Lauren Lake

Listen to "Lauren Lake's Paternity Court Season Seven" on Spreaker. It’s safe to say Lauren Lake isn’t quite like other TV courtroom judges. Yes, she earned her law degree at Wayne State University in Detroit and she’s a member of the New York, New Jersey and Michigan bars with concentrations in family, criminal and entertainment law. But this judge is a former professional singer, songwriter and producer who sang back-up for multi-platinum artists such as Jay-Z, Mary J. Blige, P. Diddy, Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg. She’s also an interior design expert who hosted HGTV’s Spice Up My Kitchen for six seasons and was the HGTV Showdown Champion for two consecutive years. Now, Lauren can be seen each day on the nationally syndicated, Emmy Award-winning daytime TV series Lauren Lake’s Paternity Court, which recently began its seventh season. In each episode, Judge Lake presides over highly emotional family cases that lead to life-changing consequences and new beginnings. Using her experience as a woman, a mother, a relationship expert and an attorney, Lake has helped reunite more than 800 families. Lauren Lake is a highly sought-after speaker and lecturer, a best-selling author (2009’s Girl, Let Me Tell You), and a strong advocate for women’s empowerment, having founded the Women in Entertainment Empowerment Network. Speak with Lauren about her unusual path to the courtroom, what is legal in terms of relationships (tracking your partner’s car or phone, divorce, custody hearings, etc.) and what viewers can expect in the new season of Lauren Lake’s Paternity Court.

Sal And Murr

Listen to "Sal And Murr Star In Impractical Jokers The Movie" on Spreaker. The Impractical Jokers who have their feature film debut IMPRACTICAL JOKERS: THE MOVIE, opened in theaters February 21, 2020. An extension of the wildly successful Impractical Jokers series, the film follows the four lifelong friends and comedians, James "Murr" Murray, Brian "Q" Quinn, Joe Gatto, and Sal Vulcano, (The Tenderloins) whose hilariously outrageous hidden-camera dares and punishments have created one of cable's longest-running original comedies. The film combines the fictional narrative with real-life footage of over-the-top punishments and callbacks to classic moments from the series. Once The Impractical Jokers hit the road, they compete in hidden camera challenges for the chance to turn back the clock and find redemption.

Listen to "Sammy Jaye From The Podcast Lets Be Real" on Spreaker. In Let's Be Real, 17-year-old Sammy Jaye interviews celebs, politicians & influencers and doesn't shy away from authentic, real conversations with a fresh point of view and an authentic, Gen Z voice. Vibrant and disarming, she gets past the fluff and to the heart of what really matters to her guests - from mental health, political activism and the pressures of social media to lighter topics like friendships, dating and pop culture. Sample episodes here: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1248-lets-be-real-with-sammy-j-56806419/

Chris Byrne

Listen to "Chris Byrne The Toy Guy At The International Toy Fair" on Spreaker. As an independent toy analyst, researcher and consultant, Chris brings more than 30 years of industry experience in the toy industry to his role. He is an acknowledged expert on toys and play in the culture and brings his extensive knowledge of toys, education and child development to his work. Chris is widely published on the topic of toys and family life and his work has appeared in a variety of trade magazines, journals and websites. He is also featured in the Netflix series, The Toys That Made Us as a toy historian. His book on the most popular toys from the 1950s to the 1980s, Toy Time gives the background on some of the all-time classic toys. Chris is extensively quoted in the media and appears regularly on local and national television commenting on toys and demonstrating new products. His media appearances reached more than 200 million consumers in 2018 in just a three-month period. He appears regularly on “Live! With Kelly & Ryan,” and has been seen on “Marie” with Marie Osmond, “Oprah, “Soap Talk,” “The Today Show,” “Good Morning America,” “The CBS Evening News,” “ABC Nightly News,” “Fox & Friends,” “CBS This Morning,” “Good Day New York,” CNBC, CNNfn, MSNBC, ABC, “The Motley Fool,” National Public Radio, Bloomberg Television and Radio, and on countless other national and local market business and consumer programs around the country and internationally.

Words Without Body Language

Listen to "Words Without Body Language" on Spreaker. The title is quite haunting. Words Without Body Language. Isn't that what we're doing on social media, texting and emailing? Using words without body language. Which is why I love being on the radio. You can hear the words but can't see the body talking. It invites listeners into what's called Theater Of The Mind. We are a wordy generation. I often wonder if it's not because of a dislike for silence. The only way to fill in the blank is with words. Pick any word. Ouch that one hurt. Can't take it back. The messages we get on social media have a huge impact on a lot of our lives. There's more news on Facebook then NBC Channel 36 at five. On this podcast we leap into the subject of using our words as well as body language. I'm always fascinated with the way people pound their thumbs into the face of a smartphone and the message may not even be as dramatic as their body language was putting it out there. My father tried to use his words when I was a child. I wouldn't listen. Not until he'd show up on the scene reaching for his belt. He never once brought that thing down on me. It was his body language that spoke louder than his words. So I ask about what you're projecting. Do your words go along with what your body is saying? How do you get them to work better together? While listening to the podcast Slow Burn season 2 about Bill Clinton a close friend of his said that the former President had a way of making sure he looked into the eyes of every person in the room. It gave them the assurance that he was talking to them and not around them. He gained this ability by not only using his words but his body language was directed one hundred percent in your moment of now. I personally love Billie Eilish. Her creative spirit is extremely vibrant and yet to some she comes across as depressed or disconnected. When you listen to her words in interviews you can't help but get tapped into the reason why she's become this new age generation sensation. Her body language though speaks a different tone. I was with Sammy Jaye yesterday, The youngest podcaster ever on iHeart Radio. She used the words shared on podcasting to help get her through some extremely dark times. It helped her so much that at the age of 13 she began her own episodes that have led her to some of the most iconic interviews and conversations on the planet. What are you doing with your words? Are you just trying to fill silence? What if the only thing you had was body language?

Laurens Grant

Listen to "Laurens Grant From Smithsonian Channel’s Black In Space" on Spreaker. During the Cold War Space Race, the U.S. not only had to defeat the Soviet Union in a competition over rocketry and technological feats. It also needed to overcome its own racial prejudice. In the fall of 1957, the Soviet Union exploited America’s raging civil rights battle, claiming that the supposed land of opportunity couldn’t provide equal rights for its citizens in their own country, let alone in space. Determined to regroup on both fronts, President Kennedy ordered the Pentagon to find a black astronaut. Smithsonian Channel’s BLACK IN SPACE: BREAKING THE COLOR BARRIER reflects on the long journey it took to achieve diversity in the skies and recounts the civil rights movement’s reaction to the Space Race. The special also studies the legacy of the world’s first black astronauts – men that led the way for more diversity and inclusion in future NASA classes and space programs around the world. The film was directed by Emmy-winning filmmaker Laurens Grant, who received worldwide acclaim for her documentaries that explore African American themes (e.g., Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement; The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution; Jesse Owens; Freedom Riders; and Slavery and the Making of America: Seeds of Destruction.)

The Association

Listen to "Russ Giguere Releases The Book Along Comes The Association" on Spreaker. Along Comes The Association is the story of how Russ Giguere and his fellow band members in the legendary and influential pop group The Association came together to create unparalleled music, unique to the time and place, and never again to be repeated. Yes, there were drugs, and there were women, such as the lovely Linda Ronstadt and Helen Mirren, but it was the Sixties, after all. In reading Along Comes The Association, you are transported back in time to post-1963 America. Go on, try to resist the urge to roll one while floating on the musical cloud of melodic rock that Russ Giguere and his band of melodic troubadours popularized and we still cherish to this day...

