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/…
I messed up and did not get a guest for this week, and I do not have a backlog. So I thought maybe some listeners would know a bit more about me! It is a short one. I promise!
We are joined by one of the nicest people I have ever met in the comics industry, Stefani Manard! Stefani is a fellow podcaster and the writer of her self published comic Psycho Path. We have a great time talking about all of her projects and so much else it is hard to list it all!!!
This week Pat sits down with the incredibly talented writer Eric Palicki . Eric is the writer of his creator owned books Orphans , Red Angel Dragnet , and Fake Empire , which is being published by Darby Pop Publishing . He has also contributed a story for Marvel’s Guardians of Infinity #6 . Eric has also worked with a number of international artists on his books. We also talk about a couple upcoming projects including No Angel , the story he wrote with his sister Adrianne that will be published by Black Mask Studios . After a while we begin to talk through the current state of comic based movies and TV and just have a bit of fun! Thanks for listening!…
Pat’s guest this time is none other than the incredible DMFM himself, Dirk Manning! Dirk joins us to talk about his ongoing Kickstarter for Tales of Mr. Rhee Volume 3, Nightmare World Volume 4, Mariachi #1 and so much more. It is always great to talk with Dirk and I hope you have a listen!
We are joined this time by the founder of No Gravity Studios and writer of the sci-fi/fantasy comic Light-Earth , JR Blanton. We take some time to talk about how No Gravity Studios came to be and the incredible success of Light-Earth, a project that has been cooking in JR’s mind for 30 years! JR is currently running an extraordinarily successful Kickstarter for issue 2 of Light-Earth , a fact bolstered by it all happening by the sweat of JR and his team’s brows. Once we wrap up the business at hand, we talk about something JR and I both enjoy…wrestling! With this being recorded just hours before The Granddaddy of Them All; Wrestlemania, we can’t resist the urge to talk about how this show will go! Check out all the fun as we talk independent creation AND some Wrestlemania on the latest episode of Two Nerds, One Mic.…
Well we have made to episode 3 without interruption! I know, I am as shocked as you are! This week we are joined by the incredible cartoonist Jay P. Fosgitt ! The creator of Bodie Troll, Dead Duck & Zombie Chick, and with work on titles like My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic we are honored to have Jay take some time out of his busy schedule to talk with us! Be sure to check out Jay’s works and take a listen!…
In episode 2 we sit down with blogger turned comic writer “Kosmic” Kasey Pierce . We talk about Kasey’s path from blogger to the author of awesome creations like “Pieces of Madness” and her newest release “Norah” which is having a great run on Kickstarter right now! It was a pleasure to speak with her and she offers some incredible insight into the writing process. Take a listen and don’t forget to back the Kickstarter if you can, just a few days left!…
Two Nerds, One Mic is the new podcast to join the Digital Nerdage family. This will be a traditional one on one style interview show with creators of all types. We welcome in Andy “Shaggy” Korty for our inaugural show. He is the creator of The Manor webcomic . In addition to his incredible webcomic, Andy is also working with Empire Comics Lab on some great new projects. Take a listen and be sure to check out Andy’s works!…
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