Podcasts about San Fernando

"Por su origen como especies del desierto, los felinos tienden a consumir poca agua, por lo que con el tiempo son más propensos a desarrollar problemas renales”, dice la MVZ Esther Charles, médico veterinario del área de Servicios Científicos de Mars. Tristemente, estas enfermedades avanzan de forma silenciosa. Por lo que hay que estar atentos a las señales que nos alertan de un posible problema. La MVZ Charles, explica cómo ayuda la alimentación a la prevención de este padecimiento, que desde jóvenes debemos monitorear a nuestros gatos y lo que podemos hacer para prevenir esta enfermedad.Diana Arredondo, fundadora de Catacumberitos, colectivo de vecinos de la colonia Guerrero y cuidadores de los gatitos ferales del panteón San Fernando, ha enfrentado muchos obstáculos para poderse hacer cargo de los felinos del panteón. Entre estos, el que al principio se le negó la entrada al lugar para poder alimentar y cuidar de los gatos. Después de una serie de gestiones con el gobierno de la ciudad, ha logrado que la dejen hacer su trabajo. Junto con los vecino de la zona se hacen cargo de una colonia de aproximadamente 60 gatitos que alimentan, vacunan, esterilizan y desparasitan. Su activismo es a la vez muy satisfactorio pero difícil por los casos que han tenido que enfrentar. Escucha en lo que consiste su michi misión. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

El 13 de diciembre de 1925 una multitud de trabajadores recorre la distancia entre las organizaciones obreras y el cementerio civil de Madrid acompañando al cadáver de Pablo Iglesias Posse, fallecido cuatro días antes. Según la prensa del momento, el entierro del fundador del Partido Socialista Obrero Español y de la Unión General de Trabajadores fue la mayor manifestación de duelo que se había visto hasta entonces en la ciudad. Acababa así, a los 75 años, la vida del hombre que pilotó en nuestro país el paso del obrerismo del final de la primera Revolución Industrial al incipiente socialismo de la Primera Internacional; un "santo laico", como lo había apodado el filósofo José Ortega y Gasset.Iglesias nació en Ferrol, pero pronto se mudó a Madrid con su madre y hermano pequeño al quedar huérfanos de padre. En el hospicio de San Fernando recibió formación de tipógrafo. Dos años después, ya era un niño obrero expuesto a unas condiciones de trabajo penosas. Consciente de ello, se empezará a organizar en torno a la Asociación del Arte de Imprimir, entidad de la que fue presidente. Ese fue el germen del Partido Obrero, y más tarde Socialista Obrero Español, fundado junto a otra veintena de compañeros. En fechas posteriores vendrían la creación del periódico 'El socialista' y del sindicato. Otros hitos en su biografía son la inauguración de la primera Casa del Pueblo y su entrada en el Congreso de los Diputados en 1910.Este documental, con guion de Juan Ballesteros y diseño sonoro de Miguel Ángel Coleto, cuenta con testimonios de Joan Serrallonga, catedrático emérito de Historia Contemporánea de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; Gustavo Vidal, autor de 'Pablo Iglesias. La vida y la época del fundador del PSOE y UGT'; y María Luisa Carcedo, presidenta de la Fundación Pablo Iglesias. Además, suenan voces de figuras históricas del socialismo español extraídas del Archivo RTVE y textos de Iglesias dramatizados por el actor Víctor Clavijo.Escuchar audio

Gustavo Yurquina: Director de Turismo, San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca, Catamarca.Programa emitido el 07/12/2025Producción y realización: Evangelina Barone y Gerardo Moyano@evangelocutora

Gustavo Yurquina: Director de Turismo, San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca, Catamarca. @evangelocutora

The Snake! Along with previous guests like Don Garlits, Don Prudhomme is one of the pioneers of the modern drag racing scene, coming from modest means in California's San Fernando valley to one of the staple characters of the NHRA as the series grew. Critical to drag racing history, Don is best known as part […]

Desde La Isla de San Fernando traemos a sus artistas. Primero unos tangos de las Callejuelas con Alba Carmona y Jesús Guerrero. Ya que estamos en el barrio de Camarón nos recreamos con sus alegrías y una soleá. Antonio Lizana es otro "cañailla" que hoy se presenta en Madrid junto al pianista de Utrera Andrés Barrios. La actualidad flamenca nos trae hoy a La Tremendita en Granada o Dani Silva en Cáceres. Seguimos con Perrete, Al Blanco con El Peli y terminamos con Yeyé de Cádiz.Escuchar audio

Hoy es el Día del Flamenco y para celebrarlo, recuperamos el programa que dedicamos a Camarón de la Isla en nuestra serie de personajes históricos. Aquella noche, contamos con la colaboración de todos los oyentes, el equipo y un panel de expertos de hasta seis personas como Enrique Montiel, autor de la biografía ‘Camarón: vida o muerte del cante' o Ricardo Pachón, el productor 'La leyenda del tiempo', el disco que rompió los moldes del flamenco, hoy considerado un arte universal. Nieves Concostrina nos habló del panteón en el que Camarón está enterrado, en el Cementerio Municipal de San Fernando, en Cádiz, y la periodista Amelia Castilla recuerda cómo fue cubrir el funeral del cantaor el 2 de julio de 1992. 

En este videopodcast narrado por Triun Arts, te adentrarás en uno de los crímenes más escalofriantes y polémicos de la España reciente: el asesinato de Klara García, un caso que los medios bautizaron como “Las Brujas de San Fernando”. Un crimen que no solo estremeció por su brutalidad, sino también por el debate que reabrió en todo el país sobre la Ley del Menor y las condenas excesivamente leves impuestas a sus autoras. San Fernando (Cádiz), año 2000. Tres amigas adolescentes compartían un vínculo de amistad extraño, marcado por el ocultismo, los celos y una obsesión enfermiza. Se hacían llamar “las brujas”, jugaban con rituales, sangre y promesas de lealtad eterna. Entre ellas, Klara García, una joven extrovertida y soñadora, empezó a distanciarse del grupo. Aquel simple gesto encendió una mecha que terminaría en tragedia. Una noche de abril, fue citada por sus amigas en un descampado. Allí, en medio de la oscuridad y la neblina, dos menores de edad la atacaron salvajemente, convencidas de estar cumpliendo un “pacto” para librarse de una supuesta traición. El cuerpo de Klara fue hallado con múltiples heridas y signos de ensañamiento. La investigación reveló un entramado de celos, manipulación y fanatismo adolescente, pero lo más impactante llegó después: las condenas. Las autoras del crimen —menores de edad en aquel momento— fueron juzgadas bajo la Ley Orgánica de Responsabilidad Penal del Menor, recién reformada en España. El resultado fue demoledor para la opinión pública: penas mínimas de internamiento, que no superaron los ocho años. A los pocos años, ambas recuperaron la libertad. Y ahí estalló la polémica: ¿puede un crimen tan brutal quedar prácticamente impune solo por la edad de sus autoras? Este caso se convirtió en uno de los símbolos del debate sobre la Ley del Menor, una norma que muchos consideraron injusta ante delitos tan atroces. El eco mediático fue inmenso: tertulias, portadas, manifestaciones, cartas de los padres de Klara y un país entero que discutía los límites de la justicia. ️ En este episodio, analizamos: Cómo nació el grupo de “las brujas” y su fascinación por el ocultismo. El desarrollo del crimen y la investigación policial. Las declaraciones estremecedoras de las agresoras. Las condenas dictadas por la Audiencia de Cádiz y el impacto social posterior. El debate nacional sobre la reforma de la Ley del Menor y su aplicación en este caso. El destino final de las implicadas y el recuerdo de Klara, víctima de una tragedia absurda. Este no es solo un crimen adolescente. Es un reflejo de cómo la sociedad y la ley se enfrentan al mal cuando el mal tiene rostro de menor. Una historia real que sigue doliendo más de dos décadas después, y que sigue generando preguntas incómodas: ¿Puede la edad borrar la culpa? ¿Dónde acaba la rehabilitación y empieza la impunidad? ¿Qué aprendimos del crimen de Klara García? ️ Triun Arts te narra este caso con el rigor y la emoción que caracteriza a los grandes relatos del true crime. Suscríbete si te apasionan las historias reales, los juicios mediáticos y los crímenes que marcaron la historia reciente de España. #TrueCrime #TriunArts #LeyDelMenor #BrujasDeSanFernando #KlaraGarcía #CrimenEspaña #CasosReales #CrimenesReales #PodcastTrueCrime #JusticiaEspaña #CrímenesDeMenores #TrueCrimeEspaña #CrimenJuvenil Ya puedes comprar nuestro libro Daniel Sancho "Toda la verdad y nada más que la verdad" en cualquier LIBRERÍA DE ESPAÑA o en AMAZON en el siguiente enlace: https://amzn.to/3WHJWWR No olvides visitar nuestra nueva Página web: https://triunarts.com/

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The city of Los Angeles came together to celebrate the Dodgers World Series win at Dodgers Stadium. Malibu officials will vote on a plan to repave the Pacific Coast Highway. We learn how San Fernando avoided being incorporated into Los Angeles. Plus, more from Evening Edition. Support The L.A. Report by donating at LAist.com/join and by visiting https://laist.comThis LAist podcast is supported by Amazon Autos. Buying a car used to be a whole day affair. Now, at Amazon Autos, you can shop for a new, used, or certified pre-owned car whenever, wherever. You can browse hundreds of vehicles from top local dealers, all in one place. Amazon.com/autosVisit 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

Sabrina Carpenter con "Manchild" suena en 'Buenos días, Javi y Mar', el programa que ofrece 45 minutos de música sin interrupción en CADENA 100. Luego, suena música variada, incluyendo éxitos sobre amor y desamor, y el clásico "Golden" de Harry Styles. Manolo García interpreta "San Fernando". A continuación, Coldplay con "Fix You" (mencionada como "We Pray") y música francesa también amenizan la mañana. Manuel Turizo trae la bachata. En 'Buenos días, Javi y Mar', se debate sobre las preferencias culinarias de artistas como Aitana (prefiere la sopa), David Bisbal (optaría por rollitos de primavera) y Harry Styles (prefiere el cuscús con verduras y especias). Se anuncian 45 minutos más de música sin interrupción. Se promociona HSN para fortalecer el sistema inmune y los planes de pensiones de Mapfre. Viajes El Corte Inglés ofrece ofertas. Leroy Merlin y Teddy presentan promociones de productos. Coti comparte su pasión por la música en una entrevista. Se presentan ofertas de Movistar y ...

Don Juan Tenorio en el cementerio San Fernando en Sevilla, respiración consciente en Madrid y Retrat d'una ferida en el Ateneo de Picaña.

Local food banks have stepped up ahead of SNAP food benefits losing federal funding this weekend. A Dodgers double play in the ninth inning of Game 6 has forced a World Series 7th and final game between the Dodgers and Blue Jays. The history of the oldest town in the San Fernando Valley, the city of San Fernando. Plus, more. Support The L.A. Report by donating at LAist.com/join and by visiting https://laist.com Visit 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

¿Alguna vez viste un cementerio como un museo? En este video, exploramos una perspectiva única: los panteones de México como archivos históricos vivientes que guardan los secretos de nuestra arte, urbanismo y memoria colectiva.Acompaña a la historiadora Paloma Monte Silva, creadora del proyecto "México Funerario", en un recorrido fascinante donde descubrirás:* Por qué los cementerios son "la ciudad que se fue" y cómo rastrean nuestro pasado.* El significado oculto del arte y la simbología en las tumbas del siglo XIX.* El gran debate: ¿El turismo en estos espacios valora o banaliza nuestro patrimonio?* La sorprendente evolución de los entierros en atrios a las grandes necrópolis, impulsada por epidemias.* Las leyendas vs. la historia y el desafío de divulgar con rigor sin perder el interés.Desde el Panteón de San Fernando en CDMX hasta el de Belén en Guadalajara, descubre por qué preservar estos espacios es fundamental para entender nuestra identidad.¿Te gusta la historia, el arte y las tradiciones de México? ¡Este episodio es para ti!Así como una hoja en el viento, estas son ideas transmitidas a la memoria.#CultivamosMemoriasSíguenos en nuestras redes socialesLibreta Negra MxTW: https://twitter.com/LibretaNegraMxFB: https://www.facebook.com/LibretaNegraMx/IG: https://www.instagram.com/libretanegramx/ Apóyanos para continuar la labor de difusión y divulgación cultural.Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=NCGTRH8N57XFEKo-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/libretanegramxPatreon: https://patreon.com/LibretaNegraMx?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_link#LaHojaSuelta #Podcast #Cultura #DivulgaciónConAlma #Arte #Museos #PatrimonioFunerario

Entrevista a Monchi, presidente del San Fernando. MundoMaldini.

