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Conversations with the World's Most Interesting People - Welcome to the conversation. From Americas hills to its dales and beyond -- curious dude Brad Rowe and keeper of useless knowledge Noam Dromi seek out deep thinkers and shallow swimmers with reckless abandon as they attempt to find out anything and everything that is interesting about the world as we know it. From quantum psychics to sorcery, from Wall Street to the remote hills of Afghanistan, MIPtalk and its guests will take you there (and that is only in the first month). Each week, your intrepid hosts will mix up these morsels into a hearty stew of superlative podcasting goodness. They do it because they care.

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Created on: 01 Mar 2009
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Add this to another station	Counting to 8 (34.50MB; download) -- This week’s guest is Dr. Gary Gates. Gary is co-author of The Gay and Lesbian Atlas and is widely acknowledged as the nation’s leading expert on the demography and geography of the gay and lesbian population. His doctoral dissertation included the first significant research exploring characteristics of same-sex couples using U.S. Census data. He has since published extensively on the demographic and economic traits of the lesbian and gay population. His work has been featured in many national and international media outlets, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, the Financial Times, and National Public Radio. Prior to completing his PhD from the H. John Heinz School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University, Gary facilitated the development of and co-authored a statewide HIV prevention plan for Pennsylvania. Gates’ background includes a Master of Divinity degree from St. Vincent Seminary and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. Gary currently works as a Senior Research Fellow at The Williams Institute. His current research projects include a series of studies exploring the demographics and economic traits of Asian Pacific Islanders, Latino/as, and African-Americans in same-sex couples in California, a study of bi-national same-sex couples in the United States, and an NIH-funded research project comparing same-sex couples in the United States and Canada. Since the time this interview was first recorded the states of Vermont, Maine and Iowa have legalized same sex marriage. For additional reference we’ve included links to some of the people, places and things discussed in this episode: Johnstown, Pennsylvania Stillers Saint Vincent Seminary Rolling Rock Latrobe, Pennsylvania Carnegie Mellon University The Urban Institute Great Society Brookings Institution Rand Institute National Institutes of Health (NIH) Zachary A. Kramer UALR William H. Bowen School of Law Kim Pearson Dean Spade Transgender Transsexual The End of “Gay Affluence” Phil Donahue Alfred Kinsey Kinsey Starring Liam Neeson Kinsey Reports Kinsey Scale Gay by Choice? Answers To Questions About Sexual Orientation & Homosexuality Mainstreaming Gay Marriage 2000 Census Information on Gay and Lesbian Couples LGB Poverty Report Gay Marketing LGBT Healthcare Log Cabin Republicans Will and Grace Brokeback Mountain Gay Marriage Employment Non-Discrimination Act Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Ottumwa, Iowa Radar O’Reilly Matthew Shepard Domestic Partner Initiative California Proposition 8 Prop 8 and The Black Vote Gavin Newsom The Battle Over Same Sex Marriage California Ballot Proposition Obama and Prop 8 No on 8 Yes on 8 Coverage of Prop 8 Economic Impact of Gay Marriage Gay Divorce For Gay Couples, Obstacles to Health Insurance Why Do Gay Men Live in San Francisco? City of West Hollywood (WeHo) Tantalizing Tarragon Perks Up Fish Fillets Pork and Apples Marry In Delicious Sauce Battlestar Galactica Skating with Celebrities Rick & Steve Sister Fidelma Mysteries by Peter Tremayne Brother Cadfael The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs Amazon Kindle Advanced Sleep Phase Syndrome Source:* MIPtalk » Podcast Feed episodes Selected by: Carl Lempke [ stations ], Tue, 19 May 2009 17:03:14 UTC
