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Liz Manashil and Alrik Bursell discuss independent filmmaking, everything from writing, producing and directing to working as crew. But this is not just a podcast about "making it," it's also about struggling with rejection, self-doubt and everything else that comes with pursuing a career in film. Follow along as we forge our own way through the industry and talk to guests who are also making it happen. Episodes 238-299 are available at our patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/mmihpodcast
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Pioneers of AI is your guide to the latest technological frontier. Each week, host Rana el Kaliouby (AI scientist, investor, author, co-founder of Affectiva) is joined by the leading creators, critics, and thinkers behind mind-blowing technology and asks the important questions about how artificial intelligence is changing the way we live. As we venture together into the unknown, Pioneers is your tool to understanding and anticipating what comes next.
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Decoder is a show from The Verge about big ideas — and other problems. Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel talks to a diverse cast of innovators and policymakers at the frontiers of business and technology to reveal how they’re navigating an ever-changing landscape, what keeps them up at night, and what it all means for our shared future.
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A celebration of horror comedy cinema and the filmmakers who make them. We will review horror comedy films and Tv show and talk to those creatives that work hard to make them. Filmmaking tips from my years on set. bring your favorite drink to the show. We also throw a horror movie review now and then!
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Horror Babe Show

Chelsea Beller

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Horror Babe Show is your YouTube channel and podcast for all things horror. Join our gothic host, Chelsea, as she delves into the allure of scary movies, exploring why we can’t resist the thrill. Creep into spine-tingling interviews, expert insights, and a passion for the macabre. Whether you’re a die-hard fan or a curious newcomer, we’ve got chills for all. Join us on a journey through the shadows as the horror unfolds.
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WILDCIDE

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Wildcide is a unique true crime podcast that blends the most outrageous real-life cases with expert insights from professionals across the criminal justice field. Hosted by sisters Chelsea, an allied health professional, and Bailey, an experienced therapist, the show delves deep into the psychological and sociological dimensions of each case. With their combined expertise, they aren’t afraid to tackle complex, hard-hitting topics while weaving in just enough light-heartedness to balance the ...
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California City

LAist Studios

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Deep in the Mojave Desert, there is a little town with a big name and a bizarre history: California City. For decades, real estate developers have sold a dream here: if you buy land now, you’ll be rich one day. Thousands of people bought this dream. Many were young couples and hard-working immigrants looking to build a better future. But much of the land they bought is nearly worthless. In this new podcast from LAist Studios, host Emily Guerin tells a story of money, power and deception.
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Round the Fire with Momo is a cozy space where I sit down with friends and inspiring voices to share stories, ideas, and real-life experiences. There’s no set agenda—just honest conversations about the things that shape us. That said, many episodes naturally drift toward topics I’m passionate about, like Bitcoin, keto, and the carnivore lifestyle. So if you're into deep chats, hard money, or healing through food, pull up a seat by the fire.
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The Filmumentaries Podcast – Exploring the Unsung Heroes of Cinema. Go beyond the credits and uncover the untold stories of the filmmakers, artists, and craftspeople who bring your favorite movies to life. Hosted by filmmaker, author, and film historian Jamie Benning, The Filmumentaries Podcast offers in-depth conversations with the behind-the-scenes legends of Hollywood and beyond. Each episode features exclusive interviews with art directors, production designers, VFX artists and superviso ...
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How To Academy is London's home of big thinking. From Nobel laureates to Pulitzer Prize winners, we invite the world’s most influential voices to share new ideas for changing ourselves, our communities, and the world. Our biweekly podcast is your chance to hear in-depth from the most exciting thinkers in global culture.
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The Big Melt

