<b>12A-5A</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Coast to Coast
with George Noory

<b>5A-6A</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; America in
the Morning

<b>6A-7A &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </b>“This Morning, America’s First News,”
with Gordon Deal<b></b>

<b>7A-9A &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </b>“A.M. Great Bend” with Steve Webster –
News – Sports – Obits – Entertainment

<b>8:30-9A &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </b>“Info-Trak” The weekly nationally syndicated Public Affairs radio show. 

<b>9A-10A</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Trading Post
with Mike Hesher 

<b>10A-11A</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; “Agri-Talk” with Chip Flory 

<b>11A-11:30&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </b>“Pages in Time”
hosted by Justin Engleman, Barton County Historical Society Board Member. 

<b>11:30-12P&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </b>“Cougar Pause” hosted by Shannon Towns. Guests
include Karly Little, Director of Early College Opportunities at Barton
Community College who will talk about the upcoming Career Fair.<b></b>

<b>12P-12:30</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; KVGB Noon Report –
News, Sports, Weather, and other info.

<b>12:30-1:30&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sports
Day hosted by Brant Daughtry</b>

<b>1:30-2P&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </b>"Agriculture
Today” hosted by Shelby Varner

<b>2P-4:00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </b>Markley, Van Kamp and Robbins

<b>4P-5P&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </b>“Agri-Talk PM” hosted by Chip Flory<b></b>

<b>5P-6P&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </b>5PM News Hour
– News, Sports, Ag News, Weather

<b>6P-8P &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </b>ESPN Radio – “Amber &amp; Ian”

<b>8P-MID&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </b>ESPN Radio – “Game night”

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                        <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2020/8/1596658271505.png" alt="<b>Monday Lineup</b>" />
                        <figcaption><b>Monday Lineup</b></figcaption>
                    </figure><p><b>12A-5A</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Coast to Coast
with George Noory</p><p><b>5A-6A</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; America in
the Morning</p><p><b>6A-7A &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </b>“This Morning, America’s First News,”
with Gordon Deal<b></b></p><p><b>7A-9A &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </b>“A.M. Great Bend” with Steve Webster –
News – Sports – Obits – Entertainment</p><p><b>8:30-9A &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </b>“Info-Trak” The weekly nationally syndicated Public Affairs radio show. </p><p><b>9A-10A</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Trading Post
with Mike Hesher </p><p><b>10A-11A</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; “Agri-Talk” with Chip Flory </p><p><b>11A-11:30&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </b>“Pages in Time”
hosted by Justin Engleman, Barton County Historical Society Board Member. </p><p><b>11:30-12P&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </b>“Cougar Pause” hosted by Shannon Towns. Guests
include Karly Little, Director of Early College Opportunities at Barton
Community College who will talk about the upcoming Career Fair.<b></b></p><p><b>12P-12:30</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; KVGB Noon Report –
News, Sports, Weather, and other info.</p><p><b>12:30-1:30&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sports
Day hosted by Brant Daughtry</b></p><p><b>1:30-2P&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </b>"Agriculture
Today” hosted by Shelby Varner</p><p><b>2P-4:00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </b>Markley, Van Kamp and Robbins</p><p><b>4P-5P&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </b>“Agri-Talk PM” hosted by Chip Flory<b></b></p><p><b>5P-6P&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </b>5PM News Hour
– News, Sports, Ag News, Weather</p><p><b>6P-8P &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </b>ESPN Radio – “Amber &amp; Ian”</p><p><b>8P-MID&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </b>ESPN Radio – “Game night”</p>

Monday on 1590 KVGB and 95.5 FM, "The Talk of the Town"

By&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/author/maria-sherman">MARIA SHERMAN</a>

NEW YORK (AP) — “The Eras Tour was a lifetime within my life,”&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/hub/taylor-swift">Taylor Swift</a>&nbsp;told the room at a screening of the first two episodes of her new Disney+ docuseries, “The End of an Era.” “It feels insane.”

Swift spoke to the small New York crowd on Tuesday — a year and one day since&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/taylor-swift-eras-tour-end-06a41d7c717486f2c0e99a7304789912">she concluded</a>&nbsp;the&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/taylor-swift-eras-tour-billion-dollar-record-52945111233438b1f2166aa19eee365f">history-making Eras Tour.</a>&nbsp;In the room were her parents Scott and Andrea Swift and brother Austin, a select few members of the press (including Hoda Kotb, Willie Geist and Gayle King), as well as her tour dancers, the choreographer Mandy Moore, docuseries directors Don Argott and Sheena M. Joyce and a few others. The showing was briefly interrupted by security alarms as a small fire was extinguished elsewhere in the building,

“The directors expanded upon the stories of not just me, but everyone who was part of this,” Swift said, before taking her seat in the crowd.

Here are key takeaways from the first two episodes of the six-episode docuseries, which launches Friday on Disney+. Two episodes will drop weekly, through Dec. 26.

The premiere episode opens in Vancouver, Canada, 15 minutes before the tour’s final date. Swift, standing in a circle with her dancers, delivers an impassioned speech, reminding them the Eras Tour wasn’t about pieces simply falling into place. “You put the pieces where they are,” she tells them. It sets the tone for what follows: “The End of an Era” is the only behind-the-scenes look at her tour and what drove it.

Early on, Swift states that there were two distinct catalysts for the Eras Tour. One was having her back catalog&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/taylor-swift-redoing-fearless-album-127eefa2a3ef3373e65507495f50145c">sold out from underneath her,</a>&nbsp;inspiring&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/taylor-swift-speak-now-taylors-version-a41998c4d1f08af9d89c6d314ed4c2bd">the rerecording project</a>&nbsp;that showed her the value of “celebrating your past.” The other was the pandemic, which heightened the desire for a return to live events.

