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In this impactful and inspiring episode of Unstoppable Mindset, host Michael Hingson sits down with Ronald Cocking—performer, educator, and co-founder of the Looking Glass Studio of Performing Arts—to reflect on a remarkable life shaped by rhythm, resilience, and love. Ron's journey into the performing arts began at just five years old, when his passion for tap dance ignited a lifelong commitment to dance and musical theater. From his first professional role at age 15 in My Fair Lady to founding one of Southern California's most impactful arts schools, Ron's story is one of dedication, creativity, and community.   But perhaps the most moving part of Ron's story is his 49-year partnership—both personal and professional—with the late Gloria McMillan, best known as Harriet Conklin from Our Miss Brooks. Together, they created a legacy of mentorship through the Looking Glass Studio, where they taught thousands of students across generations—not just how to act, sing, or dance, but how to live with confidence and integrity.   Ron also reflects on the legacy Gloria left behind, his continued involvement in the arts, and the words of wisdom that guide his life:   “Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” “To find happiness, take the gifts God has given you and give them away.”   This is more than a story of a career in the arts—it's a touching tribute to passion, partnership, and purpose that will leave you inspired.   Highlights:   00:48 – Hear how early radio at home shaped a lifetime love for performance. 03:00 – Discover why drumming and tap both trained his ear for rhythm. 06:12 – Learn how a tough studio change led to ballet, jazz, and tumbling basics. 08:21 – See the “sing with your feet” method that makes tap click for students. 10:44 – Find out how a teen chorus role in My Fair Lady opened pro doors. 13:19 – Explore the drum-and-tap crossover he performed with Leslie Uggams. 15:39 – Learn how meeting Gloria led to a studio launched for $800. 18:58 – Get the long view on running a school for 44 years with family involved. 23:46 – Understand how Our Miss Brooks moved from radio to TV with its cast intact. 32:36 – See how 42nd Street proves the chorus can be the star. 41:51 – Hear why impact matters more than fame when students build careers. 43:16 – Learn what it takes to blend art and business without losing heart. 45:47 – Compare notes on marriage, teamwork, and communication that lasts. 48:20 – Enjoy a rare soft-shoe moment Ron and Gloria performed together. 56:38 – Take away the “teach to fish” approach that builds lifelong confidence.   About the Guest:   My father was a trumpet player, thus I heard music at home often in the early 50's and was always impressed and entertained by the rhythms and beats of Big Band music… especially the drummers.  Each time I would see Tap dancers on TV, I was glued to the screen.  It fascinated me the way Tap dancers could create such music with their feet!   In 1954, at age 5, after begging my Mom and Dad to enroll me in a Tap class, my Dad walked in from work and said “Well, you're all signed up, and your first Tap class is next Tuesday.  I was thrilled and continued studying tap and many other dance forms and performing and teaching dance for all of my life.     In my mid teens, I became serious about dancing as a possible career.  After seeing my first musical, “The Pajama Game” starring Ruth Lee, I new I wanted to do musical theatre.  I got my first professional opportunity at age 15 in “My Fair Lady” for the San Bernardino Civic Light Opera Association and loved every minute of it… and would continue performing for this organization well into my 30's   I met Gloria McMillan in the late 60's while choreographing a summer musical for children.  Gloria's daughter was doing the role of Dorothy in “The Wizard of Oz”.  Then, about 3 or 4 years later I would meet Gloria again and the sparks flew.  And, yes, she was Gloria McMillan of “Our Miss Brooks” fame on both radio and television.  Wow, was I blessed to have crossed paths with her.  We shared our lives together for 49 years.   On November 4, 1974, Gloria and I opened a performing arts school together named “The Looking Glass Studio of Performing Arts”.  We would teach and manage the school together for 44 years until we retired on June 30, 2018.  We moved to Huntington Beach, California and spent 3 beautiful years together until she left to meet our Lord in heaven on January 19, 2022.   Ways to connect with Ron:   Lgsparon@aol.com     About the Host:   Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. 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Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us.   Michael Hingson ** 01:20 Well, hi there, wherever you are and wherever you happen to be today. Welcome to unstoppable mindset. I'm your host, Mike hingson, and today we get to chat with Ron Cocking, who is Ron. Well, we're going to find out over the next hour. And Ron was married for many years to another person who is very famous, and we'll get to that, probably not as well known to what I would probably describe as the younger generation, but you're going to get to learn a lot about Ron and his late wife before we're done, and I am sure we're going to have a lot of fun doing it. So let's get to it. Ron, welcome to unstoppable mindset. We're glad you're here.   Ron Cocking ** 01:59 Thank you. I'm so glad to be here. Michael, this. I've been looking forward to this.   Michael Hingson ** 02:04 I have been as well, and we're going to have a lot of fun doing it.   Ron Cocking ** 02:08 Do you one note on that last name? It is cocking. Cocking, he comes right? Comes from a little townlet in the coal mining country of England called Cockington.   Michael Hingson ** 02:20 I don't know why I keep saying that, but yeah, cocky, no   02:23 problem.   Michael Hingson ** 02:24 Well, do you go up to the reps recreations at all?   Ron Cocking ** 02:28 Oh my gosh, Gloria. And I know you and Gloria, did do you still do it? I've it's on my schedule for September.   Michael Hingson ** 02:35 I'm gonna miss it this year. I've got a speech to give. So I was going to be playing Richard diamond at recreation. Well, I'll have to be Dick Powell another time, but I thought that you you were still doing   02:50 it. I'm planning on it cool.   Michael Hingson ** 02:53 Well, tell us about the early Ron cocking and kind of growing up in some of that stuff. Let's start with that.   Ron Cocking ** 02:59 Well, the early part of my story was when I was born just a little before television came in, before everyone had a TV in their home. How old are you now? If I maybe, you know, I am now 76   Michael Hingson ** 03:12 Okay, that's what I thought. Yeah, you're one year ahead of me. I'm 75   Ron Cocking ** 03:16 I was born in 49 and so my earliest remembrances my mom and dad and my brother and I lived with our grandfather, and we had no television, but we had this big it must have been about three to four foot tall, this big box on the floor in a very prominent spot in the living room. And that was the Sunday afternoon entertainment. I remember my family sitting around, and I listened and I laughed when they did, but I had no idea what was going on, but that was the family gathering. And just, I know we'll talk about it later, but I I just have this notion that at that time I was laughing, not knowing what I was laughing at, but I bet I was laughing at my future   Michael Hingson ** 04:02 wife, yes, yes, but other things as well. I mean, you probably laughed at Jack Benny and Amos and Andy and   Ron Cocking ** 04:09 yeah, I remember listening to all those folks, and it was just amazing. Then when television came about and my father was a trumpet player, and I loved his trumpet playing, and he practiced often at home. He would sit in his easy chair and play some tunes and scales and that sort of thing. But what captured my ear and my eyes when I went to on rare occasions when I could go to his engagements, it was always the drummer that just stuck out to me. I was mesmerized by the rhythms that they could produce. And when TV came about, I remember the old variety shows, and they often would have tap dancers like. Had a stair gene, Kelly, Peg Leg Bates and the Nicholas brothers, and I just, I was just taken back by the rhythms. It sounded like music to me. The rhythms just made me want to do it. And so I started putting that bug in my parents ears. And I waited and waited. I wanted to take tap dance lessons. And one day, my dad walks in the back door, and I said, Dad, have you signed me up yet? And he said, Yep, you start next Tuesday at 330 in the afternoon. So I was overjoyed, and I went in for my first lesson. And mind you, this was a private tap class. Total Cost of $1.25 and we had a pianist for music, no record player, live piano, wow. And so I, I rapidly fell in love with tap dance.   Michael Hingson ** 05:56 And so you did that when you weren't in school. Presumably, you did go to school.   Ron Cocking ** 06:00 Oh, yeah, I did go to school. Yeah, I did well in school, and I enjoyed school. I did all the athletics. I played little league, and eventually would be a tennis player and water polo and all that stuff. But all through the years, after school was on the way to the dance classes.   Michael Hingson ** 06:16 So you graduated, or I suppose I don't want to insult drumming, but you graduated from drumming to tap dancing, huh?   Ron Cocking ** 06:24 Well, I kept doing them both together. I would dance, and then when my dad would practice, I would beg him to just play a tune like the St Louis Blues, yeah, and so that I could keep time, so I pulled a little stool up in front of an easy chair, and one of the arms of the chair was the ride cymbal, and the other one was the crash cymbal, and the seat of the chair was my snare drum. I would play along with him. And eventually he got tired of that and bought a Hi Fi for my brother and I, and in the bedroom I had a Hi Fi, and I started to put together a set of drums, and I spent hours next to that, Hi Fi, banging on the drums, and I remember it made me feel good. One day, my mom finally said to me, you know, you're starting to sound pretty good, and that that was a landmark for me. I thought, wow, somebody is enjoying my drumming,   Michael Hingson ** 07:18 but you couldn't do drumming and tap dancing at the same time. That would have been a little bit of a challenge. A challenge.   Ron Cocking ** 07:23 No, I would practice that the drums in the afternoon and then head for the dance studio later. And in this case, I was a local boy. I grew up in Riverside California, and my first tap teacher was literally maybe two miles from our house. But that didn't last long. She got married and became pregnant and closed her studio, and then I she recommended that I go see this teacher in San Bernardino by the name of Vera Lynn. And which I did, I remember walking into this gigantic classroom with a bunch of really tall kids, and I was maybe seven or eight years old, and I guess it was kind of an audition class, but after that evening, I she put me in the most appropriate classes, one of which was ballet, which I wasn't too excited about, but they all told me, If you're going to be a serious dancer, even a tap dancer, you need to get the basic body placement from ballet classes. And I said, Well, I am not going to put any tights and a T shirt on. But they finally got me to do that because they told me that the Rams football team took ballet class twice a week at that time. Ah. Said, no kidding. So they got me, they they got you. They got me into ballet class, and then it was jazz, and then it was tumbling, and so I did it all.   Michael Hingson ** 08:43 I remember when we moved to California when I was five, and probably when I was about eight or nine, my brother and I were enrolled by my mother. I guess my parents enrolled us in a dance class. So I took dance class for a few years. I learned something about dancing. I did have a pair of tap shoes, although I didn't do a lot of it, but I, but I did dance and never, never really pursued it enough to become a Gene Kelly or Fred Astaire. Well, few of us do. I didn't dislike it. It just didn't happen. But that was okay, but it was fun to, you know, to do it and to learn something about that. And so I even today, I I remember it, and I appreciate it. So that's pretty cool.   Ron Cocking ** 09:32 Well, you would understand what I always told my students, that tap dancing is like singing a song with your feet. Yeah. And I would sing, I would say, you all know, happy birthday, right? So I would sing it, and they would sing it along, and then I'd said, then I would sing it again, and I would sing it totally out of rhythm. And they would wrinkle their nose and look at me and say, okay, so what are you doing? And I'd say, Well, you don't recognize it because the rhythm is not correct. So then I would. Would tap dance Happy birthday, and I'd say, you sing along in your mind and I'm going to tap dance it. And that would always ring a bell in their mind, like, Oh, I get it. The rhythm has to be right on the button, or the people aren't going to recognize   Michael Hingson ** 10:16 that was very clever to do.   Ron Cocking ** 10:18 Yeah, thank you. And they got it, yeah, they got it, yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 10:22 which is even, even more important. That's pretty clever. Well, so you did that, and did you do it all the way through high school,   Ron Cocking ** 10:30 all the way through high school? And I think when I was 15, I was, I think I was in the eighth grade, maybe ninth, but I was 15 and got my first chance to I was cast in a professional show for San Bernardino civic light opera Association. And the show was My Fair Lady, and it was my English and journalism teacher at the junior high who had been cast. He was a performer also, but something came up and he couldn't follow through, so he had given the association my name, and I was out in the backyard. My mom came out. Said, Hey, San Bernardino clo just called and they want, they want to see it tonight at seven o'clock. So I put on my dance clothes and went over, and the director, by the name of Gosh, Gene Bayless, came out, and he showed me a couple of steps. And he said, Yeah, let's do it together. And he said, Boy, you unscramble your feet pretty well there kid. And he he looked over into the costumers and said, measure this guy. Let's put him in the show. So I was beside myself. And long story short, I Gosh, I'm over the over the years, I my first show was at age 15 with them, and I participated, did shows with them, until I think my last show, I was about 38 years old, and that last show was anything goes with Leslie uggums, wow.   Michael Hingson ** 11:52 So what part did you play on my fair lady?   Ron Cocking ** 11:55 I was just a chorus kid. I remember in the opening when Eliza sings, that wouldn't it be lovely? Wouldn't it be lovely? I was a street sweeper. I remember I had a broom, and there were three of us, and we were sweeping up that street and working in and around. Eliza Doolittle, of   Michael Hingson ** 12:11 course, being really spiteful. You just said a little while ago, you were beside yourself. And the thing that I got to say to that, quoting the Muppets, is, how do the two of you stand each other? But anyway, that's okay, good in the original Muppet Movie, that line is in there. And I it just came out so fast, but I heard it. I was going, Oh my gosh. I couldn't believe they did that. But anyway, it was so cute, very funny. That's great. So and then you were, you eventually were opposite Leslie UB,   Ron Cocking ** 12:39 yes, that was one of the high points talking about dancing and drumming at the same time. In fact, I used to give a drum a basic drum summer camp where I would teach tappers the basics of music notation, quarter notes, eighth notes, 16th notes. And then we would put a tap orchestra together. Everybody had their own music stand and their own drum pad. I would conduct, and we would play little pieces, and they would they would drum a rhythm, tap, a rhythm, drum, a rhythm, tap, a rhythm. And so anyway, it came full circle. One of the highlights of my dance slash drumming career was this show I did with Leslie uggums, the director had done this prior, and he knew it would work, and so so did the conductor in the entre Act. The top of the second act, the pit orchestra starts and plays like eight measures. And then there were six of us on stage, behind the main curtain, and we would play the next 16 bars, and then we would toss it back to the pit, and then toss it back to us, and the curtain would begin to rise, and we were right into the first song that Leslie uggums sang to get into the second act. Then she wanted to add a couple of songs that she liked, and she was very popular in with the audiences in San Bernardino, so she added a couple of songs, and I got to play those songs with her and and that was just so thrilling. And I with the scene finished, I had to have my tap shoes on, on the drum set. I had to hop down from the riser, and came out, brought one of my Toms with me, and played along with another featured tap dancer that kind of took over the scene at that point. So it was, it was really cool.   Michael Hingson ** 14:31 So with all this drumming, did you ever meet anyone like buddy rip?   Ron Cocking ** 14:35 No, I never met any famous drummers except a man by the name of Jack Sperling, which was one of my drumming idols,   Michael Hingson ** 14:44 Donnie Carson was quite the drummer, as I recall,   Ron Cocking ** 14:48 yeah, he did play yeah and boy, his his drummer, Ed Shaughnessy on his on The Tonight Show was phenomenal. Yeah, he's another of my favorites, yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 14:57 well, and I remember. I guess Johnny Carson and Buddy Rich played together, which was kind of fun. They   Ron Cocking ** 15:07 played together, and so did Ed Shaughnessy and Buddy Rich did a little competition on the show one time I realized, yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 15:15 right, yeah. Well, and it's interesting to see some of the performers do that. I remember once trying to remember whether what show it was on, maybe it was also a Tonight Show where Steve Martin substituted for Johnny, but he and the steel Canyon, the Steve Canyon band, came out. Of course, he was great on the band, and then flat and Scruggs or flat came out. Or which one? Yeah, which one did the banjo flat, I think, but they, but they banjo together, which was fun?   Ron Cocking ** 15:51 Oh, wow, yeah, yeah. Steve Martin is a tremendous band. He is, Whoa, yeah. I,   Michael Hingson ** 15:56 I have a hard time imagining fingers moving that fast, but that's okay, me too. I saved my fingers for Braille, so it's okay. So where did you go to college?   Ron Cocking ** 16:07 I went to for two years to Riverside City College, Riverside Community College, and then I went for two years to San Bernardino Cal State, San Bernardino, and I was majoring in English because I thought I may want to do some writing. But in the meantime, I became married, I became a father, and so I was trying to work and study and maintain a family life, and I just couldn't do it all. So I didn't quite finish a major at Cal State San Bernardino. I continued actually a nightclub drumming career. And now, now we're getting up to where this our performing arts studio began between Gloria and I.   Michael Hingson ** 16:50 So was it? GLORIA? You married first?   Ron Cocking ** 16:53 No, okay, no, Gloria was married. Gloria was a prior, prior marriage for 20 some years, or 20 years, I guess. And I had been married only two years, I think. And when we first, well, we actually met while we were both. I'll tell you the story in a minute, if you want to hear it. Sure, the first time I ever met Gloria Macmillan, I had no idea who she was, because she her name was Gloria Allen at the time that was, that was her married name that she took after the arm is Brooks TV show. Well, she took that the new name before the TV show even ended. But I was choreographing a children's summer musical, and the director came up said, hey, I want you to meet this young lady's mom. So the young lady was Gloria's daughter, her oldest daughter, Janet. And I said, Sure. So he said, This is Gloria. Allen, Gloria, this is Ron. And we shook hands, and I said, Nice to meet you. And that was it. And so the show happened. It ran for a couple of weeks, and Gloria was a wonderful stage mom. She she never bothered anyone. She watched the show. She was very supportive of her daughter. Didn't, didn't stage manage   Michael Hingson ** 18:09 whatsoever, which wasn't a helicopter mom, which is good,   Ron Cocking ** 18:12 definitely that, which was just really cool. So and so I was maybe three, four years later, so Gloria obviously knew that I could dance, because she had seen me choreographed. So I got a phone call from Gloria Allen, and I said, Okay, I remember her. She wanted to meet because she was thinking about starting an acting school and wanted someone to teach actors some dance movement. So I went over for a interview and took my little at that time, about two and a half year old, daughter, three year old, and we chatted, and oh my gosh, I just this, this beautiful woman swept me off my feet. And of course, I by the end of the conversation, I said, Gosh, you know, we talked about how we would integrate the acting and the dance, and I said, Can I have your phone number? Nope, I got the old well, we'll call you. Don't call us. And so I had to wait for a few days before I got a call back, but I got a call back, and I don't remember a lot of details, but the sparks flew really, really quickly, and we started planning our school. And if you can believe that this was 1973 when we started planning, maybe it was early 74 and we invested a whole total of $800 to get ourselves into business. We bought a record player, some mirrors, some paint, and a business license and a little shingle to hang out front. We had a little one room studio, and we. Opened on November 4, 1974 and we would close the studio on June 30, 2018 Wow.   Michael Hingson ** 20:08 Yeah. So you, you had it going for quite a while, almost, well, actually, more than 40 years. 44 years. 44 years, yes. And you got married along the way.   Ron Cocking ** 20:20 Well along the way, my my wife always said she fell in love with my daughter, and then she had to take me along with her. Yeah. Well, there you go. So we were together constantly, just running the school together. And then eventually I moved over to San Bernardino, and it was, gosh, some 1213, years later, we got married in on June 28 1987 and but nothing really changed, because we had already been living together and raising five children. GLORIA had four from a private prior marriage, and I had my little girl. So we we got all these five kids through elementary and junior high in high school, and they all went to college. And they're all beautiful kids and productive citizens, two of them still in show biz. Her son, my stepson, Christopher Allen, is a successful producer now and of Broadway shows. And our daughter, Barbara Bermudez, the baby that Gloria fell in love with. She's now a producer slash stage manager director. She does really well at big events with keynote speakers. And she'll, if they want her to, she will hire in everything from lighting and sound to extra performers and that sort of thing. And she's, she's just busy constantly all over the world, wow.   Michael Hingson ** 21:43 Well, that's pretty cool. And what are the other three doing?   Ron Cocking ** 21:47 One is a VP of Sales for it's a tub and shower company, jacuzzi, and the other one is a married housewife, but now she is a grandmother and has two little grandkids, and they that's Janet, the one that I originally had worked with in that children's show. And she and her husband live in Chino Hills, California, which is about 40 minutes from here. I live in Huntington Beach, California now,   Michael Hingson ** 22:14 well, and I'm not all that far away from you. We're in Victorville. Oh, Victorville, okay, yeah, the high desert. So the next time you go to Vegas, stop by on your way, I'll do that, since that's mainly what Victorville is probably most known for. I remember when I was growing I grew up in Palmdale, and Palmdale wasn't very large. It only had like about 20 703,000 people. But as I described it to people, Victorville wasn't even a speck on a radar scope compared to Palmdale at that time. Yeah, my gosh, are over 120,000 people in this town?   Ron Cocking ** 22:51 Oh, I remember the drive in the early days from here to Vegas in that you really felt like you could get out on the road all alone and relax and take it all in, and now it can be trafficking all all the   Speaker 1 ** 23:04 way. Yeah, it's crazy. I don't know. I still think they need to do something to put some sort of additional infrastructure, and there's got to be another way to get people to Vegas and back without going on i 15, because it is so crowded, especially around holidays, that one of these days, somebody will get creative. Maybe they'll get one of Tesla's tunnel boring tools, and they'll make a tunnel, and you can go underground the whole way, I don't know,   Ron Cocking ** 23:32 but that would be, that would be great. Something like that would happen.   Michael Hingson ** 23:38 Well, so you you started the school and and that did, pretty cool. Did, did Gloria do any more acting after our Miss Brooks? And then we should explain our Miss Brooks is a show that started on radio. Yes, it went on to television, and it was an arm is Brooks. Miss Brooks played by e vardin. Was a teacher at Madison High, and the principal was Osgood Conklin, played by Gail Gordon, who was absolutely perfect for the part. He was a crotchety old curmudgeon by any standards. And Gloria played his daughter, Harriet correct. And so when it went from radio to television, one of the things that strikes me about armas Brooks and a couple of those shows, burns and Allen, I think, is sort of the same. Jack Benny was a little different. But especially armas Brooks, it just seems to me like they they took the radio shows and all they did was, did the same shows. They weren't always the same plots, but it was, it was radio on television. So you, you had the same dialog. It was really easy for me to follow, and it was, was fascinating, because it was just like the radio shows, except they were on television.   Ron Cocking ** 24:56 Yeah, pretty much. In fact, there were a lot, there's lots of episodes. Episodes that are even named the same name as they had on the radio, and they're just have to be reworked for for the television screen,   Michael Hingson ** 25:08 yeah, but the the dialog was the same, which was so great,   Ron Cocking ** 25:13 yeah, yeah. And to see what was I going to add, it was our Miss Brooks was one of the very few radio shows that made the transition to television with the cast with the same intact. Yeah, everybody looked like they sounded. So it worked when they were in front of the camera. Yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 25:33 it sort of worked with Jack Benny, because most of the well, all the characters were in it, Don Wilson, Mary, Livingston, Dennis day, Rochester, world, yeah. And of course, Mel Blanc, yeah, oh.   Ron Cocking ** 25:49 GLORIA tells a story. She she and her mom, Hazel, were walking down the street on the way to do a radio show in the old days in Hollywood, and here comes Mel blank, he says, he pulls over. Says, Hey, where are you girls headed because I know that he probably recognized them from being at at CBS all the time, and they said, We're headed to CBS. He said, hop in. Oh, that's where I'm going. So Mel Brooks gave her a ride to the Mel Blanc, yeah, would have been   Michael Hingson ** 26:15 fun if Mel Brooks had but that's okay, Young Frankenstein, but that's another story. It is. But that's that's cool. So did they ever? Did she ever see him any other times? Or was that it?   Ron Cocking ** 26:30 No, I think that was it. That's the one story that she has where Mel Blanc is involved.   Michael Hingson ** 26:36 What a character, though. And of course, he was the man of a million voices, and it was just incredible doing I actually saw a couple Jack Benny shows this morning and yesterday. One yesterday, he was Professor LeBlanc teaching Jack Benny how to play the violin, which was a lost cause.   Ron Cocking ** 26:59 Actually, Jack Benny was not a bad view. No,   Michael Hingson ** 27:01 he wasn't violent. No, he wasn't. He had a lot of fun with it, and that stick went straight in from radio to television, and worked really well, and people loved it, and you knew what was going to happen, but it didn't matter. But it was still   Ron Cocking ** 27:16 funny, and I'm sure during the transition they there was a little bit of panic in the writers department, like, okay, what are we going to do? We got to come up with a few shows. We got to get ahead a little bit. So the writing being just a little different, I'm sure that's part of the reason why they went back and kind of leaned on the old, old script somewhat, until they kind of cut their teeth on the new this new thing called television   Michael Hingson ** 27:39 well, but they still kept a lot of the same routines in one way or another.   Ron Cocking ** 27:45 Yeah, when they work, they work, whether you're just listening or whether you're watching,   Michael Hingson ** 27:48 right, exactly what other shows made it from radio to television with the cast   Ron Cocking ** 27:53 intact? You know, I am not up on that number. I   Michael Hingson ** 27:57 know there were a couple that did. RMS, Brooks was, well, oh no, I was gonna say Abbott and Costello, but that was different, but our Miss Brooks certainly did. If   Ron Cocking ** 28:09 the Bickersons did, I forget the two actors that did that show, but that was a really, Francis   Michael Hingson ** 28:13 Langford and Donna Michi could be, but I think burns and Allen, I think, kept the same people as much as there were. Harry bonzell was still with them, and so on. But it was interesting to see those. And I'm awake early enough in the morning, just because it's a good time to get up, and I get and be real lazy and go slowly to breakfast and all that. But I watched the Benny show, and occasionally before it, I'll watch the burns and Allen show. And I think that the plots weren't as similar from radio to television on the burns and Allen show as they weren't necessarily in the Benny show, but, but it all worked.   Ron Cocking ** 28:58 Yeah, yeah. That's why they were on the air for so long?   