Leave Yesterday Where It Belongs

Listen to "Leave Yesterday Where It Belongs" on Spreaker. I was with a major corporation yesterday that's developed a product that learns from itself. A.I. learning. It remembers! They've put thousands upon thousands of pictures inside the chips of this device so that when it comes near a object it will know what the next move is. On this podcast I compare how this new A.I. availability is what we used to do with ourselves. We used personal experience to push us through the appearance of something that doesn't feel right. But if A.I.'s are beginning to do the work for us... How does that change the landscape of how we will one day feel and act upon? On this particular day in 2016 the writer was having a hard time coming up with words to lay on the second page. He felt alone. Not motivated to proceed and yet the daily discipline is to make it three. So he questions the atmosphere and all things connected. How could a creative mind not want to do what it was designed to do. He had to rely on past pictures or experiences to complete the project. Which is exactly how the process of the A.I was explained to me. Through its daily expectations it teaches itself while we are promised less work and more time to enjoy life. I sat there thinking... Time is the one thing every person on this planet has in common. Nobody gets more. We all are rewarded the same. Technology knows how much life we've lost because too much time has been spent doing our jobs or chores. What are we going to do with time when we have it? Isn't human nature to waste it? Only to complain about not having enough. It's like getting a bank loan to pay off your credit cards and within a years time you're back in the same position. A thought came to me this morning while writing. A dark cloud that hangs between your heart and sky is put there by choice. With the same energy. The same amount of time. Through experience and what we've learned you can make it go away. Whereas an A.I. has no emotion and willing way to push such a thing away. It's just an object. A branch that's fallen from the tree. You still have the ability to be brilliant.

David Enrich

Listen to "David Enrich Releases The Book Dark Towers" on Spreaker. DARK TOWERS: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction by award-winning journalist and acclaimed author David Enrich. His previous book, The Spider Network was short-listed for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award in 2017. In the years since, Enrich has been consistently breaking news about Deutsche Bank in his role as Finance Editor at the New York Times. Now, Enrich shares the full, riveting story of the world's most infamous bank and its shadowy ties to Donald Trump's business empire. Brimming with news and gripping prose, DARK TOWERS is the never-before-told saga of how Deutsche Bank became the global face of financial recklessness and criminality. In DARK TOWERS, the story of Deutsche Bank is intertwined with that of Donald Trump: his businesses, his bankruptcies, his relationship with Russia, and his unlikely ascent to the presidency. It is a tale that will be bursting into the headlines in the weeks ahead, as the Supreme Court hears oral arguments on whether the bank must hand over its extensive Trump files to congressional investigators - and, by extension, the public. Yet the extraordinary saga of Deutsche Bank goes far beyond Trump, encompassing an entire era of excess, corruption, and illegality on Wall Street. The story is told in part through the rise and tragic fall of Bill Broeksmit, a top Deutsche executive who killed himself in 2014, and his son's quest to hold the bank accountable after his death. Enrich traces Deutsche Bank's history back to its propping up of a default-prone American developer in the 1880s, bankrolling the Nazis during World War II (including financing the construction of Auschwitz), and wooing Eastern Bloc authoritarians. He shows how, starting in the 1990s, a succession of hard-charging Deutsche executives made a fateful decision to pursue Wall Street riches, often at the expense of ethics and the law. Soon, the bank was manipulating markets, violating international sanctions to aid terrorist regimes, scamming investors, tricking regulators, and laundering money for Russian oligarchs. Ever desperate for an American foothold, Deutsche also started doing business with a self-promoting real estate magnate nearly every other bank in the world deemed too dangerous to touch: Donald Trump. Over the next twenty years, Deutsche executives loaned billions to Trump, the Kushner family, and an array of scandal-tarred clients, including convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. As Enrich writes: "This is the story of Deutsche Bank's rise and fall. It is about the men who transformed a sleepy German lender into what was, for a time, the largest bank in the world, but who also set the stage for the ensuing catastrophe. It is about one well-intentioned and honest man who tried to save the bank but couldn't save himself, and about his son, who embarked on a quest to understand his father's demise. And it is about the consequences-dead people, doomed companies, broken economies, and the forty-fifth president of the United States-that Deutsche Bank wrought on the world." (Page 9) More about what Enrich covers in DARK TOWERS History of a criminal enterprise - Founded in 1870 in Berlin, Deutsche Bank was for most of its history a staid lender to German and European companies. But that sort of business wasn't very lucrative, and by the late 1980s, this iconic German institution was seduced by the siren song of Wall Street. As Enrich vividly details, a posse of Americans-led by a swashbuckling salesman named Edson Mitchell and his best friend and ethical compass, Bill Broeksmit-were recruited to give Deutsche a dramatic makeover. From massive new trading floors in London and New York, the American newcomers were soon going head to head with the most aggressive U.S. investment banks, trading stocks and bonds and pushing the boundaries on complex new financial products known as derivatives. High-risk trading became an end unto itself, rather than a means to serve clients. Deutsche's bankers and traders cranked out one record-breaking year after another, and soon the Wall Street division was responsible for most of the bank's revenue and profits. Bankers got rich, as did shareholders, and by 2007 Deutsche had become the world's largest bank. To the mortification of the old school German industrialists, bankers, union leaders, and politicians who had formerly called the shots from the two dark towers that serve as Deutsche's headquarters in Frankfurt, the Americans increasingly dominated the bank. This new strategy worked brilliantly, until it didn't. As Enrich documents based largely on original interviews with more than 200 sources inside and outside the bank, Deutsche's ascent was fueled by greed, sloppiness, hubris, and criminality. When the reckoning came, exacerbated by the financial crisis of 2008, it was brutal. Deutsche came under intense scrutiny by regulators and prosecutors all around the world, who investigated scores of scandals related to money laundering, tax evasion, manipulating interest rates, manipulating the prices of precious metals, manipulating the currencies markets, bribing foreign officials, accounting fraud, violating international sanctions, cheating customers, and ripping off the German, British, and United States governments. To date, Deutsche has paid nearly $10 billion in penalties and settlements under orders imposed by the U.S. Department of Justice, and another $1 billion to European regulators. The bank's earlier history was marred by its long-concealed role as a major financer of the Nazis' war machine and their campaign to exterminate the Jews. Now, the vast scale of Deutsche's malfeasance and criminality over the past two decades has added new, possibly permanent, stains to its reputation. Trump's bankers - Enrich draws a straight line between the corporate culture that permitted Deutsche's criminal acts to the corporate culture that permitted the bank to become Donald Trump's chief financial enabler. Deutsche's risk-taking-the product of years of make-money-at-all-costs mismanagement-had gotten out of control. Painful financial decisions had been punted far down the road. The bank's many different computer systems didn't talk to one another, and neither did its German and American executives. Managers were incentivized to generate short-term profits and downplay the long-term risks, and different divisions competed against one another for business. Even by the amoral standards of Wall Street, Deutsche exhibited a jarring lack of interest in the reputation of its clients - including, until last summer, the convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein. In the words of one of its bankers, "Deutsche needs damaged clients," and Trump fit the bill perfectly. Other major banks wouldn't touch him because of his trail of bankruptcies and defaults. But with the support of their superiors, Rosemary Vrablic, a private banker who catered to the needs of the super-wealthy, and her boss Tom Bowers overrode the warnings of other divisions and pushed through large loans to Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Over the past two decades, the bank has lent Trump more than $2 billion, and at the time he became president, he owed some $350 million - making Deutsche Bank his largest creditor. Father and son - As Enrich relates, Bill Broeksmit did his best to keep Deutsche within ethical and legal boundaries amid the prevailing "greed is good" ethos of the day. The son of a midwestern minister, he was one of the early pioneers of complex financial instruments known as derivatives, which made him a coveted commodity on Wall Street. Originally intended as devices to shield clients from economic and financial risks, derivatives soon became vehicles for unconstrained speculation that would eventually threaten the entire global financial system. In partnership with Edson Mitchell, Broeksmit helped build Deutsche into a powerhouse that mostly managed to stay on the right side of the law. But after Mitchell's death in a private plane crash in 2000, Broeksmit was left unmoored. Deutsche had become too big, too aggressive, and too poorly managed to enforce any semblance of ethical standards. Broeksmit rose to become one of the bank's highest-ranking risk managers, and he sat on a board overseeing one of the bank's key American subsidiaries - the same unit that was lending money to Trump. By 2013, Broeksmit had grown disillusioned by what the company had become. As government investigators swarmed, he became a person of interest, not because he had participated in misconduct, but because he had failed to detect and stop it. He became terrified of being hung out to dry, of having his reputation ruined. On a rainy morning in January 2014, he hanged himself in his London apartment. "In death," Enrich writes, "Bill Broeksmit became a symbol of what ails Deutsche Bank, of the destructive power of institutional greed, of how Wall Street lures even well-intentioned people away from their moral and ethical principles, of the relentless pressure that bears down on those who stand up for what they believe is right." (Page 359) Broeksmit's son, Val, soon discovered that his father's personal email accounts were jammed with thousands of work-related files. Enrich happened to get in touch with Val just nine days after Bill's suicide. Val soon embarked on an epic, drug-fueled international odyssey to understand why his father had committed suicide - and what secrets lurked inside Deutsche Bank. Along the way, he struck up relationships with North Korean hackers, Glenn Simpson of Fusion GPS, the musician Moby, Congressman Adam Schiff, and Neil Young's ex-wife, among many others. In 2019, Val turned many of his father's documents over to the FBI and the House Intelligence Committee, which continue to investigate Deutsche Bank.

