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“If this is to be a skyscraper… why not make it scrape the sky.”  This is the story of the race for the tallest building in New York City—in the world.  Erstwhile partners-turned-bitter rivals, architects William Van Alen and Craig Severance are both looking to build the tallest skyscraper in New York City. William is working with automobile titan Walter Chrysler to build his Chrysler Building; Craig is working with George Ohrstrom, a.k.a., the “Boy Wonder” of Wall Street”, to build the Manhattan Company Building at 40 Wall Street. It's a battle of engineering, wits, zoning, and egos, as each alters their plans with money being no object in the fight to construct the taller (and tallest) skyscraper in the world. But as these two rival teams duke it out, the city's beloved Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on 5th Avenue is going under. Something new is rising there—something that just might prove a late entry and dark horse winner in this race with… a mooring mast for airships at the top? Yes—the proposed Empire State Building is threatening to blow this race out of the water and change New York City's skyline forever. ____ Connect with us on HTDSpodcast.com and go deep into episode bibliographies and book recommendations join discussions in our Facebook community get news and discounts from The HTDS Gazette  come see a live show get HTDS merch or become an HTDS premium member for bonus episodes and other perks. HTDS is part of Audacy media network. Interested in advertising on the History That Doesn't Suck? Contact Audacyinc.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Support Breaking Walls at https://www.patreon.com/thewallbreakers It's a little after midnight on the morning of Monday January 9th. We're at P.J. Clarke's on the corner of 55th street and 3rd avenue, getting warm the best way we know how. The weather is nasty outside. It's about fifteen degrees with freezing rain and gale force winds. Clarke's is a bar from another time. It's wonderfully trapped in nostalgia—all burnished wood and chased mirrors. Orson Welles is opening King Lear at The City Center to good reviews. The years in Europe did him well, but he's happy to be back in New York. Welles is in the back with none other than Frank Sinatra. They've known each other since the 1930s, and since they both missed each other's fortieth birthdays last year, we're celebrating. Joining us is Jilly Rizzo and Bill Stern. The next round of drinks is on me. That's Daniel Levazzo. He bought the bar from the Clarke family a few years ago. Hey Dan, three Jacks straight up, a negroni for Orson, and I'll have Hendricks on the rocks. You want something? Hey Dan, let me borrow your phone, I've got to file my story. Hello Operator, give me CBS at 485 Madison Avenue please. (Beat) Yes I know what time it is. I'm a producer there. (Beat) Put me through. (Beat) Thank you. Some things never change. Hello Cindy, it's Scully. Is Ed Murrow still there? (Beat) Could you put me through to him? (Beat) Thank you. (Beat) Hey Ed, It's James Scully. I'm glad I caught you. Bill Paley's got you burning the midnight oil huh? (Beat) I did. Orson was good. I'm a P.J. Clarke's with him and Sinatra right now. Bill Stern's here too. You want to swing by? I'll get Dan Levazzo to break out the moonshine. (Beat) With those two? We'll be here a while. (Beat) Ha! Ok I'll see you soon. Ed Murrow's a good man. The gang will be happy to see him. Dan, Do me a favor, turn the TV up for a second. The Tonight Show with Steve Allen is just finishing on NBC-TV and there's a little news item on the tube before programming signs off. Everyone is talking about Grace Kelly's engagement to Prince Rainier III of Monaco. It was announced in Philadelphia on January 5th and their party is going to be at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel here in New York. Grace and Rainier went their separate ways on Saturday. She's going back to Hollywood to keep working on High Society. The only thing is, one of her co-stars is Sinatra, and he'll be in no mood to fly to the coast tomorrow. That's not the only talk of love and marriage going on around New York City. Look at that Sunday Daily News cover. Heiress Juliette Wehle stood up her husband-to-be on their wedding day. She supposedly slipped away at 2AM wearing just a negligee to elope with another man. Don't worry, it's not a roving producer from CBS. The twenty-year-old heiress later returned home, unmarried. Excuse me, I'm missing out on the fun. Oh, before I go, I should say that the story of a woman jilting one man for another is ironically a centerpiece in the upcoming plot within Yours Truly Johnny Dollar's “The Todd Matter.” The first episode will air later tonight at 8:15PM over CBS radio. And remember, it stars Bob Bailey.

News; birthdays/events; when you break your phone screen...do you replace it or leave it broken?; word of the day. News; game: whistling songs; are you too cheap to rent movies?; is it fair that nepo babies get handed a job? News; game: movie taglines; what kind of personal info do you have on your luggage tags?; when you have to break bad news to someone...do you just blurt it out or ease into it? News; game: movies trivia; Brad's car story; goodbye/fun facts....national mulligan day...In golf, a mulligan happens when a player gets a second chance to perform a specific move or action. there are three different stories explain the origin of the term. The first story is of a Canadian golfer, David Mulligan, a one-time manager of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City, who played golf in the 1920s.  the 2nd story gives credit to John A. “Buddy” Mulligan, a locker room attendant at Essex Fells C.C., New Jersey, in the 1930s.  And the 3rd story, according to author Henry Beard, states that the term comes from Thomas Mulligan, an aristocrat and a passionate golfer who was born in 1793. Mulligans can be applied to our regular lives too...those with the determination to fight through the adversity of the mishaps of life. Let's be honest — most of us need a mulligan from time to time.  "

Episode 118- Join host Troy Saunders as he hosts Sherry Winston! Not only is Ms. Winston one of Jazz music's most esteemed flutist, but she is also a record executive, promotional manager, educator, public speaker, composer, author, chef, booking agent, a world renowned performer and all around great person. Come get to know this legendary artist in this episode.Sherry Winston has performed in many of the major concert halls throughout the U.S. including Carnegie Hall, Constitution Hall, Lincoln Center and at the Kennedy Center. Sherry performed with Icon Stevie Wonder in NYC to honor the legendary Hal Jackson on his 97th birthday. Sherry had the honor of performing for two sitting presidents. For President and Mrs. Clinton during their last holiday party at the White House and for former President George H.W. Bush at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in NYC.Sherry has been featured in The New York Times, Ebony, Black Enterprise, Essence and More Magazines. Sherry has been a featured guest on the Today Show, "Emeril Live," and has co-hosted and performed on 8 shows for Bet TV. Sherry has released 6 CD's with her first "Do It For Love," going to #1 on BRE and the Black Excellence Charts. "Love Madnes," and "Life is Love & Love is You," was Top 10 at Billboard Magazine.They start the episode by discussing Sherry's humble beginnings growing up in Corona, Queens NYC, her college years at Howard University, how she began working as a secretary at Warner Brothers Records via their Elektra and GRP subsidiaries and her move up the ranks becoming Director of Jazz Promotion at Columbia Records.The next part of the conversation they converse about what happened at Columbia Records that made her concentrate on recording her own Jazz records. The struggles of an independent artist and how she copes with the ups and downs of being in the the music industry. This is a must listen for anyone that is in or planning to start a career in music. Words from a wise lady that has been maintaining a successful career for many years.Of course throughout the episode Troy plays some of his favorite songs by Ms. Winston. Beginning with "Sherry Love" and ending with her latest single "Spice Island". Sherry tells wonderful stories on working with legendary artists Hubert Laws ( and the rest of his family), Patrice Rushen, Jon Lucien, Najee, Kirk Whalum, Grover Washington Jr, Eric Gale and more. You can tell that Troy and Ms. Winston thoroughly enjoy each others company. It was as if they knew each other for a long time even though they just met.This is a wonderful episode that will keep you intrigued, make you smile and fill you soul with wonderful music. Listen and subscribe to the BAAS Entertainment Podcast on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Deezer, iHeartRadio, Pandora, Podchaser, Pocket Casts and TuneIn. “Hey, Alexa. Play the BAAS Entertainment Podcast.”

The story of a filthy and dangerous train ditch that became one of the swankiest addresses in the world -- Park Avenue. For over 100 years, a Park Avenue address meant wealth, glamour and the high life. The Fred Astaire version of the Irving Berlin classic "Puttin' on the Ritz" revised the lyrics to pay tribute to Park Avenue: "High hats and Arrow collars/White spats and lots of dollars/Spending every dime for a wonderful time."By the 1950s, the avenue was considered the backbone of New York City with corporations setting up glittering new office towers in the International Style -- the Lever House, the Seagram Building, even the Pan Am Building. But the foundation for all this wealth and success was, in actually, a train tunnel, originally operated by the New York Central Railroad. This street, formerly known as Fourth Avenue, was (and is) one of New York's primary traffic thoroughfares. For many decades, steam locomotives dominated life along the avenue, heading into and out of Cornelius Vanderbilt's Grand Central (first a depot, then a station, eventually a terminal).However train tracks running through a quickly growing city are neither safe nor conducive to prosperity. Eventually, the tracks were covered with beautiful flowers and trees, on traffic island malls which have gotten smaller over the years. By the 1910s this allowed for glamorous apartment buildings to rise, the homes of a new wealthy elite attracted to apartment living in the post-Gilded Age era. But that lifestyle was not quite made available to everyone. In this episode, Greg and Tom take you on a tour of the tunnels and viaducts that helped New York City to grow, creating billions of dollars of real estate in the process. FURTHER LISTENINGListen to these related Bowery Boys episodes after you're done listening to the Park Avenue show:The Pan Am BuildingIt Happened In Madison Square Park The Chrysler Building and the Great Skyscraper RaceThe Rescue of Grand Central Terminal FURTHER READINGThis week we're suggesting a few historic designation reports for you history supergeeks looking for a deep dive into Park Avenue history. Dates indicated are when the structure or historic district was designatedSt. Bartholomew's Church and Community House (1967)Seventh Regiment Armory/Park Avenue Armory (1967)Consulate General of Italy (formerly the Henry P. Davison House) (1970)New World Foundation Building (1973)Racquet and Tennis Club Building (1979)Pershing Square Viaduct/Park Avenue Viaduct (1980)Upper East Side Historic District Designation Report (1981)Lever House (1982)1025 Park Avenue Reginald DeKoven House (1986)New York Central Building (1987)Seagram Building (1989)Mount Morris Bank Building (1991)Expanded Carnegie Hill Historic District Report (1993)Waldorf-Astoria Hotel (1993)Pepsi-Cola Building (1995)Ritz Tower (2002)2 Park Avenue Building (2006)Park Avenue Historic District Designation Report (2014)

pWotD Episode 2500: Bohemian Grove Welcome to popular Wiki of the Day where we read the summary of a popular Wikipedia page every day.With 243,512 views on Wednesday, 6 March 2024 our article of the day is Bohemian Grove.Bohemian Grove, Monte Rio, California (United States), is a restricted 2,700-acre (1,100 ha) campground at 20601 Bohemian Avenue, belonging to a private gentlemen's club known as the Bohemian Club. In mid-July each year, Bohemian Grove hosts a more than two-week encampment of some of the most prominent men in the world. The Bohemian Club's all-male membership includes artists and musicians, as well as many prominent business leaders, government officials, former U. S. presidents, senior media executives, and people of power. Members may invite guests to the Grove. Guests may be invited to the Grove for either the "Spring Jinks" in June or the main July encampment. Bohemian Club members can schedule private day-use events at the Grove any time it is not being used for Club-wide purposes, and they are allowed at these times to bring spouses, family, and friends, although female and minor guests must be off the property by 9 or 10 pm. After 40 years of membership, the men earn "Old Guard" status, giving them reserved seating at the Grove's daily talks, as well as other perks. Former U. S. president Herbert Hoover was inducted into the Old Guard on March 4, 1953; he had joined the club exactly 40 years prior. Redwood branches from the Grove were flown to the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City, where they were used to decorate a banquet room for the celebration. In his acceptance speech, Hoover compared the honor of the "Old Guard" status to his frequent role as veteran counselor to later presidents. The Club motto is "Weaving Spiders Come Not Here," which implies that outside concerns and business deals (networking) are to be left outside. When gathered in groups, Bohemians usually adhere to the injunction, although discussion of business often occurs between pairs of members. Important political and business deals have been developed at the Grove. The Grove is particularly famous for a Manhattan Project planning meeting that took place there in September 1942, which subsequently led to the atomic bomb. Those attending this meeting included Ernest Lawrence, J. Robert Oppenheimer, the S-1 Executive Committee heads, such as the presidents of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, along with representatives of Standard Oil and General Electric as well as various military officials. At the time, Oppenheimer was not an S-1 member, although Lawrence and Oppenheimer hosted the meeting. Grove members take particular pride in this event and often relate the story to new attendees. Other behavior at the campground has led to numerous claims and even some parody in popular culture. One example was President Richard Nixon's comments from a May 13, 1971, tape recording talking about upper-class San Franciscans: "The Bohemian Grove, which I attend from time to time—it is the most faggy goddamned thing you could ever imagine, with that San Francisco crowd."This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 01:20 UTC on Thursday, 7 March 2024.For the full current version of the article, see Bohemian Grove on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Mastodon at @wikioftheday@masto.ai.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm Joanna Standard.

Another set of divorce rumors and scandal abound as another lover has been found.Late February to early March, John Jacob Astor VI, aka “Jakey,” and his mother Madeleine Talmage Force Astor Dick are forever covered in the press due to their surviving the Titanic. Their love lives become a fascination for the public as rumors abound surrounding pending marriages and divorces. Jakey is rumored to be engaged to Italian Princess Donna Cristina Torlonia, but both. But there is another hidden scandal about to surface with his mother Madeleine Talmage Force Astor Dick.Other people and subjects include: Vincent Astor, Prince Serge Obolensky, Ava Alice Muriel Astor Obolensky Hofmannsthal, Marjorie Merriweather Post Hutton, E.T. Stotesbury, Enzo Fiermonte, Princess Donna Cristina Torlonia (Christina, Cristiana, Christiana), Prince Don Marino Torlonia of Italy, Elsie Moore, William Dick, William Force Dick, John Henry Dick, William Force, Katherine Force, Katherine Talmage, Cholly Knickerbocker, John Jacob Astor IV aka Colonel Jack, Caroline Astor, Ava Lowle Willing Astor Ribblesdale, Charlotte Astor Drayton, Prince David – King Edward VIII – Duke of Windsor, Gloria Vanderbilt, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, Viscountess Thelma Morgan Furness, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Countess Grace Vanderbilt Szechenyi, Alva Vanderbilt Belmont, Harold “Mike” Vanderbilt, Joshua Cosden, Margaret “Unsinkable Molly” Brown, Chicago mayor William “Big Bill” Hale Thompson, actress Billie Burke Ziegfeld, President Franklin Roosevelt, Benito Mussolini, Social Register, debutante, childhood sweethearts, widowhood, will stipulations, social climbing, rumors, scandal, counter rumor, antiquated rumor, social approval, social rejection, disaster magnet, marriage, divorce, remarriage, young lovers, old lovers, illegitimate, age difference, typhoid, the grip illness, issues with spellings and alternate spellings, Nourmahal yacht, ocean liners, Aquitania, Olympic, Titanic, Vulcania, Breakers Hotel – Breakers fire, referred but not mentioned El Mirasol and Playa Riente, Harvard, Palm Beach, Los Angeles, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Murray Hill, Fifth Avenue, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Millionaires Row, Paris, Rome, Italian Alps, Galapagos Islands, Egypt, Mediterranean Sea, Europe, fashionable resorts, Hulu FX's Feud Season 2: Truman Capote vs. The Swans, Truman Capote, William “Bill” Paley, Barbara “Babe” Cushing Paley, sexual scandal, DA Fani Williams, Nathan Wade, former President Donald Trump, secrets, sexual promiscuousness, sexual scandal, hot messiness--Extra Notes / Call to Action:Ti's Hot Mess History, YouTube Channelhttps://www.youtube.com/@TisHotMessHistoryRiches to Ruin – Titanic Widow of John Jacob Astor & Her Troubled 3rd Marriage by Ti's Hot Mess History July 2023https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODY-qiEn3ak The Scandalous True Story of Titanic's Wealthiest Passenger – JJ Astor & His Teen Wife by Ti's Hot Mess History May 2023https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF89xKNWbow&t=25s The Rich Boy Nobody Wanted: Titanic Baby John Jacob Astor VI by Ti's Hot Mess History December 2023https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rlV8oT6lxsShare, like, subscribe --Archival Music provided by Past Perfect Vintage Music, www.pastperfect.com.Opening Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance BandsSection 1 Music: It's the Talk of the Town by Ambrose, Album The Great Dance Bands Play Hits of the 30sSection 2 Music: Lullaby by Coleman Hawkins, Album Nightfall – Sophisticated Jazz ClassicsSection 3 Music: Skirts by Billy Cotton, Album The Great Dance Bands Play Hits of the 30sEnd Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance Bands--https://asthemoneyburns.com/TW / IG – @asthemoneyburnsFacebook – https://www.facebook.com/asthemoneyburns/

After previously closing their mansion, a struggling couple returns to host a wonderful buffet to start the new year, but have things really changed for the better?December 1932 – January 1933, Christmas and holidays brings plenty of activities. E.T. Stotesbury and Eva Stotesbury are back in Philadelphia but not at their large mansion Whitemarsh Hall celebrating both Christmas and New Year before heading down to Palm Beach. Plenty of people are looking at the wealthy, unaware what they might be truly hiding as others try to recover from financial losses by several means.Other people and subjects include: Doris Duke, Barbara Hutton, Nanaline Duke, Prince Alexis Mdivani, Louise Van Alen, Daisy Van Alen, James “Henry” Van Alen, Eleanor Van Alen, John Jacob Astor VI aka “Jakey,” James H.R. Cromwell aka “Jimmy,” Cobina Wright, Henrietta Hartford, Huntington Hartford, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Alice Vanderbilt, Countess Gladys Vanderbilt Szechenyi, Marjorie Merriweather Post Hutton, E.F. Hutton, Princess Roussadana “Roussie” Mdivani Sert, Helena McCann, Louise Brooks Howard, Christine Cromwell, Anna Dodge Dillman, Frederick Vanderbilt, Louise Vanderbilt, Charles Lindbergh, Constance Morrow, President Franklin Roosevelt, New Deal reforms, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Simon Guggenheim, Otto Kahn, Charles Schwab, former U.S. Ambassador Charles Dawes, Sailing Baruch, Jr., Coco Chanel, Lanvin, Lotte Lehmand, Not Out parties, debutantes, teas, buffets, Christmas playlet, Manhattan Derby, burlesque polo match, hob by horses, Voice of Young America book, taxation, IRS – Internal Revenue Service, Robert Mann, Mrs. Wilmer Biddle – Elizabeth Southall Clarke, Albert Davis, Marianne Davis, Princess Anita Stewart de Braganza, Mrs. Moses Taylor, Julia Berwind, Prince Colonna, Mrs. Nicholas John Brown, Nicholas John Brown II, John Nicholas Brown III, labels, monikers, richest baby, wealthiest baby, richest pony, richest girl in the world, richest U.S. heiress, richest unmarried women, retiree list, financial secrets, open knowledge, Lindbergh baby kidnapping, Starr Garden Recreation Center, Barclay Hotel, Montparnasse, Whitemarsh Hall, Malmaison, *El Mirasol & Playa Riente not mentioned but referenced, Harvard University, Hotel Plaza, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Manhattan, Philadelphia, Palm Beach, Newport, St. Moritz, Paris, Rome, New Year 2024, changes, Powerball 2024 winner, Michigan lottery, Jeffrey Epstein List, rumors, salacious news, implosions, resilience--Extra Notes / Call to Action:New York Adventure Club www.nyadventureclub.comThe fee is $12 each, live with one week access after.Monday, January 22nd, 5:30pm EST / 2:30pm PST – Waldorf Astoria Hotel Part 1: A New Standard of Luxury (pre-1929), Come learn more about the Astor family dispute behind the famous hotel and its construction as well as the hotel's influence on luxury travel and fine dining. Connections to the Titanic as well as other events and famous people will also be explored. But all good things come to an end.https://www.nyadventureclub.com/event/the-waldorf-astoria-hotel-part-i-a-new-standard-of-luxury-webinar-registration-780312454557/Monday, January 29th, 5:30pm EST / 2:30pm PST – Waldorf Astoria Hotel New York Part 2: Manhattan's Grandest Hotel (1931-present), The second version of this fine luxury hotel comes during the dawn of new era which will bring new challenges and excitement. A lingering Astor family connection adds to the saga until a new family the Hilton dynasty rises and takes over. More celebrities and events will add to allure of this hotel. Finally, updates reveal the recent renovations, an auction, and the future for the third incarnation.https://www.nyadventureclub.com/event/the-waldorf-astoria-hotel-part-ii-manhattans-grandest-hotel-webinar-registration-780312524767/Share, like, subscribe--Archival Music provided by Past Perfect Vintage Music, www.pastperfect.com.Opening Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance BandsSection 1 Music: Kansas City Kitty by The Rhythmic Eight, Album Fascinating Rhythm – Great Hits of the 20sSection 2 Music: The Charleston by The Savoy Orpheans, Album Fascinating Rhythm – Great Hits of the 20sSection 3 Music: Hep! Hep! Jumpin' Jive by Nat Gonella & His New Georgians, Album Dance CrazyEnd Music: My Heart Belongs to Daddy by Billy Cotton, Album The Great British Dance Bands--https://asthemoneyburns.com/TW / IG – @asthemoneyburnsFacebook – https://www.facebook.com/asthemoneyburns/

