Podcasts about Hawkins

We made it to Episode 500!

Hello and welcome back to The Relatable Voice Podcast! Today we're heading to Redding, California, to chat with the incredibly talented J.D.R. Hawkins. J.D.R. is a USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author. She's also a singer and songwriter. I wish I could sing like her! Her latest book, Fool's Gold Folly: A Story of Irish Resilience, part of The Renegade Series, is out now — and we're going to dive into that today. Find out more at: https://allauthor.com/author/jdrhawkins/

In the second of our 'behold the lamb' series, Simeon takes us through John chapters 2–12 — often called the Book of Signs. He explores how each of these signs points us beyond the miracle itself, revealing something deeper about Jesus.

February 1996 - Mary Reilly & Muppet Treasure IslandFor the second month of 1996, we double dipped on two vastly different cinematic editions of classic British novels!Julia Roberts plays a maid who finds herself in over her head at her new estate. The master of the house is none other than the infamous researcher Henry Jekyll (John Malkovich). When his experiments start invading their everyday life, the maid must decipher whether she wants to help the mad doctor or stop his reign of terror. It's all a bit overwhelming for…Mary Reilly!We also talked about a second film:Orphan Jim Hawkins (Kevin Bishop) finds himself at sea when he embarks on an ill-fated expedition alongside some duplicitous privateers. Led by the slippery sea wolf Long John Silver (Tim Curry), the buccaneers are searching for some buried riches that only young Hawkins might be able to find. Luckily for him, Jim has some unique allies - The Muppets! That's right, it's another literary adaptation by Jim Henson's lovable creations. This time they take on Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 novel and make it their own. Set sail with us for…Muppet Treasure Island!

Vanuatu authorities confirm minor eruption at Ambae volcano and what the latest Middle East strikes mean for the Pacific.

Jordan Cook - Director of Performance and Rehab at B3 Better Performance - joins us for the 140th episode of MTN. On today's show we dive into horizontal deceleration, return to play strategies, the nuance behind directional specificity in training, and much much more. Jordan brings an incredible blend of performance, athletic training, and physical therapy into one and creates a dynamic training environment for his athletesFind Jordan on IG @jordan_cook_performanceFind and follow us on social media @mtn_perform and check back each Wednesday for a new episodeHuge shoutout to our newest partner: Hytro. Hytro is the answer for performance BFR in our space and we are thrilled to have them partner with MTN. Find out more about Hytro and everything they have to offer right here: https://hytro.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=paid-media&utm_campaign=partner&utm_content=podcast&utm_term=foundationalA huge Thank You to our sponsor, Hawkin Dynamics: Hawkin is the world leader in force measuring, and continues to put forth the tools for high-performance practitioners to be exactly that, high performers. If you haven't yet checked out Hawkins - head over to their website at: https://www.hawkindynamics.com/ and check out everything they have to offerMake sure to check out our sponsor, Samson Equipment: Samson is a leader in manufacturing elite weight room equipment (and have been for nearly 50 years). Founded by Dave and Linda Schroeder, Samson is weight room equipment made by coaches for coaches. Check them out at samsonequipment.com for more informationShoutout to our sponsor, 1080 Motion. The 1080 Sprint is the single best piece of training equipment in the world & has continually changed the game for training speed, strength, and power. Go to 1080motion.com to learn more.

AFTH #381 - Stranger Things 5.1, "Chapter One: The Crawl" In this episode, we are BACK in the Upside Down! So much so, that this PODCAST is Upside Down!!!!. Tune in as we talk through our return to Hawkins, Indiana. Vecna is still on the loose, and our group is still steadfast in trying to defeat him and get their lives back to normal. Will they finally succeed? Download today! CONTACT US! You can email us at aimfortheheadpodcast@gmail.com, send us a message via X/Twitter to @AFTHPodcast , reach out to our NEW social media location at Bluesky via @aimforthehead.bsky.social, or you can send us pics and videos on Instagram via aimfortheheadpodcast, But the best way to stay in touch with us is to "Like" us on Facebook!  And don't forget to always Aim For The Head – Because Body Shots Just Don't Work.  They really don't!

Chemicals used to treat water is a US$10 billion market hiding in plain sight—fragmented, consolidating, and far more strategically interesting than the name suggests. Bluefield's latest water treatment chemicals analysis mapped nearly 500 companies across the space. In this episode, Bluefield analyst Caroline Vauclain joins host Reese Tisdale to unpack what she found—including why the top 10 players control just 30% of facilities and 80% of companies run only one to two locations. The conversation covers five key questions shaping this market: With nearly 500 companies mapped, how fragmented is the water treatment chemicals market—and what's most surprising about the landscape? Chemical prices are up 36% since 2019—is it inflation, supply disruptions, or something else driving the increase? Hawkins made 16 acquisitions in five years, USALCO is similarly aggressive — what's fueling all this M&A activity? What's fueling the wave of M&A activity, with Hawkins logging 16 acquisitions in five years and private equity-backed firms driving 20 of 78 deals since 2020? Why are chemical companies like Kemira and Ecolab suddenly acquiring software and digital monitoring firms? How did Cargill, Morton Salt, and bioethanol producer POET end up in the water treatment business? Related Research & Analysis: U.S. Water Treatment Chemical Manufacturers and Distributors: Competitive Analysis & Strategies USALCO Deal Points to Private Equity's Role in Consolidation of Water Treatment Chemicals

"99 Overall" Myles Hawkins joins the program for a special Monday night interview. Hawkins will participate in the 2026 ECWA Super 8 tournament, March 14 in Morganville, NJ. Live, Tuesday nights at 7:30PM ET on vocnation.com, it's IN THE ROOM! ITR features topics introduced by the panel, your calls, PWI's Brady Hicks, Kathie Fitz, and WCW's Maestro. Visit http://vocnation.com. Full Video Episode Available for only $3/mo at www.vocnation.com! Subscribers also get commercial free audio and video of Wrestling with History featuring Bill Apter and Ken Resnick, In the Room featuring PWI's Brady Hicks and former WCW Star the Maestro, No BS with The Bull Manny Fernandez, and more! VOC Nation takes you behind the scenes of your favorite moments in pro wrestling history. Notable show hosts include legendary pro wrestling journalist Bill Apter, former WWE/TNA star Shelly Martinez, former WWE and AWA broadcaster Ken Resnick, former WCW performer The Maestro, former TNA Impact talent Wes Brisco, Pro Wrestling Illustrated's Brady Hicks, independent pro wrestling and Fireball Run star Sassy Stephie, and more! Since 2010, VOC Nation has brought listeners into the minds of the biggest stars in pro wrestling and entertainment. Subscribe to the podcasts for free on most major directories, and visit http://vocnation.com for live programming. Subscribe to premium - only $3/mo - for commercial full commercial free audio and video episodes. Exclusive access to 50 years of Bill Apter's interview archives is available for a nominal charge. Learn more about your ad choices. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The CopDoc Podcast - Season 9 - Episode 167What does it take to walk into four different agencies, each with its own culture and expectations, and lead effectively in all of them? Gina Hawkins has done exactly that — from the Atlanta Police Department where she came of age as a young officer, to Sandy Springs, Clayton County, Fayetteville, North Carolina, and now Cobb County's Sheriff's Office. Along the way she has learned that culture doesn't start inside the building. It starts with the community that either demands excellence or tolerates mediocrity.In this conversation, Gina shares the hard lessons she picked up at each stop — managing stress that nearly broke her health, losing custody of her daughter the weekend the moving truck arrived as she headed to take command in Fayetteville, and still walking into that organization and pouring herself into the work. She talks about what it means to develop leaders, why women belong in policing at every level, and why the absence of universal standards for 18,000 law enforcement agencies is one of the most pressing problems in the profession.This episode is candid, personal, and practical. Gina Hawkins doesn't give you theory — she gives you earned wisdom.KEY TOPICS DISCUSSED:How culture is shaped by the community before it is ever shaped by the chiefLeading through personal crisis while commanding a new organizationWhat it's like to be the outsider hired over the heads of internal candidatesThe importance of women in policing and Cobb County's annual Women's SummitHer experience on the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and why the lack of universal standards remains a critical gapThe role of transparency, accountability, and body cameras in rebuilding public trustWhat retirement looks like when you can't stop servingHey there! Send us a message. Who else should we be talking to? What topics are important? Use FanMail to connect! Let us know!Contact us: copdoc.podcast@gmail.com Website: www.copdocpodcast.comIf you'd like to arrange for facilitated training, or consulting, or talk about steps you might take to improve your leadership and help in your quest for promotion, contact Steve at stephen.morreale@gmail.com

