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World-renowned cognitive scientist Professor Mike Anderson joins the podcast to talk to us about one of psychology’s most controversial topics: Intelligence. @TheRealDrKev, Bruce and Mike tackle all the big questions head on. ‘What exactly is Intelligence?’ they ask. ‘What can computers and smart phones tell us about our brains?’ ‘Is there such a thing as an optimal level of intelligence?’ ‘Are intelligent people happier?’ And: ‘Is intelligence like underwear: good to have but better not to show off?’ You can listen to and watch longer episodes of Psycho Schizo Espresso AD FREE if you become a Patreon at www.patreon.com/psychoschizoespresso To access the YouTube version of this episode ofPsycho Schizo Espresso, please visit https://youtu.be/wA_guPNYGKk Please make sure you like, subscribe, rate, review and comment wherever you get your Podcasts from. Follow the hashtag #PsychoSchizoEspresso and @TheRealDrKev on social media channels. Psycho Schizo Espresso is a Pod Prod Production. For more information, please go to www.podprod.co.uk

Bruce and @TheRealDrKev return for a brand new series of Psycho Schizo Espresso - and are more fired up than ever! Perhaps that’s because Bruce has just finished his hugely popular one man speaking tour of the UK & North America and Kev has just taken up his new position as Australia’s first Professor of the Public Understanding of Psychology at the University of Adelaide. Join the podcast as they plan ahead for what’s to come in Series 2 and catch up on the latest news…including how Bruce has had a newly discovered species of spider named after him (apparently it’s small, harmless, and only comes out at night – hmmh…no connection there, then!) and how a recent study in Finland has shown that heavy metal is good for your mental health. To read about Extraordinarius bruceickinsoni go to - https://theworld.org/stories/2019-10-17/brazilian-biologist-discovers-4-new-spider-species-and-names-them-after-heavy You can listen to and watch longer episodes of Psycho Schizo Espresso AD FREE if you become a Patreon at www.patreon.com/psychoschizoespresso To access the YouTube version of this episode ofPsycho Schizo Espresso, please visit https://youtu.be/wA_guPNYGKk Please make sure you like, subscribe, rate, review and comment wherever you get your Podcasts from. Follow the hashtag #PsychoSchizoEspresso and @TheRealDrKev on social media channels. Psycho Schizo Espresso is a Pod Prod Production. For more information, please go to www.podprod.co.uk

Why does ‘done and dusted’ sound better than ‘dusted and done’? What makes a good swear word? Are we really as rational as we make out? In this, the final episode of Season 1 of Psycho Schizo Espresso, Bruce and @TheRealDrKev chat to Harvard linguist, cognitive scientist, and bestselling author Steven Pinker about the science of talking and thinking…and discover that, sometimes, a good insult can be worth a thousand compliments. Stupid f@*kwits! We'll be back in a month! So keep subscribed to Psycho Schizo Espresso for the first episode of Season 2. You can listen to and watch longer episodes of Psycho Schizo Espresso AD FREE if you become a Patreon at www.patreon.com/psychoschizoespresso To access the YouTube version of this episode ofPsycho Schizo Espresso, please visit https://youtu.be/wA_guPNYGKk Please make sure you like, subscribe, rate, review and comment wherever you get your Podcasts from. To get in touch, please email [email protected] and follow the hashtag #PsychoSchizoEspresso and @TheRealDrKev Psycho Schizo Espresso is a Pod Prod Production. For more information, please go to www.podprod.co.uk

Bruce and @TheRealDrKev continue on their odyssey into the shadowlands of the paranormal with world-renowned spookmeister Professor Chris French, examining the evidence for telekinesis, poltergeists and better mannered, more conventional ghosts...as well as delving into scientific explanations of out-of-body experiences and déjà vu. Got a funny feeling you've heard that bit before? Stay tuned! Kev, Bruce & Chris will reveal all... You can listen to and watch longer episodes of Psycho Schizo Espresso AD FREE if you become a Patreon at www.patreon.com/psychoschizoespresso To access the YouTube version of this episode ofPsycho Schizo Espresso, please visit https://youtu.be/wA_guPNYGKk Please make sure you like, subscribe, rate, review and comment wherever you get your Podcasts from. To get in touch, please email [email protected] and follow the hashtag #PsychoSchizoEspresso and @TheRealDrKev Psycho Schizo Espresso is a Pod Prod Production. For more information, please go to www.podprod.co.uk

