Viewpoints Radio
Sit down with Viewpoints each week as we report on social issues, the environment, history, food – you name it. What’s it like to give birth in prison? Could the plague resurface with climate change? How has politics been permanently reshaped by the Trump era? Candid stories on topics you should know, plus Culture Crash – a three-minute recap on a timely topic in media to keep you up-to-date on all things music, TV and film. Hosted by Marty Peterson, Gary Price, Ebony McMorris, Evan Rook and produced by Amirah Zaveri. New shows posted each Sunday by 5 a.m. EST. Subscribe and listen, and find out more info at viewpointsradio.org. Also, follow us on X & Instagram @ViewpointsRadio.
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American Literacy
9 min
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Culture Crash: Music in a streaming world
As apps like Spotify and Pandora have taken over, musicians have been forced to make their new albums into an event. We look at how they do that, and how streaming music impacts us as listeners.
1 min
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Maximizing Your Experience Traveling Internatio...
10 min
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American Detainment: Lessons to Learn From Amer...
It’s a topic that has been in the news lately: how our government detains groups of people. We look back at history to see what really happened in World War II Japanese internment camps, and how we can avoid similar shame now and in the future.
8 min
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Culture Crash: A new Spider-Man movie worth get...
Spider-Man movies have been done and redone several times now, but a new animated movie about the web-slinger is coming out in December, and it will finally tell the story from a fresh perspective.
3 min
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How Comedy Became King
9 min
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Domestic Violence: How It Happens and How to St...
8 min
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Culture Crash: What’s a comedy award to do when...
The Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize is given annually to what a panel of judges deem to be the funniest book of the year. But this year, the judges hit a snag: they didn’t think any of them were funny.
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The Value of Our Public Libraries
9 min
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Creating Better Teams
Teamwork is seen as a premium in our culture. We believe that two is better than one. But entrepreneur and author Shane Snow says that we often don’t use our groups and teams to their fullest potential. He gives us the science behind why, and how we...
9 min
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Culture Crash: 4 Books to Read This Summer
Summer is finally here, and if you’re like me, that means it’s time to get to business on that reading list. I’ve always found that my favorite entertainment source in the summer is to go read a book in the great outdoors. Of course, picking the...
2 min
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Weather: Past and Future
8 min
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Farming in Cities
9 min
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Culture Crash: Watching Film Classics in a Stre...
Netflix and Amazon are go-tos for many Americans looking for a movie to watch. But how can people watch classics like The Maltese Falcon or Singin’ in the Rain in this new world?
2 min
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Is Cursive Still Worth Teaching?
With all of our technology and reliance on computers, many schools are phasing out some handwriting lessons. Specifically, schools have stopped teaching cursive. We talk to two experts about whether that’s a good idea. Learn more at:
9 min
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The Fight for Paternity Leave
8 min
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Culture Crash: The End of New Girl
Fox’s hit sitcom New Girl ended this month after 7 seasons. We take a look back at the show’s run and what makes sitcoms so special to us.
2 min
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Communicating with School-Aged Boys: A Psycholo...
Many parents and educators struggle to connect and communicate with adolescent boys. Dr. Adam Cox, clinical psychologist for over 20 years and author of Cracking the Boy Code: How to understand and talk with boys, explains what he’s learned after...
11 min
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Discovering the Maya Civilization
7 min
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Culture Crash: Should We Really ‘Save Barnes an...
For years, Barnes and Noble was the big enemy to independent bookstores. Now, Amazon is the big bad and some are calling for consumers to ‘save” Barnes and Noble…but should we?
2 min
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Financial Corruption and The Fed’s Pursuit of S...
The financial world was shocked when the FBI began investigating Wall Street big shot Steve Cohen and his company SAC Capital. We discuss what they were looking for, what they found, and what it all means going forward.
9 min
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Helping Save the Bees
You’ve probably heard that bees are in trouble, and that we need bees for many of the foods and plants we have come to love. We learn what we can all be doing to do our part and help save the bees before it’s too late.
9 min
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Culture Crash: The Hamilton Mixtape, Hamildrops...
Hamilton is over 3 years old, but it still tops the iTunes and Spotify charts every few weeks or so thanks to the “Hamildrops,” where creator Lin-Manuel Miranda releases new Hamilton-adjacent material every few weeks or so.
2 min
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Honoring the Soldiers Who Fought in Vietnam
10 min
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Men’s Place in the #MeToo Movement
8 min