Selected Wisdom
News & Politics Podcasts
Selected Wisdom is the audio version of Clint Watts' blog, which seeks to do what his original blog sought out to do in its launch in 2010 – provide selected bits of wisdom and insights from those with unique experiences and specific insights into different issues and life in general. Selected Wisdom illuminates that no one person has all the answers, but every person has the answers to some questions and can offer lessons learned from a lifetime of experiences. Guests from all different backgrounds will join host Clint Watts for conversations sharing bits of their selected wisdom for listeners.
Location:
United States
Genres:
News & Politics Podcasts
Description:
Selected Wisdom is the audio version of Clint Watts' blog, which seeks to do what his original blog sought out to do in its launch in 2010 – provide selected bits of wisdom and insights from those with unique experiences and specific insights into different issues and life in general. Selected Wisdom illuminates that no one person has all the answers, but every person has the answers to some questions and can offer lessons learned from a lifetime of experiences. Guests from all different backgrounds will join host Clint Watts for conversations sharing bits of their selected wisdom for listeners.
Language:
English
Website:
https://selectedwisdom.com/
Episodes
Episode 6: Dr. Mark Moffett
6/8/2022
In the fall of 2021, I finally got to leave my house and speak to a live audience at the Pebble Beach Authors and Ideas Festival in Monterey, California. After over a year of the pandemic, everyone was a little rusty with in-person interactions, except for one presenter—Dr. Mark Moffett.
Mark’s presentation, his animated style, and fun demeanor captured the crowd that weekend in a way that no one else could. His description of the Southern California ant wars captivated the crowd, and put...
Duration:00:35:05
Episode 5: Colin Woodard
6/1/2022
Colin Woodard is an award-winning historian and a New York Times bestselling author.
Author of the bestseller American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of America, Woodard has written six books, including The Republic of Pirates, a New York Times bestselling history of Blackbeard’s pirate gang that was made into a primetime NBC series, and Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood, which tells the harrowing story of the creation of the...
Duration:00:35:35
Episode 4: Dr. Nahid Bhadelia
5/25/2022
Dr. Nahid Bhadelia is one of the of the amazing doctors explaining COVID-19 to Americans, serving on the frontlines of the pandemic, and helping counter the false information that has accompanied the virus’s spread among populations.
Dr. Bhadelia is the founding director of the Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases Policy and Research at Boston University (CEID), an associate director of the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL), and an Associate Professor at the...
Duration:00:34:32
Episode 3: Lawrence Wright
5/18/2022
Lawrence Wright is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, which provides a sweeping narrative of events that lead up to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He’s an author, screenwriter, playwright, and staff writer for The New Yorker magazine.
Along with The Looming Tower, Wright has written 10 other nonfiction books including Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood,and the Prison of Belief and several plays, many of which he has performed in. Lawrence is...
Duration:00:36:10
Episode 2: Deborah Amos
5/11/2022
If you’ve listened to NPR in the past twenty years, you’ve likely heard the voice of Deborah Amos. Deb serves as an international correspondent for NPR for over 20 years where she’s mostly covered conflict in the Middle East. Throughout her tenure she’s reported on global conflict from the Gulf War to Syrian Civil War and geopolitics across Eurasia and Northern Africa.
Deb is the recipient of the Edward Weintal Prize for Diplomatic Reporting from Georgetown University and the Edward R....
Duration:00:26:27
Episode 1: Matt Eversmann
5/4/2022
Matt Eversmann enlisted in the Army as an infantryman in December 1987. Matt spent time with the 10th Mountain Division and eight-and-a-half years with the Ranger Regiment, serving as a squad leader, a weapons squad leader, the battalion air operations sergeant, the battalion liaison sergeant, and a platoon sergeant. Matt was also the officer in charge of the 75th Ranger Regiment’s Pre-Ranger Course, training future leaders to pass the grueling Army Ranger School.
In August of 1993, Matt...
Duration:00:33:51
Introducing: Selected Wisdom
4/27/2022
In 2010, after stints in the U.S. Army, FBI, and academia, Clint Watts started Selected Wisdom, a blog with the goal of gathering and illuminating insights and analysis from experts with diverse backgrounds.
The blog covered a range of topics from social media’s impact on the Arab Spring to Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
The Selected Wisdom podcast seeks to bring the concept of the blog to the next level. Clint is joined with experts from various fields, where...
Duration:00:00:58