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“The work of destruction is quick, easy and exhilarating; the work of creation slow, laborious and dull.” -Roger ScrutonLarry Richman (1934-2023) was born in Philadelphia and grew up on a small Bucks County chicken farm north of the city. He attended local schools and then Colorado College, where he was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and graduated with a BA in English in 1957. From Duke University, he received an MA in 1959 and a PhD in 1970.Larry went on to teach English at the Beaufort and Florence Centers of the University of South Carolina, Washington & Lee University, Agnes Scott College, Virginia Intermont College, and Virginia Highlands Community College, from which he retired as professor emeritus of English in 1998. He also served briefly as adjunct faculty for Vermont College.Larry was one of the founding editors of a nationally distributed poetry quarterly, The Sow's Ear Poetry Review. He and his wife, Ann, were editor-publishers of the Sow's Ear Press, which published 30 collections by poets from the upper South between 1994 and 2003. He was also one of the founders and the associate editor and advertising director of The Plow, an Appalachian alternative newsmagazine published by the nonprofit Appalachian Information. The magazine ran for four years in the late 1970s, producing a total of 72 issues. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

Commissioner Leland R. Miller is the co-founder and CEO of China Beige Book. A noted authority on China's economy and financial system, he is a frequent commentator on media outlets such as CNBC, Bloomberg TV, CNN, and FOX Business, and he has served as guest host of two of the financial world's top morning news shows, CNBC Squawk Box and Bloomberg Surveillance. His work is featured regularly in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Financial Times, Washington Post and many others. Before co-founding China Beige Book in 2010, Leland was a capital markets attorney based out of New York and Hong Kong and worked on the deal team at a major investment bank. He holds a law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was Hardy C. Dillard fellow and editor-in-chief of the International Law Journal; a master's degree in Chinese History from Oxford University; a BA in European History from Washington & Lee University; and a graduate Chinese language fellowship from Tunghai University (Taiwan). He returned to W&L as the Williams School's Executive-in-Residence in 2015. Leland is an elected member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, an elected life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a board member of the Global Interdependence Center, and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security at the Atlantic Council. Commissioner Miller was appointed by Speaker Mike Johnson for a term expiring December 31, 2025.

In this episode, Steve Fretzin and Tom Dunlap discuss:Letting go of the old things to promote the new things. The power in relinquishing control. The two paths to scaling. Finding the right fit for your team, clients, and fees.  Key Takeaways:Having your name on the door makes you the lightning rod for problems. It is not as big of a benefit as most lawyers think. If viable for your firm, consider bringing in non-lawyer team members who can help with the non-legal aspects of running a firm. You have to find the right fit clients in the right stage in the right scope. If some people don't say ‘no' to your fees, you're charging way too little.  "You went to law school to be a lawyer. The highest and best use of your time is the billable hour and getting clients and keeping them happy. If you want to manage a law firm, you should have professionals who work for you doing it." —  Tom Dunlap Find out more about the 10 Easy-to-Execute Hacks to Unlock Your Full Potential at: https://fretzin.com/events Thank you to our Sponsors!Lawmatics: https://www.lawmatics.com/bethatlawyer/Get Staffed Up: https://getstaffedup.com/bethatlawyer/Green Cardigan Marketing: https://greencardiganmarketing.com/ Episode References: The Snowball System: How to Win More Business and Turn Clients into Raving Fans by Mo Bunnell About Tom Dunlap: Tom is the managing partner of a law firm he does not run and is the better for it. Leveraging his time working in terrible law firm and corporate environments, and then leaving law to command a Recon Scout Platoon and Infantry company in the Us Army, together with a series of graduate projects crafted during his last years in an MBA program, much of Tom's time, not practicing law, has been spent building his national firm of more than 80 lawyers from the ground up as a place where lawyers want to be.In his legal practice as principally an IP and government contracts lawyer he has handlednumerous successful bid protests before the GAO and Court of Federal Claims, and  Federal district court jury and bench trials as lead counsel including a $12 million jury verdict in a patent infringement case doubled as a result of punitive damages to $24,635,000 in the Bunch of Balloons case, and a $2,600,000 jury counterclaim verdict in a copyright and commercial litigation dispute over Blackwater. He is the past president of the Loudoun County Bar Association and admitted to the state and Federal bars of Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, DC, VA, and MD and more than 30 other Federal Courts. Tom has repeatedly been a Washington, D.C., and Virginia SuperLawyer (2006 – 2024). Tom received his law degree from Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Virginia and earned an MBA and MS in Biotechnology at the University of Maryland. Outside of law, Tom founded a successful software company for first-person MMORPG gaming, and a biotechnology company, where he was also an inventor on patents are that currently the standard used by NIH for COVID wastewater surveillance (www.ceresnano.com). Tom is also a licensed instrument pilot, PADI Master SCUBA Diver, Freemason, and avid runner, recently completing the 2023 Paris Marathon. Connect with Tom Dunlap:  Website: dbllawyers.comShow: dbllawyers.com/podcasts-seasonsLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/tomdunlap & linkedin.com/company/dbllawyersTwitter: twitter.com/DBLLawyersFacebook: facebook.com/dbllawyersInstagram: instagram.com/dbl_lawyers Connect with Steve Fretzin:LinkedIn: Steve FretzinTwitter: @stevefretzinInstagram: @fretzinsteveFacebook: Fretzin, Inc.Website: Fretzin.comEmail: Steve@Fretzin.comBook: Legal Business Development Isn't Rocket Science and more!YouTube: Steve FretzinCall Steve directly at 847-602-6911  Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. 

Correspondent Tom Wilmer visits Stonewall Jackson's home in Lexington VA and Washington & Lee University where Robert E. Lee presided post-Civil War

Like or not, size sometimes matters. My guest today argues that it matters if you want to stay private. Is he right? He'll explain what he means, why he thinks it, and if you agree, how you can get started. Perrin DesPortes is one of the Co-Founders of Polaris Healthcare Partners. He is a Washington & Lee University graduate and earned his MBA from the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. Perrin has over 25 years of experience in the business side of dentistry, having run three different business units for Patterson Dental Supply over a 15-year career. Perrin is happily married and has an 8 year-old daughter at home. In his spare time, he is an avid cyclist and tennis player; enjoys cooking and reading; and loves good red wine and strong coffee. In this episode Carl White and Perrin DesPortes discuss:Who should consider building a group practiceThe challenges of building a group practiceThe consequences of staying small as a private practice Want to be a guest on PracticeCare?Have an experience with a business issue you think others will benefit from? Come on PracticeCare and tell the world! Here's the link where you can get the process started. Connect with Perrin DesPorteshttps://www.facebook.com/PolarisHealthcarePartnershttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMINy8AfUJRQ1xHogiMicUghttps://www.instagram.com/polaris_healthcare_partners/https://www.linkedin.com/company/polaris-healthcare-partners/?viewAsMember=true Connect with Carl WhiteWebsite: http://www.marketvisorygroup.comEmail:  whitec@marketvisorygroup.comFacebook:  https://www.facebook.com/marketvisorygroupYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD9BLCu_i2ezBj1ktUHVmigLinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/healthcaremktg 

Governor Youngkin blasts Democratic legislators in a speech at Washington & Lee University, and that may imperil his proposal to move DC sports teams to Virginia… Democrats force Republicans to vote on an abortion ban… A proposal to expand family and medical leave is still alive in the state Senate….

We recently hosted a group of global institutional clients from 23 different countries for an educational event in our San Mateo headquarters. This feature episode is a panel discussion that Tony moderated with Brooks Ritchey, chairman of K2 Advisors, and Peter Blue, head of Alternative Solutions at Franklin Templeton Investment Solutions. We hope you enjoy this special edition of our podcast series. *********       Brooks Ritchey joined K2 Advisors (a hedged strategies division of Franklin Templeton) in 2005 and is currently a Portfolio Manager and Chairman. He is also a voting member of the K2 Investment Committee. Prior responsibilities at K2 include Co-Chief Investment Officer, Co-Head of Investment Research & Management, and Head of Portfolio Construction. Mr. Ritchey works with clients and investment management teams to analyze market and macroeconomic conditions, help determine asset allocation tilts, and manage absolute return and multi-asset hedged portfolios. Mr. Ritchey began his investment career in 1982 as a proprietary trader for the NYSE Specialist Firm of Conklin, Cahill & Co. Since 1987, Mr. Ritchey has successfully managed multi-asset mutual fund and hedge fund portfolios for institutional and registered portfolios while located in New York and Paris. Prior employers include Steinhardt Partners, Citibank, Finch Asset Management, Paribas, AIG, and ING/Barings. Mr. Ritchey graduated from Franklin & Marshall College in 1982 with a B.A. in Business Administration and is Series 3 NFA registered. Peter Blue is the Head of Alternatives Solutions for Franklin Templeton Investment Solutions. He is responsible for the development and implementation of multi-asset alternatives capabilities for the Solutions team.  Most recently, he was a client portfolio manager, also for Franklin Templeton Investment Solutions. Mr. Blue focuses on designing, managing, and maintaining multi-asset investment solutions for institutional clients in the Americas. Prior to joining Franklin Templeton, Mr. Blue was an investment analyst at QS Investors, a quantitative multi-asset and equity manager, where he was responsible for leveraging the breadth of QS' capabilities in the creation of new and custom investment solutions. QS Investors combined with Franklin Templeton Multi-Asset Solutions in October 2020 to create Franklin Templeton Investment Solutions. Before QS Investors in 2019, Mr. Blue was an alternatives product specialist at Legg Mason. Previously, he held product development, business development, and investment analyst roles with Guggenheim Partners, AlphaMetrix and Cambridge Associates, respectively. Mr. Blue holds a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from Washington & Lee University, where he graduated magna cum laude. He also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) and Financial Risk Manager (FRM) designations. Mr. Blue is a member of the CFA Society New York and the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP).

In this episode I'm joined by Mike Singleton, head coach of men's soccer at Washington & Lee University in Lexington, VA and former associate head coach of the men's team at William & Mary in Williamsburg, VA Brendan Bourdage. These guys go fairly deep into their thoughts about their philosophies on coaching student athletes, developing leaders and all around good people.

This week we interviewed Ann Hatcher. Ann is a Senior Consultant at Thrivence, based in Nashville, with more than 25 years' experience in all areas of human capital. Prior to joining Thrivence in 2022, Ann was the Chief HR Officer role at Wellpath, a $2B private-equity backed healthcare company contracting with state and local governments. At Wellpath, Ann built a scalable HR function to support company growth. Prior to Wellpath, Ann held multiple VP roles at HCA Healthcare, one of the nation's largest publicly traded hospital companies. Ann received a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington & Lee University and Master of Business Administration from Belmont University. She serves on the board of the Urban League of Middle TN. She serves as Adjunct Faculty at Vanderbilt University's Master of Leadership and Organizational Performance. Ann and her husband Scott reside in Nashville, where they are cheering on their recent college graduate son Joseph.

Join Ben for his discussion with trial lawyers Larry and Lauren Acker from Travers City, Michigan.  Larry, who has spent his career trying legal and accounting malpractice claims, offers insights into how best to avoid having money embezzled from your law practice and how to avoid being sued for malpractice.  This father and daughter team discuss trying a recent accounting malpractice case together and the approach to communicating these types of cases to jurors. About Lawrence J. Acker_________________________Lawrence J. Acker, P.C/ The Acker Law Firm12930 S. West Bayshore DriveTraverse City, MI 49684248-229-1911 Education:B.A., Oakland University, Rochester MI 1970M.A.T., Oakland University, Rochester MI 1972J.D., Detroit College of Law, Detroit MI 1977 Practice Areas: Legal Malpractice Medical Malpractice Accounting Malpractice Family Law Fraud IssuesPersonal Injury Lawrence Acker is a trial attorney.  He has conducted trials in multiple Federal jurisdictions and multiple State Courts. He has conducted arbitration hearings at the American Arbitration Association, at JAMS and has served as a private arbitrator.Fellow of The American College of Trial Lawyers (FACTL 2007). Fellowship in the ACTL is available only by invitation. Fellows are inducted after rigorous investigation of adherence to the highest standards of trial performance and professional ethics. Membership is available to no more than 1% of the Trial Lawyers in the USA and Canada, after an attorney has established a reputation for excellence in trial advocacy.  Lawrence Acker served as Chairman of the State of Michigan Committee of the American College of Trial Lawyers for a two-year term (2019-2020). Lawrence Acker is a past member of the Michigan Character and Fitness Committee. Lawrence Acker has been recognized by The Best Lawyers in America, Martindale Hubbell Directory of Preeminent Attorneys and Michigan Super Lawyers Lawrence Acker has served on the Editorial Board of Michigan Lawyers Weekly.  He was nominated as “Lawyer of the Year” in 2002 by Lawyers Weekly.   Most recent trial completed: Lake Michigan Carferry vs. DeBoer Baumann, CPA firm. Mason County Circuit Court, Ludington, Michigan; Case No. 2019-000249-NM Entered judgment on jury verdict with interest 6/22/2023 in the amount of $746,918. Co-counsel Ms. Lauren Acker.  About Lauren AckerAssociate, Lawrence J. Acker, P.C/ The Acker Law Firm12930 S. West Bayshore DriveTraverse City, MI 49684 Education:J.D. William & Mary Law School, 2019B.A. Washington & Lee University, 2012 Admitted to Practice:MichiganDistrict of ColumbiaOregon Lauren has been assisting her father, Lawrence J Acker, with cases since November 2019, focusing on professional malpractice and personal injury.  Lauren is involved in all aspects of matters in Michigan State Courts and Federal Court including U.S. District Courts for the Eastern District of Michigan; Southern District of Texas, Houston Division; and Central District of California, Los Angeles.  Lauren sat second chair during a jury trial for accounting malpractice that resulted in the largest jury verdict in Mason County, Michigan.

