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2024-02-1455 min
The Raised By Whoops Fake Radio Show!Jason GotsA conversation with New York City based author, podcaster, and educator, Jason GotsInterview conducted by Glenn VanderkloetSongs featured:Hazlehurst - Pale CricketBox of Notebooks - Jason GotsGraceland - Written by Paul Simon, performed by Justin Townes EarlePhoto courtesy of Jason Gotsjasongots.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2023-07-081h 24
Sober CuriousBooze, Buddhism and being Human with Jason GotsJason Gots, podcaster and author of Humanity is Trying: Experiments in Living with Grief, Finding Connection, and Resisting Easy Answers, on the nature of human suffering, living with grief, and the Buddhist approach to addiction and self-discipline. In the episode we discuss:-Jason’s drinking history and what led to him getting sober curious-How Buddhist ideas and practices have influenced his relationship with alcohol-The conversation with his father than helped his sober curiosity stick-Having a lot of “drunken poets” as his early heroes, and letting go of his romant...
2022-07-211h 10
Reel Indigenous11. Dark Winds (DUCK!)We're back, baby, with 8 lives to spare. Why?Because some people got to see the new cool as a fan TV series, "Dark Winds", and we got to inquire with these bonafide media critics about it. Y'all know we had to come back for this.In this episode our baby boy has come back home to us. After a brief stint of doing some real movie stuff, Jason Asenap has returned.And not just that -- we gots us a special guest. Another real life...
2022-06-121h 11
Harvesting HappinessHuman Healing: Restorative Practices for Real People and a Better World with Elena Mustakova EdD & Jason Gotso get in touch with our spiritual side we must clear out, bypass, cleanse, and filter through all of the programming that has told us to be strong, get over it, and feel shame. For humanity to heal, we need to gather quiet moments, reflect on our experiences, and work together in a compassionate, understanding, and principled way. We have the unique opportunity to make the most of our one shot at this conscious life. To gather the tools needed to help us on our healing journey, Positive Psychology Podcast Host, Lisa Cypers Kamen, speaks with two authors who observe...
2022-05-0557 minHarvesting HappinessHuman Healing: Restorative Practices for Real People and a Better World with Elena Mustakova EdD & Jason Gotso get in touch with our spiritual side we must clear out, bypass,
cleanse, and filter through all of the programming that has told us
to be strong, get over it, and feel shame. For humanity to heal, we
need to gather quiet moments, reflect on our experiences, and
work together in a compassionate, understanding, and principled
way. We have the unique opportunity to make the most of our
one shot at this conscious life. To gather the tools needed to help
us on our healing journey, Positive Psychology Podcast Host, Lisa
Cypers Kamen, speaks with two authors who observe...
2022-05-0557 minHarvesting Happiness PodcastsHuman Healing: Restorative Practices for Real People and a Better World with Elena Mustakova EdD & Jason Gotso get in touch with our spiritual side we must clear out, bypass,
cleanse, and filter through all of the programming that has told us
to be strong, get over it, and feel shame. For humanity to heal, we
need to gather quiet moments, reflect on our experiences, and
work together in a compassionate, understanding, and principled
way. We have the unique opportunity to make the most of our
one shot at this conscious life. To gather the tools needed to help
us on our healing journey, Positive Psychology Podcast Host, Lisa
Cypers Kamen, speaks with two authors who observe...
2022-05-0500 min
Best-Selling Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, MemoirsHumanity Is Trying: Experiments in Living with Grief, Finding Connection, and Resisting Easy Answers by Jason GotsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/546771 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Humanity Is Trying: Experiments in Living with Grief, Finding Connection, and Resisting Easy Answers Author: Jason Gots Narrator: Jason Gots Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 53 minutes Release date: March 1, 2022 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: “A truly beautiful, wise, raw, subtle book." —Robert MacFarlane, author of Underland My sister and I are driving south toward Graceland in her beat-up red Saturn, both in need of refuge, both running from different things. Her bumper sticker reads “Humanity Is Trying.” It’s a triple entendre, she explains: Humanity is exhausting. Humanity is struggle. H...
2022-03-0105 min
Clever CreatureDEVOLUTION (w/Tim Minchin)Descend a few rungs on the old evolutionary ladder with us in this, the season 2 finale of Clever Creature.
Mordant, multitalented Australian songwriter and actor Tim Minchin, the lyricist of the musicals MATILDA and GROUNDHOG DAY, talks with Jason about creative evolution, cultural devolution, and not taking yourself too seriously. There's short fiction by Jason that takes us to the outer limits of optimism. And a song by the one and only Jerm Boor, a deep soul with a deep voice.
Special thanks to Emre Gots for the theme music, to Jerm Boor for...
2021-09-011h 11
Clever CreatureAUTOTOMY (w/Andre Gregory)“If your castle’s made of sugar, don’t blame the rain when it melts.”
Sometimes, you’ve just got to kill your darlings. You're a cuttlefish, say, and something’s got your arm in its jaws? No worries. Just eject it! It’ll grow back later . . .
In biology, that’s called “autotomy”.
In this episode, legendary theater director Andre Gregory talks to Jason about acts of self-reinvention and past selves left behind. There's short fiction about a utopian Christian community that keeps its peace at a hideous cost. And a rousing techno-barn-burner o...
2021-08-181h 22Clever CreatureGERMINATE (w/Ross Gay)“He will come back with scars and with stories to tell…”
This episode is about new beginnings that lead to surprising outcomes. Poet and essayist Ross Gay talks to Jason about precious things beheld and forgotten. There’s a twisted fairytale about weed farming, big box stores, and grand designs. And Jason goes solo with a tune of prayer and self-forgiveness. From warm, dark places, something new is born.
Special thanks to Jamie Mayberry for the word of the episode. To Emre Gots for the theme song. To Adil Sadak for mixing and mastering the song. An...
2021-08-041h 14
Clever CreatureEMERGENCE (w/Merlin Sheldrake)Word by word, a story emerges. Neuron by neuron, consciousness emerges. The story, song, and conversation of this episode are about that mysterious process whereby things become bigger than the sum of their parts. Cambridge mycologist Merlin Sheldrake talks with Jason about how fungal networks solve complex problems, and how LSD and polyphonic music have helped him understand them. There's fiction by Jason about an unhappy man who finds freedom from the outside in. And a hypnotic instrumental blues whose patterns emerge, evolve, and bloom...
Special thanks to Jeffrey Cufaude for the word of the episode, to...
2021-07-211h 12
Clever CreatureRHYTHM (w/Bia Labate)From the reassuring sound of our mother's heartbeat to our last breath, our lives are bounded by rhythm. In music, poetry, meditation, and prayer, rhythm is the trance that lets the spirit fly. In grounding us, it can free us. And it can sometimes become a dangerous drug, lulling us to sleep.
In this episode Jason talks with anthropologist Bia Labate of Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines about the rhythms of ancient indigenous life and of life in the global north as they relate to the use of psychedelics for emotional and spiritual healing. There's...
2021-07-071h 03
Clever CreatureTRANSITION (w/Ajahn Amaro)At first glance, the word of this episode is impossibly, mind-bogglingly big. "Transition" applies to everything. There's nothing in the known universe (or anywhere else, for that matter, I'd bet) that isn't, at some level, in a state of change. But as always, god, the devil, and everything in between is in the details . . .
