Episodes

  • Play It Foward Episode 638 Racial Justice Educator Christine Saxman The Book Being White Today

    Play It Foward Episode 638 Racial Justice Educator Christine Saxman The Book Being White Today
    Sep 15 2024
    Thank you for being part of the conversation. This is Play It Forward. Real people. Real stories. The struggle to Play It Forward. Episode 638 with racial justice educator and author Christine Saxman. The idea that White people are under attack has permeated political discourse in recent elections. The election of 2024 will be no different. Being White Today: A Roadmap for a Positive Antiracist Life helps White people navigate the myriad messages they encounter about race. The book applies the White racial identity framework developed by psychologist Dr. Janet Helms to take a strong stance against racism. Using fictionalized scenarios and case studies, it offers a way to resist extremist messaging and recruitment. A helpful resource for White people who care about US society, in particular, White parents, educators, activists, and racial/social justice practitioners, this book also helps people understand antiracist messaging and how to use it strategically to create a larger community of White antiracists. The last decade witnessed two significant trends: (1) White nationalists successfully instilled weaponized messages related to White identity throughout conservative politics. (2) The movement for Black lives called on White people to grapple with their racial position and support racial justice efforts. While the far-right’s manipulative messaging is provocative and easy to grasp, antiracist messaging is complex and nuanced, which allows for significant misunderstanding. The competing narratives result in many White people disengaging entirely from issues of race and racial justice. Given that White identity is top-of-mind for politicians and activists across the political spectrum leading toward the 2024 election, it is essential that White people understand how White racial identity functions and react usefully. Being White Today connects the dots between far-right messaging, antiracism’s demands, and the role White racial identity plays in today’s politics and people’s lives. Tochluk and Saxman wrote Being White Today to help White people become resilient in the face of far-right manipulation. With empathy, nuance, and skill, the book achieves this by providing people with a positive vision for how to communicate effectively with White friends, family, and co-workers about race.
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    11 mins
  • Play It Forward Episode 637 With Chris Epting Author Of Where One Hearts The Rain

    Play It Forward Episode 637 With Chris Epting Author Of Where One Hearts The Rain
    Sep 1 2024
    Thank you for being part of the conversation. This is Play It Forward. Real people. Real stories. The struggle to Play It Forward. Episode 637 with author and historian Chris Epting. Where One Hears the Rain is a comprehensive, entertaining, and informative guide that explores the art of memoir writing and provides aspiring authors with the tools and inspiration to craft their own compelling personal narratives. Drawing on his journey as an author, collaborative writer, and decade-long tenure as a memoir writing workshop instructor, Chris Epting offers invaluable insights and practical advice to guide writers to their unique voice and shape their personal stories. This book delves into the essential aspects of memoir writing, from uncovering inspiration to developing compelling narratives to organizing and structuring the autobiographical narrative for maximum emotional impact. What sets Where One Hears the Rain apart is Epting's incorporation of lessons learned from his mentor, the legendary author John Cheever. Epting weaves Cheever's teachings seamlessly into the fabric of the book, enriching readers' understanding of the craft and exposing them to the wisdom passed down from one literary generation to another.
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    21 mins
  • Play It Forward Episode 636 Jeremy Kahn Releases The Book Mastering AI

    Play It Forward Episode 636 Jeremy Kahn Releases The Book Mastering AI
    Aug 24 2024
    Thank you for being part of the conversation. This is Play It Forward. Real people. Real stories. The struggle to Play It Forward. Episode 636 is with the author of Mastering AI Jeremy Kahn. A Fortune magazine journalist draws on his expertise and extensive contacts among the companies and scientists at the forefront of artificial intelligence to offer dramatic predictions of AI's impact over the next decade, from reshaping our economy and the way we work, learn, and create to unknitting our social fabric, jeopardizing our democracy, and fundamentally altering the way we think. Within the next five years, Jeremy Kahn predicts, AI will disrupt almost every industry and enterprise, with vastly increased efficiency and productivity. It will restructure the workforce, making AI copilots a must for every knowledge worker. It will revamp education, meaning children around the world can have personal, portable tutors. It will revolutionize health care, making individualized, targeted pharmaceuticals more affordable. It will compel us to reimagine how we make art, compose music, and write and publish books. The potential of generative AI to extend our skills, talents, and creativity as humans is undeniably exciting and promising. But while this new technology has a bright future, it also casts a dark and fearful shadow. AI will provoke pervasive, disruptive, potentially devastating knock-on effects. Leveraging his unrivaled access to the leaders, scientists, futurists, and others who are making AI a reality, Kahn argues that if not carefully designed and vigilantly regulated AI will deepen income inequality, depressing wages while imposing winner-take-all markets across much of the economy. AI risks undermining democracy, as truth is overtaken by misinformation, racial bias, and harmful stereotypes. Continuing a process begun by the internet, AI will rewire our brains, likely inhibiting our ability to think critically, to remember, and even to get along with one another-unless we all take decisive action to prevent this from happening.
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    10 mins
  • Play It Forward Episode 635 Brigadier General Paul Greg Smith Confessions Of A Weekend Warrior