November 1st, 1973. The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City. We're listening in on a press conference hosted by the Mutual Broadcasting System. They've purchased the rights to air The Zero Hour from the just-heard Jay M. Kholos. The Zero Hour has thus far been hosted by Rod Serling and directed by Elliott Lewis. It's Mutual's first dramatic radio show in nearly twenty years. As Mutual Broadcasting spent much of the 1950s changing ownership groups, while national advertising was slowly abandoning radio for TV, Mutual ended its last two remaining half-hour dramas, Counterspy and Gangbusters, in November of 1957. Sports and news began to take up the majority of the network's programming. Throughout the 1960s more frequent ownership and management changes continued to create network instability, before C. Edward Little was named president in 1972. During his time as President, Little created the Mutual Black Network, the Mutual Spanish Network, and the Mutual Southwest Network. Under Little's administration, Mutual became the first commercial broadcasting entity to use satellite technology for program delivery. He also hired Larry King to host an all-night phone-in talk show. King was a one-time announcer for Little at WGMA in Florida. He went on to national fame in both radio and TV, winning a coveted Peabody Award along the way. But that's not why we're eavesdropping in 1973. We're here for the return of dramatic programming on network radio in the form of The Zero Hour which had been airing in syndication since the fall. Why is this such a momentous event? How did we get to this point? Tonight, we'll find out. ____________ The last network big four radio drama, Theater Five, ran on ABC and was launched on August 3rd, 1964. Unfortunately by the mid 1960s network radio had undergone a transformation. Theater Five's half-hour time slot only allocated twenty-one minutes for story-time. The other nine minutes went to news, station identification, and local advertising. ABC's affiliates also had the first right of refusal. In some big markets Theater Five ran on other radio stations. Two-hundred-fifty-six total episodes were produced before Theater Five was canceled after the July 30th, 1965 episode. For the next seven years, except for any dramatic vignettes on NBC's Monitor, NBC, CBS, ABC, and Mutual broadcasting's network fed programming was relegated to news, sports, talk, and music. Then in early 1973, an entrepreneurial ad man named Jay M. Kholos had a big idea. He grew up in Southern California around the entertainment and media industry. Kholos' idea? He sensed an oncoming nostalgia wave and wanted to relaunch a high-production, serialized audio drama, but updated for the modern sensibilities of 1973. Kholos needed a hook. He felt by telling one story in five half hours over the course of a contained week, he could keep the listener's attention and get them to tune back in. Enter Rod Serling, famed creator of The Twilight Zone. Serling had worked in radio, in Springfield, Marion, Columbus, and Cincinnati, Ohio. Kholos was soon in touch with Elliott Lewis. By 1973, he had nearly forty years of experience as a writer, director, actor, and producer. Kholos was able to secure the rights to several stories. Now, he needed acting talent. The goal was to pair name brand film and TV talent with the best Hollywood radio veterans. Howard Duff could have fit into either category. By the 1970s, Duff and Elliott Lewis had been friends for thirty years. They both helped grow the Armed Forces Radio Service during World War II. Duff was chosen, along with Patty Duke and John Astin to lead the first cast in an adaptation of Bill S. Ballanger's The Wife of the Red-Haired Man. Kholos put the program under the umbrella of The Hollywood Radio Theater. They chose Radio Recorders, the largest independent studio in Los Angeles, for the program. The Zero Hour would debut in late summer.

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Synopsis On today's date in 1948 at New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel there was a press demonstration of a new kind of phonograph record.  Edward Wallerstein of Columbia Records stood between a big stack of heavy, shellac, 78-rpm albums, the standard for recorded music in those days, and a noticeably slimmer stack of vinyl discs, a new format which Wallerstein had dubbed “LPs” – “long playing” records that spun at 33 & 1/3 revolutions per minute. Before 1948, if you wanted to buy a recording of a complete symphony or concerto, it meant the purchase of up to a dozen 78s, each playing only four minutes a side. In developing its new LP-record, Columbia's goal was to fit complete classical works onto a SINGLE disc. Columbia's first LP release was a recording of the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto, with Nathan Milstein the soloist and the New York Philharmonic conducted by Bruno Walter. The following year, Columbia struck pay dirt with its original cast album of a brand-new Broadway musical by Richard Rodgers. The 1949 Columbia LP of Mary Martin and Ezio Pinza singing the hit tunes from “South Pacific” became a best-seller, and by 1951 the LP-record had become the industry standard. Music Played in Today's Program Felix Mendelssohn (1809 - 1847) Violin Concerto in e Nathan Milstein, violin; New York Philharmonic; Bruno Walter, conductor. Sony 64459 Rodgers and Hammerstein South Pacific Ezio Pinza and Mary Martin; orchestra; Lehman Engel, conductor. Sony 53327

John Mabry called the Heaping Spoonful hotline to tell listeners how his path from college to the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York to culinary school in Avignon, France, to his next job in the kitchen at a five-star hotel in Miami eventually led him to the small city of Corinth, Mississippi, where his three establishments are all stars on the local dining scene.

The Bohemian Grove  Bohemian Grove is a restricted 2,700-acre (1,100 ha) campground at 20601 Bohemian Avenue, in Monte Rio, California, United States, belonging to a private San Francisco–based gentlemen's club known as the Bohemian Club. In mid-July each year, Bohemian Grove hosts a more than two-week encampment of some of the most prominent men in the world.[1][2] The Bohemian Club's all-male membership includes artists and musicians, as well as many prominent business leaders, government officials, former U.S. presidents, senior media executives, and people of power.[3][4] Members may invite guests to the Grove. Guests may be invited to the Grove for either the "Spring Jinks" in June or the main July encampment. Bohemian Club members can schedule private day-use events at the Grove any time it is not being used for Club-wide purposes, and they are allowed at these times to bring spouses, family, and friends, although female and minor guests must be off the property by 9 or 10 pm.[5] After 40 years of membership, the men earn "Old Guard" status, giving them reserved seating at the Grove's daily talks, as well as other perquisites. Former U.S. president Herbert Hoover was inducted into the Old Guard on March 4, 1953; he had joined the club exactly 40 years prior.[6] Redwood branches from the Grove were flown to the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City, where they were used to decorate a banquet room for the celebration. In his acceptance speech, Hoover compared the honor of the "Old Guard" status to his frequent role as veteran counselor to later presidents.[7] BOHEMIAN GROVE The Club motto is "Weaving Spiders Come Not Here," which implies that outside concerns and business deals (networking) are to be left outside. When gathered in groups, Bohemians usually adhere to the injunction, although discussion of business often occurs between pairs of members.[2] Important political and business deals have been developed at the Grove.[5] The Grove is particularly famous for a Manhattan Project planning meeting that took place there in September 1942, which subsequently led to the atomic bomb. Those attending this meeting included Ernest Lawrence, J. Robert Oppenheimer, the S-1 Executive Committee heads, such as the presidents of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, along with representatives of Standard Oil and General Electric as well as various military officials. At the time, Oppenheimer was not an S-1 member, although Lawrence and Oppenheimer hosted the meeting.[8] Grove members take particular pride in this event and often relate the story to new attendees.[2] Other behavior at the campground has led to numerous claims and even some parody in popular culture. One example was President Richard Nixon's comments from a May 13, 1971, tape recording talking about upper-class San Franciscans: "The Bohemian Grove, which I attend from time to time—it is the most faggy goddamned thing you could ever imagine, with that San  Francisco crowd

THE BOHEMIAN GROVE This week on What's The Buzz: America's Popcast,  a look inside one of Americas deepest darkest secrets: The Bohemian Grove. A playground for the super rich and powerful elite, the "Grove" as they call it was the birthplace of the "Manhattan Project": and it is where PRESIDENTS ARE CHOSEN. No One Is or HAS EVER Been Elected. Join The Pitbull, The MadDog & Master Fon for a look at Real Evil: The Bohemian Grove The Bohemian Club's all-male membership includes artists and musicians, as well as many prominent business leaders, government officials, former U.S. presidents, senior media executives, and people of power.[3][4] Members may invite guests to the Grove. Guests may be invited to the Grove for either the "Spring Jinks" in June or the main July encampment. Bohemian Club members can schedule private day-use events at the Grove any time it is not being used for Club-wide purposes, and they are allowed at these times to bring spouses, family, and friends, although female and minor guests must be off the property by 9 or 10 pm.[5] After 40 years of membership, the men earn "Old Guard" status, giving them reserved seating at the Grove's daily talks, as well as other perquisites. Former U.S. president Herbert Hoover was inducted into the Old Guard on March 4, 1953; he had joined the club exactly 40 years prior.[6] Redwood branches from the Grove were flown to the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City, where they were used to decorate a banquet room for the celebration. In his acceptance speech, Hoover compared the honor of the "Old Guard" status to his frequent role as veteran counselor to later presidents.[7] BOHEMIAN GROVE The Club motto is "Weaving Spiders Come Not Here," which implies that outside concerns and business deals (networking) are to be left outside. When gathered in groups, Bohemians usually adhere to the injunction, although discussion of business often occurs between pairs of members.[2] Important political and business deals have been developed at the Grove.[5] The Grove is particularly famous for a Manhattan Project planning meeting that took place there in September 1942, which subsequently led to the atomic bomb. Those attending this meeting included Ernest Lawrence, J. Robert Oppenheimer, the S-1 Executive Committee heads, such as the presidents of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, along with representatives of Standard Oil and General Electric as well as various military officials. At the time, Oppenheimer was not an S-1 member, although Lawrence and Oppenheimer hosted the meeting.[8] Grove members take particular pride in this event and often relate the story to new attendees.[2] Other behavior at the campground has led to numerous claims and even some parody in popular culture. One example was President Richard Nixon's comments from a May 13, 1971, tape recording talking about upper-class San Franciscans: "The Bohemian Grove, which I attend from time to time—it is the most faggy goddamned thing you could ever imagine, with that San  Francisco crowd  

Check out our show notes from Episode 34 of The Moveable Feast:Thank you to our special guest Jenna Huntsberger of Whisked!Sazón: 221 Shelby St, Santa Fe, NM 87501The Bazaar by José Andrés: Waldorf Astoria Hotel, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20004The Pretzel Bakery: 257 15th St SE, Washington, DC 20003Follow us on Twitter at @MoveFeastPod and on Instagram at @MoveableFeastPod. A big thank you to our producer Claude Jennings and our art director Ryan Harrison.Ingredient Insiders: Where Chefs TalkInside the minds of the world's top chefs and how they source their ingredients.Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify

By January of 1949 Fred Allen was worn out. He'd spent years battling with sponsors and with NBC. In December of 1948 his Sunday at 8:30 rating was a healthy 20 points, but after Edgar Bergen left NBC's airwaves the network moved Allen's show up a half hour to 8PM. Meanwhile on ABC, Stop the Music's popularity was soaring. Allen lost nearly half his audience in a single month. By March Stop The Music's rating would reach 17.6, while Allen's fell to 9.4 and Sam Spade's fell to 11.3 on CBS. Allen was a voracious reader, sometimes scouring ten newspapers a day for topical material. In the end, perhaps he just cared too much. By June with his rating down to an unthinkable 5.8, he'd had enough. The fifty-five year-old called it a seventeen-year radio career after June 26th, 1949. Jack Benny and Henry Morgan were his final guests. Fittingly, the program ran long and Allen's network feed was cut off. Although Fred Allen's program came to a close, he was still under contract to NBC. When the network launched The Big Show, Allen became a regular. The ninety-minute program debuted on November 5th, 1950. It was an attempt to revive NBC's Sunday night ratings. It was hosted by Tallulah Bankhead, written by Goodman Ace with music by Meredith Wilson, announced by Jimmy Wallington, and a rotating star-studded cast. Ace had long been an admirer of Fred's work. Allen appeared on twenty-four of the show's fifty-seven episodes, including the landmark premiere. Each episode cost over one-hundred thousand dollars to produce. Hopes were high. Before the show's launch the entire cast flew out to London for a lavish publicity stunt. Although Allen was as funny as ever, the British press was unimpressed and the show was a flop. Amazingly the show was brought back for a second season, but by the end NBC had lost a million dollars and made no dent into CBS's Sunday night ratings. After the final broadcast on April 20, 1952, Fred Allen was happy to walk away. Allen did eventually break into television, first as the emcee of Judge For Yourself, and finally as a regular panel guest on the CBS quiz show, What's My Line. Between 1954 and 1956 he also worked as a newspaper columnist and as a memoirist, renting a small New York office to work without distractions. There he wrote Treadmill to Oblivion, published in 1954, which reviewed his radio and television years, and Much Ado About Me, published in 1956, which covered the early years of his life. Treadmill was the best-selling book on radio's classic period for many years. When it was published, he appeared on the Tex and Jinx radio show out of WNBC in New York on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, November 24th, 1954 to talk about his career. The show was broadcast from Peacock Alley at The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. The weather was dreary, which only added to Fred's usual sense of sarcastic humor. By 1954 Allen already had a heart attack. Always a letter-writer, he reflected upon the lifestyle changes he was forced to adopt in a note to friend Doc Rockwell. Taking a late night stroll up New York's West 57th Street on a blustery, cold Saturday night — St. Patrick's Day, 1956, Allen suffered a heart attack and died on the spot. Fred Allen was 61. Due to the public nature of his death, reporters were quick to arrive at the scene. The next day's Sunday Daily News cover featured a photo of his body with the headline “Fred Allen Dies in Street.” His death sent the entertainment industry into deep mourning. Jack Benny was profoundly shaken. In truth, as funny as Benny was, he was never exactly the same without his old sparring partner. During the following night's Sunday broadcast of What's My Line? host John Daly preceded the program with a special message to the viewing audience. Steve Allen took Fred's place on the panel. During the final ninety seconds of the program Steve Allen, Arlene Francis and Bennett Cerf gave heartfelt tributes to Fred.

On "EWTN News Nightly" tonight: Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is in the hospital after falling Wednesday night while at an event in the nation's capital. 81 year old Senator McConnell tripped and fell inside the Waldorf Astoria Hotel while attending a dinner. And a Colorado doctor admits she has steered anorexia patients toward assisted suicide. In an interview with the Colorado Sun, Internal Medicine Specialist Dr. Jennifer Gaudiani said her patients 100% understood the implications of their decisions. Executive Director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, Alex Schadenberg, joins to share his thoughts on this story. Meanwhile, a pro-life woman was arrested for the second time for silently praying near an abortion facility in the UK. Isabel Vaughan-Spruce told officers she was not engaging in any prohibited activities in the buffer zone near the Birmingham abortion clinic, but rather praying silently in her head. Senior reporter for the Daily Signal, Mary Margaret Olohan, joins to share her reaction to learning Ms. Spruce was arrested again. Finally this evening, a recent report is shedding light on the state of priestly vocations in the United States. Texas-based Vocation Ministry spent hundreds of hours researching why there is a lack of priests in the US. Founder of Vocation Ministry and a convert to Catholicism, Rhonda Gruenewald, joins to share what some of the main findings are. Don't miss out on the latest news and analysis from a Catholic perspective. Get EWTN News Nightly delivered to your email: https://ewtn.com/enn

L'ultima apparizione dal vivo di John Lennon venne registrata al Waldorf Astoria Hotel di New York nel 1975, 18 aprile e sarebbe stata trasmessa a giugno di quell'anno in televisione. I Beatles erano ormai sciolti da cinque anni. La trasmissione era un tributo a sir Lew Grade, impresario del mondo dello spettacolo e l'esibizione prevedeva pubblico dal vivo, le grandi star americane. Sofia Loren era tra il pubblico e ha potuto godersi l'esibizione di Lennon.

At the height of the Cold War, the looming existential dread of human extinction in a nuclear holocaust was punctuated by a three-way battle for the Grand Ballroom of New York City's famous Waldorf-Astoria Hotel fought by Nikita Khrushchev, the US State Department, and the American Dental Association. You'll never guess who won. These podcasts are ad-free and self-produced; I value your support on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/ginandtacos. The book referenced in this episode is available wherever you like to buy books.

DescriptionAs we usher in the New Year, many around the world sing "Auld Lang Syne" to bid farewell to the year gone by. But where did this tune come from and how did it come to be so popular? Take a minute to get the scoop! AULD LANG SYNE ~ GUY LOMBARDO ~ 1947 Version ℅ YouTubeFun FactGuy Lombardo's orchestra played at the Roosevelt Grill in the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City from 1929 to 1959, and from then until 1976 at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. Live broadcasts (and later telecasts) of their performances were a large part of New Year's celebrations across North America; millions of people watched the show with friends at house parties. About Steven, HostSteven is a Canadian composer living in Toronto. He creates a range of works, with an emphasis on the short-form genre—his muse being to offer the listener both the darker and more satiric shades of human existence. If you're interested, please check out his website for more. Member of the Canadian League Of Composers.__________________________________________________________________You can FOLLOW ME on Instagram.

