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Dr. Lalich is Professor Emerita of Sociology at CSU Chico, where she was awarded the Professional Achievement Honor. She is recognized international authority in the fields of Cults and Coercion and has written numerous books and articles on the subject.

In this interview, Dr. Lalich discussed cults, who tend to join them, her experience being in a cult, children raised in cults, and many other things.

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Dr. Lalich's BOOKs:

• Escaping Utopia: https://amzn.to/43L7AmB
• Bounded Choice: https://amzn.to/45XDtdw
• Cults in Mind: https://amzn.to/3MSYUU2
• Taking Back Your Life: https://amzn.to/3oLHpgB

  TIMESTAMPS

  01:05 The definition of Cult

  08:05 The profile of a person joining a cult

  11:00 Cult recruiters

  12:20 Personal cult story

  26:50 Is everything a cult?

  28:20 Strangest cults

  29:55 The largest cults

  31:55 Children in cults

  41:00 Social Media's Role in cults

  42:40 Pulling your loved ones out of the cult

  44:15 Building a cult

  48:00 Lalich Center on Cults on Coercion

Nolan Bushnell established Atari, Inc. and the Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre chain. He has been inducted into the Video Game Hall of Fame and the Consumer Electronics Association Hall of Fame, received the BAFTA Fellowship and the Nations Restaurant News "Innovator of the Year" award, and was named one of Newsweek's "50 Men Who Changed America". He has started over 20 companies and is one of the founding fathers of the video game industry.

NOLAN's BOOKs:

Shaping the Future of Education: https://amzn.to/3Sqrssq

Finding the Next Steve Jobs: https://amzn.to/3ShSB0I

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TIMESTAMPS

01:40 Nolan Bushnell's Biopic

03:25 Story behind Atari

05:25 Birth of Computer Space!

07:35 The Story of Pong

11:00 Creating a new industry

12:05 Steve Jobs at Atari

15:20 Warner's mismanagement of Atari

18:20 Nolan Bushnell's story

25:45 Chuck E. Cheese

29:25 Catalyst Technologies: ETAK Navigator

32:00 Kadabrascope + Pixar

34:10 Raising Eight! children

38:10 Blitz

After reading the book "Philip and Alexander – Kings and Conquerors" and being blown away by a remarkable story, I absolutely had to invite its author, Dr. Adrian Goldsworthy, to the Accent. He is an ancient historian and novelist, who has written more than a dozen of non-fiction and fiction books, primarily focused on Ancient Rome (Check his books below). In this interview, we discussed Philip's role in the meteoric rise of Alexander and the life stories of this father-and-son duo.

BOOKs: Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors: https://amzn.to/445ti56

Caesar: Life of a Colossus: https://amzn.to/435Qteh

Augustus: First Emperor of Rome: https://amzn.to/3PIWWsy

Historical Novels:

The Wall: https://amzn.to/3O7uJL3

Vindolanda: https://amzn.to/3PGLlu6

The Full Collection of Books on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3NWnvZX

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TIMESTAMPS

02:10 Underrated Philip II, the father of Alexander the Great

08:10 Philip on his way to the Throne

13:45 Philip's reforms

21:05 Little casualties in wars

25:25 Taking Philip seriously

29:45 Philip II's death

36:40 Alexander is the New King

43:05 First campaign

51:10 Diplomacy of Philip and Alexander

54:55 Defining Battles of Alexander

01:02:00 Conquering Empires is not Conquering the Provinces

01:06:45 Death of Alexander

01:07:00 Philip vs Alexander and their Roman counterparts

01:13:10 Dreams and Upcoming Books

01:17:15 Classics Influence on Dr. Goldsworthy

Amit Wadhwaney is a Portfolio Manager and Co-Founding Partner at Moerus Capital Management. He has over 25 years of experience researching and analyzing investment opportunities in developed, emerging, and frontier markets worldwide, and has managed global investment portfolios since mid-90s. Prior to founding Moerus, Amit was a Portfolio Manager and Partner at Third Avenue Management, where he founded the international business and was the manager of the Global Value Fund, Emerging Markets Fund, and International Value Fund. In this episode, we discussed Moerus' investment philosophy, current investments, position sizing, time of exit, and value investing in general.

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TIMESTAMPS

01:30 Jean-Marie Eveillard

06:50 Negative Environment for Value Investing

13:40 Which countries to invest in and which to avoid

20:20 Definition of Cheap and a current holding

27:50 Despegar as a value investing play

38:05 Position sizing

43:10 Existing positions

48:00 Looking for investment ideas

59:10 Currency risk

Tre Nation is the frontman of a hugely popular band, Ghost Hounds, whose latest single, "The Last Train to Nowhere," is playing all over the world. In this interview, Tre shared the story of the band, his musical taste, his upbringing, touring with Rolling Stones and ZZ Top, and many other things.

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TIMESTAMPS

01:25 Origin of Ghost Hounds

05:05 Ghost Hounds' Music Style and Tre's Voice

06:45 Song-writing process

08:55 New Album: First Last Time

11:30 Music Videos

14:00 The Band's Manager

16:40 Motivation to keep going

18:35 Art vs Business

21:30 Growing up in San Antonio

25:15 Music or Physics

30:30 From Gospel to Rock-n-Roll

35:05 Tre's preferred music style

39:50 Touring with Rolling Stones

44:20 Blitz

Gerald Posner is the author of thirteen acclaimed books, including New York Times bestsellers CASE CLOSED, WHY AMERICA SLEPT, and GOD's BANKERS. He is a contributor to Forbes. Posner was a finalist for the Pulitzer in History. "A merciless pit bull of an investigator," concluded the Chicago Tribune.