In this episode, Bruce and @TheRealDrKev enter the twilight zone with Chris French – one of the world’s leading experts on paranormal phenomena, Professor Emeritus of Anomalistic Psychology at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and the author of the forthcoming “Weird Shit”. In the first of a two-part episode, they discuss demonic possession, fortune telling and UFOs…and whether religion should be seen as just a glorified sub-discipline of parapsychology. You can listen to and watch longer episodes of Psycho Schizo Espresso AD FREE if you become a Patreon at www.patreon.com/psychoschizoespresso To access the YouTube version of this episode ofPsycho Schizo Espresso, please visit https://youtu.be/wA_guPNYGKk Please make sure you like, subscribe, rate, review and comment wherever you get your Podcasts from. To get in touch, please email [email protected] and follow the hashtag #PsychoSchizoEspresso and @TheRealDrKev Psycho Schizo Espresso is a Pod Prod Production. For more information, please go to www.podprod.co.uk

Bruce and @TheRealDrKev are joined by Alexander Fiske-Harrison @FiskeHarrison – a rare-breed British bull fighter and the most badass Etonian schoolboy of the past four centuries. He talks about the aesthetics and philosophy of his ancient but emotive profession, mounts an impassioned defence of its heritage, tradition and culture, and reveals how he spent as much of his time at Eton being bollocked in the headmaster’s office as he did at his desk in the classroom! Expect red flags, red rags, and red mist…and a whole lot of bull, of course. You can listen to and watch longer episodes of Psycho Schizo Espresso AD FREE if you become a Patreon at www.patreon.com/psychoschizoespresso To access the YouTube version of this episode ofPsycho Schizo Espresso, please visit https://youtu.be/wA_guPNYGKk Please make sure you like, subscribe, rate, review and comment wherever you get your Podcasts from. To get in touch, please email [email protected] and follow the hashtag #PsychoSchizoEspresso and @TheRealDrKev Psycho Schizo Espresso is a Pod Prod Production. For more information, please go to www.podprod.co.uk

In this episode of #PsychoSchizoEspresso, Bruce and @TheRealDrKev welcome Professor Christopher Eccleston ( @Chris_Eccleston ) - a world renowned expert on the science of pain. They discover that if beauty is in the eye of the beholder then pain is in the brain of the beholder. No two people experience it in the same way and some of us – ascetics, masochists and self-harmers, for example - even enjoy it! You can listen to and watch longer episodes of Psycho Schizo Espresso AD FREE if you become a Patreon at www.patreon.com/psychoschizoespresso To access the YouTube version of this episode ofPsycho Schizo Espresso, please visit https://youtu.be/wA_guPNYGKk Please make sure you like, subscribe, rate, review and comment wherever you get your Podcasts from. To get in touch, please email [email protected] and follow the hashtag #PsychoSchizoEspresso and @TheRealDrKev Psycho Schizo Espresso is a Pod Prod Production. For more information, please go to www.podprod.co.uk

Psychopaths are usually known for breaking hearts, not mending them. But Professor Stephen Westaby is different. In Episode 8, Bruce and @TheRealDrKev are joined by the renowned cardiothoracic surgeon, and diagnosed psychopath, who relished doing battle with the Grim Reaper on the bloodiest, most inhospitable fringes of life and death. Taking on cases that would have other surgeons pissing their pants, Westaby pissed in his boots – via a catheter – so he wouldn’t have to leave the operating table at crucial moments. Sometimes the surgical genius didn’t even gown up – performing operations in his rugby kit while belting out Pink Floyd in the operating theatre. Join us for this if you dare…proof that there’s a very fine line between those who wield the knife to save and those who wield it to kill! You can listen to and watch longer episodes of Psycho Schizo Espresso AD FREE if you become a Patreon at www.patreon.com/psychoschizoespresso To access the YouTube version of this episode ofPsycho Schizo Espresso, please visit https://youtu.be/wA_guPNYGKk Please make sure you like, subscribe, rate, review and comment wherever you get your Podcasts from. To get in touch, please email [email protected] and follow the hashtag #PsychoSchizoEspresso and @TheRealDrKev Psycho Schizo Espresso is a Pod Prod Production. For more information, please go to www.podprod.co.uk

