Podcast appearances and mentions of andrew hale

In this segment, Mark is joined by Andrew Hale, a senior trade policy analyst with the Heritage Foundation. They discuss President Trump's just announced tariff plan. Can he convince Mark to become a fan?

In hour 1 of The Mark Reardon Show, Mark discusses the affect that President Trump's tariffs have had on the market. At what point should people start panicking? Mark is then joined by Andrew Hale, a senior trade policy analyst with the Heritage Foundation. They discuss President Trump's just announced tariff plan. Can he convince Mark to become a fan? He is later joined by George Rosenthal, a co-owner of Throttlenet. Saturday is the deadline for President Trump to announce what will happen with TikTok's Chinese ownership. What will he do?

In hour 1 of The Mark Reardon Show, Mark discusses the affect that President Trump's tariffs have had on the market. At what point should people start panicking? Mark is then joined by Andrew Hale, a senior trade policy analyst with the Heritage Foundation. They discuss President Trump's just announced tariff plan. Can he convince Mark to become a fan? He is later joined by George Rosenthal, a co-owner of Throttlenet. Saturday is the deadline for President Trump to announce what will happen with TikTok's Chinese ownership. What will he do? In hour 2, Sue hosts, "Sue's News" where she discusses the latest trending entertainment news, this day in history, the random fact of the day, and much more. MArk is then joined by Representative Bob Onder, a Congressman from Missouri's 3rd District. He shares his reaction to Trump's tariffs, the House picking up a couple new seats in Florida, and his new bill to protect children from pediatric gender surgery. In hour 3, Mark is joined by Jennifer Sey, the found and CEO of XX-XY Athletics. She's also a former USA champion gymnast and was the producer of the 2020 Emmy winning documentary, "Athlete A" on Netflix. Mark is then joined by Duane Patterson, with HotAir.com and the Host of the Duane's World Podcast. They discuss Trump's tariffs, it's effect on Wall Street, and other trending political news such as Jake Tapper's new book on Joe Biden's decline while still in office. They wrap up the show with the Audio Cut of the Day.

2025 re-run bonus notes:   This episode is the third in a trilogy of music blocks (parts 1 and 2 were our January and February reruns). Long time listeners may already know what this trilogy is all about, but for those who don't and have been following the reruns, the introduction to this episode finally explains what the trilogy is all about.   So, the fun [for me] question: of the three music blocks in the trilogy, which did you like best (and why), which did you like least (and why), and do you or do you not think I made the right decision bumping "music block A" for "music block B" in C1E41? Let me know at nerd.noise.radio@gmail.com, or by any social media outlet on which we exist. I will genuinely be curious to know what you think. Even to this day in 2025, I *STILL* don't know what to think, personally!   DISCLAIMER: the production value was worse in 2022 when the intro and outro were produced, and substantially worse in 2018 when the music block was produced. So if this is your first time hearing Nerd Noise Radio, please keep in mind that our production values have much improved in the time since.   ----------------------------- Original (2022) Show Notes -----------------------------   Today's broadcast is  C1E69 for Mishmash Monday, November 7th, 2022. Today's Episode will be "Mishmash Monday - vol. 12, the long-lost "original C1E41", a 2018 Lost Level originally intended for 2019.    Track# / Track / Game / System / Composer(s) / Timestamp    01) Earcatcher - 00:00:00  02) Intro - 00:00:12  03) Flight - Panzer Dragoon - Saturn – c: Yoshitaka Azuma a: Tomoyuki Hayashi - 00:06:33  04) New Beginning pt. 1 - LA Noire - multi - Andrew Hale and Simon Hale - 00:10:15  05) This is Your Story - Final Fantasy X - PS2 – Masashi Hamauzu,  Junya Nakano, and/or Nobuo Uematsu - 00:11:18  06) Track 06 - Colony Wars - PS1 – Tim Wright aka CoLD SToRAGE - 00:13:30  07) The Flatfields - Quizzes and Dragons - Arcade – Isao Abe - 00:14:03  08) Midnight Chaser / Breakthrough - Wolf Fang - Kuhga 2001 - Arcade - Hiroaki Yoshida / Akira Taemoto - 00:15:38  09) Let's Go on an Adventure - Landstalker - Genesis  – Motoaki Takenouchi - 00:18:57  10) Track 7 - Mutant Rampage: Bodyslam - CD-I – Tony Trippi - 00:20:18  11) BGM #57 - Quiz Daisousasen Pt 2 - Neo Geo - Yoshihiko Kitamura, Yasuo Yamate, Yoko Osaka, Hiroaki Shimizu, Toshikazu Tanaka - 00:22:10  12) BGM 4 (Stage 3-2) - Shadow Dancer - Genesis - Keisuke Tsukahara - 00:25:03  13) Rendezvous Theme - Golgo 13 - NES – Michiharu Hasuya - 00:27:05  14) Areas 41-50 - Slap Fight - Arcade - Masahiro Yuge - 00:28:12  15) Unknown Track 22 - Team Innocent - PCFX – Kenji Kawai - 00:29:16  16) Fonction - N++ - multi – Broca - 00:31:52  17) Jus' Dance (Sole Channel Mix) - GT Sport - PS4 - Mr.V - 00:38:37  18) Just Hiss - WipEout HD - PS3 – Spector - 00:46:21  19) Rhythm Shift - Ridge Racer - Arcade / PS1 – Etsuo Ishii, Yuri Misumi, Keiichi Okabe, Shinji Hosoe, Ayoko Sasoh, Nobuyoshi Sano - 00:51:02  20) Fury - Rocket League - multi – Rogue - 00:53:00  21) Alien - Galactic Pinball - Virtual Boy – Kenji Yamamoto, Masaru Tajima and/or Minako Hamano - 00:56:58  22) Dungeon / Waterfall - Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest - SNES – Yasuhiro Kawakami and/or Ruiji Sasai - 00:59:50  23) Mysterious Ghost Ship - TMNT: Hyperstone Heist - Genesis – Masahiro Ikariko, Yuichi Takamine, Kaori Kinouchi, and/or Hideto Inoue - 01:02:06  24) Mystic Woods (Forest 2) - Grounseed - PC98 (OPN vers) - Daisuke Takahashi - 01:04:32  25) Meridian (Night) - Horizon Zero Dawn - PS4 - Joris de Man, The Flight, Niels van der Leest, and/or Jonathan Williams - 01:08:05  26) Title Theme - AD&D Slayer - 3DO – Billy Wolfe - 01:11:48  27) Cobbleston, Nestled in the Hills - Octopath Traveller - SWITCH! - Yasunori Nishiki - 01:12:58  28) Sealed Temple - LoZ: Skyward Sword - Wii – Hajime Wakai, Shiho Fujii, Mahito Yakota, Takeshi Hama, Koji Kondo - 01:15:58  29) Globe at Night - Wii Forecast Channel - Wii – Kazumi Totaka - 01:19:06  30) Island of Memory - Doshin the Giant - GameCube - Tatsuhiko Asano - 01:21:38  31) The Cliff that Time Forgot - Earthbound - SNES – Hirokazu Tanaka - 01:25:40  32) Oblivious Past - Alien Soldier - Mega Drive - Kazuo Hanzawa - 01:26:56  33) Outro - 01:32:11  34) Exit Earcatcher - 01:43:21    Music Block Runtime: 01:25:40 / Total Episode Runtime: 01:43:57    Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by BB Rights.    Intro / Outro / Final Production produced using Ardour 6 / Audacity 3 in Ubuntu Studio [Linux] 22.04 09/08/2022. 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Andrew Hale is a senior trade policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation. In this episode, we discuss how Trump is using various trade tools to strengthen alliances and weaken adversaries.“I look upon what he's trying to do as a negotiating tactic. He's using tariffs as an instrument of statecraft, and also for economic coercion, to achieve matters that sometimes go well beyond trade policy,” Hale says.Hale says that tariffs should be used against America's foreign adversaries, but not necessarily against its allies.“Among [those on] the protection side, there's a knee jerk reaction saying a tariff is the panacea to all of our problems. And actually, a lot of these problems we created right here in Washington. And we can fix them right here in Washington, with dealing with some of the stupid and foolish regulations that we have,” he says. “What we cannot go back to is what we had during the Clinton years, what we had during the Bush years, the Obama years—which was this seamless trade with China, where we treat them as a market economy. They're a non-market economy. They're a foreign adversary.”Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

What's more important to you: What your dog does?  Or how your dog feels? This question is at the core of Andrew Hale's Dog Centered Care approach.   An emerging thought leader in the dog training world, Andrew draws on his background in human psychology to place empathy and a deep understanding of a dog's emotional experience at the heart of his work. He'll even share with us his biggest ethical dilemma with the field of dog training.   You might want to have a notebook handy as Andrew breaks down concepts for us such as: his “safety first” protocol, his Learn – Support – Teach mantra, and how the 3 A's of psychology relate to dog training.   Andrew and I also discuss common challenges faced by pet parents, including the cycle of conflict triggered by a dog's reactivity, and how to emotionally navigate those moments when tough decisions must be made for your fearful or reactive dog, such as an emergency vet visit.   You can find Andrew in his Dog Centered Care Facebook Group or YouTube channel.   Find links and show notes at: https://believeindogpodcast.com/episodes-1/episode114   February is Pet Dental Health Month!  Teef: The easiest way to improve your dog's dental health is with a spoonful of Teef powder in their water.  Save 20% on your Teef orders when you use the code: ADM.   Support this podcast, subscribe on your favorite app and leave a rating or review.

Andrew Hale joins me today for an insightful conversation about the emotional lives and wellbeing of our dogs. Andrew is a Certified Animal Behaviourist and dog trainer who follows a Dog Centred Care approach that focuses on empathy and compassion, and curiosity to better understand why a dog is exhibiting a particular behaviour. Andrew is a behaviour consultant for a number of organisations, including Pet Remedy, Canine Arthritis Management, British Isles Grooming Association, and Animals in Distress. In today's episode, Andrew shares why we need more C.A.K.E. in our lives with our dogs and with others! No, it's not a delicious dessert, but you'll definitely love it! We talk about a variety of topics related to thinking about how to create emotional safety for our beloved pups, including: How we would benefit from looking at behaviour as a way to communicate a need, to seek connection, and to find relief The coercive potential of reinforcement The value of asking different questions What attachment styles are and how we can better create secure relationships with our dogs The relationship between the nervous system and behaviour Andrew shares a personal story about childhood sexual trauma, so just a heads up if this is triggering for you. This is another one of those super important conversations that those of us who are committed to nourishing our dogs mind, body, and soul need to be having. I know you are going to love it! To learn more about Andrew and his work, and to connect with him, please visit his website https://dogcc.org/. Here, you'll be able to find links to his Facebook page and YouTube channel which are both filled with really helpful resources. I've left this link in the show notes. If you enjoy a whole-dog, whole-person approach to your dog's health with a spiritual touch like we talk about today, come join Stacey Renphrey of Hozho Hounds and me in our brand new F.E.T.C.H. membership where we'll share with you the very same framework we use in our canine nutrition practices to help get to the root of health challenges and get your dog on the pathway to optimal health. If you want to know more sign up for our newsletter using the link below, and receive your FREE copy of our ‘Guide to Decode Your Dog's Energetic Pawprint'! https://subscribepage.io/pHUcny If you are enjoying the podcast, please subscribe, rate it, and leave me a comment! I read every one! *Disclaimer: This information is for educational purposes only and is not intended to replace the advice of your own veterinarian or doctor.

Today on Rising, Robby lays out why he believes the mainstream media got it wrong when it comes defining who are MAGA young supporters. Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) blasts DOGE and how it is proceeding to dismantle the government. Andrew Hale, a trade policy analyst at Heritage Foundation, defends the Trump tariffs. DOGE employees say they face doxxing.. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) says she will support Tulsi Gabbard to be the next director of national intelligence. This, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In hour 3, Mark is joined by Andrew Hale, a Senior Analyst in Trade Policy at The Heritage Foundation. They discuss the success that President Trump is having with targeted tariff proposals and more. Mark is then joined by Lt. Col. Allen "Bullit" Campbell. Lt. Col. Campbell is a retired member of the United State Air Force and was an airplane Captain with Delta Airlines for 37 years that has landed dozens of times at Reagan Airport in Washington D.C. He discusses last week's aircraft crashes in Washington D.C. and Philadelphia and provides the information that he knows. They wrap up the show with the Audio Cut of the Day.

In hour 1 of The Mark Reardon Show, Mark discusses the looming questions around last week's plane crashes as well as the latest on the amount of tax dollars being spent at USAID. Mark is then joined by Josh Hammer, Newsweek Senior Editor at Large and the Host of The Josh Hammer Show (Live on KFTK on Saturdays at 1pm). They discuss President Trump's first couple of weeks in office and all of the notable things he has accomplished so far. Mark and Sue then discuss the new Netflix feature on OJ Simpson and how easy it is to dive back into the details around the murder case. In hour 2, Sue hosts, "Sue's News" where they discuss trending entertainment news including last nights Grammy's Award Show, notable performances, this day in history, the random fact of the day, and more. Mark is then joined by Former Missouri Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder. Kinder recently won the race to become the new Chair of the Missouri Republican Party. They discuss the victory and the work now being done. He is then joined by KSDK Sports Director Frank Cusumano. Frank discusses the Mizzou Tigers basketball team climbing up to 15th in the national rankings. They also discuss the Blues ending a four game losing streak and preview their upcoming schedule. In hour 3, Mark is joined by Andrew Hale, a Senior Analyst in Trade Policy at The Heritage Foundation. They discuss the success that President Trump is having with targeted tariff proposals and more. Mark is then joined by Lt. Col. Allen "Bullit" Campbell. Lt. Col. Campbell is a retired member of the United State Air Force and was an airplane Captain with Delta Airlines for 37 years that has landed dozens of times at Reagan Airport in Washington D.C. He discusses last week's aircraft crashes in Washington D.C. and Philadelphia and provides the information that he knows. They wrap up the show with the Audio Cut of the Day.

In this segment, Mark is joined by Andrew Hale, a Senior Analyst in Trade Policy at The Heritage Foundation. They discuss the success that President Trump is having with targeted tariff proposals and more.

Andrew Hale maxes out his credit card and dives headfirst into the Amazon jungle to drink ayahuasca with a shaman. What follows is an off-the-rails, no-holds-barred trip loaded with hallucinations, existential dread, buckets (yep, real buckets), and a mind-blowing answer that flips everything he thought he knew about himself. First told back in 2013 at The Bird—a night themed When Two Become One—Andrew's story is Barefaced to the core: raw, funny, weird, and all too human. After over a decade of jaw-dropping, laugh-out-loud, and heart-punch storytelling, Barefaced Stories is still doing what it does best—bringing Australia's wildest, realest voices to the stage and beyond. Hit play, buckle up, and get ready for a story that's as chaotic as it is unforgettable. NEXT SHOW: Bragging Rights, Rechabite Hall 28 Nov BOOK HERE Connect with Us: Facebook: @BarefacedStoriesPerth – Swing by for the latest. Instagram: @BarefacedStories – For all the behind-the-scenes action. Twitter: @BrutallyFranko – Straight-up chat, no fluff. Email: info@barefaced.com.au – drop us a line anytime! Podcast Host & Production Wizard: Andrea Gibbs the voice guiding you through each story, making sure you're always in for a good time. Musical Vibes: Odette Mercy & Her Soul Atomics Pics & Vids: Lewis Martin, whose photography and videography immortalise the raw emotion of live storytelling. Marketing & Social Guru: Leah Sellwood – She's the one spreading the word, getting our stories out there on your feeds. Big Cheers to Our Sponsor: Old Young's Distillery – They craft spirits as bold and unique as our storytellers. So there you have it – the crew behind Barefaced Stories Official Podcast. Tune in, kick back, and enjoy a new story each week!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

How does an understanding of what makes dogs tick, help us to understand ourselves and our place in the world? What does it take to feel safe - as a human, or as a dog (or cat, or horse, or... anything)? And how can we help ourselves and each other find regulation in a VUCA world (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous)?Andrew Hale is a Certified Animal Behaviourist who specialises in working complex behaviour cases, especially those involving 'Reactivity and Aggression.'  Look around you at the world.  Look at the news.  What two words best describe the nature of our local, national and geo-political processes? Andrew is one of those remarkable people committed to a Dog Centred Care approach, working with empathy and compassion to understand why any being is behaving in this way. His focus is on dogs, but what we're learning - and the reason I have invited Andrew onto the podcast - is that all the theories of secure or ruptured attachment, of the need for autonomy, agency, confidence and safety, apply in dogs as much as they do in people -or indeed, any sentient being.  This conversation dives deep into trauma (or at least, trauma responses), our capacity for secure attachment in the modern world, our parenting skills, our skills as people who choose to share our lives with other animals - and ultimately, our skills in helping ourselves cope with a culture that's increasingly going off the rails. It's not about to get any better, either. So the more we can find our own stability, the more we can help others. Which is what this episode is all about.  Relax, get yourself a cup of tea and let's explore what really makes us tick. Dog Centered Care https://dogcc.org/Dog Centered Care TV on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@DogCentredCare/videosDog Centered Care Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/dogccCandace Pert Molecules of Emotion https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/molecules-of-emotion-why-you-feel-the-way-you-feel-candace-pert/355476Attachment and Bonding in dogs and people https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4348122/

Andrew Hale is a certified canine behaviourist, the Behaviour Consultant at Pet Remedy, expert adviser for Canine Arthritis Management and KAD trainer.   In this Q&A, from Pup Fest 2024 we look at: A dog's physical, emotional and social safety needs. The use of food as a primary reinforcer for a sensitive dog and the coercive potential of reinforcement. Sensory mapping. Managing predatory mindset. And the importance of 'Stuff' training. Pup Fest 2024 is still available to watch for £49 for all of the recordings from the 17 global experts,  plus the festival goodie bag.   Or you can join PTTP for £30/month and get access included with your membership.   If you want help moving your busy dog towards relaxing more of the time, check out Pup Talk The Pack dog training and support community https://pup-talk.mykajabi.com/the-pack   You can also join my free Facebook community www.facebook.com/groups/puptalk/

On Tuesday 28 May 2024 Tate Britain unveiled to the press Grace, a major new commission by Alvaro Barrington, bringing sound, painting and sculpture to the dramatic architecture of Tate Britain's neo-classical Duveen Galleries. At the press view in the Duveen Galleries RNIB Connect Radio's Toby Davey caught up with Hannah Marsh, Assistant Curator Contemporary British Art at Tate Britain to find out more about Alvaro Barrington's work and the inspiration for Grace. About Grace by Alvaro Barrington at Tate Britain Through Grace, Alvaro Barrington takes visitors on an intimate journey through time and place. Addressing the profound impact that women and their care within Black culture have had on his upbringing and artistic practice, this site-specific installation centres three key figures – his grandmother Frederica, a close friend and sister-figure Samantha and his mother Emelda. Staged in three acts, the installation brings together the artist‘s personal history, drawing on his experiences of Caribbean carnival culture and memories of his upbringing in Grenada and New York. Visitors enter the Duveen Galleries at the heart of Tate Britain under a suspended corrugated steel roof that offers cover from a tropical rainstorm heard above. This multimedia work is inspired by Barrington‘s childhood memory of seeking shelter in his grandmother's home in Grenada during a storm. The sound of rain hitting the roof is combined with a soundtrack featuring NTS radio programmes selected with Femi Adeyemi, newly commissioned compositions by Kelman Duran, Andrew Hale, Devonté Hynes and Olukemi Lijadu and songs by Mangrove Steelband. Under the roof are ratan and plastic seats embellished with braided elements and draped with plastic quilts containing embroidered postcards and works on paper by Barrington's longtime collaborator Teresa Farrell. Wooden walls containing windows and textile works transform this vast, open hall into a series of more intimate spaces. Evoking feelings of safety and protection from his childhood, the artist invites us to take a moment to pause as we shelter together under the same roof. Emerging from the rainstorm, a four-metre-high aluminium sculpture of a dancing figure greets audiences in the centre of the galleries. Based on and made in collaboration with Barrington‘s close friend, Samantha, the figure stands on a large communal steel drum and is adorned with 'Pretty Mas (masquerade)‘ jewellery by designers L'Enchanteur, costume by Jawara Alleyne and nails by Mica Hendricks. Paintings hanging from scaffolding depicting ‘traditional Mas' characters and carnival revellers along with vast archway canvases overhead taking us from sunrise to sunset form a vibrant carnival streetscape. The scene refers to the Caribbean tradition of ‘J‘ouvert', in which participants cover each other with paint, mud and oil and dance at dawn on carnival Monday. Barrington invites us into the protective space that the carnival community has created in the streets for Samantha to freely celebrate herself. The installation concludes in the North Duveen gallery where light shines through a stained-glass window onto a boarded-up corner kiosk made to American prison-cell dimensions, creating a contemplative, cathedral-like atmosphere. The kiosk sculpture is fitted with moving shutters and surrounded by crowd control barriers with barbed wire, alluding to issues of mass incarceration. Church pews covered with plastic quilts containing pillowcases which feature drawings by Barrington face this somber scene. Inspired by the artist's adolescence in New York, this final act references the unwavering love and fear felt by Black mothers for their children, who are frequently at risk of harm amid state violence. Grace by Alvaro Barrington continues in the Duveen Galleries at Tate Britain until 26 January 2025. Description tours are available for blind and partially sighted people but need to be booked in advance via hello@tate.org.uk or on 020 7887 8888. More details about Grace by Alvaro Barrington at Tate Britain can be found by visiting the following pages of the Tate website - https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/alvaro-barrington Image shows the central Duveen, a giant silver female figure mid-dance wearing gold on her arms, a black durag with gold details, a golden top with purple, red, green and blue tassels and blue shorts, obscured from the knee down by pieces of corrugated tin.

In this episode, Jo & Vicky are joined by Andrew Hale, a human behaviourist who switched to specialising in the behaviour of other animals, in particular dogs. He, Jo & Vicky discuss, in-depth, how to take care of your wellbeing while working in the dog industry. Andrew explains why the damaging behaviour patterns he sees in those who work in the industry develop and what to do about them. This episode is packed with practical advice you can use to build your self-esteem, avoid burnout, ensure that you get to do the work you love and truly help your clients. KEY TAKEAWAYS We need to consider the well-being of ourselves, as well as that of our clients. Compassion is powerful, it enables you to care for and help others even those with which you do not agree. Self-compassion is the most powerful. Compassion fatigue is an issue. Andrew explains how to tackle it. Emotional health is like physical health you need to work at it. Be yourself and confident in your abilities. You don´t need to spend an hour convincing a client you know what you are doing. Don´t dismiss feelings borne out of trauma. Instead, learn to change your relationship with that trauma. Stop letting guilt chain you to the past. Celebrate your wins. Find your purpose and be yourself. Some things will work others won´t, that´s OK, accept that fact. If things are not working out for a client, find out why and guide the client through it. BEST MOMENTS ‘People talk about finding ways to believe in yourself. Actually, I think the first thing is to find ways to be yourself, ´ ‘Burnout, compassion, fatigue, and imposter syndrome, they're all kind of connected.' ‘The more our purpose is about our mission, the better.' ‘You cannot be empathetic and compassionate to others. If you're not compassionate, with good boundaries yourself.'   EPISODE RESOURCES https://dogcc.org Socials - @DogCentredCare https://caninearthritis.co.uk/ SOCIALS AND IMPORTANT LINKS https://www.tiktok.com/@letstalkdogbusiness https://www.youtube.com/@LetsTalkDogBusiness Website www.caninebusinessacademy.com Community Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/caninebusinessacademycommunity/ ABOUT THE HOSTS Meet Jo and Vicky! They bring a combined 25 years of expertise in the canine industry. Jo, with a background in corporate business, and Vicky, a dedicated advocate for rescue organisations, form an unstoppable team. Beyond the mic, their lives are a whirlwind – managing two successful businesses, pursuing a full-time university degree, and parenting two little ones under four. Each of their homes combined is a lively menagerie, housing five dogs and an abundance of chickens. PODCAST DESCRIPTION The ultimate hub for dog business enthusiasts!  Join hosts Jo and Vicky as they unravel the entrepreneurial journey within the canine realm. This podcast delves deep into the business side of owning a dog business, spotlighting inspiring stories of individuals who've seamlessly woven their passion into a profitable lifestyle. Tune in for candid discussions on the human behaviour behind dogs, strategies to attract dream clients, and a behind-the-scenes look at Jo and Vicky's collaborative training ventures. Get ready for client interviews, tales behind the dogs, and insightful perspectives from actual dog owners on what they seek in a trainer. This is your go-to source for navigating the dynamic world where business meets the wagging tails.