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 660, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Military Matters 1: All 28 members of this international organization have sent troops to fight the Taliban in Afghanistan. NATO. 2: Ready to fight at a moment's notice, the Minutemen were militia soldiers in this war. the American Revolution. 3: A broad area where explosive devices have been concealed; it can be in water as well as on land. a minefield. 4: Some in the military jokingly call this building "The Five-Sided Puzzle Palace". the Pentagon. 5: The three elements that make up the Marine Corps seal are a globe, an eagle holding a scroll and this naval symbol. an anchor. Round 2. Category: Tv Friends 1: (Hi, I'm Joseph Gordon-Levitt.) I used to play D.J. Connor's boring friend George on this sitcom. Roseanne. 2: Grant Show appeared as Dylan's friend Jake on this series before he was spun off to "Melrose Place". Beverly Hills, 90210. 3: In 1995 it was finally revealed that this kooky character does have a first name: it's Cosmo. Kramer. 4: He's the friend Matt LeBlanc plays on "Friends". Joey Tribbiani. 5: Claire Danes and A.J. Langer played teenage friends Angela and Rayanne on this acclaimed series. My So-Called Life. Round 3. Category: Ends In "Ff" 1: It's commonly found at the end of a sleeve. a cuff. 2: The use of this word as a slang term for a corpse dates back to the mid-19th century. stiff. 3: At Cape Canaveral, it follows a countdown. blast/lift/takeoff. 4: From the Middle English for "mockery", it means to express derision or scorn. scoff. 5: This annual cooking contest first took place in 1949 at New York City's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Pillsbury Bake-Off. Round 4. Category: Movie Themes 1: [audio]. Love Story. 2: [This time, the clue is this music (identify the film):]"When you get caught between the Moon and New York City...". Arthur. 3: [audio]. The Great Escape. 4: [audio]. Valley of the Dolls. 5: [The last clue in that column is this piece of music--listen:]. Lawrence of Arabia. Round 5. Category: This Should Sound Familiar 1: In 1975, using her grandkids' ages, a Pennsylvania woman won about $28,000 with this alliterative racetrack bet. a daily double. 2: Anything that gives you a solution to a mystery, or a Parker Brothers board game. a clue. 3: 5-letter term used to show feelings of regret, or a Parker Brothers board game; ooo.... sorry. 4: From the French for "rotten pot", it's any mixture of unrelated objects. potpourri. 5: Don't look now, but from the Latin for "balcony", it's a small platform for a public speaker. a podium. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia! Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/

Stephan Thieringer is a German-born serial entrepreneur, business thinker, executive coach, investor, TEDx speaker, and the Founder and CEO of the Boston-based Human Innovation Garage. Stephan's extensive professional expertise includes serving as Senior Lecturer in Management and Entrepreneurship at Suffolk University and, for a little while, as Director of Operations at New York's Waldorf Astoria Hotel.His numerous awards include being named one of the world's top 101 Coaching Leaders by the World Human Resource Conference and World Coaching Congress. Stephan is the outspoken host of his own podcast, Raw Rants. In 2020, a heart-attack and subsequent quadruple bypass surgery invoked an unflinching reflection on what matters in life.www.humaninnovationgarage.com

Welcome to Episode 1013 Steve Raye interviews Scott Ades of Dalla Terra in this installment of Get US Market Ready With Italian Wine People on the Italian Wine Podcast. About today's guest: Scott Ades as the new president of Dalla Terra. Ades was most recently COO of The Winebow Group, where he spent more than 11 years building his reputation as one of the most respected managers in the wine business. The Dalla Terra Winery Direct® roster reads like a who's who of some of the most esteemed family-owned wineries in Italy. Each producer has played a major role in the significant strides Italy has made over the last twenty years in improving the quality of its wines. Dalla Terra Winery Direct® is changing the nature of the wine importing and distribution business. The company's unique business model skips the national importer level in the three-tier distribution system, allowing U.S. distributors to buy directly from the producer. Dalla Terra's business model offers a more efficient, economical and consumer-friendly way of shipping, distributing and marketing wine, eliminating on average 20- to 25% in markups on each bottle. While Dalla Terra's services are sought after by winemakers all over Italy because of the company's economically competitive edge, producers are also attracted by the company's commitment to highlighting individuality by choosing to work with only a few top producers from each wine-growing region in Italy. Founder Brian Larky considers each of the producers he works with part of a roundtable on innovation and quality, at which each producer has a voice. In 2009, Wine Enthusiast nominated Dalla Terra for Importer of the Year for its annual Wine Star Awards. On January 24, 2011, Larky was inducted into the Italian Trade Commission's Wines of Italy Hall of Fame at the opening reception for Vino 2011 at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York, NY. This marks the highest level of distinction presented by the Italian government to wine industry leaders. To learn more visit: www.dallaterra.com or call 707.259.5405. More about the host Steve Raye: Steve Raye of Bevology Inc originally joined our weekly lineup with narrations from his book “How to get US Market Ready” - but everyone just loved him so much, we brought him back with this series of interviews that informs and inspires! Each week he speaks to industry professionals; guests who have gained valuable experience in the Italian wine sector and have insightful tips and stories that can help anyone who wants to learn about getting US Market Ready! To learn more visit: Website: www.bevologyinc.com/ Let's keep in touch! Follow us on our social media channels: Instagram @italianwinepodcast Facebook @ItalianWinePodcast Twitter @itawinepodcast Tiktok @MammaJumboShrimp LinkedIn @ItalianWinePodcast If you feel like helping us, donate here www.italianwinepodcast.com/donate-to-show/ Until next time, Cin Cin!

news birthdays/events how many emojis do you use while texting? what singer or band have you seen over and over news what do you want to be buried with? game: acroynm game brands you are loyal to news many british drivers don't know what the buttons and switches in their cars are for...do americans? game: think n sync what's in your wallet? news items you should pack on vacation but never do the man quiz...who is more of a man...ashley or brad goodbye/fun facts....National Devil's Food Cake Day...a day for chocolate cake lovers throughout the country and around the world to rejoice! Devil's Food cake recipes use hot or boiling water as the primary liquid. Many believe that the cake was originally created at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in the 1950's but the first recipe for devil's food cake actually appears in an American cookbook titled “Mrs. Rorer's New CookBook” in 1902.  And Red Velvet Cake is pretty much devil's food cake with red food coloring. 

Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom The little known insurance company would've sunk into obscurity if it weren't for the marriage to the iconic television programming it hitched its name to. Marlin Perkins and his monkey hosted the Sunday evening tradition. The show lives on today as a web series hosted by this week's Animal Radio guest, Peter Gros. Peter talks about several harrowing experiences filming wild animals, including chasing a 12-foot python through the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan. Listen Now Meet Your Breed Don't just get a dog because it's cute. To ensure a long lasting relationship, you should get a breed that suits your activity level, as some dogs require lots of stimulation while others, like the unsuspecting Greyhound, would rather be a couch potato. Behaviorist Kim Brophey is here to help you pick out your new furry family member. Listen Now Raccoon Overdoses on Heroin Firefighters at Wayne Township in Indiana must still be laughing about a recent visit they had from a frantic woman who showed up at the station house early one morning with her pet raccoon. The raccoon was stoned after being exposed to too much marijuana and the owner thought the raccoon was overdosing. Later, they discovered the raccoon had actually gotten into someone's stash of heroine. Listen Now The New Fear Free Guide The biggest thing to recently happen to animal welfare is arguably the Fear Free movement. Starting with veterinarians, changes were made to make vet visits a better experience for the pet and everyone involved. Then Fear Free moved into the household by creating the Fear Free Happy Homes program. Now, with the help of Fear Free father and renown author, Dr. Marty Becker talks about the new Fear Free book, From Fearful to Fear Free. Listen to Dr. Becker in the Fear Free Expert Series on Animal Radio. Listen Now Read more about this week's show.

Douglas MacArthur was born on January 26, 1880 in Little Rock, Arkansas. While little is known of his birthdays prior to World War II, as a senior leader during World War II and the occupation of Japan, his birthday took on more diplomatic significance. Following his return to the United States, an annual birthday dinner/SWPA reunion was held in the dining room of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel where he lived. This stag dinner ranged from 25-140 participants depending on the year, and included General Walter Krueger, Major General Leif Sverdrup, Admiral Thomas Kinkaid, General George Kenney, and many more. In addition to the distinguished guests, presidents and other world leaders would send birthday messages to be read at the dinner. As part of the MacArthur Memorial's 2022 commemoration of General MacArthur's birthday, MacArthur Memorial historians Jim Zobel and Amanda Williams sat down to discuss these birthday parties.

