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2 episodes with The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel
2 episodes with The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel
2 episodes with The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel
2 episodes with The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel
2 episodes with The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel
On May 16, 1929, 270 people assembled in the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel's Blossom Room. They were there to honor the highest achievements in filmmaking over the last year. It was not broadcast on radio, was not recorded, and the entire event only took 15 minutes. Those present on that day didn't know it, but they were witness to the start of the most prestigious awards in the motion picture industry. Learn more about the Academy Awards, its history, and how they work in this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors Mint Mobile Cut your wireless bill to 15 bucks a month at mintmobile.com/eed Quince Go to quince.com/daily for 365-day returns, plus free shipping on your order! Stitch Fix Go to stitchfix.com/everywhere to have a stylist help you look your best Tourist Office of Spain Plan your next adventure at Spain.info Stash Go to get.stash.com/EVERYTHING to see how you can receive $25 towards your first stock purchase and to view important disclosures. Subscribe to the podcast! https://everything-everywhere.com/everything-everywhere-daily-podcast/ -------------------------------- Executive Producer: Charles Daniel Associate Producers: Austin Oetken & Cameron Kieffer Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhere Update your podcast app at newpodcastapps.com Discord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFh Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/everythingeverywheredaily Twitter: https://twitter.com/everywheretrip Website: https://everything-everywhere.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
As Frieze LA and Felix Art Fair approach, the Los Angeles art scene is at a pivotal moment. The recent fires have impacted galleries, artists, and collectors, raising questions about how the community is recovering and whether visitors will return for the city's biggest art week. In this week's episode of the ArtTactic Podcast, host Adam Green sits down with Mills Moran, co-founder of Felix Art Fair, to discuss how the LA art world is bouncing back, the decision to move forward with Felix despite the challenges, and why it's more important than ever for people to show up and support the city's galleries and artists. Mills also shares insights into how Felix has evolved since its inception in 2019, the growing appeal of alternative fair models, and what's in store for this year's edition at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.
On this episode, Tony Brueski digs into the glamorous yet eerie history of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, where Old Hollywood meets the supernatural. From Marilyn Monroe's ghostly reflection to the mysterious piano music echoing through empty halls, we uncover the chilling reports from guests and staff alike. Join Tony as he dives deep into the lore surrounding this iconic hotel, exploring both paranormal testimonies and rational explanations. What secrets does the Roosevelt hold, and why do its stories captivate believers and skeptics alike? This is one haunting Hollywood tale you don't want to miss!
On this episode, Tony Brueski digs into the glamorous yet eerie history of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, where Old Hollywood meets the supernatural. From Marilyn Monroe's ghostly reflection to the mysterious piano music echoing through empty halls, we uncover the chilling reports from guests and staff alike. Join Tony as he dives deep into the lore surrounding this iconic hotel, exploring both paranormal testimonies and rational explanations. What secrets does the Roosevelt hold, and why do its stories captivate believers and skeptics alike? This is one haunting Hollywood tale you don't want to miss!
In episode 33 of the Global Travel Planning Podcast, Tracy and Doug recount their whirlwind adventure in Los Angeles. Discover how a cancelled flight turned their planned three-and-a-half-day itinerary into a two-and-a-half-day sprint filled with iconic attractions and unforgettable experiences. Whether you're considering a stopover en route to Europe or simply looking for a short getaway in the City of Angels, this episode is packed with tips and insights.Tracy and Doug share their stay at the historic Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, a location steeped in cinematic history and charm. They highlight their VIP experience at Universal Studios, offering a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the magic of Hollywood with no queues and exclusive access. The duo also revisits their favourite spots on the Day in LA tour, from the glamour of Rodeo Drive to the iconic Hollywood sign.With practical advice on navigating Los Angeles, including transport tips and itinerary suggestions, this episode is a must-listen for anyone planning a visit to the entertainment capital of the world. Whether you're a film buff or just seeking a taste of Tinseltown, Tracy and Doug's experience provides both inspiration and a practical guide.Send us a text
The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel is known for its glamorous past and famous guests, but it's the ghosts that have captured the most attention. In this episode, we explore the eerie hauntings of this iconic Hollywood landmark, from sightings of Marilyn Monroe's spirit to mysterious cold spots and flickering lights. Guests claim to have felt unexplained touches, heard phantom footsteps, and witnessed strange apparitions in the hotel's hallways. We take a deep dive into the paranormal activity reported at the Roosevelt, a hotel that seems to bridge the gap between old Hollywood glitz and the supernatural. Is it the glamour of the past drawing visitors, or is it the ghosts of Hollywood legends?
The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel is known for its glamorous past and famous guests, but it's the ghosts that have captured the most attention. In this episode, we explore the eerie hauntings of this iconic Hollywood landmark, from sightings of Marilyn Monroe's spirit to mysterious cold spots and flickering lights. Guests claim to have felt unexplained touches, heard phantom footsteps, and witnessed strange apparitions in the hotel's hallways. We take a deep dive into the paranormal activity reported at the Roosevelt, a hotel that seems to bridge the gap between old Hollywood glitz and the supernatural. Is it the glamour of the past drawing visitors, or is it the ghosts of Hollywood legends?
Marc Rose and Med Abrous are NYC natives who have made a significant impact on Los Angeles' nightlife and dining scenes. They have breathed new life into iconic spots like The Spare Room at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Genghis Cohen, and the classic La Dolce Vita in Beverly Hills. We explore their creative process, attention to detail, and what drives them to honor the legacy of these storied locations while pushing the boundaries of hospitality. Their community involvement spans across the cocktail community and the various cities they work in- organizations include The Mountaineers, Giving Kitchen, Billion Oyster Project and more! Enjoy this episode as we go Beyond the Drink… with Marc Rose & Med Abrous.This season of #BeyondtheDrink is brought to you by Fords Gin, a gin created to cocktail.Follow Beyond the Plate on Facebook and X.Follow Kappy on Instagram and X.Find Beyond the Plate on all major podcast platforms. www.beyondtheplatepodcast.com www.onkappysplate.com
In this episode, Bashar Wali, founder and CEO of Practice Hospitality and This Assembly, shares why "shock and awe" tactics often fall flat and why simple gestures can elevate the ordinary into something memorable.Listeners will learn:Why true loyalty isn't earned with points but with something far more profound that taps into our human nature What we can learn from the world of theater Why it's easier than ever to build guest relationshipsThe importance of being nice and training employees on emotional intelligence, self-awareness, and empathyHow hotels can use technology to remove friction and create opportunities for meaningful engagement Mentions:Aman New York (15:44)Fifth Avenue Hotel NYC (15:55)RH Guesthouse (16:05)Faena Hotel New York (16:08)W Hotel Bangkok (03:16)American Airlines Concierge Key program (07:38)The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel (06:35)Les Schwab Tire Company (16:55)Peninsula Hotel Beverly Hills (21:58)Marriott Hotels (22:50)Nike (25:25)Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs (27:29 and 31:11)Starbucks (32:14) A few more resources: If you're new to Hospitality Daily, start here. You can send me a message here with questions, comments, or guest suggestions If you want to get my summary and actionable insights from each episode delivered to your inbox each day, subscribe here for free. Follow Hospitality Daily and join the conversation on YouTube, LinkedIn, and Instagram. If you want to advertise on Hospitality Daily, here are the ways we can work together. If you found this episode interesting or helpful, send it to someone on your team so you can turn the ideas into action and benefit your business and the people you serve! Music for this show is produced by Clay Bassford of Bespoke Sound: Music Identity Design for Hospitality Brands
In this eerie episode of The Halloween Podcast, host Lyle Perez takes you on a chilling journey through California, where haunted mansions, ghostly ships, and eerie ghost towns await. This is Episode 5 of the Haunted America series, released on September 16, 2024. Here's a glimpse at the haunted locations we'll explore: The Winchester Mystery House - 525 S Winchester Blvd, San Jose, CA 95128 Explore the labyrinthine mansion built by Sarah Winchester, where the spirits of those killed by Winchester rifles are said to haunt its halls. The Queen Mary - 1126 Queens Hwy, Long Beach, CA 90802 Board this retired ocean liner, known as one of the most haunted ships in the world, where the spirits of former passengers and crew still linger. The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel - 7000 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028 Stay at this iconic hotel where the ghosts of Marilyn Monroe and Montgomery Clift are said to roam its luxurious halls. Alcatraz Island - San Francisco, CA 94133 Visit the infamous former prison on Alcatraz Island, where the spirits of notorious criminals are believed to haunt its cold, desolate cells. The Whaley House - 2476 San Diego Ave, San Diego, CA 92110 Step into this historic house, often referred to as one of the most haunted in America, where the spirits of past residents still make their presence known. The Mission Inn - 3649 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, CA 92501 Experience the grandeur of this historic hotel, where the ghosts of former owners and a tragic bride are said to haunt its elegant rooms. The Hotel del Coronado - 1500 Orange Ave, Coronado, CA 92118 Discover the ghostly legend of Kate Morgan, whose tragic death at this historic hotel has left a lingering presence that still haunts its halls. The Chateau Marmont - 8221 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90046 Stay at this historic hotel, where the ghost of John Belushi and other spectral residents are said to linger in the shadows. The Bodie Ghost Town - Bodie, CA 93517 Wander through this frozen-in-time ghost town, where the spirits of former residents still roam its deserted streets and buildings. The Glen Tavern Inn - 134 N Mill St, Santa Paula, CA 93060 Stay at this historic inn, where the ghosts of a cowboy and a flirtatious woman in a red dress are known to haunt its rooms. Join us as we delve into the haunted history of California, from its eerie ghost towns to its haunted hotels. Whether you're a seasoned ghost hunter or just love a good spooky story, this episode is sure to leave you with chills. Don't forget to subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with your fellow ghost hunters. Stay spooky, my friends! Like Our Facebook page for more Halloween fun: www.Facebook.com/TheHalloweenPodcast ORDER PODCAST MERCH! Website: www.TheHalloweenPodcast.com Email: TheHalloweenPodcast@gmail.com X: @TheHalloweenPod Support the Show: www.patreon.com/TheHalloweenPod Get bonus Halloween content and more! Just for Patreon supporters! Check out my other show! Find it on iTunes - Amazing Advertising http://amazingadvertising.podomatic.com/ Keywords: Haunted California, California Ghost Stories, Haunted Locations, California Paranormal, Haunted America, Winchester Mystery House, Queen Mary, Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Alcatraz Island, Whaley House, Mission Inn, Hotel del Coronado, Chateau Marmont, Bodie Ghost Town, Glen Tavern Inn, Ghost Hunting, Paranormal California Tags: #HauntedAmerica #GhostStories #CaliforniaHaunts #ParanormalPodcast #HauntedLocations #CaliforniaGhosts #WinchesterMysteryHouse #QueenMary #HollywoodRooseveltHotel #AlcatrazIsland #WhaleyHouse #MissionInn #HotelDelCoronado #ChateauMarmont #BodieGhostTown #GlenTavernInn #StaySpooky
Hey Boos, join us today as we discuss the haunted history of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel! Before we get into that, we talk about the trailer for the upcoming horror movie Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey 2. Then we get into the history of the hotel, the ghost stories, and the pop culture. For our Boo Crew Moment of the Week, Emily hosts a game of horror would you rather. We would love to interact with you, shoot us an email or DM us on Instagram or Facebook! Follow us on Instagram - boo.busters.podcast Follow us on Facebook - Boo Busters Podcast Follow us on TikTok - Boo Busters Email us - boo.busters.podcast@gmail.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/boo-busters/support
We've discussed haunted dolls, haunted hospitals, haunted mansions, and even haunted islands this season. But the one thing we have yet to discuss is a haunted hotel. So that is just what we are doing today! The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel has hosted a ton of celebrities. Just to name a few: Marilyn Monroe, Charlie Chaplin, and Clark Gable. Some of the celebrities that stayed there loved it so much that they never left, even after death. ...Follow us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/mysteriousishpodFollow us on Instagram: @mysteriousishpodCheck out our website and blog: www.mysteriousishpod.comSubscribe on Patreon: www.patreon.com/mysteriousishpodThis podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy
As I have always told our guests, our time together is a conversation, not an interview. This was never truer than with our guest this time, Andrew Leland. Andrew grew up with what most people would call a pretty normal childhood. However, as he discovered he was encountering night blindness that gradually grew worse. Back in the 1980s and early 90s, he was not getting much support for determining what was happening with his eyes. He did his own research and decided that he was experiencing retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative eye disease that first affects peripheral vision and eventually leads to total blindness. I won't spend time discussing Andrew's journey toward how finally doctors verified his personal diagnosis. Andrew was and is an incredible researcher and thinker. He comes by it naturally. In addition, he is quite a writer and has had material published by The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, McSweeney's Quarterly, and The San Francisco Chronicle, among other outlets. He comes by his talents honestly through family members who have been screenwriters and playwrights. Example? His grandfather was Marvin Neal Simon, better known to all of us as Neal Simon. This year Andrew's first book was published. It is entitled, The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight. I urge you to get and read it. Our conversation goes into detail about blindness in so many different ways. I am sure you will find that your own views of blindness will probably change as you hear our discussion. Andrew has already agreed to come on again so we can continue our discussions. I hope you enjoy our time together. About the Guest: Andrew Leland's first book is The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight. His_ writing has appeared in _The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, McSweeney's Quarterly, and The San Francisco Chronicle, among other outlets. From 2013-2019, he hosted and produced The Organist, an arts and culture podcast, for KCRW; he has also produced pieces for Radiolab and 99 Percent Invisible. He has been an editor at The Believer since 2003. He lives in western Massachusetts with his wife and son. Ways to connect with Andrew: Website: https://www.andrewleland.org/ About the Host: Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog. Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards. https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/ accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/ https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/ Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below! Subscribe to the podcast If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can also subscribe in your favorite podcast app. Leave us an Apple Podcasts review Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts. Transcription Notes Michael Hingson ** 00:00 Access Cast and accessiBe Initiative presents Unstoppable Mindset. The podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us. Michael Hingson ** 01:21 Welcome to another episode of unstoppable mindset where inclusion diversity in the unexpected meet. And we're gonna get to have a little bit of all of that today. I get to interview someone who I've talked to a couple of times and met a couple of months ago for the first time, I think the first time at a meeting, Andrew Leland is the author of the country of the blind. And he will tell us about that. And we will have lots of fun things to talk about. I am sure he's been a podcaster. He's an author. Needless to say, he's written things. And I don't know what else we'll see what other kinds of secrets we can uncover. Fair warning, right. So Andrew, welcome to unstoppable mindset. Andrew Leland ** 02:01 Thank you. Thank you so much for having me. I'm happy to be here. Michael Hingson ** 02:04 Well, I really appreciate you coming. Why don't you start by telling us a little about kind of the early Andrew growing up in some of that kind of stuff? Oh, sure. A lot of times go in a galaxy far, far away. Yeah. Right. Andrew Leland ** 02:18 planet called the Los Angeles. I was born in LA. Yeah. And my parents moved to New York pretty quickly. And they split when I was two. So for most of my childhood, I was kind of bouncing in between, I live with my mom. But then I would go visit my dad on holidays. And my mom moved around a lot. So we were in New York, just outside the city. And then we moved to Toronto for two years, and then back to New York, and then to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and then to California, Southern California. So I lived a lot of places. And that was all before college. And yeah, what can I tell you about young Andrew, I, you know, I always was interested in writing and reading. And I come from a family of writers. My mom is a screenwriter, my grandfather was a playwright. My aunt is a novelist. And so and my dad, you know, remember when I was a kid, he had a column for videography magazine, and has always been super interested in digital technology, you know, from the earliest days of desktop publishing. And he worked for, like early days of USA Network, you know, so like this kind of shared interest that I inherited from my parents of, you know, creativity and media, I guess was one way you could put it, you know, storytelling and sort of like playing around with electronic media. And, you know, I grew up I was born in 1980. So by the time I was an adolescent, the internet was just starting to reach its tendrils into our lives. And I remember my dad bought me a modem. And when I was like, I don't know 14 or something. And I was definitely one of the first kids in my class to have a modem and you know, messing around on message boards and stuff. So that was very influential for me. You know, when it was around that time that I started to notice that I had night blindness, and I kind of diagnosed myself with retinitis pigmentosa on that early web, you know, before the days of WebMD or anything like that, but it just there didn't seem to be a lot of causes for adolescent night blindness. And so I kind of figured it out and then sort of just compartmentalized it like kick that information to the side somewhere dusty corner of my brain and just went about my life and then it wasn't until later my teenage years I'd already done a year in college I think in Ohio where I said you know what, this is getting a little more intrusive and then I've that my mom finally booked me an appointment at a at a real deal, you know, medical retinal Research Center and at UCLA. And then, you know, an actual retinal specialist said, Yep, you've got retina is pigmentosa. You'll you Will, you know, maintain decent vision into middle age and then it'll fall off a cliff. Once again, I just carried that information around for, you know, the next 20 years or so. And I'm 4040 How old am I? Mike? 22 years old? Right? Well, I actually I'm a December baby. So we gotta go, Okay, you got a couple of months to go a 42 year old medicine me. You know, and at this point in my life, you know, I had the, you know, I read about all this in the book, but I have a feeling that, like that part of his diagnosis way back when is coming true, you know, and I feel like, okay, it's all finally happening, and like, it's happening more quickly, but then my current doctor is kind of careful to reassure me that that's not actually happening. And that RP, you know, their understanding of it has evolved since then. And there's like, you know, different genetic profiles, and that, in fact, maybe I might have some residual useful vision for many years to come. But one of the things that I really wrestled with, both in the book and just in my life is the question of, you