Podcast appearances and mentions of John Lyon

Lucinda Rouse and Emily Harle are joined by Lynne Guyton, chief executive of John Lyon's Charity, and Sacha Rose-Smith, chief funding director at the City Bridge Foundation.Lynne describes the realities for a grantmaker that has gone from being a nice-to-have to an essential funding pot. She explains why John Lyon's Charity did not consider it responsible to pause funding and outlines the alternative ways it has navigated the surge in demand.Sacha explains how the measures taken by the City Bridge Foundation during its temporary closure to new applications will strengthen its capabilities going forward, stressing the importance of understanding its place in the system and the areas where it could have the most impact. Read our analysis about funders pausing their programmes.Find out more about the Purpose Awards here.Tell us what you think of the Third Sector Podcast! Please take five minutes to let us know how we can bring you the most relevant, useful content. To fill in the survey, click here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, John Lyon is joined by Parvati Raghuram, Manu Lekunze and Melis Cin who are part of the team that developed the Global Inequalities and the Climate Crisis Lessons. They discuss how the project came to be, how we have now moved from a climate crisis to a climate emergency and how teachers can effectively educate their students without creating fear or anxiety.  They also talk about how Cameroon posed as a near perfect field to study the relationships between global inequality and the climate crisis. The resource was produced in partnership with the Decolonising Education for Peace in Africa (DEPA) project, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council's Global Challenges Research Fund as well as Impact Accelerator Account funding from the University of Lancaster. You can find the free resource here: Global Inequalities and the Climate Crisis - Geographical Association

In this episode John Lyon talks to Karen Corfield, Education Development Consultant and Safeguarding Lead at Discover the World Education. A few topics discussed in this episode are: Iceland and Icelandic guides, GA Annual Conference, mentoring and inspirational teachers, fieldwork, connections and memories to place, and what your third place is. Resources Discover the World Education Costa Rica trip information Free CPD Workshops  Series 14 of GeogPod is kindly sponsored by Discover the World Education. 'As the only tour operator who is a strategic partner of the GA, we're big believers in supporting teachers both in and outside the classroom. From our unforgettable geography trips to our award-winning resources and accredited CPD sessions, for us there's nothing more rewarding than creating shared experiences that bring learning to life.'

John Lyon chats with Alice Gadney in this episode of GeogPod. Alice is a cartographer and also known as Captain Alice, founder of Mini Map-Makers. They discuss many topics, including: her PGCE; William Smith; Steve Backshall; ‘The Hobbit'; Mini Map-Makers; inspiring children with maps from primary age; and of course, their favourite maps. Resources https://minimapmakers.com/ Series 14 of GeogPod is kindly sponsored by Discover the World Education. 'As the only tour operator who is a strategic partner of the GA, we're big believers in supporting teachers both in and outside the classroom. From our unforgettable geography trips to our award-winning resources and accredited CPD sessions, for us there's nothing more rewarding than creating shared experiences that bring learning to life.'

New Zealanders should be grateful insurance companies remain committed to New Zealand given the country's risk exposure, John Lyon of Ando Insurance says.In the latest episode of the Of Interest podcast I asked Lyon how well general insurers are serving New Zealanders, how competitive the market is, and how the public should judge strong financial results from their insurers. As well as being CEO of Ando, an underwriting agency, he's also the former CEO of Lumley Insurance. Statistics NZ's Consumers Price Index shows insurance costs rose 14% in the June year, making them a key contributor to households' cost of living pressures and the stubbornly high non-tradable inflation that meant the Reserve Bank held the Official Cash Rate at 5.50% for as long as it did."I think we should be grateful that there are insurance companies who are still committed to the New Zealand market, because what we need is a healthy, strong insurance market because the risks are so great in New Zealand," Lyon says."When you think about the risks we're exposed to from volcanoes that are overdue, to the well known earthquake exposures, the evolving cyclone and climate change issues, [and] we don't really fully understand tsunami risk. There's lots of evidence that there have been major tsunamis along the coast of New Zealand. At what frequency would we expect something like that to happen? We don't know. That's not been particularly well modelled. That's a major risk to the country.""There's a whole bunch of factors in there that we can talk about in terms of what New Zealand Inc needs to do to protect itself from the environment we live in. And climate change is a big part of that. But it's also all of the other generic risks that are there in front of us. So we have to think about how we manage them as well," says Lyon.With the likes of IAG, Suncorp and Tower having recently reported strong financial results, how should we judge how well they're doing financially?"One of the things that the reinsurers did [last year], as well as putting prices up, was they went to the insurance companies and they said, 'you now need to hold more of the risk to your own account'.""The Suncorps and IAGs, and indeed our business, was faced with a situation where if we had been holding, say, $100 million of the risk to our own account before reinsurance comes in, the reinsurers might have put that up to $500 million. So if you think about that, then if you've got an exposure of $500 million for any one event, you're not going to get $500 million every year.""So typically what insurance companies will do is they say, 'well, maybe over five years, we'd expect to have $100 million on average. So it'll be one big event every five years. That's $500 million. We'd spread that cost over five years.' So in every year you'd put a cat allowance [catastrophic event allowance] in of $100 million. If you don't have a cat event, you've got $100 million profit and then the next year you might have no event and you got another $100 million profit. But in year five you've got a $500 million event and you lose $500 million.""That's the market that we have moved to. The insurance companies need to be very profitable in the good years because the cost of managing the bad years is a lot higher. So it's not just reinsurers that suffer when there is a big event. The insurance companies hold more to their bottom line and that's a challenge for all the businesses in that respect," Lyon says."So it's hard to judge insurance on a year on year basis."Lyon suggests the most significant barrier to enter the general insurance market is New Zealand's risk profile, noting a number of international insurers look at NZ and see the economy is relatively small."It'll never be a major strategic value add to a global company in terms of incremental growth. So all you're going to have is a problem when a big thing happens like an earthquake."In the podcast audio Lyon also talks about what he believes should be done that would be more beneficial to customers' insurance costs than a market study, how the insurance industry is lagging from a transparency perspective, the perception of choice created by the big companies being behind numerous brands, how competitive the market is, the level of market power the big players have, climate adaptation, managed retreat and uninsurable areas, whether the general insurance market is a duopoly, insurance policies being used as a taxation device, risk-based pricing, parametric insurance, what the insurance equivalent of open banking could mean, and more.*You can find all episodes of the Of Interest podcast here.

Labor ramps up its attack on Peter Dutton over his stance on the Gaza refugees, ABC's John Lyon wins Kennedy Award for moral clarity on the Israel-Hamas war. Plus, the US presidential race heats up ahead of the Democratic National Convention.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In episode 81 our host John Lyon talks to Dr. Evelyn Wandia Corrado, a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at University of Roehampton. They discuss her childhood in Kenya, the community and education systems as well as challenging perspectives and stereotypes, inclusive practice and pedagogy and the importance of engaging parents and including more representation in classes. Resources View Evelyn's Roehampton profile View the Primary Geography article 'Decolonising geography to unshackle the representation of Africa' Series 13 of GeogPod is kindly sponsored by Rayburn Tours. For over 60 years, Rayburn Tours have been creating tailor-made school geography trips to destinations in the UK, Europe and beyond that inspire, motivate and enhance student understanding. Their expert team craft incredible itineraries of excursions and activities, with the added option of a geographical Field Study Tutor and on-tour resources. The best way to learn is through adventure!  

This episode of GeogPod was recorded live at the GA's Annual Conference in April 2024. Our host John Lyon talked to our guest, Donald McClean, from the Sheffield Environmental Movement. In the session they discussed the importance of fieldwork, widening participation in the natural environment, supporting diverse Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic Refugee (BAMER) community groups/organisations around Sheffield.   Resources The Black Barbers Project on the SACMHA website.  Sheffield Environmental Movement  Development Education Centre South Yorkshire (DECSY)

Introducing Stronger Voices Together, a podcast series dedicated to exploring the diverse world of disability and inclusion, created by John Lyon's Charity and hosted by disability activist Lucy Edwards. This series will unfold over five thought-provoking episodes, each released every two weeks from Tuesday 23rd April.

In this episode our host, John Lyon, chats with John Hopkins, Katherine Baulcomb and Luke Hinchliffe - members of the GA's Assessment and Examinations Special Interest Group (AESIG). They discuss topics such as progression in geography, the progression and assessment guidance, sequencing, enquiry based learning and more. Resources: Progression and assessment in geography GCSE and A level results Find out more about AESIG Follow AESIG on X (formerly Twitter)

In this episode join John Lyon and Professor James Esson from Queen Mary University of London as they discuss viewing the world through a geographical lens. They cover a wide range of topics including conspicuous margins, pedagogy and voice, inequality, social economy, and improving the future. Professor James Esson will also be our keynote speaker at the GA Conference 2024. Find out more about Conference 2024 here. Resources Coffee and Geography Podcast Decolonising Geography Collective Race, Culture and Equality Working group of the RGS-IBG Salaamgeographia Esson, J. (2015). Better off at home? Rethinking responses to trafficked West African footballers in Europe. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 41(3), 512-530. Esson, J. (2020). “The why and the white”: Racism and curriculum reform in British geography. Area, 52(4), 708-715. Esson, J., & Last, A. (2020). Anti‐racist learning and teaching in British geography. Area, 52(4), 668-677. Esson, J., Amankwaa, E. F., & Mensah, P. (2021). Boys are tired! Youth, urban struggles, and retaliatory patriarchy. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 46(1), 193-207. Winter, C. (2023). The geography GCSE curriculum in England: a white curriculum of deceit. Whiteness and Education, 8(2), 313-331. Series 12 of GeogPod is kindly sponsored by Educake We believe great teaching happens when teachers get the time to think. Educake helps teachers do more teaching by saving you time setting homework, marking, and analysing results. It's easy to get started and it only take a few clicks to set a quiz that is matched to your exam board. You get immediate insights into strengths and weaknesses, and students get instant feedback. Your first month is free. Try Educake at www.educake.co.uk/geography

Today, there are places in the world that need support more than ever. Countries are in crisis, and as leaders, we want to help. We want to play our part in alleviating the pain and needs across the world. But helping is much more imbiguous than it should. Knowing how to help those in crisis should not be a challenge. How can we, as leaders, provide support to those in Crisis? How can we be confident that we have played our part in providing support to those who need it? Join us today on the Lasting Change Podcast, where we are talking with John, a global relief and development visionary and law practitioner. Together, we talk about how individuals can participate in alleviating crisis-stricken communities around the world. Enabling communities to flourish again.

