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In the early 2000s, Joe Dobbs expanded his operations at his Fret ‘n Fiddle's music store in downtown St. Albans to include a recording studio that he and his young staff dubbed “The Bunker.”The idea was that at the very least Joe could use the facilities to record some or all of the episodes for his ongoing “Music from the Mountains” radio show. What he really hoped, though, was that the new studio would be used by area musicians to create their next albums.As usual, The Flood was to be the guinea pigs. And the band was primed, because the guys were eager to do a new album to follow up I'd Rather Be Flooded, which had been recorded three years earlier. So, with hopes high, the lads trouped into The Bunker 19 years ago this week.As it worked out, it didn't (work out, that is). That's because at the beginning of 2006, The Flood was still in a bit of a transition. That SongNonetheless, the guys did get a few good tracks from the session, including the one featured in the video at the top of this article. The backstory on this good old Lonnie Johnson tune, "Jelly Roll Baker" — which ultimately found its way to The Flood's self-produced bootleg album, "Hip Boots” — was reported in an earlier Flood Watch article. Click here to read it.Another reason that Jan. 11, 2006, was a memorable night in Flood Lore was because of the good work of Cincinnati fiddler/photograph Ed Strelau, who came along for the ride and took the pictures used in the above video. By then The Flood had known Ed for about four months. Meeting Ed StrelauThe friendship started one afternoon in September 2005 when Charlie Bowen got a phone call from a stranger, a man who identified himself as “Ed.” He was from Ohio, he said, was staying at the Ramada Inn here, was in town on business. He played a little fiddle, Ed added, had heard about The Flood's weekly jam sessions and wondered if he could stop by. In the course of the conversation, Ed dropped Joe Dobbs' name, which of course in Flood circles was as good as the “Open Sesame” got, so Charlie said, “Sure!” and gave him directions to the Bowen House.The following Wednesday night Strelau arrives at the door promptly at 7 with a bag of pork rinds as an offering for the assembled pickers. He was introduced all around the circle — everyone but Joe already had arrived — and the group learned that for nearly 40 years Ed had been an engineer with Turner Construction of Cincinnati. Ed would be in Huntington through the end of the year to oversee work on a building project at Cabell-Huntington Hospital. “We also learned that he played regularly with a band in Cincinnati that specialized in English country dance music,” Charlie later told his mom in an email. As the guys kicked into the evening's first tunes, Ed grabbed a seat near the front. They were playing loudly a short time later when Joe slipped in the back door and headed to the adjoining room to unpack his fiddle.“Hey, Joe,” Charlie called out between tunes, “your friend Ed Strelau is here!”“Who?” Joe called back.Hmmmm. Around the room, eyes turned toward Ed, who seemed equally confused.“Oh, wait,” Ed said finally, “I didn't mean to say I know Joe, only that I heard him on the radio!”More Introductions, More EdQuickly more introductions were exchanged, Joe had a pork rind or two and joined the mix. At one point, Joe even passed his fiddle to Ed, who hadn't brought one, but promised to come appropriately armed in future sessions.That he did. In fact, Ed Strelau was a faithful player at the weekly jams for the next four months, not only contributing tunes, but also occasionally taking pictures of the group. Here's an assemblage of his photos from the period:Last Ed JamThe band's last get-together with Strelau came in early 2006. “What an evening!” Charlie told his mom in an email. “Ed brought his family for a visit. They went skiing and hiking in the mountains over the past few days, and he wanted to wrap it up with the jam session here.“I was hoping the guys would come through for him and they really did,” Charlie added. “Bub delayed his trip to Florida by a day so he could be here, and Joe, who had an emcee job earlier in the evening, came about 10 to be here for the last hour or so. We also had listeners. Besides Ed's wife and son, we had Bill and Nancy Meadows and Tom and Sharon Pressman. It was midnight before Pamela and I got all those folks outa here.”Ed TodayEd Strelau has not been seen in the Huntington area for nearly 20 years now, but according to posts mined this week on the Internet, he's still fiddling regularly with his friends in the Cincinnati English Country Dancers. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 1937flood.substack.com

Actress Wendi McLendon-Covey ("Bridesmaids," "RENO 911!," "The Goldbergs") joins Andy Richter to discuss her new show, "St. Denis Medical," why she doesn't celebrate Valentine's Day, her time working at Anaheim's third-worst Ramada Inn, how she separates her career from her home life, and more.Do you want to talk to Andy live on SiriusXM's Conan O'Brien Radio? Leave a voicemail at 855-266-2604 or fill out our Google Form at BIT.LY/CALLANDYRICHTER. Listen to "The Andy Richter Call-In Show" every Wednesday at 1pm Pacific on SiriusXM's Conan O'Brien Channel.

We learn more about Earth's short lived second moon and how it may relate to our actual moon, the police are called in to help with math homework, and a New Year's demolition is approved for one town in Georgia. Plus, on This Day in History, we look back at the Berner's Street Hoax and the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Earth's 'mini moon' may have been a chunk of our actual moon | AP News Earth's 'second moon' is just visiting its cosmic parents for Thanksgiving | Space Deputy answers boy's call for homework; sheriff's office releases 911 audio | WBAY Wis. deputy responds to assist after 10-year-old calls 911 for help with math homework | Police1 The United Federation of Teachers number - (212) 777-3380 A Georgia city will blow up an old hotel to greet 2025 | AP News Bibb leaders approve Ramada Inn demolition in downtown Macon | 13wmaz.com TDIH: The Berners Street Hoax | History Today TDIIH: Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade History: Floats, Balloons & More TDIH: Berners Street Hoax – True or False? Contact the show - coolstuffcommute@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Macon, Georgia city leaders decide to ring in the near year by blowing up and old Ramada Inn, 'Potato Cartel' accused of trying to inflate french fry prices, Owners of Montana BBQ joint recovering from brisket heist

An employee of the zoo in Osaka Japan is wanted by police for taking fruits and vegetables that were meant for the animals...and a town in Georgia is going to blow up an old Ramada Inn on NYE!

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Today's newscast includes stories about:Short-term rental regulations in Buncombe County.A major rush-hour delay yesterday along I-26.Retooling the affordable housing plan for the former Ramada Inn.A six-part series of in-depth conversations with Asheville City Council candidates begins with a spotlight on Bo Hess."Kitchen appreciation fees" at local restaurants.

Today's newscast includes stories about Asheville City Schools closing its deficit, the prospect of North Carolina going to Kamala Harris in the November election, trust in the accuracy of North Carolina elections, the latest turn in a proposal to convert the former Ramada Inn into permanent supportive housing and a call for having children vaccinated ahead of the upcoming school year. 

The crowds are following Jesus, but Jesus is throwing them for a loop again. Jesus is saying he is the bread of life that has come down from heaven. This can't be as he is the son of Joseph, and they know his father and mother. Now he is claiming to be God? The Judeans say that they know the truth. They seem to be so closed minded. This idea that this Jesus who they knew as a child and knew his family could not be God. This was contrary to scripture. It was blowing their mind. They had been following him to eat physical and spiritual food, but this was too much. Jesus doesn't argue with them, he tells them that God drew them to him. I would think that really confounded them. When their ancestors ate manna in the wilderness they died. God had sent the manna day by day to meet their needs, and still they complained. Now Jesus is saying that he himself is the bread from heaven and connecting with him will give them eternal life. Jesus says that he will give his life for the world and his flesh is the work he did on the cross. For John feasting on the bread of life is about being in relationship with Jesus. This looks different for everyone. The closer that we get in any relationship means that there will be changes, it means that we will be called to pivot in grace. The only thing that stays the same with Jesus is Jesus' love for us. Without the willingness to pivot in grace, relationships do not grow and may end. Jesus will not give up on us, but there are times that we may give up on Jesus. To be church today means pivoting in grace. Churches that are not willing to pivot in grace will likely die. I would like us to think about what pivoting in grace means. It means not doing things the way that they have been done before. That can be a hard pill to swallow, but it is the truth. The church as we knew it even a few years ago is not the same because our world is not the same. When we hear ourselves saying, we've always done it that way, it is time to examine that way. If the world has changed and people have changed, the approach to many things needs to change. Hiring a new staff person may not grow a program. It takes looking at different approaches and being willing to pivot in grace and look at different options. What things looked like in the past will never look that way again. That is a hard truth. It is much easier to try and recreate what we used to have, but since the world has changed, that does not work. People are at different places, thus the approach must be different. Jesus was pivoting in grace all of the time. His message stayed the same, but people were always presenting him with different ideas, challenging him with their fears and anxieties. As I have said, Jesus did not argue with the crowd, the Judeans. He was challenging them to change their way of thinking, their way of viewing and identifying him. In our individual lives, there are many times that we are called to pivot in grace. Some of them are not easy and some we would rather not have to, but in order to move forward they are necessary. Yesterday, I heard dripping in the basement. Of course I was getting ready to go to our ecumenical pride service. I didn't fully know what was wrong, but I called Bob and asked him, who do I call.  The plumbers were able to get to my place later in the afternoon. Unfortunately, after trying to unplug the pipes, it did not work They are coming back Monday to put in a cleanout in to run the unclogger out to the street and back in the house from outside. No useable plumbing, thus I cannot stay at my house until they fix it. Thus, I had to find a place to stay. I just happened to have enough Wyndam points to stay 2 nights at the Ramada Inn with a free breakfast. I was still able to go to the Pride event. I'm not able to go to Saugatuck as planned after church, but that is okay. It is not always easy, but I believe God works things out for us. Thankfully, we believe as Christians, we are not left alone to do these pivots in grace. We are promised that God will never leave us nor forsake us. God does amazing things, and we are called to trust and believe. This is where feasting on the bread of life, Jesus, comes in. Often, the difficulty in pivoting in grace comes from our unwillingness to do it. It can be scary, and it often brings out fears and anxieties. Jesus, the bread of life, comes to us and says, open yourself up to me and I will give you what you need when you need it. For me this is what it means to not be hungry and thirsty. To look at what and who I have and realize that they are all gifts from God and be thankful This is what helps me to make pivot in grace. If I try and make pivots by myself or not at all, it will be more of a struggle. This is where I am challenged to trust God in Jesus Christ, to have faith that God knows what God is doing. This is not easy as it means letting go of old ways of thinking and of doing things. Those things that brought security, we are often challenged to let go of in order for a pivot in grace to happen. This is what John says, faith is believing and trusting in Jesus and what is required to be in relationship with Jesus. This is what the Judeans struggled with and so do we. As we move forward here at Faith, be prepared to pivot in grace, to look at things in a broader spectrum. I do not believe that Jesus says keep doing things the way that you have been. We are called to look at what we have learned about who we are and who are neighbors are. How can we connect with them directly is the challenge? This does not mean that we wait until the next pastor comes. Jesus the bread of life calls us to do this work now. We have developed 3 goals:  Increase participation in Youth and Education programs. Restructure system (time, money and resources) to support the goals for ministry. Continue to develop strategies to connect with our community to better understand and celebrate our diversity and inclusion in the community. These goals have come from our times together this past year. We are strengthened through the bread of life to carry out these goals. Throughout the fall the council will be figuring out how to carry out these goals.  I believe Faith Lutheran Church has what is needed, from what God has already blessed us with. The question becomes are we ready to do new and exciting things? We will be called to pivot in grace, to find new ways of doing things. This is when we are called to trust and believe in God in Jesus Christ. Jesus the bread of life first of all strengthens us to do the work we are called to do, but then we become bearers of the bread of life as we carry out this ministry. This is when we also carry out Paul's challenge: 1 Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children, 2 and walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. Come feast on Jesus the bread of life, be strengthened to pivot in grace and carry out the goals set before us. May we be imitators of God's love and share the bread of life with others. Let us pray: Gracious God, you give us all that we need and more to do the ministry that you have called us to do. May your Holy Spirit help us further define how to carry out the goals that you set before us. AS we feed on Jesus the bread of life, give us the strength and wisdom to pivot in grace as share your love, share Jesus, the bread of life. Amen

Today's newscast includes stories about new life for the former Ramada Inn in East Asheville, an expose on lack of transparency in the state legislature, vandalism at the homes of BID supporters, a rise in seasonal allergies and a look at an expected increase in holiday travelers. 

(Intro) Wait Time (5TYNTK) Hometown Idol, Ramada Inn, Cooper Flagg, Tesla, 32-Hour Work Week (Dirty) Quavo responds to Chris Brown. Kanye talks ménage à trois.  Tom Brady Roast. NFL Draft Concert Series.   (Topic) Could you cram 5 days of work into a 4 day work week? (Outro) Game of Telephone

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Alto saxophonist Frank Strozier remains one of the great underrated masters of his horn. He was born in Memphis and came up with his friends, George Coleman, Harold Mabern, and the great Booker Little. After Memphis he moved to Chicago and attained several university degrees and began building his reputation as a prime voice on the alto. He later moved to New York and played with many important people like Miles Davis and drummer Roy Haynes. Later moving to Los Angeles he worked in the studios and performed Jazz with Oliver Nelson's Band and Shelly Manne's groups among others. He returned to New York in 1973 and continued to record under his name and appear as a sideman until the mid-80's when he stopped playing the saxophone and flute and did some gigs playing piano, . He also taught ischool until he retired. Strozier is still alive. He was born in Memphis on June 13,1937 and as of now he's be 86. We'll hear him in 4 extended pieces recorded in January 1976 in concert at the Ramada Inn inn Schenectedy, New York than have never been heard on any commercial recordings. This is Frank at his unfettered best with Frank Stagnitta on piano, Frank Tate on bass and Larry Jackson on drums. Look out! Frank Strozier our Jazz Feature artist tonight!

On today's episode of Utah Stories, Rocky Anderson comes on the program to discuss the Ramada Inn and why the Ramada Inn failed in helping the homeless problem in Salt Lake City. Visit UtahStories.com for more and to subscribe to our free digital newsletter. There you can also support our journalism by subscribing to our print magazine for $3 per month. Follow us on: Instagram @UtahStories Twitter @UtahStories

In the "Today in San Diego" podcast, at least one person is dead after shots rang out near Kansas City's Union Station, a flood victim who has been staying at a Ramada Inn tells NBC 7 that she feels forgotten, and if you go to the beach tonight you may be able to catch a glimpse of the waves lighting up in neon blue. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

You know what? Enough is enough. We're back from hiatus with a VERY special episode. Not only did we have to watch this one on DVD for some unbeknownst reason, but we also watched it TOGETHER....IN TUCSON! That's right, we visited the scene of the crime, the ol' Bar None Ranch (at the beautiful Tanque Verde Ranch). We got some hard-hitting interviews with horses and all around just had a blast. Then we went to THE Ramada Inn before T's flight the next morning and had the creepiest stay ever. But we did get a chance to record this episode from our hotel room which clearly hasn't been updated since the teens moved out in 1989. THIS TRIP WAS SO AMAZING and we're so excited to share it with you. Welcome back to Yay Dude for season 4!!Follow us on social media!@yaydudecast on Instagramyaydudecast@gmail.com

In the winter of 1969, Bob Dylan arrived in Tennessee with only four songs completed for his Nashville Skyline recording sessions. Over the next few days at the Columbia studio and in his rooms at the Ramada Inn, he composed another five pieces, including this stunning tune that he used as the album's closing track.“Tonight I'll be Staying Here with You” was the third single to be released from Nashville Skyline (after “I Threw It All Away” and “Lay Lady Lay.”) It reached #50 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and the top 20 in other countries.Critical response was positive. Cash Box said that, unlike previous Dylan singles, "this ballad is honed to a fine edge and further sharpened through excellent production touches.” Record World concurred, calling it “another classic from the master.”MilestoneDylanologists, meanwhile, found the song insightful, because the lyrics seemed to mark a change from the angst of Bob's earlier love songs, many of which told of restless searches.In contrast, "Tonight I'll Be Staying Here with You" finds Dylan devoted to his lover and willing to settle down (at least for the nonce). Some fans waxed poetic at the thought of Bob as a family man, happy to be quietly living with Sara and the kids.Dylan himself seemed to like that image. Soon after Nashville Skyline's release, he told Rolling Stone‘s Jann Wenner, “I was on the road for almost five years. It wore me down. I was on drugs, a lot of things. … I don't want to live that way anymore.” TrainsTrain imagery, by the way, runs throughout the song.But unlike his earlier lyrics, in this song, even though he "can hear that whistle blowin'," he wants to "throw my ticket out the window" and let "a poor boy on the street" have his seat.On the album, the song showcases Dylan's then-new smooth country croon between twangy guitar fills. A more raucous version, though, became a live highlight a few years later when Bob was — yes — back on the road with the Rolling Thunder Revue. Our Take on the TuneThere's a reason why The Flood's rendition of this Dylan classic sounds different from Bobby's version (or from anyone else's take on the tune, for that matter). That's because back in the early 1980s, when Roger and Charlie started playing around with opening chord progression here, they thought they were writing an original song of their own. But then Rog and the Samples family moved away — leaving West Virginia for the green hills of Kentucky — and the piece they were working on was left an orphan. It didn't even have a name or the first hints of a lyric. Only a year or so later, when Charlie was noodling with it during the warmup at a jam session, did Dave Peyton say, “Hey, you know what? If you tweaked the chords a bit and added the bridge, you could sing that Dylan thing over that!” Right there and then an arrangement was born, and we've been playing it like this ever since.Meanwhile….By the way, if you'd like more Floodified Dylan tunes, check out this special playlist we constructed for Bobby's birthday a Spring or two ago: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 1937flood.substack.com

HEY HEY HEY! Welcome back to Teachers Talk Crime. We hope you have your drink ready, because you might need one. Today's lesson starts at 13:36. Peter James Smith kidnapped Amanda Behning from the parking lot of a Subway restaurant after she went off campus to grab lunch. He ordered her to drive him to a Ramada Inn in Charlotte and rent a room. He later forced her to drive him to buy beer and crack cocaine which he forced her to take part in. Sources:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-muCfW09tE&t=246s https://journalnow.com Check out our socials for more content from us: LEAVE US A REVIEW TO BECOME OUR NEXT STAR STUDENT! Amazon Storefront - all your must have items recommended by us! New Merch is on the way SOON! Instagram Buy me a Coffee TikTok: @brantyyy_ and @southern.math.teacher Email Us your teacher stories to: teacherstalkcrimepodcast@gmail.com Email Us with any topics or cases you would like us to cover in the future Case Written by: Ashleigh Brant Sound and YouTube editing by: Wayfare Recording Co. Music Mixed by: Ashleigh Brant Podcast Graphic designed by: Brooke Ham

Ok, here it is.  We have finished Season 1.  It is back to standard def if we want to watch any more. Come back with us to the Ramada Inn for a Dominatrix workshop.  Our protagonist surprises the staff with her whipping technique and craziness ensues.  This one is quick and to the point.  We have figured out a formula and now we are running with it. We have Indiana Jones whip sounds.  We get to see yet another lightbulb striptease, but this time of a man.  We get a new kind of therapy session.  Zack spends a couple of minutes describing in great detail that moment where a tight top gets pulled down over boob critical mass and you get that satisfying pop.  We also fade out series 1 on a man thong. Thanks for sticking with us through this wild journey.  Next week we watch the movie that started it all, then try to get back into some more traditional forbidden fare.  It has been a journey

This episode profiles the parricide murder of 47-year-old Laura Mae Kujawa and 46-year-old Larry Kujawa that was committed by their daughter, 16-year-old Lisa Mae Friedel on Tuesday, March 29, 1994, in Harmony Maryland in Caroline County. Lisa confessed to the detectives that she was tired of her parents alleged verbal abuse and that 'something came over her', so she shot them both with a .357 Magnum handgun, while they slept in their bed. This episode also profiles the unsolved shooting murder of a security guard at the Ramada Inn in the 8700 block of Loch Raven Boulevard on May 18, 1992. 42-year-old John Howard Bowling was shot in a robbery attempt when he went to the front door to let someone else in the building.

It was 1976 when Tina Turner fled for her life, literally, across multiple lanes of highway traffic to a Ramada Inn with $0.36 in her pocket and restarted her life. Despite being one of the most famous performance artists of her time, everyone associated her with Ike Turner, her abusive counterpart and husband. It wasn't until she spoke out publically in a 1981 People Magazine article titled, "Tina Turner: On the Prowl Without Ike" — because of course it was — that her fans would hear the truth. She wasn't half of an idyllic Hollywood couple. She was a survivor who'd had enough.  If you're a survivor of domestic violence, it's never your fault. Please consider visiting domesticshelters.org for a multitude of resources (many of which were written by Toxic co-host Amanda Kippert) or visit the Get Help page to find a shelter near you, staffed with advocates ready and willing to listen and help. For more information on Toxic, to pick up some sweet angry feminist merch, or to submit a story idea for an upcoming episode, visit ToxicthePodcast.com.  As always, we would be so appreciative if you rated or reviewed us on this platform, or shared us with a friend, so that we might be able to reach more people. Domestic violence needs to be talked about to lessen the arrogant power of abusers who think they can get away with anything. (We're looking at you, Ike Turner, even though you're dead.)

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Kiss i Sverige: Johan Falk & Johnny Fredriksson, Göteborg 1980 Vår serie ”Kiss i Sverige” fortsätter med Johan och Johnny upplevelser i Scandinavium 1980. Två hängivna tonåringar skulle äntligen få uppleva sina idoler live, längtan var stor, förväntningar var höga, spänning olidlig. Hör deras fantastiska upplevelse om deras första kyss. Bonus: Vad hände efter konserten på Bernts hotellrum, meet and greet.. eller vad? Nu får ni veta det. Välkommen till sjätte avsnittet i vår serie ”Kiss i Sverige”, en resa som slutar i Dalhalla 2023. Detta har vi pratat om: Anders Tengner, Heikki Harju, Madison Square Garden, Sönderslagna tåg, Poster, Jerusalem, Gårdsten, Scandinavium, klistermärken, förköpsavgift, Svala & Söderlund, tidningsartiklar, Kiss i Sverige boken , Detroit Rock City, merchandise, turnébok, halsband, Eddie med Manchete, Iron Maiden, Clive Burke, Skivfönstret, Drammen 1980, rita Kiss-tävling, Albany 1990, Johan Falks KISS-pojkrum 2017 och 1980, Discobollen, Eddie Izzard, Våg av värme, Gene flyger, halva Scandinavium, I Was Made For Lovin' You, Eric Carr, Peter Criss, Paul Stanleys tophat, stroboskop, Paul Stanley plektrum, Ramada Inn, Hisingen, Accept, Bernts Meet-n-Greet, Hotel Savoy, Avsminkningen av KISS, Waidele, Kiss Expo 1995, Kiss Expo Kolingsborg med Vinnie Vincent, Dalhalla, www.t-shirtbymail.se, KISS i Sverige 2.0, Restaurang Räkan i Göteborg och Stockholm

Ashley gives updated details on the Tampa Flasher at the Ramada Inn over on Westshore. We also find out which Tampa Bay dining establishment is making customers prepay before going?

