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CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard BonteAGAINST NATURE CHAPTERS 3 AND 4 - RICHARD BONTERichard Bonte is a Bradenton resident and a native-born New Yorker. He has lived much of his life in Canada, California and Western Europe. He has worn many hats in his life including playwright, bi-coastal actor, teacher, writer, linguist and phonetician. He has advanced degrees from Berkeley, UCLA and the Sorbonne. Richard has written sixteen novels (including Curmudgeonly Yours (2017), been given the FAPA (Florida Authors and Publishers Association) 2018 Silver Award for Humor), several plays and screenplays. His latest two novels The Wuhan Tentacles and Grand Cayman, Exposed, both co-written with James Crew Allen, are set in present-day Wuhan, China and G...
2021-09-1327 minCURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard BonteAGAINST NATURE CHAPTERS 1 AND 2 - RICHARD BONTERichard Bonte is a Bradenton resident and a native-born New Yorker. He has lived much of his life in Canada, California and Western Europe. He has worn many hats in his life including playwright, bi-coastal actor, teacher, writer, linguist and phonetician. He has advanced degrees from Berkeley, UCLA and the Sorbonne. Richard has written sixteen novels (including Curmudgeonly Yours (2017), been given the FAPA (Florida Authors and Publishers Association) 2018 Silver Award for Humor), several plays and screenplays. His latest two novels The Wuhan Tentacles and Grand Cayman, Exposed, both co-written with James Crew Allen, are set in present-day Wuhan, China and G...
2021-09-0626 minCURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard BonteCHAPTERS 3-4 FROM GRAND CAYMAN EXPOSED - RICHARD BONTE AND JAMES CREW ALLEN
2021-08-0227 minCURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard BonteCHAPTERS 5-6 FROM THE WUHAN TENTACLES - RICHARD BONTE AND JAMES CREW ALLEN
2021-08-0226 minCURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard BonteCURMUDGEONLY YOURS RICHARD BONTERichard Bonte is a Bradenton resident and a native-born New Yorker. He has lived much of his life in Canada, California and Western Europe. He has worn many hats in his life including playwright, bi-coastal actor, teacher, writer, linguist and phonetician. He has advanced degrees from Berkeley, UCLA and the Sorbonne. Richard has written fourteen novels (including ‘Curmudgeonly Yours’ (2017), been given the FAPA (Florida Authors and Publishers Association) 2018 Silver Award for Humor), several plays and screenplays. His last two novels The Wuhan Tentacles and Grand Cayman, Exposed both co-written with James Crew Allen, are set in present-day Wuhan, China and Grand...
2021-07-1227 minCURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard BonteReading from “The Wuhan Tentacles (2020),” by James Crew Allen & Richard BonteRichard Bonte is a Bradenton resident and a native-born New Yorker. He has lived much of his life in Canada, California and Western Europe. He has worn many hats in his life including playwright, bi-coastal actor, teacher, writer, linguist and phonetician. He has advanced degrees from Berkeley, UCLA and the Sorbonne. Richard has written fourteen novels (including ‘Curmudgeonly Yours’ (2017), been given the FAPA (Florida Authors and Publishers Association) 2018 Silver Award for Humor), several plays and screenplays. His last two novels The Wuhan Tentacles and Grand Cayman, Exposed both co-written with James Crew Allen, are set in present-day Wuhan, China and Grand...
2021-07-0526 minCURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard BonteCURMUDGEON ON THE LOOSE - RICHARD BONTE PART 2Richard Bonte is a Bradenton resident and a native-born New Yorker. He has lived much of his life in Canada, California and Western Europe. He has worn many hats in his life including playwright, bi-coastal actor, teacher, writer, linguist and phonetician. He has advanced degrees from Berkeley, UCLA and the Sorbonne. Richard has written fourteen novels (including ‘Curmudgeonly Yours’ (2017), been given the FAPA (Florida Authors and Publishers Association) 2018 Silver Award for Humor), several plays and screenplays. His last two novels The Wuhan Tentacles and Grand Cayman, Exposed both co-written with James Crew Allen, are set in present-day Wuhan, China and Grand...
2021-06-1325 minCURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard BonteCURMUDGEON ON THE LOOSE - RICHARD BONTE PART 1Richard Bonte is a Bradenton resident and a native-born New Yorker. He has lived much of his life in Canada, California and Western Europe. He has worn many hats in his life including playwright, bi-coastal actor, teacher, writer, linguist and phonetician. He has advanced degrees from Berkeley, UCLA and the Sorbonne. Richard has written fourteen novels (including ‘Curmudgeonly Yours’ (2017), been given the FAPA (Florida Authors and Publishers Association) 2018 Silver Award for Humor), several plays and screenplays. His last two novels The Wuhan Tentacles and Grand Cayman, Exposed both co-written with James Crew Allen, are set in present-day Wuhan, China and Grand...
2021-06-0624 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte: “Hawaiian Joe,” a reading from “Curmudgeon on the Loose” by Richard BonteRichard Bonte is a Bradenton resident and a native-born New Yorker. He has lived much of his life in Canada, California and Western Europe. He has worn many hats in his life including playwright, bi-coastal actor, teacher, writer, linguist and phonetician. He has advanced degrees from Berkeley, UCLA and the Sorbonne. Richard has written fourteen novels (including ‘Curmudgeonly Yours’ (2017), been given the FAPA (Florida Authors and Publishers Association) 2018 Silver Award for Humor), several plays and screenplays. His last two novels The Wuhan Tentacles and Grand Cayman, Exposed both co-written with James Crew Allen, are set in present-day Wuhan, China and Grand...
2021-04-0427 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte90 DEDICATION TO HER PATH - KATHRYN LEVISONKathryn Levison is a successful Indie writer and holds two legitimate bachelor’s degrees—one in psychology and one in English composition—from a real live accredited universe. She’s earned two honorary degrees from her analyst: an undergrad in Psychoanalysis, and a master’s in Not Giving Up. She’s now working toward a doctorate in Dedication to Her Path.
She has 8 works self-published in Kindle, one ranking in the low 300’s that hit the top 100 the weekend it went live, and two more in the mid-600’s. As she says, she “writes all over the place,” which she...
2021-01-1129 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte89 CURMUDGEON ON THE LOOSE - RICHARD BONTESelected Readings from new book, “Curmudgeon on the Loose,” soon to be published on Amazon’s Kindle
2021-01-0427 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte88 BOOK DEVELOPMENT AND HOW TO BE A BEST SELLING AUTHOR - AFSHAN HASHMIDr. Afshan Naheed Hashmi was born in India and educated both in India and the USA. She now lives in Rockville, Maryland. Dr. Hashmi is a best selling author, award-winning entrepreneur and speaker; she’s involved in books movies, make-up and beauty products reviews. She is a TV show Host, a successful regulatory, business development and scientific professional with more than a decade of experience.
