelessly to further research on breast cancer prevention. A TEDx talk he delivered on this disease has been viewed over 220,000 times.

Dr Steven Quay's A Bayesian analysis concludes beyond a reasonable doubt that SARS-CoV-2 is not a natural zoonosis but instead is laboratory derived - https://zenodo.org/record/4477081#

Article - https://www.wsj.com/articles/who-investigators-to-scrap-interim-report-on-probe-of-covid-19-origins-11614865067

Open Letter from a group of 26 scientists to the WHO - https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/covid-origins-letter/5c9743168205f926/full.pdf

TEDx Talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK4PlbYE_5M&t=280s

A brief conversation with my good mate, Jumps, over a game of Chess.

Timothy Lynch is Professor in American Politics and the Associate Dean (International) in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne. His most recent book is titled In the Shadow of the Cold War: American Foreign Policy from George Bush Sr. to Donald Trump. His other books include Turf War: the Clinton Administration and Northern Ireland and US Foreign Policy and Democracy Promotion. Tim is also a Fulbright scholar, holding a PhD in political science from Boston College, USA. On the podcast we discuss the Cold War, China, American Foreign Policy and Society in general.

Professor Marc Pellegrini is the head of the Infectious Diseases and Immune Defence division of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research. He received his PhD from the University of Melbourne. His primary interest is in host pathogen interactions and how they inform the development of therapies for infectious diseases. On this episode we discuss, amongst other things, vaccines and the origins of COVID-19.

Richard Lewer is a Melbourne based artist originally from New Zealand. He exhibits with Hugo Michell Gallery in South Australia and with Sullivan and Strumpf in Sydney. He has won a variety of significant art awards, including the Basil Sellers Art Award, the Blake Prize and the National Works on Paper Drawing Award. On the podcast we discuss his work, the art world in general and Richard's passion for boxing.

The following is a conversation with Hyun Jin Kim. Hyun Jin is an Associate Professor in Classics, Historical and Philosophical Studies at Melbourne University. In 2004 he went to Oxford University where he completed his PhD. He is widely published and has authored or edited several books. On the podcast we discuss his book, The Huns, Rome and the Birth of Europe. We discuss the under-appreciated and under-researched history of the civilisations that followed, and in some ways caused, the Fall of the Roman Empire.

Tom Adair is an artist based in Melbourne. He is represented by Nanda Hobbs gallery in Sydney. He has also exhibited in Melbourne and internationally. On the podcast we discuss some of the concepts and techniques that he works with.