Talks at Google

Talks at Google is proud to welcome comedian, actor & writer, Tony Hale, who you may know from hit shows like Arrested Development, Veep, and most recently Toy Story 4! Tony shares his experience returning to live theater after 17 years for his lead role in the American Conservatory Theater's new play, ""Wakey, Wakey"", a story about a man with only a few more minutes to live. It's an intimate comedy about love, life and what it means to be human. He will also tell us about his amazing career journey that has spanned over 2 decades, leaving his audiences with tons of laughs along the way. Moderated by Julia Chen Davidson For more information on this and other shows visit: https://www.act-sf.org/ Visit YouTube.com/TalksatGoogle to watch the video.

Jeff Probst, executive producer and host of the Emmy Award-winning CBS show Survivor, visits Talks at Google to discuss the success of Survivor's 20 year run in celebration of CBS Survivor's 20th anniversary and its season 40 premiere. Jeff discusses everything from how he got his start with this "crazy social experiment" to what has made Survivor so successful, as well as what we should expect for Season 40. Jeff even shares publicly for the first time the moment he knew the show was something special. Survivor 40th Season Teaser: https://goo.gle/3bQnVvM. This edition features 20 legendary winners of Survivor who will return to compete against each other. The 20th anniversary edition of the groundbreaking series unites the most memorable, heroic and celebrated champions from the past two decades in the biggest battle in the show's history, as the series' best strategists of all time fight to earn the title of Sole Survivor again. These returning masterminds will compete in epic challenges, face the return of Edge of Extinction, which gives voted-out players a second shot to win, and tackle a brand new layer of the game with the introduction of fire tokens. Fire tokens will serve as currency on the island and add more complexity to the already intense battle. The new twist allows players to use the tokens to buy advantages to help players stay in the game or get themselves back in the game. Additionally, the winner of this historic season will be awarded $2 million, the largest prize in reality show history. CBS Survivor's 40th season, "Winners at War," premiered February 12th, 2020. To watch, please visit: https://goo.gle/2V4c5IG. To check out the flashback to Season 1, visit: https://goo.gle/2vJ2v3g. Moderated by Dean Kowalski, who recently finished 2nd on Survivor's 39th season. Visit YouTube.com/TalksatGoogle to watch the video.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell talks through her professional history, from overcoming imposter syndrome as a graduate student in Cambridge to discovering pulsars, getting passed over for a Nobel Prize, inspiring Joy Division to make one of the most iconic album covers of all time, and doing her best to lift up women and people of color interested in graduate work in astronomy. Jocelyn Bell Burnell inadvertently discovered pulsars as a graduate student in radio astronomy in Cambridge, opening up a new branch of astrophysics – work recognized by the award of a Nobel Prize to her supervisor. She has subsequently worked in many roles in many branches of astronomy, working part-time while raising a family. She is now a Visiting Professor in Oxford, and the Chancellor of the University of Dundee, Scotland. She has chaired, served on, or serviced more Research Council Boards, Committees and Panels than she wishes to remember, and has also chaired a European Community Committee. She has been President of the Royal Astronomical Society, in 2008 became the first female President of the Institute of Physics and in 2014 the first female President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. She was one of the small group of women scientists that set up the Athena SWAN scheme. She has received many honours, including a $3M Breakthrough Prize in 2018. The public appreciation and understanding of scinece have always been important to her, and she is much in demand as a speaker and broadcaster. In her spare time she gardens, listens to choral music and is active in the Quakers. She has co-edited an anthology of poetry with an astronomical theme – Dark Matter: Poems of Space. Jedidah Isler is an Astrophysicist and Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Dartmouth College. An advocate for diversity in STEM, she was Yale University's first African-American woman to earn a PhD in Astrophysics. In 2015, Isler founded Vanguard: Conversations with Women of Color in STEM. She gave an inspiring TED talk on the urgent need for diversity in STEM and science. To watch the video of this talk, please visit youtube.com/googlezeitgeist.

Richard Miles, the Founder/Executive Director of Miles of Freedom and 2019 finalist for CNN's Hero of the year, spent 15 years in prison for a Dallas, TX murder he did not commit. Kate Germond is the Senior Advocate and Investigator for Centurion, the Princeton, NJ-based non-profit organization that started the innocence movement. Centurion re-investigated Richard's case and ultimately freed him from wrongful incarceration. In the 10+ years since his release, Richard has dedicated his life to helping men and women re-adjust to life after incarceration, and provide them with the tools they need to build new lives. Kate and Richard sat down with Talks at Google to share Richard's unbelievable story of triumph over unthinkable injustice, and talk about Centurion's fight to free the innocent in prison. They discuss the justice system's increasing resistance to considering claims of innocence, the challenges exonerees face when they're freed, and the ongoing efforts of Miles of Freedom and Centurion. Take time to learn more about the crisis of wrongful conviction from Richard and Kate's very personal accounts of what happens when the justice system gets it wrong. Moderated by Fizz Ahmed. To learn more about Centurion, please visit https://centurion.org/. For more information on Miles of Freedom, please visit http://milesoffreedom.org/. Visit YouTube.com/TalksatGoogle to watch the video.

