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Scott Pank is a premium choice host out of NY. Scott has interviewed everyone from Drake to CM Punk. Each week on Scott Plex City hear interview's the biggest stars and whats trending!
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A podcast from Wisconsin Humanities, because being human is a shared experience, and we are here to explore it together. Join us for relevant and personal conversations with people who are using their passions, skills, and cultural traditions to create healthy civic spaces for all of us. Season four is hosted by Jen Rubin and Jessica Becker, with audio production by Chrissy Widmayer.
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Human Powered: In Conversation with Jimmy Gutierrez
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It is August of 2025 and record rainfall has caused catastrophic flash flooding in Milwaukee. Hosts Jessica Becker and Jen Rubin sit down with Milwaukee journalist and former Human Powered host Jimmy Gutierrez to talk about the crucial role of the humanities in moments like these. Gutierrez, who joined the Wisconsin Humanities board earlier this ye…
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Human Powered: In Conversation with Alexandria Delcourt
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Each of us is experiencing a million things on any given day. Alexandria Delcourt believes that how we move from the chaos and overwhelm of life to understand ourselves, and each other, comes down to telling a good story. Alexandria helped to produce some of readers’ favorite Love Wisconsin stories for Wisconsin Humanities, is the current editor of…
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Human Powered: In Conversation with Adam Carr
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Adam Carr is a Milwaukee alchemist. He is an evangelist for his home and an urban explorer who uses storytelling, city walking tours, radio productions, film, journalism, and art to build connections between people and place. Hosts Jen Rubin and Jessica Becker invited former Human Powered co-host into a friendly conversation that got deep, fast. Jo…
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Human Powered: In Conversation with Brendon Panke
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“Stories are told for connection,” says Brendon Panke, who has found ways to use stories to build community, entertain audiences, train medical professionals, and help veterans and people who are incarcerated craft their understanding of their place in the world. Jen Rubin and Jessica Becker sit down with Panke to learn more about how the tool of s…
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Human Powered: In Conversation with Mercedes Falk
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These days the national news is full of stories about deportations and ICE raids, and the latest legislation that will vastly increase the ICE budget. In Wisconsin, studies by the University of Wisconsin–Madison School for Workers have documented the large portion of farm labor -- estimated at 70% -- done by immigrants, many of whom are undocumente…
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Human Powered: In Conversation with BJ Hollars
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BJ Hollars' energy for making connections in sometimes unexpected places is infectious. He is a writer, a professor, a documentary filmmaker, and a proud resident of Eau Claire. His anthology, "Hope is the Thing: Wisconsinites on Perseverance in a Pandemic" from Wisconsin Historical Society Press inspired a series of Wisconsin Humanities' Love Wisc…
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Human Powered: In Conversation with Dena Wortzel
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Wisconsin Humanities is going into hibernation. What does that mean? And what will happen to Human Powered podcast? Jen Rubin and Jessica Becker have been behind the scenes for past seasons of Human Powered. In this strange moment, after DOGE eliminated federal funding to support humanities councils all over the country, Jen and Jessica are taking …
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The Final Chapter: Basket maker April Stone helps us celebrate ten years of Love Wisconsin
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An important update about Wisconsin Humanities and its programs, including Human Powered podcast and Love Wisconsin digital stories: As a result of the defunding of Wisconsin Humanities and all state councils' operational grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, this will be the last episode of Human Powered. The news of the cut to th…
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Your Stories: Celebrating Ten Years of Love Wisconsin with Scott Schultz
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For ten years, Love Wisconsin producers have been excavating beneath the surface of our state by talking with people and sharing what we learn, one story at a time. Over this anniversary year, we are excited to reconnect with some of the people who shared stories that our readers loved most. This episode of Human Powered features Scott Schultz. Sco…
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For this special edition of Human Powered, we are sharing an episode of a series called Uprooted produced by our friends at Wisconsin Life and WPR. In 1980, there was an exodus of Cubans who left their homes for the United States as part of the Mariel Boatlift. This includes almost 15,000 Cuban refugees who were sent to Fort McCoy in Sparta, Wiscon…
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Human Powered Presents: The People's Recorder
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For this special edition of Human Powered, we are sharing an episode of The People’s Recorder, a podcast series from Spark Media and funded in part with a grant from Wisconsin Humanities. The People’s Recorder tells stories about the Federal Writers’ Project, which was created by the Federal government as part of the New Deal during the Great Depre…
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Human Powered Presents: All In All Out with Shannon Ross
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For this special edition of Human Powered, we are sharing an episode produced by our friends at The Community. The Community is a multi-dimensional nonprofit based in Milwaukee. It connects and empowers people on all sides of the criminal legal system through its Pre-entry and Correcting the Narrative strategies. The Community has been awarded Wisc…
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The right to vote is a core building block for our democracy. We are taught that our vote matters and that voting is integral to our communities and our country. In this final episode of Humanity Unlocked, we confront a fundamental issue: roughly 45,000 people ‘on papers’ in Wisconsin do not have the right to vote, even though they are no longer in…
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When James Price first learned how to bead, he was incarcerated at the Stanley Correctional Institution in Wisconsin. He had been told his whole life that he was not patient, but as he is tutored in beadwork by a group of Native American men, he discovers a history he wasn't taught in school. And, “bead by bead,” he also learns new things about him…
