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April is Parkinson's Awareness Month. While many of us may be aware of the disease because of actor Michael J. Fox's battle, we might not really know what it is, how you get it, etc. I spoke with John Lehr - the President and CEO of the Parkinson's FoundationAND, Tuesday, April 22nd is the 55th Anniversary of Earth Day. Kathleen Rogers, President of EARTHDAY.ORG, joined me to discuss how far the event has come and it's goals this year.
Katrina VanHuss, CEO Turnkey, interviews two CEOs who have successfully merged nonprofits to great advantage to their respective missions. Colon Cancer Alliance CEO Michael Sapienza successfully merged two nonprofits. John Lehr, CEO Parkinson Foundation, has merged nonprofits twice with success. These CEOs talk about the path, the pain, the purpose and the product of those mergers.Need somewhere to get immediate help from experienced peers, without judgment? Here you go.
@markasher32 talks with @carlavelstegui and John Lehr about caregiver's month then we talk with Michelle Bell from @PhxChildrens about charitable tax credit, then our crosstalk with @Mastering_Money #news #stocks #caregiving #parkinson's 3tax credit #charity #retire
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April 4, 2023 - John Lehr & Vikas Chinnan
Let me introduce you to John Lehr! He is an actor and writer, known for 10 Items or Less (2006), Quick Draw (2013) and The Sweetest Thing (2002). He is also known for being one of the GEICO Cavemen! Currently, he has a production company, Triple Threat Media, that is working on several projects--which were on hold because of the Writers' and Actors' Guild strikes. We talked about his time at Northwestern University and how he has grown as a person and as performer since then. He feels he is better now than he was in his 20's. John walked me through his sobriety journey. We talked about balancing family, career and passions and he had great things to say about Cleveland. This one is a must listen!
Turns out Flula celebrates 27 days of Christmas— and he expects the Roberts family to do the same. Resistance is FLU-tile! STARRING: Flula Borg, John Lehr, Julie Edwards, Henri Cash, Russell Horning, Kaleigh & Kaeden Fulton, Danny Bash & Jean-Pierre Livingston CREATED & PRODUCED BY: Flula Borg, Alex Hinton & Andy Wombwell WRITTEN BY: Jeffrey Gowins & Andy Wombwell DIRECTED BY: Andy Wombwell PRODUCED & EDITED BY: Jeffrey Gowins & Jordan Mills PRODUCED BY/ORIGINAL MUSIC BY: Aaron Steinberg ADDITIONAL MUSIC BY: Keith Eaddy SPECIAL THANKS: Santa
I've been a fan of "America's Test Kitchen" for years, so it was great to speak with Lisa McManus about the new ATK book AMERICA'S TEST KITCHEN'S KITCHEN GEAR: THE ULTIMATE OWNERS MANUAL.John Lehr is a member of our 5-Timers club and I'm always happy to welcome him back to talk about the great work being done at the Parkinson's Foundation.Lisa McManus is an executive editor for ATK Reviews, cohost of Gear Heads on YouTube, host of Cook's Illustrated's Equipment Review videos, and a cast member—the gadget expert—on TV's America's Test Kitchen. A passionate home cook, sometime waitress, and longtime journalist, she graduated from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and worked at magazines and newspapers in New York and California before returning like a homing pigeon to New England. In 2006 she got her dream job at ATK reviewing kitchen equipment and ingredients and has been pretty thrilled about it ever since. Her favorite thing is to go somewhere new and find something good to eat.John Lehr leads the Parkinson's Foundation as president & chief executive officer. He has nearly three decades of nonprofit fundraising and management experience, with a strong focus in the voluntary healthcare and medical research sectors.
John Lehr, President and CEO of the Parkinson's Foundation, and Gil Kim, Parkinson's advocate and caregiver, talk about National Caregiver Month. Get more information here.
John Lehr, President and CEO of the Parkinson's Foundation, and Gil Kim, Parkinson's advocate and caregiver, talk about National Caregiver Month. Get more information here.
Flula steps in quicksand and gets some sinking feelings. Could this be the end? Season finale! STARRING: Flula Borg, John Lehr, Julie Edwards, Henri Cash, Danny Bash & Jean-Pierre Livingston GUEST STARRING: Julia DeLuise & Tamara Garfield CREATED & PRODUCED BY: Flula Borg, Alex Hinton & Andy Wombwell WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Andy Wombwell PRODUCED & EDITED BY: Jeffrey Gowins & Jordan Mills PRODUCED BY/ORIGINAL MUSIC BY: Aaron Steinberg SPECIAL THANKS: Caroline Borolla, Jacob Cooper, Debbie Pressman, Land Romo, Alan Louis Skinner, Mark A Ward & Emily Wynne-Hughes
By Walt HickeyWelcome to the Numlock Sunday edition.This week, I spoke to Zach Weinersmith, who with his wife Kelly Weinersmith wrote the brand new book A City On Mars: Can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through?, which is out this week. I loved this book. I've been looking forward to it for years since they announced it, and I loved their previous book, Soonish. It's an in-depth look at what exactly it's going to take to get a permanent human settlement on another world. Zach and Kelly investigate not just the physics problem of getting people and material there, but also the long-term social, legal and biological issues inherent in this kind of venture. It's an amazing read, and it's available wherever books are sold. Beyond A City on Mars, Zach can be found at his iconic webcomic, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, and you should check out his other books, which include Soonish and Bea Wolf, his children's book adaptation of Beowulf.Remember, you can subscribe to the Numlock Podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. This interview has been condensed and edited. Zach, thank you so much for coming on.I'm excited to talk about space nerd stuff.Boy, are you. You have written a book called A City on Mars. You ask all sorts of really exciting questions throughout the book. It is not just a book about the physics of getting to Mars, which I think a lot of people fixate on. It is a book about sociology. It is a book about how communities work. It is a book about all sorts of different exciting things. Your research process was incredibly thorough. I guess just before we dive in, what was it like to write this thing? What was it like to report it out and dive into the science?Oh man, it was kind of awful. And you know what it was? I think when you do pop science, there's this fantasy you have of, "What if I got a topic and I was out ahead of other people and it was really controversial and awesome." And you'd think that would be romantic and be like a montage. But we were so anxious, because we felt like we were really going against a lot of strongly held views by smart people. And when you do that, you feel like you really have to know what you're talking about so that you can stand your own when they are going to come at you.And so the result of that, and our just general dorkwad-ery, was that there was just a ton of primary and technical source reading, which is awesome. Actually, it's like what I do in my free time, as a boring person. But when at some point I was reading a hundred-something pages a day of hard stuff and like you roll out of bed and you're like, "What? I have to read 50 pages of seabed international law to understand that!" It was brutal. I mean absolutely wonderful kitchen table conversations during this time, but it was tough.Yeah, a lot of it is very compelling because again, you've had some of the finest minds that our society's produced consider what it would take to get us into space and stay there. And that I imagine has got to be a lot of fun. But then you also, you really consider all sides of this, man. You've got sociology, but you just mentioned you have the law.There's a lot of legal precedent when it comes to these interesting spaces that are not owned land but nevertheless are important. Do you want to walk people through the structure of the book and what angles you take and how you dive in?So we ended up artificially separating it into six sections, which hopefully I can actually remember, because we fussed a lot with the structure; this is a book that, as you say, goes from lots of angles. There were lots of options for how to structure it and we actually originally had it as we'll go through orders of magnitude from one person to 10 people, then 100 people. And it just turns out, I learned that sociologists don't believe there are actual meaningful, emergent obvious things different between a hundred and a thousand people where you can be like, "Okay, here's what happens now."We ended up instead saying, "We're going to start off with what it does to your body." So that's like sex and reproduction, that's physiology, what space does to your body, and then also psychiatry stuff which was nontrivial. Then we move on to the place you might actually put that body. Ideal spaces are probably the moon or Mars, and especially Mars is probably best, which we could get into.Then we move to how you might keep that body in that place from dying. That is to say, habitat construction. How do you build a facility in one of these places? Where might you go and what are the future goals there and the problems you need to solve. But mostly having to do with energy and shielding and also making food and oxygen and consumables.And then at that point, we dive into the law and sociology. So then we go to a brief rundown on the "cynical history," we call it, of outer space. And the basic point of that is to position you to understand that human spacefaring is almost always purely political. It's about making declarations as a superpower and showing up other countries.That prepares you to think about how the space law as we have it is. So we go into how the law actually works, which a lot of geeks think doesn't matter, they don't think international law exists, but it does. We know it constrains the behavior of countries and people. From there we get into some sociological questions. We'll talk about this a little more later; the sociology was at one point quite extensive, and the editor was like, "You just can't do this to readers. This is just too much," so we cut it down to looking at company towns as a potential model, and a couple other things.Then we close out with some questions having to do with the future, in the sense of what numbers are we talking about to avoid too much inbreeding, to have economic autarchy — that is to say, being able to survive the death of Earth.Then finally what would happen in the case of space war and how to think about the idea of space war. Yeah, so we're really trying for every angle. I could tell you, we did still leave out stuff. There was stuff we had to cut, but we tried to be as thorough as possible.I'm so glad that you brought up the "cynical history of space," because I thought that that was just such a very thorough look. Space is one of the most romanticized things. I think that's one reason that again, this topic is so compelling, is that we just have so many stories that we tell each other about space and its role and there's a fundamental yearning to it. There's a fundamental ambition to it. You could tell a lot of stories set in space, and we have.Whereas the cynical history of space was really just bringing things down to as brass tacks as possible. It was turning this romance into the physics and politics that it truly is, and I really appreciated it. Do you want to dive in a little bit on that, a brief cynical history of space?Yeah, I'd love to. So it's funny. There's a power law, I can say this for your audience. There's a power law for what space stuff is about. So it's like 90 percent of all space books are about Apollo 11, in particular, where we landed on the moon. And then 90 percent of what's left is either Apollo 8, where we first went around the moon, or Apollo 13, where everything went wrong and there was a movie about it. And then down from that, it's everything else.There's a subgenre in all this that is the political history. There are only a couple books about this, and they're mostly more scholarly because I guess regular people just don't want to read about the sort of geopolitical theory about why countries do this sort of thing. What's funny is that in those fields, and people who study the law and history, if you said, "Hey, Kennedy went to space as a purely political act," it would be like saying, "I know how to tie my shoes." It's just the most obvious thing in the world.But if you say that to a space geek, it's like you're poking something beautiful. But we have the evidence! I mean you never know what's in a person's heart, but we know, there's evidence that after Sputnik Kennedy thought space was stupid. We really only did that big speech to Congress, which sometimes gets conflated with the one at Rice. He only did his big speech to Congress basically saying, "Give me a huge pile of money," after Bay of Pigs.And then very shortly after, Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space and he was of course, a Soviet. So Kennedy looked like garbage and he knew it, and he was a smart PR operator. So we have private transcripts of stuff he said basically saying, "There's no reason to do this." He uses the phrase, "I'm not that into space." He just says it very explicitly, "We need to show them that we won." And that's it.And his