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 video games industry has grown so much in the past years that it reached a point in which every week there are polemic news stories provoking thousands of comments, conversations and flame wars all over the internet. Independent game developer and aspiring journalist Daniel Lima decided to tackle some of these issues in a weekly show. In every episode of the Real Game Talk, Daniel will choose two or three argument-inducing topics related to recent news from the gaming world, discuss them ...
…
continue reading
Join Daniel Lima and his guests CJ Meade, Luis Menchaca, Roberto Rubiano and Aaron Kleker as they recap everything that was announced during E3 2015 and compare the bold predictions they made on our 4th episode. In this part, you can hear their discussions about the Sony press conference, the Nintendo Digital Event, Nintendo World Championship and,…
…
continue reading
Join Daniel Lima and his guests CJ Meade, Luis Menchaca, Roberto Rubiano and Aaron Kleker as they recap everything that was announced during E3 2015 and compare the bold predictions they made on our last episode. In this part, you can hear their discussions about the Bethesda, Microsoft, Ubisoft and EA press conferences. https://ia601504.us.archive…
…
continue reading
On this week’s Real Game Talk, Daniel Lima receives four of his best friends to share (and possibly compete with) their predictions for the Electronic Entertainment Expo of 2015, which is about to start. Some decide to play it safe while others go all out and make unlikely, or in some cases almost impossible, predictions of what we are going to see…
…
continue reading
After a long hiatus, host Daniel Lima brings Real Game Talk back with frequent co-host Roberto Rubiano and special guest Luis Menchaca. The crew discusses whether Nintendo should continue tackling E3 through their prerecorded digital events or if they should go back to the the old ways of making a big live press conference, Luis wants to know which…
…
continue reading
In the second episode of Real Game Talk, Daniel Lima receives returning guest Roberto Rubiano and, making his debut on the show, Aaron Kleker. They talk about lots of gaming related topics, including the latest Donkey Kong Country games, the trend of delaying games, the announcement of Rock Band 4, Nintendo franchises coming to smartphones and the …
…
continue reading
In the first episode of Real Game Talk, Daniel Lima receives his friend Roberto Rubiano to talk about two PlayStation devices that have recently celebrated birthdays since their release on the American market, each with their own stories and unique libraries. The duo then proceeds to discuss the trend of re-releasing, remastering and remaking old g…
…
continue reading
On the pilot episode of Real Game Talk, host Daniel Lima talks about the purpose of his new podcast, frame rate declarations about Uncharted 4 and the possible reasons behind Nintendo’s recent decisions regarding the New 3DS. https://ia902703.us.archive.org/5/items/rgt-pilot/rgt-pilot.mp3Kirjoittanut Daniel Lima
…
continue reading