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Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from Reaching Out / Great Ideas for Evangelism
"We talked about survival last night. You know there's a saying I've always thought, don't wait until you're thirsty to dig a well. A lot of times we wait until the 15th round before we've been knocked down, before we go for help. Isn't that true? Sometimes we have to hit that bottom bottom, I guess. Just don't take things for granted. Good lives, lives that are together are not my accident. They're my right choices. The world just says you're lucky, but we know it's not luck. We know it's not luck. You don't order godly kids in the catalog. I'm a godly kid, respectful. You don't order me, you have to build lives. And I tell you what, we live in a day that, I tell you what, it's kind of sad. God doesn't give you wisdom. To see things how he sees them, and actually to see through things. To see through the deception of Satan. Look, two things I begged for in my life. I begged to be a solider, and I begged to raise my kids. He used to beg God for wisdom, because I knew his past was going to be greater than me. He used to say, if you want to mess up your life, that's your choice, but you're not messing your kids' lives up. And I don't know, I guess God, I just begged God for wisdom, and then James, he says he'll give it to you liberally if you ask. And I do believe he has. I got a lady in my church, my secretary, I'm going to be the secretary. She said, I think there is certainly something about raising kids. And if I really even know what I said, I just need to ask her. I think she wrote down everything I've ever said. And it's nice to have people listen. You know, it's ironic, people in my church now are more like me than my own kids. That's just the way it is. They're more like their pastor. They've been influenced by their pastor. My people have been influenced by me. They've been sitting under my preaching group, some of them, for 29 years. So, you know, they actually thank and remind me of how my kids would be. I see my kids, and they've kind of sometimes drifted away from different ways. And it kind of hurts me, but they become like their pastor. And, you know, so we just need to try to encourage each other, you know, hold together. You know, we're one body of many members. Amen. I think I heard one time that a car has about 30 ,000 parts. You know, it takes all of them to put together. It only takes one of them to miss malfunctions before you're in trouble. Isn't that the truth? You know, when one malfunction, you know, you have maybe eight cylinders on your car. You know, when one of them malfunctions, you lose a lot more than one -eighth of your power. Anyone in those cars knows if one plug or one wire is misfiring, it's like you lose 70 % of your power. And, you know, we got to make sure we don't malfunction on starry again. Mm -hmm. Joe, Steve will bring her own water tonight, because I'm not falling for that one yet. You know, we just need to work together as a body. You know, hey, I always tell my people, the devil only needs one heart to work out of. Don't let your heart be that one he works out of. It's a dangerous place to be, too. And, well, I think we have enough work out here. We have enough people that I think God's work, besides having Christians, amen, but Ezekiel, if you're Ezekiel 33 now, verse, I just thought we'd start at verse 31. It says, and they came unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear my words, but they will not do them. For with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goeth after covetousness, passions, desires, things like that. And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice and can play well on an instrument, for they hear thy words, but they do them not. They were too powerful at first, aren't they? Man, I just read that. They point that verse, so many people are, they sit in church, and, you know, they may say, oh, it's a good message, whatever, but they just don't do them. God says, happier little do these things, amen, you know? And just knowing them and not doing them actually just makes you miserable, probably, right? Some people just have enough religion to bug them instead of bless them. Isn't that the truth? Yeah, just enough to just make them miserable without making them joyful. One guy I've told, and I've heard this all the time, but he's going to tell me in church, he says, the pastor's job is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable, you know? So I'm here to try to disturb you where you're comfortable and comfort you where you're hurting. Amen? And so we come here tonight and turn with me now to Mark, Matthew, Mark, I think, with the gospel, where Christ is portrayed as his servant. You know, the four gospels in Matthew, God is portrayed as a king, as a king, and Mark as a servant, and