Thrive Movement: Interview with Directors Kimberly and Foster Gamble

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Kimberly and Foster Gamble have an idea.

They have the model for solving much of the world's problems by looking at systems that already exist in nature.

I spoke with the Gambles on March 6th earlier in the day and then played the interview for my show that night.

The film Thrive is being shown on universities nation wide and has already created a large following considering it's recent release in November of last year.

Valentine's Day Love Edition: Interview with Dr. Louann Brizendine

Men are from Mars and Women Are from Venus. The book was sitting on my coffee table from the past year. As a joke, on of my roommates picked it up from a garage sale, and it sat on the counter ever since. 

One day, after making sure no one else was home to see me do so, I picked up the book and read it. While it seemed oversimplified at parts, some sections admittedly rang true. So when Valentine's Day started to come around (as it inevitabley does once a year, whether we are in a relationship or not) I looked for a person who could clarify the questions that daunt many this time of year. The questions about love. 

Dr. Louann Brizendine M.D., author of The Female Brain and The Male Brain sat down with me and spoke about her findings about the "love brain". 

The love brain is the part of our cognition that controls emotions and reasoning surrounding love. 

This love brain changes in men and women. While she claims that men and women are "more alike than they are different" it seems that they two view relationships and love differently and understanding these differences can help resolve disagreements that may come from miscommunication. 

For myself, one of the most interesting differences between a man and a women's love brain is the idea that women are more perceptive of feelings and emotions based on evolution. Women who could pick up on non-verbal cues were more likely to be better mother's to their infants before the children mastered language. The women who were perceptive of their child's needs survived, raised healthy children who survived and thus the women that exist today are perceptive by evolution. Men on the other hand did not need to do this in order to ensure the survival of their offspring, and therefore they are less perceptive of non-verbal cues. 

After I learned this, I forgave a certain someone in my life for not being able to read my mind. 

We spoke about the miscommunications between couples, the way the love brain may work differently in same sex couple versus heterosexual ones and much more. 

This is a pre-recorded interview on February 8th and aired on Valentine's Day February 14th.

I began with a lead up question about the feminist movement in the 1960's that claimed men and women's brains were the same so that women would not be seen as subordinate. Dr. Louann Brizendine begins by answering this question.

Listen to the full interview here

Radio Radio: An Interview with Sandra Mohr: Director of Radio Wars

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Radio Radio. it's not just a song by Elvis Costello.

Some would say it's a lifestyle here at KZSC, but for director of the new film Radio Wars, Sandra Mohr, radio would have many possible definitions.

Sandra and I sat down on a phone interview to discuss the new documentary which tells about the history of radio and the use of it as a medium in the past.

Our discussion lead to include the importance of radio in todays life, the rise of the virtual DJ and indeed how the name of the DJ has changed over time.

Revisiting Siobhan Fallon: You Know When the Men are Gone

Listen to the podcast of the show here.

Last quarter, I studied abroad in Denmark, pursuing my degree in English Literature and furthering my Egyptological studies (I soon grew so tired of explaining why an English Lit major would study in Denmark, a few people came to know me as an International Studies Major. I may or may not have had a part in them thinking this). While I was away, I put this show on hold as well as my affiliation with the radio station KZSC 88.1.

But I'm back. Back on the show and back on board as Talk Programming Director at the station and couldn't be happier about it.

Coming back from my travels (which can be read on my other blog entitled "A Broad Abroad" linked here) I thought I would look back to the past show and pick one interview to re-edit.

Early last year I had the pleasure of sitting down the author Siobhan Fallon to talk about her then recently released book, You Know When The Men Are Gone

We recorded the interview earlier in the day it was aired a few hours later so most of the audio listeners heard was unedited. For this show, I pieced it together to a more cohesive piece.

Since it's release the book, about the lives of the spouses of deployed soldiers, has gotten rave reviews across the map including recognition from the New York Times, SF Gate and the LA times.