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The Night‘s End Podcast is a short story podcast. With a focus on dark fiction, it will leave you screaming for the night‘s end before each story is through. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Shrink The Nation

David and Robby

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Where America lies on the couch — and we pour the bourbon. Hosted by board-certified psychiatrists with deep backgrounds in military leadership, tech and systems thinking, Shrink The Nation blends clinical insight with dark humor to diagnose the psychological dysfunction at the heart of American culture. From grandiosity to cognitive dissonance, narcissism to political tribalism, we explore why the country feels like it’s losing its mind — and what it would actually take to stay sane. Every ...
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Join us on an exploration of health, science, spirituality, social and economic issues, and more. Listen as we investigate and consider opposing views of commonly held beliefs, values, "facts," and paradigms. Open your mind and prepare to challenge things you were taught in school, things your parents taught you, things you hear on the news and read in books, newspapers, websites and social media.
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Forum tells remarkable and true stories about who we are and where we live. In the first hour, Alexis Madrigal convenes the diverse voices of the Bay Area, before turning to Mina Kim for the second hour to chronicle and center Californians’ experience. In an increasingly divided world, Mina and Alexis host conversations that inform, challenge and unify listeners with big ideas and different viewpoints. Want to call/submit your comments during our live Forum program Mon-Fri, 9am-11am? We'd lo ...
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The Art of Perseverance

CompassPoint Biblical Counseling, Inc.

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Soulcare for the Afflictions of Life Storytelling and culturally relevant insight delivered with a Biblical Counseling perspective! The Art of Perseverance offers faith-based clarity helping listeners to navigate the afflictions of life. Created and hosted by Steven Hocker, a seasoned voice in Christian media; Steve's signature wit, engaging personality, and affable vulnerability, makes The Art of Perseverance a cultural catalyst in a time of spiritual drift and digital dissonance.
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Elevate with Robert Glazer

Robert Glazer | YAP Media

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Discover the keys to unlocking your full potential with the Elevate Podcast. Hosted by Robert Glazer, award-winning entrepreneur, #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author, and creator of the Friday Forward, the Elevate Podcast features interviews with world-renowned business leaders, New York Times bestselling authors, and leading experts who share their insights, best practices, and advice on how to elevate your life, your leadership, and your business. Whether you're seeking to cultivate ...
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When Lambs Are Silent is a movement committed to the belief that just because the world is the way it is, does not mean it must remain that way. We are dedicated to the idea that change is possible, believing that as human’s we encounter each other through our stories and that in order to challenge the dominate narratives of our society, that we need to do more than just hear the stories of our whanau, we need to listen. For it is in our stories that we fully come to know and understand one ...
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Four Seas One Family

James Thomas

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Four Seas One Family focuses on global culture and events to prove we all have much more in common than we think. We try to open a window from a view most of us are unable or unwilling to see from our "home nation" and assist in bringing constructive insights into how we as global citizens must work together while looking beyond the rhetoric in our local and social media. We are all global citizens from different backgrounds and beliefs, so let us learn about the commonalities we share deepl ...
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Andy and Cole aim to enlighten ourselves and others on current events in Asia and America. Through our different perspectives and experiences, we hope people of all ages and backgrounds can learn something from our Gen Z a**es. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/zamn-columbus/support
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What do frog skin, polyester hair and gene-edited pig kidneys have in common? They’re all part of humanity’s long quest to swap out ailing parts of our bodies, according to science writer Mary Roach. From prosthetic limbs to printable organs, Roach joins to talk about the history and complexities of human body replacement and where the science is t…
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Nuclear capabilities have increased dramatically over the past decade and continue to grow, with the U.S. Department of Defense spending $1.5 trillion on nuclear weapons and infrastructure upgrades. But the conversation around nuclear war has only gotten quieter. The anti-nuclear movement of the 1960s-80s was one of the largest protest movements of…
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On a classic episode of Weekend Conversations on ⁠the Elevate Podcast⁠, host Robert Glazer and producer Mick Sloan discuss a unique approach to countering harmful and hateful beliefs, championed by educator and author Irshad Manji. Robert and Mick dig into why arguing with people we disagree with doesn't work, and why it's much more effective to se…
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Crises unfold around us daily: gun violence, devastating foreign wars and U.S. democratic norms shattering. And still, we cook dinner and go to work. For those directly affected, the harms are inescapable. But for others, the contrast between catastrophic headlines and ordinary routines creates a dizzying dissonance: life moving as normal, against …
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New Yorker magazine poetry editor Kevin Young has called poetry “the most efficient mode of time travel.” In his new volume of poems “Night Watch,” Young, a literary hyphenate who edits, writes and teaches, takes readers on a journey of loss and re-emergence. From his cycle of poems about a conjoined pair of twins born into slavery and kidnapped to…
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Climatologist Michael Mann and vaccine expert Peter Hotez say we’re in an “antiscience superstorm.” It’s a movement that has upended federal health agencies, defunded research and weaponized social media and AI to advance its agenda. And now, some of the nation’s most vocal antiscience figures are in major positions of power. We talk to Hotez and M…
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For the second time in just four months, BART had a systemwide outage on Friday, stranding morning commuters for hours and bringing Bay Bridge traffic to a standstill. The maddening meltdown is but one of the BART’s major woes. A promised $750 million dollar loan to shore up struggling Bay Area transit agencies has been tied up in back-room wrangli…
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Charles Duhigg⁠ is a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist and the bestselling author of three books: The Power of Habit, Smarter Faster Better and his latest, Supercommunicators, which was published this year. Charles is a winner of the National Academies of Sciences, National Journalism, and George Polk awards, and he currently writes f…
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After a whale struck Maurice and Maralyn Bailey’s boat in 1972, the British couple found themselves stranded on a tiny rubber raft in the Pacific Ocean. In a new book, journalist Sophie Elmhirst looks at how the shipwrecked couple survived together for months – starving and pushed to their emotional limits. We’ll talk to Elmhirst about relationship…
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Every month, 5.5 million Californians rely on Cal Fresh, the state’s version of food stamps. But Trump’s $186 billion in cuts to SNAP, the nation’s primary anti-hunger program, means that California will lose billions of dollars in funding. Experts note that these changes to SNAP, which began rolling out this month, constitute a drastic overhaul of…
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Millions of people are having deeply personal conversations with AI chatbots, but how safe are these interactions? We’re joined by two technology reporters who have been investigating troubling cases, including a California teenager whose months-long chats with ChatGPT took a tragic turn and a vulnerable man who was convinced by one of Meta’s AI fe…
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Political economist, educator, author, and former labor secretary, Robert Reich, has spent decades examining inequality as a way to make sense of the world. His career has focused on economic justice, the impacts of globalization and our shifting economy. We’ll talk with Reich, who recently retired from teaching at UC Berkeley, about the lessons he…
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David Gelles is an award-winning New York Times reporter and bestselling author. He has extensive experience as a business reporter in particular and has reported extensively on, among other topics, Boeing’s safety issues, Bernie Madoff’s ponzi scheme, and the life and leadership of GE CEO Jack Welch. He’s the bestselling author of three books, inc…
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Uncle Sam shows up at 3 a.m., top hat on, eyes red from doomscrolling, convinced the shadows are organized and the neighbors are operatives. We’re not diagnosing a person; we’re reading a national mood. Conspiracies are the crunchy snack for anxious brains, but they don’t make a meal. First, we draw the clinical line: paranoia is a delusion aimed a…
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