Mark and Luke as a son of man, and John, the son of God. And we find here one of my passages I love, and I don't know, anyone have favorite, I love, I have so many favorite passages, I guess, but I like this one because it's about four men, I guess, a four, but I guess I can't even say for sure, I'm sure there were probably men that took a man of palsy that was paralyzed through the Peter's house roof to get him to Jesus to be healed. It says there in chapter two, no, actually this just follows where I talked about it the other day about the leper that was healed, and Jesus said in verse 44, right before that in chapter one, see thou say nothing to any man that would go thy way and show thyself to the priests and offer for like cleanliness these things which Moses commanded for a testimony to them. But he went out and began to publicize it much, to blaze abroad the matter, and so much that Jesus could no more openly enter into the city. I mean, God, Jesus at the end is so well known now, it's hard for him to even, you know, move and around stuff, and set him up in the desert places, and they came to him from every quarter. So we come here now, it says here, and again, he entered into Capernaum, you know, that's kind of where he kind of made his home, where Peter was after some days, and it was noise that he was in the house. And straightway, many were gathered together in so much that there was no room for them, no room to receive them, no, not so much as about the door. And he preached the word unto them, and they came unto him, bringing one sick of the palsy, which was born of four, and when they could not come nigh unto him from the press, in other words, the crowd, they uncovered the roof where he was, and when they had broken a nub, they let down a bad brim the sick of the palsy lay. When Jesus saw their faith, he sent unto the sick of the palsy, saying, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee. And there were certain of the scribes sitting there and reasoning in their hearts, you know, isn't that amazing? Here in this crowd, there are some hearts that were very, very ungodly. Here they are just looking for a reason to cause trouble, looking for a reason, observing just with a critical spirit, you know, and sadly, they can be in a church, someone comes just to be a critic, but there were certain of the scribes sitting there and reasoning in their hearts, why does this man thus speak blaspheming? Who can forgive sins but God only? See, they knew exactly what Jesus was saying he was. Jesus said, I am God, you know, and that made them angry because they didn't want to receive it except that, and immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, he said unto them, Why reason ye of these sayings in your hearts? Whether it is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, thy sins be forgiven thee, or to say, Arise and take up thy bed and walk. But that ye may know that the Son of Man hath power on earth to forgive sins. He said to the sick of palsy, I say unto thee, Arise and take up thy bed and go thy way unto thy house, and immediately he arose, took up his bed, and went forth before them all, insomuch that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, We never saw it on this faction. Isn't that amazing? You know, I love that. You know how exciting when God's moving in the hearts of people. When you have a revival, you know, it's not about one person. It's about what God is doing in the hearts of people. And your testimony has brought tears to my eyes. You know, man, isn't that great? Somebody cared enough to go out and make that extra effort, and here he is in church today, almost waiting ahead on the sight of somebody who cared for his soul. You know, I had one psalmist who said, There's no way I cared for my soul. You know, tonight, that's why we're here. We're one beggar telling another beggar before we found bread telling people. I thank God I was blessed to grow up in a Christian home. And I tell you, I didn't have to make us go to church. We loved church. We loved revival meetings. Loved evangelists. You know, that was just kind of the highlight of the year, really. It was like the Super Bowl, you know? And I just thank God. We were poor. It was just like church mice. There were six kids we were poor so we could get out. But I tell you what, I remember I was a little boy. I had my own little horn, you know? I won't tell you. Because there was an evangelist. He blew up. He had a horn. And I would not get out in the middle. I wanted to be like him. I tell you what, that's the kind of heros you ought to be wanting your kids to have. My friend today, if you don't get them in church, if you don't build up the man of God, if you don't build up authority in your life, it will come back to bite you like you've never seen. Go ahead and teach your children disrespect to pastors, to the president, to police.
