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The lessons I carried away from September 11 did not begin that day, and they certainly did not end there. In this solo episode, I reflect on how my parents taught me not to accept the limits others placed on blindness, how my guide dogs taught me about trust and teamwork, and how September 11 confirmed so much of what I already believed about fear, leadership, change, and possibility. I share why I work hard not to worry about things I cannot control, why I believe we can never truly go back to “normal,” and why strong teams are built through trust rather than control. I also challenge some of the ways we think about blindness and disability, because different does not mean less capable. I hope these lessons help you think differently about fear, change, leadership, and what it really means to live with an unstoppable mindset. Highlights: 00:46 – Why the lessons of September 11 began long before that day. 08:56 – How Michael learned that blindness is not the real barrier. 17:13 – Why focusing on what you can control can reduce fear. 24:28 – Why getting back to “normal” is not always the answer. 32:30 – What guide dogs taught Michael about trust and teamwork. 1:01:37 – Why disability does not mean a lack of ability. About the Host: Michael Hingson, blind since birth, was born in Chicago to sighted parents who believed in raising their son with a can-do attitude. Treated like all other children in his family, Michael rode a bike did advanced math in his head and learn to read and write – Braille that is! Michael's family relocated to the warm Palmdale area of California when he was five years old. It is here that Hingson had his first adventure with Guide Dogs for the Blind and received his first guide dog. He later went to college receiving a bachelor's and master's degree in Physics along with a secondary teaching credential from the University of California at Irvine. Michael then enjoyed a nearly-30-year career working for high tech companies spending most of his time in management roles. Michael Hingson's life changed dramatically on September 11, 2001 when he and his guide dog, Roselle, escaped from the 78th floor of Tower One in the World Trade Center moments before it collapsed. Soon after, Michael and Roselle were thrust into the international limelight where Michael began to share his unique survival story and 9-11 lessons of trust, courage, heroism, and teamwork. Mike has served as The National Public Affairs Director for one of the largest Nonprofit organizations in the nation: Guide Dogs for the Blind; He has served as the vice president of the National Association of Guide Dog Users; Michael has held a seat on the Fort Worth Lighthouse for the Blind. He is the chair of the board of directors of the Earle Baum Center for the Blind  and is the vice chair of the Colorado Center for the Blind; Michael is The National Ambassador for the Braille Literacy Campaign of the National Federation of the Blind. Until October 2019 he worked as the CEO of the Do More Foundation, the non-profit arm of Aira Tech Corp, a manufacturer of assistive technology which makes a revolutionary visual interpreter for blind people. In January 2021 Mike joined accessiBe as its Chief Vision Officer to help advance the company goal of making the entire internet fully inclusive. He held this position through June of 2026. He is the author of the #1 New York Times Best Seller: “Thunder dog –The True Story of a Blind Man, a Guide Dog & the Triumph of Trust” – selling over 2.5 million copies Worldwide. In 2013 Mr. Hingson published his 2 book “Running with Roselle”- which Is the first of its kind- A story for our youth shedding light on one of Americas Darkest Days. Mr. Hingson's third book, “Live Like A Guide Dog”, was released on August 20, 2024. This book shows readers how they can learn to control fear and not, as Mike would say, “become blinded by fear in the face of crisis”. Aside from his talents and advocacies, Mr. Hingson has traveled the Globe from Japan to New Zealand, the Netherlands to his hometown, Chicago. Speaking to some of the world's most elite: from former President, George W. Bush to Larry King, to Fortune 500 companies and colleges and Universities Nationwide. After sharing his story of survival on hundreds of TV and Radio programs, Michael is now an Expert hired by many of today's major corporations and organizations. Speaking and consulting on the importance of Teamwork and Trust, Moving from Diversity to Inclusion, as well as offering Adaptive Technology Training – spearheading innovation for ALL! - Thus, bringing organizations to the forefront of the ever-changing competitive modern world. In June, 2024 Mike was inducted as an alumni member into the honors Fraternity Phi Beta Kappa. Currently Michael lives in Victorville, California with Alamo, Michael's eighth guide dog and his rescue feline, Stitch. More information on Mr. Hingson is available on his website. 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Transcription Notes: Michael Hingson  00:04 What if the biggest thing holding you back isn't what's in front of you, but rather what you believe? Welcome to Unstoppable Mindset, where inclusion, diversity, and the unexpected meet. I'm your host, Michael Hingson, speaker, author, and advocate for inclusion and possibilities. This podcast explores how the beliefs we carry shape the way we live, lead, and connect with others. Each week, I talk with people who challenge assumptions, face adversity head-on, and show what's possible when we choose curiosity over fear. Together, we focus on mindset, resilience, and the small shifts that lead to meaningful change. Let's get started. Well, hello, everyone. I am Michael Hingson. I am your host on Unstoppable Mindset, and this happens to be episode 475. Yeah, we've done a lot of these, and most all of them have been conversations with people who said that they wanted to come on the podcast and talk about one thing or another. And I was really pleased to have them. This episode is going to be a little bit different, as the last few have been. Episode 472, which we published on September 4, was a talk I gave in April of 2024, which told my story of being in the World Trade Center on september 11, on episode 473 on the eighth of September, Michelle Abraham interviewed me, and we talked about a number of things around september 11 and so on. Episode 474, which was published on the 11th of September, 2026. was a conversation with Bob Ellis, who was in the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, an escape, and we hear his story, and we got to chat and kind of talked about notes from both of us. Now it's episode 475, and it was suggested that I ought to talk about things that I learned from September 11th and how my life has changed, and I'm going to do the best I can to talk about all that. So you're just going to be hearing me today. I hope you won't go away. I hope that you'll enjoy it. I just returned from speaking all week from September 9th through September 11th in Kilgore, Texas, at Kilgore College, they did an incredible job of doing some things to help people become aware of September 11th. They actually had in the library and around the library at Kilgore College a monument to September 11th. They had some columns or portions of columns from the World Trade Center. They had a list of all of the names. They had flags in a in a in several rows with the names of all of the people who were lost on September 11th. They had a timeline from my book Thunderdog: The Story of a Blind man, his guide dog, and the triumph of trust at Ground Zero-a timeline of what I experienced, and they also had, I think, a timeline of just the World Trade Center events in in general. Well, okay, so all of that happened. I got back last night, and now here it is, Sunday. It is the 13th of September, and I'm recording this so that we can publish it on Tuesday, september 15. So that's a little bit of a long way to get to where we are. But as I said, people asked me to talk about what I learned that day, and how I proceeded and progressed from that day, but I have to go back to long before September 11th to really do everything justice and to put it all in context. So let me start this way. I believe that I have said a few times on this podcast, and certainly in some of the speeches that I've given, that I was born two months premature, and I was given a pure oxygen environment when I was born, because I was born early. Medical science had started to hear that even too much oxygen might not necessarily be a good thing, but the doctors in Chicago where I was born didn't buy into that concept yet, and so the result was I was given a pre-oxygen environment, and my retinas didn't develop as they should, and I became blind. So was I born blind? If you're very technical, no. But for all intents and purposes, yes. The doctors told my parents to send me to a home, to send me away, because no blind child could ever. Michael Hingson  04:59 Grow up to amount to anything, and all I would be would would end up being a drain on my family, sucking up all the love that my parents might have had for their older son, two years older than I, my brother Ellery. But the reality is, my parents said you're wrong. He can grow up to do whatever he chooses, and we're going to give him that opportunity. And I grew up with that idea. I grew up with that concept. My parents told me at some point when I was still fairly young about what the doctors had said, and they said, "You know, we think that you can do whatever you want. We want you to have that opportunity. Well, they did a number of things to help the process along. For example, we lived in Chicago until I was five, but at the age of four, typically children in in Illinois start or in Chicago start kindergarten, and I did as well. My parents worked with other parents and the school district to start a kindergarten class for children who were blind, and there were a number of preemies in the Chicago area. In that class, Miss Lapree, my teacher, taught me Braille. See, I remember her name. Taught me Braille. Taught me other skills. Taught the other blind kids because it was a kindergarten class for blind children. Taught us all a variety of different things that we could use, and then unfortunately, in a sense, I guess after kindergarten at the age of four, and it was over, my father had gotten an offer and took a job out in California, and we moved to California. Well, in California, kindergarten starts at five, and even though I had had a course in kindergarten already, I had to go through a second year of it, but we didn't have any kind of facilities to teach us or teach me about Braille going forward, getting me Braille books and so on. So kindergarten, first, second, and third grade, I didn't have access directly to textbook material. My parents helped me though. My father taught me math. He was an electronics and electrical engineer. I was doing algebra in my head by the time I was six. My mother read other assignments to me, taught me the spelling words because in first, second, and third grade you learned to spell, and in theory beyond third grade as well, of course. But what happened for me was that I learned about spelling by my mother teaching me how to spell the words, and then she would say the words, and then I would spell them. Well, that ended up going even further because typically in classrooms, what happened was that when it came time to take the actual spelling test, which happened on Fridays, the teacher would say the words. All of us or all the children in the class would write down the answers. Then we would exchange papers, and the teacher would then write the correct spellings on the board. Not in my class. I had to. Well, I got to get up. I. I don't want to say I had to. That's a lesson that I want to get to. wasn't that I had to get up. I got to get up, and actually spell the words out loud. I remember once missing a word, at least starting to miss a word, and somebody made a noise, and I realized, oh, that must be wrong, and I corrected it. But I learned how to spell words, and I learned to spell them out loud for the whole class, and not be afraid of them, and that way students could grade each other's papers. And so, in a sense, I could say that's where I started to learn how to be involved in doing public speaking, and I learned not to be afraid of standing up and and saying things as long as they were the right kinds of things. Well, between third and fourth grade, I got access to Braille books. Cora Hershberger was hired by the school district to come in. She was a resource teacher with training in dealing with blindness and blind kids and so on. Michael Hingson  08:56 And there were a number of us, and she she was able to get us books, she was able to work with each of us and prove our Braille skills and my Braille skills especially, and so on. So I tell you all of that because I want to put things in perspective, and I think that the most important thing is the doctors told my parents that I couldn't do anything. My parents said, "Of course he can, and they brought me up believing that I could. So I rode a bicycle to school. Everybody still thinks that's amazing. One of the important things that I have learned over the years, and I've learned to articulate it even more effectively. I hope, certainly, I believe better since the World Trade Center, and I became a full-time keynote public speaker, which I've been doing for 25 years, I have learned to discuss this whole concept of blindness and accept the fact that there are going to be a lot of people who have eyesight who get it wrong. They think that, like the doctor said, blind people really can't do anything. You can't absorb the same material, or at least you don't get the same. As sighted people do, so you really aren't going to be able to do the things that we can do. And I have learned that I can't be angry at that. I've learned that in reality, I need to articulate the fact that blindness isn't the problem. The problem happens to be the misconceptions and poor attitudes that people have about blindness. It would be so easy just to be upset every time I hear some comment that talks about what I can do and what I can't do. You can't really ride a bicycle. That's amazing that you could do that. I can't imagine anybody else doing it. I know lots of blind kids who rode bikes, and I'm sure that they still do. Blindness isn't the problem. The reality is the problem consists of the misconceptions and poor attitudes that sighted people have about blindness. Whether you like it or not, that's the way it is. Blindness isn't the problem. We can learn to do the same things pretty much that you can do, and we can learn to do things that you can't do, and we learn all of that and use that knowledge to help us move forward and be more effective. What can I do that you can't do? Try walking around in the dark. You can't do it. You don't know how to do it. You don't have the techniques to do it. One of the things that has cropped up over the past significant number of years is restaurants do something called dining in the dark. Dining in the dark, and there are organizations that promote that, and they say, "Oh, you get to learn how blind people eat and how much of a challenge it is. That is so disgusting that people do that because dying in the dark isn't going to teach you anything about blindness. You don't get the training that you need in order to function as a blind person. Just like I don't get the training to learn how to function as a sighted person. Although I've spent a lot of time observing sighted people, and I understand a lot about eyesight, and I understand what you can do, and I accept that. But I expect, and I think it is reasonable for you to understand and accept that I can do lots of things. That it's not about eyesight. I wrote a book in 20, and it was published by Thomas Nelson Publishing in 2011. I and Susie Florey wrote the book. It's called Thunderdog: The True Story of a Blind Man, His Guide Dogs, and the Triumph of Trust at Ground Zero. And there is a section near the end of the book called Guide Dog Wisdom. And number two in Guide Dog Wisdom includes a sentence that says, "Don't let your sight get in the way of your vision. You all strictly deal with eyesight, and if it's not something that you can see with your eyes, or you don't really separate eyesight from vision, you tend to really misunderstand so many things. But the reality is, don't let your sight get in the way of your vision. Recognize there's a whole lot more to life than eyesight. Michael Hingson  13:01 SEAL Team Six, other military teams, so many other people learn how to use those other senses, and that's the same thing that we as blind people do. We learn to use our other senses. They're not magically enhanced simply because we go blind, but rather we learn how to use those senses? I hope, or we try to, and by doing so, we improve them and we develop them. And those of us who truly do that are a lot more better off, and we're able to do so many things that people think are amazing, but they're not. They're not really amazing. They're certainly not amazing to me. Anyway, I grew up believing all of that, and of course, I was also very fortunate to have a number of jobs throughout my career. And the final result of all of that was I ended up getting the opportunity to open an office in the World Trade Center for Quantum ATL, the company that hired me to open an office in New York, and there we were on September 11th when everything happened. The night, as September 11th ended, was spent by me and my wife Karen. By the way, Karen was in a wheelchair her whole life. We got married in November of 1982, and we were married through into November of 2022. We were married 40 years. Karen was in a wheelchair her whole life. It was a great marriage, as I love to tell people. She read, I pushed, worked out well. How do I push a person in a wheelchair? Well, she used a manual chair, and when we got to curbs and so on, she would stop, and she would hold the wheels, and and I knew that she had stopped. And I would tip the chair back. She might say, "There's a curb. I would tip the chair back onto its back wheels. We'd roll down off the curb, put the chair down. We'd cross the street, tip the chair up. Front wheels go up on the curb on the other side, unless there was a ramp to go up. And we continued on our way. It's not that magical. It is just what I learned to do, and I enjoyed it. and And I enjoyed Karen's company and so on for 40 years. We were locked down during the pandemic and so on. We'll get to some of that in a bit. But I learned overall that in reality, what my parents taught me was true. Blindness wasn't going to be the problem; eyesight was going to be the problem. And that night after September 11th, we kind of tried to make sense of it. It was me and Karen and a friend of Karen's who I also got to know, and who became a friend of mine. Tom Painter had come down. Tom and Karen went to the same high school, but we all ended up in New Jersey. And Tom came to visit us, actually visit Karen after September 11th started. When he heard about the terrorist attacks, he just came down, not knowing whether I was in the office or not. But I was, and Karen and Tom, well, Tom stayed with Karen and and drove her to pick me up at the Westfield, New Jersey train station at about 7p.m. on september 11. We went home with my guide dog Roselle. When we got home, I took Roselle's harness off because I was going to take her outside. She would have none of it. She ran off. She grabbed her favorite tug bone and started playing tug of war with my retired guide dog Linnie. Well, that was kind of fun, and I didn't think a lot about it. But I went. That was interesting. The next day, I contacted Guide Dogs for the Blind because several people from there had visited us in the World Trade Center, and among others, I spoke to the head of the veterinary department, and I said, "So, tell me, how is all this going to affect Roselle? Because everybody's talking about how it's going to affect everyone and all that, and and he asked me, "Did anything threaten directly Roselle? Did anything really threaten her? And I said, No, not really. Nothing directly affected her. And he said, Well, there you go. Dogs don't do what if. They live in the moment. Michael Hingson  17:13 And when you took the harness off, it was over for her, and she was ready to go play. She wanted to relax. She wanted to play, and she did. Oh, and yes, we did eventually get her outside. But the bottom line is, I think that's one of the most important things that I learned coming out of September 11th, and I, I kind of knew it beforehand, but I really got to understand it afterward. We what if everything to death? We what if anything that comes into our lives, well, we're we're in a war with Iran. Well, what if Iran bombs us? What if Iran does this? What if the Hooties do that? What are we going to do? What if our government takes us to war in the first place? Well, they have. The bottom line is, though, we don't have control over all of that. We do have control over some things in our lives, and those are the things that we should worry about. We should stop worrying about everything else. And people say, "Well, it's natural to worry. No, it's not. Not any more natural to worry than it is not to worry. We learn to worry because we're taught that. But the bottom line is, if we learn only to focus on the things over which we truly have control, and be aware of the other things, but don't let them worry us. Don't let them cause fear in our lives. We will live much less fearful and much more stress-free lives than in any other way. If you want another example of why I believe this, on September 11th, David Frank, my colleague who had come in to be involved with the seminars, David had come in the night before, and he came to our office about 8o'clock in the morning on the 11th of September. When we were escaping from the towers, we ended up downstairs and outside. David saw fire in Tower Two, and the way we happened to walk took us very close to Tower Two. We were at Broadway and Vessi Street, maybe 100 yards away from Tower Two. And when David stopped, he said, "You know, there's fire in Tower Two. I want to take pictures of it. And and I also wanted to try to call my wife Karen to let her know that we had gotten out of the towers, I couldn't get through. The circuits were busy because, as we later learned, people were calling and talking to loved ones. But anyway, David had just started putting his camera away. I had put my phone away, and a police officer yelled, "Get out of here! It's coming down right now! And we heard this sound I describe as kind of a combination of a freight train and a waterfall. I could hear glass breaking, metal clattering, and then just the building collapsing straight down. We didn't necessarily know that it was going to do that, but it did. It did exactly what it was designed to do. Anyway, everyone turned and ran. David ran. I turned 180 degrees. With Roselle, and started running back the other way. And as soon as I started to run, I thought to myself, "God, I can't believe that you got us out of a building just to have it fall on us. And I heard in my head a voice as clearly as you hear me right now-a voice that said, "Don't worry about what you can't control, focus on running with Roselle, and the rest will take care of itself. And I had this absolute sense of conviction that if we worked together, we would be fine. Well, we were. Where'd that voice come from? It was God talking to me. I grew up with my father very seriously believing in the concept of God. If you don't, that's fine. That is your choice. I've had people on my podcast who don't necessarily have strong beliefs and convictions about God. I do, but it's not my job to force people or compel people to believe in God. I will tell my story, and people can accept it or reject it as they choose. But that's what happened to me, and I've realized from that time on: don't worry about what you can't control. And I really, truly work very hard to focus on not worrying about the things that I don't have any influence over. Michael Hingson  21:16 I like to be aware of them. I hear from people all the time today about don't watch the news. I don't like to watch the news because it just makes me so angry and so fearful. And my response is, I'm going to watch the news because I want to know what's going on. And sometimes I'll yell at politicians through the TV, but I won't really overall get angry at them. I will hear it. I will either accept it or decide I don't have any influence over it, so I'm not going to worry about it, and I don't because it isn't going to help me to worry about it. It isn't going to help anyone else to worry about any of those kinds of things. Don't worry about what you can't control. Focus on what you can and leave the rest alone, and that's one of the basic premises of the third book that I wrote, which was published in 2024, entitled "Live Like a Guide Dog: True Stories from a Blind Man and His Dogs About Being Brave, Overcoming Adversity, and Moving Forward in Faith. And that book was written by me and Carrie Wyatt Kent. The book was published by Tyndale House, and is out there for people to to read. The first book was published by Thomas Nelson Publishing, which is now part of Harper Collins, and a lady, Jeanette Hanscom, and I wrote the second book, which is called Running with Roselle, which is really a book more for children, teaching them about me growing up, Roselle growing up, and how we met. A little bit about the World Trade Center. That one was self-published, but all three books are available wherever you can find books, so you can get them always from Amazon, of course. And so I hope that that you'll get them and read them. They will help. Live Like a Guide Dog probably is the best book for me to talk about in terms of things that I learned over the years, but if I really summarize mostly what happened for me after September 11th, it is that what happened on that day validated everything that I've believed about me. Certainly, what I believe about God, but it validates everything that I've ever thought about blindness, blind people, what we can do, the challenges we face, some of the issues that other people have, and the validation is certainly something that helped what I learned. But I learned other things along the way, and you know I want to talk about some of those things. The first, as I said, is don't worry about what you can't control. Focus on what you can, and let the rest take care of itself. Speaker 1  23:56 If you enjoy Unstoppable Mindset and would like to help us continue bringing these conversations to you each week, we've created a way for you to support the show. Your contribution helps us cover production costs and continue sharing stories, insights, and ideas that inspire people to live with purpose and possibility. If supporting the podcast feels right for you, you'll find the link in the show notes, thank you for being part of the Unstoppable Mindset Community. One Michael Hingson  24:28 of the things that happened to me almost immediately after September 11th is I started hearing people say, "We got to get back to normal. If we don't get back to normal, that's a problem. We got to get back to normal. And I always reacted internally, at least pretty negatively to that. And I finally realized why I reacted to that statement about we got to get back to normal. The reason I reacted to that statement, and I still react to to myself to that statement, is normal will never be the same again. We can't get back to normal. If we get back to normal the way it was prior to September 11th, the same thing will happen again. We can't do that. We have to get back to a different normal, and and in fact, normal is probably going to be an ongoing, constant process of change. We ought to learn not to fear that either. Change is all around us. We always say that, but then we don't like change. It's kind of a paradox. But the reality is, change is all around us. And what we really need to do is to learn how to focus in change. And we need to learn that in reality, we can deal with change. And if we have any influence over it, then we should do something about that too. But the bottom line is, getting back to normal prior to September 11th isn't going to help any of us, and and it isn't going to happen. So that is an one thing that I will say definitely. I learned from September 11th: normal will never be the same again. As I said a lot earlier, I think I probably learned about public speaking at least the beginning of it by doing the spelling tests and so on. But after September 11th, the media got my story, and that happened because Joanne Ritter, the public and information services person at the time at Guide Dogs wanted to write a story, and I kind of agreed. And I said, "That's fine. And then she said, "I'll bet you'll be on TV. What television show do you want to be on first? So I kind of just sort of flippantly said, "Larry King Live. That was on the 12th of September when I talked with her. On the 13th, she called back and she said, "Larry King wants you on his show on september 14, which was a Friday, and they sent a car to pick me up, and and I recall Karen and and Tom one as well, and anyway, we went into the World Trade Center, not to the World Trade Center, but we went into New York, and I appeared on CNN, which was the first of five interviews with Larry. Larry also, by the way, at my request, wrote the foreword for Thunderdog. So when you read Thunderdog, you'll get to read Larry's words as well. But after being on Larry King, the media really got my story, and a lot of things happened after that. I started getting literally calls every day for interviews. People wanted to talk to me about September 11th and ask questions and so on. And one of the things that I learned was that talking to reporters could be a great therapy because they would ask virtually any kind of question you can imagine. And of course, a lot of people said things like, "Well, did you know what happened on September 11th when it was happening? And I said no. And they said, well, of course you didn't. You're blind, you know. And my response is, anybody who says that really needs to not let their sight get in their way or their vision to be polite about it. The fact of the matter is, as we were going down the stairs, no one knew anything about what was going on. When I got into the stairwell, I began smelling an odor, and it took me four floors to realize I was smelling the fumes from burning jet fuel. I did a lot of travel for my company, and so I was in airports a lot. So I recognized that smell. People were speculating about what they were smelling. People were speculating about what was going on. Nobody had a clue. Michael Hingson  28:20 When I realized I was smelling jet fuel, I observed it to everyone around me, and they said, "You're right. That's what we're smelling. It's burning jet fuel. We must have been hit by an airplane. You see, no one knew. We had no clue. Superman and X-ray vision just aren't real. And the bottom line is, nobody knew what was actually happening on September 11th. Blindness have nothing to do with it. People want to feel more comfortable by saying, "Well, most people probably did know, but you're blind. You didn't know. We've got to get away from these habits of thinking that just because somebody is different than we are, that they're less than we are. That's just not true. In any case, the bottom line is that we we really deal with those kinds of things, and that helped me as as time went by recognize and realize that normal would never be the same again, and it validated more my belief that blindness isn't the problem; it's the misconceptions and poor attitudes that people have about blindness that tends to truly be the problem that we face. So, as I began to talk with reporters, I didn't think about what was actually happening. But later, I realized when people started saying, "Well, did you ever get counseling or therapy, and I said no. And then it just popped into my head to say I probably had the best therapy around. I got interviewed by hundreds of reporters that asked basically any question that you can imagine, and I learned to answer those questions without being upset, especially when they were asking pretty derogatory questions or making derogatory comments. Your dog led you down the stairs. No, my dog did not lead me down the stairs. Guide dogs do not lead; they guide. And I understand the definition of lead, but it's a little bit different than what people were truly saying. What they were saying is you didn't know anything, and the dog took you all the way down the stairs because the dog could see. No, in fact, Roselle didn't lead me. Roselle's job wasn't, and no guide dog's job is to lead a person or to take charge. The dog's job is to make sure that we walk safely. I also have a job on the team. My job is to make sure that I know where we're going and how to get there. A lot easier now than it was 25 years ago, but the bottom line is that I'm the one that has to direct the dog and give the dog commands, and the dog needs to make sure that we carry out those commands safely. We are a team; we work together. I've always kind of known that guide dog schools didn't necessarily early in my guide dog career, express it that way, but it's it's a much stronger statement now. They recognize that truly we're a team. We each have a job to do on the team, and we have to work together to make the team work, which is true of any team. I've mentioned Seal Team Six earlier. They're a team. They work together. The firefighters in the World Trade Center and the other people who who were around there worked as a team, and they had to work as a team in order to develop a level of trust and a relationship where essentially each person knew what the others on their team were going to do, and it gave them more of a confidence to be able to function. Teamwork is so crucial in our world, and I learned, and and again on September 11th, it was totally validated how teamwork is so important. Roselle and I worked together well. The firefighters worked together well. Yes, we lost people, but the team really is so important, and we need to recognize that anyone listening to this ought to work in any of the things that they do to develop teams. Being alone makes no sense; it isn't going to work. You're going to have to and should learn to work with other people to make teams work better. I've seen companies where when they have award ceremonies, the leader of a team or the boss of a team gets an award, but the rest of the team doesn't really get the same recognition. Michael Hingson  32:30 If a leader is truly doing a good job at creating a team and being a part of a team, then that leader is really enhancing everyone else on the team, and that leader is the person who should help to make sure that when awards are given, that everyone on a team is recognized. We need to to learn and realize that a team is a bunch of people. It's not just one people, but they learn to work together, and that is also so important. And as I learned more and more about the events of the World Trade Center, I learned and realized more about the whole understanding of teamwork and trust and the value of it. I knew about it with me and Roselle, and I recognized the concept of teamwork. But certainly, September 11th again validated that a whole lot more effectively than anything else that I could think of, but I worked with eight dogs over the years, and working with eight dogs from my first guide dog Squire, who was a golden retriever, up through my current guide dog Alamo, I've learned probably I think more than I ever learned from experts and teamwork and sales and so on and motivation. I learned more from those dogs than I ever learned from the human experts because of the fact that one, I had to build a team with a creature who didn't think the same way I did, who didn't talk the same language that I did, and that expected things from me, and and as one of the things that I've learned is that dogs who are guide dogs really want the human to be the pack leader because it is the pack leader, it is the human who's supposed to tell the dog what they want the dog to do, and dogs take that so incredibly seriously. I mentioned Linny. Well, I didn't mention her, I think, by name. But Lenny was my fourth guide dog, and we were out in in San Diego at a company meeting one Friday in May of 1999, and we came home. It was a Saturday morning that we got home. I flew a red eye home, fed Lenny, and then rested and and all that. But Saturday night, when it came time to feed Linny, I called her. She wouldn't come. Karen even called her. She wouldn't come. We went. Upstairs and found her lying on her bed, kind of really not very responsive. We got her to a veterinarian, and it took a few days for the veterinarian to diagnose what she had as something called glomerular nephritis, which is a disease where the kidneys, the glomeria of the kidneys, which would normally pass out bad stuff from the kidneys but not the good stuff. They were passing out the good stuff as well, and Lenny was was not doing well. We were able to reverse that, but she had to retire from being a guide dog. In fact, we thought in late June of 1999 that we were going to lose her. We went off to a a meeting, not a meeting, but we went off to a hotel to say goodbye to Linny, if you will, on like the second of July. But Linny didn't pass away then, and she did get better. And then Roselle came into our lives, and Roselle and Linny became really good friends, but I mention all of it because I had no clue what was happening to Linny. Guide dogs love their jobs; they take them very seriously. And the fact of the matter is, as I learned, and especially after September 11th, I learned that these dogs will work till they drop. They will. They will do everything they can to please us, because they love what we do. They love us, and we need to bestow the same kind of love on them, which is all part of what teamwork is all about. Well, the bottom line was with Linny. She was with us for three more years, and she got to play with Roselle a lot, and so on. Michael Hingson  36:41 Of course, as I also mentioned after September 11th, but I again, especially because of what happened to Linny, but then afterward on September 11th, I realized how much it was important for me to do all I could to keep the team relationship a positive, strong one, to recognize that in reality these dogs work so hard on their own part to make the team's relationships work. They they deal with what they have to deal with. They get very stressed if we're upset. They take it very personally if we get upset, even if we're not necessarily upset at them; they still take it very personally. The more stress that a guide dog faces in their lives, the harder it's going to be for them, and frankly, the shorter their lives are going to be. So I learned, even before September 11th, but especially after September 11th, to do all I could to keep the stress away from the dog. As we were going down the stairs on September 11th, I constantly encouraged and praised Roselle. What a good dog! Keep going. What a good job! Good girl, Roselle. Even if I wasn't able to hold the harness because the stairs were so crowded that Roselle couldn't walk next to me and had to walk behind me at heel, and I would just hold the leash. I kept praising her because I wanted her to know for her I was okay, and I had to focus on not being afraid and letting that fear come out. Well, I was fearful like anyone was, and in fact, I love to tell people. Being a great fan of science fiction, I have a great imagination, and I was listening for the building to make creaks and groans, and you never knew what was going to happen. Fortunately, it didn't all the way down. But the bottom line for me was that doing so kept me focused. And I and I learned later that while I might have been afraid on September 11th, partly because I was encouraging Roselle and working to sound very calm and confident, I was able to also help other people, but help Roselle and keep Roselle from being afraid and and being stressed. And I work very hard to do that with my guide dogs that I've had since even more than prior to September 11th. My current guide dog Alamo and I travel the world speaking all over the place, if you will. We've been to Israel. We've been well, actually, Alamo didn't get to go to London, but we've been to Israel with my seventh guide dog, Africa. We went to the Netherlands, Alamo and I have been to Wisconsin. I've been to a variety of places, and of course, all around the the world, all around the United States, to Canada, everywhere. And again, I don't necessarily know a lot about where we're going in advance, but I ask a lot of questions so that I can learn where we're going to go, so that I can give the dogs the appropriate commands. I mentioned Wisconsin's. I've been all over the United States. It's been an honor, and I'm going to continue to do that. If anybody wants a public speaker to come and talk to their organization, please reach out to me. I'd love to hear from you. My email address is really simple. It's speaker@michaelhinkson.com. We'll put that in the show notes, and love to hear from you. So anyway, I learned a lot about teamwork from working with eight guide dogs, and I continue to learn every day. I think it's very important for me to learn and to focus all that I can to make sure that I do what it is that's necessary to make a team work, and I believe it is all about the team. I've mentioned that I've written three books, and each one was a collaboration with someone else: Susie Florey with Thunderdog, Jeanette Hanscom with Running with Roselle and Carrie Wyatt Kent with Live Like a Guide Dog, and and the fact of the matter is those collaborations I think were very important. Michael Hingson  40:49 They made the books come out a lot different than I might have imagined them coming out by themselves and the way I would have written them without having collaboration, and probably Live Like a guide dog more than more than the other two, just because of the way it all went. But with live like a guide dog, we focused on each of my my guide dogs and the lessons that we learned. So I mentioned Squire, who I worked with in high school and then went to college with Squire, and Squire was was all around where wherever I was. One night in a dorm, I was with a roommate. Well, actually, a person who lived in a room next door to mine, and I was in his room. We were dealing with a physics problem. By the way, my master's degree is in physics. I have a secondary teaching credential, but I was in with Richard dealing with a physics problem. When I went back into my room, there was no Squire. I didn't realize that a couple of the students decided to play a trick and kidnap him. I went looking around the dorm. I even went into the bathroom and opened the shower door and called Squire, and nothing was totally quiet, and finally, I was getting a little bit concerned. And one of the people said, "Oh well, look, we took the dog. We'll show you. They went into the bathroom, opened the shower door, and out comes Squire. He was in on it. He didn't do a thing when I opened the door, but when the other people did, then then he came out. I wasn't mad at him. Sneaky dog that he is, he had a great sense of humor. But I got vengeance because that that person didn't tell the other people that they showed him where showed me where Squire was. I went and hit Squire somewhere, and then I went back out into the main part of the dorm and I started going, "Who took my dog? What's going on? Where is he? And all the other people said, "Oh, come on, he's in the bathroom. And they went in and opened the door to the shower. No Squire, and they were starting to worry about what happened to him. And Squire, of course, was again not making noise. But eventually, I brought him out and I said, "Okay, I found him. I knew where he was. We're playing a trick on you just like you played a trick on me. That'll teach you. I learned that dogs have a sense of humor that day, but I also learned how much I valued having Squire around, and so Squire worked with me up until and through my first graduate year in physics at UC Irvine, and then Squire retired and went to live with my parents. And in 1973, I got my second guide dog, Holland. Holland was with me through 1986. He worked for almost 13 years, and in fact, was two weeks from retiring when he collapsed in our backyard one day, and we took him to the vet. And the vet said, "I could probably bring him out of whatever he's got, maybe a stroke or a heart attack or both, but he won't have a good quality of life. And so we said goodbye to to Holland. Holland and Squire were both golden retrievers, but again, Holland so strongly reinforced all the things that that I had felt about teamwork, and I learned so much more from him about what I needed to do in order to to function well, not just with a dog, but in my whole life. Then I got Klondike, who was my third guide dog, who was also a golden retriever. Soon after I got Klondike, well, about a year after I got Klondike, suddenly one day he had a very strong grand mal epileptic seizure, and we took him to the vet, and they put him on some medication that wasn't really helping that. And we then kept trying to to deal with it, and finally, and during that same time, I was looking for a job. I had owned my own company for four years, but decided I wanted to go back into the workforce, and and I finally got a job with a company. Michael Hingson  44:52 And on one of the first days that I worked there, Klondike had four grand mal seizures in the. Period of time, and we thought we were going to have to say goodbye to Klondike. But I talked to our veterinarian, and he said, "You know, before we do that, I want to send him to a neurologist who did an electroencephalograph. And he said, "I didn't see much, but he said one thing he did was to take some blood tests, and he said I noticed that his Klondike's thyroid level is low, and low thyroid levels in dogs like Klondike can make them more susceptible to have seizures, just like it can for children. Well, we put Klondike on synthroid, synthetic thyroid, as well as on phenobarbital to control the seizures. The synthroid had much more of an effect than the phenobarb did, Klondike actually became a much more active and playful and interactive dog, and did not have from that time on for the next seven years that he worked for me as a guide dog never had a single seizure. So the thyroid theory was a good one. Again, with with Klondike, it was about developing a team and recognizing that we had to work together. Well, then I got Linny, and again I mentioned Linny only worked for three years. Linny had glomerular nephritis that was really probably from a tick bite where the tick had Lyme's disease, and we didn't know any of that was happening until that night that Linny didn't wake up at all or didn't get up from her bed, and we finally got it diagnosed. And then I got Roselle. Now Roselle was a a wonderful dog. One of the things that I've always said is that when I get a new guide dog and I tell the trainers I want a dog with an on-off switch. That is, I want a dog that knows when the harness is on, it's time to work, and when the harness is off, then they can play. Clearly, Roselle had that when she was in harness. She was very focused. She did develop a phobia of thunderstorms, but there were a few times that we had thunderstorms, and she was able to continue to guide, even though she would shake and she would shiver a little bit. But she continued to guide. She focused. In fact, there was a thunderstorm the morning of September 11th, about 12:30 in the morning. But there was no thunder when we were going through what we did in the World Trade Center, so none of that caused her to be fearful. But again, Roselle was a dog that that taught me a lot about observation, learning what the dogs do, what what they fear, and how to help keep them focused and calm. And so I did that. My sixth guide dog was Meryl. Meryl only worked for about a year. Roselle retired in 2007. Merrill worked from 2007 to 2008, but Merrill became very fearful of guiding, and so ended up not being a guide dog very long. And I I'd never experienced that, although I had heard other people who had issues where dogs didn't work very long. Lenny only worked for three years, but a dog that didn't work for more than a year-that was unusual for me. However, poor Meryl wasn't able to do well as a guide, and so she retired. And then we got Africa. Now Africa was my seventh guide dog. Africa's mother was Fantasia. In January of 2006, we were working. I was working at Guide Dogs for the Blind, and we applied to be what were called breeder keepers. That is, they were the the people who would keep a breeder dog in their home because the guide dogs for the blind bred their own guide dogs and so on. And breeder keepers would keep dogs in their homes so that the dogs weren't just cooped up in kennels all day, and we volunteered to do that. And the director of breeding, Marina Hall, called us and said, "I've got four dogs for you to look at. I think one's better than the others for you, but I want you to come and meet these dogs. So we went down, and and she made the comment again. I think one dog is going to be better than the others. Michael Hingson  49:02 And and I said, well, if you think so strongly, but which one is it? Well, she finally sort of told us. She said, I didn't want to tell you, but I'll tell you. So she did. But anyway, the first dog who came in was a dog named Fantasia, and it works sort of the same way that when people get guide dogs, you're in a room. The dog is allowed to come in, and you see how the dog reacts to you. When I met Squire for the first time, I was sitting in a chair. They let Squire in. He came over and started sniffing me all over. Didn't leave me. He just started sniffing. And Bruce Benzler, who was the apprentice instructor at the time, later became director of Guide Dogs for the Blind, CEO anyway, anyway. Bruce then said, "Looks like you found a friend already, and we became friends. But anyway, when when Fantasia came into the room, she took one look at Karen and leaped into Karen's lap. She had no fear of the power wheelchair that Karen was using by that time. The other three dogs, we still looked at them, and they all expressed one level of fear or concern about being around this wheelchair. But Marina said Fantasia was the one that we thought you'd like best and would like you best, and she was. So anyway, in 2006, we got Fantasia in January, and later that year, she had a litter of puppies, and then in early or mid 2007, she Fantasia had her second litter. I guess it was late in 2006 she had the second litter, but anyway, by the middle of 2008, when we had to retire Meryl because she wasn't working out very well, we were notified that they found a dog that they thought would be a really good replacement for Meryl, and that's a dog named Africa. And Karen and I realized Africa was a name that we suggested as as breeder keepers that they could name one of their puppies if they had puppies who came from an A litter. And the way it works, by the way, is when a litter is born, they're assigned a letter of the alphabet, and they got a big book, and they go into that book and they get the next names that are available. They don't use names of current guide dogs, so when a dog retires, then they can start using that name again. But anyway, Africa was a name that we suggested, and as soon as we saw the email that said Africa, we knew Fantasia was Africa's mother. Well, Africa came and joined us, and mom and daughter did really well, and Roselle was still with us. So the three of them have a lot of fun together, but again with Africa, I learned about teamwork and doing the things that I needed to do. Every dog is different, and one of the things that I developed over the years was an understanding that to truly develop a relationship with a dog takes probably close to a year by the time we really are totally comfortable with each other, but I worked with Africa. We became good friends. Africa became good friends with Roselle. Of course, Africa liked her mom, and all worked out really well. Developing those teeming relationships is so important, and you can learn a lot more about them if you get live like a guide dog. I think you'll find them all very interesting to to read about. So in 2017, I noticed that Africa was starting to slow down and not do as well. She wasn't able to see as well at night. Sort of typical signs of a dog getting older, even though I work to to keep stress out as much as possible, but I applied and in 2018 on the 9th of February, Africa's puppy raisers, Bill and Peggy Sproul from San Francisco or San Diego rather, came to visit us in Victorville, and we had offered them the opportunity to take Africa because we had Fantasia, and we had Africa. And if we kept Africa and Fantasia, and I got a new guide dog, Karen would have a hard time taking care of two dogs when I traveled, because I was doing a great deal of travel by then as a keynote speaker, and so the Sprouls came and got Africa. Michael Hingson  53:26 Left our house, Africa didn't even look back. She was gone. We had visited her several times since then, and and in in the Sprouls home, Africa died in 2020. But we we got to visit Africa several times and it was a lot of fun and and she she loved us and all that and remembered us anyway on the 11th of February two days later I went to Guide Dogs for the Blind and I met Alamo who was my first black Labrador and I met him we we met in the room and he kind of sniffed me a little bit and walked around the room. But then came back and sniffed me, and then I took him on leash back to our our dorm room at Guide Dogs for the Blind, and I decided I'd sit on the floor to to visit with him. And the next thing I know, this big, huge, 60 pound Labrador is in my lap. Alamo was and is a lapdog, but he doesn't know a stranger, which is great. I mentioned earlier that I always said that when I get a guide dog, I want a guide dog that has an on and off switch. Another thing that I require is that guide dogs that I get be raised by cats. I have known of animals who of guide dogs who don't like cats, and I would not want that because we always have had cats. And by that time, when we got Alamo, we had Stitch, who we rescued in January of 2015. So now here it is, February of 2018. So I knew that we needed to have a dog that wasn't going to be. Be afraid of cats. Well, so Stitch and Alamo kind of walked around each other a little bit when we first went home, but they got to like each other pretty well pretty quickly, and they have been together ever since. Alamo has been on a number of aircraft, as I've mentioned over the years, he went to Israel with me. He didn't go to England when I spoke in 2024, but he's been to other places and will continue to travel with me. I work really hard to keep the stress out of his life. I don't want him to become any more stressed than he ever has to be, and he feeds off of how I behave, as as I've learned guide dogs do. So that's one of the most important things that I've learned is to keep that stress out of his life. I would point out that is just as much true for human teams. Don't stress out your team. If you are a leader, your job is to enhance what those leaders, what the team does. Your job isn't to boss them around. If you're doing that, you're only causing more stress, and you're going to find you're going to have a big job turnover, much more than you really should. I've always felt that my job isn't to boss people around when I hire them, my job is to enhance their abilities by using the skills that I have and learning to work with them to give them the benefit of what I know and to use the benefits of what they know to learn myself as well, so that we become more effective. And the people who really get that do very well. The people who didn't get that tend not to last very long at the company because they don't perform very well. Because I know that in reality, I add value to the team by working to add value, not bossing the team around. I think there's a big difference between leaders and bosses, and I've learned that over the years. That leaders are people who can enhance what other people do, who work to make the whole team effective and not just try to boss people around. In late 2020, I discovered a company called Accessibe, A C C E S S I capital B E. Website is accessibee.com. Was a company that made products to help make internet websites more inclusive, and at first, they had some challenges because they were using a lot of AI stuff to make their products work, and they sort of did. But there were there were challenges. But one day in January of 2021, the founder of the company, Sheer Eckerling. Michael Hingson  57:41 contacted me and said we're interested in you joining the company. I had been looking at possibly selling their products because the pandemic had hit, and I thought I could sell them from home because we were locked down. And and he said, well, you know, we we'd like you to not sell as a partner, just on your own, we'd like you to join the company. Well, he asked what I was doing, and by that time I had started to learn about podcasting because I couldn't travel and speak all over the world. So what I decided to do was to look at using podcast as a revenue source. And Shear said, "Well, you know, we we're really interested in having somebody do a podcast for us. And I said, "What do you want? And he said, "I want to just get somebody who will do a podcast to show that we're part of the world. And you join the company; you could do that in part. I joined the company, and he didn't have any specific agenda for the podcast. So, in August of 2021, I began Unstoppable Mindset, and soon it became unstoppable mindset where inclusion, diversity, and the unexpected meet. And I'll explain all of that in a moment. But the point is that we started the podcast. I created the title. I recreated the description, and I wanted the podcast to be conversations. And as anyone who has been on the podcast knows, we don't do interviews as such. We do conversations, and I ask people to send me materials to help me prepare to be able to do the conversation. And so a number of times we've had diversity experts on people from the DEI world, and when I ask them what they do, they say, you know, we focus a lot on diversity, and I say, what does that mean? And they say, well, we deal with race, gender, sexual orientation, and so on. And we chat for a little while, and then I say, but you haven't talked about disabilities. And they say, oh, disability is not a minority. And I say, what do you mean? He said, well, disability is a social justice thing. It's not like race, gender, or sexual orientation. And my response to that is balderdash. I like to use balderdash. I could go back and use what Colonel Sherman Potter did on Mash and say monkey muffins. But anyway, balderdash because diversity should include disability because it is a minority. Even the Center for Disease Control says that. Adversity, or that that people with disabilities are a minority of about 25% of people in the United States. Well, so the bottom line for me is that I would say to them, "What do you mean you're you're not including it? And they say, "Well, it's a it's a disability, but it's social justice. It's always about being a lack of ability, and as I have learned, especially since September 11th and and beyond, disability does not mean a lack of ability. You might want to think it does. You might want to try to make that fit, but it doesn't. And I learned that most effectively in March of 2023 when I went to something, by that time Karen had passed, and I was working with a person who had been Karen's caregiver, who decided to work for me. Very grateful for Josie doing that. Josie entered my name in the contest to be a guest at the Kelly and Ryan Oscar after party, which was going to be held the Monday after the Oscars at the Dolby Theater, well, I didn't even know she entered me, but I got a call the Tuesday before the Oscar after party and the Oscars, and I was and I picked up the phone and they said congratulations, and I said for what? Oh, you won an invitation to come to the Kelly and Ryan Oscar after party, and I went really well. Anyway, I went down with my niece and nephew, Tracy and Charlie Green. The there wasn't room for taking Josie, her husband, and her mother and her five kids. So it was just me, Tracy, and Charlie. Michael Hingson  1:01:37 We got up to our room about 3o'clock in the afternoon on the Saturday before the Oscars, the day before the Oscars, we put our luggage in our room and we were coming back down the main stairwell staircase actually from the third to the first floor in the Hollywood Roosevelt. It's a very open staircase, and all of a sudden I heard people screaming, and it took me a while to to try to understand what's going on, and finally I couldn't figure it out. I said, Tracy, what's going on? And she said, Oh, we just lost power and lighting on the stairs, and and power and lighting in and around the entire hotel. Now it didn't bother Tracy. Tracy had known me for a long time, but people were panicky because they weren't getting all the light they expected, even though the windows were open, the the shades were up on the first floor in the lobby, and so on. Lots of light, but it wasn't all that people expected. And I thought about that, and what I learned from that was, it proves that disability isn't a lack of ability; it proves that disability is a characteristic that we all have. Thomas Edison and others worked on the light bulb, and Thomas Edison is credited with developing the electric light bulb back in 1878. But in the 148 years since the light bulb was developed, all society has done in that regard is worked very hard on coming up with better ways of providing light on demand, so that you sighted people could have all the light you want when you want it. Nowadays, we have smartphones, we have flashlights, we have other ways of getting light on demand. But as the Americans with Disabilities Act would describe it. The light bulb is simply, or any piece of technology that produces light on demand, is simply a piece of technology that provides light on demand to light-dependent people who otherwise don't function well without it. The bottom line is, disability is not a lack of ability. We got words like discrete, discern, disciple. What is discern? Is it a lack of discern? What is it? What is disciple? A lack of viple? No. Disability is not a lack of ability. Disability is a character