What does it take to keep your voice—and your purpose—strong through every season of life? In this episode of Unstoppable Mindset, I sit down with my friend Bill Ratner, one of Hollywood's most recognized voice actors, best known as Flint from GI Joe. Bill's voice has carried him through radio, animation, and narration, but what stands out most is how he's used that same voice to serve others through storytelling, teaching, and grief counseling. Together, we explore the heart behind his work—from bringing animated heroes to life to standing on The Moth stage and helping people find healing through poetry. Bill shares lessons from his own journey, including losing both parents early, finding family in unexpected places, and discovering how creative expression can rebuild what life breaks down. We also reflect on 9/11, preparedness, and the quiet confidence that comes from trusting your training—whether you're a first responder, a performer, or just navigating the unknown. This conversation isn't just about performance; it's about presence. It's about using your story, your craft, and your compassion to keep moving forward—unstoppable, one voice at a time. Highlights: 00:31 – Hear the Flint voice and what it takes to bring animated characters to life. 06:57 – Learn why an uneven college path still led to a lifelong acting career. 11:50 – Understand how GI Joe became a team and a toy phenomenon that shaped culture. 15:58 – See how comics and cartoons boosted classroom literacy when used well. 17:06 – Pick up simple ways parents can spark reading through shared stories. 19:29 – Discover how early, honest conversations about death can model resilience. 24:09 – Learn to critique ads and media like a pro to sharpen your own performance. 36:19 – Follow the pivot from radio to voiceover and why specialization pays. 47:48 – Hear practical editing approaches and accessible tools that keep shows tight. 49:38 – Learn how The Moth builds storytelling chops through timed, judged practice. 55:21 – See how poetry—and poetry therapy—support grief work with students. 59:39 – Take notes on memoir writing, emotional management, and one-person shows. About the Guest: Bill Ratner is one of America's best known voice actors and author of poetry collections Lamenting While Doing Laps in the Lake (Slow Lightning Lit 2024,) Fear of Fish (Alien Buddha Press 2021,) To Decorate a Casket (Finishing Line Press 2021,) and the non-fiction book Parenting For The Digital Age: The Truth Behind Media's Effect On Children and What To Do About It (Familius Books 2014.) He is a 9-time winner of the Moth StorySLAM, 2-time winner of Best of The Hollywood Fringe Extension Award for Solo Performance, Best of the Net Poetry Nominee 2023 (Lascaux Review,) and New Millennium "America One Year From Now" Writing Award Finalist. His writing appears in Best Small Fictions 2021 (Sonder Press,) Missouri Review (audio,) Baltimore Review, Chiron Review, Feminine Collective, and other journals. He is the voice of "Flint" in the TV cartoon G.I. Joe, "Donnell Udina" in the computer game Mass Effect, the voice of Air Disasters on Smithsonian Channel, NewsNation, and network TV affiliates across the country. He is a committee chair for his union, SAG-AFTRA, teaches Voiceovers for SAG-AFTRA Foundation, Media Awareness for Los Angeles Unified School District, and is a trained grief counsellor. Member: Actors Equity Association, Screen Actors Guild-AFTRA, National Storytelling Network • https://billratner.com • @billratner Ways to connect with Bill: https://soundcloud.com/bill-ratner https://www.instagram.com/billratner/ https://twitter.com/billratner https://www.threads.net/@billratner https://billratner.tumblr.com https://www.youtube.com/@billratner/videos https://www.facebook.com/billratner.voiceover.author https://bsky.app/profile/bilorat.bsky.social 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! 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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 ** 01:21 Well on a gracious hello to you, wherever you may be, I am your host. Mike hingson, and you are listening to unstoppable mindset. Today, we get to have a voice actor, person, Bill Ratner, who you want to know who Bill Radnor is, go back and watch the old GI Joe cartoons and listen to the voice of Flint.   Bill Ratner ** 01:42 All right. Lady Jay, you better get your battle gear on, because Cobra is on their way. And I can't bring up the Lacher threat weapon system. We got to get out of here. Yo, Joe,   Michael Hingson ** 01:52 there you go. I rest my case Well, Bill, welcome to unstoppable mindset.   Bill Ratner ** 02:00 We can't rest now. Michael, we've just begun. No, we've just begun.   Michael Hingson ** 02:04 We got to keep going here. Well, I'm really glad that you're here. Bill is another person who we inveigled to get on unstoppable mindset with the help of Walden Hughes. And so that means we can talk about Walden all we want today. Bill just saying, oh goodness. And I got a lot to say. Let me tell you perfect, perfect. Bring it on. So we are really grateful to Walden, although I hope he's not listening. We don't want to give him a big head. But no, seriously, we're really grateful. Ah, good point.   Bill Ratner ** 02:38 But his posture, oddly enough, is perfect.   Michael Hingson ** 02:40 Well, there you go. What do you do? He practiced. Well, anyway, we're glad you're here. Tell us about the early bill, growing up and all that stuff. It's always fun to start a good beginning.   Bill Ratner ** 02:54 Well, I was a very lucky little boy. I was born in Des Moines, Iowa in 1947 to two lovely people, professionals, both with master's degree out at University of Chicago. My mother was a social worker. My father had an MBA in business. He was managing editor of Better Homes and Gardens magazine. So I had the joy of living in a better home and living in a garden.   Michael Hingson ** 03:21 My mother. How long were you in Des Moines?   Bill Ratner ** 03:24 Five and a half years left before my sixth birthday. My dad got a fancy job at an ad agency in Minneapolis, and had a big brother named Pete and big handsome, curly haired boy with green eyes. And moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, and was was brought up there.   Michael Hingson ** 03:45 Wow. So you went to school there and and chased the girls and all that stuff.   Bill Ratner ** 03:54 I went to school there at Blake School for Boys in Hopkins, Minnesota. Couldn't chase the girls day school, but the girls we are allowed to dance with certainly not chase. Michael was at woodhue dancing school, the Northrop girls from Northrop girls school and the Blake boys were put together in eighth grade and taught the Cha Cha Cha, the waltz, the Charleston, and we danced together, and the girls wore white gloves, and we sniffed their perfume, and we all learned how to be lovers when we were 45   Michael Hingson ** 04:37 There you are. Well, as long as you learned at some point, that's a good start.   Bill Ratner ** 04:44 It's a weird generation. Michael,   Michael Hingson ** 04:46 I've been to Des Moines before. I was born in Chicago, but moved out to California when I was five, but I did some work with the National Federation of the Blind in the mid 19. 1970s 1976 into 1978 so spent time at the Iowa Commission for the Blind in Des Moines, which became a top agency for the Blind in well, the late 50s into the to the 60s and so on. So   Bill Ratner ** 05:15 both my parents are from Chicago. My father from the south side of Chicago, 44th and Kenzie, which was a Irish, Polish, Italian, Jewish, Ukrainian neighborhood. And my mother from Glencoe, which was a middle class suburb above Northwestern University in Evanston.   Michael Hingson ** 05:34 I Where were you born? 57th and union, north, south side, no, South   Bill Ratner ** 05:42 57th union is that? Is that west of Kenzie?   Michael Hingson ** 05:46 You know, I don't remember the geography well enough to know, but I know that it was, I think, Mount Sinai Hospital where I was born. But it was, it's, it's, it's a pretty tough neighborhood today. So I understand,   Bill Ratner ** 06:00 yeah, yeah, my it was tough, then it's tough now,   Michael Hingson ** 06:03 yeah, I think it's tougher, supposedly, than it was. But we lived there for five years, and then we we moved to California, and I remember some things about Chicago. I remember walking down to the local candy store most days, and had no problem doing that. My parents were told they should shut me away at a home somewhere, because no blind child could ever grow up to amount to anything. And my parents said, You guys are you're totally wrong. And they brought me up with that attitude. So, you   Bill Ratner ** 06:32 know who said that the school says school so that   Michael Hingson ** 06:35 doctors doctors when they discovered I was blind with the   Bill Ratner ** 06:38 kid, goodness gracious, horrified.   Michael Hingson ** 06:44 Well, my parents said absolutely not, and they brought me up, and they actually worked with other parents of premature kids who became blind, and when kindergarten started in for us in in the age of four, they actually had a special kindergarten class for blind kids at the Perry School, which is where I went. And so I did that for a year, learn braille and some other things. Then we moved to California, but yeah, and I go back to Chicago every so often. And when I do nowadays, they I one of my favorite places to migrate in Chicago is Garrett Popcorn.   Bill Ratner ** 07:21 Ah, yes, with caramel corn, regular corn, the   Michael Hingson ** 07:25 Chicago blend, which is a mixture, yeah, the Chicago blend is cheese corn, well, as it is with caramel corn, and they put much other mozzarella on it as well. It's really good.   Bill Ratner ** 07:39 Yeah, so we're on the air. Michael, what do you call your what do you call your program? Here I am your new friend, and I can't even announce your program because I don't know   Michael Hingson ** 07:48 the name, unstoppable mindset. This   Bill Ratner ** 07:51 is unstoppable mindset.   Michael Hingson ** 07:56 We're back. Well, we're back already. We're fast. So you, you, you moved off elsewhere, out of Des Moines and all that. And where did you go to college?   Bill Ratner ** 08:09 Well, this is like, why did you this is, this is a bit like talking about the Vietnam War. Looking back on my college career is like looking back on the Vietnam War series, a series of delusions and defeats. By the time I the time i for college, by the time I was applying for college, I was an orphan, orphan, having been born to fabulous parents who died too young of natural causes. So my grades in high school were my mediocre. I couldn't get into the Ivy Leagues. I got into the big 10 schools. My stepmother said, you're going to Michigan State in East Lansing because your cousin Eddie became a successful realtor. And Michigan State was known as mu u it was the most successful, largest agriculture college and university in the country. Kids from South Asia, China, Northern Europe, Southern Europe, South America all over the world came to Michigan State to study agricultural sciences, children of rich farmers all over the world and middle class farmers all over the world, and a huge police science department. Part of the campus was fenced off, and the young cadets, 1819, 20 years old, would practice on the rest of the student body, uniformed with hats and all right, excuse me, young man, we're just going to get some pizza at eight o'clock on Friday night. Stand against your car. Hands in your car. I said, Are you guys practicing again? Shut up and spread your legs. So that was that was Michigan State, and even though both my parents had master's degrees, I just found all the diversions available in the 1960s to be too interesting, and was not invited. Return after my sophomore year, and in order to flunk out of a big 10 University, and they're fine universities, all of them, you have to be either really determined or not so smart, not really capable of doing that level of study in undergraduate school. And I'd like to think that I was determined. I used to show up for my exams with a little blue book, and the only thing I would write is due to lack of knowledge, I am unable to complete this exam, sign Bill ranter and get up early and hand it in and go off. And so what was, what was left for a young man like that was the theater I'd seen the great Zero Mostel when I was 14 years old and on stage live, he looked just like my father, and he was funny, and if I Were a rich man, and that's the grade zero must tell. Yeah, and it took about five, no, it took about six, seven years to percolate inside my bread and my brain. In high school, I didn't want to do theater. The cheerleaders and guys who I had didn't happen to be friends with or doing theater. I took my girlfriends to see plays, but when I was 21 I started acting, and I've been an actor ever since. I'm a committee chair on the screen actors guild in Hollywood and Screen Actors Guild AFTRA, and work as a voice actor and collect my pensions and God bless the union.   Michael Hingson ** 11:44 Well, hey, as long as it works and you're making progress, you know you're still with it, right?   Bill Ratner ** 11:53 That's the that's the point. There's no accounting for taste in my business. Michael, you work for a few different broadcast entities at my age. And it's, you know, it's younger people. It's 18 to 3418 years to 34 years old is the ideal demographic for advertisers, Ford, Motor Company, Dove soap, Betty, Crocker, cake mixes and cereals, every conceivable product that sold online or sold on television and radio. This is my this is my meat, and I don't work for religion. However, if a religious organization calls, I call and say, I I'm not, not qualified or not have my divinity degree in order to sell your church to the public?   Michael Hingson ** 12:46 Yeah, yeah. Well, I, I can understand that. But you, you obviously do a lot, and as we talked about, you were Flint and GI Joe, which is kind of cool.   Bill Ratner ** 13:01 Flynn GI Joe was very cool. Hasbro Corporation, which was based in Providence, Rhode Island, had a huge success with GI Joe, the figure. The figure was about 11 and a half inches tall, like a Barbie, and was at first, was introduced to the public after the Korean War. There is a comic book that was that was also published about GI Joe. He was an individual figure. He was a figure, a sort of mythic cartoon figure during World War Two, GI Joe, generic American soldier, fighting man and but the Vietnam war dragged on for a long time, and the American buying public or buying kids toys got tired of GI Joe, got tired of a military figure in their household and stopped buying. And when Nixon ended the Vietnam War, or allotted to finish in 1974 Hasbro was in the tank. It's got its stock was cheap, and executives are getting nervous. And then came the Great George Lucas in Star Wars, who shrank all these action figures down from 11 and a half inches to three and a half inches, and went to China and had Chinese game and toy makers make Star Wars toys, and began to earn billions and billions dollars. And so Hasbro said, let's turn GI Joe into into a team. And the team began with flint and Lady J and Scarlett and Duke and Destro and cover commander, and grew to 85 different characters, because Hasbro and the toy maker partners could create 85 different sets of toys and action figures. So I was actor in this show and had a good time, and also a purveyor of a billion dollar industry of American toys. And the good news about these toys is I was at a conference where we signed autographs the voice actors, and we have supper with fans and so on. And I was sitting next to a 30 year old kid and his parents. And this kid was so knowledgeable about pop culture and every conceivable children's show and animated show that had ever been on the screen or on television. I turned to his mother and sort of being a wise acre, said, So ma'am, how do you feel about your 30 year old still playing with GI Joe action figures? And she said, Well, he and I both teach English in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania school system, and last year, the literacy level of my ninth graders was 50% 50% of those kids could not read in ninth grade. So I asked the principal if I could borrow my son's GI Joe, action figures, comic books and VHS tapes, recordings of the shows from TV. And he said, Sure, whatever you want to try. And so she did, and she played the video tapes, and these kids were thrilled. They'd never seen a GI Joe cartoon in class before. Passed out the comic books, let him read comics. And then she said, Okay, you guys. And passed out notebooks and pens and pencils, and said, I want you guys to make up some some shows, some GI Joe shows. And so they said, Yeah, we're ready. All right, Cobra, you better get into the barber shop, because the barber bill is no longer there and the fire engines are in the way. And wait a minute, there's a dog in the street. And so they're making this up, using their imagination, doing their schoolwork, by coming up with scenarios, imaginary fam fan fiction for GI Joe and she raised the literacy level in her classroom by 50% that year, by the end of that year, so, so that was the only story that I've ever heard about the sort of the efficacy of GI Joe, other than, you know, kids play with them. Do they? Are they shooting each other all the time? I certainly hope not. I hope not. Are they using the action figures? Do they strip their guns off and put them in a little, you know, stub over by the side and and have them do physical battle with each other, or have them hump the woods, or have them climb the stairs, or have them search the trees. Who knows what kids do? Same with same with girls and and Barbies. Barbie has been a source of fun and creativity for lots of girls, and the source of of worry and bother to a lot of parents as   Michael Hingson ** 17:54 well. Well, at the same time, though, when kids start to react and relate to some of these things. It's, it's pretty cool. I mean, look what's happened with the whole Harry Potter movement and craze. Harry Potter has probably done more in the last 20 or 25 years to promote reading for kids than most anything else, and   Bill Ratner ** 18:17 that's because it's such a good series of books. I read them to my daughters, yeah. And the quality of writing. She was a brilliant writer, not only just the stories and the storytelling, which is fun to watch in the movies, and you know, it's great for a parent to read. If there are any parents listening, I don't care how old your kids are. I don't care if they're 15. Offer to read to them. The 15 year old might, of course, say mom, but anybody younger than that might say either, all right, fine, which is, which means you better do it or read, read a book. To me, sure, it's fun for the parent, fun for the kid, and it makes the child a completely different kind of thinker and worker and earner.   Michael Hingson ** 19:05 Well, also the people who they got to read the books for the recordings Stephen Fry and in the US here, Jim Dale did such an incredible job as well. I've, I've read the whole Harry Potter series more than once, because I just enjoy them, and I enjoy listening to the the voices. They do such a good job. Yeah. And of course, for me, one of the interesting stories that I know about Jim Dale reading Harry Potter was since it was published by Scholastic he was actually scheduled to do a reading from one of the Harry from the new Harry Potter book that was coming out in 2001 on September 11, he was going to be at Scholastic reading. And of course, that didn't happen because of of everything that did occur. So I don't know whether I'm. I'm assuming at some point a little bit later, he did, but still he was scheduled to be there and read. But it they are there. They've done so much to help promote reading, and a lot of those kinds of cartoons and so on. Have done some of that, which is, which is pretty good. So it's good to, you know, to see that continue to happen. Well, so you've written several books on poetry and so on, and I know that you you've mentioned more than once grief and loss. How come those words keep coming up?   