This week, Ajahn Amaro, a Buddhist monk of 45 years in the Thai Forest tradition talks to Jason about his transition from skeptical rebel to rule-bound monk. There's a story by Jason about coming of age in the racist, classist suburbs of '80's...
2021-06-231h 22
Clever CreatureCROWN SHYNESS (w/Aimee Nezhukumatathil)“The higher up I go, the less I need to know…”
“Crown shyness” is social distancing for treetops. It’s a botanical mystery, the fact that certain trees give each other space in the canopy. Are they sharing sunlight? Protecting each other from disease and infestation? Perhaps they just prefer to be alone…
A story, a song, thoughts, and a conversation about growth and separation. The poet and essayist Aimee Nezhukumatathil, author of WORLD OF WONDERS on love and the natural world. A short story from Jason about academic warfare. And a breathtakingly beautiful song by Jerm Boor.
2021-06-091h 34
Clever CreatureBODY (w/Resmaa Menakem)“I was so in love with images, I forgot the native art…”
A story, a song, thoughts, and a conversation about what goes on underneath the words and the skin. Somatic therapist Resmaa Menakem, author of MY GRANDMOTHER’S HANDS, on racialized trauma in black, white, and police bodies. A short story from Jason about a birthday party gone so wrong, it’s almost right. And a love song to…can you guess it? Can you guess it?
Special thanks to Eric Sanders for the word of the episode, to Helix Lamont for the song’s music, to my...
2021-05-2648 min
Clever CreatureTHAW (w/Neil Gaiman)“I never saw a sun so bright as on that day…”
Season Two of the podcast Indiewire calls "a case study in artistic drive" opens with a word of power, this spring especially, as the world anxiously, hopefully starts to open back up again.
SANDMAN and AMERICAN GODS author Neil Gaiman on the on the strange comfort of scary (fictional) places and of having your whole year’s schedule cancelled by COVID. Short fiction by Jason Gots about finding Joy on the map and deciding not to stay there. And a father-son musical collaboration.
Specia...
2021-05-121h 00Clever CreatureTrailer: Coming 5/12/21 — Clever Creature, Season TwoThe show Indiewire called "a case study in artistic drive" is back with nine wild, open new episodes featuring short fiction, conversation, and original songs. Each is an "experimental variety show" based on a single world having something to do with the natural world. Writer and podcaster Jason Gots talks with fantasy writer Neil Gaiman, poet and essayist Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Cambridge Mycologist Merlin Sheldrake, somatic therapist Resmaa Menakem, singer-songwriter Tim Minchin, Buddhist monk of 45 years Ajahn Amaro, anthropologist Bia Labate—founder of Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicine, theater director Andre Gregory, and poet and essayist Ross Gay. ...
2021-04-0702 min
JobscastJason Gots on Being a CreatorWriter and podcaster Jason Gots and I discuss artistry, structure, wisdom, doing it yourself versus doing it with others, psychedelics, and much more.
2021-02-181h 132021-02-1601 min
Clever Creature8. SIEGE (w/Jerry Craft)"I don't need much/I never needed much/All I need is something good to read/I'm all alone here/I'm in my home here/Deep in my infinite library..." Season 1 finale. A father besieged in his videogame-obsessed son's bedroom. Graphic novelist Jerry Craft on race, class, and middle school. And a genre-defying barn-burner of a rock tune.
2020-08-1800 min
NZTFortyEight.com Podcast - Become LimitlessEntrepreneurs: If you call yourself one then you need to be at least THIS frustrated, angry and broke 90% of the time to get on the ride.Over the last 12 or so years Entrepreneurship has become a really trendy thing, I would say it's the equivalent of smoking in the 90's, "I only smoke when I'm drinking" has now become, "Yea bro, I gots like 7 side hustles...you still in that 9-5 brah. Do you even blog?"
The problem with this for us full time entrepreneurs is that it's really really irritating. The problem is that every Tom, Dick and/or Harry are now entrepreneurs but I know that when the going gets tough, the not so tough will go back to their day...
2020-08-1809 min
Clever Creature7. FAIL (w/Mary-Louise Parker)"I built a mountain out of/Cardboard and string/And I sat inside it/And I called myself the Mountain King..." Could this be the most uplifting episode yet? A dung beetle risks everything for a life beyond drudgery. Actress and writer Mary-Louise Parker on risking failure and ignoring ridicule for those perfect moments when everything works. And a pop-rock tune to get you through tough times. You can learn more and join my mailing list at my website.Or maybe you want to join our Facebook Group?And...
2020-08-0400 min
Clever Creature6. PRECEDENT (w/David Sedaris)"Even as you're crossing them/Some bridges turn to smoke behind you . . ." David Sedaris joins Jason from lockdown to talk about creative risks that might get him cancelled. In this week's fiction story, a tuba zealot begs his brother not to go electric. And an acoustic tune about brunch inside the neutral zone, with ennui and avocado toast. (psst—stick around for the "bonus track" guided meditation at the end...). . .You can learn more and join my mailing list at my website.Or maybe you want to join ou...
2020-07-2100 min
Clever Creature5. CONVICT (w/Etgar Keret)"You're a convict/on a convicted ship/and you're never coming home again..."Mushrooms, love, and anarchy on an alien prison colony. Etgar Keret on why capitalism and ethics don't mix, and how the great American novel is the enemy of creativity. And a beat-driven tribal-futurist tune about life in the substrate. And a "bonus track" guided meditation at the end!. . .You can learn more and join my mailing list at my website.Or maybe you want to join our Facebook GroupAnd hey—I'm making th...
2020-07-0700 min
Clever Creature4. LACE (w/Françoise Bourzat)"What if faith is paradoxically what we need the most/in these Facebook days when everything is giving up the ghost?" The random word of the episode—"Lace"—plants a seed that grows into a trip-hop tune about cognitive biases, an existential weird-fiction detective story, and a deep dive with Consciousness Medicine author Françoise Bourzat on psychedelics and psychological healing. Stick around for a "bonus track" guided meditation at the end!. . .You can learn more and join my mailing list at my website.Or maybe you want to join our&n...
2020-06-2300 min
Clever Creature3. RALLY (w/Shima Oliaee)“A garden full of spiders and a spider for each pomegranate tree/Inside its web of gold...”Three episodes in, the word 'rally' sends Jason spinning off into an imaginary city with a feral pig problem, a dreamlike acoustic tune to rally the spirit, and musings with Radiolab's Shima Oliaee, co-producer of "Dolly Parton's America", about rallying yourself through the twists and turns of a creative career. And a "bonus track" guided meditation at the end!. . .You can learn more and join my mailing list at my website.Or maybe you...