Three hours. That's the kind of clock Nashville can put on a recording session, and it forces you to learn fast or get left behind. We sit down with country music recording artist Stephen Quinn to unpack what it really felt like to walk into a Nashville studio for the first time to cut “Get It Girl” with seasoned session musicians and a producer who actually cared about getting it right. If you've ever wondered how professionals can hear a song once, chart it, and deliver a finished track at speed, this conversation puts you in the room.We also dig into the role that rarely gets enough credit: the vocal coach. Stephen explains why he brings Velvet, his longtime coach and co-writer, into high-stakes sessions, how she balances technical corrections with creative choices, and why having the right ears in the room can make your vocals stronger and the entire recording process smoother. From work tapes recorded on iPhone voice memos to “living with the lyrics” before committing to production, we get specific about songwriting habits that help independent artists finish better songs.Then the story opens up. Stephen walks us through his American Idol journey, from pre-dawn cattle-call auditions to Hollywood Week at the Dolby Theater, including the nerves, the friendships, and the performance moments that stick. We talk about his patriotic song “Stand Up,” what “country” means as a way of life, and why audiences stand up when the message hits. Finally, he shares what it's like to sing the national anthem at a Jacksonville Jaguars playoff game, why he keeps it traditional, and how local relationships helped land a Country Fest slot opening for Ashley Cook.If you enjoy honest artist conversations about Nashville recording, country songwriting, music video production, American Idol, and performing live, subscribe, share this with a friend, and leave a review so more listeners can find the show.Send us Fan MailSupport the showLinksJay Franze: https://jayfranze.com/JFS Countdowns/Playlists: https://jayfranze.com/playlists/ContactContact: https://jayfranze.com/contact/SocialsInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/jayfranzeYouTube: https://youtube.com/@jayfranzeEverywhere: @jayfranzeServicesServices: https://jayfranze.com/services/BooksBooks: https://jayfranze.com/books/MerchandiseMerchandise: https://jayfranze.com/merchandise/SupportSupport: https://jayfranze.com/support/Sponsor the Show: https://jayfranze.com/sponsor/Shout OutsHigh Mountain Breezes Music: https://highmountainbreezesmusic.com/VR Knives: https://www.facebook.com/VRKnives

In this episode, Dennis recounts the recent MisMatch Game: Bad Luck of the Irish Friday the 13th Edition, shooting pre-Oscar interview with host Conan O'Brien, attending the early morning taping of Live with Kelly & Mark at the Dolby Theater on the day after the Oscars, and have the first-ever table reading of his first-ever play Trade-Offs and crying through much of it. At the cinema, Dennis catches the new movies Nirvanna the Band The Show The Movie and Project Hail Mary, both of which he loved, and revisited an oldie Grease 2, which is a musical virtually devoid of singers, but still fun. He also talks about the stage shows Sweet Charity and Monkeys on My Back and Everywhere Else and Darren Hayes' Oscar night concert at the Troubadour in West Hollywood. In the Happiness chunk, Dennis talks about the good vibes he felt watching the Oscars and why he thinks Teyana Taylor has got it all figured out.