In this episode John Lyon discusses the Chalk Stream Challenge with Hazel Metcalfe and Sarah Smith. Hazel and Sarah created The Chalk Stream Challenge as part of the Watercress and Winterbournes Landscape Partnership Scheme. They discuss how the challenge began, who the challenge is suitable for, some of the activities involved, features of a Chalk Stream and how the activities can be adapted. Find out more about the Chalk Stream Challenge Watercress and Winterbournes provide more background information and resources The Wessex Rivers Trust have many other Chalk Streams in their area Other Wildlife Trusts may be able to help with river dipping expeditions and rivers in their area Series 12 of GeogPod is kindly sponsored by Educake We believe great teaching happens when teachers get the time to think. Educake helps teachers do more teaching by saving you time setting homework, marking, and analysing results. It's easy to get started and it only take a few clicks to set a quiz that is matched to your exam board. You get immediate insights into strengths and weaknesses, and students get instant feedback. Your first month is free. Try Educake at www.educake.co.uk/geography

Jasmin Thien is a fully blind, Bruneian born Chinese actor, writer, spoken word artist and stand up comedian who's fully accessible one-woman show ‘I Dream In Colour' is being presented by Extant at The Bloomsbury Festival On Sunday 15 October 2023 at 4pm at the John Lyon's Theatre, City Lit, London. ‘I Dream in Colour' is a sort of autobiographical show which combines the power of storytelling, poetry and comedy to explore memory, loss, and the intersection between disability and immigrant culture. RNIB Connect Radio's Toby Davey recently caught up with Jasmin to find out more about ‘I Dream In Colour' and how the show has developed since a 20 minute work in progress section of the show was presented as part of an Extant double bill at the Sprint Festival in Camden earlier this spring and how Jasmin's recent eye operation has also given her a new perspective and view point on the show. More details about ‘I Dream In Colour' by Jasmin Thien at the Bloomsbury Festival can be found on the following pages of the Extant website - https://extant.org.uk/productions/i-dream-in-colour/ Image shows the promo picture for 'I Dream In Colour', a close up of half a face illuminated by small filtered lights

In this episode John Lyon discussed the topic of place with Professor Richard Phillips from the University of Sheffield. Richard was joined in this podcast by Tariq Jazeel and Maddy Starzak in the first ever live recorded episode from our Annual Conference 2023. Richard Phillips, Professor of Human Geography at the University Sheffield, discusses some of his work on place, writing and fieldwork. His publications in this area include Fieldwork for Human Geography (2012) and Fieldwork for Social Research (forthcoming in 2023), both written with Jennifer Johns and published by Sage, and Creative Writing for Social Research (2021, Policy Press).   Changing Place; Changing Places - An accessible resource for schools and teachers, available on RGS website here.   Georges Perec's Geographies - Free-to-download book which includes readings of Perec and geographical fieldwork inspired and informed by Perec, including a chapter by postal worker and poet Kevin Boniface, featured in the podcast here.   This episode of GeogPod is kindly sponsored by OCR. OCR provides a range of GCSE, A Levels and vocational qualifications to schools and colleges. They are committed to supporting teachers and students to achieve their full potential. As a not-for-profit organisation, their success is measured through the impact and reach of their activities and contribution to helping students achieve their goals. One area of particular importance is addressing issues of equality, diversity and inclusion in education. At OCR they've already stepped up to this challenge – discover more about what they are doing, and how you can support them on their journey, visit their website.

This week Kate and Claire chat about the most clicked link The Squiz has ever had, a year on from the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and what you need to know for the week ahead in the sport. Plus, a serious long read and rediscovering BBQ'ing. LINKS: Check out the royal love tap. Find The Washington Post's article 'A global divide on the Ukraine war is deepening' here. Kate recommended John Lyon's long read ‘What would war with China look like for Australia?'. You can find part 1 here and part 2 here.  You can stream Physical:100 on Netflix. We're cooking this grilled nectarine and burrata salad.  Credits: Hosts: Kate Watson and Claire Kimball Producer: Annelise Taylor

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://osazuwaakonedo.news/john-lyon-cleaner-with-sterling-bank-specializes-in-kidnapping-bank-managers-police/27/09/2022/ John Lyon, Cleaner With Sterling Bank, Specializes In Kidnapping Bank Managers - Police ~ OsazuwaAkonedo ####Kidnappers ##2022 ##Commissioner ##Dollar ##Naira ##Police #Bank #Bayelsa #Ewa #Ikechukwu #John #Lyon #OsazuwaAkonedo #Sterling https://osazuwaakonedo.news/john-lyon-cleaner-with-sterling-bank-specializes-in-kidnapping-bank-managers-police/27/09/2022/ Nigeria Police Force has narrated how John Ikechukwu Ewa mainly known as John Lyon, a former cleaner with Sterling Bank has been kidnapping bank managers. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/osazuwaakonedo/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/osazuwaakonedo/support

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In this special, 60th episode of GeogPod, we hand over the guest seat to our stalwart presenter, John Lyon.  As a longstanding member of the GA community, he answers questions sent in by staff and members about his experiences, and about what makes him passionate about geography.   Follow John at https://twitter.com/GAGeogger   Series 10 of GeogPod is kindly sponsored by AQA. Everyone has the potential to achieve, so we make sure that our qualifications give all students the opportunity to show what they can do and progress to the next stage of their lives. Our UK qualifications are highly valued by employers and universities around the world. As an independent education charity, our income is reinvested back into AQA's charitable activities, funds our cutting-edge research and supports our initiatives to help young people facing challenges in life realise their potential. Visit AQA for more info.

EPISODE 24  In this episode we sit down with John Lyon and his side hustle upcycling used hockey sticks!  John is known as The Hockey Stick Guy.  John started early in in hockey, he took his collection of used sticks and started his own business turning sticks into amazing one of a kind creations!John shares with us how his business started, connecting with UpCycle Canada as a vendor, the growing pains of running a side hustle in conjunction with his career, juggling family and life as a maker.  As John's side hustle continues to grow, he finds himself at an interesting point where he is growing to the point where he has had to turn down certain custom orders due to time etc.As we have come through a global pandemic, we have seen many employees in a 9 to 5 and career minded people investigate the possibility of creating a side hustle. John's journey will inspire you and motivate you to pursue your dream!https://www.instagram.com/thehockeystickguy/For more about our business please visithttps://upcyclecanada.ca/Podcast created by True Media SolutionsThank you to Jacob Moon for creating our Podcast Soundtrack - please visit www.JacobMoon.com Support the show

Gerardo Edelstein, Music Director & Conductor of the Williamsport Symphony Orchestra, speaking with WVIA's Fiona Powell about a concert titled, "Love & Romance" to be presented on Tuesday, February 15, 2022, at 7:30 pm, at the Community Arts Center, 220 West 4th Street in downtown Williamsport, PA. The program will include works by Tchaikovsky, Bruch, Ravel & R. Schumann, with guest violinist John Lyon. For more information: www.caclive.com/ & www.williamsportsymphony.org/

Rose Barrowcliffe, Butchulla woman, researcher and doctoral candidate at the University of the Sunshine Coast, spoke to Phuong about reclaiming K'gari as the official name for the UNESCO World Heritage Site, formerly known as Fraser Island. This interview was inspired by Rose's recent article for the Conversation, Celebrating K'gari: why the renaming of Fraser Island is about so much more than a name. // Jyotsna Siddharth is an actor, self taught artist, intersectional queer activist and writer. They spoke with Genevieve about their practice, which spreads across intersections of social- art, activism, theatre, development in anti- caste, feminist and queer spaces. They were on the show to talk about their play, 'Clay', and also a fundraiser set up to support the play. // Dhakshayini Sooriyakumaran is the Tech Policy Director at Reset Australia. Reset Aus works to raise awareness and advocate for better policy to address digital threats to Australian democracy. Leading up to the federal election in 2022, Reset Aus is calling for the government to mandate platforms to publish an election “live list” of the most viral misinformation that has the potential to have a serious societal impact. //  Jennine Khalik is a Palestinian content creator currently on Darug Country in Sydney. She is a former newsroom journalist for 9 years across News Corp, ABC, Crikey and has been published in the Guardian, VICE and the Sydney Morning Herald. She spoke with Evie to discuss John Lyon's new book, 'Dateline Jerusalem: Journalism's Toughest Assignment', as well as the silencing of Palestinian voices in the media. // News headlines: //Gender affirming surgery should be covered by Medicare //Death of Charlene Warrior // (Contact Lifeline on 13 11 14)Peregrine falcons on Collins street // Songs: //Diaspora by Thando ft. Ruva //This Enchanted by Hatchie //