Joe Heslinga

Listen to "Joe Heslinga From The Film Foosballers" on Spreaker. For some die-hard fans, foosball isn't just a game... it's a way of life. While professional foosball is a sport that's been around for more than 40 years, few know it exists. Not only will audiences learn how to play the game (and finally put the ‘can you spin the rods?’ question to rest), they will get to meet some of the game's quirky, passionate, and best players as they prepare for the sport’s world championships. Some of the competitors include a retired cop from Alabama, a former backup dancer for Marky Mark, and a Cannabis Cup winning marijuana grower! "Foosballers" not only uncovers a forgotten piece of sports history, it puts a human face to those tiny pieces of plastic. As its popularity soared, the game blossomed into a professional sport. By the mid-70s, players could win sports cars and big purses as they traveled around the country as part of Tournament Soccer’s MILLION DOLLAR PRO TOUR. But in the early 80s, the foosball market crashed, and the professional foosball scene has never been the same; though the game is still played recreationally by millions of people every day around the globe. For the compulsively obsessed who play foosball at a professional level, it is nothing short of a high-speed chess match set inside a boxing ring. Players are put to the test as they dial in highly mathematical moves in a battle of strength, endurance, and wit. Foosball, the game that most people know from their parents’ basements and bars around the country, is one of the world’s most popular pastimes. Some know it as “table soccer” others as “baby foot” and still others as simply “foosball.” Whatever you call it, it’s the decades-old, soccer inspired tabletop game where plastic men have been fashioned to metal poles and players must score the ball in the opposing team’s goal.

What Was It Like

Listen to "What Was It Like" on Spreaker. The title instantly reminds me of the childhood book Are You My Mother? What was it like? I wish I would've spent time asking my grandparents that question. My mother's father served our nation in World War One. A determined man. He loved taking care of the land that made up his farm in Wyoming. I remember feeding slop to the pigs and watching my grandfather take care of the honeycombs placed inside the walls of his home. He loved the way bees sounded so he crafted a system that allowed them to endlessly be warm in the winter while his heart was touched by the sounds of nature. What was it like? I've asked my mother about the rotten kid I was between birth and first grade. I wish I had asked sooner. These days I get, "You had good days and bad. I don't remember." Which I believe is the reason why I've been a daily writer for twenty six years. A few months ago a very good friend asked me about a local moment. I told him that I had written about it. Took him to my journals and let him read how being there affected the way I was thinking that day. On this podcast I read from November 21 2016. I heard something from Steven Furtick, "How is God moving through you?" I don't have to ask what was it like. I was in church on the very Sunday that he brought it to us. Beyond religion the thought changed everything. Your art, your job, your relationship with friends and family... How is life moving through you? In today's overrun and extremely busy society there's so much traveling beyond us that we've developed this safety net to keep ourselves from hoarding the stuff that's going to be called on in the years ahead. Struggling with the early discovery of depression. What was it like? I wrote about it. Eighteen years later I'm learning from the honesty put on the pages. What was it like when radio stations had disc jockeys on every shift live? What was it like when we didn't have GPS? What was it like before ATMs? Bookstores sell baby journals, books for personal travel or just documenting what you think you still know. I had a wake up call a couple years back. I bought two incredibly beautiful journals. In one I'd write everything down that I remembered about growing up in Montana with my family. The other would be the stories of all ten of my rescued dogs. It started out fresh and spirited. While camping in Carolina I grabbed the journals and no words came to me. I spent the afternoon reading what had already been put there. What was it like to have five Maltese rescues? What was it like to have two Chinese Crested? I'm sure the daily writing has a ton of far out cool sentences and paragraphs. But standing here in 2020 and trying to remember puts me in the corner of reshaping what I think I'd hold onto forever.

Victoria Arlen

Listen to "Victoria Arlen Season 2 Of American Ninja Warrior Junior" on Spreaker. Universal Kids’ “American Ninja Warrior Junior” returns for season two with hosts Matt Iseman and Akbar Gbajabiamila, and new co-host Paralympian Gold Medalist Victoria Arlen as the next generation of Ninja fans compete on the iconic course with dedication, determination and skill. “American Ninja Warrior Junior” celebrates real kid athletes as more than 140 boys and girls from across the U.S., face off on head-to-head courses in three age brackets: 9 & 10, 11 & 12, and 13 & 14 year-olds. The junior ninjas will compete alongside the reigning champions and a few fan favorites from season one. New to the course for season two are 10 iconic American Ninja Warrior obstacles including the Shrinking and Floating Steps, the Little Dipper, Spider Walls, Double Tilt Ladders, Crazy Cliffhanger, the Block Run, Flying Squirrel, Wingnuts and Skyhooks. Each age group will be coached by All-Star Ninja mentors. In an exciting new twist this season, there will be four wildcard races per age bracket, where the two fastest Ninjas eliminated from the previous qualifiers will have another chance to move into the quarterfinals. Three final winners (one per age bracket) will ultimately be crowned “American Ninja Warrior Junior” Champions. Victoria Arlen is a current television personality for ESPN as well as an actress, speaker, model, and former American Paralympian swimmer. At the age of eleven she developed two rare conditions known as Transverse Myelitis and Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis. Victoria lost the ability to speak, eat, walk and move. She slipped into a vegetative state in which doctors had written her off as a lost cause. In 2010 after almost four years she began the nearly impossible fight back to life. Learning how to speak, eat and move all over again. Victoria went on to exceedingly defy the odds and not only recovered but has since become an accomplished Motivational Speaker, Actress, Model, Television host and Swimmer. Her swimming resume includes three Silvers and a Gold medal from the London 2012 Paralympic Games as well as multiple World, American and Pan American Records. She also learned to dance as a contestant on Season 25 of Dancing with the Stars. Victoria’s book titled Locked In hit stores worldwide in August of 2018 and in April of 2018 ESPN Films debuted a 30 for 30 titled “Locked In” based on Victoria’s story at the Tribeca Film Festival. Victoria was a contributing producer for the film.

Nik Wallenda

Listen to "Nik Wallenda's Volcano Live On ABC" on Spreaker. ABC and dick clark productions announced today that Nik Wallenda, seventh generation of the Great Wallendas, will return to the highwire for a daring 1,800-foot-long walk over the active Masaya Volcano in Masaya, Nicaragua. "Volcano Live! with Nik Wallenda" will air as a live two-hour special on WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, (8:00-10:00 p.m. EDT). This will mark Nik's longest and highest highwire walk ever attempted and make him the first person to embark on the 1,800-foot-long walk over the famed volcano. The date of Nik's next highwire special was first announced during ABC's telecast of "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2020" from Times Square, the same location where Nik last walked the highwire 25 stories above New York City in June. Part of the famed Pacific Ring of Fire, Masaya encompasses multiple craters and is one of very few volcanoes to possess a lava lake. The extreme environment at Masaya will add an extra set of risks to Nik's already daring walk. Throughout the televised event, Nik and his family will be featured in interviews about the rigging, planning and execution of the walk. Volcanologists and various professionals will also be on-site to lend their expertise. "After spending years scouting and researching volcanoes, I fully realize why no one has ever attempted this feat: Mother Nature is extremely unpredictable. It is by far the most dangerous walk I have EVER attempted, and that alone makes it very intimidating," said Nik Wallenda. "I am pushing myself beyond my comfort zone by the feat itself, but I know that I am up to the challenge. I must admit, it is scary." "We are thrilled to be able to showcase Nicaragua through an ambitious walk by Nik Wallenda, one of the most incredible highwire performers," said the government of Nicaragua through Cinemateca Nacional, INTUR, MARENA and INETER. "We look forward to viewers witnessing the beauty of our country as Nik crosses the Masaya Volcano." In June, ABC aired Nik's latest televised walk, "Highwire Live in Times Square with Nik Wallenda," hosted by Michael Strahan and co-hosted by Erin Andrews. Joined by his sister Lijana, the triumphant walk took place 25 stories above New York's illustrious Times Square. It featured Nik and Lijana starting from opposing ends of the wire, meeting in the middle and crossing over each other. The walk, which marked Lijana's first since her devastating highwire fall, was finished successfully as the duo each ended on the opposite side of where they started. "Highwire Live in Times Square with Nik Wallenda" ranked No. 1 in its two-hour time period in Total Viewers and stood as Sunday's No. 1 TV show on the major networks among Adults 18-49. "Highwire Live" built steadily throughout its telecast, surging by 3.3 million viewers and by 100% in Adults 18-49 from its first to final half-hour. "Volcano Live! with Nik Wallenda" is produced by dick clark productions. Robyn Younie, Mark Bracco, Linda Gierahn, David Simone, Winston Simone, Shelley Ross and Nik Wallenda are executive producers.

