The Ripple Effect Podcast

Dr.Dom D'Agostino is a professor in the Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology at the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, is a Senior Research Scientist at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, has deadlifted 500lbs after 7 days of fasting and is one of the most knowledgeable & popular Ketogenic diet experts in the world.

Adam Kokesh is an Iraq war veteran who became a political activist. Adam came to disparage war and advocated for nonviolent resistance to power. Adam identifies as a libertarian & wrote a book called FREEDOM! which outlines his beliefs and philosophy. Adam has been interviewed on many shows including the Joe Rogan Experience, The Corbett Report, RT America, and Infowars & many others. He has also hosted his own show called Adam Vs The Man and has a very popular YouTube channel which includes videos of his many protests & civil disobedience which has led to his many arrests. Adam has also been a featured speaker at many events all over the world and featured in many documentaries like The Road to Fallujah, For Liberty: How the Ron Paul Revolution Watered the Withered Tree of Liberty, Owned & Operated, Derrick J's Victimless Crime Spree, ShadowRing, and Gray State: The Rise.

Alan Bell is former organized crime prosecutor who almost died from an environmentally linked illness. He now devotes his life to raising awareness about environmental injury through public speaking and his book, POISONED: How a Crime-Busting Prosecutor Turned His Medical Mystery into a Crusade for Environmental Victims.

John Kiriakou was CIA analyst and case officer, senior investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, counter-terrorism consultant for ABC News, CIA anti-torture whistleblower, ReaderSupportedNews.org columnist and best-selling author whose work includes The Reluctant Spy: My Secret Life in the CIA's War on Terror, The Convenient Terrorist: Abu Zubaydah and the Weird Wonderland of America's Secret Wars, and Doing Time Like a Spy: How the CIA Taught Me to Survive and Thrive in Prison.

Peter Van Buren is a whistleblower, former United States Foreign Service employee, spent 24 years with the U.S. Department of State, author of Ghosts of Tom Joad: A Story of the 99 Percent, We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People, and his most recent book Hooper’s War, an anti-war novel. Since leaving the government, Van Buren’s commentary has been featured in The New York Times, Reuters, Salon, NPR, Al Jazeera, Huffington Post, The Nation, TomDispatch, Antiwar.com, American Conservative Magazine, Mother Jones, MichaelMoore.com, Le Monde, Asia Times, The Guardian, Daily Kos, XpatNation, Middle East Online, Guernica and others. He has appeared on the BBC World Service, NPR’s All Things Considered and Fresh Air, CurrentTV, HuffPo Live, RT, ITV, Britain’s Channel 4 Viewpoint, CCTV, Voice of America, and more.

Renato Lindmets is professional basketball player & old friend. We catch up, share stories, talk about his experiences playing basketball in Europe, current events & much much more.

Fights With Friends is The Ripple Effect Podcast version of a Fight Companion podcast, made popular by Joe Rogan. Which is when we stream LIVE during MMA events, hang out, drink, laugh and talk about everything and anything. On this episode we stream LIVE for UFC 211 on Pay-Per-View. Make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel or follow us on Facebook & Twitter to find out when we will be streaming live for our next Fights With Friends.

Andrea Lowell is a model, actress, personal fitness trainer & certified raw nutritionist. She co-hosts the Mr. Skin podcast and hosted the Playboy morning show and a variety of other Playboy TV programs. She also appeared on VH1's The Surreal Life, and many podcasts including Joey CoCo Diaz's podcast, The Church Of Whats Happening Now. We talk about nutrition, alternative medicine, the pharmaceutical industry, Monsanto, genetically modified foods, conspiracy theories, spirituality & much more.

Massimo Mazzucco is an Italian historian & filmmaker who's work includes two of my favorite & important documentaries, CANCER: The Forbidden Cures and 9/11 A New Pearl Harbor, which is a 5 hour film dissecting the official 9/11 story and showing the historical parallels between the events on September 11 and Pearl Harbor. His other work includes The New American Century, The Second Dallas, UFOs And The Military Elite, The History of Marijuana and his new documentary film AMERICAN MOON, which questions the Apollo moon missions & authenticity of NASA's photos & videos of the moon landing.

CJ Hunt is an author, motocross racer, journalist, researcher & filmmaker of the worlds 1st paleo documentary, The Perfect Human Diet. In the film, he travels to world to talk to the brightest historians, anthropologists, nutritionists, dietitians and other authors & researchers, in search for the perfect human diet. With so many conflicting opinions, research & corporate interests influencing science, research and recommended diets, a film like this is necessary to finally figure out what humans should be eating & what is causing the obesity health crisis & other increasing health issues.

Fights With Friends is The Ripple Effect Podcast version of The Fight Companion podcast, made popular by Joe Rogan. Which is when we stream LIVE during MMA events, hang out, drink, laugh and talk about everything and anything. On this episode we stream LIVE for UFC 210 on Pay-Per-View. Make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel or follow us on Facebook or Twitter to find out when we will be streaming live for our next Fights With Friends.

Kent Masterson Brown is an attorney, historian, author of books like Cushing of Gettysburg: The Story of a Union Artillery Commander, editor of the national magazine 'The Civil War' & founder of the documentary film production company Witnessing History, who's work includes Daniel Boone - The Revolutionary Soldier and Bourbon & Kentucky: A History Distilled, the film that brings together two of my favorite things, which is what we talk about on this episode, whiskey & history.

Christopher Ryan is the author of the New York Times bestseller SEX AT DAWN, hes a researcher, lecturer and host of the Tangentially Speaking podcast. Christopher Ryan & his work have been featured just about everywhere, including: The Joe Rogan Experience, MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, NPR, The New York Times, The Times of London, Playboy, The Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, The Atlantic, Outside, El Pais, La Vanguardia, Salon, Seed, and Big Think. He has been a featured speaker at TED, The Festival of Dangerous Ideas at the Sydney Opera House, the Einstein Forum in Pottsdam Germany, to name only a few. Chris has also consulted at various hospitals in Spain, provided expert testimony in a Canadian constitutional hearing, and appeared in well over a dozen documentary films.

Hunter Maats is educator, co-author of The Straight-A Conspiracy: Your Secret Guide to Ending the Stress of School and Totally Ruling the World, and co-host of the Mixed Mental Arts podcast (previously called The Bryan Callen Show). Hunter was born in Saudi Arabia and has traveled all over the world, soaking in knowledge, culture and prospective. Hunter has been on many shows like the Today Show, the Joe Rogan Experience, Tangentially Speaking, Bulletproof Radio & many others.

Fights With Friends is The Ripple Effect Podcast version of The Fight Companion podcast, made popular by Joe Rogan. Which is when we stream LIVE during MMA events, hang out, drink, laugh and talk about everything and anything. On this episode we streamed live for UFC Fight Night 106 on FS1. Make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel or follow us on Facebook or Twitter to find out when we will be streaming live for our next Fights With Friends.