Podcasts about Lawrence Welk

We're just home from a Lawrence Welk weekend, and by that I mean, total immersion in all things Welk. Three things came together.

This week on Jenny and Jenny in the Morning, we talk sunshine (real and metaphorical), Lawrence Welk, and the wonders of peanut butter pie. We also dive into Mother's Day plans—everything from heartfelt DIY gifts to a simple ice cream sundae from Dairy Shed—and share some low-cost ways to celebrate the moms and mother figures in your life.We give you the scoop on some fun upcoming events in Pickaway County, like the Circleville History Walk and the kickoff of Boogie on the Blacktop with Rockhouse on May 31. It's all about making memories and enjoying what's happening right here in our community. And of course, we share what's making us happy this week—hello, boutique thrifting and community marketing dreams!Looking for more fun things to do? Explore what's happening around the county at Pickaway.com – your one-stop spot for events, trails, and everything going on in the heart of it all.

Paul Harvey - Lawrence Welk 

Rob express himself on this podcast; he sings, raps, dances and talks about coffee, comedy, cannabis, life and death.  IG ~ @cchpodcast 

6 Word Weekend, Misheard Lyrics, Acts Of Kindness Gone Wrong, BANG and  Lawrence Welk.. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode of Broadway Drumming 101, I enjoyed interviewing the legendary Cubby O'Brien. You may know him from his days as a Mouseketeer on The Mickey Mouse Club, but his drumming career goes way beyond that. We talk about his early start in music, following in the footsteps of his drummer father, and his work with some of the biggest names in the industry—Lawrence Welk, Bernadette Peters, the Carpenters, and more.Cubby shares stories from his incredible journey through different eras of music, from the early influence of The Beatles and playing alongside icons like Steve Gadd. We dive into his Broadway experiences, where he brings his unique energy to every performance, and his thoughts on teaching and adapting to the ever-changing world of music. Whether you're a fan of musical history, a drummer, or just curious about what it takes to build a long-lasting career, this episode is packed with insights and memories you won't want to miss.Tune in to hear about his collaborations with legends like Shirley MacLaine and Nathan Lane and his work on Tony Award-winning shows—it's a deep dive into a life well lived!00:00 Introduction and Guest Introduction00:16 Chance Encounter on Broadway Cruise00:57 Sports Talk: Cowboys and Dodgers02:49 Cubby's Early Drumming Influences04:48 The Mickey Mouse Club and Early Career10:10 Transition to Studio Work and Variety Shows15:18 Working with the Carpenters18:43 Electronic Drums and Siegfried & Roy21:08 Collaborations with Bernadette Peters26:32 Learning the Drums: Insights from Jack Sperling27:13 Meeting Susan Stroman and the Producers Journey28:52 The Creative Process with Mel Brooks29:47 Challenges of Repetition in Broadway Shows31:30 Selecting Dependable Substitutes34:44 Transitioning to Gypsy and Working with Marvin Laird36:23 The Joy of Live Performances39:00 Maintaining Longevity and Avoiding Injuries42:41 Choosing Eugene, Oregon44:03 Advice for Aspiring Musicians44:38 Memories with Shirley MacLaine47:01 Appreciation from Fellow Musicians48:04 Preferences in Drum Kits53:05 Top Five Favorite Drummers54:27 Concluding Remarks and Future PlansCarl "Cubby" O'Brien, born July 14, 1946, in Sun Valley, California, is an accomplished American drummer and former child actor, best known as one of the original Mouseketeers on The Mickey Mouse Club (1955–1958). Discovered by Disney talent scouts at a Screen Actors Guild benefit in 1954, Cubby became the youngest male to audition for the show, securing his spot after a simple yet memorable rendition of "Happy Birthday." After his time with Disney, Cubby pursued his true passion for drumming, performing with bands around Los Angeles, including a two-year stint with Spike Jones, which opened doors to major acts. He went on to work with legendary artists such as Ann-Margret, Shirley MacLaine, and Diana Ross, and spent ten years touring with The Carpenters after meeting them on The Carol Burnett Show.Cubby's prolific career extends to Broadway and television, with notable performances in productions such as West Side Story, Hair, The Producers, and Gypsy. He has also lent his drumming talents to movie soundtracks, including Grease, Change of Habit, and Gypsy. In addition to his extensive stage and screen credits, Cubby has played drums for Siegfried and Roy in Las Vegas and continues to perform in the Broadway production of Chicago. Throughout his career, he has worked with an array of stars, from Bernadette Peters to Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme, and remains a respected figure in the music industry. Cubby resides with his wife, a University of Oregon graduate who recently relocated from New York.Clayton Craddock founded Broadway Drumming 101, a comprehensive online platform that provides specialized mentorship and a meticulously curated collection of resources.Clayton's Broadway and Off-Broadway credits include tick, tick...BOOM!, Altar Boyz, Memphis The Musical, Lady Day At Emerson's Bar and Grill, and Ain't Too Proud - The Life And Times Of The Temptations, Cats: The Jellicle Ball and The Hippest Trip: The Soul Train Musical. He has subbed for shows like Motown, Evita, Cats, Avenue Q, The Color Purple, Rent, Spongebob Squarepants - The Musical, Hadestown (tour), and many more. Clayton has appeared on The View, Good Morning America, Jimmy Fallon, The Today Show, and the TONY Awards and performed with legends like The Stylistics, The Delfonics, Mario Cantone, Laura Benanti, Kristin Chenoweth, Kerry Butler, Christian Boyle, Norm Lewis, Denise Williams, Chuck Berry, and Ben E. King.Clayton is a proud endorser of Ahead Drum Cases, Paiste Cymbals, Innovative Percussion drumsticks, and Empire Ears.For more about Clayton Craddock, click here: www.claytoncraddock.com Get full access to Broadway Drumming 101 at broadwaydrumming101.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode of the Broadway Drumming 101 podcast, we're thrilled to have the legendary Cubby O'Brien, one of the original Mouseketeers from The Mickey Mouse Club! Cubby takes us back to his early years, sharing how his musical journey began with his father teaching at a Sun Valley, California music school. He describes being part of a Dixieland band made up of young musicians who performed at various venues around Hollywood, from Rotary Club events to charity shows for the Screen Actors Guild. During one of these performances, his drumming skills caught the attention of Disney producers, leading to his audition for The Mickey Mouse Club—a gig that launched his storied career.Cubby also shares insights from his remarkable journey as a drummer, having played with legends like Ann-Margret, Lawrence Welk, and Bernadette Peters. His extensive Broadway career includes shows like The Producers, Hair, Oh! Calcutta!, and touring as the drummer for The Carpenters. Throughout the episode, Cubby offers anecdotes and lessons from decades of experience in the entertainment world.Subscribe to hear Cubby's stories, tips, and reflections from a lifetime in music and show business!Carl "Cubby" O'Brien, born July 14, 1946, in Sun Valley, California, is an accomplished American drummer and former child actor, best known as one of the original Mouseketeers on The Mickey Mouse Club (1955–1958). Discovered by Disney talent scouts at a Screen Actors Guild benefit in 1954, Cubby became the youngest male to audition for the show, securing his spot after a simple yet memorable rendition of "Happy Birthday." After his time with Disney, Cubby pursued his true passion for drumming, performing with bands around Los Angeles, including a two-year stint with Spike Jones, which opened doors to major acts. He went on to work with legendary artists such as Ann-Margret, Shirley MacLaine, and Diana Ross, and spent ten years touring with The Carpenters after meeting them on The Carol Burnett Show.Cubby's prolific career extends to Broadway and television, with notable performances in productions such as West Side Story, Hair, The Producers, and Gypsy. He has also lent his drumming talents to movie soundtracks, including Grease, Change of Habit, and Gypsy. In addition to his extensive stage and screen credits, Cubby has played drums for Siegfried and Roy in Las Vegas and continues to perform in the Broadway production of Chicago. Throughout his career, he has worked with an array of stars, from Bernadette Peters to Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme, and remains a respected figure in the music industry. Cubby currently resides with his wife, a University of Oregon graduate, having recently relocated from New York.Clayton Craddock founded Broadway Drumming 101, a comprehensive online platform that provides specialized mentorship and a meticulously curated collection of resources.Clayton's Broadway and Off-Broadway credits include tick, tick...BOOM!, Altar Boyz, Memphis The Musical, Lady Day At Emerson's Bar and Grill, and Ain't Too Proud - The Life And Times Of The Temptations, Cats: The Jellicle Ball and The Hippest Trip: The Soul Train Musical. He has subbed for shows like Motown, Evita, Cats, Avenue Q, The Color Purple, Rent, Spongebob Squarepants - The Musical, Hadestown (tour), and many more. Clayton has appeared on The View, Good Morning America, Jimmy Fallon, The Today Show, and the TONY Awards and performed with legends like The Stylistics, The Delfonics, Mario Cantone, Laura Benanti, Kristin Chenoweth, Kerry Butler, Christian Boyle, Norm Lewis, Denise Williams, Chuck Berry, and Ben E. King.Clayton is a proud endorser of Ahead Drum Cases, Paiste Cymbals, Innovative Percussion drumsticks, and Empire Ears.For more about Clayton Craddock, click here: www.claytoncraddock.comCONNECT WITH ME ON MEETHOOK Get full access to Broadway Drumming 101 at broadwaydrumming101.substack.com/subscribe

"That hat brought Frosty to life. It must be magic!" We're getting into the cooler months, which means snow should be coming soon. This means its time to talk Frosty the Snowman, a Rankin/Bass special that was nostalgic to Robert. It may be more geared to kids, but theres a lot of charm from the special. Learn how songwriter Jack Rollins got his start in his forties in which he wrote a variety of songs including those for Lawrence Welk and Babe Ruth before he got into the holiday buisness. Also learn how Gene Autry repeated with Frosty the year after he sung Rudolph and how Jimmy Durante's style would suite him to put out his own cover of Frosty.  Music credited to Purple Planet & Musicloops Facebook Instagram Patreon *Podcast is for educational purpose only. Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.*  

The Lawrence Welk Show from Hollywood with guest Mack Sennett September 21, 1949 ABC  Dance Time USA number 53 and 96 with Lawrence Welk Voice of America during the 1940s

This week Sara sits down with country music icon, Bill Anderson! Bill walks Sara through his journey to finding his love for music and how he ended up in Nashville pursuing his dream. The two of them reminisce on Bill presenting Sara her Opry induction and the songs that Bill has written that Sara loves. Bill also offers to take Sara out on his boat, and who knows, maybe the next big country hit will be written on Whispering Bill Anderson's boat. You don't wanna miss the laughs and memories shared in this episode!   About Bill Anderson: Bill Anderson has been using that philosophy for over sixty years to capture the attention of millions of country music fans around the world, en route to becoming a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame and one of the most popular, most enduring entertainers of our time. He's known, in fact as “Whispering Bill,” a nickname hung on him years ago as a result of his breathy voice and his warm, soft approach to singing a country song. His credentials, however, shout his prominence: One of the most awarded songwriters in the history of country music, a million-selling recording artist many times over, television game show host, network soap opera star, author of four books, and a consummate onstage performer. His backup group, The Po' Folks Band, has long been considered one of the finest instrumental and vocal groups in the business. Bill Anderson was born in Columbia, South Carolina, but spent most of his growing-up years around Atlanta, Georgia. He graduated from the University of Georgia with a degree in journalism, having worked his way through college as a disc jockey on nearby radio stations. It was while he was still in school that he began performing and writing songs. At the age of nineteen, he composed the country classic, “City Lights,” and began rapidly carving his place in musical history. He moved to Nashville, Tennessee, secured a recording contract with Decca Records, and began turning out hit after hit with songs like “Po'Folks,” “Mama Sang A Song,” “The Tips Of My Fingers,” “8X10,” and the unforgettable country and pop smash, “Still.” His compositions were recorded by such diverse musical talents as Ray Price, Porter Wagoner, James Brown, Debbie Reynolds, Ivory Joe Hunter, Kitty Wells, Faron Young, Lawrence Welk, Dean Martin, Jerry Lee Lewis, Aretha Franklin, Walter Brennan and many others. Bill has been voted Songwriter Of The Year six times, Male Vocalist Of The Year, half of the Duet Of The Year with both Jan Howard and Mary Lou Turner, has hosted and starred in the Country Music Television Series Of The Year, seen his band voted Band Of The Year, and in 1975 was voted membership in the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. Ten years later, the State of Georgia honored him by choosing him as only the 7th living performer inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame. In 1993, he was made a member of the Georgia Broadcasters' Hall of Fame. In 1994, South Carolina inducted him into their Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame. And in 2001, he received the ultimate honor, membership in Nashville's prestigious Country Music Hall of Fame. Bill Anderson continues to paint a broad stroke across the Nashville music scene. He has been a member of the Grand Ole Opry since 1961 and performs there regularly. He continues to write and to record, his latest release being vocal and instrumental versions of some of his best known songs, titled “Bill Anderson – The Hits Re-Imagined.” On the personal side, Bill lives on Old Hickory Lake outside Nashville where he spends as much time as possible with his three children and eight grandchildren. He is a boater and sports enthusiast who has been known to adjust his work schedule to fit around a ball game he just “has to see.” He is an avid reader, his bookshelves lined with mysteries, biographies, books on religion, sports, and humor.   Listen to Unbroke: (https://ffm.to/seunbroke)   LET'S BE SOCIAL:   Follow Bill Anderson: Instagram: (@whisperinbillanderson) Youtube: (@BillAnderson) Website: https://billanderson.com/wired/   Follow Diving in Deep Podcast: Instagram –(@divingindeeppod) TikTok – (@divingindeeppod) Twitter – (@divingindeeppod) Facebook – (@divingindeeppod)   Follow Sara Evans: Instagram – (@saraevansmusic) TikTok – (@saraevansmusic) Twitter – (@saraevansmusic) Facebook – (@saraevansmusic)   Produced and Edited by: The Cast Collective (Nashville, TN) YouTube – ( @TheCastCollective ) Instagram – (@TheCastCollective) Twitter – (@TheCastCollective)   Directed by: Erin Dugan Edited By: Sean Dugan, Corey Williams, & Michaela Dolph https://www.thecastcollective.com  

