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David Mayernik is an architect, artist, writer, educator and most of all, he is a life-long student. David grew up in Allentown Pennsylvania. As he tells us during this episode, even at a young age of two he already loved to draw. He says he always had a pencil and paper with him and he used them constantly. His mother kept many of his drawings and he still has many of them to this day.   After graduating from University of Notre Dame David held several positions with various architectural firms. He always believed that he learned more by teaching himself, however, and eventually he decided to leave the professional world of architecture and took teaching positions at Notre Dame. He recently retired and is now Professor Emeritus at Notre Dame.   Our conversation is far ranging including discussions of life, the importance of learning and growing by listening to your inner self. David offers us many wonderful and insightful lessons and thoughts we all can use. We even talk some about about how technology such as Computer Aided Design systems, (CAD), are affecting the world of Architecture. I know you will enjoy what David has to say. Please let me know your thoughts through email at michaelhi@accessibe.com.     About the Guest:   David Mayernik is an architect, artist, writer, and educator. He was born in 1960 in Allentown, Pennsylvania; his parents were children of immigrants from Slovakia and Italy. He is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome and the British Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, and has won numerous grants, awards and competitions, including the Gabriel Prize for research in France, the Steedman Competition, and the Minnesota State Capitol Grounds competition (with then partner Thomas N. Rajkovich). In 1995 he was named to the decennial list of the top forty architects in the United States under forty. In the fall of 2022, he was a resident at the Bogliasco Foundation in Liguria and the Cini foundation in Venice.   His design work for the TASIS campus in Switzerland over twenty-eight years has been recognized with a Palladio Award from Traditional Building magazine, an honorable mention in the INTBAU Excellence Awards, and a jury prize from the Prix Européen d'Architecture Philippe Rotthier. TASIS Switzerland was named one of the nine most beautiful boarding schools in the world by AD Magazine in March 2024. For ten years he also designed a series of new buildings for TASIS England in Surrey.   David Mayernik studied fresco painting with the renowned restorer Leonetto Tintori, and he has painted frescoes for the American Academy in Rome, churches in the Mugello and Ticino, and various buildings on the TASIS campus in Switzerland. He designed stage sets for the Haymarket Opera company of Chicago for four seasons between 2012 and 2014. He won the competition to paint the Palio for his adopted home of Lucca in 2013. His paintings and drawings have been exhibited in New York, Chicago, London, Innsbruck, Rome, and Padova and featured in various magazines, including American Artist and Fine Art Connoisseur.   David Mayernik is Professor Emeritus with the University of Notre Dame, where for twenty years he taught in the School of Architecture. He is the author of two books, The Challenge of Emulation in Art and Architecture (Routledge, UK) and Timeless Cities: An Architect's Reflections on Renaissance Italy, (Basic Books), and numerous essays and book chapters, including “The Baroque City” for the Oxford Handbook of the Baroque. In 2016 he created the online course The Meaning of Rome for Notre Dame, hosted on the edX platform, which had an audience of six thousand followers. Ways to connect with David:   Website: www.davidmayernik.com Instagram: davidmayernik LinkedIn: davidmayernik EdX: The Meaning of Rome https://www.edx.org/learn/humanities/university-of-notre-dame-the-meaning-of-rome-the-renaissance-and-baroque-city     About the Host:   Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog.   Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. 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Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us.   Michael Hingson ** 01:17 Well, hi and welcome once again. Wherever you happen to be, to another episode of unstoppable mindset. Today, we get to chat with David Mayernik, unless you're in Europe, and then it's David Mayernik, but either way, we're glad to have him. He is an architect. He is an award winning architect. He's an author. He's done a number of things in his life, and we're going to talk about all of those, and it's kind of more fun to let him be the one to talk more about it, and then I can just pick up and ask questions as we go, and that's what we'll do. But we're really glad that he's here. So David, welcome to unstoppable mindset.   David Mayernik ** 01:57 Oh, thanks so much. Michael, thanks for the invitation. I'm looking forward to it.   Michael Hingson ** 02:02 Well, I know we've been working on getting this set up, and David actually happens to be in Italy today, as opposed to being in the US. He was a professor at Notre Dame for 20 years, but he has spent a lot of time in Europe and elsewhere, and I'm sure he's going to talk about that. But why don't we start, as I mentioned earlier, as I love to do, tell us kind of about the early David growing up.   David Mayernik ** 02:25 Well, so my both of my parents passed away several years ago, and when I was at my mom's funeral, one of our next door neighbors was telling my wife what I was like when I was a kid, and she said he was very quiet and very intense. And I suppose that's how I was perceived. I'm not sure I perceived myself that way I did. The thing about me is I've always drawn my mom. I mean, lots of kids draw, but I drew like credibly, well, when I was, you know, two and three years old. And of course, my mother saved everything. But the best thing about it was that I always had paper and pencil available. You know, we were terribly well off. We weren't poor, but we weren't, you know, well to do, but I never lacked for paper and pencils, and that just allowed me to just draw as much as I possibly could.   Michael Hingson ** 03:16 And so I guess the other question is, of course, do you still have all those old drawings since your mom kept   David Mayernik ** 03:23 them? Well, you know? Yeah, actually, after she passed, I did get her, Well, her collection of them. I don't know that all of them. My father had a penchant for throwing things away, unfortunately. So some of the archive is no longer with us, but no but enough of it. Just odds and bits from different areas of my life. And the thing is, you know, I was encouraged enough. I mean, all kids get encouraged. I think when they're young, everything they do is fabulous, but I had enough encouragement from people who seem to take it seriously that I thought maybe I had something and and it was the kind of thing that allowed me to have enough confidence in myself that I actually enjoyed doing it and and mostly, my parents were just impressed. You know, it just was impressive to them. And so I just happily went along my own way. The thing about it was that I really wanted to find my own path as somebody who drew and had a chance in high school for a scholarship to a local art school. I won a competition for a local art school scholarship, and I went for a couple of lessons, and I thought, you know, they're just teaching me to draw like them. I want to draw like me. So for better or worse, I'm one of those autodidacts who tries to find my own way, and, you know, it has its ups and downs. I mean, the downside of it is it's a slower learning process. Is a lot more trial and error. But the upside of it is, is that it's your own. I mean, essentially, I had enough of an ego that, you know, I really wanted to do. Things my way.   Michael Hingson ** 05:02 Well, you illustrate something that I've believed and articulate now I didn't used to, but I do now a lot more, which is I'm my own best teacher. And the reality is that you you learn by doing, and people can can give you information. And, yeah, you're right. Probably they wanted you to mostly just draw like them. But the bottom line is, you already knew from years of drawing as a child, you wanted to perhaps go a slightly different way, and you worked at it, and it may have taken longer, but look at what you learned.   David Mayernik ** 05:37 Yeah, I think it's, I mean, for me, it's, it's important that whatever you do, you do because you feel like you're being true to yourself somehow. I mean, I think that at least that's always been important to me, is that I don't, I don't like doing things for the sake of doing them. I like doing them because I think they matter. And I like, you know, I think essentially pursuing my own way of doing it meant that it always was, I mean, beyond just personal, it was something I was really committed to. And you know, the thing about it, eventually, for my parents was they thought it was fabulous, you know, loved great that you draw, but surely you don't intend to be an artist, because, you know, you want to have a job and make a living. And so I eventually realized that in high school, that while they, well, they probably would have supported anything I did that, you know, I was being nudged towards something a little bit more practical, which I think happens to a lot of kids who choose architecture like I did. It's a way, it's a practical way of being an artist and and that's we could talk about that. But I think that's not always true.   Michael Hingson ** 06:41 Bill, go ahead, talk about that. Well, I think that the   David Mayernik ** 06:44 thing about architecture is that it's become, well, one it became a profession in America, really, in the 20th century. I mean, it's in the sense that there was a licensing exam and all the requirements of what we think of as, you know, a professional service that, you know, like being a lawyer or a doctor, that architecture was sort of professionalized in the 20th century, at least in the United States. And, and it's a business, you know, ostensibly, I mean, you're, you know, you're doing what you do for a fee. And, and so architecture tries to balance the art part of it, or the creative side, the professional side of it, and the business side. And usually it's some rather imperfect version of all of those things. And the hard part, I think the hardest part to keep alive is the art part, because the business stuff and the professional stuff can really kind of take over. And that's been my trial. Challenge is to try to have it all three ways, essentially.   Michael Hingson ** 07:39 Do you think that Frank Lloyd Wright had a lot to do with bringing architecture more to the forefront of mindsets, mindsets, and also, of course, from an art standpoint, clearly, he had his own way of doing things.   David Mayernik ** 07:54 Yeah, absolutely he comes from, I mean, I wouldn't call it a rebellious tradition, but there was a streak of chafing at East Coast European classicism that happened in Chicago. Louis Sullivan, you know, is mostly responsible for that. And I but, but Right, had this, you know, kind of heroic sense of himself and and I think that his ability to draw, which was phenomenal. His sense that he wanted to do something different, and his sense that he wanted to do something American, made him a kind of a hero. Eventually, I think it coincided with America's growing sense of itself. And so for me, like lot of kids in America, my from my day, if you told somebody in high school you wanted to be an architect, they would give you a book on Frank Lloyd Wright. I mean, that's just, you know, part of the package.   Michael Hingson ** 08:47 Yeah, of course, there are others as well, but still, he brought a lot into it. And of course there, there are now more architects that we hear about and designers and so on the people what, I m Pei, who designed the world, original World Trade Center and other things like that. Clearly, there are a number of people who have made major impacts on the way we design and think of Building and Construction today,   David Mayernik ** 09:17 you know, I mean America's, you know, be kind of, it really was a leader in the development of architecture in the 20th century. I mean, in the 19th century was very much, you know, following what was happening in Europe. But essentially, by the 20th century, the America had a sense of itself that didn't always mean that it rejected the European tradition. Sometimes it tried to do it, just bigger and better, but, but it also felt like it had its, you know, almost a responsibility to find its own way, like me and, you know, come up with an American kind of architecture and and so it's always been in a kind of dialog with architecture from around the world. I mean, especially in Europe, at Frank Lloyd Wright was heavily influenced by Japanese architecture and. And so we've always seen ourselves, I think, in relationship to the world. And it's just the question of whether we were master or pupil to a certain extent,   Michael Hingson ** 10:07 and in reality, probably a little bit of both.   David Mayernik ** 10:12 Yeah, and we are, and I think, you know, acknowledging who we are, the fact that we didn't just, you know, spring from the earth in the United States, where we're all, I mean, essentially all immigrants, mostly, and essentially we, you know, essentially bring, we have baggage, essentially, as a culture, from lots of other places. And that's actually an advantage. I mean, I think it's actually what makes us a rich culture, is the diversity. I mean, even me, my father's family was Slovak, my mother's family Italian. And, you know from when I tell you know Europeans that they think that's just quintessentially American. That's what makes you an American, is that you're not a purebred of some kind.   Michael Hingson ** 10:49 Yeah, yeah. Pure purebred American is, is really sort of nebulous and and not necessarily overly accurate, because you are probably immigrants or part other kinds of races or nationalities as well. And that's, that's okay.   David Mayernik ** 11:08 It's, it's rich, you know, I think it's, it's a richer. It's the extent to which you want to engage with it. And the interesting thing about my parents was that they were both children of first generation immigrants. My mom's parents had been older Italian, and they were already married, and when they came to the States, my father's parents were younger and Slovak, and they met in the United States. And my father really wasn't that interested in his Slovak heritage. I mean, just, you know, he could speak some of the language, you know, really feel like it was something he wanted to hold on to or pass along, was my mom was, I mean, she loved her parents. She, you know, spoke with him in Italian, or actually not even Italian, the dialect from where her parents came from, which is north of Venice. And so she, I think she kind of, whether consciously or unconsciously, passed that on to me, that sense that I wanted to be. I was interested in where I came from, where the origins of my where my roots were, and it's something that had an appeal for me that wasn't just it wasn't front brain, it was really kind of built into who I was, which is why, you know, one of the reasons I chose to go to Notre Dame to study where I also wound up teaching like, welcome back Carter, is that I we had a Rome program, and so I've been teaching in the Rome program for our school, but we, I was there 44 years ago as a student.   Michael Hingson ** 12:28 Yeah. So quite a while, needless to say. And you know, I think, well, my grandmother on my mother's side was Polish, but I I never did get much in the way of information about the culture and so on from her and and my mom never really dealt with it much, because she was totally from The Bronx in New York, and was always just American, so I never really got a lot of that. But very frankly, in talking to so many people on this podcast over almost the last four years, talking to a number of people whose parents and grandparents all came to this country and how that affected them. It makes me really appreciate the kind of people who we all are, and we all are, are a conglomerate of so many different cultures, and that's okay, yeah? I mean,   David Mayernik ** 13:31 I think it's more than okay, and I think we need to just be honest about it, yeah. And, you know, kind of celebrate it, because the Italians brought with them, you know, tremendous skills. For example, a lot of my grandfather was a stone mason. You know, during the Depression, he worked, you know, the for the WPA essentially sponsored a whole series of public works projects in the parks in the town I grew up in Allentown, Pennsylvania. And Allentown has a fabulous park system. And my grandfather built a lot of stone walls in the parks in the 1930s and, you know, all these cultures that came to the states often brought, you know, specialized skills. You know, from where they they came from, and, and they enriched the American, you know, skill set, essentially, and, and that's, you know, again, that's we are, who we are because of that, you know, I celebrated I, you know, I'm especially connected to my Italian heritage. I feel like, in part because my grandfather, the stone mason, was a bit of jack of all trades. He could paint and draw. And my mom, you know, wrote poetry and painted. And even though she mostly, you know, in my life, was a was a housewife, but before she met my father, and they got married relatively late for their day, she had a professional life in World War Two, my mom actually went to Penn State for a couple of years in the start of at the start of the war, and then parents wanted her to come home, and so she did two years of engineering. Penn State. When she came back to Allentown, she actually got a job at the local airplane manufacturing plant that was making fighter planes for the United States called company called volte, and she did drafting for them. And then after World War Two, she got a job for the local power company drafting modern electrical kitchens and and so I've inherited all my mom's drafting equipment. And, you know, she's, she's very much a kind of a child of the culture that she came from, and in the sense that it was a, you know, artistic culture, a creative culture. And, you know, I definitely happy and proud of   Michael Hingson ** 15:37 that. You know, one of the things that impresses me, and I think about a lot in talking to so many people whose parents and grandparents immigrated to this country and so on, is not just the skill sets that they brought, but the work ethic that they had, that they imparted to people. And I think people who have had a number of generations here have not always kept that, and I think they've lost something very valuable, because that work ethic is what made those people who they were   David Mayernik ** 16:08 absolutely I mean, my Yeah, I mean my father. I mean absolutely true is, I mean tireless worker, capable of tremendous self sacrifice and and, you know, and that whole generation, I mean, he fought in World War Two. He actually joined, joined the Navy underage. He lied about his age to get in the Navy and that. But they were capable of self, tremendous self sacrifice and tremendous effort. And, you know, I think, you know, we're always, you know, these days, we always talk about work life balance. And I have to say, being an architect, most architects don't have a great work life balance. Mostly it's, it's a lot of work and a little bit of life. And that's, I don't, you know. I think not everybody survives that. Not every architects marriage survives that mine has. But I think it's, you know, that the idea that you're, you're sort of defined by what you do. I think there's a lot of talk these days about that's not a good thing. I I'm sort of okay with that. I'm sort of okay with being defined by what I do.   Michael Hingson ** 17:13 Yeah, and, and that that's, that's okay, especially if you're okay with it. That's good. Well, you So you went to Notre Dame, and obviously dealt with architecture. There some,   David Mayernik ** 17:28 yeah. I mean, the thing, the great thing about Notre Dame is to have the Rome program, and that was the idea of actually a Sicilian immigrant to the States in the early 20th century who became a professor at Notre Dame. And he had, he won the Paris prize. A guy named Frank Montana who won the Paris prize in the 1930s went to Harvard and was a professor at Notre Dame. And he had the good idea that, you know, maybe sending kids to five years of architecture education in Indiana, maybe wasn't the best, well rounded education possible, and maybe they should get out of South Bend for a year, and he, on his own initiative, without even support from the university, started a Rome program, and then said to the university, hey, we have a Rome program now. And so that was, that was his instinct to do that. And while I got, I think, a great education there, especially after Rome, the professor, one professor I had after Rome, was exceptional for me. But you know, Rome was just the opportunity to see great architecture. I mean, I had seen some. I mean, I, you know, my parents would go to Philadelphia, New York and, you know, we I saw some things. But, you know, I wasn't really bowled over by architecture until I went to Rome. And just the experience of that really changed my life, and it gave me a direction,   Michael Hingson ** 18:41 essentially. So the Rome program would send you to Rome for a year.   David Mayernik ** 18:46 Yeah, which is unusual too, because a lot of overseas programs do a semester. We were unusual in that the third year out of a five year undergraduate degree in architecture, the whole year is spent in Rome. And you know, when you're 20 ish, you know, 20 I turned 21 when I was over there. It's a real transition time in your life. I mean, it's, it was really transformative. And for all of us, small of my classmates, I mean, we're all kind of grew up. We all became a bit, you know, European. We stopped going to football games when we went back on campus, because it wasn't cool anymore, but, but we, we definitely were transformed by it personally, but, it really opened our eyes to what architecture was capable of, and that once you've, once you've kind of seen that, you know, once you've been to the top of the mountain, kind of thing, it can really get under your skin. And, you know, kind of sponsor whatever you do for the rest of your life. At least for me, it   Michael Hingson ** 19:35 did, yeah, yeah. So what did you do after you graduated?   David Mayernik ** 19:40 Well, I graduated, and I think also a lot of our students lately have had a pretty reasonably good economy over the last couple of decades, that where it's been pretty easy for our students to get a job. I graduated in a recession. I pounded the pavements a lot. I went, you know, staying with my parents and. Allentown, went back and forth to New York, knocking on doors. There was actually a woman who worked at the unemployment agency in New York who specialized in architects, and she would arrange interviews with firms. And, you know, I just got something for the summer, essentially, and then finally, got a job in the in the fall for somebody I wanted to work with in Philadelphia and and that guy left that firm after about three months because he won a competition. He didn't take me with him, and I was in a firm that really didn't want to be with. I wanted to be with him, not with the firm. And so I then I picked up stakes and moved to Chicago and worked for an architect who'd been a visiting professor at Notre Dame eventually became dean at Yale Tom Beebe, and it was a great learning experience, but it was also a lot of hours at low pay. You know, I don't think, I don't think my students, I can't even tell my students what I used to make an hour as a young architect. I don't think they would understand, yeah, I mean, I really don't, but it was, it was a it was the sense that you were, that your early years was a kind of, I mean an apprenticeship. I mean almost an unpaid apprenticeship at some level. I mean, I needed to make enough money to pay the rent and eat, but that was about it. And and so I did that, but I bounced around a lot, you know, and a lot of kids, I think a lot of our students, when they graduate, they think that getting a job is like a marriage, like they're going to be in it forever. And, you know, I, for better or worse, I moved around a lot. I mean, I moved every time I hit what I felt was like a point of diminishing returns. When I felt like I was putting more in and getting less out, I thought it was time to go and try something else. And I don't know that's always good advice. I mean, it can make you look flighty or unstable, but I kind of always followed my my instinct on that.   Michael Hingson ** 21:57 I don't remember how old I was. You're talking about wages. But I remember it was a Sunday, and my parents were reading the newspaper, and they got into a discussion just about the fact that the minimum wage had just been changed to be $1.50 an hour. I had no concept of all of that. But of course, now looking back on it, $1.50 an hour, and looking at it now, it's pretty amazing. And in a sense, $1.50 an hour, and now we're talking about $15 and $16 an hour, and I had to be, I'm sure, under 10. So it was sometime between 1958 and 1960 or so, or maybe 61 I don't remember exactly when, but in a sense, looking at it now, I'm not sure that the minimum wage has gone up all that much. Yes, 10 times what it was. But so many other things are a whole lot more than 10 times what they were back then,   David Mayernik ** 23:01 absolutely, yeah. I mean, I mean, in some ways also, my father was a, my father was a factory worker. I mean, he tried to have lots of other businesses of his own. He, you're, you're obviously a great salesman. And the one skill my father didn't have is he could, he could, like, for example, he had a home building business. He could build a great house. He just couldn't sell it. And so, you know, I think he was a factory worker, but he was able to send my sister and I to private college simultaneously on a factory worker salary, you know, with, with, I mean, I had some student loan debt, but not a lot. And that's, that's not possible today.   Michael Hingson ** 23:42 No, he saved and put money aside so that you could do that, yeah, and,   David Mayernik ** 23:47 and he made enough. I mean, essentially, the cost of college was not that much. And he was, you know, right, yeah. And he had a union job. It was, you know, reasonably well paid. I mean, we lived in a, you know, a nice middle class neighborhood, and, you know, we, we had a nice life growing up, and he was able to again, send us to college. And I that's just not possible for without tremendous amount of debt. It's not possible today. So the whole scale of our economy shifted tremendously. What I was making when I was a young architect. I mean, it was not a lot then, but I survived. Fact, actually saved money in Chicago for a two month summer in Europe after that. So, you know, essentially, the cost of living was, it didn't take a lot to cover your your expenses, right? The advantage of that for me was that it allowed me time when I had free time when I after that experience, and I traveled to Europe, I came back and I worked in Philadelphia for the same guy who had left the old firm in Philadelphia and went off on his own, started his own business. I worked for him for about nine months, but I had time in the evenings, because I didn't have to work 80 hours a week to do other things. I taught myself how to paint. And do things that I was interested in, and I could experiment and try things and and, you know, because surviving wasn't all that hard. I mean, it was easy to pay your bills and, and I think that's one of the things that's, I think, become more onerous, is that, I think for a lot of young people just kind of dealing with both college debt and then, you know, essentially the cost of living. They don't have a lot of time or energy to do anything else. And you know, for me, that was, I had the luxury of having time and energy to invest in my own growth, let's say as a more career, as a creative person. And you know, I also, I also tell students that, you know, there are a lot of hours in the day, you know, and whatever you're doing in an office. There are a lot of hours after that, you could be doing something else, and that I used every one of those hours as best I could.   Michael Hingson ** 25:50 Yeah. Well, you know, we're all born with challenges in life. What kind of challenges, real challenges did you have growing up as you look back on it?   David Mayernik ** 26:01 Yeah, my, I mean, my, I mean, there was some, there was some, a few rocky times when my father was trying to have his own business. And, you know, I'm not saying we grew up. We didn't struggle, but it wasn't, you know, always smooth sailing. But I think one of the things I learned about being an architect, which I didn't realize, and only kind of has been brought home to me later. Right now, I have somebody who's told me not that long ago, you know? You know, the problem is, architecture is a gentleman's profession. You know that IT architecture, historically was practiced by people from a social class, who knew, essentially, they grew up with the people who would become their clients, right? And so the way a lot of architects built their practice was essentially on, you know, family connections and personal connections, college connections. And I didn't have that advantage. So, you know, I've, I've essentially had to define myself or establish myself based on what I'm capable of doing. And you know, it's not always a level playing field. The great breakthrough for me, in a lot of ways, was that one of the one of my classmates and I entered a big international competition when we were essentially 25 years old. I think we entered. I turned 26 and it was an open competition. So, you know, no professional requirements. You know, virtually no entry fee to redesign the state capitol grounds of Minnesota, and it was international, and we, and we actually were selected as one of the top five teams that were allowed to proceed onto the second phase, and at which point we we weren't licensed architects. We didn't have a lot of professional sense or business sense, so we had to associate with a local firm in Minnesota and and we competed for the final phase. We did most of the work. The firm supported us, but they gave us basically professional credibility and and we won. We were the architects of the state capitol grounds in Minnesota, 26 years old, and that's because the that system of competition was basically a level playing field. It was, you know, ostensibly anonymous, at least the first phase, and it was just basically who had the best design. And you know, a lot of the way architecture gets architects get chosen. The way architecture gets distributed is connections, reputation, things like that, but, but you know, when you find those avenues where it's kind of a level playing field and you get to show your stuff. It doesn't matter where you grew up or who you are, it just matters how good you are, yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 28:47 well, and do you think it's still that way today?   