Ep. 827: Chris Ryan Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 730 Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2019
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Chris Ryan, the New York Times bestselling coauthor of Sex at Dawn explores the ways in which “progress” has perverted the way we live: how we eat, learn, feel, mate, parent, communicate, work, and die. His work has been translated into over twenty languages, and appeared just about everywhere, including Netflix, HBO, MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, NPR, The New York Times, The Times of London, Playboy, The Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, National Geographic, and The Atlantic.
The topic is his book Civilized to Death: The Price of Progress.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Explores the ways in which “progress” has perverted the way we live—how we eat, learn, feel, mate, parent, communicate, work, and die
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I’m MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I’m proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.
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| 0:00.0 | This is trend following radio where great thinking comes alive. |
| 0:10.9 | Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings. |
| 0:21.2 | I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.4 | That's my passion. |
| 0:33.3 | A repeat appearance today by my guest, Christopher Ryan. |
| 0:38.9 | He came on a few years back to discuss his bestseller Sex at Dawn. |
| 0:45.0 | Today we discuss civilized to death, the price of progress. |
| 0:51.5 | Inspired by his original research into sex at the prehistoric age, |
| 0:58.0 | Chris now looks at us in the modern age. |
| 1:01.6 | All of our civilization, we're so civilized. |
| 1:05.4 | We've got everything figured out. |
| 1:07.9 | Or do we? |
| 1:10.3 | Or did perhaps prehistoric us, us a long time ago, did we have things |
| 1:18.6 | figured out a little bit better back then? And has the description of our ancestors been put |
| 1:26.5 | into a negative light to make us feel good about where we supposedly are today in our, quote, advanced civilization. |
| 1:35.3 | My first interview with Chris is one of those episodes on this podcast that I can't forget because he addressed things. |
| 1:44.2 | He brought up issues |
| 1:45.3 | that were just memorable. |
| 1:48.0 | It just sticks with me. |
| 1:50.3 | So jumping right back into that headspace |
| 1:53.1 | with a very interesting guest, |
| 1:56.9 | a repeat performance, |
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