2020-06-0900 min
Clever Creature2. CHURCH (w/Gish Jen)"I peel back the layers 'til the baby shines through/And I see a different aspect than I ever knew/I never really knew you at all..."Deeper and darker. A Northwestern Gothic coming-of-age tale. An elemental steampunk blues. Novelist and thinker Gish Jen on losing religion, finding art, and taking creative risks. And a bonus guided meditation at the end!. . .You can learn more and join my mailing list at my website.Or maybe you want to join our Facebook Group
2020-05-2600 min
Think Again - a Big Think Podcast[SPECIAL] Clever Creature with Jason Gots - Episode 1: DESERTNOTE: This is a special guest episode of Jason's new podcast Clever Creature. Please subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts!
The Moleskine is open, the page is staring back accusingly/
Like 'come on, Punk, what makes you think you possibly could fill the likes of me?
Reflections on a big creative leap of faith: the making of this podcast. A staples manufacturer on the brink of death, taking solace in his gut flora and the memory of his daughter's love for LOL Surprise dolls. A song about deserts, real and figurative. A conversation with Jason's...
2020-05-1340 min
Clever Creature1. DESERT (w/Emre Gots)The Moleskine is open, the page is staring back accusingly,Like "come on, Punk, what makes you think you possibly could fill the likes of me?"Reflections on a big creative leap of faith: the making of this podcast. A staples manufacturer on the brink of death, taking solace in his gut flora and the memory of his daughter's love for LOL Surprise dolls. A song about deserts, real and figurative. A conversation with Jason's son Emre about the Ice Cream Desert and music-making as a doorway. And a "bonus track" 7 minute...
2020-05-1200 minThink Again - a Big Think PodcastNeil Gaiman (Jason Plays Favorites #7) – and then it gets darker[From February through March 22, 2020 (his last day hosting Think Again) Jason will be revisiting favorite past episodes. Jason's new show, starting May 12th, is Clever Creature with Jason Gots.]
Adult life, with all its schedules and responsibilities, can turn into a kind of library of locked boxes. The ones we open every day sit on a shelf at eye level, their keys clipped to a carabiner at our waist: Set the alarm. Pack a gym bag. Pick up milk for the kids.
But on the lower shelves and in the dusty back rooms there’s an ominous jumble of odd-shaped co...
2020-03-221h 00Think Again - a Big Think PodcastRobert MacFarlane (Jason Plays Favorites #7) – deep time rising[From February through March 22, 2020 (his last day hosting Think Again) Jason will be revisiting favorite past episodes. Jason's new show, starting May 12th, is Clever Creature with Jason Gots.]
I’m underground as I write this, one day before taping the conversation you’re about to hear, speeding through New York City subway tunnels that aren’t all that ancient but whose darkness, and rats, and crumbling, esoteric infrastructure holds fear and fascination enough for anyone who contemplates them. Waking up this morning—notice how you wake up, not down—I felt my already barely remembered dreams sliding off of me in laye...
2020-03-141h 03Think Again - a Big Think PodcastTerry Gilliam (Jason Plays Favorites #4) – the impossible dream[From February through March 22, 2020 (his last day hosting Think Again) Jason will be revisiting favorite past episodes. Jason's new show, starting May 12th, is Clever Creature with Jason Gots.]
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Faith in anything is its own special form of madness.
It’s a challenge to entropy, and entropy takes no challenge lightly. If there’s any better metaphor for this struggle than trying to make a big budget movie with even a shred of integrity, I haven’t found it.
On the one hand, you’ve got this impossible dream. This faith in the beautiful thing that’s supposed to emerge at...
2020-03-0753 minThink Again - a Big Think PodcastAnaïs Mitchell (Jason Plays Favorites #4) – sometimes the god speaks through you[From February through March 22, 2020 (his last day hosting Think Again) Jason will be revisiting favorite past episodes. Jason's new show, starting May 12th, is Clever Creature with Jason Gots.]
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Among other things, music can be medicine. Like a vaccine, it sometimes works by giving your body a little taste of the disease. Other times, of course, you just wanna dance, and James Brown might be just what you need. But the medicine songs I’m talking about are the ones that break your heart open no matter many times you hear them. And you want them to—because that’s what...
2020-02-291h 00
Clever CreatureSeason 1 trailer: a creative leap of faithEvery story worth telling is a journey into the unknown. You have to risk getting lost if you want to end up somewhere new. I’m Jason Gots, and after 5 years hosting and producing Think Again - a Big Think Podcast, my newest thing is a creative experiment. An alternative variety show called Clever Creature. Each episode starts with one random word. I record an audio diary entry. I write and produce a story and a song about the word. Then I sit down with guests including David Sedaris, Gish Jen, and Mary-Louise Parker to talk about ta...
2020-02-2500 minThink Again - a Big Think PodcastMarlon James (Jason Plays Favorites #3) – don't get too comfortable[From February through March 22, 2020 (his last day hosting Think Again) Jason will be revisiting favorite past episodes. Jason's new show, starting May 12th, is Clever Creature with Jason Gots.]
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At this point, it’s very rare to read something and find myself thinking: This is something new. This is unlike anything I’ve ever read before. It doesn’t have to be written in hieroglyphs or be some kind of three-dimensional interactive reading experience with pull-out tabs and half the pages upside down. That kind of formal experimentation, in my experience as a reader, more often ends up being gimmic...
2020-02-2256 minThink Again - a Big Think PodcastEve Ensler (Jason Plays Favorites #2) – no way out but through[From February through March 22, 2020 (his last day hosting Think Again) Jason will be revisiting favorite past episodes. Jason's new show, starting May 12th, is Clever Creature with Jason Gots.]
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Note: I feel I should let listeners know that this episode of Think Again is about surviving and thriving in the face of unspeakable trauma and sexual violence. And in order to get to the thriving, we have talk about the trauma, which may be painful for some listeners and inappropriate for kids. But I don’t want to scare anybody off—I think it’s one of the most valuab...
2020-02-151h 02Think Again - a Big Think PodcastDavid Sedaris (Jason Plays Favorites #1) – Sir David of the Spotless Roadways[From February through March 22, 2020 (his last day hosting Think Again) Jason will be revisiting favorite past episodes. Jason's new show, starting May 12th, is Clever Creature with Jason Gots.]
Life is full of horrible things. I dare you to deny it. Things like death, sickness, and alcoholism. And did I mention death, which lies in wait for us all? But if you talk about these things at dinner parties, or at work, or to someone you have just met in line at the grocery store, you risk being branded a negative person. In some circles, such as the state of...
2020-02-081h 04Think Again - a Big Think PodcastSharon Salzberg (meditation and mindfulness teacher) – on balanceSince 1976, Sharon Salzberg has been sharing ancient meditation and mindfulness practices in a voice the contemporary West can understand. Her warm, funny, down-to-earth books, dharma talks, and guided meditations have helped struggling meditators worldwide establish a strong practice and reduce the suffering in their lives. In this episode master teacher Sharon Salzberg considers whether it's ok to teach mindfulness to the armed forces, how practitioners of meditation and mindfulness should balance openness with discipline, and so much more. Sharon’s latest book is Real Happiness: a 28 day program for realizing the power of meditation, now thoroughly updated and revised for its 1...
2020-02-0151 minThink Again - a Big Think PodcastRoz Chast and Patricia Marx (cartoons, words, ukuleles) – The Beatles stole everything from usThelma and Louise, Ponch and John, Pancho and Lefty, Quixote and Sancho Panza, Marx and Engels, Marx and Chast…history and literature are full of magical buddy stories. Every now and then, for reasons no one can explain, Two people come together and produce something greater, or at least very different, from the sum of their parts.