Michael Hingson ** 29:02 Yeah, so what other kind of acting did Gloria do once? So you guys started the school   Ron Cocking ** 29:10 well after she well, when we started the school, we found ourselves, you know, raising five children. And so I continued playing nightclub gigs. I had one, one nightclub job for like, five years in a row with two wonderful, wonderful musicians that were like fathers to me. And Gloria actually went to work for her brother in law, and she became a salesperson, and eventually the VP of Sales for a fiberglass tub and shower business down here in Santa Ana. So she drove that 91 freeway from San Bernardino, Santa Ana, all the time. But in,   Michael Hingson ** 29:47 yeah, you could do it back then, much more than now. It was a little better   Ron Cocking ** 29:51 and but in, but twist in between, she managed. Her mom still did a little bit of agency. And she would call Gloria and say. Want you to go see so and so. She did an episode of perfect strangers. She did an episode with Elliot of the guy that played Elliot Ness, stack the show Robert Stack the show was called Help Wanted no see. I guess that was an in but wanted, anyway, she did that. She did a movie with Bruce Dern and Melanie Griffith called Smile. And so she kept, she kept her foot in the door, but, but not, not all that much she she really enjoyed when John Wilder, one of her childhood acting buddies, who she called her brother, and he still calls her sis, or he would call her sis, still. His name was Johnny McGovern when he was a child actor, and when he decided to try some movie work, he there was another Johnny McGovern in Screen Actors Guild, so he had to change his name to John Wyler, but he did that mini series called centennial, and he wanted Gloria for a specific role, to play a German lady opposite the football player Alex Karras. And they had a couple of really nice scenes together. I think she was in three, maybe four of the segments. And there were many segments, it was like a who's who in Hollywood, the cast of that show   Michael Hingson ** 31:28 does that was pretty cool.   Ron Cocking ** 31:32 But anyway, yeah, after Gloria finished armas Brooks, she became married to Gilbert Allen, who, who then became a Presbyterian minister. So Gloria, when you said, Did she continue acting? There's a lot of acting that goes on being a minister and being a minister's wife, and she would put together weddings for people, and that sort of thing. And she did that for 20 years. Wow. So she Gloria was a phenomenon. She did so many things. And she did them all so very well, in my   Speaker 1 ** 32:04 opinion. And so did you? Yeah, which is, which is really cool. So you, but you, you both started the school, and that really became your life's passion for 44 years. Yes,   Ron Cocking ** 32:16 we would get up in the mornings, go do a little business, come home, have a little lunch, go back about 132 o'clock, and we would normally crank up about four after the kids get out of school, and we would teach from four to nine, sometimes to 10. Go out, have some dinner. So yeah, we pretty much 24/7 and we had had such similar backgrounds. Hers on a national radio and television scale, and mine on a much more local, civic light opera scale. But we both had similar relations with our our moms after after the radio tapings and the TV things. GLORIA And her mom. They lived in Beverly Hills, right at Wilshire and Doheny, and they had their favorite chocolate and ice cream stops. And same thing for me, my mom would take me there, two doors down from the little studio where I was taking my tap classes. There was an ice cream parlor, haywoods ice cream. And that was, that was the the lure, if you go in and if you do your practicing, Ronnie, you can, I'll take it for an ice cream so that I did my practicing, had plenty of little treats on the way, so we had that in common, and we both just had very supportive moms that stayed out of the way, not, not what I would call a pushy parent, or, I think you mentioned the helicopter, helicopter, but it   Michael Hingson ** 33:37 but it sounds like you didn't necessarily need the bribes to convince you to tap dance, as you know, anyway, but they didn't hurt.   Ron Cocking ** 33:46 No, it didn't hurt at all, and it was something to look forward to, but I I just enjoyed it all along. Anyway, I finally got to to really showcase what I could do when I was cast as the dance director in the show 42nd street. Oh, wow. And I was lucky. We were lucky. San Bernardino clo was able to hire John Engstrom, who had done the show on Broadway. The earlier version that came, I think it was on Broadway in the mid or to late 70s. He had worked side by side with Gower Champion putting the show together. He told us all sorts of stories about how long it took Gower to put together that opening dance. Because everything in the opening number you you see those steps later in the show done by the chorus, because the opening number is an audition for dancers who want to be in this new Julian Marsh show. So the music starts, the audience hears, I know there must have been 20 of us tapping our feet off. And then a few seconds later, the curtain rises about two and a half feet. And then they see all these tapping feet. And then the main curtain goes out, and there we all are. And. I my part. I was facing upstage with my back to the audience, and then at some point, turned around and we did it was the most athletic, difficult, two and a half minute tap number I had ever done, I'll bet. But it was cool. There were five or six kids that had done it on Broadway and the national tour. And then during that audition, one more high point, if we have the time, we I was auditioning just like everybody else. The director had called and asked if I would audition, but he wasn't going to be choreographing. John Engstrom was so with there was probably 50 or 60 kids of all ages, some adults auditioning, and at one point, John pulled out one of the auditioners, and he happened to be one of my male tap dance students. And he said, Now I want everybody to watch Paul do this step. Paul did the step. He said, Now he said, Paul, someone is really teaching you well. He said, everybody that's the way to do a traveling timestamp so and that, you know, I'll remember that forever. And it ended up he hired. There were seven myself and seven other of my students were cast in that show. And some of them, some of them later, did the show in Las Vegas, different directors. But yeah, that, that was a high point for me.   Speaker 1 ** 36:19 I'm trying to remember the first time I saw 42nd street. I think I've seen it twice on Broadway. I know once, but we also saw it once at the Lawrence Welk Resorts condo there, and they did 42nd street. And that was a lot of that show was just a lot of fun. Anyway,   Ron Cocking ** 36:39 it's a fun show. And as John said in that show, The chorus is the star of the show.   Speaker 1 ** 36:45 Yeah, it's all about dancing by any by any definition, any standard. It's a wonderful show. And anybody who is listening or watching, if you ever get a chance to go see 42nd street do it, it is, it is. Well, absolutely, well worth it.   Ron Cocking ** 37:00 Yeah, good. Good show. Fantastic music, too. Well.   Michael Hingson ** 37:03 How did you and Gloria get along so well for so long, basically, 24 hours a day, doing everything together that that I would think you would even be a little bit amazed, not that you guys couldn't do it, but that you did it so well, and so many people don't do it well,   Ron Cocking ** 37:21 yeah, I don't know I from, from the the first time we met, we just seemed to be on the same wavelength. And by the way, I found out as time went by, Gloria was like Mrs. Humble. She wasn't a bragger, very humble. And it took me a while to find out what an excellent tap dancer she was. But when we went to the studio in the early days, we had, we just had one room. So she would teach actors for an hour, take a break. I would go in teach a tap class or a movement class or a ballet class. I in the early days, I taught, I taught it all. I taught ballet and jazz and and and and   Michael Hingson ** 38:01 tap. Well, let's let's be honest, she had to be able to tap dance around to keep ahead of Osgoode Conklin, but that's another story.   Ron Cocking ** 38:09 Yeah. So yeah, that. And as our studio grew, we would walk every day from our first studio down to the corner to a little wind chills donut shop wind chills donuts to get some coffee and come back. And about a year and a half later, after walking by this, this retail vacant spot that was two doors from our studio, we said, I wonder if that might be, you know, something for us, it had a four lease sign. So, long story short, we released it. The owner of the property loved knowing that Gloria Macmillan was that space. And so luckily, you know when things are supposed to happen. They happen as people would move out next to us, we would move in. So we ended up at that particular studio with five different studio rooms. Wow. And so then we can accommodate all of the above, acting, singing classes, all the dance disciplines, all at the same time, and we can, like, quadruple our student body. So then we made another move, because the neighborhood was kind of collapsing around us, we made another room and purchased a building that had been built as a racquetball club. It had six racquetball courts, all 20 by 40, beautiful hardwood. We made four of them, five of them into studios, and then there was a double racquetball racquetball court in the front of the building which they had tournaments in it was 40 by 40 we moved. We made that into a black box theater for Gloria. And the back wall of the theater was one inch glass outside of which the audiences for the racquetball tournaments used to sit. But outside the glass for us, we had to put curtains there, and out front for us was our. Gigantic lobby. The building was 32,000 square feet. Wow, we could it just made our heart, hearts sing when we could walk down that hallway and see a ballet class over here, a tap class over there, singers, singing actors in the acting room. It was beautiful. And again, it was just meant for us because it was our beautiful daughter, Kelly, who passed away just nine months after Gloria did. She's the one that said, you guys ought to look into that. And I said, Well, it's a racquetball court. But again, the first moment we walked in the front door, you start. We started thinking like, whoa. I think we could make this work. And it worked for another 20 years for us and broke our hearts to basically rip it apart, tear the theater down, and everything when we were moving out, because we we couldn't find another studio that was interested in in coming in, because they would have had to purchase the building. We wanted to sell the building. Yeah. So anyway, of all things, they now sell car mufflers out of there.   Michael Hingson ** 41:02 That's a little different way, way. Yeah, social shock, did any of your students become pretty well known in the in the entertainment world?   Ron Cocking ** 41:11 I wouldn't say well known, but a lot of them have worked a lot and made careers. Some of our former students are now in their 50s, middle 50s, pushing 60, and have done everything from cruise ship to Las Vegas to regional some national tours, even our son, Christopher, he did the national tour of meet me in St Louis with Debbie Boone, okay, and he's the one that is Now a successful producer. He's his latest hit. Well, his first, what can be considered legitimately a Broadway hit show was the show called shucked, and it opened about two years ago, I think, and I finally got to go back to New York and see it just a month before it closed. Very hilarious. Takes place in Iowa. The whole show is built around a county in which everybody that lives there makes their living off of corn, making whiskey. And it is a laugh, way more than a laugh a minute. But anyway, we had one of Gloria's acting students who was hired on with a Jonathan Winters TV sitcom called Davis rules. It ran for two seasons, and here he was like 16 or 17 years old, making, I think it was. He was making $8,000 a week, and he was in heaven. He looked like the Son he played, the grandson of Jonathan Winters and the son of Randy Quaid and so he, yeah, he was in heaven. And then after that, he did a very popular commercial, the 711 brain freeze commercial for Slurpee. The Slurpee, yeah, and he made the so much money from that, but then he kind of disappeared from showbiz. I don't know what he's doing nowadays,   Speaker 1 ** 43:00 but it's, it's, it's interesting to, you know, to hear the stories. And, yeah, I can understand that, that not everybody gets to be so famous. Everybody knows them, but it's neat that you had so many people who decided to make entertainment a career. So clearly, you had a pretty good influence on a lot of, a lot of kids.   Ron Cocking ** 43:20 Yes, I over the years, Gloria and I felt like we had 1000s of children of our own, that they that we had raised together. It's really a good feeling. And I still get phone calls. We got a phone call once a few years back from from one of our students who had been trying to crack the nut in New York, and she called us like 530 in the morning, because, of course, it was Yeah, but she had just signed her first national tour contract and was going to go out with the show cabaret. So fortunately, we were able to drive up to Santa not let's see, it's just below San San Jose. The show came through San Jose, and we got to see her up there. But those kinds of things are what made us keep teaching, year after year, all these success stories. Of course, we have former students that are now lawyers. Those are actors. Well, we   Michael Hingson ** 44:17 won't hold it and we understand, yeah and they are actors, by all means. How many teachers did you have in the studio when you had the big building?   Ron Cocking ** 44:26 Gosh, at one time, we had 10 or 12 teachers, teaching vocal teachers, two or three ballet teachers, jazz teachers, and you both taught as well. And we both continued teaching all through that time. We never just became managers, although that's that was part of it, and mixing business with art is a challenge, and it takes kind of a different mindset, and then what an unstoppable mindset you have to have in order to mix business with performing, because it's too. Different sides of your brain and a lot of patience and a lot of patience. And guess who taught me patience? Uh huh, Gloria Macmillan.   Michael Hingson ** 45:09 I would Conklin's daughter, yes, and I'll bet that's where she learned patience. No, I'm just teasing, but yeah, I hear you, yeah. Well, I know Karen and I were married for 40 years, until she passed in November of 2022 and there's so many similarities in what you're talking about, because we we could do everything together. We had challenges. Probably the biggest challenge that we ever had was we were living in Vista California, and I was working in Carlsbad, and the president of our company decided that we should open an office, because I was being very successful at selling to the government, we should open an office in the DC area. And so we both got excited about that. But then one day he came in and he had this epiphany. He said, No, not Virginia. I want you to open an office in New York. And Karen absolutely hated that she was ready to go to Virginia and all that.   Speaker 1 ** 46:15 But the problem for me was it was either move to New York or take a sales territory that didn't sell very much anymore. The owner wasn't really willing to discuss it, so we had some challenges over that, but the marriage was strong enough that it that it worked out, and we moved to New Jersey, and Karen made a lot of friends back there, but, you know, we always did most everything together. And then when the pandemic occurred, being locked down, it just proved all the more we just did everything together. We were together. We talked a lot, which is, I think one of the keys to any good marriages, and you talk and communicate.   Ron Cocking ** 46:56 Yes, in fact, when after we closed the studio in 2018 it took us a few more months to sell our home, and then when we moved down here, it was only about, I don't know, I don't know if it was a full year or not, but the pandemic hit and but it really didn't bother us, because we had, we had been working the teaching scene for so many years that we basically Were done. We basically walked out of the studio. We did. Neither of us have the desire to, well, let's continue in at some level, no, we cherished our time together. We have a little porch out in front of our home here, and it gets the ocean breeze, and we would sit for hours and chat. And oddly enough, not oddly, one of our favorite things to do, we have a website that we went to that had, I think, every radio show of armas Brooks ever made. And we would sit listen to those and just laugh. And, in fact, Gloria, there are some. She said, You know what? I don't even remember that episode at all. So yeah, that that was an interesting part. But yeah, Gloria and I, like your wife and you really enjoyed time together. We never talked about needing separate vacations or anything if we wanted to do something. We did it   Speaker 1 ** 48:16 together, yeah, and we did too. And you know, for us it was, it was out of desire, but also was easier for us, because she was in a wheelchair her whole life. I was I'm blind. I've been blind my whole life. And as I tell people, the marriage worked out well. She read, I pushed, and in reality, that really is the way it worked, yeah, yeah. Until she started using a power chair. Then I didn't push. I kept my toes out of the way. But still, it was, it was really did meld and mesh together very well and did everything   Ron Cocking ** 48:49 together. That's fantastic. I'm proud of you, Michael, and it really   Michael Hingson ** 48:53 it's the only way to go. So I miss her, but like, I keep telling people she's somewhere monitoring me, and if I misbehave, I'm going to hear about it. So I got to be a good kid,   Ron Cocking ** 49:04 and I'll hear I'll get some notes tonight from the spirit of Gloria McMillan too. I prayed to her before I went on. I said, please let the words flow and please not let me say anything that's inappropriate. And I think she's guided me through okay so far.   Michael Hingson ** 49:20 Well, if, if you do something you're not supposed to, she's gonna probably hit you upside the head. You know, did you two ever actually get to perform together?   Ron Cocking ** 49:30 Oh, I'm glad you asked that, because, well, it had been years since I knew that she was a darn good tap dancer. In fact, I had a tap dancing ensemble of of my more advanced kids, and if they wanted to dedicate the extra time that it took, we rehearsed them and let them perform at free of charge once they made it to that group, they they did not pay to come in and rehearse with me, because I would spend a lot of time standing there creating so. So we were doing a performance, and we wanted to spotlight, I forget the exact reason why we wanted to spotlight some of Gloria's career. Talk about radio a little bit. And I said, Gloria, would you do a little soft shoe routine? And because we had invited a mutual friend of ours, Walden Hughes, from the reps organization, and he was going to be the guest of honor, so I talked her into it. At first she wasn't going to go for it, but we had so much fun rehearsing it together. And it wasn't a long routine, it was relatively short, beautiful music, little soft shoe, and it was so much fun to say that we actually tap danced together. But the other times that we actually got to work together was at the old time radio conventions, mostly with reps, and that's really when I got to sit on stage. I was kind of typecast as an announcer, and I got to do some commercials. I got to sing once with Lucy arnazza. Oh, life, a life boy soap commercial. But when Gloria, Well, Gloria did the lead parts, and oh my gosh, that's when I realized what a superb actress she was. And if I don't know if you've heard of Greg Oppenheimer, his father, Jess Oppenheimer created the I Love Lucy shows, and so Gloria loved Jess Oppenheimer. And so Greg Oppenheimer, Jess Son, did a lot of directing, and oh my gosh, I would see he came in very well prepared and knew how the lines should be delivered. And if Gloria was not right on it, he would say, No, wait a minute, Gloria, I want you to emphasize the word decided, and that's going to get the laugh. And when he gave her a reading like that man, the next time she went through that dialog, just what he had asked for. And I thought, Oh my gosh. And her timing, after watching so many armist Brooks TV and listening to radio shows. GLORIA learned her comedic timing from one of the princesses of comedy timing is Eve Arden, right? They were so well for obvious reasons. They were so very similar. And if you have time to story for another story, do you know have you heard of Bob Hastings? He was the lieutenant on McHale's navy. McHale's Navy, right? Yeah. Well, he also did a lot of old time radio. So we went up to Seattle,   Michael Hingson ** 52:32 our two grandkids, Troy Amber, he played, not Archie. Was it Henry Aldridge? He was on,   Ron Cocking ** 52:40 I think you're right. I'm not too up on the cast of the old time radio show. Yeah, I think you're right. But anyway, he was there, and there was an actress that had to bow out. I don't know who that was, but our grandsons and Gloria and I, we walked in, and as usual, we say hi to everybody. We're given a big packet of six or eight scripts each, and we go to our room and say, Oh my gosh. Get out the pencils, and we start marking our scripts. So we get a phone call from Walden, and he said, hey, Ron Bob. Bob Hastings wants to see Gloria in his room. He wants to read through he's not sure if he wants to do the Bickersons script, because he you know, the gal bowed out and right, you know, so Gloria went down   Michael Hingson ** 53:23 couple of doors, coming   Ron Cocking ** 53:26 Yes, and she so she came back out of half an hour, 40 minutes later, and she said, well, that little stinker, he was auditioning me. He went in and she went in and he said, Well, you know, I don't know if I want to do this. It doesn't seem that funny to me. Let's read a few lines. Well, long story short, they read the whole thing through, and they were both, they were both rolling around the floor. I'll bet they laughing and so and then jump to the following afternoon, they did it live, and I was able to watch. I had some pre time, and I watched, and they were just fantastic together. I left after the show, I went to the green room, had a little snack, and I was coming back to our room, walking down the hall, and here comes Bob Hastings, and he says, oh, Ron. He said, Your wife was just fantastic. So much better than the other girl would have been. So when I told GLORIA That story that made her her day, her week. She felt so good about that. So that's my Bob Hastings story. Bob Hastings and Gloria Macmillan were great as the Bickersons.   Speaker 1 ** 54:29 Yeah, that was a very clever show. It started on the Danny Thomas show, and then they they ended up going off and having their own show, Francis Langford and Donna Michi, but they were very clever.   Ron Cocking ** 54:42 Now, did you realize when now that you mentioned Danny Thomas? Did you realize that Gloria's mom, Hazel McMillan, was the first female agent, talent agent in Hollywood? No, and that's how you know when the. They moved from from Portland, Oregon, a little city outside of Portland. They moved because Gloria's mom thought she had talent enough to do radio, and it wasn't a year after they got here to LA that she did her first national show for Lux radio at the age of five. That was in 1937 with with Edward G Robinson. I've got a recording of that show. What's what show was it? It was a Christmas show. And I don't remember the name of the of it, but it was a Christmas show. It was Walden that sent us. Sent   Michael Hingson ** 55:33 it to us. I'll find it. I've got it, I'm sure.   Ron Cocking ** 55:35 And so, yeah, so, so Gloria was a member of what they called the 500 club. There was a group of, I don't know, nine or 10 kids that by the time the photograph that I have of this club, it looks like Gloria is around 12 to 14 years old, and they had all done 500 or more radio shows. Wow, that's a lot of radio show. There's a lot of radio So Gloria did, I mean, I got a short my point was, her mom was an agent, and when Gloria was working so consistently at armas Brooks, she said, Well, I'm kind of out of a job. I don't need to take you. GLORIA could drive then. And so she came back from the grocery store, Ralph's market near Wilshire and Doheny, and she came back said, Well, I know what I'm going to do. I ran into this cute little boy at the grocery store. I'm going to represent him for television. And she that's, she started the Hazel McMillan agency, and she ran that agency until she just couldn't anymore. I think she ran it until early 1980s but she, my god, she represented people like Angela Cartwright on the Danny Thomas show and Kathy Garver on, all in the family a family affair. Family Affair. Yeah. Jane north. Jane North went in for Dennis the Menace. He didn't get the role. He came back said, Hazel, I don't think they liked me, and they didn't. They didn't call me back or anything. Hazel got on that phone, said, Look, I know this kid can do what you're asking for. I want you to see him again. He went back and they read him again. He got the part, yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 57:21 and he was perfect for it.   Ron Cocking ** 57:22 He was perfect for that part was, I'm sorry.   Michael Hingson ** 57:27 It's sad that he passed earlier this year.   Ron Cocking ** 57:29 Yeah, he passed and he had, he had a tough life, yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 57:36 well, you know, tell me you, you have what you you have some favorite words of wisdom. Tell me about those.   Ron Cocking ** 57:45 Oh, this goes back to the reason why I came across this when I was looking for something significant to say on the opening of one of our big concert programs. We used to do all of our shows at the California theater of Performing Arts in San Bernardino, it's a really, a real gem of a theater. It's where Will Rogers gave his last performance. And so I came across this, and it's, I don't know if this is biblical, you might, you might know, but it's, if you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. If you teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime. And that's what I felt like Gloria and I were trying to do. We wanted to teach these kids as as professionally. We treated our students as they were, as if they were little professionals. We we expected quality, we expected them to work hard, but again, Gloria taught me patience, unending patience. But we knew that we wanted them to feel confident when the time came, that they would go out and audition. We didn't want them to be embarrassed. We want we wanted them to be able to come back to us and say, Boy, I felt so good at that audition. I knew all the steps I was and I and I read so well it was. And thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And so that aspect of it, we felt that we were feeding them for a lifetime, but we also were creating all of these arts patrons, all these lovers of the arts, 1000s of kids now love to go to musicals and movies and plays because they've kind of been there and done that at our studio. And so anyway, that's and whether, whether or not it was their confidence in show business or whether it was their confidence we've had so many calls from and visits from parents and former students saying, Boy, I just was awarded a job. And they said my my communication skills were excellent, and I owe that to Gloria. I was on the beach the other day, and I looked over and there was this young man and his wife. I assumed it was his wife. It was they were setting. Up their beach chairs, and I looked and I say, Excuse me, is your name Brandon? And he said, No, but he said, Is your name Ron? And I said, Yes. He said, No, my name is Eric. And I said, Eric puentes. And so we reminisced for a while. He took tap from me. He took acting from Gloria, and he said, you know, he was sad to hear of Gloria's passing. And he said, You know, I owe so much to Gloria. I learned so much about speaking in front of groups. And he is now a minister. He has his own church in Redlands, California, and he's a minister. And of all the billion people on the beach, he sits next to me. So that's one of those things when it's supposed to   Michael Hingson ** 1:00:41 happen. It happens. It does. Yeah, well, and as we talked about earlier, you and Gloria did lots of stuff with reps, and I'm going to miss it this time, but I've done a few, and I'm going to do some more. What I really enjoy about people who come from the radio era, and who have paid attention to the radio era is that the acting and the way they project is so much different and so much better than people who have no experience with radio. And I know Walden and I have talked about the fact that we are looking to get a grant at some point so that we can train actors or people who want to be involved in these shows, to be real actors, and who will actually go back and listen to the shows, listen to what people did, and really try to bring that forward into the recreations, because so many people who haven't really had the experience, or who haven't really listened to radio programs sound so forced, as opposed to natural.   Ron Cocking ** 1:01:46 I agree, and I know exactly what you're saying. In fact, Walden on a couple of at least two or three occasions, he allowed us to take some of Gloria's acting students all the way to Seattle, and we did some in for the spurred vac organization Los Angeles, we did a beautiful rendition of a script that we adapted of the Velveteen Rabbit. And of all people, Janet Waldo agreed to do the fairy at the end, and she was exquisite. And it's only like, I don't know, four or five lines, and, oh my gosh, it just wrapped it up with a satin bow. And, but, but in some of our kids, yeah, they, they, they were very impressed by the radio, uh, recreations that they were exposed to at that convention.   Speaker 1 ** 1:02:37 Yeah, yeah. Well, and it's, it is so wonderful to hear some of these actors who do it so well, and to really see how they they are able to pull some of these things together and make the shows a lot better. And I hope that we'll see more of that. I hope that we can actually work to teach more people how to really deal with acting from a standpoint of radio,   Ron Cocking ** 1:03:04 that's a great idea. And I know Walden is really sensitive to that. He Yeah, he would really be a proponent of that.   Michael Hingson ** 1:03:10 Oh, he and I have talked about it. We're working on it. We're hoping we can get some things. Well, I want to thank you for being here. We've been doing this an hour already.  

