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Latest podcast episodes about Seeger

iCatMans
Seeger a l'Ebre

iCatMans

Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2025 61:55


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The Real News Podcast
Pete Seeger: Singing for change | Ep 28 Stories of Resistance

The Real News Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 2, 2025 5:15


Folk musician. Banjo player. Singer of songs of unity. He sang songs of joy. He sang for the unions. He sang for the people. For the workers and the downtrodden. He sang songs for change. Civil Rights songs. Folk songs. Despite the Red Scare and McCarthy's witch hunt, Pete Seeger sang on, helping to inspire the folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s. And he would continue to sing and play throughout his life.Pete Seeger died at the age of 94, in 2014.This is episode 28 of Stories of Resistance — a podcast co-produced by The Real News and Global Exchange. Independent investigative journalism, supported by Global Exchange's Human Rights in Action program. Each week, we'll bring you stories of resistance like this. Inspiration for dark times. If you like what you hear, please subscribe, like, share, comment, or leave a review. You can also follow Michael's reporting and support at patreon.com/mfox. Written and produced by Michael Fox.Here is a great 2007 PBS documentary about Pete Seeger's life. It's called "The Power of Song.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Czk2hj4VISgSubscribe to Stories of Resistance podcast hereBecome a member and join the Stories of Resistance Supporters Club today!Sign up for our newsletterFollow us on BlueskyLike us on FacebookFollow us on TwitterDonate to support this podcast

SWR1 Namenforscher
SWR1 Namenforscher Prof. Udolph klärt den Nachnamen Seeger

SWR1 Namenforscher

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2025 2:51


Er stammt aus Brandenburg, wuchs in der Pfalz auf – und sein Name Seeger trägt mehr Geschichte in sich, als man denkt. Was hat das mit der DDR und alten Vornamen zu tun?

C. Creativity Club
World Creativity & Innovation Week - Katharina Seeger: Breathe, Move, Strategize!

C. Creativity Club

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2025 52:09


In diesem Podcast Impuls-Workshop geht es um die Verbindung von Körperbewusstsein, Atmung und Kreativität in der Führung. Katharina Seeger zeigt, wie wir durch bewusste Atmung und Bewegung Zugang zu mehr Klarheit und Kreativität erhalten können. Der Workshop führt durch die Auswirkungen von Stress auf den Körper und die Bedeutung von Emotionen für kreative Prozesse.Praktische Übungen helfen den Teilnehmenden, ihre Körperwahrnehmung zu schärfen und ihre Emotionen als Ressource zu nutzen. TakeawaysKreativität kann in stressigen Situationen entstehen.Vorbereitung ermöglicht bessere Improvisation.Stress hat sowohl mentale als auch körperliche Auswirkungen.Emotionen müssen verarbeitet werden, um klar zu denken.Körperbewusstsein steigert die Führungsstärke.Innere Sicherheit fördert psychologische Sicherheit im Team.Emotionen sind entscheidend für kreative Problemlösungen.Regelmäßige Reflexion und Austausch sind wichtig.Das innere Team hilft bei der kreativen Problemlösung.Kreativität erfordert Raum für Emotionen.  Kapitel00:00 Einführung in den Workshop und die Herausforderungen der Führung02:50 Katharina Seeger: Kreativität und persönliche Ansätze05:27 Der Kontext: Stress und Herausforderungen in derheutigen Zeit09:15 Der Stresszyklus und seine Auswirkungen auf den Körper11:04 Emotionen, Kreativität und Führungsstärke14:27 Praktische Übungen: Atmung, Bewegung und Strategie20:51 Intuitive Körperbewegung und Box-Atmung26:20 Reflexion und das innere Team27:17 Das innere Team und seine Bedeutung33:27 Reflexion und Identifikation der inneren Teammitglieder39:37 Emotionen als Superpower für Kreativität44:45 Die Rolle von Gemeinschaft und Austausch51:24 Abschluss und Ausblick auf zukünftige ThemenFür einen tieferen Austausch mit Katharina und mir und weitere Impulse zu den Themen Inner Development und Kreativität lade ich dich ein, Teil der ⁠⁠soluvaire Community⁠⁠ zu werden.

Hack My Age
ChatGPT Detox Advice Fact Checked By An Expert - Judy Seeger

Hack My Age

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2025 39:39


Ever Googled detox tips and left more confused than when you started? In this episode, I asked ChatGPT the most common detox questions—then brought in expert naturopath Judy Seeger to weigh in. You'll hear what's fact, what's fiction, and what might just surprise you. We cover:  -  Juice cleanses - Charcoal & binders -  Fasting, sweating & skin brushing - Glutathione, liver cleanses, foot baths ...and more!   Judy Seeger N.D.  is a traditional naturopath who is an expert on all things detox. For over 20 years she uses foods, therapies, and lifestyle practices, as well as natural immune boosters, to detox the body and has worked extensively in the Cancer and Autoimmune communities. Detox Masterclass: https://judyseegerdetox.com/Disease-free-detox/ Contact  Judy Seeger: Website: https://judyseegerdetox.com/ Email: info@judyseegerdetox.com   Give thanks to our sponsors: Qualia senolytics and brain supplements. 15% off with code ZORA here. Try Vitali skincare. 20% off with code ZORA here  Get Primeadine spermidine by Oxford Healthspan. 15% discount with code ZORA ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Get Mitopure Urolithin A by Timeline. 10% discount with code ZORA at https://timeline.com/zora Try Suji to improve muscle 10% off with code ZORA at TrySuji.com  Get Magnesium Breakthrough by Bioptimizers. 10% discount with code HACKMYAGE at https://bioptimizers.com/hackmyage Try OneSkin skincare with code ZORA for 15% off https://shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=2685556&u=4476154&m=102446&urllink=&afftrack= Join ⁠⁠⁠Biohacking Menopause⁠⁠⁠ before May 1, 2025 to win a bottle of Accelerated Health iodine and Essential Amino Acids! 10% off with code ZORA at AcceleratedHealth.com   Join the Hack My Age community on: Facebook Page: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@⁠Hack My Age⁠     Facebook Group: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@⁠Biohacking Menopause⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠  Private Women's Only Support Group: https://hackmyage.com/biohacking-menopause-membership/ Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@⁠HackMyAge⁠    Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠HackMyAge.com⁠     

Jack of All Trades Sports Podcast
S9 E5 Jack Of All Trades: NBA playoff preview with Chauncey Seeger

Jack of All Trades Sports Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2025 44:00


On this week's episode Jack Berney is joined by Chauncey Seeger to preview the NBA playoffs!

Hinten links im Kaiser Friedrich
Folge 273: Ramona Seeger: Lehrerin und Neustädterin von ganzem Herzen

Hinten links im Kaiser Friedrich

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 5, 2025 52:02


Ramona Seeger ist Lehrerin an der Oberschule Habenhausen und Landesvorstandssprecherin der Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft (GEW) Bremen. Damit sind die Themen der neuen Folge des Podcasts „Hinten links im Kaiser Friedrich“ gesetzt – es geht um die bremische Bildungsmisere und mögliche Auswege, um die Belastung von Lehrerinnen und Lehrern und über den Streit um die Erfassung der Arbeitszeit. Ramona Seeger wirbt aber auch für ihren Beruf, berichtet von ihrer eigenen Schulzeit und von ihrer Liebe zur Neustadt.

Composer of the Week
Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953)

Composer of the Week

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2025 101:19


Between new sounds and old songs, Kate Molleson shares the story of Ruth Crawford-SeegerRuth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953) had multiple lives. As Ruth, she was an aspiring poet and teacher, who longed to become a mother. Crawford the composer wrote some of the most daring pages of 20th-century American music, granting her a place among the group of the 'Ultra-Modernists'. And, as the matriarch of the Seeger dynasty, she collected and arranged countless pieces from treasures of the folk tradition. With Kate Molleson, discover the extraordinary life and work of a major American composer, in a story of creative experimentations, of family bonds, and most of all, of joy in music-making, accompanied by the memories of Crawford's daughter and folk legend, Peggy Seeger.Music Featured: Little Waltz Five Songs to Poems by Carl Sandburg (1, Home Thoughts; 2, White Moon) Theme and Variations Selection from American Folk Songs for Children Diaphonic Suite No 2 for bassoon and cello Kaleidoscopic Changes on an Original Theme, Ending with a Fugue Diaphonic Suite No 3 for Flute Whirligig Preludes for Piano Caprice Sonata for Violin and Piano Trad: Prisoner Blues Music for Small Orchestra Marion Bauer: Four Piano Pieces Selection from 19 American Folk Songs for piano Three Songs to poems by Carl Sandburg Diaphonic Suite No 4 for oboe and violoncello Three Chants for Female Chorus String Quartet Diaphonic Suite No 1 for oboe Selection from Animal Folk Songs for Children Preludes for Piano Two Ricercare to poems by Hsi Tseng Tsiang Peggy Seeger: How I Long For Peace Selection from American Folk Songs for Christmas Andante for strings Trad: "New River Train” Trad: "Midnight Special" Trad: "Irene (Goodnight, Irene)" Charles Seeger: John Hardy Piano Study in Mixed Accents Suite No 1, for five wind instruments and piano Elizabeth Cotten: "Freight Train" Rissolty, Rossolty Piano Sonata Diaphonic Suite for two clarinets Piano Study in Mixed Accents (Version 3) Suite for Wind Quintet Five Canons, for piano Peggy Seeger: "Everything Changes"Presented by Kate Molleson Produced by Julien Rosa for BBC Audio Wales and WestFor full track listings, including artist and recording details, and to listen to the pieces featured in full (for 30 days after broadcast) head to the series page for Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0028k1vAnd you can delve into the A-Z of all the composers we've featured on Composer of the Week here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cjHdZlXwL7W41XGB77X3S0/composers-a-to-z

You Don't Know Lit
245. Oscars

You Don't Know Lit

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2025 50:43


Dylan Goes Electric! Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties by Elijah Wald (2015) vs The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (2019)

Missio Savannah
Kyle Seeger Shares about Fasting and Food in on the Eve of Lent

Missio Savannah

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2025 53:07


Kyle Seeger provides health counseling with an emphasis on metabolic praxis and good food habits. He guides others from a place of earned and gifted wisdom thanks to a life-changing experience with food through faith. In this episode Kyle shares about fasting in its many forms on the eve of Lent. For more from Kyle check out his own podcast . . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz7H48pjeTU

Týdeník Respekt • Podcasty
Dylan vs. Seeger. Jak z folku povstal geniální solitér, který za sebou nechal spoušť

Týdeník Respekt • Podcasty

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 25, 2025 44:04


Bláhová a Turek se dívají o filmu Bob Dylan: Úplně neznámý

Indiana Sports Talk Podcast
11:00 PM - 12:00 AM – (Rich Schelsky, Scott McClelland, Andy Weaver) - 2/21/25

Indiana Sports Talk Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 22, 2025 44:15


After a scoreboard update from Brendan King, coach begins the final hour talking with Rich Schelsky the head coach of Parke Heritage as they defeated Seeger 67-51. He then moves over to Noblesville as he talks with the Head Coach there in Scott McClelland as they defeated Avon 49-46 in overtime. We also hear from Andy Weaver at Plainfield as they saw out a win versus Franklin 70-62. Kip Wesner of the Hoosier basketball magazine then joins the show to discuss the Fishers/Zionsville matchup as well as the magazine. He finishes the show out with Grant Pugh of WTWO who had the privilege of having many games today including Northview beating Terre Haute North 58-56. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Book Review
Is Bob Dylan Still a ‘Complete Unknown'?