   At 7pm on the evening of November 30,1948, John Lyon and his wife were walking along Somerton Beach, just south of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. They noticed a well dressed man lying on the beach with his head propped up against the sea wall. The man was lying with his legs outstretched and his feet crossed. As the couple passed, they saw him raise his right arm and then it fell to the sand. John said it looked like a "drunken attempt to smoke a cigarette". A half hour later they were walking back the same way and noticed the same man was still there. There he was in his nice suit and polished shoes, an odd way to dress for lounging on the beach. He was still with his left arm laid out on the beach. The couple figured he was asleep, maybe passed out drunk. There were mosquitos buzzing all around his face. John commented to his wife "he must be dead to the world".          The next morning John Lyons would discover how right he was. As he was returning from a morning swim, John noticed a cluster of people gathered around the area where he had seen the drunk man the day before. As he approached the group he saw a man slumped over in much the same position as the man from yesterday. The body was lying there, legs out, feet crossed, cigarette half smoked lying on his collar, but this man was not drunk, he was dead. This was the man John and his wife saw the day before, this was the Somerton Man!    This case endures to this day as one of the greatest mysteries of Australia. No one is sure who the man is, why he ended up dead on the beach, or even how he died. Dr. John Barkley Bennett put the time of death at no earlier than 2 a.m., noted the likely cause of death as heart failure, and added that he suspected poisoning. The contents of the man's pockets were spread out on a table: tickets from Adelaide to the beach, a pack of chewing gum, some matches, two combs and a pack of Army Club cigarettes containing seven cigarettes of another, more expensive brand called Kensitas. There was no wallet and no cash, and no ID. None of the man's clothes had any name tags—indeed, in all but one case the maker's label had been carefully snipped away. One trouser pocket had been neatly repaired with an unusual variety of orange thread. A day later a full autopsy was carried out and revealed some more strange things. It revealed that the corpse's pupils were “smaller” than normal and “unusual,” that a dribble of saliva had run down the side of the man's mouth as he lay, and that “he was probably unable to swallow it.” His spleen, meanwhile, “was strikingly large and firm, about three times normal size,” and the liver was distended with congested blood. In his stomach they found his last meal and more blood. He had eaten a pasty, a folded pastry with a savoury filling, typically of seasoned meat and vegetables. The blood in the stomach also suggested poisoning but there was no evidence that the food was the cause of any poisoning. The poisoning theory seemed to concur with the strange behavior the man exhibited on the beach, instead of drunken behavior it could have been the behavior of a man who had been suffering the effects of poisoning. Now, while this theory made sense given the evidence, repeated tests on both his blood and organs by an expert chemist failed to reveal the faintest trace of a poison. “I was astounded that he found nothing,” Dwyer admitted at the inquest. In fact, no cause of death was found. Among all this weirdness, other odd things were noticed. The dead man's calf muscles were high and very well developed; although in his late 40s, he had the legs of an athlete. His toes, meanwhile, were oddly wedge-shaped. Testimony given by one experts went as follows:          I have not seen the tendency of calf muscle so pronounced as in this case…. His feet were rather striking, suggesting—this is my own assumption—that he had been in the habit of wearing high-heeled and pointed shoes.   Another expert had suggested that given these irregularities that maybe the man was actually a ballet dancer.    Putting all this together made… Well… Zero sense. The coroner was informed by an eminent professor that the only practical solution was that a very rare poison had been used—one that “decomposed very early after death,” leaving no trace. The only poisons capable of this were so dangerous and deadly that the professor would not say their names aloud in open court. (My mind goes to Ricin, a highly potent toxin produced in the seeds of the castor oil plant.) Instead, he passed the coroner a scrap of paper on which he had written the names of two possible candidates: digitalis and strophanthin. The professor suspected the latter. Strophanthin is a rare glycoside derived from the seeds of some African plants. Historically, it was used by a little-known Somali tribe to poison arrows.    At this point everyone was thoroughly and extremely confused. They took a full set of fingerprints and sent them all over Australia and then around the work to try and figure out who this guy was. There were no matches anywhere. They started bringing people with missing relatives into the mortuary to see if anyone recognized the man, no one did.    By January 11, the South Australia police had investigated and dismissed pretty much every lead they had. The investigation was now widened in an attempt to locate any abandoned personal possessions, perhaps left luggage, that might suggest that the dead man had come from out of state. This meant checking every hotel, dry cleaner, lost property office and railway station for miles around. But it did produce results. On the 12th, detectives sent to the main railway station in Adelaide were shown a brown suitcase that had been deposited in the cloakroom there on November 30. The staff could remember nothing about the owner, and the case's contents were not much more revealing. The case did contain a reel of orange thread identical to that used to repair the dead man's trousers, but painstaking care had been applied to remove practically every trace of the owner's identity. The case bore no stickers or markings, and get this, a label had been torn off from one side. The tags were missing from all but three items of the clothing inside; these bore the name “Kean” or “T. Keane,” but it proved impossible to trace anyone of that name, and the police concluded–an Adelaide newspaper reported–that someone “had purposely left them on, knowing that the dead man's name was not ‘Kean' or ‘Keane.' ” So, a subterfuge! Spy games! (I just love that word)   The police had brought in another expert, John Cleland, emeritus professor of pathology at the University of Adelaide, to re-examine the corpse and the dead man's possessions. In April, four months after the discovery of the body, Cleland's search produced a final piece of evidence—one that would prove to be the most baffling of all. Cleland discovered a small pocket sewn into the waistband of the dead man's trousers. Previous examiners had missed it, and several accounts of the case have referred to it as a “secret pocket,” but it seems to have been intended to hold a pocket watch. Inside, tightly rolled, was a minute scrap of paper, which, opened up, proved to contain two words, typeset in an elaborate printed script. The phrase read “Tamám Shud.”    Frank Kennedy, the police reporter for the Adelaide Advertiser, recognized the words as Persian, and telephoned the police to suggest they obtain a copy of a book of poetry—the Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam. This work, written in the twelfth century, had become popular in Australia during the war years in a much-loved translation by Edward FitzGerald. It existed in numerous editions, but the usual intricate police enquiries to libraries, publishers and bookshops failed to find one that matched the fancy type. At least it was possible, however, to say that the words “Tamám shud” (or “Taman shud,” as several newspapers misprinted it—a mistake perpetuated ever since) did come from Khayyam's romantic reflections on life and mortality. They were, in fact, the last words in most English translations— not surprisingly, because the phrase means “It is ended.” Weeeeird!   Taken at face value, this new clue suggested that the death might be a case of suicide; in fact, the South Australia police never did turn their “missing person” enquiries into a full-blown murder investigation. But the discovery took them no closer to identifying the dead man, and in the meantime his body had begun to decompose. Arrangements were made for a burial, but—being aware that they were disposing of one of the few pieces of evidence they had—the police first had the corpse embalmed, and a cast taken of the head and upper torso. After that, the body  was buried, sealed under concrete in a plot of dry ground specifically chosen in case it became necessary to exhume it. Oddly enough, As late as 1978, flowers would be found at odd intervals on the grave, but no one could ascertain who had left them there, or why.    In July, a full eight months after the investigation had begun, the search for the right Rubaiyat produced results. On the 23rd, a Glenelg man walked into the Detective Office in Adelaide with a copy of the book and a strange story. Early the previous December, just after the discovery of the unknown body, he had gone for a drive with his brother-in-law in a car he kept parked a few hundred yards from Somerton Beach. The brother-in-law had found a copy of the Rubaiyat lying on the floor by the rear seats. Each man had silently assumed it belonged to the other, and the book had sat in the glove compartment ever since. Alerted by a newspaper article about the search, the two men had gone back to take a closer look. They found that part of the final page had been torn out, together with Khayyam's final words. They went to the police.   Detective Sergeant Lionel Leane took a close look at the book. Almost at once he found a telephone number penciled on the rear cover; using a magnifying glass, he dimly made out the faint impression of some other letters, written in capitals underneath. Finally they had a solid clue!   So where did the clue lead them? Well the phone number was unlisted. But have no fear… They traced the number to a nurse who lived near Somerton Beach. The nurse has never been publicly identified. She is only known by the nickname Jestyn. She revealed to investigators that she had indeed given that book to a friend of hers, a man she knew in the war. She also gave them a name, Alfred Boxall.   Boom! Mystery solved!!! Right? Well maybe not so much. Detectives felt they had figured out the identity of the dead man. Except for the fact that when they tracked down Alfred Boxall in new south wales… He was still alive. Oh and also, the copy of the book he received from the nurse… He still had it and it was still intact. The gentle probing that the nurse received did yield some intriguing bits of information though; interviewed again, she recalled that some time the previous year—she could not be certain of the date—she had come home to be told by neighbors that an unknown man had called and asked for her. And, confronted with the cast of the dead man's face, Jestyn seemed “completely taken aback, to the point of giving the appearance she was about to faint,” Leane said. She seemed to recognize the man, yet firmly denied that he was anyone she knew.    That left the faint impression Sergeant Leane had noticed in the Glenelg Rubaiyat. Examined under ultraviolet light, five lines of jumbled letters could be seen, the second of which had been crossed out. The first three were separated from the last two by a pair of straight lines with an ‘x' written over them. It seemed that they were some sort of code. They sent the message to Naval Intelligence, home to the finest cipher experts in Australia, and allowed the message to be published in the press. This produced a frenzy of amateur codebreaking, almost all of it worthless, and a message from the Navy concluding that the code appeared unbreakable:             “From the manner in which the lines have been represented as being set out in the original, it is evident that the end of each line indicates a break in sense.   There is an insufficient number of letters for definite conclusions to be based on analysis, but the indications together with the acceptance of the above breaks in sense indicate, in so far as can be seen, that the letters do not constitute any kind of simple cipher or code.   The frequency of the occurrence of letters, whilst inconclusive, corresponds more favourably with the table of frequencies of initial letters of words in English than with any other table; accordingly a reasonable explanation would be that the lines are the initial letters of words of a verse of poetry or such like.”   The Australian police never cracked the code or identified the unknown man. The nurse, Jestyn died in 2007, so there's no possibility of ever getting her to reveal why she reacted the way she did when seeing the cast of the man. And when the South Australia coroner published the final results of his investigation in 1958, his report concluded with the admission:   I am unable to say who the deceased was… I am unable to say how he died or what was the cause of death.   And that's where the case sits   And that's it… Thank you guys and good night.   Oh wait… You want more? Fine.   The information on the initial case and investigation came from a great article on smithsonianmag.com   There… Still not enough…ok ok   So what about this nurse then. Turns out her actual name is Jessica Thompson and she passed in 2007 as stated earlier. Police had always felt she knew more than she was letting on. Her daughter would later say in an interview that she thought her mother knew the dead man. The reason her message was not released earlier is because she requested a pseudonym as she felt her connection to this case would be embarrassing. Why? Interesting. Some think that her real name is important because it may hold the key to deciphering the code. As stated earlier, her reaction to seeing the cast of the man led many people to think that she definitely knew the man. In a video we found the man who made the bust describes how when Jessica was brought in to see the bust she saw the likeness when a sheet was removed from it and immediately looked down and would not look at the bust again for the rest of the interview. It was during that interview that she gave them the information of Alfred Boxall. So the question remains with Jessica… Did she know the man? If she did know the man, why was she so informed to distance herself from this case? Was she involved in some way?   As far as the man himself, there are many theories floating around. One of the most prevailing theories is that he was a spy! We got us some James bond shit going down! Or maybe not. Others say he was involved in the black market as evidence but the clipped labels on his clothing. So he was dealing in babies and knock off clothing on the black market!!! Maybe not.  Well let's look into these theories and see what you guys think.    One man who thinks there is a spy connection is Gordon Cramer, a former British detective with links to former intelligence officers. He says parts of the code match with Morse code letters found in the World War II Radio Operators Manual. He believed micro writing hidden within the letters of the five lines of code appeared to refer to the de Havilland Venom — a British post-war jet, still on the drawing board at the time.   He also saw the Somerton Man's death coinciding with the start of the Cold War and, according to Mr Cramer, the visit to Adelaide of high-ranking British officials and weapons trials at Woomera — the later site of nuclear testing. So this guy thinks that's a link to show he may have been some sort of cold war spy. Other things that people say pointing to him being a spy include the family of our nurse friend telling 60 minutes Jestyn, aka Jessica Thomson may have been a Russian spy! And even crazier… That she may have had a son with the Somerton Man! This theory is further backed by another article we found. Derek Abbott, a professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Adelaide has spent over a decade studying the case.                “What makes this kind of go viral is, I think, just all the strange things. It kind of just gives you that creepy shiver down your spine.”    DNA, Abbott said, is a key to solving the mystery. “I'm not so interested in how he died, but giving him his name back is the most important thing.”   Abbott also noticed that the man also had two distinctive features: canines next to middle teeth and ears with large upper hollows. After examining the mysterious letters of the code in the late 2000s, Dr. Abbott said, “I kind of fell down the rabbit hole.” In 2009 he tried to track down Mrs. Thomson (our nurse friend) for an interview but found that she had died two years earlier. She had a son who had been a DUN DUN DUNNNN professional ballet dancer, Dr. Abbott learned, and photos showed he had distinctive teeth and ears similar to the Somerton man's. Oh shit son! Abbott decided to then track down this man but unfortunately he had died mere months before Abbott made his discovery. COINCIDENCE?? He found out that Thomson's son had a daughter of his own… So guess what… He tracked her down. And guess what… SHE was dead… Actually no that's not true she's still alive. The woman's name was Rachel Egan. Ms. Egan had never heard of the Somerton man, but she agreed to help Dr. Abbott in his effort to name the man who might be her grandfather. Dr. Abbott laid out that scenario: “The Somerton man had Jessica Thomson's number. He was found dead a five minutes' walk from her house. Rachel's dad was only 1 year old at the time, with no father. So you kind of put two and two together — but until it's absolutely confirmed, you never know.”   And Dr. Abbott acknowledged that, if usable DNA was obtained from the exhumed remains, it might in fact show his wife had no link to the Somerton man. “All I can say is there's lots of twists and turns in this case, and every turn is pretty weird,” he said.    Want another weird twist? Abbott and Egan fell in love and were married in 2010. And yes that part is true.    So, while he himself doesn't necessarily back the spy theory, his life of work could lend credence to said theory.    Several years ago, Ms. Egan had her DNA analyzed, and links were found to people in the United States (including relatives of some guy named Thomas Jefferson… yes, that Thomas Jefferson). More recently, links were also found to the grandparents of the man that Jessica Thomson eventually married. “So my head is spinning,” Dr. Abbott said. “Does that prove she's not connected now to the Somerton man? Or does that prove that somehow the Somerton man is related to her assumed grandfather? It's getting all complicated, so complicated that I'm just going to shut up now and let the DNA from the Somerton man speak for itself.”   Another strange connection that could lend itself to a spot connection is the remarkable similarities to the Mystery of the Isdal woman. On November 29, 1970, while hiking Isdalen (Ice Valley) near Bergen, Norway, a father and his two daughters witnessed a horrifying sight. Wedged between the rocks of the hiking trail, they discover a badly burnt female body. The labels of her clothes had been cut off and any distinctive marks had been removed as if to make her completely unrecognizable. The front side of her body had been severely burnt and she was found in a boxer's position, fists clenched. When you look into this case there are many similarities to the Somerton Man that we may just go ahead and cover in a bonus!   Again, Thomson's own daughter believed the Somerton Man to be a spy and that her own mother may have also been a spy. She said her mother taught English to migrants and spoke fluent Russian. Jessica had once told her daughter that “someone higher than the police force” also knew the identity of the mysterious man.   Another theory is that the Somerton Man was involved in illegal activities involving the black market that sprung up after WWII. People point to the missing labels on the clothes as pointing toward that possibility. Abbott who we discussed earlier had said that this seems a more likely route than the spy route. If he was involved in some sort of black market goings on or something similar, it would definitely explain the urge for someone to go to many lengths to keep his identity a secret. But what would the rest of the clues mean? Was the page or of the book meant to send a message to someone else? Some think the code found may have had something to do with black market shipments or deliveries, or possibly locations. Without solid evidence though this is pretty much all just speculation.  Many people are also subscribing to the theory that this was just a case of a jilted lover. They believe that the Somerton Man and the nurse were lovers and that they had a child together. After this some people think that Thomson rejected the Somerton Man for some reason and it led to the man taking his own life. This theory seems most plausible but at the same time, why has no one been able to figure out who this man was. It also makes sense in the line of Thomson being embarrassed by being involved in the case and her unwillingness to discuss it with police as she was dating another man at the time of the death who would eventually become her husband.    If you really want to get crazy with the cheese whiz so to speak, there are small groups of people that really are looking at the fringe theories. If you look into the far corners of reddit and other similar sites you'll find the usual theories of time travel and extraterrestrial origins. Those folks are definitely in the small minority but they are out there and most likely started by Mr. Moody.    Ok so where does all the craziness leave us? Well… We don't know. The Somerton man's body was exhumed earlier this year and we haven't been able to find any updates on any sort of DNA analysis, because as we know, these things tend to take some time. In articles as recent as July of this year they are still waiting on results. Part of the problem is that getting quality DNA samples from that old and degraded of a body can sometimes be difficult. So, while there are many theories on who the man was and the circumstances around his death no one knows for sure who he was and what happened. The one person who seemed to have at least some sort of knowledge of the man passed away without ever revealing her secrets. The other difficult thing is that every time a question seems to be answered it only opens up even more questions. Is the code really a code? Was the man a spy? Was the nurse a spy? Was anyone a spy? Was chainsaw involved? Where was he in 1948? As the old tootsie pop commercial used to say… the world may never know!  Best horror movies of 1948   https://www.pickthemovie.com/best-horror-movies-of-1948

