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This weeks "Tealey Sayin Something" Episode ElevenOur very special guest joining the boys is non other than John Gregory.On this weeks episode:We look back at the Champions league and in particularAston Villas involvement.Training room bust ups.The 3 games that changed the lives of Shaun and John.A couple of classic funny stories from JohnPlus much much more...With Shaun Teale, Rob Carless.Edited/Produced by Chris Brownewww.srbpodcasts.comSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/srbmedia. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Caverns of Thracia by Goodman Games is looking like a fantastic module for anybody who wants to run a mega-dungeon. Also Sooty Beards by Furtive Goblin and John Gregory and a really rare module called The Jade Hare.

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In this special (and slightly chaotic!) Christmas episode of the Tourism Chat Show, host Michelle is joined by an incredible lineup of guests: Adele Marsden from New Zealand Educational Tours, Lisa Chambers dialing in from Cairns Adventure Group, Garth Oakden of Tongariro River Rafting, and John Gregory from Terranova Tours. Together, they take a light-hearted look back at 2024, sharing highlights like business expansions, awards, and personal milestones (weddings included!). The group doesn't shy away from discussing the year's challenges, including non-refundable deposits and shifting travel patterns. Looking ahead to 2025, the conversation turns to dreams of diversification, prioritizing self-care, and strengthening industry support networks. This festive episode wraps up with reflections on successes and aspirations for the year to come. Join us for laughs, insights, and a toast to the future! 00:00 Welcome to the Tourism Chat Show 00:17 Meet the Special Guests 01:26 Highlights of 2024 04:19 Challenges Faced in 2024 06:57 Key Learnings and Future Outlook 18:51 Adventure Tourism Trends 23:41 Responsibilities of Managing Young Travellers 24:38 Trends in New Zealand Tourism 26:03 Challenges in Tourism Funding 29:34 Tourism Industry Collaboration 32:15 New Roles and Opportunities 37:24 Holiday Plans and Reflections 42:06 Podcast and Future Plans 42:53 Conclusion and Holiday Wishes _____________________________ Powered by https://www.destinatenz.com  If you, or someone you work with has a great tourism story to share, and would like to come onto the show, please get in touch! This is an independent podcast by tourism strategist Michelle Caldwell. We are absolutely dedicated to bringing you the best tourism business stories and sharing marketing tips and strategies to your ears each week! The best way you can support The Tourism Chat Show is by subscribing, leaving a (rave!) review, (five star!) rating and spreading the word on social media with your friends, family, and colleagues- we love you for that!

After yesterday's broadcast on DI FM we present you the last this year, and 125th episode in general, of the Spring Tube podcast. During 2 hours here for you another selection of some of the brightest this month's stuff from Spring Tube and other labels. Your hosts as always are SlanG and Technodreamer. For our November 2024 episode we have new music from Magitman, John Gregory & David Folkebrant, Digital Mess, Mistol Team, ELECGROUND, and others. In the last 30 minutes of this month's podcast - - the review mix of a 'Personal Space' compilation album by one of our label's resident artists - Fiddler from Budapest, which was released on Spring Tube in the end of past month. Have a nice listening *available for download Tracklist: PART 1 – SlanG 01. Höwley - Mind Expansion [deep dip] 02. Will Daley - Achilles [Kodai] 03. Magitman - Routines [Asymmetric Dip] 04. Rospy & Nestora - Paradisum [Elliptical Sun Reflections] 05. Jope - Verdant [Sekora] 06. John Gregory & David Folkebrant - Southern Sun [Spring Tube] SPR392 07. John Gregory - First Steps [Spring Tube] SPR392 08. Artic White - ME 4 U (La Serenissima) [Kiksuya] 09. Kim Dahlberg - Celebrate [BØXBØX] PART 2 – Technodreamer 01. Mistol Team - Melodrama [Round Triangle] 02. ELECGROUND - Humanity [Clubsonica] 03. Gonza Ponce - Kuvo [Balkan Connection South America] 04. Digital Mess - Thunder Sighs [Higher States] 05. Tom Glass - Naive (Nico Szabo Dub) [whitelabel] 06. Dmitry Molosh - Glide (Wolfframm Remix) [Late Night] 07. Persik - Last Days Of Disco (K Loveski Remix) [Magnitude] 08. Andrés Moris - The Story We Tell (Jiminy Hop Remix) [Juicebox] 09. Grance & Soulmac - Happy Incident [The Purr] PART 3 – Fiddler 'Personal Space' review mix 01. Fiddler - Colours [Spring Tube] SPR390PS23 02. Fiddler - White Field [Spring Tube] SPR390PS23 03. Fiddler - Unity [Spring Tube] SPR390PS23 04. Fiddler - I Can't Do Anything [Spring Tube] SPR390PS23 05. Ronfoller - One Step (Fiddler Remix) [Spring Tube] SPR390PS23

I am honoured to have been entrusted to tell this lovely story about Roger Fox. Guests Lynn Reys, Albert Woods, John MacLeod, Andy Maddock, and Rachel Crosbee join host John Gregory in this special tribute to the late Roger Fox.  Our next episode includes a 2024 season wrap-up with Alexander Slafkovsky (SVK).    

