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00:00– 19:38 –– After making a stop in Westfield for Colts camp yesterday, ESPN’s Ben Solak joins to discuss what he took from seeing Daniel Jones in-person, what he thinks Lou Anarumo wants in his defense, if the Bijan Robinson deal has any affect on Johnathan Taylor’s contract talks and how the Colts should approach long term contracts. Also, will Alec Pierce be a well-rounded receiver now? 19:38 –34:16 – Colts kicker Blake Grupe joins the show and explains how he rebounded from his struggles in New Orleans, the nature of being a kicker and his relationship with Spencer Shrader as the battle goes on. What was it like growing up in Missouri and John warns him he might break his perfect kicking streak. 34:16 – 1:05:17 – Brian Neubert of GoldandBlack.com joins the show. Before getting into the news that Tom McLellan will be the new athletic director at Purdue, he was in Vancouver for Purdue’s summer basketball trip. He explains what is similar and what’s very different from last years team. Then, what is McLellan walking into with the Purdue AD job? And how much should Purdue be comparing themselves to IU? John asks how much more money Braden Smith could make if he stayed a fifth-year.Support the show: https://1075thefan.com/the-ride-with-jmv/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

00:00 – 31:08 – JMV opens the show by letting the folks in on his day off in southeastern Indiana. He bought a ton of meat, visited Vincennes and went to an old record store. He thanks Greg Rakestraw for filling-in yesterday before getting into Daniel Jones and why we truly won’t know how good he looks until he lines up to take snaps in week 1. While previewing his conversation with Blake Grupe, John wonders if he cursed former Colts’ kicker Matt Gay years ago. He also touches on the criticisms of IU’s schedule, as well as Caitlin Clark. 31:08– 44:01 – From the ISC Sports Network, Greg Rakestraw makes his weekly 3:30 appearance to breakdown what he’s seen from Colts camp and responds to JMV’s take that we still don’t truly know what condition Daniel Jones is in. They also get into the IU schedule dialogue, a potential baseball lockout, what he knows about new Purdue AD Tom McLellan. 44:01 – 48:45 – JMV gives his take on the Fever’s loss to the Lynx Sunday now that he’s back 48:45 - 1:15:52 – After making a stop in Westfield for Colts camp yesterday, ESPN’s Ben Solak joins to discuss what he took from seeing Daniel Jones in-person, what he thinks Lou Anarumo wants in his defense, if the Bijan Robinson deal has any affect on Johnathan Taylor’s contract talks and how the Colts should approach long term contracts. Also, will Alec Pierce be a well-rounded receiver now? 1:15:52 – 1:30:52 – Colts kicker Blake Grupe joins the show and explains how he rebounded from his struggles in New Orleans, the nature of being a kicker and his relationship with Spencer Shrader as the battle goes on. What was it like growing up in Missouri and John warns him he might break his perfect kicking streak. 1:30:52 – 1:35:23 – JMV reflects on his hoop session he had Friday night where he apparently went 3-for-20. 1:35:23 – 1:55:58 – Brian Neubert of GoldandBlack.com joins the show. Before getting into the news that Tom McLellan will be the new athletic director at Purdue, he was in Vancouver for Purdue’s summer basketball trip. He explains what is similar and what’s very different from last years team. Then, what is McLellan walking into with the Purdue AD job? And how much should Purdue be comparing themselves to IU? John asks how much more money Braden Smith could make if he stayed a fifth-year. 1:55:58 – 2:13:51 – JMV reviews the show and reveals the announcement that Defensive Tackle Stephen Daley is returning to the team before he reads texts from the listeners of the show! 2:13:51 – 2:18:55 – JMV ends the show by commenting on the passing of Janie HodgeSupport the show: https://1075thefan.com/the-ride-with-jmv/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Speaker: Kurt Brodbeck

(00:00-28:52) – Query & Company opens a Thursday with Jake Query welcoming Steve Campbell, Vice President of Communications & External Affairs for the Colts, onto the program to discuss the final training camp in Westfield, why he believes Indianapolis would be a great host city for the NFL Draft, and his time in politics where he contributed to growing the sports interest in Indianapolis. (28:52-46:13) – There’s more negative news in the WNBA and it leads to a Jake and Eddie discussing what happened in Seattle on Monday night during the game. Jake also shares what his plans from last night entailed because he was reminded of something. (44:17-50:58) – Jake Query concludes the first hour of the show by disclosing a conversation that he had with one of the interns at WISH & WRTV regarding his age. (50:58-1:18:59) – Indianapolis Colts cornerback Charvarius Ward joins Jake Query at the table at Indianapolis Colts Training Camp to discuss the first two practices and where he is at emotionally and mentally after last season. Jake asks him what he remembers from suffering his second concussion last year, how long it took him to mentally get back to himself, and how deep the cornerback room is because they have a lot of guys who could be starting elsewhere. (1:18:59-1:35:10) – Earlier today, the Indiana Pacers announced they are bringing back the pinstripe uniforms. Jake and Eddie discuss the different names that the NBA has for its uniforms. (1:35:10-1:40:07) – Hour number two of Query & Company concludes with Stephen Holder from ESPN joining Jake Query briefly to discuss Jake’s class reunion that wants to dress like its 1991. (1:40:07-2:11:23) – ESPN.com’s Stephen Holder joins Jake Query from Indianapolis Colts Training Camp to recap what day two looked like for the Colts. They dive into Anthony Richardson Sr.’s performances so far with him competing with Riley Leonard for the QB2 job, highlight some of the comments made by Charvarius Ward earlier in the show, and discuss what the players do the rest of the day once they leave the practice field during training camp. (2:11:23-2:26:44) – Curt Cignetti will address the media at Big Ten Media Day later today and will he drop the hammer on the SEC or the media? Jake and Eddie get into the lack of coverage and discussion about Indiana from the national perspective despite being the reigning champions. (2:26:44-2:31:23) – The show closes out with JMV joining the show to preview his show!Support the show: https://1075thefan.com/query-and-company/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

00:00 – 26:15 – JMV opens a Thursday edition of The Ride with some Curt Cignetti comments from Big Ten Media Days and why when he says he’s process oriented, it lands differently than when a different team in town says they are process oriented. He touches on the Big Ten and SEC debate. Plus, he wonders what we are going to see from Alec Pierce this season and why he has to be more versatile. JMV also previews his conversation with Caden Curry, if he likes the pinstripe jerseys, the Pacers are coming back with and Max Clark got called up. 26:15 – 41:28 – Colts Rookie Defensive End and Center Grove Grad Caden Curry joins the show and discusses how camp has started for him and how he is prepared for everything that is coming his way. Plus, he’s caught a lot of flak from Carmel and Westfield people at camp, as well as IU fans after his hit on Mendoza in the Big Ten Title Game. He reflects on what he remembers about that play. 41:28 – 50:03 – After saying Caleb looks like Thomas Magnum from Magnum P.I. earlier in the show, JMV runs through some old TV show themes that remind him of Sunday night, then reads some texts from listeners. 50:03 - 1:14:02 JMV continues the TV show theme conversation before getting into Paul Finebaum audio about him betting against them last year. JMV continues to wonder if Indiana is the most hated program in the country. 1:14:02 – 1:35:32 – Zach Osterman from the IndyStar joins us from Chicago to react to what Curt Cignetti had to say at Big Ten Media days, does he have beef with Nick Saban and the SEC? Then, they get into the roster makeup and what the quarterback position looks like, including the question at Tight End and what Cignetti had to say about it. 1:35:32 – 1:38:04 – JMV reflects on the movie Hollywood Nights before wrapping up the first hour of the show. 1:38:04 – 2:06:47 – From CBS4/FOX59, Mike Chappell joins and JMV asks him if he wants to join him at a show before they get into the Colts conversation and Mike wonders if wide receiver coach Reggie Wayne is happy with the state of the room. They also shine light on Charvarius Ward’s comments today and how open and honest he was with his decision to almost retire. What’s his outlook on Caden Curry? 2:06:47 – 2:16:57 – JMV reminisces on some movies that were released on this date in history, including nightshift. He also wonders if Producer Caleb knows he hasn’t seen a movie in a theatre since September 21st 1999. 2:16:57 – 2:24:28 – JMV gives away State Fair tickets and previews tomorrow's show! Support the show: https://1075thefan.com/the-ride-with-jmv/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Colts Rookie Defensive End and Center Grove Grad Caden Curry joins JMV and discusses how camp has started for him and how he is prepared for everything that is coming his way. Plus, he’s caught a lot of flak from Carmel and Westfield people at camp, as well as IU fans after his hit on Mendoza in the Big Ten Title Game. He reflects on what he remembers about that play.Support the show: https://1075thefan.com/the-ride-with-jmv/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

00:00 – 11:52 – Colts Rookie Defensive End and Center Grove Grad Caden Curry joins the show and discusses how camp has started for him and how he is prepared for everything that is coming his way. Plus, he’s caught a lot of flak from Carmel and Westfield people at camp, as well as IU fans after his hit on Mendoza in the Big Ten Title Game. He reflects on what he remembers about that play. 11:52 – 33:09 – Zach Osterman from the IndyStar joins us from Chicago to react to what Curt Cignetti had to say at Big Ten Media days, does he have beef with Nick Saban and the SEC? Then, they get into the roster makeup and what the quarterback position looks like, including the question at Tight End and what Cignetti had to say about it. 33:09 – 58:08 – From CBS4/FOX59, Mike Chappell joins and JMV asks him if he wants to join him at a show before they get into the Colts conversation and Mike wonders if wide receiver coach Reggie Wayne is happy with the state of the room. They also shine light on Charvarius Ward’s comments today and how open and honest he was with his decision to almost retire. What’s his outlook on Caden Curry? Support the show: https://1075thefan.com/the-ride-with-jmv/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Indianapolis Colts kicked off training camp at Westfield's Grand Park Sports Campus.Dave Griffiths, Mike Chappell and Matt Adams discuss top news from camp, including observations on Daniel Jones, Jonathan Taylor and DeForest Buckner.

The Crexi Podcast connects commercial real estate (CRE) professionals with industry insights built for smart decision-making, exploring the latest trends, innovations, and opportunities shaping commercial real estate — because knowledge should move at the speed of ambition, and every conversation should empower professionals to act with greater clarity and confidence.   Centennial's Paul Kurzawa on his career through Westfield, Caruso, and DreamWorks, his retail placemaking philosophy, and where shopping centers are headed next.   In this episode, host Shanti Ryle sits down with Paul Kurzawa, newly appointed CEO of Centennial, to trace his 25-year career from an entry-level mall marketing job in Sydney to leading a top retail real estate platform. Paul shares stories from his years at Westfield, Caruso, and DreamWorks Animation, including building the studio's immersive "Dream Play" entertainment centers.   They also discuss why retail didn't die despite predictions, how the pandemic reinvigorated the industry, and Centennial's 20-month turnaround of Annapolis Mall. Paul and Shanti explore AI's growing role in retail real estate, Gen Z's love of malls, and his vision for shopping destinations a decade from now. Paul's closing advice: stay curious.   00:00 Introduction to The Crexi Podcast 01:00 Guest Introduction: Paul Kurzawa 03:00 Early Career at Lendlease in Australia 05:00 Moving to the US and Fashion Valley 07:00 Career Lessons and Early Hard Work 10:00 Westfield Years and "Cash Is King" 14:00 Century City Redevelopment and Dining Terrace 16:00 Meeting Rick Caruso and Placemaking Philosophy 19:00 Pivot to DreamWorks Animation 22:00 Building Immersive Entertainment Experiences 27:00 E-Commerce, "Retail Is Dead," and the Pandemic Rebound 33:00 Joining Centennial and Becoming CEO 39:00 Retail Market Trends and Consumer Sentiment 43:00 Case Study: The Annapolis Mall Turnaround 45:00 Gen Z, Site Selection, and Tenant Strategy 50:00 Department Stores as Anchors, Reimagined 54:00 AI's Growing Role in Retail Real Estate 01:04:00 Vision for the Future of Shopping Centers 01:08:00 Final Advice: Stay Curious 01:09:00 Conclusion and Contact Information   Like this? Hop on over to our blog to check out the latest CRE hot tips and insights: https://bit.ly/3TAD75S   Subscribe and receive the latest in CRE from Crexi: https://www.youtube.com/c/CREXi?sub_c[...](https://www.youtube.com/c/CREXi?sub_confirmation=1)   Follow Crexi: Website: https://bit.ly/3TAD75S Instagram: https://bit.ly/3SxVtDk Facebook: https://bit.ly/3DppaSH Twitter: https://bit.ly/3D1Qe91 Linkedin: https://bit.ly/3zcDMCh   About Paul Kurzawa: Paul Kurzawa is the newly appointed CEO of Centennial, where he leads the company's national portfolio of retail and mixed-use destinations. With 25+ years across lifestyle, open-air, and enclosed retail, he specializes in redevelopment, placemaking, and community-centered development. He previously held leadership roles at CenterCal Properties, The Blackstone Group, Westfield, Caruso, DreamWorks Animation, and Equity Office Properties, with landmark projects including the $660 million Willis Tower redevelopment, The Americana at Brand, and Westfield Century City. Paul began his career in Sydney with Lendlease before relocating to the U.S. in 1996. Paul can be found on LinkedIn, and Centennial online at centennialrec.com.   About Crexi: Crexi is reimagining commercial real estate with an AI-powered platform built to deliver smarter, more efficient solutions at every stage of the deal lifecycle — from real-time market insights with Crexi Intelligence, to property marketing and deal management via Crexi PRO, to transparent, time-bound bidding with Crexi Auction. To date, Crexi has facilitated over $1 trillion in transactions, 8.6 billion square feet leased, and supports more than 2.5 million monthly active users. For show notes, past guests, and more CRE content, please check out Crexi's blog.Looking to stay ahead in commercial real estate? Visit Crexi to explore properties, analyze markets, and connect with opportunities nationwide. Follow Crexi:https://www.crexi.com/​ https://www.crexi.com/instagram​ https://www.crexi.com/facebook​ https://www.crexi.com/twitter​ https://www.crexi.com/linkedin​ https://www.youtube.com/crexi About Crexi:Crexi is reimagining commercial real estate with an AI-powered platform built to deliver smarter, more efficient solutions at every stage of the deal lifecycle. From real-time data and market insights with Crexi Intelligence, to targeted property marketing and seamless deal management through Crexi PRO, and a transparent, time-bound bidding experience with Crexi Auction— Crexi enables users to evaluate opportunities, maximize exposure, and close with speed and confidence. To date, Crexi has subsidized over $2.74 trillion in property value, 26 billion square feet listed, and supports a growing community of more than 23 million yearly users.

