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In this impactful and inspiring episode of Unstoppable Mindset, host Michael Hingson sits down with Ronald Cocking—performer, educator, and co-founder of the Looking Glass Studio of Performing Arts—to reflect on a remarkable life shaped by rhythm, resilience, and love. Ron's journey into the performing arts began at just five years old, when his passion for tap dance ignited a lifelong commitment to dance and musical theater. From his first professional role at age 15 in My Fair Lady to founding one of Southern California's most impactful arts schools, Ron's story is one of dedication, creativity, and community.   But perhaps the most moving part of Ron's story is his 49-year partnership—both personal and professional—with the late Gloria McMillan, best known as Harriet Conklin from Our Miss Brooks. Together, they created a legacy of mentorship through the Looking Glass Studio, where they taught thousands of students across generations—not just how to act, sing, or dance, but how to live with confidence and integrity.   Ron also reflects on the legacy Gloria left behind, his continued involvement in the arts, and the words of wisdom that guide his life:   “Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” “To find happiness, take the gifts God has given you and give them away.”   This is more than a story of a career in the arts—it's a touching tribute to passion, partnership, and purpose that will leave you inspired.   Highlights:   00:48 – Hear how early radio at home shaped a lifetime love for performance. 03:00 – Discover why drumming and tap both trained his ear for rhythm. 06:12 – Learn how a tough studio change led to ballet, jazz, and tumbling basics. 08:21 – See the “sing with your feet” method that makes tap click for students. 10:44 – Find out how a teen chorus role in My Fair Lady opened pro doors. 13:19 – Explore the drum-and-tap crossover he performed with Leslie Uggams. 15:39 – Learn how meeting Gloria led to a studio launched for $800. 18:58 – Get the long view on running a school for 44 years with family involved. 23:46 – Understand how Our Miss Brooks moved from radio to TV with its cast intact. 32:36 – See how 42nd Street proves the chorus can be the star. 41:51 – Hear why impact matters more than fame when students build careers. 43:16 – Learn what it takes to blend art and business without losing heart. 45:47 – Compare notes on marriage, teamwork, and communication that lasts. 48:20 – Enjoy a rare soft-shoe moment Ron and Gloria performed together. 56:38 – Take away the “teach to fish” approach that builds lifelong confidence.   About the Guest:   My father was a trumpet player, thus I heard music at home often in the early 50's and was always impressed and entertained by the rhythms and beats of Big Band music… especially the drummers.  Each time I would see Tap dancers on TV, I was glued to the screen.  It fascinated me the way Tap dancers could create such music with their feet!   In 1954, at age 5, after begging my Mom and Dad to enroll me in a Tap class, my Dad walked in from work and said “Well, you're all signed up, and your first Tap class is next Tuesday.  I was thrilled and continued studying tap and many other dance forms and performing and teaching dance for all of my life.     In my mid teens, I became serious about dancing as a possible career.  After seeing my first musical, “The Pajama Game” starring Ruth Lee, I new I wanted to do musical theatre.  I got my first professional opportunity at age 15 in “My Fair Lady” for the San Bernardino Civic Light Opera Association and loved every minute of it… and would continue performing for this organization well into my 30's   I met Gloria McMillan in the late 60's while choreographing a summer musical for children.  Gloria's daughter was doing the role of Dorothy in “The Wizard of Oz”.  Then, about 3 or 4 years later I would meet Gloria again and the sparks flew.  And, yes, she was Gloria McMillan of “Our Miss Brooks” fame on both radio and television.  Wow, was I blessed to have crossed paths with her.  We shared our lives together for 49 years.   On November 4, 1974, Gloria and I opened a performing arts school together named “The Looking Glass Studio of Performing Arts”.  We would teach and manage the school together for 44 years until we retired on June 30, 2018.  We moved to Huntington Beach, California and spent 3 beautiful years together until she left to meet our Lord in heaven on January 19, 2022.   Ways to connect with Ron:   Lgsparon@aol.com     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 ** 01:20 Well, hi there, wherever you are and wherever you happen to be today. Welcome to unstoppable mindset. I'm your host, Mike hingson, and today we get to chat with Ron Cocking, who is Ron. Well, we're going to find out over the next hour. And Ron was married for many years to another person who is very famous, and we'll get to that, probably not as well known to what I would probably describe as the younger generation, but you're going to get to learn a lot about Ron and his late wife before we're done, and I am sure we're going to have a lot of fun doing it. So let's get to it. Ron, welcome to unstoppable mindset. We're glad you're here.   Ron Cocking ** 01:59 Thank you. I'm so glad to be here. Michael, this. I've been looking forward to this.   Michael Hingson ** 02:04 I have been as well, and we're going to have a lot of fun doing it.   Ron Cocking ** 02:08 Do you one note on that last name? It is cocking. Cocking, he comes right? Comes from a little townlet in the coal mining country of England called Cockington.   Michael Hingson ** 02:20 I don't know why I keep saying that, but yeah, cocky, no   02:23 problem.   Michael Hingson ** 02:24 Well, do you go up to the reps recreations at all?   Ron Cocking ** 02:28 Oh my gosh, Gloria. And I know you and Gloria, did do you still do it? I've it's on my schedule for September.   Michael Hingson ** 02:35 I'm gonna miss it this year. I've got a speech to give. So I was going to be playing Richard diamond at recreation. Well, I'll have to be Dick Powell another time, but I thought that you you were still doing   02:50 it. I'm planning on it cool.   Michael Hingson ** 02:53 Well, tell us about the early Ron cocking and kind of growing up in some of that stuff. Let's start with that.   Ron Cocking ** 02:59 Well, the early part of my story was when I was born just a little before television came in, before everyone had a TV in their home. How old are you now? If I maybe, you know, I am now 76   Michael Hingson ** 03:12 Okay, that's what I thought. Yeah, you're one year ahead of me. I'm 75   Ron Cocking ** 03:16 I was born in 49 and so my earliest remembrances my mom and dad and my brother and I lived with our grandfather, and we had no television, but we had this big it must have been about three to four foot tall, this big box on the floor in a very prominent spot in the living room. And that was the Sunday afternoon entertainment. I remember my family sitting around, and I listened and I laughed when they did, but I had no idea what was going on, but that was the family gathering. And just, I know we'll talk about it later, but I I just have this notion that at that time I was laughing, not knowing what I was laughing at, but I bet I was laughing at my future   Michael Hingson ** 04:02 wife, yes, yes, but other things as well. I mean, you probably laughed at Jack Benny and Amos and Andy and   Ron Cocking ** 04:09 yeah, I remember listening to all those folks, and it was just amazing. Then when television came about and my father was a trumpet player, and I loved his trumpet playing, and he practiced often at home. He would sit in his easy chair and play some tunes and scales and that sort of thing. But what captured my ear and my eyes when I went to on rare occasions when I could go to his engagements, it was always the drummer that just stuck out to me. I was mesmerized by the rhythms that they could produce. And when TV came about, I remember the old variety shows, and they often would have tap dancers like. Had a stair gene, Kelly, Peg Leg Bates and the Nicholas brothers, and I just, I was just taken back by the rhythms. It sounded like music to me. The rhythms just made me want to do it. And so I started putting that bug in my parents ears. And I waited and waited. I wanted to take tap dance lessons. And one day, my dad walks in the back door, and I said, Dad, have you signed me up yet? And he said, Yep, you start next Tuesday at 330 in the afternoon. So I was overjoyed, and I went in for my first lesson. And mind you, this was a private tap class. Total Cost of $1.25 and we had a pianist for music, no record player, live piano, wow. And so I, I rapidly fell in love with tap dance.   Michael Hingson ** 05:56 And so you did that when you weren't in school. Presumably, you did go to school.   Ron Cocking ** 06:00 Oh, yeah, I did go to school. Yeah, I did well in school, and I enjoyed school. I did all the athletics. I played little league, and eventually would be a tennis player and water polo and all that stuff. But all through the years, after school was on the way to the dance classes.   Michael Hingson ** 06:16 So you graduated, or I suppose I don't want to insult drumming, but you graduated from drumming to tap dancing, huh?   Ron Cocking ** 06:24 Well, I kept doing them both together. I would dance, and then when my dad would practice, I would beg him to just play a tune like the St Louis Blues, yeah, and so that I could keep time, so I pulled a little stool up in front of an easy chair, and one of the arms of the chair was the ride cymbal, and the other one was the crash cymbal, and the seat of the chair was my snare drum. I would play along with him. And eventually he got tired of that and bought a Hi Fi for my brother and I, and in the bedroom I had a Hi Fi, and I started to put together a set of drums, and I spent hours next to that, Hi Fi, banging on the drums, and I remember it made me feel good. One day, my mom finally said to me, you know, you're starting to sound pretty good, and that that was a landmark for me. I thought, wow, somebody is enjoying my drumming,   Michael Hingson ** 07:18 but you couldn't do drumming and tap dancing at the same time. That would have been a little bit of a challenge. A challenge.   Ron Cocking ** 07:23 No, I would practice that the drums in the afternoon and then head for the dance studio later. And in this case, I was a local boy. I grew up in Riverside California, and my first tap teacher was literally maybe two miles from our house. But that didn't last long. She got married and became pregnant and closed her studio, and then I she recommended that I go see this teacher in San Bernardino by the name of Vera Lynn. And which I did, I remember walking into this gigantic classroom with a bunch of really tall kids, and I was maybe seven or eight years old, and I guess it was kind of an audition class, but after that evening, I she put me in the most appropriate classes, one of which was ballet, which I wasn't too excited about, but they all told me, If you're going to be a serious dancer, even a tap dancer, you need to get the basic body placement from ballet classes. And I said, Well, I am not going to put any tights and a T shirt on. But they finally got me to do that because they told me that the Rams football team took ballet class twice a week at that time. Ah. Said, no kidding. So they got me, they they got you. They got me into ballet class, and then it was jazz, and then it was tumbling, and so I did it all.   Michael Hingson ** 08:43 I remember when we moved to California when I was five, and probably when I was about eight or nine, my brother and I were enrolled by my mother. I guess my parents enrolled us in a dance class. So I took dance class for a few years. I learned something about dancing. I did have a pair of tap shoes, although I didn't do a lot of it, but I, but I did dance and never, never really pursued it enough to become a Gene Kelly or Fred Astaire. Well, few of us do. I didn't dislike it. It just didn't happen. But that was okay, but it was fun to, you know, to do it and to learn something about that. And so I even today, I I remember it, and I appreciate it. So that's pretty cool.   Ron Cocking ** 09:32 Well, you would understand what I always told my students, that tap dancing is like singing a song with your feet. Yeah. And I would sing, I would say, you all know, happy birthday, right? So I would sing it, and they would sing it along, and then I'd said, then I would sing it again, and I would sing it totally out of rhythm. And they would wrinkle their nose and look at me and say, okay, so what are you doing? And I'd say, Well, you don't recognize it because the rhythm is not correct. So then I would. Would tap dance Happy birthday, and I'd say, you sing along in your mind and I'm going to tap dance it. And that would always ring a bell in their mind, like, Oh, I get it. The rhythm has to be right on the button, or the people aren't going to recognize   Michael Hingson ** 10:16 that was very clever to do.   Ron Cocking ** 10:18 Yeah, thank you. And they got it, yeah, they got it, yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 10:22 which is even, even more important. That's pretty clever. Well, so you did that, and did you do it all the way through high school,   Ron Cocking ** 10:30 all the way through high school? And I think when I was 15, I was, I think I was in the eighth grade, maybe ninth, but I was 15 and got my first chance to I was cast in a professional show for San Bernardino civic light opera Association. And the show was My Fair Lady, and it was my English and journalism teacher at the junior high who had been cast. He was a performer also, but something came up and he couldn't follow through, so he had given the association my name, and I was out in the backyard. My mom came out. Said, Hey, San Bernardino clo just called and they want, they want to see it tonight at seven o'clock. So I put on my dance clothes and went over, and the director, by the name of Gosh, Gene Bayless, came out, and he showed me a couple of steps. And he said, Yeah, let's do it together. And he said, Boy, you unscramble your feet pretty well there kid. And he he looked over into the costumers and said, measure this guy. Let's put him in the show. So I was beside myself. And long story short, I Gosh, I'm over the over the years, I my first show was at age 15 with them, and I participated, did shows with them, until I think my last show, I was about 38 years old, and that last show was anything goes with Leslie uggums, wow.   Michael Hingson ** 11:52 So what part did you play on my fair lady?   Ron Cocking ** 11:55 I was just a chorus kid. I remember in the opening when Eliza sings, that wouldn't it be lovely? Wouldn't it be lovely? I was a street sweeper. I remember I had a broom, and there were three of us, and we were sweeping up that street and working in and around. Eliza Doolittle, of   Michael Hingson ** 12:11 course, being really spiteful. You just said a little while ago, you were beside yourself. And the thing that I got to say to that, quoting the Muppets, is, how do the two of you stand each other? But anyway, that's okay, good in the original Muppet Movie, that line is in there. And I it just came out so fast, but I heard it. I was going, Oh my gosh. I couldn't believe they did that. But anyway, it was so cute, very funny. That's great. So and then you were, you eventually were opposite Leslie UB,   Ron Cocking ** 12:39 yes, that was one of the high points talking about dancing and drumming at the same time. In fact, I used to give a drum a basic drum summer camp where I would teach tappers the basics of music notation, quarter notes, eighth notes, 16th notes. And then we would put a tap orchestra together. Everybody had their own music stand and their own drum pad. I would conduct, and we would play little pieces, and they would they would drum a rhythm, tap, a rhythm, drum, a rhythm, tap, a rhythm. And so anyway, it came full circle. One of the highlights of my dance slash drumming career was this show I did with Leslie uggums, the director had done this prior, and he knew it would work, and so so did the conductor in the entre Act. The top of the second act, the pit orchestra starts and plays like eight measures. And then there were six of us on stage, behind the main curtain, and we would play the next 16 bars, and then we would toss it back to the pit, and then toss it back to us, and the curtain would begin to rise, and we were right into the first song that Leslie uggums sang to get into the second act. Then she wanted to add a couple of songs that she liked, and she was very popular in with the audiences in San Bernardino, so she added a couple of songs, and I got to play those songs with her and and that was just so thrilling. And I with the scene finished, I had to have my tap shoes on, on the drum set. I had to hop down from the riser, and came out, brought one of my Toms with me, and played along with another featured tap dancer that kind of took over the scene at that point. So it was, it was really cool.   Michael Hingson ** 14:31 So with all this drumming, did you ever meet anyone like buddy rip?   Ron Cocking ** 14:35 No, I never met any famous drummers except a man by the name of Jack Sperling, which was one of my drumming idols,   Michael Hingson ** 14:44 Donnie Carson was quite the drummer, as I recall,   Ron Cocking ** 14:48 yeah, he did play yeah and boy, his his drummer, Ed Shaughnessy on his on The Tonight Show was phenomenal. Yeah, he's another of my favorites, yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 14:57 well, and I remember. I guess Johnny Carson and Buddy Rich played together, which was kind of fun. They   Ron Cocking ** 15:07 played together, and so did Ed Shaughnessy and Buddy Rich did a little competition on the show one time I realized, yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 15:15 right, yeah. Well, and it's interesting to see some of the performers do that. I remember once trying to remember whether what show it was on, maybe it was also a Tonight Show where Steve Martin substituted for Johnny, but he and the steel Canyon, the Steve Canyon band, came out. Of course, he was great on the band, and then flat and Scruggs or flat came out. Or which one? Yeah, which one did the banjo flat, I think, but they, but they banjo together, which was fun?   Ron Cocking ** 15:51 Oh, wow, yeah, yeah. Steve Martin is a tremendous band. He is, Whoa, yeah. I,   Michael Hingson ** 15:56 I have a hard time imagining fingers moving that fast, but that's okay, me too. I saved my fingers for Braille, so it's okay. So where did you go to college?   Ron Cocking ** 16:07 I went to for two years to Riverside City College, Riverside Community College, and then I went for two years to San Bernardino Cal State, San Bernardino, and I was majoring in English because I thought I may want to do some writing. But in the meantime, I became married, I became a father, and so I was trying to work and study and maintain a family life, and I just couldn't do it all. So I didn't quite finish a major at Cal State San Bernardino. I continued actually a nightclub drumming career. And now, now we're getting up to where this our performing arts studio began between Gloria and I.   Michael Hingson ** 16:50 So was it? GLORIA? You married first?   Ron Cocking ** 16:53 No, okay, no, Gloria was married. Gloria was a prior, prior marriage for 20 some years, or 20 years, I guess. And I had been married only two years, I think. And when we first, well, we actually met while we were both. I'll tell you the story in a minute, if you want to hear it. Sure, the first time I ever met Gloria Macmillan, I had no idea who she was, because she her name was Gloria Allen at the time that was, that was her married name that she took after the arm is Brooks TV show. Well, she took that the new name before the TV show even ended. But I was choreographing a children's summer musical, and the director came up said, hey, I want you to meet this young lady's mom. So the young lady was Gloria's daughter, her oldest daughter, Janet. And I said, Sure. So he said, This is Gloria. Allen, Gloria, this is Ron. And we shook hands, and I said, Nice to meet you. And that was it. And so the show happened. It ran for a couple of weeks, and Gloria was a wonderful stage mom. She she never bothered anyone. She watched the show. She was very supportive of her daughter. Didn't, didn't stage manage   Michael Hingson ** 18:09 whatsoever, which wasn't a helicopter mom, which is good,   Ron Cocking ** 18:12 definitely that, which was just really cool. So and so I was maybe three, four years later, so Gloria obviously knew that I could dance, because she had seen me choreographed. So I got a phone call from Gloria Allen, and I said, Okay, I remember her. She wanted to meet because she was thinking about starting an acting school and wanted someone to teach actors some dance movement. So I went over for a interview and took my little at that time, about two and a half year old, daughter, three year old, and we chatted, and oh my gosh, I just this, this beautiful woman swept me off my feet. And of course, I by the end of the conversation, I said, Gosh, you know, we talked about how we would integrate the acting and the dance, and I said, Can I have your phone number? Nope, I got the old well, we'll call you. Don't call us. And so I had to wait for a few days before I got a call back, but I got a call back, and I don't remember a lot of details, but the sparks flew really, really quickly, and we started planning our school. And if you can believe that this was 1973 when we started planning, maybe it was early 74 and we invested a whole total of $800 to get ourselves into business. We bought a record player, some mirrors, some paint, and a business license and a little shingle to hang out front. We had a little one room studio, and we. Opened on November 4, 1974 and we would close the studio on June 30, 2018 Wow.   Michael Hingson ** 20:08 Yeah. So you, you had it going for quite a while, almost, well, actually, more than 40 years. 44 years. 44 years, yes. And you got married along the way.   Ron Cocking ** 20:20 Well along the way, my my wife always said she fell in love with my daughter, and then she had to take me along with her. Yeah. Well, there you go. So we were together constantly, just running the school together. And then eventually I moved over to San Bernardino, and it was, gosh, some 1213, years later, we got married in on June 28 1987 and but nothing really changed, because we had already been living together and raising five children. GLORIA had four from a private prior marriage, and I had my little girl. So we we got all these five kids through elementary and junior high in high school, and they all went to college. And they're all beautiful kids and productive citizens, two of them still in show biz. Her son, my stepson, Christopher Allen, is a successful producer now and of Broadway shows. And our daughter, Barbara Bermudez, the baby that Gloria fell in love with. She's now a producer slash stage manager director. She does really well at big events with keynote speakers. And she'll, if they want her to, she will hire in everything from lighting and sound to extra performers and that sort of thing. And she's, she's just busy constantly all over the world, wow.   Michael Hingson ** 21:43 Well, that's pretty cool. And what are the other three doing?   Ron Cocking ** 21:47 One is a VP of Sales for it's a tub and shower company, jacuzzi, and the other one is a married housewife, but now she is a grandmother and has two little grandkids, and they that's Janet, the one that I originally had worked with in that children's show. And she and her husband live in Chino Hills, California, which is about 40 minutes from here. I live in Huntington Beach, California now,   Michael Hingson ** 22:14 well, and I'm not all that far away from you. We're in Victorville. Oh, Victorville, okay, yeah, the high desert. So the next time you go to Vegas, stop by on your way, I'll do that, since that's mainly what Victorville is probably most known for. I remember when I was growing I grew up in Palmdale, and Palmdale wasn't very large. It only had like about 20 703,000 people. But as I described it to people, Victorville wasn't even a speck on a radar scope compared to Palmdale at that time. Yeah, my gosh, are over 120,000 people in this town?   Ron Cocking ** 22:51 Oh, I remember the drive in the early days from here to Vegas in that you really felt like you could get out on the road all alone and relax and take it all in, and now it can be trafficking all all the   Speaker 1 ** 23:04 way. Yeah, it's crazy. I don't know. I still think they need to do something to put some sort of additional infrastructure, and there's got to be another way to get people to Vegas and back without going on i 15, because it is so crowded, especially around holidays, that one of these days, somebody will get creative. Maybe they'll get one of Tesla's tunnel boring tools, and they'll make a tunnel, and you can go underground the whole way, I don't know,   Ron Cocking ** 23:32 but that would be, that would be great. Something like that would happen.   Michael Hingson ** 23:38 Well, so you you started the school and and that did, pretty cool. Did, did Gloria do any more acting after our Miss Brooks? And then we should explain our Miss Brooks is a show that started on radio. Yes, it went on to television, and it was an arm is Brooks. Miss Brooks played by e vardin. Was a teacher at Madison High, and the principal was Osgood Conklin, played by Gail Gordon, who was absolutely perfect for the part. He was a crotchety old curmudgeon by any standards. And Gloria played his daughter, Harriet correct. And so when it went from radio to television, one of the things that strikes me about armas Brooks and a couple of those shows, burns and Allen, I think, is sort of the same. Jack Benny was a little different. But especially armas Brooks, it just seems to me like they they took the radio shows and all they did was, did the same shows. They weren't always the same plots, but it was, it was radio on television. So you, you had the same dialog. It was really easy for me to follow, and it was, was fascinating, because it was just like the radio shows, except they were on television.   Ron Cocking ** 24:56 Yeah, pretty much. In fact, there were a lot, there's lots of episodes. Episodes that are even named the same name as they had on the radio, and they're just have to be reworked for for the television screen,   Michael Hingson ** 25:08 yeah, but the the dialog was the same, which was so great,   Ron Cocking ** 25:13 yeah, yeah. And to see what was I going to add, it was our Miss Brooks was one of the very few radio shows that made the transition to television with the cast with the same intact. Yeah, everybody looked like they sounded. So it worked when they were in front of the camera. Yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 25:33 it sort of worked with Jack Benny, because most of the well, all the characters were in it, Don Wilson, Mary, Livingston, Dennis day, Rochester, world, yeah. And of course, Mel Blanc, yeah, oh.   Ron Cocking ** 25:49 GLORIA tells a story. She she and her mom, Hazel, were walking down the street on the way to do a radio show in the old days in Hollywood, and here comes Mel blank, he says, he pulls over. Says, Hey, where are you girls headed because I know that he probably recognized them from being at at CBS all the time, and they said, We're headed to CBS. He said, hop in. Oh, that's where I'm going. So Mel Brooks gave her a ride to the Mel Blanc, yeah, would have been   Michael Hingson ** 26:15 fun if Mel Brooks had but that's okay, Young Frankenstein, but that's another story. It is. But that's that's cool. So did they ever? Did she ever see him any other times? Or was that it?   Ron Cocking ** 26:30 No, I think that was it. That's the one story that she has where Mel Blanc is involved.   Michael Hingson ** 26:36 What a character, though. And of course, he was the man of a million voices, and it was just incredible doing I actually saw a couple Jack Benny shows this morning and yesterday. One yesterday, he was Professor LeBlanc teaching Jack Benny how to play the violin, which was a lost cause.   Ron Cocking ** 26:59 Actually, Jack Benny was not a bad view. No,   Michael Hingson ** 27:01 he wasn't violent. No, he wasn't. He had a lot of fun with it, and that stick went straight in from radio to television, and worked really well, and people loved it, and you knew what was going to happen, but it didn't matter. But it was still   Ron Cocking ** 27:16 funny, and I'm sure during the transition they there was a little bit of panic in the writers department, like, okay, what are we going to do? We got to come up with a few shows. We got to get ahead a little bit. So the writing being just a little different, I'm sure that's part of the reason why they went back and kind of leaned on the old, old script somewhat, until they kind of cut their teeth on the new this new thing called television   Michael Hingson ** 27:39 well, but they still kept a lot of the same routines in one way or another.   Ron Cocking ** 27:45 Yeah, when they work, they work, whether you're just listening or whether you're watching,   Michael Hingson ** 27:48 right, exactly what other shows made it from radio to television with the cast   Ron Cocking ** 27:53 intact? You know, I am not up on that number. I   Michael Hingson ** 27:57 know there were a couple that did. RMS, Brooks was, well, oh no, I was gonna say Abbott and Costello, but that was different, but our Miss Brooks certainly did. If   Ron Cocking ** 28:09 the Bickersons did, I forget the two actors that did that show, but that was a really, Francis   Michael Hingson ** 28:13 Langford and Donna Michi could be, but I think burns and Allen, I think, kept the same people as much as there were. Harry bonzell was still with them, and so on. But it was interesting to see those. And I'm awake early enough in the morning, just because it's a good time to get up, and I get and be real lazy and go slowly to breakfast and all that. But I watched the Benny show, and occasionally before it, I'll watch the burns and Allen show. And I think that the plots weren't as similar from radio to television on the burns and Allen show as they weren't necessarily in the Benny show, but, but it all worked.   Ron Cocking ** 28:58 Yeah, yeah. That's why they were on the air for so long?   