Gen-Z Media

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Climate change is changing everything, and Sarah has something to say about that. Tune in as she takes on the global climate crisis in her very own way. She’s not afraid to ask hard questions and she’s got the research to prove it. Join her week-by-week as she breaks down the what’s, when’s, how’s and why’s of climate change. Whether she’s reaching out to teens that are changing the world, discovering brilliant minds that are reimagining the future or getting down to business with eco-entrep ...
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Director Bobcat Goldthwait and political satirist Barry Crimmins discuss Call Me Lucky. The documentary—which tells the story of how Crimmins evolved from a hard-drinking, politically outspoken comic to a social activist and author—is an inspiring and wickedly funny portrait of one of comedy’s most enigmatic and important figures.
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Spotting Movies

Jose Fernandez

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Welcome to Spotting Movies, your ultimate destination for in-depth film reviews, movie discussions, and cinematic insights. At Spotting Movies, we explore the latest blockbusters, timeless classics, and hidden gems, providing expert critiques and engaging commentary. Whether you’re a die-hard movie buff, a casual viewer, or a passionate cinephile, Spotting Movies is here to guide you through the world of cinema. Each episode of Spotting Movies is meticulously crafted to bring you expert opin ...
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Filmmaking is a complicated endeavor…but it doesn’t have to be out of reach! Panning Up is here to remove the barrier to filmmaking and talk about the tools and techniques that a seasoned film production company utilizes as well as the challenges and difficulties that we overcome! After 15 years in business and decades of experience in our team, we’ve got a range of perspectives and backgrounds ranging from film school to the school of hard knocks. We’ve traveled the world, visited nearly 50 ...
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🎬 Ever wonder what Hollywood is really like behind the scenes? 🎞️ Welcome to A Screenwriter’s Secret Diary, where the glamorous facade fades, and we pull back the curtain on the chaotic, unfiltered realities of the entertainment world. ⚡️ Hosted by Seda, a screenwriter and filmmaker based in Los Angeles, this is my personal diary of rants, revelations, and hard truths about surviving and thriving in showbiz. New episodes drop every Wednesday—your backstage pass to the life of a storyteller. ...
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AIGA Design Podcast

AIGA, the professional association for design

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The official podcast feed of AIGA, the professional association for design. We explore various facets of the design discipline, profession, and industry to help our listeners learn about the past and present and prepare for the future. The theme of our 2024-2025 season is "Design and Performance."
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Film Forums Podcast focuses on the people of film and how they have put their work in the public eye with success. We ask all your burning questions about screenwriting, pitching to studios, raising finance, submitting to BAFTA qualifying film festivals, distribution, marketing and more!We are interested in all aspects of the film industry from independent to blockbuster - all can find a home at Film Forums. We interview directors, actors and screenwriters about movies starring the likes of ...
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The Story Lab

The Story Lab

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Unfiltered conversations for up and coming filmmakers. Hosted by Evan Rogers and Lucas Cardoso. Starting your video business, filmmaking FAQs, and tools & resources for better storytelling. Watch, listen, and follow here!: https://linktr.ee/thestorylabfilm
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Black Men Working

Black Men Working

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The "Black Men Working" podcast is designed to highlight the hard working, everyday, Black Man in America. We will get to know him, what he does, how he does it, why he does it and so much more. Through this process we hope to establish a deeper bond between Black Men and strengthen our network and our net worth to ultimately do more good for our people. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blackmenworking/support
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Does This Sound Familiar? 1️⃣ You’re drowning in ideas but can’t seem to focus. 2️⃣ You overthink, searching for the “perfect” move. 3️⃣ You freeze and procrastinate. 4️⃣ You beat yourself up for wasting time. 5️⃣ Your confidence tanks, making decisions feel impossible. 6️⃣ The cycle repeats. 👉 You’re stuck in the Thought Spiral Stuck Cycle—and it’s holding you back. 📉 Months go by. Years even. The longer you stay stuck, the harder it feels to break free. This Is Where We Break the Cycle. 🔥 ...
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Good Neighbors Podcast Palmer is a platform that allows local businesses and charities to introduce themselves to their neighbors. As the CEO, and Media Executive Producer, my role is to facilitate this by making sure this podcast is the channel that allows Palmer residents, and other Massachusetts residents to learn firsthand from the people that lead the businesses and charities in their community. Bringing together local businesses and neighbors of Palmer. Good Neighbor Podcast Palmer MA ...
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Welcome to the Promising Creative Podcast, where Billy Notion delves into the journeys of young creatives, unpacking their battles, triumphs, and everything in between. Through a series of wide-ranging conversations, Billy seeks to share the inspiring stories of creative individuals, highlighting the hard work and dedication required to achieve success in the industry. His goal is to inspire listeners with a simple message: "Believe in your talent, and with passion and determination, you too ...
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What's the Convo is where you go to listen to everyday people talk about their interesting and exciting experiences. People will talk about their hobbies and careers to explain how and why they got started so that you can laugh, learn and try new things.
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Around The Reel