The first episode also celebrates the incredible demand the tour created — mentioning Ticketmaster but not delving into the frustration it caused. The ticket seller&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/justice-department-live-nation-ticketmaster-antitrust-lawsuit-df9b552d127e1494db13e3cd625787a8">sparked outrage</a>&nbsp;in November 2022 when&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/taylor-swift-ticketmaster-concert-tickets-parents-34399cca6403c97f0983a5c69c7edec0">its site crashed</a>&nbsp;during a presale event. The company said the site was overwhelmed by both fans and attacks from bots posing as consumers to scoop up tickets and sell them on secondary sites. The debacle prompted congressional hearings and&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/taylor-swift-minnesota-ticketmaster-f7dcb061368c5e83c0630cf3e1d2516e">bills in state legislatures</a>&nbsp;aimed at better protecting consumers.

In August 2024, three dates were canceled in Vienna over an apparent&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/austria-extremism-arrests-security-taylor-swift-7ece0b264f6e4152b8214c9fba8c425b">plot to launch an attack</a>&nbsp;on the concerts.

“It’s like a force to be reckoned with in global culture,” Swift says of the tour in the first episode. “So never did I think we’d have a terrorist plot.”

The episode continues with Swift in London, preparing&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/taylor-swift-eras-tour-london-wembley-6a8aff0c9f0bb45382602a75dfc77904">to perform for the first time</a>&nbsp;since the cancellations — less than week later. “We dodged a massacre situation,” she says.

“Being afraid something is going to happen” to her audience, she says, “this is a new challenge.”

About a week before the Vienna cancellations, a teenager&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/southport-stabbings-sentencing-axel-rudakubana-c03e5ab59cd2e2f5baf849710c9d6b3d">killed three girls and wounded 10 people</a>&nbsp;in a knife attack at a Swift-themed dance and yoga class in the English seaside town of Southport. Swift at the time said she was “completely in shock” over the violence.

As Swift contends with preparing herself for her first shows since Austria, she mentions the Southport attack and starts to cry when describing the “little kids” attacked.

“I’m going to meet some of the families tonight,” she says, getting emotional before reminding herself to “lock it off,” and get into pop performer mode. She compares it to being a pilot needing to adopt a “calm, cool, collected” demeanor. Later, it is revealed that Swift privately met with families of the Southport victims. That is not on camera, but the aftermath is: Swift in tears, realizing the show must go on.

<a href="https://apnews.com/article/taylor-swift-travis-kelce-engaged-d585627eb98b69428ce206a2c8a9cb7d">Swift’s fiance,</a>&nbsp;the Super Bowl champion Travis Kelce, first appears as a soothing voice on the phone, as Swift expresses her anxieties over the London shows and nailing a surprise performance with Ed Sheeran. His telepresence immediately elevates her mood.

“Thanks for making my day better,” he tells her. “Some people get a vitamin drip,” she responds. “I get this conversation.”

<a href="https://apnews.com/hub/ed-sheeran">Sheeran</a>&nbsp;and Swift hang backstage and work out their set in London.&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/florence-welch-machine-everybody-scream-review-44b4d8c7da8261b961ec5c6ea9a7ae9c">Florence Welch</a>&nbsp;is featured in the series, too. “The persona is huge, but the person is soft,” Welch says of her similarities to Swift. Later, she describes being swept up in the magic of the Eras Tour. Swift is her friend, but when she joined the pop phenomenon on stage, she couldn’t help but think: “Oh my god, it’s (expletive) Taylor Swift.”

The Sheeran scene is particularly illuminating. She tells him she’s off for two months following the London run, and she’s planning on using that time to go somewhere no one can find her.

“I don’t want to be tracked like an animal,” she tells him, admitting to feeling “hunted” lately.

Band members and dancers take center stage ...

Those in and around Swift’s orbit tell their stories throughout the first two episodes. Fans will meet Amos Heller, her bassist since 2007. They will learn that&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/2025-oscars-mandy-moore-ariana-grande-interview-622d01fbbb47b7e9a2b02548246a18a8">Mandy Moore, the famous Hollywood choreographer,</a>&nbsp;joined Swift’s tour after&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/hub/emma-stone">Emma Stone</a>&nbsp;suggested Swift work with her. You’ll see another choreographer/former dancer Amanda Balen rejoin the stage. “I don’t want dancers that blend in,” Swift says of her crew.

Fans will get more of Kameron Saunders, the beloved dancer, and his story — of being belittled in his field for his size, of his mother’s endless support and how his brother, the&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/jaguars-khalen-saunders-beb27b895d90cd01bb0362adf7192d83">professional football player Khalen Saunders,</a>&nbsp;paid for his flight to audition for the tour. (A fun aside — Saunders’ brother was playing for&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/hub/kansas-city-chiefs">the Kansas City Chiefs</a>&nbsp;at the time, the same team as Kelce.)

As for Swift’s own dancing, she says, “It has taken me a really long time to even be fine at choreography.” She doesn’t do “eight counts” — she learns movement based on the syllable of the lyric she is singing.

Swift’s decision to give her team bonuses, which People reported totaled $197 million, is highlighted in the series. In the second episode, Swift says she gave every member of the crew a handwritten letter and sealed it with a wax stamp. It’s a compelling advertisement for Swift’s generosity — particularly when the camera zooms in on a young production assistant, who looks stunned as he holds his note and says he’s going to “pass out.” Individual bonus amounts are not revealed.

‘The Tortured Poets Department’ tour prep predated the album

You read that correctly.&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/taylor-swift-tortured-poets-department-eras-tour-293d90acd670d6d19c294a0e6085829a">To add a segment</a>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/taylor-swift-tortured-poets-department-review-b24d2275df5cf78ffa9069c61b9825ec">“The Tortured Poets Department”</a>&nbsp;into the tour, Swift and team “built this top-secret rehearsal facility,” she says. Dancers had to learn the choreography without music blasting over the loudspeakers, since the album had not yet been publicly released. Keeping surprises secret is serious business.