know, how much to claim to that site and how useful that site really is. And, and, and trying to figure out what, what it means to be blind, if I'm blind, you know, certainly legally blind, you know, I've half got about five or six degrees of, of central vision. You know, and so, so, so my so So, I've left your question behind at this point. But I wrote, I wrote this book, in some ways to answer that question of, like, where I, where I fit into this world of blindness? And am I an outsider, or am I an insider? like at what point do I get to be part of the club and all those really tricky questions that were really bothering me as a person, I got to kind of explore in the form of a book. Michael Hingson ** 06:52 The interesting thing about what you said in the book, however, concerning Are you an outsider or an insider, Am I blind? Or am I not? is, of course a question that everyone wrestles with. And I personally like the Jernigan definition, have you ever read his article, a definition of blindness? Andrew Leland ** 07:11 Oh, maybe tell me what he says. So what he says Michael Hingson ** 07:15 is that you should consider yourself blind from a functional standpoint, when your eyesight decreases to the point where you have to use alternatives to vision to be able to perform tasks. Now, having said that, that doesn't mean that you shouldn't use the residual vision that you have. But what you should do is learn blindness techniques, and learn to psychologically accept that from a blindness standpoint, or from a from a functional standpoint, you are blind, but you do also have eyesight, then there's no reason not to use that. But you still can consider yourself a blind person, because you are using alternatives to eyesight in order to function and do things. Andrew Leland ** 08:00 Yeah, no, I have heard that from the NFB I didn't realize its source was Jernigan. But I really aspire to live my life that way. You know, I think it's, there are some days when it's easier than others. But, you know, I'm here, learning, you know, practicing Braille, using my white cane every day, you know, like learning jaws and trying to try to keep my screen reader on my phone as much as possible. And it's funny how it becomes almost like a moral mind game that I play with myself where I'm like, okay, like, Wow, it's so much easier to use my phone with a screen reader. Like, why don't I just leave it on all the time, but then inevitably, I get to like a inaccessible website, or like, I'm trying to write and write a text message. And I'm like, Oh, am I really going to like use the rotor to like, go back up, you know, to these words, and so then I turn it back off, and then I leave it off. And I'm just like, constantly messing with my own head and this way, and I've heard from, from folks with ARPI, who are more blind than I am, who have less vision. And there is the sense that like, one relief of even though it's, you know, incontrovertibly, incontrovertibly inconvenient to have less vision, right? Like there's there's certain affordances that vision gives you that shouldn't make life easier. But But one thing that I've heard from these folks is that, you know, that kind of constant obsessing and agonizing over like, how much vision do I have? How much vision am I going to have tomorrow? How am I going to do this, with this much vision versus that much vision? Like when that goes away? It is a bit of a relief I've heard. Michael Hingson ** 09:28 Yeah, I mean, if it ultimately comes down to you can obsess over it, you can stress about it. What can I do if I lose this extra vision or not? Is is a question but the other side of it is why assume that just because you lose vision, you can't do X or Y. And that's the thing that I think so many people tend to not really deal with. I believe that we have totally an inconsistent and wrong definition of disability. Anyway, I believe that everyone on the planet has a disability. And for most people, the disability is like dependents. And my case from then my way from making that is look at what Thomas Edison did in 1878. He invented the electric light bulb, which allowed people to have light on demand. So they could function in the dark, because they couldn't really function in the dark until they had light on demand, or unless they had a burning stick or something that gave us light. But the reality is, they still had a disability. And no matter how much today we offer light on demand, and light on demand is a fine thing. No, no problem with it. But recognize that still, without that light on demand, if a if a power failure happens or something and the lights go out, sighted people are at least in a world of hurt until they get another source for light on demand. Mm hmm. I was I was invited to actually Kelly and Ryan's Oscar after party to be in the audience this year. So we went to the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, which is fun. I used to go there for NFB of California conventions, a great hotel, man. So we got there about three o'clock on Thursday, on Saturday afternoon, and it was my niece and nephew and I and we were all there. And we just dropped our luggage off. And we're going downstairs when suddenly I heard screaming, and I asked my niece, what's going on. And she said, there's been a power failure in and around the hotel. And I'd love to try to spread the rumor that it was all Jimmy Kimmel trying to get attention. But no one's bought that. But but the but the point is that suddenly people didn't know what to do. And I said, doesn't seem like a problem to me. And you know, it's all a matter of perspective. But we really have to get to this idea that it doesn't matter whether you can see or not. And you pointed out very well, in your book that blindness is not nearly so much the issue psychologically, as is our attitude about blindness? Absolutely. Andrew Leland ** 11:58 Yeah, I remember I interviewed Mark Riccobono, the current president of the National Federation of the Blind, and he made a very similar point, when we were talking about the nature of accommodations, which is something that I still I'm thinking a lot about is I think it's a very tricky idea. And a very important idea, which I think your your your idea of light dependency gets at, you know, in America, Bono's point was, you know, look, we have the the BR headquarters here in Baltimore, and we pay a pretty hefty electricity bill, to keep the lights on every month, and that, you know, the blind folks who work there, it's not for them, right? It's for all the sighted people who come and visit or work at the at the center. And in some ways, that's a reasonable accommodation, that the NFB is making for the sighted people that they want to be inclusive of right. And so that just even that idea of like, what is a reasonable accommodation? I think you're right, that we think of it as like the poor, unfortunate disabled people who need to be brought back to some kind of norm that's at the center. And there's the kind of reframing that you're doing when you talk about light dependency or that Riccobono is doing when he talks about, you know, his electricity bill, you know, it kind of gives the lie to puts the lie to that, that idea that, that the norm takes precedence. And the reality is that, you know, that we all need accommodations, like you say, and so what's reasonable, is really based on what, what humans deserve, which is which is to be included, and to be, you know, to have access equal access, that Michael Hingson ** 13:38 ought to be the norm. Jacobus timbre wrote a speech called the pros and cons of preferential treatment that was then paired down to a shorter article called a preference for equality. And I haven't, I've been trying to find it, it's at the NFB center, but it isn't as readily available as I would like to see it. And he talks about what equality is, and he said, equality isn't that you do things exactly the same way it is that you have access and with whatever way you need to the same information. So you can't just say, Okay, well, here's a printed textbook, blind persons that's equal under the law, it's not. And he talks about the fact that we all really should be seeking equality and looking for what will give people an equal opportunity in the world. And that's really the issue that we so often just don't face, like we should. The fact of the matter is, it's a part of the cost of business, in general to provide electricity and lights. It's a part of the cost of business to provide for companies a coffee machine, although it's usually a touchscreen machine, but it's there. It's a cost of doing business to provide desks and computers with monitors and so on. But no one views provide Seeing a screen reader as part of the cost of business and nobody views providing a refreshable Braille display or other tools that might give me an equal opportunity to be a part of society, we don't view those as part of the cost of doing business, which we should, because that's what inclusion is really all about. You know, we don't, we don't deal with the fact or sometimes we do that some people are a whole lot shorter than others. And so we provide ladders or step stools, or whatever. But we don't provide cost of doing business concepts to a lot of the tools that say, I might need or you might need. Yeah, Andrew Leland ** 15:37 yeah, it's one thing that I've been thinking about lately is, is really even just the challenge of understanding what those accommodations are. Because, you know, I think I think, practically speaking in the world, you know, you'll, you'll call up a blind person and say, What do you need, you know, like, we're trying to make this art exhibit or this, you know, business or this, you know, HR software accessible, what do you need, you know, and that one blind person might be like, well, I use NVDA, you know, or that one blind person might be low vision, right. And they might be like, I use a screen magnifier. And it's so difficult to understand, like, what the accommodations are, that would be, that would be adequate to cover, like a reasonable sample. And so just like, it's just so much more complicated than it originally seems, you know, when you have a really well meaning person saying, like, we really value diversity, equity and inclusion and accessibility. And but then like, the distance between that well meeting gesture, and then actually pulling off something that's fully accessible to a wide swath of the whatever the users are, is just, it's just unfair, quickly, huge. So that's something that I'm thinking about a lot lately is like how to how do you approach that problem? Michael Hingson ** 16:46 Well, and I think, though, the at least as far as I can tell, I think about it a lot, as well, as I think any of us should. The fact is that one solution doesn't fit everyone, I'm sure that there are people, although I'm sure it's a minority, but there are people who don't like fluorescent lights as well as incandescent lights, and neither of them like other kinds of lighting as compared to whatever. And then you have people epilepsy, epilepsy who can't deal as well, with blinking lights are blinking elements on a webpage, there's there isn't ever going to be least as near as I can tell, one size that truly fits all, until we all become perfect in our bodies. And that's got a ways to go. So the reality is, I don't think there is one solution that fits everyone. And I think that you, you pointed it out, the best thing to do is to keep an open mind and say, Yeah, I want to hire a person who's qualified. And if that person is blind, I'll do it. And I will ask them what they need. You know, an example I could give you is, was it three years ago, I guess, four years ago, now actually, I was called by someone up in Canada, who is a lawyer who went to work for a college. And we were talking about IRA, artificial intelligent, remote assistance, a IRA, you know about IRA, you wrote about it. And she said, you know, a lot of the discovery and a lot of the documentation that I need to use is not accessible through even OCR to be overly accurate, because there will be deep degradations and print and so and so I can't rely on that. And certainly, Adobe's OCR isn't necessarily going to deal with all the things that I need. So I'd like to use IRA is that a reasonable accommodation? And I said, sure it is, if that's what you need in order to be able to have access to the information, then it should be provided. Now the laws are a little different up there. But nevertheless, she went to the college and made the case and they gave her iris so she could read on demand all day, any document that she needed, and she was able to do her job. And not everyone necessarily needs to do that. And hear in probably some quarters, maybe there are other accommodations that people could use instead of using IRA. But still, Ira opened up a VISTA for her and gave her access to being able to do a job and I think that we really need to recognize that one solution doesn't fit everything. And the best way to address it is to ask somebody, what do you need in order to do your job, and we will provide it or work it out. And here in the US, of course, given although they try to renege on it so much, but given the definition of what rehabilitation is supposed to do, they're supposed to be able to and help make people employable. They should be providing a lot of these tools and sometimes getting counselors to do that. Just like pulling teeth, I'm sure you know about that. Yeah, Andrew Leland ** 20:02 I do. I do. I mean, it's interesting because I think in the face of that complexity of saying, like, Okay, we like interviewed a dozen blind people, and we like have this we know, our website is it's compatible with all the screen readers. And, you know, this event, like, you know, let's say you're doing an event, and the website is compatible with every screen reader, and it's got dynamic types. So the low vision users are happy, you know, and then the event starts and you're like, oh, wait, we forgot about the existence of deafblind people, and there's no cart, or captioners. Here. And, you know, and then the question for me another another thing I've been thinking about lately is like, how do you respond to that, you know, like, what is the? What is the response? And even just like on a kind of, like, a social level, like, is it scathing indictment, like you, you terrible people, you know, you have you have like, you don't care about deaf blind people. And so I hereby cancel you, and I'm going to, like, tweet about how terrible you are? Or is there like a more benign approach, but then you don't get what you need. And like, sort of, and I think, I think a lot of this is a function of my having grown up without a disability, really, you know, I mean, like, growing up, my I went through my, my full education, without ever having to ask for an accommodation, you know, maybe I had to sit a little closer to the board a little bit. But you know, nothing, nothing like what I'm dealing with now. And I think as a result, I am just now starting to wrap my head around, like, how when self advocates and what styles are most effective. And I think that's another really important piece of this conversation, because it's easy, I think, to walk into, you know, cafe x, or, you know, I just did it the other day, yesterday, last night, I saw this really cool looking new magazine about radio, which was an interest of mine, like great for radio producers. And it was print only, you know, and I wrote like, Hey, how can I get an accessible copy of this cool look in new magazine? And they're like, Oh, actually, we're, we're putting our resources all it were kind of a shoestring operation, all our resources are going into the print edition right now. You know, and then, so then I had a question before me, right? Like, do I say, like, Hey, everybody, like, we must not rest until you agitate for these people to make their accessible thing, or I just sort of wrote a friendly note. And I was like, there's a lot of like, blind radio makers out there who might find your stuff interesting. And I like, affectionately urge you to make this accessible. And then, you know, their hearts seems to be in the right place. And they seem to be working on making it happen. So I don't know what's your what's your thinking about that? Like how to respond to those situations. Michael Hingson ** 22:34 So my belief is whether we like it or not, every one of us needs to be a teacher. And the fact is to deal with with what you just said, let's take the radio magazine, which magazine is it by the way? Oh, I Andrew Leland ** 22:51 didn't want to call them out by name. Oh, I'm Michael Hingson ** 22:52 sorry. I was asking for my own curiosity, being very interested in radio myself. So we Andrew Leland ** 22:57 give them some good and bad press simultaneously. It's called good tape. Okay, it's brand new. And at the moment, it's as of this recording, it's print only. And, Michael Hingson ** 23:06 and tape is on the way up a good tape. No, that's okay. Anyway, but no, the reason I asked it was mainly out of curiosity. But look, you you kind of answered the question, their heart is in the right place. And it is probably true that they never thought of it. I don't know. But probably, yeah, they didn't think of it. I've seen other magazines like diversity magazine several years ago, I talked with them about the fact that their online version is totally inaccessible. And they have a print version. But none of its accessible. And I haven't seen it change yet, even though we've talked about it. And so they can talk about diversity all they want, and they talk a lot about disabilities, but they don't deal with it. I think that it comes down to what's the organization willing to do I've, I've dealt with a number of organizations that never thought about making a digital presence, accessible or having some sort of alternative way of people getting to the magazine, and I don't expect everybody to produce the magazine and Braille. And nowadays, you don't need to produce a braille version, but you need to produce an accessible version. And if people are willing to work toward that, I don't think that we should grind them into the ground at all if their hearts in the right place. And I can appreciate how this magazine started with print, which is natural. Yeah, but one of the things that you can do when others can do is to help them see maybe how easy it is to create a version that other people can can use for example, I don't know how they produce their magazine, but I will bet you virtual Anything that it starts with some sort of an electronic copy. If it does that, then they could certainly make that electronic copy a version that would be usable and accessible to the end. And then they could still provide it through a subscription process, there's no reason to give it away if they're not giving it away to other people, but they could still make it available. And I also think something else, which is, as you point out in the book, and the country of the blind, so often, things that are done for us, will help other people as well. So great tape is wonderful. But how is a person with dyslexia going to be able to read it? Yeah, so it isn't just blind people who could benefit from having a more accessible version of it. And probably, it would be worth exploring, even discussing with him about finding places to get funding to help make that happen. But if somebody's got their heart in the right place, then I think by all means, we shouldn't bless them. We should be teachers, and we should help them because they won't know how to do that stuff. Andrew Leland ** 26:10 Ya know, I love that answer to be a teacher. And I think there was I think there was a teacher Lee vibe in my, in my response to them, you know, like, this is a thing that is actually important and useful. And you ought to really seriously consider doing it. You know, I mean, I think if you think about the how people act in the classroom, you know, it's those kinds of teachers who, you know, who, who correct you, but they correct you in a way that makes you want to follow their correction, instead of just ruining your day and making you feel like you're a terrible person. But it's interesting, because if you, you know, I mean, part of a lot of this is the function of the internet. You know, I see a lot of disabled people out there calling out people for doing things and accessibly. And, you know, I feel I'm really split about this, because I really empathize with the frustration that that one feels like, there's an amazing film called, I didn't see you there by a filmmaker named Reed Davenport, who's a wheelchair user. And the film is really just, like, he kind of he mounts a camera to his wheelchair, and a lot of it is like, he almost like turns his wheelchair into a dolly. And there's these these, like, wonderful, like tracking shots of Oakland, where he lived at the time. And there's this there's this incredible scene where it's really just his daily life, like, you know, and it's very similar to the experience of a blind person, like, he'll just be on a street corner hanging out, you know, in somebody's, like, the light screen, you know, like, what do you what are you trying to do, man, and he's like, I'm just here waiting for my car, my ride, you know, like, leave me alone. You don't need to intervene. But there's this incredible scene where there are some workers in his building are like, in the sort of just sort of unclear like they're working. And there's an extension cord, completely blocking the path, the visible entrance to his apartment, and he can't get into his house. And he's just this, like, the, the depth of his anger is so visceral in that moment. You know, and he yells at them, and they're like, oh, sorry, you know, they kind of don't care, you know, but they like, they're like, just give us a second. And he's like, I don't have a second, like, I need to get into my house. Now. You know, he just has no patience for them. And it's understandable, right? Like, imagine you're trying to get home. And as a matter of course, regularly every week, there's something that's preventing you. And then and then and then you see him when he finally gets back into his apartment. He's just like, screaming and rage. And it's, you know, so that rage I think, is entirely earned. You know, like, I don't I don't think that one one should have to mute one's rage and how and be a kindly teacher in that moment. Right. But, so So yeah, so So I kind of see it both ways. Like, there are moments for the rage. And then I guess there