Add this to another station	The Scholarship of Common Sense (25.18MB; download) -- This week’s guest is Rick Wartzman. Rick is the director of the Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University. Before taking this post, he worked for two decades as a newspaper reporter, editor and business columnist. He began his career in 1987 at The Wall Street Journal, where he served in a variety of positions, including White House correspondent, Houston bureau chief, and founding editor of the paper’s weekly California section. He joined the Los Angeles Times in 2002 as business editor, and in that role helped shape “The Wal-Mart Effect,” a three-part series that won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. He then became editor of the newspaper’s Sunday magazine, West, which under his leadership was named by the Missouri School of Journalism as the best regularly scheduled feature supplement in America. He is the co-author, with Mark Arax, of the best-seller The King of California: J.G. Boswell and the Making of a Secret American Empire, which was selected as one of the ten best books of 2003 by the San Francisco Chronicle and one of the ten best nonfiction books of the year by the Los Angeles Times. It also won, among other honors, a California Book Award and the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. His most recent book, Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, was published by PublicAffairs in September 2008. You can read some of Rick’s recent columns for Business Week here. For additional reference we’ve included links to some of the people, places and things discussed in this episode: Jackson, Michigan Obscene in the Extreme by Rick Wartzman Dust Bowl Detroit Unemployment Rate Detroit Electricians Rewire Flooded Iowa City Harley Shaiken Bruce Springsteen - Ghost of Tom Joad Rage Against the Machine - Ghost of Tom Joad So What’s a Toxic Asset? Credit Default Swaps Mortgage Backed Securities AIG Bonus Outrage Peter Drucker Drucker Institute Claremont Graduate University Drucker Archives Rick Wartzman Named Director of the Drucker Institute Los Angeles Times To Launch West Magazine The New America Foundation AIG and Drucker’s Glimpse At A Very Dark Place What Would Peter Drucker Say? Put A Cap on High CEO Pay Invisible Hand Free Market Letting US Automakers Fail The Dillema For US Car Workers Employee Free Choice Act Great Depression New Deal The First 100 Days FDR Court Packing Fiasco Is Obama Doing Too Much? Six Rules for Presidents What Obama Shouldn’t Do The Effective Executive by Peter F. Drucker Multitasking Is Counterproductive Obama on 60 Minutes London Business School Above All Do No Harm Managing Organizations Organized Abandonment Los Angeles Times Spanish Language Newspapers Still Growing in US Rocky Mountain News To Close Seattle Post-Intelligencer Prints Final Edition Out With The Dead Wood For Newspapers San Diego Paper Lands Fire Sale Buyer Google Dubbed Internet Parasite Pasadena Paper May Outsource “Local” Coverage Steering Clear of A Downward Jobs Spiral Big Sunday Randye Hoder Gordon Gekko Greed Is Good Merle Haggard Johnny Cash Steve Earle Elvis Costello The King of California by Mark Arax and Rick Wartzman Rick Wartzman on The Patt Morrison Show (requires Real Audio) Rick Wartzman on Airtalk with Larry Mantle Riverbig by Aris Janigian David Levinson - Big Sunday Drucker Apps Drucker Institute on Twitter Source: MIPtalk » Podcast Feed episodes Selected by: Carl Lempke [ stations ], Tue, 19 May 2009 17:02:05 UTC
Add this to another station	The Hardening of the Categories (32.18MB; download) -- This week’s guest is KC Cole. For the past ten years, K.C. Cole has been a science writer and columnist for the Los Angeles Times; she has also written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Smithsonian, Discover, Newsweek, Newsday, Esquire, Ms., People and many other publications. Her articles were featured in The Best American Science Writing 2004 and 2005 and The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2002. She has also been an editor at Discover and Newsday. Cole is the author of seven nonfiction books, including Mind Over Matter: Conversations with the Cosmos; The Hole in the Universe: How Scientists Peered Over the Edge of Emptiness and Found Everything; and The Universe and the Teacup, the Mathematics of Truth and Beauty. She is also a regular commentator on science issues for KPCC-FM (Visit Cole’s KPCC archive). She has developed and taught courses in science, culture and society as a Fellow at Yale and Wesleyan Universities and