Minnesota DNR Commissioner Sara Strommen joins Scott and Kyle to preview her upcoming visit as featured speaker for the FM Walleyes Unlimited February member meeting.  The event, free and open to the public, takes place on Thursday, February 16th at 7 p.m. at the Ramada Inn in Fargo. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Gaurkoan musika izango dugu protagonista Ispilu Beltzan. Izan ere, otsailaren 4an Intxaurrondon Musikagela Weekend jaialdia ospatuko da. Bertan hiru talde arituko dira: La Perra Blanco, Rumbling Lips, eta Ramada Inn. Guk azken talde honekin solasteko aukera izan dugu Donostia Kultura Irratian.Horrez gain, Josemi Beltránekin zinemaren inguruan solasteko aukera izango dugu, ostegunero egin ohi dugun moduan '¡Subtítulos!' atalean.Amaitzeko, Jon Gartziak musika gomendioak ekarri dizkigu saioa girotzeko, Kanta Katiluan.Jantzi kaskoak eta adi!---Hoy la música será protagonista en Ispilu Beltza. El día 4 de febrero se celebra en Intxaurrondo el festival Musikagela Weekend, con tres conciertos: La Perra Blanco, Rumbling Lips, y Ramada Inn. Nosotros hemos hablado con estos últimos en Donostia Kultura Irratia.También tendremos como cada jueves a Josemi Beltrán, para hablar de cine en su sección '¡Subtítulos!'.Para terminar, Jon Gartzia nos traerá sus recomendaciones musicales, en la sección 'Kanta Katilua'.Ponte los cascos, que empezamos!

Police Officer Dave, joins us in studio to share the story of the deadly shootout at the Ramada Inn on August 30th 2017 in Sacramento California. Dave was one of the two officers initially ambushed and shot by a wanted suspect hiding in a hotel room. The suspect fled out a back balcony and engaged in another gun fight with Deputy Bob French, where Deputy French was fatally shot. Officers engaged in a vehicle pursuit with the suspect, where another gunfight occurred in traffic. The suspect was mortally wounded. ----------

Tony Sloan tells us on this podcast about the start of the Missouri School Plant Managers Association and Charley Branham updates us on what it is today. In the early days, it was at the Ramada Inn in Columbia. Then for years, MSPMA meet at the Lake of the Ozarks before Charley brought the conference to Branson where we are today. Watch & Listen as the two gentlemen talk it through. WEBSITES ================================== MISSOURI SCHOOL PLANT MANAGERS ASSOCIATION: https://www.mspma.com/ ROCK STARS OF CLEANING: https://rockstarsofcleaning.com/ ACADEMY OF CLEANING EXCELLENCE: https://academyofcleaning.com/   SOCIAL ============================ PODCAST: https://beyondcleanwithace.podbean.com/ FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/AcademyofCle... TWITTER: https://twitter.com/rockstarsclean INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/academyofcl... TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@academyofclea... ============================ #safe #healthy #cleaning #academyofclean #rockstarsofcleaning   "Remember to keep your journey healthy, positive, and proactive." Follow us on  Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok www.AcademyofCleaning.com Subscribe, like, share or comment on our YouTube channel at Academy of Cleaning.   Subscribe to us here, on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast from #BeyondCleanWithACE 

NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton has played a big role in the development of the Artemis 1 rocket, which is the first step in sending Americans back to the moon; The city of Petersburg began demolishing the Ramada Inn along Interstate-95 this week; Mountain Valley Pipeline, LLC has requested federal approval for a pipe stabilization plan in the Jefferson National Forest; and other local news stories.

America...the land of opportunity! Join us this evening with our guest Joseph Fan, a Taiwanese immigrant that came to California with his parents in the 70's, speaking no English but with some money, determination and an incredible work ethic...they created a hotel empire. Go USA!

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You know that spot on I-70 on the way into the mountains? That spot where it goes from three lanes to two, and there's always traffic? Well, it's called Floyd Hill, and last week the Colorado Department of Transportation kicked off a new $700 million effort to fix it. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was even in town to celebrate the occasion! But is their plan really going to address the root of the problem? Host Bree Davies talks to Colorado Sun environment reporter Michael Booth about why our elected leaders are so eager to cheer on the project and how CDOT is planning to mitigate the climate impact.  For more on the Floyd Hill project, check out Michael Booth's full report for the Colorado Sun, including the impact this project will have on the people who live in the area. Imaging getting on I-70 and sitting in an hour of traffic just to pick up groceries! They're finally demolishing the old Ramada Inn on East Colfax, so Bree is sharing stories and reminiscing in the newsletter today. Subscribe here: https://denver.citycast.fm/newsletter/ What do you think about adding an extra lane to I-70 at Floyd Hill? Let us know @citycastdenver Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

 Late in the morning of August 15th, the coffee shop at the Ramada Inn was still busy serving breakfast. The restaurant's manager Roberta Plank was working the cash register. The Ramada Inn's general manager, Warren Bruce, popped into the coffee shop. The two were standing at the cash register having a conversation...probably about the weather...when a man dressed in a business suit, calmly walked in and told Roberta to call the police. He'd just shot a man in the parking lot. This is the story of The Deadly Realtor Love Triangle. If you'd like to support the Notorious Bakersfield podcast, you can buy me a coffee. Visit here to make a donation:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/NotoriousVisit the Notorious Bakersfield website: https://www.notoriousbakersfield.com/Email: notoriousbakersfield@gmail.comDiva Dos Luxury Pet Spa. Call 661-827-7591 to book your appointment! Mention that you heard about them from the Notorious Bakersfield podcast and you'll get a FREE Super Do Package upgrade! 

