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They have been learning together, while thousands of miles apart this year, about the rich history of Air Force Pilot Gail Halvorsen, nicknamed the “Candy Bomber” or “Uncle Wiggly Wings” from his time flying candy drops in Germany during the Berlin Airlift. On this episode of the Supercast, find out what happens when students from Berlin arrive in Utah to join West Hills Middle School students as part of their Colonel Halvorsen history lessons. It all culminated in the bonding of young minds, making chocolate bars, a moving assembly, and inspiring words from Halvorsen's daughters, words that would make “Uncle Wiggly Wings” proud. Audio Transcription Mark Sanderson: You know, the Candy Bomber was all about from small things, great things come and this event today was a manifestation of that. Daughter: We're just so thrilled that his legacy could continue because of the principles he taught. Lorraine Moore: He had no idea the power of what he started, but he spent the rest of his life sharing that. [Music] Anthony Godfrey: Hello and welcome to the Supercast. I'm your host, Superintendent Anthony Godfrey. They have been learning together, while thousands of miles apart, about the rich history of Air Force pilot, Gail Halvorsen, nicknamed the Candy Bomber or Uncle Wiggly Wings, from his time flying candy drops in Germany during the Berlin airlift. On this episode of the Supercast, find out what happens when students from Berlin arrive in Utah to join West Hills Middle School students as part of their Colonel Halvorsen history lessons. You'll hear about the bonding of young minds, making chocolate bars, an impactful assembly, and the inspiring words from Halvorsen's daughters, words that would make Uncle Wiggly Wings proud. We're talking now with Mark Sanderson, the teacher who put all of this together. What a wonderful event. Introduce yourself and talk about what inspired you to bring everyone together to commemorate Gail Halvorsen today. Mark Sanderson: I'm Mark Sanderson. I teach 8th grade at West Hills Middle School, 8th grade English. The project started really two years ago. I had been doing chocolate projects before that in connection with “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.” But since I wasn't teaching “Charlie,” I thought, "Hey, like, I need something else." But also I had been collaborating with the Aggie Chocolate Factory up at Utah State. And I said, "Hey, like, we've done this a few times. Like, let's do something more ambitious, like something bigger. Like, what about the Candy Bomber?" And they said, "Yeah, he's connected to Utah State. He came here." So they really latched onto the idea and I said, "I'm gonna reach out the Candy Bomber Foundation and make sure they're okay with that. I want to make sure we're doing it legitimately." I emailed the Candy Bomber Foundation and they were like, "Yeah, totally. Let's do it." And the project has really, to me, the key of the project has been the collaboration. Everybody who's been involved with it has caught the vision of it and has made the project bigger and better. Through the foundation, we were connected with the Gail Halvorsen School in Berlin who also did the project and had their students fly out here today. So to me, it's just been the collaboration that's the big takeaway. Anthony Godfrey: What impact do you see this having on students and on the community? Mark Sanderson Hopefully it'll make projects like this more possible, like easier to do, more common to do. And we can take pride in some of our local heroes and celebrate them at our schools. Anthony Godfrey: Well, I really appreciate the creativity and the drive and the energy that you brought to this. These are the types of experiences that students will never forget. What is the personal impact on you of Gail Halvorsen's story? Mark Sanderson Well, I don't... well, ultimately I'd rather have my students remember the event than necessarily remember me or my name. If they can remember the event, to me, that's the main thing. But for me, you know, the Candy Bomber was all about from small things, great things come. And this event today was a manifestation of that. It started with a small idea and a bunch of other people joined in to make it happen, make it possible. I couldn't have done all this by myself. So I think it's a manifestation of his vision, his belief, his legacy. And hopefully our students will collaborate with others to make big things happen that are positive in our community. Anthony Godfrey: Well, today's activity, in my mind, honors what he did and exponentially extends the influence of his actions. I just really appreciate your providing such a unique and meaningful experience for these students. [band music] Anthony Godfrey: Talking with Lorraine Moore about the Gail Halvorsen Foundation, we're here waiting for the Candy Bomber event to happen. Tell us a little bit about what you do. Lorraine Moore: Wonderful. I appreciate the opportunity at the Candy Bomber Foundation. We're looking to carry on Gayle's legacy of kindness, service, education, and really bringing hope to people that need it because we all do. Anthony Godfrey: I remember that he was very active in the community, loved visiting schools, and I got to meet him when he visited, I think it was, Oquirrh Hills Middle School years ago. Lorraine Moore: Fun. And if you got the opportunity to speak to him for 30 seconds, you had a lifelong friend. Anthony Godfrey: Yes, that's right. Lorraine Moore: He's always like that. Anthony Godfrey: Yes, very friendly. Tell me about the work that your organization does. Lorraine Moore: Absolutely. Well, Gayle always felt that education is the power to create a life, and service is the power to create a life of joy for yourself and for those that you're serving. So we like to combine those two elements, and our programs are values-based STEM programs, not only teaching kids what they can do with science and education, but what good they can do, and helping them to see how important even a little bit of good, even just two sticks of gum or a parachute with a chocolate bar, how much that can do for people. Anthony Godfrey: Well, Gail Halvorsen is an incredible example of making the most of your circumstances and finding opportunities to do good, not just do what you're assigned to do, but to go well beyond that. Lorraine Moore: Way beyond that. He was very likely thought he was gonna get court-martialed for doing it, but he saw a whole generation of children that had never known anything but war, and there was just a light had gone out of their eyes, and he realized, "I can't do a lot, but if I can do a little, I can bring a little bit more light back in those eyes," and he had no idea the power of what he started, but he spent the rest of his life sharing that. Anthony Godfrey: When he did that, I'll bet he had no idea it was going to last a lifetime, and well beyond. For those who may not know, tell the story of Gail Halvorsen and what he did. Lorraine Moore: He grew up here in Utah, so he is a local hero. He was serving in the Berlin airlift as one of the cargo pilots, bringing in food and fuel and all of the supplies that Berlin needed to survive after the war, and when they would unload the planes, the pilots would want to get out, stretch their legs, and him just being a people person, the first thing he loved to do is go talk to the people at the fence of the airport, and usually it was young kids. A group of them there loved meeting the American pilots. He loved that he could help these kids realize that planes flying into their airport didn't mean bombs. It meant someone was here to help, and that meant a lot to him, and so one day he was at the fence and he just really felt inspired. These kids needed a little something more. He reached in his pocket and all he had was two sticks of gum. He thought two sticks of gum and 30 kids, I'm gonna start a riot. He was so worried, yeah, but he just knew he had to do it, so he gave the gum to the kids, and instead of fighting over it, they broke it into the smallest pieces they could break it into, and the kids who didn't get gum smelled the wrapper. Double mint gum. It's become the smell of freedom all over the world, and for them they knew that was the smell of freedom, and they asked him, "Don't give up on us. We can do without food for a while, but if you guys give up on us, we'll lose our freedom, and we'll never get it back," and it just really put a fire in his heart to do more to help these kids, so he told them he'd come back and he'd bring them more candy. He went that night and got everyone's candy bar rations and everyone's handkerchiefs and tied parachutes and made these parachutes with the candy. The kids asked him, "How will we know it's you because there's a hundred planes coming in every hour and we don't know who you are," so he told them he'd wiggle his wings, and that's how he got the name Uncle Wiggly Wings, and so a legend was born. Anthony Godfrey: I didn't know that part. I didn't know that part. That's cool. Lorraine Moore: Yep, he loved that. That was one of his favorite nicknames. Anthony Godfrey: And how many candy runs did he make? Lorraine Moore: I don't know how many runs, but by the time they were done, they had dropped almost 10 million pounds of candy. Anthony Godfrey: Wow. Well, thank you so much for being here, and let's join the ceremony. Lorraine Moore: Yeah. Anthony Godfrey: Stay with us when we come back. We continue to celebrate Gail Halvorsen at West Hills Middle School. Male Voice: Never miss an episode of the Supercast by liking and subscribing on your favorite podcasting platform. Find transcripts for this episode and others at supercast.jordandistrict.org. Female Voice: Are you looking for a job right now? Looking to work in a fun and supportive environment with great pay and a rewarding career? Jordan School District is hiring. We're currently filling full and part-time positions. You can work and make a difference in young lives and education as a classroom assistant or a substitute teacher. Apply to work in one of our school cafeterias where our lunch staff serves up big smiles with great food every day. We're also looking to hire custodians and bus drivers. In Jordan School District, we like to say people come for the job and enjoy the adventure. Apply today at employment.jordandistrict.org. Anthony Godfrey: We're talking now with Gail Halvorsen's two daughters who were here for the ceremony today. Thank you so much for being here. Daughter: Thank you. It's a privilege. Daughter: Happy to be here. Anthony Godfrey: Tell me about some of these events and what it's meant to carry on this legacy over the years both while your father was alive and now as you as you continue to talk about his life and his story. Daughter: Well it's a wonderful thing. We've been to many events like this with him both in Germany and here in the States. Candy drops, school visits, auditoriums full of kids and he always had them captivated and we're just so thrilled that his legacy could continue because of the principles he taught. Anthony Godfrey: I was lucky enough to meet him when he visited one of the schools here in Jordan School District and it was very inspiring. Everyone was really changed by that. Tell me what are some of the types of events that you've attended over the years and that he's attended over the years that have commemorated and extended the influence of his Candy Bomber days. Daughter: Well he dropped candy at all of our children's elementary schools and spoke at the in the auditorium; spoke about freedom and the importance of freedom and the children at the fence how they were so impressed. He was so impressed with him because they wanted freedom more than food. Because of that and he saw their gratitude he wanted you to do something nice for them and dropped from candy so he's been in schools he's been in many flyover candy drops in Sarah Park. People remember that just all over the country. Daughter: In Germany and Berlin they have an airlift memorial there and every May 12th they have a service and ceremony and I remember one particular year there they had a flyover in the original airplane C54 that he flew and they dropped candy. That might have been for the 50th or they always have a really big thing on the 50th, 55th, 60th and so on. Anthony Godfrey: Wow that's amazing. So when you were growing up did the candy flow freely in your home or was it restricted? Daughter: Gum did. We had a gum jar. The gum was there. Anthony Godfrey: Just like the two sticks of gum that started it all. Daughter: Honestly I didn't know my dad was the Candy Bomber until I was in high school. Anthony Godfrey: Oh how did you discover that your dad was the Candy Bomber? Daughter: I had to write a report and he told me a story what happened to him during the airlift and that's kind of when I found out about an experience flying into Berlin. Anthony Godfrey: What did your teacher say when you turned that in? Daughter: They probably knew before I showed up. Anthony Godfrey: Did you at least get an A on the project? Daughter: I don't remember. Anthony Godfrey: I'm sure you did. I'm sure you did. And when did you discover that your dad was the Candy Bomber? Daughter: I was also in high school. So I remember one summer we were living in California and he was invited to Berlin for the 40th anniversary of the end of the airlift and then when he came back he told us about all the things that happened. They had a candy drop at the Temple Hall airbase. They had thousands of people that would come to that and he signed autographs and sat in his airplane and showed us pictures of all this so that's when I started thinking “oh”. Then when we moved to Berlin in 1970 and he was commander there we met many of the people that had been alive during that time. They're so full of passion and gratitude. They're just speaking to him with tears coming down their faces. Their whole lives they've strived to serve and give back. We still are communicating with one another. Anthony Godfrey: It's an honor to meet you both. Thank you for sharing those stories and for being here. I'm sure these students will never forget it. Daughters: Thank you. Thanks for the opportunity. Anthony Godfrey: We're talking now with one of the German students who came to visit West Hills as part of the Candy Bomber event today. Tell us your name and tell us a little bit about why you're here. Student: I am Bayam and we are here because we won an art competition. We had to design a chocolate wrapper and yeah. Anthony Godfrey: So you designed the chocolate wrapper for the chocolate that was created for this event to be given to the students as part of this commemorative event for Gail Halvorson but you go to the Gail Halvorson school. Tell me a little bit about that. Student: Well the school has many well we have our signature speech. It's I don't really know it anymore like right now because we have it in German and we do have a picture of him, a drawn portrait, in black and white in our auditorium so we do honor him a lot and he really didn't want to be famous but he just made a small act and is now very very known for that small act. Anthony Godfrey: Tell me about the design that won you a trip to come visit us. Student: My design was I had a text it was a small rhyme I don't really know anymore but I also had the Berlin TV tower and a bit of the Berlin Wall on it. Yeah. Anthony Godfrey: Nice. Well, your English is excellent we're so glad to have you here and it meant a lot to have you and your friends and your teachers here visiting us. It really made it an important event for us so thank you for being here. Student: I'm honored to be here. Thank you. Anthony Godfrey: We're talking now with the chocolate designer and the chocolatier. Is that the right term? Student: Yeah. Anthony Godfrey: Okay. Not a Mouseketeer a chocolatier. It has the same exciting feeling. So tell me about your design and what the contest was. Student: Yeah so the contest was about who can make a chocolate bar inspired by Gail Halvorson and kind of you know market it and make a good design that represents it. Anthony Godfrey: As part of the ceremony we heard your description of why you chose the elements of the chocolate bar that you did. Talk to us about that. Student: So when I made the chocolate bar, it was kind of a cartoon idea at first not supposed to be real so I want everything to have a meaning and represent something more important, so I had caramel for its comfort and like classic and then milk chocolate because it's sweet just like Gail Halvorson's act, and then I had the honey to represent kindness. Anthony Godfrey: Have you tried the chocolate bar? Student: Yeah. Anthony Godfrey: How did it turn out? Student: It's actually really good. Anthony Godfrey: I bet it is. Now let's talk with our chocolatier who helped support this. Introduce yourself and tell us about this project. Grant Fryes: Yeah, my name is Grant Fryes. I'm the co-owner at Taste Artist and Chocolate Down in Provo and yeah Mark connected with me first and introduced the idea of having this competition and us kind of taking the role of bringing these ideas to life and I just immediately got excited you know letting the students just take the creative reins and then just turning that into something delicious and yeah, they did a great job. Anthony Godfrey: We really appreciate your support. Our German visitors went and visited this morning came down there and took a little tour. Grant Fryes: Yeah they actually made their own chocolate bar. Anthony Godfrey: They made their own chocolate bars. Fantastic. I wanted to come for that part. I just had meetings I couldn't get out of. Tell us about the results. How did the chocolate bar turn out? You're the chocolate expert. Grant Fryes: Yeah, no they really I was excited when the ideas the finalists were chosen, and they sent the ideas over because I immediately knew both of these are gonna be incredible. Ryan's idea was I saw it come in and we normally don't do fillings in our bars. We usually try to keep just solid bars. His came in and I was like no, that has to be a filling in the middle of the bar. So that was a fun fun adventure for us to make our first filled chocolate bar. Anthony Godfrey: Breaking all the rules. Making this delicious bar with Ryan. And so thank you for doing that and for supporting us in that effort. Tell us a little bit more about your business. Grant Fryes: Yeah, so we're what we what you call bean-to-bar chocolate. So we import the raw cocoa beans ourselves from all over the world and do the whole process from scratch. And then attached to the factory, we have a little cafe where we do afternoon tea service and little light lunch menu. Lots of desserts obviously with the chocolate. Anthony Godfrey: Sure. Grant Fryes: And kind of showcase chocolate from not just our factory but around the world as well. Anthony Godfrey: Thank you so much for being here. Grant Fryes: Absolutely. Anthony Godfrey: I'll be stopping by. Thanks for joining us on another episode of the Supercast. Remember, “Education is the most important thing you will do today.” We'll see you out there. [MUSIC PLAYING]

