Jun 2021

Tara Stoinski

Tara Stoinski is a primatologist and President, CEO and Chief Scientific Officer for the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund. Tara joins the Armchair Expert to discuss studying gorillas for more than two decades, her desire work with animals from a young age, and how ecotourism in Africa is ... Show More

1h 36m

Jun 2021

Chris Bosh

Chris Bosh is an eleven-time All-Star, two-time NBA champion, and an Olympic gold medalist. Chris joins the Armchair Expert to talk about growing up in Dallas, what it was like being 6’ 11” in high school, and going to Robotics Club before basketball practice. Chris and Dax discu ... Show More

1h 38m

Jun 2021

Bubba Wallace

Bubba Wallace is a professional stock car racing driver in the NASCAR Cup Series. Bubba joins the Armchair Expert to talk about growing up in North Carolina, learning to race in his Dad’s go-kart, and how he was more interested in playing basketball as a kid. Dax and Bubba discus ... Show More

1h 19m

Jun 2021

Barry Meier

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 ... Show More

1h 11m

Aug 2019

Contras, Cocaine and the CIA: The True Story of Barry Seal

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 outsi ... Show More

58m 32s

May 2020

Barry Seal Part 2: Into the Lion's Den

Tom Cruise played him in a Hollywood blockbuster movie. Barry Seal’s name has passed into legend. In this episode of Real Narcos, Barry Seal flips. The world’s most illusive smuggler becomes the DEA’s most highly prized informant. With a mission brief from his handlers, Seal emba ... Show More

51m 13s

Dec 2021

NEJM Interview: Dr. Colleen Barry on using public policy to improve population health.

Colleen Barry is dean of the Cornell University Brooks School of Public Policy. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. C.L. Barry and B. Saloner. Using Policy Tools to Improve Population Health — Combating the U.S. Opioid Crisis. N En ... Show More

11m 41s

Nov 2023

4. Cocaine

Mattes connects with world powerboat champion and cartel drug smuggler Jorge Morales. Morales says he knows all the people Mattes has been investigating because he has been running drugs for them and paying them to squash his indictment.Lawyers, Guns, and Money is available early ... Show More

44m 21s

Mar 2024

Long Reads: Big Pharma's Toxic Record w/ Nick Dearden

From the HIV/AIDS crisis, to the opioid epidemic, to the COVID-19 pandemic, pharmaceutical corporations have been accused of profiteering at the expense of countless lives. Nick Dearden, director of Global Justice Now and the author of a new book called Pharmanomics: How Big Phar ... Show More

53m 19s

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

Aug 2022

John Barry on the Great Influenza and the Value of Truth

Ryan talks to John M. Barry about the similarities between the public reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic and the 1918 pandemic, the importance of telling the truth, serving the common good, and more.John M. Barry, the prize-winning and New York Times best-selling author whose book ... Show More

1h 9m