Adam Kokesh is an Iraq war veteran who became a political activist. Adam came to disparage war and advocated for nonviolent resistance to power. Adam identifies as a libertarian & wrote a book called FREEDOM! which outlines his beliefs and philosophy.

Adam has been interviewed on many shows including the Joe Rogan Experience, The Corbett Report, RT America, and Infowars & many others. He has also hosted his own show called Adam Vs The Man and has a very popular YouTube channel which includes videos of his many protests & civil disobedience which has led to his many arrests.

Adam has also been a featured speaker at many events all over the world and featured in many documentaries like The Road to Fallujah, For Liberty: How the Ron Paul Revolution Watered the Withered Tree of Liberty, Owned & Operated, Derrick J's Victimless Crime Spree, ShadowRing, and Gray State: The Rise.

Alan Bell is former organized crime prosecutor who almost died from an environmentally linked illness. He now devotes his life to raising awareness about environmental injury through public speaking and his book, POISONED: How a Crime-Busting Prosecutor Turned His Medical Mystery into a Crusade for Environmental Victims.

Alan Bell is former organized crime prosecutor who almost died from an environmentally linked illness. He now devotes his life to raising awareness about environmental injury through public speaking and his book, POISONED: How a Crime-Busting Prosecutor Turned His Medical Mystery into a Crusade for Environmental Victims.

John Kiriakou was CIA analyst and case officer, senior investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, counter-terrorism consultant for ABC News, CIA anti-torture whistleblower, ReaderSupportedNews.org columnist and best-selling author whose work includes The Reluctant Spy: My Secret Life in the CIA's War on Terror, The Convenient Terrorist: Abu Zubaydah and the Weird Wonderland of America's Secret Wars, and Doing Time Like a Spy: How the CIA Taught Me to Survive and Thrive in Prison.

John Kiriakou was CIA analyst and case officer, senior investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, counter-terrorism consultant for ABC News, CIA anti-torture whistleblower, ReaderSupportedNews.org columnist and best-selling author whose work includes The Reluctant Spy: My Secret Life in the CIA's War on Terror, The Convenient Terrorist: Abu Zubaydah and the Weird Wonderland of America's Secret Wars, and Doing Time Like a Spy: How the CIA Taught Me to Survive and Thrive in Prison.

Peter Van Buren is a whistleblower, former United States Foreign Service employee, spent 24 years with the U.S. Department of State, author of Ghosts of Tom Joad: A Story of the 99 Percent, We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People, and his most recent book Hooper’s War, an anti-war novel.

Since leaving the government, Van Buren’s commentary has been featured in The New York Times, Reuters, Salon, NPR, Al Jazeera, Huffington Post, The Nation, TomDispatch, Antiwar.com, American Conservative Magazine, Mother Jones, MichaelMoore.com, Le Monde, Asia Times, The Guardian, Daily Kos, XpatNation, Middle East Online, Guernica and others. He has appeared on the BBC World Service, NPR’s All Things Considered and Fresh Air, CurrentTV, HuffPo Live, RT, ITV, Britain’s Channel 4 Viewpoint, CCTV, Voice of America, and more.

Peter Van Buren is a whistleblower, former United States Foreign Service employee, spent 24 years with the U.S. Department of State, author of Ghosts of Tom Joad: A Story of the 99 Percent, We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People, and his most recent book Hooper’s War, an anti-war novel.

Since leaving the government, Van Buren’s commentary has been featured in The New York Times, Reuters, Salon, NPR, Al Jazeera, Huffington Post, The Nation, TomDispatch, Antiwar.com, American Conservative Magazine, Mother Jones, MichaelMoore.com, Le Monde, Asia Times, The Guardian, Daily Kos, XpatNation, Middle East Online, Guernica and others. He has appeared on the BBC World Service, NPR’s All Things Considered and Fresh Air, CurrentTV, HuffPo Live, RT, ITV, Britain’s Channel 4 Viewpoint, CCTV, Voice of America, and more.

Renato Lindmets is professional basketball player & old friend. We catch up, share stories, talk about his experiences playing basketball in Europe, current events & much much more.

Renato Lindmets is professional basketball player & old friend. We catch up, share stories, talk about his experiences playing basketball in Europe, current events & much much more.

Fights With Friends is The Ripple Effect Podcast version of a Fight Companion podcast, made popular by Joe Rogan. Which is when we stream LIVE during MMA events, hang out, drink, laugh and talk about everything and anything. On this episode we stream LIVE for UFC 211 on Pay-Per-View. Make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel or follow us on Facebook & Twitter to find out when we will be streaming live for our next Fights With Friends.