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Khary Lazarre-White - Author of New Book, 'Passage' The Not Old Better Show - Interview Series Welcome to The Not Old Better Show. I'm your host, Paul Vogelzang. We have an important show today, and our guest is Khary Lazarre-White. Khary Lazarre White is a writer, social justice advocate, attorney, and activist who has dedicated his life to the educational outcome and opportunities for young people of color at key life stages. His support base is far-reaching and diverse, built over the past twenty-two years as co-founder and executive director of The Brotherhood/Sister Sol. Khary Lazarre White has a great deal of hope and optimism and cares about America and our future. Khary Lazarre White joins us to discuss his work helping young people throughout his organization, The Brotherhood/Sister Sol, and his debut novel, "Passage". And, we have an author signed, first edition from Khary Lazarre-White to give away! First to contact me at info@notold-better.com gets Khary's excellent new book. Enjoy. Talk About Better™ The Not Old Better Show on Radio & Podcast! Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Backstory: Family Is Everything, Debut The Not Old Better Show: Backstory Spending time with my family during memorial services made me think about stories of my dad, as well as stories of his dad, who'd passed away many years ago. Ever frighten yourself when you couldn't recall a family story or experiences you know had to have been recounted to you many times by your grandparents? Ever wonder why you know very little about the personal lives of your grandparents or great-grandparents? Aaron Holt of the National Archives and Records Administration, Ft Worth, TX, says that "it only takes three generations to lose a piece of oral family history." If you want to avoid losing those precious family stories passed down through the generations, Holt continued, the story "must be purposely and accurately repeated over and over again through the generations to be preserved." The notion that my family's narratives could be lost in three generations gave him the resolve to ensure that didn't happen on his watch. For the sake of my posterity, as well as yours, I've begun a new Not Old Better Show, with a focus on genealogy, titled "Backstory: Family is Everything." Genealogy is the second most popular hobby in the country, with more than 113 million participants and researchers. Most people want to know more about their roots, origins, home life, work life, social status, relationships, migrations, marriages, health, attitudes, customs, folklore, clothing, foods, environment, and the social issues in the news during the time in which their ancestors lived. And, that's what we'll talk about, and I think you'll learn a lot, enjoy the journey together and find out something interesting about your roots. Today's show is a great one and we'll hear an author story from an anthology of articles in the McClatchy Newspaper in California. The first story, by author VJ Vogelzang, in her book, Beautiful Days. Yes, VJ Vogelzang is my mom, and I thought, given my father's passing, I'd start with some of my mom's writing for purposes of our first oral family history. Enjoy. Talk About Better™ The Not Old Better Show on Radio & Podcast! Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

#135 Dickens Without the Humbug Interview with author Daniel Stashower, and actor Scott Sedar Welcome to The Not Old Better Show, I'm your host, Paul Vogelzang. Happy Holidays to everyone and today's show is in the holiday theme. I really think you'll enjoy this. Charles Dickens is well known for "A Christmas Carol," especially this time of year, but also for his gripping plots, vivid characters, and penetrating social commentary. The prolific author of Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, as well as "A Christmas Carol," enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and remains one of the world's most beloved storytellers. Today we are with actor Scott Sedar, who'll later in the show be reading a special Dickens selection chosen by he and author Daniel Stashower, who's also with us. Daniel Stashower is an award winning author and has researched Dickens', digging deeply into Charles Dickens' life and legacy… PLEASE NOTE: Smithsonian Associates has announced that the "Dickens Without the Humbug" presentation, Dec 5, 2017 is SOLD OUT. To place your name on the waiting list, please call: 202 633 3030, or click HERE: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/Tickets/Reserve.aspx?id=240461 Talk About Better™ The Not Old Better Show on Radio & Podcast! Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

#134 Spierig Brothers Interview: Winchester: The House That Ghosts Built Hi, everybody. We're here at the Winchester House, San Jose, California. I've been asked to join the CBS Films team (thank you!) to interview film directors, Peter & Michael Spierig. The new film, titled, "Winchester: The House That Ghosts Built." was filmed, in part, here at the Winchester house. The film is inspired by the real events, led by Sarah Winchester, heiress of the Winchester Repeating Rifle fortune. Sarah Winchester was told by a reader, a psychic that all the dead killed by the Winchester Repeating Rifle, throughout time, will haunt her for all her life on earth. Sarah Winchester then built this house, famously with doors to nowhere, staircases to nowhere, hallways and entries to nowhere. The film stars Helen Mirren as Sarah Winchester. The Winchester House is famous throughout the world, and we're joined tonight by Michael and Peter Spierig. The film is amazing. Enjoy. Talk About Better™ The Not Old Better Show on Radio & Podcast! Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

#133, General Omar Bradley, America's GI General Author Interview with Steven L. Ossad A new book details "America's GI General," a full biography of General Omar Nelson Bradley. Award winning author, military historian, leadership development expert, and former Wall Street executive, Steve Ossad joins us today on The Not Old Better Show. Steve's new book, Omar Nelson Bradley, America's GI General, is the subject of our show today, and this book is wonderful, and in terms of it's depth of research and understanding of this fascinating man, it is worth the read! Bradley is credited with doing much to improve the military health care system and with helping veterans receive their educational benefits under the G. I. Bill of Rights. Let's listen to Bradley himself, in this quote about the VA and helping shape it into the veteran's administration support agency it is today. Enjoy. Talk About Better™ The Not Old Better Show on Radio & Podcast! Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