The Book Review

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 11, 2025 22:46


Elijah Wald's 2015 book, “Dylan Goes Electric! Newport, Seeger, Dylan and the Night That Split the Sixties,” traces the events that led up to Bob Dylan's memorable performance at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. The book is about Dylan, but also about the folk movement, youth culture, politics and the record business. For the writer and director James Mangold, Wald's work provided an opportunity to tell an unusual story about the musician.“You could structure a screenplay along the lines of what Peter Shaffer did with “Amadeus,'” Mangold told the Book Review editor Gilbert Cruz. “I don't really know what I learned about Mozart watching “Amadeus.” But I do know that I learned a lot about how we mortals feel about people with immense talent.”Mangold's film “A Complete Unknown” is a chronicle of Dylan's early years on the New York folk scene, and it avoids easy explanations for the musician's genius and success. “What if the thing we don't understand, we just don't want to understand,” said Mangold, “which is that he's actually different? That he's just a different kind of person than you or I?”In the second episode of our special series devoted to Oscar-nominated films adapted from books, Cruz talks with Mangold about making a film centered on one of music's most enigmatic figures. Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

Historical Drama with The Boston Sisters
A COMPLETE UNKNOWN: The Artist As Historical Witness (Ep. 65)

Historical Drama with The Boston Sisters

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 28, 2025 44:46


In part two of our conversation about A COMPLETE UNKNOWN, The Boston Sisters (Michon and Taquiena) talk with award winning poet, literary activist and author E. Ethelbert Miller about bringing Bob Dylan's writing into the classroom, and the artist as a witness to history. A COMPLETE UKNOWN is the recent Academy Award-nominated biopic about musician, songwriter Bob Dylan, based on the book by Elijah Wald “Dylan Goes Electric: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, And The Night That Split The Sixties.” Directed by James Mangold, who co wrote the screenplay with Jay Cox, A COMPLETE UNKNOWN, is set against the backdrop of a time of dramatic social, cultural and political change (1961-1965) as a vibrant music scene is happening in New York City. Nineteen-year-old Bob Dylan, portrayed by Timothée Chalamet, arrives in New York from Minnesota with his guitar and revolutionary talent, destined to change the course of American music.  Episode 65 is part 2 of a 2-part conversation about A COMPLETE UNKNOWN with E. Ethelbert Miller. Go to this link for Episode 64 (part 1). https://open.spotify.com/episode/3uEnTCokzxIzx0CDWuYeuI?si=0a633d46a8ea4727 SPOILER ALERT - There is some detailed discussion about key moments in the film TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Podcast open, synopsis and historical timeline for the film A COMPLETE UNKNOWN 02:54 - E. Ethelbert Miller's introduction + Spoiler alert 4:39 - The Role of Artists in Social and Political Movements 10:35 - Teaching Memoir Writing with Bob Dylan's Memoir 16:00 - The Impact of Historical Events on Artists and Writers 19:16 - The importance of artists absorbing collective hurt and providing resilience through their work (mentions: Woody Guthrie, Ma Rainey, August Wilson) 19:38 - The Importance of Understanding Historical Context 23:12 - Artists shaping legacies - Ossie Davis's Eulogy for Malcolm X 44:32 - Final Thoughts and Book Recommendations Enjoy our PLAYLIST for this podcast, "⁠Bob Dylan: Known and Unknown,⁠" on Spotify. Help us shape future podcasts. We've created a short survey to learn more about what you enjoy most about “Historical Drama with The Boston Sisters” and what you'd like to see more of in the future. Final date for the survey is February 20, 2025 —----- Keep the Historical Drama momentum going.... SUBSCRIBE to the podcast on your favorite podcast platform ⁠LISTEN⁠ to past past podcasts and bonus episodes ⁠SIGN UP⁠ for our mailing list SUPPORT this podcast ⁠ SHOP THE PODCAST⁠ on our affiliate bookstore Buy us a Coffee! You can support the podcast by buying a coffee ☕ here — ⁠buymeacoffee.com/historicaldramasisters⁠ Thank you for listening!

The Pot Shot Podcast
AWFC #20: The Renéelution Will Be Televised

The Pot Shot Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 24, 2025 57:22


Seb and Liberty talk about the announcement of Renée Seeger's as permanent head coach of the Arsenal Women, the January transfer window as well as the wins against Crystal Palace and Brighton before looking ahead to the upcoming Chelsea game. Please subscribe to the pod to never miss an episode, tell your friends to listen if you like it, and leave us a review to let us know what you think! It really helps us out.If you want to send us any questions, or keep up with all things Pot Shot, you can find us on Twitter & Instagram @potshotpod, as well as on Bluesky @potshotpod.bsky.social. Feel free to ping us a DM (or an email via potshotpod@gmail.com)!Follow the Pot Shot Crew on Bluesky:Liberty: @libertysimons.bsky.socialMax: @maxrads.bsky.socialSeb: @eulenberg.bsky.socialWill: @scoutedsxv.bsky.socialYou can find us on the vast majority of good podcast platforms. We'll never say "all" in case we're missing one somehow. If you want to know exactly what podcast platforms we can be found on, you can do so at https://podfollow.com/the-pot-shot-podcast/viewAll music included in the podcast is made by James Blake. He's on all sensible music platforms as JWBlake - you can find his Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3XQQbNzsMSiESzHz0qA4r8?si=koS6oXNfSL6SJn3oIR1cxA Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

John Williams
Meet the author whose book inspired the movie ‘A Complete Unknown'

John Williams

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 17, 2025


Elijah Wald, musician, writer, historian, and author of “Dylan Goes Electric! Dylan, Seeger, Newport, and the Night that Split the Sixties,” the book that inspired “A Complete Unknown,” joins John Williams to talk about how his book differs from the movie, how the first scene in the movie impacted him and how it made it […]

WGN - The John Williams Full Show Podcast
Meet the author whose book inspired the movie ‘A Complete Unknown'

WGN - The John Williams Full Show Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 17, 2025


Elijah Wald, musician, writer, historian, and author of “Dylan Goes Electric! Dylan, Seeger, Newport, and the Night that Split the Sixties,” the book that inspired “A Complete Unknown,” joins John Williams to talk about how his book differs from the movie, how the first scene in the movie impacted him and how it made it […]

WGN - The John Williams Uncut Podcast
Meet the author whose book inspired the movie ‘A Complete Unknown'

WGN - The John Williams Uncut Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 17, 2025


Elijah Wald, musician, writer, historian, and author of “Dylan Goes Electric! Dylan, Seeger, Newport, and the Night that Split the Sixties,” the book that inspired “A Complete Unknown,” joins John Williams to talk about how his book differs from the movie, how the first scene in the movie impacted him and how it made it […]

There is a Season: The Pete Seeger Podcast
Seeger, Dylan and A COMPLETE UNKNOWN

There is a Season: The Pete Seeger Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 16, 2025 46:48


In this episode I discuss my reactions to and thoughts about the recent film, A COMPLETE UNKNOWN. I focus on several elements, ranging from how effectively the characters were written, to the extent to which we get to see how Dylan is influenced by other people and other musicians, such as Suze Rotolo and Joan Baez. I also deconstruct what Dylan and Seeger really thought of each other, and what Pete's reactions really might have been to Dylan's electric set at Newport ‘65.

Historical Drama with The Boston Sisters
A COMPLETE UNKNOWN - Bob Dylan Beyond the Lyrics and The Making of a Poet (Ep. 64)

Historical Drama with The Boston Sisters

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 14, 2025 61:49


In episode 64, The Boston Sisters (Michon and Taquiena) talk about A COMPLETE UNKNOWN, the biopic about musician/songwriter Bob Dylan (portrayed by Timothée Chalamet) inspired by the book “Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties” by Elijah Wald, with award-winning and Grammy-nominated poet, literary activist, and author E. Ethelbert Miller .  The conversation focuses on Miller's personal connection to Dylan's music and the broader cultural context of the 1960s, in addition to... The importance of preserving American folk traditions The role of artists like Dylan in documenting history including the impact of Dylan's music on social movements The role of women in shaping Dylan's life, career and music The significance of oral and musical literature SPOILER ALERT - There is some detailed discussion about key moments in the film Episode 64 is part 1 of a 2-part conversation about A COMPLETE UNKNOWN with E. Ethelbert Miller. Episode 65 (part 2) is available 1/28/25. ------- TIMESTAMPS :01 - Introduction to the Podcast and Film Discussion 2:11 - Ethelbert Miller's Background and Contributions 4:45 - Ethelbert Miller's Reflections on "A Complete Unknown" 17:12 - Dylan's Influence and the Role of Women in His Life 27:23 - The Role of Film in Historical Context and Literature 47:12 - The Impact of Dylan's Music and the Importance of Preservation 48:09 - The Legacy of Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger 48:26 - The Role of Documentation in Historical Understanding 50:39 - The Importance of Critical Reading and Analysis 55:27 - The Role of Artists as Witnesses to History 58:08 Conclusion and books from this podcast More Podcast Notes: In the conversation, Miller references Dylan's concerts in the U.K. in 1966. Dylan's infamous "Judas" show, where the musician is heckled, took place in Manchester. The story is included in Martin Scorsese's 2005 documentary "No Direction Home." Enjoy our PLAYLIST for this podcast, "Bob Dylan: Known and Unknown," on Spotify. ------- Keep the Historical Drama momentum going.... SUBSCRIBE to the podcast on your favorite podcast platform LISTEN to past past podcasts and bonus episodes SIGN UP for our mailing list SUPPORT this podcast  SHOP THE PODCAST on our affiliate bookstore Buy us a Coffee! You can support the podcast by buying a coffee ☕ here — buymeacoffee.com/historicaldramasisters Thank you for listening!