Welcome back to episode two of our education mini series as Kyle Jones sits down with Jeremy Adams and Amanda Frank as they give us an in depth look into our local public schools. They discuss the pros and cons of schools starting at a later time as well as how to create change and where to start. Jeremy and Amanda express their concern for how connected students are to their phones and how distracting they can be. They both advise parents to be as involved as possible in their students' education as well as their personal lives. If you are having concerns about the new school year, tune into this week's episode!     Jeremy S. Adams is one of the most decorated educators in the state of California. In 2018, he was the first classroom teacher inducted into the California State University, Bakersfield, Hall of Fame. A graduate of Washington & Lee University and CSU Bakersfield, he has written on politics and education for the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Huffington Post, The Daily Caller, The American Conservative, New Discourses, The Daily Caller,, and many other outlets. He lives with his family in Bakersfield, California. Amanda Frank is the Kern Education Pledge Coordinator at the Kern County Superintendent of Schools. She has a passion for serving the community and believes that education is the great equalizer. In addition to her work with the Kern Education Pledge, Mrs. Frank serves as a trustee on the Norris School Board. She is actively involved in numerous leadership organizations and committees including The Plank Foundation, the Kern County School Boards Association, CSUB Executive Advisory Council for the School of Arts and Humanities, Blue Zones Steering Committee, the Greater Bakersfield Chamber's Governmental Review Committee and is a past chair of the Leadership Bakersfield Advisory.   LEARN MORE ABOUT JEREMY ADAMS: Website: https://bakersfield.kernhigh.org/ Email: jsa76@yahoo.com Instagram: @jeremysadams1976 LEARN MORE ABOUT NORRIS SCHOOL DISTRICT:  Website: www.norris.k12.ca.us/ Phone: 661-387-7000 Address: 6940 Calloway Dr, Bakersfield, CA 93312  

Christopher Gaiteri, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and Empire Innovation Scholar at SUNY Upstate Medical University. Dr. Gaiteri earned his undergraduate degree from Washington & Lee University and his doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh. He joined Rush University as assistant professor of neurological sciences and computational neuroscientist after serving as Research Scientist at the Allen Institute for Brain Science and Senior Scientist at Sage Bionetworks. In today's podcast, Dr. Gaiteri responds to the following questions: 1. What were the origins to your approach and how does it differ from the more traditional way of framing research about the onset and development of Alzheimer's disease? 2.  Statistical techniques such as factor analysis and canonical correlation were used in research to take a large number of measures of variables and allow those statistical techniques to sort out which of those variables covaried and which patterns emerged that could suggest relationships to be looked at more closely. In your approach using "big data" do you have a particular notion of which variables you select ought to covary? In other words, do you have a "pre-theory" that guides your selection of variables? 3.  Alzheimer's is nearly always associated with the aging process, perhaps implicitly arguing that the aging process alone is a causal agent for the onset and progression of the disease. More recently and not without some controversy, some researchers have suggested that aging itself should be considered a disease. From your perspective, does the question of age influence your view on how to go about framing analyses of data bearing on the inception and development of Alzheimer's? 4.  In your career to date, how has the leadership of organizations in which you have worked influenced you and your research? Are there characteristics of persons who hold leadership roles that you single out as especially important to your work? INNOVATORS is a podcast production of Harris Search Associates.  *The views and opinions shared by the guests on INNOVATORS do not necessarily reflect the views of the interviewee's institution or organization.*

This is the sermon from RUF Large Group at Washington & Lee University on May 9, 2023, by Willis Weatherford. Last Large Group of the spring - see you in the Fall! 

Many say on 9/11 "never forget," but days later, on Constitution Day (9/17), they forget the Constitution. But Constitution Day is a much much bigger deal, a much bigger day, and for a much, much longer period of time. That needs to change. Our 2022 Constitution Day special guest here on The Republican Professor podcast is Dr. Lucas Morel, Ph.D., the John K. Boardman, Jr., Professor of Politics at Washington & Lee University in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, right where the Civil War happened. Dr. Morel is the author of "Lincoln and the American Founding" (Southern Methodist University Press, 2020), a very nice slim volume packed with history, law, and wisdom. It's a book I myself am using this semester in my course on The American Founding at Azusa Pacific University in Lost Angeles County, a course originally designed by prof. Chris Flannery according to APU lore, and where our guest himself originally taught. The volume can be found here : https://www.amazon.com/Lincoln-American-Founding-Concise-Library/dp/0809337851/ref=sr_1_1?crid=E4JEGHO29WSN&keywords=lincoln+and+the+founding+morel&qid=1663195560&s=instant-video&sprefix=lincoln+and+the+founding+morel%2Cinstant-video%2C135&sr=1-1 Dr. Morel is originally from LA County and has black Hispanic heritage. Now he teaches at Washington & Lee University in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia. So we have a black guest , Lincoln scholar, who teaches at a university named after 2 slave holders, including one who was, in our guests' words, "a traitor," Robert E. Lee. (Lee was not a Republican). How to make sense of all this ? Well, Dr. Morel is an open book. He walks us through this fact pattern as well as through some of his book, whetting our appetite for more on Lincoln and the Founding while at the same time quenching our curiosity today. Dr. Morel helps us understand so many things about America, the Constitution, and the Declaration of Independence. This is an interesting episode and volume for many reasons, all having to do with how properly to contemplate the American Founding and later, the birth of the current Republican Party, which was founded in 1854, which led to the end of slavery in the United States. Dr. Morel is a wealth of valuable information, insight, and wisdom about how to make sense of the Founding, race and slavery. He has studied and taught this stuff for decades and his material is worth consuming. The Republican Professor podcast is a pro-correctly-contemplating the American Founding, pro-grasping-the-birth-of-the-Republican-Party, pro-abolishing-slavery, pro-best-of-American-statesmanship, pro-Abraham-Lincoln, pro-fundamentally-grasping-the-Constitution, pro-celebrating-Constitution-Day podcast. Therefore, welcome Dr. Lucas Morel, Ph.D., author of "Lincoln & the American Founding", John K. Boardman, Jr., Professor of Politics at Washington & Lee University, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, for TRP's 2022 Constitution Day episode. The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D. Be sure to subscribe ! Share this with a friend. Warmly, Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D. The Republican Professor Podcast The Republican Professor Newsletter on Substack https://therepublicanprofessor.substack.com/ https://www.therepublicanprofessor.com/podcast/ YouTube channel: The Republican Professor Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheRepublicanProfessor Twitter: @RepublicanProf Instagram: @the_republican_professor

We start off tonight by trying to match wits with that amateur detective who's also a mystery writer, the eponymous star of “The Adventures of Ellery Queen.”  This episode is another twisty one of multiple murders that requires you to really pay attention.  Then on “The College Quiz Bowl,” the best brains of Washington and Lee University go up against The University of Pittsburgh.  Although the material is from 70 years ago, this episode is packed with lots of questions that even we 21st century listeners should be able to answer and have fun with.  Are you up on types of nuts, adjectives from literature, and the finer points of women's clothing? Episodes The Adventures of Ellery Queen November 7, 1945 “The Message in Red” 1:41 The College Quiz Bowl March 21, 1954 “Washington & Lee University vs The University of Pittsburgh” 32:17

Some people are employed to fulfill their dream of being the boss, but our guest Chip Ridge made himself different by fulfilling his goal to serve others in the housing industry. Get to learn something different today as this episode covers title insurance and his deep knowledge about the good things happening in the future with the booming popularity of blockchain. Take advantage of the emerging technology, and listen in!   Key Takeaways From This Episode What is title insurance and its difference from other insurance An ideal business culture and operational structure to grow a title insurance business Blockchain technology vs. cryptocurrency Possible impacts of the blockchain on business processes, operations, and transactions How convenient it is to use blockchain technology in making secure and safer title insurance transactions Keys to solving homeownership and housing issues References/Links Mentioned Evicted by Matthew Desmond | Kindle and Paperback   About Chip Ridge Chip Ridge founded his first title company in 2002 and has over 20 years of expertise in the title business. In 2007, after growing his business into a success, he sold it to a local bank. Millennial Title, which he founded in Tampa, Florida, in 2005, has now expanded to 10 sites and has been granted licenses in 23 states. Encrypted Estates, a real estate settlement service powered by bitcoin, was introduced in 2021 by Millennial Title in an effort to streamline transactions, cut expenses, and improve security. Chip graduated from Washington & Lee University and earned an MBA from Vanderbilt University's Owen School. He is wed to Carrie, and together they have four kids. When he's not watching youngsters play sports, his passions outside of work include golf and horse racing.   Connect with Chip Ridge Website: Millennial Title LinkedIn: Chip Ridge Email: chip@millennialtitle.com   Neil J. Timmins is on a mission to make a deep personal impact in the lives of his team members and business partners through his work as a real estate investor and mentor. He started as a traditional real estate agent where his team was recognized by the Wall Street Journal as a Top 100 team. Eventually, he made the transition from Realtor to full time investor.  Over the course of his career, Neil has been involved in over $300,000,000 in real estate transactions. Neil's portfolio depth includes assets ranging from houses to industrial properties. Recently, Neil and his team launched the Legacy Impact Partner Program where they partner with fix and flip investors from around the country. Neil's team brings capital to fund and fix rehabs, operational expertise, and years of experience catapulting their partner's business to new heights. Want to partner? You can learn more and book a call with Neil at www.LegacyImpactPartners.com.   If you're a real estate investor looking to take your business to the next level, join the 5-Day 20x Profit Challenge for FREE by visiting https://www.20xprofitchallenge.com/realgrit.   Connect with Neil Website: Real Grit LinkedIn: Neil J. Timmins Facebook: Neil Timmins

In this special episode, co-host Phil Ordway speaks with Mary Childs, author of The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost It All. About the Guest: Mary Childs is a co-host of NPR's Planet Money podcast. Before joining the team in 2019, she was a senior reporter at Barron's magazine, where she covered the alternatives industry, the bond market and capitalism. Before that, she worked at the Financial Times and Bloomberg News. She's written about the pioneering of new asset classes like time, billionaire's proposals to solve inequality and diversity and discrimination in the finance industry. Before all that, she was also a Watson Fellow, spending a year traveling the world painting portraits. She graduated from Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, with a degree in business journalism and an honors thesis comparing the use and significance of media sting operations in the U.S. and India. Enjoy the conversation!   The primary purpose of this podcast is to educate and inform. The views, information, or opinions expressed by hosts or guests are their own. Neither this show, nor any of its content should be construed as investment advice or as a recommendation to buy or sell any particular security. Security specific information shared on this podcast should not be relied upon as a basis for your own investment decisions -- be sure to do your own research. The podcast hosts and participants may have a position in the securities mentioned, personally, through sub accounts and/or through separate funds and may change their holdings at any time.   About the Co-Hosts: Philip Ordway is Managing Principal and Portfolio Manager of Anabatic Fund, L.P. Previously, Philip was a partner at Chicago Fundamental Investment Partners (CFIP). At CFIP, which he joined in 2007, Philip was responsible for investments across the capital structure in various industries. Prior to joining CFIP, Philip was an analyst in structured corporate finance with Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. from 2002 to 2005. Philip earned his B.S. in Education & Social Policy and Economics from Northwestern University in 2002 and his M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in 2007, where he now serves as an Adjunct Professor in the Finance Department. Elliot Turner is a co-founder and Managing Partner, CIO at RGA Investment Advisors, LLC. RGA Investment Advisors runs a long-term, low turnover, growth at a reasonable price investment strategy seeking out global opportunities. Elliot focuses on discovering and analyzing long-term, high quality investment opportunities and strategic portfolio management. Prior to joining RGA, Elliot managed portfolios at at AustinWeston Asset Management LLC, Chimera Securities and T3 Capital. Elliot holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation as well as a Juris Doctor from Brooklyn Law School.. He also holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Emory University where he double majored in Political Science and Philosophy. John Mihaljevic leads MOI Global and serves as managing editor of The Manual of Ideas. He managed a private partnership, Mihaljevic Partners LP, from 2005-2016. John is a winner of the Value Investors Club's prize for best investment idea. He is a trained capital allocator, having studied under Yale University Chief Investment Officer David Swensen and served as Research Assistant to Nobel Laureate James Tobin. John holds a BA in Economics, summa cum laude, from Yale and is a CFA charterholder.

Our guest this week is Mary Childs. Mary is a cohost and correspondent for National Public Radio's Planet Money. Previously, she was a reporter at Barron's magazine and before that, a reporter at the Financial Times and Bloomberg News. She received her bachelor's degree in business journalism from Washington & Lee University. Mary is the author of a new biography about the iconic Pimco bond fund manager, Bill Gross. It's called the The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost It All. We spent this episode delving into the book with Mary's help.BackgroundBioPlanet Money podcastThe Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost It All, by Mary ChildsPimco Total Return Analyst ReportEarly Life and CareerBeat the Dealer, by Ed Thorpe“The Strange Billionaire Who Revolutionized the Bond Market,” by Greg Rosalsky, npr.org, March 15, 2022.“Bill Gross Made the Bond Market What It Is Today,” by Mary Childs, barrons.com, Feb. 8, 2019.Psychology and MotivationsJeffrey Gundlach“Gross Friendly to Fannie and Freddie,” by Bloomberg News, investmentnews.com, Oct. 31, 2011.“Pimco Shook Hands With the Fed—and Made a Killing,” by Reuters, cnbc.com, Sept. 27, 2013.“Special Report—The Twilight of the Bond King,” by Jennifer Ablan and Matthew Goldstein, reuters.com, Feb. 9, 2012.“Announcing the Morningstar Fund Managers of the Decade,” by Karen Dolan, Morningstar.com, Jan. 12, 2010.“Fall of the Bond King: How Gross Lost Empire as Pimco Cracked,” by Mary Childs, Bloomberg.com, Dec. 2, 2014.“Inside the Showdown Atop Pimco, the World's Biggest Bond Firm,” by Gregory Zuckerman and Kirsten Grind, wsj.com, Feb. 24, 2014.“Pimco Dissidents Challenge Bill Gross in ‘Happy Kingdom,'” by Mary Childs, Bloomberg.com, July 8, 2014.“Gross: Economy Can't Survive Much Higher Rates,” keynote presentation at the Morningstar Investment Conference, Morningstar.com, June 25, 2014.Gross' Departure From PimcoMohamed El-Erian“Exclusive: Pimco's Gross Declares El-Erian Is ‘Trying to Undermine Me,'” by Jennifer Ablan, reuters.com, March 6, 2014.“5 Years Later: Pimco Total Return,” by John Rekenthaler, Morningstar.com, June 26, 2018.“Pimco in the Post-Gross Era,” by Eric Jacobson, Morningstar.com, Dec. 26, 2017.“Gross Loses Pimco Power Struggle With ‘Stunning' Exit,” by Mary Childs and Alexis Leondis, Bloomberg.com, Sept. 26, 2014.

