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Send us a textHere's the story of a San Gabriel Valley daughter who turned community roots into a career of service. Raised in Monterey Park and Montebello, she grew up at Robert Hill Lane, Macy Intermediate, and Schurr High—so the SGV isn't just a place, it's her identity. After a brief move to Chino Hills, she came home so her three kids could grow up in the same tight-knit neighborhoods, splitting time between Brightwood Elementary, Schurr, and Mark Keppel.Community leadership shows up everywhere in her life. Her family was immersed in the Japanese American basketball scene, and she served as president of the Jetts/Jets program through Plymouth Church in Montebello—helping it grow from eight teams to more than twenty in just two years. That same “show up and build” mentality comes from her parents' entrepreneurial hustle: a well-known local carpet-cleaning business on one side and a scrappy jewelry side hustle on the other.Professionally, she helped launch a dental lab in Monterey Park and then pivoted to real estate in 2014. Her specialty is guiding families through emotionally complex transactions—selling inherited homes and buying first homes—with a step-by-step approach that keeps clients informed, protected, and confident. Think neighborhood expertise, clear communication, and fierce advocacy from offer to close.This episode traces how SGV roots, youth sports leadership, and small-business grit shaped a real estate career centered on trust and community. We talk first-time buyer roadmaps, inherited-property checklists, negotiation style, and what makes SGV neighborhoods special. Keywords: San Gabriel Valley, Monterey Park, Montebello, Mark Keppel, Schurr High, Japanese American basketball, youth sports, first-time homebuyer, inherited property, real estate agent, SGV real estate, East LA, community leadership.__________Music CreditsIntroEuphoria in the San Gabriel Valley, Yone OGStingerScarlet Fire (Sting), Otis McDonald, YouTube Audio LibraryOutroEuphoria in the San Gabriel Valley, Yone OG__________________My SGV Podcast:Website: www.mysgv.netNewsletter: Beyond the MicPatreon: MySGV Podcastinfo@sgvmasterkey.com