On this episode, John Lyon, Product Development Director with Veyl Ventures, joins the show. John has 9+ years of exceptional hands-on portfolio experience developing health and wellness solutions/products from concept through launch. He is known for steering lucrative brands into fascinating and exciting consumer products and seeing them to successful completion. Take a listen and hear some industry insights from the one and only, Mr. John Lyon. 

Alternatively titled: The amalgamation of John Lyon's. Join Mak and Emily on this week's episode as your ghost hosts talk about Glamis Castle in Scotland, and the many murders of Giulia Tofana.

In the Harley world, bigger does not necessarily mean better. John Lyon is the  current owner/operator of Wilkins Harley Davidson - a multigenerational dealership that has been around for over 70 years. Listen in to see how a hometown dealership takes care of their customers. 

John has had a 40 year career in Research, Accounting, Corporate Finance, Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship. Originally starting as a clinical researcher in the NHS, John pivoted to the business world. Starting at PriceWaterhouse as a Chartered Accountant, John has since worked as a Management Consultant and a Global Vice President at major corporations, as well as being an entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He is now a Professor of Practice at the University of Warwick and recently Co-Founded Panthera Biopartners, one of the fastest growing companies in the UK.John talks about his research and experience as an entrepreneur, the challenges of scaling a company and common mistakes start-ups make.If you enjoy the podcast please like, comment share so we can get other great guests similar to John.WTFinance - Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wtfinancee/Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/67rpmjG92PNBW0doLyPvfnTikTok - https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMeUjj9xV/Bitclout - https://bitclout.com/u/WTFinance

As a software developer manager, John Lyon-Smith wants to share an important concern with his team and the developer community at large: are you exercising enough? Passionate about fitness himself, John believes that developer work often leads to bad habits down the line, and even just a simple daily walk will do wonders for one's physical and mental health. This session explores John's own personal fitness hacks and his suggestions for adopting a health-first mindset. Watch the YouTube HERE: https://youtu.be/ySk-lDSJhJwABOUT OUR GUESTJohn Lyon-Smith (@jlyonsmith) is an adventurer who's hobbies include rock climbing, scuba diving, skiing and pushing life to the limit. He is has over three decades of experience in the software industry and has worked on every conceivable type of software. From databases to compilers, games to website, micro-services to mobile apps. Aside from working at Microsoft and Amazon, he has worked at over a dozen start-ups of all shapes and sizes, both early and late stage, with and without VC funding. Don't forget to subscribe to Educative Sessions on YouTube! ►► https://bit.ly/39sIrUN ABOUT EDUCATIVE Educative (educative.io) provides interactive and adaptive courses for software developers. Whether it’s beginning to learn to code, grokking the next interview, or brushing up on frontend coding, data science, or cybersecurity, Educative is changing how developers continue their education. Stay relevant through our pre-configured learning environments that adapt to match a developer’s skill level. Educative provides the best author platform for instructors to create interactive and adaptive content in only a few clicks. More Videos from Educative Sessions: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT_8FqzTIr2Q1BOtvX_DPPw/ Episode 34: "Staying Fit in the Developer World" with John Lyon-Smith of Amazon | Educative Sessions

At the age of seven, Somali-born nurse Hoda Ali was subjected to type 3 female genital mutilation (FGM), alongside her six-years-old sister. At the age of eleven, with Somalia on the bring of civil war, Hoda started experiencing severe medical complications as a consequence of the cutting. She was in and out of hospital for the following six years and eventually ended in the UK as a refugee. The numerous complications still affect her today, over thirty years later. In this episode Hoda and I talk about how we all bleed the same colour, the importance of calling things by their name, and why she thinks she's the luckiest girl alive. Here's the article Hoda wrote about Keur Simbara, a village in Senegal that has successfully put a stop to female genital mutilation. This is the book that in 1999 planted the seed that I could survive whatever fate put on my path: Waris Dirie's Desert Flower The book: Laura Dodsworth's Womanhood: the bare reality and the documentary: 100 Vaginas If you want to find out more about FGM and how you can help or receive support, below is a list of resources mentioned in the episode: The Vavengers: a UK-based charity led by FGM survivors, that bring communities together using the arts to speak what is often unspeakable and transform singular experiences into shared action. John Lyon's Charity: this is the charity Hoda works with. The Orchid Project: an NGO catalysing the global movement to end female genital cutting. The Dahlia Project: a clinic that provides psychological support to women affected by FGM founded by Dr Leyla Hussein OBE. The Magool Foundation: a charity founded by Dr Leyla Hussein OBE to promote the rights and well being of girls and women especially those who have experienced or are at risk from female genital mutilation (FGM) Aissa Edon's TED talk Hoda's interview for Ealing Council 28TooMany: a registered charity established in 2010 by Dr. Ann-Marie Wilson to undertake research and provide knowledge and tools to those working to end FGM. If you enjoy the podcast, don't forget to subscribe, share and review. Follow us on Twitter @toughlovepc or on Instagram @missleonardis  