LIVE ON CLIFF'S NOTESTODAY @ 1:00PM CSTANDREW FRANKLINAndrew is a graduate of Washington & Lee University. Before joining The Franklin Team (one of the top residential real estate teams in the country), Andrew worked in investment banking for approximately 6 years. Andrew has been around residential real estate since he was a kid and learned early that putting clients' needs first is always smart business. In the 7 years he has been an owner/partner of The Franklin Team, he has helped grow the business to over double in size. The Franklin Team moved to eXp Realty in September 2018, and they currently sell more real estate than any other team in the entire company.Closed approximately 1,800 homes in 2020Closed over $600 million in production in 2020Houston Business Journal:Top 25 Realtors: 1996-2021Ranked #2 for Gross Dollar Volume of Closed Sales in 2020 for a large team in the City of HoustonRanked #2 for Number of Transactions Closed in 2020 for a large team in the City of HoustonWall Street Journal: Ranked #16 in the country for amount of transactions by a mega teamRanked #18 in the country for sales volume by a mega teameXp Realty:Awarded #1 Team in the World with eXp Realty#1 Team in #1 Community in the USA - Cinco Ranch for over 20 years#1 Team in Cross Creek Ranch & Firethorne since 2009-2020#1 Team in Towne Lake in 2016-2020#1 Team in Bridgeland in 2017-2020#1 Team in Elyson in 2018-2020#1 Team in Grand Central Park in 2019#1 Team in Harvest Green in 2019#1 Team in Jordan Ranch in 2019#1 Team in Meridiana in 2018#1 Team in Cane Island in 2016Join us LIVE right here! https://bit.ly/FB-CliffFreemanJr ️Listen to all of the past Cliff's Notes episodes on iTunes: http://bit.ly/itunesCliffsNotes View all of our previously recorded Cliff's Notes episodes on YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTubeCliffsNotes

Jeremy S. Adams is one of the most decorated educators in the state of California. In 2018, he was the first classroom teacher inducted into the California State University Bakersfield Hall of Fame. A graduate of Washington & Lee University and CSU-Bakersfield, he has written on politics and education for the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Huffington Post, The Daily Caller, The American Conservative, New Discourses, and many other outlets.  Kyle and Scott discuss Jeremy's new book, Hollowed Out. Jeremy explains how teachers and their classrooms have gone through recent changes. Students are now more reliant on technology and are struggling to interact with others. However, Jeremy ends with an explanation on how we can help America's next generation.  LEARN MORE ABOUT JEREMY ADAMS:  Email: jsa76@yahoo.com Instagram: @jeremyadams1976 Link to his book: Hollowed_Out  

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Today I am interviewing Cameron Huddleston. And we're talking about parents and making sure that we've had important conversations with our parents about financial planning and what's important to them. How do they see their financial needs as they age and what we can do to help them prepare for a smoother transition, whether that be because they're not able to take care of themselves or in the case of their passing. It's not an easy conversation. Cameron has written a book about it- Mom and Dad, We Need to Talk. I love her work. I love how she, so committed to making a difference in the world, to making this transition easier for families. I know you'll love this conversation and please, please, please take heed and do what she's suggesting. Enjoy. She shared this - "...And so having these conversations with your parents while they're young and healthy, so that they can look, explore those options so that they can meet with a planner if necessary to come up with a plan to pay for long-term care, or so that they can tell you, look, we're counting on you, to help care for us. Well, then you might need to make some changes in your own financial situation. It might mean, you know, getting a side hustle now so that you can save up extra money in case you have to stop working, it might mean talking to your siblings and saying, Hey, Mom and Dad are counting on us to care for them. I have an idea. We can afford if we chip in together to buy them a long-term care insurance policy. So let's do that. Let's get them long-term care insurance to help cover the cost of care because I can't quit my job. And you might not be able to quit your job either because you've got kids to support. So like I said, having these conversations is going to allow you to create a plan..." Cameron Huddleston is the author of "Mom and Dad, We Need to Talk: How to Have Essential Conversations With Your Parents About Their Finances". She also is an award-winning journalist with 20 years of experience writing about personal finance. Her work has appeared in Forbes, Kiplinger's Personal Finance, Chicago Tribune, MSN, Yahoo and many, more print and online publications. U.S. News & World Report named her one of the top personal finance experts to follow on Twitter, and AOL Daily Finance named her one of the top 20 personal finance influencers to follow on Twitter. She has appeared on CNBC, MSNBC, CNN and “Fox & Friends” and has been a guest on ABC News Radio, Wall Street Journal Radio, NPR and more than 30 podcasts. She also has been interviewed and quoted as an expert in The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, BBC.com, MarketWatch and more. Cameron has an MA in Economic Journalism from American University and BA in Journalism and Russian studies from Washington & Lee University.

      Event Overview Join Michael Zeldin as he speaks with CNN Legal Analyst Asha Rangappa and MSNBC Legal Analyst Glenn Kirschner as they discuss the legal issues faced by former President Trump and his ecosystem. Topics will include Trump's attacks on the social media companies which banned him from their platforms, the criminal indictment and continuing investigation of Weisselberg and the Trump Organization by the Manhattan District Attorney's office and the Department of Justice investigations, and prosecutions of the January 6th insurrections among others.  Guests Glenn Kirschner, MSNBC Legal Analyst Glenn is a former federal prosecutor with 30 years of trial experience.  He served in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia for 24 years, rising to the position of Chief of the Homicide Section.  In that capacity, Glenn supervised 30 homicide prosecutors and oversaw all homicide grand jury investigations and prosecutions in Washington, DC. Prior to joining the DC U.S. Attorney's Office, Glenn served more than six years on active duty as an Army Judge Advocate General (JAG) prosecutor, trying court-martial cases and handling criminal appeals, including espionage and death penalty cases. Glenn tried hundreds of cases in his 30 years as a prosecutor, including more than 50 murder trials, multiple lengthy RICO trials and precedent-setting cases.  His cases have been made into major motion pictures (murder conviction of a sophisticated con man who ran in elite DC circles, subject of upcoming film “Georgetown”, starring Vanessa Redgrave, Christoph Waltz and Annette Bening) and TV documentaries (defendant Andre Burno convicted of the ambush shooting of an on-duty police officer, subject of the Emmy Award-winning HBO documentary, “Thug Life in DC”). Glenn has lectured at Federal Bar Association seminars, judicial conferences and professional association events.  He has presented at the National Advocacy Center on the topic of homicide prosecutions and taught advanced criminal law at George Washington University School of Law as an adjunct faculty member.  He traveled as a Department of Justice representative to address Ukrainian prosecutors and detectives regarding the U.S. Criminal justice system. As an Army JAG, Glenn served as prosecutor at Fort Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, where he handled dozens of court-martial cases and served as legal advisor to Army commanders on criminal justice matters. He then served as an Army appellate attorney at the U.S. Army Legal Services Agency in Falls Church, Virginia, where he handled death penalty and espionage cases, among others. Glenn attended Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Virginia and was First-Team All American football player in 1983.  In 1987, he graduated with honors from New England School of Law in Boston, where he was named a Trustee's Scholar. Glenn has received numerous awards, including: the Harold J. Sullivan Award for Fairness, Ethics and Trial Excellence; the John F. Evans Award for Outstanding Advocacy; the Metropolitan Police Department's Chief of Police Medal of Honor; the United States Attorney's Office STAR Award; U.S. Army Meritorious Service Medal; Washington & Lee University Athletic Hall of Fame Inductee; and upcoming induction in September 2018 into the American College of Trial Lawyers. Follow Glenn on Twitter: @glennkirschner2 Asha Rangappa, CNN Legal Analyst Asha Rangappa is a Senior Lecturer at Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs and a former Associate Dean at Yale Law School. Prior to her current position, Asha served as a Special Agent in the New York Division of the FBI, specializing in counterintelligence investigations.  Her work involved assessing threats to national security, conducting classified investigations on suspected foreign a...

In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Nate Wallace, co-host of Red Spin Sports podcast for another edition of our weekly segment “The Red Spin Report.” They discuss efforts to remove the name of Confederate general Robert E. Lee from Washington-Lee University in Virginia and Robert E. Lee High School in Jacksonville, Florida, as well as the intellectual bankruptcy of the “Lost Cause” narrative advanced by new-confederate factions.Nate coached high school football for the now (since desegregation & white flight) nearly all black Lee Generals (Jacksonville, Fla.) varsity football team in 2009 & 2010, and he connects how that experience -and the role team sports play more broadly in identity formation for players and alums- affects and complicates the issues of school names & mascots. As always, the social and political contradictions that exist as a natural byproduct of living under a fundamentally exploitative economic system that continues to fuel augmenting income & wealth inequality, are unpacked and explored within the context of the still ongoing battles over appropriately characterizing the Confederate government for what it was -and the logic of its reactionary ideology still is, a criminal enterprise built on naked economic exploitation, an unparalleled system of human trafficking, & the violently enforced bondage of the most basic human rights of enslaved African peoples. The enduring mythos of "The Lost Cause" is a testament to the power of white supremacy in these United States. Why? If not for the -racist decision- to abandon the promises made to emancipated peoples in the form of ending federal military reconstruction in 1877 (a decision long in the making by the time it became official), the militarily, but not necessarily ideologically, vanquished "redeemers of the South" never could have returned to power to institute a Jim Crow system of racialized terror in the 1880's and 1890's. Furthermore, "Lost Cause" propagandists such as the United Daughters of the Confederacy would not have had the political power to advance their ahistorical narratives into K-12 school curriculums across the states of the former Confederacy and beyond; it is precisely because of the UDC's ideological victory in being able to craft racist and classist narratives about the Civil War and what it was truly fought over (i.e. SLAVERY and the "rights" of slavers to expand their "peculiar institution" into the westward and rapidly expanding settler colonial geography of the mid 19th century United States).So the reality is as William Faulkner so accurately put it: "the past is not dead, in fact, it's not even past." Those words couldn't have been more true on Thursday, March 25th, in both the auditorium and overflow crowd in the adjacent library of Robert E. Lee High School in Jacksonville, Fla. Checkout the 90 seconds (I -Nate- could have managed better but was caught off guard after waiting nearly 4 hours to speak) I had to speak on this issue in the tweet below. Despite the self-criticism, it still gets at the core issue: the continued power of the fallacious "Lost Cause" narrative which tries to explain away why the "morally superior" Confederacy was vanquished on the battlefield. Those who ascribe to "Lost Cause" history are invariably delusional, masters of white "grievance politics," acting as if they are somehow "the victims" while ignoring and having contempt for all who dare point out the ahistorical contradictions their arguments rest upon. https://twitter.com/NateWallace9/status/1378023534048514054?s=20Recorded and aired on Friday, March 26th, 2021 in Washington, DC.If you enjoy Redspin Sports, please consider supporting our work on Patreon so we can produce more of it. The editing, equipment, podcast hosting, and other costs are the biggest barriers in the way of being able to churn out more content on a consistent basis.https://www.patreon.com/redspinsports...​@RedspinSports (Twitter & IG)@NateWallace9 (Twitter)@BrotherFlourish (Twitter)@JuiceTinTweets (Twitter)https://www.facebook.com/RedspinSport...​Checkout Redspin Sports on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, etc."By Any Means Necessary" airs on the radio in Washington DC and Kansas City, and streams worldwide every weekday afternoon from 2-4 pm EST.@SeanBlackmon9 (Twitter)@LuqmanNation1 (Twitter)@BAMNecessary (Twitter)

“I remember being compelled during [my first] visit [to Gilman] by things that we hear a lot today. Body, mind, spirit. Multi-sport athletes. Sharing athletes and how the coaches who might coach your primary sport are going to be the ones who push you to play another sport. I think that was true then, and that is true now. And that's part of the legacy of the school that I hope to be able to help carry forward.” // Russell Wrenn ‘96 is the co-Athletic Director at Gilman School, an Upper School English teacher, and an assistant baseball coach. He has spent time as a football and baseball coach at Westminster School, Dickinson College, and Johns Hopkins University. Russell is a graduate of Washington & Lee University, where he played football and baseball. // On Episode #42 of the Path to Follow Podcast, Jake and Russell discuss managing athletic teams and schedules during the pandemic, staying eternally optimistic, Russell's favorite part of being a student at Gilman, body~mind~spirit, the teachers and coaches who played a significant role in Russell's development, Dan Christian and Dante's ‘Divine Comedy', “Dante is everywhere,” deciding to study English and geology in college, questions to consider as a potential collegiate athlete, current trends worth discussing in the world of youth & high school sports, pros and cons of club sports, athletic specialization versus generalization, fond memories as a Gilman athlete, qualities Russell looks for in a coach, JHU baseball coach Bob Babb, growing up during COVID, and Russell's book recommendation: 'Artificial Maturity' by Tim Elmore (2012). // Enjoy the episode? Please spread the word and follow @pathtofollowpod on all platforms. More to come! //​ Many, many thanks to the all-powerful Cesare Ciccanti for all of his efforts on podcast production. //

Leonardo da Vinci was ahead of his time in painting remarkably delineated anatomical features. Art history professor, Dr. George Bent, Washington & Lee University, joins the show to discuss Leonardo's life, and this area of artistic excellence.

In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman Nate Wallace, co-host of Red Spin Sports podcast for another edition of our weekly segment “The Red Spin Report.” They discuss efforts to remove the name of Confederate general Robert E. Lee from Washington-Lee University in Virginia and Robert E. Lee High School in Florida, as well as the intellectual bankruptcy of the “Lost Cause” narrative advanced by new-confederate factions.

In this episode of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Ted Rall, award-winning editorial cartoonist and columnist, and author of the new book, “Political Suicide: The Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party,” to discuss Joe Biden's first press conference as US President over two months after being sworn in, Biden's refusal to honor the Afghan peace deal negotiated by his predecessor, Donald Trump, and the worrisome implications of Biden's aggressive rhetoric on immigration, foreign policy, and more.In the second segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Jammie Hale, a farmer and environmental activist from Giles County, Virginia, to discuss the recent arrests by Montgomery County sheriff's deputies of activists blocking construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, the grave environmental impacts the of the project, and why so many in his community continue to fiercely resist the financially dubious pipeline.In the third segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Nate Wallace, co-host of Red Spin Sports podcast for another edition of our weekly segment “The Red Spin Report.” They discuss efforts to remove the name of Confederate general Robert E. Lee from Washington-Lee University in Virginia and Robert E. Lee High School in Florida, as well as the intellectual bankruptcy of the “Lost Cause” narrative advanced by new-confederate factions.Later in the show, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Max Rameau, organizer with Pan-African Community Action and Haitian born political theorist and author of an upcoming book on Community Control Over Police, to discuss widespread outrage over President Biden's Creole-language tweet demanding Haitians stay in their country, the lengths to which the Duvalier dictatorship went to prevent the Haitian people from learning from the Cuban Revolution, and the significance of the massive container ship paralyzing global commerce.

