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 155 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Dan Riley hosts Keep Talking, a society show with 155 episodes published.

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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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  Episode 151: Judith Thurman - Writing at "The New Yorker"

  Oct 17, 202545 min

  Judith Thurman is a staff writer at "The New Yorker," and the author of many books, including "Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller " and " Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette." ------------ Keep Talking Substack Spotify Apple Podcasts Social media and all episodes ------------ (00:00) “How’d you get to be that thing you are?”—origin story (02:18) Precocious reader, teacher mom, “foreordained” to write (04:52) Yes-and-no confidence; from drivel to good (07:10) Poet in Europe: barmaid, tutor, no money (09:48) 1970s NYC—dangerous, electric, cheap rent, first bylines (12:22) Nation → Ms. magazine → journalism takes off (14:05) Knocking on The New Yorker’s door; Gottlieb says yes (16:40) How a New Yorker piece gets made—editors, rewrites, heat (19:12) Subjects and boundaries: strong & “lost” women (21:58) Emily Wilson to Vanessa Beecroft; fasting spa detour (24:41) Writing (against) Gertrude Stein; Handmaid’s Tale hindsight (27:20) Why Stein’s “cult” endures—salon as tourist attraction (29:58) Anne Frank’s freedom to feel; the monumental annotation (32:36) Amelia Earhart—image-making, legend, and dying young (34:28) Biographies as marriages; choosing a life to live with (35:57) Isak Dinesen begins: Ms. piece, Denneny, the $10k “bride price” (38:43) Rethinking colonialism—Kenyan correspondent, mea culpa (41:52) Writing life: night vs. morning, momentum, humility; truth famine & journalism’s role

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