Michael Hingson ** 29:02 Yeah, so what other kind of acting did Gloria do once? So you guys started the school   Ron Cocking ** 29:10 well after she well, when we started the school, we found ourselves, you know, raising five children. And so I continued playing nightclub gigs. I had one, one nightclub job for like, five years in a row with two wonderful, wonderful musicians that were like fathers to me. And Gloria actually went to work for her brother in law, and she became a salesperson, and eventually the VP of Sales for a fiberglass tub and shower business down here in Santa Ana. So she drove that 91 freeway from San Bernardino, Santa Ana, all the time. But in,   Michael Hingson ** 29:47 yeah, you could do it back then, much more than now. It was a little better   Ron Cocking ** 29:51 and but in, but twist in between, she managed. Her mom still did a little bit of agency. And she would call Gloria and say. Want you to go see so and so. She did an episode of perfect strangers. She did an episode with Elliot of the guy that played Elliot Ness, stack the show Robert Stack the show was called Help Wanted no see. I guess that was an in but wanted, anyway, she did that. She did a movie with Bruce Dern and Melanie Griffith called Smile. And so she kept, she kept her foot in the door, but, but not, not all that much she she really enjoyed when John Wilder, one of her childhood acting buddies, who she called her brother, and he still calls her sis, or he would call her sis, still. His name was Johnny McGovern when he was a child actor, and when he decided to try some movie work, he there was another Johnny McGovern in Screen Actors Guild, so he had to change his name to John Wyler, but he did that mini series called centennial, and he wanted Gloria for a specific role, to play a German lady opposite the football player Alex Karras. And they had a couple of really nice scenes together. I think she was in three, maybe four of the segments. And there were many segments, it was like a who's who in Hollywood, the cast of that show   Michael Hingson ** 31:28 does that was pretty cool.   Ron Cocking ** 31:32 But anyway, yeah, after Gloria finished armas Brooks, she became married to Gilbert Allen, who, who then became a Presbyterian minister. So Gloria, when you said, Did she continue acting? There's a lot of acting that goes on being a minister and being a minister's wife, and she would put together weddings for people, and that sort of thing. And she did that for 20 years. Wow. So she Gloria was a phenomenon. She did so many things. And she did them all so very well, in my   Speaker 1 ** 32:04 opinion. And so did you? Yeah, which is, which is really cool. So you, but you, you both started the school, and that really became your life's passion for 44 years. Yes,   Ron Cocking ** 32:16 we would get up in the mornings, go do a little business, come home, have a little lunch, go back about 132 o'clock, and we would normally crank up about four after the kids get out of school, and we would teach from four to nine, sometimes to 10. Go out, have some dinner. So yeah, we pretty much 24/7 and we had had such similar backgrounds. Hers on a national radio and television scale, and mine on a much more local, civic light opera scale. But we both had similar relations with our our moms after after the radio tapings and the TV things. GLORIA And her mom. They lived in Beverly Hills, right at Wilshire and Doheny, and they had their favorite chocolate and ice cream stops. And same thing for me, my mom would take me there, two doors down from the little studio where I was taking my tap classes. There was an ice cream parlor, haywoods ice cream. And that was, that was the the lure, if you go in and if you do your practicing, Ronnie, you can, I'll take it for an ice cream so that I did my practicing, had plenty of little treats on the way, so we had that in common, and we both just had very supportive moms that stayed out of the way, not, not what I would call a pushy parent, or, I think you mentioned the helicopter, helicopter, but it   Michael Hingson ** 33:37 but it sounds like you didn't necessarily need the bribes to convince you to tap dance, as you know, anyway, but they didn't hurt.   Ron Cocking ** 33:46 No, it didn't hurt at all, and it was something to look forward to, but I I just enjoyed it all along. Anyway, I finally got to to really showcase what I could do when I was cast as the dance director in the show 42nd street. Oh, wow. And I was lucky. We were lucky. San Bernardino clo was able to hire John Engstrom, who had done the show on Broadway. The earlier version that came, I think it was on Broadway in the mid or to late 70s. He had worked side by side with Gower Champion putting the show together. He told us all sorts of stories about how long it took Gower to put together that opening dance. Because everything in the opening number you you see those steps later in the show done by the chorus, because the opening number is an audition for dancers who want to be in this new Julian Marsh show. So the music starts, the audience hears, I know there must have been 20 of us tapping our feet off. And then a few seconds later, the curtain rises about two and a half feet. And then they see all these tapping feet. And then the main curtain goes out, and there we all are. And. I my part. I was facing upstage with my back to the audience, and then at some point, turned around and we did it was the most athletic, difficult, two and a half minute tap number I had ever done, I'll bet. But it was cool. There were five or six kids that had done it on Broadway and the national tour. And then during that audition, one more high point, if we have the time, we I was auditioning just like everybody else. The director had called and asked if I would audition, but he wasn't going to be choreographing. John Engstrom was so with there was probably 50 or 60 kids of all ages, some adults auditioning, and at one point, John pulled out one of the auditioners, and he happened to be one of my male tap dance students. And he said, Now I want everybody to watch Paul do this step. Paul did the step. He said, Now he said, Paul, someone is really teaching you well. He said, everybody that's the way to do a traveling timestamp so and that, you know, I'll remember that forever. And it ended up he hired. There were seven myself and seven other of my students were cast in that show. And some of them, some of them later, did the show in Las Vegas, different directors. But yeah, that, that was a high point for me.   Speaker 1 ** 36:19 I'm trying to remember the first time I saw 42nd street. I think I've seen it twice on Broadway. I know once, but we also saw it once at the Lawrence Welk Resorts condo there, and they did 42nd street. And that was a lot of that show was just a lot of fun. Anyway,   Ron Cocking ** 36:39 it's a fun show. And as John said in that show, The chorus is the star of the show.   Speaker 1 ** 36:45 Yeah, it's all about dancing by any by any definition, any standard. It's a wonderful show. And anybody who is listening or watching, if you ever get a chance to go see 42nd street do it, it is, it is. Well, absolutely, well worth it.   Ron Cocking ** 37:00 Yeah, good. Good show. Fantastic music, too. Well.   Michael Hingson ** 37:03 How did you and Gloria get along so well for so long, basically, 24 hours a day, doing everything together that that I would think you would even be a little bit amazed, not that you guys couldn't do it, but that you did it so well, and so many people don't do it well,   Ron Cocking ** 37:21 yeah, I don't know I from, from the the first time we met, we just seemed to be on the same wavelength. And by the way, I found out as time went by, Gloria was like Mrs. Humble. She wasn't a bragger, very humble. And it took me a while to find out what an excellent tap dancer she was. But when we went to the studio in the early days, we had, we just had one room. So she would teach actors for an hour, take a break. I would go in teach a tap class or a movement class or a ballet class. I in the early days, I taught, I taught it all. I taught ballet and jazz and and and and   Michael Hingson ** 38:01 tap. Well, let's let's be honest, she had to be able to tap dance around to keep ahead of Osgoode Conklin, but that's another story.   Ron Cocking ** 38:09 Yeah. So yeah, that. And as our studio grew, we would walk every day from our first studio down to the corner to a little wind chills donut shop wind chills donuts to get some coffee and come back. And about a year and a half later, after walking by this, this retail vacant spot that was two doors from our studio, we said, I wonder if that might be, you know, something for us, it had a four lease sign. So, long story short, we released it. The owner of the property loved knowing that Gloria Macmillan was that space. And so luckily, you know when things are supposed to happen. They happen as people would move out next to us, we would move in. So we ended up at that particular studio with five different studio rooms. Wow. And so then we can accommodate all of the above, acting, singing classes, all the dance disciplines, all at the same time, and we can, like, quadruple our student body. So then we made another move, because the neighborhood was kind of collapsing around us, we made another room and purchased a building that had been built as a racquetball club. It had six racquetball courts, all 20 by 40, beautiful hardwood. We made four of them, five of them into studios, and then there was a double racquetball racquetball court in the front of the building which they had tournaments in it was 40 by 40 we moved. We made that into a black box theater for Gloria. And the back wall of the theater was one inch glass outside of which the audiences for the racquetball tournaments used to sit. But outside the glass for us, we had to put curtains there, and out front for us was our. Gigantic lobby. The building was 32,000 square feet. Wow, we could it just made our heart, hearts sing when we could walk down that hallway and see a ballet class over here, a tap class over there, singers, singing actors in the acting room. It was beautiful. And again, it was just meant for us because it was our beautiful daughter, Kelly, who passed away just nine months after Gloria did. She's the one that said, you guys ought to look into that. And I said, Well, it's a racquetball court. But again, the first moment we walked in the front door, you start. We started thinking like, whoa. I think we could make this work. And it worked for another 20 years for us and broke our hearts to basically rip it apart, tear the theater down, and everything when we were moving out, because we we couldn't find another studio that was interested in in coming in, because they would have had to purchase the building. We wanted to sell the building. Yeah. So anyway, of all things, they now sell car mufflers out of there.   Michael Hingson ** 41:02 That's a little different way, way. Yeah, social shock, did any of your students become pretty well known in the in the entertainment world?   Ron Cocking ** 41:11 I wouldn't say well known, but a lot of them have worked a lot and made careers. Some of our former students are now in their 50s, middle 50s, pushing 60, and have done everything from cruise ship to Las Vegas to regional some national tours, even our son, Christopher, he did the national tour of meet me in St Louis with Debbie Boone, okay, and he's the one that is Now a successful producer. He's his latest hit. Well, his first, what can be considered legitimately a Broadway hit show was the show called shucked, and it opened about two years ago, I think, and I finally got to go back to New York and see it just a month before it closed. Very hilarious. Takes place in Iowa. The whole show is built around a county in which everybody that lives there makes their living off of corn, making whiskey. And it is a laugh, way more than a laugh a minute. But anyway, we had one of Gloria's acting students who was hired on with a Jonathan Winters TV sitcom called Davis rules. It ran for two seasons, and here he was like 16 or 17 years old, making, I think it was. He was making $8,000 a week, and he was in heaven. He looked like the Son he played, the grandson of Jonathan Winters and the son of Randy Quaid and so he, yeah, he was in heaven. And then after that, he did a very popular commercial, the 711 brain freeze commercial for Slurpee. The Slurpee, yeah, and he made the so much money from that, but then he kind of disappeared from showbiz. I don't know what he's doing nowadays,   Speaker 1 ** 43:00 but it's, it's, it's interesting to, you know, to hear the stories. And, yeah, I can understand that, that not everybody gets to be so famous. Everybody knows them, but it's neat that you had so many people who decided to make entertainment a career. So clearly, you had a pretty good influence on a lot of, a lot of kids.   Ron Cocking ** 43:20 Yes, I over the years, Gloria and I felt like we had 1000s of children of our own, that they that we had raised together. It's really a good feeling. And I still get phone calls. We got a phone call once a few years back from from one of our students who had been trying to crack the nut in New York, and she called us like 530 in the morning, because, of course, it was Yeah, but she had just signed her first national tour contract and was going to go out with the show cabaret. So fortunately, we were able to drive up to Santa not let's see, it's just below San San Jose. The show came through San Jose, and we got to see her up there. But those kinds of things are what made us keep teaching, year after year, all these success stories. Of course, we have former students that are now lawyers. Those are actors. Well, we   Michael Hingson ** 44:17 won't hold it and we understand, yeah and they are actors, by all means. How many teachers did you have in the studio when you had the big building?   Ron Cocking ** 44:26 Gosh, at one time, we had 10 or 12 teachers, teaching vocal teachers, two or three ballet teachers, jazz teachers, and you both taught as well. And we both continued teaching all through that time. We never just became managers, although that's that was part of it, and mixing business with art is a challenge, and it takes kind of a different mindset, and then what an unstoppable mindset you have to have in order to mix business with performing, because it's too. Different sides of your brain and a lot of patience and a lot of patience. And guess who taught me patience? Uh huh, Gloria Macmillan.   Michael Hingson ** 45:09 I would Conklin's daughter, yes, and I'll bet that's where she learned patience. No, I'm just teasing, but yeah, I hear you, yeah. Well, I know Karen and I were married for 40 years, until she passed in November of 2022 and there's so many similarities in what you're talking about, because we we could do everything together. We had challenges. Probably the biggest challenge that we ever had was we were living in Vista California, and I was working in Carlsbad, and the president of our company decided that we should open an office, because I was being very successful at selling to the government, we should open an office in the DC area. And so we both got excited about that. But then one day he came in and he had this epiphany. He said, No, not Virginia. I want you to open an office in New York. And Karen absolutely hated that she was ready to go to Virginia and all that.   Speaker 1 ** 46:15 But the problem for me was it was either move to New York or take a sales territory that didn't sell very much anymore. The owner wasn't really willing to discuss it, so we had some challenges over that, but the marriage was strong enough that it that it worked out, and we moved to New Jersey, and Karen made a lot of friends back there, but, you know, we always did most everything together. And then when the pandemic occurred, being locked down, it just proved all the more we just did everything together. We were together. We talked a lot, which is, I think one of the keys to any good marriages, and you talk and communicate.   Ron Cocking ** 46:56 Yes, in fact, when after we closed the studio in 2018 it took us a few more months to sell our home, and then when we moved down here, it was only about, I don't know, I don't know if it was a full year or not, but the pandemic hit and but it really didn't bother us, because we had, we had been working the teaching scene for so many years that we basically Were done. We basically walked out of the studio. We did. Neither of us have the desire to, well, let's continue in at some level, no, we cherished our time together. We have a little porch out in front of our home here, and it gets the ocean breeze, and we would sit for hours and chat. And oddly enough, not oddly, one of our favorite things to do, we have a website that we went to that had, I think, every radio show of armas Brooks ever made. And we would sit listen to those and just laugh. And, in fact, Gloria, there are some. She said, You know what? I don't even remember that episode at all. So yeah, that that was an interesting part. But yeah, Gloria and I, like your wife and you really enjoyed time together. We never talked about needing separate vacations or anything if we wanted to do something. We did it   Speaker 1 ** 48:16 together, yeah, and we did too. And you know, for us it was, it was out of desire, but also was easier for us, because she was in a wheelchair her whole life. I was I'm blind. I've been blind my whole life. And as I tell people, the marriage worked out well. She read, I pushed, and in reality, that really is the way it worked, yeah, yeah. Until she started using a power chair. Then I didn't push. I kept my toes out of the way. But still, it was, it was really did meld and mesh together very well and did everything   Ron Cocking ** 48:49 together. That's fantastic. I'm proud of you, Michael, and it really   Michael Hingson ** 48:53 it's the only way to go. So I miss her, but like, I keep telling people she's somewhere monitoring me, and if I misbehave, I'm going to hear about it. So I got to be a good kid,   Ron Cocking ** 49:04 and I'll hear I'll get some notes tonight from the spirit of Gloria McMillan too. I prayed to her before I went on. I said, please let the words flow and please not let me say anything that's inappropriate. And I think she's guided me through okay so far.   Michael Hingson ** 49:20 Well, if, if you do something you're not supposed to, she's gonna probably hit you upside the head. You know, did you two ever actually get to perform together?   Ron Cocking ** 49:30 Oh, I'm glad you asked that, because, well, it had been years since I knew that she was a darn good tap dancer. In fact, I had a tap dancing ensemble of of my more advanced kids, and if they wanted to dedicate the extra time that it took, we rehearsed them and let them perform at free of charge once they made it to that group, they they did not pay to come in and rehearse with me, because I would spend a lot of time standing there creating so. So we were doing a performance, and we wanted to spotlight, I forget the exact reason why we wanted to spotlight some of Gloria's career. Talk about radio a little bit. And I said, Gloria, would you do a little soft shoe routine? And because we had invited a mutual friend of ours, Walden Hughes, from the reps organization, and he was going to be the guest of honor, so I talked her into it. At first she wasn't going to go for it, but we had so much fun rehearsing it together. And it wasn't a long routine, it was relatively short, beautiful music, little soft shoe, and it was so much fun to say that we actually tap danced together. But the other times that we actually got to work together was at the old time radio conventions, mostly with reps, and that's really when I got to sit on stage. I was kind of typecast as an announcer, and I got to do some commercials. I got to sing once with Lucy arnazza. Oh, life, a life boy soap commercial. But when Gloria, Well, Gloria did the lead parts, and oh my gosh, that's when I realized what a superb actress she was. And if I don't know if you've heard of Greg Oppenheimer, his father, Jess Oppenheimer created the I Love Lucy shows, and so Gloria loved Jess Oppenheimer. And so Greg Oppenheimer, Jess Son, did a lot of directing, and oh my gosh, I would see he came in very well prepared and knew how the lines should be delivered. And if Gloria was not right on it, he would say, No, wait a minute, Gloria, I want you to emphasize the word decided, and that's going to get the laugh. And when he gave her a reading like that man, the next time she went through that dialog, just what he had asked for. And I thought, Oh my gosh. And her timing, after watching so many armist Brooks TV and listening to radio shows. GLORIA learned her comedic timing from one of the princesses of comedy timing is Eve Arden, right? They were so well for obvious reasons. They were so very similar. And if you have time to story for another story, do you know have you heard of Bob Hastings? He was the lieutenant on McHale's navy. McHale's Navy, right? Yeah. Well, he also did a lot of old time radio. So we went up to Seattle,   Michael Hingson ** 52:32 our two grandkids, Troy Amber, he played, not Archie. Was it Henry Aldridge? He was on,   Ron Cocking ** 52:40 I think you're right. I'm not too up on the cast of the old time radio show. Yeah, I think you're right. But anyway, he was there, and there was an actress that had to bow out. I don't know who that was, but our grandsons and Gloria and I, we walked in, and as usual, we say hi to everybody. We're given a big packet of six or eight scripts each, and we go to our room and say, Oh my gosh. Get out the pencils, and we start marking our scripts. So we get a phone call from Walden, and he said, hey, Ron Bob. Bob Hastings wants to see Gloria in his room. He wants to read through he's not sure if he wants to do the Bickersons script, because he you know, the gal bowed out and right, you know, so Gloria went down   Michael Hingson ** 53:23 couple of doors, coming   Ron Cocking ** 53:26 Yes, and she so she came back out of half an hour, 40 minutes later, and she said, well, that little stinker, he was auditioning me. He went in and she went in and he said, Well, you know, I don't know if I want to do this. It doesn't seem that funny to me. Let's read a few lines. Well, long story short, they read the whole thing through, and they were both, they were both rolling around the floor. I'll bet they laughing and so and then jump to the following afternoon, they did it live, and I was able to watch. I had some pre time, and I watched, and they were just fantastic together. I left after the show, I went to the green room, had a little snack, and I was coming back to our room, walking down the hall, and here comes Bob Hastings, and he says, oh, Ron. He said, Your wife was just fantastic. So much better than the other girl would have been. So when I told GLORIA That story that made her her day, her week. She felt so good about that. So that's my Bob Hastings story. Bob Hastings and Gloria Macmillan were great as the Bickersons.   Speaker 1 ** 54:29 Yeah, that was a very clever show. It started on the Danny Thomas show, and then they they ended up going off and having their own show, Francis Langford and Donna Michi, but they were very clever.   Ron Cocking ** 54:42 Now, did you realize when now that you mentioned Danny Thomas? Did you realize that Gloria's mom, Hazel McMillan, was the first female agent, talent agent in Hollywood? No, and that's how you know when the. They moved from from Portland, Oregon, a little city outside of Portland. They moved because Gloria's mom thought she had talent enough to do radio, and it wasn't a year after they got here to LA that she did her first national show for Lux radio at the age of five. That was in 1937 with with Edward G Robinson. I've got a recording of that show. What's what show was it? It was a Christmas show. And I don't remember the name of the of it, but it was a Christmas show. It was Walden that sent us. Sent   Michael Hingson ** 55:33 it to us. I'll find it. I've got it, I'm sure.   Ron Cocking ** 55:35 And so, yeah, so, so Gloria was a member of what they called the 500 club. There was a group of, I don't know, nine or 10 kids that by the time the photograph that I have of this club, it looks like Gloria is around 12 to 14 years old, and they had all done 500 or more radio shows. Wow, that's a lot of radio show. There's a lot of radio So Gloria did, I mean, I got a short my point was, her mom was an agent, and when Gloria was working so consistently at armas Brooks, she said, Well, I'm kind of out of a job. I don't need to take you. GLORIA could drive then. And so she came back from the grocery store, Ralph's market near Wilshire and Doheny, and she came back said, Well, I know what I'm going to do. I ran into this cute little boy at the grocery store. I'm going to represent him for television. And she that's, she started the Hazel McMillan agency, and she ran that agency until she just couldn't anymore. I think she ran it until early 1980s but she, my god, she represented people like Angela Cartwright on the Danny Thomas show and Kathy Garver on, all in the family a family affair. Family Affair. Yeah. Jane north. Jane North went in for Dennis the Menace. He didn't get the role. He came back said, Hazel, I don't think they liked me, and they didn't. They didn't call me back or anything. Hazel got on that phone, said, Look, I know this kid can do what you're asking for. I want you to see him again. He went back and they read him again. He got the part, yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 57:21 and he was perfect for it.   Ron Cocking ** 57:22 He was perfect for that part was, I'm sorry.   Michael Hingson ** 57:27 It's sad that he passed earlier this year.   Ron Cocking ** 57:29 Yeah, he passed and he had, he had a tough life, yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 57:36 well, you know, tell me you, you have what you you have some favorite words of wisdom. Tell me about those.   Ron Cocking ** 57:45 Oh, this goes back to the reason why I came across this when I was looking for something significant to say on the opening of one of our big concert programs. We used to do all of our shows at the California theater of Performing Arts in San Bernardino, it's a really, a real gem of a theater. It's where Will Rogers gave his last performance. And so I came across this, and it's, I don't know if this is biblical, you might, you might know, but it's, if you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. If you teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime. And that's what I felt like Gloria and I were trying to do. We wanted to teach these kids as as professionally. We treated our students as they were, as if they were little professionals. We we expected quality, we expected them to work hard, but again, Gloria taught me patience, unending patience. But we knew that we wanted them to feel confident when the time came, that they would go out and audition. We didn't want them to be embarrassed. We want we wanted them to be able to come back to us and say, Boy, I felt so good at that audition. I knew all the steps I was and I and I read so well it was. And thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And so that aspect of it, we felt that we were feeding them for a lifetime, but we also were creating all of these arts patrons, all these lovers of the arts, 1000s of kids now love to go to musicals and movies and plays because they've kind of been there and done that at our studio. And so anyway, that's and whether, whether or not it was their confidence in show business or whether it was their confidence we've had so many calls from and visits from parents and former students saying, Boy, I just was awarded a job. And they said my my communication skills were excellent, and I owe that to Gloria. I was on the beach the other day, and I looked over and there was this young man and his wife. I assumed it was his wife. It was they were setting. Up their beach chairs, and I looked and I say, Excuse me, is your name Brandon? And he said, No, but he said, Is your name Ron? And I said, Yes. He said, No, my name is Eric. And I said, Eric puentes. And so we reminisced for a while. He took tap from me. He took acting from Gloria, and he said, you know, he was sad to hear of Gloria's passing. And he said, You know, I owe so much to Gloria. I learned so much about speaking in front of groups. And he is now a minister. He has his own church in Redlands, California, and he's a minister. And of all the billion people on the beach, he sits next to me. So that's one of those things when it's supposed to   Michael Hingson ** 1:00:41 happen. It happens. It does. Yeah, well, and as we talked about earlier, you and Gloria did lots of stuff with reps, and I'm going to miss it this time, but I've done a few, and I'm going to do some more. What I really enjoy about people who come from the radio era, and who have paid attention to the radio era is that the acting and the way they project is so much different and so much better than people who have no experience with radio. And I know Walden and I have talked about the fact that we are looking to get a grant at some point so that we can train actors or people who want to be involved in these shows, to be real actors, and who will actually go back and listen to the shows, listen to what people did, and really try to bring that forward into the recreations, because so many people who haven't really had the experience, or who haven't really listened to radio programs sound so forced, as opposed to natural.   Ron Cocking ** 1:01:46 I agree, and I know exactly what you're saying. In fact, Walden on a couple of at least two or three occasions, he allowed us to take some of Gloria's acting students all the way to Seattle, and we did some in for the spurred vac organization Los Angeles, we did a beautiful rendition of a script that we adapted of the Velveteen Rabbit. And of all people, Janet Waldo agreed to do the fairy at the end, and she was exquisite. And it's only like, I don't know, four or five lines, and, oh my gosh, it just wrapped it up with a satin bow. And, but, but in some of our kids, yeah, they, they, they were very impressed by the radio, uh, recreations that they were exposed to at that convention.   Speaker 1 ** 1:02:37 Yeah, yeah. Well, and it's, it is so wonderful to hear some of these actors who do it so well, and to really see how they they are able to pull some of these things together and make the shows a lot better. And I hope that we'll see more of that. I hope that we can actually work to teach more people how to really deal with acting from a standpoint of radio,   Ron Cocking ** 1:03:04 that's a great idea. And I know Walden is really sensitive to that. He Yeah, he would really be a proponent of that.   Michael Hingson ** 1:03:10 Oh, he and I have talked about it. We're working on it. We're hoping we can get some things. Well, I want to thank you for being here. We've been doing this an hour already.  

