The Ripple Effect Podcast #139 (Chris Bell | Kratom, Keto & Creating Documentaries)
The Ripple Effect Podcast
Ricky Varandas
4.6 • 603 Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2017
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
My good friend & kratom advocate, Lizzy Begley co-hosts with me as we discuss Chris Bell's documentaries, addiction, depression, & his new projects helping spread the potential benefits of Kratom & the ketogenic diet.
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| 0:00.0 | believe in the ripple fact |
| 0:25.6 | The ripple fact I'm a host. Like always, Ricardo Vrendes. And today we have a great show. I don't know why I say my name like that I just think |
| 1:12.5 | it sounds better when I say the Portuguese way but I'm also known as Ricky Verandis and today |
| 1:19.8 | we have Chris Bell amazing amazing show I I love when I have the ability or the opportunity |
| 1:30.7 | to be a part of sharing such important information. |
| 1:32.2 | And we definitely do that today. |
| 1:44.1 | The co-host, my good friend, sister-in-law, Liz, who is directly also involved in some of the topics we talk about today. And Chris Bell is a filmmaker. I'm sure you probably have seen some of the topics we we talk about today and chris bell is a filmmaker i'm sure |
| 1:46.7 | you probably have seen some of his documentaries on netflix or amazon or seen him on the joe rogen |
| 1:52.1 | podcast or uh lance armstrong's podcast he's been interviewed everywhere so really interesting guy |
| 1:59.5 | always picks really important topics for his |
| 2:03.7 | documentaries. His first one, bigger, faster, stronger is about steroids. His second one, |
| 2:10.3 | I might get them out of order, but I believe trophy kids was the second one and it's about the |
| 2:14.3 | pressure that parents put on their children when they want them to succeed |
| 2:18.1 | in sports. |
| 2:18.9 | Then you have prescription thugs, which is obviously about big pharma and addiction, which is super |
| 2:24.5 | important documentary. |
| 2:25.5 | I mean, one of the few documentaries that really had me, uh, you know, my eyes watering at certain |
| 2:30.9 | parts just because he really shows you how it personally affects people and family |
| 2:37.4 | and friends and and uh and himself and then he has new documentaries that he's working on one on |
| 2:43.7 | this plant called cratum and then this other one that he's just in the process of, I guess, getting things together for about |
| 2:52.6 | a ketogenic diet. But we talk a lot about Kratum on this podcast. Last time he was on the |
| 2:58.1 | Joe O'Rogan podcast, he talked about it too because the DEA was trying to make it illegal. |
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