CCC Entertainment Group

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Creatives need that push... that extra kick to know they can rise up and follow their dreams. We are a podcast for creatives! Filmmakers, Artists, Musicians and Everyone! We confront multiple topics on this show and most of the time... just talk a lot of you know what... so indulge in the REEL with us and enjoy the journey!
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On this Thursday bonus episode we are going to play the interview from episode 443 from September 2023 featuring writer and director husband and wife team Abby Horton and Ryan Dickie talking about making their first feature together as a team. I thought it would be fun to pair it with Brian and David’s episode from Monday because they are also a ma…
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What does it take to create something the world has never seen before? In this final episode of Artful Intelligence, Reid Hoffman and Chris McLeod explore what it takes to spark a creative revolution with filmmaker Paul Trillo. Using OpenAI’s groundbreaking AI video generator, Sora, Paul directed the world’s first fully AI-generated music video. Af…
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ICE raids began last Friday across Southern California. People have been detained and there have been confrontations between protesters and law enforcement. What exactly went down and where does Los Angeles go from here? We hear from family members of people detained by ICE and talk with LAist Civics and Democracy Correspondent Frank Stoltze about …
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The hosts of the blockbuster podcast We Can Do Hard Things share a fresh guide to being alive and answer life's most difficult questions. Every day, Glennon Doyle spirals around the same questions: Why am I like this? How do I figure out what I want? How do I know what to do? Why can’t I be happy? Am I doing this right? The harder life gets, the le…
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Hey everyone, it’s Nilay. Decoder is on a short summer break right now, but we’ll be back starting June 23 with new episodes, and we’re very excited for what we have on the schedule. In the meantime, we have an episode from the excellent podcast Stay Tuned with Preet, with host and former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara. Last month, Preet sat down with…
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Have you ever heard of vertical farming? Paper madefrom fallen leaves? Or a powder that absorbs carbon dioxide? In this episode, youth voices highlight these incredible sustainability-driven breakthroughs, along with practical ways you can you can make a difference too! This mini-series was created by youth, for youth, in partnership with Kids Help…
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A car bomb. A forest war. And an activist caught in the middle. When Earth First! organizer Judi Bari was nearly killed by a bomb planted beneath the driver’s seat of her Subaru, the FBI didn’t hunt for the bomber—they arrested her. What followed was a decades-long battle between environmentalists, the logging industry, and law enforcement, marked …
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Over the past several decades, the field of robotics has achieved remarkable milestones. Robots have been sent to Mars and to the deepest parts of the ocean. Cynthia Breazeal, a professor at the MIT Media Lab, believes there’s another frontier that robots should enter: our daily lives. As a pioneer in social robotics, Breazeal has devoted her caree…
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Want to make a horror short film but don’t have Spielberg money? Same, babe. In this behind-the-scenes episode of Horror Babe Show, Chelsea breaks down how to produce a short film on an insanely tight budget and how she's doing it again with her upcoming horror short Through the Trees. We'll cover: →Writing compelling scripts with high stakes →Find…
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A louche slacker and a restless wanderer, an Englishman most at home abroad, a comic genius and a whip smart critic of art and culture: Geoff Dyer is a literary colossus, an original voice whose writings circulate around his favourite themes – sex, death, drugs, spirituality, travel, and boredom – while also being utterly different to one another. …
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In this special archival episode, I speak with actor and musician Anthony Forrest, best known to Star Wars fans for playing the sandtrooper who famously waved Obi-Wan and Luke past an Imperial checkpoint with the words: “These aren’t the droids we’re looking for.” Originally recorded over a decade ago, this conversation explores Forrest’s original …