 Connect with Michael and BobThe Climb on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-climb-podcast/Bob Wierema: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-wierema/Michael Moore: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelpmoore/Connect with Eric HymanLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-hyman-8861658/Eric, welcome to The Climb. We appreciate you joining us today. Well, thank you for having me.  And this is a fond one for Michael and I in that we have a great relationship with your son. Ryan is a partner of ours and a close and dear friend of ours. So, we're looking forward to the conversation. We won't spend too much time talking about Ryan because there's probably not enough time here to record all the issues with him, but we appreciate the time and have heard and learned a lot about you. I think maybe for the audience, just start with, what's the background, where'd you come from and then, walk us through today and Michael and I'll just bother you and interject with some questions. Sure. I'd be glad to give you a little bit of a background. I was in college athletics for 40 some years and as an athletic director for 28 of those 40 some years. But anyway, prior to that, I lived all over the country. My dad was in the service and I was recruited NAF out of Northern Virginia and went to the University of North Carolina as a football player and I was there until I graduated. And then I started from a university and I got my master's degree. At one time I wanted to be a superintendent of school systems, so I've got my administrative master's in administrative education. And then while there I coached football and then I coached for women's basketball with my wife on the college level, and so one thing led to another. So, I ended up coaching football for nine years, got my degree, and then was a full-time coach. Very fortunate, wonderful experience for me. Then I went into administration. For a couple of years, I worked with the individual that was going to be the President of the one athletic directors' association. I worked with him at Furman for two years. He was AD and then I became – at the ripe old age of 33 – an athletic director. I learned what to do and what not to do. That's what I always say to young people. Life is full of experiences for success and people learn from them.  So, I learned a lot, I made a lot of mistakes and I learned from those mistakes. And then I went to NC state and worked there for five years as the number two person, and then AD at Miami of Ohio and the athletic director at TCU, where I was fortunate to hire Gary Patterson, but I was also fortunate to hire a guy named Jim Schlossnagle who is a baseball coach.  So, then I went to South Carolina as the AD ­– I was the AD at TCU for seven years, South Carolina for seven years, and then I went to A&M and I was athletic director there for about four years. So that's been my professional path. I've done a lot of things, have been associated with a lot of people. I've had a wonderful, wonderful life, wonderful professional experience. Has it been easy? No. It has been challenging, obviously, because from a political standpoint and just the changes that are going on in college athletics, not only when I started but today. I feel that's probably the most challenging time being an athletic director ­­– today, because of what's taking place.  To a certain extent I'm glad I'm not AD anymore. I can sit back and armchair quarterback, ‘why didn't you do this? What did you do that?' I feel for the athletic directors today. So anyway, that gives you a little snapshot of my professional career. That's a very Reader's Digest, condensed version. And Eric, are you still consulting? Well, I was consulting until COVID. Then it came to a dead stop. If you've seen what's taken place in college athletics and obviously having to deal with the budget issues they're having to deal with is a major, major challenge. So, there's not a lot of financial flexibility to hire consultants and those kinds of things.  Being a consultant was very enjoyable. I enjoyed doing it, I had a lot of fun doing it, but then again, I could walk away from a situation. I did this in a couple of places as walk in, and the problems are somebody else's problems after I was finished. So, in answer to your question, no, that's really backed off an awful lot and rightfully so, based on the economic challenges that college athletics are faced with.  I want to go back. I do want to come back to some of that stuff. One of the things you had mentioned earlier was, did you say you coached with your wife? Yeah, it was a really interesting story. When I was getting my masters at Furman, back in those days as a DA you made, you're going to laugh when I say this, $1,800, and then I was a Dean, we'll make it $3,600 a year, and that was $5400. I felt like I was rich. My wife was a college professor. Well anyway, she played college basketball and they didn't have women's basketball. They didn't have any women's sports. So some of the girls came to my wife and started up the team and she came to me about it and asked me, you know, I played high school basketball and I've been involved in coaching and those kinds of things, and she asked me if I would be willing to help her out. I said, ‘yeah, I would be glad to'.  And we started a team from scratch, but I said ‘you deal when you deal with women, you deal with the socialization, the relationships with people – I'll do the coaching'. So I read Bobby Knight's book Help Side Ball Side and I read Morgan Wooten – who is a very famous basketball coach at the math of high school and Washington DC called The Red Book. I read those two books, and so we started the team from scratch and the last year, and this is back in the AAW days, which is before the incident of late days for women's athletics, we went all the way to the final four. In the third year of the program, we finished seventh and it's a little bit different. They brought 16 teams from around the country and it was in Temple, Texas. It was an interesting story.  The school didn't have money towards women's athletics, so we had to do a lot of the fundraising ourselves. So, we drove two station wagons from Greenville, South Carolina to Temple, Texas which is a long way. We had two station wagons with a full women's basketball team and a manager, and we just packed everybody in. So we got to the Mississippi River, and one of our players had a panic attack. She didn't want to go over the river and she was a starter. I said, ‘Debbie, you're going over to the river. We didn't work this hard to go this far and for you to not'. And she said, ‘well I want to go back home'. And that was Travelers Rest, South Carolina. She says, ‘well I'm going back home. I'm going to walk home if I have to.' And here we are at the Mississippi River, hundreds of miles away from Travelers Rest. And I said, ‘gosh, what are we going to do?' I'm panicked because not only is she panicked, but she panicked me.  So what we ended up doing was my wife and I got together and we put her down on the floorboard and put the winter coats on top of her. I drove around and drove across the Mississippi River and got to the other side about three or four miles, and I said, ‘all right, Debbie, you can pop your head up now we're over!' And so, you had to improvise. I don't know that a lot of athletic directors have experienced something like that, but that was all fun. We went out there and we've competed and we did well. And then the next year we went all the way to Vincennes, Indiana and finished third in the country. It was a great experience. And I love doing it a little different. I don't think many AD's in the country coach women's basketball on the college level. That was one of the things I was going to ask is, when you look at the AD, is the path that you took a very similar path to other AD's? And then also to that, 33 years old seems really young for that role. I didn't know this at the time, I was extremely naïve and took the job in December. I know July of 1984. I found out that the gun was loaded when I took the job, the gun was loaded, pointing at the football coach. So, I had to terminate the football coach at the end of the year. Well, I was hoping he'd have a good year and I didn't have to do that. But anyway, we had to let him go. So, it was a challenge. I had never done anything like this before 33. And you, you had to learn a lot.  It's a due to have to handle it. I don't know if you're familiar with Washington Lee University and BMI, they're right next to each other. And so, I went into the library of Washington Lee and I looked at a microfilm and read how Virginia Tech had terminated their football coach a couple of years previously, and then I read up on Virginia – I didn't know what I was doing. So, I read through and looked at all with the media and how they handled it and all that kinds of stuff, because I could see the handwriting on the wall. And then I had to let them go. So it was, you know, it was a great learning experience for me.  How old was the coach that you had to let go that had the gun to him? He was in his sixties. So just talk about that dynamic for a second.  Oh, it was very difficult and he's a nice person and everything, and I don't think he's alive anymore, but quite frankly VMI was a very difficult job in defense of him. It was a very, very difficult job, but to a certain extent, the profession had passed him by. And so it was time. It was a fitting time to go to take the program in a different direction. But, I made some mistakes when I did it and I learned from some of those mistakes, but it was a difficult time. It was a difficult time for me because that's the first time I'd let somebody go. And I finally learned – I had a pit in my stomach, but I learned that there comes to a point in time that it's in the best interest of the university or the institution where you are that you need to separate yourself from that individual. At a young age, I would think about his family, his children, the assistant coach's children, all those kinds of things and agonized over that. At times I couldn't sleep at night, but I finally got to a point where in my mind – and this is what I used later on in life – I finally got to the point where this was the right thing to do. And no matter what, even though you have a negative impact on people's lives and families and children, all those kinds of things, this is still the right thing to do. And that's why I could live with myself and then I was at peace with myself and then obviously we progressed and we had to separate ourselves from the coach.  You mentioned that your dad was in the service growing up. He was a general, wasn't he? Yeah. He was a West Point graduate. My brother played basketball at West Point. He was a general officer and therefore we traveled everywhere all the time. We traveled every two or three years. They moved us around. So, I've lived all over the country and I lived overseas in Germany, but I've lived all over the United States which was a good experience. I had a lot more appreciation and maybe awareness of how great the country was when I went to Germany – and this was before they put up the wall. I lived over in Berlin when they put up the wall. You see East Germany and you see some of the communist bloc countries and you compare them to the West, and then you begin to hear about people. And I won't name names, but you go back to the Chicago Seven and some of those people about the virtues of communis, and then you turn around and you go into East Berlin or you go into East Germany and it's hard to see any virtues of communism and the West. It was so different from the West, as opposed to the East in Europe. And that made you have a great love and appreciation for this country, which I think a lot of times we take for granted.  How would you say some of those experiences helped you throughout your career? I mean, growing up all over, being all over the place? Germany, you don't know how to meet people. You know how to adjust and to adapt and you see things differently. Now, maybe, I was hurt to a certain extent from a fundamental standpoint because we moved so much, and from an educational standpoint. We might be right in the middle of studying geometry and geometry's in sequential order, and then you may end up moving and you're out of the sequence. So, there was a negative impact about doing it, but you meet people, you know how to meet people and you know how to adjust and to adapt to certain situations. There was this one experience when we were leaving West Berlin to go on vacation in Spain. This was East Germany, and you couldn't go into East Germany. You could go on the Autobahn, an American could, but they had a password. Our car broke down right in the middle of East Germany. I was only eight or nine years old at the time, but I was scared to death because I thought that, and there were, truckloads of East German soldiers going by on the Autobahn.  What you have to do is you have to give a pass to an American and they take it to the next checkpoint. And then they have someone to come out and get you which we did a couple of times. But as a young kid, I thought the communists – I thought they were going to take us, and we were going to end up living in Eastern Europe.  They didn't, but that's how you see things. And so, you have so much more appreciation, like I said, for this country, but that was a worldly experience. The Berlin wall was up, but when they ended up putting the barricades up in the fence – well, I'll never forget it. There was a young East German person in a trench coat. He was probably about 18 or 19 years old. And if you remember checkpoint Charlie and right next to checkpoint Charlie on the Eastern side, East Side Escape, we got caught up in the barbed wire, and so the East German Stata killed him.  So he was bleeding and caught entrenched in this barbed wire on top of the wall. Those kinds of experiences, you don't get in a normal life when you're growing up in America, in a country, in a small town or something like that. You see those kinds of things. It makes you a lot more aware of, of what the real world is like. I was sick to my stomach, I'll never forget it. It was on the cover of Post magazine or Life or one of those. Magazines back then having this young person dying, the Americans wanted to go over there and take them out of there and get them off and save his life. But the officials would not let him do it because obviously it could cause World War III or whatever. So, I was answering your question. My lens is a little bit different than maybe your lens because of the experiences that we had growing up.  Absolutely. Well, those certainly define us. We talk a lot on this podcase about the separation between your work life and your home life, and sometimes it's hard to make that transition. Was your dad more of a general when he got home, then he went on the job or vice-versa? And then you're mentioning your own life. I mean, how did you transition between an AD and a father? It was very difficult for him. And, you know, once the general, always a general – and the pressure that he was put under, did he bring some of that home? Yes. He brought some of that home. Did we have to square our meals at dinner? To a certain extent. Do we have to ask you yes or no sir? Pass the potatoes please? All those kinds of things? Yes. There's a lot different than white families. The way we brought up our family. So, there's a lot more structure to it. And obviously his job, he wasn't around very much, and he was gone in my senior year in high school. He took a tour of duty in South Korea hardship tours so I could go to one high school. And so, you make those kinds of adjustments but going back to my personal situation, I probably failed at that. My son would probably tell you that also, but anyway, my wife used to say, and my kids would say, ‘we have you physically, but we don't have you mentally'. Being an athletic director is a very complex, complicated job, and there's a lot of moving parts in it, and it's like a juggler and he's juggling balls. Then sometimes a ball gets bigger and throws you out of rhythm. And you have a certain rhythm in an athletic department like you do in a corporation, there's certain rhythms. And having to terminate a coach, or having to deal with a board member and a corrupt board member or something like that throws you out of whack. And so, what you have to be able to do is try to maintain that rhythm. The job was almost 24 hours a day.  And when you're trying to build an addition to a renovation of a football stadium of $500 million a year, having 3000 people at work and all those kinds of things, all the way to ensure that your programs stay in compliance, making sure you have a schedule completed, making sure you set goals and you have a strategic plan and how you are going to get there, all those kinds of things.  Then you have all the fans and they're at your throats, you know? So those kinds of things, it makes the job very difficult today. And to answer your questions: I wasn't great at it. I'm a lot better in retirement about being involved and being more physically and mentally there. I'm not the best person because I didn't do that well. And I think Ryan and my daughter have learned from some of the things I didn't do as I should have done. And they do a much better job of raising their children and they're more attentive than say I was when I was raising my kids. No I can see that. I live walking distance from Ryan's house and your son is an incredible dad. He does a really, really good job raising those kids. He really does. I'm very proud of them. I think one of the things that you had mentioned is some of the hiring and firing and some of the challenge within that within all these different dynamics. Maybe talk through a little bit of the dynamic of the hiring and firing with I can only imagine how many different political pieces pulling you in which directions and I'm sure you've got some good stories there. Yeah, we'll talk about Gary Patterson since that was mentioned earlier. I had hired a guy by the name of Dennis Franchione at TCU, and he was there for about two and a half years, and then he went to Alabama. Well, we ended up hiring Gary Patterson, and I'll tell you a little story about it. So, we hired Gary, and Gary is a genius. I think this was 20 years ago before he was hired, he was a genius defensively and I've coached on defense. I played on defense, so I had an immense appreciation for his skill, his talents.  And another thing Gary did was Gary was great at judging talent. He could see somebody and he could project where they would be two or three or four years down the road. And as a high school senior, high school junior, he's phenomenal in that, but you know, Gary in other areas hadn't been really exposed to some of the things that you need to be exposed to.  He was as a defensive coordinator and it was interesting because I really didn't know Gary that well, but I try to do a lot of research on people before I hire him. We had a national search and one of the people on the search committee, we were looking at a defensive coordinator at another school, and he said, ‘you know, they were very comparable' but the issue was Gary was a TCU. So there wasn't going to be a learning curve to the extent that maybe you have, if you were bringing somebody from the outside in. So anyways, he was a little bit controversial as far as the hires concerned. You might want to put an exclamation point behind that because Fran was so different and Gary is so different than Fran, and we had success under Fran, and so hiring Gary did go on a traction with a lot of TCU people in the beginning.  So, the first year, I had to make a presentation at halftime and first Gary's here and I think we were playing Northwestern State or something like that, a school that did not have the resources we had. They had a lot of the players that had transferred there from some larger schools, well anyway they beat us. But at halftime, I went down there to make a presentation and the fans booed the heck out of me, and so I went back up to see the associate athletic director for marketing. His name was Kevin O'Connell. I said, ‘Kevin, don't you ever do that again. Don't you send me down'. People were booing me because of the hire, but now from a historical standpoint, Gary's one of the best coaches and has been the longest one, the longest tenure, one of the best coaches in the history of college football. Considering the resources we had at TCU back then was not at all what the resources they have today.  So, Gary was able to really put a program on and it took time to be able to do. And it's like I said to people at TCU that an ocean liner doesn't change directions overnight, it's taken TCU a while to get where they are. It's going to take them a while to get where we want to go. So you have to have patience and great virtue, but the history has shown that Gary was a great hire. Was he a real popular hire in the beginning? He was not as popular back then as he is today, and I really give a tremendous amount of credit to Gary for what he's done at TCU, and he's really but them on the map. We talk about San Diego and Danny Thomason playing out in California. His exposure, the Damien's exposure in California has done wonders for applicants from California coming to TCU because it puts you on the map and so was a good school in the Midwestern part of the country in Texas. But other than that, it wasn't real well-known, but it's the success athletically. There's a good message at TCU, but athletics got it out to every nook and cranny around the country. And so people. began to find out about TCU.  But so going back to your question about hiring – it's probably one of the most difficult parts of the job – hire and fire people. And I talked a little bit about terminating people. It's very, very difficult, but when I was at peace with myself, I knew it was the right thing to do. I've analyzed it, overanalyzed it – whether to let somebody go – but to try to hire somebody, I thought it was very important.  The three things I looked for was integrity, work ethic, and intelligence. Experience was important, but it wasn't at the top of my list. Where you have a smart person, they can make up for maybe a little bit of lack of experience, if that's what you want to be able to say. So in my job, you have to do a huge amount of research. I mean, a huge amount of research on people. It's like hiring Jim Schlossnagle who is a baseball coach at TCU. One of the best baseball coaches in the country. I was in a meeting with the AD at Tulane and Jim was assistant coach at Tulane, and it was the meeting with a conference of USA athletic directors and North Carolina was flirting with the baseball coach at Tulane.  I said to the AD, ‘so what would you do, who would you hire?' Because I knew the possibility of having to hire somebody at TCU. I knew it was pretty high on the radar screen. So, I was keeping my eyes and ears open and asking questions to a lot of people when the AD said he had hired this guy, who's a pitching coach named Jim Schlossnagle.  The Ad's name was Rick Dixon. And so I said, ‘Rick, why?' He told me why, well then obviously I started to track him in addition to other people, I tracked him and he went to UNLB. And Mountain West wasn't the best baseball conference in the country. But the first year he was 500 and the next year he won the conference, which is tremendous compared from when he took over.  So, the issue was that I hired him. So what I'm trying to say to you, you got to keep your eyes and ears open all the time, and you got to have a sense of what the marketplace is. And then you got to find out. Interviewing people was about 30%, 70% was checking their backgrounds and because their actions speak so loud, you can barely hear what they say – coaches and people are salespeople. You got to look in depth and you got to look down and scroll all the way down as you possibly can and find out as much information. So some of the things I've done in the past that I probably – as far as compared to people in my profession – was probably one of the individuals that did a lot of research on people because I want to make sure what I was getting to. I didn't want to make a mistake, but it's not an exact science. If you have success, more success than not success in hiring people, then you're going to stay as an AD. If you don't, you're going to be on the road. So I don't know if that helps you at all. The biggest thing is research people, research, research, research, and find out about them. Who's the true person? Like I called somebody, a coach at another school and I happen to know the women's tennis coach. So, I called her and I asked her, ‘what is this individual like when the lights are turned off? What's the true person?' And so, she was going to be up front with me. She wasn't going to lie to me. She wasn't going to mislead me or anything like that. So that helped me as far as beginning to develop a profile. So, so that's one of the things I've done. Another thing I try to do is I try to bring the players on the team. That's what I was going to ask. So what I would do is I would – I would say there's three things I try to do, the athletic department and I got through a little bit of that. We sort of have an idea of what a successful program is. So we try to mirror that to the individual. I also would sit down with the players on the team and I would say, ‘you're not going to hire the coach and your parents aren't going to hire the coach, but what's important to you? What do you want? What do you want in a new baseball coach, a football coach, or whatever it may be?' And they help develop a profile. So hiring something that's not perfect, and you're not going to find the perfect person, but you're going to find somebody that hopefully has got the most of the characteristics that will match up to what you're trying to accomplish at the institution that you are.  You've obviously had a ton of exposure to a ton of different personalities and people. I played college ball at Illinois Wesleyan, just T3 football, but these coaches shape a lot of these young peoples' lives. They're very influential people when you're in a sports program. So over these years of these coaches you've come across, what are some of the attributes that you see that you're like, ‘man this guy or girl,' or just a phenomenal leader of these young, multiple minds? What did you see that was great? Or what did you look for when you were looking for those leaders? Having a coach gave me a little bit of experience now. A lot of AD's have never coached before. They've never coached. A lot of my generation had coached the next generation or not. You asked about the AD's today, they're going through fundraising or they're going through compliance or something like that. So I've coached. So I always felt as a coach, that coach make the main thing the main thing, and what's that? The student athletes and the players have to know that you have their best interest at heart.  That's extremely, extremely important. You're going to be tough if you have to be, or do whatever you need to do, but they have to know that it's how much you care and you got to be able to care for your student athletes. And that's why we're in this business. And so when you have an athlete come back to you and tell you, ‘thank you', you couldn't put a million dollars on it. When they come back and tell you how much it's helped them develop and grow in life. And personally, I made mistakes when I was younger, and in some of the people, I was probably too hard on them. I was probably too tough on them, but over time I mellowed a bit and I saw things from a little bit of a different perspective.  It's like one of the players I had, I'll never forget it. I happened to be very vocal. Well, he was a big, tall defensive tackle. He's about 6'6” and he was probably about 245lbs or whatever. And he came over to me one day and he said he didn't respond well to being vocal, being really vocal. I sat and I thought about that and I said I'll make a change and I won't be as vocal because he didn't respond to that as I would be to others. But I said, ‘what I will do, though, if you screw up, I'm going to come up and whisper in your ear and tell you, get the heck going,' or something like that. But I will tell you, I will not do that anymore. And this is what, to me, this is why we're in the business is to help these young people and help them develop. And I'll give you a great example. At an institution and FCC school – I've been at two of them, but one of them, we had an attendance policy. And so, we had the attendance policy and my expectation was for them to go to school, because what is the number one determining factor for success in college? What's the number one? SAT ACT class rank? What do you think? The number one thing to be successful in college academically is what? To go to class. That's the nut. If you don't go to school, you're not going to be successful.  No, I found that out the hard way. Tests are a whole lot easier if you actually went to the class. Some of the football players – that didn't get traction with them. But anyway, with the starting quarterback. So, he was taking a class, this is the starting quarterback. Now do you people do this today? I doubt it, seriously. So othe young man didn't go to class at night. He was warned ahead of time. I don't remember how many in summer school, there may have been 15 classes, but he missed about 10 or 11. And so I called him in and I said, ‘listen, we've had this discussion,' and I said, ‘you're not going to play the first football game'. Now think about this today. If you did that to a person, because of something like this, then there would be a firestorm on social media. But I did what I did, what I thought was the right thing to do, because if I didn't, then this is something that would be a negative impact on his life, if I didn't do anything. So anyway, to make a long story short, I told him that – well his father was furious with me. So he came in and he sat down the dad and the son and he went through his diet, traveling about, oh this is a travesty, you know, yada yada yada for an extended period of time. And I said to him, after he was through talking, I said to him, ‘Mr.,' – I don't want to give his name up – ‘Mr. Smith. So what are you going to do? When your son leaves here and he gets a job and of the first 15 days of work he misses 10 of them, what are you going to do? Are you going to go in and talk to the manager and tell him you can't fire him or whatever?' I said, ‘what I'm trying to do is teach this young man that he has a sense of responsibility and I'm going to teach him a value or something that he can take for the rest of his life. He'd better be in class because if he's not, he's gonna fail. But if he doesn't learn this lesson and he gets out in the real world, he's going to be without a job'. And so, this is what I'm trying to teach them. This is what a coach or an athletic director I think tries to do is tries to work with young people. I'll give you a phenomenal example, which is Jadeveon Clowney. You ever heard of Jadeveon Clowney? Jadeveon Clowney was a student athlete at South Carolina. Jadeveon Clowney was a man among the boys, as far as an athlete. I mean, he was phenomenal. And Jadeveon Clowney was a freshman and he wasn't going to class. We had an attendance policy, the reason we had an attendance policy was because I wanted him to go to class. Because the number one determining factor for success academically is going to class. And so, he didn't go – when I checked, I would check with football, I check all the athletes, but mostly the football and basketball players about every two or three weeks. Well, he wasn't going well. I warned him. And he still wasn't going.  