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Overthrowing Education
A highlight from Encore of Episode 2: Jon Cassie: Game-Based Learning
"Hey, it's Batsheva. I've pulled this episode out of the archive vault for you, in case you hadn't heard it before. But if you have already heard it, well, you might want to listen again because this time you'll know all the answers to the 5 -Minute Game Show. And also because there's always something to learn from my wonderful guests. With the exception of adding this intro, I'm bringing you the original episode in its original form, which is also kind of a time capsule. So enjoy. The Arting Institute presents Overthrowing Education with your host, Batsheva Frankel. Today's episode is sponsored by Edu Game -o -rama! My students are so bored. I've tried to pepper my lectures with jokes, funny PowerPoints, and once I even tap danced throughout my class. The students just complained of headaches. I'm not the best tap dancer, as it turns out. What can I do to engage my students more? You need to change your bored students into board game students. What do you mean? Why sounding deep male voice? I mean, it's time to get with the 21st century. It's time for Edu Game -o -rama! Ed? The Guru -Lama? Uh, no. Edu Game -o -rama! It's the quick acting wand that you wave over your lessons and turn them into critical thinking games and student -centered gamified learning activities, guaranteed to engage even the most disaffected student. Is that all it takes? Just a wave of the Edu Game -o -rama wand? Well, that and a lot of creativity and work on your part. I'll do it. I'm saying goodbye to frontal teaching and hello to giving my students a deeper understanding and more engaging experiences. Edu Game -o -rama! Order your wand today! Side effects of Edu Game -o -rama may include complete student engagement and deeper learning. Thank you for joining us here at the Arte Institute for Overthrowing Education, a humorous and helpful podcast for positive change. I'm your host, Batsheva Frankel. In today's episode, Game Changers, I interview games and gamification expert John Cassie. In our conversation, we reveal lots of tips and tools to inspire educators to integrate this engaging pedagogical approach. If you are a student who loves games or just wants a more hands -on and fun way to learn, pass this episode on to your teachers. At the end of my talk with John, I subject him to our five -minute game show, of course. And then, for our segment, In the Trenches, with real teachers and students telling their stories, we have a really special treat. Educator and professional storyteller, Mikayla Bly, tells her hilarious award -winning tale about her gamified curriculum. Give a listen. You won't be sorry. But before we get into all that good stuff, I want to answer a question I've heard quite a bit since starting this podcast. What exactly is the Arte Institute? Because we always start the show with the Arte Institute presents Overthrowing Education. So let me tell you. About seven years ago, I started teaching at this amazing school called Arte Preparatory Academy in Los Angeles. I immediately connected in an educationally philosophical way with the head of Arte Prep, Jim Hahn. We constantly geeked out over the best and most engaging practices, ideas and approaches. And we worked with the faculty to keep making the school better and better. But Jim and I have another broader goal, which is to help all educators, students and parents understand what great education could and should be. And thus, the Arte Institute was founded. To learn more about it and about Arte Preparatory Academy, find links at overthrowingeducation .com. And now here we go. Today on Overthrowing Education, my guest is John Cassie, who I first met after I read his book, Level Up Your Classroom, The Quest to Gamify Your Lessons and Engage Your Students. It was such a great book. So I checked his website, which is, by the way, johncassie .com, and I read his educational philosophy and I immediately knew that we would be friends and that we had to work together. So more on that in a minute. So first, I'm going to tell you about John. He's been a teacher and education leader since 1997 at independent schools in Dallas, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh and in Orange County, the one in California. He is currently director of innovation at TVT Community Day School in Irvine, California. And in his very cool job, he collaborates with teachers and learners to use data to improve instruction and develop curriculum in STEAM, design thinking, digital literacy, maker informed methods and, of course, gamified learning, which is one of the things we're going to talk about today. He's also traveled extensively to speak and consult on curriculum design, program development, game based learning and gamification and education, as well as GLBTQ issues in independent schools. So he's done a lot of really great stuff. John is also the founder of Game Level Learn, which also, by the way, has a great educational podcast. So make sure to give that a listen. And last November, Game Level Learn teamed up with us at the Arte Institute to present the first annual Game Level Learn Con for educators. It was an amazing day of professional development and a lot of fun. So if you want information on Game Level Learn Con 19, check out either gamelevellearn .com or thearteinstitute .org for details. Wow, that was a lot of introduction, but he was well worth it. Hi, John. Hi, Beth. How are you? I'm good. I have so many questions for you and so many things I want to discuss because I love speaking with you about education. Same. And you're so passionate and have so many great experiences. So first, I want to find out how did you get involved in education to begin with? It's the only thing I've ever wanted to do. I've never had any career goals that were not well for about six months. I thought about hotel and travel administration, like doing a business degree, but that's better left for an entirely different podcast. Yeah, things we're glad you didn't do. Yeah, right, right. So I've always wanted to be in education. I thought for the longest time that I'd be in a university setting. But as it became clear that the university setting was really much more about research and less about teaching, that didn't feel quite like the right fit for me as much as being in there, working with teachers, teaching and learning and innovating on teaching and learning practice, which has always been something that's driven me. So I hear that I find the same. And so I'm glad you did take that route led to some great stuff. So let's I want to jump right in and talk about the difference between games and gamification, because I love them both. I use them both. And I think there are many ways to use both in a class, but I think a lot of people don't really understand the difference. So let's talk about that. Yeah, it can be a little tricky when you're getting into this particular method to to fully grasp what's being talked about. Right. A game based learning environment is an environment where you're taking some kind of a game that has been published or designed as a game, which means that it's got a set of rules and there are ways to win. And it's meant to be entertaining and enlightening and a mental challenge and all of that. But it's in the service of playing the game. It's in the service of the game's rule set. There are plenty of games that exist that you could use very productively in a classroom setting, play the game as designed, and you actually could get an executed learning objective out of it. Before you continue, I want you to give a few examples of those. And then after you talk about gamification, I'm going to talk about the third category, which I call deeper learning games, which I'll explain. That's that's my jam. So everybody tell what are some games, like if I'm a history teacher or I'm a science teacher or something, what are some games like out of the box games that might be really cool that you can think of? So just a couple that come to mind. There's a game that was published and I'm talking only in the tabletop space. I'm not talking about video games. There's nothing wrong with video games. They're dynamite. You know what? I'll raise one just to give the example. OK, but I talk more about tabletop because it's a little bit more accessible. Right. I think one example is a game called Codenames. Codenames is a game about vocabulary pattern recognition. So you are giving if you're giving clues, you're looking at a grid of words, five by five. So twenty five words and you've got a little card in front of you that tells you which words of those twenty five. You're responsible for getting your team to guess the team that wins is going to have a clue giver who's able to look at the words and say, OK, well, if I say the word Jupiter three, they're going to pick these three words because they all have some kind of a connection to that word Jupiter. Right. Or, you know, sunshine, too, or whatever. You know, it's like I think sunshine connects to two words. So you're going to tell people that now that's dynamite for vocabulary building, because if you can make analogies and connections between words, not only do you understand the word on its surface level, but you understand it on a more abstract level. Right. So for, you know, all those people doing vocabulary building, anything in your discipline that has vocabulary building within it, you just pull the codenames words and proceed. Right. There's another great game called Machi Koro. That one I haven't heard of. Yeah. Machi Koro is a game about community building. So what you do is you have a little pool of money and you use that pool of money to buy increasingly complex buildings that you use to form a town. And the town, by virtue of what you choose to build, generates revenue based on how other players act and on die rolls that you make and what have. But it's a really nice, easily accessible game to understand how communities are built. That's great. Yeah. A game that I use in my entrepreneurship class called Letters from Whitechapel is a collaborative game where one character plays Jack the Ripper. Right. So it's a it's a high school thing. Right. And everyone else plays police trying to find him. Jack moves around the board using a game mechanic called hidden movement. So the Jack player is writing where he is on a piece of paper behind a screen. The police are investigating across the board, trying to find evidence of where he was. They can make an arrest if they arrest. They declare an arrest action on Space 