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Crazy Money with Paul Ollinger

Dec 22, 2020

The New Yorker called Princeton and University of Melbourne bio-ethicist, Peter Singer “the world’s most influential living philosopher." Time included him on its annual list of the world’s 100 most influential people.
 
Peter has a question for you: Did you know that for the cost of a new television ($600), you...


Dec 15, 2020

Tony Hsieh was the former CEO of Zappos, which Amazon bought for $1.2 billion. With a net worth reported at over $700 million, Tony appeared to have everything anyone could want. However, Tony suffered from severe addiction that pulled him down into a spiral of substance abuse, bizarre behavior, and his eventual death....


Dec 8, 2020

John Helliwell is Professor emeritus of Economics at University of British Columbia and editor of The World Happiness Report, a landmark survey of the state of global happiness that ranks 156 countries by how happy their citizens perceive themselves to be. The report has been published since 2012 when the United Nations...


Dec 1, 2020

Kay Madati was born to a single, Tanzanian mother who died when he was 12. Kay and his brother were then adopted by a very affluent caucasian couple who lived on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. His new family situation was an uncanny mirror to the plot of Diff’rent Strokes, one of the most popular American TV shows...


Nov 24, 2020

In this special Thanksgiving encore episode, I talk to A.J. Jacobs about his latest book, Thanks a Thousand: A Gratitude Journey, in which he expresses gratitude to a thousand people who are involved with getting him his morning coffee.

A.J. Jacobs is an author, journalist, lecturer and human guinea pig. He has...