2020-12-1429 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte87 WEIGHT LOSS AND HABITS OF HEALTH - DOMINIQUE KOHLENBERGERDominique Kohlenberger
is a physical therapist, certified health coach and owner of
Healthy Longevity. She obtained her master’s in physical therapy degree at the Catholic
University of Leuven, Belgium in 1991.
In 2010 she pursued her real passion in life for health and nutrition and became a
Certified Health Coach through Villanova University's Center of Obesity Prevention and
Education. This allowed her to create more balance in her own life and enabled her to
work with the causes that really matter to her and her family....
2020-12-0730 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte86 TENNIS PRO, HOW TO RAISE A TENNIS CHAMPION - SEKOU BANGOURASekou Coker Bangoura is a professional tennis coach at the USPTA pro 1 level.
He is also the Chairman of UTGA. He used to work at the Nick Bollettieri Tennis
Academy before it became IMG Academy and has worked and trained international
tennis stars like Jim Courier, Monica Seles and Maria Sharapova, to name only a few.
He has been the President and Owner of Sekou Bangoura International Tennis
Academy, Inc. from 1992 to the present.
2020-11-0929 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte85 PRESIDENT TRUMP AS SEEN BY THE ITALIANS - ETTORE FARINELLIEttore Farinelli is an architect living in Rome, Italy He is the CEO of his company, ‘Silo
Impianti’ (‘Silo Works’) that deals in solar and Eolic or wind energy; he is also
involved in the construction, renovation and maintenance of buildings like
embassies or ministries). Since he has a lot of energy, he also builds and
restructures prestigious buildings for friends and clients.
Ettore is an avid skier and loves to go boating in beautiful Sardinia. Art and
architecture are his passions, but he can talk about any subj
2020-11-0229 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte84 A CASE FOR TRUMP - ROBERT SPENCERobert Spence has spent most of his life as a health administrator but also as a Medic and operating Room Technician during the height of the Vietnam War. In 1967, Robert was drafted twice into the US Army, getting a deferment for college in March but finally drafted in December 1967 before he had even finished his semester. In those days, not everyone could get college deferments like Clinton, Howard Dean or even Trump.
For over a year during 1969-1970, Robert served his country in the 3 rd Surgical Hospital in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam. When he returned from...
2020-10-1928 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte83 FINDING COLLEGE CASH - STEVEN ROBERTSSteven Roberts graduated from Brigham Young University. He received 35
scholarships and grants—including three prestigious scholarships. He also worked as
both a teaching assistant and research assistant during his undergraduate studies,
which were worth more money than what tuition and books cost him. Steven later
said: “I was not a perfect student, but if I had known then what I know [now] about
paying for college, I would have saved even more on college and graduated very well
off.”
Steven lives near Ogden, Utah and has a...
2020-10-1228 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte82 THE REPUBLIC OF FRANCE TODAY PART 4 - THOMAS P`EPIN LEHALLEURThomas Pépin Lehalleur is a French national who has lived all his life in France. After passing
his baccalaureate, he became a tennis instructor and First Aid specialist. Today, he is a first-
class blogger and writer with definite ideas on French politics and economics. His blog is
inutilejournal.blogspot.com.
2020-10-0629 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte81 TALES FROM THE DAY - WAYNE MCFARLANDWayne McFarland wandered away from a small, mid-western town some years ago. With no planning at all, his history is one of stumbling into one bog after another from the Dakotas to California, from Pamplona to Paris. His main claim to fame is mostly and surprisingly not being dead, plus getting involved with a lot of strange stuff, usually unwillingly or by accident.
Yeah, this indeed is a memoir of sorts, if shark fishing in one’s underwear, roping a bear, getting drunk with your Grandfather, or losing ten grand at the Hollywood Sign is a memoir. Th...
2020-10-0527 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte80 ADVERTISING - IS IT NECESSARY - RICHARD BONTERichard Bonte is a Bradenton resident and a native-born New Yorker. He has lived much of his life in Canada, California and Western Europe. He has worn many hats in his life including playwright, bi-coastal actor, teacher, writer, linguist and phonetician. He has advanced degrees from Berkeley, UCLA and the Sorbonne. Richard has written ten novels (including ‘Curmudgeonly Yours’ (2017), been given the FAPA (Florida Authors and Publishers Association) 2018 Silver Award for Humor), several plays and screenplays. His last novel co-written with Hamilton Harcourt Fleming III is set in 1930’s Los Angeles.
“Curmudgeonly Yours” is a show on ‘comparative...
2020-09-1426 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte80 THE REPUBLIC OF FRANCE TODAY PART 4 - THOMAS P`EPIN LEHALLEUR - IN FRENCHThomas Pépin Lehalleur is a French national who has lived all his life in France. After passinghis baccalaureate, he became a tennis instructor and First Aid specialist. Today, he is a first-class blogger and writer with definite ideas on French politics and economics. His blog isinutilejournal.blogspot.com.
2020-09-0729 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte79 THE BASIC ART OF ITALIAN COOKING - MARIA LIBERATIMaria Liberati is an Italian American Chef/Entrepreneur and winner of the prestigious Gourmand World Cookbook Award for her culinary travel book series - The Basic Art of Italian Cooking. Her award-winning blog The Basic Art of Italian Cooking by Maria Liberati tm at www.marialiberati.com was selected as culinary travel blog of the year by the NY Travel Writers' Society ,and has 300,000 worldwide followers. Maria is considered one of the foremost experts on Italian cuisine and wine. She regularly appears on TV, radio and in print and hosted/wrote her own PBS TV series based on her...
2020-08-0929 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte78 THE WUHAN PLAGUE - JAMES CREW ALLEN AND RICHARD BONTERichard Bonte is a Bradenton resident and a native-born New Yorker. He has lived much of his life in Canada, California and Western Europe. He has worn many hats in his life including playwright, bi-coastal actor, teacher, writer, linguist and phonetician. He has advanced degrees from Berkeley, UCLA and the Sorbonne. Richard has written ten novels (including ‘Curmudgeonly Yours’ (2017), been given the FAPA (Florida Authors and Publishers Association) 2018 Silver Award for Humor), several plays and screenplays. His last novel The Wuhan Plague, co-written with James Crew Allen is set in the present-day Wuhan, China.
“Curmudgeonly Yours” is a show o...
2020-08-0226 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte77 NUTRICIAN AND HEALTH - JULIE STEWARTJulie Dutton Stewart has been helping people as a rehab therapist since 1994. Nutritional counseling is but one of her areas of expertise. Learning that 75-80% of all disease is preventable with 80% of that prevention being nutrition and 20% other lifestyle choices is what instigated her taking a real HONEST look at her families diet and lifestyle. To learn more about her health program Julie can be easily reached by phone/text at +1-941-726-0707, juliecdstewart@gmail.com, on Facebook at: www.facebook.com/julie.stewart.77985 or FB messenger; on Whatapp +1-941-726-0707 or on Instagram at julieduttonstewart. "I...
2020-07-1328 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte76 IN FRENCH THE REPUBLIC OF FRANCE TODAY - THOMAS PEPIN LEHALLEUR PART 3Thomas Pépin Lehalleur is a French national who has lived all his life in France. After passing his baccalaureate, he became a tennis instructor and First Aid specialist. Today, he is a first-class blogger and writer with definite ideas on French politics and economics. His blog is inutilejournal.blogspot.com.
