The 3D Session

Sarah is an expert in cognitive neuroscience and clinical neuropsychology. She has pioneered music neuroscience research in Australia, showing how music can enhance brain function in healthy individuals, and facilitate recovery after brain injury.

Dr. Todd Shackelford is an Evolutionary Psychologist at Oakland University. His lab's research has the overarching goal of gaining a clearer and more comprehensive understanding of human sexual psychology and behavior. The lab is currently pursuing several programmatic lines of research.

Vikenty is a black belt in Ju-Jitsu with multiple fights under his belt. He has also had experience in Sambo and boxing. He is the creator of Car-jitsu and Car-jitsu Escape. Which takes the concept of Ju-Jitsu and applies it to inside of a car. Escape is similar, but the idea for the individual getting attacked is to escape the car. His YouTube channel where you can find Car-jitsu can be found bel...

Dr Vahe Ohanessian is an established dentist with over two decades of private practice experience. He recently wrote self-help book called 'Theory of Self-Relativity'. He started writing this book and turning his life around after a near fatal car accident in 2017. In this book he discusses how we are so influenced by our emotional thinking rather than our factual and rational thinking. Along with...

Dr. Sean Drummond is a psychologist who majors in the field of sleep research. Dr. Drummond has three main arms to his program of research: 1) cognitive neuroscience of sleep and sleep deprivation; 2) treatment of insomnia, especially in comorbid psychopathology; and 3) translational research examining the mechanistic role sleep plays in PTSD and mood disorders.

Paul Scharre is a former Army Ranger who is now an author of two books on AI in defense. After the military he became Secretary of Defense at the pentagon where he played a role in establishing policies on unmanned and autonomous systems. He is currently executive vice president and director of studies at The Center of a New American Security.

Leo is a researcher at the centre for mental health where he conducts research into sports psychology (performance under high stakes). He graduated with a PhD at RMIT in Sports Psychology.

Daniel Kovalik is an American human rights, labor rights lawyer and peace activist. He is also the author of many books, one of which is based around "Cancel Culture" called "Cancel This Book". He has contributed articles to CounterPunch and The Huffington Post. He teaches International Human Rights at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.

Daniella is a third generation Children of God (now known as the family) cult survivor. The Children of God were synonymous for their maltreatment of adolescents. Once she escaped, she joined the U.S military and did two tours of Afghanistan. She is now an author of a book called "Uncultured" which tells her incredible story through her cult upbringing and her time in the military.

Chris Shelton is an author, podcaster, YouTuber, anticult activist, and a former Scientologist. He was a member of Scientology for 27 years and in the sea-org for 17 of those years. His book "Scientology: A to Xenu" came out in 2015.

Peter McCullough is an American cardiologist . He was vice chief of internal medicine at Baylor University Medical Centre and professor at Texas A&M University during COVID-19 pandemic. His book "The Courage To Face COVID-19" was released in 2022 and is about doctors who developed early treatments for COVID-19 and their belief that it was suppressed by Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex.

Raymond Volkas is a theoretical particle physicist at the University of Melbourne. In 2016, he was awarded the Harrie Massey Medal prize by the Institute of Physics and the Australian Institute of Physics, for his contributions to physics. He is currently apart of ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics. Which is a team of physicists who are working together to try and figure out...

Dr. Leece is paleoanthropologist who has worked with the Drimolen Palaeo-Archaeological Project for eight years. Her research focusses on early hominin dental adaptions and related dietary behaviours as well as the taxonomy and phylogenetic relationships of our early ancestors.

Dr Robyn Brown is a Senior Research Fellow and Head of the behavioral neuropharmacology laboratory within University of Melbourne’s department of Biochemistry and Pharmacology.. Her laboratory uses addiction neuroscience to understand the drive of overeating.

Dr. Ken Walker is a senior curator of entomology at the Melbourne Museum. He has worked at Museum's Victoria since 1981. His research interests are in native Australian bees (in particular the family Halictidae) and pollination syndromes (what bee pollinates what plant). He has described over 150 new species of native bees, especially in the genera Homalictus and Lasioglossum and he has several sp...

Jake is a PhD candidate in his second year at Monash University in the school of biological sciences. His PhD involves full revision of the record of theropod dinosaurs (2-legged carnivores) of Victoria and evolution of the Megaraptors.

Sean is an Irish born strongman competitor. He started off as a cycler in Ireland and changed course to become one of the strongest men in Australia. He has competed multiple times in Australia's Strongest Man 2022 and 2023. We talk about his path to strongman, the lifestyle of a strongman (diet, family, longevity, and leisure), his thoughts on the current deadlift world record, and why he chose s...

Prof. Colin Louis Masters is an Australian neuropathologist who researches dementia particularly Alzheimer's disease, and other neurodegenerative disorders. He is laureate professor of pathology at the University of MelbourneIn this episode we discuss sex differences in in dementia types, the fundamental and potential causes of Alzheimer's, the treatments we have today, and which genes play a role...

Dr Thomas Arkell is a psychopharmacologist with a broad research interest in drugs and their effects on the brain and human behaviour. Dr Arkell has experience designing, implementing and managing clinical research involving acute drug adminsitration (alcohol/cannabis/MDMA) and his work has been published in leading international journals. He holds a BA (Psychology/Philsophy) and a PhD (Medicine)...

Received PhD from La Trobe University studying the genetics of bacterial conjugation and undertook post-doctoral training at the Royal Children's Hospital investigating the genetic epidemiology of gastroenteritis viruses, particularly rotavirus and astrovirus. Research interests include food microbiology, identification of bio-active compounds from medicinal plants, fungi and biowaste, environment...

Caine Barlow is a Mycologist and Fungi Educator based in Melbourne, Australia. He gives regular talks on mycology, fungi conservation, and teaches gourmet mushroom cultivation. He is a member of the Australian organization's Entheogenesis Australis, MYCOmmunity Applied Mycology, The Australian Psychedelic Society, and the Entheome Foundation.

Stewy is an expert snake catcher located in Melbourne Australia. He has had years of experience handling different types of snakes in the wild and even has 14 of his own. He also has experience handling crocodiles as he has owned 3 of them. Stewy business has its own website where you can book snake handling events. So if you're interested, check it out!

Dylan is a bodybuilder and works as a physical/mental coach. He has been down the dark path of drugs and thirteen months prison, but came out the other side as a successful bodybuilder, coach, motivator, and an amazing father. His company is Evolve.bt

Dr. James Kean is a post-doctoral researcher within the youth mental health facility at the University Of Melbourne. In this discussion we talk about ADHD and Bipolar Disorder. Due to scheduling conflicts we had to record our podcast via Microsoft Teams.

Dr. Ben Bullock is a lecturer and researcher in the field of psychological science at Swinburne University. His interests are in bipolar/mood disorders and the circadian rhythm/sleep.