Episode 141 of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “River Deep Mountain High'”, and at the career of Ike and Tina Turner.  Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Also, this episode was recorded before the sad death of the great Ronnie Spector, whose records are featured a couple of times in this episode, which is partly about her abusive ex-husband. Her life paralleled Tina Turner's quite closely, and if you haven't heard the episode I did about her last year, you can find it at https://500songs.com/podcast/episode-110-be-my-baby-by-the-ronettes/. I wish I'd had the opportunity to fit a tribute into this episode too. Patreon backers also have a ten-minute bonus episode available, on "Wild Thing" by the Troggs. Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt's irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/ Resources As usual, all the songs excerpted in the podcast can be heard in full at Mixcloud. Always Magic in the Air: The Bomp and Brilliance of the Brill Building Era by Ken Emerson is a good overview of the Brill Building scene, and I referred to it for the material about Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich. I've referred to two biographies of Phil Spector in this episode, Phil Spector: Out of His Head by Richard Williams and He's a Rebel by Mark Ribkowsky. Tina Turner has written two autobiographies. I Tina is now out of print but is slightly more interesting, as it contains interview material with other people in her life. My Love Story is the more recent one and covers her whole life up to 2019. Ike Turner's autobiography Takin' Back My Name is a despicable, self-serving, work of self-justification, and I do not recommend anyone buy or read it. But I did use it for quotes in the episode so it goes on the list. Ike Turner: King of Rhythm by John Collis is more even-handed, and contains a useful discography. That Kat Sure Could Play! is a four-CD compilation of Ike Turner's work up to 1957. The TAMI and Big TNT shows are available on a Blu-Ray containing both performances. There are many compilations available with some of the hits Spector produced, but I recommend getting Back to Mono, a four-CD overview of his career containing all the major singles put out by Philles. There are sadly no good compilations of Ike and Tina Turner's career, as they recorded for multiple labels, and would regularly rerecord the hits in new versions for each new label, so any compilation you find will have the actual hit version of one or two tracks, plus a bunch of shoddy remakes. However, the hit version of "River Deep, Mountain High" is on the album of the same name, which is a worthwhile album to get,. Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Transcript Today's episode is unfortunately another one of those which will require a content warning, because we're going to be talking about Ike and Tina Turner. For those of you who don't know, Ike Turner was possibly the most famously abusive spouse in the whole history of music, and it is literally impossible to talk about the duo's career without talking about that abuse. I am going to try not to go into too many of the details -- if nothing else, the details are very readily available for those who want to seek them out, not least in Tina's two autobiographies, so there's no sense in retraumatising people who've experienced domestic abuse by going over them needlessly -- but it would be dishonest to try to tell the story without talking about it at all. This is not going to be an episode *about* Ike Turner's brutal treatment of Tina Turner -- it's an episode about the record, and about music, and about their musical career -- but the environment in which "River Deep, Mountain High" was created was so full of toxic, abusive, destructive men that Ike Turner may only be the third-worst person credited on the record, and so that abuse will come up. If discussion of domestic abuse, gun violence, cocaine addiction, and suicide attempts are likely to cause you problems, you might want to read the transcript rather than listen to the podcast. That said, let's get on with the story. One of the problems I'm hitting at this point of the narrative is that starting with "I Fought the Law" we've hit a run of incredibly intertangled stories  The three most recent episodes, this one, and nine of the next twelve, all really make up one big narrative about what happened when folk-rock and psychedelia hit the Hollywood scene and the Sunset Strip nightclubs started providing the raw material for the entertainment industry to turn into pop culture. We're going to be focusing on a small number of individuals, and that causes problems when trying to tell a linear narrative, because people don't live their lives sequentially -- it's not the case that everything happened to Phil Spector, and *then* everything happened to Cass Elliot, and *then* everything happened to Brian Wilson. All these people were living their lives and interacting and influencing each other, and so sometimes we'll have to mention something that will be dealt with in a future episode. So I'll say here and now that we *will* be doing an episode on the Lovin' Spoonful in two weeks. So when I say now that in late 1965 the Lovin' Spoonful were one of the biggest bands around, and possibly the hottest band in the country, you'll have to take that on trust. But they were, and in late 1965 their hit "Do You Believe in Magic?" had made the top ten: [Excerpt: The Lovin' Spoonful, "Do You Believe in Magic?"] Phil Spector, as always, was trying to stay aware of the latest trends in music, and he was floundering somewhat. Since the Beatles had hit America in 1964, the hits had dried up -- he'd produced a few minor hit records in 1964, but the only hits he'd made in 1965 had been with the Righteous Brothers -- none of his other acts were charting. And then the Righteous Brothers left him, after only a year. In late 1965, he had no hit acts and no prospect of having any. There was only one thing to do -- he needed to start making his own folk-rock records. And the Lovin' Spoonful gave him an idea how to do that. Their records were identifiably coming from the same kind of place as people like the Byrds or the Mamas and the Papas, but they were pop songs, not protest songs -- the Lovin' Spoonful weren't doing Dylan covers or anything intellectual, but joyous pop confections of a kind that anyone could relate to. Spector knew how to make pop records like that. But to do that, he needed a band. Even though he had been annoyed at the way that people had paid more attention to the Righteous Brothers, as white men, than they had to the other vocalists he'd made hit records with (who, as Black women, had been regarded by a sexist and racist public as interchangeable puppets being controlled by a Svengali rather than as artists in their own right), he knew he was going to have to work with a group of white male vocalist-instrumentalists if he wanted to have his own Lovin' Spoonful. And the group he chose was a group from Greenwich Village called MFQ. MFQ had originally named themselves the Modern Folk Quartet, as a parallel to the much better-known Modern Jazz Quartet, and consisted of Cyrus Faryar, Henry Diltz, Jerry Yester, and Chip Douglas, all of whom were multi-instrumentalists who would switch between guitar, banjo, mandolin, and bass depending on the song. They had combined Kingston Trio style clean-cut folk with Four Freshmen style modern harmonies -- Yester, who was a veteran of the New Christy Minstrels, said of the group's vocals that "the only vocals that competed with us back then was Curt Boettcher's group", and  they had been taken under the wing of manager Herb Cohen, who had got them a record deal with Warner Brothers. They recorded two albums of folk songs, the first of which was produced by Jim Dickson, the Byrds' co-manager: [Excerpt: The Modern Folk Quartet, "Sassafras"] But after their second album, they had decided to go along with the trends and switch to folk-rock. They'd started playing with electric instruments, and after a few shows where John Sebastian, the lead singer of the Lovin' Spoonful, had sat in with them on drums, they'd got themselves a full-time drummer, "Fast" Eddie Hoh, and renamed themselves the Modern Folk Quintet, but they always shortened that to just MFQ. Spector was convinced that this group could be another Lovin' Spoonful if they had the right song, and MFQ in turn were eager to become something more than an unsuccessful folk group. Spector had the group rehearsing in his house for weeks at a stretch before taking them into the studio. The song that Spector chose to have the group record was written by a young songwriter he was working with named Harry Nilsson. Nilsson was as yet a complete unknown, who had not written a hit and was still working a day job, but he had a talent for melody, and he also had a unique songwriting sensibility combining humour and heartbreak. For example, he'd written a song that Spector had recorded with the Ronettes, "Here I Sit", which had been inspired by the famous graffito from public toilet walls -- "Here I sit, broken-hearted/Paid a dime and only farted": [Excerpt: The Ronettes, "Here I Sit"] That ability to take taboo bodily functions and turn them into innocent-sounding love lyrics is also at play in the song that Spector chose to have the MFQ record. "This Could be the Night" was written by Nilsson from the perspective of someone who is hoping to lose his virginity -- he feels like he's sitting on dynamite, and he's going to "give her some", but it still sounds innocent enough to get past the radio censors of the mid-sixties: [Excerpt: Harry Nilsson, "This Could Be the Night (demo)"] Spector took that song, and recorded a version of it which found the perfect balance between Spector's own wall of sound and the Lovin' Spoonful's "Good Time Music" sound: [Excerpt: MFQ, "This Could be the Night"] Brian Wilson was, according to many people, in the studio while that was being recorded, and for decades it would remain a favourite song of Wilson's -- he recorded a solo version of it in the 1990s, and when he started touring solo for the first time in 1998 he included the song in his earliest live performances. He also tried to record it with his wife's group, American Spring, in the early 1970s, but was unable to, because while he could remember almost all of the song, he couldn't get hold of the lyrics. And the reason he couldn't get hold of the lyrics is that the record itself went unreleased, because Phil Spector had found a new performer he was focusing on instead. It happened during the filming of the Big TNT Show, a sequel to the TAMI Show, released by American International Pictures, for which "This Could Be the Night" was eventually used as a theme song. The MFQ were actually performers at the Big TNT Show, which Spector was musical director and associate producer of, but their performances were cut out of the finished film, leaving just their record being played over the credits. The Big TNT Show generally gets less respect than the TAMI Show, but it's a rather remarkable document of the American music scene at the very end of 1965, and it's far more diverse than the TAMI show. It opens with, of all people, David McCallum -- the actor who played Ilya Kuryakin on The Man From UNCLE -- conducting a band of session musicians playing an instrumental version of "Satisfaction": [Excerpt: David McCallum, "Satisfaction"] And then, in front of an audience which included Ron and Russel Mael, later of Sparks, and Frank Zappa, who is very clearly visible in audience shots, came performances of every then-current form of popular music. Ray Charles, Petula Clark, Bo Diddley, the Byrds, the Lovin' Spoonful, Roger Miller, the Ronettes, and Donovan all did multiple songs, though the oddest contribution was from Joan Baez, who as well as doing some of her normal folk repertoire also performed "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" with Spector on piano: [Excerpt: Joan Baez and Phil Spector, "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'"] But the headline act on the eventual finished film was the least-known act on the bill, a duo who had not had a top forty hit for four years at this point, and who were only on the bill as a last-minute fill-in for an act who dropped out, but who were a sensational live act. So sensational that when Phil Spector saw them, he knew he needed to sign them -- or at least he needed to sign one of them: [Excerpt: Ike and Tina Turner with the Ikettes, "Please, Please, Please"] Because Ike and Tina Turner's performance at the Big TNT Show was, if anything, even more impressive than James Brown's performance on the TAMI Show the previous year. The last we saw of Ike Turner was way back in episode eleven. If you don't remember that, from more than three years ago, at the time Turner was the leader of a small band called the Kings of Rhythm. They'd been told by their friend B.B. King that if you wanted to make a record, the person you go to was Sam Phillips at Memphis Recording Services, and they'd recorded "Rocket '88", often cited as the first ever rock and roll record, under the name of their sax player and vocalist Jackie Brenston: [Excerpt: Jackie Brenston and the Delta Cats, "Rocket '88"] We looked at some of the repercussions from that recording throughout the first year and a half or so of the podcast, but we didn't look any more at the career of Ike Turner himself. While "Rocket '88" was a minor hit, the group hadn't followed it up, and Brenston had left to go solo. For a while Ike wasn't really very successful at all -- though he was still performing around Memphis, and a young man named Elvis Presley was taking notes at some of the shows. But things started to change for Ike when he once again turned up at Sam Phillips' studio -- this time because B.B. King was recording there. At the time, Sun Records had still not started as its own label, and Phillips' studio was being used for records made by all sorts of independent blues labels, including Modern Records, and Joe Bihari was producing a session for B.B. King, who had signed to Modern. The piano player on the session also had a connection to "Rocket '88" -- when Jackie Brenston had quit Ike's band to go solo, he'd put together a new band to tour as the Delta Cats, and Phineas Newborn Jr had ended up playing Turner's piano part on stage, before Brenston's career collapsed and Newborn became King's pianist. But Phineas Newborn was a very technical, dry, jazz pianist -- a wonderful player, but someone who was best suited to playing more cerebral material, as his own recordings as a bandleader from a few years later show: [Excerpt: Phineas Newborn Jr, "Barbados"] Bihari wasn't happy with what Newborn was playing, and the group took a break from recording to get something to eat and try to figure out the problem. While they were busy, Turner went over to the piano and started playing. Bihari said that that was exactly what they wanted, and Turner took over playing the part. In his autobiography, Turner variously remembers the song King was recording there as "You Know I Love You" and "Three O'Clock Blues", neither of which, as far as I can tell, were actually recorded at Phillips' studio, and both of which seem to have been recorded later -- it's difficult to say for sure because there were very few decent records kept of these things at the time. But we do know that Turner played on a lot of King's records in the early fifties, including on "Three O'Clock Blues", King's first big hit: [Excerpt: B.B. King, "Three O'Clock Blues"] For the next while, Turner was on salary at Modern Records, playing piano on sessions, acting as a talent scout, and also apparently writing many of the songs that Modern's artists would record, though those songs were all copyrighted under the name "Taub", a pseudonym for the Bihari brothers, as well as being a de facto arranger and producer for the company. He worked on many records made in and around Memphis, both for Modern Records and for other labels who drew from the same pool of artists and musicians. Records he played on and produced or arranged include several of Bobby "Blue" Bland's early records -- though Turner's claim in his autobiography that he played on Bland's version of "Stormy Monday" appears to be incorrect, as that wasn't recorded until a decade later. He did, though, play on Bland's “Drifting from Town to Town”, a rewrite of Charles Brown's “Driftin' Blues”, on which, as on many sessions run by Turner, the guitarist was Matt “Guitar” Murphy, who later found fame with the Blues Brothers: [Excerpt: Bobby "Blue" Bland with Ike Turner and his Orchestra, "Driftin' Blues"] Though I've also seen the piano part on that credited as being by Johnny Ace – there's often some confusion as to whether Turner or Ace played on a session, as they played with many of the same artists, but that one was later rereleased as by Bobby “Blue” Bland with Ike Turner and his Orchestra, so it's safe to say that Ike's on that one. He also played on several records by Howlin' Wolf, including "How Many More Years", recorded at Sam Phillips' studio: [Excerpt: Howlin' Wolf, "How Many More Years?"] Over the next few years he played with many artists we've covered already in the podcast, like Richard Berry and the Flairs, on whose recordings he played guitar rather than piano: [Excerpt: The Flairs, "Baby Wants"] He also played guitar on records by Elmore James: [Excerpt: Elmore James, "Please Find My Baby"] and played with Little Junior Parker, Little Milton, Johnny Ace, Roscoe Gordon, and many, many more. As well as making blues records, he also made R&B records in the style of Gene and Eunice with his then-wife Bonnie: [Excerpt: Bonnie and Ike Turner, "My Heart Belongs to You"] Bonnie was his fourth wife, all of them bigamous -- or at least, I *think* she was his fourth. I have seen two different lists Turner gave of his wives, both of them made up of entirely different people, though it doesn't help that many of them also went by nicknames. But Turner started getting married when he was fourteen, and as he would often put it "you gave a preacher two dollars, the papers cost three dollars, that was it. In those days Blacks didn't bother with divorces." (One thing you will see a lot with Turner, unfortunately, is his habit of taking his own personal misbehaviours and claiming they were either universal, or at least that they were universal among Black people, or among men. It's certainly true that some people in the Southeastern US had a more lackadaisical attitude towards remarrying without divorce at the time than we might expect, but it was in no way a Black thing specifically -- it was a people-like-Ike-Turner thing -- see for example the very similar behaviour of Jerry Lee Lewis. I'm trying, when I quote him, not to include too many of these generalisations, but I thought it important to include that one early on to show the kind of self-justification to which he was prone throughout his entire life.) It's largely because Bonnie played piano and was singing with his band that Turner switched to playing guitar, but there was another reason – while he disliked the attention he got on stage, he also didn't want a repeat of what had happened with Jackie Brenston, where Brenston as lead vocalist and frontman had claimed credit for what Ike thought of as his own record. Anyone who saw Ike Turner and his Kings of Rhythm was going to know that Ike Turner was the man who was making it all happen, and so he was going to play guitar up front rather than be on the piano in the background. So Turner took guitar lessons from Earl Hooker, one of the great blues guitarists of the period, who had played with Turner's piano inspiration Pinetop Perkins before recording solo tracks like "Sweet Angel": [Excerpt: Earl Hooker, "Sweet Angel"] Turner was always happier in the studio than performing live -- despite his astonishing ego, he was also a rather shy person who didn't like attention -- and he'd been happy working on salary for Modern and freelancing on occasion for other labels like Chess and Duke. But then the Biharis had brought him out to LA, where Modern Records was based, and as Joel Bihari put it "Ike did a great job for us, but he was a country boy. We brought him to L.A., and he just couldn't take city life. He only stayed a month, then left for East St. Louis to form his own band. He told me he was going back there to become a star." For once, Turner's memory of events lined up with what other people said about him. In his autobiography, he described what happened -- "Down in Mississippi, life is slow. Tomorrow, you are going to plough this field. The next day, you going to cut down these trees. You stop and you go on about your business. Next day, you start back on sawing trees or whatever you doing. Here I am in California, and this chick, this receptionist, is saying "Hold on, Mr Bihari, line 2... hold line 3... Hey Joe, Mr Something or other on the phone for you." I thought "What goddamn time does this stop?"" So Turner did head to East St. Louis -- which is a suburb of St. Louis proper, across the Mississippi river from it, and in Illinois rather than Missouri, and at the time a thriving industrial town in its own right, with over eighty thousand people living there. Hardly the laid-back country atmosphere that Turner was talking about, but still also far from LA both geographically and culturally. He put together a new lineup of the Kings of Rhythm, with a returning Jackie Brenston, who were soon recording for pretty much every label that was putting out blues and R&B tracks at that point, releasing records on RPM, Sue, Flair, Federal, and Modern as well as several smaller labels. usually with either Brenston or the group's drummer Billy Gayles singing lead: [Excerpt: Billy Gayles with Ike Turner's Kings of Rhythm, "Just One More Time"] None of these records was a success, but the Kings of Rhythm were becoming the most successful band in East St. Louis. In the mid-fifties the only group that was as popular in the greater St. Louis metro area was the Johnny Johnson trio -- which soon became the Chuck Berry trio, and went on to greater things, while the Kings of Rhythm remained on the club circuit. But Turner was also becoming notorious for his temper -- he got the nickname "Pistol-Whippin' Ike Turner" for the way he would attack people with his gun, He also though was successful enough that he built his own home studio, and that was where he recorded "Boxtop". a calypso song whose middle eight seems to have been nicked from "Why Do Fools Fall In Love?" and whose general feel owes more than a little to "Love is Strange": [Excerpt: Ike Turner, Carlson Oliver, and Little Ann, "Boxtop"] The female vocals on that track were by Turner's new backing vocalist, who at the time went by the stage name "Little Ann". Anna Mae Bullock had started going to see the Kings of Rhythm regularly when she was seventeen, because her sister was dating one of the members of the band, and she had become a fan almost immediately. She later described her first experience seeing the group: "The first time I saw Ike on stage he was at his very best, sharply dressed in a dark suit and tie. Ike wasn't conventionally handsome – actually, he wasn't handsome at all – and he certainly wasn't my type. Remember, I was a schoolgirl, all of seventeen, looking at a man. I was used to high school boys who were clean-cut, athletic, and dressed in denim, so Ike's processed hair, diamond ring, and skinny body – he was all edges and sharp cheekbones – looked old to me, even though he was only twenty-five. I'd never seen anyone that thin! I couldn't help thinking, God, he's ugly." Turner didn't find Bullock attractive either -- one of the few things both have always agreed on in all their public statements about their later relationship was that neither was ever particularly attracted to the other sexually -- and at first this had caused problems for Anna Mae. There was a spot in the show where Turner would invite a girl from the audience up on stage to sing, a different one every night, usually someone he'd decided he wanted to sleep with. Anna Mae desperately wanted to be one of the girls that would get up on stage, but Turner never picked her. But then one day she got her chance. Her sister's boyfriend was teasing her sister, trying to get her to sing in this spot, and passed her the microphone. Her sister didn't want to sing, so Anna Mae grabbed the mic instead, and started singing -- the song she sang was B.B. King's "You Know I Love You", the same song that Turner always remembered as being recorded at Sun studios, and on which Turner had played piano: [Excerpt: B.B. King, "You Know I Love You"] Turner suddenly took notice of Anna Mae. As he would later say, everyone *says* they can sing, but it turned out that Anna Mae could. He took her on as an occasional backing singer, not at first as a full member of the band, but as a sort of apprentice, who he would teach how to use her talents more commercially. Turner always said that during this period, he would get Little Richard to help teach Anna Mae how to sing in a more uncontrolled, exuberant, style like he did, and Richard has backed this up, though Anna Mae never said anything about this. We do know though that Richard was a huge fan of Turner's -- the intro to "Good Golly Miss Molly": [Excerpt: Little Richard, "Good Golly Miss Molly"] was taken almost exactly from the intro to "Rocket '88": [Excerpt: Jackie Brenston and the Delta Cats, "Rocket '88"] and Richard later wrote the introduction to Turner's autobiography. So it's possible -- but both men were inveterate exaggerators, and Anna Mae only joined Ike's band a few months before Richard's conversion and retirement from music, and during a point when he was a massive star, so it seems unlikely. Anna Mae started dating Raymond Hill, a saxophone player in the group, and became pregnant by him -- but then Hill broke his ankle, and used that as an excuse to move back to Clarksdale, Mississippi, to be with his family, abandoning his pregnant teenage girlfriend, and it seems to be around this point that Turner and Anna Mae became romantically and sexually involved. Certainly, one of Ike's girlfriends, Lorraine Taylor, seems to have believed they were involved while Anna Mae was pregnant, and indeed that Turner, rather than Hill, was the father. Taylor threatened Bullock with Turner's gun, before turning it on herself and attempting suicide, though luckily she survived. She gave birth to Turner's son, Ike Junior, a couple of months after Bullock gave birth to her own son, Craig. But even after they got involved, Anna Mae was still mostly just doing odd bits of backing vocals, like on "Boxtop", recorded in 1958, or on 1959's "That's All I Need", released on Sue Records: [Excerpt: Ike Turner's Kings of Rhythm, "That's All I Need"] And it seemed that would be all that Anna Mae Bullock would do, until Ike Turner lent Art Lassiter eighty dollars he didn't want to pay back. Lassiter was a singer who was often backed by his own vocal trio, the Artettes, patterned after Ray Charles' Raelettes. He had performed with Turner's band on a semi-regular basis, since 1955 when he had recorded "As Long as I Have You" with his vocal group the Trojans, backed by "Ike Turner and his Orchestra": [Excerpt: The Trojans, Ike Turner and His Orchestra, "As Long as I Have You"] He'd recorded a few more tracks with Turner since then, both solo and under group names like The Rockers: [Excerpt: The Rockers, "Why Don't You Believe?"] In 1960, Lassiter needed new tyres for his car, and borrowed eighty dollars from Turner in order to get them -- a relatively substantial amount of money for a working musician back then. He told Turner that he would pay him back at a recording session they had booked, where Lassiter was going to record a song Turner had written, "A Fool in Love", with Turner's band and the Artettes. But Lassiter never showed up -- he didn't have the eighty dollars, and Turner found himself sat in a recording studio with a bunch of musicians he was paying for, paying twenty-five dollars an hour for the studio time, and with no singer there to record. At the time, he was still under the impression that Lassiter might eventually show up, if not at that session, then at least at a future one, but until he did, there was nothing he could do and he was getting angry. Bullock suggested that they cut the track without Lassiter. They were using a studio with a multi-track machine -- only two tracks, but that would be enough. They could cut the backing track on one track, and she could record a guide vocal on the other track, since she'd been around when Turner was teaching Lassiter the song. At least that way they wouldn't have wasted all the money. Turner saw the wisdom of the idea -- he said in his autobiography "This was the first time I got hip to two-track stereo" -- and after consulting with the engineer on the session, he decided to go ahead with Bullock's plan. The plan still caused problems, because they were recording the song in a key written for a man, so Bullock had to yell more than sing, causing problems for the engineer, who according to Turner kept saying things like "Goddammit, don't holler in my microphone". But it was only a demo vocal, after all, and they got it cut -- and as Lassiter didn't show up, Turner took Lassiter's backing vocal group as his own new group, renaming the Artettes to the Ikettes, and they became the first of a whole series of lineups of Ikettes who would record with Turner for the rest of his life. The intention was still to get Lassiter to sing lead on the record, but then Turner played an acetate of it at a club night where he was DJing as well as performing, and the kids apparently went wild: [Excerpt: Ike and Tina Turner, "A Fool in Love"] Turner took the demo to Juggy Murray at Sue Records, still with the intention of replacing Anna Mae's vocal with Lassiter's, but Murray insisted that that was the best thing about the record, and that it should be released exactly as it was, that it was a guaranteed hit. Although -- while that's the story that's told all the time about that record by everyone involved in the recording and release, and seems uncontested, there does seem to be one minor problem with the story, which is that the Ikettes sing "you know you love him, you can't understand/Why he treats you like he do when he's such a good man". I'm willing to be proved wrong, of course, but my suspicion is that Ike Turner wasn't such a progressive thinker that he was writing songs about male-male relationships in 1960. It's possible that the Ikettes were recorded on the same track as Tina's guide vocals, but if the intention was to overdub a new lead from Lassiter on an otherwise finished track, it would have made more sense for them to sing their finished backing vocal part. It seems more likely to me that they decided in the studio that the record was going to go out with Anna Mae singing lead, and the idea of Murray insisting is a later exaggeration. One thing that doesn't seem to be an exaggeration, though, is that initially Murray wanted the record to go out as by Ike Turner's Kings of Rhythm featuring Little Ann, but Turner had other ideas. While Murray insisted "the girl is the star", Turner knew what happened when other people were the credited stars on his records. He didn't want another Jackie Brenston, having a hit and immediately leaving Turner right back where he started. If Little Ann was the credited singer, Little Ann would become a star and Ike Turner would have to find a new singer. So he came up with a pseudonym. Turner was a fan of jungle women in film serials and TV, and he thought a wild-woman persona would suit Anna Mae's yelled vocal, and so he named his new star after Sheena, Queen of the Jungle, a female Tarzan knock-off comic character created by Will Eisner and Jerry Iger in the thirties, but who Turner probably knew from a TV series that had been on in 1955 and 56. He gave her his surname, changed "Sheena" slightly to make the new name alliterative and always at least claimed to have registered a trademark on the name he came up with, so if Anna Mae ever left the band he could just get a new singer to use the name. Anna Mae Bullock was now Tina Turner, and the record went out as by "Ike and Tina Turner": [Excerpt: Ike and Tina Turner, "A Fool in Love"] That went to number two on the R&B charts, and hit the top thirty on the pop charts, too. But there were already problems. After Ike had had a second son with Lorraine, he then got Tina pregnant with another of his children, still seeing both women. He had already started behaving abusively towards Tina, and as well as being pregnant, she was suffering from jaundice -- she says in the first of her two autobiographies that she distinctly remembered lying in her hospital bed, hearing "A Fool in Love" on the radio, and thinking "What's love got to do with it?", though as with all such self-mythologising we should take this with a pinch of salt. Turner was in need of money to pay for lawyers -- he had been arrested for financial crimes involving forged cheques -- and Juggy Murray wouldn't give him an advance until he delivered a follow-up to "A Fool in Love", so he insisted that Tina sneak herself out of the hospital and go into the studio, jaundiced and pregnant, to record the follow-up. Then, as soon as the jaundice had cleared up, they went on a four-month tour, with Tina heavily pregnant, to make enough money to pay Ike's legal bills. Turner worked his band relentlessly -- he would accept literally any gig, even tiny clubs with only a hundred people in the audience, reasoning that it was better for the band's image to play  small venues that had to turn people away because they were packed to capacity, than to play large venues that were only half full. While "A Fool in Love" had a substantial white audience, the Ike and Tina Turner Revue was almost the epitome of the chitlin' circuit act, playing exciting, funky, tightly-choreographed shows for almost entirely Black audiences in much the same way as James Brown, and Ike Turner was in control of every aspect of the show. When Tina had to go into hospital to give birth, rather than give up the money from gigging, Ike hired a sex worker who bore a slight resemblance to Tina to be the new onstage "Tina Turner" until the real one was able to perform again. One of the Ikettes told the real Tina, who discharged herself from hospital, travelled to the venue, beat up the fake Tina, and took her place on stage two days after giving birth. The Ike and Tina Turner Revue, with the Kings of Rhythm backing Tina, the Ikettes, and male singer Jimmy Thomas, all of whom had solo spots, were an astonishing live act, but they were only intermittently successful on record. None of the three follow-ups to "A Fool in Love" did better than number eighty-two on the charts, and two of them didn't even make the R&B charts, though "I Idolize You" did make the R&B top five. Their next big hit came courtesy of Mickey and Sylvia. You may remember us talking about Mickey and Sylvia way back in episode forty-nine, from back in 2019, but if you don't, they were one of a series of R&B duet acts, like Gene and Eunice, who came up after the success of Shirley and Lee, and their big hit was "Love is Strange": [Excerpt: Mickey and Sylvia, "Love is Strange"] By 1961, their career had more or less ended, but they'd recorded a song co-written by the great R&B songwriter Rose Marie McCoy, which had gone unreleased: [Excerpt: Mickey and Sylvia, "It's Gonna Work Out Fine"] When that was shelved they remade it as an Ike and Tina Turner record, with Mickey and Sylvia being Ike -- Sylvia took on all the roles that Ike would normally do in the studio, arranging the track and playing lead guitar, as well as joining the Ikettes on backing vocals, while Mickey did the spoken answering vocals that most listeners assumed were Ike, and which Ike would replicate on stage. The result, unsurprisingly, sounded more like a Mickey and Sylvia record than anything Ike and Tina had ever released before, though it's very obviously Tina on lead vocals: [Excerpt: Ike and Tina Turner, "It's Gonna Work Out Fine"] That made the top twenty on the pop charts -- though it would be their last top forty hit for nearly a decade as Ike and Tina Turner. They did though have a couple of other hits as the Ikettes, with Ike Turner putting the girl group's name on the label so he could record for multiple labels. The first of these, "I'm Blue (The Gong Gong Song)" was a song Ike had written which would later go on to become something of an R&B standard. It featured Dolores Johnson on lead vocals, but Tina sang backing vocals and got a rare co-production credit: [Excerpt: The Ikettes, "I'm Blue (The Gong Gong Song)"] The other Ikettes top forty hit was in 1965, with a song written by Steve Venet and Tommy Boyce -- a songwriter we will be hearing more about in three weeks -- and produced by Venet: [Excerpt: The Ikettes, "Peaches 'n' Cream"] Ike wasn't keen on that record at first, but soon came round to it when it hit the charts. The success of that record caused that lineup of Ikettes to split from Ike and Tina -- the Ikettes had become a successful act in their own right, and Dick Clark's Caravan of Stars wanted to book them, but that would have meant they wouldn't be available for Ike and Tina shows. So Ike sent a different group of three girls out on the road with Clark's tour, keeping the original Ikettes back to record and tour with him, and didn't pay them any royalties on their records. They resented being unable to capitalise on their big hit, so they quit. At first they tried to keep the Ikettes name for themselves, and got Tina Turner's sister Alline to manage them, but eventually they changed their name to the Mirettes, and released a few semi-successful records. Ike got another trio of Ikettes to replace them, and carried on with Pat Arnold, Gloria Scott, and Maxine Smith as the new Ikettes,. One Ikette did remain pretty much throughout -- a woman called Ann Thomas, who Ike Turner was sleeping with, and who he would much later marry, but who he always claimed was never allowed to sing with the others, but was just there for her looks. By this point Ike and Tina had married, though Ike had not divorced any of his previous wives (though he paid some of them off when Ike and Tina became big). Ike and Tina's marriage in Tijuana was not remembered by either of them as a particularly happy experience -- Ike would always later insist that it wasn't a legal marriage at all, and in fact that it was the only one of his many, many, marriages that hadn't been, and was just a joke. He was regularly abusing her in the most horrific ways, but at this point the duo still seemed to the public to be perfectly matched. They actually only ended up on the Big TNT Show as a last-minute thing -- another act was sick, though none of my references mention who it was who got sick, just that someone was needed to fill in for them, and as Ike and Tina were now based in LA -- the country boy Ike had finally become a city boy after all -- and would take any job on no notice, they got the gig. Phil Spector was impressed, and he decided that he could revitalise his career by producing a hit for Tina Turner. There was only one thing wrong -- Tina Turner wasn't an act. *Ike* and Tina Turner was an act. And Ike Turner was a control freak, just like Spector was -- the two men had essentially the same personality, and Spector didn't want to work with someone else who would want to be in charge. After some negotiation, they came to an agreement -- Spector could produce a Tina Turner record, but it would be released as an Ike and Tina Turner record. Ike would be paid twenty thousand dollars for his services, and those services would consist of staying well away from the studio and not interfering. Spector was going to go back to the old formulas that had worked for him, and work with the people who had contributed to his past successes, rather than leaving anything to chance. Jack Nitzsche had had a bit of a falling out with him and not worked on some of the singles he'd produced recently, but he was back. And Spector was going to work with Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich again. He'd fallen out with Barry and Greenwich when "Chapel of Love" had been a hit for the Dixie Cups rather than for one of Spector's own artists, and he'd been working with Mann and Weill and Goffin and King instead. But he knew that it was Barry and Greenwich who were the ones who had worked best with him, and who understood his musical needs best, so he actually travelled to see them in New York instead of getting them to come to him in LA, as a peace offering and a sign of how much he valued their input. The only problem was that Spector hadn't realised that Barry and Greenwich had actually split up.  They were still working together in the studio, and indeed had just produced a minor hit single for a new act on Bert Berns' label BANG, for which Greenwich had written the horn arrangement: [Excerpt: Neil Diamond, "Solitary Man"] We'll hear more about Neil Diamond, and about Jeff Barry's work with him, in three weeks. But Barry and Greenwich were going through a divorce and weren't writing together any more, and came back together for one last writing session with Spector, at which, apparently, Ellie Greenwich would cry every time they wrote a line about love. The session produced four songs, of which two became singles. Barry produced a version of "I Can Hear Music", written at these sessions, for the Ronettes, who Spector was no longer interested in producing himself: [Excerpt: The Ronettes, "I Can Hear Music"] That only made number ninety-nine on the charts, but the song was later a hit for the Beach Boys and has become recognised as a classic. The other song they wrote in those sessions, though, was the one that Spector wanted to give to Tina Turner. "River Deep, Mountain High" was a true three-way collaboration -- Greenwich came up with the music for the verses, Spector for the choruses, and Barry wrote the lyrics and tweaked the melody slightly. Spector, Barry, and Greenwich spent two weeks in their writing session, mostly spent on "River Deep, Mountain High". Spector later said of the writing "Every time we'd write a love line, Ellie would start to cry. I couldn't figure out what was happening, and then I realised… it was a very uncomfortable situation. We wrote that, and we wrote ‘I Can Hear Music'…. We wrote three or four hit songs on that one writing session. “The whole thing about ‘River Deep' was the way I could feel that strong bass line. That's how it started. And then Jeff came up with the opening line. I wanted a tender song about a chick who loved somebody very much, but a different way of expressing it. So we came up with the rag doll and ‘I'm going to cuddle you like a little puppy'. And the idea was really built for Tina, just like ‘Lovin' Feelin” was built for the Righteous Brothers.” Spector spent weeks recording, remixing, rerecording, and reremixing the backing track, arranged by Nitzsche, creating the most thunderous, overblown, example of the Wall of Sound he had ever created, before getting Tina into the studio. He also spent weeks rehearsing Tina on the song, and according to her most of what he did was "carefully stripping away all traces of Ike from my performance" -- she was belting the song and adding embellishments, the way Ike Turner had always taught her to, and Spector kept insisting that she just sing the melody -- something that she had never had the opportunity to do before, and which she thought was wonderful. It was so different from anything else that she'd recorded that after each session, when Ike would ask her about the song, she would go completely blank -- she couldn't hold this pop song in her head except when she was running through it with Spector. Eventually she did remember it, and when she did Ike was not impressed, though the record became one of the definitive pop records of all time: [Excerpt: Ike and Tina Turner, "River Deep, Mountain High"] Spector was putting everything on the line for this record, which was intended to be his great comeback and masterpiece. That one track cost more than twenty thousand dollars to record -- an absolute fortune at a time when a single would normally be recorded in one or two sessions at most. It also required a lot of work on Tina's part. She later estimated that she had sung the opening line of the song a thousand times before Spector allowed her to move on to the second line, and talked about how she got so hot and sweaty singing the song over and over that she had to take her blouse off in the studio and sing the song in her bra. She later said "I still don't know what he wanted. I still don't know if I pleased him. But I never stopped trying." Spector produced a total of six tracks with Tina, including the other two songs written at those Barry and Greenwich sessions, "I'll Never Need More Than This", which became the second single released off the "River Deep, Mountain High" album, and "Hold On Baby", plus cover versions of Arthur Alexander's "Every Day I Have to Cry Some", Pomus and Shuman's "Save the Last Dance", and "A Love Like Yours (Don't Come Knocking Everyday)" a Holland-Dozier-Holland song which had originally been released as a Martha and the Vandellas B-side. The planned album was to be padded out with six tracks produced by Ike Turner, mostly remakes of the duo's earlier hits, and was planned for release after the single became the hit everyone knew it would. The single hit the Hot One Hundred soon after it was released: [Excerpt: Ike and Tina Turner, "River Deep, Mountain High"] ...and got no higher up the charts than number eighty-eight. The failure of the record basically destroyed Spector, and while he had been an abusive husband before this, now he became much worse, as he essentially retired from music for four years, and became increasingly paranoid and aggressive towards the industry that he thought was not respectful enough of his genius. There have been several different hypotheses as to why "River Deep Mountain High" was not a success. Some have said that it was simply because DJs were fed up of Spector refusing to pay payola, and had been looking for a reason to take him down a peg. Ike Turner thought it was due to racism, saying later “See, what's wrong with America, I think, is that rather than accept something for its value… what it's doing, America mixes race in it. You can't call that record R&B. But because it's Tina… if you had not put Tina's name on there and put ‘Joe Blow', then the Top 40 stations would have accepted it for being a pop record. But Tina Turner… they want to brand her as being an R&B artist. I think the main reason that ‘River Deep' didn't make it here in America was that the R&B stations wouldn't play it because they thought it was pop, and the pop stations wouldn't play it because they thought it was R&B. And it didn't get played at all. The only record I've heard that could come close to that record is a record by the Beach Boys called ‘Good Vibrations'. I think these are the two records that I've heard in my life that I really like, you know?” Meanwhile, Jeff Barry thought it was partly the DJs but also faults in the record caused by Phil Spector's egomania, saying "he has a self-destructive thing going for him, which is part of the reason that the mix on ‘River Deep' is terrible, he buried the lead and he knows he buried the lead and he cannot stop himself from doing that… if you listen to his records in sequence, the lead goes further and further in and to me what he is saying is, ‘It is not the song I wrote with Jeff and Ellie, it is not the song – just listen to those strings. I want more musicians, it's me, listen to that bass sound. …' That, to me, is what hurts in the long run... Also, I do think that the song is not as clear on the record as it should be, mix-wise. I don't want to use the word overproduced, because it isn't, it's just undermixed." There's possibly an element of all three of these factors in play. As we've discussed, 1965 seems to have been the year that the resegregation of American radio began, and the start of the long slow process of redefining genres so that rock and roll, still considered a predominantly Black music at the beginning of the sixties, was by the end of the decade considered an almost entirely white music. And it's also the case that "River Deep, Mountain High" was the most extreme production Spector ever committed to vinyl, and that Spector had made a lot of enemies in the music business. It's also, though, the case  that it was a genuinely great record: [Excerpt: Ike and Tina Turner, "River Deep, Mountain High"] However, in the UK, it was promoted by Decca executive Tony Hall, who was a figure who straddled both sides of the entertainment world -- as part of his work as a music publicist he had been a presenter on Oh Boy!, written a column in Record Mirror, and presented a Radio Luxembourg show. Hall put his not-inconsiderable weight behind promoting the record, and it ended up reaching number two in the UK -- being successful enough that the album was also released over here, though it wouldn't come out in the US for several years. The record also attracted the attention of the Rolling Stones, who invited Ike and Tina to be their support act on a UK tour, which also featured the Yardbirds, and this would be a major change for the duo in all sorts of ways. Firstly, it got them properly in contact with British musicians -- and the Stones would get Ike and Tina as support artists several times over the next few years -- and also made the UK and Europe part of their regular tour itinerary. It also gave the duo their first big white rock audience, and over the next several years they would pivot more and more to performing music aimed at that audience, rather than the chitlin' circuit they'd been playing for previously. Ike was very conscious of wanting to move away from the blues and R&B -- while that was where he'd made his living as a musician, it wasn't music he actually liked, and he would often talk later about how much he respected Keith Richards and Eric Clapton, and how his favourite music was country music. Tina had also never been a fan of blues or R&B, and wanted to perform songs by the white British performers they were meeting. The tour also, though, gave Tina her first real thoughts of escape. She loved the UK and Europe, and started thinking about what life could be like for her not just being Ike Turner's wife and working fifty-one weeks a year at whatever gigs came along. But it also made that escape a little more difficult, because on the tour Tina lost one of her few confidantes in the organisation. Tina had helped Pat Arnold get away from her own abusive partner, and the two had become very close, but Arnold was increasingly uncomfortable being around Ike's abuse of Tina, and couldn't help her friend the way she'd been helped. She decided she needed to get out of a toxic situation, and decided to stay in England, where she'd struck up an affair with Mick Jagger, and where she found that there were many opportunities for her as a Black woman that simply hadn't been there in the US. (This is not to say that Britain doesn't have problems with racism -- it very much does, but those problems are *different* problems than the ones that the US had at that point, and Arnold found Britain's attitude more congenial to her personally). There was also another aspect, which a lot of Black female singers of her generation have mentioned and which probably applies here. Many Black women have said that they were astonished on visiting Britain to be hailed as great singers, when they thought of themselves as merely average. Britain does not have the kind of Black churches which had taught generations of Black American women to sing gospel, and so singers who in the US thought of themselves as merely OK would be far, far, better than any singers in the UK -- the technical standards were just so much lower here. (This is something that was still true at least as late as the mid-eighties. Bob Geldof talks in his autobiography about attending the recording session for "We Are the World" after having previously recorded "Do They Know It's Christmas?" and being astonished at how much more technically skilled the American stars were and how much more seriously they took their craft.) And Arnold wasn't just an adequate singer -- she was and is a genuinely great talent -- and so she quickly found herself in demand in the UK. Jagger got her signed to Immediate Records, a new label that had been started up by the Stones manager Andrew Oldham, and where Jimmy Page was the staff producer. She was given a new name, P.P. Arnold, which was meant to remind people of another American import, P.J. Proby, but which she disliked because the initials spelled "peepee". Her first single on the label, produced by Jagger, did nothing, but her second single, written by a then-unknown songwriter named Cat Stevens, became a big hit: [Excerpt: P.P. Arnold, "The First Cut is the Deepest"] She toured with a backing band, The Nice, and made records as a backing singer with artists like the Small Faces. She also recorded a duet with the unknown singer Rod Stewart, though that wasn't a success: [Excerpt: Rod Stewart and P.P. Arnold, "Come Home Baby"] We'll be hearing more about P.P. Arnold in future episodes, but the upshot of her success was that Tina had even fewer people to support her. The next few years were increasingly difficult for Tina, as Ike turned to cocaine use in a big way, became increasingly violent, and his abuse of her became much more violent. The descriptions of his behaviour in Tina's two volumes of autobiography are utterly harrowing, and I won't go into them in detail, except to say that nobody should have to suffer what she did. Ike's autobiography, on the other hand, has him attempting to defend himself, even while admitting to several of the most heinous allegations, by saying he didn't beat his wife any more than most men did. Now the sad thing is that this may well be true, at least among his peer group. Turner's behaviour was no worse than behaviour from, say, James Brown or Brian Jones or Phil Spector or Jerry Lee Lewis, and it may well be that behaviour like this was common enough among people he knew that Turner's behaviour didn't stand out at all. His abuse has become much better-known, because the person he was attacking happened to become one of the biggest stars in the world, while the women they attacked didn't. But that of course doesn't make what Ike did to Tina any better -- it just makes it infinitely sadder that so many more people suffered that way. In 1968, Tina actually tried to take her own life -- and she was so fearful of Ike that when she overdosed, she timed it so that she thought she would be able to at least get on stage and start the first song before collapsing, knowing that their contract required her to do that for Ike to get paid. As it was, one of the Ikettes noticed the tablets she had taken had made her so out of it she'd drawn a line across her face with her eyebrow pencil. She was hospitalised, and according to both Ike and Tina's reports, she was comatose and her heart actually stopped beating, but then Ike started yelling at her, saying if she wanted to die why didn't she do it by jumping in front of a truck, rather than leaving him with hospital bills, and telling her to go ahead and die if this was how she was going to treat him -- and she was so scared of Ike her heart started up again. (This does not seem medically likely to me, but I wasn't there, and they both were). Of course, Ike frames this as compassion and tough love. I would have different words for it myself. Tina would make several more suicide attempts over the years, but even as Tina's life was falling apart, the duo's professional career was on the up. They started playing more shows in the UK, and they toured the US as support for the Rolling Stones. They also started having hits again, after switching to performing funked-up cover versions of contemporary hits. They had a minor hit with a double-sided single of the Beatles' "Come Together" and the Stones' "Honky-Tonk Women", then a bigger one with a version of Sly and the Family Stone's "I Want to Take You Higher", then had their biggest hit ever with "Proud Mary". It's likely we'll be looking at Creedence Clearwater Revival's original version of that song at some point, but while Ike Turner disliked the original, Tina liked it, and Ike also became convinced of the song's merits by hearing a version by The Checkmates Ltd: [Excerpt: The Checkmates Ltd, "Proud Mary"] That was produced by Phil Spector, who came briefly out of his self-imposed exile from the music business in 1969 to produce a couple of singles for the Checkmates and Ronnie Spector. That version inspired Ike and Tina's recording of the song, which went to number four on the charts and won them a Grammy award in 1971: [Excerpt: Ike and Tina Turner, "Proud Mary"] Ike was also investing the money they were making into their music. He built his own state-of-the-art studio, Bolic Sound, which Tina always claimed was a nod to her maiden name, Bullock, but which he later always said was a coincidence. Several other acts hired the studio, especially people in Frank Zappa's orbit -- Flo and Eddie recorded their first album as a duo there, and Zappa recorded big chunks of Over-Nite Sensation and Apostrophe('), two of his most successful albums, at the studio. Acts hiring Bolic Sound also got Tina and the Ikettes on backing vocals if they wanted them, and so for example Tina is one of the backing vocalists on Zappa's "Cosmik Debris": [Excerpt: Frank Zappa, "Cosmik Debris"] One of the most difficult things she ever had to sing in her life was this passage in Zappa's song "Montana", which took the Ikettes several days' rehearsal to get right. [Excerpt: Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, "Montana"] She was apparently so excited at having got that passage right that she called Ike out of his own session to come in and listen, but Ike was very much unimpressed, and insisted that Tina and the Ikettes not get credit on the records they made with Zappa. Zappa later said “I don't know how she managed to stick with that guy for so long. He treated her terribly and she's a really nice lady. We were recording down there on a Sunday. She wasn't involved with the session, but she came in on Sunday with a whole pot of stew that she brought for everyone working in the studio. Like out of nowhere, here's Tina Turner coming in with a rag on her head bringing a pot of stew. It was really nice.” By this point, Ike was unimpressed by anything other than cocaine and women, who he mostly got to sleep with him by having truly gargantuan amounts of cocaine around. As Ike was descending further into paranoia and abuse, though, Tina was coming into her own. She wrote "Nutbush City Limits" about the town where she grew up, and it reached number 22 on the charts -- higher than any song Ike ever wrote: [Excerpt: Ike and Tina Turner, "Nutbush City Limits"] Of course, Ike would later claim that he wrote the music and let Tina keep all the credit. Tina was also asked by the Who to appear in the film version of their rock opera Tommy, where her performance of "Acid Queen" was one of the highlights: [Excerpt: Tina Turner, "Acid Queen"] And while she was filming that in London, she was invited to guest on a TV show with Ann-Margret, who was a huge fan of Ike and Tina, and duetted with Tina -- but not Ike -- on a medley of her hits: [Excerpt: Tina Turner and Ann-Margret, "Nutbush City Limits/Honky Tonk Woman"] Just as with "River Deep, Mountain High", Tina was wanted for her own talents, independent of Ike. She was starting to see that as well as being an abusive husband, he was also not necessary for her to have a career. She was also starting to find parts of her life that she could have for herself, independent of her husband. She'd been introduced to Buddhist meditation by a friend, and took it up in a big way, much to Ike's disapproval. Things finally came to a head in July 1976, in Dallas, when Ike started beating her up and for the first time she fought back. She pretended to reconcile with him, waited for him to fall asleep, and ran across a busy interstate, almost getting hit by a ten-wheel truck, to get to another hotel she could see in the distance. Luckily, even though she had no money, and she was a Black woman in Dallas, not a city known for its enlightened attitudes in the 1970s, the manager of the Ramada Inn took pity on her and let her stay there for a while until she could get in touch with Buddhist friends. She spent the next few months living off the kindness of strangers, before making arrangements with Rhonda Graam, who had started working for Ike and Tina in 1964 as a fan, but had soon become indispensable to the organisation. Graam sided with Tina, and while still supposedly working for Ike she started putting together appearances for Tina on TV shows like Cher's. Cher was a fan of Tina's work, and was another woman trying to build a career after leaving an abusive husband who had been her musical partner: [Excerpt: Cher and Tina Turner, "Makin' Music is My Business"] Graam became Tina's full-time assistant, as well as her best friend, and remained part of her life until Graam's death a year ago. She also got Tina booked in to club gigs, but for a long time they found it hard to get bookings -- promoters would say she was "only half the act". Ike still wanted the duo to work together professionally, if not be a couple, but Tina absolutely refused, and Ike had gangster friends of his shoot up Graam's car, and Tina heard rumours that he was planning to hire a hit man to come after her. Tina filed for divorce, and gave Ike everything -- all the money the couple had earned together in sixteen years of work, all the property, all the intellectual property -- except for two cars, one of which Ike had given her and one which Sammy Davis Jr. had given her, and the one truly important thing -- the right to use the name "Tina Turner", which Ike had the trademark on. Ike had apparently been planning to hire someone else to perform as "Tina Turner" and carry on as if nothing had changed. Slowly, Tina built her career back up, though it was not without its missteps. She got a new manager, who also managed Olivia Newton-John, and the manager brought in a song he thought was perfect for Tina. She turned it down, and Newton-John recorded it instead: [Excerpt: Olivia Newton-John, "Physical"] But even while she was still playing small clubs, her old fans from the British rock scene were boosting her career. In 1981, after Rod Stewart saw her playing a club gig and singing his song "Hot Legs", he invited her to guest with him and perform the song on Saturday Night Live: [Excerpt: Rod Stewart and Tina Turner, "Hot Legs"] The Rolling Stones invited Tina to be their support act on a US tour, and to sing "Honky Tonk Women" on stage with them, and eventually when David Bowie, who was at the height of his fame at that point, told his record label he was going to see her on a night that EMI wanted to do an event for him, half the record industry showed up to the gig. She had already recorded a remake of the Temptations' "Ball of Confusion" with the British Electric Foundation -- a side project for two of the members of Heaven 17 -- in 1982, for one of their albums: [Excerpt: British Electric Foundation, "Ball of Confusion"] Now they were brought in to produce a new single for her, a remake of Al Green's "Let's Stay Together": [Excerpt: Tina Turner, "Let's Stay Together"] That made the top thirty in the US, and was a moderate hit in many places, making the top ten in the UK. She followed it up with another BEF production, a remake of "Help!" by the Beatles, which appears only to have been released in mainland Europe. But then came the big hit: [Excerpt: Tina Turner, "What's Love Got to Do With It?"] wenty-six years after she started performing with Ike, Tina Turner was suddenly a major star. She had a string of successes throughout the eighties and nineties, with more hit records, film appearances, a successful autobiography, a film based on the autobiography, and record-setting concert appearan