This week Sara sits down with country music icon, Bill Anderson! Bill walks Sara through his journey to finding his love for music and how he ended up in Nashville pursuing his dream. The two of them reminisce on Bill presenting Sara her Opry induction and the songs that Bill has written that Sara loves. Bill also offers to take Sara out on his boat, and who knows, maybe the next big country hit will be written on Whispering Bill Anderson's boat. You don't wanna miss the laughs and memories shared in this episode!   About Bill Anderson: Bill Anderson has been using that philosophy for over sixty years to capture the attention of millions of country music fans around the world, en route to becoming a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame and one of the most popular, most enduring entertainers of our time. He's known, in fact as "Whispering Bill," a nickname hung on him years ago as a result of his breathy voice and his warm, soft approach to singing a country song. His credentials, however, shout his prominence: One of the most awarded songwriters in the history of country music, a million-selling recording artist many times over, television game show host, network soap opera star, author of four books, and a consummate onstage performer. His backup group, The Po' Folks Band, has long been considered one of the finest instrumental and vocal groups in the business. Bill Anderson was born in Columbia, South Carolina, but spent most of his growing-up years around Atlanta, Georgia. He graduated from the University of Georgia with a degree in journalism, having worked his way through college as a disc jockey on nearby radio stations. It was while he was still in school that he began performing and writing songs. At the age of nineteen, he composed the country classic, "City Lights," and began rapidly carving his place in musical history. He moved to Nashville, Tennessee, secured a recording contract with Decca Records, and began turning out hit after hit with songs like "Po'Folks," "Mama Sang A Song," "The Tips Of My Fingers," "8X10," and the unforgettable country and pop smash, "Still." His compositions were recorded by such diverse musical talents as Ray Price, Porter Wagoner, James Brown, Debbie Reynolds, Ivory Joe Hunter, Kitty Wells, Faron Young, Lawrence Welk, Dean Martin, Jerry Lee Lewis, Aretha Franklin, Walter Brennan and many others. Bill has been voted Songwriter Of The Year six times, Male Vocalist Of The Year, half of the Duet Of The Year with both Jan Howard and Mary Lou Turner, has hosted and starred in the Country Music Television Series Of The Year, seen his band voted Band Of The Year, and in 1975 was voted membership in the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. Ten years later, the State of Georgia honored him by choosing him as only the 7th living performer inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame. In 1993, he was made a member of the Georgia Broadcasters' Hall of Fame. In 1994, South Carolina inducted him into their Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame. And in 2001, he received the ultimate honor, membership in Nashville's prestigious Country Music Hall of Fame. Bill Anderson continues to paint a broad stroke across the Nashville music scene. He has been a member of the Grand Ole Opry since 1961 and performs there regularly. He continues to write and to record, his latest release being vocal and instrumental versions of some of his best known songs, titled "Bill Anderson - The Hits Re-Imagined." On the personal side, Bill lives on Old Hickory Lake outside Nashville where he spends as much time as possible with his three children and eight grandchildren. He is a boater and sports enthusiast who has been known to adjust his work schedule to fit around a ball game he just "has to see." He is an avid reader, his bookshelves lined with mysteries, biographies, books on religion, sports, and humor.   Listen to Unbroke:...

https://www.patreon.com/thewallbreakers I've mentioned a few times before within Breaking Walls episodes that I try to be as unbiased as possible. I want Breaking Walls to be a true documentary, so I leave the op-eds for everyone else. But this is my tenth anniversary as a podcaster so I'll share. I spent the first ten years of my life living in a house where the people there were born between 1918 and 1989. It was in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. There was a park across the street. Around 1900 that park wouldn't have been there. It would have been Indian Pond. Who knows how many thousands of years people congregated at that pond. My great-grandmother was in my life until I was 24. She grew up on Cherry Street in Manhattan's Lower East Side. By the time I came along everyone had heard her stories ten times over, but I loved sitting with her, playing cards and sharing bagels with Country Crock Shedspread, while she told me about her Italian immigrant parents, living through the depression and World War II. She had mixed feelings about Mussolini, but was a deep supporter of FDR. She loved Lawrence Welk and watched Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune. Her father was a believer in women's rights and a huge New York Giants baseball fan. He died of a heart attack on June 26th, 1951, one hundred days before Bobby Thompson's shot heard round the world. The interesting thing is, I have no recollection of talking to her about the radio shows she loved to listen to in the 1930s and 40s. Her second daughter is my grandmother. Tough, outspoken, smart, she takes no guff from anyone and can curse with the best of them. Her husband, my grandfather, was the person I spent the most time with, playing baseball, going to Coney Island, and eventually, introducing me to radio shows on Christmas Day 1999. He was the 9th of 11 kids from an Irish Catholic family in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. What was his favorite radio show growing up? Thanks to him, I've spent the past twenty-five years listening to radio shows from the “Golden Age of Radio” be they comedy, drama, detective, western, soap opera, news broadcasts or otherwise. Occasionally, someone with my last name would crop up, like on the Saturday, May 12th, 1951 episode of Broadway is My Beat. I've spent the past seven years making monthly documentaries on radio history; More than eighty of them now. One a month, without fail. I've also found the time to write new audio fiction, like Burning Gotham, the historical fiction audio soap opera set in 1835 New York City. It was a 2022 Tribeca Film Festival audio selection. People often don't know how to introduce me at professional functions. Am I a radio historian? Audio fiction developer? Director? Narrator? Actor? Like a lot of people who figure something out on their own, I'm a little bit of everything. I'm now as much a New York historian as I am a radio historian. I guess all roads do lead home. I've won awards, been complimented and critiqued, passed up social and other life opportunities, and you know what, I found direction, not just through a hobby, but with some kind of desire that burns deep inside of myself. It's what I wanted ten years ago. Or maybe it's because I can't share these documentaries with my grandfather anymore. He's out there in the ether somewhere. I hope he tunes in once in a while. The flame doesn't always burn with the same degree of brightness. I'm a New Yorker. Ambitious unmonetized hobbies are like masochistic anchors. Would stopping this be an act of cowardice or would it lighten the load? Any time I want to pack up and move on I think, how can I? I want to help preserve and grow this medium, both creatively and financially. Blood of my blood, flesh of my flesh. If I'm in for a penny, I'm in for a pound. Would my 2014 self be proud seeing where I've come to? Ultimately, yes. That's the thing about running on the treadmill to oblivion, you don't always go where you want to, but you get in shape doing it.

This week on Seddy Bimco Part Two The Revenge, We visit Delaware The state where they filmed Mayor Cupcake! Links: https://linktr.ee/seddybimco Links: https://linktr.ee/seddybimcoLinks: https://linktr.ee/seddybimcoFollow Tim on letterboxd! See the Seddy Bimco watchlist!Email us at seddybimcoe@gmail.com Most art by Tim HamiltonMusic by Tim HamiltonCheck out the Seddy website. Links: https://linktr.ee/seddybimcoCheck out George O'Connor's books: https://www.georgeoconnorbooks.com/Check out Tim Hamilton's books: https://timhamiltonrwf.gumroad.com/Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.In this episode, Tim and George discuss the movie Mayor Cupcake and share interesting facts about Delaware. They talk about the rivalry between Mayor McCheese and McNuggets, the McDonaldland characters, and the strange flags of Delaware. They also discuss trivia nights, the Lawrence Welk show, and the challenges of finding movies filmed in Delaware. They explore the history of Bridgeville and the annual Pumpkin Chunkin Festival. The episode ends with a brief synopsis of the movie Mayor Cupcake. Mayor Cupcake is a clean, family-friendly movie with wacky characters and a small-town setting. The main character, Mary Maloney, is a famous baker in a town of 2000 people. The movie revolves around an election for mayor and the challenges Mary faces as she navigates her personal and professional life. The film features Leah Thompson and Judd Nelson, who bring their own charm to the story. While the movie may not have a deep plot, it offers light-hearted entertainment for a specific audience. In this part of the conversation, Tim and George discuss various subtopics related to the movie 'Mayor Cupcake'. They talk about the character Grundle, the meaning of the term 'grundle', and the reasons why Judd Nelson's character plays the harmonica on the toilet. They also discuss the scene where the mayor chokes on a cupcake and dies, and the various ways in which Mary tries to improve the town as mayor. The conversation ends with a discussion about the meeting between Mary and Grundle, where he threatens her and she agrees to appoint him as deputy mayor. In this final part of the conversation, Tim and George discuss the ending of the movie Mayor Cupcake and share their thoughts on its overall quality. They also share some funny moments and jokes from the film. The conversation then transitions to discussing the next movie they will be reviewing, which is called Bog and was filmed in Wisconsin. They end the conversation by encouraging listeners to follow them on social media and share the podcast with others. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

October 24-31, 1964 This week Ken welcomes BACK to the show, author of the new book "James Bond and the Sixties Spy Craze", Tom Shubilla. Ken and Tom discuss the cold war, spy culture, how we looked at spies different each decade after WWII, James Bond, Euro Spy, Japanese Spy flicks, surfing and spying, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Tupperware parties, Abe Lincoln, wrestling, Johnny Quest, The Saint, Lawrence Welk, Gilligan's Island, The Outer Limits, The Rolling Stones on Ed Sullivan, Halloween episodes, Bachelor Father, The Addams Family, Don Rickles, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Car 54, Where Are You?, Jack Benny, Children in Danger, Patty Duke, Shindig, computerized election coverage, Steve Allen, Rich Little, The Flintstones, Andy Williams, real world leaders in spy movies, The Finale Programme, Rob Hill, being a monster kid and a preview of Thom's next book. 

Christine and I immediately get off on a tangent about Butker which led to our Catholic schooling....which led to traditions.....which somehow led to the Lawrence Welk show, shared cultural experiences and my cat on Prozac

Who is more Milwaukee than Lawrence Welk? With his accordion and orchestra, played polkas plus light and bubbly “champagne music,” which laid claim to the bubble machine. He played many dance dates in Milwaukee, including George Devine's Million Dollar Ballroom. It was there, as a youngster, my parents took me to see him, and they bought me an accordion. That didn't last long, as I preferred to play baseball instead of playing the squeeze box. Welk recorded some of his records in Grafton, Wisconsin. Today those recordings are rare and valuable. Welk started out in radio and later his very popular “Lawrence Welk Show.” He mentions the threat of being canceled, but that never happened, and reruns are seen today on local TV. He had several hits including “Calcutta,” which was a number one record in 1961. Welk was inducted into the International Polka Hall of Fame and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He even appeared on Saturday Night Live. You might remember when Stan Freberg impersonated him in a recording called “Wunnerful Wunnerful.” Welk was not happy with Freberg's mimic but ended up using it for the title of his book.

In this episode, you and I are going to meet Betty's Antiques owner, Liz Murphy from St. Paul, Minnesota. She's walking us through her charming vintage boutique on the historic corner of Selby and Snelling Avenues, plus she shares the sweet way her grandma Betty influenced how she dresses up a table, in a non-fussy sort of way, so that we can make our guests feel special—even in our everyday living—using touches like fresh flowers and table linens, to glassware and flatware, candles, and pretty dishes. We talk about an evening with Lawrence Welk, her manageable way to appreciate our fine china, what mindset we should be in when it's time to wash the fancy dishes, plus, Liz tells us a couple of her favorite spots to each lunch and enjoy a treat near her shop, and we talk about the cookbook that her cousin put together that's full of recipe and stories the family has of Grandma Betty—she even gives us Betty's recipe for buttery smooth caramels, which you can get on my website randomsweets.com.  While you're listening, take a look at Liz's website and social media, which you can find on https://www.bettysantiques-stp.com. I hope this episode inspires you to use something fancy in your everyday living and for the holidays.  Thank you to Sarah Peterson from the blog Vintage Dish and Tell for introducing us. If you missed Sarah's episode, it is S2 E9 on Dec. 1, 2023. Show Notes & Links Betty's Antiques, Liz (Elizabeth) Murphy https://www.bettysantiques-stp.com Instagram: @bettys.antiques.stp Facebook: Betty's Antiques Rose Street Patisserie Yum! Kitchen and Bakery (multiple locations) The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning #useyourfancydishes #bettysantiquesstpaul #StPaul #SelbyatSnelling #shopBettys Staci Mergenthal RandomSweets.com #ourSweetMidwestLife Website randomsweets.com Instagram @potatoesandmittens Instagram @randomsweets Facebook Random Sweets Pinterest @staciperry Email: staci@randomsweets.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/potatoesandmittens/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/potatoesandmittens/support

When does "old people's music" become your music, too?I think that happens in a couple of ways -- when you start playing it yourself, then something happens in your head and in your heart . . . and when you encounter magic in the night. Let's just call it "moonglow."Or, more properly, "Moonglow."That is what this week's edition of 3 Chords & the Truth is all about. Let's go deeper, and I'll use my own experience to do that.Big band was my parents' music, kind of like country, Lawrence Welk and Guy Lombardo. As a kid in the pre-digital age, I was force-fed three things on TV in the days of one or two TV sets in the house and just two channels in Baton Rouge. First, it was The Porter Wagoner Show. Second, The Lawrence Welk Show. Third, every Dec. 31, Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians counting down to the new year . . . also pre-digital.OF COURSE, I was lucky to have grown up playing, and loving, the records bought by the younger version of my parents. We're talking jump blues, gut-bucket jump blues, Western swing, Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis, the Everly Brothers and Thin Elvis.The "race music" thing and my racist parents? One of the many contradictions of the segregated South. If you try to make sense of it, you'll fail.But then came high school, and high-school radio.Two of the shows I had to do as a student DJ at Baton Rouge High's FM station, WBRH, were the big-band show and the jazz show. I not only learned a lot (sometimes painfully), but I also learned to love the music -- "old folks'" music. Go figure.And then, when I was in college at Louisiana State, I discovered Moonglow With Martin on WRKF public radio, which then was a brand-new thing in Baton Rouge -- broadcasting from a house trailer on Frenchtown Road. The late-night show was a continuation of something legendary disc jockey Dick Martin had been doing, on various stations around the country, since the early 1950s on clear-channel, 50,000-watt WWL in New Orleans.Martin was a big-band and jazz DJ. He only played the good stuff -- the really good stuff. His show was, not to put too fine a point on it, magic. I missed out on his WWL show, and I was just a little kid when, after a stint in Kansas City, he brought it for a time to Baton Rouge's WJBO-FM in 1965. (Besides, who listened to FM in 1965? Apart from the folks in dentists' offices?)BUT I DIDN'T miss Moonglow With Martin on public radio after 'RKF came to my cultural-wasteland of a hometown in 1980. Seriously, people, we didn't have public TV until 1975; WBRH was the city's first noncommercial radio station since WLSU-FM went under in 1957. And we had only Channel 2 and Channel 9 until 1971, when we got an ABC affiliate, Channel 33.And in the white, working-class world of my childhood, subversiveness was called SOOOUL Train! But what about my parents' old race records? Do not try to square that circle; you'll hurt yourself.So, like my parents' old country and blues discs, and the Top-40 and progressive FM rock of my growing-up years, Dick Martin's Moonglow With Martin is in the Big Show. It's a marvelous mix of my youthful force-feedings, rebellion and . . . musical discovery.If you want to know what 3 Chords & the Truth is, exactly, it's me. And maybe it's you, too. Thank you, Mr. Martin.It's 3 Chords & the Truth, y'all. Be there. Aloha.