We made it to the grand finale of the awards season! Listen to Anne and Ryan share their thoughts on the big races, how the show went over live inside the Dolby Theater, and what projects the winners have coming up next. Then they peek ahead at the Cannes film festival and discuss its effect on the Oscars, and also look to the upcoming "Dune: Part 3" and its place in Chalamet's career following his best actor loss. 0:00 - Reviewing the Oscars telecast 10:27 - After parties and the problem with press access 18:27 - What's up next for the Oscar winners? 29:10 - A peek ahead at Cannes 30:41 - "Dune: Part 3" trailer and Timothée Chalamet's post-loss career. Listen to IndieWire's Filmmaker Toolkit Podcast, a weekly conversation with leading Directors and Showrunners about their process and craft. Learn the tools of the trade behind your favorite films and series. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/indiewires-filmmaker-toolkit/id1142632832 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jason Fraley celebrates Oscar Week with a special 10th anniversary flashback to his first trip to cover the Academy Awards at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood as a live contributor for CBS News Radio in 2016, culminating today with "Spotlight" winning Best Picture. You'll first hear Jason's interview with writer/director Tom McCarthy and co-writer Josh Singer at the film's Washington D.C. premiere at the National Portrait Gallery in November 2015, where Jason also interviewed "The Wire" creator David Simon, who hosted a Q&A with the real Boston Globe reporters. You'll then go backstage at the Oscars in 2016 to hear McCarthy and Singer react to winning Best Original Screenplay, followed by "Spotlight" producers Michael Sugar, Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin and Blye Pagon Faust celebrating Best Picture. Finally, you'll hear Jason catch up with David Simon again in 2017 to react to "Spotlight" winning Best Picture and the troubling state of journalism in the 21st century. (Theme Music: Scott Buckley's "Clarion ")

Jason Fraley celebrates Oscar Week with a special 10th anniversary flashback to his first trip to cover the Academy Awards at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood as a live contributor for CBS News Radio in 2016. Each day this week, you'll hear the audio Jason recorded backstage as the winners left the stage and entered the press room holding their Oscars, continuing today with Alejandro González Iñárritu, who won Best Director for "The Revenant," as well as his Oscar-winning cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki. (Theme Music: Scott Buckley's "Clarion ")

Jason Fraley celebrates Oscar Week with a special 10th anniversary flashback to his first trip to cover the Academy Awards at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood as a live contributor for CBS News Radio in 2016. Each day this week, you'll hear the audio Jason recorded backstage as the winners left the stage and entered the press room holding their Oscars, continuing today with Mark Rylance, who won Best Supporting Actor for "Bridge of Spies," and Alicia Vikander, who won Best Supporting Actress for "The Danish Girl." (Theme Music: Scott Buckley's "Clarion ")

Jason Fraley celebrates Oscar Week with a special 10th anniversary flashback to his first trip to cover the Academy Awards at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood as a live contributor for CBS News Radio in 2016. Each day this week, you'll hear the audio Jason recorded backstage as the winners left the stage and entered the press room holding their Oscars, continuing today with Brie Larson, who won Best Actress for "Room." (Theme Music: Scott Buckley's "Clarion ")

Jason Fraley celebrates Oscar Week with a special 10th anniversary flashback to his first trip to cover the Academy Awards at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood as a live contributor for CBS News Radio in 2016. Each day this week, you'll hear the audio Jason recorded backstage as the winners left the stage and entered the press room holding their Oscars, starting today with Leonardo DiCaprio, who won Best Actor for “The Revenant." Leo is nominated again this year for "One Battle After Another." (Theme Music: Scott Buckley's "Clarion ")

Sponsoreret indhold: Denne episode af Filmnørdens Hjørne præsenteres i stolt samarbejde med Sony BRAVIA. I forbindelse med Sonys kampagne 'Cinema is Coming Home' har vi opgraderet studiet med et komplet hjemmebio-setup (et 65" BRAVIA 8 II OLED-TV og en BRAVIA Theatre Bar 6 soundbar). Vi prøvekører udstyret i dybden længere inde i episoden og tester, hvordan det kan bringe biografmørket hjem i stuen. Læs meget mere lige her: Cinema is coming home BRAVIA 8 II BRAVIA Theatre System 6 Og lad så komme i gang! Traditionen tro er Hollywood på den anden ende, og vi følger trop! For 17. gang i Filmnørdens Hjørnes historie sætter vi os bag mikrofonerne for at guide jer igennem årets Oscar-uddeling med alt, hvad dertil hører af pomp, pragt og pedantisk nørderi. Lad os bare være ærlige: Dette er muligvis vores længste episode nogensinde. Vi rammer vanvittige 5 timer og 48 minutter! Hvis du rent faktisk lytter hele denne ørkenvandring igennem, har du tydeligvis ikke nok at lave i din hverdag, men vi elsker dig for det. I år har redaktør Casper Christensen allieret sig med Hjørnets egen "Oscar Rain Man" Lars B. Frahm, Oscar-visdomskilden Nikolaj Tarp og vores in-house Oscar-gambler Jannik Hansen. Sammen tygger vi os igennem alle 24 kategorier (inklusive den spritnye casting-kategori!), diskuterer om 16 nomineringer til 'Sinners' er en genistreg eller rent vanvid, og debatterer om Oscar helt har mistet folkeligheden i overgangen fra de store blockbusters til arthouse. Som et særligt pusterum i marathonet har vi også et eksklusivt interview med Lian-Cho Han, medinstruktøren bag den Oscar-nominerede animationsfilm 'Little Amelie', der fortæller om den vilde rejse fra kældermørket til den røde løber. Og så skal I glæde jer til at stifte bekendtskab med aftenens nye maskinelle, men utroligt kyniske MC: AI-værten Dallin. Vi har skabt et sirligt kapitel-overblik herunder, så din podcast-app lader dig springe præcis derhen, hvor du vil. Rigtig god fornøjelse, og husk at strække benene undervejs! Tidskoder / Kapitler: 00:00:00 - Sony BRAVIA pre-roll & Velkomst i lobbyen 00:17:12 - Info om årets show (Conan O'Brien, de nye Akademiregler og The Dolby Theater) 00:24:49 - De danske Oscar-håb 00:32:28 - Sony BRAVIA mid-roll 00:34:02 - Mød vores nye (og trætte) AI-vært, Dallin 00:38:46 - Gennemgang af kategorier starter: Best Animated Short Film 00:52:49 - Best Live Action Short Film 01:03:03 - Best Documentary Short Film 01:18:21 - Best Makeup and Hairstyling 01:28:55 - Best Sound 01:34:14 - Sponsor-indslag: Sony BRAVIA-indslag01:43:43 - Scientific and Technical Awards (Janniks nørde-hjørne) 01:52:17 - Årets Æres-Oscars (Tom Cruise m.fl.) 01:59:01 - The Razzies: Årets værste film 02:03:26 - Best Costume Design 02:11:30 - Best Production Design 02:19:08 - Best Visual Effects 02:27:11 - Best Original Song 02:38:16 - Best Original Score 02:50:13 - Den NYE kategori: Best Casting 03:07:18 - Interview: Lian-Cho Han (Instruktør, 'Little Amelie')03:15:57 - Spørg Oscarhjørnet: Lytterspørgsmål & 'Sinners'-hypen 03:40:15 - Best Documentary Feature 03:49:47 - Best International Feature Film 04:00:39 - Best Cinematography 04:08:21 - Best Film Editing 04:18:10 - Best Actor in a Supporting Role 04:25:00 - Best Actress in a Supporting Role 04:32:43 - Fra Titanic til Arthouse: Har Oscar mistet folkeligheden? (Og flytningen til YouTube) 04:46:49 - Lytterspørgsmål: Hvad er "Oscar Bait" i 2026? 04:54:18 - Best Original Screenplay 05:01:49 - Best Adapted Screenplay 05:06:34 - Best Actor in a Leading Role 05:13:20 - Best Actress in a Leading Role 05:19:16 - Best Directing 05:26:10 - Best Picture (Og de endelige overraskelser) 05:41:00 - Afslutning & Oscar-natten på Hjørnet 05:45:13 - Dallins post-credit undskyldning Værter & Gæster: Vært: Casper Christensen Medværter: Jannik Hansen, Lars B. Frahm, Nikolaj Tarp Gæst: Lian-Cho Han MC: Dallin (AI) Støt Filmnørdens Hjørne (Value-for-Value): Denne episode er gratis, men kræver blod, sved, tårer og litervis af kaffe at producere. Hvis du elsker det vi laver og vil støtte podcasten direkte, kan du gøre det via vores hjemmeside under menupunktet "Støt". Hver en skilling går til at holde serverne kørende og nørderiet i live: https://filmnoerden.dk/stoet Podcast-anbefaling (Podroll): Mangler du endnu mere Oscar-nørderi i dit liv? Så tjek podcasten Oscar Redux ud! https://pod.link/1797552261 Her går Nikolaj Tarp og Nikolaj Schulz tilbage i tiden for at second-guesse og omdele de historiske Oscar-priser år for år. En absolut "must-listen" for historiske filmnørder! Med venlig hilsen, Casper, Jannik, Lars & Nikolaj

It's cold outside, the Holidays are here, and you know what that means: It's Cursed-Discourse Awards-Season, motherf@ckers! Not-even-close-to-live from a theatre miles away from the Dolby Theater, it's the Third Annual Cursties!!! For the third year in a row, Moira, Adrian and special guest Michael Hobbes give out awards for the most cursed discourses around sex and gender for 2025. Problem is: we've dealt with so many cursed discourses around sex and gender in 2025, and pretty much all cursed discourses seem to have with gender panic these days. And In Bed with the Right has covered so so so so many of them!So we decided to narrow our noms to one particular genre of cursedness this year, and to present awards for ... drumroll ... achievements in anti-wokeness.! From queer tieflings to kids getting coddled in the 4th dimension, from socialist mayors (and not the one you're thinking of!) to French people teaching Americans how to islamophobia, to the world's creepiest Blue Man Group, this one has something for everybody!Some links to articles we mention:-- Matt Bernstein's in-depth episode on the long dark road of Debra Messing can be found here-- Adrian's New Republic article about a row over "islamogauchisme" in France can be found here-- Michele Goodwin's interview with Jess Michaels as part of her series Surviving Epstein can be found here

Intro and Outro @fiverr. Edited @fiverr.Follow the show @dreaspointofview on ig, fb, and threads. Follow the show @dreapoint on x and spill. This episode is a review about a comedy show I attended at Dolby Theater. Subscribe to the show and leave a review at www.theedreaspointofview.com. Subscribe to my FREE weekly newsletter at dresspointofview.substack.com.

Send us a textOh what a thrillifying special NBC treated us to with Wicked: One Wonderful Night! Tara and EmKay break down highlights from their time at the Dolby Theater, favorite moments of the special, and share final Wicked: For Good thoughts before seeing the film.Show Notes:@JoliCreates Instagram@JoliCreates Tik TokOddment and TweakInstagram: @downtheyellowbrickpod#DownTheYBPTara: @taratagticklesEmKay: www.emilykayshrader.netPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/downtheyellowbrickpodEtsy: https://www.etsy.com/market/down_the_yellow_brick_podMusic by: Shane ChapmanEdited by: Emily Kay Shrader Down the Yellow Brick Pod: A Wizard of Oz Podcast preserving the history and legacy of Oz

A week of firsts on this week's episode of Lone Lobos! Jacob shares his experience of spending an entire day at a golf course with Xolo, plus his first time in France and Italy. He gushes over his first Mercedes Benz fashion week event in Paris and makes pasta from scratch. Jacob also discusses the future of AI with Black Eyed Peas member and producer Will.i.am. Later, Jacob Bertrand and Xolo Maridueña experiment with talking to AI versions of themselves on the podcast. Our Lobitos Exclusivos can watch a mini vlog of our experience at Paley Fest 2025 at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood. Look out for full-length interviews uploaded to Supercast later this week. Free Discord Access:https://discord.gg/KnDhbnBMCjJoin Supercast Today for the full episode:https://lonelobos.supercast.com/Follow Lone Lobos on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lonelobosFollow Jacob Bertrand on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thejacobbertrandFollow Xolo Maridueña on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/xolo_mariduenaFollow Jordan on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jmkm808Follow Monica on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/officialmonicat_http://www.heyxolo.com/Jacobs Channel: @ThreeFloating

In this episode, Olivia and Emily discuss their experiences and insights from the recent Oscars. They delve into Emily's early morning adventure at the Dolby Theater, their predictions and results from the awards, and the surprises that unfolded during the night. The conversation also touches on the marketing strategies behind Oscar campaigns, the scrutiny celebrities face, and the importance of cultural sensitivity, especially regarding language barriers. They also reflect on the dynamics of privilege, time management, and equity in the context of the Oscars. The sisters conclude with the importance of respecting all voices in the film industry and the subjectivity of awards and the value of artistic expression beyond accolades. Chapters00:00 Introduction and Oscars Overview02:20 Emily's Oscars Experience05:47 Predictions and Results07:20 Surprises and Insights from the Oscars11:55 Marketing and Psychology in Film Awards15:58 Celebrities Under Scrutiny18:39 Cultural Sensitivity and Language Barriers23:45 Controversies and Gossip from the Oscars24:00 Privilege and Space in Public Discourse25:28 Respecting Time and Voices at the Oscars25:54 Equity in Award Recognition30:45 The Role of Moderation in Award Speeches34:18 Impactful Speech: Lessons from Sean Baker35:48 The Demi Moore v. Mikey Madison Thoughts38:16 Was Timothée Chalamet Too Young to Win?39:39 The Subjectivity of Awards and Artistic ValueJump into the conversation: Instagram: @sistersandthestarsYoutube: @sisterandthestarsEmail: sistersandthestars@gmail.com

This week we're excited to have Jeffery Self to chat about his book Self Sabotage and Other Ways I've Spent My Time coming out March 11th! Bryan regales us with what happened at The Academy Awards IRL including a bathroom emergency and the snack situation inside the Dolby Theater. Bryan then discusses the unfortunate news out of Iowa where for the first time gender identity has been removed as a protected class under state law prohibiting discrimination. Erin briefs us on Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's writings as an author which have inspired his way of firing those in the military who don't fit his white male narrative. For this week's bonus Dateline Recap visit www.patreon.com/attitudesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Multiple sources told RadarOnline.com Costner, 69, and Stone, 66, only had eyes for each other at the 2024 Governors Awards at Dolby Theater in Hollywood. "They started off politely with small talk then he put on his Kevin Costner charm, you know, like the vibes he gave off in Bull Durham and Tin Cup, like 'heyyyy baby'. She claimed her ex-husband, Phil Bronstein, "thought the same" as Costner's estranged wife Baumgartner. Costner married Baumgartner in 2004 and welcomed three children: sons, Cayden, 16, and Hayes, 14, and 13-year-old daughter, Grace.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

The Chicago International Film Festival kicks off its 60th year later this month, and for the ambitious filmmaker, getting on the fest's programming may be an important stop on the road to Hollywood's Dolby Theater. Reset checks in with WBEZ arts and culture reporter Courtney Keuppers and Rebecca Fons, director of programming for the Gene Siskel Film Center, one of the theaters participating. For a full archive of Reset interviews, head over to wbez.org/reset.

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Cinéfilos, el invitado de hoy es sin duda una de las figuras más emblemáticas de la televisión mexicana. Seguramente ustedes conocen a Adrián Uribe por interpretar al Vítor en La Hora Pico. Pero él en realidad ha creado más de 20 personajes diferentes, ha hecho teatro, novelas, realities, canta, baila, ha sido host de populares programas como 100 Mexicanos Dijieron y De Noche Pero Sin Sueño. También ha hecho stand up, y sus shows de comedia han llenado icónicos recintos, como el Dolby Theater, lugar en donde se llevan a cabo los premios Oscar. Además, ha incursionado en el cine desde el 2008, pues protagonizó cintas como Suave Patria, y también ha hecho doblaje en cintas como Garfield y Angry Birds. Adrián Uribe es un actor que saltó a la fama en un momento en que la cultura pop mexicana comenzaba a crear programas irreverentes y provocadores sin enfrentar tanta censura. Pero recientemente, ha dado un giro en su carrera haciendo cintas más retadoras, como Infelices para siempre, un experimento que mezcla comedia y ciencia ficción. Y ahora, Adrián Uribe estrena El Candidato Honesto, una sátira política en donde quiere burlarse de las cosas más locas que hemos visto en la política del país. Así que, cinéfilos, démosle la bienvenida a HDC…

We're saying goodbye to the 2024 Oscar season this week at the Water Cooler. Megan just returned from attending the 96th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theater, so we thought it would be an interesting experiment to compare experiences watching at home and watching in the room. We review the highlights and lowlights of the […] The post Oscars Telecast: Taking In the Show From Home and From Inside the Dolby appeared first on Awards Daily TV.

Nesse episódio do Verdade Seja Dita, falo sobre o melhor e o pior do Oscar, que aconteceu no Dolby Theater, em Hollywood, no último domingo, encerrando uma longa e previsível temporada de premiações com Oppenheimer levando a estatueta nas principais categorias.A falta de diversidade entre os vencedores ficou mais evidente que nunca, em uma cerimônia  com poucos discursos relevantes e emocionantes.Confesso que o evento que eu estava no Museu da Academia, regado a vinho e guloseimas, pareceu mais divertido do que o Oscar em si, mas celebrei a conquista de alguns dos meus favoritos, roteiro original para Anatomia de uma Queda e roteiro adaptado para American Fiction. Sem contar com a divina Da'Vine (Os Rejeitados), na categoria melhor atriz coadjuvante. E, também curti, o formato da apresentação das categorias de atuação, que trouxeram de volta ganhadores do Oscar em anos anteriores para apresentar  os vencedores desse ano, com direito a um discurso personalizado para cada indicado.Mais detalhes, no papo de hoje. Aperte o play, confira e me fale se seus filmes favoritos foram reconhecidos e o que você achou da cerimônia.

Rivka and Frank review the 2024 Academy Awards, AKA The Oscars. They discuss the pro-Palestinian protest outside the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, director Jonathan Glaser's (somehow) controversial acceptance speech for The Zone of Interest, Emma Stone's surprise victory, and all of glitz and glam of Hollywood's biggest night.  CeasefireToday.com 5 Calls

« Gaza entame le mois de ramadan sans cessez-le-feu », constate le New York Times. « Les espoirs internationaux de parvenir à un arrêt des combats dans la bande de Gaza avant le mois sacré du ramadan se sont évanouis hier dimanche, déplore le quotidien américain, quelques heures avant que les Palestiniens n'entament le mois de jeûne. Le Hamas a réitéré ses demandes de cessez-le-feu global, demandes rejetées par Israël. L'Égypte, le Qatar et les États-Unis avaient tenté de négocier une trêve et on s'attendait à un accord de dernière minute qui aurait permis la libération de certains otages israéliens détenus à Gaza et de Palestiniens incarcérés dans des prisons israéliennes. Mais, soupire encore le New York Times, c'est l'impasse après des semaines de négociations indirectes. »Et hier dimanche 10 mars, les bombardements israéliens sur Gaza se sont poursuivis, faisant des dizaines de morts.« Sous une tente délabrée… »C'est dans ce contexte, relève le Guardian à Londres, que « les familles déplacées se préparent à passer le mois sacré de ramadan entre pénuries alimentaires et peur des attaques ».Le Guardian qui a pu recueillir le témoignage de la famille al-Masry : « dix jours après avoir été forcés de quitter leur maison à Khan Younis, dans le sud de Gaza, Hanaa al-Masry, son mari et leurs six enfants se préparent pour le Ramadan dans leur nouvelle maison : une tente délabrée. Ici, pas de décorations, pas de repas de famille joyeux et pas de lecture du Coran sous les citronniers et les orangers du jardin ». Non, pointe le quotidien britannique, « le mois sacré musulman – un moment pour les amis et la famille ainsi que pour la contemplation religieuse, la prière et le jeûne – commence ce lundi et ne ressemblera à aucun autre dont quiconque à Gaza puisse se souvenir. (…) Cette année, il n'y aura pas de lanternes, relève encore le Guardian. Masry ne préparera ni le suhoor, le repas pris avant le début du jeûne rituel d'une journée, ni l'iftar à sa fin. (…) À Rafah, les produits de première nécessité manquent. Beaucoup survivent grâce à du pain plat cuit au feu de bois ou sur des plaques de cuisson à gaz, et à des conserves transportées par camion par les agences humanitaires depuis l'Égypte. Un demi-kilo de sucre coûte désormais 10 dollars et le sel est presque introuvable. Les fruits ou légumes frais sont rares et très chers ».La guerre à Gaza s'invite aux OscarsConséquence inattendue de la guerre à Gaza : certains invités à la cérémonie des Oscars à Hollywood cette nuit sont arrivés en retard.C'est ce que remarque Die Welt à Berlin : plusieurs manifestations contre la guerre ont eu lieu autour du Dolby Theater. Il y a eu des affrontements avec la police. « La principale revendication des manifestants, pointe le quotidien allemand : un cessez-le-feu immédiat. En conséquence, certains invités à la cérémonie des Oscars sont donc arrivés en retard ».À lire aussiTriomphe d'«Oppenheimer» qui remporte l'Oscar du meilleur film et six autres statuettesDie Welt note encore que « sur le tapis rouge, plusieurs stars, dont la chanteuse Billie Eilish, ou l'acteur Mark Ruffalo portaient des épinglettes rouges pour appeler au cessez-le-feu. La star du film Pauvres Créatures, le comédien américain Ramy Youssef, a également appelé à la fin des combats. Et le réalisateur britannique Jonathan Glazer, dont le film sur Auschwitz, La Zone d'intérêt, a remporté l'Oscar du meilleur film étranger, s'est montré pour le moins direct : "Nous sommes ici, a-t-il dit, en tant que personnes qui refusent que leur identité juive et l'Holocauste soient détournés par une occupation qui a conduit à un conflit pour tant d'innocents – qu'ils soient les victimes du 7 octobre en Israël ou de l'attaque en cours contre Gaza" ».France : Macron en faveur d'une aide à mourirEnfin à la Une également, en France, Emmanuel Macron se prononce en faveur d'une aide à mourir.Le président de la République annonce dans un entretien avec Libération et La Croix qu'un projet de loi sur la fin de vie sera présenté en Conseil des ministres en avril. Un projet qui prévoit la possibilité de demander une « aide à mourir » dans des conditions strictement encadrées, à la différence d'un suicide assisté ou de l'euthanasie.Commentaire de Libération : « après vingt ans d'attente et deux ans d'hésitations, c'est une avancée majeure ».La Croix, de son côté, s'interroge : « l'aide à mourir peut-elle être un geste de fraternité, terme revendiqué par le président de la République ? » Réponse du quotidien catholique : « la fraternité serait mieux placée dans l'aide à vivre ».À lire aussiFrance: Macron annonce un projet de loi pour une «aide à mourir» sous «conditions strictes»

C'est dimanche que le gratin du cinéma mondial se retrouvera pour la plus grande cérémonie du 7ème art au Dolby Theater d'Hollywood et devant plus de 50 millions de téléspectateurs dans le monde. Les Oscars, c'est le rêve américain que bon nombre de français ont touché du doigt en remportant la fameuse statuette. "Jour J", c'est l'émission des grands entretiens d'actualité. Chaque jour, Flavie Flament explore les coulisses et les détails de l'info d'hier et d'aujourd'hui avec un témoin-expert. Une heure d'analyse et d'archives pour comprendre l'actualité avec recul et nuance. Ecoutez Jour J du 07 mars 2024 avec Flavie Flament.