In this impactful and inspiring episode of Unstoppable Mindset, host Michael Hingson sits down with Ronald Cocking—performer, educator, and co-founder of the Looking Glass Studio of Performing Arts—to reflect on a remarkable life shaped by rhythm, resilience, and love. Ron's journey into the performing arts began at just five years old, when his passion for tap dance ignited a lifelong commitment to dance and musical theater. From his first professional role at age 15 in My Fair Lady to founding one of Southern California's most impactful arts schools, Ron's story is one of dedication, creativity, and community.   But perhaps the most moving part of Ron's story is his 49-year partnership—both personal and professional—with the late Gloria McMillan, best known as Harriet Conklin from Our Miss Brooks. Together, they created a legacy of mentorship through the Looking Glass Studio, where they taught thousands of students across generations—not just how to act, sing, or dance, but how to live with confidence and integrity.   Ron also reflects on the legacy Gloria left behind, his continued involvement in the arts, and the words of wisdom that guide his life:   “Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” “To find happiness, take the gifts God has given you and give them away.”   This is more than a story of a career in the arts—it's a touching tribute to passion, partnership, and purpose that will leave you inspired.   Highlights:   00:48 – Hear how early radio at home shaped a lifetime love for performance. 03:00 – Discover why drumming and tap both trained his ear for rhythm. 06:12 – Learn how a tough studio change led to ballet, jazz, and tumbling basics. 08:21 – See the “sing with your feet” method that makes tap click for students. 10:44 – Find out how a teen chorus role in My Fair Lady opened pro doors. 13:19 – Explore the drum-and-tap crossover he performed with Leslie Uggams. 15:39 – Learn how meeting Gloria led to a studio launched for $800. 18:58 – Get the long view on running a school for 44 years with family involved. 23:46 – Understand how Our Miss Brooks moved from radio to TV with its cast intact. 32:36 – See how 42nd Street proves the chorus can be the star. 41:51 – Hear why impact matters more than fame when students build careers. 43:16 – Learn what it takes to blend art and business without losing heart. 45:47 – Compare notes on marriage, teamwork, and communication that lasts. 48:20 – Enjoy a rare soft-shoe moment Ron and Gloria performed together. 56:38 – Take away the “teach to fish” approach that builds lifelong confidence.   About the Guest:   My father was a trumpet player, thus I heard music at home often in the early 50's and was always impressed and entertained by the rhythms and beats of Big Band music… especially the drummers.  Each time I would see Tap dancers on TV, I was glued to the screen.  It fascinated me the way Tap dancers could create such music with their feet!   In 1954, at age 5, after begging my Mom and Dad to enroll me in a Tap class, my Dad walked in from work and said “Well, you're all signed up, and your first Tap class is next Tuesday.  I was thrilled and continued studying tap and many other dance forms and performing and teaching dance for all of my life.     In my mid teens, I became serious about dancing as a possible career.  After seeing my first musical, “The Pajama Game” starring Ruth Lee, I new I wanted to do musical theatre.  I got my first professional opportunity at age 15 in “My Fair Lady” for the San Bernardino Civic Light Opera Association and loved every minute of it… and would continue performing for this organization well into my 30's   I met Gloria McMillan in the late 60's while choreographing a summer musical for children.  Gloria's daughter was doing the role of Dorothy in “The Wizard of Oz”.  Then, about 3 or 4 years later I would meet Gloria again and the sparks flew.  And, yes, she was Gloria McMillan of “Our Miss Brooks” fame on both radio and television.  Wow, was I blessed to have crossed paths with her.  We shared our lives together for 49 years.   On November 4, 1974, Gloria and I opened a performing arts school together named “The Looking Glass Studio of Performing Arts”.  We would teach and manage the school together for 44 years until we retired on June 30, 2018.  We moved to Huntington Beach, California and spent 3 beautiful years together until she left to meet our Lord in heaven on January 19, 2022.   Ways to connect with Ron:   Lgsparon@aol.com     About the Host:   Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog.   Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards.   https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/   accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/ https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/       Thanks for listening!   Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? 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Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us.   Michael Hingson ** 01:20 Well, hi there, wherever you are and wherever you happen to be today. Welcome to unstoppable mindset. I'm your host, Mike hingson, and today we get to chat with Ron Cocking, who is Ron. Well, we're going to find out over the next hour. And Ron was married for many years to another person who is very famous, and we'll get to that, probably not as well known to what I would probably describe as the younger generation, but you're going to get to learn a lot about Ron and his late wife before we're done, and I am sure we're going to have a lot of fun doing it. So let's get to it. Ron, welcome to unstoppable mindset. We're glad you're here.   Ron Cocking ** 01:59 Thank you. I'm so glad to be here. Michael, this. I've been looking forward to this.   Michael Hingson ** 02:04 I have been as well, and we're going to have a lot of fun doing it.   Ron Cocking ** 02:08 Do you one note on that last name? It is cocking. Cocking, he comes right? Comes from a little townlet in the coal mining country of England called Cockington.   Michael Hingson ** 02:20 I don't know why I keep saying that, but yeah, cocky, no   02:23 problem.   Michael Hingson ** 02:24 Well, do you go up to the reps recreations at all?   Ron Cocking ** 02:28 Oh my gosh, Gloria. And I know you and Gloria, did do you still do it? I've it's on my schedule for September.   Michael Hingson ** 02:35 I'm gonna miss it this year. I've got a speech to give. So I was going to be playing Richard diamond at recreation. Well, I'll have to be Dick Powell another time, but I thought that you you were still doing   02:50 it. I'm planning on it cool.   Michael Hingson ** 02:53 Well, tell us about the early Ron cocking and kind of growing up in some of that stuff. Let's start with that.   Ron Cocking ** 02:59 Well, the early part of my story was when I was born just a little before television came in, before everyone had a TV in their home. How old are you now? If I maybe, you know, I am now 76   Michael Hingson ** 03:12 Okay, that's what I thought. Yeah, you're one year ahead of me. I'm 75   Ron Cocking ** 03:16 I was born in 49 and so my earliest remembrances my mom and dad and my brother and I lived with our grandfather, and we had no television, but we had this big it must have been about three to four foot tall, this big box on the floor in a very prominent spot in the living room. And that was the Sunday afternoon entertainment. I remember my family sitting around, and I listened and I laughed when they did, but I had no idea what was going on, but that was the family gathering. And just, I know we'll talk about it later, but I I just have this notion that at that time I was laughing, not knowing what I was laughing at, but I bet I was laughing at my future   Michael Hingson ** 04:02 wife, yes, yes, but other things as well. I mean, you probably laughed at Jack Benny and Amos and Andy and   Ron Cocking ** 04:09 yeah, I remember listening to all those folks, and it was just amazing. Then when television came about and my father was a trumpet player, and I loved his trumpet playing, and he practiced often at home. He would sit in his easy chair and play some tunes and scales and that sort of thing. But what captured my ear and my eyes when I went to on rare occasions when I could go to his engagements, it was always the drummer that just stuck out to me. I was mesmerized by the rhythms that they could produce. And when TV came about, I remember the old variety shows, and they often would have tap dancers like. Had a stair gene, Kelly, Peg Leg Bates and the Nicholas brothers, and I just, I was just taken back by the rhythms. It sounded like music to me. The rhythms just made me want to do it. And so I started putting that bug in my parents ears. And I waited and waited. I wanted to take tap dance lessons. And one day, my dad walks in the back door, and I said, Dad, have you signed me up yet? And he said, Yep, you start next Tuesday at 330 in the afternoon. So I was overjoyed, and I went in for my first lesson. And mind you, this was a private tap class. Total Cost of $1.25 and we had a pianist for music, no record player, live piano, wow. And so I, I rapidly fell in love with tap dance.   Michael Hingson ** 05:56 And so you did that when you weren't in school. Presumably, you did go to school.   Ron Cocking ** 06:00 Oh, yeah, I did go to school. Yeah, I did well in school, and I enjoyed school. I did all the athletics. I played little league, and eventually would be a tennis player and water polo and all that stuff. But all through the years, after school was on the way to the dance classes.   Michael Hingson ** 06:16 So you graduated, or I suppose I don't want to insult drumming, but you graduated from drumming to tap dancing, huh?   Ron Cocking ** 06:24 Well, I kept doing them both together. I would dance, and then when my dad would practice, I would beg him to just play a tune like the St Louis Blues, yeah, and so that I could keep time, so I pulled a little stool up in front of an easy chair, and one of the arms of the chair was the ride cymbal, and the other one was the crash cymbal, and the seat of the chair was my snare drum. I would play along with him. And eventually he got tired of that and bought a Hi Fi for my brother and I, and in the bedroom I had a Hi Fi, and I started to put together a set of drums, and I spent hours next to that, Hi Fi, banging on the drums, and I remember it made me feel good. One day, my mom finally said to me, you know, you're starting to sound pretty good, and that that was a landmark for me. I thought, wow, somebody is enjoying my drumming,   Michael Hingson ** 07:18 but you couldn't do drumming and tap dancing at the same time. That would have been a little bit of a challenge. A challenge.   Ron Cocking ** 07:23 No, I would practice that the drums in the afternoon and then head for the dance studio later. And in this case, I was a local boy. I grew up in Riverside California, and my first tap teacher was literally maybe two miles from our house. But that didn't last long. She got married and became pregnant and closed her studio, and then I she recommended that I go see this teacher in San Bernardino by the name of Vera Lynn. And which I did, I remember walking into this gigantic classroom with a bunch of really tall kids, and I was maybe seven or eight years old, and I guess it was kind of an audition class, but after that evening, I she put me in the most appropriate classes, one of which was ballet, which I wasn't too excited about, but they all told me, If you're going to be a serious dancer, even a tap dancer, you need to get the basic body placement from ballet classes. And I said, Well, I am not going to put any tights and a T shirt on. But they finally got me to do that because they told me that the Rams football team took ballet class twice a week at that time. Ah. Said, no kidding. So they got me, they they got you. They got me into ballet class, and then it was jazz, and then it was tumbling, and so I did it all.   Michael Hingson ** 08:43 I remember when we moved to California when I was five, and probably when I was about eight or nine, my brother and I were enrolled by my mother. I guess my parents enrolled us in a dance class. So I took dance class for a few years. I learned something about dancing. I did have a pair of tap shoes, although I didn't do a lot of it, but I, but I did dance and never, never really pursued it enough to become a Gene Kelly or Fred Astaire. Well, few of us do. I didn't dislike it. It just didn't happen. But that was okay, but it was fun to, you know, to do it and to learn something about that. And so I even today, I I remember it, and I appreciate it. So that's pretty cool.   Ron Cocking ** 09:32 Well, you would understand what I always told my students, that tap dancing is like singing a song with your feet. Yeah. And I would sing, I would say, you all know, happy birthday, right? So I would sing it, and they would sing it along, and then I'd said, then I would sing it again, and I would sing it totally out of rhythm. And they would wrinkle their nose and look at me and say, okay, so what are you doing? And I'd say, Well, you don't recognize it because the rhythm is not correct. So then I would. Would tap dance Happy birthday, and I'd say, you sing along in your mind and I'm going to tap dance it. And that would always ring a bell in their mind, like, Oh, I get it. The rhythm has to be right on the button, or the people aren't going to recognize   Michael Hingson ** 10:16 that was very clever to do.   Ron Cocking ** 10:18 Yeah, thank you. And they got it, yeah, they got it, yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 10:22 which is even, even more important. That's pretty clever. Well, so you did that, and did you do it all the way through high school,   Ron Cocking ** 10:30 all the way through high school? And I think when I was 15, I was, I think I was in the eighth grade, maybe ninth, but I was 15 and got my first chance to I was cast in a professional show for San Bernardino civic light opera Association. And the show was My Fair Lady, and it was my English and journalism teacher at the junior high who had been cast. He was a performer also, but something came up and he couldn't follow through, so he had given the association my name, and I was out in the backyard. My mom came out. Said, Hey, San Bernardino clo just called and they want, they want to see it tonight at seven o'clock. So I put on my dance clothes and went over, and the director, by the name of Gosh, Gene Bayless, came out, and he showed me a couple of steps. And he said, Yeah, let's do it together. And he said, Boy, you unscramble your feet pretty well there kid. And he he looked over into the costumers and said, measure this guy. Let's put him in the show. So I was beside myself. And long story short, I Gosh, I'm over the over the years, I my first show was at age 15 with them, and I participated, did shows with them, until I think my last show, I was about 38 years old, and that last show was anything goes with Leslie uggums, wow.   Michael Hingson ** 11:52 So what part did you play on my fair lady?   Ron Cocking ** 11:55 I was just a chorus kid. I remember in the opening when Eliza sings, that wouldn't it be lovely? Wouldn't it be lovely? I was a street sweeper. I remember I had a broom, and there were three of us, and we were sweeping up that street and working in and around. Eliza Doolittle, of   Michael Hingson ** 12:11 course, being really spiteful. You just said a little while ago, you were beside yourself. And the thing that I got to say to that, quoting the Muppets, is, how do the two of you stand each other? But anyway, that's okay, good in the original Muppet Movie, that line is in there. And I it just came out so fast, but I heard it. I was going, Oh my gosh. I couldn't believe they did that. But anyway, it was so cute, very funny. That's great. So and then you were, you eventually were opposite Leslie UB,   Ron Cocking ** 12:39 yes, that was one of the high points talking about dancing and drumming at the same time. In fact, I used to give a drum a basic drum summer camp where I would teach tappers the basics of music notation, quarter notes, eighth notes, 16th notes. And then we would put a tap orchestra together. Everybody had their own music stand and their own drum pad. I would conduct, and we would play little pieces, and they would they would drum a rhythm, tap, a rhythm, drum, a rhythm, tap, a rhythm. And so anyway, it came full circle. One of the highlights of my dance slash drumming career was this show I did with Leslie uggums, the director had done this prior, and he knew it would work, and so so did the conductor in the entre Act. The top of the second act, the pit orchestra starts and plays like eight measures. And then there were six of us on stage, behind the main curtain, and we would play the next 16 bars, and then we would toss it back to the pit, and then toss it back to us, and the curtain would begin to rise, and we were right into the first song that Leslie uggums sang to get into the second act. Then she wanted to add a couple of songs that she liked, and she was very popular in with the audiences in San Bernardino, so she added a couple of songs, and I got to play those songs with her and and that was just so thrilling. And I with the scene finished, I had to have my tap shoes on, on the drum set. I had to hop down from the riser, and came out, brought one of my Toms with me, and played along with another featured tap dancer that kind of took over the scene at that point. So it was, it was really cool.   Michael Hingson ** 14:31 So with all this drumming, did you ever meet anyone like buddy rip?   Ron Cocking ** 14:35 No, I never met any famous drummers except a man by the name of Jack Sperling, which was one of my drumming idols,   Michael Hingson ** 14:44 Donnie Carson was quite the drummer, as I recall,   Ron Cocking ** 14:48 yeah, he did play yeah and boy, his his drummer, Ed Shaughnessy on his on The Tonight Show was phenomenal. Yeah, he's another of my favorites, yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 14:57 well, and I remember. I guess Johnny Carson and Buddy Rich played together, which was kind of fun. They   Ron Cocking ** 15:07 played together, and so did Ed Shaughnessy and Buddy Rich did a little competition on the show one time I realized, yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 15:15 right, yeah. Well, and it's interesting to see some of the performers do that. I remember once trying to remember whether what show it was on, maybe it was also a Tonight Show where Steve Martin substituted for Johnny, but he and the steel Canyon, the Steve Canyon band, came out. Of course, he was great on the band, and then flat and Scruggs or flat came out. Or which one? Yeah, which one did the banjo flat, I think, but they, but they banjo together, which was fun?   Ron Cocking ** 15:51 Oh, wow, yeah, yeah. Steve Martin is a tremendous band. He is, Whoa, yeah. I,   Michael Hingson ** 15:56 I have a hard time imagining fingers moving that fast, but that's okay, me too. I saved my fingers for Braille, so it's okay. So where did you go to college?   Ron Cocking ** 16:07 I went to for two years to Riverside City College, Riverside Community College, and then I went for two years to San Bernardino Cal State, San Bernardino, and I was majoring in English because I thought I may want to do some writing. But in the meantime, I became married, I became a father, and so I was trying to work and study and maintain a family life, and I just couldn't do it all. So I didn't quite finish a major at Cal State San Bernardino. I continued actually a nightclub drumming career. And now, now we're getting up to where this our performing arts studio began between Gloria and I.   Michael Hingson ** 16:50 So was it? GLORIA? You married first?   Ron Cocking ** 16:53 No, okay, no, Gloria was married. Gloria was a prior, prior marriage for 20 some years, or 20 years, I guess. And I had been married only two years, I think. And when we first, well, we actually met while we were both. I'll tell you the story in a minute, if you want to hear it. Sure, the first time I ever met Gloria Macmillan, I had no idea who she was, because she her name was Gloria Allen at the time that was, that was her married name that she took after the arm is Brooks TV show. Well, she took that the new name before the TV show even ended. But I was choreographing a children's summer musical, and the director came up said, hey, I want you to meet this young lady's mom. So the young lady was Gloria's daughter, her oldest daughter, Janet. And I said, Sure. So he said, This is Gloria. Allen, Gloria, this is Ron. And we shook hands, and I said, Nice to meet you. And that was it. And so the show happened. It ran for a couple of weeks, and Gloria was a wonderful stage mom. She she never bothered anyone. She watched the show. She was very supportive of her daughter. Didn't, didn't stage manage   Michael Hingson ** 18:09 whatsoever, which wasn't a helicopter mom, which is good,   Ron Cocking ** 18:12 definitely that, which was just really cool. So and so I was maybe three, four years later, so Gloria obviously knew that I could dance, because she had seen me choreographed. So I got a phone call from Gloria Allen, and I said, Okay, I remember her. She wanted to meet because she was thinking about starting an acting school and wanted someone to teach actors some dance movement. So I went over for a interview and took my little at that time, about two and a half year old, daughter, three year old, and we chatted, and oh my gosh, I just this, this beautiful woman swept me off my feet. And of course, I by the end of the conversation, I said, Gosh, you know, we talked about how we would integrate the acting and the dance, and I said, Can I have your phone number? Nope, I got the old well, we'll call you. Don't call us. And so I had to wait for a few days before I got a call back, but I got a call back, and I don't remember a lot of details, but the sparks flew really, really quickly, and we started planning our school. And if you can believe that this was 1973 when we started planning, maybe it was early 74 and we invested a whole total of $800 to get ourselves into business. We bought a record player, some mirrors, some paint, and a business license and a little shingle to hang out front. We had a little one room studio, and we. Opened on November 4, 1974 and we would close the studio on June 30, 2018 Wow.   Michael Hingson ** 20:08 Yeah. So you, you had it going for quite a while, almost, well, actually, more than 40 years. 44 years. 44 years, yes. And you got married along the way.   Ron Cocking ** 20:20 Well along the way, my my wife always said she fell in love with my daughter, and then she had to take me along with her. Yeah. Well, there you go. So we were together constantly, just running the school together. And then eventually I moved over to San Bernardino, and it was, gosh, some 1213, years later, we got married in on June 28 1987 and but nothing really changed, because we had already been living together and raising five children. GLORIA had four from a private prior marriage, and I had my little girl. So we we got all these five kids through elementary and junior high in high school, and they all went to college. And they're all beautiful kids and productive citizens, two of them still in show biz. Her son, my stepson, Christopher Allen, is a successful producer now and of Broadway shows. And our daughter, Barbara Bermudez, the baby that Gloria fell in love with. She's now a producer slash stage manager director. She does really well at big events with keynote speakers. And she'll, if they want her to, she will hire in everything from lighting and sound to extra performers and that sort of thing. And she's, she's just busy constantly all over the world, wow.   Michael Hingson ** 21:43 Well, that's pretty cool. And what are the other three doing?   Ron Cocking ** 21:47 One is a VP of Sales for it's a tub and shower company, jacuzzi, and the other one is a married housewife, but now she is a grandmother and has two little grandkids, and they that's Janet, the one that I originally had worked with in that children's show. And she and her husband live in Chino Hills, California, which is about 40 minutes from here. I live in Huntington Beach, California now,   Michael Hingson ** 22:14 well, and I'm not all that far away from you. We're in Victorville. Oh, Victorville, okay, yeah, the high desert. So the next time you go to Vegas, stop by on your way, I'll do that, since that's mainly what Victorville is probably most known for. I remember when I was growing I grew up in Palmdale, and Palmdale wasn't very large. It only had like about 20 703,000 people. But as I described it to people, Victorville wasn't even a speck on a radar scope compared to Palmdale at that time. Yeah, my gosh, are over 120,000 people in this town?   Ron Cocking ** 22:51 Oh, I remember the drive in the early days from here to Vegas in that you really felt like you could get out on the road all alone and relax and take it all in, and now it can be trafficking all all the   Speaker 1 ** 23:04 way. Yeah, it's crazy. I don't know. I still think they need to do something to put some sort of additional infrastructure, and there's got to be another way to get people to Vegas and back without going on i 15, because it is so crowded, especially around holidays, that one of these days, somebody will get creative. Maybe they'll get one of Tesla's tunnel boring tools, and they'll make a tunnel, and you can go underground the whole way, I don't know,   Ron Cocking ** 23:32 but that would be, that would be great. Something like that would happen.   Michael Hingson ** 23:38 Well, so you you started the school and and that did, pretty cool. Did, did Gloria do any more acting after our Miss Brooks? And then we should explain our Miss Brooks is a show that started on radio. Yes, it went on to television, and it was an arm is Brooks. Miss Brooks played by e vardin. Was a teacher at Madison High, and the principal was Osgood Conklin, played by Gail Gordon, who was absolutely perfect for the part. He was a crotchety old curmudgeon by any standards. And Gloria played his daughter, Harriet correct. And so when it went from radio to television, one of the things that strikes me about armas Brooks and a couple of those shows, burns and Allen, I think, is sort of the same. Jack Benny was a little different. But especially armas Brooks, it just seems to me like they they took the radio shows and all they did was, did the same shows. They weren't always the same plots, but it was, it was radio on television. So you, you had the same dialog. It was really easy for me to follow, and it was, was fascinating, because it was just like the radio shows, except they were on television.   Ron Cocking ** 24:56 Yeah, pretty much. In fact, there were a lot, there's lots of episodes. Episodes that are even named the same name as they had on the radio, and they're just have to be reworked for for the television screen,   Michael Hingson ** 25:08 yeah, but the the dialog was the same, which was so great,   Ron Cocking ** 25:13 yeah, yeah. And to see what was I going to add, it was our Miss Brooks was one of the very few radio shows that made the transition to television with the cast with the same intact. Yeah, everybody looked like they sounded. So it worked when they were in front of the camera. Yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 25:33 it sort of worked with Jack Benny, because most of the well, all the characters were in it, Don Wilson, Mary, Livingston, Dennis day, Rochester, world, yeah. And of course, Mel Blanc, yeah, oh.   Ron Cocking ** 25:49 GLORIA tells a story. She she and her mom, Hazel, were walking down the street on the way to do a radio show in the old days in Hollywood, and here comes Mel blank, he says, he pulls over. Says, Hey, where are you girls headed because I know that he probably recognized them from being at at CBS all the time, and they said, We're headed to CBS. He said, hop in. Oh, that's where I'm going. So Mel Brooks gave her a ride to the Mel Blanc, yeah, would have been   Michael Hingson ** 26:15 fun if Mel Brooks had but that's okay, Young Frankenstein, but that's another story. It is. But that's that's cool. So did they ever? Did she ever see him any other times? Or was that it?   Ron Cocking ** 26:30 No, I think that was it. That's the one story that she has where Mel Blanc is involved.   Michael Hingson ** 26:36 What a character, though. And of course, he was the man of a million voices, and it was just incredible doing I actually saw a couple Jack Benny shows this morning and yesterday. One yesterday, he was Professor LeBlanc teaching Jack Benny how to play the violin, which was a lost cause.   Ron Cocking ** 26:59 Actually, Jack Benny was not a bad view. No,   Michael Hingson ** 27:01 he wasn't violent. No, he wasn't. He had a lot of fun with it, and that stick went straight in from radio to television, and worked really well, and people loved it, and you knew what was going to happen, but it didn't matter. But it was still   Ron Cocking ** 27:16 funny, and I'm sure during the transition they there was a little bit of panic in the writers department, like, okay, what are we going to do? We got to come up with a few shows. We got to get ahead a little bit. So the writing being just a little different, I'm sure that's part of the reason why they went back and kind of leaned on the old, old script somewhat, until they kind of cut their teeth on the new this new thing called television   Michael Hingson ** 27:39 well, but they still kept a lot of the same routines in one way or another.   Ron Cocking ** 27:45 Yeah, when they work, they work, whether you're just listening or whether you're watching,   Michael Hingson ** 27:48 right, exactly what other shows made it from radio to television with the cast   Ron Cocking ** 27:53 intact? You know, I am not up on that number. I   Michael Hingson ** 27:57 know there were a couple that did. RMS, Brooks was, well, oh no, I was gonna say Abbott and Costello, but that was different, but our Miss Brooks certainly did. If   Ron Cocking ** 28:09 the Bickersons did, I forget the two actors that did that show, but that was a really, Francis   Michael Hingson ** 28:13 Langford and Donna Michi could be, but I think burns and Allen, I think, kept the same people as much as there were. Harry bonzell was still with them, and so on. But it was interesting to see those. And I'm awake early enough in the morning, just because it's a good time to get up, and I get and be real lazy and go slowly to breakfast and all that. But I watched the Benny show, and occasionally before it, I'll watch the burns and Allen show. And I think that the plots weren't as similar from radio to television on the burns and Allen show as they weren't necessarily in the Benny show, but, but it all worked.   Ron Cocking ** 28:58 Yeah, yeah. That's why they were on the air for so long?   Michael Hingson ** 29:02 Yeah, so what other kind of acting did Gloria do once? So you guys started the school   Ron Cocking ** 29:10 well after she well, when we started the school, we found ourselves, you know, raising five children. And so I continued playing nightclub gigs. I had one, one nightclub job for like, five years in a row with two wonderful, wonderful musicians that were like fathers to me. And Gloria actually went to work for her brother in law, and she became a salesperson, and eventually the VP of Sales for a fiberglass tub and shower business down here in Santa Ana. So she drove that 91 freeway from San Bernardino, Santa Ana, all the time. But in,   Michael Hingson ** 29:47 yeah, you could do it back then, much more than now. It was a little better   Ron Cocking ** 29:51 and but in, but twist in between, she managed. Her mom still did a little bit of agency. And she would call Gloria and say. Want you to go see so and so. She did an episode of perfect strangers. She did an episode with Elliot of the guy that played Elliot Ness, stack the show Robert Stack the show was called Help Wanted no see. I guess that was an in but wanted, anyway, she did that. She did a movie with Bruce Dern and Melanie Griffith called Smile. And so she kept, she kept her foot in the door, but, but not, not all that much she she really enjoyed when John Wilder, one of her childhood acting buddies, who she called her brother, and he still calls her sis, or he would call her sis, still. His name was Johnny McGovern when he was a child actor, and when he decided to try some movie work, he there was another Johnny McGovern in Screen Actors Guild, so he had to change his name to John Wyler, but he did that mini series called centennial, and he wanted Gloria for a specific role, to play a German lady opposite the football player Alex Karras. And they had a couple of really nice scenes together. I think she was in three, maybe four of the segments. And there were many segments, it was like a who's who in Hollywood, the cast of that show   Michael Hingson ** 31:28 does that was pretty cool.   Ron Cocking ** 31:32 But anyway, yeah, after Gloria finished armas Brooks, she became married to Gilbert Allen, who, who then became a Presbyterian minister. So Gloria, when you said, Did she continue acting? There's a lot of acting that goes on being a minister and being a minister's wife, and she would put together weddings for people, and that sort of thing. And she did that for 20 years. Wow. So she Gloria was a phenomenon. She did so many things. And she did them all so very well, in my   Speaker 1 ** 32:04 opinion. And so did you? Yeah, which is, which is really cool. So you, but you, you both started the school, and that really became your life's passion for 44 years. Yes,   Ron Cocking ** 32:16 we would get up in the mornings, go do a little business, come home, have a little lunch, go back about 132 o'clock, and we would normally crank up about four after the kids get out of school, and we would teach from four to nine, sometimes to 10. Go out, have some dinner. So yeah, we pretty much 24/7 and we had had such similar backgrounds. Hers on a national radio and television scale, and mine on a much more local, civic light opera scale. But we both had similar relations with our our moms after after the radio tapings and the TV things. GLORIA And her mom. They lived in Beverly Hills, right at Wilshire and Doheny, and they had their favorite chocolate and ice cream stops. And same thing for me, my mom would take me there, two doors down from the little studio where I was taking my tap classes. There was an ice cream parlor, haywoods ice cream. And that was, that was the the lure, if you go in and if you do your practicing, Ronnie, you can, I'll take it for an ice cream so that I did my practicing, had plenty of little treats on the way, so we had that in common, and we both just had very supportive moms that stayed out of the way, not, not what I would call a pushy parent, or, I think you mentioned the helicopter, helicopter, but it   Michael Hingson ** 33:37 but it sounds like you didn't necessarily need the bribes to convince you to tap dance, as you know, anyway, but they didn't hurt.   Ron Cocking ** 33:46 No, it didn't hurt at all, and it was something to look forward to, but I I just enjoyed it all along. Anyway, I finally got to to really showcase what I could do when I was cast as the dance director in the show 42nd street. Oh, wow. And I was lucky. We were lucky. San Bernardino clo was able to hire John Engstrom, who had done the show on Broadway. The earlier version that came, I think it was on Broadway in the mid or to late 70s. He had worked side by side with Gower Champion putting the show together. He told us all sorts of stories about how long it took Gower to put together that opening dance. Because everything in the opening number you you see those steps later in the show done by the chorus, because the opening number is an audition for dancers who want to be in this new Julian Marsh show. So the music starts, the audience hears, I know there must have been 20 of us tapping our feet off. And then a few seconds later, the curtain rises about two and a half feet. And then they see all these tapping feet. And then the main curtain goes out, and there we all are. And. I my part. I was facing upstage with my back to the audience, and then at some point, turned around and we did it was the most athletic, difficult, two and a half minute tap number I had ever done, I'll bet. But it was cool. There were five or six kids that had done it on Broadway and the national tour. And then during that audition, one more high point, if we have the time, we I was auditioning just like everybody else. The director had called and asked if I would audition, but he wasn't going to be choreographing. John Engstrom was so with there was probably 50 or 60 kids of all ages, some adults auditioning, and at one point, John pulled out one of the auditioners, and he happened to be one of my male tap dance students. And he said, Now I want everybody to watch Paul do this step. Paul did the step. He said, Now he said, Paul, someone is really teaching you well. He said, everybody that's the way to do a traveling timestamp so and that, you know, I'll remember that forever. And it ended up he hired. There were seven myself and seven other of my students were cast in that show. And some of them, some of them later, did the show in Las Vegas, different directors. But yeah, that, that was a high point for me.   Speaker 1 ** 36:19 I'm trying to remember the first time I saw 42nd street. I think I've seen it twice on Broadway. I know once, but we also saw it once at the Lawrence Welk Resorts condo there, and they did 42nd street. And that was a lot of that show was just a lot of fun. Anyway,   Ron Cocking ** 36:39 it's a fun show. And as John said in that show, The chorus is the star of the show.   Speaker 1 ** 36:45 Yeah, it's all about dancing by any by any definition, any standard. It's a wonderful show. And anybody who is listening or watching, if you ever get a chance to go see 42nd street do it, it is, it is. Well, absolutely, well worth it.   Ron Cocking ** 37:00 Yeah, good. Good show. Fantastic music, too. Well.   Michael Hingson ** 37:03 How did you and Gloria get along so well for so long, basically, 24 hours a day, doing everything together that that I would think you would even be a little bit amazed, not that you guys couldn't do it, but that you did it so well, and so many people don't do it well,   Ron Cocking ** 37:21 yeah, I don't know I from, from the the first time we met, we just seemed to be on the same wavelength. And by the way, I found out as time went by, Gloria was like Mrs. Humble. She wasn't a bragger, very humble. And it took me a while to find out what an excellent tap dancer she was. But when we went to the studio in the early days, we had, we just had one room. So she would teach actors for an hour, take a break. I would go in teach a tap class or a movement class or a ballet class. I in the early days, I taught, I taught it all. I taught ballet and jazz and and and and   Michael Hingson ** 38:01 tap. Well, let's let's be honest, she had to be able to tap dance around to keep ahead of Osgoode Conklin, but that's another story.   Ron Cocking ** 38:09 Yeah. So yeah, that. And as our studio grew, we would walk every day from our first studio down to the corner to a little wind chills donut shop wind chills donuts to get some coffee and come back. And about a year and a half later, after walking by this, this retail vacant spot that was two doors from our studio, we said, I wonder if that might be, you know, something for us, it had a four lease sign. So, long story short, we released it. The owner of the property loved knowing that Gloria Macmillan was that space. And so luckily, you know when things are supposed to happen. They happen as people would move out next to us, we would move in. So we ended up at that particular studio with five different studio rooms. Wow. And so then we can accommodate all of the above, acting, singing classes, all the dance disciplines, all at the same time, and we can, like, quadruple our student body. So then we made another move, because the neighborhood was kind of collapsing around us, we made another room and purchased a building that had been built as a racquetball club. It had six racquetball courts, all 20 by 40, beautiful hardwood. We made four of them, five of them into studios, and then there was a double racquetball racquetball court in the front of the building which they had tournaments in it was 40 by 40 we moved. We made that into a black box theater for Gloria. And the back wall of the theater was one inch glass outside of which the audiences for the racquetball tournaments used to sit. But outside the glass for us, we had to put curtains there, and out front for us was our. Gigantic lobby. The building was 32,000 square feet. Wow, we could it just made our heart, hearts sing when we could walk down that hallway and see a ballet class over here, a tap class over there, singers, singing actors in the acting room. It was beautiful. And again, it was just meant for us because it was our beautiful daughter, Kelly, who passed away just nine months after Gloria did. She's the one that said, you guys ought to look into that. And I said, Well, it's a racquetball court. But again, the first moment we walked in the front door, you start. We started thinking like, whoa. I think we could make this work. And it worked for another 20 years for us and broke our hearts to basically rip it apart, tear the theater down, and everything when we were moving out, because we we couldn't find another studio that was interested in in coming in, because they would have had to purchase the building. We wanted to sell the building. Yeah. So anyway, of all things, they now sell car mufflers out of there.   Michael Hingson ** 41:02 That's a little different way, way. Yeah, social shock, did any of your students become pretty well known in the in the entertainment world?   Ron Cocking ** 41:11 I wouldn't say well known, but a lot of them have worked a lot and made careers. Some of our former students are now in their 50s, middle 50s, pushing 60, and have done everything from cruise ship to Las Vegas to regional some national tours, even our son, Christopher, he did the national tour of meet me in St Louis with Debbie Boone, okay, and he's the one that is Now a successful producer. He's his latest hit. Well, his first, what can be considered legitimately a Broadway hit show was the show called shucked, and it opened about two years ago, I think, and I finally got to go back to New York and see it just a month before it closed. Very hilarious. Takes place in Iowa. The whole show is built around a county in which everybody that lives there makes their living off of corn, making whiskey. And it is a laugh, way more than a laugh a minute. But anyway, we had one of Gloria's acting students who was hired on with a Jonathan Winters TV sitcom called Davis rules. It ran for two seasons, and here he was like 16 or 17 years old, making, I think it was. He was making $8,000 a week, and he was in heaven. He looked like the Son he played, the grandson of Jonathan Winters and the son of Randy Quaid and so he, yeah, he was in heaven. And then after that, he did a very popular commercial, the 711 brain freeze commercial for Slurpee. The Slurpee, yeah, and he made the so much money from that, but then he kind of disappeared from showbiz. I don't know what he's doing nowadays,   Speaker 1 ** 43:00 but it's, it's, it's interesting to, you know, to hear the stories. And, yeah, I can understand that, that not everybody gets to be so famous. Everybody knows them, but it's neat that you had so many people who decided to make entertainment a career. So clearly, you had a pretty good influence on a lot of, a lot of kids.   Ron Cocking ** 43:20 Yes, I over the years, Gloria and I felt like we had 1000s of children of our own, that they that we had raised together. It's really a good feeling. And I still get phone calls. We got a phone call once a few years back from from one of our students who had been trying to crack the nut in New York, and she called us like 530 in the morning, because, of course, it was Yeah, but she had just signed her first national tour contract and was going to go out with the show cabaret. So fortunately, we were able to drive up to Santa not let's see, it's just below San San Jose. The show came through San Jose, and we got to see her up there. But those kinds of things are what made us keep teaching, year after year, all these success stories. Of course, we have former students that are now lawyers. Those are actors. Well, we   Michael Hingson ** 44:17 won't hold it and we understand, yeah and they are actors, by all means. How many teachers did you have in the studio when you had the big building?   Ron Cocking ** 44:26 Gosh, at one time, we had 10 or 12 teachers, teaching vocal teachers, two or three ballet teachers, jazz teachers, and you both taught as well. And we both continued teaching all through that time. We never just became managers, although that's that was part of it, and mixing business with art is a challenge, and it takes kind of a different mindset, and then what an unstoppable mindset you have to have in order to mix business with performing, because it's too. Different sides of your brain and a lot of patience and a lot of patience. And guess who taught me patience? Uh huh, Gloria Macmillan.   Michael Hingson ** 45:09 I would Conklin's daughter, yes, and I'll bet that's where she learned patience. No, I'm just teasing, but yeah, I hear you, yeah. Well, I know Karen and I were married for 40 years, until she passed in November of 2022 and there's so many similarities in what you're talking about, because we we could do everything together. We had challenges. Probably the biggest challenge that we ever had was we were living in Vista California, and I was working in Carlsbad, and the president of our company decided that we should open an office, because I was being very successful at selling to the government, we should open an office in the DC area. And so we both got excited about that. But then one day he came in and he had this epiphany. He said, No, not Virginia. I want you to open an office in New York. And Karen absolutely hated that she was ready to go to Virginia and all that.   Speaker 1 ** 46:15 But the problem for me was it was either move to New York or take a sales territory that didn't sell very much anymore. The owner wasn't really willing to discuss it, so we had some challenges over that, but the marriage was strong enough that it that it worked out, and we moved to New Jersey, and Karen made a lot of friends back there, but, you know, we always did most everything together. And then when the pandemic occurred, being locked down, it just proved all the more we just did everything together. We were together. We talked a lot, which is, I think one of the keys to any good marriages, and you talk and communicate.   Ron Cocking ** 46:56 Yes, in fact, when after we closed the studio in 2018 it took us a few more months to sell our home, and then when we moved down here, it was only about, I don't know, I don't know if it was a full year or not, but the pandemic hit and but it really didn't bother us, because we had, we had been working the teaching scene for so many years that we basically Were done. We basically walked out of the studio. We did. Neither of us have the desire to, well, let's continue in at some level, no, we cherished our time together. We have a little porch out in front of our home here, and it gets the ocean breeze, and we would sit for hours and chat. And oddly enough, not oddly, one of our favorite things to do, we have a website that we went to that had, I think, every radio show of armas Brooks ever made. And we would sit listen to those and just laugh. And, in fact, Gloria, there are some. She said, You know what? I don't even remember that episode at all. So yeah, that that was an interesting part. But yeah, Gloria and I, like your wife and you really enjoyed time together. We never talked about needing separate vacations or anything if we wanted to do something. We did it   Speaker 1 ** 48:16 together, yeah, and we did too. And you know, for us it was, it was out of desire, but also was easier for us, because she was in a wheelchair her whole life. I was I'm blind. I've been blind my whole life. And as I tell people, the marriage worked out well. She read, I pushed, and in reality, that really is the way it worked, yeah, yeah. Until she started using a power chair. Then I didn't push. I kept my toes out of the way. But still, it was, it was really did meld and mesh together very well and did everything   Ron Cocking ** 48:49 together. That's fantastic. I'm proud of you, Michael, and it really   Michael Hingson ** 48:53 it's the only way to go. So I miss her, but like, I keep telling people she's somewhere monitoring me, and if I misbehave, I'm going to hear about it. So I got to be a good kid,   Ron Cocking ** 49:04 and I'll hear I'll get some notes tonight from the spirit of Gloria McMillan too. I prayed to her before I went on. I said, please let the words flow and please not let me say anything that's inappropriate. And I think she's guided me through okay so far.   Michael Hingson ** 49:20 Well, if, if you do something you're not supposed to, she's gonna probably hit you upside the head. You know, did you two ever actually get to perform together?   Ron Cocking ** 49:30 Oh, I'm glad you asked that, because, well, it had been years since I knew that she was a darn good tap dancer. In fact, I had a tap dancing ensemble of of my more advanced kids, and if they wanted to dedicate the extra time that it took, we rehearsed them and let them perform at free of charge once they made it to that group, they they did not pay to come in and rehearse with me, because I would spend a lot of time standing there creating so. So we were doing a performance, and we wanted to spotlight, I forget the exact reason why we wanted to spotlight some of Gloria's career. Talk about radio a little bit. And I said, Gloria, would you do a little soft shoe routine? And because we had invited a mutual friend of ours, Walden Hughes, from the reps organization, and he was going to be the guest of honor, so I talked her into it. At first she wasn't going to go for it, but we had so much fun rehearsing it together. And it wasn't a long routine, it was relatively short, beautiful music, little soft shoe, and it was so much fun to say that we actually tap danced together. But the other times that we actually got to work together was at the old time radio conventions, mostly with reps, and that's really when I got to sit on stage. I was kind of typecast as an announcer, and I got to do some commercials. I got to sing once with Lucy arnazza. Oh, life, a life boy soap commercial. But when Gloria, Well, Gloria did the lead parts, and oh my gosh, that's when I realized what a superb actress she was. And if I don't know if you've heard of Greg Oppenheimer, his father, Jess Oppenheimer created the I Love Lucy shows, and so Gloria loved Jess Oppenheimer. And so Greg Oppenheimer, Jess Son, did a lot of directing, and oh my gosh, I would see he came in very well prepared and knew how the lines should be delivered. And if Gloria was not right on it, he would say, No, wait a minute, Gloria, I want you to emphasize the word decided, and that's going to get the laugh. And when he gave her a reading like that man, the next time she went through that dialog, just what he had asked for. And I thought, Oh my gosh. And her timing, after watching so many armist Brooks TV and listening to radio shows. GLORIA learned her comedic timing from one of the princesses of comedy timing is Eve Arden, right? They were so well for obvious reasons. They were so very similar. And if you have time to story for another story, do you know have you heard of Bob Hastings? He was the lieutenant on McHale's navy. McHale's Navy, right? Yeah. Well, he also did a lot of old time radio. So we went up to Seattle,   Michael Hingson ** 52:32 our two grandkids, Troy Amber, he played, not Archie. Was it Henry Aldridge? He was on,   Ron Cocking ** 52:40 I think you're right. I'm not too up on the cast of the old time radio show. Yeah, I think you're right. But anyway, he was there, and there was an actress that had to bow out. I don't know who that was, but our grandsons and Gloria and I, we walked in, and as usual, we say hi to everybody. We're given a big packet of six or eight scripts each, and we go to our room and say, Oh my gosh. Get out the pencils, and we start marking our scripts. So we get a phone call from Walden, and he said, hey, Ron Bob. Bob Hastings wants to see Gloria in his room. He wants to read through he's not sure if he wants to do the Bickersons script, because he you know, the gal bowed out and right, you know, so Gloria went down   Michael Hingson ** 53:23 couple of doors, coming   Ron Cocking ** 53:26 Yes, and she so she came back out of half an hour, 40 minutes later, and she said, well, that little stinker, he was auditioning me. He went in and she went in and he said, Well, you know, I don't know if I want to do this. It doesn't seem that funny to me. Let's read a few lines. Well, long story short, they read the whole thing through, and they were both, they were both rolling around the floor. I'll bet they laughing and so and then jump to the following afternoon, they did it live, and I was able to watch. I had some pre time, and I watched, and they were just fantastic together. I left after the show, I went to the green room, had a little snack, and I was coming back to our room, walking down the hall, and here comes Bob Hastings, and he says, oh, Ron. He said, Your wife was just fantastic. So much better than the other girl would have been. So when I told GLORIA That story that made her her day, her week. She felt so good about that. So that's my Bob Hastings story. Bob Hastings and Gloria Macmillan were great as the Bickersons.   Speaker 1 ** 54:29 Yeah, that was a very clever show. It started on the Danny Thomas show, and then they they ended up going off and having their own show, Francis Langford and Donna Michi, but they were very clever.   Ron Cocking ** 54:42 Now, did you realize when now that you mentioned Danny Thomas? Did you realize that Gloria's mom, Hazel McMillan, was the first female agent, talent agent in Hollywood? No, and that's how you know when the. They moved from from Portland, Oregon, a little city outside of Portland. They moved because Gloria's mom thought she had talent enough to do radio, and it wasn't a year after they got here to LA that she did her first national show for Lux radio at the age of five. That was in 1937 with with Edward G Robinson. I've got a recording of that show. What's what show was it? It was a Christmas show. And I don't remember the name of the of it, but it was a Christmas show. It was Walden that sent us. Sent   Michael Hingson ** 55:33 it to us. I'll find it. I've got it, I'm sure.   Ron Cocking ** 55:35 And so, yeah, so, so Gloria was a member of what they called the 500 club. There was a group of, I don't know, nine or 10 kids that by the time the photograph that I have of this club, it looks like Gloria is around 12 to 14 years old, and they had all done 500 or more radio shows. Wow, that's a lot of radio show. There's a lot of radio So Gloria did, I mean, I got a short my point was, her mom was an agent, and when Gloria was working so consistently at armas Brooks, she said, Well, I'm kind of out of a job. I don't need to take you. GLORIA could drive then. And so she came back from the grocery store, Ralph's market near Wilshire and Doheny, and she came back said, Well, I know what I'm going to do. I ran into this cute little boy at the grocery store. I'm going to represent him for television. And she that's, she started the Hazel McMillan agency, and she ran that agency until she just couldn't anymore. I think she ran it until early 1980s but she, my god, she represented people like Angela Cartwright on the Danny Thomas show and Kathy Garver on, all in the family a family affair. Family Affair. Yeah. Jane north. Jane North went in for Dennis the Menace. He didn't get the role. He came back said, Hazel, I don't think they liked me, and they didn't. They didn't call me back or anything. Hazel got on that phone, said, Look, I know this kid can do what you're asking for. I want you to see him again. He went back and they read him again. He got the part, yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 57:21 and he was perfect for it.   Ron Cocking ** 57:22 He was perfect for that part was, I'm sorry.   Michael Hingson ** 57:27 It's sad that he passed earlier this year.   Ron Cocking ** 57:29 Yeah, he passed and he had, he had a tough life, yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 57:36 well, you know, tell me you, you have what you you have some favorite words of wisdom. Tell me about those.   Ron Cocking ** 57:45 Oh, this goes back to the reason why I came across this when I was looking for something significant to say on the opening of one of our big concert programs. We used to do all of our shows at the California theater of Performing Arts in San Bernardino, it's a really, a real gem of a theater. It's where Will Rogers gave his last performance. And so I came across this, and it's, I don't know if this is biblical, you might, you might know, but it's, if you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. If you teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime. And that's what I felt like Gloria and I were trying to do. We wanted to teach these kids as as professionally. We treated our students as they were, as if they were little professionals. We we expected quality, we expected them to work hard, but again, Gloria taught me patience, unending patience. But we knew that we wanted them to feel confident when the time came, that they would go out and audition. We didn't want them to be embarrassed. We want we wanted them to be able to come back to us and say, Boy, I felt so good at that audition. I knew all the steps I was and I and I read so well it was. And thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And so that aspect of it, we felt that we were feeding them for a lifetime, but we also were creating all of these arts patrons, all these lovers of the arts, 1000s of kids now love to go to musicals and movies and plays because they've kind of been there and done that at our studio. And so anyway, that's and whether, whether or not it was their confidence in show business or whether it was their confidence we've had so many calls from and visits from parents and former students saying, Boy, I just was awarded a job. And they said my my communication skills were excellent, and I owe that to Gloria. I was on the beach the other day, and I looked over and there was this young man and his wife. I assumed it was his wife. It was they were setting. Up their beach chairs, and I looked and I say, Excuse me, is your name Brandon? And he said, No, but he said, Is your name Ron? And I said, Yes. He said, No, my name is Eric. And I said, Eric puentes. And so we reminisced for a while. He took tap from me. He took acting from Gloria, and he said, you know, he was sad to hear of Gloria's passing. And he said, You know, I owe so much to Gloria. I learned so much about speaking in front of groups. And he is now a minister. He has his own church in Redlands, California, and he's a minister. And of all the billion people on the beach, he sits next to me. So that's one of those things when it's supposed to   Michael Hingson ** 1:00:41 happen. It happens. It does. Yeah, well, and as we talked about earlier, you and Gloria did lots of stuff with reps, and I'm going to miss it this time, but I've done a few, and I'm going to do some more. What I really enjoy about people who come from the radio era, and who have paid attention to the radio era is that the acting and the way they project is so much different and so much better than people who have no experience with radio. And I know Walden and I have talked about the fact that we are looking to get a grant at some point so that we can train actors or people who want to be involved in these shows, to be real actors, and who will actually go back and listen to the shows, listen to what people did, and really try to bring that forward into the recreations, because so many people who haven't really had the experience, or who haven't really listened to radio programs sound so forced, as opposed to natural.   Ron Cocking ** 1:01:46 I agree, and I know exactly what you're saying. In fact, Walden on a couple of at least two or three occasions, he allowed us to take some of Gloria's acting students all the way to Seattle, and we did some in for the spurred vac organization Los Angeles, we did a beautiful rendition of a script that we adapted of the Velveteen Rabbit. And of all people, Janet Waldo agreed to do the fairy at the end, and she was exquisite. And it's only like, I don't know, four or five lines, and, oh my gosh, it just wrapped it up with a satin bow. And, but, but in some of our kids, yeah, they, they, they were very impressed by the radio, uh, recreations that they were exposed to at that convention.   Speaker 1 ** 1:02:37 Yeah, yeah. Well, and it's, it is so wonderful to hear some of these actors who do it so well, and to really see how they they are able to pull some of these things together and make the shows a lot better. And I hope that we'll see more of that. I hope that we can actually work to teach more people how to really deal with acting from a standpoint of radio,   Ron Cocking ** 1:03:04 that's a great idea. And I know Walden is really sensitive to that. He Yeah, he would really be a proponent of that.   Michael Hingson ** 1:03:10 Oh, he and I have talked about it. We're working on it. We're hoping we can get some things. Well, I want to thank you for being here. We've been doing this an hour already.  