In this episode of #PsychoSchizoEspresso @TheRealDrKev and Bruce take a trip to the seaside and dig up a national treasure on Canvey Island. In one of the UK’s remotest pubs, Wilko Johnson, the legendary Dr Feelgood guitarist, talks speed, death, and Ian Dury…and why he shouldn’t have an airport named after him. You can listen to and watch longer episodes of Psycho Schizo Espresso AD FREE if you become a Patreon at www.patreon.com/psychoschizoespresso To access the YouTube version of this episode ofPsycho Schizo Espresso, please visit https://youtu.be/wA_guPNYGKk Please make sure you like, subscribe, rate, review and comment wherever you get your Podcasts from. To get in touch, please email [email protected] and follow the hashtag #PsychoSchizoEspresso and @TheRealDrKev Psycho Schizo Espresso is a Pod Prod Production. For more information, please go to www.podprod.co.uk

This episode sees former SAS soldier, bestselling author, and diagnosed “good” psychopath Andy McNab join @TheRealDrKev and Bruce as they dissect the unique mindset of Special Forces operatives, discuss what it takes to work undercover in highly volatile and suicidally dangerous war zones...and how being a psychopath can definitely help! Kev and Bruce also delve deeper into Andy’s psychopathic tendencies and hear how a trip to the pub one afternoon almost resulted in “a level of physical violence you never knew existed”; how Andy once met himself chatting up a couple of girls at a literary festival (and was delighted to observe himself doing rather well!); and how, in recent years, his ability to empathise with others has received a boost from a rather unusual source...emojis! This and much, much more on Episode 6 of #PsychoSchizoEspresso. You can listen to and watch longer episodes of Psycho Schizo Espresso AD FREE if you become a Patreon at www.patreon.com/psychoschizoespresso To access the YouTube version of this episode ofPsycho Schizo Espresso, please visit https://youtu.be/wA_guPNYGKk Please make sure you like, subscribe, rate, review and comment wherever you get your Podcasts from. To get in touch, please email [email protected] and follow the hashtag #PsychoSchizoEspresso and @TheRealDrKev Psycho Schizo Espresso is a Pod Prod Production. For more information, please go to www.podprod.co.uk Andy McNab photograph is copyright Alamy.

Bruce and @TheRealDrKev discuss the secret life of groups, cults & crowds with one of the world’s top social psychologists, Professor Dominic Abrams. They ask: Are groups a “necessary evil”...could the world exist without them? When do groups become dangerous? Why do some groups pack more of an “us/them” vibe than others (think football fans, political parties, religious denominations)? What can we learn from the mysterious psychological alchemy of cults? And...are governments losing control of groups within society? If so, are organisations such as the Mafia really such a bad thing? Please make sure you like, subscribe, rate, review and comment wherever you get your Podcasts from. It's the BEST way for others to find out about Psycho Schizo Espresso and to keep us producing more great content. And don't forget, you can listen to and watch longer episodes of Psycho Schizo Espresso AD FREE if you become a Patreon at www.patreon.com/psychoschizoespresso To access the video version of Psycho Schizo Espresso, please visit https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVkVwrlhpqkGALjULD7C1bzLZn0nVABjf To get in touch, please email [email protected] and follow the hashtag #PsychoSchizoEspresso and @TheRealDrKev Psycho Schizo Espresso is a Pod Prod Production. For more information, please go to www.podprod.co.uk

@TheRealDrKev and Bruce chat to Status Quo founder & frontman Francis Rossi about how to survive in the shark pit of rock n' roll. They talk egos, personas, and the psychological dynamics of being in an enduring, iconic rock band. Oh, and does it really make sense for Spotify to have over 4000 different music genres...? Please make sure you like, subscribe, rate, review and comment wherever you get your Podcasts from. It's the BEST way for others to find out about Psycho Schizo Espresso and to keep us producing more great content. And don't forget, you can listen to and watch longer episodes of Psycho Schizo Espresso AD FREE if you become a Patreon at www.patreon.com/psychoschizoespresso To access the video version of Psycho Schizo Espresso, please visit https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVkVwrlhpqkGALjULD7C1bzLZn0nVABjf To get in touch, please email [email protected] and follow the hashtag #PsychoSchizoEspresso and @TheRealDrKev Psycho Schizo Espresso is a Pod Prod Production. For more information, please go to www.podprod.co.uk