What happens when a childhood dream refuses to let go? In this episode, I sit down with cartoonist and Lum and Abner historian Donnie Pitchford to explore how old-time radio, comic strips, and a love for storytelling shaped his life. Donnie shares how he grew up inspired by classic radio shows like Lum and Abner, pursued art despite setbacks, and eventually brought the beloved Pine Ridge characters back to life through a modern comic strip and audio adaptations. We talk about creativity, persistence, radio history, and why imagination still matters in a visual world. If you care about classic radio, cartooning, or staying true to your calling, I believe you will find this conversation both inspiring and practical. Highlights: 00:10 Discover how a childhood love of Lum and Abner sparked a lifelong dream of becoming a cartoonist. 08:00 Hear how college radio and classic broadcasts deepened a passion for old time radio storytelling. 14:33 Understand how years of teaching broadcast journalism built the skills that later fueled creative success. 23:17 Learn how the Lum and Abner comic strip was revived with family approval and brought to modern audiences. 30:07 Explore how two actors created an entire town through voice and imagination alone. 1:00:16 Hear the vision for keeping Lum and Abner alive for new generations through comics and audio. Top of Form Bottom of Form About the Guest: Donnie Pitchford of Texas is a graduate of Kilgore College, Art Instruction Schools, Stephen F. Austin State University and the University of Texas at Tyler. He has worked in the graphic arts industry and in education, teaching at Hawkins High School, Panola College, and Carthage High School at which he spent 25 years directing CHS-TV, where student teams earned state honors, including state championships, for 20 consecutive years. In 2010, Donnie returned to the endeavor he began at age five: being a cartoonist! The weekly “Lum and Abner" comic strip began in 2011. It is available online and in print and includes an audio production for the blind which features the talents of actors and musicians who donate their time. Donnie has created comic book stories and art for Argo Press of Austin, illustrated children's books, written scripts for the "Dick Tracy" newspaper strip, and produced the science fiction comedy strip "Tib the Rocket Frog." He has collaborated with award-winning writers and cartoonists George Wildman, Nicola Cuti, John Rose, Mike Curtis, Joe Staton, and others. In 2017, Donnie began assisting renowned sculptor Bob Harness and currently sculpts the portraits for the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame plaques. Awards include the 1978 Kilgore College "Who's Who" in Art, an Outstanding Educator Award from the East Texas Chapter of the Texas Society of CPAs in 1993, the CHS "Pine Burr" Dedicatee honor in 2010, and a Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2018 from Spring Hill High School. In 2024, Donnie was inducted into the City of Carthage Main Street Arts Walk of Fame which included the placement of a bronze plaque in the sidewalk and the Key to the City. Donnie and his best friend/wife, Laura, are members of First Methodist Church Carthage, Texas. Donnie is a founding officer of the National Lum and Abner Society and a member of Texas Cartoonists, Ark-La-Tex Cartoonists, Christian Comic Arts Society, and the National Cartoonists Society. 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He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards. https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/ accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/ https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/ Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below! Subscribe to the podcast If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can subscribe in your favorite podcast app. You can also support our podcast through our tip jar https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/unstoppable-mindset . Leave us an Apple Podcasts review Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts. Transcription Notes: Michael Hingson  00:00 Access Cast and accessiBe Initiative presents Unstoppable Mindset. The podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us. Michael Hingson  01:21 Well, hi everyone, and welcome to another episode of unstoppable mindset. I've been looking forward to this one for a while. We have Donny Pitchford as our guest today. You're probably going, who's Donnie Pitchford? Well, let me tell you. So years ago, I started collecting old radio shows. And one of the first shows that I got was a half hour episode of a show called Lum and Abner, which is about a couple of characters, if you will, in Pine Ridge, Arkansas. And I had only heard the half hour show sponsored by frigid air. But then in 1971 when ksi, out here in Los Angeles, the 50,000 watt Clear Channel station, started celebrating its 50 year history, they started broadcasting as part of what they did, 15 minute episodes of lemon Abner. And I became very riveted to listening to lemon Abner every night, and that went on for quite a while. And so I've kept up with the boys, as it were. Well, a several years ago, some people formed a new Lum and Abner society, and Donnie Pitchford is part of that. I met Donnie through radio enthusiast of Puget Sound, and yesterday, USA. And so we clearly being interested in old radio and all that, had to have Donnie come on and and talk with us. So Donnie, or whatever character you're representing today, welcome to unstoppable mindset. Donnie Pitchford  02:58 Huh? I'm glad to be here. Michael Hingson  03:00 He does that very well, doesn't he? It's a Donnie Pitchford  03:04 little tough sometimes. Well, I'm really glad to be here. Thank you. Michael Hingson  03:10 Well, I appreciate the audio parts of lemon Abner that you you all create every week, and just the whole society. It's great to keep that whole thing going it's kind of fun. We're glad that that it is. But let's, let's talk about you a little bit. Why don't you start by telling us about the early Donnie, growing up and all that. I'm assuming you were born, and so we won't worry about that. But beyond that, think so, yeah. Well, there you are. Tell us about tell us about you and growing up and all that, and we'll go from there. Donnie Pitchford  03:42 Well, I was born in East Texas and left for a little while. We lived in my family lived in Memphis, Tennessee for about seven years, and then moved back to Texas in 1970 but ever since I was a kid this I hear this from cartoonists everywhere. Most of them say I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was five years old. So that's in fact, I had to do a speech for the Texas cartoonist chapter of the National Cartoonist Society. And that was my start. I was going to say the same thing, and the President said, Whatever you do, don't do that old bit about wanting to be a cartoonist at age five. Everybody does that, so I left that part out, but that's really what I wanted to do as a kid. And I would see animated cartoons. I would read the Sunday comics in the Memphis Commercial Appeal, and then at some point, my dad would talk about radio, and my mother would talk about listening to radio. We would have the reruns of the Lone Ranger television show and things like Sky King and other programs along those lines, and my parents would all. Way say, Well, I used to listen to that on the radio, or I would hear Superman on the radio, or Amos and Andy or whatever was being rerun at that time, and that fascinated me. And I had these vague memories of hearing what I thought were television programs coming over the radio when I was about two years old. I remember gunshots. I remember, you know, like a woman crying and just these little oddball things. I was about two years old, and I kept thinking, Well, why are we picking up television programs on my mother's radio? Turns out it was the dying gasps of what we now call old time radio. And so at least I remembered that. But when I was about, I guess eight or nine we were, my dad took me to lunch at alums restaurant in Memphis, and I saw that name, and I thought, What in the world? So what kind of name is that? And my dad told me about London Abner, and he said it reminds me. It reminded him of the Andy Griffith Show or the Beverly Hillbillies. I said, I'd love to hear that. He said, Ah, you'll never hear it. He said, those were live they don't exist, but years later, I got to hear them. So yeah, but that's how I grew up wanting to be a cartoonist and coming up with my own characters and drawing all the time and writing stories and that sort of thing. Michael Hingson  06:24 So when did you move back from Memphis to Texas? Donnie Pitchford  06:28 July 2, 1970 I just happened to look that up the other day. How old were you then? I was 12 when we came back. All right, so got into, I was in junior high, and trying to, I was trying to find an audience for these comic strips I was drawing on notebook paper. And finally, you know, some of the kids got into them, and I just continued with that goal. And I just, I knew that soon as possible, you know, I was going to start drawing comics professionally. So I thought, but kept, you know, I kept trying. Michael Hingson  07:06 So you, you went on into college. What did you do in college? Donnie Pitchford  07:11 Well, more of the same. I started listening to some old time radio shows even as far back as as high school. And I was interested in that went to college, first at a college called Kill Gore College, here in East Texas, and then to Stephen F Austin State University. And I was majoring in, first commercial art, and then art education. And I thought, well, if I can't go right into comics, you know, maybe I can just teach for a while. I thought I'll do that for a couple of years. I thought it wouldn't be that long. But while I was at Stephen F Austin State University, the campus radio station, I was so pleased to find out ran old time radio shows. This was in 1980 there was a professor named Dr Joe Oliver, who had a nightly program called theater of the air. And I would hear this voice come over the radio. He would run, he Well, one of the first, the very first 15 minute lemon Abner show I ever heard was played by Dr Oliver. He played Jack Benny. He played the whistler suspense, just a variety of them that he got from a syndicated package. And I would hear this voice afterwards, come on and say, It's jazz time. I'm Joe Oliver. And I thought, Where have I heard that voice? It was, it's just a magnificent radio voice. Years later, I found out, well, I heard that voice in Memphis when I was about 10 years old on W, R, E, C, radio and television. He was working there. He lived in Memphis about the same time we did. Heard him on the campus station at Nacogdoches, Texas. Didn't meet him in person until the late 90s, and it was just an amazing collection of coincidences. And now, of course, we're good friends. Now he's now the announcer for our audio comic strip. So it's amazing how all that came about. Well, I Michael Hingson  09:16 I remember listening to sort of the last few years of oval radio. I think it was, I don't remember the date now, whether it's 57 or 50 I think it's 57 the Kingston Trio had come out with the song Tom Dooley, and one day I was listening to K and X radio in Los Angeles. We lived in Palmdale, and I heard something about a show called suspense that was going to play the story of Tom Dooley. And I went, sounds interesting, and I wanted to know more about it, so I listened. And that started a weekly tradition with me every Sunday, listening to yours truly Johnny dollar and suspense, and they had a little bit of the FBI and peace and war. Then it's went into half and that that went off and Have Gun Will Travel came on, and then at 630 was Gun Smoke. So I listened to radio for a couple of hours every week, not every Sunday night, and thoroughly enjoyed it. And so that's how I really started getting interested in it. Then after radio went off the air a few stations out in California and on the LA area started playing old radio shows somebody started doing because they got the syndicated versions of the shadow and Sherlock Holmes with Sir John Gielgud and Sir Ralph Richardson. And I still maintain to this day that John Gielgud is the best Sherlock Holmes. No matter what people say about Basil Rathbone and I still think Sir John Gielgud was the best Sherlock Holmes. He was very, very good. Yeah, he was and so listen to those. But you know, radio offers so much. And even with, with, with what the whole lemon Abner shows today. My only problem with the lemon Abner shows today is they don't last nearly long enough. But that's another story. Donnie Pitchford  11:11 Are you talking about the comic strip adaptation? Okay, you know how long, how much art I would have to 11:21 do every week. Michael Hingson  11:25 Oh, I know, but they're, they're fun, and, you know, we, we enjoy them, but so you So you met Joe, and as you said, He's the announcer. Now, which is, which is great, but what were you doing then when you met him? What kind of work were you doing at the time? Donnie Pitchford  11:45 Well, of course, there was a gap there of about, I guess, 15 years after college, before I met him. And what ended up happening my first teaching job was an art job, a teaching art and graphic arts at a small high school in Hawkins, Texas, and that was a disaster. Wasn't a wasn't a very good year for me. And so I left that, and I had worked in the printing industry, I went back to that, and that was all during the time that the National London Abner society was being formed. And so I printed their earliest newsletters, which came out every other month. And we started having conventions in MENA, Arkansas and in the real Pine Ridge and the my fellow ossifers As we we call ourselves, and you hear these guys every week on the lemon Abner comic strip. Sam Brown, who lives in Illinois, Tim Hollis, from Alabama. Tim is now quite a published author who would might be a good guest for you one day, sure. And just two great guys. We had a third officer early on named Rex riffle, who had to leave due to various illnesses about 1991 but we started having our conventions every year, starting in 1985 we had some great guests. We brought in everybody we could find who worked with lemon Abner or who knew lemon Abner. We had their their head writer, Roswell Rogers. We had actors, I'm sure you've heard of Clarence Hartzell. He was Ben withers, of course, on the Old Vic and Sade show. He was Uncle Fletcher. We had Willard Waterman, parley Bayer, some of their announcers, Wendell Niles. And my memory is going to start failing me, because there were so many, but we had Bob's, Watson, Louise curry, who were in their first two movies. We had Kay Lineker, who was in their third movie. The list goes on and on, but we had some amazing when did Chester lock pass away? He passed away? Well, Tuffy passed away first, 1978, 78 and Chet died in 1980 sad. Neither of them, yeah, we didn't get to media. Yeah, we didn't meet either one of them. I've met Mrs. Lock I've met all of chet's children, several grandchildren. We spoke to Mrs. Goff on the phone a time or two, and also, tuffy's got toughie's daughter didn't get to meet them in person, but we met as many of the family as we could. Michael Hingson  14:32 Still quite an accomplishment all the way around. And so you you taught. You didn't have success. You felt really much at first, but then what you taught for quite a while, though, Donnie Pitchford  14:45 didn't you? Yes, I went back to the printing industry for about a year, and in the summer of 85 about two weeks before school started, I had got a call that they needed someone to teach Broadcast Journalism at. Carthage High School, and we had a department called CHS TV. I ran that for 25 years. I taught classes. We produced a weekly television program, weekly radio program. We did all kinds of broadcasts for the school district and promotional video. And then in the last I think it was the last 10 years or so that I worked there, we started an old time radio show, and we were trying to come up with a title for it, and just as a temporary placeholder, we called it the golden age of radio. Finally, we said, well, let's just use that, and I think it's been used by other people since, but, but that was the title we came up with. I think in 19 I think it was in 93 or 9495 somewhere in there. We started out. We just ran Old Time Radio, and the students, I would have them research and introduce, like, maybe 45 minutes of songs, of music, you know, from the 30s, 40s, maybe early 50s, big band and Sinatra and Judy Garland and you name it. Then, when the classes would change, we would always start some type of radio program that was pre recorded that would fill that time, so the next class could come in and get in place and and everybody participated, and they went out live over our cable television channel, and we would just run a graphic of a radio and maybe have some announcements or listing of what we were playing. And we did that for several years, usually maybe two or three times a year. And then in I think it was 2004 or so, we had an offer from a low power FM station, which was another another county over, and we started doing a Sunday night, one hour program each week. And I think we ended up doing close to 300 of those before I left. And so we got old time radio in there, one way or the other. Michael Hingson  17:03 Well, I remember. I remember, for me, I went to UC Irvine in the fall of 1968 and by the spring the last quarter of my freshman year, I had started getting some old radio shows. So started playing shows, and then in the fall, I started doing a three hour show on Sunday night called the Radio Hall of Fame, and we did radio every night. And what I didn't know until, actually, fairly recently, was our mutual friend Walden Hughes actually listened to my show on Sunday, and so did the gas means actually, but, but we had a low power station as well, but it made it up, and so people listened to it. And I've always been proud of the fact that during the fact that during the time I ran the Radio Hall of Fame, I'd heard of this show called 60 minutes with a guy named Mike Wallace, but never got to see it. And then it was only much later that I actually ended up starting to watch 60 Minutes. Course, I always loved to say I would have loved to have met, met Mike Wallace and never got to do it, but I always said he had criminal tendencies. I mean, my gosh, what do you think he was the announcer on radio for the Green Hornet, a criminal show, right? Sky King, a lot of criminals. Clearly the guy. Anyway, I would have been fun to meet him, but, Donnie Pitchford  18:31 and his name was Myron. Myron Wallach at the time. Wallach, you're right. I think that's right. Michael Hingson  18:37 But it was, it was fun and and so I've actually got some Sky King shows and green Hornets with him. So it's, it's kind of cool, but Right? You know, I still really do believe that the value of radio is it makes you imagine more. I've seen some movies that I really like for that the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers with Kevin McCarthy back in 1955 I thought was such a good movie because they didn't show the plants taking over the humans. It was all left to your imagination, which was so cool, and they changed all that in the later remake of it with Leonard Nimoy, which I didn't think was nearly as good, not nearly as suspenseful. But anyway, that's just my opinion. But radio, for me was always a and continues to be a part