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Chris Nowinski is a former football player at Harvard University and professional wrestler with WWE, World Wrestling Entertainment. After enduring a career-ending head injury, Chris has dedicated his professional life to serving patients and families affected by brain trauma, particularly Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, a progressive neurodegenerative disease that develops after repeated head injuries. Jay and Chris discuss the state of head injuries in American athletics, the difference between advocating for head safety at youth and professional levels, Chris’ newest research, and much more. Episode Chapters (00:00) Intro (00:50) changes in the culture around concussions in the past two decades (02:39) padded helmet technology (03:55) concussion reporting in the NFL (10:35) Chris’ career path and concussion history (14:52) connecting with activists who haven’t themselves suffered a traumatic brain injury (17:42) SHAAKE - a new sign to identify concussions (20:53) Unions can help players advocate for safety policies (23:10) final thoughts and goodbye For video episodes, watch on www.youtube.com/@therudermanfamilyfoundation Stay in touch: X: @JayRuderman | @RudermanFdn LinkedIn: Jay Ruderman | Ruderman Family Foundation Instagram: All About Change Podcast | Ruderman Family Foundation To learn more about the podcast, visit https://allaboutchangepodcast.com/…
The podcast where Max, James, and Ryan discover if great beer makes bad movies any better (Spoilers: It Doesn't)
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Usually here at Good Brews Bad Views we dig into movies that are somewhat known to allow you the listener to watch along with us if you so choose, and while they are often bad they are somewhat enjoyable. This episode we change that by going to the bottom of the barrel with a gem of a bad movie that can only be described by the phrase “fantasticall…
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With the rampant success of the new It movie, GBBV decided to start the Halloween season on a similar note with Killer Klowns from Outer Space. While enjoying the antics of space alien clowns Ryan argues that the only thing creepier than a clown is a moist one while Max and James have a discussion on small town-college relations of years past all w…
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If you’re going to have a movie that satirizes fascism and tries to convince people that Denise Richards is an actual human being with a non-wooden face, i.e. Starship Troopers, then maybe you should actually satirize fascism and try to have Denise Richards act like she doesn’t have a wooden face. Other such topics of discussion in this episode inc…
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Long ago when Image Comics were the fresh new kids on the block and people weren’t looking back on 1990s comics and cringing there was Spawn, Todd McFarlane’s crispy hell-powered hero that somehow managed to get a movie 5 years after his creation. While we complement the makeup that’s aged like a nice high gravity stout and suffer through CGI that’…
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The name King Arthur evokes a lot of different mental images: fair Camelot, swords in stones, gallant knights, magic, and a British comedy troupe that had a penchant for wearing dresses. 2004’s King Arthur has absolutely none of those, instead trying to cast Arthur as an actual historical figure who was a Roman knight who is on the Historical Fanta…
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Coming to you live from James’ car as they leave Indianapolis, the GBBV Crew reflect on Gen Con 50: The Best Four Days in Gaming with each member recalling the best food, beer, and games they played while the weekend is still fresh in their minds. >>Listen to our piping hot takes here<
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Way back on our episode for Spider-Man 3, Jordan Ferraro made the unfortunate statement of claiming he had never seen Batman and Robin, so naturally we forced him to watch it (twice) when he wanted to come back on the podcast. As 2017 is the 20th anniversary of the movie that “killed” super hero films for a while (even though they never actually we…
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Friend of the show Jess Sebring returns to Good Brews Bad Views to talk about 90’s hair, Encarta, war movies, kittens, Animorphs, furries, and this episode’s movie: Small Soldiers. It’s hard to tell if the movie spent more on the CGI and animatronics or it’s soundtrack as it features bands way too good for a movie that can’t decide if it’s for kids…
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