Ever wonder why Bob Hope still lands with new audiences today? I sit down with Bill Johnson, a gifted Bob Hope tribute artist who grew up in Wichita and found his way from dinner theater to USO stages around the world. We talk about radio roots, World War II entertainment, and how “history with humor” keeps veterans' stories alive. You'll hear how Bill built a respectful tribute, the line between tribute and impersonation, and why audience connection—timing, tone, and true care—matters more than perfect mimicry. I believe you'll enjoy this one; it's funny, warm, and full of the kind of details that make memories stick.   Highlights: 00:10 - Hear how a Bob Hope tribute artist frames humor to build instant rapport. 01:41 - Learn how Wichita roots, a theater scholarship, and early TV/radio love shaped a performer. 10:37 - See why acting in Los Angeles led to dinner theater, directing, and meeting his future wife. 15:39 - Discover the Vegas break that sparked a Bob Hope character and a first World War II reunion show. 18:27 - Catch how a custom character (the Stradivarius) evolved into a Hope-style stage persona. 21:16 - Understand the “retirement home test” and how honest rooms sharpen a tribute act. 25:42 - Learn how younger audiences still laugh at classic material when context is set well. 30:18 - Hear the “history with humor” method and why dates, places, and accuracy earn trust. 31:59 - Explore Hope's USO tradition and how Bill carries it forward for veterans and families. 36:27 - Get the difference between a tribute and an impersonation and what makes audiences accept it. 41:40 - Pick up joke-craft insights on setup, economy of words, and fast recoveries when lines miss. 46:53 - Hear travel stories from Tokyo to Fort Hood and why small moments backstage matter. 50:01 - Learn the basics of using Hope's material within IP and public domain boundaries. 51:28 - See the ethical close: making sure a “reasonable person” knows they saw a tribute.   About the Guest:   With a career spanning over thirty years, Bill has forged his niche on stage, screen, and television as a dependable character actor.   Bill's tribute to the late, great Bob Hope was showcased in New Orleans, LA at Experience the Victory, the grand opening of the National WWII Museum's first expansion project. In the ceremony, Bill introduced broadcaster Tom Brokaw, and performed a brief moment of comedy with Academy Award winning actor, Tom Hanks. Bill continues to appear regularly at the WWII Museum, most recently in On the Road with Bob Hope and Friends, which was under-written by the Bob & Dolores Hope Foundation.   Highlights from over the years has included the 70th Anniversary of the End of WWII Celebration aboard the USS Midway in San Diego, and the Welcome Home Vietnam Parade in Tennessee. Additionally, Bill has been honored to appear around the world as Mr. Hope for the USO in locations such as the Bob Hope USO centers in Southern California, the USO Cincinnati Tribute to Veterans (appearing with Miss America 2016-Betty Cantrell),  USO Ft. Hood (appearing with the legendary Wayne Newton), USO of Central and Southern Ohio, USO Puget Sound Area in Seattle, USO Guam, USO Tokyo, USO Holiday Shows in Virginia Beach for US Tours, and a Tribute to the USO on the island of  Maui with country music superstar Lee Greenwood.   Other notable appearances include Tribute Shows for Honor Flight chapters in Alabama, South Carolina, and Ohio, the Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association, the US Army Ball, the annual 1940's Ball in Boulder, CO, “USO Cuties Show” at the Tropicana in Atlantic City, the Les Brown Jazz Festival in Tower City, PA, and Hosting “So Many Laughs: A Night of Comedy” at the National Veterans Memorial and Museum in Columbus, OH.   Through the years, Bill has been “murdered” on CSI, portrayed Michael Imperioli's banker in High Roller: The Stu Unger Story, as well as, roles in films such as Ocean's 11, Three Days to Vegas, TV's Scare Tactics, Trick Shot, an award winning short film for Canon cameras, and the series finale of Dice, where Bill appeared as John Quincy Adams opposite Andrew Dice Clay.     Bill is currently based out of Las Vegas, NV where he lives with his wife, author Rosemary Willhide, and rescue dog, Brownie.   Ways to connect with Bill:   http://www.billjohnsonentertainment.com http://www.GigSalad.com/williampatrickjohnson     About the Host:   Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog.   Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards.   https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/   accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/ https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/       Thanks for listening!   Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below!   Subscribe to the podcast   If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can subscribe in your favorite podcast app. You can also support our podcast through our tip jar https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/unstoppable-mindset .   Leave us an Apple Podcasts review   Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts.       Transcription Notes:   Michael Hingson ** 00:00 Access Cast and accessiBe Initiative presents Unstoppable Mindset. The podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us.   Michael Hingson ** 01:23 This is your host, Mike hingson, and you are listening to unstoppable mindset. You know, we have a saying here, unstoppable mindset, where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet, and we're going to definitely have unexpected today. This is also going to be a very fun episode. By the time you hear this, you will have heard a couple of conversations that I had with Walden Hughes, who is the president of the radio enthusiast of Puget Sound. And he's also on the on other boards dealing with old radio show. And he introduced me to Bill Johnson, who is a person that is well known for taking on the role of Bob Hope, and I'm sure that we're going to hear a bunch about that as we go forward here. But Bill is our guest today, and I just played a little segment of something for Bill with Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, two characters by any standard. Well, anyway, we'll get to all that. Bill, I want to welcome you to unstoppable mindset, and I'm really honored that you're here with us today.   Bill Johnson ** 02:31 Oh, thanks a million. Michael, it's such a pleasure to be here. Well, this is going to be a fun discussion.   Michael Hingson ** 02:38 Oh, I think so. I think absolutely by any standard, it'll be fun. Well, why don't we start before it gets too fun with some of the early stories about Bill growing up and all that. Tell us about the early bill.   Bill Johnson ** 02:52 Okay, well, I was born and raised in Wichita, Kansas, of all places. And I used to say, I used to Marvel watching Hope's Christmas specials with my family that sort of spurred my interest. But grew up in Midwest, went to Wichita State University, and then after graduation, I had a job with an independent film company and a move to Los Angeles seeking my fortune. Well, the film company pulled it in three months, as those things do, and so I was left with my, I guess, my pursuit of the entertainment career from there.   Michael Hingson ** 03:42 So did you what you went to school and high school and all that stuff?   Bill Johnson ** 03:46 Yes, oh yes, I went to Wichita East High I didn't graduate with honors, but I graduated with a B,   Michael Hingson ** 03:56 that's fair B for Bob Hope, right? Yeah.   Bill Johnson ** 04:01 And then I actually went to college under a theater scholarship, wow. And so that, in those days, that would pay for everything, books, class, which delighted my parents, because we were a family of simple means. So that was the only way I was going to go to college was having a scholarship and but as it turns out, it was for the best years of my humble life, because I got a lot of hands on experience in a Wichita State medium sized College, yeah, but back then it was Much smaller, so I had a lot of opportunity.   Michael Hingson ** 04:43 I've actually been to Wichita State. I've been to Wichita and, oh, great, did some speaking back there. And we're probably going to be doing more in the future. But it's an it's a nice town. It's a great town to to be a part of. I think,   Bill Johnson ** 04:56 yes, people are so nice there. And what I. I've noticed living in other places and then going home to visit Wichitas are cleaned. Just something you noticed, the streets are usually pretty clean and foliage is well manicured. So hats off to the city for keeping the place up to date or keeping it clean   Michael Hingson ** 05:22 anyway. Well, yeah, you got to do what you got to do, and that's amazing. And in the winter, everything gets covered up by the snow.   Bill Johnson ** 05:30 Yes, you do get all four seasons in Wichita, whether you like it or not. See there, yeah, it's one of those places where they have that saying, If you don't like the weather, wait 10 minutes and it'll change.   Michael Hingson ** 05:43 Yeah. So, so, so there. So you majored in theater in college?   Bill Johnson ** 05:49 Yes, I did. Actually, the official designation at Wichita State was speech communication, ah, so that's what I got my Bachelor of Arts   Michael Hingson ** 06:02 degree in so what years? What years were you there?   Bill Johnson ** 06:05 I was there in the fall of 75 and graduated a semester late. So I graduated in December of 79 Okay,   Michael Hingson ** 06:17 yeah, but that was after basically the traditional golden days and golden age of radio, wasn't   Bill Johnson ** 06:24 it? Yes, it was still in the days of black and white television.   Michael Hingson ** 06:29 But yeah, there was a lot of black and white television, and there were some resurgence of radio, radio mystery theater CBS was on, and I think that was before, well, no, maybe later in 7879 I don't know when it was, but NPR did Star Wars. And so there were some radio, radio things, which was pretty good.   Bill Johnson ** 06:53 And I think our friends in Lake will be gone began.   Michael Hingson ** 06:56 Oh yeah, they were in, I think 71 garrison. Keillor, okay, it'll be quiet week in Lake will be gone my hometown. I know I listened every week. Oh, I   Bill Johnson ** 07:06 did too. So my interest in radio was, I think, started back then.   Michael Hingson ** 07:12 Yeah, I enjoyed him every week. As I love to describe him, he clearly was the modern Mark Twain of the United States and radio for that matter. Is that right?   Bill Johnson ** 07:26 Oh, gosh, well, I, I'm, I'm, I'm glad to agree with you. And a lot of that wasn't it improvised to his weekly monolog. He'd have, oh, sure, yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 07:39 he, had ideas. He may have had a couple notes, but primarily it was improvised. He just did it. He just did it.   Bill Johnson ** 07:47 I let some of the episodes you take a lot of find a lot of humor in the fact he's kind of pleased with himself. And he goes, Well, look what we just said, or something. He'll do.   Michael Hingson ** 07:57 Yeah, it was, it was fun. So what did you do after college? Well,   Bill Johnson ** 08:03 after college, when I had moved to Los Angeles, after that, did not work out. I pursued my living as a as an actor, which didn't last long. So I of course, had to get a secondary job, I guess. Let me back up. It did last long, although I didn't have enough to pay my bills. Oh, well, there you go. I had a secondary job as whatever I could find, bartending. Usually, I did a lot of work as a bartender and but you get at least doing something like that. You get the people watch, yeah, oh.   Michael Hingson ** 08:47 And, that's always entertaining, isn't   Bill Johnson ** 08:49 it? Well, it can be, yeah, that's true. Back in my that's where I kind of develop your little stick you do for customers to get them to laugh and maybe tip you. My big thing was that you'd always see a couple, say, making out at the bar because it was kind of dark in there. And I would always say, Hey fellas, you want to meet my wife, Carol? Oh, that's her boss. Don't worry about it. They're having a good time or something like that, just to try to get a few laughs.   Michael Hingson ** 09:23 I've done similar things at airports. I know that the TSA agents have a such a thankless job. And one of the things I decided fairly early on, after September 11, and you know, we got out, and most people, and most of the TSA people don't know it. But anyway, whenever I go through the airport, I love to try to make them laugh. So, you know, they'll say things like, oh, I need to see your ID, please. And, and I'll say things like, Well, why did you lose yours? Or, you know, or you why? I didn't want to see it. It's just a piece of paper, right? You know? But, and I get them to laugh. Mostly, there are few that don't, but mostly they they do. And then the other thing is, of course, going through with my guide dog. And we go through the portal. They have to search the dog because he's got the metal harness on that always sets off the detector. Oh my, yeah. And, and so they say, Well, we're going to have to pet your dog. I said, Well, just wait a minute. There's something you need to know. And I really sound very serious when I do this. You got to understand this before you do that. They go, oh yeah. And they back up, and I go, he only likes long searches. If you don't take a half hour, he's not happy because his tail is going 500 miles a second, you know? Oh, great coming. But it is fun, and we get him to laugh, which is, I think, important to do. We don't laugh at enough in life anyway.   Bill Johnson ** 10:57 Amen to that. It's That's my philosophy as well, my friend. And there's not a lot to laugh about these days. And hopefully we can find the humor, even if we create it ourselves.   Michael Hingson ** 11:11 Yeah, I think there's a lot to laugh at if we find it. You know, there are a lot of things that are not going very well right now, and there are way too many things that make it hard to laugh, but we can find things if we work at it. I wish more people would do that than than some of the things that they do. But what do you do?   Bill Johnson ** 11:31 Yes, yeah, from from your mouth to God's ears, that's a great plan for the future.   Michael Hingson ** 11:39 Well, we try so you you did some acting, and you had all sorts of other jobs. And then what happened?   Bill Johnson ** 11:47 Well, I finally got fed up with the whole bartending thing and the rat race of trying to make it in Los Angeles. I did some commercials. I had a couple of small roles in some independent movies, as they say. But on my first love being theater, I hit the road again doing some regional theater shows to where I finally ended up back in Kansas, once again, that the there was a dinner theater in my hometown of Wichita, and I got hired to do shows there. Oh, so eventually becoming a resident director so and my my family was going through some challenges at the time, so it was good to be home, so I hadn't really abandoned the dream. I just refocused it, and I got a lot of great experience in directing plays, appearing in plays, and I met my white wife there. So so that was a win win on all counts.   Michael Hingson ** 13:00 I first got exposed to dinner theater after college. I was in Iowa, in Des Moines, and the person who was reading the national magazine for the National Federation of the Blind, the magazine called the Braille monitor guy was Larry McKeever was, I think, owner of and very involved in a dinner theater called Charlie's show place, and I don't remember the history, but I went to several of the performances. And then he actually tried to create a serial to go on radio. And it didn't get very far, but it would have been fun if he had been able to do more with it, but he, he did do and there were people there who did the dinner theater, and that was a lot of fun.   Bill Johnson ** 13:45 Oh, gosh, yeah, although I must say that I was sort of the black sheep of the family being in the arts. My My mom and dad came from rural communities, and so they didn't really understand this entertainment business, so that was always a challenge. But there's one footnote that I'm kind of proud of. My grandfather, who was a farmer all his life. He lived on a farm. He was raised on a farm. Every year at the Fourth of July Co Op picnic. The Co Op was a place where they would take the crops and get paid and get supplies and so forth. They would have a picnic for all the people that were their customers every year he would supposedly play the unscrupulous egg buyer or the egg salesman. And so he'd go to the routine, was an old vaudeville routine. He'd go to this poor farmer and say, Here, let me pay you for those eggs. That's here. There's one two. Say, how many kids do you guys have now? For the No, five. 678, say, How long have you and your wife been married? What is it? Seven years, eight, they get the guy go, no, 1011, 12, so that was the bit, and he would do it every year, because I guess he did it   Michael Hingson ** 15:15 really well. Drove the farmers crazy.   Bill Johnson ** 15:18 Yeah, so, so humble beginnings in the lineage,   Michael Hingson ** 15:23 but on the other hand, once you started doing that, at least being in the theater was enough to pay the bills. Yes.   Bill Johnson ** 15:30 So my parents really couldn't complain about that.   Michael Hingson ** 15:34 Well, see, it worked   Bill Johnson ** 15:36 out, yes indeed. And I met my wife, so I'm not complaining   Michael Hingson ** 15:41 about any of it. Now, was she in the theater? Yes, she was a performer.   Bill Johnson ** 15:46 We met in a show called lend me a tenor, and she was the lead, and I was at this point doing my stage management duties. But suffice to say we have gone on and done many shows together since then, and even had been able to play opposite each other a couple of times. So that cool, yeah, that's, that's a you can't ask for better memories than   Michael Hingson ** 16:13 that. No, and you guys certainly knew each other and know each other well. So that works out really well.   Bill Johnson ** 16:20 Yeah, that works out pretty good, except, you know, you sometimes you have to have a conversation and say, Okay, we're just going to leave the theater on the stage and at home. We're at home. Yeah?   Michael Hingson ** 16:32 Well, yeah, there is that, but it's okay. So how did you get into the whole process of of portraying Bob Hope, for example, and did you do anything before Bob of the same sort of thing?   Bill Johnson ** 16:51 Well, interestingly enough, to complete the whole circle of my experience, when I was performing in Wichita, I got a job opportunity here in Lacher. I'm living in Las Vegas now, to move out here and audition, or come out and audition for a new dinner show that was opening at Caesar's Palace. It was called Caesar's magical Empire, and it was, it was in 1996 and during that time, there was this big magic craze in Las Vegas. Everybody was doing magic   Michael Hingson ** 17:27 shows. You had Siegfried and Roy and yeah.   Bill Johnson ** 17:30 So I came out, I auditioned and got hired. And so then it was like, Well, now you got to move. So we moved on a just on hope and a prayer. And luckily, they eventually hired my wife, and so we got to work together there, and I eventually went on to become the, what they called the show director. I didn't do the original show direction, but it was my job to maintain the integrity of the attraction. So during those years it was that was kind of difficult, because you have to listen to being on the administrative team. You've got to listen to all the conflict that's going on, as well as and try to keep the waters calm, keep peace. Yes. So anyway, doing my show and being interactive, you talk back and forth to the audience, and after it was over, you take them out to a next the next experience in their night, when they would go see magic in a big showroom. And a lady came up to me and and she said, say, I've got this world war two reunion coming up next month. I'd like you to come and be, pretend to be Bob Hope. Do you know who that is? And I was like, yes, he's one of my heroes. And so that was the first opportunity, suffice to say, I guess I did. Should have prefaced it by saying, when the magical Empire first opened, we were all playing these mystical wizards and dark characters. Well, that didn't fly. That wasn't any fun. So then the directors, the producers said, well, everybody, come up with your own character, and we'll go from there. And so I created this character named the Stradivarius, because I like to fiddle the room. I get it and   Michael Hingson ** 19:37 but I played it like Bobby and you like to stream people along. But anyway, hey, I wish I would have   Bill Johnson ** 19:42 thought of that. My approach was like Bob Hope in one of the road pictures. So the show would be sort of a fish out of water type thing. Come on, folks. You know, I laughed when you came in that type of thing. Yeah. So when this lady saw the show that. How she got that inspiration?   Michael Hingson ** 20:04 Well, your voice is close enough to his that I could, I could see that anyway.   Bill Johnson ** 20:09 Oh, well, thank you. Sometimes I'd say it drives my wife nuts, because I'll come across an old archival material and say, Hey, honey, how about this one? So she's got to be the first audience, yeah.   Michael Hingson ** 20:23 Well, I'm prejudiced, so you could tell her, I said, so okay,   Bill Johnson ** 20:27 that you would, you'd love to hear it, right? Yeah.   Michael Hingson ** 20:31 Well, absolutely. Well, so you went off and you did the the World War Two event.   Bill Johnson ** 20:38 Did the World War Two event shortly after that, the met this, well, I should tell you another story, that shortly after that, a young man came to my show, and during the show, he stopped me and said, say, You remind me of someone very dear to me. Have you ever heard of Bob Hope? And I said, yeah, he's again. I said, one of my heroes. The guy said, Well, you kind of remind me of him. Went on his merry way, and I didn't think much of it. Well, it just so happens. The next day, I was watching the biography documentary of Bob Hope, and all of a sudden this talking head comes up, and it's the same guy I was just talking to in my show the day, the day before, it turns out that was, that was Bob's adopted son, Tony Tony hope. So I took that as a positive sign that maybe I was doing something similar to Mr. Hope, anyway. But then, as I said, The show closed very soon after that, sadly, Mr. Hope passed away. And 2003 right, and so there was, there was no real demand for anything like that. But I didn't let the idea go. I wanted something to do creatively. I continued to work for the same company, but I went over and ran the 3d movie at Eminem's world in Las Vegas 20 years. So I had plenty of time to think about doing   Michael Hingson ** 22:26 something creative, and you got some Eminem's along the way.   Bill Johnson ** 22:30 They keep them in the break room for the employees. So it's like, here's all the different brand I mean, here's all the different flavors and styles. So to have a way and you can tell guests, oh yeah, that's delicious. It tastes like, just like almonds or   22:45 something. Yeah.   Bill Johnson ** 22:47 So based on that, I decided to pursue this, this tribute, and it, I'll tell you, it's difficult getting started at first, you got to practically pay people to let you come and do a show. I'd go to retirement homes and say, Hey, you want to show today. Sometimes they'd let me, sometimes they wouldn't. But the thing about doing a show at a retirement community is they will be very honest with you. If you ain't any good, they'll say, man, no, thanks. Oh, nice try. So know where my trouble spots were,   Michael Hingson ** 23:29 but, but audiences don't treat you as the enemy, and I know that one of the things I hear regularly is, well, how do you speak so much and so well. You know the one of the greatest fears that we all have as a public speaking, and one of the things that I constantly tell people is, think about the audiences. They want you to succeed. They came because they want to hear you succeed, and you need to learn how to relate to them. But they're not out to get you. They want you to be successful and and they love it when you are and I learned that very early on and speaking has never been something that I've been afraid of. And I think it's so important that people recognize that the audiences want you to succeed anyway.   Bill Johnson ** 24:17 That's so true. And you kind of touched on a quote I remember one of the books from Bob hopes. He said how he approaches it. He said, I consider the audience as my best friends, and who doesn't want to spend time with your best friend, right?   Michael Hingson ** 24:34 And I and I believe that when I speak, I don't talk to an audience. I talk with the audience, and I will try to do some things to get them to react, and a lot of it is when I'm telling a story. I've learned to know how well I'm connecting by how the audience reacts, whether there's intakes of breath or or they're just very silent or whatever. And I think that's so important, but he's. Absolutely right. Who wouldn't want to spend time with your best friend? Yes, amen. Did you ever get to meet Bob? Hope   Bill Johnson ** 25:07 you know I never did, although I at one point in my when I was living in Los Angeles, a friend of mine and I, we were in the over the San Fernando Valley, and they said, Hey, I think there's some stars homes near here. Let's see if we can find them. And we said, I think Bob Hope lives on this street. So we went down Moor Park Avenue in Toluca Lake, and we finally saw this home with a giant H on the gate. And it's like, Oh, I wonder. This has got to be it. Well, all of a sudden these gates began to open. And we, kind of, my friend and I were like, and here, here, Hope came driving home. He was, he arrived home in a very nicely appointed Chrysler Cordoba, remember those? And he had one, he just was just scowling at us, like, what are you doing in my life? You know, and they drove it. So that's as close as I got to the real guy. But I wish I could have had the pleasure of seeing him in person, but never, never was fortunate enough.   Michael Hingson ** 26:18 Well, one of the things that's interesting is like with the World Trade Center, and I've realized over the past few years, we're in a world with a whole generation that has absolutely no direct Memory of the World Trade Center because they weren't born or they were too young to remember. And that goes even further back for Bob Hope. How does that work? Do you find that you're able to connect with younger audiences? Do they talk with you know? Do they do they react? Do they love it? How   Bill Johnson ** 26:52 does that go? Well, interestingly enough, a lot of times, if there are younger people at shows, they're usually dragged there by their parents and I have found that they will start chuckling and giggling and laughing in spite of themselves, because that old humor of hopes that, granted, it is corny, but there's some great material there, if presented in the proper context. Yeah. I was funny story. I was doing a show at the National World War Two Museum in New Orleans. They were dedicating a new theater or something, and the color guard was a group of local leaf Marines that were serving in a local base, and they were standing there right before they went on, and this young man kept looking at me, and finally he said, very respectfully, says, I'm sorry, sir, but who are you? So I said, luckily, there was a picture of Bob Hope on the wall. And I said, Well, I'm trying to be that guy. And I said, Hang around a little bit. You'll hear some of the material so, but that's the thing I that you did bring up. An interesting point is how to keep your audience, I guess, interested, even though the humor is 4056, 70 years old, I call it like all my approach history with humor. The first time I did the Bob Hope, as in the national natural progression of things, I went to an open call, eventually here in Vegas to do they were looking for impersonators for an afternoon show at the Riviera in a place called Penny town. It was just a place for Penny slots. And they had, and they hired me. They said you can do your Bob Hope impression there. And so they had a stage that was on a one foot riser. You had a microphone and a speaker and a sound man, and you had to do a 10 Minute monolog six times a day every Yeah, do 10 minutes. You'd have about a 40 minute break. Do 10 more. And I didn't do it every day, but you would be scheduled. Maybe they'd have, you know, have a Reba McEntire one day. They'd have an Elvis one day. Well, so I would it was a great place to try your ad, because, and that's what turned me on to the whole idea of history with humor. Because when I started, I was just doing some of his material I'd found in a hope joke book that I thought were funny. Well, once in a while, people would be playing the slots. Granted, they were looking at the machines. Nobody was looking at me. And once, when I'd have somebody who. Ah, you know, crank the arm, one arm banded against and then, or I make the sound man laugh. And that was my goal. Well, there was a snack bar right in front of us with a rail that people. They weren't tables, but you could go, lean against the rail and eat your I think it was called Moon doggies hot dog stand so you could eat your hot dog and watch Bob. Hope so if I could make the moon doggy people hot dog folks choke on their hot dog while they were laughing. That was like a home run. Yeah. But to keep them interested, tell them something that they will know. For instance, Hope's first show for the troops was May 6, 1941 down in March field in Riverside California. And you start giving dates and specifics that i i can see the people in the audience go, oh yeah, in their mind's eye, they if they were around, then they will go back to that day. What was I doing then? Okay, and so you kind of make the world relevant for them. So that's how I approach World War Two, Korea and Vietnam. Is give dates and places, which you got to be accurate, because the veterans   Michael Hingson ** 31:27 will set you straight. Oh yeah, because they do remember. Oh yes, they were there.   Bill Johnson ** 31:33 So some of them and but it's, it's amazing, as you say, you can tell if the audience is engaged by if they inhale or if they make some complimentary noises during the show. Sometimes I'll get fellas who will sit there and ponder just looking at me, and then they'll come up afterwards and say, Man, I hadn't thought about that in years.   Michael Hingson ** 32:04 Yeah, thank you. And you know you're connecting, yeah, yeah.   Bill Johnson ** 32:09 And because hope represented, I think, a good memory in a kind of a rough time for a   Michael Hingson ** 32:16 lot of folks. Well, he did. He did so much for the troops with the military. And as you said, May 6, 1941, and it went from there. And of course, during the whole war, he was all over and entertaining people and and he was also very active in radio as part of all that.   Bill Johnson ** 32:38 Oh my goodness, I don't know how the man found time to sleep, because if he were alive today, he would love social media and podcasts and things, because he was always trying to get his name in the paper or get some publicity, but he never forgot about his audience. He would want to do a show for the troops, no matter where they were stationed or he said I couldn't look at myself in the mirror if I didn't try.   Michael Hingson ** 33:10 Yeah, well, you do a lot with veterans and so on. So you've kind of kept up that tradition, haven't you?   Bill Johnson ** 33:19 Yes, I have been fortunate enough to play a lot of reunions and some, maybe some uso themed shows, because that first show he did, hope did, in May of 1941 was they just was a radio show that his, one of his writers had a brother stationed it in Riverside, California, and the war hadn't started, so they had nothing to do, right? These guys were bored, and so he said, Let's take our show down there and hope. So hope didn't want to leave the comfort of his NBC studio. It's like, you know, what's the idea? And they said, how big is the crowd? And they said, Well, I don't know, maybe 1000 and of course, you know 1000 people. And you know, in Hope's mind, he says, I'd give my arm and a leg to hear 10 people laugh. 100 people is like a symphony, but 1000 people, yeah, sheer fantasy. So he said, Oh, wait a minute, are you 1000 people? Are you sure? And this guy, Al capstaff, said, Well, maybe two. So that was it. And they went down. And when the audience, of course, they were just hungry for anything, the response was just so great that hope said, well, where has this been? And he said, shortly after that, we teamed up with the USO and been going steady. Ever since, yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 35:02 and that's so cool. And again, you've, you've kept a lot of that going to now, we've talked on this show with Walden about reps and the showcase and so on. Are you going to be up at the recreation in Washington in September?   Bill Johnson ** 35:18 Yes, I am. I'll be there, and we're, I believe we're doing a one of the cavalcade of America shows that sort of incorporates a lot of his initial, well, one of his initial tours over in World War Two. But it's because a cavalcade is a recreation. A lot of it's drama, dramatized, but it's, it's and it's encapsulated you go bang, bang, bang across a big section of World War Two and Hope's experience in Europe. But it's, to me, as a fan of that genre, it's fascinating, so I just looking forward to it. I think it's going to be a lot of fun.   Michael Hingson ** 36:04 Well, we ought to, one of these days, we need to just do a Bob Hope radio show or something like that, and get you to come on and get an audience and and, and just do a show.   Bill Johnson ** 36:15 Oh, that would be great. I would love. That would be fun. That would be great, you know. And if there's any naysayers, you just say they said, Why do you want to do radio? Say, well, as hope would say, radio is just TV without the eye strain,   Michael Hingson ** 36:30 yeah, and the reality, you know, I'm one of my favorite characters, and one of my favorite shows is Richard diamond private detective, and I was originally going to actually be at the showcase doing Richard diamond, but I've got a speaking engagement, so I won't be able to be there this time, so we'll do it another time. But I remember, you know, at the beginning of every show, the first thing that would happen is that the phone would ring and he would answer it and say something cute, and it was usually his girlfriend, Helen Asher, who is played by Virginia, or who is, yeah, played by Virginia. Greg and one of his shows started. The phone rang. He picked it up. Diamond detective agency, we can solve any crime except television. That's great. I love that one. I love to use that.   Bill Johnson ** 37:20 I gotta remember that that's a great line, yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 37:24 but it's really fun. Well, so you classify yourself as a tribute artist. How do you really get started in doing that, and how do you keep that going?   Bill Johnson ** 37:38 Well, that's, that's a, that's the million dollar question. Basically, I I found all the archival material I could find, and there's a ton of information on Bob Hope on YouTube nowadays, and you need to decide, are you a tribute, or are you an impersonator? Because there is a slight difference.   Michael Hingson ** 38:04 What difference a tribute?   Bill Johnson ** 38:08 Well, first off, an impersonator is someone who resembles someone famous and dresses up in a manner as to portray them, and that can include a tribute artist who may not look identical to the person, but can capture a mannerism or a vocal vocal rhythm to suggest enough that the audience will accept it. I I do it. I am, I feel like I can capture a little bit of his face with some, you know, some of the expressions people have told me my eyes resemble his, as well as wear a hat or something from try to copy a costume from a picture that is very you feel like is iconic of this character. So if you can come out and present that, that's the battle hope would always he began his radio shows, as you recall, by saying where he was and like, how do you do ladies and gentlemen, this is Bob live from Santa Ana Air Base, hope and and then do a two, two line rhyme about his sponsor, usually Pepsodent, just to get on to start the show with a laugh like Pepsodent on your brush and use plenty of traction and none of Your teeth. They'll be missing in action.   39:39 Yeah.   Bill Johnson ** 39:42 Huge, but, but you to to pursue it. As I said, you've just got to, you've got to kind of forage out in the real world and see if see somebody's looking for a show, and hopefully get someone to take a chance. Okay? Give you an opportunity. That's why I went to that open call to do that show at the Riviera. It is difficult to tell jokes at people that are chewing at you, but it's a good learning ground, plus doing the shows at the retirement homes made you prepared for anything because, but I found that I got the strongest response from veteran mentioned some of those history moments, historical moments. And so I thought maybe I'll just focus on this, not to put together the other comedy. And the other experiences are very important too. But the things I have found people remember the most were those shows for the troops. Yeah, and basically, in a nutshell, and they don't remember what did he What did he say? Do you remember a joke? Sometimes they'll tell me a joke, but most, most times, they don't remember what he said, but they remember how he made them feel,   Michael Hingson ** 41:06 yeah, and the fact that he said it, yes, yeah,   Bill Johnson ** 41:10 there's a there's a common joke I'd heard for years, and a friend of mine told me he was a 10 year old kid at Fort Levin fort, Leonard Wood, Missouri. And hope came out and told the joke. The guy goes into a bar. Oh, no, excuse me. Let me back up. A grasshopper goes into a bar. The bartender says, Hey, we got a drink named after you. The grasshopper says, you got a drink named Irving cute. And I'd heard that. Yeah, I guess hope told it and so you never know what what inspires your comedy, but there's a lot of common things I heard growing up that I will find hope said. Hope said it at one point or another in his either his radio show or on one of his specials. So   Michael Hingson ** 41:58 do you think that a lot of what he did was ad lib, or do you think that it was mostly all written, and he just went from a script?   Bill Johnson ** 42:07 That's a good point. He was one of the first performers to use cue cards, okay? And a lot of it was was written, but from what I've read is that he was also very fast on his feet. That's what I thought. Because if something happened, he would come in with a bang, with with another line to top it, yeah. Well, you know, like we were talking about that command performance, where with Lana Turner that he said, she said, Well, they've been looking at ham all night, and you're still here. Ah, big laugh. Haha, yeah. And he said, Now I'm bacon with the double entendre, you know, like, yeah, you burn me, whatever. But that was, I thought that was   Michael Hingson ** 42:51 cute, yeah, and he, and he is, clearly there had to be a whole lot more to him than than writing. And so I absolutely am convinced that there was a lot of bad living. And there was just, he was fast, he was good at it and them, and the more he got comfortable, because of those big crowds that they got him started, the better he became   Bill Johnson ** 43:16 absolutely you can there's a great book by, I know, do you know Bob mills? He was one, was one of Bob Hope's writers wrote a right and he explains the formula behind a lot of their jokes situation, and then it would have a payoff, you know, like, I don't know what happened, but now that you know this is set up in a setup and then the joke. Hope supposedly liked an economy of dialog. He didn't like a lot of language going from point A to point B to tell his joke. That's why the rapid fire delivery. And he had a lot of jokes in his shows. The radio shows had, at least, was it something like 10 jokes a minute?   Michael Hingson ** 44:08 Well, they were, they were very fast. And there were, we've got a few rehearsals of Bob Hope shows. And clearly some of the things that he did, because at first he wasn't getting the reaction that he thought he was going to get, but he pulled it out. And again, it's all because he was fast. He was good.   Bill Johnson ** 44:29 Yeah, I've got some blooper reels from some of the Christmas specials, and he'll try and try and try. And then finally, he'll say, take that card and tear it up, throw it away. And that's funnier than the joke itself.   Michael Hingson ** 44:44 Yeah, than the joke itself. It's really cute. So you obviously like performing. Does that run in your family?   Bill Johnson ** 44:55 Well, not necessarily, as I said, I'm kind of the black sheep of the. Family, because I was in the arts, they would rather have a more what do I want to say? A more safe career, a career choice as a you know, because entertaining, you're always wondering, well, where's my next job? Yeah, as opposed to something else, where you might have a better idea of what are your next paychecks coming? But I do have always had a day job, and this is sort of like my way to flex those creative muscles.   Michael Hingson ** 45:33 So what's your day job today? My   Bill Johnson ** 45:35 day job is I still do technical support for the good folks at Eminem's world on the script. Only they after covid happened, they closed the 3d movie that I was overseeing. And another fellow, when I do tech support, we just basically make sure the lights come on. And as well as I have a job at the College of Southern Nevada, on the support staff, trying to help folks who have English as a Second Language get a job. So I find those are both rewarding challenges.   Michael Hingson ** 46:15 It's a good thing I don't go to Eminem's world because I don't really care if the lights are on or not.   Bill Johnson ** 46:20 Oh, well, there you go. We need somebody here doing rim shots.   Michael Hingson ** 46:26 Yeah, you like dependent people are all alike. You know, you got to have all those lights. Yes, I don't know that I've been to Eminem's world. I've been to the Eminem store in New York City, but I don't think I've been to the one in Las Vegas.   Bill Johnson ** 46:40 I was actually at the opening of that Eminem store in New York City. Funny story, they know they have people that put on the character suits, right? And when I was there to help them kind of get their get acclimated to wearing those suits and then peering in front of people. Well, the kids were doing around, say, two in the afternoon. Well, the New York Times showed up at noon, one pick they wanted a picture of and so I had to put on the I was yellow, the peanut, and this other person that was there put on the red suit, and we walked down on 46th Street and started walking on the street, wave and and carrying on. I thought, Here I am. I finally made it to Broadway. Yeah, and I'm and I'm dressed as a nut so,   Michael Hingson ** 47:30 and you had Hershey right across the street,   Bill Johnson ** 47:32 right across the street, so I don't know. I imagine her, she's still there, probably still going head to head, to this   Michael Hingson ** 47:40 day, the last time I heard they were so well, I don't know, I don't know whether anything really changed with covid, but the last I heard they were   Bill Johnson ** 47:49 well, more powerful, Yeah, funny story.   Michael Hingson ** 47:56 Well, so you will, you travel basically anywhere to do a show? Are there any limits?   Bill Johnson ** 48:03 Or no, I'll go anywhere. My this tribute has taken me as far as Tokyo, Japan for the USO there. I've done shows in the Pacific and Guam I'm not too sure I want to travel internationally these days, but if somebody has an opportunity, I'll think about it. Funny thing happened at that, that show I did in Tokyo, I was, it was, it was a gala for the local uso honor the the troops who were serving in that area. So they had that representative from each branch that was serving our Navy, Marines and the Japan, nation of Japan now has what they call, this, the Civil Defense Group. I believe that's what they call because after World War Two, they signed that document saying they would not have an organized military. But right, they have their civil defense, and so we were honoring them, that there was a group, an Andrew sisters trio, performing, singing and dancing and and I was standing off off stage, just waiting to go on and finish the show. And this, this has been 20 years ago. Let me preface that this older Japanese gentleman came up to me, and he said, I would like to make a toast. And there was a lady in charge who, you know this was. There was some, some admirals there, and leaders of the Seventh Fleet were, were there. So everything had to be approved. Everything went according to schedule. The military events are just boom, boom, boom. And so I said, Well, okay, I need to ask Judy, when this Judy was in charge, when we can do this? And he just said, I want to make a tow. Toast. And I said, okay, but I have to clear it with Judy. Well, I finally got Judy and said that older Japanese man would like to make a toast. And she said, Yes, let him do whatever he wants. Turns out, he was an admiral in the Japanese Navy during during World War Two, and he was attending the event here, although these many years later, just as you know, everyone else was sure. So to bail myself out of it, I went back on said stage and said, And now, ladies and gentlemen, our honored guest would like to make a toast. And he, of course, I can't remember the toast, but as I at the time, I thought that was very sweet and very eloquent. So it's just these incredible little snippets of life you you go through. It's like, how could I ever know, when I was a five year old kid in Kansas, that Monday I'd be chatting with a world war two Admiral from the Japanese Navy, right? Just, it's just mind boggling.   Michael Hingson ** 51:06 So I'm curious. Bob Hope copyrighted a lot of his jokes. Are you able to still use them? Well, that's a   Bill Johnson ** 51:13 good question. Yes, he did. He copyrighted his jokes and everything, however, and I have spoken to the lawyer for the hope estate. There are the, what do you call that? It just flew out of my head that the the laws surrounding   Michael Hingson ** 51:32 intellectual property, copyright laws and intellectual property and public domain, yeah, yeah.   Bill Johnson ** 51:38 The song, thanks for the memory is in public domain, and hope would always change the lyrics to where he went because he hated the song. Supposedly he had, how did I get hung with that old dog of a song?   Michael Hingson ** 51:52 Yeah, well, he kept using it every week, so I can't believe it was too anti song. Yeah,   Bill Johnson ** 51:57 that's true, but the hope is they did copyright his jokes, but as long as I don't write a book and try to sell them as my jokes, I should be fine as well as I am. Allow you the those laws allow you to present impersonate someone, no matter who it is. You could impersonate your next door neighbor, even though he's not famous, as long as you do not do something to harm them, yeah, or represent it in an unflattering way   Michael Hingson ** 52:28 well, and clearly, what you're doing is pretty obvious to anyone who knows at all that it's Bob Hope and that you're trying to do a tribute to him. So I would think it would make sense that that would work   Bill Johnson ** 52:39 well it should and but the final caveat is that a reasonable person must come away from the show knowing full well they did not see the original. You must tell them. And Bob Hope's been gone for   Michael Hingson ** 52:55 many years. Yeah, 22 years now.   Bill Johnson ** 52:59 So that's usually not a problem, but that's how I finished my tribute as vice is, I usually wear a hat to complete the illusion, with the bill flecked up. I'll take the hat off and say, now if I could break character and tell about how hope was named an honorary veteran, and at the age of 94 it was an amendment passed by Congress designated him as an honorary veteran, and it was received unanimous bipartisan support   Michael Hingson ** 53:30 as it should yes and   Bill Johnson ** 53:33 Hope went on to say, sort of all the awards I've received in my lifetime being now being listed among the men and women I admire the most. This is my greatest honor, so that's a good way for me to wrap up my tributes whenever possible.   Michael Hingson ** 53:54 Do you have, oh, go ahead, no,   Bill Johnson ** 53:56 I was gonna say there's another funny story. You know, hope lived to be 100 Yeah, and George Burns.   Michael Hingson ** 54:03 George Burns, lived to be 100   Bill Johnson ** 54:05 lived to be 100 Supposedly, the two of them had a bet as to who would live the longest. Now, the thing is, what were the stakes and how do you collect? Yeah, because some guy, you're not going to be there. But in any event, George Burns was born in the 1890s and so he was older than hope. Hope was born in 1903 George Burns lived to be 100 years and 10 days old. Bob Hope lived to be 100 years and 59 days   54:41 Oh,   Bill Johnson ** 54:42 so hope. Well, the story goes that in his final, final months, he was just he was pretty much bedridden and slept and slept a lot. His wife, Dolores went to his bedside. He had that 100 years 10 day mark, and she said. Well, Bob, you won the bet. You have now lived longer than George Burns. And supposedly, even though he was fat, he was like they thought he was asleep, this huge smile just curled up his lips so he heard, that's great.   Michael Hingson ** 55:18 That's great. Well, if, if you have, do you have something that you could do for us, or do you have something that you could play or something that would give us just a little flavor?   Bill Johnson ** 55:28 Um, yeah, I Well, if you, I would tell your listeners that they want to catch a little bit more. They can go to my website, Bill Johnson entertainment.com, and there's some video clips there, but I like to do is that hope would always, he would always joke about traveling to the event, and that's how I like to begin my shows with him arriving. Since I just flew in on a wing of prayer. I was on the wing because as a soldier, I wouldn't have a prayer nicely. My flight was very nice, but the plane was rather old. In fact, the pilot sat behind me wearing goggles and a scarf. This plane was so old that Lindbergh's lunch was still on the seat. The fasten seat belt sign was in Latin. To get to the washroom, you had to crawl out on the wing. But I come on, folks, I said, to get to the washroom, you had to crawl out of the wing. But hey, I don't know about you, but I have a fear of flying that dates back to my childhood. See, when I was a baby being delivered by the stork, that blasted bird dropped me from 400 feet. Yeah, he did that to stay out of the range my father's shotgun. See, Dad already had my brothers, Eenie, Meenie and Miney. When I came along, he didn't want   56:55 no moat. I get it just   Bill Johnson ** 57:00 it goes along in those words. Well, we are,   Michael Hingson ** 57:05 we are definitely going to have to just work out doing a radio show and getting you to to do a whole show, and we'll have to get some other people to go along with it. We'll figure it out. Oh, that sounds great. I would buy a lot of fun to do. Count me in. Well, I want to thank you for being here. This has been absolutely wonderful to be able to talk about Bob Hope and to talk about you. Even more important, I'm sure that Bob Hope is monitoring from somewhere, but by the same token, you're here and we're here, so we do get to talk about you, which is important to do as   Bill Johnson ** 57:41 well. Well, that's very kind, Michael. I was hopeful that you would be at the rips.   Michael Hingson ** 57:47 I was planning on it because I wanted to, I want to really do the Richard diamond show. I'll, I told you I'd send you the command performance that we talked about Dick Tracy and B flat, or, for goodness sakes, is he ever going to marry Tess true heart? Oh yes. And I'll also send you the Richard diamond that we're going to do the next time I'm able to be at the rep show. It's, it's   Bill Johnson ** 58:06 really hilarious. Oh, that sounds great.   Michael Hingson ** 58:09 But I want to thank you for being here once again. Tell us your website.   Bill Johnson ** 58:14 My website is, it's my name and followed by entertain Bill Johnson, entertainment.com there's there's some video clips there, and some great pictures of some of the folks I've had the pleasure of meeting and performing with. I don't want to name drop, but just to give the the act a little more credence, pictures with Les Brown Jr. Rest his soul. I did it floored. I was able to do a show with Lee Greenwood on the island of Maui Wow, as well as perform with Wayne Newton at Fort Hood, Texas. Wayne Newton actually took over for Bob Hope with the USO when Bob just got too old to travel. Yeah, so, so that's just for a humble, humble guy. It's some incredible stories   Michael Hingson ** 59:19 well, and you're keeping some wonderful memories alive, and we'll definitely have to do something with that. But I want to thank you for for being here and again. Bill Johnson, entertainment.com, so go check it out, folks and and there's a lot of old radio out there online. We've talked about yesterday usa.com or yesterday usa.net they're the same. You can listen. You can go to reps online, R, E, P, S online, and listen to a lot of radio programs there. There are a number of people we've had Carl Amari on who several years ago, did come. Complete redos of all of the Twilight zones, and he made them scripts for radio, which was a lot of fun. Have you ever heard any of those?   Bill Johnson ** 1:00:07 I've never heard. I was a big fan of the show when it was on TV, but I never heard any of the   Michael Hingson ** 1:00:12 radio. Stacy Keach Jr is is the Rod Serling character, but, oh yeah, Twilight radio,   Bill Johnson ** 1:00:19 that's great. I will check it out,   Michael Hingson ** 1:00:22 or we'll send you some that's even better. But I want to thank you for being here, and thank you all for being here with us. I hope you had fun today. It's a little bit different than some of the things that we've done on the podcast, but I think it makes it all the more fun. So thanks for being here. Please let us know what you think. Email me. I'd love to hear from you. Michael, H, I m, I C, H, A, E, L, H, I at accessibe, A, C, C, E, S, S, i, b, e.com, love to get your thoughts wherever you're listening. Please give us a five star review. We appreciate those a lot. Tell other people about the podcast. We really would like to get as many people listening as we can, and we want to be sure to do the kinds of things you want on the podcast. So if you know anyone else who ought to be on the podcast, Bill, that goes for you as well, please introduce us. We're always looking for more people to come on unstoppable mindset that we get a chance to chat with. So hope that you'll all do that and again. Bill, I want to thank you one more time for being here. This has been fun.   Bill Johnson ** 1:01:21 This has been a blast. Michael, thank you so much for having me. I really enjoyed it.   Michael Hingson ** 1:01:32 You have been listening to the Unstoppable Mindset podcast. Thanks for dropping by. I hope that you'll join us again next week, and in future weeks for upcoming episodes. To subscribe to our podcast and to learn about upcoming episodes, please visit www dot Michael hingson.com slash podcast. Michael Hingson is spelled m i c h a e l h i n g s o n. 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Dave and Ethan welcome special guests Jeremy Samples, Will King, and Alison Parsons for a fun-filled breakdown of the June 17, 2025 show at the Fox Performing Arts Center in Riverside, CA from Weird Al's 2025 Bigger & Weirder tour! ABOUTSince 2019, Dave & Ethan's 2000″ Weird Al Podcast has covered all facets of the life, career, and fandom of “Weird Al” Yankovic. Hosted by Dave “Elvis” Rossi and Ethan Ullman, two Weird Al super fans, collectors, and historians - the podcast aims to spread the joy of Weird Al and his music while digging deep and learning from those who have worked with, or been inspired by, his work. LINKSFollow us on social media, Patreon, and more: https://linktr.ee/2000inchPast episodes available at WeirdAlPodcast.com PODCAST CREDITSIndependently produced, hosted, and created by Dave "Elvis" Rossi and Ethan UllmanCo-produced with Mike Minnick beginning in March 2025Theme song performed by the Grammy Award-Winning Jim "Kimo" WestPodcast logo designed by Heather Malone COPYRIGHT© 2019-2025 | Dave & Ethan's 2000" Weird Al Podcast