Será el próximo domingo 10 de marzo cuando las estrellas más importantes del séptimo arte se reúnan en el Dolby Theater, de Los Ángeles, para celebrar los Premios Oscar 2024; Hace unas horas, los organizadores de la gala dieron a conocer la lista de celebridades que actuarán como presentadores en donde resalta Bad Bunny. Todavía se desconoce cuál será el premio que entregue, pero Benito no estará solo ya que compartirá escenario, nada más y nada menos que con Chris Hemsworth, Dwayne Johnson "La Roca", Michael Keaton, Jennifer Lawrence, Rita Moreno, Catherine O'Hara, Octavia Spencer y Ramy Youssef, solo por mencionar algunos. Los Premios de la Academia serán presentados por Jimmy Kimmel y se se transmitirá en vivo por la cadena ABC; así como diferentes señales en todo el mundo

Mi lehetett az a rejtélyes folt Erős Antónia mellkasán a csütörtöki Híradóban? rtl.hu     2024-01-26 17:47:47     Bulvár Erős Antónia A csütörtöki RTL Híradó 32. percében még semmi nem látszódott Erős Antónia ruháján, a 36. percben viszont már egy folt éktelenkedett ott. Mi történt a stúdióban? Erős Antónia elmesélte. Nyolc követelőző filmsztár, akit végül kénytelenek voltak az alkotók a sarokba állítani Player     2024-01-26 17:30:37     Film Még egy világsztárnál is előfordulhat, hogy megrészegül önnön star powerjétől és ennek folyományaként túlbecsüli a saját érdekérvényesítő képességét. Itt van nyolc filmes, aki azt hitte, bármit kérhet, csak hogy megmozdítsa a fenekét. Aztán jött a koppanás. Mindenkit meglepett, hol tűnt fel idén először közösen Harry és Meghan Hamu és Gyémánt     2024-01-27 06:32:01     Film Mozi Meghan Markle A Los Angelesben élő pár első idei közös kiruccanása a Karib-térségbe vezetett, ahol egy mozi világpremierjén tűntek fel – mindenki legnagyobb megdöbbenésére. Mától nézheted: Végre megérkezett Spielberg és Tom Hanks új, 2. világháborús repülős sorozata, A levegő urai Austin Butlerrel Mafab     2024-01-26 20:19:02     Film Repülőgép Apple Tom Hanks Steven Spielberg Izgalmas hírekkel szolgálhatunk a történelem rajongóinak. A Tom Hanks és Steven Spielberg közreműködésével készült második világháborús minisorozat, A levegő urai mától elérhető az Apple Tv+-on. Jodie Foster: Mindig el tudtam dönteni, mikor érezzek és mikor ne. Egyesek ezt sérült léleknek hívják – Portré WMN     2024-01-27 06:36:00     Film "Anyukám folyton azt mondogatta nekem, hogy most kell dolgoznom, amennyit csak bírok, mert mire 40 leszek, vége lesz. Most meg elmúltam 60, és sosem voltam ennyire elfoglalt" – idézte fel Jodie Foster, a nagy visszatérő, akit a Nyad című filmben nyújtott alakításáért 30 év után ismét Oscar-díjra jelöltek, mi pedig röviden vázoljuk, milyen út vezete A Bridgerton-rajongók rájöttek, ki vezeti majd oltárhoz Penelopét in.hu     2024-01-26 19:46:03     Film Párkapcsolat Esküvő Penelope és Colin A Bridgerton család sorozatának közelgő évadában összeházasodik, ami az év talán legjobban várt esküvője lesz. A rajongók már az első évad óta türelmetlenül várják #Polin szerelmi történetét, melyet idén végre megkapnak. De ki kíséri oltárhoz Penelopét?Most, hogy a sorozat 3. évada már a küszöbön áll, ideje elkalandozni azon, hogy Interjú a Szegény párák látványtervezőjével NLC     2024-01-27 06:58:13     Film Interjú Kamera Oscar-díj Ha március 11-én Mihalek Zsuzsa berendező Oscar-díjat kap a Szegény párák látványvilágáért, akkor a Dolby Theater színpadán James Price és Shona Heath látványtervezők oldalán áll majd a kamerák kereszttüzében. Utóbbit Zoomon értük utol, miután személyesen tekinthettük meg a film csodálatos díszleteit. Csak saját felelősségre: felkutattuk az 5 legócskább magyar filmet refresher.hu     2024-01-27 09:56:00     Film Ezúttal arra vállalkoztunk, hogy az Imdb értékeléseket is figyelembe véve alámerüljünk a legrosszabb magyar filmek világába, úgyhogy mazochista módon végig is néztük őket. Na jó, ez hazugság, de esküszünk, hogy legalább megpróbáltuk... Németh Róbert: De azt nem mondták, hogy akkor is, ha nincs igazam Könyves Magazin     2024-01-27 10:07:07     Könyv Interjú "Az On The Corner Miles Davistől. Amikor megjelent, mindenki utálta. Nem tudtak mit kezdeni vele. Hosszú improvizációk egy akkord körül. Funk, soul és Karlheinz Stockhausen." Németh Róbert bemutatkozó könyve 2022-ben a Margó-díj rövidlistájára került. Akkor interjúztunk vele, és részletet is közöltünk a Nem vagyok ittből. Most pedig egy új regényen Winnetou, az apacsok elnyűhetetlen főnöke újra belovagol a képernyőre Blikk     2024-01-26 17:53:58     Film Generáció Farsang Spider Man Pókember Old Generációk nőttek fel Winnetou kalandjain, öltöztek indián főnöknek farsangkor, nézték az indiános filmeket és olvasták Karl May regényeit. Mára a fantasztikus szuperhősök háttérbe szorították az apacsokat, sziúkat és más indiánokat, Winnetou és Old Shatterhand helyébe Batman és a Pókember lépett. Winnetou azonban elnyűhetetlen, szombatonként a Dun A Sportaréna és a Fonó ad otthont az Országos Táncháztalálkozónak Magyar Hírlap     2024-01-26 21:32:00     Színpad Fonó Kiemelték, a Táncháztalálkozó a hagyományos népművészet és a színpadi előadóművészet, falu és város, az archaikus és a modern egymásra hatásának megjelenítése. A további adásainkat keresd a podcast.hirstart.hu oldalunkon.

Mi lehetett az a rejtélyes folt Erős Antónia mellkasán a csütörtöki Híradóban? rtl.hu     2024-01-26 17:47:47     Bulvár Erős Antónia A csütörtöki RTL Híradó 32. percében még semmi nem látszódott Erős Antónia ruháján, a 36. percben viszont már egy folt éktelenkedett ott. Mi történt a stúdióban? Erős Antónia elmesélte. Nyolc követelőző filmsztár, akit végül kénytelenek voltak az alkotók a sarokba állítani Player     2024-01-26 17:30:37     Film Még egy világsztárnál is előfordulhat, hogy megrészegül önnön star powerjétől és ennek folyományaként túlbecsüli a saját érdekérvényesítő képességét. Itt van nyolc filmes, aki azt hitte, bármit kérhet, csak hogy megmozdítsa a fenekét. Aztán jött a koppanás. Mindenkit meglepett, hol tűnt fel idén először közösen Harry és Meghan Hamu és Gyémánt     2024-01-27 06:32:01     Film Mozi Meghan Markle A Los Angelesben élő pár első idei közös kiruccanása a Karib-térségbe vezetett, ahol egy mozi világpremierjén tűntek fel – mindenki legnagyobb megdöbbenésére. Mától nézheted: Végre megérkezett Spielberg és Tom Hanks új, 2. világháborús repülős sorozata, A levegő urai Austin Butlerrel Mafab     2024-01-26 20:19:02     Film Repülőgép Apple Tom Hanks Steven Spielberg Izgalmas hírekkel szolgálhatunk a történelem rajongóinak. A Tom Hanks és Steven Spielberg közreműködésével készült második világháborús minisorozat, A levegő urai mától elérhető az Apple Tv+-on. Jodie Foster: Mindig el tudtam dönteni, mikor érezzek és mikor ne. Egyesek ezt sérült léleknek hívják – Portré WMN     2024-01-27 06:36:00     Film "Anyukám folyton azt mondogatta nekem, hogy most kell dolgoznom, amennyit csak bírok, mert mire 40 leszek, vége lesz. Most meg elmúltam 60, és sosem voltam ennyire elfoglalt" – idézte fel Jodie Foster, a nagy visszatérő, akit a Nyad című filmben nyújtott alakításáért 30 év után ismét Oscar-díjra jelöltek, mi pedig röviden vázoljuk, milyen út vezete A Bridgerton-rajongók rájöttek, ki vezeti majd oltárhoz Penelopét in.hu     2024-01-26 19:46:03     Film Párkapcsolat Esküvő Penelope és Colin A Bridgerton család sorozatának közelgő évadában összeházasodik, ami az év talán legjobban várt esküvője lesz. A rajongók már az első évad óta türelmetlenül várják #Polin szerelmi történetét, melyet idén végre megkapnak. De ki kíséri oltárhoz Penelopét?Most, hogy a sorozat 3. évada már a küszöbön áll, ideje elkalandozni azon, hogy Interjú a Szegény párák látványtervezőjével NLC     2024-01-27 06:58:13     Film Interjú Kamera Oscar-díj Ha március 11-én Mihalek Zsuzsa berendező Oscar-díjat kap a Szegény párák látványvilágáért, akkor a Dolby Theater színpadán James Price és Shona Heath látványtervezők oldalán áll majd a kamerák kereszttüzében. Utóbbit Zoomon értük utol, miután személyesen tekinthettük meg a film csodálatos díszleteit. Csak saját felelősségre: felkutattuk az 5 legócskább magyar filmet refresher.hu     2024-01-27 09:56:00     Film Ezúttal arra vállalkoztunk, hogy az Imdb értékeléseket is figyelembe véve alámerüljünk a legrosszabb magyar filmek világába, úgyhogy mazochista módon végig is néztük őket. Na jó, ez hazugság, de esküszünk, hogy legalább megpróbáltuk... Németh Róbert: De azt nem mondták, hogy akkor is, ha nincs igazam Könyves Magazin     2024-01-27 10:07:07     Könyv Interjú "Az On The Corner Miles Davistől. Amikor megjelent, mindenki utálta. Nem tudtak mit kezdeni vele. Hosszú improvizációk egy akkord körül. Funk, soul és Karlheinz Stockhausen." Németh Róbert bemutatkozó könyve 2022-ben a Margó-díj rövidlistájára került. Akkor interjúztunk vele, és részletet is közöltünk a Nem vagyok ittből. Most pedig egy új regényen Winnetou, az apacsok elnyűhetetlen főnöke újra belovagol a képernyőre Blikk     2024-01-26 17:53:58     Film Generáció Farsang Spider Man Pókember Old Generációk nőttek fel Winnetou kalandjain, öltöztek indián főnöknek farsangkor, nézték az indiános filmeket és olvasták Karl May regényeit. Mára a fantasztikus szuperhősök háttérbe szorították az apacsokat, sziúkat és más indiánokat, Winnetou és Old Shatterhand helyébe Batman és a Pókember lépett. Winnetou azonban elnyűhetetlen, szombatonként a Dun A Sportaréna és a Fonó ad otthont az Országos Táncháztalálkozónak Magyar Hírlap     2024-01-26 21:32:00     Színpad Fonó Kiemelték, a Táncháztalálkozó a hagyományos népművészet és a színpadi előadóművészet, falu és város, az archaikus és a modern egymásra hatásának megjelenítése. A további adásainkat keresd a podcast.hirstart.hu oldalunkon.

Welcome to Part II of “Y'all Mothaf*ckas Need Satan” where we get in deeper with the devil (and, in Austin's opinion, outside the confines of horror movies entirely) with Ken Russell's 1971 sweaty, gorgeous, and supremely overdue for a decent release, THE DEVILS. Along this path to Hell we discuss our newly launched Patreon (patreon.com/SHUDcast), Cody's continued fear of dealing with the concept of divorce on film, and so, so much Ken Russell.   00:00 - 6:00ish - Friendship & intros - We discuss our brand new Patreon (patreon.com/SHUDcast)! There's so much fun stuff and it's only getting fun-ner!   6:00ish - 44:30ish - The other stuff we watched this time!   Cody - Destroy All Neighbors, Batman (1989 @ the Dolby Theater w/ live score), and The Two Towers and The Return of the King (both theatrical).   Austin - Jojo Rabbit, Maestro and Marriage Story   Lucas - Batman (1989 @ the Dolby Theater w/ live score), Maestro, Fanboys, Blazing Saddles, Warcraft   Curtis - Atsuko Okatsuka (Live!), The Bride of Frankenstein, The Lair of the White Worm, Gothic, Altered States, and Hell on Earth: The Desecration and Resurrection of The Devils.   44:30ish - 1:34:00ish - THE DEVILS - SHUDdown and discussion!   1:34:00ish - End - Our next movie!

