Keep Talking

Dan Riley
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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.

  1. Episode 137: Orville Schell - Will The Chinese People Ever Be Free?

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    Episode 137: Orville Schell - Will The Chinese People Ever Be Free?

    Orville Schell is an author, a journalist, a China scholar, and the director of the Asia Society's Center on U.S.-China Relations. ------------ Book Dan to do an interview or a meeting ------------ Keep Talking Substack Spotify Apple Podcasts Social media and all episodes ------------ Support via Venmo Support on Substack Support on Patreon ------------ (00:00) Intro (01:00) Orville's entering China in the 1970s (07:10) Was was China like in the 1970s? (10:09) The palpable fear in China in the 1970s (14:55) The details of Mao Zedong the Cultural Revolution (20:40) What preceded Communism in China? (25:32) Why was Communism appealing to Chinese revolutionaries? (30:11) China in the 1970s and how it reopened to the world (37:10) Why did China not become free after the 1980s? (41:39) 1989 and Tiananmen Square (45:28) China in the next few years (52:19) How might China become free? (55:26) Why China matters

    58 min
  2. Episode 136: Joseph Goldstein - How Meditation Can Improve Your Life

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    Episode 136: Joseph Goldstein - How Meditation Can Improve Your Life

    Joseph Goldstein is an author, the co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, MA, and is one of the most influential and important figures to bring vipassana meditation practices into the American mainstream. A rebroadcast from 2022. ------------ Book Dan to do an interview or a meeting ------------ Keep Talking Substack Spotify Apple Podcasts Social media and all episodes ------------ Support via Venmo Support on Substack Support on Patreon ------------ (00:00) Intro (00:45) How Joseph ended up in Asia a young man (04:39) Reason for interest in Buddhism and meditation (08:59) Immersing in the study of the mind (12:41) The Buddha’s teachings (18:52) Joseph's psychological state when first exposed to Buddhism and meditation (21:01) The daily habits, discipline, and rituals to try to achieve Enlightenment (27:14) Deciding to devote his life to meditation (30:11) Communicating to his mother his desire to devote his life to Buddhism (32:59) Metaphysical views pre and post meditation (37:46) Buddhism is non-theistic (40:14) What is the Dharma? (44:48) Integrating Buddhist teachings with practice and The Noble Eightfold Path (53:37) The first step to use mindfulness to ease psychological suffering (01:01:24) Awareness versus the weather pattern of one's mind (01:04:30) Using mindfulness to respond, rather than to react (01:15:37) Dealing with grief (01:24:50) How can we improve our lives by being mindful?

    1 h y 35 min
  3. Episode 135: James Hollis - How to Live a Meaningful Life

    27/12/2024

    Episode 135: James Hollis - How to Live a Meaningful Life

    James Hollis is a psychoanalyst, one of the world's most prolific Jungian thinkers, and the author of many books, including "Living An Examined Life." A rebroadcast from 2021. ------------ Book Dan to do an interview or a meeting ------------ Keep Talking Substack Spotify Apple Podcasts Social media and all episodes ------------ Support via Venmo Support on Substack Support on Patreon ------------ (00:00) Intro (01:02) Jim's transition from academia to psychoanalysis (06:24) The decision to pursue psychoanalysis as a full-time profession (10:59) Gathering the courage to pursue psychoanalysis (18:19) What about Jung’s work resonated with Jim? (30:16) Jim's process of helping people navigate the transitionary phases of their lives (41:31) The most pressing issues Jim sees facing Americans (48:24) The primary blockers to growth and self-healing (51:54) Discerning the difference fears you should avoid and fears you should face (57:01) Exhausted relationships vs. relationships that need endurance (01:09:02) The ratio of men vs. women seeking counsel and therapy and how it’s changed over the years (01:13:21) Why most men tend to suppress their innermost emotions (01:19:49) Jim's explanation of Joseph Campbell’s ‘hero’s journey’ (01:25:31) How to live an examined, authentic life

    1 h y 29 min

  4. 20/12/2024

    Episode 134: Elizabeth Economy: Communist China's History in 60 Minutes

    Elizabeth Economy is a political scientist, a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, a China expert, and the author of multiple books, including "The World According to China" and "The Third Revolution: Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State." ------------ Book Dan to do an interview or a meeting ------------ Keep Talking Substack Spotify Apple Podcasts Social media and all episodes ------------ Support via Venmo Support on Substack Support on Patreon ------------ (00:00) Intro (01:00) Xi Jinping's father's story (07:16) The Cultural Revolution (12:02) "China's Holocaust" between 1950's-1970's (13:10) Why Marxism resonated in China (21:43) Darker aspects of the Cultural Revolution (33:48) The rise of Xi Jinping and the rise of China's economy (38:33) The meme of Xi Jinping as Winnie the Pooh (41:43) Xi Jinping's personality and vision for China (46:27) The near-term future of U.S-China relations (53:00) What America can do to win Cold War 2.0