Episode 377 is about Wintry horror, but perhaps more so, it's about the bygone era of television in the 70's and 80's. What did younger listeners miss out on? Oh, ya know…goddamn Hee Haw and Lawrence Welk. If you don't know, count yourself lucky. But, Wintry horror? You do hear about that in the form of “The Last Winter”, “Dead of Winter” and “A Cold Night's Death”. Find us on Instagram where we are @chewingthescenery or easily find us on Facebook. CTS can be found on Soundcloud, Apple Music and anywhere fine podcasts can be found. Please rate, review, subscribe- it really does help new listeners find us!#horror #horrormovies #horrornerd #horroraddict #horrorjunkie #monsterkid #bmovie #scarymovies #monstermovie #podcast #chewingthescenery #zombies #zombie #VHS #moviemonsters #winterhorror #wintrythree #madefortvmovies

National Dream deay.  Entertainment from 1997.  1st armored car robbery, 2nd worst nuclear accident, Romeo & Juliet married.  Todays birthdays - Christian Kent Nelson, Lawrence Welk, George Kooymans, Bobby McFerrin, Lisa Loeb, Terrance Howard, Johnny Knoxville.  Merlin Olsen died.Intro - Pour some sugar on me - Def Leppard  http://defleppard.com/All I have to do is dream - The Everly BrothersWannabe - Spice GirlsWe danced anyway - Deana CarterBirthdays - In da club - 50 Cent   http://50cent.com/Calcutta - Lawrence Welk OrchestraRadar love - Golden EarringDon't worry be happy - Bobby McFerrin Stay (I missed you) - Lisa LoebJackass TV themeExit - Its not love - Dokken    https://coolcasts.cooolmedia.com/

Songs include: Bubbles In the Wine, Pink Champagne, Abercrombie Had a Zombie, Salty Dog Blues, Rum and Coca-Cola, Scotching With the Soda and Cocktails For Two. Performers include: Lawrence Welk, the King Cole Trio, Glenn Miller, the Andrews Sisters Joe Liggins and Fats Waller. 

This week we have another bar fight story from Sean, we discuss the Steelers playoff loss and who we are rooting in the NFL playoffs, we discuss the movie Lift and Tron 3 going into production, can The Black Hole be remade, what movies are we looking forward to in 2024, the excitement of going to the video rental place and watching movies on HBO, plus so much more

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What's the best way to usher in the New Year? On this week's episode, legendary voiceover artist Bill Ratner shares a true story from his early days in Radio: When his green card bride Claudine leaves him, he's alone during the Holidays in an empty double wide and his evening shift duties at KJOI (LA's easy listening music station). So when a fan requests something a bit more intimate than the Percy Faith Orchestra, why not make her happy? And on New Year's Eve, they produce their own live show together over the air waves, using the station's 50,000 watts of power to make the world a bit less lonely.  And Dixie ends the year with the story you've been asking her for. #HappyNewYear   Song: ‘Love's A Stranger' (Warhaus)   New Year l Radio DJ l Drive by Fucking l Anonymous Sex | Music Request Line l Radio Antenna l 1970's l Lubrication l Harlequin Romance Novel l Top of Topanga Mobile Home Park l Double Wide l Vaseline l Instrumental Radio l Muzak l Muumuu | Terrycloth Bathtub Animals l FM Transmitter l Top of the Hour l Station ID l Honda Civic l Radio Console l Blinking LEDs I Percy Faith Orchestra l Middle Age l Smog l Order Up a Man l Microphone l Los Angeles l Happy New Year l Divorce l Radio Tower l Lawrence Welk l Green Card l Quell l Radio Station l Marriage l Swiss l London l LA l Radio Announcer l Chief Engineer l Sales Manager l   About our Storyteller:   Bill Ratner is one of Hollywood's premier voiceover artists and a published poet, essayist, and fiction writer. He narrates movie trailers for Pixar's Inside-Out, Marvel's Ant Man, The Kid Who Would Become King, Cold Pursuit, The Emoji Movie, Coen brothers' Hail Caesar, Will Ferrell's The Campaign, MegaMind, Talladega Nights, etc., commercials for Hyundai, Sprint, Pizza Hut, etc., promos for CBS-TV, NBC-TV, ABC-TV, Cartoon Network, documentary narrations for Discovery, History Channel, Smithsonian Channel, Disney World, and is the game voice of "Donnel Udina" on Mass Effect 1, 2 & 3, and the cartoon voice of "Flint" on G.I. Joe, Robot Chicken, Community, and Family Guy.   One of America's leading storytellers, Bill is a 9-time winner of The Moth Story Slam and a 2-time winner of The Best of The Hollywood Fringe Festival Extension for solo performance. Bill's spoken word performances can be heard on National Public Radio's Good Food, The Business, and KCRW's Strangers. He has told stories at Comedy Central Stage, National Storytelling Festival, Long Beach Comic Con, G.I. Joe Con, Portland Storytelling Festival, Timpanogos Storytelling Conference, National Storytelling Network Conference, and Los Angeles Unified School District classrooms since 1992.   Episode links: Needle Play Acupuncture: Needle Play Acupuncture was made by and for the Kink, Leather, and LGBTQIA+ communities. We deserve to have our whole selves treated, because feeling great, playing hard and having spectacular sex can be health goals too. NeedlePlay specializes in Transgender-affirming, kink-aware, and trauma-informed care that is sex and body-positive. They offer Expertise in Transgender care, from HRT enhancement to hair growth support. Plus, as you'd expect: Back pain, muscle pain, injuries, digestive issues, libido issues, mental health, inflammation, graceful aging through micro-needling, cosmetic acupuncture, and more.   For a limited time, Bawdy Storytelling Listeners  can use the discount code “May I Have Another”, and you'll get 25% off. It's holiday time and an Acupuncture certificate is the perfect gift for your Dominant, your Metamours, or for the self-care you need after those exhausting family gatherings.   SUBSCRIBE: Want to be the first to know where Bawdy is headed to on our National Tour? The best place to stay abreast is our email newsletter. Ticket links will be released on the Bawdy newsletter; as soon as we confirm a date, you can find out there.   You'll be the first to see upcoming Tour Dates, get access to Tickets, Storytelling Workshops, Livestreams, Podcasts, Fan Meetups and Special Events. I've been shadowbanned on Social Media (which means no one can see my posts - and that sucks when you're headed out on a big Tour). So having my social media accounts deleted is probably next. If that happens, the only sure way for you and I to stay in touch is for you to sign up for Bawdy's email newsletter. Please ask your friends to sign up, TOO. 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Barbra Streisand [00:20] "The Christmas Song" Seasons Greetings from Barbra Streisand... and Friends Columbia Special Products CSS 1075 1969 Babs takes things in a particularly saccharine direction, but I suppose not every version can be the Nat King Cole Trio. Rockpile [04:25] "Heart" Seconds of Pleasure Columbia JC 36886 1980 The iconic album from the band that until this point has backed solo efforts from Nick Lowe and Dave Edmunds knock it out of the park on their only release as Rockpile. Guitarist Billy Bremnar steps up to take the lead vocals on this snappy number. Pavement [07:00] "Frontwards" The Secret History, Volume 1 (1990-1992) Matador OLE-1064-1 2015 A compilation from a few years ago of early Pavement material. This one is a live version of one of my favorite Pavement songs, performed at Brixton Academy in London on December 14, 1992. Years later Los Campesinos! would win my musical heart with their version of this song (https://youtu.be/DnEa4ES7ep4?si=WeB_oCdOz73gNL0E). The Fresh & Onlys [10:21] "Do You Believe in Destiny" Secrets Walls Sacred Bones Records SBR-056 2011 Always love that big spacey sound Wymond Miles brings with his guitar. Peter Gabriel [14:53] "Shock the Monkey" Security Geffen Records XGHS 2011 1982 If you ask Peter Gabriel what this album is titled, he will likely say "Peter Gabriel", like his previous 3 solo efforts. If you ask Geffen Records what this album is called, they will say "Security". The more you know. The Seeds [20:16] "Can't Seem to Make You Mine" The Seeds GNP Crescendo GNP 2023 1966 A top notch side 1, track 1 from these garage rock progenitors featuring the one and only Sky Saxon (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQWVHvjdfZw). Eigenlicht [23:19] "There Lies Already the Shadow of Annihilation" Self-Annihilating Consciousness Gilead Media Relic94 2018 Blackened metal from up Olympia WA way. A brief intro into this epic album. If it sounds like something that you might be interested in, definitely check out this release. The Who [25:13] "Odorono/Tattoo" Sell Out Decca DL 74950 1967 The third studio album from The Who and easily my favorite Who album. I made this one a twofer to give you, the listener, a better feel for the album. Bernard Gunther [33:08] "Face Slapping" Sensory Awakening: Relaxation Esalen Institute 1968 Evidently there is a follow-up record for this... Sensory Awakening: Couples. Yowza. Mitch Miller and the Gang [35:32] "Singin' in the Rain/All I Do Is Dream of You/Toot, Toot, Tootsie! (Goodbye)" Sentimental Sing Along with Mitch Columbia CS 8251 1960 Not sure about the last part of that medley, but the first two are solid selections from the titular film. Luna [38:57] "(Walkin' Thru' the) Sleepy City" A Sentimental Education Double Feature Records LP-DBL-0013 2017 A fine collection of covers from one of my favorite bands. This Jagger/Richards number orignally appeared on the Stones compilation album Metamorphosis (https://youtu.be/fRDtVsAvM-8?si=wyGkrescNCIU4vWd). The Parting Gifts also do a great Spector-esque cover (https://youtu.be/P903W_tJNi0?si=Fyw8WEIcJidDI4Ga). Frank Sinatra [42:42] "September Song" September of My Years Reprise Records FS 1014 1965 Frank handles this Weill number pretty well. For my money, the Lou Reed version (https://youtu.be/dHVqWRxpqXk?si=Jop71rSbI5jTlzXF) that appears on the Hal Willner project "September Song: The Music of Kurt Weill". Serana-Maneesh [48:22] "Drain Cosmetics" Serena-Maneesh Playlouderecordings PLAYR 4LP 2006 Another great side one, track one. Some mid-aighties shoegaze goodness out of Norway. Saw them perform an amazing at the Bottom of the Hill on this tour. Kermit the Frog [52:03] "Green" The Sesame Street Record Columbia CR 21530 1970 Sing it,œœ Kermie. Rosanne Cash [54:27] "Seven Year Ache" Seven Year Ache Columbia JC 36965 1981 This song has been stuck in my brain since it was first released, due in large part due to the synth lines courtesy of Booker T Jones. This was a number one album on the country charts for Rosanne, and made it to number 26 on the Billboard 200 that year. _Music behind the DJ: "Make the World Go Away" by Lawrence Welk

Judson Siercks, known as Jud, was born on this date in 1908, and if visitors to the Bottineau County Museum make a journey to the back of the building, they will discover an interesting device he built.

It's the OVR Pop-Up event #2 with several great guests, a mediocre introduction, and a Marginally Adequate wrap-up show. We'll hear interviews from Nick Masney of ITLA Models, with lots of great products and is as excited about the future of the hobby as anybody, next up is Andrew Duns, who's partners with Lorne James in the OVR Trains manufacturing business, then we hear from our old buddy George Bogatiuk from SoundTraxx who can dispense more information in 10 minutes than most people can in an hour.   Finally, we meet legendary accordion player Walter Ostanek, a three-time Grammy award winning musician who's travelled the world and been on just about every show there is such as Johnny, Carson, Lawrence Welk, Don Ho, Phil Donahue etc. etc. Walter is still going strong at the age of 88 and it was a real thrill to meet him and spend quality time chatting about his life. This is a great podcast and one you're sure you'll enjoy!!

Stan Freberg was born on August 7th, 1926 in Pasadena, California. Shortly after graduating from high school, he found work as a voice actor in both radio and animation. In 1957, now thirty-one, he was given his own thirty-minute comedy program on CBS, Sundays at 7:30PM eastern time from Hollywood. He debuted on July 14th, 1957. His cast featured Peter Leeds, June Foray, Daws Butler, Marvin Miller with vocalist Peggy Taylor, Billy May's orchestra, and the Jud Conlon Rhythmaires. His comedic style was biting. He was a shrewd satirist who targeted mediocrity, complacency, and stuffed shirts. He specialized in lampooning American life. On his first show he ripped American capitalism with a long skit about two competing Las Vegas nightclubs, the El Sodom and Rancho Gomorrah, set in the near future. The CBS higher-ups didn't get it. So, he destroyed Lawrence Welk in a skit that became known as “Wunnerful, Wunnerful.” Billy May's orchestra played a Welkian arrangement of “Bubbles in the Wine” while Freberg—doing a credible Welk imitation—kept yelling, “Turn off the bubble machine!” until he was drowned in the foam. Freberg “interviewed” the abominable snowman, presented a group of musical sheep, and staged a western skit, “Bang Gunley, U.S. Marshall Fields” spoofing the overdone sound effects of many classic films. He attacked censorship, with Freberg attempting to sing Kern and Hammerstein's “Ol' Man River,” only to be stopped by a “citizens committee censor,” who sounded a buzzer at any line he found objectionable, leading to rewriting the lyrics as “Elderly man river.” In August Sponsor Magazine reported that CBS thought network radio could see a return to sponsors buying full programs that fall. CBS was pitching The Stan Freberg show for ten-thousand dollars per week. However, by October it was obvious that network comedy couldn't return to its previous highs and The Stan Freberg Show was canceled after the October 20th episode.