<figure>
                        <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2024/8/1723064189320.png" alt="Taylor Swift's Eras Tour stop at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City-photo by Kathryn Unruh" />
                        <figcaption>Taylor Swift's Eras Tour stop at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City-photo by Kathryn Unruh</figcaption>
                    </figure><p>By&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/author/maria-sherman">MARIA SHERMAN</a></p><p>NEW YORK (AP) — “The Eras Tour was a lifetime within my life,”&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/hub/taylor-swift">Taylor Swift</a>&nbsp;told the room at a screening of the first two episodes of her new Disney+ docuseries, “The End of an Era.” “It feels insane.”</p><p>Swift spoke to the small New York crowd on Tuesday — a year and one day since&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/taylor-swift-eras-tour-end-06a41d7c717486f2c0e99a7304789912">she concluded</a>&nbsp;the&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/taylor-swift-eras-tour-billion-dollar-record-52945111233438b1f2166aa19eee365f">history-making Eras Tour.</a>&nbsp;In the room were her parents Scott and Andrea Swift and brother Austin, a select few members of the press (including Hoda Kotb, Willie Geist and Gayle King), as well as her tour dancers, the choreographer Mandy Moore, docuseries directors Don Argott and Sheena M. Joyce and a few others. The showing was briefly interrupted by security alarms as a small fire was extinguished elsewhere in the building,</p><p>“The directors expanded upon the stories of not just me, but everyone who was part of this,” Swift said, before taking her seat in the crowd.</p><p>Here are key takeaways from the first two episodes of the six-episode docuseries, which launches Friday on Disney+. Two episodes will drop weekly, through Dec. 26.</p><figure>
                        <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2024/12/1733776996717.png" alt="Taylor Swift performs during "The Eras Tour" on Friday, Dec. 6, 2024, in Vancouver, British Columbia. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)" />
                        <figcaption>Taylor Swift performs during "The Eras Tour" on Friday, Dec. 6, 2024, in Vancouver, British Columbia. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)</figcaption>
                    </figure><h2>The origin of the Eras Tour</h2><p>The premiere episode opens in Vancouver, Canada, 15 minutes before the tour’s final date. Swift, standing in a circle with her dancers, delivers an impassioned speech, reminding them the Eras Tour wasn’t about pieces simply falling into place. “You put the pieces where they are,” she tells them. It sets the tone for what follows: “The End of an Era” is the only behind-the-scenes look at her tour and what drove it.</p><p>Early on, Swift states that there were two distinct catalysts for the Eras Tour. One was having her back catalog&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/taylor-swift-redoing-fearless-album-127eefa2a3ef3373e65507495f50145c">sold out from underneath her,</a>&nbsp;inspiring&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/taylor-swift-speak-now-taylors-version-a41998c4d1f08af9d89c6d314ed4c2bd">the rerecording project</a>&nbsp;that showed her the value of “celebrating your past.” The other was the pandemic, which heightened the desire for a return to live events.</p><h2>Tickets in demand</h2><p>The first episode also celebrates the incredible demand the tour created — mentioning Ticketmaster but not delving into the frustration it caused. The ticket seller&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/justice-department-live-nation-ticketmaster-antitrust-lawsuit-df9b552d127e1494db13e3cd625787a8">sparked outrage</a>&nbsp;in November 2022 when&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/taylor-swift-ticketmaster-concert-tickets-parents-34399cca6403c97f0983a5c69c7edec0">its site crashed</a>&nbsp;during a presale event. The company said the site was overwhelmed by both fans and attacks from bots posing as consumers to scoop up tickets and sell them on secondary sites. The debacle prompted congressional hearings and&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/taylor-swift-minnesota-ticketmaster-f7dcb061368c5e83c0630cf3e1d2516e">bills in state legislatures</a>&nbsp;aimed at better protecting consumers.</p><h2>A failed terror plot’s aftermath</h2><p>In August 2024, three dates were canceled in Vienna over an apparent&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/austria-extremism-arrests-security-taylor-swift-7ece0b264f6e4152b8214c9fba8c425b">plot to launch an attack</a>&nbsp;on the concerts.</p><p>“It’s like a force to be reckoned with in global culture,” Swift says of the tour in the first episode. “So never did I think we’d have a terrorist plot.”</p><p>The episode continues with Swift in London, preparing&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/taylor-swift-eras-tour-london-wembley-6a8aff0c9f0bb45382602a75dfc77904">to perform for the first time</a>&nbsp;since the cancellations — less than week later. “We dodged a massacre situation,” she says.</p><p>“Being afraid something is going to happen” to her audience, she says, “this is a new challenge.”</p><h2>The Southport stabbings</h2><p>About a week before the Vienna cancellations, a teenager&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/southport-stabbings-sentencing-axel-rudakubana-c03e5ab59cd2e2f5baf849710c9d6b3d">killed three girls and wounded 10 people</a>&nbsp;in a knife attack at a Swift-themed dance and yoga class in the English seaside town of Southport. Swift at the time said she was “completely in shock” over the violence.</p><p>As Swift contends with preparing herself for her first shows since Austria, she mentions the Southport attack and starts to cry when describing the “little kids” attacked.</p><p>“I’m going to meet some of the families tonight,” she says, getting emotional before reminding herself to “lock it off,” and get into pop performer mode. She compares it to being a pilot needing to adopt a “calm, cool, collected” demeanor. Later, it is revealed that Swift privately met with families of the Southport victims. That is not on camera, but the aftermath is: Swift in tears, realizing the show must go on.</p><h2>Yes, Travis Kelce is here …</h2><p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/taylor-swift-travis-kelce-engaged-d585627eb98b69428ce206a2c8a9cb7d">Swift’s fiance,</a>&nbsp;the Super Bowl champion Travis Kelce, first appears as a soothing voice on the phone, as Swift expresses her anxieties over the London shows and nailing a surprise performance with Ed Sheeran. His telepresence immediately elevates her mood.</p><p>“Thanks for making my day better,” he tells her. “Some people get a vitamin drip,” she responds. “I get this conversation.”</p><h2>… As are other special guests</h2><p><a href="https://apnews.com/hub/ed-sheeran">Sheeran</a>&nbsp;and Swift hang backstage and work out their set in London.&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/florence-welch-machine-everybody-scream-review-44b4d8c7da8261b961ec5c6ea9a7ae9c">Florence Welch</a>&nbsp;is featured in the series, too. “The persona is huge, but the person is soft,” Welch says of her similarities to Swift. Later, she describes being swept up in the magic of the Eras Tour. Swift is her friend, but when she joined the pop phenomenon on stage, she couldn’t help but think: “Oh my god, it’s (expletive) Taylor Swift.”</p><p>The Sheeran scene is particularly illuminating. She tells him she’s off for two months following the London run, and she’s planning on using that time to go somewhere no one can find her.</p><p>“I don’t want to be tracked like an animal,” she tells him, admitting to feeling “hunted” lately.</p><h2>Band members and dancers take center stage ...</h2><p>Those in and around Swift’s orbit tell their stories throughout the first two episodes. Fans will meet Amos Heller, her bassist since 2007. They will learn that&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/2025-oscars-mandy-moore-ariana-grande-interview-622d01fbbb47b7e9a2b02548246a18a8">Mandy Moore, the famous Hollywood choreographer,</a>&nbsp;joined Swift’s tour after&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/hub/emma-stone">Emma Stone</a>&nbsp;suggested Swift work with her. You’ll see another choreographer/former dancer Amanda Balen rejoin the stage. “I don’t want dancers that blend in,” Swift says of her crew.</p><p>Fans will get more of Kameron Saunders, the beloved dancer, and his story — of being belittled in his field for his size, of his mother’s endless support and how his brother, the&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/jaguars-khalen-saunders-beb27b895d90cd01bb0362adf7192d83">professional football player Khalen Saunders,</a>&nbsp;paid for his flight to audition for the tour. (A fun aside — Saunders’ brother was playing for&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/hub/kansas-city-chiefs">the Kansas City Chiefs</a>&nbsp;at the time, the same team as Kelce.)</p><p>As for Swift’s own dancing, she says, “It has taken me a really long time to even be fine at choreography.” She doesn’t do “eight counts” — she learns movement based on the syllable of the lyric she is singing.</p><h2>… And so does Swift’s team bonuses</h2><p>Swift’s decision to give her team bonuses, which People reported totaled $197 million, is highlighted in the series. In the second episode, Swift says she gave every member of the crew a handwritten letter and sealed it with a wax stamp. It’s a compelling advertisement for Swift’s generosity — particularly when the camera zooms in on a young production assistant, who looks stunned as he holds his note and says he’s going to “pass out.” Individual bonus amounts are not revealed.</p><h2>‘The Tortured Poets Department’ tour prep predated the album</h2><p>You read that correctly.&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/taylor-swift-tortured-poets-department-eras-tour-293d90acd670d6d19c294a0e6085829a">To add a segment</a>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/taylor-swift-tortured-poets-department-review-b24d2275df5cf78ffa9069c61b9825ec">“The Tortured Poets Department”</a>&nbsp;into the tour, Swift and team “built this top-secret rehearsal facility,” she says. Dancers had to learn the choreography without music blasting over the loudspeakers, since the album had not yet been publicly released. Keeping surprises secret is serious business.</p>

