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Chris Nowinski is a former football player at Harvard University and professional wrestler with WWE, World Wrestling Entertainment. After enduring a career-ending head injury, Chris has dedicated his professional life to serving patients and families affected by brain trauma, particularly Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, a progressive neurodegenerative disease that develops after repeated head injuries. Jay and Chris discuss the state of head injuries in American athletics, the difference between advocating for head safety at youth and professional levels, Chris’ newest research, and much more. Episode Chapters (00:00) Intro (00:50) changes in the culture around concussions in the past two decades (02:39) padded helmet technology (03:55) concussion reporting in the NFL (10:35) Chris’ career path and concussion history (14:52) connecting with activists who haven’t themselves suffered a traumatic brain injury (17:42) SHAAKE - a new sign to identify concussions (20:53) Unions can help players advocate for safety policies (23:10) final thoughts and goodbye For video episodes, watch on www.youtube.com/@therudermanfamilyfoundation Stay in touch: X: @JayRuderman | @RudermanFdn LinkedIn: Jay Ruderman | Ruderman Family Foundation Instagram: All About Change Podcast | Ruderman Family Foundation To learn more about the podcast, visit https://allaboutchangepodcast.com/…
In this episode I talk a bit about what I see in the movie Braveheart, specifically the movie as a grand bit of historical fantasy.
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Today I talk about Mouse Guard, one of my favorite comic books (it may well be my favorite in fact) as well as comics in general, my thoughts on comedy, Celtic and Irish mythology, and of course, mice.
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I wanted to talk about a fun medieval book. For some reason I chose the Silver Chair by CS Lewis. Prepare for a dive to the depths of the earth and the heights of heaven as I explore this allegory of being a conduit of Godly love.
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For the inaugural episode of this iteration of The Lionskin Podcast, I talk about the most disagreeable part of The Lord of the Rings, which just happens to be the entire story’s summary. I also talk about ghosts, trees talking to each other, and I debut my own very simple arrangement of Rosin the Bow for mandolin, a traditional American, Scottish,…
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