I’m here today with one such team: the writer-cartoonist duo of Patricia Marx and Roz Chast. They’re both longtime contributors to the New Yorker and fearsome humorists in their own rights. But together they form a third fearsome thing, a thing which...
2020-01-2545 minThink Again - a Big Think PodcastJoseph Goldstein (dharma teacher) – doubt comes masquerading as wisdomFreedom. Everyone wants it, but knowing where to look for it is another matter. And to make matters worse, the world is full of things that feel like freedom but might just get us more tangled up in everything we’re trying to escape. How much freedom can money buy? How much money? How free are you on a tropical vacation? Would uploading your consciousness into the cloud and downloading it into a robot avatar on Alpha Centauri make you more free? How about falling in love again? How about three margaritas with friends? Or six? How about falling in lov...
2020-01-1857 minThink Again - a Big Think PodcastJad Abumrad (Radiolab, Dolly Parton's America) – American MultiverseIf you’d told me a couple months ago that a podcast about Dolly Parton could move me deeply and raise all kinds of questions that go straight to the wounded heart of America today, I guess I would have been skeptical to say the least.
But that skepticism might be exactly the point. America is an image factory. Country music. Rock and Roll. New York City. Nashville. We paint with big, broad brushes. And if we’re not careful, we miss a lot of the details.
My guest today is audio storytelling wizard Jad Abumrad. He’s the creator and a h...
2019-12-2147 minThink Again - a Big Think PodcastNorman Fischer (zen priest, poet) – the only way out of the catastrophe we’re inThe other day on social media a friend asked what the heck is up with this Mr. Rogers revival. Why does everyone suddenly love this guy so much? Moments before, I had been listening to a new podcast about Dolly Parton, and her weird, almost saintlike ability to bring people together across cultural divides. In a moment of deep mistrust and cynicism, there’s this hunger for people and things worth believing in.
I’ve also got Bodhisattvas on the brain lately. In Mahayana Buddhism, Bodhisattvas are the embodiment of compassion. Absolute compassion for all living things, even those that reall...
2019-12-141h 01
See No, Hear No, Speak No: UFOs, Conspiracies, and MurderBig Ed's Gots Big PlansPart numbah 2 in the Big Eddie Kemper saga! Its almost as if this guys life is like a broken record. Well a broken record that after being broken, Ed has sex with it and maybe uses it for a bit of cricket practice!
2019-02-251h 20
Bodega Boarder Crew Podcast - Surf PodcastVol. 31 - Jason BaffaNow part of the Yew Podcast Network
Got a banger of an episode for all you surf hip hop heads out there. This week we politic with famed surf film maker Jason Baffa (@jasonbaffafilms) about growing up in Cali, working with Tyler Hazikian (@tylersurfboards), how technology might be hurting us, his love for wine and where his film making is going. We also got some short takes with @danssurfvideos, @surfer_magazine, @jonesea, & @ziobaffa. So sit back for some dope tracks, insight into some of my fav surf films and end with some surprise classics.
2018-04-282h 43Think Again - a Big Think PodcastNoël Wells (actor/director) – Out of Context100,000 or so years of human history and young adulthood is still getting weirder.
Jason Gots: My guest today is actor and filmmaker Noël Wells. She’s been a cast member of Saturday Night Live. She played Rachel on the Netflix series Master of None. And she’s making her directorial debut with Mr. Roosevelt, a sweet, moving indie comedy that’s ostensibly about a dead cat, but that’s really about that very awkward and for some of us very protracted moment of coming to terms with life as a grown up.
Surprise conversation-starter clips in this episode:
Reza Aslan on w...
2017-12-091h 00Think Again - a Big Think PodcastVan Jones (social entrepreneur) – Blind Spots & Sore SpotsJason Gots: I want to tell you a story. It’s November 5, 2016, a few days before Election Day. I’m staring at Facebook, promising myself I’m going to delete the app once and for all from my phone, today. Enough of the political echo chamber. Enough of the ranting. Then I’m sucked into a video, because that’s what happens.
It’s CNN’s Van Jones sitting in the living room of a family in Pennsylvania. Unlike me and most every other liberal coastal elite I know, he’s talking to people who support Donald Trump for President. Listening. Tryin...
2017-10-2147 minThink Again - a Big Think PodcastAaron Mahnke (of 'Lore') – The Hunger for MysteryFor thousands of years, all over the world, tales of monsters and the undead have populated the "whitespace" beyond the borders of our understanding. As the enormous popularity of the podcast 'Lore" demonstrates, we're still hungry for those stories today.
Why?
Today's guest Aaron Mahnke and host Jason Gots talk about the hunger for mystery, a human need almost as powerful as our thirst for knowledge. We also get into the meaning of work in people's lives, and how Aaron started the podcast as a "last ditch effort" at turning his passions into a sustainable career.
Surprise conversation-starter clips in th...
2017-10-0751 minThink Again - a Big Think PodcastStephen Greenblatt (humanities scholar) – Irresistible FictionsAn ancient, one-and-a-half-page-story that just won't let us go. Humanities scholar Stephen Greenblatt and host Jason Gots discuss how Adam and Eve have shaped and been shaped by Western art, culture, and science, in this, Big Think's latest brain-fertilizing podcast.
Greenblatt is the Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University, General Editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature and the author of thirteen books, including the Pulitzer prize-winning The Swerve: How the World Became Modern. His latest, The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve, traces the cultural history of that most primal of stories about a...
2017-09-3058 minThink Again - a Big Think PodcastKurt Andersen (writer) – The Sleep of ReasonOrthodox kookiness: the true American exceptionalism? Writer Kurt Andersen and host Jason Gots discuss America's 500 year old tendency toward passionate belief in the preposterous in this, Big Think's latest brain-fertilizing podcast.
Writer and media polymath Kurt Andersen is the NY-times bestselling author of the novels Heyday, Turn of the Century, and True Believers, and he’s the host and co-creator of the Peabody-award winning public radio show Studio 360. Kurt’s latest book Fantasyland – How America Went Haywire – is a 500 year history of a different kind of American exceptionalism.
Surprise conversation-starter clips in this episode: Neuroscientist Beau Lotto on diversity, Neil DeGrasse...
2017-09-2356 minThink Again - a Big Think PodcastClaire Messud (writer) – All These Falls From GraceAuthor Claire Messud and host Jason Gots talk about childhood, growing up, and how cultures contain the things that scare them most. Also, how to give and receive good criticism on creative writing in this, Big Think's latest brain-fertilizing podcast.
Claire Messud is the author of seven novels, including The Woman Upstairs and The Emperor’s Children. Messud has been awarded an Addison Metcalf award and the Straus Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, among many other literary honors. The New Yorker calls her “adept at evoking complex psychological territory”, which is most definitely the case in her...
2017-09-1656 minThink Again - a Big Think PodcastSalman Rushdie (writer) – A Permeable FrontierIn this episode, the first one with a repeat guest since the show was launched (Henry Rollins was one taping split into two episodes) author Salman Rushdie and host Jason Gots discuss New York City, the surrealism of everyday life, comic books, and much, much, more in this, Big Think's latest brain-fertilizing podcast.