Updates from the first episodes of Taylor Swift’s Disney+ Eras Tour docuseries

By&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/author/mark-kennedy">MARK KENNEDY</a>

NEW YORK (AP) — A newly discovered&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/hub/dr-seuss">Dr. Seuss</a>&nbsp;manuscript featuring the Cat in the Hat and celebrating the United States will be published next year, just in time for&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/federal-cuts-humanities-america250-anniversary-doge-572cf095773c66856a1da94030ffd5a9">America’s 250th anniversary.</a>

“Sing the 50 United States” is the first full manuscript written by Dr. Seuss — born Theodor Geisel — to be discovered since the posthumous release of&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/62c82fa1f4be43c7aa4355fd11c36478">“What Pet Should I Get?”</a>&nbsp;in 2015.

The new book aims to teach readers the names of the states. “To sing the 50 United States, you have to use your brain,” the Cat in the Hat advises. “Massachusetts. Minnesota. Missouri and Montana. M-i-s-s-Mississippi. Maryland! Michigan and Maine!”

“Uncovering a new work from Ted is like finding a time capsule of his imagination,” says Susan Brandt, president and CEO of Dr. Seuss Enterprises. “‘Sing the 50 United States’ celebrates his boundless creativity, genius with words, and enduring ability to inspire young readers everywhere. We’re honored to share this new Dr. Seuss treasure with readers across America during such a meaningful milestone year.”

The manuscript was found earlier this year in archival materials at the Geisel Library at The University California San Diego. Geisel also left behind a cover sketch and notes on the overall art direction. New illustrations were done by artist Tom Brannon, in the style of Dr. Seuss.

Random House Children’s Books will publish the book on June 2, 2026, with a first printing of 500,000 copies.

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                    </figure><p>By&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/author/mark-kennedy">MARK KENNEDY</a></p><p>NEW YORK (AP) — A newly discovered&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/hub/dr-seuss">Dr. Seuss</a>&nbsp;manuscript featuring the Cat in the Hat and celebrating the United States will be published next year, just in time for&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/federal-cuts-humanities-america250-anniversary-doge-572cf095773c66856a1da94030ffd5a9">America’s 250th anniversary.</a></p><p>“Sing the 50 United States” is the first full manuscript written by Dr. Seuss — born Theodor Geisel — to be discovered since the posthumous release of&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/62c82fa1f4be43c7aa4355fd11c36478">“What Pet Should I Get?”</a>&nbsp;in 2015.</p><p>The new book aims to teach readers the names of the states. “To sing the 50 United States, you have to use your brain,” the Cat in the Hat advises. “Massachusetts. Minnesota. Missouri and Montana. M-i-s-s-Mississippi. Maryland! Michigan and Maine!”</p><p>“Uncovering a new work from Ted is like finding a time capsule of his imagination,” says Susan Brandt, president and CEO of Dr. Seuss Enterprises. “‘Sing the 50 United States’ celebrates his boundless creativity, genius with words, and enduring ability to inspire young readers everywhere. We’re honored to share this new Dr. Seuss treasure with readers across America during such a meaningful milestone year.”</p><p>The manuscript was found earlier this year in archival materials at the Geisel Library at The University California San Diego. Geisel also left behind a cover sketch and notes on the overall art direction. New illustrations were done by artist Tom Brannon, in the style of Dr. Seuss.</p><p>Random House Children’s Books will publish the book on June 2, 2026, with a first printing of 500,000 copies.</p>

Newly discovered Dr. Seuss manuscript will celebrate America’s 250th anniversary

On Wednesday, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte referred to President Donald Trump as “Daddy,” a moment of levity in a serious NATO summit.&nbsp;

During the NATO press conference, a reporter asked President Trump about Rutte calling him Daddy. Secretary of State Marco Rubio enjoyed the question and the President's answer.

