Podcast appearances and mentions of John Roy

As you will learn, our guest this time, Walden Hughes, is blind and has a speech issue. However, as you also will discover none of this has stopped Walden from doing what he wants and likes. I would not say Walden is driven. Instead, I would describe Walden as a man of vision who works calmly to accomplish whatever task he wishes to undertake. Walden grew up in Southern California including attending and graduating from the University of California at Irvine. Walden also received his Master's degree from UCI. Walden's professional life has been in the financial arena where he has proven quite successful. However, Walden also had other plans for his life. He has had a love of vintage radio programs since he was a child. For him, however, it wasn't enough to listen to programs. He found ways to meet hundreds of people who were involved in radio and early television. His interviews air regularly on www.yesterdayusa.net which he now directs. Walden is one of those people who works to make life better for others through the various entertainment projects he undertakes and helps manage. I hope you find Walden's life attitude stimulating and inspiring. About the Guest: With deep roots in U.S. history and a lifelong passion for nostalgic entertainment, Walden Hughes has built an impressive career as an entertainment consultant, producer, and historian of old-time radio. Since beginning his collection in 1976, he has amassed over 50,000 shows and has gone on to produce live events, conventions, and radio recreations across the country, interviewing over 200 celebrities along the way. A graduate of UC Irvine with both a BA in Economics and Political Science and an MBA in Accounting/Finance, he also spent a decade in the investment field before fully embracing his love of entertainment history. His leadership includes serving as Lions Club President, President of Radio Enthusiasts of Puget Sound, and long-time board member of SPERDVAC, earning numerous honors such as the Eagle Scout rank, Herb Ellis Award, and the Dick Beals Award. Today, he continues to preserve and celebrate the legacy of radio and entertainment through Yesterday USA and beyond. Ways to connect with Walden: SPERDVAC: https://m.facebook.com/sperdvacconvention/ Yesterday USA: https://www.facebook.com/share/16jHW7NdCZ/?mibextid=wwXIfr REPS: https://www.facebook.com/share/197TW27jRi/?mibextid=wwXIfr About the Host: Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog. Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards. https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/ accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/ https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/ Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! 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The podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us.   Michael Hingson ** 01:20 Well, hi everyone, and welcome to another episode of unstoppable mindset, where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. We're going to deal with all of that today. We have a guest who I've known for a while. I didn't know I knew him as long as I did, but yeah, but we'll get to that. His name is Walden Hughes, and he is, among other things, the person who is the driving force now behind a website yesterday USA that plays 24 hours a day old radio shows. What I didn't know until he told me once is that he happened to listen to my show back on K UCI in Irvine when I was doing the Radio Hall of Fame between 1969 and 1976 but I only learned that relatively recently, and I didn't actually meet Walden until a few years ago, when we moved down to Victorville and we we started connecting more, and I started listening more to yesterday, USA. We'll talk about some of that. But as you can tell, we're talking, once again, about radio and vintage radio programs, old radio programs from the 30s, 40s and 50s, like we did a few weeks ago with Carl Amari. We're going to have some other people on. Walden is helping us get some other people onto unstoppable mindset, like, in a few weeks, we're going to introduce and talk with Zuzu. Now, who knows who Zuzu is? I know Walden knows, but I'll bet most of you don't. Here's a clue. Whenever a bell rings, an angel gets his wingsu was the little girl on. It's a Wonderful Life. The movie played by Carol from Yeah, and she the star was Carolyn Grimes, and we've met Carolyn. Well, we'll get to all that. I've talked enough. Walden, welcome to unstoppable mindset. We're glad you're   Walden Hughes ** 03:19 here. Hello, Michael boy, I mean, you, you had John Roy on years ago, and now you finally got to me that's pretty amazing.   Michael Hingson ** 03:25 Well, you know, we should have done it earlier, but that's okay, but, but you know what they say, the best is always saved for last.   Walden Hughes ** 03:34 Hey. Well, you know, considering you've been amazing with this show on Friday night for the last year. So here yesterday, USA, so we you and I definitely know our ins and outs. So this should be an easy our place talk.   Michael Hingson ** 03:47 Yes. Is this the time to tell people that Walden has the record of having 42 tootsie rolls in his mouth at once?   Walden Hughes ** 03:52 That's what they say. I think we could do more, though, you know. But yeah, yeah. Well, we won't ask, miss, yeah, we won't ask you to do that here. Why not?   Michael Hingson ** 04:03 Yeah, we want you to be able to talk. Well, I'm really glad you're here. Tell us a little about the early Walden growing up and all that.   Walden Hughes ** 04:12 I'm my mom and dad are from Nebraska, so I have a lot of Midwestern Nebraska ties. They moved out here for jobs in 65 and I was born in 1966 and I was the first baby to ever survive the world Pierre syndrome, which means I was born with a cleft palate, being extremely near sighted and and a cup and a recession. So I was the first baby through my mom and dad debt by $10,000 in 17 days, and it was a struggle for my folks. You know, in those early days, without insurance, without any. Thing like that. You know, people really didn't think about medical insurance and things like that in those days, that was not an issue. So, um, so I've always had extremely loving family. Then I went through five retina detachments, and starting when I was seven years old, up to I was nine, and I finally woke up one morning seeing white half circle so the retina detached. Sometime in the middle of the night, went to the most famous eye doctor the world at times, Dr Robert macchermer, who was the one who invented the cataract surgery and everything. Later, he wound up being the head of Duke Medical that was down in Florida, and they took one last ditch effort to save my sight, but it was a 2% chance, and it didn't work out. So they went blind in November 75 and went into school for people who may or may not know California pretty aggressive in terms of education, and so when I wear hearing aids, so I parted a hard of hearing class. Newport school. Mesa took care of the kids who were hard of hearing and the blind children went up to Garden Grove. So when I walked my site, went up to Garden Grove. And so that was my dedication. I was always a driven person. So and I also had a family that supported me everything I ever did. They didn't it just they were ultimately supporting me in education, all sorts of stuff. So I wound up in the Boy Scout Program. Wound up being an Eagle Scout like you, wound up being visual honoring the OA. And this was always side of kids. I was sort of the organizer all decided kid, and there was Walden that was right, I was that way in my entire life, which is interesting that the most kids are all hanging out. We were sighted and and even the school district, which was pretty amazing to think about it, Newport, they told my mom and dad, hey, when Wong ready to come back to his home school district, we'll cover the bill. We'll do it. And so my freshman year, after my freshman year in high school, we thought, yeah, it's time to come back. And so the Newport school, Mesa picked up the tab, and so did very well. Went up, applied to seven colleges, Harvard, a Yale Stanford turned me down, but everybody else took me   Michael Hingson ** 07:53 so, but you went to the best school anyway.   Walden Hughes ** 07:57 So I mean, either like Michael Troy went to UCI and I graduated in three years and two quarters with a degree in economics, a degree in politics, a minor in management, and then I went to work as a financial planner with American Express and then a stockbroker. I always wanted to go back get my MBA. So I got my MBA at UCI, and I graduated with my MBA in accounting and finance in 1995 so that's sort of the academic part Wow of my life.   Michael Hingson ** 08:32 How did your parents handle when it was first discovered that you were blind? So that would have been in what 75 how do they handle that?   Walden Hughes ** 08:42 They handle it really well. I think my dad was wonderful. My dad was the one that took, took me my birth, to all the doctor appointments, you know, such a traumatic thing for my mom. So my dad took that responsibility. My mom just clean house. But they, they My dad always thought if I were going to make it through life, it was going to be between my ears. It could be my brain and I, I was gifted and academically in terms of my analytical abilities are really off the chart. They tested me like in 160 and that mean I could take a very complicated scenario, break it down and give you a quick answer how to solve it within seconds. And that that that paid off. So no, I think, and they they had complete and so they put in the time.   Michael Hingson ** 09:47 What kind of work did your dad do? My dad   Walden Hughes ** 09:51 wound up being a real estate agent, okay, and so that gave him flexibility time. My mom wound up working for the Irvine camp. Attorney, which is the big agriculture at that time, now, apartments and commercial real estate here in oil County and so. So with their support and with the emphasis on education, and so they helped me great. They helped my brother a great deal. So I think in my case, having two really actively involved parents paid off, you know, in terms of, they knew where to support me and they knew the one to give me my give me my head, you know, because I would a classic example of this. After I graduated from college at UCI, I was looking for work, and mom said, my mom's saying, oh, keep go to rehab. Talk to them. They're both to help you out, give it. I really wasn't interested, so I sat down and met with them and had several interviews, and they said we're not going to fund you because either A, you're gonna be so successful on your own you pay for your own stuff, or B, you'll completely fail. So when I, and that's when they flat out, told me at rehab, so I I had more more luck in the private sector finding work than I did ever in the public sector, which was interesting.   Michael Hingson ** 11:39 I know that when I was in high school, and they it's still around today, of course, they had a program called SSI through the Department of Social Security, and then that there, there was also another program aid of the potentially self supporting blind, and we applied for those. And when I went to UC Irvine, I had met, actually, in 1964 a gentleman while I was up getting my guide dog. He was getting a guide dog. His name was Howard Mackey, and when I went to college, my parents also explored me getting some services and assistance from the Department of Rehabilitation, and I was accepted, and then Howard Mackey ended up becoming my counselor. And the neat thing about it was he was extremely supportive and really helped in finding transcribers to put physics books in braille, paid for whatever the state did it at the time, readers and other things like that that I needed provided equipment. It was really cool. He was extremely supportive, which I was very grateful for. But yeah, I can understand sometimes the rehabilitation world can be a little bit wonky. Of course, you went into it some 18 to 20 years later than that. I, in a sense, started it because I started in 6869 Yeah. And I think over time, just the state got cheaper, everything got cheaper. And of course, now it's really a lot different than it used to be, and it's a lot more challenging to get services from a lot of the agencies. And of course, in our current administration, a lot of things are being cut, and nobody knows exactly what's going to happen. And that's pretty   Walden Hughes ** 13:30 scary, actually. When I went to UCI, the school picked it up the pic, the school picked up my transcribing. They picked up my readers and all that. So interesting. How?   Michael Hingson ** 13:39 But did they let you hire your own readers and so on? Or do they do that?   