are moments for the mortar teacher like because obviously, like the stakes of me, getting access to good tape magazine are very different than the stakes for read like getting into his apartment. Right? Michael Hingson ** 28:53 Well, yes and no, it's still access. But the other part about it is the next time, that group of people in whatever they're doing to repair or whatever, if they do the same thing, then they clearly haven't learned. Whereas if they go, Oh, we got to make sure we don't block an entrance. Yeah, then they've learned a lesson and so I can understand the rage. I felt it many times myself, and we all have and, and it's understandable. But ultimately, hopefully, we can come down. And depending on how much time there is to do it, go pick out and say, Look, do you see what the problem is here? Yeah. And please, anytime don't block an entrance or raise it way up or do something because a person in a wheelchair can't get in. And that's a problem. I so my wife always was in a wheelchair, and we were married for two years she passed last November. Just the bye He didn't keep up with the spirit is what I tell people is really true. But I remember we were places like Disneyland. And people would just jump over her foot rests, how rude, you know, and other things like that. But we, we faced a lot of it. And we faced it from the double whammy of one person being in a wheelchair and one person being blind. One day, we went to a restaurant. And we walked in, and we were standing at the counter and the hostess behind the counter was just staring at us. And finally, Karen said to me, well, the hostess is here, I don't think she knows who to talk to, you know, because I'm not making necessarily eye contact, and Karen is down below, in in a wheelchair. And so fine. I said, maybe if she would just ask us if we would like to sit down, it would be okay. And you know, it was friendly, and it broke the ice and then it went, went from there. But unfortunately, we, we, we bring up children and we bring up people not recognizing the whole concept of inclusion. And we we really don't teach people how to have the conversation. And I think that that's the real big issue. We don't get drawn into the conversation, which is why diversity is a problem because it doesn't include disabilities. Andrew Leland ** 31:16 Mm hmm. Yeah. I mean, that seems to be changing. You know, I mean, you have you know, you have a lot more experience in this realm than I do. But But But haven't you felt like a real cultural shift over the last, you know, 2030 years about disability being more front of mind in that conversation? Michael Hingson ** 31:36 I think it's, it's shifted some. The unemployment rate among employable blind people, though, for example, hasn't changed a lot. A lot of things regarding blindness hasn't really, or haven't really changed a lot. And we still have to fight for things like the National Federation of the Blind finally took the American Bar Association, all the way to the Supreme Court, because they wouldn't allow people to use their technology to take the LSAT. Yeah, lawyers of all people and you know, so things like that. There's, there's so many ways that it continues to happen. And I realized we're a low incidence disability. But still, I think, I think the best way to really equate it. You mentioned in Goldstein in the book, Dan, who I saw, I think, is a great lawyer spoke to the NFB in 2008. And one of the things he talked about was Henry, mayor's book all on fire. And it's about William Lloyd Garrison, the abolitionist and he was looking for allies. And he heard about these, these two, I think, two ladies, the Grimm case, sisters who were women's suffragettes, and they and he said, Look, we should get them involved. And people said, no, they're dealing with women's things. We're dealing with abolition, it's two different things. And Garrison said, No, it's all the same thing. And we've got to get people to recognize that it really is all the same thing. The you mentioned, well, you mentioned Fred Schroeder and the American Association of Persons with Disabilities at various points in the book. And in 1997. Fred, when he was RSA Commissioner, went to speak to the AAPD talking about the fact that we should be mandating Braille be taught in schools to all blind and low vision kids. And the way he tells me the story, they said, Well, that's a blindness issue. That's not our issue, because most of those people weren't blind. And that's unfortunate, because the reality is, it's all the same thing. Andrew Leland ** 33:41 Yeah, no, that's something, uh, Dan Goldstein was a really important person for me to meet very early on in the process of writing the book, because I mean, just because he's, he's brilliant. And yeah, such a long history of, of arguing in a very, you know, legalistic, which is to say, very precise, and, you know, method, methodical way. A lot of these questions about what constitutes a reasonable accommodation, you know, as in like, his, his, the lawsuits that he's brought on behalf of the NFB have really broken ground have been incredibly important. So he's, he was a wonderful resource for me. You know, one of the things that he and I talked about, I remember at the beginning, and then, you know, I had lunch with him earlier this week, you know, we still are talking about it. And it's exactly that that question of, you know, the thing that the thing that really dogged me as I pursued, writing this book, and one of the kinds of questions that hung over it was this question of identity. And, you know, like, the sense that like the NFB argues that blindness is not what defines you. And yet, there it is, in their name, the National Federation of the Blind by and like, Where does where does this identity fit? And, you know, and I think that when you talk about other identities like Like the African American civil rights movement, or, you know, you mentioned the suffragette movement, you know, the feminist movement. You know, and it's interesting to compare these other identity based civil rights movements, and the organized by movement and the disability rights movement. And think about the parallels, but then there's also I think, disconnects as well. And so that was one of the things that I was it was really, really challenging for me to, to write about, but I think it's a really important question. And one that's, that's really evolving right now. You know, one of the things that I discovered was that, you know, in addition to the sort of blind or disability rights movement, that's very much modeled on the civil rights model of like, you know, my the first time I went to the NFB convention in 2018, you know, the banquet speech that Mark Riccobono gave was all about the speech of women and the women in the Federation, you know, which, which someone told me afterwards like, this is all new territory for the NFB, like, you know, they don't, there, there hasn't traditionally been this sort of emphasis on, including other identities, you know, and I found that was, I found that interesting, but then also, I was so struck by a line in that speech, where Riccobono said, you know, the fact that they were women is not as important as the fact that they were blind people fighting for, you know, whatever was like the liberation of blindness. And, you know, so it's, there's still always this emphasis on blindness as, like, the most important organizing characteristic of somebody is a part of that movement. And it makes total sense, right, it's the National Federation of the Blind, and they're fighting that 70% unemployment rate. And, you know, I think by their lights, you don't get there by you know, taking your eyes off the prize in some ways. And, and so I was really struck by some of these other groups that I encountered, particularly in 2020, when a lot of the sort of identity right questions came to the fore with the murder of George Floyd, right. You know, and then I was attending, you know, because it was 2020 it was that the convention was online, and I you know, I read it, this is all in the book, I, I went to the LGBT queue meet up, and which, which is also like a shockingly recent development at the NFB, you know, there's this notorious story where President Maher, you know, ostentatiously tears up a card, at a at an NFB convention where there are LGBT. NFB is trying to organize and have an LGBTQ meet up and he sort of ostentatiously tears it up as soon as he reads what's on the card. You know, a lot of still raw pain among NF beers who I talked to about that incident, anyway, like that this this LGBTQ meetup, you know, there's, there's a speaker who's not part of the NFB named justice, shorter, who works in DC, she's, she's blind, you know, and she's part of what is called the, you know, the Disability Justice Movement, which is very much about decentering whiteness, from the disability rights struggle and centering, black, queer, you know, people of color, who are also disabled, and and in some ways, I've found the NFB struggling to, to connect with with that model. You know, I talked to a Neil Lewis, who's the highest ranking black member of the NFV, you know, and he wrote this really fascinating Braille monitor article in the wake of, of George Floyd's death, where he's sort of really explicitly trying to reconcile, like Black Lives Matter movement with live the life you want, you know, with with NFB slogans, and it's, it's a tough thing to do, he has a tough job and trying to do that, because because of the thing, you know, that that I'm saying about Riccobono, right, it's like he is blind is the most important characteristic, or where do these other qualities fit? So it's a very contemporary argument. And it's one that I think the the organized blind movement is still very actively wrestling with. Michael Hingson ** 39:02 I think it's a real tough thing. I think that blindness shouldn't be what defines me, but it's part of what defines me, and it shouldn't be that way. It is one of the characteristics that I happen to have, which is why I prefer that we start recognizing that disability doesn't mean lack of ability. Disability is a characteristic that manifests itself in different ways to people and in our case, blindness as part of that. For Women. Women is being a woman as part of it for men being a man as part of it for being short or tall, or black or whatever. Those are all part of what defines us. I do think that the National Federation of the Blind was an organization that evolved because, as I said earlier, we're not being included in the conversation and I think that for the Federation and blindness is the most important thing and ought to be the most important thing. And I think that we need to be very careful as an organization about that. Because if we get too bogged down in every other kind of characteristic that defines people, and move away too much from dealing with blindness, we will weaken what the message and the goals of the National Federation of the Blind are. But we do need to recognize that blindness isn't the only game in town, like eyesight isn't the only game in town. But for us, blindness is the main game in town, because it's what we deal with as an organization. Well, Andrew Leland ** 40:40 how do you reconcile that with the idea that you were talking about before with with, you know, with the argument that like, you know, with the historical example of, you know, it's the same fight the suffragettes and like it because it doesn't that kind of, isn't that kind of contradicting that idea that like, having the intersection of identities, you know, and these movements all being linked by some kind of grand or systemic oppression, you know, so it is it is relevant? Well, Michael Hingson ** 41:06 it is, yeah, and I'm not saying it any way that it's not relevant. What I am saying, though, is the case of the Grimm case, sisters, he wanted their support and support of other supportive other people, Garrison did in terms of dealing with abolition, which was appropriate, their main focus was women's suffrage, but it doesn't mean that they can't be involved in and recognize that we all are facing discrimination, and that we can start shaping more of our messages to be more inclusive. And that's the thing that that I don't think is happening nearly as much as it ought to. The fact is that, it doesn't mean that blind people shouldn't be concerned about or dealing with LGBTQ or color, or gender or whatever. Yeah. But our main common binding characteristic is that we're all blind men. So for us, as an organization, that should be what we mostly focus on. It also doesn't mean that we shouldn't be aware of and advocate for and fight for other things as well. But as an organization, collectively, the goal really needs to be dealing with blindness, because if you dilute it too much, then you're not dealing with blindness. And the problem with blindness as being a low incidence disability, that's all too easy to make happen. Right? Andrew Leland ** 42:35 Yeah. Yeah, it's interesting. Yeah, it's interesting, just thinking about that question of dilution versus strengthening, you know, because I think I think if you ask somebody in the Disability Justice Movement, the dilution happens precisely, with an overemphasis on a single disability, right, and then you lose these like broader coalition's that you can build to, you know, I think I think it comes down to maybe like the way that you are our analysts analyzing the structures of oppression, right, like, right, what is it that's creating that 70% unemployment? Is it something specifically about blindness? Or is it like a broader ableist structure that is connected to a broader racist structure? You know, that's connected to a broader misogynist structure? You know, and I think if you start thinking in those structural terms, then like, coalition building makes a lot more sense, because it's like, I mean, you know, I don't know what kind of political affiliation or what but political orientation to take with us, you know, but certainly the Disability Justice Movement is pretty radically to the left, right. And I think traditionally, the NFB, for instance, has had a lot more socially conservative members and leaders. And so it's, you know, that reconciliation feels almost impossibly vast to to think of like an organization like the NFB taking the kind of like, abolitionist stance that a lot of these disability justice groups take to say, like, actually, capitalism is the problem, right. So yeah, so I mean, the thought experiment only goes so far, like, what like a Disability Justice oriented NFP would look like. But you know, that I think there are young members, you know, and I do think it's a generational thing too. Like, I think there are NF beers in their 20s and 30s, who are really wrestling with those questions right now. And I'm really interested to see what they come up with. Michael Hingson ** 44:29 I think that the biggest value that the NFB brings overall, and I've actually heard this from some ACB people as well, is that the ENFP has a consistent philosophy about what blindness is and what blindness is. And and that is probably the most important thing that the NFP needs to ensure that it that it doesn't lose. But I think that the whole and the NFP used to be totally As coalition building that goes back to Jernigan and Mauer, although Mauer started to change some of that, and I think it will evolve. But you know, the NFB. And blind people in general have another issue that you sort of brought up in the book, you talk about people who are deaf and hard of hearing, that they form into communities and that they, they have a culture. And we don't see nearly as much of that in the blindness world. And so as a result, we still have blind people or sighted people referring to us and and not ever being called out as blind or visually impaired. But you don't find in the deaf community that people are talking about deaf or hearing impaired, you're liable to be shot. It's deaf or hard of hearing. And yeah, the reality is, it ought to be blind or low vision, because visually impaired is ridiculous on several levels visually, we're not different and impaired. What that's that's a horrible thing to say. But as a as an as a group. I was going to use community, but I but I guess the community isn't, as well formed to deal with it yet. We're not there. And so all too often, we talk about or hear about visually impaired or visual impairment. And that continues to promote the problem that we're trying to eliminate. Mm Andrew Leland ** 46:22 hmm. Yeah. Yeah, that question of blank community is fascinating. And yeah. And I do think that I mean, you know, from my reading the book, I certainly have found blank community. But, you know, if I really think about it, if I'm really being honest, I think it's more that I've met, it's, you know, my work on the book has given me access to really cool blind people that I have gotten to become friends with, you know, that feels different than, like, welcome to this club, where we meet, you know, on Tuesdays and have our cool like, blind, you know, paragliding meetups, you know, not that not that people aren't doing that, like, then they're a really, you know, I would like to get more if I lived in a more urban center, I'm sure it would be involved in like, you know, the blind running club or whatever, willing to hang out with blind people more regularly, but it doesn't feel like a big community in that way. And it's interesting to think about why. You know, I think one big reason is that it's not, it's not familial, in the same way, you know, Andrew Solomon wrote a really interesting book called far from the tree that gets at this where, you know, like, the when, when, when a child has a different identity than a parent, like, you know, deaf children of hearing adults, you know, there doesn't, there isn't a culture that builds up around that, you know, and it's really like these big deaf families that you have with inherited forms of deafness, or, you know, and then schools for the deaf, that, you know, and with deaf culture in particular, you know, really what we're talking about is language, you know, in sign language, right, creates a whole rich culture around it. Whereas, with hearing blind people, you know, they're more isolated, they're not necessarily automatically you have to, you have to really work to find the other blind people, you know, with, with travel being difficult, it's a lot easier to just like, Get get to the public library to meet up in the first place, and so on. So, yeah, it feels a lot more fractured. And so I think you do see groups more like the NFB or the ACB, who are organizing around political action, rather than, you know, like a culture of folks hanging out going to a movie with open audio description, although, I will say that the weeks that I spent at the Colorado Center for the Blind, you know, which is, you know, you can think of it as like a, you know, it's a training center, but in some ways, it's like an intentional blind community do right where you're like, that's like a blind commune or something. I mean, that is just a beautiful experience, that it's not for everyone in terms of their their training method. But if it is for you, like, wow, like for just such a powerful experience to be in a community, because that is a real community. And it nothing will radically change your sense of what it means to be blind and what it means to be in a black community than then living for a while at a place like that. It was a really transformative experience for me. Michael Hingson ** 49:11 Do you think that especially as the younger generations are evolving and coming up, that we may see more of a development of a community in the blindness in the blindness world? Or do you think that the other forces are just going to keep that from happening? Well, Andrew Leland ** 49:30 you know, one of the things that I discovered in writing the book was that, you know, and this is sort of contradicting what I just said, because there there is a blind community. And, you know, I read in the book like, at first I thought that blind techies were another subculture of blindness, like blind birders are blind skateboarders, right. But then the more I looked into it, the more I realized that like being a techie is actually like a kind of a basic feature of being a blind person in the world. You know, and I don't hear if it's 2023 or 1823, you know, because if you think about the problem of blindness, which is access to information, by and large, you know, you basically have to become a self styled information technologist, right? To, to get what you need, whether it's the newspaper, or textbooks or signs, road signs, or whatever else. So. So I do and I do think that like, you know, when my dad was living in the Bay Area in the 90s, you know, when I would go visit him, you know, he was a techie, a sighted techie. And, you know, he would always be part of like, the Berkeley Macintosh user group, just be like, these nerds emailing each other, or, you know, I don't even know if email was around, it was like, late 80s. You know, but people who have like the Mac 512, KS, and they would, they would connect with each other about like, Well, how did you deal with this problem? And like, what kind of serial port blah, blah, blah? And that's a community, right? I mean, those people hang out, they get rise together. And if there's anything like a blind community, it's the blind techie community, you know, and I like to tell the story about Jonathan mosun. I'm sure you've encountered him in your trailer. I know Jonathan. Yeah. You know, so I, when I discovered his podcast, which is now called Living blind, fully blind, fully, yeah. Yeah. I, I was like, oh, okay, here are the conversations I've been looking for, because he will very regularly cover the kind of like social identity questions that I'm interested in, like, you know, is Braille like, is the only way for a blind person to have true literacy through Braille? Or is using a screen reader literacy, you know? Or like, is there such a thing as blind pride? And if so, what is it? I was like? These are the kinds of questions I was asking. And so I was so delighted to find it. But then in order to, in order to get to those conversations, you have to sit through like 20 minutes of like, one password on Windows 11 stopped working when I upgraded from Windows 10 to Windows 11. And so like, what, you know, if you what Jaws command, can I use in and I was like, why is this? Why is there like 20 minutes of Jaws chat in between these, like, really interesting