own science advisor, I don't think we put this in the book, but my recollection is, Jerome Wiesner, his science advisor, refused to go along with the idea that this was about science. He was not cool with it. So there's just very robust evidence that this was politics all the way down on both the American and the Soviet side. That unfortunately the great mass of the public around the world overestimates the importance of rocketry to the dominance of nations and their technological capacity. Whereas, I think you could easily argue that the U.S. was ahead the whole time in everything that mattered, but people are just beguiled by rocket technology.Again, part of this is some stuff that I've read, but it seems like a lot of people's mentality about space is derived from Disneyland and a lot of sci-fi aesthetic stuff.Yeah, it's that. I have an older brother as a poli-sci professor and he said when he gets students and he says, "Who's the best president ever?" They still to this day often say, "Kennedy." And when you ask them why, they cite a speech or something, which is not afforded to any other president! Any other president, it's like, what did they do? But with Kennedy for some reason — probably because he was assassinated while young and handsome, and there's this sort of legend about it — people are like, "Well..." Here's the history of space: Kennedy said, "We go to space because we're amazing and we need new frontiers." And so we went and that's it. And you want to come in and say it was about politics, how dare you.Readers might recognize you from your book Soonish. A City on Mars you wrote with your wife, Kelly, as you did with Soonish. One carryover from Soonish that I really dig in this book is that you kept the Nota Benes, which are chances to dive in on perhaps things that are a little offbeat, but fun elements. I really love all of them.The one that I really enjoyed the most that felt very relevant to the next step of this conversation is Antarctica and violence around it. We have a place that is very inhospitable to human life that we send people to occasionally, where sometimes people do crimes, and it is called Antarctica. And that is the best indication of what might be the situation in space.So there's a little bit of a nuance to this. Sometimes when people work in space psychiatry, space psychology, they'll say one of the things that's important is, "Did you know one time a guy got stabbed in Antarctica for spoiling novels?" And then there's another famous story where, as the story goes, there were two Russians at Vostok station having a chess match and one killed the other or attacked him with an axe or something. So they banned chess.And so both of those stories, actually, they're not really true. They got passed around the internet all day and all night. I think the one about the chess thing is just not true. Or at least, we couldn't find evidence. We talked to a guy who had been at Vostok station for a long time, he's a Russian guy. And he was like, "I'd never heard of this or about the chess ban." And it also just utterly smacks of Russian stereotyping.A hundred percent, yeah.Right. There's no dancing bear or whatever, but it's pretty close. The story about the spoiling novels, the novel thing was just a weird detail it was fixated on. It was more like the guy was just hazing him and bullying him for a long time and finally went too far and the other guy stabbed him. And it's sort of a bit more of a conventional stabbing story.Our perspective, and there's reasonably robust data on this, is actually that in Antarctica where it is dark and cramped and awful and somewhat space-like, you actually don't get a higher rate of psychiatric problems. Maybe even there's some evidence it's lower. That's probably to do with the fact that people are screened before they come and they're probably somewhat self-selected.But that doesn't mean you get to just be like, "Don't worry about it." Right? Because it has been the case in Antarctica that we've had to handle murders. There have actually been murders. There's one that's well-documented where a guy accidentally shot another guy during an altercation having to do with raisin wine. Which, I hadn't by the way heard about raisin wine, but it's I guess a sort of low-quality homemade wine.It'll bring a new meaning to the phrase “moonshine” if we pull that off in space.This is a whole funny thing that we would joke about, and we talk about making food in space. We found a quote by Andy Weir of The Martian who wrote the foreword to a book called Alcohol in Space, which is actually a quite wonderful book, what you would think. And he says, "Mark Watney, the star of The Martian, would not have made vodka because why would you waste all those potatoes?"But we actually, if you look into the history of biosphere, the place where people stayed for two years in confinement to see if you could do this? They were starving, and they still made alcohol. I love that story. It's like they're literally losing 10 percent body mass, but they still made the worst quality wine out of bananas or raisins. Humans are a problem.Is that the case for a lot of this? Humans are the problem with space travel?I think the way I would say it is, humans are the problem, but in that they're humans. Because people tend to think like, "Oh, you'll go mad in space." Or whatever. And there's just no evidence of that extreme thing. It is just that they're going to be humans. So on Earth, when you're a human, you expect all sorts of basic services. Some humans, from time to time, have acute psychiatric problems or whatever, and they need to be taken care of. And this is just usually not imagined when people talk about sending a thousand people to Mars.Let's talk about where to, right? You have an entire chapter where you talk about Mars, you talk about the moon, you talk about a rotating space station, which is not the worst option. Then you talk about some other options, too. Why don't you walk us through, give us a little tour of the buffet here and where you come down as the angle?The deal is, the solar system is really, really big. Space is really, really big. But the places you might maybe sort of survive on are eeny, weeny weeny.Mercury is basically a nonstarter. It's way too hot and it's actually fairly hard to get to because you have to drop toward the sun and then carefully get into orbit.Then you've got Venus, which is incredibly hot, high pressure, and has sulfuric acid clouds. There are weirdly a couple people who still think it would be good. Their argument is, and this is true, it's a very thick atmosphere, so you should almost think of it as something like a fluid. There's a place in the atmosphere that does have Earth-like temperature and pressure and carbon dioxide. When you're in this mode of like, "Well, does it literally have the elements of existence and maybe sounds compelling?" I think it's crazy, but it does have its people.Then you have Mars, which is the place. Basically, it has Earth-like elemental composition. It has an atmosphere, although it's quite thin. But it's an atmosphere with carbon dioxide, and carbon and oxygen are both nice things to have.Then beyond that, of course, there's Earth and there's Earth's moon. The moon is great, but it's very low in water, it's carbon-poor, and humans are made of carbon as there are things we like to eat. So the moon is good as a place to launch from, but not for building a permanent settlement unless you're really going to ameliorate it.Then beyond that, you've got the asteroid belt. A lot of people think it'd be great to live in asteroids, but actually asteroids are typically rubble piles. They're dusty rocks that are kind of drawn together. They're actually quite distant from each other. It's not like in Star Wars where you're dodging big potatoes, and you actually usually can't see one from another. They're quite sparse and beyond that—Wow.It's extremely sparse. Then going further out, you just have the gas giants where there's not even a surface to land on, and the icy planets. And then there are a couple moons, there have been here and there proposals for landing on Titan, but you're talking about extraordinary distance and all sorts of other problems.So really, it's the moon or Mars, which have a combined surface area smaller than Earth, and they're both just awful. The reason we say the moon is cool is because it's always the same distance, and the distance is not too far. It's about two days by rocket, but there's almost no water on it, contrary to what you might've heard in articles in Bloomberg about this trans-lunar economy we're supposedly going to build. The surface is made of this really nasty stuff called regolith that probably damages equipment, and may cause health problems.The main appeal of Mars is basically that it has Earth-like days, it has access to water, and it has some atmosphere. So all the stuff is there to not die, which is really not true anywhere else.So it's the best option that we've got. But it doesn't sound like it's necessarily a great option.No, and it's also, unless some exotic technology comes along, it's six months in, about a year stay, six months back. There's a long period where you're there and you cannot go home because Earth has raced ahead of you around the sun.Oh wow. There are a lot of fascinating problems that present themselves. And again, one thing that I love about your and Kelly's work is that you really just talk to a lot of really smart people. You do a lot of the in-depth research.One thing I have to ask you about is that you actually published an article in space policy: To Each According to Their Space-Need: Communes in Outer Space. I just love that this is the depth to which you did it, where you did get a scientific paper out of this one, too.We did! Yeah. And I should say that that scientific paper had many more jokes and illustrations in it when it was in the book. It was originally a chapter.We worked with two other guys. One was Ran Abramitzky, who's a big deal sociologist, who is the kibbutz and commune studies guy, and then John Lehr, who's the absolute expert on how to write communes. We did this paper together. The reason it got cut from an earlier version of this book is, we were like, "Let's look at tons of sociological models." All that's left from that is company towns. The basic feeling from our editor, which I think was correct, was, "Each one of these models is starting your audience over in a completely new topic. It's just too much to ask for a pop science audience."But communes are really interesting. People often want to talk about stuff in space society, but usually you can't do science on it. So you can't be like, how should we form society? That's hard. But if you start with, well, what if it is a company town, then you can say stuff, because we know stuff about that structure.One structure — and a lot of this is due to Ran Abramitzky — we know a lot about is communes. He did this book called The Mystery of the Kibbutz, and the mystery is how did you actually get humans to behave communally for about a hundred years? He actually does a standard, delightful neoclassical economic analysis of how they manage human incentive structures to get people to behave in a basically communal way.What's absolutely fascinating is when you look throughout history going back hundreds of years throughout communes, they converge on the exact same sets of problems and the exact same sets of solutions. Hutterites, who are this very— certainly by my standards — very sort of patriarchal, old world Anabaptist religion, they will shun you and shame you if you fail to do certain communal things.But if you go to the surviving hippie communes? Amazingly, they do the exact same stuff. They do it in a hippie way, but they still do it. And so it's just astonishing. So if you say, "Oh, space is going to be like a commune," you can really do some cool stuff. I mean, I don't know if it will be, but you can at least say we can do some deep analysis and we can read primary literature. It's just really cool.It is cool because again, finding experiments is hard because everything that would involve an experiment here is either drastically immoral or extremely expensive. It is cool that for company towns, there's a huge economic record of that. You have an amazing chapter in the book about that. And I dig this article because it's just cool how much terrestrially really we do have to work with here.It's amazing. One of my absolute favorite things. For a numbers audience like yours, this is really cool. A lot of people are into space stuff. Would it be better to have a religious community, because they're going to need to be sort of cohesive? It's set in a hand-wavy way, but you can actually compare secular versus religious kibbutzim. You actually find that the religious ones have a measurable – like quantifiable with shekels, like with money – difference in retention ability.You can actually kind put a number on religion as a retention, at least in this context. I don't know, maybe Anabaptists are better than Jews at retaining people, or maybe worse. But it's amazing and it's not trivial, but it's also not huge. It's not like an order of magnitude, but it is a real difference. People are more willing to stay. This is less true for Jews, but in Anabaptism, like if you leave the commune, you go to hell in Hutterite Anabaptism. So that's probably quite motivating. But yeah, just amazing that you can put a number on something like that.I mean