The Dale Fire is currently burning hundreds of acres near Lake Riverside. California is suing Trump again - this time, over ending a disaster prevention program. Calling all aspiring Paul Bunyan types... the annual Forest Festival will be this Saturday. Plus, more.Support The L.A. Report by donating at LAist.com/join and by visiting https://laist.comVisit www.preppi.com/LAist to receive a FREE Preppi Emergency Kit (with any purchase over $100) and be prepared for the next wildfire, earthquake or emergency!Support the show: https://laist.com

Jared Jones is based in Riverside California where he is taking advantage of the changing regulatory and zoning landscape to fill a unique need in the marketplace in ways that the national home builders are not positioned to capitalize on. Zoning changes have made it easier to intensify existing properties without impact fees and utility expenses while saving considerably on the land cost. You can connect with Jared on Instagram with the handle "MiddleHousingPartners". You will also find him active on LinkedIn. ------------**Real Estate Espresso Podcast:** Spotify: [The Real Estate Espresso Podcast](https://open.spotify.com/show/3GvtwRmTq4r3es8cbw8jW0?si=c75ea506a6694ef1)   iTunes: [The Real Estate Espresso Podcast](https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-real-estate-espresso-podcast/id1340482613)   Website: [www.victorjm.com](http://www.victorjm.com)   LinkedIn: [Victor Menasce](http://www.linkedin.com/in/vmenasce)   YouTube: [The Real Estate Espresso Podcast](http://www.youtube.com/@victorjmenasce6734)   Facebook: [www.facebook.com/realestateespresso](http://www.facebook.com/realestateespresso)   Email: [podcast@victorjm.com](mailto:podcast@victorjm.com)  **Y Street Capital:** Website: [www.ystreetcapital.com](http://www.ystreetcapital.com)   Facebook: [www.facebook.com/YStreetCapital](https://www.facebook.com/YStreetCapital)   Instagram: [@ystreetcapital](http://www.instagram.com/ystreetcapital)  

