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Irwin Michnick, the Brooklyn-born son of a Jewish furrier from Ukraine, was a jazz musician who wrote radio commercials and advertising jingles for companies like L & M cigarettes and Ken-L Ration dog food.Bob Levenson was a copywriter at Doyle Dane Bernbach who needed a tune to go with the words, “Everybody doesn't like something, but nobody doesn't like Sara Lee.” Irwin Michnick got the call.But it was a different call that led to Irwin Michnik winning a Tony Award and the Contemporary Classics Award from the Songwriter's Hall of Fame.Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Placido Domingo, and more than 70 other superstars of music have recorded the song that Michnik wrote.Josh Groban included it on his 2020 album, Harmony.Aretha Franklin sang it at the funeral of civil rights activist Rosa Parks.Senator Edward Kennedy asked that it be sung at his funeral, as well. And it was.The song teaches us that passion does not create commitment, but that commitment creates passion. It is a song that teaches us that we can achieve the miraculous only if we are willing to attempt the ridiculous.Do you remember the Ze Frank quote I shared with you last week? The one where Ze talks about how the hero throws himself into battle against impossible odds, fiercely pushing, shoulders back, despite the knowledge that he can't win, that he will die in the end?Irwin Michnik wrote the music and Joe Darion wrote the words. It is the theme song of Wizard Academy, that school for entrepreneurs and ad writers and educators and ministers and researchers and every other agent-of-change who has become infected with an impossible dream.Do you remember the song now? Of course you do. It starts like this, “To dream the impossible dream; to fight the unbeatable foe; to bear with unbearable sorrow; to run where the brave dare not go.”You probably don't remember Irwin Michnik because he was known professionally as Mitch. Mitch Leigh.I'll bet you can guess what Indy Beagle has for you in the rabbit hole.In other news about impossible dreams, last week I bought an extremely old copy of the book Miguel de Cervantes wrote that inspired the song by Mitch Leigh and Joe Darion.Perhaps I'll tell you about it after the beginning of the year.Ciao for Niao,Roy H. WilliamsGood business ideas often die on the vine because of the cost and logistics of bringing those ideas into reality. Uzair Ahmed saw all these missed opportunities, so he figured figured out how to use technology and automation to make these good business ideas come alive. Uzair tested a high-tech, low-overhead system to launch a business that provides on-site car repairs. Guess what? It succeeded wildly. Now, Uzair tells roving reporter Rotbart, he can help other businesses cut their costs up to 60% by following his model. And this also reduces the number of hours a business owner has to spend at work. We've struck the match and lit the fuse. If you want to see the fireworks, hurry over to MondayMorningRadio.com
Catalytic Converter Thefts: Does the problem of catalytic converter thefts disappear if scrapyard owners stop purchasing them? Monroe County Sheriff Todd Baxter sits down with Bob Frank, who has a wealth of knowledge in the recycled metals industry, to answer this question and more.