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Hearing Jesus: Daily Bible Study
A highlight from BONUS // The Best New Podcast for Christian Children: Hearing Jesus for Kids
"Did you know that the Hearing Jesus podcast has a companion show for kids? We take the same content from the adult show and I teach it in a way that kids can understand. It's geared for kids ages 6 to 12 and we're going to show you a quick preview of one of the episodes. I pray it's a blessing for you. Stay tuned. Hey friends, welcome to the Hearing Jesus for Kids podcast. Do you ever feel like you want to know more about the Bible but then it's kind of hard to understand? Do you want to share your faith with your friends but have a hard time figuring out how to do that? Do you want to learn how to connect the Bible to your real life? Well then this is the show for you. My name is Rachel and I'm your host. I've been a children's pastor for a long time and one of my favorite things is helping kids learn how to understand the Bible. I think that sometimes people think that the Bible is just for adults, but God actually really wants kids to know about him. So on this podcast, we're going to learn all about God's big story and how he shows himself to us through the Bible. As we learn together what the Bible stories actually mean, we can learn how to live out our faith in our everyday life. Hey friends, welcome back to the Hearing Jesus for Kids podcast. I'm your host Rachel. Today we're talking more about prayer. Yesterday we learned some important things that the Bible has to say about prayer, but today we're going to start looking at a very special prayer in the Bible. In Matthew 6 verses 9 through 13, Jesus shares what we call the Lord's Prayer. I could tell you all about it, but I think it's better to go to our Bibles and read what it says for ourselves. So I'm going to read it now. It says, Pray like this, Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. May your kingdom come soon. May your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today the food we need, and forgive us our sins as we have forgiven those who sin against us. And don't let us yield to temptation, but rescue us from the evil one. The first thing we read about in this section of this prayer is the words pray like this. Jesus doesn't tell us to pray this prayer word for word every time we pray. Instead, he says pray like this because this is a prayer of example of how we should pray and some of the things that we could pray for. If you think for a minute about some common books that you may even have at your house called How to Draw Books, the way that How to Draw Books are is they have an example set up for you to copy. If you had, let's say, a monster truck that you were trying to copy, you would look at the How to Draw Book and you would look at the steps that they had and you would try to copy it on the other side of the page. Well, our prayers are kind of like that. The Lord's Prayer is kind of like the How to Pray model. When we copy it, it's not going to look exactly the same. It's going to be our version of that kind of prayer. So the Lord's Prayer shows us how to pray, but our prayers will look a little bit different than this, and your prayer is going to be a little bit different than my prayer. But Jesus gave us a prayer as an example of how to pray, but it doesn't mean that we have to pray like that every single time, and it certainly doesn't mean that we have to use those same words every single time.
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Leading Saints Podcast
A highlight from YSA Thoughts on YSA-Led Efforts
"As many of you know, we recently published three episodes from the new podcast called At the Table. This is produced by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints, and I had the privilege to help with this project as a consultant. After publishing the recent podcast on leading saints, those working at the church on this project were so impressed by the results and the feedback from the audience that they asked if we could share more episodes. Enjoy! And don't forget to send your feedback by taking the survey for each individual episode, which we will link in the show notes. help us all follow Jesus Christ together. I'm Jared Pearson, and I have the pleasure to be a co -host on the At the Table podcast. I'm currently in Provo, Utah, but I was born and raised in Livermore, California, right outside San Francisco, California. I ended up serving my mission in New Hampshire, the New Hampshire Manchester Mission, and some of my favorite things are playing pickleball, tennis, or staying inside playing some board games or reading books as well. And I'm just really excited to be part of this. My name is Kami Castrijon. I'm originally from Colombia. I was born and raised there, and I moved to the United States when I was 16. I moved to the big city of New York, and that's where I joined the church. And then soon after, I served my mission in Riverside, California. Then after my mission, I moved to Utah, and I've been here ever since. I love dancing, especially salsa, hiking, baking, and I am thrilled to be part of this amazing podcast At the Table. Welcome to the At the Table podcast. This is a debut podcast where we're going to discuss some important things having to do with YSAs and other people around the church and what new initiatives are going to happen. Specifically, we're going to follow some of the strengthening YSA principles that have been released by the church just recently. And here with us, we have a couple of new guests, and we'll go ahead and let them introduce themselves. My name is John. I'm originally from New Jersey, but I'm here in Utah at the University of Utah. I'm Mary, and I also live here in Utah. I like John, go to the University of Utah, lived here my whole life aside from my mission in Alabama. Well, awesome. We're happy to have you here. How long ago did you serve? I was there a little over two years ago, and I served in a little Spanish branch. Shout out to the Cahaba Spanish branch in Birmingham, Alabama. And then I served for 10 months on the campus at University of Alabama, as well as serving in the family ward there. I would translate all the sacrament meetings, and then I was called back to the Spanish branch to finish out the rest of my So mission. I got to know those two areas very well. They're very near and dear to my heart. That's awesome. John, did you serve a mission? Yeah, I did. I actually served here in Utah, just up in Ogden. So I didn't even know they needed missionaries here in Utah, but I guess so. Yeah, I was here about two years ago, and I loved it. So I just stayed. I just stayed here in Utah, and now I'm going to school. So you're both at school here. So what are you both studying? I'm studying strategic communications and Spanish. Big fan of communicating. Maybe that's why I'm here speaking on a podcast. My major is world languages and cultures for now. That's probably going to change. I don't know, but I've just always kind of had an interest in world languages and cultures. So that's what I'm doing right now. That's cool that you guys served missions and that you loved that and you moved to here. Can you tell us a little bit of your experience here and how you've collaborated with other YSAs and how you've seen that you've been able to lead? Absolutely. I have done a lot within my ward specifically, but also within the institute. And I know institute classes look a lot different depending on where you are living, but basically just being able to gather with YSA has been hugely influential for my life, not just in the way that I've been supported, but in the way that I've been able to serve and connect with others around me. And that includes during COVID, during the time that we couldn't really matter and what connection really is and how to make that time when you gather actually worthwhile.