She is a high school student determined to pursue her dreams, and never let a disability get in the way of her drive to success. On this episode of the Supercast, meet Mountain Ridge High School junior Linda Boequi who was recently crowned Utah Miss Amazing Teen 2026. Hear how finding success in the competition is helping Linda and others explore their passions, in and outside of school, with pride, purpose, and power. Audio Transcription Teacher: Becoming Miss Amazing Teen has given her the opportunity to have more confidence with advocating. Linda: My advice is that it doesn't matter what challenges you have. We are all different, but everyone deserves to be happy and go after their dreams. [MUSIC] Anthony Godfrey: On this episode of the Supercast, meet Mountain Ridge High School sophomore Linda Boequi, who was recently crowned Utah Miss Amazing Teen 2026. Hear how finding success in the competition is helping Linda and others explore their passions in and outside of school with pride, purpose, and power. [MUSIC] Anthony Godfrey: We're here at Mountain Ridge High School to talk about the Miss Amazing Teen Pageant. Go ahead and introduce yourself and tell us about, tell us a little bit about why we're here. Teacher: Hello, I'm Alexis Sway. I'm one of the special education teachers at Mountain Ridge High School, and I get to work with Linda, who won the Miss Amazing Teen Utah Pageant this year, back in March. Anthony Godfrey: Linda, thank you for talking with us today. Tell us, what is the Miss Amazing Teen Pageant and how did you get involved? Linda: Miss Amazing is a wonderful program that helps girls build confidence. When I first got involved, I was so nervous, but at the same time, I was very excited to be part of it. Teacher Do you remember how you heard about the pageant? Linda: No, I never hear before. When my mom, she was with me doing a dub during a cheer, inclusive cheer. I hear about it is very, like, my first time to hear, so I'm dancing to do my passion and to link those ideas, to pass through my, my in progress to know my future, what is it? Anthony Godfrey: Tell us more about what your role was in helping support Linda in applying for this and being part of this competition. Teacher: Yeah, so we actually had a former student here at Mountain Ridge. Their family started Adaptive Arena in Bluffdale. It's an awesome facility where they provide sports, dance, and gymnastics opportunities for students and cheer with disabilities. That way they can be included in those opportunities, and it was through Adaptive Arena that Linda found out about the Miss Teen Pageant. And so we really just appreciate that parents reach out and share that information for us as teachers to share with our students and their families so they can know about these resources in the community. This year, when Linda came to school one day, and was telling us that she's going to be in this pageant, and she tells the dates when the competitions were coming up and what she was doing to prepare for it. We just got to cheer her on, and we're so stoked when she came back to school with her sash and tiara, saying that she won Miss Teen. Miss Amazing, right? Anthony Godfrey: You have the sash and tiara on now. Do you ever take it off? Linda: It depends on the place where I can take to use my crown and sometimes I tell some teacher if I can use my crown or some other place to have like a band or cultural evemt. I pull my crown and my sash to know everyone, to know about me, to follow me, and to know about more some people and to have fun. Teacher: Did you wear it at the lacrosse game this week? Linda: Yes, I put because from the last week it was my birthday on April 3rd, and the same time was on Lacrosse Day and then I saw a friend, she was doing lacrosse and I was hoping to. So she was like doing great, and her whole team did great, and then this time did like the girls gym, did it so well. I'm so proud of her. Anthony Godfrey: What was going through your mind when you were crowned Utah Miss Amazing Teen 2026? Linda: I couldn't believe it. I still think about the crown in my head all the time. It's made me so excited to use my title to do great things in my future. Anthony Godfrey: Now I've heard that you did a dance for the talent portion. Can you tell us about the dance that you performed for the talent competition? Linda: Yes, dancing is my passion. So it's a feel great. I perform a fun mix of ballet and hip hop all put together to music from the movie Tangle. Speaking of which, I have a hip hop performance today May 5th at my school auditorium. I would love to invite you and all your listeners to come and see it. Anthony Godfrey: That's fantastic. So you can do ballet and combine it with hip hop? Linda: Yes. Anthony Godfrey: I can't do either one of those things, much less do them together. So that's awesome. The Miss Amazing program, from what I understand, focuses on confidence, like you said, and self-advocacy. How has participating in the program helped you see yourself now and see yourself in the future. Linda: The program gives me a lot of confidence because of it. I believe in my future. I want to keep taking dance classes and focus on my passion for dancing one day. Anthony Godfrey: Wonderful. If there's one piece of advice you could give other students who are looking for the confidence to pursue their dreams, what would that be? Linda: My advice is that it doesn't matter what challenges you have. We are all different, but everyone deserves to be happy and go after their dreams. Anthony Godfrey: Tell me about Linda in class. Teacher: Linda is very sweet and very motivated to be independent and work hard. She strives to be the best student that she can be. She puts her head down and gets right to work. She asks for help when she needs it. Becoming Miss Amazing Teen has given her the opportunity to have more confidence with advocating, too. That's something we've worked on a lot with Linda, is asking for help, not being afraid to ask teachers to use translation tools or for more clarification if she's not getting something. I've really seen that bloom this year with her advocating for herself. She works really hard, and she's very friendly. Anthony Godfrey: Tell us about what you teach here. Tell us about your job. Teacher: I'm one of our three self-contained support classroom teachers here at Mountain Ridge. Anthony Godfrey: For those who don't know what that is, describe that, please. Teacher: It's a special education class. It's students who have moderate to severe disabilities who need more time in a special education class. I have a unique position where I get to work with the students who can handle being fully mainstreamed into their classes, but they still need a home base and to have an aide or a peer tutor with them. I get to manage the peer tutors and the aides that work with the students and support them as their home base, helping them with emotional regulation and executive functioning skills. Anthony Godfrey: Describe how that peer tutor program works. Teacher: We have students. It's just open for any student. They can select it as an elective during arena scheduling. We do a training at the beginning of the year, and we definitely rely on spreading awareness and having peer tutors try and recruit friends that they think would be good peer tutors too. So they get to be paired up one-on-one with a student with disabilities and help them in their classes by staying on task and getting the academics done. Anthony Godfrey: It's an important program for everyone involved. Thank you for running that and teaching that. It's a great support to our students. Teacher: Thank you. I enjoy it. Anthony Godfrey: Stay with us when we come back. Linda teaches me some Samba dance moves and I do my best to learn them. Male Voice: Never miss an episode of the Supercast by liking and subscribing on your favorite podcasting platform. Find transcripts for this episode and others at supercast.jordandistrict.org. Female Voice: Does your child need the flexibility to learn from anywhere at any time on a cruise in another country or simply at home cozy on the couch? The Jordan Virtual Learning Academy is tailor made for you and your family. It's personalized dynamic virtual learning on your schedule. The Jordan Virtual Learning Academy is an integrated system of three schools in Jordan School District. Rocky Peak Virtual Elementary School, Kelsey Peak Virtual Middle School and Kings Peak High School. Our programs are designed to meet or exceed District and state core curriculum standards, ensuring your child receives a superior educational experience tailored to their needs. Join us today at jordanvirtual.org. Anthony Godfrey: What do you love most about dancing? Linda: Dancing is like …. for like you like it something like want to go your future for your graduation. So when I was a kid I was dancing from ballet club and then this is could be one day dance teacher. And then I moved to here in United States like four years ago. And then this is could change my life. And then now with me the Miss Amazing pageant changed all my life. So I can like help the kids teach them how to dance work, how it's easy or hard for them. And then could be fun is like I'm like my dance teacher. I love dance. I love like everything like music and dance, type of dance. I love my passion. Teacher: When I got to teach our class some of the Brazilian dances that she used to do back in her home country. Anthony Godfrey: Oh wow. Super fun. Yeah. Do you think you can teach me a Brazilian dance? Linda: Yeah for sure. Some steps is like easy and like I have….. Anthony Godfrey: So you're saying it has to be easy for me to be able to do it. Is that what you mean? Linda: Yeah. Anthony Godfrey: Okay. I think that's fair. I think that's fair. Show me what we got. Linda: It's kind of like a Samba one. Do you know like Samba? Anthony Godfrey: That means nothing to me. I don't Samba. Linda: Salsa? Samba. Anthony Godfrey: Samba. Linda: So like one. Anthony Godfrey: One. And I do this so I take one step forward with the right and I do this with my arms. Anthony Godfrey: So like one back first. Anthony Godfrey: Kind of like I'm punching. Linda: Right. Anthony Godfrey: One kind of punch alternate. Linda: Back first and then to the left. Anthony Godfrey: And then left. Same thing. Okay. Linda: And then go back third. He's like, one. Anthony Godfrey: Oh turn my heel out on the right. Okay. Linda: And then its like one two three. Okay. Anthony Godfrey: That one two three was not as easy as one two three. Teacher: That was your ankle. Anthony Godfrey: So tell me the one two three again. Linda: So one. Anthony Godfrey: Step out. Step back. Two. Linda: Two. Three. Anthony Godfrey: Step forward again. Okay. Linda: Yeah. Anthony Godfrey: So that was easier when it's slow. Anthony Godfrey and Linda: One. Two. Three. Anthony Godfrey: All right. Linda: And then we're going to twist like your left. Anthony Godfrey: Twist out. Linda: And then you do like. Anthony Godfrey: Twist back. Linda: Like shaking. Anthony Godfrey: Shaking. All right. I'm shaking. I'm shaking. Linda: Twist your left again. Anthony Godfrey: Twist the left out. Linda: Together. Anthony Godfrey: Together. Oh all right. Linda: And then you do back. Anthony Godfrey: Okay. It's a lot of twisting and shaking. Linda: Shaking. Teacher” I'm just wondering what the harder dances are like. Anthony Godfrey: Yeah. If this is the easy one. I'm glad I'm not trying the hard one. Linda: So first, let's stay on this one. I like to do like one two three. One two three. Anthony Godfrey: I'm trying to do it with her for those listening. I'm a half step behind at least. Okay. Why don't you do it full speed the way you would do it. And I'll stand beside you and do a terrible job of trying to keep up. How's that? Okay. I'll give it my best. Here we go. Go ahead. Do what you would do. Linda: One. Two. One. Two. Anthony Godfrey: Okay. It's the moving and the twisting at the same time. Linda: One, two, three. Anthony Godfrey: Okay. So like...  Outstanding. Linda: One, two... Wait. I like it so much. Anthony Godfrey: Okay. That's okay. That's good. Thank you very much. That's more dancing than I've learned in a long time. Congratulations on being crowned Utah Miss Amazing Teen 2026. I hope you enjoy your reign. And I'm impressed with how much progress you've made in the four years you've been here and the dancing that you've learned your whole life. And just... I'm very impressed and very pleased to get to meet you and to see your skills and actions. So good luck tonight and good luck with everything in the future. Linda: Thank you. If you want to follow me on Instagram or Facebook, too, to follow me to see about more, to go in some of the life I'm doing and to do like something I wrong, sometimes my back, what is the back of the crown I'm doing? Or is like right now in school? My mom, she's helped me for doing this Miss Amazing. I'm so happy she helped me for this Miss Amazing to go on July for nationals. And then I can't wait to do, and everyone cheer on for me. Anthony Godfrey: Good luck at the next level. Good luck with the dance tonight and with everything you're doing, I'm sure you're going to be successful. And it's a real pleasure to meet you and to see your talents. Thanks for joining us on another episode of the Supercast. Remember, “Education is the most important thing you'll do today!” We'll see you out there. [MUSIC PLAYING]