of what I like to do. And so I've been collecting shows and and enjoying and, of course, listening to lemon Abner, So what made you decide to finally end teaching? Donnie Pitchford  19:38 Well, you know, I could only do that so long. I was getting I was getting very tired, getting kind of burned out, and I had to have a change. There's something had to change. And I was able to take a few years early and retire, and I still the whole time I had a. That it was like a haunting feeling. I, you know, I wanted to be a cartoonist. I would pray, you know, you know, Lord, is there some way can I, can I get out of this? And can I do what I really want to do? And I had some mentors that was finally able to meet people that I would write letters to as a kid, a cartoonist and comic book editor named George Wildman was one of them. He was nice enough to answer my letters when I was a kid, and I'd send him drawings, and he would encourage me, or he would send little corrections on there, you know. And another one was a gentleman named high Eisemann, who passed away recently at age 98 on his birthday, but men like this inspired me, and that it kept at me through the years. I finally met George in 1994 at a convention of the the international Popeye fan club. And I'm I'm at high the same way, and also a writer named Nicola Cuddy, who wrote some Popeye comics. I met him the same way, same event, we all became friends, and I had a good friend named Michael Ambrose of Austin, Texas, who published a magazine devoted to the Charlton Comics company. Sadly, he's deceased now, but Mike and I were talking before I retired, and finally I got out of it. And he said, now that you're out of that job, how would you like to do some art? I said, That's what I want to do. So he gave me the opportunity to do my first published work, which was a portrait of artist George Wildman. It was on the cover of a magazine called Charlton spotlight, then I did some work for Ben Omar, who is bear Manor media publisher for some books that he was doing. One was Mel Blanc biography that Noel blank wrote, did some illustrations for that. This was all happening in 2010 and after that. So I was getting it was getting rolling, doing the kind of work I really wanted to do. And there's a gentleman named Ethan nobles in Benton, Arkansas, who wanted to interview me. I'd gotten, I don't know how he I forgot how he got in touch with me. Maybe he heard me on yesterday USA could be wanted to interview me about London Abner. And so he was starting a website called first Arkansas news. And somewhere in early 2011 we were talking, and I said, you know, you want this to be an online newspaper, right? He said, Yes. I said, What about comics? He said, I hadn't thought about that. So I said, Well, you know, you're a big Lum and Abner fan. What if we could we do a Lum and Abner comic strip? He said, Well, who would Where would I get? Who would do? And I said, Me. So I drew up some proposals, I drew some model sheets, and we did about four weeks of strips, and got approval from Chester lock Jr, and he suggested there's some things he didn't like. He said, The lum looks too sinister. He looks mean. Well, he's mad. He said he's mad at Abner. This won't happen every week. He said, Okay, I don't want LOM to be I said, Well, you know, they get mad at each other. That's part of the that's the conflict and the comedy Michael Hingson  23:30 at each other. Yeah. Donnie Pitchford  23:33 So we, we ironed it all out, and we came up with a financial agreement, and had to pay royalties and one thing and another, and we started publishing online in June 2011, and about six weeks later, the MENA newspaper, the MENA star in MENA, Arkansas, which was the birthplace of Lyman, Abner, Chet Locke and Norris Goff, they picked it up, and then we had a few other newspapers pick it up. And you know, we're not, we're not worldwide, syndicated in print, but we're getting it out there. And of course, we're always online, but and the first Arkansas news went under three or four years later, and so now we have our own website, which is Lum and Abner comics.com so that's where you can find us Michael Hingson  24:24 online. So where's Pine Ridge? Donnie Pitchford  24:28 Pine Ridge is about 18 miles from Mena, Arkansas. MENA is in western Arkansas, and Pine Ridge is about 18 miles east, I believe I'm trying to picture it in my mind, but it's it's down the road, and it actually exists. It was a little community originally named for a postmaster. It was named waters, waters, Arkansas, and in 1936 the real. At cuddleston. He was a real person who owned a store there in waters, and was friends with the locks and the golfs with their parents, as well as Chet and Tuffy. But he proposed a publicity stunt and an actual change of name to name the community Pine Ridge. So that's how that happened. Michael Hingson  25:24 Now, in the original 15 minute episodes, who is the narrator? Donnie Pitchford  25:28 Well, it depends what era their first one trying to remember. Now, Gene Hamilton was an early announcer in the Ford days, which was the early 30s. We don't have anything recorded before that. Charles Lyon was one of the early announcers, possibly for for Quaker Oats. I don't have any notes on this in front of me. I'm just going on memory here. Memory at the end of a long week. Gene Hamilton was their Ford announcer. Carlton brickert announced the Horlicks malt and milk did the commercials when they 1934 to 38 or so. Lou Crosby took over when they were sponsored by General Foods, by post them, the post them commercials, and Lou stayed with them on into the Alka Seltzer era. And his daughter, the celebrity daughter, is Kathie Lee Crosby, you may remember, right, and she and her sister Linda, Lou were a couple of our guests at the National lemon Avenue society convention in 1996 I think let's see. Crosby was Gene Baker came after Crosby, and then in the 30 minute days, was Wendell Niles. Wendell Niles, yeah, in the CBS the 30 minute series and Wendell. We also had him in Mina, super nice guy when it came, when it got into the later ones, 1953 54 I don't remember that announcer's name. That's when they got into the habit of having Dick Huddleston do the opening narration, which is why we now have Sam Brown as Dick Huddleston doing that every week. Michael Hingson  27:27 So was it actually Dick Huddleston? No, it Donnie Pitchford  27:30 was North golf, tough. He always played the part of Dick Huddleston. Okay, the only, the only time that, as far as I know, the only time the real dick Huddleston was on network radio, was at that ceremony in Little Rock Arkansas, when they changed the name of the town that the real dick Huddleston spoke at that event. And we actually, we discovered a recording of that. I was just gonna ask if there's a recording of that there is. Yeah, it's on 12 inch, 78 RPM discs. Wow. And they were probably the personal discs of lock and golf, and they weren't even labeled. And I remember spinning that thing when Sam Brown and I after we found it, it was down in Houston, and we brought them a batch of discs back, and I remember spinning that thing and hearing the theme song being played, I said, this sounds like a high school band. And suddenly we both got chills because we had heard that. I don't know if it was the Little Rock High School band or something, but it's like, Can this be? Yes, it was. It was. We thought it was long lost, but it was that ceremony. Wow. So that was a great find. Michael Hingson  28:45 Well, hopefully you'll, you'll play that sometime, or love to get a copy, but, Donnie Pitchford  28:50 yeah, we've, we have we played it on yesterday, USA. Oh, okay, so it's out there. Michael Hingson  28:57 Well, that's cool. Well, yeah, I wondered if Dick Huddleston actually ever was directly involved, but, but I can, can appreciate that. As you said, Tuffy Goff was the person who played him, which was, that's still that was pretty cool. They were very talented. Go ahead, Donnie Pitchford  29:19 I was gonna say that's basically tough. He's natural speaking voice, yeah, when you hear him as Dick Huddleston, Michael Hingson  29:24 they're very talented people. They played so many characters on the show. They did and and if you really listen, you could tell, but mostly the voices sounded enough different that they really sounded like different people all the time. Donnie Pitchford  29:41 Well, the fun thing are the episodes where, and it's carefully written, but they will, they will do an episode where there may be seven or eight people in the room and they get into an argument, or they're trying to all talk at the same time, and you completely forget that it's only two guys, because they will overlap. Those voices are just so perfectly overlapped and so different, and then you stop and you listen. So wait a minute, I'm only hearing two people at a time, but the effect is tremendous, the fact that they were able to pull that off and fool the audience. Michael Hingson  30:15 I don't know whether I'd say fool, but certainly entertained. Well, yeah, but they also did have other characters come on the show. I remember, yes, Diogenes was that was a lot of fun listening to those. Oh yeah, yeah, that was Frank Graham. Frank Graham, right, right, but, but definitely a lot of fun. So you eventually left teaching. You decided you accepted jobs, starting to do cartoons. What were some of the other or what, well, what were some of the first and early characters that you cartooned, or cartoons that you created, Donnie Pitchford  30:50 just, you mean, by myself or Well, or with people, either way, I did some things that were not published, you know, just just personal characters that I came up with it would mean nothing to anybody, but a little bit later on, I did a little bit of I did a cover for a Popeye comic book. Maybe 10 years ago, I finally got a chance to work with George Wildman, who was the fellow I talked about earlier, and it was some of the last work he did, and this was with Michael Ambrose of Argo press out of Austin, Texas. And we did some early characters that had been published by Charlton Comics. They had, they had characters, they were, they were rip offs. Let's be honest. You know Harvey had Casper the Friendly Ghost. Well, Charlton had Timmy, the timid ghost. There, there was Mighty Mouse. Well, Charlton Comics had atomic mouse, so and there was an atomic rabbit. And Warner Brothers had Porky Pig. Charlton had pudgy pig, but that was some of George's earliest work in the 1950s was drawing these characters, and George was just he was a master Bigfoot cartoonist. I mean, he was outstanding. And so Mike said, let's bring those characters back. They're public domain. We can use them. So I wrote the scripts. George did the pencil art. Well, he inked the first few, but Mike had me do hand lettering, which I don't do that much. So it was that was a challenge. And my friend high Iseman taught lettering for years and years, and so I was thinking, high is going to see this? This has to be good. So I probably re lettered it three times to get it right, but we did the very last story we did was atomic rabbit and pudgy pig was a guest star, and then George's character named brother George, who was a little monk who didn't speak, who lived, lived in a monastery, and did good deeds and all that sort of thing. He was in there, and this was the last thing we did together. And George said, you know, since I've got these other projects, he said, Do you think you can, you can ink this? So that was a great honor to actually apply the inks over George's pencil work. And I also did digital color, but those were some things I worked on, and, oh, at one point we even had Lum and Abner in the Dick Tracy Sunday comic strip, and that was because of a gentleman named Mike Curtis, who was the writer who lived in Arkansas, was very familiar with Lum and Abner, and he got in touch with me and asked, this was in 2014 said, Would it be possible for me to use Lum and Abner in a Sunday cameo? So I contacted the locks. First thing they first thing Chet said was how much I said, I don't think they're going to pay us. I felt like, Cedric, we hunt, no mom, you know. And I felt like he was squire skimp at the time, yeah, but I said, it's just going to be really good publicity. So he finally went for it, and Lum and Abner had a cameo in a Sunday Dick Tracy comic strip, and about four years later, they honored me. This was Mike Curtis, the writer, and Joe Staton, the artist, who was another guy that I grew up reading from as a teenager, just a tremendous artist, asked if they could base a character on me. And I thought, what kind of murderer is he going to be? You know, it was going to be idiot face or what's his name, you know. So no, he was going to be a cartoonist, and the name was Peter pitchblende. Off, and he was, he said his job was to illustrate a comic strip about a pair of old comedians. So, I mean, who couldn't be honored by that? Yeah, so I don't remember how long that story lasted, but it was an honor. I mean, it was just great fun. And then then I had a chance to write two weeks of Dick Tracy, which was fun. I wrote the scripts for it and and then there's some other things. I was able to work with John rose, a tremendously nice guy who is the current artist on Barney Google and Snuffy Smith. We did a story, a comic book story, on Barney Google on Snuffy Smith in a magazine called Charleton spotlight, and I did the colors, digital coloring for that. So just these are just great honors to me to get to work with people like that. And Nick Cuddy, I did some inking, lettering coloring on some of his work. So just great experience, and Michael Hingson  36:02 great people, going back to atomic rabbit and pudgy pig, no one ever got in trouble with, from Warner Brothers with that, huh? Donnie Pitchford  36:09 Well, not, not on atomic rabbit, however, pudgy pig created a problem because George was doing some art, and I think somebody from Warner Brothers said he looks too much like Porky, so the editor at the time said, make one of his ears hang down, make him look a little different. But pudgy didn't last long. Pudgy was only around maybe two or three issues of the comic book, so, but yeah, that's George. Said they did have some trouble with that. Michael Hingson  36:44 Oh, people, what do you do? Yeah, well, I know you sent us a bunch of photos, and we have some of the Dick Tracy ones and others that people can go see. But what? What finally got you all to start the whole lemon Abner society. Donnie Pitchford  37:07 Oh, well, that goes back to 1983 right, and I'll go back even farther than that. I told you that my dad had mentioned lemon Abner to me as a kid. Dr Joe Oliver played a 15 minute lemon Abner show on KSA you at Stephen F Austin State University. That got me. I was already into old time radio, but it was the next summer 1981 there's a radio station, an am station in Gilmer, Texas Christian radio station that started running Lum and Abner every day. First it was 530 in the evening, and then I think they switched it to 1215 or so. And I started listening, started setting up my recorder, recording it every day. And a friend of mine named David Miller, who was also a radio show collector, lived in the Dallas area, I would send them to him, and at first he wasn't impressed, but then suddenly he got hooked. And when he got hooked, he got enthusiastic. He started making phone calls. He called Mrs. Lock chet's widow and talked to her. He spoke to a fellow who had written a number of articles, George Lily, who was an early proponent or an early promoter of lemon Abner, as far as reruns in the 1960s and it was through George Lilly that I was put in touch with Sam Brown in Dongola, Illinois, and because he had contacted Mr. Lilly as well. And before long, we were talking, heard about this guy named Tim Hollis. Sam and I met in Pine Ridge for lemon Abner day in 1982 for the first time, and hit it off like long lost friends and became very good friends. And then in 84 I believe it was Sam and Tim and Rex riffle met again, or met for the first time together, I guess in Pine Ridge. And I wasn't there that time. But somehow, in all of that confusion, it was proposed to start the national lemon Abner society, and we started publishing the Jot them down journal in the summer of 1984 Michael Hingson  39:43 and for those who don't know the Jotham down journal, because the store that lemon Abner ran was the Jotham down store anyway, right? Donnie Pitchford  39:50 Go ahead, yes. And that was Tim's title. Tim created the title The Jotham down journal, and we started publishing and started seeking information. And it started as just a simple photocopy on paper publication. It became a very slick publication. In 1990 or 91 Sam started recording cassettes, reading the journals, because we were hearing from Blind fans that said, you know, I enjoy the journal. I have to have somebody read it to me. This is before screen readers. And of course, you know this technology better than I do, but before any type of technology was available, and Sam said, Well, I'll tell you. I'll just start reading it on tape and I'll make copies. Just started very simply, and from then on, until the last issue in in 2007 Sam would record a cassette every other month, or when we went quarterly, four times a year, and he would mail those to the the blind members, who would listen to those. And sometimes they would keep them, and sometimes they would return them for Sam to recycle. But incidentally, those are all online now, Michael Hingson  41:03 yeah, I've actually looked at a few of those. Those are kind of fun. So the London Avenue society got formed, and then you started having conventions. Donnie Pitchford  41:14 Yes, yes. First convention was in 1985 and we did a lot of things with we would do recreations. We would do a lot of new scripts, where, if we had someone that we got to the point where we would have people that hadn't worked with lemon Abner. So we would have lemon Abner meet the great Gildersleeve. Actually, Willard had worked on the lumen Abner half hour show at some point. I believe les Tremain had never worked directly with them, but he was well, he was in some Horlicks malted milk commercials in the 1930s and of course, the Lone Ranger was never on the London Abner show and vice versa, until we got hold of it. So we had Fred Foy in 1999 and he agreed to be the announcer, narrator and play the part of the Lone Ranger. So we did Lum and Abner meet the Lone Ranger, which was a lot of fun. We had parley bear, so Lum and Abner met Chester of Gun Smoke. And those were just a lot of fun to do. And Tim, Tim would write some of them, I would write some of them, or we would collaborate back and forth to come up with these scripts. Did love and amner, ever meet Superman? No, we never got to that. That would have been great. Yeah, if we could have come up with somebody who had played Superman, that would have been a lot of fun. We had lemon Abner meet Kathie Lee Crosby as herself. Yeah, they met Frank brazzi One time. That must be fun. It was a lot of fun. We had some people would recreate the characters. We had the lady who had played Abner's daughter, Mary Lee Rob replay. She played that character again, 50 years later, coming back home to see, you know, to see family. Several other things, we had London Abner meet Gumby one time. Of all things, we had Dow McKinnon as a guest. And we had Kay Lineker come back and reprise one of her roles, the role she played in the London Abner movie. Bob's Watson did that as well. Some years we didn't have a script, which I regret, but we had other things