Last week, Salt Lake City leaders reluctantly agreed to host a temporary winter overflow shelter at what was previously a Ramada Inn on North Temple and Redwood Road. The announcement came after the Salt Lake Valley Coalition to End Homelessness said that they considered locations in other cities, but each option ended up being unworkable. […]

The Horse is back for a second time in 2012 to deliver one of - in most of our opinions - the finest albums they've ever made. It's Psychedelic Pill! Our pal John Craigie joins us once again and we dive into each song. We fawn over Ramada Inn. Mike threatens physical violence against anyone who doesn't like the song. We find out John is a bit of a whistle snob. Russ has an interesting take on She's Always Dancing. Luke can't get enough of Driftin' Back. It's a great album to talk about. We had fun on this one.Go see John Craigie live. Trust us. Find tour info and other good stuff at JohnCraigieMusic.comThanks again to Tiesta Tea for sponsoring our nonsense. Go to Tiestatea.com and use the promo code: Young15 to get 15% off your order.And as always, make sure to check out all the other great music podcasts at Pantheonpodcasts.comLongmayyouyoungpodcast.comPatreon.com/longmayyouyoungFacebook.com/longmayyouyoung

The Horse is back for a second time in 2012 to deliver one of - in most of our opinions - the finest albums they've ever made. It's Psychedelic Pill! Our pal John Craigie joins us once again and we dive into each song. We fawn over Ramada Inn. Mike threatens physical violence against anyone who doesn't like the song. We find out John is a bit of a whistle snob. Russ has an interesting take on She's Always Dancing. Luke can't get enough of Driftin' Back. It's a great album to talk about. We had fun on this one. Go see John Craigie live. Trust us. Find tour info and other good stuff at JohnCraigieMusic.com Thanks again to Tiesta Tea for sponsoring our nonsense. Go to Tiestatea.com and use the promo code: Young15 to get 15% off your order. And as always, make sure to check out all the other great music podcasts at Pantheonpodcasts.com Longmayyouyoungpodcast.com Patreon.com/longmayyouyoung Facebook.com/longmayyouyoung Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Horse is back for a second time in 2012 to deliver one of - in most of our opinions - the finest albums they've ever made. It's Psychedelic Pill! Our pal John Craigie joins us once again and we dive into each song. We fawn over Ramada Inn. Mike threatens physical violence against anyone who doesn't like the song. We find out John is a bit of a whistle snob. Russ has an interesting take on She's Always Dancing. Luke can't get enough of Driftin' Back. It's a great album to talk about. We had fun on this one.Go see John Craigie live. Trust us. Find tour info and other good stuff at JohnCraigieMusic.comThanks again to Tiesta Tea for sponsoring our nonsense. Go to Tiestatea.com and use the promo code: Young15 to get 15% off your order.And as always, make sure to check out all the other great music podcasts at Pantheonpodcasts.comLongmayyouyoungpodcast.com Patreon.com/longmayyouyoungFacebook.com/longmayyouyoung

The Horse is back for a second time in 2012 to deliver one of - in most of our opinions - the finest albums they've ever made. It's Psychedelic Pill! Our pal John Craigie joins us once again and we dive into each song. We fawn over Ramada Inn. Mike threatens physical violence against anyone who doesn't like the song. We find out John is a bit of a whistle snob. Russ has an interesting take on She's Always Dancing. Luke can't get enough of Driftin' Back. It's a great album to talk about. We had fun on this one. Go see John Craigie live. Trust us. Find tour info and other good stuff at JohnCraigieMusic.com Thanks again to Tiesta Tea for sponsoring our nonsense. Go to Tiestatea.com and use the promo code: Young15 to get 15% off your order. And as always, make sure to check out all the other great music podcasts at Pantheonpodcasts.com Longmayyouyoungpodcast.com Patreon.com/longmayyouyoung Facebook.com/longmayyouyoung Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Iluminados, neste episódio, vocês ouvirão os seguintes relatos de ouvintes e de fóruns internacionais: Relato 1: ERA MINHA FILHA? Relato 2: MUSEU DA POLÍCIA DE MUIZENBERG NA CIDADE DO CABO Relato 3: APARAIÇÃO DO EX-DONO DA CASA? Relato 4: GRANDE MASSA NEGRA EM FORMA DE HOMEM Relato 5: POUSADA ASSOMBRADA Relato 6: RAMADA INN, BANGOR, MAINE, QUATROS 103 E 203 Relato 7: ELE SE TRANSFORMOU EM LUZ *** Considere tornar-se um apoiador mais que iluminado do Siga a Luz. Link: apoia.se/sigaaluzpodcast (Seja um apoiador contínuo). PIX: sigaaluzpodcast@gmail.com (Apoie com a quantia que quiser e quando quiser). *** Música: CO.AG Music - A Person That They Will All Fear *** Mandem relatos para: sigaaluzpodcast@gmail.com

How do you feel when you first step into a hotel or a restaurant? The excitement in the air, the feeling that you have found some place that is truly unique is part of the allure of the hospitality industry. Dan is joined by a renowned designer, innovative thinker and creative Entrepreneur, Marquise Stillwell. Marquise is also the founder of Deem Journal, ArtMatr, Openbox, Opendox, and Urban Ocean Lab. Listen to this week's episode as he shares #hospitality insights with Dan Ryan today!     Takeaways:  Hospitalities, especially hotels, are like tiny little cities. They are open 24 hours, they never stop and there are 24 hours of activity going on.  Hotels serve the purpose to be surprised, meaning each time you walk in, you should feel it is a unique experience.  This is also known as Creating the Conditions to be Surprised. Sometimes luck plays a big role. The proximity of luck is when you go out to a restaurant or a hotel and you begin to talk to someone near you, that person could be your next connection. Restaurants and hotels that reflect the community are the ones of the future.  When you meet people who are in close proximity to you (ie a hotel) that is called Density of Network. The younger generation is going to get tired quickly of the rapid change in employment and treating employees like they are on a conveyor belt.   Quote of the Show: 24:31 “Hospitality right now is in a place where we need to rethink our model. Restaurants were already struggling. We need to rethink that model, we need to make it more human and people centered. We need to make sure people can afford to  live and work off their salary. We need to do the same thing in hotels. We need to make sure the front staff is just as respected as the office staff and that they have a livable wage. That's a larger conversation but it goes to every aspect of what it means to serve. If you're in the service industry, and you're providing food and you're serving food and you can't even afford the food you're serving, that's a problem.”     Links:  Marquise's Profile - https://www.linkedin.com/in/quise/ Websiteshttps://www.opnbx.com/team/marquise-stillwell Twitterhttps://twitter.com/quise7?lang=en Shout Outs:  3:54 Ramada Inn and Hotel 12:38 Ramada Inn University and Hotel in Columbus, Ohio 31:15 Westin Hotels 31:30 Equinox Hotels 32:38 Scent Dawn and Samantha Goldworm 49:19 Hoffman Process     Ways to Tune In:  Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0A2XOJvb6mGqEPYJ5bilPX Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/defining-hospitality-podcast/id1573596386 Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZGVmaW5pbmdob3NwaXRhbGl0eS5saXZlL2ZlZWQueG1s

We take a look at Dave's favorite places off property and Audrey's faves on Property! Ramada Inn - https://bit.ly/3hibfle Liki Tiki Village - https://bit.ly/3h34uEW Mystic Dunes - https://bit.ly/3x9WXJQ Contact us 757-563-4742 anotherdispodcast@gmail.com Join us on Patreon: patreon.com/anotherdisneypodcast Follow us on Instagram instagram.com/anotherdisneypodcast Subscribe on YouTube YouTube.com/anotherdisneypodcast Cameras Sony A7siii https://bhpho.to/3bZ3RK1 Fuji XT 4 https://bhpho.to/3bZr3Yp Lenses Tamron 28-75 f2.8 https://bhpho.to/3vzv2Tz Meike 50mm T2.1 FF Cine Lens https://amzn.to/3s1EsF8 Audio Rodecaster Pro https://amzn.to/3s1IiOz Rode PodMic https://bhpho.to/3eQ4pUk Lighting Godox SL-60W https://amzn.to/3s0ZsvH Phillips Hue https://amzn.to/2P5KRAq

On Tuesday morning. The police's attention are directed to the Ramada Inn hotel near the San Diego Airport. They are standing out side room 105. Officers knock and they can hear a drowsy voice saying to the officers that they are to exhausted to come to the door to let themselves in. When a deputy cracked the interior door chain would allow. The officer saw blood on the floor and walls. Another deputy then kicked open the door and the police stormed the hotel room. An officer gasp and says oh my God!