This episode features Oscar-winning producer Brian Grazer and Chief Content Officer at Netflix, Ted Sarandos talk about the power of human connection in an industry where people must believe in ideas that don't exist yet. His book, Face to Face: The Art of Human Connection, is out now. Ted Sarandos is Chief Content Officer at Netflix, overseeing the teams responsible for the acquisition and creation of all Netflix content including original series from around the world such as Stranger Things, Dark (Germany), La Casa De Papel (Spain), and Sacred Games (India) and original films including blockbusters as To All the Boys I've Loved Before, Bright, Bird Box, and the 3-time Academy Award-winning film ROMA. Ted has been responsible for all content operations since 2000, and led the company's transition into original content production that began in 2013 with the launch of the series House of Cards. Arrested Development, and Orange is the New Black, among numerous others. Today Netflix is available in 190 countries and Netflix originals have received numerous awards around the world including 66 Primetime Emmy wins, 6 Oscars, and 5 BAFTA Film Award including Best Picture. Brian Grazer is an Oscar-winning producer and New York times bestselling author. His films and television shows have been nominated for forty-three Academy Awards and 195 Emmys. His credits include A Beautiful Mind, 24, Apollo 13, Splash, Arrested Development, Empire, 8 Mile, Friday Night Lights, American Gangster, and Genius, among others. He is the author of Face to Face: The Art of Human Connection and the New York Times bestseller A Curious MInd: The Secret to Bigger Life. Grazer was named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World and is the co-founder of Imagine Entertainment along with his longtime partner Ron Howard. To watch the video of this talk, please visit youtube.com/googlezeitgeist.

Barbara Sahakian is Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology at Cambridge, Past-President of the International Neuroethics Society, Past-President of the British Association for Psychopharmacology, and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. In this talk, she discusses her book "Sex, Lies, and Brain Scans: How fMRI Reveals What Really Goes on in Our Minds". With co-author Julia Gottwald, she takes readers beyond the media headlines, considering what the technique of fMRI entails, and what information it can give us. They show which applications are possible today, which ones are science fiction, and also discuss the important ethical questions these techniques raise. Get the book here: https://goo.gle/3ac8zRu. Visit YouTube.com/TalksatGoogle to watch the video.

President and CEO of The New York Times Mark Thompson and Editor-in-Chief of HuffPost Lydia Polgreen take on today's headlines, the threat that disinformation presents to our existence, and how to survive as a news organization when journalism is both vital and undervalued. Mark Thompson became president and chief executive officer of The New York Times Company in November 2012. He has directed the Company's strategy and presided over an expansion of its digital and global operations. Under his leadership, digital subscriptions have grown from 500,000 to nearly four million. The Times has successfully branded out into other digital products like Cooking and Crosswords, and has launched one of the world's most successful podcasts and recently premiered The Weekly, a new TV news program for FX and Hulu. Lydia Polgreen is Editor-in-Chief of HuffPost. She was named to that post in December 2016 after spending nearly 15 years at the New York Times, where she led an initiative to expand its audience outside the United States, with an initial focus on Latin America. Previously, Lydia was Deputy International Editor, the South Africa bureau chief, a correspondent for the New Delhi bureau and chief of the West Africa bureau.

Gelong Thubten, a buddhist monk that left the glamorous world of acting to pursue the true meaning of happiness, visited Google Dublin campus to talk about what brings all humans together, the pursuit of happiness. Through meditation and finding inner peace and joy, we can choose to be happy, according to Thubten. This however is not an easy task and requires practice and discipline. In this talk, Thubten takes us on the journey that led him to happiness and invites us to choose happiness as well. Visit YouTube.com/TalksatGoogle to watch the video.

StoryCorps Founder Dave Isay talks through how the organization has cemented the voices of millions of people for generations and presents examples of some of the incredible stories that have been recorded over the years. Dave Isay is the founder of StoryCorps and the recipient of numerous broadcasting honors, including six Peabody Awards and a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship. He is the author/editor of numerous books that grew out of his public radio documentary work. In 2015, Dave was recognized with the TED Prize, awarded annually to one exceptional individual with a creative, bold vision to spark global change. To support or participate in StoryCorps visit TakeOneSmallStep.org.

Discussing their sixth and final season, we are joined by Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Dan Levy & Annie Murphy from the hit series Schitt's Creek. Schitt's Creek (stylized as Schitt$ Creek) is a Canadian television sitcom created by Dan and Eugene Levy that premiered on CBC Television on January 13, 2015. The series is produced by Not a Real Company Productions. The series is airing a sixth and final season consisting of 14 episodes which began on January 7, 2020. Watch online via https://www.netflix.com/title/80036165. Moderated by Kathryn VanArendonk. Visit YouTube.com/TalksatGoogle to watch the video.