Bill Ratner ** 20:40 Well, I had an unusual childhood. Again. I mentioned earlier how, what a lucky kid I was. My parents were happy, educated, good people, not abusers. You know, I don't have a I don't have horror stories to tell about my mother or my father, until my mother grew sick with breast cancer and and it took about a year and a half or two years to die when I was seven years old. The good news is, because she was a sensitive, educated social worker, as she was actually dying, she arranged a death counseling session with me and my older brother and the Unitarian minister who was also a death counselor, and whom she was seeing to talk about, you know, what it was like to be dying of breast cancer with two young kids. And at this session, which was sort of surprised me, I was second grade, came home from school. In the living room was my mother and my brother looking a little nervous, and Dr Carl storm from the Unitarian Church, and she said, you know, Dr storm from church, but he's also my therapist. And we talk about my illness and how I feel, and we talk about how much I love you boys, and talk about how I worry about Daddy. And this is what one does when one is in crisis. That was a moment that was not traumatic for me. It's a moment I recalled hundreds of times, and one that has been a guiding light through my life. My mother's death was very difficult for my older brother, who was 13 who grew up in World War Two without without my father, it was just him and my mother when he was off in the Pacific fighting in World War Two. And then I was born after the war. And the loss of a mother in a family is like the bottom dropping out of a family. But luckily, my dad met a woman he worked with a highly placed advertising executive, which was unusual for a female in the 1950s and she became our stepmother a year later, and we had some very lovely, warm family years with her extended family and our extended family and all of us together until my brother got sick, came down with kidney disease a couple of years before kidney dialysis was invented, and a couple of years before kidney transplants were done, died at 19. Had been the captain of the swimming team at our high school, but did a year in college out in California and died on Halloween of 1960 my father was 51 years old. His eldest son had died. He had lost his wife six years earlier. He was working too hard in the advertising industry, successful man and dropped out of a heart attack 14th birthday. Gosh, I found him unconscious on the floor of our master bathroom in our house. So my life changed. I My life has taught me many, many things. It's taught me how the defense system works in trauma. It's taught me the resilience of a child. It's taught me the kindness of strangers. It's taught me the sadness of loss.   Michael Hingson ** 24:09 Well, you, you seem to come through all of it pretty well. Well, thank you. A question behind that, just an observation, but, but you do seem to, you know, obviously, cope with all of it and do pretty well. So you, you've always liked to be involved in acting and so on. How did you actually end up deciding to be a voice actor?   Bill Ratner ** 24:39 Well, my dad, after he was managing editor of Better Homes and Gardens magazine in Des Moines for Meredith publishing, got offered a fancy job as executive vice president of the flower and mix division for Campbell within advertising and later at General Mills Corporation. From Betty Crocker brand, and would bring me to work all the time, and would sit with me, and we'd watch the wonderful old westerns that were on prime time television, rawhide and Gunsmoke and the Virginian and sure   Michael Hingson ** 25:15 and all those. Yeah, during   Bill Ratner ** 25:17 the commercials, my father would make fun of the commercials. Oh, look at that guy. And number one, son, that's lousy acting. Number two, listen to that copy. It's the dumbest ad copy I've ever seen. The jingles and and then he would say, No, that's a good commercial, right there. And he wasn't always negative. He would he was just a good critic of advertising. So at a very young age, starting, you know, when we watch television, I think the first television ever, he bought us when I was five years old, I was around one of the most educated, active, funny, animated television critics I could hope to have in my life as a 56789, 1011, 12 year old. And so when I was 12, I became one of the founding members of the Brotherhood of radio stations with my friends John Waterhouse and John Barstow and Steve gray and Bill Connors in South Minneapolis. I named my five watt night kit am transmitter after my sixth grade teacher, Bob close this is wclo stereo radio. And when I was in sixth grade, I built myself a switch box, and I had a turntable and I had an intercom, and I wired my house for sound, as did all the other boys in the in the B, O, R, S, and that's brotherhood of radio stations. And we were guests on each other's shows, and we were obsessed, and we would go to the shopping malls whenever a local DJ was making an appearance and torture him and ask him dumb questions and listen obsessively to American am radio. And at the time for am radio, not FM like today, or internet on your little radio tuner, all the big old grandma and grandpa radios, the wooden ones, were AM, for amplitude modulated. You could get stations at night, once the sun went down and the later it got, the ionosphere would lift and the am radio signals would bounce higher and farther. And in Minneapolis, at age six and seven, I was able to to listen to stations out of Mexico and Texas and Chicago, and was absolutely fascinated with with what was being put out. And I would, I would switch my brother when I was about eight years old, gave me a transistor radio, which I hid under my bed covers. And at night, would turn on and listen for, who knows, hours at a time, and just tuning the dial and tuning the dial from country to rock and roll to hit parade to news to commercials to to agric agriculture reports to cow crossings in Kansas and grain harvesting and cheese making in Wisconsin, and on and on and on that made up the great medium of radio that was handing its power and its business over to television, just as I was growing As a child. Fast, fascinating transition   Michael Hingson ** 28:18 and well, but as it was transitioning, how did that affect you?   Bill Ratner ** 28:26 It made television the romantic, exciting, dynamic medium. It made radio seem a little limited and antiquated, and although I listened for environment and wasn't able to drag a television set under my covers. Yeah, and television became memorable with with everything from actual world war two battle footage being shown because there wasn't enough programming to 1930s Warner Brothers gangster movies with James Cagney, Edward G   Michael Hingson ** 29:01 Robinson and yeah   Bill Ratner ** 29:02 to all the sitcoms, Leave It to Beaver and television cartoons and on and on and on. And the most memorable elements to me were the personalities, and some of whom were invisible. Five years old, I was watching a Kids program after school, after kindergarten. We'll be back with more funny puppets, marionettes after this message and the first words that came on from an invisible voice of this D baritone voice, this commercial message will be 60 seconds long, Chrysler Dodge for 1954 blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I watched hypnotized, hypnotized as a 1953 dodge drove across the screen with a happy family of four waving out the window. And at the end of the commercial, I ran into the kitchen said, Mom, mom, I know what a minute. Is, and it was said, it had suddenly come into my brain in one of those very rare and memorable moments in a person's life where your brain actually speaks to you in its own private language and says, Here is something very new and very true, that 60 seconds is in fact a minute. When someone says, See you in five minutes, they mean five times that, five times as long as that. Chrysler commercial, five times 60. That's 300 seconds. And she said, Did you learn it that that on T in kindergarten? And I said, No, I learned it from kangaroo Bob on TV, his announcer, oh, kangaroo Bob, no, but this guy was invisible. And so at five years of age, I was aware of the existence of the practice of the sound, of the magic of the seemingly unlimited access to facts, figures, products, brand names that these voices had and would say on the air in This sort of majestic, patriarchal way,   Michael Hingson ** 31:21 and just think 20 years later, then you had James Earl Jones,   Bill Ratner ** 31:26 the great dame. James Earl Jones, father was a star on stage at that time the 1950s James Earl Jones came of age in the 60s and became Broadway and off Broadway star.   Michael Hingson ** 31:38 I got to see him in Othello. He was playing Othello. What a powerful performance. It was   Bill Ratner ** 31:43 wonderful performer. Yeah, yeah. I got to see him as Big Daddy in Canada, Hot Tin Roof, ah, live and in person, he got front row seats for me and my family.   Michael Hingson ** 31:53 Yeah, we weren't in the front row, but we saw it. We saw it on on Broadway,   Bill Ratner ** 31:58 the closest I ever got to James Earl Jones. He and I had the same voice over agent, woman named Rita vinari of southern Barth and benare company. And I came into the agency to audition for Doritos, and I hear this magnificent voice coming from behind a closed voiceover booth, saying, with a with a Spanish accent, Doritos. I thought that's James Earl Jones. Why is he saying burritos? And he came out, and he bowed to me, nodded and smiled, and I said, hello and and the agent probably in the booth and shut the door. And she said, I said, that was James Earl Jones. What a voice. What she said, Oh, he's such a nice man. And she said, but I couldn't. I was too embarrassed. I was too afraid to stop him from saying, Doritos. And it turns out he didn't get the gig. So it is some other voice actor got it because he didn't say, had he said Doritos with the agent froze it froze up. That was as close as I ever got to did you get the gig? Oh goodness no,   Michael Hingson ** 33:01 no, you didn't, huh? Oh, well, well, yeah. I mean, it was a very, it was, it was wonderful. It was James Earl Jones and Christopher Plummer played Iago. Oh, goodness, oh, I know. What a what a combination. Well, so you, you did a lot of voiceover stuff. What did you do regarding radio moving forward? Or did you just go completely out of that and you were in TV? Or did you have any opportunity   Bill Ratner ** 33:33 for me to go back at age 15, my brother and father, who were big supporters of my radio. My dad would read my W, C, l, o, newsletter and need an initial, an excellent journalism son and my brother would bring his teenage friends up. He'd play the elderly brothers, man, you got an Elvis record, and I did. And you know, they were, they were big supporters for me as a 13 year old, but when I turned 14, and had lost my brother and my father, I lost my enthusiasm and put all of my radio equipment in a box intended to play with it later. Never, ever, ever did again. And when I was about 30 years old and I'd done years of acting in the theater, having a great time doing fun plays and small theaters in Minneapolis and South Dakota and and Oakland, California and San Francisco. I needed money, so I looked in the want ads and saw a job for telephone sales, and I thought, Well, I used to love the telephone. I used to make phony phone calls to people all the time. Used to call funeral homes. Hi Carson, funeral I help you. Yes, I'm calling to tell you that you have a you have a dark green slate tile. Roof, isn't that correct? Yes. Well, there's, there's a corpse on your roof. Lady for goodness sake, bring it down and we laugh and we record it and and so I thought, Well, gee, I used to have a lot of fun with the phone. And so I called the number of telephone sales and got hired to sell magazine subscriptions and dinner tickets to Union dinners and all kinds of things. And then I saw a new job at a radio station, suburban radio station out in Walnut Creek, California, a lovely Metro BART train ride. And so I got on the BART train, rode out there and walked in for the interview, and was told I was going to be selling small advertising packages on radio for the station on the phone. And so I called barber shops and beauty shops and gas stations in the area, and one guy picked up the phone and said, Wait a minute, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Are you on the radio right now? And I said, No, I'm just I'm in the sales room. Well, maybe you should be. And he slams the phone on me. He didn't want to talk to me anymore. It wasn't interested in buying advertising. I thought, gee. And I told somebody at the station, and they said, Well, you want to be in the radio? And he went, Yeah, I was on the radio when I was 13. And it just so happened that an older fellow was retiring from the 10am to 2pm slot. K I S King, kiss 99 and KD FM, Pittsburgh, California. And it was a beautiful music station. It was a music station. Remember, old enough will remember music that used to play in elevators that was like violin music, the Percy faith orchestra playing a Rolling Stone song here in the elevator. Yes, well, that's exactly what we played. And it would have been harder to get a job at the local rock stations because, you know, they were popular places. And so I applied for the job, and   Michael Hingson ** 37:06 could have lost your voice a lot sooner, and it would have been a lot harder if you had had to do Wolfman Jack. But that's another story.   Bill Ratner ** 37:13 Yeah, I used to listen to Wolf Man Jack. I worked in a studio in Hollywood. He became a studio. Yeah, big time.   Michael Hingson ** 37:22 Anyway, so you you got to work at the muzack station, got   Bill Ratner ** 37:27 to work at the muzack station, and I was moving to Los Angeles to go to a bigger market, to attempt to penetrate a bigger broadcast market. And one of the sales guys, a very nice guy named Ralph pizzella said, Well, when you get to La you should study with a friend of mine down to pie Troy, he teaches voiceovers. I said, What are voice overs? He said, You know that CVS Pharmacy commercial just carted up and did 75 tags, available in San Fernando, available in San Clemente, available in Los Angeles, available in Pasadena. And I said, Yeah. He said, Well, you didn't get paid any extra. You got paid your $165 a week. The guy who did that commercial for the ad agency got paid probably 300 bucks, plus extra for the tags, that's voiceovers. And I thought, why? There's an idea, what a concept. So he gave me the name and number of old friend acquaintance of his who he'd known in radio, named Don DiPietro, alias Johnny rabbit, who worked for the Dick Clark organization, had a big rock and roll station there. He'd come to LA was doing voiceovers and teaching voiceover classes in a little second story storefront out of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles. So I signed up for his class, and he was an experienced guy, and he liked me, and we all had fun, and I realized I was beginning to study like an actor at 1818, who goes to New York or goes to Los Angeles or Chicago or Atlanta or St Louis to act in the big theaters, and starts acting classes and realizes, oh my goodness, these people are truly professionals. I don't know how to do what they do. And so for six years, I took voice over classes, probably 4050, nights a year, and from disc jockeys, from ex show hosts, from actors, from animated cartoon voices, and put enough time in to get a degree in neurology in medical school. And worked my way up in radio in Los Angeles and had a morning show, a lovely show with a wonderful news man named Phil Reed, and we talked about things and reviewed movies and and played a lot of music. And then I realized, wait a minute, I'm earning three times the money in voiceovers as I am on the radio, and I have to get up at 430 in the morning to be on the radio. Uh, and a wonderful guy who was Johnny Carson's staff announcer named Jack angel said, You're not still on radio, are you? And I said, Well, yeah, I'm working in the morning. And Ka big, get out of there. Man, quit. Quit. And I thought, well, how can I quit? I've always wanted to be a radio announcer. And then there was another wonderful guy on the old am station, kmpc, sweet Dick Whittington. Whittington, right? And he said at a seminar that I went to at a union voice over training class, when you wake up at four in the morning and you swing your legs over the bed and your shoes hit the floor, and you put your head in your hands, and you say to yourself, I don't want to do this anymore. That's when you quit radio. Well, that hadn't happened to me. I was just getting up early to write some comedy segments and on and on and on, and then I was driving around town all day doing auditions and rented an ex girlfriend's second bedroom so that I could nap by myself during the day, when I had an hour in and I would as I would fall asleep, I'd picture myself every single day I'm in a dark voiceover studio, a microphone Is before me, a music stand is before the microphone, and on it is a piece of paper with advertising copy on it. On the other side of the large piece of glass of the recording booth are three individuals, my employers, I begin to read, and somehow the text leaps off the page, streams into my eyes, letter for letter, word for word, into a part of my back brain that I don't understand and can't describe. It is processed in my semi conscious mind with the help of voice over training and hope and faith, and comes out my mouth, goes into the microphone, is recorded in the digital recorder, and those three men, like little monkeys, lean forward and say, Wow, how do you do that? That was my daily creative visualization. Michael, that was my daily fantasy. And I had learned that from from Dale Carnegie, and I had learned that from Olympic athletes on NBC TV in the 60s and 70s, when the announcer would say, this young man you're seeing practicing his high jump is actually standing there. He's standing stationary, and the bouncing of the head is he's actually rehearsing in his mind running and running and leaping over the seven feet two inch bar and falling into the sawdust. And now he's doing it again, and you could just barely see the man nodding his head on camera at the exact rhythm that he would be running the 25 yards toward the high bar and leaping, and he raised his head up during the imaginary lead that he was visualizing, and then he actually jumped the seven foot two inches. That's how I learned about creative visualization from NBC sports on TV.   Michael Hingson ** 43:23 Channel Four in Los Angeles. There you go. Well, so you you broke into voice over, and that's what you did.   Bill Ratner ** 43:38 That's what I did, darn it, I ain't stopping now, there's a wonderful old actor named Bill Irwin. There two Bill Irwin's one is a younger actor in his 50s or 60s, a brilliant actor from Broadway to film and TV. There's an older William Irwin. They also named Bill Irwin, who's probably in his 90s now. And I went to a premiere of a film, and he was always showing up in these films as The senile stock broker who answers the phone upside down, or the senile board member who always asks inappropriate questions. And I went up to him and I said, you know, I see you in everything, man. I'm 85 years old. Some friends and associates of mine tell me I should slow down. I only got cast in movies and TV when I was 65 I ain't slowing down. If I tried to slow down at 85 I'd have to stop That's my philosophy. My hero is the great Don Pardo, the late great   Michael Hingson ** 44:42 for Saturday Night Live and Jeopardy   Bill Ratner ** 44:45 lives starring Bill Murray, Gilder Radner, and   Michael Hingson ** 44:49 he died for Jeopardy before that,   Bill Ratner ** 44:52 yeah, died at 92 with I picture him, whether it probably not, with a microphone and. His hand in his in his soundproof booth, in his in his garage, and I believe he lived in Arizona, although the show was aired and taped in New York, New York, right where he worked for for decades as a successful announcer. So that's the story.   Michael Hingson ** 45:16 Michael. Well, you know, I miss, very frankly, some of the the the days of radio back in the 60s and 70s and so on. We had, in LA what you mentioned, Dick Whittington, Dick whittinghill on kmpc, Gary Owens, you know, so many people who were such wonderful announcers and doing some wonderful things, and radio just isn't the same anymore. It's gone. It's   Bill Ratner ** 45:47 gone to Tiktok and YouTube. And the truth is, I'm not gonna whine about Tiktok or YouTube, because some of the most creative moments on camera are being done on Tiktok and YouTube by young quote influencers who hire themselves out to advertisers, everything from lipstick. You know,   Speaker 1 ** 46:09 when I went to a party last night was just wild and but this makeup look, watch me apply this lip remover and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, no, I have no lip.   