It is a heartwarming partnership between senior citizens and elementary school students, a partnership where seniors from a local assisted living center are showing up and reading with kids in the library. On this episode of the Supercast, we take you to Oquirrh Elementary School. That's where we see first-hand how being book buddies is building connections and companionship between the students and seniors, and bridging a generation gap. But best of all, it is inspiring a love for literacy in young children who look forward to the monthly visits from their senior friends. Audio Transcription [MUSIC PLAYING] Teacher: One of my students came back in with a huge smile on her face. I asked her how Golden Hour was and she said that it was so much fun. She loves reading with the grandmas and grandpas. Oh, they get so excited. Diana: And then we had different kids this month and last month. And some of them said, “we have to go back. That was so fun.” They love it. [MUSIC PLAYING] Anthony Godfrey: Hello, and welcome to the Supercast. I'm your host, Superintendent Anthony Godfrey. It is a heartwarming partnership among senior citizens and elementary school students, a partnership where seniors from a local assisted living center are showing up and reading with kids in the school's media center. On this episode of the Supercast, we take you to Oquirrh Elementary School. That's where we see firsthand how being book buddies is building connections and companionship among students and seniors and bridging a generation gap. But best of all, it is inspiring a love of literacy in young children who look forward to the monthly visits from their senior friends. [MUSIC PLAYING] Anthony Godfrey: We are here at Oquirrh Elementary School during Golden Hour Reading, where Sun Ridge Assisted Living residents are working with students to improve their reading skills. Let's listen in. [INTERPOSING VOICES] You're going to read your book and show them how awesome you are. Here, tell you what. Wow. Hey, have you ever seen--have you ever been driving with your parents and have you ever seen this before? Well, I have. That's a long you. Called-- Good job. Good job. Anthony Godfrey I'm talking now with one of our visitors and one of the students here at Oquirrh Elementary. Tell me your name, what grade you're in. Cooper: Cooper and first grade. Anthony Godfrey: And Cooper, how's first grade going? Cooper: Good. Anthony Godfrey: And what did you guys read today? Cooper: Going Fishing. Anthony Godfrey: Oh, Going Fishing. So what did you like most about the book? Cooper: Like you have to get a special hook, like as a fish, but it's not actually a fish on it, but there's no splashing. Anthony Godfrey: And does this make you want to be a fisherman? Cooper: Yes. I really want to go fishing with my dad. Anthony Godfrey: So go home today and tell him, “Dad, I read about fishing and it's time we go fishing.” Cooper: OK. Anthony Godfrey: All right, nice to meet you. So how did it feel to be read to? First introduce yourself and how did you feel being read to today? Dale Koth: Felt great. Anthony Godfrey: Tell me your name. Dale Koth: I'm Dale Koth. Anthony Godfrey: And you're one of the early volunteers to come visit, but I understand there's something in your history that would make that not much of a surprise that you want to be at an elementary school. Dale Koth: I'm a retired teacher, elementary school teacher. Anthony Godfrey: And where did you teach? Dale Koth: I taught at Terra Linda for a while, and I also taught at Southland Elementary. Anthony Godfrey: How long did you teach? When did you start and when did you finish? Dale Koth: OK, I taught for about 29 years. I think it was in 1974. Anthony Godfrey: Wow. Over 50 years ago. Dale Koth: That's right. That's right. Yeah, in a little town called Antimony, Utah. Anthony Godfrey: OK. Dale Koth: I had nine kids. Anthony Godfrey: Nine kids in your class? Dale Koth: Five in the third, five in the second, five in the first. Anthony Godfrey: Wow. Dale Koth: No kindergarten because there were no kindergarten kids there. Anthony Godfrey: And from there you went to-- Dale Koth: I went to-- I taught every year then I went to Blanding. Anthony Godfrey: Wow. Dale Koth: And I taught Blanding Elementary. I taught three years. Then we came to the Jordan School District and I started in Southland Elementary. Taught there for about, I don't know, three years. May have been longer, but I forget. And then I went to Quail Hollow and I taught at Quail Hollow for a long time. Anthony Godfrey: Oh, wow. Dale Koth: Yeah. Then I finished up at Terra Linda and that's where I retired. Anthony Godfrey: So did you retire in the early 2000s? Dale Koth: No. Kind of in the late-- oh, yes, it's the late 1990s. Anthony Godfrey: Oh, OK. Dale Koth: You might say, yeah. Anthony Godfrey: Yeah. Wow. All right. Well, so you've been enjoying retirement. But is this an exciting addition to your retirement routine? Dale Koth: Yeah, I think it's great. You know, you have a good successful experience here for you and for the kids. And you know, you're doing something. Anthony Godfrey: Yeah. Dale Koth: And I really like it. Anthony Godfrey: Good. How many times have you been? Dale Koth: This is my second time. Anthony Godfrey: What did you love most about teaching? Dale Koth: Just watching kids progress, learn something. Anthony Godfrey: In elementary, you get to see a lot of that. Dale Koth: Oh, yes. There was a lot of it. Anthony Godfrey: What grades did you teach most? Dale Koth: Third grade. Anthony Godfrey: Third grade. That's a big one. Dale Koth: Which was my favorite grade. Anthony Godfrey: Third was the favorite. Dale Koth: That was the age when they start cursive writing. Anthony Godfrey: Oh, yeah. Dale Koth: I don't know if they still-- do they still do cursive writing? Anthony Godfrey: It's more-- not like they used to. Let me put it that way. Not like they used to. Dale Koth: If you had your way. Anthony Godfrey: Not that weird Q that looks like a 2. No, we don't do that stuff anymore. Dale Koth: OK. Yeah. Also, they learn their multiplication facts. Anthony Godfrey: Yeah. Dale Koth: And you could just get into reading, and like what somebody told me, the kids can be smart at that age without being a smart aleck. Anthony Godfrey: Yeah, that's right. Absolutely. Well, I really appreciate your coming and just getting to watch you with the students. It's really fun to see how much you get their attention right away. Dale Koth: Yeah. Anthony Godfrey: And they stay focused when they're reading with you. So thank you for doing that. Dale Koth: That's great. What's your name? Anthony Godfrey: I'm Dr. Godfrey. I'm Anthony Godfrey. I'm the superintendent for Jordan School District. Dale Koth: You're the superintendent? Anthony Godfrey: Yeah. Dale Koth: I've worked here a long time, but I don't think I've ever met the superintendent. Anthony Godfrey: Well, it's very nice to meet you. Dale Koth: I forget names a lot. Anthony Godfrey: Barry Newbold? Dale Koth: Barry Newbold. I knew Barry Newbold, yes. Anthony Godfrey: It's very nice meeting you. Dale Koth: Well, nice meeting you Anthony Godfrey: And thanks for doing this. We look forward to seeing you back next month. Volunteer: Well, great. I'll be back. I'll be back. Anthony Godfrey: We're talking now with Principal Jennifer Ludlow about the program here at Oquirrh Elementary. I know it's new. What do you think so far? Jennifer Ludlow: I love it. It's like my favorite thing and I just grin from ear to ear the hour before they come and about two hours after. Awesome. Anthony Godfrey: There's a great immediate connect with the kids and these volunteers. Jennifer Ludlow: Yes. Anthony Godfrey: Tell me about how the kids have reacted to this. Jennifer Ludlow: Oh, they get so excited. And then we had different kids this month than last month and some of them were like, “we wanted to go back. That was so fun.” They love it and they just love opportunities to read with kids or read with somebody else and get some practice. So far, it's been really positive. Anthony Godfrey: Having a new audience when you're reading out loud, so I'm going to try to impress. It really puts you on the spot, but it also puts you at your best. It helps you really be focused. Jennifer Ludlow: So yeah. And we know kids learn to read through repetition and practice and so what a great opportunity for them to practice with somebody with a lot of wisdom and experience. And we love it. It's so great. Anthony Godfrey: Add some novelty to the day and another human connection, another adult rooting for them. Jennifer Ludlow: Exactly. Someone else on their team. Anthony Godfrey: Well, it's another great thing happening at Oquirrh Elementary. Thank you very much for letting us be here today. Jennifer Ludlow: Thank you. It was a pleasure. Anthony Godfrey: We're now talking with a member of the PTA and the School Community Council. Introduce yourself and tell us how you got this idea. Alicia Abbott: My name is Alicia Abbott. I am on the Community Council at Oquirrh Elementary, also on the PTA board. So we were reviewing the stats of the school last year, and it hurt my heart to see how many kids are not reading and are not doing math. And it hurt my soul. Like literally, I couldn't handle it. And our school is amazing. I don't want to diss on our school. Our school is awesome and I love Principal Ludlow. She's amazing, and our teachers and the community here is awesome. Anthony Godfrey: And tell me, what's the impact that you have seen for the seniors and for the students doing this? I know it's only been a month. Alicia Abbott: Oh, I'm not sure I've seen an impact yet, but I feel an energy and a love of the seniors for the community here. And the impact on these kids is going to be life-changing. They are literally changing lives and the direction of the lives that these kids are stuck in, they are going to be helping them for generations, really. If you help a child, you help a generation. So I'm so excited about it. Anthony Godfrey: I think it's very meaningful when someone from the community spends time. They know their teacher has to. They know their parents have to. But when someone's choosing to volunteer and come in and be a part of their lives, I think that's a big boost to students, even beyond literacy. Alicia Abbott: Well, I have kids. I wouldn't be OK if my kids couldn't read either. So you know what? We got to put in. If we have parents working three or four jobs just to try to put food on the family table, they need help. Anthony Godfrey: Yeah, absolutely. Well, thank you for being a big part of that help and bringing this idea. I'm excited to see the impact that it has over the years. Alicia Abbott: Thank you. Anthony Godfrey: Stay with us when we come back. More with the seniors and students of Oquirrh Elementary School. [music] Male Voice: Never miss an episode of The Supercast by liking and subscribing on your favorite podcasting platform. Find transcripts for this episode and others at supercast.jordandistrict.org. Sandy Riesgraf: Hello, I'm Sandy Riesgraf, Director of Communications for Jordan School District and we want to invite you to connect with us. So many exciting things are happening in your child's school, your neighbor's school, in every school here every day. Don't miss out on following the fun or simply staying informed when there's important information we need to share. Join us at jordandistrict.org or follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram @ Jordan District. We can't wait to connect. [music] Anthony Godfrey: We're now talking with a first-grade teacher. Please introduce yourself. Teacher: Hi, I'm Anashele. I'm a first-grade teacher at Oquirrh Elementary. One of my students came back in with a huge smile on her face. I asked her how Golden Hour was and she said that it was so much fun. She loves reading with the grandmas and grandpas. She was reading a book about pets and she said that it was so much fun because books help her learn. They make her brain grow every day and she loves to read because she has so much fun doing it. Really seeing them learn to read is my favorite thing because they walk in the door at the beginning of first grade really not knowing how to read. And now I have students like the student going to Golden Hour and reading her own story about pets. So I love seeing that growth throughout the year. Anthony Godfrey: Thank you very much. It's great to be here talking with you. We're here talking with another one of our volunteers today. Collette Craig: Collette Craig. Anthony Godfrey: Collette. Now I understand Collette, that you used to be a teacher. Collette Craig: Yes. Anthony Godfrey: Tell me about your teaching career. Collette Craig: I was a cluster teacher. Anthony Godfrey: Where was that? Collette Craig: Clusters were east side and then west side. I taught at, I think, nine different elementaries. Anthony Godfrey: What district were you in? Collette Craig: Jordan. Anthony Godfrey: In Jordan District. What were some of the schools where you worked? Collette Craig: Let's see. Midvale. Anthony Godfrey: Yeah. Collette Craig: Sandy. Then they went west to Terra LInda, but not at the same time. Anthony Godfrey: Yeah. Collette Craig: And Monte Vista, Heartland. Anthony Godfrey: Wow. You really did cover a lot of area. Collette Craig: Oh, yeah. Anthony Godfrey: Yeah. Collette Craig: If you know culture history, it was all east side at first. Anthony Godfrey: Yeah. Collette Craig: And then they opened up west side. Anthony Godfrey: Right. What years were you teaching? When did you start and when did you finish? Collette Craig: 1985, I think. Anthony Godfrey: Is that when you started? Collette Craig: Uh-huh. Anthony Godfrey: And when did you finish? Coll: I finished in 20 years later. Anthony Godfrey: 20 years later? OK. 2005. OK. Very good. And 20 years later, you're back volunteering, reading with students. Collette Craig: Yeah. Anthony Godfrey: How has that been? Tell me about that experience. Collette Craig: This is my first time. It's been good. I didn't know what to expect, but it's been good. Anthony Godfrey: Good. Tell me about the students you've worked with so far today. Collette Craig: Oh, they're great. They're cute. Yeah, they're great. What else can I say? The pH sound is really hard for them to grasp. Anthony Godfrey: The pH sound. Hey, it doesn't make sense. Why does pH sound the way it does? No one will ever know. What did you like most about teaching? Collette Craig: I liked it when they got something. When they finally understood something. You had spent weeks, sometimes months on the same thing, and they finally got it. It's like, yay. Anthony Godfrey: It's rewarding. It's rewarding. Well, you're helping do that again, so thank you. Collette Craig: You're welcome. Anthony Godfrey: We're talking now with the activities director from Sunridge Assisted Living and Memory Care. Thank you for talking with us today. Introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about what's happening. Diana: My name is Diana. I'm working in the center for eight years and we have a purpose to have activities with purpose. So this activity is amazing for our residents because they find their friendship. They have a purpose in life, teaching kids. Also, that bring memories to them. We have some teachers participating in the activity, and that is amazing for them. They really enjoy it. The first time when we came, they came back telling the other residents, “that was so fun. We teach kids. That was amazing.” So we want to back. And today, when we back, other friends came with them. So that is amazing. They found a purpose coming here. Anthony Godfrey: Tell us more about the facility. Diana: OK. Our community has two areas. One is for memory care. The other one is for assisted living. We have seniors with some difficult to walk or to get medicine. So we assist them to get the most normal life like they knew it. So part of that and really important part of the life is to have activities. So we have activities every day from Monday to Sunday and we have our clubs. We have sewing clubs, cooking clubs. We have outings. We go one time a month to a different restaurant. Each week, we go to Walmart or to Smith's to do shopping. We have also assisted shopping. So we have volunteers to come with them and assist them to get whatever they want in the store. So that is part of the normal life like everyone knows. We have different things to make them feel like this, “I feel happy today.” And that is our purpose, to have them happy, to have them participating in every activity we have. And that is my satisfaction to see them when they are happy. And when I came with them last time, I saw their happiness in the faces. And it's just like a miracle to see them, how they share with the kids, and the kids accepting them. And it's like a miracle. Miracle happen. Anthony Godfrey: Yeah, wonderful. Well, thank you very much for making us a part of those activities and a part of the lives of these seniors. Diana: It's a pleasure. Thank you to let us participate in this program too. [MUSIC PLAYING] Anthony Godfrey: Thanks for joining us on another episode of the Supercast. Remember, “Education is the most important thing you will do today.” We'll see you out there. [MUSIC PLAYING]