Our guest today is an Educational Psychologist and Licensed Clinical Therapist with a private practice of over 30 years. Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychology, he was Chair of the Behavioral and Social Science Department, teaching for 28 years at Oakton Community College in Des Plaines, IL. He is the author of two books: Parenting Partners and The Secret Life of the Dyslexic Child, which won the 2002 Margot Marek annual book award for the most outstanding book written for parents or children on the subject of dyslexia. Which is a subject I know is very important and personal to you. Meet Dr. Bob Frank. About Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger Today, a highly sought after motivational speaker, Rudy entertains international corporate audiences with a unique, passionate, and heartfelt style of communicating. He reaches school children, university students, and professional athletes with the same enthusiasm, portraying the human spirit that comes from his personal experiences of adversity and triumph. His captivating personality and powerful message of "YES I CAN" stays with his audiences forever. Rudy's opening remarks receive thunderous applause and standing ovations from audiences of 200 to 20,000 people who emotionally chant "RU-DY, RU-DY!" About Joe Garner When it comes to America's popular culture, six-time New York Times bestselling author Joe Garner has become one of its premiere chroniclers. See all his books here. He's been featured on the Today Show, CNN, Fox & Friends and hundreds of radio programs nationwide. Joe's books have also become Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, Sports Illustrated and USA Today bestsellers. @AuthorJoeGarner - Twitter AuthorJoeGarner - Instagram Joe Garner - LinkedIn
Robert H. “Bob” Frank teaches economics at Cornell and is the author of a dozen books, including the one that caught my eye for this week's topic: Luck and Success: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy. Bob cares a great deal about recognizing luck's role in our success because doing so, he argues, would make us all more grateful, happy, and generous. He also cares because without the “lucky” proximity of an ambulance one cold November morning, he wouldn't have survived the heart attack that laid him out on the tennis court in Ithaca, NY a few years back. But survive he did and he forged on to continue teaching and writing about status, ambition, spending, social signaling, and the evolutionary traits that lead to such behavior. The Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management Emeritus at Cornell's SC Johnson College of Business, Bob's other books include Luxury Fever: Money and Happiness in an Era of Excess, Under the Influence: Putting Peer Pressure to Work, and Principles of Macroeconomics, the textbook he co-authoredwith former Federal Reserve Chair, Ben Bernanke. Bob's writing has appeared in top publications and academic journals, including The Atlantic, Journal of Economics, Journal of Public Economics, American Economic Review, The American Prospect, and Chronicle of Higher Education. He is a regular contributor to the Economic View column in the New York Times. Bob received his undergraduate degree from Georgia Tech and his MA and Ph.D from UC Berkeley. He has taught economics at Cornell since 1972. Follow Bob on Twitter @econnaturalist Click HERE to ✍️ RATE / REVIEW Crazy Money
JENN CZEP, an author, performer, tarot card reader, polymath, and adventurer in Phoenix, will join us to discuss her books, steel combat, Tarot Card readings, belly dancing, and much more! FROM HER BIO: "Jenn Czep is an author, performer, tarot reader, polymath, and adventurer in Phoenix, Arizona. Voted Phoenix Magazine's Reader's Choice Best Local Author in 2015, Between shelving books in the local library Czep continues to work on projects for print, audio, and stage. Her most recent novel, Cloud to Cloud, was a partnership project with Bob Frank. Other novels include Trolls (2013), and Blackstrap's Ecstasy (2009).A performer, pirate, and belly dancer since 2001 and never content to confine physical abilities to dance alone, Czep also performs live steel and stage combat. Czep continues to bring the history alive in Mean Girls of History presentations which have evolved from a solo adventure focused on a few female pirates of the past, to a ship of amazing women championing historical figures who embody the traits of pirates from every era." jenn-czep.square.site
JENN CZEP, an author, performer, tarot card reader, polymath, and adventurer in Phoenix, will join us to discuss her books, steel combat, Tarot Card readings, belly dancing, and much more! FROM HER BIO: "Jenn Czep is an author, performer, tarot reader, polymath, and adventurer in Phoenix, Arizona. Voted Phoenix Magazine's Reader's Choice Best Local Author in 2015, Between shelving books in the local library Czep continues to work on projects for print, audio, and stage. Her most recent novel, Cloud to Cloud, was a partnership project with Bob Frank. Other novels include Trolls (2013), and Blackstrap's Ecstasy (2009).A performer, pirate, and belly dancer since 2001 and never content to confine physical abilities to dance alone, Czep also performs live steel and stage combat. Czep continues to bring the history alive in Mean Girls of History presentations which have evolved from a solo adventure focused on a few female pirates of the past, to a ship of amazing women championing historical figures who embody the traits of pirates from every era." jenn-czep.square.site
Marlow Briggs and the Mask of Death is a game starring Marlow Briggs and a mask of death. It is difficult to summarize the self-awareness and joy that this game finds in it's niche of over-the-top action and absurdity. With it's God of War style mechanics, it's excellent tone and startling apt graphics, this may just be the most enjoyable (but lowest critic reviewed) game we've found on Garbage Game Night.