28. If Jack is in Space 28 when they arrest, the players win. Now, I use that to teach collaboration because the game is so perfect. It's such a pure example of a cooperative, collaborative game that the only way that you can win really is to have effective collaborative team practices. And businesses that have those are more effective than businesses that don't. And learning environments that have those are more effective than ones that don't. And so since collaboration is such a central skill in entrepreneurship and certainly it's certainly important everywhere else. But in entrepreneurship, it's critical. It's a great way right out of the box to teach that skill. So games like those are examples, right? Codenames, great in a middle school setting. Machi Koro, totally playable in upper elementary. Letters from Whitechapel, you want to play it in a high school environment. And, you know, if you go to gamelevellearn .com, I've written about 50 essays looking at the different kinds of game mechanics that exist in games. And giving you the top five, what I think of the top five games in each of those mechanics. So if you wanted to do something that was about collaboration, you could just go to the site, look at the essay on collaboration. Pick one of those games and you'd be good to go. Yeah, I have to say that your website is just full of resources and it's a great thing to check out again. For people that's gamelevellearn .com. That's the games. Yeah, it's game based. That's game based. I want you to talk about gamification, which I also have been using more and more in my classroom. I've done some really cool stuff with my honors English Shakespeare class, history classes. It's great. So tell me about it. Now, gamification is a term used to describe the application of game elements like game mechanics or reward systems or winning or, or, or, where they're not strictly speaking incorporated into a game itself. A classroom gamified uses the procedural tricks that make games fun to play in the service of making learning more engaging, more social, more collaborative or more critically focused, depending on what your objective is. And, you know, in the book and, you know, level up your classroom, I go on at length about different ways to do that. But the idea here is take a game that's fun to play and look at how mechanically the game works. Then strip away the game content, leaving only the game's engine. From there, insert your content into the game's engine and away you go. It's great. And it really does help engage students. And you can use those mechanics to go to deeper places. It isn't about doing the Jeopardy board answer thing. It's about really using the mechanics to move the curriculum forward. That's right. Yeah, it has to be in service of a learning objective, right? This is one of the things that I say and, you know, my co -host on the Game Level Learn podcast, we say all the time, we make two points. One, this is not about the game. It's about the learning objective. The learning objective might be serviced by an environment that is either collaboratively or individually competitive or where the kind of leveling character development concept that you get in some board games and you get in some video games would be useful. Then deploy them because they're going to make the learning better. If they're not going to do that, do something else. And that's I think sometimes folks bogged down there. The second thing we say is, quote, play all the games. Because if you're going to do this effectively, the more games you have yourself played, the more different engines and mechanics you will have encountered. And therefore, you'll be able to say, I see for this learning objective, I really want to bring in a tile building mechanic like in Spring Meadow. OK, I can do that. Or I really need to build sort of these interesting decks of cards for players, player learners, like in the game Dominion. But if you've never played Dominion, you'd never have the idea, which is one of the things that I think sometimes trips people up. They hear game based learning or they hear gamification. They think what we're talking about is a slightly more sophisticated version of Jeopardy or Monopoly or Sorry. Or Chutes and Ladders. Well, you know, if the only poetry you've ever read is a Mother Goose fable, why do you think that you would be able to use it in any kind of meaningful way? No. Read more poetry and you'll be able to do more poetry. You know, if this is something that's of interest to you, but you're not a gamer, go to and go anywhere. There's plenty of game cafes. There are game days and libraries. There are friendly local game stores everywhere, and most of them are full of really keen, friendly people. And if you went up and said, hey, I'm trying to learn some things, anything you can teach me, there's always going to be dozens of people in those places who are like, absolutely. Come on in. Let me teach you this thing. Let me teach you this. Let me teach you this. Right. And, you know, as you learn different kinds of games, you'll know what you want to pick up next or what you want to borrow next or what you want to buy next. And that's how it goes. It's really true. One of the games that's my biggest seller that I created that's called Feed Your Wolves. I was inspired because I saw a lot of the students at my school every morning. I'd come in and they'd be playing these games like Magic the Gathering and games like that that involve interesting cards and die and things that they had to do. And so I was very inspired to create my game sort of based on some it's not like those, but it was definitely inspired by those. And that's the thing. Let yourself be inspired by what you see that your students are interested. What games are they really interested in and let that inspire. I wanted to talk about deeper learning games because that's my as you know, that's my thing. And deeper learning games are games that can be used as assessments. They can be used as part of a project based learning unit. But the idea behind a deeper learning game is that it's really a sophisticated critical thinking type of a game. It's not again, it's not Jeopardy or the whatever version of Candyland. It is, for example, a way to express an idea. So, for instance, in my school, we were doing something about political philosophies. And the students had to create a game that in every way, including the pieces in the way, if it was a board game or whatever the mechanics of the game were, every part of it had to somehow reflect whatever that political philosophy was or the specific topic within that political philosophy that they chose to do. And the playing of that game, when people would come play that game, they could understand what that political philosophy was. Well, you can do that. I've done it on a seventh and eighth grade level. You can do it on a fourth grade level. There's so many ways to adapt that kind of idea once one gets the hang of it. And you can teach your students how to create this kind of deep game where every part of the process is reflecting, like you said, that whatever that big idea is, whatever the learning objectives are, whatever the people who do understanding by design, whatever understanding during is, those are the things that are so meaningful. And then students remember them. I have students come up to me that I had 20 years ago saying, do you remember that game? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Of course I remember that game. They did. So do I. It was great. So those are the things that really kids get so involved in their education. And again, they can be used as a really authentic assessment. It can also be used as a tool for project based learning to actually move your curriculum forward. So great ways to use them. And anybody who wants more details about that can certainly contact me on that one. If you want to come to our Game Level Learn Con 19, then you can certainly learn more about it and we'll have information about that again. So, OK, I know kind of the moment in my teaching early on in my career when I realized how games and gamification could be so effective. Was there a moment or was there something that happened in your career where you were like, oh, my gosh, this is totally the way to go? I mean, I think it's sort of like my sense of wanting to be in this career from the start anyway. It's very much the same from the earliest days of my teaching career. I've always incorporated role playing elements or game elements or different kinds of game mechanics into what I was doing and have continued to do so. You know, ever since, as I become more and more kind of aware of game spaces and what what different games are and what they can do, how they can teach us, et cetera. Yeah, I think it's always been a factor to your point about students coming back and talking to you years after in my very first year of teaching. I played a game with some students called Shape Land, which was about the creation of an industrial class structure and how wealth is distributed in an industrial system unfairly. It concentrates wealth in the hands of people who already had wealth to begin with. And students come back to me, you know, even now, say that was one of the most extraordinary experiences I've ever had playing that game. And, you know, that was more than 20 years ago. So I want to add to the mix of other kinds of games. One of the things I did early on in my career was I used to create these crazy game shows and the students loved them. You know, they all wanted to take turns being the guests and the participants, but they also gave them stuff to do as a studio audience that they had to participate and pay attention. And it was always so much fun. And then the other thing that I did with games is simulations. Sure, sure. They're really moving through space. I mean, there was one where we took over. We didn't take over the school, but we used a lot of the school space in this incredible simulation that was for history class. And it was very moving and really effective. So those are also different kinds of ways that people can use to add games. For sure. Yeah. I did something like that early in early days, a simulation about Salem. And I sort of set up the playing space, which was an external, like a field like Salem town, so that folks knew where they were living in comparison to other people who were accusing or being accused. Wow. Right. Because one scholar, you know, on the Salem hysteria says it really has a lot to do with folks who are part of an in -crowd and in -groups and out -groups. And so that was fascinating.