Walden Hughes ** 13:43 They just put out the word, and people came up and and they paid them. So they just, they were just looking for volunteer, looking for people on the campus to do all the work. And, yeah, in fact, in fact, I had one gal who read pretty much all my years. She was waiting to get a job in the museum. And the job she wanted, you basically had to die to get it open. And so she for a full time employee with the read, can I be taking 20 units a quarter? Yeah. So I was, I was cranking it out. And in those days, everybody, you were lucky they I was lucky to get the material a week or two before midterm. Yeah, so I would speed up the tape and do a couple all nighters just to get through, because I really didn't want to delay, delay by examinations. I wanted to get it, get it through. But, uh, but, you know, but also, I guess I was going four times just throughout the quarter, set them into the summer. Okay, I wanted to get it done. Yeah, so that's, that's how I   Michael Hingson ** 14:50 did it. I didn't do summer school, but I did 16 to 20 units a quarter as well, and kept readers pretty busy and was never questioned. And even though we have some pretty hefty reader bills, but it it worked, no and and I hired my own readers, we put out the word, but I hired my own readers. And now I think that's really important. If a school pays for the readers, but lets you hire the readers, that's good, because I think that people need to learn how to hire and fire and how to learn what's necessary and how to get the things that they need. And if the agency or the school does it all and they don't learn how to do it, that's a problem.   Walden Hughes ** 15:36 If fashioning is just a sidebar issue, computer really became a big part. And with my hearing loss, TSI was really, yeah, telesensory, the one Incorporated, right? And they were upscale, everybody. It was, you know, $2,500 a pop. And for my hearing, it was the was for the card, the actual card that fits into the slot that would read, oh, okay, okay, right. And eventually they went with software with me, a lot cheaper, yes, and so, so my folks paid for that in the early days, the mid 80s, the computers and the software and a lot of that were trial and error terms of there was not any customer support from the from the computer company that were making special products like that, you were pretty much left on your own to figure it out. Yeah, and so time I went to graduate in 1990 we figured, in the business world, financial planning, I'm gonna need a whole complete setup at work, and we're gonna cost me 20 grand, yeah, and of course, when we have saying, We biking it, we're gonna finance it. What happened was, and this has helped with the scouting program. I knew the vice president of the local bank. And in those days, if it was, if it was still a small bank, he just went, he gave me a personal loan, hmm, and he, I didn't have to get any code centers or anything. No, we're gonna be the first one to finance you. You get your own computer set up. And so they, they, they financed it for me, and then also Boyle kicked in for 7500 but that was, that's how I was able to swing my first really complicated $20,000 units in 1990   Michael Hingson ** 17:33 the Braille Institute had a program. I don't know whether they still do or not they, they had a program where they would pay for, I don't know whether the top was 7500 I know they paid for half the cost of technology, but that may have been the upper limit. I know I used the program to get in when we moved, when we moved to New Jersey. I was able to get one of the, at that time, $15,000 Kurzweil Reading machines that was in 1996 and Braille Institute paid for half that. So it was pretty cool. But you mentioned TSI, which is telesensory Systems, Inc, for those who who wouldn't know that telesensory was a very innovative company that developed a lot of technologies that blind and low vision people use. For example, they developed something called the optic on which was a box that had a place where you could put a finger, and then there was attached to it a camera that you could run over a printed page, and it would display in the box a vibrating image of each character as the camera scanned across the page. It wasn't a really fast reading program. I think there were a few people who could read up to 80 words a minute, but it was still originally one of the first ways that blind people had access to print.   Walden Hughes ** 18:59 And the first guinea pig for the program. Can I just walk my site in 75 and they, they wanted me to be on there. I was really the first one that the school supply the optic on and has special training, because they knew I knew what site looked like for everybody, what Mike's describing. It was dB, the electronic waves, but it'd be in regular print letters, not, not broil waters, right? What   Michael Hingson ** 19:25 you felt were actually images of the print letters, yeah.   Walden Hughes ** 19:30 And the thing got me about it, my hand tingled after a while,   Michael Hingson ** 19:35 yeah, mine   Walden Hughes ** 19:36 to last forever,   Michael Hingson ** 19:38 you know. So it was, it wasn't something that you could use for incredibly long periods of time. Again, I think a few people could. But basically, print letters are made to be seen, not felt, and so that also limited the speed. Of course, technology is a whole lot different today, and the optic on has has faded away. And as Walden said, the card that would. Used to plug into computer slots that would verbalize whatever came across the screen has now given way to software and a whole lot more that makes it a lot more usable. But still, there's a lot of advances to be made. But yeah, we we both well, and another thing that TSI did was they made probably the first real talking calculator, the view, plus, remember   Walden Hughes ** 20:25 that? Yep, I know a good sound quality.   Michael Hingson ** 20:28 Though it was good sound quality. It was $395 and it was really a four function calculator. It wasn't scientific or anything like that, but it still was the first calculator that gave us an opportunity to have something that would at least at a simple level, compete with what sighted people did. And yes, you could plug your phone so they couldn't so sighted people, if you were taking a test, couldn't hear what what the calculator was saying. But at that time, calculators weren't really allowed in the classroom anyway, so   Walden Hughes ** 21:00 my downside was, time I bought the equipment was during the DOS mode, and just like that, window came over, and that pretty much made all my equipment obsolete, yeah, fairly quickly, because I love my boil display. That was terrific for for when you learn with computers. If you're blind, you didn't really get a feel what the screen looked like everybody. And with a Braille display, which mine was half the screen underneath my keyboard, I could get a visual feel how things laid out on the computer. It was easier for me to communicate with somebody. I knew what they were talking   Michael Hingson ** 21:42 about, yeah. And of course, it's gotten so much better over time. But yeah, I remember good old MS DOS. I still love to play some of the old MS DOS games, like adventure and all that, though, and Zork and some of those fun games.   Walden Hughes ** 21:57 But my understanding dos is still there. It's just windows on top of it, basically,   Michael Hingson ** 22:02 if you open a command prompt in Windows that actually takes you to dos. So dos is still there. It is attached to the whole system. And sometimes you can go in and enter commands through dos to get things done a little bit easier than you might be able to with the normal graphic user interface, right? Well, so you, you got your master's degree in 1995 and so you then continue to work in the financial world, or what did   Walden Hughes ** 22:35 it for 10 years, but five years earlier? Well, maybe I should back it up this way. After I lost my site in 1976 I really gravitated to the radio, and my generation fell in love with talk radio, so I and we were really blessed here in the LA market with really terrific hosts at KBC, and it wasn't all the same thing over and over and beating the drum. And so listening to Ray Breen, Michael Jackson, IRA for still kill Hemingway, that was a great opportunity for somebody who was 10 years old.   Michael Hingson ** 23:18 Really, they were all different shows. And yes, I remember once we were listening to, I think it was Michael Jackson. It was on Sunday night, and we heard this guy talking about submarines, and it just attracted Karen's and my attention. And it turns out what it was was Tom Clancy talking about Hunt for Red October. Wow. And that's where we first heard about it, and then went and found the book.   Walden Hughes ** 23:45 But So I grew up in the talk radio, and then that, and I fell in love with country music at the time on koec, and then Jim Healy and sports, yep, and then, and then we were blessed in the LA market have a lot of old time radio played, and it was host like Mike was here at K UCI, John Roy, eventually over KPCC, Bob line. And so my relatives said you should listen to this marathon KPFK, which was a Pacific did an all day marathon. I fell in love with that. Jay Lacher, then one night, after I walked my site, I tuned in. Ray bream took the night off, and Bill balance had frankly sit in. And the first thing they played was Jack Armstrong, and this is where Jack, Jack and Billy get caught up in a snow storm and a bone down the hill. And Brett Morrison came in during the one o'clock two o'clock hour to talk about the shadow. And so my dad took me to, oh, I'm trying to think of the name of the record. Or if they gave away licorice, licorice at the at the record store tower, yeah, not Tower Records. Um, anyway, so we bought two eight track tapes in 1976 the shadow and Superman, and I started my long life of collecting and so. So here we up to 1990 after collecting for 15 years. Going to spill back conventional meetings. I knew Ray bream was going to have kitty Cowan at the guest. Kitty Cowan was a big band singer of the 40s who later the fifth little things mean a lot. And I figured nobody was going to act about her days on the Danny Kaye radio show. And so I called in. They realized I had the stuff. I had the radio shows, they took me off the air, and Kitty's husband, but grand off called me the next day, and we struck up a friendship. And so they were really connected in Hollywood, and so they opened so many doors for me. Mike I Katie's best friend with Nancy Lacher, SR bud with the one of the most powerful agents in town, the game show hosting, who could come up with a TV ideas, but did not know how to run a organization. So that was Chuck Paris, hmm, and Gong Show, yeah, so I wound up, they wound up giving me, hire me to find the old TV shows, the music, all that stuff around the country. And so I started to do that for the Sinatra family, everybody else. So I would, while we do the financial planning, my internet consulting thing really took off. So that wound up being more fun and trying to sell disability insurance, yeah. So one wound up doing that until the internet took over. So that would that. So my whole life would really reshape through kitty Carolyn and Ben granoff through that. So I really connected in the Hollywood industry from that point on, starting 1990 so that that really opened up, that really sure reshaped my entire life, just because of that   Michael Hingson ** 27:28 and you've done over the years, one of the other things that you started to do was to interview a lot of these people, a lot of the radio stars, The radio actors   Walden Hughes ** 27:39 and music and TV, music,   Michael Hingson ** 27:44 yeah.   Walden Hughes ** 27:45 And I think when Bill Bragg asked me to interview kitty Carol, and I did that in 2000 and Bill said, Well, could you do more? And so one of Kitty friends, but test Russell. Test was Gene Autry Girl Friday. He she ran kmpc for him. And I think everybody in the music industry owed her a favor. I mean, I had Joe Stafford to Pat Boone to everybody you could think of from the from that big band, 3040s, and 60s on the show. Let's go   Michael Hingson ** 28:24 back. Let's go back. Tell us about Bill Bragg.   Walden Hughes ** 28:29 Bill Bragg was an interesting character all by himself. Born in 1946 he was a TV camera man for CBS in Dallas. He was also a local music jockey, nothing, nothing, big, big claims of fame boys working for channel two. And then he in Dallas, he was at a press conference with LBJ, and LBJ got done speaking, and the camera crew decided that they were going to pack up and go to lunch. And Bill thought it'd be fun to mark what camera, what microphone the President used for his address, and the guys were in a rush door in the box, let's go have lunch. So Bill lost track, and that bothered him. So he started the largest communication Museum in 1979 and he collected and was donated. And so he had the biggest museum. He had a film exchanger. So in those early days of cable TVs, you know, we had a lot of TV stations specializing in programming, and there were channels, I think this was called a nostalgic channel, wanted to run old TV shows and films. They had the film, but they didn't. Have the equipment. And they got hold of Bill. He said, Okay, I'll do it for you. But what you're going to give me is games. Bill was a wheel and dealer, yeah. And Charlie said, We'll give you your own satellite channel. And I was talking to Bill friend later, John women in those days, in the 1983 when Bill got it, the value of those satellite channels was a million dollars a year, and he got it for free. And Bill would try and figure out, What in the world I'm going to do with this, and that's when he decided to start playing with old time radio, because really nobody was playing that on a national basis. You had different people playing it on a local basis, but not really on a national basis. So Bill was sort of the first one before I play old time radio. I became aware of him because of bur back, so I was trying to get the service on my cable TV company. Was unsuccessful.   