Ask Daily Stoic: Ryan and Robert Greene Talk Plagues, Politics, and Polarization
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🗓️ 6 May 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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In today’s episode, Ryan talks with his mentor, author and strategist Robert Greene. They discuss historical links to today’s pandemic, the 2020 US presidential election, Robert’s thoughts on making alive time out of the state-imposed quarantines, and more.
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| 0:40.7 | Every week on Red Handed, we get stuck into the most talked about cases. |
| 0:44.3 | From the Idaho student killings, the Delphi murders and our recent rundown of the Murdoch saga. |
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