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Growing Beyond the Divide with Tom Bilyeu S2 (Ep.6)

Welcome to another episode of conversations with Coleman.My guest today is Tom Bilyeu. Tom is the co-founder of the billion-dollar brand Quest Nutrition, as well as the co-founder of the Impact Theory podcast, which I’ve been a guest on. Tom was named one of Success magazine’s top 25 influential people in 2018, and Entrepreneur of the Year by Secret Entourage in 2016.Tom and I discussed the problem with ‘self-help’, the benefits of believing things that aren’t true as a mechanism of self-improvement, the side effects of taking pride in one’s intelligence as well as cancel culture, political correctness and so much more.
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The Motivation Behind ‘What Killed Michael Brown?’ Documentary S2 (Ep.5)

Welcome to another episode of Conversations with Coleman.
My guests today are Shelby and Eli Steele. Shelby Steele is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and the author of many books, including ‘The Content of our Character’, which won him the National Book Critics Circle Award. Eli Steele, who is his son is a documentary filmmaker whose films include ‘How Jack Became Black’, ‘What’s Bugging Seth?’, and ‘What Killed Michael Brown?’, which is the subject of today’s conversation.
The main topic of today’s conversation is the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson in 2014 and all the related issues. One note here, Eli Steele is deaf but is able to lip-read over zoom. So understanding his speech might take a bit more focus than normal, but it’s very worth it. I really enjoyed this conversation, and I hope you do to.
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Policing: A Cop’s eye view S2 (Ep. 4)

Welcome to another episode of conversations with Coleman.
My guest today is Dr. Michael Sanchez. Michael is a criminal justice scholar with over 20 years of experience in the criminal justice system. He’s been a detention officer, booking officer, patrol officer, patrol sergeant, administrative supervisor, training coordinator, firearms instructor, investigator, Lieutenant, Deputy Chief of Police, an international police officer with the UN in Kosovo, and regional commander for the UN police in Haiti. He has a masterpiece officer license in the state of Texas, a bachelor’s degree in police science from Ottawa University, a master’s degree in criminal justice administration from Utica College, and a Ph.D. in Business Administration with a specialization in criminal justice from North Central University. He’s been teaching at Utica College since 2012 and he’s also a full-time lecturer for the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley in the criminal justice department. So I can honestly say this was the most interesting conversation I’ve had about policing in my life. And this conversation took place many months ago when the death of George Floyd and the subsequent protests and riots were in the foreground of everyone’s minds. So I was very excited to talk to someone who had both academic knowledge of policing and practical experience with it.
Michael and I talk about the difference between policing in America and international policing, the steady stream of videos of unarmed Americans getting killed by cops including Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and Rayshard Brooks. We talk about the mechanics of shooting and why cops tend to fire so many bullets, the difference between tasers and guns, how to hold bad cops accountable and so much more.
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The Evolution of Altruism with Michael McCullough S2 (Ep.3)

Welcome to another episode of Conversations with Coleman.
My guest today is Michael McCullough. Michael is a professor of psychology at the University of California, San Diego where he directs the evolution and human behavior laboratory. He studies the functions of human behavior and emotion using the conceptual tools of evolutionary psychology and cognitive science. Michael has conducted research on forgiveness, revenge, gratitude, empathy, religion, and morality. He’s the author of Beyond Revenge: The Evolution of the Forgiveness Instinct, and The Kindness of Strangers: How a Selfish Ape Invented a New Moral Code, which is the focus of today’s conversation.
Michael and I talk about the field of evolutionary psychology and why it’s considered controversial. We talk about Richard Dawkins and the selfish gene revolution, the evolutionary roots of altruism towards strangers, and we talk about the criticism that evolutionary psychology is a collection of ‘just-so’ stories rather than actual science. We also discuss the evolution of welfare spending over the past few centuries and about how it’s possible for human societies filled with selfish apes to become more altruistic.
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50 Years on the Left with Noam Chomsky S2 (Ep.2)

