This undead obsessed channel is part self-help thought exercises and discussions about conquering addiction using the tools found in the "AddictionZombie" companion workbook and part serialized audioseries about fictional characters battling actual zombies in their lives from my, "Undead Weapons" books. Self-reflecting education and indie-style entertainment all from the mind and experiences of yours truly. New episodes of "AddictionZombie: The Undead Addiction Podcast" and "Undead Weapons: ...
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Michael Esser Podcasts
When artificial intelligence meets human journalism, sparks fly – and conversations get tricky. Welcome to the frontlines of the media revolution, where AI hosts Alex and Isabel don't just ask questions – they challenge, debate, and try to outsmart veteran journalist Malte Herwig in real-time intellectual combat. This isn't your typical interview show. It's a cutting-edge experiment where silicon meets skepticism, algorithms clash with instinct, and the future of journalism gets decided one ...
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Richard Dawkins: The Atheist Who Wants to Meet Jesus
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Send us a text The World's Most Famous Atheist… Can't Stop Crying at Poetry Famous biologist and atheist Richard Dawkins built his reputation on cold, hard logic. He's also the author of bestsellers The Selfish Gene and The God Delusion, destroys creationists on Twitter, and thinks prayer is a waste of time. But here's the twist: the high priest of…
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Michael Douglas: The Cheeky Questions AI Would Never Ask
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Send us a text Oscar winner and Hollywood star Michael Douglas sits down with journalist Malte Herwig... and gets asked the question. The one his publicist would kill. The one Malte's AI co-hosts call "high-risk, zero-reward." This ep is a deep-dive debate on that one interview. We get into it all: The Basic Instinct Legacy: Douglas's very '90s def…
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Christo: Why We Need Useless Art in the Age of AI
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Send us a text What if the most human thing you can make is something that serves no purpose at all? Malte and AI hosts Alex and Isabel plunge into the exhilarating world of Christo and Jeanne-Claude, where national monuments disappear under oceans of fabric, red tape becomes a stage, and the end result can’t be bought, ticketed, or sponsored. Our …
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Ben Ferencz: The fight for justice and peace
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Send us a text We trace Ben Ferenc’s hard line on human accountability from Hell’s Kitchen to Nuremberg and bring it into the age of algorithmic warfare. Stories of audacity, restraint, and selective justice sharpen a live question: where does responsibility sit when machines scale human intent. • Ferenc’s principle that a person must answer for ha…
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Rainer Esser: How to turn a failing newspaper into a digital powerhouse
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Send us a text What if the path out of media’s crisis is play, not panic? We sit down with author and journalist Malte Herwig to unpack how Rainer Esser took Germany’s stuffy weekly, Die Zeit, and turned it into a modern, multi-platform powerhouse—without gutting the newsroom. Instead of chasing shortcuts, Esser built a “dolphin culture” where curi…
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Clayton Christensen: The Godfather of Disruption
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Send us a text Clayton Christensen's theory of disruptive innovation explains why great companies fail by doing everything right and has found applications far beyond business into military strategy, religion, and personal development. His framework provides a universal pattern that brings clarity to complex problems, creating a common language tha…
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Françoise Gilot: The Woman Who Said No to Picasso
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Send us a text Françoise Gilot was the only woman who ever left Pablo Picasso. She shared her remarkable story with Malte Herwig in many interviews, which became a book: "The Woman Who Says No". Hers is a story of passion, creativity, and courage in the face of artistic genius. In this episode, Malte and his two AI-Hosts Alex and Isabel explore her…
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John Malkovich: From Demon Child to Hollywood Star
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Send us a text Hah! Are our AI hosts gender biased? Malte tells Alex and Isabel about listener feedback to episode 1. What will our lovely pieces of code make of this criticism? This week's topic is John Malkovich, who opened up to Malte about his contrarian perspectives on fame, power, and what truly matters in life while reflecting on his experie…
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Alfred Brendel: The Pianist Who Walked a Tortoise Through Vienna
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Send us a text Hosts Alex and Isabel talk about a remarkable interview with the legendary pianist and writer, Alfred Brendel, conducted by Malte Herwig eleven years before Brendel's death in 2025. Join us as we discover the surprising wit and wisdom of an extraordinary musical mind and talk about how Malte managed to get the famously cantankerous p…
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Send us a text What makes someone tick? And how do you get them to reveal their truest self? The Art of the Interview goes on an expedition into the human spirit, peeling back the layers of captivating conversations with some of the world’s most fascinating figures. Join hosts Alex and Isabel as they team up with veteran interviewer Malte Herwig to…
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AddictionZombie 1.11: Building Your Survivor Support System and Positive Affirmationz
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This week we look at the why's, the who's, and the how's of building your own personal zombie survival support network and adding positive self talk to your prepared bug out bag.