as adjunct professor of Science, Society and Communication at UCLA. Cole particularly likes to show how science is integral to the arts and politics (and vice versa), and firmly believes, in the words of an artist friend that, “the worst disease afflicting human kind is ‘hardening of the categories’.” To that end, she runs a monthly series of informal events on science/art/politics known as Categorically Not! She’s made a point of writing about science in unlikely venues (such as women’s magazines) and unlikely forms (at the LA Times, she wrote about the mathematics of voting, the science of affirmative action and why the OJ Simpson trial had everything to do with the discovery of the top quark). She has been honored with the American Institute of Physics Science Writing prize; the Los Angeles Times award for deadline reporting; the Skeptics’ Society Edward R. Murrow Award for Thoughtful Coverage of Scientific Controversies; Los Angeles Times award for best explanatory journalism, and the Elizabeth A. Wood Science Writing Award from the American Crystallographic Association. Cole has been associated with San Francisco’s “museum of human awareness,” the Exploratorium, since 1972, and is currently working on a philosophical biography of its founder (and her mentor), the late physicist Frank Oppenheimer. Before getting into science writing, she wrote about international politics, travel, women’s issues, education and humor. She is an active member of JAWS (Journalism and Women Symposium). To learn more about KC Cole visit her official website here. For additional reference we’ve included links to some of the people, places and things discussed in this episode: Port Washington, Long Island Rio de Janeiro Samba Cachaça Gulf of Tonkin Incident Frank Oppenheimer Sweet Briar College Columbia University - 1968 Tricia Nixon Prague Spring Radio Free Europe Miloš Forman The Fireman’s Ball Citizen Exchange Corps Moon Landing Chappaquiddick Incident Lyndon Johnson Leonid Brezhnev Iron Curtain American Revolution Prague, Two Years After by KC Cole Victory Navasky Alan J. Friedman Thomas Humphrey The Exploratorium: A Participatory Museum Philip Morrison Robert R. Wilson Uranium Isotopes Radio Liberty General Groves The Oppenheimer Case: Security on Trial by Philip M. Stern Trinity Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki J. Edgar Hoover Official Noticers of Society The Feynman Lectures on Physics The Practical and Sentimental Fruits of Science Complementarity Neils Bohr Quarks Symmetry String Theory Gravitation Hers Column Entropy Stephen Jay Gould Lewis Thomas Wave Interference Resonance Coupled Pendulums Neutrinos A Tough Act to Follow Categorically Not Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens by KC Cole The Hole in the Universe by KC Cole Roald Hoffmann Cornelia Street Cafe Santa Monica Art Studios Bob Miller Bubbleology Sterling Johnson Categorically Not - Bubbles Autism The Musical The Constant Fire by Adam Frank Source: MIPtalk » Podcast Feed episodes Selected by: Carl Lempke [ stations ], Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:07:26 UTC
Add this to another station	Remembering Larry (51.94MB; download) -- Larry Hertzog was born. There have been rumors to the contrary but his mother insists that the event occurred late in the sweltering summer of 1951. When the residents of Flushing, N.Y. became aware of his existence in their neighborhood, the family was soon forced to flee into the suburbs of New Jersey. Fate would have it that Larry was destined to grow up in the John Hughes world of Teaneck, New Jersey. It was in the flames of suburban heat that this more-than-slightly-twisted personality was forged. Growing up, Larry got along well with his peers. He admired many girls and though his admiration was rarely returned, he made sure to repay their generosity by indulging in copious evening fantasies. There were a few boys that he managed to befriend though many drew the line when he requested they join him in singing show tunes. At the extremely mature age of 16, Larry quit Teaneck High School to pursue a career in horticulture. When that failed, he briefly attended NYU Film School. When it became apparent that kissing Marty Scorsese’s ass was part of the curriculum, Larry saw yet another opportunity to cut bait and leave another institution of higher education behind him. Untethered in the late 