Best Nick Amp Kim Podcasts (2024)

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#327 Winston Smith (Artist) 1:38:33

20m ago1:38:33

1:38:33

It's been a lone time since I've had a visual artist on the show, and I'm thrilled to welcome agitprop artist, illustrator, record sleeve & band logo designer and master of the medium of collage, the iconclastic Winston Smith as my guest for Episode 327 of Life In The Stocks. We discuss all things art, creativity, counter-culture, punk rock, and Wi…

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#326 Kid Congo Powers (The Gun Club/The Cramps/Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds/Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds) 1:17:25

42m ago1:17:25

1:17:25

Cult rock 'n' roll guitar slinger Kid Congo Powers joins me on Life In The Stocks this week for Episode 326 of the podcast. We discuss his upbringing as a Mexican American in East LA in the 1970s, playing in The Gun Club and the genius of Jeffrey Lee Pierce, creativity, experimentation, addiction & recovery, the inspiration and lasting legacy of Po…

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#193 Former CEO Nextdoor, Sarah Friar: Four Circles 1:17:17

5m ago1:17:17

1:17:17

Guest: Sarah Friar, former CEO of Nextdoor Sarah Friar has worked with some of the top leaders in Silicon Valley, including Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, Walmart CEO Doug McMillon, Block CEO Jack Dorsey, and most recently Nextdoor founder Nirav Tolia, who just replaced her as CEO in May. And one of the things that sets top performers apart from the …

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#192 CTO and Co-Founder Discord, Stanislav Vishnevskiy: Ship It 1:03:34

3m ago1:03:34

1:03:34

Guest: Stanislav Vishnevskiy, CTO and co-founder of Discord For many years, the conventional wisdom was the gaming was not social because it was something you usually did at home. “But people who play games are often the most social,” says Discord CTO Stanislav Vishnevskiy. “They’re spending 10, 20 hours with other people online, hanging out.” As a…

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Nice Episode, Shame About the Plot 1:01:31

7d ago1:01:31

1:01:31

And thus we learn the final fate of Samantha Mulder! Is it satisfying? No. Closure is very touching and quite beautiful and well acted. But as a capstone to a question that first appeared in the very first episode this is not what anyone wanted. We get into how this fails to make much sense with seven years of other conspiracy (we know the aliens h…

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#325 John "Swami" Reis (Rocket From The Crypt/Drive Like Jehu/Hot Snakes/Solo) 1:00:37

14d ago1:00:37

1:00:37

We've got a very special guest on the show this week. Joining me for Episode 325 of Life In The Stocks is John Reis aka Speedo aka The Swami from Rocket The Crypt, Drive Like Jehu, Hot Snakes, The Sultans, The Nightmarchers, Back Off Cupids, Plosivs, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes and more. The singer, songwriter, guitarist, record producer, DJ and …

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#324 Jen Razavi (The Bombpops/Solo) 1:33:25

4h ago1:33:25

1:33:25

Life In The Stocks Episode 324 features Jen Razavi from The Bombpops. I first met Jen last summer at SBAM festival in Austria. We've shared many great conversations since then, culminating in the podcast that you're about to hear. We discuss creativity, vulnerability, self-expression, personal development, online presence, the greater purpose, grat…

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#191 CEO and Co-Founder Intercom, Eoghan McCabe: Second Beginning 59:16

7d ago59:16

59:16

Guest: Eoghan McCabe, CEO, Chairman, and Co-Founder of Intercom “We are not ready for the degree to which our world is going to change,” says Intercom CEO Eoghan McCabe, “in insane and incredible ways.” When he co-founded the company in 2011, the Irish-born entrepreneur was making it easier for companies to offer human customer service to their cus…

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Use the Snackle Remover on Paper Hearts 2.0 1:07:15

14d ago1:07:15

1:07:15

Content warning: mentions of animal abuse, implied incest, child death Signs and Wonders is somewhat diminished when we learned about the various animal cruelties on set during the filming of this episode. Getting past that, we are left with a succession of questions about what and why this episode happened. Its pretty fun though and we learn about…

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#323 Stacey Dee (Bad Cop/Bad Cop) 1:22:20

