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Introducing New Podcast Series: Dr. Paul Wendee’s Notes from the Field Podcast/Video
The Berlin Wall
This Thanksgiving weekend of 2024, we’re adding a new podcast/video series called, “Dr. Paul Wendee’s Notes from the Field” (“Notes from the Field” for short). Notes from the Field will explore the human, adventurous, and mysterious side of life. It will complement our already successful podcast/video series consisting of the Intrinsic Value Wealth Report Radio and the Intrinsic Value Wealth Report TV, which cover topics more aligned with finance, economics, investing, and entrepreneurship.
The name for this podcast/video series, “Notes from the field”, comes from a tagline I used when I was working on my Doctor of Business Administration degree a number of years ago. That tagline was designed to represent the fact that much of my doctoral work was done while I was in the field doing research for my doctorate, as well as creating new business ideas and systems to be used in my doctorate research and in my businesses. I am continuing the in-the-field nature of my academic and research-focused work in the field today. One cannot properly do social science research from the “ivory tower” of academia – one must be in the field!
Click here to see our first podcast in this series, which is a short podcast discussing the Berlin Wall. I chose to use the Berlin Wall to introduce this new podcast/video series this Thanksgiving weekend, as the fall of the Berlin Wall reminds me of how the people of West and East Germany reunited in freedom after so many years of East Germany being separated from the West by borders and walls, and how thankful we should all be for this monumental event. I was a young, US Army officer stationed in West Germany (1976 – 1979), before the Berlin Wall came down in 1989. My unit was a nuclear missile unit consisting of US Army and West German Air Force personnel. Deterrence was why we had nuclear missiles pointed toward the Eastern Bloc, which was controlled by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The deterrence worked.
This podcast, The Berlin Wall, perhaps will give you some sense of what it must have been like to have lived under the totalitarian, Communist regimes of the Eastern Bloc; and the unbelievable experience of freedom after so many years that the citizens of the East were now able to have. The story of the fall of the Berlin Wall reminds me this Thanksgiving weekend of how thankful I am for the liberty and freedoms that we have in our great country of the United States of America.