Michael Hingson ** 30:58 So what he did is he broadcast through the satellite channel, and then different television stations or companies could if they chose to pick up the feed and broadcast it. Did, they broadcast it on a TV channel or   Walden Hughes ** 31:13 on radio public asset channel. Okay, so remember note day a lot of public it would have the bulletin boards with the local news of right community, and lot of them would play Bill can't   Michael Hingson ** 31:28 play Bill's channel because the only because what they were doing was showing everything on the screen, which didn't help us. But right they would show things on the screen, and they would play music or something in the background. So Bill's programs were a natural thing to play,   Walden Hughes ** 31:44 yeah, and so Bill wound up on a stout then he wound up being the audio shop Troyer for WGN, which was a nice break and so. And then Bill got it to be played in 2000 nursing homes and hospitals, and then local AMFM stations would pick us up. They were looking for overnight programming, so local throughout the country would pick it up. And so Bill, Bill was a go getter. He was a great engineer, and knew how to build things on the cheap. He was not a businessman, you know, he couldn't take it to the next level, but, but at least he was able to come up with a way to run a station, 24 hours a day. It was all the tapes were sent down to Nash, down to Tennessee, to be uploaded to play into the system. Eventually, he built a studio and everything in Dallas. And so,   Michael Hingson ** 32:38 of course, what what Weldon is saying is that that everything was on tape, whether it was cassette or reel to reel, well, reel to reel, and they would play the tapes through a tape machine, a player or recorder, and put it out on the satellite channels, which was how they had to do it. And that's how we did it at kuci, we had tape, and I would record on Sunday nights, all the shows that we were going to play on a given night on a reel of tape. We would take it in and we would play it.   Walden Hughes ** 33:13 And so that's how it's done in the 80s. Eventually built bill, built a studio, and then started to do a live show once a week. Eventually, they grew up to four days a week. And so here is about 1999 or so, and they were playing Musa from kitty cat, and did not know who she was. I would quickly, I would quickly give a couple background from AIM hang up. I didn't really they had no idea who I was yet. I didn't talk about what I would do and things like that. I was just supplying information. And eventually, after two years, they asked me to bring kitty on the show, which I did, and then I started to book guests on a regular basis for them, and then eventually, the guy who I enjoyed all time radio shows listening to Frank Percy 1976 built decided that I should be his producer, and so I wound up producing the Friday Night Live show with Frankie, and eventually we got it up and running, 2002 So Frank and I did it together for 16 years and so that so Bill built a studio in Texas, mailed it all to my House. My dad didn't have any engineering ability. So he and my bill got on the phone and built me a whole studio in six hours, and I was up and running with my own studio here in my bedroom, in 2002 and so overhead, I'm in my bedroom ever since Michael, you know, there you go.   Michael Hingson ** 34:58 Well and to tell people about. Frank Bresee Frank, probably the biggest claim to fame is that he had a program called the golden days of radio, and it was mainly something that was aired in the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service on the radio, where he would every show play excerpts of different radio programs and so on. And one of the neat things that's fascinating for Frank was that because he was doing so much with armed forces, and doing that, he had access to all of the libraries around the world that the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service had, so he could go in and oftentimes get shows and get things that no one else really had because they were only available in at least initially, in these military libraries. But he would put them on the air, and did a great job with it for many, many years. Yeah, Frank   Walden Hughes ** 35:53 was an interesting character, a pure entrepreneur. He invented a game called pass out, which was a drinking game, board game, and he for 20 years, he spent six months in Europe, six months in United States. And he was making so much money in Europe, he would rent out castles and lived in them, and he would and he would spend months at a time in Germany, which was the main headquarter of art, and just sit there in the archives and make copies of things he wanted to play on his show, yeah. And so that's how he built that. And then he he started collecting transcriptions when he would to 10 he was a radio actor, and so he had one of the largest collection, collection, and he his house, his family house was in Hancock Park, which was the, it was Beverly Hills before Beverly Hills, basically, what did he play on radio? Well, when he was, he was he was deceptive. He was the backup little beaver. When someone Tommy, writer, yeah, when, when Tommy Cook had another project, it was Frank be was a substitute. And so that was a short coin of fame. He did bit parts on other shows, but, but that's what he did as a kid. Eventually, I think Frank came from a very wealthy family. He wound up owning the first radio station when he was 19 years old on Catalina Island in 1949 and then he wound up being a record producer. He worked with Walter Winchell, created albums on without about Al Jolson worked on Eddie Cantor and Jimmy Durante and anyway, Frank, Frank had a career with game with creating board games, doing radio and having an advertising company. Frank was responsible for giving all the game shows, the prices for TV and the way he would do it, he would call an advertise, he would call a company. He said, you want your product. Beyond on this section, go to say, yes, okay, give us, give us the product, and give me 150 bucks. And so Frank would keep the cash, and he would give the project to the TV shows,   Michael Hingson ** 38:17 Dicker and Dicker of Beverly Hills. I remember that on so many shows   Walden Hughes ** 38:23 so So Frank was a wheeling dealer, and he loved radio. That was his passion project. He probably made less money doing that, but he just loved doing it, and he was just hit his second house. The family house was 8400 square feet, and so it was pretty much a storage unit for Frank hobbies, right? And we and he had 30,000 transcriptions in one time. But when he was Europe, he had a couple of floods, so he lost about 10 to 20,000 of them. Okay? Folks did not know how to keep them dry, but he had his professional studio built. And so I would book guests. I arranged for art link writer to come over, and other people, Catherine Crosby, to come over, and Frank would do the interviews. And so I was a big job for me to keep the Friday night show going and get Frankie's guess boy shows. I would have been. He died,   Michael Hingson ** 39:22 and he was a really good interviewer. Yeah, I remember especially he did an interview that we in, that you played on yesterday USA. And I was listening to it with Mel Blanc, which is, which is very fascinating. But he was a great interviewer. I think it was 1969 that he started the golden days of radio, starting 49 actually, or 49 not 69 Yeah, 49 that was directly local, on,   Walden Hughes ** 39:49 on Carolina, and K, I, G, l, which was a station I think heard out in the valley, pretty much, yeah, we could pick it up. And then, and then he started with on. Forces around 65   Michael Hingson ** 40:02 that's what I was thinking of. I thought it was 69 but,   Walden Hughes ** 40:06 and well, he was, on those days there were armed forces Europe picked them up. And also, there was also the international Armed Forces served around the far eastern network, right? Yeah. And so by 67 he was pretty much full on 400 stations throughout the whole world. And I that's probably how you guys picked him up, you know, through that capability.   Michael Hingson ** 40:30 Well, that's where I first heard of him and and the only thing for me was I like to hear whole shows, and he played excerpts so much that was a little frustrating. But he was such a neat guy, you couldn't help but love all the history that he brought to it   Walden Hughes ** 40:46 and and then he would produce live Christmas shows with with the radio. He would interview the guest he, you know, so he had access to people that nobody generally had, you know. He worked for Bob Hope, right? So he was able to get to Jack Benny and Bing Crosby and yes, people like that, Groucho Marx. So he was, he had connections that were beyond the average Old Time Radio buff. He was truly a great guy to help the hobby out, and loved radio very much.   Michael Hingson ** 41:21 Well, going back to Bill Bragg a little bit, so he had the satellite channel, and then, of course, we got the internet, which opened so many things for for Frank or Frank for, well, for everybody but for Bill. And he started the program yesterday, usa.net, on the radio through the internet,   Walden Hughes ** 41:44 which he was the first one in 1996 right? There's a great story about that. There was a company called broadcast.com I bet you remember that company, Mike. Anyway, it was founded by a guy who loved college basketball, and he was a big Hoosier fan, and he was living in Texas, and so he would generally call long distance to his buddy, and they would put up the radio. He could went to the basketball games. And eventually he decided, well, maybe I could come up and stream it on my computer, and all these equipment breaking down, eventually he came up with the idea of, well, if I had a satellite dish, I could pick up the feed and put and stream it on the computer, that way people could hear it right. And he hired bill to do that, and he offered bill a full time job installing satellites and working Bill turned them down, and the guy wound up being Mark Cuban. Yeah, and Mark Cuban gave every every employee, when he sold broadcast.com to Yahoo, a million dollar bonus. So Bill missed out on that, but, but in exchange, Mike Cuban gave him broadcast.com While USA channel for free. So Bill never had to pay in the early days, until about 2002 so when Yahoo decided to get out of the streaming business for a while, then that's when we had to find and we found life 365 eventually, and we were paying pretty good. We're paying a really good rate with like 265 Bill was used to paying free, and we were paying, I think, under $100 and I knew guys later a couple years, were paying over $500 a month. And we were, we were, but there was such a willing deal able to get those things for really dope less   Michael Hingson ** 43:45 money, yeah. Now I remember being in New Jersey and I started hearing ads for an internet radio station. This was in the very late 90s, maybe even into 2000 W, A, B, y. It was a company, a show that a station that played a lot of old songs from the 50s and 60s and so on. And it was, it was, if you tuned on to it, you could listen. And after four or five hours, things would start to repeat, and then eventually it disappeared. But I started looking around, and I don't even remember how I found it, but one day I heard about this radio station, www, dot yesterday, usa.net. Right, yep.net.com,   Walden Hughes ** 44:31 yep, and yeah. And   Michael Hingson ** 44:33 I said, Well, oh, I think I actually heard an ad for it on W, A, B, y, when it was still around. Anyway, I went to it, and they were playing old radio shows, and they had a number of people who would come on and play shows. Everyone had an hour and a half show, and every two weeks you would have to send in a new show. But they. They played old radio shows, 24 hours a day and seven days a week, except they also had some live talk shows. And I remember listening one day and heard Bill Bragg talking about the fact that he was going to have his standard Friday night show with Walden Hughes, it would start at nine o'clock. I had no idea who Walden was at the time. And the problem is, nine o'clock was on the in Pacific Time, and it was, I think, Midnight in New Jersey time, as I recall the way it went anyway, it was way too late for me to be up. And so I never did hear Walden on yesterday USA, or I may have actually listened. Just stayed up to listen to one and fell asleep, but the show, the whole innovative process of playing radio all the time on the internet, was intriguing and just opened so many opportunities, I think. And of course, the internet brought all that around. And now there are any number of stations that stream all the time. And Bill Bragg passed away. What in 2016   Walden Hughes ** 46:15 2018   Michael Hingson ** 46:18 1819 2019 Yeah. And Walden now is the person who directs, operates, and is the manager of yesterday USA. And so when I go ahead,   Walden Hughes ** 46:30 it's fascinating. In the height of the station, there was 15,000 internet radio stations out there in 2000 they did a survey yesterday, USA was number three in the world, behind the BBC and CNN, which I thought was a pretty nice number to be concerned. We had no budget to promote, right? And the last time I saw the numbers been a couple years, we were number 44 in the world, which I don't think of, 15,000 radio stations. Not bad. No, not at all. You know, really not bad. But now there is more talk than there used to be, because Walden and the gasmans, who we had on years ago on this podcast, but   Michael Hingson ** 47:16 have interviewed a lot of people, and continue to interview people. And of course, so many people are passing on that. We're trying to talk to people as much as we can, as they can, and all of us now, because I've started to come a little bit and become a little bit involved in yesterday USA. And as Walden said on Friday night at 730 Pacific Time, see it's earlier, we we do a talk show. Bob Lyons, who did a lot of radio out here, and for 50 years, had a program called Don't touch that dial. And John and Larry and Walden and I get on the air and we talk about, Gosh, any number of different things. We've talked about Braille, we've talked about sometimes, everything but radio. But we talk about a lot of different things, which is, which is a lot of fun.   