Welcome to another episode of The Postcast, the audio companion to The Dominion Post newspaper in Morgantown, WV. In this episode firefighters remain at odds with Morgantown over holiday pay, and an update on goings on in Monongalia County, including pool improvements, medical cannabis regulations, and the Ramada Inn project.Stories discussed in this episode, in order mentioned:Firefighter Holiday Pay Dispute:1. https://www.dominionpost.com/2021/06/16/firefighters-morgantown-appear-in-court-over-holiday-pay-lawsuit/Monongalia County Updates:2. https://www.dominionpost.com/2021/06/11/city-county-investing-in-upgrades-for-60-year-old-pool-facilities/3. https://www.dominionpost.com/2021/06/16/mon-commission-will-likely-weigh-in-on-medical-cannabis-next-week/4. https://www.dominionpost.com/2021/06/12/announcements-coming-for-former-ramada-inn-project/Music in this episode is from https://filmmusic.io"Acid Trumpet" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

The Salvation Army in Morgantown, West Virginia has recently expanded their community meal service operations by opening the doors of Café Hope. Federal coronavirus relief money funded renovations to a former Ramada Inn building that included a new roof, plumbing, and a fully commercial kitchen where The Salvation Army will now prepare and serve dinner, Monday through Friday. Lieutenant Sheldon Greenland with The Salvation Army of Morgantown states;   “Throughout our history, The Salvation Army has sought to provide nourishment and comfort to those in need. We nourish the soul with our ministry, and we nourish the body with programs such as this,” The Salvation Army of Morgantown has served 85-90 take-out meals each evening from their church location throughout the pandemic and now, Café Hope will allow for The Salvation Army to serve up to 350 meals. To learn more about The Salvation Army of Morgantown, visit https://salvationarmypotomac.org/Morgantown/  

Mike watched the Season 3 Episode of Enterprise "The Xinidi" and had a lot of questions about the person who had to book a meeting room that needed a viewing tank!

When you look at all of the disruption, vacancies, and permanent closures in the office, hospitality, and retail space, it’s clear that we need to start thinking differently about Adaptive Reuse of these buildings.  And since one of the greatest needs we have in this country is for middle-income housing, I believe we’re going to see a lot more conversion projects designed to expand our middle-income housing inventory. Recently I saw an article in Costar News about a permanently closed Ramada Inn located in Sheffield, Alabama that was being converted into apartments for middle income workers.  I thought this would be a great topic to discuss on the show, so I contacted the developer, Richard Rubin with Los Angeles-based firm Repvblik (pronounced “Republic”), and he agreed to a conversation. Originally from South Africa, Richard brings a unique and creative perspective to obsolete and vacant buildings, as well as solutions for increasing inventory of workforce housing.  Today he’s going to explain the need for workforce housing, the types of adaptive reuse projects he prefers, the economics of adaptive reuse, and how the government can help facilitate this type of project. We’ll also go into detail on the Ramada Inn conversion in Alabama. It pays to think differently from everyone else when it comes to real estate investing and development.  I know you’re going to benefit from hearing Richard’s perspective.  You can contact Richard through email: richard@therepvblik.com or on linkedin. Today’s episode is brought to you by Green Property Management, managing everything from single family homes to apartment complexes in the West Michigan area. https://www.livegreenlocal.com And RCB & Associates, helping Michigan-based real estate investors and small business owners navigate the complex world of health insurance and medicare benefits. https://www.rcbassociatesllc.com

It's a time-honored tradition: the company retreat. But when that conjures the specter of Ramada Inn basements and conference rooms and three-hour presentation blocks, it's clear that an update is in order. In this episode, we strategize the most efficient and effective ways to reconnect and recharge with your organizations, as well as ways we might go about planning company retreats in the new age of remote work. Apply to work at The Ready: In the United States: http://theready.com/team In Europe: http://theready.com/team Our book is available now at bravenewwork.com We want to hear from you. Send your thoughts and feedback to podcast@theready.com Looking for some help with your own transformation? Visit theready.com

The St. Louis Blues have won three games in a row. How could things get any better? Well, what if Vladimir Tarasenko was about to return? What if a rookie scored a fun goal in his first game? What if our goalie went on a psychotic on-ice rampage and we had to talk about it! All those things happened! Every one of them! Strap in, folks.

Welcome to Straight 2 L, a podcast about the television series The L Word! Host Tonya (a lesbian) invites Suzanne and Whitney (two straights) into her home to take a deep dive into the 15-year old show, answering questions like: Where has sexy Tina been? Why are Shane and Paige buying a place worse than either of them currently has? And is it just a Ramada Inn from 1991? Will Alice maintain her TERF status, or will she ever stop being horrible? Has Bette and Jodi ever made anyone hot? Check in on Tonya and Suzanne’s century ride on another #PeloTalk segment, and hopefully you get this episode delivered to your ears damage free.

Ivan Chadima je člověk, který má vzpomínek a zkušeností za tři životy. Začal jako číšník z Alcronu a dostal se až na vedení těch nejslavnějších hotelů jako je Ramada Inn, Four Seasons a Ritz Carlton. A v průběhu své životní cesty potkal nespočet důležitých osobností z celého světa. Navštivte web CNN Prima NEWS na https://cnnprima.cz Sledujte CNN Prima NEWS na sociálních sítích: Facebook: https://facebook.com/cnnprima Instagram: https://instagram.com/cnnprima Twitter: https://twitter.com/cnnprima Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/CNNPrimaNEWSCZ #CNNPrimaNEWS See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to another episode of The Postcast, the audio companion to The Dominion Post newspaper in Morgantown, WV. In this episode Morgantown's Ramada Inn project takes a big step forward, and the debate over in-person or remote learning heats up. Episodes discussed in this episode, in order mentioned:Preston Back to School/State Board of Education: 1. https://www.dominionpost.com/2021/01/12/boe-votes-to-delay-getting-back-in-class/2, https://www.dominionpost.com/2021/01/13/state-wants-to-override-decision/Monongalia County Back to School/Balancing Act3. https://www.dominionpost.com/2021/01/12/mon-county-schools-will-stay-on-remote-learning-through-feb-12/4. https://www.dominionpost.com/2021/01/09/getting-a-shot-in-the-arm/Music in this episode is from https://filmmusic.io"Acid Trumpet" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Welcome to another episode of The Postcast, the audio companion to The Dominion Post newspaper in Morgantown, WV. In this episode Morgantown's Ramada Inn project takes a big step forward, and the debate over in-person or remote learning heats up. Episodes discussed in this episode, in order mentioned:Ramada Inn Project: 1. https://www.dominionpost.com/2020/12/30/justice-announces-3-5m-to-turn-old-ramada-inn-into-social-services-center/Gov. Justice Back to School Plan2. https://www.dominionpost.com/2020/12/30/justice-all-elementary-and-middle-schools-may-resume-in-person-starting-jan-19-vaccine-program-for-age-80-and-up-begins/3. https://www.dominionpost.com/2020/12/30/justice-faces-some-push-back-on-schools/4. https://www.dominionpost.com/2021/01/04/teacher-union-files-foia-regarding-kids-return-to-classroom/5. https://www.dominionpost.com/2021/01/05/districts-look-to-have-final-say-in-return-to-schools/Music in this episode is from https://filmmusic.io"Acid Trumpet" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

I am so sorry that I was not able to get back to you. I got your message but could not call and have not been home to write a note.  You do not know how much I cherish you already.  You gestures and your thoughts are seemingly from another planet due to your gracious mannerism.   I long to know you much better.   Would you call me whenever you get up.  I do not want to wake you too early, AND, I know your 10:00 appointment that you must be preparing for.  I would think that calling me on my cell would be best, I may well be on my way to you when you do call.  God bless you abundantly, - Peter Kent   He didn't get home until 1:00 am because he was in jail for shoplifting a $3.00 kitchen knife.  A pastor-friend down the street came and bailed him out.   I didn't get the message because I didn't have AOL at home.   8:45 am My intention at the moment, is to make contact with you earlier today.  I am off to get a drivers license address change and then I will be going the long way around to pick up some meds at Costco in Brandon on my way to you somehow.   I am excited about us launching something together, a relationship.  You seem to feel about me as I would wish my special person to feel.  I do not take that lightly, it is very filling and I could not ever say enough good about it.  What I wish to learn is to 'act' or 'be' as though it means the world to me, rather than playing safe and untrustworthy of relationship.   I think that going slow and talking about it a lot, as knowledgeable adults, is the way to go.  I have many worthy things to do. - Peter Kent   Dear Peter Kent,  I did not have access to a computer last night.  The old lap top that I carried to the island was having modem trouble.  I got it up and running, but it was too slow to bother with this morning.  I am glad you called.  As much as I dislike talking on the phone, it is still the most effective for two people on the move.  It is different when it is you anyway.  Perhaps you will help me to overcome this little problem.   I just got in to Easy Street and read your notes.  I do care about you and think about you throughout the day.  Being a woman, it is always easy to start over, because there is always someone who will take you in, make you strong and wish you well on your way.  I think it must be much harder for a man.  You would know.   I don't want you to try and argue with me about this trip.  I will pay all of the costs involved and don't want you to reach for your wallet in any part of the travel or food expense this weekend.  The only thing that I want from you is that you are well rested and prepared for your exam.  In some ways I think even the distraction of a woman is bad timing for this, but I don't know quite what to do about that.  Just know that I am patient (you will not believe how patient until you know me better) and I, too, want to go at this relationship slowly.  As much as I love the thrill of infatuation, I want something more lasting and ultimately, more satisfying.   We are having a chicken crisis right now, so I can't devote the time to that thought that I would like.  Brandon is very congested, so be careful.  If you get lost trying to get back to Easy St. most people know where the Citrus Park mall is and we are across the street.  I will send another letter momentarily that has the work list.  For the cats,  Carole Lewis, Founder   RE:  The only thing that I want from you is that you are well rested and prepared for your exam.   This exam is fairly simple, I already passed the hard part.  I had taken the exam in March at the University of Miami Law School, AND, arrived 93 minutes late.   The exam is two parts, point location (easy, and should take about 35 minutes of the three hours they a lot) and comprehensive.  They let me sit for the exam anyway but I missed the instructions for the point location procedure.  I thought I got them all correct because they were commonly used points.   I got a 35% on that part and passed the difficult part.  All I really need to do is look through the book on the way there and tomorrow morning, when I can really cook (I usually study 300 times faster in the early morning).   RE: In some ways I think even the distraction of a woman is bad timing for this, Nah.....   RE:  but I don't know quite what to do about that.   There are only two requirements:  1) Do what I say, 2) do it immediately.......... (lol)   I am leaving in about 20 minutes.   Truly you are a gift I must pray about. - Peter Kent   Carole, the unpleasant part is the money end.   In the past I had done all fix-up stuff by bid or by time and materials.  I have a lot of tools to make things go faster and generally charge $29/hr for my time.  (I worked as a sub-contractor for a big fix-up firm in Albuquerque for a while and they bid me at $55/hour, until I got a school and a church to build I went off on my own while in school).   I am fast and work hard.  I usually do not like working more than 6-7 hours per day depending on my energy levels and the work entailed.   I am wishing for this to be fair a profitable for you.  I thank you for your loving ways, I wish not to be any burden.   11/9/01 I drove with Peter Kent in the 98 Dodge van to Jacksonville.  We pulled into the parking lot of the Ramada Inn at dusk and as we drove around back, I realized that this was the same hotel that Judy Watson, Hercules (the Snow Leopard) and I stayed in back on August 7-11, 1997 for the LIOC meeting.  I began thinking about what that signified.   That was the last “normal” week of my life.  Seven days later, Don was gone and my world was shaken upside down.  I told Peter Kent what was going on in my head and wondered aloud if this was God's way of saying that things would now get back to “normal” for me.  I could love again.  I could be happy again.  I could see the future again.   I wore my gown to bed because I did not wish to seem presumptuous and at some level really thought he should forego sex before this big exam.  I would leave that choice up to him.  He would know his needs and weaknesses better than I.  We continued exploring each other and then he kissed me.   I've been writing my story since I was able to write, but when the media goes to share it, they only choose the parts that fit their idea of what will generate views.  If I'm going to share my story, it should be the whole story.  The titles are the dates things happened. If you have any interest in who I really am please start at the beginning of this playlist: http://savethecats.org/   I know there will be people who take things out of context and try to use them to validate their own misconception, but you have access to the whole story.  My hope is that others will recognize themselves in my words and have the strength to do what is right for themselves and our shared planet.    You can help feed the cats at no cost to you using Amazon Smile! Visit BigCatRescue.org/Amazon-smile   You can see photos, videos and more, updated daily at BigCatRescue.org   Check out our main channel at YouTube.com/BigCatRescue   Music (if any) from Epidemic Sound (http://www.epidemicsound.com) This video is for entertainment purposes only and is my opinion.

 When Bob Dylan wrote this song 50 years ago, it was a matter of necessity. In the winter of ’69, he had arrived at the Columbia Records studio to record the great “Nashville Skyline” album having written only four of the songs he’d need to fill that record. So, over the next two days at the Ramada Inn where he was staying for the recording session, Bob wrote “Tonight I’ll be Staying Here with You,” a piece that worked so well it ended up being the beautiful final cut of the  album. In many ways, it was the signature tune for that whole project. The Flood started playing around with the song back in the ‘70s when Rog Samples and Charlie worked out this particular arrangement, and it seems to come back into our collective consciousness ever few decades or so. Here’s a ride we all took on that Dylan train at last night’s rehearsal.

Here’s the Ithaca Minute from 14850 Today for September 12th. St. James AME Zion Church wants to make back-to-school easier for Ithaca families, and they’re offering free hair styles, free haircuts, and free school supplies to K-12 city youth at the church this Sunday afternoon. Hair must be washed before kids come, and masks must be worn for this first come, first served event. Only basic cuts and styles are available. The St. James AME Zion “1st Annual Back to School Event” is Sunday, September 13 from 1-4pm at 116 Cleveland Ave. in Ithaca. Walter J. Wiggins, a Cornell Law School alum who retired from his law career at the age of 90 and founded some of Ithaca’s most iconic hotels and restaurants, passed away Wednesday morning at the age of 95, according to his family. “Wally” and his partners and family opened La Tourelle and the adjacent L’Auberge du Cochon Rouge and John Thomas Steakhouse restaurants, and the Ramada Inn, now Hotel Ithaca, that was downtown Ithaca’s first high-rise hotel. And WVBR’s Bound for Glory this Sunday night features a rebroadcast of a 2018 performance by Michael Jerling with Tony Markelis. Subscribe to the Ithaca Minute in iTunes or Google Play, RadioPublic, TuneIn, Stitcher, or [...]

Rob and Jerry join the ladies to discuss Sean Lowe's season of The Bachelor- the Greatest of All Time! THRRRREEEEEEE HOURS! Chris Harrison novels! Horny divorcees! - Arden is convinced that Sean does NOT know what 50 Shades Of Grey is! - Jerry wants The Bachelor to rethink their ending!  - Rob thinks if your mom is on TikTok it's time to MOVE OUT! All that plus........TWEET OF THE WEEK! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

A look back at the funniest moments of the last 22 episodes. We dare you not to laugh.  The "Lakelandist" Joe Cruz shares some of his favorite headlines. What's the deal with Chrissanne's marbles? Craig Hosking signature tropical style. Joe Tedder, our very own Zacchaeus! Sheriff Judd chooses a motorcycle over high school football. Bob Donahay's "Geraldo hair." Steve Scruggs' family were not travelling circus performers, despite what you might have heard. Tom Phillips gives the Ramada Inn five stars. Jae Choe and the pros and cons of goat yoga. Brad Sundgren and the art of feline carpentry.  

You might say Sean started his music debute off at the age of 4 standing on a concrete slab patio playing air guitar on a plastic baseball bat and the rustling autumn leaves was his audience. His first gig was at a Daytona Beach biker bar when he was just 13 and he has never looked back.  He played in a lobby of the Ramada Inn in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina to help lift up peoples sprits. In the Atlanta Southern Voice Best of Readers Poll for "Male Musician" Sean ranked 2nd in 2005, 1st in 2007 and 3rd in 2008.  He released his full concert live album in January 2008. After a full-circle Sean has returned to a home studio built into the very garage where he began some 30 years ago.

Government can be messy, it can be full of challenges and those challenges only grow larger as our world changes with social media and the twenty-four hour news cycle. Tom Phillips, Director of the Citrus Connection, is no stranger to the minefield of public policy. His pursuits of "big, hairy, audacious goals" has taught him many lessons about how best to communicate with the public he serves. Tom shares with us some of those lessons, some of his proven methods, a  smattering of interesting acronyms and more than a few laughs in the process.  Special thanks to the manager of the Ramada Inn for making this conversation possible.   (listen to find out why)

10th Annual Fargo Moorhead Comic Con this weekend 2/22 & 23  at the Ramada Inn in Fargo

10th Annual Fargo-Moorhead comic con this weekend 2/22 & 2/23 at the Ramada Inn in Fargo

Julia and Geoffrey watch commercials for the Ramada Inn (since that's where Ginny Grainger grew up in One Magic Christmas), and also commercials about Christmas, including the infamous Folgers incest one...But first we talk about a couple of things we forgot to mention in the main episode. Specifically the way it, like many other things we saw growing up, referenced The Honeymooners. This was a show we never watched, but understood to be about a married couple, and the … joke … was that the husband habitually threatened his wife with violence. Grrrrreat. Anyway, we wondered how on earth this movie was advertised to people, so we tried looking up a trailer, but what we could find labeled as a trailer was just this clip of Harry Dean Stanton watching the kids' hockey game. we concluded that this wasn't a trailer, but also that if you did see it, you'd still have no idea what the movie was actually about. We also found this spoof trailer someone recut to make it look like a horror movie.But honestly, the actual movie is scarier for the cold hard bleakness of life in that town.Eventually we found this behind the scenes making of preview from the Disney Channel. Harry Dean Stanton says it should have an uplifting effect. The director says it's based on a true story, which is that when he was a kid he saw Santa in a farmhouse in Canada. The trailer they cut together here makes it look like this is a movie about a girl who really believes Santa is real and then gets to meet him. Which is true, but elides the bulk of the movie, which is focused on the deeply depressing town. We finally had a short phone call with Julia's mother to find out what she thought of the movie before moving on to our commercial viewing. This movie had a bunch of product placement for the Ramada Inn, so naturally we started with this 1985 Christmas commercial for a Ramada Inn in Ontario. Then we watched this commercial from 1979.Nice people. Taking care of nice people.Next we looked up some of the people in One Magic Christmas. We learned that Harry Dean Stanton was also a musician, so we watched a clip of him playing and singing "Red River Valley" from the Twin Peaks reboot. Fair warning: someone says the F word at the end of this clip.Next we looked for some of Mary Steenburgen's music, and we ended up finding this ten minute documentary about it. Gosharooney!Then we watched some general Christmas commercials from 1985. We started with Sears.And then we watched a classic Folgers ad.This led to Julia explaining the long internet history of people associating Folgers with incest and writing fanfic about it. But this clearly wasn't the incest commercial, so we decided to hunt that down.There is in fact an updated version of the "Peter Comes Home" commercial. Does it imply incest? You decide!In the time between our recording this podcast and now, Gabriella Paiella has compiled a long oral history of the ad for GQ. We have our own theory about this commercial, and it involves aliens!Finally, we watched a Shoppers Drug Mart commercial from 1985, starring Bea Arthur!And that wraps up this Christmas special week! Thanks for listening! You're our present this year!If you're having fun listening to us, please tell your friends about us! Subscribe to our newsletter at thisiswhywerelikethis.substack.com for free, or pay $5/month to get access to two bonus paid episodes each month! We're also on Patreon if that's your jam! Rate and review us! follow us on Twitter where we're @thisiswhy_pod! And, of course, you can always drop us a note at at thisiswhywerelikethis@gmail.com. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thisiswhywerelikethis.substack.com/subscribe

