EP301: The “Why” Behind What We Do Matters, The World’s First Combination Candy Bar and The Story of One of Hollywood's Greatest Composers

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What confounded me was that actually had a 92% on the assignment irritated that I dock them for not only synthesizing two articles to a coherent conclusion that was not in the rubric. I was told in an email.

My credibility was being questioned for a fleeting moment I went back to the notion of pursuing a career in carpentry, which I also enjoy but my why brought me back to the discussion with the revitalized tips explicitly right. I was trying to make this talented individual.

Even better, knowing, integrating ideas into believing them together is vital to this degree, and to life. I was also cognizant that I too have my limitations as a professor and have greater so I called yes by phone. Zoom is already been a staple of my days and I call people off because hearing a person's voice and the nuances of feeling are the senses that we could tap into and often we neglect it can also be tiring as I try to use it with a little discretion. Sometimes people are startled because from an educator called means they are in trouble or there could be something wrong in talking with the person I emphasize that they were doing very well.

There was plenty to say.

I asked them how are you doing not on the upcoming assignments, but as a person was upon conversation led to understanding which led to the revelation that this course was the only thing good happening in this person's life right now. The only good this saddened me for a moment feeling was palpable. The job was eating up weekends, family issues this class. I offered the stress of the pandemic trying to be part-time, principal at home with the kids and that fear of the unknown. They were all weighing heavily on this individual.

I shared how I used to bring my two daughters to the University of Minnesota with me trying to finish my degree while still working in business. I would carry my books over my shoulder holding the hand of one of my Boolean daughters and initially carried my other bundle of joy in my left arm alternating when needed. I was at hand to my kids but not consciously, fully present care was evident and it taught me to balance what I could and I kept my kids fed and happy. Well, generally it seemed to resonate with this person.

We connected and I understood empathizing what they were going through. I didn't realize that listening and through storytelling that breaking through the shell of a grade being lower than expected, was just scratching the surface of what was truly within their soul. I sense that the person wanted to know they have value and what they were doing was all worth it and they were not getting the affirmations from their immediate surroundings individual acknowledged within our discussion that in the long run. The grade was not as important as knowing that what they do and how they do it has to complement why they are even pursuing this degree in the first place. When I shown how what they did in the rest of the course demonstrated their mastery. The person laughed and some relief and realize that they were actually doing nominal work already and should not worry as much about this assignment.

Grade instead with their future could be and how bright it looks could be a horizon worth looking toward the why of what we do is often what keeps us going forward and sustains our heart and mind beating in a simpatico, especially when we doubt ourselves or wonder about our true purpose. I question my purpose. Sometimes I encounter some very difficult situations and often I put my head in my hands and asked for guidance from others and above it when I see a baby laugh. For instance, my grandson see new life emerging before my very eyes. I see a student change in confidence. See for themselves the realization that they are valuable and they grasp they can give someone else. Special thanks to Robbie for his work on the piece. And thanks to Paul Cox's book profiles and kindness is available on Amazon and all the usual suspects and think about what he did he was. Not having a particularly good day.

No day for teachers good. When the call to complain about a 92 and he did what well good teachers to make the call to call the student that's the why and why do we even teach. I know why my dad taught. He wanted to improve people's lives become better people. Paul Cox, the why behind a phone call with a student here on our American story view of the great American stories we tell love America like we do asking you to become a part of the all American stories family. If you agree that America is a good and great country.

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The founder, Howell Campbell and his right-hand man. Porter were in the kitchen playing around and they invented the first time anyone combined multiple ingredients into a single finished product was made of Caramello chocolate peanut and marshmallow new name and how was selling them on a streetcar in downtown Nashville and the story goes that a teacher was on the train and asked him why he was then called confections and he's like I have no idea conversation shifted to his newborn sign. They started asking what started talking. He saying words like God and they said that you should call it there so glad people ask for them from now, or separate the silly name so my grandfather had been in the confection industry and made wedding cakes and bakery and my dad out of business school, discovered standard candy. It was on the verge of bankruptcy.