Hormoz and Joelberg hold down the fort while Saul is on the road. Back tattoos and cats' belly buttons kick off this one, then we chase DHGate “designer” deals, relive the Dodgers' marathon playoff madness, watching all 18 innings at the Comedy Store patio, and debate NFL vs. MLB stakes. We also tell LaVar Ball stories (breakfast in Chino Hills), confess a questionable Halloween costume idea, send a baby astronaut to space, and learn the Energizer Bunny's very adult origin.Dogs of Browntown stars comedians Hormoz Rashidi, Joel "Joelberg" Jimenez, and Saul Trujillo. Three brown dudes, one good time. Recorded at Joel's abuela's casa in Los Angeles, CA.#DogsOfBrowntown #comedypodcastEpisode 6 Chapters:0:00 – Intro & TikTok Doppelgänger2:17 – Trump's Nobel vs Taco Bell Peace Prize8:45 – Taco Bell & Cinnabon Cravings13:12 – Comedy Legends & the Cosby Conundrum16:35 – ICE Agents Unmasked (CA Mask Ban)18:28 – Live Más? Taco Bell Employee Rant21:12 – Prop 50 & Gerrymandering Shenanigans30:00 – Outro & Illuminati ConfirmedFollow Dogs of Browntown on IG: https://www.instagram.com/dogsofbrowntownHormoz Rashidi: https://www.instagram.com/hormozcomedy/Joel Jimenez: https://www.instagram.com/joeljimenezcomedy/Saul Trujillo: https://www.instagram.com/saulcomedy/Produced by Drew Daly and Armand Gorjian.https://www.instagram.com/thereal_drewdaly/https://www.instagram.com/armandgorjian/Dogs of Browntown is available on all of your favorite podcast platforms: Spotify ● Apple Podcasts ● Google Podcasts ● Everywhere Else