The prolific artistic production of Vesna Kittelson always maintains autobiographical connections: her installations of deconstructed books and her luminous drawings of fountains recall her childhood in Split, Croatia; her early color field paintings represent people and places she remembers; her war paintings portray the tragedy and emotion experienced in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as her reactions to the 9/11 attack in the United States; the brilliant botanical watercolors in her artist’s books result from her research on Charles and Emma Darwin; and her dynamic cutout portraits of her students reveal bonds with fellow artists and immigrants of a later generation. A vital participant in the Minneapolis arts community for decades, Kittelson demonstrates her strong passion for creativity through her ever-evolving practice and extensive international career. Today I talked to Vesna about Synthesis: Lost and Found in America: The Art of Vesna Kittelson (Afton Historical Society Press-University of Minnesota Press, 2020) Contributors to the book include: Heather Carroll, Minnesota History Museum; Wendy Fernstrum; Joanna Inglot, Macalester College; Lyndel King, Weisman Art Museum; Camille LeFevre; John Lyon, Walker Art Center; Kerry A. Morgan, Minnesota College of Art and Design; Marcia Reed, Getty Research Institute; Susannah Schouweiler, Weisman Art Museum. Kirstin L. Ellsworth is an Associate Professor of Art History at California State University Dominguez Hills. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The prolific artistic production of Vesna Kittelson always maintains autobiographical connections: her installations of deconstructed books and her luminous drawings of fountains recall her childhood in Split, Croatia; her early color field paintings represent people and places she remembers; her war paintings portray the tragedy and emotion experienced in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as her reactions to the 9/11 attack in the United States; the brilliant botanical watercolors in her artist’s books result from her research on Charles and Emma Darwin; and her dynamic cutout portraits of her students reveal bonds with fellow artists and immigrants of a later generation. A vital participant in the Minneapolis arts community for decades, Kittelson demonstrates her strong passion for creativity through her ever-evolving practice and extensive international career. Today I talked to Vesna about Synthesis: Lost and Found in America: The Art of Vesna Kittelson (Afton Historical Society Press-University of Minnesota Press, 2020) Contributors to the book include: Heather Carroll, Minnesota History Museum; Wendy Fernstrum; Joanna Inglot, Macalester College; Lyndel King, Weisman Art Museum; Camille LeFevre; John Lyon, Walker Art Center; Kerry A. Morgan, Minnesota College of Art and Design; Marcia Reed, Getty Research Institute; Susannah Schouweiler, Weisman Art Museum. Kirstin L. Ellsworth is an Associate Professor of Art History at California State University Dominguez Hills. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The very first episode of GeogPod! Our host John Lyon is joined by the GA's Curriculum and Marketing Manager, Rebecca Kitchen, to discuss the Critical thinking for achievement project. 

Our guest is John Lyon, the President and CEO of World Hope International (WHI). World hope is a Christian relief and development organization that works with vulnerable and exploited communities to alleviate poverty, suffering and worldwide injustices. John has worked with the organization for more than 18 years and is considered an expert in global development. He has more than 12 years of experience in international law and shared some of his best insights on planning for the unexpected, leveraging technology to connect with your donors and how to find balance in the midst of all the chaos. ----- Learn more about the tools Virtuous provides leading nonprofits to grow giving at: https://www.virtuouscrm.com/. Get an in-depth guide to responsive fundraising to help your organization grow generosity from the modern donor at: https://www.virtuouscrm.com/responsive/.

Our guest is John Lyon, the President and CEO of World Hope International (WHI). World hope is a Christian relief and development organization that works with vulnerable and exploited communities to alleviate poverty, suffering and worldwide injustices. John has worked with the organization for more than 18 years and is considered an expert in global development. He has more than 12 years of experience in international law and shared some of his best insights on planning for the unexpected, leveraging technology to connect with your donors and how to find balance in the midst of all the chaos.

Our guest is John Lyon, the President and CEO of World Hope International (WHI). World hope is a Christian relief and development organization that works with vulnerable and exploited communities to alleviate poverty, suffering and worldwide injustices. John has worked with the organization for more than 18 years and is considered an expert in global development. He has more than 12 years of experience in international law and shared some of his best insights on planning for the unexpected, leveraging technology to connect with your donors and how to find balance in the midst of all the chaos. ----- Learn more about the tools Virtuous provides leading nonprofits to grow giving at: https://www.virtuouscrm.com/.  Get an in-depth guide to responsive fundraising to help your organization grow generosity from the modern donor at: https://www.virtuouscrm.com/responsive/.

Hear John Lyon talk about his college experiences at Harvard and Wake Forest Universities and how emerging web and mobile technologies played a role in those experiences. John also shares about the importance of having great soft skills and the impact they have on your professional and life experiences. --- 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/mind-over-tutors-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mind-over-tutors-podcast/support

With the 2019 cinematic release of Asbury Park; Riot, Redemption, Rock n Roll, here's another chance to hear the leader of Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, John Lyon, talking to Marc Tyley about his life and times and the whole New Jersey, Asbury Park scene.

On this episode of Not a Drill, we have guest host John Lyon from the John Lyon podcast . we are talkling about superhero movie fatigue and if its getting old..... --- 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/notadrill/message

John Lyon on finding his way after WMAL ~ "For two years . . . I floated around . . . It wasn’t the same, what I’m used to all these years being here. Strangely enough, I connected with Montgomery County to work in the Victim Assistance Program. I was on the air at WGAY on a Sunday morning. . . I picked up this card and the card said, 'Volunteers needed for the Victims Assistance Sexual Assault Program of Montgomery County.' . . . put that one in my pocket. The next day I called the number on the card . . ." John Lyon, Retired Announcer and WMAL Swingman, and host Andy Ockershausen in-studio interview Andy Ockershausen: This is Our Town. This Andy Ockershausen, and what a pleasure and what an extreme, extreme happiness for Janice and I to be with the original WMAL Swingman. We call him The Swingman 'cause he could swing on every show on WMAL. John Lyon, welcome to Our Town. John Lyon: Thank you very much. I've been looking forward to this. Andy Ockershausen: I first remember that people said, "It's not Lyons." John Lyon: That's right. Andy Ockershausen: John Lyon, and when he came . . . I was at WMAL. I'd been there so long I was part of the furniture or the fixtures. When John first came as a young man, but he left as an old man, but he never really left. I'm sure he's got WMAL in his heart. John Lyon: Oh sure. Sure. Andy Ockershausen: Like we all do, John. Channel 7 - Lyon's First Audition in DC John Lyon: It's ... I came here in 1967. Auditioned after three years at a station in Peoria, CBS station there. The odd thing about that was the guy that I replaced in Peoria was the same guy I replaced here. I'd been there three years and I said to the boss ... His name was Bob Beneke, I don't know if you remember. Andy Ockershausen: I remember the name. John Lyon: Bob Beneke. When he left here, he got out of the business. He went into some financial dealings and stuff. Andy Ockershausen: Well, you were hired as an announcer, correct? John Lyon: I was hired- Andy Ockershausen: Not as a talent and not as a performer but an announcer? John Lyon: I'm not sure now. Andy Ockershausen: Well ... That's where ... Jack Weaver and Frank started as announcers on WMAL. John Lyon: Yeah. We had a TV audition, Channel 7 audition and Frank Ford maybe- Andy Ockershausen: Absolutely. John Lyon: Was the Director- Andy Ockershausen: He's our guy. John Lyon: It was me and like six other guys for this audition and I had to borrow some dough to come out here. I had to borrow money to come out here. I had four kids back in Peoria, that I said to the boss, "Look, I've been here two or three years now. I'm kind of getting to the end of the scale, you know?" I said, "Is there any chance you can give me some more dough?" "No, that's it," he said, "You've come to the end of the road." He said, "That's how we kind of do it here. We're a medium-sized market." Andy Ockershausen: It's a market price. John Lyon: We got a chance to do a lot of stuff there. Did TV, nighttime radio program, and he says ... I said, "Well, okay. I'll be honest with you. I'm gonna start looking for work." He says, "Okay, good luck." I put audition tapes out to all the stations where I thought I could fit in, mainly in the Midwest 'cause that's where I was. Andy Ockershausen: Sure. John Lyon: I went to WGN Chicago, WCCO Minneapolis - Andy Ockershausen: Powerhouse. Fate? - Lyon Intended to Work in Midwest, DC Never Crossed His Mind John Lyon: KMOX St. Louis, WOW Cincinnati, 'cause I thought, "I know these stations and I think I could work there." Well, I didn't hear anything from any of 'em. Somehow a tape ended up out here in Washington, D.C. I had no idea where Washington D.C. was. I said, "Point to the east and keep going." That's what I did and I think it was Harold Green called me and he said, "We're gonna have auditions", on whatever the date was. I said, "I'll be there." I made arrangements and I went and got a few bucks together and came out...