He is known for his winning ways at the helm as head football coach at the University of Utah, leading the Utes to historic success over 12 exciting seasons.  We're talking about Ron McBride, or Coach Mac as many have come to know him over the years. On this episode of the Supercast, we have the honor of sitting down with the legend and hearing first-hand about his time coaching, recruiting, and giving young athletes opportunities they never thought possible. Find out how Coach Mac is continuing his passionate work in our schools today with the Ron McBride Foundation, making sure at-risk youth have every chance to succeed. Plus, hear how Coach Mac impacted the life of one of our very own, Valley High Principal Jacinto Peterson. Audio Transcription Coach McBride: The world is about adversity and how you handle adversity and you got all this social media where all these kids are very mean to each other. You've got to get beyond that so somebody doesn't get their self-image spoiled. Anthony Godfrey: Yeah, and the negativity sticks with you. [MUSIC] Anthony Godfrey: Hello and welcome to the Supercast. I'm your host, Superintendent Anthony Godfrey. He is known for his winning ways at the helm as head football coach at the University of Utah, leading the Utes to historic success over 12 exciting seasons. We're talking about Ron McBride or Coach Mac as many have come to know him over the years. On this episode of the Supercast, we have the honor of sitting down with the legend and hearing firsthand about his time coaching, recruiting, and giving young athletes opportunities they never thought possible. Find out how Coach Mac is continuing his passionate work in our schools today with the Ron McBride Foundation, making sure at-risk youth have every chance to succeed. Plus, hear how Coach Mac impacted the life of one of our very own, Valley High School Principal Jacinto Peterson. [MUSIC] Anthony Godfrey: We're talking today with Coach Ron McBride. Mac, thank you so much for being here today. Coach McBride: Absolutely, Superintendent. Hey, I'm glad to be here. Anthony Godfrey: It's a real thrill. I've been telling my friends I get to talk to you today. [LAUGHTER] Coach McBride: You got to tell that to my wife. Anthony Godfrey: We have felt your support in Jordan School District through your foundation, and I think it was high time that we just talked with you about the great things that you have going and all the support that you give to our kids in need. So we just wanted to talk with you about the foundation and where that came from. Coach McBride: Actually, Lavell Edwards and myself started it nine years ago. The thing was to help the underserved kids and to give them a chance to see a brighter side of life. Basically, from the time I was in high school, junior high, I was always very involved, particularly with my teammates that were underprivileged because I came from a lower middle East LA neighborhood. So I understood, and my parents were month to month trying to keep afloat. Anthony Godfrey: So through your own experience and your experience with players who were underprivileged, you've always had this focus on helping people. Coach McBride: Absolutely, yeah. So I've always been. So when I retired from Weber, then and Lavell and I were doing the radio show on Fridays. So we said, "Let's start this foundation." West Jordan Middle was one of our first schools. Anthony Godfrey: You've done a lot of work with them consistently over the years. Coach McBride: Oh ya, lots. First of all, the principals, the vice principals, the people that worked there were outstanding. The librarian was outstanding. Anthony Godfrey: She really is. Coach McBride: Oh, yeah. And she cares. I mean, I think we did a book club was the first thing we did over there, right? Anthony Godfrey: Yeah. Coach McBride: This was many years ago. She was so appreciative and loved the kids so much. She was so excited about what we were doing, you know. Then I loved the principal, you know, and she was awesome. Anthony Godfrey: When you're able to bring resources to a school, and you see that the school has these caring adults that are trying to do their best for kids, it's got to feel good that you know that those resources are going to the right place. Coach McBride: Well, West Jordan Middle always followed up with whatever, you know. I mean, you go over there and check with their .  . .  watch the after school program. The lady that ran it, Ivy Erickson, one of the best people in the world. Anthony Godfrey: Yeah, she's done like it. Coach McBride: But first of all, she the kids, she's all into the young people. Anthony Godfrey: Right. Coach McBride: She's all into the young people that have problems and she's a good listener. Anthony Godfrey: Yeah. Coach McBride: And so she's excited about what she does. Anthony Godfrey: Yeah. Coach McBride: So it's easy to go there and watch her in action. Anthony Godfrey: Well, I'm thrilled that you picked West Jordan Middle and they really are amazing people there. Coach McBride: Yeah. Anthony Godfrey: There's been some turnover since you started. Coach McBride: Well, yeah, Dixie was a principal and she's at a bigger job. Anthony Godfrey: That's right. Coach McBride: And I tell you what, she's, first of all, her dad, I think, was a principal at that school. Anthony Godfrey: Right. That's right. Coach McBride: And she has a real history in education. Anthony Godfrey: Yes. Coach McBride: She's a great lady. You know what I mean? The great thing about when she was at West Jordan, it was always open anytime. Anthony Godfrey: Yeah. Coach McBride: We would go by to check out what they were doing or talk to the kids or whatever, but it was always very open to us. I think it was, that was the first school that, when Jerry Sloan was sick, we kind of dedicated that school to Jerry back then to begin with. So we called it “Jerry's Kids” to begin with over there. Anthony Godfrey: Wow. Coach McBride: And then, of course, Jerry had problems and finally, his problems took his life. It was too bad. Anthony Godfrey: Yeah, it is. You were really instrumental in helping those after-school programs happen at West Jordan Middle School. Coach McBride: Oh, absolutely. Anthony Godfrey: That made a huge difference for those students. Coach McBride: Oh, yeah. I mean, they had-- And they had a lot of things going on. Besides sports, you know, they had Pokémon and they had chess club, it's ceramics club. So they had a lot of things. Anthony Godfrey: Yeah. It was all this pent-up need from the kids and interest from the adults in providing those opportunities. Yeah, yeah. And when you come in with those resources with caring adults and needy kids, it was just an-- it's an incredible combination. Coach McBride: And they-- Anthony Godfrey: And you've allowed us to do things we couldn't do on our own. Coach McBride: Oh, absolutely. And you know, they have a lot of-- since they've kind of redid West Jordan Middle, they have a whole bunch of access to things they didn't have before. Anthony Godfrey: Yeah. Coach McBride: The shop classes are really good. Anthony Godfrey: Yeah. Coach McBride: Because, you know, in today's economy, it's important that young people know how to do a trade. Anthony Godfrey: Right. Coach McBride: Because that's where all the money is right now. Anthony Godfrey: That's right. Coach McBride: Trade-- so more young people need to go into trades because they're paying a good wage, you're going to make a good living, and you're going to be working every day. Anthony Godfrey: AI doesn't fix things or remodel things or repair things, you know? Coach McBride: Yeah, but we have a huge need in that sector. Anthony Godfrey: This feels like an extension of what you were able to do as a football coach. Coach McBride: Yeah. Anthony Godfrey: You gave kids opportunities as a football coach. Talk to me about the relationship. Coach McBride: Well, I always-- you know, we always divided the locker room into three segments because of red, yellow, and green. So the red guys were about 10% of your football team and these are guys that were underappreciated, needed academic help, needed structure help, you know? Just needed to put them on a different line. So we would put our red guys with our green guys and therefore, then they would get them to thinking a different process. Anthony Godfrey: I see. Coach McBride: The idea is to take the red guys and get them to the yellow and get the yellow to the green. So you hopefully, by the time they graduate from college, that they were all into the green zone where they could take care of their own problems, take care of their own situations, handle adversity, do things that people have to do to be successful. Anthony Godfrey: There's a lot of work off the field to help them become everything they can be. Coach McBride: It's a lot of brainwashing. [LAUGHTER] Coach McBride: So, yeah, you just have to change the way people think. Anthony Godfrey: Right. Coach McBride: And if you put them around people that think different, then they slowly buy into it. What I find now with these red people, when I go to different places in Hawaii or in the South or anything, all these kids that play for me are academic people now. That's all they want to talk about is, "Oh, my kid's in college. He's doing this. He's doing this." And all of a sudden I says, "Well, I guess you got the message a long time ago." Anthony Godfrey: Yeah, it definitely worked. So, the message was, "There's more than football, and we need to prepare you for that." Coach McBride: Yeah, football is a vehicle. And if you don't do what I say, then I can take football away from you. So therefore, the kids, they want to play football, so if they want to play football, they have to get an education, they have to become the kind of citizens you want them to become. Anthony Godfrey: Let's figure that out, yeah. Now, you coached one of our principals. Coach McBride: Oh, yeah, Jacinto. Anthony Godfrey: Yeah. Coach McBride: His story is unreal because I can still remember going to that high school, and then he was living with his grandparents in a trailer out in the middle of nowhere. I said, "Well, how do I find the trailer?" "Well, go down this dirt road, turn right at where you see this dog tied up, and then turn left, and then you'll see the trailer, right." Anthony Godfrey: Wow. Coach McBride: They were beautiful people, you know. And Jacinto's had so much success here, and I'm so proud of him because he's always been a stand-up man. Anthony Godfrey: He's an incredible leader. Coach McBride: Yeah. Anthony Godfrey: He's a great educator and he's saving a lot of kids. Coach McBride: Yeah, well, he understands it all because he lived through it. Anthony Godfrey: Yeah, absolutely. When you first met Jacinto, what were your impressions? Coach McBride: Oh, I loved the kid. You know, he was easy to talk to, good communicator. I loved his grandparents, his grandma, you know. They're all just great and all they were interested is in getting this kid in a better spot for his life. Anthony Godfrey: Yeah. Coach McBride: So they all wanted the same thing. Anthony Godfrey: You accomplished that, and he's changed a lot of lives as a result. So thank you for that. You did me a big favor by sending Jacinto our way. Coach McBride: I'll tell you what, he did me a big favor by coming here. So he's the best, that kid. Anthony Godfrey: Yeah, absolutely. Well, tell me about the foundation now. Tell me about your operations and how people can help if they wanted to. Coach McBride: So we started out with nothing, basically. And then we're up to, I think we got 32 schools now we support, between Ogden, Salt Lake, Canyons District. We got schools in all those places and so we gave away a little over $400,000 last year. Anthony Godfrey: Amazing. Coach McBride: In different schools. And everybody on our foundation has a school that they're responsible for. And we got, when we have our meetings, everybody reports on their schools, what's going on. And then I visit as many as I can. Anthony Godfrey: You've been very visible. Very hands on with us. Coach McBride: Yeah, because what you want to do is you can't have a foundation and then the guy's name on it, you know, who's that guy? But I love the kids because the kids are so much fun. Anthony Godfrey: Nobody says, “who's that guy?” I've seen you in school so many times, interacting with the kids, interacting with the adults. Coach McBride: Oh yeah, we have a lot of laughs when we go and then getting to know different kids and watching them go through the system. Anthony Godfrey: Sure. Coach McBride: Yeah, it's all fun. Anthony Godfrey: Middle school kids in particular, you can't help but have a good laugh when you're around middle school kids. Coach McBride: Well, middle school kids are making some decisions that are important to their lives. Because that's kind of that age group where you kind of start thinking, you know, a little more than you really should know, or you think you know more, and you're starting to question things, and you call it a growth spurt. So you got to make, you got to try to get these kids to think a little different and think beyond where they think they can be. Anthony Godfrey: They're having a growth spurt in every aspect of their lives, really. It's a big time. Coach McBride: Well, it's a huge time. Anthony Godfrey: Yeah, you're right. Stay with us when we come back. More with Coach Mac and he talks with us about the recent coaching changes at the University of Utah. Male Voice: Never miss an episode of The Supercast by liking and subscribing on your favorite podcasting platform. You can find transcripts for this episode and others at supercast.jordandistrict.org. Female Voice: Are you looking for a job right now? Looking to work in a fun and supportive environment with great pay and a rewarding career? Jordan School District is hiring. We're currently filling full and part-time positions. You can work and make a difference in young lives and education, as a classroom assistant or a substitute teacher. Apply to work in one of our school cafeterias where our lunch staff serves up big smiles with great food every day. We're also looking to hire custodians and bus drivers. In Jordan School District, we like to say people come for the job and enjoy the adventure. Apply today at employment.jordandistrict.org. Anthony Godfrey: There have been a lot of changes in the football world lately. What do you think of all the coaching shifts? Coach McBride: I'm in the middle of most of it every day because every time somebody gets leaves or something they call and say, “I'm going.” Obviously, some of those guys that Kyle took with him to Michigan were guys that played for me. A lot of staff have played for me. With Lewis Powell leaving, Doug LSI leaving, Jim Harding leaving, Jason Beck leaving. Those guys all have a history with all those guys. That was tough. I talked to most of them before they left and tried to talk them into staying. Now Morgan has hired some really good people. So it looks like Jordan Gross is going to be the old line guy, which is a great take. I think they're bringing back Noki who worked for me up at Weber as one of the D-line guys. They just hired Bumpus back as a wide receiver guy, which is a good hire. Then Colton Swan, who was my defensive coordinator at Weber, he's now the defensive coordinator. Luther's back, which is good. Colton is good. Sharif is good. Jordan will do a nice job with the offense. Kevin McGivin is going to be the offensive coordinator. He worked for me at Weber and was up at Utah State. We lost some good ones, but we hired some good ones. Anthony Godfrey: It's good to hear your take on that and your connection to all those folks. Coach McBride: The interesting thing, a guy that I coached with at Wisconsin, Fred Jackson, worked for the Michigan football program for 27 years. They retained him. Today I get a picture with him and a couple of the Utah people. They sent it to me. I said, "I can't believe how old you are, Fred." [LAUGHTER] Anthony Godfrey: When I've talked with people who worked with you in the past, they talk about kindness and loyalty. That you are just extremely loyal. When someone needs help and they ask you, you're all in. You're there to help. That's been your career and it's been your passion in retirement with this foundation. You're a dedicated loyal friend who wants to help people have a better life. Coach McBride: The whole key to our civilization are young people. What we have to do is create positives for them that they can go beyond what their parents have done. The key to the whole thing is, I want to have a positive voice on education. Anthony Godfrey: Yes. Coach McBride: The more you invest, the more you have a voice. The voice has to be positive. It can't be negative. It has to be that if you have a problem, you've got to adjust to the problem and solve it. The world is about adversity and how you handle adversity. Are you equipped? Can you handle the problem? All these kids at that middle age are asking questions, and you've got all this social media. Kids are very mean to each other, and this social media. You've got to get beyond that so somebody doesn't get their self-image spoiled. Anthony Godfrey: The negativity sticks with you. Coach McBride: Absolutely. Anthony Godfrey: It has an outsized impact way beyond. I know that even if you hear a negative comment from someone you don't know, it sticks with you at that age in ways that are so damaging. Coach McBride: Oh yeah. I mean, when I say cut out the noise, but with all these cell phones, these kids get a lot of noise. Anthony Godfrey: Like you were saying, you're lifting them at such an important time, providing these resources to our middle school kids. Coach McBride: Absolutely. Hopefully, we will continue to grow. Anthony Godfrey: If people want to help, they just go to RonMcBrideFoundation.org and they can make a donation right there. Coach McBride: Absolutely. We don't spend a lot of money paying people so we only have two people that we pay. Anthony Godfrey: You're also helping with Joel P. Jensen and with Majestic Elementary. Majestic, our elementary arts academy, a very unique place. Coach McBride: Oh my, it's so much fun over there. Anthony Godfrey: Yeah, yeah. Coach McBride: How they've incorporated the music with the teaching, with the learning and very positive people. Anthony Godfrey: Oh, they are. A lot of great energy. Coach McBride: Yeah, extremely. Anthony Godfrey: You're a good match for that school. Coach McBride: Yeah, oh yeah. They're great. I like the process. It's an interesting way of education. It's an interesting way to keep the kids involved. And then your teachers over there are heavily involved in that formula. Anthony Godfrey: Oh yeah, no, they're all in. They're all trained. Coach McBride: Oh yeah. Anthony Godfrey: They approach education in a whole different way. Coach McBride: Exactly. Anthony Godfrey: And your support really makes some incredible experiences possible. So you bought the pianos for the piano lab, is that right? Coach McBride: Yeah. Anthony Godfrey: Well, I remember when we started down the academy pathway, and we wanted to make it a music school, and that was a big obstacle, is being able to get those keyboards in there. Coach McBride: Oh yeah. Well, it's all, you know, if you're going to have that kind of school, you've got to have good instruments and you've got to have a way to, you know, and you've got to make it first class. Anthony Godfrey: I received an email from someone at the state level who had attended their program right before the winter break and they were so impressed with how important this clearly was to the families of the students who were benefiting from the program when they all came there. It's just, it's a whole community impact. You've done a lot of great work with Joel P. Jensen as well, offering those after school . . . Coach McBride: Karen Moore, yeah. Anthony Godfrey: Karen Moore at... Coach McBride: Yeah, yeah. She's a good leader, very good leader. Anthony Godfrey: Yeah. Coach McBride: And she's great. Yeah. So yeah, you've hired some really good people in your district. Anthony Godfrey: Thank you. We really do have good people everywhere. Coach McBride: Very extremely positive role models for the kids. Anthony Godfrey: You have these strong relationships that stay because you create strong relationships to stay with. Coach McBride: Yeah, absolutely. So it doesn't stop because your eligibility is up. Anthony Godfrey: Right. Coach McBride: And you're basically in these kids' lives forever. My wife, she's on social media, I guess, with around 200 players. So every morning she's answering their questions, answering what their problems are. And then she'll come in and she'll say, "Hey, so and so's got a problem. You need to get ahold of them." So he's doing well. So we have one of the kids play for me at a heart attack two days ago. So she's been on the phone taking, "How is he? How's he doing?" And then I'm on the phone with his family. And yeah, so yeah, it's just... But that's where it's supposed to be. Anthony Godfrey: Doesn't surprise me a bit that you're still in touch with those 200 players. Coach McBride: Yeah, well, it's probably more than that. It's fun to watch them have kids and then see how they handle their kids. Anthony Godfrey: Sure, sure. Coach McBride: We've had a lot of... Kids have had a lot of success. Anthony Godfrey: That's amazing. What are some of the success stories you remember with your students that are most meaningful? Coach McBride: Well, you know, probably all starts with Joe Mosley back in high school. Overfeld High School was a minority school and Piedmont Hills was the first place that I coached. So they were busing kids from Overfeld to Piedmont, minority kids and Joe was a really good football player. So, he wasn't showing up. And he wouldn't get on a... They were busing these kids. He wouldn't get on the bus. Anthony Godfrey: Yah. Coach McBride: So then I said, "Okay, I'm going to pick you up every morning. Get you dressed. Take you to McDonald's and then we'll go to school." And he said, "You're not going to do that." I said, "Yes, I am." So I'd show up. I'd get him out of bed and make sure he got dressed. "Okay, we're on the way to McDonald's." And then I'd make sure he got home at night. I did that for maybe almost a year until I got him squared away. And then he became a leader in the school. And then he became in charge of all the gang units in San Jose. He just retired recently, so I was kind of the guest speaker at his retirement. This was 60 years ago. Anthony Godfrey: My goodness. Coach McBride: So everywhere there's a success there is a Joe Mosley story. Anthony Godfrey: Lots of stories like that. Coach McBride: And some of you failed. Anthony Godfrey: Sure. Coach McBride: I mean, so some people, you try to help them, try to put them right, and then they just keep falling back into a pattern. So sometimes you fail and I know the failures and I know why. Anthony Godfrey: A lot more successes, sounds like. Coach McBride: Well, yeah. I would say, yeah. I think we're on the positive side of— Anthony Godfrey: Yeah, for sure. Coach McBride: But there are, you know, everybody has problems. Anthony Godfrey: Yeah, it's true. Well, thank you, Mac, for supporting these three schools in our district and for what you do in the broader community throughout the state and just for the positive impact you've had in Utah for so many years. Thank you. Coach McBride: Well, it's a good agenda and it's important. So it looks like we're in this for the long run. Anthony Godfrey: I love it. Thank you. [MUSIC PLAYING] Anthony Godfrey: Thanks for joining us on another episode of the Supercast. Remember, “Education is the most important thing you'll do today!” We'll see you out there. [MUSIC PLAYING]