philosophical conversations. And eventually, I realized, like, oh, because that's like, what this community needs and what it's interested in. And so in some ways, like the real blind community is like the user group, which I think is actually a beautiful thing. Yeah. Michael Hingson ** 52:14 Well, it is definitely a part of it. And we do have to be information technologists, in a lot of ways. Have you met? And do you know, Curtis Chang, Andrew Leland ** 52:23 I've met him very briefly at an NFB convention. So Curtis, Michael Hingson ** 52:28 and I have known each other Gosh, since the 1970s. And we both are very deeply involved in a lot of things with technology. He worked in various aspects of assistive technology worked at the NFB center for a while and things like that, but he always talks about how blind people and and I've heard this and other presentations around the NFB, where blind people as Curtis would put it, have to muddle through and figure out websites. And, and the fact is, we do it, because there are so many that are inaccessible. I joined accessibe two years ago, two and a half years ago. And there are a lot of people that don't like the artificial, intelligent process that accessibe uses. It works however, and people don't really look far enough that we're not, I think, being as visionary as we ought to be. We're not doing what we did with Ray Kurzweil. And look, when the Kurzweil project started with the NFB Jernigan had to be dragged kicking and screaming into it, but Ray was so emphatic. And Jim Gasol at the Washington office, finally convinced kindred again to let him go see, raised machine, but the rules were that it didn't matter what Ray would put on the machine to read it and had to read what Gasol brought up. Well, he brought it did and the relationship began, and it's been going ever since and, and I worked, running the project and the sense on a day to day basis, I traveled I lived out of hotels and suitcases for 18 months as we put machines all over and then I went to work for Ray. And then I ended up having to go into sales selling not the reading machine, but the data entry machine, but I guess I kept to consistently see the vision that Ray was bringing, and I think he helped drag, in some ways the NFB as an organization, more into technology than it was willing to do before. Interesting. Andrew Leland ** 54:27 Yeah, I heard a similar comment. The one thing I got wrong in the first edition of the book that I'm correcting for subsequent reprints, but I really bungled the description of the Opticon. And my friend, Robert Engel Britton, who's a linguist at Rice University, who collects opera cones. I think he has got probably like a dozen of them in his house. You know, he helped me you know, because I didn't have a chance to use one. Right he helped me get a better version of it. But he also sent me a quote, I think it was from Jernigan was similar thing where like, I think they were trying to get the public I'm included with, you know, voc rehab, so that that students could not voc rehab or whatever like so that students could get blind students could use them. And it was the same thing of like, you know, this newfangled gizmo is not going to help, you know, Braille is what kids need. So I do that, that's all to say that that makes sense to me that resistance to technology, you know, and it's like, it's a, it's a, it's a sort of conservative stance of like, we understand that what blind people need are is Braille and access to, you know, equal access. And don't don't try to give us any anything else. And you know, and I think, to be fair, like, even though the Opticon sounded like an incredibly useful tool, as is, of course, the Kurzweil Reading Machine and everything that followed from it. There. There is, you know, talking, I talked to Josh Meili, for the book, who's who now works at Amazon, you know, he had this great story about his mentor, Bill, Gary, who, who would, who would basically get a phone call, like once a week from a well, very well meaning like retired sighted engineer, who would say like, oh, you know, what the blind need? It's like the laser cane, right? Or the Yeah, it's like, basically like a sippy cup for blind people like so that they don't spill juice all over themselves. And, you know, and Gary would very patiently be like, Oh, actually, they don't think that that would be helpful to do probably, yeah. Talk to a blind person first, maybe before you spend any more time trying to invent something that blind people don't need. So I think that resistance to like newfangled technology, there's a good reason for it. Well, Michael Hingson ** 56:26 there is but the willingness to take the Opticon. Look, I think the fastest I ever heard of anybody reading with an optical was like 70 or 80 words a minute, and there are only a few people who did that. Yeah. You know, Candy Lynnville, the daughter of the engineer who invented it, could and Sue Mel Rose, who was someone I knew, was able to and a few people were but what the Opticon did do even if it was slow, yeah, it was it still gave you access to information that you otherwise didn't get access to. And, and I had an optic on for a while. And the point was, you could learn to read and learn printed letters and learn to read them. It wasn't fast. But you could still do it. Yeah. And so it, it did help. But it wasn't going to be the panacea. I think that tele sensory systems wanted it to be you know, and then you talked about Harvey Lauer who also develop and was involved in developing the stereo toner, which was the audience since the audio version of the optic comm where everything was represented audio wise, and, and I spent a lot of time with Harvey Harvey at Heinz a long time ago. But the the fact is, I think the question is valid is listening, and so on literacy is literacy, like Braille. And I think there is a difference there is, are you illiterate, if you can't read Braille, you point out the issues about grammar, the issues about spelling and so on. And I think that there is a valid reason for people learning Braille at the Colorado Center, they would tell you, for senior blind people, you may not learn much Braille, but you can learn enough to be able to take notes and things like that, or, or put labels on your, your soup cans, and so on. So it's again, going to be different for different people. But we are in a society where Braille has been so de emphasized. And that's the fault of the educational system for not urging and insisting that more people be able to use Braille. And that's something that we do have to deal with. So I think there is a literacy problem when people don't learn braille. But I also think that, again, there are a lot of things that Braille would be good for, but using audio makes it go faster. It doesn't mean you shouldn't learn braille, though, right? Yeah, Andrew Leland ** 58:51 no, it's another I think it's interesting. And it's a related idea, this, this sense that technology, you know, this like, just sort of wave your hands and say the word technology as a sort of panacea, where I think, you know, it's, it's a tragic story where, where people will say, Oh, well, you know, little Johnny has, you know, some vision. So like, he could just use technology, like he doesn't need Braille. And it's fascinating to me, because I never really felt it. And maybe it's because I encountered Braille at a point in my development as a blind person that I really was hungry for it. But, you know, people talk about Braille the way they talked about the white cane, like the white cane, I felt so much shame about using in public, and it's such, it's just so stigmatized, whereas Braille, I just always thought it was kind of cool. But you know, you hear it so much from parents where they it's just like their heartbreak seeing their child reading with their fingers, which is, you know, and so as a result, they're like, why don't I just buy like a gigantic magnifier, that maybe in five years, you're not gonna be able to use anyway, but like, at least you're reading the same type of book that Michael Hingson ** 59:56 half hour or 45 minutes until you start getting headaches. Exactly. And that, you know, I worked on a proposal once. I was an evaluator for it. We were in a school in Chicago, and one of the teachers talked about Sally who could see and Johnny, who was totally blind, literally, it was Sally and Johnny. And she said, Sally gets to read print, Johnny has to read Braille. Sally couldn't read print very fast. her eyesight wasn't good. Yeah, she got to read print. And Johnny had to read Braille. Yeah, it's the kind of thing that we we see all the time. And it's so unfortunate. So yeah, I, I do understand a lot of the technology resistance. But again, people like Ray helped us vision a little differently. But unfortunately, getting that conversation to other people, outside of the NFB community, like teachers and so on, is so hard because so many people are looking at it from a science point of view and not recognizing it as it should be. The the NFB did a video that did it. Several, they have had a whole series of things regarding Braille. But they interviewed a number of people who had some residual vision, who were never allowed to learn to read Braille. And invariably, these people say how horrible it was that they didn't get to learn to read Braille, they learned it later. And they're, they're reading slower than they really should. But they see the value of it. And it's important that we hopefully work to change some of those conversations. Yeah, Andrew Leland ** 1:01:33 I mean, it gets back to our earlier in our conversation a
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There's no missing the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. It stands tall along Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles with a bright red neon sign on top announcing to the world that it is Hotel Roosevelt. This is Los Angeles oldest continually operating hotel. The rich and famous from all walks of life have passed through its doors and some of those people still seem to be hanging around after their deaths. Join us as we explore the history and hauntings of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel! Check out the website: http://historygoesbump.com Music used in this episode: Main Theme: Lurking in the Dark by Muse Music with Groove Studios Hollywood Follies B by 5 Alarm Music
Our guest this time is Vanessa Womack who now lives in Richmond, VA. Vanessa grew up in Virginia, but moved to New York to attend college. After college she worked in the publishing world at McGraw Hill for five years. Wait until you hear what she sold for them, something that is today a relic, but I am not giving it away. Vanessa clearly had a bit of the wanderlust bug as she eventually moved to California for jobs, then moved back to New York for a brief time and eventually settled down in Richmond. In her life she has created and published several courses on DEI and Leadership. Also, she has written several books. She has worked for a number of nonprofit organizations and clearly has a passion for breaking through culture and inclusion barriers to help people realize much about themselves as well as others. About the Guest: Vanessa Womack is a facilitator in leadership, governance, DEI, soft skills, and team dynamics. As an experienced course designer, she developed the successful LinkedIn Learning course “Managing A Diverse Team” which launched in 2018 and has accumulated over 100,000 global learners. In addition to the course, Vanessa publishes a monthly newsletter entitled Pass It On, about diversity, leadership, and education on LinkedIn. She wrote the audio course on Listenable, “Practicing DEI Can Improve Organizational Culture”, launched in 2020. She completed a certificate for training from the University of South Florida – MUMA School of Business for DEI in the Workplace. She has recently taken a contract position of DEI Coordinator for the Alliance for Building Better Medicine, which is part of the Cluster Accelerator for Advanced Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturing (APRM) and Activation Capital. The APRM was launched to fast-track the development of a globally competitive essential medicines manufacturing hub across Central Virginia. The DEI Coordinator will be responsible for driving region-wide DEI strategy to support an inclusive culture for life sciences as part of the DEI plan component of the Build Back Better Regional Competition grant award from the US Economic Development Administration (EDA). Other experiences include being BoardSource Certified Governance Consultant; Lead Faculty-Area Chair in the School of Business at the University of Phoenix former local campus in Richmond, VA; coaching and facilitating career transitioning clients for future jobs and entrepreneurship; public speaker and radio show host, On Track with Vanessa Womack. Earlier in her career, after being an actual marrow donor, she became the local spokesperson in Virginia for the National Marrow Donor Program (now Be the Match) recruiting and promoting the marrow registry in Black communities. She has facilitated community dialogue through Initiatives of Change/Hope in the Cities' presentation, Unpacking 2010 Census: The Realities of Race, Class, and Jurisdiction. Vanessa earned her undergraduate degree from Baruch College (CUNY) and MBA from Averett University, (Danville, VA). She is a member of Leadership Metro Richmond (LQ 2006) in Richmond, Virginia. Vanessa has published two multicultural STEM children's books, ‘Bookie and Lil Ray: In the Game' (2021) and ‘Emerald Jones: The Fashion Designer Diva' (2020). She is the author of the novel, ‘Paint the Sky Purple' (2010) and co-author, ‘The Female CEO: Pearls, Power & Passion' (2014). About the Host: Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog. Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards. https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/ accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/ https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/ Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! 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Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us. Michael Hingson 01:21 Welcome to another edition of unstoppable mindset mindset. If I could talk I'd be in wonderful shape. Please forgive me. Today, we get to meet Vanessa Womack, who is a facilitator and leadership, governance, diversity, equity and encourage inclusion and a lot of other kinds of things. And I don't want to give it all away because she's going to be able to tell her story much better than I do. Isn't that usually the way of it? Vanessa, thanks very much for being here. And welcome to unstoppable mindset. Vanessa Womack 01:50 Well, thanks, Michael, for this opportunity to be here. And now we tried this once but, you know, technical glitches happen. So we're doing it again. Good to see you. Michael Hingson 02:01 Well, it's good to see you. And yeah, technology happens. And so we do what we do, but glad we're here. So, lots to get to of course, but I'd like to start as usual. Tell me a little bit about you growing up and kind of where you came from, and all that kind of stuff. Vanessa Womack 02:17 And okay, well, let's see now. I grew up the in the Commonwealth of Virginia, in a small city called Danville, Virginia. Where I grew up in a household I was, well, if you look at the, I guess the placement, I am the middle girl or middles girl of three, and I have a brother so and household with mom and dad, pretty typical, and not poor neighborhood. But we had such great values, Christian values, and we were very active in the community, finish high school there. And then started my first year at an HBCU, Tennessee State University. But I became what can I say? Not bored but adventurous and moved to New York City to finish my education at CUNY City University in New York Baruch College, and began my career mostly at corporate New York. My first job in New York was at McGraw Hill publishing company. And after that, I had many other jobs. Say, if you want to ask me about those pretty adventuresome. Michael Hingson 03:54 Yeah, you've been involved in a lot of different things. Needless to say, well, so you said you started with McGraw Hill. What did you do there? Vanessa Womack 04:02 I was in the classified not to give my age away. But yes, I am a. We've talked Michael Hingson 04:09 about this before he asked Vanessa Womack 04:10 me did I am a boomer. But I started in classified advertising in the early mid 70s, mid 70s, where I did the clippings for some of the magazines like chemical engineering business week. And I did that for a couple of years and then promoted to public affairs where I actually was the editor of the McGraw Hill directory, the worldwide directory, putting that together and even had opportunities to conduct tours in Rockefeller Center. When I was in public affairs, I would do tours for groups that would come in To visit McGraw Hill and the surrounding buildings, take them through the tunnels at Radio City Music Hall. Oh, yes. And one of the groups I remember either educators or students or even some on foreign visitors. There was even a group I hate to say that now I'm not going to hate to say it, but from Russia. So it was exciting to do that. And after that, I was at Saks Fifth Avenue. I even worked at the NFL and water publisher services. Michael Hingson 05:43 So where you were in New York, did you ever eat at Hurley saloon? Vanessa Womack 05:50 Yes, I think we talked about that. Yeah, yes. I think I had a drink there. Michael Hingson 05:57 I'll never, I'll never forget one of the stories that I heard about Hurley's. They leased the Hurley brothers leased the building in the 1890s. And they had 100 year lease. And then when Rockefeller Center was being built, they wanted to buy out Hurley's and her least didn't want to sell. And that's why there's this little four story building on one corner of all of that, but all of the reporters like the NBC reporters who worked in, dealt through Rockefeller Center and BC, would go down there and somehow they connected a phone line and a phone from the newsrooms to a phone behind the bar at Hurley's and so they could be down at the bar and then come A call came in then somebody would get the reporters or whatever, and they get the calls and go to what they needed to do. But they could spend their time in hurleys. Ah, people are creative. Vanessa Womack 06:56 Yes, yes, we are. Michael Hingson 06:59 Well, and we talked, and we talked about, of course, talking about classifies I mentioned Conde Nast. And you know, again, another one where it was all about classifieds. And you know, whether it's called classifieds or something else. The fact is that people are still selling advertising today. Vanessa Womack 07:16 Oh, yes. That's why I say I'm pretty old school, I remember. And there were, and there's old fashioned fax machines, where we were communicate between the McGraw Hill offices, for instance, between New York and Philadelphia. So but, you know, we've come a long way in technology. Michael Hingson 07:39 Yeah. Now we also have this thing about audiobooks, which course I'm very precious about unlike and I'm glad that most of the major publishers are doing a lot more with that. And it's all electronic. So it's a lot easier to create, and not store so much stuff, because it's now all audio oriented, or even print books are oftentimes electronically oriented as well as print, but I think that there's rightly so a group of people and it's still a very large group that likes to hold a book of their hand and reprint and there's a lot of value to that no matter what someone says a Kindle isn't quite the same as a book. Vanessa Womack 08:16 That's, that's true, but it's fortunate that we have those options. Michael Hingson 08:23 Yeah, well and being blind, a Braille device that can have on nonpermanent or refreshable Braille display and you can put a book file on it is still not the same as reading it with paper. But either way, reading is reading and it's still a wonderful thing that we all get to be able to do. Vanessa Womack 08:42 And I've enjoyed reading ever since I was a young child in elementary school. In fact, one of my I guess, what do you call it nicknames? Was said a bookworm? Michael Hingson 09:00 That's pretty cool. Vanessa Womack 09:01 Yes, because I always said I liked. I enjoyed getting lost in the in the novels in the book service read. Yeah. Michael Hingson 09:10 Yeah. And I still do today. And what did you want to be when you were growing up? Vanessa Womack 09:16 Well, I wanted to be a court stenographer. Because of the business classes I had in high school. I wanted to be a court stenographer, but at one point, I also want to be an FBI agent. However, I was told either by the teachers that I was not the right color or was also a little girl or female, that I couldn't. I would not be accepted in something like an FBI. So my mother encouraged me to go into business. And I took shorthand all the required business courses in high school and I took shorthand. And I thought, wow, court stenographer would be cool. But then my mom said, No, you need to go to college. So I did continue to take shorthand or practice it for a little while. And I thought was pretty cool. But I went to Tennessee State University for my freshman year and started my, I guess, my curriculum into business management or a bachelor's in Business Administration. Michael Hingson 10:40 Who influenced you most? Do you think while you're growing up and so on, would it be your mom? Or is there another person who stood out even more? Vanessa Womack 10:48 I think my mom course might my dad too. But my mom was, she was pretty straightforward. very conscientious about her children being better or being better. And succeeding in life. So she encouraged all of us. And I was very much influenced by her to continue my education. I mean, I was I was smart. But I mean, I didn't know some things came better to me, like writing, which I enjoyed doing. And I enjoyed writing. And I still do I wish I had embarked on writing stories at earlier in life, so. But yes, my mother was a great influencer. And we are also I'm also from a family of faith. So I always have to give, give my God all the glory, and they can for bringing us all so far. Michael Hingson 12:00 Yep, that's, of course, extremely important to do and makes makes not only a lot of sense, but the reality is God is with us and in us and all around us. And more of us ought to recognize that. But you