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Hollywood and Horsepower Show with Mark Otto

Growing Up in Gotti's Howard Beach, Codes of Loyalty, and 9/11 Memories with Anthony Stabile

Mark Otto sits down with longtime friend Anthony "The Big A" Stabile to talk the new Belmont Park, growing up in John Gotti's Howard Beach, and the codes of loyalty and respect that shaped both of their families, closing on the eve of the 25th anniversary of 9/11.

New Belmont Park and Keeneland Talk
Mark Otto opens the show a few minutes late after some studio trouble and welcomes his frequent guest, Anthony "The Big A" Stabile, promising talk that touches New York, Queens, and horse racing. Stabile reports that Saratoga has just wrapped and that Keeneland's yearling sales begin Monday in Kentucky, though he still calls himself a New York guy at heart. The bigger story, he says, is the reopening of Belmont Park on September 18, almost three years after the old grandstand came down. He has not toured the new facility yet and worries, from photographs alone, that it looks sterile like so many modern tracks. Otto asks whether any of the old history carried forward, and Stabile notes a wrinkle: the nearby UBS Arena was contractually required to match Belmont's old green and brown facade, yet the rebuilt track itself now stands white, so nothing actually matches. He adds that the Racing Association is reportedly weighing a shorter Belmont Stakes even though the new main track was just built at the old mile and a half.

Howard Beach: The Alleged Mafia Capital
Otto turns to a subject he has wanted to explore with Stabile before: growing up in Howard Beach, Queens, in the shadow of John Gotti. Stabile lays out the neighborhood's geography, describing Old Howard Beach, Lindenwood, and his own section, sometimes called New Howard Beach, along Cross Bay Boulevard off the Belt Parkway. He says the area is what many consider the alleged mafia capital of New York, home base of the Gambino family, a reputation he calls unfortunate because of its negative connotation. Otto notes that mentioning Gotti's name to anyone on a Howard Beach sidewalk still produces the same answer: "the best." Stabile explains that the neighborhood existed in what he calls a bubble, insulated from the disorder hitting other parts of New York in the 1980s, and that crime in Howard Beach actually fell while it rose elsewhere in the city, a shift many residents credited directly to Gotti's presence and the message that nothing was allowed to happen there.

Parallel Stories From Detroit's Partnership
Mark Otto responds with his own family history, explaining that his father served as a Detroit vice officer for twenty-seven years and personally knew leaders of the Detroit Partnership. He describes a handshake arrangement between organized crime and police much like the one Stabile outlines from the early twentieth century. Otto recalls being taken as a boy to a poolside birthday party at a Holiday Inn, where his father greeted an older man in sunglasses, a Detroit Partnership figure Otto later identified from photographs, though the transcript is unclear whether the man was Tony Giacalone or Joe Zerilli. The conversation turns to the old numbers racket, which Stabile says was tied to the final digits of the daily racetrack handle at Aqueduct, Belmont, or Saratoga. Otto remembers his father, dying of a heart attack years later, growing furious whenever a state lottery commercial appeared on the hospital television, insisting men had served prison time for the same game the government later legalized.

Fourth of July Parties and Peter Gotti's Gift
Stabile paints a picture of the old Howard Beach, remembering John Gotti's Fourth of July block parties on 103rd Avenue that drew thousands of people for food and a fireworks show he compares favorably to the Grucci family's professional displays. He also recalls a school chocolate-bar fundraiser around 1982, when he finished second in sales as a first-grader with just over six hundred dollars, only to learn that Peter Gotti, John's youngest son, had sold roughly eighteen hundred dollars worth and taken first place. A few days later, Stabile says, Peter approached him at school and handed him twenty-four gold dollar coins, explaining his mother had insisted on it because she played cards with Stabile's grandmother. Stabile contrasts these childhood memories with what he calls today's culture of informants turned podcast personalities, naming Chazz Palminteri as someone he believes has built a career retelling stories about people who are no longer alive to dispute them.

