The Ripple Effect Podcast

Adam Kokesh & Hunter Maats return to The Ripple Effect Round-Table for Part 2 of our stimulating, thought provoking conversation & debate. Adam Kokesh is an Iraq veteran, activist, author of FREEDOM & Libertarian, ADAM KOKESH. Hunter Maats is the host of the Mixed Mental Arts podcast and author of The Straight A Conspiracy: Your Secret Guide to Ending the Stress of School and Totally Ruling the World.

Chris Bell is a director, producer & writer, known for his documentaries Bigger, Stronger, Faster about steroids, Trophy Kids about parents who push their children excessively in sports, and Prescription Thugs about the opium epidemic, big pharma and addiction.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.

Vinnie Caggiano is a composer, musician who has played all over the country, music teacher, music theorist, creator of the popular YouTube channel YouTube.com/VinCognito, which has playlists of his solo performances, performances with his bands; The Blue Kind & The Venice Roasters, he also has a playlist analyzing Beatles music from a Music Theory perspective and many Music Theory videos.James Corbett is a researcher, filmmaker, writer, historian, podcaster & creator of The Corbett Report, which is an independent, listener-supported alternative news source.James returns to The Ripple Effect Podcast as a co-host, to help me interview Vinnie, as we discuss everything from Music Theory to Conspiracy Theories.

Sam Tripoli is a comedian, writer, producer & podcaster. Sam hosts two podcasts, Punch-Drunk, which is a sports podcast he hosts with fellow comedians Ari Shaffir & Jayson Thibault, and Tin Foil Hat podcast which is Sam's conspiracy podcast. Also check out Sam's new album,The Diabolical available on iTunes.

The 1st ever Ripple Effect Round-Table Debate with Iraq veteran, activist, author of FREEDOM & Libertarian, ADAM KOKESH vs host of the Mixed Mental Arts podcast and author of The Straight A Conspiracy: Your Secret Guide to Ending the Stress of School and Totally Ruling the World, HUNTER MAATS.

Hunter Maats is the author of The Straight-A Conspiracy: Your Secret Guide to Ending the Stress of School and Totally Ruling the World, host of the Mixed Mental Arts podcast (previously called The Bryan Callen Show) & has appeared on many shows like the Today Show, the Joe Rogan Experience, Tangentially Speaking, Bulletproof Radio & many others.Hunter & I met up in Dartmouth MA for an amazing 3 hour conversation about everything from our childhoods to cultural & social issues & solutions.

Fights With Friends is The Ripple Effect Podcast version of a Fight Companion podcast, made popular by Joe Rogan. Which is when we stream LIVE during MMA events, hang out, drink, laugh and talk about everything and anything. On this episode we stream LIVE for UFC 214 on Pay-Per-View. Make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel or follow us on Facebook & Twitter to find out when we will be streaming live for our next Fights With Friends.

Russ Baker is an award-winning investigative journalist, author of best selling book 'FAMILY OF SECRETS: The Bush Dynasty, America's Invisible Government & the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years.' He has written for the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, the Nation, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Village Voice and Esquire. He has also served as a contributing editor to the Columbia Journalism Review. Baker received a 2005 Deadline Club award for his exclusive reporting on George W. Bush’s military record. He is the founder of the nonpartisan, nonprofit investigative news site WhoWhatWhy.org.

Dr.Dom D'Agostino is a professor in the Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology at the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, is a Senior Research Scientist at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, has deadlifted 500lbs after 7 days of fasting and is one of the most knowledgeable & popular Ketogenic diet experts in the world.

Adam Kokesh is an Iraq war veteran who became a political activist. Adam came to disparage war and advocated for nonviolent resistance to power. Adam identifies as a libertarian & wrote a book called FREEDOM! which outlines his beliefs and philosophy.Adam has been interviewed on many shows including the Joe Rogan Experience, The Corbett Report, RT America, and Infowars & many others. He has also hosted his own show called Adam Vs The Man and has a very popular YouTube channel which includes videos of his many protests & civil disobedience which has led to his many arrests.Adam has also been a featured speaker at many events all over the world and featured in many documentaries like The Road to Fallujah, For Liberty: How the Ron Paul Revolution Watered the Withered Tree of Liberty, Owned & Operated, Derrick J's Victimless Crime Spree, ShadowRing, and Gray State: The Rise.