In this episode of Dismantling You, I sit down with Matthew Braman, LCSW, LCSW-C, PMH-C, a paternal perinatal mental health specialist and the Founder & CEO of VERVE Psychotherapy to explore a subject that too often goes unspoken: the grief men carry through fertility struggles, pregnancy loss, and the transition into fatherhood. Matthew shares how he found his way into this work, why men's emotional experiences in the perinatal period are so easily overlooked, and what happens when partners stop truly seeing each other. We talk honestly about the distance and resentment that build when grief has nowhere to go, and why real connection asks so much more of us than we expect.From there, Matthew and I dig into the four pillars of connection and what it takes for couples to move through reproductive grief together rather than apart. We explore why so many men wait for a crisis before seeking support, how the myth of the impenetrable man keeps them isolated, and the quiet power of doing the work before things fall apart. We also cover the invisible load in partnership, the guilt that surfaces around parenting, and the practice of building internal safety in the middle of hard seasons. It is a tender, grounding conversation about showing up, asking for help, and remembering that therapy, and honesty, are for everyone.__________________________________________________

A bestselling computer book and a mayor's office may seem worlds apart, but Dan Gookin's path connects them through curiosity, clear communication, and public service. I talk with the DOS for Dummies author and Coeur d'Alene mayor about making technical writing useful, challenging industries that resist new ideas, and finding success by improving work others do poorly. Dan also shares why he entered local politics, how transparency and community engagement built public trust, and why responsible leadership often means asking the questions others overlook. We close by exploring political division, religious freedom, social media algorithms, and the need to reduce online anger without losing the internet's benefits. Highlights: 00:06:48 - Why leaving your comfort zone creates growth. 00:11:07 - How doing something better can become a business. 00:12:39 - Why writing for beginners changed computer publishing. 00:27:06 - How transparency concerns led Dan into politics. 00:37:30 - Why responsiveness helped Dan earn public trust. 00:54:49 - How social media fuels anger and division. About the Guest: Dan Gookin is the mayor-elect of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, having won election in November 2025 after serving on the City Council since 2011. Known as a fiscal conservative, outspoken advocate for government transparency, and a committed budget hawk who asks tough questions, he is often described as “the lone voice of reason” on the council, consistently championing the public and the “little guy” against bureaucracy. Gookin views his public service as protecting individual rights. He prides himself on listening to all perspectives, welcoming alternative viewpoints, remaining open to new information, and never being a rubber-stamp vote. Professionally, Gookin is known as a writer and online trainer. He has been writing about technology since the early days of personal computing, combining his humor with a passion for gadgets to create informative and entertaining books. He authored the groundbreaking DOS For Dummies in 1991—the world's fastest-selling computer book at the time and the title that launched the iconic For Dummies series, now a publishing phenomenon. With more than 170 titles to his credit, over 12 million copies in print, and translations into more than 30 languages, his popular works include PCs and Laptops For Dummies, Android For Dummies, Word For Dummies, and C For Dummies. He maintains two helpful websites, wambooli.com and c-for-dummies.com. He creates online courses for LinkedIn Learning on diverse topics, and in 2020 published Running for Local Office For Dummies. Gookin graduated from the University of California, San Diego with a BA in Communications/Visual Arts and minors in cognitive psychology and theatrical design. He put his creative talents to work as artistic director of the Lake City Playhouse, where he designed sets, lighting, and directed many productions between 1997 and 2002. First and foremost, Dan considers himself a father who raised four boys in Idaho. Gookin resides in Coeur d'Alene with his wife, Brie, along with various children and pets. In his leisure time, he enjoys woodworking, playing the piano, riding his bike, cooking, gardening, and making lists of things he enjoys doing along with occasionally annoying those who think that they're important. Ways to connect with Dan**:** LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-gookin-46995713/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/dangookin About the Host: Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog. Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards. https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/ Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below! Subscribe to the podcast If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can subscribe in your favorite podcast app. You can also support our podcast through our tip jar https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/unstoppable-mindset . Leave us an Apple Podcasts review Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts. Transcription Notes: Michael Hingson  00:04 What if the biggest thing holding you back isn't what's in front of you, but rather what you believe? Welcome to Unstoppable Mindset, where inclusion, diversity, and the unexpected meet. I'm your host, Michael Hingston, speaker, author, and advocate for inclusion and possibilities. This podcast explores how the beliefs we carry shape the way we live, lead, and connect with others. Each week, I talk with people who challenge assumptions, face adversity head-on, and show what's possible when we choose curiosity over fear. Together, we focus on mindset, resilience, and the small shifts that lead to meaningful change. Let's get started. Hello there, everyone. Welcome to another episode of Unstoppable Mindset. I am your host, Michael Hingston, and today we get to chat with Dan Gookin. Do you know who Dan Gookin is? Probably not, but you will by the time we're done. But I will tell you one thing about Dan. He was elected mayor of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, in November of 2025. I think Dan, you're the first political person as such that we have had on, which is kind of cool. I'm really honored to to have you here, and and we can spend the the whole time picking on on other politicians, but there's no need to do that. I mean, what good does it do? It's a waste of time. But I want to welcome you to Unstoppable Mindset, and Dan, thanks very much for being here. Dan Gookin  01:44 Thank you, Michael. Thank you for having me on. Michael Hingson  01:46 Well, this will, I think, really be a lot of fun. I'm sorry that you guys aren't getting a lot of snow up there. My brother-in-law has been keeping me posted on the lack of snow, so today here we're expecting a temperature at about 70 degrees. Last week it got up to 39. So I don't know. There's something going on with the climate. Dan Gookin  02:10 Something. Michael Hingson  02:11 Yeah, whatever it is. Speaker 1  02:13 Well, there was a name for that. Michael Hingson  02:15 Yeah, yeah. If if there were enough people, would only believe it. But that's another story. You are right. Well, thanks very much for being here. Why don't we start? Tell me about the early Dan growing up and all that. Speaker 1  02:31 So I grew up in San Diego, California. Good place. I still say San Michael Hingson  02:35 Diego has the best weather in the country. Speaker 1  02:38 They do. It's changed a little bit as everything has, but I escaped from there back in 1991. Went up to Washington State because I was doing some work with Microsoft, and then decided that that was Seattle was another big city. So we kept looking east and finally landed in Idaho in Coeur d'Alene because it's pretty. Michael Hingson  03:01 It's a nice area. So you you did your schooling and all that down in San Diego. Speaker 1  03:06 Yeah, I graduated from the University of California, San Diego with a degree in communication visual arts. That was in 1983. Michael Hingson  03:13 Cool, wow. I've spent many a a day down in San Diego. I lived in Vista for six years, so I'm familiar with the area. Yeah, I liked Vista. Vista was a nice place to be. You Speaker 1  03:24 did a radio show out of Vista. Did you for a while? Yeah, computer call-in show. So that was way back. Michael Hingson  03:32 What did you discuss, or just anything dealing with computers? I Speaker 1  03:36 was editing a magazine, a local computer magazine at the time, and we purchased an hour, and so I would drive from my home in Tierra Santa all the way up to Vista to be in this little tiny radio station, where we would do call-ins. And sometimes people would call in, and I would help them solve their computer problems. And sometimes I had to talk to myself for Michael Hingson  03:57 an hour. And and and did you get answers when you talk to yourself. Speaker 1  04:02 No, but I got really hoarse. Ah, okay. Michael Hingson  04:04 Well, you know, just just checking. Well, that's cool. Well, I guess we could tell everyone that, among other things, Dan is also the author of a number of books, including DOS for Dummies. I still like DOS. Thank you. I I like DOS. I've just always enjoyed it. Although, I have to admit, Windows has progressed a whole lot more. But I always liked DOS. Speaker 1  04:27 Yes, it was good, and and it was its complexity or its a rudeness, I shall say. Yeah, that's a good. Sold the book because you had to type. You had to know the commands in Windows. You can kind of look and point and do all this stuff, but in DOS, you had to know the commands and type the commands, and people wouldn't-they couldn't remember. There were all these options, and so we sold a lot of books doing that. It's still, like I said, I I like it too. I like the command line because it's faster if you know what you have to type. Yeah, it takes less time to type. Than it does to look around, point and shoot with the mouse. Michael Hingson  05:04 Yeah, there are a number of blind people on some list serves that I am part of that every so often something regarding DOS comes up, which is I think kind of cool. Speaker 1  05:15 Yep, hasn't gone away. It's it's still lurking in there somewhere. Michael Hingson  05:19 It is still a kind of the basic underpinning foundation of a lot of Windows, isn't it? Speaker 1  05:25 Well, Windows actually does run on top of it still. If you if you when you start a program in Windows, you're actually issuing a text command. So inside there is a long text command that is issued that gets everything running. It's just that you're configuring that from a graphical perspective, Michael Hingson  05:44 right? Yeah, but but it is still running. DOS essentially runs under Windows, which is which is something that is is relevant. So I guess we could blame that on Bill Gates, Speaker 1  05:57 or credit him. I don't know. Michael Hingson  05:58 Or yeah, yeah, one of the other. Well, so you you graduated, you moved to Seattle. As you said, it is a big city, although you know it's kind of hard to fight Pike's fish market. Speaker 1  06:11 Well, there's there's the fun and charming parts of of Seattle that I really enjoyed. So I mean, I can't say that you know it was a horrible city. The thing I admired about Seattle the most was that Seattle would occasionally not take itself seriously, and I liked that it had a sense of humor and that people there were generally good natured. San Diego was a little bit more uptight, you know, fair weather fans, that kind of stuff, where Seattle was more of a community, and I admired that greatly. Michael Hingson  06:43 And there used to be a lot of rain up there. Speaker 1  06:45 Not as much as people say. That's kind of their reputation. The Pacific Northwest we do have. So I moved from Southern California where you have 360 days of sun a year to Pacific Northwest where you have 180, so it was kind of a shock from that point of view. It's mostly like today; it's overcast. It's just there's no sun, so that's the big difference. Michael Hingson  07:10 And then you moved up to Idaho, and and how many days of sun or not sun are there a year? Speaker 1  07:16 Oh, still about 180. 180. Uh huh. But it's you know so you get used to it after a while, and when the sun comes out, you're all happy, and it's like, look, the sun's out, everything's pretty. Michael Hingson  07:27 Yeah, fair. Yeah. So when you were in San Diego and so on, what did you want to do or be when you grew up? Speaker 1  07:36 So originally, I wanted to be a doctor, and then I had the misfortune of being in a hospital, and I said I don't ever want to be back here, and changed my mind and figured I would be a writer. So for years I started writing and submitting things to magazines, trying to work on books and stuff. I mean I wrote a few books, and they say that you have to get about a million words of junk out before you actually are a good writer. So I I worked on that for a long time, and got to the point where I I actually had a reputation with some of the editors in the magazines who would write me back personal notes instead of the generic you know dismissal, and so that was working really well. But then what happened in 1984 was I wrote something for the local computer flyer, and they liked that, and it got published, and that was what really started the career for tech because tech wanted people who knew how to write, so that was good timing. Michael Hingson  08:35 Yeah, so many technical manuals are just so boring. I really wish people would learn how to write more interesting books. Of course, I say that about textbooks as well. I am of the opinion that having a master's degree in physics and having read many a physics book, the and there are so few of them. The best books are the ones where the authors have put some actual personal stories in to draw people in with human interest parts of the science, and I wish more people would do that. Speaker 1  09:03 And that was my point too. It was like these books are dull and boring. And the problem I had because I was writing computer books at the time, I had a computer book literary agent. There is such a thing, and it's it's backwards in that industry though, because the publisher says what they want a book on, and then they have you write the book on the topic, and so I was doing that for many years. But I did not like the fact that they would edit my books to make them dry, and the editors would actually complain to me and say, "There's too much personality in here. You can't have this. It was like it was like they thought that was a built-in feature of the book, and my protest was, "Well, no. Let's make them interesting. Let's use real life examples. Let's have some personality in there. Let's have some interaction with the with the reader. And they didn't like that until DOS for Dummies came around, and the publisher was willing to change the paradigm. Michael Hingson  09:55 Jeez, yeah, it's so unfortunate. They they think they know. Everything there is to know, and the reality is they don't. Speaker 1  10:04 That's the way it is with just about any industry. You know that I think the corporate mentality is kind of to resist innovation, even in the most innovative industries, until something crazy comes along. And I think that's why in Silicon Valley you had all these startups. You know, if you look, if you trace the lineage of a lot of the big companies, they started at other big companies that were unwilling to do the crazy ideas these guys had, and so they went off. I mean, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak left Hewlett Packard and started up Apple Computer, and I'm pretty sure there's probably been some engineers from Apple Computer who've left and started up their own company and becoming Michael Hingson  10:43 well. And Bill Gates is essentially the same way. It's it's he started out doing something, but he attracted people's attention by some of the other things that he did. Speaker 1  10:53 Yep. Michael Hingson  10:54 And that was was very relevant. But I I hear what you're saying. It makes perfect sense because people just don't like to be innovative and don't like change, and and that's unfortunate that we have so many people that just, as much as they talk about the fact that change is everywhere, they don't like it. Speaker 1  11:10 No, it's well, I think yeah, we we get in our comfort zone, and you don't grow out in the comfort zone. So I like to challenge myself and do interesting things like become mayor, and you know you leave your comfort zone. And what what can I do here, or how can I do this better? Michael Hingson  11:26 Yeah, well, and that makes makes perfect sense. Well, what got you started writing about technology? Just because you were writing that that one article there, or those articles that got interest on the part of a publisher, or what? Speaker 1  11:41 What got me started was that I got paid. Ah, Michael Hingson  11:44 good point. Speaker 1  11:45 You know, they they paid me, and then you know, as as someone who was you know using a computer at the time, and they were called microcomputers, and they were really primitive compared to what we have today. Oh yeah, I I used it to write. So, and the the problem with that was that the the documents, the manuals that we talk about, were so dry and boring, and eventually, all of a sudden, it would dawn on me: it's like, well, this is what it's trying to say. So why don't they just come out and say it this way, or why don't they use an analogy and try to explain it in that manner instead of coming at it from this hardcore technical? And that was what really turned off a lot of people, so it motivated me to want to do it better, and that's kind of what I tell the kids, like my kids. I say you should start up a business. That's really the best way to get successful is start up your own business and become famous like that. And they're well, what business should I start up? I said that the easiest way is to find something that you like, something that's being done poorly, and just do it better. Yeah, and that's really a lot of the the creative, insanely genius stuff that's happened throughout the world is just someone who does something routine but does it better. Michael Hingson  12:52 And that's really the operative part about it, and and the real key. I think you're you're absolutely right. Find something that people aren't doing well, and by the time you get creative enough to figure that out, you're well on your way. Speaker 1  13:05 Yep. So that's that's what I did. Michael Hingson  13:08 Yeah. And so you started going off and and writing a variety of things. What what actually got you to write Dos for Dummies? What specifically? That's first of all, I love the the title of all the Four Dummies books. I think it makes sense. But what got you started in writing DOS for Dummies directly? Speaker 1  13:27 Well, I I knew that there was an appetite out there for beginner computer books, but the publishing industry would not publish beginning computer books because they said beginners don't buy computer books. And I explained to them, well, your problem is you don't write beginner computer books. You write something and you call it, you know, the easy guide to whatever, but the content of it is not written for a beginner. Maybe the first chapter is very condescending and patronizing, and then the rest of it is just technical garbage. So I said you have to keep that tone throughout the entire text. You have to identify who it is you're writing to, as who's a smart person who may just not get it, and explain it to them, and just keep going. And that was the problem. So I I did originally called it the Idiots Guide for DOS, which was based after the Idiots Guide to Volkswagen Repair. My dad had a copy of that, and I thought, well, what a brilliant idea. Michael Hingson  14:20 Yeah. Speaker 1  14:21 And so the publisher saw me speak at a conference, and where I was bemoaning the fact that the books were so boring, and they kept editing out my personality. And then went to to him, and and he's like, "This is great. Your outline that you have for this book is perfect. Except we want to call it DOS for Dummies. I thought, like a lot of other people, that was condescending and patronizing, but that it's an alliteration, so that's what they go with. And then he said to make it a reference. Don't make it a tutorial because, and this is brilliant, these people don't want to learn anything; they just want to do their job. Yeah, that makes sense. So that was and that was it, and we put a lot of humor in it. You know, people would tell me that they'd read the book on the subway, and you know, you'd see someone laughing reading a computer book. That's weird, but there would just be enough humor, and I'd use Mad Magazine as my inspiration. So it was kind of like us versus the nerds, and and that was what really founded the whole thing, and I tell you what, it caught on. I did not think it would. There was no way we were planning on writing a book that would sell, you know, 8 million copies. We were just thinking, well, this is going to be fun. Let's just do this, get it out of our system, and then go back to writing boring books. Michael