Peter Anthony Holder's "Stuph File"

The Stuph File Program - Episode #0200

peter@peteranthonyholder.com (Peter Anthony Holder) — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 01:08:54 PDT

Welcome to the latest edition of the Stuph File Program.

For a program list of the items included and all their accompanying links in this one hour show, you can find the information on my website in the Stuph File Program section, or just follow this link to #0200.

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Featured in this episode:

Bob Dorigo Jones, Wacky Warning Labels Contest
Dr. Wendy J. James, psychologist
Stuart Nulman, Book Banter

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The Stuph File Program - Episode #0199

peter@peteranthonyholder.com (Peter Anthony Holder) — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:31:05 PDT

Welcome to the latest edition of the Stuph File Program.

For a program list of the items included and all their accompanying links in this one hour show, you can find the information on my website in the Stuph File Program section, or just follow this link to #0199.

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Featured in this episode:

George Kourounis, storm chaser
Remembering Esther Williams, a retro interview with the late swimming star & actress
Yelena Popovic, actress/writer/producer/director, L.A. Superheroes: Illegal In Hollywood

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The Stuph File Program Slide Show - Esther Williams

peter@peteranthonyholder.com (Peter Anthony Holder) — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 23:04:04 PDT

Stuph File Program listeners, another video slide show is here. This one hails from June’s show #0199. It's a retro interview from my celebrity audio archives that features a talent who, sadly, is no long with us.

This was one with the legendary swimmer, Esther Williams. At the time that we spoke back in June of 2002, she was still a very active 80 year old who was embarking on a new business as a co-producer and promotional spokesperson for a show called Aquaria that was to be done in Las Vegas. Sadly, that project never got into the water.

After her 1962 marriage to Fernando Lamas, her co-star in Dangerous When Wet she retired from public life.

Esther was an absolute joy to talk to. We chatted for over an hour and she was engaging and warm and thoughtful. She told great stories and it was clear that she enjoyed the wonderful life she had in the public eye and more importantly, enjoyed every moment that she was in the pool.

Watch the slide show on YouTube while the audio plays! Share the link with fans of Esther Williams. And don't forget to dry behind your ears.

That’s the Stuph – the way I see it.

The Stuph File Program - Episode #0198

peter@peteranthonyholder.com (Peter Anthony Holder) — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 01:01:45 PDT

Welcome to the latest edition of the Stuph File Program.

For a program list of the items included and all their accompanying links in this one hour show, you can find the information on my website in the Stuph File Program section, or just follow this link to #0198.

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Featured in this episode:

Rod Pyle, author, Destination Mars: New Explorations of the Red Planet
Mark Richardson, author, Canada's Road: A Journey on the Trans-Canada Highway from St. John's to Victoria
Peter Franklin, The Gabby Cabby

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The Stuph File Program - Episode #0197

peter@peteranthonyholder.com (Peter Anthony Holder) — Mon, 27 May 2013 01:40:03 PDT

Welcome to the latest edition of the Stuph File Program.

For a program list of the items included and all their accompanying links in this one hour show, you can find the information on my website in the Stuph File Program section, or just follow this link to #0197.

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Featured in this episode:

Gabrielle Stone, actress, Speak No Evil
Anna Wirasinha, author, The Essential Guide To Effective In-Flight Flirting
Stuart Nulman, Book Banter

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The Stuph File Program - Episode #0196

peter@peteranthonyholder.com (Peter Anthony Holder) — Mon, 20 May 2013 00:36:39 PDT

Welcome to the latest edition of the Stuph File Program.

For a program list of the items included and all their accompanying links in this one hour show, you can find the information on my website in the Stuph File Program section, or just follow this link to #0196.

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Featured in this episode:

Susan Ferritto, author, FERRITTO/An Assassin Scorned
Gina Roitman, filmmaker, My Mother, The Nazi Midwife & Me
Jean-Benoit Nadeau & Julie Barlow, authors, The Story of Spanish

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The Stuph File Program - Episode #0195

peter@peteranthonyholder.com (Peter Anthony Holder) — Mon, 13 May 2013 09:28:11 PDT

Welcome to the latest edition of the Stuph File Program.

For a program list of the items included and all their accompanying links in this one hour show, you can find the information on my website in the Stuph File Program section, or just follow this link to #0195.