Julia Hawkins and Barbara Paterson are the brains and beauty behind the Barking Up the Right Tree Festival 2024Dr. Barbara Paterson is a professional dog trainer and specializes in dog sports foundations and reactivity. She is based in Namibia.Julia Hawkins is a dog trainer and behaviourist based in Cheshire in the UK. Julia has also been a guest on this podcast a couple of times. Having known her for a few years now, it did not surprise me in the slightest when she shared with me her and Barbara's idea to spread the joy and knowledge FREE OF CHARGE, AND FOREVER, with everyone!Resources Barking Up The Right Tree How does FREE access to an absolute treasure trove of resources designed especially for owners of reactive dogs sound?From nutrition advice to mindset through to expert dog training and even veterinary advice… you can tap into all of it for not. one. penny. (Yes, it's free). I'm just one of a whopping 34 incredible experts who Barking Up The Right Tree have brought together to help reactive dogs and their humans ALL. OVER. THE. WORLD. It's a virtual event that you can access from your inbox, so you can watch wherever you are and tap into a wealth of unseen sessions that I know will blow your mind. >>> Sign up and save your free place here: https://barking-up-the-right-tree.newzenler.com/f/summit-24 Barbara Paterson and Julia Hawkins of Barking Up The Right Tree have gathered an astounding line up of expert dog geeks for you.But perhaps most importantly, you should know this. They have done something very different with this…. It's fun. It's simple. It makes the hard stuff make sense. And if that hasn't got you frantically searching for the sign up link, just take a look at the line up…Zak George, Susan Garrett, Ian Dunbar, Michael Shikashio, Grisha Stewart Kim Brophey, Robyn Hood, Andrew Hale, Dr Edward Bassingthwaite, Kamal Fernandez, Linda Michaels, Dr Isla Fishburn, Julia Robertson, Anushree Thammanna, Hélène Lawler, Stephanie Zikmann, Deb Bauer, Clair Hickson, Tracey McLennan, Laura Maulbetsch, Team R+ Gundogs, Sowjanya Vijaynagnar, Tom Candy, Niki French, Victoria Shepherd, Emma Parsons, Cathy Slot, Jess Adams, Alexa Capra, Meghan Barrett, Janet Finlay, and your hosts Dr Barbara Paterson and Julia HawkinsThe sign up link again for you >>> https://barking-up-the-right-tree.newzenler.com/f/summit-24Please feel free to share with anyone you think could use some motivation and inspiration this winter. See you there! Soka GakkaiThe Soka Gakkai is a global community-based Buddhist organization that promotes peace, culture and education centered on respect for the dignity of life.Find out more at: https://www.sokaglobal.org/ and https://sgi-uk.org

Cuando decidimos, hace meses, que este programa vería la luz, no pensamos, ni por un momento, que fuera a quedar tan redondo. Y no, nos estamos poniendo ningún tipo de medalla. Simplemente, no nos planteábamos que podríamos tener una charla tan distendida con José Muñoz, como la que vais a tener la suerte de escuchar. Previamente, analizaremos con todo lujo de detalles Alack Sinner, auténtica obra maestra argentina que trascendió a lo universal. Si ya habéis leído esta serie, sabéis de lo que hablamos y, a buen seguro, querréis conocer como se gestó. Si sois de los afortunados que, todavía, no habéis probado sus mieles, este es un programa perfecto para que os pique el gusanillo. ¡Dadle al Play! Colaboradores: Diego García Rouco, Tristan Cardona y Sergio Fernández Atienza. Suscríbete a nuestro podcast en... iVoox - https://bit.ly/znpivoox Spotify - https://bit.ly/znpspo Apple Podcasts - http://bit.ly/znpapple Google Podcast - http://bit.ly/znpgoogle Y búscanos en tu app de podcast favorita. Música de inicio: "Main Theme - L.A. Noire" de Andrew Hale - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnP4hEMRQtw&list=OLAK5uy_l3xg_kotcLKlk9lSc38SL-I4Qsad33BU8 Música de entrada y salida: "IkouZe ! - acoustic" de Sumashu - https://bit.ly/ZNPintro Música de intermedio: "Theme From New York, New York (2008 Remastered)" de Frank Sinatra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=le1QF3uoQNg Música final: "God Bless The Child" de Billie Holiday - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp349H8G0XQ Suscribirme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq07Q4CtA4I Para estar al día de todo el mundo del cómic y sus galaxias cercanas, ¡visita Zona Negativa!

Well slobber us up like a St. Bernard's dinner Bookshelvers!Another returning guest this week at Barks from Headquarters! Corrin and Steve are joined by the amazing Andrew Hale to talk through LOADS and LOADS of great stuff. We delve into the Crufts conundrum, helpful tips on coaching guardians, how to care for yourself in the sector and how we can apply a 'dog-centric' approach to training with a firm eyeball on the individual experience (of all the beings involved). Big topics indeed (with a little Dolly Parton and road rage stories thrown in for good measure). On top of all that we hear how primal screaming therapy helped Corrin and Steve overcome the Tuesday jitters and try to come to the bottom of why Corrin can't stop saying Howdy doody!?!?!We love chatting to Andrew and hope you Bookshelvers will feel as refreshed and invigorated as us after listening. Andy Facts:Andrew Hale BSc, ISCP.Dip.Canine.Prac is a Certified Canine Behaviourist. He is the behaviour consultant for Pet Remedy, and proud to be an expert advisor for Canine Arthritis Management and a Kids Around Dogs Trainer. He also works to support many dog welfare and rescue organisation. With a background in Human Psychology, Andrew is passionate about exploring the emotional experience that lies behind behaviour, both in dogs and the humans around them.Andrew has played a leading role in the UK Dog training and behaviour community, having been the chair of the Association of INTODogs, and was the driving force behind the UK Dog Behaviour and Training Charter. In 2020, Andrew started Dog Centred Care (https://www.facebook.com/groups/dogcc) which focusses on supporting a dog led, emotionally centred, approach to providing the best care and support for dogs and their caregivers. On this platform, he has been hosting on-line conversations with some of the world's leading scientists, researchers, trauma experts, dog professionals and veterinarians.  Andrew has been invited to speak at many of the leading behaviour conferences and has presented at esteemed events such as the London Vet Show and the Association of Cats and Dogs conference. Andrew has also appeared on many of the leading podcasts and been invited to write for leading publications.For more info on PACT, DogX or to join our mailing list go to: www.pact-dogs.com

Episode 10 – The Emotional Experience – A Conversation with Andrew Hale Andrew Hale is a human psychologist and long-time dog professional who is passionate about the emotional experience of both animals and caregivers. In this episode, Dr Katrin and Andrew chat about The Emotional Experience – what it is and how everyone including our pets has one, the idea of Emotional Safety of pets, caregivers and pet care professionals, and the concept of Task versus Care. This episode is an absolute must-listen for everyone who is interested in learning more about how their pets feel and why this is so very important! If you liked this episode of the show, The Pet Behaviour Chat, please LEAVE A 5-STAR REVIEW, like, share, and subscribe!  You can CONNECT with me:  LinkedIn Profile: Connect with me on LinkedIn Instagram: Follow me on Instagram Facebook Profile: Let's connect on Facebook TikTok: Check out my TikTok videos Website: Visit my website Trinity Veterinary Behaviour Instagram: Follow Trinity Veterinary Behaviour on Instagram Trinity Veterinary Behaviour Facebook: Join us on Trinity Veterinary Behaviour's Facebook page Trinity Veterinary Behaviour YouTube: Subscribe to Trinity Veterinary Behaviour on YouTube Facebook Group: Join The Pet Behaviour Community on Facebook   Thank you for tuning in!

Andrew Hale joins The Dog Dialogue Podcast for an insightful chat about how a slow approach to supporting a 'Reactive' dog is so important. To find out more about Andrews amazing Facebook group visit https://www.facebook.com/groups/1102691126911105 And don't forget to follow us: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedogdialoguepod/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61553805153268

Are you ready to venture into the world of emotional safety with Andrew Hale as our trusty guide? Hold tight as we discuss the interconnectedness of physical safety and emotional safety, revealing the profound impact of our emotional experiences on our interactions and behaviors, for both humans and dogs. We look at how the illusion of physical safety does not necessarily equate to feeling emotionally secure, and how this distinction plays a critical role in training our canine companions and fostering trust in our relationships.The Aggression in Dogs ConferenceThe Bitey End of the Dog Bonus EpisodesThe Aggression in Dogs Master Course and Expert Webinar Bundle --- LIMITED TIME SPECIAL OFFERABOUT ANDREW:Andrew Hale BSc, ISCP.Dip.Canine.Prac is a Certified Canine Behaviourist with Association of INTODogs. He is the behaviour consultant for Pet Remedy and the British Isles Grooming Association and is a Canine Arthritis Management Expert Advisor. He also works to support many dog rescue organisations around the UK. With a background in Human Psychology, Andrew is passionate about exploring the emotional experience that lies behind behaviour, both in dogs and the humans around them. Andrew has played a leading role in the UK Dog training and behaviour community, having been the chair of the Association of INTODogs, and the driving force behind the UK Dog Behaviour and Training Charter. In 2020, Andrew started Dog Centred Care (https://www.facebook.com/groups/dogcc) which focusses on supporting a dog led, emotionally centred, approach to providing their best care and support. Within the Dog Centred Care Facebook group, he has been hosting on-line conversations with some of the world's leading scientists, researchers, trauma experts, dog professionals and veterinarians who are working in this way. Andrew has also co-hosted the Beyond The Operant series of conversations with Kim Brophey and Kathy Connor (www.youtube.com/c/DogCentredCare/videos). These conversations are credited with helping transform the perceptions and language around dog training and behaviour. Support the show

While the West is tearing itself up over pronouns and how many genders there are, China is killing innocent people for their organs, trying to wipe out entire races and fine-tuning its surveillance mechanisms to make sure dissent is a thing of the past. Criticism of China has, in some circles, been muted by accusations of racism, a line the CCP loves to exploit. In this episode of China Unscripted, we talk about how wokeism is making the West weak, how the US could wipe out its debt to China, and why the US has the upper hand against China but isn't using it. Joining us in this episode is Andrew Hale, the Jay Van Andel Senior Policy Analyst in Trade Policy in the Heritage Foundation's Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies. Andrew is a dual national of the United Kingdom and the United States. In the UK, Andrew worked for the Department for International Trade, Defence Intelligence, and Parliament. In the US, Andrew has worked for the State Department and in Congress.

Join us this week as we delve into the heart of Iran's turmoil with esteemed guest Elliott Abrams, former foreign policy advisor to Presidents Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump. Gain exclusive insights and expert analysis on the current state of affairs in Iran, exploring the underlying factors, potential ramifications, and possible solutions. Don't miss this captivating episode as we unravel the complexities of one of the world's most critical geopolitical hotspots.We're also joined by Andrew Hale, the Jay Van Andel Senior Trade Policy Analyst at the Heritage Foundation, who brings his extensive experience in international trade and defense intelligence. Together, we examine the alarming issue of China defaulting on $850 billion of debt, shedding light on the potential global consequences and exploring the economic and geopolitical landscape. Don't miss this captivating episode as we unravel the complexities of Iran's chaos and China's financial challenges._Elliott Abrams is senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in Washington, DC. He served as deputy assistant to the president and deputy national security advisor in the administration of President George W. Bush, where he supervised U.S. policy in the Middle East for the White House, and as Special Representative for Iran and Venezuela in the administration of Donald Trump.Abrams was educated at Harvard College, the London School of Economics, and Harvard Law School. After serving on the staffs of Senators Henry M. Jackson and Daniel P. Moynihan, he was an assistant secretary of state in the Reagan administration and received the secretary of state's Distinguished Service Award from Secretary George P. Shultz. In 2012, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy gave him its Scholar-Statesman Award.Abrams was president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, DC, from 1996 until joining the White House staff. He was a member of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom from 1999 to 2001 and chairman of the commission in the latter year, and served a second term as a member of the Commission in 2012-2014. From 2009 to 2016, Abrams was a member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, which directs the activities of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. He is a member of the board of the National Endowment for Democracy, and teaches U.S. foreign policy at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.Abrams joined the Bush administration in June 2001 as special assistant to the president and senior director of the National Security Council for democracy, human rights, and international organizations. From December 2002 to February 2005, he served as special assistant to the president and senior director of the National Security Council for Near East and North African affairs. He served as deputy assistant to the president and deputy national security advisor for global democracy strategy from February 2005 to January 2009, and in that capacity supervised both the Near East and North African affairs and the democracy, human rights, and international organizations directorates of the National Security Council.Abrams rejoined the State Department in January 2019 as Special Representative for Venezuela, and in August 2020 took on the additional position of Special Representative for Iran. He left the Department in January 2021.Abrams is the author of five books: Undue Process, Security and Sacrifice, Faith or Fear: How Jews Can Survive in a Christian America, Tested by Zion: The Bush Administration and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, and most recently Realism and Democracy: American Foreign Policy After the Arab Spring. He is the editor of three more, Close Calls: Intervention, Terrorism, Missile Defense and "Just War" Today; Honor Among Nations: Intangible Interests and Foreign Policy; and The Influence of Faith: Religious Groups and U.S. Foreign Policy.Andrew is the Jay Van Andel Senior Policy Analyst in Trade Policy in Heritage's Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies.Andrew Hale is currently the Jay Van Andel Senior Trade Policy Analyst at the Heritage Foundation. A dual citizen of the U.S. and the United Kingdom, he has previously worked for the UK Department for International Trade, in Defense Intelligence, and for Parliament. In the U.S. he has worked for the State Department and for a Member of Congress._Connect with us:www.breakingbattlegrounds.voteTwitter: www.twitter.com/Breaking_BattleFacebook: www.facebook.com/breakingbattlegroundsInstagram: www.instagram.com/breakingbattlegroundsLinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/breakingbattlegrounds This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit breakingbattlegrounds.substack.com

This episode I caught up again with Andrew Hale to talk behaviour, training task and care. Why is a care approach so important?