<p>On Wednesday, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte referred to President Donald Trump as “Daddy,” a moment of levity in a serious NATO summit.&nbsp;</p><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">🎶 Daddy’s home… Hey, hey, hey, Daddy.<br><br>President Donald J. Trump attended the NATO Summit in The Hague, Netherlands. <a href="https://t.co/asJb5FD2Ii">pic.twitter.com/asJb5FD2Ii</a></p>&mdash; The White House (@WhiteHouse) <a href="https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1938053287535616085?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 26, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">🚨 JUST IN - Secretary General of NATO on Trump dropping the F BOMB on Israel and Iran: “Sometimes, daddy has to use strong language.”<br><br>Omg 🤣<br><br> <a href="https://t.co/wT2Zv1rCIk">pic.twitter.com/wT2Zv1rCIk</a></p>&mdash; Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) <a href="https://twitter.com/EricLDaugh/status/1937866560200474715?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 25, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><p>During the NATO press conference, a reporter asked President Trump about Rutte calling him Daddy. Secretary of State Marco Rubio enjoyed the question and the President's answer.</p><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">This clip of President Trump answering the “Daddy” question and Marco Rubio cracking up is my favorite of the day. It’s absolutely priceless. 😂😂😂 <a href="https://t.co/8DkMr1EUPb">pic.twitter.com/8DkMr1EUPb</a></p>&mdash; Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) <a href="https://twitter.com/atensnut/status/1938049684032893100?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 26, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>

🎥Daddy's home: White House fun with Trump's return from NATO Summit

WASHINGTON (AP) — The&nbsp;<a href="https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R48309/2#:~:text=Every%20four%20years%2C%20the%20House,of%20the%20electoral%20college%20process.">congressional joint session</a>&nbsp;to count&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/what-to-know-electoral-college-presidential-elections-1fe5436f724d87030f340f1893626f6e">electoral votes</a>&nbsp;on Monday is expected to be much less eventful than the certification&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/congress-confirm-joe-biden-78104aea082995bbd7412a6e6cd13818">four years ago</a>&nbsp;that was&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/hub/capitol-siege">interrupted by a violent mob of supporters of then-President Donald Trump</a>&nbsp;who tried to stop the count and overturn the results of an election he lost to Democrat Joe Biden.

This time, Trump is returning to office after&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/election-day-trump-harris-white-house-83c8e246ab97f5b97be45cdc156af4e2">winning the 2024 election</a>&nbsp;that began with Biden as his party's nominee and ended with Vice President Kamala Harris atop the ticket. She will preside over the certification of her own loss, fulfilling the constitutional role in the same way that Trump's vice president,&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/mike-pence-electoral-vote-d27490021b4203087043df1939b82f8b">Mike Pence,</a>&nbsp;did after the violence subsided on Jan. 6, 2021.

Usually a routine affair, the congressional&nbsp;<a href="https://history.house.gov/Institution/Joint-Sessions/Joint-Sessions/">joint session</a>&nbsp;on Jan. 6 every four years is the final step in reaffirming a presidential election after the&nbsp;<a href="https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF12682">Electoral College</a>&nbsp;officially elects the winner in December. The meeting is required by the Constitution and includes several distinct steps.

Under federal law, Congress must meet Jan. 6 to open sealed certificates from each state that contain a record of their&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/electoral-college-election-explainer-trump-harris-ca14e0823c1e88aa5e5039645637a357">electoral votes</a>. The votes are brought into the chamber in special mahogany boxes that are used for the occasion.

Bipartisan representatives of both chambers read the results out loud and do an official count. The vice president, as president of the Senate, presides over the session and declares the winner.

The Constitution requires Congress to meet and count the electoral votes. If there is a tie, then the House decides the presidency, with each congressional delegation having one vote. That hasn’t happened since the 1800s, and won't happen this time because Trump’s electoral win over Harris was decisive, 312-226.

Congress&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-susan-collins-west-virginia-c9c15562ad910bbc0ba6ef1eecbfc158">tightened the rules for the certification</a>&nbsp;after the violence of 2021 and Trump’s attempts to usurp the process.

In particular, the revised Electoral Count Act&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/biden-donald-trump-e4366ca9e350ef87ebbb7638517cbde3">passed in 2022</a>&nbsp;more explicitly defines the role of the vice president after Trump&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/jan-6-trump-pence-jd-vance-prosecution-f78cf222187b271e0ba0bb684110455e">aggressively</a><a href="https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-donald-trump-senate-elections-elections-aaa00b96179c454426453a99ca1e2e30">pushed</a>&nbsp;Pence to try and object to the Republican's defeat — an action that would have gone far beyond Pence's ceremonial role. Pence rebuffed Trump and ultimately gaveled down his own defeat. Harris will do the same.

The updated law clarifies that the vice president does not have the power to determine the results on Jan. 6.

Harris and Pence were not the first vice presidents to be put in the uncomfortable position of presiding over their own defeats. In 2001, Vice President Al Gore presided over the counting of the 2000 presidential election that he narrowly lost to Republican George W. Bush. Gore had to gavel several Democrats’ objections out of order.

In 2017, Biden as vice president presided over the count that declared Trump the winner. Biden also shot down objections from House Democrats that did not have any Senate support.

The presiding officer opens and presents the certificates of the electoral votes in alphabetical order of the states.

The appointed “tellers” from the House and Senate, members of both parties, then read each certificate out loud and record and count the votes. At the end, the presiding officer announces who has won the majority votes for both president and vice president.

After a teller reads the certificate from any state, a lawmaker can stand up and object to that state’s vote on any grounds. But the presiding officer will not hear the objection unless it is in writing and signed by one-fifth of each chamber.

That threshold is significantly higher than what came before. Previously, a successful objection only required support from one member of the Senate and one member of the House. Lawmakers raised the threshold in the 2022 law to make objections more difficult.