Alexandra Monir

Listen to "Alexandra Monir Releases The Book The Life Below" on Spreaker. Iranian-American author and recording artist Alexandra Monir has written several popular young adult novels published by HarperCollins and Penguin Random House. The Final Six, the first book in her new science fiction YA series, debuted in 2018 and hit #1 on the Amazon bestseller charts in multiple categories, and was named a Barnes & Noble 2018 Summer Reading List Selection. Sony Pictures acquired the film rights in a major pre-empt deal. The highly anticipated sequel, THE LIFE BELOW, will be published by HarperCollins in February 2020. Alexandra is also the author of the romantic time travel novel, Timeless, which was a Barnes & Noble bestseller and one of Amazon’s “Best Books of the Month,” as well as its sequel, Timekeeper. More recently, the success of The Final Six led to Alexandra being selected to write the first YA novel about DC Comics superhero Black Canary. Alexandra will be joining Leigh Bardugo, Marie Lu and Sarah J. Maas on the short list of authors writing for the New York Times-bestselling DC ICONS series, with her novel Breaking Silence: a Black Canary novel set to publish in December 2020. A singer/songwriter who often integrates music into her books’ pages, Alexandra wrote and recorded three original songs to accompany Timeless and Timekeeper and has composed a new instrumental score for The Life Below. She will additionally record original music for her forthcoming Black Canary novel. Her musical roots run deep, as she is the granddaughter of the late Monir Vakili, Iran’s foremost opera singer. Alexandra frequently travels around the country speaking to readers and writers of all ages at book festivals and literary conferences, fan conventions and schools. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and 2-year-old son, where she is hard at work on her next novel.

Davina Leone

Listen to "Davina Leone NBC's The Voice Throwback 2017" on Spreaker. Davina comes from a multi-lingual French-Italian home where she writes in various languages and composes her music on both piano and guitar. She first revealed her talent at age 10 by landing the starring role in a production of “Annie.” She has won two YouTube awards for her successful YouTube channel and has since opened for OneRepublic at Sundance and performed on E!’s “Hello Ross” in 2013. Davina has been a victim of bullying that began at age 14, forcing her to switch schools multiple times and looked to music as an outlet.

The Lyrics From Billy's Forest Chapter 190

Listen to "The Lyrics From Billys Forest Chapter 190" on Spreaker. Was listening to the Slow Burn podcast season one the other day. I couldn't believe how divided so many people were. No matter how much Watergate evidence was present many of us as well as our parents took sides. But we got back on our feet and came back together. What about the War Between The States? The Civil War! Somehow we got back on our feet. My Mother always reminded me of what life was like in America during World War II. She worked whatever job she could get. The men were at war. Someone had to keep this nation on its feet. Which brings me to a different podcast I heard. The host lightly salted the air with a simple thought, "The only despair this current generation knows is how bad the WiFi is and how dare Disney charge us for their app." We keep hearing about how divided we are. It's been labeled fake news. It actually depends on which news service you check in with. On this podcast I talk about what it's like to sit in a forest with no internet, newspaper or radio. My only purpose was to listen. On the page I wrote, "What would happen if they stopped talking about religion and politics on television?" I remember radio station program director's telling me to never bring up either subject on the show, "Listeners will instantly tune out and probably never come back. You had that one chance to make a connection and the choice became a bad decision." Look at talk radio today. Podcasting is no different. I loved how the nation got back up on its feet last week when it was announced the actors that brought us Friends are going to reunite on HBO. People got back on their feet when Al Pachino debuted on Amazon Prime in The Hunters. But the very second something happens or someone brings up community or local trust and faith, too many are sitting back down." It happens in church too! Then the preacher man roars "Get on your feet! Don't anyone leave! Get up!" Maybe that day in the forest in February of this year is why this episode of the podcast exists. We need to have a lot more people shouting, "Get up! Lets stand together! Lets move forward!"

Reelly Good Movies With Gabe

Listen to "Reelly Good Movies With Gabe Call To The Wild, The Lodge And The Assistant" on Spreaker. Wow... A lot takes place in this conversation and it was extremely difficult for me to keep my cool. Movies hit me in different ways and so does the real world and Gabe isn't afraid to put it out there. This week its Call To The Wild, The Lodge and The Assistant.

Jamie Mustard

Listen to "Jamie Mustard Releases The Book The Iconist" on Spreaker. Already published in October. It just won an OWL for Business / Sales & Marketing. Perhaps there may be a tie in somewhere? Jamie has also just written a beautiful essay of how his grandmother helped him escape poverty, semi literacy to ultimately graduate from the London School of Economics should that intrigue. Jamie Mustard understands what it feels like to be invisible. He was a poor and semi-literate child raised in Los Angeles. As a teenager, Jamie became disillusioned with his upbringing and moved to Westchester to live with his grandmother and immediately enrolled in remedial classes at the local community college. Within five years he graduated from the London School of Economics. It was his early years of deprivation, invisibility, and struggle that led to his adult life passion: discovering what it takes to make something–anything–stand out despite the avalanche of information we’re exposed to every day. By focusing on the ‘economics of attention,’ Mustard uses Block Theory––simple, monolithic, repeatable, instantly perceivable emotional connections––to explain why anything endures in the mind (or fails to).