Bill Ratner ** 46:20 You know, these are the people with the voices. These are the new voices. And then, of course, the faces. And so I would really advise before, before people who, in fact, use the internet. If you use the internet, you can't complain if you use the internet, if you go to Facebook or Instagram, or you get collect your email or Google, this or that, which most of us do, it's handy. You can't complain about tick tock, tick tock, tick tock. You can't complain about tick tock or YouTube, because it's what the younger generation is using, and it's what the younger generation advertisers and advertising executives and creators and musicians and actors are using to parade before us, as Gary Owens did, as Marlon Brando did, as Sarah Bernhardt did in the 19 so as all as you do, Michael, you're a parader. You're the head of the parade. You've been in on your own float for years. I read your your bio. I don't even know why you want to waste a minute talking to me for goodness sakes.   Michael Hingson ** 47:26 You know, the one thing about podcasts that I like over radio, and I did radio at kuci for seven years when I was in school, what I really like about podcasts is they're not and this is also would be true for Tiktok and YouTube. Primarily Tiktok, I would would say it isn't as structured. So if we don't finish in 60 minutes, and we finish in 61 minutes, no one's gonna shoot us.   Bill Ratner ** 47:53 Well, I beg to differ with you. Now. I'm gonna start a fight with you. Michael, yeah, we need conflict in this script. Is that it The Tick Tock is very structured. Six. No,   Michael Hingson ** 48:03 no, I understand that. I'm talking about podcasts,   Bill Ratner ** 48:07 though, but there's a problem. We gotta Tone It Up. We gotta pick it up. We gotta there's a lot of and I listen to what are otherwise really bright, wonderful personalities on screen, celebrities who have podcasts and the car sucks, and then I had meatballs for dinner, haha. And you know what my wife said? Why? You know? And there's just too much of that. And,   Michael Hingson ** 48:32 oh, I understand, yeah. I mean, it's like, like anything, but I'm just saying that's one of the reasons I love podcasting. So it's my way of continuing what I used to do in radio and having a lot of fun doing it   Bill Ratner ** 48:43 all right, let me ask you. Let me ask you a technical and editorial question. Let me ask you an artistic question. An artist, can you edit this podcast? Yeah. Are you? Do you plan to Nope.   Michael Hingson ** 48:56 I think conversations are conversations, but there is a but, I mean,   Bill Ratner ** 49:01 there have been starts and stops and I answer a question, and there's a long pause, and then, yeah, we can do you edit that stuff   Michael Hingson ** 49:08 out. We do, we do, edit some of that out. And I have somebody that that that does a lot of it, because I'm doing more podcasts, and also I travel and speak, but I can edit. There's a program called Reaper, which is really a very sophisticated   Bill Ratner ** 49:26 close up spaces. You   Michael Hingson ** 49:28 can close up spaces with it, yes, but the neat thing about Reaper is that somebody has written scripts to make it incredibly accessible for blind people using screen readers.   Bill Ratner ** 49:40 What does it do? What does it do? Give me the elevator pitch.   Michael Hingson ** 49:46 You've seen some of the the programs that people use, like computer vision and other things to do editing of videos and so on. Yeah.   Bill Ratner ** 49:55 Yeah. Even Apple. Apple edit. What is it called? Apple? Garage Band. No, that's audio. What's that   Michael Hingson ** 50:03 audio? Oh,   Bill Ratner ** 50:06 quick time is quick   Michael Hingson ** 50:07 time. But whether it's video or audio, the point is that Reaper allows me to do all of that. I can edit audio. I can insert, I can remove pauses. I can do anything with Reaper that anyone else can do editing audio, because it's been made completely accessible.   Bill Ratner ** 50:27 That's great. That's good. That's nice. Oh, it is. It's cool.   Michael Hingson ** 50:31 So so if I want, I can edit this and just have my questions and then silence when you're talking.   Bill Ratner ** 50:38 That might be best. Ladies and gentlemen, here's Bill Ratner,   Michael Hingson ** 50:46 yep, exactly, exactly. Now you have won the moth stories. Slam, what? Tell me about my story. Slam, you've won it nine times.   Bill Ratner ** 51:00 The Moth was started by a writer, a novelist who had lived in the South and moved to New York City, successful novelist named George Dawes green. And the inception of the moth, which many people listening are familiar with from the Moth Radio Hour. It was, I believe, either late 90s or early 2000s when he'd been in New York for a while and was was publishing as a fiction writer, and threw a party, and decided, instead of going to one of these dumb, boring parties or the same drinks being served and same cigarettes being smoked out in the veranda and the same orders. I'm going to ask people to bring a five minute story, a personal story, nature, a true story. You don't have to have one to get into the party, but I encourage you to. And so you know, the 3040, 50 people showed up, many of whom had stories, and they had a few drinks, and they had hors d'oeuvres. And then he said, Okay, ladies and gentlemen, take your seats. It's time for and then I picked names out of a hat, and person after person after person stood up in a very unusual setting, which was almost never done at parties. You How often do you see that happen? Suddenly, the room falls silent, and someone with permission being having been asked by the host to tell a personal story, some funny, some tragic, some complex, some embarrassing, some racy, some wild, some action filled. And afterward, the feedback he got from his friends was, this is the most amazing experience I've ever had in my life. And someone said, you need to do this. And he said, Well, you people left a lot of cigarette butts and beer cans around my apartment. And they said, well, let's do it at a coffee shop. Let's do it at a church basement. So slowly but surely, the moth storytelling, story slams, which were designed after the old poetry slams in the 50s and 60s, where they were judged contests like, like a dance contest. Everybody's familiar with dance contests? Well, there were, then came poetry contests with people singing and, you know, and singing and really energetically, really reading. There then came storytelling contests with people standing on a stage before a silent audience, telling a hopefully interesting, riveting story, beginning middle, end in five minutes. And so a coffee house was found. A monthly calendar was set up. Then came the internet. Then it was so popular standing room only that they had to open yet another and another, and today, some 20 years later, 20 some years later, from Austin, Texas to San Francisco, California to Minneapolis, Minnesota to New York City to Los Angeles. There are moth story slams available on online for you to schedule yourself to go live and in person at the moth.org as in the moth with wings. Friend of mine, I was in New York. He said, You can't believe it. This writer guy, a writer friend of mine who I had read, kind of an avant garde, strange, funny writer was was hosting something called the moth in New York, and we were texting each other. He said, Well, I want to go. The theme was show business. I was going to talk to my Uncle Bobby, who was the bell boy. And I Love Lucy. I'll tell a story. And I texted him that day. He said, Oh man, I'm so sorry. I had the day wrong. It's next week. Next week, I'm going to be back home. And so he said, Well, I think there's a moth in Los Angeles. So about 15 years ago, I searched it down and what? Went to a small Korean barbecue that had a tiny little stage that originally was for Korean musicians, and it was now being used for everything from stand up comedy to evenings of rock and roll to now moth storytelling once a month. And I think the theme was first time. And so I got up and told a silly story and didn't win first prize. They have judges that volunteer judges a table of three judges scoring, you like, at a swim meet or a track beat or, you know, and our gymnastics meet. So this is all sort of familiar territory for everybody, except it's storytelling and not high jumping or pull ups. And I kept going back. I was addicted to it. I would write a story and I'd memorize it, and I'd show up and try to make it four minutes and 50 seconds and try to make it sound like I was really telling a story and not reading from a script. And wish I wasn't, because I would throw the script away, and I knew the stories well enough. And then they created a radio show. And then I began to win slams and compete in the grand slams. And then I started submitting these 750 word, you know, two and a half page stories. Literary magazines got a few published and found a whole new way to spend my time and not make much   Michael Hingson ** 56:25 money. Then you went into poetry.   Bill Ratner ** 56:29 Then I got so bored with my prose writing that I took a poetry course from a wonderful guy in LA called Jack grapes, who had been an actor and a football player and come to Hollywood and did some TV, episodics and and some some episodic TV, and taught poetry. It was a poet in the schools, and I took his class of adults and got a poem published. And thought, wait a minute, these aren't even 750 words. They're like 75 words. I mean, you could write a 10,000 word poem if you want, but some people have, yeah, and it was complex, and there was so much to read and so much to learn and so much that was interesting and odd. And a daughter of a friend of mine is a poet, said, Mommy, are you going to read me one of those little word movies before I go to sleep?   Michael Hingson ** 57:23 A little word movie, word movie out of the   Bill Ratner ** 57:27 mouths of babes. Yeah, and so, so and I perform. You know, last night, I was in Orange County at a organization called ugly mug Cafe, and a bunch of us poets read from an anthology that was published, and we sold our books, and heard other young poets who were absolutely marvelous and and it's, you know, it's not for everybody, but it's one of the things I do.   Michael Hingson ** 57:54 Well, you sent me pictures of book covers, so they're going to be in the show notes. And I hope people will will go out and get them   Bill Ratner ** 58:01 cool. One of the one of the things that I did with poetry, in addition to wanting to get published and wanting to read before people, is wanting to see if there is a way. Because poetry was, was very satisfying, emotionally to me, intellectually very challenging and satisfying at times. And emotionally challenging and very satisfying at times, writing about things personal, writing about nature, writing about friends, writing about stories that I received some training from the National Association for poetry therapy. Poetry therapy is being used like art therapy, right? And have conducted some sessions and and participated in many and ended up working with eighth graders of kids who had lost someone to death in the past year of their lives. This is before covid in the public schools in Los Angeles. And so there's a lot of that kind of work that is being done by constable people, by writers, by poets, by playwrights,   Michael Hingson ** 59:09 and you became a grief counselor,   Bill Ratner ** 59:13 yes, and don't do that full time, because I do voiceovers full time, right? Write poetry and a grand. Am an active grandparent, but I do the occasional poetry session around around grief poetry.   Michael Hingson ** 59:31 So you're a grandparent, so you've had kids and all that. Yes, sir, well, that's is your wife still with us? Yes?   Bill Ratner ** 59:40 Oh, great, yeah, she's an artist and an art educator. Well, that   Michael Hingson ** 59:46 so the two of you can criticize each other's works, then, just   Bill Ratner ** 59:52 saying, we're actually pretty kind to each other. I Yeah, we have a lot of we have a lot of outside criticism. Them. So, yeah, you don't need to do it internally. We don't rely on it. What do you think of this although, although, more than occasionally, each of us will say, What do you think of this poem, honey? Or what do you think of this painting, honey? And my the favorite, favorite thing that my wife says that always thrills me and makes me very happy to be with her is, I'll come down and she's beginning a new work of a new piece of art for an exhibition somewhere. I'll say, what? Tell me about what's, what's going on with that, and she'll go, you know, I have no idea, but it'll tell me what to do.   Michael Hingson ** 1:00:33 Yeah, it's, it's like a lot of authors talk about the fact that their characters write the stories right, which, which makes a lot of sense. So with all that you've done, are you writing a memoir? By any chance, I   Bill Ratner ** 1:00:46 am writing a memoir, and writing has been interesting. I've been doing it for many years. I got it was my graduate thesis from University of California Riverside Palm Desert.   Michael Hingson ** 1:00:57 My wife was a UC Riverside graduate. Oh, hi. Well, they   Bill Ratner ** 1:01:01 have a low residency program where you go for 10 days in January, 10 days in June. The rest of it's online, which a lot of universities are doing, low residency programs for people who work and I got an MFA in creative writing nonfiction, had a book called parenting for the digital age, the truth about media's effect on children. And was halfway through it, the publisher liked it, but they said you got to double the length. So I went back to school to try to figure out how to double the length. And was was able to do it, and decided to move on to personal memoir and personal storytelling, such as goes on at the moth but a little more personal than that. Some of the material that I was reading in the memoir section of a bookstore was very, very personal and was very helpful to read about people who've gone through particular issues in their childhood. Mine not being physical abuse or sexual abuse, mine being death and loss, which is different. And so that became a focus of my graduate thesis, and many people were urging me to write a memoir. Someone said, you need to do a one man show. So I entered the Hollywood fringe and did a one man show and got good reviews and had a good time and did another one man show the next year and and so on. So But writing memoir as anybody knows, and they're probably listeners who are either taking memoir courses online or who may be actively writing memoirs or short memoir pieces, as everybody knows it, can put you through moods from absolutely ecstatic, oh my gosh, I got this done. I got this story told, and someone liked it, to oh my gosh, I'm so depressed I don't understand why. Oh, wait a minute, I was writing about such and such today. Yeah. So that's the challenge for the memoir is for the personal storyteller, it's also, you know, and it's more of a challenge than it is for the reader, unless it's bad writing and the reader can't stand that. For me as a reader, I'm fascinated by people's difficult stories, if they're well   Michael Hingson ** 1:03:24 told well, I know that when in 2002 I was advised to write a book about the World Trade Center experiences and all, and it took eight years to kind of pull it all together. And then I met a woman who actually I collaborated with, Susie Florey, and we wrote thunder dog. And her agent became my agent, who loved the proposal that we sent and actually got a contract within a week. So thunder dog came out in 2011 was a New York Times bestseller, and very blessed by that, and we're working toward the day that it will become a movie still, but it'll happen. And then I wrote a children's version of it, well, not a children's version of the book, but a children's book about me growing up in Roselle, growing up the guide dog who was with me in the World Trade Center, and that's been on Amazon. We self published it. Then last year, we published a new book called Live like a guide dog, which is all about controlling fear and teaching people lessons that I learned prior to September 11. That helped me focus and remain calm.   Bill Ratner ** 1:04:23 What happened to you on September 11,   Michael Hingson ** 1:04:27 I was in the World Trade Center. I worked on the 78th floor of Tower One.   Bill Ratner ** 1:04:32 And what happened? I mean, what happened to you?   Michael Hingson ** 1:04:36 Um, nothing that day. I mean, well, I got out. How did you get out? Down the stairs? That was the only way to go. So, so the real story is not doing it, but why it worked. And the real issue is that I spent a lot of time when I first went into the World Trade Center, learning all I could about what to do in an emergency, talking to police, port authorities. Security people, emergency preparedness people, and also just walking around the world trade center and learning the whole place, because I ran an office for a company, and I wasn't going to rely on someone else to, like, lead me around if we're going to go to lunch somewhere and take people out before we negotiated contracts. So I needed to know all of that, and I learned all I could, also realizing that if there ever was an emergency, I might be the only one in the office, or we might be in an area where people couldn't read the signs to know what to do anyway. And so I had to take the responsibility of learning all that, which I did. And then when the planes hit 18 floors above us on the other side of the building, we get we had some guests in the office. Got them out, and then another colleague, who was in from our corporate office, and I and my guide dog, Roselle, went to the stairs, and we started down. And   Bill Ratner ** 1:05:54 so, so what floor did the plane strike?   Michael Hingson ** 1:05:58 It struck and the NOR and the North Tower, between floors 93 and 99 so I just say 96 okay, and you were 20 floors down, 78 floors 78 so we were 18 floors below, and   Bill Ratner ** 1:06:09 at the moment of impact, what did you think?   Michael Hingson ** 1:06:13 Had no idea we heard a muffled kind of explosion, because the plane hit on the other side of the building, 18 floors above us. There was no way to know what was going on. Did you feel? Did you feel? Oh, the building literally tipped, probably about 20 feet. It kept tipping. And then we actually said goodbye to each other, and then the building came back upright. And then we went,   Bill Ratner ** 1:06:34 really you so you thought you were going to die?   Michael Hingson ** 1:06:38 David, my colleague who was with me, as I said, he was from our California office, and he was there to help with some seminars we were going to be doing. We actually were saying goodbye to each other because we thought we were about to take a 78 floor plunge to the street, when the building stopped tipping and it came back. Designed to do that by the architect. It was designed to do that, which is the point, the point.   Bill Ratner ** 1:07:02 Goodness, gracious. And then did you know how to get to the stairway?   Michael Hingson ** 1:07:04 Oh, absolutely. And did you do it with your friend? Yeah, the first thing we did, the first thing we did is I got him to get we had some guests, and I said, get him to the stairs. Don't let him take the elevators, because I knew he had seen fire above us, but that's all we knew. And but I said, don't take the elevators. Don't let them take elevators. Get them to the stairs and then come back and we'll leave. So he did all that, and then he came back, and we went to the stairs and started down.   Bill Ratner ** 1:07:33 Wow. Could you smell anything?   Michael Hingson ** 1:07:36 We smelled burning jet fuel fumes on the way down. And that's how we figured out an airplane must have hit the building, but we had no idea what happened. We didn't know what happened until the until both towers had collapsed, and I actually talked to my wife, and she's the one who told us how to aircraft have been crashed into the towers, one into the Pentagon, and a fourth, at that time, was still missing over Pennsylvania. Wow. So you'll have to go pick up a copy of thunder dog. Goodness. Good. Thunder dog. The name of the book is Thunder dog, and the book I wrote last year is called Live like a guide dog. It's le