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In this episode we off a new series leading up to episode 500, reflecting on the evolution of The Wandering DP Podcast and revisiting valuable lessons from past episodes. This week, we are joined by cinematographer Isaac Bauman, who shares his unconventional journey from directing to cinematography and how real-world experience shaped his creative …
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In this episode we off a new series leading up to episode 500, reflecting on the evolution of The Wandering DP Podcast and revisiting valuable lessons from past episodes. This week, we are joined by cinematographer Isaac Bauman, who shares his unconventional journey from directing to cinematography and how real-world experience shaped his creative …
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What happens when life gets messy—but the work still needs to get made? In this episode of The Story Lab, we get honest about what it means to stay creative when you're not okay. From burnout to uncertainty, we talk about: • Creating when you're depressed, anxious, or just disconnected • Why your best work might come from your hardest moments • Let…
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This week we welcome Writer and director power couple Brian Crano and David Joseph Craig on the show to talk about writing I Don’t Understand You, how they came up with the story, how they got it made and what it was like to write and direct the movie together . After that we play another round of THE GAME, enjoy! Don’t forget to support us on Patr…
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Today, I’m talking with Taskrabbit CEO Ania Smith. Taskrabbit is an interesting company; it’s known best for being a platform for hiring people to put together your furniture, so much so that Ikea acquired it in 2017. But Taskrabbit is still operating as a mostly independent company all these years later, and Ania is now in charge of maneuvering a …
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How can you shape the future with AI to create the world you want to live in? Reid Hoffman and Chris McLeod explore this question with Elise Swopes, a trailblazing visual artist and educator blending AI with photography. Currently an evangelist for Adobe, Elise has been a creative force since the early days of Instagram, crafting surreal visuals fo…
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After the collapse of the Soviet Union, neoliberalism, with its belief in the virtues of markets and competition, seemed to have triumphed. But in the decades that followed, neoliberalism had a problem: the rise of social movements, from civil rights and feminism to environmentalism, were now proving roadblocks in the road to freedom, nurturing a c…
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What happens when one of America’s most prestigious art galleries falls for an $80 million lie? From the acclaimed filmmaker behind Netflix’s Made You Look, Barry Avrich returns with The Devil Wears Rothko: Inside the Art Scandal That Rocked the World. This gripping true crime exposé pulls back the curtain on the now-infamous Knoedler Gallery fraud…
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In this episode of The Horror Comedy Hangout, Chris and Jess review the blood-soaked, laugh-filled horror comedy Clown in a Cornfield, directed by Eli Craig (Tucker & Dale vs. Evil) and based on the bestselling novel by Adam Cesare. This small-town slasher blends brutal kills with biting satire, and we had an absolute blast watching (and talking ab…
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On this Thursday bonus episode we are going to play the interview from episode 273 from July 2020 featuring writer and director Natalie Erika James. Alrik thought this was a good match for our episode with Julia Max from Monday because they both made supernatural horror films as their first features, both with substantial budgets. After that we pla…
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Today, I’m talking with Runway CEO and co-founder Cris Valenzuela. This one’s special: Cris and I were live at an event in New York City last month hosted by Alix Partners, so you’ll hear the audience from time to time. Runway is a leading AI video generation platform, and it’s getting better all the time. That puts Cris and his company on the same…
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Do headlines about the climate crisis make you feel uneasy? Or maybe it’s the spread of climate change denial that feels frustrating. Young people today are navigating a world of information – and misinformation – and it can be a lot to process. But you’re not alone. In this first episode of the Big Melt mini-series, you’ll hear from youth voices s…
