Jeff Holden is the founder of Hear Me Now Studio, as well as its principal producer. The company creates several dozen of the estimated four million podcasts out there in cyber space—including his own, “Imperfect Heart,” and mine (named for and hyper-linked at the bottom of this column).
When it comes to dreaming the impossible dream, Don Quixote had nothing on Kevin Dobson.
President Ronald Reagan had nothing on restaurateur Alan Irvine.
Amy Brown is telling me about a three-week period during the COVID-19 crisis when she and her then-small staff would arrive at her Instaphysique [hyperlink: instaphysique.com] studio by 5:30 a.m. to roll some of her patented Lagree Fitness machines into the parking lot in time for the arrival of her first client.
As September heats up in more ways than one, I need to declare that no matter how loathsome, repugnant and vile many of us find Donald Trump (hashtag: #The Crook Who Would Be King), he is not, repeat, not, the reincarnation of Adolph Hitler, Nero, Vlad the Impaler, Attila the Hun, the Anti-Christ or the inventor of reverse mortgages.
Tucker Carlson, the squeaky-voiced darling of non-thinking people everywhere, is apparently launching his own TV/internet/cyber/death-ray network. I’d be among the first to sign on as a subscriber if the early adopters hadn’t use up all of the crayons and fingerpaint in the cubbies.
In keeping with my cautious nature— heretofore never-suspected—I’ve finally decided to do a podcast. I hesitated to start one until roughly four million other people had.
Today’s medical news is about the epidemic of FPs in our daily lives.
Ryan Seacrest has been named the new host of “Wheel of Fortune,” the long-lived game show designed for the hard-of-thinking.
In John Huston’s memorable version of Dashiell Hammett’s “The Maltese Falcon,” Peter Lorre (as criminal Joel Cairo) says to Humphrey Bogart (as private detective Sam Spade), “You always have a very smooth explanation.”
