Episode 55 - Angry Men: A Conversation with Thad Russell and Sam Sheridan

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Episode:

  • Anger Issues
  • "I'm not where I belong"... Thad's pirate dreams
  • Everyone wanting to punch Thad and Sam, please get in line
  • Props to AJ Hawk and Ben Harper
  • Never good enough
  • Bad Thad
  • Why Sam and Thad drive the smallest cars possible
  • The pluses and minuses of L.A.
  • How to avoid turning into a suffering artist. Tom Robbins and Ikkyu as my role models
  • Thad wants to be an accountant
  • Maybe I need to pick different heroes
  • Can you be a great creative genius without enduring tremendous suffering?
  • Sensitive and happy
  • Life is more complicated than a single emotion. If you smile 24/7, I don't buy it
  • The Dalai Lama... hard to relate to someone who has never had sex
  • This guy has never gotten laid. What can i possibly learn from him?
  • Sam likes the ninja turtles
  • Enlightenment with humanity
  • The bullshit of the mind-body dualism
  • Fear of death as the origin of mind-body dualism
  • Envy and jealousy
  • Psychoanalyzing Thad
  • Therapeutic paths and meditation
  • "I've done Rogan"... When you utter a sentence like that, it's time to end the episode

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