know, what, what can you do? That's an individual choice. Vanessa Womack 12:19 Yes. And it's very sustaining. And it gives me and so many who are faithful hope, especially in these such troubling times. Michael Hingson 12:30 Yeah. And a lot of ways my wife passed away in November. And Vanessa Womack 12:37 I'm so sorry to hear that, because I remember she was there before going. Yeah, we tried this. Yes. Sorry to hear for sorry, for your loss. Well, her body Michael Hingson 12:47 was just not keeping up as to 2020 22 went along. And as I tell people, the body doesn't always keep up with the Spirit. But the other side of it is she's still around here. And, and I know if I misbehave, I'm going to hear about it. Yeah, you got to keep on the straight and narrow somehow, which is fine. Vanessa Womack 13:09 And it's important to keep those who have left this are the ones we've loved, near and dear to us, because they are and will always be a part of us. Michael Hingson 13:19 Well, I'm, as I tell people, you don't move on from 40 years of marriage, but you move forward. And I think the difference is if you talk about moving on, and you're going to leave it behind and forget it. And that is something that I will not allow myself to ever do and shouldn't Vanessa Womack 13:34 be very good at. I agree. Michael Hingson 13:37 So what was growing up like in the South for you in terms of how did that affect or have any influence on what you've done and what you do with your life? Was the south an influence for you? Vanessa Womack 13:51 Well, I had no choice to grow up where I was. Michael Hingson 13:54 Yet South Korea course. Vanessa Womack 13:57 I and it was a good childhood. It was full of fun. sene interesting things like being outside now is I don't know if children get out and play like we did growing up. It was so free willing and and we could explore neighborhoods, we could go into the woods and pick blackberries. Bring them home and mom would make blackberry cobbler and we went to an elementary middle and high schools that were very, you know, they welcome in that especially in elementary was segregated and a segregated school but the teachers and the administration were so nurturing and then in middle school, or what we call back then Junior High in your head. Yes. Michael Hingson 14:55 I always remember that. Oh, school. None at all. All Vanessa Womack 15:00 Oh, yes, I still have a young mine and but back then it was at the beginning of the integration. And I walked to school. I mean, we had maybe one school bus. It wasn't consistent on throughout the school year, but I walked to school, like all my other classmates from my segregated neighborhood. And, you know, I was a good student. There were some challenges. I remember when Martin Luther King died in a white classmate had some very awful things to say. And that resonated with me. I was like, This is not right. And, but this is how it is. And that was the awful thing about is like, you know, that's just, that was just a word we grew up in. And high school, I excel and became very active with some of the student groups. Even with the marching band, I was didn't play an instrument, I was one of the I guess you call a major nature it Yeah, majorettes. But I was very active. And my friends were black and white and Asian. So you, one becomes, you live in that world, and you say this, this is, this is who I am in this world. But how can I be effective? How can I make change and make a change meant to make friends and understand them and have them understand me, but it's it was, it was a good time. Yet, it was transformative for me in such a way that it prepares me little prepares us for what we have to deal with what was still dealing with, when it comes to, I guess, diversity and being inclusive and accepting one another. When someone asked, I think you would ask me, What makes me qualified to be a Dei, a consultant is that I live the life. It's the Skin I Live In. It's, it's the world in which we live in and having a voice to affect change. It's so critical. Michael Hingson 17:46 Well, it is and I love so many things about what you just been saying. I am always amazed at my own experiences, and they really coincide with yours. Somebody made some comment when we were much younger, and it stuck with us and sticks with us or somebody observed something where we were taught something, and how, especially as younger people, when we're searching, and we hear something that really sticks with us. We we don't forget it. And it's unfortunate that somebody said something extremely negative about Martin Luther King, but at the same time, I think history has demonstrated the kind of person he was and the character that he had. But it is it is very true that history is history is. And I think it's so important. We don't forget that. You know, I collect old radio shows as a hobby. And I'm fascinated by the people who want to, for example, Ban Amos and Andy from radio collections. And they want to ban one thing or another and they say well, that's not who we are. It is what we were. And there are other parts about it. Like I wrote one of the authorities on Amos and Andy once a email. Because when I was growing up, I actually first listened to a miss an ad on television. I had absolutely no idea that they were black. And one day Amis nanny was no longer around on TV. And it was years later that I found out that they were taken off here because people didn't like the depiction of black people that Amos and Andy represented and while I appreciated that and and understand it, it is still what we were at the time. But then when I learned about that, and I went back and listen to old radio shows, mostly I didn't hear overt references to being black. Oh yes, there were the accents and so on. But I never heard the really overt references. So I emailed this authority, and I said, so I don't hear a lot of references to Amos and Andy on the radio being black. And she wrote back and she said, Well, when the show first started, and they came to New York, and one of the first questions, they asked us where to the dark people live. And she said, there were some references. But by 1937, references to color had completely gone away. And the reality is, it was a show that everyone listened to and love because of the quality of the humor, it had nothing to do, really with race, unless you allowed it to be. And so we really need to keep our history, because it teaches us so much. Vanessa Womack 20:43 And I couldn't agree with you more, because it is knowing that history, which is critical for us now, if you don't know history, you're doomed to repeat it. But I listened to Amos. I listen to this show on the radio when I was little. And it just it fascinated me to know that there were people, people of color negros, who were actually acting, and I thought that was very significant as a young, very young child to hear that. And then to see, as I was growing up in the 60s, we had black and white television, but to see some of those shows like Julia and some black actors who were on some of the sitcoms and also like, Maddix, gosh, to see actors get involved, it was very important. And then to know how far we've come now, because we, as a black and brown people, we want to we've advanced so much, and we want to we're so capable, we have done so much. And we have been influenced and we've been encouraged to do even more now, which is exciting. Michael Hingson 22:18 One of my favorite TV shows growing up was room 222. Do you remember that? Well, yes, I do. Yeah, that's never any reference to race on that show. And it was a show again, that that provided good entertainment. If you chose to focus on skin color, then you did, but the reality is that wasn't really any thing that was referenced in the in the show at all. Vanessa Womack 22:50 Yeah, the focus is on you. Yes, your students then yeah. And relating to each other, helping each other that was that was the that should always should be the focus. And so anyway, it's it's disheartening now to read about books being banned, or talking about wokeness, which is just, you know, I don't want to say silly, but it is ridiculous, athletic. If you take a word like that, and you just make it sound so horrible. If you're not woke, then you must be asleep. You need to know what's going on in the world, you need to be aware and that's really what it's all about being aware of how our society has disenfranchise so many people to the point where they can lead the racism and discrimination continues. And we should be well beyond that as a society as a as a country and not to go backwards but to go forward to and to embrace and each other is who we are. Anyway, I've try not to get on my soapbox, no, Michael Hingson 24:12 it's okay. And we should I one of my favorite books, and I think we've talked about it before is To Kill a Mockingbird or corpse which really is as dramatic a demonstration of how people were treated simply because of skin color, and the explorations of scout and learning about it. And, and of course, her father, then the movie, Gregory Peck, who did such a powerful job of dealing with that. how anyone could consider banning that book it. It makes me think that most of the people who want to do that are listening to someone and have never read the book and certainly have never processed it. Vanessa Womack 24:55 Yes, I think those those folks who are a I think are living in fear of just afraid and afraid to knowing the truth. Michael Hingson 25:09 Yeah, and that fear manifests itself in so many ways. And it is true that there's a lot of fear. And there are so many people who still get away with things. And hopefully one of these days we can see reality kick in, and that the whole issue be addressed. And it isn't just race. The one of the things about unstoppable mindset as a podcast as the tagline says, We're inclusion, diversity in the unexpected meet. I worded that way because diversity has decided not to include disabilities in any way. Whereas inclusion, either you are going to truly be inclusive, or you're not inclusive, and you can't be inclusive. If you don't include disabilities. Well, we're partially inclusive, we don't, we don't pray, we're not prejudices against race. But disabilities, you can't leave out if you're going to be inclusive. And so it's it is a different animal. And it's why I emphasize inclusion first. And the other part about it is societally speaking, technically speaking, and realistically speaking, everyone has a disability. And we've talked about at some on unstoppable mindset, one of the disabilities for most people is your light dependent, you don't do well, if there isn't a light on, and Thomas Edison and creating the light switch has invented a way for you to cover up the disability. But make no mistake, it's there. And in reality, we we all have challenges. I was at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel around the time of the Oscars, and I checked in and my niece nephew and I were there and we dropped our luggage off in room and then we went downstairs, all of a sudden, people started screaming, and I said what's going on? Turns out we had a power failure not only in the hotel, but in the blocks around it. And, of course, some of us said it was all Jimmy Kimmel's fault, because he's the host of the Oscars. This was the day before the Oscars. But but the reality is people didn't know what to do with lighthouse. And just so many people had such a challenge didn't bother me a bit. We all have challenges. And we should recognize that just because some challenges and some people's challenges are different than ours doesn't make them less than us. Vanessa Womack 27:29 And I agree, and sometimes by instance said, we become so accustomed to things that or the way we live, or we just don't understand how not having a disability or light or being able to maneuver out of a walk without the assistance of crutches or a wheelchair, we, we need to understand that. This is not something that people can not live with. We have to and we have to embrace those who may not be able to do the same things you are or I could do. And that needs to be in that word inclusive that needs to be recognized with organizations who say that yes, we are inclusive. But then you may ask, do you have? Do you provide accessibility on your website? Do you provide accessibility in your stairways in your office environments? And it doesn't always, of course, have to be a physical disability. It could be autism, it could be some other neurodiversity. Yeah, yes. And you don't visibly see that. So some people will just make assumptions that Oh, you're okay. There's nothing wrong with you. Michael Hingson 29:18 And and then of course, we have the most significantly group of our significant group of people with disabilities at all, and that's politicians, but their disability is self imposed. Oh, they're fun to pick on though. Vanessa Womack 29:33 Yeah, yeah. Pick on them anytime you want. Yeah. Michael Hingson 29:37 But I'm an equal opportunity abuser you notice on me? Yes, Vanessa Womack 29:39 I am. And say that to my to my students on an equal opportunity picker Michael Hingson 29:43 honor. Many of them were born into it, and they've been losing ground as ever since as Fred Allen, the old radio comedian used to say, but that's true of a lot of people these days, but you know what it is, what do you do? Have you had any real significant event So stand out in your life that have changed you or really have affected you. Vanessa Womack 30:06 And I always said, besides be becoming a mother, that will do it. Definitely. There was an opportunity. And I had an opportunity I did, I was a bone marrow donor and saved the life of a little girl spin over 30 years ago. And Katrina's her name, or was her name. She had been diagnosed with leukemia. And the National Marrow Donor Program at the time it was called now it's called Be The Match. Yeah, had numerous campaigns, bone marrow recruitment campaigns in the Washington DC area, putting particularly focus on a teenager who a black teenager, little girl Well, young woman who needed a bone marrow transplant, and no one in her family matched and it became a national campaign to save Joanne. So many people came out from churches, community groups, businesses, to just give a tube of blood or to get into registry. And all of that happened during a time where I had just been married for I don't even know if I was married, we were married a couple of years, a few years, and trying to have half a baby. But I submitted that blood sample for just to go in the registry. And lo and behold, a month or two later, I was called to as a preliminary match for another child, somewhere in the United States, went through all the required follow up tests and became the match for Katrina. And that was in 1991. And during the time that I was being prepped for the bone marrow extraction. Katrina was at the at the time, I didn't know but she was on the other side of the country in Washington, Seattle, Washington, the prepped, removing all of her disease, bone marrow, and I was being prepped to have a my bone marrow are harvested. And during the time that I was they were doing tests in a hospital and I guess I have to give it away it was in Reader's Digest. So story and Reader's Digest. One of the blood tests for me came back that I was pregnant. very ill, and I was, and they said, you can't donate narrow because the test says you're positive for pregnancy. And I said, I am not pregnant. And they said, you have to decide. I mean, I I couldn't stop the process because Katrina was already at death's door. So anyway, I said, I am not changing my mind. I'm going to do this. And you can test me again tomorrow morning before the harvest starts. And they tested again, it was negative. So that whole experience of becoming a bone marrow donor and then having the fear Well, I wasn't fearful. I knew I wasn't pregnant. To go through with it. Regardless of that test result to say Katrina's life, and that's what happened, she survived almost 19 years after that donation and miracle of all miracles, she had a little girl which according to you know, medical statistics once you are you go through a bone marrow transplant you you you lose the ability for fertilization, having children, but she did she had a miracle baby that changed my life. Michael Hingson 34:34 Why? Why is it that being pregnant is a problem? Do you know? Well, Vanessa Womack 34:42 the actual harvest standing of the marrow at the time and this was the nut through a stem extract stem cells, but it was through the iliac crest crest the lower back. I think harvesting the bone marrow may have impacted the, the the fetus if there had been. So I don't know how but they said it would it would be dangerous and they would not or could not do it if I was pregnant, but I really knew I was not pregnant. Michael Hingson 35:19 But I gather you're saying that today it's different. And well, today they are you doing stem cells? And so yeah, different. Yeah. So Vanessa Womack 35:28 I think it'd be different today. The process is dance since that time, and actually was a poster child for the bone marrow procreate? Michael Hingson 35:40 Well, and you had children since then? Vanessa Womack 35:42 Yes, I did. There you go. Yes. And they are adult children. Wonderful, wonderful children, one of each. Michael Hingson 35:51 And they are probably as Mark Twain would say, so surprised at how much you've learned as they grew up. Vanessa Womack 35:58 Then they might say he probably didn't learn enough. Michael Hingson 36:01 It's possible to Vanessa Womack 36:03 Yes. Yeah. They're they're very. They're wonderful adult kids. Michael Hingson 36:10 That is really great that you have been able to go through that experience. And obviously, it sticks with you. And it certainly takes courage to be a bone marrow, well, transfer person? Vanessa Womack 36:25 Well, it did, it did. And that was something that happened well over 30 years ago. But I also had a new one, I want to say probably a more recent or relevant experience. And that relates to my current career as a LinkedIn learning instructor, when I did the course managing a diverse team. And to me, that was a professional career highlight. Michael Hingson 36:58 Tell us about that, if you would, please. Vanessa Womack 37:01 Sure the the course is managing a diverse team. And it is on the LinkedIn learning platform. It was recorded back in 2017, and released in 2018. Now it is in along with English in nine languages, which is kind of exciting to see so many global learners who respond that they've taken the course on the LinkedIn platform. And as you can imagine managing a diverse team, it talks about how, you know, team management and being inclusive in embracing the team members, given them opportunities to become voices, functional team members, and how to deal with the conflict, too. And how to deal deal with some precede disagreements that might be discriminatory or an ad, and are racists and how do you work with people who might have different opinions, but I think there are some lessons learned in the course that gives the learners the audience some good information and how to deal with certain situations on the team, how to embrace diversity, how to celebrate diversity, and how to deal with culture in, in the in the organization. So it's called Managing a diverse team. And it's been on the platform now for five, almost five years. Michael Hingson 38:56 So what is your career today? And where do you work? Or do you focus mainly on the LinkedIn course or what? 39:03 Oh, no, that said, I, it's it's great that people did still take the course but professionally, I navigate in the space of leadership, DEIA, or on the leadership side, I do facilitation consulting for boards of directors in that space and roles and responsibilities, helping them understand what that is and how to work strategically with each other and in the governance. area, and then with the DEIA have been operating or doing consulting work in an exciting industry. that is growing and developing in this region of Virginia, Richmond Petersburg region, which is the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry. And there are a cluster of businesses and educational institutions and biotech and biosciences organizations that are building that pharma industry here to make medicines more affordable, and to have that production in the United States, as opposed to outside the United States. Michael Hingson 40:45 So you have your own company, or do you work for another company? Vanessa Womack 40:49 Yeah, I have, I'm a small independent, I call myself a solopreneur. Michael Hingson 40:56 There he goes. Vanessa Womack 40:59 However, over the last two, three years, I've keep telling myself I need to hire someone, indeed, I do. Not to put a ton of spin on that, but Michael Hingson 41:12 I get it. You do need Vanessa Womack 41:18 to grow this solopreneur into more of a bonafide small business by hiring at least part time person to help grow the business. And that that is something I will be focusing on in the next several months to the next couple of years, just growing that part of the business to expand the services of whether it's the governance piece or the diversity piece, beyond the pharma manufacturing industry, in the pharma manufacturing industry, the cluster that's growing here in the Richmond Petersburg area, it is very important to in be inclusive in how we grow that industry to include communities of color, black and brown communities, communities that have been traditionally underrepresented in business growth and development. And that is going to be very important to provide that these in companies that are here, and those that come here, we hope to grow the region by bringing in more companies, that those companies would be diverse in their vendors and to create jobs that help these communities for employment, and to become more trained to build pathways into the jobs that would come at it the growth of the pharma manufacturing industry here. Michael Hingson 43:10 How did you get involved in doing pharma kinds of things specifically? Vanessa Womack 43:14 Well, let's be clear. I'm not in the menu. Right. Right. Right, however, but Michael Hingson 43:21 how did you get involved with them as clients specifically? I'm just curious, Vanessa Womack 43:25 I'll tell you, it was a heck I have to say it was a godson after I was separated from my full time job in 2021 thing, timing is everything. Yeah. It was time for me to start to look at growing my small gig, consulting solopreneur business. So I was