Salman Rushdie is the author of twelve previous novels and four books of nonfiction, including Joseph Anton, Midnight’s Children (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker), Shame, The Satanic Verses, and Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights which we di...
2017-09-0959 minThink Again - a Big Think Podcast114. 2017 Mixtape #2 – Words, Values, Self, OtherSince 2008, Big Think has been sharing big ideas from creative and curious minds. Since 2015, the Think Again podcast has been taking us out of our comfort zone, surprising our guests and Jason Gots, your host, with unexpected conversation starters from Big Think’s interview archives.
In the second year of what’s becoming a tradition here on Think Again, this is a mixtape of some of Jason's favorite moments from the past year’s shows. Things that stuck with him because they were funny, or especially wise, or because of something extraordinary about the conversation that he can't quite put his fi...
2017-09-021h 00Think Again - a Big Think Podcast113. 2017 Mixtape #1 – Mind, Body, Authenticity, ArtificeSince 2008, Big Think has been sharing big ideas from creative and curious minds. Since 2015, the Think Again podcast has been taking us out of our comfort zone, surprising our guests and Jason Gots, your host, with unexpected conversation starters from Big Think’s interview archives.
In the second year of what’s becoming a tradition here on Think Again, this is a mixtape of some of Jason's favorite moments from the past year’s shows. Things that stuck with him because they were funny, or especially wise, or because of something extraordinary about the conversation that he can't quite put his fi...
2017-08-2653 minThink Again - a Big Think Podcast112. Richard Dawkins (biologist) – Red in Tooth and ClawIn this episode, which Dawkins described as “one of the best interviews I have ever had,” the eminent ethologist and host Jason Gots talk about whether pescatarianism makes any sense, where morality should come from (since, as Hume says, "you can't get an 'ought' from an 'is'), the greatness of Christopher Hitchens, and the evils of nationalism.
About the guest: Today’s guest is internationally best-selling author, speaker, and passionate advocate for reason and science as against superstition Richard Dawkins. From 1995 to 2008 Richard Dawkins was the Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. Among his many bo...
2017-08-1957 minThink Again - a Big Think Podcast111. Ari Shaffir (Comic) – The Golden Age of TrollingSince 2008, Big Think has been sharing big ideas from creative and curious minds. Since 2015, the Think Again podcast has been taking us out of our comfort zone, surprising our guests and Jason Gots, your host, with unexpected conversation starters from Big Think’s interview archives.
Today's guest Ari Shaffir is a stand-up comic and the host of Skeptic Tank – a super popular weekly podcast that’s on its 299th episode (at this writing). Ari grew up orthodox Jewish, spent two years in a yeshiva in Israel, and then turned into an atheist comedian who did an outrageous web video series called...
2017-08-121h 00Think Again - a Big Think Podcast109. Sheelah Kolhatkar (Writer, Former Hedge Fund Analyst) – The Most Dangerous GameSince 2008, Big Think has been sharing big ideas from creative and curious minds. Since 2015, the Think Again podcast has been taking us out of our comfort zone, surprising our guests and Jason Gots, your host, with unexpected conversation starters from Big Think’s interview archives.
Sheelah Kolhatkar is a staff writer at the New Yorker and a former “risk arbitrage analyst” for two hedge funds in New York City. For the New Yorker, Sheelah writes about Wall Street, Silicon Valley, economics and national politics, among other things. Her latest book is the New York Times bestseller Black Edge, about the largest...
2017-07-2947 minThink Again - a Big Think Podcast106. Alan Alda (Actor) – The Spirit of the StaircaseSince 2008, Big Think has been sharing big ideas from creative and curious minds. Since 2015, the Think Again podcast has been taking us out of our comfort zone, surprising our guests and Jason Gots, your host, with unexpected conversation starters from Big Think’s interview archives.
Today's guest is actor, writer, director, and science-curious artist Alan Alda. Jason says: "I grew up watching him in reruns of MASH, where his character Hawkeye Pierce was so specific and relatable that he feels in my memory like a not-too-distant relative. And in Horace and Pete, Louis CK’s 2016 brilliant web-tv dramedy, Alan underwent a mi...
2017-07-0842 minThink Again - a Big Think Podcast105. Jennifer Doudna (Geneticist) - Intelligent Redesign?Since 2008, Big Think has been sharing big ideas from creative and curious minds. Since 2015, the Think Again podcast has been taking us out of our comfort zone, surprising our guests and Jason Gots, your host, with unexpected conversation starters from Big Think’s interview archives.
Jennifer Doudna is a Professor of Chemistry and of Molecular and Cell Biology at the UC Berkeley, and until around 2012 she was quietly and contentedly studying the three dimensional structure of RNA molecules. Then she and her colleagues started looking into a thing called CRISPR-Cas9. It’s a kind of bacterial immune system, and it led...
2017-07-0156 minThink Again - a Big Think Podcast101. Ariel Levy (Writer) – Big Things That Are Not Talked AboutSince 2008, Big Think has been sharing big ideas from creative and curious minds. Since 2015, the Think Again podcast has been taking us out of our comfort zone, surprising our guests and Jason Gots, your host, with unexpected conversation starters from Big Think’s interview archives. 100 episodes in, like the universe itself, the show continues to expand and accelerate at speeds that boggle the imagination.
After 12 years at New York Magazine, Ariel Levy became a staff writer at The New Yorker, where she’s written about remarkable women, sex, Ayahuasca, madness and Silvio Berlusconi. Her new book The Rules Do Not Appl...
2017-06-0346 minThink Again - a Big Think Podcast97. Dean Buonomano (Neuroscientist) – This is Your Brain on TimeSince 2008, Big Think has been sharing big ideas from creative and curious minds. The Think Again podcast takes us out of our comfort zone, surprising our guests and Jason Gots, your host, with unexpected conversation starters from Big Think’s interview archives.
Dean Buonomano is a professor of neurobiology and psychology at UCLA and a leading theorist on (and researcher into) the neuroscience of time. His latest book, Your Brain is a Time Machine, the Neuroscience and Physics of Time convinced Jason that time is far weirder than he knew it to be (and he already knew it was mind-bogglingly we...
2017-05-0651 minThink Again - a Big Think Podcast93. Adam Alter (Social Psychologist) – Ping!Since 2008, Big Think has been sharing big ideas from creative and curious minds. The Think Again podcast takes us out of our comfort zone, surprising our guests and Jason Gots, your host, with unexpected conversation starters from Big Think’s interview archives.
Adam Alter is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Drunk Tank Pink: And Other Unexpected Forces That Shape How We Think, Feel, and Behave, and has written for the New York Times, New Yorker, Atlantic, WIRED, Slate, Washington Post, and Popular Science, among other publications. He’s an associate professor of marketing at New York University and...
2017-04-0851 minThink Again - a Big Think Podcast92. Elif Batuman (Writer) – The Worst Appetizer in AmericaSince 2008, Big Think has been sharing big ideas from creative and curious minds. The Think Again podcast takes us out of our comfort zone, surprising our guests and Jason Gots, your host, with unexpected conversation starters from Big Think’s interview archives.
