Episode 170 — ChiropracTIC History Saga Episode; Mission Possible ChiroFEST 2013; and Sottile and Gorman Interviewed Together
December 6, 2013, 1:30 am
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Title: ChiropracTIC History Saga Episode; Mission Possible ChiroFEST 2013; and Sottile and Gorman Interviewed Together
Episode Number: 170
Host: Dr. Thomas Lamar
Show Date: 12/06/13
Run Time: 249:26
Description: It’s the Spinal Column Radio “Saga Episode.” Join Dr. Lamar and Logan for their last “regular” show as they “clear the countertop” to make way for the upcoming Finale Show. On this episode they step you back into chiropracTIC’s past with a boatload of exciting chiropractic history, and then step you forward into its future with ChiroFEST 2013’s Mission Possible. Plus they sit down with ChiropracTIC’s Principled Funnyman and Funnywoman, Dean Sottile and Sharon Gorman, for an unforgettable duo-interview that will have you laughing and taking notes at the same time.
History topics covered: DD Palmer’s Portland Chiropractic College with Nathan Cashion reporting on location; “A Journey for the TIC Like None Other” — The Searby Saga (the story of Mack and Dorothy Searby’s quest to study at the PSC); Gary Street and BJ’s Chiropractic Scrapbook; DD’s other son (BJ’s older brother) Frank Palmer’s gravesite rediscovered; BJ’s Parrot; Fred Barge’s Rats in a Dump; DD’s Mammoth Tusk; DD visits Seattle; BJ Palmer Mansion (featuring Todd Waters and Joe Ierano); BJ’s fascination with elephants; and more.
ChiroFest 2013 mini-interviews asking the question of all the event speakers, based on what they shared from the platform, “What is POSSIBLE with chiropracTIC?”: James Chestnut, Jeanne Ohm, Fred Schofield, Joe Borio, Liam Schubel, Deed Harrison, Brad Glowaki, Troy Dukowitz, Garret Gunderson, Heidi Farrell, Wendy Dick, Billy DeMoss, Matthew Loop, Dan Yachter, Cathy Colby, and Paul Reed.
Plus BTOC (Big TOR on Campus) Brett Jones with Jen Wilhelm, Two Spinal Column Reblogs featuring Drs. Fred Barge and David Jackson, Power of the Podcast, and listener feedback.
(Chestnut, Ohm, Schofield, Borio, Schubel, Harrison, Glowaki, Dukowitz, Farrell, Reed, Gunderson, Dick, DeMoss, Loop, Yachter, and Colby interviews recorded at the 2013 ChiroFest in Redmond, Washington. Interview with Drs. Dean Sottile and Sharon Gorman recorded at the 2012 California Jam in Costa Mesa, California).
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Journey for the TIC like none other
SEARBY SAGA
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Telling the SCR Story
for Life Chiropractic College West’s Storyteller Project
Telling SCR’s Story on Life Chiropractic College West Storyteller Project
Telling SCR’s Story on Life Chiropractic College West Storyteller Project
Telling SCR’s Story on Life Chiropractic College West Storyteller Project
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DD’s Portland Chiro College
– On Location –
— Nathan Cashion, UWS chiro student and host of Exploring Chiropractic
– more history on DD Palmer’s Portland Chiropractic School: (1) (2) (3)
Oregonian Building, Portland – first location of DD Palmer Chiropractic College. School was on the 2nd floor. (ca 1908)
D.D. Palmer with first Portland class which included John E. LaValley, John Marsh and Leroy Gordon.
Drexel Building, Portland, OR – corner of SW 2nd Ave and SW Yamhill Ave. Second location of DD Palmer Chiropractic College (ca 1909). School was located on 4th floor.
Nathan Cashion, UWS chiropractic student and host of Exploring Chiropractic, On Location in Portland at the former site of the DD Palmer Chiropractic College
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SpinalColumnRadio
ON LOCATION with the
Dead Chiropractic Society’s

chiropracTIC’s
Principled Funnybones
Dean Sottile, DC and Sharon Gorman, DC
DCS California Jam
2012

Dr. Thomas Lamar interviews Drs. Dean Sottile and Sharon Gorman
at the 2012 California Jam.
• Learn more about Dean and Sharon:
– Dean Sottile on Facebook
– Dean’s other SCR interviews: (059 and 142)
– Sharon Gorman on Facebook
– Sharon’s other SCR interviews: (097, 138, and 144)
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— Redmond, Washington —
What is possible with ChiropracTIC?
James Chestnut, Jeanne Ohm, Fred Schofield, Joe Borio, Liam Schubel, Deed Harrison, Brad Glowaki, Troy Dukowitz, Garret Gunderson, Wendy Dick, Billy DeMoss, Matthew Loop, Dan Yachter, Cathy Colby, and Paul Reed.
Cathy Colby, DC: ChiroFEST 2013 Mission Possible with ChiropracTIC
James Chestnut, DC: ChiroFEST 2013 Mission Possible with ChiropracTIC
Dan Yachter, DC: ChiroFEST 2013 Mission Possible with ChiropracTIC
Matthew Loop, DC: ChiroFEST 2013 Mission Possible with ChiropracTIC
Fred Schofield, DC: ChiroFEST 2013 Mission Possible with ChiropracTIC
Liam Schubel, DC: ChiroFEST 2013 Mission Possible with ChiropracTIC
Jeanne Ohm, DC: ChiroFEST 2013 Mission Possible with ChiropracTIC
Deed Harrison, DC: ChiroFEST 2013 Mission Possible with ChiropracTIC
Brad Glowaki, DC: ChiroFEST 2013 Mission Possible with ChiropracTIC
Garrett Gunderson: ChiroFEST 2013 Mission Possible with ChiropracTIC
Paul Reed, DC, ChiroFest Founder: ChiroFEST 2013 Mission Possible with ChiropracTIC
Heidi Farrell: ChiroFEST 2013 Mission Possible with ChiropracTIC
Troy Dukowitz, DC: ChiroFEST 2013 Mission Possible with ChiropracTIC
Wendy Dick: ChiroFEST 2013 Mission Possible with ChiropracTIC
Billy DeMoss, DC: ChiroFEST 2013 Mission Possible with ChiropracTIC
Joe Borio, DC: ChiroFEST 2013 Mission Possible with ChiropracTIC
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• Pics talked about on the show:
BJ had a parrot.
DD collected wild game heads, BJ: bones… Lamar: animal vertebrae.
One of my favorite pics: patients’ no-longer-needed crutches hang from the wall in DD Palmer’s Ryan Block office.
Favorite pic of the garden: pond housed alligators in the summer, totem poles came from Seattle, and sign by the back door said: To See BJ! Pull Latch & String.
This is the place where BJ purchased the quartet of totem poles that display in his A Little Bit of Heaven garden.
BJ cited by officer for animal droppings in a public thoroughfare as he rides an elephant down Brady Street. (circa 1956-7)
BJ “scoops the poop” to avoid the fine.