Julia and Geoffrey watch commercials for the Ramada Inn (since that’s where Ginny Grainger grew up in One Magic Christmas), and also commercials about Christmas, including the infamous Folgers incest one...But first we talk about a couple of things we forgot to mention in the main episode. Specifically the way it, like many other things we saw growing up, referenced The Honeymooners. This was a show we never watched, but understood to be about a married couple, and the … joke … was that the husband habitually threatened his wife with violence. Grrrrreat. Anyway, we wondered how on earth this movie was advertised to people, so we tried looking up a trailer, but what we could find labeled as a trailer was just this clip of Harry Dean Stanton watching the kids’ hockey game. we concluded that this wasn’t a trailer, but also that if you did see it, you’d still have no idea what the movie was actually about. We also found this spoof trailer someone recut to make it look like a horror movie.But honestly, the actual movie is scarier for the cold hard bleakness of life in that town.Eventually we found this behind the scenes making of preview from the Disney Channel. Harry Dean Stanton says it should have an uplifting effect. The director says it’s based on a true story, which is that when he was a kid he saw Santa in a farmhouse in Canada. The trailer they cut together here makes it look like this is a movie about a girl who really believes Santa is real and then gets to meet him. Which is true, but elides the bulk of the movie, which is focused on the deeply depressing town. We finally had a short phone call with Julia’s mother to find out what she thought of the movie before moving on to our commercial viewing. This movie had a bunch of product placement for the Ramada Inn, so naturally we started with this 1985 Christmas commercial for a Ramada Inn in Ontario. Then we watched this commercial from 1979.Nice people. Taking care of nice people.Next we looked up some of the people in One Magic Christmas. We learned that Harry Dean Stanton was also a musician, so we watched a clip of him playing and singing “Red River Valley” from the Twin Peaks reboot. Fair warning: someone says the F word at the end of this clip.Next we looked for some of Mary Steenburgen’s music, and we ended up finding this ten minute documentary about it. Gosharooney!Then we watched some general Christmas commercials from 1985. We started with Sears.And then we watched a classic Folgers ad.This led to Julia explaining the long internet history of people associating Folgers with incest and writing fanfic about it. But this clearly wasn’t the incest commercial, so we decided to hunt that down.There is in fact an updated version of the “Peter Comes Home” commercial. Does it imply incest? You decide!In the time between our recording this podcast and now, Gabriella Paiella has compiled a long oral history of the ad for GQ. We have our own theory about this commercial, and it involves aliens!Finally, we watched a Shoppers Drug Mart commercial from 1985, starring Bea Arthur!And that wraps up this Christmas special week! Thanks for listening! You’re our present this year!If you’re having fun listening to us, please tell your friends about us! Subscribe to our newsletter at thisiswhywerelikethis.substack.com for free, or pay $5/month to get access to two bonus paid episodes each month! We’re also on Patreon if that’s your jam! Rate and review us! follow us on Twitter where we’re @thisiswhy_pod! And, of course, you can always drop us a note at at thisiswhywerelikethis@gmail.com. This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at thisiswhywerelikethis.substack.com/subscribe

n a 2004 story in the Arkansas Times, Vicki Hutcheson said about the trip to the esbat: “Every word of it was a lie.”  Lie or not, her testimony played no role in the Echols/Baldwin case and was not crucial to the conviction of Misskelley.  Jurors there were largely convinced by the confession, particularly where Misskelley described chasing down Michael. Some jurors told reporters that the occult trappings were not particularly convincing and were ultimately irrelevant to reaching a guilty verdict.  Though she later claimed coercion,  police interviews indicated Vicki was eager to play a starring role in the investigation, perhaps with hopes of collecting a reward. As Bray described her role in his notes on a June 2, 1993, interview: “She said she was trying to play detective because she had heard Damien was involved in devil worship and she thought it might be connected to the murders.” In 2004, Hutcheson told the Arkansas Times that she only testified as instructed by the West Memphis PD, under a threat that she would have her child taken from her and that she could be implicated in the murders.  There was no evidence of a police threat.   She testified in 1994 that “West Memphis knew nothing” about her plan to “play detective” when she set up   meetings with Echols. “I decided that on my own. Those boys I loved, and I wanted their killers caught.” As for the $30,000 reward, “it had nothing to do with it.” She did receive help from law enforcement in checking out occult books from the library, in an effort to impress Echols, and in setting up a recording device under her bed. Police said the resulting tapes were of such poor quality as to be of no use; she claimed to hear high-quality recordings.   She testified she never met John Fogleman until a month or two before the trial.    Her statements were filled with largely unsolicited and unschooled details about interactions with Misskelley and Echols.    Aaron considered Michael and Christopher his best friends, dating from when he lived on East Barton.  According to his mother, “those were his only friends.” In a May 28, 1993, interview with Ridge and Sudbury, she described picking up Aaron after school on May 5:  “I was waiting in where the teachers park on the side of Weaver Elementary, and watching for Aaron. It was approximately 15 after 3, and Michael Moore came to one side of my truck and Christopher Byers to the other and Aaron you know close to them … and they were telling me Ms. Vicki there's a Cub Scout thing tonight, and Aaron  needs to go, and Michael's father is their troop leader and  … Michael was really incessant upon Aaron going, and uh, they just keep saying there's a Cub Scout thing. Ms. Vicki … he has to go, he has to go. And I said no this is Wednesday night. Cub Scouts are tomorrow Thursday night and they just kept on. Finally you know, they got it through he wasn't going to go, because I just thought they wanted to go and play, and um, he said well then can Aaron just come to my house, and you can pick him up in two hours. Which I had done frequently so he had assumed I would do it then, and I just said no because I had some errand to ran. Aaron did not go. … I went home.” She went to the grocery about 5:30 and stopped somewhere to eat, with Aaron in tow. “He was never alone.”  They got home “probably about eight or so.”  Among her errands, she would tell prosecutors, was going to the liquor store to purchase two bottles of Evan Williams whiskey for Jessie Misskelley Jr. and Dennis Carter, who were both underage. His mother's story on May 28 contradicted any stories Aaron told about his trip to Robin Hood that afternoon. She gave a different version of Aaron's activities for May 5 on June 2, abruptly becoming unable to account for him that afternoon while he was nominally under the care of a babysitter. The June 2 version gave Aaron time to go to the woods.   On May 6, after discovering his friends were missing, she pulled Aaron out of school and took him over to the Moore house. She said, “Todd asked Aaron if he might know did Chris or Michael say anything  to him, to the effect where they might be. He said no, there, you know you can tell when your child is lying and it was like he knew something was up. And uh, he said after we had left the Moores coming out of their door he told me Mama let's to go the club house. We need to go to the club house.” She had been to the site before,  the “clubhouse” being boards nailed up in a tree.  She was not able to get there because the entry at the dead end of McCauley was cordoned off by police.  The question persists as to whether there was a “clubhouse.” Jessie Misskelley in one confession mentioned the “clubhouse” and then corrected himself, saying he had been thinking of a clubhouse near Highland.  Aaron gave little description of the clubhouse, which he repeatedly mentioned. It may have been formed largely by imagination —- whether by the boys or just Aaron.  Boys commonly stake out territory as “clubhouses,” treehouses  and “forts”  in play. Old boards at the scene could have been part of the “clubhouse.” “Aaron told me that um he and Michael and Chris visit their club house every day and they rode their bikes and they were spying on 5 men and ah I asked him who they were and he said I don't know Mom who they were I just you know we just spying on em. I said why would you be spying on 5 men, you know? And he said well they were there every day so we would watch them. I said what made you interested in them. He said because they paint themselves and they have dragon shirts and they talk in Spanish. And I say, Aaron, they talk in Spanish how do you know that's Spanish? I mean, you don't know Spanish. He said well I don't understand what they're saying, and they sing bad things, and I said like what kind of bad things. My father being a preacher, Aaron has been in my church quite often, you know, and … “He said they sing about the Devil, and, you know, that we love the Devil and um he said, I think that they love the Devil more than God, Mom. And I told him … why didn't y'all leave why didn't you come home, were you scared? They said no we hid. They couldn't see us. … I said so y'all went there every day.  He said we went there every day but wouldn't go on Friday. And I told him why how do you know Friday? And he said, well because that's the day before the weekend, you know, the last day of school and I know that it was Friday and they didn't come. And ah, I said okay what happened? What did they do? And he said well when they first saw them you know they sat around a fire in a circle by this tree … they did this like several times and then they'd sing a song and they'd … dance around the tree. Then he told me that these 5 men took their clothes off. And I said Aaron you know that they took their clothes off, why didn't you leave? And he said because we were scared. And they were scared, I guess, of getting caught then and ah he said Michael kept telling him that it was an Indian thing they were supposed to do and Chris said no they're getting ready to have sex. And I told Aaron, Aaron doesn't know about sex and we talked about it and all the books that you've seen um he said that they had their peters in each other's butts and said they watched. … And I just got into detail with him. With the sex thing. … “I know he's telling the truth.” Vicki added: “Jessie Misskelley had told Aaron that um the boys killer had been found. And ah Aaron was ecstatic over it. He was very happy…. “He later found that that wasn't true … “… What's really weird is that he said you know exactly that it was a Satanistic group, namely the Dragons.” She also related that she had heard third-hand that Robert Burks — actually Robert Burch — had told a teen girl that he had killed the boys and would kill the girl if she talked.  Burch, whose name came up repeatedly in the investigation, talked to police and offered no alibi, but there was nothing but rumor and an acquaintance with Baldwin and Misskelley linking him to the case.  Vicki also named some of Damien's friends in the Satan worshippers:  Shawn “Spider” Webb, “Burks,” “Snake,”  “Jason, some little boy named Jason, I don't know his name he lives in Lakeshore,” and Misskelley.   “There's a guy he calls Lucy but everyone else calls Lucifer. … He's an older guy he's, he's probably closer to my age, thirty. … I haven't really been real up close with him you know I've seen him in a car, um, he's got brownish hair and he does have a big nose. … I believe he had glasses on.”  She said Lucifer drove an old beaten-up car “like an Impala or Caprice. … It looked like ah primer color. You know like they were gonna paint it.” The mysterious “Lucifer” popped up again and again in descriptions of the cult in Lakeshore, with varying characteristics, though consistently described as older than the teens.  In her May 28 interview, Vicki described how, shortly after the killings, she sent Aaron out of town for eight days to stay with her sister, meanwhile talking to people about the case, including “a Little Jessie, Jessie Misskelley, lives down the street from me and you know that I was really close to him … because he was always around. He doesn't go to school or anything.  He like help you mow the lawn and stuff and I'd gotten really close with him. He made mention after this came out that um he had saw Chris Byers over by the Beacon that morning on the morning that you know they were found and that Chris was in a pink shirt and even picked him out in the paper to me … that was odd for him to say something like that so … I just keep talking with Jessie cause ah Jessie's I means not a bad kid but you know you don't know who people know. So I just kept talking to Jessie about stuff and Jessie told me about a friend of his named Damien and this friend drank blood and stuff. He just keep going on and on on about how weird he was and stuff. So by the way you know the stuff that we knew the public knew that was coming out in the paper and stuff I just thought how they were killed was odd but you know maybe it was like a devil worshipping thing or you know something just hit me that might be it and I thought that this kid doing this you know maybe he knew something or  …. or maybe Jessie knew something so um Jessie had told me that Damien hang out at Lakeshore and so I went out of my way, you know, to try to go around Lakeshore and, you know, people around there and I told Jessie I had seen Damien and he asked me how did I know it was Damien? And I said that there was a little boy Adam who's a friend of mine's little boy … and he had …  pointed him out to me and … he said well you know he's kinda weird. I said no, I think he's hot. I really want to go out with him. Can you fix me up with him? And you know he was real surprised but he said yeah, if you want to go out with him I'll fix you up with him and he did.” So Hutcheson thought that “maybe Jessie knew something” based on strange things he had said and the fact that Misskelley was fascinated with Echols' weird practices and beliefs, such as drinking blood.   Jessie fixed up Vicki and Damien.  It didn't take much persuasion;  Misskelley drove Hutcheson's pickup over to Baldwin's home, told Echols that he knew a women who wanted to meet him and Echols went along for the ride.  Eventually Echols would show up at her trailer about six times, apparently never spending much time, according to Hutcheson.  She told police that she was not attracted to Echols and found him frightening.  She said they never had sex.  Based on her retraction statements years later, Echols actually showed up just once for a very brief, awkward visit.  Hutcheson told Ridge: “He came to my house, the very first time I met him. … We talked about um lots of different stuff. He's not real real talkative. You you kinda have to pull things out of him but he uh keep telling me about the boys murders and how he had been he said… questioned. He always said that I was accused for 8 hours I was accused of killing those 3 little boys and … I just acted like it was no big deal. … And I said well you know why would they pick you in West Memphis you know? There are bookoo's of people. Why would they just pick you out?  And he just looked at me I mean just really weird. And said because I'm evil. … “He called me um he told me that he would like to see me again and stuff like this and ah I said okay. So you know he just kept coming over and he never really um gave me times or when I'm coming but he would just drop in. … “And uh in the meantime communicating with Officer Bray I had gotten some Satanic books and witch books and all this and we were sitting on my couch and I had laid them out where he could see them right close to my table. He said, you know he picked one up, and asked me what I was doing. I got out a Cosmopolitan, and in the back there was a wicka  thing that you write to, and you can become a witch or go to witch school or something like that. Anyway I told him not to worry you know this is what I'm wanting to be and he just looked at me really weird and he said you don't have to go like that. You don't have to go there to do that. … “No.  It would all come in time is what he said. It'll happen in time. … “The next day after he finds out that I'm wanting to go do this he told me and asked me did I want to go to esbat. I didn't know what esbat was. I looked it up in the book and found out that it was a meeting and I thought immediately yeah this is where I want to go. I want to see what's going on. … “Then he took me, he picked me up and he took me in a red Escort. He drove us to Turrell, and ah ….” She said Misskelley went along for the ride to Turrell, a small poor community of about 800 residents about 12 miles north of Marion.  The Wapanocca National Wildlife Refuge, centered around Lake Wapanocca, is adjacent to the township.  The esbat location sometimes is referred to as Turrell-Twist or Twist, the name of a small farm-based community at the Crittenden-Cross county line.  Misskelley told officers on June 3 that Damien drove a red car owned by Jack Echols. Among the many criticisms t about the esbat story are  a) Damien didn't drive and b) Damien didn't have access to a red car.  It seems unlikely that Misskelley mentioned the red car just to corroborate  Hutcheson's story.   Hutcheson described the trip “… He um took us to —- I'm not really familiar, I'm from Springdale, so I'm not familiar with this area even — but Turrell. I was really lost. … “… I do know where kinda where he went you know we turned off and hit a dirt road and about by some kind of water and in woods in a field and by the time we had gotten there … it was dark. Um, it was quite a drive. … “And we went out, got out of the car and … it was just really dark especially out you know in the woods. It was just dark and I was scared a little bit in fact but we held hands just like you would hold my hand and keep trying to comfort me. He knew I was scared. … “… He told me it would be okay you know not to be scared, don't worried and ah Jessie went to the crowd. Then you could see there was  a crowd of kids.” There were about 10, none over age 18, with faces painted black. “… What you could see of their bodies without … their clothes you know was painted their  … arms were painted, you know, they had on jeans …. “They stood around and it seemed like they were just talking and stuff and Damien and I stood back away from them.  We never went to the crowd.” A teen she knew, Shawn Webb, stepped away to talk with them.  “… When he got close enough to me I could tell who he was. He talked with Damien um you know just what's up you know just bull crap and then walked back over and then these kids took their clothes off and began touching each other and I knew what was going to happen ….  “I looked at Damien and said I want to leave … He said okay. … Jessie stayed. … “After he brought me home we went into my house and you know just sat there and talked and stuff and he never made comment about it or anything. It was like it never even happened. … He went, he left, and went home.” She said this occurred on Wednesday, May 19. “… He called me on Thursday and he told me about this girl being pregnant … and you know he's going to have to take care of her or make her think he's that you know he's faithful to her. … And so ah the word has gotten out that I was seeing him because I'm a you know an older woman and … everything so he said we're going to have to kinda cool it and keep it down … and so I kinda thought well God I've ruined it, you know, she's ruined it for me and I'm not going to be able to see him anymore. I thought he'd just quit calling. … “But he called all the time wanting me know you know what men are at my house. … And I do have a boyfriend that I see all the time and ah so he you know is there quite often.  “… My house was really quiet … this last Wednesday. Nobody came over or anything. Jim came over after he got off work and it was about 1:30 when he got off and we just sat and talked on the couch and watched a movie. It was about 3:30 and we heard this big when I mean it sounded really horrible, it scared me to death. And ah so Jim got up, he and I both got up and went to my door and we looked out front underneath um my window where I keep plants. I have like a really thick board that's been nailed up and has some bolts underneath it and this thing was broke completely in half. … No one was around. … I asked Damien. He called me last night. I asked him um what did you do Wednesday night, hung out. I said you didn't come to my house did you? He said I know you were there with Jim, that's all that matters and that's it. That was the end of it.” Ridge asked, “Did he say he was jealous of that?” Vicki replied, “Are you kidding, I mean you could tell that he's mad. … He was very calm but aggravated is what I would call it.” In a June 2 interview, Hutcheson repeated much of her story to Bray and said someone the night before had been looking into her windows.   She left 15-year-old roommate Christy Anderson babysitting Aaron while she went to Kroger. When she returned around 11 p.m., a 15-year-old friend visiting the trailer said she had seen someone looking into the living room window.  Aaron reported someone had been looking into his bedroom window and had pulled on a wire leading into the bedroom hard enough to pull a console from under the bed.  Apparently no one called the police, and no suspect was found.  The incident was similar to incidents in which Echols was seen stalking children and young girls.   The night before he was arrested,  Misskelley spent the night at the Hutcheson trailer, reportedly sleeping on the couch, because she was concerned about a prowler.  Echols stopped talking to Vicki after May 28, when the FBI supposedly came out and took photos of his trailer.  She had planned a party for Saturday, May 29, inviting Echols, Misskelley and Robert Burch. When nobody showed up, she phoned Echols around 8 or 9 p.m.  He told her he had something important to do. When she asked if she could come along, he said no.   She tried to talk him again on June 1 around 7:30 p..m.  Echols' sister Michelle told her Damien had gone to bed.  Bray noted: “Vicki says she is scared now.” Hutcheson took a polygraph test June 2.  No deception was indicated when she said that she had not met Echols prior to three weeks before, that she had not told Aaron what to tell police, that she had no foreknowledge of the murders and that no one told her they were involved in the killings.  A decade after the trial, on June 24, 2004,  Hutcheson gave a sworn statement to the Misskelley defense team in which she claimed that Don Bray and Jerry Driver persuaded her that Echols was guilty.   She described her initial meeting with Echols as a fiasco, describing him as a normal teen.  Vicki claimed that the tapes of their conversation were of good quality but worked against the case the police were hoping to build.    She claimed Ridge suggested that, if she could not deliver evidence against Echols, she could be seen as the vital link between the killers and their victims, that she could be implicated in the homicide. “And they also told me it would be a shame if I lost Aaron over this whole thing.”  She claimed Ridge schooled her over 12-and-a-half hours on a made-up story about the esbat trip.  “And then I just started making up stuff as I went because I didn't know what else to do and I did.” After their first meeting, she claimed she talked to Echols just once, when she called him and he said he was under FBI surveillance.  On the day of her court appearance, “I was kind of high. I couldn't even stand up. I even had somebody go get me some more pills.” She  had taken four Prozac, at least 13 Valium and four pain pills prior to testifying.   She had been taking Prozac, Valium and a sleeping medication, Trazodene, during May,  all from the East Arkansas Mental Health Center, as well as pain pills from Melissa Byers, Christopher's mother, and downers from another friend. She was seeing a therapist and a psychiatrist.  She said she was bipolar, had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and had post-traumatic stress syndrome.   At the time of the trial, her part-time job as a bartender at the Ramada Inn allowed her to drink “as much as I wanted.  I should say that when I left I felt pretty good every night.” In 1994, after the trials were over, she told defense investigators that she drank a bottle of Wild Turkey whiskey prior to the trip to the esbat and could not recall the circumstances or who accompanied her, only that she awoke the next morning lying on her front lawn. The drinking bout was spurred by a disagreement with her boyfriend.  She claimed Misskelley stayed overnight at her home, armed with a gun, because Mark Byers “was always bothering us.”  Hutcheson said she became a methamphetamine addict while working at a strip club prior to going to prison around 1995.  In 2004, she said she had recently gotten off meth.  The timeline on harassment by Byers in May 1993 seemed to make little sense as her role in the case wasn't public knowledge then.  In 2004, she said “We kept it quiet until Ron Lax's big mouth and he opened up that whole can of worms you know. And everybody found out they had talked to Aaron and then they found out about me and all that deal.”   She said Byers wanted to talk with Aaron “by himself with him to McDonald's.” She refused. She complained Byers started buying Aaron gifts and brought a Christmas tree to their house. She would see “someone,”  “a really tall, big person” hanging around her back porch. “And I just knew it was Mark. I just had a feeling it was Mark.”  At the time she was telling the story, she and her son were on board with Byers being an “alternative suspect.” She said Misskelley was familiar with Michael through Michael's friendship with Aaron.  Vicki appeared  for a Baldwin Rule 37 hearing  on Aug. 14, 2009, and answered a few questions. Then the court, the prosecutors and her attorneys conferred on whether contradicting her testimony from 1994 would be perjury, finally determining that she could be open to prosecution. There was no offer of immunity. She did not testify. While the Hutchesons provided a crucial link to the solution of the case through their friendship with Misskelley,  Vicki's “investigation” yielded little of worth —- Echols was an acknowledged witch so she would have provided “proof” only of what was already known if she had testified. He made no self-incriminating statements to her.  As for Aaron,  childish fantasies aside,  he provided a seemingly plausible link between the killers and their victims.  Whether there was a pre-arranged meeting between the killers and their victims remains an open question.

30 years ago, Bobby McFerrin won a Grammy award for his extremely catchy song Don't Worry Be Happy. As of today, over 162 million people have watched his video on YouTube.What John lacks in musical ability he makes up for in a nice full beard.This episode was recorded LIVE at the Ramada Inn in Duncan, BC. We were capturing the event chatter as well as interviewing some local business owners and presenters. A big thanks to the Duncan Cowichan Chamber of Commerce and Alec Wheeler for including us in their event plans!The big 5 letter word that can ruin us all is....worry!Thanks to Rick's James St Cafe for the tasty sandwiches. His grilled chicken bacon mozza melt is to die for! John likes the classic egg salad on white.Andrew and John are both successful entrepreneurs which has allowed them to pour a few days a week in this podcast. That said, they wouldn't say no to a potential sponsorship opportunity. :)We LOVE doing events!! If you're looking for an X Factor, we'd like to be it. We can capture the chatter and go deeper with your presenters.-------------------------------We had the pleasure of interviewing 6 people. Sadly, the audio from one of our interviews was garbled so we'll look forward to re-recording with Chris from Resthouse Sleep Solutions. Sorry Chris!!Riot Brewing - Ralf and Ally are such a riot. Learn how they didn't give up on their dream and worked tirelessly for 7 years to make Riot a reality. Their greatest success is building business that reflects who they really are. Plus, their beer is delicious. We look forward to recording a full episode with them soon!Isabelle-Mercier-Turcotte - Creator of the successful coaching enterprise, LeapZone Strategies, Isabelle talked to us about knowing your secret sauce, being authentic, how to truly connect with people, realizing what you're tolerating and most of all, how to worry less. Isabelle was also the Key-note Presenter of this great event! We look forward to recording a full episode with Isabelle and her partner Margarita, at their beautiful Ranch in Nanoose Bay!Jim Gardiner - Jim is a powerhouse coach with Leapzone Strategies. As we came to discover, Jim has one helluva story. Jim shared how he had it all but was miserable. Since this recording, we have sat down with Jim and recorded a full episode which will come out in the New Year. His life story will blow you away! One of the most interesting and dynamic people we've met.Jean Cardino - Jean is the owner of the successful high end, uber comfortable Cardino's Shoes, in Duncan, BC. Cardino's has been selling quality made West Coast shoes like Blundstone's for over 20 years competing directly with Wal-Mart and other "cheaper" options. Cardino's is a great example of a small business who knows who they are and doesn't apologize for it. We also spoke about the value of luxury brands and why it's worth spending more money on high quality goods.Adera Angelucci - Adera has spent decades both in front of and behind the camera and is a dynamic powerhouse motivator and presenter. Her real passion is breathing life into your story and she's told over 2000 stories worldwide. Ultimately, consumers will be inspired to interact with you and your business once they know your real story. Adera and Spiro can make it happen! They are currently working on an upcoming documentary-series for Netflix! 

