The Inthusiast: Recent Episodes
Clayton Wert
An audible journal that is a series of conversations with highly interested people discussing food, culture, politics, and more.
Vinnie Tortorich is a radio and podcast host, the filmmaker of FAT: A Documentary, fitness trainer, speaker, and best-selling author of Fitness Confidential: Adventures in the Weight-Loss Game. He is the founder of NSNG Foods, Pure Vitamin Club, and Pure Coffee Club. He also is credited with successfully working with several comedians such as Howie Mandel, Margaret Cho, Bill Engvall, Carol Leifer, Brad Garrett.
"If—" is a poem by English Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), written circa 1895[1] as a tribute to Leander Starr Jameson. It is a literary example of Victorian-era stoicism.[2] The poem, first published in Rewards and Fairies (1910), ch. 'Brother Square-Toes,' is written in the form of paternal advice to the poet's son, John.
Jim McCarthy is recognized for his unique perspective — as a Stanford MBA, internet pioneer, and person living with a cancer diagnosis. He teaches people how to create their happiness by blending mindfulness techniques and timeless wisdom with simple, science-based practices. His thought-provoking TEDx Talk was entitled “What Cancer Taught Me About Happiness.”He is the author of the #1 Amazon bestselling book, Live Each Day: A Surprisingly Simple Guide to Happiness.
He has presented his innovative and highly acclaimed Happiness Keynote and Happiness Master Class to organizations of all sizes across the U.S. and internationally. Clients include Amazon, YPO / WPO, CBRE, Pocket, Omidyar Network, Maven Ventures, Patreon, UC San Diego, Menlo Ventures, Kiva, HelmsBriscoe, SY|Partners, Maven Ventures, Pley, Elementum, Lifestreet, True Ventures, Fluxx Labs, and the alumni associations from Stanford, Harvard, and Northwestern.
In this episode, I bring up a recent Wired article that caught my attention, "The AI Threat Isn’t Skynet. It’s the End of the Middle Class," and got me thinking about the automation of jobs in the middle class and the current skills and job gap. This then got me thinking about one of my favorite nonprofits, The Mike Rowe Works Foundation. I talk about why I'm such a fan of the foundation itself, and touch on where I think the future of education is going.
This episode was recorded in a car on a trip from San Diego to Los Angeles.
Clayton gets political to talk about something more pressing, the fact that narcissism seems more prevalent in today's society than ever before. It's also a message to start being nicer to each other, please!
Warning: This podcast contains some slight F-bombs and other language.
On this episode, we welcome Matt Muccia to the pod! (@mucciamatt) -- we dove in to a discussion surrounding Survivor on CBS, which premieres it's 24th season: Game Changers on March 8th at 8/7central.
We then broadened the conversation to discuss how reality television like Survivor was the originator of content creation through documentation, and discussed how reality stars like the Kardashians came to be by building this sort of empire, and how it's easier than ever to do in 2017.