Podcast appearances and mentions of John R Erickson

Tyrell sits down with John R. Erickson, author of the beloved Hank the Cowdog book series, for a meandering and insightful conversation about the animals we live and work with, recovering after wildfires, and educating the public about livestock agriculture. Then David, Carrie, Paul and Fredric debate the merits of including vegetables in your Thanksgiving dinner.

Today's main event is a conversation with author and audiobook narrator John R. Erickson. John published his first book and audiobook of the Hank the Cowdog character in 1983 and has been going strong ever since. J.D. talks with him about the series' origins, his work on a cattle ranch, the part that the oral storytelling tradition played in his approach to writing, how the Hank the Cowdog audio drama podcast came about, and much more. In addition to the interview, J.D. shares a whole passel of audio drama updates, addresses feedback from Jeremy and Blake, and gives a monologue about audio drama as content marketing for brands. Full show notes at http://www.audiotheatrecentral.com/202 What are your thoughts on the topics we addressed in this episode? Send us your feedback! We'd love to hear what you think! Email us at feedback@audiotheatrecentral.com or give us a call or text to 623-688-2770.Record our show credits for a future episode. Send us a recording of you reading the following and we'll use it in a future episode: Script: "Hi! This is [YOUR NAME] from [YOUR CITY AND/OR STATE]. Audio Theatre Central is a production of Porchlight Family Media. The theme music was composed by Sam Avendaño. The show is produced and edited by J.D. Sutter. Find the website at audiotheatrecentral.com."Email your recording to feedback@audiotheatrecentral.com.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/audio-theatre-central--2752762/support.

Today's main event is a conversation with author and audiobook narrator John R. Erickson. John published his first book and audiobook of the Hank the Cowdog character in 1983 and has been going strong ever since. J.D. talks with him about the series' origins, his work on a cattle ranch, the part that the oral storytelling tradition played in his approach to writing, how the Hank the Cowdog audio drama podcast came about, and much more. In addition to the interview, J.D. shares a whole passel of audio drama updates, addresses feedback from Jeremy and Blake, and gives a monologue about audio drama as content marketing for brands. Full show notes at http://www.audiotheatrecentral.com/202 What are your thoughts on the topics we addressed in this episode? Send us your feedback! We'd love to hear what you think! Email us at feedback@audiotheatrecentral.com or give us a call or text to 623-688-2770.Record our show credits for a future episode. Send us a recording of you reading the following and we'll use it in a future episode: Script: "Hi! This is [YOUR NAME] from [YOUR CITY AND/OR STATE]. Audio Theatre Central is a production of Porchlight Family Media. The theme music was composed by Sam Avendaño. The show is produced and edited by J.D. Sutter. Find the website at audiotheatrecentral.com."Email your recording to feedback@audiotheatrecentral.com.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/audio-theatre-central--2752762/support.

Frank McLelland, vice president of the executive committee at the National Ranching Heritage Association, joins TSCRA Talk host, Kristen Brown, to share about the museum and the latest addition – the Cash Family Ranch Life Learning Center.  The museum encompasses 19 acres and includes 55 historic structures that capture the history of ranching for the past 200 years. McLelland shares that John R. Erickson and Hank the Cowdog serve as tour guides in the Ranch Life Learning Center, which gives visitors a hands-on experience of ranching.   Additionally, McLelland shares a variety of events hosted by the National Ranching Heritage Association throughout the year that bring awareness to the ranching way of life as well as honoring ranchers and cattlemen who have significantly impacted the industry.   