2020-07-0629 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte75 ASYMMETRY THE SHORTCUT TO SUCCESS WHEN IT SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE - JOHN VESPASIAN PART 2JOHN VESPASIAN is the author of eleven books about rational living including this latest one, Asymmetry: The shortcut to success when success seems impossible. Vespasian has lived in Germany, Italy, France, Spain and The Netherlands. His books combine his passion for history, investing, and personal development, reflecting his philosophy of rational living, productiveness, and respect for the individual. "The purpose of my work is to draw practical lessons from history," he explains. "If you want to make good decisions, you have to look at the big picture, and learn from the wisdom accumulated in centuries of human experience."
2020-06-2826 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte74 ASYMMETRY THE SHORTCUT TO SUCCESS WHEN IT SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE - JOHN VESPASIAN PART 1JOHN VESPASIAN is the author of eleven books about rational living including this latest one, Asymmetry: The shortcut to success when success seems impossible. Vespasian has lived in Germany, Italy, France, Spain and The Netherlands. His books combine his passion for history, investing, and personal development, reflecting his philosophy of rational living, productiveness, and respect for the individual. "The purpose of my work is to draw practical lessons from history," he explains. "If you want to make good decisions, you have to look at the big picture, and learn from the wisdom accumulated in centuries of human experience."
2020-06-2128 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte73 JUICE PLUS - JULIE STEWARTJulie Dutton Stewart has been helping people as a rehab therapist since 1994. Nutritional counseling is but one of her areas of expertise. Learning that 75-80% of all disease is preventable with 80% of that prevention being nutrition and 20% other lifestyle choices is what instigated her taking a real HONEST look at her families diet and lifestyle. One simple change at a time has created major impacts on their lives. Julie loves caring about others and sharing educational information with them. "When it makes sense, it's easier to do better." 'Doing better' allows her to be fit and healthy and has...
2020-06-1528 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte72 RENAISSANCE WOMAN - ALITZA PIA TRUMPLERAlitza (Pia) Trumpler grew up in communist Czechoslovakia. At the age of 21 she defected from her country via Italy where she spent four fascinating month in a refugee camp. With the assistance of International Rescue Committee she legally entered the United States, where she presently resides. Her various talents, interests and her inquisitive non-conformist personality drive her life as she navigates through a series of short, successful, unrelated careers: political-educational management, fashion and uniform design, glass design and production, private investigation, automobile sales, education, writing, and brand and visual identity to name the few. “It is not the particular in...
2020-06-0627 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte71 TOUCH ME REAL AND OTHER STORIES - GABRIELLE LENNONI have worked for more than twenty-five years as a professional actress on stage and in film, as a published writer in many genres, and as a teaching artist. I graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in Performance Studies (Analysis, Interpretation and Performance of Prose, Poetry and Drama) and an honors program in Creative Writing for the Media. In my arts, I strive to reach the deepest universal emotional truths, to create messages of compassion and understanding, to help heal the rifts in society and reach out to those most in need of human connection. I have performed...
2020-06-0128 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte70 THIRD AND FINAL INSTALLMENT OF THE SECOND PROMISED LAND - RICHARD BONTERichard Bonte is a Bradenton resident and a native-born New Yorker. He has lived much of his life in Canada, California and Western Europe. He has worn many hats in his life including playwright, bi-coastal actor, teacher, writer, linguist and phonetician. He has advanced degrees from Berkeley, UCLA and the Sorbonne. Richard has written ten novels (including ‘Curmudgeonly Yours’ (2017), been given the FAPA (Florida Authors and Publishers Association) 2018 Silver Award for Humor), several plays and screenplays. His last novel co-written with Hamilton Harcourt Fleming III is set in 1930’s Los Angeles.
“Curmudgeonly Yours” is a show on ‘comparative...
2020-05-1123 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte69 JULIE STEWARTJulie Dutton Stewart has been helping people as a rehab therapist since 1994. Nutritional counseling is but one of her areas of expertise. Learning that 75-80% of all disease is preventable with 80% of that prevention being nutrition and 20% other lifestyle choices is what instigated her taking a real HONEST look at her families diet and lifestyle. To learn more about Juice Plus for yourself check out: www.juliestewart.juiceplus.com Click on the globe in the top right corner to change the website to any country and the corresponding language! Don't forget kids up to 26yrs old get Juice Plus...
2020-05-0429 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte68 AUDIO NARRATION - ANOTHER INSTALLMENT ON THE SECOND PROMISED LAND - RICHARD BONTERichard Bonte is a Bradenton resident and a native-born New Yorker. He has lived much of his life in Canada, California and Western Europe. He has worn many hats in his life including playwright, bi-coastal actor, teacher, writer, linguist and phonetician. He has advanced degrees from Berkeley, UCLA and the Sorbonne. Richard has written ten novels (including ‘Curmudgeonly Yours’ (2017), been given the FAPA (Florida Authors and Publishers Association) 2018 Silver Award for Humor), several plays and screenplays. His last novel co-written with Hamilton Harcourt Fleming III is set in 1930’s Los Angeles.
“Curmudgeonly Yours” is a show on ‘comparative...
2020-04-1326 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte67 MIXELLE - FRAGRANCE BY ME FOR ME - MELANIE WERNERMELANIE WERNER, CEO & Founder MIXELLE Fragrance and MixByMe Customization Technology
Melanie Werner recognized a market gap in the area of fragrance customization and subsequently patented a packaging dispenser designed to proportionally adjust the volumetric ratio of fluids, (kept separated using individual cartridges). Here, the goal's to ‘dial-up’ a uniquely personalized fragrance.
Earlier in her career, she worked in advertising and marketing for consumer products and services. A creative entrepreneur at heart, Melanie's first business was a fine art gallery and she remains active in the art world today. Ms. Wern...
2020-04-0627 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte66 THE SECOND PROMISED LAND - RICHARD BONTERichard Bonte is a Bradenton resident and a native-born New Yorker. He has lived much of his life in Canada, California and Western Europe. He has worn many hats in his life including playwright, bi-coastal actor, teacher, writer, linguist and phonetician. He has advanced degrees from Berkeley, UCLA and the Sorbonne. Richard has written ten novels (including ‘Curmudgeonly Yours’ (2017), been given the FAPA (Florida Authors and Publishers Association) 2018 Silver Award for Humor), several plays and screenplays. His last novel co-written with Hamilton Harcourt Fleming III is set in 1930’s Los Angeles.
“Curmudgeonly Yours” is a show on ‘comparative...
2020-03-1722 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte65 IN FRENCH - French “Pétanque” Legend: Marco FoyotMarco Foyot is a French pétanque [akin to bocce ball] legend. He was the world pétanque champion in Aosta, Italy in 1992 playing alongside Fazzino and Monard. He also won the bronze medal four times and the silver medal once in other World Championships. He has won the French Championship seven times and has come in second eight times. He has played pétanque all his life and has his own academy called the Académie Marco Foyot Pétanque in the south of France.
