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The Sport of Life: Chats w/ Comedians, Filmmakers, Sports Figures, Musicians, & Intellectuals

Trey Elling chats with comedians, filmmakers, sports figures, musicians, and authors about their stories.

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00:54:08

#74 - David Vine on THE UNITED STATES OF WAR

The Sport of Life: Chats w/ Comedians, Filmmakers,... ·

2020/10/13

David Vine chats with Trey Elling about THE UNITED STATES OF WAR: A GLOBAL HISTORY OF AMERICA'S ENDLESS CONFLICTS, FROM COLUMBUS TO THE ISLAMIC STATE, which examines how US infrastructure around the globe, including bases, forts, and colonization, has enabled the United States to wage war and/or conflicts for all but eleven years since It came to be in 1776.

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00:38:10

#73 - Ryan Holiday on LIVES OF THE STOICS

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2020/10/06

Ryan Holiday chats with Trey Elling about LIVES OF THE STOICS: THE ART OF LIVING FROM ZENO TO MARCUS AURELIUS, including: Chrysippus possibly dying the best way imaginable, Antipater evolving the Stoic idea of 'family', why Cicero receives his own chapter, Athenadorus' advice to political leaders for balancing the stresses of the job, Seneca's life-threatening conditions shaping his thoughts on death, Musonious' love of an audience that responded with silence, Epictetus' unique perspective on

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01:01:00

#72 - Kevin Davies on EDITING HUMANITY

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2020/09/29

Kevin Davies chats with Trey Elling about EDITING HUMANITY: THE CRISPR REVOLUTION AND THE NEW ERA OF GENOME EDITING, including: the difference between CRISPR and CRISPR genome editing, the evolution of CRISPR editing, the wild story behind (and fallout from) #CRISPRbabies in 2018, whether CRISPR-edited babies are truly on the horizon, George Church's attempt to resurrect the wooly mammoth, and more.

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00:34:17

#71 - Jacob Goldstein on MONEY

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2020/09/22

NPR's Planet Money cohost Jacob Goldstein chats with Trey Elling about MONEY: THE TRUE STORY OF A MADE UP THING, including: why money is fiction AND fundamentally social, the origins of coins and paper money, Genghis Khan's grandson inventing inflation, Blaise Pascal's role in the formulation of insurance, how artificial light explains monetary progress, the gold standard's undoing, the rise of digital money, and more.

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01:01:33

#70 - David Polfeldt on THE DREAM ARCHITECTS

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2020/09/17

David Polfeldt chats with Trey Elling about THE DREAM ARCHITECTS: ADVENTURES IN THE VIDEO GAME INDUSTRY, including: getting his start in making games, how an unwavering belief in respecting an artist's tools led him to Massive Entertainment, the importance of failure in evolving as a person, the trials and tribulations from making FAR CRY 3 and TOM CLANCY'S THE DIVISION, the mixed emotions of releasing a hugely successful game, and much more.

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00:46:06

#69 - Glenn Kenny on MADE MEN

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2020/09/15

Glenn Kenny chats with Trey Elling about MADE MEN: THE MAKING OF GOODFELLAS, including: Joe Pesci's initial reluctance in playing Tommy, the origin of the 'how am I funny' scene, real-life bad guys In the secondary cast, how Michael Imperioli impressed Robert De Niro in a few days on the set as the Spider character, how Tommy's death disproves a supposed nobility within the mob, Martin Scorsese's love of picking music for his films, Barbara De Fina as the unsung hero in getting the film made, and

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00:41:15

#68 - Eric Weiner on THE SOCRATES EXPRESS

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2020/09/10

Eric Weiner chats with Trey Elling about THE SOCRATES EXPRESS: IN SEARCH OF LIFE LESSONS FROM DEAD PHILOSOPHERS, including: why GROUNDHOG DAY is the most philosophical movie of all time, what got Marcus Aurelius out of bed in the morning, how Socrates was like a child who questions everything (in a good way), learning to fight like Gandhi, and much more.

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00:46:48

#67 - Art Bell on CONSTANT COMEDY

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2020/09/08

Art Bell chats with Trey Elling about CONSTANT COMEDY: HOW I STARTED COMEDY CENTRAL AND LOST MY SENSE OF HUMOR, including: discovering Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Jon Stewart's character, stumbling upon the name "Comedy Central," striking gold with State of the Union: Undressed while avoiding separate hosting catastrophes with Al Franken and Dennis Miller, unknowingly angering Bill Maher with an award-winning ad campaign for Politically Incorrect but getting an ironic last-laugh, and more.

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00:28:31

#66 - Erin Brockovich on SUPERMAN'S NOT COMING

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2020/09/03

Erin Brockovich joins Trey Elling to discuss SUPERMAN'S NOT COMING: OUR NATIONAL WATER CRISIS AND WHAT WE THE PEOPLE CAN DO ABOUT IT, including: the importance of stick-to-itiveness in fighting for such a cause, how Richard Nixon shows that the issue of clean water goes beyond politics, empowering communities with Community Health Book, the heartbreaking-but-inspiring story of Jeremy and Janey Ensminger, and more.

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00:25:33

#65 - Marion Nestle on LET'S ASK MARION

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2020/09/02

Marion Nestle joins Trey Elling to discuss LET'S ASK MARION: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE POLITICS OF FOOD, NUTRITION, AND HEALTH, including: the rising cost of whole- versus ultra-processed foods, how agriculture, Wall Street, and food regulation fueled the US obesity epidemic in the early 1980s; why glyphosate is still allowed to be sprayed on crops, whether technology can help fix our food system, and more.

