The Podyssey

The Podyssey

By Obehi IdiakeSociety & Culture
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The Podyssey episodes

  • 4. Shomari Dixon, Chad Gobar and Damani Smallwood

    I believe that friendship is a very important part of human experience. I also believe in having a diverse group of friends from different political, socio-economic, and cultural backgrounds. This is why I decided to invite some of my friends to come on the pod to discuss a myriad of topics from the NBA, African-American history, racism, slavery, politics, the black family and more.

    Shomari, Chad, and Damani are three articulate, funny, and highly intelligent men that I respect even though we don't agree on a lot of issues.


    Friction is okay.
    Discussion is okay, even if it gets a little passionate

    We must be willing to challenge our perspective and listen to others. I hope this podcast encourages you to do the same.

    Breakdown:

    7:00 - Discussion On NBA Commissioner Adam Silver moving the league from using the term Owners to Governors
    19:10 - Discussion on #BLEXIT, Candace Owens, and Voting
    29:00 - Voting, Politics and the African American Community
    33:00 - Barack Obama, Criticisms from African American Community, Black Pain
    39:30 - Thoughts of 2020, The Democratic Party debates, Higher Education
    58:00 - How do we fix America?, America & the history of nations, Criticizing America
    1:09:00 - The black family, Criticisms of the black community
    1:33:00 - Is whiteness a myth?, Trans-racialism, Divestment from whiteness


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    This podcast is also available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Google Podcasts as well other places you get your podcasts. 


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    1 hr 42 min
  • 3. Rachael Smith and Siobhan McGirl

    Rachael Smith is a Lynchburg native and a reporter for The News & Advance. Siobhan McGirl is a New Yorker currently living in Lynchburg and a reporter for WDBJ7, CBS Affiliate, covering Lynchburg and Bedford County.



    We sit down to discuss our experience through Citizens Academy, their journey into journalism, fake news and more.


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    This podcast is also available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Google Podcasts as well other places you get your podcasts. 


    Follow our host Obehi on Instagram at:  obi_1_kanobi

    1 hr 32 min
  • 2. Tommy Tran

    Tommy Tran is a husband, father, writer, photographer, and small business owner. You can support Tommy's company The Next Nomads on social media at:


    Facebook: The Next Nomads
    Instagram: @thenextnomads

    You can also follow Tommy on Instagram: @tommytranpro


    On the podcasts Tommy asked me my 5 favorite books that influenced me. Here is a list of my Top 5 so far in my short life in no particular order:

    -The Bible
    -Wealth, Poverty, Politics by Thomas Sowell
    -The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
    -Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky
    -The Screwtape Letters or The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis

    PLEASE LEAVE A REVIEW AND SHARE THIS PODCAST WITH 5 FRIENDS!!  #Roadto1000


    Don't forget to follow us on:

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    Instagram: _thepodyssey_

    Youtube: The Podyssey


    This podcast is also available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Google Podcasts as well other places you get your podcasts. 


    Follow our host Obehi on Instagram at:  obi_1_kanobi

    1 hr 14 min
  • 1. Dr. Andrew Anderson

    Dr. Anderson is a family medicine physician. He drops into sojourn studios to discuss health care, mental health, direct primary care, Obamacare and more.



    Here are some helpful resources mentioned in the podcast for all sojourners:

    1) https://www.athenahealth.com/insight/expert-forum-rise-and-rise-healthcare-administrator  

         - TLDR: "The number of physicians in the United States grew 150 percent between 1975 and 2010, roughly in keeping with population growth, while the number of healthcare administrators increased 3,200 percent for the same time period." 

    2) https://www.statnews.com/2018/07/26/physicians-not-burning-out-they-are-suffering-moral-injury/

         - TLDR: In the following article written by Simon G. Talbot, M.D., a reconstructive plastic surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and associate professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School, on physician burn-out 

       - He explains that "physicians are smart, tough, durable, resourceful people. If there was a way to MacGyver themselves out of this situation by working harder, smarter, or differently, they would have done it already."  (This also talks about physician suicide rates being twice as high as active military...and why) 

    3) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2254573/ 

         - TLDR: 17.4 minutes, the time a family doctor usually spends on each patient.


    4) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5593724/

        - TLDR: This is the study done in conjunction with the American Medical Association about doctor spending nearly half of their  11.4 hours per day plugging in information into the computer.

    5) https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-physician-relationships/how-many-patients-is-too-many-study-debunks-industry-standard.html

          - TLDR: "But could physicians feasibly take on more patients to reach the "standard" 2,500-patient panel? According to the analysis, no. The researchers suggested it would be nearly impossible to handle a panel size of 2,500 patients — a physician would have to work 21.7 hours per day to deliver comprehensive, quality care to a panel of that size."

    6) https://mapper.dpcfrontier.com/

         - Find a DPC near you

    7) boonsborodirectprimarycare.com


       - Find a DPC office in Lynchburg, VA

    8) https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/opinion/letters/doctors-burnout.html


       - TLDR: "With mergers and streamlining, it has pushed the productivity numbers about as far as they can go. But one resource that seems endless — and free — is the professional ethic of medical staff members.  This ethic holds the entire enterprise together. If doctors and nurses clocked out when their paid hours were finished, the effect on patients would be calamitous. Doctors and nurses know this, which is why they don’t shirk. The system knows it, too, and takes advantage."

    1 hr 5 min

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