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Pop Culture Retro PodcastPop Culture Retro PodcastPop Culture Retro interview with Jane Badler from the sci/fi classic V!Send us a textJoin former child actor Moosie Drier, and author Jonathan Rosen, as they chat with Jane Badler from the sci/fi classic V!Jane discusses her time on V, being part of the Mission Impossible reboot, making Ricky Stanicky with Zac Efron and John Cena, and much more!Support the show2025-05-2242 minSitting Around Talking MoviesSitting Around Talking MoviesWe're Above Par - "The Phantom of the Open" plus "The Valet," "The Lincoln Lawyer" and More!It must be Summer because there's a golf movie of all things. "The Phantom of the Opera" is based on a true story and stars Oscar winner Mark Rylance as Maurice Flitcroft, a dreamer and unrelenting optimist, managed to gain entry to The British Open Golf Championship Qualifying in 1976 and subsequently shot the worst round in Open history, becoming a folk hero in the process. Neil Rosen saw it and tells us all about it. Then, for some reason we talk about the oh so tawdry Amber Heard and Johnnie Depp trial outcome and whether either one of them will...2022-06-0333 minNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Summer Hiatus2022-05-2718 minNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 71: Law School Wrap-Up with Austin Lowe and Ezra LouvisNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by his law school classmates Austin Lowe and Ezra Louvis to recap their law school experiences on the eve of their graduation.2022-05-061h 57Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - BONUS EPISODE on Eradicating Filler Words from Conversation, Living The Rest of Your Life Inside the Metaverse, Thought-to-Text Typing, Love Is Blind, and Lunch in the School Cafeteria Before Smartphones [UNEDITED]2022-04-221h 51Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 70: The Museum of Broken Relationships, The Minister of Loneliness, and a Pill for Heartbreak with Journalist Florence WilliamsNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by journalist Florence Williams. Florence and I explore issues including… —How a molecular analysis of your blood sample can show whether you have the cells of a lonely person… —The ways in which heartbreak impacts the immune system, and whether you can literally die from a broken heart… —Roughly how much time it takes for one’s emotional and physical health to return to baseline after a break-up… —Why you should consider sending artifacts from your exes to the Museum of Broken Relationships, and finally… —...2022-04-081h 55Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 69: Funhouse of Impressions ft. Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Jeff Bezos and More (with Comedian Austin Nasso)Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by President Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump, former Governor Andrew Cuomo, Founder and CEO of Amazon Jeffrey Bezos, and political commentator Ben Shapiro - all voiced by the immensely talented comedian and impressionist Austin Nasso.2022-03-2559 minNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 68: WTF Is In Our Food? The Dangers of Artificial Sweeteners, Fat-Replacers, and Vitamins with Journalist and Author of the End of Craving, Mark SchatzkerNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Author and Journalist Mark Schatzker. Mark and I explore issues including… —Why the rate in obesity in Northern Italy is more than five times lower than in America, despite the fact that Northern Italians indulge in pastas, fried cheeses, fatty meats, and rich desserts… —Why every diet only works for a set amount of time, then our body reverts to a set point… —Why satiation, the feeling of being full, only happens if food is swallowed, and if food is spat out, your hunger persists… —How ar...2022-03-111h 56Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 67: Planet-Killing Asteroids, Cataclysmic Climate Change, and Other Existential Threats: The Science Behind “Don’t Look Up” with Aerospace Engineer Stefanos AxiosNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by longtime friend and aerospace engineer Stefanos Axios. Stefanos and I explore issues including… —The likelihood that an asteroid like the one featured in Don’t Look Up will collide with the earth in our lifetimes, and what could be done in that scenario to prevent an extinction event... —How exactly you would die from an asteroid collision, and finally… —Why Don’t Look Up is arguably the most powerful allegory for climate change depicted in any movie.2022-02-251h 10Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - BONUS EPISODE on Taking Out Books from the Library (Yes Even Now); Phone Games for Addictive Personalities; and Spoiler Rules for TV Shows That Ended 10+ Years Ago [UNEDITED]2022-02-181h 18Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 66: Nothing We Do Really Means Anything, But That’s Okay: A Theory of Sunny Nihilism With Journalist Wendy SyfretNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by journalist Wendy Syfret. Wendy and I explore issues including… —How a belief in nihilism can free you from many of the struggles in your daily life… —Why the humor of Gen Z is so “dark and weird”… —How the hopelessness of the climate change crisis, the corrosive divide in our politics, and the never-ending pandemic are making young people consider becoming nihilists… —Whether it is possible for people who believe in nihilism to fall in love, and finally… —Why you don’t have to surrender your b...2022-02-111h 23Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 65: “How Was Your Weekend?” Being Your Whole Self At Your Job, with Founder and Executive Chairman of ClassPass, Payal KadakiaNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by author, founder, and executive chairman of ClassPass, Payal Kadakia, to explore issues including: —The importance of not compartmentalizing your identities and being able to be your full self at work, —How someone stuck at a dead-end job might be able to discover what lights them up, —How Payal turned an idea formulated on a red-eye flight into a billion dollar business, and finally… —How you can stand out in a sea of millions of LinkedIn requests and networking emails to find a mentor and grow y...2022-01-281h 14Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - BONUS EPISODE on Previewing The Year Ahead, Reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in Class, Suing Food Companies for False Advertising, and Revisiting My Most Cringeworthy Tweets [UNEDITED]2022-01-141h 44Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 64: Sitting, Stress, and Social Isolation Will Kill You with Orthopedic Surgeon Dr. David HanscomNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by orthopedic surgeon, Dr. David Hanscom. Dr. Hanscom and I explore issues including… —The dangers of sitting for too long… —Why the best solution for chronic pain isn’t medication or treatment but is instead just time… —The business of medicine, and how the modern medical field incentivizes practitioners to be dishonest with patients, and finally… —Why social isolation is so hazardous to your health.2021-12-311h 13Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - BONUS EPISODE on Holidays You’ve Never Heard Of, Obsolete Landline Phones, Seeing Your School Teachers On Dating Apps, and Being In A Room Full of People Where Everyone Is Laughing Except You [UNEDITED]2021-12-171h 44Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 