Should the new temporary senior tax deduction change your Roth conversion strategy? Joe and Big Al spitball for Chris in Maple Grove, Minnesota, who wonders whether to keep converting to Roth now that the $6,000 Senior Bonus deduction phases out with higher income, today on Your Money, Your Wealth® podcast 554 with Joe Anderson, CFP®, and Big Al Clopine, CPA. Teri from Salt Lake City's broker has amassed $60,000 of losses in Teri's $1.1 million account due to tax-loss harvesting. When is enough… enough? Windy Chicago in Chino Hills, California, wonders what to do about their cost basis vanishing after transferring mutual funds to Vanguard, and Larry and Sally from Michigan are planning for retirement while facing significant health challenges. Can they afford to bridge the healthcare gap and still retire safely? Free Financial Resources in This Episode: https://bit.ly/ymyw-554 (full show notes & episode transcript) Retirement Income Strategies Guide Retirement Rebound: 5 Plays to Help You Score a Comeback - YMYW TV Financial Blueprint (self-guided) Financial Assessment (Meet with an experienced professional) REQUEST your Retirement Spitball Analysis DOWNLOAD more free guides READ financial blogs WATCH educational videos SUBSCRIBE to the YMYW Newsletter   Connect With Us: YouTube: Subscribe and join the conversation in the comments Podcast apps: subscribe or follow YMYW in your favorite Apple Podcasts: leave your honest reviews and ratings   Chapters: 00:00 - Intro 00:56 - Should We Stop Roth Conversions for the New $6,000 Senior Bonus Tax Deduction? (Chris, Maple Grove, MN) 07:44 - Lost Cost Basis After Moving Funds to Vanguard. Now What? (Windy Chicago, Chino Hills, CA) 10:21 - Tax Loss Harvesting: When Is It Too Much? (Teri, Salt Lake City) 18:49 - Can We Retire with Rising Health Costs and Care Needs? (Larry & Sally Morgan, voice) 33:34 - Outro: Next Week on the YMYW Podcast

