Best Adrienne Ross Podcasts (2024)

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GO!: 'The Forge' Is a Must-See 4:46

5h ago4:46

4:46

Go see The Forge! SO good! Powerful! Watch the trailer: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26731216/ If you’ve seen the movie or plan to, let us know in the comments. Please SUBSCRIBE to The Adrienne Ross Show channel on YouTube. LIKE, SHARE, and COMMENT RESPECTFULLY. SUBSCRIBE on podcast platforms. SUBSCRIBE to my SUBSTACK for my writing: https://adrien…

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Highlighting This Week: Democratic National Convention & RFK Jr. Crossing Over to the Trump Side | Ep. 178 15:28

9h ago15:28

15:28

This week brought the Democratic National Convention to the American people. I chose not to watch for various reasons, which I explain in this episode, but I was spot-on nonetheless about what I knew would take place there. Also, as the week drew to a close, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspended his independent presidential campaign and endorsed former P…

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Teacher Krista Manchuck on Passion, Purpose, the Public School, and Its Problems (Li'l 🏀 Too!) | Ep. 177 44:09

7d ago44:09

44:09

My former teaching colleague Krista Manchuck joins me to discuss the current state of education in the public school and compares the profession (and students!) of today to those of the past. The part-time English teacher also homeschools her children, and she shares why she chooses not to enroll them in public school and how they remain grounded a…

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'Ballz to the Walz'?! Kamala Harris's Selection of Tim Walz as Running Mate | Ep. 176 16:24

18d ago16:24

16:24

Vice President Kamala Harris, now running for president, chose Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz this week to be her vice presidential running mate. His obsession with the ol' chop-chop on kids is just one major concern about him. To watch this episode on YouTube, click here. RELEVANT LINK: https://adrienneross.substack.com/p/ballz-walz-kamala-harris-chooses…

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4 Reasons Missourians Should Vote in the Primary Election August 6 (also a Message to Everyone Else) | Ep. 175 21:44

1M ago21:44

21:44

The polls will be open for Missourians to vote on Tuesday, August 6, 2024, for the primary election. Do not sit this one out. Here are four reasons to vote. This is a message to Missourians, but it's also a message to everyone else. To watch on YouTube, click here. LINKS RELEVANT TO THIS EPISODE: 1) Find your sample ballot: https://ballotpedia.org/…

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Pt. 2: I Sympathize with Reports of Olympic Boxer Having DSD, but It's Still Unfair | Ep. 174 14:31

1M ago14:31

14:31

Imane Khelif is at the center of controversy after defeating Angela Carini in boxing at the Olympics. Reportedly having XY chromosomes, Khelif is said to have DSD and did not transition but has always lived the life of a girl/woman. Nonetheless, it's still not fair for Khelif to compete against women. Listen to Part 1 here. Watch Part I here. To wa…

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Angela Carini Forced to Box Against a Man Is Robbed of Olympics Dream in 46 Seconds | Ep. 173 12:06

1M ago12:06

12:06

Angela Carini ended her boxing match against a man competing against women at the Paris Olympics. This is outrageous. To watch this episode on YouTube, click this link. Get full access to Adrienne Ross Communications at adrienneross.substack.com/subscribeBy Adrienne Ross

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Team USA Without Caitlin Clark Has Embarrassingly Low Attendance; I Bet They Still Don't Care | Ep. 172 16:53

1M ago16:53

16:53

The USA Women's Basketball Team managed to attract a mere 13,040 attendees at the game against Japan, the lowest number of all women's basketball games in Paris. This is Exhibit A of the effect of not having Caitlin Clark on the team. Despite that obvious bad decision, my guess is Team USA still doesn't care, and here's why. To watch on YouTube, cl…

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'Operation Put Kamala In'?: Kiya Cordeau Weighs In on Biden and Harris | Ep. 171 42:58

1M ago42:58

42:58

Kiya Cordeau joins The Adrienne Ross Show, this time to discuss what's going on politically with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. Something isn't adding up. Check out Kiya's Bold & Beautiful podcast: www.youtube.com/@Boldandbeautifullife. Prefer to watch? Check out this episode on YouTube. Please SUBSCRIBE, COMMENT, AND LIKE. T…

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Sick Meme Suggests Those Who Care About Assassination Attempt on Trump Don't Care About Children | Ep. 170 14:09

2M ago14:09

14:09

Occupy Democrats put out a disgusting meme suggesting that those who care about the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump do not care about children. Today's episode is also available to watch on YouTube and to listen to at thebmgnetwork.com/theadriennerossshow and major podcast platforms. Wherever possible, please subscribe, like,…

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Biden Doubles Down Despite Continued Calls for Him to Step Aside | Ep. 169 30:27

2M ago30:27

30:27

President Joe Biden continues to show frailty, causing deep concerns about his ability to hold office and to defeat former President Donald Trump. Despite ever-increasing calls for him to step aside, Biden insists he can do the job and vows to remain in the presidential race. Today's episode is also available to watch on YouTube and to listen to at…

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adrienne maree brown — On Radical Imagination and Moving Towards Life 1:20:13