6h ago1:22:20

1:22:20

We also discuss Stacey’s upbringing and history with depression and addiction, and her non-profit organisation The Sidewalk Project. And we get into her battle with cancer and overcoming that whole ordeal. Finally, we talk about the new Bad Cop record and Stacey's upcoming guided tours at the Punk Rock Museum, tickets for which you'll find here: ht…

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#322 Chris Catalyst (Sisters of Mercy/Ugly Kid Joe/Solo) 1:11:02

2h ago1:11:02

1:11:02

The Yorkshire tri-factor that began with Joe Elliott three weeks ago is now complete, as renowned gun for fire, underground guitar god, singer-songwriter, solo artist and all-round nice bloke Chris Catalyst joins me for Episode 322 of Life In The Stocks. Chris has played with everyone from the Sisters of Mercy and Ghost to The Wildhearts and Ugly K…

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#190 Co-Founder Cost Plus Drugs, Mark Cuban: Mavs to Meds 46:33

23d ago46:33

46:33

Guest: Mark Cuban, co-founder of Cost Plus Drugs and costar, Shark Tank “I just love to compete,” says Mark Cuban. “And the day I stop is the day I’m dead.” Previously the co-founder of MicroSolutions and Broadcast.com, Cuban is probably best known to the public today for competing with the likes of Daymond John and Barbara Corcoran on the reality …

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Episode Hijack 53:14

21d ago53:14

53:14

It is hard to watch Orison without immediately concluding that Scully is totally getting fired right after the climax of the episode. And yet - based on The Amazing Maleeni - somehow shooting an unarmed man, pointblank while he is being arrested by her partner is not enough. Weird how it was Scully who'd finally wind up killing someone like this. M…

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#321 Mike Vennart (Empire State Bastard/Biffy Clyro/Oceansize) 1:03:02

10d ago1:03:02

1:03:02

Mike Vennart from Empire State Bastard, Biffy Clyro & Oceansize joins me for Episode 321 of Life In The Stocks. We had Joe Elliott on the show last week and Mike Vennart on the show this week - from one Yorkshire rock legend to another. Amongst many other topics, we discuss Mike's love of Jane's Addiction, his lifelong love affair with heavy metal,…

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#189 Co-Founder Watershed, Taylor Francis: Worthy Missions 1:00:03

23d ago1:00:03

1:00:03

Guest: Taylor Francis, co-founder of Watershed One day when he was 13, Taylor Francis walked out of the movie theater, and he was pissed off. He had just seen Al Gore’s documentary An Inconvenient Truth and internalized a “generational call to arms, that my parents had screwed our generation” by causing the climate crisis, he says. 14 years later, …

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Scratchcard Lore 1:00:25

28d ago1:00:25

1:00:25

At this point, it is quite impossible to talk about Rush without also mentioning Chronicle. And we can't! We get into how similar the two instances are and how they diverge quite wildly. We talk about the villain's lack of imagination, the welcome reappearance of Chuck, and how Mulder doesn't get really obsessed with the impossible shot pulled off …

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#188 CEO and Co-Founder Synthesia, Victor Riparbelli w/ Josh Coyne: Gorilla in the Room 59:27

22d ago59:27

59:27

Guests: Victor Riparbelli, CEO and co-founder of Synthesia; and Josh Coyne, partner at Kleiner Perkins When Victor Riparbelli wants to learn something, he’ll start with a YouTube video or a podcast: “I maybe buy the book on Amazon as like the fifth step,” the Synthesia CEO says. His company is trying to change the text-first (or text-only) way info…

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#320 Joe Elliott (Def Leppard) 46:33

7d ago46:33

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Ladies and gentlemen, the Mighty Joe Elliott from the multi-platinum-selling Def Leppard joins me for Episode 320 of Life In The Stocks. This actually marks Joe's third appearance on the podcast, but there's never any shortage of fun stuff to talk about. Joe's one of the chattiest guys around. Here, we discuss everything from stadiums tours with Mo…

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The Four Zombies of the Apocalypse 55:21