Last time we spoke about the Return to the Philippines. Admiral Halsey, in preparation for the Leyte invasion, devised a strategic ploy to lure the Japanese forces by feigning vulnerability. Despite significant air engagements and the heavy damage to two cruisers, Halsey's forces maintained control. Meanwhile, a massive convoy approached Leyte, and the Japanese launched a desperate counterattack. The battle severely depleted Japan's air strength, leading to the birth of the Kamikaze Corps. As Davison's carrier aircraft attacked, Japanese forces struggled due to bad weather and underestimated the Americans. General Terauchi activated Sho-Go 1, targeting Leyte, despite disagreements with General Yamashita. Pre-landing operations saw U.S. Rangers secure islands, while heavy bombardments prepared Leyte for invasion. MacArthur's forces landed amidst fierce resistance, capturing key positions. Though logistics were disorganized, U.S. troops gained ground, marking the beginning of a decisive battle in the Philippines, with the Japanese struggling to counter. This episode is the Battle of Leyte Gulf Welcome to the Pacific War Podcast Week by Week, I am your dutiful host Craig Watson. But, before we start I want to also remind you this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Perhaps you want to learn more about world war two? Kings and Generals have an assortment of episodes on world war two and much more  so go give them a look over on Youtube. So please subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry for some more history related content, over on my channel, the Pacific War Channel you can find a few videos all the way from the Opium Wars of the 1800's until the end of the Pacific War in 1945.  As previously mentioned, General MacArthur's forces successfully landed on Leyte, with General Sibert's 10th Corps landing in the Palo-Tacloban sector and General Hodge's 24th Corps at Dulag. In response, Admiral Toyoda activated Operation Sho-Go, ordering Admiral Kurita's 1st Striking Force to move to Brunei Bay and destroy enemy warships and transports in Leyte Gulf. Meanwhile, Admiral Shima's 2nd Striking Force prepared to support counter-landings led by Vice-Admiral Mikawa Gunichi's Southwest Area Fleet. The planning for Admiral Shima's small force was emblematic of the shambolic state of the IJN organization for the battle. His force was originally assigned to Ozawa as part of the Main Body. Then it was detached to go down to Formosa to mop-up Halsey's Third Fleet in the aftermath of the Battle off Formosa. Then it was assigned to the Southwest Area Fleet based in Manila to spearhead an envisioned counter-landing on Leyte. The commander of the Southwest Area Fleet, Admiral Mikawa, determined that the Shima force was not required to accomplish the counter-landing mission. On October 19 Toyoda rejected this and instructed Mikawa to use the Shima force as part of the counter-landing force. In spite of this and after confirming that the counter-landing operation did not require Shima's force, Mikawa sent orders to Shima on the afternoon of the 19th that he was not required to stand by to support the counter-landing. Early in the afternoon on October 21, the Combined Fleet again ordered Shima to take part in the transport mission and ordered his force to Manila. At this point, two forces were assigned to the counter-landing operation with a total of five cruisers and eight destroyers. This was a very questionable use of the Combined Fleet's limited resources.  Kurita's 16th Cruiser Division was detached to reinforce the effort, and Admiral Ozawa's depleted Main Body was tasked with luring the enemy north, allowing Kurita to break through to the landing zone. Vice Adm. Ozawa's Task Force Main Body sortied from the Bungo Channel, at the southern entrance to the Inland Sea, on the afternoon of October 20, immediately after receiving the Combined Fleet battle order. To heighten its effectiveness as a lure, the Ozawa Force sortied with all of the 3d Carrier Division, made up of the regular carrier Zuikaku and the light carriers Zuiho, Chitose, and Chiyoda. The total number of aircraft available to put aboard these ships, however, was only 108. These belonged to the poorly trained air groups of the 1st Carrier Division and represented about half the normal complement. In addition to the half-empty carriers, the force comprised two battleships (Ise, Hyuga), three light cruisers(Oyodo, Tama, Isuzu) and eight destroyers (31st Destroyer Squadron). At around 06:00 on 21 October, Japanese aircraft attempted to bomb the Allied ships in Leyte Bay. An Aichi D3A dive-bomber dove for Shropshire, but broke away after heavy anti-aircraft fire was directed at it. The Aichi, damaged by Bofors fire, turned and flew at low level up the port side of the nearby Australia, before striking the cruiser's foremast with its wingroot. Although the bulk of the aircraft fell overboard, the bridge and forward superstructure were showered with debris and burning fuel. Seven officers (including Captain Dechaineux) and twenty-three sailors were killed by the collision, while another nine officers (including Commodore Collins), fifty-two sailors, and an AIF gunner were wounded. Observers aboard Australia and nearby Allied ships differed in their opinions of the collision; some thought that it was an accident, while the majority considered it to be a deliberate ramming aimed at the bridge. Following the attack, commander Harley C. Wright assumed temporary control of the ship. Since Kurita lacked air cover, Tominaga's forces were regrouping in the Philippines to bolster Japanese air strength for Operation Sho-Go, while Admiral Fukudome's 2nd Air Fleet was assembling in the Manila area. At the same time, with communication lost with General Makino's 16th Division.Because of the typhoon of October 17-18, signal communications were impossible. Roads were washed out and impassable. Bridges were down; and for about a week from the time the storm first hit the island, elements of the 16th Division were scattered and out of contact with one another. While trying to assemble its forces for operations, the Japanese were then hit by enemy bombardment, which further severely disrupted General Makino's radio-telegraphic communications. Additionally, the evacuation of Tacloban by the division rear echelon, which began early on October 20, necessitated the abandonment of permanent wireless installations and resulted in complete severance for 48 hours of all contact between the 16th Division and higher headquarters at Cebu and Manila. During this critical period, 14th Area Army and 35th Army were completely without knowledge of developments on Leyte. General Suzuki initiated the Suzu Plan, preparing the 41st Regiment and two battalions of the 102nd Division to move toward Ormoc. General Terauchi, having decided that the decisive battle would be fought at Leyte, directed General Yamashita to place the provisional Tempei Battalion and the 20th Antitank Battalion under Suzuki's command and ordered Lieutenant-General Yamagata Tsuyuo's 26th Division to prepare for early deployment to Leyte. Additionally, reinforcements from the 1st Division and the 68th Brigade, soon to arrive in the Philippines, were assigned to the 35th Army. The Japanese anticipated that the enemy would not move inland until the beachheads at Tacloban and Dulag were connected, so they aimed to gather reinforcements in the Carigara area before launching a major counteroffensive to crush the invading forces. In the meantime, Makino's 16th Division was tasked with holding off the enemy advance in eastern Leyte long enough to allow reinforcements to assemble. Reacting swiftly to the enemy landings, Makino sent the reserve 1st Battalion, 20th Regiment, and the 7th Independent Tank Company to strengthen the defenses at Palo and Dulag, respectively. General Krueger, however, intended to move quickly through Leyte Valley, aiming to secure key roads and airfields before the Japanese could regroup and mount a solid defense. The 1st Striking Force departed Lingga at 01:00 on October 18 and headed to Brunei Bay on the north coast of Borneo. At Brunei, Kurita's ships refuelled, and Kurita took the opportunity to confer with his officers. The details of Sho-1 reached Kurita's force during the day on October 18. This made for a dramatic conference and reflected the unease many felt about the plan. Many officers at the conference were appalled that the fleet was being risked attacking empty transports and doubted that they would ever get close to Leyte Gulf. Kurita probably had his own doubts about the plan, but after many of those present expressed their doubts, Kurita reminded them of the “glorious opportunity” they had been given. “Would it not be a shame to have the fleet remain intact while the nation perishes?” posed Kurita, and followed with the plea: “What man can say that there is no chance for our fleet to turn the tide of war in a decisive battle?” Whatever their doubts, the crews and ships of the 1st Striking Force departed Brunei at 08:00 on October 22 and headed northeast through the Palawan Passage. Kurita's 3rd Section—consisting of the old battleships Fuso and Yamashiro, heavy cruiser Mogami, and four destroyers—stayed behind. These ships departed at 15:00 and headed to the Balabac Strait and then into the Sulu Sea. If all went according to plan, they would storm Leyte Gulf through the Surigao Strait and meet Kurita's ships inside the gulf on the morning of October 25. To the north, General Mudge's 1st Cavalry Division continued advancing northwest along San Juanico Strait, with the 7th Cavalry liberating Tacloban with minimal resistance. The 5th and 12th Cavalry Regiments faced tougher opposition in the southwestern foothills, where Colonel Royce Drake was killed by enemy machine-gun fire, but they managed to secure Utap and Caibaan despite the swampy terrain. To the south, Colonel Aubrey Newman's 34th Regiment repelled a strong enemy counterattack, resulting in 600 Japanese casualties, before launching an assault on Hill 332. Although only the northern knoll was captured by nightfall, the 1st Battalion, 19th Regiment consolidated its position on Hill 522, while the 2nd and 3rd Battalions advanced towards Palo, with the 2nd successfully entering the town. Further south, Japanese artillery positioned on Catmon Hill targeted the beachhead area while General Bradley's 96th Division advanced. Colonel May's 1st Battalion attacked the Japanese positions at Labiranan Head, the remaining forces of the 383rd Regiment moved west to a point north of Tigbao, and Colonel Dill's 382nd Regiment made slow progress towards Tigbao. At the same time, General Arnold's 7th Division, after repelling two minor tank attacks, began advancing west toward the Burauen airstrips, with the 32nd and 184th Regiments moving side by side. The 184th faced minimal opposition as it captured the Dulag airstrip and continued moving forward about 1000 yards beyond the beachhead, whereas the 32nd had to overcome several bunkers and pillboxes to reach its objective. The next day, both regiments continued their westward advance, with the 184th stopping after 2800 yards due to increased enemy resistance, waiting for the 32nd to close the gap. To the north, May's 1st Battalion secured Labiranan Hill and San Roque, while the rest of the 383rd Regiment advanced to Anibung to surround Catmon Hill, and the 382nd Regiment pushed through Tigbao and Canmangui. In response to these developments, Makino decided to reorganize his southern forces to better defend Catmon Hill and Burauen, with the 20th Regiment largely disengaging and retreating towards Hindang. Simultaneously, the 34th Regiment captured Hill 332, while Lieutenant-Colonel George Chapman's 19th Regiment defended Palo from strong enemy counterattacks. The 3rd Battalion managed to reach the town, allowing the 2nd Battalion to launch an attack towards Hill B, though it was unable to capture its crest. Further north, while the 7th Cavalry secured the hills around Tacloban, Brigadier-General William Chase's 1st Cavalry Brigade continued to face challenges advancing up the western foothills. In the morning, Kurita set sail from Brunei and headed northeast through the Palawan Passage, leaving Vice-Admiral Nishimura Shoji's Force C behind to advance through the Surigao Strait into Leyte Gulf. Taking the direct route along the west coast of Palawan, the 1st Striking Force was detected by submarines Darter and Dace in the early hours of October 23. After reporting the enemy task force to Admirals Halsey and Kinkaid, the submarines executed a coordinated attack at 06:10. The first torpedoes struck Atago just as Kurita was having morning tea with his chief of staff. In total, four torpedoes hit the cruiser, dooming her instantly. Nineteen officers and 341 sailors went down with the ship. Kurita and his staff were thrown into the water and had to swim for their lives. The second salvo from Darter hit cruiser Takao, steaming behind Atago. Two torpedoes hit the cruiser, killing 32 crewmen and wounding another 30. Takao was not only out of the battle, but her heavy damage put her out of the war. After eventually reaching Singapore, she was deemed unrepairable.On Dace, Claggett observed Darter's devastating attack. Claggett identified a Kongo-class battleship for attack and began his approach. Six torpedoes were fired from a range of 1,800 yards toward the target, which was actually heavy cruiser Maya. The cruiser took four hits on her port side and sank in a mere eight minutes, taking with her 16 officers and 320 men. Kurita narrowly escaped the sinking of the Atago, later transferring to the battleship Yamato after sending two destroyers to escort the damaged Takao back to Brunei. The submarines then endured ineffective counterattacks from Japanese destroyers, although Darter ran aground on a reef while pursuing Takao. This successful submarine attack not only diminished Kurita's force by three powerful cruisers but also provided the Americans with the location of the 1st Striking Force. In response, Admiral Oldendorf's fire support group established a battle line across the mouth of Surigao Strait, and Halsey ordered his dispersed carrier groups to prepare for battle, recalling Task Group 38.4 immediately. Additionally, Vice-Admiral Sakonju Naomasa's 16th Cruiser Division, en route to Mindanao with the 41st Regiment for Ormoc, was tracked by submarine Bream near Manila Bay early on October 23. This led to a torpedo attack that critically damaged the heavy cruiser Aoba, forcing her to return to Japan, where she would never be operational again. Despite these challenges, the first reinforcement successfully arrived in Ormoc on the same day after an uneventful voyage. At the same time, the IJA and IJN air forces were rapidly assembling their resources in the Philippines in preparation for a coordinated air offensive set to begin on October 24, a day before the scheduled fleet attack. To the north, Ozawa's substantial but ineffective decoy force was positioned due east of Okinawa, moving south into the Philippine Sea, while Shima's 2nd Striking Force neared the Coron Islands. Back in Leyte, Krueger's offensive was advancing as well. In the north, the 8th Cavalry had moved through the 7th and successfully captured a bridge over the Diit River. On October 22, elements of the 5th Cavalry were sent to Tacloban to act as a guard of honor for General MacArthur. The guard of honor, consisting of 1st Lt. John Gregory and thirty enlisted men of the 5th Cavalry, arrived at Tacloban later on October 23. President Osmeña of the Philippine Commonwealth was also present, having come ashore for the occasion. A simple but impressive ceremony was held in front of the municipal building of Tacloban, though the interior of the edifice was a shambles of broken furniture and scattered papers. A guard of honor of "dirty and tired but efficient-looking soldiers" was drawn up in front of the government building. General MacArthur broadcasted an address announcing the establishment of the Philippine Civil Government with President Osmeña as its head. Lt. Gen. Richard K. Sutherland then read the official proclamation. President Osmeña spoke appreciatively of American support and of the determination of the Filipinos to expel the enemy. "To the Color" was sounded on the bugle, and the national flags of the United States and the Philippines were simultaneously hoisted on the sides of the building. Colonel Kangleon of