Podcast appearances and mentions of Georgia Brown

Send us a textBack from gallivanting around Europe the gang are back in business with the hangovers to prove it. Whilst Jaz was celebrating the end of season in Paris and Barcelona the boys were reminded that their partying days are behind them at The Diamond League Final in Brussels. A certain Shot Put champion may be to blame. There also much to discuss about the upcoming IOC Presidential race and the exciting Commonwealth Games announcement as well as some special guests with quick chats to the likes of Dina Asher Smith, Cole Hocker, Georgia Brown and Daryl Neita.  Please enjoy, please subscribe and please let us know what you think on all our socials. Thanks for listening and follow us on Social Media at Twitter - (@BackstraightB) Insta - (@BackstraightBoysPodcast).

An amazing season opener on tap for women's soccer, and Darek spoke with both Head Coach Chris Brown and D Georgia Brown (no relation) and also recapped Monday's men's soccer exhibition match vs. Southeastern U.

The Tillies are the Australian football team taking the country and the world by storm. But behind every great football team, there's an amazing team of experts working behind the scenes, incredible women who help to manage the Matildas. Georgia Brown is the Assistant Sports Scientist at the Tillies, who is changing the game when it comes to research around female footballers in Australia. She's currently completing her PhD on the effects of the menstrual cycle on football performance and recovery, and we couldn't think of a better place for her to do that research than with the Tillies. This episode proves that there are so many roles and opportunities for women in sports both on and off the field, we hope you enjoy this mini-series: managing the Matildas.Buy our kids book The A to Z of Who I Could Be, or book for adults GIRLS DON'T PLAY SPORT. www.thefemaleathleteproject.com/shop Get the wrap delivered into your inbox as a weekly newsletter! Subscribe here for the newsletter + don't miss a merch drop. bit.ly/tfapsubscribeShop TFAP merch: https://www.thefemaleathleteproject.com/shop Find us on Instagram: @thefemaleathleteproject #womenssports

Out of ALL the questions I get asked, this is BY FAR the question I get asked the most... "HOW DO YOU START A PRAYER CLOSET?"SooOoOOoo friend, let's talk about all the things!HOW to do soWHY is it importantWHAT is the biblical significance WHERE to cultivate this if you don't have a walk in closet! & for WHO?! (spoiler alert... King Jesus!)I pray this episode blesses you, and I am PUMPED for NEXT FRIDAY, APRIL 5TH... we will be chatting with MY FIANCE!!! So come back for some more faith filled fun next week!Has this episode, or any of our conversations here on Faith & Friends impacted you? Please leave us a 5 star review! We would love to hear from you! Instagram YoutubeWebsite

Sometimes I think this podcast might get too personal... Doug is a child... Cream pie videos...What we want for our kids...Body shaming is okay, because our bodies are shit...Missed opportunities...Matt's wife will learn some things...Yes, the mistake was left in on purpose...And sweet Georgia Brown... --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mattanddoug/message

Welcome to the Squared Circle Podcast! In today's episode of Tape Study Tuesdays, I take a look at Georgia Brown or better known as Jacqueline once she got to WWF. In this video, I break down this chaotic tag team match for Women's History Month. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/squaredcirclepodcast/message

Nothing but the Night is a 1973 British horror film directed by Peter Sasdy and starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. It is based on the 1968 novel of the same name by John Blackburn.A commercial failure, the film was the only production of Charlemagne Films, cofounded by Christopher Lee and Anthony Nelson Keys (producer of may Hammer films, this was his last listing on IMDB). #BigChrisLee and Charlemagne Films optioned two other books by John Blackburn, "Portrait of Barbara" and "Bury Him Darkly", which were envisioned as sequels to this movie, with Lee re-creating the role of Colonel Bingham, but it didn't work out. They also optioned some of Dennis Wheatley's books, but only "To the Devil a Daughter" was ultimately made by "Hammer."Peter Sasdy Also directed Taste the Blood of Dracula, Countess Dracula, Hands of Ripper, The Stone Tape AND both series of Adrian Mole.Screenwriter Brian Hayles Wrote six stories for "Doctor Who" and created the Celestial Toymaker (Recently brought back in the 60th anniversary episodes), the Ice Warriors, introduced in 1967, and the feudal planet Peladon (setting for 'The Curse of Peladon' and its sequel 'The Monster of Peladon').Along with Lee and Cushing the film also features:Diana Dors as Anna HarbDors (real name Diana Mary Fluck) came to public notice as a blonde bombshell, was promoted by her first husband, Dennis Hamilton, mostly in sex film-comedies and risqué modelling. After it was revealed that Hamilton had been defrauding her, she continued to play up to her established image, and she made tabloid headlines with revelations of the celebrity sex parties reportedly held at her house (with then boyfriend Bob Monkhouse). Georgia Brown as Joan FosterWho's breakthrough role was Nancy in Oliver!, a role she created in the original 1960 London production. But is most memorable to your hosts as Helena Rozhenko, Worf's adoptive mother in Star Trek: The Next Generation ("New Ground" and "Family".Keith Barron as Dr. HaynesFamous for playing David Pearce in the ITV sitcom Duty Free also featured in the Doctor Who story Enlightenment, replacing Peter Sallis who was unavailableGwyneth (Cassandra Trotter) Strong as Mary ValleyAlso appeared in the "Observation" segment about detective Samantha Smith made for the 1990 series of The Krypton Factor,Fulton (Poridge) Mackay as Cameron John (Quatermas)Robinson as Lord FawnleeMorris Perry as Dr. YeatsMichael (Dumbledoor) Gambon as Inspector GrantDuncan Lamont as Dr. KnightShelagh (Aunt Beru ) Fraser as Mrs. AlisonKathleen Byron as Dr. RoseAndrew McCulloch as Malcolm Get bonus content on PatreonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/general-witchfinders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In today's episode of Building Texas Business, join us for a fascinating discussion with our guest David Fletcher, General Manager of Lone Star Sports and Entertainment. David gives us exclusive insights into the sports business industry, highlighting the economic impact of major sporting events on Houston. We learn about LSSE's role in the city's sports landscape and the excitement for the upcoming Tax Act Texas Bowl. David also enlightens us on why Houston is a major sports hub, touching on upcoming events like the college football championship and the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Tune in for a thrilling exploration of the fast-paced world of sports business. SHOW HIGHLIGHTS Chris talks with David Fletcher, the General Manager of Longstar Sports and Entertainment, about the intricacies and realities of the sports business world. David describes the significant economic impact of major sporting events on the business community, highlighting their ability to draw in substantial revenue and tourism. We discuss the role of LSSE in the Houston sports scene and its involvement in exciting upcoming events like the Tax Act Texas Bowl. David addresses some common misconceptions about the sports industry, revealing the hard work, long hours, and sacrifices behind the scenes. We delve into what it means to be a good teammate in the sports industry, focusing on traits such as being coachable, ready, and positive. David shares insights on why Houston has become a hotspot for sports business, citing its prime location, diverse population, and robust infrastructure. We discuss the upcoming national college football playoff championship and the anticipation it's generating in Houston. David gives a preview of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, expressing his enthusiasm for the global event to be hosted in Houston. I explore personal topics with David, such as his first job experience, his preference for Tex-Mex over barbecue, and his dream 30-day sabbatical destination. David shares his passion for skiing in Park City, Utah, expressing gratitude for the support and involvement of the Houston community in their work. LINKSShow Notes Previous Episodes About BoyarMiller GUESTS David Fletcher About David TRANSCRIPT (AI transcript provided as supporting material and may contain errors) Chris: In this episode you will meet David Fletcher, general manager of Longstar Sports and Entertainment. David shares his insights into the business of sports, as well as the economic impact major sporting events can have on the business community. David, I wanna welcome you to Building Texas Business. Thanks for coming today. David: It's great to be here, Chris. Appreciate the opportunity. Chris: So let everybody know, you're the general manager of what's called Longstar Sports and Entertainment here at Houston. Tell the audience a little bit about what that company is and kind of how it fits into the sports landscape here in Houston. David: Yeah, longstar Sports and Entertainment, or LSSE, as we try to call it with such a long name, is really the events production and management company at Houston, texans. So we are a primary outlet for event production, promotion and really a focus to our efforts to date around filling event dates at NRG Stadium. Most of what we do, chris, is in the sports space, although we have certainly done fair share of shows in the entertainment side, but college football, international soccer, rugby are all really big parts of what we do and inside of that we can do anything and everything that we need to do to make an event successful. We've promoted and negotiated and done our own events. We work with partners like ESPN or the Major League Soccer to host events at our building for them. We work with global brands like Manchester United, real Madrid or even Taylor Swift to bring events to our place in a variety of different ways. So really our focus is on bringing people together in Houston and we've done some other things over the years some investments and some events outside of NRG Stadium. But at our core we are a major part of making NRG Stadium one of the world class destinations for events and we're very proud of what we've been able to do over the last 21 years. Chris: That's what I love about kind of the focus at LSSC and the Texans for that matter is really a focus on doing things for the benefit and betterment of Houstonians. It seems to be kind of maybe a core focus. David: No question. I mean, look, at the end of the day, our organization is only focus on three things it's creating experiences, it's delivering incredible vowed partners and it's about doing great things for Houston. So, in that core capacity, major events, whether it be bringing Leon O Messi to play at NRG Stadium in an event like Copa America a few years ago I mentioned Taylor Swift we had a chance to host her in 2018, or Keddie Chesney or George Straits or Tim McGraw done shows with all of them over the years to the big time college football, like the Tax Act Texas Bowl that we host each and every year. Our focus is on really those three initiatives and I think they play into exactly what you said, which our organization has been all about, and the family the McNair family has been all about since day one. Chris: So, speaking of the Tax Act Texas Bowl, where we've got a match up right around the corner with Oklahoma State and Texas A&M excited about that and I would think that there is some excitement from those fan bases about being here at Houston. David: No question, our 18th year of hosting that college football postseason spectacular that happens each and every year at NRG Stadium. Last 10 years we've had the Big 12 in SEC and you mentioned it Texas A&M, who's obviously one of, if not, the biggest collegiate brand in this part of the world, going and taking on Oklahoma State, an old rival there from the Big 12 days and 20th ranked Oklahoma State Cowboys, I might add, who made it all the way to the Big 12 championship game this year and have the nation's best running back in Oli Gordon. A lot of things to be excited about on both fan bases. Texas A&M obviously a great brand, but had their struggles on the field relative to their expectations this year. A lot of transition, including bringing in a really exciting new coach and Mike Elko, and this is an opportunity for both of these teams, but particularly Texas A&M, to start their 2024 March to the championship this December 27th. Chris: Very good. So let's talk a little bit just about you and kind of how you got into the sports industry and you've been general manager now at LSE like 10 years. That's crazy because I can remember when you first took over the role. So 10 years goes by fast. David: It goes by real fast, chris. Look, for me sports has been an incredible part of my life, like many, since my early days of youth, I know as a kid. For me there wasn't a day that didn't go by literally a day that I didn't have to go to some practice or didn't get to go to some practice of some kind, played a lot of sports really important to my family growing up and ultimately developed a very strong passion for sport itself. As I got a little older I was in school at the University of Texas I realized that you could make a business out of it. You could create a life around the, not just playing on the field, and for me my playing days they definitely ended in high school, which is okay. I still get to this day, get to go out there and try and hack it with the best of them every once in a while, but I do it vicariously most of the time in working with my kids and coaching them and watching them grow. So for me, like I said, I knew sport was a big part of what I had a passion for when I graduated from UT. I had an opportunity to be to work for an NFL team in my hometown right here in Houston Texas. They didn't even have a name until a few weeks into my job, but that was the Houston Texans, and so coming out of UT and having the opportunity to be a part of building a professional team no less an NFL team from the ground up was something that I thought was really cool and I thought would be something that would help fuel that passion further, and it has. There's no question, of course, as a graduate coming out of college, many of us, myself included had bills to pay, and working as an intern at any sports team is not a great way to pay off those bills very quickly. But you know, I knew I had. I knew I had a goal in mind. I knew that I could make a business out of this if I really focused on making the most of the opportunities I had about keeping a positive attitude and really just taking every opportunity I could to grow, and I did that. I worked at the Texans during that first season, had an opportunity after that to get into a sales side where I did start making money working in media sales after leaving the team, spent a few years doing that for the University of Texas Athletics and then with the Houston Rockets, but I had a chance to return back to the team in 2010 and have been with the Texans in some way or shape or form ever since and that's been a lot of fun to really get to be in my hometown to work for the NFL team ups and downs included along the way, right, as we've had some great years and some not so great years. But going back to what I talked about earlier about being able to make an impact, particularly in my hometown, it's been an amazing opportunity for me and I still wake up every day and I know this is gonna sound really silly and I've grown a lot in my career, but we office at NRG Stadium and there are a lot of days where I walk in I'll hear the voice guy, david Brady, in my head going welcome to NRG Stadium. Chris: And it's just for me as I walk in the office. David: You know, it's a subtle reminder in my head that you know what. This is something pretty cool and this is something really special and been fortunate enough to be a part of a lot of things that have helped grow this community as a sports destination and then hopefully a lot more going forward. Chris: That's great. I mean it's a very unique position, unique opportunity. It relates to working for an NFL franchise. Right, there's only 32 franchises that you can work for, so let's talk again. So you work your way up and then you get this opportunity to move into leadership and I like to talk to guests, entrepreneurs, about leadership. So let's talk about that with you, kind of give us a little idea of your journey. Who were some of your mentors that you kind of molded your leadership style after? David: Well, I think mentors are so important, chris. They're so important to provide you you know reality, to provide you guidance, to provide you you know somebody who can ultimately be a resource, good and bad, in any situation. You know, for me it started with a good friend of ours and I still think about him all the time as Jamie Roots, you know, arguably one of the best in the business, president of the Texans for 20 plus years and spent spent really so much time, energy and effort in creating and ultimately growing the Texans brand, and so getting a chance to watch him and be a part of his team for almost a decade myself was something that you know, I've taken so much from. You know, the things that we focused on were about relationships, and that's really where it starts in any of these businesses is, you know, whether you're working with clients, teammates or employees and just trying to find ways to connect. You've got to be able to connect at all levels and build relationships with people, no matter what role they're playing in your business. So it's starting with relationships first. You know, I think, looking at how Lone Star has been approached I talked to Jamie about this a lot over the years Texans, so important and ingrained in the business of, or the fabric of, the Houston community. But what Lone Star has really helped do is expand the reach beyond just football and reach into what is already arguably the most diverse community in the country and bring them in to a place that they could celebrate, that the passions they have can create memories that last a lifetime and ultimately, yes, do business. You know, and so you know, lone Star helps us reach in. We've done, you know, 21 Mexican national team soccer events at our stadium. We've hosted Beyonce. We've had, you know, lsu take on Wisconsin or, you know, coming up, the national championship game for college football. Yes, there's some core elements that are consistent across every sport, every entertainment property, every football event that I just mentioned, but each of those tie people back to our business, they tie people into, or they bring people into, our community and they ultimately, you know, give us an opportunity to create even more momentum for the team and for Houston going forward. So, when I look at how we've approached that from a leadership perspective, you know it's really been thinking about how our business, my business, can impact people outside of what we do in the Texans. And with that, you know, like I said from the beginning, it starts with relationships. Chris: Hey, you hit the nail on the head because I think that's true. No matter what business you're in, if you're a one man shop or you're growing it to be bigger, it's all about relationships, like you said, with your external partners but more importantly with your internal teammates. So, talking on that subject a little bit, let's talk a little bit. I know you know you've built a team around you at LSSC to help put on and promote these events. What are some of the things you look for when you're going through that process? One maybe identify whether it's through the recruiting process or onboarding or, as they're there, in kind of the training to make sure you're making the best decision you can in building that team. And then maybe we'll talk about the other side is when you know maybe this wasn't the right fit, the harder decisions to make. David: Well, I think it starts. You know I mentioned it earlier, but to me there's really three core elements of being a good teammate, and I think these matter whether you're the intern or you're the leader of the organization. One be coachable right. Nobody that I have ever met, even the best in the business, know everything right, so be able to take advice, take criticism, learn from your mistakes, and that's something I think's really important. Two be ready, right. Be when opportunities exist, don't be afraid to raise your hand, don't be afraid to speak up, don't be afraid to go all in. You never know when an opportunity could be the best opportunity for you if you don't ask. So be coachable, be ready and then, from my perspective, just be positive, right. The attitude is the only thing that any of us can control, and my experience and my life has taught me that if you focus on the good, you have a lot better chance of getting there than if you focus on the bad. And that speaks to communication internally. That speaks to the way you approach how you position your business. It speaks to how you approach your competition right. Ultimately, at the end of the day, if you focus on the good, there's a better chance you're gonna get good. Chris: Like I couldn't agree more on that positive mindset, kind of staying positive, focus on the positive, learn from the bad and the negative maybe, but your primary focus has got to be on improvement in a positive way. Yeah, again, there's books written about it all over, but mindset makes a big difference. David: No question, no question. Ultimately, if you're a teammate for us and you've got those qualities, we feel like that's a great start to being a positive contributor to our group. Chris: Well, no just from being around the organization as much as I have. Y'all are known the Texans and LSSE. You're known within the sports industry of training people to be great and I guess that's a blessing and a curse. You get really good people but then people come and take them. David: Well, I've always had the mentality, chris. I know it's one that may fly in the face of common thought, but look, if anybody's being approached or anybody's being seen as having an opportunity coming from where we have brought them to, then we've done our jobs the other day and so we wanna keep as many of those on our team as we can, no question, but many times, for a variety of reasons, you have to accept that maybe reality, and so do the best of what you've got, be ready for the next opportunity, keep moving forward. Chris: So, working in the world of sports, what's one of the things you think is maybe the biggest misperception that most have about what you do? Cause it sounds pretty glamorous. David: Well, that's probably the biggest misperception. I think that, and that I have access to every ticket for every event all the time. My wife still sometimes even has that misperception, but I love her for it. No, look, I think the reality is that. I think that people do think that. Well, let me back up. I think there can be a perception that it is all glamorous all the time. Right, there's a lot of very visible and very talented people that are in the media all the time, that are compensated well, that are creating brands of their own. There certainly is an element to that, but I think that more often than not, it's a job that, if you don't have a passion for what you're doing, what you're doing, it's gonna be hard, because the hours are long, holidays are not really holidays. The players have negotiated a very significant salary, and that's not always the case for everybody else. And on the business side, and there are so many facets of what working in sports can be, and I think that's also, at the same time, an opportunity A lot of people look at. Well, you work for a team so that you're working in sports. Working in sports can be working for an agency that's working with a brand that is creating a partnership with a team. It could be working on the media side, bringing the events to life through social, digital and television content. It could be being a lawyer that negotiates contracts. It could be taking tickets and welcoming people to NRG Stadium, and so there's just so many different ways. There are over 7,000 people that work on a major event day at NRG Stadium. Just on the day, just on the day itself, right Between part-time staff, texans, employees, police fire, you name it. That's crazy. So it's such a big it becomes its own little city. So ultimately, there's a lot of different ways that sports can touch somebody. Most often, people just think of the players and what happens on the field. Chris: Well, it's nothing. You said when you started that, and I think it's true and it transcends all industries Passion To be really good at what you do, you have to have a passion for it, because it's long hours and putting in real hard time to learn and advance and grow your expertise at whatever it is, and so it has to start and stop a passion. David: No question, and if I look towards my life personally, it's been the fuel that's put me on the path to the successes that I've had. I mentioned it from the beginning. I mean, I started out as an intern with the Texans. I'm very proud of the fact that I'm the only intern or the only member of the executive team at Texans that actually started out as an intern with the team itself and that wasn't by accident. I mean, certainly there's a lot of good fortune along the way and I was able to produce results when needed. But I look at that as a testament to. Without the passion that I had, I wouldn't have been able to go through the 120 hour weeks as an intern, making minimum wage, I might add. You know working on, you know lifting heavy equipment or organizing, you know volunteer groups or you know putting together hours of copy that may not even be used, right. I mean, it's just those things that are just little steps along the way that, personally, I had to do, but I think they apply to anybody who has felt success in their business is that it starts with that passion. Chris: Yeah. So let's turn the conversation a little bit and talk about something that I don't think gets talked about enough, certainly at least here in Houston. We, when you step back and look at it, we, being Houston, which means you and others have done an amazing job of making Houston a true, like sports event destination. So we can talk about that a little bit, but what I want to do is connect that to how that the impact that has on the business community in Houston, because it's significant. David: It's massive, you know. So I'll start with a couple of things. One, you know, I think Houston's success as a destination for sport really points to. You can point to a lot of things that have been contributing factors, and they all have been geography center of the country, center of the continent, certainly a very, a very easy to get to market with all the infrastructure here from the great airports, obviously our traffic and our freeways. But the port you know, the infrastructure itself is fantastic, have served us well over the last 20 plus years with this latest renaissance, and we'll going forward. You've got a Some may need some tweaking, right? Chris: No question about it. David: I mean NRG is certainly, you know, a fantastic, world-class facility throughout its history. But that definition certainly has changed over the years and there's opportunities to continue to be the biggest and the best that we're working towards getting in the future. But the market seven plus million people in the DMA it's the most diverse market in the United States. All of that creates a lot of reasons why Houston has been a major destination. But I think the most important element is the leadership and the people and when I say people I mean the people at all levels that help contribute to the experience that's created when major events. Stakeholders are looking for a place to go and they come into Houston and they get to see it. We've got a number of groups that have worked together very successfully over the years the Texans and Lone Star, nrg Park, houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, all the major professional teams, harris County, houston Sports Authority, houston First Mayor's Office, city and Fire, the Texas Medical Center. All of those groups and many others have created a winning formula with how we approach the event experience, whether it's a festival, a conference or the Super Bowl. You throw in the hospitality community, which Houston First is certainly a driver of, but the thousands of unbelievable hotels, restaurants and entertainment options that are here in this community and how they collaborate and work together around these major events. And you see, no other market in the country can offer what we have as a collective package, and that's why you've seen Houston be awarded more major sporting events than any other market in the country over the last 15 years. That's impressive. Chris: I mean, people don't know that. They don't, it doesn't get talked about. David: They don't, they don't. There's certainly a lot of energy around. You get the first one right and then it just kind of dominos and we've been very aggressive as a community in pursuing those options. We've been very successful and when we get those options here to put our best foot forward, there are great resources at state level that certainly help with that and a spirit of collaboration with the governor's office to try and generate as many major events in the state of Texas as possible. So those are all winning points in the formula for success. But it really starts with the people and as we look at the future of the sporting event business, the major event business in Houston, there's a reason why we keep going after this and a big part of it is what you talked about the economic impact. Pick any number of these. These events Final four, college football, playoff, national championship game, fifa World Cup, super Bowl, taksac, texas Bowl, copa America I'm missing thousands of events that happen and are the Major League Baseball All-Star game, nba All-Star game, mls Cup. All these events that you see have really generated billions of dollars collectively for our community and economic impact. That's people coming to Houston and staying in our hotels. They're going and having a great time down in Galveston. They are eating at some of the world's best restaurants and that fuels our economy. We don't have the typical transient business that a vacation destination like a Miami or New Orleans may have, where entertainment in the community can spark a lot of travel. We are very much focused on conference events and entertainment opportunities and we do it better than just about anybody else out there. Chris: So let's kind of try to, you know, put some context around that. You mentioned, and obviously I'm well aware of the Texas Bowl, Taksac, Texas Bowl economic impact of that event to the greater Houston area. David: Annual basis over the last 10 years has been over $30 million on average. Every single year, we'll have anywhere between 25 and 30,000 people traveling in, staying in our hotels, restaurants, for three or four days ahead of the event. You've got people they're even driving in, too right, people that are coming in from the outer areas getting to celebrate that event. So that's meaningful, especially when that event specifically happens every year. It's right, it's a re-accuracy. End of the year, end of the year, when a lot of people are traveling for the holidays or maybe not doing as much, we've got an event that brings people into our community. That brings people here that may not be from a drivable distance. They may be coming from, you know, south Carolina, or Louisiana, or Florida, or Colorado Now that the Big 12 has expanded or Arizona, so you know, it really is something that fuels those businesses and gives our community as a whole an opportunity to celebrate around a major event, and we're proud of what that particular event has done, as well as, obviously, many others. Chris: Then we've got a couple of big events on the horizon. I want to talk about some of that. So let's talk about the first one, and that's the national title football college football playoff championship on January 8. It's a huge deal. It's the last one, I guess, of the 14 format, but you know what can we look forward to as Houstonians, with that game right around the corner? David: Well, it's a true celebration of college football, a week-long celebration. So you know, from a community perspective, you know the impact has already started. The Houston Love Teachers campaign that the Harris County, houston Sports Authority and the College Football Playoff local organizing committee has put together is has already generated millions of dollars in support for and recognition of teachers in our community, excuse me and that's an impact that will obviously pay dividends well beyond the game itself on January 8. When you look to event week itself, got four teams and four big brands that are hoping to descend upon Houston right after the New Year's. Chris: Yeah, yeah, so we've got what I mean. I think, any way you slice it, there's four or two teams that show up here are going to have big followings. David: Well, they are, and so you know what that means. It's not just about the 70,000 people that will fill up NRG Stadium. You know, again, the week long of activities, with free concerts every night during the weekend leading up fan fest down at Georgia Brown, which will have all kinds of interactive opportunities for fans to celebrate and enjoy the game of college football. You've got a number of initiatives around the industry itself that you know just further fuel Houston as a destination for business around the sport conferences and events and media opportunities, literally billions, if not trillions, of impressions showcasing our city. Chris: So you're gonna have the eyes of the world really on Houston for that kind of that weekend leading up and, I think, encourage the Houstonians right to get out and enjoy it yeah, no question, I mean it is. David: Houston is one of the best college football markets in the country the, the tax act, texas Bowl and many other events that we hosted. Our place and throughout the city. You've age rice, you know hcu tsu, prairie view. There's so much around college football that really Houston should be part of this destination, going forward on a consistent basis, and I think we'll show that as we bring everybody together here next month very good, yeah, david. Chris: So I think there's a lot to be excited about having the national title game be in our backyard, and I hope Houstonians will show up and take advantage of all the the events that are being planned yeah, it's gonna be an incredible week. David: We've earned the opportunity and I know, just like we did with Super Bowl a few years ago, with Final Four earlier this year, sonians love their sport. They will be out and enjoying another great celebration, and that's something that we should be excited about, and it's not the only one. You look down the road. We've got the world's biggest event coming just two years from now. Chris: As well, and that's the World Cup that's right. David: Yeah, fifa World Cup returns to Houston in 2020, or returns to Houston, comes to Houston in 2026. Houston, one of the venues in North America that was selected and you know just when you think about the opportunity to host five, six, seven, eight events in NRG Stadium with an average audience of a billion people and names like Messi and Neymar and Mbappe, who probably mean a lot to many people in this community but are treated as icons around the globe, and for Houston to have its name among the great markets of the world, at a truly global market which we know from a business perspective and from a from a population perspective. It is but to have that that verification on that type of stage is something that you know. As a community we also be very proud of and Chris Canetti in the World Cup office and Janice Burke and everybody over at NRG Park that ourselves included that helped to be part of making that a reality. We know we got a lot of work ahead to live up those expectations that's great. Chris: Well, david, I appreciate you, you know coming on and sharing some of these specifics. I want to ask you just a few more questions about you personally. What was your first job before days? You know the years before you were the intern of Houston Texas so I my first job I'm gonna go with. David: I've got a 1, 1a, all right. So my first job really was I worked at a Kroger in Kingwood as a checker or, sorry, as a bagger. But my my first quote real job I didn't have that one very long was I. I ended up being a server at Kingwood Country Club and the reason I say that was my first real job is that I worked in the service industry throughout my career. I mean, I still do today, obviously, but I worked in the service industry for 10 years, all the way through my time in Austin, going to school at UT, and I will tell you that nothing will teach you more about the world good and bad, than working in the service industry and I am so appreciative of the opportunities that I got to again. Start with something simple as that. But as a funny story, chris, I will say my crowning achievement as a server is I did serve as Don Johnson, the actor, don Johnson's waiter for the 10 cup rap party, because Tim Cup was hosting. That's right and so I do have that up by resume. Chris: So there you go see one of the benefits of living in Kingwood that's right. Yeah, one of the many I'll add okay, so since you work so much in, I guess, service hospitality, this will be easy for you. All right, you prefer Tex-Mex or barbecue? Tex-mex all day long all right, and this one's gonna be hard for you to answer okay maybe not. If you could do a 30-day sabbatical, where would you go? What? David: would you do? That is a great question. I don't think it's very. I don't think it's very hard for me at all. I am an avid skier and my family and I have been fortunate enough to spend a lot of time in Park City, utah, and I try and get the 30 days even now it's not possible to do in our work, but I love Park City probably more than any place else in this planet, and so I'd love to be able to go up my family for three days and just ski our behinds off got you. Chris: Well, that's great. That's a good one. David, thanks again for taking the time. Congratulations to you and the rest of the team back at Energy Park, the Texans LSSE, for all you do for Houston well. David: Thank you, chris, and we appreciate your support and involvement as well. Special Guest: David Fletcher.