David Mayernik ** 28:51 There are a lot fewer open professional competitions. They're just a lot fewer of them. It was the and, you know, maybe they learned a lesson. I mean, maybe people like me shouldn't have been winning competitions. I mean, at some level, we were out of our league. I wouldn't say, I wouldn't say, from a design point of view. I mean, we were very capable of doing what the project involved, but we were not ready for the hardball of collaborating with a big firm and and the and the politics of what we were doing and the business side of it, we got kind of crushed, and, and, and eventually they never had the money to build the project, so the project just kind of evaporated. And the guy I used to work with in Philadelphia told me, after I won the competition, he said, you know, because he won a competition. He said, You know, the second project is the hardest one to get, you know, because you might get lucky one time and you win a competition, the question is, how do you build practice out of that?   Michael Hingson ** 29:52 Yeah, and it's a good point, yeah, yeah.   David Mayernik ** 29:55 I mean, developing some kind of continuity is hard. I mean, I. Have a longer, more discontinuous practice after that, but it's that's the hard part.   Michael Hingson ** 30:07 Well, you know, I mentioned challenges before, and we all, we all face challenges and so on. How do we overcome the challenges, our inherited challenges, or the perceived challenges that we have? How do we overcome those and work to move forward, to be our best? Because that's clearly kind of what you're talking about here.   David Mayernik ** 30:26 Yeah, well, the true I mean, so the challenges that we're born with, and I think there are also some challenges that, you know, we impose on ourselves, right? I mean, in this, in the best sense, I mean the ways that we challenge ourselves. And for me, I'm a bit of an idealist, and you know, the world doesn't look kindly on idealist. If you know, from a business, professional point of view, idealism is often, I'm not saying it's frowned upon, but it's hardly encouraged and rewarded and but I think that for me, I've learned over time that it's you really just beating your head against the wall is not the best. A little bit of navigating your way around problems rather than trying to run through them or knock them over is a smarter strategy. And so you have to be a little nimble. You have to be a little creative about how you find work and essentially, how you keep yourself afloat and and if you're if you're open to possibilities, and if you take some risks, you can, you can actually navigate yourself through a series of obstacles and actually have a rich, interesting life, but it may not follow the path that you thought you were starting out on at the beginning. And that's the, I think that's the skill that not everybody has.   Michael Hingson ** 31:43 The other part about that, though, is that all too often, we don't really give thought to what we're going to do, or we we maybe even get nudges about what we ought to do, but we discount them because we think, Oh, that's just not the way to do it. Rather than stepping back and really analyzing what we're seeing, what we're hearing. And I, for 1am, a firm believer in the fact that our inner self, our inner voice, will guide us if we give it the opportunity to do that.   David Mayernik ** 32:15 You know, I absolutely agree. I think a lot of people, you know, I was, I for, I have, for better or worse, I've always had a good sense of what I wanted to do with my life, even if architecture was a you know, conscious way to do something that was not exactly maybe what I dreamed of doing, it was a, you know, as a more rational choice. But, but I've, but I've basically followed my heart, more or less, and I've done the things that I always believed in it was true too. And when I meet people, especially when I have students who don't really know what they love, or, you know, really can't tell you what they really are passionate about, but my sense of it is, this is just my I might be completely wrong, but my sense of it is, they either can't admit it to themselves, or they can't admit it to somebody else that they that, either, in the first case, they're not prepared to listen to themselves and actually really deep, dig deep and think about what really matters to them, or if they do know what that is, they're embarrassed to admit it, or they're embarrassed to tell somebody else. I think most of us have some drive, or some internal, you know, impetus towards something and, and you're right. I mean, learning to listen to that is, is a, I mean, it's rewarding. I mean, essentially, you become yourself. You become more, or the best possible self you can be, I guess.   Michael Hingson ** 33:42 Yeah, I agree. And I guess that that kind of answers the question I was was thinking of, and that is, basically, as you're doing things in life, should you follow your dreams?   David Mayernik ** 33:53 You know, there's a lot, a lot of people are writing these days, if you read, if you're just, you know, on the, on the internet, reading the, you know, advice that you get on, you know, the new services, from the BBC to, you know, any other form of information that's out there, there's a lot of back and forth by between the follow your dreams camp and the don't follow your dreams camp. And the argument of the don't follow your dreams camp seems to be that it's going to be hard and you'll be frustrated, and you know, and that's true, but it doesn't mean you're going to fail, and I don't think anybody should expect life to be easy. So I think if you understand going in, and maybe that's part of my Eastern European heritage that you basically expect life to be hard, not, not that it has to be unpleasant, but you know it's going to be a struggle, but, but if you are true to yourself or follow your dreams, you're probably not going to wake up in the middle of your life with a crisis. You know, because I think a lot of times when you suppress your dreams, they. Stay suppressed forever, and the frustrations come out later, and it's better to just take them on board and try to again, navigate your way through life with those aspirations that you have, that you know are really they're built in like you were saying. They're kind of hardwired to be that person, and it's best to listen to that person.   Michael Hingson ** 35:20 There's nothing wrong with having real convictions, and I think it's important to to step back and make sure that you're really hearing what your convictions are and feeling what your convictions are. But that is what people should do, because otherwise, you're just not going to be happy.   David Mayernik ** 35:36 You're not and you're you're at one level, allowing yourself to manipulate yourself. I mean, essentially, you're, you know, kind of essentially deterring yourself from being who you are. You're probably also susceptible to other people doing that to you, that if you don't have enough sense of yourself, a lot of other people can manipulate you, push you around. And, you know, the thing about having a good sense of yourself is you also know how to stand up for yourself, or at least you know that you're a self that's worth standing up for. And that's you know. That's that, that thing that you know the kids learn in the school yard when you confront the bully, you know you have to, you know, the parents always tell you, you know, stand up to the bully. And at some level, life is going to bully you unless you really are prepared to stand up for something.   Michael Hingson ** 36:25 Yeah, and there's so many examples of that I know as a as a blind person, I've been involved in taking on some pretty major tasks in life. For example, it used to be that anyone with a so called Disability couldn't buy life insurance, and eventually, we took on the insurance industry and won to get the laws passed in every state that now mandate that you can't discriminate against people with disabilities in providing life insurance unless you really have evidence To prove that it's appropriate to do that, and since the laws were passed, there hasn't been any evidence. And the reason is, of course, there never has been evidence, and insurance companies kept claiming they had it, but then when they were challenged to produce it, they couldn't. But the reality is that you can take on major tasks and major challenges and win as long as you really understand that that is what your life is steering you to do,   David Mayernik ** 37:27 yeah, like you said, and also too, having a sense of your your self worth beyond whatever that disability is, that you know what you're capable of, apart from that, you know that's all about what you can't do, but all the things that you can do are the things that should allow you to do anything. And, yeah, I think we're, I think it's a lot of times people will try to define you by what you can't do, you   Michael Hingson ** 37:51 know? And the reality is that those are traditionally misconceptions and inaccurate anyway, as I point out to people, disability does not mean a lack of ability. Although a lot of people say, Well, of course it, it is because it starts with dis. And my response is, what do you then? How do you deal with the words disciple, discern and discrete? For example, you know the fact of the matter is, we all have a disability. Most of you are light dependent. You don't do well with out light in your life, and that's okay. We love you anyway, even though you you have to have light but. But the reality is, in a sense, that's as much a disability is not being light dependent or being light independent. The difference is that light on demand has caused so much focus that it's real easy to get, but it doesn't change the fact that your disability is covered up, but it's still there.   David Mayernik ** 38:47 No, it's true. I mean, I think actually, yeah, knowing. I mean, you're, we're talking about knowing who you are, and, you know, listening to your inner voice and even listening to your aspirations. But also, I mean being pretty honest about where your liabilities are, like what the things are that you struggle with and just recognizing them, and not not to dwell on them, but to just recognize how they may be getting in the way and how you can work around them. You know, one of the things I tell students is that it's really important to be self critical, but, but it's, it's not good to be self deprecating, you know. And I think being self critical if you're going to be a self taught person like I am, in a lot of ways, you you have to be aware of where you're not getting it right. Because I think the problem is sometimes you can satisfy yourself too easily. You're too happy with your own progress. You know, the advantage of having somebody outside teaching you is they're going to tell you when you're doing it wrong, and most people are kind of loath do that for themselves, but, but the other end of that is the people who are so self deprecating, constantly putting themselves down, that they never are able to move beyond it, because they're only aware of what they can't do. And you know, I think balancing self criticism with a sense of your self worth is, you know, one of the great balancing acts of life. You.   Michael Hingson ** 40:00 Well, that's why I've adopted the concept of I'm my own best teacher, because rather than being critical and approaching anything in a negative way, if I realize that I'm going to be my own best teacher, and people will tell me things, I can look at them, and I should look at them, analyze them, step back, internalize them or not, but use that information to grow, then that's what I really should do, and I would much prefer the positive approach of I'm my own best teacher over anything else.   David Mayernik ** 40:31 Yeah, well, I mean, the last kind of teachers, and I, you know, a lot of my students have thought of me as a critical teacher. One of the things I think my students have misunderstood about that is, it's not that I have a low opinion of them. It's actually that I have such a high opinion that I always think they're capable of doing better. Yeah, I think one of the problems in our educational system now is that it's so it's so ratifying and validating. There's so we're so low to criticize and so and the students are so fragile with criticism that they they don't take the criticism well, yeah, we don't give it and, and you without some degree of what you're not quite getting right, you really don't know what you're capable of, right? And, and I think you know. But being but again, being critical is not that's not where you start. I think you start from the aspiration and the hope and the, you know, the actually, the joy of doing something. And then, you know, you take a step back and maybe take a little you know, artists historically had various techniques for judging their own work. Titian used to take one of his paintings and turn it away, turn it facing the wall so that he couldn't see it, and he would come back to it a month later. And, you know, because when he first painted, he thought it was the greatest thing ever painted, he would come back to it a month later and think, you know, I could have done some of those parts better, and you would work on it and fix it. And so, you know, the self criticism comes from this capacity to distance yourself from yourself, look at yourself almost as as hard as it is from the outside, yeah, try to see yourself as other people see you. Because I think in your own mind, you can kind of become completely self referential. And you know, that's that. These are all life skills. You know, I had to say this to somebody recently, but, you know, I think the thing you should get out of your education is learning how to learn and like you're talking about, essentially, how do you approach something new or challenging or different? Is has to do with essentially, how do you how do you know? Do you know how to grow and learn on your own?   Michael Hingson ** 42:44 Yeah, exactly, well, being an architect and so on. How did you end up going off and becoming a professor and and teaching? Yeah, a   David Mayernik ** 42:52 lot of architects do it. I have to say. I mean, there's always a lot of the people who are the kind of heroes when I was a student, were practicing architects who also taught and and they had a kind of, let's say, intellectual approach to what they did. They were conceptual. It wasn't just the mundane aspects of getting a building built, but they had some sense of where they fit, with respect to the culture, with respect to history and issues outside of architecture, the extent to which they were tied into other aspects of culture. And so I always had the idea that, you know, to be a full, you know, a fully, you know, engaged architect. You should have an academic, intellectual side to your life. And teaching would be an opportunity to do that. The only thing is, I didn't feel like I knew enough until I was older, in my 40s, to feel like I actually knew enough about what I was doing to be able to teach somebody else. A lot of architects get into teaching early, I think, before they're actually fully formed to have their own identities. And I think it's been good for me that I waited a while until I had a sense of myself before I felt like I could teach somebody else. And so there was, there was that, I mean, the other side of it, and it's not to say that it was just a day job, but one of the things I decided from the point of your practice is a lot of architects have to do a lot of work that they're not proud of to keep the lights on and keep the business operating. And I have decided for myself, I only really want to do work that I'm proud of, and in order to do that, because clients that you can work for and be you know feel proud of, are rather rare, and so I balanced teaching and practice, because teaching allowed me to ostensibly, theoretically be involved with the life of the mind and only work for people and projects that interested me and that I thought could offer me the chance to do something good and interesting and important. And so one I had the sense that I had something to convey I learned. Enough that I felt like I could teach somebody else. But it was also, for me, an opportunity to have a kind of a balanced life in which practice was compensated. You know that a lot of practice, even interesting practice, has a banal, you know, mundane side. And I like being intellectually stimulated, so I wanted that. Not everybody wants   Michael Hingson ** 45:24 that. Yeah, so you think that the teaching brings you that, or it put you in a position where you needed to deal with that?   David Mayernik ** 45:32 You know, having just retired, I wish there had been more of that. I really had this romantic idea that academics, being involved in academics, would be an opportunity to live in a world of ideas. You know? I mean, because when I was a student, I have to say we, after we came back from Rome, I got at least half of my education for my classmates, because we were deeply engaged. We debated stuff. We, you know, we we challenged each other. We were competitive in a healthy way and and I remember academics my the best part of my academic formation is being immensely intellectually rich. In fact, I really missed it. For about the first five years I was out of college, I really missed the intellectual side of architecture, and I thought going back as a teacher, I would reconnect with that, and I realized not necessarily, there's a lot about academics that's just as mundane and bureaucratic as practice can be so if you really want to have a satisfying intellectual life, unfortunately, you can't look to any institution or other people for it. You got to find it on your own.   46:51 Paperwork, paperwork,   David Mayernik ** 46:55 committee meetings, just stuff. Yeah, yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 47:00 yeah. Yeah, which never, which never. Well, I won't say they never help, but there's probably, there's probably some valuable stuff that you can get, even from writing and doing, doing paperwork, because it helps you learn to write. I suppose you can look at it that way.   David Mayernik ** 47:16 No, it's true. I mean, you're, you're definitely a glass half full guy. Michael, I appreciate that's good. No. I mean, I, obviously, I always try to make get the most out of whatever experience I have. But, I mean, in the sense that there wasn't as much intellectual discourse, yeah, you know, as my I would have liked, yeah, and I, you know, in the practice or in the more academic side of architecture. Several years ago, somebody said we were in a post critical phase like that. Ideas weren't really what was driving architecture. It was going to be driven by issues of sustainability, issues of social structure, you know, essentially how people live together, issues that have to do with things that weren't really about, let's call it design in the esthetic sense, and all that stuff is super important. And I'm super interested in, you know, the social impact of my architecture, the sustainable impact of it, but the the kind of intellectual society side of the design part of it, we're in a weird phase where it that's just not in my world, we just it's not talked about a lot. You know,   Michael Hingson ** 48:33 it's not what it what it used to be. Something tells me you may be retired, but you're not going to stop searching for intellectual and various kinds of stimulation to help keep your mind active.   David Mayernik ** 48:47 Oh, gosh, no, no. I mean, effectively. I mean, I just stopped one particular job. I describe it now as quitting with benefits. That's my idea of what I retired from. I retired from a particular position in a particular place, but, but I haven't stopped. I mean, I'm certainly going to keep working. I have a very interesting design project in Switzerland. I've been working on for almost 29 years, and it's got a number of years left in it. I paint, I write, I give lectures, I you know, and you obviously have a rich life. You know, not being at a job. Doesn't mean that the that your engagement with the world and with ideas goes away. I mean, unless you wanted to, my wife's my wife had three great uncles who were great jazz musicians. I mean, some quite well known jazz musicians. And one of them was asked, you know, was he ever going to retire? And he said, retire to what? Because, you know, he was a musician. I mean, you can't stop being a musician, you know, you know, if, some level, if you're really engaged with what you do, you You never stop, really,   Michael Hingson ** 49:51 if you enjoy it, why would you? No, I   David Mayernik ** 49:54 mean, the best thing is that your work is your fun. I mean, you know, talking about, we talked about it. I. You that You know you're kind of defined by your work, but if your work is really what you enjoy, I mean, actually it's fulfilling, rich, enriching, interesting, you don't want to stop doing that. I mean, essentially, you want to do it as long as you possibly can. Yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 50:13 and it's and it's really important to do that. And I think, in reality, when you retire from a job, you're not really retiring from a job. You're retiring, as you said, from one particular thing. But the job isn't a negative thing at all. It is what you like to do.   David Mayernik ** 50:31 Yeah. I mean, there's, yeah, there's the things that you do that. I mean, I guess the job is the, if you like, the thing that is the, you know, the institution or the entity that you know, pays your bills and that kind of stuff, but the career or the thing that you're invested in that had the way you define yourself is you never stop being that person, that person. And in some ways, you know, what I'm looking forward to is a richer opportunity to pursue my own avenue of inquiry, and, you know, do things on my own terms, without some of the obligations I had   Michael Hingson ** 51:03 as a teacher, and where's your wife and all that.   David Mayernik ** 51:06 So she's with me here in LUCA, and she's she's had a super interesting life, because she she she studied. We, when we were together in New York, she was getting a degree in art history, Medieval and Renaissance studies in art history at NYU, and then she decided she really wanted to be a chef, and she went to cooking school in New York and then worked in a variety of food businesses in New York, and then got into food writing and well, food styling for magazines, making food for photographs, and then eventually writing. And through a strange series of connections and experiences. She got an opportunity to cook at an Art Foundation in the south of France, and I was in New York, and I was freelancing. I was I'd quit a job I'd been at for five years, and I was freelancing around, doing some of my own stuff and working with other architects, and I had work I could take with me. And you know, it was there was there was, we didn't really have the internet so much, but we had FedEx. And I thought I could do drawings in the south of France. I could do them in Brooklyn. So, so I went to the south of France, and it just happens to be that my current client from Switzerland was there at that place at that time, scouting it out for some other purpose. And she said, I hear you're architect. I said, Yeah. And I said, Well, you know, she said, I like, you know, classical architecture, and I like, you know, traditional villages, and we have a campus, and we need a master plan architect. And I was doing a master plan back in Delaware at that time, and my wife's you know, career trajectory actually enabled me to meet a client who's basically given me an opportunity to build, you know, really interesting stuff, both in Switzerland and in England for the last, you know, again, almost 29 years. And so my wife's been a partner in this, and she's been, you know, because she's pursued her own parallel interest. But, but our interests overlap enough and we share enough that we our interests are kind of mutually reinforcing. It's, it's been like an ongoing conversation between us, which has been alive and rich and wonderful.   Michael Hingson ** 53:08 You know, with everything going on in architecture and in the world in general, we see more and more technology in various arenas and so on. How do you think that the whole concept of CAD has made a difference, or in any way affected architecture. And where do you think CAD systems really fit into all of that?   David Mayernik ** 53:33 Well, so I mean this, you know, CAD came along. I mean, it already was, even when I was early in my apprenticeship, yeah, I was in Chicago, and there was a big for som in Chicago, had one of the first, you know, big computers that was doing some drawing work for them. And one of my, a friend of mine, you know, went to spend some time and figure out what they were capable of. And, but, you know, never really came into my world until kind of the late night, mid, mid to late 90s and, and, and I kind of resisted it, because I, the reason I got into architecture is because I like to draw by hand, and CAD just seemed to be, you know, the last thing I'd want to do. But at the same time, you, some of you, can't avoid it. I mean, it has sort of taken over the profession that, essentially, you either have people doing it for you, or you have to do it yourself, and and so the interesting thing is, I guess that I, at some point with Switzerland, I had to, basically, I had people helping me and doing drawing for me, but I eventually taught myself. And I actually, I jumped over CAD and I went to a 3d software called ArchiCAD, which is a parametric design thing where you're essentially building a 3d model. Because I thought, Look, if I'm going to do drawing on the computer, I want the computer to do something more than just make lines, because I can make lines on my own. But so the computer now was able to help me build a 3d model understand buildings in space and construction. And so I've taught myself to be reasonably, you know, dangerous with ArchiCAD and but the. Same time, the creative side of it, I still, I still think, and a lot of people think, is still tied to the intuitive hand drawing aspect and and so a lot of schools that gave up on hand drawing have brought it back, at least in the early years of formation of architects only for the the conceptual side of architecture, the the part where you are doodling out your first ideas, because CAD drawing is essentially mechanical and methodical and sort of not really intuitive, whereas the intuitive marking of paper With a pencil is much more directly connected to the mind's capacity to kind of speculate and imagine and daydream a little bit, or wander a little bit your mind wanders, and it actually is time when some things can kind of emerge on the page that you didn't even intend. And so, you know, the other thing about the computer is now on my iPad, I can actually do hand drawing on my iPad, and that's allowed me to travel with it, show it to clients. And so I still obviously do a lot of drawing on paper. I paint by hand, obviously with real paints and real materials. But I also have found also I can do free hand drawing on my iPad. I think the real challenge now is artificial intelligence, which is not really about drawing, it's about somebody else or the machine doing the creative side of it. And that's the big existential crisis that I think the profession is facing right now.   Michael Hingson ** 56:36 Yeah, I think I agree with that. I've always understood that you could do free hand drawing with with CAD systems. And I know that when I couldn't find a job in the mid 1980s I formed a company, and we sold PC based CAD systems to architects and engineers. And you know, a number of them said, well, but when we do designs, we charge by the time that we put into drawing, and we can't do that with a CAD system, because it'll do it in a fraction of the time. And my response always was, you're looking at it all wrong. You don't change how much you charge a customer, but now you're not charging for your time, you're charging for your expertise, and you do the same thing. The architects who got that were pretty successful using CAD systems, and felt that it wasn't really stifling their creativity to use a CAD system to enhance and speed up what they did, because it also allowed them to find more jobs more quickly.   David Mayernik ** 57:35 Yeah, one of the things it did was actually allow smaller firms to compete with bigger firms, because you just didn't need as many bodies to produce a set of drawings to get a project built or to make a presentation. So I mean, it has at one level, and I think it still is a kind of a leveler of, in a way, the scale side of architecture, that a lot of small creative firms can actually compete for big projects and do them successfully. There's also, it's also facilitated collaboration, because of the ability to exchange files and have people in different offices, even around the world, working on the same drawing. So, you know, I'm working in Switzerland. You know, one of the reasons to be on CAD is that I'm, you know, sharing drawings with local architects there engineers, and that you know that that collaborative sharing process is definitely facilitated by the computer.   Michael Hingson ** 58:27 Yeah, information exchange is always valuable, especially if you have a number of people who are committed to the same thing. It really helps. Collaboration is always a good thing,   David Mayernik ** 58:39 yeah? I mean, I think a lot of, I mean, there's always the challenge between the ego side of architecture, you know, creative genius, genius, the Howard Roark Fountainhead, you know, romantic idea. And the reality is that it takes a lot of people to get a building built, and one person really can't do it by themselves. And So collaboration is kind of built into it at the same time, you know, for any kind of coherence, or some any kind of, let's say, anything, that brings a kind of an artistic integrity to a work of architecture, mostly, that's got to come from one person, or at least people with enough shared vision that that there's a kind of coherence to it, you know. And so there still is space for the individual creative person. It's just that it's inevitably a collaborative process to get, you know, it's the it's the 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration. Side architecture is very much that there's a lot of heavy lifting that goes into getting a set of drawings done to get

