2025-05-11 - Five Minutes In The Dark - Five Minutes with Robert & Amy Nasir - Episode 261
Five Minutes With Robert Nasir
Release Date: 05/12/2025
2025-09-07 - Interview Part II: More With Meghann! - Five Minutes with Robert & Amy Nasir - Ep 277
Five Minutes With Robert Nasir
Round Two with Meghann A. Ribbens, Ph.D. Because one hour wasn't enough! Biology, induction, science, philosophy, looking & thinking ... plus, the personal side of science, and your questions!
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2025-08-31 - An Interview With Dr. Meghann Ribbens - Five Minutes with Robert & Amy Nasir - Ep 276
Five Minutes With Robert Nasir
In which Robert & Amy talk to Meghann A. Ribbens, Ph.D. about biology, induction, looking and thinking! We'll discuss "Inductive History of Biology", Dr. Meghann A. Ribbens' YouTube channel (42 episodes so far!), in which she explores the history of biology through the lens of the scientific method of induction. Join us as we talk about her goals, outcomes, and target audience. What contemporary biology science and business ... theory and practice ... gets right, and wrong.
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2025-08-24 - An Interview With Agustina Vergara Cid - Five Minutes with Robert & Amy Nasir - Ep 275
Five Minutes With Robert Nasir
In which Robert & Amy interview Agustina Vergara Cid, Associate Fellow & Teaching Assistant with The Ayn Rand Institute ... and new US Citizen! We'll discuss United States immigration law, theory and practice, as well as the continued erosion of abortion rights following the 2022 Dobbs decision reversing Roe vs. Wade, as well as other topics and your questions!
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2025-08-17 - The Good, The Bad, and All the Rest - Five Minutes with Robert & Amy Nasir - Ep. 274
Five Minutes With Robert Nasir
In which Robert & Amy answer questions about good & evil ... and everything in between ... Ask Us Anything! The Soviet Union vs. modern day Russia, character development in Atlas Shrugged, the pros & cons of Woodstock, and Robert's advice on cheap musical instruments. Also, Woodstock, Mae West, Larry Ellison, and Black Cat Appreciation Day. Plus, your questions!
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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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