Forward Radio podcasts

This week, we bring you a conversation from Jan. 17, 2025 on UofL's Employee Success Podcast with Brian Buford. This conversation with UofL's Dr. Patty Payette (from Forward Radio's Critical Thinking for Everyone) is about the Think Aloud Protocol and Leadership. “Leadership is a conversation.” In this episode, Dr. Patty Payette and Brian Buford discuss experiences with mentorship, connection, and...

We attended the Women's March (People's March) held in Washington, DC just two days before the Trump inauguration. Hear our report (including recordings) from that march of 20,000 protestors. Also, did you know there is research showing that the US government is an oligarchy (rule by the few)? Who are the big power brokers now, and how are they manipulating us? Finally, Scott Miller reports on wha...

This week on Sustainability Now!, we reconnect with a former guest from several years ago, Todd Bluechel, who is now Renewable Energy Sales Specialist with ABC Supply (https://abcsupply.com). Join host Justin Mog as we explore the state of distributed renewable energy in Kentucky and around the country. We’ll especially focus on supply chain issues in the solar industry and common sense connection...

Allen Brownfield is an attorney who has spent years in Palestine and decades studying the conflict between Israel and Palestine.

Patty and Brain interview Dr. Marcis Fennell from the Department of Health & Sport Sciences at the University of Louisville. Dr. Fennell's research illuminates the social and moral aspects of "trash talking" among high-performing athletes. In this fascinating conversation, we learn the roots of "trash talking" (boasts and bragging) with and for your opponent and the surprisingly prosocial ways tha...

This week, we bring you the voice of Baha Hilo, Palestinian activist and educator, speaking with the Louisville Ceasefire Coalition at an event organized by the Palestine Justice Network of the Presbyterian Church USA (https://thePJN.org or https://www.facebook.com/pjnpcusa). He spoke on Thursday evening, Jan. 23rd, at the Fairness Campaign Office, on Frankfort Avenue here in Louisville. Baha has...

Professor Joshua Douglas. Joshua Douglas teaches and researches election law and voting rights, at the University of Kentucky school of law. He is the author of Vote for US: How to Take Back our Elections and Change the Future of Voting, and The Court v. The Voters: The Troubling Story of How the Supreme Court Has Undermined Voting Rights. Professor Douglas explains how the Supreme Court has passe...

Paul Hoppe and co-hosts Drs. Mike Flynn and Gene Shively discuss the epidemic of gun shootings and killings in the US focusing on school shootings. Our guest, psychiatrist Dr. Steve Lippmann, offers insight to the causes and possible solutions.

A group from Kentuckians for Single Payer Healthcare discuss the recent killing of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson and the effect on it's quest for Medicare for All

Paul Hoppe, along with co-hosts Drs Mike Flynn and Gene Shively and our guest Dr Brian Davis discuss issues affecting immigration along our Mexican border, especially as related to providing healthcare to the immigrants

A discussion of the cons of AI when it comes to possible "deskilling" of labor and harm to education.

On today's show, we listen in on a very timely community conversation hosted on January 14th, 2025 with the Oberlin Club of Washington, DC, focused on the question: "Why is the working-class leaving the Democratic Party?" The conversation featured remarks by Les Leopold, Executive Director of The Labor Institute, and a 1969 graduate of Oberlin College. You can watch the full event and see the slid...

Hear the story of Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte (1865-1915), the first indigenous woman to earn a medical degree in the US. Mary Williams reports on this fascinating woman of the Omaha tribe. Then, have you heard that a glass of wine every night is good for your health? But is it true? There is accumulating evidence that any alcohol we drink has a negative effect on our overall health and longevity...

This week on Sustainability Now!, we continue our miniseries on a just energy transition for all! Your host, Justin Mog, is thrilled to be in conversation with Scott Hackel, Vice-President of Research and Innovation at Slipstream. Scott has established a national reputation for technical thought-leadership in high performance building research and technologies. He leads ground-breaking field resea...

This week on Sustainability Now!, we continue our theme of ringing in the new year with a focus on healthy soils and healthy food! Your host, Justin Mog, is thrilled to be in conversation with two friends from OAK, the Organic Association of Kentucky: Shannon Post is OAK's Farmer Education Coordinator, and one of OAK founders, Larry Brandenburg, owner of Harmony Fields Farm in Shelbyville with his...

Annelle Sheline is a research fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. She previously served as a Foreign Affairs Officer at the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor’s Office of Near Eastern Affairs (DRL/NEA), before resigning in March 2024 to protest the Biden administration’s unconditional support for Israeli military operations in Gaza. She i...

Patty and Brian dive into some critical thinking news for The New Year!

To kick off the new year on Sustainability Now!, your host, Justin Mog, is thrilled to be in conversation with Deb Dynako, Senior Director of Partnership Development at Slipstream (https://slipstreaminc.org). Slipstream discovers, tests, and scales climate solutions in buildings and communities that move us faster toward a clean economy for all. The nonprofit organization is headquartered in Madis...

Dr. Lawrence Lessig, Prof. of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School, formerly professor at Stanford Law School, former clerk for Justice Antonin Scalia and author of numerous books and articles on democracy and its accelerating decline, spoke with Ruth and occasional co-host James Moore on money's corrupting influence over our democracy and what we as individuals and as a nation can do about it...

K.A. Owens interviews Vincent Gonzalez-former co-host of "Community Control Now". There are comments on the KY Alliance Against Racist And Political Repression December 31, 2024 New Years Eve Party, the 2024 Protect Our Schools Campaign and evaluations of Jefferson County Public Schools. Recorded Friday January 3, 2025, 10PM.

Dr. Sheila Schuster, Psychologist and Mental Health and Healthcare Advocate, along with Lisa Willner, Ph. D. Mental Health Professional and District 35 Kentucky House Representative both spoke at the Louisville League of Women Voters Democracy in Action Forum on how to advocate effectively to members of the Frankfort KY Legislature for causes that you are passionate about.

Linus Pauling (1901-1994) is the only person to have won two unshared Nobel Prizes. One prize was for his groundbreaking research in biochemistry, and the other for his anti-nuclear war activism. But he made mistakes too; like his ugly support of 'negative eugenics' and his unsubstantiated claims about Vitamin C megadosing. Let's review his career! Then, Scott Miller tells us about the four planet...

GRACIE LEWIS is a journalist and retired employee of the federal government and former Staff Assistant, United States Congress, Subcommittee on Labor Standards. She has spent some 50 years as a “warrior for justice.” Her contributions to many organizations have demonstrated her unwavering dedication to justice, equality and community development. GRACIE LEWIS started her activism in 1971 with the...

Dr Tom James joins Drs Mike Flynn and Gene Shively along with Paul Hoppe in a discussion on womens reproductive rights in Kentucky. Kentucky currently has some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the United States. As of December 2024, abortion is illegal in Kentucky at all stages of pregnancy, with very limited exceptions.

David Bollier, author, co-author and co-editor of 12 books on new, more earth- and human-aligned paradigms, presents his views of our current economic, political and social systems -- why they are failing us, and how a parallel system of self-growing communities he calls "the Commons" or "the Commonsverse" is popping up in different parts of the world to rekindle a sense of agency, belonging and s...