If any objection reaches the threshold — something not expected this time — the joint session suspends and the House and Senate go into separate sessions to consider it. For the objection to be sustained, both chambers must uphold it by a simple majority vote. If they do not agree, the original electoral votes are counted with no changes.

In 2021, both the House and Senate&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/congress-confirm-joe-biden-78104aea082995bbd7412a6e6cd13818'">rejected challenges</a>&nbsp;to the electoral votes in Arizona and Pennsylvania.

Before 2021, the last time that such an objection was considered had been 2005, when Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones of Ohio and Sen. Barbara Boxer of California, both Democrats, objected to Ohio’s electoral votes, claiming there were voting irregularities. Both the House and Senate debated the objection and easily rejected it. It was only the second time such a vote had occurred.

Once Congress counts the votes, what's next?

After Congress certifies the vote, the president is inaugurated on the west front of the Capitol on Jan. 20.

The joint session is the last official chance for objections, beyond any challenges in court. Harris has conceded and never disputed Trump’s win.

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                        <img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2024/12/1734727872762.png" alt="The mahogany boxes that will hold the electoral votes are on display on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Dec. 19,CSPAN" />
                        <figcaption>The mahogany boxes that will hold the electoral votes are on display on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Dec. 19,CSPAN</figcaption>
                    </figure><p>WASHINGTON (AP) — The&nbsp;<a href="https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R48309/2#:~:text=Every%20four%20years%2C%20the%20House,of%20the%20electoral%20college%20process.">congressional joint session</a>&nbsp;to count&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/what-to-know-electoral-college-presidential-elections-1fe5436f724d87030f340f1893626f6e">electoral votes</a>&nbsp;on Monday is expected to be much less eventful than the certification&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/congress-confirm-joe-biden-78104aea082995bbd7412a6e6cd13818">four years ago</a>&nbsp;that was&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/hub/capitol-siege">interrupted by a violent mob of supporters of then-President Donald Trump</a>&nbsp;who tried to stop the count and overturn the results of an election he lost to Democrat Joe Biden.</p><p>This time, Trump is returning to office after&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/election-day-trump-harris-white-house-83c8e246ab97f5b97be45cdc156af4e2">winning the 2024 election</a>&nbsp;that began with Biden as his party's nominee and ended with Vice President Kamala Harris atop the ticket. She will preside over the certification of her own loss, fulfilling the constitutional role in the same way that Trump's vice president,&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/mike-pence-electoral-vote-d27490021b4203087043df1939b82f8b">Mike Pence,</a>&nbsp;did after the violence subsided on Jan. 6, 2021.</p><p>Usually a routine affair, the congressional&nbsp;<a href="https://history.house.gov/Institution/Joint-Sessions/Joint-Sessions/">joint session</a>&nbsp;on Jan. 6 every four years is the final step in reaffirming a presidential election after the&nbsp;<a href="https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF12682">Electoral College</a>&nbsp;officially elects the winner in December. The meeting is required by the Constitution and includes several distinct steps.</p><p>A look at the joint session:</p><h2>What happens when Congress meets?</h2><p>Under federal law, Congress must meet Jan. 6 to open sealed certificates from each state that contain a record of their&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/electoral-college-election-explainer-trump-harris-ca14e0823c1e88aa5e5039645637a357">electoral votes</a>. The votes are brought into the chamber in special mahogany boxes that are used for the occasion.</p><p>Bipartisan representatives of both chambers read the results out loud and do an official count. The vice president, as president of the Senate, presides over the session and declares the winner.</p><p>The Constitution requires Congress to meet and count the electoral votes. If there is a tie, then the House decides the presidency, with each congressional delegation having one vote. That hasn’t happened since the 1800s, and won't happen this time because Trump’s electoral win over Harris was decisive, 312-226.</p><h2>How has it changed since the last time?</h2><p>Congress&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-susan-collins-west-virginia-c9c15562ad910bbc0ba6ef1eecbfc158">tightened the rules for the certification</a>&nbsp;after the violence of 2021 and Trump’s attempts to usurp the process.</p><p>In particular, the revised Electoral Count Act&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/biden-donald-trump-e4366ca9e350ef87ebbb7638517cbde3">passed in 2022</a>&nbsp;more explicitly defines the role of the vice president after Trump&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/jan-6-trump-pence-jd-vance-prosecution-f78cf222187b271e0ba0bb684110455e">aggressively</a><a href="https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-donald-trump-senate-elections-elections-aaa00b96179c454426453a99ca1e2e30">pushed</a>&nbsp;Pence to try and object to the Republican's defeat — an action that would have gone far beyond Pence's ceremonial role. Pence rebuffed Trump and ultimately gaveled down his own defeat. Harris will do the same.</p><p>The updated law clarifies that the vice president does not have the power to determine the results on Jan. 6.</p><p>Harris and Pence were not the first vice presidents to be put in the uncomfortable position of presiding over their own defeats. In 2001, Vice President Al Gore presided over the counting of the 2000 presidential election that he narrowly lost to Republican George W. Bush. Gore had to gavel several Democrats’ objections out of order.</p><p>In 2017, Biden as vice president presided over the count that declared Trump the winner. Biden also shot down objections from House Democrats that did not have any Senate support.</p><h2>How does the session unfold?</h2><p>The presiding officer opens and presents the certificates of the electoral votes in alphabetical order of the states.</p><p>The appointed “tellers” from the House and Senate, members of both parties, then read each certificate out loud and record and count the votes. At the end, the presiding officer announces who has won the majority votes for both president and vice president.</p><h2>What if there's an objection?</h2><p>After a teller reads the certificate from any state, a lawmaker can stand up and object to that state’s vote on any grounds. But the presiding officer will not hear the objection unless it is in writing and signed by one-fifth of each chamber.</p><p>That threshold is significantly higher than what came before. Previously, a successful objection only required support from one member of the Senate and one member of the House. Lawmakers raised the threshold in the 2022 law to make objections more difficult.</p><p>If any objection reaches the threshold — something not expected this time — the joint session suspends and the House and Senate go into separate sessions to consider it. For the objection to be sustained, both chambers must uphold it by a simple majority vote. If they do not agree, the original electoral votes are counted with no changes.</p><p>In 2021, both the House and Senate&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/congress-confirm-joe-biden-78104aea082995bbd7412a6e6cd13818'">rejected challenges</a>&nbsp;to the electoral votes in Arizona and Pennsylvania.</p><p>Before 2021, the last time that such an objection was considered had been 2005, when Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones of Ohio and Sen. Barbara Boxer of California, both Democrats, objected to Ohio’s electoral votes, claiming there were voting irregularities. Both the House and Senate debated the objection and easily rejected it. It was only the second time such a vote had occurred.</p><h2>Once Congress counts the votes, what's next?</h2><p>After Congress certifies the vote, the president is inaugurated on the west front of the Capitol on Jan. 20.</p><p>The joint session is the last official chance for objections, beyond any challenges in court. Harris has conceded and never disputed Trump’s win.</p>