1M ago55:21

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Mulder may often feel like a jerk, but Hungry kinda paints him as a predator playing with his food as he takes his sweet time doing anything about poor old Rob in this episode. If Mulder was a bit quicker than likely three people might still be alive... Still, this is a monster-eyed view of The X-Files and pretty good. We get into the contrast to T…

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#187 President & COO of AG1, Kat Cole: Wings to Supplements 1:00:22

1M ago1:00:22

1:00:22

Guest: Kat Cole, COO of Athletic Greens You can’t make smart decisions if you don’t know the truth — the “true truth,” as Athletic Greens COO Kat Cole puts it. “As you get bigger and you have success, innovator’s dilemma, you end up talking to yourself instead of really being rooted in what’s going on.” That’s why she has embraced the anxiety of th…

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#186 COO Asana, Anne Raimondi: Recovering Perfectionist 1:06:26

21d ago1:06:26

1:06:26

Guest: Anne Raimondi, COO and Head of Business at Asana Asana COO Anne Raimondi feels pressure to perform in her job “every day, all the time.” But that pressure doesn’t come from her fellow executives; she imposes it on herself, trying to think carefully about how much each of her decisions will impact her team. “I have a lot of privilege and choi…

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Craig Willmore Simulator 49:24

2M ago49:24

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Taking a brief break from Season 7, we try to give an overview of the first X-Files game - The X-Files Game. We get into FMV games as a whole and the specific drawbacks in general and here specifically. There's not a lot of Mulder and Scully in this game, but you can die in a bewildering and often funny succession of odd occasions. We try to make s…

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#319 Kim McAuliffe (Girlschool) 52:48

1M ago52:48

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I can't believe I lost this file for so long. But I'm very happy I found it and I get to share it with you this week. The awesome Kim McAuliffe from the equally awesome Girlschool joins me for Episode 319 of Life In The Stocks to talk all things punk rock, glam rock and rock 'n' roll. Enjoy! Follow me on Facebook / Twitter / Instagram: @mattstocksd…

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#185 CEO and Founder Netskope, Sanjay Beri: The Trenches 54:32

28d ago54:32

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Guest: Sanjay Beri, CEO and Founder of Netskope “You can be waiting your whole life to do something, and then your life’s over,” says Sanjay Beri. After nine years at Juniper Networks, he left his comfortable job, moved his family to a house with a pricier mortgage, and launched the cloud security firm Netskope. His entrepreneurial story would make…

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Zombies Stole My Spaceship 1:08:58

2M ago1:08:58

1:08:58

While it might be a metaphor for the loss of the "truth" in The Sixth Extinction, it is impossible not to interpret the order of events wherein Dr. Barnes kills a man, that man comes back to life and kills Dr. Barnes, and later when events return to the same beach, the entire UFO is now missing as Grand Theft Spaceship. By zombie. Quite how Scully …

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#184 Former CEO and Co-Founder Sun, Scott McNealy: In the Piñata 1:18:03

2M ago1:18:03

1:18:03

Guest: Scott McNealy, former CEO and co-founder of Sun Microsystems & co-founder of Curriki Scott McNealy never wanted to be CEO of Sun, and in his 22-year tenure before selling to Oracle, he knows there were times he failed to execute, or to rein in the once-iconic Silicon Valley firm’s worst impulses. But like his pro golfer son, Maverick, Scott …

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Shooting Skinner 1:10:38

2M ago1:10:38

1:10:38

This then is the end of The X-Files. No. Really. Fine. The point is we can't actually be sure that anything that happens after Field Trip in fact happens in series. It could all be a fungal hallucination as Mulder and Scully are dissolved in yellow goo in an underground cave. Something of a dramatically bleak ending but hard to argue against. (Thou…

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#183 CEO and Co-Founder Harness, Jyoti Bansal: Three-Layered Cake 59:28

2M ago59:28

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Guest: Jyoti Bansal, CEO and co-founder of Harness Cisco bought Jyoti Bansal’s first company AppDynamics for $3.7 billion, making him a very wealthy man. But after two African safaris, a week of Michelin-starred meals in Tokyo, and more adventures all around the world, he realized that spending his money didn’t truly make him happy. After some soul…