the guerrilla forces was then decorated with the Distinguished Service Cross. Few Filipinos except representatives of the local government were present for the ceremony. Apparently the inhabitants had not heard of it, or did not know that they were permitted to attend. Information quickly spread, however, that the civil government had assumed control, and as General MacArthur and his party left town the civil population cheered them. The 1st Cavalry Brigade continued its slow advance through challenging terrain before being reassigned to support the overstretched 24th Division in its rear. Newman's 1st Battalion made an unsuccessful attempt to capture Hill Nan, and the 19th Regiment similarly failed to take Hill B. On the night of October 23 Col. Suzuki Tatsunosuke, the commanding officer of the 33rd Regiment, led a raiding detachment, armed with rifles, sabres, grenades, and mines, into Palo from the southwest. Using Filipino civilians in front of them, the men of the detachment tricked the guards at the outpost into believing that they were guerrillas. The Japanese were thus able to capture two machine guns and a 37-mm. gun. They penetrated to the town square and charged, throwing explosives into houses, trucks, and a tank, and broke into an evacuation hospital where they killed some wounded. They then moved toward the bridge and mounted the captured machine guns on it, firing until their ammunition was exhausted and then abandoning the guns. The American guards on the other side of the bridge, however, were able to fire upon the bridge and its approaches so effectively that they killed fifty Japanese, according to a count made the next morning. The raid was completely broken up, and sixty Japanese, including Colonel Suzuki, were killed. The American casualties were fourteen killed and twenty wounded. To the south, the 383rd Regiment secured the Guinarona River, while the 382nd conducted patrols. Even farther south, Arnold deployed the 17th Regiment, reinforced by the 2nd Battalion of the 184th Regiment and the 767th Tank Battalion, to push through his advance elements and continue the assault westward, with the other two regiments trailing 1000 yards behind. This "flying wedge" maneuver proved highly effective, with the infantry securing San Pablo airfield and the tanks advancing to the western edge of Burauen. They disrupted the disorganized enemy forces and killed Colonel Hokota Keijiro, commander of the 20th Regiment. Meanwhile, at sea, Kurita's intact warships advanced into Mindoro Strait by nightfall, while Nishimura's force was crossing the Sulu Sea. To the north, Ozawa's decoy force was deliberately broadcasting messages to draw enemy attention. Shima was also directed to penetrate Surigao Strait to support Nishimura's assault, as Mikawa had determined that the 2nd Striking Force was not needed for the counter-landing mission. On Leyte, the troops continued their engagement on October 24, unaware of the impending major naval battle. In the northern region, to secure San Juanico Strait and prevent Japanese reinforcements from Samar, the 1st Squadron, 7th Cavalry landed successfully at Babatngon; Troop C of the 8th Cavalry did the same at La Paz; and the rest of the 1st Squadron advanced to Guintiguian. By nightfall, these cavalry units had to repel a strong counterattack from the 2nd Battalion, 9th Regiment, which was stationed in Samar. To the south, Newman's 1st Battalion secured Hills Nan and Mike; his 2nd Battalion fought its way to a small hill southeast of Hill C; Chapman's 2nd Battalion continued its unsuccessful assault on Hill B; and his Company K captured San Joaquin south of Palo. Further south, the 382nd Regiment pushed through Hindang, causing the 20th Regiment units to retreat, and also secured Anibung, while the 383rd Regiment began patrolling its area. Meanwhile, the 17th Regiment, supported by the 184th, advanced along the road to Burauen, fought through the town, and began preparing for a push north to Dagami. Additionally, the 32nd Regiment attacked toward the Buri airstrip but was eventually forced to withdraw. At dawn on October 24, the crucial air phase of the Sho-Go plan began, with 200 aircraft of the 1st and 2nd Air Fleets taking off from Clark Field to patrol the waters east of Luzon. At 08:20, Admiral Sherman's carriers were finally spotted, prompting the launch of three waves of Japanese aircraft for an attack. The first attack in the morning was intercepted by seven Hellcats from Essex led by Commander David McCampbell, the air group commander. The quality of the Japanese air crews was very low. McCampbell methodically proceeded to shoot down nine Japanese aircraft, for which he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, and his wingman claimed six more. After the record action, he managed to return and land in extremis on Langley because the Essex's deck was too busy to accommodate him although he had run short of fuel. Altogether, aviators from Essex were credited with 24 downed enemy aircraft, and fighters from Lexington 13. Despite the Hellcats' rough handling of the incoming Japanese strike, fleet air defense was never airtight. At 0938hrs, one Judy divebomber used clouds for cover and then made a skillful attack against light carrier Princeton. The aircraft's 551lb bomb hit in the middle of the flight deck some 75ft forward of the aft elevator. It penetrated several decks to the ship's bakery, where it exploded. The resulting blast reached into the hangar deck where it engulfed six fully armed and fully fueled Avengers. These aircraft caught fire and soon exploded with a blast so powerful both ship's elevators were thrown into the air. Water pressure was knocked out, which allowed the flames to spread quickly. All non-essential personnel were ordered off the ship at 1010hrs, followed by all but the fire-fighting personnel ten minutes later. In response, the cruiser Birmingham came to Princeton's aid but sustained severe damage from a major explosion and had to retreat to Ulithi, leading to Princeton being scuttled later in the afternoon. The subsequent two waves of Japanese aircraft were successfully intercepted, resulting in the loss of 67 Japanese planes by the end of the day. Meanwhile, Tominaga launched full-scale attacks on enemy invasion shipping in Leyte Gulf with minimal results. The failure to neutralize Halsey's carriers and Ozawa's undetected diversion mission allowed Admiral Mitscher to conduct a series of strikes against Kurita's force. That morning, American reconnaissance aircraft detected Kurita's 1st Striking Force south of Mindoro, prompting Admiral Bogan to dispatch 45 aircraft under Commander William Ellis to attack the battleships Yamato and Musashi as they neared the Sibuyan Sea. At approximately 10:30, aircraft from the Intrepid and Cabot began their attack. The lead group of Japanese ships included the huge Yamato and Musashi. Of these two, Musashi was nearest, so Commander Ellis selected her as the main target. He split the 12 Helldivers into two six-aircraft divisions to attack both battleships with their 1000lb bombs. The two nearest large ships were the subject of the Avengers' attack. Two were ordered to go after heavy cruiser Myoko and the other six were directed against Musashi. These were divided into two three-plane sections in order to execute an anvil attack. The four Avengers from Cabot were allocated against Yamato in the center of the formation. American pilots all remarked on the ferocity of the antiaircraft fire from the multi-colored 5in. bursts to the streams of tracers from the 25mm guns. The Japanese also used Type 3 incendiary shells from 18.1in. and 16in. main battery guns. Despite the spectacular appearances of this barrage, Japanese anti-aircraft fire was generally ineffective. The giant Type 3 shells proved totally ineffective, and Japanese records indicate that the battleships fired a relatively low number of 6in. and 5in. shells during each attack, indicating that the fire-control systems were taking too long to generate a targeting solution. These and the ubiquitous 25mm guns damaged many aircraft, but of the over 250 aircraft that attacked during the day, only 18 were shot down. Though the numbers confirm the ineffectiveness of IJN anti-aircraft fire, the American aviators displayed great courage pressing home their attacks through what was described as an impenetrable wall of flak. Musashi was hit with one torpedo, leading to flooding and listing, and another torpedo struck the cruiser Myoko, which had to return to Singapore. For most of the day, Musashi was the center of attention. Due to a fault in the design of her side belt, slow flooding entered the adjacent boiler room. The effect of some 3,000 tons of water was a 5.5° list, which was quickly reduced to a single degree by pumps in the affected boiler room and counterflooding on the opposite. Facing Musashi's intact antiaircraft batteries, one Avenger was shot down before it launched its torpedo and a second went down after deploying its weapon. The two Avengers that attacked Myoko were even more successful. At 1029hrs, one torpedo hit the heavy cruiser on her starboard side aft. Her propulsion system was damaged, and her top speed reduced to 15 knots. The cruiser fell astern of the formation. Kurita was forced to send her back to Singapore for repairs without destroyer escort. Since Myoko was the flagship of Sentai 5, at 1100hrs the commander transferred to cruiser Haguro. Myoko limped back to Singapore but was out of the war. Four of Kurita's heavy cruisers were out of the battle before they had a chance to engage an enemy ship. Cabot's small group of torpedo aircraft attacked Yamato, but the battleship dodged all torpedoes directed at her. Concurrently, Nishimura's fleet was located by an enhanced search operation from Admiral Davison's carriers. At 09:18, 16 Hellcats and 12 Avengers from the Enterprise attacked the Yamashiro and Fuso battleships, hitting the latter with two bombs, though the damage was minimal. Operating to the west of Nishimura was Shima's Second Striking Force and also in the area was Shima's detached Destroyer Division 21 with three ships, which was hurrying to rejoin Shima's main force after having completed a transport mission to Manila. Franklin's air group was assigned the northern sector of the Sulu Sea. It spotted the three ships of Shima's Destroyer Division 21 off Panay. Attacking high-speed destroyers was a challenge for any airman, but at 0813hrs Wakaba was hit by a bomb and several near misses. The damage proved fatal—45 minutes later, Wakaba sank with the loss of 30 men. Franklin launched a follow-up strike of 12 Hellcats and 11 bombers that reached the two remaining destroyers just before noon. Only one bomb hit was scored against Hatsushimo, which did little damage. The Japanese commander decided to head back to Manila with the survivors of Wakaba. Inexplicably, he failed to notify Shima of his decision. Destroyer Division 21 was out of the battle.  After this initial strike, Bogan sent a second wave of 42 aircraft, which targeted Musashi between 12:07 and 12:15. Again, Helldivers opened the attack. The 12 bombers scored at least two direct hits and five near misses. One 1,000lb hit forward and passed through Musashi's bow without exploding. The second hit just to the port side of the stack and penetrated two decks before exploding. The resulting damage forced the abandonment of the port-side inboard engine room, which reduced the ship to three shafts. A fire near one of the boiler rooms was quickly extinguished. Adding to the chaos, Musashi's steam siren was damaged, and it continued to sound off and on for the remainder of the action. Once again Intrepid's Avengers deployed to conduct an anvil attack. Of the nine aircraft, eight got their torpedoes in the water and headed toward the huge battleship. As was the case for the entire series of attacks, it is impossible to precisely trace the number of hits suffered by Musashi; American and Japanese records do not even coincide on the overall number of attacks during the day. It is probable that the second wave of Avengers put three torpedoes into Musashi's port side. One hit near the stack on the junction of the outboard port engine room and the port hydraulic machinery space; it caused slow flooding but little else. Another hit forward of the armored citadel and caused massive flooding into several large spaces. The last confirmed hit occurred abaft Turret No. 2. Despite these three additional hits, Musashi remained on an even keel, but was noticeably down by the bow. In exchange, Musashi antiaircraft gunners forced one Avenger to ditch some 15 miles away and shot down two Helldivers. During this attack, Japanese records indicate nine Type 3 shells were fired. American pilots were impressed that they were engaged at 25,000–30,000 yards, but no aircraft were damaged. This damage reduced Musashi's speed to 22 knots, prompting Kurita to slow his formation. Despite taking four torpedoes, Musashi's skilled damage-control teams managed to keep it afloat throughout the day. At 10:50, Sherman launched 58 aircraft from the Essex and Lexington, focusing on Musashi again at 13:30. With her speed reduced and unable to fully maneuver, she was a much easier target. Despite the heavy fire directed against them, the Helldivers performed their mission of preparing the way for the torpedo bombers. At least four 1,000lb bombs hit Musashi. Three hits caused minimal damage as they impacted near the forward 18in. turret and exploded in the unoccupied crew accommodation spaces below. Damage from the final hit that exploded on contact when it hit the starboard side of the stack was not serious, but the explosion devastated many nearby 25mm triple mounts and caused heavy casualties among the gun crews. While the Helldivers added to the topside carnage, damage from the Avengers was much more serious. Three more torpedo hits were confirmed in the third attack, bringing the total to seven. Two struck forward of the armored citadel on either side of the bow. The design flaw of having comparatively little compartmentation in the unarmored forward section of the ship led to massive flooding. In addition, the explosions forced the hull plating outward creating what looked like a huge plow throwing water up as the ship moved forward. Another torpedo struck the starboard side close to the previous starboard side hit. This increased flooding and forced the abandonment of the starboard hydraulic machinery room. A possible fourth hit was reported by some witnesses near the forward 6.1in. triple turret on the starboard side. This assault resulted in at least four bomb hits and three torpedo hits, causing severe flooding. Despite this, Musashi continued to fight, but with its speed reduced to 12 knots, Kurita ordered it to move west with destroyers Shimakaze and Kiyoshimo. Additionally, the cruiser Tone was struck by two bombs during this attack, sustaining only light damage. At 14:26, 12 Helldivers and 8 Hellcats from the Essex launched an assault on the Yamato and Nagato, delivering three bomb hits to the Yamato and two to the Nagato, though the damage was not severe. The fifth air attack of the day was the most intense, with 65 aircraft from the Enterprise and Franklin taking off at 13:15 to strike the heavily damaged Musashi at 15:10. The results against the near-defenseless battleship were devastating. Of the 18 Helldivers that dove on Musashi, 11 claimed hits. On this occasion, the aviators' claims were not inflated. Japanese sources agreed that within minutes, Musashi was pounded by ten 1,000lb bombs. This barrage can be detailed with some degree of certainty. One bomb hit forward of Turret No. 1 and added to the damage there from earlier bombs. Another bomb hit the roof of the same turret and failed to penetrate its thick roof armor. Another hit to the starboard side of the turret and penetrated two decks before exploding against the main armored deck. Two bombs hit together between the forward 6.1in. turret and the superstructure, exploded on contact, and did minimal damage. Another two hit just to port in the same general area, penetrated two decks, and exploded on the main armored deck without penetrating. The eighth bomb hit the port side of the massive superstructure and exploded on contact, causing devastation to nearby 25mm mounts and their crews. Another projectile hit the top of the superstructure and destroyed the main battery fire-control director and its rangefinder. The