Lessons in Loyalty and Standing Up
Both men trade stories about fathers who demanded loyalty and self-reliance rather than name-dropping family connections. Stabile describes a run-in outside a Howard Beach post office where a younger driver invoked an uncle's name before lunging at him, and recalls his own father praising him afterward for staying quiet about whose nephew he had grabbed. Otto matches it with two memories of his own father, a Detroit police officer: one in which his dad let a traffic ticket stand rather than pull rank, and another in which his father confronted a shop teacher who had shoved Otto against a wall, warning him never to touch his son again. Stabile then describes breaking both cheekbones of a boy who had sexually harassed his sister, expecting serious punishment, only for his father to tell him to hit the boy again if he ever saw him near her. Otto answers with a story of a father who told him to finish any fight someone else started and to protect those who could not protect themselves.

A Racetrack Money Drop and Remembering 9/11
Stabile closes with a story from his years hanging around the third-floor teller windows at Aqueduct, when a friend who thought he had won thirty-two thousand dollars on a Pick 3 discovers, thanks to Stabile's recount, that he actually won sixty-four thousand. The friend responds by staging what he calls a money drop, tossing thousands of dollars in small bills into the air among bettors so strangers could scoop it up before the holidays. Stabile links the story back to his childhood, recalling that John Gotti once handed him a fifty-dollar bill at a plumbing company his father worked for, money he spent that night buying his mother a hot dog at a Mets game. As the show winds down, Stabile marks the date, noting that twenty-five years earlier to the day he had signed up for a bowling league that was set to begin on September 11, 2001. Otto closes by honoring No Fallen Heroes' Matt "Whiz" Buckley and Old Friends Equine.

Tony Alamo

How To Have God's Life Living In You Part 157, A Marriage Vision and Letters From Ivory Coast

Tony Alamo continues part 157 of his teaching series, reading listener letters from Ivory Coast, the Solomon Islands, a Texas prison, and Pennsylvania, retelling the vision that led to his marriage to Susie Alamo, and teaching from the Book of Job that true wisdom belongs to the aged.

Opening Prayer and Program Introduction
Tony Alamo opens the broadcast identifying it as program number 259, part 157 of his series How to Have God's Life Living in You, and tells listeners that Sharon will later explain how to request a free tape or CD, postage included. He leads an opening prayer describing the present age as the Battle of Armageddon, a mountain the faithful are climbing while darkness tries to stop the gospel from reaching lost souls, and affirms that Father, Son, and Holy Spirit acted together at the immaculate conception. He recalls receiving what he calls a supernatural witness of God forty-two years earlier in an office in Beverly Hills and says he remains as zealous today. He asks God to anoint the broadcast, heal the sick, and strengthen the church, closing with an amen answered by a second voice in the studio. He then introduces a recording of Mister D.J., a song he says Frank Sinatra, Billy Strange, and Nancy Sinatra gave him, and the program plays it in full.

Letters From Ivory Coast and the Solomon Islands
With the prayer and song finished, Tony Alamo turns to listener mail, and Sharon reads aloud two letters from overseas. The first comes from a man named Bayard in Soubré, Ivory Coast, who describes discovering the ministry's newsletter through a student and being moved by literature titled Earthquake and Love and Affection, and he asks for the book The Messiah along with as many world newsletters as possible, closing with a line from Psalm 145. The second letter, from a man named Paulsen in Malaita Province, Solomon Islands, thanks the ministry for two packets of twelve tapes on How to Have God's Life Living in You and reports that he distributes the newsletter faster than any other supply he receives locally. He asks for thirty-three Bibles, more tapes, and newsletters, plus a small electric generator so his mission meetings can use light other than kerosene lamps. Alamo instructs Sharon to send everything requested except the generator, explaining that in his ministry's experience generators run too loudly for a congregation thirty feet away to hear preaching.