2020-03-1728 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte64 THE BAJA REDEMPTION WITH RICHARD BONTE - RICHARD BONTERichard Bonte is a Bradenton resident and a native-born New Yorker. He has lived much of his life in Canada, California and Western Europe. He has worn many hats in his life including playwright, bi-coastal actor, teacher, writer, linguist and phonetician. He has advanced degrees from Berkeley, UCLA and the Sorbonne. Richard has written ten novels (including ‘Curmudgeonly Yours’ (2017), been given the FAPA (Florida Authors and Publishers Association) 2018 Silver Award for Humor), several plays and screenplays. His last novel co-written with Hamilton Harcourt Fleming III is set in 1930’s Los Angeles.
“Curmudgeonly Yours” is a show on ‘comparative...
2020-01-2825 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte63 REAL ESTATE HOT WIRED - MAGGIE ROSE MARCHMaggie Rose March is a fourth generation Real Estate Agent. She currently lives in Sarasota, Florida where she relocated from Massachusetts. She is actively involved in the Real Estate Community and often comments that she lives the life of a Realtor®
She co-produced “Belmont Rising,” with Producer Tomi Olsen as part of her volunteer work with the Belmont Media Center, Belmont, Massachusetts. Belmont Rising was in conjunction with One Billion Rising, a Global effort to end violence toward women.
Maggie has a demonstrated history of working in the writing and editing industry, and she is a pub...
2020-01-2127 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte62 AUDIBLE BOOK READINGS - RICHARD BONTERichard Bonte is a Bradenton resident and a native-born New Yorker. He has lived much of his life in Canada, California and Western Europe. He has worn many hats in his life including playwright, bi-coastal actor, teacher, writer, linguist and phonetician. He has advanced degrees from Berkeley, UCLA and the Sorbonne. Richard has written ten novels (including ‘Curmudgeonly Yours’ (2017), been given the FAPA (Florida Authors and Publishers Association) 2018 Silver Award for Humor), several plays and screenplays. His last novel co-written with Hamilton Harcourt Fleming III is set in 1930’s Los Angeles.
“Curmudgeonly Yours” is a show on ‘comparative...
2019-12-3024 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte61 CHAMBER ORCHESTRA BRITISH NIGHT FEBRUARY 11 - ROBERT VODNOYRobert Vodnoy is the music director of the Chamber Orchestra of Sarasota which he founded in 2017. During the summer season, he is the conductor and music director of the Whiting Park Festival Orchestra, which performs a huge array of popular and classical favorites on the Chicago Lakefront.
Professor Vodnoy has guest-conducted numerous orchestras throughout the world, including the Symphony Orchestra of the Zhejiang Song and Dance Theatre (China), the Orchestra Sinfonica de San Remo (Italy), the Czech National Symphony and the Seoul Philharmonic, just to name a little of what he’s done. Robert Vo...
2019-12-2328 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte60 INTERVIEW WITH A 9 YEAR OLD ENTREPRENEUR - EMMA CRIDDLEEmma is a Gen Z kid like any other, but an entrepreneur on the side. She started recording children's books for a charity project in 2016, and it has turned into a podcast with over 600 episodes in 2019! Now she has co-founded a publishing company, and she wants to teach kids the importance of reading, writing, and building their own brands.
2019-12-1527 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte59 THE APPLE WORLD - LARRY UNDERWOODLarry Underwood has been involved with the I.T. World since 2003. He is a Microsoft certified IT professional and an Apple Certified Associate. Larry has done network design and implementation and cross-platform systems integration for several large organizations. Larry is currently a bi-vocational Pastor that helps people learn the ever-changing Apple ecosystem.
2019-12-0828 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte58 OPTAVIA WEIGHT LOSS AND HABITS OF HEALTH - DOMINIQUE KOHLENBERGERPhysical Therapist/ Certified Health Coach//Owner of
Healthy Longevity.
“As a Health Coach my primary goal is to empower people to achieve positive changes in their
health!
” I support my clients to create optimal health in order to have a more meaningful and
fulfilling life so that they may have less stress, more balance and energy leading to “Healthy
Longevity”.
Dominique obtained her Masters in Physical Therapy degree at the Catholic University
of Leuven, Belgium in 1991.
In 2010 she pursued her real passion...
2019-12-0127 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte57 PROCRASTINATION - ERIC TWIGGSEric M. Twiggs is the author of The Discipline Of Now: 12 Practical Principles To Overcome Procrastination. He is also the host of a weekly inspirational podcast titled "The 30 Minute Hour."
As a Certified Life & Business Coach, Eric has conducted over 28,000 coaching sessions, helping executive leaders and entrepreneurs who have moved from feeling frustrated, to finding fulfillment.
He has also led organizations of 500 or more people in corporate America, and shared his message with corporations, associations, and congregations across the country.
By reading The Discipline of Now, you...
2019-11-2429 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte56 IN FRENCH - THE REPUBLIC OF FRANCE TODAY - THOMAS PEPIN LEHALLEUR PART 2 OF 4Thomas Pépin Lehalleur is a French national who has lived all his life in France. After passing his baccalaureate, he became a tennis instructor and First Aid specialist. Today, he is a first-class blogger and writer with definite ideas on French politics and economics. His blog is inutilejournal.blogspot.com.
2019-11-1728 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte55 IN ITALIAN - RUSSIAGATE AND THE ITALIAN CONNECTION - ETTORE FARINELLIToday, my guest is Ettore Farinelli who is an architect living in Rome, Italy. He is the CEO of his company, ‘Silo Impianti’ (‘Silo Works’) that deals in solar and Eolic or wind energy; he is also involved in the construction, renovation and maintenance of buildings like embassies or ministries). Since he has a lot of energy, he also builds and restructures prestigious buildings for friends and clients.
Ettore is an avid skier and loves to go boating in beautiful Sardinia. Art and architecture are his passions, but he can talk about any subject. We will be speaking...
2019-11-1030 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte54 BOOK MARKETING - PAT MCKANICPat McKanic is an author, entrepreneur and former journalist. Her debut novel, Illusions of Paradise, earned a Five Star review from Readers’ Favorite and has more than two dozen Five Star reviews from readers on Amazon.com (illusionsofparadise.net)
Pat’s diversified communications company, Pat McKanic & Associates, LLC, which celebrated 19 years in business in 2019, specializes in public relations, marketing, media training, social media marketing and executive and business coaching. The company recently launched BookBuzz Media, a division specializing in helping indie authors market their books.
The ADDY Award-winning former print and broadcast journalist reported for news...
2019-11-0328 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte53 BOOK MARKETING AND CULTURE COAST WRITERS - DONA LEEDona Lee is CEO of PLOTTING SUCCESS, an author’s services company helping authors write, edit, publish, and market their work. In 2005 she joined the Sarasota Fiction Writers, in two years becoming the President and then after her term, she became the editor of their monthly newsmagazine covering the writing industry in Manatee & Sarasota Counties. Her experience with SFW led her to establish a new group in Manatee County associated with the Florida Writers Association. For fourteen years she has helped dozens of writers improve their craft, finish their books, publish and market. She owns an independent book gallery sp...
