Watching America

Series produced by WHRV

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Hosted by British born host Dr. Alan Campbell, Watching America combines interviews, engaging audio, and deep dive talks in to our local and national culture through the eloquent and ever-curious lens of a ‘Brit’ who has spent over two decades ‘figuring it all out’; Watching America.

Join WHRV for an intriguing and thought-provoking journey across human paradigms, social beliefs and psychological evolution. Watching America invites listeners on a quest to examine and understand the process in which organizations, groups, and individuals ‘do what they do’. Why do we cry? What is financial discrimination? Are too many ‘options’ resulting in an over-stressed population? And when ‘exactly’ did country music stop being country music?


37 Pieces

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Dr. Lynne Fenton is the psychiatrist who treated the mass shooter who attacked patrons of a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. In this episode of W...

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  • Added: Aug 30, 2022
  • Length: 53:53
  • Purchases: 1
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Antonio Salazar-Hobson was kidnapped from his home in Mexico at the age of four. He was trafficked for several years at a famous ranch in Californi...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2022
  • Length: 53:50
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When you hear the striking of a chord, there is far more going on than just moving air particles. Music incites emotional and often physical sensat...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2022
  • Length: 53:53
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On this episode of Watching America, host Alan Campbell discusses the increasingly common issue of anxiety with psychiatrist and author Ellen Vora....

  • Added: Aug 03, 2022
  • Length: 53:53
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John Gotti was the first celebrity crime boss. His ability to beat criminal charges inspired one of his nicknames: "The Teflon Don." John Gleeson w...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2022
  • Length: 53:53
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Jacob Mchangama is a Danish lawyer and human-rights advocate who has worked with Columbia's Global Freedom of Expression Center in New York and the...

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  • Added: Jul 07, 2022
  • Length: 51:42
  • Purchases: 1
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Horseman and horse whisperer Grant Golliher's experience training animals began in childhood, but he rejected the aggressive tactics used in mule a...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2022
  • Length: 53:54
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Humans are born with the ability to laugh and smile. It is built into our nervous system. In this episode of Watching America, we hear from psychol...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2022
  • Length: 53:11
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Dr. Reuben Miller says the American justice system does not aim to rehabilitate people who commit crime. Instead, he says programs like parole crea...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2022
  • Length: 53:20
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"Don't Burn This Book" by social commenter and comedian Dave Rubin is a New York Times Bestseller. He just released a follow-up: "Don't Burn This C...

  • Added: May 24, 2022
  • Length: 53:01
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The "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" (DSM) is referred to as the Bible of Psychiatry. Like any scripture, it has nonbeliever...

  • Added: May 17, 2022
  • Length: 53:18
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In this episode of Watching America, we hear from civil rights activist, Hollywood newscaster, educator, and public speaker Luis Alberto Rivera Col...

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  • Added: May 12, 2022
  • Length: 53:54
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Wildlife is declining across the globe. But environmental historian Dr. Peter Alagona says a whole new ecosystem is developing as wild animals move...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2022
  • Length: 53:42
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Do you hear voices ... inside your head? Well, we all do. The secret, according to Dr. Ethan Kross, is to manage the way we talk to ourselves. In t...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2022
  • Length: 53:28
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Dr. Anna Lembke is the Medical Director of Addiction Medicine at Stanford University Medical School. In this episode of Watching America, she talks...

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  • Added: Mar 16, 2022
  • Length: 53:52
  • Purchases: 1
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Expected Russian aggression against Ukraine has dominated the news, but the situation may be difficult to understand. On this episode of Watching A...

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  • Added: Feb 22, 2022
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 1
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Regret is something we'd all prefer to avoid. Regrettably, we can't. Bestselling author Daniel Pink has studied regret extensively. On this episode...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2022
  • Length: 53:16
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The "Dunning-Kruger effect" is the bias people hold regarding their own cognitive ability. Not surprisingly, competence in a given area is not nece...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2022
  • Length: 53:22
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"Journalism tends to look away from people at the end of life, especially at the undramatic end of a long life... Aging may be an ordinary bodily p...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2022
  • Length: 53:53
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Studies show that loneliness has been on the rise in the United States--even before the pandemic. Social psychologist and lawyer, J. W. "Terry" Fre...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2022
  • Length: 53:51