A Prison Letter and the Beatles Album Story
Sharon reads two more letters, one from a woman named Deborah, incarcerated in a Texarkana, Texas facility, who says Alamo's publication Mass Suicide confirmed prophecies she has been studying and asks for the book The Messiah, and one from a woman named Susan in Kintnersville, Pennsylvania, who listens on shortwave and encloses a freewill offering with her request for tapes and literature. Alamo responds by recalling his own imprisonment for preaching the gospel, rejecting the label jailhouse salvation that some applied to him while acknowledging it can be real for others who sincerely turn to the Lord behind bars. He then answers accusations that he runs the ministry for money, saying he owns unreleased Beatles record masters reportedly worth fifty to one hundred million dollars, a gift from original drummer Pete Best, whose mother owned the club where the band played; Best, he says, promised him an album in exchange for handling his promotion. Alamo argues no one endures the persecution and slander he has faced purely for financial gain, only out of love and fear of the Lord.

The Vision That Led To Tony and Susie's Marriage
Reading ahead to the Book of Job, Alamo digresses into a personal story he says proves wisdom comes only with age and experience. Newly saved and unmarried, he describes a vision of kneeling beside Susie as she slept and kissing her, an image that turned from color to a shimmering white-hot outline while, he says, the Holy Spirit repeated, 'It's true.' He felt unworthy since Susie had been saved twenty-five years to his few months. Unknown to him, Susie had her own vision that same night of the two of them walking through a rose arbor in wedding clothes, with God telling her doubts that Tony, though young, was strong. The next day, after a painful toothache from a cookie, Alamo tells her about his dream on the way to the dentist; she already knew. They married three times in Las Vegas, Susie insisting on satisfying the law of the land, and Alamo recalls promoting a singer named Rovan, who became a superstar within ninety days despite doubts that leaving entertainment for ministry had cost him his mind.

Job Chapter Twelve and the Wisdom of the Aged
Turning to what he calls a paraphrase of the Book of Job's twelfth chapter, since he finds some modern translations hard to follow, Alamo has Sharon read verse by verse while he comments. He argues that today's culture and church youth wrongly believe wisdom belongs to the young, when scripture ties true wisdom and understanding to age and long experience with God. Job, mocked by friends who claim to know everything, answers that he too calls on the Lord and receives answers, only to be laughed at as corny and stupid, which Alamo compares to accusations leveled against himself. He extends the reading into a broader complaint about what he calls the autonomy of man, a mythical, irrational belief that people can govern themselves outside scripture, blaming the United Nations, the news media, and what he terms the Antichrist church in Rome for promoting abortion, homosexuality, and disregard for the biblical death penalty of stoning, positions he offers as his own reading of prophecy rather than settled fact.

Salvation Prayer and Closing Song
With his time nearly up, Alamo tells listeners the message will continue the next day and leads a spoken salvation prayer, inviting anyone listening to confess belief that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, accept his death and resurrection, and invite him into their heart, assuring them that faith alone secures the promise that all who call on the Lord's name will be saved. Sharon then gives four ways to request a free tape or CD of program 259: through the website alamoministries.com, by writing to Tony Alamo Christian Ministries at its Texarkana, Texas post office box, or by calling or faxing the ministry's Arkansas-area numbers. Before closing, Alamo mentions meeting Kris Kristofferson, calling him a sincere man, and introduces a recording he made of Kristofferson's song Why Me Lord, reflecting on his own gratitude that God chose to save him. The broadcast ends with Alamo's performance of the song, closing out an hour built around prayer, testimony letters, a vision story, and scripture teaching on wisdom and age.

Reclaiming Authenticity with Dr James Houck

School's in Session: Karmic Lessons, Ancestral Healing, and the Path to Soul Consciousness

Dr. James Houck devotes this solo episode of Reclaiming Authenticity to karmic lessons, drawing on Jean Piaget's theory of learning and the Iroquois seven generations principle before leading listeners through a full guided exercise for healing ancestral trauma.