Los jardines botánicos alpinos, como los situados en Italia, Francia y Austria son verdaderos refugios de vida que nos permiten descubrir las especies que habitan en las cumbres más elevadas. Se destaca el jardín botánico de Trento, ubicado cerca del Monte Bondone. En las cercanías de esta ciudad, al norte del Brendola, se encuentra el jardín botánico de Innsbruck en Austria. Por el paso del Stelvio, famoso por su carretera frecuentada y su proximidad al macizo de los Dolomitas, es uno de los lugares más impresionantes, y continuando hacia el norte, encontramos los jardines botánicos vinculados al macizo del Mont Blanc.

Quite a bit has happened since we last checked in on Eurovision news. Executive Supervisor Martin Österdahl will be stepping down, there's a new head of the Reference Group, and we know which cities have made bids to host next year's competition. Good to Go Summary Eurovision Host City: Innsbruck vs Vienna (1:00) Martin Österdahl Steps Down (4:48) Have you joined the Eurowhat AV Club? (10:43) 17 Participants so far for Eurovision 2026 (11:59) Eurovision YouTube: Non, Stop Hits (and Geoblock?) (21:17) Subscribe The EuroWhat? Podcast is available wherever you get your podcasts. Find your podcast app to subscribe here (https://www.eurowhat.com/subscribe). Comments, questions, and episode topic suggestions are always welcome. You can shoot us an email (mailto:eurowhatpodcast@gmail.com) or reach out on Bluesky @eurowhat.bsky.social (https://bsky.app/profile/eurowhat.bsky.social). Join the EuroWhat AV Club! If you would like to help financially support the show, we are hosting the EuroWhat AV Club over on Patreon! We have a slew of bonus episodes with deep dives on Eurovision-adjacent topics. Eurovision Podcast Podcrawl What is the Eurovision Podcrawl? It's where the Eurovision podcast community picks a topic ("a year when a country first hosted Eurovision") and we all publish our episodes in our own styles. At the end of an episode, we'll point to the podcast with the next episode, and so on, through the summer! Here's the crawl: ESC Insight: France 1959 (https://escinsight.com/2025/06/18/eurovision-insight-podcast-the-eurovision-podcrawl-starts-in-cannes-1959/) Wind Machine Podcast: Austria 1967 (https://windmachinepodcast.com/2025/06/30/episode-103-1967-podcrawl-oh-vienna-and-the-barefooted-mistress-of-puppets/) The EuroWhat? Podcast: Yugoslavia 1990 (https://www.eurowhat.com/274) Niall Points: Latvia 2003 (https://niallpoints.com/2025/07/eurovision-podcrawl-riga-2003-dont-cry-gemini-lets-be-gay/) 12 Points from America: Belgium 1987 (week of August 11) That Eurovision Site: Denmark 1964 (week of August 25) Douze Points: Azerbaijan 2012 (week of September 8)