What would make a genteel, white Southern lady from Mississippi want to start a company to record black blues and golspel artists,...and in the early 1950s? Find out on this episode of "Blues You Should Know" with Bob Frank. Trumpet Records didn't last very long, but while it was going, it was the only record company headquartered in Mississippi, and recorded the likes of Sonny Boy Williamson, Elmore James, Jerry McCain, Big Boy Crudup and more. Support the show (https://paypal.me/BFrank53?locale.x=en_US)
We talk with Bob Frank, former board member and president of the International Association Of Near-Death Studies(IANDS) about near-death experiencesIn this episode, we will discuss:How we can confirm a valid NDEWhy unpleasant NDEs are not reported as oftenHow long it takes for an NDE to be revealedPast lives, and why children from particular parts of the world can access these memories easier
Well hello everybody and welcome to “Blues You Should Know”. I’m Bob Frank and I’m the host and creator of the program. I’ve been a professional musician for the past 45 years or so; also a songwriter, a writer, an educator, a filmmaker and now a podcaster. I originally began doing these programs as a radio show within a radio show on my friend Marty “Madcat” Puljic’s blues radio program on WJCU-FM in Cleveland, OH. The idea, then and now, was to explore the artists and music one level or so deeper than the most popular performers most folks come to know and listen to when they first discover this wonderful music. So, we won’t be doing shows on BB King, or Stevie Ray, though they may come up in the course of a program. What you will hear are shows about some of the people who influenced THEM. In addition, there’ll be theme programs about people who contributed to the music behind the scenes; people like Lillian McMurray, the genteel southern lady who owned and operated Trumpet Records in Mississippi and recorded the likes of Sonny Boy Williamson and Elmore James. There’ll be a multi- part series on Cincinnati’s great eclectic record label King Records, with its colorfully irascible and cantankerous owner Syd Nathan. But most of all, you’re going to hear a lot of really great music along with some great stories to go along with it. Most of it will be blues, but you will hear some other things as well…when they fit the story. So I hope you’ll give these podcasts a listen. And if you enjoy the programs, I hope you’ll give us a like or few kind words in a review. I’m Bob Frank, and this is “Blues You Should Know”. Support the show (https://paypal.me/BFrank53?locale.x=en_US)
Our guests are longtime Phoenix political and legal reporter Steve Krafft and attorney and businessman Bob Frank.We consider several things that have loomed large in the news over the last few days: · Pandemic relief negotiations broke down in Washington and President Trump issued a series of executive orders most legal analysts see as of dubious legality. · Joe Biden announced Kamala Harris as his VP selection and the two appeared jointly. How did the rollout go? · President Trump explicitly stated that he wanted to undermine the efficacy of mail-in voting and his Postmaster General issued a series of dictums that had the effect of slowing down the mail. · President Trump also ordered the Census to complete its work by the end of September rather than the end of October. Census experts agreed that this would impair the accuracy of the Census. He also ordered that noncitizens not be counted (again of dubious legality and also unclear how it could be implemented given that the courts rejected his attempt to include a citizenship question on the Census) This week’s Think Tank takes on some of the most contentious issues of the last several days with two highly astute observers of the political scene See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.
This week on How on Earth we start with an update on the corona virus, focusing on treatments and vaccines. At 12 minutes, we begin our interview with Bob Frank, author of Under the Influence, Putting Peer Pressure to Work. This book explains how we could redirect trillions of dollars annually in support of carbon-free energy sources, all without requiring painful sacrifices from anyone. Dr Frank has developed some novel strategies relying on peer pressure to get people to change their actions so as to reduce carbon emissions and climate change. He also details many prior and successful examples of this type of peer pressure. You can see more at the publisher's website. Hosts: Beth Bennett & Angele Sjong Producer: Beth Bennett Engineer: Beth Bennett Additional Contributions: Angele Sjong Executive Producer: Beth Bennett Listen to the show:
Joined by Bob Frank, Director of the Center for Innovation in Health & Education, Heather Canavan, Professor in the SOM's Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, and BioMedical Engineering student Nica Mitchell, HSC's Elizabeth Dwyer discusses creative innovations in health care and UNM's annual health Hackathon.