Sue Palka, Fox 5 DC's Chief Meteorologist, on what makes a successful on-air weather forecast~ "It's a combination of a teaching experience, from my teaching years, which were only about seven years. I remember that you have a main idea that you have to deliver, and I feel like I've failed as a forecaster if you don't know the weather when I'm done." Sue Palka and Joe Palka with host Andy Ockershausen in-studio interview Andy Ockershausen: This is Andy Ockershausen. This is Our Town. It's such a pleasure. I mean, it so sincerely to have two of my favorite people in broadcast and life in Washington, DC, Joe and Sue Palka. Welcome to Our Town! Sue Palka: Andy, I know you say that to every guest, but we are delighted to see you because you're the real star of this podcast and we are so excited. Joe Palka: That's true, how many people say to you that you are my hero, Andy, and you continue to be my hero, you really do. Andy Ockershausen: It sounds like hero worship, but it's true. They don't worship me, they worship those call letters. Joe Palka's First Impression of WMAL Personalities, 1980s Joe Palka: It's true, but well, they were great call letters. The most outstanding among a handful in the entire country. And boy, I can remember when I was a young broadcaster back in the 70s and early 80s and I would think of WMAL. Around 1980 when we were first married, we came to visit some people in Washington. I was still in Erie at WRIE, and I heard this guy, John Lyon on the air in the afternoon, and he was, he picked up a guitar and he started singing. I'm just, "Oh my God." And then there was a guy Tom Gauger on and he was playing piano with somebody from the philharmonic. Then I found out that John Lyon was just a fill in, I thought, this is the greatest radio station I'd ever heard in my life. Andy Ockershausen: Joe Palka, you are a fountain of information. What you have done and you've accomplished is amazing, 'cause your wife has out gamed you, like my wife has out gamed me. That's so great, I'm so proud of Sue Palka, what she has accomplish and what Janice Ockershausen has accomplished, and we're lucky to have two great women in our lives. Joe Palka: Who had no taste in men, right? Andy Ockershausen: That's right. Sue Palka: Well, I'll tell you, honestly- Andy Ockershausen: Well I'll tell you, reading about you guys in Erie, Pennsylvania, the snow capital of the world, they tell me. Sue Palka: My gosh, they had 13 inches of snow on November 10th this year. My dad- Andy Ockershausen: In Erie. The Palkas Live in Our Town Thanks to Andy O Sue Palka: -and he said, I gotta get out of here. They had over about 200 inches last year. But before we get into Erie, Andy, I've got to just say Joe and I would not be in DC if it weren't for you. And I never forget that. And when you invited us on the podcast, I told Fox 5, "I'm absolutely doing this, I have to do it because I owe Andy." We would not even be here if it weren't for you and WMAL offering Joe the job. Joe Palka: Let's toss a couple of bones to a couple of people who are no longer with us, Jim Gallant and Eileen Griffin. Now they were also responsible for my departure, but guess what, had they not brought me here, our life would have changed entirely. Andy Ockershausen: Everything was timing. Was on my way out when you came in, but that happens too. Joe Palka: Yeah, well, God works in funny ways. Andy Ockershausen: But that's life. But to have Sue remain in our lives has been terrific for Janice and I cause we knew her as a fresh face kid doing weekends, and all of a sudden she's a major, major star. And I say that, I know what I'm talking about. I know what the public reflects about Sue Palka. Joe Palka: Well, I have a feeling that had television not been invented in 1985 when Sue first started, they would have invented it just for her. Sue Palka: Oh, stop. Joe Palka: Oh no, you were a school teacher.