60’s, Larry realized he now had a chance to pursue his generation’s foray into “free love.” He discovered, to his delight, that although no one of the opposite sex would pay attention to him, his fantasies were, indeed, free. With horticulture behind him and a promising future ahead of him, Larry packed up his bags and moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in the film industry. He soon found himself behind Camera 1 covering the Los Angeles Thunderbirds, an all-female Roller Derby team. Though these women appeared to be “on a similar intellectual plane,” they, too, ignored him. (Except for an incident in which he was upended with a flying crotch block.) With his career in athletics a shamble, he turned to the only avenue left to him. Writing. He was counseled to write about what he knew best. He soon discovered there was little market for scripts about “night fantasies.” The rest of the story involves his work on “Kate Loves a Mystery,” “Hart to Hart,” “Hardcastle and McCormick,” “Stingray,” “J.J. Starbuck,” “seaQuest,” “Nowhere Man,” “Profiler,” “Walker, Texas Ranger,” “Hunter,” “La Femme Nikita” and “Missing” (referred to by his biographers as “The Canadian Years.”) The end of the story hasn’t been written yet though many are anxious to hear it. When it comes, it’s reasonably sure that the headlines will be HUGE. “Failed Horticulturist Chokes on Double-Whopper with Cheese.” ——– Sadly, friend of MIPtalk Larry Hertzog passed away on April 19, 2008. Brad and Noam have decided to honor his memory by reairing an episode of his podcast series Drinks with Larry and Lauren. This episode is a bit longer that usual but definitely worth the listen. For additional reference we’ve included links to some of the people, places and things discussed in this episode: City of Prescott, Arizona Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Woodrow Wilson The League of Nations The Heritage Foundation The Andre Agassi Foundation Children for Tomorrow Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health Frank Gehry Oscar Goodman - Mayor of Las Vegas Oscar Goldman - Character in Bionic Woman GLAAD Media Awards Shelter Here! Network Regent Entertainment Shelter DVD Audio Commentary Trevor Wright Jonah Markowitz Noah’s Arc JD Disalvatore - The Smoking Cocktail Paul Colichman Carolyn Coal Gay and Lesbian Elder Housing Same Sex Marriage in Iowa Gary Gates A Place to Live: The Story of Triangle Square Cleveland International Film Festival The 23rd London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival The 25th Annual Boston LGBT Film Festival Highlander: The Series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys Xena: Warrior Princess UPN DuMont Television Network Star Trek Voyager Star Trek directed by JJ Abrams Nowhere Man The Prisone Source: MIPtalk » Podcast Feed episodes Selected by: Carl Lempke [ stations ], Sun, 12 Apr 2009 04:32:36 UTC
Add this to another station	The Toilet Paper Dilemma (37.05MB; download) -- It was an impossible situation for Amichai Lau-Lavie. He was “sitting on the john one Sabbath afternoon” and realized that there were no more squares of toilet paper left from the pile that his older brother had precut in advance of the Jewish day of rest. On the Sabbath, observant Jews are called upon to cease from creation; to be and not to do. In this Orthodox Jewish household, tearing toilet paper off the roll was considered doing, because “you take something that is and create a new entity” and was therefore not allowed. The absence of precut toilet paper on that particular day was actually the result of 4 year old Amichai’s discovery that the squares burned beautifully when he feed them to the Sabbath candles, a ritual he had taken to practicing when his father and brothers would leave for synagogue. Somehow he was never caught. So there he was on the toilet, horrified to discover that there was no more toilet paper squares and wrestling with the decision of whether he should cut a square off the roll or not. Would he tear (a sin more serious than even burning) and risk the wrath of the Lord or not wipe his ass and risk the wrath of his mother? To find out what happened next, check out the latest episode of MIPtalk. You can learn more about Amichai here. For additional reference we’ve included links to some of the people, places and things discussed in this episode: Garrett Creek Ranch Reboot