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Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from INTRODUCING: Inside The Epicenter with Joel Rosenberg | The Unbelievable Trump Accomplishment That Has Everyone Talking
"Hi, my name is Karl Muller, and I'm one of the co -hosts of the Inside the Epicenter podcast. I'm excited to introduce you to our show, where my colleague and the founder of the Joshua Fund, Joel Rosenberg, and I discuss current events worthy of prayer or praise to the Lord and how they relate to end times prophecy. Having spent 20 years meeting with presidents, prime ministers, kings, and clerics, Joel has a unique and fascinating perspective on this region of the Middle East we call the Epicenter. Today, you're going to hear one of our latest episodes of the show. If you like what you hear, we encourage you to check out the links in today's show notes and follow Inside the Epicenter with Joel Rosenberg on your favorite podcast app. You can also go to lifeaudio .com for more information. Thanks for listening.
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AI Today Podcast: Artificial Intelligence Insights, Experts, and Opinion
A highlight from AI Today Podcast: AI Glossary Series Data Science, Data Scientist, Citizen Data Scientist / Citizen Developer, Data Custodian
"The AI Today podcast, produced by Cognolytica, cuts through the hype and noise to identify what is really happening now in the world of artificial intelligence. Learn about emerging AI trends, technologies, and use cases from Cognolytica analysts and guest experts. Hey, AI Today listeners. Want to dive deeper and get resources to drive your AI efforts further? We've put together a carefully curated collection of resources and tools handcrafted for you, our listeners, to expand your knowledge, dive deeper into the world of AI, and provide you with the essential resources you need. From books and materials, ranging from fundamentals of AI to deep dives on implementing AI projects, to AI ethics, tools, software, checklists, and more, our resources page will help you on your AI journey, whether you're just starting out or you're well on your way. Check it out at aitoday .live slash list. That's aitoday .live slash l -i -s -t. Hello and welcome to the AI Today podcast. I'm your host, Kathleen Walch. And I'm your host, Walter Melzer. And you know, we really have enjoyed listening to some of you tell us about how you're using some of the content not only from our AI Today glossary series, which is not only available here on our podcast, but also on our website. If you go to cognolytica .com, we have our, in our resources section, this big AI glossary. It's got hundreds of terms. And you know, we update these terms. It's not like we write it once and we forget it. We find ourselves constantly updating them, especially as terms and terminology do continue to change, or maybe we make some clarifications, and of course, we add new terms all the time. So that's part of why this glossary series, you know, will continue for a while. So if you're not already subscribed to the AI Today podcast, you should be, especially if you're enjoying this specific content on the glossary series as we dive into terms. And you know, we're going to continue doing that on today's podcast, but I wanted to let you know that, you know, we also have some great interviews. We've already had some in the past with folks who are doing AI and implementing AI Today, some of our CPMAI practitioners, but also we have lots of things to share about use failures cases and of AI, and you know, we're entering some interesting times with AI, you know, successes and failures, you know, things that we thought might be great, turn out not to be so great. And then also things that we didn't really expect to work out are working out. Here we are, you know, six years after we started AI Today podcast, still talking about AI and not running out of things to say. As a matter of fact, in the early days of AI Today, we were a weekly podcast. Now we were like biweekly, sorry, semi -weekly. We're like twice a week. So, you know, that means that we got a lot, even a lot more to say nowadays. So stay connected, be part of our network and keep yourself informed and successful on AI. Exactly. And subscribe to AI Today if you haven't done so already, because as Ron mentioned, we have a lot of podcasts still queued up that we, you know, potential interviews, interviews that we already have lined up. So definitely subscribe to get notified of all of our upcoming episodes. But sticking with our AI Glossary series, we want to sometimes present just one term, sometimes present a grouping of terms so that you get a better understanding of how these terms kind of group together and why we're presenting them that way. So in today's podcast, we're going to go over data science, data scientist, and also the term citizen data scientist or citizen developer and data custodian, so that if any of these come up, at least you'll have a high level understanding of what they are. So data science, what is it exactly? Well, it's the domain of study focused on using scientific, mathematical and analytic techniques to extract useful information from data and translate business and scientific informational needs into the specific requirements for data analysis. So there's methods and approaches and tools that are focused on extracting, you know, those informational needles from data haystacks, and it's applicable to a wide range of business problems from descriptive to predictive to projective analytics. And if you're not familiar with those, we'll link to that podcast where we went over all the different types of analytics. And, you know, the idea and the domain of study for data science, it really deals with information at small scale as well as very large scale. And it does things like leverage statistics