going on. We had anniversaries of London Abner movies that we would play. So whatever we did, we tailored it around our guest stars, like Dick Beals, Sam Edwards, Roby Lester, gee whiz. I know I'm leaving people out. Michael Hingson  43:52 Well, that's okay, but, but certainly a lot of fun. What? Yes, what? Cartoonist really influenced you as a child? Donnie Pitchford  44:01 Oh, wow. I would say the first thing I saw that got my attention was the Flintstones on on prime time television, you know, the Hanna Barbera prime time things certainly Walt Disney, the animation that they would run, that he would show, and the behind the scenes, things that would be on the Disney show, things like almost almost anything animated as a kid, got my attention. But Walter Lance, you know, on the Woody Woodpecker show used to have, he'd have little features about how animation was done, and that that inspired me, that that just thrilled me. And I read Fred lachel's Snuffy Smith Chester Gould's Dick Tracy. Tracy, which that was a that's why the Dick Tracy connection, later was such a big deal for me. Almost anything in the Sunday comics that was big. Foot. In other words, the cartoony, exaggerated characters are called, sometimes called Bigfoot, Bigfoot cartooning, or Bigfoot characters. Those were always the things I looked for, Bugs Bunny, any of the people that worked on those some were anonymous. And years later, I started learning the names of who drew Popeye, you know, like LZ seagar, the originator, or bud sagendorf or George Wildman, and later high eysman. But people like that were my heroes. Later on, I was interested in I would read the Batman comics, or I would see Tarzan in the newspaper. I admired the work of Russ Manning. Michael Hingson  45:49 Do you know the name Tom Hatton? Yes, I do. Yeah. Yes. Tom did Popeye shows on KTLA Channel Five when I was growing up, and he was famous for, as he described it, squiggles. He would make a squiggle and he would turn it into something. And he was right on TV, which was so much fun. Donnie Pitchford  46:09 We had a guy in Memphis who did the same thing. His name was, he's known as Captain Bill, C, A, P, you know, Captain Bill. And he did very much the same thing. He'd have a child come up, I think some, in some cases, they're called drools. Is one word for them. There was a yeah, in Tim hollis's area, there was cousin Cliff Holman who did that. And would he might have a kid draw a squiggle, and then he would create something from it right there on the spot, a very similar type of thing, or a letter of the alphabet, or your initials, that sort Michael Hingson  46:43 of thing. Yeah. Tom did that for years. It was fun. Of course, I couldn't see them, but he talked enough that I knew what was going on. It's kind of fun. My brother loved them, yeah? So later on, when you got to be a teenager and beyond what cartoonist maybe influenced you more? Donnie Pitchford  47:03 Well, I would have to say George, probably because I was corresponding with him, right? Also, I would see the work of Carl Barks, who created Uncle Scrooge McDuck and the Donald Duck comics and all that. His stuff was all in reprint at that time, he was still living, but I didn't know he could be contacted. I didn't try to write to it, right? Years later, years later, I did get an autograph, which was, was very nice. But those people, a lot of people, Neil Adams, who did Batman, the guys at Charlton Comics, Steve Ditko, who was the CO creator of spider man, but he had a disagreement with Stan Lee, and went back to Charlton Comics and just turned out 1000s of pages, but his work was was inspirational. Another was Joe Staton, who was working at Charleton comics, who I got to work with on several projects later on, and I would say just all of those guys that I was reading at the time. Pat Boyette was another Charlton artist. I tend to gravitate toward the Charlton company because their artists weren't contained in a house style. They were allowed to do their own style. They didn't pay as much. But a lot of them were either older guys that said, I'm tired of this, of the DC Marvel system. I want to just, you know, have creative freedom. Charlton said, come on. And so they would work there and less stress, less money, probably one guy named Don Newton started there and became a legend in the industry at other companies. So I found all of those guys inspiring, and I felt I could learn from all of them. Michael Hingson  48:59 Well, you always wanted to be a cartoonist. Did you have any other real career goals, like, was teaching a goal that you wanted to do, or was it just cartooning it? Donnie Pitchford  49:07 Well, it was just a secondary, you know, as I said, when I started, I thought, I'll just do that for a few years. You know, I didn't know it was going to be like 27 but I we had a lot of success. We had, I had some student groups that would enter video competitions. And for 20 straight years, we placed either first, second or third in state competition with one Summit, one entry, another or another every year. And that was notable. I mean, I give the kids the credit for that. But then about five or six of those years, we had what we call state championship wins, you know, we were like the number one project in the state of Texas. So, you know, we had some great success, I think, in that so a lot of years there, I really, you know, that was a blessing to me. Was that career, you. Well, it just, it just got to be too much time for change. After a while, Michael Hingson  50:05 was art just a talent that you had, and cartoon drawing a talent you had, or, I don't remember how much you said about did you have any real special training as such? Donnie Pitchford  50:14 Well, all of my training was, I just couldn't afford to go to a specialized school. You know, at one time, the Joe Kubert School opened just about the time I graduated high school, it was in New Jersey. I just couldn't make that happen, so I went to state colleges and universities and did the best I could. I took commercial art classes, drawing classes, design classes, even ceramics, which came in very handy when I did some sculpting here in the last eight or nine years and worked as an assistant to a sculptor named Bob harness who lives here in Carthage, but I never had any actual comic strip slash comic book training, so I learned as much of that as I could from guys like George wild. And then after I started the lemon Avenue comic strip, an artist named Joe, named Jim Amish, who worked for Marvel, did a lot of work for the Archie Comics. And tremendous anchor is his. He's really a tremendous anchor, and does a lot of ink work over other artists pencils. Jim would call and say, he said, I want to give you some advice. I'm like, okay, at 3am he's still giving me advice. So I'd go around for two or three days feeling like a failure, but then I would, I would think about all the lessons, you know, that he had told me. And so I learned a lot from Jim and tremendous, tremendous guy. And I would listen to what high, sometimes high would call up and say, Why did you use that purple beg your pardon. So it was fun. I mean, those fellows would share with me, and I learned a great deal from those guys. Michael Hingson  52:11 Are you in any way passing that knowledge on to others today? Donnie Pitchford  52:16 I don't know that I am. I've had an offer or two to do some teaching. I just don't know if I'm if I'm going to get back into that or not. Yeah, I'm so at this point, focused on, quote, unquote, being a cartoonist and trying to make that, that age five dream, a reality, that I'm not sure I'm ready to do that again. And you know, I'm not, I'm not 21 anymore. Michael Hingson  52:45 I didn't know whether you were giving advice to people and just sort of informally doing it, as opposed to doing formal teaching. Donnie Pitchford  52:51 Well, informally, yes, I mean, if anybody asks, you know, I'll be glad to share whatever I can. But yeah, I'm not teaching any classes at this point. Michael Hingson  53:01 Well, you have certainly taken lemon Abner to interesting places in New Heights. One, one thing that attracted me and we talked about it before, was in 2019, lemon Abner in Oz. That was fun. Donnie Pitchford  53:17 Well, the credit for that goes to Tim Hollis. Tim wrote that as a short story years ago when he was first interested in lemon Abner. And I don't know if he ever had that published through the International oz society or not. I don't remember, but Tim later turned that into a radio script when we had a batch of guests. This was in 2001 we had, let's see Sam Edwards, Dick Beals, Roby Lester and Rhoda Williams. And each of them had done something related to Oz, either the children's records or storybook records or animation or something. They were involved somewhere in some type of Oz adaptation. So Tim turned his short story into a radio script that we performed there at the convention. So that was a lot of fun. And then he suggested, Why don't I turn that into a comic strip story? So that's what we did. But that was fun, yeah, and we used the recordings of those people because they had given us permission, you know, to use a recording however we saw fit. The only problem is we had a mistake. The fellow that was running the sound had a dead mic and didn't know it. Oh, gosh. So some of them are bit Off mic in that audio, but we did the best. I did the best I could Michael Hingson  54:40 with it's it sounded good. I certainly have no complaints. 54:45 Thank you for that. Michael Hingson  54:47 I I said no complaints at all. I think it was really fun and very creative. And it's kind of really neat to see so much creativity in terms of all the stuff that that you do. As a cartoonist, me having never seen cartoons, but I learned intellectually to appreciate the talent that goes into it. And of course, you guys do put the scripts together every week, which is a lot of fun to be able to listen to them well. Donnie Pitchford  55:17 And that's what that was, the audience I hoped that we would would tap into right there and it, it was guys like you that would would talk to me and say, What am I going to do? You know, I can't see it. So that's why the audio idea came about. And it's taken on a life of its own, really. And we've got Mark Ridgway, who has created a lot of musical cues for us that we use and Michael Hingson  55:45 who plays the organ? Donnie Pitchford  55:47 That's Mark Ridgway. It is Mark, okay, yes, yes. And it's actually digital, I'm sure. I think it's a digital keyboard, Michael Hingson  55:55 yeah, but it is. It's a, it's a really good sounding one, though. Donnie Pitchford  55:59 Yes, yes. There are a few cues that I did, which probably are the ones that don't sound so good, like if we ever need really bad music. If you remember the story we did, and I don't remember the name of it, what do we call it anyway? Lum tries to start a soap opera. Think this was about a year ago. Yeah, and Cedric is going to play, I don't remember it was an organ or a piano, and I don't remember what he played, but whatever it was, I think was Mary Had Michael Hingson  56:32 a Little Lamb, Mary's, Mary Had a Little Lamb on the piano. Sort of kind played. Donnie Pitchford  56:35 It was played very badly, well that, yes, it was on purpose. When mom plays lum tries to play the saxophone. That was me, and I hadn't played this. I used to play the sax. In fact, I played in a swing orchestra here in Carthage, Texas for about five years back in from the early 90s. And so I had this idea, and I hadn't played the horn probably since, probably in 20 years, and his. So I got it out, and I thought, you know, it's gonna sound terrible because it needs maintenance, but it doesn't matter. It's lump playing it, so I got to play really badly. Michael Hingson  57:14 It was perfect. It was perfect, Donnie Pitchford  57:16 yeah, because it had to sound bad. Michael Hingson  57:19 How do y'all create all these different plots. I remember so many, like the buzzard, you know, and, oh yeah, that was fun. And so many. How do you come up with those? Donnie Pitchford  57:28 Well, I used to get some really good ideas while mowing the yard. Don't ask me, why? Or I get ideas. I get ideas in the weirdest thing, weirdest places. Sometimes I have ideas in the shower. You know, I said, I better write this down. Sometimes I'll wake up in the middle of the night with an idea, but there the ideas just come to me. Yeah? The buzzard was fun. I'd had that one. Pretty creative. Yeah, the one about, the one about, let me see. Oh, there was one we did, where wasn't the buzzard? What was that other one? I called the Whisper? Yeah, there was a strange voice that was coming lum thought it was coming from his radio. And he turns his radio off, and He still hears it, and it was a villain who had somehow hypnotized everyone so that they wouldn't see him and he would use his voice only. And then there's a character I came up with, and let me see Larry Gasman played it, and I called him Larry John Walden, and he was the only guy he was blind. He was the only guy that wasn't hypnotized because he couldn't see the you know, I use the old thing about the watch in front of the eyes. I mean, he was the only guy that wasn't hypnotized, so he wasn't fooled by the whisper, and he could track him, because his hearing was so acute that he was able to find him. In fact, I think he could hear his watch ticking or something like that. So he was the hero of that piece. But, well, I just, I just think up ideas and write them down. Tim Hollis has written some of the scripts, maybe three or four for me, I've adapted some scripts that London Abner did that were never broadcast or that were never recorded. Rather, I've adapted a few, written several, and I keep saying, Well, when I completely run out of ideas, I'll just have to quit. Michael Hingson  59:32 Well, hopefully that never happens. What? What are your future plans? Donnie Pitchford  59:38 Well, right now, there's nothing major in the works other than just maintaining the strip, trying to continue it, trying to make it entertaining, and hopefully doing a little work on the website and getting it into the hands of more people. And I'd like to increase. Least newspaper coverage, if at all possible. And because this thing doesn't, you know, it's got to pay for itself somehow. So you know, I'm not getting rich by any means. But you know, I want to keep it fun. I want to keep having fun with it. Hopefully people will enjoy it. Hopefully we can reach younger readers, listeners, and hopefully lemon Abner can appeal to even younger audiences yet, so that we can keep those characters going. Michael Hingson  1:00:29 Yeah, there's so much entertainment there. I hope that happens now in the the life of Donnie Pitchford. Is there a wife and kids? Donnie Pitchford  1:00:40 Yes, there's a wife of almost 40 years. We unfortunately don't have any children. We've almost feel like we adopted several children all the years we were teaching. We we've adopted several cats along the way. And so, you know, we've had cats as pets for almost ever, since we were married. But that's she's, she's great, you know, she's, she's been my best friend and supporter all these years. And we were members of first Methodist Church here in Carthage, Texas, and doing some volunteer work there, and helping to teach Sunday school, and very involved and active in that church. Michael Hingson  1:01:19 So I have a cat, and I hear her outside, not outside the house, but outside the the office here, she wants me to go feed her, and we, we shaved her yesterday because her hair gets long and Matt's very easily. So she got shaved yesterday. So she's probably seeking a little vengeance from that too, but, but my wife and I were married 40 years. She passed away in November of 2022 so it's me and stitch the cat and Alamo the dog, and Karen is monitoring us somewhere. And as I tell everyone, I've got to continue to be a good kid, because if I'm not, I'm going to hear about it. So I got to be good. But it's a lot of fun. Well, I want to thank you for being with us today. This has been a lot of fun. I've learned a lot, but it's just been great to have another podcast talking about old radio shows. And you said again, if people want to reach out, they can go to lemon Abner comics.com if people want to talk to you about doing any kind of cartooning or anything like that. What's the best way they can do that? Donnie Pitchford  1:02:24 Well, they can go to the London Abner dot lumen, Abner comics.com website, and there's a contact a link right there at the top of the page. So yeah, they can contact me through that. Probably that's the easiest way to do it. Michael Hingson  1:02:37 Okay, well, I want to thank you again for being here, and I want to thank all y'all out there. That's how they talk in Texas, right? It's all y'all for everybody. Donnie Pitchford  1:02:46 Well, some of them do, and some of them in Arkansas do too. Well, yeah. Michael Hingson  1:02:49 And then there's some who don't, yeah, y'all means everything, and it Speaker 1  1:02:54 don't, yeah, I don't think squire skimp says it that way. Michael Hingson  1:02:58 Well, Squire, you know, whatever it takes. But I want to thank you all for being here, and please give us a five star rating wherever you're listening or watching the podcast. Donnie would appreciate it. I would appreciate it, and also give us a review. We'd love to get your reviews, so please do that. If you can think of anyone else who ought to be a guest, and I think Donnie has already suggested a few. So Donnie as well, anyone else who ought to come on the podcast, we'd love it. Appreciate you introducing us, and you know, we'll go from there. And I know at some point in the future, the Michael hingson Group Inc is going to be a sponsor, because we've started that process for lemon. Abner, yes, thank you. Thank you. So I want to, I want to thank love and Squire for that 1:03:45 years. Well, it's been my pleasure. Michael Hingson  1:03:50 Well, thank you all and again, really, seriously, Donnie, I really appreciate you being here. This has been a lot of fun. So thank you for coming. Donnie Pitchford  1:03:58 Thank you. It's been a great honor. I've appreciated it very much. Michael Hingson  1:04:06 You have been listening to the Unstoppable Mindset podcast. Thanks for dropping by. I hope that you'll join us again next week, and in future weeks for upcoming episodes. To subscribe to our podcast and to learn about upcoming episodes, please visit www dot Michael hingson.com slash podcast. Michael Hingson is spelled m i c h a e l h i n g s o n. While you're on the site., please use the form there to recommend people who we ought to interview in upcoming editions of the show. And also, we ask you and urge you to invite your friends to join us in the future. If you know of any one or any organization needing a speaker for an event, please email me at speaker at Michael hingson.com. I appreciate it very much. To learn more about the concept of blinded by fear, please visit www dot Michael hingson.com forward slash blinded by fear and while you're there, feel free to pick up a copy of my free eBook entitled blinded by fear. The unstoppable mindset podcast is provided by access cast an initiative of accessiBe and is sponsored by accessiBe. Please visit www.accessibe.com . AccessiBe is spelled a c c e s s i b e. There you can learn all about how you can make your website inclusive for all persons with disabilities and how you can help make the internet fully inclusive by 2025. Thanks again for Listening. Please come back and visit us again next week.