Hingson  15:36 Made the publisher very happy. Speaker 1  15:39 Oh yeah, they were printing Gold bricks, yeah. Michael Hingson  15:43 That, of course, was the real key. Well, that started a brand, didn't it? Speaker 1  15:47 Oh yeah, they did. There was no intention to do that, but then they they followed that up with Max for Dummies and a bunch of other titles that were just very popular at the time. AOL for Dummies, you know, Windows for Dummies eventually came out, and that was the King for Dummies book. But yeah, they have and they have it on all topics. I've even so as someone who is you know starting in government, I got Robert's Rules for Dummies, which you know you've been to a meeting, you know they follow Robert's Rules, which is very dry and boring, but it's it's important. And Robert's Rules for Dummies is a good example of a For Dummies book because it explains everything carefully. Lots of humor in there, and so there's a lot of them. Wine for Dummies was another one that I really liked. I thought they did a good job. Golf for Dummies. There's a there's on every topic. There's a For Dummies book. Michael Hingson  16:37 How many of them did you write? Speaker 1  16:40 Only wrote the ones with my names on them, but probably about 40 separate titles. So over the years, most of them have been rewrites. So technology changes. So there have been 16 editions of Word for Dummies, and 13 editions of PCs for Dummies. There were four editions of DOS for Dummies. So you're you're always writing new editions, so all totaled 180 separate titles. But individual titles, without not counting multiple editions, right? About 60. Michael Hingson  17:09 Wow. Speaker 1  17:10 Yeah. Yeah, Michael Hingson  17:10 and I can appreciate that that books like Word for Dummies or even iPhones for Dummies has to change over time. Speaker 1  17:19 Yeah. Well, some of them. I mean, I've been doing a kind of a review on on YouTube. I've been doing short videos highlighting some of the goofy images that I put in the books over the years. And way back about 20 years ago, I think I was updating these titles once a year. They would say, "We need a new version of this. We need a new version of this. And at the time, technology was just. I mean, they were cranking out new stuff all the time. Michael Hingson  17:44 So, who's written AI for Dummies? Speaker 1  17:47 I don't know, but that is a title, so I wouldn't be Michael Hingson  17:50 surprised. Speaker 1  17:51 It should write itself, though. You think about Michael Hingson  17:53 it. Yeah, you you know, they they really should do that. It should write itself. Speaker 1  17:56 Someone told me once that they they they wanted to do a manual in my style, so they directed AI to write something in the style of Dan Gukan, and apparently AI can do that. So, am I going to get paid? I don't know. Michael Hingson  18:10 Well, that's another story, of course. Yeah, but still, it it is a it's a it's a great franchise. It's a great brand all the way around, and I know different people have written different different kinds of books like that, but still, the the fact is we need that in the world, and and I agree with you, especially that it's good to put humor and personality into it. And I really wish more people would do that. I really wish that would go into the the textbook world, but it hasn't yet. Speaker 1  18:37 No, that's that, and that's a different planet. I tried to break into that world, and that academia is is it's different. It is weird. Michael Hingson  18:44 Yeah, there are just not that many people who can get away with it like Richard Feynman did with some of the things that he did in physics, and even there, his his books were a little boring at times. But still, Speaker 1  18:56 he was awesome. His of course, his his autobiography is a lot of fun. Michael Hingson  19:00 Yeah, surely you're joking, mr. Fineman. Speaker 1  19:03 Exactly. Michael Hingson  19:04 Adventures of yeah, it is. I I keep it around. I've got an audio copy of it, and every so often I will go back and read parts of it. It's a it's a great book. Speaker 1  19:14 He's kind of an inspiration to me, especially in the area of government. And one of the parts of his book where he was on the panel that was reviewing textbooks for, I think, the state of California, and he noticed that one of the books was blank; it was empty, and he was the only one on the panel who did it. And I kind of echo that often in government because I'm occasionally the only person who actually reads some of the material they provide. Yeah, and and those kind of moments are classic. I love those. You know, when you can say, "Well, as everyone notices, you know, page 14 is blank, and they all madly flip to page 14, like, "Oh my gosh, how did you find this? Well, I, I did my job. I read the thing. Michael Hingson  19:54 I had a roommate in college, and we at that time we were using the Berkeley Physics series. I don't know. Whether that even still exists anymore, but different professors from Berkeley wrote various books, and the guy who wrote the book on waves, I had a roommate who was reading that book, and he searched vigorously to try to find a single misspelling of a word in the whole book. Wow! He finally found one. He said there really was one in the book. Kind of makes you wonder if that was deliberate, but but he actually found one. But it took him most of the quarter we had the book to find it. But but he did. Speaker 1  20:33 Excellent. Yeah, I got to say that's that's an art form. I used to work in a publishing house, and we would pore over books looking for spelling errors and mistakes and punctuation and all this stuff and of course you don't find them until the book's actually printed. Michael Hingson  20:46 Of course not. Yeah, yeah. Now it's it should be easier, but it's not, and they still don't come out until the book is already published and it's out there, and then you find out what isn't right. Speaker 1  20:58 Right. Michael Hingson  21:00 I suppose that gives the publisher an excuse to republish the book and make more money. Speaker 1  21:05 Well, yeah, it depends. It's if it is selling. If it doesn't sell, then obviously the the mistake's going to linger out there. Of course, with digital copies, they can update it right away, but not with a print book. Michael Hingson  21:17 Yeah, nowadays there's so many print books that are done pretty much on demand, so that if you want a copy, unless it's just something where they're selling literally millions a month, the book is available on demand. Although there's a little bit of a lag time to get it, my book Thunderdog, which is the story of Roselle and me in the World Trade Center, is is still selling pretty well, but it is more printed on demand by Thomas Nelson than now Harper Collins. Speaker 1  21:46 Yeah, Michael Hingson  21:47 and I understand that as long as it's available, I'm not going to complain. Speaker 1  21:51 And they and they they prefer to sell it that way as opposed to printing out 5000 copies they have to store somewhere. So Michael Hingson  21:56 right, yeah, they don't have to pay for storage and they just print it, and so it takes an extra week to get somewhere. That's fine. We can cope with that as long as it's available, and then that's all that really matters. Speaker 1  22:08 Yeah. Michael Hingson  22:09 But you've written a lot of books. How come so many? Because they're not all for dummies. Ah, okay. Speaker 1  22:16 Well, it just you know that was my profession, and that's what I did. And so, and I had a good agent who would find me a lot of work, so yeah, they would come up and they would want me to write a book on this or that, and a lot of it was because at the time in that industry I had a name and a reputation. I'm also very fast, so and that that kind of surprises people. In fact, there's some someone who accuses me of having a ghostwriter, which I do not. It's just I've been doing it so long, and you know, when I started, my agent said that he said the more you do this, the faster you'll get, the better you'll get. So, whereas in the original book, the first book I wrote took about six months to to write. I've written books in less than a month. It really depends. It depends on the topic, how well I know the topic, but also I do a lot of organizing with an outline, and so I will will work with an outline almost until it's down to the paragraph level, and then that makes it really easy to write the book, especially a technology book where there's a lot of cross references, and this sequence, you know, assuming someone's reading it front to back is really important, so you got to make sure that you touch upon things and do it in the right order. And then that's so yeah. I just got really good at it, which annoyed a lot of my fellow authors because as I was writing and I would get faster and faster, the contracts would start demanding the books in a more expedient manner, so other authors would complain to me and say, "You know, I have to write this book, and they're only giving me three months to do it. They're blaming me because I can do it in three months, and they figure everyone can do it in three months. So that was fun. Michael Hingson  23:54 Have you had books that someone asked you to write where you really didn't know much of anything about the subject, and you had to spend more time researching it, or you just spend time researching it, but you still did that very quickly. Speaker 1  24:06 Yeah, when I first started, that was pretty much the case. In fact, I talked with a guy who he had written the like the best-selling DBase three book. So DBase was a database way back in DOS, and it was the most popular database program, and he wrote the number one best-selling DBase three book that everyone who used that that program would buy, and he told me that he knew nothing about it when he signed the contract. So the the process of writing the book involved this intense deep dive into finding out what it is the program does, and then working on that. Of course, in those days, the books, the software came with a manual, so it was possible to go through the manual and see what the thing was capable of, and maybe get a few hints about that. But the books were not just a rephrase. The manual; they were a little bit better, the project oriented, whatever. So there was one one book that I did on a program called Super Card for the Macintosh, and it was the it was the there was no documentation, and I could call up the developer and I could ask him. So that was that was a tool I could use if I had access to the developer. I could call them up and I could say, "Okay, so I'm I'm doing this. What can you tell me that's like a secret or that is not obvious? And they love to share that stuff. Sure, I just write it all down, and then that that'll make the book better. If you could get through the the gatekeepers and get into where the nerds were, then you could get a lot of good information, and they were happy to share it. I did a few books on OS two that were like that, where I finally was able to escape into the lab and ask them. And the the guy they were so friendly, and they're like, "Oh, you got to tell him this, this, this, this. You know, we we couldn't put this in the manual. You have to tell him this, and so you write a great book. But of course, OS two, no one used it, so no one bought the book. Michael Hingson  26:05 Yeah, yeah, OS two was not one of those things that everybody loved. If Speaker 2  26:13 you enjoy Unstoppable Mindset and would like to help us continue bringing these conversations to you each week, we've created a way for you to support the show. Your contribution helps us cover production costs and continue sharing stories, insights, and ideas that inspire people to live with purpose and possibility. If supporting the podcast feels right for you, you'll find the link in the show notes. Thank you for being part of the unstoppable mindset community. Michael Hingson  26:46 I remember when I was a student at UC Irvine. I wasn't an information computer science major. I was physics major, but several people took ICS one, two, and three, which was a three quarter course, or well, it was a year course, and the the book they used was Introduction to Computer Programming by Ken Ingram. And what was fun about that was that on the first day of class, the professor would come in and he'd say, "Okay, I want you to read chapter one of information of introduction to computer programming by Ken Ingram. It's the textbook we're going to use. I want you to read that before our next class. And of course, most everyone had not touched the book prior to that. And what he didn't say was that that first chapter took up half the book. Speaker 1  27:40 I like it. Michael Hingson  27:43 Yeah, I know. Wasn't that? And I, I, I heard about it. I, I never did get the book, and I didn't get it transcribed into Braille. But I thought that was cute. Chapter one was half the book. Speaker 1  27:53 No one would have suspected chapter one's an easy chapter. It's four pages. Right, supposed to be right. I think it was like Michael Hingson  28:00 180 pages. It was amazing. Michael Hingson  28:03 I'm not sure whether Ingram had a sense of humor or what, but anyway, there you go. But yeah, that that was kind of kind of amazing. So you you wrote all these books and you continue to do that, but somewhere along the line, you got interested in doing things in politics. What was that all about? Speaker 1  28:25 Well, that was frustrating. Not Michael Hingson  28:28 bad, Speaker 1  28:29 because I. So I think a lot of people are kind of interested. They follow politics. If I call up my mom in San Diego, she has to complain to me about you know the mayor of San Diego and what the city council is doing and and it's it's common it's just I think I think the most most people who are active in in their community know a little bit about politics or whatever and in my case I had just moved from the county here near Courtland and then I'd moved into the city, and I had heard that there was someone was buying up properties in my neighborhood, and I thought that was curious, and I wanted to see if this was something that you know are they going to tear down houses? What are they going to do? So I started researching using the the county website to see who was own who owned these properties, and it was a place called the Lake City Development Corporation, and I thought, well, I need to find out what that is, and it turned out that was an urban renewal agency that was formed by the city of Cortland, and I started reading the statutes and I started reading their minutes and finding out what it is they do, and while on the surface it sounded really fun, there were a lot of curious things that I didn't like. A lot of non-transparent things, a lot of things where you know they're spending public money on what I thought were frivolous things, and so I started asking questions. I started coming to meetings, and they're missing. Was that they pushed back, and so I just something triggered me, and I had a red flag, and I just started going after it. We started, we formed a group of people who were all interested in this, and we would meet regularly and go over what was going on with the government. We'd find issues regarding transparency and spending, and lots of interesting stuff. Never really anything nefarious. Never anything that would. But just a lot of stuff that, as we let the public know about what was going on, they would become outraged and they would say, "Wait a second! They're spending millions of dollars on this, and you know, with property taxes so high, and what is this, and why is it affecting me? And and so I went to the city council meetings here in Portland, and I was frustrated because no one else seemed to get it. And I would look at them, and they would have some issue that would come up, and everyone on the council-there were six members on the council-they would all vote in unison, and no one had asked a question. And I would say, "Well, wait a second, why aren't they asking a question about this, or why aren't they concerned about this, or what about the side effects of this? And so I started writing articles for the paper. I eventually did videos and to speak to various groups and such because I was like, we got to hold government accountable. So I ran for office in ran for the city council in 2007, and I lost. And then I ran in 2009, and I lost, but only by like 29 votes. And then I was done at that point. I really didn't want to do it again because running for office is a pain. Michael Hingson  31:33 Yeah. And Speaker 1  31:34 then they had this huge thing where all of a sudden they were going to redo a park without a public vote, and I wanted a public vote. Lots of people wanted to vote on it, but no, they were going to do it, and they didn't care what the public thought. So they made me run. They made me run a third time, and I won. And I've been on the city council ever since. And then, of course, well, since last November when I got kicked up to the mayor seat, which is where I'm sitting Right now, strange journey. Michael Hingson  32:04 Well, yeah, but on the other hand, there is something to be said for transparency, and there's somebody something to be said for somebody who really wants to look out for what what people want and what people are doing. I I got involved. Well, I've not run for public office, but I've been very much involved in political kinds of things because I've been involved in the blindness world since early 1970s, and the National Federation of the Blind has had for well now, gosh, more than 50 years or around 50 years, what used to be called the March on Washington. Now it's called the Washington Seminar, which is a an event that takes place every year, where several 100 blind people descend on Washington and go off and visit legislators. And the idea is to really get them to understand what the needs of blind people are and try to get them to vote on issues that directly relate to issues concerning us, and sometimes they do. Although it's gotten a lot harder to get things passed, especially in the last eight or nine years. But still, that it it has to be done. But I remember, among other things, I was living in Massachusetts when I first started going, and among other things, we we went and saw the Speaker of the House, who was Tip O'Neill at the time, which was kind of fun. And what an interesting, what a charismatic guy! Didn't matter what party he was with; it was a charismatic guy. And we also visited people like Senator at the time Paul Songis, and what was interesting about him was we we talked about our issues, and it was the end of the day, and then suddenly he said, you know, I'm not going anywhere for the next few minutes. Do you guys have time? And we ended up just talking for about an hour and a half about his view of of and our views of what Massachusetts needed to do, not only for blind people but just in general, it was just fascinating. There weren't very many politicians who would do that. Speaker 1  34:08 That's awesome. Yeah, I liked him. I liked Tungus a lot. Michael Hingson  34:12 Yeah, I wish he'd been able to run for president, but he got cancer, and that's that's unfortunate. Yeah, but because I think that he's one of those people who would do what really needed to be done and do it the right way. Speaker 1  34:26 In other words, the people who never win. Yeah, that's unfortunately Michael Hingson  34:31 really the case, isn't it? Speaker 2  34:33 Yeah, Speaker 1  34:33 yeah. Michael Hingson  34:34 But but you got to do that. Speaker 1  34:36 Yeah. Michael Hingson  34:38 So you you know, but you you hopefully you'll make a big difference, and maybe you'll be able to get people to believe in climate change. Oh, did I say that Speaker 1  34:48 this year? Nah, Michael Hingson  34:53 not unless you predict snow when it actually comes. Speaker 1  34:56 That and that and that's the key. Yeah, Michael Hingson  34:59 yeah. No, I understand, but it but it is fascinating. I you know I I enjoy the concept of politics. I enjoy people who really have a vested interest in making government go well, but it is so unfortunate that we don't see that much of it, which is just too bad. Speaker 1  35:18 There are a lot of good dedicated people out there. I think so. Of course, the the problem is is you know, like they say, politics is sports for the uncoordinated, and it's drama for the ugly. But the the thing is, the people who really do a good job, who are out there doing what you want them to do, they don't get the headlines. It's the noisemakers. It's the extremists. It's the people who are going to have some obnoxious opinion because that that gets everyone's attention. You know, the the guy out there who's doing the job, who's putting in the time, representing the citizens, and making his community a better place. You know, you're never going to read that guy in the paper, unfortunately. Michael Hingson  35:59 Yeah, and that's also part of the problem: is that the media looks for all the drama rather than really looking to to represent the the average citizen and what they truly want and need. Speaker 1  36:10 So those don't the actual the things don't make headlines. In fact, it was a it was really funny. There was a guy who was elected to the state house from this county, and one of his campaign platforms, he was going to repeal all the useless laws, all the things that are still on the books. That you know, just we don't need those laws anymore. They're old. They're outdated, and he did that for about a week, and