63: QAnon, Injecting Cleaning Disinfectant, and Holocaust Denial: The Dark Side of Free Speech with Professor of History and Education Dr. Jonathan ZimmermanNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by professor of history, and professor of education, Dr. Jonathan Zimmerman. Dr. Zimmerman and I explore issues including… —The limitations on speech in totalitarian regimes around the world, —How to balance the necessity for free speech with the importance of limiting the spread of misinformation online, —Whether the government has a duty to regulate social media platforms, and finally… —Why the “fake news” problem on the Internet is not so much a free speech problem as it is an educational problem.2021-12-031h 26Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 62: Brain Waves, Chronostasis, and Out-of-Body Experiences: The Wrinkles in Time with Researcher Lisa BroderickNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by researcher and the author of All the Time in the World, Lisa Broderick, to explore issues including…. —The most commonly studied brainwave frequencies and how they alter our perception of time… —How we can slow down time using chronostasis… —The role of selective attention in how we experience time, and finally… —Why people in life-threatening emergencies experience the slowing down of time.2021-11-191h 04Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 61: Electroconvulsive Shock Therapy, Cauterization, and Ice Cold Showers: The Pursuit of Pain with Professor of Psychiatry Dr. Anna LembkeNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic, Dr. Anna Lembke. Dr. Lembke and I explore issues including… —Why moderate exposure to pain can inadvertently lead to pleasure… —How electroconvulsive shock therapy works to “reset” the brain… —How euphoric recall reinforces chemical dependency, and finally… —Why it might be better to tolerate pain or discomfort rather than popping a pill.2021-11-051h 30Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 60: An Alternate History of Silicon Valley with Journalist Max ChafkinNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by journalist and author of The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s Pursuit of Power, Max Chafkin, to explore issues including…. —Some of the most powerful criticisms of billionaire investor and entrepreneur Peter Thiel, and why exactly he is such a polarizing figure, —Peter Thiel’s rivalry with Elon Musk and his mentorship of Mark Zuckerberg, —Peter Thiel’s behind-the-scenes machinations in the 2016 presidential election and his financial support of a half-dozen Senatorial campaigns, and finally… —How Peter Thiel’s anti-establishment mindset has shaped the culture o...2021-10-222h 03Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Summer Hiatus (With Interruptions From Puppy)2021-07-2346 minNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - BONUS EPISODE on Bringing Your Cell Phone Into the Bathroom, Planning Your Obituary, Revenge Bedtime Procrastination, and Tracking Your Friends’ Outfits [UNEDITED]2021-07-091h 36Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 59: Our Lives Are Driven By Dopamine: How A Single Chemical In Your Brain Explains Every Decision You’ve Ever Made with Professor Daniel LiebermanNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by the Best-Selling Author of “The Molecule of More” and Professor and Vice Chair for clinical affairs in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at George Washington University, Dr. Daniel Lieberman to explore issues including…. —How dopamine explains why we only want things until we get them, and then we don’t want them anymore… —Why the key to happiness involves a transition from future-oriented dopamine to present-oriented neurotransmitters like serotonin… —How to tell if someone has a dopaminergic (dopamine-driven) personality… —Why we tend to go through lif...2021-06-251h 12Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 58 (Part II): Facial Recognition for Purchases, Brain Machine Interface Technology, ’Cyber Doubles,’ and ‘Memorial Bots:’ The Future of You with Futurist Tracey FollowsNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Futurist and author of the book, The Future of You, Tracey Follows to explore issues including… —Why in the future, you might be paying for your goods at the supermarket, not with a credit card or cell phone, but by using your face to make transactions, —How people might be able to ‘thought control’ machines in the future, —How, by preserving and uploading your mind files, it might be possible to create a digital version - or cyber double - of yourself, and finally, —How some...2021-06-111h 39Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 58 (Part I): Digital Life Extension, Toilets As Mini-Laboratories, Robotic Pets, and 3D Printed Fast Food: A Vision of the World in 2050 with Futurologist Dr. Ian PearsonNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by futurologist Dr. Ian Pearson to forecast what the world will look like in 2050, including: —Digital life extension; —The toilets of the future; —The prospect that sex with robots might occur more often than sex between humans; —Hypersonic travel; —3-D printed fast food; and finally —A digital afterlife.2021-06-041h 36Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 57: Monkey See, Monkey Do: The Power of Mimetic (Imitative) Desires In Our Everyday Lives With Best-Selling Author of “Wanting” Luke BurgisNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Best-Selling Author Luke Burgis to explore issues including… —Why exactly we want the things that we want, —What’s so special about mirror neurons, —How babies learn to imitate within minutes of birth,  —Why fulfillment stories are an effective way to overcome your mimetic impulses, and finally… —Why you should pick one desire to suffer over, and let go of lesser desires.2021-05-211h 30Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 56: The 21st Century Space Race: Elon Musk’s Relentless Efforts to Disrupt the Aerospace Industry (And Toast His Pop-Tarts) with Senior Space Editor Eric BergerNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Senior Space Editor at Ars Technica, and author of Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days that Launched SpaceX, Eric Berger to explore issues including… —How Elon Musk demands the impossible from his employees - and more often than not gets it, —The specific challenges associated with creating a commercially developed, privately funded rocket, —SpaceX’s early struggles with competing with industry titans like Boeing and Lockheed, and launching the Falcon 1, and finally… —The likelihood that SpaceX will get us to Mars within our lif2021-05-071h 16Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 55: Multi-Tasking, Motivation, and The Science of Behavior Change with Best-Selling Author, Researcher, and the Founder of the Stanford Behavior Design Lab Dr. BJ FoggNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Best-Selling Author, Researcher, Behavior Scientist and Founder of the Stanford Behavior Design Lab Dr. BJ Fogg to explore issues including: —The evolutionary advantage to habits, and whether other animals exhibit them, —How habits make multi-tasking (or task-switching) possible, —The incentive shift from extrinsically motivated behavior to intrinsically motivated behavior, —The tiny habits recipe to adopting new behaviors, and finally… —How Dr. Fogg is using the principles of behavior design on projects ranging from screen-time reduction to climate action.2021-04-231h 09Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - BONUS EPISODE on Legally Changing Your Name to A Number, The Best Fast Food Twitter Accounts, Netflix Cracking Down on Account Sharing, and Getting Emotionally Invested in Shitty Rom Coms [UNEDITED]2021-04-161h 40Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 54: The Business of Love: Why Dating Apps Aren’t Invested In Your Happily Ever After’s with Best-Selling Author of “Date-onomics” Jon BirgerNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Best-Selling Author and Dating Expert Jon Birger to explore issues including… —Why you should think of dating apps more like visiting the eBay marketplace than actually looking for a life partner… —Why offline relationships are shown to be three or four times longer lasting than online relationships… —How the disproportionately high number of female, relative to male, college graduates affects the dating culture… —Why the workplace is the best place to meet someone, and what is responsible for the decline in workplace relationships over the last de...2021-04-091h 33Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 53: LSD, DMT, and Magic Mushrooms: The Anti-Depressants of the Future: Exploring the Possibility of Psychedelics to Treat Mental Health Disorders with Professor of Neuroscience Dr. Austin LimNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Professor of Neuroscience Dr. Austin Lim to explore issues including… —Why psychedelics like LSD, DMT and magic mushrooms are classified as Schedule I controlled substances… —What sort of impact these drugs have on the neurotransmitters in your brain in both the short and long-term… —Why the placebo effect is so prevalent in the treatment of depression and anxiety, and finally… —How likely it will be that these drugs might be used in the future, in lieu of antidepressants, to treat mental health disorders.2021-03-261h 09Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 52: Hail to the Chiefs: Rankings America’s Best (and Worst) Presidents with Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago Professor William HowellNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Professor in American Politics, and chair of the Political Science Department at the University of Chicago, William Howell. Professor Howell and Ricky explore issues including: —How the historical rankings of the American presidents will change in the coming years as society’s values shift over time… —Whether there is a correlation between a president’s approval ratings and their historical rankings… —Whether any presidents might be added or removed from Mount Rushmore in the next few decades, and finally… —What will ultimately be the defining legac...2021-03-121h 12Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 51: A Catastrophic Extinction Event Is Right Around the Corner: A Conversation With Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker, and Director of the Netflix Documentary “A Life On Our Planet” Dr. Keith ScholeyNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker, Director of the Netflix Documentary “A Life On Our Planet,” and Executive Producer of the Netflix Documentary Series “Our Planet,” Dr. Keith Scholey to explore issues including: —Why biodiversity in our wildlife isn’t just nice to have - it is critical to the continuation of the human race; —Why the ocean is a key ally in our battle against global warming; —Why, if we continue on the path that we are on, it will lead to a crisis in global food production, part...2021-02-261h 31Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenThe Official Nervous Habits 50th Episode: The Story So Far, There Are 999,999 Other Podcasts On Spotify, and A Love Letter to My Dream Guests2021-02-1933 minNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 49: We Are Ants Fighting Atop A Grain of Sand: Probing the Existence of Extraterrestrial Life with Astrophysicist and Chair of the Department of Astronomy at Harvard University Professor Avi LoebNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by astrophysicist and Professor of Science at Harvard University Avi Loeb to explore issues including: —How confident we can be that there is extraterrestrial life somewhere in our galaxy, —What exactly scientists are looking for when they look for life beyond earth, —Why the scientific community has been reluctant to invest in the search for extraterrestrial life, and finally… —The likelihood that the earth will ever be drawn into a black hole.2021-02-121h 13Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 48: Checkmate: A Crash Course in Chess with Grandmaster and U.S. Olympic Gold Medallist Sam ShanklandNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by American chess grandmaster and U.S. Olympic Gold Medallist Sam Shankland to explore issues including: —The onerous process of becoming a grandmaster in chess, and why SO few chess players ever earn the title of grandmasters, —Just how realistic the Netflix series, the Queens Gambit, was at portraying chess,—Why some chess games can last up to 7 hours,—Whether or not humans will ever be able to compete with computers at chess, and finally… —Why people who have never played chess before should still care about chess.2021-01-291h 36Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenBONUS EPISODE Featuring Two-Pound Burger-Eating Challenge Amidst A Conversation About Life After 75, Near-Death Experiences, and the AfterlifeCheck out the full video on the official Nervous Habits Podcast Youtube channel! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKl2NHIDUNo&feature=youtu.be2021-01-1558 minNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Year-End Round-Up and Holiday Hiatus2020-11-2555 minNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 47: Level Up: Using the “Lazy Genius” Life Hacks to Save You Time and Energy with Best-Selling Author Kendra AdachiNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Best-Selling Author, and Podcaster, Kendra Adachi to explore issues including: —Why we should remove the stigma from being “lazy”, —Why you should pick and choose one or two things to be a genius at, and be comfortable being *lazy* about everything else… —How to use the "Lazy Genius" principles to survive the carousel of crises of 2020.2020-11-131h 16Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenBONUS EPISODE Previewing the 2020 Presidential Election Featuring: The Top Profanity in POTUS History, The Streisand Effect, and The Internet Kill-Switch [UNEDITED]2020-10-231h 39Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 46: The Chaos Antidote: A Skeptic’s Guide to Mindfulness and Meditation with Author Aimee MorganNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Author, and Meditation and Mindfulness Expert, Aimee Morgan to explore issues including: —How you can train your mind and body into being responsive instead of reactive... —The importance of meta-attention in mindfulness (paying attention to what you’re paying attention to)... —Some alternatives to meditation for people who can’t seem to turn off their stream of consciousness, and finally… —Why you should consider a half-day or a full-day of complete silence.2020-10-091h 05Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 45: An Afternoon Inside the Dark WebNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen addresses those pressing issues that are keeping you awake at night, including: —In general, why you should be wary of using search engines on the mainstream web... —How to access the hidden part of the internet that makes up 95 to 96 percent of the total internet landscape, and is not accessible by search engines, and finally… —How you can actually harness the anonymous power of the dark web for good (and not to engage in illicit or nefarious activities).2020-09-2443 minNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 44: The Shopping Cart Theory, and Eat Real Food with Certified Health and Life Coach Denise StegallNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Certified Health and Life Coach and C.E.O. of LivingHealthyList.com, Denise Stegall, to explore issues including: —What is responsible for the explosion in demand for organic and locally grown foods in the last decade, —The problem with eating fruits with pesticides on them, —Why you should avoid eating meat that has been injected with antibiotics at all costs, and finally… —The Dirty Dozen: the 12 fruits and vegetables that you should be buying organically.2020-09-111h 13Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 43: How to Quit Procrastinating with Time Management Expert Adrian ShepherdNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Author and Time Management Expert Adrian Shepherd to explore issues including: —How the approach to time management differs in the East vs. the West... —The One Bite Time Management System, and how to eliminate procrastination by “eating that frog”... —Why you should do your work in 90 minute sessions... —The five practices that successful people use, and finally… —Why saying no is the key to managing your time efficiently.2020-08-281h 00Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenThe Longest Episode of Nervous Habits Ever - BONUS EPISODE on “Dopamine Fasting”, The Dangers of Cancel Culture (and “Karen Culture”), and Imagining All of Your Text Messages Were Public, Ft. Me, Myself and I [UNEDITED]2020-08-142h 10Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 42: Wakening Wanderlust: How to Explore Countries Around the World for the Cost of Going to a Baseball Game with Travel Blogger and Best-Selling Author Jen RuizHear from Travel Blogger, Author, and Ted Speaker, Jen Ruiz on how to travel around the world on a budget. Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen and Jen explore issues including… —Why you should resist the urge to plan every minute of your vacation when you travel, —How it’s possible to travel around the world while still working full-time, —Why traveling by yourself is almost always better than traveling with others, and finally… —How you can find plane tickets for $16 and lodging for $9 when traveling around the world.2020-07-311h 12Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 41: Sticking the Landing: What Surviving a Devastating Plane Crash Taught Guinness World Record Solo Pilot Ryan Campbell About ResilienceNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Author, Keynote Speaker, and Guinness World Record Solo Pilot Ryan Campbell to explore issues including: —What the experience of flying around the world alone for 70 days was like for a 19 year old kid from Australia... —All about Ryan’s experience as the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash... —Having been diagnosed a complete paraplegic, how Ryan taught himself to walk again, and finally… —Why starting with gratitude is the key to navigating change.2020-07-241h 08Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 40: Vanquish Insomnia For Good with Sleep Expert Mollie McGlocklinNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Sleep Expert, Mollie McGlocklin to explore issues including: —All about “rebound sleep” and how the quality of your sleep is impacted by your sleep the night before... —Why people who supposedly thrive on under 7 hours of sleep are still experiencing cognitive decline... —Circadian rhythm entrainment, and how the smartphone is responsible for the prevalence of sleep deprivation in America... —Why a consistent 7 day sleep schedule is always better than “catching up on the weekend”, and finally… —Whether it’s healthy to wake up an alarm clock2020-07-171h 29Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - BONUS EPISODE on A Million Parallel Universes, The Many Worlds Theory, The Ultimate Fate of the Universe, Getting Sucked Into a Black Hole, and How Do You Know That You’re Actually Human [UNEDITED]2020-07-101h 31Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 39: Escape the Shackles of the 9 to 5 Job and Secure Complete Financial Freedom with Millionaire Investor and Author Lloyd EdgeNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Millionaire Investor and Author Lloyd Edge to explore issues including: —Why people should look to escape the “shackles” of the 9 to 5 job… —How to develop a stable passive income stream… —Why only 5 percent of people are able to unlock the passive income lifestyle… —Why property is the least volatile investment you can make, and finally… —Why you should always buy low and sell high on your investments.2020-07-031h 04Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 38: We Are All Addicted to Something: Facing Our Addictions to Sugar and Processed Foods with Clinician, Medical Director, and Addiction Specialist Dr. Vera TarmanNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by Addiction Specialist, Clinician and Medical Director Dr. Vera Tarman to explore issues including: —Why our addiction to food is the most critical addiction that hardly anybody talks about... —How exactly the fast food industry targets ‘heavy users’ to perpetuate their addictions to processed food… —Why you can never really scare a person out of an addiction… —How to program your brain into only craving healthy food, and finally… —Why “calorie-counting” is not the answer, and how you might end up dieting yourself into obesity.2020-06-261h 07Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 37: How to Be Funny with Stand-Up Comedian Jesus TrejoWant to know how one of the fastest rising names in the stand-up comedy scene comes up with his material? Hear from stand-up comedian (Showtime Special: Stay at Home Son) and the host of the Youtube web series, Tacos Con Todo (First We Feast), Jesus Trejo, on his thoughts on the comedy landscape in 2020. Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen and Jesus explore issues including: —Why stand-up comedians are the modern-day philosophers… —The process by which a stand-up comedian comes up with material… —Why comedy has come to dominate American culture so much over the past f...2020-06-191h 02Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 36: The Neurobiology of Love: How Recognizing Your Attachment Style Can Help You Defuse Conflict and Build a Secure Relationship with Relationship and Love Coach Marie WinterAre you stuck in a rut with your romantic partner? Wondering why all you do is fight? Or do you find yourself in a never-ending cycle of toxic relationships? Hear from Relationship and Love Coach Marie Winter on how to identify conflicts and triggers in your relationships. Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen and Relationship and Love Coach Marie Winter explore issues including: —How to re-frame what you want to get out of dating online… —How the repetition compulsion theory works and why we repeat the past to heal our pain… —Why our attachment to our car...2020-06-121h 41Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 35: Getting into the Flow State with Artist and Freestyle Rapper Harry MackWant to get inside the mind of the one of the best freestyle rap artists in the world? Hear from multi-talented music artist, Harry Mack, on his inner monologues when he’s performing his widely acclaimed freestyle raps. Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen and Harry explore issues including: —How a world-talented freestyle rap artist stays motivated while honing his craft... —Why during the extreme intensity of the Flow State, your body might literally feel like it’s disappearing from your consciousness… —The 1% rule: how to get 1% better everyday for one year, and finally… —Harry...2020-05-291h 07Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 34: Confessions of A Food Network Chef: The Essentials on Learning to Cook and Dining at Restaurants with Chef Plum from Chopped and ABC's The TasteSick of heating up frozen dinners and ordering take-out? Hear from Food Network Chef on the essentials of learning to cook, and what you need to know about dining at restaurants. Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen and Chef Plum explore issues including: —The must have kitchen utensils for anyone who wants to learn how to cook... —The ingredients that a TV chef uses in every one of his dishes... —How to order off the menu of a restaurant that you’ve never been to before... —Why you shouldn’t put too much stock i...2020-05-2247 minNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 33: The Science Behind Getting in the Best Shape of Your Life with Nothing But Your Body Weight with NFL/MLB Trainer Eric D’AgatiDo you find yourself working out several times a week and still barely seeing results? Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen and Performance Coach Eric D’Agati discuss why your work-out plan isn’t working, and how to make it better. We explore issues including: —How to stay fit during coronavirus with nothing besides your body weight... —The problem with our over-reliance on machines at gyms... —How the growth in virtual personal training threatens the fitness industry... —The 80/20 rule to achieving our fitness goals... —Why only 6 percent of baseball players make it to the...2020-05-151h 11Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 32: You Don't Have to Suffer in Silence: Staving Off Depression and Anxiety During COVID-19 with Author Michelle DickinsonNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen and guest Author, Ted Speaker, and Mental Health Advocate, Michelle Dickinson, address issues including: —Why people who have never experienced a mental health imbalance before are at particularly high risk during the COVID-19 pandemic… —Why monitoring media consumption might be the best thing you can do to improve your emotional wellness during quarantine… —The importance of designating space in your home - and your schedule - for work and for leisure, and finally… —Why many people might be experiencing the sensation of boredom for the very first time wit...2020-05-111h 01Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - BONUS EPISODE on Social Distancing, Cutting Your Hair In Quarantine, The Purge in Real Life, Childhood Lunch Snacks, and Paying for a Facebook / Twitter Account [UNEDITED]2020-05-081h 13Voices of the Ones Caught in betweenVoices of the Ones Caught in betweenEpisode 9: Interview with Ricky*Interview begins after intro (1:09) Hi, My name is Marina Rosen-Cappellazzo, and welcome to Voices of the Ones Caught in Between. In this podcast, I will be engaging in conversations with my guests broadly about identity, paying special attention to the ways societal norms and stereotypes urge us to identify, how identification with a certain identity should appear, and the process by which we should come to identify. In other words, what type of culture and environment are we urged or forced to either strongly or not strongly identify with certain aspects of ourselves.  Within this conversation...2020-05-0530 minNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits RELOADED - Mid-Year Update + Sanity Check-In2020-05-0119 minNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 31: Everything Will Probably Give You CancerNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen and his guest address those pressing issues that are keeping you awake at night, including: —Is it true that everything we use - from cell phones to microwaves to artificial sweeteners - can cause cancer? —Is there a cure for cancer out there that the ‘Big Pharma’ companies don’t want you to know about? —How does machine learning and AI figure into this? And finally… —Has anyone tried giving cancer to the cancer?2020-04-231h 33Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 30: 2 + 2 = 5: The Alarming Consequences of ConformityNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen addresses those pressing issues that are keeping you awake at night, including: —How the need to conform to others can compel you to give an answer that you clearly know to be wrong, —Why hardly anyone gives money to homeless people on the subway, —How a person’s clothing and appearance impacts the likelihood of intervention when he or she is the victim, —How the death of one woman in the 1960’s led to the creation of the 911 emergency system, and finally... —Why our jury system fa...2020-04-0752 minNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 29: Religion in the Modern Digital AgeNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen addresses those pressing issues that are keeping you awake at night, including: —Is adherence to religion fundamentally incompatible with science? Or can you be a firm believer of both? —Conventional wisdom might have you believe that religion has all but disappeared in the digital age - but has it? —Why do people convert to or from certain religions? And finally… —Is it possible to find meaning in life without belief in any religion at all?2020-03-241h 11Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 28: So You Want to Be A Lawyer (So Do We)Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen and his two guests address those pressing issues that are keeping you awake at night, including: —Why we as a society insist on paying lawyers so damn much, —What law school will teach you about catching home run balls, avoiding banana peels, and consenting to being eat by cannibals, —How law school is really not all that different from high school, and finally... —Whether a law school education is worth the sticker price of $90,000 per year.2020-03-121h 24Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 27: Culture of (Over-)Consumption, and Incentivizes to InnovateNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen addresses those pressing issues that are keeping you awake at night, including: —Our problem with overconsumption of media in 2020, —Why the next Steve Jobs or Bill Gates might have his head too buried in an iPhone to invent the next - well - iPhone, —Why companies are spending more on innovation but getting fewer returns on their investments, —Why patents are inadequate incentives for innovation, and finally... —The most overrated films of our lifetime.2020-02-261h 07Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - BONUS EPISODE Ft. Laryngitis on Playing Pranks on Strangers, Seeking Out Uncomfortable Experiences, The Burden of Pleasantries, and Filling Silence in Conversation [UNEDITED]2020-02-071h 10Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 26: Your Brain Is Decaying: Neuroplasticity and the Malleability of MemoryNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen addresses those pressing issues that are keeping you awake at night, including: —Why, contrary to what your friends may say, it is actually scientifically impossible to remember events from our infancy, —Why your mind recalls specific experiences from throughout your life “randomly” over the course of your day, —Why once you have learned something a certain way, it becomes almost impossible to unlearn it, —Why it is not true that we only use ten percent of our brain capacity, —How your constant reliance on Google is erod...2020-01-231h 14Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - November Mailbag and Year-End Hiatus2019-11-2141 minNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - BONUS EPISODE on Nightmare Job Interviews, Getting A Job at Google, Guess How Much Money Is In My Wallet, and The Monty Hall Problem [UNEDITED]Where to Go to Get More Information: 1. Are You Smart Enough to Work At Google? By William Poundstone2019-10-311h 14Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 25: Mad World: The Elusiveness of Sanity, and the Miserable Reality of Gun Violence in AmericaNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen addresses those pressing issues that are keeping you awake at night, including: —Why it’s far more difficult to prove that you’re sane rather than insane… —Just how effective psychiatrists are at identifying people with psychosis… —The problem of subjectivity in sanity… —Why the epidemic of gun-related deaths is an exclusively American problem… —How all of us have become numb to the gun violence in our country, and finally… —What we can do to curb gun violence in America.    Segments: San...2019-10-171h 01Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 24: Are We Living Inside A Simulation?Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen addresses those pressing issues that are keeping you awake at night, including: —The logical probability that we are living in a Matrix-like simulation… —Why, if we were living inside a simulation, we would remain blissfully unaware of this fact… —Whether the simulation would be an “ancestor simulation” being run by future human civilizations or a simulation being run by alien life forms from the other side of the universe… —Why it would be far easier to prove that we ARE living inside a simulation than that we are NOT living...2019-09-2751 minNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 23: Automation in America: Self-Check-Out Counters, Self-Driving Cars, and Sex Robots; and The Crippling Cost of College: Why Federal Financial Aid Is A ScamNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by long-time friend and mechanical engineer, Stefanos Axios. They have a spirited and comprehensive discussion, spanning issues including: --The jobs that automation will displace that humans currently have, and the jobs that will be created by the new technology… --Why some jobs can never be able to be effectively carried out by robots… --How the sex robot industry is shaking up the automation field… --How the increasing amount of federal financial aid that is allotted to students has actually made college more expensive… --Why...2019-09-101h 21Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 22: Our Dynamic Personalities - Traversing O.C.E.A.N., the Enneagram, and What the Myers-Briggs Gets Wrong About Our Evolution Over TimeNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen and sister & Clinical Psychology doctoral candidate Holly Rosen address a number of topics in the field of personality psychology including: —Why most of us fall somewhere on the spectrum of Narcissistic Personality Disorder. —The five components that are universally believed to form the building blocks of our personality… —Whether our environment or genetics plays a more significant role in the development of our personality… —How the Myers-Briggs Test treats personality as static … —Why your Enneagram type might be different every time you take the test, and finall...2019-08-301h 01Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - The BONUS EPISODE About Nothing; Featuring Your Life As A TV Show (the Truman Show Delusion), Turning Off the Internet, the Butterfly Effect, and Some Impossible Would You Rather Questions [UNEDITED]2019-08-211h 07Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 21: One Nation Under Meat - The Future of Vegetarianism in AmericaNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen addresses those issues that are keeping you awake at night, including: —Why far fewer Americans identify as vegetarians compared to most other industrialized nations… —From an evolutionary biology perspective, whether human beings were designed to eat other animals to begin with… —The impact of Americans’ swelling appetite for meat on animal welfare and the environment… —Whether diverse schools of philosophical thought might argue for or against the practice of eating meat… —The conditions to which pigs, chickens, and cows are subjected in factory farms in America, and fina...2019-08-081h 00Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 20: There Must Be More Than This Provincial Life - Why International Travel Is Worth the InvestmentNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen addresses those pressing issues that are keeping you awake at night, including: —Why dining alone is the most uncomfortably thrilling experience you can have while traveling… —How you can take advantage of favorable exchange rates to make your money go further while on vacation… —Why it is better to travel to an international destination by yourself than with friends… —How traveling to a foreign country broadens your perspective and teaches you to be grateful for your life at home, and finally… —The ways in which life in West...2019-07-291h 02Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - BONUS EPISODE on College Reflections - Five Years Later, Having A Beer (Or Hard Cider) With Your 18 Year Old Self, and Forecasting the Future - Life in Ten Years [UNEDITED]2019-07-1646 minNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 19: Look Up From Your Phone: Embarking On A Digital Detox, and Becoming A Digital MinimalistNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen addresses those pressing issues that are keeping you awake at night, including: —Why in the last one to two years, young people have been increasingly more concerned about the amount of time they spend “screen-sucking”… —The psychology behind why excessive social media use makes us anxious and depressed… —How Facebook knowingly engineered moderate behavioral addictions into their platform, including the same strategy that casinos use to keep you playing their slot machines… —Why turning off your notifications, deleting addictive apps, or even taking a digital sabbath will not remedy ce...2019-07-051h 07Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 18: Stickball, Gumball Machines, and 78 Cent Movie Tickets: Life Before the Digital Age, and the Generational DivideIn honor of Father's Day this past weekend, Nervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by his dad, Jay, the former radio broadcasting sensation, wrestling referee and a whole lot more. Ricky and Jay have an elaborate discussion, addressing issues including... --The most glaring differences between growing up in the 1960s/70s and growing up today... --How carrying around a flip phone and staying off of Google influences the way that my father views the world... --Why starting his own exterminating company was more appealing to my dad than attending college... ...2019-06-201h 28Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - BONUS EPISODE on Dating and Relationships, How We Think About Time, and Positive vs. Negative Experiences [UNEDITED]2019-06-1340 minNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 17: How to Slow Down the Aging Process, The Urgency of Space Exploration, and the Myth of MoneyNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by long-time friend and aerospace engineer, Stefanos Axios.  They have a spirited and comprehensive discussion, spanning issues including: --Why life seems to go by more quickly as you get older... --How "free radicals" and "anti-oxidants" can protect you from aging.. --Why we should stop treating people when they're sick and start treating them when they're healthy... --How you can predict someone's age just by looking at their hand... --Why we should continue investing trillions of dollars in exploring the observable universe... 2019-06-061h 34Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 16: Too Many Doctors, Too Little Time, Let's Build A Work-Out Regimen, and Getting Creative with Meal PrepNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen addresses those pressing issues that are keeping you awake at night, including: --How technology and blue light from cell phones have caused children's eyesight to worsen at younger ages... --Why doctors do not hesitate to write patients a prescription - even when they feel perfectly fine.... --Which doctors you should prioritize visiting once (or more) throughout the year... --Why rest is the most important component of an effective work-out plan, and finally... --Why meal prepping is the answer to all your problems.  2019-05-281h 16Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 15: 6,500 Languages and Counting, the Relationship Survival Guide, and a Myriad of Must-Watch MoviesNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen addresses those pressing issues that are keeping you awake at night, including: --Whether a society in which all relationships have known 'expiration dates' would be worthwhile... --How one relationship expert can predict the divorce of any couple with 90% accuracy... --Why knowing your love language can make a significant difference in your relationships... --Why an earpiece that would allow you understand any spoken language isn't as promising as it sounds...  --How your personality changes when you speak in a foreign language through the principle of l...2019-05-141h 47Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 14: The Pitfalls of Political Correctness, the Science of GMO's, and the Power of PetsNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen addresses those pressing issues that are keeping you awake at night, including: --How one university's "Bias-Free Language Guide" took politically correct terminology too far... --Why a comedian getting kicked off-stage at a university performance epitomizes the perils of 'call-out culture'... --Why, though the overwhelming majority of people find fault with 'PC culture', it continues to infect American society... --The multitude of unexpected ways that owning a pet can affect your health... --How giving a senior a plant to take care of can actually extend...2019-05-021h 18Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 13: You and Everyone You Know Will DieNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen addresses those pressing issues that are (in this case, literally) keeping you awake at night, including: --Why despite the fact that our bodies will decay and die, in our unconscious mind, we feel immortal... --Whether children have an understanding of death, and whether animals ever contemplate their mortality... --The psychological defense mechanism that we unknowingly use every single day in order to live our lives comfortably... --How surrendering to the finality of your existence can help you achieve inner peace, and finally... --What we...2019-04-221h 12Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 12: Inside the American Classroom, Sleep When You're Dead, and a 20/20 Look at the Upcoming 2020 Presidential ElectionNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen is joined by long-time friend and Education Consultant, Adam Rabinowitz.  They have a spirited discussion spanning education, politics, and philosophy, and tackle issues including: --Why even though teachers in America experience the same amount of stress in a given day as an emergency room physician, their pay is still lower than sanitation workers, gas station attendants, and hundreds of other professions... --What kids really should be learning in school instead of the basic core curriculum of English, Social Studies, Math, and Science... --Why America needs more male teachers......2019-04-091h 21Is It Good For The Jews?Is It Good For The Jews?Episode #209: Bread-sliced bagels are a travestyJewish news comes at you rapid-fire this week, as the boys rifle through item after sometimes disturbing, sometimes amusing items that include Wacky Ken Livingstone, the Iditarod, Ukrainian comedians, Ricky Henderson, rapid-fire sandwich-making and poor-quality Girl Scout cookies. But first, the civility of the deep south has Rosen wondering about the priorities of his big-city &#8230; <a href="http://www.isitgoodforthejews.com/episode-209-bread-sliced-bagels-are-a-travesty/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Episode #209: Bread-sliced bagels are a travesty</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img src="http...2019-04-0420 minNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 11: Modern Dating Part 2, Technology and Privacy, and How to Remember and Interpret Your DreamsNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen addresses those pressing issues that are keeping you awake at night, including: --How the presence of a cell phone on a table -- even if it's flipped upside down -- can derail an otherwise amazing first date... --How to steer clear of those 'medical-receptionist-intake-questions' on a first date, and use your conversation as a springboard to a genuine romantic connection... --Why you should always screen someone before the first date, and how long the optimal first date should last... --Whether intimacy between two strangers can be...2019-04-011h 15Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 10: Mastering Small Talk, the Failure in F.O.M.O., Caffeine as a Cure-All, and A Crash Course in Civic EngagementNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen addresses those pressing issues that are keeping you awake at night, including: --Why the fear of missing out is such a powerful force in modern society and what factors make you most susceptible to "FOMO" and "FOBO"... --How drinking several cups of coffee everyday can literally extend your life... --Why most of America is disconnected from the political process, and why you should care more about what's happening in Washington D.C.... --How you can start holding your elected representatives accountable after Election Day... ...2019-03-201h 06Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 9: The Paradox of Free Will, The Passage of Time, and How to Live the Best LifeNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen and long-time friend & professional soccer player / electrical engineer Jeremy Pachter have a fast-paced and comprehensive discussion spanning psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, religion, biology, genetics, physics, and relativity. Ricky and Jeremy address a number of burning topics including: --Whether there is such a thing as free will, and if we are genuinely in control of our actions... --How you would define the concept of "time" to an alien... --Whether there is any objective view on time or is it truly subjective... --Why the present time does not really...2019-03-141h 01Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 8: Alcohol and Altered States of Mind, Beauty as Currency, and the Politics of CornNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen addresses those pressing issues that are keeping you awake at night, including: --Why we put alcohol into our systems in spite of the overwhelmingly negative impacts that it has on our minds and bodies... --How the "mirror neurons" in our brains figure into our societal addiction to drinking booze... --How beauty acts as a form of currency in America... --Why looking at your reflection less could lead to a more wholesome life... --Where corn is hiding in everything that you eat, and finally... 