Joseph Stephen is indeed a software engineer. However, he is much more which is why I say he is unstoppable. Joseph also not only happens to be blind, but he operates a farm in Northern Tasmania. He has been married for 27 years and has nine children. More importantly, he is successful at all these activities. Among his software jobs, he has been a force in coding for the leading screen reading program for blind and low vision people. He also spends time creating and editing music which is where I first encountered him. I must admit I wonder when he sleeps although he says he does get enough rest every night. Joseph is an extremely interesting person and has some really fascinating and interesting stories to tell. I hope you find him as unstoppable as I do. About the Guest: Joseph Stephen is a totally blind software engineer. He has been married for 27 years and has 9 children. He lives on a farm in northern Tasmania. He was the first totally blind student in Adelaide, South Australia to complete higher math and physics in Braille at matriculation level, and university and was the first totally blind student in South Australia to complete a computer science degree. Joseph's career started as a programmer in Malaysia where he helped a company implement solutions to manage oil plantations for the government. He then worked as an assistive technology specialist at the Royal Society for the Blind of South Australia. For the past 27 years (24 full time and 3 part-time,) he has worked as a software developer for Henter-Joyce/Freedom Scientific/Vispero, where he has been one of the main designers and implementers of many of the screen reader features that blind people have come to depend upon. Joseph has also spoken extensively at churches, camps, and conferences. His hobbies include music production, writing, woodwork, walking, and amateur radio Ways to connect with Stephen: Website: www.faithfulgenerations.com Band Camp: https://twoservants.bandcamp.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? Leave a comment in the section below! Subscribe to the podcast If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can also subscribe in your favorite podcast app. Leave us an Apple Podcasts review Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts. Transcription Notes Michael Hingson  00:00 Access Cast and accessiBe Initiative presents Unstoppable Mindset. The podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. 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 And hi, once again, guess what in case you didn't guess it is time for another episode of unstoppable mindset. And today we get to talk to Joseph Stephen from Australia. He is a long way timewise from us here in Southern California as well as distance wise, Joseph and I met because we both use an audio editing program called Reaper. And we're on a list together called Her It Comes Reaper Without Peepers. Guess what that means? Of course, it's all about blind people using the program and Reaper is an incredibly good program from an access standpoint, because some people have devoted a lot of time to making it. And ancillary scripts that go with it very usable by blind people who otherwise couldn't use the program and the sophistication that it brings. Anyway, Joseph and I met on that and we've been chatting someone I finally prevailed on him to come on unstoppable mindset. So Joseph, welcome to unstoppable mindset.   Joseph Stephen  02:25 Thank you. It's really great to be here. And yes, it's it's funny, actually, we heard about you a long time ago because some old gentleman who came to our house church once the he gave my son's a book called Thunder dog. And they read it and then they read it to me. And I thought, oh, yeah, that sounds fantastic. And it was, you know, it's quite, quite inspiring. And I love this Reaper without peepers list and this name comes up, you know, Michael Hinkson. I said, I'm sure that name sounds familiar. I reckon. I reckon that's the author of that book. So I checked with the boys. And then I contacted Michael and I had to get the boys to say g'day to him. And you know, and yeah, here we are. Yeah, there we are. And now we've got to get me to Australia. We got a workout some speaking things some time to get us down there now that travel is opened again.   Michael Hingson  03:19 Oh, yes. Yeah, that's another story. Well, why don't we start by you telling us a little about you growing up and what a younger Joseph was like, and all that sort of stuff. And we'll go from there. Well, interestingly, I was born   Joseph Stephen  03:35 with about 2% vision with the same condition that you were, but it was never explained to me that retinal inter fiber pleasure was the same thing as prematurity of written retinopathy of prematurity that no one ever explained that to me. They just said my retinas didn't form properly. And I was born with cerebral palsy, and brain damage, as the doctor explained to my mom, and and my doctor said to my mom, that I would never live a normal life. Does that sound familiar? Yeah. And of course, no one defines normal either, but anyway, well, this is true. But But yeah, I hear you. I had parents, I guess similar to yours. They, they were risk takers. They didn't treat me any different at all. But it took a long time for them to even get a response out of me because I did have the brain damage. And it was probably I don't know, when I was two and a half or three when Mum sort of started making any progress with me. I mean, I wouldn't even I couldn't even sit up. I couldn't do anything. But if you knew me now, you would just have no idea that that's where I started. So now I'm married. I've been married for 27 years. Last week with our 27th anniversary. We've had 10 Children nine living one with the Lord. I'm a software engineer who's worked for freedom, scientific Despero and enjoys going back. We're close on 27 years. I do radio firmware for amateur radio to make radios accessible, I do music production. I do original music drummer singer keyboard. I've written about six books. I can use all power tools, you know, circular sore, I live on a farm 200 acres. So you know, I do fencing and repairs of goat sheds. And yesterday we were out plucking, plucking geese. I did three geese yesterday. And so like you there's there's not much that is stopped me. And I never think about those things. Although i i One thing I'd have to probably disagree with you with within that is? Well, blindness isn't the issue. Sometimes we don't understand how our blindness affects others. And I think that's that's particularly been true with me having known nine children, that has been quite a difficulty. So, you know, when when, when you're by yourself, and you're living your life as a blind person, really nothing needs to stop you. But there are things that that happen in life and that are quite difficult as a blind person, where attitude alone isn't going to solve the problem. But you know, having said that, I've still accomplished a lot more than a lot of sighted people have. I also was the first totally blind person to do a maths and science degree, in fact, the first totally blind student in South Australia to do matriculation maths and physics, and then the computer science degree at Flinders University. In 1987, I rode to Canberra to raise money for the bike Bible Society for bike for Bibles, that was a distance of 1486 kilometers. So there's, there's a lot that I've been able to accomplish in life. And not that I've ever thought about it, I don't kind of think, well, what's my next accomplishment? I just do what comes in front of me to do. And we've got there's a proverb that says, whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might. And that's what I believed in. So that's, that's kind of been my ethos. So   Michael Hingson  07:29 one, one question that that comes to mind in well, and going back to the discussion that you had about blindness can be difficult. And that is absolutely true. I don't disagree with that. What I would say, however, is that attitudes, or maybe it's better to put it a different way, a lack of education makes the difficulty a lot more of a barrier than it needs to be. And what a lot of us don't get to do don't want to do or don't know how to do is to, to allow the teaching part of us to come out so that when there are issues that arise, and we're different, because blindness isn't the only thing that can create difficulties. And anytime anyone is different. There are difficulties that inherently come from what people accept as the norm. And the sooner that we recognize that the norm is not what we think of it, the better chance we have of dealing with all the other challenges that we face. And that would be what I would would say about blindness is that blindness isn't the problem. It may be our approach. It may be the approach of other people. But the reality is that the problem comes because we don't learn how we societally don't learn how to deal with things that are different than we and that's where the real challenge comes from.   Joseph Stephen  09:11 Yes, and I think actually, we've gone backwards a lot in our education system because I wrote an article a couple of years ago about the rise and fall of life skills of blind people, particularly the here in Australia, like, you know, we we've heard of, like 13 year olds who can't turn on the shower for themselves. And children who can't use scissors at school because they're, you know, they're dangerous. I mean, my goodness, if they knew what our school did in Adelaide back in, in the in the 70s and 80s. And where we went into the, you know, tech Studies Center and we used a bandsaw and, you know, Sandy Gascon would lay the drill and you know, as I said, I use a circular sore all the time and, you know, they I've still got on my 10 fingers. Yeah, but but These days there. And I think, I don't know whether you'd agree with me, but there is a place for specialized education. And there's a place for integration into into the sighted world. But there's a delicate balance between them. Because if you don't have the the special education where where teachers are challenging, and blind students can can key off of each other and compete and, and realize and be part of the well, let me put it another way, teachers still need to teach things in a way that that are optimized for a blind person, for instance, teaching tech studies is very different to a blind person than a sighted person. And if you don't have that education, obviously, you know, it's going, it's going to be difficult. So I loved what you said in your, your introductory speech about Braille, for instance, that, you know, well, you know, you teach you teach sighted people print, right? Well, why not teach blind people Braille. And it's the same with, with all such skills, you know, we we throw, I think, we've, we've thrived because I had the opportunity, you know, to learn to cook to learn to do wood work, to learn to do clay to learn to do leather work, to learn to do, you know, plastic, basically, everything, the only thing I didn't get to do was metal work, which was, which was a shame, because I do know, a blind guy that can world and I'd love to be able to do that. And my sons are learning that now. They're sort of 12 and 14. So maybe I'll maybe I'll take that up, too. But, you know, blindness in the in the context of education certainly isn't the the issue. You're right, it is, it is the attitude and the, the willingness of others to, to take risks. It is   Michael Hingson  11:56 we, we do need to recognize, though, such as a society that there is nothing wrong with having good, knowledgeable, and this is the part that I think's most important, philosophically sound teachers that can deal with the blindness issues. The problem is that a lot of the teachers, so called experts in the field of work with the blind, themselves, aren't necessarily doing the best job and providing the best services, for example, Braille. Now in this country, according to the National Federation of the Blind, has a lid it has a literacy rate of under 10%. When I was growing up, the comment was, was around 50%. The difficulty is, the difficulty is that we we've done several things, we've got a lot of blind kids who are not totally blind, they're low vision, I won't say visually impaired, because I think that is a total disservice to everyone. But low vision. And teachers say, well, as long as you've got some eyesight, you should use that. nevermind the fact that with that eyesight, you may only be able to read a few words a minute, you've got to use high magnification devices, and so on. Whereas if you also learned braille, you would be able to read more, you would be able to read faster and probably more effective. But   Joseph Stephen  13:30 I absolutely agree with that. Because, you know, I didn't I didn't learn braille till I was eight or nine. And the only reason I learned it was because the print in my textbooks was starting to get too small. And I think we should have learned it right from the beginning, like you said, because who knows when your sight, you know, whether your sight condition is going to be stable. And also, even whether the print? Well, it's a fact, as yougo on in your primary education, that print gets smaller in the books. Yeah.   Michael Hingson  14:03 And, yeah, and the reality is that Braille is a true alternative, not a substitute for print. And now with technology, we can do a much better job even of creating graphics and so on, and providing graphical representations, you know, when you were growing up, you don't know how much access you had to good drawings and physics and so on. But it it is better now. Because there's more technology to help with that. And technology has made a great deal of difference in our access to information overall. But still, it isn't the technology that's the ultimate game changer that needs to happen. It's still full education.   Joseph Stephen  14:52 And let me tell you a story about that. Yeah, I was spoiled at school because I had a an orientation and mobility too. He who was brilliant at mapmaking, he was absolutely brilliant about making, he knew he knew how much detail to put on. So that it was useful that it wasn't too much, and it wasn't too little. And when I moved to Tasmania in 2018, I asked for a map, a roadmap. And the binders agency told me that no one in the history of Tasmania had ever asked for a Braille map. And so they had to send away to get it made. And it was atrocious. The first one came back with just roads, so you had no town. So you referenced the towns from the roads, the next one came back with towns without roads. So you had no way of of mapping them together. And it was just I gave up after the third attempt, I gave up, because this the skill level of mapmaking was gone. And yeah, I did radio electronics. And it was a real frustration to get diagrams, because for some reason, sighted people don't know how to do tactile diagrams in such a way that either they're either they're too small, and you can't feel the detail, or they're too big, or they don't have enough detail. And like with road maps, you know, they use like, they do a map with a single intersection on it and think it was useful. Yeah, it's like, come on guys. It's a   Michael Hingson  16:27 problem is that we are viewed as inferior and not as equals in society, who need to have the same access to information I had up of an interesting experience happened to me recently. And if, if you listened to enough of podcasts, from unstoppable mindset, you'll hear about my view that disability does not mean a lack of ability, and that everyone has a disability. People who can see have the disability of light dependents, and you don't do well when the lights go out. And you want proof. I want to contest to go to the Kelly and Ryan Oscar after party, which was at the Dolby Theater where the Oscars were held. The Monday morning right after the Oscars. Somebody entered my name I didn't even know they did. It was very nice to them. And when I got a call saying you're a winner, and I was at a winner of what and the person told me and when I, when I went back to the person who I figured had entered my name. She said, Yeah, I entered your name, I didn't think you stood a chance. Well, hello. Anyway, we go to the hotel, we arrived Saturday afternoon, bought 10 after three, go in, put up our luggage, it was me my niece and nephew. And we started walking downstairs and suddenly everybody started screaming around us. And I said to my niece, so what's going on? We lost power in the hotel. And in the surrounding area. She said she knew me. She wasn't worried. But everyone was screaming because suddenly they couldn't see because there was no light. And all of a sudden the little flashlight started going on. Don't tell me for one single second, that sighted people don't have a disability. It's just that technology has covered it up so much. It doesn't mean however, that the disability isn't there. And the sooner that we recognize that all of us have challenges of one sort or another and that we need to accept people where they are, the better off we'll be. Oh, yeah, yeah. I mean, I've I've got lots of stories like that too, even at home, you know, when the lights go out, but But you know, we can I I've been up fixing doors and putting doors back on, on their, you know, hinges and stuff on the 11 o'clock when all the lights are out and, you know, doing doing repairs. And, you know, one of my favorite stories is when I was in college, I think I was a junior and I was in my room. I had a single dorm room because I had enough Braille books that there was no room for anyone else to be in the room. And I was reading something studying away. And some people walked by outside my open window. And just for for just general sociability, I said, Hey, how are you guys doing out there? And they stopped and they went, we're fine. Who are you? And I said I Mike. Well, the lights are off. And I said, Yeah, what are you doing? I'm reading my physics book. And of course they couldn't get it. And I finally said it happens to be in Braille. But as you know, who cares about the lights right? Now I understand that I need to care about the lights for my sighted friends who are less fortunate than I   Michael Hingson  19:49 but we all have challenges where we're less fortunate than others in some way. And you know, we all need to deal with that and you you have done it.   Michael Hingson  19:59 No so many different things, I took woodshop, but my shop teacher would not let me work the bandsaw or the lathe, or any of those things, which I kind of regret, I do believe that I would have had no trouble learning to do them. But he was pretty restrictive in that way. So someone else had to cut out wood things for me that I've in. All I basically did was a lot of sanding, you know, but that was the way it was. So it was better than a lot of things that that could have happened. Mostly at the high school, the teachers were pretty good. And so I did pretty well in in high school overall. But that one shot thing, you know, that was just kind of the way it was. And so you do what you got to do. But I believe that, for me, I learned braille in kindergarten, but then I forgot it because I didn't get to use it for the first three years, we were out in California, so I had to relearn it. So I appreciate where you're coming from. But I did learn it again, and was able to keep up with it. And believe that Braille is absolutely something that any person who is totally blind, and any person who is otherwise partially blind should learn. And I like I love the National Federation of the Blind can definition of blindness, which is your blind. from a functional standpoint, if your eyesight has diminished to the point where you have to use alternatives to pure eyesight in order to function. And if you're at that point, you should learn blindness techniques, because the odds are, as you said earlier, you're going to lose the rest of that eyesight. But also philosophically, you get to use both blindness techniques and the eyesight that you have to be able to function. But if you learn to use them both, you're much better off.   Joseph Stephen  21:54 It's interesting, because when I lost my sight, I didn't actually know that I completely lost it. What happened was, as I said, I was born with about 2%. And that doesn't sound like much but it was enough to walk around. It was enough to walk to the deli, the shop the I guess you guys call it a drugstore from my house. It's a couple of kilometers, maybe three or four kilometers without a cane. Yeah. So 2% is quite quite a lot. Even though it doesn't sound like much. But one day I was riding a bicycle behind my friend and I kept running into them. And all of a sudden, I realized that I actually couldn't see any more. See, what happens is my brain recreates what should be there. It's like watching a video. And I have lapses in that video sometimes when I'm really concentrating on something and all of a sudden, I realize I'm not seeing what I'm out my eyes. But actually what I'm seeing out my eyes is all created by my mind. And so I don't know that I can't see until I go to try and touch what should be there. And it's not because my brain has has, you know, got the wrong picture for the wrong situation sort of thing. So it's very interesting. And so someone asked, someone once asked me, What's it like being totally blind? Because one is totally blind. The other one? Well, it's, it is totally blind now to but one I have. I have mental video. The other I have nothing. And I like to say to them, it's like looking out your left ear. Yeah, if you could look out your left ear is absolutely nothing. It's not darkness. It's not darkness. People need to understand that it is not darkness. It's nothing. And there's a big difference. Yeah, there's a big difference. Yeah, sorry, what we can say?   Michael Hingson  23:52  No, no, I was just agreeing with you. There's a there's a big difference. Well, but you, you know, I grew up and didn't use a cane or a guide dog until I was 14. But I learned the areas and I learned to listen extremely well. So our elementary schools were very open. They weren't just like a single building. And so walking down sidewalks, there were roofs over the sidewalks. And they were held up by polls. And I didn't run into the polls because I learned to hear the polls and could have weighed them. And and so I was able to do that I was able to ride a bike around the neighborhood and so on. Eventually, my brother and I started doing a paper route together. And so we did he had a tandem bike to do that. But still, for a lot of the area around my neighborhood I could ride a bike and and do all the same things that the other kids did. In reality, I didn't do a lot of things that they did. I didn't play baseball or other things like that. And I found other ways to entertain myself or to watch them if you will. But you know the Act is that the brain is a wonderful thing. Well, look at you, you had cerebral palsy, you worked through that your brain worked through that. And probably, you developed other neural pathways to be able to accomplish the things that that you needed to do, which are now just part of what you normally do.   Joseph Stephen  25:20  Yeah, exactly. In fact, I was able to remember pi, you know, pi 3.141592653589703, I was able to, I was able to remember that to 200 decimal places, there. Yeah. So, so the doctors were, I mean, I, I honestly, attribute all of all of what I've been able to accomplish to God, because it's a miracle compared to where I was at. It was a lot of hard work. Yes. But it was also a lot of determination on the part of my mother, and on the part of my teachers on the UN, and also constantly being challenged. I guess I've always felt like, I want to be one step ahead. Yeah.   Michael Hingson  26:12 It's what you got to do. Yeah. So you went to college, which is pretty cool. What did you do then when you got out of college? Well, it's,   Joseph Stephen  26:23 well, for the first few months, I actually went back to Malaysia with, with my, well, who's now my wife. And I had an interesting story there. Because we went to Malaysia. And we were staying there. And I really needed to get a job, I needed to get some money and, and I applied to all these places to do computer programming. And this one place, I ended up, they gave me an interview. And I walked in there and I was really trying hard to pretend I wasn't blind, and marry my wife. Now she, she, you know, she went in with me. And you know, we just casually sat down and did the interview said nothing about my blindness or anything. And right at the end, the guy looks at me and he goes, How do you do this stuff? Okay, what do you mean? You, you look like you're, you look like you're blind. I said, Oh, I've got a talking computer. Anyway, he gave me the job. I mean, he gave me the task to do that afternoon that they had this massive of this bug that they couldn't fix in their system, that it had overflowed their capacity. And I, I went home, and three hours later, I had solved the problem. And I went back and they gave me the job. But there was a lot of prejudice in Malaysia far more than then in a Western country. I mean, it was so bad, that that my wife didn't like me having a cane. And because it just drew so much attention. And it ended up causing us to fall into a storm drain, which is, you know, like six feet deep and full of machines and slash at the bottom. And we had to climb out of that. And but, you know, the stigma there is far worse than here. In fact, it was so bad, we ended up coming back here. But I was able to get a job there. Through sheer, you know, determination and, and well and, and in a sense, good on that boss. He was perceptive enough. But more important than that, he asked you rather than just turning you down and shut he was great. Yeah, I mean, he'd studied in Australia. So I think he had a bit more exposure to, to the fact that people with disabilities had more opportunities here than they did there. I mean, they're blind people, I only ever met one that had like a job as a telephone telephony in a bank. But most of them were, you know, sniffing lighter, fluid and, you know, busking on the street with a keyboard just playing random notes. And if they had, if they were even able to do that there was one lady there was selling tissues, and helped by a granddaughter to get to that spot on the bridge every day. And you know, that there was a lot of, I feel, I truly do feel blessed. I mean, I know that 75% of blind people are out of work. So, you know,   Michael Hingson  29:38  yeah. But we can only do what we can do. And and like I said, the other side of it is that for those of us who can and are willing to do it, we need to allow our teaching skills to come through to help educate, because that's really what it's what it's about and there are there even in this country. There are so many Times that the so called experts are the ones that are the biggest roadblocks. There's an organization that started this whole thing about dining in the dark. And their, their logic was. So eat in the dark, and you can see what it's like to be a blind person, which is totally false, which is totally obnoxious. And it doesn't teach you anything except to be more prejudiced about blind people and blindness. Because what you don't get is the training. And every sighted person gets training on how to eat and tie their shoes and so on. Why should it be different for us?   Joseph Stephen  30:37 Yeah.   Michael Hingson  30:40 Well, so you had that software job. And, and then, but then you went back to Australia and, and started conversing with the kangaroos I trust?   Joseph Stephen  30:51 Oh, yes. Yeah. So when we came back here, I actually still work for that Malaysian company for a little while, but it became, well, it wasn't, it wasn't profitable enough, because the dollar was like a third of our dollar. So I ended up giving that away. And I worked went to work for the Royal Society for the blind business as a as a Assistive Technology Officer finding solutions for blind people, because someone had put a recommendation into the that they should hire me. And I went over to see son conference in 1999. Because I'd already done some contracts with, with the Henty Joyce, in terms of scripting before that time, but only 99. I went over to the CSUN conference, and I met Eric dammar at and he said, so will you work for us? And I said on one condition, he goes, What's that? I said, I work from home. Okay, so from July 1999, a couple of months after our first child was born, I started working full time for them. And then I went into systems programming rather than just scripting and the rest is history. I have about 10, patents 10 inventions that I added to the company and yeah, all of the lots of the heavy lifting for JAWS has been done from either Adelaide or Tasmania.   Michael Hingson  32:25 Well, and for those who don't know, JAWS, that stands for Job Access With Speech is a software program called a screen reader. And what it does is it verbalizes, the text video that comes across the screen isn't necessarily itself great at graphics. But it's not intended to be the artificial intelligence solution, at least at this point, unless there are things going on that Joseph isn't telling us about yet, but they're coming, I know it will come. But the reality is that it is the predominant piece of technology that we who happen to be blind use to interact with a computer. It's the the most popular screen reader on there, there's a charge for it, there are a couple of screen reader software packages that are out there that are that are free or much less cost. But the other part about Freedom Scientific and JAWS is that they've been doing this a long time. And so JAWS has clearly gotten a lot more done and can interact in a lot of ways that the others are still playing catch up to get to.   Joseph Stephen  33:39 I remember, we were the first screen reader to work with Microsoft Office. And the things we did was so unconventional, I mean, I can't go into the the technical stuff, but we really did everything possible to get information out of the application. And so, you know, a screen reader doesn't just build a model of the screen, it figures out what's going on in the application, what needs to be spoken, what the user wants to know. Because there's a big difference between accessibility and productivity, and usability and usability something can be something can be totally accessible but totally unusable. I won't name any applications right now. But the blind people out there who knows who knows what's going on in the world knows what I'm talking about. But the reality is you need both you need accessibility and usability and the idea of Jaws is to try and allow blind people to be as productive as their sighted counterpart not just to give the ability, not just the give them the ability to to hear what's on the screen, but to make them productive.   Michael Hingson  34:52 What is so frustrating about being a JAWS user is when Microsoft For example, updates windows. And at least this is the way I've heard it a number of times doesn't quickly or ahead of time, pass along to the screen reader manufacturers, the things that are about to be updated so that when the updates actually roll out, the screen reader updates can roll out as well. And the result is, you're always playing catch up, and we're always the victims of things not working for a while until you can play catch up.   Joseph Stephen  35:30  Yeah, I mean, that, that that's generally true, although I must say Microsoft have been a lot, a lot better in recent years. Yeah. Giving us leeway, and time. But But there's always, always the issue of, you know, cycles, whether our cycle matches with meshes with their development cycle and, and things like that, you know, we have to do a lot of  to jumping through hoops to get stuff done on time. Still,   Michael Hingson  35:59  do you find that Microsoft makes life any more difficult because of course, they want to promote narrator which is the built in screen reader inside of Windows?   Joseph Stephen  36:09 Oh, it's very frustrating because they People often come to us and say, well, Nurten Narrator works. But Narrator doesn't work in the same way that Jaws does. And quite often, what, what what they pass for accessibility is just it doesn't it just doesn't cut it. So while Narrator might say something. Anyway, I guess I'm not really here to bash Narrator But   Michael Hingson  36:39  Well, no, I don't want to and I didn't want to bash Narrator It was more of a curiosity. But But But you're right. And look, there are a number of screen readers. And there's an advantage to having been around longer. I think my first exposure to Jaws was in 19 96.21 or something, something like that. Yeah. And it came, I came in this big box with a whole bunch of tapes that I cassettes, and I went through all the lessons. But it was it was the best thing. And at that time, it was probably about the only thing around. And so I've been using JAWS ever since and, and thoroughly enjoying it. And love to see how it continues to progress and all of the various clever things that are that are going on.   Joseph Stephen  37:36 I remember back in those days, the I was such a skeptic, because they were they were other screen readers that just crashed all the time that were absolutely atrocious. And when someone said, Oh, we tried yours, I really didn't expect anything of it after I'd already tried like a handful of screen readers. I was so pleasantly surprised. And the fact is that the reason why it was such a success is because of the number of blind people that are involved in its development. Yeah, we know what we need, and we have to get it done for our own job. And so, you know, JAWS for me is far more than a job. It's, it's my baby, it's another one of my children. It's my oldest child, in fact. And you know, we, as a company, we absolutely listen to us as the biggest trouble is, we've usually got way, way, way more stuff to fix and do then then you know, we have people to do it. And that's typically why things take longer. And of course, you make one little change in a mature package like this. And you're likely to break something for someone somewhere. Yeah. And so it's really hard now to get fixes in because you really have to be so careful that you don't mess up someone else's job. Just because you make a change for one person who's screaming loudly enough. So it's it's a balancing act for sure.   Michael Hingson  39:06 And you know, then the other part about it is you've got people like Eric Dan Murray, who really got it. And it's right, and to truly understood it. Eric is going to definitely be missed for retiring. Oh, yeah. And it's like with Kurzweil education system, Steven Bomb, the same way. I'm a person who, who got it who understood blindness as well as anyone could. And who was committed to truly making a product that worked, which is what it was really all about. And so people like that are sorely going to be missed, and other people will hopefully come along who will do the same thing but Freedom Scientific has done a really great job with what's happened with JAWS. And you're right, there's so many different definitions of accessibility, it's amazing, right   Joseph Stephen  40:03 , which I guess leads us to the next topic, which is, you know, accessibility in general, I am such so passionate about accessibility, I get very frustrated when someone comes out with a new invention, supposedly for the blind, and it's so bug ridden that that is just not usable. But anyway, that leads me to amateur radio, which I also wanted to make accessible. And I know that you're an amateur radio operator, too. And so since 1964, wow, a lot longer than me, I only got my license in 2015. But there was this guy who was reverse engineering, Chinese firmware. And we got hold of that project. And he started adding voice prompts. And I really appreciated what he did. But it became a closed project. So we sort of branched it off and kept it open and added heaps more features and also added. So what we do is we, we go to Chinese radio, we reverse engineered the firmware, we added voice prompts, so that everything on the radio spoke, including, you know, entering frequencies, and literally everything, there was nothing, there was 100 100%, accessible and usable. And this is for a whole bunch of Chinese radios with a similar chipset. And there's another open source project that I've been doing that with as well. So even even that landscape has changed dramatically. And you know, it's a lot of work. But it's, it's been very rewarding doing that, too.   Michael Hingson  41:40 Yeah, and the the landscape changes, the sophistication changes. And so there are a lot of things like that, that make it even, you know, much more interesting going forward. I have a Kenwood 570. So that's old. I mean, I bought it in 2000. And I actually haven't set up an antenna here, and I've lived here for quite a while and really should. But I've been using a service, partly on the phone called Echo link to be able to communicate, but I also do have a Kenwood two meter walkie talkie, and love ham radio, but it will like everything, as you said the whole landscape is changing. Yeah, I mean, I, I did amateur radio for I mean the firmware for about two and a half years. Because I was doing programming during the day I started to get burnt out. So now I've sort of switch gears. And now I'm doing music production with an old friend from Adelaide, who I started singing with back in 1986. So now, that's what I tend to do in my spare time. And that's what you use Reaper for. That's right, what a game changer that is. Well, I'm so grateful to those guys. Yeah, Reaper, and then there are a couple of scripts, like Mr. Snow Barker, among others, but also other things that have truly made it accessible. And I know that I use it in a very simple way on dealing with editing a lot of audio and so on. But still, it is such a such a game changer, as you said, and just reading so many things that are being done by so many different people who happen to be blind in the whole music production world. And they're, and they're talking about things that are way above my paygrade I could learn them. But I'm not really interested in doing music production. But I love Reaper. And it works really well. And again, it's one of those things that isn't even a very expensive product for anyone. It's like $60 to get a license for it. And in the US, and it works really well. So it's a way to be able to edit these podcasts and do all the things that are necessary to to make them sound reasonably decent and so on and which is a lot of fun.   Joseph Stephen  43:45 Well, again, I think this brings me back to the labia one of our it's such an important topic. This unstoppable mindset. This unstoppable mindset is not something that other people do, and everyone just enjoys the fruit of everyone can be part of it. You know, I'm I do my bit in the community, you do your bit in the community. Someone else does their bit in the community, but if everyone excels and does the best that they can do, it contributes to the whole blind community and everyone's lives can be impacted the whole blind community and beyond actually, right. But if it if everyone's just the consumer, leaves it to everybody else to do well. Nothing gets done.   Michael Hingson  44:59 I, my wife passed away in November. And so I have more time on my own. We were basically married for two years. And I know that she's around here. So I need to continue to behave, because if I don't, I'm going to hear from her. So I got to watch my P's and Q's, which is fine. But one of the things that happened here last year, was that, like, every year, our homeowners association has a board of directors and we have elections every year. And last year, by the time the elections were supposed to happen, they didn't have a quorum. And I think it took two extensions before they finally got enough votes to have a quorum. This year, I decided to run. And one of the main things that I've said, at meetings that we've had, and I've said it emails and so on, is I want your vote. I really appreciate you voting for me. But even if you don't want to vote for me, please vote and get other people to vote. Because we need to reach that quorum. And you know what, Joseph, the quorum is 25%. So that's 1200, roughly property owners that have to vote in order to certify an election, which is a crazy low number. And I have no idea yet where where we stand last week, we were at only about 16 and a half or 16.7%. Still, and the election is supposed to be held this Saturday. I'm hopeful because I and I know others have also sent election information out and I'm hoping that we will definitely have a quorum. And as I said, I I would love to be one of the people elected there three board seats open. But either way, people should take an interest in the community, at least enough to vote for the board for heaven's sakes, we all are part of the same community, wherever we are. And we should be involved, we should take enough of an interest to be involved to some degree wherever we can. That doesn't mean we need to do everything. But you're absolutely right. We do need to be involved and take an active interest,   Joseph Stephen  45:00 Right something go down the well and others hold the rope. But you know, be part of it be.Someone once said to me, and I've always loved this quote, you know, don't curse the darkness, light a candle?   Michael Hingson  47:25 Yeah. And I've heard people say, pictures are worth 1000 words, but they also take a lot more memory. So But you're right, and a candle, or whatever you do. Be a part of it. That's one of the things that I think is, is so discouraged as people being a part of things, and there are too many people who are just not used to being active. And it doesn't mean that you need to be an activist, but you should be involved and have enough of an interest that you can help the community and without always help yourself as well.   Joseph Stephen  48:06 Right? Yeah, fine. Find what you're good at. And do the best at what you do. Yeah.   Michael Hingson  48:13 So you have nine children, you've been married 27 years. And when you went to Cambria on a bike now, was that a tandem bike? Or did you ride? Yeah, that was a that was a tandem. How long did that take?   Joseph Stephen  48:25 11 days. And it was a distance of 1486 kilometers. And it was interesting because there was maybe, I think it was 12 people that rode all the way from Perth, across through Adelaide, where they met up with us and on to Canberra. And so what happened was, as we got closer to Canberra, more and more bikes would join us. So by the last kilometer or so we had like 300 bikes. 300 cyclists it was it was fantastic.   Michael Hingson  48:56 Did you make your monetary goals?   Joseph Stephen  48:59 Yes, but thankfully back then I had other people sorting all that out. I just had to write.   Michael Hingson  49:05 Yeah, yeah. You didn't get involved in the money counting in the money changing? No. That's okay. But you were a participant and I'll bet how a lot of fun and fond memories of that yes, indeed.   Michael Hingson  49:23 Go on. Your your your children, I assume are are not none of them are blind because they didn't have the same issue of premature births and so on are correct.   Joseph Stephen  49:35 None of them are blind. A few of them wear glasses though, but for totally different reasons.   Michael Hingson  49:41 Well, a lot of people wear glasses though. It's okay. Yeah. So you, you you do you do a lot of different things. Do you do any extracurricular activities or do you think you're doing enough things that you don't get involved in sports or any of those kinds of things?   Joseph Stephen  50:00 I don't have any spare time. I mean, if I'm not if I'm not doing family things, and I'm not doing fun things, and I'm not doing work things, and I'm not doing music things, and I'm not doing writing, I'm usually trying to get a bit of sleep. But people have often joke that I don't sleep because I get so much done during the day. I just like being productive. I think I'm hyperactive, so I, I can't stand doing nothing.   Michael Hingson  50:27 What do you I hear you What do you farm?   Joseph Stephen  50:31 We have sheep, a few cows and sheep or goats. I tend to do more of the maintenance sort of stuff on the farm. The children look after the animals. I have done hay baling and fencing and irrigation and repairing goat shed floors and things like that. But I usually let the children do the animals.   Michael Hingson  50:52 Everybody seems to remember something someone has to take the executive responsibility. Yeah, exactly. Which is, which is perfectly reasonable, which is not a problem. Tell me about your writing and your books, if you would.   Joseph Stephen  51:08 I've written six books on very, very different topics. So I've got a poetry book, I've got a book on, it's called more than meets the eye. I've got a book on my my journey as a Christian and the things I've learned doctrinal things that I want to pass on to my children called sufficiency of Scripture. I've got another book about biblical relationships. And I've got a homeschooling curriculum, which I did with my wife on Braille and blindness, bright blindness, Braille and the Bible. I have a book on computer programming as a homeschooling curriculum, called the perfect programmer, referring to God as the one who's programmed everything in the DNA. And I'm currently working on a book for a missionary friend who's who's really at the end of his life, who worked in West Papua for 25 years. And he's got interesting stories of cannibalism, and aeroplane crashes and all kinds of stuff. So I've been doing working on that one, most recently. So yeah, very, very varied.   Michael Hingson  52:16 Do you publish the books yourselves? Or do you have a publisher?   Joseph Stephen  52:21 I did have a publisher, but they went broke, thanks to my books.And no, so I managed to get the manuscript back from them. And then we self published after that, which was a lot cheaper to do.   Michael Hingson  52:39 Well, but you seem to be doing pretty well with him. I was just looking And I don't think that you sent me any photos of book covers. But if you want to promote any of those, send those to me. And when this goes up, I definitely would be happy to make sure that the the book covers are featured as part of what of what we put up if you'd like. Okay, yeah, that'd be great. That would, that would be fun to do. But, you know, you've you've clearly accomplished a lot and are more important than anything, you're having fun doing it. And I think that's the really big issue that if we can't have fun doing what we're doing, then, you know, where are we?   Joseph Stephen  53:21  Oh, absolutely. And I think that's the thing that we can live extremely fulfilled lives, and lives that are meaningful in our community. So, you know, as I said, there are pros, there are consumers, and there are producers. And I think it's just like the Bible says, and so it's better to, it's more blessed to give than to receive, I think it's far more exciting to be a producer and a consumer.   Michael Hingson  53:54 And it's always better to help people learn to fish rather than just giving people fish. Yes, exactly. If you were to give some advice, of any sort to, let's say, people who could see what would what would you like people to take away from this? There's a toughy huh? Yeah.   Joseph Stephen  54:18 Are you talking specifically about how sighted people see those with a disability?   Michael Hingson  54:25 Um, you can start there if you'd like, but whatever you feel would be relevant. advice to give people certainly, talking about disabilities is one pertinent thing but I didn't know whether you wanted to even go further.   Joseph Stephen  54:42 Find out what you what you like doing, do it to the best of your ability and help others in the process.   Michael Hingson  54:54 It doesn't get much better than that. Clearly, what would you say about disabilities in four two? The people who don't view themselves as having a disability, sighted people about blindness and so on?   Joseph Stephen  55:07 Well, I agree with you that attitude is everything, I would also hit those say that it is difficult as a, as a person with a disability related or interacting with those who don't have a disability in a family situation. And I don't think anyone prepared me. Let me rephrase it, because of the, the tight, the time at which I grew up, the emphasis was on buying people can do anything. But what they didn't tell me was how my disability was going to affect my family. And so it is, it is one thing to be proactive in terms of education and to and to break the glass ceiling, so to speak. There is also though the reality of living in a world where most people are different from you, and being responsible and reasonable and sensitive about how your disability affects others. And particularly, you know, your your wife and your children. They are often the wings, the wind between the wind beneath our wings. And they oftentolerate a lot from us that other people don't necessarily notice the carers and the people who, you know, we don't make it by ourselves. We really don't, we're all interdependent. And I guess I want to emphasize that too, that there are people in our lives, who don't have the disability that we have, who really helped us to be who we are, and we must give them credit.   Michael Hingson  57:25 Absolutely. The other side of that, though, is that those people also, whether they recognize it or not have had help along the way, I believe in something that Gandhi once said, which is that interdependence ought to be as much the ideal of man as his self sufficiency. Because the reality is, we are absolutely an independent dependent world, all the way around. And, and I think it's important to, to recognize that, that all of us get help in so many different ways from so many different people, whether we realize it or not. And it is also true, that sometimes we don't even know how we've helped other people. But if we're living our lives, we're helping other people as well.   Joseph Stephen  58:18 Yep, that's right. No, I really, I really like that. I think that the problem is, when you don't have a disability, you tend not to think of yourself as interest interdependent, right. And that's part that's part of that's part of our problem, as well. Yeah. I mean, that's why that's why people don't recognize their need for gardening in a lot of ways is because they're, they're too self dependent.   Michael Hingson  58:46 Or they think they are and they think they are, yeah, exactly what what kind of advice would you give now and say to a blind person, about whatever,   Joseph Stephen  58:57 as a blind person, don't, don't expect everyone else to make your, your life accessible, get out there and do it, and contribute and be a producer and not a consumer.   Michael Hingson  59:15 It's so true, right? I mean, that's exactly what we all need to do. And we need to learn to do it. It is so unfortunate, and in society, we just don't teach enough of that to people in general. I think we used to do it more than we do it today. But we really need to teach people to learn to step out. Take risks, when appropriate, and learn what when appropriate means but don't just sit back. It's better to be a driver than a passenger.   Joseph Stephen  59:48 Yeah, I think the in all fairness though, because of the the move to integrate blind people into sighted schools very very, very early without the special education Quite often blind people don't have the, the networks that they once had. Not that you want to only be in a blind world, you need to be in a sighted world and a blind world. But the problem is if you don't, if you've if you've never had the opportunity to learn how to do sighted things in an efficient way, I mean, we really need, like blind people to be helped be mentors and things like that, too. You know? And I'm certainly willing to do that.   Michael Hingson  1:00:46 Yeah, I hear you. And the but the other. The other part about it is that I think there are a lot of in this country there, there are a lot of attempts to provide teachers to help. The problem is that from a philosophical standpoint, and a practical standpoint, they themselves don't get the training that they truly need to help blind people truly understand what independence is all about, and how to be independent. And the result is that they don't teach some of the skills that they could teach, or that they could contribute to teaching better than they do. So the teachers themselves can be a part of the problem, and shouldn't be, but they are.   Joseph Stephen  1:01:30 Yeah, no, I agree with that, particularly in Australia, as I said, with this article, The Rise and Fall of life skills, it got to a peak, you know, back in the 50s and 60s, people blind people weaving baskets, then there was the, the the attitude of blind people can do anything, then we move to integration. So we had special education, then we moved into early integration, and it got earlier and earlier and earlier till the special education went out the window. And some people say it was because of budget and government spending, etc. But, but the reality is we've gone backwards now. 1234 Yeah, go ahead. Yeah. To before. The, the, the upward trend. Yeah, just quite sad   Michael Hingson  1:02:12 . On the episode number five of this podcast, we interviewed a lady named Peggy Chung, who is known as the blind history lady. And she specializes by choice in learning the history of blind people and blindness and so on. And she, among other things, talks about the fact that in the past as late as in the 1940s, or around 1940, I think I'd have to go back and listen. We had as many as three blind congressmen in the United States, and there's been one blind senator, now we have none. Because society has decided, once again, that blindness is really more of a problem in the wrong way than it is. And I think that can happen so much in the world, which is truly unfortunate. She has a lot.   Joseph Stephen  1:03:11 Go ahead. I ran as a candidate for political party twice in 2010 and 2016. So yeah, there's a lot of stigma attached still, in getting blind people into places of leadership.   Michael Hingson  1:03:27 She also tells us a story about the invention of the typewriter, which was really for a blind Countess to want Countess who wanted to be able to exchange or have notes go to her lover without her husband finding out fascinating stories. So if you get a chance, go back and check out Episode Five. It's really kind of fun. Well, I am going to thank you for being here. We've been doing this an hour already. We could probably go on but I think we've given people enough to think about don't you?   Joseph Stephen  1:03:56 Oh, absolutely. Thanks for having me. I really appreciate you being here.   Michael Hingson  1:04:00 How can people maybe reach out to you and learn more about you or learn about the books and all that?   Joseph Stephen  1:04:06 We have a website called faithfulgenerations.com www dot F A I T H F U L G E N E R A T I O N S faithfulgenerations.com That's where you can read about my testimony and books. It doesn't have anything about our music musics on Bandcamp two servants, T W O S E R V A N T S two servants on Bandcamp and b a n d c a s t B A N D C A M P band camp actually actually have our our first album is actually available on most of the platforms now like Spotify and that two servants. It's called further down the road. The next album coming out is over the hill and then maybe it will be under the turf. I'm not sure. Yeah, because the guy that I started singing with back in 1986. He's now 73. And I'm 51. And so it's just a little private joke between us. The well I'm 73 He's okay. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, it sounds 73 He doesn't sound 73   Michael Hingson  1:05:20 Well, we keep trying. Exactly. Well, this has been fun. And I want to thank you for listening. Love to hear your thoughts about any of this and you are welcome to reach out to me. You can reach me Michaelhi at accessibe A C C E S S I B E.com. We'd love to hear your thoughts. We didn't even talk about accessibly or anything today, but we had enough other fun things to talk about. We could have a whole hour probably you and I on artificial intelligence in general anyway, right?   Joseph Stephen  1:05:49 Oh, absolutely.   Michael Hingson  1:05:52 But I hope people will reach out to me Michaelhi@accessibe dot com or go to www dot Michael hingson.com/podcast. Singular, and listen to more episodes. But wherever you're listening, please give us a five star rating. We appreciate it. We value your thoughts and your comments and your ratings and reviews. So please give us a five star rating and let us know your thoughts. And don't ever hesitate to reach out and Joseph for you and for you listening. If you know of anyone else who might make a good podcast guest, please email me please let me know. We are always looking for more folks to interview and we appreciate your help to find them. And the number of people have done that over the past year and a half plus, and I'm sure we'll get more of those. So don't hesitate to give us your suggestions. We are always looking for people to talk with. So Joseph once more. Thanks very much. And I really appreciate your time and all of your your good thoughts today.   Joseph Stephen  1:06:53 Thanks for having me.   Michael Hingson  1:07:00 You have been listening to the Unstoppable Mindset podcast. Thanks for dropping by. I hope that you'll join us again next week, and in future weeks for upcoming episodes. To subscribe to our podcast and to learn about upcoming episodes, please visit www dot Michael hingson.com slash podcast. 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In today's episode ; Jeanette and Shawn answer questions from Matt, Trisha, and listeners about their experience listening to the Walk Around the Moon album at the Dolby Theater in NYC!