Walden Hughes ** 48:04 And I think it probably is, you know, in the old days, it would pretty much no entertainment, and Bill telling some stories and things like that. But with me, I always had a focus in interviews, but it's so much more fun to do radio as a co host. And that's when Patricia and I connected back in the 2007 I knew was in 2005 she's my co host. And Patricia didn't grow up with whole town radio. She became a fan after she found yesterday, USA into 2000 but she's a very articulate person, and so through the shows, what she and I did on Saturday night, the audience grab it and just we should talk about everything, and I just generate calls. I mean, when she and I were doing eight hours a night, we would average about 18 calls a night, which was pretty amazing, but we would cover the gamut, and I think a really good talk show host had to know a little bit about a lot of things. Yes, he got it. You got to be flexible. And Patricia and I compliment each other that way, that we're able to cover history and politics and music and just everything. And so when I do a show with her, you never know what direction we go with where. When I'm with John Roy, it's more radio centric. So it depends on what night a week people tune in, is what you're going to   Michael Hingson ** 49:40 get. And Walden has Patricia on now Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, but we know why she's really on there, because she likes hearing Perry Como song Patricia that starts out every show Walden plays that he's in love with Patricia. One of these days, there's still the possibility. But anyway, we. We, he, we love it when he, he has Patricia on, and it's every week. So, so it is really cool. And they do, they talk about everything under the sun, which is so fascinating. Tell us about Johnny and Helen Holmes.   Walden Hughes ** 50:15 Ah, well, it's an interesting story. I I say the second biggest old time radio station in the country, after yesterday USA. It's about half the size in terms of audience basis. Radio once more, and you can find them at Radio once more.com and they do a good job. No else with probably yesterday USA branch offers own internet radio station, and he found he would go to the east coast to the nostalgic convention, and he connected with Johnny and Helen. Holmes and Johnny and Helen are people who love to attend nostalgic convention and get autographs and things. And they became really friends. So Neil convinced them, why don't you come on? Just come on radio once more. And so after a while, they do the presentation the coffee shop. Neil convinced them to take it, take it to the air, and they started to have their own show, and I was aware of them, and I produced the spirback convention, 2017 in Las Vegas. So Johnny helm came to the convention, and Johnny wanted to say hi to me. I said, I know who you are. I think he was for by that that I knew who he was, but I invited Johnny and Helen to come on with Patricia and I one night to talk about their coffee shop presentation and their show on Radio once more. And we just bonded very quickly and easy to bond with Johnny. They really are really fabulous people. He's really a generous guy, and so over the last six, seven years, we have developed a great friendship on you, and almost have created a whole subculture by itself, playing trivia with them. Every time they come on,   Michael Hingson ** 52:17 they do a lot of trivia stuff, and Johnny produces it very well. He really does a great job. And he'll put sound bites and clips and music, and it's gotten me such a major production with Johnny and Helen. And people look forward to it. I sometimes count the interaction people hanging out in the chat room, on the phone, email, about 18 to 20 people will get and get an answer question, was it amazing that that many people will be interested in trivia like that? But and, and Johnny also collects, well, I guess in Helen collect a lot of old television shows as well. Yep. So we won't hold it against him too much, but, but he does television and, well, I like old TV shows too, you bet. Well, so you know, you are, obviously, are doing a lot of different things. You mentioned spurred vac oop. They're after you. We'll wait. We'll wait till the phone die. You mentioned, well, I'll just ask this while that's going on. You mentioned spurred back. Tell us a little bit about what spurred vac is and what they've been doing and what they bring to radio.   Walden Hughes ** 53:23 Sprint vac started in 1974 it's the largest full time radio group in the country, called the society to preserve and encourage radio drama, variety and comedy. John Roy Gasman were two of the main driving force behind the club. It reached up to a membership of 1800 people, and they've honored over 500 people who worked in the golden days of radio and to speak at their meeting, come to the special conventions. And so I attended some dinners at the Brown Derby, which was a great thrill. I started attending their conventions, and it was just, it was wonderful. So I so I really got to meet a lot of the old time radio personality and become friends with Janet Waldo and June for a and people like that. And so I eventually got on the board. I eventually became one young, somewhat retired. I wound up being the activity person to book guests, and started producing conventions. And so that became a major part of my life, just producing those things for spur back and in other places, and I first started to do that for reps. Was it the Old Time Radio Group in Seattle in 2007 so they were actually the first convention I produced.   Michael Hingson ** 54:54 And rep says radio enthusiasts of Puget Sound,   Walden Hughes ** 54:57 right? Reps online.org, G and so I would produce new convention. I was helping super vac, and I also helping the Friends of all time radio back in New Jersey and so. And it probably helped my contact, which is 300 pages long, so, and I would book it. I would also contact celebrities via the mail, and my batting average was 20% which I thought were pretty good. I got Margaret. I got Margaret Truman. She called me, said, Walden, I got your order, and I forgot that I did the show with Jimmy Stewart. I'd be happy to come on talk about my memory. You know, she talked about Fred Allen on the big show, and how, how Mike Wallace had a temper, had a temper. She was a co host. Was among weekdays, which with the weekday version of monitor. Monitor was weekend and weekday, we see NBC. And so she was just fabulous, you know, so and I would get people like that 20% bad average, which was incredible. So I met, that's how it's up to two, my guess was, so I, I was sort of go to guy, find celebrities and booking them and and so in that help yesterday, USA helped the different conventions. And so it and so you're so you're booking the panels, and then you're coming up with ideas for radio recreations. And so I produce 37 of them, ranging from one day to four days. And I get counted, over the last 18 years, I've produced 226 audio theater plays with it. A lot at least, have an idea of how those things   Michael Hingson ** 56:55 work. So right now, speaking of recreations, and we're both involved in radio enthusiasts of Puget Sound, and for the last couple of years, I've participated in this. Walden has done radio recreations, and twice a year up in the Washington State area, where we bring in both some some amateurs and some professionals like Carolyn Grimes Zuzu and so many others who come in and we actually recreate old radio shows, both before a live audience, and we broadcast them on yesterday USA and other people like Margaret O'Brien who won   Walden Hughes ** 57:46 Gigi Powell coming this year. Phil Proctor. David Osmond from fire sign theater. Chuck Dougherty from Sergeant Preston. John Provo from Timmy from Lassie, Bill Johnson, who does a one man show on Bob Hope. Bill Ratner from GI Joe. Bill Owen, the who might have had he is the author of The Big broadcast, Ivan Troy who Bobby Benson, Tommy cook from the life O'Reilly Gigi parole, a movie actress of the 50s, as you mentioned, Carolyn grime, Beverly Washburn and others, and it's just the radio folks are really down to earth, really nice people, and you get to break bread with them, talk to them and reminisce about what was it like doing that radio show, this movie, or that TV show, and then They still got it, and they can perform on stage,   Michael Hingson ** 58:43 and they love to talk about it, and they love to interact with people who treat them as people. And so yeah, it is a lot of fun to be able to do it. In fact, I was on Carolyn Grimes podcast, which will be coming out at some point in the next little while, and Carolyn is going to be on unstoppable mindset. So keep an eye out for that. Bill Owens program is coming out soon. Bill and I did a conversation for unstoppable mindset, and we're going to be doing Bill Johnson will be coming on, and other people will be coming on. Walden has been very helpful at finding some of these folks who are willing to come on and talk about what they did, and to help us celebrate this medium that is just as much a part of history as anything in America and is just as worth listening to as it ever was. There is more to life than television, no matter what they think.   Walden Hughes ** 59:40 And also, we do a Christmas thing too. And hopefully Mike, if his speaking engagement allow him, will be with us up at Christmas saying, Well, I will. I'm planning on it. We're gonna do, It's a Wonderful Life. Keith Scott, coming over from Australia, who's a he's the rich little of Australia. And we'll do, It's a Wonderful Life. We'll do. The Christmas Carol, milk on 34th Street film again, Molly Jack Benny will have a great time.   Michael Hingson ** 1:00:07 These are all going to be recreations using the the original scripts from the shows, and that's what makes them fun. And for those of us who don't read print, we do have our scripts in Braille, absolutely so that's kind of fun. Well, Walden, this has been absolutely wonderful. We're going to have to do it some more. Maybe we need to get you, John and Larry all together on that. That might be kind of fun. But I really, I don't think we need a host if you that. No, no, we just, you know, just go on. But this has been really fun. I really enjoy it. If people want to reach out to you, how do they do that?   Walden Hughes ** 1:00:45 Oh, I think they can call my studio number 714-545-2071, I'm in California, or they can email me at Walden shoes at yesterday, usa.com, W, A, l, D, E, N, H, U, C, H, E, S at, y, E, S T, E, R, D, A, y, u, s a.com, I'm the president of radio enthusiast sound, that's reps online.org or on the board of Sper back, which is S, P, E, R, D, V, A, c.com, so while waiting shakes me down, when   Michael Hingson ** 1:01:25 will the showcase actually occur up in Bellevue in Washington?   Walden Hughes ** 1:01:30 That will be September 18, 19 20/21, and then our Christmas one is will be Friday, December five, and Saturday, December the sixth. And then we're also going back and spir back, and I bet we'll see you there. We're going to go back to the Troy Blossom Festival next April, 23 to 26 and we'll know, are we set up to do that now? Yep, looks like that gonna happen? Yeah? Oh, good, yeah. So kick out the phone with Nicholas here a few days ago. So everything's gonna go for that, so that will be good.   Michael Hingson ** 1:02:03 Yeah, we will do that. That's cool. Well, thank you for being here, and I want to thank you all for listening. I hope you had fun. This is a little different than a lot of the episodes that we've done, but it's, I think, important and enlightening to hear about this medium into to meet people from it. So thank you for listening wherever you are. We hope that you'll give us a five star review of unstoppable mindset wherever you're listening or watching. Please do that. We'd love to hear from you. You can reach me at Michael H, I m, I C, H, A, E, L, H, I at accessibe, A, C, C, E, S, S, i, b, e.com, and you can also go to our podcast page if you don't find podcasts any other way. Michael hingson.com/podcast, that's m, I C, H, A, E, L, H, I N, G, s, O, n.com/podcast, singular. 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Send us a textIn our latest FlashCast, Tim Gerdeman, Founder, Vice-Chairman, and Chief Marketing Officer discusses FiscalNote (NYSE: NOTE) and its growth potential with WTR technology analyst Dr. John Roy and FiscalNote CEO and President Josh Resnik.