In this interview, we discussed Case Closed, a comprehensive and absolutely mind-blowing investigation of John F. Kennedy's assassination. Gerald covers the backstories of the main characters of the saga, Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby, and whether or not they had links to CIA, KGB, or Mafia.

Links to select books:

Case Closed: https://amzn.to/44F8wsB

Pharma: Greed, Lies, and the Poisoning of America: https://amzn.to/3qXfnQo

God's Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican: https://amzn.to/45AW26G

Why America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11: https://amzn.to/3Z0DJ8m

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TIMESTAMPS

01:55 Lee Harvey Oswald's bio as the proof

07:40 Many "IFs" in the JFK case

12:50 Conspiracy about placing Oswald in the sniper nest

15:45 The most plausible and the dumbest conspiracies

19:20 Magic bullet

25:20 Jack Ruby

33:35 Yuri Nosenko – defected KGB agent

38:15 Is Gerald Posner a CIA agent?

42:50 Does new information change the conclusion?

46:50 Writing books across the spectrum of important issues

Carlo Cannell started Cannell Capital in 1992 with just $600k, and the fund grew over time to over $1 Billion. Unlike most fund managers, Carlo returned a portion of the assets back to investors, even though it meant less management fees. But that is not what Carlo is known for. Carlo has a superb track record investing in small-cap stocks, which he tends to hold for many years. Besides investing "long," his repertoire includes short-selling and occasional activist campaigns, which he discusses in this interview in detail.

Disclaimer: No Investment Advice. The information shared in this episode has no regard to the specific investment objective, financial situation or particular needs of any specific recipient.

The Book Carlo mentioned:

A Money Mind at Ninety by Philip Carret: https://amzn.to/3D6uCZK

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TIMESTAMPS

01:55 Carlo on Carlo

05:00 Carlo's investment style

13:05 Investment Process

16:00 Favored industries

19:20 Due Diligence

25:50 Investment Activism

28:45 Common Mistakes that Boards and Managements make

33:55 Valuing companies

35:45 Exiting positions

40:35 Shorting stocks

52:05 Sizing of Short Positions

55:40 Role of LPs

01:01:10 Returning half a billion to investors

01:05:35 Investment Management business is unique

01:08:15 Advice for individual investors

Dr. Robert Cialdini has spent his entire career conducting scientific research on what leads people to say "Yes" to requests. The results of his research, his ensuing articles, and New York Times bestselling books have earned him an acclaimed reputation as The Godfather of Influence. His books, including Influence and Pre-Suasion, have sold more than five million copies in 41 different languages.

TIMESTAMPS

01:45 First encounter with influence

04:30 Principle of Unity

14:20 Principle of Social Proof

18:50 Principle of Reciprocation

21:25 Principle of Scarcity

24:20 Cialdini Institute

26:25 Principle of Authority

29:50 Principle of Liking

32:50 Principle of Commitment and Consistency

35:30 Pre-Suasion

38:00 Growing up in Post-war Milwaukie

42:20 Favorite childhood memory

48:10 University and writing The Influence

51:10 Influence at Work

53:15 Blitz

Dr. Donald Hoffman is a cognitive psychologist and famous science author. He is a professor in the Department of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. Hoffman studies consciousness, visual perception, and evolutionary psychology using mathematical models and psychophysical experiments. His research subjects include facial attractiveness, the recognition of shape, the perception of motion and color, the evolution of perception, and the mind–body problem. His latest book, The Case Against Reality, argues that the world is nothing like the one we experience through our senses.

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The Case Against Reality: https://amzn.to/46pkLLS

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TIMESTAMPS

01:40 Take on AI, AGI, and ChatGPT

11:40 Threats of AI

13:45 Human Vision and Face Perception

18:00 Looking for Eyes

26:55 The Case Against Reality – Evolution by Natural Selection

34:55 Why Hoffman is wrong

39:55 Spacetime is Doomed

48:00 Thousand dimensions

50:25 Men vs Women Seeing colors

55:00 Designed simplicity

01:00:35 Reality misleads us

01:06:05 Consciousness

01:12:05 Dreams

Dr. Michael Shermer is the Founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine, the host of the podcast The Michael Shermer Show, a Presidential Fellow at Chapman University, and the author of numerous New York Times bestsellers. Watch this episode with visual aid at www.YouTube.com/theaccentpodcast, and enjoy many more unpublished episodes.

Dr. Shermer's books: Conspiracy: https://amzn.to/43cPsll

Why People Believe Weird Things: https://amzn.to/45bkRX4

The Believing Brain: https://amzn.to/3MquA4c

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TIMESTAMPS

01:35 The First Recorded Conspiracy Theory

04:05 Defining Conspiracy Theory and Who Falls for Them

12:40 The Umbrella Man – JFK Conspiracy

15:15 The 9/11 Conspiracy

17:20 Types of Conspiracy Theories (OJ Simpson)

22:25 Where there is smoke, there is fire

26:55 The Deep State

30:35 Changing Mind on Conspiracy Theories and UFOs pictures

35:15 The Skeptic Society

37:25 ChatGPT

39:25 Backward Masking

42:50 How to think like a Scientist

47:40 Social Media's Role in Conspiracy Theories

49:50 Being Michael Shermer