Skip the Queue is brought to you by Rubber Cheese, a digital agency that builds remarkable systems and websites for attractions that helps them increase their visitor numbers. Your host is  Kelly Molson, MD of Rubber Cheese.Download our free ebook The Ultimate Guide to Doubling Your Visitor NumbersIf you like what you hear, you can subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, and all the usual channels by searching Skip the Queue or visit our website rubbercheese.com/podcastIf you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a five star review, it really helps others find us. And remember to follow us on Twitter for your chance to win the books that have been mentioned in this episode.Competition ends April 29th 2022. The winner will be contacted via Twitter. Show references: https://www.edinburghzoo.org.uk/https://www.rzss.org.uk/support/https://www.highlandwildlifepark.org.uk/we-are-open https://twitter.com/Lisa_Robshawhttps://twitter.com/EdinburghZoohttps://twitter.com/HighlandWPark David Field, Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) CEO, returned to RZSS in 2020 having been a section moderator at Edinburgh Zoo early in his career. David's previous roles include chief executive of the Zoological Society of East Anglia, zoological director of the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), curator of ZSL Whipsnade Zoo and assistant director of Dublin Zoo. An honorary professor of the Royal Veterinary College, David has served as chairman of the British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquaria (BIAZA) and is the current president of the Association of British and Irish Wild Animal Keepers. Lisa Robshaw is a visitor attraction marketing specialist with 20 years' experience of working in the tourism and hospitality industry after studying International Tourism at the University of Lincoln. She joined the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS)  in August 2019 after a brief stint agency side. Prior to this she has worked for Historic Environment Scotland, Continuum Attractions and British Tourist Authority (Now Visit Britain).As Head of Marketing and Sales at RZSS, Lisa leads the teams responsible for the wildlife conservation charity's marketing, sales activity, membership, adoptions, events and experiences . No day is ever the same and what she enjoys most is sharing the amazing experiences Edinburgh Zoo and Highland Wildlife Park have to offer and telling people about the important work RZSS does to protect threatened species in Scotland and around the world .  When she's not working, Lisa can usually be found chasing after her young family and planning visits to the south coast of England from where she originally hails! Transcription:Kelly Molson: Welcome to Skip the Queue, a podcast for people working in or working with visitor attractions. I'm your host Kelly Molson. Each episode I speak with industry experts from the attractions world. In today's episode, I speak with David Field, CEO, and Lisa Robshaw, Head of Marketing and Sales, at the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland. We discuss the zoo's experiences over the pandemic, highs, lows, and why you really can't furlough a penguin. If you like what you hear, subscribe on all the usual channels by searching Skip the Queue.Kelly Molson: Lisa and David, thank you so much for coming on the podcast today. I'm really looking forward to speaking to you both.Lisa Robshaw: Yeah, looking forward to speaking to you. It should be good fun.Kelly Molson: Well, let's see how we get on with the icebreaker questions, and see how much fun it is going to be.David Field: Yeah. I'm dreading this.Kelly Molson: I've been quite kind to you both, actually, I feel because we've got two of you today and we've got a lot to cram in. So what is the worst food you've ever eaten and why isn't it peas?Lisa Robshaw: Oh my God. I think it was snails for me. And it was when I was 12, in France. So that probably doesn't help. So we're talking like 1990, giving away my age now. And we're in this awful school canteen on this French exchange trip, we were forced to eat these snails. We weren't rude to our hosts. I don't actually think they were cooked particularly well because I think some of us were ill afterwards.Kelly Molson: Oh gosh.Lisa Robshaw: The texture, the smell, the whole experience.David Field: Yeah. I adore snails and I adore peas. I'm not sure your listeners would particularly want to hear about my adventures when we've been out on ... doing field work in Indonesia, some of the things that we had out there. But we did have to eat animals which were hunted and caught, and we ate. And they were kind of animals, which suffice to say, had a very strong aroma about them. So you're in the jungles, you're surviving, and it was not nice. But it was the aroma of their scent glands which permeated the meat.Kelly Molson: Oh Gosh. Yeah. I'm getting a really lovely ... a lovely image of that, David. Thank you.David Field: It makes celebrity in the jungle thing a walk in the park.Kelly Molson: You were the real celeb. Get me out of here.David Field: I really wanted to get out of there.Kelly Molson: Okay. Brilliant. Thank you. Okay. To both of you, if you could have an extra hour of free time every day, how would you use that free time?David Field: I would do more moth hunting. I like trapping moths and counting moths. And I never get a chance in a morning to do that. So that's what I would do, every single day if I could.Kelly Molson: Moth hunting, can we just elaborate on this? So this is a hobby of yours?David Field: Yeah. Yeah. You just hunt ... and butterflies. It's amazing. It's the best thing in the world. And you just ... every night you set at this light trap and moths are attracted to it at night. And then you get in there in the morning, first thing in the morning, and you've got all these hundreds of different species of moths, and it's just the most beautiful thing. They are the most gorgeous thing that we never think about that just roam our gardens. And I'd do that every day if I could.Kelly Molson: Oh wow. I honestly have never heard anyone have that as a hobby before. That's something completely new for me. How lovely.David Field: Yeah. Try it.Kelly Molson: This is why I ask these questions. You never know what you're going to get. What about your unpopular opinions?Lisa Robshaw: Harry Potter books should not be read by adults. They are a children's book.Kelly Molson: Oh. I mean, no one can see my face because this is a podcast. So if you're not watching the video it's ... Gosh.Lisa Robshaw: But I don't know what it is. I remember when Harry Potter came out. Again, I'm aging myself here. I was at university and I didn't understand why people were going mental. And then I think right about the time of ... in the middle of it all, they re-released the same book with a different cover to appeal to adults. And I was like, that is wrong. You're ripping people off. It's a children's book. That's what I talk about. No, no, no.Kelly Molson: I am quite shocked by that. I love the Harry Potter books.Lisa Robshaw: I'm sure they're great. I've tried reading them. I just ... they're not for me.Kelly Molson: What about the films? Fan? Not bothered?Lisa Robshaw: I kind of class those as a sort of Boxing Day, fall asleep in front of it after a few glasses of red wine type of film. Anything that keeps the kids' kids quiet for two and a half hours. You know what I mean? It's that kind of thing. But I just don't ... I mean, this is ironic that I've been to a Castle and done the broomstick riding three times and my kids, and it's a brilliant experience. But like grown adults losing their minds over it, I just don't get it.Kelly Molson: Oh my God. Well, David, I don't know, can you top that for an unpopular opinion? I'm not sure.David Field: Well first off, who's Harry Potter?Kelly Molson: What are you doing to me, David?David Field: So perhaps this segues a little bit into talking about the visitor attractions and that type of stuff, but mobile phones should be banned at visitor attractions because it's about family time.Kelly Molson: Oh, that's a bit serious.David Field: I really do think they should be banned from visitor attractions.Kelly Molson: I can see where you're going with that. Yeah. Like being present, not on your phones, not looking for the opportunity to be on your phone, but just being present with your family. I get that.David Field: Yeah. Yeah.Kelly Molson: Oh, this is ... isn't it really interesting though. But from the perspective of being a CEO of an attraction, wouldn't you want people to be engaged with the stuff that you have there so that they share that on social media, so that then drives more people to come?David Field: They can do that when they go home. They can do that on their way there. They can do that every time. When they're in, and particularly when they're in the zoo, we want them to be engaged with nature, we want them to be there in front of them, not encasing them in some sort of cloak of electronic gadgetry, putting these barriers between them and nature and putting the barriers between them and their family. Live in the moment, not on your phone.Kelly Molson: Oh, what a great quote. Okay. Listeners, I really ... well, I want to hear what you've got to say about both of those unpopular opinions. Thank you for sharing. Okay. I was going to ask you what you do in your roles. But I think from your job titles, it's probably pretty obvious to people, especially the people that are listening to this. So I thought I'd actually ask you if each of you could tell me what your favourite thing is about the zoo or the wildlife park?Lisa Robshaw: It's like choosing a favourite child, isn't it?Kelly Molson: I've only got one, so it's really easy.Lisa Robshaw: Yeah. Highland Wildlife Park. For me, it's the expanse and the fresh air. I mean, I'm a city girl. I'm originally from Portsmouth. I've lived in New York and all this kind of thing, and I've lived in Edinburgh for 20 years now, but ... or 15 years. But when you get up to Highland Wildlife Park in the beautiful Cairngorms and it's just the fresh air and the space, and even when the park's busy, it's almost still silent. Do you know what I mean? It's just this sort of really relaxing place. When I get the chance not to be sitting in meetings all day, as is the danger sometimes when you're on the kind of hamster wheel of working and that kind of thing. So I love getting up there and just spending time and relaxing and enjoying the surroundings.Kelly Molson: Great answer.Lisa Robshaw: That's my professional point of view. I mean, the animals are amazing, and asking me to pick my favourite animal is always a difficult one. Red panda, but ... penguin. Now see, that's the problem. But yeah, that's mine.Kelly Molson: I love it. David, what about yours?David Field: So, as part of my job ... and I've been knocking around this zoo world since I was 12 years old. So for me, it really is about the animals and the beauty and that connection with the animals. And as part of my job now, I insist that I have a couple of hours ... an hour or so in the day that I go pottering around the zoo. And zoo directors need to potter around their zoo. Because every day, every different hour of the day, every season, there is something different going on. There's a different animal, doing something different, something exciting. And my favourite animal changes each day. But I go out and because the zoo and the wildlife park are so different, every single time you go around, that's what makes them so amazing and beautiful and inspiring and glorious, and why I've been doing this for 30 odd years.Kelly Molson: Oh, perfect answer. I love that you're just pottering around, just having a little walk around your zoo, just checking out the animals. It's really nice. I'd like to do that. There you go. And I'd like to spend my hour pottering around the zoo if I got my extra hour. Thank you both. So the title of this podcast episode is You can't furlough a penguin. Experiences from the last 19 months at the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland.Kelly Molson: Now, I was at the Visitor Attractions Conference a little while ago, back in October and you can't furlough a penguin was something that I heard Bernard Donoghue say while he was given one of his very fantastic talks, as always. And I thought, that's a great podcast title. I'm going to use that when I get Lisa to come on this podcast.Kelly Molson: I want you to take us back to kind of Feb., March time 2020, when coronavirus was something very new and nobody in the UK had ever heard the word furlough before. I can very vividly remember what it was like for me with a team of seven thinking, gosh, we've got to pack up, we've got to work from home. Is anyone actually going to buy anything from us for the next ... I've got no idea what's going to happen. I can only imagine what was going through your heads, having a team of people that you were both thinking about and thousands of animals that you have to care for, that you're responsible for. What was that even like?David Field: Well, I think every day you are looking back on that time and hindsight's an amazing thing, to look back on how you handled it, how many hours you spent lying, awake thinking about it. But then, in some respects, we were no different to others. And everybody was facing a crisis in so many different ways. And this has been one of the most important sort of most significant kind of social impacts in our lives. Hopefully we'll never get anything like this. My parents, my grandparents had world wars and stuff like that to deal with. We just had to deal with a bit of a pandemic, which quite frankly, we should all have been prepared for. It was coming. And the next one will come.David Field: For me, it was very odd because just February, March, I was leaving my previous job, ready to come up to Edinburgh to start a new job. So I was having to sort of resolve the issues in one zoo and leave it in a good enough state, ready to come to Edinburgh, where my board, etc. at the time were already trying to deal with the organization that at the time, we didn't have a CEO in place then, did we? You just had to react. You just had to understand that you had so little information that you had to be incredibly dynamic and react to situations.David Field: And the crucial nature, before anything else, was just securing money, was securing funding, just so that you could make sure that you could stay open. And the difference in dealing with governments in the UK as compared to governments in Scotland, were miles apart. And so that was the crux. And you were so focused into that, that other things did disappear. Once you could get the money, once you could get the bank loans, once you got that, then you could start some sort of planning. So that was the crux. It was money, money, money all the way, just so you could stay open. Now, as good charities, we all had some reserves, but we just didn't know what the endpoint was going to be. And so securing funding was the be all and end all.Kelly Molson: And I guess, so David, were you ... I mean, you talked a little bit there about the challenges dealing with English government, Scottish government. What were the differences? What was difficult about that process?David Field: Access, getting people to listen to you. Now look, we know the governments had so much on the plate that wanting to listen to the zoo director down the road was probably fairly low down the list. But it was trying to get the message across that you couldn't, not so much furlough a penguin, but you couldn't furlough a penguin keeper. And just trying to get those individual messages through. But being able to get that through to Scottish government made life so much easier, having people that would listen made so much easier for you. To be fair, DEFRA were excellent, but it was trying to get to the ministers. The civil servants, hats off to them, amazing. But try and get through to ministers who actually make the decisions, was nigh on impossible.Kelly Molson: Yeah, I can completely imagine. And Lisa, so where did this leave you? Because I guess you then have to think of different ways to drive donations. You have to think about how you're engaging with the audience who aren't able to come to your venues. You've got to engage with them on social media, online, and virtually in some way. How did you even ... how did you start that process and where did some of the ideas ... and what did you do? Where did they come from?Lisa Robshaw: I mean, for me, it was a massive learning curve. I'm a visitor attraction marketer by trade. I'm not a fundraiser. And it's obviously a different discipline. Although we're talking to the same people, we're having to talk to them in a slightly different way. So I mean, back to that week in March, it was a sense of disbelief of what was going on. All of a sudden, I had to put a different hat on and I was learning a new trade almost from our sort of development team, and all that kind of thing. We put a lot of people on furlough, which meant we all had to wear different hats and support people in a different way. I suddenly became a web developer and yeah, I'm a digital marketeer, I'm not a web developer.Kelly Molson: You want a job because it's really hard to find web developers right now.Lisa Robshaw: I don't think anyone would want to employ me, to be honest. I gave that part of my career up as soon as I could. But very quickly, it was long hours, long days, adapting our messaging. Because to be fair, Edinburgh Zoo and Highland Wildlife Park, visitor attractions first, almost kind of ... in terms of individual giving, it was such a small part of our charitable income at that stage that we just had to completely do a 360. So in terms of fundraising, it was really just making sure that our development team were well supported in making sure our messages got out, and working with the comms teams to make sure the messaging was appropriate, emotional enough to elicit that donation.Lisa Robshaw: And then it was working with kind of our discovery and learning team, I think there was only one after we'd furloughed everybody, on how are we going to engage with people virtually? So obviously we were looking at the great work that other zoos were doing. Chester, for example, with their Friday kind of online videos and Facebook lives and all this kind of thing. Almost, okay, what can we do, which is really Edinburgh or Highland Wildlife Park-esque? You know? And all this kind of thing.Lisa Robshaw: And one of the light bulb moments, I think in think in lockdown two, when we were all getting really quite professional at lockdowns, professional lockdowners, all this kind of thing, was thinking about how we can do virtual birthday parties and take that experience into people's homes, and do something different to what other people were doing. That's what we wanted to do. And that's how we honed our kind of skills, I guess, and how we developed, and how we all evolved during the two lockdowns. It was incredible.Lisa Robshaw: But the outpouring of support from people we had. I mean, I was very much the same as David, how ... and other attractions, not just zoos, but other attractions, how are we going to keep the money coming in while we're closed? How am I going to sell a membership to somebody when the zoo's closed and they not having the experience? It's things like making sure the membership didn't start until we reopened, so people felt, we'll get them the money at that point, but their membership wasn't starting. They were getting the added value when we opened. And our membership, the support we had from our members and our new members was just incredible during lockdown. It really was. And that just ... yeah, it was a massive learning curve.David Field: I mean, that support Lisa, that you talked about, was huge, was overwhelming. It was remarkable. And certainly Edinburgh Zoo and Highland Wildlife Park, certainly the zoo, hadn't had that level of support previously. The level of support that we received from the community was incredible. But I think that came because the authenticity of our message. We were very, very transparent with what was going on. We spoke to everybody and anybody, whether they wanted to do a podcast, whether they wanted to do a newspaper piece, whether they wanted to talk to us on the phone. We spoke to anybody. And it was the honest truth of what we were putting out there, that we didn't know what was happening day to day. We didn't know about the future of some of these animals. There was questions about our pandas. There was questions about our penguins. But we went out there and talked. We opened our hearts, we opened our zoos to information and messages, and the response that we got was incredible.David Field: Do you know, I think Edinburgh fell in love with its zoo again. They began to value what they might just miss. And it was about the ... I truly believe it was the authenticity of our message and what people saw and heard from our zookeepers, from our conservation teams. And that work with the D and L team, the Discovery and Learning team, was incredible, because they didn't just put material online. They made it just a zoo visit online. They made it so interactive. They made it one on one. It was remarkable. It was just so exciting.Kelly Molson: I love what you said there about Edinburgh realises what they could potentially miss if the zoo wasn't ... if it didn't exist anymore. Have you seen, since the zoo has reopened, that you are getting a lot more kind of people ... a lot more local visitors? Have you seen that that's kind of increased, that people ... they are really loving Edinburgh Zoo again?David Field: I think so. I mean, Lisa might ... you might be able to give a bit more of the kind of stats and facts of it all. I look at it from a more emotive sense and you do just get that level of feeling that people believe in what we're doing and they're really supporting what we are doing. But I think one of the most remarkable things for me was when we did reopen and you saw people coming back into the zoo for the first time. And it was also a time when the families were probably meeting each other for the first time again, because we were one of the few places that were open, one of the few places where people could meet. And suddenly the emotion of people meeting in a place like the zoo, it was remarkable. And we tend to forget the social value of our visitor attractions for quality family time. And that period of just as we were starting to reopen, just emphasized it perfectly of how important the zoo was as a family place, a place for real quality time.Lisa Robshaw: Yeah, absolutely. I completely agree. And the amount of people that were coming back that were saying, "I haven't been for years, and I'd forgotten how wonderful it was or it is." You still get that in the school playground, anecdotally, the mums going, "Oh my God, I can't believe you work at Edinburgh Zoo. You've done so much amazing work during lockdown. The kids have loved the films and all this kind of stuff." And you just go, wow, that social value is an absolute, really good point. And yeah, anecdotal evidence is that everyone did fall in love with the zoo again. It's incredible.Kelly Molson: And they're coming back in droves to show you that love now as well.Lisa Robshaw: Absolutely, yeah. Our visitor numbers this year have been amazing, better than ... I think summer 2020 was better than summer 2019. But we have to make ... or '21, sorry, was better than 2019. But we have to remember 2019's a pretty bad summer weather wise as well. But I do ... so couple the bad weather with this new affection and the fact that people haven't been able to go anywhere else, I mean, it's ... yeah. We're reaping the reward and the challenge is going to be keeping the momentum going into next year when we've got so more competition.Kelly Molson: Yeah.David Field: Absolutely. We've got to seriously up our game for the ... when the period sort of as we were reopening and lockdowns were being lifted, so people just wanted to get out and be local, there was a benefit there. People started to see, as Lisa said, actually this is a pretty, pretty great place. Look at all this exciting stuff that's going on. But now we've got to just keep going and maintaining that excitement and that wonderful visitor attraction element, which drives our charity mission, is essential. So it's challenging going forward.Kelly Molson: It is. And actually one of the questions I was going to ask you is about how you kept your team motivated through the pandemic. Because, like you said earlier, it's not just, you can't furlough a penguin, it's you can't furlough the penguin keeper. So you had a lot of people that were still coming into work during the pandemic because there was a need for them. They had to be there. But I guess an extra question to that is how do you now keep your team motivated to keep that excitement and keep that enthusiasm going, to keep drawing the people in again? So two different questions, or same question, but for two different situations there.David Field: Yeah. I think there's ... it's a really, really tough time for the staff. They're absolutely shattered. Staff such as the ... say the keeping staff, and I mean ... were coming through during the pandemic to work. So they weren't getting time off particularly. And even now our other teams, which are so crucial to making the place work and be great place to visit, there's so much going on that people can't take their ... are struggling to take their holidays because of the momentum that's going on. So people are tired.David Field: And then with the challenges that we are getting there with trying to recruit new people, where there is nobody to recruit, it is putting pressure on people. But it's humbling to work for a team like team RZSS, because they just step up and go above and beyond constantly. And it's the belief in what we do. It's the love of the animals. It's the love of the institution, that people step up to such an extent. And it's remarkable. But they are tired. And we would like to recruit more staff so that they could actually recover.Kelly Molson: We have Kate Nichols on from Hospitality UK, speaking with her next week about the recruitment challenge. So if you do have any questions that you'd like to pose to her, feel free to send them in, because I know that this is widespread right now. And if I'm honest, it's not just the attractions industry. We're struggling ourselves. Like I said, no joke society, if you have got web development skills hit me up. It is a huge challenge right now. And like you said, people are really, really tired. So there's still a long way to go to get everyone motivated and to keep everyone going. I really hear you on that.Kelly Molson: Lisa, I want to talk a little bit about what you said earlier about the birthday parties and some of the things that you did in terms of engaging with your audience while you couldn't open the zoo. Will you still carry on some of those things? And if so, are there any new things in development or anything that's coming up that you're quite excited about that you'd like to share with us?Lisa Robshaw: Yeah. I mean, the demand for the virtual birthday parties has obviously waned now. And actually they'll always be secondary to trying get these groups of kids into the zoo so they can actually, like David say, get close to nature and sort of be around the animals. That's our number one reason for being really, in terms of engagement. But that was great, to see the reactions and all that kind of thing. Not only because we tested it on my own six year old who had a second lockdown birthday, but also just the demand, and people by that point were wanting something different for their kids. That was great.Lisa Robshaw: I mean, one of the things I loved were the amount of companies that came out and actually wanted to work with us, and companies that traditionally the zoo have worked for ... worked with kind of on a sort of cursory ticket selling level. So hotels, for example. We had so many hotels that wanted to come and work with us in a completely different way. So one hotel wanted to do a giraffe themed bedroom, and a certain portion of percentage of the room rate would come to the hotel ... to the zoo. So I mean, I'm under no illusion, a lot of that was for PR and unusual ideas. But never before have we had hotels being that actively courting us.Lisa Robshaw: The big one is the Waldorf Astoria, the five star Waldorf Astoria Hotel, more sort of known as the Cally here in Edinburgh. And they did a zoo themed afternoon tea. Five pounds from every afternoon tea that they sold came to the zoo with an option to top up it to another five pound donation. And I think it was three and a half months that was for sale with, just as we were coming out of lockdown. So you could get home delivery or you could get the whole Waldorf Astoria experience. And they raised eight and a half thousand pounds.Kelly Molson: Wow.Lisa Robshaw: So you work out how many they sold. And that was a partnership we would never have had the opportunity to do had lockdown and COVID and the pandemic not happened. So that was fantastic. So moving forward, I'm really looking forward to working with loads of other different companies, in the next couple of ... next year or so. We've started that initiative with our art trail that we're doing next year, called Giraffe About Town. So this is one of the Wild In Art trails. You might remember things like Cow Parade. Here in Scotland we have the Oor Wullie Bucket trail, but they're popular all around the country. I think there's been Elmer Elephants in Luton, that were involved with. All this kind of thing.Lisa Robshaw: So we're going to have our own herd of 40 sponsored eight foot giraffes around the city of Edinburgh next summer. And at the moment we're going out and talking to companies about sponsoring those giraffes. And what ... this is a complete unknown of a project for me. I've never been involved in something like this to this scale before. But what is really heartening is that a variety of companies that are coming out and actually wanting to support their zoo, from big house builders to a company, a sort of a one man band who does synthesizer things for electric guitars and bands. It's just so random, but it's so amazing to see the outpouring of support that's happening.Lisa Robshaw: And also the public are really excited about ... Every time we talk about Giraffe About Town, there's people making arrangements to come to the city and have a weekend break so they can find all the giraffes. That's kind of our way of giving back to the city as well. So that's a really exciting initiative. Alongside the day job, it's quite hard work, but it's going to be so exciting. And the whole process is a whole new thing for me, from talking to sponsors, to people who create concrete plinths and these things to sit on and then looking at venues for auctions at the end to raise money for our wildlife conservation projects around the world. So yeah, that's a really exciting initiative and that would never ... we would never have taken that type of project on if it wasn't for the pandemic and have the confidence to do it.Kelly Molson: That's amazing, isn't it? That that's something so fabulous that has actually come out of something so horrendous.Lisa Robshaw: I'm going to have a lot of gray hair by the end of it. It's great that I am already. But already. I get quite emotional thinking about what the end result's going to be, and from people ... sort of companies actually getting a lot of extra PR and marketing value out of working with us, to people having a great time around Edinburgh and exploring parts of the city they've never explored, trying to tick off all their giraffes, to the impact they're going to make at auction with real money for charity. It's quite exciting.Kelly Molson: It feels like people want to take ownership of an experience in some way. They want to be part of it, not just come to visit. They want to be part of that for a longer period. Do you know what I mean? Like you come and visit the zoo and then you might adopt an animal, but actually being part of the walking trail, that's really kind of embedding yourself into that experience. Something that Gordon and I discussed actually, when we had it on, was the desire for more personalised experiences, that people want to do things that are not just the norm now. They want something that's really kind of tailored to them. Have you seen an increase in demand for your zoo experiences this year?Lisa Robshaw: Yeah. Massive. Massive demand, to the point where we're getting so booked up in advance. It's great, but you almost get to a situation where we can't fulfill some of them. So we're having to manage that really carefully to make sure that we don't lose the sale, but we're also managing people's expectations. But people want that experience. And if nothing else, the pandemic sort of reignited that passion. People don't just want a tangible kind of gift. It's this thing where ... that experience that people really want, which is ... we are just made for that kind of experience.David Field: I think that is really interesting with the need for personalised experience, but deeper and more emotive experiences. And I think that's a way ... not everybody who comes to the zoo can possibly have a personalised experience. We don't have enough animals. There's not enough time in the day. For all different reasons. I'm very lucky. I get that kind of contact with animals constantly. And people need that in their lives. They cry out for this contact with nature, and it makes people better.David Field: And somehow we got to deliver within the zoo more and more of these emotional experiences. We've got to get people to not just look at an animal from a distance, but when they go into the giraffe house now at the zoo, they don't just see animals. They're really, really close. They can smell them, they can hear them, they can almost taste them. That sounds a bit weird, doesn't it? But it's a full multisensory experience. It's a deeper meaning, which is why the zoo experience means so much more than something you just see on screen. It has to be ... we've got to make the hairs on people's necks sort of stand up, get them really emoting, get those emotions running about animals. Then people care about animals more and want to hear our messages about how we can do more to protect them or conserve them. So emotion is huge for us.Kelly Molson: And is that part of how you kind of inspire people to help you now? Because I guess the zoo ... we're heading into winter, so you're going to have less people visiting. I wanted to ask what the kind of shape of the zoo is as you head into winter this year. But I see that you've got the Help the Animals that you Love campaign still running. Is that something that you run all year through? Are you going to be doing a big kind of driver of that to kind of help get through the winter? Like where are you at?David Field: I mean, I think there's a couple of questions there. I mean, in terms of ... we will do various fundraising activities at different times. And there's a recent appeal gone out just for more of our general work. When there's some specific project, we might do other appeals. But I think where we are really trying to get to is that ... and we touched on it before, is that long term relationship with the zoo. And I said, the zoo is different, whether it's winter, summer, spring, autumn morning, noon, evening, it's always something different. So we want people to be able to experience that and really pushing our membership, pushing that long term relationship with the zoo. And really there's a cradle to grave relationship that you can have with the zoo. And that's what we want to achieve because it's more than just a visit.Kelly Molson: Yeah, it is. This is something that I saw Bristol Zoo has just said, that it's going to open its grounds to the public for free after it moves to a new home next year. Circling back to what you said earlier about the zoo being at the heart of the community and people falling back in love with Edinburgh Zoo, do you have any more initiatives to kind of connect with that local community aside from the walking trail that we've just discussed, which I think is an absolutely wonderful way of connecting with the local community? Have you thought about anything long term for the zoo where you get more of the community engaged with it?David Field: Well, I would say kind of watch this space, because we will be launching next year, a major part of our future strategy is about community and it's about using the unique resources of the zoo and the power of animals to do good, to actually build improved wellbeing in individuals and also in the communities where we work, helping to strengthen the communities where we work. That's really powerful for us. When Edinburgh Zoo first opened back in the early 1900s, it was designed by the social architect, Patrick Geddes, so it was a place where communities could come and walk and commune with nature outside of all the industrial areas and built up areas of Edinburgh. And we still appeal to that. That idea appeals to us, so that it is a place of sanctuary. It is a place where people can come.David Field: And we are undertaking a range of initiatives that we can link with the community. We already do that in many ways. We work with different community groups, both in Edinburgh and up at the Highland Wildlife Park. And we want to look at all of those barriers that are cultural, social health wise, which stops people getting to the zoo. We need to work with that. We need to work with local businesses, with local council, with Scottish government, in order that we can become the most inclusive and accessible visitor attraction, not just in Scotland, but in the UK and beyond.Lisa Robshaw: It's probably worth talking about Highland, Wildlife Park as well, the developments that will start next year for the Scotland's Wildlife Discovery Center. We've got HLF funding for some massive new developments at Highland Wildlife Park, which are just around that sort of engaging with the community, the people that would normally be able to have those experiences, getting close to nature and that kind of thing, and really telling the story of sort of Scotland's wildlife heritage as well. And no better place to do that than in the Cairngorms. So we're really excited about that project and that's going to be an absolute game changer for Highland Wildlife Park.Kelly Molson: Oh, can you share a little bit more about what makes it game changing? Or is this top secret information for the time being?David Field: No, not at all. I mean, there's been quite a lot of information out there about it already. And the Scottish Wildlife Discovery Center is ... it's a transformational project, both for the park and for the society because it will be ... in reality, it's a network of hubs that takes you on an expedition across the Highland Wildlife Park. But this expedition exposes you to the people, the place, and the animals of the Cairngorms. It brings the beauty of the Cairngorms and all the knowledge and information that we need the people that will come and visit.David Field: But we will have ... there's a large discovery centre where you can find all this information. There will be hubs, which overlook our wildcat breeding program project, and our peat restoration project. Then there's a wonderful new accessible learning hub, which will be open for the community as well so that we can bring people to the park that would never have dreamed of coming to the park before or wouldn't have been able to come to the park. But they'll be able to come for different events, community outreach. But it is designed so that we can celebrate the Cairngorms and the people, the place, and the animals therein.Lisa Robshaw: What he said.Kelly Molson: What David said. Do you know what's lovely? Is you speak ... there's a real sense of positivity in this interview. Whenever you both speak, there's a real kind of uplift and a real kind of sense of excitement about what's coming next. So it's been really lovely to hear that come through from you both.David Field: Oh, fantastic. Thank you. I mean, we work with animals. It's amazing. You're having a bad day, go and sit with the penguins.Kelly Molson: That is not dreadful, isn't it? Yeah. I mean, the closest I get is to picking up a dog if I'm having a bit of a bad day, but a penguin would top it.David Field: But that is ... it's so important to us. And it's not a trite statement, but we know that people just visiting a zoo, your stress levels just go down. We know that. We know that again, it's that quality social time. It's memories. It's access to nature. All of this is important for us from so many aspects. And the power of animals to do good is just ... it's beyond. They're amazing.Kelly Molson: Couldn't have said that any better myself, David. I totally agree with you. Thank you both for coming on the podcast today. I always like to end our interviews by asking if you have a book that you would recommend to our listeners. So it could be something that's helped you in your career. It could be something that you just ... you absolutely love. It's definitely not going to be Harry Potter. We know that. Hopefully Geoff is not listening to this, our past-Lisa Robshaw: I'm to going to get an invite to the Warner Brothers Studio at any time soon, am I?Kelly Molson: No, it's not happening, Lisa. But yes, I would like to ask you both if you've got a book that you'd like to recommend?Lisa Robshaw: I'll let David go first.David Field: Well, I love my books. Absolutely love my books. The Zoo Quest Expeditions by Attenborough were an inspiration to me. But more recently, it's The Invention of Nature: The adventures of Alexander van Humboldt. Amazing book by Andrea Wulf. Alexander von Humboldt, one of the greatest naturalists, a real kind of polymath that was there. He invented ecology. He saw climate change before anybody else. And it's so beautifully written and a real inspiration in terms of what he achieved. He's one of my scientific heroes.Kelly Molson: Fabulous. That's very topical. All right, that's David's one. Lisa, what about you?Lisa Robshaw: I'm now regretting asking David to go first. Mine is ... I'm not sure I'm allowed to swear on this podcast.Kelly Molson: You can.Lisa Robshaw: The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck.Kelly Molson: Excellent book.Lisa Robshaw: It was given to me, the actual book was given to me by a friend, God, probably about six or seven years ago when I was having a bit of a hard time. And David ... it'll probably make David smile, and my boss, Ben, but I give myself a really hard time over things sometimes. I just want things to be perfect all the time. It's quite topical at the moment. And actually, I just ... sometimes when I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed, I just go into this book and it reminds me that I can't control certain things. I just need to give a fuck about the things I can control and let go of the things I can't. I recommend it to so many friends that have found it useful as well. I know Ben, my boss, would probably want it to be like a bit of a marketing book that I'm recommending or something like that, I thought I really let him down with this. This is well worth a read.Kelly Molson: Lisa, I have read that book. It is an excellent book. So basically what we are recommending is grab a copy of that book, head to the zoo, go and sit by the penguins, life will be sweet.David Field: Perfect.Kelly Molson: All right, well, listen, listeners, as ever, you can have the chance to win copies of those books. So if you would like to win a copy of Lisa's book and David's book, then head over to this episode announcement and retweet it with the words, "I want David and Lisa's book," and we will put you ... books even, and we will put you in the draw to win a copy of each of them. Thank you very much. I really like those suggestions and I really am very grateful for you both coming on and sharing your experiences today with the listeners for the podcast. So thank you.David Field: You're more than welcome, Kelly.Lisa Robshaw: Thanks, Kelly.Kelly Molson: Thanks for listening to Skip the Queue. if you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a five star review. It really helps others find us. And remember to follow us on Twitter for your chance to win the books that have been mentioned. Skip the Queue is brought to you by Rubber Cheese, a digital agency that builds remarkable systems and websites for attractions that helps them increase their visitor numbers. You can find show notes and transcriptions from this episode and more over on our website, rubbercheese.com/podcast. 