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"More on the research. The study out of UC Irvine looked at Alzheimer's in mice and whether it got worse when they breathed in more polluted air. Doctor masashi kizawa associate Professor of environmental and occupational health at UC Irvine and senior author of the study says they found that the air with high particulate levels did indeed make the Alzheimer's worse in the animals. Mainly in California is coming from the traffic related. So automobile, I mean the traditional gasoline automobile cars, which is why he says it appears that switching to an electric car can actually help fight Alzheimer's, and while we don't know what causes the disease in the first place, this does, he says, give us a little bit of control, something we can do. If we know better on those modifiable or environmental risk factors that contribute to the Alzheimer disease, we may be able to deduce the instant of the Alzheimer disease, especially on those aging population. Researchers at UC Davis have come up with similar conclusions, Megan goldsby, kcbs. In case CBS News time, 8 22. Here's start 8. Start 8, May 21st. Mercury is just peeking into the dawn sky now, but it stays quite low, so you need a clear horizon to see it, and binoculars wouldn't hurt. Mercury is the sun's closest and smallest major planet, and if people ever colonize the solar system, it probably won't be a popular posting. For one thing, it has no atmosphere, so you'd need spacesuits to get around. Temperatures at the equator can soar to 800°F. And a day on mercury lasts 176 earth days. On average, that means you'd have three months of daylight followed by three months of darkness. You'd be a lot older on mercury too. Mercury orbits the sun four times for every orbit that earth makes, giving it four years for every one earth year. So, your birthday cake would need four times as many candles. Of course, you'd also get four times as many cakes. The extra cake wouldn't add much to your weight, though. If you weigh 150 pounds on earth, you'd weigh just 57 pounds on mercury. The best places to hang out on mercury would be its poles. The bottoms of some craters at the poles never see the sun, so they may contain big deposits of ice. A way to keep the punch cold for those frequent birthday parties. Again, look for mercury quite low in the east before sunrise. It looks like a fairly bright star below brilliant Jupiter. It will get a little higher and brighter in the coming days. But will remain a tough target. You can find out how to subscribe to our daily program it start at dot org. For the McDonald observatory, I'm Billy Henry. Hey, CBS News time. 8 23, here's the money watch report. The repo man is not just a movie from the 1980s. Repo man. Not just a job, it's an adventure, with men and women taking back cars from buyers who don't keep up with their payments, and it's making a comeback. During the pandemic, repose largely dried up Bloomberg's Claire ballantine. There was stimulus checks, a lot of leniency from lenders on paying auto loans. Now, things are kind of starting to turn. According to Fitch ratings in March, the percentage of subprime auto borrowers who were at least 60 days laid on payments was almost 5 and a half percent up from a 7 year low of just over two and a half percent in May 2021. Cox automotive estimates there were 1.2 million repos last year, a better than 5% from the prior year. That has many repo businesses racing to find enough workers to handle the growing demand. Steve potus Bloomberg business for K CBS. Tide power pods have 85% more tide. Who needs that much more tied? Well, when giving your money back a bath? Time to do you getting a much shower?
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Prosecutor: Black man smothered to death at mental hospital
"Attorneys representing a family say 7 Virginia deputies caused the death of a black man in their custody. I Norman hall, attorneys for the family of Irvine otieno, say video show 7 sheriff's deputies pushing down on his body with what the lawyers say was absolute brutality. The incident was captured on security camera footage from a state mental hospital, otieno was handcuffed and shackled before being pinned down by the deputies, who now facing second degree murder charges. Dinwiddie county Commonwealth attorney and cabal baskerville told the Richmond time dispatch otieno did not appear combative and had been sitting in a chair. She said the takedown was a demonstration of power that was unlawful. I Norman hall
The Eric Metaxas Show
Barry Meguiar, World-Famous “Car Crazy" Guy, Stops by the Studio
"Barry, I just thought I want to talk to you about so many things, but the main reason you came to New York obviously to be on this program is to talk about your brand new book, ignite your life, defeat fear with effortless faith, where do we begin? I mean, you got to understand something. When I interview somebody like you, this happens when I talk to pat Boone. Like whatever it is that we're supposed to be talking about, the history that you have. I mean, I want to tell my audience, you know, or knew if they've passed into heaven, some of the spiritual giants of our time, including your best friend for 40 years, David wilkerson. Can you believe that? Yeah. And we were nazarenes. We didn't know from nothing about the move of the Holy Spirit, anything like that. We moved from passing to California and Ezra in church. To Irvine, California, there was a nazarene church down in Orange County where he had to find a church who were hungry for a year, became church buns for a year. God let us into some reason church had we known recently to guide church we would not have gone there because they got that speaking tank saying I knew that was the devil. That kooky stuff. Who needs that stuff? And we walked in so hungry and all of a sudden God just confirmed he walked through the door. We sat there and we were just flooded with the spirit of the lord ministering just we soaked it up at the end of that service. We were introduced to Gwen wilkerson, David wilkerson's wife. What year was this? That was 19 that was September of 1970. Wow. Taking back 50 to 53 years. We met Dave a couple weeks later. We became friends and then for the next 40 years, we traveled with them all over the world, crusades everywhere, I got to tell you for a guy had never seen the move of the Holy Spirit and then being with this prophet who just he was the same off cameras on and he just this godly man.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Dr. Aaron Kheriaty Describes His Firing from UC Irvine
"Hard to get rid of academics. It's almost as hard to get rid of an academic as a government employee. So I'm curious. What was the stated reason? Why were you terminated from the university? So the stated reason was alleged non compliance with the very policy the vaccine mandate that I was challenging. I challenged it on behalf of people like me that had infection induced immunity or so called natural immunity after recovering from COVID, which I got very early on in the pandemic, treating COVID patients in the hospital. And I say alleged non compliance because the university twice rejected my medical exemption that was signed by my physician. And the university also refused to work with me in the way that they had worked with. Other faculty members to, you know, put me on sabbatical or work from home, do remote work only. I was willing to be flexible so that they wouldn't have to compromise in my case on their policy. But I also wasn't going to compromise on my stance toward the policy. So the university used that pretense to get rid of this inconvenient person who had the gall to publicly challenge them. My first challenge to policy in the pages of The Wall Street Journal, and then after they finalized the policy, I decided to challenge it in court because I thought it was unethical and indeed I still believe it's unconstitutional.
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Democratizing Access to Hospital-Grade Disinfection with Eli Harris, President of R-Zero
"Talk to us a little bit about our zero. What is it that you guys are doing. how are you adding value to the healthcare ecosystem. Yes so it was almost sixteen months ago. Now with the academic. I started a a ticket hold. I got in touch with the two mentors in mind. Both entrepreneurs who i've known for about a decade and the three of us started talking about how there's certain events throughout history that just create everlasting societal and infrastructural changes in a dork way. We kinda like in what was happening of the pandemic to nine eleven. How after nine eleven. We have the department of homeland security. You have. tsa fourteen thousand agents. You still can't take a water bottle of where shoes through the airport. You go to a ballgame. You walk through a metal detector. These are all new standards that were created and adopted post nine eleven in some of these psychological star tissue after that event accelerated decrease adoption of those standards. But we never arrest fundamentally the world took on a new posture around security in all shared spaces at our thesis. Fear was at this event of the pandemic was going to broaden that word security to biosecurity to biosafety and in the standards that all organizations are gonna fold as they regard a human health in the safety of their staff their patrons of their communities at large so what we did. Kind of unpacking the disinfection industry. And we've learned quickly that this is a massive industry. Hundreds of billions of dollars market cap governed by these goliath players. Ecolab clorox se. johnson diversey. All of these companies are extremely old. Some over a hundred years old and more or less all pushing commodity chemicals and our response to the pandemic was to go around and host buildings down the chemicals. And that's what we did in. This industry has not evolved with the technology that is becoming become commonplace in almost every other industry. It's extremely antiquated in what we're doing with chemicals. I mean there's there's a lot of limitations there one is. They're not always that effective. There's a lot of human error and how they're applied there's a massive labor cost a massive op ex chemical costs at. It's horrible for the environment. So we got in touch with. Dr richard wade and dr wade actually ran cal osha for fifteen years. He taught at harvard oxford. Uc irvine. We like to call him. The michael jordan's disinfection. He's he's forgotten more about this industry than most of us will ever learn. And he's quite special but he let us on a study to really understand. What are the best tools that exist in infection prevention today. And why have we not democratized access to those
Creatively Christian
"irvine" Discussed on Creatively Christian
"Inspire inform educate and empower creative christians of all types. I'm one of your host brandon hollingsworth on today's episode twins. angela and valencia. Give us practical ideas in standing up for what we believe in especially in the wake recreate. Hello everybody This is brandon hollingsworth coming to you. From the theology. Media's creatively christian podcast and i am super excited. I think this is the first time. I've had to people on the podcasts. With me at once with these wonderful. Ladies that i met at international christian music and film festival. Angela and valencia. Say hello ladies. What's going on my god. Yes tell everybody which one is which 'cause you guys are irish twins. So irish twins. Yes i am. angela. And i'm valencia. Irvine is Siblings of saint parents that are less than a year apart. So you're exactly ten months apart so we're like right. Here is irish guess. July twelfth valencia. All right slow everyone out that needs to send your birthday presents. Right no excess. Here's the po box. Well i. i was Privileged to meet you ladies again at international christian film festival and we had a blast. We and we're playing around and collaborating on some projects that i'm really excited about. But we'll leave that over to the side for now because we want to talk about you ladies so so tell our listeners. A little bit about yourself and what you're all about because many of our listeners might not know you so we are like we said irish twins sisters abandoned in this in this wonderful thing called life for for a while blessing and loving on the lord. We're christians i And we always had a like a a little next to just wanna be in front of people to blessed to help to encourage to inspire to you. Know all these things and we just know. God gave us these talents because he gives all of us gifts and talents every single person listening. Now you have talent. You have a gift us. What guy is giving you So he gave us gifts with singing first of all and we just took that gap..