Elif Batuman has written articles for the New Yorker on everything from the horrible-smelling "corpse flower" to the complex politics of present day Turkey, her parents' native country. Her first book, The Possessed, was a series of "comic, interconnected essays about Russian Literature." Her latest, "The Idiot", is a lucid, disarmingly funny coming of age novel set in 1995. Ja...
2017-04-0151 minThink Again - a Big Think Podcast90. Scott Aukerman (Comedy Writer) – The Buttons You PushSince 2008, Big Think has been sharing big ideas from creative and curious minds. The Think Again podcast takes us out of our comfort zone, surprising our guests and Jason Gots, your host, with unexpected conversation starters from Big Think’s interview archives.
Scott Aukerman is a comedy writer, director, and producer who started out on HBO’s Mr. Show with Bob and David. He’s the creator of Comedy Bang Bang - the podcast and the long running IFC show, and he co-created and directs Between Two Ferns with Zach Galafanakis, for which he’s won two Emmys.
In this episode...
2017-03-1859 minThink Again - a Big Think Podcast89. George Saunders (Author) – Self-Googling In Hell“If I died right now, I’d still be self-Googling in hell.” – George Saunders, in this episode.
George Saunders' new book - his first novel, after many acclaimed collections of short stories including the NY Times bestselling 10th of December – is called Lincoln in the Bardo. A kind of play for voices about the death and afterlife of Abraham Lincoln’s son Willie, who died at age 10. It's a strange, wise, funny and beautiful book about impermanence and the tenacity of the self.
In this episode, George and Jason talk writing, death, and how much easier it is to talk about kindne...
2017-03-1155 minThink Again - a Big Think Podcast88. Gish Jen (Author) – The Self in the WorldSince 2008, Big Think has been sharing big ideas from creative and curious minds. The Think Again podcast takes us out of our comfort zone, surprising our guests and Jason Gots, your host, with unexpected conversation starters from Big Think’s interview archives.
Novelist and essayist Gish Jen's work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories four times, including The Best American Short Stories of the Century, edited by John Updike. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and her work was featured in a PBS American Masters’ special on the American novel. Her 2017 book, The...
2017-03-0452 minThink Again - a Big Think Podcast87. Yuval Noah Harari (Historian) – Time's UpSince 2008, Big Think has been sharing big ideas from creative and curious minds. The Think Again podcast takes us out of our comfort zone, surprising our guests and Jason Gots, your host, with unexpected conversation starters from Big Think’s interview archives.
Yuval Noah Harari holds a PhD in History from the University of Oxford and now lectures at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, specializing in World History. His 2014 New York Times bestselling book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, is published in nearly 40 languages worldwide. His new book Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, uses historical and current tr...
2017-02-2550 minThink Again - a Big Think Podcast86. Ayelet Waldman (Author) – Yourself, Only BetterSince 2008, Big Think has been sharing big ideas from creative and curious minds. The Think Again podcast takes us out of our comfort zone, surprising our guests and Jason Gots, your host, with unexpected conversation starters from Big Think’s interview archives.
Ayelet Waldman is a novelist and essayist, a former federal public defender who taught at Loyola and UC Berkeley schools of Law. Her latest book, A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life is an honest, funny, informative account of her month-long experience “microdosing” on LSD – after a ton of r...
2017-02-1853 minThink Again - a Big Think Podcast85. Ben Goertzel (A.I. Inventor) – The State of the Art of Artificial General IntelligenceSince 2008, Big Think has been sharing big ideas from creative and curious minds. The Think Again podcast takes us out of our comfort zone, surprising our guests and Jason Gots, your host, with unexpected conversation starters from Big Think’s interview archives.
Ben Goertzel is a hugely influential computer scientist and author in the area of artificial general intelligence, among others. Just a few of the many hats Ben wears or has worn: Chief Scientist of Hanson Robotics which makes some of the most advanced robots in the world, Co-founder of AIDYA – artificial intelligence for financial trading, and Chairman of the...
2017-02-1142 minThink Again - a Big Think Podcast84. Nato Thompson (Artistic Director) – The Friendly FaceSince 2008, Big Think has been sharing big ideas from creative and curious minds. The Think Again podcast takes us out of our comfort zone, surprising our guests and Jason Gots, your host, with unexpected conversation starters from Big Think’s interview archives.
Nato Thompson is the Artistic Director of Creative Time, which commissions and presents ambitious public art projects with thousands of artists throughout New York City, across the country, around the world—and now even in outer space. They did Waiting for Godot in New Orleans, a free public performance in hard-hit New Orleans neighborhoods after the flood that Jaso...
2017-02-0351 minThink Again - a Big Think Podcast83. Matt Taibbi (Journalist) – Bread and CircusSince 2008, Big Think has been sharing big ideas from creative and curious minds. The Think Again podcast takes us out of our comfort zone, surprising our guests and Jason Gots, your host, with unexpected conversation starters from Big Think’s interview archives.
Hard-hitting, darkly funny journalist Matt Taibbi has reported on on politics, media, finance, and sports, winning the National Magazine Award for Commentary in 2008 and is the author of three NYTimes bestsellers on politics and culture. For Rolling Stone, continuing in the tradition the magazine started with Hunter S. Thompson’s coverage of Nixon’s 1972 presidential campaign, Taibbi has covere...
2017-01-2846 minThink Again - a Big Think Podcast81. Isy Suttie (Comedian) – There's Something a Bit Smug about the SeaSince 2008, Big Think has been sharing big ideas from creative and curious minds. The Think Again podcast takes us out of our comfort zone, surprising our guests and Jason Gots, your host, with unexpected conversation starters from Big Think’s interview archives.
Isy Suttie is a comedian, actress, and writer who played the character Dobby in the British TV comedy Peep Show, of which Jason has watched all 54 episodes. Isy has written for the Guardian, the Observer, and Glamour, and is a regular writer and performer on BBC Radio 4. Her book The Actual One: How I Tried and Failed to Av...
2017-01-141h 11Think Again - a Big Think Podcast80. Amani Al-Khatahtbeh (founder: MuslimGirl) – Who Tells Your Story?Since 2008, Big Think has been sharing big ideas from creative and curious minds. The Think Again podcast takes us out of our comfort zone, surprising our guests and Jason Gots, your host, with unexpected conversation starters from Big Think’s interview archives.
Amani Al -Khatatbeh is the founder and editor of Muslimgirl.com, the number one Muslim women’s blog in the United States. She regularly provides commentary on social, cultural, and political issues through outlets such as CNN, Al Jazeera, and the BBC, and has been featured in the New York Times, the Guardian, and made Forbes’ 30 under 30 list. Her ne...
2017-01-0739 minThink Again - a Big Think Podcast78. Peter Godfrey-Smith (Philosopher) – Alien IntelligenceSince 2008, Big Think has been sharing big ideas from creative and curious minds. The Think Again podcast takes us out of our comfort zone, surprising our guests and Jason Gots, your host, with unexpected conversation starters from Big Think’s interview archives.