If you’ve ever wondered how some authors create their books overs, this is a must listen episode. This week, Jenn and Mary welcome their first ever Casing the Cover guest, Bob Frank! Bob Frank is the author of the Third Eye Trilogy and co-author of the upcoming Cloud to Cloud with our very own Jenn! Join us as we discuss Bob’s series and he shares with us the traditional, and not so traditional, ways that he chose cover art for his Third Eye Trilogy. A huge thank you to Bob Frank for joining us in this episode! To learn more about Bob Frank and his work visit http://bobfranksite.com/.New episodes of Casing the Cover are uploaded on the last Tuesday of each month. New and current episodes available atSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1Qg83iCryEXcwoTIJ6aqOAStitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/mary-harrington/casing-the-coverApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/casing-the-cover/id1470176150Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5qOQUYz-qEJZ0JGgFsmnQQTo get regular updates about Casing the Cover, or to suggest an upcoming episode topic or book for review you can find us at:https://www.facebook.com/CasingTheCover@casingthecover on Twitteror email us at Casingthecoverpod@gmail.comSpecial thanks to Mic Leone for our logo design: https://www.facebook.com/MicLeoneDesigner
Om 22:00 uur tijd voor Mart Smeets en zijn programma OLM op 40UP Radio. Muziek van Taj Mahal, Bob Frank, Steve Miller Band, Dusty Springfield, JD Souther en Howard Tate.
Om 22:00 uur tijd voor Mart Smeets en zijn programma OLM op 40UP Radio. Muziek van Taj Mahal, Bob Frank, Steve Miller Band, Dusty Springfield, JD Souther en Howard Tate.
Good evening ghoulies!!! Welcome to "Spirit Speak" hosted by Spirits Wake Paranormal. I am your host, ParaAnne. This episode will host an interview with near death experience (NDE) author, Bob Frank. He will share with us his experiences as a hypnotherapist and dealing with NDE's. There will be time at the end of the episode for live call-in's where you can ask questions or contribute comments. Live chat is also set up for you to converse during broadcast. Please click "follow" to stay updated on future broadcasts.
One of the fascinating fields in which afterlife research is making a big impact is the area of past-life regression therapy. Bob Frank is a congenial expert who will share his insights and ideas.
This show features a conversation with Charlie Mars, who was in town last week opening for The Dixie Chicks!
This show features a conversation with Charlie Mars, who was in town last week opening for The Dixie Chicks!
Jason Hartman talks with Robert Frank, author of The Winner Take all Society, The Economic Naturalist: In Search of Solutions to Everyday Enigmas; Falling Behind: How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class and many more! In his The Winner-Take-All Society, Bob Frank discussed the fact that more and more of current economy and other institutions
Subscribe to the Homegrown Evolution Podcast in itunes here.Download Homegrown Evolution Podcast Episode #1 (mp3)On this first episode of the Homegrown Evolution podcast we talk food preservation with author Ashley English who blogs at small-measure.blogspot.com. English will have two books out next year on food preservation and chickens, part of a series entitled "Homemade Living," (Lark Books). She also has a weekly column every Friday on Design*Sponge at www.designspongeonline.com/category/small-measures.In the second part of the show we talk to Wing Tam, assistant division manager for the Watershed Protection Program in the City of Los Angeles' Bureau of Sanitation about a new rainwater harvesting pilot project. You can find out more about the program at www.larainwaterharvesting.org. We conclude with a reaction to this new program from river activist Joe Linton, author of Down by the Los Angeles River and one of the bloggers behind lacreekfreak.wordpress.com.As we say on the podcast, we prefer gardening to staring at computer screens and putting a podcast together involves a hell of a lot of the latter. Don't look for frequent updates, but we'll put out another one later this year. Please excuse the mike popping and other technical flaws, as we're still working out the technical side of podcasting.Music on the program is from archive.org:A bluegrass cover of DEVO's Mongoloid, recorded in 1980 in Cleveland, Ohio by the Hotfoot Quartet. Bob Frank, guitar and lead vocal, Jim Blum, upright bass and vocals; Paul Kovac, banjo and vocals; Bob Smakula, mandolin and vocals. Available here.Also from archive.org, a collection of surf music.