resulting explosion caused significant personnel casualties on the bridge and operations room totaling 78 killed and wounded. Among the wounded was the ship's captain. The final hit landed abaft the superstructure but caused only minor damage. Musashi was equally helpless against the Avengers. The eight Enterprise Avengers conducted an anvil attack, and all claimed hits. At this point in the action, the accounts of Musashi's surviving crewmembers are not reliable. It is certain that four more torpedoes hit the ship. The first was on the port side in the area of the magazine for Turret No. 1. Another hit on the port side was recorded abeam the superstructure, flooding one boiler room. The third hit to port was placed just aft of the stack. It was in the same area of an earlier hit, and it immediately flooded the outboard engine room. The only confirmed hit on the starboard side occurred in the area of Turret No. 2. On top of the four confirmed hits, some Japanese accounts mention as many as six more. Two of these struck amidships on the port side but did not explode. All attacking aircraft returned safely, confirming the ineffectiveness of Musashi's defenses at this point. At 15:21, Helldivers targeted the Haruna, but only managed five near misses. The increasing intensity of the air attacks throughout the day indicated that Japanese land-based air forces had failed to neutralize Halsey's carriers. Consequently, at 15:30, Kurita ordered his fleet to change course westward, away from the San Bernardino Strait, hoping that this maneuver would reduce the pressure from air attacks and allow Japanese air forces to achieve better results. Meanwhile, Bogan launched his third strike of the day at 15:50, with 31 aircraft under Ellis targeting the Musashi one final time. However, due to fatigue, the attack was ineffective. After this last air strike, Kurita decided to head back towards the San Bernardino Strait and instructed the sinking Musashi to beach itself on Sibuyan Island at 17:15. Before this could be executed, the battleship sank at 19:36, resulting in the loss of 1,023 lives. Thus, the Musashi became the largest ship ever sunk by air attack in what was the largest air-sea battle in history up to that point. Despite losing 18 aircraft, the Americans succeeded in sinking the Musashi, torpedoing the Myoko, and damaging three other battleships to varying extents. Nevertheless, the 1st Striking Force emerged in better condition than anticipated, with the Musashi absorbing much of the torpedo and bomb damage and allowing the other ships to weather the attack. Kurita planned to navigate San Bernardino Strait during the night, proceed down the east coast of Samar, and reach Leyte Gulf around 11:00. Meanwhile, Admiral Mitscher's search planes had located Ozawa's carriers at 16:40. By afternoon, Ozawa had launched most of his aircraft in an attack on Sherman, but the final assault by the once formidable IJN carrier force achieved only limited success, with 28 planes lost before retreating to the Philippines. Remaining undetected, Ozawa then dispatched two battleship carriers and four destroyers under Rear-Admiral Matsuda Chiaki southward, drawing American attention to his position.  In the aftermath of the Battle of the Philippine Sea, the Americans did not know that the IJN had no prospects of replacing its lost aviators. Because the majority of the carriers themselves survived the battle, and the Americans knew other carriers were being added to the force, the IJN's carrier force was still a threat. The intelligence Halsey received on the IJN's carrier force indicated that it was fully capable. In every other major battle of the war, the IJN carrier fleet was the main threat. The Pacific War had become a carrier war and surface forces had been firmly supplanted as the primary striking force. The Americans had no way of knowing that the Japanese had turned this thinking on its head in their planning for Leyte Gulf. Nimitz wanted to destroy the Combined Fleet and thus gain an increased measure of operational freedom for future operations. He was disappointed that this did not occur at Philippine Sea and thus had inserted the instruction to Halsey that the destruction of the Japanese fleet would be his primary objective if the opportunity was presented. Achieving this not only would eliminate the main threat to the invasion, but it would cripple the IJN's ability to interfere with future operations. As the assessment from the aviators was that Kurita's force no longer posed a threat, at 19:50 Halsey ordered his entire force north to crush what he assessed as the primary threat: Ozawa's carrier force. He decided to do so with the entirety of his force. By doing so, he decided to ignore the threat posed by the Kurita force, which was headed toward San Bernardino Strait. He kept his whole force together, because that was how TF 38 fought and because, as he stated after the war, he did not want to divide his force in the face of the enemy. A decisive victory was most likely if the carriers of TF 38 worked with the battleships of TF 34. This was USN doctrine and Halsey fully supported it.  At 20:22, Task Force 38 set course north, with the three carrier groups in the area meeting just before midnight. Earlier, at 20:05, a night reconnaissance aircraft from Independence had reported that Kurita's formidable surface force was heading back toward the San Bernardino Strait. This news raised concerns among several of Halsey's subordinates, including Bogan and Lee, but they were dismissed by the resolute Halsey. As a result, the 3rd Fleet's full strength continued northward toward Ozawa's decoy force, leaving the San Bernardino Strait completely unprotected. This left Kurita's battleships unopposed between themselves and the American landing vessels, except for Kinkaid's vulnerable escort carriers off Samar's coast. Meanwhile, the detection of Nishimura's force on October 24 gave Kinkaid enough time to prepare for a battle at Surigao Strait. Oldendorf set up his battle line under Rear-Admiral George Weyler near Hingatungan Point in the northern part of the strait, providing maximum sea space while still constraining Japanese movement. Eight cruisers in two groups were positioned south of this line, with 24 destroyers stationed to screen the battleships and cruisers and positioned on both flanks to launch torpedo attacks against the approaching Japanese. Additionally, 39 PT boats were deployed in the southern approaches to the strait and into the Mindanao Sea to provide early warning and execute torpedo attacks when possible. The main issue was that the battleships were primarily equipped with high-explosive shells and would only engage once the Japanese forces were about 20,000 yards away. Moreover, Kinkaid had intercepted an order from Halsey to assemble a powerful task force of fast battleships. Misinterpreting the order's unclear wording, Kinkaid mistakenly believed Task Force 34 was coming to defend San Bernardino Strait, allowing his forces to concentrate on Surigao Strait instead. Despite Kurita's delays, Nishimura pressed on to breach the strait, advancing with the heavy cruiser Mogami and three destroyers. Little is known about Nishimura's precise thinking as he approached the strait. He was planning on arriving off Tacloban at 0430hrs on October 25 in accordance with Toyoda's master plan that had Kurita's force arriving off Leyte a short time later. This schedule fell apart after Kurita's advance was thrown off schedule on the afternoon of October 24 when he temporarily turned around in the face of intensive air attack in the Sibuyan Sea. At 2013hrs Nishimura sent a message to Toyoda and Kurita that he planned to arrive off Dulag at 0400hrs the next morning, a half hour later than planned. This was only a minor change; much more important was the receipt at 2200hrs of Kurita's message that he would not be in the gulf until 1100hrs. This meant that Nishimura's force was on its own when it executed its attack into the gulf. However, Nishimura did not change his plan after learning of Kurita's revised intentions. He was determined to force the strait in darkness and in so doing draw forces away from Kurita's main attack. The battle began at 2236hrs when PT-131 gained radar contact on Nishimura's main force. The three boats of the section headed toward the contact to make a torpedo attack. Two of the boats were slightly damaged, but one was able to close within torpedo range. News of the contact did not reach Oldendorf until 0026hrs on October 25. Another section sighted the advance group built around Mogami at 2350hrs and two of the boats fired a torpedo at the cruiser. Neither hit its target. Demonstrating the confusion in any night battle, at about 0100hrs Mogami was hit by a 6in. shell from Fuso. Though a dud, it killed three men. About an hour later, PT134 closed to within 3,000 yards of Fuso and fired three torpedoes. Again, all missed. This running series of encounters continued up until 0213hrs. Of the 39 boats, 30 contacted the Japanese and launched 34 torpedoes. None of Nishimura's ships was hit. While Nishimura's force was successfully fighting its way up the strait in good order, he kept Kurita and Shima informed of his progress. At 0040hrs, the two parts of Nishimura's force reunited. First blood went to the Japanese, since ten PTs were hit, and one (PT-493) sank, with a total of three dead and 20 wounded. Though unable to exact any attrition on the Japanese, the PTs had provided an invaluable service informing Oldendorf of Nishimura's location and strength. Based on an earlier report from one of Mogami's scout aircraft on the location and numbers of USN ships in Leyte Gulf, Nishimura appeared to believe that the battle would occur inside Leyte Gulf and not in Surigao Strait. If he really believed that Oldendorf would not use favorable geography to his advantage, he was sorely mistaken. Having survived the PT boat attacks with no damage, Nishimura now faced a much more deadly threat. This came in the form of five Fletcher-class destroyers under the command of the aggressive Captain Coward. Two other destroyers from Coward's Destroyer Squadron 54 were left on picket duty and did not take part in the torpedo attack. The five destroyers assigned to the attack were arrayed to conduct an anvil attack (with torpedoes coming in from both bows of the enemy target), with McDermut and Monssen from the west and Remey, McGowan, and Melvin from the east. Approaching at 30 knots, Coward's ships would launch torpedoes guided by radar, and refrain from using their 5in. guns so as not to give their positions away. Once the torpedoes were on their way, the destroyers would break off and head north along the coast to clear the area and reduce the possibility of a friendly fire incident. What ensued was one of the most successful attacks of the entire war. Shortly after 03:00, Coward's three eastern destroyers launched 27 torpedoes from a range of 8200 to 9300 yards at the advancing Japanese ships. They scored two critical hits on the Fuso at 03:08, causing flooding and fires. The battleship, unaware of the severity of the damage, veered off course and headed south, ultimately sinking at about 03:45 with 1620 lives lost. The Americans claimed that the torpedoes had split the Fuso in two. Meanwhile, Coward's two western destroyers fired a full salvo of 20 torpedoes at 03:10. In response, Nishimura changed course, exposing his screen to danger. By 03:19, three torpedoes from McDermut struck the Yamagumo, which exploded and sank within two minutes; another torpedo hit the Michishio amidships, causing it to sink 15 minutes later after coming to a halt; and a final torpedo hit the Asagumo, damaging its bow and reducing its speed, forcing it to withdraw from the battle. McDermut's ten torpedoes were the most effective salvo of the war from any American destroyer. Monssen's torpedo attack resulted in a single hit on the battleship Yamashiro, causing some flooding and reducing her firepower by a third. Following Coward's devastating torpedo strike, six more destroyers, divided into two groups of three, approached Nishimura's force from the west along the coast of Leyte. The first group commenced their attack at 03:23, launching 14 torpedoes from a range of 6500 to 6800 yards, but only one torpedo struck the Yamashiro, temporarily slowing her to 5 knots. The second group of destroyers fired 15 torpedoes at 03:29, but none of their torpedoes hit their targets, and the gunfire from both sides proved ineffective. After this failed assault, nine destroyers in three sections of three approached Nishimura's weakened column from both flanks. The first two sections, attacking from either side, fired a half-salvo of five torpedoes from each destroyer, but none hit. Before the final section could launch its attack, a fierce gunnery battle was underway.  The gunnery battle began at 0351hrs when the first American cruiser opened up. Two minutes later, West Virginia commenced fire from 22,800 yards. All ships fired at the largest radar return of the three Japanese ships, which was Yamashiro. The American barrage grew as each battleship gained a fire control solution. The three ships with the most modern fire control systems did most of the work. California joined in at 0355hrs from 20,400 yards followed by Tennessee one minute later. The three battleships with the less capable Mk 3 fire control radar struggled to gain a firing solution. Maryland opened fire at 0359hrs by ranging her Mk 3 radar on the shell splashes from the other battleships. Mississippi took until 0412hrs when she fired a full salvo at Yamashiro from 19,790 yards. Pennsylvania never gained a good solution for her 14in. main battery and failed to fire a single salvo. Unbeknownst to Nishimura, the Americans had executed a "T" maneuver, leaving his ships able to fire only their forward guns while the enemy could unleash full broadsides. Concentrating their fire on the Yamashiro, Oldendorf's cruisers and battleships landed several hits during the 18-minute engagement. By 03:56, the Yamashiro was seen burning amidships, aft, and in the bridge area. Despite this, the battleship fought back fiercely, targeting the cruisers Phoenix, Columbia, Shropshire, and Denver, though no hits were achieved. The Mogami endured severe damage during this engagement, with the cruiser Portland focusing its fire on her and inflicting heavy harm. In the early phase of the battle, she took several 5in. hits from American destroyers. In the first minutes of the withering barrage from Oldendorf's cruisers and battleships, Mogami sustained more damage, including a hit on one of her 8in. turrets. After firing four Type 93 torpedoes at 0401hrs against the gun flashes from enemy ships to the north, she came under fire from heavy cruiser Portland. Two 8in. shells hit Mogami's bridge at 0402hrs, killing her commanding officer, and other shells disabled two engine rooms. The new commanding officer decided to break off the action and head south at slow speed. While headed south, she encountered the Second Diversion Attack Force.  As American gunfire pummeled Yamashiro's superstructure, the last destroyer group approached head-on, closing to within 6200 yards before launching 13 torpedoes. Before the torpedoes could reach their targets, the destroyers came under friendly fire and further assault from Yamashiro's guns, resulting in the Albert W. Grant taking 18 hits before being withdrawn. Observing the friendly fire, Oldendorf ordered a ceasefire at 04:09, allowing Nishimura to begin a retreat south. However, by 04:11, the Yamashiro had been hit by three torpedoes from the final destroyer salvo, causing a severe list and bringing the battleship to a halt. Yamashiro's valiant yet ultimately futile resistance ended at 04:19 when she capsized to port, taking Nishimura and 1625 others with her. I would like to take this time to remind you all that this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Please go subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry after that, give my personal channel a look over at The Pacific War Channel at Youtube, it would mean a lot to me. The largest naval battle in human history had only just begun. As many historians argue, given the fateful decision of Halsey to try and knock out the IJN combined fleet, the transports had been left completely open to an attack. Absolute carnage could unfold on an unprecedented scale…perhaps enough to cause America to rethink continuing the war?