it doesn't make headlines. So here he is, you know, doing this, doing the job that you think they they would want to do and making government more effective, no one cared. I remember there was one year where we actually we cut property taxes here in the city, and I thought, wow, everyone's going to come up and say thank you. No, no one did. So it's like, what's the motivation? If you go, they say, I want you to be I want you to be my mayor and I want you to work to cut that budget and so you cut the budget and then no one says thank you. Michael Hingson  37:08 We got Tom Steyer here in California who wants to become governor and he's talking about all these things that he's going to do. He's going to get electric utility rates lowered by a significant amount. He's going to encourage and bring competition to the electric grid industry, and he talks about lowering housing costs by building a million homes and doing so many things. And every time I hear his campaign commercials, the thing that I keep asking myself is, haven't we learned anything? And no offense to Donald Trump, but Donald Trump made a lot of promises that we're not seeing. Steyer is making a lot of promises that he has yet to say how he's going to pull any of them off. Speaker 1  37:56 Oh yeah, and that's and that's the thing is you got to. There's so much. There's only so much you can do. But you can you when you campaign, they can say anything. Of course, I know they might as well just say free ice cream and ponies for everyone. Michael Hingson  38:07 Yeah, and and that's almost essentially what's happening. And I'm not saying that he'd be a bad governor. I I haven't researched him enough, but the commercials just don't do anything to make me thrilled because he's not saying how he's going to do any of it, and and that's what I really want to know. Speaker 1  38:25 Yeah, I didn't when I when I ran this campaign, I didn't really promise anything that was sexy at all. I said, you know, I'm going to work on a policy manual. I'm going to increase the amount of information and transparency, and it was like nothing that you want to put on a bumper sticker, but I still won. I mean, there were people who were in the race who were promising this and that, and they were going to do this and all this stuff, and somehow I eked it out. Michael Hingson  38:51 Why do you think you won? Speaker 1  38:52 Name recognition, Michael Hingson  38:54 okay, Speaker 1  38:55 and that's and that's pretty much that's a lot of what politics is is is just the the name recognition. You can win on that. I also do have a reputation. I mean, being on council for 14 years and being often called the lone voice of reason, like I said earlier, I'm the one who asked that obvious question. Yeah, and people are in the audience are going, "Well, thank you. Someone's finally asking what what they wanted to ask, and so there was there was that, and and I also, you know, I I do return my emails. I answer the phone calls. I make sure that I'm I'm available. So you know, and I think that that reputation kind of spread itself around that that I would be responsive. It didn't mean that I actually did anything because the you know the powers are really limited. So if someone wanted you know they want to put in a stop sign somewhere, I'll go visit them, and we'll look at the thing, and we'll look at the traffic data, and all this stuff. But there may not be a stop sign there. Still, I showed enough time that I paid attention to them, and I responded to them, and you know, we'll see what we can do. That's the best you can say. Michael Hingson  39:55 And if it didn't happen that there was a stop sign, but there was a good reason for it. I would suspect that you would be the kind of person who would say, "Here's why it didn't happen. Speaker 1  40:03 Right, exactly, and and to explain that for and a lot of people don't understand things like that because it's easy to get defensive with government because sometimes it can be so colossally stupid. Yeah, but but it's just as long as you have that explanation, and sometimes it's it's really it's refreshing because then they hear the answer and they're good with it, so we have a problem here with there's noise on the freeway because they're expanding the freeway, and a lot of people are upset, so they call city hall, but it's not our project; it's the state highway district. So you know, it's like I can do only what I can do, but it's still you know, if you're the only elected official who bothered to reply to them and told them, you know, I hear what you're saying. I'm going to do whatever we can. Sometimes that makes people happy. They may not be happy in the big picture, but at least they got a response. Michael Hingson  40:48 And when you discover something that's relevant, I'll bet you are the kind of person who would then initiate another letter saying, "Here's why it didn't work, or "Here's why it will work. Speaker 1  40:59 Right, and I do follow up. So I did. In that case, I wrote a letter to the governor and said, "You know, is there anything you can do? And then I forwarded the letter on to the person who had contacted me and said, "Okay, this is the best I can do. Let's let's see what he can do. So yeah, Speaker 1  41:14 yeah. Michael Hingson  41:15 I'm I'm curious. You mentioned that property taxes did get lowered once in Cordellane, but nothing. No one ever did anything with that. How come? Speaker 1  41:23 Well, no. It's just we we did. We we kept them. You got you got them lowered. Michael Hingson  41:27 But but why didn't anybody pay attention to that? Speaker 1  41:30 No. Well, see, I'm sure they paid attention to it. We are only one entity on your property tax bill, so there's there's a few. Ah, good Michael Hingson  41:39 point. Speaker 1  41:39 We might have been the the one who kept it down, but the other ones may have kept it up. And then there's all the the formula is really complex, and so it could be that you know their assess property assessment went up, a lot of other things that would have happened that would have affected it. But like I said, I mean we made a big to do about it, saying hey look we worked, we cut the budget. We kept it flat for all you guys, and then no one said anything. But you know that that's it's discouraging, but it doesn't discourage me from continuing to try because I'll always try. Michael Hingson  42:12 You can only do what you can do, but at least at least you're doing it. Yeah. Now, if you want to live in a state where the taxes are very interesting, move to New Jersey, yeah, where we lived, the the taxes every town, every city had its own property taxes. You could live on a street, yeah, you could live on a street where you had a property tax of some amount, and if you walked across to the other side of the street, the property tax would be twice what yours was because the border runs right down the middle of the street. Speaker 1  42:45 That's crazy. Michael Hingson  42:47 We thought it was. Yeah, we thought it was kind of interesting, but we fortunately never had too horrible of property taxes in Westfield. But still, we heard about some other places that had some some horrible property taxes, but you know it's it's what what you have. Speaker 1  43:07 Yep. Michael Hingson  43:08 So you were in the city council for 14 years. What made you decide that you were going to run for mayor? Because you had to do that. You had to make that decision. Speaker 1  43:17 Yeah, didn't want to. You know, wasn't on my on my dance card to like, oh, next step up is going to be mayor. It was more of there was frustration that I had because the the past couple of mayors, good men, good people, but I always wanted to do more. I mean, being on the council, it was frustrating because I wanted a little more leadership out of the center seat wasn't seeing that, and then I worked earlier last year. I called up a bunch of people to see if they'd be willing to do the job. You know, good strong community members who would be provide the leadership and had the name recognition required to do the job, and no one wanted to do it. So I was like, okay, well, I'll I'll see if I can do it. I still have two years left on my council term, so if I lost, I'd still be part of the process. But there ended up being four people in that race, so it was pretty crowded. Which to me, you know, if if you're running if you run unopposed, it's pretty much a sign that people kind of like the way things are going. They're not they're not upset with you. Generally, if you have one opponent, you're considered that you know oh well good you know I get to compete for for the job or someone else is unhappy. But if you have a lot of opponents, it generally means that the public isn't happy with what's going on and they want to see some change. So there were four people in the race. I won with like 38% of the vote, so that's wow, Michael Hingson  44:45 yeah. Well, but clearly you're different than a lot of people. For example, you're a member of the Kootenay County Republican Central Committee, and yeah, and they sued you for defamation. What was all that about? Speaker 1  44:59 Well. So we had an episode here where the first of all the local Republican Party decided that running partisan races wasn't enough; that they wanted to get involved with nonpartisan races. And in Idaho, a lot of the local offices are nonpartisan. So city council is nonpartisan, school districts are nonpartisan. You know, water district, highway district, all these smaller local offices, and we have a community college here called North Idaho College. And the Senate committee decided that they would start to what they call rating and vetting candidates to determine who was the most conservative. And while a lot of Republicans appreciate that and they want to know who the real conservative is. The central committee realized that it was a way for them to exercise political power, because when people would get their recommendations, that would be the person who would win. And so they got power mad, and in my opinion, they hijacked the trustees of our local community college, and pretty much almost ran the thing into a ground. It was the it's the only college a community college in the history of the country that's ever been put on probation for disaccreditation due to board governance. Normally, when you disaccredit a college, you're disaccrediting it because of financial reasons, or something else, but or academics. Never, never has it happened that the board has been so crazy that the the ACL ACCU whatever it is the accreditation agency for community colleges has said, "What we're gonna we're gonna pull away your credentials, and all your students will not be receiving college credit. So, I mean, what what this board did that was endorsed by the local Republican Party, the extremists on the party, they they fired the president for no reason. They they started running up the bills, increasing the athletics budget. The board meetings were just pure chaos. Employees would leave. The local high schools stopped their their co education programs. It was just crazy. Wow! And and a lot of people didn't really understand what was going on. So I did a YouTube channel called Kootenay Rants, and Kootenay is the name of our county. Michael Hingson  47:20 Kootenay, yeah. I said Kootenay. Sorry about that. Speaker 1  47:22 It's no, it's okay. It's it could be either way. Who knows? Up north, they do say Kootenai, so we don't know. But anyway, this really got under the skin of the central committee because I pinned the blame on what was going on at the college on them, which is was justified, and I would not make anything up. Instead, I would just put in highlights from the meetings and say, "Here's what's happening, and here's the crazy stuff. You know, trustees yelling at members of the audience, making fun of them. You know, interrupting people, saying just weird, strange things. I mean, it just-it was odd. It was so bizarre, and so it was easy for me to make these videos. My background is in communications, and I know video production, so I was able to put together these videos on a YouTube channel, and you know, hundreds of people in the county would start watching them, including the central committee that did not like that I was exposing what I consider to be their corruption and their the the fact that I think they were responsible for this and they didn't like that so they accused me of defamation basically mean tweets because I would tweet about them and their nonsense and it was like they they made a big to do out of it because I was running for re-election for city council, so they came to a city council meeting to serve me, and you know recorded it and put it up on the internet and all this other stuff that that was just crazy. But my insurance company fortunately decided to represent me, and they just they thought the the suit was without merit. They don't say frivolous. They say without merit. Without Michael Hingson  49:04 merit. No, yeah. Speaker 1  49:05 And so yeah. And so eventually, now the suit is over, and I figured I would either win in court or it would be dismissed. But the insurance company settled, and I it was against my wishes. I said no. I said don't settle with these people. But the insurance company did settle, and I made sure that, as part of the settlement, that they would not say that I agreed to it, or that I said I was wrong, or I apologized, or anything. No, the insurance company just didn't want to waste any more money, so they decided to settle. They wrote a check. I don't know what it cost the central committee. As a member of the central committee, it has never been reported to the committee how much money they spent on that? Because it's it's pretty much the the Republican Central Committee of Kootenay County is pretty much a tyranny run by one guy and a personality cult, and there are members of the committee. There are some good Republicans such as myself on the committee who do believe in transparency and limited government and all those Ronald Reagan things. But there are these extremists on there who are just nutballs, and so there's a group of us here called North Idaho Republicans who are working to counter their insanity. And we've done a good job, but we need to do more work, and that's the story of the KCRCC. And they sued me for defamation. Michael Hingson  50:21 That's kind of crazy, though. Nevertheless, Speaker 3  50:23 of course. Michael Hingson  50:24 And it's only kind Speaker 1  50:26 of that. I wasn't laying awake. I mean, occasionally someone would call me up and they would say, "So what's the case? What's the what's happening with a lawsuit? And I'd say, "Well, a lawsuit. I said, "Oh yeah, that's right. They're suing me. I mean, it was never really. I was never obligated for it. Michael Hingson  50:39 Yeah. Well, so just out of curiosity, since the Republicans were doing this, where were the Democrats in all of that? Speaker 1  50:47 Well, we don't really have a lot of Democrats. That's Michael Hingson  50:49 what I was wondering. Yeah, Speaker 1  50:51 and so and and I always used to joke. I would say that the the Democrats, the Kootenai County Democrats, are looking for a new meeting location, and if anyone has a spare closet, got it. You let them know. No, they're they're all they're all very nice people. Michael Hingson  51:05 Yeah, Speaker 1  51:05 but they're they are in an extreme minority, and unfortunately, they they do try. So last time they had a body for every seat up for election, but they don't really come close. And it's a lot of it comes down to name recognition, but you also have a lot of red blue state refugees who come here. You have a lot of COVID refugees who came here, and so Idaho is very red. Kootenay County is very red, and it would take a tremendous amount of effort to to have a Democrat win here. We do have Democrats in the legislature, not a lot, but we do have them, and the the National Democratic Party is unwilling to spend a lot of money here because they know they're going to lose. So that's what I hear from them. But they are they are generally nice people. I mean, like you said, you if you wanted to vote for me here and you're a Democrat, I'd happily accept the vote. It's a nonpartisan position. We don't deal with those big divisive issues that you know that you you see on the news. Yeah, we're pretty much community-minded people, and I appreciate anyone who is. I do fight the KCRCC because I don't see them as community-minded, and that's one of the issues. Michael Hingson  52:18 Yeah. Well, it's it's unfortunate that that people are that way, but I I see it all too often in so many different ways. I mean, we face it with even in the blindness world with so many things where there ought to be major improvements and there ought to be defenses of the civil rights of blind people. For example, some of the rideshare programs don't do a lot to train their drivers about the fact that in reality they're obligated to take blind people with guide dogs, and oh, there's there is a fair amount of that, and it's and and the companies aren't willing to do anything about it, and we have to keep fighting it, which is just too bad. But there's just so many stuff, and there are so many people who just have these hidden agendas, or they just what it really comes down to is we don't want anybody telling us what to do, Speaker 1  53:09 right? Michael Hingson  53:11 And that's what it really comes down to. So, do you find that that religion gets into any of it at all, like with the conservative Christian movement or any of that, Speaker 1  53:24 there well, there's I do not like the politicization of the church. Michael Hingson  53:29 Yeah, Speaker 1  53:30 my favorite quote on that is that politics poisons the purity of the church. So I think we should keep the separation of church and state as much as possible, but there are you know politically motivated, politically active pastors, and I just I I think that's that's not the proper role of religion. I know that that there's kind of a battle going on in the far right about you know how much religion or how much that should should should be involved in politics in the public arena. In fact, there's a little across from the Costco up here. There is a little yard sign in front of some business that says "Vote Bible, and I always think that's kind of. I mean, I understand what the sentiment is, and I would always want to think that the people who we elect are good moral people. You know, Adam said that our Constitution is best suited for a moral people. I don't believe that means that there's morality in the Constitution. I believe there's morality in people, Michael Hingson  54:32 right? Speaker 1  54:33 And we do want people who have good ethics and good morals in public office, and it's very obvious when that doesn't happen. But I do not think. I think the purpose of our Constitution and the First Amendment is to ensure that we all have the the right to enjoy whatever religion we want, and we don't want to pick favorites. And so, what I see with a lot of these people is that they want to pick a favorite. Michael Hingson  54:55 Yeah, Speaker 1  54:56 they they not only want to pick the first religion, but they want. Everyone to go to the same church and the same service and sit in the same pew. Yeah, and that's not going to happen in any church. It's not going to happen in any denomination of any church. And then, and see, that's the other question: is if you know if you're going to insist that this is a Christian nation, it's like okay, but which denomination is it? Catholic? Is it Protestant? Is it Mormon? I mean, I you know you tell me because it's just going to be this incredible knot of worms, which is why I think the genius of the founders was that you know the the clause about religion is is two things: it gives you the freedom to exercise your own religion, and it also restricts the government from declaring that there's a religion. Yeah, and I think the far right kind of misses that when they when they take the message of we like moral people in office, but to dictate the morals to someone else is wrong. Michael Hingson  55:52 You know, I and it was Tolstoy who once said the biggest problem with Christianity is that people don't practice it, and I I see that so often. It's it is so unfortunate, but it is Speaker 1  56:03 there. Yeah. So that is a tough one. Michael Hingson  56:07 So if you could change one thing in the world, what would it be? I'd Speaker 1  56:12 get rid of the internet in a heartbeat. Specifically, social media. I think the the problem with social media is it amplifies our immaturities, and that is a huge issue. the The solution to that is to make the the publishers responsible for the content. So, in other words, Facebook could be sued for anything that someone puts on Facebook, and that would terrify Facebook, but it would terrify them to the point that they would actually regulate themselves and and start dialing back. I mean, I can say 20 years ago or so, when I whenever I was first on Facebook, I would go on there and I would see my kids, and they'd be playing a ball game or they'd be over at a friend's house. You'd see birthdays, vacations. It was just kind of like it was a social thing. You go on there now, and it's politics, and it's like this person deserved to be shot, and it's just-it's so-it's so extreme, and it's so rude. And you know, some of the stuff they said about me is not very nice, but I think that if we're going to solve one problem in the world, we really need to dial back all the animosity that's on the inter