We played a new game show while Chris is out, talked about Alex Verdugo, and heard from Padre hopeful Garrett Hawkins.

Stephen Hendry, Mark Watson & Steven Hallworth are joined by Abi Davies this week, looking back on the Sportsbet.io Players Championship and BetVictor Welsh Open events. They answer questions like where Barry Hawkins would rank in an all-time list, is John Higgins the most consistent player of the season, and discuss Mark Williams' phobia of tea bags!   Abi also discusses her inspirational tale of how sport helped save her life during dark moments.   TW: This podcast contains discussions of suicide and self harm. 

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We're back, and we're reflecting on victory for Barry Hawkins at the Welsh Open, who beat Jack Lisowski in the final in Llandudno. There's a review of the whole tournament, with all the results from the last 16 onwards. Plus the rest of the snooker news, including the latest from Q Tour. We'll return soon to catch up with your correspondence, which will include your tributes to John Virgo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What happens when you grow up feeling like you don't quite fit, and you spend decades assuming the problem is you?In this episode, I speak with Gary Hawkins, a long-serving NHS clinician who was diagnosed as autistic later in life. Gary's story is not neat or linear. It includes childhood chaos, being labelled “unteachable,” boarding school, the traumatic loss of his father in the Falklands, years of masking in professional environments, severe burnout, misdiagnosis, medication that didn't help, and eventually, a diagnosis that brought clarity rather than cure.This is not a conversation about labels for the sake of labels. It's about identity, shame, exhaustion, and the quiet cost of trying to pass as “normal” for decades.Gary speaks candidly about:Growing up feeling like he was “from Mars”The impact of trauma layered on top of neurodiversityBeing misdiagnosed and treated for the wrong thingsThe experience of masking in professional life, and the exhaustion that followsWhy autism is not a mental illness, but a different operating systemThe increased risk of depression and suicide in autistic menWhy diagnosis doesn't change your life, but can change how you see yourselfAnd why men are particularly poor at talking about how they really feelWe also explore the overlap between mental health and neurodiversity, and why many men may have spent years thinking they are lazy, difficult, arrogant, or broken, when in reality they may simply process the world differently.This episode is relevant not only for those considering whether autism or neurodiversity might apply to them, but for anyone who has:Felt chronically out of placeStruggled with social situations but excelled professionallyExperienced burnout that didn't make senseBeen told they're “too much” or “not enough”Spent years masking to surviveGary doesn't present autism as a superpower. Nor does he present it as tragedy. He presents it as reality — complex, nuanced, sometimes painful, and deeply human.Perhaps most importantly, this conversation is about self-acceptance. Not as a slogan, but as hard-won ground.

