SHOW NOTES

0:55 - Contextual introduction for this episode’s unique features

3:20 – Sample DJ clips

4:15 – Guest introduction

5:05 – Cancer, voice change, a long stint behind the high school football stadium game night microphone

6:00 – Rick starts his three-decades of announcing Friday night home games

7:55 – Son Rowdy follows Dad Rick at the football field

8:45 – Family members want to hear the players’ names

10:30 – Daughter Grace, a performance from the (very) early years

12:00 – David (Reynolds) stands in for Brad Pitt

13:25 – Wife Margaret makes a huge difference in the community

15:55 – The story behind Be Nice to Grace Day

21:05 – Jeanne Burr (and Walter Hooper) as a catalyst for Rick on the air for the first time (at age 17)

24:45 – Listening to Chicago’s AM station WLS

27:00 – John Records Landecker

30:00 – A lesson learned about making others feel important

32:24 – Interviewing Garth Brooks

33:40 – The first time cancer rears its head

39:30 – Focused radiation, bolted to the table, and a special mask

43:10 – Jimmy Buffet embedded in a family tradition

44:40 – Cancer reappears – in a new location

46:00 – Friend Amy’s powerful question

46:40 – God’s gameplan for Rick

49:45 – Lydia, a face from the past, and a new connection for the future

52:35 – High school reunion delays

54:10 – Living in a small town, great friends, great community

58:00 – Sharing one’s story to give others hope

59:40 – A lesson Rick wants us to hear

1:04:40 – One of many similar stories of good fortune – Running out of gas on I-75 North

1:07:00 – A mini-facelift’s role in the past twenty years of Rick’s life

1:07:50 – The most recent doctor’s visit and current prognosis

1:09:40 – The unexpected result of Rick losing his voice

LINKS:

Instagram: @therickontheradio

John Records Landecker

Emory Proton Center

Rowdy Zeisig, the new Dalton High School football announcer

Jeanne Burr

Dunaway Drug Store

Beaulieu’s beginning

Jimmy Buffet’s ’Twas the Night Before Christmas

Music for Lead. Learn. Change. is Sweet Adrenaline by Delicate Beats

Podcast cover art is a view from Brunnkogel (mountaintop) over the mountains of the Salzkammergut in Austria, courtesy of photographer Simon Berger, published on www.unsplash.com.

Professional Association of Georgia Educators

David’s LinkedIn page