San Francisco's Magic Theatre Artistic Director Loretta Greco talks about her friendship and work with the late playwright, actor, author, screenwriter and director, Sam Shepard, who passed away on July 27, 2017 at the age of 73.Transcript:Speaker 1: Method to the madness is next. You listening to method to the madness, a public affairs show on k a l x Berkeley Celebrating Bay area innovators. I'm your host, Lisa Keifer. And today I'm speaking with Loretta Greco, the artistic director of San Francisco's magic theater. We'll be talking about Sam Shepherd, one of America's greatest playwrights who passed away this year, July 27th, 2017 at his [00:00:30] home in Kentucky due to complications of Lou Gehrig's disease at the age of 73. Sam Shepard spent a decade as playwright in residence at San Francisco's magic theater. Loretta, thank you for coming over here. My pleasure. And I just want to talk about Sam shipSpeaker 2: because I feel like if people pass away and then it's over, I have to talk about his work. And you actually worked with him for several years. How did you [00:01:00] meet? Well, I should back up and say that I had been reading about the magic theater in San Francisco my whole life. I grew up in Miami, went to school in New Orleans, Washington, New York. And it was because of Sam, uh, you know, uh, John Lyon gave Sam a residency there for 10 years, starting when starting in 74 to about 84. But that's where he wrote bury child and full for love and true West family trilogy, family trilogy, and probably [00:01:30] well undoubtedly plays that are going to go on forever. And, uh, and so when I got here 10 years ago, I started looking for Sam and he, he was, he, when you say you were looking for him drop, what do you mean?Speaker 2: Well, I mean, literally I got there and there was like no number, no, like it was there. It was a lot of fun tracking them down. And I finally, um, I went through his agent and Judy Dolan and she sort of was a great like guard dog. So I had to meet her and then she said, [00:02:00] Oh yeah, yeah, Sam will love you. And so, but you said you're on your own, you know, here's this number. You have my blessings, good luck. And, um, when we finally reached each other about five years ago, six years ago, he just, he was incredible. He was just so real. And so we, I was reaching it because I wanted to celebrate him while I was still around and you had just taken over the magic taken over. And I wanted [00:02:30] to do a shepherding America where we went through all of his major plays and, um, but I didn't want to do it if he didn't want to be a part of it.Speaker 2: And, um, so that's why I was reaching out to him. Boy, it was just something meeting him. He came out and he did an evening where he just read from his work and Lisa, it was incredible. And that's when we spent about five days together. And then, you know, he, he surprised me several times in San, like he'd just show [00:03:00] up. Um, and then if he was in New York and I was in New York, we would see each other there. So he was just, he was so incredibly kind and generous and I think, um, a lot of other things as well. But I think those are the things that you don't hear about him as much. Um, he's just incredible. Let's talk about his work just a bit because I feel like he's one of our greatest absolute rights. What is it that you find or found in his work that made you want to seek him out?Speaker 2: [00:03:30] Well, they're inexplicably, they are, um, not, they are plays that are not meant to be understood, fully digested, wrapped up in a big bow. They're works that are there to make you feel and to lean in. They're muscular, they're visceral, they're active, they are totally active. And um, I just, I got in a huge argument once with the patron, cause I said [00:04:00] Shepard is without a doubt our greatest American. Dramatist and um, you know, she took me on. What about Miller? What about Alby? And I said shepherd has been writing. He's, he wrote into his six decade, he wrote, since he was a little, you know, late teens, he wrote 55 plays. He wrote screenplays. He has five collections of pros, like the sheer magnitude and depth of that work. I mean there isn't [00:04:30] a canon like it. Actors kill to play these roles. I mean, you know you fell in love with them. I do. You know, through his work. I mean you can't, my introduction was true west and I was so blown over and then that led me down the path.Speaker 3: Are you crazy? You went to college [inaudible] you're rolling in the docks floating up and down in elevators and you want to learn how to live on the yaks. Yeah, I do [00:05:00] lake. Hey, there's nothing down here for me. There never was when we were kids here was different. There was a lights here then. No, no. I keep coming down here like it's the 50s or something. I get off the freeway and familiar landmarks. They turn out to be unfamiliar on my way to do these, these appointments. I wondered on the streets, I thought I recognized they turned out to be replicants as traits. I remember streets I mr member streets. I don't know if I lived out of her. If I saw [00:05:30] him in a scary field, the just don't exist. There is no point in crying about that as not been rammed down their lien. Please dear mommy, I can't save you and you can let me come with you guys. Let me come with the weight that I choose to live in the middle of nowhere. Huh? You think [00:06:00] it's some kind of philosophical decision I took. Boy, I live out there. Be Cold. I can't make it here.Speaker 2: Jessica Lange said that no man she had ever met compared to Sam. In terms of maleness, what do you think about that statement? You know, um, he had it going on until the last time I saw him and I saw him when he was sick. I said, what do you think she meant by this wellness? He is [00:06:30] profoundly male. He is. Um, first of all, he was a long, tall drink of water, man. He just, I'm, I'm five, nine and he made me feel small and that's great. And he's just, I mean, come on. He hunts. I, I can't, it's so [inaudible] reminds me of, he reminds me a lot of William Faulkner, the way they live, the way they drank their maleness. And what they said about [00:07:00] the myth of the American dream? Well, exactly. I mean, I think the thing about Sam was he was the iconic marble man.Speaker 2: I mean, he, he hunted, he, he, he smoked, he drank. He, um, he rode horses. He loved his horses, he loved his dogs. He, um, he was just incredible and he lived so long that he really did experience the west, that old mythic west and [00:07:30] the promise of the American dream. And then lived to see that promise reneged, you know? And so I think that, um, he also, he turned heads everywhere. He went. I mean, we'd be sitting in a diner and people would come up and say, are you Sam Shepard? And they'd be in their teens all the way to women, much more mature. Um, what was it like for actors to work under his direction? Did you [00:08:00] observe that? I knew several, and I think that actors loved him because, because a, he was an actor and a fine one, and he understood and respected the craft.Speaker 2: And so he guided with a loving, gentle hand, but he didn't get in people's way. He knew that if he laid a little path that people would find their own way. And so he wasn't a micromanager. He really [00:08:30] let people soar and find their own, their own journey to his characters. And he said once that he assumed that if you are, if you're doing this, and you must understand what I'm saying. Yes, yes. And speaking Sam's words like that's come on. Malcovich um, James Gammon, um, uh, uh, ed Harris, Kathy Baker. Um, these are people that were drawn to that [00:09:00] muscularity and lived for it. And it, I think that Sam and that work baked a kind of muscularity into the magic into Steppenwolf so that then it set the bar high in terms of what theater really was and what you needed to feel across the boards for it to be viable. And he never stopped writing.Speaker 1: If you're just tuning in, you're listening to method to the madness. Public Affairs [00:09:30] show on k a l x Berkeley Celebrating Bay area innovators. Today we're remembering Sam Shepard and talking with Loretta Greco, San Francisco's magic theaters, artistic director, Sam Shepard's association with the Magic Theater included 24 productions in total. He spent a decade as playwright in residence where he premiered his master works buried child, true west and fool for love. He returned in the year 2000 [00:10:00] to direct the world premier of his work, the late Henry Moss. And he had just written a fictional [inaudible]Speaker 2: book, which is kind of autobiographical in his last year. The one inside was published last January and he wrote it while he was sick, but he wrote it and it's astounding. The particle of dread was published a [00:10:30] couple months later. That was his re dreaming of Oedipus. And he did it in dairy Ireland with Steven Ray. It's an incredible script and his latest spy of the first person has just come out. It's being published months after his death. He was working on this as he was sick. He was recording it and he was dictating to Roxy and sandy has two sisters. And um, and it's my understanding [00:11:00] then his daughter. And, um, and then Patty Smith worked with them on both the last two novels to help that it, they go way back and they remained such close friends. And so, I mean, who does that? I mean I just, I opened this book, I wanted to look at the letters between Sam and Joe Chaikin before I came here and look at what he opens this with.Speaker 2: It's a Brecht who he loved Brecht and Beckett. This is [00:11:30] his opening quote. You can make a fresh start with your final breath. Oh, that's, that kills me. Yeah. He never stopped. The last time I saw him was the day before he left for Kentucky. I sat with Sandy and Roxie and Sam and my partner mark in Healdsburg. And um, Sam was writing, we talked about Beckett. We talked about where do you think the Beatles came up with the lyrics for blackbird? He was contemplating all these things [00:12:00] and he said to me, can you believe it? I'm still writing. I'm not stopping. I can't stop. I mean, I think this is the thing about Sam. He was profoundly himself from the beginning until the end. Flawed and damaged and chasing a dream of America that did not exist any longer and chasing the tail of his father.Speaker 2: And he did it honestly, humbly and painfully. And I love him for that. [00:12:30] He never made facades. He never hid. He was profoundly himself till the end. Yeah. What was your favorite of his works? Well, you know, it's funny, I would have, if we had talked a year and a half ago, I would've said Barry Child, because I have, I have loved that place since I read it 1978 and didn't know what the heck to make of it. And I kept reading and reading and I finally directed it and I thought, oh my gosh, it's like king lear. It's like you could direct it five times. Yeah. [00:13:00] Just start to, to grasp the, the depths of the meaning of that play. But I did full for love last year and I have to say, Lisa, it was like working on a Beckett play. When you work on Beckett, you think you know a little something and then you get in rehearsal and you realize you know nothing.Speaker 2: And every day it's like an archaeological dig and you learn a little more and you make a discovery and that leads to 17 other big deep questions. Working [00:13:30] on fool for love was one of the joys of my life because it was also, I mean, Sam never shied away from taboo. Right. So it's a love story about siblings and um, see this is where I see the Falkner connection. Yeah. Because the more you read say an Absalom, Absalom, you know, it's about incessant and family. It's about miscegenation. I mean it's about all these things and every time you read it you see something else, [00:14:00] a real artist. That's what you feel when you read it. It's new every time. Every time, every 10, it will be a new play. I really do feel like fool and berry child and true west, if there's a bottle that gets dug up centuries from now, those are going to be in it.Speaker 2: I mean, they're going to talk about who this country was and what, what our goals were, what our aims were and how broken hearted and yet undaunted the human American [00:14:30] spirit thing is. He got to appreciate the world's appreciation of him pretty early on. Like you say, when you met him, you sensed the honesty and the appreciation. He was one of the shyest people I'd ever met for him to do an interview for me to convince him to do an interview with Rob Harwood at the SF chronicle. I had to agree to come and sit with him and he, he detested post show talk backs. [00:15:00] He didn't want to talk about the work. He didn't, you know, if you asked him what is it about, he would say, Oh, if I knew I wouldn't have to. Right. And so he, he was uncomfortable in a way with the kind of fame, but I, you know, like [inaudible] I think he appreciated, the thing is he got that Pulitzer early, that was 79 for a play he wrote in 78 and [00:15:30] I think, you know, it's funny because he said to me once, I don't know what all the fuss is about those plays, they're just plays.Speaker 2: I wrote when I was a kid, you know, [inaudible] you know, but, but that wasn't him being self-deprecating. That's really what's really lad. And I mean he was so comfortable in his skin as a human being and as a male. But as a, as an actor, as a, as someone who was famous, I never saw him and joy that in the way [00:16:00] I did. Interesting that he moved easily between his literature and film and his acting and acting. You know, that's not easy for a lot of people to go in between those. I know. And, and it's interesting because he was up for an academy award the same year that he won the Pulitzer. And I think that the acting informed the writing and the writing informed the acting. And that's the thing about the writing. There's [00:16:30] not an extra syllable. I mean there just really isn't. And he wrote Paris, Texas and many other Oh, absolutely.Speaker 2: Films. So he really knew both sides of the camera. And I have to say the pros, his five collections of pros, um, motel chronicles and, and cruising paradise and dad of days and, and great dreams of heaven. Those, we would read them every day. Every time I was in rehearsal for live the mind for Barry Child for fool, for love, [00:17:00] for a big Sam Festival we did on a 70th birthday, we would start every day by opening the books and reading his prose, short little pieces that were all about this country and they are magnificent and a completely different discipline. That's one of the hardest, you know, that's one of the hardest short stigma. And I think, I think if there was one thing he wouldn't mind me saying is that he wanted [00:17:30] to crack the long form novel and he felt like he never did. He wanted to write something that was longer form and it just kicked his booty.Speaker 2: You know? And, and he talked about that several times with this before or after he had written the, the, the novel, the fictional, the novel, the, I'm one inside, and I haven't read this by the first person, but, or spy of the first person. But the one inside is like a little novella. It's, it's [00:18:00] naked. It is so unbelievably transparent about him and his dad, him and his dad, him and his women, him and his drinking. Maybe our listeners don't know about his relationship with his father. Maybe you can tell it was, um, I learned part of this from Sam. The last time I saw him. I didn't know that his dad was a Fulbright scholar. He told me his dad was a, was an absolute learn it man. And [00:18:30] he knew he was a bomber pilot. He went to war and he came back and, um, he, he was lost it to his dad and it really destroyed him.Speaker 2: Sam's, you know, his family was, you know, his mom was a rock and his, you know, his home was full of violence and alcoholism. His Dad, I mean, if, you know, lie of the mind, you know, it's a pretty, pretty, uh, close to Real, you know, [00:19:00] portrayal of how his dad died in the middle of a highway, run down drunk. And, um, and Sam will talk about it, you know, um, in, in, uh, in a variety of ways. But I think that his dad's heart ache and his dad's being destroyed and, and that being present in his household. I mean, Sam writes about finance and m knows it firsthand and I think that he wanted more time [00:19:30] with his dad. His Dad was a man of very few words and I think that Sam spent his entire life trying to figure him out.Speaker 4: Yeah. I grew up in this, this World War Two world where the women were continually trying to heal up the man, you know, and, and suffering horribly behind it. Now, I don't know why that came about, but I have a strong thing that had to do with World War II. These men returned from this sheer ROIC [00:20:00] victory of one kind or another, and entered this Eisenhower age and were devastated in some basic way. You know, I mean, almost all those men that, uh, that, that were of my father's generation seemed like they were devastated in a way that, that it's mysterious still and the women didn't understand it and the men didn't understand it. So the, the, the, uh, the medicine was booze for the most part. Boots. It suddenly occurred [00:20:30] to me that I was maybe avoiding a territory that I needed to investigate, which is a family and add voided for, for quite a while. Because to me it was, it was, it was a danger in, in, I was a little afraid of it, you know, particularly around my own man and all of that emotional territory. You know, I w I didn't really want to tip toe in there and then I said, well, maybe a better,Speaker 2: and he, he also [00:21:00] wrote about how you really never escape the past, the history. No, and I think that, you know, sometimes people think about him and his images stick dialogue, which is absolutely unparalleled. But for me, in all of these mediums, Sam is digging up our primordial pasts. He knows that you can't take a step forward without the ghosts of what came before. And he knew that as a young writer [00:21:30] and he never forgot it.Speaker 4: I do honor the ones that have come before me, you know? I mean, you know, it's ridiculous to think that you're, uh, you're, you're, you were born out of thin air. There's, there's, there's things that, uh, there's ancestors, you know, and uh, if you don't honor your ancestors in the real sense, [00:22:00] you, uh, you're committing a kind of suicide. Yeah.Speaker 2: Do you have a story that you can tell us about you and Sam that you wouldn't mind sharing maybe no one else in the world knows about? I'll tell you two things. One is that I had loved his writing for so long and when we finally met, I picked him up at the cleft. It's funny because I got him this beautiful sweet that was basically like an apartment [00:22:30] with views, almost three 60 of the city at the top of the cliff hotel. And I picked him up there and met him in the lobby and I was taking him to see a show and we would then spend almost a week together and get to know each other. But I was so nervous and he was nervous. He said he, he's, he was late and he said, I got in the elevator and I just couldn't figure out all those buttons.Speaker 2: And he said, next time I do not want to be in a fancy hotel, I want [00:23:00] to put me up in a Ho motel, right by the water, by the magic or just on the other side. And I was so nervous, Lisa driving him that I turned the wrong way on Franklin. I've been driving on Frank Lennon golf since I moved here. I knew one goes north and one goes south. I turned onto oncoming traffic. I was just beside myself. I was so nervous. There was no one in my life that I would have been more nervous about meeting. [00:23:30] And you know, we hung out in the theater and just talked and talked one day and I'll tell you, I just, I grew to love him and, and he, the thing about him is he was just profoundly real and he wanted to make sure I was too.Speaker 2: And so one time in New York I met him and I was supposed to go to a matinee and he just, we were supposed to have a quick tea. We ended up having lunch and just, and I asked him about Joe Chaikin and he started to talk about [00:24:00] making tongues and savage lab, which made it at the magic and with Joe and Lisa, his eyes brimmed with tears talking about how humbled he was to be in a room with Joe, let alone making something with Joe. And if you read their letters back and forth, you know, they had an extraordinary relationship. Betty talked about that time and then he, he started [00:24:30] talking about back at any, started reciting back at just off the, I mean off the cuff. And I was sitting there listening to his stories and I just, I thought, I don't ever want to get up. Like I just don't want to leave him. He loved making theater so much and he remained in awe of the masters and in awe of all those Irish cats. And [00:25:00] um, but him reciting back at that was, that was a highlight for me. Yeah, that's pretty great.Speaker 4: It's very interesting to me, aloneness. Very interesting. Because it's always this balance between aloneness and being a part of a community or a part of, you know, it's always been interesting from the very start is this exile. That's what Beckett is so powerful. I said, [00:25:30] you know, he's bad. It's all about Exxon. It's about banishment about being cut away. Uh, and then at the same time having to take part in it.Speaker 2: Since he had kind of a, well, he had a bad relationship with his father. Was he able to bridge that and get past that and have a good relationship with his own kids? I wish that I could speak to that personally. What I'll tell you is, man, he loved Jesse and Jesse loves him and I know all of his kids, [00:26:00] Anna and Walker. I mean they were there the whole time. And, and what I know is Sam speaking of them and he often said, it's, it's a wonder that Jessica and I turned out to have the greatest, most sane human beings ever and a miracle that Jesse is as extraordinary a man and father as he is. And Sam once said to me that just hearing the sound of his daughter's voice set him right every time. So I know, I mean, I [00:26:30] think that he was just, that he was mythic, that he was interested in things larger, you know, than a kitchen table story.Speaker 2: And I think, um, the size of him, the size of his is gonna live on. And I think that people are going to, when they think about the American spirit, I really do think they're going to call upon his, his Canon of work, which is unparalleled. Again, 55 plays five collections of prose. And he played [00:27:00] over 50 roles on film. Yeah, I mean it's just, there hasn't been an artist like him and I, I really don't think there'll be one. Again, are you going to be doing anything coming up? We're going to do something at the very end of the season to commemorate him. Mike, a big Rawkus memorial and when you say end of the season, but it would be in May. And then we're going to set an annual celebration of Sam on his birthday at the magic every November [00:27:30] 5th, and we're hoping it'll be like Bloom's day. Like everybody getting together to read Joyce on, uh, on Bloom's Day. We want to get together and just have a community where people just pick up Sam's work and read it aloud and that every year we can hear his words hit the air and be reminded of their power. Loretta, it's so great to talk to you about Sam Shepherd. Thank you so much for coming on method to the madness. You are so welcome.Speaker 5: When you die,Speaker 2: [00:28:00] go straight to heaven or hell.Speaker 5: When you die,Speaker 2: disintegrate into energy.Speaker 5: When you die, who are reborn into another body. When you die, you turn dished. When you die, you travel to other [inaudible]Speaker 2: planets.Speaker 5: When you die,Speaker 2: you get to start all over.Speaker 5: When [00:28:30] you die, get marked in the book. When you dry,Speaker 2: rejoined with your ancestors.Speaker 5: Where'd you die?Speaker 2: Oh, your dreams will come true.Speaker 5: When you die,Speaker 2: you speak to the angels.Speaker 5: When you die, he'll get what you deserve when [00:29:00] you die. It'sSpeaker 2: absolutely the finalSpeaker 5: when you die and never come back. When you die, you die forever. When you die,Speaker 2: it's the end of your life. You've been listening to method to the madness. A public affairs show on k a [00:29:30] l x Berkeley Celebrating Bay area innovators today show was all about Sam Shepherd. You can find all of our podcasts on iTunes university. We'll seeSpeaker 6: you in two weeks. [00:30:00] [inaudible]. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