And he called it sound like I think we can save that, and so they bought it and 82, and son, third generation to be involved in business and it's been a while right when they purchased the company. It was only the original and so they introduced the contrariety with place times and that was an 80s and 90s and early 90s writing center. I never thought I would hurt for the company. After college I moved to New York City I worked sales my thing for about six years and was just looking for something new will and the same time that was going through some restructuring changes and I have my mark on unqualified and I think that we can have a lot of fun with this cell. I did intern when I was 15 years old and couldn't drive to a job I would go to work with my dad that summer and had a jar out front of all three flavors and I probably do every day.

I call it a lunch. I was like peanut butter version protein account.

I honestly usually don't even have my house growing up government like you have to give you house you have to have them and we just don't think anyone left her sweet bubbly Halloween only lived on a really popular trick-or-treating street telling everyone knew about full-size clusters that we were extra popular in Holly.

I think it was in first grade.

I don't know what is turning maybe six or seven and I remember party are my class to factory and we all are here now to see the entire process and my friends still talk about it to this day, and I'm so glad they do remember now regulation.

I can barely get into the cell and got to experience that.

I guess for first grader cell in 2014 we opened up a retail store in downtown Nashville and that was really a test to check where able to hand make any sort of confections we desire. We get to have your own Howell Campbell and make our own take on a new cluster so we started out making having with our pastry chef making his own creations putting all sorts of wonderful goodies together into a finished product and we started I asked around the same time partnering with local chefs and what we call our Somerset. Every summer we partner with X or so shafts in the community to create their we have a ton of fun with that because we all get to trial these nail combinations Somerset series. We've also started partnering with other local business as one of them being a part of the cutie and they were celebrating history so they asked us to create forward and it actually uses particular cell little sweet little spicy on a little funky and fine Bankhead the Glen Campbell Museum created their own and we even create custom candies for corporate events or parties. There definitely are some big fans out there.

We got a huge fan out to Canada and he's been on twitter and we can have fun with him. He spent a couple of times and then into our store.

But most of the stories of this realm install Jack a lot of people remember eating them their grandparents or parents. One of our employees best that Sean she remembers sharing one with her mom at the checkout aisle in the grocery release we memories and stories, and everyone's always wanting to share them with us which we live.

I think the fun thing about the brand is that it's really evolved over the years, but it stayed true to exactly what the original ingredients were so back when it was first created. They were sold, and at last candy jar with no wrapper and then evolves to putting it in a little paper sleeve at the candy counter and then it was wrapped and whale similar to peppermint Patty and and then it went to sealed wrapper kind of like it is today a different different imaging. It's really fine to be a part of the history of the presence in downtown Nashville right where the original one was first created. Truly a stone's throw from the old factory. Our biggest challenge is trying to find trying to transition our customer base from the older generation who remembers eating them as I can to younger generations and making a little more young, fine, playful, and were trying to tackle.

That's what were we want our store to be like we want everyone to feel like a kid. It's also one of the few places downtown where kids are fine. You know were not one of the honky-tonks or museum where were just a playful environment where you can feel like a kid again and really fun to have that story to tell our real history and also get immediate customer feedback and if you can't visit us in our downtown store in Nashville.

We actually can design your own candy bar on site so give you.com your own action. Choose your chocolate you choose your any of your mix. Then we got weird things like chips and pretty levels that definitely go a little a little crazy with their confections. They are throwing it all the stuff I personally don't think it goes well together, but I'm sure of time sugar very happy will make it in our kitchen and ship it to you rolled out during the pandemic and it's been really fun to see people who are not able to visit Nashville still be able to do great job of a team effort for medicine and Robbie on the piece. Special thanks to Laura Spradling, owner of cluster third generation family business trying to stay relevant and current times in fun and meaningful to families lives and design your own Google cluster and have it sent to go to the website google.com that's google.com.

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Monty Montgomery started with the store. American composer Henry Mancini was born in Cleveland, Ohio on April 16, 1924. That's not where he grew up. Here's his wife Virginia Ginny with the rest of the story grew up in West Aliquippa, Pennsylvania outside of Pittsburgh and a steel town and his father worked it the Jones and Laughlin steel mill and Henry had a very modest childhood West Aliquippa. You have to understand is on the wrong side of the tracks, and many Europeans settled their especially Italians that were very poor Italian family and they were very close and was a very small town so his life was fairly simple and once his father realized that he didn't want his son to go to work in the steel mill.