Results and insights from ICF Canoe Slalom and Kayak Cross World Cup 4 in Ivrea, Italy. Guests Gabriela Satkova (CZE), Benjamin Savsek (SLO), and Bojan Makovec join host John Gregory. The next episode will feature results and interviews from the World Cup final in La Seu d'Urgell, Spain.  Need more? read Ettore Ivaldi's blog http://ettoreivaldi.blogspot.com   

Reports of the ECA Junior & U23 European Championships in Krakow, Poland. Guests Eva Alina Hocevar (SLO) and Nathalie Siegrist (GBR) join host John Gregory.   The next episodes will feature results and interviews from the World Cup races in Ivrea, Italy, and La Seu d'Urgell, Spain.  Need more? Read Ettore Ivaldi's blog http://ettoreivaldi.blogspot.com/ 

Welcome to The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Interview Series. I'm your host, Paul Vogelzang, and today we have a fascinating episode lined up for you. We're delighted to have returning guest, Smithsonian Associate David Taylor with us, an acclaimed author and co-producer of the Smithsonian documentary film, “Soul of a People: The WPA Writers' Project Uncovers Depression America.” David is here to share his insights on his upcoming Smithsonian Associates Walking Tour, titled ‘New Deal Projects Walking Tour,' on the New Deal, a transformative period in American history that not only aimed to revive the economy but also left an indelible mark on the arts and culture.Against the backdrop of the Great Depression, President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal was a bold initiative to use government resources to address crucial public services and stimulate economic growth. Yet, Roosevelt himself predicted that in a hundred years, the New Deal would be remembered more for its contributions to the arts than its job relief efforts. Today, we'll explore that intriguing prediction through David's expertise and his engaging walking tour of Washington, D.C.Smithsonian Associate David Taylor will take us on a journey through time, beginning at Judiciary Square, where we'll see public sculptures and dramatic courthouse bas reliefs by notable artists like John Gregory. Our route includes the Henry F. Daly Building, a prime example of Classical Moderne architecture funded by the Works Progress Administration, and the Federal Trade Commission Building, adorned with monumental Art Deco sculptures created by WPA artists. We'll also discuss the renovations of the National Mall and Washington Monument, pivotal projects of the New Deal era.We'll conclude our exploration at the Department of the Interior, home to over 40 New Deal-era murals and photomurals by the legendary Ansel Adams. Smithsonian Associate David Taylor's walking touroffers a unique opportunity to discover these still-visible landmarks and learn about their historical and cultural significance.So, put on your walking shoes and get ready to delve into the rich artistic legacy of the New Deal with our distinguished guest, Smithsonian Associate David Taylor. Join us now for an enlightening conversation on The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Interview Series. My thanks to David Taylor and his upcoming Smithsonian Associates Walking Tour, titled ‘New Deal Projects Walking Tour,' on the New Deal, a transformative period in American history that not only aimed to revive the economy but also left an indelible mark on the arts and culture.  My thanks to you our wonderful audience here on The Not Old Better Show Science Interview Series on radio and podcast.  My thanks to Executive Producer Sam Heninger for all his work on audio and making things run smoothly here on the show.  Please be well, be safe and Let's Talk About Better ™.  The Not Old Better Show Science Interview Series on radio and podcast. Thanks everybody and we'll see you next week.

The results of the Paris kayak cross final. Series finale with a wrap-up of the canoe slalom and kayak cross events at the Olympics in Paris. Special guests Casey Eichfeld (USA), Kate Eckhardt (AUS), and Andy Maddock join host John Gregory. This has been a series of daily podcast episodes.  We will be back for series 5 for the two remaining 2024 World Cup races in Ivrea and La Seu. Want more? We recommend Ettore Ivaldi's blog http://ettoreivaldi.blogspot.com/ 

The results of the Paris men's and women's kayak cross heats, part of the canoe slalom competition at the Olympics in Paris, are here. Special guest Olympic silver medallist Adam Burgess (GBR) joins host John Gregory. This is a series of daily podcast episodes. Each episode is published at 6 a.m. CET. Tomorrow, the results of the kayak cross final and wrap-up from the canoe slalom competition in Vaires-sur-Marne will be here. Want more? We recommend Ettore Ivaldi's blog http://ettoreivaldi.blogspot.com/ 

Results of the kayak cross round 1 and repêchage. Part of the canoe slalom competition at the Olympics in Paris. Special guests Olympian champions Etienne Stott (GBR) and commentator Mally Johnson join host John Gregory. This is a series of daily podcast episodes. Each episode is published at 6 a.m. CET. Tomorrow, results of the men's and women's kayak cross heats, plus a preview of the quarterfinals will be presented. Want more? We recommend Ettore Ivaldi's blog http://ettoreivaldi.blogspot.com/ 

Results of the Paris kayak time trial. Part of the canoe slalom competition at the Olympics in Paris. Special guests Olympians Daniele Molmenti (ITA), Guille Diez Caneda (ESP), and Richard Fox (GBR) join host John Gregory. This is a series of daily podcast episodes. Each episode is published at 6 a.m. CET. Tomorrow, results of the kayak cross round 1 and repêchage, plus a preview of the heats will be presented. Want more? We recommend Ettore Ivaldi's blog http://ettoreivaldi.blogspot.com/ 