More than 42 years after Sheila and Katherine Lyon vanished from Wheaton Plaza, Lloyd Lee Welch was set to go on trial for their murders in remote Bedford, Virginia. Would the Lyon family finally get the answers and justice they've sought for decades?

Ric Edelman, Founder Edelman Financial ServicesRic Edelman on visiting New York City after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks: "We got in a conversation with the waiter about it, and he was just describing what life was like in the city in the aftermath . . . the four of us decided we’re gonna leave him a $150 tip. . . We got up and we left. He came running after us. He thought we made a mistake. He said, “You left me me too much money.” He was trying to give it back. We looked at him and said, “No, no, no. That’s for you.” He started to cry, and so did we." A Ockershausen: This is Our Town, and this is Andy Ockershausen. I'm so delighted for many, many reasons I'll get into to talk to our guest. I've known him for many years. I would say it's close to three decades, if not more. I can still remember listening to Ric Edelman as a guest with Trumbull and Core talking about Disney stock and what a great Christmas gift that would be, or about the value of 12 days of Christmas, or his fabulous Thanksgiving dinners with his wife, Jean. He was part of the WMAL family, a big part of the success of the greatest radio station in the world, at one time. He has the longest running show for cash paid for on WMAL radio in history. This man's a genius. He's an author, an innovator, a philanthropist, a visionary. He's my financial planner. He has the ear of so many important people in Congress and The Wall Street. According to The Wall Street Journal, he recently sold his company for $880 million, and he didn't have a mortgage, which pleases me no end. I use this all the time, Ric. It still stands, you made me a small fortune. Ric Edelman: That's because you started with a large one. A Ockershausen: See, you remember that too. Welcome, my very dear friend, Ric Edelman. Welcome to Our Town, Ric. Ric Edelman: Thank you, Andy, and Janice, it's good to be with you both. Janice Iacona Ockershausen: You too. A Ockershausen: You were such an important part of Our Town, and Our Growth, and all those names that I mentioned to you. Ric Edelman: Can I correct all of the mistakes you made in your intro? A Ockershausen: No. Ric Edelman: Okay. Janice Iacona Ockershausen: It was actually $860 million. Ric Edelman: Well, neither one of those numbers has been confirmed. A Ockershausen: No, we heard. Ric Edelman's First Broadcast at WMAL with John Lyon Ric Edelman: My initial broadcast was with John Lyon. A Ockershausen: Is that right? Ric Edelman: Not Trumbull and Core. A Ockershausen: You mean the phone in? Ric Edelman: No, my very first radio interview here at WMAL was with John Lyon. A Ockershausen: You know, we hear about John all the time because of the girls. That story is still stirring around, as you know. But why do we get that as Trumbull and Core? Ric Edelman: Well, because I was on with Chris and Bill, but ... A Ockershausen: Over the phone or were you in the studio? Ric Edelman: Both. I mean, I was on periodically and I had the back line, so whenever I heard them talking about something, I could get myself on the air to tell them they were crazy. But, it was John Lyon who discovered me. A Ockershausen: Well, did they come to you for this information you could provide, or they answer your questions about the market? How did that all begin? Ric Edelman: Yeah, John Lyon invited me on to the air one day. I think reluctantly, Rick Fowler, who's still on the air here at WMAL, I think, twisted John's arm and said, "You really gotta talk to this guy." John, reluctantly, I believe, agreed to put me on the air on a Friday afternoon at 2:00 PM in his final hour of his four hour show for a 15 minute interview, which meant a grand total of six minutes of air time. John was so impressed that he kept me on through the bottom of the hour, and then asked me to stay for the rest of the hour. I ended up staying the entire hour. At the end of the hour, he said, "Finally, you're the first guy I can understand about this subject,...

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Most people who have spent any time in the Washington, D.C. area in the past four decades have heard about the disappearance of Sheila and Katherine Lyon. The daughters of a popular local radio broadcaster walked to Wheaton Plaza mall on March 25, 1975, to see Easter decorations and have lunch. They never made it home. In episode 1, we hear moment-by-moment recollections of what happened that fateful day and recall the initial steps of the police investigation.

A preview of what to expect in the new WTOP podcast series, The Investigation Continues: The Lyon Sisters.

More from 1978 with Bob Edwards and Tony Lloyd. This follows the 4 hour spectacular extended birthday broadcast  http://media.libsyn.com/media/fmthen/Thameside_781199a.mp3. Thameside Birthday Cake being offered as  a prize. They have a phone out competition. Bob plays a bootleg of Brown Sugar with Eric Clapton on guitar.  We all now get our choice of music streamed on the Internet, using Spotify or over DAB this was broadcast just 4 years after the first ever  independent FM radio station was launched in the UK. We all still thought that listening to a non-BBC station was pretty exciting - and then along came Thameside Radio 90.2 Actually it was only 8 years after the launch of any radio station in London (BBC Radio London - thanks Wikipedia). So the idea and the technology were still very new.More Thameside Radio listeners: Terry Williams; Ron Calston; Arian Leaper for the John Lyon school; Martin Crew of Se22 from Exeter University; Andy Feely; The Barry Banson Appreciation Society;  J D Deam; Dave Williamson of Hendon ; Tim Radford of Uxbridge who found out about Thameside Radio 90.2 when he saw a car sticker;  Patrick Kingholm of Winchmore Hill; Bob Tree; Malcolm McIntyre;

How are these economic downturns affecting horse business owners and what can they do to get through? Four guests that know a whole lot about horse businesses help us evaluate the options and what business owners need to do in these tough times. A must listen for anyone in the horse business.Stable Scoop Episode 12 – Show Notes and Links:Hosts: Glenn the Geek and Helena B.Co-Host: Laurie Cerny from One Horse Press: Laurie wrote the book “Horsin’ Around The USA Guide To Marketing & Promoting Your Horse Business”. Laurie A. Cerny is a professional journalist and marketing professional who has won numerous state and national awards for her writing, photography, graphic design and advertising both in mainstream media and within the horse industry. Her work has appeared in John Lyon’s Perfect Horse, The Horse, Horse Illustrated, Western Horseman, Equine Times, Kalamazoo Gazette, Detroit News, Chicago Tribune, and more. She also served as the communication director for a major saddle and horse product manufacturer.Guest: Megan Lanzarone of Team CEO Eventingin Lexington, KY. Team CEO is a successful full service Eventing facility, offering locations in Ashland KY and Lexington KY. Megan Lanzarone (previously Megan Moore), 4th in the 2005 USEA Gold Cup Advanced Level Standings. Megan has successfully competed through the Advanced Level and has students through the Intermediate level. They are into the training and sales of event horses and have a very active training and lesson stableGuest: Todd Branson is the AQHA Sr. Manager of Marketing. Todd graduated from Purdue University with a bachelors of science degree in Animal Science in 2001. Shortly after graduating, Todd went to work as a 4-H Extension Educator with Oklahoma State University. In 2004, he moved to Amarillo to begin his career with the American Quarter Horse Association in marketing. Today, Todd is the Sr. Manager of Marketing and focuses most of his time with AQHA on show marketing and outside print, web and television advertising for the Association.Guest: Ingrid Andrews from equinnovation.com. Ingrid Andrews is an equine business consultant who has been helping horse business owners with operating and marketing their businesses for over 15 years. She has given seminars, taught a college course on equine legal issues, has articles on many business and marketing topics published in print and online, and is also the owner of a breeding farm. You can get more information at her website, www.equinnovation.com, a great resource for equine professionals.AQHA Guide to Showing with Accounting for the Arena.