Sarah Vaughan [00:36] "Hey Naughty Papa" Sassy Mercury Wing MGW 12237 1962 (originally released in 1956) Hey now. Evidently this one was written by Hoagy Carmichael? Here Sarah is backed by Hal Mooney and his Orchestra. Subway [02:51] "Jupiter" Satellites Soul Jazz Records SJR 157-12 2007 Beep boop boop beep. Jerry Byrd [08:27] "Cold Cold Heart" Satin Strings of Steel Monument SLP 8033 1965 Getting very aloha with Hank's classic. Glen Campbell [11:06] "Lonesome Jailhouse Blues" A Satisfied Mind Pickwick SPC-3134 1971 A repackaging of the Glen's Capitol Records 1966 album Big Bluegrass Special. Bee Gees [14:28] "Jive Talkin'" Saturday Night Fever (The Original Movie Sound Track) RSO RS-2-4001 1977 Sometimes you just have to go with the hit. Oh wait, they're all hits. The Hot Dogs [18:13] "Feel Real Fine" Say What You Mean Ardent Records ADS-2805 1973 A great little gem of a Big Star adjacent album. Digging this track by Terry Manning. Tom Jones [21:12] "Come to Me" Say You'll Stay Until Tomorrow Epic PE 34468 1977 That's right, the theme song from The Pink Panther Strikes Again (https://youtu.be/vH4-8qR79WY?si=t1IrFzJuuVfkDknP&t=7) (Edwards, 1976). You know, the one with the castle in Bavaria? My brothers and I went with my mother to see this one in the theaters instead of staying home and watching Super Bowl XI (Raiders v Vikings) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_XI). Daniel Ocko [24:07] "The Guitar Player" Great Ghost Stories Troll Records 50-002 1973 Oops... right genre, wrong cover. The record is Great Ghost Stories but the sleeve is Scary Spooky Stories. Harry Nilsson [31:27] "Gotta Get Up" Schmilsson RCA LSP 4515 1971 (1979 reissue) Aleatoric glissando. Look it up. Rafael Kubelik conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra [33:51] "Schoenberg: 5 Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 16 - Peripetia" Shoenberg/Bartok - 5 Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 16/Music for Stringed Instruments, Percussion, and Celesta Mercury MG-50026 1953 blah Pete Townshend [36:04] "Squeezebox" Scoop ATCO Records 7 99063-1-F 1983 A pretty solid demo from a compilation full of Who demos. Scott Walker [38:34] "Amsterdam" Scott (Aloner) Smash Records SRS 67099 1967 Alright, so I'm cheating a little on this one too. The US release of Walker's first album, Scott, was titled Aloner. But I didn't have this album when we were running through Albums that begin with the letter A as in Alpha. It's really difficult to pick just one song to play here. My instinct wanted to go with "The Lady Came from Baltimore (https://youtu.be/7gFECZErdBY?si=Pi-CIpL5RRu22aA7)" but the atmosphere of his cover of Brel's "Amsterdam" (https://youtu.be/-Z0UGGvb4sQ?si=2SIFvLXn7CvA80UT) is so good. Siouxsie & the Banshees [43:21] "Mirage" The Scream Polydor POLD 5009 1978 The amazing debut album from Siouxsie and the Banshees. A pretty remarkable effort front to back. The version of "Mirage" that appears on this album gains a little polish but still retains the energy of the Peel Session version the year before (https://youtu.be/0S_vlZg7xBQ?si=1NqDL9OM6OhrSn50). Judas Priest [46:11] "The Hellion/Electric Eye" Screaming for Vengeance Columbia FC 38160 1982 One of the greatest 1-2 punches in album opening history. You know exactly what you are in store for. Fourteen year-old me was completely enthralled with the sound of this album. Hap Palmer [50:31] "Sweetwater Springs" Sea Gulls... Music for Rest and Relaxation Activity Records AR 584 1978 Woof. File under Easy Listening. Why do I feel the sudden urge to make a macrame plant hanger? Will Oldham [52:15] "Sapele" Seafarers Music Drag City DC261 2004 Music to accompany a documentery by. Music behind the DJ: "Cold Cold Heart" by Lawrence Welk and Orchestra

Prepare to be captivated as we journey together into the life and career of the legendary singer, Wendy Moten. With a career that has spanned over two decades, Hey Black Women Amplified Family, Join us for a soulful journey with the incomparable Wendy Moten. Picture this: Wendy's musical ride started back in '92, and trust us, you won't want to miss a beat.Grab your virtual tea and settle in as Wendy spills the tea on her first taste of fame, sharing her story with none other than Donnie Simpson. It's like catching up with an old friend!But wait, there's more! Wendy's music defies categories, taking inspiration from icons like Aretha Franklin and Lawrence Welk. Wendy defies genres, continents, and generations. Beginning with Micheal Bolton she began rocking stages with global icons.   For two decades, Wendy was one of the most sought-after background vocalists in the industry. Picture this: 15 years of touring with Julio Iglesias, singing in four languages, and gracing the stage before world leaders. She added her magic to Tim McGraw and Faith Hill's Soul2Soul tour, rocked alongside Martina McBride, and shared the spotlight with Vince Gill in 2016.Hold on, there's a twist in this melody! Wendy's journey even took her to "The Voice," where she made her mark in its 21st season. Leading her to return to the front of the stage with her empowering new release, “Don't Give Up”? Sharing her hopes and aspirations with millions of new fans.   Wendy opens up about the impact of the civil rights movement on her journey. From her game-changing audition to her solo career, Wendy's story is all about embracing who you are and finding your unique groove.So, tune in, let the music flow, and let Wendy Moten's journey inspire you to dance to your own beat of self-discovery and fabulousness. It's time to turn up the volume and tune into the Black Women Amplified Podcast!Please Share, rate, and review on your favorite podcast platform, and don't forget to check our blog and shop at www.blackwomenamplified.com.More info on Wendy Moten: https://www.wendymoten.com/aboutSupport the showPlease support our Power Partners:Buddha Tea: Rich delicious tea with soothing properties perfect for your self-care experience.www.BuddhaTeas.comVital Body is a nutrient company that has an incredible product called Vital Fruits and Vegetables with amazing ingredients, probiotics, and greens with no added sugar. www.vitalbody.comThey are offering our tribe 20% off when you use the code: OY2N2GLV5AMonica Wisdom offers one-on-one VIP Coaching sessions for women ready to take a journey of self-discovery, leverage their podcast or share their story, Monica customizes her sessions for your challenges and desired solutions. For more info:Visit www.monicawisdomhq.comThank you for supporting our power partners. I appreciate it.

Most professional wrestling fans have accepted the scripted nature of wrestling for decades, but are we truly living in a post-kayfabe world? This week's guest, RJ City, thinks that maybe kayfabe never died. RJ City is a comedian, wrestler, bon vivant, the host of AEW's Hey!(EW). You may have seen him beating up David Arquette, winning Celebrity Family Feud, mocking children on Nickelodeon's Splatalot, or making coffee in his underwear on YouTube. RJ shares the insights he has gained working in the wrestling business over the course of 17 years. Can RJ act as Sebastian's "decoder ring" for the strange world of wrestling? Tune-in and find out how Lawrence Welk, a Daytime TV Warm-up Guy, and a circus with too many elephants all play role in the story. 

This week Ken welcomes fellow TV obsessive and the man behind the It's About TV site Mitchell Hadley to the show. Ken and Mitchell discuss Indiana, Ken's awful short term memory, growing up in Minnesota, Canadian TV, the Twin Cities, TV Guide's amazing writing, time capsules, futurism, the original source documents, why a period piece will never get it quite right, the golden age of television, sci fi, the benefits of television, how sugar is bad, making us further apart as a society, Howdy Doody, rethinking TV for kids, how crime shows can be instructional, politics on television, doom saying, Nixon getting TV right before he got it wrong, JFK, the 1968 Democratic Convention, Ronald Regan's origin story, the night James Brown saved Boston, The Year of the Sex Olympics, Bread and Circuses,  the power of the Beverly Hillbillies, TV moving west from NY to LA, Edith Efron, the fake version of LA, essays, Gomer Pyle, a war show that never discusses a war, dragging TV into a more socially conscious world, allegory, Twilight Zone, how rules can be good sometimes, cringe, shades of grey, Barney Miller,  true Broadcasting, Ed Sullivan, Stiller and Mira, Lawrence Welk, Vanilla Fudge, letting your guard down, Dick Cavet, reaction, the best way to interview people , worshiping the creed while forgetting the message, being superficial, things that are important to you, people who grew up watching TV making TV, MST3k, deconstruction, watching sports, '77 Sunset Strip, cookie cutter shows, commercials, TV regulating itself, The Family Hour, Donna Reed, legal dramas, spy shows, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., exposing new generations to shows, It's About TV, TV Guide as a serious historical document, revisiting shows from your youth that end up even BETTER, The Rifleman vs Branded, Rockford Files, Chuck Connors, The Prisoner, Patrick McGoohan, actors with drinking problems, Mitchell's book The Electronic Mirror and Atomic Bombs.

Inauguramos nueva estación con nuestro “Disco Subterráneo del Verano”. Y el galardón este año se va a Portland gracias a “Thomas Lauderdale meets The Pilgrims” (Heinz Records). Este trabajo ha unido a dos figuras de renombre; Thomas Lauderdale, pianista y líder de Pink Martini, y la poderosa banda de surf instrumental The Satan’s Pilgrims. Esta alianza comenzó a forjarse a mediados de los 90, cuando comenzaron a trabajar en un álbum conjunto que quedaría inacabado guardándose en un cajón. Veinticinco años después el proyecto llega a su fin con una selección de versiones de piezas clásicas procedentes de musicales, cine, televisión y cultura pop de mediados del siglo pasado, todo llevado a ese sonido que combina el piano clásico con la humedad de la música surf. Sencillamente fabuloso. Playlist; (sintonía) PAUL WHITEMAN ORCHESTRA and GEORGE GERSHWIN PIANO “Rhapsody In Blue pt. 1” (1924) THOMAS LAUDERDALE and THE SATAN’S PILGRIMS “Rhapsody in Blue” FRANK SINATRA “Bali Ha’i” (1949) THOMAS LAUDERDALE and THE SATAN’S PILGRIMS “Bali Ha’i” THE WAILERS “Tall cool one” (1959) THOMAS LAUDERDALE and THE SATAN’S PILGRIMS “Tall cool one” LEO REISMAN and HIS ORCHESTRA with FRED ASTAIRE “Night and day” (1932) THOMAS LAUDERDALE and THE SATAN’S PILGRIMS “Night and day” BILL CARLE with RALPH CARMICHAEL ORCHESTRA and CHORUS “How great thou art” (1954) THOMAS LAUDERDALE and THE SATAN’S PILGRIMS “How great thou art” THE BEACH BOYS “Girls on the beach” (1964) THOMAS LAUDERDALE and THE SATAN’S PILGRIMS “Girls on the beach” THOMAS LAUDERDALE and THE SATAN’S PILGRIMS “Malagueña” TONY HATCH “Out of this world” (1962) THOMAS LAUDERDALE and THE SATAN’S PILGRIMS “Out of this world” KYU SAKAMOTO “Sukiyaki” (1961) THOMAS LAUDERDALE and THE SATAN’S PILGRIMS “Sukiyaki (Ue o Muite Arukou)” FRAN JEFFRIES “Meglio stasera (It had better be tonight)” (1963) THOMAS LAUDERDALE and THE SATAN’S PILGRIMS “It had better be tonight” LAWRENCE WELK “Calcutta” (1960) THOMAS LAUDERDALE and THE SATAN’S PILGRIMS “Calcutta” Escuchar audio

Joe Feeney was an Irish American singer who became known around the United States as a highly talented tenor singer. He performed for twenty-five years on The Lawrence Welk Show, where he was known as “The Irish Tenor.” A devout Catholic with ten children who performed for Presidents and a Pope and loved fishing, this is his story. Podcast Notes: https://ancestralfindings.com/joe-feeney-the-lawrence-welk-show/    

The Lennon Sisters are a quartet of sisters who performed on The Lawrence Welk Show for more than a decade. Part of a family of twelve children, the sisters met Lawrence Welk because one of them was a high school classmate of one of Lawrence's sons. The girls went on to have a successful and prosperous career, one they still enjoy today. This is their story. Podcast Notes: https://ancestralfindings.com/the-lennon-sisters-the-lawrence-welk-show/    