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#318 Sami Yaffa (Hanoi Rocks/New York Dolls/Solo) 1:04:08

2M ago1:04:08

1:04:08

From one bad ass bass player (Duff McKagan) to another, my guest for Episode 318 of Life In The Stocks is Sami Yaffa from Hanoi Rocks and the New York Dolls. Sami has led an incredibly rich and interesting life, and it's all documented in his amazing autobiography, The Road Bends. He's also got a couple of great solo albums out, and we talk all abo…

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The Ragamuffin 58:35

3M ago58:35

58:35

Nick has to insist quite a lot that he likes this episode though is not sold on baseball. Which it very much what The Unnatural is all about. A love letter to baseball that's also an X-Files episode that's also a lovely monster of the week episode that's also (sort of) a conspiracy episode and also makes a bit more sense of how the aliens work. Not…

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#182 CEO and Co-Founder Cribl, Clint Sharp: Finding Traction 1:12:26

2M ago1:12:26

1:12:26

Guest: Clint Sharp, CEO and co-founder of Cribl New employees are joining the remote data platform Cribl every week, and as the staff grows, CEO Clint Sharp has noticed a problem: He can’t file a bug report without a lot of caveats. When there were a handful of users, no one would bat an eye at the CEO posting a bug on Slack, but now he has had to …

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Phonebooth of Hope 1:19:30

3M ago1:19:30

1:19:30

Startlingly the first episode this week Scully actually suggests Spontaneous Human Combustion as a possible cause of death. Which if we're honest shouldn't be a huge surprise after the events of, say, Fire back in season 1. Trevor is a curious monster of the week episode suggesting tornadoes can give you super-powers. But what really floored us thi…

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#317 Duff McKagan (Guns N' Roses/Velvet Revolver/Solo) 1:07:33

2M ago1:07:33

1:07:33

Today is my birthday, and what better way to celebrate than by welcoming one of my all-time favourite rock stars and humans onto the show. Duff McKagan from Guns N' Roses & Velvet Revolver joins me this week for Episode 317 of Life In The Stocks to talk all about his storied life and career, leading up to the release of his new solo album Lighthous…

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#181 CEO Transcarent, Glen Tullman: Problem Solving 1:30:17

2M ago1:30:17

1:30:17

Guest: Glen Tullman, CEO of Transcarent Before he was CEO of Transcarent, Glen Tullman presided over the biggest digital health merger of all time: His previous company Livongo was acquired in 2020 by Teledoc for $18.5 billion. Over his decades of experience in health tech, he has developed saying: Hire low, fire high. When one of his friends was o…

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Large Wooden Badgers 1:05:37

3M ago1:05:37

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Content Warning: multiple dog deaths Arcadia is satire with a capital S. Perfect community built on top of a landfill. Oh and enforced by a trash golem! Or tulpa maybe. Mulder does do a lot of conjecture in this episode... We discuss the alien nature (to us anyway) of there gated communities and the conformity therein and also the state of Mulder a…

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#316 Dallas Frasca (Solo Artist) 1:41:10

3M ago1:41:10

1:41:10

My guest this week is one of my favourite people on the planet, Australian singer, songwriter & musician, Dallas Frasca. And we share an honest and vulnerable conversation about creative and personal development. It's a conversation about evolution and growth and finding your purpose and fulfilling your potential. Dallas is a brilliant woman and a …

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#180 CEO and Co-Founder Verkada, Filip Kaliszan: Outlier 1:12:36

2M ago1:12:36

1:12:36

Guest: Filip Kaliszan, CEO and co-founder of Verkada Great founders try to grow personally at least as fast as their companies do — but sometimes, says Verkada CEO Filip Kaliszan, that’s just not possible. By the time the company had about 200 employees, he says, “the scale of the business and the rate of the growth of the business ... outpaced my …

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Scully Clone Army 1:06:39

3M ago1:06:39

1:06:39

Back to the monster of the week(s)! Well, monster of the week anyway. Agua Mala is a comedic bottle episode with a unnerving monster, some amusing character moments and a lot of water. Oh so much water just all the time. We discuss the somewhat odd implications about how Mulder talks about Arthur Dales in this episode and depictions of entomologist…

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