You, Me and An Album
170. John McCutcheon Discusses Pete Seeger, We Shall Overcome

You, Me and An Album

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 12, 2025 53:19


Send us a textLegendary folk singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist John McCutcheon kicks off 2025 on You, Me and An Album by introducing Al to Pete Seeger's 1963 live album We Shall Overcome. John talks about how it was the first album he had ever bought and how it has shaped life and his work as a musician. He also discusses his personal relationship with Seeger and what made Seeger such an important and unique figure in folk music. John and Al wrap up by discussing John's new album, Field of Stars, his baseball fandom and his upcoming touring and recording plans.You can find out more about John's music at his website, folkmusic.com. Also be sure to give him a follow on Instagram at @appalseed.Al is on Bluesky at @almelchior.bsky.social. This show has an account on Instagram at @youmealbum. Subscribe for free to You, Me and An Album: The Newsletter! https://youmealbum.substack.com/. You can also support the show on Buzzsprout at https://www.buzzsprout.com/1542814/episodes or at the link at the bottom of these show notes.As Al mentioned on the show, here is a list of organizations that are helping those who need assistance due to the fires in the Los Angeles area. Please consider donating to these organizations or helping in whatever way you may be able to.American Red Cross of the Los Angeles Region: https://www.redcross.org/local/california/los-angeles/about-us/our-work/california-wildfires-response-january-2025.htmlLos Angeles Fire Department Foundation: https://supportlafd.kindful.com/?campaign=1040812Musicares: https://donor.musicares.org/page/lafirereliefCA Community Foundation's Wildlife Recovery Fund: https://www.calfund.org/funds/wildfire-recovery-fund/California Fire Foundation: https://www.cafirefoundation.org/Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles: https://www.habitatla.org/World Central Kitchen: https://wck.org/1:31 John joins the show2:41 John's copy of We Shall Overcome is incredibly well-preserved4:32 John did not buy the album because of Pete Seeger9:10 We Shall Overcome was different from other music that John had heard13:01 John talks about his first Seeger concert19:17 John explains why he thinks a rift developed in the folk community during the ‘60s21:50 Seeger took care in how he orchestrated his setlists25:45 We Shall Overcome was John's first taste of what a concert experience was like31:36 John talks about Seeger's courage as an artist34:33 John recounts the first time he met Seeger and his relationship with him over the years39:54 John discusses Field of Stars and being inspired by Henry Aaron45:49 John talks about his upcoming plansOutro music is from "Field of Stars" by John McCutcheon.Support the show

John Landecker
‘Dylan Goes Electric' author Elijah Wald

John Landecker

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 10, 2025


Author of the book Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night the Split the Sixties Elijah Wald joins John Landecker to talk about his book which inspired the movie A Complete Unknown, and more!

Historical Drama with The Boston Sisters
Preview Ep. 64 - "A COMPLETE UNKNOWN"

Historical Drama with The Boston Sisters

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2025 1:42


Preview The Boston Sisters's (Michon & Taquiena) conversation with award winning and Grammy-nominated poet, literary activist, and author E. Ethelbert Miller about A COMPLETE UNKNOWN, the Bob Dylan biopic featuring Timothée Chalamet and inspired by the book, “Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties" by Elijah Wald. The 2-part conversation is available: January 14, 2025 (Ep. 64 - P1) "Bob Dylan and The Making of a Poet") January 28, 2025 (Ep. 65 - P2) "The Artist as Historical Witness" Sign up for our mailing list to stay up-to-date and receive information and resources about historical dramas featured on the podcast to do your own deep dive into history.

The Paul Leslie Hour
#1,051 - Elijah Wald

The Paul Leslie Hour

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 3, 2025 22:47


#1,051 - Elijah Wald Elijah Wald joins The Paul Leslie Hour! Are you here? We'll answer that question for you. You're here, tuned into The Paul Leslie Hour, episode number 1,051. We're pleased to present an interview with Elijah Wald, author of DYLAN GOES ELECTRIC! Newport, Seeger, Dylan and the Night that Split the Sixties, which inspired the major motion picture A Complete Unknown. Please keep in mind folks, The Paul Leslie Hour is made possible by viewers and listeners like you, please go to thepaulleslie.com/support and we thank you for listening and supporting! And with that, what do you say we start the first interview of 2025? The Paul Leslie Hour is a talk show dedicated to “Helping People Tell Their Stories.” Some of the most iconic people of all time drop in to chat. Frequent topics include Arts, Entertainment and Culture.

Fabulous Film & Friends
Ep. #97 - Christmas MASH-UP!: Nosferatu v. A Complete Unknown

Fabulous Film & Friends

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 2, 2025 111:48


Send us a textWelcome to our FFF Christmas mash-up where we are going to look at the two important titles released on the 25th of December in the year of  Our Lord 2024: Nosferatu, directed by Robert Eggers and starring Lily Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult, Aaron Taylor Johnson, Emma Corrin, Ralph Ineson, Bill Skarsgard, and Willem Dafoe up against A Complete Unknown directed by James “Walk the Line/Ford Vs. Ferrari” Mangold and starring Timothee Chalamet, Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, Maria Barbaro, Dan Fogler, and the one two punch of craggy, Oakie-faced Narcos Alums:  Boyd Holbrook and Scoot McNairy.I'm your host Gino Caputi and I am joined by the lean and mean crew of Roseanne Caputi and Gordon Alex Robertson. Before we throw down with the garlic, wooden stakes, crucifixes and Gibson J-50's, the synopses:In Nosferatu the Dracula story is reimagined as a German tale where newlywed, social climbing Thomas Hutter is sent to Transylvania to sell a house to the mysterious Count Orlok. Orlok in turn knows Hutter's Wife Ellen as years before she allowed him to enter her soul. After Hutter escapes Orloks castle of horrors, Orlock relocates to Wisborg and brings evil and plague with him. With the town gone mad, it is up to Ellen to stop Orlok. In A Complete Unknown, it is 1961 and a young Bob Dylan arrives in New York City to meet his idol Woody Guthrie. Introduced to Guthrie by Pete Seeger in the hospital where Guthrie is dying, Dylan becomes immersed in the New York Folk scene, developing a relationship with folkl sensation Joan Baez. Years go by and Dylan decides to go against Seeger and the Folk community by playing an electric guitar at the famous Newport Folk Festival. Chaos ensues. So which film best exemplifies the spirit of Christmas? Find out! Watch the podcast on Youtube:https://youtu.be/M4qRzeybvd4Follow the FFF Facebook page!https://www.facebook.com/groups/fabulousfilmandfriends

Fresh Air
Pete Seeger / Bruce Springsteen

Fresh Air

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 25, 2024 47:02


The new biopic A Complete Unknown follows a young Bob Dylan as he arrives in New York and changes American folk music forever. Edward Norton plays folk icon Pete Seeger, who had a big impact on Dylan. Seeger was famous for his songs about working people, unions, and social justice. We're revisiting Terry's 1984 interview with Seeger, as well as her 2016 interview with Bruce Springsteen, who was compared to Dylan when he broke onto the scene.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Fresh Air
Pete Seeger / Bruce Springsteen

Fresh Air

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 25, 2024 47:02


The new biopic A Complete Unknown follows a young Bob Dylan as he arrives in New York and changes American folk music forever. Edward Norton plays folk icon Pete Seeger, who had a big impact on Dylan. Seeger was famous for his songs about working people, unions, and social justice. We're revisiting Terry's 1984 interview with Seeger, as well as her 2016 interview with Bruce Springsteen, who was compared to Dylan when he broke onto the scene.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Kreative Kontrol
Ep. #935: Elijah Wald on 'A Complete Unknown'

Kreative Kontrol

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 23, 2024 24:16


EVERY OTHER KREATIVE KONTROL EPISODE IS ONLY ACCESSIBLE TO MONTHLY $6 USD PATREON SUPPORTERS. Enjoy this excerpt and please subscribe now via this link to hear this full episode. Thanks!Elijah Wald is here to discuss the new Bob Dylan film, A Complete Unknown, which is based on his 2015 book, Dylan Goes Electric! Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties, Dylan tweeting praise for his book, being from Dylan's world, why the Newport Folk Festival became a generational nexus point for music in the 1960s, his access to unreleased Newport audio and film footage by the likes of Murray Lerner, what he makes of A Complete Unknown's depictions of real people and events, how it's more brooding than the comical Dylan and Joan Baez really were, his new book about Jellyroll Morton, other future plans, and much more.Support vish on Patreon! Thanks to Blackbyrd Myoozik!Support Y.E.S.S., Pride Centre of Edmonton, and Letters to Santa. Follow vish online.Related episodes/links:Ep. #828: ‘Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine' with Mark Davidson & Parker FishelEp. #821: Kurt VileEp. #793: Ray PadgettEp. #761: JokermenEp. #749: Daniel LanoisEp. #395: Robert HilburnEp. #27: Greil MarcusKreative ExKlusive #1: D.A. Pennebaker (March 2007)In Review: ‘Fragments: Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996-1997) – The Bootleg Series Vol. 17' by Bob DylanSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/kreative-kontrol. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Repassez-moi l'standard
Repassez-moi l'standard ... "Where Have All the Flowers Gone" de Pete Seeger (1955)