Peter Godfrey-Smith is a distinguished professor of philosophy at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and a professor of the history and philosophy of science at the University of Sydney in Australia. He has also spent a lot of time floating around in an octopus colony in Australia, studying smart cephalopods and taking photos and videos th...
2016-12-2442 minThink Again - a Big Think Podcast75. David Salle (Artist) – The Enemy of ArtSince 2008, Big Think has been sharing big ideas from creative and curious minds. The Think Again podcast takes us out of our comfort zone, surprising our guests and Jason Gots, your host, with unexpected conversation starters from Big Think’s interview archives. David Salle's paintings are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The National Galerie Berlin and many others. His book How to See is a collection of essays, mainly on the work of other artists, that delves deep into questions about ho...
2016-12-0343 minThink Again - a Big Think Podcast74. Jace Clayton AKA DJ/Rupture - Sonic Veils and RevelationsSince 2008, Big Think has been sharing big ideas from creative and curious minds. The Think Again podcast takes us out of our comfort zone, surprising our guests and Jason Gots, your host, with unexpected conversation starters from Big Think’s interview archives. As DJ /Rupture, Jace Clayton has spun music all over the world in every imaginable kind of venue (including not only big arenas but also, once, a refrigerated truck) and released several critically acclaimed albums. He’s also one of the most gifted writers about musical culture that Jason has ever read. His book Uproot: Travels in 21st Cent...
2016-11-2650 minThink Again - a Big Think Podcast73. T.C. Boyle (Author) - Lost on PurposeSince 2008, Big Think has been sharing big ideas from creative and curious minds. The Think Again podcast takes us out of our comfort zone, surprising our guests and Jason Gots, your host, with unexpected conversation starters from Big Think’s interview archives.
T.C. Boyle is the author of 26 books of fiction, including The Tortilla Curtain, The Harder They Come, and World’s End (which won the Pen/Faulkner award). His latest is The Terranauts--it’s about an ill-fated, very expensive and highly publicised experiment in which 4 men and 4 women try to live together for two years in a Biodome in the...
2016-11-1944 minThink Again - a Big Think Podcast72. Slavoj Žižek (Philosopher) - Against ToleranceSince 2008, Big Think has been sharing big ideas from creative and curious minds. The Think Again podcast takes us out of our comfort zone, surprising our guests and Jason Gots, your host, with unexpected conversation starters from Big Think’s interview archives.
Slavoj Žižek is a Hegelian philosopher, Lacanian psychoanalist, and political activist. He’s the international director of the Birbeck Institute for the Humanities, and Global Distinguished Professor of German at New York University. His newest book is Refugees, Terror, and Other Troubles with the Neighbors: Against the Double Blackmail.
In this spirited, wide-ranging discussion, the voluble Žižek talks...
2016-11-1253 minThink Again - a Big Think Podcast70. Margaret Atwood (Author) - The Good, The Bad, and The StupidSince 2008, Big Think has been sharing big ideas from creative and curious minds. The Think Again podcast takes us out of our comfort zone, surprising our guests and Jason Gots, your host, with unexpected conversation starters from Big Think’s interview archives.
Today's guest is novelist, essayist, poet, and as of late, comic-book writer Margaret Atwood. She’s also got some really funny mini-comics about bad interviews, so Jason tries extra-hard to bring his a-game here. She’s the Booker prize winning author of The Blind Assassin, Oryx & Crake, The Handmaid’s Tale, and around 40 other beloved books. Her latest...
2016-10-2944 minThink Again - a Big Think Podcast69. Jodi Picoult (Author) - Popular Fictions/Not Yours to TellSince 2008, Big Think has been sharing big ideas from creative and curious minds. The Think Again podcast takes us out of our comfort zone, surprising our guests and Jason Gots, your host, with unexpected conversation starters from Big Think’s interview archives.
In this episode of Think Again - a Big Think Podcast, author Jodi Picoult and host Jason Gots talk comic books, social justice, and why white Americans need to take the risk (and the consequences) of talking honestly about race and class privilege.
Surprise conversation starter interview clips in this episode: C. Nicole Mason on Poverty and the 2016 Election...
2016-10-2245 minThink Again - a Big Think Podcast68. William Shatner (Actor, Author) – Yes, I Am Trying to Win This PodcastSince 2008, Big Think has been sharing big ideas from creative and curious minds. The Think Again podcast takes us out of our comfort zone, surprising our guests and Jason Gots, your host, with unexpected conversation starters from Big Think’s interview archives.
William Shatner created the role of Captain James T Kirk on the original Star Trek, and won two Emmys and a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Denny Crane on “The Practice” and “Boston Legal”. He’s also written nearly 30 bestselling books of fiction and non-fiction and released two albums of music with the artist Ben Folds. His new book Zero-G...
2016-10-1540 minThink Again - a Big Think Podcast67. James Gleick (Science Writer) - Everything All at OnceSince 2008, Big Think has been sharing big ideas from creative and curious minds. The Think Again podcast takes us out of our comfort zone, surprising our guests and Jason Gots, your host, with unexpected conversation starters from Big Think’s interview archives.
James Gleick is one of our greatest living science writers, author of The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood. His first book, Chaos, was a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist and a national bestseller. His other books include the best-selling biographies, Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman, and Isaac Newton, both shortlisted for the Pu...
2016-10-0839 minThink Again - a Big Think Podcast66. Alton Brown (Chef, Author) - Easy-Bake Oven/Hard Knock LifeSince 2008, Big Think has been sharing big ideas from creative and curious minds. The Think Again podcast takes us out of our comfort zone, surprising our guests and Jason Gots, your host, with unexpected conversation starters from Big Think’s interview archives.
Cook, writer, and director Alton Brown is a living legend in food TV. Alton was the creator and host of the show “Good Eats”, which ran for 14 seasons on Food Network and has a 9/10 rating on IMDB which is basically unheard of (Casablanca is 8.6). He’s also known as the host of Iron Chef America, Cutthroat Kitchen, and Feasting on...
2016-10-0150 minThink Again - a Big Think Podcast65. Ian McEwan (Novelist) - A King of Infinite SpaceSince 2008, Big Think has been sharing big ideas from creative and curious minds. The Think Again podcast takes us out of our comfort zone, surprising our guests and Jason Gots, your host, with unexpected conversation starters from Big Think’s interview archives.
This week's guest is novelist Ian McEwan. He’s the bestselling author of 16 books, including Atonement, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the WH Smith Literary award and Amsterdam, which won the Booker Prize. His latest book, Nutshell, is a darkly funny, brilliant riff on Shakespeare’s Hamlet, told from the point of view of an extrem...
2016-09-2442 minThink Again - a Big Think Podcast63. Eric Kandel (Nobel Laureate neuroscientist) - The Eye of the BeholderSince 2008, Big Think has been sharing big ideas from creative and curious minds. The Think Again podcast takes us out of our comfort zone, surprising our guests and Jason Gots, your host, with unexpected conversation starters from Big Think’s interview archives.
On this week's episode: Professor Eric Kandel of Columbia University and host Jason Gotsdiscuss abstract art, memory, identity, and the nature of evil. When he was 9 years old, Eric Kandel listened on a short-wave radio his brother had made as Hitler marched into Kandel's hometown of Vienna, Austria. The next day, a non-Jewish classmate told him "Kandel, I'm never...