This week on Breaking Battlegrounds, Chuck and Sam are joined by friend of the show, Chris Wilson. Later in the program, Maya MacGuineas of the bipartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget calls in to talk about Bidenomics and our growing national debt.-Prior to starting WPA Intelligence in 2004, Chris Wilson was Global Director of Research for Weber Shandwick International, the world's largest public relations firm at the time.In 2021 Chris was named Pollster of the Year by the American Association of Political Consultants for his work directing survey research and predictive analytics on the Glenn Youngkin for Governor of Virginia campaign. In 2019 he was named Technology Leader of the year by Campaigns & Elections magazine.In 2016, as the Director of Research, Analytics and Digital Strategy for the Cruz for President campaign, Chris is credited for playing a key role in Cruz's triumph in Iowa and helping the Texas Senator finish with the most delegates earned by a 2nd place finisher since Ronald Reagan in 1976. Wilson and WPAi work with organizations like the Club for Growth, Freedom Works, Family Research Council, the Republican National Committee, the National Republican Senatorial Committee and the National Republican Congressional Committee providing data and polling.WPAi's data management platform, Bonfire, has become the dominant desktop as a service tool for conservative candidates and organizations from US Senate down to school board. Bonfire has leveled the playing field with the progressive left when it comes to the important use of predictive analytics by those on the right.Perhaps most importantly, for six consecutive cycles, WPAi clients have outperformed the partisan average win ratio in both their primary and general election contests by double digits.An Oklahoma native, Chris is a graduate of University of Oklahoma and remains an avid Sooner fan. In the rare instances that Chris isn't working, he enjoys watching OU and Cornell College, where his son Denver is the starting quarterback, football, spending time with his five children, reading, and racking up impressive amounts of frequent flyer miles.Chris is a regular political analyst on Fox News.-Maya MacGuineas is the president of the bipartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Her areas of expertise include budget, tax, and economic policy. As a leading budget expert and a political independent, she has worked closely with members of both parties and serves as a trusted resource on Capitol Hill. MacGuineas testifies regularly before Congress and has published broadly, including regularly in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Atlantic, and numerous other outlets. She also appears regularly as a commentator on television.MacGuineas oversees a number of the Committee's projects including the grassroots coalition Fix the Debt; the Committee's Fiscal Institute; and FixUS, a project seeking to better understand the root causes of our nation's growing divisions and deteriorating political system, and to work with others to bring attention to these issues and the need to fix them. Her most recent area of focus is on the future of the economy, technology, and capitalism.Previously, MacGuineas worked at the Brookings Institution and on Wall Street, and in the spring of 2009 she did a stint on The Washington Post editorial board, covering economic and fiscal policy. MacGuineas serves on a number of boards and is a native Washingtonian.-Connect with us:www.breakingbattlegrounds.voteTwitter: www.twitter.com/Breaking_BattleFacebook: www.facebook.com/breakingbattlegroundsInstagram: www.instagram.com/breakingbattlegroundsLinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/breakingbattlegrounds-TranscriptionSam Stone: [00:00:11] Welcome to another episode of Breaking Battlegrounds with your host, Chuck Warren. I'm Sam Stone. Our first guest up today, Chris Wilson, founder and CEO of WPA Intelligence. Prior to starting WPA in 2004, Chris was global director of research for Weber Shandwick International, the world's largest public relations firm. At the time, in 2021, he was named Pollster of the Year by the American Association of Political Consultants for his work directing, survey, research and predictive analysis. Analytics. Can't speak this morning on the Glenn Youngkin for Governor of Virginia campaign. In 2019, he was named Technology Leader of the Year by campaigns and elections. Awfully impressive resume. Chris, thank you again for joining us and welcome back to the program.Chris Wilson: [00:00:55] Well, thanks. I made it all up and sent it to you. You know, that's actually real. So wannabes out there, that's okay. That's okay. It's 2023. You can do whatever you want. Now, this is radio.Sam Stone: [00:01:01] We're good with fluff. So.Chris Wilson: [00:01:03] Exactly. Before we get to before we get talking some politics, tell us a little bit. Your son's playing at University of Oklahoma and playing quarterback, right? Well, no, they actually moved him to tight end. So really appreciate you asking. Yeah, I actually played quarterback his whole life. I was recruited out of high school to a small college in Iowa as a quarterback, but decided he wanted to come home. And it was a long story, actually. I ran into former Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops at a fundraiser for Kevin Stitt, who's a client of mine, the governor of Oklahoma. And they got to talking. And one thing led to another. You know, Stoops is a walk on wide receiver. Stoops, the son, is a walk on wide receiver at Oklahoma. And he was they were talking about that. And so. Denver yeah, he moved back and and walked on in the in the spring and you got to play about probably two thirds of the snaps in the spring game and we'll see. I have high hopes for him. The kid works his tail off and he's really a proud dad.Sam Stone: [00:01:56] Quarterback move into any kind of receiver position You just up your chance to get drafted by Bill Belichick. That's right. That's all there is to it.Chris Wilson: [00:02:02] That's right yeah that's Yeah. Six three about £210 tight end. You can get out there and rumble a little bit. Yeah. There you go. Um.Chuck Warren: [00:02:10] What a wonderful experience. I know you're a big University of Oklahoma fan, so that's probably extra pleasure for you seeing your boy out there.Chris Wilson: [00:02:16] Yeah, it's. Yeah, it's very cool. I'm pretty excited.Chuck Warren: [00:02:18] That's very cool.Chris Wilson: [00:02:19] And, you know, they'll be out playing at BYU this year.Chuck Warren: [00:02:20] That's right. We're going to see you out there for dinner. Looking forward to it. You'll you'll enjoy the Provo experience. All right. We're going to play a clip real quick. We'll click here real quick here. We'll click on Kamala Harris's word salad yesterday about culture. Jeremy, go ahead.Kamala Harris: [00:02:33] Well, I think culture is it is a reflection of our moment and our time. Right. And and and present culture is the way we express how we're feeling about the moment. And and we should always find times to express how we feel about the moment. That is a reflection of joy because, you know, it comes in the morning. We have we have to find ways to also express the way we feel about the moment in terms of just having language and a connection to how people are experiencing life. And I think about it in that way, too.Chuck Warren: [00:03:14] So Kamala reminds me a lot of your either Sam in elementary school asked to give a book report in front of the class, and we had not read the book. I mean, that's basically what she talks like, right? It's just many words as possible. So my question for you is, and you've done so much polling for so many years, does the vice presidency even matter anymore in regarding how we view the presidency? I mean, because who no one takes her serious. I mean, polling shows that.Sam Stone: [00:03:41] Kamala Harris brought to you by White Claw. Yeah, yeah.Chris Wilson: [00:03:44] Yeah. It's a word salad against word. Salad is a bad name. And she doesn't she clearly has no idea what she's talking about. And anytime she starts ripping on time or moments, you know, it's going to get good fast. Right. And it's also it's it's cringe worthy in the sense that even if you disagree with her and are are sort of watching sitting back going, okay this is now people are going to realize who she is. You're also thinking how embarrassing for the United States of America that this woman is in the second highest office. I guess it's arguable, but one of the highest offices in the land. And she can't deliver a simple sentence without a without embarrassing herself. And then the in the morning and then she does that cackle thing. It's really embarrassing and it's embarrassing for the administration. And somebody's got to just cut her off. They need to travel around like one of those big hooks that they used to have on game shows back in the 50s and 60s and just kind of pull her off stage before she goes so far that the dollar starts losing value.Chuck Warren: [00:04:47] But so my question. Yeah, I mean, so does she prove that who we So you're working for the superPAC for Ron DeSantis, correct? I am. That's correct. So you've you've I'm sure this is not the primary object of your research, but I'm sure you've thought about who's the best fix for him. Right. Do you think unless you get a real popular governor in a battleground state who actually has a. Political organization. Do they really matter at all?Chris Wilson: [00:05:14] Well, you kind of you kind of answered the question with your preamble to the question is, yes, it can matter a lot. Did it matter for Joe Biden? No, because it was an affirmative action pick, sort of like his Supreme Court pick was. He made it very clear that he was looking for an African-American woman and he just wanted somebody to fill that role. And so does it matter? Let's go back a step, though, is remember, whenever Joe Biden was rolling very damaged into South Carolina and he got the endorsement of a very important member of Congress by committing to that member of Congress that he would appoint a black woman as BP and or as to the Supreme Court. And things turned around for him there, because that vote constituency matters in the Democratic primary in South Carolina. So he went from someone who was in danger, grave danger of coming in distant in the primaries, as he had in Iowa and New Hampshire, to moving back into the frontrunner status. So it mattered to him in the primary. And did it matter in the general for him? No, it didn't. But I think you could argue that you can look at past picks that did have a strong impact. And I think about Lloyd Bentsen, even though he lost, but for Michael Dukakis had a big impact for him in 88, probably made a pretty significant difference. I think Al Gore had a big impact for Bill Clinton. He was able to deliver Tennessee. It's the last time, you know, Tennessee went for a Democrat.Sam Stone: [00:06:43] And and there are certainly been picks that that had impact. Kamala, though, Chris, I have to ask, I mean, I don't remember her being this incoherent previously. And it's not age like Joe Biden. So what the heck is going on? Or did we all just miss it? And she actually was this this absolutely this big a mess?Chris Wilson: [00:07:07] Well, I don't think many people paid attention to her as a senator from California or an attorney general from California. And the good thing about being a prosecutor is you're one. You don't really do much prosecuting in those roles. You have people who do it for you to your lines are pretty scripted before you walk out there. And when she's on script, she's not bad. I mean, she can deliver a good speech, but it's just whenever she starts riffing and I think she's developed a little bit too much confidence in her ability to do so. And so that's how you end up with this sort of common the sort of ongoing, embarrassing moments that you saw. I think it was yesterday when she gave the cringe speech.Sam Stone: [00:07:41] How does someone not pull her aside on her staff and be like, this is terrible, you need to fix this?Chris Wilson: [00:07:48] Well, have you read much about the situation with their staff? I mean, every time they do a camera angle, they all are just sitting there staring at you want to blink if they need help. And it's I feel like there is there's probably not anyone who can deal with her in that way. That's on her staff. She just seems to be one of those horrible bosses that just runs through people on an ongoing basis. And it's a it's an unfortunate story. And, you know, it's I often joke around that being a Democrat press secretary has got to be the easiest job on the planet. And this is certainly a representation of that because you think through what if we had if you were working for someone like that, Chuck, and you're doing political campaigns on a major level, or if I was today, there's no way you could survive that kind of situation. So you have one misstep word or, you know, you think back to whenever. Whenever Dan Quayle put an extra two E on potato because that was on the card in front of him. And it was a story that went on for weeks, if not months. And she's able to just roll right through this stuff as if it's we're being unfair or overly critical by by analyzing the fact that she can't put together a simple sentence about what culture is or what time is or what moments are.Chuck Warren: [00:08:58] All right. Let's go. Let's talk. Let's talk presidency. What issues do you feel are the winning issues for whoever the Republican candidate will be to defeat Joe Biden?Chris Wilson: [00:09:12] I think that starts and almost ends with the economy. You've got to understand that, that Americans are hurting. The price of everything has gone up substantially under Joe Biden, that the price is almost cost prohibitive for people to be able to commute to work on an ongoing basis. And that's by design, frankly, by the Biden administration. And so those are the those are the contrasts that have to be drawn and that and they're important. It's really just the overall significance, the overall ability of America to continue to succeed is is incumbent is dependent on that. And so I'd say that's number one. And if you were to go to a second point, I think there is a little bit of building, not a little bit, but there's a lot of rebuilding America's stature in the world after the withdrawal in Afghanistan, the way China has acted toward us, the way that Russia has acted toward us, there is just a complete dismissal of the United States as a foreign power at this point. I think that's an that is an important aspect, someone who can reclaim that. And I think there is another important aspect is just the overall important issue is the ability of parents to raise their own children. It is a a stunning development the way that Democrats have tried to get between parents and their kids. And I'll tell you, it's one of the reasons why you mentioned at the beginning that I worked for Glenn Youngkin. It's one of the reasons why Glenn Youngkin beat Terry McAuliffe, because Terry McAuliffe said made the famous gaffe that he didn't want parents telling teachers what they should teach their kids.Chris Wilson: [00:10:53] And moms and dads in Virginia rose up and said, no, I disagree with that. And I really think that and to be clear, I'm on the super PAC side of the partisan super PAC side. So let me compliment the campaign. They put out a video yesterday for moms for DeSantis, which Casey DeSantis talked about the role that Governor DeSantis has played in the state of Florida of protecting the rights of parents to raise their kids in the way they want to and to stop any woke teachers or woke systems from being able to intervene in the right of a parent to make decisions for their children or their children's education, their children's, the way their children are raised, whether or not their children are able to go and mutilate themselves with a doctor or have themselves mutilated by a doctor. It's just the overall the decisions that or the process that's going on right now. Those of us who have kids have kids. And, you know, I have five that the attempt of the left to get between a parent and their children and inject themselves into everything from the education to the raising to even the mutilation of that child is stunning to me that they believe that that is okay. And so I think that is also going to become it's a major issue that's going to come to light, particularly if Governor DeSantis is the nominee because of what he's been able to do to protect the parents rights in Florida. And I think that is could be the difference between a Republican winning and a losing right again, like we did in 2000.Chuck Warren: [00:12:28] Great. Well, we're going to take a quick break. We're with Chris Wilson. You can find him on Twitter at Wilson, WPA. You can also find him on Instagram at Wilson, WPA. Follow Chris. He has great insights. You'll stay up to date on what's going on on country. This is Chuck Warren Sam Stone at breaking battlegrounds, vote. We'll be right back.Sam Stone: [00:13:05] Welcome back to Breaking battlegrounds with your host, Chuck Warren. I'm Sam Stone. Folks, it's been another crazy week on the stock market. And if you need a opportunity to make a very high fixed rate of return, if you're looking for a fantastic return, that's not coupled to the stock market where you'll know what each monthly statement will look like with no surprises. You need to check out our friends at invest y Refy.com invest y refy is connecting student loan borrowers to to investors and they are just doing great for people on both sides. It's a fantastic opportunity. We highly encourage you to check it out. Go to their website at invest y refy.com or give them a call at 88yrefy 24 and tell them Chuck and Sam sent you. All right. Continuing on with Chris Wilson of WPA Intelligence. Chris, you are working in the primaries right now. One of the things I think there's obviously a lot of noise with Trump and DeSantis and some of the other candidates out there. But in terms of the issues, what issues should Republican voters be focusing on or Republican candidates be focusing on first to win the primary, but second, and more importantly, set themselves up to win the general election?Chris Wilson: [00:14:19] You know, I think from an issue standpoint, kind of what we covered in the last segment is, is what matters. I mean, all of those issues matter for Republican primary voters to the economy, parents right to raise their own children, a strong education, things like that. But I'll tell you what, if I were advising candidates directly, and particularly if I was advising this kind of gets into you move down from the presidential campaign because I still work with and WPA intelligence, we work with dozens, sometimes even hundreds of candidates around the country. And one of the things I can tell you I hear from them to a person is a concern about who is at the top of the ticket in 2024. And I'll tell you, this is not to nerd out too much on you guys, but there have been a lot of academic research that's been done about the impact that Donald Trump has had since he emerged on the political scene on elections and everything. Be careful what you wish for. Impact of President Trump endorsed in the midterms by Ballard and others, Comparing the impact of Joe Biden on popular attitudes to the parties. By Jacobson. 22 elections by also by Jacobson. But the most recent one, which is really interesting one by experimental evidence on public perceptions of Trump endorsements by Barron, McLaughlin and others all quantify the impact that Trump has had going back to 2018 on close elections. And the reason why this matters is if Democrats take a majority in the Senate, they're going to stack the Supreme Court. They're going to get rid of the filibuster. They're going to make D.C. and Puerto Rico states these aren't these aren't like pie in the sky speculations. These are things they say they want to do, they would do today if it wasn't.Sam Stone: [00:16:00] They've been very clear they want to do everything you just said.Chris Wilson: [00:16:04] So the study I just mentioned by Barron McLaughlin and Bloom on experimental evidence on public perception of Trump endorsements is that when Trump gets involved in a race, it actually costs that candidate seven points. It goes a high from nine to a low of five in a competitive general election. So I want you to think back to last cycle. You know, obviously in Utah, Mike Lee got into a close race. He was able to pull it out at the end, but there were some close races we didn't pull out in Arizona and Georgia and Pennsylvania. We almost I mean, think about how far behind Governor DeWine, JD Vance ran in Ohio. All of those are states are races where Trump had an impact. And so you can quantify that number at 79%. So we as Republicans, I think, should really care about what happens if we have somebody at the top of the ticket that takes 7 to 9 points off of every single candidate who's running in a competitive race. That's a and you can real quickly run down the numbers and think about how many House and Senate seats we would ultimately lose.Sam Stone: [00:17:03] Yeah, I mean, that's a bloodbath that that you're describing. And one of the things, Chris, that I don't think I haven't really seen polling that quantifies this more so just dealing with anecdotal evidence from independent voters or soft voters, whatever you want to call them, they are completely hardened against Trump, rightly or wrongly. And this is one of the things I tell a lot of Trump supporters.Chris Wilson: [00:17:29] And moving more against him, by the way.Sam Stone: [00:17:31] Yeah. And moving more against him.Chris Wilson: [00:17:32] Surveys, they continue to move more against him. Yes.Sam Stone: [00:17:35] And so I mean, for him to if he's going to be at the top of the ticket, he and his team have to address that. There's no evidence they're doing so. I mean, they're doubling and tripling down on all the things that are driving that cohort away.Chris Wilson: [00:17:48] No, I agree. And it's it is a real problem because there is nothing that's been done since 2020 to change the face of the election. If you believe that that weird things went on in Georgia and Arizona last time or there's there's nothing that's being done by their campaign to guard against that. And I'll tell you, there are weird things that happen in elections, no question about it. We had as many people, as many lawyers in Virginia at the Youngkin headquarters as we did staffers, because we wanted to guard against that. And that's how you have to do it in any close election. It's that has been the case since I've been involved in politics, which is over 20 years. And so you've got to guard against that. You've got to understand the rules and play against it. You know, I grew up playing basketball and I was there when the three point line came out. My coach hated the three point line. I said, Well, we still have to use it. Well, the same thing is true with with with ballot harvesting. I may hate that as a rule, but I can't leave that to the Democrats to do all by themselves. And so we will compete at that level and we have to be able to compete at that level. And I think that's the challenges that exist is if Donald Trump is the nominee, Republicans lose in 24 and they probably are 24 and they probably lose the House and the Senate by by historical numbers. And it puts us in a situation where America in 2025 and 26 is a very different place than we live in today. I don't mean to end on a down down note, but since you asked, I think that is the most important thing that every voter should take into account when they cast their ballot for in any primary in 2024.Sam Stone: [00:19:10] And Chuck, if the things that Chris just said listed at the start of this segment come true, in other words, Court-packing, Puerto Rico, DC. There's no recovery for Republicans.Chuck Warren: [00:19:21] No, that's right. No, no, there is not. Chris, what is something we've talked about these main issues, the economy. You know, we have we now have out today that they did a poll of 2500 US adults and they said they need to earn $233,000 a year to feel financially secure. Then you have America's role in the world. And I think one big thing about that's always been is our role as the preeminent power have made us feel safe. But I also think Americans like being number one. I mean, just look at Olympic sports, right? When we win. Right. And then we have the parents, you know, being able to, you know, decide what their children do. What are other issues with your crystal ball and research that you think lawmakers need to start paying more attention to? That can be that could really turn quickly against conservatives.Chris Wilson: [00:20:12] Well, another one that I think is has really come to the top is, is the wokeness of corporations. And I think the the the sort of forcing their values on Americans. And we've seen a lot of backfire on that. We've certainly seen a backfire with target Bud Light and it's even Ben and Jerry's over the weekend where they said you know every every company built on a tribe should give that land back. Everyone should give it a try. And then it turns out their their corporate headquarters on the tribe, they've lost $2.5 billion in corporate value since that happened. So because from people from people selling the stock and and the collapse of the company. So I think those are other aspects of it that where you look at someone who has been willing to take on woke the woke corporate left and stand up to them and take away things like tax incentives they asked for, which really I would argue that tax incentives are a conservative way of approaching work on corporations from a from a local government standpoint. And so I think those are aspects that matter, too. And it's an important thing for us to be paying attention to.Chuck Warren: [00:21:18] Well, Chris, we sure appreciate you joining us today and wish you the best of luck this cycle. We hope to have you on again before the Christmas season. Folks, please follow Chris Wilson at Wilson WP at Twitter, same thing on Instagram. Wilson. Wp There you can learn you can follow University of Oklahoma football quite well and you can also you can also you can also stay in touch with the research that's going on in our country. Chris, we sure appreciate your time and we hope you have a fantastic weekend, my friend.Chris Wilson: [00:21:46] Thank you. Good to talk to you.Chuck Warren: [00:21:47] Thanks. Bye bye. This is breaking battlegrounds. You can follow us at breaking battlegrounds. Vote and listen to us anywhere you get your podcasts. We'll be right back.Sam Stone: [00:22:05] Welcome back to Breaking battlegrounds with your host, Chuck Warren. I'm Sam Stone, continuing on with our fantastic guests for today, we have Maya MacGuineas, president of the bipartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Boy, is that something we have needed for a long time. She is an expert in budget, tax and economic policy and has worked closely with members of both parties and serves as a trusted source on Capitol Hill. Maya, thank you and for joining us and welcome to the program.Maya MacGuineas: [00:22:32] Yeah, happy to join.Chuck Warren: [00:22:34] So both the left and right seem to be like Keystone cops on the national debt and budget deficit. They both think this is the one way or highway and that's the only way that works. So let's take, for example, let's start first with the belief that you can just tax your way out of this by taxing everybody who has money in the country. Is that possible?Maya MacGuineas: [00:22:51] There's not a chance. This is a problem that, quite frankly, you're going to have to put everything on the table in order to get where we need to fiscally. But the notion that you can just do this by raising revenues and you'll hear people who make that case saying, listen, what are the lowest tax countries in the world? We can certainly have higher taxes. True. We can have higher taxes. True. We're going to have to have higher taxes. But absolutely not the case that you can fix this problem entirely. On the revenue side of the budget, the biggest growth in our budget imbalances comes from growing health care costs, growing retirement costs, most of those fueled by the aging of the population and growing interest costs. Because we've borrowed so much interest payments on the debt are the fastest growing part of the budget. So no matter how much you bring your revenues up, the fact that spending is still going to be going, growing faster than your economy means it won't be able to keep pace. And you're going to have to bring some of those spending levels back under control.Chuck Warren: [00:23:50] All right. So now let's go to the argument the right likes to make. We can just cut all these programs and we can do this all in budget. Everything, balance it in ten years. Is that reality? Yeah.Maya MacGuineas: [00:24:01] That also not true and not even close. One of the things during the debt ceiling fight that I was really worried about was that people who thought you could do this on the spending side and wanted to be aggressive and are fiscally focused, which I am, and I share those beliefs. But I was worried they would overshoot and that they would say we have to balance the in ten years and do so by spending cuts. We're not going to be able to come anywhere close to balancing the budget in ten years. To do so would take saving about $16 trillion over that ten year period. The last time we saved $16 trillion was easily never, not not even close. Right. So this is not even in the realm of the possible. Now, a fiscal metric that I think is aggressive but doable would be what if we just stabilized our debt so that it's not growing faster? That doesn't grow up to above where it is right now, which is almost 100% of GDP, just doing that over ten years so that we keep it at the same level of debt to GDP that would require $8 trillion in savings. That is an aggressive amount. It is doable, but it is not doable. On just the spending cuts side of the budget. There's no way that no matter how much you pull back these programs, no realistic way that you could cut spending enough to save $8 trillion. The trajectory we're mythbusting here, which is good because everybody's out there making promises we don't make.Chuck Warren: [00:25:27] I mean, I'm convinced, you know, with our show, we have people I mean, we're conservative, but I don't think people understand math anymore. That's my concern. I mean, this is this is yellow pad, pencil in hand, math. And no one wants to seem to admit it. And we all created this problem. So we're all going to have to work together to get out of the problem.Maya MacGuineas: [00:25:48] Boy, do I agree with that one. And let me talk about that fuzzy math, because basically what you have on both sides of the aisle now is kind of made up fairy tale economics. So on the Republican side, you'll hear time and time again we're going to cut taxes. It's going to generate so much growth, it's going to pay for itself. Just nowhere close to reality. If you cut taxes, it is going to help grow the economy and it will do so so that it generates about $0.20 for every dollar you spend on tax cuts. So you still have to offset the bulk of those tax cuts by cutting spending or raising other taxes. And then on the left, you hear things like this policy is so important, we shouldn't have to pay for it, just not true. Like if something's important, the whole point of budgeting is you should pay for it. And if it's not important, you shouldn't do it. But the other thing that we've been hearing is people for the past year are saying, don't worry, we can just print more money. That is so fundamentally wrong. And we've seen that it's wrong because we've just had a huge bout and are still in the midst of of high inflation kicked off because we we put too much money in the economy. Borrowing for Covid was the right thing to do. But the last bill that we did put way too much money in the economy and created this inflationary problem that has only gotten worse with with additional factors exacerbating it. So there's a lot of made up economics out there. There's a lot of made up mathematics. This basically comes down to the basic issue of budgets and trade offs. We shouldn't be borrowing as much money as we are, and I can talk about that more.Sam Stone: [00:27:17] Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Maya, we're going to come back with more from Maya macGuineas here in just a minute, folks. Continuing on. She is the president of the Bipartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. And frankly, Maya, we really appreciate having you on this program. We love having these kind of honest discussions that I don't think are out there enough. And we're going to be continuing on with that. More in just a moment. Welcome back to Breaking Battlegrounds with your host, Sam Stone and Chuck Warren. Folks, are you concerned with stock market volatility? What if you could invest in a portfolio with a high fixed rate of return that's not correlated to the stock market or portfolio? Well, you know what each monthly statement would look like, but no surprises. You can turn your monthly income on or off, compound it, whatever you choose. There's no loss of principle. If you need your money back at any time, your interest is compounded daily, you're paid monthly and there are no fees. 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You have children based on Wikipedia. And Wikipedia never lies. Yeah. How does this when you look at these things, does that concern you for their future? What you have so much debt where you're paying interest more, you're paying spending more than money in the federal budget on interest debts than you are things that matter that it will create inflation, higher interest rates. Does this concern you as a mother?Maya MacGuineas: [00:29:48] Yeah. I mean, it's right. It's both systemic and personal, this issue. And so first, you know, we are actually spending this year more on interest payments to finance the debt of the fast pass than the entire federal budget spends on programs for children. That's how backwards this is. But absolutely, I mean, there are many reasons that I worry about the effects of the national debt. They're economic. They're leaving us vulnerable for future emergencies, their foreign policy and national security, where we're increasingly vulnerable and dependent on other countries. But one of the bottom line issues here is we are spending a lot of money because we want to we like those things and we are refusing to pay for it because none of us like paying taxes. And so the other option is we are then saying we will borrow this money and we will push those bills onto the future, onto our kids. And I will say, my kids refuse to listen to my deficit speeches at the dinner table. So shame on them for not caring. But no, but it is. And it's hard to get younger people to care about it because they think, as we all did when we were in our teens and 20s you're like, the world is great. Everything's going to be fine. I don't need to worry about future. But the truth and it's discouraging truth right now is we are leaving a country and frankly, a world that is much riskier, much more difficult to navigate, much more filled with potential risk to the next generation than we've ever seen before. And this goes well beyond the debt. It goes to national security, to the effects of technology, to all sorts of things that they need a strong budget to be able to respond to. And instead, we are giving them tens of trillions of dollars in debt that they owe just because we were unwilling to pay for these things ourselves, even though we are the beneficiaries of them.Sam Stone: [00:31:32] Yeah, one of the things that I find interesting, Maya, is that the the media and academia or whatever has sold kids on the idea that we are facing an existential crisis, potentially the death of the planet within 20 years from environmental issues. That's not particularly realistic. But we are facing a financial cliff that would affect them far, far more than anything the environment ever will in their lifetimes coming up very soon.Maya MacGuineas: [00:31:59] Well, I think it's interesting. I actually think the environment and the fiscal challenges have something in common, which is there's no immediate moment where it turns into the problem if you default. That happened on a certain day. If there's a government shutdown, that happens on a certain day. But when it comes to these issues, they slowly compound if we don't do anything about them. But there's no one moment where you say we can't return. And so you have members of Congress constantly saying we can punt this off until another day. But there should be no disagreement on the severity of having the amount of debt we have. We're not only are we spending more on interest than we are kids today, five years from now, we'll be spending more on interest payments than we are on national defense. This is an increasingly risky world. And so I don't know how you get kids to take this issue on and make it their own. Again, I think there's this eternal optimism that comes with youth. That means people can't believe it's really that big a problem. And numbers like trillion are so hard to follow. It's very difficult to personalize this. And lastly, the solutions, they're not fun. Here's the truth. We have to raise taxes, cut spending, fix our entitlement programs. Nobody thinks that's going to be fun, but you have to do that for the sustainability of our economic health. And so it's hard to get people to rally and march in the streets calling for fiscal reforms. But really, it's one of the most important things that we could do that also affects all the other issues that people do worry about.Sam Stone: [00:33:22] My I don't know if you saw the piece that was in the Hill on the fourth by Andrew Hale said China is in default on $1 trillion in debt to US bondholders. Will the US force repayment? This is debt that was created by the previous government prior to the Maoist takeover. But in international norms that doesn't erase the debt. China is the only country on earth not paying that. He actually suggested. Simply, we essentially nationalize that debt and wipe it off our books, take, you know, balance it against $1 trillion in in our treasuries that China holds, which would free up $95 Billion a month in interest payments. Is something like that practical or possible? And how much would that trillion dollars actually make a difference to our overall financial situation?Maya MacGuineas: [00:34:10] Yeah, I saw that.Maya MacGuineas: [00:34:11] Piece and I did think that was interesting. And I definitely think that a lot of this is interconnected with the tensions that we have with China and the fact that we are dependent on them, that they own almost $1 trillion of our treasuries. But I don't think unilaterally sort of nationalizing that debt or declaring that we're not going to repay what we owe China would be good because markets are beyond just the bilateral agreements. If we were to do that with China, there would be growing concerns through other countries, and I think that would hasten the effort that there already is to move away from the dollar as a reserve currency. And that is something that benefits us tremendously. So I think it's actually very important that the US not make changes that risk its status right now, something that we benefit from of being the safe haven and the reserve currency. I think what we really have to focus on is balancing our own books, spending only as much as we're willing to pay in taxes, borrowing only when there's economic emergencies and a real reason to do so. And we can't find any shortcuts around those those hard truths.Chuck Warren: [00:35:12] So let's talk entitlements for a minute, a little more detail on it. So like we said, there are people who are on Social Security now. We'll just use Social Security example, but there's Medicare, too, and you've got people who are close to retirement age. What do you think is the type of retirement reform we really should be talking about without affecting those who really count on this right now for day to day living?Maya MacGuineas: [00:35:33] Yeah, and I think that's the right question because I think we need to fix these programs in a way that strengthens and preserves them for the people who most need them, but understands that both of them are headed towards insolvency. Social Security and just over a decade, if we do nothing, there will be across the board 23% benefit cuts. And yet you have politicians of all stripes making promises not to touch Social Security or Medicare. Medicare also will have across the board 10% provider cuts if we don't make changes. So these folks are promising you not to touch your entitlements, are promising you that you will have provider and benefit cuts that will affect everybody. Instead, what we should be doing is. This isn't thought out. Policy solutions and Social Security. This is about 4 or 5 options. You can raise payroll taxes or the payroll tax cap. You can raise the retirement age, which makes sense because we're living longer. And you could start it now, but have it kick in very, very gradually over time for people under 55, 50, whatever. You can slow the growth of benefits. And I would do that on the high end, not across the board. And you can fix the way we calculate inflation, which overstates it right now. There are a lot of fixes we could put in for Social Security, but the longer we wait and we've already waited too long, the more difficult they will be.Sam Stone: [00:36:44] Maya.Maya MacGuineas: [00:36:45] Oh.Sam Stone: [00:36:46] I'm sorry. You talked about slowing benefits on the high end of the scale. This is something that's come up a lot on both sides is means testing for Social Security. I've fought this battle with Republicans for years and just said, look, we're just going to have to do this. This is going to come. There's one objection coming from the right. There's another from the left. It's from the left, though I don't understand their objection because it seems like that falls in line with everything else that they talk about.Chuck Warren: [00:37:13] Make the rich pay their fair share.Sam Stone: [00:37:14] Tax the rich. Why do we need to be, from their perspective, giving wealthy people this benefit rather than means testing it and directing it at the people that need it?Maya MacGuineas: [00:37:25] It's just a great question because it's honestly a policy I have never understood. If you support progressive policies on the tax side, you should also support progressive policies on the spending side. And right now we have actually very we have regressive Social Security benefits where the well-off, their benefits are more reflecting that they paid in more in taxes. And so the concern is, oh, if you if you reduce the benefits for rich people in Social Security, there won't be a strong constituency of support. They won't fight to save Social Security. That's just not true. The biggest growth we've seen in government benefits in past years have been like an Eitc and Medicaid programs that were directed towards the poor. So there are support. There is support for smart programs that help people who need them the most. And when I go out and I talk to people in town halls, they always say means test my benefit. If I don't need it, no problem. I just want it there if I do. So when I hear Democrats saying you can't touch benefits for rich people or having someone like Bernie Sanders actually suggesting increasing benefits for everybody, including rich people, it means it's more money getting spent on those who don't need it and less money for things that you might really worry about, like education, investment in children or at risk youth, things like that. So I think it's an internally very inconsistent argument. And I think means testing is one of the areas that makes the most sense given the situation we're in with Social Security and Medicare.Chuck Warren: [00:38:48] Well, I think I think the left's argument on this is based upon union loyalties, because they get good pensions and they don't want to see it cut for their members. But that's that's a red meat conversation for another day. All right. So let's talk about this. What do you think? I think it's really important that the US stay the economic superpower in the world. We have certain benefits that most countries do not have, nor will they ever have. My question for you is, what do you think we need to do realistically to make sure we keep and maintain that position for the next couple of decades?Maya MacGuineas: [00:39:18] I think there's a few things. One, we need to start paying for all the policies that we do instead of borrowing to we need to switch our budget priorities. Right now, about 85% of our budget is consumption. 15% is investment. We need to turn that on its head. We need to be making investments in human capital, basic R&D. We just put a lot of money into infrastructure. So I think that that should be fine for a while and we need to reduce overall spending so that more of that money can be in the private sector and making private sector investments. And finally, we need to switch our spending priorities, which are all focused on the old into investments in the next generation, because just the same reason it's damaging to borrowed so much and pushed that into the future and to kids not failing to invest in them, but giving very comfortable benefits to my father who doesn't necessarily need them. Those priorities do not keep us strong as an economic superpower. We also want to deregulate and a lot of ways and smart trade policy, all of those things which are going to recognize the importance of our being an economic superpower in this highly integrated global economy.Sam Stone: [00:40:22] You know, one of the discussions, Maya, that never comes up that I mean, and this may be a little bit outside your specific area of expertise is the cost of government programs has gone up dramatically, far more than the delivery of services from those programs. You're seeing a huge bureaucratic bloat. And it would seem at some point like one part or the other needs to start getting serious about leaning down government to actually deliver the dollars where they're intended to go.Maya MacGuineas: [00:40:51] 100%. 100%. If you talk to anybody in agencies right now, they are feeling the bloat. There's been so much money that has been a big run up in funding agencies in the past years, that there are situations where people are traveling because they don't know what to do with their budgets. There are people who are absolutely underworked and it's well known and that undermines the morale in place. So, listen, I don't want to take away from the main point, which is we have to fix our entitlement programs. We're not going to be able to do this without revenues. But there are savings to be had throughout the government, in the Defense Department, in the health care industries, in every one of our programs that's out there and in the government bureaucracy itself. And this should be something in order to help regain trust in government that we are able to really go through with a fine tooth comb and revamp a lot of these programs, free them of some of the bureaucratic constraints so that people can have more trust that if they are paying tax dollars, that those tax dollars are going to be used.Sam Stone: [00:41:48] Well, yeah, absolutely. I think all of that is critical. Maya macGuineas, thank you so much for joining us today. We really, really appreciate having you on the program. Folks, You can follow her on Twitter at Maya macGuineas, Mac McGinnis at Budget Hawks at Fix USA. Org and Crfb. Org. Maya, again, thank you so much for joining us on the program. We love having you on and look forward to having you on again in the near future.Maya MacGuineas: [00:42:17] Great. Nice to talk with you.Chuck Warren: [00:42:18] Thank you. This is breaking battlegrounds. Join us next for our podcast segment. We'll be honored to have Kylie Kipper straight from Houston talking crime and baseball. We're very excited about this.Sam Stone: [00:42:29] It's been a long time since we had Kylie.Chuck Warren: [00:42:31] She's got she's got a doozy. So folks, follow us at Breaking Battlegrounds Vote, share the podcast, and we'll talk to you here briefly on the podcast episode by.Sam Stone: [00:42:51] Welcome to the podcast, only segment of breaking battlegrounds. Up next, it's been a long time. It's been a very long time since we had a kyli true crime update. Kylie Kipper, our producer, hates being on the microphone today. She's been forced to be better at it. You know, you're great at it.Kylie Kipper: [00:43:10] That's the I'm getting more comfortable. I meant.Sam Stone: [00:43:12] Okay.Chuck Warren: [00:43:12] Two years will do that to you. Two years will do that to you.Sam Stone: [00:43:14] It's been a while, huh? So.Chuck Warren: [00:43:16] Kylie, you're actually in a state where there's been sort of this mystery. This young man was missing seven years ago, and then he showed up. And, you know, look, Americans love a kid being recovered. Story. All people do. If you don't, you don't have a heart. Right?Sam Stone: [00:43:29] So this is a strange one, though.Chuck Warren: [00:43:30] Chuck, So we're all excited about it then. Come to find out there's a little bit more to the story, which sadly seems to be a lot to these stories now. There always seems to be a little bit more to the story, right? So you've done some digging on it. Tell us about it. What's what's the true story here?Kylie Kipper: [00:43:44] Yeah, So there's a few pieces of this investigation which it's still ongoing. They have another press conference tonight, but they had one yesterday which has caused a lot of feathers to be ruffled. So Rudy Farias was 17 years old when his mom reported him missing after he took the dogs for a walk. It turns out that he had just run away and his mom had told him that police are looking for him and we'll put him in jail if he does not come home. So at that time, he went home two days later, but his mom never reported him of coming home. She just kept the investigation saying he's still missing. So he was discovered this week unconscious outside of a church in Houston where the police, when they reported to it to the scene, had just ended up calling his mom, saying, we found your son. And she was like, oh, this is amazing. She posted photos. I'm putting in air quotes of him in the hospital, which people, family members, his aunts, cousins have come out to say that those photos were taken in 2012. And they're not recent photos in which he did not, after being discovered at this church, did not go to the hospital to get any of the help that he may have needed. Um, the yesterday and the investigation. Police chief had said that they had many run ins with their family and that the entire time his mom would just say he is still missing if they would ask who he is in the house, because at this point he's gotten older, she would say, this is my nephew and give him a fake name.Sam Stone: [00:45:17] So So he was around. They they like set him up with a fake ID or something and were telling people he wasn't him.Kylie Kipper: [00:45:25] Yeah. Yeah. Um, and so the weird part about it is, is when they did the investigation with him and his mom, Rudy obviously would not speak about any wrongdoing of his mom the past eight years. So he would just say, you know, yeah, I was living at home. She just wanted me to keep it private. X, Y, z, until he got separated from his mom, which then he was doing an interview with a detective and this community activist named Quanell X. So this is where it gets like, all kind of. Different sides of the story. So the police chief in the interview yesterday said Rudy did not report any sexual assault charges by his. Or sexual assault wrongdoing by his mom. However, this Cornell gentleman who came out and was speaking and seemed very passionate about it was crying in the interviews. He was in the interview with the detective, and he clearly stated many times of sexual encounters with his mom that ultimately led him to run away after eight years, which is how he ended up at the church. So he had stolen his mom's car to get away from his mom. And some of these can be a bit disturbing, but you know, many things. So a little backtrack, a little history about his parents is his dad was also a part of the Houston Police Department until he committed suicide in around 2011, I believe, after they were investigating him for being corrupt. So people think that that has something to do with why the police chief is saying that there was that Rudy did not report any of this. However, Quanell has come out and done a bunch of interviews on Newsnation and Fox and is just saying he's reported that his mom would make him play daddy and would sleep naked in bed together.Chuck Warren: [00:47:19] And oh my gosh.Kylie Kipper: [00:47:21] Can use that kind of imagination, which ultimately would lead him to try to escape his mom again. After eight years. He would take she would take Rudy to work and make her or make him do her job.Sam Stone: [00:47:35] Um, she what was her job, do we know?Kylie Kipper: [00:47:38] It just seemed like some, like, low level.Chuck Warren: [00:47:41] Clerical type job.Kylie Kipper: [00:47:42] Yeah. Um.Sam Stone: [00:47:44] Was there any, like, financial incentive? I mean, was she, like, raising money for the search for him or something? What's the.Kylie Kipper: [00:47:50] Yes, she did have, um, a fundraiser online, which her goal was 75,000. I have not been able to find if she actually raised that money. But something else that came up was in Texas. If you have a child that goes missing after three years, you get a basically like a life insurance payout. So that's another thing that their goodness to see if she got that money. Um, but an ex-husband came out and said this is a little background about his mom now is an ex-husband came out and said that she was a bigamist. And what I could find is in 1997, she married some she married a guy. Then again in 1998, she married another guy in that same year. She wanted a annulment on the basis that she was already married to the previous guy, which neither of these is the police detective. In 2007. She then marries the detective for the Houston Police Department. And then in 1999 to 2010, there's another marriage that's been found and then a fourth marriage from 2009 to 2012 that has also been found.Chuck Warren: [00:48:56] Boy, some kid sure draw the short end of the stick who they get stuck with, parents and folks for you if you don't know, bigamy is when the crime of marrying someone while you're still married to someone else. In case you don't know that term, I hope it doesn't come up a lot in your conversations at home, but nonetheless, that's what it means. So what do you think happens now? What are the police saying? Or I guess we'll know more tonight, right? I mean, that's really the key.Kylie Kipper: [00:49:16] So everyone so after this investigation between his mom and his and Rudy, the detective that sat there with Quanell X, this community activist, left the room and Quanell, said, I'm going to do interviews on this. Is there anything you don't want me to say? And he said, No, you can say whatever you want. The detective then went into the next room and arrested or put handcuffs, not arrested, put handcuffs on the mom, which indicated that Quanell says this detective thought his mom had committed a crime. However, at the end of the day, they ended up just walking both of them out and they left together. So now no one is 100% positive where Rudy or his mom are located today.Chuck Warren: [00:49:54] Well, how old was he when he disappeared?Kylie Kipper: [00:49:56] He was 17 and.Chuck Warren: [00:49:58] He's been missing. They may say he was of sound mind to be in a relationship. I bet. I bet that's part of it. So we're going to have you talking about this again next week. You'll keep us up to date when you're back in the studio now, folks, so you don't understand. Kylie is in Houston today, not because she loves the summer weather of Houston, but nobody.Sam Stone: [00:50:16] Nobody loves the summer weather or the smell of Houston in the.Chuck Warren: [00:50:19] Summer. Her fiance, Isaiah Campbell, who's been playing Double A for the Seattle Mariners affiliate in Little Rock, was called up to the big league club, the Mariners, yesterday. And Kylie hopped on a plane and flew out there. And Kylie, just what was that experience like? What were your feelings? I mean, it's you know, look, a lot of people don't get to do this. So how was it for you?Kylie Kipper: [00:50:41] I mean, sometimes still to this moment, it doesn't feel real. Um, I think I did an interview yesterday with an MLB TV reporter, and it was very hard to articulate how I was feeling. And, you know, just like the emotions that go into it because he has just had this dream For him since he was little. And it's finally coming true. He is. Yesterday he was not in the game yet, so we're still waiting for his. Actual official debut. But he is on the roster and we're hoping it's. Tonight or tomorrow.Chuck Warren: [00:51:10] Well, folks, as you know, Sam and I adore Kylie and the great work she does on the show and Jamie. And so I was last night watching two teams. I could care less about the Astros and Mariners waiting for her to pitch. And apparently Isaiah's good teammate was the starter last night and decided like, let me pitch like a Cy Young Award winner this year. It's what he did. So Isaiah did not get in the game. So this weekend, if he can pull up the Mariners and Houston Astros and look for Isaiah Campbell to come in late innings to help the team out.Kylie Kipper: [00:51:39] Yeah.Sam Stone: [00:51:40] Can we just get Kylie to post a clip of his appearance so I don't have to watch a mariners Astros game?Chuck Warren: [00:51:45] Chuck Yeah, no, I agree. I agree. So before you get Kylie off and end the podcast, we just want to give a congratulations. And since Kylie is engaged, she'll appreciate this. Jimmy, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter today are celebrating their 77th anniversary. Now, folks, let me let me talk about this for a minute here. The US census says 6% of married couples in the United States make the 50th wedding anniversary, one tenth of a percent make their seventh of those 75 years or more. They don't even keep the statistic. So that's that's how rare that is. And Sam makes a good point. You know, it's the longevity. The lifespan of.Sam Stone: [00:52:23] A man is like 79.Chuck Warren: [00:52:24] Years. There's a lot to this, but there's a lot of people who just don't want to be together 77 years. So there's something to this, right?Sam Stone: [00:52:30] It's an amazing it's an amazing thing. And congratulations to both of them, without a doubt. And it speaks to great character on both.Chuck Warren: [00:52:37] It really does. It really does. And it speaks to a great partnership. Yeah. So happy anniversary to the Carters. Kylie, We're very excited for you and we're excited for his first pitch to Major League Baseball this weekend. And so we'll keep in touch with you on that, folks. This is breaking battlegrounds. You can follow us on breaking battlegrounds vote. Besides the radio stations we're on, you can also catch us on podcasts wherever you listen to a podcast, please share. Please rate. Thanks a million. We'll be back next week. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit breakingbattlegrounds.substack.com