Creatively Christian
Standing up for What You Believe in
"Hello everybody This is brandon hollingsworth coming to you. From the theology. Media's creatively christian podcast and i am super excited. I think this is the first time. I've had to people on the podcasts. With me at once with these wonderful. Ladies that i met at international christian music and film festival. Angela and valencia. Say hello ladies. What's going on my god. Yes tell everybody which one is which 'cause you guys are irish twins. So irish twins. Yes i am. angela. And i'm valencia. Irvine is Siblings of saint parents that are less than a year apart. So you're exactly ten months apart so we're like right. Here is irish guess. July twelfth valencia. All right slow everyone out that needs to send your birthday presents. Right no excess. Here's the po box. Well i. i was Privileged to meet you ladies again at international christian film festival and we had a blast. We and we're playing around and collaborating on some projects that i'm really excited about. But we'll leave that over to the side for now because we want to talk about you ladies so so tell our listeners. A little bit about yourself and what you're all about because many of our listeners might not know you so we are like we said irish twins sisters abandoned in this in this wonderful thing called life for for a while blessing and loving on the lord. We're christians i And we always had a like a a little next to just wanna be in front of people to blessed to help to encourage to inspire to you. Know all these things and we just know. God gave us these talents because he gives all of us gifts and talents every single person listening. Now you have talent. You have a gift us. What guy is giving you So he gave us gifts with singing first of all and we just took that gap. Don't just begin lessening his people and singing his praises and you know from nat Joining writing do see all of it.
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A New Direction
"irvine" Discussed on A New Direction
"These important as well and it can really be helpful for people like. Oh okay if i can put a number to it then that can be really helpful to describing the situation. I love that. Let's move on the chapter six and again you get to correct me. I think it's fato fato fano delfino. Thank you once upon a time and in number four is here we go. You are called to be shonky. Do that right perfect okay. And so You actually have a subtitle called the leader as a shanansky. Help us understand. What is sean is an and The leader as shanansky. This beautiful i just it it. It's it's based in your roots of northern ireland ireland in in so. I think it's just beautiful so few help us understand that that'd be awesome. Yeah so many. Many many cultures have have this notion of the person that tells the story maryland. We have a beautiful word for shanna and and in unison the word this hard to translate but it enter rich word but one of the ways. I think you can translate. It is the keeper off the history. The keeper of the story and it's such a powerful Dimension of the we as human beings thrive and we eat story in a story. Is we'd story before we language and And so therefore this this ability to make meaning we are meaning makers and story Helps us make meaning and one of the roles of a leader is to make meaning for the organization one of the roles of of of leaders to set forth vision. One of the roles of a leader is to carry people with them and a story has a unique power to make emotional connection. And so i have to say you know the ceo has to be. The cfo has to be the chief storyteller office officer because in story what they can they can grab people's attention they can make an emotional connection to to the values that they're tried to espouse they can move people through a change process by by envisioning that in stories. All of this this this. This incredible tool is something that leaders should be using. I loved csl. I think there has to be an every business. Chief storytelling officer. I want that to be an every visit. And that's the first person i want to go to. I think that if you were doing an interview the chief storytelling officer the needs to be in that meeting If you were going to make a big change this needs to be there because they are the holder of the history and of of everything and the different situations that are there. And i do agree with you. I think the ceo must be also the csl. But i think there. I think you should develop other c s house within your company. Because you're not always going to be the ceo and you're going to end up being in a cis..
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"irvine" Discussed on A New Direction
"Can at other voices be heard and used Intelligently they make for better decisions. I thought this is interesting. When it came to listening expanding our listening skills he said. Watch your body language. Well you know so. So we also speak a language which is known verbal and depending We could do subtle things that can give the other person the the the knowledge that we're engaged with them. I mean i'll give you a perfect example. I was taught i. I work with some accountants. And one other. We're talking about how he used to go to a supervisor for a conversation and the first thing. The supervisor did is came from behind the desk and sat side by side with the person and just non verbally that indicated everything it indicated. I want this barrier fidesz between us. I'm engaged with you. Am separating myself the computer So the these non verbals are critical because they also speak a language of engagement. I love that. Of course putting your phone away is critically important in today's world you do but then you the last one that you have here is acknowledged emotions. Yes so often you know. We don't knowledge the emotions you know when when a person is very angry we know one of the great of de escalation is actually to acknowledge the anger and to call it out of say you're angry or an and you can help people as well. You know because. I think you mentioned at the beginning We all vary in our literacy In our ability to name emotions motion. Some people's literacy of emotions is very narrow and so to be able to kind of name the emotion the frustration etc. That can be very helpful to what might seem obvious to us. But when a person is in a zone or in a mood in just naming what they're going through and abc can be really helpful for them and can lead to some breakthroughs and conversations. I think it's by the way. I'm a psychological professional and i have to tell you that i literally was in a counseling session. I yes. I go to therapy. Occasionally because i need it and because i want it because it's like going to the doctor you get check right so i remember this is decades ago. He gave me a sheet of emotions. And to improve my moseley grammar.
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"irvine" Discussed on A New Direction
"A favor will you please. Why no chew also give me a positive rating on the show. That would be great for us as well and also listen. We are coast to coast on radio stations all over the united states and even in ireland and in the philippines. So i know. I'm in belfast. Blake i forgot all about that urban i. This show actually goes out. Belfast on radio. It's on it's on. It's on an internet radio station in belfast. I'd run. I completely forgot about that. And but they do they take my show and they run it every week so this is pretty cool to have that on so folks tell you tell the people who are doing the show today thank you for having a new direction on the show. I would appreciate it. let's talk about sharpening are listening skills because Listening skills we talk about a lot. But let's talk about embracing expanding the skills and i'm just going to throw these out some of these out and you kinda just roll with it. We do that so the first thing is don't interrupt okay. Will i know that sounds intuitive. But let's what we really doing their well. What we're really didn't shutting down. We're shutting down a person and what were they want. What we want to do is we want to let the person know that we are engaged with them. And as soon as we interrupt excetera then we the domestics of the person is what you're saying really not that important. Because i need to interrupt here and and he don't wanna cut people halfway off now eventually in a conversation if it's kind of getting long long long at that there may be something but the beginning of conversations critically important just to let a person flow where where they're going. We miss so information. We missed so much information. We shall people down you talk about. One of the things in the barriers is that we get. I think that interruption comes from the rehearsing piece..
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"irvine" Discussed on A New Direction
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"irvine" Discussed on A New Direction
"You know with when it comes to decision making and buying you know if a person doesn't feel that they've been heard if a person doesn't feel that their ideas are being respected all of which happen when someone is empathetic and makes that connection. You're not gonna get buy in and you know. This is a critical failing a lot of businesses. They make all these decisions in people who they're not really by bought in because they don't feel that they've been listened to as well so this is you know this underpinning as well which impact so many different areas of business like i just. I think this is such a critical part is the ceo's management. Empathy is a huge. Even take i would say there's not an area and business. I would say sales people if you know if you want to really connect with your potential customer understanding empathy and having greater empathy is to me would be the ultimate key to being a great salesperson. Would you not agree with that. So this ability to come into a situation to read a person and then to make connections and and you know to genuinely genuinely interested in other person you know. that's you know. Sometimes we kind of think of sales is the dirty word you know and it's kind of like using it as a technique but this but you know amputee will fail their people sense that but if you were truly interested in the other person and in their wellbeing and wanted to make that connection you're gonna hit sales out the roof. I love that. His name is dr urban nugent. The book is leadership lessons from the pub. Van tastic get it veiled amazon bookstores near you. You're listening to him here on a new direction folks. Listen i talk about epic physical therapy every week. I can't get enough of them. They are their facilities. And i said facilities because it's pearl offers. The most advanced top of the line equipment including the end alter g anti traffic treadmill anti gravity treadmill.
