Podcast appearances and mentions of steve hoeft

The idea of a fleet may bring to mind a very specific type of vehicle for some people. But the reality in the modern world of mobility is that fleets truly come in all shapes and sizes.  In the latest episode of THRIVE, host Keith Cawley explores the changing world of commercial tire and fleet solutions with two of Bridgestone's top experts – Steve Hoeft, President of the Commercial Truck Group for Bridgestone Americas, and Brian Cunningham, Vice President of Fleet Solutions Customer Success for Bridgestone Mobility Solutions. From traditional tractor trailers to emerging home delivery services, Steve and Brian discuss how innovative technologies and digital solutions are coming together with premium tire products to serve a diverse range of modern fleets across all areas of business

After a lull of 7 years since meeting up last, the Coachmen, Waukesha, Wisconsin's folk song quartet from 1959 to 1965 (junior high through senior year of high school) all of 'em (Rich Reaves, Walt Galloway, Steve Hoeft, Bruce Kerr), flew back from Georgia, Rhode Island, Idaho, and California to their hometown of Waukesha, Wisconsin, to perform at their high school maestro's Memorial Service, for James Machan on a Saturday in June of 2022. The day before the Memorial, the boys regrouped to perform as former jocks (Waukesha's legendary high school swim champions dynasty, 1958-75) and "Blackshirts" at their hometown's "Blackshirts Breakfast Group," hosted by backstroker & hometown legend, Bill Schley. Frivolity ensued as this videoclip evidences. Following breakfast, the quartet donned some of their remaining instruments to perform "M.T.A," originally by the Kingston Trio, one of their mentor groups as the learned to sing & play together as pre-Beatles young "lads." From Mrs. Kamradt's 7th grade music classroom to the present, the group has had a 63 year run. After graduating high school in 1965, Steve went on to graphic arts, Walt as a scientist at the EPA, and Rich and Bruce became lawyers. In the late 70's, 2 Coachmen, Steve & Bruce quit their jobs and went on the road as a duo ("Winterwood"), adding bass & drums to become a rock band in their 30's, "Spud City," which played New England & Virgin Islands' resorts, bars, nightclubs and college pubs until 1980. Following that, Steve went back to work and Bruce played clubs until 1992 after which he got a real job for 23 years. All the "lads" are now retired, but find ways to link up every once in a while. Were you there? ;)

"FREEDOM CALL" is a Loose Bruce Kerr song from 1974 about the 2 young American women who were hitchhiking on a truck in Turkey which turned out to have hash hidden in it. Turkish authorities threw them in jail with no process for release, and the US government, then with Richard Nixon at the helm, could have cared less. Bruce was living in L.A. at the time and read a People Magazine story on it and wrote the tune. About 4 years later Steve Hoeft, an old Waukesha, Wisconsin buddy of Bruce's had joined him on the road, traveling the country in a light blue 1951 Chevy Schoolbus conversion, adding his vocal, banjo, and guitars to the show. Landing in Vermont for a period, they recorded "Freedom Call" with a band at the U of VT whose house they were parked next to in Burlington, at an amazing studio out in the sticks. The flip side was "Double Shot," also available for download from this podcast. Soon after, Steve and Bruce added drums & bass to the band for a couple years' run in New England. Loose Bruce Kerr interrupted his legal career for 20 years to hit the road to write, perform and produce his songs and parodies (over 140 song plays on Dr. Demento since 1987). Resuming his legal career in 1993, Bruce became Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems, then finished up at Oracle, retiring in 2021. www.loosebrucekerr.com email: BKerrLaw@aol.com

"DOUBLE SHOT" is a Loose Bruce Kerr song from 1975, recorded with his duo (then band) partner, Waukesha, Wisconsin's Steve Hoeft, a long-time buddy of Bruce's who joined him on the road in 1976. They traveled the country in a light blue 1951 Chevy Schoolbus conversion. Landing in Vermont for a period, they recorded "DOUBLE SHOT" with a band at the U of VT whose house they were parked next to in Burlington, at an amazing studio out in the sticks. The flip side was "FREEDOM CALL," also available for download from this podcast. Soon after, Steve and Bruce added drums & bass to the show for a couple years' run in New England. Loose Bruce Kerr interrupted his legal career for 20 years to hit the road to write, perform and produce his songs and parodies (over 140 song plays on Dr. Demento since 1987). Resuming his legal career in 1993, Bruce became Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems, then finished up at Oracle, retiring in 2021. www.loosebrucekerr.com email: BKerrLaw@aol.com

"MAY I?" is a modern-traditional love song by songwriter-parodist Loose Bruce Kerr with the feel of a 1930's style. The song has both 4/4 time signature sections and a 3/4 (waltz) section. Loose Bruce Kerr lives in northern California with his wife and 2 cats. He is from Waukesha, Wisconsin (home to Les Paul who invented the electric guitar and multi-track recording). Bruce uses multi-track (32 tracks, these days) to record his vocals and instruments (many synthesized, e.g., french horns, cellos) one at a time. He interrupted his legal career in 1973 to take 20 years off to write, record, and perform his songs, including on the road as a solo, duo (with Waukesha's Steve Hoeft) and full rock band ("Spud City" with Steve, Tyke Van Eyke and Mickey Marien) in New England in the late 1970's. As a solo, Bruce opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic and his parodies have been heard on the Dr. Demento Show over 140 times. In 1993, Bruce resumed his legal career, ending up Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems and later working for Oracle. Retired, now, he continues to write & record his songs in his garage studio and uploads video performances to youtube and his podcast loosebrucekerr.com. His 5-part a cappella Christmas love song, "Christmas Is You" is being published, and distributed by Hal Leonard, starting holidays 2022 for college and high school choral groups. email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com

"I AM THERE FOR YOU" is "Loose Bruce" Kerr's original song, a jazz-scat-big band sound. Bruce records his songs one instrument & vocal at a time, layering to get the final song. In this one, he sings, plays bass & piano "for real," then uses his synthesizer to compose & play each trombone, trumpet, saxophone, & set of drums, one drum or cymbal per track, then mixes it all together. "Loose Bruce" Kerr spent 20 years as a performer of music, comedy, and parodies. His parodies have been played on national TV (CNN News), radio (Dr. Demento, over 100 plays; Jim Bohannon Program, Larry King). He opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. Eventually, Bruce resumed his earlier law practice which he had suspended and after a career at Oracle and formerly Assistant General Counsel of Sun Microsystems is semi-retired in northern California taking atty contract work from time to time. In the mid-late 60's, Bruce was a vocalist & bass player in rock band "The 5 Bucks" which became the "Byzantine Empire" during college at the University of Michigan. Several 45's were released, the last several on Bell Records. Before that, in high school, Bruce was in a folk group in Waukesha, Wisconsin (home of Les Paul), "The Coachmen." In the late 70's, Bruce was a guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter in the New England area rock band, "Spud City" (with Waukesha, WI's fellow townie, Steve Hoeft). Many of Bruce's parody videos from 2006-on are viewable on youtube, as well as on this podcast site. email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com

Loose Bruce Kerr's latest parody mp3 AUDIO on Majority Senate Leader, Mitch McConnell who's been compared to a turtle or frog (see The Onion picture https://politics.theonion.com/mitch-mcconnell-inflates-throat-pouch-in-show-of-domina-1819591493), to the tune of the Beatles' "The Long & Winding Road," here's: "THE LONG-TONGUED TURTLE-FROG." Earbuds encouraged. Enjoy! See also at loosebrucekerr.com (here) the VIDEO garage performance of this parody, including a graphic by Steve Hoeft. Loose Bruce Kerr is a nationally-known song parodist & songwriter (Dr. Demento Show; Jim Bohannon Show). Back in the day, Bruce opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. Bruce records his songs in his garage live, adding background vocals & instruments he plays. He is currently an attorney working at Oracle in northern California. email: BKerrLaw@aol.com free mp3 and mp4 downloads of audio & video at loosebrucekerr.com

Oscar Meyer Weiner Song by Spud City, "Music With a Peel,"  -University of Lowell concert, 1978 (Steve Hoeft/guitar, Bruce Kerr/guitar, Mickey Marien,/bass, & Tyke Ten Eyck/drums. This is how our rock road band in New England in 1978 opened our shows. For this concert, we played about 12 original songs after this opener. Big stage for us since most of our 4-5 gigs a week those years were clubs, college pubs, bars, ski lodges. But once in a while, a concert like this one came along where, instead of 4 x 45 min. sets including covers, we did an all-original show of songs written by "Loose Bruce" Kerr. We had a band house in rural northern Massachusetts up on the New Hampshire border, about an hour out of Boston. In those days, around 3 to 5pm, 4-5 times a week, 3 cars loaded with gear would launch down that 1/4 mile driveway (if snow allowed) to drive an hour to 4 hours away in Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut or Mass. In the big snowstorm of '78, we were snowed in at that house for a week, lost a lot of gigs & money, but we made up for it over the following months. Alas, all bands dis-band (yes, I said it) and dis band did no differently. In 1979 we went back down to Steve & I as a duo, then we split in January, 1980, Steve moved to Boise, Idaho and started various bands. Bruce went to St. Thomas, in the US Virgin Islands to go solo for the next 12 years there and in California. Tyke ended up in Florida, Mickey in southern California, Bruce in northern California, and Steve in Idaho. Spud City, "Music With a Peel" email: BKerrLaw@aol.com

  STEREO AUDIO ORIGINAL mp3 "I MET MY SWEETIE ON TAHITI" is an original song & recording by "Loose Bruce" Kerr. It's an homage to his parents who taught him his first instrument (ukelele, by his Dad, Ken), songs from their youth in the 1920's (Ken & Opal, both), and, re his Dad's love for both dixieland jazz and barbershop quartet which he passed on to Bruce. This is Bruce playing out his Tin Pan Alley songwriter wish. Bruce sings each harmony and plays each instrument one at a time (a digital unit allows him to affect horns & strings he can't play). It's a 1-man band (across time). ;) Bruce took 20 years off from his legal career to write & perform music, sometimes solo, sometimes in a duo or the band, "Spud City-Music With a Peel" (Mass., VT) with his hometown buddy, Steve Hoeft. As a solo, he opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. Then he resumed being an attorney, now working for Oracle in Northern California's Silicon Valley. Bruce dedicates this song to his cousin, Jim Conway, who moved to the South Pacific island of Tuvalu and eventually met his sweetie, Nese Ituaso, and married her up real good. email: BKerrLaw@aol.com

My guests for episode #226 are Steve Hoeft and Dr. Robert (Bob) Pryor from Baylor Scott & White Health in Texas. Bob serves as President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Medical Officer for the system and was formerly CEO of Scott & White Health before their merger with Baylor Health Care System. Steve is the Chief of Operations Excellence for the system. hoeft-pryor bookThey are co-authors of a recently released book that I think is outstanding: The Power of Ideas to Transform Healthcare: Engaging Staff by Building Daily Lean Management Systems. Steve is also previously author of another book I really like, Stories from My Sensei: Two Decades of Lessons Learned Implementing Toyota-Style Systems. I'm sure you'll enjoy the podcast, as they combine the perspectives of an industrial engineer and Toyota-influenced automotive guy (Steve) and a pediatrician and physician executive (Bob). They share a passion for healthcare improvement AND a belief that we need to respect and engage everybody who works in healthcare as a way to better serve patients. For a link to this episode, refer people to www.leanblog.org/226. Podcasts are sponsored by KaiNexus and their software that helps spread continuous improvement -- Learn more at http://www.KaiNexus.com

"HIP TO BE POOR" is about Donald Trump's 1990 financial woes, back when he split from Ivana and married Marla (both, now 2 of his 3 ex's) and lost many of his major properties, to the tune of Huey Lewis & The News' "Hip To Be Square." What with Trump's current cancelation of his Macy's, NBC, & Univision contracts re Miss USA & Miss Universe, might we be entering into another phase of financial downfall for The Donald? We shall see, even as he seeks the Republican nomination for the Presidency of the United States. Loose Bruce Kerr had a 20 year career "interruption" of his legal career as he performed his music & comedy coast-to-coast and in the Caribbean as a solo, duo with Steve Hoeft, or in his New England band in the late 70's, Spud City. He also opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic back in the day. He is currently a lawyer at Oracle in northern California's Silicon Valley and continues to record his videos and original & parody songs in his garage called, "The Garage," by recording his vocals and instruments one at a time. Download more Loose Bruce Kerr songs & videos at http://www.loosebrucekerr.com   email: BKerrLaw@aol.com

She de-topped it, poor John Bobbitt..."THE BIG BOBBITT" is Loose Bruce Kerr's 1993 parody of the Big Bopper's "Chantilly Lace," here it is for the first time on the Internet...for free! Loose Bruce Kerr had a 20 year career "interruption" of his legal career as he performed his music & comedy coast-to-coast and in the Caribbean as a solo, duo with Steve Hoeft, or in his New England band in the late 70's, Spud City. He also opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic back in the day. He is currently a lawyer at Oracle in northern California's Silicon Valley and continues to record his videos and original & parody songs in his garage called, "The Garage." www.loosebrucekerr.com email: BKerrLaw@aol.com

"FRANKENANCY," the comedy audio by Loose Bruce Kerr, about Frank Sinatra & Nancy Reagan, was inspired by Kitty Kelley's book about Nancy Reagan in 1991. It tells the story of the rumored romance between those 2, using snippets of Frank Sinatra recordings to tell the story via a mock interview format. At the time, the montage received airplay on several major networks and nationally affiliated radio programs like the Dr. Demento Show and Jim Bohannon Show. Bruce received a nice thank you card note from Kitty Kelley (see picture). Loose Bruce Kerr is a songwriter, performer, and music producer living in Northern California. A native of Waukesha, Wisconsin, Bruce took 20 years off from his legal career to tour the country and the Caribbean, performing as a solo, in a duo with Steve Hoeft, or in his band in New England, "Spud City." Following that 20 year span, Bruce resumed his legal career and now is a lawyer working for Oracle in Silicon Valley. His songs & videos can be heard & viewed on youtube and here on loosebrucekerr.com. His latest original audio recordings are available only on iTunes & cdbaby.com. Back in the day, Bruce opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. He is an irregular performer on the Dr. Demento Show on the internet, and Jim Bohannon Show on nationally syndicated AM radio. email: BKerrLaw@aol.com  

"TIME TO START NEXT CHRISTMAS" is Loose Bruce Kerr's latest original, for right after Christmas. Loose Bruce Kerr is a songwriter, performer, and music producer living in Northern California. A native of Waukesha, Wisconsin, Bruce took 20 years off from his legal career to tour the country and the Caribbean, performing as a solo, in a duo with Steve Hoeft, or in his band in New England, "Spud City." Following that 20 year span, Bruce resumed his legal career and now is a lawyer working for Oracle in Silicon Valley. His songs & videos can be heard & viewed on youtube and here on loosebrucekerr.com. His latest original audio recordings are available on iTunes & cdbaby.com. Back in the day, Bruce opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. He is an irregular performer on the Dr. Demento Show on the internet, and Jim Bohannon Show on nationally syndicated AM radio. email: BKerrLaw@aol.com

Sales consultant and trainer Steve Hoeft joins Paul Jaeb to talk about how to sell consulting services.  Alan Goodman and Paul discuss the importance of resilience and reminisce about The Rockford Files, in light of the recent passing of James Garner.  Next month Paul is joined by Scott Wilson of IRB and recurring guest Dave […]

Lead Like a Marine welcomes Mr Steve Hoeft. Steve once told me a way that I can easily remember how to correctly pronounce his name... it's just like sliding into home plate... "SAFE". Easy to remember. Steve served in the United States Marine Corps from 1997 to 2001 and achieved the rank of SSgt. Steve serves as the regional member coordinator for Trust Vets. Steve is a consultant, trainer and coach to companies large and small on the areas of sales and leadership. You are going to love this interview! He shares some sage wisdom for service members looking to transition as well as for those who may have already made the transition into the civilian marketplace.

"SEXUALLY ACTIVE MAN (S.A.M.)" is a video of "Loose Bruce" Kerr performing his original tune, his answer to "I'm a Woman (W.O.M.A.N.)" by Leiber & Stoller and performed by countless female singers. The song was first performed by Bruce in the New England band "Spud City" with Steve Hoeft in 1977, this video is from Bruce's solo act in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, winter of 1981.

"SEXUALLY ACTIVE MAN (S.A.M.)" [the AUDIO] is "Loose Bruce" Kerr performing his original tune, his answer to "I'm a Woman (W.O.M.A.N.)" by Leiber & Stoller and performed by countless female singers. The song was first performed by Bruce in the New England band "Spud City" with Steve Hoeft in 1977, this AUDIO of the video is from Bruce's solo act in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, winter of 1981. (see, also, the VIDEO here on loosebrucekerr.com)

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[SONGS NOW AVAILABLE ON CDBABY.COM ...OR SEARCH ON iTunes.com] Bruce sings each harmony and plays each instrument one at a time (a digital unit allows him to affect horns & strings he can't play). It's a 1-man band (across time). ;) Bruce took 20 years off from his legal career to write & perform music, sometimes solo, sometimes in a duo or the band, "Spud City-Music With a Peel" (Mass., VT) with his hometown buddy, Steve Hoeft. As a solo, he opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. Then he resumed being an attorney, now working for Oracle in Northern California's Silicon Valley. email: BKerrLaw@aol.com