Category Archives: The William Tell Show

* Change your diet, chapter 2

April 2, 2014Get on your feet, Music, The William Tell Show102.7, Change your diet, Choosing feelings, Jack, The Homeless Blogger, WQSRWilliam Tell

(Originally posted 06/02/12 at Trojan Horse Productions. Reblogged 05/24/18.)

Friday 06/01/12 we were working on the assembly line, and the music they had on the PA was WQSR 102.7 “Jack.” I didn’t mind; it was an interesting change of pace.

At mid-afternoon this one song came on that made me feel tense. What song, I don’t recall and it doesn’t matter. The music made me feel tense. That’s what this post is all about.

The earlier post entitled “Change your diet” was all about words. One needs also to be aware of the feelings and attitudes music itself brings out in you, and choose accordingly.
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* Michael Jackson “son” hoax, and other notes

March 31, 2014Homelessness, Justice, National media, National news, National politics, Poverty, Science, The William Tell ShowAnimal souls, Columbine, Empathy, FilmOn, Income inequality, Names, ScandalWilliam Tell

Bookmarks:
Michael Jackson “son” hoax • Interspecies altruism • Zookeepers play Mama Bear
Screwed up names spell screwed up people • Scandal again • My first thought •
D.C. homeless housing crisis • Income inequality

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* Change your diet.

March 26, 2014Get on your feet, Media, Music, National media, The William Tell ShowBlock, Change your diet, Language, Media, Music, National, Strip joint, The Block, The Homeless Blogger, Weezy, Whore, Word of the DayWilliam Tell

(Originally posted 05/28/12 at Trojan Horse Productions. Reblogged 05/03/18.)

Garbage in, garbage out.

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* What’s in a name?

March 12, 2014Clippings, Get on your feet, National news, The William Tell ShowChanging names, Detroit, Malice, Malice Green, Name change, Names, Police brutality, Resisting arrest, The Homeless BloggerWilliam Tell

(Originally posted 05/23/12 at Trojan Horse Productions. Reblogged 03/22/18.)

Some years ago, I was home on vacation (that is, visiting my mother out-of-state) and saw this item in the newspaper. In Detroit, this fellow was resisting arrest and the struggle got really mean, and he wound up sustaining injuries from which he died.

On the one hand, OK, too bad, it happens.

On the other hand, I had to wonder what other end this gentleman could have met; his mother having named him “Malice Green.”

Did either of his parents ever bother to consider what that name means?

Give your child a sensible name!

If your parents failed to do so, you may want to give yourself a sensible name.

We have a page devoted to this issue (here).

talk show host, on air talent, radio talk show, the homeless blogger

* Are you a good listener?

March 1, 2014Get on your feet, The Way of Peace, The William Tell ShowOn air talent, Radio talk show, Talk radio, Talk show host, The Homeless BloggerWilliam Tell

(Reblogged from Brain Sweets.)

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Posted by Tracy Seekins ⋅ February 3, 2014 ⋅ Leave a Comment
Filed Under communication, conversation, interrupting, listening, talking

Are you listening? Really listening? When you are in a conversation with a friend or anyone, are you hearing what the other says? Or are you thinking about what you will say next? Are you waiting for your opportunity to tell some story? Do you get so excited or impatient that you interrupt? When the other person stops speaking do you begin immediately or do you wait 3 seconds?

Listening is an integral part of communication. Sometimes real listening means you don’t get to tell the story you had in your mind or say the comment you had 3 sentences ago. Real listening means when the other speaker is done and it is your turn that you are continuing the thought, commenting on what they actually said. Waiting 3 seconds after the other person is done speaking is a way to allow your thoughts to form and shows you were listening.

So are you a good listener?

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Another good post from Tracy:

Opportunity or Argument

(Reblogged 2018-02-15.)

* Issues with upcoming posts

January 29, 2014Get on your feet, Homelessness, OUR BEST POSTS, Poverty, Squalor, The Way of Peace, The William Tell ShowOn air talent, Self care, Stewardship, Talk radio, Talk show host, The Homeless Blogger, Wealth creationWilliam Tell

In the process of “recycling” old posts on Wednesdays, I am now coming upon a number of posts with which I’m not completely comfortable. I probably would not write them, now or in the future, the way I did at the time; but I’m also still not sure exactly how I’d write them differently.

At the time I wrote those posts, I supposed my homelessness would be brief, and William Tell would soon enough become a public figure able to speak to what he saw as the pressing social issues. My homelessness continues eighteen months later, and my perceptions of those issues have changed.
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* Shopping list

January 27, 2014Get on your feet, Homelessness, Job search/Job prospects, The William Tell ShowWilliam Tell

When I get my own place, there’s no need to move in all at once. I can do it in stages; the shelter’s still available. And this will make less for me to have to carry at any one time.

So, here’s my daydream of the sequence of different things I can buy on different occasions. Lucky for me, I can probably buy all these items at Family Dollar. I don’t plan to be extravagant, but with the income I’ll have, relative my needs, there’s no need to be cheap, either.
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* The End of Anger, by Ellis Cose (2001) …

January 22, 2014Career goals, Media, National media, The William Tell ShowEllis Cose, Media, National, On air talent, Opinion, Polls, Public, Race, Radio talk show, Talk show host, The End of Anger, The Homeless BloggerWilliam Tell

… is a slim volume for $24.99. The description on inside front dust jacket concludes it “may well be the most important book dealing with race to be published in recent decades.” That strikes me as presumptuous. The front matter includes a list of the author’s other titles, from which it appears he seldom writes about anything else.

Yet the portions I browsed remind me of something I want to do on my own show. The preface examines in some detail changes in public opinion polls between 2008 and 2010. I don’t attach the weight to these facts that Cose does. But if, for example, the President’s approval rating rises with one group and falls with another group in the same time frame, I would like to find out from listeners whose opinions changed and why; to examine with listeners how their thinking works, and on what bases their opinions change.

(Originally posted 05/12/12 at Trojan Horse Productions. Reposted 10/26/17.)

* Rat empathy; Secret weapon against poverty; etc.

January 20, 2014Clippings, Poverty, Squalor, The William Tell ShowDan Rodricks, Empathy, Marriage, Panhandling, Political correctness, Racism, RatsWilliam Tell

Links within this post:
Rat empathy
Secret weapon
Marriage a “luxury good?”
Hero of cancer research

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* The Gospel vs. George F. Will

January 18, 2014Bible, Clippings, National media, National politics, OUR BEST POSTS, The William Tell ShowDisembodied speech, Free Speech Handbook, George Will, Gerard Fourez, Ideology, Public discourse, Stuart Chase, Talk radio, The Homeless BloggerWilliam Tell

David Farenthold, “Austerity is a hard nut to crack”
George F. Will, “2013’s lesson for conservatives”

Farenthold asks what’s best for the country. Will asks what’s best for conservatives. That difference illustrates what Trojan Horse Productions and The William Tell Show are all about.
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