Este año nos convertimos en ángel y diablo para la nueva edición de Radio Mictlán, desde el museo panteón de San Fernando en la Ciudad de México. Disfruta de estos relatos de ultratumba, apaga la luz y abramos camino a nuestros difuntos. Agradecimiento especial a Zazil make up por convertirnos en ángel y diablo. También a nuestro equipo maldito que se rifó en la producción, Roberto Fragoso (Producente) que estuvo en cámara y post, a todo el equipo del museo panteón que nos abrieron las puertas, así como a las personas que nos enviaron sus relatos. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Charlamos con Miryam Moya, perito judicial, sobre su libro "La última palabra de Marta". En él, revisa toda la información relativa al caso Marta del Castillo y ofrece su punto de vista, teniendo en cuenta las pruebas forenses.¿Qué versión de las 7 que dio Miguel Carcaño es la más fiable? ¿Participó alguien más en el crimen? ¿Qué papel considera que tuvieron el Cuco, Samuel, su hermano Javier y la novia de este? Además, hablamos sobre el famoso informe de Lazarus sobre el móvil de Miguel Carcaño, asesino confeso de Marta del Castillo. Miryam Moya nos cuenta que, el día que le quitó la vida a la joven sevillana, borró dos fotos que podrían indicar dónde está (o estuvo) el cuerpo, que nunca fue hallado.