Have you ever wondered how clean your motel room was? You kind of know -- right? Not really that spotless -- but you did not want to think about it because the bed was made and you didn't have to do it. Becky and I recorded a BCR episode on Prohibition in Long Island and NYC at Patchogue Long Island with Chris Kretz of the Long Island History Project and guest Jonathan lly a curator at the Long Island Museum of American Art -- which will post next -- BCR #68. We recorded in a bar formerly called Hoptron but the new owners did not want us to reveal the new name.Anyway -- we stayed at a Ramada Inn which was under construction at the time. I was not happy about the situation and so investigated the general cleanliness of these away from home bedrooms,Between you and me -- do not touch the TV remote -- disgusting!!! So this episode is about mold and hair follicles. Proceed at your own risk.Becky and I recorded at 5 Napkin Burger on Broadway and W. 84th Street. Let us know what you think of BCR Podcast -- barcrawlradio@gmail.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Is there such a thing as American cuisine? James Beard Award-winning chef Ann Cashion and Yale history professor and author Paul Freedman have a thought-provoking discussion about the intersection of food, restaurants and American culture with and hosts Debbie and Billy Shore. Freedman’s newest book, American Cuisine and How It Got This Way, explores the evolution from regionalism to the standardization of food in the 20th century and how that trend is reversing. “Homogenization, standardization, industrial food… that’s the main trend in American history for the 20th century,” he explains. Cashion describes the “active educational process” she used to have with her customers about using seasonal and sustainable food on her menus. “People are more in tune with what it means these days, and are more supportive of it,” she says. “Sylvia’s, the famous African American restaurant in Harlem, reflects not only the history of African American cuisine but the great migration of African Americans to the north,” explains Freedman, author of Ten Restaurants That Changed America. “I was in the kitchen of a Ramada Inn in Jackson, Mississippi, working with a total African American staff. It was such a great learning experience because so many of them just cooked by feel, no recipes,” recounts Cashion about one of her first restaurant jobs. Listen to this engaging conversation about food, history and culture in America.

This weekend, New Hope celebrates our 19 year birthday! 19 Years ago, God started New Hope with 37 people meeting at the Ramada Inn, and He's been growing us ever since. This weekend isn't just about celebrating God's work in the past, it's about looking forward to what He has for us in the future.

In preparation for the Consumer Electronic Show, Jan 2016, there incurs a lot of groundwork to launch a smart wearable (brainbit.com) Summary 1:wearable headband 2: silicon mold vs. smart fabric 3: awake states 4: effective cognitive level Features 1: remote monitoring 2: capture data 3: send to cloud Provocation 1: data feedback 2: real-time notification 3: incremental changes of behavior Behavior Change 1: detect deep relaxed states 2: driver pulls over 3: Checks into Ramada Inn

For the third Untucked episode for season 11, Shelby is joined by friend of the pod, Anele, to recap all of the shadiness occurring after the episode, "Diva Worship". Topics covered include the wildest Untucked fight yet, Silky's role as the Joanna Gaines of drag, the tragedy that is the Detective Pikachu casting, Nina's impression of Vanjie, the Guest Judge conundrum, another twist in the ongoing M&P Present drama, a queen's past tweets resurfacing, and finally...a dramatic reading of the story Venus D-Lite's performance at the Ramada Inn.

We're still digging for details on what may be happening at the property, but reporter Bill Cresenzo fills us in on what we know so far.

This episode of Country Squire Radio is brought to you by Missouri Meerschaum and the Tin Society. We thank them for supporting this show, and we thank you for supporting them. Episode 240: St. Patrick’s Day Special Welcome & Housekeeping: Jon David and Beau are back! Well...back and recovering from the Bachelor Party! Too much Boodles? Important thing to note, Beau did not upchuck from a cigar and he brought the Boodles! Man, what a guy! Anyway, so on arriving to the Squire, mere minutes before CSR showtime, JD gets a package delivered from Pylorns and inside were wedding gifts! The Austin, San Antonio, and Dallas Pipe Clubs all chipped in and got JD a tin of Escudo from 2016, can of McClelland Christmas Cheer 2016, and an Estate Charatan Pipe! And boy was he stoked. What a crazy, impressive gift from the Texas folks. You guys really rock. On an aside, Beau will be playing Sea of Thieves on XBox/Windows 10, so if you know what that is, and plan on playing, please reach out to him via whatever medium you can, Twitter or e-mail are preferred I’d imagine. To keep it brief, it’s an MMOish crew-style Pirate sailing the seven seas kind of game. Should be a ton of fun. I’m personally already down for this, as well as a few others, so hop on board, swab the poop deck, and drink some rum! Raleigh Pipe Expo Reception Party coming up soon on April 6, from 5-9pm at the Ramada Inn on Blue Ridge Rd. in Raleigh, NC. Additionally, there will be a Pipe Carvers Workshop on the 6th as well. The Pipe & Tobacco Expo is on Saturday April 7th, 9am-4:30pm in the Holshauser Building at the NC State Fairgrounds. And a last FYI, there will be no live shows for 2 weeks following Jon David’s wedding next week, but there will be podcasts, so stay tuned and don’t go anywhere. I’m not sure what this means for the show notes for those that read them. They might be typed up post-podcast. I’m not 100% sure there. Topic: Our resident Pipe Leprechauns Jon David and Beau run all the snakes out of the pipe shop and get a wee bit drunk on this St. Patrick’s Day Special! Okay, maybe they don’t drink, but they do talk green pipes! So grab a shamrock shake, dance a reel with your lass, and tune in to this fantastic jig of an episode! First up, we have Savinelli. The Arcobaleno (means “rainbow” in Italian), has a green model that is very lovely looking. Beautiful emerald-green stain, subtle-gloss finish (or rusticated for those that prefer that), black acrylic stem. Takes a 6mm filter for those that are interested. Also has a nice silver band to compliment. Savinelli also makes a style of pipe called the Alligator, which also has a green option. A very unique rustication is presented here with almost a scaly look. Google is your friend here because it’s impossible to describe accurately. Also has a lovely green stem to go with. And for those hardcore Protestant pipe smokers, the Alligator comes in a really snazzy orange too. Be on the lookout! And for those that love snazzy stems, the Clark’s Favorite has an awesome orange tigerseye swirl stem. Really hot looking! Next up we have Paronelli Pipes. Now while they aren’t as popular these days in America, they do have some eye-popping and eye-catching green stains and patterns on the Colorific and Eurocamo styles. Again, here Google is your friend. They are simply impossible to describe in written format. Genod Pipes from France have newer lines of pipes, around the $100 mark, that feature some brilliant greens. There’s no one specific line of pipes, but many of their style and shapes come in a variety of finishes of which some are green. Lastly, Peterson. The King of the Green Stain! The Racing Green is a really popular and sought after line. I’ll provide a link here, so please, if you see one you like, inquire at your local tobacconist first! (https://www.smokingpipes.com/pipes/new/peterson/index.cfm?tag=53). There’s also the Valentia line that resembles the Racing Green pipes, has a green stain and stem, but are nice and small. Kind of pricey at $150, but it’s a good pocket pipe for what it’s worth. And of course, we have the annual St. Patty’s Day pipe, the 2018 edition, which sports a real snazzy matte green finish with a gorgeous yellow army-mount stem fitted into a nickel-silver band. Also for a personal recommendation, from me, Mark VV, check out the Spigot line. Pretty expensive, but the green stain here is equally snazzy and those spigot mounts are wonderful. If you have the pocketbook for a pricier green pipe, this is not a bad choice at all. Pipe Question of the Week: Dan with Creator’s Design Pipes writes in “Hi Jon David and Beau! Sorry to ask a more serious question, but I’d like to get your thoughts on moderation in drinking. After leaving a church denomination that forbade tobacco and alcohol that I served for 20 years, I’ve joyfully entered into the experience of craft beer and ‘brown water’. As a Christian, I am aware of the scriptures commands to avoid drunkenness, so I’m generally a one-and-done drinker. As men of faith, how do you navigate this issue and enjoy spirits yet in biblical moderation? This is not a trolling question, but an honest and sincere inquiry from a brother who is middle-aged and learning to enjoy alcohol responsibly. Thank you for your thoughts and for the wonderful podcast community you’ve created. In Christ, Dan.” Man, what a question, and what an answer. Please check the whole thing out at timestamp 39:00 on the live show YouTube broadcast which I’ll link below. I won’t have the podcast timestamp since the show ain’t out as of this show note transcription, but I imagine it will be between the 35 and 40 minute mark. The key here is moderation and maintaining control without becoming a slave to the particular vice, and Jon David’s elaboration and explanation is right on the money here. I won’t be able to do it justice in writing, so please, listen to this one. Absolutely incredible. Quick Fire with the Squire: Continuing on with Benjamin McMullen’s list. #1 Ancient Africa (Beau) or Ancient Mesopotamia (JD) #2 History of Medicine or History of Weaponry (JD & Beau) #3 History of Pipes (JD & Beau) or History of Cigars (if you voted for this you are a pilgrim and deserve to be blasphemed...just sayin’) Listener Feedback: A. Wanamaker on iTunes says “Great Information, Cool Hosts: This has quickly become my favorite podcast. It has taught me a lot about pipes, tobacco and culture. The hosts are affable and incredibly knowledgeable. I particularly like that the show is family friendly, I can listen to it with kids around and not have to worry about any uncouth language. Thank you Beau and JD for putting out such a fine quality show, I will be listening whenever I can.” Doug Owen writes in and says “This is a follow-up on Jon David’s story about the customer not buying anything. JD, can I borrow Butch Arthur for the summer? Man, I cannot tell you how many times I have had the same conversation with prospective customer. The vast majority of my clientele are great guys and gals but once in awhile you get the one that just does not make the casual connection between purchasing an item in your store and your ability to stay in business and pay bills. I don’t really think they make that connection in their heads. They may be thinking about guys like you and me as fellow pipe smokers with a lot of expertise and it never crosses their mind that it is important for us to make a living at this as well as have a good time doing it. Anyway, that’s my take on it. I just take it in stride, grit my teeth, and keep on puffin’.” Jim Nelson writes in with the results! “The Country Squire (the horse) takes 4th place in the 7th race of the day at Gulfstream Park. The superfecta pays nearly $300.” C’mon buddy! Outrun that glue factory! Ending & Wrap-up: Please check out the show sponsor websites to learn more about them, and please consider joining the Country Squire Radio Pipe Club. I’ve provided a link to Patreon below as well as show credits, twitter handles, websites, emails, and times. If you have not done so, please consider writing an iTunes review. Great way to support these fantastic gentlemen! For more fun, check out the live show on YouTube! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl0f5-Xkrek) Episode Credits: Host: Jon David Cole (@JonDavidCole) Host: Beau York (@TheRealBeauYork) Producer: Mike Woodard (@TheMikeWoodard) Executive Producer: Beau York (@Podastery) Show Notes: Mark Van Vrancken (@mgvsquared) Country Squire Radio Website: www.countrysquireradio.com Country Squire Radio email: show@countrysquireradio.com Country Squire Radio Twitter: @squireradio Country Squire Radio Patreon: www.patreon.com/countrysquireradio The Country Squire Twitter: @_countrysquire The Country Squire Website: www.thecountrysquireonline.com Show Times: Live Monday nights 8:30pm CST, 6:30 Pacific, 9:30 EST Episode Sponsors: Missouri Meerschaum (www.corncobpipe.com) The Tin Society (https://tinsociety.com) - use the code SQUIRE to get 20% off your first month’s box!

This episode of Country Squire Radio is brought to you by Missouri Meerschaum and the Tin Society. We thank them for supporting this show, and we thank you for supporting them. Episode 235: Squire Select - Jack Daniel’s Rye and TX Blended Whiskey Welcome & Housekeeping: Jon David gives us a peek into his hectic life at the Squire, in part because Caleb, the Squire Intern, shattered his kneecap. (Get well soon Caleb!) Big props to Jimmy for helping out over at Ye Olde Pipe Shop in Caleb’s absence. Beau is headed to New Orleans to ride in the Krewe of Endymion during Mardi Gras! It rolls on Feb. 10th, 2018 @ 2:15 (https://endymion.org/parade-route-map/) Catch your Beau beads! Also, IPSD is coming up on 2/20. That’s International Pipe Smoking Day! Of course, our beloved The Country Squire will be giving us the goods from 2/20 - 2/24. Everything in the shop (online) will be 10% off, and all pipes get an extra 10% off. Spend $50 or more and get a sample of the exclusive Country Squire IPSD Blend! $150 or more gets a free Squire t-shirt. $200 or more gets a tin of name brand tobacco! Raleigh Pipe Expo Reception Party coming up soon on April 6, from 5-9pm at the Ramada Inn on Blue Ridge Rd. in Raleigh, NC. Additionally, there will be a Pipe Carvers Workshop on the 6th as well. The Pipe & Tobacco Expo is on Saturday April 7th, 9am-4:30pm in the Holshauser Building at the NC State Fairgrounds. Texas Pipe Show Oct. 6 2018, additional info to come. Last but not least, Beau, once again, pleads with listeners to send in BBQ gift cards, rubs, steak, sauces, meat products, or generally anything that will help sponsor a BBQ and Tobacco pairing hoping it will force Jon David to agree, begrudgingly, to do the episode. Topic: JD and Beau once again enjoy another fun night of Squire Select where they take two whiskeys (generally speaking) of various origin and suggest pairings with two complimentary pipe tobaccos that Jon David has pre-selected with his brilliant mind and palate. First up - Jack Daniel’s Rye! Spoiler alert: Beau hates it. His precious delicate baby’s bottom tastebuds can’t stand the cheaper stuff. JD Rye is supposedly their first new recipe in 150 years. 90 Proof, 70% rye, 18% corn, and 12% malted barley. Warm golden color. Southern bottle aesthetic with a “craft paper” label. Nose of strong rye and fruit, specifically banana chips. On the palate, we get bananas and the strong rye as well. A tingle or slight burn on the roof of the mouth. The tobacco pairing was Solani Aged Burley Flake Blend 656. Trigger warning - Jon David says it kind of smells like raisin bran. Clean smelling and tasting burley with less sugars to give a more mellow nutty flavor. Bit of a nicotine kick, as could be expected. Tends to help dial back the potency of the Jack Daniels, giving the palate a rest. Next up - TX Blended Whiskey. From Firestone & Robertson in Ft. Worth. Small batch. Aesthetically, a very plain looking bottle. The band near the cap is made of burlap. And the cap is made of boot leather! Nice deep golden color on the brown water itself. 80 proof. Mellow milk chocolate and vanilla notes on the nose and palate. A nice, warm heat, helps round out the mouthfeel. Not strong, but a pleasant warm on the tongue. Very interesting description. Nice and smooth. Won Best American Craft Whiskey in 2013 at the World Spirits Competition. The tobacco pairing is Samuel Gawith Squadron Leader! A semi-uncommon, very venerated, medium English blend. Helps contrast and compliment the mellowness of the TX whiskey with smoky notes of latakia and fragrant orientals. Pipe Question of the Week: Dillon Shalinder (sp?) says “It is a windy night, but I would not be denied my pipe. I’m noticing that my large bent dublin bowl lets me comfortably keep my hand or thumb around the cover of the chamber. Do you guys have any tips about using your hands in regards to keeping the pipe going in adverse weather conditions? Love the show!” Jon David remarks that he has customers that will use their hand as a kind of flue to keep the embers going or they will use their hand as a makeshift windcap. Personal preference at that point. If the thumb method is comfortable with the particular pipe you are using, go ahead and do it! With every pipe being different in some way, it all comes back to experimentation! Don’t forget your windcap either! They’re cheap and worth trying out. Also doubles as a cap for a pipe on the go. Or keeping the ashes contained in your car! Quick Fire with the Squire: Sent in by Jordan Scoville. #1 Sleeping in late (JD) or Getting up early (Beau) #2 Pencil or Pen (JD and Beau) #3 Lasagna (JD) or Spaghetti (Beau) Listener Feedback: Doug Owen says, in response to last week’s episode on the Aristocrat and the Farmer, “Gosh what a great discussion. There’s a little of the Aristocrat and Farmer in all of us pipe smokers, but clearly most of us tend to gravitate towards one side or the other. You guys have a highly sophisticated audience. I appreciate a bit higher level of discourse typical of a discussion such as this one. One small but significant example of this was when Beau used the phrase “suffice to say” as opposed to the ubiquitous “sufficed to say” so commonly used today by people of a lesser sophistication. I’m sure Beau did that on purpose. Way to go Beau and JD. Keep up the good work and keep puffin!” Dave Miller writes in and says “I would love it if you guys delve into the world of British tobaccos like Condor, St. Bruno, Warrior Plug, Revor Plug. These tobaccos have such a rich history that it’d be great to hear y’all talk about them, and/or their houses. Just a thought on some talking points. Don’t want to come off like I’m telling you all how to do your own show as I love it as it is. You guys are great!” iTunes review in from JH2196 - “Great podcast! What a great show. About the time I think your podcast can’t get any better you blow me away with a new show. It seems that each show is better than the preceding one. I hope you both have a great Christmas and a very happy and prosperous and New Year. Keep up the good work. I look forward to each new episode with anticipation of the unexpected happening!” Ending & Wrap-up: Please check out the show sponsor websites to learn more about them, and please consider joining the Country Squire Radio Pipe Club. Also, if you have not done so, please go write a positive review on iTunes! It’s a great way to help support our favorite show! I’ve also provided a link to Patreon below as well as show credits, twitter handles, websites, emails, and times. For additional fun, check out the uncut live show on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNDaCbS6Kqs). Awesome Squire Select as usual. A crowd favorite because who doesn’t enjoy Beau getting a little loopy from alcohol? Anyway, let’s go have a night! Episode Credits: Host: Jon David Cole (@JonDavidCole) Host: Beau York (@TheRealBeauYork) Producer: Mike Woodard (@TheMikeWoodard) Executive Producer: Beau York (@Podastery) Show Notes: Mark Van Vrancken (@mgvsquared) Country Squire Radio Website: www.countrysquireradio.com Country Squire Radio email: show@countrysquireradio.com Country Squire Radio Twitter: @squireradio Country Squire Radio Patreon: www.patreon.com/countrysquireradio The Country Squire Twitter: @_countrysquire The Country Squire Website: www.thecountrysquireonline.com Show Times: Live Monday nights 8:30pm CST, 6:30 Pacific, 9:30 EST Episode Sponsors: Missouri Meerschaum (www.corncobpipe.com) The Tin Society (https://tinsociety.com) - use CODE: SQUIRE for 20% off your first month’s box!