Orthodox Judaism The Holocaust Zionist Israel Sabbath Sabbath Candles Heresy Torah Yeshiva Homosexuality and Judaism Leviticus Israeli Army Pilpul Talmud Rainbow Gathering Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin First Intifada Ehud Barak Ariel Sharon The Stages of Jewish Mourning Binding of Isaac Yigal Amir Congregation B’nai Jeshurun Sephardic Ashkenazi Marshall Meyer Benjamin Netanyahu Rabbi Shmuley Torah Service Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Maven Storahtelling El Al Rosh Hashanah Cool Tool For School Bar and Bat Mitzvah Hadassah Gross Havdalah Jerusalem Open House The Met: Live in HD Obama Inauguration Invocation Prayer Rick Warren Saddleback Church The Purpose Driven Life Rick Warren on Gay Marriage Genesis One Vs. Genesis Two Faith House Exodus Hagar Moses Hamantashen Purim Neil Gaiman The Sandman Watchmen by Alan Moore Grant Morrison The King David Report by Stefan Heym Kings Melila Hellner-Eshed Zohar Source: MIPtalk » Podcast Feed episodes Selected by: Carl Lempke [ stations ], Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:22:26 UTC
Add this to another station	White Hates and Black Hats (22.88MB; download) -- This week’s guest is Michelle Kydd Lee. Michelle is the Executive Director of the Foundation at Creative Artists Agency (CAA), a talent and literary agency based in Century City. In this role, Ms. Lee serves as a consultant to clients, executives and corporations on their philanthropic and pro-social initiatives. The CAA Foundation supports teaching and learning in America by using the natural resources of the entertainment community to create positive social change. The Foundation also develops art and technology programs for the underserved schools of Venice, CA, Nashville and New York City, reaching more than 8,000 students and teachers in those communities. The focus of the work is supporting the arts and technology to the underserved. Michelle also serves on the national board of Project Rebirth, a cinematic landmark chronicling the rebirth of Ground Zero in New York City. Project Rebirth will capture the restoration of the entire World Trade Center site through 35mm time-lapse photography. This project is being produced by Project Rebirth, Inc., a New York nonprofit corporation dedicated to the film’s creation, production and distribution. Michelle also serves on the national board of the Step Up Women’s Network and First Art. Michelle currently lives with her husband Damon and their sons Carter and Beckett, in Santa Monica Canyon, CA. For additional reference we’ve included links to some of the people, places and things discussed in this episode: CAA: A Hollywood Agency With Star Power Californians for Obama Out to Boost Odds In Nevada The Official Run DC Shirt Hillary Clinton at the 2008 DNC Michelle Obama at the 2008 DNC Barack Obama at the 2008 DNC Lara Porzak Photography Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi Wedding Q & A With Richard Lovett Bosnian War Rwandan Genocide Jackson Hole Snake River Punk’d Corporate Social Responsibility Cause Related Marketing Angelina Jolie & UNHCR Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) Michelynn ‘Miki” Woodard VDAY Paul Vandeventer Community Partners The One Campaign Make It Right Foundation New Orleans Malaria No More 30 Rock Hulu Superbowl Commercial Charlie Rose Los Angeles Herald Examiner The Economist John Legend The Beijing Consensus by Joshua Cooper Ramo Marian Wright Edelman The Sea Is So Wide and My Boat Is So Small Source: MIPtalk » Podcast Feed episodes Selected by: Carl Lempke [ stations ], Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:42:42 UTC
Add this to another station	The Hands On Movement (33.02MB; download) -- To illustrate the reaction that visitors often have when they visit San Francisco’s Exploratorium where he works as the Senior Scientist, Thomas Humphrey tells the story of two 16-year-old Goth girls who came to the museum with major attitude and posturing that betrayed their lack of interest in the surroundings. As soon as they saw a particular exhibit that caught their attention their facade dropped instantly. Suddenly they were like little kids, caught up in the wonder of scientific discovery and how “cool” everything was. Humphrey explains that when you give people respect by saying “this is an interesting thing but we’re not going to tell you what you have to do with