that's the thing, man; if you leave the commune on Mars, you do go to Mars.That's right. You die. You do die very quickly. Yeah, but that's interesting because that adds to the analysis, because a classic commune problem is when people can get opportunity elsewhere, they do. But if you die, if you go outside, that's probably different.I would be in total violation of all journalistic principles if I did not ask you about the possibility of space war. What did you find on this matter?We try really hard not to be too speculative. The way we did it is, we talked about short-term, medium, long-term, right? Short-term, people talk about space war. It probably won't happen, basically because there's no reason to do it. Without getting too in-depth, there is some cool analysis about space weapons you can look up. Space weapons sound awesome and they are awesome. I will say, guiltily, there are some zany designs from the Reagan era for these pumped X-ray lasers that were going to blast the Soviets. Crazy s**t.I'm a simple guy. If you call it a "Rod from God," you have my attention.Totally. But the basic problem: All of us already have nuclear weapons. Insanely, if Russia decided they wanted to nuke Washington, I don't know, we do have defenses and stuff. But do they get the advantage from setting the nuke in the space before firing it? I think the answer is probably no. It does get there faster, but it's also totally exposed while it's up there. It's probably in low Earth orbit. It's constantly pissing off everyone on Earth while it's up there. And at the end of the day it saves you some number of minutes. It might be as much as 20 or 30 minutes. I'd have to look at it. But we're talking about just a slightly accelerated doomsday situation. There's only a really narrow set of circumstances for you to actually want this stuff, and it's really expensive and hard to maintain.So short-term, probably not going to happen.For space settlements, a space settlement would probably never want to make war on another space settlement or on Earth because it would be so easy to destroy. I mean, you're talking about survival bubbles in the doom void. One EMP and it's toast; one big hole and you all die. It's just, you're so vulnerable and also so dependent on Earth, it's unlikely. So in a Heinlein scenario where the moon is like, "We're going to mess you up,” it's like, "No." All Earth would have to do is hover some nukes over your base and blast the electric system and you're gone.So the more interesting question we got into, I thought, was we talk about this as a long-term issue.On Earth, there are different theories on this, but there's this question of, why don't we use gas weapons typically? Why don't we use bio weapons typically? And there are sort of cultural theories, but maybe we just decided not to. It depends on how cynical you want to be about humans, whether you believe that or not.But part of why we don't use these weapons is that they're unpredictable. So there are like these horrific cases from World War I where people try gas weapons, and the wind blows, then it just goes right back at them. Of course, with bio stuff, it's even more obvious how that could go wrong. It's also true, by the way, that part of why we don't test nukes anymore is because we started finding radioactive byproducts in babies' teeth, which is pretty motivating for most humans.But if you're down two separate gravity wells? If it's Mars versus Earth? You can drop this stuff and there is no risk of blowback.So the only reason we bring that up is basically because a lot of space geeks say, "We need to colonize Mars to reduce existential risk." But we don't know that the equation adds up to a reduced risk! There are many ways it could add up to increased risk.When we're not sharing the same atmosphere all of a sudden things go back on the table.Right. Yeah, exactly.The book is called A City on Mars: Can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through? It is great. I really loved your book Soonish and when you announced it, I was really, really intrigued that this was your follow-up to Soonish. Because Soonish is all about technologies that are just on the horizon. And when you announced this, I was like, "Well, clearly there was something left over in the reporter's notebook going into that."Exactly.And so I guess I'll just ask, what was it like moving on to this next topic and how soon-ish would you say this stuff is?Oh, man. Well, I would say I have set back my timeline a little, having researched it.I mean, part of why we got into this in the first place is we did think it was coming relatively soon, and was awesome. And it was surprising the extent to which advocates were not dealing with the details. So the project ended up becoming like, we're going to actually get into the primary literature about all these questions.My view is, I doubt we have a settlement, meaning people are having children and families on Mars; certainly not in my lifetime. What I would add is that it's almost certainly undesirable for it to happen that quickly because not enough of the science is in. It would be morally quite dubious to try to have children in these places with the lack of science we have.But to be slightly uplifting, I have two directions on it. One uplifting direction would be, well, you never know. Maybe AI's going to take all our jobs in two weeks and we'll just tell it to take us to Mars and we'll be fine. I don't know. I mean there's some world in which 30 years from now there are fusion drives and advanced robotics and everything I'm saying sounds quaint. And then maybe it does happen.The other thing to say, though, is a lot of the stuff we need to do to make this possible and safe is stuff that would be nice to do anyway. So without getting into it, it would be nice to have a legal framework on Earth where war wasn't a serious possibility, or a thing that's currently happening in many places at once. Because in space, there's lots of stuff going fast. And if you get a world where there are millions and millions of tons of spacecraft going at high speeds, that's a dangerous world with our current geopolitics. So we need to solve that if it can be solved.Yeah. I loved how much of the book wasn't just the physics. It was really exciting to see that it's not just can we or how would we, it's should we and what will happen?Yeah, the law to me, I mean we really tried to add some sugar to it because everybody does not want to read international law. We have all these great stories. There's this story about the times like Nazis showed up in Antarctica to heil a penguin. They actually heiled a penguin. I love this story.Oh no.Yeah, yeah, yeah. The penguin apparently was not impressed, but—Rock on, penguin.It's a funny story, but it matters so much. I think a lot of people are reluctant to get into it. But for me, gosh, it's amazing. Most of the planet Earth is regulated under commons established in the middle of the 20th century. The whole world changed in a 30-year period under these new international law frameworks. And it's like nobody cares or knows. I want a T-shirt that says, "THE RULES-BASED INTERNATIONAL ORDER IS NOT PERFECT BUT IT'S PRETTY GOOD." And you really come to appreciate it. I hope people get that reading our book.Amazing. Zach, you write Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, one of my favorite things. You've been at it for so long, and it's such an admirable project. You've written the book Soonish, which if people have not already gotten, they should get. The new book is A City on Mars by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith. I could not love it any more. Where can folks find the book?They can find it at fine bookstores everywhere. Or if you go to acityonmars.com, there are a bunch of purchasing options listed.All right, thanks for coming on.Yeah, thanks for having me. 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Flula's home baking business is blowing up! Boom! But is it also making the entire town sick with salmonella? Meanwhile, Cameron uses his college fund to buy an NFT. STARRING: Flula Borg. John Lehr, Julie Edwards, Henri Cash & Russell Horning SPECIAL GUEST STAR: David DeLuise CREATED & PRODUCED BY: Flula Borg, Alex Hinton & Andy Wombwell WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Andy Wombwell PRODUCED & EDITED BY: Jeffrey Gowins, Jordan Mills & Aaron Steinberg SPECIAL THANKS: Jacob Cooper, Land Romo, Alan Skinner, Mark A Ward & Emily Wynne-Hughes
When Mitch loses his job, Flula convinces the family to take a road trip to the Grand Canyon. Q: What could go wrong? A: Everything! STARRING: Flula Borg. John Lehr, Julie Edwards, Henri Cash & Russell Horning CREATED & PRODUCED BY: Flula Borg, Alex Hinton & Andy Wombwell WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Andy Wombwell PRODUCED & EDITED BY: Jeffrey Gowins & Jordan Mills PRODUCED BY/ORIGINAL MUSIC BY: Aaron Steinberg SPECIAL THANKS: Caroline Borolla, Jacob Cooper, Debbie Pressman, Land Romo, Alan Skinner, Mark A Ward & Emily Wynne-Hughes
”When Flula's famous drag star friend Alaska secretly records her new album at the Roberts house, Cam and Lance get a little too excited and spill the beans to their entire school. STARRING: Flula Borg. John Lehr, Julie Edwards, Henri Cash & Russell Horning. Special guest star: Alaska Thunderfuck CREATED & PRODUCED BY: Flula Borg, Alex Hinton & Andy Wombwell WRITTEN BY: Flula Borg & Andy Wombwell DIRECTED BY: Andy Wombwell PRODUCED & EDITED BY: Jeffrey Gowins, Jordan Mills & Aaron Steinberg SPECIAL THANKS: Debbie Pressman, Land Romo & Emily Wynne-Hughes
Mitch takes it badly when Haley says her first word, and it isn't "mama" or “dada” -- it's "Fwu-wah." Meanwhile, Flula decides it's up to him to give Cam "The Talk." STARRING: Flula Borg. John Lehr, Julie Edwards, Henri Cash & Russell Horning CREATED & PRODUCED BY: Flula Borg, Alex Hinton & Andy Wombwell WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Andy Wombwell PRODUCED & EDITED BY: Jeffrey Gowins, Jordan Mills PRODUCED BY/ORIGINAL MUSIC BY: Aaron Steinberg SPECIAL THANKS: Jacob Cooper, Debbie Pressman, Land Romo, Alan Skinner, Mark A Ward & Emily Wynne-Hughes
Confusion of Shakespearean proportions ensues when Flula secretly agrees to bird sit for Long Paul's pet parrot, Catnip. STARRING: Flula Borg. John Lehr, Julie Edwards, Henri Cash & Russell Horning. Guest star: Emmaline Skillicorn CREATED & PRODUCED BY: Flula Borg, Alex Hinton & Andy Wombwell WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Andy WombwellPRODUCED & EDITED BY: Jeffrey Gowins, Jordan Mills PRODUCED BY/ORIGINAL MUSIC BY: Aaron Steinberg SPECIAL THANKS: Jacob Cooper, Debbie Pressman, Land Romo, Alan Skinner, Mark A Ward & Emily Wynne-Hughes
A new social media app makes power in-FLULA-lancers out of Flula and Cameron, and Mitch and Kelly do not “Like” it. Meanwhile, Lance appoints himself to be Cam's manager. STARRING: Flula Borg. John Lehr, Julie Edwards, Henri Cash & Russell Horning CREATED & PRODUCED BY: Flula Borg, Alex Hinton & Andy Wombwell WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Andy Wombwell PRODUCED & EDITED BY: Jeffrey Gowins, Jordan Mills PRODUCED BY/ORIGINAL MUSIC BY: Aaron Steinberg SPECIAL THANKS: Jacob Cooper, Debbie Pressman, Land Romo, Alan Skinner, Mark A Ward & Emily Wynne-Hughes
The Roberts family move into their new dream house unaware that German techno DJ Flula Benker holds an ironclad hundred year lease to their basement -- and to the bottom shelf of their refrigerator.STARRING: Flula Borg. John Lehr, Julie Edwards, Henri Cash & Russell Horning. Special guest star: Lauren Lapkus as Janet.CREATED, WRITTEN & PRODUCED BY: Flula Borg, Alex Hinton & Andy WombwellDIRECTED BY: Andy WombwellPRODUCED & EDITED BY: Jeffrey Gowins, Jordan Mills & Aaron SteinbergSPECIAL THANKS: Jacob Cooper, Debbie Pressman, Land Romo, Alan Skinner & Emily Wynne-Hughes
Coming Fluesdays starting September 19: Flula Makes Five! The Roberts Family just moved into their new dream house — Too bad no one told them it comes with a German techno DJ! Flula Borg stars as DJ Flula Benker. Subscribe and enjoy! Also starring John Lehr, Julie Edwards, Henri Cash & Russell Horning, and many Special Guests also! Created/Written/Produced by Flula Borg, Alex Hinton & Andy Wombwell Note from Flula -- Dew to my cousin Heinz, who did forget to remove the Lens Caps for this whole show entire, our Television Situation Comedy is now a Podcast Situation Comedy. Heinz you are still invite to Family Dinners, but you must now sit outside next to Frödi and Dödi (my Mamas two Dachshunds). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Fresh off a 6 city comedy tour, Ryan sits down with the multi-talented John Lehr. You might recognize John as one of the original Geico Cavemen, or from his numerous TV show appearances, including the legendary "Friends." But John is more than an actor - he's a seasoned monologist and comedian who isn't afraid to talk openly about his over twenty years of sobriety on his "Cold. Sober. Comedy." tour. In their conversation, Ryan picks John's brain on the Hollywood writers strike and what it means to creativity. They also dive into a concept Ryan calls "body jumping" and explore the art of observing ourselves in those moments when fear creeps in. Finally, they delve into the intriguing concept that sometimes the most challenging experiences can unexpectedly become our greatest blessings, as John unveils his awe-inspiring tale of rebirth following his courageous path to sobriety.
