181 - Dan Pardi (Sleep/Health Researcher)

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Chris Ryan

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🗓️ 9 May 2016

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

Dan Pardi is one of the most knowledgeable people I know in the
fields of sleep and health research. He does research with the
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Department at Stanford, and the
Departments of Neurology and Endocrinology at Leiden University in
the Netherlands. His current research looks at how sleep influences
decision making (publications). Dan also works with Naval Special
Warfare to help the most elite fighters in the world maintain
vigilant performance in both combat and non-combat conditions.

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0:00.0	Radio Manu, Papa Tzango.
0:02.0	Yes, Chuck Ligley.
0:27.7	Anybody out there?
0:29.8	Are you there? This is me, Dr. Christopher Ryan coming to you from Ahamak and
0:37.0	Barcelona, Spain. By the time you hear this, assuming you hear it right away, as
0:42.9	soon as it's posted, I will be in Miami, Florida. Sunny Miami, Florida, soon to be
0:50.7	underwater. I'll be there interviewing a lovely woman by the name of Riva Winter.
0:59.3	Who is an expert on coral and trying to recover some of the coral that is
1:08.0	even now being bleached into oblivion by our wonderful civilizational processes.
1:14.6	And so I'll be down there with her and then maybe I will also be interviewing
1:20.9	some folks who work with dolphins doing therapy with autistic people and
1:28.8	PTSD. I'm not sure I'm still trying to align that one up. And then I'm going to
1:33.6	visit my uncle who is an amazing guy. Some of you may have seen him naked in fact.
1:41.4	Well, you didn't see him. He was naked when you saw him, but you wouldn't...
1:46.7	Well, here's the story. When Sexadon came out, my uncle who had been...
1:55.6	It's a long story, which I'll tell you when and if I do a podcast with him.
1:59.9	But basically, he's one of my favorite relatives. He's an amazing guy, very charismatic
2:05.9	and funny and friendly. And he has a way with women unlike anyone I've ever seen.
2:12.5	And, you know, as with all true genius, his technique is a complete lack of technique.
2:19.5	He's just unguarded and friendly and he just inspires confidence.
2:26.3	And even in his 70s, I think he's late 60s, early 70s, you know, I go out with him and
2:33.3	it's like going out with a fashion model. Women just sort of come around.
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