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On today's show Pat and the boys are live from the NFL Flag Championships in Westfield, Indiana. Pat spotlights flag footballs growth over the last few years and now being a division one scholarship sport. Shams joins the progrum to discuss the breaking news of LeBron James decision to sign with the Philadelphia 76ers for his 24th NBA season. After Shams, Pat brings on Indianapolis Colts owner Kalen (Irsay) Jackson to talk about Westfield being the host of the NFL Flag Championships and the upcoming Colts season. After Kalen (Irsay) Jackson, Brandon Beane general manager of the Buffalo Bills joins the progrum to talk about the Bills season expectations and catch up on their golf respective golf games. After Beane, NFL Legend Tedy Bruschi comes on and explains what we can expect from NFL Flag in the future and share stories from his playing career.  Make sure to subscribe to youtube.com/thepatmcafeeshow or watch on ESPN (12-2 EDT), ESPN's Youtube (12-3 EDT), or ESPN+. We appreciate the hell out of all of you, and will be back Monday. Cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

00:00 – 13:58 Kevin is taking some R&R before the colts season starts rolling, sports need to bring back wearing team jerseys for all-star games, the last year for the Colts at Grand Park Sports Campus, the quick turnaround for WNBA all-stars 13:58 - 19:27 Morning Checkdown 19:27 – 43:05 Will Kevin and James run the 40-yard dash at this year's Colts training camp, Shane Steichen as one of the best offensive minds in the league, Greg Rakestraw calls in to discuss playing 135 holes of golf, top Colts storylines going into Westfield, what sports events is Indy lacking 43:05 - 1:06:19 The changes to back-to-school shopping, finishing a make-or-break season for the Fever, a contract year for Kelsey Mitchell, James gives his most indispensable players on the Colts lineup, some appreciation for teachers, Morning Checkdown 1:06:19 - 1:19:10 The Athletic’s Mike Jones joins us to discuss the potential for the Colts this season, will grass fields in the NFL become reality, surprise Super Bowl teams 1:19:10 - 1:24:05 Sports reunions we'd like to see 1:24:05 - 1:46:21 More indispensable players on the Colts lineup, previewing WNBA All-star, Morning Checkdown 1:46:21 - 1:58:41 Continuing the discussion of future tough roster decisions for the Fever, their schedule after the All-Star break, Caitlin Clark's technical foul situation, preparing for Colts camp, eulogizing training camp at Grand Park Sports Campus, putting fan experiences behind paywalls 1:58:41 - 2:04:42 Wrapping the show w/ Jake Query Support the show: https://1075thefan.com/the-wake-up-call-1075-the-fan/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