How much do you find yourself focusing on trying to stop your dog doing something? Or getting them to do something theyre not? Do you stop to think about why your dog is doing that thing? What's going on with their emotions? I'm talking to Andrew Hale from Dog Centred Care about thinking more about our dogs' emotional experiences and just how much are they trying to tell us that perhaps we don't listen to. You can join the Dog Centred Care Facebook group here https://www.facebook.com/groups/dogcc   For more Pup Talk www.facebook.com/groups/puptalk/ 

This week we're joined by Andrew Hale. As a certified dog behaviourist, one of the founders of the UK Dog Charter and much more, he runs his practice in south Devon called Dog Certified Care. We chat about how his human psychology degree and work in practice for people inspired helping owners and their dogs. Without ‘humanisation' Andrew talks about why we must factor the emotional experience into training and behaviour, indeed life itself. With so much science highlighting emotional intelligence in all animals, especially dogs, Andrew's view is about ensuring dogs are kept safe but allowed free expression. And seeing learning as an interaction, building a relationship rather than exclusively  on operant conditioning.  It goes without saying we discuss why lifestyle, experience, accommodation must be factored into the choice of dog. How stress causes disease, and why humans can be emotional contagions. We chat about a natural remedy helping balancing the modern life stressors with calmer dogs, calmer people and a more harmonious relationship.Andrew's websiteFind out more about Pet Remedy hereInstagram: @petremedyofficialif you love A Dog's Life and would like to help support the show why not become a Patreon backer where you can also have access to some exclusive content. If you want to move your dog to a raw diet or even switch brands we wholly recommend Paleo RidgeFor more about Anna go to annawebb.co.ukMusic and production by Mike Hanson for Pod People ProductionsCover art by JaijoCover photo by Rhian Ap Gruffydd at Gruff PawtraitsTo advertise on or sponsor A Dog's Life email: info@theloniouspunkproductions.com

Today's broadcast is  C1E69 for Mishmash Monday, November 7th, 2022. Today's Episode will be "Mishmash Monday - vol. 12, the long-lost "original C1E41", a 2018 Lost Level originally intended for 2019.    Track# / Track / Game / System / Composer(s) / Timestamp    01) Earcatcher - 00:00:00  02) Intro - 00:00:12  03) Flight - Panzer Dragoon - Saturn – c: Yoshitaka Azuma a: Tomoyuki Hayashi - 00:06:33  04) New Beginning pt. 1 - LA Noire - multi - Andrew Hale and Simon Hale - 00:10:15  05) This is Your Story - Final Fantasy X - PS2 – Masashi Hamauzu,  Junya Nakano, and/or Nobuo Uematsu - 00:11:18  06) Track 06 - Colony Wars - PS1 – Tim Wright aka CoLD SToRAGE - 00:13:30  07) The Flatfields - Quizzes and Dragons - Arcade – Isao Abe - 00:14:03  08) Midnight Chaser / Breakthrough - Wolf Fang - Kuhga 2001 - Arcade - Hiroaki Yoshida / Akira Taemoto - 00:15:38  09) Let's Go on an Adventure - Landstalker - Genesis  – Motoaki Takenouchi - 00:18:57  10) Track 7 - Mutant Rampage: Bodyslam - CD-I – Tony Trippi - 00:20:18  11) BGM #57 - Quiz Daisousasen Pt 2 - Neo Geo - Yoshihiko Kitamura, Yasuo Yamate, Yoko Osaka, Hiroaki Shimizu, Toshikazu Tanaka - 00:22:10  12) BGM 4 (Stage 3-2) - Shadow Dancer - Genesis - Keisuke Tsukahara - 00:25:03  13) Rendezvous Theme - Golgo 13 - NES – Michiharu Hasuya - 00:27:05  14) Areas 41-50 - Slap Fight - Arcade - Masahiro Yuge - 00:28:12  15) Unknown Track 22 - Team Innocent - PCFX – Kenji Kawai - 00:29:16  16) Fonction - N++ - multi – Broca - 00:31:52  17) Jus' Dance (Sole Channel Mix) - GT Sport - PS4 - Mr.V - 00:38:37  18) Just Hiss - WipEout HD - PS3 – Spector - 00:46:21  19) Rhythm Shift - Ridge Racer - Arcade / PS1 – Etsuo Ishii, Yuri Misumi, Keiichi Okabe, Shinji Hosoe, Ayoko Sasoh, Nobuyoshi Sano - 00:51:02  20) Fury - Rocket League - multi – Rogue - 00:53:00  21) Alien - Galactic Pinball - Virtual Boy – Kenji Yamamoto, Masaru Tajima and/or Minako Hamano - 00:56:58  22) Dungeon / Waterfall - Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest - SNES – Yasuhiro Kawakami and/or Ruiji Sasai - 00:59:50  23) Mysterious Ghost Ship - TMNT: Hyperstone Heist - Genesis – Masahiro Ikariko, Yuichi Takamine, Kaori Kinouchi, and/or Hideto Inoue - 01:02:06  24) Mystic Woods (Forest 2) - Grounseed - PC98 (OPN vers) - Daisuke Takahashi - 01:04:32  25) Meridian (Night) - Horizon Zero Dawn - PS4 - Joris de Man, The Flight, Niels van der Leest, and/or Jonathan Williams - 01:08:05  26) Title Theme - AD&D Slayer - 3DO – Billy Wolfe - 01:11:48  27) Cobbleston, Nestled in the Hills - Octopath Traveller - SWITCH! - Yasunori Nishiki - 01:12:58  28) Sealed Temple - LoZ: Skyward Sword - Wii – Hajime Wakai, Shiho Fujii, Mahito Yakota, Takeshi Hama, Koji Kondo - 01:15:58  29) Globe at Night - Wii Forecast Channel - Wii – Kazumi Totaka - 01:19:06  30) Island of Memory - Doshin the Giant - GameCube - Tatsuhiko Asano - 01:21:38  31) The Cliff that Time Forgot - Earthbound - SNES – Hirokazu Tanaka - 01:25:40  32) Oblivious Past - Alien Soldier - Mega Drive - Kazuo Hanzawa - 01:26:56  33) Outro - 01:32:11  34) Exit Earcatcher - 01:43:21    Music Block Runtime: 01:25:40 / Total Episode Runtime: 01:43:57    Our Intro and Outro Music is Funky Radio, from Jet Grind Radio on the Sega Dreamcast, composed by BB Rights.    Intro / Outro / Final Production produced using Ardour 6 / Audacity 3 in Ubuntu Studio [Linux] 22.04 09/08/2022. Music Block produced in GarageBand in macOS 10/19/2018.       IMPORTANT NOTE: The tools and techniques I used back in 2018 in producing the music block were NOT up to my current standards – including featuring less sophisticated fades, more imprecise volume level balancing, less developed track run-order sorting, and even my having used MP3s rather than WAVs in the source production, resulting in a lower-fidelity final product, and further limiting my ability to touch it up after the fact. As such, the production value of this episode will NOT be to par with our current "fresh episodes". But production values aside, the quality of the CONTENT itself, otherwise, I feel, is excellent, and well worth digging up to share with you.....I hope that you'll agree! :-)     You can also find all of our audio episodes on Archive.org as well as the occasional additional release only available there, such as remixes of previous releases and other content.    Our YouTube Channel, for the time being is in dormancy, but will be returning with content, hopefully, in 2022. Meanwhile, all the old stuff is still there, and can be found here:     https://www.youtube.com/user/NerdNoiseRadio    Our episodes (and occasionally, other content, including expanded show notes) can be found on our blog here:    nerdnoiseradio.blogspot.com.    Nerd Noise Radio is also available on The Retro Junkies Network at www.theretrojunkies.com, and is a member of the VGM Podcast Fans community at     https://www.facebook.com/groups/VGMPodcastFans/    Or, if you wish to connect with us directly, we have two groups of our own:     Nerd Noise Radio - Easy Mode: https://www.facebook.com/groups/276843385859797/ for sharing tracks, video game news, or just general videogame fandom.    Nerd Noise Radio - Expert Mode: https://www.facebook.com/groups/381475162016534/ for going deep into video game sound hardware, composer info, and/or music theory.    You can also follow us on Twitter at @NerdNoiseRadio. And we are also now on Spotify, TuneIn, Pandora, iHeartRadio, Stitcher, and Vurbl.    Thanks for listening! Join us again in December (all dates TBD) for C2R2: Channel 2's Season 2 retrospective, as well as not one, but TWO Channel 1s: The Best of 2022, Hugues' picks and St. John's picks - Tasty VGM and Talk on "Nerd Noise Game Club", as well as Delicious VGM on "Noise from the Hearts of Nerds"! And wherever you are - Fly the N!    Cheers! 

This episode I caught up with Andrew Hale to talk about CAKE, TEA and how that can change our perception of dog training. For more information on dog centred care check out there Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/groups/dogcc/ and pet remedy https://petremedy.co.uk/natural-pet-calming-products/

Join me as I speak with Andrew Hale (Bsc, ISCP.Dip.Canine.Prac), the owner, principal trainer and behaviorist at Train Positive in the UK, about emotional awareness and how that applies to dog training.  Both animals and humans have individual emotional care needs. They both need validation, positive reinforcement, and permission to make mistakes. Working with dogs can show us how to be more emotionally available to others. Listen to the episode to learn more about what we can learn from dogs and their emotional experience, switching from a task-oriented approach to a care-oriented approach, and Andrew's acronyms TEA and CAKE! 

Formed in the UK in 1982, Sade (Sade Adu, Stuart Matthewman, Andrew Hale, and Paul Denman) was founded out of the ashes of Adu's former band Pride. Born in Nigeria to a Nigerian father and an English mother, Adu found a love of '70 soul music like Marvin Gaye and Diana Ross early in her childhood after being taken to the English countryside by her mother. Initially looking to study fashion, Sade moved to London for school. Swept into the artsy nightlife scene of early '80s London, she was quickly engrossed into the music world and found her peers in Pride which soon evolved into her eponymous group.With the release of Diamond Life in 1984 and the success of singles like "Smooth Operator" the band quickly became a hit machine from the '80s well into the 2010's. Selling over 50 million albums and ranking among the highest selling female British artists of all time, Sade has been mentioned as an influence everywhere from the jazzy world of Norah Jones to the biggest hitmakers of the last twenty years like Beyoncé and Mary J. Bilge. In this episode of Influenced, we trace the band and her incredible lasting effect of the music industry.

Talking to Andrew Hale about regulation, dog behaviour, mental health, emotions and much more.

