Kickass News
Hosted by Hollywood producer and political media strategist Ben Mathis, KickAss News is a twice weekly podcast that features the most interesting personalities and thought leaders in politics, entertainment, tech, business, science, and more. Enjoy the podcast? Then please support the show and help keep us on the air by making a donation to our GoFundMe campaign at www.gofundme.com/kickassnews. Another way you can support the show is to subscribe to the podcast and leave us a review on iTunes to help keep us ranking strong on the top podcasts charts. For more information visit www.kickassnews.com. Thanks for listening!
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Neuroscientist David Eagleman on Our Ever-Chang...
is creator/host of PBS's The Brain, a professor of neuroscience at Stanford University, and CEO/founder of , a company that builds the next generation of neuroscience hardware. He overturns science's traditional understand of brain plasticity...
47 min
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Jon Meacham Remembers Civil Rights Hero John Lewis
Pulitzer-winning historian recalls his 30 year friendship with the late Congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis. Meacham describes as an almost Biblical arc to John Lewis's life, and how Lewis’s Christian faith informed his...
35 min
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Erin Brockovich Is Still Fighting the Good Fight
20 years after the film raised awareness about water contamination, the real talks about how her that movie changed her life, the moment when she realized that she had to stand up for the citizens of Hinckley, California, and her outrage...
47 min
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Greg Gutfeld Is Your Reluctant Self-Help Guru
Before was a Fox News star and a New York Times bestselling author, he was a self-help writer for health magazines who had no idea what he was talking about. Now, after years of experience, he finally feels qualified to guide people on the journey of...
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Adam Carolla Takes on Cancel Culture and Hashta...
takes on cancel culture and hashtag heroes. He explains why he has given up on apologizing to people, why he’s standing by his friend Jimmy Kimmel during the late night show host’s blackface controversy, and why he believes that people...
42 min
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Jim Belushi Wants to Heal the World
is a man of many talents, actor, singer, dancer, and now legal cannabis farmer. He shares how he’s using cannabis to combat the opioid crisis and heal vets suffering from PTSD, how high school football might have led to his...
42 min
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Jeffrey Toobin on the Investigation of Donald T...
CNN chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin talks about his new book . He discusses why this was the hardest book he’s ever written, and how he managed to gain access to a number Robert Mueller’s lead investigators (including a few...
41 min
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CNN's Jim Sciutto on How Trump Takes on the World
CNN's chief national security correspondent and anchor of discusses the Nixon-era origins of the so-called "Madman Theory" and how it applies to President Trump’s unpredictable approach to foreign policy. He reveals that the...
45 min
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Ambassador Susan Rice
is currently at the top of Joe Biden's shortlist for Vice-President. It's not hard to see why. She established a good working relationship with Biden during the Obama Administration, and she has been at the table during the most...
44 min
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Paul Begala on How to "Fire" Donald Trump
Paul Begala, former strategist to Bill Clinton and CNN political commentator offers a game-plan for how Democrats can beat President Trump in November. He starts be admitting what he didn’t understand about Donald Trump in 2016 and...
45 min
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The Today Show's Al Roker
returns to the show to tell stories from and his early days in local television including how he annoyed his way into his first gig as a TV weatherman, some of his worst on-air flubs, and what he loved about doing those quirky,...
34 min
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Marketing Master Guy Kawasaki
Silicon Valley icon recalls his childhood in Hawaii, his start in the jewelry business, and how his skills at jewelry sales came in surprisingly handy when he became chief evangelist for Macintosh. He talks about personally witnessing the genius and...
40 min
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Oliver Stone on Writing, Directing, and Survivi...
Oscar-winning writer/director (Platoon, Wall Street, JFK) discusses why he dropped out of Yale and volunteered to go fight in Vietnam, some of the horrors that he witnessed during that war, and how the black soldiers in his platoon opened...
44 min
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Jennifer Palmieri Declares Independence from a ...
Jennifer Palmieri served as the former Communications Director to President Barack Obama and then for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign. She spent most of her career advocating for herself and for other women from "within the...
47 min
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Max Brooks Talks Sasquatches and Survival
Max Brooks (World War Z) discusses what a fictional Sasquatch massacre can teach us about the perils of eco-utopianism, what happens when man encroaches on nature, and those people who still refuse to wear a mask in public. Max says people in...
41 min
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Ambassador John Bolton
Ambassador John Bolton reveals what he witnessed during his 17 tumultuous months as National Security Advisor to President Donald Trump. Bolton shares how he reacted to Trump’s eagerness to meet with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, why the...
23 min
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Mythbusters' Adam Savage
(, ) talks about building a working prototype of Marvel’s Iron Man suit for his series and what it was like to fly around with tiny jet engines strapped to his forearms. He discusses how Oscar-winning director Peter Jackson helped him...
51 min
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Andrew Zimmern on Expanding Your Palate
host of on talks about how he became the man who’ll eat anything and some of the weirdest foods he’s tried over the years. He reveals some of the strangest delicacies that turned out to be surprisingly good and whether he’s...
45 min
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Remembering Carl Reiner
This Monday June 29, the world lost comedy legend Carl Reiner at the ripe old age 98. In his honor, we’re sharing a conversation that I had with Carl in 2017. He talks about working with Sid Caesar on Your Show of Shows, making The 2000...
41 min
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Sir Michael Caine
Sir Michael Caine has starred in over 100 movies and won two Academy Awards, and today he shares stories and advice from his remarkable career. He reveals why he never believed in taking advice from older movie stars, why he never wanted to...
32 min
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Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates
Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates says that America overuses (and often MIS-uses) the military to achieve its strategic goals while neglecting other (and often better) non-military options. He discusses how Congress and the last 5...
45 min
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Director Peter Medak on the Mad Genius of Peter...
Director Peter Medak looks back on his filming of the famously disastrous Peter Sellers movie Ghost in the Noonday Sun for his new documentary . He discusses emotional toll that working with Peter Sellers took on him, why he thought that he...
33 min
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Father's Day Special with Mike Birbiglia
Comedian discusses his new book including the seven reasons he originally never wanted to be a parent, the lies couples tell themselves when they decide to have a baby, and the scourge of parents who try to push babies on other people....
47 min
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Malcolm Gladwell Explores the Overlooked and Mi...
(, , podcast) talks about growing up in a Mennonite community in Ontario, Canada, his brief flirtation with conservatism in his youth, and how his father’s boundless curiosity inspired him to always ask questions. We delve...
42 min
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Fox News Sunday Host Chris Wallace
host talks his five decades in broadcast journalism, following in the very big footsteps of his father Mike Wallace, what he’s learned from interviewing 7 different U.S. Presidents, and what it was like to date Walter Cronkite's daughter...
35 min