(no music) Playing Games LMBYTS #1498 Jason Newland 27th November 2025 by Jason Newland

(music) Playing Games LMBYTS #1498 Jason Newland 27th November 2025 by Jason Newland

(music) Playing Games | LMBYTS #1498 | Jason Newland | 27th November 2025 by Jason Newland

(no music) Playing Games | LMBYTS #1498 | Jason Newland | 27th November 2025 by Jason Newland

Love it or hate it, Christmas music has started playing on radio stations and in grocery stores. Beth McDonald hosts "Beth and Friends" on KEZ 99.9 FM. She's been playing Christmas music for 41 years. In the past, she would start after Thanksgiving. This year, she started music on November 5. This week on Valley 101, we explore why Arizonans are asking Beth McDonald to kick off Christmas music early. We also brought on Bill Goodykoontz to share his complicated views on the seasonal earworms. Submit your question⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ about Phoenix! Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠X⁠⁠⁠⁠,⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Guests: ⁠⁠⁠Beth McDonald, Bill Goodykoontz Host: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Madison Knutson Producer: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Madison Knutson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vasari Singers, one of the UK's pre-eminent choirs, have titled their new album The Music Never Ends, referencing Michel Legrand and his celebrated song How do you Keep the Music Playing? And by the end of the album's twenty-one tracks, you'll wish it could be so. Raymond Bisha dips into the programme's multi-faceted offerings, while didgeridoo players should be on immediate standby to make a contribution. Listen up, and listen on.

Recorded: June 18th 2025 | Welcome back to the Back Of The Bus pod, this week we have our first ever guest and one of the boys, Thomas Edwards. Thomas is friends with Jack and Garrett and played football for the University of Tennessee and is now an emerging country music singer. He tells some stories of his playing days including a hilarious story of him playing hungover against Kentucky. We then dive into his music career so far and the journey he has been on since starting. He gets into his love of making music and how he loves just making people feel good in anyway that he can. Thomas drops some absolute bars throughout this episode that hit deep and is one of the most charismatic people you will meet. Enjoy fellas.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

After a long (and much-needed?) hiatus since 2022, Craig and Kevin are officially back with V2 of the Schizophrenic Music Podcast — and they're picking up right where they left off: unscripted, unpredictable, and unapologetically obsessed with all things music.In this episode, the guys catch you up on what's been going on during the break — creatively, personally, and musically. From late-night jam sessions to the challenges of recording, they dig into the differences between playing live vs. recording in the studio, and what makes each one its own kind of high.They also unpack the weird world of cover bands vs. tribute bands — is one more legit than the other? Is there artistry in imitation? Where do we draw the line?Finally, they muse about the future of music festivals — post-pandemic evolution, indie takeovers, AI-generated acts(?), and what's missing from the current scene.Expect real talk, deep dives, a little bit of chaos, and a lot of passion for music in all its forms.

