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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Public Speaking: Overcoming Fear and Putting Yo...
Speaking in public can be a very anxiety-producing experience, but why? And how can we remove some of that anxiety and do a better job in front of an audience? Our guests discuss the fear of public speaking and offer advice on how to create, prepare...
10 min
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Scary Critters
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Halloween Traditions, Costumes and Why We Love ...
It’s the time of year when all the ghosts and goblins, witches and monsters, superheroes and villains don their Halloween best and head off to trick-or-treat, party or walk through a haunted house. Why do we dress up for the holiday? What do our...
11 min
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Slang, Jargon and Colorful Expressions
12 min
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Dealing with Climate Change Around the World
We’re all familiar with the various ages such as the Jurassic and the Paleozoic, but have you ever heard of the Anthropocene? We meet a woman who has traveled around the world looking at how climate change caused by humans has transformed areas...
9 min
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The Pawpaw: America's Forgotten Fruit
You can find almost any fruit – domestic and exotic – in the produce section of grocery stores across the country these days. There’s one fruit, though, that’s both domestic and exotic that you will have a hard time locating: the pawpaw. The...
10 min
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Teaching Kids to Read
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Starting a Business: Making the Right Decisions...
What does it take to be a successful entrepreneur? A hot idea? Venture capital money? A lot of internet buzz? Those things help, but our two guests, who are both successful entrepreneurs and businessmen, say there is a lot more to it, especially if...
12 min
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Helping Non-Traditional Students Navigate College
11 min
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Foster Care
When a child is placed in foster care, she’s already been through the traumatic experience of being removed from her family’s care, and now faces an uncertain future in a new home – sometimes worse than the one she left. We discuss the successes...
12 min
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The Challenges of Co-Parenting
10 min
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Unconventional Women
13 min
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Making It in an Unfair Economy: The sociologica...
Although unemployment is down across the nation, there are still pockets of workers who have been unemployed for years, with no hope of ever finding a good job. Our guest researched the sociological effects of long-term unemployment on out-of-work...
9 min
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How To Get More of What You Want in Workplace N...
We talk to two negotiation specialists about how to approach a salary increase request and get some psychological advice on how to gain the upper hand.
11 min
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Belonging: Why It’s Important to Be From Somewhere
When you ask an American, “where are you from?” most of them will say it’s where they live now or where they were born. We talk to one man who thought long and hard about that question and went on a journey around the Midwest and Plains States...
11 min
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The New Look and Sound of Resumes and Job Inter...
We talk to two employment specialists about how the interview and resume processes have changed, and how applicants can get the edge in the digital job search market.
12 min
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Hunting and Poaching Wild Animals
11 min
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Families Today: New Contracts for New Types of ...
We talk to a noted contract and family law attorney who has written extensively on the cohabitation to find out how society and the courts view cohabitation relationships.
11 min
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Intelligent Disobedience
We’re taught from a young age that we should obey authority and do what adults tell us to do. Those lessons usually work in our favor, however there are times when a child – and an adult – should say "no" to the ones in charge. Our guest has...
11 min
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Edwin Land and Polaroid
These days “instant photography” means digital pictures that can be cropped, enhanced, captioned and uploaded to the Internet in a matter of minutes. It wasn’t that long ago, however, that “instant” photography was a lot more...
11 min
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Social Media and the Presidential Election
Snapchat is quickly rising to the top of the social media hierarchy, and presidential candidates want to tap into its growing audience. But how exactly do you reach young voters on social media without sounding “too political” and boring?
12 min
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Kids and Financial Intelligence
11 min
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What lists tells us about the famous and the in...
Everyone makes lists: shopping lists, to-do lists, Christmas lists, and many more. But what do your lists say about you?
11 min
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Women in Prison Part 1: A look inside the bars
The Netflix television show, Orange is the New Black, depicts life in a women’s prison – but is it real? Are the inmates whose lives they portray realistic? We toured a real women’s medium-security prison, talked to the administration and some...
9 min
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Women in Prison Part II: Changed lives for the ...
What’s a women’s prison really like? We visited Rockville Correctional Facility and sat down with two inmates to discuss their prison experience, past regrets and what they’ve learned while serving their sentences.
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