and mathematics and computer science, big data analytics and data wrangling to be able to provide answers to analytical questions. So as you can imagine, that's kind of the domain of study. But then what are data scientists? Yeah, and I think, you know, the data scientists obviously, you know, perform the role of data science, right? They are focused on the collection and analysis of data to solve these business related problems using these data driven techniques. So data scientists, you know, sometimes actually have that title data scientist, right? Sometimes they perform the role of data scientist, even if that's not their title. So really, it's more like the sometimes it's the mindset and the tools and the techniques, right? That's important. So what data scientists do is they translate business requirements into specific hypotheses or analytic ideas, and they go and extract useful information from data to provide the solution to those requirements. And so there's a couple of sort of tools and techniques that data scientists use to address these big data analytic requirements. Obviously, there's statistics, probability and math. Math is the language of data science, statistics and probability, and having a firm grasp on that and all those concepts, right? Then they also need, to some extent, ways to actually access and tools and technologies from manipulating, collecting and preparing large data sets. We had talked about in previous podcasts, data science notebooks as sort of the environment of choice for data science and tools like Python and R as languages, as well as even languages like Julia and Scala, but primarily Python and R for data science and data scientists. And then, of course, a grasp of algorithms and computer science methods for deriving insights, right? Building models, using algorithms and training data to do whatever the analytic task is, predictions. That's what machine learning models do, classification, regression, clustering, all those things, right? And then, of course, some grasp of data centric approaches, including data centric methodologies like CPMAI for running data projects, but also methods for understanding how to deal with testing and validation and data preparation. So there's a lot of stuff there. Sometimes you'll see data science as an overlap, a Venn diagram between skills and math on the one hand, skills in computer science and IT and another, and then certain amount of business and domain expertise that overlap is the data science and data scientist role in your organization. Exactly. And so sometimes, you know, you may not be formally trained as a data scientist or have that in your specific title. And this term citizen data scientist or citizen developer has started to come into the lexicon. And it's this concept that your primary role is not that of a data scientist. So that's not your official job title or you're not a machine learning engineer or data engineer, but you create machine learning models and other data science outputs through the use of no code and low code approaches. And so we had a podcast on no code and low code. Basically, they're using these tools, a citizen data scientist is using these tools to come up and help with, you know, creating their own machine learning models, but they're not necessarily formally trained and that this isn't their primary job. So you may hear this term citizen data scientist or a citizen developer come up. If it does, then you'll at least have an understanding of what it is. And there's also a term data custodian. So a data custodian is a person or group of people that are responsible for the safe storage, transfer and use of data. The data custodian is not a data owner, so it's important to understand that, but it just serves as an administrative role over the data. So some organizations may have a data custodian, and if they do, maybe you have data custodians at your organization. It's just really responsible for that storage, transfer and use of data. You want to make sure that you're doing it safely. So that's what the data custodian is. And we again want to present these terms at a high level so that if they come up in conversation, then you can say, oh, OK, I've heard of the term data science or data scientist. I know what that means or a citizen data scientist. But of course, understanding these terms at a high level is one thing and understanding how to put them into practice is another. And that's really where CPMAI methodology comes into play. So I know that many of our podcast listeners are CPMAI certified and we have thousands now across the globe that are CPMAI certified. If you're interested in learning more about what CPMAI is, I encourage you to sign up and take our free Intro to CPMAI course. You can go to aitoday .live slash CPMAI to sign up. And if you'd like to become CPMAI certified yourself, then go to cognolytica .com slash CPMAI, where you can sign up for the training. And upon completion of the training and all of the exercises, you will become CPMAI certified. Like this episode and want to hear more with hundreds of episodes and over three million downloads. Check out more AI Today podcasts at aitoday .live. Make sure to subscribe to AI Today if you haven't already on Apple podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google, Amazon, or your favorite podcast platform. Want to dive deeper and get resources to drive your AI efforts further? We've put together a carefully curated collection of resources and tools and crafted for you, our listeners, to expand your knowledge, dive deeper into the world of AI and provide you with the essential resources you need. Check it out at aitoday .live slash list. This sound recording and its contents are copyright by Cognolytica. All rights reserved. Music by Matsu Gravis. As always, thanks for listening to AI Today and we'll catch you at the next podcast.
