2023-03-23 - Ask Us Anything! Second Edition - Five Minutes with Robert & Amy Nasir - Episode 254
Five Minutes With Robert Nasir
Release Date: 03/23/2025
2025-08-10 - How To Make A Zillion Dollars! - Five Minutes with Robert & Amy Nasir - Ep. 273
Five Minutes With Robert Nasir
In which Robert & Amy share The Secret Of Making Money From Nothing, the Roadmap To Financial Mastery, The Recipe For Yuge Wealth! Capitalism and the source of wealth: YES, you DID build that. The Financial Independence Secret your philosophy professors don't want you to know! Also, art, chocolate, guitars, and actual happiness.
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2025-08-27 - Altruism: That Was Then, This Is Now! - Five Minutes with Robert & Amy Nasir - Ep. 272
Five Minutes With Robert Nasir
In which we find ourselves thinking, "if I only knew then, what I know now!" On the curse of Sir Walter Raleigh and other things about which we know better. How to learn from other folks' mistakes! More on altruism, as Amy contemplates writing a book on Objectivism & Virtues for a general audience. Also, cigarette smoking in hospitals and on airplanes (and anywhere else), telephones without screens, payphones and dimes, and The Yellow Pages. Also, how to think about events when everyone is right (in their own epistemological & ethical context of knowledge) but disagree completely with...
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2025-07-27 - Interview with Ben Bayer: Against Altruism! - Five Minutes with Robert & Amy Nasir - #271
Five Minutes With Robert Nasir
Ben Bayer joins Five Minutes with Robert & Amy Nasir LIVE, to discuss his 2025 OCON talk, "America Should Declare Independence from Altruism". We'll ask Dr. Bayer about the State Of The (Moral/Philosophical) Union, how the response to the 2000 pandemic made starkly clear the common moral framework of both America's "left" and "right", why, in Ben's words, "as the right becomes so similar to the left, it is so hostile" to it. We'll also discuss the decline of "Effective Altruism" and "Longtermism", and why Ayn Rand's morality of self-interest is essential in resolving these failures,...
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2025-07-20 - We're Halfway There; 2025's Top 10 Lessons - Five Minutes with Robert & Amy Nasir - Ep 270
Five Minutes With Robert Nasir
We're Halfway There ... Robert's Top 10 Lessons from 2025 (So Far)! Robert & Amy discuss Lessons From Boston, OCON, GLO, Rock & Roll, Dance, and The News Of The Day. Also, Carlos Santana, chess, walking on the moon, and more ice cream, courtesy Ronald Reagan!
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2025-07-13 - Amy Speaks! OCON Part II & MORE! - Five Minutes with Robert & Amy Nasir - Ep. 269
Five Minutes With Robert Nasir
In which Amy and Robert talk a bit more about OCON 2025, Boston, Salem, and The Real World Out There. Also, To Observe, and Not Absorb," and the good and bad news of the day. Spreading Taylor Swift's wealth, could/would The Night Of Terror happen in 2025, and "why do so many people think Trump is good?" Happy Birthday to Indiana Jones & Jean Luc Picard, and how to flourish (well, besides the obvious)!
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2025-07-06 - Live From OCON 2025! - Five Minutes with Robert & Amy Nasir - Ep. 268
Five Minutes With Robert Nasir
Robert & Amy check in from Boston, Massachusetts, and report on the annual Objectivist conference held by The Ayn Rand Institute! Favorite talks, events, people. Also: Happy Kissing Day!
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2025-06-29 - Be Curious! - Five Minutes with Robert & Amy Nasir - Ep. 267
Five Minutes With Robert Nasir
In which Robert & Amy give you One Simple Trick to be Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise! Also, your questions (and answers) ... we give a posthumous Thank You! to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ... and you help us with our pre-travel equipment check!
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2025-06-22 - 1-2-3, What Are We Fighting For? - Five Minutes with Robert & Amy Nasir - Ep. 266
Five Minutes With Robert Nasir
In which Robert & Amy look at the bright side (and the other side). National Kissing Day, B Kinder Day, and Positive Media Day versus today's headlines! The Roots Of War and the impotence of evil. Heroes, Villains, and everyone else. How to win ... just about always. Also, the report from Robert's Ninth Annual Rock & Roll Picnic, Amy's Flamenco Exhibition, and the countdown to OCON!
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2025-06-15 - To All Rational Minds (An Explanation) - Five Minutes with Robert & Amy Nasir - Ep. 265
Five Minutes With Robert Nasir
In which Trebor & Yma owe you an explanation ... and we give it to you! What we each owe to a rational listener. "No Kings" ... they're singing songs, and they're carrying signs. Also, Delaware declares independence, the Battle of Petersburg begins, we wish a Happy Birthday to Julie Hagerty and (posthumously) Harry Nilsson, we review The Objectivist Ethics, and wish you `a Happy Father's Day!
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2025-06-08 - In the Name of Love! - Five Minutes with Robert and Amy Nasir - Episode 264
Five Minutes With Robert Nasir
In which Robert & Amy ask ... who do you love? What do you love? Pride ... in the name of love. The art & virtue of selfishness ... how to be a more devoted fan, cheerleader, champion of You. Moon, spoon, June ... the down & dirty nitty-gritty of Life On Earth. Also, our (new!) Weekly News Recap, 1984 & Ghostbusters (WNHTTAOISDW), Crick & DNA, Tyler & Rhodes, Best Friends Day, and Happy Freethinkers Day!
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