Repassez-moi l'standard

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 1, 2024 58:38


durée : 00:58:38 - "Where have all the the flowers gone?" (Pete Seeger) (1955) - par : Laurent Valero - "Pete Seeger, après des études de journaliste, se consacre très tôt à sa passion de la musique folk qui l'amènera à côtoyer l'ethnomusicologue Alan Lomax et le poète-chanteur Woodie Guthrie. En 1959, il fonde le Festival de Folk de Newport, d'où émergeront Joan Baez ou Bob Dylan" Laurent Valero

Le jazz sur France Musique
Repassez-moi l'standard ... "Where Have All the Flowers Gone" de Pete Seeger (1955)

Le jazz sur France Musique

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 1, 2024 58:38


durée : 00:58:38 - "Where have all the the flowers gone?" (Pete Seeger) (1955) - par : Laurent Valero - "Pete Seeger, après des études de journaliste, se consacre très tôt à sa passion de la musique folk qui l'amènera à côtoyer l'ethnomusicologue Alan Lomax et le poète-chanteur Woodie Guthrie. En 1959, il fonde le Festival de Folk de Newport, d'où émergeront Joan Baez ou Bob Dylan" Laurent Valero

America's Work Force Union Podcast
Tom Buffenbarger | Jesus Angulo and Coy Seeger, BAC

America's Work Force Union Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 26, 2024 52:26


While National Apprenticeship Week is over, it's never a bad time for the America's Work Force Union Podcast to highlight the accomplishments of apprentices preparing for a career in the trades. Today we spotlight two remarkable apprentices from the International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers, Coy Seeger from Local 1 Washington/Alaska and Jesus Angulo from Local 3- California. As Thanksgiving approaches, Tom Buffenbarger, retired General President of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, joined the America's Work Force Union Podcast to reflect on the union moments, recent and past, that are worthy of our thanks.

Set Lusting Bruce: The Springsteen Podcast
Betsy Hodges - Exploring Bruce Springsteen's Seeger Sessions and Live in Dublin

Set Lusting Bruce: The Springsteen Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 25, 2024 51:00


In this episode of '30 Days of Springsteen,' Jesse is joined by returning guest Betsy Hodges to discuss Bruce Springsteen's 'Seeger Sessions' and 'Live in Dublin' albums. The duo delves into the significance of these albums, Springsteen's narrative voice, the folk and American music influences, and personal stories that connect them to the music. They also chat about the power of live performances, the importance of American songwriting, and the joy found in Springsteen's music. Tune in for an enriching conversation filled with musical insights and heartfelt anecdotes. Support the show here - buymeacoffee.com/setlustingbruce  Find more about Betsy here = https://betsyhodges.com/  00:00 Introduction to 30 Days of Springsteen 00:45 Guest Introduction: Betsy Hodges 02:06 Discussing The Seeger Sessions and Live in Dublin 04:09 Personal Stories and Reflections 05:02 Bruce Springsteen's Narrative Voice 06:52 Exploring Live in Dublin 08:42 The Influence of American Music 09:40 Bruce Springsteen's Legacy and Influence 11:00 Fun Lists and Personal Connections 21:53 The Political Side of Rock and Roll 23:07 Discussing Song Choices and Interpretations 24:09 The Power of American Folk Songs 26:02 Questioning Leadership and Accountability 28:28 Personal Reflections on Leadership 33:12 Reinterpreting Classic Songs 36:52 The Emotional Impact of Music 42:24 Final Thoughts and Recommendations Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There is a Season: The Pete Seeger Podcast
Seeger in the Civil Rights Movement

There is a Season: The Pete Seeger Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 16, 2024 97:44


In our first episode of Season 2, we discuss Pete Seeger's participation in the civil rights movement between 1962 and 1965. We discuss his early involvements singing in Georgia, his affiliation with the Student NonViolent Coordinating Committee, and his We Shall Overcome concert at Carnegie Hall. We also evaluate Seeger's participation in Mississippi's Freedom Summer in 1964, and his attendance in the Selma march in 1965 along with his encountering of the folk process of the singing of Freedom Songs. We conclude with the internal racial shift that happens within the movement, and how that influences Seeger's gradual separation from singing from SNCC and singing for civil rights.

The Workamper Show Podcast
Denise Seeger talks about volunteering along the California coast in Episode 302

The Workamper Show Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 29, 2024 27:24


Much of the work involves contact with the public, but it also involves habitat restoration and trail maintenance duties as well.

Field Notes
Ep 44: Dorothea Seeger – Marine biology & motherhood

Field Notes

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 4, 2024 26:10


The choice to start a family is always a great act of faith, hope and courage. In these unprecedented days of biodiversity collapse, climate change and societal upheaval, all the more so. Doro is a marine biologist from Germany, whose love of the ocean goes back to her earliest memories. She is all too familiar with the state of the planet and yet she has recently become a mother. In this honest and raw conversation, she brings us into the adventure of motherhood and marine biology and her hope in the God who holds all things together.Doro lives in Bremen, Germany, where she works in the Marine Protection Office of BUND (Friends of the Earth Germany). She has a scientific background in coastal ecology. In 2022 she co founded “Hope for People and Nature” with the goal of building up an A Rocha presence in Germany.

There is a Season: The Pete Seeger Podcast
Interview with David Dunaway

There is a Season: The Pete Seeger Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 2, 2024 64:25


Join us for this episode where I speak with Pete Seeger's biographer, David Dunaway. We discuss David's early connection to Pete Seeger and his music, and how he came to publish three editions of Seeger's biography. We also talk about the archive of Pete Seeger material David has produced for the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, as well Pete's involvement with Folkways Records, the legacy of the Clearwater, and David's perceptions of how Pete might be represented in the upcoming Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown”. We conclude by discussing David's favorite Seeger records, in addition to what general message people should know about Pete Seeger now that we are a quarter of the way into the 21st century.

Jack of All Trades Sports Podcast
S8 E1 Jack of All Trades: NFL Kickoff Special with Chauncey Seeger

Jack of All Trades Sports Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 2, 2024 60:02


Jack Berney and Chauncey Seeger give a full preview of the 2024 NFL season including an AFC North look ahead, best bets, headlines, playoff predictions, and more! Follow the podcast on Instagram @JOATsportspod! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-ofalltrades/support

Sing for Science
LABS: Peggy Seeger and Prof. Tim Coulson on Eco-Feminism

Sing for Science

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 28, 2024 68:18


Recorded Live at the Museum of Natural History in Oxford, England on August 8th, 2024. Folk icon Peggy Seeger talks with Oxford University Biology Professor Tim Coulson about her experience as feminist, ecologist, activist, mother, musician, Seeger and more. Eco Feminism can be defined as a branch of feminism and political ecology that explores the connections between women and nature. The theory argues that the oppression of women and the degradation of our natural environment are linked and caused by patriarchal, capitalist systems. Further, ecofeminist theory calls for an egalitarian, collaborative society in which there is no one dominant group. Professor Coulson provides compelling context from scholarship to further amplify these ideas including description of pre-patriarchal societies, the importance of educating women in developing countries and more.

Aus den Archiven - Deutschlandfunk Kultur
Anthony Seeger und Folkways Records - Globales musikalisches Erbe

Aus den Archiven - Deutschlandfunk Kultur

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 17, 2024 51:32


Bei der Kellen, Ralf www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, Aus den Archiven

Jack of All Trades Sports Podcast
S7 E13 Jack of All Trades: Chauncey Seeger joins the show for Sports Czar ideas, NBA Make it Take it, and more

Jack of All Trades Sports Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 29, 2024 48:49


On this week's show, Jack Berney is joined by Chauncey Seeger. The guys give some ideas on how to improve professional and college sports if they were appointed "Sports Czar", draft 5 players for an NBA Make it Take it team, and much more. Follow the podcast on IG @JOATsportspod! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-ofalltrades/support

Basic Folk
Peggy Seeger spills Folk Feminist Tea with Dawn Landes, ep. 270

Basic Folk

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 18, 2024 70:30


Editor's note: For this episode, we invited our friend Dawn Landes to interview Peggy Seeger. Dawn was the perfect choice to interview the feminist folk icon. She recently joined us on a special episode with Aoife O'Donovan to discuss their feminist-themed new albums. We're thrilled to welcome Dawn back as guest host!I can't believe it took me 40 years to come across Peggy Seeger's music. I'm a little mad about this honestly, and have been trying to make up for lost time by diving deep into her songs and her story. I've been a fan of her older brother, Pete Seeger since I was a kid but didn't realize the depth of talent and reach in the Seeger family …they are truly Folk Royalty! Peggy Seeger is the daughter of a celebrated modernist composer and a musicologist who grew up with people like Alan Lomax and Elizabeth Cotten hanging out in her family home. At 89 years old she's released 24 solo recordings and been a part of over a hundred more. She's built her career on wit, incredible musicianship and unflappable activism.On this episode of Basic Folk, I am honored to talk with Peggy Seeger about her beginnings in feminism, her decades-long partnership with Scottish singer Ewan MacColl, the creation of the BBC Radio Ballads, the importance of hope and her dream tattoos! She even sang us a song from memory that I doubt she had sung in many years. Peggy is a repository of traditional songs and continues to tour and play music with her family as she's done throughout her whole life. Although she claims that she doesn't write anthems, Seeger's songs have become synonymous with women's rights and environmental activism. Coming from a woman who once sang her defense in a courtroom, we should all take Peggy's advice…“Something wrong? Make a song!”--- Dawn LandesFollow Basic Folk on social media: https://basicfolk.bio.link/Sign up for Basic Folk's newsletter: https://bit.ly/basicfolknewsHelp produce Basic Folk by contributing: https://basicfolk.com/donate/Interested in sponsoring us? Contact BGS: https://bit.ly/sponsorBGSpodsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Living 4D with Paul Chek
EP 301 — Julie Richards, The Crunchy Legal Lady: Facing Reality Together