And so, I called him into my office on a Sunday morning. I'll never forget it. It was the Clemson game, which was a huge risk to Alabama Auburn. So I called him into my office and at 10 o'clock, I'll never forget it, his position coach came, the administrator for football came, the academic person for football came and I wanted his grandfather to come but he couldn't come because his grandfather was a stabilizing factor in his life, Jadeveon's life. But Jadeveon came and so we went through and we talked and I said, ‘Jadeveon,' I had a round desk in my office. I said, ‘in three years, this desk is going to be piles of money that you're going to be able to get, because you're going to be able to make a lot of money with professional football.' But I said, ‘what you're doing is you're taking, you're knocking money off the table. And if you continue like this, in three years, there's not going to be any money on the table because you'll have flunked out of school. And I'm doing this because I'm trying to protect you from yourself.' And so, anyway, it got out with the fans. They were not happy campers about doing this to Jadeveon but the issue was they were so myopic and I was trying to look at the big long-term and not the short-term. So, I ended up suspending him for part of the Clemson game. And thank goodness we won.  I was scared to death that we would lose. And who do you think would get blamed for it? I would be. And that's what AD's are good for. They're good to blame on. If the coach was successful, they get the credit. If they're not, the AD gets blamed for it, I'm being facetious. But my point is that, you know, we won. Thank goodness. So we won quite decisively. Well, now we fast forward.  I run into Jadeveon and he is in the spring time. He's going into the academic center. He's walking toward the academic center and I roll my window down and he's walking, I'm in my car and I rolled my window down and I said, ‘Jadeneon, come here'. And he walks over and I knew what was on his mind: ‘I've got to go see the principal and I don't want to have to see the principal'. So, he walked over and I said, ‘Jadeveon, I'm so proud of you'. He had the biggest smile you've ever seen in your life. And he was so happy, he was rewarded for going to class and now we fast forward. So, when I'm at A&M, the Atlanta Falcons and the Texans are practicing with each other. And there's a bunch of players for the Falcons. And there's a bunch of players for the Texans that had played at South Carolina or played A&M. So I asked Bob McNair, the owner, I said, ‘do you mind if I come down and watch practice?' He says, ‘sure. Come on down'. So anyway, I came down and I saw a bunch of them and talked to them and that kind of stuff. Well Jadeveon was the last one to come off the practice and practice over.  ‘Jadeveon, come here'. And I put my hand out. I said, ‘I want my money. You know what I'm talking about?' He said, ‘yes sir. I know what you're talking about.' You tried to be a leader. It takes courage, and to do the right thing, it takes courage. And even though people were so shortsighted about it, I understood it, but I took abuse about it. And I did those kinds of things in the professional career that I was in because I tried to do what was the right thing to do. So, dealing with student athletes, I dealt with student athletes. I love dealing with it, and I bore you with the stories but there's a lot of times that that's what we're in the business for. And so, you try to help them. And I tell them, ‘I've got erasers on all my pencils.' And sometimes when we disciplined a player, I'll never forget – we disciplined a football player defensive back at A&M because he was doing some things that were inappropriate. And so, I called him in and bottom line was, I said, ‘now if I was a wide receiver, he was the defensive back, and I ran a pose pattern on you, and I beat you for a touchdown. I mean that's going to happen. And if it happens time and time and time again, what's going to happen?' I asked him, ‘what's going to happen?' He said, ‘well I'm not going to be on the bench'. And I said, ‘that's exactly right. And so that's what I'm trying to teach you is that you gotta learn from your experiences, if you're defensive back and that guy's beating you on a post pattern all the time, you're not going to be playing. Well, you get out in the real world and you just make these kind of mistakes, you're not going to be successful.' Those kind of things that you try to relate to your athletes, and tried to do. And I mean, I've had this across the board of women's soccer.  It's not all football, basketball; it's other sports also that have run them up. And like I said, they make mistakes. It's a game. Life is not perfect. And so, the key is to learn from them and to learn from your mistakes. And that's what I try to do as an athletic director with our student athletes. No, that was great. Well, while we're on the topic of players, any color you can share around your time with Johnny football? Oh, Johnny Manzell. Johnny was probably the best improvisor I've ever seen in my life on a football field. He had gifted talents the first year there. Johnny Manzell, you would see him and he's upbeat, positive, ‘hello Mr. Hyman, how are you doing?' And that kind of stuff. I mean, a very effervescent personality and Johnny, he's a really smart young man. I mean, he's very smart. Maybe some of the things he does don't rank high on the smartness category, but he really is. And he's a good kid. Well, what happened when he won the Heisman? He was 19 years old at the time. It would be hard enough for a 40-year-old to win the Heisman, much less a 19-year-old kid. And there was a huge transformation with him. And unfortunately I felt sorry for him. I really did. I felt sorry for him, the Adelaide and the visibility. He couldn't go anywhere.  I'd be sitting on a plane, we'd be flying someplace the first year. We would be playing LSU or Alabama or something like that, and he would walk down the aisle on the plane and say, ‘hey Mr., hi Mrs. Simon, how are you doing?' Very, very engaging. Well the next year I noticed he'd have a hat on. He'd have his headset on, head down, and I felt for him because of what he had to go through. It was a very, very difficult experience for him. I really felt sorry for him because it's just difficult for anybody to deal with that, much less a 19-year-old kid.  So there was a chain, there was a transformation in his personality and some things like that took place, but he was a hell of a football player. I'm telling you, he willed us in some games, he absolutely took the team. We played Duke in the play bowl. He willed the team to win. We played Louisiana Tech and Shreveport one time. He just picked the team up by the bootstraps. He was a very, very, very talented young man and a smart young man too. He was gifted, he was just gifted athletically. He was thoughtful. And he was a challenge. I'm not going to tell you he wasn't because there were some things that we had to do while I was there which was very unfortunate, but the bottom line with him is I feel sorry for what he had to go through. And some of the challenges he had because of how successful he was athletically. Well, I'm sure the personalities of some of these athletes that you have to deal with – you got some such extremely talented young men and women coming into these programs that are going through that. I can't even imagine.  They're all different. Every single one of them, different. They all come from different backgrounds. There's some common things or common things that you're trying to help them develop as time goes on. And when you bring them in, they come from all walks of life and there are certain expectations that you have, and we tried to do that I think they do it. We tried to do some things long before other people were doing them, and we tried to teach them how to dress properly. We made it mandatory for their junior year that we would bring somebody in for the male athletes and we would bring somebody for the female. My wife would do a lot of that and teach them how to dress properly. Cedric, what's Cedric's last name? I can't remember, but anyways, an offense to tackle for the Cincinnati Bengals – I'll think of it in a second, that's what happens when you get to be my age! I tell people I have met a ton of people and I have a Rolodex in my head, and there's a ton of people in that Rolodex. Unfortunately, when I get older, the Rolodex goes through a little bit slower.  So, anyway, we sat down and I happened to work with Cedric, but we had a tie tying contest because when you deal with young people, you got to deal with competitiveness. And so, we had a tie tying contest and there were five male athletes from different sports. Well, Cedric was who I was trying to teach how to tie a tie. And so, we had a limited amount of time, we're in front of all of the junior male athletes and here, I'm trying to teach him how to tie a tie. So, then we had a clock stopwatch, and so we had a clock on them, and they all had to tie their tie within a certain amount of time. And a lot of them had never tied a tie before, but we were trying to help them for later on in life. Well, Cedric won the contest, he won it, and I found this out later on, he was so proud that he had won the tie tying contest. Here's a football player, offense alignment. Well, he went out and was bragging to the offensive line that he won the tie tying contest.  So the point is we left an indelible mark with him and some of the things that he had to do to be successful. Well, we also taught them how to eat properly. We would have the fall sports in the spring time and the spring sports in the fall time, but we would make it mandatory because of, in some of my experiences that I told them one year, Steve Spurrier was our football coach. And one year, we had the coaches, we had Steve and his wife, Jerry, and then we had another head coach and his wife sitting at a table in front of all the student athletes. And we tried to teach them how to eat properly, and a lot of them didn't know. So, when you go on a job interview, you don't want to eat like a slob because you might lose the job. So, what we ended up doing was – I'll never forget it – Steve, on his own, dropped a roll on the floor underneath the table that he was eating off and he got on his hands and knees and crawled to get it. Well, it was funny. The athletes just wanted to laugh. I'm here, you got the head in front of you when he's on his hands, on all fours, trying to grab the roll, and we're trying to teach them how not to do it. How not to do these kinds of things. But the point we got across to them in a fun way was these are things that you don't need to do.  And for example, I interviewed a coach for the head basketball school. One of the coaches, one of the schools I was at at the time. And he showed up for the interview with no socks on, chewing gum. Well, today maybe people don't understand it, but that was not the proper thing to do as far as how to dress appropriately. So if he's making that kind of decision with me, what kind of decisions is he going to make later on in life? So, what I did was this young man, I went to his head coach. He was assistant coach at the time. I went to his head coach and told him what happened. Well, the coach that didn't have socks on and was chewing gum, he ended up writing me a letter. He wrote me a letter of apology. So, he learned, but anyway, he ended up coming in SEC head basketball coach.  So, I try to tell that to the kids. I try to tell that to them. We try to teach them those kinds of things. The first year we try to teach them transitioning, like Johnny's situation. He played in front of 500 people, maybe in high school, and now he's playing in front of 10 million. So, what we try to do is help them make the transition. And we have former athletes, we have a panel discussion, former athletes come up and talk and all those kinds of things help them.  And then the last year we taught them how to write resumes and I would bring in people, for example, I brought in the general, the commanding general for Jackson and talked about leadership to our kids. And then another time, I brought in the guy that was head of Infor. Well Infor had 9,000 people. He's a former track athlete at South Carolina and he was an NCAA champion. So, the kids could relate to him. So, he talked about what was important in interviewing for a job. So, I try to do these kinds of things. The former president of Shell Organization was an A&M graduate. I brought him in to teach our administrators about leadership. So you try to help, they're not the finished product, so what you've got to be able to do is help them as they begin to grow and mature I their lives. So, when they springboard out of college, then they can be successful in whatever they do.  Eric, with where we are today in sports, trying to do what they can to continue to compete and bring fans in at a limited basis, and then just your historical perspective on decades and decades in the seat has become such a big business. It's an operating number that's bigger than a lot of companies right? With all the challenges that are out there now, what would you say to the AD's of today? How they navigate through the rest of this season, next season, going forward. I tell them they probably ought to go get a lobotomy. I feel for them. I think this is the most difficult time to be an athletic director. And I think there's three reasons why. Number one is COVID and the financial impact, and we haven't seen the end of it. And maybe there's some positives. Maybe there could be a reset button and maybe we can bring real things back a little bit. But COVID for example, it's going to be hit substantially because of not being able to bring the revenue and now being a private school, the school may be able to help underwrite them and make the transition. But you can talk about public schools. the state universities are really being hit financially.  So how are they going to cope with it? Well, that's a game changer in my opinion. And it's something that's probably going to hang with us for several years. Now, college football is going to be important and it's going to stay important. The amount of level of interest from fans' standpoint, they're staying home and they're watching it on TV, you may see a little bit of a drop-off there, but I think college football is here, will weather the test of time, but it might be configured a little bit differently than what it is today. [inaudible] So if you have X amount of dollars and those X amount of dollars run out, what are you going to do? I mean, you see schools around the country dropping sports. You see people are taking pay cuts all the way – they're having to cope. Quite frankly, some of this might be healthy in the long-term for college athletics because the spending has just gotten outrageous and the amount of money that you're paying for coaches – say what you want, but what happens is it's just going to springboard into the next thing, which is the empowerment of student athletes. And they see a coach is making $10 million a year or $7 million a year off of their backs and they get a scholarship. I've heard the rationalization, I've been involved with it. I know it's a little bit different than propaganda and it's coming out, having been immersed in it for so many years that the student athletes are beginning and the families are beginning to see it. And then why isn't there a little bit more of a balance? And, you're getting defensive coordinators who are making two and a half million dollars $3 million. And I don't begrudge any of the coaches. Don't get me wrong. That's the way our country was based. After the impact it's having and the kickback on it is what's happening to your student athletes. What's happening today, they feel they draw the short straw. And so that's why you're going to see the empowerment of student athletes. That's why you're seeing some things that could happen that could have a dramatic impact on their, their feelings and their say so. They're going to be more of a factor in the future than they have been in the past and they feel empowered about it. And some of its saying, ‘follow the money'/ Money corrupts, the money has just gotten so big in college athletics that there needs to be a little. bit of an adjustment period, and I think that will be healthy for college athletics if that takes place.  So, there's a lot of things that are going on. The first two things are COVID and the devastation financially, and then the empowerment of the student athletes. And then the last thing is name, image, and likeness. And that's something that's in the pipeline. Where it all comes out, I don't really know, but you're now having government intervention. They're saying that the discrepancy between what some of the coaches are making and how much money is being generated and what the student athletes are getting.  College athletics is sort of like the wild, wild West – the recruiting and everything else. I mean, you talk to people that are totally immersed in it. This might make it more difficult. Depends on the rules and stipulations, but it's going to allow students to generate income for themselves. So, how do you control that? I don't know. So, you have a coach of an SEC school comes up and says ‘we got 15 car dealerships' and they're gonna be a little more discreet than us, but they got 15 car dealerships and one of the dealerships would like you to represent them. And so they pay him X dollars. Well, how are you going to deal with it when say that guy's a quarterback? Trevor Lawrence at Clemson. Everybody knows Trevor Lawrence, the quarterback at Clemson. How I'll come out in the wash I have no idea, but the pressure points are there and something's going to come out. Some of these can come in the pipe, that's come out of the pipeline and it's really going to change the dynamics of what college athletics is today. Never a dull moment.  You mentioned when we were briefing earlier this week that there is a definite similarity between an athletic director and a CEO, but an athletic director always has that fan base in the media to deal with. Can you talk about how you navigated that and what that's gonna look like? I told my brother, a CEO of a company, and we would talk a lot of times about – I'm curious to how he runs his business and all those kinds of things, because maybe there's something that he does that could help me. The bottom line, the difference between the challenges that he went through and the challenges I went through, there's a lot of similarities business-wise but the biggest separator was the visibility. And so, I made decisions based on the facts. I knew at that time, not six months later, not a year later, I made decisions based on facts, but you have to deal with the media. You have to factor into the media of how they're going to deal with it, and it's gotten a lot worse today than what it was. I understand that there's a term that you've heard, the ‘fake media', and to a certain extent, I dealt with that. I dealt with firsthand the media, some of them are really trusted and some of them had no scruples whatsoever. That's just the reality of it. So I understand and I look at some of the things that are going on from a national standpoint with the John design because of my personal experiences. So, to deal with immediate is a challenge. And some of the media will probably tell you I was very – I can get my cards close to my chest – I was very guarded because I always felt as an athletic director, the athletic directors today are totally different.  They're out there. They're tweeting. They're instant. They're always there right there in the middle of it, a lot of the visibility was taking place. They want to be in the middle of it. I was a little bit on the other side, I felt that the athletic director got his name in the paper. That's probably not good news. And you know, was I over reacting to that? Probably so, but it changed. And I know in South Carolina we met with administrators. A lot of the young people, we had probably about 50 people in the room. Well, after the meeting was over with, about 10 of them came up to me and wanted me to do a Twitter account. And so they set up a Twitter account for me. And when they left the room, I said, ‘I ain't doing that'. And I never did, but it was a mistake on my part. I should, because there's so much information out there, it's more today than it was back then. There's so much misinformation out there.  This would have been a way to combat some of that. But in my mind, I said, ‘if I start having to do that, then I'll be on Twitter all the time, having to combat with the information that's out there'. So, the dealing with the media and I've had some of the media just flat lie. And they say things that were not true. They attribute things that I said were absolutely not true. And I confronted him, I confronted him about it. And of course what happened was once you confront them, then they're not your friend anymore. Not that they were your friend in the first place. So you have to have tough skin.  And so dealing with the media was a challenge. And like I said, I probably was over conservative with them. Maybe I should have been a little bit more open, but I just wasn't because I just felt through my own experience, there's some things that happened that I just didn't feel comfortable about. I can tell you a ton of stories; hired a coach at South Carolina, very highly visible men's basketball coach, I did everything to get them on the wrong track. And you have a number on the plane. We try to change the number on the private plane. I would park in the hangar. I would not let anybody know. I wouldn't tell anybody. I said there was no search committee. And there was no search committee that had an. individual help me with it, but there was no search committee. He did a lot of the groundwork. And so, the media, I mean, they drove him crazy and because the fans want what's going on, who they're interviewing, and it's the media.  If you throw enough against the wall, something's gonna stick. And so, we're trying to recruit this particular coach. Well, we did a pretty good job because in the end they didn't have a clue. And in the end they thought the individual, when we had the press conference called they went to the airport in Columbia and they were all out there waiting with their cameras, waiting for the person to walk off the plane.  Well, there was no person because that person flew in Charlotte and I went to pick them up. And what I'm trying to say, it's a game. That's the way I looked at it as a game. It's like, you're playing chess. And I gotta get after the King, I gotta know a checkmate to King and that's the way I looked at it. I looked at it a little bit. It was a game. And did I outwit him? What was the survival Outwit or whatever the TV show, out-think or outwit to survive. And that's what you gotta be able to do. And I didn't look at it as when somebody would make stories up about who I was recruiting or who I was talking to that we're not, I had no interest whatsoever, but they were putting them out there and that irritated me because they're lying. They're not being truthful about it. And they said a source, ‘well a source said this, a source said' – there was no source. I was the source, and I tried to control the message that was going out. So, all the things that we're putting out there were not true.  I mean, some of them made sure, like I said, something may stick against the wall just based on luck. But, the bottom line is it wasn't. And so, when we hired the guy and I was excited because we did a good job, keeping it as confidential as we possibly could – dealing with the media is a challenge. I had some people I really trusted. And I was very open with them. Some people really did not trust and I was very guarded, but I think the scruples, I think the ethics, I think the standards that the media operate today are so different than what they used to be. And I just don't think they're part of the equation as much as they used to be, and that may be because of the pressure of some getting it first and social media and all those kinds of things. But I think the AD's got a lot more difficult jobs than what they used to have.  Well I do want to ask one question that we may or may not have been fed prior to this podcase, but we've heard about a recurring annual nightmare. What can you tell us about that? Well, I have two of them. One of them is that I didn't take a class I should have taken in North Carolina. So, I'm going to have to go back and go to school and finish. I didn't really get a degree. So, I mean, that's one nightmare. I didn't want to have to go back and study. I don't want to have to go back and take the class because it was just a nightmare.  And then I had a nightmare that – I don't really want to say the school – but I had a nightmare that I'd have to go back to this particular school that I worked. And it was a very, very difficult experience for me. And I had that nightmare. I had it once a year. Now it's fallen off a little bit, but I had that once a year. So, I have had some nightmares from somebody that has maybe mentioned it to you about, and I don't know why it happens, but it ends up going back to those past experiences that had left an indelible mark with me. So in the spirit to the podcast, we heard about your climb of Grey's Peak. Can you talk about that a little bit? I have a bucket list of things, like I'm a biker and I bike 40, 50 miles, 20 to 50 miles. And one of my bucket lists was going over the Golden Gate bridge on bike, and I did that. One of my bucket lists declined by 14 and I did that with my son. And that's one of the highlights of my life – was it easy? No. And, I was 60 years old when I did it and we probably crossed maybe 20 people and I'd say most all of them were in their teens or their twenties. And when we cross paths, across all people, I saw one guy in his thirties, he was running up the mountain. But anyway, we got to about 1500 feet from the top, and I again, I'm 60 years old and we got 1500 feet from the top and it was getting to me and my son comes up to me and says he starts being a cheerleader.  And I said, ‘I don't want to hear, listen to you'. So, for 1500 feet, all I said was right foot left foot right foot left foot. And I just focused on putting one foot in front of the other. Well, I got to the top and people don't understand it. So this was 1400 to 14,280 feet. So, I got to the top and there's no McDonald's up there. And there's no park ranger saying welcome or a bathroom or anything like that. You just lay out rocks.  It was a great experience. I loved doing it and it'll be one of the best memories of my life. It's one of the best memories of my life to be able to tell, to take that challenge with your son and to be together, he brought his German shepherd and to go through something like that – I'll never forget it. And it was a unique moment in my life.  That is awesome, Eric. One of the questions that we'd like to ask, and it's kind of become probably an unrealized passion about doing this if you think about the medium of a podcast, we're capturing your story right now. It's not a Twitter feed that disappears into the mix. A Twitter feeds this. This is a story that now people can go back and listen to and remember your journey along the way. And so there's that saying that its not what you kno, it's who you know; we reverse it around and say it's not who you know, it's who knows you. So, and think about the people that are going to listen to this, your family, your son: what do you want people to know about you? Well, you know, that's interesting. You're around here once. So if I had to look back over my career, I would stop and smell the roses. And I would want people to do the same thing because you get on the fast track and you're turning as fast as you can turn, but if I had to do it again, I would like to go on a vacation. I'd take more time with my family. Now, the great thing about grandchildren. It gives you a second chance where with your children – and my wife did a marvelous job of raising our children. And not that I wasn't there, I coached their baseball team and our softball team and that kind of stuff, but I wasn't there as much as I should have been. So, what I would say to somebody else is to try to enjoy it and live in the moment. Not in the past, not in the future, but live in the moment and enjoy, look, stop and smell the roses and to focus maybe a little bit differently than maybe what you have in your job, because – and this is what my wife told me – when it's all said and done, when I'm near the end, who's going to be there for me? It's going to be my family. It's not going to be all these other people in life. And you begin to find out who your true friends are when you're through with your professional career. And so that's what I would try to tell people, stop and smell the roses and enjoy themselves. Don't get too far ahead of themselves. And that's the first thing that comes to my mind. I mean, there are other things, but that was the first thing that would jump out at me.  That's perfect. Well said. Well thank you so much for joining us today and sharing all this great stuff with us. It's definitely a different podcast for us to have, and we've had a lot of folks on from the business world, and not saying this isn't the business world because clearly the roles you were in are very business and in so many different respects, but we appreciate you sharing everything with us today.  Well, it's been my pleasure and I'm glad to be able to visit with you. And I think I said this earlier to young people, be a sponge. And listen in your life, look around and try to learn. Always learn, always learn as you're always learning. When you stop learning, you stop growing.  And so, it's been my pleasure to visit with you all. And hopefully, maybe there's a person out there that can benefit from one of the things I've said or they can say I'm thinking about athletics, but I'm going to go get that lobotomy first. I told that to a girl, one time a student athlete at A&M they came to me and asked me what it was. You know, everybody's got a different perception of what being an athletic director really is. And she came to me and she wanted it. What did it take to be an athletic director? How can the path I took and all those kinds of things? Well, I said the first thing I said, ‘you need to have a lobotomy' and she didn't know what that was. And so, I said, ‘well go ask your parents'. And then I went through and I explained to her, well, she went to her parents and asked what a lobotomy was and they laughed. And she came back to me and she was mad at me for saying that to her.  But I say that all in fun. When I talk about that, it's a very challenging job. It's never been boring. It's never been dull. Has it been over challenging? Probably. Over stimulating? Probably. But it's been different. And I think different than the people in that, we're all different. Your job's different. The two of you have different jobs, different responsibilities and people in whatever walk of life you have. And so sometimes in athletics, we think woe is me, but everybody's got problems. The key is to solve. And you have to solve your problems. Like I said earlier, the only thing is you're so visible, which makes a difference. If you work for an insurance company, obviously you have people that work for the company. If it's a privately owned, you don't have shareholders stock, but if you're a publicly traded, then you've got those people that you got to deal with.  So, you know, everybody's got challenges. You just got to be able to try to hit, to take them head on.   

