OK Boomer with Robert
Yes, we’re keeping it real! Because, every week we feature the latest Boomer news, Boomer brainteasers, Boomer fitness, Boomer nutrition (not cheeseburgers and fries), and Boomer history--As Mark Twain allegedly said ”History doesn’t repeat itself, but it DOES rhyme! 70-year-old Robert Rickman was born in the middle of the Boomer surge, recently contracted Covid19, and suffers from amusing bouts of brain fog while broadcasting LIVE from a local radio station in southern Illinois. Rickman spent decades in news broadcasting where announcers were formal and correct. Fortunately, Robert has broken this habit and makes the scene like a real person! Because Robert Rickman is...is...”Keepin’ it Real!”
Episodes
"OK Boomer!"
OK Kid,
Boomers, having problems with finances, or with your health, or upcoming problems with the relatives during the holidays? The solution: brainstorming, but not the way most groups brainstorm.
Craig Paxon of the consulting group Visionary Horizen's talks about how to brainstorm...and actual...
"OK Boomer!"
Opening
OK Kid,
For some of us the Holidays are rougher than the rest of the year. So some of us need a little Encourementology with Kendell Boysen.
When you listen to the Boomer newscast, you might be listening to a certain story and say, "What? That doesn't make sense!" But maybe it does.
Allee Quick who runs The News Literacy Project, and she says news stories can be misinterpreted!
Remember 2001 a Space Ody...
It's the most famous recording, you've never heard!
We'll explain how a small radio station in a rural area broke a story about the crime of the century by being the first to reveal that Lee Harvey Oswald was a suspect in the assassination of John F Kennedy on November 22nd, 1963.
OK Boomer contributor Bob Smith reports.
Both Bob Smith and OK Boomer host Robert Rickman worked for that little radio ...
Next, on OK Boomer. Medicare counselor Kim Shefner will give us a brief overview of Medicare plans.
And Jill Graskowitz is planning a weekend blow out with "The Girls."
She asked Robert Rickman to post bail if things get out of hand!
Then the Mad Hippie was in to criticize Robert's gait. Yes, The Mad Hippie thinks Robert walks like a bird.
Plus, Bob and Marcia Smith will join us brain strengthening teasers, Kendall Boyson ...
OK Kid,
Speaking of which...
I blanche every time I hear my voice from 47-yeasrs ago! For those of you who were not blessed with a broadcast career, there is probably little evidence of what kind of a kid you were back then.
This will be hard to believe but I was interviewed by this fellow-Roger Ramjet in 1976!
Also, a senior center in a small town had to move several times for several different reasons. We'll hear about that.
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"OK BOOMER!" says the kid.
"OK Kid," says Robert.
Let's talk about something that is facing some Boomers right now--Alzheimer's. But research shows you may be able do something about it.
We'll be hearing from Nurse Practitioner Cindy Womack of the Smith Center for Alzheimer's Disease and Research and treatment in a few minutes.
And who might wind up caring for an Alzheimer's patient, or someone else with a disability? The Boomer...
Let's get the hard part out of the way and talk about the disease everybody is sick and tired of. In some cases...literally. We're talking about Covid.
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Cindy Womack is a nurse-practitioner at Smith Center for Alzheimer's Disease Research and Treatment. Cindy Womack talks about the connection between Covid19 and Alzheimer's.
Then let's turn to a hobby of too many Boomers which is social isolation. Jill Graskowitz of Club 60 wil...
What do General Z’s think of we Boomers? To get an answer I asked Millennial Emily Lake who says Generation Z is being too tough on the Boomers, but Emily adds that Boomers have their faults too.
We’d like to welcome Jill Graskowitz a regular contributor to OK Boomer. This week Jill will admit that Smart phones can make us dumb...but they can also make us smart! J...
There was this business card I needed to design but...It seemed to be so COMPLICATED! And I thought and thought...and finally called her while on-the-air one day...
Terri Sterling Donovan is an expert communicator and anti-procrastinator. Soon.... 
That's next on OK Boomer with Robert! Where we're "Keepin' ...
Shopping is easy for millennials and Generation Z. But many Boomers are left out. So says Jorge del Cario who runs a website called FAR OUT...that’s designed to make businesses Boomer friendly.
Jorge del Carpio Far Out Founder
Farout.store
<...Mark Twain allegedly said that history doesn’t repeat itself but DOES rhyme.
Our Bob Smith has an interview with then Us Congressman Paul Simon...recorded in 1975. What about that interview rhymes with the events of today?
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Robert Rickman
What happens when the kids have left the nest, and neither the wife nor husband is working? And they are sitting on the couch looking at each-other and thinking...
"Who the hell are you?
Jill Graskewicz. w...
Jill Graskewicz Director of Club 60 in Marion, Il.
While Boomers don’t have a sterling reputation dealing with all things electronic...many of us are willing to trade a hardcover for an eBook.
Librarian Amber Filbeck though not a Boomer, has some insights into Boomers rea...
Bob Baer is on the left of the SIU Astronomy team.
There is this little college town in the southern Midwest which is 15-miles from the nearest interstate. This little town will be the center of National attention on April 8, 2024, because at 2:01 in the AFTERNOON, the sky will turn black.
Bob Baer of South...
This month temperatures in many places nationwide are soaring into the 90’s and `100’s. And one person is afraid that seniors may skimp on the air conditioning.
Becky Salazar will talk about Boomers, heat and confusion. And, we’ll check the nation’s weather, hotspots that cover about 2/3's of the country.
Then we have a report of kids smoking in the parking lot...or, maybe they're not kids.
Nope they're Boomers. And we needed to...
Do you know someone who has moved to another city...or state because of politics? Economics Professor John Jackson of the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute doesn’t expect this tribalism to end soon. But professor Jackson does offer a possible solution.
And what was it like for a Boomer substitute teacher after the kids came back to sch...
A few weeks ago, I spotted a woman curled-up next to a plastic box of her things. I think she was homeless. And though I couldn’t see her face, she might have been a Boomer, because too many Boomers are retiring…to the streets.
Percussionist Kevin Lucas will be performing two fundraisers late this month for the homeless. We’ll hear from Keven later in the program.
Exercise! Walking on a treadmill texting on your Smart phone. Actu...
Two years ago I visited a Senior Citizens Center for the first time. Why? Because at 68 I didn’t think I was old. It turns out other Boomers feel the same way according to Jill Graskowitzwho talks about her parents.
Jill runs a local senior center that is catering to the young-oldsters. She’ll be on in a few minutes.
Now let’s here is so...
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