Living 4D with Paul Chek

Play Episode Play 57 sec Highlight Listen Later Jul 9, 2024 68:19


How does the practice of law ever intersect with the Tarot, astrology and numerology?Learn how the mix of the metaphysical and legal worlds can protect you and your family's sovereign rights and why the empowerment of women matters for the future of the planet, this week on Spirit Gym with Julie Richards, the Crunchy Legal Lady.Discover more about Julie's legal expertise on her website where you can find multiple FREE guides on how to protect yourself from government overreach and find her on Instagram here and here. For Spirit Gym listeners: Save 25 percent on Julie's astrological services at her Lyla Sage website by mentioning you heard about her work on Spirit Gym. (Special offers from Living 4D guests are time-sensitive and at their discretion to redeem after 30 days.)Take a deeper dive into the planetary alignments that will influence our world in pivotal ways, the worship of extremism and some predictions about the 2024 election cycle by becoming a Spirit Gym subscriber at… Timestamps1:57 What's crunchy?6:17 The big legal gap.18:30 Human + spirit.20:43 Should any religion protect you from medical mandates?35:41 The importance of women.43:06 “I practice numerology often as a timekeeping system.”47:14 The spiral and twist of the law.52:35 Having and using the right tools helps and unites people.58:03 Becoming more sovereign and independent.1:05:09 The number 33.ResourcesUnited States v. Seeger 1965 (place parallel test for religion)Paul's Living 4D podcast on Lucifer-Christ-AhrimanGroff v. DeJoy 2023 (protects religious accommodations)The work of Jean Gebser and David BohmStockholm syndromeFarmMatchFind a SpringFind more resources for this episode on our website.Thanks to our awesome sponsors:PaleovalleyBiOptimizers US and BiOptimizers UK PAUL10Organifi CHEK20CHEK Institute HLC 1 online Wild PasturesWe may earn commissions from qualifying purchases using affiliate links.

There is a Season: The Pete Seeger Podcast
Albums of the Early '60s and the Hootenanny Controversy

There is a Season: The Pete Seeger Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2024 59:47


In this epsiode we examine several of Pete Seeger's albums recorded and released after the period of the Blacklist. We discuss the Bowdoin College Concert and Live at the Village Gate, and his first Columbia albums - Story Songs, The Bitter and the Sweet, and Children's Concert at Town Hall. We also dissect Pete's efforts to bring folk music to people through television, particularly the controversy over censorship surrounding the failed attempt to get Seeger to appear on the Hootenanny television show.

WELSTech Audio
727 – Summer Tech Talks – Jeremy Seeger

WELSTech Audio

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2024 43:04


The WELSTech “Summer Tech Talks” interview series continues with a trip to the other side of the world as we learn about the technology at work on WELS World Missions Asia One team. Sallie shares tips from the recent OpenLearning@MLC conference, and Martin has a new browser pick. Plus, we have the inside scoop on […]

WELSTech Video
727 – Summer Tech Talks – Jeremy Seeger

WELSTech Video

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2024


The WELSTech “Summer Tech Talks” interview series continues with a trip to the other side of the world as we learn about the technology at work on WELS World Missions Asia One team. Sallie shares tips from the recent OpenLearning@MLC conference, and Martin has a new browser pick. Plus, we have the inside scoop on […]

There is a Season: The Pete Seeger Podcast

In this episode we delve into Pete Seeger's legal challenges in facing the House-Un American Activities Committee in 1955 and the impact of Seeger's decision not to cooperate with them. We also investigate how Seeger's status as a blacklisted artist resulted in the prolific amount of performing and music-making he did throughout the remainder of the 1950s into the early '60s. Specifically, we examine the multitude of his Folkways albums, live concerts and the musical foundation he worked towards establishing for other up-and-coming musicians and listeners.

Jack of All Trades Sports Podcast
S7 E5 Jack of All Trades: NBA Playoff Preview with Chauncey Seeger

Jack of All Trades Sports Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 19, 2024 49:21


Jack Berney and Chauncey Seeger give a full preview of the NBA Playoffs in this week's episode. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jack-ofalltrades/support

Rural Health Leadership Radio™
390: A Conversation with Dr. Matthew Seeger

Rural Health Leadership Radio™

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 13, 2024 28:58


This Rural Health Leadership Radio episode features a conversation with Dr. Matt Seeger,  Distinguished University Professor at Wayne State University, who has extensively studied organizational behavior, communication, and crisis management and response. Dr. Seeger shares his unique story as an undergraduate student deeply affected by a tragedy and how that led him to become a leading expert in crisis communication. We discuss the critical role of leadership in navigating crises, especially in rural communities. If you want to learn more about crisis and emergency communication check this website out: https://emergency.cdc.gov/cerc/ “It's really the whole community that is going to facilitate an effective crisis response” -Matthew W. Seeger, Ph.D.  Matthew W. Seeger, Ph.D., a Distinguished University Professor of Communication and Dean Emeritus, is renowned for his expertise in crisis and emergency risk communication, particularly in the context of infectious disease outbreaks, health promotion, and resilience and renewal post-crisis. His significant contributions include working closely with the CDC, the National Center for Food Protection and Defense, and being a part of the WHO Guidelines Development Group for Emergency Risk Communication. Dr. Seeger's research, supported by the CDC, NSF, NIH, and the State of Michigan, has led to over 200 publications, including the CDC's Handbook for Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication.  He has also authored several influential books on crisis communication and risk management. A founding editor of The Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research, Seeger's insights have been featured in major media outlets. He is a Fellow of the International Communication Association, and a member of the Wayne State University Academy of Scholars. He has received numerous awards for his service and scholarship in communication, including induction into the Public Relations Society of America, Detroit Chapter, and Hall of Fame.

Banjo Hangout Newest 100 Songs
Where Have All The Flowers Gone

Banjo Hangout Newest 100 Songs

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 28, 2024


My abbreviated version of Seeger's classic anti-war anthem with a I/vi/IV/V bridge added for color.