Die meisten kennen Jimi Blue Ochsenknecht als Kinderstar aus der Kicker-Filmreihe Die wilden Kerle und als Sohn des deutschen Schauspielers Uwe Ochsenknecht. Während er in den letzten Jahren vor allem durch Reality-TV-Auftritte von sich reden machte, hat ihn nun die österreichische Justiz im Blick. Dahinter steckt ein Hotelaufenthalt vor mehr als drei Jahren in Tirol. Ochsenknecht feierte mit Freunden in einem Luxushotel in Kirchberg seinen dreißigsten Geburtstag. Die Rechnung über rund 14.000 Euro ließ er aber unbeglichen. Der Tiroler Hotelier ging schließlich zu den Behörden – die jetzt wegen schweren Betrugs gegen Jimi Blue Ochsenknecht ermitteln. Ende Juni klickten für den Promi dann am Flughafen in Hamburg die Handschellen, und er wurde ins Gefängnis nach Innsbruck überstellt. Mittlerweile ist er auf Kaution entlassen worden, muss sich aber weiterhin in Österreich aufhalten. Während Ochsenknecht jetzt auf sein Verfahren wartet, werden immer mehr Vorwürfe gegen ihn publik. Er soll ein notorischer Zechpreller sein, Schulden nicht begleichen und sich durch Tricks immer wieder den Behörden entziehen, wenn es brenzlig für ihn wird. Was ist dran an diesen Anschuldigungen? Und wie kam es, dass ausgerechnet ein Tiroler Hotelier dem mutmaßlichen Betrüger Jimi Blue Ochsenknecht zum Verhängnis wurde? Darum geht es in der aktuellen Folge von Inside Austria.