It's me again, Hank, the Cowdog…is the opening line in every Hank book by John R. Erickson. This entertaining series about a comical canine who boastfully touts himself to be the Head of Ranch Security has become a favorite for all ages. Readers join Hank and his sidekick, Dover, while they relentlessly tease Bruno, the boxer, on their uninvited trip into town. When Bruno calls Hank a 2 bit cowdog,   Hank replies, “Do you mean that as an insult or a compliment?”    Back on the ranch, Hank is wrongfully accused and punished for a crime he did not commit, the lack of justice gnaws at his sense of fairplay until he decides to leave. Hank is a might conflicted because he knows Drover is afraid of his own shadow, his hands (er, paws) are less than capable for the job of Head of Ranch Security but Hank hits the outlaw trail anyway.  He meets a stuttering buzzard who thinks Hank is du-du-dead because of the chicken head Sally Mae had tied around Hank's neck in an effort to thwart his chicken killing habit. Let's be clear here, Hank ate a dead chicken, however, he was not the reason for her death, readers will discover the killing culprit in the book. Soon, our runaway Head of Ranch Security meets the first outlaw on the trail, a beautiful coyote named Missy. This encounter makes Hank's heart go pitter patter, love is in the air you might say! She takes ‘Hunk” home to meet her folks and as one might predict things begin to get dicey. The situation really heats up when Missy's  brother, Scraunch, challenges ‘chicken dog' to a battle! We get help in this podcast from the youngsters who  really enjoyed the different characters and the Me Just a Worthless Coyote song, and Drover's dry humor. If you are already a Hank fan or if you are excited to become one be sure and check out  hankthecowdog.com for cool games like Whack a Coyote, Ranch Memory, & Find Your Age in Dog Years-Yikes! Remember readers, things are not always what they seem.  Keep on reading and working towards your dream! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/recapbookchat/message

On today's episode of Knowledge Brews Supreme I'm joined by the one and only John R. Erickson, author of the Hank the Cowdog book series!!! John has written and published over 75 books and more than 600 articles, and is best known as the author of the Hank the Cowdog series of books, audio-books, and stage plays.His stories have won a number of awards, including the Audie, Oppenheimer, Wrangler, and Lamplighter Awards, and have been translated into Spanish, Danish, Farsi, and Chinese.   In 2021 he was inducted into the Texas Literary Hall of Fame and in October of this year, the National Ranching Heritage Center in Lubbock, Texas, will open a new 10-million dollar Hank-themed Ranch Life Learning Center. You can find all of the books in the Hank the Cowdog series here. You can also find Hank on Facebook here. Knowledge Brews Supreme is sponsored by Sleeves Sold Separately. Sleeves Sold Separately is a brand of athleisure clothing for men who train hard and want to look good too. The clothes that these wonderful folks make are an absolute game changer. Their products are designed and manufactured in Los Angeles, USA, shipped directly to your home! Sleeves Sold Separately offer a wide variety of athleisure clothing such as the wife lover tank, classic sleeveless hoodie, lungeman shorts in 4” and 6” seams, and much more. My listeners can get 15% off your first order using the promo code KNOWLEDGE15 at their website. Knowledge Brews Supreme is also sponsored by Barnana snacks, changing the snack game one bag at a time! Barnana is a healthy, sustainable alternative to some of your favorite snacks. I love their Himalayan Sea Salt Plantain chips without three ingredients - Himalayan sea salt, plantains, and coconut oil! You find this and much more at their website.

The exciting conclusion of Fear's Return, by John R. Erickson, Chapters 15 - 17.

Fear's Return, by John R. Erickson, Chapters 13 and 14.

The third adventure in the Riley McDaniels series.

John R. Erickson's Discovery at Flint Springs, chapters 17-18, the conclusion.

John R. Erickson's Discovery at Flint Springs, chapters 14-16.

John R. Erickson's Discovery at Flint Springs, chapters 12 and 13.

John R. Erickson's Discovery at Flint Springs, chapters 10-11.

John R. Erickson's Discovery at Flint Springs, chapters 8-9.

John R. Erickson's Discovery at Flint Springs, chapters 6-7.

John R. Erickson's Discovery at Flint Springs, chapters 4-5.

John R. Erickson's Discovery at Flint Springs, chapters 1-3.

Show Notes We are Traci and Ellie, two bookish friends who talk in any spare minute that we have.  This week we are going back to  school!  To shop the books listed in this episode, visit our shop at bookshop.org.   Literally Reading: Birds of California by Katie Cotugno (Traci) The It Girl by Ruth Ware (Ellie) Open the Book:  Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen  The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank  The Hiding Place Corrie Ten Boom  Number the Stars by Lois Lowry Hank the Cowdog by John R. Erickson  Our Town by Thorton Wilder  The Crucible by Arthur Miller   Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck  The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne  The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Lord of the Flies by William Golding  The Giver by Lois Lowry The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgereald  War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy  A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens  Great Expectations by Charles Dickens David Copperfield  by Charles Dickens Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens Les Miserables by Victor Hugo The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas  The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver Echo by Pam Munoz Ryan  Save Me a Seat by Sarah Weeks and Gita Varadarajan El Deafo by Cece Bell  Bridge to Terabithia by Katerine Paterson A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