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Featured in this episode:

Julian Montague, author, The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification
Don Crosbie Donderi, author, UFOs, ETs, and Alien Abductions: A Scientist Looks at the Evidence
Stuart Nulman, Book Banter

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The Stuph File Program - Episode #0194

peter@peteranthonyholder.com (Peter Anthony Holder) — Sun, 05 May 2013 07:55:58 PDT

Welcome to the latest edition of the Stuph File Program.

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Featured in this episode:

Lisa Cerasoli, filmmaker & author, As Nora Jo Fades Away: Confessions of a Caregiver
Dennis Walsh, author, Nobody Walks: Bringing My Brother's Killers to Justice
Oscar Torre, actor

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The Stuph File Program - Episode #0193

peter@peteranthonyholder.com (Peter Anthony Holder) — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:55:28 PDT

Welcome to the latest edition of the Stuph File Program.

For a program list of the items included and all their accompanying links in this one hour show, you can find the information on my website in the Stuph File Program section, or just follow this link to #0193.

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Featured in this episode:

Robert Hammond, author, The Light
Vince Elliott, founder, Extreme Green Cleaning
Peter Franklin, Gabby Cabby

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The Stuph File Program - Episode #0192

peter@peteranthonyholder.com (Peter Anthony Holder) — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 01:27:28 PDT

Welcome to the latest edition of the Stuph File Program.

For a program list of the items included and all their accompanying links in this one hour show, you can find the information on my website in the Stuph File Program section, or just follow this link to #0192.

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Featured in this episode:

Bill Mumy, actor & writer, Curse of the Mumy #1
Steven Paul Leiva, author, Searching for Ray Bradbury: Writings about the Writer and the Man
David Michaels, senior executive producer, Daytime Emmy Awards

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The Stuph File Program - Episode #0191

peter@peteranthonyholder.com (Peter Anthony Holder) — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:40:32 PDT

Welcome to the latest edition of the Stuph File Program.

For a program list of the items included and all their accompanying links in this one hour show, you can find the information on my website in the Stuph File Program section, or just follow this link to #0191.

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Featured in this episode:

Dennis Palumbo, author, Night Terrors: A Daniel Rinaldi Mystery
Janice Bastani, life coach & author, Reclaim Your Power
Peter Franklin, The Gabby Cabby

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The Stuph File Program - Episode #0190

peter@peteranthonyholder.com (Peter Anthony Holder) — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 08:13:26 PDT

Welcome to the latest edition of the Stuph File Program.

For a program list of the items included and all their accompanying links in this one hour show, you can find the information on my website in the Stuph File Program section, or just follow this link to #0190.

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Featured in this episode:

J.L. Witterick, author, My Mother's Secret: Based on a True Holocaust Story
Domonique Bertolucci, life coach & author, The Happiness Code: Ten Keys To Being The Best You Can Be
Stuart Nulman, Book Banter

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The Stuph File Program - Episode #0189

peter@peteranthonyholder.com (Peter Anthony Holder) — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 22:21:44 PDT

Welcome to the latest edition of the Stuph File Program.

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Featured in this episode:

Karlee Roberts, singer & actress, Call Me Whatever
Dr. Dennis Burke, procrastination
Trent Silver, social media & digital marketing expert

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The Stuph File Program - Episode #0188

peter@peteranthonyholder.com (Peter Anthony Holder) — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 07:50:48 PDT

Welcome to the latest edition of the Stuph File Program.

For a program list of the items included and all their accompanying links in this one hour show, you can find the information on my website in the Stuph File Program section, or just follow this link to #0188.

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Featured in this episode:

Kim Shannon, founder & director, Good Girls Anonymous
Donna Spangler, fitness & lifestyle expert
Stuart Nulman, Book Banter

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Death Of The Dart

peter@peteranthonyholder.com (Peter Anthony Holder) — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 21:48:06 PDT

The Chrysler Corporation, which was itself on death’s door not too many years ago, found a Sugar Daddy to save it, in the form of Italy’s Fiat. Now on somewhat solid road, the car company has brought back from the dead one of its most remembered nameplates, albeit this time on an Italian chassis.

The return of the Dodge Dart has more than a twinge of nostalgia for me. I grew up in a Chrysler family. Our first car was a 1970 Dodge Dart (pictured below). It was our first days of freedom and the last days of public transit for us.