Reuben Leder joined me to discuss his family moving with the Dodger in 1958; learning all the jobs of the movies while working on his fathers low budget films; his pilot Strange Customs; his fathers films I Dismember Mama and Ape; working with Victor Buono, working on last season of Incredible Hulk; working on Magnum PI; being sent to Hawaii; diffusing Darren McGavin; working on all aspects of the show; writing John Hillerman's Higgins monologues; his photographic memory and late night drinking; working with Orson Welles & Kim Richards on episode "Mixed Doubles"; Tom Selleck saying he was the only one who could write Magnum; getting an ear for music / dialogue as Jackie DeShannon's drummer at 14; playing on Magnum softball team against Orlando Cepeda; the Luther Gillis episodes; one was a back door pilot; brilliance of Eugene Roche; selling his first script to Alex Karras; Ivan Dixon; writing a song for a Magnum episode and getting $40,000 in royalties; Ernest Borgnine; leaving after season 6 due to too much rewriting freelancers scripts; Charles Floyd Johnson; writing a Rockford Files movie; being praised about script script from James Garner and cursed at by Rita Moreno; missing Frank Sinatra; working on Downtown with a young Mariska Hargitay; pilots: Danger Down Under with Lee Majors and Badlands 2005 with Sharon Stone; writing a Land of the Lost and Star Trek TNG under a pseudonym; the Star Trek TNG being on the last of 100 Greatest Episodes of all time.