(Día del Arquitecto en España) En la undécima carta de las veintiuna que conforman la biografía novelada que se titula Yo, Gaudí —escrita por el productor musical barcelonés Xavier Güell, tataranieto de Eusebio Güell, quien financió la mayoría de los proyectos del famoso arquitecto catalán— Antoni Gaudí le escribe a su joven amigo Alfonso Trías acerca del obispo Grau. Gaudí conocía a Alfonso desde su niñez, ya que Alfonso era hijo del abogado Martí Trías, su vecino del Parque Güell. «El obispo Grau fue mi consejero espiritual, además de mi amigo — escribe Gaudí—. Tenía un corazón de oro, y... en cualquier situación, por difícil que fuera, podías confiar en él.... »[Cuando yo me encontraba trabajando en el palacio Güell, Grau me dijo:] “El palacio episcopal de Astorga ha sido reducido a escombros.... Quiero construir un nuevo palacio cuanto antes.... Una vez le oí [a usted] decir que para edificar el templo de la Sagrada Familia se proponía seguir la tradición mediterránea.... Eso es justamente lo que me propongo hacer....” »Acepté el encargo... [y] meses más tarde le envié los planos.... [Pero los] expertos en arquitectura en la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando de Madrid... [consideraron] que en el proyecto había muchos defectos.... Viajé a Astorga bastante enfadado... [pero] a mi llegada... quedé sorprendido al descubrir sobre el terreno que mis cálculos iniciales, llevados a cabo a través de fotografías, estaban equivocados. No me costó reconocerlo, [así que] le dije que haría las rectificaciones oportunas. »Grau me miró complacido [y respondió:] “Compruebo que, además de tener gran talento, es usted humilde. ¡Alabado sea Dios por ello! ... Con [la humildad] la vida se ve de otra manera.... Lo contrario de la humildad no es la soberbia, como se piensa, sino el empecinamiento. ¡Hay tantos tercos en este mundo! ...” »[Yo] no estaba de acuerdo con la última parte de su reflexión —aclara Gaudí—.... Para mí, lo opuesto a la humildad sí es la soberbia. Esta es siempre gratuita y no reporta satisfacción alguna; cuando uno tiene la desgracia de creerse superior es que no lo es en absoluto. Por el contrario, la obstinación, cualidad si no igual al menos parecida a la de la terquedad, en múltiples ocasiones procura beneficios. »Mi vida es un claro ejemplo de ello.... He luchado por ir más allá de lo permitido.... Todo eso habría sido imposible sin obstinación. Te diré algo más: estoy convencido de que sin ella no se puede crear. No enfrentarse a las cosas con obstinación implica pereza, falta de carácter. Cuando uno sabe lo que quiere, se [llena de] entusiasmo; en cambio, cuando duda, no encuentra nunca la hora de empezar.»1 Quiera Dios que aprendamos, tanto de Grau como de Gaudí, que si queremos alcanzar metas grandes y maravillosas, más vale que seamos humildes, poniendo todo nuestro empeño con obstinación pero sin que importen nuestros propios intereses, pues la Biblia dice que «Dios se opone a los orgullosos, pero brinda su ayuda a los humildes».2 Carlos ReyUn Mensaje a la Concienciawww.conciencia.net 1 Xavier Güell, Yo, Gaudí (Narrativa) (Barcelona: Galaxia Gutenberg, 2019), pp. 135-46. 2 Stg 4:6 (TLA); cf. Pr 3:34 (TLA) y Fil 2:3-11