Apologies for the radio silence. I got busy with work and this little side project took the back seat. Here's a taste from the vault to keep you engaged! John Lehr is an improvisational actor and comedian out of the Chicago Improv scene who has created and starred in a number of TV shows including "Quick Draw" and "10 Items or Less." Here he talks about his unlikely path to sobriety. He's funny. You can support this podcast at my Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/thedrunkalogues
Tom Clavin is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and has worked as a newspaper editor, magazine writer, TV and radio commentator, and a reporter for The New York Times. He has received awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, Marine Corps Heritage Foundation, and National Newspaper Association. His books include the bestselling Frontier Lawmen trilogy—Wild Bill, Dodge City, and Tombstone—and Blood and Treasure and The Last Hill with Bob Drury. https://www.tomclavin.com/BOOK discussed in episode: Follow Me to Hell: McNelly's Texas Rangers and the Rise of Frontier JusticeDr. Jan Yager is a sociologist, freelance writer, coach, speaker, artist, and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. She also teaches at Baruch College and William Paterson University. Her 50+ award-winning books, translated into 35 languages, include the international hit relationship title, When Friendship Hurts: How to Deal With Friends Who Betray, Abandon and many more. https://www.drjanyager.com/BOOK discussed in episode: HOW TO PROMOTE YOUR BOOK: A Practical Guide to Publicizing your Own TitleJohn L. Lehr is the President and CEO of the non-profit Parkinson's Foundation, and Veera Rastogi, primary caregiver for her late parents who both had Parkinson's. Each November, the Parkinson's Foundation recognizes National Family Caregivers Month. Additionally, the Foundation provides dedicated articles at https://www.parkinson.org/This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/3240061/advertisement
April 4, 2023 - John Lehr & Vikas Chinnan
Listen to John Lehr discuss creating ‘10 Items or Less' and ‘Quick Draw' and how improv allows the actors to play on set. He also discusses his journey on Friends (have you heard of it?) and bonding with the actors in a secret club in LA. Final fun fact, you may not recognize him, but John is one of the original Geico Cavemen! ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ John Lehr ⌲ IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0499856/ ⌲ IG: https://www.instagram.com/johnclehr/?hl=en ⌲ Website: https://johnlehr.com/ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ The Moving Spotlight Podcast ⌲ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-moving-spotlight/id1597207264 ⌲ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7cjqYAWSFXz2hgCHiAjy27 ⌲ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/themovingspotlight ⌲ ALL: https://linktr.ee/themovingspotlight ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ #Geico #Caveman #GeicoCaveman #Friends #Northwestern #10ItemsOrLess #QuickDraw #Hulu #DavidSchwimmer #Improv #HotSeat #SlotnickKatzAndLehr #Emmys #TVTime #iTunes #Actor #ActorsLife #Believe #Success #Inspiration #Netflix #Hulu #Amazon #HBO #AppleTV #Showtime #Acting #Artist #Theatre #Film #YourBestBadActing #Content #CorbinCoyle #JohnRuby #RealFIREacting #TMS_Pod --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-moving-spotlight/support
The Creator and Star of hit series Quickdraw and 10 Items or Less gets real with us, talking about the Video Duplication Day Job, and also the Assistant Situation, and then we'll get into some Rock Band Chauffeur Shenanigans. Welcome to the Season 7 Premiere of Make That Paper! Follow John on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for more info! -- Follow the show on... Instagram: www.instagram.com/make_that_paper_podcast/ Facebook: www.facebook.com/makethatpaperpodcast/ Twitter: twitter.com/makethatpaperpc/ Follow Jaime on... Instagram: www.instagram.com/jaimeparkerstickle/ Twitter: twitter.com/JaimeStickle Follow Jason on... Instagram: www.instagram.com/jjbeebstagram/ Twitter: twitter.com/jasonjackbeeber --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/makethatpaperpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/makethatpaperpodcast/support
Overcoming substance abuse, becoming the caveman in the Geico commercial, and creating a successful producing and writing career with John Lehr Lehr starred as Leslie Pool in “10 Items or Less,” from Sony on TBS for three seasons and recently starred as Sheriff Hoyle on Hulu's original comedy western “Quickdraw” for two seasons. Lehr also co-created, wrote and executive produced both series. Lehr is one of the original Geico Cavemen from the wildly successful commercial campaign. He appeared in dozens of spots, including the first commercial as a caveman boom operator, the caveman in therapy with Talia Shire, the tennis spot with Billy Jean King, Superbowl spots with Phil Simms and many more. Under their banner Howler Monkey Productions, Lehr and producing partner Nancy Hower have created multiple projects, most involving their unique improvisationally-based “hybrid” style found in “QuickDraw” (Hulu) “10 Items” (TBS) “Jailbait (Crackle) and “Memron” (Slamdance award-winner). With Lehr starring and Howler directing, the team completed comedy pilots “Let It Ride,” (Comedy Central), “Retreat!” (NBC), “Team McPhearson (Fox) and “King of Beers” (EUE/Sokolow). The team's script/development deals include “The Loop” (HBO), “Troubadour” (MTV), “Life on Mars” (Sony/BBC), and “LARP” (Echo Lake), Tommy Chong's Pipe Dreams (TBS). Lehr is one of the original Geico Cavemen from the wildly successful commercial campaign. He appeared in dozens of spots, including the first commercial as a caveman boom operator, the caveman in therapy with Talia Shire, the tennis spot with Billy Jean King, Superbowl spots with Phil Simms and many more. John has appeared in numerous television series, including “Friends” and was a series regular on “Jesse,” both for Warner Brothers/NBC. His feature film roles include “The Sweetest Thing,” and three Noah Baumbach films, “Kicking and Screaming,” “Mr. Jealousy,” and “Highball.” John's hosting credits include “News Weasels” for E!; “I'm a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!” for ABC; CBS' special “Clash of the Commercials” with co-host Heidi Klum; and “John Lehr's Movie Club” for TBS. A recovering alcoholic and drug addict, Lehr is a seasoned monologist and comedian who speaks openly about his twenty plus years of sobriety. Under the banner “Cold. Sober. Comedy.” Lehr performs and MC's at fundraisers, non-profits and sober communities about his personal/career struggles, his continuing sober journey and the importance of an authentic sense of humor. Lehr recently debuted his newest monologue “Wait, I Have to Give a Crap About Other People?” at the Annual Sober St. Paddy's Day Comedy Night for the Atlanta Caron Treatment Center.” Lehr's critically acclaimed “Comedic Lectures” solo performances have had sold out runs in LA and New York. He is also a respected improvisational performer having worked at the Organic Theater and Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago, the Montreal Comedy Festival, Chicago Improvisational Festival and multiple venues in Los Angeles and New York. Lehr regularly performs stand-up comedy and MC/Hosts events around the country. John is married to author Jennifer Lehr with whom he has two children. The Lehrs reside in Los Angeles.
On this episode, we talked about: How Jay and John started their own play Freedom vs. security How liberal are you really? Being kind to each other Fire or fly instinct Acting in the moment Knowing your true nature Dropping ego to solve problems Making things right with people How to deal with conflict Giving yourself excuses to apologize The "scrotum talk" It's hard to be a man in this society What it means to be a man Breaking down who you are Embracing your femininity Evolving from who we are "No matter how successful you are, when you're dealing with art, you have to make it, every piece of art is handmade" "Once your mind is flooded, there's nothing you can do at that moment, it is very difficult, so you have to act prior to that" "You don't know someone, man or woman if you don't work with them in a really high-pressure situation" About John and Jay: Jay Martel is an Emmy®, Peabody®, WGA, and American Comedy Award winner for his work writing and producing TV and film and is a regular contributor to The New Yorker. He has served as showrunner for acclaimed shows including Alternatino with Arturo Castro, Teachers, and Key & Peele. John Lehr is the star and creator of multiple TV series and is most widely known as one of the original Geico cavemen. His story-based comedy has appeared in LA, NYC Off-Broadway, Montreal Comedy Festival and in clubs across the U.S. He is also a seasoned host, Master of Ceremony, Toastmaster, and guest lecturer/teacher. Together, they have been performing their 2-man, 1-hour pop-up play SPEED BUMP, an immersive theatrical experience, in people's backyards over the past year. These two really give a voice [of hilarity] to emotions, personal, and social issues that we don't always expect to hear men share “out loud.” You can follow and support John and Jay at: www.jaymartel.com www.johnlehr.com Linktr.ee/SpeedBumpThePlay Let's connect over on Instagram: @Johnny.Elsasser
It's estimated that Parkinson's disease affects 1 million Americans. Ninety-six percent are diagnosed after age 50, and the incidence of disease increases with age. Since April is Parkinson's Awareness Month, Senior Services Expert Lori Williams welcomes the CEO of the Parkinson's Foundation, John Lehr.John discusses:- What Parkinson's disease is + the symptoms- The potential causes- Treatment plans and the importance of a care partner- Important resources for those with Parkinson'sJohn draws from the wealth of knowledge from the Parkinson's Foundation for a comprehensive, compassionate look at the disease. He echoes the purpose of the foundation: educating people with Parkinson's as well as their care partners / families on what they can expect, and how to live as well as they possibly can.Takeaways from this episode:- Early symptoms of Parkinson's affect movement, but other body systems are affected: cognition, mental health, GI, sleep, senses, and more. Everyone is impacted differently.- Parkinson's disease has unknown causes, but there's a genetic and potential environmental component (such as exposure to napalm in the Vietnam War).- Treatments for Parkinson's include deep brain stimulation, dopamine replacement therapy, exercise, and trying new things to keep the brain active and create new circuitry.- Outcomes for Parkinson's are much improved when a care partner is involved and the patient takes medication regularly, exercises and tries new activities.Topics discussed:- Parkinson's disease- Symptoms of Parkinson's- The Parkinson's Foundation- Causes and treatment of Parkinson's- Parkinson's tremors- Dopamine / mental health- Care partnersResources mentioned in this episode:Parkinson's Foundation:https://www.parkinson.orgParkinson's Toll number:1 800 4PD INFOParkinson's Revolution initiative:https://www.parkinson.org/get-involved/revolutionTo suggest a topic, be a guest or to support the podcast please email Lori@Loriwilliams-seniorservices.com For more senior resources and to sign up to the newsletter please visit:https://www.facebook.com/LoriWilliamsSeniorServices/https://www.instagram.com/theloriwilliams/https://www.linkedin.com/in/theloriwilliams/https://loriwilliams-seniorservices.com/aging-in-style-podcast/
In this episode we discuss National Family Caregiver's Month and how the Parkinson's Foundation recognizes this important month and shares valuable information for those with Parkinson's and also their caregivers.I'm joined by John Lehr, President and CEO for the Parkinson's Foundation, along with Veera Rastogi, Parkinson's care partner and serves on the Parkinson's Foundation People with Parkinson's Advisory Council.Please visit www.parkinson.org for more information.
Jim Blake of Unity World Headquartershttps://iamjimblake.com/Unity.orgBOOK: The Zen Executive:Gems of Wisdom for Enlightened LeadershipMikki Shepard for National Adoption MonthWEBSITE: https://mikkishepardauthor.com/ or AdoptionAsAChoice.comBOOK: IN A HEARTBEAT: The Miracle of a Family that was Meant to BeJohn Lehr & Veera Ristogi of The Parkinsons FoundationJim Blake is the CEO of Unity World Headquarters, where he previously served as chief information officer and vice president of operations. Unity is a spiritual nonprofit founded in 1889 in Kansas City, Missouri. It helps people of all faiths and cultures apply positive spiritual principles in their daily lives. Blake has held numerous executive positions in the corporate world and is the author of The Zen Executive: Gems Of Wisdom For Enlightened Leadership. https://iamjimblake.com/Mikki Shepard is author of In a Heartbeat - The Miracle of a Family That Was Meant to Be, a delightful true story spanning several generations of families born out of love. It shares a ‘good news' adoption story about the greatest gift of love a parent can give their child and the most awesome gift another parent can receive. After serving four years in the U.S. Air Force, Mikki's diverse career spans multiple industries, successful entrepreneurship, and a strong background in speaking, real estate, and marketing. She is a published writer and seminar speaker and is now the Host of Adoption as a Choice radio show & podcast on VoiceAmerica's Empowerment Channel. https://mikkishepardauthor.com/John L. Lehr is the President and CEO of the non-profit Parkinson's Foundation, and Veera Rastogi, primary caregiver for her late parents who both had Parkinson's. Each November, the Parkinson's Foundation recognizes National Family Caregivers Month. Additionally, the Foundation provides dedicated articles at https://www.parkinson.org/resources-support/carepartners
John Lehr, the original Geico Caveman and star of Hulu's "Quick Draw", and Jay Martel, Emmy and Peabody award-winning comedy writer for "Key & Peele", come on to discuss their new project "Speed Bump".