A few days ago, I received a sobering text message which consisted of only two words: “Save us”. That message was sent by someone trapped in the city of Chernihiv, currently besieged by the Russian invaders.In this latest update, we'll talk more about the evacuation work that's going on in Ukraine. You'll also hear about our search for a new van, how our family is getting on in Slovakia, and about specific ways that you can continue supporting us in prayer.And lastly, we're very excited to announce the launch of our new podcast, Journey to Ukraine. We would also like to extend our sincere thanks to two amazing people that helped us get this podcast on its feet. Andrew Hale designed the artwork for the podcast, while my very own brother Jonathan Steele selected the music and did the editing/mastering for our intro. Both of these fine gentlemen donated their time and talents at no cost to us. Thank you guys for your generosity!Support the show (https://ofreport.com/donate)

Uma cantora inexperiente, de voz suave e sua banda, que trazia uma proposta musical minimalista que tinha tudo para dar errado nos loucos anos 80. Mas não deu. Pelo contrário, rendeu um dos melhores hits da década, um ponto fora da curva chamado Smooth Operator, da banda que levava o nome de sua cantora: Sade. Mas como isso foi acontecer? É o que a gente vai descobrir nesta edição do Resumo do Som. A banda Sade em 1983: (a partir da esquerda): Andrew Hale, Paul Spencer Denman, Sade Adu, Stuart Matthewman Capa do single Smooth Operator Smooth Operator está disponível em:       Smooth Operator foi escrita por Adu, Ray St.John, S. Matthewman ℗ 1983 Epic Records Músicas de fundo (Pixabay) ThomasFeildMusic - Strait Across Visiting Jasmine - Light Funk Background Music Agradecimentos aos produtores virtuais pelo apoio: Fabiano F. M. Cordeiro (Fab 97,4 FM) Ricardo Bunnyman (AutoRadio Podcast) Marcos Coluci Marcelo Machado (Podcast de Garagem) Danilo de Almeida (Doublecast, Já Ouviu Esse Disco) Gostaria de apoiar o 80 WATTS? É só escolher a plataforma de sua preferência.    This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Background vector created by freepik - www.freepik.com

Track Listing The Messenger for Carly Interior Designing - Animal Crossing New Horizon: Happy Home Paradise - Yasuaki Iwata, Yumi Takahashi, Shinobu Nagat, Sayako Doi, and Masato Ohashi John Wedgeworth for Scott McElhone Title Screen - PGA Tour 96 - Marc Farly, Rob Hubbard, Tony Berkeley and David Whittaker Erik Woods (Cinematic Sound Radio) for Hammock Torched Song - LA Noire - Composed by Andrew Hale and Simon Hale Ed Wilson for The Last Rican Edit Mode - Fire Pro Wrestling Returns - Takafumi Wada, Yōko Wada, Mituhiro Uehara and Satoshi Izumi Hammock for Chris Murray Ending - Psy-O-Blade: Moving Adventure - Kazunori Hasegawa, and Shigeru Tomita Bedroth for John Wedgeworth The Ice Tower - The Legend of Xanadu - Atsushi Shirakawa Pernell for Ryan Steel Boss II (Theme of Balthazar Kline) - Steel Assault - Joseph “Qwesta” Bailey Ryan Steel for Ed Wilson Live to Die (Beta Mix) - Two Strikes - Beni Maru Scott for UtopiaNemo Out in the Snow - Daze Before Christmas - Kim M Jensen and Geir Tjelta Last Rican for Kung Fu Carlito Pyramid - Hokuto no Ken (Fist of the North Star) - Unknown Chris Murray for Pernell Lydian Heroics - Dizzy Knight - Norrin Radd KungFuCarilto for Bedroth Main Theme - Quartet - composed by Katsuhiro Hayashi and arranged by Blind Spot UtopiaNemo for Erik Woods Guardian Ape - Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice - Yuka Kitamura Carly for The Messenger Harness the Wind - The Messenger - Rainbowdragoneyes

This is it, dear listeners! Our fond farewell! A non-rerun, never-before-heard episode, and a timed exclusive…..just for you! Track# - Track Name - Game - System - Composer - Timestamp01: Farewell Intro (apologies for the length - but worth it, I hope) - 00:00:0002: Panzer Dragoon - Saturn - Flight – c: Yoshitaka Azuma a: Tomoyuki Hayashi - 00:20:4803: LA Noire - multi - New Beginning pt. 1 - Andrew Hale and Simon Hale - 00:24:3104: Final Fantasy X - PS2 - This is your Story – Masashi Hamauzu,  Junya Nakano, and/or Nobuo Uematsu - 00:25:3305: Colony Wars - PS1 - Track 06 – Tim Wright aka CoLD SToRAGE - 00:27:4606: Quizzes and Dragons - Arcade - The Flatfields – Isao Abe - 00:28:1807: Wolf Fang - Kuhga 2001 - Arcade - Midnight Chaser - Breakthrough - Hiroaki Yoshida / Akira Taemoto - 00:29:5408: Landstalker - Genesis - Let's Go on an Adventure – Motoaki Takenouchi - 00:33:1309: Mutant Rampage: Bodyslam - CD-I - Track 7 – Tony Trippi - 00:34:3410: Quiz Daisousasen Pt 2 - Neo Geo AES / MVS - BGM #57 - Yoshihiko Kitamura, Yasuo Yamate, Yoko Osaka, Hiroaki Shimizu, Toshikazu Tanaka - 00: 36:2611: Shadow Dancer - Genesis - BGM 4 (Stage 3-2)  -  Keisuke Tsukahara - 00:39:1912: Golgo 13: Top Secret Mission - NES - Rendezvous Theme – Michiharu Hasuya - 00:41:2013: Slap Fight - Arcade - Areas 41-50 - Masahiro Yuge - 00:42:2714: Team Innocent - PCFX - Unknown Track 22 – Kenji Kawai - 00:43:3215: N++ - multi - Fonction – Broca - 00:46:0716: Gran Turismo Sport - PS4 - Jus' Dance (Sole Channel Mix) - Mr. V -  00:52:5217: WipEout HD / Fury - PS3 - Just Hiss – Spector -  01:00:3718: Ridge Racer - Arcade / PS1 – Rhythm Shift - Etsuo Ishii, Yuri Misumi,Keiichi Okabe, Shinji Hosoe, Ayoko Sasoh, Nobuyoshi Sano -  01:05:1819: Rocket League - multi - Fury – Rogue -  01:07:1620: Galactic Pinball - Virtual Boy - Alien – Kenji Yamamoto, Masaru Tajima and/or Minako Hamano -  01:11:1321: Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest - SNES - Dungeon / Waterfall – Yasuhiro Kawakami and/or Ruiji Sasai -  01:14:0622: TMNT: Hyperstone Heist - Genesis - Mysterious Ghost Ship – Masahiro Ikariko, Yuichi Takamine, Kaori Kinouchi, and/or Hideto Inoue -  01:16:2123: Grounseed - PC98 (OPN vers) - Mystic Woods (Forest 2) - Daisuke Takahashi -  01:18:4824: Horizon Zero Dawn - PS4 - Meridian (Night) - Joris de Man, The Flight, Niels van der Leest, and/or Jonathan Williams -  01:22:2125: AD&D Slayer - 3DO - Title Theme – Billy Wolfe - 01:26:0426: Octopath Traveller - SWITCH!! - Cobbleston, Nestled in the Hills - Yasunori Nishiki -  01:27:1427: LoZ: Skyward Sword - Wii -  Sealed Temple – Hajime Wakai, Shiho Fujii, Mahito Yakota, Takeshi Hama, Koji Kondo -  01:30:1328: Wii Forecast Channel - Wii - Globe at Night – Kazumi Totaka -  01:33:2229: Doshin the Giant - GameCube - Island of Memory - Tatsuhiko Asano -  01:35:5430: Earthbound - SNES - The Cliff that Time Forgot – Hirokazu Tanaka -  01:39:5531: Alien Soldier - Mega Drive - Oblivious Past - Kazuo Hanzawa -  01:41:1232: Farewell Outro - 01:46:26Intro Music: Sadness - Unlimited Saga - PS2 - Masashi HamauzuOutro Music: To the Stars - Prune - iOS / Android / Windows - Kyle PrestonTotal Episode Runtime: 02:00:00Link to main feed: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nerd-noise-radio/id1191401173Bonus Links: “The Triplets” - "Music Block B", "Music Block C (original version)", "Music Block C" (modified version):https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/noise-from-the-hearts-of-nerds-c1e41-mishmash-monday-vol-7/id1191401173?i=1000429150540https://archive.org/details/bonusbirthdaymusicblockoriginal30https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/noise-from-the-hearts-of-nerds-c1e51-mishmash-monday/id1191401173?i=1000464455857

Andrew Hale of 'Train Positive, Dog Behaviour and Training', the home of The Dog Centred Care approach talks to us about the emotional experience of a dog. We consider what they might be going through when they are doing behaviours as well as their experience when we as trainers, handlers and caregivers try to change this behaviour.   Andy is a certified animal behaviourist, as well as holding a Bsc (Hons), he also holds various diplomas/advanced diplomas in animal and canine behaviour. Andy is an advocate for non conflict training methods and is a regular speaker at industry workshops, webinars and seminars.

Andrew Hale of 'Train Positive, Dog Behaviour and Training', the home of The Dog Centred Care approach talks to us about the emotional experience of a dog. We consider what they might be going through when they are doing behaviours as well as their experience when we as trainers, handlers and caregivers try to change this behaviour.   Andy is a certified animal behaviourist, as well as holding a Bsc (Hons), he also holds various diplomas/advanced diplomas in animal and canine behaviour. Andy is an advocate for non conflict training methods and is a regular speaker at industry workshops, webinars and seminars.

Hey everyone! Welcome back to another episode of the lucky dip podcast. Today we talk about criius gaming since I can finally tell you guys the exciting updates to our team! I also talk a bit about creativity and how I will just be filming the podcast for the time being until I find a new passion to film. Shoutout to LAHWF aka Andrew Hale for the inspiration. Second Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrBfa_PpwZ0EKKKuB_JA5CATwitter: https://twitter.com/VerticalRoostr Lucky Dip Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/7MlWJ80m9xsznN951MJlye?si=cKPiHF24SDW1wPxgldNhPQ&dl_branch=1 Criius Gaming: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpV7P1nrXKtnnP8e3hss06Q Linktree: https://linktr.ee/jordan_brenda

This episode I talk to Andrew about the dog training charter and the emotional side of dog training. Andrew Hale has a degree in psychology and previously worked in human therapy. For the last 10 years Andrew has been working with animals, primarily dogs, as a Certified Animal Behaviourist. In both careers Andrew has had a passion for exploring and unpacking the emotional experience and what it means for delivering a human or animal centred care approach. Andrew has played a leading role in the UK Dog training and behaviour community, having been the chair of the Association of INTODogs and the driving force behind the UK Dog Behaviour and Training Charter. He is the behavioural consultant for Pet Remedy and the British Isle Grooming Association. Andrew runs Dog Centred Care – FB group https://www.facebook.com/groups/dogcc

Our guest on Barking From The Wooftops today is Andrew Hale Andrew Hale has a degree in psychology and previously worked in human therapy. For the last 10 years Andrew has been working with animals, primarily dogs, as a Certified Animal Behaviourist. In both careers Andrew has had a passion for exploring and unpacking the emotional experience and what it means for delivering a human or animal centred care approach. Andrew has played a leading role in the UK Dog training and behaviour community, having been the chair of the Association of INTODogs, and the driving force behind the UK Dog Behaviour and Training Charter. He is the behavioural consultant for Pet Remedy and the British Isle Grooming Association. Andrew runs https://www.facebook.com/groups/dogcc (Dog Centred Care) on Facebook. We would love to hear from you in terms of what specific areas you would like us to discuss in the future. Use the contact form https://quitethethingmedia.com/barking-from-the-wooftops/ (here) to get in contact, or find the show on https://www.facebook.com/BFTWpodcast (Facebook) and https://twitter.com/Barkingwooftops (Twitter). You can find video content from Barking From The Wooftops on https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf7g3O0uXrM88uiH9Iy6NsA?fbclid=IwAR0M0xOHPkYgby1iBQCBnZVRph-nyB4TZxdft84i3WGm8_dsZs6VvOXqmec (Youtube) too. A member of https://quitethethingmedia.com/glasgower/ (Glasgower) This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

In this episode I chat with Andrew Hale, about the emotional experience of our rescue dogs and how we, as dog parents, can better support our furry friends to work through some of their emotional challenges.Andrew explains why it is so important that we understand the underlying causes of our dogs' behaviour rather than just trying to ‘fix' the behaviours.We also talk about how you can help your rescue dog to settle in the first few weeks of bringing it home and Andrew shares some of the dos and don'ts!Andrew is a Certified Animal Behaviourist with more than 10 years' experience working in animal behaviour. He follows a Dog Centred Care approach, working with empathy and compassion to try and understand why a dog is exhibiting the behaviours the dog owner might concerned about. You can find our more about Andrew via his website and his Facebook group Dog Centred Care.As always I hope you enjoy this episode! If you have a rescue tail you'd like to share on the podcast, reach out to me on Facebook or Instagram on rescuetails.co  

The boys are back after Gee comes back from vacation. /// Andrew Hale's album Passion is one of the greatest albums ever. /// Gee is locked in a room with 3 people. /// Ronald Reagan Buck Breaking. /// Criss Angel: Bi-Sexual Sex Fiend Beast Lover. /// "Did you mean chicken by that?" /// Etc.

Andy Kelly from PC Gamer joins us to talk through what makes a great detective game, whether it's a compelling mystery, a certain type of setting or something else. Get a deep dive into the genre, then a heap of recommendations as Andy and Matthew each count down their 5 favourite detective games.This week's music is from the LA Noire soundtrack by Andrew Hale, the Famicom Detective Club: The Missing Heir soundtrack by Kenji Yamamoto, the Return of the Obra Dinn soundtrack by Lucas Pope and the Phoenix Wright: Trials and Tribulations soundtrack by Noriyuki Iwadare.

Top of the Standings hosts Andrew Hale and Jotham Israel recall their greatest sports experiences and adventures. This week's story is titled "Jotham Snapped A Drought."

Obedience training has long been the accepted path to teaching dogs’ manners, but the concept of obedience might be doing dogs a disservice. Andrew Hale joins Victoria to go beyond the operant.

Top of the Standings hosts Andrew Hale and Jotham Israel recall their greatest sports experiences and adventures. This week's story is titled "Andrew's Trip To Milwaukee."

Top of the Standings hosts Andrew Hale and Jotham Israel recall their greatest sports experiences and adventures. This week's story is titled "Jotham's Cubbie Cap."

Top of the Standings hosts Andrew Hale and Jotham Israel recall their greatest sports experiences and adventures. This week's story is titled "Andrew's Hat Collection."

Top of the Standings hosts Andrew Hale and Jotham Israel recall their greatest sports experiences and adventures. This week's story is titled "Jotham's Spelling Bee." The actual video of Jotham's Spelling Bee: https://youtu.be/P24ZHfjnIYA

Top of the Standings hosts Andrew Hale and Jotham Israel recall their greatest sports experiences and adventures. This week's story is titled "The Duel Sport YMCA Superstar."

Top of the Standings hosts Andrew Hale and Jotham Israel recall their greatest sports experiences and adventures. This week's story is titled "Air Jotham: The Cinco de Mayo Shootout."

Top of the Standings hosts Andrew Hale and Jotham Israel recall their greatest sports experiences and adventures. This week's story is titled "Andrew's Lacrosse Experience."

Top of the Standings hosts Andrew Hale and Jotham Israel recall their greatest sports experiences and adventures. This week's story is titled "Jotham's Sports Origins."

Top of the Standings hosts Andrew Hale and Jotham Israel recall their greatest sports experiences and adventures. This week's story is titled "Andrew’s Wild Card Weekend."

Top of the Standings hosts Andrew Hale and Jotham Israel recall their greatest sports experiences and adventures. This week's story is titled "Jotham's Big Roll."

Top of the Standings hosts Andrew Hale and Jotham Israel recall their greatest sports experiences and adventures. This week's story is titled "Andrew's New Year Classic."

Top of the Standings hosts Andrew Hale and Jotham Israel recall their greatest sports experiences and adventures. This week's story is titled "Jotham's Punch Roll."

Top of the Standings hosts Andrew Hale and Jotham Israel recall their greatest sports experiences and adventures. This week's story is titled "Andrew's Weekend at MSU."

Today I had the pleasure of talking to Animal Behaviourist Mr Andrew Hale. I found the conversation fascinating and it also opened my eyes. We as groomers must look at the signs we are given by the dogs we groom and ask ourselves are we doing whats in the best interest for them. Andrew makes clear the meaning of the word consent when used by groomers. This is a very open and interesting chat . www.trainpositive.co.uk Andrew Hale BscCertified Animal Behaviourist (ICAN)Trustee at Association of INTODOGSBehaviour Consultant Pet RemedyBehaviour Consultant Animals in Distress

Top of the Standings hosts Andrew Hale and Jotham Israel recall their greatest sports experiences and adventures. This week's story is titled "Jotham's Sniper Goal."

Top of the Standings hosts Andrew Hale and Jotham Israel recall their greatest sports experiences and adventures. This week's story is titled "Andrew Takes The Ice."

HERE TO SPREAD SOME CHEER ON THESE DARK EVENINGS! IT'S ONLY ANOTHER SPLENDID EPISODE!!!! It's fair to say we are all feeling as Gooey as a Gordon Setter this week Bookshelvers. Why? Well it's all to do with a mind expanding convo we got to have with the lovely Andrew Hale. This is like a dog industry podcast hug and will prick the ears of folks working in the industry and (possibly more importantly) folks looking to be involved. Pop it directly in those ear lugs. You're very welcome x Andrew facts! Andrew is a Certified Animal Behaviourist (ICAN) and a trustee at the Association of INTODogs. Andrew is the behavioural consultant for Pet Remedy and Animals In Distress. He has a passion for exploring the dogs behavioural experience and supporting the emotional health of those that work in the industry. Link to Andrew's Website https://trainpositive.co.uk/ Link to Andrew's blog "The Phantom of the Operant" https://emotionaldog.blogspot.com/2020/01/phantom-of-operant-recognising.html?m=1 Link to the UK Dog Behaviour & Training Charter http://www.ukdogcharter.org/ Link to The Association of INTODogs https://www.intodogs.org/ Link to Karen Murphys Facebook group "Barking Brains" https://m.facebook.com/neuroscienceisawesome Link to Sarah Fishers Ace Connections Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/332134427492077/?ref=share Link to Steve & Corrins Goodall Dog Training Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/goodalldogs/ Link to Nat's Training & Behaviour Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/Natdogs/ Link to Drax's Galactic Adventure Facebook page (Nat's rescued Irish Wolfhound) https://www.facebook.com/Draxthewolfhound/ Link to Steve & Sallys Childrens book 'Jack & Billy Puppy Tales' https://www.facebook.com/JackandBillyPuppyTales/ Link to Grant Sharkey's Spotify page (Grant's amazing song 'Grow' features each week as our outro tune. https://open.spotify.com/artist/13PaCwwgVR77TbJH6XAVHQ?si=EOQGmWdCRCiXdECNmJvNAQn

Top of the Standings has returned for its second season. Andrew Hale and Jotham Israel are back at it again with the hottest topics, including the CFP rankings, the NFL's hot playoff race, and college basketball picking up right where it left off. You want sports? You got it! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Top of the Standings hosts Andrew Hale and Jotham Israel recall their greatest sports experiences and adventures. This week's story is titled "Jotham's Soccer Run."

Top of the Standings hosts Andrew Hale and Jotham Israel recall their greatest sports experiences and adventures. This week's story is titled "Andrew's 'Game-Day' Experience "

Top of the Standings hosts Andrew Hale and Jotham Israel recall their greatest sports experiences and adventures. This week's story is titled "Jotham's Big Swing."

Top of the Standings hosts Andrew Hale and Jotham Israel recall their greatest sports experiences and adventures. This week's story is titled "Andrew’s Stadium Tours."

Top of the Standings hosts Andrew Hale and Jotham Israel recall their greatest sports experiences and adventures. This week's story is titled "Jotham’s Gym Antics."

Top of the Standings hosts Andrew Hale and Jotham Israel recall their greatest sports experiences and adventures. This week's story is titled "Andrew's Diamond Miracle."

Top of the Standings hosts Andrew Hale and Jotham Israel recall their greatest sports experiences and adventures. This week's story is titled "Jotham the football MVP"

Top of the Standings hosts Andrew Hale and Jotham Israel recall their greatest sports experiences and adventures. This week's story is titled " Great Lakes Invitational 2013"

Top of the Standings hosts Andrew Hale and Jotham Israel recall their greatest sports experiences and adventures. This week's story is titled "Playoff Jotham's Gameday Nachos!"

Top of the Standings hosts Andrew Hale and Jotham Israel recall their greatest sports experiences and adventures. This week's story is titled "Andrew's Unique NBA Experience."

Top of the Standings hosts Andrew Hale and Jotham Israel recall their greatest sports experiences and adventures. This week's story is titled "Jotham's 2018 Steelers Bet."

Top of the Standings hosts Andrew Hale and Jotham Israel recall their greatest sports experiences and adventures. This week's story is titled "Andrew's 3 Day MLB Roadtrip."

Top of the Standings hosts Andrew Hale and Jotham Israel recall their greatest sports experiences and adventures. This week's story is titled "Jotham's 8th Grade Shootout."

Joe obsesses over perfecting the timing of every single button press in Rhythm Heaven Fever and Peter turns over the criminal underbelly of 1940s Los Angeles with Andrew Hale's work in L.A. Noire.