2019-10-2827 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte52 MARTHA MATILDA HARPER FOR ALL AGES - JANE PLITTJane Plitt is a passionate, inspiring speaker/author. She ran a thriving business consulting practice until she became enthralled with the Martha Matilda Harper story. In 1996, she was appointed a Visiting Scholar to the University of Rochester to pursue her research; the result was a book entitled Martha Matilda Harper and the American Dream: How One Woman Changed the Face of Modern Business. Syracuse University Press released it May 2000. As a result of Plitt’s efforts, Harper was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame along with the American Business Hall of Fame. In 2017, Plitt released a youn...
2019-10-2127 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte51 SEXY BRILLIANT - DEVINA KAURDevina Kaur is the founder of The Sexy Brilliant Revolution. A philosophy that started thanks to her Craigslist dating addiction, Devina is a fun-loving, flamboyant straight-talker born and raised in India. She’s a North America based author, entrepreneur and media personality.
2019-10-1427 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte50 FRANCE TODAY - THIERRY TARANTOTHIERRY TARANTO was born in 1960. His father was a political refugee from communist Bulgaria who arrived in France in 1948. His mother was born in Paris, but her mother emigrated from Poland in 1920. So Thierry is a second-generation Frenchman.
He received his high school degree from a posh high school—the École Active Bilingue de Paris—where half the schooling was done in English. He then attended the very prestigious Sciences Po Paris and graduated in 1985 from a university attended by certain former French presidents including Giscard d’Estaing, Chirac, Hollande and the current president, Emmanuel Macron.
He ha...
2019-10-0726 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte49 LA PETANQUE - BOCCE BALL AMERICAN STYLE - BERNARD MARTINBernard Martin was born in 1952 in Rabat, Morocco. He has French and American citizenship and is married with two children. Retired from the French government, he has lived in Bradenton, Florida since 2001. He loves film, travel and reading, but his real passion is sports: he loves all sports but especially soccer, tennis and of course Pétanque (Bocce Ball American Style) that we will discuss today. He has been practicing pétanque since the age of five. A few more statistics? His favorite color is blue, his favorite number is 10, his favorite dishes are duck’s breast and couscous; and...
2019-09-2928 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte48 BRINGING COMMUNICATIONS TO DISASTER AREAS - CARLOS CHIOSSONECarlos Chiossone has spent the last 30 years working as a commercial photographer and cinematographer in NYC. He is the founder of N2NGO, a non-profit that exists to connect families affected by natural disasters with their loved ones. Originally from Venezuela, Carlos witnessed the effects of natural disasters growing up. This led him to volunteer with a number of non-profits in disaster response over the years. In 2017, Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico. Carlos, a licensed Amateur (Ham) Radio operator was able to connect over 400 families with their loved ones on the mainland following the storm. This inspired him to...
2019-09-2230 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte47 SPORTS LAW AND ALICIA M PHIDD, Esq.Alicia M. Phidd’s has spent her career representing high profile clients in boxing, entertainment law, and general business. She has also shared her knowledge in academia as an adjunct professor. She’s taught Sports Law at Barry University and Business Law and Employment Law at the University of Phoenix.
Ms. Phidd was the first black female General Counsel panelist at the Daily Business Review’s General Counsel Legends of the Boardroom, Law & Technology Section held in Miami, Florida in 2016. She holds a Doctor of Jurisprudence from St. Thomas University School of Law. Ms. Phidd is currently a memb...
2019-09-1827 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte46 UNDISRUPTED HOW HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE DEAL WITH DISRUPTIONS - JOHN VESPASIAN PART 2JOHN VESPASIAN is the author of ten books about rational living, including "When everything fails, try this" (2009), "Rationality is the way to happiness" (2009), "The philosophy of builders" (2010), "The 10 principles of rational living" (2012), "Rational living, rational working" (2013), "Consistency: The key to permanent stress relief" (2014), "On becoming unbreakable" (2015), "Thriving in difficult times" (2016), "Sequentiality: The amazing power of finding the right sequence of steps" (2017) and "Undisrupted: How highly-effective people deal with disruptions" (2019).
2019-09-0829 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte45 THE CAPSULE PART 2John Lagerholm, author, producer and director of ‘The Capsule.’
John is an award-winning screenwriter, producer and director who was recognized by ManaSota Films as "Person of the Year" in 2016. As the primary creative force behind "The Neighborhood" film series, John wrote and directed over a dozen comedic short films interconnected by a variety of distinct characters and locations. The series was screened in total at the 2017 Tampa Bay Underground Film Festival as well as broadcast on the Tampa Bay Arts and Entertainment channel (TBAE.) In 2018, John wrote and directed the short films SLEEP OF THE...
2019-08-3125 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte44 THE CAPSULE PART 1John Lagerholm, author, producer and director of ‘The Capsule.’
John is an award-winning screenwriter, producer and director who was recognized by ManaSota Films as "Person of the Year" in 2016. As the primary creative force behind "The Neighborhood" film series, John wrote and directed over a dozen comedic short films interconnected by a variety of distinct characters and locations. The series was screened in total at the 2017 Tampa Bay Underground Film Festival as well as broadcast on the Tampa Bay Arts and Entertainment channel (TBAE.) In 2018, John wrote and directed the short films SLEEP OF THE...
2019-08-2426 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte43 UNDISRUPTED - HOW HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE DEAL WITH DISRUPTIONS - JOHN VESPASIANJOHN VESPASIAN is the author of ten books about rational living, including "When everything fails, try this" (2009), "Rationality is the way to happiness" (2009), "The philosophy of builders" (2010), "The 10 principles of rational living" (2012), "Rational living, rational working" (2013), "Consistency: The key to permanent stress relief" (2014), "On becoming unbreakable" (2015), "Thriving in difficult times" (2016), "Sequentiality: The amazing power of finding the right sequence of steps" (2017) and "Undisrupted: How highly-effective people deal with disruptions" (2019).
2019-08-1727 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte42 PSYCHOTHERAPY IN FRANCE - VALERIE METAISAfter spending 14 years of her professional life as a director of a profit center for an insurance company, Valérie Métais was tasked by the regional IDF [Ile de France, a circular area around greater Paris] management to train the network in communication techniques. She created behavioral workshops where each employee would think about getting rid of his/her own blockages or limits in order to optimize his/her performance while taking into account his/her identity, behavior and aspirations. Valérie Métais has maintained an active and constantly evolving communication and psychotherapy practice since 2002.
2019-07-2829 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte41 TRUMP AND JOURNALISM BIAS - ROBERT SPENCEToday my guest is ROBERT SPENCE who has spent most of his life as a health administrator but also as a Medic and Operating Room Technician during the height of the Vietnam War. In 1967, Robert was drafted twice into the US Army, getting a deferment for college in March but finally drafted in December 1967 before he had even finished his semester. In those days, not everyone could get college deferments like Clinton, Howard Dean or even Trump. For over a year during 1969-1970, Robert served his country in the 3rd Surgical Hospital in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam. When...