The year 1948 saw the price of a first class stamp at three cents and unemployment in post-war America was at a low 3.9%. The Hollywood Ten were jailed for contempt of Congress when they refused to disclose Communist affiliations. And Columbia Records introduced the 33 1/3 LP at New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. The LP is still the standard by which physical listening is measured with album sales booming, with LPs sold rising 108% in the first six months of 2020. But we're going to be sharing the music of 1948 this week:  Eddy Arnold, Peggy Lee, Dick Haymes, Louis Jordan, Blue Lu Barker and Mahalia Jackson are just but a few we'll be hearing from in this week's episode on KOWS Community Radio.

Season 1 Episode 7 of the PROFILE Exclusive Podcast by PROFILEmiami features Ryan Shear, Managing Partner of PMG. PMG is a national real estate development firm with offices in Miami and Manhattan, specializing in new construction commercial and residential projects. For nearly 30 years, PMG has led the acquisition, financing, development, construction, and marketing for 85 residential buildings and over 150 real estate projects including 111 West 57, Muse Sunny Isles, Echo Brickell, and X Miami, amongst others. PMG is currently developing The Waldorf Astoria Hotel & Residences Miami, E11EVEN Residences and Society Biscayne. A Miami-native, Ryan is responsible for all company operations. Ryan was personally trained by PMG founder Kevin Maloney after arriving at PMG shortly after college. He currently manages a growing portfolio of over $10 billion worth of real estate assets. Ryan oversees PMG's developments across the United States, which primarily includes ground up Condo and Multifamily projects in core cities such Miami, New York, Denver, Phoenix, Orlando and more.The PROFILE Exclusive Podcast by PROFILEmiami, the leader in South Florida residential and commercial real estate news and content, profiles and gets intimate with the movers and shakers in the South Florida real estate industry. Throughout the series we will interview and get inside the minds of South Florida's top developers, investors, brokers, architects, designers, etc. The PROFILE Exclusive Podcast is hosted by Demetri Demascus Co-Founder of PROFILEmiami and Director of Business Development at private equity group Galium Capital as well as Katya Demina, Co-Founder of PROFILEmiami and Development Associate at development firm Royal Palm Companies.

Host Anne Lee sits down with the Owner and Chef of Fête, Robynne Maii. This Hawaii/Brooklyn Hapa Baby Restaurant located in the heart of Chinatown shares a brasserie feel with a laid-back island sensibility. Fête is rooted in the local farm-to-table movement – a place where seasonality and culinary tradition are celebrated in tandem. A few of the items Chef Maii cooks up for Anne includes a delicious Lamb/Sausage Cavatelli with fresh lamb from the Big Island, Korean Hanger Steak with Ginger Scallion Fried Rice, Kauai Prawns, and more! Born and raised in Honolulu, Robynne Maii is the Chef and Owner of the award winning restaurant – Fête. Maii has a culinary and pastry arts degree from KCC in Hawaii, a dance degree from Middlebury in Vermont and a master in food studies from NYU. She began her culinary adventure at 3660 on the Rise, cooking under Chef Russell Siu and Padovani's Bistro and Wine Bar, where she traditioned to full-time pastry cook. In 1999, she moved to New York City where she worked at Union Pacific and at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in their pastry banquet kitchen. She also worked for Gourmet Magazine and has been a cookbook judge for their prestigious James Beard Foundation Awards since 2004. Chef Maii returned to Hawaii to open Fête in 2015 – where classic techniques meet island flavors and ingredients at their best. For more information on Fête, visit fetehawaii.com

This episode is Scene Six of Who Is Della.  It's fall 1959.  Della Martin, Viola Powell and Stanley Silverfield, have just completed a round-trip Atlantic crossing on the Queen Mary.  After settling into their suites, they're sitting in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel lobby, talking about the city.  They will celebrate the evening with Stanley's aunt and uncle, Sylvia and Mike Erhlich.

On November 24th, 1954 Fred Allen was a guest of Tex and Jinx's New York talk show for a discussion about his life and career. It was recorded on a grey, rainy Wednesday before Thanksgiving in Peacock Alley at The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York city. In Fred's first memoir, Treadmill to Oblivion, he explained that giveaway programs played a large part in killing radio. During the course of the interview, he explained how. Allen shows up in numerous episodes of Breaking Walls, including BW - EP81: The Fred Allen Show—His Life On The Air (1932 - 1956), BW - EP92: Radio And Coney Island (1906 - 1960), and BW - EP111: NBC Answers the CBS Talent Raids (1949)

The first Tony Awards ceremony took place on Easter Sunday in 1947. It was a small affair where awards were handed out to notable artists of the day. Some of the winners that evening included actress, Patricia Neal and playwright, Arthur Miller. The ceremony was not televised and took place at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City. The first awards handed out were a money clip for the men and a make up compact for the women. It took many years until it took the form of an actual award and the only award that spins! Since 2011 Heather Hitchens has been the President and CEO of The American Theater Wing. She herself is an accomplished drummer who started out at a local radio station and then later went into arts management. She counts many women mentors in her life who gave her the confidence to take on leadership roles in the world of arts organizations which is how her career in the arts began at the age of 24. “The arts is the only sector that I know of that lifts up every sector that it touches.” Heather Hitchens. Hosted by Ilana Levine, Produced by Alan Seales, part of the Broadway Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

At 1PM on a rain-soaked Wednesday before Thanksgiving on November 24th, 1954, Fred Allen appeared on NBC's Tex and Jinx Show out of the flagship WRCA in New York. It was recorded near Peacock Alley at The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York city. Allen was there to promote his new autobiography, Treadmill to Oblivion, in which he spoke about his radio career and battles with sponsors, ratings, and network executives. This enlightening interview gives rare long-form insight into a man hailed by peers like Jack Benny and John Steinbeck as a borderline genius. It's a must-listen. Allen would pass away of a heart attack less than two years later on St. Patricks Day, March 17th, 1956.

A speech given by President Kennedy to the American Newspaper Publishers Association at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel on April 27, 1961. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/romr/support

When your first job is clearing glasses at the age of 10 in the family pub in Cobh, it's not hard to see how hospitality could be in your blood. Aaron Mansworth, MD of Trigon Hotels chats about his international hospitality career that has taken many twists and turns including a long spell in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York and looking after some very special long term guests, Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg in a hotel in Cavan. There are three very different hotels in the Trigon group, the 123 year old Metropole Hotel, Cork International Hotel and the Cork Airport Hotel, and as they reopen post the Covid lockdown John chats about his career, the importance of mentors, developing his people and some of the challenges that the industry is facing at this difficult time. He's been there before, and this time is no different and as usual Aaron brings his positive outlook to it - We will be back! Enjoy the Show          This show has been brought to you by Fuzion Communications, a Marketing, PR, Graphic Design and Digital Marketing Agency in Ireland with offices in Dublin and Cork. The show is produced by Greg Canty

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Podcast: Raider-Cop Podcast Date: May 20, 2020 Episode #140 Subject: Don Vito Host: Al Martinino aka Alpha Mike Intro: Alpha welcomes the Nation to episode # 140, and advise the audience, new and old how to contact us via our website RaiderCopNation.com or our socials networks: Twitter @RaiderCopNation, Parler @RaiderCopNation, FaceBook @RaiderCopNation. Alpha talks about the upcoming YouTube show called Raider-Cop Tube for 2021 and how his little co-host Milo training in coming along. Also Milo Instagram page @DayWithMilo , check it out. New episode's coming on Guns! Guns! and more Guns! coming soon. Also our #TestEverything1521 (word of the week segments) are now automatically published, Alpha explains. Starting to bring on our co-host.  Lastly Raider Cop Podcast is now on Tik Tok as @RaiderCopNation Word Of The Week: Pray Without Ceasing 1 Thessalonians 5:17 Main Topic: Outline History for the LCN will always start with 1931 Vito birth, and growing up in the LCN/Mafia Vito rise all the way up to boss Fleeing to the Motherland of Italy, to avoid arrest in NYC for a 1934 murder of Ferndinand Boccia / friends with Benito Mussolini In 1934, Genovese and Boccia had conspired to cheat a wealthy gambler out of $150,000 in a high-stakes card game. Genovese then proceed to have Boccia murdered. On September 19, 1934, Genovese, Rupolo and four associates allegedly shot and killed Boccia in a coffee shop in Brooklyn Ernest "the Hawk" Rupolo becomes witness against Genovese in 1937 Working with the U.S. Army in Italy during World War II (Black Market) Arrested in Italy after the war and sent back to NYC 1945 Witness (Peter LaTempa) found dead in jail cell 1945 1957 Vito makes his move to control the family, with the aid of Carlo Gambino 1957 Vito wants to be crowned Boss of Boss in Apalachin what a mistake Shortly after the 1957 blunder a false witness Nelson Cantellops, a drug dealer testify against Vito The Era of the Gangsta returns to the Luciano Family now known as the Genovese Family On August 24, 1964, Ernest Rupolo's body was recovered from Jamaica Bay, Queens. Sonny was later accused of the murder as a favor for Vito. Feb 14, 1969 Vito dies of a heart attack in Federal Prison Following Vito's death the street boss or dummy boss era is born in the Genovese Family Reference: John N. Mitchell U.S. Attorney General, The Bond Club at New York City, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, February 10, 1970 Valachi Papers, The 1972) trailer Song Of The Week: Kentucky Rain (Elvis) Up Next: Your Eyes Look At The Target In Combat #141 @RaiderCopNews @TestEvery1521 Test Everything 5 minutes on the Power of God Instagram @day_with_milo Co-host of Raider-Cop Tube coming 2021 @raidercoppodcast Parler: @RaiderCopNation Facebook  Twitter iTunes  Spotify   Stitcher  Google Play  PodBean  YouTube TuneInJoin the Raider-Cop NATION Pistol Pete the Gunsmith Kilo Sierra’s Firearms Training or Investigation: Sepulveda inc #EmpanadaLadiesOfGeorgia #BullDozerFishing#JailsLASD #CACorrections #MDCR #NYPD #LAPD #LASD #MDPD #MPD #NYSP #NJSP #LVPD #Security #HCSO #PBSO #BSO #OCSO #PCSO #SFPD #DPD #HPD #SAPD #LCSO #FMPD #CCSO #NYC #NYCDOC #NJDOC #PPD #SLPD #CPD #TestEverything @RaiderCopNation #RaiderCopNation #TrainUp #o9TG #WiseGuySeries #TrainUpSeries #RollCallSeries #ThinkOuttaDaBox #SideBarSeries #BeLikeJack #Corrections Youtube Free Music: Triumph by Yung Logos, Rodeo Show by The Green Orbs, Minor Blues for Booker E’s Jammy Jams, Happy Birthday Mambo, by E’s Jammy James. The Awakening Patrick jazz Space, The Current Blues, Blue Infusion, Front Porch Blues, Crazy Blues, Midnight Special, Super Blues, Bright Eyed Blues, Bleeker Street Blues, Olde Salooner Blues, Miles Beyond PatrikiosMusic: I'm Back by Eye of the beholder.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.    

Jonathan & Michael are joined by famed bear investor, David Tice. Tice is well known for founding and managing the Prudent Bear Fund (BEARX) from 1996-2008. For the ten years ended 12/08 when Tice sold the fund, BEARX increased in value at a 7.97% annualized rate, while the S&P 500 lost 1.38% annually. He is also known for sponsoring the Credit Bubble & Its Aftermath on September 21, 1999 at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, that was covered by the WSJ's front page the next morning. David's “Behind the Numbers” research report on Tyco Int'l prompted investor and regulator scrutiny that eventually caused the company to lose tens of billions in market capitalization. David most recently became the Chief Investment Officer of Ranger Bear Fund (HDGE), an actively managed ETF that looks to profit from bearish sentiment. The conversation spans:The Ranger Bear fund (HDGE) establishes short positions in stocks chosen by the management team in companies that look likely to struggle. The managers look for low earnings quality or aggressive accounting (among other things) to help determine stocks that may be set to fall. Low earnings quality, as the fund's home page notes, could include a negative forecast or downward revisions. The conversation spans: general bear market sentiment around Covid-19 gold currency market gold digital assets & digital central bank currencies gold opportunities for investors in a trashed out bear market gold (you get the point). SUBSCRIBE TO THE EMAIL INBOX UPDATES! https://10xts.substack.com For more information visit https://10xts.com Follow us on Twitter --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/digitaldollar/message

On April 27th 1961 President Kennedy gave a speech to the American Newspaper Publishers Association at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City. He had a warning for the people about secrecy in public life.He would not live to see the end of his first term as President. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/art-mcdermott/support

My guest today has insights. Very unique insights. I am very lucky to keep bringing great minds onto this show. An excerpt from his piece that inspired me: On April 28, 1961—a decade after General Douglas MacArthur was fired for defying Harry Truman on Korea—the controversial commander hosted President John F. Kennedy at New York’s Waldorf Astoria Hotel, where MacArthur and his wife lived in a suite on the 37th floor. The contrast between the two could not have been more obvious: MacArthur, then in his early eighties, was mottled, frail, and walked with a slight stoop, while the newly inaugurated Kennedy was young, fit, and vibrant. The two sequestered themselves in MacArthur’s suite, then posed for photographers, the young president obviously proud to appear with the aging legend. Fortunately for historians, Kennedy recorded notes on his Waldorf Astoria discussion, committing MacArthur’s advice to a personal memorandum that he later referred to in White House policy discussions. The meeting itself was the subject of news stories and featured on national newscasts that same day. Later, the meeting provided grist for two generations of Kennedy-besotted commenters who debated whether the young president, had he not been assassinated in Dallas, might have recoiled from committing tens of thousands of U.S. troops to a winless war in Southeast Asia—a course of action taken by Lyndon Johnson, his successor. It turns out that Kennedy’s memo of the Waldorf Astoria meeting (now at Boston’s John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum) is crucial for historians for a number of other reasons. It offers not only a glimpse of how the young president intended to navigate the treacherous waters of the Cold War, but suggests how one of America’s most celebrated military officers viewed what might be called the grand strategy of the American Republic: that is, whether and how the U.S. might win its dangerous struggle against the Soviet Union. Finally, the Waldorf Astoria meeting tells us how MacArthur’s most famous warning—to “never fight a land war in Asia”—has come down to us, what he meant by it, and whether, in an age of American troop deployments in at least 133 countries, it retains its meaning. Bio: Mark Perry is a military, intelligence, and foreign affairs analyst and writer. His articles have appeared in the Nation, the Washington Post, Foreign Policy, and the Los Angeles Times, among other outlets, and he is a frequent guest commentator and expert on Al Jazeera television network. He is the author of eight books, including Grant and Twain, Partners in Command, and Talking to Terrorists. Perry has served as editor and Washington bureau chief for a number of publications, including Washington D.C.’s City Paper and The Veteran, the largest circulation newspaper for veterans in the nation.

