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Knerds of the Roundtable

Dwayne Justice, Sammy Maynard, and Jamie Fugate

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Our world is full of entertainment options, but not all of them are actually good. So how do you sift through the quantity for the quality? That is the quest we have set for ourselves. So join Dwayne, Jamie, Sammy and our guests as we scour the world of movies, tv, books, comics, music and more for quality pop culture.
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Seminars at Steamboat was founded in 2003 to bring experts on a wide range of public policy topics to the Steamboat community. The seminars are non-partisan and free to the public. The typical format is a 45-to-50-minute presentation followed by a question and answer session. Seminar topics have included the economy, foreign affairs, national security, immigration reform, health care, the media, drugs and sports, the environment, climate change, education, the 9-11 Commission and more.
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Craig Fugate is the former administrator for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), during which time he organized recovery efforts for a record eighty-seven disasters in 2011 alone. Before that, as director of the Florida Emergency Management Division, he coordinated the state’s response to Hurricanes Charley, Frances, Ivan and Jeanne (th…
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Heather Tanana is highly trained in environmental law and public health, and as a member of the Navajo Nation is dedicated to promoting indigenous rights. She has been asked to contribute to the water chapter for the U.S. Global Change Research Program’s Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5), which will analyze the effects of global change on th…
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Matthew Rojansky is one of the country’s pre-eminent Russia scholars. In early 2022 he became President and CEO of the U.S.-Russia Foundation, a private grant-making foundation established to promote the development of the private sector and the rule of law in Russia. Since Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, he has leveraged his deep knowledge base, exte…
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Wendy Weiser directs the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, a nonpartisan think tank and public interest law center that works to revitalize, reform, and defend systems of democracy and justice. Her program focuses on voting rights and elections, money in politics and ethics, redistricting and representation, …
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Jamie Metzl “R/Evolution: Recasting Life in an Age of Radical Biotechnology” Technology Futurist, Geopolitics Expert, Entrepreneur, Sci-Fi Novelist Jamie Metzl is one of the world’s leading technology and healthcare futurists and author of the non-fiction bestseller, Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity. He has appeared re…
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American notions of liberty, property, and the role of government have shaped where we live, who succeeds, and what we must to do to achieve a new ‘American Dream’. Part of that dream for many families is a home of their own. Christopher Ptomey is the Executive Director of the Urban Land Institute’s Terwilliger Center for Housing, which works to pr…
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Cryptocurrencies have come of age holding the potential for faster and cheaper financial transactions than traditional payment models, creating alternative decentralized asset markets and driving significant innovation via the underlying networks that they run on. However, valid concerns exist and range from criminal activities such as money launde…
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Seminar: U.S.-China Strategic Competition China’s economic competitiveness and international ambitions often pose a direct challenge to the United States and its global interests. Dr. Kennedy’s long experience in China and his expertise in economics and global governance inform his unique insights into the public policy implications of this strateg…
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Seminar: Deeply Divided & Closely Divided: Why the Temperature has Been Rising in American Politics The substantive disagreements between the political parties have been deepening for half a century. In the late 1980s, moreover, we entered an era of closely contested elections in which control of Congress and the White House has shifted back and fo…
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On this episode the Knerds review A Christmas Carol. Written, directed, and starring a bunch of different people, puppets, and CGI characters. We actually each watched a different version and compared and contrasted. It was an interesting experiment. Hope you all have as fun as we did. Merry Christmas Knerds of the Realm.…
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