Solvable

Pushkin Industries

Solvable showcases the world’s most innovative thinkers and their proposed solutions to the world’s most daunting problems. The interviews, hosted by Ronald Young Jr., will launch a dialogue that both acknowledges the complexity of the issues while inspiring hope that the problems are, in fact, solvable. iHeartMedia is the exclusive podcast partner of Pushkin Industries.

  • 52 minutes 4 seconds
    Exploring Life-Saving AI Tech with T-Mobile for Business

    How is 5G powering the use of AI to revolutionize life-saving solutions? Malcolm sits with T-Mobile for Business CMO Mo Katibeh, 3AM Innovations COO Ryan Litt, and the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine's Dr. Azizi Seixas to find out in this special episode of Revisionist History. Brought to you in partnership with T-Mobile for Business, and recorded live from the Mobile World Congress in Las Vegas.

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    29 October 2024, 4:01 am
  • 51 minutes 38 seconds
    Bush v. Gore: Episode 1 – Homestead

    How the largely forgotten race between Al Gore and George W. Bush roiled Florida long before anyone had ever heard of a hanging chad.

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    16 October 2024, 3:30 am
  • 11 minutes 46 seconds
    Introducing Weight For It from Ronald Young Jr.

    Former Solvable host Ronald Young Jr has a new podcast! “Weight For It unpacks the nuanced thoughts of fat folks, and of all folks who think about their weight all the time. Through narrative storytelling and some memoir, host Ronald Young Jr. hopes to have the conversations that we tend to avoid when it comes to our bodies.” Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts: https://apple.co/45kiRLG

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    22 August 2023, 4:00 am
  • 24 minutes 35 seconds
    Paul Rosolie, Protecting the Amazon Rainforest

    Paul Rosolie is an Amazon Rainforest conservationist, author, and filmmaker. He is the co-founder of Tamandua Expeditions and Junglekeepers.


    Here are links to those organizations he mentions in this episode:

    Www.Junglekeepers.org 

    Www.Tamanduajungle.com 

    Www.PaulRosolie.com

    Save the Sunlight, Brooklyn Botanical Gardens


    Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, research by David Zha, booking by Lisa Dunn, editorial support for Keishel Williams. The Managing Producer is Sachar Mathias and the Executive Producer is Mia Lobel.

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    13 April 2022, 4:00 am
  • 24 minutes 21 seconds
    Sterlin Harjo, Reservation Dogs

    Sterlin Harjo strives to tell the stories of Native and Indigenous people by positioning beauty and triumphs alongside honest frailty and shortcomings. Harjo is an award-winning film maker and he’s the creator and show runner of the TV show Reservations Dogs. 


    Here are some links to organizations and works he recommends in this episode:

    https://illuminatives.org/

    Reservation Dogs

    Four Sheets to the Wind

    Barking Water

    Mekko

    This May Be the Last Time 

    Love and Fury


    Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, research by David Zha, booking by Lisa Dunn, editorial support for Keishel Williams. The Managing Producer is Sachar Mathias and the Executive Producer is Mia Lobel.

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    9 March 2022, 5:00 am
  • 24 minutes 23 seconds
    Misogyny in Game Design is Solvable

    Laila Shabir is the co-founder and CEO of Girls Make Games. Here are some links to learn more about her game design studio, summer camp and quest to welcome more girls and women into the world of game design.


    Girls Make Games

    https://www.girlsmakegames.com/


    What They Don’t Sea (2019) - Explore the underwater seas to collect special algae for an alternative energy project


    Shredded Secrets (2022) - A game about bullying, that follows the bullied kid and the struggling bully as well. Nintendo Switch


    Find Me (2021) - A beautiful and surreal 2D puzzle platformer about a lost shadow seeking to be reunited with her human girl, while searching for memories and avoiding the dangerous city lights. Steam, Playstation


    Blubblub (2016) - Jennifer is out on a hunt to extract cuteness from anything and everything in sight to create the world's finest line of make up. It just so happens, BlubBlub is the cutest blub there ever was... Rescue your friends and thwart Jennifer's scheme for building a cosmetics empire. Down with the syringes! Steam, X-box


    Interfectorem (2015) - A young sheriff-in-training who lives alone with her sister Sali in a small town next to the woods decides to go on a hike one day, but comes home to find her younger sister brutally murdered! Steam, Playstation


    The Hole Story (2014) - When an unsuspecting young girl finds herself transported to a mystical world, she must rely on her trusty shovel and quick wits to find her way home. Steam


    Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, research by David Zha, booking by Lisa Dunn, and editing support from Keishel Williams. The Managing Producer is Sachar Mathias and Executive Producer is Mia Lobel.