The results of the K1M semifinal and final at the canoe slalom in Paris, plus a preview of the kayak cross competition. Special guests Olympians Benoit Peschier (FRA). Joe Jacobi (USA) and Julien Billaut join host John Gregory. This is a series of daily podcast episodes. Each episode is published at 6 a.m. CET. Tomorrow, the results of the kayak cross time trial and a preview of the next phase of the kayak cross. Want more? We recommend Ettore Ivaldi's blog http://ettoreivaldi.blogspot.com/ 

The results of the C1W semifinal and final of the canoe slalom in Paris, plus a preview of the K1M semifinal. Special guests Olympians Danielle Woodward (AUS), Lisa Micheler-Jones (GER), Scott Shipley (USA) and Felix Oschmautz (AUT) join host John Gregory.  This is a series of daily podcast episodes. Each episode is published at 6 a.m. CET. Tomorrow, results of the K1M semifinal and final, plus a preview of the kayak cross debut will be presented. Want more? We recommend Ettore Ivaldi's blog http://ettoreivaldi.blogspot.com/ 

Results of the C1W and K1M heats, plus a preview of the Olympic C1W canoe slalom semifinal. Special guests Helen Darby-Dowman, Ettore Ivaldi, and Julien Billaut join host John Gregory. This is a series of daily podcast episodes. Each episode is published at 6 a.m. CET. Tomorrow, results from the C1W semifinal and final, plus a preview of the K1M semifinal.  Want more? We recommend Ettore Ivaldi's blog http://ettoreivaldi.blogspot.com/ 

Results of the C1M and K1W heats, plus a preview of the Olympic K1W canoe slalom semifinal. Special guests Olympians Lisa Micheler-Jones (GER), Fiona Pennie-Douglas (GBR), and commentator Mally Johnson join host John Gregory. This is a series of daily podcast episodes. Each episode is published at 6 a.m. CET. Tomorrow, results from the K1W semifinal and final, plus a preview of the C1M semifinal.  Want more? We recommend Ettore Ivaldi's blog http://ettoreivaldi.blogspot.com/ 

Preview of the Paris canoe slalom C1M and K1W heats. Special guests World No. 1 Luka Bozic (SLO), plus Olympians Joe Jacobi (USA) and Mike Corcoran (IRL), join host John Gregory. This is a series of daily podcast episodes. Each episode is published at 6 a.m. CET. Tomorrow, the results of the C1M and K1W heats, and a preview of the K1W semifinal will be presented.  Want more? We recommend Ettore Ivaldi's blog http://ettoreivaldi.blogspot.com/ 

Preview of the Paris 2024 Olympic canoe slalom and kayak cross competition. Special guests Olympians Joe Jacobi (USA) and Mike Corcoran (IRL) join host John Gregory. The poignancy of that 1-minute at the start blocks before the countdown sounds. This is a series of daily podcast episodes. Each episode is published at 6 a.m. CET. Tomorrow, a preview of the C1M and K1W heats will be presented.  Want more? We recommend Ettore Ivaldi's blog http://ettoreivaldi.blogspot.com/ 

Host Carl Jones is joined by actor, comedian and Manchester United fan Marv Dickinson and comedia, Aston Villa fan and host of World Cup of World Cups and World Cup of Euros, James Cook to relive the 1998/99 season. There's the return of David Beckham from France '98 as public enemy number one, Paulo Di Canio pushing over a referee, John Hartson volleying a teammate in the head. Roy Evans budges up for Gerard Houllier in the Liverpool dugout, Big Ron takes his place in the wrong one and Brian Kidd waves goodbye to his seat on the bench at the beginnings of one of the greatest seasons recorded in club football to take Blackburn down instead. Dwight Yorke narrowly avoids being shot by John Gregory, David Unsworth avoids him altogether and Duncan Ferguson becomes the first (and last) player to represent Newcastle United with an Everton crest tattooed on them. There's also some great trivia, hilarious anecodotes and a slightly sombre greatest ever Premier League Cameroonian for reasons that will become apparent.  Enjoyed the show? Please subscribe, leave us a 5* review, subscribe on YouTube for video episodes and additional content and pass the pod to anyone who you think will enjoy it. You can also find us on social media where we'll have Twitter polls, highlights from the show and nostalgic clips from yesteryear. You can now also buy me a coffee/beer! If you can afford to and want to make a small contribution to the running costs of the show, visit https://www.buymeacoffee.com/whenfootballbeganagain   Listen: https://podfollow.com/when-football-began-again  YouTube: @whenfootballbeganagainpod Instagram: whenfootybeganagainpod Facebook: @WhenFootyBeganAgainPod Twitter: @WFBApod TikTok: whenfootballbegan Buy Me A Beer: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/whenfootballbeganagain You can also get in touch via whenfootballbeganagain@gmail.com with your own memories - we'll share as many as we can in future episodes.

Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed John Gregory. In 2004, John launched the program in Columbus, OH. He created The African American Male Wellness Walk/Run Initiative to begin making men understand that one can live longer through prevention. This has allowed men and their families nationwide to obtain free health screenings and raise awareness of healthier lifestyles. With this initiative, we have expanded in Fatherhood Initiative, Mental Wellness, and Opioid Prevention programs.Support the show: https://www.steveharveyfm.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed John Gregory. In 2004, John launched the program in Columbus, OH. He created The African American Male Wellness Walk/Run Initiative to begin making men understand that one can live longer through prevention. This has allowed men and their families nationwide to obtain free health screenings and raise awareness of healthier lifestyles. With this initiative, we have expanded in Fatherhood Initiative, Mental Wellness, and Opioid Prevention programs.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In 2024 The Podcast's very own Pete & Sarah competed in the SAUDI ARAMCO CHALLENGE Toughest Firefighter Alive as athletes for the UK team. Over the course of the competition we caught up with a few of the 317 athletes from over 29 countries.Today we are speaking with Team UK & British Firefighter Challenge organisers John Gregory & Mickey Joseph.you can find info on UK firefighter challenge event below:The British Firefighter ChallengeThe Cheshire Fire ChallengeThe Welsh Firefighter ChallengeWe only feature the latest 200 episodes of the podcast on public platforms so to access our podcast LIBRARY with every episode ever made & also get access to every Debrief & Subject Matter expert document shard with us then join our PATREON crew and support the future of the podcast by clicking HEREA big thanks to our partners for supporting this episode.GORE-TEX Professional ClothingMSA The Safety CompanyHAIX FootwearGRENADERIP INTOLyfe Linez -  Get Functional Hydration FUEL for FIREFIGHTERS, Clean no sugar  for daily hydration. 80% of people live dehydrated and  for firefighters this cost lives, worsens our long term health and reduces cognitive ability.Please support the podcast and its future by clicking HERE and joining our Patreon Crew

Welcome to this week's episode of Masters of Max with host Tom Butta. Today, Tom is joined by John Gregory, a seasoned professional with a diverse background spanning retail, media, and digital. John has worked with renowned brands like Macy's, Bloomingdale's, AOL, Pandora, and Spotify.Throughout the conversation, John emphasizes the importance of brand continuity and delivering a remarkable and consistent customer experience across all touchpoints. He highlights the value of personalization and leveraging listener data in mobile app experiences to create engaging and relevant interactions. John also discusses the significance of balancing performance-oriented marketing with brand marketing to attract new audiences.He advises companies to focus on innovation, experimentation, and staying flexible in the ever-changing digital landscape. Overall, this interview provides universal insights and advice for any brand seeking to improve their mobile engagement and app offerings. John's extensive experience makes this interview a must-listen for any company looking to navigate the ever-changing digital landscape.—Guest BioJohn Gregory joined Spotify in April 2020 as Global Retail Category Development Officer to lead the retail vertical that supports efforts with key strategic partners in this industry sector. His role advocates Spotify's platform capabilities to the retail industry, collaborating with internal teams to ensure the best solutions for retail clients are in development and also advising the selling organization on how best to address the needs of all sub-categories within the industry.Earlier in his career, John was VP-Retail Head of Industry at Pandora, Retail Category Development Officer at AOL, and Group VP of National Marketing Strategy and Campaign Planning for Macy's Inc.—Guest Quote"It all comes down to having a continuity between all the expressions of your brand, whether it be a mobile app or in store or even the advertising you may see throughout your daily life. There has to be a common thread of brand continuity to make it make the most sense and keep that experience with the consumer.” – John Gregory—Time Stamps *(01:16) John's Background*(05:01) Proving the value of your users*(08:08) Curating the experience for each unique consumer*(10:16) Evolving your physical brand to the digital world*(12:07) All about experience*(16:59) Spotify's “The Stage Experience”*(19:24) Advice for digital native brands*(22:34) Rapid Fire Questions—LinksConnect with John Gregory on LinkedInConnect with Tom Butta on LinkedInCheck out the Airship Website

British Firefighter Challenge 2024 has now launched. This years event will be held at Water Street, Liverpool, Pierhead underneath the iconic Liver Building on the SATURDAY 27TH & SUNDAY 28TH of JULY.Today i catchup with John Gregory one of the lead organisers for the event as we talk tactics, training, community and the growth of firefighter challenge events in the UKFRSYou can now register for the 2024 event HEREWe only feature the latest 200 episodes of the podcast on public platforms so to access our podcast LIBRARY with every episode ever made & also get access to every Debrief & Subject Matter expert document shard with us then join our PATREON crew and support the future of the podcast by clicking HEREA big thanks to our partners for supporting this episode.GORE-TEX Professional ClothingHAIX FootwearGRENADERIP INTOLyfe Linez -  Get Functional Hydration FUEL for FIREFIGHTERS, Clean no sugar  for daily hydration. 80% of people live dehydrated and  for firefighters this cost lives, worsens our long term health and reduces cognitive ability.Support the ongoing work of the podcast by clicking HEREPlease subscribe to the podcast on YoutubeEnter our monthly giveaways on the following platformsFacebookInstagramPlease support the podcast and its future by clicking HERE and joining our Patreon Crew

In this compelling episode of "Real Men, Real Talk," we welcome former NFL star Ryan Mundy for an intimate live recording at the 20th Walk to Save Black Men's Lives. Ryan joins AAMWA President Kenny Hampton and founder John Gregory in a raw dialogue about identity, vulnerability, and the journey to self-discovery. "Who Am I?" explores the highs and lows of transitioning from professional sports to everyday life and the mental resilience needed both on and off the field. Tune in as these three men suit up not for a game, but for a conversation that tackles the essential aspects of mental wellness and identity. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aawellness/message

John Gregory is with us for this weeks episode talking through is career as a player and manager at Northampton, Aston Villa, QPR, Derby and Brighton. Including, Mr Ticklers marathon, shock appointments, Stan's struggles, shooting Dwight Yorke, and David Ginola the housewives favourite.

Welcome to the inaugural episode of the Real Men Real Talk podcast, your authentic space for candid conversations about mental health in the African American community. This episode introduces you to our mission and the theme for this season—'It's OK to Talk.' Our esteemed hosts, John Gregory, founder of the African American Male Wellness Agency, and Kenny R. Hampton, its President, kickstart the series by exemplifying vulnerability. They delve into personal experiences shared during travel, revealing that even in positions of leadership, prioritizing mental health isn't optional—it's essential. Tune in to listen to a heartening conversation that stresses the importance of self-disclosure, community, and mental well-being. Because remember, it's OK to talk. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aawellness/message

John Gregory's GopherCon talk “7 Deadly Gopher Sins” is the ostensible basis of this spooky Go Time episode, but with Mat Ryer at the helm… the only thing to expect is the unexpected. And failed jokes. Expect lots of failed jokes.

John Gregory's GopherCon talk “7 Deadly Gopher Sins” is the ostensible basis of this spooky Go Time episode, but with Mat Ryer at the helm… the only thing to expect is the unexpected. And failed jokes. Expect lots of failed jokes.

Wall Talk's tribute to John Gregory Berylson, Millwall Football Club's beloved former Chairman, is available to listen to now.Berylson tragically passed away on 4th July, leading to tributes pouring in from across the globe.In the lead-up to The Lions' tribute fixture against Bristol City, the podcast's regular panel of Max McLellan and Mark Litchfield - with Billy Taylor in addition - spoke to a host of Millwall personalities past and present for their thoughts on the American.Head to Millwall TV to WATCH the full episode...

Back in June 2021 we spoke to the brilliant John Gregory on the podcast, and he gave us almost 3 hours of his time which we cut into an episode lasting over 2 and a half hours. We decided, for those that might not have had chance to listen to the full thing, to share a few of our favourite stories. If you have heard these before, enjoy them for a second time, there's some absolute belters.

