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Peggy grew up in GA and attended the University of Georgia. With an undergraduate and a masters degree in Criminal Justice Peggy is keenly interested in how politics and public safety intersect. Peggy is also an entrepreneur, small business owner, and lover of the outdoors. Peggy became focused on politics in Tennessee when the supermajority legislature began making headlines for silencing voices, enacting laws targeting underrepresented people and refusing to listen to their constituents. J ...
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Mobituaries with Mo Rocca

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“CBS News Sunday Morning” correspondent Mo Rocca has always loved obituaries. Each episode of Mobituaries covers his favorite dearly departed people and things. This season profiles legendary athlete Jim Thorpe in "Death of an All-American", iconic singer/songwriter Peggy Lee in "Death of Cool", and even the death of the mid-Atlantic accent, best known from the likes of Katharine Hepburn, Franklin Roosevelt and Jacqueline Kennedy. Mo even has a few new things in store including an episode th ...
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Two Good Mums

Laura and Peggy

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Many years ago, Laura’s baby was removed from her care and adopted by Peggy. Here we share our journey of adoption; the milestones along the way, the wrong turns we might have taken, and how we gradually became travelling companions. Two Good Mums is our story. Little did we know that while we’d been merrily going our own way for over a decade, building our friendship over email and getting our families together every year, post-adoption contact had become a hot issue. When the final episode ...
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Thought-provoking videos about life and being human, with ideas from business leaders, psychologists and researchers speaking onstage at the TED conference, TEDx events and partner events around the world. You can also download these and many other videos free on TED.com, with an interactive English transcript and subtitles in up to 80 languages. TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading.
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Acclaimed writer and art curator Laura Raicovich confronts present realities via a mashup of art and politics to reimagine what is possible, diving into undoing and redoing culture towards a just present and future. Laura Raicovich is an advocate for art that embraces complexity, poetics, and care to foster a more just civic realm. She is a member of the collective that launched The Francis Kite Club, a bar, cultural, and activist space in 2023, and is a founding member of Urban Front, a res ...
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We don't want to ruin anything, but basically Kyran Wheatley and his movie loving friends talk about movies. Once a month it's live at Giant Dwarf in Sydney. Jump on our facebook page for details of upcoming shows.
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Welcome to the Sensory Friendly Solutions Podcast! Season 1 brings you an 11-part deep dive into the world of your senses, sensory sensitivity and sensory overload, with the goal of discovering and sharing sensory-friendly solutions for daily life. You’ll hear the candid voices of international experts like occupational therapist and researcher Dr. Winnie Dunn, best-selling author Carol Stock Kranowitz, and the most famous autistic person in the world, Dr. Temple Grandin. Podcast guests incl ...
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Title: A Vision for Tennessee Rooted in Equity, Opportunity, and Progress Episode 10- Dr. LaRhonda Williams Peggy sits down with Dr. LaRhonda Williams, a candidate for Tennessee’s District 65 with a diverse background in political science, criminal justice, and education. Dr. LaRhonda highlights her father's service as a Lieutenant Colonel and POW …
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Title: Advocating for Reproductive Rights, Mental Health, and Economic Well-being in Tennessee Episode 9- Dr. Laura Andreson Peggy sits down with Dr. Laura Andreson, an OBGYN running for Tennessee's state legislature. She decided to run for office after the fall of Roe v. Wade, as she felt compelled to engage in political advocacy to protect women'…
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Title: The Fight for Equity in Williamson County Schools Episode 8- Revida Rahman Peggy talks with Revida Rahman, a community leader in Williamson County, Tennessee who has been at the forefront of efforts to address systemic racism and inequities in the local school district. In 2018, Ravida and other families of color in the area began to raise c…
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Peggy talks with Political Director at Tennessee Legislative Democrats, Charles Uffelman. In this episode of Blue Lift, host Peggy Kingsbury sits down with Charles "Chazz" Uffelman, a seasoned political organizer and expert on Tennessee politics. Chazz shares his personal journey into politics, starting from his early involvement in the 2008 Obama …
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Our September 2024 episode features an interview with author, New York Law School professor, and former president of the American Civil Liberties Union, Nadine Strossen, conducted by IGS trustees Lance Strate and Susan Drucker. Their conversation centers on legal issues such as free speech in the context of contemporary American politics and cultur…
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Having More Appreciation for The Federal Government Episode 6- Maryam Abolfazli Maryam Abolfazli is running against Andy Ogles to represent Tennessee’s 5th Congressional District. Maryam, a proud Tennessean, refuses to stand idly by while our state's values are under attack. Now, she's determined to stop extremist politicians from dismantling our f…