putting out resumes responding to opportunities to bring in more income, and was approached or actually selected by this company called activation capital. And I am very grateful for them, because the President CEO of that organization, said, you know, interviewed me and follow up interview and offered me the consulting contract for the DEI a portion to grow that industry in this area. So it's basically a startup with the Alliance for building better medicine to make medicine more affordable and to make medicine here in the United States. Michael Hingson 44:48 And you've been doing it ever since. Vanessa Womack 44:51 Yes, it's been about a little over a year about a year that I've been doing the consulting work that I do have I've had other clients, particularly in the governance world, where I have the utmost for year have done some board a we called huddles, meet with the group in Kentucky. So it's nice to have out of state clients. And that was that worked out really well and hope to continue to grow in that aspect too. Michael Hingson 45:31 Are you going to overtime update the LinkedIn course? Or do you think it won't need it? Or is it pretty evergreen the way it is? Vanessa Womack 45:39 It's pretty Evergreen. And I say that because LinkedIn, they they own the course. And they can they recently updated it. And as I had mentioned, it's in different languages. So they have translated into so many languages, Spanish, German, Polish, Italian. Michael Hingson 46:06 And you had to learn all those languages to run right guys. That is a really cool though, that that it's appeared in so many languages. Well, you know, I know that you also are an author. Tell me about that. Vanessa Womack 46:21 Oh, my gosh, yes. And let's see my first book, my first novel, I should say, is a combination romance novel and a me what do you call it the growing up in your head? So one who is about a young woman who, who left Hall seven state to move to New York and really try to find her career? Sounds like everybody we've been talking. Yeah. So I'll I did use a lot of my imagination, which made the whole process of writing so exciting. Literary license, yes. And that first book is called a paint the sky purple paper, Sky purple. And I had a writing coach at the time. And she said, Vanessa, you're my first writing author client at the time, and I wrote the book and seven months, she said, I can't believe you did seven months. That was only because I had a little more time and I was excited. And every weekend I would keep writing, keep writing. Anyway. That was my first novel, and I'm still trying to write this second one. But I did publish two children's books on stem. The first one is Emerald Jones, the fashion designer diva, and Emerald downs ECERS. The children's books are for grades three, through five for ages eight to 12. To encourage students and teachers to really promote STEM science, technology, engineering, math and steam art in the classroom. The Emerald Jones is about a little girl who wanted to become a fashion designer, but she wants to quit school. However, she was very good in math. And she was encouraged by her principal and teachers not to think about quitting school, but to advance her math skills. And she did. The other one. The other one is bookie, and little array in the game. And bookie and little array are rivals in school. However they find that they have something in common. They both like designing games or wanted to be a computer game designers. So there's the technology, the engineer and the math skills that require that. So they bonded after some rivalry and became well at the end of the book. They become partners in a successful gaming business. Michael Hingson 49:37 Cool. What's your next book project going to be then? Vanessa Womack 49:42 Well, I have been toying around with it with a couple of different ideas. I have one that has been sitting in the computer for the last several years, about to two friends who have been friends since early high school, and they have a disagreement. But they come back together in their adult years and doing a very chaotic disaster, so to speak, where one is trapped in a building, and the other one's nearby to help her. And then they go on an adventure, not to give away most of the plot and they are there on an adventure to save not only family members, but save a company from really poisoning. It's its clients and it had to do with a medical procedure or a a invention that goes wrong. And anyway, well, that Michael Hingson 51:04 well, you'll have to let us know when it comes out so that we can definitely put it up on unstoppable mindset. So what what's next for you? What, what are your plans going forward? Vanessa Womack 51:15 Well, I I am working on it, as I said to grow, Vanessa Womack, consulting LLC, that is really what I need to do to as we say the business scale up. And there's another I guess I can call it a startup called broaden your board that would match boards, board of directors with people of color, or diverse to be more inclusive, to bring diverse candidates. That would be a good fit for their board to be, I guess, a match, bring the matches to them? Michael Hingson 52:06 Well, I hope as you go forward, maybe in addition to color, and so on, you can think about disabilities and so on as being an option of of different Oh, Vanessa Womack 52:16 absolutely. At boards. Absolutely. And when, when we're, when we want to be inclusive, all that would be part of the, you know, the opportunity to find candidates, that would be a good tip for these boards. Michael Hingson 52:33 Well, that definitely is a cool thing. And it sounds exciting, and I'm anxious to hear more about it as it grows, as well as when that new book comes out, let us know. And we'll, we'll make it well, we'll have to have you back on Savile bind to talk about all that is as we go forward. But it is definitely exciting. And I'm really glad that we were able to, to spend the time and redo this. And I know you have to leave pretty soon. So we'll go ahead and thank you for being here. And for all the things that we had to say any kind of last words of wisdom you want to tell to people before we end this. Vanessa Womack 53:14 Now, I want to thank you again for the opportunity to be on the broadcast. And for those who have been or those who will be it's a nice conversation to have to talk about the things that are, you know, life changing, or the important things in life to be in encouraging to, to have the opportunity to share different ideas. It is so important to have that connection. So thank you so much. I appreciate it. And when the book does come out, I'll let you know Michael Hingson 53:53 you should that will be great. How do people reach out to you if they want to maybe engage your services or learn more about what you do? Vanessa Womack 54:02 Now, there's my website, Vanessa womack.com. Very easy to remember. Can you spell please V A N E S S A W O M A C K.com They are so so the LinkedIn you can always reach out to me at LinkedIn. You can find me at the Vanessa Womack on LinkedIn or look for the course managing a diverse team. I'll also want to put up put a plug there that right now it's free. So if you want to take manage a diverse team, it's free for just a little bit longer. I can't say how much longer but you can go on and search for it and take it Michael Hingson 54:53 well thank you very much for being here with us and for all the interesting things the fun things that we've had a chance to talk about and definitely you got to come back on again, when you've got books and other things all set to talk about, we would love to have you be back on here with us again, and I want to thank you for listening to us. You can reach out to Vanessa, we would love that. And you can certainly reach out to me, I want to know what you think about our podcast today. Please email me at Michaelhi M I C H A E L H I as accessibe A C C E S S I B E.com. Or you can visit www dot Michael hingson.com. And click on podcasts and go there and listen to more episodes of unstoppable mindset. Or you can find them wherever you find any kind of podcast. So iTunes and Spotify and I heart and all those other kinds of places. We really appreciate you taking the time and we do want to hear from you. We want to hear your thoughts, your comments on this or any of our podcasts. And of course if you know anyone in Vanessa as well if you know anyone who might be a good guest to come on and stop by and said please let us know. We'd love to hear from you about that. And once more. Vanessa, thanks very much for being here with us today. And let's do it again soon. Vanessa Womack 56:14 Okay, very good. You take care and everybody else please take care out there. Michael Hingson 56:24 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. 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HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!! WARNING LONG AZZ INTRO so skip to 22 mins if you're fake... hahahahaha jk jk Today Morgan and Taylar start off telling you every and anything about their trip to LA!! Morgan starts us off by covering the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel where they stayed in LA aka so much history aka so many hauntings aka MARYLIN MONROE TEA and where the hell is Teddy's?? Taylar then wraps up the episode covering the infamous case of "Boys on the Tracks" or the murders of Don Henry and Kevin Ives. Followed by some massive theories, claims, and so many conspiracies... check in on us, okay? Thank you so much to Paired for Sponsoring today's episode: Go to PAIRED.COM/CREEPSANDCRIMES to get your 7 Day Free Trial and 25% OFF a Subscription to *Spice* up your communication with your partner Sources: https://unsolved.com/gallery/don-henry-kevin-ives/ https://prospectiveonline.com/12135/feature/the-murder-of-kevin-ives-and-don-henry/ https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Don_Henry_and_Kevin_Ives https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndga/pr/former-georgia-medical-examiner-sentenced-opioid-conspiracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Seal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Don_Henry_and_Kevin_Ives
A lived experience review of the Halloween franchise becomes a strawberry blonde-haunted road into the origins of the horror fetish, aided by the footprints at Grauman's Chinese, the drunks at The Roosevelt Hotel, Liz Taylor's secret and Ru Paul's Hollywood star. For the full (3.5 hour) episode, subscribe at patreon.com/filthyarmenian Locations: Grauman's Chinese Theater, Hollywood Boulevard, The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, 25 Degrees diner, Hollywood and Highland parking lot Starring John Parks and introducing Jocko Homo Follow us on twitter/insta @filthyarmenian If you like what you hear, please rate, review, and spread the word.
We've got a new installment for ya partners, HAUNTED HOTELS! Alaina brings us to the Langham hotel in London and then to Ben Lomond Suites in Utah while Ash brings us to the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel and then to Hotel Savoy. It's gonna be creepy and ghostly up in here because we've got all things that are good; ghostly elevators, mirror Marilyn ghosts, spectral weapons and so much more. Hold onto your butts and if you would like to suggest a Haunted Hotel for our next episode please send to Morbidpodcast@gmail.com with “Haunted Hotels” somewhere in the subject line :)Sam and Colby visiting The Langham Hotel in London (Hilarious)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Welcome to The Bliss Project Podcast! In today's episode, we chat with our friend, Anita Rosenberg. As a global consultant and award-winning author with over 18-years of experience, Anita's passion is helping people reach their wealth potential and improve their business and personal relationships through Feng Shui, BaZi Chinese Astrology and Qi Men. Her notable clients include Supermodel Miranda Kerr, Award-Winning Actors Virginia Madsen and Gwyneth Paltrow, International Artist Shepard Fairey, Performers Paula Abdul and Ashley Tisdale, along with the W Hollywood Residences and the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel (partial list.) Anita has been generous enough to offer our listeners a 2022 handout as a guide for this year, so make sure to check it out! In this episode we discuss: Anita's start in the entertainment industry and how a shift into importing furniture from China led her to her calling and the work she does today Discovering the Magic of Feng Shui in Hong Kong, leading her to switch gears into Metaphysics and becoming a Cosmic Coach A little insight into Bazi Astrology and the Bazi chart Home Harmony Space clearing and how the use of Feng Shui can shift not only the energy in your space, but also in your life Her love of Crystals and how they can assist you in your daily life Learn more about Anita here: Website: http://www.anitarosenberg.com/ IG: @anitarosenbergstudios Email: Anita@AnitaRosenberg.com Learn More About The Bliss Project and Us: www.theblissproject777.com Connect with us here: theblissproject777@gmail.com Instagram: @TheBlissProject777 @noelteubner @msuar12 Join us each week for a new episode available on our website, Breaker, Google Podcasts, Pocket Casts, RadioPublic, Spotify, and now iTunes! Music By Mark Adler --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theblissproject/support
Cuando las luces del cine se apagan, empieza la magia… y miles historias que se quedan para siempre en nuestra memoria. El cine, el llamado séptimo arte, es sin duda una de las industrias más reconocidas del mundo. Se trata de un sector cuyo máximo reconocimiento ha traído a la cultura popular una de las frases más icónicas de la farándula internacional: "And the Óscar goes to...".Hoy en día, la gala de los Óscar es uno de los eventos más esperados cada año en todo el planeta, una cita que acapara la atención mediática a los dos lados del charco. Aunque, como decían en Prometheus, "las cosas grandes tienen principios pequeños". Y la gala de los Óscar no es una excepción.Muchos se estarán preguntando: ¿Qué hacemos hablando de los Óscar dos meses después de que se celebrase la última edición de estos galardones? Pues bien, muy pocos saben que este mes se cumplen 93 años de la primera gala de los Óscar de la historia. Un 16 de mayo de 1929, la Academia de las Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas decidió premiar a las mejores películas de 1927 y 1928. Todo ello, en un evento muy diferente al que hoy conocemos.Así fue la primera gala de los Óscar Los primeros Oscars, repartidos entonces en solo 12 categorías, se entregaron en una cena privada celebrada en el Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel de Los Ángeles a la que simplemente asistieron 270 personas. La ceremonia, como tal, duró tan solo 15 minutos y, por primera y última vez, no fue cubierta por ninguna radio, ni televisión, por lo que, salvo algunas fotografías, apenas hay documentación audiovisual de aquel histórico acontecimiento. La cinta que se llevó el primer Óscar a la Mejor Película fue Alas, una obra de cine mudo dirigida por William A. Wellman contaba una historia de amor que se vio truncada por la Primera Guerra Mundial.Pero el gran salto de los Óscar llegó en 1953, año en el que fueron retransmitidos por primera vez por televisión a través de la emblemática NBC. Aquella vez, la ceremonia tuvo lugar de forma simultánea en dos sedes diferentes ubicadas en Los Ángeles y Nueva York y fue el punto de inflexión en lo que a la atención mediática que estos galardones reciben por parte de la prensa y del público. Ese día, la actriz canadiense Mary Pickford hacía entrega del Óscar a la Mejor Película al director de 'El mayor espectáculo del mundo', cinta de trama circense que, pese a su reconocimiento, ha sido considerada una de las peores películas entre las que, a lo largo de la historia, se han llevado la más ansiada de las estatuillas.La NBC, como decíamos, fue la encargada de dar los premios hasta el año 1960, cuando pasó a manos de la ABC. Y aunque durante 1970 y 1976 la ceremonia volvió a su emisora original, la NBC, finalmente, a partir de 1977 el evento regresó a la ABC, cadena que hasta nuestros días ha retransmitido año a año una gala que mueve en los últimos tiempos una maquinaria millonaria. ¿Cuánto dinero supone organizar una gala de los Óscar?Una gala de los Óscar cuesta en torno a 42.8 millonesPues aunque cada año el coste total de los premios varía, la revista Forbes recoge que, por ejemplo, la gala celebrada en 2017 supuso un gasto de 42.8 millones de dólares. Ese año, se requirieron 250 personas trabajando en la oficina de producción, 270 técnicos durante la transmisión y, al menos, 100 vehículos que ayudaran a los equipos de producción, prensa y restauración.En los Óscar se cuida hasta el último de los detalles y la mayor prueba de ello es que su emblemática alfombra roja, la cual recibe el nombre de The Academy y mide 275 metros, se renueva cada año y supone un desembolso de 30.000 dólares. Hay algunos estudios que apuntan a que la cuantía total puede ascender hasta los 100 millones si se tienen en cuenta todos los eventos previos a los Oscars que se celebran durante la pretemporada. Dinero, dinero y más dinero.Y así, "como por arte de magia", como decía Michael Douglas en la aclamada Wall Street, el dinero invertido es rápidamente recuperado, con importantes beneficios, gracias a los ingresos publicitarios que genera la emisión de la gala por televisión. Se calcula que el coste medio para la transmisión de un anuncio de 30 segundos es de 2,1 millones de dólares, una cifra que, como curiosidad, dista mucho de los 4 millones que cuesta ese mismo spot durante la Super Bowl. Así, gracias a la publicidad, la cadena ABC logra ingresos que llegan a superar los 120 millones de dólares.¿Cobran dinero los ganadores de los Óscar? Pues no, no todo el mundo sale beneficiado en la celebración de la gala de los Óscar, al menos no de forma directa. Y es que muchos no saben que los ganadores de los Óscar, los actores y actrices incluso, las grandes estrellas de la noche, no reciben una compensación monetaria en el caso de ser galardonados.No hay premio económico para los afortunados. Sin embargo, un estudio elaborado por IBISWorld desvela que el premio Óscar puede hacer que el caché de sus ganadores crezca hasta un 20% a partir de la siguiente película que graben. No obstante, y esta es una de las grandes asignaturas pendientes de la industria, el caché no crece igual para ellos... que para ellas. En el caso de los actores, se calcula que pueden llegar a cobrar hasta 3,6 millones de dólares más en su siguiente proyecto, una cantidad que se aleja demasiado de los 500.000 dólares que, como máximo, asciende el salario de las actrices. Una lucha que muchas intérpretes, entre ellas la gran Meryl Streep, no dejan de reivindicar.Este foco mediático que supone los Óscar también afecta a las propias películas. Para empezar, se estima que cinco nominaciones para un largometraje supone un incremento de 60 millones de euros en los ingresos generados en taquilla. En el caso de alzarse con la preciada estatuilla, este aumento asciende a un incremento del 20% justo después de la ceremonia.Avatar, la película premiada más cara de la historiaY de entre todas las películas de la historia del cine hay una que llegó para romper todos los esquemas: Avatar, el largometraje de ciencia ficción dirigido por James Cameron, es a día de hoy la cinta más cara que ha sido premiada en los Óscar. El presupuesto oficial de la película es de 237 millones, aunque algunas estimaciones la sitúan entre los 280 y los 310 millones de dólares.Una inversión que, en este caso, fue revertida con creces, ya que Avatar se convirtió en muy poco tiempo en la película más taquillera de la historia con una recaudación que supera los 2.800 millones de dólares. Aunque hace unos años, la entrega Endgame de Los Vengadores le robó el récord, en 2021, el regreso de Avatar a algunas salas de cine de China la volvió a poner en cabeza.La estatuilla del Óscar solo cuesta 1 dólarDinero, dinero y más dinero. Sin embargo, hay una curiosidad que muchos ignoran. Y es que el objeto más deseado de los Óscar, la estatuilla dorada del guerrero, no tiene ningún valor económico. ¿Cómo es posible? El trofeo más importante de Hollywood pesa 3,85 kilos y mide 34 centímetros. Y aunque es de bronce bañado en un oro mineral de 24 quilates, y su coste de fabricación es de unos 500 dólares, su precio legal es de un solo dólar.Para explicarlo, hay que remontarse al año 1950, año en el que la Academia estableció por ley que los ganadores del Óscar, y sus herederos, tienen prohibido venderlo sin antes ofrecérselo a la propia organización por valor de un dólar. Si el ganador se niega a firmar esta cláusula, la Academia se quedará con el premio.A pesar de todo esto, hay estatuillas anteriores a la norma que no están protegidas por ley y que han sido vendidas en grandes subastas. Llama la atención el caso de Michael Jackson, que llegó a pagar casi 1,5 millones de dólares por el Óscar a la Mejor Película que en 1940 se llevó Lo que el viento se llevó.El dinero que deja los Óscar en Los ÁngelesFinalmente, toda esta maquinaria que supone un evento de la magnitud de los Óscar proporciona grandes ingresos para la propia ciudad que lo acoge. Se calcula que Los Ángeles, la ciudad de las estrellas, ingresa 118 millones de dólares durante la celebración de la gala de los Óscar por todo lo que se mueve alrededor de la cita. Sin embargo, esa cifra es mucho más alta si se tiene en cuenta la cantidad de visitantes que recibe la región californiana a lo largo de todo el año con el atractivo de Hollywood y su paseo de la fama por bandera.¿Pero pueden estos visitantes, puede el público de a pie comprar entradas para asistir a la ceremonia de entrega de los Óscar? Aunque últimamente hay quien se pega dentro de la propia gala [Will Smith y Chris Rock], hay quien mataría por una butaca en el Dolby Theatre que acoge el evento. Lamentablemente, esto es prácticamente imposible, ya que las entradas que se pueden conseguir son muy pocas y están destinadas a invitados de los nominados. En una entrevista reciente, Antonio Banderas desveló que llegó a pagar 750 dólares por cada pase extra que adquirió para dos familiares, ya que la Academia solo permite un acompañante por invitado.Y es que nadie se quiere perder la fiesta más importante del cine, aunque son muy pocos los privilegiados que pueden colarse en ella. Todo el mundo querría ser testigo de una de las citas más glamurosas del año y que, sin duda, más dinero mueve, dentro y fuera de Estados Unidos.