Spellcaster: The Fall of Sam Bankman-Fried
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"There. When they weren't sleeping or studying, they spent most of their time playing games. Their favorite game of all was a 1950s -era strategy board game called Diplomacy. It's a game of global conquest, kind of like Risk, but there are no dice and basically no elements of chance. To get ahead, you have to negotiate with the other players. One of the big problems with that game, Diplomacy, that I found is it can definitely be a destroyer of friend groups, because it's one of the ones where people do betray aggressively each other. Diplomacy games at Epsilon could go on for days. Players form secret alliances off -site and then return to the to make their move. Sam's thing was to draw another player into his plan. He'd very quickly get into a discussion about some of the complex thoughts he had about the structuring of the game, and how he's now starting to see this interesting strategy, but it would require him to get some of us to work with him. Sam
Mutually CoDopendent
A highlight from Jen's Birthday
"Hey guys, welcome to Mutually Codependent with Adam and Jen. I'm Jen. And I'm Adam. I hope everybody is doing spectacular today. Today on Mutually Codependent we're gonna talk about what we thought the 40 would look like. We are not 40 yet but we're almost there. I turn 39 this coming Sunday which will be in the past once you've heard this episode. But yeah. We're close enough to realize that 40 was very different than what we thought it was gonna be. Yes. And we thought it would be worth a podcast to kind of talk about it and our expectations. Throughout the ages? Yeah, yeah. So if you don't know now you know that we have a strain of the show. I may end up with like a little rhyme, a little haiku or something. I hate haikus. I don't I still don't understand. I couldn't tell you the number. But anyway, Strain of the Show. 575, right? 535? 575. I think it's 575. Yeah. 5. Strain of the Show is something that we use. It's a flour that we are smoking that is available through Texas Canna Health. CentexCBD .net. This week it is a pre -roll from Happy Shaman, I think? No, this is from Hymn Living. This is a marshmallow OG. It's labeled as a hybrid. It is definitely something that we've learned that we can smoke anytime for any reason and it's kind of a marshmallow -y, oaky, sweet flavor. Yeah and some people are way better at pulling those notes out than I am but even Landon when he tried it he was like this yeah there's like a so like caramel and I'm like marshmallow he's like yeah and I'm kind of jealous. It's very sweet. I like it. This is one of my favorite strains. If you have a headache and you need it to go away but you don't want to fall asleep or take a nap or be too energized this is a pretty solid hybrid. You can smoke this anywhere and do anything like it's maybe not anywhere. Yeah and it's it's 18 .2 % THCA so it's enough to get you where you need to go but it's not like overwhelming like this is something you can just hang out and smoke for a bit and I think that's people forget that that's a thing. Yeah. The activity of smoking isn't just for the intoxication it's it's a time to sit back and just breathe literally that's what you do. Just breathe for a minute. Take a break. Just take a few minutes to breathe. Almost like smells like a cigar to me. Okay. Like when it's burning there's almost a cigar -y or maybe not a cigar but like I guess what's a Swiss or sweet? That's a cigar. I was gonna say like you're like a flavored cigar. Yeah. I was thinking like Swiss or sweet. Like a vanilla or or like. Yeah. Yeah that would make sense. Vanilla. Russian cream. Yeah see that's that's probably whatever it is that all those things have in common. The first thing I ever smoked was a clove strawberry clove cigarette when I was 14 with my cousins Amy and Brian. I the first time I smoked was a clove cigarette. Yeah. Yeah Kim. Yeah I can see that. Yeah we were we were laying down on the driveway cuz cuz both parents were gone there were no cars there and it was I think I don't know it was we were just hanging out she's like I'm gonna go smoke and I was like what? No I actually knew that she had smoked could but she would only do it like in her car like I don't remember her being. That makes sense. Or around I don't remember her doing it around the rinse if you will. That's something I I would I liked clove cigarettes I liked the way they tasted they were delicious I think that's ones that are flavored.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A highlight from A Dame Trade Deep Dive With Ben Thompson, Plus Seth Meyers and Million-Dollar Picks