Yes, all three interests in the title and so much more. Meet Kris Gowen. By any definition, she is a person with varied interests, and a wealth of knowledge that we all can appreciate, and she even has sung Karaoke in all 50 United States. Kris hales from New Jersey originally. She always has liked Drama, but her high school didn't have a drama department until her Senior high school year. Even so, singing has always been a part of her life. During this episode Kris and I have a far-reaching discussion about such things as communications, how do we change some of the conversations inside politics and how we can become more educated about things so we can make better decisions. Kris tells us about her teaching and personal adventures traveling around the world and tells us about lessons she learned along the way. As I said, Kris is an author. She has written books about her Karaoke adventures and she has even written a book about sex education. Her stories about these books are fascinating and worth hearing. I hope you enjoy our time with Kris. She is quite insightful, inspiring, and of course unstoppable. About the Guest: L. Kris Gowen, PhD. is an author and karaoke lover. She has written One Nation Under Song: My Karaoke Journey through Grief, Joy, and America about her epic road trip to sing karaoke in all 50 states (she did fly to Alaska and Hawaii), and Find Your Song: How to Cultivate Pockets of Joy during Times of Grief -- both books are based on her own experiences navigating tough times by holding onto the small joys in life. She has also written Sexual Decisions, a sex education textbook for teens which she is both proud and sad to say is on several banned book lists. In addition to being an author, Kris has a ton of other interests. She has spoken nationally and internationally on healthy relationships and the role of technology in sex and relationships. She is also on the Board of Make You Think, a small non-profit that supports science education and entertainment for adults. Her friends, bar trivia, and travel round out her passions. Kris currently splits her time between Portland and Toronto and earns her keep as a Consultant, supporting organizations in Change Management and Evaluation. She prioritizes applying a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion lens to all her work. She will always say yes to sushi and while she doesn't have a go-to karaoke song, she loves to sing Olivia Newton-John, Donna Summer, and Sia. Links for Kris: Find Your Song: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1736659502/ One Nation Under Song https://www.amazon.com/One-Nation-Under-Song-Karaoke/dp/1087932653/ 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! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below! Subscribe to the podcast If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can also subscribe in your favorite podcast app. Leave us an Apple Podcasts review Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts. Transcription Notes Michael Hingson  00:00 Access Cast and accessiBe Initiative presents Unstoppable Mindset. 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 again. And yep, it is unstoppable mindset time. Thanks for being here. We really appreciate you. And we appreciate you listening. Today we get to chat with Kris Gowen. Kris has a lot of fun things to talk about. I'll tell you as far as really fun. She is and wants to emphasize a lot during our interview karaoke, and we will but we'll talk about other things as well. And she'll tell us how she has sung karaoke in all 50 states. And I don't know about the moon yet, but something to look forward to. But Kris, welcome to unstoppable mindset. We're really glad you're here.   Kris Gowen  01:57 Thanks so much. And thanks for you. Yeah, thanks for inviting me.   Michael Hingson  02:01 Well, so let's start. Like, I usually like to tell me a little bit about you growing up how you started. And, well, you started like everybody else you got born, but you know, growing up and some of those kinds of things. And what eventually led you to some of the things that you do?   Kris Gowen  02:15 Yeah, so I grew up in New Jersey to Canadian parents, and most of my relatives live in Canada, in split between a couple provinces. So I, I'm outside of New York City. So which as opposed to mountain lakes, okay.   Michael Hingson  02:37 All right. So I lived in Westfield for six years. Okay, great.   Kris Gowen  02:41 Yeah, it's a very tiny little town around it. So it was a sort of good public school system, often used to have, you know, where people would commute to New York City from and yeah, just people working. But yeah, it was it was small and lovely. But sadly, because it was so small. While I was in high school, there was no drama department until my senior year. But the only I'd loved singing, I just love singing, I can't remember a time where I didn't love singing. And I'm sure you know, ever, you know, I'm sure at some point, it just sort of evolved. But I would sing in the church choir a little bit. And that was like the sort of reason for me to even go to church early on, because I wasn't really religious and, and then would just sing any chance I got and would sing along to the radio and tape songs and sing those and just do all that kind of stuff. And then finally, I got a chance to sing. I was Snoopy, and you're Good Man, Charlie Brown my senior year in high school and really liked doing that. And from there, it's like I said, I just have love to sing no matter no matter what comes my way.   Michael Hingson  04:03 When I was a freshman in high school, I was in the the Glee class. And one of the things that they did was schedule and start doing work to try to get people to appear in a mall and the night visitors, and I tried out for it. The problem was I said that although I could sing high enough because my voice hadn't changed. I wasn't quite loud enough, so I didn't get the part. Darn it, but it was was fun.   Kris Gowen  04:36 Yeah, oh, yeah. Loud has never been my problem. If there's anything it's like trying to tone it down a little bit. So I have the opposite problem that you do when it comes to tempo goals.   Michael Hingson  04:47 Well, I think the issue really was that a guy would have a hard time in general getting a so it was a girl who eventually got the part anyway. Yeah, which wasn't a surprise. was a little disappointing. But on the other hand, we did go to see it when it was actually performed. And there's nothing like live performances anyway, whether it's even a high school performance or a college or we, we actually when we lived in Mission Viejo, California, my wife and I had neighbors who were Mormons, and they had a number of performances that they put on every year. And they did a wonderful job of Oklahoma and there's just nothing like live performance.   Kris Gowen  05:29 Yeah, I agree. And I I have a very good friend here in Portland, Oregon, that is a drama teacher for in high school, and I tried to go see as many of their shows as I can. And other friends that perform here and there and certain musical reviews or things like that, and I do love supporting them, because they're my friends. And also just because it's super enjoyable to to hear the live performances.   Michael Hingson  05:56 We were very fortunate when Jerry Lewis starred as Mr. Applegate the devil in Damn Yankees, we were living in New York, and it was his only time ever appearing on Broadway. They did a wonderful interview about it, but we got to actually see him, which was really cool. That's fantastic. He did a great job. So you went through high school and all that in New Jersey? And then what did you do with your world,   Kris Gowen  06:18 I went to college in California and discovered I'm much more of a West coaster than an east coaster and spent did some my undergraduate in California and then I went back east for like three months to see if I could make it back over there. And I was in New York for a little bit and trying to work in the TV industry. And that didn't work out at all. And so three months later, I went back to the effect of California, and then spent a little bit more time there. And then I went back to the east coast for a year to get a master's degree. And then I came back to California to get a PhD in child and adolescent development. And then I moved up to Portland, Oregon, in 2000. And pretty much I've stayed here almost through I just move back actually, I spent a year and a half in Toronto. And we'd like to figure out a way to get back there. So I think that's my flavor of east coast that I like ultimately,   Michael Hingson  07:24 so nice city. Yeah, I really enjoyed. I enjoyed some time in Toronto. So yeah, what was your major in college?   Kris Gowen  07:33 Communications, film and television. And that's when I learned that I am a horrible filmmaker. And really, I just cannot put together a I can't edit Well, I can't do anything. It was just something that I thought I would really love doing. And I did enjoy it. But I was just very bad at it. And so. So after you figure that out, where do you major in something that you really don't have a lot of skill in? You know, you need to be like, Oh, now what do I do? So yeah, so I managed to bakery for a little while, and then that's when I started, then getting my master's degree and then also my PhD in child and adolescent development for the most part, and started working with youth and young adults, as well as writing for youth and young adults in the sex ed world. And so that's where I really got a stronghold there. But I then I started using my research and my research skills more broadly to support community based organizations in their evaluation program evaluation efforts. I mean, this is kind of nerdy and boring, but I love it. I really love using data in ways that are really applied and that are accessible to whoever wants to know the numbers and things like that. And it's, it can be a pretty big challenge and I really love it.   Michael Hingson  08:54 So even though you like to sing and so on, you didn't decide to try to go off and do music as a study and as a as a possible major. Hmm.   Kris Gowen  09:04 You know, it really never occurred to me that that would be an option. Um, I never really felt and saw myself as a good singer, I'd say until just the last couple of years. So I you know, would audition for things I wouldn't necessarily get parts I still love to sing so I would still sing I knew I wasn't awful awful, but I I never really saw any form of musical career being a possibility you know, really at all so you know, thank goodness for places like karaoke where, you know, one of the reasons I love it is because it's got so much unexpected pneus in it. And another reason is it's such a supportive community like it's one of the few places that you can do, like awful at and people will still completely cheer you. Yeah.   Michael Hingson  09:56 And there's no pressure no which is which is cool. I was telling someone yesterday we were listening to Joe Stafford, you know who she is? Or was, she was a singer in the 40s and 50s and had perfect pitch. And you talk about doing bad Joe Stafford recorded a whole album once, where she sang a half a note off key just to prove she could. And so the whole album, right is her a half note off key because she had perfect pitch to be able to do that.   Kris Gowen  10:31 Right? Which is it is very hard to sing. Right? Purposely off key when you've got all this music happening around you and you just sounds so wrong.   Michael Hingson  10:41 Yeah. It came out. Alright, the album was I don't know how much it sold, it was fairly popular. As I recall. I just heard about it, having been done, but I believe as I recall that it was popular enough because it was Joe Stafford to who was a pretty famous person back and singing in the 50s. And so on. Probably her most famous song was the song you belong to me, you know, see the pyramids along the Nile and all that. And she was the main person, or the person who's made that song most famous, although a lot of other people have done it. But what got you into? Well, first of all, where did you go to school in California?   Kris Gowen  11:22 I went to school at Stanford, both for my undergraduate and my PhD.   Michael Hingson  11:27 Oh, cool. couldn't stay away from the football team out from the cardinal   Kris Gowen  11:31 height. I know, I know if Shaw being no longer being the coach. Yeah, no. So there is I mean, when I was there, actually, Stanford did have a couple of stints of doing okay. But for the most part, it was definitely not some of Stanford's glory years when I was when I was on campus.   Michael Hingson  11:48 But it's a wonderful school.   Kris Gowen  11:51 Yeah, yeah, I was just back there the other like, a couple months ago, and, you know, barely recognizing it as everything grows. But yeah, so yeah, decided that, California. And again, like I said, the west coast was really for me. And so I've spent a little bit of time, both in California and Oregon.   Michael Hingson  12:09 So what got you into child development and deciding to do that as a, as a career and as a major? Oh, yeah. So   Kris Gowen  12:17 I, you know, so I had my failed, I failed attempt at trying to be in, in the television world. And so tail between my legs, I went back to California, where my, my social circle was, like my support network, and I, I managed a bakery. And just to make, you know, make ends meet and just sort of regroup. And this was during the era where there was a lot of debate on condoms, whether they should be in schools or not. And you know, and the science, like any research study basically said that if you provide condoms in schools, it does not increase the rate of engaging in sexual activities among kids. And it but it does increase safer sex practices. So I saw I knew this literature, and I knew the research because, well, I'll back up a little bit but but, you know, Congress and other other politicians were basically ignoring the science and, and just making laws that had nothing to do with anything grounded in evidence. And I just got very annoyed with that I would throw socks at the television anytime there was like a newscast about it. And I was like, that does it, I'm gonna go back to school and get fancy letters after my name. So I can write curricula and do these things. And, and so related to that was really, I went into film and television, because I wanted to make documentaries. From the standpoint, like from the viewpoint of youth, I wanted to do things about social issues. And that was really what was driving me because I really felt like that the whole educational system was teaching us about things that didn't matter, right, like a very typical adolescent attitude of like, what's the point of learning all of this, this is dumb, we should be learning other things. And so I was like, I know I'm gonna make important movies about social issues, and that I learned that I could not make movies at all. I just took that passion and kind of turned it into something slightly different that still allowed me to focus on issues that matter to youth and young adults.   Michael Hingson  14:35 How about collaborating however, so you didn't make you? You weren't great at making the movies did you ever explore collaborating with good movie makers and maybe helping to create the scripts and the topics and all that or have you not gotten that far yet?   Kris Gowen  14:48 It was funny because I didn't think of doing that because I just thought like, it was going to be that just really hard to break into right. So as I was working in television for the three months that I worked, it's Just like the whole competitiveness and things, and I just didn't really, I didn't really have the good networking skills, and I didn't have those things. And I just really found myself again drawn to okay, what's the what's the evidence? And? And how are we going to do like create these best practices, and that was really more suited to sort of look into those things, not from a mass media standpoint, but really more from a research standpoint, but then also, from supporting these so many programs that are out there that are doing great things.   Michael Hingson  15:34 You know, what comes to mind, though, immediately, is, as you were talking about, the politicians go off and do the things they do they ignore reality, and so on. How do we deal with that? I suppose one answer is we got to elect other people. But how do we get enough people to do that, that we get intelligent people in Congress and so on? But how do we start to truly change the dialogue? Because it it gets to be so frustrating, when when they totally ignore the politics and they stir up so many people to do that? Yeah, well,   Kris Gowen  16:07 I mean, one, one piece of this is like, I can't imagine being a politician in the sense of you have to make decisions about everything, like you like, so there's sex ed policy, there's forestry, there's electric cars, there's tax laws, whatever, like you're supposed to have an opinion on all these different things. How the heck are you? expert in all these things? Right. So   Michael Hingson  16:35 go ahead. Well, I say that's, of course, the real issue. Do you really have to have opinions on everything? Or do you use it as an opportunity to learn and then vote based on what you learned? But anyway, go ahead.   Kris Gowen  16:49 Well, right. But I agree with that would be ideal, but there's only so many hours in the day, if you're literally like trying to figure out how to and then so right, so the US has lobbyists and and then lobbyists have agendas, and some are better funded than others. So there's that. And then also you listen to, you know, your constituents, because you want to get reelected. And so different moral values, and different, just values in general are infused into different segments of, of our population, and, and so then you start to go the direction that you believe will get you reelected, or you go in the direction of this lobbyists that's giving you the information that you think you need, and maybe it's good information, and maybe it's less grounded in evidence, it's, it's so complicated to just sort of say, Oh, well, they should just listen to the science. It's like, Yeah, but they got to listen to the science on like, 700 topics. And I'm guessing that I'm not even exaggerating when it comes to that. And   Michael Hingson  17:48 they do. But in reality, a lot of what goes on with the politicians is really, the accomplishments of the staff and the staff advises them, yes, the politicians vote. But I guess my point really is having spent a lot of time around Washington and dealing with Congress and, and educating them on issues with disabilities and so on. A lot of the time, it's really educating the staff, or trying to educate the staff. So the staff really controls a lot of what the actual legislator hears and sees. So it still gets back to they're not necessarily the experts that we might think they are. They rely on staff. And that also means maybe they need to do a little bit better job of hiring smart staff. But as I said, it's also that they oftentimes stir up their constituents, which is a problem.   Kris Gowen  18:45 Yeah, yeah. Oh, yes.   Michael Hingson  18:47 It's a mess. It's a challenge. I don't envy anybody who does it. I agree with you. But I think also there are, there are more things that we could do to to have a more substantive discussion about a lot of stuff. And and it seems like we're really losing that opportunity, or at least we're losing the perspective of having meaningful conversations, compared to what it used to be like 40 and 50 years ago.   Kris Gowen  19:17 Yeah, yes, there's definitely more of a I mean, there's lots of explanations. And again, these are sort of, I mean, we're, we've, like, whatever, five minutes into this podcast, we're launching into like, some of the country's biggest challenges and I write, I definitely don't have answers for them. And I don't think anybody does at this point, because it's not going to be simple. It's so many different things that are happening that are coming together at a time that is creating, yeah, these like strong divides between between some types of values. And at the same time, I do think that there are commonalities that are there. It's just that we're very much entrenched, right? Now in, you know, being more drawn to difference than we are to similarity and common ground.   Michael Hingson  20:06 Yeah. And I think that's a theme that a lot of people who think about it get to, which is, we're focusing too much on differences and not commonalities and finding ways to work together. But you went off and you got your PhD and came back to Stanford to do that. And then what did you do with your life?   Kris Gowen  20:26 I ended up working a little bit in so I was in I'm trying to remember, this is a very long time ago, I didn't realize I was gonna have to go through my whole biography. That's all good. I just was like, What did I do after that? I, I was doing some research, I've really always been drawn to not being a traditional academic. So I've been research faculty at a couple of universities, I've worked, like I said, in sort of the nonprofit sector for a little bit. Some of it had to do with youth and young adults, some of it dealt more with health care in general. And so yeah, just been, you know, going where my passions were taking have taken me and I really liked that. That's how I've done things. Sometimes it's frustrating to be like to look at myself, some days, I'm like, Why did I just not choose an easy path or just like, you know, become an academic and stay in a place and just keep going. And I just sort of learned that just has to stop my nature, I just can't stay in one place for too long. Whether that's, you know, career ideas, or whether it's a physical location, I just really always been drawn to making sure that what I'm doing matters, and making sure what I'm doing. supports other other people.   Michael Hingson  21:54 can't do much better than that. Hmm.   Kris Gowen  21:56 Well, not I don't know. I mean, also, I just, you know, I know there's I'm sure there's many ways I can do better. And this is what I got.   Michael Hingson  22:04 Oh, that's okay. So did you go into teaching? Or what did you go into doing?   Kris Gowen  22:08 I did, I taught, I taught at Portland State University. For a while I taught human sexuality. I taught women's reproductive health, I taught a handful of other courses, but those were the two main ones. And then I was what's called research faculty. So again, I had a research portfolio that focused on youth and young adults, both in terms of healthy relationships, safer sex, as well as mental health. So I did that. And then I got tired of doing that. And so I took the opportunity to do some traveling for a couple of years where I was in a, you know, would stay in various countries for several, you know, for several months, and explore and really get to know different communities and different cultures and, and really appreciated that time, I taught some, taught some English and taught some research methods. And a couple of different I taught in Vietnam, I did some tutoring in South Korea, my student teaching was in Vietnam. And then I taught in Oman, which is in the Middle East. And all of that took around not quite two years to do that. And then I settled back up to being in an academic institution, again, in Oregon, and then, yeah, and then I, then the pandemic it, and everything went sideways. And that's what allowed me to take that time and reflect and decide, you know, I want to move to Toronto at some point in my life. So I, I, you know, got my paperwork in order and went up there and work there for a little bit. And now I'm back in Oregon, where my social support network is, and I'm doing some consulting work.   Michael Hingson  23:56 So now you're kind of on your own. Do you have have you formed your own company? Or what?   Kris Gowen  24:00 I do some independent consulting in that I also work for a large business management consulting firm as well.   Michael Hingson  24:08 What do you do for them?   Kris Gowen  24:10 Some change management work, as well as I'm currently supporting a new a new artificial intelligence, language processing, natural language processing tool, which is basically just something that would help help people analyze a lot of qualitative data as opposed to doing it all by hand. Because if you've got like a large organization, or if you've got, you know, for example, a large number of tweets or something and you want to make meaning of them, and there's literally 1000s of them. Typical qualitative research methods just can't really capture that data with any form of efficiency. So it's an interesting dance between humans and machine to help make the process more efficient. So I'm looking into supporting that, that that work?   Michael Hingson  25:08 Do you use a tool that we would have heard of? No,   Kris Gowen  25:11 use a tool that is proprietary of the organization I'm working for. And it's, it's still we're still in soft launch? So no, I haven't I'm not using a tool that anyone else is really, I mean, other than internally, a few of us are being trained up on this to help to help support its utilization in house.   Michael Hingson  25:32 I know, there's been some discussion over the last few weeks about the stuff that Microsoft is doing to do text analysis and be able to do everything from composing poetry to having conversations with AI. Yes. I have not played with that yet. Although I guess I should explore it. People have asked me and I haven't really done that. So that's one of the things that I get to do when I take a little bit of time and, and don't do interviews for a day or two. But so that's, that's, that's all pretty cool. Well, you, you've done some writing, you wrote a book, I believe on sex education, right?   Kris Gowen  26:10 Yeah, I did. I wrote a book called mimicking or they retitled it. So its first iteration was called Making sexual decisions. And then it just became sexual decisions. And it's sort of a, it's a textbook and like a library book for teens. And what made that unique, was it really balanced? It was about 5050, on healthy relationships versus sort of the the anatomy and sexual health components. So books tended to either lean towards one or the other. And so I wrote that. And then like I said, it had a couple of additions to it. And then, you know, it becomes sexuality education becomes really outdated very quickly. And so the book is, I think the last iteration of it was 2018, I think was when the the last edition of that was really published. But somehow, Congress is founded and has put it onto some banned book lists. Because it, I guess, it says things that they don't want it to say. So my friends made me a t shirt that says, you know, my book was banned, not like, you know, kind of selling a stinking t shirt. So yeah, and so I wrote that. And then yeah, the other two books that I've written since then, one was about my karaoke journey. And then the other was somewhat related to that, but was looking at the importance of finding joy during times of grief, because the first book about my karaoke journey, singing in all 50 states was really about me, processing the loss of my best friend. So those books, you know, they're certainly not sequels of each other, anything like that. But they're they, you know, there's a tie in there with the joy that karaoke brings me and how it really, I think, helps my mental health and just encouraging people to either find joy in karaoke, or whatever it is that they can find happiness in, during really, really tough times.   Michael Hingson  28:21 Well, I do want to get to that. But I've got another question that you just made me think of, as you said that there have been several iterations of your your book on sex education, and they become out of date very quickly, why is that? What, what really causes the shift that makes it come out? It will go out of date and need to Yeah,   Kris Gowen  28:39 I mean, there's a lot of things like the from between, like, I'll just give an example between the first the second edition, the HPV vaccine came out, right? So like, that's a whole thing. So, and then other ways that we talk about consent? I think, you know, so this is this is not necessarily in the iterations of my book, but we start like, when I was in high school, and even when I was in college, the idea of consent was very heteronormative. In other words, it was very assumed that it was going to be a boy and a girl negotiating sexual activity and it was up to the girl to be the gatekeeper to say no. And then and it was really up to the girl to make sure that that's the way it was. And now we've evolved so much more than in our consent language. First of all, we've dissolved like we're working on dissolving the gender binary, we can't assume the genders of the people that are wanting to engage in sexual activity we can assume who might be wanting to say no, versus another person who might be more interested. And then there's also the concept of teaching kids how to hear a no and how to make sure they're hearing a yes, so the onus isn't placed on On the person who is less interested in engaging in a certain type of activity, so there's so much on that. And then again, sort of talking about the ways we talk about gender identity and sexual orientation evolve very quickly. So if we want to be inclusive, and reach all young people in, in getting, you know, providing them with knowledge, things change really fast.   Michael Hingson  30:25 Do you see other kinds of changes that are coming?   Kris Gowen  30:31 I mean, yes, because gender identity and sexual orientation are still evolving in terms of how we're discussing those things. And I didn't even mention technic, the role of technology, and how that's escalating, right? There's always different apps that are being used, there's always different ways to communicate, and what are the most common ways that young youth and young adults prefer to communicate. So all of that is very, all of that is continuing to evolve. And I think a lot of that is still evolving. I'm hoping that our conversations about like I said, consent, and gender identity and sexual orientation, and just relationship structure, and things. I think all of that I'm really hoping continue to evolve and start to become more gray, as it were, that we don't have the sort of hard and fast rules, but instead really encourage listening and respect and communication and teaching people how to think about what matters to them, and then communicating that and feeling comfortable communicating that to somebody else that they might want to be with   Michael Hingson  31:47 and accepting the responses that come whatever they may be.   Kris Gowen  31:51 Exactly. And that's part of the communication and listening piece. Yeah.   Michael Hingson  31:55 Well, so you have been doing all of this, which is great. And you've been doing karaoke. How did you get started originally with karaoke? What? What made you decide that that was something that would be fun to do?   