Pod-Crashing Episode 44 Targeted Audience

Listen to "Pod-Crashing Episode 44 Targeted Audience" on Spreaker. Pod-Crashing Episode 44 Who Is Your Audience Throughout my forty one years of terrestrial radio, knowing who your radio listener is has always been a huge part of the connection puzzle. I always saw it as a game of Let’s Pretend. We are reaching our targeted audience of let’s say 25 to 45 year old women. Research shows this is who and how you should be directing every talk break. Do all you can not to step away from this person. I still remember how we handled it at my last radio station. They actually created a book and a name for this invisible person. Everything was listed. Her favorite car, book, movie, soft drink and magazine. The only thing they didn’t cover was her sex life. Which I always thought was odd because most morning radio shows were open to the subject. I’ve been doing this podcasting thing for eight years. I’ve never put any thought into who I’m trying to reach. I have disciplined myself to be organic. To be present and have a purpose. I know there’s someone on the other side of the speaker but to physically lay out a targeted audience puts the episodes in a shadowed area of being too niche and not open to every age and generation. I was with Jamie Mustard the other day. He’s a branding genius. His first words were “Your podcast is everywhere. You’ll talk about any subject and anyone with an idea. You don’t focus on just one thing. That’s why I like listening to your episodes. I’m not going to get the same story.” I look at every episode with an open view. On any given day a 16 year old boy or girl in 2020 just discovered Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones. To put an age limit on who I’m directing my talk toward totally shuts out anyone willing to step in for 30 seconds or seven minutes. That’s right. I said willing. I feel blessed that anyone would take the time to show up. I was shocked when a Facebook post passed one of my episodes forward. He said, “Arroe is sage with the lessons he teaches.” Sage? Oh God I pissed someone off. I had to Google it then go back and listen to the Episode from the Podcast called Poetic Elevation The Choice. I don’t put these episodes on a global front. It’s about God, religion, Spirituality and motivation. Not everybody supports any of these platforms. So I allow the strength of the message to make its own waves. The targeted audience is anyone seeking a moment of holy shit he’s talking about me. All of this changed a couple of years ago when a long list of creative people in music, movies books and culinary found reason to take their lives. I was deeply injured. Here is this platform and I’m doing nothing to help the creative hiders on the planet. Those who have the gift to be creative but not the personal umph to push their art onto the streets of everyday. I had to be a different kind of broadcaster. Open my daily writing journals and start speaking the truth about what it’s like to endlessly lay awake at night with ideas and then bringing them to life during the day light only to fall flat on getting support. A creative life isn’t a choice. It’s a monster. I call it an addiction. So I created a podcast that addresses that issue and iHeart Radio leaped all over it. When it comes to the journals I have one rule: have the guts to enter any conversation not as a Christian but rather a Creative. I’ve lost a huge chunk of my religious followers. It was time to develop a different connection and I had to be faith filled not faithful to do it. The Spreaker platform is pretty healthy when it comes to providing analytics. What I hate are the moments I hit demographics and it just doesn’t agree with what I’m trying to accomplish. Men 25 to 44. Where are the women listeners? Forty one years of adult contemporary radio training and the podcast is drawing them in. A good friend. A female told me that it’s because I’m not talking about motherhood, sex, wine and other alcohol and even more sex. And I won’t. I’m not Dr Ruth. But I love how she located a path to connect with both men and women. She doesn’t fear being real. Sometimes I feel that way when reading from the journals. I do have those days though when being authentic is the toughest part of the journey. I stop. Re-read the journal entry and then give it to a higher energy. We all face daily fears, hatred, guilt and yes even greed. My goals of building a following aren’t to fix anyone. Just relate. To be present. Podcasting is still extremely early in its march forward. To say that you’re looking for a particular audience truly cuts your attempt at reaching out to a hit or miss. It reminds me of the conversation I had with Laurens Grant. She’s the creator of the documentary Black in Space. It’s about the first African American astronauts. She could’ve easily said I only want to focus on a certain demographic. She chose to make it wide open for all to learn something then turn it into a teaching tool for tomorrow’s space travelers. Three weeks ago I got hooked in to listening to the podcast Slow Burn. I’m a Marc Maron and Joe Rogan follower. To participate with the history of Watergate. Ronan Farrow got me seriously hooked on documentary style storytelling. Journalism has hit a new high and its paying off. I have a feeling though they weren’t sitting around a large table thinking, “Who is this for? Can we land high numbers in the male 50 to 65 year bracket? He has to have long dark hair, drive a Ford pickup, loves his dog, nature and must be able to learn from so much lost information. So what’s the moral of the story? Stop wasting precious time trying to figure out who your targeted audience is. In a few moments I’m gonna be talking with Daryl Hall from Hall and Oates. He has a story. My goal is to share it with every demographic including the 9 year olds in the back of the car listening to a podcast their parents happened to log into. Here’s why I do what I do. Russ from the early 70’s Rock band The Association said these very words, “I had to write this book. Everything that’s ever been written about me has been wrong!”

Char Margolis

Listen to "Char Margolis Releases The Book The Universe Is Calling You" on Spreaker. In The Universe is Calling You: Connecting with Essence to Live with Positive Energy, Love, and Power, America's beloved psychic, Char Margolis, introduces readers to the vital energy of Essence. Essence is the fundamental, universal, loving energy that connects the entire universe and all its living things. This universal loving goodness binds us all together in an intimate and powerful way. Char shows readers how to tap into the power of Essence and draw strength and wisdom from these deep, fundamental connections.Using the universal presence of the Essence, readers will learn:- The truth about living and dying- The 5 sources of power and how to manifest them- About spirits and angels and how to benefit from their aide- How to help departed loved ones find peace- Ways to ward off negative and harmful energies- And much more.With Char as a guide, readers will explore the vast and connected world of Essence and delve into their own inherent spiritual awareness.

Dr Hodges and Dr Ferguson

Listen to "Dr Vernard Hodges and Dr Terrence Ferguson From Critter Fixers On Natl Geo Wild" on Spreaker. Dr. Hodges and Dr. Ferguson are two longtime friends who own and operate Critter Fixer Veterinary Hospital, where with their staff, they treat and care for more than 20,000 patients. Between emergency visits to the office, and farm calls throughout rural Georgia, the Critter Fixers are constantly bombarded with unique cases you only see in the country. From a police dog rushed in with cactus thorns around her eye, to a potbelly pig with life-threatening lacerations suffered in a wild animal attack, out in the country there is no such thing as "normal.” Every day is packed with all kinds of animals dealing with every manner of country ailments, but for Hodges and Ferguson there's no case too strange, no location too remote.

My Calling Versus A Calling

Listen to "My Calling Versus A Calling" on Spreaker. If you were to look into my Kindle the only books you'd see in the library are those connected to motivation, inspiration, religion, spirituality and whatever else helps you find focus and inner strength. It's always been my favorite thing to read! Which is probably why I sharply questioned what I put into my daily writing over the weekend. Without any thought suddenly the process was interrupted by these two words: My Calling. On any other day I probably wouldn't have been bothered by it. On this day though it was extremely loud inside my sources of creative energy. My calling? It came to me as being something I developed. You can't do that! It led me quickly to Dictionary.com. I needed a definition! Then I began reading articles about what a calling is and isn't. I found a ton of Bible versus which I chose not to put on this podcast because how I interpret the shared words and how you receive them totally take away from what preacher people call is a personal relationship. This wasn't about leading or teaching but rather trying to determine who what where and why I had put my calling inside the daily writing. Forty one years of Broadcasting isn't a calling. It's shaping a career. Twenty six years of daily writing isn't a calling. It's my discipline. All of this stems from the most recent books of motivation that have been read. The Universe Is Calling You from Char Margolis, the latest book from Trevor Moawad It Takes What It Takes then toss in my studies with Yoga Nidra and the mixture is perfectly ripe to be somewhat bothered by how I personalized a calling. So many people put a lot of focus on their plan and purpose. I've talked to many post 50 year old's that still believe they're working on locating that purpose. I ask a simple question on this podcast, "What if your purpose has already happened? What if that moment as to why you're here is actually doing what it was supposed to but we're so focused on callings and a purpose that we're blind to what's growing behind us? My reply to this? Get the attention off you and put it on another U... The universe.

Trevor Moawad

Listen to "Trevor Moawad Releases The Book It Takes What It Takes" on Spreaker. Trevor Moawad has been hailed as, “The World’s Best Trainer” by Sports Illustrated, and is the mental coach to Super Bowl winning Quarterback Russell Wilson. What secrets for peak performance does he give elite athletes and U.S. Special Forces that we can apply to our own lives? Trevor Moawad’s new book, IT TAKES WHAT IT TAKES shares the innovative training that has worked for professional athletes in the MLB, NBA, UFC, and more. Called, “Neutral Thinking”, it is the key to unlocking behaviors that turn people into champions, and champions into legends. Filled with winning stories and straightforward strategies anyone can follow, it can help us all realize our greatest potential in work and life. During this conversation Trevor talks about: -His unique motivational system called Neutral Thinking that changes lives -The three states of truth-based thinking. -How to cope with the “illusion of choice”. -How your language is a predictor of your performance. -How to visualize success and work towards it. -How to develop self-awareness that trumps negativity -How to master conscious competence. You don’t need to be a Super Bowl winning quarterback to take advantage of Trevor’s mental training.

Daryl Hall

Listen to "Daryl Hall From Hall And Oates New Summer Tour And More" on Spreaker. After selling out their upcoming February 28 performance at NYC's Madison Square Garden in short order, Rock & Roll Hall of Famers Daryl Hall & John Oates have announced a 32-date North American summer tour with Squeeze and KT Tunstall. Produced by Live Nation, the latest tour by the best-selling duo of all-time will kick off this May at the famous Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, CA and make stops in Toronto, Chicago, Atlanta and more before wrapping September 2 at Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion in New Hampshire. Full touring route below.