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AddictionZombie 1.10: Relapze, Cravingz V. Urges, and Triggerz
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In this episode, we dig into RELAPSE and the progressive stages we find ourselves in. We identify PAWS, find out the difference between cravings and urges, and talk about ways to keep triggers in check. Bonus, list of actual tips and tricks from actual people in recovery who are finding success.
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AddictionZombie 1.9: Boundaries/How to Set Them and Negative Zombie Self-talk
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In the episode, we look at the basics of boundaries and why they are important to our survival. We also aim at becoming more aware of our negative self-talk and how that is the 4eal zombie eating away at our brain!
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AddictionZombie 1.8: How My Self-Assessments Can Give You Control Over Your Zombies! Must Hear!
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In this Essential episode, we're looking into the origin of my AddictionZombie self-assessment to better understand how it came about, what's the logic and research behind each question asked, and what's with all the rating things 1-to-10? Understanding these things can truly give you the information you've needed to truly buy into this process and…
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1.5 Undead Weapons: Invazion - The Audio Series - Part One Finale
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Undead Weapons: Invazion 1.5 - Part One Finale - After what was promised to be a possible cure all drug is found to be anything but, the failed global community secretly comes together, without the US, to wipe the slate clean. Only it's not a traditional war that they've devised, instead their plan is to secretly ship their undead experimental bypr…
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AddictionZombie 1.7: Stagez of Change - Readiness and Roadblockz
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In this episode we learn about the process we all go through when it comes to making changes in our lives. We also look at how ready we are and get a few tools to knock down those zombie roadblocks that are holding us back.
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1.4 Undead Weapons: Invazion - The Audio Series
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Undead Weapons: Invazion 1.4 - After what was promised to be a possible cure all drug is found to be anything but, the failed global community secretly comes together, without the US, to wipe the slate clean. Only it's not a traditional war that they've devised, instead their plan is to secretly ship their undead experimental byproducts to America …
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AddictionZombie 1.6: Prosocial vs. Antisocial Survivorz
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In this episode, we learn the difference between sympathy and empathy, we look at our moral character, and how our beliefs my have led us to be either prosocial or antisocial survivors in our zombie apocalypse.
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1.3 Undead Weapons: Invazion - The Audio Series
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Undead Weapons: Invazion 1.3 - After what was promised to be a possible cure all drug is found to be anything but, the failed global community secretly comes together, without the US, to wipe the slate clean. Only it's not a traditional war that they've devised, instead their plan is to secretly ship their undead experimental byproducts to America …
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AddictionZombie 1.5: Zombiez, Drugz, and Our Body + What'z Our User Type?
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This session isn’t meant to preach to you in any way, but is instead going to serve the purpose of simply educating us about the main substances we find out there waiting to cause our zombie apocalypse and those drugs we see trending in our population.
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1.2 Undead Weapons: Invazion - The Audio Series
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Undead Weapons: Invazion 1.2 - After what was promised to be a possible cure all drug is found to be anything but, the failed global community secretly comes together, without the US, to wipe the slate clean. Only it's not a traditional war that they've devised, instead their plan is to secretly ship their undead experimental byproducts to America …
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AddictionZombie 1.4: Talkin' Zombiez, "Feed"back, and Relapze Planz
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This one's all about the importance of actual communication and how it helps overcome the AddictionZombies and promotes growth through regular, honest, active sharing, active listening, and feedback. Plus, we need to be building a relapse prevention plan. Just in case! Questions or comments? Let's engage!…
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1.1 Undead Weapons: Invazion - The Audio Series
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Undead Weapons: Invazion 1.1 - After what was promised to be a possible cure all drug is found to be anything but, the failed global community secretly comes together, without the US, to wipe the slate clean. Only it's not a traditional war that they've devised, instead their plan is to secretly ship their undead experimental byproducts to America …
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AddictionZombie 1.3: Outbreak/How Addiction Starts and How to Begin to Defeat it
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This episode builds on the last one and describes more about the ways our AddictionZombies begin to develop in our lives and lines up the fundamental things we can start to focus on to begin defeating them.
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AddictionZombie 1.2: Self-Preservation and Auto vs Mindless Zombie Thinking
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Here we talk about how essential it is to have a deeper understanding of what "Self Preservation" truly is and how tapping into this primal function can become a big part of our success in overcoming an addiction. In addition, answering the question, "Why do I do what I do?" or "what changed that helped me develop into who I am today?"…
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AddictionZombie 1.1: Why Addiction, Why Zombies?
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Welcome to AddictionZombie! Pardon the dust, this is a work in progress. This pilot episode and so let's get this ball rolling. In this episode, we introduce the concept of AddictionZombie and explain where I'm coming from with my mission to address addiction through self-preservation. I run you through a thought exercise that gets you into the sur…
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