Fighter Squadron ‘Doofer Books’. The host for this show is Dan ‘Fig’ Leaf. The guest is Bruce ‘Spike’ Benyshek. Long before Facebook (Meta), Twitter and Instagram, fighter squadrons used ledger books to share stories, humor, and commentary in a similar paradigm. Doofer Books were havens of free expression with rules. Pilots required a callsign to […]
The Price of Free Speech (Law Across The Sea)
Talk is Not Cheap. The host for this show is Mark Shklov. The guests are Mark Davis and James Bickerton. We discuss current events related to freedom of speech, exceptions to freedom of expression, libel laws and social media, and how the current political climate is being affected by social media. The ThinkTech YouTube Playlist […]
Some of the Many Secrets of YouTube (ThinkTech Tech Talks)
Following YouTube’s Incredible Changes. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Fatih Yanik. Fatih Yanik, a student as the Academy for Creative Media gives us a handle on the new functions being incorporated into YouTube, and some of the changes we should know about to make better use of a YouTube […]
Time to Drop Twitter (Community Matters)
Musk is Wrecking the Twitter Platform. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Eric Kallander. Our panel examines how Twitter was doing before Musk, and how Musk has changed it since he closed on his 44 billion purchase. Is this intentional? Twitter has picked up destructive misinformation and hate speech since […]
It was More than Just an Insurrection (American Issues Take Two)
Was 2020 a Replay of Putin’s Help in 2016. The hosts for this show are Jay Fidell and Tim Apicella. We know Putin helped Trump distract his way out of the Access Hollywood debacle in the 2016 election. In The Road to Unfreedom, Yale historian Tim Snyder detailed the things Putin did to help Trump […]
Lyman Starmer, 19-year-old CEO of PeerLyfe (Adventures in Commercialization)
Social Network 55+ Residential Community. The host for this show is Xoe Heeney. The guest is Lyman Starmer. Lyman is the 19-year-old CEO & Co-Founder of PeerLyfe, a social media platform for 55+ and residential communities. For the past year, he transformed the initial product idea from a political discourse app to a large social […]
Social Media is Far Too Unregulated (American Issues Take Two)
Does the Bad Side of them Outweigh the Good. The hosts for this show are Jay Fidell and Tim Apicella. The guests are Stephanie Dalton and Jeff Portnoy. Our panel discusses the state and extraordinary growth of social media in the U.S. and the world today. While some people, and lots of your people spend […]
Update on the National Media (American Issues Take Two)
How Are They Doing in These Critical Times. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guests are Cynthia Lee Sinclair, Stephanie Dalton and Chuck Crumpton. Our panel help us understand changes in the national media, including the takeover of Chris Licht at CNN and his new policy of ‘balanced reporting’ and not calling […]
The Media and Democracy: Where Are we (History is Here to Help)
TThe Media Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Julien Gorbach. In this episode of History is Here To Help, we discuss the relationships between the media and democracy. Can the past help us untangle the mess we seem to be in? Can the media save democracy? […]
What Else Can America Do for Ukraine (American Issues Take Two)
What Can the Government and What Can You Do. The hosts for this show are Jay Fidell and Tim Apicella. The guests are Stephanie Dalton and Shackley Raffetto. Our panel, including retired judge Shackley Raffetto, examines what the United States has done and is doing to build the European coalition and help Ukraine defend itself; […]