1M ago1:20:13

1:20:13

The wonderful civil rights elder Vincent Harding liked to look around the world for what he called "live human signposts" — human beings who embody ways of seeing and becoming and who point the way forward to the world we want to inhabit. And adrienne maree brown, who has inspired worlds of social creativity with her notions of "pleasure activism" …

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DaPope B Frank to Caitlin Clark: 'Walk Away from the WNBA' & Its 'Sabotage' | Releases CC Song 37:43

2M ago37:43

37:43

Caitlin Clark Content Creator and host of DaPope Be Frank Show on YouTube discusses Caitlin Clark's value to the WNBA, although he says the league appears not to want her to succeed. He also just released a song entitled "CC22.” Today's episode is also available to watch on YouTube and to listen to at thebmgnetwork.com/theadriennerossshow and major…

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“The End of Poetry” by Ada Limón 1:43

2M ago1:43

1:43

An impassioned plea, a yearning for connection — the poem U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón wrote when she says all language failed her. Take in Ada's reading of her piece, “The End of Poetry” — and hear her read more of her work in the On Being episode, “To Be Made Whole.” Ada Limón is the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. She’s written six book…

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Atul Gawande — On Mortality and Meaning 1:02:48

2M ago1:02:48

1:02:48

We are strange creatures. It is hard for us to speak about, or let in, the reality of frailty and death — the elemental fact of mortality itself. In this century, western medicine has gradually moved away from its understanding of death as a failure — where care stops with a terminal diagnosis. Hospice has moved, from something rare to something ex…

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It's About to Get 🔥 HEATED 🔥 | Where Does Your Trust Lie? | Ep. 167 10:32

2M ago10:32

10:32

As heated as it already is in the nation, with all the dissension and political chaos, it's about to get even hotter. You'd better decide now where your trust resides. Today's episode is also available to watch on YouTube and to listen to at thebmgnetwork.com/theadriennerossshow and major podcast platforms. Wherever possible, please subscribe, like…

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“Ars Poetica #100: I Believe” by Elizabeth Alexander 1:17

2M ago1:17

1:17

Today, a poem with a poignant question to live: “...and are we not of interest to each other?” Carry Elizabeth Alexander’s reading of her poem “Ars Poetica #100: I Believe” with you — and hear Elizabeth read more of her poetry in the On Being episode, “Words That Shimmer.” Elizabeth Alexander is a poet, author, and educator. Since 2018, she has ser…

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Luis Alberto Urrea — On Our Belonging to Each Other 59:10

2M ago59:10

59:10

We humans have this drive to erect barriers between ourselves and others, Luis Alberto Urrea says, and yet this makes us a little crazy. He is an exuberant, wise, and refreshing companion into the deep meaning and the problem of borders — what they are really about, what we do with them, and what they do to us. The Mexican-American border was as cl…

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Joe Biden's Apparent Cognitive Issues Reek of Elder Abuse 13:34

3M ago13:34

13:34

I continue to scratch my head that those in President Joe Biden's personal circle and political party are allowing him to continue on the world stage in spite of the apparent cognitive issues with which he is dealing. Get full access to Adrienne Ross Communications at adrienneross.substack.com/subscribe…

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Ross Gay — On the Insistence of Joy 59:05

2M ago59:05

59:05

In our world of so much suffering, it can feel hard or wrong to invoke the word "joy." Yet joy has been one of the most insistent, recurrent rallying cries in almost every life-giving conversation that Krista has had across recent months and years, even and especially with people on the front lines of humanity's struggles. Ross Gay helps illuminate…

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When Race Is Your Religion, Your True Colors Always Show (Examples Included) 26:53

3M ago26:53

26:53

Those who worship race always reveal who they are, as I show in these examples of comments from race-baiters and racists who see every single thing through the lens of skin color. I call them the "black police," as they feel it is their duty to attack other black people they don't deem black enough because they dare to think for themselves. This ep…

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Janine Benyus and Azita Ardakani Walton — On Nature's Wisdom for Humanity 1:16:20

3M ago1:16:20

1:16:20

In this all-new episode, Krista engages biomimicry pioneer Janine Benyus in a second, urgent conversation, alongside creative biomimicry practitioner Azita Ardakani Walton. Together they trace precise guidance and applied wisdom from the natural world for the civilizational callings before us now. What does nature have to teach us about healing fro…

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Divided State of America Manifests in Politics & Sports...but There’s Hope 20:27

3M ago20:27

20:27

The state of the country doesn't look good right now, as division runs rampant and can be seen in politics, sports, and every aspect of our lives. Nonetheless, there's hope. This episode is also available to watch on YouTube by clicking here and may be listened to at thebmgnetwork.com/theadriennerossshow and major podcast platforms. Wherever possib…

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Befriend Your Body: A Compassionate Body Scan 11:16

3M ago11:16

11:16

In a time of stress, uncertainty, and isolation, Christine Runyan turns our attention to what often evades our awareness — the response of our nervous systems. As part of On Being’s 2021 Midwinter Gathering, she offered this brief, practical, gently guided practice as an invitation to befriend your beleaguered body, to “blanket it with a little bit…