The father/son duo recently released the 12-track record, Father and Son , featuring some of their favorite songs from The Beatles to Simon & Garfunkel

The father/son duo recently released the 12-track record, Father and Son , featuring some of their favorite songs from The Beatles to Simon & Garfunkel

Thank you for all of your support. Please let us know what you think about our podcast and what topic you may want to hear from us. Leaders, Lead Well!In music, some of the most memorable performances aren't about the notes musicians play—they're about the ones they leave out. The spaces between the sounds create rhythm, swing, and connection. What if leadership worked the same way? Take Count Basie's band, for example. Basie was famous for his minimalist piano style—he played fewer notes, giving the rhythm section room to groove and the soloists space to shine. The result? Music that felt effortless and alive. Leaders, like musicians, often feel the pressure to “play every note”—to solve every problem, attend every meeting, or micromanage every decision. But just as music depends on collaboration, so does effective leadership. Leaving space allows team members to take ownership, contribute creatively, and create synergy.Rich and Maikel jam to the beat of less is more on this episode of Mainline Executive Coaching ACT.  Leaders, Lead Well!Thank you to all of our listeners in over 70 countries and 750 cities worldwide, we greatly appreciate your support! We truly hope that what we bring to our listeners will improve your ability as leaders.Mainline Executive Coaching ACT has been recognized by FeedSpot as one of the top Executive Coaching Podcast in the world based on thousands of podcasts on the web and ranked by traffic, social media, followers & freshness.https://blog.feedspot.com/executive_coaching_podcasts/Sign up for our newsletter:https://www.richbaronexecutivecoaching.com/contactDownload our document on the Hottest Item in Business Today.https://www.richbaronexecutivecoaching.com/resources2fbc974dRich Baron:rbaron@richbaronexecutivecoaching.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/rich-baron/https://www.richbaronexecutivecoaching.com/Maikel Bailey:mbailey@intelligentleadershipec.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/maikelbailey/https://maikelbailey.com/

Send us a textLee and Simon discuss what it is they are most proud of and the capacity to feel as if terrible events are gifts. Things covered: Not having a kitchen, Wolf ovens, removing fitted carpets from a place, Simon being met by a friend at St Pancras, Lee being proud of still being married to Bob, the challenges of a life, having had a difficult week (tummy anxiety), the feeling of underperforming at work, men being less able to communicate feelings (or not), texting a Jungian analysis, the feeling of a big week when it isn't really that big, how small things accumulate over time, Lee watching and seeing the photographs that Bob is taking while she is away, a period of difficulty as a gift, revisiting (briefly) that moment when Simon and Lee covered Simon's reaction to their first miscarriage (see episode whatever way back when), the capacity to view a difficult thing as a gift, the rhythm of loss, adapting to change in time, coming back to worm carnage, closed captions: unsettling music playing, discordant noise, John Williams and Jaws, being full sensory beasts.Get in touch with Lee and Simon at info@midlifing.net. ---The Midlifing logo is adapted from an original image by H.L.I.T: https://www.flickr.com/photos/29311691@N05/8571921679 (CC BY 2.0)

In this new episode, I have the pleasure of talking to Toku, vocalist and flugelhorn player from Japan. With his deep distinctive voice Toku takes us on a journey beyond musical genres, where artistry and improvisation only matter.The informations about Toku are on his website. You can also follow his Instagram page.Credits :- 10:37 - Toku – Love Is Calling You- 22:18 - Toku – I Think I Love You- 31:32 - Toku Ft. Aisha - Moonshine- 40:15 - Toku, Sarah Lancman, Noé Zagroun – How Do You Keep the Music Playing?- 50:33 - Toku – Be CarefulHébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

It's going to be a special Passover seder this year in Victoria, B.C. for The Klezbians, an all-woman musical group that performs Klezmer music. They're marking 10 years since the band formed to play professionally in 2014. And even before that, the band and their wider group of Jewish lesbian friends have been holding annual inclusive seders, by invitation only, at a private home. These seders started as an alternative to the women's unpleasant memories of their experiences as lesbians at their own traditional family seders, which were usually not welcoming spaces for them or their partners. Over the years, guests have created their own seder rituals, including making their own haggadah. The seder is usually accompanied by live klezmer performances of their favourite Passover songs. For a special Erev Passover edition of The CJN Daily, we're joined by two of The Klezbians to hear their heartwarming story: Debby Yaffe is a retired women's studies professor from the University of Victoria who plays guitar, and Susan Dempsey is a psychotherapist and counsellor who plays the accordion. What we talked about: Read more about the Klezbians on their official Facebook page Check out their music on YouTube Check out Bonjour Chai's “Third Annual Great Canadian Seder” Credits: The CJN Daily is written and hosted by Ellin Bessner (@ebessner on Twitter). Zachary Kauffman is the producer. Michael Fraiman is the executive producer. Our theme music is by Dov Beck-Levine. Our title sponsor is Metropia. We're a member of The CJN Podcast Network. To subscribe to this podcast, please watch this video. Donate to The CJN and receive a charitable tax receipt by clicking here. Hear why The CJN is important to me.

Morning Mixers shared their unique middle names. One Mixer stopped a long family tradition. Nikki's surgeon played "A Space Between" by the Dave Matthews Band during her colonoscopy, so Mixers called in with the music that was playing during their visits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Morning Mixers shared their unique middle names. One Mixer stopped a long family tradition. Nikki's surgeon played "A Space Between" by the Dave Matthews Band during her colonoscopy, so Mixers called in with the music that was playing during their visits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

To be fari sometimes I don't know what's going on in my house either

Hilario Durán, the Juno-winning and National Jazz Award-winning pianist and bandleader, is back with his first big band record in 17 years. Hilario joins Tom in the Q studio to talk about the new album, titled “Cry Me a River”. He also tells Tom about his musical journey from growing up in Havana to playing with some of the most influential figures in Cuban music, and what brought him to Canada in the late 1990s.

Episode 2364: Our random article of the day is How Do You Keep the Music Playing? (Johnny Mathis album).

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Introducing Deep Sleep Sounds - the ultimate solution for enhancing your relaxing moments. Immerse yourself in a world of tranquility with our carefully curated collection of soothing sounds. Whether you're studying, working, or simply seeking to unwind, Deep Sleep Sounds is your gateway to a heightened state of calm and serenity.For a better relaxation Deep Sleep Sounds Podcast offers a no ads program that helps you sleep during a full night without the ads: https://www.patreon.com/FullSoundsPodcastSubscribe to our email list for to get notifications every time a new episode comes out: https://full-sounds-podcast.ck.page/99b061d339 Subscribe to our Youtube Channel where we offer black screen sounds the perfect way to listen to our sounds without any distractions: https://www.youtube.com/@FullSoundsPodcastWant to listen to specific sounds please click here and select the sounds you want to listen to. We have a big variety of sounds: https://linktr.ee/fullsoundspodcastAmazon AffiliateThe perfect way to start your day is by exercising and meditating for that we research the best products that will help you archive exercising, meditation and start your day on a positive note:Links:Sleep Headphones Wirelesshttps://amzn.to/439rjvwAir Purifier for Homehttps://amzn.to/3D0pkicDiffuser & Essential Oil Sethttps://amzn.to/3rcHISrCopyright & FAQAll sounds from Deep Sleep Sounds Podcast are copyrighted and not permitted to be reused for commercial purposes.Study, Study Sounds, study time, study nature sounds, study meditation, fall, fall sleep, fall Deep Sleep Sounds, fall relaxing music, fall asleep fast, focus, focus sounds, focus meditation, focus relax, focus music for work, focus time, focus study, anxiety, anxiety relief, anxiety sounds, anxiety meditation, anxiety Deep Sleep Sounds, mental, mental sounds, mental meditation, mental health, mental Deep Sleep Sounds, sleep, Deep Sleep Sounds, sleep time, sleep massage, sleep rain, deep, Deep Sleep Sounds, deep sounds, deep meditation, deep relax, rest, rest time, rest sleep, rest sounds, rest music, stress, stress sounds, stress relax, stress meditation, stress peace, piano, piano sounds, piano relaxing music, piano to relax, piano songs, piano meditationAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

On today's 1-18-22 Wednesday show: Move over "quiet quitting" there is a new job trend taking over, there's a new website that will tell you if you are getting in to Heaven, Selena is having second thoughts about her bachelorette party destination after her man decides where he is going for his bachelor party, a Lyft driver stabbed an annoying rider in Daly City, Netflix is looking for a flight attendant for their private jet, ticket prices are skyrocketing for the Niner game this Sunday, and a bunch of luxury cars were ruined in San Francisco flooding. Plus tons more!

In this episode I have fun conversation with singer, song writer and writer of young adult books. We has such a fun conversation in which she shares about her music career and her new album "Dear Dairy." She shares some very emotional feelings in this album. I highly recommend checking it out. Also in this podcast episode we have music by  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jody-shuffield/message

As a marriage and family therapist in private practice for more than 4 decades, Sally Strosahl (LCPC) has heard countless stories from couples about distresses in their relationship as they move into retirement and get older. She felt called to write Loving Your Marriage in Retirement: Keep the Music Playing (2018). Sally offers an authentic and reassuring voice for couples who face a myriad of changes during this critical phase in their long-term relationship.  Connect with Sallysally@sallystrosahl.comStrosahl, S. (2018). Loving Your Marriage in Retirement: Keep the Music Playing. In the Round Publishing.

"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teenage Mutant Nija Turtles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Heroes in a half-shell turtle power". Yep, that's about it.  You watched the show, read the comics, saw the movies, and bought the merch.  Now it's time to re-live that and play this new beat 'em up game by Tribute Games.  Play single player or up to 6 friends.  Play as your favorite turtle or play as Splinter or April.Get ready to kick some butt!!Support the show

Welcome to Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast #693! Today's guest is harpsichordist Alina Rotaru. Alina studied piano and choral conducting at the music academy in her hometown of Bucharest. After moving to Germany, she studied harpsichord with Siegbert Rampe and Wolfgang Kostujak at the Folkwang University of the Arts Essen, with Bob van Asperen at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, and with Carsten Lohff and Detlef Bratschke at the University of the Arts Bremen. She is an active soloist and ensemble player, and also in charge of various orchestral, opera, and sacred music projects of the German Early and Late Baroque as an artistic director. As a soloist, she has performed across most of Europe, as well as in Japan, South America and USA. She teaches at the University of the Arts in Bremen. Her solo recordings of harpsichord works by JP Sweelinck, JJ Froberger, and English virginalists have earned excellent reviews in the music press and among their peers. Together with viol player Darius Stabinskas, Alina is the co-founder of the ensemble MORGAINE, which focuses on the music of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. In this conversation, we talk about her love for early music, playing harpsichord and Sigismundus Lauxmin International Harpsichord Contest which she organised the 2nd time this year. Relevant links: https://alinarotarumusic.wordpress.com http://www.bmfestival.lt http://www.bmfestival.lt/bmf2022/en/contest.html​ http://fontesmusicae.pl/notes-editions-c-series/​ http://fontesmusicae.pl/szelest-en/​

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelsey-tempel/ (Kelsey Tempel) is a Senior Product Manager at https://www.sonos.com/en-us/home (Sonos), a wireless home sound system that fills your home with brilliant sound, room by room. Kelsey comes on the show to dive into all things product development like how to stay focused on your customer through the development process and how to find innovation even with an established product. She discusses what makes Sonos so unique and how they've adapted to significant changes like the prevalence of the cloud and covid. She highlights the importance of automation and rapid iteration in product update cycles and shares what skills she thinks make the best product developers successful. 1:09 - How Kelsey got into product development 6:40 - What makes Sonos different and innovative 11:50 - Best ways to identify customer pain points and evolve a product 12:55 - Impact of Covid at Sonos 15:20 - Role of automation and rapid iteration in product development 18:44 - How to keep innovation going as a product leader  There's A Device For That is hosted by https://www.linkedin.com/in/sjvreddy/ (Sudhir Reddy), SVP of Engineering, of Esper. For more about Esper, visit us. https://blog.esper.io/ (Esper Blog) https://www.esper.io/ (Official Esper site) https://www.esper.io/book-a-demo (Book an Esper Demo)

"Montana (Main Theme)" by Blanck Mass from the soundtrack to Ted K; "Fields of Remembrance" by Plankton Wat from Hidden Path; "I Never Lose, Never Really" by Belong from October Language; "Major Beef" by The Party Dozen from The Real Work; The title track from Beat by Bowery Electric; "Le Palace" by Arp from New Pleasures; "Interstate" by Oog Bogo from Plastic; "A Year Ago" by Carmen Villain from CV x Actress; "A Breath of Fresh Air" by Scout Island from Laurentian Voyage; "Mindflight" by Flying Lotus from the soundtrack to Yasuke; "And Then I Watch It Fall Apart" by Madeleine Cocolas from Spectral; "Lineal" by J. Zunz from Del Aire.

Double T Mornings is the morning show on 96.7 The Eagle in Rockford, Illinois. Not only does Double T play Rockford's favorite Classic Rock each day, he's also joined by many fascinating guests including music legends, comedians, pro athletes, and his own stable of experts on random subjects. Plus, it's a local show, so he's all in for Rockford.

HBK Boom talks getting into music , playing college basketball & more

Hey Kings and Queens, this is a message for my single parents, y'all be encouraged!!! !! **I DO NOT OWNT THE RIGHTS TO THE MUSIC PLAYING!!*** Music Playing in background: Soaking In His Presence by William Augusto. Source: Youtube music.