Monchi, sobre el nuevo CD San Fernando 1940: "Esto es la cuadratura del círculo de mi vida"

Con una introducción de la guitarra de Jesús Guerrero, un viaje por Cádiz capital, con paradas en la Isla de San Fernando y Sanlúcar de Barrameda en las voces de hoy: Carmen de la Jara, Encarna Anillo, Jesús Castilla, José Anillo, Laura Vital y David Palomar.Escuchar audio

Actualidad del Cádiz CF, palabras de Monchi presidente del San Fernando. Tertulia de El Paro con Marcos Romero y José Manuel Figueroa

Born in East L.A., raised in San Fernando, CD7 Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez is passionate, prepared, and persistent about positive change in L.A. and the impact she's already had on her district is palpable. Starting with one of her mantras, "A Clean City is a Safe City," Monica has strong thoughts about improving Los Angeles, especially in light of a difficult 2025.

En COPE se informa del asesinato de Charlie Kirk, activista pro-Trump, de un disparo en el cuello en una universidad de Utah, delante de su familia. David Alandete destaca que es una ejecución y condena a quienes la justifican. En el debate sobre el estado de la región en la Asamblea de Madrid, la presidenta Isabel Díaz Ayuso anuncia medidas para la segunda mitad de la legislatura, incluyendo una ley para proteger al concebido no nacido. También se prevé la reapertura en noviembre de la línea 7B de Metro de Madrid. Vecinos de San Fernando de Henares denuncian problemas de infraestructuras y solicitan más indemnizaciones. En los mercados, el BCE mantiene los tipos de interés en el 2% y el Euríbor en septiembre se sitúa en el 2,17%, lo que sigue afectando a los hipotecados. El Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU debatirá la incursión de drones rusos en Polonia. La UEFA anuncia que el Metropolitano será sede de la final de Champions 2027. Además, se aborda en COPE la falta de preparación ...

Cartel violence in Mexico has been marked by some of the most shocking atrocities in modern criminal history, blending organized crime with open terror. The Los Zetas cartel became infamous for mass killings such as the 2010 massacre of 72 migrants in Tamaulipas, and the 2011 San Fernando massacre where 193 kidnapped bus passengers were tortured, murdered, and buried in mass graves. They further displayed their brutality in 2012 by leaving 49 decapitated and mutilated bodies along a highway in Nuevo León. These atrocities were not just acts of violence, but public spectacles designed to enforce fear, dominance, and territorial control across swathes of Mexico.More recently, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) has escalated the brutality through methods that resemble war crimes. Authorities uncovered “schools of terror” where teenage recruits were forced into cannibalism, mutilation, and psychological training to become hardened killers. In Jalisco, investigators also discovered an extermination camp with ovens and human remains, underscoring the industrial scale of cartel violence. With over 120,000 people reported missing in Mexico, these discoveries highlight how cartels have transformed from profit-driven enterprises into entities that use mass atrocities, ritualized violence, and fear-based governance as central tools of power.to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comsource:Baja, Chihuahua among top 3 in Mexico for ‘atrocities' | BorderReport

David Wolfin, President and CEO, and Nathan Harte, CFO of Avino Silver and Gold Mines (TSX:ASM – NYSE:ASM), both join me for a video review of the key metrics and takeaways from the record Q2 2025 financials and operations.  Then we take a deeper dive into the future grade-driven growth from the development of the La Preciosa Mine, slated to have initial production begin ramping up in Q4 of this year.    Second Quarter 2025 Financial Highlights (compared to Q2 2024)   Robust Revenues: Avino realized revenues of $21.8 million, representing a 47% increase from $14.8 million, primarily as a result of increased metal prices and consistent production. Quarterly Profits: Net income after taxes was $2.9 million, or $0.02 per share, an increase from $1.2 million, or $0.01 per share. Operating Margins Remain Elevated: Gross profit, or mine operating income, was $10.2 million and represented an increase of 118% from $4.8 million. Strong EBITDA and Adjusted Earnings: The Company realized earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, or EBITDA, of $7.4 million, up 118% from $3.4 million. Adjusted earnings3 was $8.8 million, or $0.06 per share, an increase of 103% from $4.3 million and $0.03 per share. Improved Costs per Ounce Metrics: Cash costs per silver equivalent payable ounce sold1,2,3 was $15.11, and all-in sustaining cash costs per silver equivalent payable ounce sold1,2,3 was $20.93, a reduction of 7% and 8%, respectively. Increased Working Capital from Cash Flow: The Company's balance sheet continued to strengthen with working capital1 increasing to $40.6 million, up $9.2 million, or 30% from $31.3 million at the end of Q1 2025, as a result of another quarter of cash generation. Index Inclusion in Q2 2025: Early July, Avino was included in the S&P/TSX Global Mining Index having been officially recognized as part of a global benchmark for the mining sector. In addition, as announced on May 1, 2025, Avino received inclusion into the Solactive Global Silver Miners Index, further solidifying Avino as an established silver producer with a growing production profile. Avino expects further index inclusion in the coming months, which should provide additional liquidity and opportunities for increasing institutional ownership.   2nd Quarter Operating Highlights (Compared to Q2 2024)   Silver Equivalent Production Increased 5%:Avino produced 645,602 silver equivalent ounces in Q2 2025, representing a 5% increase from Q2 of 2024. This increase was driven by significantly improved mill availability, with the highest quarterly mill throughput in history. Record Mill Throughput: In Q2 2025, Avino achieved 36% higher mill throughput versus Q2 2024, totalling a quarterly record of 190,987 tonnes of material. Gold Production Increased 17%: Q2 2025 production of 1,774 gold ounces represented a 17% increase compared to Q2 2024. This improved production resulted from the increased tonnes processed, alongside significant improvements in gold recoveries to 74% from 70% in Q2 of 2024. Copper Production Increased 12%: Avino produced 1.5 million pounds of copper in Q2 2025, a 12% increase compared to Q2 2024. Silver Production decreased 3%:Silver production for Q2 2025 was 283,619 ounces, representing a 3% decrease compared to Q2 2024.   La Preciosa Update   Blasting and construction of the relatively short 360 meter San Fernando main access decline is underway, and equipment mobilization has been swift, allowing development to advance on plan. The new jumbo drill is working on this ramp as it progresses toward intercepting the Gloria and Abundancia veins.   Wrapping up we cover the Company's 5-year production growth plan, to become a Mexican intermediate silver producer, with the development of both the La Preciosa Project in 2025 leading to meaningful production growth in 2026 and 2027, and then the Tailings Project augmenting production and costs starting in 2028.   If you have any follow up questions for David regarding Avino Silver and Gold then please email me at Shad@kereport.com.   In full disclosure, Shad is a shareholder of Avino Silver & Gold at the time of this recording.   Click here to follow the latest news from Avino Silver and Gold Mines

Welcome to an unmissable episode of The Taproom Podcast, where host Mike sits down with Paul Trevino, also known as @Brewfighter818, from San Fernando Brewing. It's not just about the craft beer this time; the conversation quickly dives into a delectable world of culinary experiences, turning a simple beer podcast into a mouth-watering narrative. Join us as we explore Paul's transition from a culinary background to brewing, highlighting how his passion for food influences his approach to creating craft beer. Discover the stories behind San Fernando Brewing's community-driven initiatives and events, along with some unforgettable brewing tales (and a few misadventures) along the way. Whether you're a beer aficionado or a culinary enthusiast, this episode promises a flavorful blend of both worlds, celebrating the art of brewing and the joys of cooking. Don't miss out on this exciting narrative that calls out to support local breweries and savor every sip and bite!

Finaliza definitivamente la huelga de autobuses de Cádiz y San Fernando, al ratificar los trabajadores el acuerdo del convenio colectivo. La vendimia comenzará en la segunda semana de agosto con un 30% de merma por el mildiu, según el Consejo Regulador. Tenemos 25 grados a esta hora en Cádiz. Las máximas hoy: 32 en la capital, 36 en Jerez y 27 en Algeciras, con aviso amarillo por el viento de levante en el Estrecho, donde puede alcanzar rachas de 80 kilómetros.Escuchar audio

Así los quiero: Finaliza definitivamente la huelga de autobuses de Cádiz y San Fernando, al ratificar los trabajadores el acuerdo del convenio colectivo. La vendimia comenzará en la segunda semana de agosto con un 30% de merma por el mildiu, según el Consejo Regulador. Tenemos 25 grados a esta hora en Cádiz. Las máximas hoy: 32 en la capital, 36 en Jerez y 27 en Algeciras, con aviso amarillo por el viento de levante en el Estrecho, donde puede alcanzar rachas de 80 kilómetros.Escuchar audio

Hoy no hay huelga de autobuses urbanos en Cádiz y San Fernando, tras el nuevo acuerdo alcanzado ayer, que se someterá a votación hoy por la plantilla. La Junta estudiará la apertura de nuevos senderos en el Parque Natural de Grazalema, algunos entre pinsapos. Tenemos 21,5 grados a esta hora en Cádiz, las máximas hoy: 28 en la capital, 35 en Jerez y 27 en Algeciras, donde ya se empieza a notar el levante, que mañana se extenderá al resto.Escuchar audio

Veinte días después, los autobuses urbanos de Cádiz y San Fernando vuelven a circular hoy con normalidad después del preacuerdo alcanzado entre Comité y empresa concesionaria a última hora de este lunes. Un preacuerdo, eso sí, que está siendo votando durante toda la jornada de hoy por los trabajadores, que recordamos, ya tumbaron otro preacuerdo. En este caso se espera un resultado diferente debido a que todos los sindicatos lo respaldan.El presidente de la Junta, Juanma Moreno, ha reiterado su intención de llegar hasta el final de la legislatura, pero no descarta un adelanto si el presidente del Gobierno, Pedro Sánchez, convocase unas elecciones. Desde el PSOE andaluz acusan a Moreno de agitar el debate político.Huelva contará con un Hospital Materno-Infantil. Era la única capital andaluza sin este tipo centro y hoy la Junta de Andalucía ha anunciado la licitación de las obras de construcción del nuevo Hospital que se integrará en el complejo del Juan Ramón Jiménez y contará con un presupuesto de 85 millones de euros.Ganaderos andaluces afectados por un nuevo brote de lengua azul piden ayudas a las administraciones. Sólo en la comarca malagueña del Guadalhorce, donde se ha originado este brote, hay más de 2.000 cabezas de ganado muertas.Un hombre ha sido detenido en Guaro, en Málaga, después de presuntamente darle una paliza a su pareja embarazada de casi siete meses. La mujer está hospitalizada estable y, en principio, el feto no ha sufrido daños. El hombre ha sido arrestado después de estar huido desde el sábado, día en el que ocurrieron los hechos.Escuchar audio

Empresa y trabajadores de los autobuses urbanos de Cádiz y San Fernando retoman hoy las negociaciones, cuando se cumplen 19 días de huelga. En El Puerto de Santa María, la plataforma El Puerto para Vivir convoca una concentración esta tarde contra el turismo de borrachera. Tenemos 22 grados a esta hora en Cádiz. Hoy, máximas de 27 en la capital, 33 en Algeciras y 34 en Jerez.Escuchar audio

Sigue la huelga de autobuses urbanos de Cádiz y San Fernando, tras haber acuerdo en el Sercla, donde hoy se reúnen empresas y trabajadores del reparto de butano, para tratar evitar las 7 jornadas de huelga convocadas, la primera el próximo lunes. Y un informe de Greepeace advierte que las playas de Cádiz y El Puerto perderán hasta 22 metros de anchura por la subida del nivel del mar.Escuchar audio

Larz and Carz discuss the news that has shockwaves rippling through the streets of Los Angeles: Jax Taylor is not returning to The Valley for season three. They break down what they know, what they don't, and the horseshoe theory connecting Jax's haters to the social media trolls that caused Jahnet to flee to Switzerland with Jason and her baby.In the penultimate episode, the San Fernando crew is back on the mainland, still recovering from Doute's whirlwind engagement and Jahnet's unbearable rindomness. Jasmine reveals she's a realtor and shows Nia and Danny a hovel in Sherman Oaks, Jahnet and Jason get matching ring tats, Jax pays his respects to Doute and Luke, and invites Jesse over to his tower of terror townhouse. Nia heads into body horror territory with a mommy makeover consultation as Brittany models some James Mae tees, all while squaring off with Jax in person, revealing that the fan-to-star pipeline is more powerful than we even understand.Chapters:00:00:00 Mango is in the stu!00:00:42 Jax is leaving The Valley...00:05:49 Janet has fled to Switzerland!00:27:24 The Valley Recap!Listen to this episode ad-free AND get access to weekly bonus episodes + video bonus episodes by joining the SUP Patreon. Watch video episodes of the pod on Mondays and Fridays by subscribing to the SUP YouTube. Relive the best moments of this iconic podcast by following the SUP TikTok. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SACRAMENTO, CA – Today, Assemblywoman Celeste Rodriguez (D-San Fernando) introduces her first bill in the 2025-26 legislative session, AB 495 – The Family Safety Plan Act, which will provide support to immigrant and mixed-status families by ensuring safety plans are in place in the event of immigration enforcement actions.“The threats from the federal administration have led to fear in many communities including mine,” said Assemblywoman Celeste Rodriguez. “We must do everything we can to safeguard families from separation and ensure children are supported. AB 495 is a critical tool that will preserve California's families.”Forty-five percent of California children have at least one immigrant parent. An estimated 1 million children in California have at least one undocumented parent, and approximately 133,000 children in California public schools are undocumented. This bill protects children in immigrant families by ensuring that families have safety plans in place in case of immigration enforcement actions.Assemblywoman Rodriguez represents the 43rd Assembly District, which includes the City of San Fernando and communities across the Northeast San Fernando Valley, including Arleta, Sun Valley, Sylmar, Pacoima, Panorama City, North Hollywood, Lake View Terrace, Valley Glen, Mission Hills and North Hills.