Der Sieg von JJ beim Eurovision Song Contest 2025 bringt den Musikwettbewerb 2026 in dessen Heimatland Österreich. Dabei war der ESC vor gar nicht allzulanger Zeit schon einmal dort zu Gast. Gerade einmal zehn Jahre ist es her, dass Österreich zuletzt einen ESC in Wien ausgetragen hat. Die Stadt Wien bewirbt sich genauso wie Innsbruck nun darum, auch den ESC 2026 zu sich zu holen. Marcel Stober und Thomas Mohr blicken zurück auf den Contest in der Wiener Stadthalle, auf ihre persönlichen Lieblingstitel und auf die deutsche Kandidatin Ann Sophie. Beide öffnen auch ihre persönlichen Archive, denn sie waren 2015 schon vor Ort. Thomas Mohr berichtete für die ARD-Hörfunkwellen vom ESC 2015, Marcel Stober war damals als freiwilliger Helfer für den Österreichischen Rundfunk ORF in der Stadt. Ganz ohne Blick auf das Aktuelle geht es im Podcast aber natürlich nicht. ESC-Chef Martin Österdahl ist im Juni nach fünf Jahren zurückgetreten. Bei einigen Fans galt Österdahl als umstritten - viele Änderungen am ESC fielen in seine Amtszeit. Kommissarisch wird er nun durch ESC-Direktor Martin Green vertreten. Ein Nachfolger für Österdahl steht noch nicht fest. Folgt uns gerne auf Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eurovision_de und besucht uns online auf https://www.eurovision.de. Mehr ESC gibt's auch in der ARD Mediathek: https://1.ard.de/eurovision. Moderation: Marcel Stober & Thomas Mohr Mit einem Beitrag von: Holger Ponik, Ilka Petersen Eine Produktion des NDR.

Österreichs Städte ziehen jedes Jahr Millionen Besucherinnen und Besucher aus allen Teilen dieser Welt an. Davon profitieren alle, hieß es lange Zeit. Doch die massenhaft anreisenden Touris sorgen bei den Stadtbewohnerinnen und Stadtbewohnern zunehmend für Unmut. Wie der Massentourismus zum Problem von Wien bis Innsbruck wird und, wie er sich im Sinne aller verändern muss, darüber wurde während dieser Live-Aufzeichnung in Innsbruck gesprochen. An der Diskussion teilgenommen haben Barbara Plattner, Geschäftsführerin von Innsbruck Tourismus, Norbert Kettner, Chef von Wien Tourismus und Arno Ritter, er leitet den Ausstellungsraum "aut. Architektur und Tirol" und ist Architekturkritiker. **Hat Ihnen dieser Podcast gefallen?** Mit einem STANDARD-Abonnement können Sie unsere Arbeit unterstützen und mithelfen, Journalismus mit Haltung auch in Zukunft sicherzustellen. Alle Infos und Angebote gibt es hier: [abo.derstandard.at](https://abo.derstandard.at/?ref=Podcast&utm_source=derstandard&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=podcast&utm_content=podcast)

Gianluca Battistel"Una settimana di luglio"Edizioni Alphabeta Verlagwww.raetia.comBosnia orientale, primi anni novanta. Elmin, Melisa e Ahmed non si conoscono, condividono soltanto l'appartenenza al popolo sbagliato nel momento storico sbagliato. Vittime delle loro stesse precarie illusioni, il collasso della Jugoslavia li travolge e le loro esistenze finiscono per intrecciarsi nell'enclave musulmana di Srebrenica sotto un implacabile assedio, tra stenti e bombardamenti, effimere speranze e rabbia impotente. Fino a un'afosa settimana di luglio, quando saranno costretti a fuggire per i boschi, braccati dall'esercito serbo-bosniaco. Una lunga, sfiancante marcia; un'ardua lotta per la sopravvivenza. Chi di loro emergerà da questo incubo di fame e sete, di follia e terrore, di brutalità e massacri, lo farà con la consapevolezza di aver attraversato l'inferno, e di non poter più tornare a essere la persona che era prima.Un crudo romanzo documentario che disegna la traiettoria di una spirale discendente della Storia. Nella quale emergono, in tutto il loro orrore, i lati oscuri dell'essere umano, insieme alle ambiguità, le contraddizioni e la ferocia che si nascondono sotto il guscio delle società civili. Perché nella sua agghiacciante nitidezza, la tragica parabola di Srebrenica assume connotati archetipici, universali.«Era facile distruggere ogni cosa. Qualche politico fanatico, un popolo disposto a farsi manipolare, alcuni errori di valutazione, un mucchio di armi nelle mani sbagliate. E una volta aperte le porte dell'inferno, richiuderle era quasi impossibile.»(Gianluca Battistel)«Tutti noi sappiamo dov'eravamo l'11 settembre 2001, quando arrivò la notizia dell'assalto alle Torri gemelle. Pochissimi ricordano dov'erano l'11 luglio 1995, quando cadde Srebrenica e iniziò l'ultimo massacro del secolo. Fu il triplo dei morti rispetto a New York, ma quasi nessuno se ne accorse.»(Paolo Rumiz)Gianluca Battistel (Bolzano, 1971), laureato in Filosofia all'Università statale di Milano e con un dottorato di ricerca presso la Leopold-Franzens-Universität di Innsbruck, è stato editorialista per il portale d'informazione “Salto” ed è attualmente redattore della rivista “z. B.”. Ha alle spalle una nutrita serie di pubblicazioni di saggistica filosofica, poesia (per le quali è stato più volte finalista al concorso internazionale “Jacques Prévert”) e narrativa. Tra queste ultime ricordiamo Abissi paralleli (Ensemble, 2020) e L'inconfessabile (Sovera, 2016).IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarewww.ilpostodelleparole.itDiventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.

Wir sprechen mit Dr. Katharina Trettnak-Hahnl, Rechtsanwältin in Wien, und Dr. Günther Gast, LLM, Rechtsanwalt in Innsbruck. Die beiden sind Initiatorinnen einer Erklärung zur Berufsausübung als Rechtsanwalt/Rechtsanwältin mit betreuungspflichtigen Kindern - erforderliche Änderungen im Beitragswesen und im Pensionssystem . Die Erklärung wurde binnen weniger Tage von hunderten Berufsträgerinnen und Berufsträgern unterstützt und befindet sich derzeit in der rechtspolitischen Abstimmung.Links:https://www.chg.at/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/250616-Positionspapier_RA_mit_Kinderbetreuungspflichten.pdfhttps://de.surveymonkey.com/r/DQKC2H3

Wir befinden uns mitten im Sommer und das heißt vor allem eins - Haupturlaubszeit. In unserer aktuellen Folge “Über Poltik” beschäftigen wir uns mit der Frage: Warum eigentlich Urlaub? Was ist der Unterschied zwischen Urlaub und Tourismus? Und welche Rolle spielt Tourismus in der kapitalistischen Ordnung?Darüber spricht Alisa heute mit Gregor Sanders. Gregor ist KPÖ-Gemeinderat in Innsbruck und Referent in der Gewerkschaftsschule Tirol.Summer SchoolUrlaub meets Theorie. Jedes Wochenende im Sommer kannst du bei Junge Linke zu spannenden Seminaren zu Marxismus, Feminismus, Klima und vielen mehr fahren.Melde dich gleich an unter jungelinke.at/sommerprogramm Auf den Spuren der Bauernkriege - Wanderung der KPÖ TirolSonntag, 7. September - Leonhard Engelmair, Doktorand am europäischen Hochschulinstitut für Geschichte führt uns entlang der Geschichte der Bauernkriege und ihrer Bedeutung aus marxistischer Perspektive. Bitte um Anmeldung unter office@kpoe-tirol.at

In meinem Interview mit Clara Théoule-Zieger sprechen wir über ihren bewegten Lebensweg von ihrer Kindheit in einem Pariser Vorort, ihr späteres Leben in Tirol bis zur Gründung der Community „Midlife-Rebellin“.Clara wächst in einem Vorort von Paris auf. Ihre Eltern lassen sich scheiden, als sie vier Jahre alt ist. An diese Lebensphase erinnert sie sich nur ungern – auch ihre Schulzeit ist anfangs herausfordernd. Erst später trifft sie auf Lehrer, die sie fördern, unterstützen und ihr Sicherheit geben.Als ihre Mutter einen Tiroler kennenlernt und nach Österreich zieht, bleibt Clara bis zum Schulabschluss in Paris und lebt beim Vater. Die Schulferien verbringt sie bei ihrer Mutter in Tirol, lernt die Sprache, knüpft Freundschaften und entscheidet sich mit 18 Jahren, nach Innsbruck zu ziehen, um Betriebswirtschaft zu studieren.Während ihre Mutter später wieder nach Paris zurückkehrt, um ihren eigenen Vater zu pflegen, finanziert Clara ihr Leben in Österreich mit Jobs als Fitnesstrainerin und in einer Buchhandlung – ein ständiger Kampf. Nach dem Studium landet sie im Controlling, wird dort stark gefördert, lebt aber weiterhin in einem kräftezehrenden Leistungsmodus.Mit Mitte dreißig zwingt sie ein Burnout zum Umdenken. Sie beginnt eine Coaching-Ausbildung und macht sich als Coach und Personalberaterin selbstständig. Im Gespräch erzählt Clara offen, wie herausfordernd für sie die finanziellen Schwankungen der Selbstständigkeit waren und wie sie sich mit Networkmarketing ein zweites Standbein aufgebaut hat.Wie ich das Drama hinter mir ließ und mich selber fandWir sprechen darüber, wie stark die Suchterkrankung ihres Vaters und die Depression ihrer Mutter ihren Lebensweg geprägt haben. Während der Corona-Zeit beginnt Clara, sich intensiver mit ihrer Familiengeschichte auseinanderzusetzen. Sie bildet sich zur Hypnosecoach weiter und entwickelt ein eigenes Programm.Doch ihr Körper setzt ihr klare Grenzen: Erst eine Covid-Erkrankung, dann ein zweiter Bandscheibenvorfall, die Diagnose Spät-Borreliose und schließlich ein auffälliger Befund bei einer Mammographie bringen ihr Leben erneut ins Wanken. Nach Abschluss aller Therapien wird klar: Viele ihrer Beschwerden sind auf die Wechseljahre zurückzuführen.Ein Beitrag, den sie darüber veröffentlicht, trifft einen Nerv und motiviert sie, die Community „Midlife-Rebellin“ zu gründen.Gemeinsam tauchen wir in dieser Folge tief in das Thema Menopause ein und sprechen darüber, was diese Lebensphase für viele Frauen ihre Rolle in Familie, Beruf und Gesellschaft bedeutet. Zum Schluss unseres Gespräches sprechen wir noch darüber, wie sie es geschafft hat, den jahrelangen Überlebenskampf zu beenden.Mehr Informationen über Clara und ihre Arbeit findest du auf ihrer WebsiteVernetze dich mit ihr auf LinkedIn und folge ihr auf InstagramVerpasse keine meiner Podcast Folgen und abonniere meinen Podcast auf Spotify oder iTunesMöchtest du mehr über meine Arbeit und über mich erfahren? Dann schau auf meine Webseite https://www.anjakuhn.com oder vereinbare direkt einen Termin Hat dir die Folge gefallen? Dann würde ich mich sehr freuen, wenn du meinen Podcast bewertestVernetze dich mit mir auf LinkedIn und folge mir auf Instagram  Hier geht's zu den Shownotes Support the show

