391: Chuck Klausmeyer & NEW STORY—Credit Where It's Due
Here's a brand new story about the performance of a lifetime followed by another edition of Two Dudes Talking, a.k.a. Mike and Chuck break it down with some laughs.
25 Jun 20241h
390: Steven Pressfield—Pulling the Pin
Steven Pressfield, the two-time New York Times Bestselling author of The War of Art, Gates of Fire, and The Legend of Bagger Vance, discusses how to listen to your muse while ignoring your Resistance, why he carries a Smith Corona typewriter but doesn't actually use it, and what he learned from driving a truck, picking fruit, and writing advertising copy. His newest book is a memoir titled Govt Cheese.
18 Jun 20241h 18min
389: Gavin de Becker—You Can Learn a Lot in a Smoke-Filled Airplane
The nation's leading expert on de-escalation and public figure protection unpacks the importance of intuition, the difference between true fear and unwarranted fear, and the epidemic of sudden, unexpected deaths among seemingly healthy people beginning in 2021.
11 Jun 20241h 32min
388: Riley Gaines—Swimming Against the Current
The 12-time NCAA All-American, 5-time SEC Champion, and 2-time Olympic qualifier who went from being one of the fastest collegiate swimmers in the world to a controversial women's rights advocate talks about what it takes to train in a pool six hours per day, why she's not going to be training to be an endodontist, and recounts the harrowing experience of being held captive on the campus of San Francisco State University. Her new book is Swimming Against the Current: Fighting For Common Sense in a World That's Lost Its Mind.
4 Jun 20241h 24min
387: Firefighters Candice McDonald and Jonathan Dayton—Make Me a Firefighter
In a double-header of do-goodery, TWIHI welcomes not one but two very distinguished volunteer firefighters to discuss why they have been called to such a dangerous philanthropic endeavor, what it takes to become a volunteer firefighter, and how Americans of any age can get involved at MakeMeAFirefighter.org
28 Mai 20241h
386: Chuck Klausmeyer & NEW STORY—Here Be Dragons
First, a brand-new mystery about brave men in a distant sea, then Mike and Chuck take a deeper dive.
21 Mai 20241h 7min
385: Karey Kirkpatrick—I Don't Want to Manage People Like Me
The film writer, director, and producer known for Over the Hedge, Chicken Run, and James and the Giant Peach talks about his work ethic and creative process, why animated films are modern-day Aesop's fables, and that time he almost got to run DreamWorks.
14 Mai 20241h 28min
384: Matt Hagan and Chloe Hudson—Freedom Food and Funny Cars
Matt is a four-time NHRA Funny Car world champion and first-generation cattle and CBD farmer. Chloe is a mikeroweWORKS work ethic scholarship recipient, an AWS Certified Weld Inspector, and a social media influencer. She also runs social media for Matt Hagan and Tony Stewart. This conversation does not stay in its lane as it veers from the high stakes involved in going 330 mph in four seconds to the tasty steaks that the Hagan Cattle Company produces in Virginia to the political stakes of not keeping your food supply chain in America.
7 Mai 20241h 2min