Pastor Jack Hibbs is senior and founding Pastor of Calvary Chapel, Chino Hills, California. Moses, David, Elijah and Esther are just a handful of individuals who stood fast, taking a bold stand when the circumstances required it. However, as our culture today continues to slide deeper into violence, immorality and overall chaos, it's easy to become discouraged. Pastor Jack Hibbs says it doesn't have to be this way. He says that everything changes when you say "yes" to God's call to be diligent as you await the coming of the day of God. So don't miss this edition of Crosstalk as Jim has Pastor Hibbs present practical insights and biblical teachings from his new book, Called to Take a Bold Stand. These teachings and insights will help you to boldly and courageously present Christ to a world in great need. As you listen you'll learn the following: Why does this issue burn on the heart of Pastor Hibbs. Why should we take a stand which can end up "creating waves"? His book says: "Hostile aggression demands decisive action." Is he promoting hostility as a response? Pastor Hibbs believes that much of the professing church resembles America at the start of WWII. What does he mean? Is it biblical to stop at becoming a Christian or is there more? Are Christians to be contentious against those who oppose the Gospel or the evil that manipulates them?

Pastor Jack Hibbs is senior and founding Pastor of Calvary Chapel, Chino Hills, California. Moses, David, Elijah and Esther are just a handful of individuals who stood fast, taking a bold stand when the circumstances required it. However, as our culture today continues to slide deeper into violence, immorality and overall chaos, it's easy to become discouraged. Pastor Jack Hibbs says it doesn't have to be this way. He says that everything changes when you say "yes" to God's call to be diligent as you await the coming of the day of God. So don't miss this edition of Crosstalk as Jim has Pastor Hibbs present practical insights and biblical teachings from his new book, Called to Take a Bold Stand. These teachings and insights will help you to boldly and courageously present Christ to a world in great need. As you listen you'll learn the following: Why does this issue burn on the heart of Pastor Hibbs. Why should we take a stand which can end up "creating waves"? His book says: "Hostile aggression demands decisive action." Is he promoting hostility as a response? Pastor Hibbs believes that much of the professing church resembles America at the start of WWII. What does he mean? Is it biblical to stop at becoming a Christian or is there more? Are Christians to be contentious against those who oppose the Gospel or the evil that manipulates them?

