The Lake Forest Podcast

The Lake Forest Podcast

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The Lake Forest Podcast episodes

  • Mastering the Game: Key Contrasts Between Tennis and Pickleball

    #pickleball #tennis #lakeforestillinois #lakeforestpodcast #rayjmurphy
    Main Clip: https://youtu.be/wpc6uhX_4Hs
    RayJ Murphy is the Head Coach of Professional Pickleball Team The Chicago Slice of @MajorLeaguePickleball RayJ joins Pete Jansons on The Lake Forest Illinois Podcast to discuss the surge of popularity of pickleball and discuss the learning curve of pickleball versus tennis

    1 min
  • Unlocking Peace: How to Handle Pickleball Noise Like a Pro

    #pickleball #pickleballnoise #lakeforestillinois #lakeforestpodcast #rayjmurphy
    Main Clip: https://youtu.be/wpc6uhX_4Hs
    RayJ Murphy is the Head Coach of Professional Pickleball Team The Chicago Slice of @MajorLeaguePickleball RayJ joins Pete Jansons on The Lake Forest Illinois Podcast to discuss the surge of popularity of pickleball as well as solutions Ray and his team are working on to make the sport less noisy.

    5 min
  • RayJ Murphy Lake Forest Illinois Resident and Coach of The Major League Pickleball's Chicago Slice

    #pickleball #mlp #majorleaguepickleball #lakeforestillinois #lakebluff #rayjmurphy #chicagoslice
    RayJ Murphy is the Head Coach of Professional Pickleball Team The Chicago Slice of  @MajorLeaguePickleball  RayJ joins Pete Jansons on The Lake Forest Illinois Podcast to discuss the surge of popularity of pickleball.
    Key Moments:
    0:002:21 Pre Show RayJ Murphy background and Pickleball
    4:17 Tennis Players Golfers off course
    5:07 RayJ Connection to Lake Forest Illinois
    5:35 Rick Amos friends of Lake Forest Parks and Rec
    6:02 How did Pickleball start?
    6:31 Joel Pritchard
    8:29 Lake Forest Illinois Pickleball
    10:13 3 million to 48 million plying in just a few years
    10:29 Steve Kuhn
    11:40 Pickleball Noise
    12:20 Lake Bluff Illinois Pickleball Issues
    12:37 Pickleball handle options to make less noise
    14:46 Passionate Mom's
    15:00 Hand Battle
    15:46 Driveways marked out for pickleball courts
    16:50 Behind Deerpath is ideal
    17:40 Keep sound under 70db
    17:56 Professional Pickleball Leagues
    18:21 APP league Ken Herrmann Conner Ogden
    18:40 PPA league
    19:10 Steve Kuhn
    20:00 Tom Rickets is an owner
    23:35 TV Rights
    23:54 PPA Owner Tom Dundon
    25:40 Scholarships?
    26:30 Daniel De La Rosa
    26:45 Learning curve tennis vs pickleball
    27:10 What is Rally Scoring?
    28:07 Investors? Heidi Klum
    28:50 Chicago Slice Story
    29:35 Tom Brady, Lebron James Drew Brees James Blake our Team owners
    31:29 Lake Bluff Illinois
    34:00 Ben Johns Number one pick overall Chicago Slice
    36:09 How To Learn More?
    https://www.instagram.com/majorleaguepb/?hl=en

    40 min
  • Lake Forest Podcast Throwback Thursday 5-6-21 "The Retraction Show" and The Missing Caucus Bylaws

    #lakeforestillinois #lakeforestcaucus #lakeforestpodcast
    This show is from May 6 2021 and at the time we didn't know it would play a role in the 2023 Lake Forest Illinois Mayoral Election. We addressed the Lake Forest Caucus Bylaws as well as some suggestions of what the Lake Forest Caucus could do to change things to prevent issues in the future
    0:001:56 Show Start
    2:38 Lake Forest Caucus Disclosure from Pete Jansons
    3:12 Guest Policy
    3:27 Tim Newman
    4:08 Listener Comment
    5:19 Fact checkers
    6:10 Looking for liberal point of view to join show
    7:48 Pete jansons reasons for joining the Lake Forest Illinois Caucus Committee
    8:16 Caucus Leaders Kim Phahl and David Hunt will not come on the show to give us the right information
    9:12 Not enough information coming from the lake forest caucus committee to educate
    10:10 Lake Forest Illinois Executive Caucus Committee Communications need to step up
    10:40 Pete screwed up?
    11:20 Lake Forest Caucus President Kim Phahl email to Pete
    12:37 What Pete should have said
    13:50 Executive Mentorship from Caucus?
    14:10 Bylaws down
    14:45 Pete wasted one year on Caucus Committee
    15:30 If Pete has Questions Caucus Committees policies and doesnt understand imagine general caucus members
    16:30 Mike Adams
    17:50 Perception is Downside to come on the podcast?
    19:40 First premise of the Caucus
    20:26 what Pete should have said regarding the Caucus Executive Board
    22:10 Door is Open to group think
    23:19 Why doesn't the Lake Forest Caucus Committee elect to nominate its President and Vice President?
    23:54 Suggestion for Caucus
    24:45 How do you get on the Lake forest Caucus Committee Executive Board?
    25:10 Why is the caucus interviewing its Executive Board?
    25:52 Vote on nominating exec board to ballot
    26:10 Autopsy without blame the old new meeting
    28:32 Funny timing Caucus meetings
    28:53 Bylaws not on site
    29:28 Caucus is still the best game in town
    30:00 Lake Forest Podcast is an educational tool
    31:50 Contested elections should be examined and discussed
    33:47 All the stuff that's contested costs us money
    34:35 Perception Caucus is the Buddy Club
    35:05 Caucus Bylaws changed in middle of pandemic 2016 Bylaws not up
    38:20 School Board Solution
    38:36 Caucus executive Committee Solution
    39:40 David Hunt is a Mentor?
    40:27 Term limits
    41:20 Contested Election Reasons
    42:00 Person Lives in Lake Forest Illinois 20 Years "They Should know about the Caucus?"
    43:00 Do People know Lake Forest City is led by a Manager?
    44:19 Caucus as a whole should have discussed the contested School Board Election
    45:40 Kaizen