Today's episode, The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. From Hollywood history, death to ghost. Tune in and listen to this week's haunted episode.
TVC 556.6: Award-winning singer, actress, producer, and comedienne Kat Kramer talks to Ed about being the opening act for Milton Berle early in her career, and her experience writing and performing comedy as part of a duo. Also in this segment: Kat pays tribute to her dear friend Ed Asner. Kat will perform a special Halloween-themed comedy show at the historic Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel on Friday, Oct. 29. See the events page at TheHollywoodRoosevelt.com for tickets and more information. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They're great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
TVC 556.5: Ed welcomes back singer, actress, producer, and comedienne Kat Kramer (Turnover, Child of the '70s). After returning to stand-up comedy earlier this year, Kat will perform a special Halloween-themed comedy show at the historic Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel on Friday, Oct. 29—an event that, in many respects, will bring her career full circle. See the events page at TheHollywoodRoosevelt.com for tickets and more information. Want to advertise/sponsor our show? TV Confidential has partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle advertising/sponsorship requests for the podcast edition of our program. They're great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email sales@advertisecast.com or click the link below to get started: https://www.advertisecast.com/TVConfidentialAradiotalkshowabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nicholas Ryan Howard serves as the facilitator working with Luna in the lobby of The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood, CA on navigating depression to return to creation, converting doubt into motivation, and into expansion of the creative consciousness.
Mak really toed the line of the categories this episode, bringing ghosts who have solved their own murders. Emily stayed true though, with the famously haunted Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. Between Marlyn Monroe, Superman, and a creep, this episode has more than its fair share of hauntings.
Filmmakers Chris Beyrooty and Connor Martin joins Matthew Pejkovic on the Matt's Movie Reviews Podcast to talk about their debut feature film 'Shelter in Place', filming a movie in the iconic Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, adding filmmaking craft to the "Covid movie", and much more! Support Matt's Movie Reviews 80s Tees: https://www.shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=119192&u=2900540&m=16934 Loot Crate: https://www.tkqlhce.com/click-100442585-13901976 Vudu: https://www.jdoqocy.com/click-100442585-14486018 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=33903624 Follow Matt's Movie Reviews! Website: http://mattsmoviereviews.net Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Matts-Movie-Reviewsnet/151059409963 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/MattsMovieReviews LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/1036986/admin/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/mattsmovierev MeWe: https://mewe.com/p/mattsmoviereviews Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mattsmoviereviews/ Rotten Tomatoes: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/critic/matthew-pejkovic/movies
Tonight we're chatting with Chris Beyrooty and Connor Martin, directors and writers of Shelter in Place, releasing on digital September 14, 2021.Directed and Written by Chris Beyrooty and Connor Martin, SHELTER IN PLACE stars Brendan Hines (The Tick, Lie to Me), Tatjana Marjanovic (Great White, Purgatory), Kevin Daniels (Atypical, Modern Family, The Big Leap), Ola Kaminska (The Madness Within), and Jey Reynolds.SYNOPSIS: A honeymooning couple gets stranded at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel and learns that there is more to fear than just cabin fever.
Tonight we're chatting with Chris Beyrooty and Connor Martin, directors and writers of Shelter in Place, releasing on digital September 14, 2021.Directed and Written by Chris Beyrooty and Connor Martin, SHELTER IN PLACE stars Brendan Hines (The Tick, Lie to Me), Tatjana Marjanovic (Great White, Purgatory), Kevin Daniels (Atypical, Modern Family, The Big Leap), Ola Kaminska (The Madness Within), and Jey Reynolds.SYNOPSIS: A honeymooning couple gets stranded at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel and learns that there is more to fear than just cabin fever.
Gaby has been making cocktails for more than twenty years at some of the world's best bars in the US and UK. Under her direction, her bars have won multiple accolades including “Bar of the Year,” “Best Culinary Cocktail Bar” and “Best Bar Team.” In this episode, the UK native walks us through a conversation with a chef that led her to create this cocktail; blending her love of using culinary ingredients with molecular driven techniques behind the bar. These days, you can find Gaby mixing drinks at The Spare Room in The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. She is proud to support a nonprofit organization formed in LA during the pandemic called No Us Without You. Enjoy this episode as we go Beyond the Drink… with Gaby Mlynarczyk. (cocktail recipe below) Rhubarb Strawberry “Pimms” Cup BARTENDER'S NOTE: The recipe below is a large format recipe that will make approximately 15 cocktails. The liquid amounts you will hear in this episode are slightly larger than what you see below and will make closer to 20 cocktails. All ingredients and techniques remain the same. 1 bottle gin (750mL), such as Fords 2 bottles Martini Bianco Vermouth (750 mL) 3/4 cup simple syrup (1:1 ratio sugar to hot water; cool before using) 1500 grams chopped rhubarb 1500 grams halved strawberries (use the ripest, even mushy, but definitely not green) 1 English cucumber, chopped Peel of 1 lemon Add the gin, vermouth, simple syrup, rhubarb, strawberries, cucumber and lemon to a large container with a lid. Allow to steep for at least 5 days in the fridge. If you want to speed things up, add all ingredients to a large resealable bag (or use multiple bags) and place in a sous vide bath set at 55 degrees celsius for 2 hours. If you use the sous vide method, you will only need to steep/rest the infusion in the fridge for 24-48 hours. When the infusion is ready, strain and store the “pimms” mix in screw top jars or bottles in the fridge until ready to use. To serve: 1. Fill a tall glass with ice 2. Pour 4 oz of “pimms” mix over the ice 3. Top with a long splash of ginger beer, such as fever tree 4. Garnish with fresh strawberries and fresh mint sprigs This episode is Presented by Fords Gin. Check out our #BtPlatepodcast Merch at www.BeyondthePlateMerch.com Follow Beyond the Plate on Facebook and Twitter Follow Kappy on Instagram and Twitter
Robbin Itkin In this episode of Her Success Story, Ivy Slater chats with Robbin Itkin who is experienced in bankruptcy law and corporate restructuring. They talk about a variety of topics including building a book of business, growing a career, and changes in the industry Experienced at representing a range of parties in the bankruptcy process, Robbin Itkin has protected the claims and interests of debtors, creditors', equity and bondholders' committees, purchasers, and trustees in corporate restructurings and bankruptcies. Her industry experience spans real estate, entertainment, sports, retail, transportation, manufacturing, and hospitality. Many of Robbin's clients are high-profile individuals in entertainment, sports, and business. She discreetly guides them through out-of-court workouts and financial transactions, often advising at all stages of business growth and on early signs of distress. Robbin has been involved in notable bankruptcy cases, including those involving Chrysler LLC, Lehman Brothers, the landmark Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, yoga guru Bikram Choudhury, and the Los Angeles Dodgers. Additionally, she has represented leading talent in the Relativity Media and AOG Entertainment cases, among other matters. Prior to joining Sklar Kirsh, Robbin was a partner with DLA Piper and with Liner LLP, where she served as chair of its Business Solutions and Financial Restructuring Group. She also led the West Coast business and financial restructuring team at Steptoe & Johnson LLP. Robbin received her undergraduate degree from University of California, Los Angeles and her law degree from University of Southern California. She often speaks at leading bankruptcy events on topical issues, including women in the bankruptcy profession. Robbin's excellence in complex matters has earned her recognition as a Chambers USA-ranked attorney in restructuring. Super Lawyers has featured her since 2005 and has named her among Southern California's Top 50 Women lawyers and Top 100 lawyers. She also is recognized by Best Lawyers in Southern California and Martindale Hubbell. Robbin was the recipient in 2013 of the Century City Bar Association's “Bankruptcy Lawyer of the Year'' award and was featured on the inaugural list of LawDragon's 2020 Leading U.S. Bankruptcy & Restructuring Lawyers. Robbin uses her spare time to fly fish with her husband, a banking and finance lawyer, and to enjoy her homes in the San Fernando Valley and Montana with their two Labrador retrievers. Plug: Partner, Sklar Kirsh's Bankruptcy practice group Ivy Slater is a professionally certified business coach, speaker, best-selling author and podcast host. After owning and operating a 7-figure printing business, having been in the industry for 20 years, she started Slater Success which focuses on developing great leaders and facilitating business growth and expansion. Ivy holds masterminds and retreats with her private client base and corporate training on communication and strategic planning. She speaks nationwide on the topics of leadership, sustainable growth, relationships and sales. In this episode, we discuss: The boy's club How to build a book of business Taking the fresh approach to business On loving challenges Trends in business restructuring and bankruptcy since Covid The hybrid workforce The empowering energy that comes from a room full of smart women How to connect with your team while working virtually Tips for young lawyers growing their careers Why pretending to be perfect hurts business credibility How supporting other women helps you as a leader The value of mentoring others Fun facts about Robbin Robbin Itkin Website: https://www.sklarkirsh.com/Professionals/robbin-l-itkin/ Ivy Slater Best Selling Author of From the Barre to the Boardroom Website: https://slatersuccess.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ivyslater/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/slatersuccesscoaching Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ivyslaterssc/ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/slatersuccess/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/SlaterSuccessCC YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ8b1sGnADlpFE2NrqUfToQ?view_as=subscribe
Hi friends! This week we took a little different turn and dove into the history and hauntings of the iconic Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, and the secret (or not so secret) tunnels that lie below Los Angeles! Consider supporting us on Patreon! Follow us on Instagram @WhoKnew_Podcast
For the video version, click here: https://youtu.be/AEWQ3m9PVSg LEE LESSACK’s graceful Lyric baritone vocals and sophisticated, yet endearing persona have made him a shining star on the international concert scene. Billboard Magazine calls his singing “cabaret romanticism of a high order”. Touring extensively in the United States and Europe to sold-out performances and releasing eight albums, Lessack has proven himself both as a performer and recording artist. Among his critically acclaimed albums is a live recording of Too Marvelous for Words: The Songs of Johnny Mercer, from the famed Cinegrill in the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, which was chosen for the 2002 Grammy Award preliminary ballot. His newest album, in collaboration with Johnny Rodgers is a recreation of the Simon & Garfunkel Live in Central Park concert in September, 1981. All are available on www.lmlmusic.com. A Philadelphia native, Lessack sharpened his acting skills at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and then chose to pursue the concert route over Broadway. He now resides in Los Angeles where, in 1996 he founded LML Music which has a catalog of over 100 of the country’s top live recording artists and performers. in 2008, he began booking other artists in addition to himself.
Join Irma Cornejo and Karina Reyes as they dive into the infamous Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. The spooky sightings of Marilyn Monroe and Montgomery Clift spirits lingering around the hotel and spooky experiences. Follow us on Social Media! IG: AnotherSpookyPodcast, Twitter: ASpookyPodcast, Email: ASpookyPodcast@gmail.com
Join Good Witch Patti Negri as she welcomes her Hollywood neighbor, Chinese Astrology expert, Anita Rosenberg. As a global consultant and award-winning author Anita Rosenberg passion is helping people reach their potential and improve their business and personal relationships through Feng Shui, BaZi Chinese Astrology and Qi Men. Her clients include Super Model Miranda Kerr, Award-Winning Actors Virginia Madsen and Gwyneth Paltrow, International Artist Shepard Fairey, Performers Paula Abdul and Ashley Tisdale, along with the W Hollywood Residences and the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel (partial list.) Get ready to put your CHI intro gear in this week's episode of THE WITCHING HOUR. #FengShui #ChineseAstrology #BaZi
In episode 1, I am going to be exposing the craziest night of my whole life. We're talking a haunted hotel, R. Kelly, backed up toilets, and raw meat. Don't miss it.