Georgia Brown loves Jesus and people. Born and raised in Arkansas, Georgia now calls Music City her home. She is a singer/songwriter, podcaster, and faithful servant who is passionate about prayer, and about using her unique voice to share about his love in many ways, from posting encouragement on Instagram, creating inspirational music videos, releasing albums, and discussing real-life topics with a variety of guests on her popular podcast: Faith and Friends with Georgia Brown.   Let's hang! ainsleybritain.com https://www.instagram.com/ainsleyb/ https://www.ainsleybritain.com/podcast   Free Don't Date a BooBoo Dude Quiz: https://view.flodesk.com/pages/604a4475cb35da395f6932ba   Amazon Storefront: https://www.amazon.com/shop/ainsleyb

Have you ever felt called to pray, but didn't know what to say? On this episode, CC brings on author, speaker, and sweet friend Georgia Brown and together they unpack the best tips on how you can pray and talk to God. The power of prayer is mighty, and it sure is effective– From sharing real life stories of Georgia's very own prayer closest to moments of Joy they both shared together in prayer. This episode will make you smile, make you laugh, and make you feel like you pulled up a seat with two friends at a coffee shop. Follow along with Georgia, @iamgeorgiabrown and order her new devotional, "Hi God, It's Me!" HERE! Join #thatsjoythemovement, and show the world what JOY means to you. Follow @thatsjoythepodcast for updates on all things That's Joy and follow CC across all social @ccalbonero! You can also text CC, ANY questions/topics you want to hear at (615) 813-4813.SHOP THAT'S JOY COLLECTION HERE!! (Limited Stock Left!)*NEW* *NEW* *NEW*Come hang out in the Joy Corner w/ CC! Sign up with the link below!https://thatsjoypodcast.com/the-joy-corner

All 13 goals, including four from Georgia Brown which tied a school record, and a hat trick from Anna Sutter (both as part of a 9-0 first half). As called by Darek Sharp on Bulls Unlimited.

I'm so excited to finally be sitting down with my dear friend, Sweet Georgia Brown! To know her is to love her! She talented author, singer/songwriter, podcaster, worship leader, and faithful servant who is passionate about prayer. Born and raised in Arkansas, Georgia now calls Music City her home. She is a lover of Jesus and people! In today's episode, we dive into her story and how God has shown up in her life in the unexpected. Follow Georgia Brown! Listen to Georgia's Podcast : Faith & Friends Buy Georgia's book : Hi God, It's Me Thank you to our sponsor the NIV Journal the Word Bible published by Zondervan. Visit your local Christian bookstore or journaltheword.comto find a beautiful edition!

YOU were made to stand out!YOU ARE...a difference maker. An atmosphere shaker, A Kingdom KIDDO!When it comes to our calling... our friendships, relationships, families--if we want to SEE things done differently, it begins with us DOING DIFFERENT! Being set a part! Working wholeheartedly unto the Lord. Doing things that other people aren't willing to do. THE EXTRA MILE! IN THIS EPISODE... I'm letting you in on a secret that I have NOT shared publicly! Did ya catch the exciting news?! (Ahhh!) This week, I was interviewed on "Keys to Your Best Life" with Maggie Kavanaugh and it was so precious we are gonna hangout with Maggie on Faith & Friends! In this episode we chat about... -The difference between being in Church and being in Christ -The building vs. the BODY! -My testimony! -How the Lord wants to use ALL of YOU! -Scripture Table Runners! -OF COURSE, HI GOD IT'S ME! -The importance of DOING different to BE different! -5th Annual GODfident event!! Click HERE for tickets!If you're in the area, I would LOVE to see you September 23rd at GODfident! I will be the Keynote speaker and I will be teaching on BODY IMAGE! Click HERE to snag your copy of "HI GOD IT'S ME!"Love ya so much friend. I pray this fun convo blesses you deeply! See ya next week! -GBHas this episode, or any of our conversations here on Faith & Friends impacted you? Please leave us a 5 star review! We would love to hear from you! Instagram YoutubeWebsite

In the midst of excitedly preparing for AWP 2017, we record this episode in which we discuss two poems by Rita Banerjee, “The Suicide Rag” and “Georgia Brown” This week's discussion both took us back and made sure that none of us would see the world the same way again. With images of breakdancing, gospel choir, and the not-so-innocent Georgia Brown, we were in it. Whether we're distinguishing jazz from jazz or figuring out what a clapper is, this episode is filled with risky moves. Join us in the campaign to have your local library carry lesser-known authors and small presses. Let us know what books you'll be requesting with #getsomebooks! Let's support libraries, small presses, and the authors who write for them. Make sure you follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and let us know what you think of this episode with #longandskinny! Stay tuned to hear about our AWP 2017 experience–we hope to see you there! And of course, most importantly, read on!   At the table: Kathleen Volk Miller, Marion Wrenn, Jason Schneiderman, Tim Fitts, and Sara Aykit Rita Banerjee is the author of Echo in Four Beats, CREDO: An Anthology of Manifestos and Sourcebook for Creative Writing, the novella “A Night with Kali” in Approaching Footsteps, and Cracklers at Night. She received her doctorate in Comparative Literature from Harvard and her MFA from the University of Washington, and her work appears in Hunger Mountain, PANK, Tupelo Quarterly, Isele Magazine, Nat. Brut., Poets & Writers, Academy of American Poets, Los Angeles Review of Books, Vermont Public Radio, and elsewhere. She is the co-writer of Burning Down the Louvre, a forthcoming documentary film about race, intimacy, and tribalism in the United States and in France, and serves as Senior Editor of the South Asian Avant-Garde and Creative Director of the Cambridge Writers' Workshop. She received a 2021-2022 Creation Grant from the Vermont Arts Council for her new memoir and manifesto on female cool, and one of the opening chapters of this memoir, “Birth of Cool” was a Notable Essay in the 2020 Best American Essays. She is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and Director of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.    The Suicide Rag Billy played ragtime on the church organ but we lunch hour kids, kept time by another name.  Behind St. Augustine's we learned to hit the pavement, sound like an anvil crack hammers hitting steel, Billy playing skeletons on the fifth, we arpeggioed haloed, froze on the black top.  Learning to cakewalk This was our battle— tar-mat babies doing handsprung suicides for the girls standing 'round with knife-like eyes That's all we needed— a rolling beat, a firing squad and schoolyard skirts scouring the lot as we fell face forward hands locked & stiff, the only thing that could've come between us was a kiss.   Georgia Brown Harlem had yet to be born, the globe had not been spun, but we knew how to whistle, how to call clappers and skirts on cue: That summer, we first met Georgia, she was an echo in four beats, we learned to hum her story. Mike played her with a licked reed but she was all brass, sharp like an abandoned railroad cutting through wild wood, and when she took stage, she made those trombone boys whisper, “Sweet Georgia, Sweet.”