    56 min
  5. Episode 133: James Holland - D-Day, WWII, and What We Owe Our Veterans

    13/12/2024

    Episode 133: James Holland - D-Day, WWII, and What We Owe Our Veterans

    James Holland is a historian and the author of many books, including Normandy '44: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France. ------------ Book Dan to do an interview or a meeting ------------ Keep Talking Substack Spotify Apple Podcasts Social media and all episodes ------------ Support via Venmo Support on Substack Support on Patreon ------------ (00:00) Intro (00:46) The state of the world in June 1944 (14:48) What was D-Day like for an average Allied soldier (21:13) Is D-Day the most important military conflict in history? (27:01) "Steel not flesh" (32:43) The Atlantic Wall (41:08) Cooperation and morale among the Allied troops (45:31) Dick Winters and men like him (51:15) Why James has committed so much of his life to WWII history (54:45) How can we best honor and remember veterans?

    1 h y 1 min
  6. Episode 132: Noam Dworman - Comedy, Free Speech, and Creating The Comedy Cellar

    06/12/2024

    Episode 132: Noam Dworman - Comedy, Free Speech, and Creating The Comedy Cellar

    Noam Dworman is a businessman, the co-host of the podcast "Live From The Table," and the owner of the world-famous Comedy Cellar in Greenwich Village, NYC. ------------ Book Dan to do an interview or a meeting ------------ Keep Talking Substack Spotify Apple Podcasts Social media and all episodes ------------ Support via Venmo Support on Substack Support on Patreon ------------ (00:00) Intro (00:59) How The Comedy Cellar came to be (02:38) Noam's dad, Manny (07:05) Why did Manny start The Comedy Cellar? (10:42) Notable comics early at The Comedy Cellar (12:00) The way to fame for comics pre-internet (14:32) Identifying comedic talent (18:36) Patrice O'Neal (24:12) How Noam took over The Comedy Cellar (27:37) The scene at The Comedy Cellar in early 2000's (29:52) Why The Comedy Cellar is so popular (32:19) The design of The Comedy Cellar venue (36:58) Quotes from Noam about free speech (38:11) Louis CK, free speech, and woke culture (43:58) How the left has changed regarding free speech (47:22) Comedy as a refuge (50:23) Defining wokeness and a story about Noam's daughter (56:30) The state of wokeness and cancel culture (59:02) Comedians and intellectuals with courage (01:02:58) What's next for Noam and The Comedy Cellar

    1 h y 5 min
  7. Episode 131: Sir Richard Evans - How the Nazis Rose to Power

    29/11/2024

    Episode 131: Sir Richard Evans - How the Nazis Rose to Power

    Sir Richard Evans is a historian, and the author of many books, including The Third Reich Trilogy, The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815–1914, and Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich, which is the primary focus of this conversation. ------------ Book Dan to do an interview or a meeting ------------ Keep Talking Substack Spotify Apple Podcasts Social media and all episodes ------------ Support via Venmo Support on Substack Support on Patreon ------------ (00:00) Intro (01:00) The young Hitler (04:11) The Nazis were conservative, middle class Germans (10:20) How Hitler rose, his talents as a speaker (19:52) The Reichstag Fire and The Enabling Act (27:57) The romantic and personal life of Hitler (31:39) Hitler's romantic interest in Joseph Goebbels's wife (35:52) Demythologizing the Nazis: a story of Himmler in the sauna (39:27) "Ordinary Men" by Christopher R. Browning (44:50) The story of Dr. Karl Brandt (49:34) Why history and studying the Nazis matters (52:19) Threats to freedom and democracy in the modern world (54:22) Donald Trump is not a fascist

    58 min
  8. Episode 130: Glenn Loury - My American Dream Story

    22/11/2024

    Episode 130: Glenn Loury - My American Dream Story

    Glenn Loury‬ is an economist, a professor at Brown University, a podcaster, an essayist, and is the author of "Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative" and the essay "The Case for Black Patriotism." A rebroadcast from 2022. ------------ Book Dan to do an interview or a meeting ------------ Keep Talking Substack Spotify Apple Podcasts Social media and all episodes ------------ Support via Venmo Support on Substack Support on Patreon ------------ (00:00) Intro (01:01) Get to know Glenn Loury (03:56) South Side of Chicago culture when Glenn was a boy (06:11) Fatherhood at 18, working at RR Donnelley & Sons, and Mr. Andres (15:01) Opportunity launches Glenn to Northwestern and MIT (19:34) The culture and opportunity of MIT (28:48) The first African-American tenured economics professor in Harvard, at 33 (37:30) Glenn's interest in politics and his heterodox political philosophy (47:44) A memorable incident with Glenn's uncle Alfred (55:35) How Glenn's conservatism informs his views on the campus (01:01:57) Glenn's defense of Western culture (01:06:43) "The Case for Black Patriotism" (01:23:17) An American Living "The American Dream"

    1 h y 25 min
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"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.

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    Dan Riley
  • Años de actividad
    2020 - 2025
  • Episodios
    137
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