Splitting Hairs with Tab Salsman
by TAB SALSMAN
Society & CultureE · Explicit
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When Feeding Your Neighbors Becomes Personal | Hannah Beall | Ep. 71
When Feeding Your Neighbors Becomes Personal | Hannah Beall | Ep. 71
About this podcast
CURIOSITY HAS NO CATEGORY.
One guest. One haircut. One real conversation.
Splitting Hairs with Tab Salsman brings people from the arts, medicine, science, media, business, politics and beyond into the chair.
The conversation is as long as the haircut—long enough to get somewhere.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 71 episodes
- When Feeding Your Neighbors Becomes Personal | Hannah Beall | Ep. 71 · 1 h 18 min · Episode 71A family can be working, paying bills, and still not know how they’re going to afford groceries. That is one of the realities behind the work of Central Texas Food Bank. The…
- No Backup Plan | Bill Schultz on The Simpsons, Bobby's World, and a Life in Animation · 1 h 12 min · Episode 70Bill Schultz turned down law school, got in a car with his girlfriend—now his wife—and moved to Los Angeles in 1982. There was no backup plan. He was going to make a life in…
- What Is Homeopathy? PANS/PANDAS, Symptoms and Root Cause Medicine | Erin Paige · 1 h 25 min · Episode 69Erin Paige, HHP, is a homeopath and host of The Remedy Revolution Podcast. Her path into homeopathy began after her young son developed a series of neurological and behavioral…
- Breast Implant Illness: What Dr. Rob Whitfield Found in Explant Patients · 1 h 28 minIn 2016, a patient asked plastic surgeon Dr. Rob Whitfield to remove her breast reconstruction and let her go flat. Rob says routine testing of tissue from her surgery found an…
- Are We Raising Kids Who Can Handle the Real World? | David Scott · 1 h 22 minWhat if one of the most useful things you can give a child is a bigger comfort zone? At Earth Native Wilderness School, David Scott sees what happens when kids spend a day…
- Emmy Robbin on the Birth That Changed Her Life—and Why She Became a Doula · 1 h 46 minEmmy Robbin says her first birth ended in a C-section and a recovery that nearly killed her. At 41, she chose a home birth for her second child. Those two experiences changed the…
- Andrew Wakefield: Would He Do It All Again? · 1 h 19 minAndrew Wakefield has spent years at the center of a debate that changed the course of his life. Near the end of this haircut, Tab asks him a simple question: knowing what he…
- Can Mouth Breathing Affect Sleep, ADHD Symptoms, and Jaw Development? | Dr. Hilary Fritsch · 47 min · Episode 64Can mouth breathing change how a child sleeps or how their jaw develops? Could it also play a part in symptoms that look like ADHD? Dr. Hilary Fritsch, a biological and airway…
- He Lost 125 Pounds, Built Biohack Yourself, and Faced a Dental Emergency | Anthony Lolli · 1 h 20 minAnthony Lolli built a real estate business in New York with a company culture so strong that more than 100 agents tattooed its logo on their bodies. At home, he was 315 pounds…
- What the U.S. Immigration Debate Leaves Out | Attorney Arslan Chaudhary · 1 h 23 minArslan Chaudhary is an immigration attorney with over 16 years of experience, working across family-based cases, work visas, and earlier in his career, asylum and deportation. In…
- What Happens After The Bachelor? | Zach Shallcross on Marriage and Life Off Camera · 58 minZach Shallcross is a former Bachelor (Season 27) returning for a second conversation, now a few years removed from the show and settling into married life in Austin. In this…
- Navy SEAL Shawn Johnson on War, Psychedelics & Training Alex Jones · 1 h 10 minShawn Johnson grew up on the Texas coast wanting to become a Navy SEAL. He spent eight years in the teams and deployed twice to Afghanistan and once to Iraq. Tab asks what drew…
- BassForge: What Are We Missing About Ancient History? | Tyler Engle · 1 h 21 minTyler Engle, known as bassforge.us, is a creator and researcher exploring ancient civilizations, sacred geometry, and the deeper patterns connecting history, myth, and…
- Could a Company Patent Your DNA? | Del Bigtree · 1 h 9 minCould a company patent a change to your DNA? Del Bigtree asks where ownership of modified biology might lead if the subject were a person rather than a crop. It's a question…
- How Candace Marino Made $500K in Sales From Her Computer · 1 h 26 minCandace Marino and Tab go back to scene haircuts, early photo shoots, and her sister's wedding. Tab cut her hair and did the wedding hair; Candace did makeup for his shoots. The…
- Why Arcades Still Matter | Game Designer Jessie Contour · 1 h 32 minWhen Jessie Contour moved to Austin, she posted online looking for people to play Dungeons & Dragons. The group began meeting at her house, and a shared game became the beginning…
- A Meathead’s Guide to Salvation | Mike Catherwood on Recovery, Fitness & Curiosity · 2 h 10 minMike Catherwood has spent more than two decades sober, with fitness helping provide structure along the way. His new book, A Meathead's Guide to Salvation, gives him and Tab a…
- Why Your Body Holds Tension | Alex Novicki on Fascia & Stress · 1 h 27 minAlex Novicki signed a lease for his own practice in February 2020. A month later, the shutdowns began. When clients started texting to ask what they could do between…
- 53 | Ricky Hoover Gets a Haircut: The Life Behind the Growl · 1 h 37 minRicky Hoover borrowed his mom’s car and drove eight hours to audition for a band. That drive led to touring the world with Suffokate. Years later, after leaving the band and…
- Life After Baywatch: Jeremy Jackson on Recovery and the Kindness He Remembered · 1 h 35 minJeremy Jackson was getting ready for a Baywatch movie premiere when Tab first cut his hair. The original cast had been invited back. Jeremy had recently left jail, was living in…