    50 min
  • Should The Superintendent have it easier to get in School before someone with a disability does?

    #lakeforestillinois #ada #lakeforestschools #mattmontgomery
    Main Clip: https://youtu.be/xPBlhOk9dq8
    The Lake Forest Podcast Schools Edition welcomes Jeff Brincat and Phillippe Melin From Parents Care of Lake Forest Lake Bluff to discuss Lake Forest Illinois Schools and its Superintendent Matthew Montgomery. In this short Philippe informs of of ADA deficiencies on the Lake Forest Illinois Schools Led by Superintendent Matt Montgomery

    1 min
  • Who should have the easier way to get in school? The School Superintendent or a Disabled Student?

    #lakeforestillinois #mattmontgomery #district67 #cherokeeschool #deerpathmiddleschool
    The Lake Forest Podcast Schools Edition welcomes Jeff Brincat and Phillippe Melin From Parents Care of Lake Forest Lake Bluff to discuss Lake Forest Illinois Schools and its Superintendant Matthew Montgomery
    Key Moments from the Show:
    0:001:48 Pre Show Start
    4:10 Joe Weiss Drinking Game District 219
    5:02 Main Show Start Jeff Brincat and Philippe Melin Lake Forest Lake Bluff Parents Care
    6:10 Superintendent Matt Montgomery Misdirection
    6:45 Lake Forest Illinois Schools need metrics to determine success
    7:46 Roofing and Parking lot installation for Scholl Administrative building
    11:02 Misallocation Priorities of the School Administration
    11:25 What does success look like
    12:48 No more spending on administration till be get the metrics from school administrators
    13:40 Joe Weiss School Board experience
    17:50 if there are fewer administrators now why add extra parking spaces?
    20:00 1/10 School Districts in USA are in Illinois
    22:30 What's more important an administrative building or spending on education campus
    23:02 Matt Montgomery begging for money during referendum
    23:20 Is Cherokee School ADA compliant for wheel chair access?
    28:28 100 bucks came out of our pocket to make Matt Montgomery walk into school easier
    28:50 How long should it take to come up with metrics?
    32:37 Survey parents what do they think success looks like?
    35:16 Jeff Brincat view on metrics
    37:05 Joe Weiss Metrics for success
    39:00 Do we need schools as knowledge is now decentralized
    40:47 What is progress?
    44:30 Do we need consultants?
    45:54 Hiring Communication specialist
    46:30 Moving forward
    47:50 Changes on School Board and Caucus
    48:40 Send survey to Parents Care List
    49:50 Push back on All FOIA''s says admin staff
    51:56 Lake Forest Podcast School Success Survey?

    57 min
  • Correction: Lake Forest Preservation Foundation is not using Donor Funds to Sue The City

    #LakeForestPreservationFoundation #lakeforestpodcast #lakeforestillinois #georgepandaleon #briannorton
    Heads up y'all we got it wrong The Lake Forest Preservation Foundation is not using donor Funds to sue the city of Lake Forest. The President of The Lake Forest Preservation Foundation Brian Norton is a lawyer and will be using his resources to sue the city of lake forest Illinois
    We welcome Brian Norton to come on the show to help us clear this up further.

    1 min
  • Lake Forest Illinois Central Business District Parking: Former Mayor George Pandaleon

    #lakeforestpodcast #lakeforestillinois #centralbusinessdistrict #parking #shorts
    Main Clip: https://youtu.be/VFLY3rcY6es ( go to 27:10 to get full context?
    Former Mayor Of lake Forest Illinois George Pandaleon Came on the Lake Forest Illinois Podcast with Joe Weiss, Rick Lesser and Pete Jansons to discuss his challenging two terms in office as well as in this short clip discussing improving the parking situation in the Central Business District of Lake Forest Illinois @EnjoyLakeForest

    1 min

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