it…part of what you’re gonna do is figure it out for yourself” it permeates throughout everything that happens in the building. For him it’s what makes the job worthwhile (and if they exhibit their enthralled by is one that you created it’s even a little better). To learn more about Thomas Humphrey, the history of the Exploratorium and Psychics 101 check out the latest episode of MIPtalk. For additional reference we’ve included links to some of the people, places and things discussed in this episode: Exploratorium Bernard Maybeck Panama-Pacific International Exposition Vasco Núñez de Balboa 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Panama Canal Opening Presidio of San Francisco US Highway 101 Frank Oppenheimer J. Robert Oppenheimer The Manhattan Project American Communist Party Joseph McCarthy HUAC Pagosa Springs F=MA Hands on Movement Milwaukee Public Museum Association of Science and Technology Centers Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory California Institute of Technology Echo Tube Sonotube Listening Vessels Parabolic Microphone Synchrotron Particle Accelerator Proton Neutron Electron Particle Physics 1 E-6 S Bubble Chamber Theoretical Physics Enrico Fermi W and Z Bosons Large Hadron Collider Cosmic Ray Particles Black Hole Ultra High Energy Cosmic RaySPS CERN Higgs Boson Peter Higgs Higgs Mechanism E=MC² 14 TeV Quantum Mechanics Planck’s Constant The Physics of iPhone The Big Bang Absolute Zero T=0 Low Temperature Physics/Cryogenics The Big Crunch Accelerating Universe Center of the Universe Large Scale Structure 11 Dimensional Universe Worm Hole 2nd Wednesdays The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose Pythagorean Theorem Dancing With the Stars Flatpicking Doc Watson Richard Feynman David Rawlings Pandora on iPhone Gillian Welch SeeqPod Source: MIPtalk » Podcast Feed episodes Selected by: Carl Lempke [ stations ], Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:14:40 UTC
Add this to another station	My Good Rope Horse Is Not For Sale (29.79MB; download) -- This week’s guest is L. Hunter Lovins. You can learn more about her here. For additional reference we’ve included links to some of the people, places and things discussed in this episode: Presidio School of Management Cowboy Ethics by James P. Owen David R. Stoecklein Green California Schools Summit Triple Bottom Line Integrated Bottom Line STMicroelectronics and Climate Change BHAG Good to Great by Jim Collins Built to Last by Jim Collins The Decision to Go to the Moon DuPont Announces New Targets to Reduce Greenhouse Gass Emissions Bush Rejects Kyoto-Style G8 Deal Using Energy More Efficiently John L. Lewis Chaparral Country Sequoyah School Occidental College Sociology Department Nudibranch San Bernardino County Mining History Collectible Specimens Litter the Mojave Desert Tree People Andy Lipkis Jeff Hohensee Tu Bishvat Haight-Ashbury What the Dormouse Said by John Markoff Peak Oil Blower Door Thermographic Inspections Barack Obama - New Energy for America Air-to-Air Heat Exchanger A Vision for a Green Afghanistan Panjshir Valley Hybrid Power System Bergey Windpower Company Natural Capitalism Ismail Khan BearingPoint How Wal-Mart is Destroying America and The World and What You Can Do About It by Bill Quinn Wal-Mart Sustainability Progress Report Wal-Mart Struggling In Germany Carbon Disclosure Project Bright Future for China’s Solar Billionaire Arctic Summers Ice Free by 2013 James Lovelock James Hansen California Utility to Spread Solar Power Plant Across Rooftops Grid Parity Conflicted Emotions Follow Tennessee Coal Ash Spill Green For All Voltaix The Heartland Institute Learning to Speak Climate Goldman Sachs ESG Investment Research Economist Intelligence Unit An Inconvenient Truth Erik Rasmussen The Berlin Mandate Dr. Tariq Banuri Natural Capitalism Solutions The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb Team Roping Will Semmes Peter DeNeufville Source: MIPtalk » Podcast Feed episodes Selected by: Unregistered Visitor, Sat, 07 Mar 2009 04:09:03 UTC