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Christine Runyan — On Healing Our Distressed Nervous Systems 1:01:11

3M ago1:01:11

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The years of pandemic and lockdown are still working powerfully on us from the inside. But we have trouble acknowledging this, much less metabolizing it. This conversation with Christine Runyan, which took place in the dark middle of those years, helps make sense of our present of still-unfolding epidemic distress — as individuals, as communities, …

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5 Examples of How the Response to Caitlin Clark Mirrors Today's Culture 47:52

3M ago47:52

47:52

As the culture goes, so goes the world, and that includes sports. In this episode of The Adrienne Ross Show, I break down five areas of today's culture that reveal themselves in the response to Caitlin Clark's entrance into the WNBA. This episode is also available to watch on YouTube by clicking this link and may be listened to at thebmgnetwork.com…

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“Joy is the Justice (We Give Ourselves)” by J. Drew Lanham 14:26

3M ago14:26

14:26

We are overjoyed to share this heart-stirring performance with you, which transpired when we invited the ornithologist/poet/former On Being guest J. Drew Lanham to offer some poetry at a live On Being event in January 2024. We could not have imagined the lightning in a bottle that unfolded — a live adaptation of the title poem that appears in Drew'…

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Lyndsey Stonebridge and Lucas Johnson — On Love, Politics, and Violence (Channeling Hannah Arendt) 1:15:26

4M ago1:15:26

1:15:26

Here is a stunning sentence for you, written by Lyndsey Stonebridge, our guest this hour, channeling the 20th-century political thinker and journalist Hannah Arendt: "Loneliness is the bully that coerces us into giving up on democracy." This conversation is a kind of guide to generative shared deliberations we might be having with each other and ou…

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BONUS: Follow-up on Caitlin Clark and the Fever | Good & Bad of Game 4 19:46

4M ago19:46

19:46

In the previous episode of The Adrienne Ross Show, I offered criticism of the Indiana Fever and their first three games. I pointed out that Caitlin Clark is not the problem; the team and coach are. Before that episode went public, the team played its fourth game, so although I typically only release one episode a week, which I did today, I felt it …

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Caitlin Clark Is Not the Problem—Her Team and Coach Are | Butker vs. Kaepernick 1:01:16

4M ago1:01:16

1:01:16

This episode of The Adrienne Ross Show starts with a mini-segment discussing NFL kicker Harrison Butker's speech at a Catholic college commencement. It includes the race-baiting comparisons being made between the response to his pro-marriage comments and the response former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick received during his anti-national anthem c…

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New From Poetry Unbound: A Series on Conflict and the Human Condition 11:09

4M ago11:09

11:09

A taste of a special mini-season of Poetry Unbound — bringing contemplative curiosity and the life-nurturing tether of poetry to the very present matter of conflict in our world. In this first offering, Pádraig introduces the intriguing idea of poems as teachers and ponders Wisława Szymborska’s “A Word on Statistics," translated by Joanna Trzeciak.…

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Colette Pichon Battle — On Knowing What We're Called To 1:02:38

3M ago1:02:38

1:02:38

There is an ecological transformation unfolding in the places we love and come from. On a front edge of this reality, which will affect us all, Colette Pichon Battle is a singular model of brilliance and graciousness of mind and spirit and action. And to be with her is to open to the way the stories we tell have blunted us to the courage we’re call…

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Writer Alberta Parish on Caitlin Clark: Racially Charged Attacks, Advice to Coach Sides, WNBA Missteps 1:02:23

4M ago1:02:23

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Meet writer Alberta Parish. I just did! She joins me on The Adrienne Ross Show to talk about Caitlin Clark and the various conversations surrounding her. She calls it as she sees it. She called it on the talent of Caitlin Clark as "the mamba of women's basketball" and "the face of the WNBA." She called it on the "racially motivated" attacks against…

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Kate DiCamillo — On Nurturing Capacious Hearts 54:16

4M ago54:16

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In her writing, it is Kate DiCamillo's gift to make bearable the fact that joy and sorrow live so close, side by side, in life as it is (if not as we wish it to be). In this conversation, along with good measures of raucous laughter and a few tears, Kate summons us to hearts "capacious enough to contain the complexities and mysteries of ourselves a…

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CHILDISH: Whining over Caitlin Clark's Preseason Debut Coverage & Claims of WNBA Racism 53:43

4M ago53:43

53:43

The WNBA preseason began on Friday, and Caitlin Clark's professional debut was an away game between her Indiana Fever and the Dallas Wings. Also debuting that night was Angel Reese, as her Chicago Sky squared up against the Minnesota Lynx. Clark's game was available on the WNBA app and WNBA League Pass, whereas there was no coverage of Reese's game…

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Wisdom, Solace, and Courage for 2024 2:58

4M ago2:58

2:58

A special two-month season of On Being starts May 9. Freshly curated conversations from across the On Being archive. Big new conversations and extra offerings. To be present to the suffering and sorrow of this world from a place of love. To accompany each other in this — and accompany the young. To honor the fragility of being human. To keep our ca…

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