It was 1973, I quit college moved to Riverside Ca started living in a garage behind an upright piano

Pre Game conversation with Head Coach Andy Newman, ahead of CSUN match-up with UC Riverside, from the SRC Arena, RIverside CA. Teams met in December, with UC Riverside coming out on top, 68-64. Win for CSUN would clinch third seed in upcoming Big West Men's Basketball Championship, in Henderson, NV.

The Age of Transitions and Uncle 1-24-2025AoT #448Strong Man is back, and he has come toting a stack of executive orders. Make no mistake, these EOs have not appeared out of thin air. They were written in advance by the Project 2025 team at the Heritage Foundation. Is our glorious leader trying to endear himself to the electorate by fulfilling campaign promises, while also setting up his billionaire backers for total takeover? Topics include: word of mouth podcast promotion, The Third Rail, Ochelli Radio taking new hosts, garage bands, foray into alternative media, transhumanism, insight from doing this for a long time, return of Strong Man, big changes, Project 2025, Newt Gingrich, hippies, bald identity, Turning Point USA, executive orders, DOGE repurposed USDS, assassination records releases, J6 pardons, campaign promises, immigration enforcement, alt media bought and paid for, tech overlords, USPS will be given to Bezos, inauguration parties for online media creators, voices of dissent now appearing, Stargate, Steve Bannon, AfD party, Musk, Nazi salute, alt media identity crisis, doing something different Utp #358Sidewomankick and Frank come on the show to talk about our recent UAP sightings in Riverside, CA. Frank had a sighting years ago that sparked an interest in UFOs, and now he has had regular sightings. This whole year we have been observing drone, orb and other sorts of UAP. Topics include: live-streaming on X, calls, weekend streams, Found Footage Festival, snow in Houston TX, producers on other podcasts, Sidewomankick and Frank, UAP, UFOs, sightings in Riverside CA, neighborhoods, drones, orbs, UFO sighting earlier on in life, regular sightings every night, video evidence, Concorde like UAP, planes, collecting evidence, not going away, less sightings in the daytime, regular air traffic, Flight Tracker app, Canadians relaxed attitude, getting a clear view of sky, pilots don't like to discuss sightings, doing the broadcast on the side, regular sighting spots, what they may want, not scared, government man, long show, reaction to first Space X launch, better start believing, little bit of optimism, street teamFRANZ MAIN HUB:https://theageoftransitions.com/PATREONhttps://www.patreon.com/aaronfranzUNCLEhttps://unclethepodcast.com/ORhttps://theageoftransitions.com/category/uncle-the-podcast/FRANZ and UNCLE Merchhttps://theageoftransitions.com/category/support-the-podcasts/KEEP OCHELLI GOING. You are the EFFECT if you support OCHELLI https://ochelli.com/donate/Listen/Chat on the Sitehttps://ochelli.com/listen-live/TuneInhttp://tun.in/sfxkxAPPLEhttps://music.apple.com/us/station/ochelli-com/ra.1461174708

Sidewomankick and Frank come on the show to talk about our recent UAP sightings in Riverside, CA. Frank had a sighting years ago that sparked an interest in UFOs, and now he has had regular sightings. This whole year we have been observing drone, orb and other sorts of UAP.  Topics include: live-streaming on X, calls, weekend streams, Found Footage Festival, snow in Houston TX, producers on other podcasts, Sidewomankick and Frank, UAP, UFOs, sightings in Riverside CA, neighborhoods, drones, orbs, UFO sighting earlier on in life, regular sightings every night, video evidence, Concorde like UAP, planes, collecting evidence, not going away, less sightings in the daytime, regular air traffic, Flight Tracker app, Canadians relaxed attitude, getting a clear view of sky, pilots don't like to discuss sightings, doing the broadcast on the side, regular sighting spots, what they may want, not scared, government man, long show, reaction to first Space X launch, better start believing, little bit of optimism, street team

In today's episode we sit down with Pastor Gabi Covaci from Riverside California and we talk about his experiences with deliverance and freedom from spiritual oppression. We discuss how the Lord worked in his life to call him to Himself and into the ministry. Stay tuned for more testimony in our next episode too!Share your thoughts with us!Don't miss a single episode by subscribing to the podcast!Please leave us a rating or review if you liked this episode. Buy a mug!https://www.lovegodtee.com/shop/p/time-for-the-soul-mugFollow us on: https://www.timeforthesoul.co/https://www.youtube.com/@timeforthesoulpodcasthttps://www.instagram.com/timeforthesoulpodcast/Email us: contact@timeforthesoul.co

Starlight Thursdays Episode 218 Welcome CYNDR to the series!!! Pronounced “Cinder” has been DJing Since 1998. That's like 25 years!!! He's performed at Metro Club in Riverside CA from 1998-1999, and various underground events in Pasadena/LA, Coachella pre/after-parties from 2000-03, as well as various raves in Dallas, Houston and Asheville . He had a residency at Lizzard Lounge for 3 years before moving to Montana and playing our local festival circuit. You may have known him as Newton's 7Fold before he changed his name to CYNDR. Here's a little interview with the man himself: Why do you DJ?  It's in my soul. I can't not. What inspires you about electronic music culture? Always been a nerd, outcast and lived by my rules. The EDM scene, so far, has had the kind of similar minded people with personalities that cater to nurturing relationships that mean more than a simple acquaintanceship. What genres are in this mix?  House  Please tell us a little about it? I recently fell back in love with some older tracks by Oliver Huntemann & Dubfire, so I decided I'd start there. Who are some of the artists in your mix? Stephan Bodzin
Oliver Huntemann
Dubfire
Anne Clue Hozho Paul Rich Deniz Bull Black Hertz Amelie Lens Julian Jewel It goes without saying we're beyond grateful to share his art with you! Hope you enjoy this mix and catch his live performances or radio show.

Mike S from Riverside California was the speaker at this Thursday night speaker meeting held in Las Vegas Nevada in 2013, he is telling some of his story with wit and a dry sense of humor. If you have any AA or Al-Anon event coming up let me know I am happy to help get the word out. https://scast.us/event Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate AA Event List: https://scast.us/event If you have an AA roundup, retreat, convention or workshop coming up, we would be happy to give you a shout out here on the podcast and list the event on the Sober Cast website. Visit the link above and look for "Submit Your Event" in the blue box. Sober Cast has 2500+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com

This week we have guest host Joey Romero, SVP of The Norris Group giving you a second taste of what we will be doing at Elevated on June 8th at the Riverside Convention Center in Riverside Ca.  Tune in as Joey interviews Kaaren Hall of uDirect IRA Services and Matt MacFarland of Keystone CPA.In an effort to continue the educational legacy of The Norris Group we are proud to present our first Educational Seminar of 2024.  ELEVATED is a day of education designed to help real estate investors “elevate” your market knowledge, “elevate” your investor toolbox, and “elevate” your tax strategies.ELEVATED in an opportunity for real estate investors to learn wealth building tactics from our industry experts.  Join us LIVE in Riverside this June and ELEVATE!ELEVATED- Tax Strategies, Wealth Building Tactics and Market Update/Forecast - June 8Get TicketsMore DetailsIn this episode:Retirement planning, tax benefits, and IRA investments.Common mistakes investors make.Tax planning and preparationPotential changes in taxes and self directed IRAs in 2024The Norris Group originates and services loans in California and Florida under California DRE License 01219911, Florida Mortgage Lender License 1577, and NMLS License 1623669.  For more information on hard money lending, go www.thenorrisgroup.com and click the Hard Money tab.Video LinkRadio Show

DCS had a phone interview with the world famous Cheech Marin who talks about him and Chong being a part of "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III" and his humougous Chicano art collection that is on display in Riverside California. 