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People in prisons are cut off from their families, their communities, and in some cases their own feelings. Making art in prison — even with very few resources — can be a way to affirm your humanity in a place that is so often dehumanizing. So when the organizers of an exhibit of prison art put out a call for submissions, they were flooded with res…
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Three Convicts, Twenty Dollars, and a Newspaper
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Started in 1887 by three well-known convicts, The Prison Mirror is often considered the best prison newspaper in the United States. But it is just one of many. In the 1980s, Robert Taliaferro was a writer and editor for The Mirror, as it was called in those days. Shannon Ross is a writer who started The Community in 2014 when he was in prison. The …
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Some would say that storytelling is what makes us human. In this episode, we are going to hear some great stories. We are heading to Oak Hill Correctional Facility, where the University of Wisconsin Odyssey Beyond Bars Project offers storytelling workshops each semester for incarcerated students who are in the English 101 course. This is UW-Madison…
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In the first episode of Human Powered 'Humanity Unlocked,' we are stepping out with the remarkable and singular Dasha Kelly Hamilton. Dasha wields words to make magic happen, whether on stage herself, in writing sessions like Prose & Cons, or while chatting with co-host and public historian Adam Carr. We'll drop into one of her workshops and talk w…
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Human Powered—the podcast from Wisconsin Humanities—is back for season 2. In these six episodes, we are talking with people who have been impacted by the justice system. With our hosts, Dasha Kelly Hamilton and Adam Carr, we are digging into the importance of the humanities as tools for searching for meaning and understanding. Dasha is 2021-22 Wisc…
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The Power of Being Seen (with Tracey Robertson)
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This episode spotlights Tracey Robertson, a nonprofit leader and community organizer who was tired of hearing her neighbors repeat stereotypes she knew were not true. She figured that to change the narrative, people needed to be able to see each other more clearly, as complex individuals each with a story to share. In this episode, we learn about a…
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The Power of Indigenous Knowledge (with Marvin Defoe)
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This episode starts with a meal around a fire, in a place where people have been cooking and eating for more than 5,000 years. Our hosts are Marvin Defoe and Edwina Buffalo-Reyes, members of the Red Cliff band of Lake Superior Ojibwe in Bayfield County. For the last three years, the Red Cliff Tribal Historic Preservation Office has been collaborati…
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The Power of Planting Seeds (with Margaret Franchino)
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We all eat. But the foods we eat, and have access to, varies widely. In this episode, we meet some people who have been gardening in Green Bay's vibrant community garden program for years. They tell us why these gardens matter, what they grow, and how planting seeds impacts their lives in real ways. We also talk with some of the women who got the g…
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The Power of Untold Stories (with Rachel Monaco-Wilcox)
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*A head’s up that this episode contains discussion of sexual assault and human trafficking. If this doesn't feel like the right time to listen, we invite you to check out the resources below and hope you'll tune in next month for the next episode of Human Powered.* Maya Angelou once said, “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story insi…
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The Power of Experience (with Caroline Gottschalk Druschke)
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The Driftless region of Wisconsin is no stranger to flooding. Its spectacular valleys and ridges were formed by the flow of rushing water over millions of years. But in recent memory, the floods are getting more intense, and happening more often—a combination that is having a profound impact on local people and communities. In this episode, we’ll h…
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Who are the experts in a city? In a neighborhood? In this episode, we meet a professor of architecture who has designed a ‘field school’ that encourages students to dig into these questions. We sit on front porches in some of Milwaukee’s most economically challenged neighborhoods to learn from residents that building community, and caring for a pla…
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Human Powered is a new podcast about people making places better. In our first season, we are traveling around the state of Wisconsin to see how big ideas and everyday people are coming together for extraordinary change. In this preview, you'll hear from some of those people: Arijit Sen, Caroline Gottschalk Druschke, Rachel Monaco-Wilcox, and Trace…
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Why you shouldn't blame Brie Bella for Liv Morgan's concussion. This week in wrestling & rumors
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#ScottPlexCity: Why you shouldn't blame Brie Bella for Liv Morgan's concussion. When Dean Ambrose could turn on the rest of The Shield. This week in wrestling and the latest rumorsBy Scott Pank
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The best and worst moments of Hell in a Cell! This week in wrestling and rumors
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#ScottPlexCity: The best and worst moments of Hell in a Cell! This week in wrestling and rumorsBy Scott Pank
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Hell in a Cell predictions. Why The Shield will have all of the Raw titles, rumors and more
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#ScottPlexCity: Hell in a Cell predictions. Why The Shield will have all of the Raw titles, rumors and moreBy Scott Pank
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Is Brie Bella trying too hard to be Daniel Bryan? This week in wrestling & rumors
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#ScottPlexCity: Is Brie Bella trying too hard to be Daniel Bryan? This week in wrestling & rumorsBy Scott Pank
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Taylor Swift Interview - MusicPopCulture - EP 18
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Taylor Swift talks about the 1989 world tour with Scott Pank! Along with TD Camp they make Super Bowl predictions, talk about the ideal number of sexual parters, BoB thinking the world is flat and more on this episode of #PanksPodcast!By Scott Pank
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