Kris Gowen  32:09 Well, I mean, it's it sort of comes back to when I was a kid and just loving to sing no matter what. And so the first time I sang karaoke was actually in Arizona. And I don't remember what year this is, but it was in there was sometime in the 90s. But I do remember being like being in a bar after I'd like I was visiting a friend of mine, and we were, we just played a softball game. And now we're in a bar, and there's singing, and it's like, Well, wait, what's this magic, I can put a song in, and then they're gonna call my name, and then I get to sing. This is the best thing I've ever heard was was the best thing ever. And then, and that first time was a total disaster. I mean, I picked a song that I picked hearts alone, which first of all, no one wants to hear that in a bar, like no one needs to hear that right. And then I left the big note. I mean, it was just a disaster. But I was super happy about it. I was just like, This is great. And then, and then when I went to get my Masters on the East Coast, I didn't know anybody. And so one of the things I did was just sort of became a local at one of the nearby bars, and they had karaoke every Wednesday, I think it was. And so I just went every Wednesday as my chance and something I always just would look forward to. And I would just be like, I'm going to sing a couple songs and be able to do this thing. And it gets to see like the same people over and over again. And it's just this wonderful, magical experience. And then so from there on out, I just started to look for karaoke bars, wherever I was. And just yeah, just kept singing as a key component of my, my mental health and just general fun.   Michael Hingson  33:58 We bought a timeshare at the Lawrence Welk Resorts in Escondido, California in the early 90s. Got a great deal. And they had karaoke on I think it was Saturday nights. And I'm not sure whether that was the first time I did it. But it probably was. One of the things that they did a couple of times is there were people who came and they did it enough that they actually let them take an hour and do a whole karaoke concert.   Kris Gowen  34:25 Wow. Which hopefully they knew that because then the people who came just to sing a song or two are like, wait, I have to wait an hour.   Michael Hingson  34:33 Oh, it worked out. Yeah, they they always advertise it ahead of time. But also, they started earlier and they actually started like an hour early so people can come to hear the concert and then the regular karaoke time. Started at the usual time.   Kris Gowen  34:47 Oh, that sounds fantastic. Yeah, that's yeah, it   Michael Hingson  34:49 was it was it was wonderful. And so and you did even with a concert here, some people who will let's just say did better than others. Okay. Yeah, that's okay.   Kris Gowen  35:01 It is. I mean, I love that part of community. And I really think that that's, you know, I've alluded to it before, but karaoke is yes, of course, I love to sing. And I love, you know, like, singing in front of people, I think that adds an extra joy to it for me. I mean, some people, it's their living hell, but you know, that's okay. Because that's what variety and life is for. So, I love that aspect. And I love when a person gets called to the microphone, and I don't know who that person is, and I have no idea what they're gonna sing. You can't tell by looking at a person with their song selection is going to be an end. Like, I just love all of that. And then I love going to a, you know, going to a karaoke venue, like regularly and then getting to know those people and just feeling that support and giving that support to people who are being really brave by just stepping out and singing a song in front of others.   Michael Hingson  35:59 Oh, since that first time, have you ever done hearts alone again? Oh, yeah. Okay.   Kris Gowen  36:03 Oh, yeah. And also, anytime I really now it's sort of funny anytime I think I'll know a song and then I don't sing it very well. I am like that does it? And I like, really, you know, we'll all focus on it. I can't say that I, when it comes to, you know, bar karaoke, singing, I don't really rehearse per se. But I will like, listen to the song a couple of times. So I actually, you know, know it,   Michael Hingson  36:29 know, the melody at least, do you? Do you read the words most of the time? Or do you try to memorize words ahead of time?   Kris Gowen  36:36 Well, I mean, I like to, it's a good question, because there's a couple of things. One is I like to do a bunch of new stuff a lot. And so I, I do enjoy, therefore, rely, like, being able to read the words and reading the words. And then also, I do find that oftentimes, I then end up using them as a crutch, like, I don't actually need them. But I still look at the screen. And then, however, I've also been dabbling here and there in competitive karaoke. And when you do competitive karaoke, you 100% cannot look at the words like you just you have to engage the audience. And you have to be doing that. And there's no looking at words, when you're, when you're doing that kind of that kind of competition,   Michael Hingson  37:27 you have no way to really put the feeling into it that you do if you already know the words, because you're focused on the words, you're not focused on what you need to be focused on. And that makes sense.   Kris Gowen  37:40 Yeah, your storytelling doesn't get as good. You're like, again, your audience connection isn't as good. You can't, you know, I mean, depending on how many monitors are there, but it's also difficult to, you know, go to different parts of the stage to to talk to, you know, sort of, quote, unquote, talk to different people in different parts of the room. So you really need to not be tethered to the screen. Yeah, in order to do some of those things, to help create a better performance.   Michael Hingson  38:11 I remember once doing karaoke with someone, and they wanted to perform a song and I didn't know all the words to do the melody and all that. And actually, the operator of the system stood next to me. And because I told him, I don't know all the words, he said, don't worry. And he told me the words far enough in advance that I was able to go ahead and put it together, which was really pretty cool. And then actually, it came out pretty well. I wish we'd recorded it, but I don't even remember what the song was. But it was fun to be able to do that. And but for me, I do memorize and practice, before I go only so that I make sure I really do know all the words because it's the only way that I'm going to be able to do it successfully, but it makes it a lot more fun to, to be able to, as you said, connect with the audience in one way or another. Well, and   Kris Gowen  38:59 it's funny too, because I appreciate, you know, you needing to, like, you know, memorize the lyrics in advance. And sometimes the lyrics that show up on the screen are definitely not the right lyrics. Like, you look at them and you're like, um, that is really not what I think this person is saying. And, and so, you know, sometimes the the lyrics are incorrect on these in these karaoke tracks.   Michael Hingson  39:24 So yeah, which is, which is another whole issue that one has to deal with, but you know, it's it's still is a lot of fun to do. And I've enjoyed it. What's the for you the most rewarding or the thing you love most about doing karaoke?   Kris Gowen  39:42 I mean, I really do think it's this this piece of, of community that even if you're only in a like in like, again, when I was going around the US and singing karaoke in all 50 states wherever I was hanging my had that night that was sort of that was my community for the night. And again, it's a very supportive community, and people are cheering each other and people will potentially, you know, strike up a conversation with you. And it is like, you know, when we were talking about the politics stuff at the start of this conversation, you don't know somebody's political affiliation, you don't know, like, you know, who they go home to at night, if anybody you don't know, you just don't know really anything about them. And it's okay, like, we're just, everyone's united. And I mean, my books called One nation under song, in part for that reason, because you really do become this community of humans. And there's a lot of magic in that to then sort of forget about some of the other things that might make you not friends. Outside of that setting.   Michael Hingson  40:53 What are some songs that don't make good Karaoke Songs? Or maybe a better way to put it is what makes the best Karaoke Songs?   Kris Gowen  41:00 Yeah. So the first one is like if it's super long if there's a lot of long instrumentals. And then And then usually, I mean, not always, but if it's way too slow. I mean, because most karaoke is done in bars. And most karaoke is done late at night. And so, the idea of singing something super long, was super long, instrumentals and slow. Like you just no one wants to, like, people want their turn and people want to like go to a bar to feel probably usually a little peppier. So it's like those things. So. But that said, it's not necessarily the flip side is what makes a good karaoke song. A good karaoke song is the song that's in your heart is a song that matters to you is the song that you want to sing because it is the song you want to sing. Because you can tell when people are singing the song that's bringing them joy. It's, you can just tell and it just becomes a funner performance.   Michael Hingson  42:04 I think I mentioned when we chatted before doing this interview about the time we were at Lawrence Welk and it was near the end of the night and one of the servers got up and just started singing from the best little whorehouse in Texas hard candy Christmas. Yes. And did the most incredible performance of that I think I've ever heard outside of and maybe is, is equal to what was in the the musical or the movie. But clearly, she had sung it before, and just in a really wonderful job with it and got a great reaction from the audience.   Kris Gowen  42:41 Yeah. Yeah, I mean, again, some people are gonna want to sing the same song over again, and have it be very rehearsed. And there's nothing wrong with that, because that's what makes that person feel comfortable, or the side of them that they want to show. And so I do know, people that sing, you know, a very small repertoire of songs. And that's where they that's again, that's where their comfort is, that's what they want to do. And then I have other friends who are just more like, it's a bar, no one's really listening to me. I just want to sing something that that I want to try, or I you know, again, that's the song that I was singing to on the radio, and I was like, oh, I want to give it a whirl myself. Right. Like, there's just sort of those things. And then, you know, every day is a different mood, and it's a different time. And so what is the song that's calling to at that particular time? And that's, you know, what I when people will turn to me and say, What should I sing? I'm like, Well, what were you Yeah, what were you singing to on the radio? The last time you were listening to the radio, or what did you find yourself? Singing in the shower? The last time I was doing this? Well sing that.   Michael Hingson  43:49 So from a long song standpoint, probably. You wouldn't want to go much longer than Don McLean's American Pie, but at least it's a fast tempo song.   Kris Gowen  43:58 Yeah, but yeah, American Pie. Yeah, that's, I mean, that's like seven minutes, right? I mean, there is a radio edit and a karaoke edit of that song. So, but yes, like American Pie. Piano Man is even really long. I mean, sometimes people can get into it. But like, if it's over five minutes, you're just like, Yeah, I don't know.   Michael Hingson  44:16 It's getting a little bit. It can be a little bit tougher, right? There is   Kris Gowen  44:21 no hard and fast rule. I mean, no. Do you have the bar, there's nobody in that bar, I will bust out Come Sail Away, which breaks all the rules. It's too long. It's got like over a minute, instrumental in it, all that stuff, but it's a fun song. And I'm only singing it if there's like a very small rotation of singers.   Michael Hingson  44:39 Yeah, yeah. But if people enjoy it, it works. Sure. Sure. So. So how did you get involved in thinking of this idea of singing karaoke in all 50 states, you would love to travel so that gave you a good excuse for doing it. But how did that all come about?   Kris Gowen  44:59 Yeah, I mean, The the the slow roll of it was I can't I think there was just one day that I noticed that I was starting to collect states because I again, as an as a former academic, I would go to a lot of conferences. And so sometimes you network in the conferences, and then sometimes you're just sort of like, you know what I don't want to network in a conference, I want to go out on this, I want to see what St. Louis is like, or I want to see what, you know, Tampa, Florida is like, and so you find the karaoke establishment, and you go there to get a little like dose of local flavor of a place. And so I don't know, I had collected maybe nine or 10 states just sort of doing it that way. And then. And then in 2015, my best friend was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer. And I had a good year with her not quite a year, but you know, and when she died, I was like, she and I used to also sing together a lot. And I just, I just kind of was at a loss, for lack of anything else, just like, I couldn't really imagine a life without her I. And so I quit my job. And I drove around the country to say, All right, if my goal is to sing karaoke in all 50 states, I'm doing it this weird trickle, you know, when else am I gonna get to Oklahoma? When else am I going to do? Like, I need to, I need to do this, I need to do this as an actual thing. And so I did, I got in my car. And I drove over 17,000 miles in 99 days to hit the 48 lower states. I took I avoided freeways and interstates whenever possible, because I wanted to actually see the country. And so when I was done, you know, I had a couple months in between, but then I picked up Alaska and Hawaii. So make it off. 50.   Michael Hingson  47:05 So you are clearly grieving? How did this really help your grief?   Kris Gowen  47:12 In a lot of different ways. And not intentionally mind you? I just was following my, you know, to me, I'm like, what is the one that I didn't really like my job at the time? I you know, I didn't my relationship situation wasn't great. And so I was like, the one thing that still I could find anything to care about was karaoke. It was the only thing that I cared about. That was it. And so I'm like, alright, well, that's something that's good. I'm finding joy in something. And so again, I got in my car and just took off. And the things that made this trip really good for my grief, I think were one singing really helps emotional processing, it helps you get your feelings out, it does all that there was structure to my days, but not too much of a structure. Like I had, I knew that on, you know, I woke up in one state. And I knew that I needed to get to this other state by a certain time. And I had a lot of alone time. I didn't do the whole trip by myself. But I did a lot of the trip by myself. So I had time in a car to sort of just again, let myself feel and let myself exist. I was constantly seeing new things, which is another great brain exercise for building resilience is to experience new things. And yeah, I just, I think this combination of like structured but not too structured, seeing new things, being able to use my emotions and channel them in ways that I enjoy and finding that like one slice of joy that would help me balance it just was a very good way for me to just allow myself to experience what I needed to experience.   Michael Hingson  49:03 Did you well rephrase that, do you think that you benefited more from doing the karaoke, or that you've benefited more from doing the travel spending time alone? Having a lot of time to think and process?   Kris Gowen  49:21 I mean, I think it's the balance. And I think that's the key to and so like, sort of, in my second book, which is find your song, it's, it's the whole concept of that book is is balancing moments of joy during times of grief. Because we need the balance. You know, like ultimately your body needs a balance your your brain needs a balance that when you provide yourself with the respite of moments of joy during an awful, awful time of life, you're actually allowing yourself to grieve better, you're allowing your body to to have those breaks it It physically needs in order to, to recover. Because grief is impacts us physically, emotionally, mentally. And so if we're always, you know, quote unquote, in it, like just stuck in the, you know, we do need to be in it sometimes I mean, not everybody and and, and I was a person who needed to be in it sometimes. But if I was just always in it, then that was not, that would not be good.   Michael Hingson  50:30 What would you advise a person to do? Or how would you advise a person who is experiencing grief? What kinds of things would you say to them?   Kris Gowen  50:42 I mean, again, it's sort of again, it's like my, I mean, my book almost outlines, like a bit of a, I'm not gonna say a script, because there is no script. I think the first like, the first chapter is basically like, there is no brief script. So if you think, and also, if you think, you know, you're like, Well, I've lost somebody before, or I've grieved before. Yeah, but this is a different person, and you're a different person, because it's a different time. So you can't be like, Oh, I was like this, when this happened. Now I'm going to I'm going to be the same way, it's just not going to happen. So your grief and your grief experience in the moment is yours. And so to allow your emotions in, allow them to be. And again, don't be afraid, and don't be ashamed if you're experiencing some positive times in amongst the negative. And really being, if you can, being mindful of what are little things you can do to promote self care and to get the supports that you need. And so if you've got that one student, like you're like, the only joy I'm getting right now is watching this television show. Fine, then go for it. If your joy is karaoke, if it's knitting, if it's making Chinese food, I don't know, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter how silly it seems. It's not silly, because it's it's, it's your it's your your sister being pointing you in a direction of some form of a finding a little bit of pleasure and a life where it might be hard, and you can't even see any form of pleasure at all, except for quote, unquote, this stupid thing. And this stupid thing is it's not stupid. It's,   Michael Hingson  52:25 it's what's important for you at the moment, and you're right, there's, there's no reason to think that anything is stupid. What I think is important is thinking about it and internalizing it to the point where you can, at some point, start to think about, okay, I'm doing this, I'm really enjoying it. I don't want to stop doing it. But how do I also continue then to move forward? I know when my wife passed away, last month to be well, and November, I started saying, like, a number of people always say, Well, you know, you got to move on. And I realized that was the wrong thing to say. Because if you move on, that it to me, it seems like it implies almost that you're possibly forgetting. But what I realized the appropriate thing, at least for me to say is, we do need to move forward. And she would want that.   Kris Gowen  53:18 Yeah, yes, I mean, the language, language does matter. And everyone's going to resonate with a certain way. So some people like you're saying move forward resonated with you. Some people are like, move through that we're different. I mean, you're you're different. You, you experienced a profound loss, and I'm sorry for your loss. And there is like, so you are now a different person. And so it's like, okay, who's this new? Who is this new, Michael? And how does this new Michael want to navigate through through the universe, and for a little while, you might be like, oh, and navigate through this universe at all, and other people have ideas. Because sometimes the grief and the loss is more expected than others. So some people have done some anticipatory grief or is like some, some preparing and other times, the universe does not provide us with that opportunity to sort of think about life without that person   Michael Hingson  54:17 whose case it was kind of half and half. I wouldn't say that it was totally unexpected, but not as fast as it it occurred. And also, no matter how much you expect it. It's really different when it's occurred, and now you are actually in a different space, in my case alone. So there there are things I do differently. And sometimes I wonder why am I doing it differently? And I realized, well, that's because now it's the way it is so I wake up earlier, I turn the TV on when I get up in the morning and Karen always used to get up much later than ice. I'd never turned the TV on until we I go out In the other room and close the door. So a lot of things that are different, but it's also okay. And I'm sure it will evolve some more over time. But I happen to be a person that likes to continue to move. And I get the joy, I will say, of doing this podcast, which is so much fun. And I get to learn so much, though all of all of the time that I get to spend with you and others is such an enjoyable thing for me. And it's been that way ever since the beginning of the podcast, but it's so much better even now.   Kris Gowen  55:34 Yeah, and it's, I mean, it's, again, it's, it's some connection that you're getting for a little bit of time, it's a project that hopefully isn't too overwhelming for you. And it is these these pieces that just help you sort of take every, you know, take things day to day in that very mindfulness, that mindfulness way because again, it's not like, you know, there's the Kubler Ross stages of grief. And there's these other things and, and, you know, if I look at my, you know, grief journey, if you will, it's really just a big scribble. You know, because there's, there'll be days, I mean, Molly died in 2016. And so it's been several years since she's been gone. And, you know, for the most part, you know, I'm I function through the day to day, I still think about her every day, there's something in the world that makes me think about her. And then there's some times where it's just a gut punch. It's just like, it's like, it's like, it wasn't that long ago at all. And there's, there's other times where it's, it's not doesn't feel that way.   Michael Hingson  56:41 And for me, I don't ever want it to be that long ago. And I will always remember and I think that it's important. Well, when you're married for 40 years, minus 15 days, that's not a surprise. But I wouldn't want I wouldn't want that to change. There's so much to remember about her and, and all of the wonderful times the memories will always be here. And that's an important thing. Yes, definitely. So then the pandemic hit you remember that pandemic thing? And, yeah, well, I'm   Kris Gowen  57:12 still here.   Michael Hingson  57:13 Little things are crawling all over the place. And you wrote another book.   Kris Gowen  57:17 Yeah. And that's the book that the Find Your song is, is where so I wrote one nation under song as like, when I completed that karaoke journey. And then I never really had the intention of writing a book from it, I just got back and I was like, I'm not done. I'm not done. Not done. And so like, that book just sort of came forward. And I, you know, worked on it that way. And then, during the pandemic, I, I wish I could remember, I'm sure it's brain fog, or whatever have you or just the COVID time messing this, but like, I just noticed that like I was grieving the world was grieving. The two things that really bring me like, are the three things that bring me joy, karaoke, can't do that. That's like one of the worst things you do during a pandemic, travel can't do that. So like the two things that helped me through my, you know, that the loss of Mali, those were way off the table, and then even being in community and being with friends or something, well, that was on the table in a very small dose, right, you couldn't just go out and see people. So I was left with being stripped of the my coping mechanisms. And so one of the other coping mechanisms I still sort of had was writing. And the thing I wanted to write about was the thing that I was experiencing, which was grief and being the researcher that I am I went to literature and I looked at grief literature and, and just started writing about this concept of joy and grief and and synthesizing the science, my own personal experiences and, and my own abilities to synthesize literature as a researcher. Yeah, I just I, like I said, it's, it's a tiny little book. And, you know, so it's digestible for people who are going through grief because, you know, can't really read a lot when you're super sad. And, and you Yeah, it just takes people through sort of things to consider others meditations in it, that you can use exercises that you can do if you find those fun, and otherwise, it's just, it helped me and I just hope it helps other other people without being really super prescriptive, like do it this way. It's not that kind of book.   Michael Hingson  59:47 No, I'm curious. You during the pandemic, of course, she had travel issues and so on, and I appreciate that I came back from New York on March 6 of 2020 is They closed down the city I escaped and made it back to California. Can you travel and get anywhere near the same level of enjoyment by doing it virtually?   Kris Gowen  1:00:12 Travel virtually, or karaoke virtually   Michael Hingson  1:00:15 traveled? Well, we could talk about karaoke too, but I was thinking more of travel virtually.   Kris Gowen  1:00:19 I'm, I don't I mean, not for me, I'm gonna say I think other people, it might answer that differently. And I'm way too much of a people person. And way too much of a person that needs to absorb the ambiance. And the feelings that I'm have the space around me to really get the sense of I've been there without actually physically being there,   Michael Hingson  1:00:50 there is nothing like experiencing the ocean by being there. And I don't necessarily even mean walking into the ocean, although that, for me becomes a part of it as well. But the sound is different, it is just a total different thing, or going to a live performance. And listening to the orchestra, and or to a musical and listening in watching it live. The sound the whole ambiance, although I can cope with doing things virtually. And I can watch movies virtually Well, or, you know, online or however. But there's nothing, absolutely nothing. Like being in a Broadway theater and observing a performance.   Michael Hingson  1:01:40 Yeah, you feel the energy and you feel the energy,   Michael Hingson  1:01:44 the sound is totally different. And I'm sure that the site is as well. We went to see Lion King, what as soon after it came out, and my brother in law, his wife, and their daughter, three years old, were visiting us and a friend of his new one of the actors and got us into the Lion King. And Karen was telling me, my wife was we were watching and she said, you know, you really forget about the puppets, you just see the animals and you forget that it's people behind them. And then after the show, we got to go back stage and meet several of the actors. And I actually got to look at a couple of the puppets. And although I experienced, obviously different than she did, and the others, I understood what they were saying, but there is just nothing like the energy of being in a live performance or in a situation. So I think you can see a lot by traveling virtually. But it is still not the same as being there.   Kris Gowen  1:02:47 Yes, I mean, I think it's, it's better than not doing anything and seeing the same four walls or one block or whatever, of where you're situated. And yeah, and for me, it's not the same. And I don't want to take away the experience of other people have that experience that differently.   Michael Hingson  1:03:05 Well, the other part about it is is virtual reality improves. I wonder how much that will affect our ability to maybe have a better experience? Don't know the answer to that yet. We're to near the beginning of that whole process, though, to really know.   Kris Gowen  1:03:22 Yeah, it is interesting, because buildings, maybe, but again, like if you're looking for the people energy, you're still not gonna be able to get that. But if you want to look at like, you know, a castle, or some a temple or something like that, and just can't be immersed.   Michael Hingson  1:03:39 Even people, maybe you can, again, depends on how good and effective the virtual reality is, how good the sound is, how good every aspect of it is. But that's something that only time is going to really tell but I suspect, they'll always be something that is hard to replicate in a virtual reality mode, as opposed to actually being there. And that's part of the fun and even if you get all the same sensations going somewhere, you still know you're there, which is just in itself kind of fun.   Kris Gowen  1:04:17 Yeah, for sure.   Michael Hingson  1:04:20 Well, this has been really a lot of fun to to do. I've enjoyed it. If tell Miss, where people can get your books and the names of the books again, and how could they reach out to you if they want to learn more about you if you're doing consulting that may be relevant for people, how do they get to you and all that stuff?   Kris Gowen  1:04:39 Yeah, so let's see. It's um, like now trying to figure out which hat for which which contact LinkedIn? Probably LinkedIn is probably the easiest for consulting and things like that or just being in touch. And my two books are one nation under song and find your Song and they are both on Amazon. And my publisher went under when I was during the pandemic, so they're currently in self published mode. And so other booksellers will pick them up because they're through Ingram Spark. So it's not just Amazon, it can be through a Barnes and Nobles online or a Pauwels, or something like that. And yeah, LinkedIn would probably be the easiest place.   Michael Hingson  1:05:27 How do people find you on LinkedIn? Kris? Gowen,   Kris Gowen  1:05:30 K R I S G O W E N.   Michael Hingson  1:05:33 That will that will find you How about your book on sex education and so on? Is that still available?   Kris Gowen  1:05:38 I think it actually is. And also, again, like sort of major retailer booksellers, I think it's that's through Rowman and Littlefield. And I think they still, I think they still churn it out every once in a while. It's certainly not my retirement plan. But I think it's still, it's still out there and