2019-07-2226 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte40 IN TAIWAN - ISABELLE BRILISABELLE BRIL is a linguist. She completed her PhD in Linguistics in 1994. She was a Lecturer at the University of Tours in France, and subsequently has been a Research Director at the CNRS (the French National Center of Scientific Research) since 2001.
She began her work on the large family of Austronesian languages that stretch throughout the Pacific Ocean. In 1991, she initiated her research into two of New Caledonia's 28 Kanak languages. Most recently in 2011, she began researching one of Taiwan's 14 Austronesian languages.
2019-07-1527 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte39 DIGITAL LIFE AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN FRANCE AND EUROPE - MICHEL DE ROUGEMONTMichel de Rougemont is a professor of Computer Science at the University of Paris II and a researcher at the IRIF (Institute for Research in Fundamental Informatics) at the University of Paris. His Specialty is: Logic and Complexity.
Professor De Rougemont completed his studies at the National School of Telecommunications in Paris in 1975. He then completed a master’s degree in Mathematics at Berkeley in 1976 followed by his Ph.D. in Mathematics at UCLA in 1983.
He also held the following positions: from 1977-1978, he was an assistant at the Universidad Autonoma in Mexico; from 1984-1987, a...
2019-07-0828 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte38 THE MANASOTA REAL ESTATE MARKET - DAVID AND WENDY LEVENTHALExperienced Realtors, David and Wendy Leventhal, currently serve buyers and sellers located in and around Sarasota and Longboat Key Florida. Always holding client satisfaction as their highest priority, David and Wendy work hard to make the entire home buying and selling experience as productive and enjoyable as possible. Clients working with David and Wendy never fail to appreciate their dedication, teamwork, and fierce efficiency.
Since 2010, The Leventhal Team have been recognized on a yearly basis as one of The Best of The Best in Customer Satisfaction for the Sarasota Market. An honor they do not take for...
2019-07-0128 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte37 THE CAPSULE - JOHN LAGERHOLMJohn is an award-winning screenwriter, producer and director who was recognized by ManaSota Films as "Person of the Year" in 2016. As the primary creative force behind "The Neighborhood" film series, John wrote and directed over a dozen comedic short films interconnected by a variety of distinct characters and locations. The series was screened in total at the 2017 Tampa Bay Underground Film Festival as well as broadcast on the Tampa Bay Arts and Entertainment channel (TBAE.) In 2018, John wrote and directed the short films SLEEP OF THE ABYSS and SLEEPLICKER and produced SHARED LIST. John is also a writer/director...
2019-06-2428 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte36 THE REPUBLIC OF FRANCE TODAY - THOMAS PEPIN LEHALLEUR PART 1 OF 4Thomas Pépin Lehalleur is a French national who has lived all his life in France. After passing his baccalaureate, he became a tennis instructor and First Aid specialist. Today, he is a first-class blogger and writer with definite ideas on French politics and economics. He will be talking to us today about The Republic of France Today, Part 1.
2019-06-0926 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte35 TENNIS IN FLORIDA WITH TEACHING PRO - SEKOU BANGOURASekou Coker Bangoura is a professional tennis coach at the USPTA pro 1 level.
He is also the Chairman of UTGA. He used to work at the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy before it became IMG Academy and has worked and trained international tennis stars like Jim Courier, Monica Seles and Maria Sharapova, to name only a few.
He has been the President and Owner of Sekou Bangoura International Tennis Academy, Inc. from 1992 to the present.
2019-06-0226 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte34 EDITING AND SELF PUBLISHING - MARK MATHESMark Mathes helps writers become authors. He helps publishers find audiences that make money. He has spent his previous life editing and publishing at New York Times Co., Tribune in Chicago, Pelican Publishing in New Orleans and has his own publishing company in Tampa Bay. Self-serving bio: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markmathes/. He will do a free edit and evaluation of your 1-2 chapters: mmathes1@gmail.com.
2019-05-2627 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte33 ECLECTICALLY YOURS WITH RENAISSANCE MAN - RICHARD TRUMPLERThe quintessential American-born American. Born in Ohio, lived in Buffalo, Iowa, Wisconsin, Maine, South Carolina, New York City and finally, Florida.
Navy pilot (now retired Navy Captain) to banking consultant and watercolor painter, with 45 years as a banking executive in between.
Traveled through most of Europe, the Caribbean and a bit of Asia. Loves Italy the most.
A devoted father and grandfather, Richard is writing books, working with consulting clients, painting, biking, kayaking and running on the beach in Florida and the Hamptons. Also, complaining about all the things (Clutter!) that are keeping...
2019-05-1927 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte32 A SARDINIAN IN SAN FRANCISCO - AURELIO GIANOGLIOAurelio Gianoglio was born in Nuoro, Sardinia in 1960, and is the second in a family composed of three sisters and one other brother. He completed his elementary and secondary studies in Nuoro, and a few years later attended the Faculty of Economics and Commerce at the University of Cagliari in southern Sardinia. He worked for about 15 years in the financial sector and subsequently went into catering and became a Chef, working several years in London and Paris. He is the father of a 30-year-old son Stefano who works in the UK for a company in the computer industry. In 2013...
2019-05-1326 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte31 THE POLITICS OF FRANCE WITH REGARD TO ISRAEL - JACOB OUANOUNOUBorn into a Moroccan Jewish family, Jacob Ouanounou was very early immersed in Jewish, biblical and Talmudic thinking, and was a student of the ENIO private high school in Paris under the direction of the famous philosopher Emmanuel Levinas. A ‘serial’ entrepreneur, Jacob Ouanounou is an associate professor of mathematics and engineering who graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique (the MIT of France), where he became passionately immersed in Quantum Physics, Artificial Intelligence and telecommunications.
2019-05-0626 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte30 PRESIDENT LWR FOOTBALL CLUB - JEFF APPLEJeffrey Apple moved to Florida in 2013 in order to change climates as well as careers after more than
a decade in Belgium and in Luxembourg where he earned his MBA, started several companies in IT,
consulting, and even retail, and founded his family. This father of two manages multi-family
communities in the St Pete area and has recently launched a new adventure called Lakewood Ranch
FC, a non-profit youth educational soccer club whose objective is to connect children from various
social, cultural and economic backgrounds using elite soccer training as the...
2019-04-2926 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte29 INSURANCE BROKER - CARMEN GALIZIACarmen Galizia runs an insurance agency in Cagliari, Sardinia with her husband, Gigi Gianoglio. Mother of Alessia and Alberto, Carmen loves her work, which she finds very exciting; it is here that she can meet new people and set important goals. Her favorite pastime? Traveling the world together with her family and friends as well as watching different TV series. She loves to dress in the latest fashions and be comfortable.