Former Man Utd, Barnsley, QPR, Exeter, Rotherham and Bury forward Daniel Nardiello is with us for this week's episode. Talking, Man Utd Initiations, Dwight Yorke's golden tickets, John Gregory's high rolling, and secretly recording Steve Evans. #underthecosh #manutd #barnsleyfc

[00:00:00] David Stevens: For the next year and a half, I was in Somalia during Black Hawk Down leading medical teams. Only place I've done medical work or had ten guys with AK 47's guarding our team all the time. We saw 45,000 outpatients in the midst of famine and disease and war, and then into the Sudan epidemic, relapsing fever, living in tents. Our camp got overrun. The village where we were by another tribe. We had our team held hostage. [00:00:26] Tommy Thomas: Our guest today is Dr. David Stevens. Dr. Stevens has enjoyed a distinguished career in medical missions in Kenya before making the transition to nonprofit leadership. First with Samaritan's Purse, and then as CEO of the Christian Medical and Dental Association. For the past 30 years, I've made my living, helping nonprofit organizations find senior leaders.  JobfitMatters has worked with over 300 nonprofits in finding their CEO, the executive director, headmaster or whatever they call the top leadership role. One thing I learned over the years is that you can get a good picture of how a person leads by listening to the stories of their lives. The narrative of a person's life is powerful.  As you listen to this conversation with Dr. Stevens, imagine that you're on a search committee, looking for the next CEO for your nonprofit. My hunch is that you would leave this podcast knowing what the Office of the President or Executive Director would look like under Dr. Steven's leadership.  Let's pick up the conversation now. Before we go too deep into your professional career, take us back to your childhood.  I'm always curious about people got their start. [00:01:48] David Stevens: Mine was a little bit unusual. My father was a pastor for a couple of years and then went into full-time evangelism back in the early 50s.  So, for a couple of years of my life, we were living in a house trailer, parked at the little churches in the country where he was preaching revivals before we settled in Wilmore, Kentucky where my mom and dad had both gone to school. But even after that, during the summer, we used to travel with him and to camp meetings all across the United States. So it was a little different childhood than most kids have. It was wonderful. How many kids in the 50s, early 60s would go to all kinds of historical spots that were in the area between meetings and have that much concentrated time with their parents? And I was in a children's program all summer long and different camp meetings. It was a wonderful time and a time when we could be together with dad, because he's on the road a lot during the year.  [00:02:40] Tommy Thomas: What is the most memorable or valuable lesson you learned from your parents?  David Stevens: Their love for God and their love for people. And I just saw that some of the memories that I treasure are sitting in a camp meeting and watching people go forward to the old-fashioned altar and pray. In fact, it was in one of those camp meetings where dad was preaching in Pennsylvania when I was eight, that I went down a sawdust trail to a two by four altar and got on my knees and accepted Christ, realizing it wasn't enough. My dad was the evangelist. I needed a personal relationship with Christ. So, it really impacted my life and the memories that we treasure. Not just me, but my brother and sister as well. [00:03:18] Tommy Thomas:  Y'all traveled the United States a bit. Looking back, what was your favorite place? [00:03:21] David Stevens: Oh boy, that's a hard question because some of it's a blur. We went back to camp meetings more than once and I did this until I started high school. It was quite a few years and it was just a special time because we got to be with dad. He'd be gone for a week, 10 days home for a few days between meetings and then off again. And we always treasure those times with mom and dad. And mom was teaching school full-time and had three kids. I don't know how she did it, but I treasure those memories. Just the fun things we did. Dad was a history major, and I remember one time we were going down the road and he saw a sign that there was a grave for one of the presidents and he pulled off with the house trailer behind us into the cemetery. And we're sitting there and he looks down and there's a building and somebody's over there and he walks over and starts talking to him. He was gregarious and loved people, and a few minutes later he motions us all to come over. It was the crematorium. We got a tour of the crematorium. I can still remember the bones in the boxes as we went in. You'd never do that in this day and time, but my dad made friends quickly.  [00:04:32] Tommy Thomas: What is something that people are always surprised to find out about you? [00:04:35] David Stevens: That's a good question. I love to sing and I've been in a number of choirs that goes clear back to my high school days and some of my hobbies people are surprised at. I love to fly fish for trout. We've got great trout fishing here. And then I also love to flower garden. And when you work with people as you have Tommy, it's never done. And I like to do house projects and things like that and finished off part of our house after we moved in. But I love doing things with my hands because, but when you're done, it's done. It's finished. It's, it's not a project in process forever like it is as you're dealing with.  [00:05:14] Tommy Thomas: I tell people that my work doesn't have an immediate impact. And so I'm like you, I love to cut grass because I can see what's ahead of me. I can see what's behind me and I can know what I'm through.  [00:05:29] Tommy Thomas: Take me into high school.  Did y'all settle down some in high school? [00:05:32] David Stevens: I had an interesting high school experience, Tommy, because my sister and my brother and I all went off to boarding school here in the United States. I went to Hampton Dubose Academy down in Florida. It was a Christian boarding school too, of Billy Graham's. His daughters went there. The boys didn't. [00:05:47] David Stevens: Jack Wertzen and other names that people would know. It was a class of, the school had about 150 students. It was a great experience. I ended up being much more mature than other students when I got to college because I lived away from home, actually came home and lived at home for college and went to Asbury. But everybody had to do everything. Everybody had to participate in every sport. Everybody was in choir, everybody did public speaking. Every year we had a competition where you had to memorize a speech, give it in front of the whole student body, and be judged on it. And you look back on those things and we, all of us had worksheet jobs. My wife still says I can cut vegetables better than she can because I used to cut vegetables for 150 kids when I was on kitchen duty or washing dishes or waiting tables. And then we just had tremendous spiritual ministry. We had chapel in the morning, vespers at night, every day, services three times on Sunday during the snowbird season and some top-notch evangelists and speakers from all over the country for that. I learned much more than just getting a good education. But that's where I fell in love with science and Mr. Gladfelder, my science teacher.  God used that during my last year of high school to call me into medical missions. My dad, when I was a freshman, he was in evangelism as I mentioned, but in the mid-60s he went on a short-term mission team, which was pretty unusual back then and I saw the impact of that on people's lives and started spending half his time with an organization that he started called Now Go International to take people overseas. And he took me as a freshman in high school down to Haiti. And while I was there, I started painting, I think somebody's house, and probably not very well, but there was a building down at the end of the compound. And people lined up around and went down. There was a nurse diagnosing and treating people lined up around the building. I didn't have a chance to talk to her, but every once in a while, I saw her get up and go in the other room. And one time she left the door cracked in there. She was down on her knees praying with someone. And God used that experience and my love for science to call me into medical missions as a senior in high school. Back in those days you were supposed to know what you were going to major in when you got to college, which is pretty unusual in this day and time. So what was Asbury like, and then what was how was medical school different? Asbury was wonderful. I lived at home, that's where I met my wife, Jody, my junior year, in her freshman year. My freshman year is probably the most memorable in one way. And that is, that was 1970, the Asbury revival. We've been talking the last few weeks about what's been going on there now, and I was sitting up in the balcony in the freshman section and they just had a testimony service where students shared and God just came into that place and it was palpable. You could feel it and that didn't finish for over a week. And I was already committed to medical missions, talking about it. And people knew what I was planning to do. But it was that morning when I went down to the altar that I just completely surrendered my heart to the Lord. I loved him, but I was still driving the car of my life and I took him everywhere I went. But that day, I wanted Him to drive.  And I still remember that commitment. It's been very fresh in the last few weeks as I've heard about what's going on up there. All three of my kids went there. I was involved in the school and the board. Yeah, a lot of great memories of those years there. [00:09:09] Tommy Thomas: Was medical school hard for you or did you just fall into it? [00:09:10] David Stevens: Medical school's hard for everyone.  In fact, I deal with a lot, ahead of working with medical students across the country. A lot of people, pre-meds and stuff, say, how do you get into medical school? Because it's hard. I say the way you get into medical school is you go to the library when everybody else goes to the ballgame. That's how you get into medical school. It's not the smartest ones. Oftentimes it's the ones that are most determined and have the discipline to do it. And medical school, is that on steroids? I remember in my biochemistry course we covered in the first two weeks what I'd learned the year before, and my biochemistry class was taught by a former teacher in a medical school here at Asbury. So it's tough. You're very focused. You're realizing that you're going to have people's lives in your hand. You get into your clinical years, and it's not only days, but you're working nights too. You're up all day. Up all night and up all the next day taking care of patients. That's not as common anymore. But that was the way back in those days. And I was determined to learn as much as possible. Because during college, after my junior year, I went and spent two months in Kenya. My dad knew Dr. Ernie Stuart, the founder of Tenwek Hospital, and he said, out of all of the missionary doctors, I know he's the finest. And I went and spent two months with him and lived in his house and followed him around like a puppy. And he taught me how to pass instruments to him in surgery. And I delivered my first baby as a college student. Came home and actually went to the mission and got a preliminary appointment with World Gospel Mission to head overseas as soon as we finished our training, a preliminary appointment. We knew where we were going to medical school. And after my third year, went back for two months beginning my fourth year. Took my wife Jodi, who had never been there. And we were essentially missionaries that summer. And I got so far ahead of other medical students by the time I went to residency because they had handed me an award with 40 patients on it that I was the doctor, even though I was just in my fourth year of medical school. They were so short-staffed, and I had even learned how to do C-sections and take care of stuff that most medical students never got to do, even back in that time and especially now. So that helped me focus. I always believe that you have to throw wood on the fire of your call, and you do that, especially with long years of training by going back. When I went back again, during my last year of residency, so I graduated medical school and worked hard, graduated in the top 5% of my class, and then started residency. And that was a big decision. I loved surgery. I didn't particularly like some of the surgeons I had to work with in medical school. Some of them, you'd turn around and walk down another hallway if you saw them coming. They were so rough and tough. But I ended up going to a family practice residency because I was going to have to do everything you have to do. Every kind of medicine on the mission field, there's nobody to refer to. And so I went to a program in Columbus, Georgia which had 40 residents. About half of them were Christians, evangelical Christians, which was wonderful. One of our faculty attracted them there. It was just a great school. We were the only residents in a tertiary care hospital, 500-bed hospital, and did everything, ran the burn units, the ICU, everything. It was great training. I knew I was not going to have an office practice. I didn't have to take care of really sick people. And that was the residency I was looking for. So those were a great three years, and we had our first two children there and then headed off to the mission field. [00:12:28] Tommy Thomas:  What do you remember about the first time that you actually had a medical staff reporting to you?  [00:12:45] David Stevens: It's interesting. I was chief resident of those 40 residents. During my third year, one of them was in charge. It turned out to be a lot more complicated than I thought it was going to be about halfway through the year. I came into work on Monday morning and everything was in a fever, and here they had brought in a for-profit administration for this city hospital. And they had fired the Director of the Family Practice Program. Now, this is, in my opinion, one of the best, if not the best family practice program in the southeast and maybe in the United States. Back then, it was just fabulous, and residents were starting to get on the phone, calling and looking for other residencies they could go to. They were going to leave and the whole thing was just going to fall apart. And so, I had a quick prayer and called the residents together and said we can fight this. Back in those days, if they didn't like you, they fired you.  Even as a resident – they just throw you out and because you're a paid resident. So I wrote a letter to all the attendings in the community, of course, didn't sign it, in case it fell under the wrong hands, explaining what was happening and letting them know if something didn't change, they were going to have to be taking care of all of their patients at night because there'd be no residents in the hospital to do it. And then I contacted the paper and made sure they didn't use my name, so I didn't get fired. And that happened on Monday. Sent the residents out, each one to a number of the local attending physicians that had patients in the hospital and hand delivered the letters to them. Friday, they had a meeting called with the doctors, and everybody was in a fur. And the doctors said, listen, if you don't change that decision Monday, there'll be no patients in this hospital. Now I didn't plan that. I didn't expect that, but that made a huge difference. And that was where I had leadership, that was one of those pivotal points in a leadership situation where you're in a crisis and then jumped in very quickly. When I got to the hospital, we did language school. Within my first year Dr. Stewart asked me to be the medical superintendent, so that meant I was in charge of all the medical staff in the hospital. He was the CEO, but I had the direct supervision and we had at that time probably 300 staff.  We had a national administrator, but I dealt with all the medical issues and problems like that. So, I jumped in pretty quickly and found out that I had skills and abilities, and interests that I really didn't know I'd have in the whole area of leadership and administration.   [00:15:06] Tommy Thomas: Thinking back over the life of your career - what was the most ambitious project you've ever tackled? [00:15:11] David Stevens: I've had a lot of them, but I think the biggest one was actually the first one at Tenwek. When we arrived, I was the third physician. We only had six trained nurses. Five of them were missionaries. Everybody else were just local people. We had trained to clean floors or pass medicines out, and half the patients in the hospital were there with preventable diseases and half the deaths were from preventable diseases. The biggest killer in Africa is the water is not clean. Measles, tetanus, whooping cough - things that we immunize for. The biggest killer in Africa is the water is not clean. They drink it, get diarrhea, and vomiting. Kids come in severely dehydrated. We were averaging 180% occupancy for the year and there were two to three patients in a bed, and every patient had a family member staying with them since we didn't have good nursing staff to help take care of them. We had over 200 patients and it was challenging. After about a year and a half, Dr. Stewart turned to me and said, David, one of our nurses that was on furlough, she has come back, and she wants to do something in community health. Can you help her start a community health outreach? We sat down and started thinking about this.  Our catchment area at that time was 300,000 people and a very rural area, 50 miles from the nearest paved road. And I thought there are no billboards, there's no radio, there are no magazines. The only way to reach these people is door-to-door. [00:16:32] David Stevens: How do you get that? You couldn't hire enough people or have enough money to have them go out and do the teaching. So we essentially went out in the community and mobilized them to start a community health committee in a village. And we go out and train this group and we used inductive training where you ask questions and help them find the answers. [00:16:53] David Stevens: And after we got them trained, then we asked them to pick seven people from their community who would give three half days a week to go teach in their community.  And we called them Community Health Helpers because workers get paid, you aren't gonna get paid. And so we built that program and at the time I left in 1991, we had already taught 400,000 people 25 different interventions that they could teach about, treating the 10 most common diseases and sharing the gospel.  We had as many as 10,000 people a year come to Christ through this door-to-door evangelism. I used to tell the health helpers, I said, the best place to share the gospel is when you're helping somebody dig their latrine. And they ask you, why in the world are you doing this? Because you've got a farm, you're busy, you've got things you need to do, and you shared the love of Christ. That's a great place to introduce people to Jesus. And that program grew. I applied a bunch of motivational techniques. A good book on that was In Search of Excellence, looking at the top 10 companies in the United States, how they motivated their people, and what I did, selling books door-to-door when I was in college for two summers with Southwestern Family Bibles and native topical references. I still have on the wall in my office, my Gold Award for working 75 hours a week, knocking on doors, dogs chasing you. And I thought, how did they motivate me as a medical student, as a college student when I didn't even receive a salary? I was working on commission to work as hard as I did, and I was one of the Top 20 salesmen in the country. God never wastes anything. And he took that and we were motivated by giving a sense of identity to the people. People knew who they were and what they were doing, and thought it was important. Secondly, by great communication, not just up and down, but vertically and horizontally, among groups and creating a non-threatening comparison. We printed a newspaper, mimeographed it off, and everybody's work was in there and nobody said anything about them, but they could tell if you were working, or you weren't working and how your committee was doing compared to other committees. People always wanted to know how they fit in, competitions where individuals could win or people would meet a certain level and get rewards, then creating a sense of family. And it was extremely successful. Within three years we had a USAID grant. The Ambassador was visiting.  By the time I left, we'd had people from 24 different countries come in and see that program. And then we went to the next step and started with community development, which impacted the men versus just impacting women and children and teaching them how to have income because there was less and less land for people and they didn't have enough. They could support their families, men go to the city, try to get a job, end up in Islam, frequent a prostitute, bring AIDS home, give it to their wife. These were medical issues all with the fact that how do you make money and support your family when you only have five or six acres of land? So how do you increase milk production and egg production and clean water and better agriculture and all sorts of stuff that I'd never done but I just dived in and learned. So that was a huge project that I was doing while still working full-time in the hospital in the last four or five years that I was at Tenwek, I was the Acting CEO as well, running the whole place. So a very busy time, but yeah, changed a lot of lives and that's still going on today. I was just back in June. It's now up to 1.5 million people and their 1,500 health helpers in the country. Doing this type of thing still, 25-30 years later.  [00:20:21] Tommy Thomas: How did you go from that to your most recent assignment at Christian Medical and Dental Associations? [00:20:26] David Stevens: We thought we were going to be missionaries the rest of our life. During my time there Dr. Stewart got colon cancer and went home.  He put me in charge of the hospital. And so many of the other issues that need to be dealt with was, we need electricity. We had electricity 11 hours a day, people died all the time for lack of electricity.  And it took a quarter of the budget just to run a diesel generator, 11 hours a day.  So we built a hydroelectric project on the river, and that's God's story of how He brought in the experts we needed and we did it ourselves. And it was like building the pyramids. We broke all the gravel for a huge dam by hand because the roads were so bad we couldn't even get trucks in. And then we started a nursing school. So we'd have nurses and took the hospital up to 300 beds and buildings and new outpatients, new business offices, all sorts of things that got involved in during the last four or five years that I was there and leadership. And we thought we'd be there for the rest of our lives. And then God, just that last year, I have had a growing realization that God had something else in hand and I didn't want to hear it. We came home on deputation in 1989 and I thought, you've just been working too hard managing all this stuff and still seeing patients. You're a little burned out.  You'll get over it and it wouldn't go away. And finally, I was going down to North Carolina to speak and I thought, we had a relationship with Samaritan's Purse. I knew Franklin and they had helped us with visiting doctors to help for a month. And I thought, what can God bring? Maybe God wants you to take what you've done at Tenwek and help other mission hospitals. So I dropped by and I told Jodi if I get in there and the Head of Rural Medical Mission, their medical arm and Franklin are in the same room, I'm going to bring this up. And I had been there five minutes and I was in the room with him, and I said would you have an interest? Franklin was very enthusiastic, and I was backing up by saying after the next term, that type of thing, didn't give him any kind of answer. Before I left, he called me, he said, I want you to be the head of World Medical Missions, which is their medical arm working with Mission Hospitals around the world. And I said, I'm back due back in Kenya in two days. I'll let you know something by Christmas. This was June. And it got close to Christmas. We hadn't even prayed about it.  In December, I started to pray.  I just couldn't get any direction and wrote a letter to Franklin and said, no, I'm not coming. [00:22:44] And Dr. Stewart had medical problems, colon cancer, I was the next leader already in that leadership position. Probably had the two worst weeks of my life. Because I knew I hadn't waited on the Lord. And Molly had turned to Jodi and said, it's too late. I just got too busy. I should have taken more time. We should have taken more time praying about this. And I said, the only thing that could happen is Franklin just writes me a note and says, the job's here whenever you want to come. Two weeks later I got a letter - job's here whenever you want to come. We went back to our knees, prayed for a month, and realized that's what God wanted us to do. So, I came to World Medical Missions. The first year I was flying all over the world, working with mission hospitals, starting their equipment refurbishment ministry, getting good used equipment from the states, converting it, refurbishing it, and sending it to mission hospitals. At the end of that year, Franklin realized, ah, I've got a doctor on staff. Things broke out in Somalia. Things were going on in the Balkans with the wars. And he came and talked to me and said, David, could we do medical relief? And for the next year and a half, I was in Somalia during Black Hawk Down leading medical teams. The only place I've done medical work or had ten guys with AK-47s guarding our team all the time. We saw 45,000 outpatients in the midst of famine and disease and war, and then into Sudan epidemic, relapsing fever, living in tents. Our camp got overrun. The village where we were by another tribe. We had our team held hostage, back during my cowboy days, I called them. And then we were into Rwanda during the genocide. And about that time, CMDA came looking for me. And I had realized by that time that God had brought me, I knew to Samaritan's Purse, but he had something else in store. So we'd already been praying about that. And I remember when I got the letter on my desk going home, showed it to my wife and said, this isn't me. I'm a missionary. And she was convinced from day one that's what God had for my life. And, long story short, even the night before we went for the interview I said we're going to Dallas because I'm serious about this job. We're going to get to see your sister and her husband, go out to eat tomorrow night. We're really going five days later. We prayed through and knew that's where God wanted us to come. And so that was 1994 and for 25 years I was the CEO of CMDA.  [00:25:03] Tommy Thomas: Your colleague, Jamie Campbell, told me to make sure you told the story of how you got the headquarters moved from Texas to Bristol Tennessee / Virginia. That was crazy. We had about 6,000 square feet. CMDA was struggling financially.  It was a 60-something year-old organization at that point. And things not going very well. In fact, that year, my first year, was the hardest year of my life in all probability. We had a large short-term medical mission ministry with over 50 teams a year. And the person heading that, I'll get into the details, but broke it off secretly and started getting the money out of the organization, telling people to cancel their trips and send it to his new organization. It was just a mess. And that, that happened over that year. But I got there and about two weeks later was coming up here to Bristol, where I am speaking from Tennessee to go do a speaking engagement that I had already booked when I left Samaritan's Purse. And I got to know a family when I was at Samaritan's Purse that had helped us with medicines and supplies, they had this thing called general injectables and vaccines. And I had heard they had sold that company and they had bought a pharmaceutical company here in Bristol.  I had some time and I thought I'm going to go see if I can find Joe, one of the younger brothers I had taken to Africa with me to Kenya in Tanzania. They had just started out, bought a plant and had 200,000 square feet of manufacturing, 200,000 square feet of office space. And they're showing me around the building. I only had about 40 staff just starting out. And I made the offhand comment, who knows what God's gonna do with you guys? Look at all this room. We just put a desk in the hallway for an assistant because we're just out of room. I'm just making small talk. A few minutes later they were down in his office, says, why don't you move up here to Bristol and I'll give you a floor, which was 24,000 square feet. And I thought I can't go back. I hadn't even met the board yet. The search committee had made the decision and I hadn't met the board, had a board meeting and I'm going to go tell them I'm going to move to Bristol - with a startup pharmaceutical company.  Are you nuts? So, I didn't say anything. We had our board meeting about a month later. I didn't even say anything about it. And they wanted to help short-term mission groups. So they contacted us and I couldn't go. So I sent my COO and before he left, I said, you know what? I need to tell you something in case it comes up. I don't think they were serious, but just in case, I was up speaking in Oklahoma I believe, and I got a call and he says, we're up here trying to figure out which floor would work. The board had all the right questions. Are they trying to get to our members to sell their medications? What if they fail and we've moved up there? What if they're successful and sell it to some other company? All those things. So I came back and talked to President John Gregory and John says, Dave, I just feel like if you're in here God's just gonna bless you. It'll flow through to us.  Here's the deal. We have to charge you a little bit because we have loans on the building. So we'll charge you $1,200 a month for your 24,000 square feet. But we'll handle all the utility costs and all the cleaning and your renovations that need to be done. And if we'll give you that for 20 years in a fixed contract and if we sell the company, it'll be binding on them.  How's that sound? I go, okay. It's kinda hard to turn down, huh? Yeah. And all of a sudden, we took our overhead almost to zero, except for salaries. We encouraged our staff to move. We made that decision in January. We moved in August of that year and we encouraged them to come up here, paid their way. Nobody moved. Tommy, nobody. I was the oldest employee at CMDA when we got up here, but God had planned that out. You're going to talk about some of the things with staffing and top. My best friend who I'd worked with at Samaritan's Purse as an OBGYN doc.  I had encouraged him to come on and he came on just after we made that decision, he moved here, started hiring, sending down for training, and went off seamlessly. We decreased the cost of our salaries because it was less costly to operate here, and things just exploded and over. That was 1995. By 2002, we had outgrown our space and we're getting ready to build the building that I'm setting in now. [00:29:02] David Stevens: 54,000 square feet of space.  That was a God thing. Yeah. Brave on your part, but obviously the hand of the Lord on the other side. It's interesting. He said, God will bless us. They were called King Pharmaceuticals. It's been sold. They were the fastest company in the history of the United States to go from startup to being listed on the S&P 500.   The head was a pharmacist, and his brother was in marketing, but God just blessed them. They were making generics and realized that's hard work. It's high volume. They started buying up drugs that still had patent life and by God's grace picked up two or three drugs that got unbelievable new indications. Every diabetic in the country should take this hypertensive they had bought, and they just got great in, these guys that started with a little bit of money and between the two of them were billionaires when they sold it.  [00:30:07] Tommy Thomas: I want to ask you about board service, but before we go there, there is a question that I always enjoy asking people, what's the hardest decision you've had to make as a leader? [00:30:09] David Stevens: Leaving Tenwek was one. That's a big struggle. When I was CEO, I put one of my employees on trial and he ended up in prison.  And that was a very difficult decision to make in developing countries like we were in Kenya and especially in the culture we're in, the pressure put on young men, it's just tremendous. If they've got a job, they've got to help with school fees, with their extended family. You can't get married till you have a dowry. The hormones are raging and you can't, you don't have enough money. And so the pressure to steal or embezzle is just huge. And this fellow who had trained, worked in our business office, had formal training. Had stolen 25 years' worth of salary. We had paper receipts, no computerization at that point, and he put a piece of cardboard between the two copies, write out the receipt, give it to the patient, put carbon paper on a piece of paper. We were taught, to write a different money, a different amount, and we'd had problems before Ernie was gone. And I thought, you know what, I sensed with the staff that had done this is, still as much as you can if you get fired, go home and enjoy it. And so there had never been any long-term consequences besides getting fired. I took him, took the situation to the police, and they didn't have a vehicle to go out and get the evidence, so I had to send out one of our vehicles and our chaplain went with them and took them to people we thought this had happened too, and finally found 13 receipts that didn't match, and I had to go to court. This is, to get the impression of what this is like, being in the South and being African-American in the 1850s. Here you're white and the whole court's African and you're bringing witness against someone. [00:31:46] David Stevens: And then the judge wouldn't be there. And all the time was going down and the case wouldn't happen, and asbusy as I was, finally they put him in prison for 13 months, which I thought was light. There was a lot of criticism from the staff. He got married, his wife had just had a baby. Dr. Stevens, you're a missionary, you just put him in prison. But I just felt and prayed a lot about it that I need to make an example to stop this. I had a responsibility for the situation in the hospital, and God redeems everything. Thirteen months later, I was walking, going down the road, coming somewhere towards the hospital. I saw him walk along the road and I stopped him, call him John, picked John up and said, John, how are you doing? I'm sorry I couldn't visit you in prison, but you were far away from where we are. I said, how are you doing? He said, Dr. Stevens, I was ready to kill myself when I got in prison.  You can't imagine how bad it was. But he said, I was just about to do that.  And there was a pastor that came in the prison.  When I was hired, I told y'all I was a Christian, but I wasn't. And that pastor led me to Christ. And for the last 10 months that I was there, I was going with him and sharing the gospel to other prisoners in the prison. [00:32:55] David Stevens: I said what are you doing now? I'm trying to find a job. You can't find a job after you've been in prison. I said, John, I can't put you back in the business office. I think you understand that cause of the temptation, but I'll hire you back at Tenwek.  He mowed grass. He had training in finances, and he was mowing grass with a machete. And every day at break, when everybody had tea at 10 o'clock as they do in Kenya, he'd go up to the hospital and witness on the wards. Finally, I had him speak to the whole staff. I'll never forget, he stood up and said I stole what Dr. Stevens said I stole and I deserved to go into prison, and I know some of you are stealing, and I'm going thinking, who are they? And he gave this beautiful testimony.  About a year later I gave him a recommendation and got him a job in finance, in another place. God redeemed that.  But that was a very difficult decision. You're working cross-cultural, you're a missionary, and yet you're an administrator. You're in charge. You have the responsibility. It was a very tough time, but God did his work all the same. [00:33:55] Tommy Thomas: Next week, we will continue this conversation with Dr. Stevens. We will be exploring his experience and passion for board service and governance.  [00:34:08] David Stevens: Boards are the foundation of an organization. It's like the foundation of a house. You cannot build a solid structure unless you have a solid foundation.   Links and Resources JobfitMatters Website Next Gen Nonprofit Leadership with Tommy Thomas   Connect Tommy Thomas - tthomas@jobfitmatters.com Tommy's LinkedIn Profile David Stevens' LinkedIn Profile  

After almost 5 years and nearly 250 episodes, The Next Man Up podcast is drawing to a close. In this final episode, Mark is joined by current co-host, John Gregory, and previous co-hosts Josh Wilson and Alen Auguste, as the 4 discuss their “why” for doing the podcast, favorite memories, and the impact they hope to leave on the men and fathers listening in.