He turned them onto the flute because his father played the flute and when his father came down with the month. In his frustration handed Henry the flute and taught them to play and they both played in the Sons of Italy band and West Aliquippa. So that was Henry's introduction to music and he loved it and there's a part in his history that talks about his father taking him into Pittsburgh to see the movie and the stage show at I forget the name of the theater, but one of the most popular theaters and in Pittsburgh the drama captured Henry in ways that you never realize because he thought the music was being played live behind the screen and when he found out that it was recorded.

He was fascinated with the whole way to put together and the music is there to create the emotional reaction that you're looking for and that fascinated support to the point where his instincts told him to just do what he felt like doing eventually followed his intuition and it paid off because once he graduated from high school. He had a chance to go to Julliard in the music business also served in World War II make strong connections with fellow musicians. Meeting members of the Glenn Miller band after the war when the Glenn Miller band reformed sands Glenn Miller become the piano player Ginny McHenry. It starts with American musician Miller Torme. I worked with Meldrum today for 3 1/2 years. Some of the most fun times of my young life and when Mel was advised to go out on his own as a solo performer.

I didn't know where my next was good to come from.

So I got a call one day from a friend who said that Tex Beneke was out here with the Glenn Miller Orchestra and was going to be at the Hollywood Palladium in the vocal group that had been with the band decided to move in in Hollywood and they needed a new so I had nothing better to do, and I went down to the million dollar theater in downtown LA and walked into Texas dressing room where the auditions were being held and there was a tall young Italian at the piano named Henry Mancini who was playing for the auditions. All the rest of the orchestra was out on the golf course so he was a little bit peeved that he had to stay back to play for the auditions. I never what I say for my audition, but I did get hired and never having been out of California before I left on the train with 36 strange musicians for a tour for two months premature across the country, starting with a wink at the Golden gate theater in San Francisco on the way to seven Cisco young Italian plant piano player sat down on the trim but beside me and said you know I just of arranging for them. Is there anything in particular you would like to sing and it was October 1946 and Nat King Cole had just recorded the Christmas song, the one that is such a standard today chestnuts roasting on the open fire that one.

It was about to be released and was timely so I suggested that.

Meanwhile in San Francisco and now were on a tour for two months across the country. When we arrived in New York mid December. I was rather stupid about whether arrived in a cloth coat mid December and freezing New York City. At any rate it was there that I heard what Henry wrote_paper that got my attention. I knew I never wanted to be married to a traveling musician because I saw how hard it was on the lives it was only when I realized that he had potential that I really saw his attention and I on one side of the stage at the piano on the other side of the stage. The band certainly knew that I had eyes player.

We began to date go out to dinner after the after the job and the one week off at Christmas time I didn't have.

I wasn't making enough money to fly home to California so he said I'm going to my home in Aliquippa are welcome welcome to come with me, so I agreed to go, knowing that would give me an opportunity to see what his relationship was with his mother line measure of a good husband was a loving Russian ship with his mother and I had the opportunity to witness Henry's loving kindness with his mother and I was impressed with that Junior Mancini told the story of an remittance world famous composer when she met him he was a keyboardist employer for large traveling band gold Glenn Miller band and Montgomery struck up a romance and she got to take metal of the musical measure of a man, but the character of the man as well and she said I had eyes for the young Italian piano player by invitation to his home. She was able she said that my measure of a good husband, which were she said was his relationship with his mother. When we come back more of the life story of Henry Mancini in the way the story of his bride Virginia Mensing and the story of the time in America distinct time in America. Postwar America on Elmer can store doing household chores can Artie be time-consuming and tedious. There's nothing more daunting than facing piles and piles of laundry that need to be done can be overwhelming for anyone.

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What a thing about this country girl in a working-class town like that and imagine yourself to become well, almost anything. When we last left off Junior Mancini, his widow is telling us about Henry's early life in Pennsylvania and how they met.

After World War II continue with the store.