El Sercla cita hoy a empresa y trabajadores de los autobuses urbanos de Cádiz y San Fernando, cuando se cumple una semana de huelga indefinida. Y el portaeronaves Juan Carlos I, entra hoy al astillero de Puerto Real para una varada de 3 meses, que dará empleo diario a unos 400 trabajadores de la industria auxiliar.Escuchar audio

Entrevista a Monchi, con el que hablamos del descenso del San Fernando. Eurocopa femenina. Tour de Francia. La Contraportada: Sergio Turull.

Sexto día de la huelga de autobuses en Cádiz y San Fernando, sin perspectivas de acuerdo y con el inicio esta noche de la feria de San Fernando. La Marea Blanca advierte de que el 75% de los centros de salud no abrirá por la tardes este verano y sólo habrá intervenciones quirúrgicas urgentes. Y ya está en el astillero de Cádiz la fragata Numancia con trabajo para 45 dias.Escuchar audio

El director deportivo del Aston Villa se ha movilizado para intentar salvar al San Fernando de la desaparición.

El director deportivo del Aston Villa se ha movilizado para intentar salvar al San Fernando de la desaparición.

Hoy entra en el astillero de Cádiz la fragata Numancia para una varada de 40 días, en los que generará unos 400 empleos diarios.Se cumple hoy el quinto día de la huelga indefinida de los la autobuses urbanos de Cádiz y San Fernando, sin perspectiva de solución de momento. Y la Marea Blanca se concentra hoy ante la dirección del distrito sanitario de la Bahía de Cádiz, por el plan de verano.Escuchar audio

Picasso tuvo un barbero que se convirtió en su amigo más cercano durante los años del exilio. Se llamaba Eugenio Arias y fue mucho más que un peluquero: compartió dos décadas de complicidad con el artista, que le hizo numerosos regalos a lo largo del tiempo. De esa amistad nace el Museo Picasso-Colección Eugenio Arias, que puede visitarse hoy en Buitrago del Lozoya, el pueblo madrileño donde residió Arias. También surge de ahí la obra de teatro 'El barbero de Picasso', que se representa en el Teatro Español de Madrid. Escrita por Borja Ortiz de Gondra, dirigida por Chiqui Carabante y con un reparto encabezado por Pepe Viyuela y Antonio Molero, la obra reflexiona sobre la tauromaquia, la política, la nostalgia de país y, sobre todo, el valor de los vínculos.Desde la Semana Negra de Gijón, Laura Fernández abre un nuevo My Little Corner of the World, su espacio literario. Antes de adentrarse en lo negro, comenta el lanzamiento de la semana: 'Apuntes para John', de Joan Didion. Una obra póstuma publicada por Random House que plantea dilemas editoriales y personales, ya que no está claro si la autora estadounidense deseaba ver este texto en librerías.La música final del programa la pone el homenaje a Gustavo Torner. Nacido en Cuenca en 1925, su nombre está más presente de lo que parece en el paisaje urbano: es el autor de la escultura que da nombre a la plaza de los Cubos en Madrid y de algunas de las vidrieras de la Catedral de Cuenca. Coincidiendo con su centenario, la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando y otras instituciones revisan su obra con varias exposiciones que destacan su contribución a la abstracción y a la integración del arte en el espacio público. Lo cuenta Ángela Núñez.Escuchar audio

El  viernes 26 de mayo de 2000 Klara Garcia Casado quedo en el descampado del Barredo, con sus antiguas amigas, Iria y Raquel.  Alli acudio para recordar viejos tiempos, pero sus amigas tenian planificado algo que nunca hubiera podido sospechar nadie...Puedes ayudar a la viabilidad de este podcast y convertirte en PRODUCTOR de nuestros episodios invitándonos a un café en https://ko-fi.com/detrasdelaverdad79486o a través de la cuenta de PayPal detrasdelaverdadpodcast@outlook.es Por pequeña que sea tu aportación para nosotros será MUY IMPORTANTE.Si Quieres dar a conocer tu producto o servicio, Necesitas comunicar alguna promoción o novedad importante, y quieres PATROCINAR NUESTROS EPISODIOS ponte en contacto con nosotros a través del correo detrasdelaverdadpodcast@outlook.es a través de telegran @franxauenVías de contacto:Twitter @detrasdelaverTelegram: detrásdelaverdadpodcast enlace de invitacion: https://t.me/detrasdelaverdadpodcastCorreo electrónico: detrasdelaverdadpodcast@outlook.es

En San Fernando, Cádiz, el 26 de mayo de 2000, Klara García, de 16 años, fue brutalmente asesinada por sus "mejores amigas", Iria y Raquel, las "Brujas de San Fernando". ¿La razón? Puro morbo, inspiradas por el asesino de la katana y su obsesión con lo satánico.

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Párdete conmigo un cuartito de silencio. Préstame esta noche tu maleta de los sueños. O me besas un pulso o jugamos un sencillo. Fróntate conmigo hasta que me saquen brillo. Llévame esta noche a San Fernando. Iremos un ratito a pie y otro caminando. Súbeme al monte de las siete verdades. Enséñame a besar como tú solo sabes. Llévame esta noche a San Fernando. Iremos un ratito a pie y otro caminando. Que si me paro, el huelo me puede. Y si me puede, me meto en la cama, que es donde mejor se está cuando llueve, que ya no me paro ni un momento, antes de que se nos lleve el viento. Llévame a ese ...

This week we celebrate Hollywood Howard's birthday with Audrey Hollander. We talk about being love bombed, her return to porn and how she REALLY left the seminary.  Follow Brian on Threads, Instagram and X - Support the show and get bonus audio/video episodes, ringtones, bonus footage and more!! All at patreon.com/brianmccarthy. 

Episode #152: Experience the vibrant world of Iconic Nation Media with our special guests, Yvette Inclan, Director of Content Strategy, and Seth Hauer, Head of Production. Learn how Seth transformed his career from a small-town Pennsylvania dreamer to a powerhouse at Lionsgate, working on major HBO shows and evaluating scripts for feature films. Yvette's journey is no less remarkable, having found her way to us through a serendipitous encounter with a psychic. Together, they shed light on the creative process behind our social media and video content, as well as the exciting developments, including a new studio and fresh show segments that promise to elevate your listening experience. Join us as we embrace the chaos and creativity of podcasting, navigating technical challenges and the self-consciousness that often plagues hosts. Our team's bond has been strengthened through shared experiences of loss and grief, fostering a work environment rich in humor and authenticity. From the bustling San Fernando and Conejo Valleys, we share candid moments and personal stories, reflecting on the nuances of podcasting and the vibrant culture that surrounds us. Our conversation highlights the importance of spontaneity, as we recount tales of resolving technical difficulties and making bold life choices guided by intuition and trusted advice. Explore the intricate dance of Los Angeles culture and long-distance love as we reveal personal anecdotes about relocating, navigating the LA social scene, and the trials of long-distance relationships. Amidst discussions on the post-strike state of the TV industry and our guilty pleasures in reality TV, we also emphasize the significance of authenticity and passion in work. Our admiration for iconic figures like Oprah and John Cameron Mitchell underscores our commitment to queer storytelling. As we wrap up, we express our gratitude for the engaging discussion and invite you to continue the conversation with us on social media. Chapters: (00:00) Meet the Iconic Nation Dream Team (13:19) Behind the Scenes of Podcasting (24:35) Embracing Spontaneity in Podcasting (31:16) Navigating LA Culture and Long-Distance Love (36:25) TV Industry and Reality TV Discussion (45:05) Embracing Authenticity in Work Culture (57:16) Dream Guests and Queer Passion Follow Kimberly on Instagram and TikTok @kimberlylovi or @iconicnationmedia

Join our Patreon family for exclusive access to BTS, bonus episodes, a private group chat, first dibs on ticket and merch sales, and more! www.Patreon.com/PsychopediaPod Miriam Rodríguez was a 56-year-old mother living in San Fernando, Tamaulipas, when her life was shattered in 2014. Her 20-year-old daughter, Karen, was kidnapped by members of Los Zetas—one of Mexico's most brutal and violent drug cartels. Despite paying a ransom, Miriam never saw her daughter alive again. Karen's remains were discovered nearly two years later, buried in a shallow grave. But Miriam didn't just grieve—she transformed. Fueled by anguish and an unshakable sense of justice, she launched her own investigation, meticulously tracking down her daughter's killers one by one. Disguising herself, using fake identities, and gathering intelligence like a seasoned detective, she helped locate and bring nearly a dozen cartel members to justice—essentially building cases where law enforcement had failed or refused to act.  Miriam's astounding story remains a searing indictment of government inaction, cartel terror, and the price of speaking truth to power in a country where justice is often buried alongside the victims. Patreon (join us!): www.patreon.com/psychopediapod Instagram: @psychopediapod @tank.sinatra @investigatorslater Email: psychopediapod@gmail.com Website: www.psychopediapodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Just because an event "has to" happen, some people think that, of course, it will happen. It ain't necessarily so! Ballard had but a few hours to solve the problem, and he knew that the answer was there, before his eyes—if he could see it in time! Momentum by Charles Dye. That's next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.We are so thankful for your 5 star reviews and they are coming in faster than ever. RCraig had this to say on Apple Podcasts US, “ Sci-Fi at its best! This is the best of the best sci-fi podcasts. I love the stories and the narration and I highly recommend this podcast to anyone who like science fiction!” Thanks RCraig for the 5 stars and that awesome review. We would love it if you would leave us a 5 star review on Apple Podcasts, if you think we deserve it. And even though Spotify doesn't allow reviews you can give us 5 stars on Spotify, where we currently enjoy a 4.9 rating.Thanks for everything you do to support our podcast.Another podcast and another author makes his debut. Charles Dye was born in San Fernando, California, in 1925. His first published story, The Last Orbit, appeared in the February 1950 issue of Amazing Stories. He is credited with having written seventeen short stories and one novel. One of the stories Charles Dye is known for wasn't actually written by him. If you open Planet Stories magazine from July 1952, you'll find The Man Who Staked the Stars credited to Dye. However, the story was actually written by Katherine MacLean, who was briefly married to him. The reason MacLean gave Dye credit remains unknown.By the way, The Man Who Staked the Stars is a novella—a work of fiction longer than a short story but shorter than a full-length novel, typically ranging from 17,500 to 40,000 words, according to the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association.Let's peel back the pages of Future combined with Science Fiction Stories in July 1951 to page 59, Momentum by Charles Dye…Next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, I don't normally do this but the story you will hear next on the podcast is one of my favorites, The last living man on a world rendered utterly lifeless by all–consuming fire– how could he start life alone? Adam and No Eve by Alfred Bester.☕ Buy Me a Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/scottsV===========================