TVC 704.1: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with award-winning producer, director, and author Joseph Wallenstein (Knots Landing, Hotel, Seventh Heaven, Flynn vs. Miranda, Nothing Dies for Film), longtime director of physical production for the USC School of Cinematic Arts and the host of the new podcast Whatcha Know Joe? Topics this segment include Joe's experience working with Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Screamin' Jay Hawkins in American Hot Wax; working with Alex Karras, Garo Yepremian, Mike Lucci, and other NFL players in Paper Lion; and how Joe singlehandedly “nearly ruined” The Godfather (according to director Francis Ford Coppola). Whatcha Know Joe? is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever else you find podcasts.

Updated For 2025! This Week In Wrestling History (Season 3 Week 17) covering the period of 4/23 thru 4/29. Running Time: 4 Hours 20 Minutes. This Week In Wrestling History hosted by Don Tony first aired in 2018 and spanned two seasons. After much demand, these retro episodes return REMASTERED and UPDATED FOR 2025. Wrestling history up to and including 2024 has been added! Hundreds of hours of original wrestling clips & stories. Enjoy this deep dive into pro wrestling's awesome history. RUNNING TIME: 4 Hours 20 MinutesHosted by Don Tony SYNOPSIS: S3 E17 (04/23 - 04/29) Alex Karras and Dick The Bruiser turn their 'feud' into a real life bar fight with patrons and Detroit Cops. Bruno Sammartino breaks his neck during a WWWF Title Match against Stan Hansen. Tommy Rich def Harley Race to win the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. Audio: Infamous Empty Arena Match between Terry Funk and Jerry 'The King' Lawler including the memorable UNCENSORED Terry Funk pre match promo. Superstar Billy Graham wrestles last WWF match (1983) and leaves company (for AWA) due to issues including painkiller abuse. Audio: How does Verne Gagne and AWA celebrates the one year anniversary of their fu**ery towards AWA fans and Hulk Hogan? By doing it again but this time, it's 'Super'. Looking back at AWA Super Sunday event (1983). Almost three years to the day the AWA fu**ery began for Hulk Hogan, The Hulkster (now WWF Champion) lands the cover of Sports Illustrated. Jerry 'The King' Lawler loses his first Hair match and the Southern Heavyweight Title. Ken Patera makes his WWF return after serving two years in prison for the McDonalds incident. Bonus Audio: Looking back at the night both Bobby Heenan and Andy Kaufman managed Ken Patera against Jerry Lawler. The Fantastics end The Midnight Express' 345 day record reign as NWA US Tag Team Champions. Sting and Lex Luger defeat Tully Blanchard and Arn Anderson to win last ever Jim Crockett Sr Memorial Cup Tag Team Tournament. Big Bubba Rogers wrestles last match in Japan (teams with Jimmy Snuka) before signing with WWF and becoming The Big Boss Man. Looking back at Episode 21 of Saturday Night Main Event (1989). Looking back at New Japan's first event (Battle Satellite) from the Tokyo Done (1989). Mr Perfect defeats Tito Santana in a tournament final to win the vacated WWF IC Championship (previously held by The Ultimate Warrior). ECW crowns its first ever ECW Champion (Jimmy Snuka), just to lose it a day later to Johnny Hotbody. Sid Vicious abruptly leaves WWF after a match against The Ultimate Warrior. The Heavenly Bodies def The Fantastics to become the first ever Smokey Mountain Wrestling Tag Team Champions. Naliz makes his WWF debut, attacking The Big Boss Man. Bonus Audio: A tale of two Nailz promos: One with the WWF voice modulation and one without. Tammy Sytch debuts for Smokey Mountain Wrestling. Sean Waltman (as The Lightning Kid) makes his WWF debut. WWF signs Boni Blackstone. Captain Lou Albano manages his last tag team to WWF Tag Team Championship victory as The Headshrinkers defeat The Quebecers. Looking back at the Sumo Match between Earthquake and Yokozuna on Monday Night Raw. Looking back at AAA Triplemania II-A event (1997). Audio: Hunter Hearst Helmsley makes his WWF in ring debut, beating convicted Pedophile Buck 'Rock And Roll' Zumhoff. Audio: Triple H speaks on the origins of the 'Hunter Hearst Helmsley character and name. Hulk Hogan finalizes paperwork to launch a small chain of Pastamania restaurants. Looking back at WCW and New Japan 'Collision In Korea' two day event in North Korea. Looking back at WWF 'In Your House 7: Good Friends, Better Enemies' PPV (1996). 'Fat Frank' Iadevia (RIP) causes local controversy in NY/NJ after and odd in call-in to The Howard Stern Show. D-Generation X attempts to invade WCW event. Audio: Val Venis is 'coming' with Jenna Jameson. Audio: Bruce Prichard speaks on the D-X WCW Invasion skits behind the cameras. Looking back at WWF 'In Your House 21: Unforgiven' PPV (1998). Looking back at the first annual 'Brian Pillman Memorial Event' (1998), and the WWF House Show that also raised money for the family of the late Brian Pillman. Audio: DDP loses the WCW Heavyweight Championship to an insanely over Sting during an episode of Monday Nitro - just to win the title back later the same night. While Ric Flair is stuck in a Mental Hospital during WCW Monday Nitro, Steve Austin rescues Stephanie McMahon from the Ministry Of Darkness. WWF tapes the pilot episode of Smackdown (1999). The Corporate Ministry of Darkness is formed. Juventud Guerrera and Jerry Flynn arrested in PA for DWI. Looking back at WWF 'In Your House 28: Backlash' PPV event (1999). Steve Austin returns to WWF TV with a bang! and blows up the DX Express Tour Bus. David Arquette wins the WCW World Heavyweight Championship, and donates his earnings to the families of Brian Pillman and Owen Hart, and to Droz. Sabu defeats The Messiah in a tournament final to win the vacated XPW Heavyweight Championship (previously held by Chris Candido). Steve Corino defeats Mike Rapada to win the NWA Heavyweight Championship. Looking back at WWF Backlash PPV (2001, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009 Audio: Randy Orton makes his WWF main roster debut. 'The Scorpion King' starring The Rock opens up to record revenue numbers at the box office. Steve Austin announces his in ring retirement (2003). Audio: Only hours after announcing his retirement from in ring action, Steve Austin becomes Co-GM of Raw with Eric Bischoff. Randy Orton spits in the face of Harley Race. Looking back at TNA 'Lockdown' PPV (2005, 2006) Chris Candido suffers serious ankle and leg injury during match on TNA PPV, and sadly passes away only days later due to a blood clot. WWE starts contacting former ECW stars about appearing for WWE relaunch of ECW brand. MTV and Viacom sign off on the creation of Wrestling Society X. Hogan Knows Best renewed for a third season. Looking back at the World Wrestling Legends '6:05 - The Reunion' PPV (2006). 'The Condemned' starring Steve Austin hits movie theaters to terrible reviews. Audio: Vince McMahon wins the ECW Heavyweight Championship. One of the greatest matches in WWE Raw history: Shawn Michaels and John Cena battle almost an hour on Raw (HBK wins). Reid Flair arrested after DWI incident involving heroin and driving with a revoked license. Looking back at WWE 'Extreme Rules' PPV (2010, 2012). Looking back at 2010 WWE Draft (Kelly Kelly #1 Draft Pick) Audio: TNA Monday Night Impact Main Event: Abyss vs Ric Flair battle over WWE Hall Of Fame Rings. Monday Night Wars II: After bombing to record low ratings, Dixie Carter announces Impact moving back to Thursday nights. WWE releases Tony Atlas. TNA fires Bubba 'The Love Sponge' after horrendous comments towards Haiti. Lisa Marie Varon (aka Tara, Victoria) announces her exit from TNA, just to return two months later. Audio: 2011 WWE Draft opens up Raw with John Cena drafted to Smackdown, just to be traded by to Raw by the end of the show. Nick Gage sentenced after pleading guilty to Second Degree Bank Robbery. WWE launches their 'Be A STAR' Anti-Bullying campaign. Audio: Cesaro makes his WWE main roster debut. Audio: Stevie Richards speaks on Justin Credible passing out backstage prior to Extreme Rising Event (2012). Audio: Nikki and Brie Bella 'fired' from WWE (2012), which leads to their legit exit until Spring 2013. Looking back at TNA 'Sacrifice' PPV (2014). Bad News Barrett defeats Neville to win the WWE 2015 King Of The Ring Tournament. Jeff Hardy suffers a broken leg after a Dirt Bike stunt goes wrong. WWE releases NXT Talents: Mason Ryan, Raquel Diaz, Shaul Guerrero, Oliver Grey, and Sarah Backman. Kalisto defeats Braun Strowman in a terrible Dumpster Match on Raw. At least Kalisto suffers a great post match beat down Audio: Conan O'Brien takes shots at WWE after being labeled as 'Essential Business' during the Pandemic Looking back at the first Saudi Arabia event "The Greatest Royal Rumble" (2018) Audio: Titus O'Neil stumbles his way into an all-time viral moment during the Greatest Royal Rumble match Audio: Hulk Hogan talks candid about using the 'N' Word and being labeled as a racist. The most Hogan has ever spoken about this story Lilian Garcia makes her return to ring announcing. But it isn't for WWE or even a pro wrestling company The very beginnings of the overhyped AEW fake news, led by Dave Meltzer started this week. And you won't believe the level of fake news they were attempting to present Looking back at Impact Wrestling: Rebellion 2019, 2021, 2022 Charlotte and Andrade get engaged  Dutch Mantel' infamous fake news tweet and delete claiming he 'overheard directly' at WWE Headquarters of an imminent sale with Disney Audio: Very interesting information from Triple H and Vince McMahon about locker morale and precautions being taken during Covid-19 pandemic Audio: Jim Cornette receives alot of heat discussing Velveteen Dream's alleged online incident with a minor Less than a day being released from 1+ year prison sentence, Tammy Sytch launches an OnlyFans account Audio: After being released by WWE, Drake Maverick cries himself into making a fortune on Cameo Bronson Rechsteiner (Bron Breakker) signed by Baltimore Ravens during 2020 NFL Draft WWE signs Samantha Irvin and Megan Morant Sasha Banks gets her own Star Wars: The Mandalorian action figure WWE releases Dexter Lumis, Dakota Kai, Harland, Persia Pirotta, Malcom Bivens, Draco Anthony and several others Bray Wyatt and JoJo Offerman get engaged CM Punk, while still under AEW contract, visits Impact Wrestling and WWE RAW backstage Naomi (Trinity) makes her Impact Wrestling debut Looking back at WWE Draft 2023 and 2024 Looking back at NXT Spring Breakin' 2023 and 2024 Audio: Oba Femi makes his NXT in-ring debut Audio: Triple H reveals the creation of the WWE World Heavyweight Championship Samoa Joe signs to co-star in the Twisted Metal TV series NJPW and Stardom for an alliance Audio: Ronda Rousey explains why WWE is a 'disorganized sh*t show' Jesse 'The Body' Ventura and WWE reopen discussions about a future return to WWE Dave Meltzer reveals he was told that The Rock' recent promos and vulgar Paul Heyman WWE HOF Speech are considered the 'official end of the PG era' Darby Allin breaks his news after being clipped by a New York Bus Audio: Jack Perry and Young Bucks attack Tony Khan on AEW Dynamite Audio: Tony Khan mocked by non-wrestling news media and NFL owners for the way he sold his 'injuries' on AEW Dynamite Audio: Tony Khan appears on NFL Network and proceeds to call WWE 'The Harvey Weinstein Of Pro Wrestling And so much more! 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Send us a textThe first Outdated Wrestling Hour of the New Year will feature returning co-host Joe Puccio, who joins host Bob Smith (Pro Wrestling Illustrated, WCW Magazine) as the veteran duo looks back at celebrity involvement in pro wrestling - and also pro wrestlings who later became celebrities in their own right. We know you know all about John Cena and The Rock - but do you know who Mike Mazurki is (no, it's not The Miz)? Alex Karras? Someone who billed himself as "Iau Kea" in a feature film. Check out the old-time wrestlers who went into showbiz and the Holllywood stars who dared  entere the ring in the third season OWH opener!Support the showContact us at outdatedwrestling@gmail.com!

In this one, Jerry and Eddie talk a walk up the monument, Whoopi Goldberg, Gumbel Love with the Mr. Belvedere Cast, Alex Karras vs Dan Dierdorf and so much more.  Enjoy!

Dave Hackel joined me to discuss growing up in Delaware, Ohio; being kept busy by TV; working in radio at 14; doing everything for a cable channel in Columbus for three years; moving to LA and getting a job that supplied prizes for game shows; Turtle wax; writing in the same building as game show writers; getting first break, on Fish; working with Abe Vigoda; getting staff jobs on Shirley, a Shirley Jones sitcom; writing the made-for-TV movie, The Great American Traffic Jam; writing a Love Boat; Harper Valley PTA; 9 to 5 and meeting with April Kelley; doing Webster and working with Bruce Johnson; problems on the set; Alex Karras & Susan Clark vs. Emmanuel Lewis & producers; Out of this World; writing for Dear John; an episode he writes wins Cleavon Little an Emmy; Bill Asher (Bewitched) was a fan of Becker; being a consultant on Frasier; writing #2 Wings fan favorite "Stand Up Kind of Guy"; the story behind it; Wings being a show the meant something to him professionally and personally; working with Al Franken on Lateline; Becker having come from a previous pilot; making him a doctor and casting Ted Danson; test pilot script read; Ian Gurvitz's contributions; trying to make Becker dramatic and showcase issues and still be funny; retirement; travelling the US with his wife, Peter Casey and his wife; Detroit; Motown Museum; Kansas City; Minneapolis; becoming a Padres fan late in life; game show writers; Markie Post; Monty Hall; guests over 90; meeting Carl Reiner; Shawnee Smith; teaching in NYC; teenage political apathy; April Kelly's memory and not knowing who the hosts and musical guests on SNL anymore.

Alan Alda plays George Plimpton in Paper Lion, the 1968 film based on Plimpton's book of the same title.  The book and film chronicle his attempt at joining the Detroit Lions during pre-season training for a story in Sports Illustrated.  Several real life football players appear as themselves in the film inlcuding Alex Karras (who starred two more times on film with Alda in Springtime and M*A*S*H*), Frank Gifford, Joe Schmidt, and Lem Barney.  In the shortest Hot Date to date and after many technical snafus, Dan and Vicky discuss the film along with some recently seen.  New horror Immaculate and Late Night with the Devil get the spotlight but also look for reviews for the new Ghostbusters, Godzilla x Kong, and the reality franchise Traitors on Peacock.  Check us out on all our socials:  hotdatepod.com FB:  Hot Date Podcast Twitter: @HotDate726 Insta:  hotdatepod

In this exciting, last-minute, long-touchdown-pass-to-win-the-game-type of episode, your Film Freak hosts, Phoef Sutton and Mark Jordan Legan, guzzle Gatorade, draw up some plays, and take the field to shine stadium lights on a wonderful, fun, interesting topic: pro athletes who went into acting. Some crashed and burned, but others showed real talent and became successful box office/TV ratings stars! Everyone from Babe Ruth to Jim Brown to Alex Karras to the late, great Carl Weathers are discussed as your Film Freaks bring you in-depth trivia and, of course, many terrific and entertaining audio clips from the dozens of films and TV shows they cover. Get your uniform on and meet us on the field, rookie! High five! This episode is sponsored by: Libro.fm (FILMFREAKSFOREVER) | 2 audiobooks for the price of 1 when you start your membership The Writer's Bone Podcast Network

Alex karras was a star on the field for the Detroit Lions in the 1960s. And then he tackled a new career challenge: acting. One of his most iconic roles was in 1974's "Blazing Saddles." He was, of course, Mongo. Later karras starred in the ABC sitcom "Webster," and along the way he also joined the Monday Night Football broadcast crew. And that's kind of where he got the idea for his 1991 novel called Tuesday Night Football. In this 1991 interview Karras reflects on his successes, Get Tuesday Night Football by Alex KarrasAs an Amazon Associate, Now I've Heard Everything earns from qualifying purchases.You may also enjoy my interviews with Dick Butkus and Bart Starr For more vintage interviews with celebrities, leaders, and influencers, subscribe to Now I've Heard Everything on Spotify, Apple Podcasts. and now on YouTube Photo by

Bruce Ferber and I discuss reading sports books as a kid; Thomas Wolffe; attending a summer writing session at Andover while in high school; Phillip Roth; Woody Allen; publishers don't like comic novels; the genesis of his novel "I Buried Paul"; meeting struggling musicians without an outlet; session musicians; there are less crappy sitcoms on now; his book "Elevating Oberman" and subsequent tour; "Cascade Falls" and cookie cutter architecture; "The Way We Work" reveals show business from all angles; Billy Van Zandt tells his Lucy story in "The Way We Work"; Steven Van Zandt endorses "I Buried Paul"; going to NYU to be a director; doing six months of film editing and six months writing; writing a spec M*A*S*H* and getting hired to write two Bosom Buddies and a Laverne & Shirley; working on House Calls, Star of the Family, Jennifer Slept Here and Oh, Madeline; writing a Simon & Simon; working on Webster and having Alex Karras be a jerk; Eugene Roche; Facts of Life; bad timing for Gung Ho; Duet; working with Alison LaPlaca, Chris Lemmon, Ellen DeGeneres, Danny Gans; working on Growing Pains but not getting to write an episode; working on Nurses; Coach and Craig T. Nelson; running Home Improvement; the cancer scare episode; Sabrina, the Teenage Witch; his spec Cheers; his film "Praying for Tucson" about Presidential candidate Howard Dean; Dan vs.; his wife's passing; pitching an animated series based on the book "Dazzle" about a misanthropic dog

RMR 0220: Join your hosts Bryan Frye, Chad Robinson, and Russell Guest for the Retro Movie Roundtable as they revisit Blazing Saddles (1974) [R] Genre: Comedy, Western Starring: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, Harvey Korman, Madeline Kahn, Mel Brooks, Burton Gilliam, Alex Karras, David Huddleston, Liam Dunn, John Hillerman, George Furth, Jack Starrett, Carol Arthur, Richard Collier, Charles McGregor, Robyn Hilton, Don Megowan, Dom DeLuise Director: Mel Brooks Recorded on 2022-06-27

In diesem Special kümmern sich Andreas und Carsten um die Lions und ihre Geschichte. Es geht also um : Nassau, Rosa Parks, Berry Gordon, Spartans, George A. Richardson, Thanksgiving, Fred L. Mantel. Y.A. Title, Gerry Perry, Playoff-Bowl, Cleveland Rams, Alan Alda, Alex Karras, Barry Sanders, Restore the Roar, Jeff Jackson, BBQ, Kansas, Billy Sims, Karate-Run, Turin, Charles Rodgers, Calvin Johnson, Matt Millen….Und natürlich Dan Campbell und Amon-Ra St. Brown! Viel Spass! Die aktuelle Folge von Mister Waschsalon Heddergott findet ihr übrigens hier : https://open.spotify.com/episode/3DGPEqCNWdcRd8GDwLDkJm?si=Yo2hgBXEQsyQSpVcd7PY2g&nd=1

Back by Popular Demand! This Week In Wrestling History hosted by Don Tony aired back in 2018-2019 and spanned two seasons. These retro episodes return remastered and will be posted every Tuesday at 4PM EST. These episodes are filled with hundreds of hours of original wrestling clips & stories. Enjoy this deep dive into pro wrestling's awesome history. SYNOPSIS: S2 E17 (04/23 - 04/29)  Alex Karras and Dick The Bruiser turn their feud into a real life bar fight with patrons and Detroit Cops Bruno Sammartino breaks his neck during a WWWF Title Match vs Stan Hansen Audio: Infamous Empty Arena Match: Terry Funk and Jerry Lawler including UNCENSORED Funk pre match promo Superstar Billy Graham wrestles last WWF match 1983 and leaves for AWA Audio: Verne Gagne celebrates anniversary of their fu**ery towards AWA fans and Hulk Hogan by doing it again Jerry Lawler loses his first Hair match and Southern Heavyweight Title Ken Patera makes WWF return after 2 years in prison Audio: Looking back at the night Bobby Heenan and Andy Kaufman managed Ken Patera against Jerry Lawler ECW crowns first Champion Jimmy Snuka just to lose it a day later to Johnny Hotbody Sid Vicious leaves WWF after a match vs Ultimate Warrior Heavenly Bodies become first Smokey Mountain Wrestling Tag Champs Naliz makes WWF debut attacking The Big Boss Man Audio: A tale of two Nailz promos: With WWF voice modulation and without Debuts of Tammy Sytch for Smokey Mountain Wrestling and Sean Waltman for WWF Looking back at Sumo Match between Earthquake and Yokozuna on Raw Audio: Hunter Hearst Helmsley WWF in ring debut, def convicted Pedophile Buck Zumhoff Looking back at WCW and New Japan Collision In Korea Fat Frank Iadevia causes local controversy in NY/NJ after odd call-in to Howard Stern Show DX attempts to invade WCW event Audio: Val Venis is 'coming' w/Jenna Jameson Looking back: first Brian Pillman Memorial Show Audio: DDP loses WCW Championship to Sting on Nitro just to win the title back the same night While Ric Flair is in a Mental Hospital on Nitro, Steve Austin rescues Stephanie McMahon from Ministry Of Darkness on Raw WWF tapes Smackdown pilot 1999 Juventud Guerrera arrested in PA for DWI Steve Austin returns to WWF TV and blows up DX Express Tour Bus David Arquette wins WCW Championship and donates his pay to families of Brian Pillman and Owen Hart, and to Droz Sabu def The Messiah to win the vacant XPW Championship Audio: Randy Orton makes his WWF main roster debut The Condemned starring Steve Austin hits movie theaters to terrible reviews Audio: Only hours after announcing his retirement, Steve Austin becomes Raw Co-GM with Eric Bischoff Randy Orton spits in the face of Harley Race Chris Candido suffers ankle and leg injury during match on TNA PPV, and sadly passes away days later due to a blood clot Audio: Vince McMahon wins ECW Championship One of the greatest matches in Raw history: Shawn Michaels & John Cena battle almost an hour Looking back: 2010 WWE Draft (Kelly Kelly #1 Pick) Audio: TNA Monday Night Impact Main Event: Abyss vs Ric Flair battle over WWE Hall Of Fame Rings Monday Night Wars II: After bombing in ratings, Dixie Carter announces Impact moving back to Thursdays. TNA fires Bubba The Love Sponge after comments towards Haiti Audio: 2011 WWE Draft opens with John Cena drafted to Smackdown just to be traded by to Raw by end of the show Nick Gage sentenced after pleading guilty to Second Degree Bank Robbery WWE launches their Be A STAR campaign Audio: Cesaro makes WWE main roster debut Audio: Nikki & Brie Bella 'fired' from WWE 2012, which leads to their legit exit Jeff Hardy suffers broken leg after a Dirt Bike stunt goes wrong And much more! CLICK HERE to listen to THIS WEEK IN WRESTLING HISTORY S2 E17 (4/23 – 4/29) online RIGHT CLICK AND SAVE to download the AUDIO episode of THIS WEEK IN WRESTLING HISTORY S2 E17 (4/23 – 4/29) online CLICK HERE to access previous episodes for all the shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