When we got married I was making $36 a year on the 15 minute radio show Henry was making $52 unemployment insurance and we didn't have a care in the world. We managed to pay our bills to pay our rent. I was still singing backup for people. One of them was Betty Hutton measure major start Paramount Studios and she asked me if I would accompany her to London where she was playing a month at the London Palladium and she was opening on my first wedding anniversary and she was offering me some good money so I went home and I said Henry I would never do this, except without your permission, but Ms. asked me to go with her to the London for a month you feel about that. Well, what to do that is okay with me so on. Life on our opening night my first wedding anniversary flowers came into my big tub of dressing room of you know, washing tub while I'm at the London Flavian. He has a gig at the Hollywood plating playing the glockenspiel on I'm looking over a four leaf clover and he hated singing and playing with the whole thing looking for closer and he would not say he would play the doctors feel that nothing and one night the bandleader saw him nothing. Fighting off the dance done right then and there. So when I came home from the London Palladium, the airport and I said Henry Palladium. I got fired because I wouldn't sing looking over a forklift clover anyway.

That was that chapter in our lives. In the 1952 Mancini would join the universal music department going to have a hand in working with scores of 100 different this time. At Universal was like going to Harvard great training experience for him to be on salary and we knew we could always depend on a check at the end of the week and that's where he got his training he was working constantly on think of it was there that he meet Blake Edwards, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter.

If you don't know the directed breakfast at Tiffany's just by accident Blake Edwards and Henry were on the universal lot at the same time Henry was there to get a haircut and they were about to have lunch and they met in the commissary like happened to mention to Henry that he was about to do a television series called Peter Gunn would be interested in doing the music.

Henry, of course, thinking it was a Western said sure why not do it no this is not a Western is is about a private detective named Peter Gunn well that was a turning point in our lives because it became such a worldwide and still today that album cover is treasured worldwide. We had always tried to plan to go to Europe at some point in our lives and we would say one day we're going to go to Europe. One never going to go to Europe is Henry. I don't care when, but let's look at [now so booked a trip from New York to Southhampton on the SS France first class all the way for six weeks. We had saved $6000. So when we sailed on the SS France. It so happened that Blake Edwards and Maurice bushman writing a script on a story called the pink pastor so they would be in their statement writing all day long and at dinnertime.

We would all converge at the dinner table for drinks and laughs and the rest of the evening we were on a six-week tour of wonderful countries staying friends, Netherlands, and the Finland and Sweden all six weeks on $6000.

Can you imagine so while we were there.

It's one. Unhitch and remove that when we came home we didn't have to worry. The first royalty check from ASCAP for Peter Gunn was $32,000. We couldn't imagine having that much money in when when Henry had an assignment I used to hear him composing away upstairs in his music room and always sounded so beautiful to me just to hear the notes come out anyway when he was finished with her with a segment call me on the phone.

He said he want to come up and hear something and I was always the first one to react to what he had written and it was mostly always always positive. I love the experience of hearing what he wrote for the first time anybody on the planet, one song Henry composed and Ginny managed to here pretty early on was Moon River for breakfast at Tiffany's. It's a song that since been covered by Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Chevy Chase, Goshen and Morrissey of all people with a song almost didn't make it onto the big screen when breakfast at Tiffany's was finished. Paramount decided to take it to San Francisco to prohibit.

And when it was over we all met in Blake Edwards, suite in San Francisco to discuss what worked, what didn't work.

It was on this thing that was a little long and I needed to be cuts made here and there.

One of the suggestions by the head of the studio was that they cut the song. There was such silence in the room.

Audrey took exception to that suggestion. After having worked so hard to do it and learn it. And anyway definitely stated picture though, and thank God it had a sense of melody that very few good musicians have an river. I do believe will live longer longer longer than any of us know that song forever has a lasting quality about it that expresses everybody's feeling Henry Mancini would pass away on June 14, 1994 at the age of 70 and Ginny adored every second of their time together my life with such a joy because his temperament was so even he would never get angry.

He would always take this is a journey when I have to fly off the handle uses a Ginny for Barstow by meaning. For bars of music before you say anything before you react. Anyway he taught me a lot. He taught me a lot much time with Henry was over much too early this year, we would've celebrated 69 years of marital bliss.

Unfortunately, I was was not able to keep them that long. So I II keep them alive through listening to his music all the time. He's always there, always there, and a great job. Montgomery special Graham for helping us the story and a special thanks Virginia Mancini telling her story. The story of her husband composure Henry Manson turns out that universal music department. This life-changing story Henry Mancini on consumer insurance army to make a good neighbor, call your local State Farm agent for quote today.

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