Ryan Jay Reviews

Listen to "Ryan Jay Reviews Call Of The Wild" on Spreaker. Harrison Ford returns to the big screen in a way that not too many expected. Appearing with an animated dog in the giant outdoors of winter and cold? This isn't a new film. Ryan Jay explains who's all been part of this legendary coming of age film for a dog. Because it's animated did that give the director permission to put a few scenes in the film that may scare the heck out of your kids?

Sal And Q

Listen to "Sal And Q Creating Impractical Jokers The Movie" on Spreaker. The Impractical Jokers who have their feature film debut IMPRACTICAL JOKERS: THE MOVIE, in theaters February 21, 2020. An extension of the wildly successful Impractical Jokers series, the film follows the four lifelong friends and comedians, James "Murr" Murray, Brian "Q" Quinn, Joe Gatto, and Sal Vulcano, (The Tenderloins) whose hilariously outrageous hidden-camera dares and punishments have created one of cable's longest-running original comedies. The film combines the fictional narrative with real-life footage of over-the-top punishments and callbacks to classic moments from the series. Once The Impractical Jokers hit the road, they compete in hidden camera challenges for the chance to turn back the clock and find redemption.

Tay Hasselhoff

Listen to "Tay Hasselhoff From CNBC's Listing Impossible" on Spreaker. With the name Tay Hasselhoff, it's pretty clear she's got one big Hollywood connection -- but it's one she was hesitant to milk for all its worth when setting out on a new career path. While she appeared on a season of "Rich Kids of Beverly Hills" (more on that in a minute) and the extremely short lived "The Hasselhoffs," Tay currently works as member of high-profile Los Angeles real estate agent Aaron Kirman's team. The job actually led to her return to reality TV, as CNBC's new series "Listing Impossible," premiering Wednesday, follows the agency as they try to sell multi-million dollar mansions. According to Tay, she first got interested in the business after witnessing her mother, Pamela Bach, get "completely screwed over" by an agent as she tried to lock down a bachelorette pad. "It was a horrible experience for her," Hasselhoff told TooFab, detailing how her mom learned about an illegal gas line under the property after moving in. "I feel like I'm the one of my friends and family that always tries to find ways to get people out of situations or help people out. And in that situation, I was completely baffled," she continued. "I wanted to learn as much as I possibly could about the real estate world, so that if this did ever happen to, let's say, me or my friends or family in the future, I would kind of know how to steer them in the right direction." She then started networking with different agents and agencies and quickly realized the industry was just as competitive as the one in which her father makes his living. After getting her license, she joined Aaron's team at the John Aaroe Group, which has since changed names and sees Kirman as its president. The season premiere of "Listing Impossible" shows Tay debating whether she should use her famous last name in her new profession, hoping to make a name for herself without capitalizing on her dad. "Growing up, a lot of times the first question people would ask, instead of 'Tell me about you,' it was, 'Tell me about your dad. I want to know about him, him, him," she explained. "I'm used to it now, but for me, I just want people to know, 'That's Taylor-Ann, she got this on her own and she worked her ass off for this and she is who she is." "I kind of wanted to go into a field with me just being Tay," she continued. "It was one of those things where all my friends and even Aaron was like, 'Use your last name.' But for me as a woman and trying to be an entrepreneur and a boss lady, I'd love to be able to be known for who I am and kind of what I'm about and it takes away the preconceived notion that just because of my last name, I get X, Y and Z." Tay said she knows that situation is something a lot of celebrity kids she's spoken to over the years can relate to and while it was something she struggled with, she does go by Hasselhoff professionally now. And with that name came one of her first big clients: her own father, David Hasselhoff. The "Baywatch" star himself also appears in the first episode, as he works with his daughter to list his $3.5 million home. Tay noted that a lot of her family members reached out to her as soon as she got her license and having that close relationship with a client only led to more honesty from all parties involved. Admitting she was "never too keen" on the agents her dad was initially working with, her "protective" side made her speak up. "With me, you know, his eldest daughter, we have such a strong relationship that the first thing he said, he was like, 'Hell, I wouldn't go with anybody. The minute you get your license, we're gonna do amazing things," she explained. Adding that The Hoff wanted her to be his "point person," she said it's "because I tell it how it is." "With him, I asked him all the hard questions that he doesn't really think about it," she continued. "It has been a fun, interesting ride, especially just because when we are in the process, he'll tell me, 'I f--king hate that house, what was that, that was horrible!' I don't think a client would ever say that to me in those terms, but it's a funny back and forth." "Listing Impossible" is a far cry from her "Rich Kids" days and part of the reason she was interested in the CNBC series was to show how much she's really grown in recent years. Saying she did the E! series with the hope to highlight her singing career and show what it takes to make it in the business, Hasselhoff admitted it didn't quite go as planned. "Of course, it wasn't exactly all about that. Those producers, they love to do what they can to make as much drama as they possibly can," she said. "And I think for me, I'm the least dramatic person in my life. I was like, holy shit, this is insane. I don't know what I signed up for, but I'm stuck and I've just got a look at the positive side to it." This new show will highlight where Tay is now, showing her start with Aaron's team. "I'm in a very different place now, which I think is really cool to show people just your journey and where you started to where you've gone," she said. "I think it's awesome for people in the business world, for people that are looking to kind of jump into a new career but are nervous to get into that career." She also loves the business aspect of the series and its place on CNBC, which she called a "fantastic network." Said Tay, "If I was going to be on a reality show, I would only want to be on a show that's going to be able to inspire and show people what the real estate game is. It's not gumdrops and lollipops. It's a hustle, it's a grind, it's a 24-7 job, you never put your phone down." Hasselhoff also explained what sets their show apart from other similarly-themed series, calling hers more authentic. "I think other real estate shows that are out there, to be quite honest, are very well, 'We got this listing, it was super easy, we made all this money, we're onto the next,'" she explained. "That is not how real estate is!"

Mark Greaney

Listen to "Mark Greaney Releases The Book One Minute Out" on Spreaker. Mark Greaney’s Gray Man continues its reign as the fastest growing thriller series in the publishing industry and his latest installment featuring Courtland “Court” Gentry is ONE MINUTE OUT, (Berkley Hardcover; February 18, 2020). First published in mass market original format in 2009, The Gray Man series has captivated more readers with each installment. Since the 2016 publication of BACK BLAST, the first hardcover in the series, each Gray Man novel has seen double digit sales increases over each previous book. Every Gray Man book receives stellar reviews with Mark being praised for his “high-octane storytelling” (Washington Post), described as “among the top authors of espionage” (South Florida Sun-Sentinel) and “the best in the business” (Suspense Magazine). With each book Mark grows his legion of fans, especially those across all political spectrums, including Hugh Hewitt, who featured Mark in his on-air book club, and Senator Elizabeth Warren, who mentioned the series in a recent GQ.com profile. The series has continuously drawn comparisons to the giants of the field including Brad Thor, Daniel Silva, and, of course, Tom Clancy. Certainly, the Clancy comparisons are no surprise: Mark co-wrote Clancy’s final three Jack Ryan thrillers before the venerable legend’s death and then carried the mantle for another four novels. For years, Court Gentry was the CIA’s best covert asset. Then, without warning, the agency put him at the top of its kill list. Court fled the country and became an enigmatic killer for hire known as the Gray Man. However, after a tense reconciliation, of sorts, Court begrudgingly finds himself working for his former government overseers. In ONE MINUTE OUT, while on a mission to Croatia, Court uncovers a human trafficking operation. The trail leads from the Balkans all the way back to Hollywood. Court is determined to shut it down, but his CIA handlers have other plans. The criminal ringleader has actionable intelligence about a potentially devastating terrorist attack on the US. The CIA won't move until they have that intel. Court finds himself as the pivot of a moral balancing act. This moral quandary becomes more engaging as this is the first Gray Man novel told in first person, which will finally allow fans of the series to dive into Court’s head and understand more of who he is and what he’s willing to do.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Listen to "Kareem Abdul Jabbar From The History Channel's Black Patriots Heroes Of The Revolution" on Spreaker. Often forgotten in history, many people don’t know that African Americans played an integral role in the fight for our county’s independence. Anchored by sit down interviews with Abdul-Jabbar as well as numerous esteemed historians and supported with archival material, “Black Patriots: Heroes of the Revolution” will cover both sides of the fight, highlighting black heroes of the American Revolution who stood up against British rule to help establish the United States of America, and, conversely, black loyalists who fought for the Crown – and the promise of freedom. The documentary will also present Abdul-Jabbar’s personal journey, revealing his own unique discovery of important historical figures like Crispus Attucks and others and how they helped change the perception of his own heritage.