Where did the summer go?! I sure hope you had the sweetest summer. Sleeping in... pool... trips... camps... friends...late nights...sleepovers... what else did you do? I can't believe it's time to get back into the swing of things. Truly! The Father put you so heavy on my heart this week! I am sure grateful for your life. And as I think about you going back to school, I want you to be encouraged and equipped with confidence knowing the authority you have in Jesus' name! I PRAY YOU NEVER FORGET... I am here for you and I am PUMPED about God's path for life. & honestly, I am believing this school year will be the best YET. In this episode we chat about...-The importance & significance of YOU in the classroom -Why every moment matters in a school day -How to see divine appointments through your day -The importance of putting on your spiritual armor! (Eph. 6)-5 creative ways to pray throughout a school day! -Encouragement to be the friend you want to have -Why you should even do your homework wholeheartedly unto the Lord -LET'S PRAY  over your school year!! I pray you leave this convo knowing your life has significance and you are not alone. You are seen, valued, and loved! I am so proud of your journey, I am praying for you, and always cheering you on. PLEASE, keep going! AND... as the school year begins check out, "Hi God it's Me"! This devotional would be the perfect addition to your fall! This 20 day prayer devotional will keep your heart soft and growing throughout the school year. Love ya so much!I'll see ya next week, GBHas this episode, or any of our conversations here on Faith & Friends impacted you? Please leave us a 5 star review! We would love to hear from you! Instagram YoutubeWebsite

A like on our photo or "good morning" text sounds like grounds for brownie points today, but have we lowered our standards to much for how a guy shows his interest? In this episode, Georgia Brown urges us ladies to raise the bar back in dating! Know how to decide if a guy is showing you mere attention or purposeful intention.Connect with Christian or find her new book "Break Up with What Broke You" at ChristianBevere.com

What is prayer? How do we pray? Why is it important? Girly, I get it. I've asked these questions a thousand times over and I have struggled with prayer since I could speak. But, as I've learned and grown, I've come to realize that prayer is one of the most important things I can do, and that I need to be doing it daily. Our sweet sister Georgia Brown agrees, so much so that she wrote a book about it to encourage you and I to be praying! Join Georgia and I as we discuss what prayer is, why it's important, and some ways to pray. You're going to be blown away by Georgia's love for our Father, and her love for prayer. Scripture mentioned: Luke 11 Matthew 6:9-13 John 17 Hebrews 11-12 Matthew 18-19 1 Thessalonians 5:17 Remember this: "Prayer is a friendship with the Father," AND "Prayer is sharing your life with your Savior," (Georgia Brown). Find all things Georgia Brown HERE!! (https://linktr.ee/iamgeorgiabrown) Georgia's devotional book, "Hi God, It's Me" can be found wherever books are sold, including Amazon, Walmart, and Dayspring. say hi here: Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/thechristiangirlstea/) Email: thechristiangirlstea@gmail.com Anchor Voice Message (https://anchor.fm/the-christian-girls-tea/message) If you can, please leave a review of the podcast! That let's me know you're here! Want to listen to my EP "Songs from a Teenage Heart"? Listen wherever you stream music, or just use my Anna Lynn music LinkTree! (https://linktr.ee/annalynnmusic?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=dd44e325-631b-42ef-8e93-39423ab2828e) Thanks for joining me!! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-christian-girls-tea/message

For many, engaging in prayer can feel like a constant “stop-and-go” experience. It may be tough to get into a rhythm or frequently find the right words to say, especially during busy seasons or stressful days.Hi God, It's Me: 20 Days to a Strong and Powerful Prayer Life by Georgia Brown encourages you to see prayer differently — not as a moment in time, but as a lifestyle that you can enjoy. In this 20-day guide, you will discover how to build a resilient prayer life that withstands waves of feeling or trying times. As you read selected Scriptures, pray, and engage in the fun activities provided, you'll learn how to get carried along in a current of fresh and meaningful conversations with God.Listen to this conversation with author Georgia Brown, pick up your copy of Hi God, It's Me today, and leave a comment on this weeks feature article to enter to WIN one of five copies: https://incourage.me/?p=233434Connect with (in)courage: Facebook & Instagram for daily encouragement, videos, and more! Website for the (in)courage library, to meet our contributors, and to access the archives. Email us at incourage@dayspring.com. Leave a podcast review on Apple!

IS THIS REAL LIFE?! It's launch week!  FRIEND, I am beyond grateful that my first ever devotional, "Hi God, it's Me: 20 Days to a Stronger more Powerful Prayer Life" is out everywhere books are sold--RIGHT NOW! ...well. CURRENTLY, as of 7/21, today--FRIDAY, Hi God it's Me is only avaliable at DAYSPRING.COM since we sold out on amazon!!! *MIND=BLOWN* BUT DON'T WORRY. You will get your copy soon!! So don't cancel your order and re-order somewhere else! They are on a truck NOW to the warehouse! In this LIVE podcast taping, SARAH interviews ME about...-The Story behind how this devo came to be-The importance of faith AND works -How to not give up after hearing your first, "no"-My prayer for YOU & this devo -Was being an Author a part of my life plans? I truly pray this devotional blesses you in your journey with Jesus! I am SO grateful to share my stories and my favorite scriptures with you. I love ya SO much!-GBHas this episode, or any of our conversations here on Faith & Friends impacted you? Please leave us a 5 star review! We would love to hear from you! Instagram YoutubeWebsite

"Because of His holy grace, in Him, sister, you are set apart. So, as you share your days with your Father, who so deeply cares about every little detail of your story, may your heart be encouraged as you acknowledge that God is set apart. If He is your Father, then that makes you . . . His girl! So come to your Holy Father. Come as a holy child who is precious in His sight."Leave a comment for Georgia, and be entered to WIN a copy of her new book: https://incourage.me/?p=233434--Dive Into God's Word with Summer Soul Care Resources! From devotionals and books to Bible reading plans and free ecards, DaySpring is committed to help you experience and express the life changing message of God's love. Visit incourage.me/podcast to find out more!  The (in)courage podcast is brought to you by DaySpring. For over 50 years, DaySpring has created quality cards, books, and gifts that help you live your faith. Find out more at DaySpring.com.Connect with (in)courage: Facebook & Instagram for daily encouragement, videos, and more! Website for the (in)courage library, to meet our contributors, and to access the archives. Email us at incourage@dayspring.com. Leave a podcast review on Apple!

Can I tell you a little secret?!I'm praying for you. YUP! It's true! I can't believe it, but 20 Fridays ago we started this prayer series, going alongside the devotional, "Hi God, it's Me: 20 Days to a stronger more powerful prayer life" and now, this devo will be yours everywhere... IN JUST FOUR DAYS! JULY 18TH! Wahoo! I am feeling all the feels as truly, glimpses into my diary will be in your hands as YOU go deeper in your relationship with the Lord in prayer through the pages of this devotional. I am SOOO glad it's releasing for such a time as THIS as school will kick back up in a couple weeks! What a PERFECT time to strengthen your prayer life! They say it takes 21 days to create a habit... so why not spend the first 20 with me?! In this episode we chat about...-the only thing the disciples asked Jesus to teach them -A recap on the prayer series + the incredible guests we had convos with -My prayer for you -Details on the Tennessee Launch party! Thank you for being you, friend. I am so grateful to go on this joyful journey with YOU. The Father loves you so much, and I am just so honored to be on this side of Heaven at the very same time as you! It truly is for such a time as THIS that we are both here! We are on Heavenly Assignment!! Keep going!! May we be ready for battle through our prayer strategy!! You are a difference maker, and I need you. Love ya. Get your copy of Hi God, it's Me HERE!& if you're in the Nashville area, I'd love to see you at the Launch Party!! But if not.... no worries! We will be LIVE on my IG @iamgeorgiabrown! Tuesday, July 18th at 7:30pm central! -GBHas this episode, or any of our conversations here on Faith & Friends impacted you? Please leave us a 5 star review! We would love to hear from you! Instagram YoutubeWebsite

Emma Mae is joined by author, podcaster, songwriter, and her dear friend, Georgia Brown on the podcast today to talk about prayer. Sometimes we can miss out on closeness with God because we overcomplicate prayer or we don't trust that the God we are praying to is actually good. Georgia and Emma Mae share how prayer has changed their lives, why they pray, and what prayer even is. -------------- Support the Have You Heard Podcast! https://donorbox.org/compelled-ministries -------------- https://www.emmamaemcdaniel.com/speaking- Book Emma Mae for your next event!! https://www.Faithfulcounseling.com/emmamae - 10% OFF your first month of counseling https://www.emmamaemcdaniel.com/shop - Emma's books https://www.emmamaemcdaniel.com/shop - Shop the spring collection! SOCIAL MEDIA Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/1corinthians13_love/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/haveyouheard_podcast/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emmamae_collection/ Website: https://www.Emmmaemcdaniel.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Is That All There Is?", a song written by American songwriting team Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller during the 1960s, became a hit for American singer Peggy Lee and an award winner from her album of the same title in November 1969. The song was originally performed by Georgia Brown in May 1967 for a television special. It was first recorded by disc jockey Dan Daniel in March 1968, but this was an unauthorized recording that, while played on Daniel's own radio show, went unissued at the songwriters' request. The first authorized recording was by Leslie Uggams in August 1968. Then came the hit Peggy Lee version in August 1969, followed by Guy Lombardo in 1969 and Tony Bennett on 22 December 1969.[2]Peggy Lee's version reached number 11 on the U.S. pop singles chart — becoming her first Top 40 pop hit since "Fever" eleven years earlier—and doing even better on the adult contemporary scene, topping that Billboardchart. It also reached number six in Canada. It won Lee the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, and then later was named to the Grammy Hall of Fame.The orchestral arrangement on the song was composed by Randy Newman, who played the piano in the slower introduction section,[3] and who also conducted the orchestra.[4]LyricsThe lyrics of this song are written from the point of view of a person who is disillusioned with events in life that are supposedly unique experiences. The singer tells of witnessing her family's house on fire when she was a little girl, seeing the circus, and falling in love for the first time. After each recital, she expresses her disappointment in the experience. She suggests that we "break out the booze and have a ball—if that's all there is," instead of worrying about life. She explains that she'll never kill herself either because she knows that death will be a disappointment as well. The verses of the song are spoken, rather than sung. Only the refrain of the song is sung.

On this podcast episode I had the honor of welcoming Georgia Brown to talk about breakups, how to heal and press into Jesus after a breakup and what it looks like to breakup with settling. Georgia shares Biblical truth on this episode that comes from the healing the Lord has done in her own heart and vulnerable moments from her story. Make sure to tune in if you are needing help with getting through a breakup or just want to know what things you can keep an eye out for when a special person may walk into your life. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/convoswithkaila/support

WELCOME TO SEASON FIVE, FRIENDS! I am so beyond honored to share MY heart with you today. To launch us into a new season of the Podcast, it's just you and me, friend! In this episode we're going to chat about.. -My testimony! How I grew up in the Church knowing God, but found a true relationship with JESUS in College! -How God wants to use ALL of you, not just part of your passions -How the Lord prepares you for what you're called to for His kingdom -The importance of getting poured into by other believers -The importance of being a part of a local church -How faith & friends began!!!!! -Why I began my prayer closet (personal story time!) -Where we are headed in season FIVE! WAHOO! A SERIES!!!I CANNOT WAIT to grow in this PRAYER series together!! We're going to be chatting with the COOLEST guests this season. So many incredible humans to learn from. (& I can't WAIT to share my surprise with you in a few weeks. Stay tuned!) This next friday, March 3rd,  before launching into our prayer series, we are going to chat with Tara Sun, to celebrate with this sister as she launches her first book, Surrender Your Story. I pray this episode blesses you as well! So I'll see YOU next week, friend, for more FAITH FILLED FUN! I'm so grateful for you. Thank you for sharing a little bit of your day with me. -GBHas this episode, or any of our conversations here on Faith & Friends impacted you? Please leave us a 5 star review! We would love to hear from you! Instagram YoutubeWebsite

I am so proud of you, friend! You made it through 2022! Sometimes we're quick to begin things WELL, but what about finishing them WELL? TODAY it's just you and me, and I am pumped to reflect on 2022 with you. For just a few moments we're going to talk about...- spiritual disciplines-prayer-fasting-the importance of remembering-my favorite guests/conversations of '22 - a few questions for you to take to Jesus as you reflect on all He has done in & through you this year! Here are a few of my favorite scriptures for you to lean into as you reflect and begin to dream and desire the LORD as a new year approaches! -Matthew 6! (all of it is soooo good! Talks about fasting, praying, anddd seeking first His Kingdom.) -Ephesians 2:10 -Hebrews 12:6-11I pray this episode meets you right where you are today. What a beautiful year it's been. I am beyond grateful to have spent it with YOU. Thank you for being my FRIEND:) I can't wait to see how the LORD grows us in our faith together in 2023! See you next year ;) -GB You are so loved! Let's hangout! Instagram YoutubeWebsite

Episode 215 of the Football Fitness Federation is with Football Australia Sport Scientists Jack Sharkey & Georgia Brown⁣ ⁣ We discussed:⁣ ▫️Considerations working with female players⁣ ▫️Menstrual Health & Performance⁣ ▫️Menstrual Health Research⁣ ▫️World Cup Preparation⁣ & much more!⁣ ⁣ You can follow both Jack on Georgia on Twitter @SharkeyStories & @GeorgiaBrown_02⁣ ⁣ Make sure to check out all the brilliant work out sponsors are doing.⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ Rezzil - rezzil.com⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ Hytro - hytro.com⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ Join our online community & get access to the very best Football Fitness content as well as the ability to connect with Sport Scientists and Strength & Conditioning coaches from around the world.⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ To get FULL access to all of these & even more like this, sign up to a FREE month on our online community at the link below.⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ www.footballfitfed.com/forum/index.aspx⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ Keep up to date with everything that is going on at Football Fitness Federation at the following links:⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ Twitter - @FootballFitFed⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ Instagram - @FootballFitFed⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ Website - www.footballfitfed.com⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣ Email - mail@footballfitfed.com

FRIENDSSSSSS! We are thrilled for another epsiode of our Seasons of Life Series and to welcome back our dear "real life" friend and "friend of the pod:" GEORGIA BROWN! If you know Chosen Girl, you probably know our resident ray of sunshine, Georgia. You can find her on earlier seasons of the podcast, and today she is sharing wisdom on contentment, singleness, joy, and more. You can find Georgia's music on apple music and spotify, her podcast "Georgia Brown's Faith and Friends" wherever you listen, and find her on instagram @iamgeorgiabrown Find this episode wherever you listen to podcasts, and if you like this episode, please rate and subscribe! We would be so grateful! LOVE YOU GUYS, and see you back here for another interview episode next week! Instagram: @chosengirlmovement Website: thechosengirl.com Listen on Spotify Listen on Apple Subscribe to Happy Texts --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/chosengirl/support

In this series, we're talking to Influencers on social media! our first guest of this series is sweet @iamgeorgiabrown !!! we dive deep into how ministering on social media has bettered her own relationship with Christ, and how it has helped her boldness to grow and encourage other young people as well! we talk testimony, knowing Jesus but not “knowing Him”, and taking the next faith steps even when it seems as if everything around you is going crazy. Flourishing in Faith is all about encouraging other christians in aspects of growing in Christ, and seeing faithful fruit being produced out of seeds of sorrow! FOLLOW FIF ON INSTA: @flourishinginfaithpodcast Rachels Insta: @rrrachelsmithhh Rachels Blog: https://rsmith021303.wixsite.com/justjoyful Alexis' Insta: @livinginhisvictory Thanks for listening! WE LOVE YOU!

Wednesday's show has plenty of clips from Jeff Scott's press conference summing up what went wrong against BYU, plus Jimmy Horn Jr., Dwayne Boyles and highlights of the men's soccer loss to Washington. Begins with weekly AAC honors for Marta Cvitkovic of volleyball, and Georgia Brown part of the "English Army" on the women's soccer squad.