Really Ree (AKA Anne Marie Lodge) chats to me from the comfort of self-isolation. Listen to Ree answer the 'Self-Isolation 6’ - a series of questions about what’s important to her and what makes her tick. From living-it-up at the Waldorf Astoria in New York; and popping champagne; to surrounding herself with the people she loves and her at-home beauty routine. This is all about keeping it light and bright. Some respite and a chance to disconnect. Relax. Enjoy. More Ree: — Instagram - @ReallyRee (https://robin.yt/ReeInstagram)— Twitter - @ReallyRee (https://robin.yt/ReeTwitter)— Blog - (https://robin.yt/ReeBlog)We spoke about… [Includes affiliate links]Waldorf Astoria Hotel: https://robin.yt/2QHLiPqWineApp: https://wineapp.page.link/installUse code RJ666 at checkout for £15 off!Jane The Virgin: https://robin.yt/2vMAGrlGet in touch...Email me: SelfIsolation@ManForHimself.comInstagram: @ManForHimselfTwitter: @ManForHimselfFacebook: /ManForHimselfYouTube: ManForHimselfAbout me: I'm Robin James, a 32-year-old journalist/producer turned blogger/YouTube creator... or something like that.'Self-Isolation' is my outlet for light and bright conversation. A chance to escape really! I hope you enjoy it. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to the Leading Voices in Food podcast, an educational series produced by the World Food Policy Center at Duke University. I'm Deborah Hill. You're listening to a segment in our Voice of Farming series. At the age of 68, Bert Pitt is lean and tan, with Robert Redford blue eyes and a working man's hands. He's a seventh generation farmer, raising cotton and sweet potatoes now, and lives in his family's ancestral home in Edgecombe County, North Carolina. Farming is both his job and his heritage, and he passionately believes in the value of small family farms. Over his lifetime he's seen tremendous change in farming technology, weather patterns, the status of farming within US culture, farm related politics, and international trade agreements. In this podcast Bert speaks on topics that are often misunderstood about farming, and one such topic is federal crop insurance. Originally enacted in 1938, federal crop insurance is the primary risk management program available to US farmers and is a critical part of a farmer's safety net. It helps them weather volatility in crop prices and to recover from unexpected disasters such as hurricanes, flooding, tornadoes, and more. Crop insurance currently covers 128 different crops, and four crops, corn, cotton, soybeans, and wheat, account for the majority of US acreage enrolled in the program. The insurance program works on the principle of indemnity, meaning it only restores a portion of a farmer's actual losses when a claim is made and keeps farms from getting too far in the hole financially. The program doesn't insure farmers make a profit, and many pay crop insurance premiums for years without receiving indemnity payments because they've been lucky enough to not have experienced crop loss. I'll say right up front in 2018 I did not or our farm did not collect any form of crop insurance, cotton, sweet potatoes, anything, but a lot of people don't realize about the crop insurance, and I insure my crop just as much as I can. That's the only way I can sleep at night. Another thing is nowadays the scale of farming that we do, the bankers and everybody requires you to have a minimum of insurance and everybody does that, but you can get a little bit better, and I get the best I can, but it does not pay me completely out to bankers, equipment, land payments, anything that might come along if I have to collect insurance. The best I can insure my crop is about 75%. It's not like homeowners or car insurance. A lot of people that don't farm, outsiders looking in, think well, he's got insurance on everything. Yes, we do, but we can't have a replacement type insurance. The best we can get is 75%, and nowadays you've got to collect 100% to get around to pay everybody, so you're left holding the bag with 25%. It'll be like, you know, people just don't understand. They think we can go out and insure our cotton and other crops with what we've got in it and even make a little profit on it, and it is not even close to being that way. That's why this North Carolina disaster payment was so important. It probably even came before the people that needed to get an insurance payment, probably before they even got that. It kept things going, people paid that needed to be paid, and the insurance came in and stepped up, I mean and helped every bit as expected. But you can't survive off of 75% of your crop, and that's about what the insurance is. That's one of the things a lot of people that don't farm don't understand. They think that when a storm comes and they see a crop go up... Yeah, I think most people do sympathize with us, but I think they got a misunderstanding about the insurance, that we've got it insured where we'll be fine and probably even make a profit, and that's not the case. Does farming make you think of the New York Stock Exchange? Many crops are sold as commodities. This means that it doesn't matter who grew the crop or how much it cost a specific farmer to produce their crop, the price is the same for everyone on that day on the commodity market. This creates challenging conditions for farmers and has necessitated the need to connect with brokers and sophisticated price monitoring and forecasting. We get a lot of good information from the extension office, a lot of good publications out of there. We get the information that we need. I think we need more of maybe marketing information. I would encourage... I can go to NC State's website and find out the best way to grow anything I grow, but it's hard to find out how to market your crop, and that's something I don't completely know the answer to. There is services out there that you can buy, and we do a little bit of that too to help us market, but it needs to be made on a government type level, some financial experts or whatever that would help us, you know, kind of give us the advice that the extension office gives us for growing the crop. That would be one thing I would like to see. I don't want to discourage... Of course young folks in farming, they're going to be too busy to listen to this anyway, but I don't want to discourage any young farmer from getting into it. You don't really get in farming for the money, so if there's a young guy farming, he's in it for the right reasons. He didn't get in it to buy yachts and live at Miami Beach. One of the worse things going on in farming now that's got everybody... It don't matter what size farmer you are, it's got us behind the eight ball, and I will say it like it is. All right, I'm going to tell some personal stories. I don't mind doing that. But we are farming with prices the lowest they've been in years, I mean in years. When I started back growing cotton in 1991, our family farm went from maybe 10 to 12 years without growing cotton because of prices. Prices gradually got a little better. In 1991, I started growing cotton again and marketing it at 91 cent a pound. And if I had to sell my cotton today, in 2019, it is 58 cent a pound. So the challenge I give to everybody that don't know about farming, that lives in the city, take a third of your income for the whole year and see how you would survive. Now you can survive, but the question was how, and that's what we're doing. We're cutting back on a lot of things that we probably need to do on the farm. Right now we're sitting in a shelter that needs to be replaced. Like I said, one of my shelters was blown down in Hurricane Florence, but you can't legitimately find a way to pay for it, so you just have to do without. The equipment sits out in the sun and rain and everything, and you're talking about some high dollar equipment sitting out that needs to be under shelter. But if you can't pay for it you don't do it. And the markets... The one good news that I do, sweet potato markets are up. A lot of that is because of the hurricane last year. It takes a lot of money to grow sweet potatoes. A lot of farmers have backed up on the acreage they're planting just because of the amount of money you got to put up to grow that crop. Cotton to me is a high dollar crop. We got a lot invested out there. It costs me about $700 a acre to grow cotton, a roundabout figure. By the time we get through and ready to sell cotton, I've got about $700 an acre in it. Another figure just to throw out, I grow about 1,000 pounds to the acre. You multiply that times 58, that's $580. Yes, we're going to get as farmers call it a Trump payment, but it is a payment because of the tariff problems that's going on on the farm that's hit the farmers big time. I'm going to get $70 a acre in Edgecombe County for that. That's an already known fact. So you add the 70 to the 580, you got about $650. Now my question is where am I going to pick up the other $50, because it's going to take that to break even. I told everybody to start with I'm a 1,000 acre farm, so 50 times 1,000, that let's everybody know how much we're in the hole. The next part of the equation is I told everybody we were in a dry area, we're not going to make 1,000 [inaudible 00:10:32], so you got to deduct that too. So we've already sat down and figured up we're going to lose about... Unless the cotton fools me a little bit, unless the yield is a little better, and it could be, and we're always optimistic, hoping the prices are going to get together, but you got to be realistic more so than hopefully, so there's a good possibility we could lose $150 a acre, and multiply that times 1,000. So that lets everybody kind of know what were going on in the farm, and if it's that case for me it's everybody. The market's not just the cotton. Our soybeans in 2013 and '14... We sold soybeans for $15 a bushel. Today they're $8 and a half. That's even worse than the cotton. We don't really rely on soybeans as much as some of the neighbors in other parts of the country, but that's what's going on. Our job is to raise food, cotton for not only the United States, but the world. We have to believe in the people, not just the President, but all our legislators, representatives, everybody that goes to Raleigh and everybody that goes to Washington, DC... We got to believe in them and trust that they're working for us while we're doing our job back home. There's so many things going on in these legislative ideas that we can't speak to everything, but we just have to have the faith, and the farmers do at this time, still got the faith, that the people that we have sent to represent us haven't forgotten, and we would like to think that what President Trump is doing with the tariffs in China and maybe some other countries does have a long range help to the farmers. But we've got to be able to get that, and we can't lose this $150,000 in my case for another year. We might can one year. We had a big hit last year. It's putting a big burden on the sustainability. But you know realistically, and that's what we're talking about with this China tariff, we might never win this thing. It might never come about like it's presented to us or what we would like for it to happen. It gets back to this carrot dangling in front of my face type thing that we think we can get and we never quite get it. We got to face... We've got to be optimistic. We got to face reality, so something has got to be done in the United States. We cannot... Honestly, we cannot raise cotton at 58 cents. It's got to be the minimum 70 cents, and that's not sustainable. But I don't know the answer other than the American public, unless they want their food and their cotton and everywhere... That comes from everywhere they don't know the place, if that's what they want, that's what it's headed to. Farmers today are often called upon to testify about the conditions of farming and the need for different support mechanisms. Bert's wife, Gwen, has been deeply engaged with such activities and this is the subject of another podcast. Farmers are busy. They're farming more and more land. There are less and less people. We don't have time to be a voice or an advocate like you're saying, but Gwen here does take a good amount of her time to do it. I respect that and I try to do it. It's a little bit easier for her to do it. I respect her for what she does, and I'll say this, she can say the same things I do, the exact same words, and I've seen people respect her saying it more than me because I might get rocks throwed at me or whatever, but people look at a woman's voice different. Same thing with farmers, they might. They'll say he's saying the same old thing. But when they... I've seen it. When she gets up there and says the same thing the audience perks up. They listen more. They respect what she says more than me. That's putting me on the spot. I had a cotton meeting in New York City with some growers from Tennessee, Texas, all the southeast, and the guide, she carried us to the Waldorf Astoria Hotel and she says, "Okay, I want one of you all... You all pick out one person to go there and order the drinks at the bar," and everybody pointed to me, and I says, "Why me?" They said, "There's something about your voice." I said, "Well, you're from Texas." They says, "No, no, no. It's you. It's you." I went up there and... Because naturally all five of them gave me a different drink so I had to talk awhile. I started... I walked up there in the best non-southern, non-North Carolina voice I could do, trying to order these drinks, and out of the corner of my eyes I could see everybody's head start turning and looking. The bartender finally stopped at about the third order. He said, "Buddy, if you want these drinks tonight you're going to have to speak faster than that," and I was doing the best I could do. Everybody just busted out laughing, and I looked back over there and my buddies were laughing. Conventional farming uses agricultural chemicals to control pests and disease or control and promote growth. Farms like Bert recognize their responsibility to keep soils healthy and water sources clean and actively work to stay informed on the safe use of chemicals. I will offer my farm to anybody that's listening to this anywhere, to come out and see what we're doing. I don't know any farmers, me or anybody, that's abusing the environment, abusing the chemicals, fertilizers. To start with, you can't afford it. Why would I want to spend more on chemicals when I'm not even making a profit now? So we're not doing it. Financially we're not doing it. But we're not doing it for the right reason too. My family farm was voted the soil conservation farm family of the year in 1989 in North Carolina, and a lot of that was because of what we were doing on the farm. But all my farmer friends, nobody... And people just have to trust me on this, because I'm a scientist. I don't know the chemical makeup of what we're spraying, but I have to believe in people to tell me about the chemicals, if it's safe. I told everybody my main job on the farm is running it safely. I want it to be safe. I'm the one who's handling it. And Gwen... Because she'll tell you about this in a minute, but she's the one out there actually scouting the crops. Our farm well is within I'll say 100 feet, but I'm being generous, of the cotton fields, so we don't want anything in our water. She'll tell you more about it. They'll believe her on it. They might not believe me, but she's the mama, she's the grandma, and she's not going to have anything in our home that'll hurt her family. But getting back to that, we're not... We're doing the things that we should be doing to the best of our knowledge, to the best of our knowledge. Now my farm, I'll let anybody that wants to come see what we're doing, that would like to know, I mean for the right reasons. I don't care if they've got my political views or not. Half our customers probably don't, so there you go. Thank you for listening. If you would like to subscribe to the Leading Voices in Food podcast series you can do so at Google Play, Stitcher, Radio Public or Apple podcasts, or by visiting our website at the Duke World Food Policy Center. This is Deborah Hill. 

On the 23rd of June 1919 Éamon de Valera strode into the lobby of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York, taking up residence there for the next 18 months. While open warfare would break out in Ireland between Republican and Crown forces de Valera and his entourage would try to secure recognition of the Irish Republic and undertake a massive fund raising campaign, heavily supported by the Irish-American community. It would be an injustice to all involved to address de Valera's entire stay in just one episode so you can expect a few covering the major events of his trip. Episode 1 deals with his arrival in New York, his first meeting with John Devoy and Daniel Cohalan and the foundations of the split between them. The episode looks at the start of the bond drive and stops before the suppression of Dáil Éireann, so you can expect the next episode in September! References: Dave Hannigan - “De Valera in America” Ronan Fanning - “Éamon de Valera: A Will to Power” David McCullagh - “De Valera: Rise” David Fitzpatrick - “Harry Boland's Irish Revolution” Eileen McGough - “Diarmuid Lynch: A Forgotten Irish Patriot” Social Media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/theirishnation Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheIrishNationLives/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theirishnationlives/ Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/theirishnationlives iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/ie/podcast/the-irish-nation-lives Main Sources: Military Archives - http://www.bureauofmilitaryhistory.ie Century Ireland - https://www.rte.ie/centuryireland Atlas of the Irish Revolution Maurice Walsh - “Bitter Freedom” Charles Townshend - "The Republic" Michael Hopkinson - ”The Irish War of Independence” Diarmuid Ferriter - “A Nation and not a Rabble” Photos: Military Archives NLI Flickr account Wiki Commons

In which Franklin Roosevelt builds a secret, private train station under the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, and John almost defects to East Germany in a gaily colored ski jacket. Certificate #33725.

Bartender Journey Episode #263 The Old Fashioned. I was at a sitting at a bar the other day and there was a bartender, training a young lady who was obviously brand new to bartending. The younger one asked the one who was doing the training “how long have you been bartending”. She answers “nearly 15 years”. A ticket comes in for an Old Fashioned. Here’s a learning opportunity for the newbie, right? She explains how to make it: “Get a rocks glass Get an orange slice and a luxardo cherry and muddle it in the glass. Add ¼ to ½ oz of simple syrup and about the same amount of sweet vermouth. Add ice and then fill nearly to the top with whiskey, (usually you should ask what type of whiskey they would like). Top with club soda. Put 3 or 4 dashes of bitters on top” There are a lot of problems here. Lets take them one by one. The muddled “fruit salad” Old Fashioned was an unfortunate variation on the classic recipe. Some people like them and even expect them that way, which is fine…the best cocktail for someone is the one made exactly the way they like it. But the classic recipe is water, sugar, bitters and whiskey…we’ll talk about where that description comes from in a few minutes. Somewhere along the road it became popular to muddle an orange slice and a red maraschino cherry with sugar and bitters.The muddling in an Old Fashioned is supposed to be to incorporate the granular sugar (or sugar cube) with a little water and the bitters. Moving on to the second mistake in my example. THERE IS NO VERMOUTH IN AN OLD FAHIONED!   There is sweet vermouth in a Manhattan…not an Old Fashioned Next…she says “top with club soda”. Yes we do want to dilute it a bit. Some books will tell you do this. Personally I add the water by stirring the whole thing in my mixing cup with ice. This chills the drink down and the melting ice adds water or “dilution”. I strain it into a glass with fresh ice. Next she said to “put 3-4 drops of bitters on top”. 100% wrong. I don’t like to flat out say somebody is doing something wrong, but no don’t do that.You want to incorporate the bitters into the drink. While there are drinks which call for drops of bitters on top, such as the Pisco Sour…not the Old Fashioned. This is my recipe, and its written almost exactly like this in Jeffrey Morgenthaler’s The Bar Book, which is more or less the final word for me personally in all matters Bartending. In mixing cup: 2 dashes Angostura Aromatic Bitters 1 dash of Angostura Orange Bitters, 2 oz of Bourbon Stir with ice to chill and dilute. Strain into an old fashioned glass with one large 2” ice cube. Express oils from an orange twist (use a Y-peeler to make orange twist to order). You could also use a lemon twist, which is delicious also. Old Fashioneds can of course also be made with Rye whiskey or even rum. I’ve seen Reposado or Anão Tequila Old Fashioneds too. In Sasha Patraski’s book Regarding Cocktails Sasha’s protégé Sam Ross shares his recipe for an Old Fashioned variation called the Tattletale. Its made with Angostura bitters, honey a blend of a Highlands scotch and a smoky Islay scotch. So of course, there is no end to variations and methods, but I just feel like its good to know the proper traditional way of making things before going off on tangents. History wise: The earliest known printed definition of the “cocktail” appeared in the newspaper the Balance and Columbian Repository in 1806. It was written in response to a reader who asked for a definition of the word. It said a cocktail is “A stimulating liquor, composed of spirits of any kind, sugar, water and bitters.” Quoting from Wikipedia, “The first use of the name ‘Old Fashioned’ for a Bourbon whiskey cocktail was said to have been at the Pendennis Club, a gentlemen's club founded in 1881 in Louisville, Kentucky. The recipe was said to have been invented by a bartender at that club in honor of Colonel James E. Pepper, a prominent bourbon distiller, who brought it to the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel bar in New York City.” Robert Simonson mentioned that it was simply referred to as a “whiskey cocktail” until the late 19th century. Mr. Simonson wrote a great book all about the Old Fashioned called The Old-Fashioned: The Story of the World's First Classic Cocktail, with Recipes and Lore. I’ll have a link to that along with the other books I mentioned. Speaking of prohibition, as I record this today Dec 5, 2018 it is Repeal Day! This is the anniversary of the end of Prohibition in 1933. Its an unofficial Bartender holiday, or at least excuse for a party! I happened to be almost at the end of binge watching Boardwalk Empire, which was a great show on HBO about the prohibition era. Its fictional, but a lot of historical characters are in the show like Lucky Luciano, Al Capone and Elliot Ness. The show is now available on Amazon Prime if you want to check it out. So mix yourself up and Old Fashioned. I’d love to see your version. If you could post a picture on IG and give it the hash tag #BartenderOldFashioned Depending how many we get, I’ll try to mention them all on the next show. I’ll be posting mine on my IG which is BartenderJourney. Here’s a toast: Here’s to everything that is old. Old friends, old times, old manners and old fashioneds.