Street shares scrapbook story – 2010
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Rats in a Dump
We’re “ReBlogging” select articles from SpinalColumnBlog.com — the platform that gave inspiration for what you now know as Spinal Column Radio.
“If you have a dump, you’ve got rats.”
That’s what the late chiropractic icon, Fred Barge, used to say when it comes to one’s health.
It doesn’t work the other way around. Rats don’t create the dump, rather rats are attracted to the dump. In many ways, germs are a lot like rats in that they are both opportunistic. Germs, like rats, not only seek out but require a place to set up camp.
How’s your dump?
– Listen to us talk about this reblog on SCR 170.
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As we find ourselves in the thick of cold and flu season our focus on avoiding germs becomes top priority for many of us. We’re quick to Purell our hands and sanitize everything we touch. But are germs really the issue? The reality is, they’re no more of an issue now than they are at any other time of year.
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Chiro-Picker’s Fresh Pick — Composing the BJ Palmer Mansion
November 29, 2013, 12:30 am
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by Todd Waters, aka “The Chiro-Picker” – SpinalColumnRadio featured blogger
From the moment you walk in, you are overcome by a feeling of heaviness. For the Second Empire structure recognizes no other time than the period it housed its master, Dr. BJ Palmer.
Those that have had the opportunity to visit the BJ Palmer Mansion — which sits on the south end of the block of buildings on Brady Street that make up the Palmer College of Chiropractic in Davenport, Iowa — quickly recognize the richness to our past that this piece of chiropractic history affords.

I’ve been to the mansion twice myself and have attempted to photograph every nook and cranny — an impossible and overwhelming task, because there are just too many fascinating items. Continue reading →
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Rx on an Airplane
We’re “ReBlogging” select articles from SpinalColumnBlog.com — the platform that gave inspiration for what you now know as Spinal Column Radio.
“Fear lives in our beliefs. It keeps us from telling others what we know we need to tell them because we’re more afraid of what they might say versus what they might NOT say.”
That was the driving force behind the action of chiropracTOR, Dave Jackson, aboard a flight bound for Seattle.
Of all the docs I have interviewed, Dave Jackson, is definitely in the “cool cat” category. His message is pure, genuine, grounded in the principle… and cool at the same time. Enjoy this article, and be sure to tune into our interviews with the “cool cat” himself.
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“Fear lives in our beliefs.”
That’s what Dr. David Jackson communicated to an assembly of chiropractors — of which I was one — in Seattle several months back. He went on to say that fear keeps us from telling others what we know we need to tell them because we’re more afraid of what they might say versus what they might not say. When it comes to sharing chiropractic, he’s more fearful of not telling people than he is at telling them. He admitted, though, it hadn’t always been that way for him. But as he began to witness more and more people falling ill and dying, he became too afraid of the results of staying silent.
To illustrate his point, he told us about an encounter he had on the airplane as he was flying up to our meeting. He explained that…
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Chiro-Picker’s Fresh Pick — Finding the Three-Story Scrapbook
November 15, 2013, 12:30 am
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by Todd Waters, aka “The Chiro-Picker” – SpinalColumnRadio featured blogger
As I wrote in a recent Fresh Pick installment, I enjoy collecting stories and treasured memories from people who have a connection with Chiropractic’s early years — tales, which I often find escape our chiro-history texts. While these stories can sometimes be difficult, if not impossible, to fact-check, I still find that they allow me to be a better ChiroPicker. For they often provide missing clues — acting as that needed breadcrumb — to bring me (and I’m sure other chiro-historians) closer to unearthing other great discoveries.
Here’s another one of my favorites:
Dr. Gary Street joined up with the now late Dr. Merwyn Zarbuck to assist him in his twenty-five year quest for BJ Palmer’s scrapbook.
BJ, as you may know, wrote about his scrapbook in the Green Book series and stated it was not actually a book per se, but files upon files of anything and everything documenting chiropractic’s history from its conception.
The scrapbook contained notebooks, journals, newspaper clippings, publications, and letters.
And while BJ wrote about this compilation, he did not state where it was kept — which would have been a big deal, because the files were rumored to have occupied three floors!
Surely, a collection this large would be easy to find after a cursory search about the campus. But then again, the references to BJ as “The Little Builder” were not made in vain. He was constantly constructing additions at the Palmer School — acquiring neighboring properties for expansion to allow him to interconnect his buildings. Perhaps during these structural revisions the three-floor-scrapbook got “misplaced.” Continue reading →
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