Georgia Brown is a lover of Jesus and people. Born and raised in Arkansas, Georgia now calls Music City her home. She is a singer/songwriter, podcaster, and faithful servant who is passionate about prayer, and about using her unique voice to share about his love in many ways, from posting encouragement on Instagram, creating inspirational music videos, releasing albums, and discussing real-life topics with a variety of guests on her popular podcast: Faith and Friends with Georgia Brown. Georgia's prayer is that her generation would come to know the reality of God's love and live an abundant life in the fullness of freedom. Connect with Georgia on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamgeorgiabrown Check out her website! https://www.georgiabrownmusic.com/

Tess Connolly LCSW talks with Mark Stefanski a certified mindfulness instructor and Georgia Brown a teenager who has been practicing mindfulness for two years about mindfulness with tweens and teens. They discuss what mindfulness is and the benefits of practicing mindfulness with our tweens and teens.  Mark opens the episode with an experiential exercise with us. Tess and Georgia talk about how they felt after taking part in the exercise. Mark and Georgia introduce themselves and share with us background knowledge of who they are and what they do and how they got into mindfulness. Mark talks about the time that he started bringing mindfulness into schools and how he did this at the beginning. Georgia talks about the benefits that she received from joining the mindfulness community.   Mark talks about the benefits of practicing mindfulness in a community and how they learn from their peers when practising in a group. Mark tells us about mindfulness and what it is and how it will benefit tweens and teens and also how we get our tweens and teens to engage in the practice.  Georgia gives some examples of how she has used mindfulness in her life and how it has helped her.  Tess, Mark and Georgia talk about practicing mindfulness in person and online and what the benefits are by doing it either way. Mark and Tess give a bit of knowledge of where you can go if you are interested in finding more out about mindfulness and also where we can find resources to learn more on the practice.  Mark shares some knowledge about how we can start to plant seeds to our tweens and teens and one of the most important things is to model mindfulness.  Mark talks about how practicing mindfulness has been proven to help tweens and teens manage stress. Georgia also shares how letting your child come to their own decision about practicing mindfulness is the most effective way and by the adults around them modelling the practice and letting your child come to it if they want to. Mark finishes the interview with an experiential exercise of love and kindness. Follow this link to find out Marks mindfulness group - Teen Mindfulness Circle flyer-spring2020.pdf For some resources for mindfulness follow this link - Mindfulness Resources for Teens and Young Adults.public.docx.pdf   Sign up for the Tech Reset Masterclass here: https://mindfulkidsandfamilies.com/tech-reset-masterclass   ⭐️Join MKF weekly Parenting  Journal here:  Mindful Kids and Families Journal  (Get ready for lessons, podcast leads, offers for parents and ways to win free parent coaching or masterclasses)  

How to set boundaries in relationships, friendships, work-life, personal life, and all areas in between. Georgia Brown shares her heart for women to know how to create those boundaries not to restrict themselves but to allow God to protect and transform them into the best version of themselves. This episode is so so good and extremely relatable to women of all ages. Be sure to connect with Georgia by checking out her links below. Remember to subscribe to the She Just Got Real Podcast and leave a fun review! Follow Georgia Brown: @iamgeorgiabrown Faith and Friends Podcast Listen Here - Georiga Brown on Apple Music Follow Tessah and The podcast: @tessahjoann @shejustgotrealpodcast --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tessah-joann/support

Join Tara and her friend, Georgia Brown - speaker, podcaster, musician, lover of Jesus, and ray of sunshine - as they talk about the power of prayer.   Have you desired to have more of a meaningful prayer life but have no idea where to start? Have you ever thought that prayer was too complicated or too hard? If so, this episode is for you. Listen in as they talk about what God's Word says about prayer, unpack Biblical passages, give tips for cultivating not just a moment of prayer in the day but a lifestyle, and much more.   Follow Georgia on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamgeorgiabrown/ Listen to her podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/faith-friends-with-georgia-brown/id1490894157 Follow Tara on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/misstarasun/ Visit Tara's website and sign up for her devotional emails: https://www.tarasunministries.com/