Add this to another station	The Dolphins Came Back to Malibu (39.98MB; download) -- Jon Turteltaub had a run in with a gorilla. It was his third trip back to the African continent, a place he had first visited will directing the film Instinct starring Anthony Hopkins and Cuba Gooding Jr. He was standing with a group of tourists in the rolling hills of Uganda, observing roughly 30 mountain gorillas who had reluctantly come to accept people visiting them. Except for one. The “big bully protector of the family”, as Turteltaub describes the animal, didn’t like where he was sitting. The 5 foot tall, 450 pound gorilla with “a head the size of Kansas and arms the size of Missouri” reared up and came charging, instantly traversing a distance of 30 or 40 yards in seconds. Everyone in the group backed up but Jon stood his ground. He felt the gorilla brush past him and was profoundly relieved that he had been spared. Immediately afterward he remembers a thump on his back that “felt like a car”. To find out what happened next check out the latest episode of MIPtalk. If you’d like to learn more about Jon you can check out his credits here. For additional reference we’ve included links to some of the people, places and things discussed in this episode: Winter’s Tale US Navy Deploys Dolphins Against Terror Whale Deaths Linked to Navy Sonar Tests The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Everybody Poos by Taro Gomi Fantasia Saul Turteltaub Wesleyan University Think Big The Barbarian Brothers 3 Ninjas Cool Runnings Spencer Breslin sings JJJS I.Q. Joe Roth From the Earth to the Moon Jerry Bruckheimer National Treasure National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets Jericho Nuts Harper’s Island Rwanda Cinema Center Creative Visions Foundation Dan Eldon Paul Kagame Colin Powell Karl Rove Joe The Plumber Pixar Source: MIPtalk » Podcast Feed episodes Selected by: Carl Lempke [ stations ], Sun, 01 Mar 2009 07:03:33 UTC
Add this to another station	The Habit of Giving (31.23MB; download) -- Adlai Wertman had a very successful career on Wall Street. Born to middle class parents who valued education, he looked at his good fortune as being about “everything but me”. The Wall Street pace and the rewards that came from winning was addictive, but he felt that using his skills just to make money for corporations or for himself was a “remarkably selfish waste of time”. He had a responsibility to changes people’s lives. It was never a question of if, simply a matter of when. He figured he would stay in the high stakes game until he was 50. When Adlai was 35, his older brother died in his arms. A few years later he was diagnosed with melanoma. Suddenly it occurred to him that there was no guarantee he would live to see 50. It was time for a change. He quit Wall Street and moved his family to LA. His colleagues in the finance community all came up with their own reason for why he would walk away from a high paying job to go help homeless people. He had “out niced” them. In their minds, the explanation couldn’t be as simple as his need to follow a calling. It had to be that he was burned out. Or that he suffered a mental breakdown. When he was first interviewing for a job at Chrysalis (the homeless organization he would end up running for a number of years) the assembled group, which included some members of the board of directors, decided that what he was really doing was cleaning up his resume so that he could run for mayor. Adlai was later told that after he left the interview one of them stood up, slammed a fist down on the table and triumphantly declared “no one is going to use our Chrysalis for their own personal benefit”. Everyone wanted to define the narrative because they could not accept that he just wanted to help people. But there’s much more to the story. Welcome to the very first episode of MIPtalk - Conversations With the World’s Most Interesting People. To learn more about Adlai Wertman you can read his bio here. For additional reference we’ve included links to some of the people, places and things discussed in this episode: Pentagon Keeps Dead Out of Sight Draft Lottery Jamaica Estates, Queens Cable Corruption Scandal The King of Queens The Long Island Press Story Brook University Ian Dury and the Blockheads Schwinn Sting-Ray Life Is With People Brentwood Park Chrysalis Arafat’s Billions USC Marshall Society and Business Lab Red Cross and Hurricane Katrina Bernard Madoff Gerard J. Tellis Milton Friedman Works Progress Administration Rachel Getting Married Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson Source: MIPtalk » Podcast Feed episodes Selected by: Carl Lempke [ stations ], Sun, 01 Mar 2009 07:03:19 UTC
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