About the Guests David Blakely is a playwright, director, actor, musician, songwriter, and the Playwright-in-Residence emeritus for Heller Theatre Company. His plays include Trade Privileges, Four Ways to Die, The Light Fantastic, For Your Examination, Frankenstein, Tales of Shoogilly, Hank the Cow Dog and Monkey Business (based on John R. Erickson's book), and short plays: … The Oceans Would Be Full, Ars Longa Vita Ferris, The Next Blue Moon, and 7 Doorways/7 Stories. He holds an MFA from the Iowa Playwrights Workshop. He is Theatre Program Director at Rogers State University, and a member of the Dramatists Guild. Nassim Soleimanpour is an Iranian playwright, theatre maker and the Artistic Director of the Berlin Based Theatre company Nassim Soleimanpour Productions. His plays have been translated into more than 30 languages and performed globally in over 50 countries. Best known for his play White Rabbit Red Rabbit, written to travel the world when he couldn't, his work has been awarded the Dublin Fringe Festival Best New Performance, Summerworks Outstanding New Performance Text Award and The Arches Brick Award (Edinburgh Fringe) as well as picking up nominations for a Total Theatre and Brighton Fringe Pick of Edinburgh Award. White Rabbit Red Rabbit had a 9 month Off-Broadway run casting celebrated actors like Whoopi Goldberg, Nathan Lane, Martin Short, Bobby Cannavale, Wayne Brady, F. Murray Abraham, Cynthia Nixon and etc. Soleimanpour is currently living in Berlin with his beautiful wife and dog and is busy finalising his new play for the audiobook platform Audible, and a new play for Grob Theatre in Denmark.  https://www.nassimsoleimanpour.com/home (https://www.nassimsoleimanpour.com/home) Links http://www.thejusticetheaterproject.org/ (The Justice Theater Project) (Enemy of the People) https://www.otheronlywindows.org/ (Other Only Windows) (White Rabbit, Red Rabbit) Connect with Us Facebook @beltlinetbroadway Twitter @beltlinetobway Instagram @beltlinetobroadway

Show Notes Other author mentions: John R. Erickson, Mark Greaney, Tom Clancy, Don Bentley, Brad Taylor, Craig Johnson, C.J. Box, Larry McMurty. Transcript (Note I use automated software to transcribe and only do a very light edit, so the text might be read choppy and have errors). The post MTTA 172: Taylor Moore appeared first on Meet the Thriller Author.

Show Notes Other author mentions: John R. Erickson, Mark Greaney, Tom Clancy, Don Bentley, Brad Taylor, Craig Johnson, C.J. Box, Larry McMurty. Transcript (Note I use automated software to transcribe and only do a very light edit, so the text might be read choppy and have errors). The post MTTA 172: Taylor Moore appeared first on Meet the Thriller Author.

Dallas Public Library personal librarians Rudy and Morgan discuss the Spoken Word, nail polish and sour cream, Hank the Cowdog, and of course David Sedaris. Ask a Personal Librarian to pick your next read, listen or watch by visiting www.dallaspubliclibrary.org/dplwhatsnext Authors and titles mentioned in this episode include: • Maya Angelou • Joy Harjo • Charles Simic’s Mirrors at 4 a.m. • Sarah Vowell & This American Life • Hank the Cow Dog by John R. Erickson • Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern • Kate Beaton • Tracy K. Smith • Frank O’Hara • David Sedaris

Carly Speidel joins the show to discuss a childhood favorite. We reminisce about how we saw the characters as children and more how those perceptions have changed 20 years later. We also discuss John R. Erickson's incredible self-publishing success and question why no one has turned these books into an animated series.

Today’s episode features Steve Barker, beer and booze professional, and a terrific actor who originated the role of Drover in the musical, Hank the Cowdog by David Blakely (based on the books by John R. Erickson) and produced by Tulsa Repertory Musicals. Steve is currently performing in a new play by Bruce Dean Willis titled Time for Chocolate. The play opens October 6, 2017 and you can purchase your tickets to this exciting original work at www.hellertheatreco.com. The play has metaphysical debates, fight scenes, historical riddles, bawdy rhymes, and of course, mushroom laced hallucinogenic chocolate and it all takes place among the Aztecs. Heller Theatre is working in conjunction with Tulsa Latino Theater. Be sure to listen until the end of the interview for Concise Advice from the Interview, and Words of Wisdom from George.