The Prince of Darkness wrought havoc on the souls of seventeenth-century Christians living throughout the Atlantic world. Whether they called him Satan, the Devil, Beelzebub, or by any other name, Lucifer tempted men and women to break their covenant with God in Heaven and do his dark bidding on Earth. At a time of great religious upheaval, when the Protestant Reformation swept through Europe and across the ocean to England's American colonies, fears of Satan's malevolent influence and the search for signs of his deeds were particularly intense in Scotland. A Reformation driven largely by the Scottish clergy and gentry inspired Scots to see the Devil's works in their everyday lives, question their salvation, and steel themselves against the possibility of eternal damnation. And just like in Salem, Massachusetts in the 1690s, Scots saw witches among them. Between the mid-1560s and early 1730s, Scots accused nearly 4,000 people of being in league with Satan. They executed many of the alleged conspirators. On today's show, Dr. Michelle D. Brock helps us understand why Satan held such powerful sway over Reformed Scotland, how Scottish witch hunting compared to the colonial New England experience, and perhaps the ultimate question: In dealing with the supernatural, how do we know what we know. About Our Guest: Michelle D. Brock, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of history at Washington & Lee University. She is the author of Satan and the Scots: The Devil in Post-Reformation Scotland, c.1560-1700, (Routledge, 2016). She is co-director, along with Chris R. Langley of Newman University of Mapping the Scottish Reformation, a digital prosopography of the Scottish clergy between 1560 and 1689. About Our Host:  Jim Ambuske, Ph.D. leads the Center for Digital History at the Washington Library. A historian of the American Revolution, Scotland, and the British Atlantic World, Ambuske graduated from the University of Virginia in 2016. He is a former Farmer Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities at the University of Virginia Law Library. At UVA Law, Ambuske co-directed the 1828 Catalogue Project and the Scottish Court of Session Project.  He is currently at work on a book about emigration from Scotland in the era of the American Revolution as well as a chapter on Scottish loyalism during the American Revolution for a volume to be published by the University of Edinburgh Press.