Die Tirolerin Jasmin Plank ist Rollstuhlfahrerin, Hundemama und wandelnde Gute-Laune-Garantie – und eine der erfolgreichsten Parakletterinnen der Welt. Vize-Weltmeisterin, Europameisterin, sechs Weltcupsiege, zuletzt im Juni 2025 beim Heimweltcup in Innsbruck. Jasmin räumt auf mit Klischees über Behinderung und zeigt, was im Para-Sport wirklich zählt: Technik, Körperspannung und mentale Stärke.

Hoy conversamos con Antonio, quien nos comparte su experiencia durante su estancia en Innsbruck, la capital del estado de Tirol en Austria. Esta ciudad alpina, famosa por sus paisajes para deportes de invierno y su mezcla arquitectónica entre lo imperial y moderno, fue el escenario perfecto para la 12ª Conferencia Temática ECCOMAS sobre Dinámica Multicuerpo, que se celebra en el Campus Técnico de la Universidad de Innsbruck. Antonio asiste junto con compañeros del campus ferrolano para formar parte de este evento científico de gran prestigio internacional, que reúne a expertos de más de 50 países para discutir los últimos avances en el campo de la dinámica multicuerpo. Este campo interdisciplinar combina mecánica estructural, modelado multifísico, matemáticas computacionales, robótica, entre otras áreas. El congreso aborda temas tan variados como biomecánica y aplicaciones médicas, mecatrónica, dinámica flexible de sistemas multicuerpo, métodos numéricos, optimización, simulación en tiempo real, así como inteligencia artificial y aprendizaje automático. Antonio destaca la oportunidad de intercambiar conocimientos con investigadores de renombre y la posibilidad de aplicar estos avances en proyectos futuros relacionados con ingeniería y tecnología. La conferencia no solo ofrece un espacio académico, sino que también permite a los participantes disfrutar del entorno natural de Innsbruck, con sus icónicas estaciones de esquí y senderos para el montañismo, accesibles a través del famoso funicular Nordkette, diseñado por la reconocida arquitecta Zaha Hadid. Antonio y sus compañeros esperan que esta experiencia fortalezca la colaboración entre el campus ferrolano y la comunidad científica internacional, aportando innovación y desarrollo en sus respectivas áreas.

Vi tenker som Maria, Hold on, be strong og holder koken gjennom tropevarmen med nok en episode av Grand Prix podkasten.I tillegg til å ta for oss året 2008 har Ronny vært i Cardiff og sett på Stevie Wonder, Anders har vært på TV igjen og ranter om lite bra sommer-TV.Og Wien eller Innsbruck, hvor blir neste års Eurovision?

Die Aufregung steigt im Ensemble der „West Side Story“. Der Bernstein-Klassiker wird ab dem 24. Juli auf der Festung Kufstein neu auf die Bühne gebracht. „Derzeit proben wir noch in Innsbruck, im Canisianum“, erklärt Margot Wardlaw Baars, Musical-Darstellerin aus den Niederlanden, die die Rolle der Maria singen wird. Für sie und ihren Bühnenpartner, den Wiener Nicolas Vinzenz, ist das Musical auch deswegen so relevant, weil es gut ins Heute passt.

Dr. Simon Burtscher-Mathis hat Soziologie in Graz, Waterloo (CA) und Innsbruck studiert. Seit 2021 ist er Geschäftsführer des Vorarlberger Kinderdorfs, parallel - seit 2016 - arbeitet er als freischaffender Soziologe. Zuvor war Dr Simon Burtscher-Mathis in leitender Funktion bei okay. zusammen leben tätig, der Projektstelle für Zuwanderung und Integration in Vorarlberg. Burtscher-Mathis war jahrelang Lehrbeauftragter an der Universität Linz, sowie an der FH Vorarlberg. Dieser Podcast begleitet die Sendung „Focus“, ORF Radio Vorarlberg am 12.07.2025.

Researchers from the University of Innsbruck and the University of Waterloo have successfully simulated a complete quantum field theory in more than one spatial dimension using a novel type of quantum computer. Science Daily reports that the team used a qudit quantum computer, which can store and process information using up to five values per carrier, to efficiently represent complex quantum fields. You can listen to all of the Quantum Minute episodes at https://QuantumMinute.com. The Quantum Minute is brought to you by Applied Quantum, a leading consultancy and solutions provider specializing in quantum computing, quantum cryptography, quantum communication, and quantum AI. Learn more at https://AppliedQuantum.com.

Zu Gast ist Prim. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Stefan Kiechl, Leiter der Universitätsklinik für Neurologie an der Medizinischen Universität Innsbruck, der neueste Erkenntnisse aus Forschung und klinischer Praxis vorstellt.Durch die Folge führt Priv.-Doz.in Dr.in Bettina Pfausler, Leiterin der neurologischen Intensivmedizin und Neuroinfektiologie an der Medizinischen Universität Innsbruck, die das Gespräch moderiert und mit ihrer umfassenden klinischen Erfahrung ergänzt.

Lange Zeit war er der prägende Politikwissenschaftler des Landes und ein engagierter Anwalt der Vereinigung des demokratischen Europas. Schwerkrank in seiner Wohnung in Innsbruck spricht Pelinka über die Fehler der 68er-Bewegung, Gorbatschow, Amerika und das Modell des sozialen Kapitalismus. Ein Gespräch mit Armin Thurnher und Matthias Winterer.Eine Textfassung dieses Interviews finden Sie hier. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Themen: Russlands Krieg gegen die Ukraine und ausbleibende US-Waffenlieferungen

Themen: Russlands Krieg gegen die Ukraine und ausbleibende US-Waffenlieferungen

“Hier stehen wir und wir können nicht anders!”, rufen Eisi und Meisi unisono heraus, als sie vor dem atemberaubenden Bergpanorama, dem Triumphbogen und dem Hardrockcafe stehen, das sich vor ihnen in das Tal hinein ergießt. Diesmal sind die beiden nämlich auf großer Reise, die gute Lesebühne “Frau Hermanns Katerstrophen Fünftausend” hat nämlich unsere kleine, geradezu provinzielle Kultursendung in die große Hauptsadt von Tirol eingeladen, nach Innsbruck. Dort bauen unsere beiden Radiozeitstopper:innen im Keller des Theaters mit dem schönen Namen “Praesent” gleich ihr Tonequipment auf und moderieren einfach eine fremde Lesebühne, ist das denn zu glauben? Wir reden über Zirbeldrüsen, Gegenwartsliteratur, singen ein Ständchen für den alten Goldräuber Xatar und gen Ende erklärt uns Frau Meisendraht noch die Relativitätstheorie (nun stellen sie sich doch nicht so an!). Um es kurz zu machen: Die Berghütte im Theaterkeller brennt aber sowas von gewaltig! Mit dabei sind neben den wunderbar eingetüteteten und über die Alpen geschleppten Texten unseres EBMD-Autor:innenpools diesmal auch Texte aus der Alpenrepublik von Martin Fritz, Andi, Silke Gruber und Barbara Tatschl. (Fast) Alles live vorgetragen vom FHK5K-Team. Die Autor:innen: - Theobald Fuchs - Christian Knieps - David Telgin - Felix Benjamin - Silke Gruber - Babara Tatschl - FD - Andi - Martin "Mauszfabrik" Fritz - blumenleere Die Sprecher:innen: - Katrin Rauch - Martin Fritz

Was hält das neue österreichische Regierungsprogramm im Bereich Medien und Digitalisierung für uns bereit?  Welche Neuerungen und Änderungen sind zu erwarten? Wir haben uns dazu mit Frau Dr.Russmann, Universitätsprofessorin für Medien und Kommunikationswissenschaft der Universität Innsbruck näher ausgetauscht.

Themen: Handyverbot in Schulen und Gefahren durch soziale Medien

Themen: Handyverbot in Schulen und Gefahren durch soziale Medien

Diese Folge führt uns ins Herz der Alpen: nach Tirol – genauer gesagt nach Innsbruck und ins Pitztal, eines der schönsten und wildesten Seitentäler der Ostalpen. In Innsbruck trifft Erik Reinhold „Reini“ Scherer – Kletterpionier, Hallenbauer, Routenerschließer, Mentor. Über 1500 Kletterrouten hat er in Tirol und darüber hinaus erschaffen, das Kletterzentrum Innsbruck mit aufgebaut – und eine ganze Generation von Weltklassekletterern geprägt. Im Gespräch erzählt er von Leidenschaft und Leistungsdruck, von stillen Freunden und lauten Erfolgen – und von der Kunst, sich selbst im Klettern zu finden und irgendwann auch ein Stück weit loszulassen.Im zweiten Teil begibt Erik sich ins Pitztal – in eine Welt der Almwiesen, Dreitausender und weitreichenden Panoramen. Dort spricht er mit Hüttenwirt Leo Spiss über ein Leben in und mit den Bergen, über Demut, Glück und einen Alltag in luftiger Höhe. Und er trifft Ernst Partl, den Leiter des Naturparks Kaunergrat, mit dem er sich über nachhaltige Regionalentwicklung, über das Gleichgewicht zwischen Schutz und Nutzung der Natur und über die besondere Energie dieser ursprünglichen Landschaft unterhält.Eine Reportage über Kletterkunst, Naturkraft, Lebenswege – und einige der kleinen großen Fragen, die in den Bergen oft ganz von allein auftauchen.(Wer von euch direkt ins Pitztal voreilen möchte: Damit geht es ca. bei Minute 37:30 los.)Redaktion & Postproduktion: Erik LorenzLinks: www.tirol.at/klettern https://www.kletterzentrum-innsbruck.at/ https://www.wein-neururer.at/Werbung:Diese Folge ist in Zusammenarbeit mit und Unterstützung von Tirol Werbung entstanden. Dieser Podcast wird auch durch unsere Hörerschaft ermöglicht. Wenn du gern zuhörst, kannst du dazu beitragen, dass unsere Show auch weiterhin besteht und regelmäßig erscheint. Zum Dank erhältst du Zugriff auf unseren werbefreien Feed und auf unsere Bonusfolgen. Diese Möglichkeiten zur Unterstützung bestehen:Weltwach Supporters Club bei Steady. Du kannst ihn auch direkt über Spotify ansteuern. Alternativ kannst du bei Apple Podcasts UnterstützerIn werden.WERBEPARTNERhttps://linktr.ee/weltwachSTAY IN TOUCH:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weltwach/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/weltwach/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Weltwach/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/WELTWACHNewsletter: https://weltwach.de/newsletter/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ein Thema, das noch lange nachhallt: Die hohe Televoting-Punktzahl für Yuval Raphael aus Israel wirft bei vielen Fragen auf. Einige der teilnehmenden Rundfunkanstalten haben von der EBU in Sachen Voting mehr Transparenz gefordert. Diesem Wunsch haben sich nun einige Mitglieder des Europäischen Parlaments angeschlossen und einen offenen Brief an die EBU geschrieben. Aber was genau wollen sie? Was kann dieser Brief bewirken und wie eng sind die Verbindungen zwischen EU und ESC überhaupt? Außerdem schauen wir nach Österreich. Welche Stadt darf nach JJs Sieg 2025 nun 2026 den ESC ausrichten? Schon im August will der ORF das bekanntgegeben. Als aussichtsreichste Städte gelten Wien und Innsbruck - oder kann doch noch eine ganz andere Bewerbung überraschen? Beim ESC überraschte zuletzt immer wieder Stage Director Sergio Jaén. Mit seinen bildgewaltigen, filmischen Inszenierungen holte er schon einige gute Plätze. Auch für "Wasted Love", den aktuellen Gewinnertitel von JJ war er zuständig. Wie sehr beeinflusst der junge Spanier die Bildsprache beim Eurovision Song Contest? Wir gehen dem auf den Grund. Zur angesprochenen Folge "Glitzer, Glamour und Gesang - der ESC in Basel" von hr INFO Kultur geht es hier: https://www.ardaudiothek.de/episode/urn:ard:episode:01d367cce5da4b1d/ Kathrin Schmid und "punktEU - der Europa-Podcast" mit der Folge zum ESC findet ihr hier: https://www.ardaudiothek.de/episode/urn:ard:episode:125a22cbc2c441a2/ Folgt uns gerne auf Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eurovision_de und besucht uns online auf https://www.eurovision.de. Mehr ESC gibt's auch in der ARD Mediathek: https://1.ard.de/eurovision. Moderation: Marcel Stober & Thomas Mohr Gäste: Oliver Soos, Kathrin Schmid Eine Produktion des NDR.

Debbie Monterrey meets with skaters headed to the Roller Derby Wold Cup in Innsbruck, Austria next week. Sarah Arnosky Ko and Katie Calfee skate with Arch Rival Roller Derby.

In dieser Folge nimmt uns Miriam mit in eine Stadt, die wie kaum eine andere Urbanität und Natur miteinander verbindet: Innsbruck. Eingebettet zwischen Nordkette und Patscherkofel liegt Innsbruck im Inntal – eine Stadt mit mittelalterlicher Altstadt und Seilbahnen, die direkt vom Zentrum in hochalpine Landschaften führen.Vier Wochen hat Miriam in der Tiroler Landeshauptstadt verbracht – genug Zeit, um ein wenig in den Alltag der Einheimischen einzutauchen, durch die umliegenden Berge zu wandern, lokale ProduzentInnen zu treffen und besondere Orte kennenzulernen. Sie trifft Menschen, die fest mit ihrer Region verbunden sind: Menschen, die Glocken gießen, historische Uhren restaurieren, die Tiroler Küche neu interpretieren oder aus Milch des Tiroler Grauviehs Schokolade machen! Es geht um Heimat, ums Dableiben und Zurückkommen. Und um eine Stadt, die sich ihren Charakter bewahrt hat – mit kleinen Läden, traditionellem Handwerk und einer Küche, die fest in der Region verwurzelt ist. Viel Spaß bei dieser auditiven Reise durch Innsbruck! Redaktion & Produktion: Miriam MenzWerbung:Diese Folge wurde mit Unterstützung von Innsbruck Tourismus verwirklicht - vielen Dank dafür!Innsbruck Toursimus: https://www.innsbruck.info/Innsbruck Card: https://www.innsbruck.info/sehenswuerdigkeiten/innsbruck-card.html Dieser Podcast wird auch durch unsere Hörerschaft ermöglicht. Wenn du gern zuhörst, kannst du dazu beitragen, dass unsere Show auch weiterhin besteht und regelmäßig erscheint. Zum Dank erhältst du Zugriff auf unseren werbefreien Feed und auf unsere Bonusfolgen. Diese Möglichkeiten zur Unterstützung bestehen:Weltwach Supporters Club bei Steady. Du kannst ihn auch direkt über Spotify ansteuern. Alternativ kannst du bei Apple Podcasts UnterstützerIn werden.WERBEPARTNERhttps://linktr.ee/weltwachSTAY IN TOUCH:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weltwach/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/weltwach/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Weltwach/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/WELTWACHNewsletter: https://weltwach.de/newsletter/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Die Auseinandersetzung zwischen der Volksrepublik China und Taiwan - und die Rolle der Vereinigten Staaten (5) Ungewisse Zukunft - mit dem Zeithistoriker, Rolf Steininger, ehemaliger Leiter des Instituts für Zeitgeschichte der Universität Innsbruck. Autor des Bandes "Die USA und China. Von der Empress of China 1784 bis zur Gegenwart" (Studien Verlag) - Sendung vom 6. Juni 2025

Die Auseinandersetzung zwischen der Volksrepublik China und Taiwan - und die Rolle der Vereinigten Staaten (4) Von Ronald Reagan bis Barack Obama - mit dem Zeithistoriker, Rolf Steininger, ehemaliger Leiter des Instituts für Zeitgeschichte der Universität Innsbruck. Autor des Bandes "Die USA und China. Von der Empress of China 1784 bis zur Gegenwart" (Studien Verlag) - Sendung vom 5. Juni 2025

Die Auseinandersetzung zwischen der Volksrepublik China und Taiwan - und die Rolle der Vereinigten Staaten (3) Carters Taiwan-Politik und der "Taiwan Relations Act" - mit dem Zeithistoriker, Rolf Steininger, ehemaliger Leiter des Instituts für Zeitgeschichte der Universität Innsbruck. Autor des Bandes "Die USA und China. Von der Empress of China 1784 bis zur Gegenwart" (Studien Verlag) - Sendung vom 4. Juni 2025

Die Auseinandersetzung zwischen der Volksrepublik China und Taiwan - und die Rolle der Vereinigten Staaten (2) Die Taiwan-Krise 1958 und die amerikanisch-chinesischen Beziehungen in den 1970er-Jahren - mit dem Zeithistoriker, Rolf Steininger, ehemaliger Leiter des Instituts für Zeitgeschichte der Universität Innsbruck. Autor des Bandes "Die USA und China. Von der Empress of China 1784 bis zur Gegenwart" (Studien Verlag) - Sendung vom 3. Juni 2025

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Die Auseinandersetzung zwischen der Volksrepublik China und Taiwan - und die Rolle der Vereinigten Staaten (1) Die USA als Schutzmacht - mit dem Zeithistoriker, Rolf Steininger, ehemaliger Leiter des Instituts für Zeitgeschichte der Universität Innsbruck. Autor des Bandes "Die USA und China. Von der Empress of China 1784 bis zur Gegenwart" (Studien Verlag) - Sendung vom 2. Juni 2025

von Anna Wallner. Jan Beutel hat den Gletscherbruch im Schweizer Lötschental am Mittwoch live verfolgt. Im Podcast erzählt der Hochgebirgsforscher von der Universität Innsbruck, was genau passiert ist, ob nur der Klimawandel schuld ist und wieso es jetzt einen Monat dauern könnte, bis es Entwarnung einer möglichen Flutwelle gibt.

Zdravo. V epizodi, kjer se napetost stopnjuje že v predigri (novi rubriki za naše naročnike), izbruhne pa v epskem dvoboju med Zijem in uro, se začne odštevanje do dneva brisače, ki bo tokrat, pozor, v nedeljo. Razmišljamo, če bi bil to zadost' dober razlog za kolektivno romanje v Innsbruck, ... a ne gremo, preden se nas ne nabere točno 42. Po logistično-brisačnih dilemah skočimo globoko v deveto poglavje 6. knjige, kjer vsi junaki razen Forda, doživijo globoko razmišljanje v objemu temne snovi. Trillian se sprašuje o tem, kaj je sploh ljubezen, Velepotež, če ni morda le odsotnost gnusa, Random bi rada Velepotežu izpolnila željo, Ford pa postavi rekord v nemežikanju in napiše novo geslo za Štoparski vodnik po Galaksiji. Frudi.

Die FPÖ wurde Jahrzehnte vor der AfD gegründet und hat schon mehrfach in Österreich mitregiert. 2024 hat sie erstmals die Nationalratswahlen gewonnen. Was kann Deutschland von Österreich im Umgang mit dem Rechtspopulismus lernen Welche Strategien waren erfolgreich, um den radikalen Positionen der FPÖ etwas entgegenzusetzen? Haben die Regierungsbeteiligungen die FPÖ eher gestärkt oder geschwächt? Und wie sollten Medien mit rechtsradikalen Parteien umgehen? Darüber diskutieren in dieser Folge von »Inside Austria« Melanie Amann, stellvertretende Chefredakteurin des SPIEGEL, und Gerold Riedmann, Chefredakteur des STANDARD. Die Aufnahme wurde live auf dem Journalismusfest in Innsbruck aufgezeichnet. In der Podcast-Serie Inside Austria rekonstruieren der SPIEGEL und der österreichische STANDARD gemeinsam Fälle, Skandale und politische Abgründe in Österreich. Wenn Ihnen unser Podcast gefällt, folgen Sie uns doch und lassen Sie uns ein paar Sterne da. Kritik, Feedback oder Themenideen gerne an insideaustria@spiegel.de oder an podcast@derstandard.at Den Inside Austria Newsletter finden Sie hier: https://www.spiegel.de/thema/die-lage-inside-austria/+++ Alle Infos zu unseren Werbepartnern finden Sie hier. Die SPIEGEL-Gruppe ist nicht für den Inhalt dieser Seite verantwortlich. +++ Den SPIEGEL-WhatsApp-Kanal finden Sie hier. Alle SPIEGEL Podcasts finden Sie hier. Mehr Hintergründe zum Thema erhalten Sie mit SPIEGEL+. Entdecken Sie die digitale Welt des SPIEGEL, unter spiegel.de/abonnieren finden Sie das passende Angebot. Informationen zu unserer Datenschutzerklärung.

Von Celeste Ilkanaev und Clemens Schreiber. Im Zentrum der 185. Ausgabe steht eine Videosequenz, die Ende März 2025 viral gegangen ist. Sie zeigt unter anderem David Roet, Israels Botschafter in Österreich, mit teils brisanten Aussagen zum Gaza-Konflikt. Die Aufnahmen entstanden bei einem internen Meeting der Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde für Tirol und Vorarlberg in der Synagoge Innsbruck – hergestellt von einer Person, die zu dem Treffen eingeladen war. Gegen diese Person ermittelt zwischenzeitlich die Staatsanwaltschaft Innsbruck. Ende April kam es zu einer gerichtlich bewilligten Hausdurchsuchung in Tirol. Die StA Innsbruck ließ beim Beschuldigten Datenträger durch das Tiroler Landesamt für Staatsschutz und Extremismusbekämpfung sicherstellen. Die viral gegangene Videosequenz ist nur eine halbe Minute lang und wurde laut den Recherchen einem halbstündigen Video entnommen - auch dieses ist online zugänglich. Der Vergleich zeigt, dass in dem kurzen Clip an jedenfalls einer Stelle eine Aussage des Botschafters durch schnellen Schnitt ins Gegenteil verkehrt wurde. Im ersten Teil dieser Ausgabe beschreibt Celeste Ilkanaev, wie dieses Video verfälscht und instrumentalisiert wurde. Im zweiten Teil beschäftigt sich Clemens Schreiber mit den Umständen der Aufzeichnung. Wie und warum entstand die ursprüngliche Aufnahme? Clemens hat mit der Person gesprochen, die für das Video verantwortlich zeichnet und die nun im Zentrum eines Verfahrens der StA Innsbruck steht.Die Dunkelkammer ist ein Stück Pressefreiheit.  Unabhängigen Journalismus kannst Du auf mehreren Wegen unterstützen:  Mit einem Premium-Abo bei Apple Podcasts Mit einer Mitgliedschaft bei der Plattform Steady  Mit einer direkten Spende Oder einem Artikel aus unserem Shop  Vielen Dank! Michael Nikbakhsh im Namen des Dunkelkammer-Teams 

Bergsteigen ist Askese - sowohl im ursprünglich-griechischen Sinn des Wortes wie auch im heute geläufigen. Bergsteigen ist eine Übung, eine Selbstschulung. Entnommen aus: Günter Seubold "Bergsteigen. Eine Philosophie des Lebens", Tyrolia Verlag, Innsbruck 2025

"Leben annehmen, wie es ist" heißt, alles Leben zu akzeptieren, das erwünschte ebenso wie das unerwünschte. Entnommen aus: Uwe Böschemeyer "Das Leben ist besser als sein Ruf. Von erfreulichen Möglichkeiten und was man daraus machen kann", Tyrolia Verlag, Innsbruck 2025

Today, we are learning from Suzanne Whitby. Suzanne is a pragmatic optimist dedicated to co-creating hopeful, sustainable futures. A futurer, facilitator, communicator and storyteller, she leads Futures Fit, a futures & foresight consultancy that empowers businesses and communities to use the future to drive tangible change today. She is also the founder of SciComm Success, where she helps scientists and researchers communicate research results and impact, shining a light on the innovation and creativity essential for building better futures. Suzanne is an interdisciplinary researcher at VU Amsterdam, and she explores how place-based, multi-sensory stories of the future can encourage pro-environmental thinking and climate action using her senstoryscapes approach. Suzanne is South African and long-time resident of Innsbruck, Austria. She is an aspiring mindful person who does her best to tread lightly and intentionally on the earth. Let's get started... In this conversation with Suzanne Whitby, I learned: 00:00 Intro 03:55 Looking at experimental smelling futures of ancient Pompei and creating sensory maps. 05:40 Learning about sensory mapping and understanding what a smell or sound means. 09:00 We are making assumptions about how similar people are to us, but in reality, they are different. 10:45 For most of us, we change our minds based on emotions. 12:45 Feeling and experiencing possible futures. 16:30 The deficit model of science communication. 18:10 Discovering different futures and what future we would like to have? Most people want the same sort of things. 23:05 How can we have excuses to justify to ourselves? 25:25 Focus more on what we can gain instead of what we might lose. 29:35 Learning about scenario planning via a game and building resilience. 32:40 Supporting scientists with their communication after the BP oil spill. 35:20 Why communicating with society is important for scientists. 41:25 She got disillusioned by the corporate world in the UK. 43:25 The most important pivot for her business. 47:00 Co-creating hopeful, sustainable futures. 52:05 Equality vs equity, what does it mean? 1:00:15 The ideas are stepping stones. Sometimes an idea has to die in order to take you into a new direction. More about Suzanne Whitby: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suzannewhitby/  https://klimafit.eu/ https://www.futures.fit/  https://suzannewhitby.com/ https://futuringis.com/ (podcast) https://suzannewhitby.com/thegreatswitch/ (A weekly-ish newsletter documenting my journey of switching to tools that are open source, Europe-based, or aligned with better futures for all.) https://peopleplanetprosecco.eu/  https://scicommsuccess.com/ Resources Phoebe Tickell Imagination Activism to Create Systemic Shifts | Phoebe Tickell | IDG Summit 2023 From Inner Growth to Outer Change | Phoebe Tickell | Keynote x ChangeNOW2024 Imagination Activism | Phoebe Tickell - Planet Critical podcast VU Amsterdam Kate McLean - Sensory maps https://www.linkedin.com/posts/maren-urner_wir-m%C3%BCssen-reden-und-zwar-dar%C3%BCber-wie-activity-7312451758335623169-griG (Maren Urner - Wir mussen reden) https://www.linkedin.com/posts/michaelfritz-vivaconagua_miniaturwunderland-hamburg-klima-activity-7310198922885423106-k8a8/ (Why don't you see it video) Scenario planning (Wikipedia) De levende onderneming – Arie de Geus #boekencast afl 1 (Dutch) The Living Company: Growth, Learning and Longevity in business - Arie de Geus (book) The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb stem scientists = scientists that work in Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Seth Godin Video of the conversation with Suzanne Whitby https://youtu.be/F9l0F6i7aEk Watch the conversation here https://youtu.be/F9l0F6i7aEk

Dr. Dana Flavin-Konig has been a cancer researcher since 1979, and has been applying her conventional, alternative and complementary therapies for over three decades. She is the founder of the Foundation for Collaborative Medicine and Research, a non profit organization that collaborates with physicians, researchers and patients worldwide to share the knowledge about pharmacology and nutrition. In the past she worked as a science assistant in the FDA's bureau of toxicology, and an advisor to the president of the Nutrition Foundation. Dr. Flavin holds multiple degrees in psychology, chemistry, a graduate degree in pharmacology from Chicago Medical School, nutrient biochemistry at Howard University, a medical degree from Innsbruck in Austria, and an honorary professorship from De Montfort University in the UK.  In addition to her long career in cancer research and clinical practice, Dana has investigated novel therapeutic solutions for AIDS and more recently Covid. Her Foundation's website is Collmed.org.

Das Gehen ist im gelingenden, auch ein Über-sich-Hinausgehen - und das in mehrfacher Bedeutung. Dann gehe nicht ich, sondern es geht. Entnommen aus: Günter Seubold "Bergsteigen. Eine Philosophie des Lebens", Tyrolia Verlag, Innsbruck 2025

Welcome back to Jib League Radio! This week we are at Copper Mountain in Colorado hosting Jib League Season 3 Epsiode 2. In this episode, Woodsy sits down with Ferdi, Napes, and Joss to discuss Innsbruck, SLVSH Cup, a preview of the Open Session chaos, and more.Watch Jib League:https://www.youtube.com/@SLVSHProduced by Ethan Shaferhttps://www.instagram.com/twoplankernetwork/Two Planker on Spotify:⁠⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4DoaAVYv69xAV50r8ezybK⁠⁠⁠⁠Two Planker on Apple Podcast:⁠⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/two-planker-podcast/id1546428207⁠⁠Two Planker YouTube:⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRvAYQSF4s3bsC887ALAycg

"Bleib, wie du bist", sagt ein Mensch zum anderen. Ein Satz, der an Geburtstagen, bei Verabschiedungen und bei tausend andern Gelegenheiten gesagt wird. Bleib, wie du bist! Entnommen aus: Uwe Böschemeyer "Das Leben ist besser als sein Ruf. Von erfreulichen Möglichkeiten und was man daraus machen kann", Tyrolia Verlag, Innsbruck 2025

Send us a textFew athletes embody the perfect balance between professional intensity and joyful participation quite like Garrett "The Parrot" Corcoran. A mechanical engineer with degrees from UC Berkeley who now develops sustainable jet fuel, Corcoran brings the same methodical approach to trail running that he applies to his technical work - but with a crucial difference: he never forgets to have fun.Corcoran's journey from sub-4 minute collegiate miler to mountain crusher reveals a refreshing perspective on elite athletics. Unlike many who make running their entire identity, he maintains a challenging full-time engineering position while still competing at the sport's highest levels. This balanced approach hasn't hindered his success - in 2023, he qualified for two separate World Championship teams, represented the US in Innsbruck with a top-20 finish, and recently shocked himself by running a blazing 2:15 marathon on minimal specific training.What truly sets Corcoran apart is his philosophy that athletic performance shouldn't come at the expense of enjoyment. "If you're going to make it your entire self-worth, I sure hope you're having a little bit of fun with it," he reflects. This perspective has served him well through injuries, including a notorious cramping incident caught on video that went viral in the trail running community. Rather than being embarrassed, Corcoran spent the entire post-race party sharing the video and laughing at himself - a testament to his grounded perspective.As he prepares for another World Championship qualifying campaign in 2024-2025, Corcoran reminds us that balancing professional ambitions, athletic goals, and genuine enjoyment isn't just possible - it might be the secret formula for sustainable success. Follow his journey on Instagram @GarrettTheParrot96 and discover how elite performance and life balance can beautifully coexist.Follow Garrett the Parrot on IG - @garretttheparrot96Follow James on IG - @jameslaurielloFollow the Steep Stuff on IG - @steepstuff_podThis episode is brought to you by Ultimate Direction, use code steepstuffpod for 25% off your next purchase ! 

Welcome to our first Budget Travel Special! This is one that you, the listeners, have been asking for a lot - and I get it! Travel can feel expensive and overwhelming, but what if I told you that it really doesn't have to be?That's why I knew I had to bring on the ultimate budget travel expert - someone who has made it her mission to help people travel smarter, stretch their money further, and still enjoy incredible experiences, Chelsea Dickenson, aka the Cheap Holiday Expert.Chelsea has built a huge following all thanks to her easy-to-follow, no-nonsense travel hacks. You've probably seen her viral videos on how to snag the best hotel upgrades, fly for less, or even go on an amazing holiday for under £100. And if you're a fan of This Morning, you'll recognise her as their go-to expert for low-cost travel. She's also the co-host of Passports Please, the travel podcast that helps you hack your holidays. Now, I know budget travel is something so many of you are interested in, and you've sent in loads of brilliant questions on Instagram for this one. We're covering everything, from whether five-star hotels are actually worth it to the best destinations where your money goes furthest, plus Chelsea's ultimate flight-booking hacks that will save you time and money. So, whether you're planning your next getaway or just love hearing about the best travel tricks out there, this episode is packed with useful tips and plenty of fun stories too.Destination Recap:Berlin, Germany Krakow, Poland Wroclaw, PolandGdansk, Poland Budapest, HungaryKozmo, Budapest, HungaryVilnius, Lithuania Seville, SpainTurkey Nidum Casual Luxury, Innsbruck, Austria Vietnam Ha Long Bay, VietnamCat Ba Island, VietnamKoh Lanta, ThailandDubaiIcelandChill out hostel, Zagreb, Croatia South KoreaUzbekistan Today's episode was produced by Alexandra Calder.With thanks to Visit Guernsey and Airbnb for their support of today's episode.Thanks so much for listening today. If you want to be the first find out who is joining me on next week's episode come and follow me on Instagram I'm @hollyrubenstein, and you'll also find me on TikTok - I'd love to hear from you. And if you can't wait until then, remember there's the first 13 seasons to catch up on, that's over 145 episodes to keep you busy there. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

René Benko galt als einer der erfolgreichsten Immobilienunternehmer in Europa. Mehr als 40.000 Beschäftigte arbeiteten für seine SIGNA-Firmengruppe, die weltweit Immobilien im Wert von rund 25 Milliarden Euro besaß. Der in Innsbruck geborene Benko war auch Eigentümer der Warenhauskette Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof, dem zweitgrößten Warenhauskonzern Europas. In der aktuellen Folge des ARD Radiofeatures „Die Ruinen des René Benko“ recherchiert Investigativjournalist Georg Wellmann zu den Hintergründen und tiefgreifenden Konsequenzen der SIGNA Pleite: https://1.ard.de/radiofeature-ruinen-des-rene-benko Von Georg Wellmann.

Send us a textFrom track star to mountain master, Dan Curts path to the pinnacle of sub-ultra trail running defies conventional wisdom. While many elite athletes flock to western training hubs like Boulder or Flagstaff, Kurtz has embraced the harsh New England winters and technical terrain of his Northeast home. "Four below this morning," he mentions casually, "but that teaches you something that has to translate to real mountain running."After a collegiate career at Iowa State that left him questioning his relationship with running, Kurtz found renewed purpose in mountain races. Now a three-time Team USA representative who has competed at World Championships in Thailand and Innsbruck, he offers rare insights into the challenges and rewards of pursuing excellence on the trails. His candid discussion about breaking his toe in Thailand, rebuilding fitness through skiing, and preparing for the upcoming season reveals the unfiltered reality of professional trail running.The conversation explores fascinating territory beyond racing, from van life and Brooks' emergence as perhaps "the best sub-ultra trail team on the planet" to the neurological aspects of race-day cramping. Kurtz makes a compelling case for the Northeast as an underappreciated training ground, suggesting that the increased presence of high-profile races like the Cirque Series might finally bring deserved attention to the region. With honest reflections on the pressure to make another World Championship team and admiration for innovators like Jack Kenzel and Jim Walmsley, this episode offers a window into the mind of an athlete operating at the cutting edge of mountain running's evolution.Want to hear more from the athletes reshaping trail running? Subscribe to the Steep Stuff Podcast for conversations that go beyond the finish line into the heart of what makes this sport special.Follow Dan on IG - @dancurtsFollow James on IG - @jameslaurielloFollow The Steep Stuff Pod on IG - @steepstuff_podThis episode is brought to you by Ultimate Direction, use code steepstuffpod for 25% off your next cart at checkout ! 

Zack and Jim welcome a very special guest, Jaclyn Lamothe, who is also Zack's wife. We're getting back to our roots here on Backyard Road Trips as we grill Jackie about her all-time favorite travel destinations. The places discussed include Quebec City, the Jungfrau mountain peak, Innsbruck and the Pacific Northwest. She shares how to navigate the Brenner Pass, how to deal with the sulfuric hot water smell in an Icelandic shower and the wonders of Tyrolean schnapps. Take a listen for the rest of her travel picks.