2016-09-1041 minThink Again - a Big Think Podcast62. Mixtape #3 – a Soupçon of OrnithologyBig Think launched in 2008 as a "YouTube for intellectuals." Since then, it has produced over 10,000 short-form video interviews with many of the most influential and creative thinkers of our time.
In 2014, the podcast SERIAL burst on the scene and Apple put a "podcasts" app in the iPhone's OS, and suddenly podcasting, which had existed for over a decade, was widely considered to have entered its Golden Age (wonder how all the veteran podcasters felt about that...). So Big Think decided it might be a good time to start a podcast, too––to find its voice in this newly energized space. Jason G...
2016-09-0352 minThink Again - a Big Think Podcast58. Mixtape #2 – Staring at the SeaBig Think launched in 2008 as a "YouTube for intellectuals." Since then, it has produced over 10,000 short-form video interviews with many of the most influential and creative thinkers of our time.
In 2014, the podcast SERIAL burst on the scene and Apple put a "podcasts" app in the iPhone's OS, and suddenly podcasting, which had existed for over a decade, was widely considered to have entered its Golden Age (wonder how all the veteran podcasters felt about that...). So Big Think decided it might be a good time to start a podcast, too––to find its voice in this newly energized space. Jason G...
2016-08-0649 minThink Again - a Big Think Podcast57. Mixtape #1 - Lies/Monsters/Friendship/Religion/Space AliensBig Think launched in 2008 as a "YouTube for intellectuals." Since then, it has produced over 10,000 short-form video interviews with many of the most influential and creative thinkers of our time.
In 2014, the podcast SERIAL burst on the scene and Apple put a "podcasts" app in the iPhone's OS, and suddenly podcasting, which had existed for over a decade, was widely considered to have entered its Golden Age (wonder how all the veteran podcasters felt about that...). So Big Think decided it might be a good time to start a podcast, too––to find its voice in this newly energized space. Jason G...
2016-07-3050 min
Impactful1.2 CertaintyPart 2 of IMPACTFUL Series 1 — In this episode, I talk more about the challenges we face when building on the foundations outlined in episode 1.1. Specifically, why our brains are so attracted to certainty, and why it's a big problem today. Then, Jason Gots (host of Think Again, a Big Think Podcast) and I talk about some strategies for overcoming these challenges.
Show Notes, Influences, Suggested Content & More at jaredjanes.com/impactful
2016-06-3000 minThink Again - a Big Think Podcast44. Douglas Rushkoff (Media Theorist) – Hack the $ystem"The problem with our time is that we look at people for their utility value.", says Douglas Rushkoff, author of Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus.
Since the late Middle Ages, Rushkoff argues, money and businesses have been programmed to extract more and more value from humans and the earth. The priority of endless growth has led to scorched-earth policies that put humans out of work and destroy the planet,
But we programmed the system in the first place, says Rushkoff, and we can reprogram it. Join him and Think Again host Jason Gots for a searching discussion of our many...
2016-04-3036 minThink Again - a Big Think Podcast35. A.O. Scott (Film Critic) – The Right to Be WrongA.O. Scott: The fantasy that I would use to comfort myself [as a child, about death] was…that I’d become other people. I would still be me, but I would inhabit different bodies…and eventually I would just get to see what it was like to be everybody.
Jason Gots: That’s a critic’s fantasy.
A.O. Scott: Yeah! And you discover shortcuts to do that...through works of art.
A.O. Scott's new book Better Living Through Criticism playfully and artfully examines what critics do and why. On this week's episode, he and host Jason Gots dig into these...
2016-02-2729 min
DC on SCREEN: Zack Snyder's Justice LeagueLegends of Tomorrow 1x02 - Pilot, Part 2 ReviewWARNING: SPOILERS/NSFW - DC on SCREEN #098 - Legends of Tomorrow 1x02 - Pilot, Part 2 Review | So Vandal Savage gots himself a warhead in 1975, and he's looking to sell it to the highest bidder! Guess the LEGENDS OF TOMORROW have to bluff their way in... too bad there's a run-in with Arrow baddie Damien Darhk (and that mofo hasn't aged a bit)! All it takes is a bit of a row before Atom leaves a piece of his 2016 tech in 1975, and Savage's men reverse engineer it! Oh, so much fun! But not as fun as chatting up young Martin Stein whi...
2016-01-3129 min
DC on SCREEN | DC Studios News/ReviewLegends of Tomorrow 1x02 - Pilot, Part 2 ReviewWARNING: SPOILERS/NSFW - DC on SCREEN #098 - Legends of Tomorrow 1x02 - Pilot, Part 2 Review | So Vandal Savage gots himself a warhead in 1975, and he's looking to sell it to the highest bidder! Guess the LEGENDS OF TOMORROW have to bluff their way in... too bad there's a run-in with Arrow baddie Damien Darhk (and that mofo hasn't aged a bit)! All it takes is a bit of a row before Atom leaves a piece of his 2016 tech in 1975, and Savage's men reverse engineer it! Oh, so much fun! But not as fun as chatting up young Martin Stein whi...
2016-01-3127 minThink Again - a Big Think Podcast23. Orhan Pamuk (Nobel Novelist) – Write to Live/No Logic In War"There is no central logic in war. Victor Hugo wrote about street fights in Paris. In one street people are killing each other. In the next street people are enjoying their coffee. They’re not even aware of what’s happening." – Orhan Pamuk
Think Again is a spontaneous intellectual variety show–The world's brightest minds grapple with surprise topics.
On the heels of the publication of A Strangeness in My Mind, his extraordinary epic novel of life in Istanbul over four decades through the eyes of a street vendor, Nobel Laureate Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk joins host Jason Gots for a soulful, fa...
2015-11-2129 minThink Again - a Big Think Podcast4. Bill Nye (Science Guy) – Geek Chic/TMI/Future MoneyWas Einstein a fashion genius? Why is Malcolm Gladwell unimpressed by search engines? What will money look like in 500 years?
In this week's episode of Big Think's Think Again podcast, host Jason Gots is joined by beloved actor/educator Bill Nye, host of the "Tuesdays With Bill" series on Big Think.
Big Think interview clips from Simon Doonan, Malcolm Gladwell, and Kabir Sehgal launch Bill and host Jason Gots on a spirited discussion that spans continents and centuries.
And Bill Nye commits, on record, to wearing a matching bow tie and kilt.
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2015-07-1132 minThink Again - a Big Think PodcastEpisode Zero – Think Again - Curiouser and Curiouser . . .You've got 10 minutes with Einstein. What do you talk about? Black holes? Time travel?
Why not gambling? The Art of War? Contemporary parenting?
Some of the best conversations happen when we find ourselves outside of our comfort zones, thrust into unfamiliar, unexpected territory.
So each week on Think Again, we surprise some of the world's brightest and most energetic minds with ideas they're not at all prepared to discuss. We listen together to a short interview clip from Big Think's archives and let the conversation take us where it will.
Join Host Jason Gots and special guests including Bill Nye...
2015-06-0404 min