Episode 144 of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “Last Train to Clarksville" and the beginnings of the career of the Monkees, along with a short primer on the origins of the Vietnam War.  Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a seventeen-minute bonus episode available, on "These Boots Are Made For Walking" by Nancy Sinatra, which I mispronounce at the end of this episode as "These Boots Were Made For Walking", so no need to correct me here. Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt's irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/ Resources As usual, all the songs excerpted in the podcast can be heard in full at Mixcloud. The best versions of the Monkees albums are the triple-CD super-deluxe versions that used to be available from monkees.com , and I've used Andrew Sandoval's liner notes for them extensively in this episode. Sadly, though, the only one of those that is still in print is More of the Monkees. For those just getting into the group, my advice is to start with this five-CD set, which contains their first five albums along with bonus tracks. The single biggest source of information I used in this episode is the first edition of Andrew Sandoval's The Monkees; The Day-By-Day Story. Sadly that is now out of print and goes for hundreds of pounds. Sandoval released a second edition of the book last year, which I was unfortunately unable to obtain, but that too is now out of print. If you can find a copy of either, do get one. Other sources used were Monkee Business by Eric Lefcowitz, and the autobiographies of three of the band members and one of the songwriters -- Infinite Tuesday by Michael Nesmith, They Made a Monkee Out of Me by Davy Jones, I'm a Believer by Micky Dolenz, and Psychedelic Bubble-Gum by Bobby Hart. Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Transcript We've obviously talked in this podcast about several of the biggest hits of 1966 already, but we haven't mentioned the biggest hit of the year, one of the strangest records ever to make number one in the US -- "The Ballad of the Green Berets" by Sgt Barry Sadler: [Excerpt: Barry Sadler, "The Ballad of the Green Berets"] Barry Sadler was an altogether odd man, and just as a brief warning his story, which will last a minute or so, involves gun violence. At the time he wrote and recorded that song, he was on active duty in the military -- he was a combat medic who'd been fighting in the Vietnam War when he'd got a wound that had meant he had to be shipped back to the USA, and while at Fort Bragg he decided to write and record a song about his experiences, with the help of Robin Moore, a right-wing author of military books, both fiction and nonfiction, who wrote the books on which the films The Green Berets and The French Connection were based. Sadler's record became one of those massive fluke hits, selling over nine million copies and getting him appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show, but other than one top thirty hit, he never had another hit single. Instead, he tried and failed to have a TV career, then became a writer of pulp fiction himself, writing a series of twenty-one novels about the centurion who thrust his spear into Jesus' side when Jesus was being crucified, and is thus cursed to be a soldier until the second coming. He moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where he lived until he shot Lee Emerson, a country songwriter who had written songs for Marty Robbins, in the head, killing him, in an argument over a woman. He was sentenced to thirty days in jail for this misdemeanour, of which he served twenty-eight. Later he moved to Guatemala City, where he was himself shot in the head. The nearest Army base to Nashville, where Sadler lived after his discharge, is Fort Campbell, in Clarksville: [Excerpt: The Monkees, "Last Train to Clarksville"] The Vietnam War was a long and complicated war, one which affected nearly everything we're going to see in the next year or so of this podcast, and we're going to talk about it a lot, so it's worth giving a little bit of background here. In doing so, I'm going to use quite a flippant tone, but I want to make it clear that I'm not mocking the very real horrors that people suffered in the wars I'm talking about -- it's just that to sum up multiple decades of unimaginable horrors in a few sentences requires glossing over so much that you have to either laugh or cry. The origin of the Vietnam War, as in so many things in twentieth century history, can be found in European colonialism. France had invaded much of Southeast Asia in the mid-to-late nineteenth century, and created a territory known as French Indo-China, which became part of the French colonial Empire. But in 1940 France was taken over by Germany, and Japan was at war with China. Germany and Japan were allies, and the Japanese were worried that French Indo-China would be used to import fuel and arms to China -- plus, they quite fancied the idea of having a Japanese empire. So Vichy France let Japan take control of French Indo-China. But of course the *reason* that France had been taken over by Germany was that pretty much the whole world was at war in 1940, and obviously the countries that were fighting Germany and Japan -- the bloc led by Britain, soon to be joined by America and Russia -- weren't very keen on the idea of Japan getting more territory. But they were also busy with the whole "fighting a world war" thing, so they did what governments in this situation always do -- they funded local guerilla insurgent fighters on the basis that "my enemy's enemy is my friend", something that has luckily never had any negative consequences whatsoever, except for occasionally. Those local guerilla fighters were an anti-imperialist popular front, the Việt Minh, led by Hồ Chí Minh, a revolutionary Communist. They were dedicated to overthrowing foreign imperialist occupiers and gaining independence for Vietnam, and Hồ Chí Minh further wanted to establish a Soviet-style Communist government in the newly-independent country. The Allies funded the Việt Minh in their fight against the Japanese occupiers until the end of the Second World War, at which point France was liberated from German occupation, Vietnam was liberated from Japanese occupation, and the French basically said "Hooray! We get our Empire back!", to which Hồ Chí Minh's response was, more or less, "what part of anti-imperialist Marxist dedicated to overthrowing foreign occupation of Vietnam did you not understand, exactly?" Obviously, the French weren't best pleased with this, and so began what was the first of a series of wars in the region. The First Indochina War lasted for years and ended in a negotiated peace of a sort. Of course, this led to the favoured tactic of the time, partition -- splitting a formerly-occupied country into two, at an arbitrary dividing line, a tactic which was notably successful in securing peace everywhere it was tried. Apart from Ireland, India, Korea, and a few other places, but surely it wouldn't be a problem in Vietnam, right? North Vietnam was controlled by the Communists, led by Hồ Chí Minh, and recognised by China and the USSR but not by the Western states. South Vietnam was nominally independent but led by the former puppet emperor who owed his position to France, soon replaced by a right-wing dictatorship. And both the right-wing dictatorship and the left-wing dictatorship were soon busily oppressing their own citizens and funding military opposition groups in the other country. This soon escalated into full-blown war, with the North backed by China and Russia and the South backed by America. This was one of a whole series of wars in small countries which were really proxy wars between the two major powers, the USA and the USSR, both of which were vying for control, but which couldn't confront each other directly because either country had enough nuclear weapons to destroy the whole world multiple times over. But the Vietnam War quickly became more than a small proxy war. The US started sending its own troops over, and more and more of them. The US had never ended the draft after World War II, and by the mid sixties significant numbers of young men were being called up and sent over to fight in a war that had by that point lasted a decade (depending on exactly when you count the war as starting from) between two countries they didn't care about, over things few of them understood, and at an exorbitant cost in lives. As you might imagine, this started to become unpopular among those likely to be drafted, and as the people most affected (other, of course, than the Vietnamese people, whose opinions on being bombed and shot at by foreigners supporting one of other of the dictators vying to rule over them nobody else was much interested in) were also of the generation who were the main audience for popular music, slowly this started to seep into the lyrics of songs -- a seepage which had already been prompted by the appearance in the folk and soul worlds of many songs against other horrors, like segregation. This started to hit the pop charts with songs like "The Universal Soldier" by Buffy Saint-Marie, which made the UK top five in a version by Donovan: [Excerpt: Donovan, "The Universal Soldier"] That charted in the lower regions of the US charts, and a cover version by Glen Campbell did slightly better: [Excerpt: Glen Campbell, "The Universal Soldier"] That was even though Campbell himself was a supporter of the war in Vietnam, and rather pro-military. Meanwhile, as we've seen a couple of times, Jan Berry of Jan and Dean recorded a pro-war answer song to that, "The Universal Coward": [Excerpt: Jan Berry, "The Universal Coward"] This, of course, was even though Berry was himself avoiding the draft. And I've not been able to find the credits for that track, but Glen Campbell regularly played guitar on Berry's sessions, so it's entirely possible that he played guitar on that record made by a coward, attacking his own record, which he disagreed with, for its cowardice. This is, of course, what happens when popular culture tries to engage with social and political issues -- pop culture is motivated by money, not ideological consistency, and so if there's money to be made from anti-war songs or from pro-war songs, someone will take that money. And so on October the ninth 1965, Billboard magazine ran a report: "Colpix Enters Protest Field HOLLYWOOD -Colpix has secured its first protest lyric disk, "The Willing Conscript,"as General Manager Bud Katzel initiates relationships with independent producers. The single features Lauren St. Davis. Katzel says the song was written during the Civil War, rewritten during World War I and most recently updated by Bob Krasnow and Sam Ashe. Screen Gems Music, the company's publishing wing, is tracing the song's history, Katzel said. Katzel's second single is "(You Got the Gamma Goochee" by an artist with that unusual stage name. The record is a Screen Gems production and was in the house when Katzel arrived one month ago. The executive said he was expressly looking for material for two contract artists, David Jones and Hoyt Axton. The company is also working on getting Axton a role in a television series, "Camp Runamuck." " To unpack this a little, Colpix was a record label, owned by Columbia Pictures, and we talked about that a little bit in the episode on "The Loco-Motion" -- the film and TV companies were getting into music, and Columbia had recently bought up Don Kirshner's Aldon publishing and Dimension Records as part of their strategy of tying in music with their TV shows. This is a company trying desperately to jump on a bandwagon -- Colpix at this time was not exactly having huge amounts of success with its records. Hoyt Axton, meanwhile, was a successful country singer and songwriter. We met his mother many episodes back -- Mae Axton was the writer of "Heartbreak Hotel". Axton himself is now best known as the dad in the 80s film Gremlins. David Jones will be coming up shortly. Bob Krasnow and Sam Ashe were record executives then at Kama Sutra records, but soon to move on -- we'll be hearing about Krasnow more in future episodes. Neither of them were songwriters, and while I have no real reason to disbelieve the claim that "The Willing Conscript" dates back to the Civil War, the earliest version *I* have been able to track down was its publication in issue 28 of Broadside Magazine in June 1963 -- nearly a hundred years after the American Civil War -- with the credit "by Tom Paxton" -- Paxton was a popular singer-songwriter of the time, and it certainly sounds like his writing. The first recording of it I know of was by Pete Seeger: [Excerpt: Pete Seeger, "The Willing Conscript"] But the odd thing is that by the time this was printed, the single had already been released the previous month, and it was not released under the name Lauren St Davis, or under the title "The Willing Conscript" -- there are precisely two differences between the song copyrighted as by Krasnow and Ashe and the one copyrighted two years earlier as by Paxton. One is that verses three and four are swapped round, the other is that it's now titled "The New Recruit". And presumably because they realised that the pseudonym "Lauren St. Davis" was trying just a bit too hard to sound cool and drug culture, they reverted to another stage name the performer had been using, Michael Blessing: [Excerpt: Michael Blessing, "The New Recruit"] Blessing's name was actually Michael Nesmith, and before we go any further, yes his mother, Bette Nesmith Graham, did invent the product that later became marketed in the US as Liquid Paper. At this time, though, that company wasn't anywhere near as successful as it later became, and was still a tiny company. I only mention it to forestall the ten thousand comments and tweets I would otherwise get asking why I didn't mention it. In Nesmith's autobiography, while he talks a lot about his mother, he barely mentions her business and says he was uninterested in it -- he talks far more about the love of art she instilled in him, as well as her interest in the deep questions of philosophy and religion, to which in her case and his they found answers in Christian Science, but both were interested in conversations about ideas, in a way that few other people in Nesmith's early environment were. Nesmith's mother was also responsible for his music career. He had spent two years in the Air Force in his late teens, and the year he got out, his mother and stepfather bought him a guitar for Christmas, after he was inspired by seeing Hoyt Axton performing live and thinking he could do that himself: [Excerpt: Hoyt Axton, "Greenback Dollar"] As he put it in his autobiography, "What did it matter that I couldn't play the guitar, couldn't sing very well, and didn't know any folk songs? I would be going to college and hanging out at the student union with pretty girls and singing folk songs. They would like me. I might even figure out a way to get a cool car." This is, of course, the thought process that pretty much every young man to pick up a guitar goes through, but Nesmith was more dedicated than most. He gave his first performance as a folk singer ten days after he first got a guitar, after practising the few chords in most folk songs for twelve hours a day every day in that time. He soon started performing as a folk singer, performing around Dallas both on his own and with his friend John London, performing the standard folk repertoire of Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly songs, things like "Pick a Bale of Cotton": [Excerpt: Michael Nesmith, "Pick a Bale of Cotton"] He also started writing his own songs, and put out a vanity record of one of them in 1963: [Excerpt: Mike Nesmith, "Wanderin'"] London moved to California, and Nesmith soon followed, with his first wife Phyllis and their son Christian. There Nesmith and London had the good fortune to be neighbours with someone who was a business associate of Frankie Laine, and they were signed to Laine's management company as a folk duo. However, Nesmith's real love was rock and roll, especially the heavier R&B end of the genre -- he was particularly inspired by Bo Diddley, and would always credit seeing Diddley live as a teenager as being his biggest musical influence. Soon Nesmith and London had formed a folk-rock trio with their friend Bill Sleeper. As Mike & John & Bill, they put out a single, "How Can You Kiss Me?", written by Nesmith: [Excerpt: Mike & John & Bill, "How Can You Kiss Me?"] They also recorded more of Nesmith's songs, like "All the King's Horses": [Excerpt: Mike & John & Bill, "All the King's Horses"] But that was left unreleased, as Bill was drafted, and Nesmith and London soon found themselves in The Survivors, one of several big folk groups run by Randy Sparks, the founder of the New Christie Minstrels. Nesmith was also writing songs throughout 1964 and 1965, and a few of those songs would be recorded by other people in 1966, like "Different Drum", which was recorded by the bluegrass band The Greenbriar Boys: [Excerpt: The Greenbriar Boys, "Different Drum"] That would more successfully be recorded by the Stone Poneys later of course. And Nesmith's "Mary Mary" was also picked up by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band: [Excerpt: The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, "Mary Mary"] But while Nesmith had written these songs by late 1965, he wasn't able to record them himself. He was signed by Bob Krasnow, who insisted he change his name to Michael Blessing, and recorded two singles for Colpix -- "The New Recruit", which we heard earlier, and a version of Buffy Saint-Marie's "Until It's Time For You To Go", sung in a high tenor range very far from Nesmith's normal singing voice: [Excerpt: Michael Blessing, "Until It's Time For You To Go"] But to my mind by far the best thing Nesmith recorded in this period is the unissued third Michael Blessing single, where Nesmith seems to have been given a chance to make the record he really wanted to make. The B-side, a version of Allen Toussaint's swamp-rocker "Get Out of My Life, Woman", is merely a quite good version of the song, but the A-side, a version of his idol Bo Diddley's classic "Who Do You Love?" is utterly extraordinary, and it's astonishing that it was never released at the time: [Excerpt: Michael Blessing, "Who Do You Love?"] But the Michael Blessing records did no better than anything else Colpix were putting out. Indeed, the only record they got onto the hot one hundred at all in a three and a half year period was a single by one David Jones, which reached the heady heights of number ninety-eight: [Excerpt: David Jones, "What Are We Going to Do?"] Jones had been brought up in extreme poverty in Openshaw in Manchester, but had been encouraged by his mother, who died when he was fourteen, to go into acting. He'd had a few parts on local radio, and had appeared as a child actor on TV shows made in Manchester, like appearing in the long-running soap opera Coronation Street (still on today) as Ena Sharples' grandson Colin: [Excerpt: Coronation St https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FDEvOs1imc , 13:30] He also had small roles in Z-Cars and Bill Naughton's TV play "June Evening", and a larger role in Keith Waterhouse's radio play "There is a Happy Land". But when he left school, he decided he was going to become a jockey rather than an actor -- he was always athletic, he loved horses, and he was short -- I've seen his height variously cited as five foot three and five foot four. But it turned out that the owner of the stables in which he was training had showbusiness connections, and got him the audition that changed his life, for the part of the Artful Dodger in Lionel Bart's West End musical Oliver! We've encountered Lionel Bart before a couple of times, but if you don't remember him, he was the songwriter who co-wrote Tommy Steele's hits, and who wrote "Living Doll" for Cliff Richard. He also discovered both Steele and Marty Wilde, and was one of the major figures in early British rock and roll. But after the Tommy Steele records, he'd turned his attention to stage musicals, writing book, music, and lyrics for a string of hits, and more-or-less singlehandedly inventing the modern British stage musical form -- something Andrew Lloyd Webber, for example, always credits him with. Oliver!, based on Oliver Twist, was his biggest success, and they were looking for a new Artful Dodger. This was *the* best role for a teenage boy in the UK at the time -- later performers to take the role on the London stage include Steve Marriott and Phil Collins, both of whom we'll no doubt encounter in future episodes -- and Jones got the job, although they were a bit worried at first about his Manchester vowels. He assured them though that he could learn to do a Cockney accent, and they took him on. Jones not having a natural Cockney accent ended up doing him the biggest favour of his career. While he could put on a relatively convincing one, he articulated quite carefully because it wasn't his natural accent. And so when the North American version found  in previews that their real Cockney Dodger wasn't being understood perfectly, the fake Cockney Jones was brought over to join the show on Broadway, and was there from opening night on. On February the ninth, 1964, Jones found himself, as part of the Broadway cast of Oliver!, on the Ed Sullivan Show: [Excerpt: Davy Jones and Georgia Brown, "I'd Do Anything"] That same night, there were some other British people, who got a little bit more attention than Jones did: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "I Want to Hold Your Hand (live on Ed Sullivan)"] Davy Jones wasn't a particular fan of pop music at that point, but he knew he liked what he saw, and he wanted some of the same reaction. Shortly after this, Jones was picked up for management by Ward Sylvester, of Columbia Pictures, who was going to groom Jones for stardom. Jones continued in Oliver! for a while, and also had a brief run in a touring version of Pickwick, another musical based on a Dickens novel, this time starring Harry Secombe, the British comedian and singer who had made his name with the Goon Show. Jones' first single, "Dream Girl", came out in early 1965: [Excerpt: Davy Jones, "Dream Girl"] It was unsuccessful, as was his one album, David Jones, which seemed to be aiming at the teen idol market, but failing miserably. The second single, "What Are  We Going to Do?" did make the very lowest regions of the Hot One Hundred, but the rest of the album was mostly attempts to sound a bit like Herman's Hermits -- a band whose lead singer, coincidentally, also came from Manchester, had appeared in Coronation Street, and was performing with a fake Cockney accent. Herman's Hermits had had a massive US hit with the old music hall song "I'm Henry VIII I Am": [Excerpt: Herman's Hermits, "I'm Henry VIII I Am"] So of course Davy had his own old music-hall song, "Any Old Iron": [Excerpt: Davy Jones, "Any Old Iron"] Also, the Turtles had recently had a hit with a folk-rock version of Dylan's "It Ain't Me Babe", and Davy cut his own version of their arrangement, in the one concession to rock music on the album: [Excerpt: Davy Jones, "It Ain't Me Babe"] The album was, unsurprisingly, completely unsuccessful, but Ward Sylvester was not disheartened. He had the perfect job for a young British teen idol who could sing and act. The Monkees was the brainchild of two young TV producers, Bob Rafelson and Bert Schneider, who had come up with the idea of doing a TV show very loosely based on the Beatles' film A Hard Day's Night (though Rafelson would later claim that he'd had the idea many years before A Hard Day's Night and was inspired by his youth touring with folk bands -- Schneider always admitted the true inspiration though). This was not a particularly original idea -- there were a whole bunch of people trying to make TV shows based in some way around bands. Jan and Dean were working on a possible TV series, there was talk of a TV series starring The Who, there was a Beatles cartoon series, Hanna-Barbera were working on a cartoon series about a band called The Bats, and there was even another show proposed to Screen Gems, Columbia's TV department, titled Liverpool USA, which was meant to star Davy Jones, another British performer, and two American musicians, and to have songs provided by Don Kirshner's songwriters. That The Monkees, rather than these other series, was the one that made it to the TV (though obviously the Beatles cartoon series did too) is largely because Rafelson and Schneider's independent production company, Raybert, which they had started after leaving Screen Gems, was given two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars to develop the series by their former colleague, Screen Gems' vice president in charge of programme development, the former child star Jackie Cooper. Of course, as well as being their former colleague, Cooper may have had some more incentive to give Bob Rafelson and Bert Schneider that money in that the head of Columbia Pictures, and thus Cooper's boss' boss, was one Abe Schneider. The original idea for the show was to use the Lovin' Spoonful, but as we heard last week they weren't too keen, and it was quickly decided instead that the production team would put together a group of performers. Davy Jones was immediately attached to the project, although Rafelson was uncomfortable with Jones, thinking he wasn't as rock and roll as Rafelson was hoping for -- he later conceded, though, that Jones was absolutely right for the group. As for everyone else, to start with Rafelson and Schneider placed an ad in a couple of the trade papers which read "Madness!! Auditions Folk and Roll Musicians-Singers for acting roles in new TV series. Running parts for 4 insane boys ages 17-21. Want spirited Ben Frank's types. Have courage to work. Must come down for interview" There were a couple of dogwhistles in there, to appeal to the hip crowd -- Ben Frank's was a twenty-four-hour restaurant on the Sunset Strip, where people including Frank Zappa and Jim Morrison used to hang out, and which was very much associated with the freak scene we've looked at in episodes on Zappa and the Byrds. Meanwhile "Must come down for interview" was meant to emphasise that you couldn't actually be high when you turned up -- but you were expected to be the kind of person who would at least at some points have been high. A lot of people answered that ad -- including Paul Williams, Harry Nilsson, Van Dyke Parks, and many more we'll be seeing along the way. But oddly, the only person actually signed up for the show because of that ad was Michael Nesmith -- who was already signed to Colpix Records anyway. According to Davy Jones, who was sitting in at the auditions, Schneider and Rafelson were deliberately trying to disorient the auditioners with provocative behaviour like just ignoring them, to see how they'd react. Nesmith was completely unfazed by this, and apparently walked in wearing a  green wool hat and carrying a bag of laundry, saying that he needed to get this over with quickly so he could go and do his washing. John London, who came along to the audition as well, talked later about seeing Nesmith fill in a questionnaire that everyone had to fill in -- in a space asking about previous experience Nesmith just wrote "Life" and drew a big diagonal line across the rest of the page. That attitude certainly comes across in Nesmith's screen test: [Excerpt: Michael Nesmith screen test] Meanwhile, Rafelson and Schneider were also scouring the clubs for performers who might be useful, and put together a shortlist of people including Jerry Yester and Chip Douglas of the Modern Folk Quartet, Bill Chadwick, who was in the Survivors with Nesmith and London, and one Micky Braddock, whose agent they got in touch with and who was soon signed up. Braddock was the stage name of Micky Dolenz, who soon reverted to his birth surname, and it's the name by which he went in his first bout of fame. Dolenz was the son of two moderately successful Hollywood actors, George Dolenz and Janelle Johnson, and their connections had led to Dolenz, as Braddock, getting the lead role in the 1958 TV series Circus Boy, about a child named Corky who works in a circus looking after an elephant after his parents, the Flying Falcons, were killed in a trapeze accident. [Excerpt: Circus Boy, "I can't play a drum"] Oddly, one of the other people who had been considered for that role was Paul Williams, who was also considered for the Monkees but ultimately turned down, and would later write one of the Monkees' last singles. Dolenz had had a few minor TV appearances after that series had ended, including a recurring role on Peyton Place, but he had also started to get interested in music. He'd performed a bit as a folk duo with his sister Coco, and had also been the lead singer of a band called Micky and the One-Nighters, who later changed their name to the Missing Links, who'd played mostly covers of Little Richard and Chuck Berry songs and later British Invasion hits. He'd also recorded two tracks with Wrecking Crew backing, although neither track got released until after his later fame -- "Don't Do It": [Excerpt: Micky Dolenz, "Don't Do It"] and "Huff Puff": [Excerpt: Micky Dolenz, "Huff Puff"] Dolenz had a great singing voice, an irrepressible personality, and plenty of TV experience. He was obviously in. Rafelson and Schneider took quite a while whittling down the shortlist to the final four, and they *were* still considering people who'd applied through the ads. One they actually offered the role to was Stephen Stills, but he decided not to take the role. When he turned the role down, they asked if he knew anyone else who had a similar appearance to him, and as it happened he did. Steve Stills and Peter Tork had known of each other before they actually met on the streets of Greenwich Village -- the way they both told the story, on their first meeting they'd each approached the other and said "You must be the guy everyone says looks like me!" The two had become fast friends, and had played around the Greenwich Village folk scene together for a while, before going their separate ways -- Stills moving to California while Tork joined another of those big folk ensembles of the New Christie Minstrels type, this one called the Phoenix Singers. Tork had later moved to California himself, and reconnected with his old friend, and they had performed together for a while in a trio called the Buffalo Fish, with Tork playing various instruments, singing, and doing comedy bits. Oddly, while Tork was the member of the Monkees with the most experience as a musician, he was the only one who hadn't made a record when the TV show was put together. But he was by far the most skilled instrumentalist of the group -- as distinct from best musician, a distinction Tork was always scrupulous about making -- and could play guitar, bass, and keyboards, all to a high standard -- and I've also seen him in more recent years play French horn live. His great love, though, was the banjo, and you can hear how he must have sounded on the Greenwich Village folk scene in his solo spots on Monkees shows, where he would show off his banjo skills: [Excerpt: Peter Tork, "Cripple Creek"] Tork wouldn't get to use his instrumental skills much at first though, as most of the backing tracks for the group's records were going to be performed by other people. More impressive for the TV series producers was his gift for comedy, especially physical comedy -- having seen Tork perform live a few times, the only comparison I can make to his physical presence is to Harpo Marx, which is about as high a compliment as one can give. Indeed, Micky Dolenz has often pointed out that while there were intentional parallels to the Beatles in the casting of the group, the Marx Brothers are a far better parallel, and it's certainly easy to see Tork as Harpo, Dolenz as Chico, Nesmith as Groucho, and Jones as Zeppo. (This sounds like an insult to Jones, unless you're aware of how much the Marx Brothers films actually depended on Zeppo as the connective tissue between the more outrageous brothers and the more normal environment they were operating in, and how much the later films suffered for the lack of Zeppo). The new cast worked well together, even though there were obvious disagreements between them right from the start. Dolenz, at least at this point, seems to have been the gel that held the four together -- he had the experience of being a child star in common with Jones, he was a habitue of the Sunset Strip clubs where Nesmith and Tork had been hanging out, and he had personality traits in common with all of them. Notably, in later years, Dolenz would do duo tours with each of his three bandmates without the participation of the others. The others, though, didn't get on so well with each other. Jones and Tork seem to have got on OK, but they were very different people -- Jones was a showbiz entertainer, whose primary concern was that none of the other stars of the show be better looking than him, while Tork was later self-diagnosed as neurodivergent, a folkie proto-hippie who wanted to drift from town to town playing his banjo. Tork and Nesmith had similar backgrounds and attitudes in some respects -- and were united in their desire to have more musical input into the show than was originally intended -- but they were such different personalities in every aspect of their lives from their religious views to their politics to their taste in music they came into conflict. Nesmith would later say of Tork "I never liked Peter, he never liked me. So we had an uneasy truce between the two of us. As clear as I could tell, among his peers he was very well liked. But we rarely had a civil word to say to each other". Nesmith also didn't get on well with Jones, both of them seeming to view themselves as the natural leader of the group, with all the clashes that entails. The four Monkees were assigned instruments for their characters based not on instrumental skill, but on what suited their roles better. Jones was the teen idol character, so he was made the maraca-playing frontman who could dance without having to play an instrument, though Dolenz took far more of the lead vocals. Nesmith was made the guitarist, while Tork was put on bass, though Tork was by far the better guitarist of the two. And Dolenz was put on drums, even though he didn't play the drums -- Tork would always say later that if the roles had been allocated by actual playing ability, Jones would have been the drummer. Dolenz did, though, become a good drummer, if a rather idiosyncratic one. Tork would later say "Micky played the drums but Mike kept time, on that one record we all made, Headquarters. Mike was the timekeeper. I don't know that Micky relied on him but Mike had a much stronger sense of time. And Davy too, Davy has a much stronger sense of time. Micky played the drums like they were a musical instrument, as a colour. He played the drum colour.... as a band, there was a drummer and there was a timekeeper and they were different people." But at first, while the group were practising their instruments so they could mime convincingly on the TV and make personal appearances, they didn't need to play on their records. Indeed, on the initial pilot, they didn't even sing -- the recordings had been made before the cast had been finalised: [Excerpt: Boyce & Hart, "Monkees Theme (pilot version)"] The music was instead performed by two songwriters, Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart, who would become hugely important in the Monkees project. Boyce and Hart were not the first choice for the project. Don Kirshner, the head of Screen Gems Music, had initially suggested Roger Atkins, a Brill Building songwriter working for his company, as the main songwriter for The Monkees. Atkins is best known for writing "It's My Life", a hit for the Animals: [Excerpt: The Animals, "It's My Life"] But Atkins didn't work out, though he would collaborate later on one song with Nesmith, and reading between the lines, it seems that there was some corporate infighting going on, though I've not seen it stated in so many words. There seems to have been a turf war between Don Kirshner, the head of Screen Gems' music publishing, who was based in the Brill Building, and Lester Sill, the West Coast executive we've seen so many times before, the mentor to Leiber and Stoller, Duane Eddy, and Phil Spector, who was now the head of Screen Gems music on the West Coast. It also seems to be the case that none of the top Brill Building songwriters were all that keen on being involved at this point -- writing songs for an unsold TV pilot wasn't exactly a plum gig. Sill ended up working closely with the TV people, and it seems to have been him who put forward Boyce and Hart, a songwriting team he was mentoring. Boyce and Hart had been working in the music industry for years, both together and separately, and had had some success, though they weren't one of the top-tier songwriting teams like Goffin and King. They'd both started as performers -- Boyce's first single, "Betty Jean", had come out in 1958: [Excerpt: Tommy Boyce, "Betty Jean"] And Hart's, "Love Whatcha Doin' to Me", under his birth name Robert Harshman, a year later: [Excerpt: Robert Harshman, "Love Whatcha Doin' to Me"] Boyce had been the first one to have real songwriting success, writing Fats Domino's top ten hit "Be My Guest" in 1959: [Excerpt: Fats Domino, "Be My Guest"] and cowriting two songs with singer Curtis Lee, both of which became singles produced by Phil Spector -- "Under the Moon of Love" and the top ten hit "Pretty Little Angel Eyes": [Excerpt: Curtis Lee, "Pretty Little Angel Eyes"] Boyce and Hart together, along with Wes Farrell, who had co-written "Twist and Shout" with Bert Berns, wrote "Lazy Elsie Molly" for Chubby Checker, and the number three hit "Come a Little Bit Closer" for Jay and the Americans: [Excerpt: Jay and the Americans, "Come a Little Bit Closer"] At this point they were both working in the Brill Building, but then Boyce moved to the West Coast, where he was paired with Steve Venet, the brother of Nik Venet, and they co-wrote and produced "Peaches and Cream" for the Ikettes: [Excerpt: The Ikettes, "Peaches and Cream"] Hart, meanwhile, was playing in the band of Teddy Randazzo, the accordion-playing singer who had appeared in The Girl Can't Help It, and with Randazzo and Bobby Weinstein he wrote "Hurts So Bad", which became a big hit for Little Anthony and the Imperials: [Excerpt: Little Anthony and the Imperials, "Hurts So Bad"] But Hart soon moved over to the West Coast, where he joined his old partner Boyce, who had been busy writing TV themes with Venet for shows like "Where the Action Is". Hart soon replaced Venet in the team, and the two soon wrote what would become undoubtedly their most famous piece of music ever, a theme tune that generations of TV viewers would grow to remember: [Excerpt: "Theme from Days of Our Lives"] Well, what did you *think* I meant? Yes, just as Davy Jones had starred in an early episode of Britain's longest-running soap opera, one that's still running today, so Boyce and Hart wrote the theme music for *America's* longest-running soap opera, which has been running every weekday since 1965, and has so far aired well in excess of fourteen thousand episodes. Meanwhile, Hart had started performing in a band called the Candy Store Prophets, with Larry Taylor  -- who we last saw with the Gamblers, playing on "LSD-25" and "Moon Dawg" -- on bass, Gerry McGee on guitar, and Billy Lewis on drums. It was this band that Boyce and Hart used -- augmented by session guitarists Wayne Erwin and Louie Shelton and Wrecking Crew percussionist Gene Estes on tambourine, plus Boyce and session singer Ron Hicklin on backing vocals, to record first the demos and then the actual tracks that would become the Monkees hits. They had a couple of songs already that would be suitable for the pilot episode, but they needed something that would be usable as a theme song for the TV show. Boyce and Hart's usual working method was to write off another hit -- they'd try to replicate the hook or the feel or the basic sound of something that was already popular. In this case, they took inspiration from the song "Catch Us If You Can", the theme from the film that was the Dave Clark Five's attempt at their own A Hard Day's Night: [Excerpt: The Dave Clark Five, "Catch Us If You Can"] Boyce and Hart turned that idea into what would become the Monkees theme. We heard their performance of it earlier of course, but when the TV show finally came out, it was rerecorded with Dolenz singing: [Excerpt: The Monkees, "Monkees Theme"] For a while, Boyce and Hart hoped that they would get to perform all the music for the TV show, and there was even apparently some vague talk of them being cast in it, but it was quickly decided that they would just be songwriters. Originally, the intent was that they wouldn't even produce the records, that instead the production would be done by a name producer. Micky Most, the Animals' producer, was sounded out for the role but wasn't interested. Snuff Garrett was brought in, but quickly discovered he didn't get on with the group at all -- in particular, they were all annoyed at the idea that Davy would be the sole lead vocalist, and the tracks Garrett cut with Davy on lead and the Wrecking Crew backing were scrapped. Instead, it was decided that Boyce and Hart would produce most of the tracks, initially with the help of the more experienced Jack Keller, and that they would only work with one Monkee at a time to minimise disruption -- usually Micky and sometimes Davy. These records would be made the same way as the demos had been, by the same set of musicians, just with one of the Monkees taking the lead. Meanwhile, as Nesmith was seriously interested in writing and production, and Rafelson and Schneider wanted to encourage the cast members, he was also assigned to write and produce songs for the show. Unlike Boyce and Hart, Nesmith wanted to use his bandmates' talents -- partly as a way of winning them over, as it was already becoming clear that the show would involve several competing factions. Nesmith's songs were mostly country-rock tracks that weren't considered suitable as singles, but they would be used on the TV show and as album tracks, and on Nesmith's songs Dolenz and Tork would sing backing vocals, and Tork would join the Wrecking Crew as an extra guitarist -- though he was well aware that his part on records like "Sweet Young Thing" wasn't strictly necessary when Glen Campbell, James Burton, Al Casey and Mike Deasy were also playing guitar: [Excerpt: The Monkees, "Sweet Young Thing"] That track was written by Nesmith with Goffin and King, and there seems to have been some effort to pair Nesmith, early on, with more commercial songwriters, though this soon fell by the wayside and Nesmith was allowed to keep making his own idiosyncratic records off to the side while Boyce and Hart got on with making the more commercial records. This was not, incidentally, something that most of the stars of the show objected to or even thought was a problem at the time. Tork was rather upset that he wasn't getting to have much involvement with the direction of the music, as he'd thought he was being employed as a musician, but Dolenz and Jones were actors first and foremost, while Nesmith was happily making his own tracks. They'd all known going in that most of the music for the show would be created by other people -- there were going to be two songs every episode, and there was no way that four people could write and record that much material themselves while also performing in a half-hour comedy show every week. Assuming, of course, that the show even aired. Initial audience response to the pilot was tepid at best, and it looked for a while like the show wasn't going to be green-lit. But Rafelson and Schneider -- and director James Frawley who played a crucial role in developing the show -- recut the pilot, cutting out one character altogether -- a manager who acted as an adult supervisor -- and adding in excerpts of the audition tapes, showing the real characters of some of the actors. As three of the four were playing characters loosely based on themselves -- Peter's "dummy" character wasn't anything like he was in real life, but was like the comedy character he'd developed in his folk-club performances -- this helped draw the audience in. It also, though, contributed to some line-blurring that became a problem. The re-edited pilot was a success, and the series sold. Indeed, the new format for the series was a unique one that had never been done on TV before -- it was a sitcom about four young men living together, without any older adult supervision, getting into improbable adventures, and with one or two semi-improvised "romps", inspired by silent slapstick, over which played original songs. This became strangely influential in British sitcom when the series came out over here  -- two of the most important sitcoms of the next couple of decades, The Goodies and The Young Ones, are very clearly influenced by the Monkees. And before the broadcast of the first episode, they were going to release a single to promote it. The song chosen as the first single was one Boyce and Hart had written, inspired by the Beatles. Specifically inspired by this: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Paperback Writer"] Hart heard that tag on the radio, and thought that the Beatles were singing "take the last train". When he heard the song again the next day and realised that the song had nothing to do with trains, he and Boyce sat down and wrote their own song inspired by his mishearing. "Last Train to Clarksville" is structured very, very, similarly to "Paperback Writer" -- both of them stay on one chord, a G7, for an eight-bar verse before changing to C7 for a chorus line -- the word "writer" for the Beatles, the "no no no" (inspired by the Beatles "yeah yeah yeah") for the Monkees. To show how close the parallels are, I've sped up the vocals from the Beatles track slightly to match the tempo with a karaoke backing track version of "Last Train to Clarksville" I found, and put the two together: [Excerpt: "Paperback Clarksville"] Lyrically, there was one inspiration I will talk about in a minute, but I think I've identified another inspiration that nobody has ever mentioned. The classic country song "Night Train to Memphis", co-written by Owen Bradley, and made famous by Roy Acuff, has some slight melodic similarity to "Last Train to Clarksville", and parallels the lyrics fairly closely -- "take the night train to Memphis" against "take the last train to Clarksville", both towns in Tennessee, and "when you arrive at the station, I'll be right there to meet you I'll be right there to greet you, So don't turn down my invitation" is clearly close to "and I'll meet you at the station, you can be here by 4:30 'cos I've made your reservation": [Excerpt: Roy Acuff, "Night Train to Memphis"] Interestingly, in May 1966, the same month that "Paperback Writer" was released, and so presumably the time that Hart heard the song on the radio for the first time, Rick Nelson, the teen idol formerly known as Ricky Nelson, who had started his own career as a performer in a sitcom, had released an album called Bright Lights and Country Music. He'd had a bit of a career downslump and was changing musical direction, and recording country songs. The last track on that album was a version of "Night Train to Memphis": [Excerpt: Rick Nelson, "Night Train to Memphis"] Now, I've never seen either Boyce or Hart ever mention even hearing that song, it's pure speculation on my part that there's any connection there at all, but I thought the similarity worth mentioning. The idea of the lyric, though, was to make a very mild statement about the Vietnam War. Clarksville was, as mentioned earlier, the site of Fort Campbell, a military training base, and they crafted a story about a young soldier being shipped off to war, calling his girlfriend to come and see him for one last night. This is left more-or-less ambiguous -- this was a song being written for a TV show intended for children, after all -- but it's still very clear on the line "and I don't know if I'm ever coming home". Now, Boyce and Hart were songwriters first and foremost, and as producers they were quite hands-off and would let the musicians shape the arrangements. They knew they wanted a guitar riff in the style of the Beatles' recent singles, and Louie Shelton came up with one based around the G7 chord that forms the basis of the song, starting with an octave leap: Shelton's riff became the hook that drove the record, and engineer Dave Hassinger added the final touch, manually raising the volume on the hi-hat mic for a fraction of a second every bar, creating a drum sound like a hissing steam brake: [Excerpt: The Monkees, "Last Train to Clarksville"] Now all that was needed was to get the lead vocals down. But Micky Dolenz was tired, and hungry, and overworked -- both Dolenz and Jones in their separate autobiographies talk about how it was normal for them to only get three hours' sleep a night between working twelve hour days filming the series, three-hour recording sessions, and publicity commitments. He got the verses down fine, but he just couldn't sing the middle eight. Boyce and Hart had written a complicated, multisyllabic, patter bridge, and he just couldn't get his tongue around that many syllables when he was that tired. He eventually asked if he could just sing "do do do" instead of the words, and the producers agreed. Surprisingly, it worked: [Excerpt: The Monkees, "Last Train to Clarksville"] "Last Train to Clarksville" was released in advance of the TV series, on a new label, Colgems, set up especially for the Monkees to replace Colpix, with a better distribution deal, and it went to number one. The TV show started out with mediocre ratings, but soon that too became a hit. And so did the first album released from the TV series. And that album was where some of the problems really started. The album itself was fine -- ten tracks produced by Boyce and Hart with the Candy Store Prophets playing and either Micky or Davy singing, mostly songs Boyce and Hart wrote, with a couple of numbers by Goffin and King and other Kirshner staff songwriters, plus two songs produced by Nesmith with the Wrecking Crew, and with token participation from Tork and Dolenz. The problem was the back cover, which gave little potted descriptions of each of them, with their height, eye colour, and so on. And under three of them it said "plays guitar and sings", while under Dolenz it said "plays drums and sings". Now this was technically accurate -- they all did play those instruments. They just didn't play them on the record, which was clearly the impression the cover was intended to give. Nesmith in particular was incandescent. He believed that people watching the TV show understood that the group weren't really performing that music, any more than Adam West was really fighting crime or William Shatner travelling through space. But crediting them on the record was, he felt, crossing a line into something close to con artistry. To make matters worse, success was bringing more people trying to have a say. Where before, the Monkees had been an irrelevance, left to a couple of B-list producer-songwriters on the West Coast, now they were a guaranteed hit factory, and every songwriter working for Kirshner wanted to write and produce for them -- which made sense because of the sheer quantity of material they needed for the TV show, but it made for a bigger, less democratic, organisation -- one in which Kirshner was suddenly in far more control. Suddenly as well as Boyce and Hart with the Candy Store Prophets and Nesmith with the Wrecking Crew, both of whom had been operating without much oversight from Kirshner, there were a bunch of tracks being cut on the East Coast by songwriting and production teams like Goffin and King, and Neil Sedaka and Carole Bayer. On the second Monkees album, released only a few months after the first, there were nine producers credited -- as well as Boyce, Hart, Jack Keller, and Nesmith, there were now also Goffin, King, Sedaka, Bayer, and Jeff Barry, who as well as cutting tracks on the east coast was also flying over to the West Coast, cutting more tracks with the Wrecking Crew, and producing vocal sessions while there. As well as producing songs he'd written himself, Barry was also supervising songs written by other people. One of those was a new songwriter he'd recently discovered and been co-producing for Bang Records, Neil Diamond, who had just had a big hit of his own with "Cherry Cherry": [Excerpt: Neil Diamond, "Cherry Cherry"] Diamond was signed with Screen Gems, and had written a song which Barry thought would be perfect for the Monkees, an uptempo song called "I'm a Believer", which he'd demoed with the regular Bang musicians -- top East Coast session players like Al Gorgoni, the guitarist who'd played on "The Sound of Silence": [Excerpt: Neil Diamond, "I'm a Believer"] Barry had cut a backing track for the Monkees using those same musicians, including Diamond on acoustic guitar, and brought it over to LA. And that track would indirectly lead to the first big crisis for the group. Barry, unlike Boyce and Hart, was interested in working with the whole group, and played all of them the backing track. Nesmith's reaction was a blunt "I'm a producer too, and that ain't no hit". He liked the song -- he wanted to have a go at producing a track on it himself, as it happened -- but he didn't think the backing track worked. Barry, trying to lighten the mood, joked that it wasn't finished and you needed to imagine it with strings and horns. Unfortunately, Nesmith didn't get that he was joking, and started talking about how that might indeed make a difference -- at which point everyone laughed and Nesmith took it badly -- his relationship with Barry quickly soured. Nesmith was getting increasingly dissatisfied with the way his songs and his productions were being sidelined, and was generally getting unhappy, and Tork was wanting more musical input too. They'd been talking with Rafelson and Schneider, who'd agreed that the group were now good enough on their instruments that they could start recording some tracks by themselves, an idea which Kirshner loathed. But for now they were recording Neil Diamond's song to Jeff Barry's backing track. Given that Nesmith liked the song, and given that he had some slight vocal resemblance to Diamond, the group suggested that Nesmith be given the lead vocal, and Kirshner and Barry agreed, although Kirshner at least apparently always intended for Dolenz to sing lead, and was just trying to pacify Nesmith. In the studio, Kirshner kept criticising Nesmith's vocal, and telling him he was doing it wrong, until eventually he stormed out, and Kirshner got what he wanted -- another Monkees hit with Micky Dolenz on lead, though this time it did at least have Jones and Tork on backing vocals: [Excerpt: The Monkees, "I'm a Believer"] That was released on November 23rd, 1966, as their second single, and became their second number one. And in January 1967, the group's second album, More of the Monkees, was released. That too went to number one. There was only one problem. The group weren't even told about the album coming out beforehand -- they had to buy their own copies from a record shop to even see what tracks were on it. Nesmith had his two tracks, but even Boyce and Hart were only given two, with the rest of the album being made up of tracks from the Brill Building songwriters Kirshner preferred. Lots of great Nesmith and Boyce and Hart tracks were left off the album in favour of some astonishingly weak material, including the two worst tracks the group ever recorded, "The Day We Fall in Love" and "Laugh", and a novelty song they found embarrassing, "Your Auntie Grizelda", included to give Tork a vocal spot. Nesmith called it "probably the worst album in the history of the world", though in truth seven of the twelve tracks are really very strong, though some of the other material is pretty poor. The group were also annoyed by the packaging. The liner notes were by Don Kirshner, and read to the group at least like a celebration of Kirshner himself as the one person responsible for everything on the record. Even the photo was an embarrassment -- the group had taken a series of photos in clothes from the department store J. C. Penney as part of an advertising campaign, and the group thought the clothes were ridiculous, but one of those photos was the one chosen for the cover. Nesmith and Tork made a decision, which the other two agreed to with varying degrees of willingness. They'd been fine miming to other people's records when it was clearly just for a TV show. But if they were being promoted as a real band, and having to go on tour promoting albums credited to them, they were going to *be* a real band, and take some responsibility for the music that was being put out in their name.  With the support of Rafelson and Schneider, they started making preparations to do just that. But Don Kirshner had other ideas, and told them so in no uncertain terms. As far as he was concerned, they were a bunch of ungrateful, spoiled, kids who were very happy cashing the ridiculously large cheques they were getting, but now wanted to kill the goose that laid the golden egg. They were going to keep doing what they were told. Things came to a head in a business meeting in January 1967, when Nesmith gave an ultimatum. Either the group got to start playing on their own records, or he was quitting. Herb Moelis, Kirshner's lawyer, told Nesmith that he should read his contract more carefully, at which point Nesmith got up, punched a hole in the wall of the hotel suite they were in, and told Moelis "That could have been your face". So as 1967 began, the group were at a turning point. Would they be able to cut the puppet strings, or would they have to keep living a lie? We'll find out in a few weeks' time...