2022 is music mania! There is so much music playing this year. That winter frost is finally thawed and with it comes a year of music, concerts, and festivals. In this episode, I'm talking about all the live music that I would love to check out this year. Get a full transcript of the show here. What live music are you looking forward to? This episode is sponsored by Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/eat-sleep-breathe-music/message

Markus B Music stops by to chat with Uncle Vinny. Markus is the definition of "Versatile" as he shares his experiences as a drummer, producer, rapper, engineer, and more. We also discuss his upbringing in Parkdale, his interest in the Music Business, being a current Paralegal Student, "Toronto Artist Collective" and much more. Follow Markus @MarkusBMusic to keep up with new projects and performances! Check the following links to keep up with new Versatile Vigilante content: Website: https://versatilevigilante.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/VersatileVigilante/ Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/versatilevigilante Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/podcast/6rbWSYZP9asHUv431qHZfK/overview Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/versatile-vigilante/id1384221180?mt=2 SmartURL: https://smarturl.it/versatilevigilante

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In the second of this two-part ASCO Education Podcast episode, Drs. Stephen Berns (University of Vermont), Tyler Johnson (Stanford Medicine), and Katie Stowers (Oregon Health & Science University) continue their discussion about what it takes to deliver serious news to people with cancer effectively and compassionately. If you liked this episode, please subscribe. Learn more at https://education.asco.org, or email us at education@asco.org.   TRANSCRIPT [MUSIC PLAYING]   STEVE BURNS: Hello, and welcome to the second part of ASCO's Education Podcast focused on clinician-patient communication in the context of delivering serious news to patients and families. My name is Steve Burns. I'm an internist, hospice, and palliative care physician and associate professor of medicine at the University of Vermont College of Medicine. Once again, I'm joined by Katie Stowers, a hospice and palliative care physician and assistant professor of medicine at the Oregon Health Science University, and Tyler Johnson, a medical oncologist and clinical assistant professor of medicine at Stanford University. In our previous episode, we spoke about what constitutes serious news, the best modalities for delivering serious news particularly in the wake of COVID, who might be the best person to deliver it, and the importance of the care team as a whole. We left off on the question, how do we prepare for delivering serious news? Let's continue the conversation. [MUSIC PLAYING]   TYLER JOHNSON: Katie was talking about how we need to be realistic about the way that a conversation is going to impact us in addition to the way that it's going to impact the patient. And one thing that I have realized is that a headline, for those who maybe haven't had evals of training, is just a concise summary statement of sort of the big picture of what's going on, just like buying a newspaper article. And what I have recognized is that oftentimes, I have this almost visceral reaction against giving a headline. And if I drill down just a little bit, what I find is I don't want to give the headline because then I'm really going to have to say things the way that they are, right? If I give a five minute disquisition on creatinine and edema and chemotherapy, immunotherapy, therapeutic options and whatever, right? Then, I can just like talk a cloud around things and never actually say what it is that I'm trying to say, which then gives me the advantage of feeling like I said it, but actually sort of knowing that I never actually said it, right? And so I think the thing that the headline does is it forces me to say the thing. And then once the thing is out in the open, then we can talk about, if necessary and appropriate, some of the other nuances and whatever. But all of that is to say that often, the greatest barrier to doing that is an unwillingness to be real with myself about the information that I'm really trying to convey. KATIE STOWERS: I think this is another really great opportunity where when partners go in together, it's easier to get into the moment if you get the opportunity. Someone with a little bit of accountability, but also somebody to help you. Maybe you're able to get out the facts and they're able to tie-in the meaning. Or you end up going bigger than your headline and they're able to say, I think what you were trying to say was dah-dah-dah-dah-dah, and help really get back to that core. STEVE BURNS: It does say that we all, before we share serious news, making sure whoever you're going in with, you're on the same page. And having a pre-meeting is so important. And what I often do with my pre-meetings is I come up with the headline as the group, right? So we're all clear about what is that headline so that when we go in, we can, in some ways, also hold each other accountable for that headline. KATIE STOWERS: I think also, a little bit of who's going to say it too. Like, is that something that you feel comfortable saying, or would it be easier for somebody else to say? Are there parts of it, and then parts of it that I can do, I think, can be really helpful. TYLER JOHNSON: Yeah. It's funny, because sometimes, even though I'm pretty tuned into these things and I try really hard to do them well, I still find that there are times as a medical oncologist when the palliative care doctor who is unfailingly ever so nice and gracious about it, ends up being like the real human translator for my medical leads. So I, like, say some word cloud. And then the palliative care doctor, like Katie just said, is like, if I can say that what Dr. Johnson was trying to say right there is something in normal human English speak. And then, as soon as they do that, I'm like, oh. But that can actually be really helpful. And again, I think it's obviously not meant to slight me. It's not meant as an affront, right? It's just sometimes, it's just kind of hard to quite get there, right, and to quite say the thing. And sometimes, having someone to help. Like, you get 80% of the way there, and then having somebody else get the other 20% is really, really meaningful. And it also, in a strange way, kind of allows us to share the emotional burden a little bit, right? So that it doesn't feel like, oh my gosh, this is just me saying this thing. There's something about having other members of the team there to kind of hold your arms up as you're doing that that's really meaningful. KATIE STOWERS: I worry that part of this conversation is saying like, oh. Some people are really good at this. Some people aren't. I don't think that this is a palliative care physician's good the whole time. I think this is a normal human experience. This just happened to me. This week in clinic where my patient was like, you just told me like a five minute story of things I already know. And I still don't know any more information. And I was like, oh, that wasn't really clear at all, was it? So I mean, I think it's when our nerves pop up. When we are uncertain or unclear about what it is that we want to say or just really nervous about doing it, like, I think this is our normal human default to go back to beating around the bush. But it definitely, as Steve mentioned, is a skill that we can learn and continue to practice. And it's also really helpful to have somebody there who can hold your feet to the fire and help you in the moment. STEVE BURNS: Katie, I'm so glad you mentioned that. I just think about even for us as palliative care physicians, who do serious illness conversations all the time, catching ourselves doing some things because we are being affected by the conversation and our well-being. I remember a couple of weeks ago, how hard it was for me to say dying and death. And I know. I've been teaching my learners say the D word. It's OK. It's direct. It's straightforward. And then all of a sudden, I was in the middle of the conversation and I noticed I was struggling saying death. And so again, just to say we are human, that these conversations affect us. And having team support is so helpful in the moment. Because the chaplain who I was with said, what we're saying is we're worried that she's dying. And I was like, oh thank god. She said it. TYLER JOHNSON: And the other thing too, right, is that I think it's helpful in a sense to recognize that the difficulty with giving a headline or with saying death or dying or whatever is an impulse borne of human compassion. I mean, it's not because we're bad people. It's because we have good hearts and because short of maybe clergy members, there's really nobody else in the way that human ecosystems are set up that does this, right? It's just a hard thing to do. And recognizing that it's hard and recognizing that we ourselves are having a hard time with it, is not some failing of doctoring. I would say that actually, this is one of those weird instances where having that consistent struggle, that should be a tension that should define part of how we doctor. Because if the tension goes away, that's actually more worrisome than if the tension continues to be there, though we have to find productive ways to engage with it. STEVE BURNS: Yeah. We did a study in 2016, the Vermont Hospice Study, and similar to actually, what Cambia Health Foundation found, why people don't engage in serious illness conversations. And one of the biggest reasons was taking away hope or hurting people's feelings and in causing emotional distress. We also know with the literature that most patients, up to like 90%, 95%, want to know the truth because it helps them better make decisions. And I think we can deliver prognosis in a compassionate way. And I think practicing that in the kind and caring way that's person-centered, asking them, what do you know? Is it all right if we talk about this right now? Delivering in a headline and responding to emotion can help make that a more compassionate conversation. Although it still doesn't take away the human feeling that I'm worried I'm going to hurt someone in this conversation. TYLER JOHNSON: Almost always in my experience, patients who have metastatic disease, or for some other reason, disease that is known from the get-go to be incurable, in one of our first discussions, they will ask some version of the question of how long do I have, or what are things going to look like going down the road? There's good evidence to demonstrate, and it has also been my personal experience, that we're really bad at answering that question at the time of diagnosis, right? Because we don't know anything about the biology of the tumor, the response of chemotherapy, what the molecular markers are. There's a whole host of things that just make it so we almost always cannot answer the question accurately even if we try. And so what I will usually do is I will tell patients, I'll say, when they ask some version of that question, I'll say, look. I need you to know that, first of all, I can't answer that question right now. I'm not obfuscating. It's just, I would be lying if I gave you an answer because we just don't know. But I want to let you know that what is true is that I can usually tell when things are starting to go in the wrong direction. And unless you ask me specifically to do otherwise, I promise you, the patient, that as soon as I recognize that things are heading in a direction that I'm concerned about, I will tell you that in so many words so that you understand what I'm talking about. And then we will have a discussion about where to go from there. And then, when we get to that point, whether it's six weeks later or six months later, or sometimes six years later, I will say-- because I do this with all my patients-- I'll say, do you remember when I made you that promise way back when or a few months ago, whatever it is? And then I'll say, I hope that I'm wrong here. But I'm concerned that we may now be in that place. And I want to tell you why, and then I want to talk about where to go from there. Because that then situates this difficult discussion in the context of this relationship of trust that we've been building over however long I've known the patient. And I have found that that provides a trusting context within which to have the more difficult conversation that has been really helpful. STEVE BURNS: Noticing the time, I'm curious, how does the task of delivering bad news affect your own well-being? TYLER JOHNSON: Just to remind people, we said this before, but I just think it's important to recognize that this being a heavy thing is normal. And recognizing that is normal and that it really is-- I mean, there's some degree to which you can do this well and that will lighten the burden to some degree. But you have to make sure that you're filling your own reservoir, right? You can't pour empathy out of an empty reservoir. And so I think you have to make sure that you're filling that in whatever the ways are that you do. KATIE STOWERS: I just think I was thinking about that too, Steve. One other thing that I wanted to build off of, this fear and this worry that we bring to these conversations, that I'm going to send them into a tailspin of depression. Or I'm going to take away all of their hope. I think there is the other part of this that I get to see as a palliative care physician, which is the high degrees of distress that often come from not knowing this information, that's really helpful in preparing and planning for the future and almost this sense of relief. Even when it's unfavorable, even when it's not what they wanted to hear, there's a relief in knowing and being able to do something with it. So that limbo and uncertainty. the idea that something terrible is out there or they can't prepare for it can be really distressing. And so to some degree, we're helping to heal by being able to move into some planning. STEVE BURNS: Yeah, I totally agree that it's such an important thing to minimize the stress of uncertainty. And the other piece that I think about is these are really sacred moments where we can really connect with our patients, share the news, find out how they're doing with it, and then find out what really matters in their lives. I think that really helps be my north star when it comes to continuing the care that I'll provide for them in their families. TYLER JOHNSON: Yeah. You know, there's a really harrowing, in some ways, but beautiful moment. And many of you will probably have read the book Just Mercy, which is written by this lawyer who's fighting for justice, particularly racial justice, for people who have been unfairly treated by the justice system in the deep South. And there's this moment towards the end of the book where a person who he had been fighting for who was on death row has just finally been executed. And he goes home and sort of just collapses crying. And then he writes really beautifully about how this moment of sort of shared vulnerability, where he kind of recognized that the reason that this was so hard was because even though he was vulnerable and broken in different ways than the person who had just been executed, it was still sort of a shared sense of vulnerability. It was what made his work hard, but also what made his work beautiful. And I think that in a similar fashion, when we have these really difficult discussions, I think that while there is a real moral weight and difficulty to it, there is also just as you said, they also end up being some of the most meaningful, memorable, and beautiful moments. STEVE BURNS: As a clinician, what have you learned over the years regarding communication with patients that may help others navigate scenarios where they can deliver serious news? I was just on service with a trainee. The team was delivering serious news. It was serious news around lung cancer. And the team's like, this patient's just not getting it. And we tried to explain it over and over again. And they're not getting it. And then my trainee went in and attempted and said, yes. Here's your diagnosis. We're concerned it's incurable. And you likely will die in the next year or so. And the patient said, no. I'll be fine. So we hypothesized before going in the room with me, like, what it would be. And what it came out is maybe it's not they're not understanding it. Maybe it's emotion. So we went back in. And sure enough, my trainee did wonderful and responded to emotion and said. It must be really hard hearing this news. And the patient immediately got sad and said, I'm really scared. And we unpacked that a little bit. And when we left the room, he said to me, yeah. That was emotion. He totally gets it. He's just upset. And so I just want to reiterate the idea, sometimes, it's not that they're not understanding it. It's that it's a lot to process. And there's a lot of feelings behind it. KATIE STOWERS: Building on that, one of the things that I see happen a lot around emotion is the health system is not set for people to process and to come to terms with these hugely life things and life-altering things. There's not time for people to process what this means for their life to term and process that emotion. And we're constantly pushing. And sometimes it almost could feel like badgering, really trying to get a decision to come where, with some degree of autonomy and some degree of time, allowing them to really process. People, a lot of times, get to where they need to go. But it's a process of really being able to deal with. STEVE BURNS: Yeah. TYLER JOHNSON: Yeah, the only thing that I will add is that these conversations, when they need to happen, work best when I have been mindful of laying the groundwork for the conversation over the entire arc of the illness. Rather than thinking of, oh, this is the thing that I do right when someone is getting close to dying. Because if you've never laid the groundwork and then you try to have the discussion, then when the person is really, really sick and in the hospital or whatever, of course, there's still a better and a worse way to do that. But even the best conversation if it's that isolated incident, in my experience, is nowhere near as good as if we have been transparent and building trust and building a sort of a shared vocabulary with the patient over the course of the illness. So that then, when they get to having to have quote, "the discussion" unquote, it becomes just one part of this longer chain rather than an isolated happening. And that really gets to what I was saying earlier about the promise that I make my patients when they first ask that sort of big picture question. That even though I'm not in a good place to talk about it right then, that I promise them that when it comes time, I will talk with them about that with candor. That makes an enormous amount of difference. I know I had a trainee who was with me one time who was a continuity fellow with me and had heard me make that promise to a number of patients and the first time he was with that same patient when it came time to have that discussion. And I said, well, you remember that promise that I made the first time I met you? And he could, for the first time, see all of the dots connect over the arc of the illness. It was like, whoa. Like, there's just really this power that comes. But you have to have been building it piece by piece over time. STEVE BURNS: I think both of you are highlighting for me two reminders that I want to keep in mind every day when I'm delivering serious news. One is sort of having an agenda but being flexible with my agenda. And I remember during my training, one of my mentors said, keep your agenda out the door. Don't force your agenda on the patient, as Katie mentioned. And yet, have a plan and still go in with that plan. The other piece that Tyler, you're reminding me of, is the importance of the arc of the conversation and how continuity. Because we build off of conversations from visit to visit. And yet, sometimes, someone else is taking over for us or they end up in a hospital or they end up in a nursing home. And it reminds me how important documentation is to convey what happened in that encounter. What was said, what was the headline that was shared, how did the patient respond, and then what was the plan. And far too often, we usually just write the results of the conversation. TYLER JOHNSON: Yeah. One last thing that I want to put a specific plug in that I have found to be enormously important, I think all of us would agree that amidst all the conversations that we might have as part of taking care of a patient, this is the one where shared decision-making matters the most. And yet, if you ask most people, even experienced doctors, how do you engage in shared decision-making around this kind of question? That's really tricky, right? Because I think what often ends up happening is that we either default to being very prescriptive where we go in and say, well, you should do this or shouldn't do this. Or we default to being waiters with the menu. Like, well. OK, so would you like some intubation on the side of CPR? And so, I think that both of those models are equally problematic and that the tool, the specific tool that has helped me really learn about how to do shared decision-making and even provides the specific words, is what's called the Serious Illness Conversation Guide from the Ariadne group at Harvard, which is the group founded by Atul Gawande and his colleagues. And I think that that gives a very brief script which, I mean, you can literally almost just read. You can get a little card that you can carry in your pocket or whatever. And it gives-- and the entire conversation in most cases, takes maybe 10 or 12 minutes. But it gives you the point-by-point things to say and really allows you to meaningfully engage in shared decision-making so that you spend the first half of the conversation listening to the patient's priorities and values, and then the last maybe third of the conversation, using that to make meaningful recommendations. And so again, it's called the Serious Illness Conversation Guide. And I would really recommend to listeners that they look it up. STEVE BURNS: That's a really great segue to what training and resources are there for clinicians and oncology trainees to improve their communication skills. The three resources that I can think about are Vital Talk, the Serious Illness Conversation Program out of Harvard and Ariadne Labs, and then they have a rich program which is from the American Academy of Communication of Health Care. All three are different ways of approaching communication skills training. I always think about the Serious Illness Conversation Programs about raising the floor to make sure that we hit the basics. And then Vital Talk is if you want to flex your muscles or flex your skills when it comes to how do I respond to really intense emotion, or if someone's avoiding the conversation, what do I do? They train with raising the ceiling or their goals to raise the ceiling. And Vital Talk actually came out of oncology conversations first with OncoTalk almost 20 years ago. And really thinking about not didactic-based, but practice and skills-based training. And I certainly have found it rewarding and life-changing for me, where I could actually label the things that I do every day, give myself some feedback, and then teach my trainees. TYLER JOHNSON: And I will just add, as a medical oncologist who has both taken the Vital Talk course and now is trained and teaching Vital Talk courses, that this is not just for palliative care doctors. And I think that it is particularly-- I mean, you may not have the interest or passion to want to become a Vital Talk trainer, which is understandable if you're a medical oncologist, either a busy practice or a heavy research portfolio. But it's just to say that they offer 1 and 2 and various iterations of courses, depending on how intensely you want to study these things. But it's just to say that the skills that they teach are concrete. This is not some sort of head in the clouds theoretical exercise. I mean, they're taught very concrete skills that you can wake up the next morning and employ you in your practice. And that I think to a point that is often counterintuitive to us, I think that we are almost afraid, as oncologists, to know about this because we think, oh my gosh. I didn't have time to engage in these long discussions. There's no way. But my experience has actually been what this does at the end, is it actually makes you more efficient. I know that seems counterintuitive, but we spend so much time sort of beating around the bush around this stuff that we actually end up making ourselves take longer. And having really concrete skills for how to have these discussions can actually make your practice more efficient for things that otherwise can really eat up a lot of time. KATIE STOWERS: I do a lot of teaching in Vital Talk incentives. It sounds like both of you do as well. But the piece of feedback that I hear from trainees that come take courses-- and I do a lot with oncologists and oncology fellows as well-- is oh, these are the things that I've seen in conversations at work that I never had a name for. Like, you're putting a name on something that I've seen. And maybe I've done a couple of times, but I didn't know that I was doing it this way. And especially for my colleagues who are practicing providers who teach others, they really love having a name and a framework for being able to teach these skills to others. It's not some magic fairy dust that you either have or you don't. It's actually, here's a skill that I can pass on to you and you can practice. And I can watch for, and we can have some feedback about. And I have seen that being a really enjoyable part of doing this framework. We have that, right, for almost every other part of medicine. But because communication is something that's so innate and personal, that hasn't always been the case around communication. And so I really love that about Vital Talk, that they've taken these pieces and put names on them. Because this is how you give communication clearly, information clearly, is the headline. This is how you show someone that you care about them. These are empathic statements. And that's something that we can use as a third language when we're going into team meetings together or when we're teaching a trainee. STEVE BURNS: It's one of the most important skills that we do every day, and probably the most important procedure that we do on a regular basis in all of our fields. TYLER JOHNSON: And I think you can tell from the way that the three of us have discussed delivering a headline during this podcast, that this is not like a thing that we learned seven years ago and then just sort of left in a drawer somewhere, right? Like, this is something that we're actively thinking about as we actually take care of patients every day, which is to say that it really is very applicable. STEVE BURNS: I feel like that's the time for today. This has been a really great conversation. Thanks so much for both of your insights and participation in this episode of the ASCO Educational Podcast. KATIE STOWERS: Thanks for inviting us. It's been great to be here. TYLER JOHNSON: Thanks so much. It's been a pleasure. [MUSIC PLAYING]   SPEAKER 1: Thank you for listening to the ASCO Education Podcast. To stay up to date with the latest episodes, please click Subscribe. Let us know what you think by leaving a review. For more information, visit the comprehensive education center at Education.ASCO.org. SPEAKER 2: The purpose of this podcast is to educate and to inform. This is not a substitute for professional medical care and is not intended for use in the diagnosis or treatment of individual conditions. 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My guest today is Dr Hane Aung Co-Founder of GroovSense - a leading global UK MusicTech company on a mission to automate the social music playing experiencevia their AI Music Selection App. In this episode, Dr Hane and I discuss the ins and outs of automating the social music playing experience. Using artificial emotionally intelligent technologiesto create the perfect playlist.Podcast or vlog: The Power of Audio + Science + AI with Jasmine Moradi (https://www.jasminemoradi.com, Spotify, Apple Music & Google Play)Soundbites:#1 Dr Hane Aung's career journey from breakdancer, to Behavioural Computer Scientist to the Co-Founding GrooveSense. #2 How GroovSense is combing Artificial Emotionally Intelligent technology to automatically analyse the mood of the party crowd as it changes. (12:50)#3 Now music fans around the world can create the perfect real-time ‘hosted' party playlist with GroovSense. (23:46)#4 The ABBA Journey - how GroovSense scientifically learns about the crowd (30:28)#5 The GroovSense DJ Dashboard helps DJs make the best music selections based on the crowd's tastes. (43:23)#6 How businesses such as restaurants, clubs and retail can utilize GroovSense to automatically measure the behaviour customer sentencing to maximize their in-store music. (49:05)#7 GroovSense App vs. Social Jukebox App (56:35)#8 Dr Hane Aung' predicting the future of real-time behavioural sensing technology and GroovSense. (1:01:39)Host:

In our newest segment, one which reflects on our complete lack of judgement and discernment, we present LIVE SINGING, the segment that features various singers "singing" (yes, that word was intentionally placed within quotation marks!) some of your favorite songs! On today's show, "Cannabis Carl" and "Paranoid Pete", came in to sing "HOW DO YOU KEEP THE MUSIC PLAYING?". As Al often says, what could POSSIBLY go wrong??? Enjoy!

(I Do Not Own the Rights to the Music Playing in this Podcast) I remember the first time I started my self-care Journey. I was nervous when I realized that people were leaving my life. I truly felt as if I was on a plane I thought about when the flight attendant begun to give us the safety speech about what to do in the event of an emergency. This was an eye opening for me, as they stated if the plane lose cabin pressure, an oxygen mask would come down in front of us and that we should put the mask on ourselves First. As I thought about this, I was in shock I thought to myself if I'm on this plane with my son I'm going to make sure he is taking care of first. It was a part of who I was to take care of my son first, I could actually see myself bouncing out of my seat to go help my son. It was then that I realized that if I didn't take care of Me first. I would not have any life to give others. I literally had an epiphany when I thought about what you need to do in the event of an emergency on the plane. As a matter of fact that moment I began my self-care journey and realized that before I can commit to taking care of others including my son I have to take care of me. Please follow JS Self-Care on all Social Media Platforms . https://linktr.ee/Jsselfcare Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational purposes only. The host claims no responsibility to any person or entity for any liability, loss or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly as a result of use of the application or interpretation of the information presented in this podcast.

Glasses/sunglasses with built-in speakers have been a thing for a shockingly long time now. They've never been particularly popular, mind, but at the very least, they're an interesting enough concept for companies to continue taking a sporadic stab at the category, whose primary appeal seems to be not being forced to purchase both glasses and […]

CT Rowe shares stories about what it was like to work for the National Ballet of Canada Orchestra, how she ended up playing what she did there and what she's playing now - CT is a remarkable person who tells me that she lived her whole live practicing how to live her life here in the country - from the glamorous concert halls of the world to a lovely home on Fraser Lake. We talk about it all. I love that she picketed Carnegie Hall. She'll tell you why. And an added treat, the music at the end is CT playing. Enjoy! #BLACKLIVESMATTER And last week was a hard week for many, especially people of colour who are exhausted from having to explain again and again how their lives are in peril by the police and the system of anti-black racism that is destroying lives. Give a listen to these podcasts - Black people talking about Black Lives. We've been told it will get better - it won't if we don't do anything. I am posting these links in the hope that they will amplify the voices of Black people at a time when we should all be listening. Things have to change. Canadian Podcasts I highly recommend Sandy and Nora Talk Politics Podcast. Sandy Hudson was one of the co-founders of Black LIves Matter Toronto and she and co-host Nora Loreto talk about important issues - they hold no punches and are a refreshing voice and reality check. Sandy and Nora Talk Politics The Globe and Mail's Podcast Colour Code Podcasts from the USA 1. Still Processing Podcast about Colin Kaepernick 2. The Daily Podcast Systems that Protect the Police 3. Code Switch Podcast A Decade of Watching Black People Die --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/roy-mitchell5/message

[smart_track_player url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/7figureceo/7CEO_049-Your_Perfect_Day_With_Andy_Levine.mp3″ title=”7CEO 049: Your Perfect Day with Andy Levine” artist=”Casey Graham” social=”true” social_twitter=”true” social_facebook=”true” social_gplus=”true” ] Andy Levine started his company, Sixthman, 15 years ago which takes fans and bands on vacation together on cruise ships. He sold it in 2012 and continued to run it until 2016 when he stepped into the role of Chairman. He was a previous guest of the podcast on episode 28. Today we're taking a different approach to the podcast and talking about some more personal stuff that leaders of an organization deal with. Andy shares about how he has developed a rhythm for his days that is best for him, his family and his leadership. LINKS Andy's first episode on The 7-Figure CEO Podcast: Episode 28 Productive App – Productive habits and daily goals tracker Email your top take-aways and learnings to Casey@CaseyGraham.com Apply for a Breakthrough Call with Casey: CaseyGraham.com/Action   TOP TAKE-AWAYS Andy journaled for a year and logged what he did with his time and what was going on with his family. He started on the journey to help build the optimal day for him and his family. He used his phone to write about 300 words a day to describe what happened during the day, how he spent his time and how the day went. Through this he developed an ideal rhythm for him. YOUR PERFECT DAY IN THREE PARTS 1. MORNINGS FOR ME – Exercise – Crossfit, Yoga, swimming or running – Learning – Listening to a podcast or reading – Music – Playing guitar or piano – Mindfulness – Identify five things, touch four things, pick out three unique sounds, two unique smells and one unique taste (which helps with anxiety) – Nutrition – Make a good food choice first thing in the morning To Business Owners and Entrepreneurs: You CAN take time for you! You don't have to buy into the idea that you have to work so hard that you neglect yourself and those you love! If you're leading people, you're going to do a better job if you show up feeling confident about yourself and ready to connect with and lead people! You don't have to always be the first person in the office! Anxiety is a big issue that entrepreneurs go through and maybe it's a result of a noisier, busy world that our bodies aren't able to process everything that's coming in. Physical exercise is one of the best therapies for anxiety. 2. DAYS FOR OTHERS Each of us have gifts that should be used to help others. As the leader of an organization, you should plan to spend the first hours of your day serving others – helping them achieve their weekly wins. You can also invest in your customers to serve them! If you're investing in yourself first then you will have the energy and bandwidth to serve others for a few hours. It's also very important to expand your network and go out and meet with people. Through getting out of your everyday, office routine to meet with others and go to conferences, you help others, hear of opportunities, and innovate new ideas for your business and life. 3. NIGHTS FOR US This is meeting your family or loved ones in a shared orbit of interest. Ask your loved ones what they enjoy doing just with you? By asking them you take the guess work out of how to best love your family and friends. By showing initiative, you communicate they are important. There are three big relationships we have that should be prioritized. Create a daily rhythm to take care of these relationships and that works well for you! 1. Ourselves
 – This is probably the hardest relationship because we know everything about us. 2. Others – customers, employees, peers 3. Significant relationships – those you love and friends   Feeling Stuck In Your Business? I'm currently offering free 30-minute Breakthrough Calls to help business owners, presidents and CEOs with their current business challenge. If you have over $400K in annual revenue and would like help, schedule your free Breakthrough Call today.

6 AM - 1 - Vincent is meeting the Fair Rebecca's parents manana; Marshall lost his smartphone; Openings. 2 - Early COW; MailBag. 3 - The News with Marshall Phillips. 4 - The Palestinians are really mad right now.