"Coming up, Dame gets traded. Million dollar pick Seth Meyers, it's all next. It's the Bill Simmons Podcast presented by FanDuel. Get in on the football action right from the opening kickoff with America's number one sports book. The app is safe, secure, easy to use. FanDuel always has exclusive offers. When you win, you'll get paid instantly. FanDuel has lots of ways to play, like the spread, money line, over -unders, team totals, player props, so much more. Jump into the action at any time during the game with live betting. Combine multiple bets from the same game in a same game parlay. Download the FanDuel sports book app today. Make every moment more of this football season. The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit TheRinger .com slash RG to learn more about the resources and help lines available and listen to the end of this episode for additional details. You must be 21 plus and present in select states. 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We did the big chill. It was very, very exciting. I have Kyle Brandt coming on Monday's podcast. I'm just gonna tell you the movie now because it is gonna be the best moment of your weekend if you spent two hours watching this classic. We're doing Toy Soldiers. It really brings everything possible to the table. So if you wanna watch it ahead of time, there it is. That podcast is going up Monday night. If you wanna hear stuff about the debate, we have Tara Paul and Mary's podcast, Somebody's Gotta Win. That reacted to it as well as the press box with Brian Curtis and David Shoemaker. So there you go. Our debate coverage has been on point. Also, higher learning. Van and Rachel had Larry Elder on this weekend. It made a lot of noise, man. That podcast is great. I hope you check that out as well. Hope you're checking out theringer .com. And on this podcast, gonna talk about the dame trade at the top. We're gonna bring in Ben Thompson from the Techery newsletter, which he's been on this podcast I think four weeks ago. And he's a huge Bucks fan. He's gonna give the Bucks fan side of things. We're gonna do million dollar picks. And then old friend Seth Meyers talking about a whole bunch of stuff. So really good podcast. It's all next. First, our friends from Pro Jam. What's up? All right, I'm taping this on Thursday afternoon. Normally when there's a big MBA trade, I always do the emergency trade reaction right after the podcast. But we just put up a podcast on Tuesday. So I decided to play it a little differently this time. I wanted a little distance, I wanted to listen to stuff, read stuff, and try to form some big picture opinions coming out of this. So I have four smaller ones, then one big one. First one, I thought Portland did an incredible job with this trade. I really liked this trade, especially everyone was trying to bully them in June and July about, oh, you got to take Miami's offer. You just got to. It's where he wants to go. It's the only offer you're going to get. And guess what? They waited. They played it perfectly. They stared Miami down, and they got a much better deal. First of all, they get the Drew Holiday piece that they can flip into a bunch out of their stuff, which we'll talk about in one second. I love the DeAndre Ayton gamble. As you know, on this podcast, I am a big DeAndre Ayton guy. Not in the sense of I'm the biggest fan of his in the world, but I'm a fan of the asset. I just think I love the valued assets, no matter what it is. Whatever market we're talking about, DeAndre Ayton, 18 and 10 for his career, 60 % field goals percentage, 25 years old. He's played in 45 playoff games. He played four rounds in the 2021 finals. Last year, he got his ass kicked by Jokic. Oh, sorry. Like, that never happens. And Phoenix just sold on him, which I can't wait to talk about. But just from a Portland standpoint, they not only get Ayton in whatever they get for holiday, they get the 29 first, they get the two swaps, and they dump Nurkic. Nurkic hasn't had a healthy start to finish all the way through the playoffs here since 2018, which I'm positive was a long time ago. He's basically 12 and 8. He's, you know, a 50 % shooter. I made a list of the top 30 centers. I encourage you to do this at home, because what's more fun than making lists of NBA centers? I can't imagine anything. I made a list of who I thought were the best assets of the center position for talent, contract, everything. He was 29th on my list. The only person I had ahead of him who's technically a starter, unless you start talking about the Detroit or Charlotte guys, was Zubats on the Clippers. I thought he was the 29th best center asset in the league. And Phoenix, you know, just quickly to go to them, they're trying to win this year. They got worse. They turned Ayton's money into Nurkic and Grayson Allen and Nasir Little. Grayson Allen, we already know with him, he can't