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Episode #64: Fitness and World Travel with Kathy Murray

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Kathy Murray is a certified personal trainer with over thirty years’ experience in the fitness industry. She is a graduate of The Ohio State University where she was a member of the 1983 National Cheerleading Championship Team. After college she competed in and won the United States Aerobic Championship in 1986 and spent the year traveling the world as a Fitness Ambassador and worked as a free-lance educator to teach fitness to European Instructors.

While in Munich, she coached the Munich Cowboys (American Football) Cheerleaders to six national titles in cheerleading and was head trainer/translator for the German Gladiators during a pilot TV show for the International Gladiators. Kathy has owned her personal training business Fit Bodies for 25 years and in 2022 co-authored the Audible book, The Munich Cowboy Cheerleaders based upon her true story of her time coaching the squad. She has recently released it in both paperback and ebook formats.  In her spare time she is a competitive triathlete which she has been enjoying for 20 plus years now.  She lives in Atlanta with her husband Lutalo, dog Mingus and cat Sassy.

We talked a lot about the impact of travel, experiencing other cultures, and learning languages, in addition to cheerleading and Kathy’s time as a coach.

Kathy’s Readings:

00:00 Start

08:40 The Competition Starts!

29:40 Speeding Ticket–AGAIN!

48:45 Conflict with Dad (or…Following Our Dreams)

Chris’s Cocktail Pairings: 

06:35 The Cheerleader

26:35 The Speeding Ticket

46:12 Grumpy Old man

Interview Highlights: 

20:15 Life Lessons from Cheerleading and Band

22:00 The Importance of Fitness and Other Thoughts on Exercise

35:50 Other Countries’ Attitudes Toward Foreigners and Americans

41:11 Overcoming the Language Barrier

54:20 Doing What You Love

55:54 Friendship with a Celebrity and Traveling the World

Visit our PATREON for our extended AFTER HOURS with KATHY MURRAY

COMING NEXT MONTH: 

  • Steve Downes, Irish author, poet, and children’s writer

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Episode # 63: Hidden Treasure & Atomic Dollars with Frank Warner

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Like any good soldier’s son, Frank Warner moved with his family from fort to fort, accepted each change, and was ready to move again. Then, in 1960, Frank’s father was ordered to Fort Huachuca (WahCHOOka), Arizona. This was the fifth Army post of Frank’s childhood, the first place he never wanted to leave. So when his father was ordered to Vietnam in 1963, sending Frank and the rest of the family to Pennsylvania, the uprooting wasn’t easy. Frank’s book, “Tumbleeweed Forts: Adventures of an Army Brat,” describes the joys of living in Fort Huachuca, and the heartache of leaving it behind. 

Tune in for a fun conversation and great cocktails, including in red, white, and blue for July!

Frank’s Readings:

00:00 Start

10:02 A Bike Race on Base!

30:57 Atomic Dollars

47:01 Leaving Huachuca

Chris’s Cocktail Pairings: 

06:11 Red, White, and Blue

25:40 The Atomic Cocktail

44:09 Goodbye Sunshine

Interview Highlights: 

19:10 This plane is on fii–ire!

23:29 Why Huachuaca? Why it was magical

35:02 Silver Dollars and Stories on Atomic Testing

38:34 Private Jones’ Buried Treasure & the Scientist with Alien Technology

43:31 How Tombstone got its Name

50:15 Finding Old Friends

52:12 Dad going to Vietnam, Saving the Ashes

SEE OUR PATREON FOR OUR AFTER HOURS WITH FRANK WARNER VIDEO.

COMING NEXT MONTH: 

  • Devrie Donalson, comedian and author

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