We are back for the second part of our Beeeeeutiful Episode at Chino Hills State Park. Joining us again is Leif Richardson From The Xerces Society for invertebrate conservation, and Joel Robison "The Barefoot Naturalist" From Naturalist for you!Join us as we attempt to snag and peep a few native bees!!We talk about these amazing sites on this episode!https://xerces.orghttps://www.naturalist-for-you.orghttps://www.bumblebeeatlas.orgFollow us on IG!https://www.instagram.com/stateofthestateparkspodcast?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw== This episode sponsored by audiobooks.comState of The State Parks listeners get their first month free and not one but three free books. Thinking about making a switch? Go to our website stateofthestateparks.com and click the link!Support the show A Filamint Production Stateofthestateparks@gmail.com

Pastor Jack Hibbs, Calvary Chapel, Chino Hills, CA released an alert concerning pending legislation that is in the California Senate and is expected to pass.  The bill allows anyone to bring a form to a school, without any I.D. and take the child under the pretence of providing medical care, etc.  All of this can be done without the parent being notified or the form being made public.  In response, Pastor Hibbs has told his congregation to leave California if the bill passes.  The problem with that is that the Lord already told me in Dec 2024 to declare to anyone with ears to hear is called to leave while you still can.  This warning was followed by His command for me to "get the word out!"  To everyone in California:  GET OUT WHILE YOU STILL CAN!Mark C. BitelerHere is the link to the prophetic summary in PDF I reference in the video:  https://joshuarevivalproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/07.12.25.California.LA_.SanFrancisco.All-Years.pdf  joshuarevivalproject.orginfo@joshuarevivalproject.orgPodcast:  Joshua Revival ProjectRumble:  Joshua Revival ProjectYouTube: @joshuarevivalprojectX:  @markbiteler

Tim Conway Jr. kicks off the show with breaking coverage of the Euclid Fire in Chino Hills, including critical traffic updates on the 91 and 71 closures from Angel Martines. Then, KFI's Michael Monks joins to talk about this month's cooler-than-average weather—and why it could help firefighters gain the upper hand. Later, Tim and Bellio clash over the price of Pellegrino in a bubbly debate that spills into Tim's suspicious bottle-by-bottle habits. And finally, Tim raises a toast to Donald Trump… for maybe making Coca-Cola great again with a rumored switch to cane sugar.

"DOME with bamfomania" is the greatest freestyle-rap/comedy podcast IN THE WORLD. If the beat drops while you're talking about it... You gotta rap about it. This week, we are joined by Corbin Butle, a rapper and producer from Chino Hills, California. This week we talk about his new project "Never Falling Off", the movie "The Whale", food delivery, smart homes, sports betting, and more. Also freestyles! If you would like to support the show, get access to episodes early, bonus episodes, and other content weekly, sign up at https://patreon.com/DOMEwithbamfomania Beats from the episode are available below: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rBE0Crro7eOlkbVoT_NdcAFLtlA3tPD6-f4H_45D7O0/edit?tab=t.0 Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/corbinhbutler/ https://www.instagram.com/bamfomania/ https://www.instagram.com/sultansatire/ https://www.instagram.com/bubbawhyy/ https://www.instagram.com/_hiterry/ Listen to "DOME with bamfomania" on all podcast platforms: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/dome-with-bamfomania/id1601495349 https://open.spotify.com/show/2IMnymbj1RU5U0NVXYLH9T?si=3ffba705f3a24e8f https://soundcloud.com/bamfdome Listen to bamfomania music on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1w5Z3rwfh4BOU78BKZgFbk?si=rQB7uhH_SKmYrzYyI_Kvkg Listen to Sultan Satire music on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4fvxByDc6w4Q49dcl9AKYS?si=LWa1-oSnQYmVZB1_qTKzTg If you enjoy this content, please like, comment, subscribe and share

Andrew and Vieves learn what life was like in Chino Hills, California, in 1991 via an old VHS tape filled with local commercials from the time. And a simple promo for re-runs on TNT has Andrew all gaga. Here are the commercials we talk about on this episode: Adrays Of Orange Commercial (1994) - Pioneer Car Stereo Blowout https://youtu.be/vNHJSgH-yas Liquid Wrench vs WD-40 https://youtu.be/DNljBI2EeQA Pringles vs Lays https://youtu.be/v2RGsxchMGQ NordiFlex Gold (Anti-SoloFlex) Commercial (1991) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OryzKPM4jXI Walk N Roll Commercial (1991) https://youtu.be/9e1dXdiKYxI Bien Jolie Fashions Chino Hills Commercial (1991) https://youtu.be/TWnTeq0jItE Chino Community Hospital https://youtu.be/782Pjof9Y9A Casa Santa Fe 1 https://youtu.be/xzJe-eqeKpE Casa Santa Fe 2 https://youtu.be/UeEbnWRdl_w Eagle Mountain Commercial 1 https://youtu.be/JhRaQ5_Ijf8 Eagle Mountain Commercial 2 https://youtu.be/5l9KUaHRFLQ Robert Jenkins Law Office Commercial (1991) https://youtu.be/qfkXvXtpqiA Chino Champion + Chino Valley Cablevision Channel Guide (1991) https://youtu.be/_0RXXwPBCzs Cablevision of Orange "Value Vision" Commercial (1993) https://youtu.be/3Sr_44p9IUg Mission Chrysler Plymouth West Covina Commercial (1991) https://youtu.be/HlbgLuZAh4I TNT "Good Clean Fun" Reruns Promo https://youtu.be/EEf2NrW1CvI?si=Y5r5z8mNgpJuqQOO

Alex Stone, this is the week Southwest begins doing what it always indicated it would not do.  Beginning Wednesday it will begin charging customers $35 for the first checked bag and $45 for the second checked bag.  Top-tier loyalty members and credit card members will get a break from one or two bags depending on their status.  The new bag fees will apply to any flights booked after May 28th. // Mark Thompson talks about his trip to Alaska on the Celebrity Cruise Ship // The City of Malibu hires private security now that PCH is reopened // a Chino Hills boy with Einstein-level IQ accepted into Mensa, the nation's largest high-IQ society. #SouthwestAirlines #Flights #Airline #Plane #luggage #checkedbags #Alaska #Cruise #Malibu #PCH #SmartKid #Einstein #HighIQ 

Discover Chino Valley: Families, Economic Growth, and Outdoor Spaces.Today, on the Outdoor Adventure Series, our guest is Zeb Welborn, the president and CEO of the Chino Valley Chamber of Commerce in Chino Hills, CA. Zeb shares how communities in the Chino Valley are thriving family-friendly business hubs and gateways to incredible outdoor spaces.Chino Valley is a melting pot of culture and adventure, from sprawling parks and scenic trails to bustling farmers' markets and diverse dining options. Zeb will take us through the unique offerings of this Southern California hotspot, located conveniently near Los Angeles, Disneyland, and the mountains. It is a perfect destination for businesses, residents, and tourists alike.DISCUSSIONUnderstanding the Chino Valley Chamber of CommerceThe geographic location and significance of the Chino Valley.Communities and industries within the Chino Valley.Outdoor and Recreational Opportunities in Chino ValleyThe variety of outdoor activities and parks available in the area.The balance of work and leisure for residents and visitors.Diverse recreational activities, including soccer, golf, and equestrian events.Economic and Community GrowthThe growth and expansion in Chino Valley.Balancing industrial and economic development with maintaining green spaces.Cultural Diversity and Local CuisineDiverse culinary options that reflect the area's cultural melting pot.Events like the Taste of the Chino Valley highlight local restaurants.Business and Economic Development InitiativesChamber programs, such as Upskill Chino Valley.Workforce development, leadership, and entrepreneurship programs.Family and Community EventsFamily-friendly events and community engagement.Farmer's markets and other local traditions support community cohesion.LEARN MORETo learn more about the Chin Valley Chamber, visit their website at http://chinovalleychamber.com and on these social sites:Facebook: https://fb.com/ChinoValleyChamberOfCommerce Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chinovalleycc/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKcxr-VvG_0QHutd39jF7bw/videos NEXT STEPSIf you enjoy podcasts devoted to outdoor adventure, find us online at https://outdooradventureseries.com. We welcome likes, comments, and shares.KEYWORDSChino Valley Chamber, Chino Valley, Chino Hills, Inland Empire, Outdoor Adventure Series, Podcasting#ChinoValleyChamber #ChinoValley #Chino Hills #InlandEmpire #OutdoorAdventureSeries #PodcastIngMy Favorite Podcast Tools: Production by Descript Hosting Buzzsprout Show Notes by Castmagic Website powered by Podpage Be a Podcast Guest by PodMatch

Jessica Coody sat down with Samantha Bland to talk about the start to the Husker Softball season, her expectations going into her sophomore season following an impactful freshman season, her move from the outfield to third base this season, playing the position for the first time, her journey from California to Lincoln, her impact as a role model to young Chino Hills girls, her perspective of playing with Jordy Bahl, and much more!

Hidden camera found in bushes of gated community in Chino Hills Please Subscribe + Rate & Review KMJ’s Afternoon Drive with Philip Teresi & E. Curtis Johnson wherever you listen! --- KMJ’s Afternoon Drive with Philip Teresi & E. Curtis Johnson is available on the KMJNOW app, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music or wherever else you listen. --- Philip Teresi & E. Curtis Johnson – KMJ’s Afternoon Drive Weekdays 2-6 PM Pacific on News/Talk 580 & 105.9 KMJ DriveKMJ.com | Podcast | Facebook | X | Instagram --- Everything KMJ: kmjnow.com | Streaming | Podcasts | Facebook | X | Instagram See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hidden camera found in bushes of gated community in Chino Hills Please Subscribe + Rate & Review KMJ’s Afternoon Drive with Philip Teresi & E. Curtis Johnson wherever you listen! --- KMJ’s Afternoon Drive with Philip Teresi & E. Curtis Johnson is available on the KMJNOW app, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music or wherever else you listen. --- Philip Teresi & E. Curtis Johnson – KMJ’s Afternoon Drive Weekdays 2-6 PM Pacific on News/Talk 580 & 105.9 KMJ DriveKMJ.com | Podcast | Facebook | X | Instagram --- Everything KMJ: kmjnow.com | Streaming | Podcasts | Facebook | X | Instagram See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

"DOME with bamfomania" is the greatest freestyle-rap/comedy podcast IN THE WORLD. If the beat drops while you're talking about it... you gotta rap about it. This week, we are joined by Corbin Butler, a rapper and our FRIEND from Chino Hills, CA. We get into the recent Trump inauguration, Corbins appearance in the movie Straight Out Of Compton, the Tik Tik ban, LinkedIn dating, and more. Also freestyles! If you would like to support the show, get access to episodes early, bonus episodes, and other content weekly, sign up at https://patreon.com/DOMEwithbamfomania All of this weeks beats were produced by Terry https://www.instagram.com/_hiterry/ Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/corbinhbutler/ https://www.instagram.com/bamfomania/ https://www.instagram.com/sultansatire/ https://www.instagram.com/bubbawhyy/ Listen to "DOME with bamfomania" on all podcast platforms: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/dome-with-bamfomania/id1601495349 https://open.spotify.com/show/2IMnymbj1RU5U0NVXYLH9T?si=3ffba705f3a24e8f https://soundcloud.com/bamfdome Listen to bamfomania music on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1w5Z3rwfh4BOU78BKZgFbk?si=rQB7uhH_SKmYrzYyI_Kvkg Listen to Sultan Satire music on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4fvxByDc6w4Q49dcl9AKYS?si=LWa1-oSnQYmVZB1_qTKzTg If you enjoy this content please like, comment, subscribe and share

