Keep Talking

"Keep Talking" exists to have conversations that might help to make a better society and a better culture. I believe that each guest has important information and stories to make public. And it's something that I want to share.

Keep Talking is a society podcast hosted by Dan Riley, with 156 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Dan Riley hosts Keep Talking, a society show with 156 episodes published.

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  Episode 156: Jonathan Dickinson - Ibogaine, The Medicine That Changes Minds

  Sep 25, 20261h 3m

  Jonathan Dickinson is an ibogaine researcher, longtime advocate for exploring the psychedelic’s potential for addiction treatment, and the author of the new book, Ibogaine and the Bicameral Mind: The Transformational Potential of the World's Most Complex Psychedelic Medicine . ------------ Keep Talking Substack Spotify Apple Podcasts Social media and all episodes ------------ Support via Venmo Support on Substack Support on Patreon ------------ (00:00) Inside the ibogaine experience (00:34) Jonathan’s journey to ibogaine (01:53) Bwiti and the origins of iboga (03:48) Iboga’s role in African culture (06:47) Jonathan’s initiation in Gabon (07:54) How ibogaine is consumed (09:06) Howard Lotsoff’s accidental discovery (12:38) Why ibogaine was prohibited (16:26) Veterans discover ibogaine (21:07) What an ibogaine journey feels like (24:47) The bicameral mind (27:33) Healing trauma and restoring agency (33:52) How ibogaine restores choice (37:19) Marcus Luttrell’s ibogaine story (41:47) The Stanford ibogaine study (44:30) Why people return to ibogaine (49:27) Ibogaine’s regenerative potential (52:00) Tempering the miracle claims (54:50) Who should consider ibogaine? (56:32) Preparing for ibogaine treatment (58:24) The future of ibogaine and healthcare (61:04) How society should approach ibogaine

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  Episode 155: Damiaan Denys - The Promise of Deep Brain Stimulation

  Jun 19, 20261h 13m

  Damiaan Denys is a professor of psychiatry at the University of Amsterdam and the co-editor of " Deep Brain Stimulation: A New Frontier in Psychiatry . " ------------ Keep Talking Substack Spotify Apple Podcasts Social media and all episodes ------------ Support via Venmo Support on Substack Support on Patreon ------------ (00:00) Early Fascination With Human Nature (02:18) Difficult Father and Survival Through Understanding People (04:07) Boredom With Protocolized Psychiatry (06:34) From Anti-Psychiatry to Evidence-Based Medicine (10:01) What Psychiatry Is Supposed To Do (12:27) Defining Mental Disorders and Cultural Relativity (15:42) Choosing Psychiatry’s Biggest Mysteries (18:04) Human Nature as Fundamentally Problematic (20:07) OCD, Addiction, and Dopamine Theory (23:41) Deep Brain Stimulation Origins (26:08) Understanding Obsessions and Compulsions (29:31) How Brain Stimulation Alters Brain Circuits (33:12) Instant Personality Changes After Stimulation (36:41) The Woman Who Cleaned Sixteen Hours Daily (40:04) Self-Confidence as the Hidden Mechanism (43:17) One Root Behind Many Psychiatric Disorders (46:09) Why Deep Brain Stimulation Remains Rare (49:22) Building a Future Around DBS Treatment (53:06) The Three-Part DBS Treatment Team (56:14) Depression Patient Rediscovers Music and Art (58:47) DBS as Stimulation of the Mind (01:01:08) Fragility, Vulnerability, and Human Connection (01:05:18) Soul, Transcendence, and Psychedelic Experiences (01:08:42) Leaving Academia and Returning to Human Beings (01:11:36) Autonomy, Modern Life, and Resisting Comfort

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  Episode 154: Steve Stewart-Williams - How Evolution Shaped Male And Female Minds