This episode of Country Squire Radio is brought to you by Missouri Meerschaum and the Tin Society. We thank them for supporting this show, and we thank you for supporting them. Episode 234: Pipe Culture - the Aristocrat and the Farmer Welcome & Housekeeping: Jon David continues to lament on the struggles of life and how much his pipe has been an asset. Beau talks about Best of Jackson 2018, for which CSR was nominated for best local podcast. It did not win, however Beau’s Podastery podcast ‘Let’s Talk Jackson’ did win. Raleigh Pipe Expo Reception Party coming up soon on April 6, from 5-9pm at the Ramada Inn on Blue Ridge Rd. in Raleigh, NC. The Pipe & Tobacco Expo is on Saturday April 7th, 9am-4:30pm in the Holshauser Building at the NC State Fairgrounds. Texas Pipe Show Oct. 6 2018, additional info to come. Brady Muckelroy (listener) missed the Custom Cob Competition auctions, but made a huge extra donation. Next Custom Cob Competition may be on a different holiday this year, stay tuned! Jon David congratulates Peter Massey on his 100th Loyal Squire’s punchcard, which amounts to 150lbs purchased tobacco from the Country Squire. New pipe club members announced (I won’t try to butcher their names in text as well.) Addendum note: NOLA Pipe Club will be taking a day trip to the Squire on Saturday 2/24. Topic: JD and Beau reopen the discussion on Pipe Culture, specifically looking at pipe smoking archetypes with community commentary provided by listeners, all detailed below. Additional thanks to www.reddit.com/r/pipetobacco for their contributions to this episode. /u/SupraMario – “I'm in between both, I've got money to blow on lbs of tobacco and pipes I want...but don't (ok ok, not on the TAD part on the PAD I restrain myself). I own a farm but am a pencil pusher by day...So not poor, not super rich, own a farm, but work in an office.” /u/LaphroaigianSlip – “The archetypes in my mind are this; one smokes a smooth red stain or black painted briar and the other smokes a humble cob. The briar has a brass or silver ash guard while the cob is unfinished and uneven at the top. The briar is either a Dublin or Billiard. The cob looks somewhere in between the style of Missouri Meerschaum's Mark Twain and The General. That is, the American farmer. The western European farmer would have a more local pipe made of briar, a small pipe with brown stain. Further east you might imagine someone farming in the hills of Greece with a simple bent Meerschaum, enjoying some Latakia with a bottle of ouzo. Further East still I in vision a Chinese farmer coming home in the evening. He sits down with his bamboo pipe. A durable piece that can last a lifetime, even be passed on generationally like a briar while having similar markings to the well worn corn cob pipe, familiar with being handled by dirty hands. It has the markings of earnest and frequent use. The central idea being that the farmer has his pipe from a more local and practical place while the aristocratic has the luxury of smoking something from another continent. The aristocrat has a clean smooth pipe, one in a rotation while the farmer's pipes each see daily use.” Dillon Shalinder (sp?) – “When I think about the aristocrats, the rich types, I’m reminded of a neat movie called ‘Evil Under the Sun”. The normalcy of seeing a well-to-do man with a pipe allowed the villain to hide a key piece of evidence, that in fact there was a diamond in his pipe the whole movie.” /r/Broskheim – “If we're talking straight stereotypes, the Farmer (blue collar) is the guy who has 1 pipe (probably a cob or a basket briar), and smokes one blend (probably an a drug store OTC) all day long. The Aristocrat is more the type we see on these kinds of forums. Smokes a multitude of blends from a multitude of pipes, probably once or, at most, twice a day. Probably pairs it with a beverage of some sort, and takes time out of his day to specifically enjoy the pipe.” Brad Hoctor (@hoctorthelovedr) – “To me a white collar, or aristocratic pipe smoker, is a bit more picky, typically having artisan-carved pipes and a wide variety of tinned blends in their cellar, whereas the blue collar pipe smoker or farmer is perfectly content with a good ol’ cob and a low-end factory pipe and a pouch of Captain Black.” Darren – “When I think of a Farmer who smokes a pipe I think of Charles Ingalls from ‘The Little House on the Prairie’. He would often enjoy his pipe in the evening after supper at the kitchen table, or outside leaning on the fence rail. Charles was a hard working farmer who enjoyed his pipe. Nothing better than a cool smoke to help wind down after a hard days work. Really enjoy the show.” Corey Grip – “I would like to contribute to the Farmer side. There are pictures of my grandfather who was born in 1927. There are two pictures of him as a kid, and one with my grandmother from 1953. And no we do not have the pipe still unfortunately. The pictures were taken at their 80-acre farm in Oklahoma.” (photos posted to FB) John Kirk Griffin – “Hey brothers, long time listener. I was so excited for this specific episode because, well, I’m a farmer! There’s something beautiful and primal about sitting on a tractor with a pipe packed with your favorite blend. It’s these hours of driving in slow circles that are prime moments for smoking a pipe. Farmers are very contemplative people, we spend many hours doing repetitive and sometimes monotonous work which gives us ample time to think. It’s during these times of deep contemplation that farmers turn to our pipes as our faithful companion. The farmer is a dying breed. We’ve gone from almost 90% farm workers to less than 1% in the US. We are frequently forgotten and sometimes marginalized folk, but we are a tough and resilient folk. And so next time you pack a pipe, remember the farmer who worked hard to grown and harvest those beautiful and tasty leaves. Love you guys, love the show. Keep up the great work.” /u/randallleemorgan – “When I think of the archetype of the farmer I'm reminded of my grandfather, a true Mississippian born and raised outside a small town no one would recognize. A man that worked as a millwright every day of his adult life because that's what he had (and I think loved) to do. Farming was something he didn't do for income but for survival; to make ends meet. Planting his own fruits and vegetables, raising chickens, and even hunting during the fall and winter all to provide for his family. This man is someone who loves a good pipe full of some tobacco, I’m guessing Cherry (Didn’t everyone in the 60’s smoke cherry tobacco). Later in life before I was born he had to lay down the pipe for the sake of my grandmother's heart condition but his the pipe wasn't his only source of vitamin-N. Maybe a nice big cheek-full of some Beechnut Chewing Tobacco while reading the paper or sitting on the tailgate of his old GMC secretly slipping is 4 year old grandson a strip of that chewing tobacco that may or may not have provided the aforementioned grandson his first case of nicotine sickness. The farmer archetype is that of someone who isn’t afraid to get his/her hands dirty. Someone who works hard every day to provide in time of plenty and time of lean. But the pipe is his one guilty pleasure, something just for him. Darren – “I recommend reading this article by Jonah Goldberg called ‘Democracy in the Tobacconist’s’ (http://www.nationalreview.com/article/367088/democracy-tobacconists-jonah-goldberg) and it’s really about cigars but I feel there are a lot of themes that will overlap. The G.K. Chesterton quote in particular addresses why it may be frowned upon and both social strata and why they should not care” G.K. Chesterton quote - "To have a horror of tobacco is not to have an abstract standard of right; but exactly the opposite. It is to have no standard of right whatever; and to make certain local likes and dislikes as a substitute. Nobody who has an abstract standard of right and wrong can possibly think it wrong to smoke a cigar. It is a vague sentimental notion that certain habits were not suitable to the old log cabin or the old hometown. It has a vague utilitarian notion that certain habits are not directly useful in the new amalgamated stores or the new financial gambling-hell. If his aged mother or his economic master dislikes to see a young man hanging about with a pipe in his mouth, the action becomes a sin; or the nearest that such a moral philosophy can come to the idea of a sin. A man does not chop wood for the log hut by smoking; and a man does not make dividends for the Big Boss by smoking; and therefore smoking has a smell as of something sinful." David Sirette – “I’m curious about the shift in preferential pipe shapes over time. I’ve always been told and read that in the 19th and early 20th centuries that bent pipes were preferred by lower-class smokers and manual laborers due to the hands free clench-ability and then straight pipes were preferred by those white-collared and upper class smokers. But then it seems that we began to see a shift mid-century with bent pipes becoming more expensive and artistic and straight billiards becoming a working man’s utility pipe. I’m curious to know what spurred this change. Could it have been that manufacturing techniques drove down the cost of straight pipes? Perhaps it was art and other fashion trends? Even today I would say that when you look at higher end pipes we see more swooping curves and bent stems and less expensive factory pipes in the form of straight billiards and apples. Is what we see a shift in aesthetics only? Or are our behaviors and smoking rituals changing?” Pipe Question of the Week: Ryan Smith in Louisiana asks “When people say a blend is burley-based I figure there are large variations in what the flavors can be. Some burley-based blends are cigarette-like, high in nicotine and a bit harsh smoke for me, but some are mild and nutty that have that awesome codger-like quality. I tend to prefer the latter. Is it a specific type of burley I should be looking for or are the condiment tobaccos more to blame for the large variations? PS. Looking forward to meeting you guys when the NOLA Pipe Club comes up to invade the Squire in February. Thanks for the show and keep up the great work.” Paraphrasing here, but Jon David comments that burleys are varied and not all are created equal. Air cured burley is softer, kind of nutty, more nicotine, and just all around smoother and then we have toasted and fire-cured burleys that are smokier because the leaves are infused with these particles. They’ll be a little more harsh, smoky, toasty. But burley is lurking everywhere. Unless the blend specifically says “no burley”, it’s probably in there somewhere. It’s so adaptable. It’s a chameleon. Takes on flavors of other tobaccos. Ages well. Adds body and nice mouthfeel. Thick clouds of smoke. They also kind of have a bad rap. Some people assume they just don’t like burley when they don’t realize there are many different kinds! Quick Fire with the Squire: Brought in by Mike Kinsey. #1 Transformers (JD and Beau) or G.I. Joe #2 Nirvana (JD and Beau) or Pearl Jam #3 Nightmare on Elm Street (JD and Beau) or Friday the 13th #4 Boodles (Beau?) or More Boodles (JD) Listener Feedback: Itunes review from ShadowMasterMan – “First and foremost, if you are a pipe smoker, you need this podcast in your life. Jon David is not only an encouragement as a person but a true master in the field of tobacco. I have learned an incredible amount from him, and truly developed a love of the pipe as a result. Beau is an incredible host, who puts out a high quality show time and time again. The sound quality is flawless, and the content equally so. You will not be disappointed subscribing to this show, I’ve binged every episode since discovering them in Afghanistan and will continue to be an avid listener. Jon David & Beau, thank y’all for the hard work y’all do for us, I think I can speak for the entire community when I say that you are truly appreciated. Thanks & Gig Em! @cdumo – “Granted as the grandson of French immigrants, my perspective may be different, but if you were going to smoke, it was briar whether you were a nobleman, farmer, or (as my family was) butcher. The briar pipe (invented in France, let’s not forget) was an equalizer. Alternatively, when you talk to old servicemen, they’ll talk about encountering meerschaum pipes (which many people consider fairly aristocratic) on their travels and seeing them as cheap, poor men’s pipes that could be picked up for pennies and not worth their time.” Ending & Wrap-up: Please check out the show sponsor websites to learn more about them. And please consider joining the Country Squire Radio Pipe Club. I’ve provided a link to Patreon below as well as show credits, twitter handles, websites, emails, and times. And for those missing their club cards, Beau promises they are coming this week! He swears it! He said it last week, but this week he means it. Pinkie promise covenant. Alright guys, great great show! One of our favorites because of the community involvement! Also, if you have any suggestions on new community-type series for CSR to do, please contact them! Anyway…let’s go have a night! Episode Credits: Host: Jon David Cole (@JonDavidCole) Host: Beau York (@TheRealBeauYork) Producer: Mike Woodard (@TheMikeWoodard) Executive Producer: Beau York (@Podastery) Show Notes: Mark Van Vrancken (@mgvsquared) Country Squire Radio Website: www.countrysquireradio.com Country Squire Radio E-mail: show@countrysquireradio.com Country Squire Radio Twitter: @squireradio Country Squire Radio Patreon: www.patreon.com/countrysquireradio The Country Squire Twitter: @_countrysquire The Country Squire Website: www.thecountrysquireonline.com Show Times: Live Monday nights 8:30pm CST, 6:30 Pacific, 9:30 EST Episode Sponsors: Missouri Meerschaum (www.corncobpipe.com) The Tin Society (https://tinsociety.com)

Patricia Elayne Action, Patty or Patsy to those who knew her best, was a 25 year old from Clearwater, FL. Patty and her husband had recently split up but she was eager to start her life over in the city where she grew up. On May 26, 1978, she went to a local Ramada Inn lounge with some new co-workers. After a few minutes there, she got up to use the restroom. She was never seen again. Charley Project: http://charleyproject.org/case/patricia-elayne-action Websleuths: http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?49283-FL-Patricia-Action-25-Clearwater-26-May-1978&highlight=patty+action NAMUS https://www.findthemissing.org/en/cases/19667/0/ The other women: http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/h/harper_sharon.html http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/h/huffman_leeann.html http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/b/barkley_barbara.html If you have any information regarding the disappearance of Patty Action, please contact the Clearwater Police Department at (727) 562-4080 The website: unfoundpodcast.com. Facebook: The Unfound Podcast Discussion Group, which is private. --and the Unfound Page, which is public. Please join at both! Twitter: @unfoundpodcast Instagram: @unfoundpodcast Patreon: patreon.com/unfoundpodcast YouTube: The Unfound Podcast Channel Unfound email: Unfoundpodcast@gmail.com --but please don’t hesitate to message me privately on Facebook Messenger as well. You can subscribe to Unfound at iTunes, Stitcher, Podomatic, Google Play, and a bunch of other places. --you also listen without downloading at TuneInRadio. Amazon: Unfound, Volume 1 as a Kindle ebook and Paperback. And finally, please mention Unfound at Reddit, Websleuths, True Crime Podcasts, Podcasts We Listen To, and all other true crime websites and forums.

From Wonder Bread's worst idea to the greatest sandwich to ever emerge from a Ramada Inn, Will and Mango celebrate the handiest food of all time. Featuring Lauren Vogelbaum from FoodStuff. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

For Beyond 50's "Personal Growth" talks, listen to an interview with Dennis Miller. He'll share his rags-to-riches story. When Miller was a young boy, he tried to kill his father with a butter knife. Suffering from severe emotional abuse and depression, he grew up with a negative self-image that translated into poor grades in school, and eventually landed him in a psychiatric hospital. Despite overwhelming obstacles, through perseverance and the help of caring individuals, Miller turned his life around. He started out mopping floors at Ramada Inn before gaining admittance to an Ivy League university, and later becoming CEO of a New Jersey hospital. Tune in to Beyond 50: America's Variety Talk Radio Show on the natural, holistic, green and sustainable lifestyle. Visit www.Beyond50Radio.com and sign up for our Exclusive Updates.

Check on in and let the laughs begin: this week Ghost Team, Go! is live from a Ramada Inn (that's a gross motel, folks)! Jack & Nick spend a night away from the apartment in hopes of checking out a ghostly comedy show, and end up getting just that in the form of spectral stand-up comic Donny the Jeweler. He's got a tight 52-minute set of wife-related humor, and you'll get to hear plenty of it, but definitely not too much. Despite the obvious difficulty of interviewing someone who is in the middle of a comedy set, Jack & Nick soon learn the story behind Donny's broken marriage, sordid affairs, and horrible demise. There's laughter and tears along the way, as well as plenty of horrifying fun facts about the degenerate life of this veteran road comic. But this is Ghost Team, Go!, so even the funniest bits have the potential to end in terrifying tragedy, and there's much more to this inn than meets the eye. Will Jack & Nick survive Donny's insanity-inducing comedic material? Will anybody take Donny's wife? And is Nick still afraid of sand at night? Find out in this bone-chilling episode of Ghost Team, Go! FEATURING Tyler Rothrock (@TylerRothrock) as Donny the Jeweler.

Roadies, in this episode I am humbled to have had the privilege to sit down with prolific author, Howard Massey. With 16 books to his name, Howard is a man of many talents; engineer, producer, songwriter, and musician. Howard's deep knowledge and love of the business is rivaled only by the incredible respect his peers have for him. Not only was he ahead of the curve with his early titles breaking down the features of the Yamaha DX 7, but any student of the recording industry would be remiss not having well worn copies of Great British Recording Studios or both volumes of Behind the Glass on their shelves. Much of our focus was centered on his most recent effort and first novel, Roadie. Loosely based on Rolling Stones founding member Ian Stewart, Roadie paints a vivid picture of the less glamorous side of the music industry using many stories rooted in first hand experience that will keep you hooked until the end. Howard and I recorded this interview in a Ramada Inn ballroom where he proceeded to give me the low-down on the many different hats he has worn during his 40 year career in the music industry. Tune in to find out more about Howard’s work as a magazine publisher and music journalist, along with his own stories about time spent on the road.

David and Eve are back with 69 new films in eight categories that will be shown from October 6-9 2016 at the Ramada Inn in Downtown Cumberland. This is the fifth annual Queen City Film Fest and they are excited to be offering several films made in or about Maryland. The process for making this festival a success starts in April by reviewing submissions, selecting films and putting together a fantastic film festival.  They have included their  top three picks for films not to miss, buy your tickets and support this great non-profit.    Make sure to purchase your tickets HERE Download your own schedule HERE The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Tickets HERE      

Interview with Agnes Marsala, president of Chesterfield, New Jersey's People Over Pipelines, on the chaotic, never started, ultimately postponed permit meeting from August 22, 2016: https://www.facebook.com/peopleoverpipelines/videos/551168431736785/ The meeting took place at a Ramada Inn, in a conference room having a capacity of 200 people. Approximately 50% was filled by a union, and speculation points to the oil company, Transunion, packing the room in an effort to prevent residents from entering, and to overwhelm genuine comments with "don't take away my union job" comments. According to Agnes, the oil company is under no obligation for the next decade to pay full union wages, as they were grandfathered in with pay related decision. Some of the union personnel were surprised to learn this. There is also speculation that some union people were paid, and that a list of those attending and not attending was recorded for retaliation purposes. The parking lot and conference room became so full that police had to intervene and start turning people away. The Ramada Inn reportedly refuses to host related meetings in the future. According to Agnes, the postponement is a setback for the company, not necessarily a delaying tactic. Filling the room with union people, as well as renting a room that could only fit 200 people, despite that even larger turnout a previous meetings, both backfired. Here is the original, eye-opening interview I did with People Over Pipelines in April: https://soundcloud.com/peopleconversations/interview-with-people-fighting-the-pipeline-going-through-chesterfield-nj

08/15/16 - Tom Bell talks about his stay at the newly renovated Grand Legacy at the Park.

On May 7, 2000, in the parking lot of the Ramada Inn in Jacksonville, Florida, 65-year-old Mary Ann Stephens is shot in the head before her husband’s eyes. Ninety minutes later, 15-year-old Brenton Butler is arrested. For the investigators and the media it’s just another messed-up youth and two wasted lives. Everything is against Butler: […] The post Murder on a Sunday Morning appeared first on Tiegrabber.

On May 7, 2000, in the parking lot of the Ramada Inn in Jacksonville, Florida, 65-year-old Mary Ann Stephens is shot in the head before her husband’s eyes. Ninety minutes later, 15-year-old Brenton Butler is arrested. For the investigators and the media it’s just another messed-up youth and two wasted lives. Everything is against Butler: […]

Hank Bilal is performing LIVE at the Ramada INN....If you haven't heard this brotha you need to listen!!!! Special Treat!!!

Hank Bilal is performing LIVE at the Ramada INN....If you haven't heard this brotha you need to listen!!!! Special Treat!!!

On this show ... King/Queen Recap -Jay Cat discusses the long ass road trip down to Indiana --Detailed match recap of the Royal Weekend of Death --1st Rd Recap of King of the Death Matches --Waffle House??? --Recap of Queen of the Death --Quick review of the Ramada Inn (the hotel for the weekend) --The King of the Death review continues --Jay's thoughts on drawing bigger crowds to IWA-MS

Welp, the girls of Sorry About Last Night beat the odds and survived their trip to Central Illinois with two drag queens and they have two bellies full of Cheddar's, a new appreciation for contouring, and some unforgettable Tinder experiences to show for it! While Corinne is sure she's just swiped right on her next great love while on the bathroom floor in a Ramada Inn in Decatur, this week also brought with it a throwback evening with her first great love. On today's episode, Krystyna, Corinne and Stephen take a business field trip to the movie theater to see Fifty Shades of Grey. Post-flick, they return to the studio (Krystyna's basement) and dissect every lip-biting second (oh, and there was a LOT of lip-biting) -- the play room, the control issues, that fine-ass bitch's boobies, the great "consent" debate, how first edition books are the 'it' romance gift of the season, why it's not ok to be using a flip phone in 2015, butt plugs versus genital clamps, spanking, dominant and submissive stereotypes, and the scene that made them all lose their shit laughing. BUY TICKETS TO THE 'SORRY ABOUT LAST NIGHT' SHOW IN LOS ANGELES ON 3/3 FEAT. JOHN CAMPANELLI & JOE DEROSA: http://hollywood.thecomedystore.com/event.cfm?id=376130&cart E-mail us at SorryAboutLastNightShow@gmail.com Tweet the ladies: twitter.com/SryAboutLastNyt Tweet Corinne: twitter.com/ PhilanthropyGal Tweet Krystyna: twitter.com/KrystynaHutch Follow us on Instagram: SorryAboutLastNight YouTube: www.youtube.com/sryaboutlastnyt Tumblr: sorryaboutlastnight.tumblr.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/sorryaboutlastnight

Ryan is flying solo this week on the show. Up in Kelowna covering the Rockets for the WHL on Shaw. With no Dave, Sheila or Geeta, we turn to the boys from the WHL on Shaw for our weekly chat. Host Andy Neal and producers Grant and Dave sit with Ryan in room 244 of the Ramada Inn to talk about the WHL, the powerhouse Kelowna Rockets, the problems facing smaller market clubs and talking about their earliest exposure with the league. But before that, P Mac on the Street skypes with Ryan with some news and tips from Canucks land. The rise and fall of Vinny Prospal, Kellan Lain's three big games with the big club and the injury and goal scoring problems that plague the team. Enjoy!

(Note from Ray- Glenn did our write-up. I'm shocked that he did this without using the word "bedbug". So, not for any reason other than it's fun to say "bedbug"...BEDBUG BEDBUG BEDBUG BEDBUG! You're welcome.) (Also, the guy we thought was dead? He wasn't. We saw him walking around a few hours later. So we didn't make fun of a dead guy. Our karma is spared.) (Also- Alligator People is AWESOME. Watch the movie below. You'll thank me later.) (Also- this was my favorite podcast with Glenn. We really did this in the parking lot of the con in Glenn's car. We should do more like this.) This week's special Live from the Pulp AdventureCon episode of The GAR! Podcast includes discussion of the following: Pulp AdventureCon / Glenn's arcane movie knowledge / The Wild World of Batwoman / The Alligator People / West of Zanzibar / customer service / the dead guy in the back / Golden Age comics / slabbing comics / the original Daredevil / Mark Waid / Mr. Terrific* / serials / The Spider / bat mitzvah / figure skating / Tonya Harding / sex tapes / this episode's Breaking Bad reference / Brady Bunch / hotel as alternate housing / customers / used Star Wars toys / Ender's Game / creator vs. product / Mel Gibson / Super Fun Night / Queen Latifah / marriage / the Green Hornet on radio / Frank Miller / The Spirit / into the woods / Tom Smith / The Fox / * although what Glenn is thinking of is Captain Nice Links: Pulp AdventureCon The Wild World of Batwoman The Alligator People CGC Comics The original Daredevil The Fox Radio Archives The Spider #64 Claws of the Golden Dragon Baking Bread t-shirts Ramada Inn in Bordentown NJ on FourSquare The Green Hornet Casefiles Glenn's review of Frank Miller's The Spirit Glenn's review of the Spirit TV movie Glenn's Twitter Ray's Twitter Videos: The Wild World of Batwoman trailer The Alligator People trailer The Alligator People full movie Mr. Terrific opening Captain Nice The Spirit TV movie preview clip "The Fox" by Ylvis

10/4/09 SUNDAY HOUR TWO (9-10 PM Eastern) Budd Hopkins (cont'd) AND 9:30-10 PM Eastern Dr. Peter Resta Mysteries of Space and Sky 6: The UFO Phenomenon - workshop at the Ramada Inn near BWI Airport, October 24, 2009. To register: www.mss-2009.eventbrite.com