Today's episode on the CINEMATIC SOUND RADIO network is episode four of our orchestral video game show, THE 1UPBEAT with Eric Silver. Today's Eric explores the use of jazz music in video games including Peter McConnell's GRIM FANDANGO, Andrew Hale and Simon Hale's L.A. NOIRE, Mahito Yokota and Koji Kondo's SUPER MARIO 3D WORLD, Atsuko Asahi's MARIO CART 8 and Kristofer Maddigan's CUPHEAD. We guarantee this show will get your toes a-tappin'! Enjoy! —— Cinematic Sound Radio Web: http://www.cinematicsound.net Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/cinsoundradio Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/cinematicsound Cinematic Sound Radio Fanfare and Theme by David Coscina https://soundcloud.com/user-970634922 Bumper voice artist: Tim Burden http://www.timburden.com

Topics: Air Jordans, Whitney Houston, Sade, The Color Purple, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, Phylicia Rashad (Bonus Artist: Luck Pacheco)   1985 Notes   General Snapshots   1.    President: Ronald Reagan   2.    Jan – In Hollywood,  California, the charity single "We  Are the World" is recorded by USA for  Africa. The  single raises money to combat the  ongoing famine in Ethiopia. The  American act consists of high-profile  performers, including Michael  Jackson, Lionel Richie, Tina Turner,  Cyndi Lauper and Diana Ross.   3.    Jan – The newest music video channel, VH-1, begins broadcasting on American cable. It is aimed at an older demographic than its sister station, MTV. The first video played is Marvin Gaye's rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner".   4.    Mar – WrestleMania debuts at Madison Square Garden.  In the main event, Hulk Hogan and Mr. T defeated Paul Orndorff and Roddy Piper. The attendance for the event was 19,121. The event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television, making it the largest pay-per-view showing of a wrestling event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time.   5.    Apr – Coca-Cola changes its recipe and releases New Coke. The response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than three months.   6.    Aug - Ryan White who was expelled from Western High School in Indiana is allowed to attend his first day of classes via telephone.   7.    Sep - The Farm Aid concert is held in Champaign, Illinois, USA.   8.    Oct  – The Nintendo Entertainment System is released in U.S. stores. By 1988, industry observers stated that the NES's popularity had grown so quickly that the market for Nintendo cartridges was larger than that for all home computer software.  The NES was released two years after the North American video game crash of 1983, when many retailers and adult consumers regarded electronic games as a passing fad. With the NES, Nintendo also changed the relationship between console manufacturers and third-party software developers by restricting developers from publishing and distributing software without licensed approval. This led to higher-quality games, which helped change the attitude of a public that had grown weary from poorly produced games for earlier systems.   9.    Nov - Microsoft Corporation releases the first version of Windows, Windows 1.0.   10.    Open Comments:   11.    Top 3 Pop Songs   12.    1    "Careless Whisper"    Wham!   13.    2    "Like a Virgin"    Madonna   14.    3    "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go"    Wham!   15.    Grammy Awards   16.    Record of the Year: Quincy Jones (producer) for "We Are the World"   17.    Album of the Year: Phil Collins (producer & artist) for No Jacket Required   18.    Song of the Year: Michael Jackson & Lionel Richie (songwriters) for "We Are the World"   19.    Best New Artist: Sade   20.    Top 3 Movies   21.    Back to the Future   22.    Rambo: First Blood Part II   23.    Rocky IV   24.    Other Notables:  The Color Purple / Out of Africa / Cocoon / The Jewel of the Nile / Witness / The Goonies / Spies Like Us / The Breakfast Club / Brewster's Millions / St. Elmo's Fire /  Krush Groove   25.    Top 3 TV Shows   26.    The Cosby Show   27.    Family Ties   28.    Murder, She Wrote       29.    TV Debuts   30.    Sep - What's Happening Now!! / Stir Crazy   31.    Black Snapshots   32.    Feb -  Whitney Houston releases her debut  album – Whitney Houston.   33.    Mar  – Mike Tyson makes his professional debut in Albany, New York, a match which he wins by a first-round knockout.   34.    May - Michael Jordan is named as the NBA's "Rookie of the Year."   35.    May – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Mayor Wilson Goode, the  first African American to hold that office,  orders police to storm the  headquarters of the black liberation/back-to-nature group MOVE to end a stand-off over serving arrest warrants. (Due process?!?!)  The police drop 2 explosive devices into the headquarters, killing 6 adults and 5 children, and destroyed an additional 61 residental homes in the resulting fire. The survivors filed a civil suit against the city and the police department, and were awarded $1.5 million in 1996.   36.    Jul - The final episode of The Jeffersons airs. (1975-) 10 yrs   37.    Aug - Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids  (1972-) 13 yrs   38.    Nov - Ebony Man: EM  Magazine launches   39.    Best Comedy Recording: Whoopi Goldberg - Original Broadway Show Recording   40.    Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female: Aretha Franklin for "Freeway of Love"   41.    Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male: Stevie Wonder for In Square Circle   42.    Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal: Commodores for "Nightshift"   43.    Economic Snapshot   44.    Avg. Income = $22,138   45.    House = $99,331   46.    New Car = $9,531   47.    Avg. Rent = $375   48.    Tuition at Harvard = $9,800   49.    Movie Ticket = $2.75   50.    Gas = $1.20   51.    Stamp = $0.22   52.    Socilal Scene: “Money, it's gotta be da shoes!” - Mars Blackmon   53.    The Air Jordan I was originally released in 1985 and is almost single-handedly responsible for modern-day sneaker culture. Michael Jordan originally wanted to sign with either Converse or Adidas. But Converse declined and according to a Wall Street Journal article published in 2015 so did Adidas. Still MJ was not convinced. Only when Nike, thinking they had nothing to loose, offered to give MJ his own shoe- and clothing line did he change his mind. This was unheard of at the time, no NBA player had an entire product line named after them. As the first basketball player with his own signature shoes Jordan would immediately become the king of basketball sneaker advertising. Just to be on the safe side Nike worked an out-clause into the contract: if Air Jordans didn’t earn Nike $3 million in the first 3 years, or if Jordan didn’t make the NBA All-Star Game in his first three years, Nike could dump him. Jordan was voted into the All-Star Game as a Rookie starter and the "Air Jordan 1" shoe made Nike $130 million in 1985 alone. The rest is history.   54.    Open Comments:   55.    The pushback and common critisisms   56.    Extremely superficial materialism is one of the only ways that many black Americans express a sense of self worth.    57.    When you live in a society where nobody has a savings account, or a college degree, or has traveled abroad, having a fresh pair of sneakers and a gold chain shouldn't be your version of keeping up with the Joneses.   58.    Liking shoes is as much of a "black thing" as liking chicken is a "black thing". Everyone likes both of these things.   59.    Open Comments:   60.    It became popular in the late 80s for people with moderate or low incomes to wear clothing adorned with the names and logos of luxury, high-end brands. Then all the luxury brands started making their own low-end, logo-covered versions. You wear your favorite sports team to affiliate yourself with them. It's the same thing with Tommy Hilfiger, Gucci, Jordache, Guess, Wrangler, Levi, Gitano, Bonjour, Sasson, etc., it's a way of signalling.   61.    Question: We went from tailored suits and dresses to baggy jeans and yoga pants. From afro's and braids to fashioned bandanas and bleached blondes. From the stylish Supremes and Tempations to tatooed  faces and pireced everytginhg. - What do you think is at the root of our decisions? Are we victims of advertising?   62.    Music Scene   63.    Black Songs from the Top 40 (No Lionel Richie showed up!)   64.    5    "I Feel for You"    Chaka Khan   65.    6    "Out of Touch"    Hall & Oates   66.    12    "Easy Lover"    Philip Bailey and Phil Collins   67.    17    "Cherish"    Kool & the Gang   68.    20    "We Are the World"    USA for Africa   69.    22    "Part-Time Lover"    Stevie Wonder   70.    23    "Saving All My Love For You"    Whitney Houston   71.    26    "Cool It Now"    New Edition   72.    28    "Loverboy"    Billy Ocean   73.    29    "Lovergirl"    Teena Marie   74.    31    "Oh Sheila"    Ready for the World   75.    32    "Rhythm of the Night"    DeBarge   76.    38    "Neutron Dance"    The Pointer Sisters   77.    40    "Nightshift"    Commodores   78.    Vote:   79.    Top RnB Singles   80.    Jan - "Operator"    Midnight Star   81.    Jan - "Gotta Get You Home Tonight"    Eugene Wilde   82.    Feb -  "Mr. Telephone Man"    New Edition   83.    Feb - "Missing You"    Diana Ross   84.    Mar - "Nightshift"    The Commodores   85.    Apr - "Back In Stride"    Maze featuring Frankie Beverly   86.    Apr - "Rhythm Of the Night"    DeBarge   87.    May - "We Are the World"    USA for Africa   88.    May - "Fresh"    Kool & the Gang   89.    May - "You Give Good Love"    Whitney Houston   90.    Jun - "Rock Me Tonight (For Old Times Sake)"    Freddie Jackson   91.    Jul - "Hangin' on a String (Contemplating)"    Loose Ends   92.    Jul - "Save Your Love (For #1)"    René & Angela   93.    Aug - "Freeway of Love"    Aretha Franklin   94.    Sep - "Saving All My Love for You"    Whitney Houston   95.    Sep - "Cherish"    Kool & the Gang   96.    Sep - "Oh Sheila"    Ready For the World   97.    Oct - "You Are My Lady"    Freddie Jackson   98.    Oct - "Part-Time Lover"    Stevie Wonder   99.    Nov - "Caravan of Love"    Isley-Jasper-Isley   100.    Dec - "Don't Say No Tonight"    Eugene Wilde   101.    Vote:   102.    Top RnB Albums   103.    Jan - New Edition    New Edition   104.    Feb - Solid    Ashford & Simpson   105.    Mar - Gap Band VI    The Gap Band   106.    Mar p- Private Dancer    Tina Turner   107.    Apr - Nightshift    The Commodores   108.    Apr - Can't Stop the Love    Frankie Beverly and Maze   109.    May - The Night I Fell in Love    Luther Vandross   110.    Jun - Whitney Houston    Whitney Houston   111.    Jun - Rock Me Tonight    Freddie Jackson   112.    Nov - In Square Circle    Stevie Wonder   113.    Vote   114.    Featured Artists: Whitney Houston and Sade   115.    Whitney Elizabeth Houston, @22 yrs old: Singer, actress, model, and producer, Whitney Houston is one of the world’s most successful female entertainers of all time.   116.    Born and raised in Newark NJ,  she is the daughter of Grammy-award-winning gospel singer, Emily “Cissy” Houston and John R. Houston, who managed his daughter’s production company.    117.    Childhood & Early Life   118.    She was no stranger to the entertainment industry, having come from a line of singers and actresses. Not only did her mother’s vocal group, the ‘Sweet Inspirations’, sing backup for Aretha Franklin, but her cousins Dionne and Dee Dee Warwick are also renowned singers, as well as her godmother, Darlene Love. She began performing in her church’s gospel choir as a soloist at the age of eleven and learned to play the piano. While attending Catholic school, she took voice lessons from her mother, with whom she would occasionally perform in nightclubs.   119.    Career   120.    In 1977 (@ 14 yrs old), she was a backup singer for Michael Zager Band’s single ‘Life’s a Party’ and the following year she sang on Chaka Khan’s single ‘I’m Every Woman’. She was offered an opportunity to sign with a recording company, but her mother declined so she would finish high school. In the early 1980s, (@17 yrs old), she worked as a model, appearing in several magazines including, ‘Seventeen’, where she became the first African American to be featured on the cover. She also took on acting gigs appearing in TV show episodes such as, ‘Gimme a Break’, while continuing to develop her vocal skills. In 1983,(@ 20yrs old) she was signed with ‘Arista Records’. President Clive Davis spent the next couple years assembling lyricists and producers to balance her gospel-like sound with contemporary melodies. In 1985, her debut album, ‘Whitney Houston’ gradually became the number one selling album of her career.  She went on to win two Emmy Awards, six Grammy Awards, 30 Billboard Music Awards, 22 American Music Awards.   121.    Open Comments:   122.    A Hot Mess   123.    On February 11th, 2012, Whitney Houston (@ 48 yrs old) was found facedown in a bathtub.  Weeks later, an autopsy report would contribute Houston’s death to accidental drowning, heart disease and cocaine use. There were additional traces of a muscle relaxant, Xanax, marijuana and an allergy medication in the singer’s system.    124.    The sad, secret life of Whitney Houston: From a secret lesbian relationship to a decades-long struggle with drugs, five years after singer’s death, a new film ‘Whitney: Can I Be Me’ examines what caused her tragic downfall - Tara Brady [Jun 12, 2017] https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/the-sad-secret-life-of-whitney-houston-1.3105861   125.    Selected quotes from the article:   126.    What exactly killed Houston? Why did she drown? How did she drown? Was she simply overwhelmed by the controlling demands of her formidable mother, Cissy Houston, Svengali Clive Davis, and her record company, Arista? Did the aftermath of her toxic and co-dependent marriage to Bobby Brown send her spiralling? Or was it the dissolution of her decades-old lesbian relationship with her assistant Robyn Crawford? It’s complicated, as documentarian Nick Broomfield discovered.  “In the end I think the divide between who she was and what her public persona was became more and more difficult,” says  documentarian Nick Broomfield. “And she just went down,    127.    The imploding relations between Houston, Bobby Brown and Robyn Crawford. Brown told Us Weekly magazine that Houston was bisexual and that she once had an affair with Tupac Shakur. He went on to say that Houston kept her relationship with Crawford hidden because of Cissy. “I really feel that if Robyn was accepted into Whitney’s life, Whitney would still be alive today,” Brown told the magazine. “She didn’t have close friends with her anymore.”   128.    From Cissy’s notorious 2013 interview with Oprah Winfrey:  “Would it have bothered you if your daughter was gay?”  “Absolutely,” Cissy snapped back. “You wouldn’t have condoned it?” continued an incredulous Oprah. “Not at all.” ...“I didn’t particularly like [Crawford],” Cissy told the talk show queen. “She just spoke too much, disrespectful sometimes, like she had something over Nippy (Houston’s nickname), and I didn’t like that at all. She was all right, she turned out to be all right, I guess. That was her friend.”   129.    Houston and Crawford first bonded while they were teenagers working at a community centre in East Orange, New Jersey. When Houston’s modelling career began to take off, she’d face bullying in school, and Crawford, who was originally a friend of Houston’s older brothers Michael and Gary, would frequently come to the rescue. When Houston moved out of her family home, she shared her first apartment with Crawford. Deep into Houston and Brown’s 14-year marriage, Crawford remained a fixture in Houston’s domestic arrangements.   130.    Houston’s marriage to Brown, understandably, made for an uneasy romantic trinity. In Derrick Handspike’s unauthorised 2008 biography, Bobby Brown: The Truth, The Whole Truth and Nothing But . . ., the author quotes Brown as saying: “Now I realise Whitney had a different agenda than I did when we got married. I believe her agenda was to clean up her image while mine was to be loved and have children. “Whitney felt she had to make rumours of a lesbian affair go away. Since she was the American Sweetheart and all, that didn’t go too well with her image. In Whitney’s situation the only solution was to get married and have kids. That would kill all speculation whether it was true or not.”   131.    Supermarket tabloids did a brisk trade during the 1990s by peddling the idea that Houston’s life spiralled into addiction after she married Brown. She was the gospel-singing good girl – the church-going daughter of Cissy and a cousin of Dionne Warwick. He was a bad boy who, aged 20, when they first met, had already been shot and stabbed in the shoulder. Their tumultuous marriage (from 1992 to 2007), characterised by drug use, infidelity and a costly entourage, was seldom out of the headlines. But contrary to popular belief, Brown did not introduce his troubled wife to cocaine. Houston first dabbled with drugs with her brothers, Michael and Gary, as a teenager. The truth is that Houston was always as “street“ as her R&B star husband. But that part of her personal history didn’t fit with what Broomfield calls “the Whitney character”.  As Pattie Howard, Houston’s backing vocalist, notes: “People may not know it but Whitney was from the ‘hood’. They wanted to present her as the princess. And that’s what white America was presented with.” Kenneth Reynolds, who worked in marketing for Arista Records recalls that: “Anything that was too black sounding was sent back. We wanted Joni Mitchell. We wanted Barbra Streisand. ” “She was very carefully groomed for nearly two years before the first album came out,” explains Broomfield. “So every aspect of her was carefully considered. She was a major project. A lot of money was spent on her. Anything that was too R&B was out. They didn’t want a female James Brown. That was not part of their vision. Which, of course, was a very successful vision.”   132.    In 1989, just as Houston topped 25 million in album sales and surpassed the Beatles’s record with seven consecutive number one hits, she attended the Soul Train awards where, in response to her “white” music, she was roundly booed. Pre-Beyoncé and Mariah Carey, “crossover” was synonymous with cultural betrayal. People shouted “Oreo” – brown on the outside, white on the inside – as her nomination for Best Female Vocalist was announced. “It’s not a good feeling,” says Houston, in Can I Be Me. “It’s horrible and kind of funny. You think: ‘Are they booing me?’ And you have to sit there and be cordial and smiley. And you feel like: ‘Oh my God’.” Kirk Whalum, the saxophonist who toured with Houston for more than seven years recalls that night, which coincidentally, was the first time she met Brown. “It was devastating [for her],” says Whalum.   133.    By the end of the 90s, Houston found herself at the centre of a perfect storm of ongoing racial friction, marital troubles and drug abuse. Friends, unable to watch Houston’s decline, began to drift away. Her father, John, died in 2003, but not before his management company, John Houston Entertainment LLC, filed a $100 million lawsuit against his own daughter. Months before his death, he made a public appeal on the syndicated show, Celebrity Justice: “You get your act together, honey, and you pay me the money that you owe me.” Robyn Crawford’s departure in 2000, too, prompted a new, crippling dependency on crack-cocaine and other substances. - “Robyn was the one who was keeping her together,” says writer Allison Samuels. “That’s when drugs became so important to her.”   134.    Open Comments:   135.    The Smooth Operator -Helen Folasade Adu, professionally known as Sade (@26 yrs old)   136.    Sade is an internationally renowned, multi-Grammy award winning singer who is known for her smooth, melodic vocals and the seamless incorporation of different styles of music. She was born in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria on January 16, 1959. Her father Adebisi Adu, a Nigerian lecturer of economics, and her mother Anne Hayes, a district nurse, had met in London. Sade was the couple’s second child. Shortly after her birth, Sade’s parents separated and she and her brother followed their mother to Colchester, Essex, England. There, the children were raised by their mother as well as their maternal grandfather. Upon finishing her education at Clacton County High School in Colchester, she enrolled at Central St. Martin’s College of Art and Design in London to pursue fashion and design. After completion of her program, she worked as a model and menswear designer.    137.    Sade entered the music scene around 1980 when she started singing harmony for Arriva, a Latin funk band. She joined another funk band called Pride and was a background singer for the group. Pride garnered much attention from record companies due to their performances around London. Eventually Sade and fellow bandmates, Stuart Matthewman, Paul Denma, and Andrew Hale signed a deal with the U.K. division of Epic Records and formed the band Sade. In 1984 the band’s debut album, Diamond Life, was released to much critical success and was bolstered by singles such as “Hang On to Your Love” and “Smooth Operator.” The band followed up their debut with their next album, Promise, which was released the following year. “The Sweetest Taboo,” a single from Promise, was on the U.S. Hot 100 for six months. She was awarded the Grammy for best new artist of 1985.    138.    Open Comments:   139.    Selected quote about her sound   140.    Let's get this into context. With Sade it's unlikely there will ever be a full, naked baring of the soul. In terms of contemporary icons, it's better to listen to Mary J for stories of drama and shattered devotion. But Sade, today, is all about the acknowledged presence of absence. What's missing in her music is as important as what's present. - The Fader   141.    A small, yet important, fact: When Sade signed her first record deal with Epic in the early '80s, she accepted a small advance, worth ~$70,000 in exchange for an unusually high cut of sales for a new artist—15 percent. It was a deal that ended up proving immensely lucrative, and it has freed her from many of the commercial demands that often encumber artists. Put simply, she only works when and how she wants to. As one executive at her label, Epic, put it to me: "Who's going to argue with a woman who's sold 50 million albums? She's more powerful than anyone working at the label, including the [President]." - The Fader   142.    Question: Does the Sade sound ever wear out?   143.    The Movie Scene   144.    The Color Purple/Film synopsis   145.    An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie (Whoopi Goldberg), an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After Celie's abusive father marries her off to the equally debasing "Mister" Albert Johnson (Danny Glover), things go from bad to worse, leaving Celie to find companionship anywhere she can. She perseveres, holding on to her dream of one day being reunited with her sister in Africa. Based on the novel by Alice Walker.   146.    Review by Roger Ebert   147.    Returning to "The Color Purple" after almost 20 years, I can see its flaws more easily than when I named it the best film of 1985, but I can also understand why it moved me so deeply, and why the greatness of some films depends not on their perfection or logic, but on their heart. The movie may have inconsistencies, confusions and improbabilities, but there is one perfect thing at its center, and that is the character of Celie, as played by Whoopi Goldberg. "Here is this year's winner for best actress," I wrote in my original review, and that should have been true, but although "The Color Purple" had 11 nominations, it won not a single Oscar. When a movie character is really working, we become that character. That's what the movies offer: Escapism into lives other than our own. I am not female, I am not black, I am not Celie, but for a time during "The Color Purple," my mind deceives me that I am all of those things, and as I empathize with her struggle and victory I learn something about what it must have been like to be her.  - Roger Ebert   148.    Selected Quotes   149.    In Honor of Its 33rd Anniversary, Here Are 10 Life Lessons I Learned From the Color Purple - By Melissa Kimble Dec 18, 2018 [https://www.oprahmag.com/entertainment/tv-movies/a25616715/the-color-purple-quotes-anniversary/]   150.    I was born a few years after the film was released. However, I can credit much of my self discovery to the many times I’ve watched it. My favorite quotes from the movie taught me valuable lessons about Black womanhood, faith, and self love. And these 10 are the ones I’ll never forget.   151.    “Girl, you oughta bash Mister’s head open and think about heaven later.” By Oprah Winfrey - In a film where women are treated like inferiors, Sofia breaks the mold by refusing to be her husband's punching bag. This scene-stealing monologue, with its rage filled entrance by the O of O, is an act of defiance—especially one committed in early 20th century Georgia. It was powerful and necessary to see a Black woman go against the grain on screen. And to me, it was a call to action to be fearless.   152.    "I'm poor, Black, I may even be ugly, but dear God, I’m here! I’m here!" By Whoopi Goldberg - What a victorious statement this was by Celie, who, up until this point, had spent most of her life feeling unworthy and invisible. It reminded me that even with our flaws and imperfections, we still deserve to show up in our own lives.   153.    "Until you do right by me, everything you think about is going to crumble." By - Whoopi Goldberg - With these words, Celie breaks a cycle of abuse from Mister and sticks up for herself. I interpreted this line as a sign that I don’t have to carry the weight of people who have caused my pain; life will take care of everything.   154.    “Miss Celie, why you always covering up your smile?” By Desreta Jackson - Growing up, I was very insecure about my smile. And when Shug Avery posed this question to Miss Celie, it also made me turn to myself. When Shug encourages Celie to smile, I learned that there’s no need to cover up my own   155.    Open Comments:   156.    Featured Artist   157.    Caryn Elaine Johnson, a.k.a. Whoopi Goldberg (@ 30 yrs old): an American comedian, actress, singer-songwriter, Broadway star, political activist, author and talk show host, she is one of the most successful and established African American actresses of her time.    158.    Born and raised in Manhattan, she is one of 14 entertainers ever to have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony. What differentiates Goldberg from her contemporaries is the excellence that she portrayed in all the mediums of entertainment, be it television, theatre, films or radio.    159.    Childhood & Early Life   160.    Her mother was a nurse and a teacher while her father served as a clergyman. She was raised in the Chelsea-Elliot Houses by her mother alone after her father disbanded the family when she was young. She studied until her teen years and later dropped out of school. Her started acting started at a young age. It was during her stage performance that people complimented her by saying that she looked like whoopee cushion. It was from there that she took the stage name Whoopi and adopted Goldberg as her surname to sound more Jewish.    161.    Career   162.    In 1974, (@ age 19) she moved to California and thereafter lived in various cities such as Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco. It was during this time that she honed her acting skills and developed her talent as a stand-up comedian.  However, soon thereafter, she returned to New York and started receiving training under acting coach Uta Hagen. Her first ever appearance on screen was for William Farley’s feature, ‘Citizen: I'm Not Losing My Mind, I'm Giving It Away’ in 1982 (@ 27). In 1983, she created, starred and directed a ‘The Spook Show’, a one-woman show that addressed the issue of race in American but in a unique and innovative style. Next, she created other off-Broadway productions such as ‘Little Girl’ an African-American child obsessed with having blond hair and ‘Fontaine’ a junkie who also happens to hold a doctorate in literature. The innovative presentation and sense of wit and style in her shows impressed director Mike Nicholas who offered to take ‘The Spook Show’ to the Broadway. The show which ran for 156 performances, met with much acclaim both commercially and critically. It went on to earn her a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album. The eye-catching performance and amazing positive reception of the show earned her attention of the Hollywood bigwigs. It helped her bag a role in the Steven Spielberg film, ‘The Color Purple’, released in 1985. The movie met with resounding success, clutching 11 Academy Awards nominations and she won her first Golden Globe award.   163.    Open Comments:   164.    Oprah Gail Winfrey , a.k.a. Oprah Winfrey (@ 31 yrs old): Talk show host, actress, producer and philanthropist.   165.    Childhood & Early Life   166.    Born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, on a small family farm, to an unwed mother who had a short relationship with a soldier stationed nearby, Oprah grew up in dire poverty, and was primarily raised by her grandmother. Sexually abused and mistreated as a child, Winfrey rose above adversity to focus on her primary and high school education.    167.    Career   168.    When she was still a teenager, the local CBS television station in Nashville, Tennessee offered her a job as a co-anchor. She turned it down three times. At age 19, Oprah Winfrey said yes after the fourth offer. She failed the interview, but instead was offered a job as a full-time reporter for a Baltimore television news channel. She did poorly as a reporter, and by age 22 she was fired from the news division. The director of the station gave Winfrey a boost by selecting her to anchor a morning talk show entitled ‘People are Talking’. For the next seven years, her talk show enjoyed excellent ratings. In 1981, (@ 27) she moved to Chicago to host a talk show entitled ‘A.M. Chicago’. Four years later, (1985) after a tremendous boost in the ratings, the producers changed the name to ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’. She caught the attention of Quincy Jones, a Chicago native, and he cast her as Sofia for the first movie he produced, 'The Color Purple'. The following year ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’ was broadcast nationally.    169.    Open Comments:   170.    TV Scene:   171.    Featured Actor: Phylician Ayers Allen, a.k.a Phylicia Rashad is an Emmy-nominated American actress, singer, and director.   172.    Her multi-faceted career began with Broadway before she branched into television and films. She is best remembered for her character as Claire Huxtable in the NBC sitcom ‘The Cosby Show’, which ran for eight years. The series brought Phylicia much deserved recognition, also earning her two Emmy nominations. Phylicia, however, is immortalized for her rich performances on the stage as an artist. She starred in several lavish musicals and dramas, all praised highly by critics. She became the first African American actress to walk away with a Tony Award for her performance in Lorraine Hansberry’s ‘Raisin in The Sun’.  Subsequently, she was venerated within the African American acting community at the NAACP Awards, where she was called ‘The Mother’ of the Black Community. Her other popular plays include ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’, ‘August: Osage Country’, and ‘Gem of the Ocean’. She has tried her hand at stage direction and has successfully directed hit plays at prominent stages. Over the course of her career, Rashad has starred in several television series and voiced many characters. Her prolific output continues to be on the rise as she is still an active part of the entertainment industry.   173.    Childhood & Early Life:   174.    Phylicia Rashad was born Phylician Ayers Allen on June 19, 1948, in Houston, Texas to Vivian Ayers and Andrew Arthur Allen. Her mother was a prize-winning poet and artist, while her father was a reputed orthodontist. She has three siblings: Andrew Arthur Allen Jr., Debbie Allen, and Hugh Allen. Phylicia was raised in the United States and Mexico. She studied at Howard University, Washington D.C. and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in theatre in 1970. During her university days, she was inculcated into the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.   175.    Career   176.    After graduating with a degree in theatre, Phylicia immediately joined the Negro Ensemble Company in New York. She toured the city and was seen in several plays under this troupe. Her Broadway debut occurred in 1972 and she was seen in several minor roles for hit musicals, including ‘The Wiz’ (1975) and ‘Dreamgirls’ (1981). In 1978, Rashad tried her hand at something new by releasing the concept album ‘Josephine Superstar’, an album that was based on Josephine Baker’s life. She decided to embark on an alternative career in television owing to the scarcity of good roles given to her. In 1982, after moving to television, Rashad landed a recurring role in the series ‘One Life to Live’ as Courtney Wright, a publicist. In 1984, Phylicia Rashad was roped in to play the role of Clair Huxtable, an attorney, in the hit comedy ‘The Cosby Show’. The show starred Bill Cosby in the lead role and Phylicia played his wife. The series ran for over eight years and was a critical and commercial success. Phylicia’s role as Clair proved to be the highest point in her career, earning her two Emmy Award nominations.   177.    Open Comments   178.    Question: Is she a good actor? Do you buy her in other roles?   179.    Vote: Best Pop Culture item/event for 1985