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"irvine" Discussed on A New Direction
"How's that working for you. Not working for dr phil. How's that working for you. Well well duck phillips actually not working very well for me. Thanks at the moment chapter five and it's entitled here comes everybody and lesson number three. You have the power to build community and you start off This chapter and you give a some. I think statistics that may surprise people. So i'm just gonna share a few of them. Gallup survey found that thirty. Three percent of employees are engaged. Fifty one percent are not engaged and have not been for some time disengaged employees cost companies between four hundred fifty and five hundred billion dollars per year. I'm your father has another great quote On page fifty nine in this chapter says the pub is more than a place to go and have a drink. it is much more than that indeed. My father used to say. I am not in the business of selling drink rather i am offering a home where everyone is. Welcome and you talk about some of the characteristics of the pub that we should have in our business. Let's talk through let's talk through you. Know building community and those characteristics that are so important in the lessons that you learned from the pub that we need to apply back into business. Yeah so you. We know that businesses function well and businesses perform well when everyone feels included and everyone feels they have a voice at the table and we're actively encouraging and including that and so you know this whole notion of of psychological safety that That whenever people are invited and people feel that they can do some. I'm talking about people able to share their deep dark secrets. That's our in talking about but some basic things that we don't have right the ability to ask for help the ability to say you know what i messed up and i got a wrong all of these these. There's a culture around that in business and that becomes incredibly important..
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"irvine" Discussed on A New Direction
"Intelligence is as good as practiced. And i could have in a very theoretical book about it but at the end of the day it's about practice. There is no shortcut to emotional intelligence. And so i really wanted to provide people with actionable tools that they could use day in day out awesome. I love it by the way i loved it. I thought it was great. It was a great chicken for me too. By the way chapter four. I'm triggered now. What lesson number two. You have the power to choose your response. Even when you're triggered. We kind of talked about this in the stowe. But i am interested in something that you a term that you've created called the trigger print and i thought that was fascinating. Let's talk about being triggered in the trigger print. Yes so you know we all have figured fingerprints and we know that our fingerprints are unique and also you know we have a pattern week. We are as human beings. There are patterns which we come in covering one of the patterns that we can governor lives is is events that we are triggered to emotionally and how we tend to show up and behave in those moments and if we reflect enough upon those moments we're gonna see the patterns and that's what i like to call our trigger print and sometimes are trigger prints very common. So you know some of us most human beings if they're dropped you go to a ride disney and you go to one of those rides that kinda. Wait wait wait..
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"irvine" Discussed on A New Direction
"Dot com and. We're back here on a new direction with dr irvine nugent. In his book leadership lessons from the pub and man we packed a lot of stuff into about fifteen minutes. I was like wow. We've covered a lot. So let's move on the chapter three and now now urban. You have to promise me that if i pronounce these gaelic words incorrectly. That you'll correct me okay. We okay but i'm i'm working on gaelic here okay. So chapter three is mind the crack. Did i get that correct or earthquakes. Which is a irish for a fun atmosphere and the first lesson that you teach us from the pob. Is you get to set the tone. What do you mean we get to set. The tone has a leader. Talk about that. well you know. We're in the midst of a pandemic emmer midst of this invisible virus that everyone has become aware of. And we all are reacting to that in different ways. but we're all reacted in some way and and and really you know emotions are contagious We know that we catch the emotions of other people. There's there's research is replete with examples of of people catching the mood. That another person's in and we also know that leaders have special place in that leaders. Defer a what people defer lots leaders so therefore the leader gets to set the tone because how they show up will be caught by others it will feed itself through the organization and had something at times we leaders don't think a lot about but i always say be very purposeful very purposeful first thing in the morning When you walk in what tone do you want to send. What is your intention and very purpose to check in throughout the day because that has an impact If you go in full of anxiety if you've with some anger etcetera it will impact those around you and your astute enough you'll catch it. You'll catch how people are reacting. So this is a fundamental piece of emotional intelligence in a fundamantal away that a leader influences everything. That's happening around. Your dad had a quote on page thirty. six that i just felt was so powerful. Whatever mood you're in will be reflected back to you by the customers within an hour i you. You don't think about those things. I worked as a bartender for a dozen years and so i- or so and i worked as a bartender and a bouncer and manager of restaurant and it is so true. I remember when i was managing used to tell people you know what it doesn't matter what happened in your day to day or how bad it was..
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"irvine" Discussed on A New Direction
"It doesn't matter the latest sales training at you get etc. It's not going to operate at its peak capacity because we're operating with low emotional intelligence and that impacts in permeates everything. I have a smile on my face. Because i wish more people would grasp what you just said because we do not do a very good job of understanding the importance of the emotional intelligence in expanding hardware and you know you talk about the four dimensions emotional intelligence self awareness self management self social awareness and then social interaction and which i don't know should we talk about those sure. Having where i mean. I'll of people say what is emotional intelligence and i i always say you know. You wanna understand emotional. Intelligence here are four things that emotionally intelligent people do very well number one. They are self aware they know what emotion they're feeling in the moment that the intensity of them emotionally know. What triggers them. They're able to have tools which can actively manage whatever emotional state they're in they're able to recognize emotions and others. They're able to feel a room. They're able to show empathy to others and then they're able to take all of this and manage the relationship towards an outcome and a goal that benefits all the parties concerned. That's beautiful that's just beautiful look. The book is entitled leadership lessons from the pub. his name is dr irvine nugent. By the way we just got started. And is he not brilliant. I told you he was and he is. And you're gonna love because we got more to come. You're listening to him here on a new direction. Hey folks. I have two amazing sponsors epoch. Physical therapy and linda craft and team realtors and epoch. Physical therapy offers just an amazing array of services. Like if you've had surgery they offer that if you are injured they offer help with that. If you are a professional athlete they work with professional athletes. If you have a young athlete who wants to get better at the sport they offer. Help there if you just want to move better. They offer help their listen epic. Physical therapy is the.
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"irvine" Discussed on A New Direction
"These were places that people voluntarily went. And so when you look at the pub. There's some interesting dynamics happening there number one. There's there's a level playing field and so there's an equality there in the pop that that people go at. It doesn't matter what your station in life people end up having conversations. There is a desire to be there and a desire to want to return and and then also there is at the heart of it as well. There isn't a need to be the perfect person. And so you can go there warts and all in fact. Perfection is not required and people go there. There is an expression saying you know that if ireland didn't have pubs it would have to double the percentage of psychiatrists because that's where we go. We go to kind of talk things out and yet the pub provides environment where people feel they can be vulnerable and they feel that they can talk so the pup is a lot of these qualities which which are unique and i think provide many lessons. I think for business leaders today in organizations one did the characteristics point out too. It's a home away from home and you talk. Show talk about that employs. Want jobs they actually care about and i thought that was really interesting because i think people will go a but what does that have to do with business but we you know what we when we get there. You're right it is a leveling place. It's a place where it doesn't matter what you're walking life is who you are anything. It's everybody's equal right at the pub. It it's a place of happy conversation. Doesn't that what we really want in our business right It's a place full of regulars who is more regular then the people that come into your office and it's i just i love that because i think that's what we want. Our businesses to be isn't it. Yeah and i think you know you know. Of course human being is the sense of belonging we want to belong. We wanna feel that we're going to someplace that has meaning and and ultimately you know. I think we used to have cultures a business cultures where where people felt belonged. There was a commitment there. They said it was fat. And now that that's no longer the case and so i think we the pub teaches us that that you know.
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"irvine" Discussed on A New Direction
"He's experienced in challenging business environments and has worked extensively with executive emerging leaders as an executive coach and consultant helping them become more self-aware manage their emotions read the emotions of others and manage their relationships vaguely familiar to something. We just ducked born in northern ireland. Urban brings his audiences a rich and varied experience growing up in a society torn apart by division violence. He has seen firsthand the damage done when communication breaks down and people feel to listen and understand. This is inspired him to help. Leaders build workplaces in which people thrive and you realize their full potential lazing. Tillman police welcome to the show. And welcome to a new direction for the first time dr irvine nugent welcome urban. Hey but thank you so much. I appreciate the invitation cited to be here. Well thank you. I am excited to have you here. I listen. I told you before the show started. I loved the book. And i just wanna go ahead. Let's let's just jump right into chapter one which is entitled titled. Watch me rebuild You were born in belmont gory did. I say that right now and So your father was a publican meaning somebody who owned a pub or be called a bar or something like that in states and Tell us the story of watching me the title. Watch me rebuild. Give us a quick story. And then why that was so inspiring to you. So i was born in nineteen sixty seven and my generation has called children of troubles we were we were born just as the troubles were happening. There and many of your listeners will know and if they're not familiar there was a You know for thirty. To forty years northern ireland ignited again violence between those who wanted to remain part of the united kingdom. And those who did not and it touched every one's lives man woman and child there wasn't a person over. The thirty years was not impacted. We owned a pub. We lived above the pub. And when i was six. My parents were in belfast shopping. One day and they came back. my father. i relieved the barmen and My mother went upstairs. She bought address for a wedding and about eight. Thirty that evening Two ira gunmen walked in One of them got all the customers held against the wall..