"Nothing fundamental has changed" in the A.I. trade, according to Michael Lee. He considers Palantir (PLTR) his "all-time favorite stock" he's ever seen, noting massive potential in the next three to five years. John Roy weighs the profitability in small cap A.I. companies and offers a few suggestions for investors to research.======== Schwab Network ========Empowering every investor and trader, every market day.Subscribe to the Market Minute newsletter - https://schwabnetwork.com/subscribeDownload the iOS app - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/schwab-network/id1460719185Download the Amazon Fire Tv App - https://www.amazon.com/TD-Ameritrade-Network/dp/B07KRD76C7Watch on Sling - https://watch.sling.com/1/asset/191928615bd8d47686f94682aefaa007/watchWatch on Vizio - https://www.vizio.com/en/watchfreeplus-exploreWatch on DistroTV - https://www.distro.tv/live/schwab-network/Follow us on X – https://twitter.com/schwabnetworkFollow us on Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/schwabnetworkFollow us on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/schwab-network/About Schwab Network - https://schwabnetwork.com/about

Send us a textIn our latest episode, Tim Gerdeman, Founder, Vice-Chairman, and Chief Marketing Officer discusses Palladyne AI (NASDAQ: PDYN) and its growth potential with WTR technology analyst Dr. John Roy and Palladyne AI co-founder, President and CEO Ben Wolff.Palladyne AI sells real-time learning and reasoning AI software platforms for robots, drones, and smart industrial systems. The company engages in the design, development, and manufacture of industrial robotic systems that augment human performance by combining human intelligence, instinct, and judgment with the strength, endurance, and precision of machines to enhance employee safety and productivity. Its mobile robotic systems include the Guardian S, Guardian GT, Guardian XO, and Guardian XT. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, UT.