Meet John Lehr. John is President and CEO of Parkinson's Foundation. John has spent almost his entire career in the nonprofit space, starting as a consultant, then working in hospitals, and then transitioning to disease-specific nonprofit organizations. John is a huge proponent of creativity and innovation. He encourages his team to come to the table with new ideas that will not only provide value but have a lasting impact.Learn:How your nonprofit can still be creative and innovative with a small budgetHow a merger at Parkinson's Foundation led to new and innovative research and programsThe importance of having programs and resources that don't garner revenueLearn more about Parkinson's Foundation at parkinson.org.Learn more about GoodUnited at goodunited.io.
Past podcasts have given glimpses into the broad range of programs and initiatives that the Parkinson's Foundation has developed and supports. But to give a better understanding of the Foundation's mission, its operation, reach, and funding, we spoke with John Lehr, its president and CEO. He discussed the reasons for the merger of the National Parkinson Foundation and the Parkinson's Disease Foundation to form today's Parkinson's Foundation, what the new organization has accomplished, and its plans for the future.
Flashback Episode of The Father Time Podcast with Jamie Kaler:You'll know him best as the "Caveman" from the Geico commercials, but John Lehr is an accomplished actor, writer, director, and show runner. He co-created the shows "10 Items or Less" for TBS, "Quick Draw" for Hulu, and "Jail Bait" for Hulu. But today we talk about parenting. The tale of his parents staying together till the kids went to college is absolutely amazing. The story of making 60 grand a week to play a mute is phenomenal. And the fable of the night he spent in a Santa Barbara Jail on acid is unbelievable. (John has been sober for a long time now). One of my favorite story tellers we've had on the podcast. His raw honesty is so refreshing. There's a reason his shows do so well. He's a fantastic family guy now but his "back story" is great fodder for the sit-com world he's helping create. You can catch more of John Lehr at:https://howler.tv/You can catch The Parent's Lounge live every Tuesday Night 10pm EST/7pm PST at:https://www.facebook.com/theparentslounge#theparentslounge #johnlerh #geico #geicocaveman #caveman #cavemancommerical #10itemsorless #quickdraw #jailbait #parenting #parentingpodcast #funny #funnydads #dadlife #standupcomedy #comedians #cohosts #jamiekaler #tacomafd #myboys More Than A Dad PodcastHow's Dad Life? Have you mastered the juggling act of balancing parenting,...Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Smart Passive Income PodcastWeekly interviews, strategy, and advice for building your online business the smart way.Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify I Scream Social I Scream Social is your go-to podcast extraordinaire for all things creepy and...Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify
RC2C host Neil Scott visits with writer, producer, comedian, and actor John Lehr, perhaps best known as the Geico Caveman. John recently celebrated 26 years in recovery! Plus Academy Award Nominee Ali McGraw reflects on the power of Forgiveness! Here are the video links to John's Lehr's work: Original Geico Caveman Commercial: https://youtu.be/e8aj1AlYvxI More on "The Caeman" John Lehr: https://youtu.be/y08-AeVczSI Joh Lehr's 'Sober Comedy' https://youtu.be/TEZX4kl9_cQ
Susan Messing, a NJ native and graduate of Northwestern University's Theatre School, has been an improviser and comedian for 35 years. She is an alumna of the iO Theatre, Second City's Mainstage, and a founding member of Chicago's infamous Annoyance Theatre. Susan created and taught her curriculum at iO Chicago, iO West in Hollywood, The Annoyance Theatre, The Second City, and around the world. Susan was an adjunct instructor for DePaul University and taught for The School at Steppenwolf, and currently teaches at the University of Chicago. Her standup act with her puppet, Jolly, was featured at the HBO/US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, and on Comedy Central's Premium Blend and NBC's Late Fridays, and her most impressive bit movie role was as a bad stripper in a halo brace in Let's Go to Prison! Since the pandemic began, Susan has shifted to teaching on zoom, and is restarting her drop in class for The Annoyance. Recently, she performed in Chicago's World Comedy Expo and headlined the Baton Rouge Improv Festival with the brilliant John Lehr. Every Friday night you can find her with her friends in ‘High Society' on Twitch. “Improviser of the Year” – Chicago Improv Festival “Best Improviser” – Chicago Reader “Funniest Woman in Chicago” – Chicago Magazine Paul Vato is an on camera and voice actor, improvisor, podcaster and entrepreneur. Connect with Paul Vato: PaulVato.com • VATO.tv • y.at/
Conversation w/ John Lehr, President/CEO, Parkinson's Foundation, about causes, risk factors, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment, and living with Parkinson's disease
It's estimated that Parkinson's disease affects 1 million Americans. Ninety-six percent are diagnosed after age 50, and the incidence of disease increases with age. Since April is Parkinson's Awareness Month, Senior Services Expert Lori Williams welcomes the CEO of the Parkinson's Foundation, John Lehr. John discusses: - What Parkinson's disease is + the symptoms - The potential causes - Treatment plans and the importance of a care partner - Important resources for those with Parkinson's John draws from the wealth of knowledge from the Parkinson's Foundation for a comprehensive, compassionate look at the disease. He echoes the purpose of the foundation: educating people with Parkinson's as well as their care partners / families on what they can expect, and how to live as well as they possibly can. Takeaways from this episode: - Early symptoms of Parkinson's affect movement, but other body systems are affected: cognition, mental health, GI, sleep, senses, and more. Everyone is impacted differently. - Parkinson's disease has unknown causes, but there's a genetic and potential environmental component (such as exposure to napalm in the Vietnam War). - Treatments for Parkinson's include deep brain stimulation, dopamine replacement therapy, exercise, and trying new things to keep the brain active and create new circuitry. - Outcomes for Parkinson's are much improved when a care partner is involved and the patient takes medication regularly, exercises and tries new activities. Topics discussed: - Parkinson's disease - Symptoms of Parkinson's - The Parkinson's Foundation - Causes and treatment of Parkinson's - Parkinson's tremors - Dopamine / mental health - Care partners Resources mentioned in this episode: Parkinson's Foundation: https://www.parkinson.org Parkinson's Toll number: 1 800 4PD INFO Parkinson's Revolution initiative: https://www.parkinson.org/get-involved/revolution To suggest a topic, be a guest or to support the podcast please email Lori@Loriwilliams-seniorservices.com For more senior resources and to sign up to the newsletter please visit: https://www.facebook.com/LoriWilliamsSeniorServices/ https://www.instagram.com/theloriwilliams/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/theloriwilliams/ https://loriwilliams-seniorservices.com/aging-in-style-podcast/
Frankie Boyer is an award winning talk show host that empowers listeners to live healthy vibrant lives http://www.frankieboyer.comGuests:Seth Eisenberg, author of PAIRS Essentials, is co-author of the new book, The Laundry List of Relationship Mishaps, Knots and Double Binds: A Partial Registry of the Hazards of Intimacy. The author says three out of four divorces are preventable and hopes The Laundry List will help stem the tide of marriage and family breakdown. https://www.purposebuiltfamilies.com/Evan Ross Katz is a writer, podcast host, and loudmouth whose work has appeared in GQ, Harper's Bazaar, Interview Magazine, Oprah Magazine, Rolling Stone, Teen Vogue, Town & Country and more. He is a fashion columnist at Paper Magazine, a contributor at The Cut and host of the podcasts Shut Up Evan and Drop Your Buffs. Katz is author of Into Every Generation a Slayer is Born: How Buffy Staked Our Hearts; oral history, part celebration, part fanboy memoir, all fun and a great delight. INSTAGRAM: @evanrosskatz https://muckrack.com/evan-ross-katzParkinson's Awareness MonthJohn Lehr and Susan Brown join us from the Parkinson's Foundation. John Lehr leads the Parkinson's Foundation as president & chief executive officer. During his time with the Foundation, he has directed more than $30 million in research and clinical grants for promising Parkinson's disease studies. Susan Brown is a member of the local Parkinson's Foundation Georgia Advisory Board. Board members provide support and oversight for local programs, special events and the annual Moving Day Atlanta Walk for Parkinson's. https://www.parkinson.org/
Today we interview John Lehr, CEO of the Parkinson's Foundation. Parkinson's disease is a tremendous issue with the aging population. Today we learn exactly what it is and what is being done to treat it and progression toward a cure.Join us today to learn about Parkinson's Disease. It's a great and informative show today.
We once again go back into the Cloverleaf Radio vault to bring back a clip from our first interview (2009) with Don Leo Jonathan (RIP) discussing working with Andre the Giant! We also have a live clip from (2016) featuring Cloverleaf Radio Alumni John Dunsworth (RIP) aka Jim Lahey and his longtime partner in crime, Randy Bobandy from a stand up show I attended! Plus, John Lehr discussed his start in entertainment (2011) and WWE Hall of Famer Polish Power Ivan Putski and his son, Scott Putski (2010) reminiscing about Ivan's WWE Hall of Fame induction! Check it out! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jianetwork/support
John L. Lehr, Parkinson's Foundation president & chief executive officer. talks with Caregiver SOS On Air host Ron Aaron, attorney and award winning broadcaster, on providing information, help, and other resources for caregivers caring for people with Parkinson's Disease. Cohost Carol Zernial, national known gerontologist and named one of the nation's Top 50 Influencers in Aging for 2017 by Next Avenue, was on special assignment when this program was recorded.
John L. Lehr, Parkinson's Foundation president & chief executive officer. talks with Caregiver SOS On Air host Ron Aaron, attorney and award winning broadcaster, on providing information, help, and other resources for caregivers caring for people with Parkinson's Disease. Cohost Carol Zernial, national known gerontologist and named one of the nation's Top 50 Influencers in Aging for 2017 by Next Avenue, was on special assignment when this program was recorded. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
EP48: Today we are headed to Los Angeles, CA to talk to John Lehr - a comedic performer, writer and producer that has worked in television, film, and theater.He was one of the original Geico Caveman from the wildly successful commercial campaign, starred as Leslie Pool in "10 Items or Less" from Sony on TBS, and as Sheriff Hoyle on Hulu's original comedy western "Quickdraw".Under the banner of Howler Monkey Productions, John and producing partner Nancy Hower have created multiple projects, most involving their unique improvisationally-based “hybrid” style.John also created "Cold. Sober. Comedy." where he performs standup and MC's at corporate events, fundraisers, non-profits, and sober communities. He talks about his personal/career struggles, his continuing sober journey and the importance of an authentic sense of humor.
Executive Coach, Shasheen (SHA SHEEN) Shah (SHA), consultant to executives at Tesla, Barclays, Hewlett Packard, Toyota and more. Author of The Kid And The King: The Hidden Inner Struggle High Achievers Must Conquer To Reignite And Re-engage with Life. Why are we triggered so easily, letting others dictate how we feel? What happens inside our heads to make us lose our minds? Is it possible to live trigger-free? What would that look like? More Info - https://www.shasheen.com/Mystery Author, PK Norton who is about to publish her 5th novel, Deadly Diamonds. PK (Paula) wrote her first four books with the aid of her husband/muse who died of Parkinsons a few years ago. She and Jack used to discuss various ways to kill people over cocktails and dinner during their travels! Recently, Paula reconnected with her high school sweetheart and he now helps with the books. (Despite the fact that she killed him off in her third book!) More Info - https://pknortonauthor.com/John Lehr and Marie Head, Better Lives. Together.November is National Caregivers Month. We provide support and guidance to help care partners and their loved ones live better with Parkinson's. More Info - https://www.parkinson.org
Re-post of Thursday, October 14, 2021 show at 6:00 EST on Radioparkies.com. We had a fun and informative chat with John Lehr who is the CEO of the Parkinson's Foundation. John has nearly three decades of nonprofit fundraising and management experience, with a strong focus in the voluntary healthcare and medical research sectors. John played a key role in merging two legacy Parkinson's organizations into the Parkinson's Foundation in 2017. Since joining the Foundation, fundraising revenue has grown each year by double digits, allowing the Foundation to expand its mission programs. John led the efforts to open seventeen regional chapters to better serve local Parkinson's communities. Listen in LIVE on radioparkies.com to hear inspiring Parkinson's stories, every week on Thursday's at 6:00 PM EST like/rate/follow our podcast at: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2-mikes-parkinsons-podcast/id1537782063 https://twomikespdpodcast.podbean.com/ Listen to all radioparkie shows at: https://www.mixcloud.com/RadioParkies_usa/
Mark & Tom welcome television & film star John Lehr, also a talented comedian, producer, writer and pitch guru. Mark tells on his parents and explains one of his horrific Halloween events when he was a young boy. Also, messages from listeners, The Movie Quotes Game, Staff Picks Halloween edition and many more ghoulish shits and gigs...