Universal International Studios' Beatrice Springborn on her upcoming slate, relationship with Peacock and approach to global partnerships; Amazon Studios' Georgia Brown on her content strategy for the year ahead; and Discovery's Myriam Lopez-Otazu, Simon Downing and Clare Laycock on the nuances of programming for their linear networks and Discovery+.

We can't show you the way to the next whiskey bar but we can show you this episode of Bowie Me! We talk about the German opera song written by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, and famously recorded by The Doors, and also David Bowie, "Alabama Song"! Covers by: Georgia Brown, The Doors, David Bowie, Long Tall Texans, Todd Rundgren with Geoff Downes and Zoot Horn Rollo, The Talltones Spotify playlist here

I pray the love of Jesus covers you like SNOW today! & welcome back to another episode of Faith & Friends! I am so pumped, this week-- we are getting to chat about my NEW SINGLE, and FIRST EVER ORIGINAL CHRISTMAS SONG...SNOW! Who doesn't like snow?! IDK about you, but I'm dreaming of a WHITE CHRISTMAS. This episode we will dive into the lyrics, and the scripture behind this tune. I pray it touches your heart this Christmas season. I would absolutely be honored if you'd download this song wherever you listen to music!APPLE, SPOTIFY, AMAZON, & here's the YOUTUBE LYRIC VIDEO! I love you so much friend. Thanks for listening! See ya next week---GB

Join Georgia Brown for an episode of the This Day Podcast as we talk about following God's calling on each of our lives. How do we navigate the everyday giants that come with pursuing and a call? 

Anyone who has ever listened to Georgia Brown speak knows that she is a woman who spouts pure joy. On today's episode, Cam and Georgia have an encouraging conversation on the faithfulness and abundance of God, as well as finding the joy in every season of your journey. Tune in to listen to topics ranging from some light-hearted coffee convos, to leading worship, patience, prayer closets, and discovering the joy that the Lord wants to bring to your life!

Welcome to a VERY SPECIAL episode of Faith & Friends! This week we are diving into the story, scripture, and song that makes up our new tune-- "Hey Little Birdie"!!! I am so grateful to share a little piece of my heart with you and how God truly allowed His scripture of Matthew 6: 26-34 to come to life through His creation of the birds, during the crazy season of 2020. I pray this song & our time together today brings you PEACE in knowing that if He takes care of the birds--HOW MUCH MORE will He take care of YOU, His beloved CHILD!! "Hey Little Birdie" is available for streaming everywhere you listen to music! It is also available for download on the iTunes Store for $0.99! :)OH! FRIEND! & make sure to check out the "Hey Little Birdie" collection with Joyful Pine!! https://joyfulpine.com We pray these fun items point you back to Him!!! Love you SOOO MUCH. GO & sing the song He's placed on your heart this week! God is on your side!!! See you next week! -GB

The Newswrap is back following summer recess and joined by Edinburgh 2021 advisory chair Georgia Brown to reflect on what will hopefully be the last virtual Edinburgh for a while. Georgia talks preparation, diversity and the streaming presence before the team are on hand to further dissect an energising festival, which focused on Channel 4 privatisation and disability.  All that, plus Max, John and Hannah's “commission of the fest”, on this week's Broadcast Newswrap.

My very best friend, Georgia Brown, has just graduated college and is joining us today to relate, share advice, and deeply encourage us in how to make the most of the college season for the glory of God. We are discussing how to respond to the fears of college, the importance of getting plugged in to a local church, and navigating the desire to date. We both love y'all tremendously and pray that this conversation equips you in truth and refreshes you as you step into this fall semester!