#132 The Burr Conspiracy: Interview with James Lewis Smithsonian Associates, Interview Series Our guest today, Dr James Lewis, professor of History at Kalamazoo College, has written a fascinating new book about Aaron Burr, titled, The Burr Conspiracy, Uncovering the Story of an Early American Crisis. In the book, Dr Lewis uses the uncertainty about Burr's intentions in the fall of 1806, and the trouble that followed, to address the role of conspiracy and crisis in our young, newly developed democracy, and the impact it had on politics and political culture. Dr Lewis also looks at how biased newspaper reports, partisan politics, the federal government, and notions of honor and gentility played out in the matter of the "chief villain of the Founding Fathers." For more information, tickets and other details, please check out Smithsonian Associates: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/Tickets/Reserve.aspx?id=240446 Talk About Better™ The Not Old Better Show on Radio & Podcast! Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

#131 "Marshall" Live Hard. Fight Harder. Review... The Not Old Better Show, Movies for Adults October 2, 2017 is the 50th anniversary of Justice Thurgood Marshall's swearing-in as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States on October 2, 1967. He was the Court's 96th justice and the first African American to hold a seat on the Supreme Court. If you have to see one motion picture this weekend or place a film on your must-see list of fall films, I wholeheartedly recommend Marshall. As the title suggests, the movie is about Thurgood Marshall, the iconic civil rights attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund who used the courtroom to break racial barriers and help decimate institutionalized Jim Crow when he won the 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which declared state laws that established segregation in schools to be unconstitutional. It is fitting that the movie is being released on the 50th anniversary of Marshall being named the first black Supreme Court justice. Enjoy "Marshall." Talk About Better™ The Not Old Better Show on Radio & Podcast! Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

#130 Mindshift: Learning to Learn, Interview with Barbara Oakley, PhD Smithsonian Associates, Interview Series Our guest today, Barbara Oakley didn't begin learning remedial high school algebra until age 26. Now she's a professor of engineering, a New York Times best-selling author, and instructor of one of the world's most popular massive open online courses, "Learning How To Learn," with nearly two million registered students. How did this happen? As part of our Smithsonian Associates, Art of Living, and newest Inside Science programming, we are joined today via Skype with Dr Barbara Oakley. Dr Oakley will be appearing at the Smithsonian Associates program, Oct 18, at the Baird Auditorium, where using metaphor and analogy, which prime neural circuits for difficult topics, Oakley explains how to learn more effectively, drawing on her experience as both an engineering professor and a linguist, as well as from key research findings in cognitive psychology and neuroscience. Enjoy. Talk About Better™ The Not Old Better Show on Radio & Podcast! Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

When a Russian rocket lofted Sputnik 1 into orbit on October 4, 1957, the worldwide reaction was a mixture of awe and apprehension. The Space Age—and the Space Race—had begun. Welcome to The Not Old Better Show, I'm your host, Paul Vogelzang. You are listening to the actual telemetry signal from Sputnik 1, launched October 4, 1957. Sixty years ago, before most people living today were born, the beep-beep-beep of Sputnik, the Soviet Union's first artificial satellite, and this sound was heard round the world. It was the sound of wonder and foreboding. Nothing would ever be quite the same again — in geopolitics, in science and technology, in everyday life and the capacity of the human species. As part of our Smithsonian Associates, Art of Living, and newest Inside Science programming, we are joined today via Skype with Kelly Beatty, award-winning senior editor for Sky & Telescope magazine, explores the events leading up to Sputnik's launch exactly 60 years ago, the political fallout that led to America's response (Explorer 1), the formation of NASA, and the crucial but largely forgotten role that everyday citizens played in tracking the first satellites. That, of course was our guest today, Kelly Beatty, who we welcome to The Not Old Better Show immediately! Enjoy! Talk About Better™ The Not Old Better Show on Radio & Podcast! Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Battle of the Sexes + Interviews: King, Stone and Carell Movies for Adults Interviews & Review Series The electrifying 1973 tennis match between World number one Billie Jean King (played in the film by Emma Stone) and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs (played by Steve Carell) was billed as the "Battle of the Sexes" and became the most watched televised sports event of all time. The match caught the zeitgeist and sparked a global conversation on gender equality, spurring on the feminist movement. Trapped in the media glare, King and Riggs were on opposites sides of a binary argument, but off-court each was fighting more personal and complex battles. With a supportive husband urging her to fight the Establishment for equal pay, the fiercely private King was also struggling to come to terms with her own sexuality, while Riggs gambled his legacy and reputation in a bid to relive the glories of his past. Together, Billie and Bobby served up a cultural spectacle that resonated far beyond the tennis courts and animated the discussions between men and women in bedrooms and boardrooms around the world. Talk About Better™ The Not Old Better Show on Radio & Podcast! Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.