Have you heard of Arthur Duncan? He's an amazing tap dancer from America who was on “The Lawrence Welk Show” for 18 years! He's actually one of the first African American men to be a regular on a US TV variety show. His performances were incredible and he helped make tap dancing popular again. It's such an inspiring story! Podcast Notes: https://ancestralfindings.com/arthur-duncan-the-lawrence-welk-show/    

GGACP celebrates the birthday (May 6) of TV personality and game show host Tom Bergeron by revisiting this entertaining conversation from 2017. In this episode, Tom weighs in on a variety of topics, including the unpredictability of live television, the genius of Marcel Marceau, the benefits of transcendental meditation and the rise and fall of the Jerry Lewis Telethon. Also, Tom interviews Moe Howard (and Larry Fine), Sid Caesar speaks German, Bob Hope moves down the couch and Mel Brooks mimics Bill Cullen. PLUS: Bob the Puppet! The Lawrence Welk singers! Arnold Schwarzenegger “brings funny!” Henry Winkler pulls a fast one! And Tom and Gilbert remember John Ritter!   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nancy Crocker of Minneapolis recommends the musical “How to Avoid Burnout in 73 Minutes: A Minimally Invasive Musical Procedure.”  “I saw this show in its initial run. This is a wonderful, life-affirming show,” Crocker said. The show was created by Dr. Stuart Bloom, who also performs. It depicts his journey from a comedian in New York to an oncologist in Minnesota. The show is built around a simple premise: Bloom reads from a questionnaire designed to determine if someone is experiencing burnout at their job. “And of course, doctors – and especially oncologists – have one of the highest burnout rates of any profession,” Crocker explains. “And so he goes through this questionnaire, one question at a time, but his answers are always in the form of a song.” The musical is at the Southern Theater in Minneapolis from April 19-23.  John Orbison of Minneapolis is an amateur musician. He recommends the season finale of the Bakken Ensemble at Antonello Hall at MacPhail Center for Music. “All of the composers on the program are people that I'm not very familiar with … They delve into music that you might not hear anywhere else, featuring some of the finest musicians in the world that we're so blessed to have here in Minnesota.” The season finale is Sunday. Stillwater-born Patrick Hicks is the writer in residence at Augustana University. He's looking forward to a pair of readings by author Christopher Vondracek, who will be reading from his latest book, “Dancing With Welk: Music, Memory, and Prairie Troubadours.” “This book engages with Lawrence Welk, that cheesy and inescapably popular television bandleader of the 1960s and '70s,” Hicks said, but also describes the book as “a funny and poignant coming of age story.”  Vondracek will read at Fair Trade Books in Red Wing and Paperback and Pieces in Winona on Saturday.