In this episode of Byte, Anthony Zooms with George Hawkins, one of the breakout stars of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. Known for his charismatic portrayal of a bold, swagger‑heavy cadet, Hawkins opens up about the layers beneath the bravado, the emotional core of his character's friendship with Jay-Den, and the pivotal storyline involving his leadership failure against the War College.

In today's episode, we are joined by Dr. James Hawkins, certified EFT couples therapist and trainer from The Joshua Center in Arkansas. Listen in as we tackle the tough topic of how to bridge the current political divide in partnerships. We are seeing the effect of division rampant in relationships across the nation and we come together here to discuss why this is happening from an attachment lens and how we can begin to ease the tension. Listeners will take away how the cycle shows up, attachment fears that drive deep seeded disconnection and actionable steps to start finding common ground. Our relationships are a great source of strength and we are far more alike than we are different. We hope you join us today in this important discussion and be brave in beginning to step closer to the ones you feel far away from. You can find Dr. Hawkins online at dochawklpc.com and on Instagram at @doc_hawk_lpc where he discusses more on these topics! Check out this episode's sponsor (and help the pod!): Uberlube.com -- Laurie's favorite personal lubricant! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hour Two of the Good Morning Football Podcast begins with a look at who stole the show at the NFL Combine! Hosts Sherree Burress, Kyle Brandt, Manti Te'o, and Isaac Rochell discuss which quarterbacks could make their way up in the NFL Draft. Patriots safety Jaylinn Hawkins drops by to discuss New England's season and coaches, plus recalling his Combine experience! The Good Morning Football Podcast is part of the NFL Podcast NetworkSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

(0:00) Spurs on 10-game winning streak, Bills Super Bowl or Bust?  (27:14) Over/Under for Rams, Packers, Jaguars (39:16) Should the NFL adopt UFL rule changes? (43:58) BUD List (01:03:17) Is Justin Herbert elite? (01:17:52) Jaylinn Hawkins joins the show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Send a textIn this episode, we sit down with Frederick Hawkins—Montgomery County's African American community liaison and podcast host for a candid discussion that follows his journey of service to the African American community and reviews his first year and a half in his position.  Along the way we give advice to youth, talk about the Black Coffee podcast, and Black History Month.If you care about community building, leadership, local government, and grassroots impact, this conversation is rich with takeaways you can use this week. Subscribe, share with a neighbor, and leave a review telling us which moment inspired you to take up space and get involved.

The final chapter of Stranger Things has closed, and the Hawkins crew is gone but not forgotten. After years of covering every twist, monster, and Upside Down revelation, we're gathering with listeners who've been on this journey from the beginning to dissect what worked, what didn't, and what it all meant. From the emotional gut punches to the unresolved mysteries, we're leaving no stone unturned as we not only examine the series finale and final season that everyone's been debating since it dropped, but all the seasons and moments that led us there. Our roundtable dives deep into character arcs that soared and ones that stumbled, the mythology that captivated us, and whether the Duffer Brothers stuck the landing. We discuss standout moments that defined the series, compare seasons, and debate the show's ultimate legacy in the television landscape. Whether you loved the ending or wished for something different, this conversation celebrates everything Stranger Things gave us while honestly examining its final bow. Join us for laughs, hot takes, and a proper farewell to Hawkins, Indiana. Connect with The Stranger Things Podcast: Facebook community Twitter Instagram Contribute Listener Feedback

Trent Salo - Owner/Founder of the Tendon Lab - joins us for the 139th episode of the podcast. On today's show we dive into quite a few topics regarding tendon health and care. Trent gives us some hugely valuable information when it comes to loading, understanding mechanisms, difference in intervention, and much more in the way of tendon dysfunction. As a former NBA Director and current PhD student, Trent has been a student of performance his entire career, and we were excited for him to be able to share just a small part of that in this conversation. Make sure you check out his website: https://www.thetendonlab.com/ and the upcoming Traverse City Tendon Summit from April 24-26th. You can find more information about the summit and sign up for the free tendon newsletter here: https://www.traversecitytendonsummit.com/You can also find Trent on social media @trentsaloFind and follow us on social media @mtn_perform and check back each Wednesday for a new episodeA huge Thank You to our sponsor, Hawkin Dynamics: Hawkin is the world leader in force measuring, and continues to put forth the tools for high-performance practitioners to be exactly that, high performers. If you haven't yet checked out Hawkins - head over to their website at: https://www.hawkindynamics.com/ and check out everything they have to offerMake sure to check out our sponsor, Samson Equipment: Samson is a leader in manufacturing elite weight room equipment (and have been for nearly 50 years). Founded by Dave and Linda Schroeder, Samson is weight room equipment made by coaches for coaches. Check them out at samsonequipment.com for more informationShoutout to our sponsor, 1080 Motion. The 1080 Sprint is the single best piece of training equipment in the world & has continually changed the game for training speed, strength, and power. Go to 1080motion.com to learn more.

The final chapter of Stranger Things has closed, and the Hawkins crew is gone but not forgotten. After years of covering every twist, monster, and Upside Down revelation, we're gathering with listeners who've been on this journey from the beginning to dissect what worked, what didn't, and what it all meant. From the emotional gut punches to the unresolved mysteries, we're leaving no stone unturned as we not only examine the series finale and final season that everyone's been debating since it dropped, but all the seasons and moments that led us there. The post TSTP 85- Stranger Things In Review appeared first on Golden Spiral Media- Entertainment Podcasts, Technology Podcasts & More.

On this episode of the Alex McFarland Show, Alex is honored to have Dr. O.S. Hawkins on the show. Dr. Hawkins is a great leader, an author of over 50 books, speaker and pastor. Listen as they discuss his new book, The Spirit Code. Dr. Hawkins also shares his testimony of how God touched his heart and life, and the impact that he is making to further the kingdom of God through the ministry, Mission Dignity. Scriptures:Joshua 1:8Acts 19:2Mark 14:50Romans 8:11Acts 4:20Ephesians 4:30Links:Alex McFarlandAsk AlexMy Relationship with God Free e-bookBook: 100 Bible Questions and Answers on Prophecy and the End TimesThe Cove - July 17-19 & 27-31Equip Retreat Camps United in Prayer DevotionalsSpeaking CalendarBook AlexGive OnlineAlex McFarland MinistriesP.O. Box 485Pleasant Garden, NC 273131-877-937-4631 (1-877-YES-GOD1)Guest Info:Dr. O.S. Hawkins WebsiteBook: The Spirit CodeGuidestone Financial ResourcesMission DignityKeywords/Hashtags:#podcast #pfcaudiovideo #thealexmcfarlandshow #alexmcfarland #podcastcommunity #Bible #author #apologist #speaker #christians #wordofGod #apologetics #religion #prayer #truth #scriptures #alexmcfarlandministries #Jesuslovesyou #youareneveralone #encouragement #purpose #christianity #truth #evangelism #DrOSHawkins #thespiritcode #theHolySpirit #missiondignity #Guidstonefinancialresources #testimonySend a text

This week, we're taking a look back at the people who put their lives on the line each day to keep us safe. Bruce ‘Hoppo’ Hawkins is known around the world thanks to the hit TV series Bondi Rescue, but what has kept him on the beach for more than 30 years? Plus fifth generation serviceman Heston Russell opens up about the military operation that has left a permanent mental scar. And former cop Danni Brooke on what it takes to go undercover and take down dangerous criminals. LINKS Listen to the full interview with Heston Russell here Listen to the full interview with Dannii Brooke here Listen to the full interview with Hoppo here Follow Ant on Instagram, X, and Facebook Learn more about Ant on his website antmiddleton.com Follow Nova Podcasts on Instagram for videos from the podcast and behind the scenes content – @novapodcastsofficial. CREDITS Host: Ant MiddletonEditor: Adrian WaltonExecutive Producer: Damien Haffenden Managing Producer: Ricardo Bardon Nova Entertainment acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land on which we recorded this podcast, the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation. We pay our respect to Elders past and present.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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In this week's episode Mondo and Joe Hawkins connect the dots between Elon Musk's space ambitions, rising technocrat power, and Donald Trump's new global peace initiative. Is this just innovation…or infrastructure for a future prophetic system?