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"irvine" Discussed on A New Direction
"A great way to stay engaged with but also listen for their emotional town right so a scale went to ten. How would you rate yourself emotionally. And then find finally the spiritual and and a lot of people say to me well not spiritual hospital where all spertzel matter of fact Urban in his book talks about thin places places where we go where we feel like we are in another dimension where we learn more about ourselves and we connect with our creator we correct connect with something that is bigger than ourselves where we can remove the physical mental emotional and we know that there's something where time has stood still and it's just bigger than we and then i would also say that emotion and when it comes to the spiritual part of it it's if you remove physical mental and emotional. It's what you have left. I would also say to you this. You have faith in everything. You think. That have not happened yet. You believe in. That's faith spiritual you know and for some people it's got some people's nature for some people it's meditation for people said things do questions. How's it working for you. And what do you need to change to make it work for you. So on a scale went to ten. How would you rate your spiritual side of your life. So those four areas are like the four areas of a chair if the chair legs are uneven. Right what happens you know. Posture is messed up by the same token if that chairs too low and all four of those areas too low we can't get nourished at a normal table. And we need to do that. And speaking of my friend Urban nugent who has got all his legs At the right level and he he is he is absolutely where he needs to be as urban has spent his his most of his career helping leaders harness the power of their emotions that they can have a deeper connections make better decisions to increase.
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"irvine" Discussed on A New Direction
"A new direction. Mind name is jay is how do we have a great show again for you. This week i would love to say to you that all the way from northern ireland is my friend guest urban nugent. But that's not true. He's he is from northern ireland. He just happens to be here in the states but he is joining us and he has written this outstanding book titled leadership lessons from the pub. Yeah that's what i said. Leadership lessons from the pub. Harnessing the power of emotional intelligence to build a fully engage workplace. Yes dr irvine. Nugent is with us and tell you something about this book. First of all there are some critical lessons for you. Your team your culture That i know are can help you immediately. It's very well written. It's an excellent book. We're going to dig into this But you know what we do right before we get to him. Let's do we do every week. I walk you through the four areas of your life. We are physical mental emotional and spiritual people thought. It was really interesting that in his book. Irvine really did pull out that. We are physical mental and emotional spiritual people it just is truth it really is and so i wanna and here's the deal because i want to do this every week because as i do this. I know that if we're not growing were dying in one of those areas. We do not say static. If you don't believe me look into mere from now to about twenty years ago or ten years ago trust me. Your body's changed. No matter what you did it's changed urban and i- i color my beard. Urban has the gut courage to nut color his beard. But i have to do is just not ready for that yet so listen. Let's talk about physical right. So what does it mean me. Metaphysical on a of went to ten. How would you rate yourself in the areas of getting exercise every day or most every day. I'm eating the right foods right. I'm getting enough sleep drinking enough water. If you were to put that altogether together how would you rate yourself on. Scale wants ten one being miserable ten being great in terms of growth right by the way it doesn't matter what the number is whatever that number is that number is the point is having number so that you have a place that you can grow from. That's the point so if you numbers of three. I'm not trying to get you to attend if you numbers of three. Let's go to a three point five or four because you could certainly do something to change that. Maybe it's give up the soda. Maybe it's cut the sugar. Maybe it's you know. Take your hand at the bag of chips. Whatever that may be right. Maybe it's taking the dog for an extra walk. Whatever it may be go to bed a little earlier right whatever it is. That's where we start okay. So you got your first number. That's fiscal numbers. Second member is the mental number. What i mean mentally what we can all mentally grow in whatever we do. How's your knowledge of what you do in your work right. What are you reading..
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"At activision blizzard. Inc are calling for a walk out on wednesday to protest companies responses to a recent sexual discrimination lawsuit in demanding more equitable treatment of underrepresented staff last week. California's department of fair employment and housing sued the publisher behind games. Like call of duty world of warcraft detailing disturbing incidents of sexual harassment and assault and a culture in which women faced unequal pay in retaliation. Active call the allegations false and distorted in a statement last week in france Executive vice president of corporate affairs sent a letter to staff echoing. The claim infuriated activists. Employees have spoken out on social media in more than two thousand staff. Signed an open letter calling for the company's response calling the company's responses abhorrent insulting. Now they're planning to strike. The walkout is being organized by a group of employees at the subsidiary blizzard entertainment where the majority of the lawsuits allegations were focused in a statement to bloomberg. The worker said the goal was quote are starting to go was to quote improve conditions for employees at the company especially women and in particular women of color in transgender women non binary people in other marginalized people. The strike will take place outside of blizzards campus. In irvine california on wednesday the employees are demanding that activision ditch mandatory arbitration clauses in all employment contracts current and future new practices for recruiting interviewing hiring and promotion that facilitate better representation agreed upon by employees in a company wide diversity equity and inclusion organization the publication of data on relevant compensation promotion rates and our promotion rates answer just four employees quote of all genders and ethnicities at the company. That diversity taskforce be allowed to hire a third party to audit the company's leadership hierarchy in hr department quote is imperative to identify how current systems have failed to prevent employee harassment and to propose new solutions to address these issues.
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"So neuroscience. The study of the nervous system has had an interesting history of being both extremely old and extremely new Ancient greeks and egyptians went back and forth whether the brain or the heart was the center of intelligence and hippocrates argued that the brain was the center though this wouldn't gain traction until the roman physician galen proposed it It took until an understanding of electricity. In the nineteenth century before we could really understand the brain the experiments of luigi gala vanni and the electrical activity of the body pave the way for research in the nervous system for awhile. Neuroscience research was divided into different fields such as physiology anatomy zulu psychiatry etc David roche helped integrate these fields creating the neuroscience research program at mit in nineteen sixty two. james mcgowan established the first department of neuroscience at university of california irvine in nineteen sixty four and later major neuroscience organizations were created including the international brain research organization. Or i bro. because it's a bunch of bros. Working on brains at that could be like your pneumonic for it That was established in nineteen sixty one and the society for neuroscience was established in nineteen sixty which is known for its annual meeting. One of the largest scientific conferences in the world so we're gonna start with neurons aka the small stuff so adam is and again. This is all adams words. I i am not the data scientist or the neuro scientists in this situation. I am just. I am the female voice of adam. Large in this specific instance. Everyone so all my words are his words. Except when i do inside you'll know when that happens on many less syllables. Yeah it would be those. Those observations will be much
Esports Network Podcast
Collegiate Esports with UCI's Mark Deppe
"A very solid listener base for you to talk with Blossom. I think most people especially if they're following the ecology Sports feed are pretty familiar with the University of California or New Jersey. It's e sports program but we have a lot of people from the East Sports Network podcasts as well who might not be as familiar even after that introduction. So you see I was really held up as one of the early leaders in Collegiate Sports a lot of attention on the program from really the first days of it how have you felt that the program is a whole have you have you felt that the program is in a bit of a guiding position when it comes to the expansion of college sports cuz it feels like you guys are kind of at the Forefront of a lot of the different areas of Collegiate Esports. Yeah, I do feel that way when we started our program, you know, like like everybody else. We had a lot of questions. We didn't walk or doing. I think we did a few things that have been very notable that other people have looked at and and these are kind of things that I share with people when they they first call was a lot to school as I've talked to hundreds of schools and universities. It's become such a heavy time investment that we now have a Wiki that we share with all our frequently asked questions FAQ. Academic conference where we help teach people we're doing we've done webinars. So we definitely take that role seriously, but I think initially some of the things that really were groundbreaking was one. We we really identify pillars of our program what we were going to do our mission essentially. So we do five things we compete we support academics or research we engage with the community we create entertainment and we launch careers and so everything we do goes into those five things and we We Don't Stray outside of that too often because you can get distracted pretty easily. The other thing I think people really liked was our space that we built we didn't realize how important it was going to be. We needed a space for people to sit and to play it helped fund our program initially are are the arena which is powered by other powers you mentioned and not once we built that a lot of schools thought that was kind of required piece of the program. So a lot of people have come to look at our place toward our space to see what what they can build on their campus. So I would say those are two dead. That Drew people in and the third and final thing would just be UCI is just a really respected University. It's from all I can see the highest-ranked academic institution that offers suggestions for Esports from where a public university part of the most prestigious Public University system, and we're the only School in California. That's really this invest in these Sports. So a lot of jobs make a stand out and unique and because of our our position people have reached out to us and we've been happy and honored to share what we've learned and to be part of the thought leadership of the police force base. Absolutely. I think there's everybody any student who currently has a nice sport Three Dog campus or e-sports loud or place to crash just hang out and play video games. A lot of that is probably fakes to some of the the work done by by UCI and pushing this forward even at the University of Oregon when I was in school after birth. The iBuyPower Esports Arena had been announced there was no e Sports Lounge and I would back right before everything shut down due to covid-19. to adjust to what was going on and for those of you are familiar with Irvine U Irvine we don't have a football team we're one of the younger you see schools so long it's hard for us to distinguish ourselves among our peers like Berkeley and UCLA because we're just so much younger and newer and so I think e sports are viewed by money and a lot of our campus leaders is something that makes us unique makes a school of First Choice so if you're a gamer if you want to compete and you also are really smart student California you see I might be your top choice and there are a lot or cidar few other programs or services or attributes of Campus that can say that that they make you see is school First Choice definitely the leaders don't have any football program that stuff to hear that such a great mascot I would love to see yeah it's been a point of contention for many years but at this point it's a dog too expensive to start up and we probably be good anytime soon if we did well yeah it's showed
KFI AM 640
"irvine" Discussed on KFI AM 640
"Uh, what works and the transmission rate. What's acceptable? Irvine, she said. The refute kids who did contract the disease, the virus and but it's small potatoes. Well, what happens when you have kids who don't die of covert go home and their parents die of coded And let's look at those figures. Well, there are no figures. So all we can do is look at leadership. All we can do is look at the governor and I, because long as he is governor before we find the next governor come August. And try to figure all this out. The only thing I could argue is conservatism when it comes to what's going on. I happen to believe in caution. But then I don't have kids in school. Also so it's easy for me to say that And that's the choice that the governor was taking, and it may cost him the governorship. Let's end up with the Super Bowl and the commercials that are coming up on Sunday. You know why is this they different than all other days? And I'm not talking about Passover. Either. I I am talking about this year's Super Bowl is going to be a different kind of Super Bowl and not just because what's going on in the stadium. I'll come back and finish up with that. In the meantime, let's check in with general. More states are seeing a drop in Cove in 19 cases, but health officials are urging Americans not to.
Leo Laporte
UC Irvine Scientists Working on COVID-19 Vaccine That Would Attack All Strains
"The Corona virus and help with the common cold. You see, I professor Bashir boat, Ben Mohamed says Corona virus outbreaks have been happening for decades and will happen again. Next outbreak would likely come from those coronaviruses that are going to emerge from the bats. And cause the next outbreak in 2025, 2028, or 2030. He says the vaccine would then be shipped wherever the new Corona virus strain popped up, essentially stopping the next global pandemic Before it spreads you, CI has received $3.7 million in federal grant money that will help a clinical trials get going. By this summer. A state parole board panel has recommended parole for Bruce
The Afternoon News with Kitty O'Neal
UC Irvine Scientists Working on COVID-19 Vaccine That Would Attack All Strains
"You see Irvine School of Medicine is working to develop a new vaccine that will defeat all strains of the Corona virus, including those that haven't arrived in the U. S. Yet One of the chief scientists overseeing the federally backed effort says the goal is to stop every single variance between cover. Also, all the other strange off the virus, including common called Coronaviruses, as well as most important tree cover the viruses that are parks right now in mass that have not emerged Yet. At the White House briefing Thursday, Dr Anthony Fauci Voiced concern about new, highly contagious Corona virus strains that are appearing more frequently around the world Bottom line. We're paying very close attention to it their alternative plans. If we have a have to modify the vaccine, you see I officials believe the new vaccine will serve as a backup to the currently circulating Fizer and modern aversions in the event they aren't effective against a future strain of the virus. They're hoping to prevent the next pandemic before it starts. The potential new breakthrough is in the early trial phase, and scientists will soon begin tests on lab mice that are expected to conclude by the summer. The developers hope to start clinical trials on humans by early next year. The announcement comes is California deals with a spike in infections from a new covered 19 sprain that has been spreading rapidly since the fall.
The Book Review
Charles Yu Talks About Interior Chinatown
"Charles. You joins us now from irvine california. His latest novel is interior. Chinatown at just won the national book award for fiction. Charles thanks for being here. Thank you kremlin. I'm excited to be here and let's start with that. Winning the national book award. Your speech was so great. I just loved it because you used seemed genuinely surprised. Don't what was that moment like for you. I was genuinely surprised. I was screaming. As they're reading the citation my family. And i wear all sort of looking at each other and just yelling and we didn't know what to do and my son after while that i think you need to give a speech and so i sort of pulled myself together but i didn't really because then i proceeded to forget to thank my wife my kids and my parents so a half of whom were in the room with me. It was just awful. You know there's a fine tradition. Though i think of of leaving like the most important people out in acceptance speeches hoax out. I don't know. Do you think it would have been different. If it had been in real life. I guess it may must have been nice to even if you forgot to thank them at least have all those people. Those class close family members in the room with you. One of the weird unexpected. I guess benefits of having a virtual ceremony was that we got to hug each other immediately after and then change back into shorts. And why didn't you think you'd win. The chances are pretty good. When they're you know only a certain number of finalists. that's true. I suppose maybe underestimated the chances a little bit but i i don't know it just seems like something that happens to other people. Well it happened to you. I think deservedly. So this is your fourth book affection and they all have really amazing. Titles which i'm gonna read aloud. And then i love you to start. Walk us through them before we talk about this latest novel interior chinatown so the titles are third class superhero. How to live safely in a science fictional universe. And sorry please thank you which is a collection of stories. I mean just those titles thanks. I do enjoy titles. I wish there were a job where you could just title things. Maybe i'm trying to make up that job. I don't know what that would be exactly but yeah it's fun it helps me both. I think sometimes have a handle on what i'm trying to do and also i just imagined when somebody encounters that title. I'm hoping that they get that feeling of. Oh i want to flip to that page and see. What is that you know. It's funny when you say like you wish you could have a job coming up with. Titles i just feel like i have to bring up the fact that writing fiction is not your first job. It's not your only job that you started off as a corporate lawyer. How did you get from that life to this one. Well it took a while. I graduated from law school in two thousand one and as i was supposed to be studying for the bar I found myself in the bookstore instead. Reading george saunders and lorrimore and and people like that and and just kind of diving into the world of i guess contemporary fiction at that time and just getting really excited about it and i think also procrastinating from studying and so then i I started to write these sort of weird. The first thing i wrote was A love story. That is a set of physics problems like that you would find an undergraduate physics textbook Thought i don't know what this is but it's something to do you know on nights and weekends when i'm waiting for waiting for the senior associate to tell me all things did wrong in my merger agreement so severe that it. It'd be it was just this sort of thing. I was doing on the side for many years. And somehow i was creeping towards this. Tv land without even realizing it. Because a few years ago. I i was at work at the time working in house for a tech company as a lawyer and i got a call to come meet for potential spot on the writing staff of this show westworld and i thought well this is. This is not going to happen. And but somehow they hired me so so that was few years ago. And that's what i've been doing since as my day job