2019-04-2227 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte28 FRENCH TENNIS - IN FRENCH - NICOLAS TAPONNicolas Tapon is a French tennis trainer and coach. He has been a highly-ranked team player in the French third and fourth divisions with the Franconville and Enghien clubs, the Athletic Director at second-division USV in the Yvelines Department in France, and a tennis pro at the highly touted Racing Club de France in Paris as well as a top pro in Nantes, France. In the last few years, he has been a personal trainer and Physical Education specialist. He has trained at the former Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy which we now call IMG here in Bradenton, Florida and...
2019-04-1527 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte27 WORKING IN FRANCE - FRANK DE SAXCEFRANK DE SAXCÉ was born in Moultrie, Georgia in the USA and spent the first three years of his life in the US before moving to France where he received a French education ending with his Baccalauréat in Economics which he received in 1975. He then came back to the States and took an M.B.A or Master’s in Business Administration at NYU; he became a New York Certified Public Accountant, an Auditor and finally a Tax Specialist with Price Waterhouse in New York City in 1980. In 1981-82, he was transferred to the Price Waterhouse correspondent office in P...
2019-04-0827 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte26 CHAMPION TENNIS SWINGS - ERIC TATEEric Tate is our next guest today. Eric's passions include personal development, being a father, filmmaking, coaching tennis to high-level juniors, entrepreneurship, politics and visionary thinking. Currently, he's in the launch phase of a web series called 'Whatever It Takes' that combines scripted comedy with tennis coaching. You can reach Eric directly at passioninmotion@gmail.com or find him on Instagram at “one inspired dude.”
2019-04-0128 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte25 WHOS WHO IN FRANCE - JEAN-PAUL BRAYERJean-Paul Brayer is a semi-retired and accomplished businessman living 8 miles outside central Paris. Jean-Paul has lived in other parts of the world, especially Europe, for long periods of time. He has worked at, and been the CEO of, big companies including Heineken (Holland), Levi-Strauss (France), Quick Restaurants (worldwide), and Group Flo worldwide, just to name a few. He has also been a student/lecturer in French in the US and is a graduate of the acclaimed Ecole Supérieure de Commerce in Paris. He is also cited on page 394 of the most recent Who’s Who in France!
2019-03-2528 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte24 INVESTMENT AND RETIREMENT STRATEGIES - JEFF ANDERSONJeff Anderson grew up in the Northeast just outside of Boston, MA. He attended the University of Massachusetts where he attained his Bachelor’s Degree in Business with a double concentration in Finance and Marketing.
Jeff is an instructor at St. Petersburg College and Hillsborough County Community College where he has been teaching retirement planning courses for over 10 years. These courses are educational courses that bring awareness to the importance of Financial Planning
2019-03-1826 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte23 TRUMP - KATHY SHEEHAN TYSONKathy (Kathleen) Sheehan Tyson was born in New York City and graduated from Marymount High School and New York University with
a BA in Spanish and Spanish American Literature. She was able
to travel extensively during her teenage and young adult years.
After graduating from New York
University, she became a
Registered Nurse and received a BSN (In Nursing), also from NYU.
She then worked in NYC hospitals, had a family, and returned to psychiatric nursing. She and her husband,
David, still live in NYC...
2019-03-1128 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte22 TIDYTOP STYLISH DINING WEAR - AN AMERICAN SUCCESS STORY - CARLA KIRBYCarla Pennington Kirby grew up in California and received a Teaching Credential, Reading Specialist Credential and master’s degree from San Diego State University in the 1970’s. She worked 10 years teaching Remedial Reading, wrote and made Personalized Children’s books, published free “Kidz Reading Tips” newsletters and was Director of Fan Mail for the San Diego Chargers. Today, she lives in the quaint mountain town of Sandpoint, Idaho on Lake Pend o’ reille with her husband, Steve, co-founder of TidyTop.
2019-03-0428 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte21 THE RISE OF CRYPTO CURRENCY - ARNOLD STRONGA Communications Director, Colonel Arnold V. Strong is now retired but brings three decades’
experience as a communications strategist, management consultant, and operator to the fore. A
US Army Ranger, he is a veteran of combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and has led
peacekeeping training and operations in Bangladesh, Egypt and Ghana. Colonel Strong was
also the CEO of Portland-based BrightNeighbor® and the founding communications director
for DeepCurrent®, a Los Angeles-based artificial intelligence start-up.
2019-02-2528 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte20 FRENCH WEALTH TAX - THOMAS PEPIN LEHALLEURThomas Pépin Lehalleur, who often writes under the name, Henrik Gunnarsson, is a French national who has lived all his life in France. After passing his baccalaureate, he became a tennis instructor and First Aid specialist. Today, he is a first-class blogger and writer with definite ideas on French wealth tax, politics and economics. He is a contributing writer at inutilejournal.blogspot.com which is an online blog of Le Figaro, a conservative French daily.
2019-02-1127 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte19 SARASOTA CHAMBER ORCHESTRA - ROBERT VODNOYROBERT VODNOY is the music director of the Chamber Orchestra of Sarasota which he founded in 2017. During the summer season, he is the conductor and music director of the Whiting Park Festival Orchestra, which performs a huge array of popular and classical favorites.
Vodnoy has also guest-conducted numerous orchestras throughout the world.
In May 2018, Vodnoy retired from Northern State University as Conductor of the Aberdeen University-Civic Symphony/Professor of Strings and Music History.
He holds a BM summa cum laude and an MM in composition from the University of Hartford.
2019-02-0427 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte18 PROFESSIONAL TENNIS - MARTIN EMMRICHMartin Emmrich was born on Dec. 17, 1984 in Magdeburg in East Germany. He is a retired professional tennis player who specialized in doubles on the ATP tour (Association of Tennis Professionals). He reached his highest ATP singles ranking of 604 on October 12, 2009 and his highest doubles ranking of 35 on August 5, 2013. Martin Emmrich is the son of Thomas Emmrich (who also played for East Germany) and is the only one from that country to ever hold an ATP ranking.
2019-01-2827 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte17 LES MASCARADES DE VERONIQUE FINDLING - VERONIQUE FINDLINGVéronique Findling is a French writer, practicing family therapy psychologist and retired business lawyer. A graduate of ‘Sciences Po’ (Political Science Institute of Paris) and the Sorbonne where she obtained a Master’s in European Law, she divides her time between Paris and Provence in the South of France. ‘Masquerades (2018)’ is her first novel.
2019-01-2127 min
2019-01-1726 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte15 MUSIC - DAVID PINEDA-HUEZODaVid Pineda-Huezo was born in Honduras where he was a rising young star cellist at the
prestigious Victoriano Conservatory of Music, and where he also earned a Diploma in Performance and String Pedagogy. He has apprenticed with renown violinist Alejandro Huezo in Honduras, as well as with cellists Carlton McCreery and Martha Gerschevski in the USA. Today, DaVid is not only a talented and hardworking musician, he also restores historically significant bows and instruments. He is a verified appraiser of stringed instruments and often collaborates with auction houses in the United States and England.