This week we have Bruce and Craig Evans giving you a little taste of what we will be doing at Elevated on June 8th at the Riverside Convention Center in Riverside Ca.  California real estate pricing has proven to be resilient despite the recent interest rates.  How long will that stay true?  Do you feel the market softening any time soon Regardless of how you approach this new dynamic, investors have always found a way to get it done.  When you do, are you going to hold on to that wealth?  Do you know the tax strategies the most successful investors use?  Are you going to build a legacy of wealth for your family?In an effort to continue the educational legacy of The Norris Group we are proud to present our first Educational Seminar of 2024.  ELEVATED is a day of education designed to help real estate investors “elevate” your market knowledge, “elevate” your investor toolbox, and “elevate” your tax strategies.ELEVATED in an opportunity for real estate investors to learn wealth building tactics from our industry experts.  Join us LIVE in Riverside this June and ELEVATE!ELEVATED- Tax Strategies, Wealth Building Tactics and Market Update/Forecast - June 8Get TicketsMore DetailsIn this episode:Current real estate trends and concerns in California, Florida, and the USImportance of understanding market inventory and price crashes in real estateTools for investors to become better operators and investors.Interest rates and the FEDPredictions for California market for the rest of 2024The Norris Group originates and services loans in California and Florida under California DRE License 01219911, Florida Mortgage Lender License 1577, and NMLS License 1623669.  For more information on hard money lending, go www.thenorrisgroup.com and click the Hard Money tab.Video LinkRadio Show

Please join us as on the day we ordained Matt Irving Pastor of NorthStar we have as our guest minister Robert Irving of Reformed Baptist Church of Riverside California. Robert delivers us a message on the importance of the local church pastor and the need as a body to pray for our pastor.

Transaxles have always been a shifty subject. With less and less people rebuilding them it seems the world is getting smaller in the world of transaxles. Ben Berniklau is a second generation transactional builder. His father was half owner of one of the largest transaxle rebuilding shops in Riverside. He learned how to build tranny mostly on his own after not listening to his dad and following his heart and being in the VW industry. Working for several different shops and learning how to build transaxles because he was always good with his hands. We always hear their VW stories and we get to hear the trail as how he learned to build trans axles. Now today he's the owner of Benco transaxles in Riverside California. He personally has built hundreds of transmissions over the years. His years of experience in dealing with parts alone give him the insight as to what parts work and what parts don't. With an industry leading five year, unlimited mileage warranty on his trans axles we peel back the layers and a him lots of questions specifically pertaining to your transaxle needs. from diff covers to shift forks bearing covers and axle tube and castings. We talk about it all. What are some of his favorite trans axle combinations for gearing and what he thinks about five speeds. He'll also change your gears for free for the life of your transaxel. https://bencotransaxles.com www.letstalkdubs.com www.rosswulf.com www.vwtrends.com George's Youtube channel LTD Youtube Channel    

This podcast can only happen because of our Patreon subscribers, thank you! https://www.patreon.com/PopeyeRayHenry Ramirez is a trainer and manager of some great fighters including professional heavyweight boxer, Chris Arreola. He also does a lot of amazing work with the youth in boxing. Recently he had a video go viral of two young boys who had been sparring and both got bloody noses. It got a lot of attention, positive and negative. Let's talk about it.

On this week's show we take a look at a new report on the state of TV viewership. We also read your emails and take a look at the week's news. Finally We congratulate Eric Melton of Riverside CA on winning the  CSS Audio Torii P2  Tower Speakers! News: Walmart in talks to buy Vizio for more than $2 bln TV Giants Team Up for Sports Comeback vs. Streamers Amazon's Prime Video Gets Exclusive NFL Playoff Game Next Season YouTube TV rolling out shortcut to switch between last-viewed channels on Roku Other: Prime Video cuts Dolby Vision, Atmos support from ad tier—and didn't tell subs | Ars Technica The State of TV Viewership Samba TV gathers viewership data via its proprietary Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) technology from tens of millions of opted- in Smart TVs. Samba TV's ACR is integrated at the chipset level across 24 of the top Smart TVs sold in more than 100 countries globally and captures content that crosses the TV screen, regardless of source. This results in unbiased, comprehensive viewership insights from around the world. In this report, Samba TV first-party data is supplemented with data from a nationwide survey conducted within the U.S. from 8/22/23- 8/30/23 among 2,507 adults by HarrisX. Results were weighted for age, gender, region, race/ethnicity, and income where necessary to align them with their actual proportions in the population. Monthly cable or satellite TV subscription Gen Z 39% Millennials 47% Gen X 47% Baby Boomers 57% Total TV hours watched: OTT & linear OTT Linear Q3 ‘22 1.40M 22B Q4 ‘22 1.39M 23B Q1 ‘23 1.45M 23B   Q2 ‘23 1.30M 18.5B Q3 ‘23 1.75M 21.5B Q4 ‘23 1.62M 21.5B  What TV Services viewers are watching less because they are watching FAST? 18% Transactional video-on-demand(TVOD) services (Pay per view or rent through Amazon or Apple ) 22% Virtual pay-TV services (IPTV) 23% Traditional broadcast/pay-TV services 32% Subscription video-on-demand(SVOD) services (Netflix Etc) 34% Not watching less of any service Subscribers to virtual multichannel TV services watch eight TV channels, on average, compared to 10 TV channels for traditional multichannel TV households, according to a recent Kagan US Consumer Insights survey. Video cord cutters and cord nevers who receive over-the-air local broadcast TV programming report watching three to four TV channels. Percentage of Cable and Satellite subscribers said they watch: ABC 62%  CBS 60% NBC 60% Fox 50% ESPN 39% HIST 38% TNT 34% DISC 33% USA 33% TBS 32% Top TV Channels for IPTV subscribers  ABC 45% CBS 43% NBC 40% Fox 37% ESPN 31% HBO 26% DISN 26% FX 26% Top three SVOD Services for Cable and Satellite subscribers Netflix 52% Amazon Prime Video 49% Hulu 32% Top four SVOD Services for IPTV subscribers Netflix 62% Amazon Prime Video 60% Hulu 55% Disney+ 43% Top three FAST Services for Cable and Satellite subscribers Tubi 22% Pluto TV 22% Freevee 17% Top four FAST Services for IPTV subscribers Tubi 34% Pluto TV 33% Roku Channel 32% Freevee 26% Percentage of population that streams content on mobile Gen Z 91% Millennials 88% Gen X 73% Baby Boomers 43% Silent 30% Most popular program amongst single program viewers for the second half of 2023 Netflix Quarterback S1 Disney+ Ahsoka S1 AppleTV+ Hijack S1 Prime Video Jack Ryan S4 Max And Just Like That S2 Paramount+ Special Ops Lioness S1 Hulu The Kardashians S4 45% of households that watched the top bingeable premieres of the second half of  2023 finished the season in five days. 68% of U.S. adults identify themselves as binge-watchers, while 76% of millennials do. 89 out of the 100 most watched linear programs of the second half of 2023 were related to sports. 76% of those 89 programs were NFL football. Top five second half of 2023 linear programs ABC - Monday Night Football - Kansas City Chiefs vs Philadelphia Eagles NBC - Sunday Night Football - New York Jets vs Kansas City Chiefs ABC - Monday Night Football - New York Jets vs Buffalo Bills NBC - Sunday Night Football - San Francisco 49ers vs Dallas Cowboys NBC - Sunday Night Football - Dallas Cowboys vs Philadelphia Eagles Top five second half of 2023 linear programs (excluding sports) NBC - 97th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade CBS - 60 Minutes 11/26 - Rise; Sealand; Ancient Vines CBS - 60 Minutes 12/10 - The Resistance; Red and Green; Novak Djokovic CBS - 60 Minutes 10/29 - Vice President Harris; A Quiet Invasion; The Air We Breathe; The State of the Blues CBS - 60 Minutes 9/17 - President Zelenskyy; Into the Streets; Prime Time in Colorado Despite the resounding success that Barbie vs. Oppenheimer saw, one pre-pandemic behavior has stuck around: strong viewership once these movies hit streaming platforms. While many movies land on paid video-on-demand platforms like Apple TV and Amazon Prime Video first, the data shows that it isn't until these titles hit popular streaming platforms for free that viewers opt to watch, making rights to these movies a huge win for streamers. Average number of TV ads seen per day by the top 50% of linear TV households was 150 Average number of TV ads seen per day by the bottom 50% of linear TV households was 13 3 in 4 U.S. adults look at a mobile device while watching TV 8 in 10 of those U.S. adults look at a mobile device more than half the time while watching TV 1 in 3 U.S. adults shop online while streaming TV 47% of Gen Z has subscription cycled in the past 6 months 61% of Gen Z is unreachable via traditional TV 76% of Gen Z hears about new TV shows and movies through social media 60% of millennials watch live sports on TV 73% of millennial parents subscribe to a streaming service just for their children 76% of millennials classify themselves as binge watchers  

Will new construction impact the housing market in 2024?  The short answer is yes! New construction will continue to drive many aspects of the housing market next year.  From creating much-needed inventory to having some of the best mortgage rates around, you can't ignore this segment of the market.  In 2023, 30% of sales were new construction! Welcome back to America's #1 Daily Podcast, featuring America's #1 Real Estate Coaches and Top EXP Realty Sponsors in the World, Tim and Julie Harris. Ready to become an EXP Realty Agent and join Tim and Julie Harris? https://whylibertas.com/harris or text Tim directly 512-758-0206 IMPORTANT: Join #1 Real Estate Coaches Tim and Julie Harris's Premier Coaching now for FREE. Included is a DAILY Coaching Session with a HARRIS Certified Coach. Proven and tested lead generation, systems, and scripts designed for this market. Instant FREE Access Now: YES, Enroll Me NOW In Premier Coaching https://members.timandjulieharris.com How this will impact YOU in 2024: 1.  You need more homes to show your highly qualified, highly motivated buyer clients.  Many of those clients are also your sellers or would-be sellers.  Knowing about new construction will allow you to sell more homes in less time, not to mention the repeat and referral business down the road because you solved the problem of finding your clients the right home. REAL ESTATE LEADS, LEADS and more LEADS: Question: What is Tim and Julie Harris's favorite PROBATE LEAD PROVIDER? Simple, https://alltheleads.com/harris 2.  Builders, especially the large ones offer better mortgage interest rates, which means lower payments for a new home.  No repairs and a smaller payment make most buyers pretty happy.  New construction virtually sells itself. 3.  When you have builder relationships, those can lead to many, many more opportunities for you. Refer to our podcast about how to make money with New Constructions. There are at least 7 different ways. Quick facts from the US Census regarding New Construction Keep in mind that we currently have 560,000 resale homes on the market as active listings. Inventory is inching up, week by week, but let's see what's happening in the world of new builds.  Ready to become an EXPIRED Listing Agent? As promised, here is the discount link for the EXPIRED LISTING LEADS: https://www.redx.com/affiliate/tim-and-julie-harris/?aff_code=670699 Those new projects are valued at more than $154 billion, or an average valuation of $289,339.57 per permit. Note: This valuation is an estimate of the cost to BUILD the home for the builder, not including the purchase price of the land, and is not the same as the market value of the home. 60% of those permits are for single-family homes, and 40% are for multi-family homes.  Greater Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth, Atlanta, Phoenix, and Charlotte lead the nation in single-family home permits issued in 2023. The South leads the nation in both the number and total valuation of single-unit permits issued so far in 2023, followed by the West and Midwest regions. Orlando, Austin, Nashville, Tampa, Raleigh, Riverside CA, Greater NYC, Jacksonville, FL, Washington DC, and LA are all on the list of top 20 cities for residential building permits.  So chances are, there's new construction near you. You can find SOME new construction in your MLS but don't count on that as your only resource.  Use NewHomeSource.com and search by zip code to find out what's happening in your market.  You can also network with your local zoning commission, architectural review board, etc. NOT Knowing about new construction can mean that you'll do 30% less business next year because it's 30% of what's happening out there! Inflation.  2024 Should be a year of normalized, moderate inflation, but won't be a market-wrecking factor as was once predicted.

Cliff Odette is a Mastro Defense System Instructor and Krav Maga Black Belt with his school, Self Defense Fit Lab, located in Riverside California. Cliff is an incredible coach and very solid brother! In this episode we talk about his growing up wreslting in High School and College and looking to test his metal in street fights. We also talk about training, his coaching style, and he hints at what may be next in his evolution of coaching and content! You can find Cliff on IG @selfdefnsefitlab or his web site https://selfdefensefitlab.com

Gradient Solar Systems connects homes and businesses with solar service providers in Riverside - call 951-617-6937 to find out if you could benefit from a PPA! Schedule a consultation at https://gradientsolarsystems.com Gradient Solar Systems City: Colton Address: 901 East Washington Street Website https://gradientsolarsystems.com/ Phone +1 951 445 2271 Email matthew@gradientsolarsystems.com

It's time for the Comic Talk Headlines with Generally Nerdy! LOTS of music to talk about. MK1 is about to launch. Holiday special comics announced. MORE trailers for upcoming TV shows. The Marvels is causing a stir in the community. Plus a TON more!Tune in Wednesdays for the regular show. Plus, don't forget to subscribe for more fresh content.    MusicFollow-ups/CorrectionsOni - Aura proper music video now up https://youtu.be/Xz3ypqrbaO0 New Music/VideoVended - Am I The Only One https://youtu.be/U9UELq2JTZk progression with a young band in the best way.Blue October - Down Here Waiting https://youtu.be/mkjp4h3diOU Blue October Dance Music??? Seems slightly more optimistic upbeat than previous Blue October music.AWOLNATION - We Are All Insane https://youtu.be/KsdGl7UZmTE infectious as usual. Is this enough to enter them back into the conversation? That end bridge might say yes…Motionless In White - Sign Of Life https://youtu.be/pNeim8mpLQ4 Neo-goth emo-Manson kids might actually have a crossover thing going here. Still feels terribly manufactured though.Tommy Vext  - Tennessee Whiskey featuring Angel Vivaldi https://youtu.be/Kzf0TG_10Gw was expecting this to shred a little more. Instead it's a straight cover, and it actually works…The Rolling Stones - Angry https://youtu.be/_mEC54eTuGw Video starring Sydney Sweenie… these Octogenarians can still rock…A brand new studio album from The Rolling Stones… Hackney Diamonds out October 20th.Code Orange - Mirror https://youtu.be/rJs2jqym09A another Reba track… and I'm always here for that. These guys REFUSE to be pigeonholed into any one sound… usually.Busta Rhymes - LUXURY LIFE ft. Coi Leray https://youtu.be/tiGosjHmg78 funky as hell beat. Always here for Busta. Metric - Who Would You Be For Me https://youtu.be/CNUgemJBLTw ethereal relaxation just like you want from Metric.Puddle of Mudd - Cash and Cobain https://youtu.be/612cCXWViwU from the “Ubiquitous” album out now. Rocks like you would expect from the guys who wrote “Blurry” et al. A bit over produced, and what's with the cultural references throughout?Static X - Stay Alive https://youtu.be/JW3WiZBGDmU Tours/FestivalsBastardane - Support from Fury in Few. Oct 5 in Atlanta through Oct 14 in Savannah. Mostly through the south. https://www.bastardane.com/tour The Hu - Oct 9 in San Francisco through Oct 26 in Phoenix. No support announced yet. https://www.thehuofficial.com/tour-1?fbclid=IwAR2DCOeuTGGZKgm0Rq9v0dfpQtq6F1UqdWmrjGiLi3EXS-ESe3DdtbLNUyE Slaughter to Prevail - Nov 2 in Riverside CA through Nov 24 in Santa Cruz CA. No support announced yet. https://www.stp-tour.com/?fbclid=IwAR1vPuuGTySDoGsRGeJqaekHP8x4OuBB4TvCV69E0RKztOkvstSkM4Ikal4 Reg ‘ol NewsAtilla - Frontman Chris Fronzak says he is running for President. Running as a member of the Libertarian Party… Vows to bring back the Warped Tour? https://loudwire.com/chris-fronz-president-running-campaign-attila/ SuggestsMarcy PlaygroundGaming/TechTrailersMK1 - Nitara reveal trailer https://youtu.be/ah8VyRhiWiE Megan Fox… meh…Hot Ones - Ed Boon https://youtu.be/KZJaYVDfoDE Just for funsiesGargoyles Remastered - https://youtu.be/b-o1V96lBLk launching on October 19 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC Reg ‘ol NewsLegend of Zelda - “This time we do not plan to release any additional content because we feel that we have exhausted the possibilities of creating fun in that world.” Eiji Aonuma - Zelda Producer. So, NO DLC?? https://www.famitsu.com/news/202309/06314767.html Roblox - Headed to sony platforms PS4/5 as well as Meta Quest next month. https://blog.roblox.com/2023/09/rdc-2023-roblox-going-next/ SuggestsHalo InfiniteComic Books/BooksReg ‘ol NewsHellboy - Holiday Special announced. Titled “Hellboy Winter Special: The Yule Cat 1” written by Mike Mignola, art by Matt Smith and colors by Chris O'Halloran. The story follows Hellboy and his Right Hand of Doom as he travels to Iceland to investigate a possible appearance by Jólakötturinn, or the urban legend known as the Yule Cat. https://comicbook.com/horror/news/hellboy-winter-special-yule-cat-comic-announced-dark-horse-comics/ Wolverine - Chris Claremont has returned to the character for a new series as confirmed by Marvel. Teaming with artist Edgar Salazar, and the five-issue series will feature numerous variant covers from superstar artists, including Philip Tan, whose cover for the first issue was released alongside the announcement on Friday. Madripoor Nights is one of a number of projects designed to celebrate the popular mutant's 50th anniversary, with numerous Wolverine-centric books and events kicking off in January. Wolverine: Madripoor Nights #1 will be in stores this February.https://comicbook.com/comics/news/marvel-confirms-chris-claremont-is-back-writing-wolverine-for-new-series/ Creepshow - Holiday Special coming this December from Image Comics and Skybound. To be on shelves Dec 6th.https://comicbook.com/horror/news/creepshow-holiday-special-comic-book-december-reboot/ SuggestsInfinite Crisis Vol 1First appearance of Jaime Reyes Blue Beetle. Specifically issue 3TV ShowsTrailersMonarch: Legacy of Monsters - https://youtu.be/ec27RCzb6qI Why is Apple TV+ cranking out SO MUCH quality programming? They even got Kurt Russel AND John Goodman? Nov 17AHS: Delicate - https://youtu.be/4qniWD7bFu0 How is it that Kim Kardashian can't hold it together for the 15 seconds of screen time she has in this trailer? Otherwise a fairly effective trailer. Sept 20thGen V - https://youtu.be/uhjJ5brX-bY Red Band trailer. Gunna be another hit for sure! Sept 29Gabriel and the Guardians - https://youtu.be/pSZ_qOESXRE Anime from the studio that created the Sound of Freedom movie, based on old testament scripture.SuggestsAhsoka… AGAIN.MoviesFollow-ups/CorrectionsHellboy: The Crooked Man - Ketchup Entertainment confirmed as new distributor. Could see the film get a limited release. https://deadline.com/2023/09/ketchup-entertainment-hellboy-the-crooked-man-jack-kesy-1235543207/ The Crow - Lionsgate has acquired the movie. Expected release in 2024. https://deadline.com/2023/09/crow-reboot-bill-skarsgard-fka-twigs-sells-lionsgate-deal-1235539115/ TrailersAquaman 2- https://youtu.be/Fbb4e_Q6wR8 Just a tease for 4 days from now. Thanksgiving - https://youtu.be/OHWiTwH53lU  After a Black Friday riot ends in tragedy, a mysterious Thanksgiving-inspired killer terrorizes Plymouth, Massachusetts – the birthplace of the infamous holiday.Directed by: Eli RothWritten by: Eli Roth & Jeff RendellProduced by: Eli Roth, Roger Birnbaum, Jeff RendellExecutive Producers: Gary Barber, Peter Oillataguerre, Greg Denny, Kate HarrisonCast: Patrick Dempsey, Addison Rae, Milo Manheim, Jalen Thomas Brooks, Nell Verlaque, Rick Hoffman, and Gina GershonSpy Kids: Armageddon - https://youtu.be/TuiRw0v3bAw Netflix's first stab at the franchise, still directed by Robert Rodriguez. Zachary Levi. Sept 22Pet Sematary Bloodlines - https://youtu.be/1IgQpRyfwbE Reg ‘ol NewsMarvels - Standees are causing an uproar in the community… Brie Larson overly photoshopped and Iman Vellani's mask artificially removed…SuggestsLogan - 2017 American superhero film starring Hugh Jackman as the titular character. It is the tenth film in the X-Men film series and the third and final installment in the Wolverine trilogy following X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) and The Wolverine (2013). The film, which takes inspiration from the "Old Man Logan" comics storyline by Mark Millar and Steve McNiven, follows an aged Wolverine and an extremely ill Charles Xavier who must defend a young mutant named Laura from the Reavers led by Donald Pierce and Zander RiceRumor MillConfirmations/RefutationsREFUTATION:Robin - Timothee Chalamet will NOT be Robin for the Batman sequel. New RumorsDeadpool 3 - Liev Schreiber returning as Sabertooth? Oh brother… Role is said to be more than a cameo, but not by much.Avengers: Secret Wars - Sam Raimi tops the list for directors?~ALSO~Plot rumor has TVA recruiting heroes from collapsing realities to fight Kang on “New Earth/Battleworld” with Deadpool 3 and Loki season 2 setting this up.Loki - Will be the leader of the TVA by the end of season 2.Wolverine - Feige got Hugh Jackman to agree to be the official Disney version of the character…You can support this show by visiting our merch store, or by leaving us an Apple Podcasts review.