00:00 – 5:30 Morning Checkdown 5:30 – 20:00 Greg Rakestraw calls in to discuss playing 135 holes of golf, top Colts storylines going into Westfield, what sports events is Indy lacking 20:00 – 28:03 James gives his most indispensable players on the Colts lineup 28:03 – 39:41 The Athletic’s Mike Jones joins us to discuss the potential for the Colts this season, will grass fields in the NFL become reality, surprise Super Bowl teams Support the show: https://1075thefan.com/the-wake-up-call-1075-the-fan/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

00:00 – 14:29 – The boys are back and Kevin was almost late today, the Fever dominate the Connecticut Sun but Caitlin Clark gets her 7th technical foul and it seems inevitable that she will face multiple suspensions due to technical fouls this season 14:30 – 20:14 – Morning Checkdown 20:15 – 43:23 – Fallout from our debate yesterday of things sports-wise lacking in Indy, GoldandBlack’s Purdue reporter Alan Karpick joins us to discuss Purdue basketball and how different the team will look this fall, expectations for the Boilers next season, their foreign tour, Luke Ertel, Tyrese Haliburton’s Fever ticket giveaway yesterday 43:24 – 1:07:30 – What does a “higher sense of urgency” mean for the Colts in 2026?, Caitlin Clark’s seventh tech last night, what she said postgame about it, why does it seem like the Fever aren’t treating this as a big deal?, Stephanie White’s nonchalant response to Clark tech issues, Morning Checkdown 1:07:31 – 1:18:07 – First sports memories, we play I GOTTA KNOW 1:18:08 – 1:25:37 – Some listener responses to our athlete attribute discussion, Jonathan Taylor projected over/under is the highest among NFL running back’s in 2026, will he lead the league in rushing?, the show goes off the rails after Kevin discusses how quickly he ate his breakfast this morning 1:25:36 – 1:49:16 – Setting the Pace’s Alex Golden joins us to discuss his interview with Chad Buchanan, his Cardinals are on the struggle bus, his biggest takeaway from his interview with Chad Buchanan, the chances LeBron James comes to Indiana, thoughts on the off-season moves, where he thinks LeBron ends up and if this is his final season, Morning Checkdown 1:49:17 – 2:00:22 – Colts Question of the Day: The Colts will do what in the AFC South this season? 2:00:23 – LIV Golf update doesn’t sound promising for Westfield, Jake weighs in on the sporting venue/event missing from IndySupport the show: https://1075thefan.com/the-wake-up-call-1075-the-fan/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

**Community Connection: Exploring the Complexities of Police-Community Relations and the Importance of Flag Football** Today on Community Connection, the conversation takes a somber turn as Tina Cosby and producer Eric G. discuss the recent police shooting in the community, highlighting the need for better communication and understanding between law enforcement and the public. The hosts also delve into the complexities of police-community relations, emphasizing the importance of community involvement and support in preventing such incidents. The episode touches on various topics, including the ongoing issue of gun violence, the importance of community assistance in solving crimes, and the need for better infrastructure in managing public health crises. The hosts also discuss the recent outbreak of a mysterious illness, which has been linked to contaminated produce, and the lack of oversight in the current administration's handling of public health. In a lighter note, the hosts turn to sports with Danny Bridges, Sportswriter, for the Indianapolis Recorder to discuss the upcoming NFL Flag Football Championships at Grand Park in Westfield, which is gaining popularity and may even become an Olympic sport in the future. A caller also shares their thoughts on the importance of flag football as a safer alternative to traditional football, and how it can help reduce injuries and promote a more participatory spirit. Tune in to this thought-provoking episode to hear the hosts' insightful discussions on these timely topics and learn more about the importance of community connection and understanding. Join the conversation and share your thoughts on these issues that matter to you.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I have been trying to get Grace Beverley on this podcast for eight years. Eight! Grace, if you didn't already know, is the founder of TALA, and in this conversation she is more honest than most founders in her position tend to be about how it actually happened. The decisions, the mistakes, the things that nearly went wrong. I learned things in this episode that I genuinely wasn't expecting, and I've been in this industry for over two decades. We talk hero SKUs, the newness trap, what burnout actually looked like for her, a coat launch that made a million pounds in a single day, and why she was so deliberate from the very beginning about building a brand that didn't revolve around her. If you own a fashion brand at any stage, this one's worth your full attention. What we cover: 00:00 — Why Grace is my most-requested guest (and why it took eight years to make it happen) 04:04 — How TALA has evolved — and what "activewear" actually means for them now 09:36 — Why Grace calls newness a drug, and how chasing it nearly derailed the business 13:51 — What I'd tell a bedroom brand owner who's getting inconsistent sales 17:23 — The hero SKU argument: one product, 50% of your revenue — and why even a multi-billion pound brand still works this way 20:42 — Why Grace made sure TALA was never built to depend on her 26:22 — When stepping back helps, and when it makes things worse 29:36 — Burnout: what it looked like, and the advice she ignored for too long 32:21 — What it's really like to build in public as a female founder 35:56 — The full story of the million-pound Storm Puffer launch 43:10 — Opening physical stores at Carnaby and Westfield and why every location had to stack up commercially 47:20 — Why the most useful mentor isn't who you think Please visit my website to get more information: https://www.elizabethstiles.co.uk/

What if the single biggest threat to your practice isn’t the market, isn’t AI, and isn’t the competition? What if it’s simply being invisible? Join Duncan MacPherson for an in-depth conversation with Mitch Slater, Executive Director of Digital Communications at UBS and self-described Chief Visibility Officer. With a career that began working alongside Larry King in all-night radio and later spanning 37 years as a financial advisor, Mitch brings a rare and battle-tested perspective on what it takes to get known in today’s marketplace. Together, they explore why AI and shifting client expectations are reshaping financial services into its most significant era yet, and what separates the advisors who will thrive from those who will be left behind. The conversation is equal parts strategic and personal, grounded in real stories and hard-won lessons from decades at the intersection of media, markets, and client relationships. Key highlights include: Answer engine optimization and what it means for advisors Why LinkedIn comments are your highest ROI activity Why personal storytelling outperforms credentials every time How AI should free you up for more high-touch work The compounding effect of one dedicated hour a day on your business Two lessons from Larry King that shaped Mitch’s entire career Tune in for a practical, energizing conversation on visibility, authenticity, and what it really means to get known in the modern advisory business. Promotions: Toolkit CRM by Pareto Systems: toolkitcrm.com Pareto Systems: Practice Management Index (PMI) Connect With Duncan MacPherson: Website: ParetoSystems.com Toll Free: 1.866.593.8020 Learn More: Schedule a Call LinkedIn: Duncan MacPherson Connect With Mitch Slater: LinkedIn: Mitch Slater About Our Guest: Mitchell (Mitch) Slater is Executive Director and Chief Visibility Officer, Advisor Marketing at UBS Wealth Management USA. After a 35-year career as a Financial Advisor, Sales Manager, and trainer, Mitch now helps financial advisors and business professionals increase their visibility through LinkedIn, video, podcasts, personal branding, and AI. A former radio producer who worked with both Larry King and Howard Stern early in his career, Mitch combines media experience with decades in wealth management to help professionals build trust, strengthen relationships, and grow their influence. He is the host of several UBS programs, including Front and Center and Leadership Lounge, and is a frequent speaker at conferences and advisor events across the country. Mitch lives in Westfield, New Jersey, with his wife Leslie and is passionate about helping people “stop being invisible” and get known for what they do best.

