The Shawn Ryan Show Jul 13 · 3 min read
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In this episode, host Sean Ryan sits down with Ryan Holiday, a best-selling author of twelve books on Stoicism, including The Daily Stoic, The Obstacle Is the Way, {{ref:ref-book-ego-is-the-enemy:Ego Is the Enemy}}, and {{ref:ref-book-stillness-is-the-key:Stillness Is the Key}}. Holiday, who also founded the Daily Stoic platform, shares his journey from a twenty-one-year-old marketing director to a leading philosophical voice. The conversation spans ancient wisdom, modern parenting challenges, and the toxic incentives of our current media ecosystem. Holiday presents Sean with several books, including Marcus Aurelius's ref-book-meditations:Meditations:Meditations}}, Steve Rinella's American Buffalo In Search of a Lost Icon and Outside Kids in an Inside World, as well as the historical biography Churchill and His Son. They also discuss James Stockdale's Thoughts of a Philosophical Fighter Pilot, Tom Wolfe's {{ref:ref-book-the-right-stuff:The Right Stuff}}, Zalin Grant's Over the Beach The Air War in Vietnam, and Timothy Denevi's Freak Kingdom Hunter S. Thompson's Manic Ten-Year Crusade Against American Fascism, which references Hunter S. Thompson's classic Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Together, they explore how to find stillness, build moral courage, and lead a value-driven life.
In this episode of Huberman Lab Essentials, host Dr. Andrew Huberman, a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine, sits down with Dr. Layne Norton, a renowned nutrition expert, coach, and PhD in nutritional sciences. They discuss the complex mechanics of energy balance, macronutrient utilization, and the science of sustainable body composition.
Andrew Huberman, professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine, hosts Dr. Paul Eastwick, professor of psychology at the University of California, Davis. Eastwick is a leading researcher in attraction, mate selection, and relationship science, and author of Bonded by Evolution The New Science of Love and Connection.
In this episode of the All In Podcast, host Jason Calacanis is joined by besties Brad Gerstner, founder of Altimeter Capital, Chamath Palihapitiya, founder of Social Capital, and David Sacks, co-founder of Craft Ventures, to discuss the shifting landscape of technology, finance, and policy.
In this episode, host David Senra conducts a deep-dive analysis of Zero to One Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters. Senra, founder of the Founders Podcast, uses his extensive background reading hundreds of biographies of history's greatest entrepreneurs to re-evaluate Thiel's core philosophies on first principles, creative monopolies, and long-term planning.
In this episode of Odd Lots, hosts Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway sit down with freelance football journalist Joey Durso to discuss the massive financial and geopolitical forces reshaping global football. Durso, author of the new book More Than a Shirt How Football Shirts Explain Global Politics, Money, and Power, explains how the sport has evolved from a localized working-class pastime into a multi-billion-dollar global entertainment industry.
In this episode, host Dave sits down with Ryan Cohen, the founder of Chewy and current CEO of GameStop, to discuss his entrepreneurial journey and his highly publicized bid to acquire e-commerce giant eBay. Cohen shares the operational philosophies that allowed him to scale Chewy into a multi-billion-dollar business, his transition to activist investing, and the turnaround strategies he deployed to stabilize GameStop's physical retail footprint.
In this episode, host Patrick O'Shaughnessy interviews Vlad Barbalat, the Chief Investment Officer of Liberty Mutual Investments, which manages a $120 billion investment platform. Vlad shares his journey from Soviet Moldova to becoming a top capital allocator, explaining how Liberty's mutual insurance structure enables a highly distinctive, long-term approach to investing.
In this episode, California Governor Gavin Newsom sits down with political commentator, podcaster, and author Brian Tyler Cohen to discuss the future of the Democratic Party and progressive strategy. Cohen, host of the popular podcast No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen, shares insights from his political journey, transitioning from acting in Los Angeles to becoming a major independent media voice. The conversation centers on Cohen's upcoming book, The Day After How to Wield Power in a Post-Trump World, which serves as a strategic sequel to his previous New York Times bestseller, Shameless How Republican Lies and Partisan Media Are Destroying America.
In this episode of Interesting Times, host Ross Douthat sits down with Louise Perry, a Wall Street Journal columnist and prominent author, to discuss her landmark book {{ref:ref-book-the-case-against-the-sexual-revolution:The Case Against the Sexual Revolution}} and the growing cultural alienation between men and women. They trace the history of sexual liberation, starting with the technological shock of the birth control pill and the subsequent economic shifts analyzed in The Two-Income Trap Why Middle-Class Parents Are Going Broke. Perry explains the intellectual roots of her philosophy, drawing contrasts with radical feminist works like Andrea Dworkin's Pornography Men Possessing Women and aligning with Mary Harrington's {{ref:ref-book-feminism-against-progress:Feminism Against Progress}}. The conversation covers the rise of online subcultures like 'tradwives' and the 'manosphere,' the political divergence of young men and women, and the challenges of modern dating. Perry advocates for a return to sexual restraint, arguing that acknowledging biological differences is essential for stable relationships.