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In this bonus episode of The Filmumentaries Podcast, I catch up with returning guest Paul King, who you might remember from our previous conversation about his Shining locations documentary, Shine On. This time, Paul’s back with another nostalgic deep-dive — his new short documentary Beneath London: The Story of Alien War. We talk about the origins…
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You may have heard that AI is a bit of a resource hog. It requires so much electricity that scaling it could have a tremendous impact on the planet through the increase of emissions. So, what is the exact footprint you’ll leave the next time you type a prompt into your AI model of your choice? Dr. Sasha Luccioni, Climate Lead at the global AI firm …
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For years, the name Wolfgang Beltracchi meant nothing to the art world. And yet, his fingerprints were everywhere—on canvases attributed to long-dead masters, hanging in prestigious galleries, and sitting in private collections worth millions. He didn’t just forge art—he forged history itself. But this isn’t your typical forgery tale. This is the s…
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In 2009, Gloria Arellano de la Rosa was banned from re-entering the U.S. for ten years, finding herself separated from her four children and husband. But unlike Daniel Zamora, she didn’t remake her life in Mexico. Every day she waited to go home to the U.S. Fernanda Echavarri tells the story of what happens when Gloria finally returns to the States…
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How can we live a good life? Perhaps a good life is hard to define, but as bestselling author Rolf Dobelli reveals, we can learn how to cultivate a good life through habits to avoid—from watching too much news to 'winging' your way through the week. Merging stoicism and no-nonsense practicality, Rolf shares how we can live rationally and meaningful…
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In this solo episode, I share a simple but powerful tip that’s become part of his standard toolkit on commercial sets: using a floor-based backlight to add polish to a shot quickly and efficiently. While the idea started as a practical trick passed down from Paul Cameron, it opens the door to a much deeper conversation about cinematography, respons…
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In this solo episode, I share a simple but powerful tip that’s become part of his standard toolkit on commercial sets: using a floor-based backlight to add polish to a shot quickly and efficiently. While the idea started as a practical trick passed down from Paul Cameron, it opens the door to a much deeper conversation about cinematography, respons…
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This week we welcome Writer/Director Julia Max on the show to talk about how she made her first feature The Surrender on a high budget, how she found the money and her process for pulling the film together once she found the budget. After that we play another round of THE GAME and talk about what we are both up to, enjoy! Don’t forget to support us…
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Today, I’m talking with Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky. This is Brian’s fourth time on the show, and he’s one of my favorite guests because he’s so clearly obsessed with things like company structure, design, and decision making. You know, Decoder stuff. This time, Brian came on to talk about the company’s new services product and the full-scale redesign …
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Here's a break-down of why I changed my mind on the OP_RETURN limit in Bitcoin.---My previous discussion with Ziya: https://youtube.com/live/fFYvIsLOsnQLink to my Sparrow feature request: https://github.com/sparrowwallet/sparrow/issues/1716#issuecomment-2872672114Bitcoin Explained - Episode 98: Return of the OP_RETURN: https://bitcoinexplainedpodca…
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Can AI and spirituality coexist? Deepak Chopra, world-renowned pioneer in integrative medicine and personal transformation, challenges our perceptions by embracing artificial intelligence as a spiritual tool. In this mind-expanding conversation, Chopra reveals why he believes AI represents "the most powerful technology for expanding awareness in ev…
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On this Thursday bonus episode we are going to play the interview from episode 493 from September 2024 featuring director and stuntman JJ Perry! I thought this was a good match for our episode with Kirsten Foe from Monday because JJ also started in stunts before moving onto directing, so I thought it would be fun to pair it with Kirsten's episode. …
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