The Switch

In this episode, we speak with Cadre Cleve from GORUCK. Cleve is a retired Recon Marine and is one of the GORUCK cadre who gets to teach events in their survival series - Constellation (Urban), Expedition (Wilderness), and Immersion (Water). In our conversation, we talk about survival mindset, what it means to be prepared, what the fundamental skills of preparedness are, and how GORUCK helps people with those skills. We also spend some time talking about leadership, and how some of the principles of combat leadership translate into the civilian world.

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Mentioned in the episode:

Cooper's Color Code: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Cooper#Combat_mindset_and_the_Cooper_color_code

The Gift of Fear: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gift_of_Fear

The Mission The Men and Me: https://www.amazon.com/Mission-Men-Me-Lessons-Commander/dp/0425236579

In this episode, we speak with Deviant Ollam, a Physical Pen Tester. But while ball-points aren’t necessarily absent, his job is much more interesting. Deviant and his team asses and consult on all manners of security, and in this case, physical security. Deviant’s work is somewhere between 21st-century-espionage-fieldcraft-expert and wild-west-safecracker. In this conversation, we talk about what security means, how physical security enters our lives, what it’s like to test security for a living, and some practical tips for everyone to be just a little bit better informed about an often overlooked part of life.

In this episode we review Sam Harris’s essay/book Lying. We discuss what effects a commitment to unrelenting honesty has had on our lives, and we cover why some of the harder cases like white lies are still not ethically justifiable.

In this episode, we speak with Cody Sklar and his mother Rose Sklar about growing up with severe food allergies, the current state of food allergies in our society, and Cody’s new company Wander Without Worry, the world’s first allergy-friendly food delivery service.

In this episode, we talk about the state of the podcast - what are some takeaways we've had from previous episodes, what had changed since we started, and what our expectations are for the future.

In this week's episode, we speak with University of Michigan professor Anne Curzan about language - what is it, how does it evolve, and what's it for? We discuss where people get new words, what makes a word "real", and the relationship between language and cognition.

In this week's episode, we speak with Anthony Magnabosco and Ben Diesel. Anthony and Ben are both YouTube creators whose channels are focused on a discourse technique called Street Epistemology. Anthony and Ben go out into the world and have short, friendly, productive conversations about things people think are true and the methods people use to determine truth. We had an awesome conversation with them, and highly recommend checking out their YouTube content!

In this episode, we interview Eli Bates about addiction & recovery. This episode is a little different than our usual ones - we spend a lot of time talking with Eli about his story, and delving deep into the progression of addiction. We also spend a fair amount of time talking about the process of recovery and some of the misconceptions people have about it.

Dr. Joan Nichols's team at University of Texas Medical Branch has a mission - nobody's done it before, but they see no reason we shouldn't be trying to do it now: Bioengineering lungs from natural scaffolds. Joan's team recently completed a pilot study that successfully implanted bioengineered, lab-grown lungs into pigs, marking a huge milestone in the progression toward a future where transplant patients can receive organs specifically bioengineered and grown in a lab to be compatible with their bodies.