Thecuriousmanspodcast
The curious man Matt Crawford interviews authors and interesting people about topics ranging from history to politics to everyday stimulating topics. If you like to learn and are as curious as I am please join in!
- Update frequency
- every 2 days
- Average duration
- 59 minutes
- Episodes
- 127
- Years Active
- 2025
Lisa Pratta Interview Episode 547
Matt Crawford speaks with Big Pharma Whistleblower Lisa Pratta about her book, False Claims: One Insider's Impossible Battle Against Big Pharma Corruption.
In Big Pharma, lives are secondary to prof…
Alia Dastagir Interview Episode 546
Matt Crawford speaks with Alia Dastagir, an award-winning journalist and author of For Those Who Have Confused You to be a Person. Part memoir, part cultural commentary, her book is a searing meditat…
Sylvia Lerch Interview Episode 545
Matt Crawford speaks with author Sylvia Lerch about her book, Grasp the Nettle. Set in a remote district of Western Australia in the 1920s, an era which outlawed suicide, an unidentified body has bee…
David Singer Interview Episode 544
Matt Crawford speaks with author David Singer about his book, From Cab Driver to Carnegie Hall. David and I talk about his eclectic careers and how he managed to end up playing Clarinet for two U.S P…
Stephen Willeford Interview Episode 543
In this gripping episode, we sit down with Stephen Willeford, the man who courageously intervened during the 2017 Sutherland Springs church shooting, one of the deadliest mass shootings in American …
Stephen R. Platt Interview Episode 542
Matt Crawford speaks with author Stephen R. Platt about his book, The Raider: The Untold Story of a Renegade Marine and the Birth of U.S Special Forces in World War II.
In this compelling episode, h…
Susan Sturm Interview Episode 541
Matt Crawford speaks with Columbia Law Professor Susan Sturm about her book, What Might Be: Confronting Racism to Transform Our Institutions. Even as anti-racism practices seemed to be gaining moment…
Craig Foster Interview Episode 540
Matt Crawford speaks with Academy award winning documentary filmmaker of My Octopus Teacher and author Craig Foster about his book, My Amphibious Soul: Finding the Wild in a Tame World. Craig and I d…
Dean Van Nguyen Interview Episode 539
Matt Crawford speaks with author Dean Van Nguyen about his book, Words for My Comrades: A Political History of Tupac Shakur. Before his murder at age twenty-five, Tupac Shakur rose to staggering arti…
Andrew Holter Interview Episode 538
Matt Crawford speaks with Andrew Holter about his book, Going Around: Selected Journalism Murray Kempton. A courtly man of Southern roots, Murray Kempton worked as a labor reporter for the New York P…
Professor Bill Yousman Interview Episode 537
Matt Crawford speaks with Professor Bill Yousman the director of the Media Literacy and Digital Culture graduate program at Sacred Heart University. We discuss misinformation, disinformation and the …
Dr. Charles LeBaron Interview Episode 536
Matt Crawford speaks with former CDC Epidemiologist Dr. Charles LeBaron about his book, Greed to Do Good: The Untold Story of CDC's Disastrous War on Opioids: A CDC Physician's Personal Account.
Whe…
Robert Walker Interview Episode 535
Matt Crawford speaks with author Robert Walker about his book, Six Moons, Seven Gods: An Arthurian Fantasy Medieval Adventure (The Legends of Baelon Book 1.) The skilled thieves of the Takers Guild p…
Will Bardenwerper Interview Episode 534
Matt Crawford speaks with author Will Bardenwerper about his book, Homestand: Small Town Baseball and the Fight for the Soul of America. What happens when a minor league team—the heart and soul of a …
Susan Polgar Interview Episode 533
Matt Crawford speaks with Susan Polgar about her book, Rebel Queen: The Cold War, Misogyny, and the Making of a Grandmaster. A real life Queen’s Gambit, this captivating memoir tells the story of one…
Helen Sheehy Interview Episode 532
Matt Crawford speaks with author Helen Sheehy about her novel, Just Willa.
Just Willa is a family chronicle of rare beauty-more than reminiscent of Willa Cather in capturing the regional flavors of …
Beau L'Amour Interview Episode 531
Matt Crawford speaks with Beau L'Amour about his stewardship of his father Louis L'Amour's catalog. L'Amour eventually wrote 100 novels, over 250 short stories, and (as of 2010) sold more than 320 mi…
Lady Dyana Ziegler Interview Episode 530
Matt Crawford speaks with author Lady Dyana Ziegler about her book, Midnight Train From Georgia. Midnight Train from Georgia chronicles the incredible rise of Gladys Knight and the Pips from their or…
Shelly Fisher Fishkin Interview Episode 529
Matt Crawford speaks with professor and author Shelly Fisher Fishkin about her book, Jim: The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn’s Comrade. Mark Twain’s Jim, introduced in Adventures of Hucklebe…
Kristian Ronn Interview Episode 528
Matt Crawford speaks with author Kristian Ronn about his book, The Darwinian Trap: The Hidden Evolutionary Forces That Explain Our World (and Threaten Our Future.) When people talk about today’s bigg…