VO BOSS Podcast
Custom Boss Website with Jim Fronk

VO BOSS Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 21, 2023 33:37


  How do you turn a lifelong passion for music, radio, and video games into a successful career in voice acting? Join me as I chat with Jim Fronk, a seasoned radio veteran who transitioned into voice acting, entertaining people with his dynamic performances and engaging characters.  But that's not all, Jim's talents extend beyond the microphone. He's also a whizz in website development, skills he's utilized to build successful websites for fellow voice actors. He delves deep into the magic of website creation, including the critical elements of a voiceover website and how you can create a one-page website in record time. Get ready to be inspired, entertained, and better yet, educated by Jim's wealth of knowledge and experience in the voice acting industry. Don't miss out! About Jim Jim has always been creative and secretively a tech geek. While working at radio stations, he gravitated towards graphic arts and webmaster duties. Through the years he created websites, not only for some of his ventures but for other radio friends and their DJ/entertainment side hustles. When Jim entered the VO world, he was amazed at how much it cost to have a basic cookie-cutter website built for a voice actor. So Jim created his 3-Hour Learn-By-Doing Website Creation Class. For a fraction of the cost, he teaches you how to create, update, and expand your own VO website as your business expands. Check out www.WebsitesForVO.com for more details. 00:01 - Intro (Other) It's time to take your business to the next level, the boss level. These are the premier business owner strategies and successes being utilized by the industry's top talent today. Rock your business like a boss, a V-O boss. Now let's welcome your host, Anne Ganguzza.  00:20 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Hey everyone, welcome to the V-O Boss podcast. I'm your host, Anne Ganguzza, and today I am very excited to be here with a very special guest, our 20-plus year radio vet turned voice actor, Jim Fronk. Oh, thanks for having me. Oh, jim, jim, jim, let me just tell the listeners a little bit about you, oh by all means.  00:40 I'm glad that you were so excited. Thank you for being here, jim. Let me tell our listeners a little bit about you. You've been behind the microphone in your happy place since you were 10, the tender age of 10. And since then, jim has been acting and singing his way into our hearts, doing improv, stand-up comedy, live, announcing, djing on air, and now he's in his very own 5x8 padded closet capturing our hearts. So, jim, thank you, thank you, thank you for being here with us today.  01:10 - Jim Fronk (Guest) Well, thank you, I'm glad that I'm padded, because the funny thing is I got out of radio because it got so impersonal. I started voice tracking and I was on nine different stations, six different states, at the same time, and I was just in a 10x10 room recording and I'm sick of that, so I ended up in a 5x8 room.  01:28 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Now a 5x8. Yeah, somehow that's smaller, so okay, but it's padded, so that's better.  01:33 - Jim Fronk (Guest) And this is my happy place. I love being here, I love playing behind the microphone. So I started at 10 years old singing. My dad always said that I would either be a politician or a radio disc jockey. Because of my gift of gab and the way that I like to spin the truth now and then, what would you sing?  01:50 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) That's my question. What genre would you sing? Jazz, you sing in classic rock.  01:54 - Jim Fronk (Guest) Classic rock for the most part.  01:56 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Classic rock yeah.  01:58 - Jim Fronk (Guest) Actually back in 2000,. I was Ed McMahon's nextbigstarcom winner of the rock category. What did you sing? I sang Better Roses by Bon Jovi.  02:07 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Oh, my God. Of course, at least she sang Bon Jovi. I was just going to say I'm thinking, bob Seeger, I don't know why. I've done some Bob. Yeah, I've done some Bob Seeger, I like the doors, yeah.  02:16 - Jim Fronk (Guest) I like the doors, my go-to when the bands are playing and they're like hey, come on up and sing. My go-to is Roadhouse Blues.  02:22 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Oh God, if we are lucky bosses, we might get to hear, I don't know, a bar or two.  02:27 - Jim Fronk (Guest) Maybe if you go to Uncle Roy's this year or maybe actually if you went to Uncle. Roy's next year. I'll talk to them.  02:33 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Next year. Oh yeah, hey, I personally have never heard you sing and I would absolutely love to hear you sing.  02:39 - Jim Fronk (Guest) You might be able to YouTube something Just saying there might be some poison out there.  02:44 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Before we talk a little bit more about your journey into voiceover, because you've had such a long history behind the mic, I need to ask you about the 7.36 pounds of shelled blue peanut M&Ms that you requested from me in my little inquiry into hey, you want to be a podcast guest? What do you require? And so you asked me for shelled blue peanut M&Ms, and I could only find the brown ones.  03:08 - Jim Fronk (Guest) And yet they're still not here.  03:10 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Somehow, oh, but they're virtually here.  03:11 - Jim Fronk (Guest) Oh, virtually Okay, great, I don't know. I was just trying to think of something weird to put on there that I need, because I really don't need anything.  03:20 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) I'm actually kind of hungry for some M&Ms. But, Jim, it's already been a wonderful five minutes chatting with you. I can't wait to dive deeper into your journey. So share with our listeners how your journey kind of got to be 20 plus years behind the mic doing radio. How did you get there? As a small child you were singing, right. Were you singing classic rock at the age of 10?  03:43 - Jim Fronk (Guest) Well, I was singing what was considered just normal pop music, I guess, yeah, and then classic rock was just music, but I did that. But when I got into school I really got into mixing things and I was making mixtapes before mixtapes were a thing.  03:59 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) I made mixtapes. I remember them.  04:01 - Jim Fronk (Guest) I was scratching records so things would skip at a certain point and you put a quarter on top, make a knot skip. No-transcript, Mr Jaws, Dr Demento.  04:11 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Oh God, yes, I might be dating myself here, but I listen to Dr Demento every Sunday evening. Love Dr.  04:16 - Jim Fronk (Guest) Demento oh my God my favorite show. But they always had Mr Jaws. It was kind of like Mr Jaws, so why are you here? Right now, and then it'd be a song, so I used to try to do those myself.  04:27 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) And Delilah. I listened to Delilah too. Delilah yes, yeah, delilah's on the air forever. But then I got into radio.  04:33 - Jim Fronk (Guest) When I was in high school, I was at a party.  04:35 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Okay.  04:36 - Jim Fronk (Guest) I was a senior, it was a junior's party. He was trying to be class president and I was just there being me. I mean, I am your extrovert, you know I talk to everybody, I say hi to everybody. It gets me in trouble sometimes, but whatever. But I was just being me and this guy walked up and said hey, listen, I'm the lawyer of this small little cable radio station downtown Woburn, which is my hometown. He goes do you want to try out? Okay, so I went home the next day. I got my Peter Brady tape recorder. We have to hold down the record and you know what I'm talking about.  05:04 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) I know exactly. I used one of those in college when I was recording textbooks on tape. Oh, there you go. I know the realistic. Or it was a Panasonic, I can't remember.  05:13 - Jim Fronk (Guest) I think it was realistic because I did have a radio shack within walking distance and my transistor was in there. Everybody did.  05:19 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Wait, I'm sorry, but we're just going all over the place. So my brothers are very much into Heath Kits, heath Kits, heath Kits. Yeah, building electronics Like we did that from Radio Show. Oh my God, they would just build their own little like transistor radios and stuff.  05:29 - Jim Fronk (Guest) I never got into that but I mean, as I got into radio I did get my engineering junior engineering badge from the engineering people, but whatever. So I went home the next day I had my Peter Brady tape recorder and I had my Precorp eight track player, my stereo system at home, and yes, I'm name dropping here. With Precorp I put in Led Zeppelin and you know I talked out of a Led Zeppelin song and I had to wait because you couldn't rewind eight tracks so you only had one take. Well, you had to wait for the next song. It took me all afternoon to get like three intros and three outros and I ended up getting the gig, which was kind of cool. They made me change my name. They didn't want anybody to know that a high school kid was working at school, but yet they gave me like one of those shiny, flashy 80s type of radio jackets with my name on it and the call letters and I did J at all the high school functions and things. So everybody knew.  06:21 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Can I ask what name they gave you? I was Jumping.  06:23 - Jim Fronk (Guest) Jim Jacobs.  06:25 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) All right, Jumping Jim. This just came to me. Jumping Jim.  06:27 - Jim Fronk (Guest) Jacobs, 935-3378, wlhg. Wow, larry Habar Enterprises. I love it. Larry lives two towns away from me right now. We had lunch about a month ago. The owner of the station.  06:39 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Now explain to me. So you just were fascinated. Did you listen to the radio all the time? I loved radio. And then you were just mimicking all the DJs because the DJs got all the chicks. Apparently that's what it was back in the 80s anyways.  06:51 - Jim Fronk (Guest) Yeah, have you heard of Dale Dorman? He's a Boston guy from KISS, but Dale Dorman and one other guy I forget his name, but they invented top 40 radio. They were at a bar one night and they watched people put quarters in to hear the same 15, 20 songs all night long Sure.  07:05 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) That makes sense, so they made that format.  07:07 - Jim Fronk (Guest) And Dale Dorman was also on the local TV station as hey, kiddies, that after school type of thing, and I just loved the guy and I just wanted to be him, I wanted to do what he did and I just set focus on it and I ended up doing it. I met Dale Dorman. The program director of the small station I worked for was the assistant PD of KISS 108 Boston and that's where Dale Dorman was, and she brought us in for a program meeting and God, my mind was just blown at that point and I said this is what I need to do. Got out of high school, I went to college for it, went to school for it, interned, did many, many years, and it was like here.  07:43 I am learning from these people that I think are phenomenal but, they're teaching because they can't make ends meet. So I got out of radio for about 10 years 15 years, and I did stand up comedy and I always talked about getting on the air again, because if I'm doing morning radio, I can't hear them not laughing when. I tell jokes, I just play a soundtrack. So I turned 35 and I said, you know, what Everybody laughs then yeah, exactly.  08:08 I turned 35 and said I have to do this, so I just put everything else aside and I did it.  08:14 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Now let me ask you, because you said most of the people couldn't afford working in radio, so they were teachers. Is that always been the case in radio? Is it always been? Maybe not the best paying gig, but the people in radio love radio. I mean, it's just.  08:27 - Jim Fronk (Guest) It's like being in an abusive relationship. It really is.  08:31 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) It slaps you around and I'll tell you. It's like podcasting I'm gonna say because for me, I'm gonna tell you that podcasting is my radio show. In a way it really is.  08:41 - Jim Fronk (Guest) The only difference is I was waking up at 2.30 quarter of 3 every morning to get my butt whipped every day.  08:46 - Intro (Other) But yeah, it's definitely a passion.  08:48 - Jim Fronk (Guest) You hear that word passion with VO. It's the same thing with radio. It was just something that I needed to do. I needed to have that live interaction and as far as the money goes, it's kind of like VO.  08:58 - Intro (Other) It depends what market that you're being planned in.  09:01 - Jim Fronk (Guest) I was doing mornings in Nashua, new Hampshire, which is about 30 miles away from Boston, as the crow flies, about a 40 minute trip. My salary compared to somebody doing the exact same thing on the exact same type of station, they probably were about five or six times more than I was making Just the average guy. Now if you became a star then you're up in the quarter of a million dollars in Boston market but not in Nashua. But I loved it and you got the perks I mean I'd go to concerts, I'd be backstage, at concerts.  09:30 My favorite thing was going on stage and throwing t-shirts out at people and saying, hey, I'm frog from Frank 106 or from 104.9 the Hawk, and people scream and they know me and I just love that. I really love that.  09:43 Just being a part of the community. I was very fortunate that the morning show I did for 106, 3 Frank FM I was part of the community. I would announce football games. My daughter did cheerleading but I would announce the popcorn of football games and I would go and people would know who I was. But I was very active in the community and I'd love that. I love being known.  10:01 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) You were like a local celebrity.  