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://thecitylife.org/2023/01/27/the-new-york-public-library-acquires-archive-of-joan-didion-and-john-gregory-dunne/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/citylifeorg/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/citylifeorg/support

Many Americans—influenced by political leaders and even some health providers—chose to downplay or ignore science-based recommendations from infectious-disease experts to get vaccinated, wear masks, and practice physical distancing. At the same time, unproven, even “dangerous anti-science beliefs and behaviors” spread, gaining traction with some. As a result, notes Scientific American, “more people have died in the U.S. from COVID-19 than in any other country, and our nation has one of the highest per capita death rates in the world.” Featuring Dr. Seema Yasmin, Director of Research and Education, Stanford University Health Communication Initiative; John Gregory, Health Editor for NewsGuard, and Meredith Wilson, Chief Executive Officer of Emergent Risk International Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ollie Watkins' header from a Douglas Luiz free-kick is enough to seal all three points for Aston Villa. That's Unai Emery's third consecutive away win for Villa, the first manager to do so since John Gregory.

The last thing from us this year – the 102nd episode of our podcast. During 2 hours here for you the selection of some of the brightest this month's stuff from Spring Tube and other labels. Your hosts as always are SlanG and Technodreamer. For our December 2022 episode we have new music from Quivver & Dave Seaman, Gai Barone, DNYO, Grigoré, Lessov, NOIYSE PROJECT, and others. In a last 30 minutes of this month's podcast - - the special guestmix by John Gregory from the UK who released with us his new EP two weeks back. Have a nice listening & Best wishes for a New Year *available for download Tracklist: PART 1 – SlanG 01. Alexander At The Sea - You Saved Me [Sommersville] 02. Guy Didden feat. Mats Westbroek - Dusk (Grigoré Remix) [Songspire] 03. Quivver & Dave Seaman - Just Think [Renaissance] 04. Claes Rosen - Make A Move (Lessov Dub Mix) [Spring Tube] SPR340 05. Mile Duque - Golden Lines [Spring Tube] SPR338 06. DNYO - Medjai [Timeless Moment : OBSCURITY] 07. Oncila - Far Out Feels [Manual] 08. Common Occupation - I Can't [Manual] 09. TOKUMORI - Puesta Del Sol [Deepwibe Digital] PART 2 – Technodreamer 01. The Cobb - Underwater Serinades (Not Demure Dub Remix) [-102°C] 02. Yonsh - Influence The Mind [Terasonic] 03. NOIYSE PROJECT - Memories Of The Mountain City [Till The Sunrise] 04. Ricardo Piedra - Cloudrider (K Loveski Remix) [Another Life] 05. Covsky & FRAIS, MNNET - Frozen In Time (Billion Watchers Remix) [Massive Harmony] 06. Gai Barone - Boca [Afterglow] 07. Poli Siufi - Haru (Fabri Lopez Remix) [Nube] 08. Claes Rosen - Make A Move (Lateral Shift Remix) [Spring Tube] SPR340 09. Second Sine - Occult [YOMO] PART 3 – John Gregory guestmix 01. John Gregory - Cosmos [Spring Tube] SPR339 02. Diego R - Seismic Disaster [Massive Harmony] 03. Oliver & Tom - Southern Lakes [onedotsixtwo] 04. Sebastian Busto - December (Zankee Gulati Remix) [onedotsixtwo] 05. Hot Tuneik - Circles Of You (Sebastian Sellares Remix) [Proton]

Opening theme by Logan Howard Zine Give-Away blog post 20. The Desert Moon of Karth, Joel Hines, 2021. [Discussed on Between Two Cairns.] Small moon sandbox for Mothership with a space-western feel. 21. Low Country Crawl, John Gregory, 2019. Southern Gothic (US) OSR goodness. 22. Mudwarren Alley, Jennifer "Moonpoison" & Evelyn Moreau, 2018. Collaborative OSR, copiously-illustrated dungeon. Fun, weird, and evocative. 23. Mothership (signed), Sean McCoy, 2018. Bought by me at Gen Con 2018 and signed by Sean on site. Popular horror-survival-SF RPG. This is the original zine edition. 24. Dead Planet, Fiona Maeve Geist, Donn Stroud, Sean McCoy, 2018. "A violent incursion into the land of the living for the MOTHERSHIP Sci-Fi Horror Roleplaying Game." 25. Cosmic Crawl, Evelyn Moreau, 2018. Lovecraftian astral goodness with EM's awesome illustrations. 26. Lighthouse at the End of the Universe, Ella Lim, 2021? Contemplative solo RPG about ... (the titel). 27. The Eternal Caverns of Urk (mini), Nate Treme, 2019. "A procedural science fantasy underground" with it's own system, Tunnel Goons. Caverns of Urk solo play 28. The Temple of the Blood Moth, Jacob Butcher, 2019. [Discussed on Between Two Cairns.] OSR goodness/weirdness. 29. Mutants of Ixx (trifolds), Karl Stjernberg, 2019? Gamma world style hack using Into the Odd mechanics. 30. Cairn, Yochai Gal, 2021? An original, new school revolution adventure game. Cairn Capsule Review BONUS: Apocalypse World PROTOTYPES - four pocket mods handed to me by Vincent Baker at his house after a night of playing 3:16 in the year of our Lord 2007. The origins of PbtA! Emotional Damage Epic Moment by Kirk Osamayo --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/plundergrounds/message

Welcome to “From Christmas Tree Farm to Stand,” Thinking Cap Theatre's Four-Part Podcast Series inspired by interviews and site visits with Christmas Tree Farmers around the state of Florida. In this episode Thinking Cap Theatre's Artistic Director Nicole Stodard, Ph.D., talks with Cathryn and John Gregory from Unicorn Hill Christmas Tree Farm in Gainesville Florida, a couple who has been in the tree farming business for 38 years. These interviews were used as primary research to create Thinking Cap Theatre's original holiday play with music, O CHRISTMAS TREE. The play centers on a South Florida family that starts a new tradition and visits a North Florida 'cut-and-choose' tree farm after the lights on their artificial tree dim. O CHRISTMAS TREE Co-written by Bree-Anna Obst and Nicole Stodard Friday, December 9th, 7:00PM (Opening) Wednesday, December 21st, 7:00PM (Closing) ***Special Talkback*** Following the Sunday, December 11th 1:00PM performance, TCT will host a talkback with distinguished panelist Dr. Dimitris Xygalatas, an anthropologist and cognitive scientist at University of Connecticut. He will discuss themes in the play and his latest book, Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living. ***Behind-the-Scenes Talkback***Following the Sunday, December 18th 1:00PM performance, the cast and creative team of O CHRISTMAS TREE will discuss the show's process and answer questions from the audience. Performance Schedule Wednesdays (December 14 & 21) at 7PM Fridays (December 9 & 16) at 7PM Saturdays (December 10, 17) at 7PM Sundays (December 11, 18) at 1PM and 5PM Ticket Prices $40 (Adults) $20 (17 and under) Ticket Link: http://thinkingcaptheatre.eventbrite.com TCT and MAD Arts Venue Information Theatre Company Website: http://thinkingcaptheatre.org Box Office Phone: 954-610-7263 Venue Address: Mad Arts, 481 S Federal Hwy, Dania Beach, FL 33004 Funding for this program was provided through a grant from Florida Humanities with funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this project do not necessarily represent those of Florida Humanities of the National Endowment of the Humanities. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinking-cap-theatre/support

Welcome to RETAIL IN AMERICA!This podcast is part of The RETAIL IN AMERICA tour, my year-long journey to discover incredible retail heroes all across the country, celebrating our retail culture, community, and careers. Go to retailpride.com or IG @retail pride to see it all, including past podcast episodes, playlists, and future cities on tour.Today I am LIVE from the Airstream in Malibu, California, with Misti Blasko, the President of North America for All Saints and John Varvatos, and John Gregory, the Global Retail category Development Officer for Spotify.Misti Blasko and I were introduced early last year through Kristen Conklin, who was guest number 1 on this podcast. She is a big fan of RETAIL PRIDE and wanted us to meet, and here we are!John Gregory and I also met in early 2021; he interviewed me for the internal teams at Spotify Advertising about how to speak to retail executives in the selling process. He was an early advocate of my mission for the Retail in America Tour, and Spotify Advertising is now a title sponsor of my tour.Please enjoy the conversation, it's a great one, and contact me directly here to nominate a retail hero for this podcast, host a retail networking or book signing event in your city, or say hello!The RETAIL IN AMERICA podcast team includes:Producer Roi PeretsAudio Engineer Dean AlbakCover Image shot by Duke WinnA huge thank you to the three title sponsors fueling the RETAIL IN AMERICA tour and this podcast. Spotify Advertising Spotify is the #1 podcast platform in the US and has grown to over 420M monthly unique registered users around the globe, over half of which are supported on the ad platform. Spotify advertising will help you reach and target your audience across devices, locations, and formats. YOOBIC Over 300 companies in 80 countries trust YOOBIC to drive their retail performance at scale, get real-time visibility into multi-location business execution, digitized task management, and more. KWI is the industry's only true turnkey omni-channel platform

Today on The Change Maker: John Gregory Vincent and Deb Fortin. John and Deb are the founders of The Submarine Way and Hosts of the “Surfacing Inclusive Leadership” podcast. They talk all about how perceptions of others colors our judgment, and how we can learn to avoid that. You can learn more about The Submarine Way at https://www.thesubmarineway.com/ To find more information on this show: https://www.augustapodcasts.com/thechangemaker

David Unsworth completed his £4 million move to Aston Villao n Thursday, July 23 1998. By the Saturday morning, Unsworth, now fully aware of the drudgery of an M6 commute, wanted to speak urgently to boss John Gregory at the training ground. “I think I've made an unbelievable mistake.”Here, we recall the bizarre story of David Unsworth's transfer u-turn.

In this episode, Kim talks with Ron Thurston – author of the book “Retail Pride” and host of the podcast “Retail in America” and John Gregory, Global Head of Industry for Retail at Spotify to talk about what it means to be a front-line worker in retail today and how that cohort can be tapped for deeper and more meaningful organizational innovation.   Connect with John Gregory, Global Retail Category Development Officer at Spotify Connect with Ron Thurston, Amazon #1 Best Selling Author of RETAIL PRIDE, host of the RETAIL IN AMERICA podcast, 2021/2022 RETHINK Retail 100 Most Influential People Connect with our hosts Jim Hertzfeld, Principal and Chief Strategist for Perficient, and Kim Williams-Czopek, Director of Digital Strategy at Perficient.

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A new bill with bipartisan support at the Colorado legislature would clarify the amount of money political nonprofits can spend on ballot measures before they must disclose their donors. The bill would make political nonprofits disclose donors only if more than 30% of their total spending over three years goes toward multiple ballot measures. Donors can also stay under wraps if support goes to only one ballot measure and that spending remains below 20% of the group's total expenditures over three years. Journalism Resident Margaret Fleming talks to data reporter Sandra Fish about these dark-money groups and the bill that cleared the state Senate, but lacks the support of the Secretary of State.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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The podcast returns with a new look, and new sound, and a new voice. John Gregory is joining the show as a co-host. So today, we get to know John a bit and set the stage for what's coming up in future episodes. Stay up to date with us through our mail list (sign up here) or our FB page @NMUJourney. To learn more about John, you can find and follow him here: https://www.facebook.com/john.gregory.965 https://johngregoryjr.com