Fojol Brothers

Fojol Brothers

Author: Smart People Industries December 10, 2011 Duration: 33:54
Remember when you would be starving, walking around a large city looking for a quick bite and the only thing you could find was hot dogs from street carts that tasted like moist paper towel rolls? Well finally, those days are gone.  There has been an epidemic within the past year or two in food... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Every other week, Chris Stemp and Jon Rojas sit down with a guest who has fundamentally shaped their field, driven not by a rigid agenda but by genuine curiosity. The Smart People Podcast from Smart People Industries is built on the idea that the most compelling insights emerge from relaxed, authentic dialogue. You’ll hear authors, innovators, and cultural leaders-each with significant recognition in areas like business, education, or society-speak in a way that often feels more like a fascinating dinner conversation than a formal interview. Chris’s thoughtful questioning, paired with Jon’s producer perspective, gently guides discussions into unexpected territories, revealing the personal journeys and nuanced ideas behind public achievements. This podcast thrives in the space between expertise and accessibility, making complex topics relatable without sacrificing depth. It’s for anyone who believes that learning is a continuous, engaging process, and that the best lessons come from listening to people who think differently. Tune in biweekly for conversations that are as intellectually substantial as they are genuinely enjoyable, reminding us that smart discourse can be both enlightening and warmly human.
Author: Language: English Episodes: 500

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Ann Louise Gittleman [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 44:14
Ann Louise Gittleman – “The First Lady of Nutrition” Consider your typical day. You cook in your microwave, you call people on your cell phone, you work all day on your laptop – wirelessly connected to the world of the i…
Reggie Freeman [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 46:40
Reggie Freeman – Fire Chief, Emergency Management, CEO & President of The Freeman Group, LLC Catastrophe is all around us. Massive snow storms, excessive heat waves, floods, power outages and hurricanes are all part of l…
Arun Chaudhary [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 35:50
Arun Chaudhary – First ever official White House Videographer This podcast is recorded exactly 6 miles from the White House. My day job office building is literally a pitching wedge away from the front steps of the Presi…
Jonathan Haidt [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 32:53
Jonathan Haidt – morality, emotion and politics: “Morality binds people together into teams that seek victory, not truth, and it closes hearts and minds.” Taking the moral high ground is considered noble. Being morally s…
Shannon Kaiser [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 33:50
Shannon Kaiser – travel writer, inspirational author, motivational speaker Sometimes here at SPP, we judge a book by it’s cover…literally. We will see the most recent NY Times Bestseller and we fawn over the author. The…
Brian Wansink [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 44:27
Dr. Brian Wansink – Director of the Cornell Food & Brand Lab, marketing guru, author and MUCH more. The Boston Medical Center indicates that approximately 45 million Americans diet each year and spend $33 billion on weig…
Jill Badonsky [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 53:36
Creativity is like a fire hose. Once you turn it on it’s hard to control, it spews out haphazardly, and if you don’t have a firm grasp on it, it can whip you in just about any direction. The power that it yields is immen…
Phil Edwards [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 40:09
For most of us, our high school textbooks were nothing more than a paper weight. Maybe if we would have actually opened them, we wouldn’t need to rely on talking to smart people, but that’s neither here nor there. The ma…
Jesse Prinz [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 45:34
This week we cover some seriously heavy topics. What plays a bigger role in who you are, your experiences or your genetics? Are emotions strictly a biological response to an event, easily defined by the chemical that the…
David DiSalvo [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 49:15
It’s not the first time we’ve talked about it, and it won’t be the last. The human brain is plain ol’ amazing. For example, have you ever thought about where a memory is stored? Give it a real long ponder. Somewhere in y…