  Jun 4, 20261h 14m

  Steve Stewart-Williams is a professor, an evolutionary psychologist, and the author of The Ape that Understood the Universe and his newest book , A Billion Years of Sex Differences: How Evolution Shaped the Minds of Men and Women ------------ Keep Talking Substack Spotify Apple Podcasts Social media and all episodes ------------ Support via Venmo Support on Substack Support on Patreon ------------ (00:00) Falling In Love With Evolutionary Psychology (03:30) Explaining Human Behavior Through Evolution (06:57) Why Sex Differences Evolved (10:28) Writing A Book On Controversial Science (12:21) Average Differences And Statistical Overlap (15:17) Human Parenting Shrinks Sex Differences (17:44) Male Interest In Casual Sex (21:19) Evidence Across Cultures And Species (25:23) What Men And Women Want (29:18) Physical Attraction And Resource Preferences (32:32) Replication Crisis And Scientific Confidence (34:55) Ashley Madison And Sexual Marketplace Realities (36:27) Gamma Bias And Delta Bias Explained (40:18) Aggression Differences Between Men And Women (44:19) Toddler Violence And Puberty Changes (47:27) Neuroticism, Sensitivity, And Personality Differences (52:34) Politics, Academia, And Sex Difference Denial (57:21) Academic Freedom And Substack Independence (60:38) Why Truth About Sex Differences Matters (63:44) Harms Of Exaggerating Sex Differences (66:27) Harms Of Minimizing Sex Differences (69:17) Gender Equality Paradox In Scandinavia (71:34) Let People Be Themselves

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  Episode 153: Kathryn Mannix - Lessons From The Dying

  Feb 6, 202654 min

  Kathryn Mannix is a palliative care doctor and the author of With The End In Mind . ------------ Keep Talking Substack Spotify Apple Podcasts Social media and all episodes ------------ Support via Venmo Support on Substack Support on Patreon ------------ (00:00) Regret, mistakes, and living fully (02:05) Hospice work and “encountering death” (04:40) Early medicine: oncology training and dying patients (07:20) Falling out of love with oncology research culture (10:10) The hospice “statement from fate” (13:05) Ordinary dying vs Hollywood’s scary version (16:05) Living while dying: love, family, relationships (19:05) Practical “sadmin”: sorting life before death (22:10) Why regret gets a bad rap (25:30) Doing the work: turning wounds into scars (28:55) Dying environments: people and mood matter most (32:10) Nana’s wisdom: losing familiarity with dying (35:40) Medicine “kidnapped dying” and death taboo (38:50) Values-based planning: “what matters most to me” (41:55) Death education, pets, and breaking secrecy (44:10) What dying looks like: hearing and breathing changes (47:25) Trauma from misunderstanding dying sounds (50:35) Comfort meds, guilt, and what happens after death

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  Episode 152: Jonathan Zimmerman - The Assassination of Charlie Kirk

  Oct 31, 202547 min

  Jonathan Zimmeramn is a Professor of History of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, and the author of the books " Free Speech: And Why You Should Give a Damn" and "Whose America?: Culture Wars in the Public Schools." ------------ Keep Talking Substack Spotify Apple Podcasts Social media and all episodes ------------ Support via Venmo Support on Substack Support on Patreon ------------ (00:00) intro (00:27) Polarized, pessimistic America (02:10) From Birchers to viral clicks (05:05) Decline of religion as fuel (08:12) “Love thy enemy” vs “I hate my opponents” (10:45) Cross-tribe media: why I watch Fox (13:18) Dopamine diets and tribal brains (16:02) Roots beyond social: 90s, higher ed divides (18:40) Education sorts and isolates by degree (21:15) Overlaps and humbling lessons from Fox (Ukraine, MIC) (24:05) Charlie Kirk: free-speech ideals and contradictions (27:22) Assassination & the internet underworld (30:10) Boys, meaning, and failing institutions (33:05) Digital cults, religion, and liberal education (36:10) Learned Hand’s “spirit of liberty” (38:22) Printing-press analogy, AI, and Postman’s question (41:05) Phones out K-16 and secondhand distraction (43:38) Anxiety on campus and adult responsibility (45:30) Free-speech hypocrisy & the “American Hour” proposal

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