Send us a textIn our latest FlashCast, Tim Gerdeman, Founder, Vice-Chairman, and Chief Marketing Officer discusses BitFuFu (NASDAQ: FUFU) and its growth potential with WTR technology analyst Dr. John Roy and BitFuFu Vice President, Investor Relations, Charley Brady.BitFuFu Inc. engages in providing digital asset mining and cloud-mining services. The firm fosters a secure, compliant, and transparent blockchain infrastructure, providing a variety of stable and intelligent digital asset mining solutions to a global customer base. It leverages a global mining facility network and strategic partnership with Bitmain, which enables institutional customers and digital asset enthusiasts to mine digital assets. The company was founded by Leo Lu in December 2020 and is headquartered in Singapore.

Send us a textIn our latest episode of WTR Small-Cap Spotlight, Tim Gerdeman, Founder, Vice-Chairman, and Chief Marketing Officer discusses Cambium Networks (NASDAQ: CMBM) and its growth potential with WTR technology analyst Dr. John Roy and Cambium President and CEO Morgan Kurk.Cambium Networks provides wireless broadband networking infrastructure solutions for network operators, including medium-sized wireless internet service providers, enterprises, and government agencies. The company's scalable, reliable, and high-performance solutions create a purpose-built wireless fabric that connects people, places, and things across distances, ranging from two meters to more than 100 kilometers, indoors and outdoors, using licensed and unlicensed spectrum, at attractive economics. Headquartered outside Chicago and with R&D centers in the US, UK, and India, CMBM sells through a range of distributors overseas.

Send us a textIn our latest episode of WTR Small-Cap Spotlight, Tim Gerdeman, Co-Founder, Vice-Chairman, and Chief Marketing Officer and WTR technology analyst Dr. John Roy discuss Dr. Roy's top five tech trends for 2025.The top five are: (1) AI Is Continuing to Grab Investor Interest as Expectations Have it Impacting Nearly Everything, (2) Edge Computing Driven by 5G Is Growing, (3) Cybersecurity is Everywhere as Attacks are Focusing More People, (4) Quantum Computing will get More Interest But Impacts Still Over the Horizon, and (5) Cryptocurrency Perception in the US could Become More Supportive

Send us a textIn the latest episode of the WTR Small-Cap Spotlight, Tim Gerdeman, Co-Founder, Vice Chairman, and Chief Marketing Officer discusses Gorilla Technology Group (GRRR) and its growth potential with WTR technology analyst Dr. John Roy and GRRR CEO Jay Chandan and CFO Bruce Bowers. Gorilla specializes in delivering AI-based smart and safe city solutions with an emphasis on security convergence and network defense, video analytics, and big data analytics applied across both public and private sectors 

Everyone just got back from Supernova and we're ready to debrief. Dunia Best Sinnreich and John Roy join us to add their perspectives. You know Dunia from The Slackers, Agent 99 and Dubistry. Lately she performs with supergroup Rude Girl Revue, was recently named president of the Supernova Alliance nonprofit, and was one of the two hosts and emcees of the 2024 Supernova International Ska Festival. And you've heard John Roy playing with Unsteady, The English Beat and Monkey. Lately, he's been running Smoke & Mirrors Sound System and Escape Hatch Records. Tickets for next year's Supernova are on sale now! supernovaska.com supernovaalliance.org

Send us a textIn our latest episode of Small-Cap Spotlight, Tim Gerdeman, Vice Chair & Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer discusses the Unusual Machines (UMAC) and its growth potential with WTR technology analyst Dr. John Roy and UMAC CEO Dr. Allan Evans.Unusual Machines, Inc. is a development stage technology company, which engages in the provision of drone solutions with a focus on first-person view (FPV) technology. It offers products to entertainment, recreation, and competitive racing industries. The company was founded on July 11, 2019, and is headquartered in Orlando, FL.

ממשחק מחשב לעולם האמיתי - איך נאסקר בחנו מסלול מירוצים באמצע שיקגו עם סימולטור הנהיגה iRacing   לרלרת התחיל להסתובב איזה קובץ ISO של התקנת "ווינדוס לממשלות". שזה לא משהו רשמי של מיקרוסופט (מה שמיד אומר שאני לא אנסה לקרב את זה למחשב כי מי יודע מה יש שם), אלא פשוט גרסה רזה של ווינדוס. זה מזכיר לנו שאפשר לעשות מערכות הפעלה שאינן Bloatware עם כל מיני תוכנות ופיצ'רים שאנחנו לא רוצים ושסתם מעמיסות על המחשב.  המלצה בדקה: אהוד מספר לשחר בדיחה על מתופפים ולב של הסטנדאפיסט John Roy שהיה בארץ וממליץ על ספשל שלו (ולא ספיישל, כי ההופעה מיוחדת ולא מרחבית. טוב היא מתקיימת במרחב, והוא זז על הבמה אז אולי כן) או לקנות כרטיסים להופעה שלו אם אתם בארה"ב. שחר ממליץ על ערכה לניקוי מקלדת (20 שקל) ועל מאוורר כפול לרכב (50 שקל).

Send us a Text Message.In this week's episode of WTR Small-Cap Spotlight, we dive into the world of digital security with Dr. Chris Pierson, Founder and CEO of BlackCloak, hosted by WTR's Dr. John Roy, Managing Director of Technology Research and Tim Gerdeman, Vice Chair & Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer. We explore how BlackCloak provides tailored cybersecurity and privacy protection solutions for high-profile individuals, safeguarding against cyber threats like identity theft and data breaches in both professional and personal spheres. 

Send us a Text Message.In our latest Water Tower Hour FlashCast, WTR CEO & Co-Founder Shawn Severson discusses the Gorilla Technology (GRRR) initiation of coverage report with WTR technology analyst Dr. John Roy. The discussion includes Gorilla's base business and significant growth in 2023, with a look at the Egyptian project that is key to Gorilla's MENA expansion. Gorilla specializes in delivering AI-based smart & safe cities solutions with an emphasis on security convergence and network defense, video analytics, and big data analytics applied across both public and private sectors. The company's products identify, analyze, and extract information and provide predictive insights from a wide range of analog and digital signals that drive commercial and industrial automation and operations. Through its unwavering focus on customer success, Gorilla drives global digital transformation powering smart cities, smart ports, smart manufacturing, smart buildings, and smart retail.

