Everyday Rockstar, FootGolf, Misunderstanding Risk, Lemonade Stands, Social Distance Disagreements, Kids First Aid

Everyday Rockstar, FootGolf, Misunderstanding Risk, Lemonade Stands, Social Distance Disagreements, Kids First Aid

The Lisa Show - Season 1, Episode 494

  • Jul 1, 2020 6:00 am
  • 1:45:33 mins
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Everyday Rockstar (0:00:00) Lisa and Richie talk with this week's featured Everyday Rockstar. You or someone you know could be featured next! Send your Everyday Rockstar nominations to thelisashow@byu.edu. FootGolf (0:19:22) For those of you who have golfed before, have you ever felt the urge to give your golf ball a good kick? Well, we have just the sport for you! Foot Golf is a new sport that combines soccer with golf. It puts you on a golf course, takes away the golf clubs and balls, and replaces them with an easily kickable soccer ball. Are you intrigued yet? With it being one of the newer sports in the United States, we wanted to go to the officials of Foot Golf to find out what could be America’s next favorite pastime. Today we’re joined by Laura Balestrini, the president and CEO of the American FootGolf League, here with us to discuss the rise of foot golf and its future in America. The Risks of Misunderstanding Risk (0:33:59) Do you sometimes feel like you live in an exponentially dangerous and scary world? In the news we find the statistics on shark attacks, deadly diseases, and homicides in our cities. It can be tough to lead a normal, care free life when we’re confronted with percentages and graphs of terrible things happening around us, things (they say) that could happen to us. But how worried should we be about the risks we read about? To help us understand the difference between absolute and relative risks we’re talking to Dr. Gerd Gigerenzer. He’s the Director of the Harding Center for Risk Literacy and author of the book, “Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions”. Lemonade Stands (0:58:37) Lemonade stands are one of the most popular start-up businesses... for kids at least. We see them pop up all over neighborhoods during the summer, and they’re usually a highlight of childhood. There’s nothing better than making a big batch of terrible lemonade, coloring a cardboard sign, and making a little money of your own. Now, as grown-ups, we want our kids to have the same experience. So how can we h