The Equalizers Clip Show Celebration! Before kicking off season four, Chris and Chuck dust off their matching tuxes, rent out the closest thing the Chicagoland area has to the Acadamy Awards' Dolby Theater (the Hyatt O'Hare in Rosemont), and host the first ever Equalizers podcast clip show! For the special occasion, your humble hosts have picked out a few clips from the most recent podcast season: from the highly acclaimed to fan favorites to personal picks to the most historically significant. It was a magical evening and thanks to everyone for coming out and celebrating... and for helping remind Frank Whaley not to fill up on appetizers! @equalizerspod equalizerspodcast at gmail dot com https://www.facebook.com/equalizerspodcast/ Additional audio: myNoise

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A primeira referência ao falar de Luca Bueno a brasileiros, por enquanto, é ser o filho caçula de um dos jornalistas mais conhecidos do país: Galvão Bueno. Mas Luca trilha carreira solo bem longe do pai e, por detrás das câmeras, tenta a concorrida carreira de se destacar na terra do cinema. Cleide Klock, correspondente da RFI em Los AngelesO último curta-metragem do jovem cineasta de 22 anos, "Luna", acaba de participar do 23° Beverly Hills Film Festival (BHFF). O prêmio principal não veio, mas o brasileiro já conseguiu experimentar um pouco dos holofotes de Hollywood, para onde acaba de se mudar.de acordo com a organização, a seleção do Beverly Hills Film Festival tem como foco dar destaque a trabalhos de talentos promissores. Meio a centenas de inscritos, 150 filmes, entre longas e curtas, foram apresentados no icônico Teatro Chinês, em Hollywood, de 19 a 23 de abril. A festa de premiação aconteceu logo ao lado, no Hotel Roosevelt, local que sediou a primeira festa do Oscar, em 1929, e onde morou Marilyn Monroe."É um evento muito grande. Os filmes do festival são muito bons, muito bem produzidos. Esse filme foi feito com amigos da faculdade, obviamente teve apoio de profissionais que ajudaram a gente, mas eu senti como se nosso filme fosse um bichinho em um mar grande, uma experiência muito boa", conta Luca.Galvão Bueno e a esposa, Desirée Soares, estiveram em Los Angeles para prestigiar o filho no evento."Eu senti um orgulho muito grande por poder assistir ao filme "Luna", aplaudido no final em pleno Teatro Chinês, um filme bastante profissional, e depois a cerimônia no hotel onde começou o Oscar. Não vir o prêmio de melhor filme é absolutamente normal. Mas um menino de 22 anos estar indicado em um confronto direto com a indústria do cinema dos Estados Unidos foi um motivo de grande alegria e me deu a certeza de que ele está no caminho certo", declarou Galvão Bueno à RFI. Jurassic ParkLuca nasceu no Brasil e, aos seis anos de idade, foi morar com a família em Monte Carlo, em Mônaco, micropaís ao sul da França. Foi lá, ainda nesta idade, por influência de um amigo, que começou a sonhar em ser diretor de cinema e, como brincadeira, fazia seus primeiros filmes. Ele conta que "acha que nem deu tempo de o pai tentar convencê-lo a seguir carreira em qualquer esporte", porque nunca mais mudou de ideia ou pensou em tentar qualquer outra profissão."Eu falo que quando eu conhecer o Steven Spielberg, eu vou contar para ele: quando eu era muito pequeninho, a razão por que eu entrei para o cinema, além desse amigo, foi assistir ao filme "Jurassic Park" (1993) pela primeira vez. Isso mudou minha vida. Eu falei: meu Deus, os dinossauros estão aí, então qualquer coisa é possível, eu quero fazer isso também", lembra Luca.Com isso começou a carreira, mesmo sem saber muito sobre o processo, reunindo filmagens e colando umas nas outras, no início como uma brincadeira. Luca já perdeu a conta de quantos filmes fez desde os sete anos.Mas o divisor de águas aconteceu em 2019, quando iniciou a faculdade de cinema na Full Sail University, em Orlando, nos Estados Unidos, e os filmes então começaram a seguir um caminho mais profissional, em sua opinião. O IMDB (The Internet Movie Database), banco de dados que armazena o currículo de quem trabalha em cinema e TV, apresenta oito filmes realizados por ele desde 2015, mas Luca destaca os três últimos como seus melhores trabalhos ("Three", "Outtake" e "Luna".)LunaO curta "Luna" foi o primeiro com equipe americana. Na trama, o cineasta colocou referências e homenagens a Spielberg, um de seus ídolos, e um pouco dos seus sentimentos de infância."Tem bastante do meu interesse com o espaço, com a lua em si também. Mas tem um pouco de ausência do meu pai, que sempre viajava e sempre estava longe de casa por causa do trabalho. Então eu usei isso de uma maneira completamente diferente do que acontece com a personagem, mas a essência de sentir saudade quando era criança, de querer falar com ele e ele estar longe, eu coloquei no filme", revela.O pai dele é, inclusive, um de seus maiores apoiadores e assina como produtor executivo de "Luna". Mas Luca conta que Galvão sempre deu a ele um choque de realidade sobre as dificuldades dessa profissão."O incentivo dele é constante. Ele sempre fala que é muito difícil, uma coisa que muita gente tenta e muita gente falha. Ele nunca deixou de ser realista comigo. Eu poderia ter olhado isso como uma falta de confiança, mas nunca foi isso e hoje eu consigo enxergar que ele estava me preparando. Mudando para cá eu entendo mais o que ele estava falando, é não atrás de não, decepção atrás de decepção, aí vem uma vitória e você consegue segurar por mais um tempo, aí vem mais não, não e um sim… Mas o apoio sempre, da minha mãe também, que é mais no sentido 'você consegue fazer tudo, sempre'", conta o cineasta.Dolby TheaterLuca segue em Hollywood. Em agosto ele começa a fazer mestrado em cinema, e já tem dois projetos de curta e de longa na manga, que pretende tirar em breve do papel, além de muitos sonhos na cabeça. Um deles é conquistar um espaço na porta ao lado de onde aconteceu o Beverly Hills Film Festival, o Dolby Theater, palco anual da maior festa do cinema americano."Obviamente é um sonho, acho que todo mundo que está fazendo isso está diretamente lincado com o Oscar, porque é o maior selo de aprovação que Hollywood pode te dar. Essa é minha Copa do Mundo", ele finaliza.

A primeira referência ao falar de Luca Bueno a brasileiros, por enquanto, é ser o filho caçula de um dos jornalistas mais conhecidos do país: Galvão Bueno. Mas Luca trilha carreira solo bem longe do pai e, por detrás das câmeras, tenta a concorrida carreira de se destacar na terra do cinema. Cleide Klock, correspondente da RFI em Los AngelesO último curta-metragem do jovem cineasta de 22 anos, "Luna", acaba de participar do 23° Beverly Hills Film Festival (BHFF). O prêmio principal não veio, mas o brasileiro já conseguiu experimentar um pouco dos holofotes de Hollywood, para onde acaba de se mudar.de acordo com a organização, a seleção do Beverly Hills Film Festival tem como foco dar destaque a trabalhos de talentos promissores. Meio a centenas de inscritos, 150 filmes, entre longas e curtas, foram apresentados no icônico Teatro Chinês, em Hollywood, de 19 a 23 de abril. A festa de premiação aconteceu logo ao lado, no Hotel Roosevelt, local que sediou a primeira festa do Oscar, em 1929, e onde morou Marilyn Monroe."É um evento muito grande. Os filmes do festival são muito bons, muito bem produzidos. Esse filme foi feito com amigos da faculdade, obviamente teve apoio de profissionais que ajudaram a gente, mas eu senti como se nosso filme fosse um bichinho em um mar grande, uma experiência muito boa", conta Luca.Galvão Bueno e a esposa, Desirée Soares, estiveram em Los Angeles para prestigiar o filho no evento."Eu senti um orgulho muito grande por poder assistir ao filme "Luna", aplaudido no final em pleno Teatro Chinês, um filme bastante profissional, e depois a cerimônia no hotel onde começou o Oscar. Não vir o prêmio de melhor filme é absolutamente normal. Mas um menino de 22 anos estar indicado em um confronto direto com a indústria do cinema dos Estados Unidos foi um motivo de grande alegria e me deu a certeza de que ele está no caminho certo", declarou Galvão Bueno à RFI. Jurassic ParkLuca nasceu no Brasil e, aos seis anos de idade, foi morar com a família em Monte Carlo, em Mônaco, micropaís ao sul da França. Foi lá, ainda nesta idade, por influência de um amigo, que começou a sonhar em ser diretor de cinema e, como brincadeira, fazia seus primeiros filmes. Ele conta que "acha que nem deu tempo de o pai tentar convencê-lo a seguir carreira em qualquer esporte", porque nunca mais mudou de ideia ou pensou em tentar qualquer outra profissão."Eu falo que quando eu conhecer o Steven Spielberg, eu vou contar para ele: quando eu era muito pequeninho, a razão por que eu entrei para o cinema, além desse amigo, foi assistir ao filme "Jurassic Park" (1993) pela primeira vez. Isso mudou minha vida. Eu falei: meu Deus, os dinossauros estão aí, então qualquer coisa é possível, eu quero fazer isso também", lembra Luca.Com isso começou a carreira, mesmo sem saber muito sobre o processo, reunindo filmagens e colando umas nas outras, no início como uma brincadeira. Luca já perdeu a conta de quantos filmes fez desde os sete anos.Mas o divisor de águas aconteceu em 2019, quando iniciou a faculdade de cinema na Full Sail University, em Orlando, nos Estados Unidos, e os filmes então começaram a seguir um caminho mais profissional, em sua opinião. O IMDB (The Internet Movie Database), banco de dados que armazena o currículo de quem trabalha em cinema e TV, apresenta oito filmes realizados por ele desde 2015, mas Luca destaca os três últimos como seus melhores trabalhos ("Three", "Outtake" e "Luna".)LunaO curta "Luna" foi o primeiro com equipe americana. Na trama, o cineasta colocou referências e homenagens a Spielberg, um de seus ídolos, e um pouco dos seus sentimentos de infância."Tem bastante do meu interesse com o espaço, com a lua em si também. Mas tem um pouco de ausência do meu pai, que sempre viajava e sempre estava longe de casa por causa do trabalho. Então eu usei isso de uma maneira completamente diferente do que acontece com a personagem, mas a essência de sentir saudade quando era criança, de querer falar com ele e ele estar longe, eu coloquei no filme", revela.O pai dele é, inclusive, um de seus maiores apoiadores e assina como produtor executivo de "Luna". Mas Luca conta que Galvão sempre deu a ele um choque de realidade sobre as dificuldades dessa profissão."O incentivo dele é constante. Ele sempre fala que é muito difícil, uma coisa que muita gente tenta e muita gente falha. Ele nunca deixou de ser realista comigo. Eu poderia ter olhado isso como uma falta de confiança, mas nunca foi isso e hoje eu consigo enxergar que ele estava me preparando. Mudando para cá eu entendo mais o que ele estava falando, é não atrás de não, decepção atrás de decepção, aí vem uma vitória e você consegue segurar por mais um tempo, aí vem mais não, não e um sim… Mas o apoio sempre, da minha mãe também, que é mais no sentido 'você consegue fazer tudo, sempre'", conta o cineasta.Dolby TheaterLuca segue em Hollywood. Em agosto ele começa a fazer mestrado em cinema, e já tem dois projetos de curta e de longa na manga, que pretende tirar em breve do papel, além de muitos sonhos na cabeça. Um deles é conquistar um espaço na porta ao lado de onde aconteceu o Beverly Hills Film Festival, o Dolby Theater, palco anual da maior festa do cinema americano."Obviamente é um sonho, acho que todo mundo que está fazendo isso está diretamente lincado com o Oscar, porque é o maior selo de aprovação que Hollywood pode te dar. Essa é minha Copa do Mundo", ele finaliza.

Raised in Minneapolis, MN as a young classical percussionist, Sammi Potts moved to Nashville in 2013 to study music at Belmont University. In this interview, we learn the valuable skillsets she learned both in and out of the classroom to propel her to an already fruitful career as a full-time rock drummer, currently on tour with breakout country star Shane Profitt. We discuss how to stay balanced when coming off a tour, the importance of showmanship, and how valuable mentors can be. We hope you enjoy!We'd like to thank our Episode Sponsors:Music Lab Nashvillehttps://nashville.musiclab.coDrum Boxhttps://drumbox.spaceConnect with Sammi:Website: https://www.sammipotts.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/sammiflowerpottsMusic Featured in this Episode:Jenny Teator'Whiskey With Me''Black Cherry Heart'About Sammi:Born and raised in Minneapolis, MN, Sammi began training as a classical percussionist when she was eight years old. Not long after, she was immersed into the thriving music scene of the Twin Cities, inspiring her to develop her skill as a drum set player. Sammi made the move to Nashville in 2013 to study music at Belmont University. A recipient of the Wilson Music Scholarship, she has worked with Chester Thompson (Genesis, Weather Report), Zoro (Lenny Kravittz, Bobby Brown), Derico Watson (Victor Wooten), and Steve Goold (Ben Rector, Sarah Bareilles, Owl City), among many others. Since graduating, Sammi has been invited to perform at the Grand Ole Opry, the GMA Dove Awards, the Dolby Theater, and Radio City Music Hall. In 2018, Sammi performed with Carrie Underwood in her music video, Love Wins. She currently tours with Shane Profitt (BMLG Records) and has recently performed with Drake Milligan, Tiera Kennedy, Jenna Paulette, and Moriah Peters.------Interview by: Dan Ainspan, Nathan SletnerRecorded February 2023 in Nashville, TNConnect with us:WebsiteInstagramTikTokFacebookRecorded at Diamond Sound Studios, Nashville, TNPodcast Artwork: GENUINE CREATIVE ART ⓒ 2023 Nashville Drummers Podcast, LLC

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The Oscars are back (ratings-wise)! Jackson and Carter are back from the Dolby Theater to give their takes on the 95th Academy Awards. The boys react to the show itself, the winners and losers, the historic night for 'Everything Everywhere All At Once', and the paradigm shift of the Oscars voters. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jackson-mahuron/support

The 95th Oscar Award Show was held at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, hosted by comedian Jimmy Kimmel. Everything, Everywhere All at Once swept the awards as expected. Shaun gives a frank review of the film and its' stars. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/james-herlihy/message

Oscar night and the afterparties, guess we missed it, Emily Ratajkowski, Ciara and HunterSchafer made a big nearly naked splash Sunday!  Elizabeth Banks let her bare feet do the walking out of the Dolby Theater too, she and others were caught with shoes in hand after a long night. And @HalleBerry Listen to the daily Van Camp and Morgan radio show at: AltBossGold.com 92.5TheBlock TRIK FM RockPartyRadio RiverRatRadio The Mix614 Sunny105 Souldies.com KTahoe.com RetroFM 941now.com ZFunHundred Tucka56Radio.com AmericaOneRadio.com TheMix96.com 100az.live Audacy Lite99Orlando.com PlayFMOnline.com Free99EastTexasRadio FrontierCountryOnline.com Hits247fm.com BossBossRadio.com Hot977FM.com CountryBarnyardRadio.com B98KC.com That70sChannel.com iHeartMedia Boss90sNow.com CoolJamzRadio GenerationsX.com MagicRadio.rebelmediagroup.us BossCountryRadio.com Retro80sRadio24/7 NCMCountry OasisRadio Z89.3 StarHit1FM  925The Block 247TheSound.com WMQL RadioBigFM War Zone Radio  WRSR The Rooster DCXRocks  FusionRadio Mix96.1 106.5TrisJamz find us at: VanCampAndMorgan.com  

The biggest night in movies wrapped last night with no slaps but a lot of tears. 'Extra' host Billy Bush brings his experience from the new 'champagne carpet' at the Dolby Theater to the Steve Cochran Show and shares his thoughts on the night's big winners.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

La original propuesta sobre el metaverso logra un hito para el género de ciencia ficción al llevarse siete estatuillas, entre ellas, la de la Mejor película.   La comedia "Todo a la vez en todas partes" (Everytthing Everywhere All at Once) arrasó en la gala de los Premios de la Academia de Hollywood que se llevó a cabo el domingo en el Dolby Theater de Los Angeles. Esta cinta sobre el metaverso ha sido la más alocada que se ha visto en años y partía como favorita con 11 nominaciones. Al final, cosechó siete Oscar, entre ellos el de la Mejor Película, Mejor dirección para los "Daniels", Daniel Kwan y Daniel Scheinert, y para la mejor Actriz. Su protagonista, la malaya de origen chino Michelle Yeoh se convirtió en la primera actriz asiática de la historia en alzar una estatuilla dorada en Hollywood."Quiero dedicar este premio a mi mamá y a todas las madres del mundo. Por que ellas son las verdaderas super heroínas y porque sin ellas ninguno de nosotros estaríamos aquí", dijo Yeoh ante los presentes."Todo a la vez en todas partes" también se llevó los galardones a los actores de reparto, Jonathan Ke Quan y la veterana Jamie Lee Curtis, quien apuñó anoche el primer Oscar de su larga carrera y agradeció conmovida a sus padres, los actores Tony Curtis y Janet Leigh."A mi padre y a mi madre quienes estuvieron nominados para los Oscar en diferentes categorias... acabo de ganar un Oscar" gritó emocionada la actriz de 64 años.La estatuilla al mejor actor protagonista se fue a la manos de Brendan Fraser por su increíble interpretación en La Ballena.La cinta alemana Sin novedad en el frente, de Edward Berger, se llevó por su parte el Oscar a la mejor película internacional, categoría donde competía "Argentina, 1985", de Santiago Mitre, protagonizada por Ricardo Darín.Pero en cambio, el mexicano Guillermo del Toro se llevó sin sorpresas el Oscar a la Mejor película de animación, por su entrañable Pinocho. Del Toro quien volvió a hacer una ferviente defensa de este género cinematográfico."La animación está lista para dar el siguiente paso. Todos estamos listos para ello. Por favor, ayúdennos. Mantengan la animación en la conversación", aseveró Del Toro.India hizo historia al ganar la primera estatuilla a la Mejor canción original vpor el tema "Naatu Naatu" de la cinta RRR.La 95ª entrega de los Óscar se inauguró con un homenaje a una de las películas más exitosas del año, "Top Gun: Maverick". Dos aviones cazas estadounidenses surcaron el cielo de Los Ángeles al iniciarse la ceremonia. Pero su protagonista, Tom Cruise, no estuvo entre los presentes.