Setting Free The Doubter

Listen to "Setting The Doubter Free" on Spreaker. I have doubt issues. I doubt everything. Not always a lack of faith or trust but rather a lack of belief in the moment presently presented. There's snow in today's forecast. I'm filled with doubt. I don't want the weather people to be right. I'm from Montana snow has always been in my life. But not today. I'm not in the mood for it. I doubt it's going to happen only to become disappointed with the amazing amount of energy I'm using to wishfully push the flakes away. On this podcast we jump into a huge pile of doubt and how to free yourself from it. It controls so many of us. Once the doubt bug has bitten you aren't going to let it go until something physical takes place. One of the greatest practice grounds for me to let doubt go was learning how to tithe at church without doubting where the money is really going. It's not my job to think about that. Through trust and faith the energy from those dollars and cents is going to outreach programs you'll never meet. To doubt during tithing spoils the reason why you've chosen to give. I don't tithe to receive. I tithe because the present place we stand has allowed me to make something available and I'm grateful. So what does this have to do with learning how not to doubt. The awkward mental movement has to begin somewhere. Finding a safe path to plant your next step cannot be connected to fear, shame, guilt and doubt. You're walking into every moment already poisoned. It is a daily discipline to go into my journals of twenty six years and read the words planted on paper. Not to celebrate the writer but to read about the journey. The march through life with doubt on his back. To grow beyond the structure created by bosses that abused and family members that ghosted. I find tremendous growth in reading about what life was like without Google and smart phones. How we grew as a nation beyond September 11th. To feel his fear connected to war. To hear about another anthrax scare and why was this happening. Yeah he doubted and he still does today. You learn so much about your path when the words reach out of the books of twenty or so years ago. You can't change anything but your present place of now. And in recognizing that there's less doubt.

Laura Wasser

Listen to "Divorce Lawyer Laura Wasser From The Podcast All's Fair" on Spreaker. Celebrity divorce attorney Laura Wasser has seen it all, and in her 20 plus years practicing Family Law in Hollywood the one thing she's certain of is that all is fair in love and war. Each week on the All's Fair With Laura Wasser podcast, Laura and It's Over Easy's Chief Content Officer Johnnie Raines chat with celebrities, innovators and experts about all kinds of relationships, breakups, love, war and everything in between. Listen to the podcast here: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-alls-fair-53899080/ Laura Wasser is an American attorney specializing in California Family Law. She was born in Los Angeles. She attended the University of California, Berkeley and earned a law degree from Loyola Law School. She has two young sons and resides in Malibu, California. Laura has been named one of the California Daily Journal's Top 100 Lawyers and Southern California's Top 50 Women Attorneys every year for the last seven years (2012-2018). In June 2008, Laura received the Harriet Buhai Center for Family Law Zephyr M. Ramsey Award. In 2011, she was the recipient of the Century City Chamber of Commerce Women of Achievement Award. In 2013 St. Martins Press published and released Laura's book "It Doesn't Have to Be That Way: How to Divorce Without Destroying Your Family or Bankrupting Yourself." She was listed as one of the Top 50 Women Lawyers in 2012 and 2013 by the Los Angeles Magazine Super Lawyers. Laura received the Brady Center Advocate Award and was honored by A Place Called Home at their 2016 Gala For The Children. Laura participates in many continuing education programs as a lecturer and panelist. She has been a guest lecturer at Loyola Law School, Southwestern Law School, UCLA, and UC Berkeley Hall School of Law. Laura serves on the Board of Directors-Loyola Law School, Board of Directors-Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, Board of Trustees-Oakwood School, Advisory Council-Harriett Buhai Center for Family Law, and is a Member of the Executive Committee-Beverly Hills Bar Family Law Section and Los Angeles Bar-Family Law Section.

Mark Nawar From The Outfit

Listen to "Drummer Mark Nawar FromThe Out Release Viking" on Spreaker.v The Outfit, from Chicago, have been creating a buzz since coming on to the rock scene. Their first single “Soldier Boy” released in 2018, secured the #34 spot on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Chart. The band isn’t re-inventing the wheel, and it never tries to; thats it’s charm. The three words to describe the band is original, bold, rock. The Outfit shows they have the chops of veteran musicians, yet the forward thinking attitude to make an impact with a fresh unique sound for today's music scene. The instant gratification track “Viking” has been received enthusiastically by crowds at the bands recent performances, including the Rock USA festival last summer. "Viking" also cracked The Billboard Mainstream Rock Indicator chart late last year, peaking at #24, while the video has over 360,000 views on You Tube, and over 90,000 plays on Spotify. The band is getting ready to lauch their new single "Come Alive". Lead singer Andy Mitchell says “Come Alive” ia a song about living in your dreams. A place where you can go to see friends and love ones that have passed on. A place where the dead come alive." The Outfit will release their new album entitled "Viking" on March 27th, 2020, via Pavement Entertainment. The album was mixed by multi-platinum producer Ulrich Wild (Breaking Benjamin, Static-X, Deftones, Pantera, and White Zombie). The band will continue touring this year and will make stops in February 2020 at the world famous Whisky A Go Go, along with shows in Las Vegas, San Diego and Phoenix. Later this summer they will be opening for Puddle of Mudd on select dates.

Reelly Good Movies With Gabe

Listen to "Reelly Good Movies With Gabe Sonic,Downhill, The Photograph And Ordinary Love" on Spreaker. Four new films found their way into theaters over the weekend. Gabe puts us in the center of the action when he reveals what it's like to see an old video game character come to life. Then Downhill. Is it an uphill battle to get people in? The Photograph is a huge keeper because of the love in the story. And you'll never forget Liam in Ordinary Love.

Matthew Modine And Niles Fitch

Listen to "Matthew Modine and Niles Fitch From The Movie Miss Virginia" on Spreaker. Miss Virginia stars Emmy® winner Uzo Aduba as a struggling single mother who is losing her fifteen-year-old son to the rough streets of Washington, DC. Unwilling to see him drop out and deal drugs, she places him in a private school. But when she can’t afford tuition, she launches a movement to change the system and fights to create a scholarship program for her at-risk son and children like him. Matthew Modine plays Congressman Clifford Williams, a politician who becomes Virginia’s unlikely ally in her fight for the district’s poorest children. Niles Fitch plays Virginia’s gifted but troubled son. Matthew Modine is an Emmy® and Golden Globe® nominee for his outstanding work in the miniseries And the Band Played On. He rose to prominence through his role as US Marine Corp Private Joker in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket. His other film roles include the title character in Alan Parker’s Birdy, the high school wrestler Louden Swain in Vision Quest, Drake Goodman in Pacific Heights and Dr. Ralph Wyman in Short Cuts. On television, Modine portrayed Dr. Martin Brenner in Stranger Things, the oversexed Sullivan Groff on Weeds and Ivan Turing in Proof. Niles Fitch is best known for his role as young Randall in the hit series This is Us. He made his television debut with a guest appearance in Tyler Perry’s House of Payne, followed by a recurring role in Season 7 of Army Wives. His film credits include St. Vincent and Roman J. Israel Esq.

A Better New Day

Listen to "A Better New Day" on Spreaker. I didn't get into daily writing because I loved to write. I was being weighed down by life. No place to hide. Yet it was all there communicating in a language I didn't recognize. My wife wanted me to get into Scientology. The nearest gathering a couple of hours from the house. She kept saying that a lot of creative people use their messages to make their way through the chapters. I couldn't do it. Growing up Christian was my reason. But I wasn't an activator. I attended a ton of band-aid churches. Not the big buildings on the corners but those hidden away in local schools and shopping centers. One problem. They were more interested in me running sound for the band and other creative requirements. Then I'd have to selfishly explain that I needed to fix me first then we'll talk. Julia Cameron's The Artist Way became my walk of life in the opening weeks of the summer of 1994. I've never stepped free of the lessons taught. To this very moment her valuable words bring forward the right decisions. Everything I do is because she took those languages I didn't understand and put them into words that not only motivated me but helped the creative self deal with every day changes and challenges. On this podcast we go back nearly four years where its physically clear on page two of the daily writing that the author is sharing the importance of having a spiritual relationship with himself. One problem. On page three he begins to question the presence. We all do! We bring forward the lessons we're taught only to find fault in the change. The change he couldn't explain was based on his faith. For several decades the openness of being a Christian was hardly ever visible on my sleeve. That all changed in 2012 when Steven Furtick opened the door to activate. What I didn't prepare for was the enormous amount of friends and family members that would leap away. Ghosted! Talking about it in the daily writing is the important part of the journey. Being truthful to the inner core of your presence is a discipline. Very easily we all turn. Acceptance is a human need. But at what cost?