0224 – Tone And Emotion“We often refuse to accept an ideamerely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.”Friedrich Nietzsche - German philosopher The right words alone won't necessarily persuade. The tone of your voice matters too if your listeners are to believe what it is you are telling them. Some people use the term ‘tone' when they mean ‘pitch'. Again, this can be confusing, as the English phrase ‘tone of voice' means something quite different, and usually it is derogative.[1] However a ‘tone' can actually be a useful way to talk about an vocal ‘attitude' in a presentation, perhaps an ‘authoritative tone' or one that is ‘snarky', ‘business-like' or even ‘girl-next-door'. Most people can pretend to have a certain tone when needed – when sending the children to bed for instance! It may also refer to an age: ‘an older tone', ‘the tone of a schoolboy'. So you can see why it is important to distinguish between ‘tone' and ‘pitch' as two different vocal describers?[2] Listeners may pick up a tone in your voice that you don't mean to be there: almost imperceptible changes will be made to your sound if you have an underlying emotion, perhaps something going on in your personal life. After all, how often have you perhaps spoken to a friend on the phone and after a few moments said “Are you OK? You sound a bit different…” “How are you?” – the tone of this simple question can be altered to mean several things: a bright greeting for which no response is anticipated, a genuine health enquiry of someone's maybe after a bereavement, a reciprocal personal request as part of a conversation.[3] So, if ‘pitch' is the register of the voice, high and low, then ‘tone' has more to do with the emotion of the voice – whatever the pitch is. So you could in-tone a serious emotion in reporting on a disaster or concern for a missing child, happiness when reporting a pleasant weather forecast, elation when reading a commercial about a great sale, and humour when telling of some harmless mistake or incident. Tone can have a huge impact on how your listeners feel about you, and what they think of what you're telling them. If there is a disconnect between the words and the tone – for example if you say “I'm really passionate about this…” but in a disinterested voice – it could be the difference between someone thinking “Wow, they're trustworthy!” to “Wow! What a tosser”. [1] “Don't take that tone with me…” or “I don't like your tone of voice…” is sometimes said to a person who is talking in a disrespectful or condescending way, when the listener believes they should be spoken to more respectfully. [2] A ‘tone' in musicality may mean something a bit different, referring more to the bass or treble of a sound.[3] Adapted from “Making Radio” Steve Ahern and Georgia Brown, Allen and Unwin, 2006Audio recording script and show notes (c) 2021 Peter StewartThrough these around-5-minute episodes, you can build your confidence and competence with advice on breathing and reading, inflection and projection, the roles played by better scripting and better sitting, mic techniques and voice care tips... with exercises and anecdotes from a career spent in TV and radio studios. If you're wondering about how to start a podcast, or have had one for a while - download every episode!And as themes develop over the weeks (that is, they are not random topics day-by-day), this is a free, course to help you GET A BETTER BROADCAST, PODCAST AND VIDEO VOICE.Look out for more details of the book during 2021.Contacts: https://linktr.ee/Peter_StewartPeter has been around voice and audio all his working life and has trained hundreds of broadcasters in all styles of radio from pop music stations such as Capital FM and BBC Radio 1 to Heart FM, the classical music station BBC Radio 3 and regional BBC stations. He's trained news presenters on regional TV, the BBC News Channel and on flagship programmes such as the BBC's Panorama. Other trainees have been music presenters, breakfast show hosts, travel news presenters and voice-over artists.He has written a number of books on audio and video presentation and production (“Essential Radio Journalism”, “JournoLists”, two editions of “Essential Radio Skills” and three editions of “Broadcast Journalism”) and has written on voice and presentation skills in the BBC's in-house newspaper “Ariel”.Peter has presented hundreds of radio shows (you may have heard him on BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 4, Virgin Radio or Kiss, as well as BBC regional radio) with formats as diverse as music-presentation, interview shows, ‘special' programmes for elections and budgets, live outside broadcasts and commentaries and even the occasional sports, gardening and dedication programmes. He has read several thousand news bulletins, and hosted nearly 2,000 podcast episodes, and is a vocal image consultant advising in all aspects of voice and speech training for presenters on radio and TV, podcasts and YouTube, voiceovers and videocalls.The podcast title refers to those who may wish to change their speaking voice in some way. It is not a suggestion that anyone should, or be pressured into needing to. We love accents and dialects, and are well aware that how we speak changes over time. The key is: is your voice successfully communicating your message, so it is being understood (and potentially being acted upon) by your target audience?This podcast is London-based and examples are spoken in the RP (Received Pronunciation) / standard-English / BBC English pronunciation, although invariably applicable to other languages, accents and dialects.Music credits:"Bleeping Demo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/7012-bleeping-demoLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license"Beauty Flow" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5025-beauty-flowLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license"Envision" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4706-envisionLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license"Limit 70" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5710-limit-70License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license"Rising Tide" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5027-rising-tideLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license"Wholesome" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5050-wholesomeLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

WELCOME BACK to Faith & Friends! I couldn't be happier that we are back together. I have missed hanging out with you! Your life, story, & sweet heart are SO IMPORTANT to ME! Going forward, Faith & Friends will be founded on three things: Scripture, Stories, and SONGS! These three things have a special place in my heart and I'm so grateful to share these passions with YOU! Today, with the launch of SEASON THREE--I'm going to share a brief recap of HOW WE GOT HERE! & then, we're gonna talk about some applicable things to do when your JOY TANK is on EMPTY! 1 Peter 5:7, "Cast all your anxieties on Him, He cares for you." I pray my story encourages you that you're not alone, friend. I love you SO MUCH. Your voice is important!! Let's stay in touch, okay? :) -GB@iamgeorgiabrown@faithandfriendsyoutube

The first bar Georgia Brown worked behind was Petersfield's Charles St Tap Bar, learning cocktail making while she was at college. Since then, she's refined her techniques, bought her own kit and is in high demand from family and friends.  She mixes up a French martini for Simon Stanley and Kate Fairweather.  Enjoy!  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Georgia Brown and I continue our chat about sexual sin! I pray this encourages and challenges you, friend!

Hey friends! Happy Spending Time with God Month! Join me as I talk about why we need to spend time with God, what it means to abide, ways to spend time with Him, and much more! Verses I used: John 15:4 Psalms 1:2-3 Ephesians 6:13-17 Galatians 5:22-23 John 3:16 (good verse to start memorizing, if you haven't already) Romans 15:13 Philippians 4:6-7 Psalm 139: 23-24 Also, go read Psalms 100 to see an example of a psalmist praising God for who He is. Need a couple playlist ideas? Check out: - A chill Christian music playlist (mostly no words) by 'bernice': https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1NUPGIlwjBf6gf0vaBVQYZ?si=761b869c86f44359 - My worship music playlist (a ton of my favorites in one place): https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2vKC1o0YIMKnbSWCfrcx1h?si=361adca1b65f4e56 Want more ideas? DM me on Instagram and I'll hook you up with some more awesome playlists! Want to memorize the Fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23)? Listen to Georgia Brown's song, "On This Side of Heaven," here: https://open.spotify.com/album/0JbkwP2sr6doitSTxKENey Go follow @thechristiangirlstea on Instagram to stay updated with new posts, themes, videos, music, and more! Thanks for hanging out! See you soon:) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-christian-girls-tea/message

Our first guest, Georgia Brown and I chat about sexual sin! I pray this encourages and challenges you, friend!

Hvordan er det at blive klippet igen? Er du glad for at komme i skole? Og hvad er det bedste ved at fitness åbner? Spørgsmålene er stillet igen og igen, senest ved denne uges corona-genåbninger. Tidligere TV Avis-vært Reimer Bo Christensen kalder resultatet "floskler og forudsigelige banaliteter", og han diskuterer dækningen med DR-redaktionschef Marie Buss. Rocker-far: Det gav genlyd, da Nynne Sass Larsen mandag fortalte om sine oplevelser, da B.T. og Ekstra Bladet i 2011 skrev om hendes fars - tidligere S-toppolitiker Henrik Sass Larsen - relationer med rockere. Men kritikken blev afvist, og måske er der ingen grænse for, hvad politikere og deres børn skal finde sig i? Nye normer: Efter måneders sexisme- og MeToo-debat er flere medier i gang med konkrete forandringer. "En chef skal ikke gå med på bar og lande i en syvhestes brandert", lyder det blandt andet i en kortlægning - En chef skal ikke gå med på bar og lande i en brandert (pov.international) -som journalist og tidligere chefredaktør på Ekstra Bladet Karen Bro har lavet. Mere streaming: Kun to procent er ser jævnligt film og serier på Amazon Prime. Men det skal der laves om på; et offensivt indtog på det skandinaviske marked er i støbeskeen, fortalte Georgia Brown fra den amerikanske streaminggigant på konferencen Nordiske Mediedage torsdag. Skriv til menneskerogmedier@dr.dk. Vært og producent: Kurt Strand.

Dear listeners, it is Easter Sunday. While we are strictly non-sectarian at Countermelody, I did want to offer a program of spring favorites to welcome in the earth’s rebirth. (I also had to scramble to create a “filler” episode due to having lost two days of work this week after receiving my first jab on Wednesday.) Hence today’s offering: a Blumenstrauss of songs celebrating the beloved season of spring. I decided to limit today’s selections exclusively to song, omitting opera, operetta, and oratorio, but somewhat arbitrarily including songs from musicals amidst the classical and pop offerings. Even so, what a lineup of stars today: everyone from Mabel Mercer to Jan DeGaetani, from Hans Hotter to Dionne Warwick, from Georgia Brown to Roberta Alexander, from Kirsten Flagstad to Gordon MacRae. We hear composers ranging from Alec Wilder to Franz Schubert, from Milton Babbitt to Burt Bacharach, and from Hugo Wolf to Tom Lehrer. May these songs and songsters help us to welcome in the long-awaited spring! Countermelody is a podcast devoted to the glory and the power of the human voice raised in song. Singer and vocal aficionado Daniel Gundlach explores great singers of the past and present focusing in particular on those who are less well-remembered today than they should be. Daniel’s lifetime in music as a professional countertenor, pianist, vocal coach, voice teacher, and journalist yields an exciting array of anecdotes, impressions, and “inside stories.” Occasional guests from the “business” (singers, conductors, composers, coaches, and teachers) lend their distinctive insights. At Countermelody’s core is the interaction between singers of all stripes, their instruments, and the connection they make to the words they sing. At Countermelody’s core is the interaction between singers of all stripes, their instruments, and the connection they make to the words they sing. Please visit the Countermelody website (www.countermelodypodcast.com) for additional content including artist photos and episode setlists. And please head to my Patreon page at www.patreon.com/countermelody to pledge your monthly support at whatever level you can afford. Bonus episodes available only to Patreon supporters are currently available.

Updates on Alberta's art galleries (Provincial/Commercial designation differences) with a focus on Edmonton's local commercial gallery, Scott Gallery on 124th street. Produced by Jordan Rule. Featuring the song Georgia Brown by Ben Bernie Orchestra, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1925_(USA)_Archives_1925_03_19_Ben_Bernie_Orchestra_-_Sweet_Georgia_Brown.mp3

Getting to have a conversation with my very best friend is always a treasure, but today is extra special because I am getting to share one of our conversations with you! My sister pal, Georgia Brown, is joining me on the podcast today, talking about what she has learned from prioritizing time alone with God each day. She will share with us how spending time in God's Word and in prayer at the start of each day has made such a difference in her life. Before doing anything publically, she meets with her Maker secretly and it has impacted her journey for the better. I am always blessed to hear her heart for God and am thankful you get to hear her heart today too!

If you love food, encouragement, joy, and truth, this episode is for YOU! Nicole Renard, Nicole the Nomad on all social platforms, shares her journey with us from her eating disorder, to discovering God in the details, and learning to trust Him in her weakness! We pray this episode meets you right where you are today! As Nicole would say, let's not just talk about it, lets actually go #DoStuff! To learn more about Nicole, check out https://nicolethenomad.com! She would also love to connect with you on social media @nicole_thenomad. I'll see you next week for another episode of encouragement! Love you always, friend! -Georgia Brown

Story: In der psychiatrischen Klinik von Doktor Tremayne verwischen die Grenzen zwischen Wahnsinn und Wirklichkeit auf erschreckende Weise. Tremayne „weiß“ um die meist blutigen Geheimnisse seiner vier besonders zu beobachtenden Patienten und schildert deren Geschichten dem eben eingetroffenen Klinik-Inspekteur. Da ist das zähnefletschende Trauma eines kleinen Jungen: ein Tiger, der dessen ewig streitende Eltern schließlich zerfetzt und sehr reale Spuren seines blutigen Tuns hinterlässt. Und da ist der seltsame Tod von Onkel Albert, dessen Blicke aus dem vergilbten Rahmen Feuer, Tod und Zeit zu bestimmen scheinen. Oder die Geschichte von Brian: Er liebt einen morschen alten Baum voller Geheimnisse mehr als seine attraktive Frau. Und schließlich Kimo: Der Hawaiianer zelebriert in aller Öffentlichkeit ein menschliches Blutopfer …

Join Georgia as she chats about her newest single, "Dear Eve" with her co-writer, Jeff Silvey. Jeff Silvey has had many cuts over the years from The Martins, The Gaithers, George Strait, and now...GEORGIA BROWN! This episode highlights the magical day of writing "Dear Eve", Jeff's fruitful career, and fun stories in between! You can listen to, "Dear Eve" wherever you stream music!

HEY HEY SISTERS! Its time for another RELATIONSHIP SERIES with the Tell me bout it pod! This year we are separating each stage and season of relationships into a 3 part series: SINGLE, DATING/ENGAGED, AND MARRIED! AH! AND we are treating you to a special guest with each episode! Today, welcome back little miss GEORGIA BROWN to the pod as we talk singleness, identity in Christ, priorities in life, and so much more! Make sure to follow her at @iamgeorgiabrown and subscribe to her pod FAITH AND FRIENDS! Find, subscribe, listen, and rate our podcasts all here: Click here to listen on Apple Podcasts Click here to listen on Spotify Click here to listen on Anchor Click here to listen on Google Podcasts --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Ever seen the movie war room?Georgia Brown is a college Senior who daily hangs out in her closet with Jesus and it has changed her life.Her identity was built around boys and popularity, she moved 9 hours from home for college to pursue her dream of songwriting and found a new identity birthed in prayer. Books we mention:Redeeming loveCircle MakerGet out of your head Georiga Brown on InstagramGeorgia's Podcast, Faith and Friends

Georgia Brown is a lover of Jesus and people. Born and raised in Arkansas, Georgia now calls Music City, home. A senior at Middle Tennessee State University, studying the Recording Industry, Georgia's prayer is to be a light for the Gospel in and out of the classroom as well as on and off the screen. Georgia loves hosting her podcast, "Faith and Friends", smiling, hiking, and reading books while a warm mug of coffee holds her hand.

Our sister in Christ Gabrielle Odom posted this phrase on her Instagram story^ and I just knew there was a convo there that NEEDED to be shared! So welcome to this weeks podcast episode!!! @helloitsbrie inspires me. 18 years young, and in the class of 2020, Our Sweet G girl holds the Gospel so close to her heart and walks with the Father in the cool of the morning. It's evident Gabrielle's HOPE is in CHRIST. I was personally oh so inspired by this conversation, and I pray you are left refreshed and excited to navigate the next half of 2020! We are praying for you and overjoyed we get to share this side of eternity with YOU! -Georgia Brown

We are SOOOO excited to introduce you to two of the sweetest girls on the planet - Emma Mae Jenkins and Georgia Brown. They are both from Arkansas, love Jesus with their whole hearts, and happen to be total besties! You will be so encouraged by their support of one another and the advice they have for you to honor Jesus in your friendships in this season of life!

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HEY FRIENDS! Here is a *SURPRISE EPISODE* this week! Faith & Friends usually has new episodes every other week, but with the wild world we are living in right now Georgia wants to hangout with YOU! We are about HALFWAY THROUGH Season One of F&F and Georgia can't wait to spend a few moments re-caping the current season and spread some light during this interesting time! Don't forget... we're all in this together! Make sure to follow her Instagram, @iamgeorgiabrown for more!

This week will make you grin ear to ear. Georgia Brown is joining Rachel for conversation all about what to do when you feel stuck in your relationship with Jesus. What are some practical ways you can set in place to learn from Him and hear Him. We also hear from this college student what it looks like to find community in a new place and why it’s needed in any walk of life. She is a amazing example of what abundant life looks like when we seek Jesus every day. Georgia shares all about her prayer closet covered in notecard prayers, how Jesus has changed her life and encourages listeners, of every age, to seek that fullness of joy we often hear about. Show notes: behindtheblisspodcast.com/shownotes/89 BTB Instagram: instagram.com/behindtheblisspodcast Georgia on Instagram: instagram.com/iamgeorgiabrown Become a patron at patreon.com/behindtheblisspodcast

Happy February! And welcome back to another episode of Faith & Friends! In a world that focuses on heart shaped chocolate boxes and your current relationship status, we are going to dive into February, CELEBRATING SINGLENESS! No we don't have two perfect experts here, just two pals in their twenties, both letting Jesus lead their love life. I hope you are encouraged by Matt and Georgia's stories of being broken and re-built in JESUS. There is so much truth in this episode...you might want to grab a pen & paper!

Welcome back to another episode of FAITH & FRIENDS! This week we are diving right into the raw, real, and redeeming stories of one of my mentors and sweet friends, Sierra Jo Dominguez! Sierra lives a life of always choosing joy, speaking life, and marches on. With her sweet 7 kids under 9 years old, she has her hands full, but her heart is so much more full. So what ever you're doing today, I hope you can just soak up the truth and sweet transparency of our conversation!!

Welcome back to Faith & Friends! I am truly excited for y'all to meet my pal Caziah Franklin. This man of God is truly a gift in my life and is a blessing to everyone he meets! His wisdom and heart are inspiring. I hope you enjoy our conversation about everything from how we met, to college and journaling, to why we do what we do! Make sure to follow him on Instagram @caziahfranklin !

Highlights from the top commissioning panels from this year’s Edinburgh Television Festival. https://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/media-business-podcast-7-edinburgh-tv-festival-2019-meet-the-commissioners/5142464.article

A physiologist and former British Olympian has unveiled a blueprint for what he describes as the world's ultimate superhuman. It includes the acceleration of Usain Bold's legs (whose fast-twitch muscle fibers can accelerate faster than 99.9% of people), the lungs of British rower Steve Redgrave (whose seven-liter capacity means he can take in a third more oxygen than the average person), the brain of “human calculator” Scott Flansburg (who can add numbers faster than a real calculator), the vision of Veronica Seider (able to distinguish detail from up to a mile away, her sight is 20 times better than the average human), the ears of Daniel Kish (able to navigate his environment by measuring the echo response of clicks made by his tongue), and the voice of Georgia Brown (whose vocal range spans 8 octaves). Well, God is assembling a body greater than that right here – the superhuman body of Christ! A body that has been gifted with such things (as we talked about last week) as: miraculous powers, prophecy, mountain-moving faith, healing power, life-giving mercy, and wisdom from another world. And if you are a follower of Jesus, you are part of that superhuman body. Click here to download the sermon outline

A physiologist and former British Olympian has unveiled a blueprint for what he describes as the world's ultimate superhuman. It includes the acceleration of Usain Bold's legs (whose fast-twitch muscle fibers can accelerate faster than 99.9% of people), the lungs of British rower Steve Redgrave (whose seven-liter capacity means he can take in a third more oxygen than the average person), the brain of “human calculator” Scott Flansburg (who can add numbers faster than a real calculator), the vision of Veronica Seider (able to distinguish detail from up to a mile away, her sight is 20 times better than the average human), the ears of Daniel Kish (able to navigate his environment by measuring the echo response of clicks made by his tongue), and the voice of Georgia Brown (whose vocal range spans 8 octaves). Well, God is assembling a body greater than that right here – the superhuman body of Christ! A body that has been gifted with such things (as we talked about last week) as: miraculous powers, prophecy, mountain-moving faith, healing power, life-giving mercy, and wisdom from another world. And if you are a follower of Jesus, you are part of that superhuman body. Click here to download the sermon outline

A Fort Worth teacher was fired because she tweeted President Trump about the illegal immigrants in her school and how the school and police were doing nothing about the drugs coming into the school as a result. Georgia Brown has a terrific case against the school district on violating her first amendment rights. Sheriff's deputy Scot Petersen was arrested on his failure to act during the Parkland shooting last year, and Carlso Maza from Vox is a giant crybaby --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Talking about the importance of a women choosing what she would like to do with her body.