Herb Baumeister lived a quiet family life in a nine thousand square foot estate in Westfield, Indiana, while authorities believe he secretly targeted gay men at Indianapolis nightclubs during the 1990s, luring them back to his property where he killed them before dying by suicide in 1996. Director and executive producer Alex Jablonski returns for a second conversation, this time about the follow up to the Emmy nominated docuseries The Fox Hollow Murders: Playground of a Serial Killer. The new special, Return to Fox Hollow: New Victims, Darker Secrets, streams July 8 on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+, and explores efforts to identify additional victims along with emerging questions about potential accomplices, missing evidence, and witness accounts that have shifted over time, including the story of Roger Goodlet, whose disappearance led investigators to Baumeister, and new scrutiny of Thomas Ackerman's connection to the case. Reality Life with Kate Casey Summer Reading List: https://katecasey.substack.com/p/books-i-cant-stop-talking-about-this Vanity Fair Article: https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/story/martha-moxleys-diary What to Watch List: https://katecasey.substack.com Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/katecasey Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/katecaseyca Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@itskatecasey?lang=en Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/113157919338245 Amazon List: https://www.amazon.com/shop/katecasey Twitter: https://twitter.com/katecaseySee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Welcome to Season 05 Episode 5A.02- the "Mini02" edition - of Notes from the Aisle Seat, the podcast featuring news and information about the arts in northern Chautauqua County NY, sponsored by the 1891 Fredonia Opera House. Your host is Tom Loughlin, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor and Chair Emeritus of Theatre and Dance at SUNY Fredonia. Mark Brazill, co-creator, writer, and producer of That 70s Show, gives us an inside look at his work on the show in an upcoming presentation at the 1891 Fredonia Opera House on August 1, while director David Oliver talks about the upcoming production of The Gin Game at the Lakeshore Center for the Arts in Westfield the weekends of July 17 and 24. Notes from the Aisle Seat is available from most of your favorite podcast sites, as well as on the Opera House YouTube Channel. If you enjoy this podcast, please spread the word through your social media feeds, give us a link on your website, and consider becoming a follower by clicking the "Follow" button in the upper right-hand corner of our home page. If you have an arts event you'd like to publicize, hit us up at operahouse@fredopera.org and let us know what you have! Please give us at least one month's notice to facilitate timely scheduling. Artist Links Mark Brazill David Oliver Visual and Performing Arts Events @ SUNY Fredonia Box Office at SUNY Fredonia Cathy and Jesse Marion Art Gallery Lake Shore Center for the Arts Main Street Studios Ticket Website SUNY Fredonia School of Music Events WCVF Fredonia WRFA Jamestown   BECOME AN OPERA HOUSE MEMBER!      

Speaker: Joseph Antley

Jackson Wasserstrom joins The Coaching Minds Podcast to talk about his journey from Westfield High School to Indiana University football.After arriving at IU as a walk-on, Jackson spent years earning his way, building his role, and eventually receiving a scholarship. His story is one of faith, discipline, visualization, gratitude, resilience, and betting on yourself when nothing is guaranteed.In this episode, Ben and Jackson discuss:• Growing up with a dream of playing college football • Battling injuries in high school • Using journaling, prayer, and visualization to build belief • What it feels like to be a walk-on at the bottom of the depth chart • Treating every rep like a game rep • Earning a scholarship at IU • The culture shift under Coach Cignetti • Why everything has to be earned every day • Choosing to stay at IU instead of transferring • Advice for high school athletes who feel overlooked • Why gratitude matters in the middle of chasing big goalsJackson's story is a powerful reminder that talent matters, but mindset, work ethic, preparation, and belief can carry an athlete further than most people expect.Are you an ATHLETE looking to take your training to the next level? Check out our website to learn more about 1-on-1 training opportunities:mentaltrainingplan.com/athletesAre you a COACH looking for an affordable year-round mental performance training program? Check out the MTP Academy available through our website:mentaltrainingplan.com/teams

This episode of the PRmoment Podcast, hosted by Ben Smith with guest Andrew Bloch, reviews June 2026 UK PR pitch wins and M&A activity in the PR and wider marketing sector.Market sentiment and pitch environmentBloch describes the UK PR pitch market as buoyant and optimistic at the mid‑year point. Agencies are reporting record months, strong new‑business pipelines, and clients releasing healthy campaign budgets on top of retainers. Despite political and economic uncertainty, including wars in Ukraine and Iran and rising energy prices, there is a “heads‑down and busy” pitch environment. Investment is particularly strong in social, consumer, and experiential work, with agencies that can prove genuine commercial impact winning out.Notable pitch winsA series of high‑profile wins illustrate where spend is flowing:Delphi wins UK comms for Gen Digital (Norton, Avast, LifeLock, etc.), a $4–5bn revenue cyber safety and financial wellness group. Wild Signal secures the global remit after an 11‑way pitch, then brings Delphi in for the UK.Tin Man, Appella Advisors, and Gladstone Place Partners win National Lottery operator Allwyn, spanning consumer activations and corporate advisory, taking over from Brunswick.Wonderland secures Ocean Spray across earned, creator, social, and trade, reinforcing its strength in food and drink/FMCG.Red wins Grant Thornton's corporate comms to challenge conventions in professional services.Speed is appointed by Beko plc (Hotpoint, Whirlpool, Indesit, etc.) to oversee all six brands, building on a strong client of Brabantia, Post Office, Co‑op already Speed Clients.New agency Knock Three Times (founded by Kat Thomas) lands Westfield's consumer comms, with a client explicitly citing their “creative storytelling and AI‑era visibility” proposition.Shook wins Innocent's retained consumer press office, while Tin Man adds Yoplait; Boldspace wins Playmobil; and Smarts secures Costa Coffee.A clear pattern emerges: successful agencies combine sector specialism (FMCG, retail, lifestyle) with integrated capabilities (earned, influencer, social, retail activation) and a strong commercial/strategic narrative.M&A themesOn M&A, Bloch says the “M&A world is super busy”, driven by needs for scale, specialism, and social/creator capability:Accenture Song acquires Whalar, signalling how seriously big consultancies now take the creator economy and its projected $40bn+ value.LADbible Group buys a 75% stake in Uncovered for an initial £26m, aiming to combine publisher scale and insight with social‑first creativity, and to shift revenue towards more predictable, direct partnerships.Far on the Hill merges with Fourth Day to form an international tech PR agency across London, New York, Paris, and Manchester.Fleet Street takes a minority stake in KAM Insight in hospitality, potentially a strategic “try before you buy” move, deepening shared data and insight.Bacchus, a luxury lifestyle and hospitality specialist, is acquired by Mazarin Group, reinforcing the power of niche, best‑in‑class specialists.The long‑running Golin–Ketchum merger is finalised under the name Golin Ketchum, creating a large‑scale creative communications powerhouse within Omnicom, with Matt Neale as global CEO and Tamara Norman as global president.Across these deals, Bloch stresses that scale + specialism + strategic/creative clout are becoming decisive, while content alone is commoditising under AI pressure, pushing value into strategy, creativity, and data‑driven effectiveness.The podcast in quotes:Market mood & impact focus“The agencies that can prove genuine commercial impact are winning, Half two of the year is here. Let's get on with it.” – Andrew Bloch [0:02:35]On the M&A climate“The M&A world at the moment is super busy. There is nobody sitting still… there are deals happening. There is movement, and it is buoyant for sure at the moment.” – Andrew Bloch [0:03:14]On Delphi's Gen Digital win“This is a four to five billion dollar revenue business… a significant win for an agency of that age and size.” – Andrew Bloch [0:04:33]On Knock Three Times and AI‑era visibility“Knock Three Times offered something we hadn't seen elsewhere – a progressive proposition that puts creative storytelling and AI‑era visibility on equal footing.” – Andrew Bloch (quoting Westfield's head of marketing) [0:10:16]On publishers buying agencies & the social sector“This is a play for the future, and this will not be the first deal you will see in this space of this nature.” – Andrew Bloch, on LADbible–Uncovered and social agencies [0:24:28]On AI and commoditised content“Content is becoming very much a commodity service… AI is an enormous threat to any agency that is in the content space. The agencies that will survive… have the strategic relationships, the creative relationships at the top table.” – Andrew Bloch [0:23:31–0:24:28]On Golin Ketchum's ambition“Our ambition is to become the defining agency of the decade, and I love that, because it's a massive ambition.” – Andrew Bloch, quoting Matt Neale [0:33:39]

Speaker: Steve Poe

00:00 – 17:39 – Braden Smith is a Pacer and the Fever have tempers flare after Caitlin Clark is injured, how quickly did Braden Smith know he was traded to the Pacers?, the trade package for Braden Smith, the Caitlin Clark injury and non-call on Alyssa Thomas, is Clark officiated unfairly? 17:40 – 24:08 – Morning Checkdown 24:09 – 45:05 – Braden Smith landing with the Pacers and what his role could be, what happened between Alyssa Thomas and Caitlin Clark and Stephanie White’s postgame rant against officiating 45:06 – 1:12:25 – Westfield basketball coach Shane Sumpter joins us to discuss Braden Smith getting traded to the Pacers, the atmosphere at last night’s draft party, watching him grow as a player, how he’ll fit with the Pacers, his thoughts on the shot clock in high school basketball, local kids staying home, James’ back-and-forth with the WNBA about Clark’s latest technical foul, Morning Checkdown 1:12:26 – 1:22:45 – Braden Smith’s role with the Pacers and is he too small to play in the NBA? 1:22:46 – 1:29:43 – Colts question of the Day, Dr. Seuss books are absurd and dividing the show 1:29:44 - 1:54:09 – Caitlin Clark’s latest injury, the Alyssa Thomas-Caitlin Clark non-call that had Stephanie White livid postgame, Sophie Cunningham stalker arrested, Lions CB Terrion Arnold arrested on felony kidnapping, Morning Checkdown 1:54:10 – 2:06:29 – We play I GOTTA KNOW 2:06:30 - 2:14:10 – Caitlin Clark injury and what it means short and long-term, Support the show: https://1075thefan.com/the-wake-up-call-1075-the-fan/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

00:00 – 17:46 – Braden Smith is a Pacer and the Fever have tempers flare after Caitlin Clark is injured, how quickly did Braden Smith know he was traded to the Pacers?, the trade package for Braden Smith, the Caitlin Clark injury and non-call on Alyssa Thomas, is Clark officiated unfairly? 17:47 – 38:43 – Braden Smith landing with the Pacers and what his role could be, what happened between Alyssa Thomas and Caitlin Clark and Stephanie White’s postgame rant against officiating 38:44 – 51:38 – Westfield basketball coach Shane Sumpter joins us to discuss Braden Smith getting traded to the Pacers, the atmosphere at last night’s draft party, watching him grow as a player, how he’ll fit with the Pacers, his thoughts on the shot clock in high school basketball, local kids staying home, James’ back-and-forth with the WNBA about Clark’s latest technical foul 51:39 – 1:03:49 – We play I GOTTA KNOWSupport the show: https://1075thefan.com/the-wake-up-call-1075-the-fan/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Speaker: Kurt Brodbeck

If travelling with kids has ever made you question your sanity… this episode is for you

