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Shawn Wickens is a New York City-based futurist, casual stoner, and comedian. He co-produces Stoned Laughs, a monthly 420-friendly comedy show in Midtown Manhattan. 

 

His most audacious work yet, “Time Machine Blueprints, 1st Edition,” is available on Amazon. It is a work of pure genius.

 

All of his good friends, the ones who have his private phone number, can tell you that he doesn’t like being harassed.

 

But we’re not here to harass him. We are here to have him tell us how to bend the space-time continuum. And some other stuff.
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It’s not every day that you get to interview the guitarist for one of your favorite bands of all time. But the goal of this podcast is to tickle ourselves, so a few months ago, we decided to see if we could make it happen. We succeeded. Paul Langlois is a founding member of Canada’s seminal rock band, The Tragically Hip. He’s also the leader of the newly-constituted Paul Langlois Band, who just released their debut album (and his third solo album), Guess What, this past summer. Humble, thoughtful, genuine, and downright funny, Langlois shares stories about how he got his start in music, his decades playing with The Hip, as well as the challenges of moving from the side to the front of the stage. He also reveals a thing or two about songwriting in the clutch. It’s all very ticklish stuff. Listen up!
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Today we speak to Dan Tomasulo, the academic director of The Spirituality Mind Body Institute at Columbia University’s Teachers College. But that’s only one of his many talents. Dan is the author of the bestselling books Learned Hopefulness: The Power of Positivity to Overcome Depression and The Positivity Effect, among others. He’s got a PhD in psychology, an MFA in writing, and a Master of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. When he’s not running schools or writing books, he edits scholarly journals about psychology. He’s also pretty damn funny, but you can judge the quality of his jokes yourself.
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Rich Cohen, Duffs favorite writer, is back with a new book called When the Game Was War: The NBA’s Greatest Season. He’s talking about 1987. He tells the story of that season through the prism of four of the greatest players in NBA history: Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Isiah Thomas, and Michael Jordan. And he does it with his usual craft, insight, and wonderful writing.
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We’ve got a special one for you today, folks. About a year ago, Duff started hounding his old friend, filmmaker and documentarian Andy Keen to sit for an interview for How to Tickle Yourself.  Andy is currently at work on a timely documentary series of monumental importance. It’s called Back to the Fire: In Search of Lost Values That Could Change Our World, and he’s making it with our other guest today, Chief Gibby Jacob, the leader of Canada’s Squamish Nation for over 30 years.  We want to let these two describe what they’re working on themselves, but suffice it to say that their mission is something we share here at How to Tickle Yourself: They are trying to help us get back to first principles, to those few things that matter more than all the other things.
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In 2020, Duff told Joey that he wanted to start a newsletter called The Kombucha Times. Alas, someone already had that idea. His name is Ian Griffin, and he is the founder and publisher of Booch News, the premier source for independent news and statistics about the kombucha industry.

 

A former marketer and speechwriter who was blogging and podcasting when both were still new things, Griffin wrote a blog about professional speaking for more than a decade. After he retired, he was on a trip with his wife to his native UK and couldn’t find enough kombucha. Seeing an opportunity to mix his two loves – blogging and kombucha – he landed on the ideas of a couple of reports about the industry, and Booch News was born.

 

So this interview is going to be a bit of a mash-up. We’re going to talk to Ian about all things kombucha as well as speechwriting. He thinks AI has changed the speechwriting game forever.

 
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