How Congress will certify Trump's Electoral College victory 

<i>On this episode of Forward Ever: Leading in Challenging Times, host Gary Shorman speaks with former legislator, realtor, and Real Men Real Leaders executive director Reynaldo Mesa.</i>

<div><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iN_WCBzYk-w?si=ZieSXJsrkZlPaifk" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><p><i>On this episode of Forward Ever: Leading in Challenging Times, host Gary Shorman speaks with former legislator, realtor, and Real Men Real Leaders executive director Reynaldo Mesa.</i></p>

🎤Forward Ever: Reynaldo Mesa, Real Men Real Leaders

<i>On this episode of Forward Ever: Leading in Challenging Times, host Gary Shorman speaks with entrepreneur Kris Munsch.</i>

<div><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/L_j7J8c_66g?si=kAHfEv8jxgGZL6_b" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><p><i>On this episode of Forward Ever: Leading in Challenging Times, host Gary Shorman speaks with entrepreneur Kris Munsch.</i></p>

🎤Forward Ever: Entrepreneur Kris Munsch

<i>On this episode of Forward Ever: Leading in Challenging Times, host Gary Shorman speaks with&nbsp;Nuclear missile silo turned Airbnb owner Matthew Fulkerson.</i>

<div><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_L_A5J6JQhA?si=mnNNqSfyc9mW5J9n" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><p><i>On this episode of Forward Ever: Leading in Challenging Times, host Gary Shorman speaks with&nbsp;Nuclear missile silo turned Airbnb owner Matthew Fulkerson.</i></p>

🎤Forward Ever: Nuclear missile silo turned Airbnb owner Matthew Fulkerson

<i>On this episode of Forward Ever: Leading in Challenging Times, host Gary Shorman speaks with&nbsp;K9 Vests Midwest founder Emily Fawcett.</i>

<div><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/IFlaK6Fz6H8?si=iLlZJWuzDdfRGn2E" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><p><i>On this episode of Forward Ever: Leading in Challenging Times, host Gary Shorman speaks with&nbsp;K9 Vests Midwest founder Emily Fawcett.</i></p>

🎤Forward Ever: K9 Vests Midwest founder Emily Fawcett

<i>On this episode of Forward Ever: Leading in Challenging Times, host Gary Shorman speaks with Office of the State Fire Marshall&nbsp;Public Information Manager&nbsp;Lance Feyh about hurricane relief efforts.</i>

<div><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ka8IJ-jhn2g?si=lDrxR15HO4YQn4ZK" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><p><i>On this episode of Forward Ever: Leading in Challenging Times, host Gary Shorman speaks with Office of the State Fire Marshall&nbsp;Public Information Manager&nbsp;Lance Feyh about hurricane relief efforts.</i></p>

🎤Forward Ever: Kansas Fire Marshall spokesman Lance Feyh

<i>On this episode of Forward Ever: Leading in Challenging Times, host Gary Shorman speaks with&nbsp;Fort Hays State University assistant professor Morgan Steele.</i>

<div><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5uGgZJcEk14?si=BIOfD3gx_ktb8BtA" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><p><i>On this episode of Forward Ever: Leading in Challenging Times, host Gary Shorman speaks with&nbsp;Fort Hays State University assistant professor Morgan Steele.</i></p>

🎤Forward Ever: FHSU Criminalistics Professor Morgan Steele

<i>On this episode of Forward Ever: Leading in Challenging Times, host Gary Shorman speaks with&nbsp;American Red Cross communication manager Logan Wright.</i>

<div><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dobDNgOSMGA?si=lCBhPu7U5MDOzuTO" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><p><i>On this episode of Forward Ever: Leading in Challenging Times, host Gary Shorman speaks with&nbsp;American Red Cross communication manager Logan Wright.</i></p>

🎤Forward Ever: American Red Cross communication manager Logan Wright

<i>On this episode of Forward Ever: Leading in Challenging Times, host Gary Shorman speaks with&nbsp;KDOT Area Engineer Kevin Zimmer and Public Information Officer Lisa Mussman about the successful I-70 bridge demolition in Trego County.</i>

<p><i>On this episode of Forward Ever: Leading in Challenging Times, host Gary Shorman speaks with&nbsp;KDOT Area Engineer Kevin Zimmer and Public Information Officer Lisa Mussman about the successful I-70 bridge demolition in Trego County.</i></p><div><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iy_AT6qdBDc?si=KYLLBy68A64bEd0c" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The bridge at mile post 117 on I-70 has successfully been demolished. Now onto the clean up so we can get I-70 back open!<br><br>If you are on the detour, please refrain from taking county side roads. We’re already starting to see problems with people doing that. <a href="https://t.co/dvK0AkMUmg">pic.twitter.com/dvK0AkMUmg</a></p>&mdash; Trooper Tod (@TrooperTodKHP) <a href="https://twitter.com/TrooperTodKHP/status/1831351195031548137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 4, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div>

🎤Forward Ever: KDOT I-70 bridge demolition

<i>On this episode of Forward Ever: Leading in Challenging Times, host Gary Shorman speaks with&nbsp;Ms. Wheelchair America&nbsp;Tamara Blackwell.</i>