I'll provide a little epilogue here. Calvin College did not respond well to Stephanie's extracurricular activity here. From everything I've heard, she sort of drew a target on her back. They were not as progressive as she indicated on air.I'm happy to report that Stephanie is now a prof at Washington & Lee University in Virginia, & appears by all signs to be thriving in a more secular culture.Be sure to ignore all dates, phone numbers, etc. Remember, this took place in 2008.

Approximately 4 million people will be turning 18 in 2020. 4 million young voters. How are these young voters engaging with campaigns online? What's filling their newsfeeds? What type of digital content is firing them up? Tara sat down with Caitlin Reardon, Ayo Ehindero, John Harashinski - three highly-politically engaged students at Washington & Lee University - to discuss how they’re experiencing the election on their newsfeeds, on their mobile devices, and in their own social circles. Produced by Wonder Media Network. 

In this FIRST EPISODE (extended) of the new season of Leading By History, Dr. Lucas Morel of Washington & Lee University joins us to discuss the legacy of Abraham Lincoln as "Great Emancipator" or "White Supremacist". There has been much debate over the last several decades as to what Abraham Lincoln meant for African-American people and oppressed people world-wide. Some have viewed him as a great man who gave enslaved people in the U.S. their freedom and new opportunity, while others insist that he was not much different than the other white men of his day who promoted the superiority of the white race and cared little for the lives of the enslaved. Listen closely and fully as you weigh in with your own thoughts. This show is a must listen for the students of history and political science. Welcome back! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/leadingbyhistory/support

Andrew is a graduate of Washington & Lee University. Before joining The Franklin Team (one of the top residential real estate teams in the country), Andrew worked in investment banking for approximately 6 years. Andrew has been around residential real estate since he was a kid and learned early that putting clients' needs first is always smart business. In the 5 years he has been an owner/partner of The Franklin Team, he has helped grow the business to over double in size. The Franklin Team moved to eXp Realty in September 2018, and they currently sell more real estate than any other team in the entire company.

Kinsey's bio:Kinsey joined Morning Brew as a writer in July 2018. These days, she hosts the Brew's podcast—Business Casual, writes and edits for the daily Brew going to 1.6+ million subscribers, edits and incubates new projects including industry-specific newsletters, and leads in-person and live events. Kinsey graduated cum laude from Washington & Lee University with a B.A. in business journalism before moving to New York to pursue financial news full-time. Before joining Morning Brew, she covered stocks, tech, and cannabis for TheStreet. Sign up for Morning Brew here. Say hello to Kinsey on Twitter here. Listen to Business Casual here. 

Download Episode File Dr. Bryan Carmody is a lifelong Virginian. Born and raised in Richlands, VA, he attended college at Washington & Lee University in Lexington, VA, where he majored in chemistry before attending medical school at the University of Virginia. During his medical training, he became fascinated with kidney disease and renal physiology. After completing his residency training at Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters, he returned to UVA for a fellowship in pediatric nephrology, then came back to CHKD to join the children's kidney center and to be a part of Virginia's only freestanding children's hospital. Topics Covered: The relative efficacy of different learning models in medicine What is the point of a standardized test (not a rhetorical question) Evidence that standardized tests in medicine do what they say they do Who are the stakeholders in the standardized testing world Is memorization still important Revising medical education to better reflect clinical practice Do systemic, political, and financial constraints hinder medical education Links of Interest: Bryan’s Twitter Bryan’s Website Subscribe to the Resilient newsletter

Join host Brian Roach, Jr, and Cole Freel live on Sunday June 10th, 2018 from 8-9:30pm EST for episode #124 of Major League Fantasy Baseball Radio. We are a live broadcast that will take callers at 323-870-4395. Press 1 to speak with the host. We will discss the latest information in the world of fantasy baseball. Our guest this week is Professor Mark Rush. Mark is the Political and Legal Professor for Washington & Lee University. He is also the Chief Editor for majorleaguefantasysports.com, and also an author. 

Join Corey D Roberts, and Kyle Amore live on Thursday March 22nd, 2018 from 7- 8pm EST for episode #108 of Major League Fantasy Baseball Radio. We are a live broadcast that will take callers at 323-870-4395. Press 1 to speak with the host. We will the latest information in the world of fantasy baseball. Our guest this week is Professor Mark Rush. By day Mark is the well respected Law & Political Professor of Washington & Lee University and by night is the Chief Editor as well as a writer with majorleaguefantasysports.com. His articles are published every Monday morning and his primary focus is starting pitching. 

Join host Brian Roach, Jr, and John Gozzi live on Sunday February 25th, 2018 from 7:30-9pm EST for episode #101 of Major League Fantasy Baseball Radio. We are a live broadcast that will take callers at 323-870-4395. Press 1 to speak with the host. This is our kick off show for the new 2018 fantasy baseball season. We will discuss the latest information in the world of fantasy baseball. Our guest this week is Professor Mark Rush. By day Mark is the well respected Law & Political Professor of Washington & Lee University and by night is the Chief Editor as well as a writer with majorleaguefantasysports.com. His articles are published every Monday morning and his primary focus is starting pitching. 

A Girl Talk throwback episode! This show was recorded live at The Hideout in Chicago on June 26, 2017.On June 12, 2016, one of the biggest terrorist attacks in U.S. history shattered the LGBTQ community in Orlando. Then, we watched the White House fill up with homophobes while states banned trans people from bathrooms. For years, the fight for marriage equality dominated the conversation when it came to LGBTQ rights. We won that battle, but the fight is clearly far from over. On June 27, 2017, The Girl Talk welcomed women fighting for LGBTQ rights in Chicago and beyond. From tackling rampant homelessness among queer youth to a civil rights attorney focused on intersectionality, our guests talk about the issues facing our queer communities today and what we can do to better support them. Also, Jen really wants to talk about lesbian bars. What is The Girl Talk, you ask? It's a monthly show on the last Tuesday of the month hosted by women (DNAinfo's Jen Sabella and public education warrior/CPS teacher Erika Wozniak) and featuring influential Chicago women. Though the show features women and femme-identified individuals on stage, we welcome all gender identities and expressions to join us for these important conversations. THE GUESTS Gaylon B. Alcaraz is an activist, organizer and champion of human rights. As the past Executive Director of the Chicago Abortion Fund, she worked within the reproductive justice/rights/health movement to advocate for low-income women seeking to control their reproductive freedom. Among the many social justice accomplishments credited to Gaylon, she served as a founding board member of Affinity Community Services, a social justice organization that advocates for the rights of black lesbian and bisexual women in the Chicago land area. During her board tenure at Affinity, she assumed increased leadership roles, across all areas of the organization's functions including the role of Vice-President of the board, prior to the end of her final board service. She is also a past board member of the Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health and the Midwest Access Project.For more than twenty years, she has worked on behalf of sexual minority women, anti-violence, gender equity, health prevention, reproductive rights, as well as race and culture issues. Gaylon has consistently applied her knowledge in practice towards quality improvement, increased access, and by challenging frameworks that do not allow for the exploration of diversity across multiple dimensions when working with, and on behalf of diverse constituencies. These passionate beliefs have led her to advocate on behalf of all women and children.Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois she was awarded her BA and MA from DePaul University. Gaylon is currently a Ph.D candidate in Community Psychology at National Louis University. She has received awards from Sister Song Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, Northwest Suburban NOW, Choice USA, Chicago Foundation for Women and Chicago NOW for her work in the reproductive rights/health and justice field. The Chicago Reader recognized her as “The Activist” in the 2014 Chicago Reader People edition. In 2013, Gaylon was inducted into Chicago's Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame – the only LGBT Hall of Fame in the country.*****Aisha N. Davis, Esq., is a fellow at Loevy & Loevy and was born in Washington, DC and raised in Maryland. After attending Washington & Lee University in Lexington, VA, she went on to Columbia Law School and the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies for her JD and LLM, respectively.As an avid student of intersectionality, Aisha has worked on civil rights issues throughout her legal career, including work with Amnesty International, the Human Rights Foundation, Columbia Law School's Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies, the African American Policy Forum, and Lambda Legal. Since her move to Chicago, Aisha has continued this mission through her work with Affinity Community Services, the Pride Action Tank, and as a board member of the Illinois Safe Schools Alliance.*****Amie Klujian is a top-producing Chicago real estate broker and executive vice president of SwakeGroup at Dream Town Realty. In 2004, Amie co-founded Back Lot Bash-- a Chicago pride festival showcasing a diverse array of women musicians, performers and artists. Now in its 14th year, Back Lot Bash has established itself as the Midwest's largest, outdoor pride event for women in the LGBTQ community. Amie earned an a degree in politics from Princeton University and a master's in integrated marketing communications from Northwestern University. She's an HRC Federal Club Member and serves with pride on the Executive Board of Directors at Girls in the Game, a nonprofit that helps girls become empowered game changers.Hope you enjoy the show! Let us know what you think! Contact us on Twitter @GirlTalkChi or on Facebook @girltalkchicagoSpecial thanks to the amazing Bleach Party for our theme music. Check them out at http://letshaveableachparty.bandcamp.com/

Rick and his family have lived in Ahwatukee since 1996.  He has been practicing law for more than 34 years. He received his undergraduate degree from Brigham Young University in 1980 and his law degree from Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Virginia in 1983. He practiced law for 7 years in Atlanta, Georgia and the remaining 27 years have been here in Arizona. He spent more than a year as the CEO of Delta Dental Plan of Arizona in 1999/2000 during a challenging time in that company’s history. He is the managing partner of the Phoenix office of Smith LC, a law firm headquartered in Irvine, California, with offices in Irvine, Phoenix, Provo, Utah, and soon to be in Jackson, Wyoming. Rick’s practice emphasizes state and federal litigation cases and trials involving investment fraud, intellectual property disputes, and professional advisor liability. Most of Rick’s practice focuses on representation of plaintiffs. Rick and his wife, Lily, are the parents of five kids (all graduates of either Mountain Pointe or Desert Vista) and grandparents of 10 grandkids, none of whom live in Arizona.   www.smith-lc.com

Nathan Shearer, the head wrestling coach at Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Virginia joins The Ice Hour for Episode 23 to talk about his program and the recent NCAA Division III Wrestling regional realignment. Shearer wrestled at Ohio Northern and had a stint as the head coach at Heidelberg before landing at W&L. Now the chair of the NCAA Division III Wrestling Committee, Shearer also breaks down the regional alignment, the committee's role and what changes we can expect as more and more teams are coming into Division III. The Ice Hour is proudly sponsored by My House Sports Gear. SUBSCRIBE TO THE ICE HOUR iTunes | Stitcher | Spreaker | iHeartRadio | Google Play Music | Android | RSS JOIN THE TEAM And if you're a fan of the extensive and broad-based reach of the shows on the Mat Talk Podcast Network, become a TEAM MEMBER today. There are various levels of perks for the different levels of team membership. If you like wrestling content -- scratch that -- if you LOVE great wrestling content, consider becoming a team member. You'll get some cool stuff too. Looking to start a podcast of your own? Get a free month with Libsyn by using the promo code MTO when you sign up. You'll get the remainder of the month from when you sign up as well as the next month free. It'll be enough time to kick the tires and lights some fires.