10:03 - Jim Fronk (Guest) Yeah, but I was able to take that celebrityism and put it to good work as opposed to evil Like I did back in the 90s. Oh sorry.  10:12 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) And that's another podcast.  10:14 - Jim Fronk (Guest) Yeah, I don't think the ever straining owners are up yet for that one, so we really can't talk about it.  10:18 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Well, now 20 years in radio, 20 years 20 plus, yeah Now did you say you were doing synonyms, that you were doing radio, and then you went into comedy, or how did that work?  10:28 - Jim Fronk (Guest) I was doing comedy. First I was a wedding DJ, function DJ, when karaoke was all the buzz. I got my own karaoke company. I had like 35 shows.  10:38 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Look at you being a boss entrepreneur at a young age. I mean bosses, and why you to listen to this? All of the people that come on the show, I mean they're entrepreneurs in so many ways, and that was so creative. I mean, jim, first of all, just being in high school right, and going after your dreams and having the bravery to go try out for the radio station and get the gig right At such a young age. And then you've got to be brave. Did you stand up comedy? That's for sure.  11:03 - Jim Fronk (Guest) You know stand up comedy. Five minutes can seem like 20 minutes. Yes, 20 minutes can seem like five minutes. It all depends on the energy of the crowd. But I tell you that first time I got up on stage, the very first time I was hosting a pretty big deal. It was at Berkeley, 5,000 seats. I was hosting it Not really hosting telling jokes, just kind of introducing people.  11:24 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) But I had a couple of jokes. I'm seeing kind of, yeah, I had a couple of jokes.  11:26 - Jim Fronk (Guest) That first joke I told, and when they laughed, that wave that hit me, that became my drug.  11:33 - Intro (Other) That became what I craved.  11:35 - Jim Fronk (Guest) That became what I had to accomplish on a Monday night up in Vermont for a slice of pizza, or a Tuesday doing an open mic night at the KFC in Volrica Mass. I mean, it's just, you did what you had to do, but it was again a passion for it.  11:49 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Now okay. So, passion aside, I'm sure there were some jokes that probably didn't make it, and so did you experience like imposter syndrome. I mean I can only imagine Like I think stand up comedy's got to be one of the hardest skills. I mean it's like improv too. I feel like we all need it and it just really builds our character, because there's just so many things we have to be quick on our feet about. I'm sure that all of this is leading up to a really fabulous career in voiceover, because all of those skills have led up to who you are as an actor today.  12:21 - Jim Fronk (Guest) And as far as jokes bombing, I'm looking for a reaction. You can oh or boo or yeah. Hey, I got a reaction, and if something just didn't work, I really didn't care you laughed at it.  12:31 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Oh well, that didn't work.  12:32 - Jim Fronk (Guest) Pretty much, yeah, I mean sometimes I'd make a joke about it and take a paper out of my pocket and say our fake paper and say okay, scratch that one off the list.  12:40 Yeah, that didn't work, whatever, yeah, okay, that doesn't work in Poughkeepsie, all right, fine. But yes, everything I've done coming up to this has helped me in VO. You know, the radio, yeah, has contributed the live stuff, the comedy, the improv and all that. I got out of radio back in 2018 because it was just impersonal to me. I wasn't doing mornings, I wasn't doing a talk show. I craved that interaction. I didn't like just talking up 15 seconds of a song coming out, absolutely. I mean, I'm great at trivia, music trivia. You know, you give me 10 seconds of any song from 1960 to 1992 and I can probably tell you what it is, but it just wasn't fulfilling. It wasn't satisfying. I did get into flying drones for a bit believe it or not, a friend of mine, that's random, it really is, but it was a passion, I flew a drone.  13:28 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Radio VO drones.  13:29 - Jim Fronk (Guest) Yeah, well, I flew the drones and I loved it. I got a passion for it. I was making some great money doing cell tower inspections and infrared. At one point I had more money invested in drones than I did in Harley-Davidson's.  13:42 Or in your microphone maybe, or in my microphones. I'm even close. I'm completely. You know how many U87s Like. I sold one of my drones in two cameras and I bought my daughter a brand new Jeep. They were up there but it just wasn't what I wanted to do. I wanted to be behind the microphone. Okay, and a buddy of mine, AJ Duquette Actually I think you were on the show, a buddy of mine, aj Duquette, a radio guy. He's doing VO, and he told me about J Michael Collins and I was driving home year ago, april. I was driving home from New York City on Clubhouse and I think you were on it, j Michael, and I want to say Liz Atherton.  14:18 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Oh, we've done yeah, we've done a bunch of yeah. And I asked the question.  14:21 - Jim Fronk (Guest) I just got my demos back and I was like, well, how do I know if I have a good demo? Yeah, and J Michael we talked afterwards and he went over it and gave me the good, the bad and the ugly and that just got me on the path of okay. So I'm going to talk to these people. I'm not going to be afraid to approach anybody. I'm very approachable and I'm going to approach as many people in this business that are where I want to be and it's been great. And that's my advice to everybody Don't be afraid to approach anybody, because if somebody's not approachable to you or if somebody doesn't want you to approach them, you don't want them in your circle. Why would you want them in your circle? You know, I like going to Dallas and seeing Ann Ganguza from down the hall and going Ann, and she's like jam. I mean, that's what it's all about Making connections, having some fun.  15:09 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) It's all about the relationships, really Absolutely about the relationships. So let's kind of continue on with the voice acting. So you got into voice acting around. You're saying around 2018?.  15:21 - Jim Fronk (Guest) Oh, no, no, no, I got into drones in 2018. Oh okay, excuse me, I actually celebrated two years in VO from when I started in September this past September. So it's been about two years, a month or two, but I got into it. I got some training. I did about five or six months with the training with a great coach, tim Powers, you've met.  15:38 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Tim, actually I know Tim absolutely.  15:40 - Jim Fronk (Guest) Tim has become a great mentor and even a better friend. But from there I got my demos and, like I said, how do I know they're good? And I just started doing the marketing thing. I've since redone my demos. I'm a different animal now, different everything. I kind of went feet first and I thank my wife so much for that. We talk about not making money in radio.  16:01 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) We all know the struggles that actors have, and we are actors Not making money in voiceover.  16:06 - Jim Fronk (Guest) Yeah, I mean just acting alone.  16:08 God bless my wife. She's very successful in the pharmaceutical business. So when the time came, we sat down and talked and she said, when we first met, I was making $5,000 a year less than you and you were in radio. And I'm like I know, but we have flipped the switch. She's gone so far. So she said do what you want to do. Invest what you need to invest. Get the right equipment. You know what you need. You've been in the business. You can build radio stations. Get what you need. So I did. And here I am two years later and I'm getting clients, I'm booking gigs, I'm doing animation, video games, e-learning. It's been great.  16:42 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) What would you say your favorite genre to work in is Because I'm always a big proponent of people bring their experience to behind the mic and I feel like maybe your stand-up comedy, your DJing, your networking I feel like that all works for you in specific genres Well, animation, I love.  17:01 - Jim Fronk (Guest) I love playing in animation. Right now I've got the allergies going on so my voice is kind of right now, but I love being able to just pop into a character and be like my mind is now melted, I'm with 3.0 and I will reveal the world. I mean, just have some fun. Word, of course I will. I am the evil. I am Ludo the evil one. I just love having fun with that. Video games I love the acting.  17:23 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) I love the cinematography and the acting.  17:26 - Jim Fronk (Guest) I trained with Dave.  17:27 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Fornoy yes he's amazing.  17:29 - Jim Fronk (Guest) Yes, and once again people say how'd you train with Dave Fornoy? Yeah, I asked, I asked, I went to his website and I booked some sessions. And there we are. Dave's a great friend now, I mean he's become such a great mentor.  17:43 So I love video games. You know what I really love doing and I hate to say it because I have spent, I'm gonna say, $10,000 in training, maybe over the past couple of years, maybe even more. I hate to look at the numbers, but to beat the DJ out of me Every time that I step back into that DJ voice, my coach would say and now up here's the dealbies, just to snap me back. But I love doing tier three automotive.  18:03 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Well, yeah, tier three, automotive, yeah, and tier of DJ, it's radio DJ delivery.  18:07 - Jim Fronk (Guest) It's what I do in my sleep, so I'm really loving doing that. Absolutely. I've been training with Chris Zellman. He's been great.  18:15 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Yeah, tier three, automotive. I do a little bit of that myself, and it's not as easy as we want it to be, because they're really trying to cram a lot of words.  18:22 - Jim Fronk (Guest) But I was also production director of a six station cluster for many years. I was given the commercials away, so you know, so I know, and most of those were that type of delivery, yeah absolutely that sales delivery that hype. You know, no money down and you can. You know it's. Which is so 80s DJ. It's just ingrained in me so I do love that.  18:43 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) And so now we all have to be authentic, and maybe not for tier three auto still. However, talk to me about authenticity and how. Maybe your background having a radio show I feel like having a radio show, you know, maybe not by just announcing commercials or announcing what the next song is, but I think if you're doing like talk radio and you're really getting down in personal with your listeners, I feel like that helps you to be authentic and you can kind of call upon that experience to really help you be authentic in your commercial delivery or even narration delivery or e-learning delivery.  19:16 - Jim Fronk (Guest) Before I was doing morning radio it was just that hype. Morning radio was kind of hype but it was a lot more comedy. We did bits. It was always like Frank's place with Jim and so-and-so or you know the Jim and so-and-so morning show. So it was always my animal to drive my vehicle and just to have that interaction was very conversational. And I did talk radio for the last three or four years of my career with radio and that became very conversational. That's just raw me. So when I was able to unlock that again, because we all know talking conversational and just talking like we're talking now is natural.  19:54 You should be able to do that. It's easy. Yeah, it's easy.  19:57 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) But it's not easy when there's a piece of paper.  19:59 - Jim Fronk (Guest) Yeah, when it's a piece of paper in front of you and it's somebody else's words. You have to learn how to do that Absolutely. One of the things that helped and hindered me was my ability for live read. I love being the first guy in workshops. I love reading stuff cold. I can't tell you how many times I'd be on the air and somebody would give me a piece of paper and say, read this.  20:18 And I have the ability to read about five or six seconds ahead of what I'm saying, which was good for that, but I was disconnected from my words. I was on autopilot.  20:28 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Any cold read is you're executing from left to right and you don't know what the story is.  20:33 - Jim Fronk (Guest) But even after I read it once or twice, I would still be reading ahead which hindered me to get that connectivity with the listener, with the client, with the audience. So when I learned to put that behind me and I'm gonna say live in the moment but read in the moment, be in the moment, my conversational game went up considerably and I think that I have a very conversational read when it is asked for that.  20:59 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) No sales, no announcers. That's right, no announcers. And that's getting the DJ and getting the radio beaten out of you.  21:05 - Jim Fronk (Guest) Yeah, but then I get to go back to tier three and have some fun with it. Yeah, and have your fun. Then, exactly, come on down. The price is really.  21:12 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) And I have roles in telephony that I can be as. Thank you for calling your call's important to us. I can be that fun, smooth, promo-y sound.  21:22 - Jim Fronk (Guest) That's a lot of fun, sometimes absolutely.  21:24 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Yeah, for the most part, we're all about the authenticity. Speaking of authenticity, from a few of the things that you've already talked about, you were so into drones, you were into, like, video games I get this feeling, and from talking to you previously, that you are kind of a geek. You are a tech geek, and so that kind of leads you into yet another talent of yours, which is websites, and I wanna make sure that we have time to get into websites for voice actors and talk to us a little bit about your expertise number one and what got you into web development first of all. Then let's talk about what's important in a voice actor website.  22:02 - Jim Fronk (Guest) Well, for the most part with the radio stations. You wear many hats and I was brand manager and web guru and graphic artist. I know enough about Photoshop to get you and I in a lot of trouble, but not enough to really make any money at it. As far as-.  22:16 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Except nobody uses Photoshop anymore. It's all Canva, Both yes. But yeah, no, I get it Photoshop was definitely a skill, I mean for sure, and when I was deciding.  22:26 - Jim Fronk (Guest) When I was getting out of the drones, I was actually going back and forth between VO and maybe going to school for graphic arts.  22:33 I really enjoy that. But I was thinking to myself you know, it's a three-year program, $36,000. I'll be 58 when I graduate. Do I really want to enter that type of field where I'm so far behind technology wise than the kids are these days? I said, you know, my happy place is behind the microphone. So that's what I did. Gotcha, every business that I've had, I've designed my own websites. I've used Wix my whole life. So when I say I'm a website builder, I'm a Wix master, is what I go by. There's just so much that's come along with website development. It's actually very user-friendly, but people need to be taught how to use it.  23:10 - Intro (Other) So when you say I'm a website developer.  23:12 - Jim Fronk (Guest) I'm more of a website instructor.  23:15 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) What.  23:15 - Jim Fronk (Guest) I like to do is I have something. It's a three-hour website. Do it yourself, learn by doing creation class, where we'll sit down together, you'll watch me on the screen and you'll mimic what I'm doing. I'll show you where I'm getting things. I'll teach you how to do things. So by the end of the three hours you should have a one-page voiceover specific website ready to go, ready to be hosted, and I'll go in there afterwards, because I'm always like an admin and I'll go in and I'll tighten things up and I'll put a little couple extra spinny effects and different things to make them happy. But I found that so many people didn't have the crucial items for a website, for a VO website and other people are charging 15, 16, $1,700 to build a website.  24:01 We're in a business. We're not making any money, but you have to have your online you know.  24:05 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) so Sure, absolutely, that's who you're marketing to.  24:07 - Jim Fronk (Guest) Exactly so. I try to help people learn how to do that so that they don't come back to me and say, hey, can you upload my new demos? No, they're gonna know how to upload their own demos. If they have a problem, I'm always here. I will build a website for somebody. It's twice the money, and when I'm done, if you need help, there'll be an hourly stipend to be your web guy.  24:30 I'd rather give you something that's cheaper, that takes me more time, but to teach you something. So that's what I'm doing. You can find that at websitesforvocom. It's very easy. I've designed other sites and gotten really deep, like Dave Fanoy, for instance. Dave has become a great friend, but his website was terrible no downloadable demos granted, he's Dave Fanoy, but still links that went to things that were expired event page that the latest event was 2019, it just wasn't conducive for somebody that's in the business. So I kind of owed him a favor. Dave became a really good friend. He helped me out. We started off by coaching. He helped me out directing my demo. He's helped me out with a lot of coaching. That was unexpected. So instead of sending him a bottle, what's a friend of mine said? Just send him a bottle and say thank you. I decided to a deep dive into his website and I completely revamped it. On Wix all of his scheduling You're a Wix person, I am a Wix person.  25:26 - Intro (Other) I've seen your schedule.  25:28 - Jim Fronk (Guest) I see, don't you love how it's all in the back?  25:30 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) door there. I love my Wix website your scheduling your payments, your tickets your events everything.  25:35 - Jim Fronk (Guest) So, Dave being a techie guy, a web guy, when I went to book my first gig with Dave it took me about 20 minutes to figure out and it was like email me.  25:44 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) There are some coaches out there that like well, email me for pricing or email me to get set up, and that to me is like why would you do that?  25:51 - Jim Fronk (Guest) Go to Venmo and do this here, and then I'll send you my Calendly link.  25:54 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Yeah, exactly.  25:56 - Jim Fronk (Guest) So I went in, I took care of Dave's and I taught him how to do it. He's now putting on his own events and he's doing all the ticketing and all the ticket sales and all the marketing, all the social marketing, all in the back door of Wix. So I taught him that. I try to teach everybody that, because there are things you need of your website.  26:12 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Yes, what are those things? Let's talk about those critical things.  26:16 - Jim Fronk (Guest) Number one downloadable demos Above the fold. Everything I'm talking about right now is above the fold. I've talked to a lot of agents, casting directors. They don't want to click, they don't want to scroll.  26:29 They don't want to look so right there, front and center, downloadable demos, ready to go. Your name, obviously, something that shows your personality. It's a logo, a picture, something that shows who you are and if we have some fun with it, have some fun with it. Your contact info should always be in the header so when they scroll, if they scroll, your contact info is always there.  26:52 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) It stays there it stays there.  26:54 - Jim Fronk (Guest) One of the main things that a lot of people don't have is a call to action button. Okay, I'm on your website, I'm the customer. Look at your website as a customer. I'm a customer, I found your website. I like your demos. What do I do? Now? There's a button there that says request a free audition. What's that all about? I mean, you and I, we all know auditions are free, of course. Well, all audition. You know we're not paying to audition. We're not getting paid to audition, but they don't know that.  27:21 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Well, sometimes we do, sometimes we do, but they don't know that.  27:23 - Jim Fronk (Guest) But they're getting a complimentary free audition. Send me a 30-second snippet of your script and I'll send you back an audio sample of what it will sound like, performed by me, and I can't tell you six. I've gotten six jobs off of that, so far.  27:39 Contact me is not a call to action. Maybe you offer some other service. I think it was Mark Scott said something about. These are six ways to book me. You know, give them something, something that has some information, whether it's directly related to booking you or VO related, but have that call to action button. Those are the basic things. Everything else after that is fluff. You go to my website. I probably have 15, 16 pages.  28:05 - Intro (Other) I have some people actually write the SEO for me.  28:07 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) It's all fluff. It really is. There's nothing there. Let's talk about SEO.  28:12 - Jim Fronk (Guest) It's for SEO. What about SEO lately?  28:14 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Is SEO worth anything at this point? Still, because of, let's say, generative AI, which is generating content in seconds. Now, all of a sudden, it used to mean something with our websites. Right, that we had identifying words and words that could be found, but I feel like that whole SEO pony might be changing a little bit as things start to evolve.  28:35 - Jim Fronk (Guest) It is changing, it's getting simpler for people.  28:38 - Intro (Other) And with a program like Wix.  28:39 - Jim Fronk (Guest) They actually have an SEO and, by the way, I don't get paid by Wix. I'm not endorsed by Wix, it's just what I know. I've tried Squarespace play buttons, a play button, rewinds, rewind, pictures, picture, but I just didn't like how the whole system worked together. Wix was very user friendly. If you can do Canva, you can create a website.  29:00 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Canva changed the game.  29:01 - Jim Fronk (Guest) They really did. They made it.  29:03 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Wix is changing the game and some people might say well, what in VO is changing the game? I mean, we could talk about that if we wanted to.  29:11 - Jim Fronk (Guest) How about that? So much in VO has changed the game.  29:13 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Tell me about a VO actor. How can they change the game to make it successfully in voiceover and what can they do to change their game to make it and not be so afraid of all this technology that people are just, oh my God, the robots are gonna take our jobs away. Let's talk about-.  29:30 - Jim Fronk (Guest) No, they're not. The robots can't act, the robots can't change. What can we do there?  29:34 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) you go. We need to act right. They can't improv, they can't crack a good joke. Well, sometimes they crack dad jokes.  29:40 - Jim Fronk (Guest) Yeah, well.  29:41 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) But yeah.  29:43 - Jim Fronk (Guest) All right, so I got a lot of my dad jokes from chat. No, I'm just kidding.  29:46 What you can do is be authentic. Be human, show your range, show your emotion when you show up for a gig. Be the person that they wanna work with. Don't be the person that they're waiting on. Be fun, be happy. Don't be a nuisance to anybody that is hiring you or that you're working with, because you never know who's going to say, hey, Jim was here two months ago, He'd be great for this spot. You know, it could be the engineer you never know.  30:11 You have to have your online inline, which I try to help people do, because your website may not generate any business for you right off the bat, but you have to have that presence.  30:20 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Yes, you absolutely have. It has to be something that's not wixitecom.  30:24 - Jim Fronk (Guest) Backslash, jimfrong55, it has to be Jimfrongcom. Jimfrongvocom, your name vocom. Sure and keep it simple. Keep those domain names simple so you're easily found Exactly.  30:36 I was gonna be Frank the voice. I had all these domain names that I was going to do. Jimfrong was available for the first time in a long time, cause I looked for it back when I was doing standup comedy. Jimfrong was available and I said you know what that's it? That's it. So I'm Jim and Jimfrong, so it's so easy to remember. You're double branding your name Absolutely. And as far as changing the game, talk to people, make friends, go to conferences. A lot of people in this business are introverts, but a lot are extroverts. You know, you get your naked gents, your Anganguza's, you get your Jim Fronks. We're out there saying hi to people. You know, kissing babies, shaking hands, whatever the case is. Get out there and say hi to people and if you're not that type of person, find someone that is, find me, make friends with me. I'm very approachable. You hate me or love me, but hopefully you love me and I'll introduce you to people, I don't care.  31:27 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) There you go, it's absolutely fun. Words of wisdom. Jim, Thank you for that. And actually, Jim, you have offered the bosses a little deal for your website creation class that you have.  31:40 - Jim Fronk (Guest) Oh, I have.  31:40 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Yes, you have. Remember you wrote it down.  31:43 - Jim Fronk (Guest) Well, I was kind of upset about the PNNM's not being made.  31:46 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) But you're going to give our bosses 10% off the website creation class.  31:50 - Jim Fronk (Guest) I am absolutely without a doubt. What kind of coupon do you want to get?  31:53 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) We've got that promo called, called VEOBOSS10 at Chicago VEOBOSS10,. Okay, and we'll be putting that on our show notes pages, guys, so when you look up this episode, we will have that code available. Jim, thank you so much. It's been so exciting talking to you. I mean, you have such an amazing history. Yeah, I mean we're actually kind of 10 minutes over. See how time flies when you just have so much fun.  32:15 - Intro (Other) We're going to have to have you come back.  32:17 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) We're going to have to have you come back, jim. It's really been amazing and thank you for sharing your wisdom, your wonderful personality, your fun, amazing, just the fun. Amazing who you are.  32:28 - Intro (Other) Jim Fong with us.  32:30 - Anne Ganguzza (Host) Yes bosses, I want you to take a moment and imagine a world full of passionate, empowered, diverse individuals that are giving collectively and intentionally to create the world that they want to see. You can make a difference. Visit 100voiceswhocareorg to learn more. And a big shout out to our sponsor, ipdtl. You too can network and connect like bosses like Jim and myself, just like Jim has been talking about all episode. Find out more at IPDTLcom. Jim, thanks again. You've been amazing Bosses, have an amazing week and we'll see you next week.  33:05 - Jim Fronk (Guest) Bye, guys, bye, thanks Ann.  33:07 - Intro (Other) Thank you so much Thank you Join us next week for another edition of VO Boss with your host, Ann Gangusa, and take your business to the next level. Sign up for our mailing list at vobosscom and receive exclusive content, industry revolutionizing tips and strategies and new ways to rock your business like a boss. Redistribution with permission. Coast to Coast connectivity via IPDTL.