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    9 February 2022, 5:00 am
  • 17 minutes 23 seconds
    Reality TV is Solvable

    Lizzy Pace and Chad Kultgen are the hosts of the podcast, Game of Roses and they have ideas about how to solve The Bachelor and reality TV more generally.


    Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, research by David Zha, booking by Lisa Dunn, editing help from Keishel Williams. The managing producer is Sachar Mathias and the executive producer is Mia Lobel. 


    Here are additional resources suggested by Lizzy and Chad, where you can learn more:

     

    How To Win The Bachelor by Lizzy Pace and Chad Kultgen

    https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/How-to-Win-The-Bachelor/Chad-Kultgen/9781982172947


    Bachelor Nation by Amy Kaufman

    https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781101985915


    TV Show: Unreal

    https://www.hulu.com/series/unreal-dcd85133-0465-410f-8792-aeb94ebd5755

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    12 January 2022, 5:00 am
  • 35 minutes 29 seconds
    Solutions for 2022

    The staff of Solvable discuss the problems, big and small, that they'd like to see solved in 2022 and beyond.

    Special thanks to Maggie Taylor and Pushkin podcast hosts Sam Fragoso (Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso), Tim Harford (Cautionary Tales), Michael Lewis (Against the Rules), Laurie Santos (The Happiness Lab) and Justin Richmond (Broken Record).

    Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, research by David Zha, booking by Lisa Dunn, Editing support from Keishel Williams. The managing producer is Sachar Mathias and executive producer is Mia Lobel.

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    22 December 2021, 5:00 am
  • 33 minutes 29 seconds
    Mike Gauyo: Insecure

    Mike Gauyo is a TV writer in LA. Credits include Insecure (HBO) and Ginny & Georgia (Netflix) among other projects. He’s the founder of The Black Boy Writes Black Girl Writes Mentorship Initiative which is paving pathways for emerging Black writers in Hollywood. 


    Here are some resources Gauyo recommends in this episode:


    Black Boy Writes Black Girl Writes


    Insecure


    Fruit Podcast


    The Writer's Room Podcast


    The Screenwriters Rant Room Podcast


    On Writing Podcast from WGA 


    The Screenwriter's Bible, A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your Script by David Trottier

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    15 December 2021, 7:13 pm
  • 19 minutes 17 seconds
    Kidney Failure is Solvable

    Dr. Carmen Peralta is the Chief Medical Officer at Cricket Health. She co-founded the Kidney Health Research Collaborative at University of California San Francisco and the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center. She works to provide support to patients, doctors and all the steps in between to improve kidney health outcomes. 


    Dr. Peralta recommends these sites to learn more:

    CDC Chronic Kidney Disease Initiative

    https://www.cdc.gov/kidneydisease/index.html


    UCSF Kidney Health Research Collaborative

    https://khrc.ucsf.edu/


    Solvable is produced by Jocelyn Frank, David Zha, Lisa Dunn and Keishel Wiliams. The managing producer is Sachar Mathias and our executive producer is Mia Lobel.

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    8 December 2021, 5:00 am
  • 22 minutes 19 seconds
    adrienne maree brown: Cancel Culture is Solvable

    adrienne maree brown is the author of We Will Not Cancel Us and Other Dreams of Transformative Justice, Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation, Pleasure Activism and also several works of fiction. She is the co-host of the podcasts How to Survive the End of the World, Octavia’s Parables and Emergent Strategy.


    Below are links to topics, resources and mentors mentioned in this episode:


    Ashlee Marie Preston calls on Netflix

    https://www.them.us/story/activists-celebrities-protest-netflix-chappelle-special


    Grace Lee Boggs Activist and American Revolutionary Turns 100, Code Switch NPR, 2015 https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/06/27/417175523/grace-lee-boggs-activist-and-american-revolutionary-turns-100


    Mariame Kaba

    http://mariamekaba.com/


    Ways to Implement Restorative Practices in the Classroom

    https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/opinion-ways-to-implement-restorative-practices-in-the-classroom/2020/01

    Why American Prisons Owe Their Cruelty to Slavery

    https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/prison-industrial-complex-slavery-racism.html


    The Center for Nonviolent Communication

    https://www.cnvc.org/


    Hollow Water First Nations Community Holistic Healing Circle

    https://cncfr.jbsinternational.com/node/589


    Truth and Reconciliation Commission, South Africa

    https://www.usip.org/publications/1995/12/truth-commission-south-africa


    Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada 

    https://nctr.ca/


    12 Ways to Engage in Truth and Reconciliation at Western University Ontario, Canada

    https://indigenous.uwo.ca/initiatives/learning/12-ways.html

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    1 December 2021, 5:00 am
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