As the foodservice industry becomes more competitive, the customer’s experience is crucial to stay ahead of the competition, retain customers, and grow your business. A head of lettuce is a head of lettuce. How you deliver that head of lettuce matters. In this brief 3 min podcast, Georgia Brown speaks with Steve Sager, President and CEO of ExtenData, MobileConductor’s creators.

A breast cancer diagnosis is the start of an incredibly difficult period for a woman (or man) and her family. One important way for her to emotionally manage her diagnosis is to be surrounded by a strong support system. A strong support group can help her feel cared for, supported, loved, and spiritually nurtured during this difficult, vulnerable time. Not surprisingly, Ms. Brown’s high school students “pinked out” to show their support. This “Pink Podcast” episode talks with breast cancer survivor, Georgia Brown, who was diagnosed in 2017. Georgia shares her personal story of struggle, survival, and the compassion and strength of friends, family, and her faith. Georgia graduated from St. Andrew’s Episcopal School and subsequently earned a Bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Southern Mississippi and a Master’s in the same discipline from Mississippi College. Georgia has been a writer and editor for several magazines throughout the South, but her true calling has been teaching English and Spanish at the high school level. In January of 2017, Georgia was diagnosed with stage II invasive ductal carcinoma and although she faced chemotherapy, surgery and radiation, she remained in the classroom at Jackson Academy throughout her yearlong battle. Upon completing her treatments, she took on a new challenge in August 2018 when she accepted a position as 10th and 11th grade English instructor at Presbyterian Christian School in Hattiesburg where she teaches European and American literature. Georgia relishes any opportunity to speak to the media, support groups, Bible studies and participate in podcasts to share her story. And, at the request of one of her physicians in Houston, she served as web content advisor for M.D. Anderson’s Radiation Oncology Department at the Nellie Connally Breast Center to improve patients’ online experience. Georgia soon hopes to write a devotional book for women facing a cancer diagnosis and is in talks with her minister to establish a Stephen ministry at St. Luke’s United Methodist Church in the Fondren area of Jackson, MS.

Michael Pickard, editor C21's Drama Quarterly, offers a look ahead to the Drama Series days at the Berlin International Film Festival, while Amazon head of European originals Georgia Brown discusses the company's approach to the region, and David Farr, writer of new Amazon drama Hanna – premiering at Berlinale – reflects on the show together with lead director Sarah Adina Smith.

In this episode of The Cerner Podcast, we’re joined by Georgia Brown, a solution executive with analytics and community care at Cerner. Georgia has over 20 years of experience developing, growing and aligning organizations, and has recently joined Cerner to support the Long-Term and Post-Acute Care (LTPAC) organization.

No matter how many times I sit down with Filmmaker Henry Jaglom, he’s always got a slew of new and stupendous stories to tell. This time he shared more than a few which he said he’s never told before, and they’re doozies. Raised by sophisticated, successful parents, Henry’s mother encouraged his love of theatre, nurturing his creative, empathetic nature, in contrast to his father’s keen business acumen. Showbiz called. First as a comedian with his pal, Ritchie Pryor, then as an actor (Gidget, The Flying Nun). He gave up comedy when Richard was funnier and acting when his friend________ scored the part he was up for. I can’t ruin it… it’s too good. He was asked by Bert Schneider to do an edit on Easy Rider. How that came to be, and who his editing partner was, is, well, great stuff. There are girlfriends Georgia Brown, Karen Black, Brenda Vaccaro, Tuesday Weld, Natalie Wood… a first told story about his meeting Dudley Moore and then introducing him to Tuesday. Meeting Orson Wells. How their friendship began, the films they did together, the meals they shared for years, recently transcribed in Henry’s, My Lunches with Orson. There’s Peter Bogdanovich, Paul Mazursky, Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Jessica Walter, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson, Bob Rafelson, Hal Prince, the impactful director, whose name slipped for the moment… winning an Oscar, producing anti-war shows with Jane Fonda, painting the sign for the Original Improv, sketching his friends before they were famous, and now getting a book deal for that art. His films, 21 of them. With a dream for 4 more, he explains why. And a book, 19 years in the writing, with an offer, made to anyone who comes up with the perfect title. If you love movies, and who doesn’t… and the people who make them, this time with Henry will thrill. 

 Henry Jaglom​ on The Road Taken, Celebrity Maps to Success Wed, 3/28/18, 7 pm PT/ 10 pm ET With Christinna Guzman Live on the Facebook Full show replay here: https://bit.ly/2qiEqdM All BROADcasts, as podcasts, also available on iTunes apple.co/2dj8ld3 Soundcloud http://bit.ly/2hktWoS Stitcher bit.ly/2h3R1fl tunein bit.ly/2gGeItj This week's BROADcast is brought to you by Rick Smolke​ of Quik Impressions​, the best printers, printing, the best people people-ing. quikimpressions.com And, Nicole Venables of Ruby Begonia Hair Studio Beauty and Products​ for tresses like the stars she coifs, and regular peoples, like me. I love my hair, and I loves Nicole. http://www.rubybegoniahairstudio.com/

A group of UK broadcasters claim Theresa May is avoiding doing interviews with them, an allegation her press chief denies. What is the Prime Minister's media strategy? Amol Rajan is joined by Katy Balls of The Spectator and Stefanie Bolzen from Die Welt. Also in the show, Rob Stringer, CEO Sony Music and Georgia Brown, Director of European Originals for Amazon's Prime Video service. Presenter: Amol Rajan Producer: Richard Hooper

I don't even know where to start... Henry Jaglom has lived a life beyond my imagination. He's shared intimate relationships with Orson Welles, Jack Nicholson, Bob Rafelson, Bert Schneider, Natalie Wood, Georgia Brown, Tuesday Weld, Peter Bogdanovich, and those are just a few he spoke of here. Who suggested Davy Jones for The Monkees, helped edit Easy Rider, directed Orson's last filmed performance, got Nicholson, already a star, in his own first film... Henry did. Actor (Gidget, to name one) stand up comic, partnered with Richard Pryor, or Ritchie, as he calls him, playwright, screenwriter, author, filmmaker, artist... with stories around each. One better than the next... to his current passion projects, Train to Zakopane, which will have its theatrical release in May and, his upcoming memoir… The Third Stone on the Second Row, A Family Memoir, And A Brief History of the Jewish People. Henry is a fascinating, prolific man, who has spent his life and his career celebrating women. His films revolve around them. Us. He even cast me in a couple of them. Fiercely intelligent, passionate, volatile, empathetic, compassionate, tender-hearted, and intense, this time with Henry was fascinating, fun, and topped with the best cherry. As we were readying to wrap, Louise shared the news which was blowing up my iPhone while we were filming. My daughter, Samantha, whose highest dream is to perform on Broadway, lived it, as we shot. She was chosen to sing the song of her choice from Waitress, and, with the band, cast, and audience bearing witness, she made her Broadway debut, and killed it! Is there a greater gift for a mother? I got to share her performance with Henry and Louise who hooted, cheered and cried with me. Or, maybe I cried enough for all of us. https://bit.ly/2E3JJlu Apologies for the delayed start for those with us Live, and the inexplicable lack of crisp focus of the video. It was clear as glass through the lens. We're unsure if it was a Facebook issue, as they altered the Live platform this week, or if it was a connection issue. Although, neither was evident in the short promo we shot just prior. Alas, Henry's words rise above the glitches. Rich, easy, listening. Henry Jaglom​ on The Road Taken, Celebrity Maps to Success Wed, 3/28/18, 7 pm PT/ 10 pm ET With Louise Palanker Live on the Facebook https://bit.ly/2Gm6AuV All BROADcasts, as podcasts, also available on iTunes apple.co/2dj8ld3 Stitcher bit.ly/2h3R1fl tunein bit.ly/2gGeItj This week's BROADcast is brought to you by Rick Smolke​ of Quik Impressions​, the best printers, printing, the best people people-ing. quikimpressions.com And, Nicole Venables of Ruby Begonia Hair Studio Beauty and Products​ for tresses like the stars she coifs, and regular peoples, like me. I love my hair, and I loves Nicole. http://www.rubybegoniahairstudio.com/ Photo by Adrian Carr on the set of The M Word

In the midst of excitedly preparing for AWP 2017, we record this episode in which we discuss two poems by Rita Banerjee, “The Suicide Rag” and “Georgia Brown”. Rita Banerjee is the Creative Director of the Cambridge Writers’ Workshop and is currently working on a futuristic dystopian novel…   In the midst of excitedly preparing for AWP 2017, we record this episode in which we discuss two poems by Rita Banerjee, “The Suicide Rag” and “Georgia Brown” Rita Banerjee is the Creative Director of the Cambridge Writers’ Workshop and is currently working on a futuristic dystopian novel about Mel Cassin, a half-Tamil, half-Jewish girl stuck in the middle of a familial crisis and an epic political meltdown, and a collection of essays on race, sex, politics, and everything cool.  A jet-setter at heart, she spends her time between Munich, Germany and the United States. This week’s discussion both took us back and made sure that none of us would see the world the same way again. With images of breakdancing, gospel choir, and the not-so-innocent Georgia Brown, we were in it. Whether we’re distinguishing jazz from jazz or figuring out what a clapper is, this episode is filled with risky moves. Join us in the campaign to have your local library carry lesser-known authors and small presses. Let us know what books you’ll be requesting with #getsomebooks! Let’s support libraries, small presses, and the authors who write for them. Make sure you follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and let us know what you think of this episode with #longandskinny! Stay tuned to hear about our AWP 2017 experience–we hope to see you there!And of course, most importantly, read on!   Present at the Editorial Table: Kathleen Volk Miller Marion Wrenn Jason Schneiderman Tim Fitts Sara Aykit   Engineering Producer: Ryan McDonald -----------------------------      The Suicide Rag Billy played ragtime on the church organ but we lunch hour kids, kept time by another name.  Behind St. Augustine’s we learned to hit the pavement, sound like an anvil crack hammers hitting steel, Billy playing skeletons on the fifth, we arpeggioed haloed, froze on the black top.  Learning to cakewalk This was our battle— tar-mat babies doing handsprung suicides for the girls standing ’round with knife-like eyes That’s all we needed— a rolling beat, a firing squad and schoolyard skirts scouring the lot as we fell face forward hands locked & stiff, the only thing that could’ve come between us was a kiss.   Georgia Brown Harlem had yet to be born, the globe had not been spun, but we knew how to whistle, how to call clappers and skirts on cue: That summer, we first met Georgia, she was an echo in four beats, we learned to hum her story. Mike played her with a licked reed but she was all brass, sharp like an abandoned railroad cutting through wild wood, and when she took stage, she made those trombone boys whisper, “Sweet Georgia, Sweet.”

This week Talking TV was in the South of France at the Mipcom market in Cannes to find out about the latest internationally telly trends. Joining Peter White at Maple Street Studios is Fremantle Media’s executive vice president of global scripted and factual content Georgia Brown and Red Arrow’s vice president of format acquisitions Harry Gamsu. We discover which high-end global dramas were most discussed and which non-scripted formats had the potential to breakout. We heard from Shonda Rhimes, the creator of Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal, who was named Mipcom personality of the year and told Broadcast about her ambitions to create shows outside of the US. Plus: we speak to Charlie Brooker and his producing partner Annabel Jones about the latest series of Black Mirror.

What do you do in the woods that you would never catch yourself doing in the "real world"?Now that's what I call a "Bounce Box"! Oh!Pox talks about "Ghost Get-ups".Puss could make a Tarzan outfit out of her couch...if she had to.

The sun is out and yesterday's snow is melting away. I got up early and headed out to Waffle House (they've got the best coffee in the world, hands down) and was driving down Cheshire Bridge Road admiring all the beauty that had accumulated all around me. It was fun to watch it all melt right off the powerlines with ice falling everywhere. Sadly, Rick left work early yesterday and it took him over three hours to get home. Consequently, he was in a pissy mood once he got here and wasn't up for making a snowman. Maybe next time. Yesterday, I was moving into a discussion about Valentines Day. Now I'm sorry, this is nothing more than another corporate bullshit holiday, designed to part consumers with their money. Now, if you're honey is all tweaked because you didn't get them anything, then they really don't love you. Frankly, love and appreciation should be given to those you care most about all year long. You don't need any specific day where society dictates how you should show your appreciation for another. For me, sometimes I would show up with flowers for no reason; sometimes I would make reservations at a nice restaurant and spring it on Rick, even though there was no occasion to celebrate; sometimes I would pick him up a nice shirt or shoes when I was at the mall, not because he needed them, but because I thought he would like them; while other times I'll give it up even when I wasn't in the mood [grin]. Rick is also a voracious reader and once the dust settles on the competing technologies, I plan on springing an e-reader on him later this year for no other reason than I want to. No need to worry, he doesn't read my blog. Nevertheless, this day of love has been so ingrained into our brains since childhood (remember the stupid VD cards you used to buy a box of and give them out to your teachers, friends and that someone special who put a twinkle in your eye), that it's hard to ignore. So in keeping with that tradition, I created the perfect cover art for all those who have been affected by cupid's arrow. Yes, I am a marketing genius and know full well, how to play the game. In fact, I think the Winter Edition would be a perfect gift for the one you love. [grin] Now that I've probably sapped all the love in your heart(s), let me inject some passion back into you. This second set picks up where the first left off. In fact, I originally made it as one long set when I didn't think there would be enough for two. A couple brand spanking new tunes came in this week that was so worthwhile, I extended the mix and then broke it into two pieces. Using the synth line from Olive's classic “You're Not Alone,” Major Laser and Nina Sky's “Keep It Goin Louder” has been on heavy rotation in my brain for several weeks now. The Superchumbo mix kicks it up several notches making it peak-time ready for those late night floors. Kim Sozzi is back with the ultra-hot “Secret Love,” which also has an amazing Wendel Kos mix that will make its debut on the next BPM Edition. PFF (Party Favorz Favorite) Inaya Day is back with the smoking “All I'm Sayin'” that delivers some hard-hitting progressive beats while pulling a positive vibe. Equally, Georgia Brown's “Love 4 Real” is as solid as they come with DJ Fist really working this one out. Currently, these two songs are in Masterbeat's Top two must have list. Probably the biggest (and I mean BIGGEST) song here is Kristine W's “The Power of Music.” With her trademark power vocals and Tony Moran's massive production, you can expect to be hearing this song in all of its incarnations throughout the spring. With remixes by Tony, Groove Police, Wideboys, Joe Gauthreaux and more, there's something here for everyone. Looks like she's well on her way to another #1 off of her amazing album by the same title. Check out the ultra HOT video below. It's turned out to be a gorgeous day here in the ATL, but I'm not going to be able to experience it. I've signed on for a couple more projects,

The sun is out and yesterday's snow is melting away. I got up early and headed out to Waffle House (they've got the best coffee in the world, hands down) and was driving down Cheshire Bridge Road admiring all the beauty that had accumulated all around me. It was fun to watch it all melt right off the powerlines with ice falling everywhere. Sadly, Rick left work early yesterday and it took him over three hours to get home. Consequently, he was in a pissy mood once he got here and wasn't up for making a snowman. Maybe next time. Yesterday, I was moving into a discussion about Valentines Day. Now I'm sorry, this is nothing more than another corporate bullshit holiday, designed to part consumers with their money. Now, if you're honey is all tweaked because you didn't get them anything, then they really don't love you. Frankly, love and appreciation should be given to those you care most about all year long. You don't need any specific day where society dictates how you should show your appreciation for another. For me, sometimes I would show up with flowers for no reason; sometimes I would make reservations at a nice restaurant and spring it on Rick, even though there was no occasion to celebrate; sometimes I would pick him up a nice shirt or shoes when I was at the mall, not because he needed them, but because I thought he would like them; while other times I'll give it up even when I wasn't in the mood [grin]. Rick is also a voracious reader and once the dust settles on the competing technologies, I plan on springing an e-reader on him later this year for no other reason than I want to. No need to worry, he doesn't read my blog. Nevertheless, this day of love has been so ingrained into our brains since childhood (remember the stupid VD cards you used to buy a box of and give them out to your teachers, friends and that someone special who put a twinkle in your eye), that it's hard to ignore. So in keeping with that tradition, I created the perfect cover art for all those who have been affected by cupid's arrow. Yes, I am a marketing genius and know full well, how to play the game. In fact, I think the Winter Edition would be a perfect gift for the one you love. [grin] Now that I've probably sapped all the love in your heart(s), let me inject some passion back into you. This second set picks up where the first left off. In fact, I originally made it as one long set when I didn't think there would be enough for two. A couple brand spanking new tunes came in this week that was so worthwhile, I extended the mix and then broke it into two pieces. Using the synth line from Olive's classic “You're Not Alone,” Major Laser and Nina Sky's “Keep It Goin Louder” has been on heavy rotation in my brain for several weeks now. The Superchumbo mix kicks it up several notches making it peak-time ready for those late night floors. Kim Sozzi is back with the ultra-hot “Secret Love,” which also has an amazing Wendel Kos mix that will make its debut on the next BPM Edition. PFF (Party Favorz Favorite) Inaya Day is back with the smoking “All I'm Sayin'” that delivers some hard-hitting progressive beats while pulling a positive vibe. Equally, Georgia Brown's “Love 4 Real” is as solid as they come with DJ Fist really working this one out. Currently, these two songs are in Masterbeat's Top two must have list. Probably the biggest (and I mean BIGGEST) song here is Kristine W's “The Power of Music.” With her trademark power vocals and Tony Moran's massive production, you can expect to be hearing this song in all of its incarnations throughout the spring. With remixes by Tony, Groove Police, Wideboys, Joe Gauthreaux and more, there's something here for everyone. Looks like she's well on her way to another #1 off of her amazing album by the same title. Check out the ultra HOT video below. It's turned out to be a gorgeous day here in the ATL, but I'm not going to be able to experience it. I've signed on for a couple more projects,

Georgia Brown takes you on a summer tour of the Swedish capital, from the city sights to the tranquil green spaces of its archipelago.