The little known insurance company would've sunk into obscurity if it weren't for the marriage to the iconic television programming it hitched its name to. Marlin Perkins and his monkey hosted the Sunday evening tradition. The show lives on today as a web series hosted by this week's Animal Radio guest, Peter Gros. Peter talks about several harrowing experiences filming wild animals, including chasing a 12-foot python through the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan.

Please join us for a rice tell-all with one of Chicago’s most eminent chefs, John Coletta, and writer/photographer Monica Kass Rogers, who collaborated to write the just-published cookbook "Risotto and Beyond." Here’s what’s on our menu for you: You’ll get a generous slice of Italian rice history—including stories of a smuggling Jesuit priest, the Sforzas, lords of Milan who used advice from Leonardo da Vinci to start building the canals to help reclaim the wetlands for growing rice, and le mondine, the female rice workers who planted and weeded the rice. You’ll learn about varieties of Italian rice, and which work best in different types of recipes. You’ll hear stories from Chef John about his own love affair with Italian rice—from the Italian rice snacks and soups his mother made when he was growing up in Queens, to the hearty dishes he learned to make from Italian rice growers. And after you’ve digested this savory food for thought, you’ll get to taste a sampling of chef Coletta’s recipes from his new book, hailed as a definitive guide to cooking with Italian rice. The volume features 100 of Chef Coletta’s gluten-free rice recipes for everything from appetizers to soups, salads, main courses and desserts, along with a guide to the many varieties of Italian rice. BIOGRAPHIES John Coletta is executive chef and managing partner of Chicago’s Quartino Ristorante & Wine Bar. A native New Yorker, Chef Coletta served apprenticeships at Manhattan’s Waldorf Astoria Hotel, and Four Seasons Restaurant and went to Europe to work under world-renowned chefs Alain Ducasse and Joel Rubuchon. Returning to America, Chef Coletta reigned over an army of over 450 cooks at Caeser’s Palace in Las Vegas, then continued in executive chef positions in Sydney Australia and Singapore. An individual gold medalist in the 1984 Culinary Olympics, he snared another gold medal in Frankfurt, Germany in 1992 as part of the Culinary Olympic Team U.S.A. In 2004 Chef Coletta opened Quartino in Chicago, showcasing rustic Italian recipes, many of which date back 200 years. In addition to his risotto cookbook, Chef Coletta also authored "250 True Italian Pasta Dishes." Monica Kass Rogers became a full-time magazine writer and editor in the 1980’s, writing for national food magazines. She switched to freelance writing and photography while she raised four children, At one point she was simultaneously freelance writing for six different sections of the Chicago Tribune, addressing sustainability, women’s issues, gardening, business, architecture and food. Monica also has a blog on vintage recipes: lostrecipesfound.com. Monica’s first book collaboration, with Chef Coletta, came about after the beloved foodwriter Nancy Ross Ryan died suddenly. Monica helped complete the risotto book by interviewing rice experts and chefs in Italy, and learning from Chef Coletta about his recipes. Monica also tested the recipes and photographed the scenic views of Italy and took several of the food shots. http://culinaryhistorians.org/risotto-beyond-heartfelt-history-italian-rice/

Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom The little known insurance company would've sunk into obscurity if it weren't for the marriage to the iconic television programming it hitched its name to. Marlin Perkins and his monkey hosted the Sunday evening tradition. The show lives on today as a web series hosted by this week's Animal Radio guest, Peter Gros. Peter talks about several harrowing experiences filming wild animals, including chasing a 12-foot python through the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan. Listen Now Meet Your Breed Don't just get a dog because it's cute. To ensure a long lasting relationship, you should get a breed that suits your activity level, as some dogs require lots of stimulation while others, like the unsuspecting Greyhound, would rather be a couch potato. Behaviorist Kim Brophey is here to help you pick out your new furry family member. Listen Now The New Fear Free Guide The biggest thing to recently happen to animal welfare is arguably the Fear Free movement. Starting with veterinarians, changes were made to make vet visits a better experience for the pet and everyone involved. Then Fear Free moved into the household by creating the Fear Free Happy Homes program. Now, with the help of Fear Free father and renown author, Dr. Marty Becker talks about the new Fear Free book, From Fearful to Fear Free. Listen to Dr. Becker in the Fear Free Expert Series on Animal Radio. Raccoon Overdoses on Heroin Firefighters at Wayne Township in Indiana must still be laughing about a recent visit they had from a frantic woman who showed up at the station house early one morning with her pet raccoon. The raccoon was stoned after being exposed to too much marijuana and the owner thought the raccoon was overdosing. Later, they discovered the raccoon had actually gotten into someone's stash of heroine. Listen Now

Let’s start with salad, specifically salad dressing, even more specifically salad dressing names. We’ll start with the king of salad dressings in the United States: ranch. Ranch dressing was first created in 1954 by Steve Henson, who owned a dude ranch called Hidden Valley Ranch, near Santa Barbara, California. His customers liked the dressing so much that Henson started selling packets of dried mix so they could have it at home. Bottled, prepared ranch dressing was introduced in 1983. Thousand Island dressing’s origin story is not as clear, although it’s name refers to the Thousand Island region of New York and Ontario in the St. Lawrence River. One story says the dressing was invented by a fisherman’s wife. Another says it was created at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York and named after the region where the hotel’s owner spent his summers. Another story says it was simply based on the already existing French dressing. Speaking of French dressing, it’s not French. The ketchup, probably should have given that one away. Same thing, ketchup and all, goes for Russian dressing. Italian dressing, which doesn’t feature ketchup, is an American version of the classic vinaigrette. Green goddess dressing, was likely created in San Francisco in the 1920s as a tribute to a play of the same name. Our question, how many islands make up the Thousand Islands?   Today is National Science Day in the United States. Thursday is National Wedding Planning Day. Friday is Employee Appreciation Day. Saturday is National Mulled Wine Day, and Sunday is National Grammar Day. It’s the birthday of architect Frank Gehry, who turns 89; Thursday is the 91st birthday of entertainer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte. Saturday is the birthday of author Dr. Seuss, who was born in 1904; and Sunday is the 56th birthday of athlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee.  Now, we’ll spin the wheel to pick a year at random. This week in 1967, the top song in the U.S. was “I’m a Believer” by The Monkees. The No. 1 movie of 1967 was “The Graduate,” while the novel “The Secret of Santa Vittoria” by Robert Crichton topped the New York Times Bestsellers list.  Before the break we asked: What is the total number of islands in The Thousand Islands? The answer is 1,864. Now for the answer to last week’s question, which was: Which two Winter Olympic events debuted at the Summer Olympics? The answer is figure skating and ice hockey. The first person to submit a correct answer was Doug Button. This week’s question: What company manufactures Hidden Valley Ranch salad dressing? Submit your answer at triviapeople.com/test and we’ll add the name of the person with the first correct answer to our winner’s wall … at triviapeople.com. We'll have the correct answer on next week’s episode. Thanks for listening to the Trivia Minute, please rate the show on iTunes, or support it at triviapeople.com/support. For other details, visit triviapeople.com We'll talk to you next week. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Links Follow us on Twitter, Facebook or our website. Also, if you’re enjoying the show, please consider supporting it through Patreon.com Please rate the show on iTunes by clicking here. Subscribe on iOS: http://apple.co/1H2paH9  Subscribe on Android: http://bit.ly/2bQnk3m

In Breaking Walls Episode 73 we spotlight the 1970s CBS and Mutual Broadcasting dramatic radio revival and why it ultimately failed. Highlights:

 • Go Inside the November 1, 1973 Mutual Broadcasting closed circuit press conference from the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City announcing Zero Hour
 • How Jay M. Kholos came to create The Zero Hour • How Elliot Lewis came to produce and direct the Zero Hour • How Himan Brown got CBS to say yes to the CBS Radio Mystery Theatre • Why Himan Brown wanted the Mystery Theatre on 7-nights per week • Rod Serling’s feelings about radio • How the AFRS furthered Howard Duff and Elliott Lewis’ lifelong friendship • New storytelling methods for the 1970s • New recording technology • Why the Zero Hour had immediate Advertising difficulties • How Tom Bosley of Happy Days got involved in the radio revival • Why Sears paid $1.2 Million to get involved in dramatic radio in 1979 • What Richard Widmark, Cicely Tyson, Vincent Price, Lorne Greene, and Andy Griffith had in common • Dramatic Radio of the 1980s • Why the popularity of FM hurt The CBS Radio Mystery Theatre • Major Network Dramatic Radio Comes to a close • What’s next? Beginning February 15th, 2018 Breaking Walls will be presenting the first in a long-term story arc: Chapter 1 on The History of American Dramatic Radio. To support the show for as little as $1 per month and receive all kinds of BTS material, please go to http://patreon.com/TheWallBreakers Today’s episode of Breaking Walls could not have been possible without the interviews by Chuck Schaden, Dick Bertel, Ed Corcoran, SPERDVAC, and John Dunning. • Chuck’s interviews are available at http://www.speakingofradio.com • Dick Bertel and Ed Corcoran’s interviews are at http://otrrlibrary.org by searching for The Golden Age of Radio program. • John Dunning’s interviews are also located at http://otrrlibrary.org under “John Dunning interviews” • The Society To Preserve and Encourage Radio Drama, Variety and Comedy can be found at http://sperdvac.com The reading material used in today’s episode was: • The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio by John Dunning • A Pictorial History of Radio’s First 75 Years by B. Eric Rhoads • The Radio Career of Rod Serling by Martin Grams Jr’s • The CBS Radio Mystery Theater Handbook by Martin Grams Jr’s and Gordon Payton I’d like to thank them both for providing fantastic information that helped me put this episode together today. as well as The Digital Deli’s page on the Mutual Radio Theater - http://www.digitaldeliftp.com/DigitalDeliToo/dd2jb-Mutual-Radio-Theater.html WallBreakers Links: Patreon - http://patreon.com/thewallbreakers Social Media - @TheWallBreakers URL - http://thewallbreakers.com Online Store - jamesthewallbreaker.com/shop/

Start spreading the news .... the Bowery Boys are finally going to the Empire State Building!  New York City's defining architectural icon is greatly misunderstood by many New Yorkers who consider its appeal relegated to tourists and real estate titans. But this powerful and impressive symbol to American construction has a great many secrets among its 102 (or is that 103?) floors. The Empire State Building project was announced in 1929 by former New York governor Al Smith. The group of wealthy investors he fronted were clear in associating the building with his image (the Empire State itself), and Smith was even there at the demolition of the building it would replace -- the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. A few weeks after the announcement, however, the stock market crashed.  In this podcast, we look at how this magnificent skyscraper was built with incredible speed and efficiency, to tower over a city entering the Great Depression. It quickly became a beacon of hope for many -- a symbol of American skill and the embodiment of the New York City spirit. Tourists would indeed flock to it, enamored of the extraordinary views it offered for the very first time. (Most of its early visitors had never been in an airplane.) It would eventually become an object of great value and the subject of tabloid headlines -- many featuring the current President of the United States -- but it would never, ever lose its luster. In fact, that luster, over the years, would become very well lit..... Support the show.

Mixed finish to the week capping off a winning first half of 2017 for stocks. The Dow and SP500 had their best first half of a year since 2013 with gains of about 8%. NASDAQ had the best first half year performance since 2009 with a gain of 14%. Beverly Hills celebrates the official grand opening of the newest Waldorf Astoria Hotel. The only family owned theater chain in Southern California celebrates a resurgence of local film making. The biggest cancer research fundraiser in LA is happening at Paramount Studios in Hollywood again this year. Big expansion plans announced by the Bob Hope USO at LAX. Support the show: https://www.frankmottek.com

Mixed finish to another record shattering week for stocks. The Nasdaq and SP500 settle at all time highs. The Dow stands about 30 points below its all time high. History is about to be made in Beverly Hills with the grand opening of the new Waldorf Astoria Hotel. The new $200M luxury hotel is expected to give another big boost to the local economy and tourism. The motorcycle business revs up in a big way with new ways to get on a bike thanks to a Southern California based company.Support the show: https://www.frankmottek.com

Vi möter pianisten Robert Lakatos, sakkunnige Domino Kai, aktivisten Diana Nyman, författaren Lawen Mohtadi och Sven Hovmöller från "Hemlösa EU-migranter". Pianisten Robert Lakatos har 12 pianister i familjen. Hans far Béla Szakcsi Lakatos är en mycket känd pianist i Ungern. Robert Lakatos behärskar jazz, folkmusik och klassisk musik och planerar flera utgivningar av Bachs Pianokonserter. Tillvaron som musiker i Budapest och i hela Ungern, fr a för romska musiker, krymper för varje vecka. Robert blir deprimerad när han tänker på den politiska situationen i hemlandet. Han och hans fru, pianopedagog, vill flytta från Budapest p g a den starka antiziganismen i hemlandet.Robert Lakatos morbror flyttade också från Budapest. Han var den välkände violinisten Bela Babai, som från 1953 och under många år framåt spelade på Czardas Hungarian Restaurant på Waldorf-Astoria Hotel i New York.-Musik är passion och arbete, men även tröst och skydd mot lidande och diskriminering, säger Robert Lakatos. Författaren och och förläggaren Lawen Mohtadi skrev boken Den dag jag blir fri om författaren och medborgarrättsaktivisten Katarina Taikon och Lawen Mohtadi skrev manus till filmen Taikon. Katarina Taikon lärde sig läsa och skriva först som 26-åring, men blev en av Sveriges mest lästa författare. Hon skrev ett 20-tal böcker, varav 12 var barn- och ungdomsböcker om flickan Katitzi.Lawen Mohtadi kallar Katarina Taikon för Sveriges Martin Luther King.- När Martin Luther King var i Sverige 1964 sammanfördes de två av unga fredsaktivister. King blev förvånad över att Sverige också hade problem med diskriminering och rasism och att en stor grupp i samhället inte hade bostäder. Katarina Taikon föddes i ett tält och förde en livslång kamp för romernas medborgerliga rättigheter i Sverige. Tillsammans med aktivister och kulturpersonligheter arbetade hon för att tömma tältlägren som romer bodde i och för romers rätt till skolgång, säger Lawen Mohtadi. Domino Kai är politisk sekreterare i Europaparlamentet och i riksdagen. Han var anställd hos Diskrimineringsombudsmannen i drygt sex år. Domino Kai är utbildad dramapedagog och för honom är kultur en viktig plattform för arbetet med minoriteters rättigheter. Han vill starta en Marshallplan för romer i Europa.-Jag blev riktigt medveten om att andra tycker att jag och vi romer är fel när jag var åtta år och var med min bror och mina föräldrar på ett fik i stan. En kvinna sa åt oss att vi skulle gå därifrån. Vår far uppmanade oss att lämna caféet och sa att "Det blir så ibland", berättar Domino Kai.Diana Nyman är den romska kvinna som blev utslängd från Hotell Sheratons frukostmatsal i Stockholm samma dag som hon skulle vara med och presentera regeringens Vitbok om diskriminering mot romer och annan antiziganism. Hon har varit aktivist i romska frågor i 20 år, ledamot i regeringens Kommission mot antiziganism, hon är ordförande i Romska Rådet i Göteborg och samrådspartner till Göteborgs Pilotkommunsprojekt, vilket skall visa vägen i arbetet för romsk inkludering. Hennes farbror Aleka Stobin arbetade i mer än 30 år aktivt för sitt folks rättigheter i samhället. Han valdes till ordförande i Stockholms Finska Zigenarförening i början av 1970-talet och blev den första ordföranden i Nordiska Zigenarrådet.-Aleka Stobins rättighetspatos har jag ärvt, säger Diana Nyman, som kämpar mot kränkningar och orättvisor, vilka ibland får henne att känna sig som en tredje klassens medborgare. Sven Hovmöller är vice ordförande i föreningen Hemlösa EU-Migranter, har gjort över 100 lägerbesök hos fr a rumänska romer i Stockholmsområdet. En enda gång har han hört någon av romerna spela musik.-Romer i Sverige idag är utsatta för avhysningar, våldsamma attacker och mord, precis som i Östeuropa, där romer lever i en enorm misär utan tillgång till rättigheter. I Sverige lägger myndigheterna ner miljontals kronor på att förstöra EU-migranternas läger. Med samma mål som under 1700-talet då "zigenare" inte fick vistas i Sverige: "Vi gör livet så outhärdligt för dem att de frivilligt lämnar landet", säger Sven Hovmöller, som har en plan över hur tiggarna på våra gator skulle kunna få ett drägligare liv.-Gör som i Sydafrikas kåkstäder. Hjälp människor med toaletter, elektricitet och enklare bostäder. Bygg gärna en gemensam lokal där de kan spela musik och ha svenskundervisning. Vi kan ge dem samhällsinformation om: sopsortering, allemansrätten, juridik, information om att man inte får röka i tunnelbanan, inte tigga aggressivt, inte förfölja folk. Vi skulle kunna upprätta läkarmottagning och preventivmedelsrådgivning. Många behöver tandvård, förklarar Sven Hovmöller. Romska grupper Romerna i Sverige är en heterogen grupp. Det finns många olika romska grupper och olika variationer av språket romani chib. Här presenteras några av dem: Resandefolket, räknas som en del av den romska minoriteten. Har levt i Sverige sedan 1500-talet, kanske ännu längre, och ofta sysslat med hantverk och försäljning. De flesta resande har, tvärtemot vad många tror, varit bofasta. Deras handelsresor har ofta varit korta i området. Resandefolket pratar en form av det romska språket romani. Romanofolket (resande som ser sig som romer) som kom till Sverige på 1500-talet. Romanofolket har också en egen dialekt, svensk romani. Svenska romer som kom i slutet av 1800-talet från Ryssland och Frankrike och blev kallade zigenare i Sverige. Finska romer som kom på 50-talet från Finland. Många förknippar alla romer med den finskromska kulturen, där kvinnorna har typiska romska dräkter, kalédräkten. Utomnordiska romer kom på 60-talet från Östeuropa, många hade överlevt förintelsen och kom från mycket fattiga förhållanden. Nyanlända romer har kommit under de senaste 20 åren, oftast från Balkan, Bulgarien och Rumänien, och ofta från mycket fattiga förhållanden. Låtlista: 12:03 Esma Redzepova - Djelem Djelem 12:03 Esma Redzepova - Djelem Djelem 12:07 Hilja Grönfors, Latso Dzinta - Punaruusut 12:10 Anneli Sari - Gari Gari 12:15 Robert Lakatos - Round About Midnight - 8 Trios For 4 Pianists 12:22 Bela Babai - Caprice Tzigany 12:27 Authentic Gypsies - Gelem, Gelem 12:33 Carmen Amaya, Sabicas - Fiesta De Jerez 12:43 Ulla Billquist, Sven Rüno - Du Svarte Zigenare 12:47 Iva Bittova - Fragment 1 12:50 Iva Bittová - Plivám Z Plev Pýru 12:53 Ewa Podles, Lukasz Borowicz, Polska Radions Symfoniorkester (Warszawa) - Il Trovatore: Akt 2, "Stride La Vampa" 12:56 Ewa Podles, Lukasz Borowicz, Polska Radions Symfoniorkester (Warszawa) - Il Trovatore: Akt 2, "Stride La Vampa"

