Lifeslices with Steve Fisher

For the first time since the Great Depression of the 1930s, more Americans are leaving the country than are looking to settle here. Reasons vary, including the divisive politics, deteriorating healthcare and cost of living, among others. If you’re one of those people looking for the greener grass of other geographical locales, there are many things to know. Doug Oas has lived overseas and helped others doing the same. He joins host Steve Fisher to share some things to need to know for Escaping America.

Many, including journalists, pundits, scholars and everyday citizens have noticed similarities in rhetoric and policy between Donald Trump and Adolph Hitler. Is it an accident? A coincidence? Hyperbole? Rabbi Henry Jay Karp doesn’t think so and wrote a book about it, titled, “The Cost of Doing Nothing: Is a Price We Cannot Pay.” Rabbi Karp joins host Steve Fisher to explain why we can't afford to turn a blind eye or deaf ear to the political noise.

In the last episode, we learned how our human attention was being monopolized, if not downright stolen, by the business models behind big tech. Here you’ll learn more about the damage it’s doing. D. Graham Burnett, a Princeton University professor and co-founder and director of the Strother School of Radical Attention, is back to tell us more about the harm of human fracking and what we all can do about it.

Through our connections to various screens—smartphones, computers, TVs—our consciousness is being mined for profit. D. Graham Burnett, a professor at Princeton University and one of the founders of the Attention Liberation Movement joins host Steve Fisher to urge us to Take Back Your Attention.

A song from the 60’s, began with the lyric,

Everybody's talkin' at me
I don't hear a word they're sayin'
Never have those words meant as much as they do now. We all hear but how many of us are actually listening. Consciously listening. International speaker and trainer on the critical communication skills of listening and speaking Julian Treasure joins host Steve Fisher to explain what we’re lacking.

Acclaimed wildlife filmmaker and naturalist Colin Stafford Johnson returns for more of Life in the Wild. Wildlife filmmakers may not be experiencing high demand right now but that doesn’t stop Colin from extolling the wonders and joys of nature and the need to preserve our ecosystems. A master story teller with some great stories to tell.

Colin Stafford Johnson, one of the world's best nature filmmakers, whose work has been seen on the BBC and PBS among others, joins host Steve Fisher to talk about his Life in the Wild, amongst tigers, otters, foxes and more. 

Thanks to streamers, there’s more foreign language programming available every day. Which begs the question, subtitles or dubbed? Some find subtitles distracting so dubbing is the choice for many. But the quality of the dubbing varies as much as the quality of the programs. So we turned to an expert for an insight on the process.  Jessica Blue, a director, voice actress and adapter joins host Steve Fisher to offer a Dubbing Session.

There may be someone in your house listening to your every word, without you realizing it. Your dog. An average dog vocabulary includes about 150 to 200 words, but with training, dogs have been documented to understand more than 1,000 words! Some dogs are even learning when you’re not actively training them. Shany Dror, a cognitive researcher and animal trainer at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna, Austria, joins host Steve Fisher to tell us about Eavesdropping Dogs.

When people are incarcerated, it’s presumably to pay a debt to society for a crime. But when that debt is paid, and it’s time for them to reenter society, what’s being done to prepare them for a successful reentry? Sabra Williams is changing that with CREATIVE ACTS. She and Executive Director Isaac Gonzalez join host Steve Fisher to explain how.