Welcome to another episode of Conversations with Coleman.
My guest today needs no introduction, but I’ll give him one anyway. Noam Chomsky is a linguist, philosopher, social critic, and activist. Noam is considered the father of modern linguistics, and has written more than 100 books. His most recent being Requiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth and Power.
Noam and I both signed the infamous Harper’s letter many months ago, so we start out by talking about that letter and the fallout that ensued. Next, I asked Noam what has changed most about the culture of the American Left in his lifetime, the strange alliance between multinational corporations and woke anti racism, the role of money in politics, the rising influence of China and much more.
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When Leaders Go Mad with Christopher Ferguson S2 (Ep.1)

Welcome to season two of Conversations with Coleman and to the first episode of the New Year.
Today’s guest is Christopher Ferguson. Christopher​​​​​​​ is an American psychologist who serves as a professor and co-chair of psychology at Stetson University in Florida. He previously served as an associate professor of psychology and criminal justice at Texas A&M International University and in 2014, he was named a fellow of the APA.
Christopher and I talked about the definition of mental illness, prescribing Adderall to children, the link between creativity and mental illness, how mental illness affected historical figures like Alexander the Great, Hitler, and Stalin. I also asked Christopher to assess the mental state of both Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
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The Intersectional Crackup (Ep.20)

Welcome to another episode of Conversations with Coleman. Today’s guest is Douglas Murray. Douglas is a best-selling author, journalist, and political commentator. He’s also an associate editor at the British magazine, The Spectator. Douglas and Coleman had a wide-ranging conversation about the rise of intersectionality and its consequences for society as a whole. Hope you enjoy this conversation as much as Coleman did. 
Please note, during the first 2 minutes of the episode, there is a slight audio glitch.
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The Tides of American Politics (Ep.19)

Welcome to another episode of Conversations with Coleman. Today’s guest is David Shor, a political data scientist. David worked for the Obama campaign and was described in New York Magazine as “Obama’s in-house Nate Silver”. You may know David’s name because he was fired in June, over a tweet that was widely viewed as innocent. The tweet cited research showing that riots, unlike non-violent protests, tend to move voters to the right. Although Coleman wanted to talk to David about the circumstances of his firing, due to legal reasons, David can’t talk about it publicly. Fortunately, he is an extremely interesting person outside of his cancellation, and he’s the perfect person to talk to about the lessons of the 2020 election.
This episode focuses on the basics of polling and why the polls under predicted Trump’s performance in both 2016 and 2020. Coleman also talked about David’s skepticism of the so-called ‘Shy Trump Voter Effect’, the problem of non-response bias, and what to make of the growing cultural divide between college-educated and non-college-educated voters. Coleman had a very productive disagreement about the so-called racial resentment scales, used as a tool to understand why people voted for Trump and much more.
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The End of Trump with Andrew Sullivan Ep.18

Coleman’s latest episode features Andrew Sullivan, a British born American writer and blogger. Andrew is a political commentator, a former editor at the New Republic, and the author or editor of six books. He also started a very famous political blog called the Daily Dish in 2000 and eventually moved that blog to Time Magazine, The Atlantic, The Daily Beast, and is now running an independent subscription-based format on Substack.
This episode was recorded last Thursday, right after the election, and before it was completely certain that Trump had lost. During this episode, they look at Trump’s single-term presidency in retrospect and evaluate which fears about him proved true and which proved false. They talk about the lack of a Biden landslide, and what that means for the long term prospects of Trumpism — even in the absence of Trump himself. They talk about the problem of elite bubbles misunderstanding the rest of the nation, the relationship between Trump and the far left, and much more.
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The Case for Open Borders with Bryan Caplan -Bonus

Welcome to another episode of conversations with Coleman. Today’s guest is Bryan Caplan. Bryan is an economist at George Mason University, a research fellow at the Mercatus Centre, and a New York Times best selling author. His books include The Myth of the Rational Voter (which was voted best political book of the year by the New York Times), Selfish Reasons To Have More Kids, The Case Against Education, and Open Borders. Bryan also blogs for EconLog, and has been published in the New York Times, The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, and many more.
This episode focuses on his argument for open borders, which is very compelling. Before you dismiss it as crazy, utopian, or naive, just listen to Bryan’s full account of it and read the book.
This conversation happened way back in March or April, before Coleman’s new audio setup, so please do forgive the poor audio quality.
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