Today, our topic is one of huge importance for Texas landowners and involves the rights of surface owners dealing with oil and gas production on their property.  Our guest is F. Parks Brown, an attorney with Uhl, Fitzsimons, Jewett & Burton, PLLC whose practice focuses on representing Texas land and mineral owners.   Parks has a degree in Philosophy from Washington & Lee University and a law degree from St. Mary's University.  He spent several years working as a petroleum landman in New Mexico, giving him some great experience on both sides of the issues he works on today.   We discuss the dominant estate rule in Texas, whereby if the mineral estate is dominant to the surface estate, granting the mineral owner or lessee the right to use as much of the surface estate as is reasonably necessary to produce oil and gas.  Importantly, this is an implied right, meaning that it applies to every property unless expressly deemed inapplicable by contract or agreement between the parties.  This right to use the surface can mean essentially anything to support oil and gas production including drilling pads, building roads, gathering lines, electric lines, processing facilities, disposal wells, frac ponds, etc.  Additionally, absent an agreement to do so, there is no obligation for that oil and gas company to make any payments for use or damages to the surface owner. We also hit on the concept of joint ownership (called cotenancy) of mineral rights.  If a landowner owns a percentage of the mineral rights as a cotenant, any cotenant holding a portion of executive rights can enter into a lease.  If the other cotenants do not agree to lease their portion, the other cotenant can still execute a lease and the non-consenting cotenant essentially becomes a partner with the oil company and will receive a share in the profits made by that company.  It is important to consider the percentage of minerals that are owned to understand the amount of leverage one has to get certain terms in an oil and gas lease.  There can also be complex issues when it comes to the fiduciary-like duty owed by an executive owner to other non-participating royalty interest owners, which should be considered when reserving executive rights. We then turn to legal protections for landowners.  First, we consider the Texas common law "accommodation doctrine" that sounds good in theory but has proven to be quite limited in scope.  To succeed, a landowner must show substantial interference with an existing surface use, a reasonable alternative way to produce for the oil and gas company on the same property, and that there is no reasonable alternative for the landowner to make the existing surface use.  Next, we look at statutory protections for surface owners in numerous states including OK, NM, ND, SD, MT, CO, WY, AK, KY, NC, TN, PA, and WV.  Unfortunately, we do not have this type of statute here in Texas.  Parks says that bills proposing this type of Act have been introduced since the 1970's, but he is hopeful that at some point, we will get this type of statutory protection in the Lone Star state. Finally, Parks talks about some key terms for surface owners to consider seeking when negotiating an oil and gas lease or a surface use agreement, including a term stating that damages to property are not capped at the fair market value of the property, broad covering indemnification clauses, limiting surface impacts with a surface use corridors or entrance and exit requirements.  We also discuss times to get these agreements from the oil and gas company, including in the oil and gas lease, in a surface use agreement, or when the company needs something from the landowner. Not surprisingly, when asked about a law he would like to see changed, Parks said he would like to see Texas adopt a surface damage statute to protect surface owners when oil and gas production occurs on their property. As always, I wrap up the show asking Parks for a restaurant recommendation.  He stayed close to home in San Antonio and mentioned El Milagrito Cafe for barbacoa tacos.  He claims that one can still get a $6.00 lunch at this restaurant!   Contact information for Parks Brown (Email) pbrown@ufjblaw.com (Website) http://ufjblaw.com/f-parks-brown/    Links to information mentioned on the show - Accommodation doctrine blog post - Summary of the OK Surface Damage Act by Shannon Ferrell - Presentation on surface rights by Joseph Fitzsimons  

MuggleNet Academia is a comprehensive insight into the literary thematic elements and scholastic endeavors that author J.K. Rowling has provided in her writings of the Harry Potter and Cormoran Strike series. We look through the entire Harry Potter series for various elements in alchemy, literary components, composition attributes, as well as available classes at Universities and Colleges around the world, and various unique studies that are being implemented today. We also dissect the Cormoran Strike mystery detective series as the books are being released, helping readers understand and appreciate the writings of the modern-day Dickens, J.K. Rowling. Once again, the MuggleNet Academia team of host Keith Hawk, managing editor for MuggleNet, and co-host John Granger, the Hogwarts Professor, brings our fans the latest in academic discussions within the Harry Potter and Fantastics Beasts sagas. In this lesson, we are joined by returning Potter Pundit, Chris Gavaler from Washington & Lee University, as we tackle a very difficult subject to discuss in American History - Eugenics Eugenics is difficult to wrap your head around when you consider that it actually began in America and culminated in Nazi Germany with the killing of 20 million Jews, gypsies, and undesirables. We give the listener a strong understanding of its history and lead into how the setting of 1926 America in J.K. Rowling's Fantastic Beasts is centered around this subject. Even actor, Ezra Miller (Credence Barebones) and Director David Yates stated during interviews how Eugenics is a crucial subject in this setting of Fantastic Beasts. We hope you enjoy the show. Thank you for listening.

In this episode, Jay Passavant and Father Jay Donahue share their best leadership content. They specifically talk about how Protestants and Catholics can work together to lead to make an impact in their churches, cities, and in the world. Jay Passavant's Bio: Dr. John (Jay) E. Passavant, III is the Founding Pastor of North Way Christian Community in Wexford, Pennsylvania. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Washington & Lee University and the Master of Divinity and Doctor of Ministry degrees from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California, and received an honorary Dr. of Divinity degree from Grove City College in 2010. He was a commissioned officer in the United States Marine Corps. Pastor Jay was ordained in the United Presbyterian Church in 1974 and served in youth ministry for seven years before starting North Way Christian Community in 1981. North Way is a thriving congregation of nearly 4,000 members in four locations. He has also supported the establishment of hundreds of mission congregations in China, India and South East Asia as Chairman of the Board of the South East Asia Prayer Center (SEAPC). Throughout his pastoral ministry, Pastor Jay has focused on building strong families through venues such as the nationally broadcast television show “Reality Talks” withDr. Kevin Leman and a weekly radio broadcast that addressed topics from parenting to personal issues. Pastor Jay has been working with other churches & leaders to establish a fully accredited seminary extension campus of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Wexford, PA. He also envisioned a partnership that would address the needs of inner city school children. In 2006, as part of Pastor Jay’s broad vision, North Way partnered with a school district by providing mentors, services, and resources in the East End of the City of Pittsburgh through L.A.M.P., the Learning Assistance and Mentoring Partnership. L.A.M.P. is a collaboration of the Pittsburgh Public Schools,Family Guidance, Inc., and area churches, including North Way Christian Community. Jay & his lovely wife Carol have been married 45 years and have three married children and 5 grandchildren. Father Jay Donahue Bio: Jay Donahue or as he is called in his Church Father Jay; was born and raised in Pittsburgh. He attended Central Catholic High School and then the University of Virginia. At age 21 he left college to join the seminary and follow the Lord's loving call as a priest in the Catholic Church. On December 23, 2006 surrounded by many of his family and friends he was ordained a Catholic priest in Rome Italy. His favorite scripture is psalm 23 especially the verse "He leadeth me". The Lord lead Jay through a training and ministry experiences to Rome, Italy, Mexico City Mexico, Washington DC, Atlanta Georgia. From 1993 to 2011 a good portion of his ministry and training was as a youth pastor. Now he service as a pastor for SS Simon & Jude Catholic Church in the Greentree area of Pittsburgh and is president and founder of "Renew the I Do" a Marriage ministry. You can not get to know Jay without hearing about how the Lord has graced him with a big family and a passionate desire to connect people to Christ. Connect with L3 Leadership: Website: L3Leadership.org LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/l3-leadership Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/L3Leader Twitter: @L3leader Instagram: @l3leadership Podcast: The L3 Leadership Podcast in iTunes How You Can Help this Podcast: To listen to past interviews, go to my podcast page. Subscribe to this podcast Rate and leave a review of the podcast Share the content on Social Media Sign-up for my L3 Leadership Newsletter If you have an idea for a future podcast you would like to hear or a leader you would like me to interview, e-mail me at dougsmith@l3leadership.org. If you enjoyed the podcast,Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/l3leadership)

John Sancilio is a Senior Loan Officer and owner of Bay Mortgage, LLC. John is a licensed mortgage loan originator and has helped clients purchase and refinance their homes for more than 20 years including 6 years at a major national bank where he was a President’s Club award winner. He is a lifelong resident of Hampton Roads and a graduate of Norfolk Academy and Washington & Lee University.  NMLS ID# 466694 (www.nmlsconsumeraccess.org) John Sancillio  (757) 410-9963 jsancilio@thebayway.com

Jeremy S. Adams is an author, teacher, husband, and father. He is the author of the book The Secrets of Timeless Teachers: Instruction that Works in Every Generation published by Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.  He also wrote the critically acclaimed memoir, Empty Selves: Reflections on a Decade of Teaching in an American High School (2012).  Additionally, he is a regular contributor and columnist for the national online journal The Educator's Room and has written editorials for The Washington Post, among other online and print outlets.   Jeremy is a full-time teacher of political science at Bakersfield High School in California and a lecturer of political science at California State University, Bakersfield. In 2012 he was named the Kern County Teacher of the Year and was a semifinalist for the 2013 California Department of Education's Teachers of the Year Program.  In 2014, he was recognized by the Daughters of the American Revolution with the 2014 California State Teacher of the Year Award. Also, he is the founder of the Earl Warren Constitutional Competition, is a graduate of Washington & Lee University and lives in Bakersfield, California with his wife and three children. In The Secrets of Timeless Teachers Jeremy explains his The Six Habits of Timeless Teaching: Habit #1: Passing the Rearview Mirror Test Habit #2: Teaching in the Front and the Back of the Classroom Habit #3: Becoming an Expert in Your Subject Habit #4: Being a Continual Innovator Habit #5: Being a Dynamic Communicator Habit #6: Striking a Triangular Balance: The Three E's of Timeless Teaching-Education, Entertainment, and Edification In the introduction of Secrets, Jeremy states, ““Impactful teachers possess a medley of characteristics and habits that distinguish them from the proverbial herd.” We discuss this comment for a little bit before looking deeper at a few of the six habits especially Teaching in the Front and Back of the Classroom, Being a Dynamic Communicator and his Three E's. Also, check out our discussion about the importance of continuing education for a teacher to be impactful. Make sure that you listen for Jeremy to say, “Great teaching is about modeling.”  You will love his thoughts about this. Jeremy Adams is an amazing educator.  You will like his stories about teaching and will be inspired by his thoughts about Timeless Teaching. I encourage you to get a copy of his work, The Secrets of Timeless Teachers: Instruction that Works in Every Generation you will be happy that you did. Connect with Jeremy: Twitter: JeremyAdams6 Find his book The Secrets of Timeless Teachers: Amazon Here is a link to his work Full Classrooms, Empty Selves: Amazon Also, reach out to him at Bakersfield High School- Jeremy_adams@khsd.k12.ca.us Or at California State University in Bakersfield Length: 41:10

Join Ej Garr and Corey D Roberts live on Sunday December 6th from 11-12:45pm EST for this week's episode of Major League Fantasy Sports radio sponsored by the Sports Palooza Radio network. We take live callers at 646-915-8596. We will discuss the football games today and any fantasy football relevant information therein.    Our guests this week are Davin Joseph, Coach Andy Macuga, and Professor Mark Rush. Davin is a 2-time Pro-Bowl guard and first round pick in 2006 of the Tampa Bay Bucs. Andy is the head coach for Borrego Springs H.S. in Southern California. Mark is the Professor of Politics and Law for Washington & Lee University and a huge fantasy sports advocate. Come join a lively debate!   If you can’t make it to the live airing you can always download the podcast at I-Tunes or Google Play stores. Search for “Sports Palooza Radio Show”. Android owners download “Podcast Republic” and then search on podcast republic for “Sports Palooza Radio Show.”

Join Ej Garr and Corey D Roberts on Sunday August 23rd from 7-8:30pm EST for the Major League Fantasy Sports Show sponsored by the Sports Palooza Radio Network. Call in live at 646-915-8596. We will be doing our 2015 wrap up.    Our line up of guests this week are Mark Rush the Professor of Law for Washington & Lee University, Bryan Luhrs owner of Real Deal Dynasty Sports, and Joe Iannone a writer with majorleaguefantasysports.com  Come join us for our finale for 2015.    If you can’t make it to the live airing you can always download the podcast at I-Tunes or Google Play stores. Search for “Sports Palooza Radio Show”. Android owners download “Podcast Republic” and then search on podcast republic for “Sports Palooza Radio Show.”

Join Ej Garr and Corey D Roberts on Sunday July 19th from 7-9pm EST for this week's episode of Major League Fantasy Sports Radio sponsored by the Sports Palooza Radio Network. Call in at 646-915-8596 to ask questions. This week's topics will be Hits & Misses, and the players that will have a big second half.    Our guests this week include Professor Mark Rush, Joe Iannone, and Kyle Amore. Professor Rush is the Law Professor for Washington & Lee University in Lexington, VA as well as a writer for Ron Shandler's shandlerpark.com. Joe Iannone is a writer with MLFS, and his articles focus on the AL East & AL Central divisions. You can catch his writings published every Monday. Kyle Amore is a former College ball player, and he is a writer with MLFS. Kyle handles everything fantasy related in the NL Central, and NL East divisions. Catch his articles published every Tuesday at 9am. Come join a spirited debate.    If you can’t make it to the live airing you can always download the podcast at I-Tunes or Google Play stores. Search for “Sports Palooza Radio Show”. Android owners download “Podcast Republic” and then search on podcast republic for “Sports Palooza Radio Show.”

Bethany Evans recently joined Southwest Airlines as Business Consultant Social Market Strategy. Prior to joining Southwest, she served as Social Media Manager at JCPenney, where she led the engagement team in content creation and community management across JCPenney’s social channels. Bethany has planned and executed a number of industry-leading campaigns including #JCPCup and #StompALittleLouder, and she has been a featured speaker for SocialMedia.org, discussing how to win at social media contests. A Colorado native, Bethany holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism from Washington & Lee University in Virginia.

A literary discussion on the Harry Potter book series with the staff of MuggleNet and John Granger, the Hogwarts Professor. This week features special guest Professor Suzanne Keen of Washington & Lee University and Rossie Morris, Senior Literature student at Kent University, UK. In this lesson: - An introduction to the new podcast - Reading a series compared to single book novels - A look at some of the most historical series in literature - How the Harry Potter series has shaped our lives and chnged our reading habits - What is it like growing up with Harry Potter from a young age? All of this and more in the new educational podcast from MuggleNet.