Welcome and the Search for Purpose
Dr. James Houck opens Reclaiming Authenticity with his usual welcome, his call-in number, and the websites where listeners can reach him, then names tonight's topic, School's in Session, Learning Those Karmic Lessons. He reminds listeners this is his seventh year on BBS Radio and restates his ongoing focus on integrating spirituality with mental health inside the relationships people have with themselves, with others, and with God. He says everyone eventually faces questions about purpose, meaning, sickness, and death, and that worldly objects and relationships cannot supply the lasting peace people seek. Houck contrasts conditional human love, shaped by manipulation and shifting emotion, with what he calls eternal divine love. He describes the ego as self-centered and limited, quick to distort perception, yet still worth questioning, since noticing its reactions can reveal exactly where a person's healing and transformation still need to happen.

Uniqueness, Haecceitas, and Back to School
Houck introduces his favorite Latin word, haecceitas, meaning thisness, the irreducible uniqueness each person carries in their gifts, graces, and skills. He says the world needs people willing to honor that thisness in themselves and in one another, and he ties this directly to the courage needed to notice and heal karmic patterns. With students returning to classrooms for a new school year, he pivots to memory and learning, asking listeners to recall their favorite subjects, whether math, English, another language, social studies, history, or a STEM course. He then asks how each person learns best, visually, by hearing, or by doing, quoting the anonymous saying that what I hear I forget, what I see I remember, but what I do I learn. Houck explains that learning styles shape how people interpret experience inside and outside the classroom, and that learning itself builds gradually on what a person already knows rather than arriving all at once.

Piaget, Assimilation, and Accommodation
Houck turns to the Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget, who studied how children construct knowledge through interaction with their environment and described learning as a two-stage process. The first stage, assimilation, folds new information into existing understanding, illustrated by a small child exploring a magnet by tasting it, hitting it, and throwing it. The second stage, accommodation, requires adjusting those existing mental structures once the object's real properties become clear, which is why refrigerators eventually end up covered in magnetic letters and souvenir magnets. Houck calls this back-and-forth the learning curve, a person's rate of progress in gaining experience or skill. He then applies the same assimilation-and-accommodation model to karmic lessons, asking listeners which lessons were hardest to learn and which ones keep resurfacing because the underlying pattern has never fully been absorbed. He suggests that some of these recurring lessons were not even originally the listener's own, but were handed down from ancestors who were never able to learn them.

Seven Generations and Karmic Wounding
Houck describes the Iroquois principle of seven generations from his book When Ancestors Weep, reciting its call to keep the mind free of anger and criticism while always weighing decisions against the welfare of children not yet born. He extends the principle backward, arguing it also gives people permission to heal wounds carried forward from seven generations past. Quoting George Santayana's warning that those who forget history are doomed to repeat it, he describes counseling teenagers who have been told for years that they are the family's problem, and how he reframes that story, telling them they may instead be the strongest member of the family, capable of healing what their elders could not. He defines karmic wounding as mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual pain passed down through generations, teaching listeners that healing bitterness, rage, and unforgiveness, as in the example of someone who was bullied, transforms pain into kindness rather than repeating the cycle of abuse.

A Guided Ancestral Healing Exercise
After the break, Houck likens karma to shouting into a cave and waiting for the echo, telling listeners that whatever they send out in thought, word, and deed eventually returns to them. He then walks the audience through a full ancestral healing exercise, cautioning that it should never be attempted lightly. Listeners are told to find a quiet, undisturbed space, silence their phones, gather photographs of relatives, and settle their minds through prayer or meditation before setting an intention to release themselves and their ancestors from inherited trauma. He offers a list of reflective questions about family lessons, secrets, unspoken love, and unkept promises, then leads a guided visualization in which the listener stands in an open field facing thousands of ancestors, addresses them as grandson or granddaughter, and speaks words of forgiveness and gratitude to those who step forward, releasing them from guilt, shame, and burdens they have carried across generations.