Join Jon and Andy as they sneak back into the Dolby Theater to discuss this year’s nominees for Best Original Score! Could this be our least impressive slate of contenders yet? What does it mean for music to really speak to the human heart? And, will we succeed in our attempt to keep the episode … Continue reading "#58 – 2023 Oscars Special"

Maggie speaks with CEO of Terrapin Station Entertainment, Jonathan Shank  about his latest project, Bob Marley One Love Experience which began its run of engagement in Los Angeles January 27th and runs until April 23, 2023 (12- week engagement)This multi-sensory experience will showcase never-before-seen Marley photographs and memorabilia, while immersing you in a journey through his life, passions, influences, and enduring legacy. Venture through the One Love Forest, visit the Soul Shakedown Studio and delve into the multi-sensory experience celebrating one of the world's most beloved and unifying musical figures. 6801 Hollywood Blvd. (2nd floor next to Dolby Theater), Los Angeles, United States. CA 90028.Located in the heart of Hollywood, along the Hollywood Walk of Fame, it is among the most visited tourist destinations and shopping complexes in Los Angeles.Children 5 and under are admitted FREEAn experience presented by Terrapin Station EntertainmentSource: https://shorefire.com/roster/jonathan-shank/bioSource: https://bobmarleyexp.com/los-angeles/This episode is from an archive from the KPFK program Profiles adapted for podcast.Host Maggie LePique, a radio veteran since the 1980's at NPR in Kansas City Mo. She began her radio career in Los Angeles in the early 1990's and has worked for Pacifica station KPFK Radio in Los Angeles since 1994.Support the show

This episode is for the dolls! M3GAN, Joe Burrow, Mia and Lucia, the women who are talking in Women Talking, and Meryl in Only Murders?!? We have…such doubts, but it won't stop us from having SUCH opinions (and maybe even second opinions)! Is there a best way to prepare chicken? Is Mandy Moore the Meryl of our generation? Can we get a plane into the Dolby Theater?! Follow @theverdictpod on Instagram and Twitter, and like, review, and subscribe wherever you listen! 

Good morning, Gus! We're still at the mall because its back and we're drinking from the e-bar at Nordstrom. In this episode, Gus and Geoff talk about Animal crackers, Mike's Hard Lemonade focus group, Austin Drinkers, Explosive growth in Austin, Weird Wednesdays, Internet clips in front of an audience, Our shows at the Dolby Theater, and Gus losing $100k+. Snag an ANMA shirt to help support the show at www.store.roosterteeth.com. Sponsored by Express VPN http://expressvpn.com/anma and Better Help http://betterhelp.com/anma Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chris Rock returned to the Dolby Theater, scene of the slap.Jerry Seinfeld opined on Chris Rock's style of comedyAn article in the Forward asks why people are mad at Dave Chappelle but not Ari Shaffir...and why they shouldn't beTim Allen had an update about Jay Leno's faceRon Funches is getting divocrcedTig Notaro lost at PickleballJohn Leguizamo is NOT HAPPY at the Luigi casting.Support the show by Buying Me A Coffee: www.buymeacoffee.com/dailycomedynewsListen Ad-Free and get the episodes early with a premium subscription for $4.99/month on Apple Podcasts. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daily-comedy-news-podcast-a-podcast-about-comedians/id1474309028www.linktr.ee/dailycomedynewsFacebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/dcnpod - join us to to discuss comedy and your favorite comedians.YouTube channel:https://www.youtube.com/@dailycomedynews?sub_confirmation=1Instagram is @dailycomedynews https://www.instagram.com/dailycomedynews/?hl=enReddit https://www.reddit.com/r/dailycomedynews/AI generated transcripts at www.dailycomedynews.comTwitter is @dcnpod because the person with what I want tweeted onceEmail: john at thesharkdeck dot comDaily Comedy News commentary includes satire and parody.Daily Comedy News is a production of The Shark Deck, the leading company in short form daily podcasts

In this week's episode of Living in the Sprawl: Southern California's Most Adventurous Podcast, host Jon Steinberg shares his list of 10 places you can visit in Southern California to celebrate the life and times of Kobe Bryant. His list includes: the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, Javier's in Newport Beach, the mural at 1147 South Hope in Downtown Los Angeles, the Mamba Sports Academy in Thousand Oaks, the Long Beach Pyramid in Long Beach, LA Live in Downtown Los Angeles, El Camino Real Restaurant in Fullerton, the helicopter crash site in Calabasas, Pacific View Cemetery in Newport Beach and Staples Center in Downtown Los Angeles.Instagram: @livinginthesprawlpodcastEmail: livinginthesprawlpodcast@gmail.comWebsite: www.livinginthesprawlpodcast.comCheck out our favorite CBD gummy company...it helps us get better sleep and stay chill. Use code "SPRAWL" for 20% off.  https://www.justcbdstore.com?aff=645Check out Goldbelly for all your favorite US foods to satisfy those cravings or bring back some nostalgia. Our favorites include Junior's Chessecakes from New York, Lou Malnati's deep dish pizza from Chicago and a philly cheesesteak from Pat's. Use the link https://goldbelly.pxf.io/c/2974077/1032087/13451 to check out all of the options and let them know we sent you.Use code "SPRAWL" for (2) free meals and free delivery on your first Everytable subscription.Support the podcast and future exploration adventures. We are working on unique perks and will give you a shout out on the podcast to thank you for your contribution!Living in the Sprawl: Southern California's Most Adventurous Podcast is on Podfanhttps://www.buymeacoffee.com/sprawlSupport the show

Today In Music History October 9th-15th October 9th 1961 - Ray Charles started a two week run at No. 1 on the U.S. singles chart with "Hit The Road Jack." 1993 - Nirvana entered the U.S. album chart at No. 1 with In Utero, their third and final studio album. Birthdays: PJ Harvey is 51 October 10th 1962 - The BBC somehow determined that "Monster Mash," by Bobby "Boris" Pickett was offensive and banned it from their airwaves. 2014 - Taylor Swift was named Billboard's Woman of the Year 2014, making her the first artist to receive the award twice. Birthdays: David Lee Roth is 68 October 11th 1990 - Drummer Dave Grohl played his first gig with Nirvana when they appeared at the North Shore Surf Club in Olympia. 1997 - Elton John went to No. 1 on the U.S. singles chart with "Candle In The Wind 1997", a rewrite of his 1974 hit about Marilyn Monroe. Birthdays: Daryl Hall of Hall and Oates is 76 And Cardi B is 30 October 12th 1969 - A DJ on Detroit's WKNR radio station received a phone call telling him that if you play The Beatles 'Strawberry Fields Forever' backwards, you hear John Lennon say the words "I buried Paul." This started a worldwide rumour that Paul McCartney was dead. 1997 - With Backstreet Boys mania building worldwide, the group had to cancel a free, open-air concert at the Mostenses Plaza in Madrid when too many fans show up. October 13th 1974 - Renowned television host Ed Sullivan dies of esophageal cancer in New York City, at age 73. One of the biggest events in music history unfolded on his program, The Ed Sullivan Show, when a new group from Liverpool called The Beatles made their live U.S. debut. 1979 - Michael Jackson went to No. 1 on the U.S. singles chart with "Don't Stop Till You Get Enough," his second solo chart-topper. Birthdays: Sammy Hagar is 75 October 14th 1968 - The Jackson Five made their national TV debut on ABC's Hollywood Palace. 2020 - Post Malone won nine awards including top artist at the 2020 Billboard Music Awards held at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles. Birthdays: Natalie Maines of the The Chicks is 48 October 15th 1979 - ABBA played their first concert in North America when they appeared in Vancouver, B.C. 1994 - R.E.M. entered the Billboard 200 album chart at No. 1 with Monster. The album was their ninth and was a stylistic shift from the bands previous two albums-- 1991's Out of Time and 1992's Automatic for the People --with loud, distorted guitar tones and simple arrangements, and included the successful single, "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" Birthdays: Brother Of Michael Jackson Tito Jackson is 68 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/b29podcast/message

Today we're talking with Kyle Cease, a New York Times Best Selling author who has the unique gift of being able to merge comedy and personal transformation.He's what would happen if Eckhart Tolle and Jim Carrey had a baby!Kyle believes that “for us to really grow, we almost have to let go of everything—and that less effort equals more magic.”In other words, if we surrender a little more and take more of what Gay calls "Big Leaps," we can transcend the parts of us that are creating out of fear and instead create amazing things.Mike is a huge fan of stand-up comedy, so he asked Kyle what his thoughts were on the evolution of comedy—plus what his creative process is.The answers he gave were so different from what Mike thought they were going to be.You'll also hear how Kyle managed to get himself a gig at the Dolby Theater (the theater they hold the Oscars in!) That and a lot more in this episode…Key Takeaways Kyle describes exactly what he does and his Evolving Out Loud Events (03:32) Kyle tells Mike and Gay about his first Big Leap (07:02) From full-blown stage fright and panic attacks to complete transformation (10:00) Kyle explains the 2 different voices that we all have (17:42) Mike asks Kyle about his relationship with comedy and how it shifted (20:47) Additional Resources Check out Kyle's upcoming Evolving Out Loud events: http://www.MrBz.com/KCwebsite Get on the Early Bird List for The Big Leap Experience: http://www.bigleappodcast.com/Apply

For Educational Purposes Only. The Artists , Authors, Creators and Producers own their music/songs and content. ☆☆ The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, Board of Governors, today slapped back imposing a 10-year ban for all events on Actor Will Smith for assaulting Chris Rock at The Dolby Theater in L. A., Sunday 03/27/22.☆☆

For Educational Purposes and inspirational Vibes. ☆☆Check out David Cutter You Tube channel and music. ☆☆☆The U.S. Department of Education has paused Federal Student Loans until August 2022.☆☆The U.S. Financial Services Committee Hybrid Hearing met to investigate what if any role U. S. Banks and financial institutions had in Slavery and Reparations.☆☆A near death experience, (NDE), interview by the late talk radio host, Art Bell and his guest.☆☆The Academy Board of Governors moved up the date of their meeting from 04/18/22 to 04/08/22 to address "possible sanctions" for Will Smith after he smacked down Chris Rock on 03/27/22 at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles. );

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Drew Taylor & Jim Hill start off this week's show by discussing what happened in Hollywood's Dolby Theater on March 27th. They also look back at the past 21 years' worth of Best Animated Feature winners & losers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Drew Taylor & Jim Hill start off this week's show by discussing what happened in Hollywood's Dolby Theater on March 27th. They also look back at the past 21 years' worth of Best Animated Feature winners & losers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Check out David Cutter Music You Tube Videos. No COPYRIGHT music. ☆☆For the listeners' pleasure. Thank you kindly for listening and sharing the podcast on your social media. Have a restful weekend. Ramadan Mubarak! ☆☆The Artists, Authors, Creators and Producers own their music/songs and content. ☆☆Updates: Will Smith resigned from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences/AMPAS, after assaulting Chris Rock on stage at the Dolby Theater, 94th Oscar Awards where he was awarded Best Actor just 30 minutes after attacking Chris Rock. As the stomach turns. 1 Samuel 15:22 - "obedience is better than sacrifice..."

Will Smith ganó el Óscar al mejor actor, pero la alegría quedó ensombrecida por su inesperada reacción violenta a un chiste de Chris Rock que le hizo levantarse de su asiento y darle una bofetada en directo en el escenario del Dolby Theater. Hablamos con Daniela Ganoza, conductora del segmento semanal de cine en Primer Impacto y del podcast La Charla que ha entrevistado a una muy larga lista de famosos de Hollywood. Sobre este chiste, el ataque y qué pasará ahora con la carrera de Will Smith.

Live from inside the Dolby Theater at the Academy Awards, Matt and The Hollywood Reporter's Scott Feinberg react to Will Smith slapping Chris Rock in the face onstage during the show. Host: Matt Belloni Guest: Scott Feinberg Producer: Craig Horlbeck Theme song: Devon Ronaldo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Η εποχή του χρόνου που λιώνουμε στις ταινίες για να σας δώσουμε στο πιάτο όλα όσα πρέπει να ξέρετε για τα Oscars έφτασε! Η 94η τελετή των βραβείων πλησιάζει και εμείς είμαστε εδώ για να γεμίσουμε με hype όποια ταινία αγαπήσαμε και να θάψουμε στα άδυτα του Dolby Theater αυτές που δεν μας άφησαν και την καλύτερη εντύπωση. Ποια είναι τα φαβορί; Ποιες εκπλήξεις να περιμένουμε; Θα υπάρξει το σοκ στην βραδιά; Αναλύσεις, προβλέψεις, στοιχήματα και διαμάχες στο επεισόδιο που απολαύσαμε για δεύτερη συνεχόμενη χρονιά! And The Oscar Goes To...

This Sunday, the beleaguered Oscars will hold their 94th Academy Awards ceremony. I will be attending, as I have for the last several years. I get my one ticket that is usually on the highest tier. I put on a fancy dress. I drive myself to the ceremony, park in the garage, and take the escalator to the Dolby Theater, which is located in the same mall as the Mann's Chinese, where I used to visit as a kid to look at the footprints and handprints of all of the stars.I love going to the Oscars, even if the only people I have to talk to are the wait staff and bartenders. Each floor has two full bars outside each of the tiers of the theater. You are allowed to go in and out of the theater as long as you do it during the commercial breaks. One of the most thrilling things about attending the live show is listening to the waves of applause that ripple through the room when an award is announced, or a film clip is shown. It looks very different on TV than it does live. I am usually way way up in the nosebleeds so I can't see much of what is going on unless I look at the flat screens provided for us. I can go out and have a drink and watch the show on the TV monitor. Then you can see it better. But it is still fun to go. I feel really lucky to be invited every year as a member of the press.How did I ever get here?I have been blogging about the Oscars for 22 years. It never occurred to me in all of that time that the Oscars could go extinct. Now I think there is a good chance they probably will. Sooner rather than later. The Oscars, like the Democratic Party, have created a fantasy world for themselves, an insulated, isolated utopia. It plays out in everything they do. They believe they solved the problem of racism that erupted in 2020 with Biden's directive, and by forcing everyone who wasn't a willing participant, across the country and in every institution to go along with their “antiracism” policies. They are now trying to make sure this ideology is taught in schools because it isn't some obscure scripture studied in law school. It is the entire world view of the Left, and that includes the Oscars.I used to be a true believer. Back when Critical Theory in race and gender was being taught at my daughter's high school, I was spending my days on my website advocating for people of color and women to be nominated and to win. I was like every social justice scold you see on Twitter now. I believed I was doing the right thing. I believed that there was no purpose to the Oscars if they couldn't change their history of awarding all white men all of the time. My perspective would start to shift in the last few years as I watched the accusations of racism and the push for equity to be ultimately detrimental to the goal of what the Oscars are supposed to be about. It isn't that I still don't feel that the awards should be open to everyone, not just white men, it's that I can't go along with using the awards as a way to pat ourselves on the back and fake-pretend we've changed anything. Have we? Or is it all a show? Film critics and Oscar voters seem to be okay pretending they are awarding on merit. But it doesn't seem that way to anyone not inside their utopian bubble. They want to be rewarded for having made change - with their museum, with their casting choices, with the films they award, with how they staff their awards shows. They give the impression that things have changed. But they haven't really. The Academy, and most institutions in this country, remain mostly white. The Academy is still 80% white, above the nation's white majority, which is in the high 60s at the moment.Watch any film or television ad produced by Hollywood and you would imagine that we live in a country that has an equal share of people of color and white people. But we don't. Whites are still the majority. But on the Left, they feel bad about this and thus, they must prove their worth every time they take the stage, every time they put out a movie, every time they give out an award, every time they make a film. The majority in this country, no matter their skin color, has about had enough. They've had enough of Hollywood lecturing them. They've had enough of their ideology and their strange new religion being foisted upon them and they are slowly pulling away from both the Democrats and the Oscars.Although everything was already starting to be about race before 2016, it wasn't until Trump won that things would start to radically change on the Left, on the Right - everywhere. There are many reasons for the drop in ratings - the rise of superhero movies, the rise of great television and flat screens, but it also can't be a coincidence that they really started to dip after November 2016. Trump's win upended almost everything on the Left, especially the film industry and the Oscars. They became overtly political, taking the side against not just Trump but half the country that voted for Trump. Almost immediately, the mass hysteria began, starting with the frontrunner the year of the 2016 election, La La Land.Because no one could do anything about Trump being the President, and because they could not hurt anyone on the Right with their moral outrage, their disgust, their constant dehumanizing and shaming, they began to eat their own. La La Land was accused of being racist, not just because it was a film that was about to win Best Picture, but because the film features a white man in it who loves Jazz. I could feel the awkward silence every time the film's name was mentioned. When they called it for La La Land at the end, I had already left the building because I too was caught up in the frenzy that a racist film was about to win Best Picture. I didn't find out until a phone call from a friend that Moonlight, the film about a black gay man finding love and acceptance, had won instead. Everyone assumed Trump caused it because no one could take a movie like La La Land seriously when the whole world had so dramatically changed. The following year, another controversy hit the film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. In it, Sam Rockwell (who won the Oscar) plays a cop who has a history of police brutality. The film didn't properly address it, according to critics and journalists. They believed it redeemed Rockwell. Even though the movie kept winning awards the outrage kept simmering. This time I argued against the smear. That was the first time I was called out and swarmed on Twitter. Despite my having advocated for years and years for Black filmmakers on my site, now I was being called a racist, in so many words, for defending Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Though it won the Golden Globe, the SAG ensemble award, and the BAFTA, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri would lose Best Picture to The Shape of Water. It must have been such a surreal experience to the film's director, Martin McDonagh, to be suddenly branded a racist and a police brutality apologist. This was, for me, a major turning point. I could see that a mass hysteria event was unfolding but I could do nothing to stop it. By far the worse event, though, was the next year when the film Green Book was up for the Oscar. It was so well-liked by everyone who saw it that it immediately won the Audience Award in Toronto. It won the Golden Globe. Then, when it won the Producers Guild it looked like it might win Best Picture and that is when all hell broke loose. It's a film about a working-class New Yorker who drives a Jazz musician across the country during Jim Crow. Mahershala Ali played the musician who was also gay.Not only was the film viciously and repeatedly attacked, but the filmmakers involved had their pasts upended and exposed. Director Peter Farrelly was accused of being a sex offender for once flashing someone on the set as a joke. The Screenwriter Nick Vallelonga who wrote the story about his own father was apparently a Trump supporter and had tweeted something criticizing Muslim immigrants. He was banned from the ceremony and never showed his face again during the race.I went on a massive counteroffensive to defend Green Book, even getting interviewed in the Wall Street Journal. Green Book was such a warm-hearted crowd-pleaser that the attacks against it backfired and it did end up winning Best Picture. Green Book's win, however, would push the Oscars past the point of no return. The “Green Book effect” would ultimately lead the Academy to turn inward, to manufacture a reality they wanted to be true because that was their only option. They had to bow to the activists pressuring them to make change. The following year, despite films like Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, The Irishman and 1917 being nominated for Best Picture, they would opt to give their top prize to the first film from a different country, Parasite from South Korea, to win Best Picture and Best Director. Sam Mendes' 1917 had won the Golden Globe, the Directors Guild, the Producers Guild, and the British Film and Television Academy's prize but lost the oscar to Parasite. Had 1917 won instead, however, all of the top prizes would have gone to white people - all of the actors and the filmmakers. That was early in 2020. A few weeks after the Oscars that year, COVID would hit. By the Summer, the country would explode with the George Floyd protests. That the Academy walked away from the 2020 Oscars with rapturous headlines at their having awarded the first “International Feature” Best Picture meant that they had finally won the approval of the loud chorus that demanded them to stop being #oscarssowhite. After the Summer of 2020, however, there was no further resistance from the industry. Big changes were implemented. The British Film and Television Academy (BAFTA) brought in a jury to select the nominees for the acting and directing category. Voters were ordered to choose half women and half men in Best Director. They kept the policy in place year which meant that not a single BAFTA nominee for Best Actress was also an Oscar nominee. The Academy already had an inclusion mandate in place to take hold in 2024, so there was nothing more they had to do officially, but they did decide to display their history at their museum to almost completely erase everything about the Oscars, the film industry and Hollywood. They had not only erased their Jewish mogul origin story, but they had almost completely eliminated the Oscars that everyone knows. But of course, no one could say anything. They were too afraid.As I walked around it I saw one person frantically pacing the rooms of the beautifully designed luxury museum saying into his cell phone, “none of it is here, not a single studio, no Warner Brothers, no Paramount.” And he was right. After Green Book won in 2018, there has not been a film by a white man to win Best Picture. And there won't be this year. Voters seem to understand this. I came to the Oscars at a time when great directors made great movies. But now, from the Sundance Film Festival onward, the priority of inclusivity has completely overwhelmed the whole point of awarding films in the first place. Whatever is happening now in Hollywood isn't about finding the best of anything or anyone. It is simply another arm of the Democratic Party's new religion.I imagine if Joseph McCarthy came back today and saw just how influential the political movement of the Left is having on everything from education, to science, to history, and yes, to the Oscars he'd think the Communists finally won. This year, we're down to two movies for the top prize. Both are directed by women - Jane Campion for Power of the Dog and Sian Heder for CODA. Both are competing to be the first film by a streaming platform, not a studio, to win Best Picture. Netflix (Power) vs. Apple (CODA). Neither film made money at the box office, with CODA bought for $25 million at the Sundance Film Festival, earning just $1 million at the box office. CODA is a heartwarming story about a hearing child with deaf parents and is acted by a predominantly deaf cast. Normally, the idea of awarding Apple or even Netflix their top prize, to give up entirely on that hard line between theatrical and streaming, the Academy voters would go a different way. But Apple made them an offer they could not refuse. A chance to make history by awarding the first film with a deaf cast as Best Picture. The cast was recently seen at the White House, as the guest of Joe and Jill who love the movie so much. Even though you have to be an Apple subscriber to watch it and it only made $1 million at the box office, this win will tell you everything you need to know about the Academy in 2022.CODA earned just three Oscar nominations, the lowest of all ten nominees. If it wins on Sunday it will be the first film since the 1930s to do so with just Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actor. In any other time in most of their history, this would be unheard of. But in 2022, no one can stop them from making history and looking like the good guys one more time. Teenagers aren't going to pay to see Oscar movies any time soon. They did go to see Spider-Man: No Way Home which is fast on its way to becoming the highest grossing film of all time. The Oscar voters aren't going to vote for a movie like that. When you do the math, it's hard to see any future for the Oscars. Now that the Oscars, like the Democrats, have decided that skin color, gender, and equity matter more than merit there is no point in having a competition. Maybe it's time to simply hand out certificates of achievement to those they believe deserve it most. Pretending like people are winning, though, is something the public can see through and something only the most privileged utopians find appealing. None of the movies nominated this year are bad. Some of them are very good. It's just that it's an isolated world, a magic mirror, a Shangri-la that touches almost no one else outside of its atmosphere. Sunday will be Oscar's 94th year. They've had a good run. Most of us would be lucky to live that long. Get full access to Free Thinking Through the Fourth Turning with Sasha Stone at sashastone.substack.com/subscribe

Quels sont les plus gros scandales de la cérémonie des Oscars ?   Ce 28 mars 2022 se tiendra la 94ème cérémonie des Oscars au Dolby Theater de Los Angeles. A cette occasion nous avons voulu revenir sur les plus grands incidents de cet évènement si prestigieux. Car exposition oblige, les Oscars ont donné lieu à de nombreuses situations farfelues allant de discours parfois limites à la présence du fameux homme tout nu. Mais qui est cet homme ? Pourquoi les oscarisés en arrivent à créer un scandale ? Et y a-t-il des boycotts de la cérémonie parfois ? Ecoutez la suite dans cet épisode de "Maintenant vous savez - Culture". Un podcast écrit et réalisé par Thomas Deseur. A écouter aussi : Pourquoi les méchants sont-ils les nouveaux héros du cinéma ? Pourquoi la ville de Kiev attire-t-elle les artistes du monde entier ? Quel est le plus gros best seller de tous les temps ? Vous pouvez réagir à cet épisode sur notre page Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tunaangalia kwa undani hali ilivyokuwa kwenye ukumbi wa Dolby Theater mjini Los Angeles, wakati wa makala ya 94 ya tuzo za Oscars za mwaka wa 2022, ambapo rekodi kadhaa zilivunjwa.