A logline is a foot in the door, but many writers ignore them. Mark & Tom lay-out why a logline should be a top priority. Mark & Tom look forward to having John Lehr as a guest again on the next podcast. Mark shares a "Blair Witch" scenario he and his wife encountered when recently visiting a park where they used to go on dates together when they were kids. It did not go swimmingly. Also, listener messages from the Make My Damn Movie website, The Movie Quotes Game, Staff Picks and other stuff as well...
Have you ever been told to Rise, by Steven Tyler, backstage at the MTV Music Awards or had a Television Executive have a nose bleed while you're pitching a new idea? Well, John can tell you how both of those things happened to him as well as what it's like to be the Geico Caveman, a comedian, a writer and producer of TV and movies as well as an actor who is the star of the HULU series QuickDraw, which got a 97% on Rotten Tomatoes. And those things are just the beginning of my conversation with John! Oh yeah, and check out his podcast, ‘Generation Gab'. So check out this episode and let me know what you think. Be sure to Like it, Share, Subscribe and Comment!
As I heard the news about Coach Mark Richt, I wanted to once again bring awareness to Parkinson's by sharing this show that I did with Parkinson's Foundation President & CEO John Lehr. I hope that you will not only listen, but you will share this show with others. Thank you.
On today's show, we are highlighting two neurodegenerative diseases. The first will be Parkinson's Disease as I speak with Parkinson's Foundation President & CEO John Lehr. During the 50th episode of Kyla's Korner with Kyla Carter we will be highlighting our second neurodegenerative disease as Kyla focuses on the efforts of HDSA's National Youth Alliance - NYA when it comes to Huntington's Disease. In between those segments, we'll have retired Gaston County Police Officer Christopher Lowrance joining me to talk about his 4,300 mile coast-to-coast bike ride to bring awareness to first responder suicide through Blue Help. We'll close out the show with the Make A Difference Minute Replay with MADM segments from Patrick Gibson, Maria Mackey Tyler, Hero's Rest, Country Music Artist Carl Ray, & Chris Hope Foundation! You can also subscribe to TMWS via TuneIn Radio, Apple iTunes, SoundCloud, Audioboom, YouTube, Spotify, Stitcher, & Blubrry. All shows are archived at TheMarkWhiteShow.com.
In 2019, the Parkinson’s Foundation launched NEWLY DIAGNOSED: Building a Better Life with Parkinson's Disease, a new campaign designed to arm people who are newly diagnosed with the knowledge, tools, and resources they need to navigate life with Parkinson’s disease. The goal of the newly diagnosed program is to close the gap between being newly diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease and knowing where and how to find the right information and resources to live the best life possible with Parkinson’s. In fact, a Parkinson’s Foundation survey found nearly 50% of people with Parkinson’s and their care partners leave the doctor’s office following a diagnosis without educational resources or information on what the future holds. Mark Alyn chats with John Lehr, president of the Parkinson's Foundation and Liz Brouillard is a social worker and Clinical Director at a non-profit, outpatient mental health clinic in Massachusetts who works to educate newly diagnosed people with Parkinson’s and their family members.
In 2019, the Parkinson’s Foundation launched NEWLY DIAGNOSED: Building a Better Life with Parkinson's Disease, a new campaign designed to arm people who are newly diagnosed with the knowledge, tools, and resources they need to navigate life with Parkinson’s disease. The goal of the newly diagnosed program is to close the gap between being newly diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease and knowing where and how to find the right information and resources to live the best life possible with Parkinson’s. In fact, a Parkinson’s Foundation survey found nearly 50% of people with Parkinson’s and their care partners leave the doctor’s office following a diagnosis without educational resources or information on what the future holds. Mark Alyn chats with John Lehr, president of the Parkinson's Foundation and Liz Brouillard is a social worker and Clinical Director at a non-profit, outpatient mental health clinic in Massachusetts who works to educate newly diagnosed people with Parkinson’s and their family members.
Ryan Gorman hosts an iHeartRadio nationwide special featuring Dr. Kneeland Youngblood, a board member for the Prostate Cancer Foundation, and John Lehr, President and CEO of the Parkinson's Foundation. Along with the work both organizations do, they discuss National Minority Health Month and Parkinson's Awareness Month. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Ryan Gorman hosts an iHeartRadio nationwide special featuring Dr. Kneeland Youngblood, a board member for the Prostate Cancer Foundation, and John Lehr, President and CEO of the Parkinson’s Foundation. Along with the work both organizations do, they discuss National Minority Health Month and Parkinson’s Awareness Month.
Ryan Gorman hosts an iHeartRadio nationwide special featuring Dr. Kneeland Youngblood, a board member for the Prostate Cancer Foundation, and John Lehr, President and CEO of the Parkinson’s Foundation. Along with the work both organizations do, they discuss National Minority Health Month and Parkinson’s Awareness Month.
Rick and Dave chat with actor and comedian John Lehr. [Ep64] The post MM Celebrity Interview – Geico Caveman John Lehr appeared first on Radio Misfits.
Generation Gab! It's the show where a millennial (Chase O'Donnell) and a gen X (John Lehr) talk about the differences of their generations. If for no other reason than to make each other laugh. In this week's episode…we talk to comedian and old friend of John Lehr, Brendan Smith. He's the host of the amazing podcasts Brando Cast and Rocktales. Hilarious old stories are shared about Brendan and John's time living together in the 90's and a buzzfeed quiz is taken about the Genx and Millennial generations. Check out https://www.patreon.com/generationgab if you would like to support our podcast. #genx #millennial #generationgabpodcast #brendansmith #kiss #ozzy #vanhalen #tednugent #loveguntour #duranduran #meeowshow #improv #comedy #northwestern #chrishogan #rockstars #ahmetzappa #rocktails #stevevai #joesatriani #brandocast #dionnewarwick #everyonehasapodcast #buzzfeedsucks #mansplaining #brendansplaining #jenniferaniston #friends #davidschwimmer #chokers #gelpens #seinfeld #thomasguides #waze #hudsonlehr #parkour https://www.northwestern.edu/magazine/summer2009/feature/lehr.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mee-Ow_Show
Actor and comedian John Lehr recounts one night in the early 90s when, in a chivalrous move, he decided to help some ladies get safely back to Manhattan after a late night party in New Jersey. The vehicle? A rubber dinghy. The route? Across the Hudson.What could possibly go wrong?
When was the last time you evaluated your leadership culture? Every organization has a culture, a “DNA” that is unique to that organization. Typically, most experts say that the CEO or Executive Director of a nonprofit has a disproportionate impact on the culture of their organization. Rob’s guest today is John Lehr, President and CEO […]
Welcome to GENERATION GAB with John Lehr and Chase O'Donnell! It's the show where a millennial and a GenX'er talk about the differences between the generations. If for no other reason than to make each other laugh.Happy 2021!!! This week we gab with beauty maven, Kirbie Johnson. She shares stories of her career in journalism and beauty. John reveals he is surrounding himself by younger talent, possibly due to fear of irrelevance. Chase surprises us with possibly the most incredible spray tan story ever. You be the judge! Please check out Generation Gab's Patreon page www.patreon.com/generationgab. You will find today's entire episode plus the video recording. Thanks to all of our spectacular patrons who have already become part of the Generation Gab family! Thank you all for listening to another episode of Generation Gab. Please visit our sponsor at AVGearGuy.com. Whether you have old videos, photos, slides, negatives, documents, disks, or audio recordings, "Gray" Jones has all of the equipment to transfer it to a new media format at very competitive rates. Mention our podcast at checkout for 5% off! #glossangelespodcast #glossangeles #kirbiejohnson #texan #atx #yall #beautymaven #fashion #beauty #GenerationGab #GenerationGabPodast #funny #comedy #podcast #glossangeles #selftan #spraytan #trumpspalms #mediabistro #popsugar #jetsetter #kardashian #ladygaga #freebritney #bestskindays #thepainofbeauty #selenagomez #joshuatree #NFLPlayoffs #Chiefs #eldermillennial #generation #generations #GenerationX #GenX #johnlehr #millennial #millennials #mygeneration #patreon #whatareyoudoingthisweekend #zoom
GENERATION GAB with John Lehr and Chase O'Donnell! It's the show where a millennial and a GenX'er talk about the differences between the generations. If for no other reason than to make each other laugh. It's almost Christmas! In our last episode of 2020, we discuss the differences of our generations via a card game called Boomer VS Millennial. Enjoy! Instagram - @generationgab / @johnclehr / @chase_odonnellFacebook - Generation Gab PodcastEmail The Show - AVGearGuy.com. Whether you have old videos, photos, slides, negatives, documents, disks, or audio recordings, "Gray" Jones has all of the equipment to transfer it to a new media format at very competitive rates. Mention our podcast at checkout for 5% off!Also, please check out Generation Gab's Patreon page www.patreon.com/generationgab. You will find today's entire episode plus the video recording. Thanks to all of our spectacular patrons who have already become part of the Generation Gab family!