Topics: Air Jordans, Whitney Houston, Sade, The Color Purple, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, Phylicia Rashad (Bonus Artist: Luck Pacheco)   1985 Notes   General Snapshots   1.    President: Ronald Reagan   2.    Jan – In Hollywood,  California, the charity single "We  Are the World" is recorded by USA for  Africa. The  single raises money to combat the  ongoing famine in Ethiopia. The  American act consists of high-profile  performers, including Michael  Jackson, Lionel Richie, Tina Turner,  Cyndi Lauper and Diana Ross.   3.    Jan – The newest music video channel, VH-1, begins broadcasting on American cable. It is aimed at an older demographic than its sister station, MTV. The first video played is Marvin Gaye's rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner".   4.    Mar – WrestleMania debuts at Madison Square Garden.  In the main event, Hulk Hogan and Mr. T defeated Paul Orndorff and Roddy Piper. The attendance for the event was 19,121. The event was seen by over one million viewers through closed-circuit television, making it the largest pay-per-view showing of a wrestling event on closed-circuit television in the United States at the time.   5.    Apr – Coca-Cola changes its recipe and releases New Coke. The response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than three months.   6.    Aug - Ryan White who was expelled from Western High School in Indiana is allowed to attend his first day of classes via telephone.   7.    Sep - The Farm Aid concert is held in Champaign, Illinois, USA.   8.    Oct  – The Nintendo Entertainment System is released in U.S. stores. By 1988, industry observers stated that the NES's popularity had grown so quickly that the market for Nintendo cartridges was larger than that for all home computer software.  The NES was released two years after the North American video game crash of 1983, when many retailers and adult consumers regarded electronic games as a passing fad. With the NES, Nintendo also changed the relationship between console manufacturers and third-party software developers by restricting developers from publishing and distributing software without licensed approval. This led to higher-quality games, which helped change the attitude of a public that had grown weary from poorly produced games for earlier systems.   9.    Nov - Microsoft Corporation releases the first version of Windows, Windows 1.0.   10.    Open Comments:   11.    Top 3 Pop Songs   12.    1    "Careless Whisper"    Wham!   13.    2    "Like a Virgin"    Madonna   14.    3    "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go"    Wham!   15.    Grammy Awards   16.    Record of the Year: Quincy Jones (producer) for "We Are the World"   17.    Album of the Year: Phil Collins (producer & artist) for No Jacket Required   18.    Song of the Year: Michael Jackson & Lionel Richie (songwriters) for "We Are the World"   19.    Best New Artist: Sade   20.    Top 3 Movies   21.    Back to the Future   22.    Rambo: First Blood Part II   23.    Rocky IV   24.    Other Notables:  The Color Purple / Out of Africa / Cocoon / The Jewel of the Nile / Witness / The Goonies / Spies Like Us / The Breakfast Club / Brewster's Millions / St. Elmo's Fire /  Krush Groove   25.    Top 3 TV Shows   26.    The Cosby Show   27.    Family Ties   28.    Murder, She Wrote       29.    TV Debuts   30.    Sep - What's Happening Now!! / Stir Crazy   31.    Black Snapshots   32.    Feb -  Whitney Houston releases her debut  album – Whitney Houston.   33.    Mar  – Mike Tyson makes his professional debut in Albany, New York, a match which he wins by a first-round knockout.   34.    May - Michael Jordan is named as the NBA's "Rookie of the Year."   35.    May – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Mayor Wilson Goode, the  first African American to hold that office,  orders police to storm the  headquarters of the black liberation/back-to-nature group MOVE to end a stand-off over serving arrest warrants. (Due process?!?!)  The police drop 2 explosive devices into the headquarters, killing 6 adults and 5 children, and destroyed an additional 61 residental homes in the resulting fire. The survivors filed a civil suit against the city and the police department, and were awarded $1.5 million in 1996.   36.    Jul - The final episode of The Jeffersons airs. (1975-) 10 yrs   37.    Aug - Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids  (1972-) 13 yrs   38.    Nov - Ebony Man: EM  Magazine launches   39.    Best Comedy Recording: Whoopi Goldberg - Original Broadway Show Recording   40.    Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female: Aretha Franklin for "Freeway of Love"   41.    Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male: Stevie Wonder for In Square Circle   42.    Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal: Commodores for "Nightshift"   43.    Economic Snapshot   44.    Avg. Income = $22,138   45.    House = $99,331   46.    New Car = $9,531   47.    Avg. Rent = $375   48.    Tuition at Harvard = $9,800   49.    Movie Ticket = $2.75   50.    Gas = $1.20   51.    Stamp = $0.22   52.    Socilal Scene: “Money, it's gotta be da shoes!” - Mars Blackmon   53.    The Air Jordan I was originally released in 1985 and is almost single-handedly responsible for modern-day sneaker culture. Michael Jordan originally wanted to sign with either Converse or Adidas. But Converse declined and according to a Wall Street Journal article published in 2015 so did Adidas. Still MJ was not convinced. Only when Nike, thinking they had nothing to loose, offered to give MJ his own shoe- and clothing line did he change his mind. This was unheard of at the time, no NBA player had an entire product line named after them. As the first basketball player with his own signature shoes Jordan would immediately become the king of basketball sneaker advertising. Just to be on the safe side Nike worked an out-clause into the contract: if Air Jordans didn’t earn Nike $3 million in the first 3 years, or if Jordan didn’t make the NBA All-Star Game in his first three years, Nike could dump him. Jordan was voted into the All-Star Game as a Rookie starter and the "Air Jordan 1" shoe made Nike $130 million in 1985 alone. The rest is history.   54.    Open Comments:   55.    The pushback and common critisisms   56.    Extremely superficial materialism is one of the only ways that many black Americans express a sense of self worth.    57.    When you live in a society where nobody has a savings account, or a college degree, or has traveled abroad, having a fresh pair of sneakers and a gold chain shouldn't be your version of keeping up with the Joneses.   58.    Liking shoes is as much of a "black thing" as liking chicken is a "black thing". Everyone likes both of these things.   59.    Open Comments:   60.    It became popular in the late 80s for people with moderate or low incomes to wear clothing adorned with the names and logos of luxury, high-end brands. Then all the luxury brands started making their own low-end, logo-covered versions. You wear your favorite sports team to affiliate yourself with them. It's the same thing with Tommy Hilfiger, Gucci, Jordache, Guess, Wrangler, Levi, Gitano, Bonjour, Sasson, etc., it's a way of signalling.   61.    Question: We went from tailored suits and dresses to baggy jeans and yoga pants. From afro's and braids to fashioned bandanas and bleached blondes. From the stylish Supremes and Tempations to tatooed  faces and pireced everytginhg. - What do you think is at the root of our decisions? Are we victims of advertising?   62.    Music Scene   63.    Black Songs from the Top 40 (No Lionel Richie showed up!)   64.    5    "I Feel for You"    Chaka Khan   65.    6    "Out of Touch"    Hall & Oates   66.    12    "Easy Lover"    Philip Bailey and Phil Collins   67.    17    "Cherish"    Kool & the Gang   68.    20    "We Are the World"    USA for Africa   69.    22    "Part-Time Lover"    Stevie Wonder   70.    23    "Saving All My Love For You"    Whitney Houston   71.    26    "Cool It Now"    New Edition   72.    28    "Loverboy"    Billy Ocean   73.    29    "Lovergirl"    Teena Marie   74.    31    "Oh Sheila"    Ready for the World   75.    32    "Rhythm of the Night"    DeBarge   76.    38    "Neutron Dance"    The Pointer Sisters   77.    40    "Nightshift"    Commodores   78.    Vote:   79.    Top RnB Singles   80.    Jan - "Operator"    Midnight Star   81.    Jan - "Gotta Get You Home Tonight"    Eugene Wilde   82.    Feb -  "Mr. Telephone Man"    New Edition   83.    Feb - "Missing You"    Diana Ross   84.    Mar - "Nightshift"    The Commodores   85.    Apr - "Back In Stride"    Maze featuring Frankie Beverly   86.    Apr - "Rhythm Of the Night"    DeBarge   87.    May - "We Are the World"    USA for Africa   88.    May - "Fresh"    Kool & the Gang   89.    May - "You Give Good Love"    Whitney Houston   90.    Jun - "Rock Me Tonight (For Old Times Sake)"    Freddie Jackson   91.    Jul - "Hangin' on a String (Contemplating)"    Loose Ends   92.    Jul - "Save Your Love (For #1)"    René & Angela   93.    Aug - "Freeway of Love"    Aretha Franklin   94.    Sep - "Saving All My Love for You"    Whitney Houston   95.    Sep - "Cherish"    Kool & the Gang   96.    Sep - "Oh Sheila"    Ready For the World   97.    Oct - "You Are My Lady"    Freddie Jackson   98.    Oct - "Part-Time Lover"    Stevie Wonder   99.    Nov - "Caravan of Love"    Isley-Jasper-Isley   100.    Dec - "Don't Say No Tonight"    Eugene Wilde   101.    Vote:   102.    Top RnB Albums   103.    Jan - New Edition    New Edition   104.    Feb - Solid    Ashford & Simpson   105.    Mar - Gap Band VI    The Gap Band   106.    Mar p- Private Dancer    Tina Turner   107.    Apr - Nightshift    The Commodores   108.    Apr - Can't Stop the Love    Frankie Beverly and Maze   109.    May - The Night I Fell in Love    Luther Vandross   110.    Jun - Whitney Houston    Whitney Houston   111.    Jun - Rock Me Tonight    Freddie Jackson   112.    Nov - In Square Circle    Stevie Wonder   113.    Vote   114.    Featured Artists: Whitney Houston and Sade   115.    Whitney Elizabeth Houston, @22 yrs old: Singer, actress, model, and producer, Whitney Houston is one of the world’s most successful female entertainers of all time.   116.    Born and raised in Newark NJ,  she is the daughter of Grammy-award-winning gospel singer, Emily “Cissy” Houston and John R. Houston, who managed his daughter’s production company.    117.    Childhood & Early Life   118.    She was no stranger to the entertainment industry, having come from a line of singers and actresses. Not only did her mother’s vocal group, the ‘Sweet Inspirations’, sing backup for Aretha Franklin, but her cousins Dionne and Dee Dee Warwick are also renowned singers, as well as her godmother, Darlene Love. She began performing in her church’s gospel choir as a soloist at the age of eleven and learned to play the piano. While attending Catholic school, she took voice lessons from her mother, with whom she would occasionally perform in nightclubs.   119.    Career   120.    In 1977 (@ 14 yrs old), she was a backup singer for Michael Zager Band’s single ‘Life’s a Party’ and the following year she sang on Chaka Khan’s single ‘I’m Every Woman’. She was offered an opportunity to sign with a recording company, but her mother declined so she would finish high school. In the early 1980s, (@17 yrs old), she worked as a model, appearing in several magazines including, ‘Seventeen’, where she became the first African American to be featured on the cover. She also took on acting gigs appearing in TV show episodes such as, ‘Gimme a Break’, while continuing to develop her vocal skills. In 1983,(@ 20yrs old) she was signed with ‘Arista Records’. President Clive Davis spent the next couple years assembling lyricists and producers to balance her gospel-like sound with contemporary melodies. In 1985, her debut album, ‘Whitney Houston’ gradually became the number one selling album of her career.  She went on to win two Emmy Awards, six Grammy Awards, 30 Billboard Music Awards, 22 American Music Awards.   121.    Open Comments:   122.    A Hot Mess   123.    On February 11th, 2012, Whitney Houston (@ 48 yrs old) was found facedown in a bathtub.  Weeks later, an autopsy report would contribute Houston’s death to accidental drowning, heart disease and cocaine use. There were additional traces of a muscle relaxant, Xanax, marijuana and an allergy medication in the singer’s system.    124.    The sad, secret life of Whitney Houston: From a secret lesbian relationship to a decades-long struggle with drugs, five years after singer’s death, a new film ‘Whitney: Can I Be Me’ examines what caused her tragic downfall - Tara Brady [Jun 12, 2017] https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/the-sad-secret-life-of-whitney-houston-1.3105861   125.    Selected quotes from the article:   126.    What exactly killed Houston? Why did she drown? How did she drown? Was she simply overwhelmed by the controlling demands of her formidable mother, Cissy Houston, Svengali Clive Davis, and her record company, Arista? Did the aftermath of her toxic and co-dependent marriage to Bobby Brown send her spiralling? Or was it the dissolution of her decades-old lesbian relationship with her assistant Robyn Crawford? It’s complicated, as documentarian Nick Broomfield discovered.  “In the end I think the divide between who she was and what her public persona was became more and more difficult,” says  documentarian Nick Broomfield. “And she just went down,    127.    The imploding relations between Houston, Bobby Brown and Robyn Crawford. Brown told Us Weekly magazine that Houston was bisexual and that she once had an affair with Tupac Shakur. He went on to say that Houston kept her relationship with Crawford hidden because of Cissy. “I really feel that if Robyn was accepted into Whitney’s life, Whitney would still be alive today,” Brown told the magazine. “She didn’t have close friends with her anymore.”   128.    From Cissy’s notorious 2013 interview with Oprah Winfrey:  “Would it have bothered you if your daughter was gay?”  “Absolutely,” Cissy snapped back. “You wouldn’t have condoned it?” continued an incredulous Oprah. “Not at all.” ...“I didn’t particularly like [Crawford],” Cissy told the talk show queen. “She just spoke too much, disrespectful sometimes, like she had something over Nippy (Houston’s nickname), and I didn’t like that at all. She was all right, she turned out to be all right, I guess. That was her friend.”   129.    Houston and Crawford first bonded while they were teenagers working at a community centre in East Orange, New Jersey. When Houston’s modelling career began to take off, she’d face bullying in school, and Crawford, who was originally a friend of Houston’s older brothers Michael and Gary, would frequently come to the rescue. When Houston moved out of her family home, she shared her first apartment with Crawford. Deep into Houston and Brown’s 14-year marriage, Crawford remained a fixture in Houston’s domestic arrangements.   130.    Houston’s marriage to Brown, understandably, made for an uneasy romantic trinity. In Derrick Handspike’s unauthorised 2008 biography, Bobby Brown: The Truth, The Whole Truth and Nothing But . . ., the author quotes Brown as saying: “Now I realise Whitney had a different agenda than I did when we got married. I believe her agenda was to clean up her image while mine was to be loved and have children. “Whitney felt she had to make rumours of a lesbian affair go away. Since she was the American Sweetheart and all, that didn’t go too well with her image. In Whitney’s situation the only solution was to get married and have kids. That would kill all speculation whether it was true or not.”   131.    Supermarket tabloids did a brisk trade during the 1990s by peddling the idea that Houston’s life spiralled into addiction after she married Brown. She was the gospel-singing good girl – the church-going daughter of Cissy and a cousin of Dionne Warwick. He was a bad boy who, aged 20, when they first met, had already been shot and stabbed in the shoulder. Their tumultuous marriage (from 1992 to 2007), characterised by drug use, infidelity and a costly entourage, was seldom out of the headlines. But contrary to popular belief, Brown did not introduce his troubled wife to cocaine. Houston first dabbled with drugs with her brothers, Michael and Gary, as a teenager. The truth is that Houston was always as “street“ as her R&B star husband. But that part of her personal history didn’t fit with what Broomfield calls “the Whitney character”.  As Pattie Howard, Houston’s backing vocalist, notes: “People may not know it but Whitney was from the ‘hood’. They wanted to present her as the princess. And that’s what white America was presented with.” Kenneth Reynolds, who worked in marketing for Arista Records recalls that: “Anything that was too black sounding was sent back. We wanted Joni Mitchell. We wanted Barbra Streisand. ” “She was very carefully groomed for nearly two years before the first album came out,” explains Broomfield. “So every aspect of her was carefully considered. She was a major project. A lot of money was spent on her. Anything that was too R&B was out. They didn’t want a female James Brown. That was not part of their vision. Which, of course, was a very successful vision.”   132.    In 1989, just as Houston topped 25 million in album sales and surpassed the Beatles’s record with seven consecutive number one hits, she attended the Soul Train awards where, in response to her “white” music, she was roundly booed. Pre-Beyoncé and Mariah Carey, “crossover” was synonymous with cultural betrayal. People shouted “Oreo” – brown on the outside, white on the inside – as her nomination for Best Female Vocalist was announced. “It’s not a good feeling,” says Houston, in Can I Be Me. “It’s horrible and kind of funny. You think: ‘Are they booing me?’ And you have to sit there and be cordial and smiley. And you feel like: ‘Oh my God’.” Kirk Whalum, the saxophonist who toured with Houston for more than seven years recalls that night, which coincidentally, was the first time she met Brown. “It was devastating [for her],” says Whalum.   133.    By the end of the 90s, Houston found herself at the centre of a perfect storm of ongoing racial friction, marital troubles and drug abuse. Friends, unable to watch Houston’s decline, began to drift away. Her father, John, died in 2003, but not before his management company, John Houston Entertainment LLC, filed a $100 million lawsuit against his own daughter. Months before his death, he made a public appeal on the syndicated show, Celebrity Justice: “You get your act together, honey, and you pay me the money that you owe me.” Robyn Crawford’s departure in 2000, too, prompted a new, crippling dependency on crack-cocaine and other substances. - “Robyn was the one who was keeping her together,” says writer Allison Samuels. “That’s when drugs became so important to her.”   134.    Open Comments:   135.    The Smooth Operator -Helen Folasade Adu, professionally known as Sade (@26 yrs old)   136.    Sade is an internationally renowned, multi-Grammy award winning singer who is known for her smooth, melodic vocals and the seamless incorporation of different styles of music. She was born in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria on January 16, 1959. Her father Adebisi Adu, a Nigerian lecturer of economics, and her mother Anne Hayes, a district nurse, had met in London. Sade was the couple’s second child. Shortly after her birth, Sade’s parents separated and she and her brother followed their mother to Colchester, Essex, England. There, the children were raised by their mother as well as their maternal grandfather. Upon finishing her education at Clacton County High School in Colchester, she enrolled at Central St. Martin’s College of Art and Design in London to pursue fashion and design. After completion of her program, she worked as a model and menswear designer.    137.    Sade entered the music scene around 1980 when she started singing harmony for Arriva, a Latin funk band. She joined another funk band called Pride and was a background singer for the group. Pride garnered much attention from record companies due to their performances around London. Eventually Sade and fellow bandmates, Stuart Matthewman, Paul Denma, and Andrew Hale signed a deal with the U.K. division of Epic Records and formed the band Sade. In 1984 the band’s debut album, Diamond Life, was released to much critical success and was bolstered by singles such as “Hang On to Your Love” and “Smooth Operator.” The band followed up their debut with their next album, Promise, which was released the following year. “The Sweetest Taboo,” a single from Promise, was on the U.S. Hot 100 for six months. She was awarded the Grammy for best new artist of 1985.    138.    Open Comments:   139.    Selected quote about her sound   140.    Let's get this into context. With Sade it's unlikely there will ever be a full, naked baring of the soul. In terms of contemporary icons, it's better to listen to Mary J for stories of drama and shattered devotion. But Sade, today, is all about the acknowledged presence of absence. What's missing in her music is as important as what's present. - The Fader   141.    A small, yet important, fact: When Sade signed her first record deal with Epic in the early '80s, she accepted a small advance, worth ~$70,000 in exchange for an unusually high cut of sales for a new artist—15 percent. It was a deal that ended up proving immensely lucrative, and it has freed her from many of the commercial demands that often encumber artists. Put simply, she only works when and how she wants to. As one executive at her label, Epic, put it to me: "Who's going to argue with a woman who's sold 50 million albums? She's more powerful than anyone working at the label, including the [President]." - The Fader   142.    Question: Does the Sade sound ever wear out?   143.    The Movie Scene   144.    The Color Purple/Film synopsis   145.    An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie (Whoopi Goldberg), an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After Celie's abusive father marries her off to the equally debasing "Mister" Albert Johnson (Danny Glover), things go from bad to worse, leaving Celie to find companionship anywhere she can. She perseveres, holding on to her dream of one day being reunited with her sister in Africa. Based on the novel by Alice Walker.   146.    Review by Roger Ebert   147.    Returning to "The Color Purple" after almost 20 years, I can see its flaws more easily than when I named it the best film of 1985, but I can also understand why it moved me so deeply, and why the greatness of some films depends not on their perfection or logic, but on their heart. The movie may have inconsistencies, confusions and improbabilities, but there is one perfect thing at its center, and that is the character of Celie, as played by Whoopi Goldberg. "Here is this year's winner for best actress," I wrote in my original review, and that should have been true, but although "The Color Purple" had 11 nominations, it won not a single Oscar. When a movie character is really working, we become that character. That's what the movies offer: Escapism into lives other than our own. I am not female, I am not black, I am not Celie, but for a time during "The Color Purple," my mind deceives me that I am all of those things, and as I empathize with her struggle and victory I learn something about what it must have been like to be her.  - Roger Ebert   148.    Selected Quotes   149.    In Honor of Its 33rd Anniversary, Here Are 10 Life Lessons I Learned From the Color Purple - By Melissa Kimble Dec 18, 2018 [https://www.oprahmag.com/entertainment/tv-movies/a25616715/the-color-purple-quotes-anniversary/]   150.    I was born a few years after the film was released. However, I can credit much of my self discovery to the many times I’ve watched it. My favorite quotes from the movie taught me valuable lessons about Black womanhood, faith, and self love. And these 10 are the ones I’ll never forget.   151.    “Girl, you oughta bash Mister’s head open and think about heaven later.” By Oprah Winfrey - In a film where women are treated like inferiors, Sofia breaks the mold by refusing to be her husband's punching bag. This scene-stealing monologue, with its rage filled entrance by the O of O, is an act of defiance—especially one committed in early 20th century Georgia. It was powerful and necessary to see a Black woman go against the grain on screen. And to me, it was a call to action to be fearless.   152.    "I'm poor, Black, I may even be ugly, but dear God, I’m here! I’m here!" By Whoopi Goldberg - What a victorious statement this was by Celie, who, up until this point, had spent most of her life feeling unworthy and invisible. It reminded me that even with our flaws and imperfections, we still deserve to show up in our own lives.   153.    "Until you do right by me, everything you think about is going to crumble." By - Whoopi Goldberg - With these words, Celie breaks a cycle of abuse from Mister and sticks up for herself. I interpreted this line as a sign that I don’t have to carry the weight of people who have caused my pain; life will take care of everything.   154.    “Miss Celie, why you always covering up your smile?” By Desreta Jackson - Growing up, I was very insecure about my smile. And when Shug Avery posed this question to Miss Celie, it also made me turn to myself. When Shug encourages Celie to smile, I learned that there’s no need to cover up my own   155.    Open Comments:   156.    Featured Artist   157.    Caryn Elaine Johnson, a.k.a. Whoopi Goldberg (@ 30 yrs old): an American comedian, actress, singer-songwriter, Broadway star, political activist, author and talk show host, she is one of the most successful and established African American actresses of her time.    158.    Born and raised in Manhattan, she is one of 14 entertainers ever to have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony. What differentiates Goldberg from her contemporaries is the excellence that she portrayed in all the mediums of entertainment, be it television, theatre, films or radio.    159.    Childhood & Early Life   160.    Her mother was a nurse and a teacher while her father served as a clergyman. She was raised in the Chelsea-Elliot Houses by her mother alone after her father disbanded the family when she was young. She studied until her teen years and later dropped out of school. Her started acting started at a young age. It was during her stage performance that people complimented her by saying that she looked like whoopee cushion. It was from there that she took the stage name Whoopi and adopted Goldberg as her surname to sound more Jewish.    161.    Career   162.    In 1974, (@ age 19) she moved to California and thereafter lived in various cities such as Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco. It was during this time that she honed her acting skills and developed her talent as a stand-up comedian.  However, soon thereafter, she returned to New York and started receiving training under acting coach Uta Hagen. Her first ever appearance on screen was for William Farley’s feature, ‘Citizen: I'm Not Losing My Mind, I'm Giving It Away’ in 1982 (@ 27). In 1983, she created, starred and directed a ‘The Spook Show’, a one-woman show that addressed the issue of race in American but in a unique and innovative style. Next, she created other off-Broadway productions such as ‘Little Girl’ an African-American child obsessed with having blond hair and ‘Fontaine’ a junkie who also happens to hold a doctorate in literature. The innovative presentation and sense of wit and style in her shows impressed director Mike Nicholas who offered to take ‘The Spook Show’ to the Broadway. The show which ran for 156 performances, met with much acclaim both commercially and critically. It went on to earn her a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album. The eye-catching performance and amazing positive reception of the show earned her attention of the Hollywood bigwigs. It helped her bag a role in the Steven Spielberg film, ‘The Color Purple’, released in 1985. The movie met with resounding success, clutching 11 Academy Awards nominations and she won her first Golden Globe award.   163.    Open Comments:   164.    Oprah Gail Winfrey , a.k.a. Oprah Winfrey (@ 31 yrs old): Talk show host, actress, producer and philanthropist.   165.    Childhood & Early Life   166.    Born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, on a small family farm, to an unwed mother who had a short relationship with a soldier stationed nearby, Oprah grew up in dire poverty, and was primarily raised by her grandmother. Sexually abused and mistreated as a child, Winfrey rose above adversity to focus on her primary and high school education.    167.    Career   168.    When she was still a teenager, the local CBS television station in Nashville, Tennessee offered her a job as a co-anchor. She turned it down three times. At age 19, Oprah Winfrey said yes after the fourth offer. She failed the interview, but instead was offered a job as a full-time reporter for a Baltimore television news channel. She did poorly as a reporter, and by age 22 she was fired from the news division. The director of the station gave Winfrey a boost by selecting her to anchor a morning talk show entitled ‘People are Talking’. For the next seven years, her talk show enjoyed excellent ratings. In 1981, (@ 27) she moved to Chicago to host a talk show entitled ‘A.M. Chicago’. Four years later, (1985) after a tremendous boost in the ratings, the producers changed the name to ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’. She caught the attention of Quincy Jones, a Chicago native, and he cast her as Sofia for the first movie he produced, 'The Color Purple'. The following year ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’ was broadcast nationally.    169.    Open Comments:   170.    TV Scene:   171.    Featured Actor: Phylician Ayers Allen, a.k.a Phylicia Rashad is an Emmy-nominated American actress, singer, and director.   172.    Her multi-faceted career began with Broadway before she branched into television and films. She is best remembered for her character as Claire Huxtable in the NBC sitcom ‘The Cosby Show’, which ran for eight years. The series brought Phylicia much deserved recognition, also earning her two Emmy nominations. Phylicia, however, is immortalized for her rich performances on the stage as an artist. She starred in several lavish musicals and dramas, all praised highly by critics. She became the first African American actress to walk away with a Tony Award for her performance in Lorraine Hansberry’s ‘Raisin in The Sun’.  Subsequently, she was venerated within the African American acting community at the NAACP Awards, where she was called ‘The Mother’ of the Black Community. Her other popular plays include ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’, ‘August: Osage Country’, and ‘Gem of the Ocean’. She has tried her hand at stage direction and has successfully directed hit plays at prominent stages. Over the course of her career, Rashad has starred in several television series and voiced many characters. Her prolific output continues to be on the rise as she is still an active part of the entertainment industry.   173.    Childhood & Early Life:   174.    Phylicia Rashad was born Phylician Ayers Allen on June 19, 1948, in Houston, Texas to Vivian Ayers and Andrew Arthur Allen. Her mother was a prize-winning poet and artist, while her father was a reputed orthodontist. She has three siblings: Andrew Arthur Allen Jr., Debbie Allen, and Hugh Allen. Phylicia was raised in the United States and Mexico. She studied at Howard University, Washington D.C. and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in theatre in 1970. During her university days, she was inculcated into the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.   175.    Career   176.    After graduating with a degree in theatre, Phylicia immediately joined the Negro Ensemble Company in New York. She toured the city and was seen in several plays under this troupe. Her Broadway debut occurred in 1972 and she was seen in several minor roles for hit musicals, including ‘The Wiz’ (1975) and ‘Dreamgirls’ (1981). In 1978, Rashad tried her hand at something new by releasing the concept album ‘Josephine Superstar’, an album that was based on Josephine Baker’s life. She decided to embark on an alternative career in television owing to the scarcity of good roles given to her. In 1982, after moving to television, Rashad landed a recurring role in the series ‘One Life to Live’ as Courtney Wright, a publicist. In 1984, Phylicia Rashad was roped in to play the role of Clair Huxtable, an attorney, in the hit comedy ‘The Cosby Show’. The show starred Bill Cosby in the lead role and Phylicia played his wife. The series ran for over eight years and was a critical and commercial success. Phylicia’s role as Clair proved to be the highest point in her career, earning her two Emmy Award nominations.   177.    Open Comments   178.    Question: Is she a good actor? Do you buy her in other roles?   179.    Vote: Best Pop Culture item/event for 1985