Hoy hablamos de: 1. Los niveles humanos pueden interpretarse a través de las teorías de Abraham Maslow, Clayton Alderfer, David Hawkins y Lawrence Kohlberg. 2. Alderfer plantea tres niveles simultáneos: existencia, relación y crecimiento. 3. El nivel más bajo está dominado por la supervivencia, el miedo y el orgullo. 4. El miedo acompaña todos los niveles, pero en su forma exagerada limita al ser humano. 5. Históricamente, la humanidad ha permanecido mayormente en el nivel de supervivencia. 6. El nivel relacional introduce amor y alegría como experiencias humanas más elevadas. 7. Muchas acciones humanas siguen motivadas por miedo al castigo o necesidad de aceptación (Kohlberg). 8. El nivel más alto implica actuar por convicción ética y principios universales, no por miedo. 9. La “gran paradoja”: el miedo y el orgullo que nos frenan son en gran parte construcciones mentales. 10. La evolución humana consiste en pasar del miedo y el ego a la conciencia, el corazón y la ética. Música: 1. soundcloud.com/nhamer-garcia/hamer-metamorphosis 2. Valkiria. Nhamer García. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwSu1nKgAo Si quieres invitarme a algo, puedes hacerlo aquí: 1. https://www.ivoox.com/support/36379 2. Paypal: contacto@buscadoresdesentido.es 3. Transferencia a nombre de Álvaro Gómez Contreras en la cuenta: ES98 1491 0001 2930 0007 5447 Si quieres contactarme puedes hacerlo en : contacto@buscadoresdesentido.es

Bobby Whyte - Owner/Head Trainer at HyPower Performance - joins us for the 138th episode of MTN. On this episode of the show, Bobby gives us a rundown of just a few of the many chapters in his playing and coaching journey, we talk through the evolution as a strength coach, skills coach, and blending the two, and he talks to us about the increasing need to protect what is becoming more and more valuable to him - time. Check out Bobby's app - "Good-Drills" at: https://www.good-drills.com/ and his companies website: https://www.hypowerperformance.com/If you aren't already, follow Bobby on social media @bobbywhyte and check out everything he is putting outFind and follow us on social media @mtn_perform and check back each Wednesday for a new episodeA huge Thank You to our sponsor, Hawkin Dynamics: Hawkin is the world leader in force measuring, and continues to put forth the tools for high-performance practitioners to be exactly that, high performers. If you haven't yet checked out Hawkins - head over to their website at: https://www.hawkindynamics.com/ and check out everything they have to offerMake sure to check out our sponsor, Samson Equipment: Samson is a leader in manufacturing elite weight room equipment (and have been for nearly 50 years). Founded by Dave and Linda Schroeder, Samson is weight room equipment made by coaches for coaches. Check them out at samsonequipment.com for more informationShoutout to our sponsor, 1080 Motion. The 1080 Sprint is the single best piece of training equipment in the world & has continually changed the game for training speed, strength, and power. Go to 1080motion.com to learn more.

Jérôme Rothen se chauffe contre un autre consultant, un éditorialiste ou un acteur du foot.

"Ever had the rug pulled out from under you—suddenly seeing through illusions, societal programming, or personal deceptions—and felt the emotional tsunami hit? Shock, anger, grief, betrayal… it's intense. But what if that breakthrough train bursting into sunlight is exactly on time? In this episode of TGI Now We welcome back Joe "Zep" Antonelli as we dive into the real experience of spiritual awakenings: why they often arrive unexpectedly, how to honor (but not get lost in) the heavy emotions, and essential grounding practices to regain clarity and stability. We also bring in Dr. David R. Hawkins' renowned Map of Consciousness—a logarithmic scale from 1 to 1000 that calibrates human awareness and energy fields. Discover where fear, anger, and pride sit below the critical 200 threshold… and how crossing into Courage, Acceptance, Reason, Love (500+), Joy, Peace, and even Enlightenment transforms everything. #awakening #hawkins

In this podcast episode, we interview Kristan Hawkins, President of Students for Life of America and Students for Life Action, about her work building and supporting over 1,600 pro-life student groups and training nearly a quarter million young people. Hawkins discusses serving on Trump's 2016 Pro-Life Advisory Council, her view of his pro-life record, and why she believes Planned Parenthood would expand anywhere it could, citing founder Margaret Sanger's beliefs. She talks about campus debates, viral videosShe emphasizes focusing on ending abortion by targeting the industry while changing hearts and minds, and encourages young conservatives/Gen Alpha to build large platforms to speak to their generation, directing viewers to studentsforlife.org to start or join groups and get trained. #ProgrammingLionsPodcast IG: kristanmercerhawkinsWeb:  Studentsforlife.org Shop GSD Affiliates:

Alan Gottlieb rejoins and catches us up on all things 2A court related from the Second Amendment Foundation. Alan covers previous results in courts and the latest filings defending our freedoms, talks the goinings on in VA and NM as well as latest current events. AWR brings it! Dr. Hawkins opens with a Happy Ending Story, and gives us his unique takes on the 2A news of the day from his perspective at Breitbart News.

What happens when you step away for a while… and then come back to the microphones?This week's episode isn't about one mystery.It's about the space between them.After taking some time off, we finally sit back down, shake off the rust, and catch up on life, burnout, and the weird in-between season feeling of being away from the show longer than we meant to be. We talk honestly about why the break happened, what the time away did for us creatively, and what it felt like to come back and hit record again.From there, we dive back into Hawkins one last time.With some distance from the finale of Stranger Things, we share our final thoughts on how the series ended — what worked, what didn't, what hit us emotionally, and which moments still stick with us now that the dust has settled. We also revisit the internet-fueled frenzy around the so-called “secret final episode” and the conformity gate mystery — the theories, the supposed clues, and whether or not we think there's anything left to uncover… or if this is just what happens when a show ends and people aren't ready to let go yet.And then… we open the vault.As a bonus for everyone on the main feed, we're including a full hour from our Patreon, recorded back when only the first half of the final season had dropped. You'll hear our raw, unfiltered reactions, wild theories, emotional predictions, and absolute confidence about where the story was headed.Some of those predictions were…Let's just say the Demogorgons are laughing at us.This episode is less about solving mysteries…and more about revisiting them.The theories we built.The excitement we felt.The way stories pull us in, chew us up emotionally, and leave us staring at the credits, not quite ready to move on.If you've ever gone a little too deep into Reddit threads, paused a scene to hunt for clues, or convinced yourself that there has to be more…This one's for you.IT FEELS SO GOOD TO SAY..."We're back."Season 6 officially kicks off next week.And we're ready to start getting weird again.Stay curious.Stay spooky.Stay forever rad.CONNECT WITH US:

Le sujet fort de l'actualité foot du jour vu par Jérôme Rothen et la Dream Team.

Hai mai guardato una serie TV in italiano e pensato: "Ma che cosa ha detto?!" Le serie TV sono un'ottima risorsa per imparare espressioni autentiche. Con questo articolo imparerai 12 espressioni italiane colloquiali usate nel doppiaggio italiano di Stranger Things, quelle che sentirai spesso nelle conversazioni quotidiane. 12 Espressioni Italiane da Stranger Things 1. Banale Nullità Contesto nella Serie Nell'episodio 1 della stagione 2, Jonathan Byers cerca di consolare suo fratello minore Will, che è stato preso in giro a scuola con il soprannome "Zombie Boy". Per rassicurarlo e fargli capire che essere diversi non è un difetto, Jonathan gli dice: "Va bene? E preferisco essere amico di Zombie Boy che di una banale nullità." Che Cosa Significa? Questa espressione è composta da due parole: Banale, che indica qualcosa di ordinario, scontato, senza originalità, e Nullità, che descrive una persona insignificante, priva di valore o personalità. Quindi una "banale nullità" è una persona completamente priva di interesse, noiosa, che non ha nulla di speciale. Si tratta di un insulto piuttosto forte. Esempi d'Uso "Non voglio passare il sabato sera con quelle banali nullità. Andiamo da un'altra parte." "Il nuovo collega? Una banale nullità. Non ha mai un'opinione su niente." Nota Linguistica In italiano usiamo spesso "nullità" per indicare una persona senza valore. Puoi anche dire semplicemente "Sei una nullità!" se vuoi essere più diretto. 2. Essere in Gambissima Contesto nella Serie Nell'episodio 6 della stagione 2, Lucas Sinclair cerca di conquistare Max Mayfield, la ragazza appena trasferita a Hawkins che gli piace molto. Mentre i due sono da soli, Lucas vuole farle capire quanto la ammiri e, guardandola negli occhi, le dice: "E tu sei forte, sei diversa e sei in gambissima." Che Cosa Significa? L'espressione di base è "essere in gamba", che significa essere una persona capace, intelligente, sveglia, che sa fare le cose bene. Qui abbiamo "in gambissima", con il superlativo assoluto -issima, che rende l'espressione ancora più forte: significa essere molto in gamba, davvero eccezionale. Esempi d'Uso "La mia nuova avvocata è in gambissima: ha risolto tutto in una settimana." "Tuo figlio è proprio in gamba. A soli 10 anni parla già tre lingue." Attenzione "Essere in gamba" si usa solo per le persone, non per le cose. Quindi è corretto dire "Marco è in gamba", ma non puoi dire "Questo computer è in gamba". 3. Essere Fuori Strada Contesto nella Serie Nell'episodio 4 della stagione 4, ritroviamo sempre Max Mayfield, ormai parte integrante del gruppo. Quando qualcuno le propone di trascorrere il tempo nello scantinato di Mike Wheeler, lei rifiuta categoricamente con il suo carattere diretto: "Se credi che passerò quello che sembra essere il mio ultimo giorno di vita nel lurido scantinato di Mike Wheeler, sei fuori strada." Che Cosa Significa? Letteralmente, "fuori strada" indica qualcuno che ha sbagliato direzione, che non è sulla strada giusta. In senso figurato significa sbagliarsi completamente, avere un'idea totalmente sbagliata della situazione. Esempi d'Uso "Pensi che io abbia rubato i tuoi soldi? Sei completamente fuori strada." "Se credi che ti presterò la macchina dopo quello che è successo, sei fuori strada." Espressioni Simili EspressioneRegistroSei fuori!Più colloquialeTi sbagli di grosso!StandardNon ci siamo proprio!Colloquiale 4. Che Cosa Cavolo...? Contesto nella Serie Nell'episodio 3 della stagione 2, ancora una volta Max Mayfield si fa notare per il suo temperamento schietto. Quando assiste a qualcosa di inaspettato che la lascia sorpresa e irritata, reagisce esclamando: "Ma che cosa cavolo fai?" Che Cosa Significa? "Cavolo" è un eufemismo, cioè una parola più gentile che sostituisce una parola volgare. Si usa per esprimere sorpresa, rabbia o frustrazione in modo meno offensivo. Esempi d'Uso "Che cavolo stai dicendo?" "Ma dove cavolo sei andato?" "Cavolo! Ho dimenticato le chiavi." Altri Eufemismi Italiani EufemismoUsoAccidenti!Esclamazione genericaMannaggia!Espressione di frustrazionePorca miseria!Esprime rabbia Nota Linguistica Il cavolo è un ortaggio molto presente nelle espressioni italiane: "Non me ne importa un cavolo", "Fatti i cavoli tuoi", "Col cavolo!" (per dire "assolutamente no"). 5. Rompiscatole Testa Calda Contesto nella Serie Nell'episodio 3 della stagione 5, Jim Hopper, lo sceriffo di Hawkins e padre adottivo di Eleven, si confronta con la ragazza dopo l'ennesimo momento di tensione. Con il suo tipico tono burbero ma affettuoso, esasperato dal suo comportamento impulsivo, le dice: "Sei una rompiscatole testa calda, lo sai, sì?" Che Cosa Significa? Qui abbiamo due espressioni insieme: Rompiscatole indica una persona fastidiosa, che dà sempre problemi, che non ti lascia in pace (è anche una versione più educata di un'altra espressione più volgare). Testa calda descrive una persona impulsiva, che agisce senza pensare, che si arrabbia facilmente. Una "rompiscatole testa calda" è quindi qualcuno che è sia fastidioso sia impulsivo. Esempi d'Uso "Mio fratello è un vero rompiscatole: mi chiama dieci volte al giorno." "Non fare il testa calda. Pensa prima di parlare." 6. Non Me Ne Fotte Niente Contesto nella Serie Nell'episodio 3 della stagione 5, quando la sorella viene a chiamarlo per la cena, Derek risponde con tono calmo e annoiato: "Non me ne fotte niente della mamma." Attenzione: Espressione Volgare Che Cosa Significa? Significa "non mi importa per niente", ma in modo molto forte e maleducato. Il verbo "fottere" è volgare, quindi questa espressione si usa solo in contesti molto informali, tra amici stretti, o quando sei molto arrabbiato. Alternative Più Educate EspressioneLivello di FormalitàNon me ne importa nienteNeutroNon mi interessaFormaleNon me ne può fregar di menoColloquiale (ancora un po' forte)Me ne infischioColloquiale ma non volgare Consiglio Se stai imparando l'italiano, è importante capire queste espressioni quando le senti, ma fai attenzione a usarle: potrebbero offendere qualcuno se usate nel contesto sbagliato. 7. Annaspare Contesto nella Serie Nell'episodio 1 della stagione 4, conosciamo Eddie Munson, il carismatico leader dell'Hellfire Club, il club di Dungeons & Dragons della Hawkins High School. Mentre parla con i suoi compagni nella mensa della scuola, ammette con ironia: "Io annaspo a fatica verso una D nei compiti della O'Donnell." Che Cosa Significa? Annaspare ha due significati: nel significato letterale, indica il muovere le braccia e le gambe in modo disordinato, come quando stai per affogare in acqua; nel significato figurato, significa fare molta fatica, trovarsi in grande difficoltà, non riuscire a portare avanti qualcosa. Nel contesto della serie, Eddie sta dicendo che fa molta fatica a scuola, che a stento riesce a prendere voti sufficienti. Esempi d'Uso "Sto annaspando con questo progetto: è troppo difficile." "Dopo aver perso il lavoro, annaspa per arrivare a fine mese." "Nuota malissimo: quando entra in acqua, annaspa come un pesce fuor d'acqua." 8. Rimanere di Stucco Contesto nella Serie Nell'episodio 1 della stagione 5, Robin Buckley, l'ironica e sarcastica amica di Steve Harrington, racconta via radio un episodio che l'ha completamente spiazzata. Descrivendo la sua reazione di totale stupore, dice riferendosi a se stessa: "[...] ...la sottoscritta è rimasta di stucco." Che Cosa Significa? Rimanere di stucco significa rimanere molto sorpresi, sbalorditi, senza parole. È come rimanere immobili dalla sorpresa, come se fossi diventato una statua. Lo "stucco" è un materiale usato in edilizia, che diventa duro quando si asciuga. L'immagine è quella di una persona che rimane ferma, rigida, come se fosse fatta di stucco. Esempi d'Uso "Quando ho saputo che Marco si sposava, sono rimasto di stucco." "La notizia mi ha lasciato di stucco: non me l'aspettavo proprio." Espressioni Simili EspressioneImmagine EvocataRimanere di sassoPietrificato come un sassoRimanere a bocca apertaStupore fisico visibileRestare senza paroleIncapacità di parlareRimanere di saleRiferimento biblico alla moglie di Lot 9. Dare un Taglio / Diamoci un Taglio Contesto nella Serie Nell'episodio 7 della stagione 5, Murray Bauman, l'eccentrico ex giornalista e investigatore privato che ha aiutato il gruppo in diverse occasioni, interviene durante una discussione che si sta prolungando troppo. Con il suo modo diretto e pragmatico, cerca di riportare l'altra persona alla realtà dicendo: "[...] quindi diamoci un taglio netto." Che Cosa Significa? Dare un taglio significa smettere di fare qualcosa, finirla, piantarla. Si usa quando vuoi dire a qualcuno (o a te stesso) di smettere con un comportamento. "Taglio netto" aggiunge enfasi: significa smettere completamente, senza mezze misure. Esempi d'Uso "Dacci un taglio con queste lamentele." "Ho dato un taglio ai dolci: voglio dimagrire." "Ragazzi, diamoci un taglio e torniamo a lavorare." Attenzione Non confondere "dacci un taglio" (smettere) con "farsi un taglio" (che significa farsi i capelli o tagliarsi accidentalmente). 10. Secchione / Secchiona Contesto nella Serie Nell'episodio 6 della stagione 3, Dustin Henderson, il membro più nerd del gruppo, si rivolge ad Erica durante una conversazione. Quando lei fa un commento che lui trova troppo ottimista o poco realistico, la prende in giro dicendole: "Pensavo che fossi più realista, secchiona." Che Cosa Significa? Un secchione (o una secchiona) è uno studente che studia moltissimo, che passa tutto il tempo sui libri.