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We're going to the Oscars! Amanda Docter takes us onto the red carpet, into the Dolby Theater, and to the swanky after-parties.  Amanda has been to the Academy Awards ceremony eight times; her husband, Pete Docter, is the head of Pixar and has had a hand in creating many of the biggest animated movies of all time... and he's won three Oscars (for Up, Inside Out, and Soul)! Amanda dishes about trains on dresses; gifting suites; her glam squad; what happens during commercial breaks; how it feels to be on live TV; why the Oscar is the ultimate social lubricant; and which celebrity sulked when he realized his seat wasn't in the front row.  Amanda shares how the Oscars compares to other big awards shows... and how being seated across from Paul McCartney at one show created an opportunity that was just too good to pass up.Want to know more about The Experience Podcast?Sign up to be on our Insiders' List! Go to theexperiencepodcast.netFollow us on social media:InstagramFacebookTwitterLinkedIn

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Hollywood tem, enfim, um espaço dedicado à celebração da sétima arte. O Academy Museum of Motion Pictures (Museu da Academia de Filmes) abre as portas para o público em 30 de setembro depois de um atraso de quatro anos da data inicial. O projeto foi anunciado em 2012, mas começou a ser sonhado quando a organização que promove o Oscar foi fundada, em 1927. Agora, 92 anos depois, se torna realidade.  Cleide Klock, correspondente da RFI em Los Angeles O museu ocupa dois prédios, um deles de sete andares, no coração de Los Angeles. O acervo de 13 milhões de artefatos vai ajudar a contar a trajetória da indústria cinematográfica desde a época do cinema mudo até os dias de hoje. Entre as preciosidades estão os sapatinhos da personagem Dorothy, de "O Mágico de Oz" (1939), a máquina de escrever que Alfred Hitchcock usou para escrever o roteiro de "Psicose" (1960) e uma das capas de Bela Lugosi no longa "Drácula", de 1931. Na inauguração do local para a imprensa, além de toda a direção, a atriz Anna Kendrick e o ator Tom Hanks deram boas-vindas aos jornalistas. Hanks classificou o museu como "a maior lanterna mágica do mundo", uma referência aos primeiros projetores da história do cinema, que também podem ser vistos no novo espaço cultural. “Existem outras cidades com museus de cinema mas, com todo o respeito, este tem que ser o Parthenon deles”, disse Hanks. “O cinema é uma arte mágica que fala a todos, em todos os lugares. Devo dizer que conversamos sobre este museu na Academia há quase 20 anos e o resultado final é dez vezes melhor do que em nossos sonhos”, reiterou o dono de duas estatuetas do Oscar. Hanks é membro do conselho de curadores, junto com Laura Dern, Whoopi Goldberg, entre dezenas de artistas, e liderou a arrecadação de fundos para o projeto junto com a atriz Annette Bening e o presidente executivo da Walt Disney Co., Bob Iger. O custo do museu foi de U$ 482 milhões. “Queremos trazer todas as histórias internacionais e diversas do cinema para nossas galerias”, afirmou o diretor do museu, Bill Kramer. No próximo sábado (25), o local será palco de uma noite de gala repleta de estrelas hollywoodianas. Na próxima semana, no dia 30 de setembro, as portas se abrem para o público.  A História do Cinema Quem dá as boas vindas ao público é Bruce, o personagem principal do filme Tubarão (1975). Com 548 quilos e 7,6 metros, a estrela do filme de Steven Spielberg que levou três estatuetas do Oscar, está pendurado no vão central e é possível vê-lo de todos os andares. Spielberg, aliás, é um dos maiores doadores do museu e logo na entrada está a galeria que leva o nome de sua família. É ali, com uma apresentação de 13 minutos, que o visitante assiste a uma rápida introdução à história do cinema que tem início com o trabalho dos irmãos Lumière e chega até os dias de hoje. A verdadeira imersão acontece nos andares seguintes. A maior galeria celebra diferentes eras, gêneros e diretores, como Orson Welles e o icônico "Cidadão Kane" (1941), "Mulheres de Verdade Têm Curvas" (2002), da diretora colombiana Patricia Cardoso, além de Spike Lee, Oscar Micheaux entre tantos outros.  É nesta galeria que estão também 40 peças de vestuário de filmes como "Era Uma Vez em… Hollywood" (2019), "Os Homens preferem as Loiras" (1953), "O Mágico Inesquecível" (1978), "La La Land" (2016), "Rocketman" (2019) e "Interestelar" (2014). Assim como as roupas de cada filme ajudam a contar a arte por trás das estilistas que desenham peças para superproduções, a exposição explica todos os detalhes que fazem um filme: desde a produção de som, de cenários, luz, montagens, efeitos especiais até maquiagem e cabelo.  Já a instalação Impacto/Reflexão explora como narrativas documentais podem levar a mudanças na sociedade, com destaque aos movimentos Vidas Negras Importam, #Metoo, as relações laborais e mudanças climáticas. O museu da Academia, é claro, dedica um bom espaço às premiações do Oscar. O espectador pode assistir aos discursos mais badalados das nove décadas da festa mais famosa do cinema americano e também ver uma galeria cheia de estátuas reais. A primeira data de 1927.  Pedro Almodóvar foi o diretor escolhido para a mostra temporária dentro da galeria de história do cinema. Doze telões projetam trechos de filmes do cineasta espanhol que ganhou o Oscar em 2002, pelo roteiro do filme "Fale com Ela".  É no final da exposição sobre a história do cinema que vem o deleite para os fãs da cultura pop. Este é o momento para o encontro com os ídolos: aí que estão o "E.T". (1982), os andróides de "Star Wars" C-3PO e R2-D2, o homem-anfíbio de "A Forma da Água" (2017), além de vestuários de filmes da Marvel, "Edward Mãos de Tesoura" (1990) e o protótipo do rosto do "Exterminador do Futuro" (1984). Já todo o último andar dá espaço à mostra temporária sobro cineasta japonês Hayao Miyazaki que pela primeira vez ganha uma retrospectiva dedicada a ele em solo norte-americano. O público vai poder viajar pela carreira de seis décadas do artista: são 400 objetos que explicam o processo criativo do animador através de desenhos, layouts, cartazes e projeções de filmes.  Mostra de Filmes No espaço dedicado ao cinema não poderia faltar exibições diárias de filmes. São duas salas que trazem uma programação extensa desenvolvida pelo curador brasileiro Bernardo Rondeau.  "Temos duas salas de projeção, sendo que uma delas tem mil lugares e espaço para orquestra. A programação é muito diversa e extensa, com filmes relacionados com as exposições da galeria História do Cinema e com as mostras temporárias. Atualmente temos as animações de Hayao Miyazaki, além de produções que ganharam o Oscar. Toda semana também temos filmes infantis", conta o curador que diz que também tem vontade de colocar o Brasil na programação. "Tenho muito interesse em trazer o cinema brasileiro para nossas salas e também galerias. Na mostra de Spike Lee, por exemplo, na parte que fala das referências que ele tem como cineasta, expomos um poster do filme Pixote (1981), dirigido por Héctor Babenco. O museu já adquiriu outros materiais de filmes brasileiros, peças da Carmen Miranda e até uma película dela fazendo provas de roupa. Sempre vamos estar renovando os objetos das exposições e quem sabe, em breve, teremos mais do Brasil por aqui", revela Rondeau. A experiência de ganhar um Oscar Os visitantes também terão a oportunidade de receber uma estatueta do Oscar, mesmo que seja por alguns instantes. Depois de escrever o nome em um computador, entra-se no espaço interativo com um telão no qual está projetada a imagem do Dolby Theater - local onde acontece a entrega dos troféus na célebre cerimônia. Em seguida, escuta-se a famosa frase: "E o Oscar vai para". Então, o visitante ouve seu nome e tem o direito de segurar a estatueta - uma réplica perfeita, com mesmo peso e dimensões. Por cerca de 15 segundos, é possível até mesmo fazer uma performance para aceitar o prêmio. Tudo é gravado em vídeo e enviado ao visitante via e-mail. Mas, infelizmente, não é possível levar a estatueta para casa.

Black Entertainment news wrap up The 2021 iHeartRadio Music Awards were presented on Thursday (May 27) at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood. Here are some of the artists who made history at the show, Plus Diddy Going after JLO again ???.J. Cole, Kid Cudi and Future lead the lineup for the 2021 installment of hip-hop festival Rolling Loud California. Tickets go on sale on June 1st , and Black Lives Matter Founder is stepping down and stepping away, Sex in the City Returns but not all cast mates are coming back -and Fake Friends (no love lost) and Nas returns to Sony Music this time he will have some ownership.....

Por fin se desplegó la alfombra del Dolby Theater y la etiqueta exigía a todos los asistentes echar el resto en sus looks. Tanto es así que la 93 Edición de los Premios Oscar fue quizás uno de los pocos rincones del planeta donde apenas se podían ver mascarillas. Y es que la organización quería ver brillar en todo su esplendor el stardust de Hollywood. En una gala donde reinó la diversidad y la visibilidad, hubo espacio para looks clásicos, atrevidos, mamarrachos, originales, divertidos e, incluso, reivindicativos. ¿Cómo fue ese esperado desfile de glamour? ¿Estuvieron los invitados a la altura? ¿Hubo riesgo? ¿Qué fue lo más original? Hoy en Alerta Moda! recorremos esa alfombra roja junto a Mirea Sánchez y Nuria Torralba (The Montalban Post), para contarte todos sus secretos.

The 93rd Academy Awards are tonight, and Omar Moore weighs in on the acting, directing and picture nominees and makes predictions. Also: One of the most memorable Oscar acceptance speeches in recent years. CORRECTION to episode: Tonight's Oscars are being held at Union Station in L.A., NOT at Dolby Theater. April 25, 2021. FREE: SUBSCRIBE NOW TO THE BRAND NEW POLITICRAT DAILY PODCAST NEWSLETTER!! Extra content, audio, analysis, exclusive essays for subscribers only, plus special offers and discounts on merchandise at The Politicrat Daily Podcast online store. Something new and informative EVERY DAY!! Subscribe FREE at https://politicrat.substack.com Buy podcast merchandise (all designed by Omar Moore) and lots more at The Politicrat Daily Podcast Store: https://the-politicrat.myshopify.com The Politicrat YouTube page: bit.ly/3bfWk6V The Politicrat Facebook page: bit.ly/3bU1O7c The Politicrat blog: https://politicrat.politics.blog PLEASE SUBSCRIBE to this to this podcast! Follow/tweet Omar at: http://twitter.com/thepopcornreel

Começou a contagem regressiva para a cerimônia do Oscar, que acontece nesse domingo, dia 25, em Los Angeles. O evento, que geralmente rola em fevereiro, foi transferido para abril por conta da pandemia. Nesta edição, os produtores prometem várias surpresas, já que pela primeira vez na história do Oscar, a cerimônia será transmitida em 3 etapas e terá diferentes locações: o pré-Oscar, no qual serão apresentados os números musicais que concorrem na categoria melhor trilha sonora; o tradicional anúncio dos vencedores, feito pelos ganhadores do ano passado, será transmitido do tradicional Dolby Theater, em Hollywood e da Union Station, a estação de trem da cidade, um prédio histórico no centro de LA. Além disso, pela primeira vez, o público terá o gostinho de acompanhar os bastidores do pós-Oscar, num especial que mostrará o que os vencedores fazem depois de receber a estatueta de ouro. Estamos tão curiosos para ver o que vai rolar e torcer pelos nossos filmes, diretores e produtores prediletos, que a nossa equipe de cinéfilos se reuniu para bater um papo e compartilhar nossas expectativas para a cerimônia que promete ser muita mais dinâmica esse ano. Além disso, conversamos também sobre os indicados em várias categorias e enchemos nosso amigo Léo Amato de dicas. Tá com pouco tempo, mas ainda quer conferir os filmes imperdíveis que estão na corrida do Oscar 2021? Corre pra ouvir que ainda dá tempo de assistir.

Have we got a show this week or what? First off, it's Comedy Week on Stitcher and we're absolutely thrilled to be included. And with (Bryan) back in The Carriage House again (and not off on a commercial shoot as Marblehead's most vaccinated actor), we thought it was the perfect time for a good old fashioned Carriage House Catch-Up. And, between you and me, I think we deliver in spades! After covering everything from grooming to television to physics, we give our advice on whether or not to tell your husband you made out with your best friend, what to do when you find out one of your best friends is MUCH older than you thought, and some luxurious gift advice for family members going through a stressful start to this year. It's coming! Our Oscars Preview Party LIVE from The Carriage House is happening on Sunday, April 18th, at 8pm ET / 5pm PT...and tickets are available NOW! $15 gets you Dolby Theater access, but, if you want the real red carpet treatment with a 1-on-1 Meet & Greet with Ronna (or Bryan), you need to act fast! Those tickets are limited! Visit askronnalive.com for details.

Cohosts David Canfield and Clarissa Cruz are joined by EW's digital writer and Hollywood history expert Maureen Lee Lenker to discuss the innovative, ambiguous plans for the 2021 Oscars ceremony, which will take place at both the typical Dolby Theater and, in a first, Union Station in Los Angeles. Maureen, Clarissa, and David discuss how this fits into the evolution of the Academy Awards, and how the still-pending Academy Museum might be folded into the plans as well. Plus: The Awardist gets to talking about the SAG Awards, and welcomes one such ensemble nominee, The Trial of the Chicago 7's Yahya Abdul Mateen II, onto the show More at ew.com, ew.com/awardist, and @EW. Host/Producers: David Canfield (@davidcanfield97) and Clarissa Cruz (@clarissanyc1); Special Guest: Maureen Lee Lenker (@TheMaureenLee); Editors: Carly Usdin (@carlytron) and Joshua Heller (@joshuaheller); Executive Producers: Shana Naomi Krochmal (@shananaomi) and Carly Usdin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cassidy Huff is an 18 year old singer/songwriter, actress, voice-over artist, best-selling author, and disability activist based in Seattle, WA. Cassidy currently attends college at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, a conservatory for the performing arts. She's a seasoned professional having performed on many Seattle stages, as well as Dolby Theater and Lincoln Center. Cassidy recently had her voice-over debut on the Dreamworks original series: "Spirit Riding Free: Riding Academy" now streaming on Netflix!

Will and Wendy officially set their clocks to island time as the L.A. Premiere of Jimmy Buffett’s ESCAPE TO MARGARITAVILLE weighed anchor at the Dolby Theatre for a three week L.A. premiere! You guessed it! Jimmy Buffett himself was present on the red carpet – along with the ENTIRE cast of the show – accompanied by some of our Hollywood friends! Listen in as Will and Wendy hit the carpet and then check in during intermission and after the show! Now playing at the Dolby Theater part of the Pantages Theater's Broadway in Hollywood Series. Tickets are available at: https://www.broadwayinhollywood.com/events/detail/escapetomargaritaville Be sure to follow @Wendy_Rosoff and @WillArmstrongPR and their new instagram handle @WestofBroadwayPodcast for the latest in West of Broadway news. Don't forget to go to BroadwayPodcastNetwork.com/podcasts/west-of-broadway to keep up with us and find past and future episodes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Après avoir joué des pronostics sur les films et artistes en compétition, la team Fais Ta B.A. se retrouve autour du tapis rouge pour savourer la cérémonie des Oscars 2020. Au menu : - En apéritif (06:19) : un blindest extraits audio des films en compétition. - En entrée (19:47) : une discussion autour de la diversité de la cérémonie avec des stats très pointues. - Un petit cocktail de chiffres croustillants sur la Cérémonie 2020 (37:00) - En plat principal (45:51) : la Cérémonie en extraits audio et nos retours et avis sur le palmarès. - En dessert : des étoiles plein les yeux. Et qui remportera le grand jeu des pronostics présenté dans l’épisode précèdent ? Découvrez-le dans cette suite et fin de notre Hors-Série Fais Tes Oscars 2020 ! ~Enregistré dans la nuit du 09 au 10 février 2020 à Paris ~

Last night’s Academy Awards were marred by what might be the Oscars’ worst gaffe in years. Hear how a leaky pipe in the Dolby Theater almost shut down the ceremony for good, and about the superintendent who stepped in to make it all much worse. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Interview with Directors of "Simmer" Stefan van da Graaff & Nick Rush (5:15) Interviews and reactions LIVE from the Red Carpet outside of the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles (56:30) LOVE ALL OF YOU AND STAY SWEET

Movie House Concessions on the MHM Podcast Network gives our Oscar predictions for the 92nd Academy Awards Ceremony that will be held on Sunday, February 9, 2020, at the Dolby Theater. The post The 92nd Academy Awards Ceremony Predictions appeared first on Movie House Memories.

Movie House Concessions on the MHM Podcast Network gives our Oscar predictions for the 92nd Academy Awards Ceremony that will be held on Sunday, February 9, 2020, at the Dolby Theater. The post The 92nd Academy Awards Ceremony Predictions appeared first on Movie House Memories.

The 44th annual holiday annual award show spectacular fetaures awards to the best of The Pedalshift Project in 2019. Who will win the Orange Pedal™ for best tour, best bar/meetup, and much more? Happy new year and see you in 2020! Live from the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles California it’s the 44th Annual Pedalshift Holiday End-of-the-Year Spectacular Award Show! 44th Annual Pedalshift Holiday End-of-the-Year Spectacular Award Show Guest of the year Maggie Lonergan for Bikerafting Episode 164 Adele Dittus for Biking with Baby on Board Episode 179 Doug Riegner for Bicycling the GAP 2019 Episode 149 Kevin Mills for the Great American Rail Trail Episode 152 Best 'Best Of' of the year Aaron Flores Episode 004 Guthrie Straw Episode 071 Cat Caperello-Snyder Episode 056 Surfing Tours and Pedaling Pugs Episode 012 Bicycle touring tip of the year Emergency fixes episode 185 Cycling Italy episode 172 S24Os episode 180 Stealth camping episode 173 Bicycle touring route of the year C&O GAP Central Florida OTET Oregon Coast In Memoriam 2019 Tim's U-lock Cheap sunglasses #45-47 Orange bar tape Shifty the Elf       [DUDE, I AM TOTALLY ALIVE! CLOONEY!!!!] Best bar on meetups or tours Wundergarden (DC) Brewers on the Bay (Newport) Thirsty Topher (Orlando) Urban Tap (PGH) Tour of the Year Cross Florida DC to Cincinnati Oregon Coast Escape Sweltering Summer on the C&O On a serious note, THANK YOU all for listening and a big thank you to Pedalshift Society members for supporting the show this year. See you in 2020!

The fifth edition of The Solo Show is now available...we are still on the air! I think you should listen before they shut us down.  This week Stan Solo welcomes Laurie & Angelo Olivieri to the co-host chairs. They talk about the amazing grand prize the Olivieris won where they got to walk the red carpet with the Hollywood stars in Hollywood, CA to view the premier showing of  Disney's Frozen 2 in the Dolby Theater.   If you would like to follow Laurie & Angelo on their adventures you can do it here.. https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1421833474&ref=content_filter   To book a trip with Laurie or for a fee free quote email her at laurie.olivieri@mei-travel.com        

Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.   I’m Fred Fishkin.       Not only were the Academy Awards once again at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood….but the audio and video technology company played a prominent role in many of the films that were up for awards.   Screenwriter and Forbes contributing...

Hello everyone, welcome to our week in Geek! And what a week it was! We have so much to talk about this week. We got to see the live action adaptation of Battle Angel Alita in some sweet, sweet Dolby Theater and bring you our spoiler free and spoiler filled impressions. But we don't stop there as we do our Disneyland recap, and talk about all of the trailer drops and nerd news including: Nintendo Direct, Link's Awakening remaster, Tetris 99, Activision Blizzard layoffs, Aladdin/Tolkien and Frozen 2 trailers. And we wrap up by answering last week's Podquestion which game in your backlog do you want to beat this year.

First November 2018 episode of the program all about TV. Our guests: Eric Detwiler, executive producer of Buying It Blind, the new home buying unscripted series on Bravo launching tonight (joined by real estate agent Anna Killinski, contractor Joe Metzger and designer Michel Smith Boyd, all participating experts in various episodes), and Roberto Rizzo, founder of the first-ever New York City TV Festival, taking place tonight and tomorrow night at the Dolby Theater in midtown Manhattan.

On today's episode, I am coming to you LIVE from the Blue Carpet at the 2018 Paley Festival in Los Angeles. Today's guests are cast members from the hit shows "The Orville" and "Mom". Paley Fest took place at the Dolby Theater, and it was such an honor to be a part of this year's fesitvities. Aside from our carpet interviews, I also had the oppotunity to attend screenings and panels for "The Good Doctor" and "Queen Sugar". Cast members that joined me were: Peter Macon, Mark Jackson, Rico Anderson, and Penny Johnson Jerald from "The Orville", and Jamie Pressly and Beth Hall from "Mom". While I did get a moment with Allison Janney, sadly she had to get to the panel and couldn't do an interview. I talked to the casts about their roles on the show, preparring for their roles, their careers, acting advice and more.  A huge thanks to the Paley Center for allowing me to be a part of this years festival. It was such an honor. If you haven't checked out "The Orville" or "Mom", I would highly suggest watching both. Thanks to the casts of both shows for taking the time to talk to me as well.  See you next year, Paley Fest! Enjoy the episode. 

While some celebrities are still doing the walk of shame from the Dolby Theater, we share our thoughts on everything Oscars 2018 including the winner of our Oscar Ballot Content.

Happy Oscar Sunday, everybody! Today's episode is our annual Oscars picks episode.  Austin Grant and I sat down at The Dolby Theater in Hollywood, home of the Oscars, to record our annual Oscar episode and make our picks on all 24 of the categories. We loved so many of these films and nominees this year. There of course were a few that we didn't care for, and some we were shocked weren't nominated. I go on a bit of a rant in regards to one entertainment reporters stupid opinion on some snubs, but hey, it's his stupid opinion. Cleary I've gotten over it at this point. As always, there are a few categories where you might wonder why we picked who we picked, even though we know it may not be the favorite. We have our reasons, but you'll have to listen to the episode to them find out! We hope you have a great time watching the 90th Oscars TONIGHT on ABC, hosted by one of our personal favorites, Jimmy Kimmel. Austin and I will have a recap on an upcoming episode about our Oscar night and more in a few weeks. Enjoy the show!  You can view all of our picks at www.onthemicpodcast.com  

Join Matt, Kyle, Aaron, and Evan as they discuss the pros and cons of the Academy Awards and discuss the upcoming 90th ceremony, held on March 4th at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles!  They discuss a whole range of topics including their experiences with the Academy Awards (1:26), problems they have with how the event is sometimes run (16:00), who's up in the running for Best Picture and the category in past ceremonies (19:25), the voting process and how it affects certain categories like Animated Feature and if it should change (27:48 and 1:02:38), Aaron tasks us with creating our own new Academy Award category (53:53), and we round out the podcast talking very quickly about what we're looking forward to come Sunday (1:17:17).  It's a bit of a long one this time around but there's lots to talk about!  Thanks everyone for listening and hopefully you'll watch the ceremony with us and follow up with our "review" podcast!

House Republicans give America its dumbest conspiracy yet. Jimmy Kimmel, John Legend, and Chrissy Teigen join Jon, Jon, Tommy, Dan, and Erin for a night of politics, games, and musical performances at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles. 

Lisa and Tabz got to attend the Veronica Mars panel at PaleyFest (at the Dolby Theater). Listen to their thoughts about the panel, Veronica Mars, Kickstarter and a lot of TV-related thoughts. Warning: slight spoilers for Firefly (the pilot and Train Job).  

Lisa and Tabz got to attend the Veronica Mars panel at PaleyFest (at the Dolby Theater). Listen to their thoughts about the panel, Veronica Mars, Kickstarter and a lot of TV-related thoughts. Warning: slight spoilers for Firefly (the pilot and Train Job).  

Hablamos de la Gala de los Oscars 2014 en el Dolby Theater de Los Ángeles del pasado día 2 de Marzo. Hacemos un análisis de la propia ceremonia y sus premiados. No estamos muy contentos con todos los ganadores pero al final creemos que han sido unos premios bastante justos y bien repartidos.

Episode Name: Going Home Episode number: 198 News: Press Release on DECEMBER 17, 2013 – The Paley Center for Media will honor TV’s best at the iconic Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland for the 31st annual PALEYFEST from March 13 to 28, 2014.  The Dolby Theater is the current home for the Academy Awards. ——- Rebecca Mader as […] The post 3X11 Going Home – Main Show – Emma Theory, Belief, Hope and Hats. appeared first on Once Upon A Time Fan Blog/Podcast Site.

Walt's Apartment, Disneyland's Dream Suite, the Disneyland Hotel's Adventureland Suite, and "Lights, Camera, Magic!" - Becky takes us on a tour of a few rarely visited Disneyland locations, and then on an Adventures By Disney tour of Hollywood, including the Dolby Theater, the Walk of Fame, a Walt Disney Studios tour - and a Sophia Grace and Rosie sighting! Also, your emails are answered - Disney decorating, Disney collectibles, getting into Club 33, and choosing a day at the Disney Expo... plus more! SPECIAL NOTE: This is the final week to buy tickets to our Tahitian Terrace event at Disneyland in October. The deadline to buy tickets is Oct. 3 - so visit www.mousetalgiastore.com to reserve your space today!