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00:49:10

#64 - Pluckrose & Lindsay on CYNICAL THEORIES

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2020/09/01

Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay chat with Trey Elling about CYNICAL THEORIES: HOW ACTIVIST SCHOLARSHIP MADE EVERYTHING ABOUT RACE, GENDER, AND IDENTITY--AND WHY THIS HARMS EVERYBODY, including: the three major phases of postmodernism over the last 50 years, why the movement rejects science, the definition of 'Theory', the ins and outs of specific Theories, what will become of postmodernism by 2030, and more.

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00:48:04

#63 - Niko Vorobyov on DOPEWORLD

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2020/08/25

Niko Vorobyov chat with Trey Elling about DOPEWORLD: ADVENTURES IN THE GLOBAL DRUG TRADE, including: writing on the subject as someone who sold and served time for dealing, hanging with Columbian guerilla soldiers, China's Opium Wars, the Japanese Yakuza, Cosa Nostra's role in the worldwide heroin trade, why El Chapo is revered in Sinaloa, the origins and hypocrisy of America's War on Drugs, how Portugal has fared since decriminalizing and legalizing all drugs, and more.

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00:37:08

#62 - Bad Religion's Greg Graffin on DO WHAT YOU WANT

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2020/08/18

Frontman Greg Graffin chats with Trey Elling about DO WHAT YOU WANT: THE STORY OF BAD RELIGION, including: how the band got together, hearing their music on the radio for the first time, learning from the failure of Into the Unknown, the importance of the album, Suffer; playing in East Germany prior to the Berlin Wall coming down, the timelessness of Stranger Than Fiction, learning from Ric Ocasek and Todd Rundgren, what the band has yet to accomplish, whether the Bucks will win the NBA championship

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00:29:39

#61 - Oliver Stone on CHASING THE LIGHT

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2020/08/14

Filmmaker Oliver Stone chats with Trey Elling about CHASING THE LIGHT: WRITING, DIRECTING, AND SURVIVING PLATOON, MIDNIGHT EXPRESS, SCARFACE, SALVADOR, AND THE MOVIE GAME, including: what his mom and dad were like growing up, fighting in Vietnam, learning from Scorsese at NYU, SCARFACE as an "inside-the-park homer," the chaos of making SALVADOR, the depths of PLATOON, his beloved 49ers, and more.

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00:24:18

#60 - The Captain on F*CKING HISTORY

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2020/08/12

The man they call "The Captain" joins Trey Elling to share some stories from F*CKING HISTORY: 111 LESSONS YOU SHOULD HAVE LEARNED IN SCHOOL, including: Mark Twain's important contribution to the modern bra, what Graham crackers were originally intended for, the badass legacy of Stagecoach Mary, the unique method Thomas Edison and his wife used to trash-talk people at parties, nachos as an invention of desperation, research that found penguins aren't as innocent as you think, and more.

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00:46:07

#59 - Stuart Ritchie on SCIENCE FICTIONS

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2020/08/04

Stuart Ritchie chats with Trey Elling about SCIENCE FICTIONS: HOW FRAUD, BIAS, NEGLIGENCE, AND HYPE UNDERMINE THE SEARCH FOR TRUTH, including: what publishing a scientific paper looks like in its purest form, the various ways that process breaks down, tips for reading scientific papers, spotting the good from bad, and much more.

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01:19:39

#58 - Nicholson Baker on BASELESS

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2020/07/22

Nicholson Baker joins Trey Elling to discuss BASELESS: MY SEARCH FOR SECRETS IN THE RUINS OF THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT, including: a question about the Korean War that sparked this ten-year project, the genesis of the CIA and US military developing biological weapons and their rationale for doing so, cruel experiments performed on animals and whether they tested things on an unknowing America public, and much more.

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00:27:07

#57 - Michael Shellenberger on APOCALYPSE NEVER

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2020/07/16

Environmental activist Michael Shellenberger chats with Trey Elling about APOCALYPSE NEVER: WHY ENVIRONMENTAL ALARMISM HURTS US ALL, including: why claims of mass death and destruction due to climate change lack scientific merit, the minimal impact of banning plastic straws and bags, economic development as a defense against climate change, nuclear power's value, many "green" organizations taking money from fossil fuel companies, and more.

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01:46:33

#56 - Tom O'Neill on CHAOS

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2020/07/07

Tom O'Neill chats with Trey Elling about CHAOS, including: inconsistencies with the official narrative of murders committed by Manson and The Family, why lead prosecutor and HELTER SKELTER author Vincent Bugliosi can't be trusted, evidence of the CIA's fingerprints on the Tate house murder investigation as well as Manson's year forming the Family in San Francisco, and much more.

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00:28:56

#55 - Matthew Schwartz on CONFESSIONS OF AN...

The Sport of Life: Chats w/ Comedians, Filmmakers,... ·

2020/06/30

Matthew Schwartz chats with Trey Elling about CONFESSIONS OF AN INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER, including: interviewing David Berkowitz, aka Son of Sam, prior to his 2002 parole hearing, exposing a doctor who was fueling the opioid epidemic, a story that forced more accountability from airlines regarding pets checked as cargo, causing Hulk Hogan to cry like a baby, how Trump and Bernie Sanders both stiffed the Tucson PD, and more.

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