John Lehr is a comedic actor, writer and producer who works in television, film & theater. In other words, John is a comedian and actor who also has control issues. You will probably know him best from his time as the Geico Caveman.When we first met John about a year ago, we asked if he was “out” in the sense of publicly acknowledging that he is in recovery. His response? “Yes, I am fully broken.” Then he told us a story about the time he got arrested while high on LSD and booze. We were referring to anonymity, but its good to know he's just as broken as the rest of us.John has been in recovery for over 20 years and is very open about his past struggles and the importance of an authentic sense of humor. In this episode he talks about his road to recovery and how he stays sober in Tinsel Town.You can find more information about John Lehr on his website and you can hear from him on his podcast, Generation Gab, where he chats with a millennial about the differences (and similarities) between generations. This podcast was started to get the word out that recovery is possible, no matter what situation you may find yourself in. Whether you are struggling with addiction yourself or you are the family member/friend of someone who is suffering, please know that there is hope for recovery.www.johnlehr.comwww.generationgabpodcast.comwww.tpoftampa.comwww.thepointisrecoverypodcast.comwww.facebook.com/TurningPointofTampawww.twitter.com/TurningPointTPAwww.instagram.com/turningpointtpawww.youtube.com/user/TurningPointofTampawww.facebook.com/ThePointisRecoveryPodcastwww.instagram.com/thepointisrecoverypodcast
Connor & Jon dig through the VHS' to find Noah Baumbach's forgotten (or thrown out) third film. They try to guess at what the intended purpose of the film was and why Eric Stoltz didn't play the main character. But hey, it's gotta be hard trying to make a film in 6 days.WARNING: Major spoilers for HighballFollow us:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rulesoftheframe/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rulesoftheframe Twitter: https://twitter.com/RulesOfTheFrame YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCII7_Fevn8na1ZkXyfUeTQA/featuredFilms mentioned in this episode:---------------------------------Highball (1997) | Dir. Noah BaumbachMr. Jealousy (1997) | Dir. Noah BaumbachBarry Lyndon (1975) | Dir. Stanley KubrickKicking and Screaming (1995) | Dir. Noah BaumbachBoyhood (2014) | Dir. Richard LinklaterMarriage Story (2019) | Dir. Noah BaumbachCloud Atlas (2012) | Dir. The Wachowskis, Tom TykwerThe Big Lebowski (1998) | Dir. The Coen BrothersPulp Fiction (1994) | Dir. Quentin TarantinoMy Dinner with Andre (1981) | Dir. Louis MalleHarvey (1950) | Dir. Henry KosterThe Room (2003) | Dir. Tommy WiseauBlades of Glory (2007) | Dir. Josh Gordon, Will SpeckRudy (1993) | Dir. David AnspaughThe Squid and the Whale (2005) | Dir. Noah Baumbach
Welcome to GENERATION GAB with John Lehr and Chase O'Donnell! It's the show where a millennial and a GenX'er talk about the differences between the generations. If for no other reason than to make each other laugh. In this week's episode, we gab with Marie Incontrera. There will be discussion about being an elder Millennial, the movie she did with John Lehr and being a social media expert. We learn more about hashtags and how to promote things. www.incontrera.comhttps://www.incontrera.com/coffeewithentrepreneursA Very Queer Holiday Trailer - https://vimeo.com/486178011A Very Queer Holiday Watch Party - https://www.facebook.com/events/287640025886405 Gorgeous Caveman - https://www.nickiswift.com/147319/this-geico-caveman-is-gorgeous-in-real-life/ Instagram - @generationgab / @johnclehr / @chase_odonnellFacebook - Generation Gab PodcastEmail The Show - generationgabwithchaseandjohn@gmail.com Thank you all for listening to another episode of Generation Gab. Please visit our sponsor at AVGearGuy.com. Whether you have old videos, photos, slides, negatives, documents, disks, or audio recordings, "Gray" Jones has all of the equipment to transfer it to a new media format at very competitive rates. Mention our podcast at checkout for 5% off!Also, please check out Generation Gab's Patreon page www.patreon.com/generationgab. You will find today's entire episode plus the video recording. Thanks to all of our spectacular patrons who have already become part of the Generation Gab family! #averyqueerholiday #bacheloretteisback #bobthefactchecker #CEO4SNL #chaseodonnell #chasesnl #chasethebachelor #chasethebachelorette #ChrisMessina #coffeewithentrepreneurs #Comedy #eldermillennial #generation #GenerationGab #GenerationGabPodast #generations #GenerationX #GenX #hashtag #improv #incontrera #instacart #johnlehr #linkedin #millennial #millennials #mygeneration #offtopic #patreon #periscope #podcast #popin #rotaryphone #seo #snl #snlchase #socialmedia #standemic #tedtalk #thebachelor #thebachelorchase #thebachelorette #thebachelorettechase #thegoogle #tiktok #twoanxiousbisexuals #twonutjobs #whatareyoudoingthisweekend #zoom
In this bonus episode of All2ReelToo we have an All2Interview with actor, producer and writer, John Lehr. Lehr starred as Leslie Pool in “10 Items or Less,” from Sony on TBS for three seasons and recently starred as Sheriff Hoyle on Hulu's original comedy western “Quickdraw” for two seasons. Lehr also co-created, wrote and executive produced both series. Lehr is one of the original Geico Cavemen from the wildly successful commercial campaign. He appeared in dozens of spots, including the first commercial as a caveman boom operator, the caveman in therapy with Talia Shire, the tennis spot with Billy Jean King, Superbowl spots with Phil Simms and many more. Under their banner Howler Monkey Productions, Lehr and producing partner Nancy Hower have created multiple projects, most involving their unique improvisationally-based “hybrid” style found in “QuickDraw” (Hulu) “10 Items” (TBS) “Jailbait (Crackle) and “Memron” (Slamdance award-winner). With Lehr starring and Howler directing, the team completed comedy pilots “Let It Ride,” (Comedy Central), “Retreat!” (NBC), “Team McPhearson (Fox) and “King of Beers” (EUE/Sokolow). The team's script/development deals include “The Loop” (HBO), “Troubadour” (MTV), “Life on Mars” (Sony/BBC), and “LARP” (Echo Lake), Tommy Chong's Pipe Dreams (TBS). Listen, Rate and Share the show!!!! Check out the following links for more info on John Lehr and his films and TV work. www.johnlehr.com https://www.facebook.com/JohnLehrFanpage https://www.instagram.com/johnclehr/ We were nominated for best podcast by The Toledo City Paper. Give us a vote here... https://toledocitypaper.com/best-of-toledo-2020/#/gallery/246827862 Check out some cool music by host Matthew Haase at https://youtu.be/5E6TYm_4wIE Check out cool merchandise related to our show at http://tee.pub/lic/CullenPark If you can during these troubling times make a donation to one of the following charities to help out. https://www.directrelief.org/ https://www.naacpldf.org/ https://www.blackvotersmatterfund.org --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/all2reeltoo/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Prepare for incoming jokes! Join me this week as we look back on my five favourite jokes from John Lehr and Bill Chott during last week's Ujokes show! Highlights include new games, furry fighters, and I dream of Disney?! Also, please keep listening until the end of the show for details on another Ujokes hiatus plus a special Ujokes podcast to come shortly before the return of new shows!Catch up on the most recent Ujokes podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0tjOmkwITQIMPORTANT Ujokes Update: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaknPcf2uzMCatch new Ujokes podcasts onYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCulNXGDkfAfGFli1v20OXBg/featuredSpreaker: https://www.spreaker.com/show/ujokes-weeklySpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2EmzI2lahWs0EDTxvZKsNiAnd remember to follow me onTwitter: https://twitter.com/PostmasterRadioInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/postmaster_radio/
John Lehr is a comedic performer, writer, and producer who works in television, film, and theater. He grew up in Kansas and made his way to Chicago for college. He began to substitute teach while moonlighting as an improvisational comic all the while abusing drugs and alcohol. He made his way to Los Angeles and got roles on TV shows like Friends and Jesse, among others. He is one of the original Geico Cavemen from the wildly successful commercial campaign. He hit his rock bottom when he got arrested and spent the night in jail high on LSD with the threat of a prolonged incarcerated stay. He’s been sober for over two decades and calls himself a recovering alcoholic and drug addict who regularly attends AA meetings, meditates, and found spirituality by converting to Judaism. He performs his “Comedic Lectures” about his twenty plus years of sobriety at fundraisers, nonprofits, and sober communities under the banner Cold.Sober.Comedy. He connects with his audience, now virtually through Zoom, by sharing his personal and career struggles, his continuing sober journey, and the importance of an authentic sense of humor. John and his producing partner, Nancy Hower have created multiple projects, most involving their unique improvisationally-based “hybrid” style found with their Howler Monkey Productions. John is married to author Jennifer Lehr with whom he has two children and is grateful every day for the life he has created. SHOW NOTE LINKS: John Lehr's Website Howler TV John Lehr's Facebook Fanpage John Lehr on Twitter John Lehr's Instagram Generation Gab Podcast John’s wife, Jennifer Lehr’s book, “ParentSpeak- What’s Wrong With How We Talk to Our Children and What to Say Instead John’s wife, Jennifer Lehr’s Book, “Ill Equipped for a Life of Sex: A Memoir” Caron Treatment Centers Rachel interviews her brother, Adam Kallen- Success Story Overcoming Addiction to Owning Hottest Motorcycle Apparel Brand & Hosting All-Men’s AA Meeting CONNECT WITH US! *Dear Family, Podcast Page *Write Now Rachel Website *Rachel's Blog @Medium *Rachel’s Twitter *Facebook *Instagram PLEASE JOIN: *Dear Family Members, the Private Facebook Group WAYS TO HELP THE PODCAST: *PLEASE Leave a 5-Star Review and Subscribe! Thank you! Your support means the world to me. Wishing you love, happiness, and good mental health always.
Episode Reviewed: "Murder at the Webb Ranch"Created by Nancy Hower and John Lehr Quick Draw was one of Hulu's first forays into original programming, though a large portion of the show is unscripted and improvised. The show follows Harvard graduate Sheriff John Henry Hoyle (John Lehr) and his attempt to gain acceptance into the town of Great Bend, Kansas as well as convince the uneducated townsfolk of the benefits of his learned "forensics sciences" to help solved various crimes commit by the Cole Younger gang. His deputy Eli Brocias (Nick Brown), unrequited lover Honey Shaw (Allison Dunbar), and undertaker Vernon Shank (portrayed by frequent Hower and Lehr collaborator Bob Clendenin) offer little to less help.After the review, the boys are treated to an interview with co-creator John Lehr himself. Download. Listen. Enjoy.
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Actor, comedian, writer, producer John Lehr (10 Items or Less, Jailbait, Quick Draw) talks about pitching TV show ideas + some behind the scenes dirt from some of the awesome shows he's behind and stars in...
In episode 46 of The Charity Charge Show John L. Lehr, CEO of the Parkinson's Foundation shares the insight he has gained after more than two decades of nonprofit fundraising and management experience. John played a pivotal role in merging two legacy Parkinson's organizations into the Parkinson's Foundation in 2017. Since then, the Foundation has nearly doubled its revenue to $35 million. Under John's leadership, the Foundation earned a 4-star charity rating from Charity Navigator and a Platinum Seal of Transparency from GuideStar.
Today on Too Opinionated, John Lehr joins us to discuss his journey through show business. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0499856/ Check out John's work on 10 items or less, Quick Draw, and the Sweetest thing
GENERATION GAB! It's the show where a millennial (Chase O'Donnell) and a gen X (John Lehr) talk about the differences of their generations. If for no other reason than to make each other laugh. This week we went live on Facebook and heard from our listeners. We gabbed about everything from Cabbage patch kids and Tower Records, to cereal boxes and Saturday morning cartoons. Hope you enjoy! If you want to watch the show live with us, follow John Lehr on Facebook. Send in your comments and questions for us at generationgabpodcast.com. Thanks for listening!
After 103 episodes of chatting with some of the most talented and amazing people we've ever known Kettle Of Fish is coming to an end. So join Dee, Fern, Heather and Saucey and a slew of guests (Steve Trash, Matt Geiler, Jordyn Aquino, John Lehr, Rebekah Kennedy, Willy Roberts, Raychelle, John Voldstad, Wendy Mccolm, Haig Hovnanian, Cat Alvarado, Leah Shore, Christopher Wonder and Debra Lamb) as we bid a heartfelt so long to a show that has brought us so much laughter and joy over the years.
Patient Christina Korines and John Lehr, CEO of the Parkinson's Foundation, discuss the statistics and genetics related to Parkinson’s Disease (PD) and the use of medical cannabis for those with PD. Visit www.hpr.fm to listen to more interviews about healthcare and research findings.
:17 - What are Millennials spending their money on? For many, it’s a rent payment instead of a mortgage. Ray pulls up some Millennial stats and defers to the Millennials in the room in Tony and Steffany. 20:12 - For the final time this fiscal year, BDO’s Doug Klein stopped by to discuss extensions and other tax-related tips, as we’re six days before April 15th. 27:50 - Each and every Tuesday during the baseball season, VP from the Tribe, Bob DiBiasio, calls in and answers Ray’s and listeners’ questions. Today’s questions involve Carlos Gonzalez’s health and statues outside the ballpark. 36:03 - April is Parkinson’s Awareness Month, and Ray was joined by John Lehr of the Parkinson’s Foundation, as well as Christina Korines, who shared her personal story of the disease.