Closing With Gone From My Sight
To close the healing exercise, Houck recites Henry Van Dyke's poem Gone From My Sight, a meditation his own family reads at gravesides, comparing death to a ship disappearing over the horizon while still fully present on the other side. He encourages listeners to journal any dreams or impressions in the days that follow and to notice whether they treat themselves and others with more patience and compassion. Houck frames the listener as part of a transitional generation, standing in the gap to release both perpetrators and victims from inherited trauma so it is not passed to children not yet born. He closes by reminding listeners that soul consciousness brings ongoing questions about how to live differently, thanks the audience for spending the hour with him, and invites anyone with questions about ancestral healing to reach out through his websites before signing off until next Wednesday's broadcast.

SOS Coming Home with Jennifer Elizabeth Masters

Lydia the Cat, the Open Window, and Learning to Trust Yourself Again

Jennifer Elizabeth Masters tells the story of Lydia, an intuitive rescue cat who spent nine years teaching her to trust her own instincts, and traces that loss back through a pattern of emotionally unavailable men, a painful mother wound, and what it means to keep choosing an open heart.

A Snowstorm Exit From Boulder
Jennifer Elizabeth Masters opens the episode of SOS Coming Home with a story she has been building toward for years, about her cat Lydia. She sets the scene in Boulder, Colorado, on an unplanned snow day when an intuitive hit tells her she must leave for California immediately with her daughter. She is driving the truck that belonged to her daughter's father, who has just died, hauling a trailer loaded with the belongings that still remind her daughter of him. Her tortoiseshell cat Lydia rides on the seat beside her and her border collie Karma sits in back. A neighbor jumps in to help back the trailer out of the snowy driveway, and in the confusion Lydia slips out through the open window unseen. An hour down the road, Masters meets her son Adam, who closes his eyes, tunes in, and confirms the quiet feeling she already has: Lydia is not in the truck.

Back Into the Storm for Lydia
Trusting that confirmation, Masters turns the truck around and drives an hour back into the storm, back to the cul-de-sac in Boulder, now dark and cold. She calls for Lydia near the home she had just left, until she spots her next door, sitting on a neighbor's porch railing exactly where their old life had been. Lydia is not hiding and has not run off; she is simply waiting, as if certain Masters would return. Masters picks her up, presses her against her face, and cries into her fur, flooded with gratitude. She carries Lydia back to the truck and resumes the drive to California, adding two hours onto an already sixteen-hour, twelve-hundred-mile trip. Masters frames the detour as proof of what happens when she listens to her own gut instead of arguing herself out of it, and asks listeners how many times they have rolled the window back up on their own knowing.

Who Lydia Was: Atlanta 2004
The story then rewinds to 2004 in Atlanta, where Masters is in the middle of a divorce and custody battle, running her landscaping business For Heaven's Scapes, and grieving her Siamese cat May Ling after fifteen years together. She does not want another cat, and still refuses when her friend Lynette calls about a special kitten found up in Murphy, North Carolina. Masters drives there intending to prove Lynette wrong, and instead comes home with the kitten curled asleep beside her seven-year-old daughter, Ariel. They name her Lydia. Masters describes Lydia as unusually gifted, sitting up to move her paws in slow circles as if performing Reiki over anyone who needed it, and even over closed doors until they opened. Lydia rules the household, stopping other cats mid-jump with a look, and holds the place of honor on Masters's desk through nine years and eleven moves between Georgia, Colorado, and California, present through every divorce and fresh start along the way.

The Mirror of Not Now, Lydia
Masters explains that cats absorb the emotional energy of their household, and she believes Lydia absorbed nine years of grief and pain from an abusive relationship, aging far beyond her years. Through it all, Lydia climbed into her lap, and Masters kept setting her down with the words, not unkindly, not now, Lydia, not now. Only later does she recognize that phrase as the story of her whole life, repeated with three husbands, her son David, and a string of emotionally unavailable men she says she could spot instantly in others but not in herself. On an ordinary afternoon on a couch in California, Lydia settles into her lap and, in the wordless way Masters says animals communicate, shows her an image of nine years of being set down, and every man she loved while holding him at arm's length. Masters realizes the unavailable men were mirrors, not of her unworthiness, but of her own unavailability to receive love.