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Putting people over politics w/ Claire Jones In this episode, Peggy gets to have a conversation with Claire Jones. A Kentucky native and nurse who is running for Tennessee House District 61, covering Brentwood and Franklin. Her campaign focuses on people over politics, aiming to address issues like gun control and healthcare through balanced legisl…
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Lifting Voices, Bridging Divides W/Dr. Rod Berger Peggy talks with Dr. Rod Berger – A globally acclaimed storyteller and keynote speaker, who's special power is converting today's stories into tomorrow's currency! In this episode, they talk about finding the best way to find your own voice, concern for local school districts, working for water in U…
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Peggy talks with Justin Kanew, founder of Tennessee Holler about his vested interest in the betterment of Tennessee. Justin is a husband and dad and movie producer who recently ran for congress in Tennessee's 7th District, and who thinks you should run for office too. Challenges in Voter Turnout and Election Integrity (3:09) Healthcare and Rural Br…
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Peggy talks with Award-Winning Journalist with Tennessee Lookout Holly McCall about the treatment women seem to receive in politics. An award-winning columnist, Holly McCall has been a fixture in Tennessee media and politics for decades. She covered city hall for papers in Columbus, Ohio and Joplin, Missouri before returning to Tennessee. Holly bri…
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In this debut episode of Blue Lift, Peggy talks with 6th generation Williamson County resident and good friend, Damon Rogers. Damon is a Navy wife and outspoken in all things TN Democrat! Her blue realization started when George W. Bush sent her husband back to war in 2001. Her story about becoming a loud and proud Democrat is captivating and will …
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Our August 2024 episode features Corey Anton and Thom Gencarelli discussing general semantics and politics, based on the recent special issues of the IGS’s quarterly journal, ETC: A Review of General Semantics. In conversation with Lance Strate, they talk about Corey Anton’s role as guest editor working together with Thom Gencarelli as ETC editor i…
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Our July 2024 episode departs from our usual format, and instead features a series of short take interviews conducted in conjunction with the IGS's summer seminar entitled, Navigating the Now: A Guide to Recognizing What is Going On, which was held at the October Gallery in London, England, on July 25th to 27th, 2024. Over the course of the three d…
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Our June 2024 episode was recorded at a local radio station in the city of Gold Coast in Australia, and features Australian media personality and researcher, Renée Peterson. Renée has spent over two decades as a media industry professional in Australia and the US, as a radio and television producer, writer, and on-air broadcaster,and is currently c…
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This special episode comes from the audiobook edition of ROCTOGENARIANS, a brand-new collection of stories from Mo Rocca that celebrates the triumphs of people who made their biggest marks late in life. Chances are, you know something about the life of Laura Ingalls Wilder. If, like sixty million other people, you once enjoyed the Little House book…
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Our May 2024 episode features an interview with Dr. Margaret Cassidy, the newly elected president of the New York Society for General Semantics, and the author of Bookends: The Changing Media Environment of American Classrooms; and of Children, Media, and American History: Printed Poison, Pernicious Stuff, and Other Terrible Temptations. Peggy Cass…
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Our April 2024 episode features an interview with lawyer, media activist, and artist-designer Paul Guzzardo. The conversation ranges across topics such as digital arts and deep fakes, the music of Ustad Imrat Khan, Henry Ford and the United Steel Workers labor union, Marshall McLuhan and Walter Ong, Patrick Geddes and Aldous Huxley, Josephine Baker…
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Our March 2024 episode features a discussion held in the media lab at Panamericana University in Mexico City with Panamericana's Media Lab Director Gustavo Navarro, IGS Trustee and Panamericana Philosophy Professor Laura Trujillo-Liñán, and visiting IGS Trustees Thom Gencarelli and Lance Strate. Their conversation covers media ecology, new media, e…
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What is Emancipatory Propaganda? with Jonas Staal Stay connected with the latest news from Politics in Motion. Join our mailing list today: https://www.politicsinmotion.org In this second episode of Cultural Counterpower, Laura asks “What is emancipatory propaganda?” Artist Jonas Staal speaks with Laura about the history of propaganda and its poten…
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Our February 2024 episode features the second part of an interview with singer-songwriter and activist Michelle Shocked. In conversation with IGS trustees Lance Strate and Thom Gencarelli, they discuss Michelle's career and music, and issues regarding copyright, media and technology, artists' rights, and human dignity (and includes a bit of salty l…
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Our January 2024 episode features an interview with singer-songwriter and activist Michelle Shocked. In conversation with IGS trustees Lance Strate and Thom Gencarelli, they discuss Michelle's background and music, and issues regarding copyright, media and technology, artists' rights, and human dignity, and concludes with a live performance.…
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Long before her turn as the sermonizing Aunt Esther on "Sanford and Son," LaWanda Page was dazzling Black nightclub audiences - first as the flame-swallowing “Bronze Goddess of Fire”. Then, following in the footsteps of her childhood friend and eventual costar Redd Foxx, she became a queen of raunchy, tell-it-like-it-is stand up comedy. (Let’s just…