Speaker: Mark Crull

Doug Gillard make his return to the Power Chord Hour to chat about the 44th Guided by Voices full length Crawlspace of the Pantheon as well as Doug's latest solo album Parallel Stride DOUG GILLARD https://www.guidedbyvoices.com https://www.douggillard.com https://www.rockathonrecords.com https://www.instagram.com/guidedbyvoicesofficial https://www.instagram.com/douggillard https://www.facebook.com/DougGillardMusic PCH www.instagram.com/powerchordhour www.facebook.com/powerchordhour www.youtube.com/channel/UC6jTfzjB3-mzmWM-51c8Lgg powerchordhour@gmail.com Donate to help show costs - paypal.com/paypalme/pchanthony cash.app/$anthmerch Check out the Power Chord Hour radio show every Friday night at 8 pm est/Tuesday at Midnight est on 107.9 WRFA in Jamestown, NY. Stream the station online at wrfalp.com/streaming/ or listen on the WRFA app/Apple CarPlay/Android Auto

Josie Moore grew up in the valley town of Westfield, Massachusetts with a voice that wouldn't work and a brain filled to bursting. Paranoid by the world and abandoned by those around her, she turned to art in her time of hiding. When she was scared, she wrote about it. When she cried, she drew comforting pictures. With the inability to pinpoint and process her own emotions, she used art and storytelling as her communication, turning her fear into something beautiful. Nowadays, she can finally leave her bedroom, but never without a sketchbook by her side. She attends the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in hopes of getting her BFA in Illustration. She spends her days doodling elves, bears, and silly little faeries and nights writing, planning, and…hopefully writing some more. Finally having an outlet to put all her obsessive, creative energy, she dreams of one day showing even the deepest crevices of her mind with her odd love stories and twisted mysteries. The Writers and Illustrators of the Future Contests are the most prestigious writing and illustrating competitions in the world with the Writers of the Future being in its 43rd year, the Illustrators of the Future in its 38th year and they are judged by the premier names in speculative fiction. The Illustrators of the Future Contest judges include, Bob Eggleton (11 Chesley Awards and 9 Hugo Awards), Larry Elmore (Dungeons & Dragons book covers), Echo Chernik (graphic designs for major corporations including Celestial Seasonings tea packaging), Rob Prior (art for Spawn, Heavy Metal comics and Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Ciruelo (Eragon Coloring Book). Joseph Sidari lives in the Boston suburbs with his wife and a delightfully spoiled labradoodle named Chloe, who takes him for walks twice a day. As a practicing physician, he works hard caring for his patients while trying to kill off his protagonists. He is a current member of the Grub Street Writers Group of Boston and a former member of the Spacecraft Writers' Group. He's been a lifelong fan of reading speculative fiction, but only started writing it after flipping his bicycle during triathlon training. Typing at his computer felt like a less risky hobby, so that summer, with his wrist on the mend, he wrote a novel. Then another. On his third attempt, he found an agent who suggested that writing short stories could help build his reputation while the book was being shopped around. The manuscript never sold, but he realized short stories were fun, too. Since then, he has earned multiple honorable mentions in the Writers of the Future contest and two Silvers, while publishing several short stories—though not enough to “pro out." This story was one of those honorable mentions. You know the email Joni Labaqui [contest director] sends? The one that suggests to “revise and resubmit an old story if you don't have anything new.” It resonated. “I liked the idea of the epistolary tale I'd entered to the Contest about a woman trying to free the last dragon in America. But I needed to double down on the premise. Write more than just blog posts. So, I rewrote it from top to bottom.” And here is the new and improved story. United Public Radio & UFO Paranormal Radio www.uprntalkradio.com The Writers of the Future Contest judges include, Tim Powers (author of On Stranger Tides), Kevin J. Anderson and Brian Herbert (Dune prequel series), Robert J. Sawyer (The Oppenheimer Alternative), Brandon Sanderson (Mistborn series, The Stormlight Archive), Larry Niven (Ringworld), Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game), Nnedi Okorafor (Who Fears Death), Hugh Howey (Wool), and Katherine Kurtz (Deryni series) to name a few.

00:00 – 17:47– The show starts by the guys recapping a wild night of weather and hoops, the Fever survive the Sky in overtime, the Spurs are 5.5 point favorites in Game 5 tomorrow night, World Cup got underway yesterday, USA plays tonight against Paraguay, Kevin’s daughter turns 6 today 17:48 – 25:08 – Morning Checkdown 25:09 – 44:16 – Last day before our show schedule changes and Jake follows our show immediately, Texas town hall last night was ridiculous, thoughts from Colts OTAs and the biggest takeaways: yesterday seemed to be AR’s worst day, Sauce Gardner was impressive, kicking competition to end practice and the real kicking competition heading into camp, Red Panda’s contract for every event 44:17 – 1:08:55 – ISC’s Greg Rakestraw joins us and discusses why James’ golf swing makes the show work, USA/Paraguay tonight in the World Cup, how far can the USA go in the WC?, is the Colts WR3 role Ashton Dulin’s to lose?, Morning Checkdown 1:08:56 – 1:18:50– Storms from last night, Knicks fans, players that stuck out the most in Colts OTAs 1:18:51 – 1:26:31 - Fever/Sky thoughts from last night, late-game scenarios across basketball like fouling while up by three points and the Elam ending 1:26:32 – 1:50:16 – Previewing the USA’s World Cup match versus Paraguay at SoFi Stadium and where the teams stack up in the rankings, talking Little 500 and the Indy 500, and weighing the pros and cons of fouling up three late, as well as more thoughts the Colts’ defensive outlook following OTAs and an estimate of how well Knicks fans will travel to San Antonio for game five, Morning Checkdown 1:50:17 – 2:02:50 – Kevin and James talk about their weekend plans, Kevin sings happy birthday to his daughter, LIV Golf in Westfield?, Colts’ training camp future, getting juiced up for Team USA’s World Cup opener 2:02:51 – 2:08:00 – James scores a new bracelet, previewing the upcoming sports weekend, and talking about what the hardest part of doing live radio isSupport the show: https://1075thefan.com/the-wake-up-call-1075-the-fan/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In 2014, the Broaddus family purchased what they believed was their dream home in Westfield, New Jersey. Just days after moving in, they began receiving disturbing letters from an anonymous figure known only as "The Watcher"—someone who claimed to have been observing the house for decades.As the letters grew more personal and threatening, police, private investigators, and even the FBI became involved. Numerous suspects emerged, from neighbors and former residents to internet theories suggesting the house itself may have been at the center of something far stranger.Who was The Watcher? A stalker? Could there be another explanation entirely? Tonight, we examine the timeline, the chilling letters, the leading suspects, and the theory that some believe the house itself may have been haunted.Avery After Dark is a real human hosted podcast that began in 2022. Every episode is hosted and narrated by Avery Ross, a real human and always will be. Never artificial. Enjoy!Watch this podcast episode! Click HERE to check it out & subscribe to the Avery After Dark Youtube Channel!Business Inquires | averyannross@gmail.comJoin the PATREON or Youtube Memberships for BONUS episodes of Avery After Dark! Thank you for your support :)Make sure you are following along for all the latest!TIKTOKINSTAGRAMFACEBOOK

On this week's My Week In Cars podcast, Steve Cropley and Matt Prior talk about the Autocar Awards, taking place the night before this pod is published. We give gongs to cars and gongs to people too, so stay tuned here and over at Autocar for more.The pair also talk your letters, the BMW M2, Westfield sports cars and more. For details of a special offer which gives you SIX issues of Autocar for just £6 if you click here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Speaker: Derek Irvin

This week, the guys found out some fun news and may have a new most famous friend! With an officially MLB pitcher officially in the rolodex, Josh is pretty confident that he has a most famous friend, and Evan is trying to figure out who takes his top spot. Funnily enough, is there any chance that any listeners out there consider a certain podcast host(s) to be their most-famous friend(s)? The guys discuss how fame has changed over the years and whether social media has made it easier or harder to get famous. And stay tuned for some breaking news about one of Westfield's most famous faces, Joey Chestnut! There are also Fact of the Week and "sticking it to the man" tidbits galore, and they check out what's coming up on the calendar!

Speaker: CJ Johnson

In 1971, a quiet suburban home in Westfield became the center of one of the most chilling family annihilation cases in American history.This is the story of John List, a deeply religious, seemingly respectable accountant, husband, and father who methodically murdered his entire family inside their mansion, then disappeared without a trace.For nearly 18 years, he lived under a new identity while authorities had no clear idea what he looked like, where he went, or how he managed to evade capture for so long.This episode explores: • The financial collapse that triggered the unraveling of the List household • The psychological and religious justification behind the murders • The calculated, step-by-step execution of the crime • How List successfully erased himself from his own identity • The breakthrough involving forensic sculptor Frank Bender and America's Most Wanted • The final capture and conviction after nearly two decades on the runThis case isn't just about murder it's about shame, control, identity, and how outward respectability can conceal unimaginable violence.Because sometimes the most dangerous people are the ones no one ever suspects.When Killers Get Caught is a true crime podcast focused on the people, psychology, and moments behind violent crimes and what happens when the darkness finally meets the light.Follow and join the conversation:

In the winter of 1971, Westfield, New Jersey found itself right in the middle of a world-wide manhunt. The fugitive, who murdered his entire family, left a note justifying the killings as mercy on their souls for the financial ruin that would soon befall them. It would take an international TV show and one very keen neighbor to capture the man that had evaded police for nearly two decades. Instagram: @CousinsonCrimePodcastEmail: CousinsonCrime@gmail.comTheme Music by AleXZavesaFor Bonus Content, Join our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/CousinsOnCrimeCheck out our merch store! https://cousinsoncrime-shop.fourthwall.com/?Sources:https://allthatsinteresting.com/john-listForensic Files https://tubitv.com/tv-shows/438027/s01-e09-the-list-murdershttps://www.upi.com/Archives/1990/04/05/Sister-in-law-Accused-family-killer-dominated-by-bedridden-wife/2883639288000/https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23081/helen-list/photohttps://scholar.lib.vt.edu/VA-news/ROA-Times/issues/1990/rt9004/900410/04100195.htmhttps://www.nytimes.com/1971/12/09/archives/5-in-jersey-family-slain-husband-sought-5-in-jersey-family-are.htmlhttps://law.justia.com/cases/new-jersey/appellate-division-published/1990/270-n-j-super-252-0.htmlhttps://www.facebook.com/reel/1252366263467063 (America's Most Wanted John List Bust Sculpture) https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=785731889202802 (snippet of John List interview)https://nypost.com/2002/02/20/thirty-years-ago-the-dad-in-this-picture-killed-his-whole-family-and-disappeared-i-thought-i-wont-be-caught/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N51976UzQ5ghttps://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-06-18-mn-3671-story.html

Speaker: Todd Holzworth

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In the winter of 1971, Westfield, New Jersey found itself right in the middle of a world-wide manhunt. The fugitive, who murdered his entire family, left a note justifying the killings as mercy on their souls for the financial ruin that would soon befall them. It would take an international TV show and one very keen neighbor to capture the man that had evaded police for nearly two decades. Instagram: @CousinsonCrimePodcastEmail: CousinsonCrime@gmail.comTheme Music by AleXZavesaFor Bonus Content, Join our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/CousinsOnCrimeCheck out our merch store! https://cousinsoncrime-shop.fourthwall.com/?Sources:https://allthatsinteresting.com/john-listForensic Files https://tubitv.com/tv-shows/438027/s01-e09-the-list-murdershttps://www.upi.com/Archives/1990/04/05/Sister-in-law-Accused-family-killer-dominated-by-bedridden-wife/2883639288000/https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23081/helen-list/photohttps://scholar.lib.vt.edu/VA-news/ROA-Times/issues/1990/rt9004/900410/04100195.htmhttps://www.nytimes.com/1971/12/09/archives/5-in-jersey-family-slain-husband-sought-5-in-jersey-family-are.htmlhttps://law.justia.com/cases/new-jersey/appellate-division-published/1990/270-n-j-super-252-0.htmlhttps://www.facebook.com/reel/1252366263467063 (America's Most Wanted John List Bust Sculpture) https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=785731889202802 (snippet of John List interview)https://nypost.com/2002/02/20/thirty-years-ago-the-dad-in-this-picture-killed-his-whole-family-and-disappeared-i-thought-i-wont-be-caught/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N51976UzQ5ghttps://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-06-18-mn-3671-story.html

Speaker: Paul Hurckman