Barry Meier (Spooked, Pain Killer) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and a former New York Times journalist. Barry joins the Armchair Expert to discuss investigating the opioid crisis, how Big Pharma played a role in perpetuating the problem, and the depths in which people will go to make money on people's addictions. Barry and Dax talk about the modern-da ... Show More
Mar 25
David Sussillo (on foster care and neuroscience)
David Sussillo (Emergence: A Memoir of Boyhood, Computation, and the Mysteries of Mind) is a technologist, neuroscientist, and professor at Stanford University. David joins the Armchair Expert to discuss growing up with two parents that were addicts, experiencing extreme poverty ... Show More
1h 52m
Aug 2019
Contras, Cocaine and the CIA: The True Story of Barry Seal
<p>Across the course of his strange and checkered career, pilot and smuggler Barry Seal was called many things: An informant, a criminal, an asset for America's alphabet soup of intelligence agencies and more. He met an ignoble end in February of 1986, when he was fatally shot ou ... Show More
58m 32s
Mar 2020
Revealing Barry Sonnenfeld
<p>Barry Sonnenfeld was among Hollywood's most in-demand cinematographers (<em>Big</em>, <em>When Harry Met Sally</em>, <em>Misery</em>) when he decided to make the switch to directing in 1991. The producers were nervous, but the proof was in the pudding: Sonnenfeld's directorial ... Show More
39m 11s
Nov 2021
Indictment of Steele dossier source humiliates its media, intel cheerleaders
Igor Danchenko, the main source for the Clinton-campaign funded Steele dossier, has been indicted for lying to the FBI. The indictment's revelations are humiliating for the influential political, media, and intelligence voices who promoted Steele as credible, and raise new questi ... Show More
42m 18s