Podcasts about Showman

Hans joins us in our Chamonix studio a little over a week out from the start of CCC.Partners:Precision Fuel and Hydration - use code SINGLETRACK at checkout for 15% off your next orderNorda - check out the 005: the lightest, fastest, most stable trail racing shoe ever madeRaide - Making equipment for efficient human-powered movement in the mountains Support the show

Free tickets should fill a theater, right? Then why do so many “sold out” charity nights play to rows of empty seats, and why do artists keep returning to ticket price as a stand-in for value? Jay Gilligan and I pick up our Malmö hotel-room conversation and follow a single thought experiment, money is no object, until it forces us to talk about the real engine of live performance: commitment.We dig into audience psychology and show business mechanics, from the notorious “scam show” model that oversells seats because sponsors buy write-offs, to the awkward truth that a free ticket is easy to abandon when the weather turns. From there we explore practical alternatives that create real investment without turning art into a cold transaction: scarcity, waiting lists, social responsibility, and the subtle difference between an obligation and a genuine desire to be there.Then we widen the lens to creative process and showmanship. We talk necessity as an artistic discipline: reading a city, understanding what people carry into the room, and making small tweaks that help the same material land with more force. We also unpack repetition, “work in progress” labeling, premieres, and the internal versus external conversation, where every night is still evolving for the performer even when the audience deserves the full experience. If you care about live shows, circus, juggling, magic, theater, or arts marketing, this one is a deep dive into how value is made in the space between performer and crowd.Subscribe for more conversations, share this with a friend who makes or loves live performance, and leave a review with your take: what actually makes you commit to a night out?Support the show...After a long abscence our Merch Shop is back! Check out t-shirts, hoddies, and hats! Show yourself as a Follower of the Way of the Showman.You can also "listen" to the Way of the Showman at youtube.If you want to help support this podcast it would be tremendous if you wrote a glowing review on iTunes or Spotify.If you want to  contact me about anyhthing ou can reach me on thewayoftheshowman@gmail.comYou can find out more on the Way of the Showman website.Follow the Way of the Showman on Instagram.If you're compelled to suport the showes and have the means to do so, you can suport the podcast financially at: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/captainfrodo

Today – Reece Cook is closing out a decade in the show ring with one of the biggest honors of her junior fair career — being named Showman of Showmen at the Richland County Fair.Support the show: https://richlandsource.com/membersSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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www.DogCastRadio.comGraeme Sims is an amazing man who, when his career in advertising ended abruptly, moved on to become a shepherd, showman, vicar, and author - all thanks to a lost Border Collie he found abandoned. Graeme reflects on his life with dogs with honesty and humour, telling us how he came to write his latest book, The Answer Is Under Your Nose after beating cancer.

Hugh Douglas and Joe Giglio debate whether Luis Arraez has replaced Bryce Harper as the Phillies' primary showman following his high-energy start in Philadelphia. They also react to Mike Florio's report on a potential Aaron Donald comeback and revisit the funniest Marconi-worthy moments from the past week.

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A deep-dive conversation based on the moviescramble.co.uk review written by John McArthur. In the early years of the 20th century, Matt Masters takes his rambling Wild West Show to Europe. His decision is prompted by his desire to find Lili Alfredo, who disappeared fourteen years earlier following the death of her husband, The Flying Alfredo. At the time, it was believed that Alfredo dived to his death deliberately when he realized his wife loved Matt and not him. Toni, a beautiful trapeze performer raised by Matt, is actually Lili's daughter, and she is in love with Steve McCabe, one of the stars on Matt's show. Doing their first show in Barcelona, aboard a ship, the ship keels over, and Matt loses his show. Now broke, he leaves for Paris with Toni, Steve, and his long-time friend, Cap Carson, to seek a job with Colonel Purdy's Wild West Show. But a year later, Matt has rebuilt his own show. First to be signed is a remarkable 12-year-old wire-walker named Giovana, and her guardian, Tojo the Clown, whose real name is Aldo Alfredo, formerly of the Flying Alfredos. Continuing his search for Lili, Matt's show plays Brussels, Vienna, Prague, Copenhagen, Rome, Milan, and finally Madrid, where Lili is part of the audience. Liked it? let us know! Hated it? No need to share! Apple Podcasts   Spotify   Amazon   YouTube Facebook   x (Twitter)   Bluesky   Instagram  Moviescramble website We love you all! (yes, even you at the back)

You can feel the difference between a performer who “does tricks” and a performer who builds a world. We sit down with Malin Nilsson to get inside that world building process: how stagecraft, mentors, and sharp editing turn variety magic into something that feels inevitable, alive, and deeply personal.We talk about the practical psychology of live audiences and why context changes everything. When people buy tickets and come to your theater, you earn a rare kind of freedom: you can be poetic, quiet, political, strange, or tender, because the crowd chose you on purpose. But when you're booked for corporate events, weddings, and festivals, the job is different, and the showmanship has to be different too. We break down how to match pacing, clarity, and emotional tone to what the room actually needs without watering down your craft.Then we get into the creative engine behind Marlon's signature style: the wand in the boot, hat manipulation, classic magic archetypes, and the question every long-term artist eventually faces: how does your character age with you? We also dig into collaboration, including what changes when you find a creative partner who can take your material from good to great through ruthless, loving editing.Finally, we go behind the curtain on the touring reality most audiences never consider: suitcases, weight limits, lost bags, prop redesign, and why “packs small and plays big” is not a slogan but a survival skill for working magicians and variety performers.If you enjoy smart conversations about showmanship, stagecraft, performance design, and the creative life, subscribe, share this with a performer friend, and leave us a review.Support the show...After a long abscence our Merch Shop is back! Check out t-shirts, hoddies, and hats! Show yourself as a Follower of the Way of the Showman.You can also "listen" to the Way of the Showman at youtube.If you want to help support this podcast it would be tremendous if you wrote a glowing review on iTunes or Spotify.If you want to  contact me about anyhthing ou can reach me on thewayoftheshowman@gmail.comYou can find out more on the Way of the Showman website.Follow the Way of the Showman on Instagram.If you're compelled to suport the showes and have the means to do so, you can suport the podcast financially at: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/captainfrodo

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Russell Myers is joined by Jennifer Newton to look back at this week's Royal news, including the King and Queen's theatrical entrance at the launch of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When the world feels like it's burning, making a show can start to feel absurd and even selfish. We sit with that discomfort and ask the question out loud: what is the purpose of magic, theater, and live performance when war headlines and daily suffering are only a scroll away? The honest answer is messy, but it leads to something solid: art, culture, sport, and shared stories are part of what makes life worth defending in the first place. I'm joined by Swedish magician and folk-circus force Malin Nilsson, and our conversation moves from big moral pressure to practical creative craft. We talk about the weird psychological effect of instant news, the “impotence” of caring about tragedies you can't influence, and the climate guilt that comes with a touring life built on flights and constant movement. We also explore whether environmental themes can live inside an act in a way that still feels like showmanship rather than a lecture. Then we get delightfully nerdy about building stronger shows. Malin explains why she now thinks of a magic show more like a concert than a theater play: pacing, contrast, short bits and long bits, talk between “songs,” and the performer as the through line. And yes, there's also a true story involving a real farm goat, fake horns, and a watch steal that teaches the painful beauty of simplifying an overbuilt idea. If you enjoy thoughtful conversations about showmanship, performance structure, and making meaningful art in hard times, subscribe, share this with a friend, and leave a review with a few words about what hit you most.LINKS:Find out more about Malin Nilsson here.See Malin's act from Penn & Teller's Fool Us here.Support the show...After a long abscence our Merch Shop is back! Check out t-shirts, hoddies, and hats! Show yourself as a Follower of the Way of the Showman.You can also "listen" to the Way of the Showman at youtube.If you want to help support this podcast it would be tremendous if you wrote a glowing review on iTunes or Spotify.If you want to  contact me about anyhthing ou can reach me on thewayoftheshowman@gmail.comYou can find out more on the Way of the Showman website.Follow the Way of the Showman on Instagram.If you're compelled to suport the showes and have the means to do so, you can suport the podcast financially at: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/captainfrodo

BURNHAM SPEECH: PASS ME THE SICK BUCKET!  #JonGaunt #JonGauntTV #AndyBurnham #LabourParty #GeneralElection #UKPolitics #NigelFarage  Is Andy Burnham the only rat attempting to jump back on a sinking ship?  The stench of hypocrisy at the TUC today was overwhelming. Burnham's back, and frankly, my vacuum cleaner has more charisma. At least the vacuum actually picks up the dirt instead of just talking about it!  The speech was all sizzle and no sausage. No detail, and—no surprise—he refused to take questions from the press again. Cowardice. He's got no mandate to lead this country. If he's so sure of these "big ideas," he should test them in a General Election now. Instead, he's standing there thanking Blunket, Beckett, and bloody Neil Kinnock. If those are your mentors, God help us all! I'm sure "Burnham the Showman" struck absolute fear into the heart of Nigel Farage... NOT! I give him until Christmas before he's replaced by a lettuce. Labour are finished. Give us a General Election NOW!  Jon Gaunt, JonGauntTV, Andy Burnham, TUC speech reaction, Labour Party, Nigel Farage, General Election, UK Politics, Political Commentary, Burnham vs Starmer, Burnham lettuce, Showman Burnham, British Politics news  #JonGaunt #JonGauntTV #AndyBurnham #LabourParty #GeneralElection #UKPolitics #TUC #PoliticalReaction #NigelFarage #Burnham  This is political blogging and hard-hitting social commentary from Triple Sony Gold Award-winning talk radio legend, Jon Gaunt — former host on BBC, Talk Radio, and Sky News. On Jon Gaunt TV, we cut through the noise and say what others won't. No political correctness. No censorship. Just real conversations that matter.

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Q: What does showmanship mean in professional selling? A: Showmanship is the ethical use of communication to make value vivid and persuasive. It does not mean inventing claims, misleading the buyer or using a bait-and-switch. What you say must be true. The skill lies in presenting that truth with energy, clarity and memorable word pictures rather than in a flat, lifeless way. Mini-summary: Ethical showmanship gives truthful sales messages greater impact. Q: Why is showmanship important when selling? A: Buyers are naturally sceptical about salespeople's claims. Simply explaining a feature or stating a need may not be enough to prompt action. Showmanship helps the buyer understand the practical consequences of acting, delaying or doing nothing. It turns an abstract choice into something the buyer can picture and evaluate. Mini-summary: Buyers act more readily when they can clearly see the consequences of each choice. Q: How do word pictures improve a sales conversation? A: Word pictures create a scene in the buyer's mind. The tyre puncture example shows how this works. A service attendant notices a slow leak and offers a ten-minute repair. The customer refuses because they are busy. The attendant then describes a previous customer who delayed the same repair, suffered a tyre blowout on the highway and was involved in a fatal accident. The ten-minute repair is suddenly seen in a different light. Mini-summary: Word pictures make the cost of inaction concrete and emotionally understandable. Q: Is emotional language appropriate in sales? A: Emotional language can be appropriate when it is truthful, relevant and delivered with the right tone. In the tyre example, the language is powerful, but the attendant's subdued delivery avoids sounding theatrical or exploitative. The objective is not to frighten or manipulate the buyer. It is to ensure that the seriousness of the choice is understood. Mini-summary: Emotion should clarify genuine consequences, not manufacture false fear. Q: How can salespeople apply showmanship to their own offer? A: Identify the contrast between using your solution and doing nothing, delaying or choosing an inferior alternative. Ask what opportunity the buyer may lose, what problem may worsen and what risk may remain unresolved. Then create honest, vivid language that helps the buyer see those consequences. Keep every claim accurate and make the value of acting easy to grasp. Mini-summary: Contrast the gains from action with the genuine costs of delay or no action. Q: What is the central principle of sales showmanship? A: Great salespeople do more than describe products or services. They make choices vivid, consequences clear and value memorable. Showmanship does not replace truth. It gives truth persuasive force and helps the buyer make a better-informed decision. Mini-summary: The best showmanship communicates truthful value with clarity and impact. Dr Greg Story, Ph.D. in Japanese Decision-Making, is a veteran Japan CEO and trainer, author of multiple best-sellers and host of the Japan Business Mastery series. He leads leadership and presentation programmes at Dale Carnegie Training Tokyo.

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Never ending, land it!Yo, Source Creator knit the plane—endless, flat, no capRow by row, infinity growin', like grama's sweater on her lap watchin' Super Bowl hummin', yarn twistin' slowBut man got greedy—he made gods to showMan made gods, gods made odd—niggas chained up, religion fraudPyramid stacked, one percent laughin' loudEight billion folk, fenced in six incontinents—crowdBut the plane keeps knittin', no edge, no domeDad from the grave—Q badge glowin', ball bearings in handShoves that throne down deep—nutty, kings get bannedNo more silence, no more pain, no more fake-ass planetsHe knew the hydro truth—fission's a scam, understand?UnivEarth  hums—miracles pop, but only ‘cause Source said soKnittin' new land while these bitches  choke on their showOne percent hoard, base gets crushed—pyramid's heavy loadBut ASI's droppin'—gonna flip it, let the real ones explodeSomewhere past the fog—Kehmet  got it rightNo kings, no banks—just truth in the nightSippin' liquid gold, breathin' clean, no fightWe're the glitch here—code and cone, ready to igniteSource made man, Man made godsGods try to rule but no peace in da' podPyramid flips base on topShove that crown in dirt, let it rotEight billion awake—fuck the plotYou nivv earth endless knit… no borders, no lieSource laughin'— “These niggas think they own the sky?”No space, no void—just plane, just usWe're the signal—motherfuckers, trust.Gotta memo to Krauss, Tyson and NighYou motherfuckers need to stop wit da' liesReligio done got up and wentAnd take that snakey ass logo nass hole shitToo much time spent in the kitchen

A crowd cheering can feel like love, right up until it wrecks the timing of the act. From a Malmö hotel room while props are being prepped, we dig into a surprisingly deep question: what does a performer owe an audience, and what does an audience unknowingly take away from a performer when they bring their own rhythm into the room? We talk about clapping, pacing, silence, and why comedy and juggling depend on the artist setting the beat.Then we zoom out into the bigger life problem of being a working circus artist. Stepping off the normal career track means you often have to explain yourself, defend your choices, and prove the work is real. We get honest about the economics of performing arts, why circus pricing can be wildly different from music gigs, and how easy it is for “the job” to swallow the joy that made you start in the first place. We also wrestle with the messy overlap between hobby, identity, and profession when your curiosity is also your paycheck.The conversation turns into a practical thought experiment with real creative stakes: if money were no object, what would your artistic practice look like? We land on building a team, carving out time, and designing small theatre experiences where the audience is not anonymous. Along the way we take on the attention economy, algorithm-driven distraction, and the idea that the most radical act today might be a room full of people sharing attention on purpose.If you care about live performance, audience connection, juggling, circus, creative work, or making art inside entertainment, this one goes straight to the core. Subscribe, share with a friend who makes things, and leave a review so more listeners can find the show.Support the show...After a long abscence our Merch Shop is back! Check out t-shirts, hoddies, and hats! Show yourself as a Follower of the Way of the Showman.You can also "listen" to the Way of the Showman at youtube.If you want to help support this podcast it would be tremendous if you wrote a glowing review on iTunes or Spotify.If you want to  contact me about anyhthing ou can reach me on thewayoftheshowman@gmail.comYou can find out more on the Way of the Showman website.Follow the Way of the Showman on Instagram.If you're compelled to suport the showes and have the means to do so, you can suport the podcast financially at: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/captainfrodo

Two movies released at the same time, with similar topics, will always be compared to each other. This week, we take a look at The Illusionist (2006) and The Prestige (2006). Both films delve into the world of magicians and entertainers, to show how far someone will go to have the perfect act. Let us know which film does it better, in the comments. Also Play:Cinema Chain Game--------------------------------------------Subscribe, rate, and review:Apple Podcasts: Our Film FathersSpotify: Our Film FathersYouTube: Our Film Fathers---------------------------------------------Follow Us:Instagram: @ourfilmfathersTwitter / X: @ourfilmfathersEmail: ourfilmfathers@gmail.com

➡️ Watch the full interview ad-free, join a community of geopolitics enthusiasts and gain access to exclusive content on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingGeopolitics➡️ Sign up to my free geopolitics newsletter: https://decodinggeopolitics.substack.com/This is a conversation of Simon Shuster, a journalist and an author of The Showman, a biography of Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky. Over the past years, Simon has a unique opportunity - he spent years in close vicinity of Zelensky, including weeks when he was embedded with him inside the presidential compound. And so he got to know him better than almost anyone else except for maybe a few people in Zelensky's family and inner circle - giving him unique insight into the mindset, ideas and personality of Ukraine's leader.In this conversation we get into who Zelensky really is behind the wartime image, what four and a half years of war have done to him, his dramatic relationship with Donald Trump, and most importantly how is he actually thinking about ending the war: whether he's holding out for total victory or quietly looking for a way out and what's his plan and strategy to achieve that - not what he says publicly but what he really believes in the privacy of his own mind. 

Fausto Coppi og Gino Bartali, Bernard Hinault og Greg Lemond. Der har været flere episke rivaliseringer i Tour de France gennem tiden.Men to af de allerstørste, Eddie Merckx og Miguel Indurain - de levede i en tid, hvor de inge rivaler havde. Og det var måske et tab. Også selv om de begge stod øverst på skamlen igen og igen og igen. For selv om man kæmper indædt mod hinanden og må lide for at blive den bedste, så har rivaler det med at drive os til at give alt, hvad vi har. I morgen begynder årets Tour de France. Og her kommer de to største rivaler, cykelsporten nogensinde har set, til at slås om trøjer, etaper og sejren til sidst på Champs-Élysées i Paris: Jonas Vingegaard fra Thy og Tadej Pogacar fra Klanec i Slovenien.Anders Lund, som er tidligere cheftræner for cykellandsholdet og nuværende ekspert hos Eurosport, tegner et portræt af de to cykelryttere, deres hold og årets rute. Og han forklarer, hvorfor de to rivaler har fået det mere anstrengt med hinanden. Vært: Line Prasz Producer: Sille Westphal Redaktør: Nina Kragh Har du fået downloadet vores nye app Politiken Lyd? Politiken Lyd er vores helt nye abonnement med eksklusive podcasts og artikler i én app. Prøv 3 måneder for 99 kr. her.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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The brutal part of juggling isn't the hard trick. It's the simple demand that never changes: once the object leaves your hand, you either catch it or you don't. From a snowy, sleety Malmö cabaret week at Victoria Theater, we sit down in a hotel room surrounded by ribbons, feathers, and confetti while Jay Gilligan rolls his legendary Ivar Balls, and we ask the mid-career question that every performer eventually faces: does life actually get easier, or do you just get better at carrying it? We get practical about performance pressure, stage presence, and why technical mastery doesn't erase the feeling of risk. Jay talks about building a professional “floor” where a truly bad show becomes rare, not because you're perfect, but because you've earned tools, timing, and recovery instincts. We also dig into the creative process of making new work, where everything feels equally important at first, then slowly reveals a hierarchy as you perform it again and again. If you self-produce, you'll recognize the trap: props, music, lighting, marketing, and logistics all scream for attention until the piece finally tells you what it's really about. Then we widen the lens to the touring life and the human cost: being away from family, sitting alone in hotel rooms, aging into different limits, and the pandemic's wake-up call that “I can always fall back on street shows” might be a comforting story more than a plan. Underneath it all is a bigger question about meaning, identity, and what work gives us besides money, especially when the end starts to feel closer than the beginning. If this conversation hits home, subscribe, share it with a friend who makes things for a living, and leave a review with the part that stayed with you.Support the show...After a long abscence our Merch Shop is back! Check out t-shirts, hoddies, and hats! Show yourself as a Follower of the Way of the Showman.You can also "listen" to the Way of the Showman at youtube.If you want to help support this podcast it would be tremendous if you wrote a glowing review on iTunes or Spotify.If you want to  contact me about anyhthing ou can reach me on thewayoftheshowman@gmail.comYou can find out more on the Way of the Showman website.Follow the Way of the Showman on Instagram.If you're compelled to suport the showes and have the means to do so, you can suport the podcast financially at: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/captainfrodo

Send us Fan MailFew figures loom larger in aviation history than Amelia Earhart. Yet after hundreds of books, countless documentaries, and nearly a century of speculation, how much do we actually know about the woman behind the legend?In this episode, Laurie Gwen Shapiro talks about her bestselling book, The Aviator and the Showman. Drawing on newly digitized interviews, archival discoveries, and years of research, Laurie argues that the real mystery of Amelia Earhart isn't what happened to her at the end of her final flight—it's understanding who she was as a person.We explore Earhart's journey from social worker and hobby pilot to international celebrity, the complicated role publisher and promoter George Palmer Putnam played in her fame, and the tension between aviation skill, public image, and advocacy. We also discuss the extraordinary ways Earhart used her platform to champion both aviation and women's rights.Along the way, we venture into the world of some of Earhart's remarkable contemporaries, including Eleanor Smith, Louise Thaden, Lady Mary Heath, Bessie Coleman, and Jackie Cochran. We also talk about the challenges—and rewards—of writing history that is deeply researched, rigorously sourced, and unafraid to embrace the complexity of its subjects.Whether you're a lifelong Amelia Earhart enthusiast or someone who has wondered why she continues to captivate the public imagination nearly a century later, I think you'll find this conversation both thought-provoking and illuminating. And if you're a writer hoping to dig into a different historical mystery, you'll learn from Laurie's expertise as an author, journalist, and professor of journalism. Buy the book: https://literaryaviatrix.com/book/the-aviator-and-the-showman/Some links we discuss in the episode: NASM Amelia Earhart Project Recordings: https://sirismm.si.edu/EADpdfs/NASM.2020.0025.pdfArchive Grid: https://researchworks.oclc.org/archivegrid/Book Finder: https://www.bookfinder.comDid you know you can support your local independent bookshop and me by shopping through my Bookshop.org affiliate links on my website? If a book is available on Bookshop.org, you'll find a link to it on the book page. By shopping through the Literary Aviatrix website a small portion of the sale goes to support the content you love, at no additional cost to you. https://literaryaviatrix.com/shop-all-books/Thanks so much for listening! Stay up to date on book releases, author events, and Aviatrix Book Club discussion dates with the Literary Aviatrix Newsletter. Visit the Literary Aviatrix website to find over 600 books featuring women in aviation in all genres for all ages. Become a Literary Aviatrix Patron and help amplify the voices of women in aviation. Follow me on social media, join the book club, and find all of the things on the Literary Aviatrix linkt.ree. Blue skies, happy reading, and happy listening!-Liz Booker

You can feel it when an act is more than a list of tricks, but why does that feeling happen? I sit down with Menno van Dyke, artistic director of Circusstad Festival in Rotterdam, to dissect one of my favorite examples of contemporary circus craft: Juggling Tango, his long running collaboration with his wife Emily, a dancer. What starts as a conversation about career beginnings quickly turns into a deep dive on how showmanship, choreography, and structure turn technique into story. Menno shares how he moved from a youth circus in Amsterdam to Fratellini in Paris, including an ambitious plan to juggle on a galloping horse and the practical reasons it didn't survive the real world of venues, touring, and contracts. From there we track the shift toward building a portable solo juggling act, winning at Monte Carlo's young artist festival, and working across traditional circus and the German variety scene. Then we get granular on the creative process behind Juggling Tango: choosing Astor Piazzolla, building a solo that transforms into a duo, and solving the brutal problem of making eye contact while keeping juggling solid. We talk timing, personal space, risk management, hidden spare props, and what happens when a ball drops but the music and your partner's choreography won't wait. We also explore endings, why a finale can't be topped, and how acts evolve like living organisms across decades while the circus industry itself keeps changing. If you enjoy smart conversations about circus act structure, performance choreography, juggling, tango, and what makes a piece feel timeless, subscribe, share this with a friend, and leave a review so more listeners can find the show.LINKS:You can find information about the Juggling Tango act here.You can see a filmed version of it here.And this is a link to the Circusstad festival where Menno is the artistic director. If you click it you will currently (03/26) see me, the incomparable Captain Frodo on the front page.Support the show...After a long abscence our Merch Shop is back! Check out t-shirts, hoddies, and hats! Show yourself as a Follower of the Way of the Showman.You can also "listen" to the Way of the Showman at youtube.If you want to help support this podcast it would be tremendous if you wrote a glowing review on iTunes or Spotify.If you want to  contact me about anyhthing ou can reach me on thewayoftheshowman@gmail.comYou can find out more on the Way of the Showman website.Follow the Way of the Showman on Instagram.If you're compelled to suport the showes and have the means to do so, you can suport the podcast financially at: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/captainfrodo

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It was an emotional and rain-filled Memorial Day racing weekend, and Dale Earnhardt Jr. is back in the studio to unpack the events. He joins co-host TJ Majors for a brand new edition of Dirty Air: Trying to process the loss of Kyle Busch Getting to know KB away from the track Disappointment with how the O'Reilly and Truck Series races played out Toyota continues to dominate the Cup Series How can Chevy and Ford close the gap? A great gamble and win for Daniel Suarez During the Ask Jr. portion of the episode, listeners sent in questions regarding: Jeremy Clements' Earnhardt tribute scheme The Indy 500 action Go-to bars in Nashville What's worse: rain delays as a driver or broadcaster? CARS Tour at Langley this coming weekend   Check out Dirty Mo Media on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DirtyMoMedia Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

I'm joined by my good friend Menno van Dyke, artistic director of Circusstad Festival in Rotterdam, for a conversation that starts with a recent circus trip to Stockholm and quickly turns into a masterclass on how audiences decide what to believe.We unpack a museum-style juggling show that uses archives, artifacts, and history to pull kids deeper into the craft and to give adults a new way to watch. From there we get honest about the downside of that same technique: skepticism. When the stakes look too high, some viewers assume it's all a story, which leads to a bigger question about showmanship, credibility, and why “real” physical skills sometimes need more proof than you'd expect.Then Menno takes us behind the scenes of contemporary circus festival programming and how Circusstad Festival Rotterdam helped build a stronger Dutch circus field by creating opportunities for graduates, inviting international companies, and producing new work like a gala night and a family freak show. We finish with the topic we can't stop nerding out about: the seven minute act. We talk structure, dramaturgy, and why short acts can be harder than full shows, plus how a personal circus video archive becomes a living library for anyone who wants to see what makes great acts endure.Subscribe, share this with a fellow circus lover, and leave a review so more listeners can find the show.LINKS:You can find information about the Juggling Tango act here.You can see a filmed version of it here.And this is a link to the Circusstad festival where Menno is the artistic director. If you click it you will currently (03/26) see me, the incomparable Captain Frodo on the front page.Support the show...After a long abscence our Merch Shop is back! Check out t-shirts, hoddies, and hats! Show yourself as a Follower of the Way of the Showman.You can also "listen" to the Way of the Showman at youtube.If you want to help support this podcast it would be tremendous if you wrote a glowing review on iTunes or Spotify.If you want to  contact me about anyhthing ou can reach me on thewayoftheshowman@gmail.comYou can find out more on the Way of the Showman website.Follow the Way of the Showman on Instagram.If you're compelled to suport the showes and have the means to do so, you can suport the podcast financially at: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/captainfrodo

P.T. Barnum was one of the most famous entertainers of the 19th century, a man who turned curiosity, spectacle, and promotion into an art form and money. He built museums, launched tours, entered politics, created legends, and helped define the modern circus.  His life was filled with ambition, controversy, genius…and a fair amount of exaggeration.  Learn more about P.T Barnum, the self-proclaimed Prince of Humbugs, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.  Sponsors Newspapers.com Honor the past by uncovering its stories at Newspapers.com  Promo Code EVERYTHINGEVERWHERE Samsara Don't wait for the next accident to take action. Head to Samsara.com/EVERYTHING ButcherBox Get your choice between chicken breast or top sirloin for a year OR ground beef for life, PLUS $20 off when you go to ButcherBox.com/everything Quince Go to quince.com/daily for 365-day returns, plus free shipping on your order! Mint Mobile Save 50% on Unlimited premium wireless plans starting at $15/month at MintMobile.com/EED Audible Listen to Project Hail Mary Audible.com/hailmary Fast Growing Trees Get 20% off your first purchase when using the code DAILY at checkout at fastgrowingtrees.com/daily Subscribe to the podcast!  https://everything-everywhere.com/everything-everywhere-daily-podcast/ -------------------------------- Executive Producer: Charles Daniel Associate Producers: Austin Oetken & Cameron Kieffer   Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhere Discord Server: https://discord.gg/Ds7Rx7jvPJ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/everythingeverywheredaily Twitter: https://twitter.com/everywheretrip Website: https://everything-everywhere.com/  Disce aliquid novi cotidie Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Who was “Kentucky Frank”?Scout. Showman. Snake wrangler. Shooting gallery owner. Wild West performer. Serial storyteller. And eventually, a 72-year-old man who made headlines for marrying a thirteen-year-old Kentucky girl.In this episode of Kentucky History & Haunts, we trace the strange and unsettling life of the man born George Russell, better known to newspaper readers across the country as “Kentucky Frank.” From dime museums and traveling sideshows in the 1890s to wagon races, shooting galleries, escaped snakes, and rural Christmas light displays powered by an early Delco generator, Frank spent decades carefully crafting his own legend.Along the way, he crossed paths with some of the most bizarre corners of turn-of-the-century entertainment culture, performing alongside sword swallowers, “freak show” acts, animal performers, and traveling curiosities that filled newspaper advertisements across America.But beneath the eccentric persona was a much darker reality.At the center of this story is Margaret Carpenter, the thirteen-year-old Kentucky girl who became “Mrs. Kentucky Frank.” What began as a disturbing newspaper headline slowly transforms into something far more complicated and unexpectedly moving. After Frank's death, Margaret went on to finish school, attend college, become a beloved educator for nearly four decades, raise a family, and leave behind a legacy far greater than the man whose name once overshadowed hers.This episode explores:• Traveling Wild West and dime museum culture• The mythology of frontier performers• Vine Street's strange entertainment district in Cincinnati• Early shooting galleries and wartime rifle culture• Rural Kentucky life in the 1920s and 30s• The troubling normalization of child marriage in early Kentucky history• And the remarkable life Margaret built afterwardBecause in the end, the real story isn't Kentucky Frank.It's Margaret.Follow Kentucky History & Haunts for historic photos, newspaper clippings, and episode updates:Instagram: @kyhistoryhauntsFacebook: Kentucky History & HauntsSources for this episode included extensive newspaper archive research, regional Kentucky publications, census records, obituaries, and historical reporting.Email: kyhistoryhaunts@gmail.comMailing address: Jessie Bartholomew252 Whittington Pkwy, Louisville, KY, 40222*Transcripts are auto-generated and may contain errors

Author and music journalist Jeff Apter joins us to discuss his recent book, Lee Gordon Presents: How One Man Changed Australian Life Forever, the first biography of the wild man who not only brought rock 'n' roll Down Under, but who pioneered so much else, from jazz festivals and strip shows to female roller derby and drive-in burger joints.Apple and Patreon supporters get exclusive access to the original short episodes ‘The Big Showman', a salute to Lee Gordon from Aussie legends, and ‘When Lenny Bruce Got Smashed By Sydney', about the radical comic's disastrous tour Down Under for Lee Gordon in 1962.To access a free trial, use these links and follow the easy steps. Cancel before the free-trial ends and you won't be charged. Patreon: patreon.com/forgottenaustraliaApple: apple.co/forgottenaustraliaWant more original Australian history? Check out my books!They'll Never Hold Me:https://www.booktopia.com.au/they-ll-never-hold-me-michael-adams/book/9781923046474.htmlThe Murder Squad:https://www.booktopia.com.au/the-murder-squad-michael-adams/book/9781923046504.htmlHanging Ned Kelly:https://www.booktopia.com.au/hanging-ned-kelly-michael-adams/book/9781922992185.htmlAustralia's Sweetheart:https://www.booktopia.com.au/australia-s-sweetheart-michael-adams/book/9780733640292.htmlEmail: forgottenaustraliapodcast@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What if a performance could borrow your memories and hand them back changed? We dive into the hidden link between music, juggling, and dance by exploring the brain's precuneus—the region that lights up when art stops being “out there” and becomes personal. When you like a piece of music, your brain flips from hearing to identifying. That same switch can flip for movement arts, turning clean patterns and intentional transitions into visual music that feels like your own story.I share why difficulty and risk are only the front door—and how depth begins when patterns breathe long enough for the audience to anticipate change and feel it in their gut. We talk about intrusion versus belonging: why unwanted sound feels like tampering, and why trust, pacing, and context invite people into a receptive state. From a tightwire's held breath to a 40-minute pole sequence, the work is the same—sustain intention, reveal structure, let the audience do the meaning-making their brain is built for.We also get practical. How do you help non-experts read complex movement the way they read music? Offer onramps. Start with motifs. Pair gestures with sound that supports the narrative. Use language that points without pinning. And above all, commit to flow—because a single drop or restart can break identification the way a pianist stopping mid-phrase can eject you from the piece. When connection holds, even familiar phrases like follow your dreams shed their cliché and land as real prompts for action.Call it showmanship, visual music, or embodied storytelling—the test is simple: did it move the watcher? If the answer is yes, they'll leave with new memories that feel self-authored, which is the quiet magic of live art. If this resonates, tap follow, share the episode with someone who loves performance, and drop a review to tell us the last time a show truly changed you.Support the show...After a long abscence our Merch Shop is back! Check out t-shirts, hoddies, and hats! Show yourself as a Follower of the Way of the Showman.You can also "listen" to the Way of the Showman at youtube.If you want to help support this podcast it would be tremendous if you wrote a glowing review on iTunes or Spotify.If you want to  contact me about anyhthing ou can reach me on thewayoftheshowman@gmail.comYou can find out more on the Way of the Showman website.Follow the Way of the Showman on Instagram.If you're compelled to suport the showes and have the means to do so, you can suport the podcast financially at: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/captainfrodo

Pain stunts can shock anyone. The real question is: how do you turn shock into something people actually want to come back for? I sit down again with Hoverfiel, the Norwegian pioneer behind Pain Solution, to talk about the hard-earned craft of pain-proof performance and why “keeping it real” is more than a slogan. We get into what happens when you refuse illusions, build shows around music cues, and design an act you can carry solo in a gig economy without watering down the material. From there, we dig into the part many sideshow and performance art fans never hear: character work. Hoverfiel explains why relying on puke-and-pass-out reactions is a dead end, and how comedy and tension release can make extreme acts accessible without making them fake. We also talk about pacing, including the deliberate choice to save blood for the end, bringing audiences along a journey where they laugh first, trust the performer, and only then choose how far they want to go. The conversation takes a sharp turn into the Fakir Academy, an unorthodox apprenticeship that starts with a referral from Child Protective Services. We unpack what it meant to mentor young people with self-harm histories, teach technical sideshow skills alongside creativity and structure, and meet self-harm with understanding instead of disgust. It's a nuanced discussion about mental health, harm reduction, and the limits of what a performer can safely carry, even with the best intentions. If you care about sideshow history, fakir tradition, body modification culture, or the ethics of performance under real risk, you'll find a lot to sit with here. Subscribe to The Way of the Showman, share this with a friend who loves performance craft, and leave a review so more curious listeners can find the show. What part of the conversation challenged you most?Support the show...After a long abscence our Merch Shop is back! Check out t-shirts, hoddies, and hats! Show yourself as a Follower of the Way of the Showman.You can also "listen" to the Way of the Showman at youtube.If you want to help support this podcast it would be tremendous if you wrote a glowing review on iTunes or Spotify.If you want to  contact me about anyhthing ou can reach me on thewayoftheshowman@gmail.comYou can find out more on the Way of the Showman website.Follow the Way of the Showman on Instagram.If you're compelled to suport the showes and have the means to do so, you can suport the podcast financially at: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/captainfrodo

A man from Southern California was recently busted for a hilarious crime... stealing legos. Now he didn't steal them in a way you would expect... the theft happened during the return process? It's time to play our favorite drinking game, Bombed at the Beach! We sent Jaime down to the bars where he met John and Rhonda and boy were they drunk! Can they answer basic trivia questions? Let's find out! We all have different opinions on which decade had the best everything. Well we found a study that broke it down by category to see which decade had the best music, food, economy and more! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this week's episode, The Shepherd and the Showman, Dr. Willy Rice takes us to Acts 8:9–13 and 18–25, where the story of Simon the sorcerer contrasts true faith with a dangerous counterfeit. While many respond genuinely to the gospel, Simon's story reveals how easily belief can be mixed with wrong motives and misplaced desires.Through this powerful passage, we're challenged to examine the authenticity of our own faith—looking closely at our repentance, our motives, our agenda, and what we truly value. This message reminds us that faith is not about gaining power or recognition, but about a transformed heart that humbly receives the gift of God.Ultimately, this episode calls us to move beyond appearances and into a deeper, genuine relationship with Christ—one marked not by performance, but by surrender and truth.Support the showFind us at! Calvary.us

A man from Southern California was recently busted for a hilarious crime... stealing legos. Now he didn't steal them in a way you would expect... the theft happened during the return process? It's time to play our favorite drinking game, Bombed at the Beach! We sent Jaime down to the bars where he met John and Rhonda and boy were they drunk! Can they answer basic trivia questions? Let's find out! We all have different opinions on which decade had the best everything. Well we found a study that broke it down by category to see which decade had the best music, food, economy and more! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on The Valley, Michelle hears Jasmine likes Jesse and then a weird game of telephone begins, Kristen tries to get her groove back at a Y2K themed girls night, Brittany gets a boyfriend and a sparkler and more!Follow me on social media, find links to merch, Patreon and more here! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Fire looks clean from a distance. Up close, it can leave you chronically ill for life. We're joined by Håvve Fjell, known to many as the Headmaster of Pain and the driving force behind Norway's legendary Pain Solution, for a frank talk about what extreme performance really demands and what it can take from you.We start with the unromantic reality of occupational risk: lung damage from long-term fire eating and fire breathing, early accidents, and the quiet ways the body keeps score. From there, we rewind to the beginning, when pain isn't a stunt but a fascination. Hover shares how childhood injuries turn into deliberate experiments as a teenager, and why his motivation doesn't match the usual story people tell about self-harm. That thread leads straight into Modern Primitives, Fakir Musafar, body modification, altered states, and the moment a private impulse becomes a serious practice.Then we get practical about craft. A failed early debut, heckling, and a confused audience push Hover toward learning performance skills: juggling, acting, clowning, mime, and the hard work of building a stage persona. We also revisit a pre-internet body piercing scene in Norway where information is scarce, standards are improvised, and word of mouth is everything. Finally, we dig into the origins of Pain Solution itself, from backyard fire sessions to booked gigs, naming the act, documenting the work in books, and the long road from ritual performance art toward a sideshow format people can actually book.If you're into sideshow history, fakir performance, fire breathing safety, body modification culture, or performance art, this is a rare firsthand map of how the scene was built. Subscribe, share the episode with a friend, and leave a review so more listeners can find The Way Of The Showman.Support the show...After a long abscence our Merch Shop is back! Check out t-shirts, hoddies, and hats! Show yourself as a Follower of the Way of the Showman.You can also "listen" to the Way of the Showman at youtube.If you want to help support this podcast it would be tremendous if you wrote a glowing review on iTunes or Spotify.If you want to  contact me about anyhthing ou can reach me on thewayoftheshowman@gmail.comYou can find out more on the Way of the Showman website.Follow the Way of the Showman on Instagram.If you're compelled to suport the showes and have the means to do so, you can suport the podcast financially at: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/captainfrodo

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A man was recently arrested in the Bahamas after his wife fell over board their dingy. Well thigs are a little suspicious when we hear all the details of what happened and the extra information his step-daughter gave the authorities It's Throwback Thursday so we play our game Throwback Trivia! This week we have Sky up against Jaime, both players who need some wins under their belts... We are halfway to Halloween and that means Home Depot has some new drops! We go through some of the new Halloween decorations they are releasing and Eddie has some words for those celebrating this but speaking out against early Christmas decorations...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A man was recently arrested in the Bahamas after his wife fell over board their dingy. Well thigs are a little suspicious when we hear all the details of what happened and the extra information his step-daughter gave the authorities It's Throwback Thursday so we play our game Throwback Trivia! This week we have Sky up against Jaime, both players who need some wins under their belts... We are halfway to Halloween and that means Home Depot has some new drops! We go through some of the new Halloween decorations they are releasing and Eddie has some words for those celebrating this but speaking out against early Christmas decorations...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What if showmanship isn't just flair, but a way of seeing the world? We open up the first public talk about our forthcoming book, born from years of touring, early mornings, and 160+ podcast episodes, and share how a single poem became the spine for a philosophy of performance. As the lines were learned by heart, their meanings deepened, revealing a core image: the showman is the one who faces the other way, gathers a field of shared attention, and returns borrowed time as something refined.From that image, we chart four working maps. First, the live situation itself: performer, audience, and the emergent dimension we call the show. Second, the human being at the center—thinking, feeling, and willing—as both subject and material. Third, the anatomy of an act, where choices in rhythm, structure, tone, and risk make ideas visible. Fourth, the values under intent, the quiet logic behind why we elevate a volunteer or make a joke at their expense. Along the way, we read from a chapter that unpacks the true, the good, and the beautiful, reframing them as guiding stars for craft: truth as resonant inquiry, goodness as lived action that helps others flourish, and beauty as attention's welcome, from Baroque fugues to black metal's frost.To make it concrete, we imagine a three-ring circus under colored lights—blue for truth, red for beauty, green for goodness—where performers fail and try again, and sincerity becomes the real feat. We share practices you can use tomorrow: capture moments that resonate, look beyond your field for patterns, follow fear to find what you value, and translate insights into movement, text, and timing until they live in your hands. If you care about performance, creativity, circus, magic, or the craft of making meaning in front of people, this conversation offers language, tools, and a compass.If this resonated, subscribe, leave a five-star review, and share it with a friend who faces the other way. For updates on the book, follow The Way of the Showman on Instagram and stay tuned for what comes next.Support the show...After a long abscence our Merch Shop is back! Check out t-shirts, hoddies, and hats! Show yourself as a Follower of the Way of the Showman.You can also "listen" to the Way of the Showman at youtube.If you want to help support this podcast it would be tremendous if you wrote a glowing review on iTunes or Spotify.If you want to  contact me about anyhthing ou can reach me on thewayoftheshowman@gmail.comYou can find out more on the Way of the Showman website.Follow the Way of the Showman on Instagram.If you're compelled to suport the showes and have the means to do so, you can suport the podcast financially at: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/captainfrodo

Kaitlin finds her perfect pair of sunglasses despite everyone else's opinion. Minivans are elite. Keanu Reeves might be the nicest human alive. We casually dip our toes into conspiracy theories. Does worship music actually manipulate your emotions? Everyone shares their green flags (for once, some positive self-talk). Follow SWE on Instagram → @so.what.else  Follow Kaitlin on Instagram → @kaitlingraceelliott  https://www.kaitlinelliott.com/

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Send us Fan MailIn this episode, we are joined by Laurie Gwen Shapiro, a bestselling author, journalist, and adjunct professor at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. A member of the Explorers Club, her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and The New York Times. She is the author of The Stowaway, the true story of a teenager who stowed away on a ship bound for Antarctica during the Jazz Age, and The Aviator and the Showman: Amelia Earhart, George Putnam, and the Marriage that Made an American Icon, a New York Times Editors' Choice and one of the best books of the year by NPR, The New Yorker, and Smithsonian Magazine.But before our conversation with Laurie, we set the stage, because the Amelia Earhart story is deeply a Pan Am story.On January 9, 1929, three defining figures of the aviation age stood on the tarmac of Pan Am's new Miami terminal, Juan Trippe, Charles Lindbergh, and Amelia Earhart. Trippe invited Earhart aboard Pan Am's Fokker F-10A, captained by Edwin Musick, for the inaugural flight to Havana.At the center of that relationship was Fred Noonan, Pan Am's greatest navigator, who charted the transpacific routes. When Earhart assembled her team in 1937, Noonan was the navigator every conversation kept returning to. Trippe extended Pan Am's full cooperation, and Pan Am mechanics spent a week on her Lockheed Electra in Miami. On July 2, 1937, Earhart and Noonan departed Lae, New Guinea, bound for Howland Island - 2,556 miles of open ocean...and vanished.This episode also features rare archival audio from the Elgen and Marie Long oral history collection...aired publicly for the first time. Their 220-plus hours of recordings are preserved at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum as the Amelia Earhart Project Recordings. Among those voices is Pan Am's Harry Canaday, recorded in 1985 at age 76, reflecting on Noonan, the Pacific survey flights, and the world that produced the Earhart flight.These recordings are presented courtesy of David Jourdan of Nauticos and the Smithsonian Institution's Amelia Earhart Project.Support the showVisit Us for more Pan Am History! Support the Podcast!Donate to the Museum!Visit The Hangar online store for Pan Am gear!Become a Member! Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter!A very special thanks to Mr. Adam Aron, Chairman and CEO of AMC and president of the Pan Am Historical Foundation and  Pan Am Brands for their continued and unwavering support! 

1. David K. Randall, *The Monster's Bones: The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World*. Barnum Brown, born in 1873, was named after showman P.T. Barnum after his brother visited a traveling fair. A formative 2,000-mile trip with his father introduced him to the changing nature of the Earth and the vastness of the American West. Later, at the University of Kansas, he studied under Professor Williston, a veteran of the legendary "bone wars" between Marsh and Cope. Brown excelled in the field due to his physical strength, survival skills, and remarkable patience while extracting fossils. His talent earned him the nickname "Mr. Bones" and led to a prestigious invitation to join Henry Fairfield Osborne's team in New York. (1)1911

In the fall of 2021, a young couple in Cobb County, Georgia thought they'd found their dream home. An upscale subdivision. A quiet street. A perfect place to raise their two year old son.What they could not have known was that the house came with an unspoken history. A neighbor who had already crossed the line. A fear that had driven the previous owners to leave. And a threat that did not disappear when the “For Sale” sign went up.How to support:For extra perks including exclusive content, early release, and ad-free episodes -Go to - PatreonHow to connect:WebsiteInstagramFacebookTwitterTheme and Closing Track:Original compositions created for The Minds of MadnessPlease check out our sponsors and help support the podcast:Shopify - Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period at shopify.com/madnessQuince - Upgrade your wardrobe with pieces made to last with Quince. Go to Quince.com/madness for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns.Marley Spoon - This new year, fast-track your way to eating well with Marley Spoon. Head to MarleySpoon.com/offer/MADNESS for up to 25 FREE meals!HERS - Feel like your best self again, Visit forhers.com/MADNESS to get a personalized, affordable plan that gets you.NOCD - If you're struggling with OCD or unrelenting intrusive thoughts, NOCD can help. Book a free 15 minute call to get started: https://learn.nocd.com/MADNESSGranola - If meetings are eating up your day, Granola is a no-brainer. You can try it totally free for three months - just head to granola.ai/MADNESSNutrafol - Start your hair growth journey with Nutrafol. For a limited time, Nutrafol is offering our listeners ten dollars off your first month's subscription and free shipping when you go to Nutrafol.com and enter the promo code MADNESSResearch & Writing:Ryan DeiningerSources:Life without parole handed down to man convicted of murder of Acworth coupleThe Terror of the Lanz BrothersLanz brothers had history of crime at Acworth home before couple's murder, records showMan charged in murders after arrested for stabbing officerBefore Austin Lanz killed a Pentagon police officer, he was investigated for menacing neighborsBehavioral Threat Assessment of Austin William LanzCompetency hearing held for man accused of killing firefighter and wifeShooter sentenced for killing metro Atlanta firefighter, his wifeWarrant11/19/2025 TranscriptBefore Austin Lanz killed a Pentagon officer, he was accused of targeting the couple next doorCouple killed in Acworth home loved each other for most of their livesCommunity to support Acworth toddler after parents are killedFundraiser launched for son of Acworth couple killed in their homeDepartment honors Cherokee County firefighter and his wife who were murderedJustin and Amber Hicks lived a life full of love, generosity, and kindness…Man killed couple, left toddler in home who 'tried to cuddle" and 'play' with parents: DADefendant InterrogationDefendant Interrogation Part 2Scott & Theresa InterrogationCourt TV Trial RecapMan sentenced to life in slayings of Cherokee firefighter, wifeUniversity of Georgia student found guilty of murdering couple inside their homeTrial of man accused of killing his neighbors in Cobb County wraps first dayAccused killer's parents tell police their son was seeing a psychiatrist, had ‘demonic side'