John Roy of Dawson Knives joins Bob "The Knife Junkie" DeMarco on Episode 513 of The Knife Junkie Podcast (https://theknifejunkie.com/513).Dawson Knives began 50 years ago in a dilapidated barn, using machinery cobbled together with parts from the local landfill. Barry Dawson started Dawson Knives in 1973, after his tour of duty in Vietnam. Now retired, Barry continues to consult on new designs and processes.As time passed and his children grew, they fell in love with knives and creating beautiful tools that would last a lifetime. Today, a third generation of Dawson's sons and daughters have learned knife-making and worked to fill the shoes of their parents and grandparents and take Dawson Knives into the next 50 years.Roy, a second-generation Dawson knife maker who received personal instruction from Barry Dawson, has been creating and manufacturing custom knives for more than 20 years. He currently oversees operations at Dawson Knives.Dawson Knives also makes rare and one-of-a-kind pieces, like Damascus bowies and European and Asian-inspired swords, created by Dennis Cook.Use The Knife Junkie's discount code ("knifejunkie") to receive 15% off any purchase from Dawson Knives. Find Dawson Knives online at https://www.dawsonknives.com, on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/dawsonknives, and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/dawsonknives.Be sure to support The Knife Junkie and get in on the perks of being a patron, including early access to the podcast and exclusive bonus content. Visit https://www.theknifejunkie.com/patreon for details. You can also support The Knife Junkie channel with your next knife purchase. Find our affiliate links at https://theknifejunkie.com/knives.Let us know what you thought about this episode and leave a rating and/or a review. Your feedback is appreciated. You can also call the listener line at 724-466-4487 or email bob@theknifejunkie.com with any comments, feedback, or suggestions.To watch or listen to past episodes of the podcast, visit https://theknifejunkie.com/listen. And for professional podcast hosting, use The Knife Junkie's podcast platform of choice: https://theknifejunkie.com/podhost.

Join WTR's Tim Regan and Dr. John Roy as they chat with Vinanz Chairman David Lenigas about this Bitcoin miner's differentiated business model and its moves to make is shares more tradeable in the US.

Join WTR's Tim Regan, Curtis Shauger, Dr. John Roy and as they chat about Crypto, AI, and the recent WTR AI and Technology Investor Conference.

Join WTR's Tim Regan and Dr. John Roy and as they chat about Crypto and AI, and the hype surrounding it, and which Crypto and AI companies are presenting at the WTR AI and Technology Investor Conference on April 10 and 11th. 

Darren Snell, a.k.a. John Roy decided to at 58 years old sell his beautiful DC rowhouse for an incredible farm situation that brings total joy and excitement. For those of you thinking about making your dreams come true with a farm you don't want to miss this episode.

Join WTR's Jesse Redmond and John Roy and as they chat with Bakkt's Head of Institutional Solutions, Ray Kamrath, about how Bakkt's custody capabilities are key for its institutional clients, and how the recent approval by the SEC of several Bitcoin ETFs is changing the US market.

Join Curtis Shauger and Tim Regan as well as John Roy and Jesse Redmond as Curtis and John discuss the top tech trends to look out for in 2024. Part 2 of 3 of our WTR Recap Episodes.

John Roy returns to the Ska Dads Podcast to chat about some of the killer releases Smoke and Mirrors Sound System have made this year. This episode delves deep into their catalogue and dives deep into John Roy's innermost thoughts and why he just did a photo shoot emulating Hans Solo being captured in carbonite. Also John talks about some of the upcoming releases on Escape Hatch Records. Escape Hatch Records Smoke & Mirrors Sound System (smokeandmirrorssoundsystem.com) Smoke&Mirrors (@smokemirrors1) | TikTok Smoke and Mirrors Sound System - YouTube Spotify Playlist for Episode

Water's Tower's Head of Business Development Tim Regan was joined by WTR's Managing Director of Technology Dr. John Roy, and Creative Realities (CREX) CEO Rick Mills to talk about the digital signage space.  Mills discusses Creative's customers (Best Buy, Verizon, Dallas Cowboys, Macy's, 7-11, and Panera), his shift to more SaaS, and the company's confidence in its 50% growth revenue guidance for 2024.

 Bakkt Chief Product Officer, Crypto Dan O'Prey joins WTR's Tim Regan and Dr. John Roy to discuss Bakkt's crypto infrastructure business, the company's history as part of ICE, cyrpto currency differences, Bakkt's custody focus, and why it is different. The discussion also highlights Bitcoin ETFs, pending crypto regulation, and some of the biggest misconceptions about crypto. 

 AEye Co-Founder, EVP and Chief Strategy Officer Jordan Greene joins WTR's Tim Regan and Dr. John Roy to discuss AEye's leading lidar (Light Detection and Ranging, uses directed lasers) technology and capital light / licensing business model. Greene reviews the characteristics of Aeye's MEMS (Micro Electronic Mechanical Systems) and software lidar technology and its partnership with global Tier-1 auto supplier Continental. The podcast outlines the auto safety business cases, the upcoming OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturers, aka car companies) selections, and the near-term potential for ADAS (Advanced Driver-Assistance System) sales. 

This Week John Roy from Smoke and Mirrors Sound System joins us. First, John tells us about starting Escape Hatch Records with Michael Buchmiller. We discuss the in's and out's of running a record labels and we hear the latest Smoke and Mirrors Sound System song. Lastly, we give you some ska news and our ska picks of the week. John Roy: smokeandmirrorssoundsystem.com On The Upbeat: ontheupbeatska.com Ska News….. Mustard Plug On Friday, August 11th Mustard Plug released a new song called Vampire. This is the second single off their upcoming album, Where Did All My Friends Go? The album drops September 8th and the song vampire is streaming everywhere now. https://open.spotify.com/track/3YfeKiZe7Up3EJxqVOKxnh?si=c_HCbcUVS-6-L4HQ616c9g -Shark Punch Also, on August 11th California's own Shark Punch released their cover of Magic Carpet Ride originally by Steppenwolf. Shark Puch's cover is streaming everywhere now. https://open.spotify.com/track/2c8Sgq1mCqKpcQXb5lNmSx?si=3tLZ2oS1RPmHP_0USbvk0Q -Simple Minded Symphony Lastly, on August 14th, Simple Minded Symphony released a new song called Feather. Feather is the newest single of the band's upcoming new album. Their self titled album drops August 22. Feather is streaming everywhere now. https://open.spotify.com/track/1kIcrh9JGQmhptCPtYRjcQ?si=Ex8VaJlST1u7zmh1CpOKAw Spotify playlist Ska Favorites: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2DikTsRPk4dspXejk9bFko?si=vaPlX9V7QVW9JsTRSUdqCg Ska News Theme by Dang!t: https://dangitband.bandcamp.com/music Main Theme by Millington: https://millingtonband.bandcamp.com/music You can buy the main Theme Song:  https://ontheupbeat.bandcamp.com/track/on-the-upbeat

One this episode of Legends of The Painty men comedians Andrew DeWitt and John Roy toast the new miniatures for Age of Sigmar, particularly the new Cities of Sigmar Cavaliers! Then Andrew shows off his new Gunpla and talks plans for One Page Rules. Also, Zoom changed its compression algorithm and it gave us a lisp. We'll be tryin out new software from now on! Tune in and enjoy!   Music by the amazing @fluxpavilion!

One this episode of Legends of The Painty men comedians Andrew DeWitt and John Roy roast the insane setting for Age of Sigmar, which they otherwise love, realm by realm. Tune in and enjoy!   Music by the amazing @fluxpavilion!

The Nixon administration is renowned for their surprising consideration of differing social and welfare policies and the internal conflict and debate that this created within the Republican party it led.In this episode of Hardly Working, I am joined by John Roy Price, special assistant to President Nixon during the contentious time period of 1969-71 and author of “The Last Liberal Republican: An Insider's Perspective on Nixon's Surprising Social Policy.” We discuss, joined by Robert Doar (President of AEI) and Scott Winship (Director of the AEI Center for Opportunity and Mobility) perspectives on the Nixon Administration, social and welfare policy, the history of the Republican party, and learn a little more about John Doar, Robert's esteemed father. Mentioned in the EpisodeThe Last Liberal Republican: An Insider's Perspective on Nixon's Surprising Social PolicyJohn Roy PriceRobert DoarScott WinshipJohn Doar Donald Rumsfeld Richard NixonPat Buchanan Arthur Burns Nixon's Family Assistance PlanNegative Income Tax

One this episode of Legends of The Painty men comedians Andrew DeWitt and John Roy talk about old school DnD, Andrew training for SCA fighting by jogging in full armor during a South Carolina summer heat wave, a new history show, AoS Vampire Pickup Artists, Andrew loves big fat Slaan frogs, price increases and they roast the new rules lawyer Kharadron Overlords model. Tune in and enjoy!   Music by the amazing @fluxopavilion!

