Category: Video+discussion

How the US Is Destroying Young People’s Future

Scott Galloway

11 a.m., May 19, 2024

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How the US Is Destroying Young People’s Future is an 18-minute TED talk by Scott Galloway. In it he describes how programs and policies in the U.S. take money from the needy and give it to the wealthy. His speaking style is both humorous and angry, and (you’re forewarned) he places much of this injustice on the shoulders of us older Americans.

Prof. Galloway was born November 3, 1964 and grew up in Los Angeles, California. He is a clinical professor of marketing at the New York University Stern School of Business, public speaker, author, podcast host, and entrepreneur. He was elected to the 1999 class of the World Economic Forum’s “Global Leaders of Tomorrow, which recognizes 100 people under 40 who have had impact on a global level.

Galloway self-describes as an atheist. He advises his students not to follow their passion, but to follow their talent.

You can watch this video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEJ4hkpQW8E.

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Ron Reagan: Not Afraid of Burning in Hell

Ron Reagan

11 a.m., May 12, 2024

Join us this Sunday in person OR online, as we watch Ron Reagan: Not Afraid of Burning in Hell, a 27-minute interview from the Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF) with Ron Reagan Jr., the son of former president of the United States, Ronald Reagan. You may have seen Ron’s ads on TV for FFRF.
He’ll discuss his early lack of belief in religion and the resulting absence of any disillusionment. He also talks some about making the FFRF ad and the reactions to it.
You can see this video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7996hjxbJ_I

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Photo by Paul Schultz – originally posted to Flickr as Ron Reagan, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6857068

Bassem Youssef: Changing the World

Bassem Youssef

11 a.m., April 28, 2024

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Bassem Youssef is an Egyptian-American comedian & satirist, referred to as the Jon Stewart of the Arab World. In this recent broadcast of Ways to Change the World on British television presents the Arab view of the Hamas-Israel war, politics, and his disillusionment with the West

Bassem Youssef is a comedian, television host, author, and a surgeon. Bassem started his own podcast in Egypt after the 2011 Egyptian revolution, then moved into TV. In 2013, he was one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world, and that same year one of Foreign Policy magazine’s 100 Leading Global Thinkers. He is widely remembered for a 2023 Piers Morgan Uncensored interview about the Hamas attack on Israel and the broader Israel-Palestine conflict.

You can watch this interview at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuR3BfpAqpw&t=308s

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Atheism Goes to the Movies

Jeff Jackson

Join us this Sunday in person OR online, as we watch Atheism Goes to the Movies, a 49-minute program by the Humanist Society of Santa Barbara (HSSB), in which film writer and director Jeff Jackson discusses the negative image of atheism in films and on TV. He is producing Our G*ddamn Wedding, a comedy that presents a realistic, favorable of atheism. You can see a short from this film at https://ourgoddamnwedding.com/.

Jeff Jackson began his career in advertising, where he founded his own agency and wrote and direct award-winning commercials and video content. He wrote, directed, and starred in the acclaimed short film, Our First Fight, a romantic comedy which toured film festivals around the world. His feature-length screenplay, White Collared, a black comedy set in corporate America, won Best Screenplay at the Santa Barbara Film Festival in 2010.

For the stage, he created the book and lyrics for a faithful musical adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, praised for “bringing the classic tale thrillingly to life.” His second play was Two Point Oh, a dark comedy that was a “Critic’s Pick” in the New York Times.

You can view this HSSB program at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A4AIBdwuHM.

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Bridging Divides and Saving Democracy

Jordan Klepper

11 a.m., April 7, 2024

Today we will watch two videos about communication with people on the other side of the political divide.

Jordan Klepper will give his take on how to save democracy in an 8-minute video: https://https://www.ted.com/talks/jordan_klepper_a_comedian_s_take_on_how_to_save_democracy. Klepper is a comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actor and television host. He is a contributor and host of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show. He is also a two-time Emmy nominee and Walter Cronkite Award winner for various docu-specials.

Then, in the 17-minute video, https://www.ted.com/talks/samar_ali_and_clint_brewer_how_to_bridge_political_divides_from_two_friends_on_opposing_sides, TED host Cloe Shasha Brooks will interview liberal law professor Samar Ali and conservative public-affairs strategist Clint Brewer about respect and communication.

Samar Ali is a research professor of political science and law at Vanderbilt University, the founding President and CEO of Millions of Conversations and co-chair of the Vanderbilt Project on Unity & American Democracy.

Clint Brewer is a business executive with deep experience in media, nonprofits, professional sports, government and public affairs consulting at the state and national levels. He specializes in media relations, government relations, integrated campaigns and crisis communications. He is founder and principal of the public affairs consultancy Imperium Public Strategies.

11 a.m., April 14, 2024

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This week, you can attend our forum in person with fellow humanists in the Fairmeadow Room at the Palo Alto City Library – Mitchell Park Branch, 3700 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA, 94303. (On the first and third Sunday of the month, you can continue to attend our forum at the Mountain View Senior Center.)
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