It's time for the Comic Talk Headlines with Generally Nerdy! LOTS of music to talk about. MK1 is about to launch. Holiday special comics announced. MORE trailers for upcoming TV shows. The Marvels is causing a stir in the community. Plus a TON more!Tune in Wednesdays for the regular show. Plus, don't forget to subscribe for more fresh content.    MusicFollow-ups/CorrectionsOni - Aura proper music video now up https://youtu.be/Xz3ypqrbaO0 New Music/VideoVended - Am I The Only One https://youtu.be/U9UELq2JTZk progression with a young band in the best way.Blue October - Down Here Waiting https://youtu.be/mkjp4h3diOU Blue October Dance Music??? Seems slightly more optimistic upbeat than previous Blue October music.AWOLNATION - We Are All Insane https://youtu.be/KsdGl7UZmTE infectious as usual. Is this enough to enter them back into the conversation? That end bridge might say yes…Motionless In White - Sign Of Life https://youtu.be/pNeim8mpLQ4 Neo-goth emo-Manson kids might actually have a crossover thing going here. Still feels terribly manufactured though.Tommy Vext  - Tennessee Whiskey featuring Angel Vivaldi https://youtu.be/Kzf0TG_10Gw was expecting this to shred a little more. Instead it's a straight cover, and it actually works…The Rolling Stones - Angry https://youtu.be/_mEC54eTuGw Video starring Sydney Sweenie… these Octogenarians can still rock…A brand new studio album from The Rolling Stones… Hackney Diamonds out October 20th.Code Orange - Mirror https://youtu.be/rJs2jqym09A another Reba track… and I'm always here for that. These guys REFUSE to be pigeonholed into any one sound… usually.Busta Rhymes - LUXURY LIFE ft. Coi Leray https://youtu.be/tiGosjHmg78 funky as hell beat. Always here for Busta. Metric - Who Would You Be For Me https://youtu.be/CNUgemJBLTw ethereal relaxation just like you want from Metric.Puddle of Mudd - Cash and Cobain https://youtu.be/612cCXWViwU from the “Ubiquitous” album out now. Rocks like you would expect from the guys who wrote “Blurry” et al. A bit over produced, and what's with the cultural references throughout?Static X - Stay Alive https://youtu.be/JW3WiZBGDmU Tours/FestivalsBastardane - Support from Fury in Few. Oct 5 in Atlanta through Oct 14 in Savannah. Mostly through the south. https://www.bastardane.com/tour The Hu - Oct 9 in San Francisco through Oct 26 in Phoenix. No support announced yet. https://www.thehuofficial.com/tour-1?fbclid=IwAR2DCOeuTGGZKgm0Rq9v0dfpQtq6F1UqdWmrjGiLi3EXS-ESe3DdtbLNUyE Slaughter to Prevail - Nov 2 in Riverside CA through Nov 24 in Santa Cruz CA. No support announced yet. https://www.stp-tour.com/?fbclid=IwAR1vPuuGTySDoGsRGeJqaekHP8x4OuBB4TvCV69E0RKztOkvstSkM4Ikal4 Reg ‘ol NewsAtilla - Frontman Chris Fronzak says he is running for President. Running as a member of the Libertarian Party… Vows to bring back the Warped Tour? https://loudwire.com/chris-fronz-president-running-campaign-attila/ SuggestsMarcy PlaygroundGaming/TechTrailersMK1 - Nitara reveal trailer https://youtu.be/ah8VyRhiWiE Megan Fox… meh…Hot Ones - Ed Boon https://youtu.be/KZJaYVDfoDE Just for funsiesGargoyles Remastered - https://youtu.be/b-o1V96lBLk launching on October 19 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC Reg ‘ol NewsLegend of Zelda - “This time we do not plan to release any additional content because we feel that we have exhausted the possibilities of creating fun in that world.” Eiji Aonuma - Zelda Producer. So, NO DLC?? https://www.famitsu.com/news/202309/06314767.html Roblox - Headed to sony platforms PS4/5 as well as Meta Quest next month. https://blog.roblox.com/2023/09/rdc-2023-roblox-going-next/ SuggestsHalo InfiniteComic Books/BooksReg ‘ol NewsHellboy - Holiday Special announced. Titled “Hellboy Winter Special: The Yule Cat 1” written by Mike Mignola, art by Matt Smith and colors by Chris O'Halloran. The story follows Hellboy and his Right Hand of Doom as he travels to Iceland to investigate a possible appearance by Jólakötturinn, or the urban legend known as the Yule Cat. https://comicbook.com/horror/news/hellboy-winter-special-yule-cat-comic-announced-dark-horse-comics/ Wolverine - Chris Claremont has returned to the character for a new series as confirmed by Marvel. Teaming with artist Edgar Salazar, and the five-issue series will feature numerous variant covers from superstar artists, including Philip Tan, whose cover for the first issue was released alongside the announcement on Friday. Madripoor Nights is one of a number of projects designed to celebrate the popular mutant's 50th anniversary, with numerous Wolverine-centric books and events kicking off in January. Wolverine: Madripoor Nights #1 will be in stores this February.https://comicbook.com/comics/news/marvel-confirms-chris-claremont-is-back-writing-wolverine-for-new-series/ Creepshow - Holiday Special coming this December from Image Comics and Skybound. To be on shelves Dec 6th.https://comicbook.com/horror/news/creepshow-holiday-special-comic-book-december-reboot/ SuggestsInfinite Crisis Vol 1First appearance of Jaime Reyes Blue Beetle. Specifically issue 3TV ShowsTrailersMonarch: Legacy of Monsters - https://youtu.be/ec27RCzb6qI Why is Apple TV+ cranking out SO MUCH quality programming? They even got Kurt Russel AND John Goodman? Nov 17AHS: Delicate - https://youtu.be/4qniWD7bFu0 How is it that Kim Kardashian can't hold it together for the 15 seconds of screen time she has in this trailer? Otherwise a fairly effective trailer. Sept 20thGen V - https://youtu.be/uhjJ5brX-bY Red Band trailer. Gunna be another hit for sure! Sept 29Gabriel and the Guardians - https://youtu.be/pSZ_qOESXRE Anime from the studio that created the Sound of Freedom movie, based on old testament scripture.SuggestsAhsoka… AGAIN.MoviesFollow-ups/CorrectionsHellboy: The Crooked Man - Ketchup Entertainment confirmed as new distributor. Could see the film get a limited release. https://deadline.com/2023/09/ketchup-entertainment-hellboy-the-crooked-man-jack-kesy-1235543207/ The Crow - Lionsgate has acquired the movie. Expected release in 2024. https://deadline.com/2023/09/crow-reboot-bill-skarsgard-fka-twigs-sells-lionsgate-deal-1235539115/ TrailersAquaman 2- https://youtu.be/Fbb4e_Q6wR8 Just a tease for 4 days from now. Thanksgiving - https://youtu.be/OHWiTwH53lU  After a Black Friday riot ends in tragedy, a mysterious Thanksgiving-inspired killer terrorizes Plymouth, Massachusetts – the birthplace of the infamous holiday.Directed by: Eli RothWritten by: Eli Roth & Jeff RendellProduced by: Eli Roth, Roger Birnbaum, Jeff RendellExecutive Producers: Gary Barber, Peter Oillataguerre, Greg Denny, Kate HarrisonCast: Patrick Dempsey, Addison Rae, Milo Manheim, Jalen Thomas Brooks, Nell Verlaque, Rick Hoffman, and Gina GershonSpy Kids: Armageddon - https://youtu.be/TuiRw0v3bAw Netflix's first stab at the franchise, still directed by Robert Rodriguez. Zachary Levi. Sept 22Pet Sematary Bloodlines - https://youtu.be/1IgQpRyfwbE Reg ‘ol NewsMarvels - Standees are causing an uproar in the community… Brie Larson overly photoshopped and Iman Vellani's mask artificially removed…SuggestsLogan - 2017 American superhero film starring Hugh Jackman as the titular character. It is the tenth film in the X-Men film series and the third and final installment in the Wolverine trilogy following X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) and The Wolverine (2013). The film, which takes inspiration from the "Old Man Logan" comics storyline by Mark Millar and Steve McNiven, follows an aged Wolverine and an extremely ill Charles Xavier who must defend a young mutant named Laura from the Reavers led by Donald Pierce and Zander RiceRumor MillConfirmations/RefutationsREFUTATION:Robin - Timothee Chalamet will NOT be Robin for the Batman sequel. New RumorsDeadpool 3 - Liev Schreiber returning as Sabertooth? Oh brother… Role is said to be more than a cameo, but not by much.Avengers: Secret Wars - Sam Raimi tops the list for directors?~ALSO~Plot rumor has TVA recruiting heroes from collapsing realities to fight Kang on “New Earth/Battleworld” with Deadpool 3 and Loki season 2 setting this up.Loki - Will be the leader of the TVA by the end of season 2.Wolverine - Feige got Hugh Jackman to agree to be the official Disney version of the character…You can support this show by visiting our merch store, or by leaving us an Apple Podcasts review.

It's time for the Comic Talk Headlines with Generally Nerdy! Some big announcements around Star Trek Day. Tons of new music. Netflix's He-Man gets a prequel comic. And PLENTY more...Tune in Wednesdays for the regular show. Plus, don't forget to subscribe for more fresh MusicFollow-ups/CorrectionsBillion Streams - Nothing Else Matters is the most recent song to cross the threshold.New Music/VideoGwar - Tammy the Swine Queen https://youtu.be/TbrG6zPU4Jw The final recording from Oderus Urungus. From the 10 year anniversary re-release of “Battle Maximus” which itself was a tribute to another fallen Scumdog.Oliver Anthony - 90 some Chevy https://youtu.be/KKYEbPFvxyg Rick Astley - Never Gonna Stop https://youtu.be/qWNQUvIk954 WOW… that's some soul.Dax - Oliver Anthony "Rich Men North Of Richmond" Remix - https://youtu.be/KYXgxhyAiwk Dax is just damn good!Oliver Tree - Essence (feat. Super Computer) - https://youtu.be/9mAeFNERZoI strangely heart-felt song from pop's screwball.Timbaland, Nelly Furtado, Justin Timberlake - Keep Going Up https://youtu.be/feqIQcNuRV4 Tours/FestivalsBastardane - Support from Fury in Few. Oct 5 in Atlanta through Oct 14 in Savannah. Mostly through the south. https://www.bastardane.com/tour The Hu - Oct 9 in San Francisco through Oct 26 in Phoenix. No support announced yet. https://www.thehuofficial.com/tour-1?fbclid=IwAR2DCOeuTGGZKgm0Rq9v0dfpQtq6F1UqdWmrjGiLi3EXS-ESe3DdtbLNUyE Slaughter to Prevail - Nov 2 in Riverside CA through Nov 24 in Santa Cruz CA. No support announced yet. https://www.stp-tour.com/?fbclid=IwAR1vPuuGTySDoGsRGeJqaekHP8x4OuBB4TvCV69E0RKztOkvstSkM4Ikal4 Reg ‘ol NewsJimmy Buffet - passed at the age of 76. Undisclosed illness. Seemed sudden. Though it was Merkel Cell skin cancer, which the singer songwriter had apparently been fighting for some time. https://loudwire.com/jimmy-buffett-died-76/ Smash Mouth - Singer Steve Harwell passed at 56. Liver failure from alcohol abuse.Rolling Stones - STILL working on new music? The band has teased a new song titled “Don't Get Angry with Me.” New material is the first since drummer Charlie Watts passed in 2021. Also the first collection of new material in almost 20 years.https://www.dontgetangrywithme.com/ https://youtu.be/3Vm7FUjIbQU SuggestsSlipknot (self-titled) - is the debut studio album by American heavy metal band Slipknot. It was released on June 29, 1999, by Roadrunner Records, following a demo containing a few of the songs which had previously been released in 1998.[4] Later, it was reissued in December 1999 with a slightly-altered track listing and mastering as the result of a lawsuit. It was the first release by the band to be produced by Ross Robinson, who sought to refine Slipknot's sound rather than alter the group's musical direction. This is the only album to feature original guitarist Josh Brainard who left at the end of recording in late 1998 while the band was taking a brief break. Jim Root, who recorded two tracks at this point, would appear full time on subsequent albums starting with their self-titled album.Gaming/TechTrailersG.I. Joe: Wrath of Cobra - https://youtu.be/NGYKN3559pI Announce trailer for a Steam game that is whole-heartedly embracing the 80s. It is an arcade brawler.Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines 2 - https://youtu.be/D6b6LGubq6I Risen from the dead as it were. New developing studios in Dear Esther, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, and The Chinese Room. Now set for a fall 2024 release.Suggestshttps://www.youtube.com/@johnnylikens Comic Books/BooksReg ‘ol NewsStar Trek - The Animated Celebration Presents The Scheimer Barrier. New comic published by IDW. To debut alongside the Short Treks animated series on Sept 8 through StarTrek.com. Subsequent issues will be released weekly. Physical copies set to be released at NYCC in October.He-Man - New Masters of the Universe book has been announced at Dark Horse. Forge of Destiny will be written by Tim Seeley and have art by Eddie Nunez. The book is going to be a prequel to the Netflix animated series and be on shelves Sept 6th.https://comicbook.com/comics/news/dark-horse-reveals-masters-of-the-universe-forge-of-destiny-first-look-preview-exclusive/#1 SuggestsScott Pilgrim - a series of graphic novels by Canadian author and comic book artist Bryan Lee O'Malley. The series is about Scott Pilgrim, a slacker and part-time musician who lives in Toronto, Ontario, and plays bass ‍in a band. He falls in love with American delivery girl Ramona Flowers, but must defeat her seven evil exes[1] in order to date her in peace.TV ShowsFollow-ups/CorrectionsMCU shake-up: Loki Season 2 — Oct.6 (unchanged)What If…? S2 — Christmas 2023Echo — Jan. 2024X-Men '97 — early 2024Agatha: Darkhold Diaries — early fall 2024Ironheart — undatedDaredevil: Born Again — filming on pause / undatedWonder Man — filming on pause / undatedhttps://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/marvel-tv-show-release-dates-1235580093/ The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon - premiere Sunday Sept 10 on AMC and AMC+My Adventures with Superman - season 2 announced https://twitter.com/swimpedia/status/1697467756596121841 Tiny Toons Looniversity - premieres Friday Sept 8 on Max.How I Met Your Father - Canceled after just 2 seasons.Monarch: Legacy of Monsters - Set to go up on Apple TV+ in November. https://comicbook.com/anime/news/monarch-legacy-of-monsters-release-godzilla/ TrailersStar Trek: Very Short Treks - https://youtu.be/ZqyNGYHfP-0 5 shorts celebrating 50 years of the animated series. Debuting on Star Trek day, Sept 8, on StarTrek.com and the official Star Trek YouTube channel. With the subsequent episodes launching Wednesdays from there. There will also be fan screenings of Lower Decks offered in Columbus, Dallas, Denver, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Diego, St. Louis, Washington D.C., Vancouver, Calgary, and London. Time frame unclear.SuggestsMetalocalypse - an American adult animated television series created by Brendon Small and Tommy Blacha for Adult Swim. It premiered on August 6, 2006, followed by a musical one-hour special, Metalocalypse: The Doomstar Requiem, as well as a movie Metalocalypse: Army of the Doomstar on October 27, 2013. The television program centers on the larger-than-life melodic death metal band Dethklok, and often portrays dark and macabre content, including such subjects as violence, death, and the drawbacks of fame, with hyperbolic black comedy. The show was widely heralded as both a parody and a pastiche of heavy metal culture.MoviesFollow-ups/CorrectionsWinnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey - sequel in the works, with a recast Christopher Robin. https://twitter.com/poohbandh/status/1698185500018741579 TrailersWhat Happens Later - https://youtu.be/zceSigCGWSQ New rom com with David Duchovny and Meg Ryan. Oct 13Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls - https://youtu.be/KbS6l7PTDXQ Bowser Vids. Oct 19. Fathom events. https://www.fathomevents.com/events/Onyx-the-Fortuitous-and-the-Talisman-of-Souls Mary Had a Little Lamb - https://youtu.be/fEk5WsjMDGA Dual release on Oct 3. No One Will Save You - https://youtu.be/IcA02w6rm44 Streaming on Hulu Sept 22. Alien Horror movie.Three Blind Mice - https://youtu.be/_qj9VpQ8ztE SuggestsIron Man - a 2008 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Paramount Pictures,[a] it is the first film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Directed by Jon Favreau from a screenplay by the writing teams of Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, and Art Marcum and Matt Holloway, the film stars Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark / Iron Man alongside Terrence Howard, Jeff Bridges, Gwyneth Paltrow, Leslie Bibb, and Shaun Toub. In the film, following his escape from captivity by a terrorist group, world-famous industrialist and master engineer Tony Stark builds a mechanized suit of armor and becomes the superhero Iron Man.Rumor MillConfirmations/RefutationsAgatha: Darkhold DiariesNew RumorsIronheart - series rumored to have been canceled even though shooting has finished. Disney is said to be blaming it on the strikes.~OR~The show is rumored to be planned to be released in accordance with the Armor Wars movie, which also no longer has a release date.The Batman 2 - Robin might be showing up here. In THIS universe it will be Dick Grayson and not Damien Wayne. Rumor goes on to repeat the Clayface information we have heard before.Hulk - Savage Hulk is said to be returning to the silver screen. Possibly in Cap 4, Thunderbolts or Avengers: Secret Wars.Snow White - Cancelled?Metroid Prime 4 - New rumor has the game releasing on the Switch in summer of 2024.GTA 6 - Joe Rogan is now being rumored to be the DJ voice on one of the radio stations in the game.Red Dead Redemption - Number 3 in the franchise has just broken ground according to rumor.You can support this show by visiting our merch store, or by leaving us an Apple Podcasts review.

It's time for the Comic Talk Headlines with Generally Nerdy! Some big announcements around Star Trek Day. Tons of new music. Netflix's He-Man gets a prequel comic. And PLENTY more...Tune in Wednesdays for the regular show. Plus, don't forget to subscribe for more fresh MusicFollow-ups/CorrectionsBillion Streams - Nothing Else Matters is the most recent song to cross the threshold.New Music/VideoGwar - Tammy the Swine Queen https://youtu.be/TbrG6zPU4Jw The final recording from Oderus Urungus. From the 10 year anniversary re-release of “Battle Maximus” which itself was a tribute to another fallen Scumdog.Oliver Anthony - 90 some Chevy https://youtu.be/KKYEbPFvxyg Rick Astley - Never Gonna Stop https://youtu.be/qWNQUvIk954 WOW… that's some soul.Dax - Oliver Anthony "Rich Men North Of Richmond" Remix - https://youtu.be/KYXgxhyAiwk Dax is just damn good!Oliver Tree - Essence (feat. Super Computer) - https://youtu.be/9mAeFNERZoI strangely heart-felt song from pop's screwball.Timbaland, Nelly Furtado, Justin Timberlake - Keep Going Up https://youtu.be/feqIQcNuRV4 Tours/FestivalsBastardane - Support from Fury in Few. Oct 5 in Atlanta through Oct 14 in Savannah. Mostly through the south. https://www.bastardane.com/tour The Hu - Oct 9 in San Francisco through Oct 26 in Phoenix. No support announced yet. https://www.thehuofficial.com/tour-1?fbclid=IwAR2DCOeuTGGZKgm0Rq9v0dfpQtq6F1UqdWmrjGiLi3EXS-ESe3DdtbLNUyE Slaughter to Prevail - Nov 2 in Riverside CA through Nov 24 in Santa Cruz CA. No support announced yet. https://www.stp-tour.com/?fbclid=IwAR1vPuuGTySDoGsRGeJqaekHP8x4OuBB4TvCV69E0RKztOkvstSkM4Ikal4 Reg ‘ol NewsJimmy Buffet - passed at the age of 76. Undisclosed illness. Seemed sudden. Though it was Merkel Cell skin cancer, which the singer songwriter had apparently been fighting for some time. https://loudwire.com/jimmy-buffett-died-76/ Smash Mouth - Singer Steve Harwell passed at 56. Liver failure from alcohol abuse.Rolling Stones - STILL working on new music? The band has teased a new song titled “Don't Get Angry with Me.” New material is the first since drummer Charlie Watts passed in 2021. Also the first collection of new material in almost 20 years.https://www.dontgetangrywithme.com/ https://youtu.be/3Vm7FUjIbQU SuggestsSlipknot (self-titled) - is the debut studio album by American heavy metal band Slipknot. It was released on June 29, 1999, by Roadrunner Records, following a demo containing a few of the songs which had previously been released in 1998.[4] Later, it was reissued in December 1999 with a slightly-altered track listing and mastering as the result of a lawsuit. It was the first release by the band to be produced by Ross Robinson, who sought to refine Slipknot's sound rather than alter the group's musical direction. This is the only album to feature original guitarist Josh Brainard who left at the end of recording in late 1998 while the band was taking a brief break. Jim Root, who recorded two tracks at this point, would appear full time on subsequent albums starting with their self-titled album.Gaming/TechTrailersG.I. Joe: Wrath of Cobra - https://youtu.be/NGYKN3559pI Announce trailer for a Steam game that is whole-heartedly embracing the 80s. It is an arcade brawler.Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines 2 - https://youtu.be/D6b6LGubq6I Risen from the dead as it were. New developing studios in Dear Esther, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, and The Chinese Room. Now set for a fall 2024 release.Suggestshttps://www.youtube.com/@johnnylikens Comic Books/BooksReg ‘ol NewsStar Trek - The Animated Celebration Presents The Scheimer Barrier. New comic published by IDW. To debut alongside the Short Treks animated series on Sept 8 through StarTrek.com. Subsequent issues will be released weekly. Physical copies set to be released at NYCC in October.He-Man - New Masters of the Universe book has been announced at Dark Horse. Forge of Destiny will be written by Tim Seeley and have art by Eddie Nunez. The book is going to be a prequel to the Netflix animated series and be on shelves Sept 6th.https://comicbook.com/comics/news/dark-horse-reveals-masters-of-the-universe-forge-of-destiny-first-look-preview-exclusive/#1 SuggestsScott Pilgrim - a series of graphic novels by Canadian author and comic book artist Bryan Lee O'Malley. The series is about Scott Pilgrim, a slacker and part-time musician who lives in Toronto, Ontario, and plays bass ‍in a band. He falls in love with American delivery girl Ramona Flowers, but must defeat her seven evil exes[1] in order to date her in peace.TV ShowsFollow-ups/CorrectionsMCU shake-up: Loki Season 2 — Oct.6 (unchanged)What If…? S2 — Christmas 2023Echo — Jan. 2024X-Men '97 — early 2024Agatha: Darkhold Diaries — early fall 2024Ironheart — undatedDaredevil: Born Again — filming on pause / undatedWonder Man — filming on pause / undatedhttps://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/marvel-tv-show-release-dates-1235580093/ The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon - premiere Sunday Sept 10 on AMC and AMC+My Adventures with Superman - season 2 announced https://twitter.com/swimpedia/status/1697467756596121841 Tiny Toons Looniversity - premieres Friday Sept 8 on Max.How I Met Your Father - Canceled after just 2 seasons.Monarch: Legacy of Monsters - Set to go up on Apple TV+ in November. https://comicbook.com/anime/news/monarch-legacy-of-monsters-release-godzilla/ TrailersStar Trek: Very Short Treks - https://youtu.be/ZqyNGYHfP-0 5 shorts celebrating 50 years of the animated series. Debuting on Star Trek day, Sept 8, on StarTrek.com and the official Star Trek YouTube channel. With the subsequent episodes launching Wednesdays from there. There will also be fan screenings of Lower Decks offered in Columbus, Dallas, Denver, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Diego, St. Louis, Washington D.C., Vancouver, Calgary, and London. Time frame unclear.SuggestsMetalocalypse - an American adult animated television series created by Brendon Small and Tommy Blacha for Adult Swim. It premiered on August 6, 2006, followed by a musical one-hour special, Metalocalypse: The Doomstar Requiem, as well as a movie Metalocalypse: Army of the Doomstar on October 27, 2013. The television program centers on the larger-than-life melodic death metal band Dethklok, and often portrays dark and macabre content, including such subjects as violence, death, and the drawbacks of fame, with hyperbolic black comedy. The show was widely heralded as both a parody and a pastiche of heavy metal culture.MoviesFollow-ups/CorrectionsWinnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey - sequel in the works, with a recast Christopher Robin. https://twitter.com/poohbandh/status/1698185500018741579 TrailersWhat Happens Later - https://youtu.be/zceSigCGWSQ New rom com with David Duchovny and Meg Ryan. Oct 13Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls - https://youtu.be/KbS6l7PTDXQ Bowser Vids. Oct 19. Fathom events. https://www.fathomevents.com/events/Onyx-the-Fortuitous-and-the-Talisman-of-Souls Mary Had a Little Lamb - https://youtu.be/fEk5WsjMDGA Dual release on Oct 3. No One Will Save You - https://youtu.be/IcA02w6rm44 Streaming on Hulu Sept 22. Alien Horror movie.Three Blind Mice - https://youtu.be/_qj9VpQ8ztE SuggestsIron Man - a 2008 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Paramount Pictures,[a] it is the first film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Directed by Jon Favreau from a screenplay by the writing teams of Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, and Art Marcum and Matt Holloway, the film stars Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark / Iron Man alongside Terrence Howard, Jeff Bridges, Gwyneth Paltrow, Leslie Bibb, and Shaun Toub. In the film, following his escape from captivity by a terrorist group, world-famous industrialist and master engineer Tony Stark builds a mechanized suit of armor and becomes the superhero Iron Man.Rumor MillConfirmations/RefutationsAgatha: Darkhold DiariesNew RumorsIronheart - series rumored to have been canceled even though shooting has finished. Disney is said to be blaming it on the strikes.~OR~The show is rumored to be planned to be released in accordance with the Armor Wars movie, which also no longer has a release date.The Batman 2 - Robin might be showing up here. In THIS universe it will be Dick Grayson and not Damien Wayne. Rumor goes on to repeat the Clayface information we have heard before.Hulk - Savage Hulk is said to be returning to the silver screen. Possibly in Cap 4, Thunderbolts or Avengers: Secret Wars.Snow White - Cancelled?Metroid Prime 4 - New rumor has the game releasing on the Switch in summer of 2024.GTA 6 - Joe Rogan is now being rumored to be the DJ voice on one of the radio stations in the game.Red Dead Redemption - Number 3 in the franchise has just broken ground according to rumor.You can support this show by visiting our merch store, or by leaving us an Apple Podcasts review.