2019-03-061h 00Nervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 7: An Anxious-Obsessive Look at Mental Illness in AmericaNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen and sister & Clinical Psychology doctoral candidate Holly Rosen do a deep (and intensely personal) dive into mental health disorders and their prevalence in America today.  Ricky and Holly address a number of topics in the fields of psychology and neuroscience including: --Why more than half of all mental illness in America today goes undiagnosed and untreated... --The root cause behind the over-diagnosis of ADHD in children... --Why modern-day psychology tends to confuse personality traits and psychopathological disorders... --Whether medication or therapy is the more effective method t...2019-02-2653 minNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 6: Reforming Bad Habits, Conversations with Strangers, and Forgotten FiberNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen addresses those pressing issues that are keeping you awake at night, including: --Why habits are a necessary component of our lives, and a simple way for you to mend those nagging habits... --How you can stop snacking in the middle of the day when you're not even hungry... --Why eye contact is the key to making connections with others... --How exactly you would go about starting a conversation with someone in public, and finally... --Why the lack of fiber in our diets is the...2019-02-1949 minNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 5: Consciousness, Artificial Intelligence, and Lucid DreamingNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen and childhood friend & data scientist Angelo (AJ) Piazza have an intense, stimulating conversation spanning psychology, philosophy of mind, neuroscience, metaphysics, science & technology, and the very nature of existence. Ricky and AJ address a number of burning topics including: --How exactly do you define consciousness... --Is consciousness something that we are born with or do we develop it over time... --Are there any animals that can be said to be truly conscious... --How serious is the threat that artificial intelligence poses to human existence, and finally... 2019-02-1252 minNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 4: How We Choose Our Lifelong Friends, and the Wonders of WaterNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen addresses those pressing issues that are keeping you awake at night, including: --Among the hundreds of thousands of people we interact with over the course of our lifetimes, how exactly we choose our lifelong friends... --With the Oscars a few weeks away, what the best film of 2018 was... --Why drinking even one additional glass of water a day can significantly improve your quality of life... --Just how disgusting is a Coca Cola really, and finally... --Why the top free agents in baseball are still...2019-02-0855 minNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 3: Modern Dating = Option OverloadNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen addresses those pressing issues that are keeping you awake at night, including: --Why having millions of options in the modern dating world might actually be a bad thing... --Why you should be a "satisficer" rather than a "maximizer" in your love life... --How lack of investment and the transactional nature of dating apps turns everybody in a flake... --Why it's better to sprint in 2 minute intervals than jog for 30 minutes straight, and... --Why Tom Brady belongs in the conversation with Michael Jordan, Babe Ruth...2019-02-0146 minNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 2: Bored Mind, Buddhist Spirit - The Perils of Our Addiction to Cell PhonesNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen addresses those pressing issues that are keeping you awake at night, including: --Why the key to living a happier life is to become Buddhist in our philosophies... --How cell phones distract us from our most salient fear - and it's not the fear of death... --Why kids today are just really awkward, and... --Why Roger Clemens and Barry bonds, arguably the biggest cheaters in the history of sports, deserve a spot in the Baseball Hall of Fame.2019-01-2945 minNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits with Ricky RosenNervous Habits - Episode 1: The Pilot - The Potency of Protein, Shedding Light on the Government Shutdown, and the Backwardness of Binging TVNervous Habits host Ricky Rosen introduces the pod and addresses those pressing issues that are keeping you awake at night, including: --Why you're not getting enough protein in your diet - and how to get more... --What the government shut-down means for the ordinary American - and how much that fast food spread in the White House REALLY cost, and.... --Why I don't binge TV series - and how the best comedy on TV right now doesn't even have a script.2019-01-2746 minAlison Rosen Is Your New Best FriendAlison Rosen Is Your New Best FriendAndy KindlerAndy Kindler stops by Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend to talk about religion and spirituality, losing his father, Bill Maher, Ricky Gervais, vestibules, reality TV, Entourage, his annual State of the Industry at Montreal's Just For Laughs, growing up in Queens, starting out as a musician and switching to comedy, trauma, Marc Maron, Jay Leno and so much more. We also did a round of Just Me Or Everyone.2015-03-021h 49RICKY INCHRICKY INCHTiger Milk - Air (riCkY inCh Remix)The Hype: As promised, here is Part 2 featuring a stunning remix pack from some of Estonia's up and coming and finest producers. We've been fans of the Estonian sound for many years since discovering the mighty Rulers Of The Deep with their highly regarded Tallinn Express Show and this pack goes on to demonstrate a distinct style that has developed in this dynamic territory. We're particularly loving the Maksim Adel Remix with it's nod to the current deep/nu disco scene, but all the mixes are superb and worthy of their place on this pack. Deep House with diversifications into...2013-09-0204 minRemixesRemixesTiger Milk - Air (riCkY inCh Remix)The Hype: As promised, here is Part 2 featuring a stunning remix pack from some of Estonia's up and coming and finest producers. We've been fans of the Estonian sound for many years since discovering the mighty Rulers Of The Deep with their highly regarded Tallinn Express Show and this pack goes on to demonstrate a distinct style that has developed in this dynamic territory. We're particularly loving the Maksim Adel Remix with it's nod to the current deep/nu disco scene, but all the mixes are superb and worthy of their place on this pack. Deep House with diversifications into...2013-09-0204 min