Anthony Burnside is the Owner/CEO of the Ronin Group. His expertise includes - Threat Assessment/Executive Protection Specialist /TV Security Analyst and Private Investigation. Anthony’s primary directive is the safety of his clients using the techniques of executive protection, non-confrontation with his training and awareness for the safe evacuation of  clients. 

    In this podcast Anthony explains the real dangers of TikTok and to how to keep yourself safe.

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Reverend Bob Hill and Rabbi Michael Zedek return to remember some of the great spiritual leaders we lost in 2024. Some you may never have heard of but might want to check out their meaningful teachings. Thanks to Bob and Michael for their insights.

    Mike Long sat with James Gregory to write his life story, “A Bushel of Beans and a Peck of Tomatoes.” Mike joins the YJHTL podcast to tell us more about James Gregory, the man who is beloved by millions. James was one of the most successful nightclub and theater comedians in America and it started out a long way from the stage, in the tiny farming community of Lithonia, Georgia. Before he became “The Funniest Man in America,” James was a successful salesman of everything from encyclopedias to log homes. His philosophy: take care of yourself so nobody has to take care of you. When he started over as a comedian, this commitment to hard work and honest dealing would be the key to his “business” of comedy. James loves working people—because that’s what he is, too.     Whether it’s entertaining our troops in the Persian Gulf after 9/11, working the road with greats like Steven Wright and Jay Leno, or facing a heart-stopping emergency that sent him into a coma, James has squeezed a dozen lifetimes into a half-century of comedy. This book is the best James Gregory story yet—as only he can tell it. 

“A Bushel of Beans and a Peck of Tomatoes.” get this the book. If you love James Gregory, you’ll love him even more after reading his life story.

    Nothing gets the crowd going at K-State basketball games this season more than Gerry Ince, 83, and Janice Edwards, 84. The two friends are longtime K-State fans who had gone to basketball and football games with their husbands since the ’80s. Gerry was the first who got into dancing along with the timeout music.

    The first time they went to a basketball game this season Janice had just sat down, and Gerry told her stand-up and cheer. When the time out music comes on Gerry grabs Janice and they start dancing.

    “The first time, we heard a really loud roar,” Edwards said. “We looked up, and I said, ‘Oh my god, Gerry, we’re on TV! We’re on the jumbotron.’”

Steve ‘Duck’ McLane was one of the original members and composers of The Blue Riddim Band. His early exposure to reggae music led him to frequent visits to Jamaica during the 1970s where he built relationships with local band Soul Syndicate.  Later on they were the opening act for the likes of Dennis Brown, Big Youth, Burning Spear, Peter Tosh and Bob Marley when they toured the United States. They went to Jamaica in 1981 where they recorded for the legendary King Jammys. In 1982 they became the first reggae band from the United States to play the now defunct annual Sunsplash music festival.  They played again at the same festival the following year.

Born in Hiawatha, Kansas, in 1951 as Stephen Bradley Miller, after graduating from high school there in 1969 he attended Kansas State University, Washburn University, and the University of Missouri, graduating with the BA degree in philosophy from Washburn and a Bachelor of Journalism degree from Missouri.

Using the byline Bradley Miller, Sage spent the greater part of his years following college as a writer and editor. For five years in the 1980s he wrote daily editorials and a twice-weekly bylined general-interest column for the Dallas Morning News. Most of his freelance essays have appeared in the Sunday Outlook section of the Washington Post and others in the Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Sun-Times, The American Scholar, Freethought Today, Counterpunch and other publications from coast to coast.

 A cultural critic and satirist, Sage is a libertarian lefty in politics, and since moving to Manhattan in 1998 has written many columns for The Manhattan Mercury, as he’s doing now. The name “The Fabulous Sage” came when he began signing up on karaoke lists as The Fabulous Sage. Then an article on karaoke by the Kansas State Collegian quoted a DJ as follows: “All you have to do is say ‘The Fabulous Sage’ and people go nuts.” He has stated, “He’d like that on his tombstone.) 

“Sage” was also the name of a newsletter he did during football seasons from 1998 through 2006. It consisted of a general-interest essay, spiced with humor, as well as picks against the spread on Big 12 football games. I originally called it “The Big 12 Sage” but soon changed it to The Fabulous Sage to go along with my karaoke persona and he has gone by Sage Miller since then.

Mike Bridenstine is an experienced writer, producer, and a booker with a strong comedy background and an excellent eye for talent. As a stand-up her performed as a New Face at the Montreal Just For Laughs Comedy Festival, as well as on Comedy Central and NBC. He produced and hosted “Hunk with Mike Bridenstine,” a weekly panel show with over 220 episodes. He’s also produced multiple live stand-up comedy shows in Los Angeles. Mike wrote a book about the history of the Chicago alt-comedy scene and has a book to be released on the stand-up comedy scene in Kansas City.

 Read along with these homographs:

The bandage was *wound* around the *wound*.

The farm was used to *produce produce*. The dump was so full that it had to *refuse* more *refuse*. We must *polish* the *Polish* furniture. He could *lead* if he would get the *lead* out. A *bass* was painted on the head of the *bass* drum. When shot at, the *dove dove * into the bushes. I did not *object* to the *object*. The insurance was *invalid* for the *invalid*. The buck *does* funny things when the *does* are present. Upon seeing the *tear* in the painting I shed a *tear*. I had to *subject* the *subject* to a series of tests.

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    Durk Pearson and his wife, Sandy Shaw are the scientists behind the high-quality supplements Michelle and Geg Pryor sell at Life Priority.

    Both Durk and Sandy are known as independent experts in anti-aging research and brain biochemistry since 1968. They have been pioneers in the life extension field. The publication of their runaway-bestseller Life Extension, A Practical Scientific Approach in 1982 was a benchmark in the history of nutritional science and created a whole new biomedical paradigm. Among other best sellers, Durk & Sandy are the authors of Freedom of Informed Choice: FDA Versus Nutrient Supplements, a book that discusses constitutional and scientific issues relating to the FDA’s regulation of the dissemination of scientific information.

Durk graduated from MIT in 1965 with a triple major in Physics, Biology, and Psychology, and a triple minor in electrical engineering, computer science, and chemistry. Durk has patents in the areas of oil shale recovery, laser, holography, and functional food.  He worked on all the manned aerospace programs from Gemini to the Shuttle and won numerous awards, including an award from the International Society for Testing and Failure Analysis (a professional organization), for his penetrating quality control and safety analyses.  He wrote much of the original safety manual for the Materials Processing Laboratory on the Shuttle.

Sandy Shaw received her B.S. degree in chemistry from U.C.L.A. in 1966 with a double major in chemistry and zoology and a minor in mathematics.  She has a patent on a functional food product.  Her work in the food industry has included supervision of quality control of all food production at a major canned food company.  In the late 1960s, she designed and implemented the first computerized quality control system to be used at the company, doing all the computer programming herself.

Durk J. Pearson died October 26, 2024.  Sandy Shaw died in 2021

For Durk and Sandy’s supplements and to listen to the interviews YJHTL did with Durk go to - Lifepriority.com 

    Rabbi Michael Zedek explains the true meaning of Chanukah. It has nothing to do with an 8-day miracle of the oil burning. He also explains it’s on the 25-day of the Jewish month of Kislev and how the Jewish calendar coincides with the lunar movement of the moon. Rabbi Zedek also gives us the history as well significance of Chanukah. This a fun, interesting and lively podcast as it always is with Michael Zedek.

Taking Miracles Seriously – a journey to Everyday Spirituality by Michael Zedek

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You Just Have To Love – the meaning of Life by David Naster

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