The Mother Wound Underneath
Masters traces the closed heart further back, to her son David, conceived in a last effort to save a marriage she already knew was over, and to her own mother. She recalls her mother telling her as a young girl that she would grow fat like her aunts, would never amount to anything, and cared only about boys, three sentences that struck at her mind, body, and desire at once. She describes this as a mother wound, a program installed below conscious thought that later ran her choice of men and her habit of keeping the door only partly open. Masters says she wrote five books, built a landscaping business and a coaching practice, and developed intuitive gifts, all while her mother's voice kept insisting she would never amount to anything. She stresses that understanding a wound intellectually does not heal it; healing, she says, lives in the body, which is why her program, Love Yourself Fearlessly, works at that deeper root rather than at the level of thought.

Losing Lydia and the Work That Remains
Masters returns to Lydia's final chapter, living in the California desert as Lydia grows visibly old. When Lydia becomes dehydrated, a vet urges Masters to leave her over the weekend for fluids, and despite a clear inner no, Masters signs the form and drives home. Lydia dies alone that Monday morning, after days spent sleeping on top of the refrigerator, the warmest spot in the house. Masters admits she has never fully made peace with not trusting herself on that last decision, and offers the story as proof that healing is not linear, that even years of inner work can be overridden under pressure. She closes the hour describing what an opening heart feels like in daily life, from noticing a not now before it becomes a pattern to simply saying thank you to a compliment instead of deflecting it. She leads listeners through thirty seconds of silence, then invites them to her website, her courses including Healing the Mother Wound, and her books, dedicating the whole episode to Lydia.

The Sports Doctor with Dr Robert Weil

Naperville's Fitness Legacy, Youth Mental Health, and Overuse Injuries with Mayor Scott Wehrli

Dr. Bob Weil welcomes Naperville, Illinois Mayor Scott Wehrli to talk community health and mental wellness, then spends the rest of the hour on the US Open, aging Olympians, and the epidemic of overuse injuries in young athletes.

A Doubleheader Begins With Mayor Wehrli
Dr. Robert Weil opens live from Chicago with his usual sponsor rundown, thanking Global Schoolwear, Lower Extremity Review magazine, Bryan Therapeutics, and UK Health Radio, before promising listeners a doubleheader. He welcomes Mayor Scott Wehrli of Naperville, Illinois, noting Wehrli is the third Naperville mayor to appear on the show and framing the visit around his long-running theme of city and county support for fitness and wellness. Weil also tells listeners that Dr. Nathan Bryan of Bryan Therapeutics is expected later to discuss nitric oxide. Turning to his guest, Weil asks Wehrli to describe his path to Naperville and to the mayor's office. Wehrli explains that he was adopted at seven months old and raised there by two loving parents, calling it a duty to give back to a city that gave him so much, a commitment he says began when he started volunteering there at age twelve, long before becoming mayor of Illinois's third-largest city at fifty-seven.

From The Park Police To Mental Health
Weil asks about Wehrli's career before politics, and Wehrli says he spent thirty-five years as a lieutenant with the Naperville Park District police, retiring that December first after learning, in his words, "the good, the bad, and everything in between" about the community. He says he has become especially active speaking out about mental health locally. Weil calls the mental game one of the biggest topics the show has covered across decades, crediting Simone Biles and Michael Phelps with helping normalize the conversation, and recalling a Daoist therapist from the Netherlands who linked twenty-five-hundred-year-old principles of compassion and simplicity to today's locker rooms. He describes twenty-five years of monthly foot screenings at Edward Health & Fitness alongside CEO Pam Davis, and notes that some communities cannot find enough young people fit enough to pass military or police entrance tests. After thirty-five years covering childhood obesity on the show, Weil says the numbers are, in his words, still treading water at best.