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Our December 2023 episode features an interview with former IGS Executive Director and Trustee Steve Stockdale. In conversation with IGS President Lance Strate, Stockdale discusses his background and connection to general semantics, his experiences setting up a MOOC and teaching a course on general semantics online, and his initiative known as “cal…
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Between 1854 and 1929, 250,000 orphans and abandoned children were placed on East Coast city trains and sent west to live with new families. A desperate solution to a desperate problem, some of the stories turned out well and some far from well. The remarkable stories of these riders live on through their descendants, many of whom continue to searc…
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There’s no shortage of sports teams that change cities or names over the course of their franchise history. But what about the teams that just cease to exist? Perhaps no team story packs more drama into one year of existence than that of Los Dragones de Ciudad Trujillo. It’s a story that combines one of the most celebrated names in baseball history…
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If you were a kid watching TV in the 1980s and 1990s, you probably saw a fair number of “Very Special Episodes,” when the usual blissful bubble of the sitcom world was punctured by real-world issues for a half-hour. Drugs, drinking and driving, stranger danger, even AIDS. But never fear, all would be resolved by episode’s end. (Sometimes the materi…
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Starting in the early 1970s, Norman Lear changed the face of television, fusing comedy with social commentary. Lear died on December 5th at the great old age of 101. Mo revisits their 2015 conversation for CBS Sunday Morning. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.iHeartPodcasts and CBS News által
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For centuries European royals married only each other. It was believed to be the best way of consolidating power. But rampant royal inbreeding had increasingly negative consequences––including genetic abnormalities (like the protuberant “Habsburg Jaw”), the dying off of whole lines, and eventually serious geopolitical instability that culminated in…
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Stay connected with the latest news from Politics in Motion. Join our mailing list today: https://www.politicsinmotion.org In this first episode of Cultural Counterpower, Laura discusses the relationship between art and the ways we imagine the world around us. She delves into the powerful forces that have narrowed the public imaginary and how they …
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“Nepo Baby” is a term popularly used to describe the celebrity children of celebrity parents. But family connections affect every field of work, and always have. And where family is involved, so is drama. Mo tells the stories of three of history’s biggest Nepo Babies: Edsel Ford, the son of Henry Ford; President John Quincy Adams, the son of Presid…
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Our November 2023 episode features an interview with author, public speaker, and strategy management consultant Marcy Axelrod. The interview, conducted by IGS President Lance Strate, focuses on her new book, entitled How We Choose to Show Up, her work as a business consultant, and the importance of speech, relationships, and personal presence.…
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November 22, 2023, marks 60 years since the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the end of one of the era's biggest comedy acts. During Kennedy's term, Vaughn Meader’s impersonation of the president made him a household name. The comedy album "The First Family,” in which Meader uncannily played JFK, broke sales records and won the Grammy…
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When Candice Bergen describes her childhood as weird and eccentric, she isn’t exaggerating. She grew up with a world-famous sibling, who met presidents and movie stars. He was also a dummy – the kind made of wood. Charlie McCarthy was the creation of her ventriloquist father Edgar Bergen. Candice tells Mo what life was like sharing her father’s lov…
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On this podcast we’ve honored some of our past’s most outstanding and underappreciated people and things. May they live on in memory. But let’s face it, some things deserve to disappear and be consigned to the dustbin of history. In this episode, Mo nominates three things that he’d like to see go the way of the dodo. Mo talks to food writer Kim Sev…
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Our October 2023 episode features an interview with Nora Bateson, who is an IGS Trustee and President of the International Bateson Institute. The interview, conducted by IGS President Lance Strate, focuses on her new book, entitled Combining, a volume that includes essays, poems, and artwork. Their conversation touches on topics such as systems the…
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Have you ever wondered about that old timey accent so many actors used in black and white movies? Hollywood stars like Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis and Orson Welles, who sounded sort of British … but not quite. Was it all a put on or did people back then talk that way in real life? Mo investigates the emergence and disappearance of the accent com…
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When gold medalist Jim Thorpe was dubbed "the world's greatest athlete" at the 1912 Olympics, it wasn't hype. Football, baseball, lacrosse, even ballroom dancing ... Thorpe was the world's first multi-sport superstar. But when the Native American icon had his Olympic medals unjustly stripped from him, he faced his toughest hurdle yet. Mo talks to b…
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