2019-01-0728 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte14 CONSERVATIVE THEATRE - ROBERT COOPERMANRobert Cooperman is the founder and president of Stage Right Theatrics, the country’s only conservative theatre company. He is a playwright, with productions in both Columbus, Ohio and New York City. Originally from Queens, Robert is an Adjunct Professor of English and Theatre at Ohio University, Lancaster. He lives in Columbus, Ohio with his wife, Sandra, a German Shepherd Dog (Chakotay), a Collie (Ginger), and three parrots (Tiki, Inca, and Trinity).
2018-12-3127 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte13 SCREEN WRITER - LAURIE STONERLaurie Stoner is a retired CIO (Chief Information Officer) who worked in the commercial printing and agrochemical industries. After moving to Florida, she picked up screenwriting for fun and to develop the artistic side of her brain, but apparently, she couldn’t get too far away from project management. She has led/moderated the Screenwriters Circle and then Sarasota Screenwriters for 15 years. She started Southwest Florida Films in 2017 to develop community film projects.
2018-12-2427 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte12 MODERN ITALIAN POLITICS - ETTORE FARINELLIEttore Farinelli is an architect living in Rome, Italy. He is the managing director of his company, Silo Impianti. Ettore is an avid skier and loves to go boating in beautiful Sardinia. Art and architecture are his passions, but he can talk about any subject. We will be speaking to him today about Italian politics.
2018-12-1726 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte11 PLAYWRIGHT JACK GILHOOLEYPlaywright Jack Gilhooley has been awarded two National Endowment for the Arts grants (Individual Playwright and International to Centaur Theatre, Montreal), four Florida Arts Council Playwriting grants, two Fulbright Guest Artist Awards (to Spain and Ireland), a Eugene O’Neill conference playwright residency, two Puffin Foundation awards and a New York Foundation for the arts grant. His plays have been produced with five Ford Foundation development subsidies. He was awarded the very first John Ringling Fund Artistic Fellowship. His myriad productions have been throughout the US, including on the Asolo mainstage, as well as in England, Scotland, Ireland, France an...
2018-12-1028 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte10 TRUMP AND JOURNALISM BIAS - ROBERT SPENCERobert Spence has spent most of his life as a health administrator but also as a Medic and Operating Room Technician during the height of the Vietnam War. In 1967, Robert was drafted into the US Army. For over a year during 1969-1970, Robert served his country in the 3rd Surgical Hospital in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam. When he returned from the war, he obtained his Bachelor’s Degree and a Master’s in Health Administration from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1974. He has worked as an OR Tech at St. John’s Hospital in Smi...
2018-12-0327 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte09 ACTING AND FASHION - ALESSANDRA GIANOGLIOAlessandra Gianoglio lives in Milan, Italy. She is a multilingual and multicultural millennial and was born in the 1990s in Los Angeles. She was brought up almost from birth in France and schooled in French, British and American English schools. She speaks her three mother tongues, French, Italian and English, in addition to excellent Venezuelan accented-Spanish and Brazilian-accented Portuguese. Alessandra Gianoglio is a multilingual broadcast journalist who has worked for both Fox and Sky Sports in Italy—specializing in tennis reporting. She has played tennis at an international and Division 1 college level for the University of South Florida in Ta...
2018-11-2631 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte08 CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF SARASOTA - ROBERT VODNOYRobert Vodnoy is the music director of the Chamber Orchestra of Sarasota which he founded in 2017. During the summer season, he is the conductor and music director of the Whiting Park Festival Orchestra, which performs a huge array of popular and classical favorites on the Chicago Lakefront. This past summer was his 18th season with the Whiting Park Orchestra. In October, just prior to returning to Florida, he conducted the fall production of Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street at the Memorial Opera House in Valparaiso, Indiana.
Professor Vodnoy has gu...
2018-11-1929 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte07 THE ENLIGHTENMENT - PART 2 - LUC RENTMEESTERS‘The Life of Chrétien-Guillaume de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, the illustrious magistrate and defender of Louis XVI’ based on the book ‘Que ne vous ai-je écouté’ (“I should have listened to you”) by Luc Rentmeesters
Luc RENTMEESTERS is a writer of historical fiction but has spent most of his career as a business lawyer on the Paris Bar. He was a lawyer on the Brussels Bar and legal director of the Belgian subsidiary of a major American bank. He was also the head of the Legal and Tax Directorate of this same bank and a member of its board of di...
2018-11-1226 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte06 THE ENLIGHTENMENT - PART 1 - LUC RENTMEESTERS‘The Life of Chrétien-Guillaume de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, the illustrious magistrate and defender of Louis XVI’ based on the book ‘Que ne vous ai-je écouté’ (“I should have listened to you”) by Luc Rentmeesters
Luc RENTMEESTERS is a writer of historical fiction but has spent most of his career as a business lawyer on the Paris Bar. He was a lawyer on the Brussels Bar and legal director of the Belgian subsidiary of a major American bank. He was also the head of the Legal and Tax Directorate of this same bank and a member of its board of di...
2018-11-0524 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte05 PLAYWRIGHT AND PRODUCER - JO MORELLOPLAYWRIGHT/PRODUCER JO MORELLO is a Philadelphia native and holds a B.S. from Villanova University and an M.S. from Temple University’s School of Communications and Theater. She has been a lifelong writer, having produced summer stock for three years. When she turned to drama, she won two national contests on her initial attempt. She also founded and was producing artistic director of Starlite Players in Sarasota, producing 61 new short plays in 15 months. She recently completed LIL & LOUIS, about Lil Hardin Armstrong and husband Louis Armstrong (starring Michael Kinsey as Louis and Renata Eastlick as his first (an...
2018-10-2928 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte04 ETTORE FARINELLI - ITALYEttore Farinelli is an architect living in Rome, Italy. He is the managing director of his company, Silo Impianti. Ettore is an avid skier and loves to go boating in beautiful Sardinia. Art and architecture are his passions, but he can talk about any subject. We will be speaking to him today about European and especially Italian politics.
2018-10-2226 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte03 JEAN-PAUL BRAYER - FRANCEJean-Paul Brayer is a very accomplished and semi-retired businessman who lives near Paris, France now but has lived in other parts of the world, especially Europe, for long periods of time. You’ve worked at and been the CEO of big companies including Heineken (Holland), Levi-Strauss (Japan), Quick (France), and Group Flo in the UK, just to name a few. You were a student in the US and you’re a graduate of the acclaimed Ecole Supérieure de Commerce in Paris. You’re cited on page 394 of the most recent Who’s Who in France!
2018-10-1526 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte02 THOMAS PEPIN LEHALLEUR - FRANCEThomas Pépin Le Halleur is a French national who has lived all his life in France. After passing his baccalaureate, he became a tennis instructor and First Aid specialist. Today, he is a first-class blogger and writer with definite ideas on French politics and economics
2018-10-0826 min
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte01 STEPHEN HARMAN - UKStephen Harman is a retired social worker and lives in England, five miles outside central London in Kingston-upon-Thames in the county of Surrey. Steve has principally worked in or near London, especially in Wandsworth. Steve tells me that ‘had he been a man of leisure when he was younger, he would have been a poet,’ which is what he is today.
2018-10-0126 min