Pools, Bullying, And A City That Listens
Wehrli traces Naperville's health-minded reputation back to 1990 and PE teacher Phil Lawler, whom Weil remembers as an early guest on his WDCB radio show at the College of DuPage, explaining that Lawler used heart rate monitors to teach students how exercise actually worked. Wehrli points to the city's neighborhood pools as another legacy, recalling how his son's West Point water polo team would find "Naperville, Illinois" popping up on national rosters beside places like Long Beach. Weil connects this to inactivity and screen time, noting that obesity and weight are, by his account, the leading cause of high-school bullying, ahead of disabilities and sexual orientation, and recalls a 2008 article he wrote called "Let's Get 'Em Walking." Asked how he handled his own kids' sports, Wehrli says he stayed a sideline parent who never spoke to a coach, letting his children learn from good and bad leadership alike, a hands-off approach Weil ties to Naperville's honors as one of America's healthiest and best cities to live.

From The US Open To Olympic Ice
With Dr. Bryan still not on the line, Weil fills the segment with sports headlines, starting with the US Open, where his former guest Mark Kovacs coaches Frances Tiafoe into the semifinals. He recalls a former patient, Tim Smyczek, who years earlier played Rafael Nadal at the Australian Open and asked for a re-serve after a crowd disruption, a moment of sportsmanship Weil says added to his patient's reputation even as Nadal won. He notes Novak Djokovic's rare first-round exit and the retirement of thirty-nine-year-old Lionel Messi from Argentina's national soccer team, pivoting to a running theme of aging elite athletes. Weil celebrates pairs figure skater Danny O'Shea, for whom he built orthotics as a young teenager, winning Winter Olympic gold near age thirty-five after a comeback, and Naperville's own Evan Lysacek, whose skates he fitted with orthotics around age ten before Lysacek won Olympic gold twelve years later, a fact he shares that Lysacek's mother, Tanya, always knew skating was her son's goal, not hers.

The Overuse Epidemic In Youth Sports
Still without Dr. Bryan, Weil shifts into the show's core mission: overuse injuries in young athletes. He cites Yankees orthopedic surgeon Dr. Christopher Ahmad's estimate that roughly twenty percent of Tommy John elbow surgeries today are performed on teenagers, and remembers Lou Vickery, a former Yankees pitcher whose career was cut short by shoulder injuries after training under Whitey Ford and who later hosted his own radio show, Lou in the Morning. Weil repeats the late sports psychologist Jim Vickery's rules for sports parents: do not be a critic on the ride home, and be a good listener about how a child is doing physically and emotionally. He credits psychologists Don Brady and Katherine Snedaker, creator of PINK Concussions, for raising awareness of concussions in collision sports, and recalls financial expert Frances Rahaim discussing the cost of travel teams. He closes with a story of LeBron James's mother telling him to sit down at his son's game, and writer Jim Brown's advice to parents to simply stay out of it.

The Book, A Pearl, And Next Week's Guests
Weil closes with an explicit rundown of his book, #HeySportsParents, co-written with volleyball champion Sharkie Zartman, describing its four sections: sports-parenting challenges, sports-medicine basics like shoes and orthotics, expert contributions from nutritionists and mental coaches, and parents' own stories. He offers what he calls one of his standing "pearls" for coaches and parents: persistent lower-extremity pain in the back, knees, shins, feet, or ankles is almost always foot-related even when the feet themselves do not hurt, which is why it often goes unexamined. He previews next week's guest, Troy Gilb of Sports Performance Volleyball, recalling handing Rick Butler his first volleyball decades earlier, and lists upcoming shows with menopause expert Andrea Donsky, sports pharmacist Jessica Beale Stahl, and Everest climber Sean Swarner, author of True Summit Method. He signs off pointing listeners to thesportsdoctorradio.com for more on the National Fitness Hall of Fame and the book, thanking BBS Radio as the show closes.