John Lehr and Nancy Hower tell a lie. by Jason Webb --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-lies-we-tell-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-lies-we-tell-podcast/support
John Lehr is an improvisational actor and comedian out of the Chicago Improv scene who has created and starred in a number of TV shows including "Quick Draw" and "10 Items or Less." Here he talks about his unlikely path to sobriety. He's funny. You can support this podcast at my Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/thedrunkalogues
In case you missed it the first time around, here is a look back just over 2 years ago at Episode 18 of Uncontained With the one and only John Lehr. You may know him from his show on TBS,10 Items or Less or from his western on Hulu, Quick Draw. However, you most likely know him as the original GEICO Caveman. We talk about what he and his creative partner, Nancy Hower, at Howler.tv have been working on. We also talk about his Hulu series Quick Draw and how the show is made, along with some exciting project in the works. Plug in your ear buds this is how John Lehr lives uncontained!www.howler.tv Twitter @johnlehrhttps://twitter.com/search?q=%40JohnLehr%20&src=typd See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
This week we bring in episode 51 with actor John Lehr. We’ll talk about John’s 51st birthday, Area 51, Superbowl 51 and every bizarre and outrageous conspiracy involving this humble number that is just barely a majority. So join Saucey, Fern and John for all the Alien Crazy Talk we can Verbally Blow into your Middle-Aged EarHoles!
The multi-talented and effortlessly funny John Lehr is on the couch this week. The co-creator & Star of incredible shows like Ten Items or Less & the Hulu Original QuickDraw is talking all about growing up in Kansas, the son of badass social activist mother and a technologically efficient yet socially inefficient father who's talents made their family rich for a whole year before some "bad business decisions" found the repo men at their home. He also opens up about a drug and alcohol problem that landed him in a jail cell in his twenties, the incredibly lucky clerical error that kept him out of a more serious prison sentence, getting and staying sober, becoming a caveman, and buying his first house and the fear that came along with it. All of that plus creating an original style of Improv comedy, brain surgeries, parenting styles, the future of storytelling and comedy, what's next for Howler.tv and more! Be sure to visit www.howler.tv ---------- Check out www.DragonWagonShop.com for awesome Elaborate shirts and mugs! Elaborate is a part of the Dragon Wagon Radio independent podcast network. Visit www.dragonwagonradio.com for more!
This Week Actor John Lehr stops by to talk about Winning Like A Winner Who Wins.
This episode was short and sweet. We talked about John’s YouTube show, Terry 14, got an update on Quick Draw, and chatted about John’s dedicated and loyal fan base.
We are back with the variety you've come to expect. First, actor, comedian, and original Geico Caveman, John Lehr ,joins us to discuss his life in acting, improv, and comedy. John was very funny and shared several great stories about playing the Caveman, his time on Hulu's hit show, Quickdraw, and his various other roles in television and film. Make sure to check out John and his work at www.howler.tv Then, English born singer, songwriter,Lewis Watson joins us for a very fun, interesting interview about touring the United States, playing music by ear, and his huge sucess via Youtube. Lewis is very talented, very honest, and ready for great success. Make sure to check out his music on Spotify or his Youtube channel, Holyloowis. We also discuss the Walking Dead, Scott's sick days of hackeysacking, and more! Continue to subscribe, share, comment, and listen! FB-Verbalshenanigans IG-Verbalshenanigans Twitter-VScomedy
From the stand up comedy road (but without Jackie this time) Debbie talks with special guest John Lehr along with Barry Neal and Luis Villasenor. This episode is straight from the green room backstage at Pechanga Resort and Casino. There is lots of discussion of relationships, marriage, fertility and why people become stand up comedians.
This week I had the pleasure of speaking with John Lehr. You may know him as the Geigo Caveman, Friends, Quick Draw, or 10 Items or Less. Please check him out at www.howler.tv
This week Jordan hosts from The Lone Star State while Donovan burns down his apartment and John gets snowed in. They discuss the last Blockbuster on the planet, Canada sucking and an existential San Francisco bathroom user. Also, improv comedian John Lehr stops by to chat about his early work with Noah Baumbach, becoming the Geico Caveman, converting to Judaism and his hilarious improvised western on hulu, “Quick Draw.” Check out http://gentlemanscofflaw.com for links and show notes.
You'll know him best as the "Caveman" from the Geico commercials, but John Lehr is an accomplished actor, writer, director, and show runner. He co-created the shows "10 Items or Less" for TBS, "Quick Draw" for Hulu, and "Jail Bait" for Hulu. But today we talk about parenting. The tale of his parents staying together till the kids went to college is absolutely amazing. The story of making 60 grand a week to play a mute is phenomenal. And the fable of the night he spent in a Santa Barbara Jail on acid is unbelievable. (John has been sober for a long time now). One of my favorite story tellers we've had on the podcast. His raw honesty is so refreshing. There's a reason his shows do so well. He's a fantastic family guy now but his "back story" is great fodder for the sit-com world he's helping create. To follow what John is up to, check him out on his website, howler.tv
John Lehr (Actor, Producer, Screenwriter) - Website: Howler.tv
John Lehr (Actor, Producer, Screenwriter) - Website: Howler.tv
In this installation of "Kahnversations," we interview John Lehr. John is a comedic performer, writer and producer working in television, film and theater. Lehr starred as Leslie Pool in 10 ITEMS OR LESS, the half-hour improvisational comedy series from Sony on TBS. Lehr also co-created and executive produced the series, which ran for three seasons. Lehr is one of the original Geico Cavemen from the wildly successful commercial campaign. He appeared in dozens of spots, including the first commercial as a caveman boom operator, the caveman in therapy with Talia Shire, the tennis spot with Billy Jean King, Superbowl spots with Phil Simms, and many more. Under their banner Howler Productions, Lehr and Hower have created multiple projects, most involving their unique improvisationally-based “hybrid” style found in QUICKDRAW (Hulu) 10 ITEMS (TBS) and MEMRON (a Slamdance award-winning mockumentary). With Lehr starring and Hower directing, the team recently completed LET IT RIDE, a half-hour comedy pilot set in Las Vegas for Comedy Central; RETREAT!, a half-hour comedy pilot set in a corporate retreat for NBC; KING OF BEERS, a half-hour comedy set in a brewery for EUE/Screengem; and JAILBAIT, a web series for Sony and Crackle.com. In addition, Howler Productions created the pilots TEAM MCPHEARSON, an animated series inhabiting the world of Nascar for Fox starring Jeff Foxworthy; and JOHN LEHR MOVIE CLUB for TBS. Recently Lehr and Hower completed a pilot script for Sony Television in association with the BBC; finished a pilot script, THE LOOP, for HBO; and are currently developing a show with MTV. As an actor, John has appeared in numerous television series, including FRIENDS, and was a series regular on JESSE, both for Warner Brothers/NBC. His feature film roles include THE SWEETEST THING and three Noah Baumbach films, KICKING AND SCREAMING, MR. JEALOUSY, and HIGHBALL. Lehr’s critically acclaimed Comedic Lecture solo performances have had sold out runs in LA and New York. He is also a respected improvisational performer, having worked at the Organic Theater and Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago, The Montreal Comedy Festival, Chicago Improvisational Festival, and multiple venues in Los Angeles and New York. John’s hosting credits include NEWS WEASELS for E!; I'M A CELEBRITY…GET ME OUT OF HERE for ABC; CBS’ special CLASH OF THE COMMERCIALS with co-host Heidi Klum; and JOHN LEHR'S MOVIE CLUB for TBS. John is married to author Jennifer Lehr, with whom he has two children. The Lehrs reside in Los Angeles. You can download or subscribe to the podcast for FREE by clicking below. If you like “Kahnversations,” please leave a rating or review on our iTunes page! There are so many inspiring podcasts with fabulous stars out there. But their careers feel light years away from ours, don’t they? Wouldn’t it be great to hear from the guy who just booked his first pilot? Or the kid finally doing a studio pic after a bunch of low budget indies? Or the woman who’s been a series regular a few times but is only now becoming a name? What about the guy who’s been on a show for years and you know his face but what’shisnameagain? Or that actress who is now a freakin’ showrunner???? How’d THEY do it, right? How did they transition from relative obscurity, bartending and bottle service, to buying that house in Brentwood? We’re producing “Kahnversations,” a podcast that provides access to THOSE people -- your immediate predecessors -- so that you can learn from them while their battle scars are still fresh. In “Kahnversations,” our own Ryan Bailey interviews some of Lesly Kahn & Company’s working actors, directors, and writers in order to learn how they got started in Hollywood, the challenges and hurdles they faced, and how they overcame the odds. (They also dish out some crazy stories!) Listen in and enjoy as these entertainers speak candidly about their paths, processes, and experiences. You might even hear a bit about how Lesly and the Kahnstitute have influenced and shaped their careers.
You most likely know him as the GEICO Caveman. John Lehr Stops by Uncontained to talk about what he and his creative partner Nancy Hower at Howler.tv have been working on. We also talk about his Hulu series Quick Draw and how the show is made. Along with some exciting projects that are in the works. www.howler.tvTwitter@johnlehr See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
John Lehr and Nancy Hower create and produce sitcoms that are improvised, such as Ten Items or Less for TBS and Quick Draw for Hulu. John improvised with ED in Chicago in the late '90s. Nancy studied acting Juliard and fronted a rock band. Jimmy sits down with them to talk about why they like improvising their TV shows, how they settle creative differences, and opening for Meat Loaf.
John Lehr. John co-created and stars in the Hulu series “Quick Draw.” John also co-created and starred in TBS’s “10 Items or Less.” Both series rely heavily on improvisation. John was one of the original Geico Cavemen, has also appeared in the films “The Sweetest Thing,” and has performed at Steppenwolf Theatre, Organic Theater, and The Montreal Comedy Festival.
Creators of the Hulu original series, director Nancy Hower and actor John Lehr, talk about their improvised Western procedural sit-com, how they collaborate, comedy influences, their previous show, TBS's 10 Items or Less, and lots more. Season 2 of Quick Draw continues on Hulu through September!Some live Nerdist Writers Panels coming up! Sept 21, 5pm at Meltdown with the writers of Person of Interest:bit.ly/NWPPofIOct 9, 7pm at the Housing Works Bookstore in Soho with Terence Winter (creator of Boardwalk Empire), Danny Strong (writer of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay adaptations), and comics writer Ales Kot (Secret Avengers): http://bit.ly/NWPNYSW Plus: live Nerdist Comics Panels in NY with Brian Michael Bendis, Charles Soule, and more to be announced soon!
John Lehr ("10 Items or Less" and an original Geico Caveman) chats with Cole and Vanessa about Blue Ivy Carter, Evel Knievel, fake choking, Beezow Doo-Doo Zoppitybop-Bop-Bop, baseball vs. football films, Heidi Klum, kid wars, bloody noses, falling in grocery stores viral videos, Noah Baumbach, Angelina Jolie's wondrous lips, The Andy Griffith Show, junkyard dramas, uncomfortable makeup applications, Portland's beards, and hanging with the guys from Friends at a secret Bevery Hills club. Leave your answer to the firsts question (the first truly dangerous or ill-advised stunt or thing you tried to do as a kid) on our website for a chance to win a super comfy Pop My Culture T-Shirt!