One of my corporate clients shared how he also felt some imposter syndrome after a recent promotion of his to a very high position in his company.   Have you ever struggled from imposter syndrome?    How frequently do you struggle w/imposter syndrome?    What have you learned about yourself from your imposter syndrome?   White to Blue Belt in my BJJ journey felt like going from an adolescent to a teen. Getting promoted to Purple Belt felt like my first “adult” belt. That thought / concept resonated with him.    Shout out to John Roy, one of my previous BJJ coaches, for his constant help & coaching in my Jits journey.   To get more information on homeschooling, visit our sponsor's page at www.ClassicalConversations.com/gibbens

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Whew…why is it so difficult being vulnerable? This was a bit of a challenging episode because I got emotional a couple times & I wasn't sure why I got emotional.    I got promoted to purple belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ) the day before I recorded this episode. It was very hard for me to accept & receive my purple belt.    A lot of my self-image issues & insecurities & identity issues came rushing back like a flood. I wasn't prepared or expecting the promotion and I definitely wasn't prepared for all the emotional ramifications of getting promoted either.    I'm still processing this event / experience.    Trying to give myself grace, patience & understanding.   Team R.O.C. (Fayetteville, NC) https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100057408920318   Prime BJJ (Colorado Springs) https://www.facebook.com/primebrazilianjiujitsu   Flow State BJJ https://www.facebook.com/cfsfalconbjj   John Roy & his Mentor podcast https://open.spotify.com/show/0lT9hrLeMCVwAqtQAl6WDH?si=d1e4c116f3974ed8   To get more information on homeschooling, visit our sponsor's page at www.ClassicalConversations.com/gibbens

Host Victor Varnado asked comedian John Roy if he thinks talking mice are cute. He said yes because he likes the movie Ratatouille, and sidekick Shak Standley laughed when it was pointed out that it was a talking rat and not a talking mouse.Produced by: Rachel Teichman & Rebecca Trent@Sixunseemly#6UQ #SixUnseemlyQuestionshttps://www.facebook.com/sixunseemlyhttps://www.instagram.com/thefullcharge/https://twitter.com/SixUnseemly Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

Host Victor Varnado asked comedian John Roy if he thinks talking mice are cute. He said yes because he likes the movie Ratatouille, and sidekick Shak Standley laughed when it was pointed out that it was a talking rat and not a talking mouse.Produced by: Rachel Teichman & Rebecca Trent@Sixunseemly#6UQ #SixUnseemlyQuestionshttps://www.facebook.com/sixunseemlyhttps://www.instagram.com/johnroycomic/https://twitter.com/SixUnseemlyhttps://www.instagram.com/chloelabranche/ Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

John Roy, Sr. Risk Control Field Representative, Tokio Marine HCC, discusses the practices to safeguarding parks and recreational areas for children. He explains how liability trends are changing from the past - an increase of bike paths and walking trails have their own liability issues. Also how water features can pose a threat at chemical access points and the importance of having a checklist of what to look out for with the final walk through with the contractor. He shares his two most common recommendations and why they are important. You'll also hear examples of past issues and what to include in an inspection process, the benefits of having or hiring a certified park inspector, and best practices for hiring volunteers.

André's past as an onstage performer with the Geeks vs Nerds comedy debate show comes to the forefront as he talks with good friend and creator of that program John Roy John talks about finding a love of comics from his local pharmacy in Fall River, Nova Scotia. Growing up immersed in geek culture and leaving the Maritimes for jolly old England. Learn about the fast paced lifestyle of an IT worker on the United Kingdom's Stock Exchange and how quickly a paycheck can disappear at the local pub! Listen in as the two discusses the built in connections that come with nerd culture and the lengths some people go for the perfect cosplay!

Make sure to visit Ironcompany for all the latest rubber gym flooring solutions including artificial turf, interlocking rubber tiles, rubber flooring rolls and rubber gym mats. Today' guest was John Roy, a US Army Vet, husband, father of two girls, self-published author, full-time career man,...and competitive powerlifter. Early mornings John can be found down in the basement, in the iron trenches, forging himself into a better version of his current existence through unwavering consistency and determination. What's your excuse? Lots of great lifting topics and discussion. Don't miss it! Make sure to check out John Roy's Books on Amazon.comCheck back weekly for world class training articles by Marty Gallagher where he discusses everything from different modes of cardio training to the benefits of fasted cardio. His latest article "Bench Press Assistance Work" is up now. And don't forget the Jim Steel strength and conditioning articles combining his head strength coach experience from the University of Pennsylvania for twenty years with decades of successful powerlifting meets and bodybuilding competitions for us all to learn from and enjoy. His latest article "Deadlifts For Life" is up now. Thanks for listening and if you like what you hear please give us a review on your favorite podcast player. 

Host Junor Francis talks with veteran San Diego-based musician, singer and bandleader, John Roy, of Unsteady and Smoke & Mirrors Sound System.

On this episode of the podcast we connect with John Roy from the Smoke & Mirrors Soundsystem to chat about about their masterplan to take over the ska scene. John is a true ska veteran who has worked with and collaborated with everyone. Also he chats about Unsteady's latest release on Mix Tape Records and his time in the English Beat. https://smokeandmirrorssoundsystem.com/ https://www.mixedtaperecords.com/ https://www.liquidatormusic.com/tienda/en/ska-actual-7/12277-mi-vida-sin-tu-amor-i-m-a-man-8445162477857.html Throughout this episode we play some of our favorite tracks from Smoke & Mirrors Soundsystem first release "Strength in Numbers." https://smokeandmirrorssoundsystem.bandcamp.com/releases

Dave Witek (@garagehammer) joins comedians John Roy and Andrew DeWitt as they send up their favorite table top game, Age of Sigmar. In this episode Andrew tries to have a theme of “fun armies” but this is immediately abandoned and rapidly devolves in John's fantasies of playing Warhammer for large cash prizes, lighting toilets in Azyr, Sigmar buys an airbrush, Looney Tunes Gloomspite Gitz and Dave finally solves the mystery of why Age of Sigmar has so many cannibals! It's a raucous one. Happy Holidays!  music by the insanely talented @fluxpavilion his hobby page is also @fat_white_duke 

In this episode of PaltzCast, join Leija Rothenberg, Ryan Resta, and Andrew Wright as they hear about a mainstay of New Paltz music culture: house shows. These do-it-yourself shows have been put on pause for over a year and are gradually making a return. Special thanks to Connor Tosun, Alli Dempsey, Matt Florio, Taylor Setterstrom, Jimmy Purr, John Roy, Sarah Hock, and Gabbi Bush.

History is told, it is said, by the victors. And so it is in regard to Richard Nixon. We all know how his presidency ended. What too few of us recall or bother to learn is how it started. In his new The Last Liberal Republican: An Insider's Perspective on Nixon's Surprising Social Policy (UP of Kansas, 2021), John Roy Price details how in Nixon's first few years in office, the President ardently tried to lead from the middle to eradicate the widespread poverty that had so characterized his own upbringing. It is a view of Nixon and a big-tent, policy-driven Republican Party that few of us would recognize today. Part policy history, part political history, part memoir, John Roy Price's account of his time in the White House from 1969 to 1971 is an important corrective to simplistic views of Richard Nixon and the current Republican Party. Daniel Peris is Senior Vice President at Federated Hermes in Pittsburgh. He can be reached at DanielxPeris@gmail.com or via Twitter @HistoryInvestor. His History and Investing blog and Keep Calm & Carry On Investing podcast are at https://strategicdividendinves... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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After much anticipation and dipshit promotion, here is the amazing time with comedy start up buddy Kyle Kinane. We help out with a bachelor party in need, explain whirlyball, what do you do when you're a lonely asshole or 23 and feeling like its time to move out of your parents house. All shall be confronted here! Also for stand up comedy questions google John Roy's Comedy Lesson on Tumblr, it gives you all you want to know as there is only so much advice that can be given. Learn more about your ad choices. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

John Roy (Stand-up) joins the Long Shot gang to discuss buttons and some other stuff.  But mostly buttons.