In the 2nd edition of the "Geeksplained Spotlight", we're taking an in-depth look at Batman: The Long Halloween! And to tackle this iconic story, we called in some help. Join host Aeric Azana and special guest Andrew Kincaid in this deep dive on one of the greatest Batman tales of all time. Plus, our Weekly Review on The Boys, this weeks Comics Countdown, and more! Connect w/ us! IG & Twitter - @GeeksplainedPod Email - Geeksplained@gmail.com Music Sampled: "Sayonara" by SAKEROCK "Batman Theme (1966)" by Neal Hefti "Wannabe" by The Spice Girls "Temptation Pt. 2" by Andrew Hale

Som de musikälskare vi är bjuder vi på ännu ett avsnitt om spelmusik. Denna gång är fokuset framförallt att spela upp väl valda låtar från OST, det vill säga Original Soundtrack - musik skapad för det specifika spelet. Jens våndas över att endast få välja fem favoriter, medan Oliver och Alexander är nöjda över att få spela upp musiken de inte nämnde förra gången (i avsnitt 4 och 5). Musik förgyller spelen, som bekant, och styckena vi delar med oss av här är verkligen inga undantag. Hör musik från Witcher-serien, Final Fantasy och Grim Fandango, med mera. Och kom ihåg att prata spel. (Och drick folköl också vetja.) Musik som används i avsnittet: * Spyro 2: Gateway To Glimmer/Ripto's Rage - "Colossus" av Stewart Copeland * SimCity 4 - "Bohemian Street Jam" av Jerry Martin * Zelda: Ocarina of Time - "The Creation of Hyrule" av Kōji Kondō * Age of Empires 2 - "Shamburger" av Stephen Rippy * Machinarium - "The Glasshouse With Butterfly" av Tomas Dvorak * Harvest Moon: Back To Nature - "Title Theme" * Neverwinter Nights - "Rich House" av Jeremy Soule * Neverwinter Nights - "The Store" av Jeremy Soule * The Getaway - "Burning Bridges - The Republic is on Fire" av Andrew Hale och Shawn Lee * Final Fantasy - "Prelude - Orchestra" av Nobuo Uematsu * Night In The Woods - "Rainy Day" av Alec Holowka * Grim Fandango - "Hi-Tone Fandango" av Peter McConnell * Grim Fandango - "Hector Steps Out" av Peter McConnell * The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt - "Ladies of The Wood" av Percival och Marcin Przybyłowicz * The Witcher - "River of Life" av Paweł Błaszczak * Atlantis: The Lost Tales - "Pretress" av Pierre Estève och Stéphane Picq * Atlantis 2 - "Chulel" av Pierre Estève

This episode follows Sade (the band) from their inception on the London music scene in 1982, to their early demos, to their first two incredible albums - comparing of various versions, rare demos and original classics. https://www.facebook.com/JohnCameronProductions https://twitter.com/Cameron_John

Áudio Drama “Mortes Ao Som de Jazz”, uma produção original do podcast Contador de Histórias.Em uma São Paulo noir na década de 40, um assassino conhecido como “Asssassino do Jazz” nunca foi pego. Mas agora sua identidade está em risco quando um imitador começa a matar pessoas do mesmo jeito querendo conhecer o verdadeiro assassino e cabe aos detetives da Polícia de São Paulo, Bernardo e Afonso, investigarem o caso repleto de tensão e reviravoltas. Duração: 22min História Original e Roteiro: Danilo Vieira Battistini Revisão: Victor Vargas Edição e Mixagem: Danilo Vieira Battistini – Contador de HistóriasCom as vozes de: Narrador.............Julio Franco Afonso.................Felipe Grinan Bernardo.............Nelson Machado Manuela..............Samira Fernandes André...................Mauro Castro Euler....................Ricardo Fábio Marcel.................Ramon Campos Henrique..............Mauro Eduardo Antônio................André Sauer Jornaleiro.............Lucas Gama Homem #1...........Gilberto Baroli Mulher #1.............Leticia Quinto Homem #2...........Carlos Seidl Mulher #2.............Ana Clara Fischer Homem Bar..........Jorge Destez Policial #1.............Rogério Cesar Policial #2.............Danilo Battistini Estúdios de Gravação: Centauro Comunicaciones; Luminus; Mousikê Central Art Estúdio de Mixagem: Centauro Comunicaciones Músicas utilizadas (Por ordem de aparição) J.J. Bop – Andrew Hale & Simon Hale Redemption Pt.2 – Andrew Hale & Simon Hale New Beginning Pt.2 – Andrew Hale & Simon HaleMinor 9th – Andrew Hale & Simon Hale Temptation Pt.2 – Andrew Hale & Simon Hale Temptation Pt.1 – Andrew Hale & Simon Hale Fall From Grace Pt.2 – Andrew Hale & Simon Hale Pride Of The Job Pt.2 - Andrew Hale & Simon Hale Guilty - Andrew Hale & Simon Hale & The Real Tuesday Weld & Claudia Brucken(I Always Kill) The Things I Love - Andrew Hale & Simon Hale & The Real Tuesday Weld & Claudia Brucken Contador de Histórias Theme - Henrique Fajardo As músicas com vocais são de autoria de Andrew Hale & Simon Hale & The Real Tuesday Weld & Claudia BruckenVersão e adaptação: Danilo Vieira Battistini Interprete: Manuela Perez Arte usada de Patrick Brown em: http://patrickbrown.deviantart.com/art/L-A-Noire-204923718 Agradecimentos: Muito obrigado em especial aos Padrinhos e Madrinhas do Contador de Histórias: Andriolli Costa, Carlos Henrique Diniz, Aline Della Paschoa, Natalia Angelotti, Ana Carolina, Glauber Coelho, Maria do Carmo, Lucas Orlandelli, Henrique Fajardo, Tereza Maria. Obrigado a todos que ajudaram de alguma forma! Todos os dubladores que cederam parte de seu tempo pra me ajudar em mais um áudio drama. Ana Carolina (Pequena) por todo a ajuda, apoio, ideias e opiniões, te amo! Victor (Muha) por mais uma revisão! Todos que ajudaram de alguma forma nesse projeto, que tem acompanhado o esforço que tenho feito pra todo esse trabalho que não vai parar! Manu por ter me ajudado com as músicas cantadas! Leandro Fonseca por ter ficado de técnico na Mousikê. Nelson Machado por emprestar a voz não só para seu personagem mas também na abertura do podcast! Se você gostou, não esqueça de curtir, comentar e compartilhar! Vocês são o motivo pelo qual esse podcast continua!

Áudio Drama “Mortes Ao Som de Jazz”, uma produção original do podcast Contador de Histórias. Em uma São Paulo noir na década de 40, um assassino conhecido como “Asssassino do Jazz” nunca foi pego. Mas agora sua identidade está em risco quando um imitador começa a matar pessoas do mesmo jeito querendo conhecer o verdadeiro assassino e cabe aos detetives da Polícia de São Paulo, Bernardo e Afonso, investigarem o caso repleto de tensão e reviravoltas. Link para download: https://goo.gl/e8ldHM Duração: 22min História Original e Roteiro: Danilo Vieira Battistini Revisão: Victor Vargas Edição e Mixagem: Danilo Vieira Battistini – Tom Tom Semitom Com as vozes de: Narrador.............Julio Franco Afonso.................Felipe Grinan Bernardo.............Nelson Machado Manuela..............Samira Fernandes André...................Mauro Castro Euler....................Ricardo Fábio Marcel.................Ramon Campos Henrique..............Mauro Eduardo Antônio................André Sauer Jornaleiro.............Lucas Gama Homem #1...........Gilberto Baroli Mulher #1.............Leticia Quinto Homem #2...........Carlos Seidl Mulher #2.............Ana Clara Fischer Homem Bar..........Jorge Destez Policial #1.............Rogério Cesar Policial #2.............Danilo Battistini Estúdios de Gravação: Centauro Comunicaciones; Luminus; Mousikê Central Art Estúdio de Mixagem: Centauro Comunicaciones Músicas utilizadas (Por ordem de aparição) J.J. Bop – Andrew Hale & Simon Hale Redemption Pt.2 – Andrew Hale & Simon Hale New Beginning Pt.2 – Andrew Hale & Simon Hale Minor 9th – Andrew Hale & Simon Hale Temptation Pt.2 – Andrew Hale & Simon Hale Temptation Pt.1 – Andrew Hale & Simon Hale Fall From Grace Pt.2 – Andrew Hale & Simon Hale Pride Of The Job Pt.2 - Andrew Hale & Simon Hale Guilty - Andrew Hale & Simon Hale & The Real Tuesday Weld & Claudia Brucken (I Always Kill) The Things I Love - Andrew Hale & Simon Hale & The Real Tuesday Weld & Claudia Brucken Contador de Histórias Theme - Henrique Fajardo As músicas com vocais são de autoria de Andrew Hale & Simon Hale & The Real Tuesday Weld & Claudia Brucken Versão e adaptação: Danilo Vieira Battistini Interprete: Manuela Perez Arte usada de Patrick Brown em: http://patrickbrown.deviantart.com/art/L-A-Noire-204923718 Agradecimentos: Muito obrigado em especial aos Padrinhos e Madrinhas do Contador de Histórias: Andriolli Costa, Carlos Henrique Diniz, Aline Della Paschoa, Natalia Angelotti, Ana Carolina, Glauber Coelho, Maria do Carmo, Lucas Orlandelli, Henrique Fajardo, Tereza Maria. Obrigado a todos que ajudaram de alguma forma! Todos os dubladores que cederam parte de seu tempo pra me ajudar em mais um áudio drama. Ana Carolina (Pequena) por todo a ajuda, apoio, ideias e opiniões, te amo! Victor (Muha) por mais uma revisão! Todos que ajudaram de alguma forma nesse projeto, que tem acompanhado o esforço que tenho feito pra todo esse trabalho que não vai parar! Manu por ter me ajudado com as músicas cantadas! Leandro Fonseca por ter ficado de técnico na Mousikê. Nelson Machado por emprestar a voz não só para seu personagem mas também na abertura do podcast! Se você gostou, não esqueça de curtir, comentar e compartilhar! Vocês são o motivo pelo qual esse podcast continua! E se quiser contribuir com o projeto visite https://www.padrim.com.br/contadordehistorias e saiba como ajudar! Um muito obrigado e até o próximo!

Teaser do Áudio Drama "Mortes ao Som de Jazz" do podcast Contador de Histórias. Em uma São Paulo noir na década de 40, um assassino conhecido como “Asssassino do Jazz” nunca foi pego. Mas agora sua identidade está em risco quando um imitador começa a matar pessoas do mesmo jeito querendo conhecer o verdadeiro assassino e cabe aos detetives da Polícia de São Paulo, Bernardo e Afonso, investigarem o caso repleto de tensão e reviravoltas. ___________________ Narrador: Hélio Vaccari Edição: Danilo Vieira Battistini - Contador de HistóriasMúsica: Temptation Pt.2 - Andrew Hale & Simon Hale

Teaser do Áudio Drama "Mortes ao Som de Jazz" do podcast Contador de Histórias. Em uma São Paulo noir na década de 40, um assassino conhecido como “Asssassino do Jazz” nunca foi pego. Mas agora sua identidade está em risco quando um imitador começa a matar pessoas do mesmo jeito querendo conhecer o verdadeiro assassino e cabe aos detetives da Polícia de São Paulo, Bernardo e Afonso, investigarem o caso repleto de tensão e reviravoltas. ___________________ Narrador: Hélio Vaccari Música: Temptation Pt.2 - Andrew Hale & Simon Hale Edição: Danilo Vieira Battistini - Tom Tom Semitom

Welcome to the latest instalment of LGR. This week we’re truly going international with another addition to the team from sunny Canada: Adam Ducker.  We’re very glad to have a great e-mail to get our teeth into from Tom Philip who questions some of the graphics on some of the latest AAA titles... We’d like more listener questions so do Email, Tweet or FB comment LGR and we’ll answer them on upcoming episodes. There’s the latest updates on what we’ve done with the gaming time we have mustered of late, get up to speed with Adam and cover a selection of recent news stories. This episode was created by the Lapsed Gamer Radio Team. Edited by Mark Hamer, with music selections by all the hosts. Music and Audio sampled in this episode: Original LGR themes, FX and music cues created and composed by Cevin Moore Far Cry Primal - Trials of the Gwarpati [composed by Jason Graves] The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Geralt of Rivia [composed by Marcin Przybyłowicz & Mikolai Stroinski] Fallout 4 - Main Theme [composed by Inon Zur] Valiant Hearts: The Great War - War [composed by Ian Livingstone] That Dragon, Cancer - Calm Before The Storm [composed by John Hillman] Final Fantasy Type 0 - Rem Tokimiya [composed by Takeharu Ishimoto] Uncharted: Golden Abyss - Drake's Theme [composed by Clint Bajakian] Clash Royale - Battle 03 Rocket League - Firework [composed by Hollywood Principle] The Division - Precinct Siege [composed by Ola Strandh] The Division - Take Back New York [composed by Ola Strandh] Lego Batman 2 - The Brave and the Bald [composed by Rob Westwood] Hearthstone - Tricks of the Trade [composed by Peter McConnell] The Walking Dead - Main Theme [UNKLE Remix] L.A. Noire - Main Theme [composed by Andrew Hale and Simon Hale] Hitman Go - Main Theme [composed by Pixel Audio] The Wolf Among Us - Opening Credits [composed by Jared Emerson-Johnson] The Wolf Among Us - Bigby's Apartment [composed by Jared Emerson-Johnson] Tomb Raider - Overture [composed by Jason Graves] Assassin's Creed Rogue - Main Theme [composed by Elitsa Alexandrova] Assassin's Creed Rogue - The Hunter [composed by Elitsa Alexandrova] You can stream or directly download our episodes via our Podbean homepage: http://lapsedgamerradio.podbean.com/ If you’re enjoying our content, please subscribe to Lapsed Gamer Radio on iTunes. All reviews are most welcome and appreciated in order to allow our little community to thrive. Plus, if you would like to guest on a specific episode or join the regular LGR podcast team - please email us: lapsedgamerradio@gmail.com We’d love to hear any feedback/ideas for new podcast sections you might have and we encourage you to send in any questions you would like us to discuss on the show. Come chat with us on Twitter @LapsedGamer and like our Lapsed Gamer Radio page on FaceBook. Search for ‘Lapsed Gamer Radio’ on FaceBook and add yourself to the growing community in our brand new LGR FB Group. For more content, also check-out the ‘Lapsed Gamer’ channel on YouTube. Thank you for listening and best of luck with your own efforts to pick up the controller and play!

Troy and Patrick are joined by Richie the Mountain Giant and talk about Binding of Issac, Slipknot porn, and other BUUUULLLshiet. This week on BADAM! Radio Adventures - Detective Duncan Proctor in "The Mystery of the Stolen Dad" (Episode 3)Music used: "Burglary - Temptation (Part 2)" - Andrew Hale

This week we have a very nice chat with Rich Vreeland, known to some as Disasterpeace, to others as the man behind the Fez soundtrack, and to Bryan as "that Cat Astro Phi guy." We cover all of the important things such as Splatoon's way funky tunes and also website domains for some reason (www.whalesarewhal.es coming soon). To top it off, Rich tallies up an impressive Train Your Brain score-- we think. The math was sort of confusing.Learn about all things Disasterpeace at his website (www.disaster.pizza, of course). You can also track him down on Twitter.This week's Open Question: "Do you play certain songs, albums, and artists to fit different moods?"How did you like this episode? If the answer is "lots" then consider following Train Station at 8 on Twitter, subscribing on iTunes, or maybe sending an email to TrainStationAt8@gmail.com. Hearing from you would make our day and then some!Music used in this episode:Chilling with the Monkey Porter (Train Station at 8 Season 2 Theme) - Bryan KellyGrant Kirkhope plays Ukulele for Yooka-Laylee!! - Grant KirkhopeDwarven Stone Upon Dwarven Stone - Adam Skorupa, Krzysztof WierzynkiewiczSkies of Deception - Arika YamasakiAvengers - Alan SilvestriSuper Smash Bros. Melee Menu - Hirokazu AndoThe Dark World - Koji KondoL.A. Noir Theme - Andrew HaleTERNAL - Zan-zan-zawa-veiaWestopolis - June SenoueSarasaraland Online - codaSingle Player Theme / Gusher Gauntlet - Toru Minegishi, Shiho FujiiVampire's Ball (NES) - Jake KaufmanStairway to Revelation - flashgoodnessWars World News - Advance WarsOn the Beach of Dreams - Yasunori Mitsuda Rick the Hamster - Hirokazu Ando, IkegamiNews sources:Mario Sound Test compliation soundtrack a tribute to Nintendo from The Ongaku