Kyndal Inskeep

Listen to "Kyndal Inskeep Made It To NBC's The Voice" on Spreaker. Growing up wasn’t easy for Kyndal. Her father was mostly absent and when her mom remarried, she was the only one in her family with a different last name. She felt she didn’t fit in and was often lonely, but music brought her joy. She got a guitar for Christmas and wrote her first song at 8 years old. By 13, she was gigging and posting videos of her singing. At 19, she moved to Nashville and finally felt at home. Kyndal is currently a nanny for four kids during the day and continues to perform her original music by night.

Debbie Allen

Listen to "Debbie Allen From They've Gotta Have Us On Netflix" on Spreaker. They've Gotta Have Us, a dynamic chronicle of art, activism and race in Black Cinema featuring in-depth interviews with some of Hollywood's most iconic voices, has been acquired by ARRAY Releasing as the company's first series acquisition. ARRAY will premiere the docu-series on Netflix on February 5, 2020. ARRAY has also acquired distribution rights in the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Africa. The announcement was made by ARRAY founder Ava DuVernay. They've Gotta Have Us was conceived, produced and directed by Simon Frederick, a UK-based self-taught artist, photographer, filmmaker and broadcaster. The series features revealing interviews with many barrier-breaking filmmakers and stars, including Diahann Carroll, John Singleton, Kasi Lemmons, John Boyega, Harry Belafonte, Robert Townsend, David Oyelowo, Whoopi Goldberg, Laurence Fishburne, Debbie Allen and Barry Jenkins. The series also includes clips from and commentary about such seminal films as Carmen Jones, Claudine, Lilies of the Field, Do The Right Thing, Boyz in the Hood, Hollywood Shuffle, Black Panther and Moonlight. "As a company whose mission is to amplify voices of people of color, They've Gotta Have Us speaks directly to our highest ideas of inclusion, cultural context and community. Not only are we introducing an exciting artist like Simon Frederick to a new audience, but his project shares the stories of Black Cinema's most influential filmmakers and actors," said ARRAY President Tilane Jones.

Boaz Frankel

Listen to "Boaz Frankel Releases The Book Lets Be Weird Together" on Spreaker. LET’S BE WEIRD TOGETHER: A Book About Love - is a celebration of the universal phenomenon that couples bring out the best in each other, but also the weirdest. The book features a collection of funny diagrams and charts, mini-comics, quirky lists and facts, and more joyfully bizarre oddments This colorful and fully illustrated compendium of quirky love contains: Animal relationship facts, like how pufferfish create sand patterns to impress mates. Relationship records, such as the longest underwater kiss, clocked in at 20 minutes. Questions to determine how comfortable you are with your significant other. For example, are you “sharing drinks (one straw)” comfortable or “sharing drinks (two straws)” comfortable? Romantic nicknames from around the world, including mon petit chou, which translates to “my little cabbage” in French. Quirky couples throughout history, such as Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum, chief manicurists to ancient Egyptian pharaoh Nyuserre Ini, who were also lovers. Their joint tomb is decorated with sweet and affectionate paintings of the two men. There is even a sampling of strange love-related laws (in New Orleans, fortune tellers and palm readers are not able to officiate at weddings), a selection of untraditional romantic getaway destinations (get hitched at Voodoo Doughnuts and snack on some doughnuts customized to resemble the newlyweds), a flowchart to help couples determine the type of pet that best suits them, and more! LET’S BE WEIRD TOGETHER also includes a bonus sheet of temporary tattoos designed specifically for partners—a pair of mismatched socks, a heart proclaiming “I’m the better singer,” and more. A rare relationship book that captures the rituals and tiny two-person universes that couples create together, in a sweet, small package filled with humor, charming illustrations, and endearing quirkiness, it’s the perfect gift for a significant other on Valentine’s Day, an anniversary, a birthday, or as a just-because-I-love-you gift!

Huey Lewis

Listen to "Huey Lewis And The News Release The Album Weather" on Spreaker. Huey Lewis & The News have announced their new album, Weather, out February 14th on BMG. Featuring the group's first new, original songs since 2001's Plan B LP - plus one cover of the classic Eugene Church soul burner "Pretty Girls Everywhere" - Weather was produced in-house by Huey and the guys, just like every record they've made since the early 1980s. Along with the announcement, Huey Lewis & The News have unveiled a new single and album opener, "While We're Young" - listen here: https://youtu.be/3aT4g-fu-R4 Following their previous offering "Her Love Is Killin' Me" - a "harmonica-topped, gritty-voiced, good-natured boogie that has Huey Lewis & The News sounding like absolutely nothing has changed since the mid-1980s" (The New York Times) - "While We're Young" delivers another preview of the patience and positivity at the core of Weather. Unaware that recording sessions were about to be cut short by a 2018 Ménière's disease diagnosis that could keep him from ever singing again, Lewis reflects on fleeting mortality with a rasp as uninhibited, witty, and confident as ever, backed by the same strength of smooth-sailing soul arrangements that first launched the group to international superstardom. Realized through years spent road-testing the tracks on tour, Lewis calls Weather some of the band's best work. Songs evoke the superlative eras of Sports and Fore! (one of the small number of albums to ever generate five or more Top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100), and extend to blues shuffles, classic R&B, and even a hint of country twang (check out "One Of The Boys," a song Dave Cobb originally asked Lewis to write for Willie Nelson). Huey Lewis & The News recorded Weather at their own Troutfarm Studio in Marin County, CA, and once again brought in the mixing expertise of studio legend Bob Clearmountain. Clearmountain and The News have had a long-running relationship, and he is credited with mixing many of the band's hits, including "Do You Believe In Love," "The Heart Of Rock & Roll," "I Want A New Drug," and "If This Is It," to name a few. Weather marks a fresh opportunity for new generations of fans to discover why Huey Lewis & The News have sold over 30 million albums, topped numerous charts, earned Grammy wins, Academy Award nominations, and a spot on Billboard's recent list of the Top 125 Artists of All Time. As Lewis says, "You've got to look on the bright side and stay creative. Even if I never sing again, things could always be worse. After all, I'm deaf, not dead."

The Lyrics From Billy's Forest Chapter 189

Listen to "The Lyrics From Billys Forest Chapter 189" on Spreaker. I'm the fool that finds enjoyment while sitting in the rain. The rhythmic natural flow of change and every reason to grow. Cardinals sing in the rain. Deer continue to wander and humans find it easier to digest if we quickly rush away. On this podcast we paint the picture of a rainy day but not by way of water falling from the sky. The grey dark clouds in our personal life. Are they there by choice or is a moment of low feelings consuming the area because of trips and stumbles that seemed perfectly ripe for the moment and now you're left to soak up the rain? I openly admit to being an optimistic pessimist. That means I see a lot of rain. I'm given the choice to see the glass half full or empty. On those days of chance becoming change I choose to run with whatever will bring the lesson. A constant student. Facing every angle of the story while trying to understand the presence of the occurrence. It's the writer in me! There's always a book or blog waiting for my writing instrument. How can you relate with a reader if everyday you chose to run from the rain? Your place of work. Is it not the same? Someone had to create car doors and windows. It didn't just happen. The Nest app gives me control of the household temperature without being there. The people behind the creation must have known by experience that it would be a better day if we could walk into a place already set to a happy place. My mother used to say, "Son... learn to save it for a rainy day." Which is how I run my optimistic pessimistic wander through life. Like the cardinal singing his song while its raining we can all learn to look into the soul of those dark clouds in our head and heart and decide on the spot if it's going to consume our weather report or just make itself known. Winning is a choice.