    Play It Forward Episode 635 Brigadier General Paul Greg Smith Confessions Of A Weekend Warrior
    Aug 18 2024
    Thank you for being part of the conversation. This is Play It Forward. Real people. Real stories. The struggle to Play It Forward. Episode 635 is with Brigadier General Paul Greg Smith the author of the book Confessions Of A Weekend Warrior. America's National Guard was once considered a ragtag gaggle of pretend soldiers. Beginning in the 1980s the National Guard gradually transformed into today's highly flexible operational force that answers our nation's call for overseas combat deployments as well as domestic emergencies that run the gamut from lifesaving disaster responses to staffing Covid clinics. Brigadier General Paul "Greg" Smith describes his personal journey during these years, from a callow cadet to a committed commander leading military forces in response to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings. Smith gives a humorous, gritty, and sometimes touching glimpse into the inner workings of this unique military organization while offering portraits of the men and women who serve as the minutemen of our age. His reflections on service, duty, and the complexities of command will enlighten anyone who seeks to better understand the challenges of leadership. Their stories reveal more than mere imitations; they demonstrate the fascinating ways ideas evolve as they cross borders.
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    16 mins
  • Play It Forward Episode 634 With Film Maker Ed Glaser How The World Remade Hollywood

    Play It Forward Episode 634 With Film Maker Ed Glaser How The World Remade Hollywood
    Aug 11 2024
    Thank you for being part of the conversation. This is Play It Forward. Real people. Real stories. The struggle to Play It Forward. Episode 634 with author Ed Glaser. For decades, filmmakers worldwide have been remaking Hollywood movies in colorful ways. They've chronicled a singing and dancing Hannibal Lecter in India, star-crossed lovers aboard the doomed Nigerian ship Titanic, a Japanese expedition to the planet of the apes, and an uncivil war in Turkey between Captain America and a mobbed-up Spider-Man. Most of these films were low budget and many were unauthorized, but all of them were fantastic-and lately have begun to resurface thanks to cherry-picked YouTube clips. But why and how were they made in the first place? This book tells the little-known stories of the wily filmmakers who made an Italian 007 flick by casting Sean Connery's tradesman brother, produced a Turkish space opera by stealing a print of Star Wars for its effects footage, and transported a full-fledged Terminator to the present day-not from a post-apocalyptic future, but from the vibrant mythology of Indonesia(!) Their stories reveal more than mere imitations; they demonstrate the fascinating ways ideas evolve as they cross borders.
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    19 mins
  • Play It Forward Episode 633 Peter S Goodman Releases How The World Ran Out Of Everything

    Play It Forward Episode 633 Peter S Goodman Releases How The World Ran Out Of Everything
    Aug 4 2024
    Thank you for being part of the conversation. This is Play It Forward. Real people. Real stories. The struggle to Play It Forward. Episode 633 with author Peter S Goodman. In HOW THE WORLD RAN OUT OF EVERYTHING: Inside the Global Supply Chain (Mariner Books; on sale June 11), Peter S. Goodman, award-winning journalist and global economics correspondent at the New York Times, reveals the fascinating inner workings of our unstable worldwide supply chain and the factors that have led to its fragility. While the pandemic put a spotlight on the supply chain's state of distress, it merely laid bare the vulnerabilities that had building up over decades, underscoring the troubling reality that the system was always at risk of collapse-and still is.
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    18 mins
  • Play It Forward Episode 632 The Bible Answer Man Hank Hanegraaff The Complete Bible Answer Book

    Play It Forward Episode 632 The Bible Answer Man Hank Hanegraaff The Complete Bible Answer Book
    Jul 21 2024
    Thank you for being part of the conversation. This is Play It Forward. Real people. Real stories. The struggle to Play It Forward. Episode 632 with the Bible Answer Man. The Complete Bible Answer Book Hank Hanegraaff is better known as the “Bible Answer Man,” which is also the name of the nationally syndicated radio program in which he answers questions about the Bible and how its teachings apply to our lives today. Hank is also the president and chairman of the Christian Research Institute and the author of more than twenty books including The Complete Bible Answer Book - which arrives in an all-new revised and expanded collector’s edition on June 18.

    We all have questions about the Bible (whether we’ve read it or not!). The Complete Bible Answer Book provides answers to more than 200 of the top questions people have asked Bible teacher and theologian Hank Hanegraaff over the last 40 years.
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    9 mins
  • Play It Forward Episode 631 With Entertainment Journalist Adam Long Interviewing Arroe Collins

    Play It Forward Episode 631 With Entertainment Journalist Adam Long Interviewing Arroe Collins
    Jul 14 2024
    Thank you for being part of the conversation. This is Play It Forward. Real people. Real stories. The struggle to Play It Forward. Episode 631 is Adam Long’s extensive conversation with a radio host raised in Montana who came incredibly close to realizing his childhood fantasy. Then what?
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    40 mins