Though only 12-years-old when this car came into my life it was almost entirely my choice of vehicle. I loved the Chryslers of my youth, enjoyed the sport model of the Dart that was driven by TV’s Mannix, and had major sway on my Dad who really knew nothing about cars (and truth be told, knew very little about driving them too).

I made every decision in the choice of that first car, with the exception of the colour. My mother chose that, which is why we ended up with the hideous hue with the equally hideous name of “Light Citron Metallic.” Depending on the time of day, season and climatic conditions it either looked green, gold, silver, lemony or light tan. This would have been a great colour for a getaway vehicle because no two people could ever describe it the same way.

But I loved that car and we had it for five years, which means it was the first car that I could legally drive when I got my license at 16 (oh, thanks to my Dad, I had already been driving that car regularly on the road for three years and have Super 8 film to prove it. Let’s just say it was a different time and leave it at that!)

But five years later we traded up to a more mid range 1975 Dodge Dart. Again, I had complete say on this deceptively fast family sedan with a .318 V8 under the hood. However, once again Mom picked the colour. Not wanting to beat around the bush with a choice that could look somewhat green (unless it was cloudy or dark outside), she went full bore with her favourite colour, which is green. (For the record, green is NOT my favourite colour. On the contrary, it is a colour I do not like at all).

This car was my baby. I got up early in the morning to drive my father to work, then took the car to school. I picked my Dad up after work, then went to my job as a theatre usher after that. On the weekends, once I made sure to take Mom to the supermarket for groceries, I was free to roam the world in that Dart.

That car, which was affectionately known as “Betsy” was everything to me. And I put her through a lot. In the eight years I had her, she saw almost 300,000 miles (long before the days when we counted distance in kilometres). At the time of her death I was living in Brockville, Ontario working at a small radio station (two and a half years of my life I will never get back. I went there to cut my salary in half and double the Black population. A story I may or may not share another day).

During my Brockville days, I drove Betsy home every weekend. It was a two hour plus drive to Brockville, but only a 90 minute drive back to Montreal (I told you, I didn’t like Brockville and the Dart did have a .318 V8).

That car had been through a lot, least of all my adolescence. I can truly say that with all the car had endured, it stood up to the challenges. And at the risk of sounding old, they don’t make them like they used to.

To say I was distraught at the loss of my beloved vehicle might not be too far off the mark. But I got through my grief by placing an obit in the Brockville daily newspaper, The Recorder and Times (apparently they would let you write anything in the classifieds as long as they saw the money . . . . again another sad story for another day).

The obit (pictured below) was entitled Goodbye Dear Friend. If you can’t read the actual newspaper clipping, which I still hold near and dear to my heart, here’s what it said:

We respectfully direct your attention to the following unfortunate incident. A 1975 Dodge Dart, a.k.a. “Betsy”, a.k.a. “The Little Green Mean Machine,” passed on into the great metallic unknown on Monday, February 21st. She was eight years old. Its demise was diagnosed as acute complications due to old age. The Little Green Mean Machine is survived by H.D. Holder of Montreal, its one and only owner; and Peter A. Holder, principle driver. She led a long and productive life of faithful service and will be missed by all concerned. She is currently a 3,200 pound green cube in Montreal. All donations to the CAA will be greatly acknowledged.

What can I say? We all grieve in different ways.

So in this millennium, as a once venerable automotive giant looks to its past to try and rebuild for the future, with ad campaigns and much hype over the return of a treasured nameplate, I will quietly applaud them for their attempt. But I will also look back fondly, with a smile, (and maybe a tear) knowing that the glory days of my youth were truly enhanced by my relationship with that 1975 Dodge Dart.

And I hope that out there somewhere is another teenager, with or without a sense of history for the name, who might fall in love with a Dodge Dart of his own and begin the journey on the highway of memories.

That’s the Stuph – the way I see it

The Stuph File Program - Episode #0187

peter@peteranthonyholder.com (Peter Anthony Holder) — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 00:46:40 PDT

Welcome to the latest edition of the Stuph File Program.

For a program list of the items included and all their accompanying links in this one hour show, you can find the information on my website in the Stuph File Program section, or just follow this link to #0187.

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Featured in this episode:

Robert Hammond, author, Ready When You Are: Cecil B. DeMille's Ten Commandments for Success
Milt Larsen, author, My Magical Journey, The First 30,000 days
Dr. Gloria Horsely, Grief Expert

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The Stuph File Program - Episode #0186

peter@peteranthonyholder.com (Peter Anthony Holder) — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 01:34:17 PDT

Welcome to the latest edition of the Stuph File Program.

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Featured in this episode:

Michael Stusser, humourist, Sleeping With Siri
Lee Mellor, author, Rampage: Canadian Mass Murder and Spree Killing
Peter Franklin, Gabby Cabby

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The Stuph File Program - Episode #0185

peter@peteranthonyholder.com (Peter Anthony Holder) — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 07:27:41 PST

Welcome to the latest edition of the Stuph File Program.

For a program list of the items included and all their accompanying links in this one hour show, you can find the information on my website in the Stuph File Program section, or just follow this link to #0185.

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Featured in this episode:

Raymond J. Barry, actor, Justified
John Shields, author, The Priest Who Left His Religion - In Pursuit Of Cosmic Spirituality
Stuart Nulman, Book Banter

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The Stuph File Program Slide Show - Kevin Sorbo

peter@peteranthonyholder.com (Peter Anthony Holder) — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 16:44:06 PST

Stuph File Program listeners, it's time for another video slide show. This one is from show #0165.

It's a chat with actor Kevin Sorbo, best known as TV's Hercules.

He was on the show talking about his career and also the serious illness he had which resulted in a series of strokes. He shares his experience in his book, True Strength: My Journey from Hercules to Mere Mortal--and How Nearly Dying Saved My Life

Watch the slide show on YouTube while the audio plays! Share the link with fans of TV's Hercules!

That’s the Stuph – the way I see it.

The Stuph File Program - Episode #0184

peter@peteranthonyholder.com (Peter Anthony Holder) — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 01:46:09 PST

Welcome to the latest edition of the Stuph File Program.

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Featured in this episode:

Geri Jewell, comic & author, I'm Walking as Straight as I Can: Transcending Disability in Hollywood and Beyond
Andrew Fazekas, science writer
Ron Gastelu, creator, Stoonad: Italian For Stupid

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The Stuph File Program - Episode #0183

peter@peteranthonyholder.com (Peter Anthony Holder) — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 01:55:11 PST

Welcome to the latest edition of the Stuph File Program.

For a program list of the items included and all their accompanying links in this one hour show, you can find the information on my website in the Stuph File Program section, or just follow this link to #0183.

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Featured in this episode:

Karen Kondazian, author, The Whip
Steven Paul Leiva, author, Give Steven Paul Leiva A Good Swift Kick In His Books Week
Stuart Nulman, Book Banter

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The Stuph File Program - Episode #0182

peter@peteranthonyholder.com (Peter Anthony Holder) — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 01:39:24 PST

Welcome to the latest edition of the Stuph File Program.

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Featured in this episode:

Robin Weigert, actress, The Whip
Marcus Meleton Jr, author, Nice Guys Don't Get Laid
Brant Cooper, co-author, The Lean Entrepreneur: How Visionaries Create Products, Innovate with New Ventures, and Disrupt Markets

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The Stuph File Program - Episode #0181

peter@peteranthonyholder.com (Peter Anthony Holder) — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 01:44:06 PST

Welcome to the latest edition of the Stuph File Program.

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Featured in this episode:

Albert Nerenberg, Laughologist
Chris Epting, author, Moonlight Miles: A Guide to Rolling Stones Landmarks Across America 1964-1981
Marti MacGibbon, author, Never Give in to Fear: Laughing All the Way Up From Rock Bottom

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The Stuph File Program - Episode #0180

peter@peteranthonyholder.com (Peter Anthony Holder) — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 09:37:38 PST

Welcome to the latest edition of the Stuph File Program.

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Featured in this episode:

Marisa Ramirez, actress, Prosecuting Casey Anthony
Annamarie Pluhar, author, Sharing Housing, A Guidebook to Finding and Keeping Good Housemates
Joe Sena, Television producer

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The Stuph File Program - Episode #0179

peter@peteranthonyholder.com (Peter Anthony Holder) — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 01:21:58 PST

Welcome to the latest edition of the Stuph File Program.

For a program list of the items included and all their accompanying links in this one hour show, you can find the information on my website in the Stuph File Program section, or just follow this link to #0179.

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Featured in this episode:

Marisa Ramirez, actress, Prosecuting Casey Anthony
Annamarie Pluhar, author, Sharing Housing, A Guidebook to Finding and Keeping Good Housemates
Joe Sena, Television producer

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