Welcome to the inaugural episode of The Paranormal Playground Podcast. In this episode, we will be talking about the history and haunting of the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood, a creepypasta called 'Better Films' and my own true paranormal story. Please keep in mind, this is the first episode, it probably won't be that great. As I get going, and get better at this, the episodes will be better and better..I promise. If you have your own personal paranormal, and you would like me to read it on the podcast, please email it to: stories.theparanormalplayground@gmail.com. If you have any particular haunted history, creepypasta or urban legends you would like to have an featured in an episode, please email: info.theparanormalplayground@gmail.com. Please do me a kindness and rate this podcast on whatever platform you are listening on. I would really appreciate it. Thanks for listening! Enjoy! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/paranormalplayground/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/paranormalplayground/support
The Hollywood Roosevelt hotel, financed in part by the roaring twenties kings and queen of Hollywood, Louis B. Mayer, Douglas Fairbanks, the silent screen queen herself Mary Pickford and Grauman Theater owner Sid Grauman. The 12-story hotel has 300 guest rooms including 63 suites it was Built in 1927, and named for US President Theodore Roosevelt, the hotel has penthouse views of the hollywood hills and sign. Building took a year and half and at the time cost what seemed like an astronomical amount for the time of 2.5 million, which would be well over 25 million today. Its known for hosting the first academy awards on May 16, 1929, and for the guests that may have never checked out. Advertisement The Famous Blossom Room, does one of the spirits haunt this room because he didn't win the award he thought he deserved? Special thanks to Craig Owens Author, Historian https://bizarrela.com/ https://bizarrela.com/product-category/haunted-by-history-books/ You can follow Craig at bizarre_los_Angeles on instagram or at Bizarre Los Angeles on Facebook ********* None of the photos on this page belong to Haunting History Podcast. No copyright infringement intended and are only used as enhancements to the story told. At times when reporting facts regarding a true crime, (and photos) multiple sources use the same wording. Every effort is made to avoid any copyright infringements and no single work was intentionally plagiarized when reporting the facts of the crimes or the telling of the stories. Below is a list of resources used during the research and telling of this story. (partial) Information Credits: https://www.historichotels.org/us/hotels-resorts/the-hollywood-roosevelt/history.php https://la.curbed.com/2015/10/27/9907144/haunted-hotels-los-angeles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hollywood_Roosevelt_Hotel https://amuse.vice.com/en_us/article/nehttps://laist.com/2017/05/16/roosevelt_hotel_history.phpmn8k/hollywood-roosevelt-review https://www.seeing-stars.com/Died/Haunted.shtml https://ladailymirror.com/2014/04/07/mary-mallory-hollywood-heights-the-roosevelt-hotel-hollywood-party-central/ https://frightfind.com/haunted-hollywood-roosevelt/ Photo Credits https://amuse.vice.com/en_us/article/nemn8k/hollywood-roosevelt-review https://www.pinterest.com/pin/305541155944307665/?nic_v2=1a5mA0hRd https://www.hauntedrooms.com/california/los-angeles/haunted-places/haunted-hotels/hollywood-roosevelt-hotel https://ladailymirror.com/2014/04/07/mary-mallory-hollywood-heights-the-roosevelt-hotel-hollywood-party-central/ and of course Ancestry.com, MyHeritage.com, Newspaperarchives, FamilySearch.org Haunting History Podcast Logo compliments of: Website is www.treleavencreative.com Insta and Facebook @treleavencreative This presentation is protected by US & International copyright laws. Reproduction & distribution of the presentation without written permission of the sponsor is prohibited.
Canndescent with CMO Sam Arellano. Our guest is an accomplished, entrepreneur-minded executive and award-winning accelerator of lifestyle brands. He’s created and produced nationally recognized campaigns for some of the world’s leading brands including Nike, Red Bull, and Incase. His 20-year work history spans men’s contemporary apparel, sporting goods, and consumer electronics. In 2006 Sam co-founded Graphite Brand Design - a Los Angeles based creative agency focused on luxury goods, contemporary fashion, and street culture. During his four years at Graphite, Sam secured major account wins including the Agency of Record for leading Apple accessories brand, Incase. In addition, Sam led multimillion-dollar projects for Toyota, MTV, ROXY, Moleskine, the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, and has worked with the world’s foremost street artists including KAWS, Evan Hecox, and Shepard Fairey. Sam serves as an advisor to technology start-up MavFarm, Inc., makers of the Sho_w app - the first interactive mobile camera and shoppable video-sharing marketplace for art, music, and fashion enthusiasts; and to ICAN Los Angeles, a supported employment agency created to help mentally disabled young people find meaningful employment around LA.
Welcome to the first episode of Season 2 of BrokenGirl Unchained: Unchained in LA. In this episode, Juliet sits down with Patti Negri for a seance at the famed Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. Juliet and Patti invite special guests Erin Gavin who has played Marilyn Monroe for a large portion of her career, and Sage Stevens a writer, producer, and red carpet host. Patti channels the spirit of Marilyn Monroe (as well as a few other roaming spirits) and gets them to answer some questions from the guests. This is the audio from a video of the seance available on YouTube, so we apologize for the audio quality. We just wanted to give you a little teaser as to what's in store for you during Season 2. Joining Juliet, Patti, Sage, and Erin are Farrah and Tamara Mechael. You know we love all things Patti here at BrokenGirl Unchained and you won't be disappointed.
There’s only one person in the world who can say he’s an entrepreneur who does celebrity relationship development for Fortune 500 companies, created Beacher's Madhouse, owns dozens of businesses around the world and is dubbed the The Greatest Showman on Earth by Rolling Stone. That man is Jeff Beacher. Jeff’s road to success all began back in 2002 in New York City. His first of many claims to fame was bringing Vaudeville back to the city, where he launched Beacher’s Madhouse with a sold out run of red carpet celebrity packed shows at the Paramount Theater in Madison Square Garden & the Supper Club Theater on Broadway. Following this he moved out west to The Hard Rock Hotel and Casino where he sold out shows for another run in Las Vegas from 2003 through 2008. This success led to Jeff opening the first headlining show at the legendary Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood & a sold out, 81 city tour across the country. Today, Beacher’s Madhouse is the go to event that everyone wants to be a part of where ever it lands in the world or at its flag ship theatre in the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel! Learn more about Jeff Beacher: http://jeffbeacher.com/about/ Follow Jeff Beacher on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jeffbeacher/?hl=en New podcast with Larry King: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/larry-king-celebrity-interview-podcast-1004407/
Celebrity Ghosts and Notorious Hauntings looks at many famous ghosts―dead celebrities that haunt old Hollywood locales, famous generals that appear to witnesses at great battlefields, and noted politicians that roam the hallways of courthouses, statehouses, and even the White House! Plus, this fascinating frightfest examines the famous haunted locations themselves, such as the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, the Hotel del Coronado, Gettysburg, the Stanley Hotel (which inspired Stephen King’s The Shining) and so many others that claim the supernatural as part of their heritage and history.This riveting look at the unexplained also investigates movie lore, including the unsettling incidents on the Amityville Horror set; “The Dark Knight” curse that includes on-set accidents from the horrible death of Heath Ledger, who played the Joker, to the mass shooting at a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises; the deaths and curse surrounding The Matrix; the Infamous Stage 28 at Universal Studios; and Paramount Studios’ long history of hauntings and strange goings-on.Elvis Presley, John Lennon, Frank Sinatra, and Hank Williams. Presidents John Adams, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Jackson, and Harry Truman. Henry VIII, beheaded Sir Walter Raleigh, and Prince Edward V. Rudolph Valentino, Mary Pickford, Marilyn Monroe, and “Superman” actor George Reeves. Houdini, Redd Foxx, Liberace, and serial-killer Ted Bundy. They all lurk in this chillingly riveting book. Haunted graveyards (of course), haunted historical landmarks and battlefields, plus haunted libraries, courthouses, ships, submarines, lighthouses, hotels, roadways, byways, bridges, prisons, and hospitals are all gathered together in this comprehensive look at the ghastly afterlife of the renowned. From famous faces to famous places, if it involves fame and celebrity, fortune and notoriety, legend and lore, Celebrity Ghosts and Notorious Hauntings covers it. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
On this episode of The Medium Matters we are packing our bags and checking into all the haunts. That's right, it's haunted hotels as far as the ears can hear. From Marilyn Monroe wandering the halls at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel to the Black Dahlia visiting the Millennium Biltmore Hotel just before her gruesome murder, we are investigating the sites vicariously and loving every stop on the tour. Want to hear about the ghost dancer in the ballroom and Shantel's list of "nopes"? Hop on the haunted tour bus and tune in for another can't-miss episode. You'll be glad you did. This week's episode is brought to you by The Fool tarot card and by Tiger's Eye crystal. Shout Out: This week's episode goes out to the always fantastic, Zerick, who shows us his love in every incredible way and also happens to be our very first Patreon Patron! Zerick, your continued support means the entire universe to everyone at The Medium Matters family. None of this would be possible without you. Can't get enough of The Medium Matters? Follow the show on Twitter, Instagram, Patreon and our website for extra goodies and behind-the-scenes fun. Still not enough? Check out the show's sister content on YouTube's So Shantel channel for even more behind-the-scenes goodies. Want to do what The Medium Matters does? Visit our Amazon store and shop our everyday favorites including books, crystals, sage and so much more. The Medium Matters is available on all major podcast apps. Listen, subscribe and be sure to leave a rating and review for this and other podcasts. Hosted By: Shantel Guest: Marie Rose Promo By: It's An Odd World After All
This week is our second installment of the Bartender Series - The Master Blend. In collaboration with Bertoux Brandy, the Bit by a Fox Podcast will host a series of interviews with some of America’s most acclaimed and innovative bartenders. This second interview is with Yael Vengroff, one of the most decorated young bartenders out there. While she runs the award winning cocktail program at The Spare Room in the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, she has her hands in a number of other LA bars, and still makes time to feed her love of dancing and movement. We discussed the importance of body mechanics in her personal and professional life, and how creating a strict sense of structure actually helps to free up her wild child creativity. Yael Vengroff’s BERTOUX Brandy cocktail: East Broadway Sour 2 oz BERTOUX Brandy .74 oz Lemon Juice .75 oz Chinese 5 Spice Syrup 2 dashes Toasted Pecan Bitters 1 oz Red Wine Float Shake all ingredients, except the wine, over ice. Strain into an ice-filled rocks glass. Float 1 oz of a full bodied red wine. Garnish with orange wheel & grated nutmeg. LinksBERTOUX Brandy The Spare Room in The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel Genghis Cohen Yael Vengroff's Instagram Bit by a Fox Links: blog: http://bitbyafox.com instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bitbyafox/ facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BitByAFox/ twitter: https://twitter.com/bitbyafox music: https://www.humanworldwide.com
This #huellsgold episode is about California pools. We start at the historic Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, with its pool floor painted by the famous #davidhockney. A few miles later, we see the Olympic pools at The Coliseum in Los Angeles. Our third pool is Huell’s favorite pool. It’s none other than the #neptunepool at #hearstcastle . Finally, #huellhowser helps us use our imaginations to see the glory days of the #sutrobaths . This aqua-filled #californiasgold episode has Huell written all over it. Video- California's Gold- California Pools Huell's Gold Instagram Huell's Gold Facebook Huell's Gold Twitter
The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars,[1] are a set of awards for artistic and technical merit in the film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a golden statuette, officially called the "Academy Award of Merit", although more commonly referred to by its nickname "Oscar". The award was originally sculpted by George Stanley from a design sketch by Cedric Gibbons.[2] AMPAS first presented it in 1929 at a private dinner hosted by Douglas Fairbanks in the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.[3][4]Music for YKS is courtesy of our friends Lydia Burrell, Craig Dickman, and Mark Brendle.For more on Joan Osbourne, check out www.patreon.com/yourkickstartersucks, where pie IS always a full meal. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Recap of Frieze week in Los Angeles! We go in depth about the Art Los Angeles Contemporary at Santa Monica Airport's Barker Hangar & Felix LA at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. Discover more about our highlight artist Emilio Bianchic and his fake nail art. The art news stories covered is art dealer Mary Boone is sentenced to prison for tax fraud and new Las Vegas strip art experience opens with tattoo exhibit. Guest Intro 00:25 Frieze Recap 00:35 Highlight Artist Emilio Bianchic 28:34 Art News 37:20
Un 16 de mayo de 1929, en el Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel de Los Ángeles, se celebró la primera ceremonia de entrega de los Oscar... ¿Dispuestos a adentraros en un mundo desconocido, paranormal, y sobrecogedor? ¿Seguro? Este es vuestro programa... El Centinela del Misterio, con Carlos Bustos, y en exclusiva para Metropolitan Radio España... o no!!! Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals
In this week's episode of the ArtTactic Podcast, we're joined by Mills Moran, co-founder of Felix LA, which will occur from February 14-17. First, Mills tells us what inspired him to launch an art fair in LA. Then, he reveals what we can expect at the inaugural edition of the fair, which will take place at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. Also, Mills speaks with us about the growing LA art scene and collector base.
Smack dab in the center of Tinseltown, The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel was first opened in 1927. It is known for celebrity sightings… but not the lively kind. Montgomery Clift and Marilyn Monroe are just a few of the ghosts you might encounter during your stay. Our tip...avoid room 213 at all costs.. Sponsors! Care/of - For 25% off your first month of personalized Care/of vitamins, visit TakeCareOf.com and enter code HAUNTED.
Episode Notes The Ghouls explore some of Tinseltown's terrors, including the famed Hollywood sign, Greystone Mansion, and The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. Have ghost stories of your own? Email them to us at TheGoldenGhoulsPodcast@gmail.com Be sure to rate, review, and subscribe on iTunes, Stitcher, or Google Play, and follow us on social media - Twitter, Instagram, Facebook If you enjoy our show, please consider contributing to our Patreon! Thank you for listening, and stay spooky! Find out more at https://the-golden-ghouls.pinecast.co Check out our podcasting host, Pinecast. Start your own podcast for free, no credit card required, forever. If you decide to upgrade, use coupon code r-7d6f19 for 40% off for 4 months, and support The Golden Ghouls.
Shaquita Smith - She's the Director, Producer and Writer of a brand new horror movie called "Truth or Double Dare". When she's not behind the camera she's in front of it; recently seen on the TuPac Biopic movie that aired this past Summer. We talk to her about her career, this movie and so much more.Frank Ford - Frank returns to talk to us about Four Day Weekend's new book. We talk improv comedy and even do a skit over the phone. He's a lot of fun and you'll enjoy this interview.Plus we explore some more "Halloween Things" with two ghost stories which include "Resurrection Mary" in Chicago and the haunted Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel which boasts the sightings of former resident Marilyn Monroe.
Shaquita Smith - She's the Director, Producer and Writer of a brand new horror movie called "Truth or Double Dare". When she's not behind the camera she's in front of it; recently seen on the TuPac Biopic movie that aired this past Summer. We talk to her about her career, this movie and so much more.Frank Ford - Frank returns to talk to us about Four Day Weekend's new book. We talk improv comedy and even do a skit over the phone. He's a lot of fun and you'll enjoy this interview.Plus we explore some more "Halloween Things" with two ghost stories which include "Resurrection Mary" in Chicago and the haunted Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel which boasts the sightings of former resident Marilyn Monroe.
Episode 116. RSD Jeffy And RSD Papa At The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel by Nick Kho
What would happen in your life if you Upgraded your Belief in yourself to Best-Seller Belief? Potential >>> Action >>> Results >>> BELIEF >>> Potential >>> Action >>> Results >>> BELIEF. More Importantly in everything you are doing right now, what is not having TRUE Belief in yourself, Best-seller Belief costing you? Do you make the most of your opportunities? Or honestly do you not "back Yourself" enough? I know I struggled with this, every level, at some stage you are going to doubt yourself, don't let this doubt take over your life! This week the podcast is taken from the talk I have to over 300 Best-selling Authors at the historic Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel where they hosted the first Oscars. Just confirmed this week that I will be back there at the end of September, catching back up with some former guests on the podcast: Nick Nanton (introduces this weeks podcast), Greg Rollett, Ramy Romany, Carlo Alberto Orecchia, Jack Turner, Marshall Wayne. Tim Ferriss (mentioned as launching a podcast at the same time as me) Robert Greene (Favorite interview).
Today in 1929, the first awards ceremony for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences—also known now as the “Oscars”—took place in the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles, California. On today's "A Day in the Life", we explore the history of recorded sound and music in film.
On the fifth episode of the History Goes Bump Podcast, Diane and Denise discuss the history and the hauntings of the glamorous Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. The Moment in Oddity features some human skin shoes and This Day in History features the Nuremburg Trials. Does Montgomery Clift still pace the hallways of the hotel? Is Carole Lombard hanging around her and Gable's penthouse? Is Marilyn Monroe still keeping a spot warm in a corner booth at the CineGrill? What about those other ghosts? Tune in to get all the details! Check out the website: http://historygoesbump.com Show notes for this episode can be found here: http://historygoesbump.blogspot.com/2014/10/hgb-podcast-5-hollywood-roosevelt-hotel.html
Recorded live from Lance Bangs’ room at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Jonah Raydio has former guest and good friend Chris Holmes, Louies Theroux (Weird Weekends, When Louis Met…, BBC Two Specials), Adam Buxton (Hot Fuzz, The Adam and Joe Show, BUG), and Chris Smith (Director of American Movie, Yes Men). Check out Adam’s Youtube channel with lots of awesome videos including this Lego animation about David Bowie called Cobbler Bob. Also check out Louis many documentaries on Youtube Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Recorded on location at The Spare Room bar/bowling alley at The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. Music by @buddy_peace // http://www.buddypeace.com
Straight from the Granada Room at Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, it's another episode with Jon Hamm! Jon, Chris and Jonah sit down to talk about Mad Men, the Harlem Globetrotters and the existential Three Stooges! And there's fart noises!
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