00:00 – 27:37 – Broadcasting legend Bob Costas joins us and talks about what the state of Indiana means to him and his broadcasting career, Spirits of St. Louis, his relationship with Bob Knight, ping ponging between the NBA Final and the OJ Simpson Bronco chase, interviewing the likes of Paul McCartney and Wilt Chamberlain, what he considers low moments in his career that he could re-do, memories of Michael Jordan's return game at Market Square Arena, what he considers his signature call or moment of his career 27:38 – 44:13 – The Athletic's Dane Brugler joins us and debates whether the top four quarterbacks are actually franchise QBs or just four franchises that need QBs, Anthony Richardson and Will Levis, his grade on Hendon Hooker, projecting on who could be Hall of Famers on offense and defense in this draft class, safety depth 44:14 – 57:01 - Bengals offensive lineman Ted Karras on his work with Village of Merici, drinking a gallon of milk a day when he was younger, thriving with the Bengals,  playing with Tom Brady and Joe Burrow, his famous actor relative Alex Karras, being on the field during the Damar Hamlin situationSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

00:00- 24:38– Bob Costs joining us today at 9, his most iconic moments, Shane Steichen spoke yesterday, NBA Play-in games see both 10 seeds win, Bulls have to fly from Toronto to Miami 24:39 – 32:20  – Morning Checkdown 32:21 – 46:09 – Shane Steichen meets the Colts roster, players who may benefit from the coaching change, the importance of a pass catching tight end 46:10 – 1:16:54 – Kliff Kingsbury joins Lincoln Riley's USC staff, Indy to Paris nonstop flight, Morning Checkdown, The Athletic's Dane Brugler joins us and debates whether the top four quarterbacks are actually franchise QBs or just four franchises that need QBs, Anthony Richardson and Will Levis, his grade on Hendon Hooker, projecting on who could be Hall of Famers on offense and defense in this draft class, safety depth 1:16:55 – 1:27:22 – Colts draft needs, how often do teams take a player late in the draft that they know very little about, positions of priority, Jake's attendance figures beef 1:27:23 – 1:33:59 – Shane Steichen is “all ball”, Price Is Right games 1:34:00 – 2:05:13 – Broadcasting legend Bob Costas joins us and talks about what the state of Indiana means to him and his broadcasting career, Spirits of St. Louis, his relationship with Bob Knight, ping ponging between the NBA Final and the OJ Simpson Bronco chase, interviewing the likes of Paul McCartney and Wilt Chamberlain, what he considers low moments in his career that he could re-do, memories of Michael Jordan's return game at Market Square Arena, what he considers his signature call or moment of his career, Morning Checkdown   2:05:14 – 2:08:55 – POP QUIZ 2:08:56 – 2:23:30 – Bengals offensive lineman Ted Karras on his work with Village of Merici, drinking a gallon of milk a day when he was younger, thriving with the Bengals,  playing with Tom Brady and Joe Burrow, his famous actor relative Alex Karras, being on the field during the Damar Hamlin situationSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

December 22-28, 1984 In this VERY SPECIAL XMAS EDITION of TV Guidance Counselor Ken welcomes the Kevin of Kevin Geeks Out and author of the new book Santa Doesn't Need Your Help, Kevin Maher. Ken and Kevin discuss living on a cul de sac, moving to the suburbs, decorating for Holidays, Ministers being turned on by Vampira, how TV is a force of good, being wrong about guns, Webster, Alex Karras, an oddly placed National Lampoon style piece in TV Guide, how athletes used to be, the origin of Yuppies, have a December Birthday, Projection televisions, how being able to watch things at any time seems not as fun, Double Trouble, Ken's love of the Segal Twins, The Funny Boys, The Smurfs, Spenser vs Spencer, PIGS, Willard, the strangeness of Ben, Murder She Wrote, the great model search, how Star Wars became associated with Christmas due to toys, Superman, The Wizard of Oz, Assaulted Nuts, Not Necessarily The News, Stuart Pankin, Conan O'Brien, Ha! vs. The Comedy Channel, TV Version, It Happened One Christmas, It's a Wonderful Life, Here Comes the Tigers, Darkside of the Moon and Wizard of Oz is the same as Texas Chainsaw Massacre and a mystery album, Mr. Kruger's Christmas, Willy Whistle, Major Mudd, Captain Bob, how every single Rich Little impression is Nixon, when you open your presents, Tor Johnson as Santa Claus, Jaberwocky, Park St Under vs. Cheers, Feep, Holiday Depression, Charles in Charge, the connection between Charles and Mr. MaGoo, The Beastmaster, Kojack, Ken's hatred of modern film criticism, the best Santa Clauses, OC and Stiggs, Popeye, A Charlie Brown Christmas, Santa Claus, Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny, The Adventures of Candy Claus, Santa's Village, Dolly's Down Home Christmas from 1990, and how terrifying Burl Ives could be.

Welcome to the only sports podcast NOT bought and paid for by any of major league team so we can tell it like it is! Topics discussed today include: Goff just Go away, Campbell Go away, Lion DC-REALLY Go away, thanks to the Rams for that draft this year, there isn't any talent at the Lions, kool-aid anyone, weak schedule and the Lions blew it, hi Cadwell, dead money Lions, where is that draft pick QB, the Lion plan, the smartest man in the room does 4th and 9, silly sports betting, LION Win/Lost big prediction for the rest of the year, hiya Baker, thanks to Stafford showing himself, where is the next Alex Karras, you are a dope if you you think Hard Knocks is real, M-MSU, again with M and their weak schedule still, NFC North review, MLB and Korea and why, Sue Martin joins us, how about them Tigers, how about them Red Wings, what is a Piston, everyone gets a Tommy John and so much more!

Dana and Tom discuss one of their mutual favorite comedies, Blazing Saddles (1974): directed by Mel Brooks, story by Andrew Bergman, starring Clevon Little, Gene Wilder, Harvey Korman, Madeline Kahn, and Alex Karras. Plot Summary: When the new railroad route must change and go through the town of Rock Ridge, the conniving Attorney General Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman) looks for a way to drive out the town residences so he can snatch the land. Moreover, Lamarr talks the Governor into appointing the first black sheriff, Bart (Clevon Little), hoping to cause further chaos and disorder. When Bart arrives in town, he is anything but popular. However, he soon teams up with the Waco Kid (Gene Wilder), a washed-up gunslinger, who becomes his deputy. Will the people of Rock Ridge be able to stand against the scheme of Lamarr or will he get the last laugh? You can now follow us on Instagram, Twitter, or TikTok (@gmoatpodcast) or find our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100081916827044 (Greatest Movie of All-Time Podcast). For more on the episode, go to: https://www.ronnyduncanstudios.com/post/blazing-saddles-1974 (https://www.ronnyduncanstudios.com/post/blazing-saddles-1974) For the entire list so far, go to: https://www.ronnyduncanstudios.com/post/greatest-movie-of-all-time-list (https://www.ronnyduncanstudios.com/post/greatest-movie-of-all-time-list)

In this episode of Sports the NEMO Way we bring the Detroit Lions to the table for discussion.

Vito Stellino has been writing about the NFL since the players needed off-season jobs to make a living. He covered the gambling suspensions of stars Alex Karras and Paul Hornung – in 1963. Hear about that and much more as Vito takes us on a ride through the past 60 years of pro football's growth. The Hall of Fame writer witnessed the moving trucks depart on that snowy night in '84 when the Colts fled Baltimore for Indianapolis. Vito puts us there. He also takes us behind the scenes with the 1970s Pittsburgh Steelers and explains how one of the NFL's greatest teams was impacted by the work of the too-often forgotten Bill Nunn. Oh, and besides football, Vito was also ringside for Ali-Frazier I, as well as courtside for Texas Western's historic '66 NCAA championship win. He has details. Join us.   Stellino's distinguished career in sports journalism began in 1963 as a United Press International reporter in Detroit, where he covered the Lions. After a two-year stint in the Army, he rejoined the UPI wire service in New York before moving to newspapers in Pittsburgh, Baltimore and Jacksonville. The majority of Stellino's career was spent covering in the NFL, and his work earned him the Dick McCann Award from the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1989. At one point, Vito covered 40 consecutive Super Bowls. His first was in January 1973 when the Miami Dolphins capped their undefeated season. Vito was a beat reporter covering the iconic Steelers of the 1970s when Pittsburgh won four Super Bowl titles in six years. He later covered two of the Washington teams that won Super Bowls under Joe Gibbs. Before the NFL became a year-round beat, Vito reported on six World Series, the first Ali-Frazier fight, NBA and NHL games (including Gordie Howe's record-breaking goal in 1963), PGA tournaments and tennis. Stellino is still writing about the NFL, as well as other sports topics on his personal blog “Vito's Views” at https://vitostellino.com/ . You can follow him @vitostellino on Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Before they move back to the realm of British, Brendan and Jason decide to talk about a "Canuck Puck," a Canadian film pick from each of them that they have never seen before... and it's Brendan's turn first - Porky's. Yes, it's the Floridian Canadian classic from director Bob Clark that answers the question "can something that ages this horribly still be funny?" with... well, you'll have to listen to find out. Kim Cattrall's committed howling performance, super horny "teenagers," washroom peepholes, clumsy attempts at addressing racism in the 50s - it's all here, baby!   Next week: the second of our two Canuck Pucks. It's back to podcast favourite Sarah Polley with a discussion of her film Away From Her. Questions? Comments? Suggestions? You can always shoot us an e-mail at forscreenandcountry@gmail.com   Full List: https://blog.nfb.ca/blog/2015/04/29/check-10-best-canadian-films-time/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/forscreenandcountry Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/fsacpod Our logo was designed by the wonderful Mariah Lirette (https://instagram.com/its.mariah.xo) Porky's stars Dan Monahan, Tony Ganios, Mark Herrier, Wyatt Knight, Scott Colomby, Kaki Hunter, Nancy Parsons, Chuck Mitchell, Cyril O'Reilly, Alex Karras, Doug McGrath, Art Hindle and Kim Cattrall; directed by Bob Clark. Is It Streaming? USA: Prime Video and Tubi Canada: Prime Video and Tubi UK: N/A Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Cincinnati Bengals wasted little time addressing their most significant need for the 2022 NFL season when they went out and signed free-agent center Ted Karras away from the New England Patriots, a two-time Super Bowl champion. In addition to Karras, the Bengals signed guard Alex Cappa and tackle La'el Collins replacing three-fifths of the offensive line that struggled during the 2021 season that ended with a Super Bowl loss. Karras comes from a family with a long NFL history. Grandfather Ted Karras Sr. won a championship with the Chicago Bears, and great uncles Lou Karras and Alex Karras also played in the league during the 1950s and 1960s.  Ted's father played for Washington during the player's strike in 1987 as a replacement player and enjoyed a long college coaching career. Karras joins Dave Lapham In The Trenches, presented by First Star Logistics, to discuss his high school, college, and NFL career, along with his excitement of joining the Bengals with Cappa and Collins to help protect quarterback Joe Burrow going forward.

This week Ken welcomes comedian and 2021 Montreal Comedy Festival New Face Jaye McBride to the show. Ken and Jaye discuss Brooklyn, Ken's Halloween looks and lifestyle, food based nicknames as dual purpose insult/compliment, growing up in rural upstate NY, The "Good" Mall, Maine, Vermont, Friday the 13th Park VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan, going to Canada pre-911, kids hating technology, The House of Frankenstein Wax Museum, The Boston Strangler, Alex Karras's Wimps and Real Men, how actors are their character, hating Cagney and Lacey, TV Trivia and Easter Eggs, The Great St. Elsewhere delusion, cigarettes, Airwolf, Mama's Family, Sharon Stone, back door pilots, looking up to Benson, Isaac's bum deal, The Love Boat, Superman, classic Ned Beatty, Herve Vilichaize on Hee Haw, Liberace, Kate and Allie, Newhart, A-Team, Riptide, evil developers, Brooke Shields, Jaime Farr, Circus of the Stars, Alex Trebeck Human Bomb, I Had Three Wives, Sledge Hammer, Cheers, Night Court, Cosby, how everyone needs to have their own John Oates, Stacey Keach, stealing Lincoln's woman, Blue and the Grey, loving Civil War stuff, killing drug dealers, National Geographic, Free solo climbers, and Mark Harmon's incredibly unconvincing love of Coors beer.

In this new episode of the Football Film Review series, Aron reviews Paper Lion, the 1968 movie based on the non fiction book of the same name that follows author George Plimpton's experiences as the last string quarterback for the duration of Detroit Lion's training camp in 1963. The picture stars Alan Alda and Lauren Hutton, along with numerous Lions players such as Joe Schmidt, John Gordy and Alex Karras.  https://www.thefootballodyssey.com/  https://www.thefootballodyssey.com/book-reviews/paper-lion-george-plimpton https://twitter.com/FootballOdyc  https://www.instagram.com/thefootballodyssey/  https://sportshistorynetwork.com/podcasts/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Welcome to The 80's Montage! (music, mateys and cool shit from the 80s) Your Hosts Jay Jovi & Sammy HardOn, singers from Australia's 80's tribute band Rewind 80's. We take you back to living in the 80's: music, artists, TV commercials and video clips. Episode 99: Goonies Are Good Enough - Child Stars.  It's a ripper! Please rate, review and enjoy! Music licensed by APRA/AMCOS Theme music ©2019 M. Skerman see Facebook for links to videos & songs mentioned in this episode! Email: planet80sproductions@gmail.com Rewind 80's Band : www.rewind80sband.com Facebook : the80smontagepodcast twitter: 80_montage instagram : the80smontage Links from Episode 99: Goonies Are Good Enough - Child StarsPatreon Link With Thanks x https://www.patreon.com/the80smontagepodcast www.the80smontage.comLinks: #CyndiLauper #TheGooniesRGoodEnough #VevoCyndi Lauper - The Goonies 'r' Good Enough (Official Video)https://youtu.be/LxLhytQ67fsCyndi Lauper's official music video for 'The Goonies 'R' Good Enough'. Click to listen to Cyndi Lauper on Spotify: http://smarturl.it/CyndiLauperSpotify...As featured on The Essential Cyndi Lauper. Click to buy the track or album via iTunes: http://smarturl.it/TECY?IQid=CyndiLTGRGGoogle Play: http://smarturl.it/TGRGEGPlay?IQid=Cy...Amazon: http://smarturl.it/ECLAmazon?IQid=Cyn...More From Cyndi LauperGirls Just Want To Have Fun: https://youtu.be/PIb6AZdTr-ATime After Time: https://youtu.be/VdQY7BusJNUTrue Colors: https://youtu.be/LPn0KFlbqX8More great 80s videos here: http://smarturl.it/Ultimate80?IQid=Cy...Follow Cyndi LauperWebsite: http://cyndilauper.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/officialcynd...Twitter: https://twitter.com/cyndilauperInstagram: https://instagram.com/cyndilauper/Subscribe to Cyndi Lauper on YouTube: http://smarturl.it/CyndiLauperSub?IQi...Season 2 Episode 03 - Happy Anniversaryhttps://youtu.be/XSvGdfOfLFwThe Henderson Kids- Series 1 Episode 1https://youtu.be/hSjYxbK6ws4TCM Big Screen Classics Presents: E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial - E.T. Meets Gertie Cliphttps://youtu.be/o9ticoQZGPoThe original 1982 classic is returning to the big screen! Join Elliot (Henry Thomas), Gertie (Drew Barrymore) and Michael (Robert MacNaughton) as they come together to help E.T. find his way back home. Winning four Academy Awards, including one for the iconic score by John Williams. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial is "one of the great American films" (Leonard Maltin) that forever belongs in the hearts and minds of audiences everywhere. Tickets and more information at: http://bit.ly/TCM-EThttps://youtu.be/KUVl4FduNtIThe show stars Emmanuel Lewis in the title role as a young boy who, after losing his parents, is adopted by his NFL-pro godfather, portrayed by Alex Karras, and his new socialite wife, played by Susan Clark. The focus was largely on how this impulsively married couple had to adjust to their new lives and sudden parenthood, but it was the congenial Webster himself who drove much of the plot. Like NBC's earlier series Diff'rent Strokes, Webster featured a young African-American boy adopted by a wealthy white family. (Wikipedia). Aired on 2&7 CFAC (later known as CICT Calgary 7, Global Calgary) on Wednesday February 24 1988.https://youtu.be/vV27CUj51vUDiff'rent Strokes is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from November 3, 1978, to May 4, 1985, and on ABC from September 27, 1985, to March 7, 1986. The series stars Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges as Arnold and Willis Jackson, two African American boys from Harlem who are taken in by a rich white Park Avenue businessman and widower named Phillip Drummond (Conrad Bain) and his daughter Kimberly (Dana Plato), for whom their deceased mother previously worked. During the first season and first half of the second season, Charlotte Rae also starred as the Drummonds' housekeeper, Mrs. Garrett (who ultimately spun off into her own successful show, The Facts of Life).The series made stars out of child actors Gary Coleman, Todd Bridges, and Dana Plato and became known for the "very special episodes" in which serious issues such as racism, illegal drug use, and child sexual abuse were dramatically explored.Home and Away - Sally and Pippa have a heart to heart about Dale after his deathhttps://youtu.be/iqpta4HuaqYTina Arena - Farewell to YTThttps://youtu.be/1gLM6XRFFGc#TinaArena #YoungTalentTimeThank For Listening xThanks for listening! www.the80smontage.com

In this episode we review the movie Blazing Saddles (1974) starring Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, Alex Karras, Mel Brooks, Harvey Korman and Madeline Kahn. WARNING: There will be SPOILERS.