In this episode, Dinesh considers the prospects of cabinet nominees Marco Rubio and Pam Bondi, and anticipates the fireworks that are likely to go with the upcoming hearings for Kash Patel. Dinesh reveals a sordid case of Democratic lawfare against Elon Musk. Pastor Jack Hibbs of Calvary Chapel, Chino Hills, joins Dinesh to talk about the implications of living in a one-party state.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/AnalyticIn this segment of Notorious Mass Effect, Analytic Dreamz explores the transition of LiAngelo Ball, or Gelo, from basketball to a burgeoning music career. Born November 24, 1998, in Chino Hills, California, Gelo's basketball journey was notable but fraught with challenges, including a collegiate stint at UCLA cut short by a shoplifting incident in China. After going undrafted in the 2018 NBA Draft, he ventured into music with "Tweaker," released on January 3, 2025, under Born to Ball Music Group. This track, with its early 2000s Southern rap vibe, similar to Big Tymers, quickly became a viral sensation, especially after a snippet was played on a Kick livestream with streamer N3on. "Tweaker" not only dominated cultural conversations but also became an anthem in NBA and NFL locker rooms. On Spotify, it debuted at #149 globally with 1.32 million streams and peaked at #24 in the US, while on YouTube, it garnered 4 million views on WorldStarHipHop, trending above major artists. The song's catchy lyrics have turned into memes, with phrases like "swerve bend that corner" becoming cultural touchstones. Its influence extends to live performances, with Gelo scheduled for Rolling Loud California 2025. Despite no physical sales, its digital success positions it among the top streamed rap songs globally. Analytic Dreamz discusses how "Tweaker" taps into nostalgia, offering a fun, feel-good energy that resonates with fans, highlighting Gelo's potential to carve out a significant place in music, demonstrating his versatility beyond the basketball court.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/analytic-dreamz-notorious-mass-effect/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In episode 21, we're joined by Atlanta Hawks center Onyeka Okongwu as we revisit the legendary Chino Hills basketball team and make the case for why they're the greatest high school team of all time. From their unbeatable chemistry to iconic moments. Onyeka shares his experiences playing alongside the Ball brothers and how those days shaped his journey to the NBA. Tune in to a new experience!  Sign up and deposit for Underdog HERE with promo code WAE to get up to $1,000 in bonus cash and a free pick: https://play.underdogfantasy.com/p-waezx Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Gary and Shannon are LIVE at Luchador Brewery in Chino Hills for their News-N-Brews remote broadcast!

Gary and Shannon are LIVE at Luchador Brewery in Chino Hills for their News-N-Brews remote broadcast! What's Happening.

Gary and Shannon are LIVE at Luchador Brewery in Chino Hills for their News-N-Brews remote broadcast! Swamp Watch.

Gary and Shannon are LIVE at Luchador Brewery in Chino Hills for their News-N-Brews remote broadcast!

Unlike other elections in our nation's history, it appears that this election has placed our nation, we the people, and those who purport to be followers of Christ at a critical intersection. Will we heed the warning of the Bible echoed by our forefathers regarding what happens to a nation that rejects God, to those that reject Him personally, and those that follow Him tepidly? Both Moses and Joshua at critical intersections warned the people of Israel as well to choose between life and prosperity or death and destruction with these words, "choose this day whom you shall serve."Note: Soundtrack: Epic Adventure Cinematic | Epic Shield by Alex-Productions |Sources: Barna Group, First Liberty, Arizona Christian UniversityGot Questions, Christian Heritage, Teachings of Jack Hibbs, Cavalry Chapel, Chino Hills.Rules of Civility George Washington, John Adams, Samuel Adams, Benjamin Rush, Ben Franklin, John Hancock, Thomas Jefferson, Charles Carroll of Carrollton Other misc. sources. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dennis talks to Jack Hibbs, Senior & Founding Pastor of Calvary Chapel in Chino Hills, CA.  Are evangelical Christians not voting in the numbers they should? Could they make the difference in the upcoming election if they show out in force?Thanks for listening to the Daily Dennis Prager Podcast. To hear the entire three hours of my radio show as a podcast, commercial-free every single day, become a member of Pragertopia. You'll also get access to 15 years' worth of archives, as well as daily show prep. Subscribe today at Pragertopia dot com.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Just a quick drive from Orange County, Chris and Moe Take a drive over to Chino Hills State Park! Sweet Honey Hills! A Filamint Production Stateofthestateparks@gmail.com

In advance of our repositioning cruise, we had a few days to bird around LA.  We've been there a few times before to bird, so we were searching for new spots and new birds.  That drew us to Chino Hills State Park which is a great place for wildflowers, hiking, and Black-chinned Sparrows.  Before jumping on the cruise, we had some time to spend at El Dorado Regional Park.*the name of the museum we were trying to recall is Arizona Sonora Desert Museum - thanks Taylor!  Additionally,  we mentioned multiple times an incorrect name for the trail we hiked at Chino Hills State Park. It is properly named the Coal Canyon Trail, not the Coal Creek Trail. We apologize for any confusion due to the mistake we did not catch before publishing the episode.Main Story Begins at: 11:18Show notesBuy me a CoffeeBirding is the world BrazilFlock To Marion AgainBirdsong and Noise PollutionEl Dorado Regional Park Nature CenterChino Hills State ParkeBird Trip Report Birds/Animals mentioned:Black-chinned Sparrow Intro Bird Call:  Black-chinned Sparrow (Recorded May 5th, 2024 California)Outro Bird Call: Lazuli Bunting (Recorded May 5th, 2024 California)Connect with us at...IG: @Hannahgoesbirding and @Erikgoesbirding Twitter: @WeGoBirding Facebook: @HannahandErikGoBirding Email us at HannahandErikGoBirding@gmail.com Website: http://www.gobirdingpodcast.comSupport the Show.

GUEST: Dave Kunz – Electrify Expo EV Show in Long Beach runs all weekend // Steve McQueen Car & Motorcycle Show happening this weekend in Boys Republic in Chino Hills. The Latina girls at the local Vons were mean to Stefush and talked bad about him in Spanish and the crew is here for him with advice and comfort, the lesson is to always treat people with kindness. Fush works in radio, and they work at Vons, who's really winning here // Guys tend to find something they like and stick to it // Glamorous grandmas shatter stereotypes while educating crowds. Rocks thrown on 110 Freeway: Motorcyclist crashes, cars damaged in South LA.

Sam Rubin, the face of entertainment reporting on L.A. TV for more than 30 years, died suddenly at 64. Plus, a mysterious, creepy hidden camera is discovered in Chino Hills. We now know what could get cut to balance the state budget. And we say farewell and good luck to the voice of L.A. morning traffic, Jennifer York. The L.A. Local is sponsored by the LA Car Guy family of dealerships. 

Owen recently moderated a panel at the National Religious Broadcasters convention in Nashville on the topic of “Sharing the Gospel in a Divided and Distracted World”. The panelists included Pastor Allen Jackson from Murfreesboro Tennessee, Pastor Jack Hibbs from Chino Hills, CA, and Pastor JD Greer from Raleigh-Durham, NC.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's Friday, March 8th, A.D. 2024.  This is The Worldview heard at www.TheWorldview.com.  I'm Adam McManus.  (Adam@TheWorldview.com) By Adam McManus 1,347 displaced Nigerians killed by Muslim extremists International Christian Concern visited 17 different camps for Nigerian Internally Displaced Persons in three counties that were attacked by the Fulani Muslim militants between December 2023 and January 2024.   Tragically, 1,347 displaced Nigerians were killed from last year until now, most of whom were women, children, and older adults who could not run to escape.  Specifically, 741 people were killed in Mangu County, 397 people were killed in Bokkos County, and 209 people were killed in Barkin Ladi.   Naomi David, a 43-year widow in Barkin Ladi County said, “Help us with food.”  Nine people were killed in her family, including her husband. She explained, “My village was attacked by Fulani [militants] on Christmas Eve. The total number of 22 people [were] killed from the attack. … Fulani have occupied our land to graze their cattle.” Continue to pray for our Nigerian brothers and sisters in Christ and consider making a donation through International Christian Concern to help. Democrats upset with Biblically-sound prayer in Congress On February 15th, 26 Democratic Congressmen expressed their outrage that Pastor Jack Hibbs of Calvary Chapel in Chino Hills, California was allowed to pray as a guest chaplain in the U.S. House of Representatives on January 30th, reports The Christian Post.  In a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson, who had invited him to lead the prayer, they blasted Hibbs as a Christian nationalist who was guilty of “spewing hateful vitriol” toward homosexuals because he has dared to affirm a Biblical view of marriage and sexuality.  They were especially upset that he claims that America was founded as a Christian nation. In a subsequent appearance on “Ministry Now” on Daystar TV, Hibbs explained the motivation of our founding fathers. HIBBS: “Our founding fathers said we're not going to start the business of the nation without prayer. People don't realize that.” He also noted some of the strange rules that governed his prayer, some of which he disregarded. HIBBS: “There are existing rules that say, for example, you're to avoid ‘Father.' That might offend some people. You can't bring up Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior ..." Co-HOST: “What?” HIBBS: “...because that's proselytizing.” Listen now to the powerful prayer of Pastor Jack Hibbs from January 30th in the opening moments of Congress. HIBBS: “Almighty God, and Father of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Together, we come before You in humility, as a people in need of Your forgiveness, Your mercy, Your goodness, and Your grace for these 250 or so years. “Our fathers, in this Congress, have prayed for Your guidance and protection. And so we stand here, in humble petition, that You today might do the same, that this nation and its unparalleled Constitution, Your great gift to all freedom-loving people, might be renewed here, and across this land, as a beacon of hope to all who seek peace. “I ask You today, Father, to bring to us a great awakening of righteousness and confidence in You, Who alone is mighty to save. Hear my cry in this hour of great need, that we might be humbly blessed before You in the repentance of our national sins. “You, Almighty God, are the source of all wisdom, and there is no wisdom, but that which comes from You. So please, come upon those here who are the stewards over the business of our nation with Your wisdom which comes from above and with Your holy fear, knowing that Your coming day of judgment draws nearer, when all who have been, and are now in the authority, will answer to You, the great Judge of Heaven and Earth for the decisions that they make here in this place. “I offer this prayer to you Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, Your Son and our crucified Savior and resurrected Lord. In Jesus' name, Amen.” Indiana killed fewer unborn babies Indiana recorded its lowest number of abortions in 50 years at the end of 2023. The state's Department of Health reported 46 surgical abortions during the fourth quarter of last year.  Indiana enacted a law banning nearly all abortions last August.  Mike Fichter with Indiana Right to Life told LifeNews, “While we are encouraged that abortion numbers fell in Indiana to the lowest fourth quarter numbers in five decades, we grieve the loss of 46 children and renew our commitment to making Indiana a state where every pregnant mother receives compassionate support and every baby's life is protected.” Proverbs 31:8 says, “Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves.” Vermont school must pay $75,000 to fired Christian coach A Vermont school district has acknowledged that a snowboarding coach did not violate its rules when he criticized a trans sports policy. And now the school district will pay $75,000 to the coach to end the legal battle, reports Alliance Defending Freedom. David Bloch, a former snowboarding coach at Woodstock Union High School, filed a lawsuit last year after being fired for saying, in a conversation with a student, that he believed biological males should not be allowed to compete in girls' sports. CVS and Walgreens selling Abortion Kill Pill CVS and Walgreens announced that they will begin selling the abortion pill nationwide, even though it has killed millions of babies and injured countless thousands of women, reports LifeNews.com. The two pharmacy chains recently received certification to dispense the drugs in a small group of states, a process they initiated after the Food and Drug Administration approved new regulations last year allowing brick and mortar retailers to offer chemical abortion. Pro-life groups condemned the decision, saying that the Abortion Kill Pill ends the lives of babies before birth and that chemical abortion poses greater risks for women than surgical abortions – even as high as four times the risk. Up to one in five women will experience complications from the Abortion Kill Pill. Women are flooding emergency rooms across the country with medical and physical damage from these abortion pills. Deputies rescue 5-year-old autistic girl in Florida swamp And finally, a 5-year-old autistic girl was reported missing recently near Tampa, Florida, after she wandered off and got lost in a swamp. The haunt of snapping turtles, alligators, water moccasins, and other beasties, Florida swamps are no place for an unattended child. Providentially, a helicopter pilot spotted her and guided law enforcement officers on the ground towards her, reports Good News Network. Listen. HELICOPTER PILOT: “Hey, I think I got her in the woods. She might be able to hear her name if you call her. She gonna be about 80 feet in front of you. I've got two deputies. Just keep walking in that direction.” When those deputies on the ground saw her, they were overcome with joy. DEPUTY 1: “Oh there she is. I see her. Genesis, come her sweetie.” DEPUTY 2: “Come her sweetheart.” GENESIS: “Hey!” DEPUTY 1: “Hey!” DEPUTY 2: “Come on sweetheart.” DEPUTY 1: (laughs with delight) DEPUTY #2: “Hi, baby girl. Let's get you out of the water, okay?  You were walking quite a bit, sweetheart. We were looking for you, sweetheart.” A heartwarming story to be sure.  And a picture of how Christ rescues us with great rejoicing.  As the father in the Prodigal Son parable said, in Luke 15:24, “He was lost, but now he is found.” Close And that's The Worldview on this Friday, March 8th in the year of our Lord 2024. Subscribe by iTunes or email to our unique Christian newscast at www.TheWorldview.com. Or get the Generations app through Google Play or The App Store. I'm Adam McManus (Adam@TheWorldview.com). Seize the day for Jesus Christ.