<div><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GBIy1dfbVY4?si=k3AZxslDQdFrhyJr" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><p><i>On this episode of Forward Ever: Leading in Challenging Times, host Gary Shorman speaks with&nbsp;Ms. Wheelchair America&nbsp;Tamara Blackwell.</i></p>

🎤Forward Ever: Ms. Wheelchair America Tamara Blackwell

<i>On this episode of Forward Ever: Leading in Challenging Times, host Gary Shorman speaks with Judge Tommy Webb.</i>

<div><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/toeed9oN0ik?si=Pq2NXG8GGlbXhy_3" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><p><i>On this episode of Forward Ever: Leading in Challenging Times, host Gary Shorman speaks with Judge Tommy Webb.</i></p>

🎤Forward Ever: Judge Tommy Webb

<i>On this episode of Forward Ever: Leading in Challenging Times, host Gary Shorman speaks with&nbsp;Former 'Agriculture today' host Eric Atkinson about the celebration of 100 years of broadcasting at K-State.</i>

<div><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/omYhIikaKGw?si=whYVGc_QQkq7COcY" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><p><i>On this episode of Forward Ever: Leading in Challenging Times, host Gary Shorman speaks with&nbsp;Former 'Agriculture today' host Eric Atkinson about the celebration of 100 years of broadcasting at K-State.</i></p>

🎤Forward Ever: Former 'Agriculture today' host Eric Atkinson

<i>On this episode of Forward Ever: Leading in Challenging Times, host Gary Shorman speaks with Fort Hays State University Head Football Coach Chris Brown.</i>

<div><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8I8bLNFUsJ0?si=KiXW7XsN_QGroZK6" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><p><i>On this episode of Forward Ever: Leading in Challenging Times, host Gary Shorman speaks with Fort Hays State University Head Football Coach Chris Brown.</i></p>

🎤Forward Ever: FHSU Football Coach Chris Brown

<i>On this episode of Forward Ever: Leading in Challenging Times, host Gary Shorman speaks with&nbsp;ESOP Association CEO and president James Bonham.</i>

<div><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/V-Uo7DbbVLA?si=FYzKCOzNeQz_JpHy" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><p><i>On this episode of Forward Ever: Leading in Challenging Times, host Gary Shorman speaks with&nbsp;ESOP Association CEO and president James Bonham.</i></p>

🎤Forward Ever: ESOP Association president James Bonham

<i>On this episode of Forward Ever: Leading in Challenging Times, host Gary Shorman speaks with&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid02476pG1zvXUF3tZFCmdBfsbNyAbJX2ZCpcW6QVSeqSQYYYFjoEUdhNH77tCR42Mxrl&amp;id=100083234953528" target="_blank">Kansas Search and Rescue Dog Association</a>&nbsp;director Deidra Stanley.</i>

<div><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hGjCNsEVCWs?si=hAlyHJIUTd0Ur0xS" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><p><i>On this episode of Forward Ever: Leading in Challenging Times, host Gary Shorman speaks with&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid02476pG1zvXUF3tZFCmdBfsbNyAbJX2ZCpcW6QVSeqSQYYYFjoEUdhNH77tCR42Mxrl&amp;id=100083234953528" target="_blank">Kansas Search and Rescue Dog Association</a>&nbsp;director Deidra Stanley.</i></p>

🎤Forward Ever: Search dog association director Deidra Stanley

<i>On this episode of Forward Ever: Leading in Challenging Times, host Gary Shorman speaks with Kansas Department of Commerce Community Development Specialist Sara Bloom.</i>

<div><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-x4jb-pMEsg?si=50OqA7MYOln789SV" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><p><i>On this episode of Forward Ever: Leading in Challenging Times, host Gary Shorman speaks with Kansas Department of Commerce Community Development Specialist Sara Bloom.</i></p>

🎤Forward Ever: KS Dept. of Commerce Employee of the Year Sara Bloom

<i>On this episode of Forward Ever: Leading in Challenging Times host Gary Shorman speaks with District 111 Representative Barbara Wasinger.&nbsp;</i>

<div><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VG5fXQSMzgc?si=B-doP6FQ71Io1v0_" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><p><i>On this episode of Forward Ever: Leading in Challenging Times host Gary Shorman speaks with District 111 Representative Barbara Wasinger.&nbsp;</i></p>

🎤Forward Ever: District 111 Rep. Barbara Wasinger

<i>On this episode of Forward Ever: Leading in Challenging Times, host Gary Shorman speaks with&nbsp; Medical Foster Home Program coordinator Amy Adams.</i>

<div><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/T3lyU_3rNfM?si=oAweCkNXxMo7Iubc" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><p><i>On this episode of Forward Ever: Leading in Challenging Times, host Gary Shorman speaks with&nbsp; Medical Foster Home Program coordinator Amy Adams.</i></p>

🎤Forward Ever: Veterans Administration social worker Amy Adams

<i>On this episode of Forward Ever: Leading in Challenging Times, host Gary Shorman speaks with U.S. Senator Roger Marshall.</i>

<div><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8_QapUV_xYo?si=MR_64btnWHxJsyzR" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><p><i>On this episode of Forward Ever: Leading in Challenging Times, host Gary Shorman speaks with U.S. Senator Roger Marshall.</i></p>

🎤Forward Ever: U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall

<i>On this episode of Forward Ever: Leading in Challenging Times, host Gary Shorman speaks with&nbsp;HaysMed President, CEO Eddie Herrman.</i>

<div><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/o8KYn5O7ROo?si=I9ZAyP0OjLukO9P5" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><p><i>On this episode of Forward Ever: Leading in Challenging Times, host Gary Shorman speaks with&nbsp;HaysMed President, CEO Eddie Herrman.</i></p>

🎤Forward Ever: HaysMed President, CEO Eddie Herrman

<i>On this episode of Forward Ever: Leading in Challenging Times, host Gary Shorman speaks with Kansas Insurance Commissioner Vicki Schmidt.</i>

<div><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WI1_KldMTjg?si=FNFCltxat4qiGW_d" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></div><p><i>On this episode of Forward Ever: Leading in Challenging Times, host Gary Shorman speaks with Kansas Insurance Commissioner Vicki Schmidt.</i></p>