*Please note, this show is no longer in live production. Any live shows advertised within the episode have already concluded.   From University Theater at UCAL - Riverside with host Richard Sher Stereo Left: Carolyn Faye Fox, Arnie Reisman, Paula Lyons Stereo Right: Doug Palau, Sabrina Wind, Nat Segaloff Music: Perla Batalla   Rounds Played: Round 1: Definitions and Derivations Round 2: Bluff (blickey) Round 3: By Their Works, Yee... Round 4: Bluff (reast) Round 5: The Meaning of Tingo

Hello to you Tania Marien of Talaterra listening in Riverside, California where we trust you are safely on the other side of the recent tropical storm!Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Time Out Tuesday and your host, Diane Wyzga.My friend and colleague Tania Marien of Talaterra wrote the following piece on trust in her blog. I was so moved by her words I wanted to share them with you (with attribution).  TRUST“Operating a sustainable endeavor involves more than products, customers, and sales.It's also about trusting yourself.Trust yourself with what exactly?How about:   Trusting yourself to know when to distinguish between free and generous.   Trusting yourself to navigate trust in your relationships.   Trusting your point-of-view more.   Trusting your experience more.   Trusting your body of work more.   Trusting your instincts more.   Trusting yourself to tell your story.   Trusting yourself to navigate change.   Trusting yourself to know the difference between what's now and what's next.None of us travels alone.” ~ Tania MarienQuestion: Whom will you thank today for teaching you about the wisdom of self-trust? You're always invited: “Come for the stories - stay for the magic!” Speaking of magic, would you subscribe, share a 5-star rating + nice review on your social media or podcast channel of choice, and join us next time!Meanwhile, stop by my Quarter Moon Story Arts website to:✓ Check out What I Offer,✓ Arrange your free Story Start-up Session,✓ Opt In to my monthly NewsAudioLetter for bonus gift, valuable tips & techniques to enhance your story work, and✓ Stay current with Diane and on LinkedIn.Stories From Women Who Walk Production TeamPodcaster: Diane F Wyzga & Quarter Moon Story ArtsMusic: Mer's Waltz from Crossing the Waters by Steve Schuch & Night Heron MusicAll content and image © 2019 to Present Quarter Moon Story Arts. All rights reserved.

Megan Holiday is a radio personality on KROQ Monday-Friday at 2-6pm in Los Angeles. She shares how her career was impacted by her addiction and how sobriety allows her to continue to do what she loves and spread positivity on and off the air. On this episode, Megan talks to Matt about: Growing up around Riverside CA and the shock of witnessing her brother get hit by a drunk driver as a kid Her love of music and her journey discovering different styles How she got her start in radio and how drug use derailed her career Going in and out of rehabs and sober living houses until the death of a friend scared her into getting help Getting a second chance in radio at KROQ and being open about her recovery The amazing interviews and events she has participated in Being of service and starting a new nonprofit, Life of the Party, which helps battle addiction and prevent overdose deaths Advocating for mental health and trying to be a positive influence The many different ways to be healthy and how everyone must find their own balance And More! This episode is sponsored by The Salvation Army Adult Rehabilitation Centers – one of the oldest residential drug and alcohol rehab programs. ARC is a non-profit and was hit hard financially as a result of COVID. For more information, and to donate or sign up for their quarterly newsletter, visit thechanceto.org. About Megan Holiday Megan Holiday has been obsessed with music for as long as she can remember and her record collection varies from Motown and The Beatles to Nirvana and Post Malone. She loved singing lessons and acting in musicals as a kid which later translated to emo hair and sweaty pop punk shows in high school. Megan always had a love affair with listening to radio and it was when she first attended a local radio summer concert in college that she realized she could harness that passion into a career. Just two years later, she made that dream a full-circle reality and began her first on-air gig. From the first moment Megan cracked the microphone she knew that broadcasting was her calling in life. It was the element of getting to connect with people that drew her in the most. After all of these years, her passion and love for radio grows stronger every day.   In addition to her on-air responsibilities, Megan has hosted live concerts and events. She's also interviewed globally recognized talents including Coldplay, Beck, Jack White, and Panic! at the Disco. She also expanded her skillset into podcasting with her “7 Words” podcast, where she discusses how guests like Emile Hirsch, Margaret Cho, Brandon Jenner, and more manifested their dreams into reality.   With many years of sobriety under her belt, Megan focuses on her recovery as a top priority and is an advocate for addiction and mental health awareness. She also loves spending time with her family and her dog Juno, being involved in community service, horseback riding, and attends as many concerts as humanly possible. Ultimately, Megan believes that if she has made one person smile, whether it's during their commute or at an event, she has done her job.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

*Please note, this show is no longer in live production. Any live shows advertised within the episode have already concluded.   From University Theater at UCAL - Riverside with host Richard Sher Stereo Left: Carolyn Faye Fox, Arnie Reisman, Paula Lyons Stereo Right: Doug Palau, Sabrina Wind, Nat Segaloff Music: Perla Batalla   Rounds Played: Round 1: Odd Man Out Round 2: Bluff (fitch) Round 3: Trick Plays Round 4: Bluff (niff) Round 5: 2 Letter Words

We kick off the first hour. Deep house vibes with some minimal flavors. On the second hour we have a groovy tech house set from Inland Empire DJ 9OH!9. From La Familia Collective. Currently holding residencies out in Riverside California at The Hideaway Lounge and Brooks Bar respectively.

In this episode Arnel and Tony give a Lenten Retreat Presentation at St Catherine of Alexandria in Riverside California.  Using the podcast as a forum to share the faith, Arnel and Tony share in this episode the conversation they had with the teens of St. Catherine's and responded to questions they had.Like, subscribe and recommend to a friend. Contact us at catholic.dad50@gmail.com. If you would like to help our podcast, you can be a patron on our Patreon page, or you may make a donation on our paypal or venmo @CatholicDotDad.Support the show - http://www.patreon.com/ThisConnectedFOLLOW on Instagram:@catholic.dad  &  @minitangledBook your stay at the cabin, Running Springs, CAInstagram: @thecabin2021Support the showYour blessing of support is needed and appreciated: https://www.patreon.com/ThisConnected

Deladeso is the art persona created by Richie Velazquez. Based out of Riverside California, he has been developing his Digital Death and Grime art aesthetic since 2012. As the originator of grime art, he pays homage to those that have molded himself into the Spookek that he is today!

How do we gain resilience? In this episode Lynn Power, CEO of MASAMI (https://www.lovemasami.com/)  and Conscious Beauty Collective (https://www.instagram.com/consciousbeautycollectiveshop/) , and I dive deep into a real, raw and vulnerable conversation. From the mental state to push through breast cancer, to reasons why some women get breast cancer who don't have the gene, from doctors calling metformin the longevity drug to what's in our water? To understand why friends disappear when someone gets sick or there has been a death? To reveal how little self-awareness is the root cause of all the pain and suffering. To higher EQ relating to more resilience, more tolerance for stress and better relationships. And even while we dive through all this, Lynn's puppies joined us throughout the episode, creating a light and joyful experience as we discussed these moments we will all face in our lives. Conscious Beauty Collective Pop up store in Riverside California from April 1st to end of June.  Stay tuned to the end of the episode to find out how you can join the conversation on the Get To Know You Café. FREE gift11 Proven Ways to Deepen All Your Relationships in 2023https://marvelous-motivator-553.ck.page/970e52cf51CreditsMusic- Sara Oliveira Support the show

Episode 130 is about the Murder of Crystal Theobold.  Crystal was the subject of the Netflix Documentary Why Did You Kill me?  She was a 24-year-old woman that lived in Riverside California, she was loved by her family and many friends.  One night, she left to go to the store and was shot dead in her car in the middle of what seemed to be a gang shoutout.  Her mother vowed to catch her killer, along with her cousin they used a popular social media site to hunt down the man who murdered their beloved Crystal.

https://youtu.be/IqdYElyeDJ0 Who am I without my spouse? Join Dr's Gloria and Heidi Horsley and their guest Jill Johnson LCSW for a lively discussion of societies expectations for those who have lost a partner. She co-founded Central Counseling Services in Riverside California and is the author of The Rebellious Widow: A practical guide to love and loss.

WELCOME HOME! AND MERRY CHRISTMAS!At Relevant Church we Gather around Christ, Grow in Community and Go to the Culture. LEARN MORE: http://relevant316.com SUBSCRIBE:  @RelevantChurchRiverside  FOLLOW US: ►► Instagram: https://instagram.com/relevantriverside ►► Facebook: https://facebook.com/relevantriverside GIVE: To support our growth and global impact click here: https://bit.ly/rivgivenow ABOUT RELEVANT CHURCH: Jonathan + Pauline Bilima are the lead pastors of Relevant Church — a life-giving church in Riverside California. Our heart beats with a passion to build a faith community that gathers around Christ, grows in community, and goes to the culture because JESUS IS RELEVANT.Support the show

You will want to watch this on youtube or spotify!! Guest and miracle worker dentist Dr Mary Afzali from Lifetime Dental in Southern California. She is one of the most highly ranked Fast Braces providers in the world. She can do expansion cases in 5-12 months! And for some cases in as little as 90 days. Many people will come to her with pain of the jaws, or have been told surgery is their only option but they are looking for alternatives. She will show us the most fun part, her cases! You guys are not going to believe it. All while also encouraging bone growth vrs causing root resorption or causing recession from rapid traditional ortho. We will show her class 2 overjet and class 3 under bite cases. Dr Mary Afzali can be found on Instagram @Doctor.Afzali and her locations in Southern California are Lifetime Dental of Lake Forest in Orange County, Rancho Cucamonga, San Bernardino, Riverside California. The Spots for Tots Course: Join us to learn more about how to navigate toddler sleep, tongue ties, feeding and bodywork, myofunctional exercises and more. Here is the site: https://spotfortots.mykajabi.com/ The Spots for Tots Course Includes: Habit Elimination Program Pre and Post Op Tongue Tie Protocols Myofunctional and Breathing Exercises To Do At Home Education for Identifying Signs and Symptoms for Oral Dysfunction and Tongue Ties Sleep Hygiene and Tips for Success for Toddlers Advice on Feeding, Drinking, and Body Work to Guide Growth and Development How to Find the Right Team for Your Toddler You'll receive clarity for what tongue ties are, support in navigating your toddler's symptoms, tools to create long term habits for success with your child's growth and development. To get a virtual consult for $25 off with Megan Van Noy www.orofacial-myology.com or Megan@nwmyofunctionaltherapy.com or Instagram @NWMFT To get a virtual consult for $25 off with Kimi Nishimoto contact her www.mouthmusclememory.com or email mouthmusclememory@outlook.com or Instagram @MouthMuscleMemory To follow us on Instagram @TheMunchBunchPodcast --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/munchbunch/support

WELCOME HOME! At Relevant Church we Gather around Christ, Grow in Community and Go to the Culture. LEARN MORE: http://relevant316.com SUBSCRIBE:  @RelevantChurchRiverside  FOLLOW US: ►► Instagram: https://instagram.com/relevantriverside ►► Facebook: https://facebook.com/relevantriverside GIVE: To support our growth and global impact click here: https://bit.ly/rivgivenow ABOUT RELEVANT CHURCH: Jonathan + Pauline Bilima are the lead pastors of Relevant Church — a life-giving church in Riverside California. Our heart beats with a passion to build a faith community that gathers around Christ, grows in community, and goes to the culture because JESUS IS RELEVANT.Support the show

You will want to watch this on youtube or spotify!! Guest and miracle worker dentist Dr Mary Afzali from Lifetime Dental in Southern California. She is one of the most highly ranked Fast Braces providers in the world. She can do expansion cases in 5-12 months! Many people will come to her with pain of the jaws, or have been told surgery is their only option. She will teach us about the difference between Fast Braces and traditional braces, and the case against doing bicuspid extractions. But the most fun part is she shows us her cases, and you guys are not going to believe it. There is so much amazing content we split this into 2 parts. Dr Mary Afzali can be found on Instagram @Doctor.Afzali and her locations in Southern California are Lifetime Dental of Lake Forest in Orange County, Rancho Cucamonga, San Bernardino, Riverside California. The Spots for Tots Course: Join us to learn more about how to navigate toddler sleep, tongue ties, feeding and bodywork, myofunctional exercises and more. Here is the site: https://spotfortots.mykajabi.com/The Spots for Tots Course Includes: Habit Elimination Program Pre and Post Op Tongue Tie Protocols Myofunctional and Breathing Exercises To Do At Home Education for Identifying Signs and Symptoms for Oral Dysfunction and Tongue Ties Sleep Hygiene and Tips for Success for Toddlers Advice on Feeding, Drinking, and Body Work to Guide Growth and Development How to Find the Right Team for Your Toddler You'll receive clarity for what tongue ties are, support in navigating your toddler's symptoms, tools to create long term habits for success with your child's growth and development. To get a virtual consult for $25 off with Kimi Nishimoto contact her www.mouthmusclememory.com or email mouthmusclememory@outlook.com or Instagram @MouthMuscleMemory To get a virtual consult for $25 off with Megan Van Noy www.orofacial-myology.com or Megan@nwmyofunctionaltherapy.com or Instagram @NWMFT To follow us on Instagram @TheMunchBunchPodcast --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/munchbunch/support

WELCOME HOME! At Relevant Church we Gather around Christ, Grow in Community and Go to the Culture. LEARN MORE: http://relevant316.com SUBSCRIBE:  @RelevantChurchRiverside  FOLLOW US: ►► Instagram: https://instagram.com/relevantriverside ►► Facebook: https://facebook.com/relevantriverside GIVE: To support our growth and global impact click here: https://bit.ly/rivgivenow ABOUT RELEVANT CHURCH: Jonathan + Pauline Bilima are the lead pastors of Relevant Church — a life-giving church in Riverside California. Our heart beats with a passion to build a faith community that gathers around Christ, grows in community, and goes to the culture because JESUS IS RELEVANT.Support the show

WELCOME HOME. WE LOVE YOU ALREADY. Relevant Church is not canceled, we are CONNECTED. ►► Subscribe to Our Channel. #thisisRelevant #RelevantChurch #JesusIsRelevant LEARN MORE: http://relevant316.com GIVE: To support our growth and global impact click here: https://bit.ly/rivgivenow FOLLOW US: ►► Instagram: https://instagram.com/relevantriverside ►► Facebook: https://facebook.com/relevantriverside ABOUT RELEVANT CHURCH: Jonathan + Pauline Bilima are the lead pastors of Relevant Church — a life-giving church in Riverside California. Our heart beats with a passion to build a faith community that gathers around Christ, grows in community, and goes to the culture because JESUS IS RELEVANT.Support the show (http://www.relevant316.com/give)Support the show

WELCOME HOME. WE LOVE YOU ALREADY. Relevant Church is not canceled, we are CONNECTED. ►► Subscribe to Our Channel. #thisisRelevant #RelevantChurch #JesusIsRelevant LEARN MORE: http://relevant316.com GIVE: To support our growth and global impact click here: https://bit.ly/rivgivenow FOLLOW US: ►► Instagram: https://instagram.com/relevantriverside ►► Facebook: https://facebook.com/relevantriverside ABOUT RELEVANT CHURCH: Jonathan + Pauline Bilima are the lead pastors of Relevant Church — a life-giving church in Riverside California. Our heart beats with a passion to build a faith community that gathers around Christ, grows in community, and goes to the culture because JESUS IS RELEVANT.Support the show (http://www.relevant316.com/give)Support the show

In 1994, Gloria Ramirez was a 31 year old woman with cervical cancer in Riverside CA.During an emergency hospital visit, medical staff started exhibiting strange symptoms. What happened to cause Gloria's death and the symptoms of those around her.Sources, Socials, Patreon & Merch: http://linktr.ee/deepdarktruthpod

Ellen L of Riverside California tells her story at the 2014 Gopher State Roundup. NSFW Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate AA EVENT: Southern States Womens Conference: January 27-29, 2023 - Location: Jacksonville, FL. Fabulous speakers from all over the country bring their message on each step. Fun and high energy in the beautiful state of Florida. Details: https://southernstateswomensconference.org If you have an AA roundup, retreat or convention coming up, we would be happy to give you a shout out and list the event on the Sober Cast website. Visit our Linktree, click "Submit An AA Event" and fill out the short form. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/sobercast Sober Cast has 2000+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search. https://sobercast.com

Ethan and special guest UHJeff Nucera review the September 13, 2022 “Weird Al” Yankovic concert at Fox Performing Arts Center in Riverside, California from The Unfortunate Return Of The Ridiculously Self-Indulgent Ill-Advised Vanity Tour.

Mike S from Riverside CA speaking on the topic of Steps 6 and 7 at Woodstock West held in LA California in May of 2019. Repost. Email: sobercast@gmail.com Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate We have added a page of meetings that have moved online https://sobercast.com/online-meetings Sober Cast has 1900+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search.

Bomani Jones shares his thoughts on the unceremonious way that the Lakers have parted ways with coach Frank Vogel (0:53), Tiger Woods' performance at The Masters (13:05), and Steelers QB Dwayne Haskins' passing (18:31). Plus, an IYHH including Amazon workers on Staten Island voting to unionize (28:30), and your voicemails from the “worst” take that you have, sports or otherwise (36:20)! IYHH Stories @andrea_c_hsu shares that Amazon workers on Staten Island have voted for a union: https://n.pr/3E6uMjl @AlexWilkins22 shares that a robot made of magnetic slime could grab objects inside your body: https://bit.ly/3LQDeWw @joshpcain shares that a Riverside CA man was sentenced for buying Coachella tickets and more with company credit card: https://bit.ly/3v4Xg98

Dr. Barb Blasko is a clinical professor of emergency medicine at Riverside Community Hospital in Riverside California, as well as the founder of ShowMD where she provides onsite urgent care and concierge medical services for the equestrian community. With over thirty years of experience in the equine word, Dr. Barb understands the best ways to support riders being a competitive rider herself and by the use of her available medical station. The ShowMD station includes several medical amenities such has diagnostic tools, lab services and more. Listen in!