Afternoon News with Tom Glasgow and Elisa Jaffe
Seattle named 3rd-best city at keeping New Year's resolutions
"New Year's resolution are still right in front of us, right. How's yours going? Well, there's no evidence that people in Seattle are pretty faithful to. There's more from comas. Greg Herschel, a new report by Wallet hub names Seattle is the number three city in the country for people keeping their New year's resolutions. This despite nationwide results that find seven in 10 admit they failed to keep up. Researchers measured data from 57 key metrics across the country from exercise opportunities to income growth to employment outlook. Seattle Right number four in the financial category number six for relationships and there were 15 and school and work We come in just behind Scottsdale, Arizona and Salt Lake City. Irvine, California in San Diego rounded out the top five other Northwest Cities measured had Portland at number 26 Tacoma at 93. Greg, her
Inspiration and Spiritual Awakening from Live. Love. Engage. with Gloria Grace Rand
Using Humor to Prevent Suicide with Frank King
"Nama stay and welcome to live love engage. I am gloria grace rand and today on her show. I am delighted to have An awesome percent who gentleman who is got a lot of unique experience Including being comedian who also talks about a subject that what you wouldn't necessarily find funny but he has found a way to be able to help people out with that so First off. I want to welcome to live. Love engage frank king and for those of you watching on youtube. He was waving and smiling. But let me tell you a little bit about this gentleman. He is a suicide prevention speaker and trainer. Who also was a writer for the tonight show for twenty years and Depression and suicide actually run in his family. And he's You know had to deal with that. We'll talk a little bit more about that but having to do with Depression and wind to to kill himself but on the other hand he was able to turn that long. Dark journey of the soul into five. Ted talks that's quite amazing in and of itself that they haven't won yet so kudos to you and not only that he's really. He's a motivational public speaker. Who uses his life lessons to start the conversation to give people permission to give voice to their feelings and experiences surrounding depression and suicide and that is so important right. Now because as we're recording at the end of september twenty twenty and i was actually just doing some research on this yesterday that because of the pandemic that a as of at least late june there's been some research done that forty percent of. Us adults reported that they were struggling with mental health or substance abuse. So i think This is a time where really i think. People are struggling. So it's great that you're able to use humor and to be able to help people so let's maybe start from the beginning a little bit and just talk a little bit about your own journey. And how did you get started in comedy where all i was in fourth grade joke and students laughed and more importantly the teacher was hysterical. And i thought. I'm going to be a comedian. Twelfth grade. the talent show nobody'd ever done stand up at the senior town. Joe before clinton seventy five. I did stand up. i want. I went home. Told my mumble. I'm going to be a comedian. If she goes son you go into college. Do whatever you like when you're done you can be a goat herder for all i care but you must going to be a goat herder with a college degree Chapel hill actually be a. It'd be asked. And then mode san diego with my high school and college sweetheart where we got married and big mistake. Because he's a wonderful woman but we absolutely nothing in common. They say opposites attract. She wouldn't pregnant. I wasn't so we never had children. And just by chance in san diego there was a branch of the roth has comedy store on sunset in los angeles. Every time i drove by that place fell this magnetic pole. My i was not a big fan of comedy especially not a big fan of bb coming on comedian. Well she married an insurance guy. Got a comedian. Kind of matrimonial. Bayton switch so. I had to sneak out most gas. Nick huggers bars. I sneak out open mic comedy store. And then i got a job seating. Greetings could watch the become ex-professional comedians. In back them. Jim carey was headlined. Just doing impressions Andrew dice clay ellen degeneres. Rosie o'donnell appall poundstone. Dennis miller and so i watched and soaked in the best comedy available. And let's see. I got about sage first time days before april fools day. I five minutes irvine last night. I heard inside my head. I'm home. I'm gonna do for living absolutely no idea how your leg her and actually book myself on the road. Ten weeks it was kind of the beginning of the big comedy club. Boom from eighty five to ninety five. And i said to my girlfriend now my wife of thirty three years. I'm going to be a standup comedian. Especially you wanna come along and disbanding. Course she'd go no she goes. Yeah so we got. Our jobs gave our part but everything. We couldn't fit environmental dodge colt into storage. And we're on the road. She and i for two thousand six hundred twenty nine nights in a row nonstop seven years. James came off the road to oregon radio meld hometown of raleigh north carolina. Where i took a number one morning show in droves number six eighteen months only drove it in the ground road miller and by the found that was over the comedy club scene was beginning to wane. I always been very clean as a comedian. So i made the jump to the corporate comedy circuit the after dinner after lunch rubber chickens and made a great living doing that about ten years until the recession
Scientific Sense
Interview With Prof. James McGaugh
"By guests. Today's professor james mcgill. Who is imminent is professor of neural. Biology and behavior accused of california. Irvine he is so so fellow at the centre for the biology of learning and memory. Belkin jim hello there. I want to start with all the papers. Entitled making lasting memories remembering the significant invite you say although forgetting the common fate of most of experiences much evidence indicates that emotional arousal and kansas. The story of memories. The served to create selectively lost memories of other more important experiences. You said that. Europe biological systems mediating emotional arousal at memory are very closely linked before we get into a gym I wondered if you sort of a- define memory a little bit and You know cambodia. Understanding of memory changed overtime. Booby beckon understanding of what we mean by emory. Now all right memory is something that we infer from individualism from animals. All we ever see is behavior and on the basis of behavior we make inferences that that ah prior experience produce some kind of change in the in this case the brain of the animal or the human such that they can behave differently and we make inferences that are memory processes underlying the change in behavior. Now the the function of memory is to allow us to behave. If we didn't have memory we would be just like vegetables We're able to have an experience. Remember that experience and change or are repeat our behavior on the basis of that experience in order to survive so memory is a fundamental set of abilities that aid in our survival. Right right he also. That's disagree to think about it. So clearly for animals For memory to their behavior but in the case of cubans Couldn't be actually say Y be mean by memory of a of a potentially a a large set of data that you get used to define memory right. Oh a larger set setup data the inferences the same. If i watch you play for example i can make inferences about your ability to change your behavior on the basis of experience. And that's all i have and the case of of yourself. I presume that you learn to speak language. Now if i observed you when you're a child i could see the process of your acquiring the language rep all of the things that we do are based on experiences that then causes to change our behavior in response to the experience and and scientists what we try to do is to figure out what happens in the brand that enables that change in behavior or the repeat of behavior which is based on the experience. And it's same end for intro process that we use when talking about human behavior as when we're talking about animal behavior so so both tactically james so suppose i say You know i saw x. right Says i'm talking short term memory eight. I saw last wednesday on steeped. Why you know. I'm sort of not relating Something from from the past That i guess. I dead point. Would you say i m make an inference or i am actually Member memorizing. you're you're using information i would. I have to make the inference at. That's based on memory and of course it is because there isn't any other way to explain your ability to do that but you're just using the information that you acquired a previous time in order to affect your behavior at this time and that's that's what memory does it allows us to use experiences in order to to change our behavior to make it appropriate for the moment
Tim Conway Jr.
Santa Ana Testing Site, SE of Los Angeles, Sees COVID-19 Positivity Rate Skyrocket
"Drive through testing in Santa Ana has had an 11% jump in cases. You see Irvine Health Doctor Jo Jose Mayorga says positivity rate spiked in one week It was holding steady around 5 to 6%. It came up to about 8.9. And then all of a sudden after that Halloween, we Again. The timing is perfect that we saw this unfortunate impact to our community, Mayorga says. With more holidays approaching, people should prepare for more spikes that they aren't careful. He says. The spike happened in the Latino community, which has been the hardest hit population.
Tim Conway Jr.
Santa Ana Testing Site, SE of Los Angeles, Sees COVID-19 Positivity Rate Skyrocket
"19 drive through testing site in Santa Ana has had an 11% jump in cases. You see Irvine Health doctor UC Irvine health Whether Dr Jose Mayorga says the positivity right spiked in one week it was holding steady around 5 to 6%. It came up to about 8.9 and then all of a sudden after that Halloween weekend. The timing is perfect that we saw this unfortunate impact to our community, Mayorga says. With more holidays approaching, people should prepare for more spikes if they aren't careful. He says. The spike happened in the Latino community, which has been the hardest hit population.
The John Phillips Show
Los Angeles: Silverado Fire Containment Jumps To 32%, Some Residents Allowed To Return
"Of evacuated Irvine residents in the path of the Silverado fire are back home as firefighters increased containment to 40% evacuations are also over around your Belinda where the Blue Ridge fire is 30% contained. The Blue Ridge fire burning in the Yorba Linda area has charred 14,000, plus acres, destroyed one structure and damage. Seven others. Silverado Fire in the Irvine area has burned just under 14,000 acres. It didn't damage structures, but left two firefighters with 2nd and 3rd degree burns over half their