Who knew prayer could be so offensive to so many? But that's exactly the reaction Pastor Jack Hibbs received from several members of Congress after he gave a prayer on January 30th to open their session. Hibbs is the pastor of mega church Calvary Chapel in Chino Hills, California. House Speaker Mike Johnson invited him to deliver the invocation. In his prayer, Hibbs called for "humility and repentance of national sins in a time of great need." In a letter that was sent to the Speaker of the House, 26 Democrats accused Hibbs of being "an ill-qualified hate preacher" who was pushing a "Christian Nationalist agenda", according to Roll Call. On this episode of Lighthouse Faith podcast, recorded from the National Religious Broadcasters Convention in Nashville, TN, Pastor Hibbs answers the Democrats' accusations, talks about what he prayed for, and why he believes it rankled the nerves of those on the left. He also discusses his new book, "Daze of Deception: How to Discern Truth from Culture's Lies." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sign Up for FanDuel: http://fanduel.com/kenny Kenny is joined by Atlanta Hawks big man Onyeka Okongwu to chop it up about Chino Hills, the Hawks, his development, and the best players he's played with. Then, Kenny gets into Steph's 60 point game, Zach LaVine's injury, and Greg's Eye Test Takes. Must be 21+ and present in select states. FanDuel is offering online sports wagering in Kansas under an agreement with Kansas Star Casino, LLC. First online real money wager only. $10 first deposit required. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable bonus bets that expire 7 days after receipt. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG in Colorado, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Tennessee, and Virginia. Call 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 in Arizona, 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat in Connecticut, 1-800-9-WITH-IT in Indiana, 1-800-522-4700 or visit ksgamblinghelp.com in Kansas, 1-877-770-STOP in Louisiana, visit mdgamblinghelp.org in Maryland, visit 1800gambler.net in West Virginia, or call 1-800-522-4700 in Wyoming. Hope is here. Visit GamblingHelpLineMA.org or call (800) 327-5050 for 24/7 support in Massachusetts or call 1-877-8HOPE-NY or text HOPENY in New York.

Gary and Shannon start of the second hour of the show with the latest on the aftermath of the storm in Los Angeles. They also discuss the missing helicopter that is carrying five marines. Producer Mondo talks about selling his award winning guac at Luchador Brewery in Chino Hills.

We're joined by Onyeka Okongwu. Big O talks about his NBA career so far. Sign Up for FanDuel: http://fanduel.com/kenny Kenny is joined by Atlanta Hawks big man Onyeka Okongwu to chop it up about Chino Hills, the Hawks, his development, and the best players he's played with. Then, Kenny gets into Steph's 60 point game, Zach LaVine's injury, and Greg's Eye Test Takes. Must be 21+ and present in select states. FanDuel is offering online sports wagering in Kansas under an agreement with Kansas Star Casino, LLC. First online real money wager only. $10 first deposit required. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable bonus bets that expire 7 days after receipt. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG in Colorado, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Tennessee, and Virginia. Call 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 in Arizona, 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat in Connecticut, 1-800-9-WITH-IT in Indiana, 1-800-522-4700 or visit ksgamblinghelp.com in Kansas, 1-877-770-STOP in Louisiana, visit mdgamblinghelp.org in Maryland, visit 1800gambler.net in West Virginia, or call 1-800-522-4700 in Wyoming. Hope is here. Visit GamblingHelpLineMA.org or call (800) 327-5050 for 24/7 support in Massachusetts or call 1-877-8HOPE-NY or text HOPENY in New York.

Senior pastor of Calvary Chapel in Chino Hills, CA, Jack Hibbs joins us to discuss how to discern cultural truths from lies. Next, retired USAF Brig. General Blaine Holt comes on to break down the failure of the Biden Administration in the deaths of 3 U.S. service members in Jordan. Finally, we take your calls in open phones across America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Seth Gruber sits down with Pastor Jack Hibbs to talk about exactly how our culture got to where we are today. Gruber describes the intricate trail connecting our perverted cultural norms to 18th and 19th century humanist revolutionaries. It's no longer acceptable to be silent. The Church must stand against this evil.   Check out Seth's Rumble channel in case he gets kicked off YouTube: https://rumble.com/c/sethgruber   Shop EveryLife, the ONLY diaper company rooted in pro-life values! Use code “Seth10” to get 10% off. https://everylife.com/discount/SETH10   To help Seth educate and expose culture to the evil of abortion so that every person has a right to be born, become an ALLY of The White Rose Resistance at https://thewhiterose.life    For more exclusive pro-life content, interviews, and tools to engage the culture for LIFE, SUBSCRIBE to UnAborted with Seth Gruber TODAY! https://tinyurl.com/niroit8b

This episode of Women for America was recorded at Calvary Chapel Chino Hills' special Stand with Israel event where Concerned Women for America President and CEO Penny Nance was able to share about her first trip to Israel in 2013 and lead the congregation into a time of prayer and action.

What if the way forward in our political moment isn't sweeping reform, but a meal around the table? As much of the world becomes more divided than ever, John Mark challenges us to become peacemakers by demonstrating God's love through the practice of hospitality.Key Scripture Passages: Mark 2v13-17, Mark 3v13-19, Romans 12v13, 1 Peter 4v8-9, Hebrews 13v1-2This podcast and its episodes are paid for by The Circle, our community of monthly givers. Special thanks for this episode goes to: Jessica from Hermantown, Minnesota; Ben from Portland, Oregon; Brooke from Nashville, Tennessee; Marc from Chino Hills, California; and Achsah from Fayetteville , Georgia. Thank you all so much!If you'd like to pay it forward and contribute toward future resources, you can learn more at practicingtheway.org/give.

Brandon Marshall and Ashley Nicole Moss share their thoughts on Sean O'Malley's wild marital comments. Are Dallas Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy, Dak Prescott, and Jerry Jones on the same page? And the crew is joined by WNBA star Jewell Loyd to talk all things basketball.

Brandon Marshall and Ashley Nicole Moss discuss Sha'Carri Richardson's record setting World 100m title performance, Jonathan Taylor is almost free, and Stefon Diggs faces off with Stephen A. Smith in a battle of “sources.”

On the sixth episode of "From The Point" podcast by Trae Young, Lonzo "Zo" Ball pulls up and sits down with Trae and his co-host and friend, Winston. Ball, a former No. 2 overall NBA draft pick and six-year vet who is dealing with  a years-long knee injury, reflects on growing up in Chino Hills, playing at UCLA, being drafted by the hometown Los Angeles Lakers, learning from Rajon Rondo and LeBron James, lessons from Big Baller Brand, retooling his jump shot, what-ifs in Chicago, an ongoing injury and a pure love of hoops. Don't miss the ever-genuine Ball smile and talk for a camera for the first time in a long time. Thanks for listening to "From The Point" by Trae Young. If you enjoyed this episode of the podcast, you can find it with video on From The Point's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@traeyoungYou can find clips and outtakes from the podcast on all major social platforms, too: https://www.instagram.com/fromthepointpodcasthttps://www.tiktok.com/@fromthepointpodcastWe appreciate you.

Hour 3 of A&G includes Hunter Biden's day in court, an incredible school board meeting and the beginnings of the unraveling of the Hunter plea deal....Stupid Should Hurt: https://www.armstrongandgetty.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Seth Gruber dives deep into the secular progressive religion that drives abortion, transgenderism and every other iteration of the culture of death today. He illustrates how the abstract and ancient idea of gnosticism has been quietly brewing under the surface of the culture war for decades. But now, this little known heresy is the driving force behind all of the evil we see escalating at such an alarming rate. This is a message all conservatives should be aware of.   For more exclusive pro-life content, interviews, and tools to engage the culture for LIFE, SUBSCRIBE to UnAborted with Seth Gruber TODAY! https://tinyurl.com/niroit8b   To help UnAborted create more pro-life content and take our content to the streets, become a Patron of the show at https://www.patreon.com/unaborted   To help Seth educate and expose culture to the evil of abortion so that every person has a right to be born, become an ALLY of The White Rose Resistance at https://thewhiterose.life 

Is there any group more moronic than white liberals who financially support and vote for radical leftists? They never have to suffer the consequences of their foolish actions… The ADL and NAACP are just Democratic Party front groups… Dennis talks to Jack Hibbs, pastor of the Calvary Chapel in Chino Hills CA. He's launching a new social media platform The Real Life Network.  The NAACP has issued a travel warning for Florida. They say the state is belligerent toward blacks. This is absurd. Worse, it's a lie… The left has no interest in truth… The Los Angeles Dodgers have caved again to the leftist mob… Dennis talks to Lorie Smith, owner of web design firm 303 Creative. A Colorado law is requiring her to create gay-themed designs that violate her beliefs about marriage. She's joined by her Alliance Defending Freedom lawyer, Kellie Fiedorek.  Is ethnic, race or gender pride something we should put a lot of stock in? Or should we be more concerned about individual behavior? Dennis has thoughts. So do callers.  Thanks for listening to the Daily Dennis Prager Podcast. To hear the entire three hours of my radio show as a podcast, commercial-free every single day, become a member of Pragertopia. You'll also get access to 15 years' worth of archives, as well as daily show prep. Subscribe today at Pragertopia dot com.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Steve discusses the horrific story out of a school in Plainview, Texas, and why when it comes to pushing smut in schools, the slippery slope argument is undefeated. Then, Pastor Jack Hibbs of Calvary Church in Chino Hills, California, joins the program to discuss the antidote to the current cultural rot. In Hour Two, Ana Hibbs joins the program to quiz Steve on fun facts about Aaron and Todd. Fake News or Not is a discussion on Tucker Carlson and Fox's endgame. Finally, Brian Festa from We the Patriots USA joins the program to talk about an upcoming conference. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices