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What happens when a childhood dream refuses to let go? In this episode, I sit down with cartoonist and Lum and Abner historian Donnie Pitchford to explore how old-time radio, comic strips, and a love for storytelling shaped his life. Donnie shares how he grew up inspired by classic radio shows like Lum and Abner, pursued art despite setbacks, and eventually brought the beloved Pine Ridge characters back to life through a modern comic strip and audio adaptations. We talk about creativity, persistence, radio history, and why imagination still matters in a visual world. If you care about classic radio, cartooning, or staying true to your calling, I believe you will find this conversation both inspiring and practical. Highlights: 00:10 Discover how a childhood love of Lum and Abner sparked a lifelong dream of becoming a cartoonist. 08:00 Hear how college radio and classic broadcasts deepened a passion for old time radio storytelling. 14:33 Understand how years of teaching broadcast journalism built the skills that later fueled creative success. 23:17 Learn how the Lum and Abner comic strip was revived with family approval and brought to modern audiences. 30:07 Explore how two actors created an entire town through voice and imagination alone. 1:00:16 Hear the vision for keeping Lum and Abner alive for new generations through comics and audio. Top of Form Bottom of Form About the Guest: Donnie Pitchford of Texas is a graduate of Kilgore College, Art Instruction Schools, Stephen F. Austin State University and the University of Texas at Tyler. He has worked in the graphic arts industry and in education, teaching at Hawkins High School, Panola College, and Carthage High School at which he spent 25 years directing CHS-TV, where student teams earned state honors, including state championships, for 20 consecutive years. In 2010, Donnie returned to the endeavor he began at age five: being a cartoonist! The weekly “Lum and Abner" comic strip began in 2011. It is available online and in print and includes an audio production for the blind which features the talents of actors and musicians who donate their time. Donnie has created comic book stories and art for Argo Press of Austin, illustrated children's books, written scripts for the "Dick Tracy" newspaper strip, and produced the science fiction comedy strip "Tib the Rocket Frog." He has collaborated with award-winning writers and cartoonists George Wildman, Nicola Cuti, John Rose, Mike Curtis, Joe Staton, and others. In 2017, Donnie began assisting renowned sculptor Bob Harness and currently sculpts the portraits for the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame plaques. Awards include the 1978 Kilgore College "Who's Who" in Art, an Outstanding Educator Award from the East Texas Chapter of the Texas Society of CPAs in 1993, the CHS "Pine Burr" Dedicatee honor in 2010, and a Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2018 from Spring Hill High School. In 2024, Donnie was inducted into the City of Carthage Main Street Arts Walk of Fame which included the placement of a bronze plaque in the sidewalk and the Key to the City. Donnie and his best friend/wife, Laura, are members of First Methodist Church Carthage, Texas. Donnie is a founding officer of the National Lum and Abner Society and a member of Texas Cartoonists, Ark-La-Tex Cartoonists, Christian Comic Arts Society, and the National Cartoonists Society. 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Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us. Michael Hingson  01:21 Well, hi everyone, and welcome to another episode of unstoppable mindset. I've been looking forward to this one for a while. We have Donny Pitchford as our guest today. You're probably going, who's Donnie Pitchford? Well, let me tell you. So years ago, I started collecting old radio shows. And one of the first shows that I got was a half hour episode of a show called Lum and Abner, which is about a couple of characters, if you will, in Pine Ridge, Arkansas. And I had only heard the half hour show sponsored by frigid air. But then in 1971 when ksi, out here in Los Angeles, the 50,000 watt Clear Channel station, started celebrating its 50 year history, they started broadcasting as part of what they did, 15 minute episodes of lemon Abner. And I became very riveted to listening to lemon Abner every night, and that went on for quite a while. And so I've kept up with the boys, as it were. Well, a several years ago, some people formed a new Lum and Abner society, and Donnie Pitchford is part of that. I met Donnie through radio enthusiast of Puget Sound, and yesterday, USA. And so we clearly being interested in old radio and all that, had to have Donnie come on and and talk with us. So Donnie, or whatever character you're representing today, welcome to unstoppable mindset. Donnie Pitchford  02:58 Huh? I'm glad to be here. Michael Hingson  03:00 He does that very well, doesn't he? It's a Donnie Pitchford  03:04 little tough sometimes. Well, I'm really glad to be here. Thank you. Michael Hingson  03:10 Well, I appreciate the audio parts of lemon Abner that you you all create every week, and just the whole society. It's great to keep that whole thing going it's kind of fun. We're glad that that it is. But let's, let's talk about you a little bit. Why don't you start by telling us about the early Donnie, growing up and all that. I'm assuming you were born, and so we won't worry about that. But beyond that, think so, yeah. Well, there you are. Tell us about tell us about you and growing up and all that, and we'll go from there. Donnie Pitchford  03:42 Well, I was born in East Texas and left for a little while. We lived in my family lived in Memphis, Tennessee for about seven years, and then moved back to Texas in 1970 but ever since I was a kid this I hear this from cartoonists everywhere. Most of them say I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was five years old. So that's in fact, I had to do a speech for the Texas cartoonist chapter of the National Cartoonist Society. And that was my start. I was going to say the same thing, and the President said, Whatever you do, don't do that old bit about wanting to be a cartoonist at age five. Everybody does that, so I left that part out, but that's really what I wanted to do as a kid. And I would see animated cartoons. I would read the Sunday comics in the Memphis Commercial Appeal, and then at some point, my dad would talk about radio, and my mother would talk about listening to radio. We would have the reruns of the Lone Ranger television show and things like Sky King and other programs along those lines, and my parents would all. Way say, Well, I used to listen to that on the radio, or I would hear Superman on the radio, or Amos and Andy or whatever was being rerun at that time, and that fascinated me. And I had these vague memories of hearing what I thought were television programs coming over the radio when I was about two years old. I remember gunshots. I remember, you know, like a woman crying and just these little oddball things. I was about two years old, and I kept thinking, Well, why are we picking up television programs on my mother's radio? Turns out it was the dying gasps of what we now call old time radio. And so at least I remembered that. But when I was about, I guess eight or nine we were, my dad took me to lunch at alums restaurant in Memphis, and I saw that name, and I thought, What in the world? So what kind of name is that? And my dad told me about London Abner, and he said it reminds me. It reminded him of the Andy Griffith Show or the Beverly Hillbillies. I said, I'd love to hear that. He said, Ah, you'll never hear it. He said, those were live they don't exist, but years later, I got to hear them. So yeah, but that's how I grew up wanting to be a cartoonist and coming up with my own characters and drawing all the time and writing stories and that sort of thing. Michael Hingson  06:24 So when did you move back from Memphis to Texas? Donnie Pitchford  06:28 July 2, 1970 I just happened to look that up the other day. How old were you then? I was 12 when we came back. All right, so got into, I was in junior high, and trying to, I was trying to find an audience for these comic strips I was drawing on notebook paper. And finally, you know, some of the kids got into them, and I just continued with that goal. And I just, I knew that soon as possible, you know, I was going to start drawing comics professionally. So I thought, but kept, you know, I kept trying. Michael Hingson  07:06 So you, you went on into college. What did you do in college? Donnie Pitchford  07:11 Well, more of the same. I started listening to some old time radio shows even as far back as as high school. And I was interested in that went to college, first at a college called Kill Gore College, here in East Texas, and then to Stephen F Austin State University. And I was majoring in, first commercial art, and then art education. And I thought, well, if I can't go right into comics, you know, maybe I can just teach for a while. I thought I'll do that for a couple of years. I thought it wouldn't be that long. But while I was at Stephen F Austin State University, the campus radio station, I was so pleased to find out ran old time radio shows. This was in 1980 there was a professor named Dr Joe Oliver, who had a nightly program called theater of the air. And I would hear this voice come over the radio. He would run, he Well, one of the first, the very first 15 minute lemon Abner show I ever heard was played by Dr Oliver. He played Jack Benny. He played the whistler suspense, just a variety of them that he got from a syndicated package. And I would hear this voice afterwards, come on and say, It's jazz time. I'm Joe Oliver. And I thought, Where have I heard that voice? It was, it's just a magnificent radio voice. Years later, I found out, well, I heard that voice in Memphis when I was about 10 years old on W, R, E, C, radio and television. He was working there. He lived in Memphis about the same time we did. Heard him on the campus station at Nacogdoches, Texas. Didn't meet him in person until the late 90s, and it was just an amazing collection of coincidences. And now, of course, we're good friends. Now he's now the announcer for our audio comic strip. So it's amazing how all that came about. Well, I Michael Hingson  09:16 I remember listening to sort of the last few years of oval radio. I think it was, I don't remember the date now, whether it's 57 or 50 I think it's 57 the Kingston Trio had come out with the song Tom Dooley, and one day I was listening to K and X radio in Los Angeles. We lived in Palmdale, and I heard something about a show called suspense that was going to play the story of Tom Dooley. And I went, sounds interesting, and I wanted to know more about it, so I listened. And that started a weekly tradition with me every Sunday, listening to yours truly Johnny dollar and suspense, and they had a little bit of the FBI and peace and war. Then it's went into half and that that went off and Have Gun Will Travel came on, and then at 630 was Gun Smoke. So I listened to radio for a couple of hours every week, not every Sunday night, and thoroughly enjoyed it. And so that's how I really started getting interested in it. Then after radio went off the air a few stations out in California and on the LA area started playing old radio shows somebody started doing because they got the syndicated versions of the shadow and Sherlock Holmes with Sir John Gielgud and Sir Ralph Richardson. And I still maintain to this day that John Gielgud is the best Sherlock Holmes. No matter what people say about Basil Rathbone and I still think Sir John Gielgud was the best Sherlock Holmes. He was very, very good. Yeah, he was and so listen to those. But you know, radio offers so much. And even with, with, with what the whole lemon Abner shows today. My only problem with the lemon Abner shows today is they don't last nearly long enough. But that's another story. Donnie Pitchford  11:11 Are you talking about the comic strip adaptation? Okay, you know how long, how much art I would have to 11:21 do every week. Michael Hingson  11:25 Oh, I know, but they're, they're fun, and, you know, we, we enjoy them, but so you So you met Joe, and as you said, He's the announcer. Now, which is, which is great, but what were you doing then when you met him? What kind of work were you doing at the time? Donnie Pitchford  11:45 Well, of course, there was a gap there of about, I guess, 15 years after college, before I met him. And what ended up happening my first teaching job was an art job, a teaching art and graphic arts at a small high school in Hawkins, Texas, and that was a disaster. Wasn't a wasn't a very good year for me. And so I left that, and I had worked in the printing industry, I went back to that, and that was all during the time that the National London Abner society was being formed. And so I printed their earliest newsletters, which came out every other month. And we started having conventions in MENA, Arkansas and in the real Pine Ridge and the my fellow ossifers As we we call ourselves, and you hear these guys every week on the lemon Abner comic strip. Sam Brown, who lives in Illinois, Tim Hollis, from Alabama. Tim is now quite a published author who would might be a good guest for you one day, sure. And just two great guys. We had a third officer early on named Rex riffle, who had to leave due to various illnesses about 1991 but we started having our conventions every year, starting in 1985 we had some great guests. We brought in everybody we could find who worked with lemon Abner or who knew lemon Abner. We had their their head writer, Roswell Rogers. We had actors, I'm sure you've heard of Clarence Hartzell. He was Ben withers, of course, on the Old Vic and Sade show. He was Uncle Fletcher. We had Willard Waterman, parley Bayer, some of their announcers, Wendell Niles. And my memory is going to start failing me, because there were so many, but we had Bob's, Watson, Louise curry, who were in their first two movies. We had Kay Lineker, who was in their third movie. The list goes on and on, but we had some amazing when did Chester lock pass away? He passed away? Well, Tuffy passed away first, 1978, 78 and Chet died in 1980 sad. Neither of them, yeah, we didn't get to media. Yeah, we didn't meet either one of them. I've met Mrs. Lock I've met all of chet's children, several grandchildren. We spoke to Mrs. Goff on the phone a time or two, and also, tuffy's got toughie's daughter didn't get to meet them in person, but we met as many of the family as we could. Michael Hingson  14:32 Still quite an accomplishment all the way around. And so you you taught. You didn't have success. You felt really much at first, but then what you taught for quite a while, though, Donnie Pitchford  14:45 didn't you? Yes, I went back to the printing industry for about a year, and in the summer of 85 about two weeks before school started, I had got a call that they needed someone to teach Broadcast Journalism at. Carthage High School, and we had a department called CHS TV. I ran that for 25 years. I taught classes. We produced a weekly television program, weekly radio program. We did all kinds of broadcasts for the school district and promotional video. And then in the last I think it was the last 10 years or so that I worked there, we started an old time radio show, and we were trying to come up with a title for it, and just as a temporary placeholder, we called it the golden age of radio. Finally, we said, well, let's just use that, and I think it's been used by other people since, but, but that was the title we came up with. I think in 19 I think it was in 93 or 9495 somewhere in there. We started out. We just ran Old Time Radio, and the students, I would have them research and introduce, like, maybe 45 minutes of songs, of music, you know, from the 30s, 40s, maybe early 50s, big band and Sinatra and Judy Garland and you name it. Then, when the classes would change, we would always start some type of radio program that was pre recorded that would fill that time, so the next class could come in and get in place and and everybody participated, and they went out live over our cable television channel, and we would just run a graphic of a radio and maybe have some announcements or listing of what we were playing. And we did that for several years, usually maybe two or three times a year. And then in I think it was 2004 or so, we had an offer from a low power FM station, which was another another county over, and we started doing a Sunday night, one hour program each week. And I think we ended up doing close to 300 of those before I left. And so we got old time radio in there, one way or the other. Michael Hingson  17:03 Well, I remember. I remember, for me, I went to UC Irvine in the fall of 1968 and by the spring the last quarter of my freshman year, I had started getting some old radio shows. So started playing shows, and then in the fall, I started doing a three hour show on Sunday night called the Radio Hall of Fame, and we did radio every night. And what I didn't know until, actually, fairly recently, was our mutual friend Walden Hughes actually listened to my show on Sunday, and so did the gas means actually, but, but we had a low power station as well, but it made it up, and so people listened to it. And I've always been proud of the fact that during the fact that during the time I ran the Radio Hall of Fame, I'd heard of this show called 60 minutes with a guy named Mike Wallace, but never got to see it. And then it was only much later that I actually ended up starting to watch 60 Minutes. Course, I always loved to say I would have loved to have met, met Mike Wallace and never got to do it, but I always said he had criminal tendencies. I mean, my gosh, what do you think he was the announcer on radio for the Green Hornet, a criminal show, right? Sky King, a lot of criminals. Clearly the guy. Anyway, I would have been fun to meet him, but, Donnie Pitchford  18:31 and his name was Myron. Myron Wallach at the time. Wallach, you're right. I think that's right. Michael Hingson  18:37 But it was, it was fun and and so I've actually got some Sky King shows and green Hornets with him. So it's, it's kind of cool, but Right? You know, I still really do believe that the value of radio is it makes you imagine more. I've seen some movies that I really like for that the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers with Kevin McCarthy back in 1955 I thought was such a good movie because they didn't show the plants taking over the humans. It was all left to your imagination, which was so cool, and they changed all that in the later remake of it with Leonard Nimoy, which I didn't think was nearly as good, not nearly as suspenseful. But anyway, that's just my opinion. But radio, for me was always a and continues to be a part of what I like to do. And so I've been collecting shows and and enjoying and, of course, listening to lemon Abner, So what made you decide to finally end teaching? Donnie Pitchford  19:38 Well, you know, I could only do that so long. I was getting I was getting very tired, getting kind of burned out, and I had to have a change. There's something had to change. And I was able to take a few years early and retire, and I still the whole time I had a. That it was like a haunting feeling. I, you know, I wanted to be a cartoonist. I would pray, you know, you know, Lord, is there some way can I, can I get out of this? And can I do what I really want to do? And I had some mentors that was finally able to meet people that I would write letters to as a kid, a cartoonist and comic book editor named George Wildman was one of them. He was nice enough to answer my letters when I was a kid, and I'd send him drawings, and he would encourage me, or he would send little corrections on there, you know. And another one was a gentleman named high Eisemann, who passed away recently at age 98 on his birthday, but men like this inspired me, and that it kept at me through the years. I finally met George in 1994 at a convention of the the international Popeye fan club. And I'm I'm at high the same way, and also a writer named Nicola Cuddy, who wrote some Popeye comics. I met him the same way, same event, we all became friends, and I had a good friend named Michael Ambrose of Austin, Texas, who published a magazine devoted to the Charlton Comics company. Sadly, he's deceased now, but Mike and I were talking before I retired, and finally I got out of it. And he said, now that you're out of that job, how would you like to do some art? I said, That's what I want to do. So he gave me the opportunity to do my first published work, which was a portrait of artist George Wildman. It was on the cover of a magazine called Charlton spotlight, then I did some work for Ben Omar, who is bear Manor media publisher for some books that he was doing. One was Mel Blanc biography that Noel blank wrote, did some illustrations for that. This was all happening in 2010 and after that. So I was getting it was getting rolling, doing the kind of work I really wanted to do. And there's a gentleman named Ethan nobles in Benton, Arkansas, who wanted to interview me. I'd gotten, I don't know how he I forgot how he got in touch with me. Maybe he heard me on yesterday USA could be wanted to interview me about London Abner. And so he was starting a website called first Arkansas news. And somewhere in early 2011 we were talking, and I said, you know, you want this to be an online newspaper, right? He said, Yes. I said, What about comics? He said, I hadn't thought about that. So I said, Well, you know, you're a big Lum and Abner fan. What if we could we do a Lum and Abner comic strip? He said, Well, who would Where would I get? Who would do? And I said, Me. So I drew up some proposals, I drew some model sheets, and we did about four weeks of strips, and got approval from Chester lock Jr, and he suggested there's some things he didn't like. He said, The lum looks too sinister. He looks mean. Well, he's mad. He said he's mad at Abner. This won't happen every week. He said, Okay, I don't want LOM to be I said, Well, you know, they get mad at each other. That's part of the that's the conflict and the comedy Michael Hingson  23:30 at each other. Yeah. Donnie Pitchford  23:33 So we, we ironed it all out, and we came up with a financial agreement, and had to pay royalties and one thing and another, and we started publishing online in June 2011, and about six weeks later, the MENA newspaper, the MENA star in MENA, Arkansas, which was the birthplace of Lyman, Abner, Chet Locke and Norris Goff, they picked it up, and then we had a few other newspapers pick it up. And you know, we're not, we're not worldwide, syndicated in print, but we're getting it out there. And of course, we're always online, but and the first Arkansas news went under three or four years later, and so now we have our own website, which is Lum and Abner comics.com so that's where you can find us Michael Hingson  24:24 online. So where's Pine Ridge? Donnie Pitchford  24:28 Pine Ridge is about 18 miles from Mena, Arkansas. MENA is in western Arkansas, and Pine Ridge is about 18 miles east, I believe I'm trying to picture it in my mind, but it's it's down the road, and it actually exists. It was a little community originally named for a postmaster. It was named waters, waters, Arkansas, and in 1936 the real. At cuddleston. He was a real person who owned a store there in waters, and was friends with the locks and the golfs with their parents, as well as Chet and Tuffy. But he proposed a publicity stunt and an actual change of name to name the community Pine Ridge. So that's how that happened. Michael Hingson  25:24 Now, in the original 15 minute episodes, who is the narrator? Donnie Pitchford  25:28 Well, it depends what era their first one trying to remember. Now, Gene Hamilton was an early announcer in the Ford days, which was the early 30s. We don't have anything recorded before that. Charles Lyon was one of the early announcers, possibly for for Quaker Oats. I don't have any notes on this in front of me. I'm just going on memory here. Memory at the end of a long week. Gene Hamilton was their Ford announcer. Carlton brickert announced the Horlicks malt and milk did the commercials when they 1934 to 38 or so. Lou Crosby took over when they were sponsored by General Foods, by post them, the post them commercials, and Lou stayed with them on into the Alka Seltzer era. And his daughter, the celebrity daughter, is Kathie Lee Crosby, you may remember, right, and she and her sister Linda, Lou were a couple of our guests at the National lemon Avenue society convention in 1996 I think let's see. Crosby was Gene Baker came after Crosby, and then in the 30 minute days, was Wendell Niles. Wendell Niles, yeah, in the CBS the 30 minute series and Wendell. We also had him in Mina, super nice guy when it came, when it got into the later ones, 1953 54 I don't remember that announcer's name. That's when they got into the habit of having Dick Huddleston do the opening narration, which is why we now have Sam Brown as Dick Huddleston doing that every week. Michael Hingson  27:27 So was it actually Dick Huddleston? No, it Donnie Pitchford  27:30 was North golf, tough. He always played the part of Dick Huddleston. Okay, the only, the only time that, as far as I know, the only time the real dick Huddleston was on network radio, was at that ceremony in Little Rock Arkansas, when they changed the name of the town that the real dick Huddleston spoke at that event. And we actually, we discovered a recording of that. I was just gonna ask if there's a recording of that there is. Yeah, it's on 12 inch, 78 RPM discs. Wow. And they were probably the personal discs of lock and golf, and they weren't even labeled. And I remember spinning that thing when Sam Brown and I after we found it, it was down in Houston, and we brought them a batch of discs back, and I remember spinning that thing and hearing the theme song being played, I said, this sounds like a high school band. And suddenly we both got chills because we had heard that. I don't know if it was the Little Rock High School band or something, but it's like, Can this be? Yes, it was. It was. We thought it was long lost, but it was that ceremony. Wow. So that was a great find. Michael Hingson  28:45 Well, hopefully you'll, you'll play that sometime, or love to get a copy, but, Donnie Pitchford  28:50 yeah, we've, we have we played it on yesterday, USA. Oh, okay, so it's out there. Michael Hingson  28:57 Well, that's cool. Well, yeah, I wondered if Dick Huddleston actually ever was directly involved, but, but I can, can appreciate that. As you said, Tuffy Goff was the person who played him, which was, that's still that was pretty cool. They were very talented. Go ahead, Donnie Pitchford  29:19 I was gonna say that's basically tough. He's natural speaking voice, yeah, when you hear him as Dick Huddleston, Michael Hingson  29:24 they're very talented people. They played so many characters on the show. They did and and if you really listen, you could tell, but mostly the voices sounded enough different that they really sounded like different people all the time. Donnie Pitchford  29:41 Well, the fun thing are the episodes where, and it's carefully written, but they will, they will do an episode where there may be seven or eight people in the room and they get into an argument, or they're trying to all talk at the same time, and you completely forget that it's only two guys, because they will overlap. Those voices are just so perfectly overlapped and so different, and then you stop and you listen. So wait a minute, I'm only hearing two people at a time, but the effect is tremendous, the fact that they were able to pull that off and fool the audience. Michael Hingson  30:15 I don't know whether I'd say fool, but certainly entertained. Well, yeah, but they also did have other characters come on the show. I remember, yes, Diogenes was that was a lot of fun listening to those. Oh yeah, yeah, that was Frank Graham. Frank Graham, right, right, but, but definitely a lot of fun. So you eventually left teaching. You decided you accepted jobs, starting to do cartoons. What were some of the other or what, well, what were some of the first and early characters that you cartooned, or cartoons that you created, Donnie Pitchford  30:50 just, you mean, by myself or Well, or with people, either way, I did some things that were not published, you know, just just personal characters that I came up with it would mean nothing to anybody, but a little bit later on, I did a little bit of I did a cover for a Popeye comic book. Maybe 10 years ago, I finally got a chance to work with George Wildman, who was the fellow I talked about earlier, and it was some of the last work he did, and this was with Michael Ambrose of Argo press out of Austin, Texas. And we did some early characters that had been published by Charlton Comics. They had, they had characters, they were, they were rip offs. Let's be honest. You know Harvey had Casper the Friendly Ghost. Well, Charlton had Timmy, the timid ghost. There, there was Mighty Mouse. Well, Charlton Comics had atomic mouse, so and there was an atomic rabbit. And Warner Brothers had Porky Pig. Charlton had pudgy pig, but that was some of George's earliest work in the 1950s was drawing these characters, and George was just he was a master Bigfoot cartoonist. I mean, he was outstanding. And so Mike said, let's bring those characters back. They're public domain. We can use them. So I wrote the scripts. George did the pencil art. Well, he inked the first few, but Mike had me do hand lettering, which I don't do that much. So it was that was a challenge. And my friend high Iseman taught lettering for years and years, and so I was thinking, high is going to see this? This has to be good. So I probably re lettered it three times to get it right, but we did the very last story we did was atomic rabbit and pudgy pig was a guest star, and then George's character named brother George, who was a little monk who didn't speak, who lived, lived in a monastery, and did good deeds and all that sort of thing. He was in there, and this was the last thing we did together. And George said, you know, since I've got these other projects, he said, Do you think you can, you can ink this? So that was a great honor to actually apply the inks over George's pencil work. And I also did digital color, but those were some things I worked on, and, oh, at one point we even had Lum and Abner in the Dick Tracy Sunday comic strip, and that was because of a gentleman named Mike Curtis, who was the writer who lived in Arkansas, was very familiar with Lum and Abner, and he got in touch with me and asked, this was in 2014 said, Would it be possible for me to use Lum and Abner in a Sunday cameo? So I contacted the locks. First thing they first thing Chet said was how much I said, I don't think they're going to pay us. I felt like, Cedric, we hunt, no mom, you know. And I felt like he was squire skimp at the time, yeah, but I said, it's just going to be really good publicity. So he finally went for it, and Lum and Abner had a cameo in a Sunday Dick Tracy comic strip, and about four years later, they honored me. This was Mike Curtis, the writer, and Joe Staton, the artist, who was another guy that I grew up reading from as a teenager, just a tremendous artist, asked if they could base a character on me. And I thought, what kind of murderer is he going to be? You know, it was going to be idiot face or what's his name, you know. So no, he was going to be a cartoonist, and the name was Peter pitchblende. Off, and he was, he said his job was to illustrate a comic strip about a pair of old comedians. So, I mean, who couldn't be honored by that? Yeah, so I don't remember how long that story lasted, but it was an honor. I mean, it was just great fun. And then then I had a chance to write two weeks of Dick Tracy, which was fun. I wrote the scripts for it and and then there's some other things. I was able to work with John rose, a tremendously nice guy who is the current artist on Barney Google and Snuffy Smith. We did a story, a comic book story, on Barney Google on Snuffy Smith in a magazine called Charleton spotlight, and I did the colors, digital coloring for that. So just these are just great honors to me to get to work with people like that. And Nick Cuddy, I did some inking, lettering coloring on some of his work. So just great experience, and Michael Hingson  36:02 great people, going back to atomic rabbit and pudgy pig, no one ever got in trouble with, from Warner Brothers with that, huh? Donnie Pitchford  36:09 Well, not, not on atomic rabbit, however, pudgy pig created a problem because George was doing some art, and I think somebody from Warner Brothers said he looks too much like Porky, so the editor at the time said, make one of his ears hang down, make him look a little different. But pudgy didn't last long. Pudgy was only around maybe two or three issues of the comic book, so, but yeah, that's George. Said they did have some trouble with that. Michael Hingson  36:44 Oh, people, what do you do? Yeah, well, I know you sent us a bunch of photos, and we have some of the Dick Tracy ones and others that people can go see. But what? What finally got you all to start the whole lemon Abner society. Donnie Pitchford  37:07 Oh, well, that goes back to 1983 right, and I'll go back even farther than that. I told you that my dad had mentioned lemon Abner to me as a kid. Dr Joe Oliver played a 15 minute lemon Abner show on KSA you at Stephen F Austin State University. That got me. I was already into old time radio, but it was the next summer 1981 there's a radio station, an am station in Gilmer, Texas Christian radio station that started running Lum and Abner every day. First it was 530 in the evening, and then I think they switched it to 1215 or so. And I started listening, started setting up my recorder, recording it every day. And a friend of mine named David Miller, who was also a radio show collector, lived in the Dallas area, I would send them to him, and at first he wasn't impressed, but then suddenly he got hooked. And when he got hooked, he got enthusiastic. He started making phone calls. He called Mrs. Lock chet's widow and talked to her. He spoke to a fellow who had written a number of articles, George Lily, who was an early proponent or an early promoter of lemon Abner, as far as reruns in the 1960s and it was through George Lilly that I was put in touch with Sam Brown in Dongola, Illinois, and because he had contacted Mr. Lilly as well. And before long, we were talking, heard about this guy named Tim Hollis. Sam and I met in Pine Ridge for lemon Abner day in 1982 for the first time, and hit it off like long lost friends and became very good friends. And then in 84 I believe it was Sam and Tim and Rex riffle met again, or met for the first time together, I guess in Pine Ridge. And I wasn't there that time. But somehow, in all of that confusion, it was proposed to start the national lemon Abner society, and we started publishing the Jot them down journal in the summer of 1984 Michael Hingson  39:43 and for those who don't know the Jotham down journal, because the store that lemon Abner ran was the Jotham down store anyway, right? Donnie Pitchford  39:50 Go ahead, yes. And that was Tim's title. Tim created the title The Jotham down journal, and we started publishing and started seeking information. And it started as just a simple photocopy on paper publication. It became a very slick publication. In 1990 or 91 Sam started recording cassettes, reading the journals, because we were hearing from Blind fans that said, you know, I enjoy the journal. I have to have somebody read it to me. This is before screen readers. And of course, you know this technology better than I do, but before any type of technology was available, and Sam said, Well, I'll tell you. I'll just start reading it on tape and I'll make copies. Just started very simply, and from then on, until the last issue in in 2007 Sam would record a cassette every other month, or when we went quarterly, four times a year, and he would mail those to the the blind members, who would listen to those. And sometimes they would keep them, and sometimes they would return them for Sam to recycle. But incidentally, those are all online now, Michael Hingson  41:03 yeah, I've actually looked at a few of those. Those are kind of fun. So the London Avenue society got formed, and then you started having conventions. Donnie Pitchford  41:14 Yes, yes. First convention was in 1985 and we did a lot of things with we would do recreations. We would do a lot of new scripts, where, if we had someone that we got to the point where we would have people that hadn't worked with lemon Abner. So we would have lemon Abner meet the great Gildersleeve. Actually, Willard had worked on the lumen Abner half hour show at some point. I believe les Tremain had never worked directly with them, but he was well, he was in some Horlicks malted milk commercials in the 1930s and of course, the Lone Ranger was never on the London Abner show and vice versa, until we got hold of it. So we had Fred Foy in 1999 and he agreed to be the announcer, narrator and play the part of the Lone Ranger. So we did Lum and Abner meet the Lone Ranger, which was a lot of fun. We had parley bear, so Lum and Abner met Chester of Gun Smoke. And those were just a lot of fun to do. And Tim, Tim would write some of them, I would write some of them, or we would collaborate back and forth to come up with these scripts. Did love and amner, ever meet Superman? No, we never got to that. That would have been great. Yeah, if we could have come up with somebody who had played Superman, that would have been a lot of fun. We had lemon Abner meet Kathie Lee Crosby as herself. Yeah, they met Frank brazzi One time. That must be fun. It was a lot of fun. We had some people would recreate the characters. We had the lady who had played Abner's daughter, Mary Lee Rob replay. She played that character again, 50 years later, coming back home to see, you know, to see family. Several other things, we had London Abner meet Gumby one time. Of all things, we had Dow McKinnon as a guest. And we had Kay Lineker come back and reprise one of her roles, the role she played in the London Abner movie. Bob's Watson did that as well. Some years we didn't have a script, which I regret, but we had other things going on. We had anniversaries of London Abner movies that we would play. So whatever we did, we tailored it around our guest stars, like Dick Beals, Sam Edwards, Roby Lester, gee whiz. I know I'm leaving people out. Michael Hingson  43:52 Well, that's okay, but, but certainly a lot of fun. What? Yes, what? Cartoonist really influenced you as a child? Donnie Pitchford  44:01 Oh, wow. I would say the first thing I saw that got my attention was the Flintstones on on prime time television, you know, the Hanna Barbera prime time things certainly Walt Disney, the animation that they would run, that he would show, and the behind the scenes, things that would be on the Disney show, things like almost almost anything animated as a kid, got my attention. But Walter Lance, you know, on the Woody Woodpecker show used to have, he'd have little features about how animation was done, and that that inspired me, that that just thrilled me. And I read Fred lachel's Snuffy Smith Chester Gould's Dick Tracy. Tracy, which that was a that's why the Dick Tracy connection, later was such a big deal for me. Almost anything in the Sunday comics that was big. Foot. In other words, the cartoony, exaggerated characters are called, sometimes called Bigfoot, Bigfoot cartooning, or Bigfoot characters. Those were always the things I looked for, Bugs Bunny, any of the people that worked on those some were anonymous. And years later, I started learning the names of who drew Popeye, you know, like LZ seagar, the originator, or bud sagendorf or George Wildman, and later high eysman. But people like that were my heroes. Later on, I was interested in I would read the Batman comics, or I would see Tarzan in the newspaper. I admired the work of Russ Manning. Michael Hingson  45:49 Do you know the name Tom Hatton? Yes, I do. Yeah. Yes. Tom did Popeye shows on KTLA Channel Five when I was growing up, and he was famous for, as he described it, squiggles. He would make a squiggle and he would turn it into something. And he was right on TV, which was so much fun. Donnie Pitchford  46:09 We had a guy in Memphis who did the same thing. His name was, he's known as Captain Bill, C, A, P, you know, Captain Bill. And he did very much the same thing. He'd have a child come up, I think some, in some cases, they're called drools. Is one word for them. There was a yeah, in Tim hollis's area, there was cousin Cliff Holman who did that. And would he might have a kid draw a squiggle, and then he would create something from it right there on the spot, a very similar type of thing, or a letter of the alphabet, or your initials, that sort Michael Hingson  46:43 of thing. Yeah. Tom did that for years. It was fun. Of course, I couldn't see them, but he talked enough that I knew what was going on. It's kind of fun. My brother loved them, yeah? So later on, when you got to be a teenager and beyond what cartoonist maybe influenced you more? Donnie Pitchford  47:03 Well, I would have to say George, probably because I was corresponding with him, right? Also, I would see the work of Carl Barks, who created Uncle Scrooge McDuck and the Donald Duck comics and all that. His stuff was all in reprint at that time, he was still living, but I didn't know he could be contacted. I didn't try to write to it, right? Years later, years later, I did get an autograph, which was, was very nice. But those people, a lot of people, Neil Adams, who did Batman, the guys at Charlton Comics, Steve Ditko, who was the CO creator of spider man, but he had a disagreement with Stan Lee, and went back to Charlton Comics and just turned out 1000s of pages, but his work was was inspirational. Another was Joe Staton, who was working at Charleton comics, who I got to work with on several projects later on, and I would say just all of those guys that I was reading at the time. Pat Boyette was another Charlton artist. I tend to gravitate toward the Charlton company because their artists weren't contained in a house style. They were allowed to do their own style. They didn't pay as much. But a lot of them were either older guys that said, I'm tired of this, of the DC Marvel system. I want to just, you know, have creative freedom. Charlton said, come on. And so they would work there and less stress, less money, probably one guy named Don Newton started there and became a legend in the industry at other companies. So I found all of those guys inspiring, and I felt I could learn from all of them. Michael Hingson  48:59 Well, you always wanted to be a cartoonist. Did you have any other real career goals, like, was teaching a goal that you wanted to do, or was it just cartooning it? Donnie Pitchford  49:07 Well, it was just a secondary, you know, as I said, when I started, I thought, I'll just do that for a few years. You know, I didn't know it was going to be like 27 but I we had a lot of success. We had, I had some student groups that would enter video competitions. And for 20 straight years, we placed either first, second or third in state competition with one Summit, one entry, another or another every year. And that was notable. I mean, I give the kids the credit for that. But then about five or six of those years, we had what we call state championship wins, you know, we were like the number one project in the state of Texas. So, you know, we had some great success, I think, in that so a lot of years there, I really, you know, that was a blessing to me. Was that career, you. Well, it just, it just got to be too much time for change. After a while, Michael Hingson  50:05 was art just a talent that you had, and cartoon drawing a talent you had, or, I don't remember how much you said about did you have any real special training as such? Donnie Pitchford  50:14 Well, all of my training was, I just couldn't afford to go to a specialized school. You know, at one time, the Joe Kubert School opened just about the time I graduated high school, it was in New Jersey. I just couldn't make that happen, so I went to state colleges and universities and did the best I could. I took commercial art classes, drawing classes, design classes, even ceramics, which came in very handy when I did some sculpting here in the last eight or nine years and worked as an assistant to a sculptor named Bob harness who lives here in Carthage, but I never had any actual comic strip slash comic book training, so I learned as much of that as I could from guys like George wild. And then after I started the lemon Avenue comic strip, an artist named Joe, named Jim Amish, who worked for Marvel, did a lot of work for the Archie Comics. And tremendous anchor is his. He's really a tremendous anchor, and does a lot of ink work over other artists pencils. Jim would call and say, he said, I want to give you some advice. I'm like, okay, at 3am he's still giving me advice. So I'd go around for two or three days feeling like a failure, but then I would, I would think about all the lessons, you know, that he had told me. And so I learned a lot from Jim and tremendous, tremendous guy. And I would listen to what high, sometimes high would call up and say, Why did you use that purple beg your pardon. So it was fun. I mean, those fellows would share with me, and I learned a great deal from those guys. Michael Hingson  52:11 Are you in any way passing that knowledge on to others today? Donnie Pitchford  52:16 I don't know that I am. I've had an offer or two to do some teaching. I just don't know if I'm if I'm going to get back into that or not. Yeah, I'm so at this point, focused on, quote, unquote, being a cartoonist and trying to make that, that age five dream, a reality, that I'm not sure I'm ready to do that again. And you know, I'm not, I'm not 21 anymore. Michael Hingson  52:45 I didn't know whether you were giving advice to people and just sort of informally doing it, as opposed to doing formal teaching. Donnie Pitchford  52:51 Well, informally, yes, I mean, if anybody asks, you know, I'll be glad to share whatever I can. But yeah, I'm not teaching any classes at this point. Michael Hingson  53:01 Well, you have certainly taken lemon Abner to interesting places in New Heights. One, one thing that attracted me and we talked about it before, was in 2019, lemon Abner in Oz. That was fun. Donnie Pitchford  53:17 Well, the credit for that goes to Tim Hollis. Tim wrote that as a short story years ago when he was first interested in lemon Abner. And I don't know if he ever had that published through the International oz society or not. I don't remember, but Tim later turned that into a radio script when we had a batch of guests. This was in 2001 we had, let's see Sam Edwards, Dick Beals, Roby Lester and Rhoda Williams. And each of them had done something related to Oz, either the children's records or storybook records or animation or something. They were involved somewhere in some type of Oz adaptation. So Tim turned his short story into a radio script that we performed there at the convention. So that was a lot of fun. And then he suggested, Why don't I turn that into a comic strip story? So that's what we did. But that was fun, yeah, and we used the recordings of those people because they had given us permission, you know, to use a recording however we saw fit. The only problem is we had a mistake. The fellow that was running the sound had a dead mic and didn't know it. Oh, gosh. So some of them are bit Off mic in that audio, but we did the best. I did the best I could Michael Hingson  54:40 with it's it sounded good. I certainly have no complaints. 54:45 Thank you for that. Michael Hingson  54:47 I I said no complaints at all. I think it was really fun and very creative. And it's kind of really neat to see so much creativity in terms of all the stuff that that you do. As a cartoonist, me having never seen cartoons, but I learned intellectually to appreciate the talent that goes into it. And of course, you guys do put the scripts together every week, which is a lot of fun to be able to listen to them well. Donnie Pitchford  55:17 And that's what that was, the audience I hoped that we would would tap into right there and it, it was guys like you that would would talk to me and say, What am I going to do? You know, I can't see it. So that's why the audio idea came about. And it's taken on a life of its own, really. And we've got Mark Ridgway, who has created a lot of musical cues for us that we use and Michael Hingson  55:45 who plays the organ? Donnie Pitchford  55:47 That's Mark Ridgway. It is Mark, okay, yes, yes. And it's actually digital, I'm sure. I think it's a digital keyboard, Michael Hingson  55:55 yeah, but it is. It's a, it's a really good sounding one, though. Donnie Pitchford  55:59 Yes, yes. There are a few cues that I did, which probably are the ones that don't sound so good, like if we ever need really bad music. If you remember the story we did, and I don't remember the name of it, what do we call it anyway? Lum tries to start a soap opera. Think this was about a year ago. Yeah, and Cedric is going to play, I don't remember it was an organ or a piano, and I don't remember what he played, but whatever it was, I think was Mary Had Michael Hingson  56:32 a Little Lamb, Mary's, Mary Had a Little Lamb on the piano. Sort of kind played. Donnie Pitchford  56:35 It was played very badly, well that, yes, it was on purpose. When mom plays lum tries to play the saxophone. That was me, and I hadn't played this. I used to play the sax. In fact, I played in a swing orchestra here in Carthage, Texas for about five years back in from the early 90s. And so I had this idea, and I hadn't played the horn probably since, probably in 20 years, and his. So I got it out, and I thought, you know, it's gonna sound terrible because it needs maintenance, but it doesn't matter. It's lump playing it, so I got to play really badly. Michael Hingson  57:14 It was perfect. It was perfect, Donnie Pitchford  57:16 yeah, because it had to sound bad. Michael Hingson  57:19 How do y'all create all these different plots. I remember so many, like the buzzard, you know, and, oh yeah, that was fun. And so many. How do you come up with those? Donnie Pitchford  57:28 Well, I used to get some really good ideas while mowing the yard. Don't ask me, why? Or I get ideas. I get ideas in the weirdest thing, weirdest places. Sometimes I have ideas in the shower. You know, I said, I better write this down. Sometimes I'll wake up in the middle of the night with an idea, but there the ideas just come to me. Yeah? The buzzard was fun. I'd had that one. Pretty creative. Yeah, the one about, the one about, let me see. Oh, there was one we did, where wasn't the buzzard? What was that other one? I called the Whisper? Yeah, there was a strange voice that was coming lum thought it was coming from his radio. And he turns his radio off, and He still hears it, and it was a villain who had somehow hypnotized everyone so that they wouldn't see him and he would use his voice only. And then there's a character I came up with, and let me see Larry Gasman played it, and I called him Larry John Walden, and he was the only guy he was blind. He was the only guy that wasn't hypnotized because he couldn't see the you know, I use the old thing about the watch in front of the eyes. I mean, he was the only guy that wasn't hypnotized, so he wasn't fooled by the whisper, and he could track him, because his hearing was so acute that he was able to find him. In fact, I think he could hear his watch ticking or something like that. So he was the hero of that piece. But, well, I just, I just think up ideas and write them down. Tim Hollis has written some of the scripts, maybe three or four for me, I've adapted some scripts that London Abner did that were never broadcast or that were never recorded. Rather, I've adapted a few, written several, and I keep saying, Well, when I completely run out of ideas, I'll just have to quit. Michael Hingson  59:32 Well, hopefully that never happens. What? What are your future plans? Donnie Pitchford  59:38 Well, right now, there's nothing major in the works other than just maintaining the strip, trying to continue it, trying to make it entertaining, and hopefully doing a little work on the website and getting it into the hands of more people. And I'd like to increase. Least newspaper coverage, if at all possible. And because this thing doesn't, you know, it's got to pay for itself somehow. So you know, I'm not getting rich by any means. But you know, I want to keep it fun. I want to keep having fun with it. Hopefully people will enjoy it. Hopefully we can reach younger readers, listeners, and hopefully lemon Abner can appeal to even younger audiences yet, so that we can keep those characters going. Michael Hingson  1:00:29 Yeah, there's so much entertainment there. I hope that happens now in the the life of Donnie Pitchford. Is there a wife and kids? Donnie Pitchford  1:00:40 Yes, there's a wife of almost 40 years. We unfortunately don't have any children. We've almost feel like we adopted several children all the years we were teaching. We we've adopted several cats along the way. And so, you know, we've had cats as pets for almost ever, since we were married. But that's she's, she's great, you know, she's, she's been my best friend and supporter all these years. And we were members of first Methodist Church here in Carthage, Texas, and doing some volunteer work there, and helping to teach Sunday school, and very involved and active in that church. Michael Hingson  1:01:19 So I have a cat, and I hear her outside, not outside the house, but outside the the office here, she wants me to go feed her, and we, we shaved her yesterday because her hair gets long and Matt's very easily. So she got shaved yesterday. So she's probably seeking a little vengeance from that too, but, but my wife and I were married 40 years. She passed away in November of 2022 so it's me and stitch the cat and Alamo the dog, and Karen is monitoring us somewhere. And as I tell everyone, I've got to continue to be a good kid, because if I'm not, I'm going to hear about it. So I got to be good. But it's a lot of fun. Well, I want to thank you for being with us today. This has been a lot of fun. I've learned a lot, but it's just been great to have another podcast talking about old radio shows. And you said again, if people want to reach out, they can go to lemon Abner comics.com if people want to talk to you about doing any kind of cartooning or anything like that. What's the best way they can do that? Donnie Pitchford  1:02:24 Well, they can go to the London Abner dot lumen, Abner comics.com website, and there's a contact a link right there at the top of the page. So yeah, they can contact me through that. Probably that's the easiest way to do it. Michael Hingson  1:02:37 Okay, well, I want to thank you again for being here, and I want to thank all y'all out there. That's how they talk in Texas, right? It's all y'all for everybody. Donnie Pitchford  1:02:46 Well, some of them do, and some of them in Arkansas do too. Well, yeah. Michael Hingson  1:02:49 And then there's some who don't, yeah, y'all means everything, and it Speaker 1  1:02:54 don't, yeah, I don't think squire skimp says it that way. Michael Hingson  1:02:58 Well, Squire, you know, whatever it takes. But I want to thank you all for being here, and please give us a five star rating wherever you're listening or watching the podcast. Donnie would appreciate it. I would appreciate it, and also give us a review. We'd love to get your reviews, so please do that. If you can think of anyone else who ought to be a guest, and I think Donnie has already suggested a few. So Donnie as well, anyone else who ought to come on the podcast, we'd love it. Appreciate you introducing us, and you know, we'll go from there. And I know at some point in the future, the Michael hingson Group Inc is going to be a sponsor, because we've started that process for lemon. Abner, yes, thank you. Thank you. So I want to, I want to thank love and Squire for that 1:03:45 years. Well, it's been my pleasure. Michael Hingson  1:03:50 Well, thank you all and again, really, seriously, Donnie, I really appreciate you being here. This has been a lot of fun. So thank you for coming. Donnie Pitchford  1:03:58 Thank you. 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Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:Jimmy Kimmel returns to the airwaves tonight, but the Sinclair Broadcast Group says they still won't run his show: https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/22/entertainment/jimmy-kimmel-returning...Find your town's Sinclair station here: https://sbgi.net/tv-stations/Even within Republican circles, the attacks on free speech to avenge Charlie Kirk are becoming too ironic to swallow: https://www.expressnews.com/politics/article/charlie-kirk-free-speech-gop-21053192.php...Similarly, Texas Christian leaders are getting fed up with stories of adultery coming from Ken Paxton's marriage: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/ken-paxton-gop-primary-divorce-21049167.phpMore and more data shows that the Trump-ordered redistricting of Texas may have been designed around faulty assumptions about Latino loyalty to the GOP: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cnn-harry-enten-trump-texas-republicans-redistricting-latinos_n_68cc06a5e4b0aa8d99fe7dca...Analyst Steven Weintraub is seeing similar signs in the tea leaves: https://stevenweintraub.substack.com/p/did-democrats-actually-win-redistricting?utm_medium=emailHouston friends! Join Progress Texas in The Heights on Monday October 20 for our H-Town Hits Back live podcast taping event! Tickets and sponsorship opportunities are available now: ⁠⁠⁠https://act.progresstexas.org/a/houston2025event⁠⁠⁠Thanks for listening! Our monthly donors form the backbone of our funding, and if you're a regular, we'd like to invite you to join the team! Find our web store and other ways to support our important work at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://progresstexas.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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Texas Baseball Head Coach Jim Schlossnagle joins 3rd and Longhorn for an in-depth and wide-ranging conversation you won't hear anywhere else.From his coaching journey through TCU and Texas A&M to why he made the bold jump to the 40 Acres, Schlossnagle opens up about leadership, building elite programs, handling pressure, and what makes Texas Baseball so unique.Welcome to 3rd & Longhorn, your ultimate destination for all things Texas Longhorn Football! Join us weekly for an in-depth show featuring analysis and commentary from Lifetime Longhorn Football players Derrick Johnson, Alex Okafor, Fozzy Whittaker, Rod Babers, Jeremy Hills, and Clark Field Collective/Texas One Fund co-founder Nick Shuley.3rd & Longhorn takes you deep inside the world of Texas Football, offering a unique perspective from some of the best to ever put on the pads at the 40 Acres. Whether you're a die-hard Longhorn fan or new to the scene, our show provides unparalleled insight, behind-the-scenes stories, and expert breakdowns of games, players, and strategies.Meet Our Team:Derrick Johnson: NFL All-Pro and Texas Longhorn legend, providing unparalleled defensive insights. Alex Okafor: Former NFL defensive end, breaking down the line of scrimmage battles. Jeremy Hills: Renowned trainer and former Longhorn running back, discussing player development. Fozzy Whittaker: NFL veteran and special teams ace, offering game day analysis.Rod Babers: Longhorn cornerback great and media personality, sharing insider knowledge.Nick Shuley: Co-founder of Clark Field Collective/Texas One Fund, discussing the business side of college sports.Subscribe to 3rd & Longhorn and never miss an episode. Hit the notification bell to get alerts for our latest uploads. Join us in celebrating the legacy and future of Texas Longhorn Football!Connect with Us:Follow us on Instagram:Derrick Johnson - https://www.instagram.com/superdj56Alex Okafor - https://www.instagram.com/alexokaforJeremy Hills - https://www.instagram.com/jhills5Fozzy Whittaker - https://www.instagram.com/fozzywhittRod Babers - https://www.instagram.com/rodbabersNick Shuley - https://www.instagram.com/nickshuleyFor the most comprehensive coverage and insider access to Texas Longhorn Football, look no further than 3rd & Longhorn. Hook ‘em!0:00 – Intro + Guest Tease0:25 – Introducing Jim Schlossnagle1:02 – How Schlossnagle Got to Texas3:23 – Breakthrough Years at TCU4:25 – Why He Left Texas A&M6:08 – Why Texas Felt Right6:34 – Early Impact as a Head Coach8:01 – The Culture Playbook9:20 – “Kids These Days” – Myth Busted10:30 – Balancing Accountability with Compassion11:32 – Recruiting + Retooling12:40 – Texas Recruiting Edge14:10 – Pitching Philosophy and Development15:22 – Building a Staff That Wins16:35 – What Makes Texas Unique17:50 – Expectations vs. Reality at Texas19:10 – Player Buy-In and Leadership20:15 – Recruiting Fit Over Rankings21:04 – What Makes This Team Special?21:42 – Building a No-Ego Culture at Texas22:28 – The Importance of Facility Access & Team Bonding22:47 – Staying Connected Through Zoom & Offseason ProgrammingDerrick Johnson: https://www.instagram.com/superdj56Alex Okafor: https://www.instagram.com/alexokaforJeremy Hills: https://www.instagram.com/jhills5Fozzy Whittaker: https://www.instagram.com/fozzywhittRod Babers: https://www.instagram.com/rodbabersNick Shuley: https://www.instagram.com/nickshuley

Entrevista con Xavi López, entrenador asistente de la Universidad de Texas Christian, que se ha quedado a un paso de la Final Four de la NCAA.

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Preview of #2 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball vs the TCU Horned Frogs in the 2024 Big 12 opener. Top storylines for Bill Self against Jamie Dixon after Texas Christian blew out KU in Allen Fieldhouse last season. Matchups of the game like transition play, player matchups like Hunter Dickinson vs former 'Hawk Ernest Udeh and Hawks to Soar like Johnny Furphy and more. Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Gametime Download the Gametime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDON for $20 off your first purchase. FanDuel Score early this NFL season with FanDuel, America's Number One Sportsbook! Right now, NEW customers get ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS in BONUS BETS with any winning FIVE DOLLAR MONEYLINE BET! That's A HUNDRED AND FIFTY BUCKS – if your team wins! Visit FanDuel.com/LOCKEDON to get started. FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Preview of #2 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball vs the TCU Horned Frogs in the 2024 Big 12 opener. Top storylines for Bill Self against Jamie Dixon after Texas Christian blew out KU in Allen Fieldhouse last season. Matchups of the game like transition play, player matchups like Hunter Dickinson vs former 'Hawk Ernest Udeh and Hawks to Soar like Johnny Furphy and more.Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!GametimeDownload the Gametime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDON for $20 off your first purchase.FanDuelScore early this NFL season with FanDuel, America's Number One Sportsbook! Right now, NEW customers get ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS in BONUS BETS with any winning FIVE DOLLAR MONEYLINE BET! That's A HUNDRED AND FIFTY BUCKS – if your team wins! Visit FanDuel.com/LOCKEDON to get started.FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the Texas state legislature, Christian Democratic Representative James Talarico gave a biblically-based rebuke against a Republican Christian nationalist bill to post the Ten Commandments in all public school classrooms — and it went viral. The repeal of the U.K.'s notorious “no promo homo” Section 28 and the opening of Lord of the Rings: Return of the King made mid-December 2003 a joyous season for world-renowned actor Sir Ian McKellen. He greeted the news at an LGBTQ gathering at Premiere House in Wellington, New Zealand (recorded by Hugh Young of Access Radio's GayBC). And in NewsWrap: Uganda's infamous Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023 faces a quadruple challenge in the nation's Constitutional Court, Scotland's Gender Recognition Reform Bill loses the first round of its fight for approval from the British government, Jordanian queer activists forced to flee from government persecution, Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers vetoes a Republican bill to ban pediatric gender-affirming healthcare, Florida defends school board book bans as the government's right to control libraries, Bucks County, Pennsylvania voters celebrate rescuing their school board from right-wing extremists, and more international LGBTQ news reported this week by Michael Taylor-Gray and Kalyn Hardman (produced by Brian DeShazor).  All this on the December 11, 2023 edition of This Way Out! Join our family of listener-donors today at http://thiswayout.org/donate/

Carlos and Peter break down five more 2024 draft prospects on today's draft podcast, including North Carolina State catcher Jacob Cozart, Texas Christian shortstop Anthony Silva, Duke lefthander Jonathan Santucci, Florida State third baseman Cam Smith and Texas high school catcher Cade Arrambide.Our Sponsors:* Check out Factor 75 and use my code ba2022pod50 for a great deal: https://www.factor75.com/* Check out Indeed and use my code BASEBALLAMERICA for a great deal: https://www.indeed.com/ Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/baseball-america/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

While the sports world has been fixated on the goings on with the University of Michigan football program and the potentially explosive cheating scandal we told you about last week, the really important action has been taking place 2,000 miles away. In an Oakland, Calif. Courtroom, a judge is preparing to rule on a case that may decide nothing less than the future of American sports. As far as can be gleaned from her bio, U.S. District Court Senior Judge Claudia Wilken is neither a former athlete nor is she a sports fan. Yet, if the events of last week are an indicator, history may prove Wilken, who sits in the Northern California district, to be one of the most significant figures in American sports history. Wilken is hearing motions in a case where three current and former college athletes have brought suit against the NCAA. The athletes, Arizona State swimmer Grant House, former Oregon and current Texas Christian basketball player Sedona Prince and former Illinois football player Tymir Ta-meer Oliver, are seeking to take the NCAA for a very expensive ride. The three athletes contend that they are owed millions in lost broadcast revenue denied them before 2021 by the college athletics governing body and the five biggest conferences. The suit arrives as athletes have come in recent years to receive payments for the use of their names, images and likenesses. Prince, Oliver and House contend that they are owed damages for what they could have made had the NCAA and the conferences not restricted those earnings before 2021. We've long railed in this space about the historic resistance of college administrators to granting athletes compensation beyond a scholarship, a foolish and old-fashioned opposition at best. The NCAA has begrudgingly loosened those prohibitions, though not by choice. As a result, increasing numbers of young people are making thousands, if not in some cases, millions, presenting themselves as commercial pitch persons locally and nationally, as the markets will allow. What's been missing is the athletes' share of the billions colleges receive in television money that the NCAA, conferences and schools garner from the networks in rights fees. Their professional brethren get their share of TV scratch through collective bargaining with the NFL, Major League Baseball, the NBA, the NHL and others. College students should get the same. And that may be the next phase. The attorneys representing the trio bringing the suit are arguing that any potential damages should be granted to current and future athletes who competed from 2016 to the June 2020 date the complaint was filed. That's more than 14,000 athletes in different classes, if you're counting. Wilken, who has previously cleared the way for athlete compensation in two other cases, seemed amenable to opening the gates beyond the three plaintiffs in arguments made last week. The full lawsuit is to be heard in 14 months, but the NCAA shouldn't wait to go into full panic mode. You see, the plaintiffs are seeking $1.4 billion in damages, which, under federal antitrust law, could triple to $4.2 billion. That's nearly 10 times the assets the NCAA reported for last year. And that dread couldn't happen to a nicer group of people. And that's how I see it for this week. You can reach us via email with your questions and comments at Sports at Large at gmail.com. And follow me on Threads and Twitter at Sports at Large. Until next week, for all of us here, I'm Milton Kent. Thanks for listening and enjoy the games.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's that sweet smell of football in the air. Albie and Jeramey are in full preview mode, but this season we want to give you a lot of information in the shortest amount of time. Tortillas & Takes is previewing multiple teams per episode and inviting on other podcasts to promote the schools they love so dearly. This episode we bring on Scott McFarland (Boscoe's Boys) to cover Kansas State, Jeff Hansen (Give 'Em Hell, Brigham) to cover BYU, and Melissa Treibwasser (Frogs Insider) to cover TCU. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's that sweet smell of football in the air. Albie and Jeramey are in full preview mode, but this season we want to give you a lot of information in the shortest amount of time. Tortillas & Takes is previewing multiple teams per episode and inviting on other podcasts to promote the schools they love so dearly. This episode we bring on Scott McFarland (Boscoe's Boys) to cover Kansas State, Jeff Hansen (Give 'Em Hell, Brigham) to cover BYU, and Melissa Treibwasser (Frogs Insider) to cover TCU. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Top headlines for Tuesday, August 1, 2023In this episode, we delve into the concerning reports of a Chinese Communist Party-sponsored program in various U.S. schools. We also discuss the firing of a Texas teacher who displayed an image of herself with drag performers at a gay bar, exploring the claims surrounding her walking in an ungodly manner. Amid online backlash, we discuss Rep. Nancy Mace's open admission of engaging in premarital sex in front of her pastor. Finally, we investigate how a Christian entertainment platform aims to resist media's negative influence on children, featuring family-friendly video games, comics, and other wholesome content.Subscribe to this Podcast Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Podcasts Overcast Follow Us on Social Media @ChristianPost on Twitter Christian Post on Facebook @ChristianPostIntl on Instagram Subscribe on YouTube Get the Edifi App Download for iPhone Download for Android Subscribe to Our Newsletter Subscribe to the Freedom Post, delivered every Monday and Thursday Click here to get the top headlines delivered to your inbox every morning! Links to the News American nurse, child kidnapped from Christian ministry in Haiti | World News Chinese Communist Party influencing US K-12 schools: report | U.S. News Church's challenge of mandated abortion coverage dismissed | Politics News Teacher fired from Texas Christian school after drag show | U.S. News Evangelical biology professor files EEOC complaint after firing | U.S. News Nancy Mace jokes about sex with fiancé at prayer breakfast | Politics News Community mourns after pastor is fatally struck by police car | U.S. News UMC conference appeals disaffiliation court order | Church & Ministries News UMC conference can't stop church from disaffiliation, judge rules | Church & Ministries News Archbishop says don't stop praying ‘Our Father' but be sensitive | Church & Ministries News ‘Our Father' in Lord's Prayer is ‘problematic' says archbishop | Church & Ministries News Ukraine to celebrate Christmas on Dec. 25 not Jan. 7 | World News Christian gaming platform confronting media 'toxicity' with truth | Entertainment News

In this episode we look at Florida Gators baseball's 2-0 winning streak in Omaha going into their matchup against Texas Christian later today, June 21, 2023, in the College World Series with baseball beat writer Luke Adragna and sports editor Jackson Castellano. We also dive into "From Utah to Florida, Oakley Rasmussen and Sophie White stick together", a feature written by enterprise beat writer Bennett Solomon, and the connection between two players on Florida's soccer team that have lifted each other up 1,000 miles away from home.

Ben and Carlos open the show by discussing the recent injuries to Guardians prospects Daniel Espino and Chase DeLauter before getting into the opening weekend of college baseball action. The two discuss the players who stood out for Carlos at the College Baseball Showdown in Arlington, including Texas Christian third baseman Brayden Taylor, Arkansas lefthander Hagen Smith and Arkansas second baseman Roc Riggio, among others. They spend some time discussing the standout efforts around the country, including Louisiana State righthander Paul Skenes before getting into some farm system talk.Which organizations have the deepest farm systems? Which orgs surprised with less depth than expected? After that the duo takes a few listener questions, including: “Who benefits more from the pitch clock?”“What impacts player development most?” “What skills can MLB teams most consistently improve with players?”—Do you  have a question you want us to answer? Email us: futureprojection@baseballamerica.com  Follow us on Twitter: @FutureProPodBen's Twitter: @BenBadlerCarlos's Twitter: @CarlosACollazoBaseball America WebsiteSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/future-projection-a-baseball-america-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Previewing the Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball game in Allen Fieldhouse against the TCU Horned Frogs in a top 15 Big 12 showdown. Will Bill Self or Jamie Dixon's teams bounceback after losses earlier this week? Storylines, Texas Christian scouting report, and matchups of the game such as Mike Miles vs Dajuan Harris and Emmanuel Miller vs Jalen Wilson.Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!LinkedInLinkedIn jobs helps you find the candidates you want to talk to, faster. Post your job for free at Linkedin.com/lockedoncollege Terms and conditions apply.Built BarBuilt Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKEDON15,” and you'll get 15% off your next order.BetOnlineBetOnline.net has you covered this season with more props, odds and lines than ever before. BetOnline – Where The Game Starts! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Previewing the Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball game in Allen Fieldhouse against the TCU Horned Frogs in a top 15 Big 12 showdown. Will Bill Self or Jamie Dixon's teams bounceback after losses earlier this week? Storylines, Texas Christian scouting report, and matchups of the game such as Mike Miles vs Dajuan Harris and Emmanuel Miller vs Jalen Wilson. Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! LinkedIn LinkedIn jobs helps you find the candidates you want to talk to, faster. Post your job for free at Linkedin.com/lockedoncollege Terms and conditions apply. Built Bar Built Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKEDON15,” and you'll get 15% off your next order. BetOnline BetOnline.net has you covered this season with more props, odds and lines than ever before. BetOnline – Where The Game Starts! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Débrief du National Championship Game 2023 entre les Bulldogs de #1 Georgia et les Horned Frogs de #3 Texas Christian. Avec Grégory Richard et Morgan Lagrée. Au programme : - L'actu de la semaine (coaching carousel, draft NFL 2022, transferts, portail des transferts). - Débrief du FCS Championship Game entre #1 South Dakota State et #3 North Dakota State. - Débrief du National Championship Game entre #1 Georgia et #3 Texas Christian. - Mailbag : on répond à vos questions ! Bonne écoute !

Preview du National Championship Game 2023 entre le les Bulldogs de #1 Georgia et les Horned Frogs de #3 Texas Christian ! En bonus : débrief du Cotton Bowl (USC-Tulane) et du Rose Bowl (Penn State-Utah), tour d'horizon de l'actualité et preview du FCS National Championship. Avec Grégory Richard et Morgan Lagrée. Au programme : - Débrief du Cotton Bowl et du Rose Bowl : USC-Tulane et Penn State-Utah. - Tour d'horizon de l'actualité de la semaine (coaching carousel, portail des transferts). - FCS Playoffs : Preview de Championship Game entre #1 South Dakota State et #3 North Dakota State. - National Championship Game 2023 : présentation complète de la finale des playoffs, Georgia-Texas Christian. Bonne écoute !

Two GT's Kombuchas enter the championship round of the BBC Playoffs, but only one will emerge as the Booch Ball Season 3 Champion.- Passionberry Bliss- Watermelon WonderI wonder who it will be. Either way... how blissful...Oh yeah, and Georgia vs. Texas Christian is happening. Score predictions, odds, and what to name your dog if your team wins.

Débrief complet des demi-finales du College Football Playoff 2022-23, #2 Michigan-#3 Texas Christian et #1 Georgia-#4Ohio State. En bonus : Retour sur le Sugar Bowl et l'Orange Bowl, et tour d'horizon de toute l'actualité de la semaine. Avec Grégory Richard et Morgan Lagrée. Au programme : - Notre Top 3 des meilleurs bowls de la semaine (Arkansas-Kansas, Florida State-Oklahoma, Notre Dame-South Carolina). - Debrief de l'Orange Bowl (Clemson-Tennessee) et du Sugar Bowl (Alabama-Kansas State). - Toute l'actualité de la semaine (coaching carousel, transferts, etc...). - College Football Playoff : débrief des demi-finales, Michigan-Texas Christian (Fiesta Bowl) et Georgia-Ohio State (Peach Bowl). Bonne écoute !

The guys get together to preview what will be the greatest moment in TCU history. TCU FOOTBALL IN THE COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS!!! PLAYOFFS?? PLAYOFF? We're talking TCU in the PLAYOFFS!

Présentation complète des deux demi-finales du College Football Playoff 2022-23, #2 Michigan-#3 Texas Christian et #1 Georgia-#4Ohio State. En bonus : Débrief de la Early Signing Period et preview des bowls du Nouvel An dont le prestigieux Rose Bowl. Avec Grégory Richard et Morgan Lagrée. Au programme : - Débrief de la 1ère semaine de bowls. - Preview des bowls du Nouvel An : Clemson-Tennessee (Orange Bowl), Alabama-Kansas State (Sugar Bowl), USC-Tulane (Cotton Bowl), Penn State-Utah (Rose Bowl). - Recrutement 2023 : Bilan de la période de signature anticipée. - Portail des transferts : toute l'actualité des derniers transferts. - College Football Playoff : présentation complète des demi-finales, Michigan-Texas Christian (Fiesta Bowl) et Georgia-Ohio State (Peach Bowl). Bonne écoute !

Jason Titus, a recent Ph.D. from Texas Christian, joined us to discuss the question, "What do you wish you knew when you started." Contact Us: Email: Dr. J. Scott Self Email: Dr. Linnea Rademaker Email: Dr. Peter Williams

Do the guys like TCU making the playoff after losing the Big 12 Championship?

This episode of The Short Side Option podcast is brought to you by our friends at Manhattan Brewing Company. Manhattan Brewing Company is entering their second year as the title sponsor of The Short Side Option and we couldn't be more excited to have them partner with us! Be sure to check out their list of upcoming events-- you can follow them on Facebook at www.facebook.com/manhattanbrewing or on their website www.mhkbeer.com for all of the latest happenings at the brewery! Just yours truly this week on The Short Side Option, as I look back at Kansas State's 47-27 victory over Kansas in the Sunflower Showdown and I also preview Kansas State's matchup with Texas Christian in the Big 12 Championship Game in Arlington this Saturday. All this, and more, in this week's episode of The Short Side Option!

Matt and Joe recap two wins over Thanksgiving weekend and look forward to a meeting with TCU.

We open up the archives to learn about our Founder with the help of Fraternity Archivist Beth Applebaum, Texas Christian, and Chair of the Tri Delta Alliance Ginger Hicks Smith, Emory, a retired professional archivist. Beth and Ginger read excerpts from letters written by some of Tri Deltas greatest leaders like R. Louise Fitch, Knox, and Ernestine Block Grigsby, Colorado. These memories paint a portrait of who Sarah Ida Shaw (later Ida Shaw Martin) was, from those who knew her best. Their letters recall the founding, Sarah's commitment to the broader fraternal movement, Tri Delta's expansion west and so much more. They also discuss the touching moments of Sarah's broadcast address to the Golden Anniversary Convention in 1938. This is an episode not to be missed … Happy Founders' Day!Be sure to visit more of our digital archives at tridelta.historyit.com!

Débrief complet de la week 12, conférence par conférence, avec un focus sur les matchs UCLA/USC, Oregon/Utah, Baylor/Texas Christian, Michigan/Illinois, Maryland/Ohio State, la débâcle de Tennessee et de North Carolina et présentation de Rivalry Week, la 13ème semaine de la saison 2022 de College Football. En bonus : l'actualité de la draft NFL 2023 et un Spécial Preview des Playoffs FCS ! Avec Grégory Richard et Morgan Lagrée. Au programme : - Pac-12 : le show QB Caleb Williams, USC attend Oregon en finale de conférence. - Big Ten : les frayeurs de Michigan et Ohio State avant The Game. - SEC : la folle soirée de QB Spencer Rattler. - Big 12 : TCU toujours irrésistible, Texas encore dans le coup. - ACC : la métamorphose de Georgia Tech. - Group of Five : UCF, la mauvaise affaire. - NFL Draft 2023 : notre Top 5, RB Chase Young, OLB Yasir Abdullah. - Preview : Spécial FCS Playoffs 2022-23 ! - Week 13 : présentation de Rivalry Week avec un focus sur The Game entre Ohio State et Michigan. Bonne écoute !

Kirk & Casey discuss being better men with thicker skin following Tech's loss, cactus accuracy, Texas Christian is repulsed by the name Texas Christian, Casey's 7-day free QB trial, Fardaws Aimaq timeline,  God help Northwestern something or another, United Supermarkets Arena fire cannon frequency, expanding the NCAA tournament, Brett Yormark runnin' wild, Texas Tech NIL aggression, Kirk goes HAM on Twitter, The Sting: Tailgate Edition, a birthday at Bash's on penny pint night, the night a Ralls, TX legend took the fall over a fuzzy navel at Wild West, & bringing  the West Texas Championship back to the 806

Débrief complet de la week 8, conférence par conférence, avec un focus sur les matchs Oregon/UCLA, LSU/Ole Miss, Clemson/Syracuse, Ohio State/Iowa, TCU/Kansas State, Oklahoma State/Texas et présentation de la 9ème semaine de la saison 2022 de College Football. En bonus : l'actualité de la draft NFL 2023 et notre chronique « Fidèle au poste » spécial Wide Receiver U. Avec Grégory Richard et Morgan Lagrée. Au programme : - Pac-12 : Bo Knows ! Retour perdant pour Chip Kelly. - ACC : Clemson garde le rythme même sans DJ. - SEC : LSU, retour de l'au-delà. - Big 12 : Texas Christian, seul au monde. - NFL Draft 2023 : notre Top 5, LB Dorian Williams, RB Zach Charbonnet. - Fidèle au poste : Wide Receiver U (Ohio State). - Week 9 : présentation de la 9ème semaine de la saison avec un focus sur Penn State/Ohio State. Bonne écoute !

FOX Sports' RJ Young is joined by Producer Tyler for the Week 8 mailbag episode. RJ and Tyler discuss fan responses to the following questions: Can you win a national title with a high-powered offense and a so-so defense? Who is the best player on your team nobody is talking about? Will Tennessee or Texas Christian make the College Football Playoff? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Débrief complet de la week 7, conférence par conférence, avec un focus sur les matchs Tennessee/Alabama, TCU/Oklahoma State, Michigan/Penn State, Utah/USC et présentation de la 8ème semaine de la saison 2022 de College Football. En bonus : l'actualité de la draft NFL 2023 et notre chronique « Fidèle au poste » spécial Running Back U. Avec Grégory Richard et Morgan Lagrée. Au programme : - SEC : le spectre de 3 équipes en playoffs ? - Big Ten : la marche en avant de Michigan, la folle aventure d'Illinois. - Pac-12 : USC au tapis, Utah à la relance. - Big 12 : la bonne affaire de Texas Christian. - NFL Draft 2023 : notre Top 5, DE Myles Murphy, CB Emmanuel Forbes. - Fidèle au poste : Running Back U (USC). - Week 8 : présentation de la 8ème semaine de la saison avec un focus sur Oregon/UCLA. Bonne écoute !

The Family Affair crew is more than ready for the NFL Week 6 action and Week 7 of the College Football Season! Join Jeff Michaels, Ralph Michaels, Joe and Dionne D'Amico as the two families dive DEEP into the upcoming weekend schedule from a betting perspective, highlighting Oklahoma State vs Texas Christian and Mississippi State vs Kentucky in College Football; as well as Ravens vs Giants and Bills vs Chiefs for NFL Sunday.

Once upon a time a Drag Queen Story Hour meant family fun, not a potentially violent protest. The U.S. national organization's Executive Director Jonathan Hamilt tells the heartwarming tale of how it all began and what it's mission really is (interviewed by KOOP-Austin's Liz Ross). Radclyffe Hall's “The Well of Loneliness” is known for being depressing, but another look at the lesbian classic of 1928 discovers new meaning (a 2002 essay by Queer Life and Literature correspondent Janet Mason). And in NewsWrap: Singapore will repeal its ban on male gay sex while maintaining marriage inequality, Hong Kong appeals court refuses to recognize an activist's U.S. marriage to his husband, Vietnam's government declares that being LGBTQ is not a “disease,” New Zealand offers formal apologies to conversion therapy survivors, Texas Christian church pays the price for its homophobic “Hamilton,” and more international LGBTQ news reported this week by Joe Boehnlein and MR Raquel (produced by Brian DeShazor). All this on the August 29, 2022 edition of This Way Out! Join our family of listener-donors today at http://thiswayout.org/donate/

The Gavel Podcast is the official podcast of Sigma Nu Fraternity, Inc. It is dedicated to keeping you updated on the operations of the Legion of Honor and connecting you to stories from our brotherhood. To find out more about the Fraternity, you can always check out our website at www.sigmanu.org. Also, consider following us on: Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | Twitter | YouTube | FlickrHave feedback or a question about this episode? Want to submit an idea for a future topic you would like to see covered? Contact the Gavel Podcast team at news@sigmanu.org. Hosts for this EpisodeChristopher Brenton (North Carolina State) - Director of CommunicationsAdam Girtz (North Dakota State) - Director of Chapter ServicesGuest for this EpisodeMike Dilbeck (Texas Christian) - Professional Speaker, Educator, and Chapter Advisor for the Lambda Epsilon Chapter at Texas Christian University.Episode Mentions and ReferencesMike's Professional Website - Learn more about Mike's professional speaking and opportunities to bring him to your campus for a facilitated conversation on courage, dignity, or integrity.DignityU - The landing page for  information, resources, and guidance in implementing the DignityU curriculum.

Everything from West Point to friendships to seizing new opportunities. Laurie Jabbar brings to life how her fireside chats with friends transformed to a co-hosted podcast and the reality of navigating the next step. If you have any questions about this episode or want to get some of the resources we mentioned, head over to LesleyLogan.co/podcast. If you have any comments or questions about the Be It pod shoot us a message at beit@lesleylogan.co . And as always, if you're enjoying the show please share it with someone who you think would enjoy it as well. It is your continued support that will help us continue to help others. Thank you so much! Never miss another show by subscribing at LesleyLogan.co/subscribe.In this episode you will learn about:An opportunistic path to successFinding your path through the failuresGreat friends vs life friends Don't Drop the Ball on Title IXPilates in the metaverseEmbrace the light to see great things happen Episode References/Links:InstagramDon't Drop The Ball On Title IXShe's a 10 Times 5 PodcastGuest Bio:Laurie Jabbar is one of the co-hosts for the thriving podcast "She's a 10 Times 5." Launched in the beginning of 2021 with the goal of helping women navigate their "second acts," by rediscovering their purpose and recognizing the many amazing opportunities that come with a new chapter in life. Their listeners are looking for a sense of sisterhood when they tune in, and a feeling they are hanging out around a fire with a glass (or two) of wine with their girlfriends. The podcast has been featured in "Ask Us Beauty" magazine as "Media We Love," and the She's a 10 girls and their inspiring guests share the good, bad and ugly while lifting one another up.  If you enjoyed this episode, make sure and give us a five star rating and leave us a review on iTunes, Podcast Addict, Podchaser or Castbox.ResourcesWatch the Be It Till You See It podcast on YouTube!Lesley Logan websiteBe It Till You See It PodcastOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley LoganOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley Logan on YouTubeProfitable PilatesSocial MediaInstagramFacebookLinkedInEpisode Transcript:Lesley Logan 0:00  Hey, Be It babes. Welcome back to the Be It Till You See It podcast. Hello, how are you I got a great, amazing guest for you and she is, she is fire, she is salty. She is a world of knowledge. Honestly, she's lived many, many lives. And you'll hear her even say she's a cat, she's got nine lives. And I love that because I do, I do want to make sure you hear stories from different people whose lives are not linear. And who have have have failed at things and gotten back up and who've lived lives and have had tough conversations. And so this week's guest is really going to zero in on some of those things about failure and about conversations and relationships and boundaries. And I'm really excited for you to hear it. She is also an amazing, one of the amazing two hosts of the She's a 10 Times 5 Podcast. And I really love, I love their podcasts, I find their guests really fun to listen to. And so I hope that this just gives you a little taste of who they are and what they're up to. And, you know, take a listen, take some notes, listen to her BE IT action at the end. It's one of my favorites. And actually, I'd recently heard a very similar way that and that being spoken and I think it's true. I think it's so true. And I'm not gonna tell you what it is until you listen to the end. And I'd love to hear from you afterwards. I'd love to hear from you about the fear that you might be facing. So I know that scary. It's something that we did at our Pilates business retreat we made everyone tell each person in the group what they're afraid of. But if you, I won't blast it, we don't have to share it on the on the socials. But I'm just telling you if you actually acknowledge what you're afraid of and you say it out loud, it takes a lot of the power away, it really really does. And so with that being said I want to get into this amazing interview with Laurie because she is just a delight and she is a woman to not like to who you would probably want to be on your best friends and depending on who you are and where you live that might be impossible. So take a listen and then let us know how you are you using her advice, her tips, her BE IT action is on your life. Tag She's a 10 Times 5, tag to @be_it_pod and let us know. And here's Laurie.Welcome to the Be It Till You See It podcast, where we talk about taking messy action, knowing that perfect is boring. I'm Lesley Logan, Pilates instructor and fitness business coach. I've trained thousands of people around the world and the number one thing I see stopping people from achieving anything is self doubt. My friends, action brings clarity and it's the antidote to fear. Each week, my guests will bring Bold, Executable, Intrinsic and Targeted steps that you can use to put yourself first and Be It Till You See It. It's a practice, not a perfect. Let's get started.All right, Be It listeners I have I mean, she really is the one and only Laurie Jabbar here and she is one half of a hot podcast couple it, couplet - She's a 10 Times 5. We met because of being in the same magazine together, which is just so fun how things worked out. There's divine appointments for all of us. And she has an incredible story. I got to listen to all of it. On one of the episodes, they had over at a She's a 10 Times 5. And I just, it's it's inspirational. And it just shows that like life is not linear. So Laurie, thanks for being here. Tell everyone who you are and what you're doing when you're you know, when you're in your home in San Diego, live in life.Laurie Jabbar 3:40  Live in life. Yeah. While you was a saying that, you know, I just got back from Texas visiting my son at Texas Christian for moms weekend. So it's good to be home. But I'm you know, I'm in recovery mode. No doubt about it. (Lesley laughs) I can't keep up with those young men. So I, yes, I live down in San Diego and I am part of a duo called She's a 10 Times 5 and it's a podcast. But more than that, it has been an amazing platform to really support women and meet new women. And just like you said, serendipitously we're in the same magazine, which is a fabulous magazine. I just love it's everything about sisterhood. I got to meet you (Lesley: I know...) and here we are. We're gonna chop it up today.Lesley Logan 4:24  We are, we are. Everyone it's Ask Us Beauty. We'll put the link in the show notes. But I got a bunch of issues of it because of course I have to frame the article. And then I wanted us to have it out. So people go, "Oh, wait, that's you." It's like, "Yes, that's me." (Lesley laughs)Laurie Jabbar 4:38  Yeah, that was a great issue. They had some really great interviews in that magazine. And I'm not a magazine person, but I read it cover to cover just because of the stories, they were so great.Lesley Logan 4:47  They're so great. So okay, um, your podcast ... now but is like, how did that become a thing? How did you go. "I'm gonna do a podcast." How like, what were you doing before that, that made that even a thing in your ideas.Laurie Jabbar 5:03  Well, I turned 50 in 2019, August 30th. I'm a Virgo. If you listen, you'll know. So, I, it wasn't a great birthday for me. For some reason, I absolutely dreaded the idea of becoming half a century old. There you have it, right. So ...Lesley Logan 5:20  ... the other way did describe it. (Lesley laughs)Laurie Jabbar 5:22  No, no. And everyone thought I was going to have this fantastical, phenomenal 50th birthday party because we do throw good parties at our house or that were that family. And I just was like, "No, I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to do it." And instead, I pivoted and did 50 random acts of kindness, which was amazing. If you ever have a chance to do that. It's it'll warm your heart and it does have halo effect. And I started a group called the Fireside Chatters. And it was a group of ladies that we have raised our kids together, we have stood shoulder to shoulder, we lock arms, we can tell secrets, we're all a vault. And I said, "You know what, I want to start this group chat. And it's going to be called the Fireside Chatter." So the idea is that what would we really be talking about with a glass of wine in our hand (Lesley: Yeah) sitting next to a fireplace, or a fire pit. And it wouldn't be the bullshit that you see on social media. It would be you know, "My husband's an asshole today. I'm worried about my kids. One's going sideways, the other ones." So we started this group and then flash forward to 2020 the pandemic hit. And this group chat went into friggin overdrive. (Lesley: Yeah) I mean, we were on that thing 20 times a day lifting each other up, laughing, someone would say, "I'm having a hard day" which would prompt a call from someone. It really became like this virtual ...Lesley Logan 6:45  Was this only got a text chain? Was it like in a WhatsApp group? Like when did you just like just or did just like you're all 50, so you're just a regular text messages?Laurie Jabbar 6:54  Regular texting ... (Lesley laughs) Yes, we're old. Yeah. Yeah. And it became this virtual oasis of sisterhood. And we it was such a blessing and two months into the pandemic, I was on a walk. Well, what's really funny is, it was called the Fireside Chatters and then evolved into the Salty Fireside Chatters. And then the Salty Manic Fireside Chatters. And then we just became the Salties. And everyone would talk about the Salty Group. It was just, it was (Lesley: Okay) hilarious.Lesley Logan 7:24  So so it's at the top of the texting just ... you know, just kept changing the name on the top of the text. (Laurie: Yup) I love this. I love it. I also do think the Salties is like a really great name for any group. I feel like you guys should be a band. (Lesley laughs)Laurie Jabbar 7:39  Well, that's, that's in the works. I'm kidding. (Lesley laughs) If you heard me sing which I sing a lot. I'm a songbird, you don't want me to start a band. But so I was on a walk with one of the Salties and I'm like, "When, we get out of this shit. You know, we had to do something with our lives. This is the new front nine, not the back nine, you know, if nothing else that we learned from this whole quarantine and pandemic is that we got a we all live." (Lesley: Yeah) And so she's like, "You know what?" She goes, "You need to do something with this whole thing." And she encouraged me to do podcast. And so that's what I did. (Lesley: I love...) And here we are ...Lesley Logan 8:13  I love it. Thanks for taking us on that journey. I I think we've had a couple other guests, women groups, and they talked about, like, the importance of a sisterhood. And I think like, no matter how evolved, technology gets or we think we get as human beings. That entire like we used to be in tribes of women spending time together, taking care of each other, there was like women whose jobs were to take care of the women who are having their cycle and there was women whose jobs would take care of the babies so that the mom could... Like there was all these things that we did to support each other and now we just put each other in our own houses with our own things and we're like, "You should be able to handle that. No problem just like do it up". So, I love that you create, like recreated that. And that it it really led you to doing this podcast and you do it with a lovely co partner.Laurie Jabbar 9:02  Yes, Lisa O'Coyne. And we, it's what's really great is our two youngest are seniors in high school and there she has three girls, I have two boys and our youngest, their best of friends. In fact, we're get... we're going to have them on our podcast, just to talk about this empty nester thing. And then her two older girls are at Texas Christian. (Lesley: Oh, where your son is?) Yeah, so we have this, yeah, we have all these things and and we have a really good time. And I think you know, when you do a podcast with with another guest or another host, I think you really have to find the yin to your yang. So and we've done that, you know, (Lesley laughs) I'm the spicy meatball, and she's the warm voice of reason. So it's it's been a blast.Lesley Logan 9:46  I think that's true for anything, I think, I mean, you have many businesses, so we could probably talk about that too. But like, because I work with my husband. People are like, "Oh my gosh, like what like what do you think that, how does that how do you do that?" Like, "Well, we're very different." (Lesley laughs) (Laurie: Yeah) Like, like we and it's gonna be very challenging because like, it's you want it to be done the way that you want to be done, but also they challenge you to get out of your comfort zone or to either lift, you know, tone it down or lift it up or, or clarify in a different way. I think it could be really good. So, I can't believe you guys have all those things in common. It's like, are you neighbors too? (Lesley laughs)Laurie Jabbar 10:22  We'd live a stones throw? Yes. Yeah. Well, it's interesting you say that about your husband, because I was married to exactly the kind of guy you would think I would be married to. And we were college sweethearts. And we got married right out of the West Point Military Academy. And I was stationed in one place in Germany, and he was stationed in a place, but we were so much alike, that I think we just collectively agreed we made great friends. But you know, the marriage just, you know, and then I ended up marrying someone that is completely my opposite and it works. It just works.Lesley Logan 10:55  So let's talk about that because you you just mentioned that you went to West Point. And I think a lot of people listening here might have heard of it, but might not know what it means. Can you talk about like, is that something you always wanted to do? Was that like on your like, list, as a high schooler, "I want to go to West Point for College," or was that just something that you thought you could do? What was ...Laurie Jabbar 11:14  ... no fucking way did I have that in my plan. I was a class clown. I was the free spirit. And, and so basically, how that evolved was, I was recruited athlete. I really, really wanted to go to Stanford. I was getting my sophomore year was my, it was my year. And I went through some personal stuff. But that was my year that I really got on the radar with track and field and cross country and I got injured. And so it's coming back off a stress fracture, I just kind of was never the same runner. So the Stanford ticket was not going to be an option for me. So I went to Plan B and I met these guys. And they said, "You should go to West Point." And I had no idea what it was, I saw video and I go, "Well, that's really cool. And oh, by the way, it's free." And literally, none of my family were military. So it was really kind of out of left field that I did that. But it was kind of an it was God's plan for me to go basically, yeah.Lesley Logan 12:17  Yeah, yeah, that's it's kind of that's, um, that's how you know that there's like something out there that's like, kind of planning it out for us. Because how would those people have like entered your lives, you know, you'd have no one else in your family who's like, "You should be doing this, or this is what we do or here's an idea," you know, that like those random meetings that are actually so perfect. You know, I was across country and hike and track runner, not as good to Stan... no one in California was looking at me. I retired (Lesley laughs) my senior year, I was like, "You know what, since I'm not going to get a scholarship, I think I'm gonna take a break from all this running thing." And I ended up picking it back up in my 20s. And because of Pilates, I ended up with so few injuries, I have none, no problems from running at all. But I ran ... I won the Los Angeles City half marathon. And I thought, "Oh my gosh, maybe this is maybe now, I'm peaking. Maybe this is the time, I should get (Laurie: there you go) back into running. And then and then I actually got really happy and I really liked my life. And my time started getting slower and slower and slower. And I was like, "No, I think I was just really unhappy, then I think just running off (Laurie: You were angry) stress and anger." (Lesley laughs)Laurie Jabbar 13:24  Yeah. Yeah, you were. Well ...Lesley Logan 13:26  So what ... So let's talk so after West Point, like, what did you do? Because you're so you had fif... you're over 50 now, which I mean, who counts the two years of the pandemic, (Laurie: Stop it) so you're 50. (Lesley laughs) But like, what did you, you know, you have this whole life and you've had now two marriages, and you have these amazing kids and you've got this podcast. And what is it that you really sought, like, is any of it planned out? Or was it all kind of like, "I'm interested in this now and now I'm doing this." Like, what, how did you, how did you take yourself from West Point to where you are today?Laurie Jabbar 14:00  Well, first of all, I was one of the first female graduating classes. So it was no easy track, and especially with my personality type. So getting through the gauntlet of the military academy, you, the rigor, the academics, all of it, it kind of gave me like a little bit of a steel exterior, like I can take on anything, you know, throw it at me babe. And so when I got out of the military, I decided to do something totally foreign and very opposing to the training I got, which was high tech. Because, you know, that was, you know, as I moved to the Bay Area, I started working in the consulting realm and working with all of these emerging, rad, free thinking people and companies and there were no rules. And so you take me out of the constructs of the military academy and then being a captain in the military, right, where I have people enter, and now I'm in like the wild west of the high tech world. So long way midway to answer your question is, I think that I have been very opportunistic. So I don't think that there's ever been really a plan, I see something. And a lot of times just take a leap of faith based on I'll figure it out, I can do it. And I do think it's really important. And I tell this to my kids all the time, "You have to love what you do," you know, we get, we get on this pathway of what is success, and some people define it financially. And some people, you know, define it through their egos or whatever. But if you're, if you're not doing something that you're happy about, I just don't think you find success. (Lesley: Yeah) I think it's, I think you chase, you chase something that you never get to be able to grab hold of that tail. So that's kind of what I did, I have I've always led my life with my heart. And if I see something I'm feel passionate about I I tend to want to lean 100% in.Lesley Logan 15:53  Yes. So I couldn't agree more. I love that that kind of definition of success, because you can have multiple successes in your life. But the leaping part I get, I love to leap, I actually find it, it's like exhilarating, scary, freeing, all at the same time. I think that's where people get stuck. What do you tell yourself before you leap? Like, is there a is there a thing you tell yourself? Is it because of like that you could take this class clown and put her in West Point and she can become a captain? Like, is it because of that experience? Or is there something you say to yourself before you leap?Laurie Jabbar 16:27  Well, you know, my husband says it. And then I try to say it. Because I said earlier, I'm a Virgo, so I am a little bit OCD. So I'm not completely ready fire aim. But what's the worst that can happen? And you have to weigh those, you have to weigh it. "What is the worst that can happen? Am I gonna hurt someone. Am I going to lose my livelihood? Am I going to be embarrassed." And so if it's, if it nets down to just, you know, I'm being afraid of failure, I just say, "fuck it." You know, because failure, failure is one of the best things that you can go through. Because nine times out of 10 you fail at something, you hit that brick wall and whatever you find out who your people are, because they're there to dust you off and pick you up and two, you know, normally find like, "Okay, that that didn't work out but there's there's a secondary plan B and pathway for me." And so I I'm all about like a couple failures under your belt. And I think it's a great thing.Lesley Logan 17:23  I couldn't agree. I as a recovering perfectionist, what I have discovered is like every time I fail like ...Laurie Jabbar 17:30  Recovering? Let's be honest. (Lesley: Recovering) Come on. (Lesley: Yeah) Recovering, you know, you did a long way to go when your recovery, (Lesley: Yeah) you are perfectionist and I love it.Lesley Logan 17:39  ... when you're but I think it's like you'll always, I'm always going to be a recovering perfectionist because like, I think to actually be recovered might be my perfectionist going, "See we did it." (Lesley laughs) But recovering perfectionist, recovering overachiever. I have, of course failure seeing and they get a little frustrating. But there is something really unique about especially with your work for yourself being able to go, "Okay, what did we do there? What can we learn here? How do we strike? How do we try again?" And if you work for a company, I mean, hopefully there's a team that does that they, you know, usually do that. But I find that like, once you get a few failures, as you mentioned, they sting less, and they become a little bit more welcome. There's like a little bit more of like, "Oh, okay, I'm gonna learn something for this. I'm gonna meet people, I'm gonna have to collaborate differently." Definitely keeps things spicy, because you're not doing the same thing all the time if you're failing a little bit here and there.Laurie Jabbar 18:32  Yeah, I know, I tell my kids because you know, you, they only hear about the successes. And I try to remind them, God, I've got a whole world of mistakes and things, you know, we're all human. And me, no, but you know, they're living in an age. And I think, you know, we're all living in an age where everything is out there for consumption by and in large. And we tend to only share the highlight reels. So we don't really get to relate to the side of failure that is so very important. So that's, you know, it's a shame, I think that we have to present this image that we always are on and, you know, everything's okay. And our relationships are perfect. And it's all a bunch of horseshit, you know.Lesley Logan 19:18  Yeah. Well, it is, and it's, and it's true, because if you were to put out all the thoughts that happened during the day. A lot of people be like, "Wow, she's just like me," and other people would be like, "Knew it. Spotted it." (Lesley laughs) (Laurie: Yup. Yeah) And it's, and it is, so it is hard to feel safe that you can do that. I find like, what I like about podcasting that's different than social media is that you can have those honest conversations and you can also share the highlights. You can also have the bio and you can also have the things and you can be a whole person and it is easier to have it in a context that like makes it all, make sense as opposed to like, "This morning I really didn't like today. I didn't like the day at all." I was like, "Why am I up? What is happening?" (Lesley laughs) But by the (Laurie: Yeah) end of the day, you know, so I think it's really, I think it's important. I think that for those who have kids like sharing that with them is also very important. But also, I think just reminding ourselves that it's not about that. How do you and Lisa do that? Is it because you have kids you are able to remind yourselves constantly? Or is it is it some, like some sort of practice that you do that, like not everything is the highlights you're seeing?Laurie Jabbar 20:21  Well, I think by bringing on really great guests that want to tell their story. I think gives us a sense of community and confidence that, "Okay, we're all a little bit messy." That is something I didn't anticipate. One is that, I think women our age, and our generation, you know, I think we weren't really kept secrets close to the chest, we were told, we don't talk about those things. And now I think we're at a point in our lives, where we recognize missed opportunities. And so we're more apt to share our story and put it out there and support one another through that. So I think, you know, having these vulnerable discussions, I think, has inspired us to also go in that direction and feel confident with doing it as well.Lesley Logan 21:14  Yeah. And also, like, going back to what you and your husband say is like, what what's the worst that could happen if you share the story like ...Laurie Jabbar 21:21  Your kids disown you ...Lesley Logan 21:24  I mean, it sounds like it's cheaper if they do that. Right? (Lesley laughs)Laurie Jabbar 21:27  Yeah, thank you. After this weekend, yes. You know what that, that is a that is a valid point because I do think one of the things too, as, as women, with if you have kids, I think that definitely weighs into our lens as well, because I think we do have this innate mama bear pressure to, you know, not embarrassed them, or, you know, you don't want their judgment and you want them to be proud of you. And, you know, there's going to be some things that, you know, in this podcast is one of them. I think it took my youngest a really long time to get his arms around. And he's like, "What are you doing? Why are you talking about those things?" And now, it's like, he's like, "Okay, this is cool." You know, so, but (Lesley: Yeah) I do think that that's a roadblock for a lot of women is like, you know.Lesley Logan 22:11  I think you're right, I want to like, like, as I think about people, being it until they see it, as like women taking a hold or whatever they want to be or acting like the person they want to be. I do I think whether you have kids or just people in your family, like I do think that the opinion of others holds us back on, on on showing up the way we want to show up because, well, "What if our kids are gonna say? What are our parents gonna say? Like, what our family's gonna say?" Was that a conversation you had to have with your kids? Like, "I'm doing this anyways and it's probably going to embarrass you."Laurie Jabbar 22:45  Um, no. (Lesley laughs) Well, my oldest was he he's off at college, but my youngest, you know, because the Studio 50 is actually at my house. And so we had discussions and whatnot. And we've had some pretty provocative topics. And I will tell them, I'm like, "This is one you don't want to listen to. Like, don't even listen to the video sound btye because it's going to," you know.Lesley Logan 23:06  Did they listen to the cougar episode? (Lesley laughs)Laurie Jabbar 23:10  ... I hope not. No, we released one today, which, which is about non monogamous relationships. And that's another one I kind of hope they stay clear of. (Lesley laughs) But, but you know, yeah, I so I, I think I think it was when we got the support of our friends, to, to do something. You know, that that was another meaningful way. And I think if you surround yourself, I always say, "the air you breathe in as the air you breathe out." And if you're bringing, you know, positive, you know, vibrations and relationships to the table with you, then it just makes everything more easy.Lesley Logan 23:49  Yeah, it's true. I mean, it... the we have to no matter what our ages, we have to be watching the people we surround ourselves with, because it is true, like their thoughts on things, their drive on things, their worry, and it all becomes something that's part of you and your orbit and your opinion of what you can do and what's possible. And it's, it's interesting, I find easy for me, I moved out of high school, I moved right after high school, and then I moved out after college. And so like, I've always I've spent a life of creating friendships that fulfill my life. And if I'm with the place I live is no longer fulfilling. I move and some people come with me, and some people don't. But I do find a lot of people have a hard time letting go of certain family members, obviously, it's family and friendships that have been around for a long time. Was that is that something you had to learn how to let go of? Is that something you've just like kind of figured out a way to like, what do you show there versus what you show other people? What is, what is your method to making sure you can show up fully?Laurie Jabbar 24:51  That is such a great question that actually I had a discussion with another mom this weekend. I think that I've learned two things. One is that your great friends are always there for you, in the time of need. Your lifers are there in your time and need, and they're your cheerleader. It's not always easy for people to be happy for success. And I've learned that, you know, you do have those friends that they, there, they're just happy when things are going well. And they're the first ones to say, atta girl and cheer you on. So I think what I have done very successfully over the past few years, and not my whole life, and let me tell you, is understanding what's important for me in a relationship. And, and then what are my deal breakers? You know, because we are all flawed, and no relationship is perfect, right? But there are certain things that I've come to recognize, "Okay, that is a deal breaker for me." And being able to remove, you know, set those boundaries and remove that energy out of my life. And it's not an easy thing to do, especially if it's been a long standing relationship. (Lesley: Yeah) Yeah. (Lesley: Yeah) So yeah, like, you know, you have to be honest, and I think that's what I've been, over the past few years, I think when I've had things go maybe sideways, or experiences not gone well, in a relationship, it's probably because I'm not honest with myself or that individual, whether it's a family member or a friend, where you know, you kind of stuff your feelings down, you don't confront things. And what I've really tried to do, and also encourage my friends to do is, "Okay, we... be honest about it. If this is bugging you, let's like talk about it, let's chop it up, let's figure it out. And, and when you do that, and you don't stuff it down," because it tends to come out in passive aggressive ways, right, if you do that. And so, yeah, so being honest, is for me, is a number one.Lesley Logan 26:55  Yeah. And I think that requires like being honest with yourself. So I love that you talked about like, getting to know like, what matters to you and what your deal breakers are? Because then it might be difficult to be honest with someone else if you're, like, unsure of why this is bothering you. So I do think some self exploration and understanding and, and having those tough conversations, I think, you know. I think it's Tim Ferriss, we've talked about this before on the podcast, but like, you know, your success is like correlated to the amount of tough conversations you'll have. And I don't think it's a success in business. I think it's success in life. Like if you're really wanting to have deep meaningful relationships, there's going to be like actual conversations you have to have or share with someone to have that kind of closeness and have and make sure that they're on the same page as you when it comes to some things because they might not even know that they're hurting your feelings, because they didn't know that that was a deal breaker for you.Laurie Jabbar 27:39  Yeah, you know, it's, I'm a salesperson, Biz.. biz, dev, sales through and through. And I always tell people, the best salespeople, listen. You know what I'm saying? Like they, they we all assume that they're, they're the talkers, the Jerry Maguire, is that work the room and there is a little bit of that. But when you listen, and when you listen in relationships, and you're an active listener, I think that it's a very, very powerful asset to have. So, you know, I really try to listen to my friends and my family and take the step back and absorb. And, you know, there's been so, it's been such a crazy time in the world where I think we're so half cocked, and we judge and you know, but if you sit back and try to listen, and then understand, you're going to have far more powerful and positive relationships with people.Lesley Logan 28:34  Yeah. I think that's it, that is, that is something we need to be doing always in life. And I don't know that we're taught how to listen a lot when we're younger, like you're listening in school all day. (Laurie: Yeah) You're not, you're not really like taught to listen, and then you come home from school. And like you tell people like, "This is what my day was like." And so there's just not a lot of that night. I think you're it's not just in sales, but you can really hear what's going on with a friend, if you actually just listen to her, say the day, say what was (Laurie: Yeah) going on her day, because you'll start to you'll the thing that she does, like kind of over, she's mentioned it but she flipped right over it. That's the thing. She's just like dabbling it out there to see if you are going to catch on and talk about it. And she might not even know she's doing it consciously, you know, so.Laurie Jabbar 29:15  You know, sometimes it's just a matter of, you get a vibe, if you pay attention, you get a vibe and asking the question, "Is everything... talk to me. Is there something you want to talk about? Do you want to..." You know, I tend to do that a lot. And, and I'm a sponge for emotion, so I have to be careful. Right. You know, the only the other thing I wanted to say is that, you know, well, the kind of circling around this confrontation (Lesley: Mm-hmm) topic. Right? So you listen, and you'd be honest with yourself and others and that means confrontation at times and confrontation is not always a bad thing. You know, confronting the way you feel, confronting a situation with that transparency. You just got to know whether or not the confrontation has you got to go in with it? There's a reason why you're doing it. Because sometimes it's it's not even worth confronting. (Lesley: Right) You know, that's the other thing is like, that's not a deal breaker or that's not like, I'm not even going to confront. Yes, she bugged me, you know, because she had too many cocktails or whatever. But that's not a deal breaker for me, you know. Right? (Lesley: Right) Sometimes gonna confront because that's just who she is. And then, yeah, so.Lesley Logan 30:24  Yeah, I think you're, I think I love the brought up, it's not confrontations, always a bad thing. And also, like, you got to know what you want out of it. Because otherwise, you could just be practicing confrontation for the sake of it. And you know, that doesn't always solve any problems or make you feel better. You know, um, what came to my mind? aaahhh. Well, I was thinking, as you talk about these conversations, and these questions that you ask people, is it this is gonna sound obviously, this the perfectionist. I mean, but it's really for the listener. So you said the question, "Is everything all right?" Are there other questions that people are like, "I want to be a better listener, I want to I want to help like, listen to my friends more." Or there are other questions that you asked that kind of fall on that line that they could just put in their little notepad so they can practice being better listeners?Laurie Jabbar 31:14  Well, I was trying to get someone to call me back and she just was begging me and blowing me off. This is a friend of mine. And so I left her voicemail. And I said, I said, "Listen, I said, I'm in jail. And I need someone to bail me out. And I'm in your zip code. I really need you to call me." And I did my best acting like I was Sally Field. Okay. Like, it was Oscar worthy performance on the voicemail. And no, I'm kidding. (Lesley laughs) You know, I think it just depends on what relation, I think you just did the asking the questions and being in tune with tone. And, you know, you can't do that overtax your email, and I, like, literally, I'm one of those people, I'm so old school where, let's just get on the fucking phone. Like, I can't, I don't know where this is coming from. And so I think that, you know, taking that time, and you know, we were also busy, you know, we're on the little, we're on the hamster wheel all the time. But sometimes we just have to stop and pick up the phone and have the conversation or invite someone, you know, out to a coffee or a walk or whatever.Lesley Logan 32:19  Yeah, I like that. I like this, even inviting them on the partisan that you're already doing so that you can have that talk. And we are also busy. But we're all always so busy. And we were busy during a pandemic, when we're supposed to be sitting at home. Like somehow we were still busy there. So I think like the, you know, anything I've learned about the last two years, it's like, you make time for what matters. And if you don't, then it, it didn't really matter to you. And if it really does, then you have some self exploration to do because I couldn't believe how busy I got sitting still. (Lesley laughs) You know, as I used to get more done when I traveled on a plane every week than I am right now. So (Laurie: Yeah) so Laurie, you are incredible. And you're you've lived some incredible lives and some amazing things. Is there ... (Laurie: I'm a cat.) (Lesley laughs) (Laurie: I've got 9 lives.) Are you, is there something that you are focusing on right now? Like, is there what is like the next step that you're trying to be it till you see it? Like, what are you acting, not even having to act as if it's not faking it? But like, what is it that you're working on right now? Is it with Lisa and the podcast? Is it something else that you're trying to do? Is there something you're exploring and learning so you can do that thing?Laurie Jabbar 33:26  You just teed me up for something fantastical. Thank you for that. So I was, you know, we talked about being a college, you know, recruited runner and I had gone through the death of my mom and my, my family just kind of was circling the drain a little bit. So the financial components to my college decision was at the top of the list. I like to joke and say, "I went to West Point" because it was 10 to one male female ratio, and I like to blow shit up. But the fact is, I went because it was free. With that being said, there is this thing called Title IX, okay. And I was blown away to find out that this is the 50th anniversary of Title IX. It's been around 50 friggin years. (Lesley: Wow) And I found that out because Billie Jean King who has always been the woman from the, you know, way back when that has carried the flag, charge the hill for all of us, other women. And, you know, so what we're doing is we are partnering, she's a ten and I put together I call them the Dream Team, a bunch of ladies that really believe in the importance of Title IX, and the financial, educational and sports that it supports. So we are launching on the last day Women's History Month. Okay, this is our pay it forward. March 31st. We are going to announce a campaign, a viral campaign. She's a 10 Times 5 supports 50 years of Title IX. And the campaign is called, Don't Drop the Ball on Title IX. And it's going to be fun and it's going to be building awareness. And we get to partner with amazing organizations and, you know. Hopefully ...Lesley Logan 35:14  This is so fun. Are you guys, I know you're not doing like the reels and stuff that I feel like each person could be like throwing a ball.Laurie Jabbar 35:21  That's exactly what's gonna happen. (Lesley: Oh, I love. I love.) So so the viral campaign is literally catching a ball of your choice, saying, "Don't drop the ball on Title IX" and passing it to someone and challenging them. And the idea really, is to build awareness for the Billie Jean King organization and the Women's Sports Foundation, and Title IX, because a lot of people don't really even know that it exists. If you haven't ... Yeah, if you have a daughter ...Lesley Logan 35:50  ... or misconceptions about like, what it does or what it's done. And I think like, if you've, if you have a daughter then you are aware of Title IX.Laurie Jabbar 35:57  Yeah. Or if you are an athlete, you know, or if you're just in tune with stuff, but I was at the pickleball court, and I was telling everyone, I'm like, "I'm going to do this challenge and I'm going to build awareness," because, you know, this is important. And, you know, we need to be giving light to some of these things. And, you know, having people lean in, and they're like, "What the hell are you talking about? And I said, "Title IX, goddamnit, it's 50 years," and not one of the 10 women knew what Title IX was. So hopefully, this will inspire people to, you know, learn about it, you know, and support it.Lesley Logan 36:30  Yeah, I agree. And I, um, you know, I think especially women in sports, it's really powerful to see, I mean, watching women's soccer team fight for their rights to get paid. And my father and I go to the WNBA, here in Vegas, I love it, it's so much fun. And I just think that like, there's so much more we can do to grow. Because if women's sports, were getting half the attention that men's sports did in marketing, we would be having different conversation that people would know what this Title IX is, and there, there'd be a lot more and, and the truth is, they get such a small, small, small percentage of the marketing and they have some of the most amazing athletes on those female teams, both professional and collegiately. So I think it's really cool. I want to I want to hear more about it. And, and we'll we'll have to make sure that our podcast shares what you're posting on our on our feed as well.Laurie Jabbar 37:21  Well, that's not even an option, I will be stalking you. (Lesley laughs)Lesley Logan 37:25  I'm good. I'm so happy, I'm so happy about that. Oh, my God, well, that's so fun. I love it. So thank you for sharing that because what I love about it so much as it's like a thing that you're doing for a purpose, for a time period. And I do think sometimes we think that whatever we have to do has to be this lifelong thing, it has to become something really huge and really big. And it can be something you're doing for a set period of time to really spread the word about something you're passionate about. And so I think that's really cool.Laurie Jabbar 37:53  Yeah, and using the platform to do it, you know, we've got, you know, a very vibrant, you know, guests that we've had, and this is right in the wheelhouse of women supporting women. So it's kind of in line with our brand. And so if we can use our brand to do, you know, share good, you know, (Lesley: Yeah) ought to do it, right?Lesley Logan 38:12  Well, and I think the more the more people who see people doing that, and it gets ideas to get ideas, right, so then that can like spawn the next thing, and then more people can be doing it. And so the next year, there could be for the 51st anniversary, it could be even more, but hopefully, it just we have a whole year to celebrate that 50th. And so maybe this could be the first of many things that is done to bring attention to that. And I do think like, you know, when you have a brand, there are things that can be passionate about as a brand. And using and using those passions and using your brand to bring attention to it is something we all can do.Laurie Jabbar 38:43  Yeah. Well, you know, it's kind of Women's History Month. It's kind of a shame. You know, it's it's a month of observance, but it's really nebulous, like, what is it? You know, we all posted on Women's International Day because, you know, but then on to the next, right. And I think our message is, you know, this Title IX affects women, mostly high school and college every single day. So, let's keep the month of women's history, let's keep it rolling (Lesley: Yeah) and and spread the love. You know, Lisa has three girls and she's got a division one athlete, I have two boys. And what's important for me is that I set the right example because they need to see that supporting women is an important thing. And sometimes I think men get in their own little heads and, you know, so (Lesley: Yeah) it's also setting an example for our kids that, "Hey, we're going to pay it forward for the people coming up the pike."Lesley Logan 39:37  Yeah, I love that. I think that's amazing. Okay, Laurie so where do y'all hang out on the socials? Is it the gram? Are you on Tik Tok? Where do where do people get to stalk you?Laurie Jabbar 39:48  We are on the Gram and it's at She's a 1 0 Times (T i m e s) 5, @shesa10times5. That's where most of us, you know, go and then we're on all of the platforms, Apple, Spotify, etc., for the podcast.Lesley Logan 40:06  Your podcast is so fun to listen to you have such a variety of guests and I learned so much. Well, and also you also had episode with a Bitcoin guy and I was like, (Laurie: Yeah) "Oh, great." You know what someone's going to talk about in regular words that I can understand. Perfect. I'm very excited ... (Lesley laughs)Laurie Jabbar 40:20  Did you got your plot a land in the metaverse yet?Lesley Logan 40:23  I have really been stalling on that. I think I'm gonna have to, have ...Laurie Jabbar 40:26  Pilates studio in the metaverse. I'm seeing it. I'm feeling ...Lesley Logan 40:29  I know with my favorite leggings. And then you can buy my lipsticks and all the things. I ... (Lesley laughs)Laurie Jabbar 40:34  Yeah and a tee, baby.Lesley Logan 40:35  I know. I know. I know. Brad's like we're making enough tees of you and I'm like, "We are?" (Lesley laughs) I'm like, I'm like, "Okay, does tell me where to smile. Where do I look?" So, okay. All right, I ask everyone and you've had such amazing advice. I think there's already been some tips along the way. But we ask every guest, what bold, executable, intrinsic or targeted steps can they take right now so they could be it till they see it?Laurie Jabbar 41:03  Let me ask you this, "What is be it till you see it mean to you?"Lesley Logan 41:06  To me, it is not waiting until you feel ready. It's not like a lot of people will wait, "Well, when this happens? When I graduate, then I'll do this. When my kids in high school then I'll do this. When this happens?" And instead it's like, acting like the person that you want to be when those things are happening right now. And then they'll happen sooner.Laurie Jabbar 41:26  Yeah. I love that. And I think your example was that you have a cup of coffee.Lesley Logan 41:31  Mm-hmm. Yeah, I used to when I was single, I wanted to create space for a partner. I had a very busy schedule. So how can I create space for a partner, when I don't really, I can't actually physically create like two nights a week that I'm off that I could spend with this person, I don't know. And so instead, I just made coffee for two people poured two cups and acted like I was pouring a cup for my partner. And now he pours his own coffee, but I still make it for him. (Lesley laughs)Laurie Jabbar 41:59  I love that. Yeah. So I think from my lens, I really think it's being courageous, and not being afraid to fail. We talked a lot about that. But somehow finding it within ourselves. Just to take the step forward, you know, when we're feeling stuck, or if we're in a situation that is not fulfilling or is not, you know, making us as happy as we'd like to be. You know, like Adele had great thing and I took away from when she did the Oprah interview. It wasn't that our marriage was bad. She just wasn't as happy as she wanted to be. Period. Right? So I think sometimes we we settle and my thing is, take a step forward, even if it seems like the tiniest little step, take a step forward in the direction that that will get you to a place of more fulfillment. You know, it's, it's not being as scared. You know, a lot of times we're afraid of the dark, you know, to fail, or, you know, the scary stuff. But really, I think a lot of people are afraid of the light because that's, you know, it's even scarier that, "God could I be this person," you know. You know, one of our guests, Barbara Majeski, was just so great. She went through cancer, she had a dumpster fire of a divorce, and she just had a zero fucks attitude, or, you know, "I'm gonna do this I'm not gonna be afraid of..." And shoot, her first gig was on the Today Show, "I want to be on TV. I don't care what people say," you know. So she, you know, her first gig was, you know, go figure on the Today Show. And so don't be afraid of the light because I think great things can happen when you embrace it.Lesley Logan 43:41  I couldn't agree more. That is a beautiful BE IT action item. Thank you. Thank you, Laurie, for being here. Give Lisa a big hug. And I can't wait to hear more. She's a 10 Times 5 episodes. You're just, you're just a delight and you I love how you share so openly about your experiences and the lessons that you've learned because I do think that we all learn from stories (Laurie: Yeah) and and even if I could never imagine being at West Point, I definitely listening to your story about that and others. I learned so much from you. So I'm just so grateful to have you on our podcast so that our listeners can get to know you a little bit, learn from you. And if you want more of her, check her and Lisa out on @shesa10times5. Until next time, Be It Till You See It.Laurie Jabbar 44:26  Be It Till You See It, baby!Lesley Logan 44:29  That's all I got for this episode of the Be It Till You See It podcast. One thing that would help both myself and future listeners is for you to rate the show and leave a review. And follow or subscribe for free wherever you listen to your podcasts. Also, make sure to introduce yourself over at the @be_it_pod on Instagram. I would love to know more about you. Share this episode with whoever you think needs to hear it. Help us and others BE IT TILL YOU SEE IT. Have an awesome day!'Be It Till You See It' is a production of 'As The Crows Fly Media'.Brad Crowell 45:02  It's written, produced, filmed and recorded by your host Lesley Logan and me, Brad Crowell. Our Associate Producer is Amanda Frattarelli.Lesley Logan 45:13  Kevin Perez at Disenyo handles all of our audio editing.Brad Crowell 45:18  Our theme music is by Ali at APEX Production Music. And our branding by designer and artist, Gianfranco Cioffi.Lesley Logan 45:26  Special thanks to our designer Jaira Mandal for creating all of our visuals (which you can't see because this is a podcas) and our digital producer, Jay Pedroso for editing all video each week so you can.Brad Crowell 45:38  And two Angelina Herico for transcribing each of our episodes so you can find them on our website. And, finally to Meridith Crowell for keeping us all on point and on time.Transcribed by https://otter.aiSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/be-it-till-you-see-it/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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Matt Carpenter is an 11-year major league veteran who's spent his entire professional career with the St. Louis Cardinals. He's a three-time All-Star who has been a part of two World Series teams in 2011 and 2013. But he almost didn't make it there. He arrived at Texas Christian to play baseball, but it wasn't long after that he began to neglect the discipline that got him there. He added a lot of weight and was just sort of treading water with his ability. His head coach had a heart-to-heart conversation with him prior to his senior year, and it changed everything. Carpenter quit a number of things cold turkey and realized it was now or never if he was going to have a career playing professional baseball. He shares that story in this week's clip for Table Forty. PROGRAMMING NOTE: Season 3 of Table Forty with brand new episodes will begin next week, so make sure you're subscribed on your favorite podcast app so you don't miss it! Table Forty is part of the Sports Spectrum Podcast Network.

Florida House passes 15-week abortion ban...local West Virginia pro-life chapter president steps down after racist allegations...and 5 employees at Texas Christian school arrested on accusation of failing to report alleged sexual assault.

Andrea Damone-Brown received her Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology and her Masters in Education focusing on Professional Counseling and Psychotherapy through Oklahoma City University. She has been working in the adoption field since 1992 and was the Director at a licensed adoption agency in Dallas for six years. Andrea also co-founded and co-Directed Lifetree Adoption Agency in Dallas, Texas from 2003 to 2014.Continuing her passion for adoption, she recently branched out on her own in 2014 to focus on serving individuals in each area of adoption through Texas Christian Adoptions. It is her passion and ministry to love and help people as Jesus loved and served. God is Love, and it is her goal to counsel those who feel alone, and to help them see how much God loves them and that He has a plan for their life. His unfailing love will guide them through their journey.https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrea-damone-brown-754a868/Here's more about her agency from their website:Texas Christian Adoptions, LLC has over 30 years of experience in the field of adoption. We are a licensed child placing agency that provides professional guidance in pre- and post-adoptive services for both Expecting Mothers and Adoptive Families. It is important that our Expectant Mothers find peace about their decision, which is why we offer professional counseling services and a Support Group to help them find that peace.Our objectives are to help Expecting Mothers determine if placement is in the best interest of both them and their child. Second, to place newborns up to three years of age with families who desire to adopt a child. Third, for Expectant Mothers who decide on adoption, we help them through the emotional and legal processes of adoption.Our goal is to ensure solid placements by guiding our Expectant Mothers in a supportive manner, and assisting them in a healthy recovery from normal grief and separation loss issues. We encourage our clients with the knowledge that God is faithful and loves His children. That the trials they are encountering are  opportunities to see God work miracles in their life. Texas Christian Adoptions, LLC offers open, semi-open, and closed adoptions. Semi-open adoptions are the most common type of adoption. It means that first names are shared and the Birth parents would be receiving updates and pictures until the child is 18 years old. The Birthparents can also send correspondences and gifts for the child if they felt comfortable doing so.Texas Christian Adoptions, LLC is a proud member of the Better Business Bureau.We are also licensed by the Department of Family and Protective Services. To learn more about them and how they serve the community, you can go to their website: https://www.dfps.state.tx.us/default.aspMore at:https://www.facebook.com/texaschristianadoptionshttps://texaschristianadoptions.com/https://www.instagram.com/texaschristianadoptions/ 

Far too many people are not are not financially prepared to retire. However, it's never too late to get started.Then our listeners chime in on:Larry Swedroe's own only small and value stocks strategy.The need for bonds in a portfolio.Using a "bond replacement strategy" (annuities) instead.Converting to a Roth IRA to avoid RMD.Determining the best cost basis strategy for tax purposes.We end we a brief discussion of  a Texas Christian money radio advisor about to spend life in prison.

In this edition of The Short Side Option presented by Manhattan Brewing Company, Chris and Dlew are back to review K-State's 31-12 win over Texas Christian and lookahead to Saturday's matchup in the Sunflower Showdown against KU. Voice of the Jayhawks and friend of the podcast Brian Hanni stops by and breaks down the Sunflower Showdown from the Jayhawks point of view. We also take a trip down memory lane and reminisce about a former WILDCAT LEGEND and answer listener questions in the #AskTheICON segment. All this and more in this week's episode of The Short Side Option!

In this edition of The Short Side Option presented by Manhattan Brewing Company, Chris and Dlew are back to review K-State's 25-24 win over Texas Tech and lookahead to Saturday's matchup against TCU. We also look at another WILDCAT LEGEND and answer listener questions in the #AskTheICON segment. All this and more in this week's episode of The Short Side Option!

Chris and DLew look back at K-State's win against Texas Tech and preview this Saturday's matchup against the Texas Christian Horned Frogs in Fort Worth.

It is a Football Friday on the Locked on Longhorns Podcast. Cami and Patrick get you ready for Texas Christian vs Texas at 11 a.m. CDT on Saturday. What are the offensive keys to the game? What about the defense? Plus an update on Bijan Robinson.Stephen Simcox of ESPN 1600 in Central Texas joins the show to break down the TCU football team. Simcox is a TCU Alum and the future host of our TCU centric show coming soon. Who will start at quarterback and does he think TCU pulls off the upset.Cami and Patrick preview the weekend slate with game picks and who are the team MVPs through two games so far.Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Rock AutoAmazing selection. Reliably low prices. All the parts your car will ever need. Visit RockAuto.com and tell them Locked On sent you.Built BarBuilt Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKEDON,” and you'll get $10 off your first order. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Let's start with the fact that “Rebekah Charleston” is the name she goes by now. Her real name back in 2006 – when she was busted for money laundering and tax evasion – was “Rebekah Kay Dean, a.k.a., Nicole A. Wilson.” And for argument's sake, let's take her story at face value…because as you'll see, even if you believe her claims of victimization, her claims to having been “trafficked” in Lyon County's legal brothels simply hold no water. In an interview a Ft. Worth Magazine, Charleston/Dean/Wilson says by the time she was 16 she'd become a drug abuser and dropped out of school. Her parents, she claims, then institutionalized her in a private Texas Christian school where she “did manual labor in the fields, cleaned churches and ate old donated food with bugs in them.”