Recorded at the 2025 American Exploration and Mining Association Annual Meeting, this Mining Minds episode features Walsh Reclamation Operations Manager Troy Hawkins. Troy shares his background as a ninth-generation miner and reflects on how his father—a self-described "tramp miner"—was his hero and shaped his values around respect, hard work, and character over credentials. He discusses growing up in a small mining town, leaving school early, and entering the mining industry alongside his family. Troy reflects on his 23-year career at one operation, where he began as a haul truck driver and advanced through multiple operational and leadership roles. Once a rebellious young operator, he evolved into a people-focused leader who prioritizes morale, respect, and personal connection—building high-performing crews through trust and genuine care. Please help us welcome Troy Hawkins to The Face. We would like to thank the American Exploration and Mining Association (AEMA) for hosting Mining Minds at the event and for their ongoing dedication to advancing and amplifying voices throughout the mining industry.   Episode Sponsors:  American Exploration and Mining Safety First Training and Consulting JSR Fleet Performance Motor Mission Machine and Radiator    Episode Chapters:  05:05 Feral Mining-Town Childhood & How Kids Are Different Now 12:18 School Struggles, Sports Dreams, and Learning Outside the Classroom 33:34 "Your long hair will never make you successful" — proving them wrong 39:14 When leadership gets personal 47:22 How he builds trust 55:40 Hiring without the script: real interviews, real people 01:01:27 Marriage & support system 01:12:04 First Date at Carver's 01:16:20 Stepping into Walsh 01:22:54 Scaling Up with Trust 01:24:18 Why People Take a Pay Cut to Work for Good Leaders 01:33:10 Pucker Factor Stories

In Ringo, Kawamatsu recounts his tragic past and the truth about Onimaru. Hiyori trades Shusui for Enma, Law defeats Hawkins, and Apoo's betrayal is revealed. As Luffy and Zoro train for the raid, Big Mom and Kaido form an unexpected alliance.⁠⁠PandaSightings.com⁠⁠⁠ Audio Engineer -  ⁠⁠⁠⁠ @mixed.by.neal⁠⁠⁠⁠Production Assistant - @TRGabrielGFExecutive Producer - @PabloShoe~

In this episode of the Smarter Not Harder Podcast, Grace Hawkins joins Jodi Duval to share her inspiring journey from medical misdiagnosis to becoming a personalized health mentor. With a background in naturopathy and clinical diagnostics, Grace blends DNA, blood chemistry, and HTMA testing to help her clients uncover the root causes of dysfunction and reclaim agency in their health journey. From endometriosis and burnout to lab interpretation and emotional patterns, this episode is a roadmap for how to think critically, test wisely, and personalize healing in a system that often fails to see the whole picture. Join us as we explore: • Grace's approach to personalized testing: DNA, HTMA & blood • Emotional patterns, heavy metals & how HTMA reveals hidden stories • How to empower clients with data and narrative — not just prescriptions • The future of health mentorship and integrative practitioner models This episode is for you if: • You've been told "your labs are normal" — but you still don't feel right • You're curious about DNA or hair mineral testing but don't know where to start • You're a clinician seeking a smarter approach to functional workups • You believe healing means slow medicine — not just instant fixes You can also find this episode on... Youtube: https://youtu.be/F4MFhNAheic Learn more about Grace Hawkins: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/grace-hawkins-a2260b69/ Facebook: Health with Grace | Byron Bay NSW Instagram: Grace Hawkins (BHSc) (@healthwithgrace_) • Instagram profile Website: Home - Health With Grace Find more from Smarter Not Harder: Website: Smarter Not Harder podcast Instagram: Troscriptions (@troscriptions) • Instagram profile HOMeHOPe Virtual Symposium 2026: HOMeHOPe Virtual Symposium 2026 - HOMeHOPe Get 10% off your purchase of the Clinical Metabolomics module with code PODCAST10 at Let's bring Health HOMe - HOMeHOPe. Get 10% off your Troscriptions purchase with code POD10 at Troscriptions® - Buccal Troches for Health Optimization. Get daily content from the hosts of Smarter Not Harder by following @troscriptions on Instagram.

The journey ends here. In this Geekflix COMPLETE review of Stranger Things Season 5, we break down the ending, discuss the MVP of the season, analyze the biggest emotional moments, and give our final verdict on the entire series. From Eleven's final stand to Vecna's ultimate fate and the legacy of Hawkins, we dive deep into what worked, what surprised us, and whether Season 5 delivered the ending fans deserved. Was this the perfect conclusion to one of Netflix's greatest shows? Let's talk theories, character arcs, callbacks, and everything that made Stranger Things a cultural phenomenon. ⚠️ FULL SPOILERS INCLUDED ⚠️

Hannah Wengertsman - Director of Health and Performance - and Garrett Kendall - Team Physical Therapist - join us for the 137th episode of MTN. On this episode of the podcast, we delve into each of their roles within the organization, navigating the care across the W, and the disparity that is still seen in an ever growing league.Follow Hannah on IG @hannahwengertsman and Find Garrett @drgkendall Find and follow us on social media @mtn_perform and check back each Wednesday for a new episodeA huge Thank You to our sponsor, Hawkin Dynamics: Hawkin is the world leader in force measuring, and continues to put forth the tools for high-performance practitioners to be exactly that, high performers. If you haven't yet checked out Hawkins - head over to their website at: https://www.hawkindynamics.com/ and check out everything they have to offerMake sure to check out our sponsor, Samson Equipment: Samson is a leader in manufacturing elite weight room equipment (and have been for nearly 50 years). Founded by Dave and Linda Schroeder, Samson is weight room equipment made by coaches for coaches. Check them out at samsonequipment.com for more informationShoutout to our sponsor, 1080 Motion. The 1080 Sprint is the single best piece of training equipment in the world & has continually changed the game for training speed, strength, and power. Go to 1080motion.com to learn more.

Screamin' Jay Hawkins released “I Put a Spell on You” in 1956 on Okeh Records. Elvis Presley released “Heartbreak Hotel” and “Hound Dog,” transforming popular music—and youth culture—almost overnight. The song that would define him was never meant to be a novelty. Hawkins later claimed he recorded it while blackout drunk, so intoxicated that he remembered nothing of the session. The record failed on its initial release, but when it caught on years later, it transformed Hawkins from a struggling musician into a cult figure. “I Put a Spell on You” has been covered countless times and featured in films released decades after its debut. The artists and movies mentioned in this story are real. The song's cultural afterlife is long, strange, and very well documented. But were Hawkins's voodoo trappings merely theatrics, or was there something more sinister behind them? Of course it was all for show—almost certainly. Still, the idea that it might not have been was enough to send several fictional possibilities leaping out of the coffin that is this author's brain. I hope you enjoy “I Put a Spell on You.” Written and performed by Scott Sigler Production Assistance by Allie Press Copyright 2026 by Empty Set Entertainment  Theme music is the song “Dark Wave” by Roman Rumyantsev With Valentine's Day just around the corner, why not surprise your sweetheart with a new 3-year domain registration? You can save 99% off the first year by using GoDaddy Promo Code CJCFOSSIG3 ! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

✨ What if the reset your marriage actually needs isn't a new system, habit, or goal - but a clearer focus? In this episode, we sit down with O.S. Hawkins to talk about what it looks like to strip away the noise, the pressure, and the expectations and come back to the center: Jesus. ♥️ We explore why strong marriages are built from the inside out, how your relationship with God shapes every other relationship in your life, and why family has always been at the heart of God's design. This conversation is thoughtful, grounding, and a powerful reminder of what really matters for your marriage and your walk with Christ. Resources: Free resources, books, and devotionals available at https://www.oshawkins.com/books Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices