My guest is Debra Pyka, a mother who is trying to bring awareness to not only prevent suicide, but to warn of the dangers of sports and head trauma to our youth. She will be discussing her son Joseph’s life story, playing sports, CTE which led to years of depression and ultimately, his suicide. Joseph’s brother Seth will join us, since they played sports all through their childhood together. She has tried to contact politicians, White House and Michelle Obama, with no one concerned or responding to her. She also wants to shed light on the responsibility of the NFL with the research started 20 years ago, to warn all parents of the dangers of concussions/head trauma and future effects, which the NFL denied for many years. More young people are dying from sports related injuries than ever. www.sportslegacy.org/research/legacy-donors/joseph-chernach
TBI Litigation with Michael Kaplen
Michael V. Kaplen, Professorial Lecturer in Law, George Washington University Law School. Michael is a member of the New York State Traumatic Brain Injury Services Coordinating Council and chaired the council from 2007 to 2013. He is president of the American Academy of Brain Injury Attorneys.
He is a New York Super Lawyer for the last nine years, named as one of the top 100 trial lawyers in New York State by the American Association of Trial Lawyers. He is co-author of the chapter on NeuroLaw in the Psychiatric Clinics of North America’s special edition on Traumatic Brain Injury published by the American Psychiatric Association and has co-authored the expert column on Traumatic Brain Injury published by the New York Law Journal. www.brainlaw.com
The NFL with George Visger
George Visger is a former NFL football player for the 49er’s in 1980-1981, as well as a champion of Super Bowl XVI. He is Survivor of 9 NFL caused brain surgeries. Recipient of Zero NFL benefits. As a result, he has become an expert as a TBI Consultant, sharing his cautionary tale all over the country. The hell he has had to live through as a result of those glory years, has changed his life forever. Please join us as George shares his compelling personal story, his take on the current law suits against the NFL, and his involvement with Wilderness Unlimited Foundation. Learn more about George at www.thevisgergroup.org
Never…
Give Up!! SPECIAL EDITION!!
Talking With Heroes
Bob Calvert is the Founder and Host of the Talking With Heroes Talk Show www.talkingwithheroes.com and the Editor of our Online News Site www.thankyouforyourservice.us Great stories on others, but his own is amazing too!
The TalkingWithHeroes Program is not your average Radio Show. Since late 2005 we’ve been doing interviews with Active Duty Military from across our great Country and from 2006-2011 We made 5 trips to Iraq and 3 to Afghanistan bringing back our troops mostly unreported Progress and Positive stories. Unedited footage is at: www.youtube.com/bobc9246 and audio programs since are at: www.blogtalkradio.com/talkingwithheroes1 Over 227,000 have watched one or more of our unedited footage on YouTube.
Peachy story with a fellow survivor!
In 1995, Bartley Williams was a typical 16yr old, who had just gotten his driver’s license. Life was good. He was playing football, had just seen a Beach Boys Concert, was enjoying the company of his girl…And then as happens far too often, an accident changed his life for good. Bartley will share his story with us, but even more, with his germinating interest in TBI Awareness. He is an administrator on “The Patient Directed Health Care Group”, started by Ruth Lycke, and hopes to help others who are struggling with the trials of Brain Injury.