California Governor Gavin Newsom hosts Reid Hoffman — LinkedIn co-founder, PayPal Mafia veteran, Microsoft board member, author of six bestselling books, and co-founder of AI companies including Manus AI — for a wide-ranging conversation recorded at the California Governor's Mansion.
In this episode, host Chris Williamson sits down with Caleb Hammer, creator and host of the popular YouTube show *Financial Audit*, to dissect the psychological, cultural, and behavioral forces driving modern debt. Hammer shares behind-the-scenes insights into his intense, high-stakes financial interventions, explaining how he uses tough love to help guests confront their financial realities. The conversation covers the stark economic differences between the United States and the United Kingdom, the rising tide of Gen Z credit card debt, and the hidden traps of lifestyle inflation among high-income earners.
In this episode, host Chris Williamson sits down with Robert Wright, a highly acclaimed journalist, evolutionary psychologist, and author of several influential books, to discuss the intersection of evolutionary biology, human psychology, and artificial intelligence. Wright connects the core themes of his landmark work, The Moral Animal Why We Are the Way We Are The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology, to his latest book, The God Test, which frames the rapid rise of AI as a critical civilizational trial. The conversation traces Wright's long history with AI, starting with his first book, Three Scientists and Their Gods Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information, and his 1983 interview with neural network pioneer Geoffrey Hinton. The speakers explore the psychological and geopolitical hurdles of the AI race, referencing the game-theoretic frameworks of Wright's Nonzero The Logic of Human Destiny. Williamson shares how Nick Bostrom's Superintelligence Paths, Dangers, Strategies shaped his own cautious outlook, while Wright uses Thomas Nagel's classic essay What Is It Like to Be a Bat? to examine AI sentience, consciousness, and the future of human meaning.
In this episode, host Tim Ferriss interviews ethnographer and Harvard-trained ethnobotanist Wade Davis, author of 24 books including Into the Silence, and Dr. Andrew Weil, a pioneer in integrative medicine and founder of the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine. They discuss the history, science, and cultural significance of the coca leaf, a plant with over 8,000 years of documented human use.
In this episode, host Chris Williamson sits down with Sonja Lyubomirsky, a distinguished experimental social psychologist and pioneering happiness researcher. With 28 years of empirical research since her lab first tested happiness interventions in 1998, Lyubomirsky shares insights from her career and her book, How to Feel Loved The Science of Connection and Association.
In this episode, host Shane Parrish interviews Dr. Giulia Enders, a German medical doctor and bestselling author of Gut The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ. Together, they explore the profound, often overlooked connections between gastrointestinal health, immune function, and overall mental well-being. Dr. Enders details practical strategies for improving digestion, including the simple biohack of cooling cooked starches to increase prebiotic content. She references the dietary diversity framework popularized in Food for Life Your Guide to the New Science of Eating Well, which advocates for eating thirty different plants weekly to feed diverse microbes.
This episode features Ezra Klein, journalist, podcast host, and co-author of ref-book-abundance:Abundance:Abundance}}, in conversation with Chris Williamson. Klein is known for founding Vox, hosting The Ezra Klein Show at The New York Times, and for his influential commentary on politics, media, and technology.
In this episode, host Dwarkesh Patel sits down with Adam Brown, who currently leads the BlueShift team at Google DeepMind and was previously a physics professor at Stanford University specializing in cosmology, string theory, and general relativity.
This episode features Dwarkesh Patel delivering a solo monologue — drawn from his written blog post — exploring one of the most underappreciated constraints in modern AI development: sample efficiency. Dwarkesh is a podcast host and writer known for long-form technical interviews with AI researchers and economists.
Host Rick Rubin sits down with Peter McGrath, a legendary recording engineer, former high-end audio retailer, and brand ambassador for Wilson Audio. The conversation spans Peter's decades-long career in capturing and reproducing classical music. He discusses his minimalist, two-microphone recording philosophy, his emotional discovery of soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson—who famously performed settings of Pablo Neruda's One Hundred Love Sonnets—and his close partnership with audio pioneer David Wilson.
In this episode, host Sean Ryan sits down with Dr. Brian Keating, the Chancellor's Distinguished Professor of Physics at UC San Diego, inventor of the BICEP telescope, and author of Losing the Nobel Prize. Keating is also the host of the "Into the Impossible" podcast, named after a concept by Arthur C. Clarke, author of 2001 A Space Odyssey.
This episode of The Sean Ryan Show features Sadhguru (Jaggi Vasudev), Indian yogi, mystic, and founder of the Isha Foundation — a global volunteer organization with over 7,300 full-time and 19 million part-time volunteers. Host Sean Ryan, a former special operations veteran, spent years trying to book this conversation before finally sitting down with Sadhguru for a wide-ranging discussion on the nature of mind, identity, consciousness, and human suffering.
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