Hall of Fame weekend saw Detroit Lions legends Calvin Johnson and Alex Karras enter the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and the POD crew reacts to the big night for both men. They also break down the best position battles to be waged as the team prepares for its preseason schedule. Plus, the latest on national media's attention on Dan Campbell's excitement over a little training camp skirmish. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Temporada 2021. Episodio 16. www.pausadelosdosminutos.com El programa semanal de información, datos, análisis, comentarios y opinión sobre la historia de la NFL con Gildardo Figueroa y Rodolfo Vázquez. Todos los lunes a las 6:00 pm EN VIVO por Facebook, Twitter, YouTube y Twitch de Pausa de los Dos Minutos, Rock Sports Radio, GF Sports Media y NFL Mexico Fans, en podcast a través de Anchor, Spotify, Google Podcasts, iTunes, así como en otras plataformas. En el programa de hoy: * La segunda parte de la Clase 2020 del Salón de la Fama: Winston Hill, Steve Hutchinson, Edgerrin James, Jimmy Johnson, Alex Karras, Troy Polamalu y Steve Sabol. * Esta semana fueron los cumpleaños de John Stallworth, Ron Yary y Barry Sanders. #NFL NFLClassic #NFLRetro #TodalaNFLenP2M

Felix falls for a football player's wife but doesn't know she is married in S4E4 “That Was No Lady”. Topics covered include: 1) Listener feedback to our question about the line “Every body loves pizza and beer” in our last episode 2) The biography of guest stars Alex Karras and Patricia Harty 3) phrases we are not familiar with such as “good offices”, “honky tonk”, “red dog”.  4) the way this episode celebrates romance in NYC 5) how the episode tells an emotional story in a short period of time 6) the significance of a “Chicano” musical named Lettuce 6) how this episode proves Miriam means nothing to Felix 

Alex Karras, Ed O'Neil, Dwayne the Rock Johnson... sometimes athletes become good actors.  Bruce and Coach Savage discuss on a Tuesday Sports Daily. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today we're traveling back to 1930s Paris with Victor Victoria! Join us to learn more about gun molls, Gay Paris, French Leave, and more! Sources: Gay Paris: Elspeth H. Brown, "Queering Interwar Fashion: Photographers, Models, and the Queer Production of the "Look,"" Work!: A Queer History of Modeling (Duke University Press, 2019). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1220kh4.8 Robert Aldrich, "Homosexuality and the City: An Historical Overview," Urban Studies 41:9 (August 2004): 1719-1737. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43201476 Michael Sibalis, "Urban Space and Homosexuality: The Example of the Marais, Paris' 'Gay Getto'," Urban Studies 41:9 (August 2004): 1739-1758. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43201477 Denis M. Provencher, Queer French: Globalization, Language, and Sexual Citizenship in France (Taylor & Francis, 2007). Michael D. Sibalis, "Homophobia, Vichy France, and the "Crime of Homosexuality": The Origins of the Ordinance of 6 August 1942," GLQ 8:3 (2002): 301-18. Phil Hubbard, Cities and Sexualities (New York: Routledge, 2012). http://ndl.ethernet.edu.et/bitstream/123456789/26730/1/96.pdf Leslie Choquette, "Beyond the Myth of Lesbian Montmartre: The Case of Chez Palmyre," Historical Reflections 42:2 (Summer 2016): 75-96. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44631073 Darryl W Bullock, "Pansy Craze: the wild 1930s drag parties that kickstarted gay nightlife," The Guardian (14 September 2017). https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/sep/14/pansy-craze-the-wild-1930s-drag-parties-that-kickstarted-gay-nightlife http://www.jazzageclub.com/queer-paris/630/ Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica, "Brassai" Encyclopedia Britannica Academic (23 August 2012). Mee-Lai Stone, "The City of Light and its shadows: Brassai's Paris--in pictures," The Guardian (8 October 2019). https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2019/oct/08/city-of-light-brassai-paris-in-pictures-photography Queer Music Heritage, "Brevities" http://www.queermusicheritage.com/gayephemera5.html Brassai, Young Couple Wearing a Two-in-One Suit at the Bal de la Montagne Sainte-Genevieve, Photograph, c. 1931, The Met Museum. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/265457 Brassai, Le Monocle, the Bar, Paris. On the Left is Lulu de Montparnasse. Photograph, 1933, MoMA. https://www.moma.org/collection/works/58849 ; Brassai, Bal de la Montagne Sainte-Genevieve, Photograph, c. 1932, MoMa. https://www.moma.org/collection/works/44009?artist_id=745&page=1&sov_referrer=artist You can find Brassai'd collected works at MoMA here: https://www.moma.org/artists/745#works Film Background: Steve Cohan, "'I Think I Could Fall In Love With Him': Victor/Victoria and the 'Drag' of Romantic Comedy," in Terms of Endearment: Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1980s and 1990s eds. Peter William Evans and Celestino Deleyto 37-57 (Edinburgh University Press, 1998). John C. Tibbetts, "Robert Preston Talks about Typecasting, Cecil B. Demille, and Victory/Victoria," (interview conducted 1982), American Classic Screen Interviews (2010). Thomas Hischak, "Victor/Victoria" The Oxford Companion to the American Musical (Oxford University Press, 2009). "Julie Andrews on Late Night, February 17, 1982," https://youtu.be/IBtRZiKVH00 "Julie Andrews and James Garner at the premiere of Victor Victoria," https://youtu.be/29xk8LEw8N4 Rotten Tomatoes https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/victor-victoria Roger Ebert, "Victor/Victoria," (1 January 1982). https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/victorvictoria-1982 Vincent Canby, "'Victor Victoria,' A Blake Edwards Farce," The New York Times (19 March, 1982). https://www.nytimes.com/1982/03/19/movies/victor-victoria-a-blake-edwards-farce.html Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor/Victoria Associated Press, "NFL Great Alex Karras Dies" ESPN https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/8485773/alex-karras-detroit-lions-defensive-great-dies-age-77 ; Detroit Lions, "Alex Karras headed to Hall of Fame," YouTube https://youtu.be/wCSrlVW4FFI Male Impersonators: Cornell University Library Digital Collections, Postcards of Male and Female Impersonators Cross-Dressing in Europe and the United States, 1900-1930. Available at https://digital.library.cornell.edu/collections/impersonator-postcards Jeanne Bloch Postcard, Cornell University Digital Library Collections, Available at https://digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/ss:24415912 Drag King History, Timeline, available at https://dragkinghistory.com/dk-timeline/ Lenard R. Berlenstein, "Breeches and Breaches: Cross-Dress Theater and the Culture of Gender Ambiguity in Modern France," Comparative Studies in Society and History 38, 2 (1996) French Leave: "French leave, n." Oxford English Dictionary Seth Stevenson, "Don't Say Goodbye Just ghost." Slate (3 July 2013). https://slate.com/human-interest/2013/07/ghosting-the-irish-goodbye-the-french-leave-stop-saying-goodbye-at-parties.html Gun Molls: IMDB List of Films Featuring Gun Molls: https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?keywords=gun-moll&sort=year,asc&mode=detail&page=1 The Mob Museum, Top Five Women of Organized Crime. Available at https://themobmuseum.org/blog/top-5-women-of-organized-crime/ Claire Bond Potter, "I'll Go to the Limit and Then Some: Gun Molls, Desire, and Danger in the 1930s," Feminist Studies 21, 1 (Spring 1995)

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Nick Lowe And His Sound - [What's So Funny 'Bout] Peace Love and Understanding (1974) Nick Lowe And His Sound was Nick Lowe backed by Elvis Costello & The Attractions. Art Reynold Singers - Jesus Is Just Alright (1966) This is the first version of the song that went to #35 for The Doobie Brothers.  As the first gospel group to record for Capitol Records, they soon became pioneers in the development of “gospel rock”. Many considered their music too secular for the time. Their first album Tellin’ It Like It Is went on to become one of the biggest selling albums for a new gospel group. “Jesus Is Just Alright” was also covered by The Byrds. Arthur Prysock - Here's To Good Friends (1978) POACA will recall this as being the foundation for the Lowenbrau commercials. But Arthur Prysock's first single came out 20 years before this.  Burton Cummings - You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet (1976)  Buzz and Joey - The Willing Conscript (1965) Written by Gary Paxton. Joey Putzer changed his last name to Edmonds and formed a duo with comic Thom Curley. They appeared on Johnny Carson's "Tonight" show and many others. Edmonds later formed a talent agency in Chicago. Chicago Climax Blues Band - Seventh Son (1971)  Emmanuel Lewis - City Connection (Japanese Version ) (1981) Emmanuel Lewis was the little scamp that starred in Webster, opposite Alex Karras. Karras played for the Detroit Lions of the NFL. He (Karras, not Lewis) made four Pro Bowls and was a three-time first-team All-Pro player, but he also missed the 1963 season while serving a suspension for gambling. Many believe that suspension is what kept Karras (again, not the diminutive Lewis) from Canton while he was alive, though Green Bay Packers running back Paul Hornung, who also was suspended for gambling, was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1986. Emmanuel Lewis was not.  After his playing career, Karras spent time as a professional wrestler and later became a popular actor. In his biggest role, he played Mongo in the 1974 film "Blazing Saddles". He played in the playoffs once, losing to Dallas 5-0. Emmanuel Lewis, as of this entry, has not been nominated for the NFL HOF. For more information on Alex Karras, also known in wrestling circles as "Dick The Bruiser", consult your local library. Or just click this.  Ella Fitzgerald - "Sanford and Son" Theme (Street Beater) (1972)  Vik Venus, Alias: Your Main Moon Man - Everybody's On Strike (1969) This was the B-side of "Moonlight", a space-based cut-in novelty record (ala Dickie Goodman). "Vic Venus" was a pseudonym for Jack Spector, a famous DJ known for his stint at WCMA, the New York City radio station that attached itself to the arrival of The Beatles in America. In fact, WCMA was the first station in the US to play "I Want To Hold Your Hand". Spector hosted the first American performance of the Beatles at Shea Stadium in 1964. "Moonlight" made it into the Billboard Top 40, barely. The record used cut-ins of Buddah Records songs exclusively.  James Brown ‎– Fight Against Drug Abuse (1971) Jeannie Piersol - Gladys (1968) Produced by Darby Slick. Watch this video!  Darby was Grace Slick's brother-in-law. His song "Somebody to Love" is still heard around the world.  Julie Ege -  Love (1971) Lou Christie - Love In A Limousine (1997) Pluto - Dat (1976) Went to #6 in the UK. Daughters of Eve - Social Tragedy (1968) This all-female band out of Chicago opened for groups such as The Buckinghams ("Kind of a Drag" ) and was featured as a backing band during local TV programming with Janis Ian to support the release of her song "Society's Child". They released 4 singles. This was their last, a more psychedelic affair than the others. Then they broke up because of...men.  Lou Christie - The One and Only Original Sunshine Kid (1975) Written by the same fellow that wrote: "I Think I Love You". On Elektra Records!? The music business was funny back then.  These next two tracks are from "The Spectrum of Music Level 6" released in 1974 to a world of restless children being forced to sing songs they did not like did not KNOW, and would forget as soon as class was over. BUT SOME OF US REMEMBERED. Here is a video of the unboxing.  Fender Bender (1974) The Cowboy (1974)  This collection (should you want me to make MP3s) contains "Sakura", "Johnny Has Gone For a Soldier", and a tight little medley from "The H.M.S. Pinafore".  Tartan Horde - Bay City Rollers We Love You (1975) More Contractual Obligation chicanery.  The Beach Boys - My Solution (1970) "My Solution" was written by Brian Wilson and recorded on October 31, 1970, shortly before the sessions for the group's album Surf's Up.  In a 1976 interview, Brian said: "We have a song called 'My Solution' which is a very odd song that has chromatic – strange chords, not regular triad chords. The notes are bunched up. It tells the story about how a guy found an old damsel outside his castle and decided to make her part of an experiment. ... It's about a guy who found his solution. It's a very odd, Boris Karloff eerie type of thing, so it's one of our more far-out, left-field things that we've done."  4 years before this, he composed "God Only Knows". I know I mentioned that a lot, but goddamn, drugs will wreck you. STAY AWAY FROM DRUGS! The Groop - A Famous Myth (1969) Midnight Cowboy is one of my favorite soundtracks. I really love this song, especially. The Groop was a harmony-based psychedelic pop and soul vocal quartet, active at the end of the 1960s and releasing one self-titled album. Not to be confused with the other Groop, based in Australia around that time. I know you were going to. Don't.  The Hello People - Jelly Jam (1969) Gotta collect all the records by The Hello People.  Vos Voisins- Ya just de t'ça (1971) Good Montreal prog.  Wallace Collection - My Way Of Loving You (1970) XTC - You're The Wish You Are I Had (Live) (1984) The best group of the '80s and '90s. Lyrics alone, they would be Top 3.  Gino Vannelli - People Gotta Move (1974) Sometimes I sneak in top 40 songs because I love them. 

Thanks to wrestler Alex Karras who played Mongo we get to watch this classic comedy from Mel Brooks!

Alexander George Karras was born July 15, 1935 in Gary, Indiana, to his parents Dr. George Karras, a Greek immigrant, and Emmeline Karras, a Canadian immigrant. Alex was the youngest of three boys; his brother Lou was 8 years older than he, and Ted was just a year older. Dr. Karras opened a medical practice in Gary, but would die suddenly when Alex was 13. Alex had learned to play football in a parking lot near his home and he would blossom into a 4-time Indiana all-state selection, playing defensive tackle at Emerson High School.Shortly after his graduation of high school, three coaches from University of Iowa arrived with an airplane and flew Karras to Spencer, Iowa. For the entire summer, Alex was a incommunicado writing in the Iowa-City Free Press “nobody knew where I was, not even my mom, although Louie told her not to worry. As Louie explained it, some accommodations were made by the people at Iowa that would make things easier for the family, and so away I went. It was the beginning of some awful years." Awful came in the form of his new college coach, Forest Evashevski or "Evy" to his players. In his sophomore year, Alex showed up 20 pounds over playing-weight and was hampered by a fractured ankle. After being disappointed that he wouldn’t play in the season finale, Alex threw a shoe at Evashevski. Karras would not earn a letter for the 1955 season.

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In this one, Jerry and Eddie talk action figures, sports and we try and figure out who'd win between Dan Dierdorf and Alex Karras.  Enjoy!

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Detroit Lion great, and a personal hero, Alex Karras, gets elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, its the San Francisco 49ers and the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LIV. Major League Baseball and the Houston Astros sign-stealing cheating scandalPlus, should Whitney Houston be in the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame?  For more visit www.weaponofselfdistraction.com  

Touching Greatness chats with NFL offensive lineman Ted Karras who’s just into Free Agency after his first four pro seasons with the New England Patriots where he played center this past season and snapping the ball to Tom Brady in 16 of their games including the playoffs. It’s a very prideful week for the Karras … Continued

James and I discuss and/or mention in passing: Matthew Arter, John P. Navin Jr., Jennifer Slept Here, Ann Jillian, Jimmy Baio, Peter Frechette, Dwight Schrute, Grease 2, David Raynr, Ben Marley, Ricky Schroder, David Ackroyd, Dan Aykroyd, Peter Aykroyd, Dallas, Ted Schackelford, Bates Academy, Jerry Mayer, Norman Lear, Garry Marshall, Jamie Gertz, George Clooney, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Sarah Jessica Parker, Square Pegs, Stacey Q, Eveready Batteries, William Conrod, Robert Conrad, Kirk Douglas, Big Macs, Barbara Stock, Spenser For Hire, Zapped!, War Games, Punky Brewster, Revenge Of The Nerds, Police Academy, Laverne & Shirley, Blazing Saddles, Alex Karras, Bill Galligan, Danny DeVito, Tony Danza, Crispin Glover, Matthew Modine, Charlie’s Angels, Fonzie, Happy Days, Diff’rent Strokes, Jenny O’Hara, Pamela Anderson, Loni Anderson, Paul Padilla.facethefactspod.comfacebook.com/facethefactspodtwitter.com/facethefactspodinstagram.com/facethefactspodPlease SUBSCRIBE, RATE, and REVIEW!

País Estados Unidos Dirección Blake Edwards Guion Blake Edwards (Idea: Hans Hoemburg. Remake: Reinhold Schünzel) Música Henry Mancini Fotografía Dick Bush Reparto Julie Andrews, James Garner, Robert Preston, Lesley Ann Warren, Alex Karras, Peter Arne, John Rhys-Davies, Graham Stark, Herb Tanney, Michael Robbins, Norman Chancer, David Gant Sinopsis París, años treinta. Tras el fracaso de una audición en un cabaret, Victoria Grant (Julie Andrews) camina hambrienta y desolada por las calles de la ciudad. Acuciada por el hambre, decide utilizar una estratagema para disfrutar de una suculenta comida sin tener que pagar. En el restaurante, conoce a Toddy (Robert Preston), un homosexual que no sólo le ofrece hospitalidad, sino que tiene la brillante idea de convertirla en Víctor, un travesti cuyo éxito será inmediato y espectacular. Pero la situación de Victoria se complica cuando King Marchan (James Garner), el dueño de una cadena de cabarets de Chicago, se siente irresistiblemente atraído por Víctor.

