SHOW NOTES

Title: FINALE SHOW — Closing the Safety Pin “ter to TOR” — Graduation, Celebration, and Connection — featuring Esteb, Dubel, Kelly, Flannery, Jones, Waters, BJ, EPOC Underground, and Gold

Episode Number: 171

Host: Dr. Thomas Lamar

Show Date: 12/31/2013

Run Time: 461:52

Description:   While some may remember it as the episode that holds the World’s Record for the LONGEST Chiropractic Podcast EVER Recorded (7 hours, 41 minutes, and 52 seconds), for others the Finale Episode of Spinal Column Radio memorializes a TRANSFORMATION — a transformation they have witnessed in themselves when it comes to chiropracTIC.  Because of the content shared on SCR, they — like the host, Dr. Thomas Lamar — have experienced a “shift.” For in their regular listening, they have witnessed in themselves a CHANGE — a change in how they now THINK, TEACH, and PREACH chiropractic. The “safety pin” between their ears has clicked into position and a “CONNECTION” has been made. They now GET the Big Idea. They now GET chiropracTIC and see themselves as chiropracTORs. They have undergone “The ter to TOR Evolution.” Have YOU?

Join Dr. Thomas Lamar (and Logan) for a final episode that not only recognizes this “shift” with Graduation and Celebration, but CONNECTS it all together with the SAFETY PIN.

First Dr. Lamar and Listeners symbolically GRADUATE “ter to TOR” — marking this moment in history — as they join Life Chiropractic College West’s Graduation Ceremony LIVE via a mic’ed-up Big TOR on Campus, Brett Jones, to vicariously walk across the platform with him. Not only will listeners “graduate” with Lamar, but he, through the POWER OF THE PODCAST, addresses the actual student graduates at Life West from his SCR Studio on their Big Screen. Afterwards, Life West President, Dr. Brian Kelly, joins the program to share some words with the newly “graduated” SCR-ter-to-TOR-Listeners. Then, if all that weren’t enough, Life West Dean of Enrollment, Dr. Mary Flannery joins Lamar in-studio to talk about an exciting new program that allows “ter to TOR”graduate-listeners to CONNECT with Life West through their Safety Pin Project — grafting them in the family as “alumni” of their philosophical, vitalistic, subluxation-based institution. Plus participating SCR Listeners will receive a Spinal Column Radio Safety Pin Certificate, acting as a “diploma” that will remind and tell of this transformation graduation.

Then the Finale Show kicks into party mode, as Dr. Lamar and Logan CELEBRATE four years of Spinal Column Radio. They break out STATS and share MEMORIES. Lamar goes Underground at the Tacoma EPOC to CONNECT with some of the Best SCR Backyard Listeners and Chiro Bros on the Planet (Aaron Toler, Seth Anderson, Nathan Wall, and Walt Scott) and then is back in studio to continue the celebration with some special people… people who share a special place in Lamar’s 18-year “ter to TOR journey.” On the guest list: Bill Esteb, Jim Dubel, Todd Waters, and Reggie Gold.

Plus, for some Chiro-Comedy, Todd Water’s “BJ” character has some final interactions with the SCR team, and Lamar shares some very fitting words from the real BJ written out of his previously unpublished work, The Great Undertow. And CONNECTING it all together in the spirit of the Safety Pin… is a history segment that was patiently waiting for Lamar to discover. On this episode Lamar pays tribute to Washington State ChiropracTIC Pioneer, Dr. HT Hughes and his Chiropractic Diamond Jubilee Commemorative Medal.

His entire family of 9 drops in for a short stay, and then of course, Lamar wraps the whole thing with some CHARGING FINAL WORDS that are not to be missed.

“ter to TOR” GRADUATION

– Recognizing the Transformation –

Graduation and Celebration on the Spinal Column Radio Finale Episode.

Brian Kelly DC, president Life Chiropractic College West

Interviewing Life West’s Dean of Enrollment, Mary Flannery DC, about their Safety Pin Project.

ChiropracTOR and Dad of Seven! .. plus husband to one smokin’ wife.

Big TOR on Campus, SCR Correspondent, Dr. Brett Jones. …Congratulations Brett! (ps. note the mic’ed up phone in his left pocket).

My Address to the Graduating Students at Life West
— direct from our SCR Studio to their Big Screen.

“SEAL THE DEAL”

Become a Life West Safety Pinner

“ter to TOR” CELEBRATION

– 4 years of Spinal Column Radio –

Hanging in the Underground with my Chiro Bros and BEST Backyard Listeners on the PLANET!

The Safety Pin “clicked” and Cassidy shares that she wants to be a chiropractor.

Speaking at EPOC Underground: Telling the SCR Story and Talking the TIC

Todd Waters, the man of many “hats” for chiropracTIC (and SCR): Chiropicker, BJ, Author, Jingle Singer, Fan and Friend.

Bill Esteb, founder of Patient Media — the chiropracTIC patient who dared share his point of view… a point of view that changed mine… AND the perfect “Cherry On Top” Interview for our Finale Show.

Meetup with BJ at Fall 2011 New Beginnings

Interviewing the Outlaw and Founder of New Beginnings, Dr. Jim Dubel — the man who put “feet to a dream.”

Interviewing ChiropracTIC Icon, Dr. Reggie Gold — no other chiropractor has impacted me as deeply as he. …And he’s also Logan’s Number ONE SCR Memory.

Enjoy our 4 Year Look Back Slide show:

“Who knew that spinal education could be THIS Much Fun!”

SCR Podcast Master Card Commercial:

“Creating Life Changing Content by Interviewing some of the greatest minds in the chiropractic profession… AMAZING. Doing it with your son…. Priceless.”

BONUS MATERIAL:

Catch our Extended Todd Waters Jingle Singer Interview

“ter to TOR” CONNECTION

– Revering the Shoulders You Stand Upon –

HT Hughes Chiropractic Office (1958)

HT Hughes (rt) presenting college president, Dave Palmer (lft), a gold Chiropractic Diamond Jubilee Commemorative Medal at the 1969 Palmer Homecoming. (Agnes Palmer – extreme left)

Hughes Chiropractic Museum in Auburn, WA

HT Hughes in front of his first office in Auburn, WA (1948)

Reverse side of the Chiropractic Diamond Jubilee Commemorative Medal

Obverse side of the Chiropractic Diamond Jubilee Commemorative Medal

HT Hughes, DC (1921 – 2011) — Washington State ChiropracTIC Pioneer and Warrior

The Coin that CONNECTS me to the shoulders I stand upon.

Links talked about on the show:

• SCR Mailing List
• EPOC
  • EPOC Tacoma Underground
• Dr. Lamar addresses his LACC graduating class in 1995
• Big TOR on Campus segments
  • Episode 159 – the significant other of a chiro student
• Life Chiropractic College West
  • Dr. Brian Kelly, president of Life West — other interviews on SCR 060 and 115
  • Safety Pin Project
  • Storyteller Project of Dr. Lamar and SCR (coming)
• Dr. Lamar’s Spinal Column Blog Safety Pin Article
• A Message to Garcia (SCR 169 2:33:53 mark)
• HT Hughes, DC — WA State ChiropracTIC Pioneer
  • The Great Undertow – by BJ Palmer
  • Spizz Article on the Genesis of the 75 Medal Scholarship
  • Order Your Own Chiropractic Coin
  • Hughes Chiropractic History Museum
• Bill Esteb – Patient Media
  • Bill’s interview on SCR with Victor (SCR 167)
• Todd Waters – Man of Many Talents for the TIC
  • BJ Character — BJ TV
  • Chiro-Picker — Pick that Changed Everything, Chiro-Picker’s Fresh Pics, Simmons Museum
  • Author — Chiro-Picker’s Book Shoppe
  • Jingle Singer — Extended Jingle Interview
  • Fan and Friend — Fan Takeover Show, Spizz Interview, Blog Article
• James Dubel, Outlaw and founder of New Beginnings
  • New Beginnings Chiropractic Weekend
  • SCR Interviews from New Beginnings
  • NB CDs: 1, 2, 3, 4
• Box on the Wall – Donate to Cover SCR Time and Expenses
• Reggie Gold — chiropracTIC Legend
  • SCR Episode 030 and 031 (first interview Fall 2010 NB)
  • SCR Episode 046 (Cal Jam 2011 man on the street)
  • SCR Episode 080 (second interview Spring 2011 NB)
  • SCR Episode 109 (tribute, January 2012)
  • SCR Episode 118 (CCE, Fall 2011 NB)
  • SCR Episode 142 (Fall 2011 NB man on the street)
  • SCR Episode 151 (Irene Gold/Valley of the Blind/Fall 2011 NB Bonus)
  • SCR Episode 157 (33 Principles and last talk, Fall 2011 NB)
  • SCR Episode 158 (Chiro-Picker early Reggie LP find)
  • Spine Bites 004, 005, and 016