Vi möter pianisten Robert Lakatos, författaren Lawen Mohtadi, sakkunnige Domino Kai, aktivisten Diana Nyman och Sven Hovmöller från "Hemlösa EU-migranter". Del 2 av 5 av Birgitta Tollan. Den prisbelönta radioproducenten Birgitta Tollans nya serie har titeln ”Romer och musik”. Fem program som visar den rika musikkultur som romer har bidragit med till vårt globala musikarv. Pianisten Robert Lakatos har 12 pianister i familjen. Hans far Béla Szakcsi Lakatos är en mycket känd pianist i Ungern. Robert Lakatos behärskar jazz, folkmusik och klassisk musik och planerar flera utgivningar av Bachs Pianokonserter. Tillvaron som musiker i Budapest och i hela Ungern, fr a för romska musiker, krymper för varje vecka. Robert blir deprimerad när han tänker på den politiska situationen i hemlandet. Han och hans fru, pianopedagog, vill flytta från Budapest p g a den starka antiziganismen i hemlandet. Robert Lakatos’ morbror flyttade också från Budapest. Han var den välkände violinisten Bela Babai, som från 1953 och under många år framåt spelade på Czardas Hungarian Restaurant på Waldorf-Astoria Hotel i New York. -Musik är passion och arbete, men även tröst och skydd mot lidande och diskriminering, säger Robert Lakatos. Författaren och och förläggaren Lawen Mohtadi skrev boken Den dag jag blir fri om författaren och medborgarrättsaktivisten Katarina Taikon och Lawen Mohtadi skrev manus till filmen Taikon. Katarina Taikon lärde sig läsa och skriva först som 26-åring, men blev en av Sveriges mest lästa författare. Hon skrev ett 20-tal böcker, varav 12 var barn- och ungdomsböcker om flickan Katitzi. Lawen Mohtadi kallar Katarina Taikon för ”Sveriges Martin Luther King”. - När Martin Luther King var i Sverige 1964 sammanfördes de två av unga fredsaktivister. King blev förvånad över att Sverige också hade problem med diskriminering och rasism och att en stor grupp i samhället inte hade bostäder. Katarina Taikon föddes i ett tält och förde en livslång kamp för romernas medborgerliga rättigheter i Sverige. Tillsammans med aktivister och kulturpersonligheter arbetade hon för att tömma tältlägren som romer bodde i och för romers rätt till skolgång, säger Lawen Mohtadi. Domino Kai är politisk sekreterare i Europaparlamentet och i riksdagen. Han var anställd hos Diskrimineringsombudsmannen i drygt sex år. Domino Kai är utbildad dramapedagog och för honom är kultur en viktig plattform för arbetet med minoriteters rättigheter. Han vill starta en Marshallplan för romer i Europa. -Jag blev riktigt medveten om att andra tycker att jag och vi romer är fel när jag var åtta år och var med min bror och mina föräldrar på ett fik i stan. En kvinna sa åt oss att vi skulle gå därifrån. Vår far uppmanade oss att lämna caféet och sa att "Det blir så ibland", berättar Domino Kai. Diana Nyman är den romska kvinna som blev utslängd från Hotell Sheratons frukostmatsal i Stockholm samma dag som hon skulle vara med och presentera regeringens Vitbok om diskriminering mot romer och annan antiziganism. Hon har varit aktivist i romska frågor i 20 år, ledamot i regeringens Kommission mot antiziganism, hon är ordförande i Romska Rådet i Göteborg och samrådspartner till Göteborgs Pilotkommunsprojekt, vilket skall visa vägen i arbetet för romsk inkludering. Hennes farbror Aleka Stobin arbetade i mer än 30 år aktivt för sitt folks rättigheter i samhället. Han valdes till ordförande i Stockholms Finska Zigenarförening i början av 1970-talet och blev den första ordföranden i Nordiska Zigenarrådet. -Aleka Stobins rättighetspatos har jag ärvt, säger Diana Nyman, som kämpar mot kränkningar och orättvisor, vilka ibland får henne att känna sig som en tredje klassens medborgare. Sven Hovmöller är vice ordförande i föreningen Hemlösa EU-Migranter, har gjort över 100 lägerbesök hos fr a rumänska romer i Stockholmsområdet. En enda gång har han hört någon av romerna spela musik. -Romer i Sverige idag är utsatta för avhysningar, våldsamma attacker och mord, precis som i Östeuropa, där romer lever i en enorm misär utan tillgång till rättigheter. I Sverige lägger myndigheterna ner miljontals kronor på att förstöra EU-migranternas läger. Med samma mål som under 1700-talet då "zigenare" inte fick vistas i Sverige: "Vi gör livet så outhärdligt för dem att de frivilligt lämnar landet", säger Sven Hovmöller, som har en plan över hur tiggarna på våra gator skulle kunna få ett drägligare liv. -Gör som i Sydafrikas kåkstäder. Hjälp människor med toaletter, elektricitet och enklare bostäder. Bygg gärna en gemensam lokal där de kan spela musik och ha svenskundervisning. Vi kan ge dem samhällsinformation om: sopsortering, allemansrätten, juridik, information om att man inte får röka i tunnelbanan, inte tigga aggressivt, inte förfölja folk. Vi skulle kunna upprätta läkarmottagning och preventivmedelsrådgivning. Många behöver tandvård, förklarar Sven Hovmöller. Romska grupper Romerna i Sverige är en heterogen grupp. Det finns många olika romska grupper och olika variationer av språket romani chib. Här presenteras några av dem: Resandefolket, räknas som en del av den romska minoriteten. Har levt i Sverige sedan 1500-talet, kanske ännu längre, och ofta sysslat med hantverk och försäljning. De flesta resande har, tvärtemot vad många tror, varit bofasta. Deras handelsresor har ofta varit korta i området. Resandefolket pratar en form av det romska språket romani. Romanofolket (resande som ser sig som romer) som kom till Sverige på 1500-talet. Romanofolket har också en egen dialekt, svensk romani. Svenska romer som kom i slutet av 1800-talet från Ryssland och Frankrike och blev kallade zigenare i Sverige. Finska romer som kom på 50-talet från Finland. Många förknippar alla romer med den finskromska kulturen, där kvinnorna har typiska romska dräkter, kalédräkten. Utomnordiska romer kom på 60-talet från Östeuropa, många hade överlevt förintelsen och kom från mycket fattiga förhållanden. Nyanlända romer har kommit under de senaste 20 åren, oftast från Balkan, Bulgarien och Rumänien, och ofta från mycket fattiga förhållanden.

With nearly 30 years of experience in the hospitality industry, Keith is a career hospitality executive. Having graduated from the Cornell University Hotel School, he went on to work at Waldorf=Astoria Hotel before embarking upon a career in hospitality executive search. He was the CEO & founder of HVS Executive Search before joining AETHOS Consulting Group. A frequent lecturer on industry related issues, Keith has written more than 100 articles on the topics of executive selection, pay-for-performance, corporate governance and executive leadership. He is currently writing his first book, The Loneliness of Leadership.

To help new people them find their way, Al Ridella and CJ Wescott of 4 Wall Entertainment reached out to DJs and nascent production companies working in events in the NY Metro, and invited them to a panel discussion about this end of the business. Your host was one of the panelists, as were Zach Lambrinon of Intelligent Lighting at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, and Zakaria Al-Alami of Arc3 Design and Jazz At Lincoln Center.

Steve Cohen is one of the most respected contemporary magicians in the world. He performs regularly at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York. Steve talks about his show Chamber Magic, which recreates the intimacy of popular 19th century parlor magic. Cohen, who is known as the Millionaires' Magician, has made a fortune performing tricks for some of the richest people in America. But his success didn't come without risks, both personal and financial.

I chatted with executive chef David Garcelon as he prepared a Waldorf Salad on the 18th floor of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in midtown Manhattan. With clips from Cole Porter’s famous song: 'You’re the top' and the hilarious bit from Fawlty Towers about the renowned salad.

The "Millionaires' Magician" joins us on the Magic Newswire after appearing on the cover of current issue of Genii Magazine. Performing in the Duke and Duchess of Windsor's Royal Suiteat the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City, Steve Cohen presents an intimate evening of magical entertainment in the tradition of such legendary performers as Max Malini, Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser and Robert Houdin. Join us on the Magic Newswire for our interview with Chamber Magic's Steve Cohen!

Episode 021 notes/references/links (new) Tragedy and Hope dot com Welcome and Introduction Video Invitation to the T&H online community John F. Kennedy Speech / April 27, 1961 @ The American Newspaper Publishers Association held at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City: 1.       (mp3)  http://www.archive.org/details/jfks19610427 2.       (reference also:  mp3, pdf, transcript @ the JFK Presidential Library) Definitions: 1.       Templars / 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica 2.       Jesuits or “The Society of Jesus”  / 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica 3.       Illuminati / 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica 4.       Anti-Masonic Party / 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica 5.       Zionism / 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica References: 1.       Clark Clifford / National Security Act / BCCI Scandal 2.       The Letters of George Washington from the original manuscript sources 1745-1799, University of Virginia a.        September 25, 1798: “I have heard much of the nefarious, and dangerous plan, and doctrines of the Illuminati, but never saw the Book until you were pleased to send it to me. 9 The same causes which have prevented my acknowledging the receipt of your letter have prevented my reading the Book, hitherto; namely, the multiplicity of matters which pressed upon me before, and the debilitated state in which I was left after, a severe fever had been removed. And which allows me to add little more now, than thanks for your kind wishes and favourable sentiments, except to correct an error you have run into, of my Presiding over the English lodges in this Country. The fact is, I preside over none, nor have I been in one more than once or twice, within the last thirty years. I believe notwithstanding, that none of the Lodges in this Country are contaminated with the principles ascribed to the Society of the Illuminati. With respect I am &c.” [Note: In a letter from Snyder (Aug. 22, 1798, which is in the Washington Papers ), it is stated that this book "gives a full Account of a Society of Free-Masons, that distinguishes itself by the Name of 'Illuminati,' whose Plan is to overturn all Government and all Religion, even natural.]  Click here for a photo of George Washington's letter in his own handwriting. b.        October 24, 1798:  “Mount Vernon, October 24, 1798. Revd Sir: I have your favor of the 17th. instant before me; and my only motive to trouble you with the receipt of this letter, is to explain, and correct a mistake which I perceive the hurry in which I am obliged, often, to write letters, have led you into.   It was not my intention to doubt that, the Doctrines of the Illuminati, and principles of Jacobinism had not spread in the United States. On the contrary, no one is more truly satisfied of this fact than I am. The idea that I meant to convey, was, that I did not believe that the Lodges of Free Masons in this Country had, as Societies, endeavoured to propagate the diabolical tenets of the first, or pernicious principles of the latter (if they are susceptible of seperation). That Individuals of them may have done it, or that the founder, or instrument employed to found, the Democratic Societies in the United States, may have had these objects; and actually had a seperation of the People from their Government in view, is too evident to be questioned.  My occupations are such, that but little leisure is allowed me to read News Papers, or Books of any kind; the reading of letters, and preparing answers, absorb much of my time. With respect, etc.” Click here for a photo of George Washington's letter in his own handwriting. 3.       John Quincy Adams / Letters on Freemasonry 4.       Moses Hess / Revival of Israel (orig published 1862) from library of Harvard University Media Clips and Books referenced: 1.       Empire: Hollywood and the War Machine 2.       Reel Bad Arabs 3.       Ben Affleck / Bill Maher 4.       P861 from Morals and Dogma by Albert Pike, Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret 5.       Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World by Margaret MacMillian 6.       Invisible Empire by Jason Bermas 7.       The Hidden History of Zionism by Ralph Schoenman 8.       Facts are Facts by Benjamin Freedman (mp3) (transcript) 9.       Last will and Testament of Cecil Rhodes by William T. Stead 10.   “Sand Storms the Middle East” by Richard Grove, see also: References for Sand Storms the Middle East 11.   Gnostic Media podcast 106 w/ Mark Passio 12.   Gnostic Media podcast 054 w/ Rabbi Dovid Ysrael Weiss, podcast 087 w/ Norman Finkelstein “Gaza” 13.   Rudyard Kipling and the Swastika: “Many older editions of Rudyard Kipling's books have a swastika printed on their covers associated with a picture of an elephant carrying a lotus flower…. ” (more) 14.   Karl Marx, on Freemasonry 15.   Moses Hess / Revival of Israel (orig published 1862) from library of Harvard University 16.   Glitter and Greed: The Secret World of the Diamond Cartel, by Janine Roberts 17.   The Diamond Empire, 1995 Frontline Documentary 18.   Definition of apocalypse: An Apocalypse (Greek: Ἀποκάλυψις Apokálypsis; "lifting of the veil" or "revelation") is a disclosure of something hidden from the majority of mankind in an era dominated by falsehood and misconception, i.e. the veil to be lifted (Video) Secret Societies: An Institutional Analysis by Richard Grove (02.16.11) Peace Revolution partner podcasts: Corbett Report dot com Media Monarchy dot com Gnostic Media Podcast School Sucks Project Podcast Meria dot net Other productions of ours: Sky TV Channel Listings for Hijacking Humanity by Paul Verge (2006) Top Documentary Films dot com: Hijacking Humanity by Paul Verge (2006) Top Documentary Films dot com: Exposing the Noble Lie (2010) Top Documentary Films dot com: The Pharmacratic Inquisition by Jan Irvin (2007) THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT! 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Episode 021 notes/references/links(new) Tragedy and Hope dot com Welcome and Introduction VideoInvitation to the T&H online communityJohn F. Kennedy Speech / April 27, 1961 @ The American Newspaper Publishers Association held at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City:1.       (mp3)  http://www.archive.org/details/jfks196104272.       (reference also:  mp3, pdf, transcript @ the JFK Presidential Library)Definitions:1.       Templars / 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica2.       Jesuits or “The Society of Jesus”  / 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica3.       Illuminati / 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica4.       Anti-Masonic Party / 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica5.       Zionism / 1911 Encyclopedia BritannicaReferences:1.       Clark Clifford / National Security Act / BCCI Scandal2.       The Letters of George Washington from the original manuscript sources 1745-1799, University of Virginiaa.        September 25, 1798: “I have heard much of the nefarious, and dangerous plan, and doctrines of the Illuminati, but never saw the Book until you were pleased to send it to me. 9 The same causes which have prevented my acknowledging the receipt of your letter have prevented my reading the Book, hitherto; namely, the multiplicity of matters which pressed upon me before, and the debilitated state in which I was left after, a severe fever had been removed. And which allows me to add little more now, than thanks for your kind wishes and favourable sentiments, except to correct an error you have run into, of my Presiding over the English lodges in this Country. The fact is, I preside over none, nor have I been in one more than once or twice, within the last thirty years. I believe notwithstanding, that none of the Lodges in this Country are contaminated with the principles ascribed to the Society of the Illuminati. With respect I am &c.” [Note: In a letter from Snyder (Aug. 22, 1798, which is in the Washington Papers ), it is stated that this book "gives a full Account of a Society of Free-Masons, that distinguishes itself by the Name of 'Illuminati,' whose Plan is to overturn all Government and all Religion, even natural.]  Click here for a photo of George Washington's letter in his own handwriting.b.        October 24, 1798:  “Mount Vernon, October 24, 1798. Revd Sir: I have your favor of the 17th. instant before me; and my only motive to trouble you with the receipt of this letter, is to explain, and correct a mistake which I perceive the hurry in which I am obliged, often, to write letters, have led you into.   It was not my intention to doubt that, the Doctrines of the Illuminati, and principles of Jacobinism had not spread in the United States. On the contrary, no one is more truly satisfied of this fact than I am. The idea that I meant to convey, was, that I did not believe that the Lodges of Free Masons in this Country had, as Societies, endeavoured to propagate the diabolical tenets of the first, or pernicious principles of the latter (if they are susceptible of seperation). That Individuals of them may have done it, or that the founder, or instrument employed to found, the Democratic Societies in the United States, may have had these objects; and actually had a seperation of the People from their Government in view, is too evident to be questioned.  My occupations are such, that but little leisure is allowed me to read News Papers, or Books of any kind; the reading of letters, and preparing answers, absorb much of my time. With respect, etc.” Click here for a photo of George Washington's letter in his own handwriting.3.       John Quincy Adams / Letters on Freemasonry4.       Moses Hess / Revival of Israel (orig published 1862) from library of Harvard UniversityMedia Clips and Books referenced:1.       Empire: Hollywood and the War Machine2.       Reel Bad Arabs3.       Ben Affleck / Bill Maher4.       P861 from Morals and Dogma by Albert Pike, Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret5.       Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World by Margaret MacMillian6.       Invisible Empire by Jason Bermas7.       The Hidden History of Zionism by Ralph Schoenman8.       Facts are Facts by Benjamin Freedman (mp3) (transcript)9.       Last will and Testament of Cecil Rhodes by William T. Stead10.   “Sand Storms the Middle East” by Richard Grove, see also: References for Sand Storms the Middle East11.   Gnostic Media podcast 106 w/ Mark Passio12.   Gnostic Media podcast 054 w/ Rabbi Dovid Ysrael Weiss, podcast 087 w/ Norman Finkelstein “Gaza”13.   Rudyard Kipling and the Swastika: “Many older editions of Rudyard Kipling's books have a swastika printed on their covers associated with a picture of an elephant carrying a lotus flower…. ” (more)14.   Karl Marx, on Freemasonry15.   Moses Hess / Revival of Israel (orig published 1862) from library of Harvard University16.   Glitter and Greed: The Secret World of the Diamond Cartel, by Janine Roberts17.   The Diamond Empire, 1995 Frontline Documentary18.   Definition of apocalypse: An Apocalypse (Greek: Ἀποκάλυψις Apokálypsis; "lifting of the veil" or "revelation") is a disclosure of something hidden from the majority of mankind in an era dominated by falsehood and misconception, i.e. the veil to be lifted(Video) Secret Societies: An Institutional Analysis by Richard Grove (02.16.11)Peace Revolution partner podcasts:Corbett Report dot comMedia Monarchy dot comGnostic Media PodcastSchool Sucks Project PodcastMeria dot netOther productions of ours:Sky TV Channel Listings for Hijacking Humanity by Paul Verge (2006)Top Documentary Films dot com: Hijacking Humanity by Paul Verge (2006)Top Documentary Films dot com: Exposing the Noble Lie (2010)Top Documentary Films dot com: The Pharmacratic Inquisition by Jan Irvin (2007)THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT! 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We're going to the 'original' Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in this podcast to hang with the filthy rich. Our guides are the styling and eccentric Astor family, the centerpiece of 19th Century New York wealth and society. Come along as we weave through a family tree of Williams and John Jacobs, not to mention THE Mrs. Astor, the one and only (even if there were really two). www.boweryboyspodcast.com

We're going to the 'original' Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in this podcast to hang with the filthy rich. Our guides are the styling and eccentric Astor family, the centerpiece of 19th Century New York wealth and society. Come along as we weave through a family tree of Williams and John Jacobs, not to mention THE Mrs. Astor, the one and only (even if there were really two). www.boweryboyspodcast.com Support the show.