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Norma Zimmer was a talented soprano singer who found fame in the 1950s in various singing groups. She also landed a job on The Lawrence Welk Show, one that would last for decades, and that made her a household name of the time. A farm girl who loved to sing, Norma found incredible success in a tough industry. This is her story... Podcast Notes: https://ancestralfindings.com/norma-zimmer-the-lawrence-welk-show  

Lawrence Welk was a beloved band leader with a special type of music called champaign music, which the crowds loved. He toured the country with his band and had his own TV show for decades. The son of German-speaking Ukrainian immigrants, Lawrence worked hard and built his own success. This is his story. Podcast Notes: https://ancestralfindings.com/lawrence-welk-the-lawrence-welk-show  

George Jones [00:22] "Time Changes Everything" The Race Is On United Artists UAS 6422 1965 A very George Jones take on this Bob Wills/Tommy Duncan classic. Nadja [03:58] "Now I Am Become Death, Destroyer of Worlds" Radiance of Shadows Conspiracy Records CORE064 2008 My gateway drug for Nadja. I had read a review of this album which mentioned a new concept to me: ambient doom. I ordered the CD and the next thing I knew I was hooked. Fifteen years later I am still enthralled. Big Star [25:39] "O My Soul" Radio City Big Beat Records WIK 54 1986 (original release Ardent ADS-1501 1974) Mono, man! Side one track one from this outstanding follow up to their debut #1 Record. And if you've never seen the documentary Nothing Can Hurt Me (https://youtu.be/gxAbkqRGxqY), I can recommend it if you think you might be interested. Poppa John Gordy [31:15] "Tip Toe through the Tulips with Me" Ragtime Piano RCA Victor LPM-1060 1955 Yup, that's some ragtime piano all right. Made famous by Nick Lucas in an early the early talkie hit movie Gold Diggers of Broadway (https://youtu.be/0-MPTrWJ1uM). John Williams [33:12] "The Map Room: Dawn" Raiders of the Lost Ark - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Columbia JS 37373 1981 My favorite scene from the film, and favorite music cue of the soundtrack. Tom Waits [37:09] "Tango Till They're Sore" Rain Dogs Island Records 90299-1 1985 The album that was my gateway to the world of Tom Waits. B.J. Thomas [41:27] "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head Scepter Records SKAO 93045 1969 Fare thee well, Burt Bacharach. For those of you who prefer streaming music services, you'll find this song under B.J. Thomas, not Burt Bacharach or the Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid soundtrack. The more you know. Nat King Cole [44:31] "Your Cheatin' Heart" Ramblin' Rose Capitol Records ST-1793 1965 (orignal release 1962) Perhaps Nat was taking a cue from Ray Charles' Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music? Jimmy Buffett [46:59] "Rancho Deluxe (End Title)" Rancho Deluxe United Artists Records UA-LA466 1975 I actually dig this soundtrack quite a bit. The film is a neo-western with a script by Tom McGuane. It is very much of its time, but if you can get past that, there are some excellent performances from Harry Dean Stanton, Slim Pickens, and Charlene Dallas. And you can see Jimmy Buffett and band performing in a bar scene that features Jeff Bridges and Harry Dean Stanton playing Pong (https://youtu.be/d_p4NsgH05E). Music behind the DJ: "Tumblin' Tumbleweeds" by Lawrence Welk

For those whose grandparents insisted on watching Lawrence Welk and Hee Haw. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/john-g-moore/support

April 29 - May 5, 1967 This week Ken welcomes director, producer and writer (Evil, Farscape, The New Twilight Zone, V, Seaquest DSV) Rockne S. O'Bannon to the show.  Ken and Rockne discuss Ken's long time love of Rockne's work and how often it comes up on the show, 1967, the amazing nature of not aging since 1967, the boom of sci-fi TV in 1966, Film reboots of classic TV shows, quantum entanglement, growing up in LA, Rockne's mother being a Busby Barkley dancer, Rockne's father being a gaffer at Warner Brothers, writing your first pilot script at age 10 for The Boy from U.N.C.L.E., realizing people make television at an early age, Isaac Asimov's essay on how sexy Mr. Spock is, Lawrence Welk swimsuit issue, innovation in animal training, Raven with a Gun, writing for streaming shows and dealing with not needing the convention ad break structure, Sci-Fi Channel movie templates, Laugh-In, Hollywood Teletype, commissioned art, the rise of hippy culture in the mainstream, TV Guide's incredibly detailed listings for everything including reruns and sports, Frankenstein Jr, Space Angel, Clutch Cargo, The Andy Griffith Show, The Dick Van Dyke shows status as the greatest TV sitcom ever, Pistols & Petticoats, Gunsmoke, Tom Skerrit's week, The Avengers, Johnny Carson reruns, Saturday Night Live, TV shows about television, It's About Time, Ed Sullivan, the pre-muppet Muppets, Roger Miller's variety show, FBI, Rockne's Dad taking home TV scripts for him to study, the horror of pay tv, white guys as Native Americans, westerns, Steve Allen's invention of everything, Mr. Terrific, Captain Nice, Buck Henry, Get Smart!, The New Twilight Zone, "Wordplay", "The Shadow Man", Darkroom with James Coburn, Joey Bishop, Don Herbert is Mr. Wizard, TV Close Ups, The National Science Test, The Saint, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Girl from U.N.C.L.E., Red Skelton, The Invaders, pinkies, playing it cool around celebrities, Albert Brooks, Night of the Meek, The Afterhours, Fame is the Name of the Game, Lost in Space, Batman '66, Fringe, Evil, time travel, Time Tunnel, being the new Irwin Allen by mistake, gadgets, I Spy, Wild Wild West, Honey West, Green Hornet, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, F Troop, Larry Storch and Forrest Tucker's chemistry, not wanting to talk to Milton Berle, short lived shows that had an outsized impact on pop culture, the power of villains, vigilantes, Bob & Ray, Tim Conway, "you're very pleased to meet me", Patrick McNee's secrets to life, nudists, Mod Tampons, TV Teletype, and Chuck Connors, as a Cowboy in Africa. 

Berlin [00:24] "Masquerade" Pleasure Victim Geffen Records GHS 2036 1983 Some classic nouvelle vague, very LA style. Merle Haggard & Willie Nelson [04:33] "Pancho & Lefty" Pancho & Lefty Epic FE 37958 1982 What the hell is up with the intro?! Anywho, pretty decent pass at the Townes Van Zandt classic. And these gentlemen let Townes appear as a federale in the accompanying video (https://youtu.be/UoKvUYbGu7A). The Knitters [09:18] "The New World" Poor Little Critter on the Road Slash 25310-1 1985 Well, since there was an election just recently, this seems like the one to go with. Margaret Whiting [12:15] "Gentle on My Mind" Pop Country London Records PS-527 1967 A snappy rendition of this John Hartford-penned number made popular by Glen Campbell. False [16:23] "A Victual for Our Dead Selves" Portent Gilead Media relic110 2019 Some blackened metal from this former Minneapolis combo. Ahmad Jamal [27:13] "Ahmad's Blues" Portfolion of Ahmad Jamal Argo LP 2638 1959 Recorded live at the Spotlite Club in Washington DC in September of 1958, featuring Ahmad on keys, Israel Crosby on bass, and Vernel Fournier on drums. Fun fact: Argo was a subsidiary of Chess Records. The Undertones [32:11] "It's Going to Happen" Positive Touch Harvest ST-12159 / Ardeck ST-12159 1981 A bit of a change in direction for the Northern Ireland lads. And I would say in a good way. It's always interesting when bands progress their sound. Feargal still sounds as distinctive as ever. During their appearance on Top of the Pops for this single, guitarist Damian O'Neill wore a black armband to mark the recent passing of Bobby Sands. Bongwater [35:47] "Bedazzled" The Power of Pussy Shimmy Disc shimmy 040 1990 Originally recorded by Dremble Wedge and the Vegetation (https://youtu.be/JXnoWb88Jr4). Just kidding, it's a Dudley Moore tune performed by Peter Cook in the 1967 Stanley Donen film Bedazzled. Deftly handled by Ann Magnuson, Kramer, Dave Rick, and David Licht. Earth Wind & Fire [38:32] "Fall in Love with Me" Powerlight Columbia TC 38367 1983 Track one, side one solid dancer with a heckuva guitar solo. Powerlight was the bands 12th studio album and certified gold. This song was released as single and made it to number 17 on the Hot 100. Iron Maiden [45:32] "Flash of the Blade" Powerslave Capitol Records SJ-12321 1984 The epicly epic album from my favorite band when I was a teenager. I caught them at Radio City Music Hall on this tour, with opening act Queensryche. You've never seen so much spandex and leather and hair. And then there was my nerdy self. Anywho, evidently this song made it into Dario Argento's Phenomena. Krallice [49:37] "Conflagration" Prelapsarian Gilead Media relic92 2017 Blackened goodness straight outta Queens. Pretenders [57:22] "Talk of the Town" Pretenders II Sire SRK 3572 1981 Got this one for my 13th birthday. This is an edited version of the 1980 single purportedly about Chrissie and Ray Davies. Music behind the DJ: "Slow Poke" by Lawrence Welk

How many shows can invoke the names of Lawrence Welk, Barry Sanders, Herschel Walker and Jimmy Johnson in one show. Tune in. Also, an injury update, Detroit's ability to run the football, but also their inability to stop the run. The guys make their game predictions and their picks to click. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

February 7-13, 1976 This week Ken speaks with author of the new book "Barney Miller and the Files of the Ol' One-Two", Otto Bruno. Ken and Otto discuss growing up in Buffalo, bonding with your dad over Barney Miller, second choices, working in radio, Ken and Otto's very different musical tastes, Danny Arnold, new characters, actors playing different characters on the same show, Jack Davis' drawing of the Barney Miller cast, press photos, Jack Soo's Motown lp, talking to Hal Linden, pinpointing when the audience disappeared, lasting five seasons, not cracking the top 30, TV taping tickets, being interested in neither the Olympics nor Rich Man Poor Man, Royal Dano, Lawrence Welk, looking at your own personal copy of TV Guide, the TV week free from the paper, Mary Tyler Moore, SCTV, Bob Hope, Sonny and Cher's solo shows, William Conrad, Orson Wells, freezers filled with frozen Howard Johnson Fried Clams and Friendlys Ice Cream, M*A*S*H, Dinah Shore Show, David Brenner, Robert Klein, Steve Martin, Albert Brooks, dumb humor vs smart humor, Chuck Jones' The Boy Who Was Raised by Wolves, Robert Loggia as Johnny Beer, Theater in America, Smarmy classic Burt Reynolds, Brad Dourif, why Frank Luger is Ken's favorite character, avoiding social issues, humanity, enamel pins, Badges, The Hollywood Museum, James Garner, Joe Dante, being left out of being a Monster Kid, film noir, and the weirdness of POV media in a pre video game world. 

Jamie Maschler joins Mary and Wyatt to talk about love, music, creativity, and a question that our listeners are always curious about: How is Lawrence Welk responsible for the public image problem that plagues the accordion? Jamie shares her memory of first meeting Mary, and it is funny as hell. "Jamie Maschler, knows the versatility of the accordion better than most. She has played the instrument since she was four and spent years perfecting and competing. Talents like her seem to be increasingly valuable.“  -The AtlanticJamie is a musician, music director, educator and an ambassador of the accordion. She is co-founder of the Brazilian bands Foleada, En Canto, and the accordion duo Creosote. She has been heard with the Pueblo Symphony, Seattle Symphony and Seattle Philharmonic. Jamie has also played the role of Nelly Friedman in Paula Vogel's award winning play Indecent twice.In 2018, the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) feature Jamie in their  Museum of Making Music exhibit titled  “Accordions: Expanding Voices in the USA”. Jamie is based in Seattle, WA where she studied accordion under three-time Latin Grammy Nominee Jovino Santos Neto at Cornish College of the Arts.Jamie works for accordion manufacturer Petosa Accordions, where she is able to share her passion and actively participate in the reinvention and face of the traditional Instrument.

You may know Michelle Zauner from her Grammy-nominated musical act Japanese Breakfast or New York Times best-selling memoir "Crying in H Mart," but before all that she was just a kid who loved Sailor Moon. Michelle dropped by the pod this week to talk about watching and rewatching her favorite childhood VHS tapes, taking guitar lessons in the world's most corporate setting and the lessons she learned growing up about dining etiquette. Along the way Michelle helps Jonah and Vanessa call out their middle school music teacher for not lightening up and letting Jonah listen to Metallica in class, the three of us discuss the green room cheese plate situation for Japanese Breakfast's performance on this year's SNL season finale. As if that weren't enough, we also introduce a BRAND NEW SEGMENT called "Legit Moan Or Unnecessary Groan" that is kind of difficult to explain but should not be missed and sees us tackling the legacy of Crankshaft, Lawrence Welk and Giant Eagle supermarket's controversial stocking decisions. EPISODE NOTE: we accidentally say the Silent Generation came before the Greatest Greatest Generation when it's actually the other way around and we apologize for the mix-up, but honestly don't focus on that, Boomer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.