RUNNING TIME: 4 HoursHosted by Don Tony SYNOPSIS: S2 E28 (07/09 - 07/15) 'Black Saturday' as TBS replaces Georgia Championship Wrestling with World Wrestling Federation. Audio: Jim Cornette discusses 'Black Saturday'. Bruno Sammartino wrestles his last ever match at Madison Square Garden. Harley Race wins 1986 WWF King Of The Ring. Precious! Looking back at the time Ric Flair made out with a Mannequin on World Championship Wrestling. Ultimate Warrior (as Dingo Warrior) makes his WWF TV debut. Dr Death Steve Williams captures UWF Heavyweight Championship. Looking back at NWA Great American Bash '88. We want Flair! We want Flair! Looking back at WCW Great American Bash 1991. Looking back at WCW Great American Bash (1992). Vince McMahon folds the World Bodybuilding Federation (WBF). Ric Flair wrestles in Charlotte for the first time as part of WWF (1992). Hulk Hogan takes the stand in the Vince McMahon steroid distribution trial, and admits to years of steroid use. Looking back at ECW Heatwave (1995, 1996). Wild Pegasus (Chris Benoit) wins Best Of The Super Juniors Tournament. WWF releases Jack Tunney. Audio: Owen Hart & British Bulldog vs Steve Austin & ??? for vacant WWF Tag Team Titles (1997). Nitro Girls debut on WCW Monday Nitro. Looking back at WCW Bash At The Beach (1997, 1998, 1999, 2000). Looking back at WCW LA Melee Pay Per Listen event (1998). Audio: Two Clusterf***s For One: Chavo Guerrero Jr 'submits' to Stevie Ray, then shaves his own head in Hair vs Hair Match against Eddie Guerrero. WWF debuts WWF.com internet webcast 'Code-Red'. WWF announces return of Jesse Ventura (then MN Governor) to referee the main event of Summerslam (1999). Audio: WCW Junkyard Hardcore Invitational Match. Audio: Jeff Jarrett lays down to Hollywood Hulk Hogan and Vince Russo tirade that followed. Booker T becomes second ever Black Heavyweight Champion in WCW history. Looking back at the formation of the WCW / ECW Alliance:  Audio #1: Tommy Dreamer makes WWF debut and ECW reforms. Audio #2: Vince McMahon and WWF forms an 'alliance' with Shane McMahon and WCW to battle ECW on Raw. Audio #3: WCW swerves WWF and aligns with ECW, now owned by Stephanie McMahon. Kurt Angle sings 'Jimmy Crack Corn'. Audio: Eric Bischoff makes his WWE debut as General Manager of Raw. Audio: Kurt Angle and John Cena Battle Rap! (2003). Looking back at WWE Vengeance PPV (2004). UPN forces WWE to remove Muhammad Hassan off Smackdown programming. Audio: Muhammad Hassan Smackdown promo that did not air on UPN. Audio: Matt Hardy calls in to WWE Byte This! and confronts Lita. Brock Lesnar stripped of IWGP Heavyweight Championship. Looking back at WWE Saturday Night's Main Event (2006). Looking back at ROH Death Before Dishonor IV (2006). Funeral services held for Nancy and Daniel Benoit. Audio: Following the Benoit tragedy, the infamous appearance by Mr Kennedy on Fox News and the denial of never taking steroids. Jim Ross opens JR's Family BBQ Restaurant. WWE signs Teddy Hart to a developmental deal. Looking back at TNA Victory Road PPV (2007, 2008, 2010). Looking back at AAA TripleMania XV (2007). WWE releases Ashley Massaro. Superstar Billy Graham auctions off his WWE Hall Of Fame ring on Ebay. Bobby Lashley and Kid Kash sign with TNA. TNA announces ECW reunion themed event 'Hardcore Justice'. ABC cancels 'Downfall' game show hosted by Chris Jericho after only 5 episodes. Chasyn Rance arrested for having sexual relations with a 15 y/o. Looking back at TNA Destination X PPV (2011). TNA releases Matt and Nick Jackson (Generation Me), Matt Morgan, and Hernandez. Audio: CM Punk and Vince McMahon 'contract negotiation' from Raw (2011). Audio: Bray Wyatt makes his NXT debut (2012). Bonus Audio: Early Bray Wyatt promo from FCW. Looking back at WWE Money In The Bank PPV (2012, 2013). Kharma and CM Punk officially released by WWE. WWE announces partnership with Tout. WWE opens the Performance Center. GFW 'invasion' of TNA draws 135 at 5000+ seat stadium. Sasha Banks, Charlotte, and Becky Lynch makes their WWE main roster debut. One week after TNA airs 'The Final Deletion' at the Hardy Compound, WWE airs Wyatt Family vs New Day at Wyatt Compound. Audio: Bonus Audio: Wyatt Family challenges New Day. Brock Lesnar def Mark Hunt at UFC 200, just to be suspended a week later for doping violation. WWE's lame excuse for not suspending Brock Lesnar for UFC doping violation. Looking back at WWE Great Balls Of Fire PPV (2017). Looking back at WWE Extreme Rules PPV (2018). And so much more! 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In this bonus episode to our season two coverage of Blazing Saddles, we were thrilled to be able to interview actor Burton Gilliam about playing the role of Lyle. We covered a range of topics, including how he got into the movie Paper Moon, meeting Madeline Kahn and quitting his job as a firefighter. We discuss all of his major scenes in the film as well as his friendships with Alex Karras, Slim Pickens and Burt Reynolds. We hope you enjoyed today's episode. If you have not done so already, take a moment to leave us a rating on your pod-catcher of choice. Also, be sure to leave us a short comment. The comment actually does give more weight to your rating and it will then help others to find our show. To learn more about us, our guests or to look through a list of all of our previous episodes, swing by our website. We are also on Facebook, where we also have a private Listener's Group, Twitter and Instagram. So like or follow us everywhere and feel free to reach out to us anytime on this Wilder ride!

RUNNING TIME: 2 Hours 55 MinutesHosted by Don Tony SYNOPSIS: S2 E17 (04/23 - 04/29) Alex Karras and Dick The Bruiser turn their 'feud' into a real life bar fight with patrons and Detroit Cops. Bruno Sammartino breaks his neck during a WWWF Title Match against Stan Hansen.  Tommy Rich def Harley Race to win the NWA World Heavyweight Championship.  Audio: Infamous Empty Arena Match between Terry Funk and Jerry 'The King' Lawler including the memorable UNCENSORED Terry Funk pre match promo.  Superstar Billy Graham wrestles last WWF match (1983) and leaves company (for AWA) due to issues including medicinal abuse. Audio: How does Verne Gagne and AWA celebrates the one year anniversary of their fu**ery towards AWA fans and Hulk Hogan? By doing it again but this time, it's 'Super'.  Looking back at AWA Super Sunday event (1983).  Almost three years to the day the AWA fu**ery began for Hulk Hogan, The Hulkster (now WWF Champion) lands the cover of Sports Illustrated.  Jerry 'The King' Lawler loses his first Hair match and the Southern Heavyweight Title.  Ken Patera makes his WWF return after serving two years in prison for the McDonalds incident.  Bonus Audio: Looking back at the night both Bobby Heenan and Andy Kaufman managed Ken Patera against Jerry Lawler. The Fantastics end The Midnight Express' 345 day record reign as NWA US Tag Team Champions.  Sting and Lex Luger defeat Tully Blanchard and Arn Anderson to win last ever Jim Crockett Sr Memorial Cup Tag Team Tournament.  Big Bubba Rogers wrestles last match in Japan (teams with Jimmy Snuka) before signing with WWF and becoming The Big Boss Man.  Looking back at Episode 21 of Saturday Night Main Event (1989).  Looking back at New Japan's first event (Battle Satellite) from the Tokyo Done (1989).  Mr Perfect defeats Tito Santana in a tournament final to win the vacated WWF IC Championship (previously held by The Ultimate Warrior).  ECW crowns its first ever ECW Champion (Jimmy Snuka), just to lose it a day later to Johnny Hotbody.  Sid Vicious abruptly leaves WWF after a match against The Ultimate Warrior.  The Heavenly Bodies def The Fantastics to become the first ever Smokey Mountain Wrestling Tag Team Champions.  Naliz makes his WWF debut, attacking The Big Boss Man. Bonus Audio: A tale of two Nailz promos: One with the WWF voice modulation and one without.  Tammy Sytch debuts for Smokey Mountain Wrestling.  Sean Waltman (as The Lightning Kid) makes his WWF debut.  WWF signs Boni Blackstone. Captain  Lou Albano manages his last tag team to WWF Tag Team Championship victory as The Headshrinkers defeat The Quebecers.  Looking back at the Sumo Match between Earthquake and Yokozuna on Monday Night Raw.  Looking back at AAA Triplemania II-A event (1997).  Audio: Hunter Hearst Helmsley makes his WWF in ring debut, beating convicted Pedophile Buck 'Rock And Roll' Zumhoff. Audio: Triple H speaks on the origins of the 'Hunter Hearst Helmsley character and name.  Hulk Hogan finalizes paperwork to launch a small chain of Pastamania restaurants.  Looking back at WCW and New Japan 'Collision In Korea' two day event in North Korea.  Looking back at WWF 'In Your House 7: Good Friends, Better Enemies' PPV (1996).  'Fat Frank' Iadevia (RIP) causes local controversy in NY/NJ after and odd call in to The Howard Stern Show.  D-Generation X attempts to invade WCW event.  Audio: Val Venis is 'coming' with Jenna Jameson.  Audio: Bruce Prichard speaks on the D-X WCW Invasion skits behind the cameras.  Looking back at WWF 'In Your House 21: Unforgiven' PPV (1998).  Looking back at the first annual 'Brian Pillman Memorial Event' (1998), and the WWF House Show that also raised money for the family of the late Brian Pillman.  Audio: DDP loses the WCW Heavyweight Championship to an insanely over Sting during an episode of Monday Nitro - just to win the title back later the same night.  While Ric Flair is stuck in a Mental Hospital during WCW Monday Nitro, Steve Austin rescues Stephanie McMahon from the Ministry Of Darkness.  WWF tapes the pilot episode of Smackdown (1999).  The Corporate Ministry of Darkness forms.  Juventud Guerrera and Jerry Flynn arrested in PA for DWI. Looking back at WWF 'In Your House 28: Backlash' PPV event (1999).  Steve Austin returns to WWF TV with a bang! and blows up the DX Express Tour Bus.  David Arquette wins the WCW World Heavyweight Championship, and donates his earnings to the families of Brian Pillman and Owen Hart, and to Droz.  Sabu defeats The Messiah in a tournament final to win the vacated XPW Heavyweight Championship (previously held by Chris Candido).  Steve Corino defeats Mike Rapada to win the NWA Heavyweight Championship.  Looking back at WWF Backlash PPV (2001, 2003, 2007, 2008, 2009 Audio: Randy Orton makes his WWF main roster debut.  'The Scorpion King' starring The Rock opens up to record revenue numbers at the box office.  Steve Austin announces his in ring retirement (2003).  Audio: Only hours after announcing his retirement from in ring action, Steve Austin becomes Co-GM of Raw with Eric Bischoff. Randy Orton spits in the face of Harley Race.  Looking back at TNA 'Lockdown' PPV (2005, 2006)  Chris Candido suffers serious ankle and leg injury during match on TNA PPV, and sadly passes away only days later due to a blood clot.  WWE starts contacting former ECW stars about appearing for WWE relaunch of ECW brand.  MTV and Viacom sign off on the creation of Wrestling Society X.  Hogan Knows Best renewed for a third season.  Looking back at the World Wrestling Legends '6:05 - The Reunion' PPV (2006).  'The Condemned' starring Steve Austin hits movie theaters to terrible reviews.  Audio: Vince McMahon wins the ECW Heavyweight Championship.  One of the greatest matches in WWE Raw history: Shawn Michaels and John Cena battle almost an hour on Raw (HBK wins).  Reid Flair arrested after DWI incident involving heroin and driving with a revoked license.  Looking back at WWE 'Extreme Rules' PPV (2010, 2012).  Looking back at 2010 WWE Draft (Kelly Kelly #1 Draft Pick)  Audio: TNA Monday Night Impact Main Event: Abyss vs Ric Flair battle over WWE Hall Of Fame Rings.  Monday Night Wars II: After bombing to record low ratings, Dixie Carter announces Impact moving back to Thursday nights. WWE releases Tony Atlas. TNA fires Bubba 'The Love Sponge' after horrendous comments towards Haiti.  Lisa Marie Varon (aka Tara, Victoria) announces her exit from TNA, just to return two months later.  Audio: 2011 WWE Draft opens up Raw with John Cena drafted to Smackdown, just to be traded by to Raw by the end of the show.  Nick Gage sentenced after pleading guilty to Second Degree Bank Robbery. WWE launches their 'Be A STAR' Anti-Bullying campaign.  Audio: Cesaro makes his WWE main roster debut.  Audio: Stevie Richards speaks on Justin Credible passing out backstage prior to Extreme Rising Event (2012).  Audio: Nikki and Brie Bella 'fired' from WWE (2012), which leads to their legit exit until Spring 2013.  Looking back at TNA 'Sacrifice' PPV (2014).  Bad News Barrett defeats Neville to win the WWE 2015 King Of The Ring Tournament.  Jeff Hardy suffers a broken leg after a Dirt Bike stunt goes wrong.  WWE releases NXT Talents: Mason Ryan, Raquel Diaz, Shaul Guerrero, Oliver Grey, and Sarah Backman.  Kalisto defeats Braun Strowman in a terrible Dumpster Match on Raw. At least Kalisto suffers a great post match beat down. And so much more! NOTABLE BIRTHDAYS: Lou Thesz, Blue Demon, Frank Gotch, Terry Gordy, Pepper Gómez, Yukon Eric, Mark Scarpa, Rey Urbano, Man Mountain Dean Jr, George Gadaski, Killer Karl Kox, Escorpión #1, Jerry Blackwell, Billy Joe Travis, Erika Watanabe, Glen Detton, Don Leo Jonathan (RIP), Great Kojika 77, Sivi Afi and Yoshiaki Fujiwara 70, Tony Atlas 65, Paul Roma 59, Tank Abbott and Ángel Dorado 54, Kane 52, Yuji Nagata 51, Reese and Chubby Dudley 49, Brian Gamble 48, Masahito Kakihara, Violent J and Mini Rey Misterio 47, Starbuck and Rex Roberts 46, Johnny Devine and Mini Mariachi 45, El Sagrado 44, John Cena, Titus O'Neil and Jay Lover 42, Halcón Dos Mil, Melvin Maximus, Metatrón and La Comandante 41, Vladimir Kozlov 40, Alex Riley 38, Amazing Red, Aksana and Ricky Landell 37, Eddie Osbourne and Shawn Riddick 36, Moose 35, Jessie Godderz and Lloyd Patterson 33, Drew Gulak, Brittney Savage and Dominik Dijakovic 32, El Hijo de Dos Caras and Gino Rivera 31, Britt Baker and Chii Tomiya 28, Tetsuhiro Yagi 27, Jami Sparx 19 NOTABLE PRO WRESTLING DEBUTS: Tiger Chung Lee (1968), Owen Hart (1986), Zeus (1989), Tyler Breeze (2007), Hangman Page (2008) NOTABLE DEATHS: Verne Gagne 89, Buzz Jones and Earl Wampler 88, Lou Thesz 86, Hans Schroeder 85, Hard Boiled Haggetty 83, Al Getz 82, Joe Stecher 81, Tom Renesto 72, Johnny Valentine 71, Kay Noble and Frank Robinson 65, Lee Marshall 64, Tony Ross 63, Brazo de Oro 57, Playboy Buddy Rose 56, Frankie Williams 51, Ángel Blanco 49, Herman Hickman 46, Little Bruiser 45, Ivan Managoff 34, Chris Candido 33 RIGHT CLICK AND SAVE to download the TWIWH S2 E17 (04/30/19) CLICK HERE to listen to the TWIWH S2 E17 (04/30/19) online. 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RUNNING TIME: 3 Hours 33 MinutesHosted by Don Tony SYNOPSIS: Episode 28 (07/10 - 07/16) Audio: Looking back at 'Black Saturday' as WWF takes over Georgia Championship Wrestling on WTBS. Looking back at July 1984 (Non Wrestling History). Bruno Sammartino wrestles last match in Madison Square Garden. Harley Race wins 2nd WWF King Of The Ring Tournament. Audio: Ultimate Warrior makes his WWF TV debut as Dingo Warrior. Dr Death Steve Williams def Big Bubba Rogers to win UWF Championship. Great American Bash '88: Controversial ending to Ric Flair vs Lex Luger for NWA Heavyweight Title. Great American Bash '91: 'We Want Flair'. Great American Bash '92: Vader def Sting for NWA Heavyweight Title. Jimmy Snuka becomes first ever ECW Heavyweight Champion. Can-Am Express (Doug Furnas and Phil Lafon) lose Mask vs Mask Match against Los Cowboys (Silver King and El Texano). WWF fires Jack Tunney. Bash At The Beach '95: The Giant (Big Show) debuts, Hogan def Vader: Cage Match for WCW Heavyweight Title. Memories of ECW Heatwave '96: Chris Jericho, ECW on MSG, Francine joins The Franchise, and more. Nitro Girls make their WCW Monday Nitro debut. Audio: Kevin Nash speaks on Nitro Girls WCW debut. WCW holds their sixth and final Pay Per Listen event. Steve Austin and Dude Love win WWF Tag Titles from Owen Hart and British Bulldog. Audio: Bash At The Beach '98: Hogan and Dennis Rodman vs DDP and Karl Malone highlights. Who remembers WWF 'Code Red'? WWE announces MN Governor Jesse Ventura to referee main event at SummerSlam 1999. Steve Austin throws out the first pitch of the infamous 'Matt Franco Game' (Mets vs Yankees). Audio: Rob Black speaks on incident between XPW and ECW at Heatwave '00. Audio: Kurt Angle sings 'Jimmy Crack Corn'. Audio: Eric Bischoff debuts as Raw General Manager. Stephanie McMahon debuts as Smackdown General Manager. Things get 'heated', as Kane sets Jim Ross on fire during an interview. Audio: Yo! Kurt Angle raps and John Cena is pissed. Audio: Released Matt Hardy attacks Edge on Monday Night Raw. Audio: Matt Hardy calls in and confronts Lita on WWE Byte This. UPN forces WWE to pull Muhammad Hassan character and storyline from all future programming. Tommaso Ciampa appears on SD as Hassan's attorney. Audio: Rare Muhammad Hassan Smackdown promo that never aired on UPN. Larry Zbyszko loses Hair vs Hair Match against Raven. Mark Henry suffers serious knee injury during WWE SNME. Fire Blaze (Epico Colon) loses Mask vs Mask Match against Bronco #1. Carlito vs Razor Ramon. TNA Stupidity / Victory Road 2007: Samoa Joe and Kurt Angle def Team 3D for Tag Titles, but Kurt Angle leaves without a title. Superstar Billy Graham sells WWE HOF ring on Ebay for $11,500. Dixie Carter and Tommy Dreamer announce ECW reunion at Hardcore Justice PPV (Think Kahoneys). Jay Lethal vs Nature Boy Ric Flair. Scott Hall serves jail sentence in Florida from 2010 arrest. Matt and Nick Jackson requests and is granted TNA release. Audio: 2011 Summer of Punk continues. CM Punk returns to WWE Raw following infamous 'Pipebomb' and one week suspension. Audio: CM Punk negotiates a new contract on Raw with Vince McMahon. Sting def Ken Anderson for TNA Heavyweight Title. WWE touts Tout. WWE releases Kia Stevens (Kharma). Bray Wyatt makes NXT debut. Audio Bonus: Bray Wyatt's first ever promo. WWE officially opens Performance Center. WWE moves CM Punk profile to their Alumni Page. WWE announces Sting will be part of 2K15 Video Game. Charlotte, Sasha Banks, and Becky Lynch make their WWE main roster debuts on Raw. Second Round results: 2015 WWE Cruiserweight Classic. Brock Lesnar def Mark Hunt (UFC) and is fined and suspended after drug test failure. WWE not only declines to discipline Lesnar but offers lame excuse for Non-Wellness Violation. New Day and The Wyatts brawl at the Wyatt Family Compound. And so much more! NOTABLE PRO WRESTLING DEBUTS: JJ Dillon (1962), Ivan Putski (1969), Batista (1997), Trent Barreta (2004), Gran Metalik (2005), Brandi Rhodes (2011) NOTABLE DEATHS: Tinker Todd 85, Bob Orton Sr, Masa Saito, Buddy Wolff, and Glen Detton 76, Cowboy Carlson 73, Jose Miguel Perez 68, Brute Bernard 63, Rosa Salvaje 59, Shin'ya Hashimoto and Terry Gordy 40 NOTABLE BIRTHDAYS: Bobo Brazil, Alex Karras, The Crusher, Mighty Igor, Mike Sharpe Sr, Tony Borne, Otto Wanz, Johnny Grunge, and Chris Cash (RIP), The Destroyer 87, Rene Goulet 86, Mil Mascaras 76, Hercules Ayala 68, Jesse Ventura 67, Ultraman 66, Billy Jack Haynes 65, Butch Reed 64, Gillberg 59, Huracan Castillo Jr and Mark Yeaton 58, Chris Michaels 57, Mike Enos 55, Akira Katayama and Boogeyman 54, Blue Demon Jr 52, Akira Hokuto and Jeff Jarrett 51, Azteca 48, Joey Styles and Bubba Ray Dudley 47, Sean Waltman 46, Necro Butcher 45, Shane Helms and Chris Chetti 44, Cherry Bomb 43, Bobby Lashley 42, Brock Lesnar 41, Tyson Kidd and EC Negro 38, Matanza Cueto 36, Heath Slater 35, Valentina, Jason Mullen, and Sami Zayn 34, QT Marshall 33, Charly Caruso 31, Aerial Monroe 28 RIGHT CLICK AND SAVE to download the TWIWH EP28 (07/16/18) CLICK HERE to listen to the TWIWH EP28 (07/16/18) online. 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RUNNING TIME: 2 Hours 44 Minutes Hosted by Don Tony SYNOPSIS: Episode 17 (04/24 - 04/30) Alex Karras and Dick The Bruiser 'Bar Fight' publicity stunt injures two Policemen Bruno Sammartino wins Hair vs Mask match against The Invader (Dick Murdoch) Stan Hansen breaks Bruno Sammartino's neck. Superstar Billy Graham def Bruno Sammartino for WWF Heavyweight Championship Tommy Rich wins NWA Heavyweight Title (for four days) Billy Graham leaves WWF after alleged drug overdose Hulk Hogan and WWF land the cover of Sports Illustrated Audio: Austin Idol, Tommy Rich and Paul E Dangerly (Heyman) shave Jerry Lawler's head and causes near riot. Ken Patera makes WWF return after spending two years in prison over 'McDonalds' incident The Fantastics end Midnight Express' record NWA US Tag Title reign Hulk Hogan battles Big Boss Man in cage match (SNME) Jimmy Snuka makes WWF return after three year absence. Big Van Vader becomes first IWGP Heavyweight Champion Keiichi Yamada debuts as Jushin 'Thunder' Liger Jimmy Snuka becomes first ever ECW Heavyweight Champion (for one day) Sid Justice quits WWF after suspension for positive drug test Former wrestler and WWF referee convicted in a murder for hire plot against his wife Audio: Tammy Fytch makes her debut and 'threatens' sexual discrimination lawsuit against SMW Audio Wrestlecrap: Two Wrestlers (Mike Davis, Black Bart) And A Cup (Water) Sean Waltman makes WWF debut as The Kamikaze Kid First teaser promo for The Smoking Guns airs WWF signs Boni Blackstone  WCW has Ric Flair and Ricky Steamboat wrestle their final match against each other, for the Heavyweight Title, in front of - the WCW Worldwide audience? Hunter Hearst Helmsley wins WWF debut match using his finisher: a diamond cutter Collision In Korea: WCW and New Japan perform in North Korea in front of a record 190,000 in attendance Last WWF televised match for Razor Ramon and Diesel before going to WCW 'Fat' Frank Iadevia trolls Howard Stern Audio: Shots Fired! DX invades WCW Kane vs Undertaker: Inferno Match Sable vs Luna Vachon: Evening Gown Match First Annual Brian Pillman Memorial Event Buff Bagwell undergoes neck and spinal surgery Sting wins, then loses the WCW World Title in two hours Ric Flair committed to Mental Hospital Audio: Steve Austin saves Stephanie McMahon from Undertaker and Ministry Of Darkness Audio: The Rock and Steve Austin promos; Shane and Undertaker align to create The Corporate Ministry. Juventud Guerrera and Jerry Flynn arrested for DUI Cool story involving Glacier, Goldberg, and WCW raising money for disabled child Audio: Steve Austin stuns The Rock - and a video camera Steve Austin blows up the DX Express Tour Bus Audio: David Arquette wins WCW World Heavyweight Title WWF wins the Brock Lesnar sweepstakes over WCW and NJPW Bob Backlund announces CT Congressional run Steve Corino wins NWA World Heavyweight Title Randy Orton and Cesaro make WWE debuts Steve Austin retires as in ring performer, but becomes Raw Co-GM with Eric Bischoff Lance Storm retires as full time wrestler Audio: Randy Orton spits in face of Harley Race Looking back at Chris Candido's final TNA appearance, leg and ankle injury, and untimely death Viacom announces creation of Wrestling Society X World Wrestling Legends: 6:05 - The Reunion Vince McMahon defeats God The Condemned (starring Steve Austin) bombs at the box office Felony charges issued against Reid Flair Recapping 2010 and 2011 WWE Draft Abyss and Ric Flair fight over WWE Hall Of Fame Rings on Impact Nick Gage sentenced in bank robbery case WWE launches 'Be A STAR' anti-bullying campaign Extreme Rising fails miserably Eve Torres 'fires' The Bellas Connor 'The Crusher' Michalek passes away Jeff Hardy breaks leg in dirt bike accident WWE releases Mason Ryan, Shaul Guerrero and four others from NXT Kalisto defeats Braun Stroman in a Dumpster Match And so much more! NOTABLE PRO WRESTLING DEBUTS: Owen Hart (1986), Tiny "Zeus" Lister (04/25/1989), Rey Mysterio Jr (1989), Tammy Sytch (1993), Tyler Breeze (2007) NOTABLE DEATHS: Verne Gagne 89, Lou Thesz 86, Hans Schroeder 74, Tom Renesto 72, Johnny Valentine 71, Lee Marshall 64, Playboy Buddy Rose 56, Angel Blanco 49, Brazo de Oro 47, Chris Candido 33, Bialor The Giant 31 NOTABLE BIRTHDAYS: Frank Gotch, Lou Thesz, Don Leo Jonathan, Killer Karl Kox, Blue Demon, Jerry Blackwell, Yukon Eric, Billy Joe Travis (RIP), Paul Roma 58, Tank Abbott 53, Kane 51, Yuji Nagata 50, Chubby Dudley and Ron Reis 48, Johnny Devine 44, Jay Lover and Titus O'Neil 41, Vladimir Kozlov 39, Alex Riley 37, Ricky Landell, Amazing Red, and Aksana 36, Shawn Riddick and Eddie Osbourne 35, Shawn Daivari and El Hijo del Frantasma 34, Jay Lethal 33, Drew Gulak and Brittany Savage 31 RIGHT CLICK AND SAVE to download the TWIWH EP17 (04/30/18) CLICK HERE to listen to the TWIWH EP17 (04/30/18) online. 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(0:00) Hi/Hello, (1:00) Red Oaks (1:00), the development of co-creator Gregory Jacobs, Steven Soderbergh, ‘Red Oaks’ takes 80s back in time, David Gordon Green, Hal Hartley, Amy Heckerling, Ennis Esmer, (6:10) ‘Stranger Things, Netflix, Harvey Weinstein, David O. Russell’s series is dead Amazon with Robert de Niro and Julianne Moore, Amazon searching for bigger hits, season 3 preview of ‘Man in the High Castle,’ Matthew Weiner’s series, Michael Mann, David Milch being barred from the ‘Luck’ set, Richard Kind, Amazon strategy of swinging for the fences for a show like ‘Game of Thrones,’ ‘Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,’ (17:50) the state of network TV, ‘This is Us,’ misleading promos, ‘The Good Doctor,’ special effects, feels dated like ‘CSI’ and ‘House,’ Freddie Highmore, ‘Super Store,’ Sirius/XM, 5 Best: Scott’s 5) ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ and ‘Bonus Family’ 4) ‘Better Things’ 3) ‘The Deuce’ 2) ‘Mindhunter’ 1) ‘Halt and Catch Fire’… Josh’s 5) Curb Your Enthusiasm’ 4) You’re the Worst’ 3) ‘Better Things’ 2) ‘Mindhunter’ 1) ‘The Deuce’… Bonus Family unique perspective tool, Larry David and the wig, “We have a situation,” time apart can make the heart grow fonder, What are you doing Sam?, Cheryl and Ted!, Elizabeth Banks and Josh met her, David Fincher is killing it!, Netflix and how they’re handling releases of new original series, Fincher/Theron originally pitched Minhunter to HBO in 2006, Holt McCallany so good in Mindhunter and remembering him from the FX series, ‘Lights Out,’ Anna Torv, Hannah Gross, Alex Karras, teases are of the “BTK Killer,” ‘The Deuce’ gets better and better, New Hamsterdam resurfaces, solid work by Michael Rispoli and David Krumholtz, Krumholtz’s fat suit and playing Barry Schweiber in ‘Freaks and Geeks’ and the underrated ‘Liberty Heights,’ nice touch on Halt with the ‘Dazed and Confused’ DVD case on top of the VCR, Scott’s baffled why people didn’t watch ‘Halt and Catch Fire’ and why AMC dumped it on Saturday nights, Josh can’t stand Lee Pace, few shows stick the landing, ‘Homeland’ holes, ‘The Shield,’ what will ‘The Americans’ legacy be?, Spielberg documentary, Ken Burns and how to digest 'Red Oaks.' Close with clip from Netflix's 'Mindhunter.' 

An embittered professional wrestler, convinced that his life has no meaning outside the ring, meets a beautiful woman. Unlike most of the women he has known, she seems to be interested in him for himself rather than his fame or his money, and he finds himself becoming attracted to her. ALTERNATE TAKE: A burly professional wrestler falls in love with a caring woman who helps convince him to abandon his vengeful search for the one who murdered his brother in this drama.  Which synopsis better fits the 1977 TV Movie Mad Bull? Somewhere comfortably in the middle. Luckily for you Three Way Theater breaks everything down in this hidden gem starring football player/part-time wrestler/Webster's dad Alex Karras as the titular Mad Bull. Watch the movie now on Amazon! Like! Comment! Subscribe! Share! Eat! Sleep! Repeat! Listen and download now on Podbean, iTunes, and right here on ThreeWayTheater.com!

Episode 18 Victor Victoria NOTES The 1982 hit “Victor/Victoria” written/directed by Blake Edwards featuring Julie Andrews, Robert Preston, James Garner. Alex Karras, and Lesley Ann Warren ...  Sabrina shares how this movie had a profound effect on her life. Plus listener feedback and more of the Transgender 30 day challenge. Please help the show by taking this SURVEY Email:

This is the latest episode of the syndicated FuseBox Radio Broadcast with DJ Fusion & Jon Judah for the weeks of October 17 & 24, 2012 with some new and classic music from the international Black Diaspora, news and commentary. Our commentary this week back post-vacation touched base on our viewpoint on the latest update on the Penn State football sex scandal with Jerry Sandusky's official sentencing, a stop-and-frisk being secretly taped in NYC of NYPD harassing a young man of Color, the private prison system in Ohio having horrible records of treating prisoners, over medication of poor children with psychiatric drugs, the passing of actors Lee O'Brien ("The Last Dragon") & Alex Karras ("Webster", "Blazing Saddles"), this year's BET Hip-Hop Awards and some other things here and there. There are brand new Black Agenda Report and Black University Radio Network (BURN) DIRECT EFX news mini-segments on this week's episode. FuseBox Radio Playlist + Charts for the Weeks of October 17 & 24, 2012 Top Spins (Music Still Lasting in Rotation/Music Played Live on Air Each Week/As Well As Music Requested By The Listeners) 1. Jose James/It's All Over Your Body (Oddisee RMX)/Blue Note (Played Live) 2. R. Kelly/Feelin' Single/RCA (Played Live) 3. John Robinson & PVD/Miles & Trane/Cotter & Brick Records (Played Live) 4. The Hood Internet/Our Finest China/Decon (Played Live) 5. D.O.E. C.I.G.A.P.O.M. feat. DaNedra Rowel/Caged Birds/Inner Loop Records (Played Live) 6. Brother Ali/Say Amen/Rhymesayers (Top Song Requested) 7. Preservation Hall Jazz Band feat. Yasiin Bey, Trombone Short & Allen Toussaint/It Ain't My Fault/Rounder Records (Top Song Requested) 8. The Wonderful Sounds of Induce/One Day, Some Day/Wondersound (Top Song Requested) 9. Solidisco/One More Chance (Original Mix)/Solidisco.com (Top Song Requested) 10. Flying Lotus/Heave(n)/Warp (Top Song Requested) 11. Oh No feat. Montage One & Guilty Simpson/Devastation/Heavy Keys (Top Song Requested) 12. Sonnymoon/Nothing Thought (Natural Self RMX)/SunnymoonMusic.com (Top Song Requested) 13. Daville feat. Charley Black/Never Let You Go/White Label (Top Song Requested) 14. Dee-1 feat. Mannie Fresh & Mos Des/The Very Best/Dee1Music.com (Top Song Requested) 15. Maze Hill/Long Haul (LV RMX)/Wah Wah 45s (Top Song Requested) 16. JR & PH7 feat. Freeway, Saigon & Ras Kass/Who Want What/Soulspazm (Top Song Requested) 17. Paloma Faith/Picking Up The Pieces (Dae Aude RMX)/Epic (Top Song Requested) 18. Rapsody feat. Heather Victoria/The Drums/it's A Wonderful World Music Group (Top Song Requested) 19. Audible Doctor/The Uh..../Brown Bag All-Stars (Top Song Requested) 20. Flo Brown/Dream's Don't Bleed/GoldenSealSOSA.com (Top Song Requested) 21. DJ Vadim/This DJ (Slickshoota)/BBE (Top Song Requested) 22. Missy Elliot/9th Inning/Atlantic (Top Song Requested) 23. Angie Stone/Backup Plan/Saguaro Road Rhythm (Top Song Requested) 24. Analog Players Society/Hurricane Season In Brooklyn/Studio Brooklyn (Top Song Requested) 25. Tangie The Great/I Started/TangieTheGreat.com (Top Song Requested) Top Adds (New Joints Played Live On This Week's Broadcast) 1. Mark Clive de Lowe feat. Nia Andrews/Hooligans (Nostalgia 77 RMX)/Tru Thoughts 2. Murs & 9th Wonder/It's Over/IWWMG 3. Roc Marciano/76/Decon 4. Plan B/The Runaway/Atlantic 5. Francis Yip/Green is the Mountain/Soul Temple 6. Adele/Skyfall/Columbia & Sony 7. Calvin Harris feat. Florence Welch/Sweet Nothing/Ultra & Columbia DJ Fusion Flashback Tracks: Digable Planets feat. Jeru The Damaja/Graffiti/Pendulum & EMI Funkadelic/You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks/Westbound The Faces/Tug of War/Strut Records PLUS Some Extra Special Hidden Tracks in the Jon Judah Master Mix w/ Old School Black Music Classics and Independent Music Finds

On this edition of "Coppock on Sports" brought to you by American Taxi, host Chet Coppock honors the passing of Alex Karras, a true American original. You may remember Karras from his days as a Detroit Lion, a professional wrestler, or a Hollywood actor. They don't make 'em like Karras anymore.

On this edition of "Coppock on Sports" brought to you by American Taxi, host Chet Coppock honors the passing of Alex Karras, a true American original. You may remember Karras from his days as a Detroit Lion, a professional wrestler, or a Hollywood actor. They don't make 'em like Karras anymore.

Today I remember the late Alex Karras. I then talk about how the Fantastic Four reboot might look a lot like Chronicle, and why Chronicle 2 is being delayed. I will tell you all about Taken 3 because yah that's happening. I then tell you who is up for the lead of Mary Jane Watson in the new Spiderman movie. I talk about the latest Robocop pics and why this is something to be happy about. I try to explain what a humansaur is and how it is a sign that Jurassic Park 4 is on the way. We talk about the Wolverine movie and about Viper who is seen on the set of the movie. The Munsters (Mockingbird Lane) pilot will be converted to a Halloween special. Then I tell you why Matt Damon thinks Jason Borne is dead. Also Charlie Brown is getting a movie. You can find bonus material on mymorningjoe.com and themogos.com Twitter: thisis_hlevy Email: flixfix@mymorningjoe.com Backup Email: Flixfix@themogos.com