play in playoff series. We saw him 22. We saw it last year. I heard and read in some places like that, I got two rotation players. Did they? Is Nurkic a playoff rotation player? Is Grayson Allen a playoff rotation player? Because I'm positive he's not. So for the same money that they were spending on Ayton, they got three guys that I don't think are going to help them. In 25, the money comes down a little bit to 23 million just for Nurkic and Little, which is 7 million less than Ayton. And then in 26, that money goes up to 25 .5. But I don't understand what Phoenix was doing. Why not wait to see if Ayton clicks with Vogel? Vogel has such a good history with centers. He rejuvenated Dwight Howard on the 2020 Lakers. He basically created Roy Hibbert's career in 2013 with the defense verticality thing. I thought he was going to do a good job with Ayton. I'm stunned that they gave up on him. I'm almost waiting for one of those, now they tell us stories when, you know, that's where Brian Curtis calls them, where like a week after something happens, there's this kind of notebook dump where it's like, here's seven terrible DeAndre Ayton stories. So maybe that'll happen. But for Phoenix just to be like, cool, we locked this down, man. We got Nurkic. You're trying to win the title. You have KD and Booker and Beal. And like, what are you guys doing? Anyway, from Portland's standpoint, I love the Ayton thing. I love that they didn't get bullied. And I know they're going to turn Drew Holliday into something. So this to me was at least an A minus for them, for where they were two months ago, where Dave's like, I want to go to Miami. That's it. And if you don't trade me there, that's kind of fucked up. And they made this work as it got reported that, uh, I think in the athletic, that he expanded his list to Brooklyn and to Milwaukee in the last two weeks. And that's what Portland was waiting on. You know, they were banking on the fact that he's a competitive dude. He's one of the best 75 pairs ever. He wanted a situation settled. So, you know, you wait, you wait, you wait, they expand the list and then you go. Uh, there's a Drew Holliday piece to this. That's awesome. He becomes a contender prize. I wouldn't call this a Drew Holliday sweepstakes. I reserved sweepstakes for the superstars, but it's a mini sweepstakes. This is somebody that could have a huge impact on the playoff race. You know, not only the usual suspects, everybody's talking about Boston, ironically, Miami is a really good fit for him. And in some ways, um, I'm a little more scared of them with Miami than Dame in some ways, especially at a much cheaper contract with giving up less and keeping some of their assets. Philly, if they could pull it off, they have to be in there in Golden State, Minnesota. I think I have to mention Sacramento, I think is a team that if they could figure out how to get Drew without giving up their core, which is basically Keegan Murray and Sabonis and Fox, like that's, you know, could Davion Mitchell be in that trade with some, with a salary and some picks, who knows. The team that I love for Drew Holliday is OKC. I have OKC, you know, I started doing my MBA research for the over -under spot and I haven't landed on a number for them yet, but to me, they feel like a high forties team with Chet and with the growth of their young guys. And if you just like, let's say they traded Lou Dort and a bunch of their picks, maybe two firsts and two of their lesser picks or three firsts and a second, whatever it is. And they just say, fuck it. And they get Drew and you put him with Giddy and SGA and Jalen fucking awesome Williams and Chet Holmgren and all these other dudes they have, that might be a top three team in the West. I mean, that, that's starting to give me some early 2010s OKC vibes. So where he goes is going to be important. I just feel like there was so much Drew Holliday slander the last couple of days. You know, he's one of my favorite players. Even Haralabob, who was the chairman of the board of the Drew Holliday fan club for years and would have the benefit dinners there and, you know, just did a lot of yeoman's work on that front. And even he was like, yeah, yeah, Dame's better than Drew. That trade makes sense for Milwaukee. I was hurt, Haralabob. I was 100 % hurt by that. But you know, Drew got his ass kicked by Jimmy Butler in the playoffs last year. I get it. It happens. Jimmy was unbelievable. I feel like he would have kicked anybody's ass. By the way, why is Drew Holliday guarding Jimmy Butler? That speaks more to some of the issues with Milwaukee. He was never supposed to be a point guard and a creator. I think he was always better as an off -the -ball guy. We saw that with Rondo and New Orleans and just in general. I want to see him with a point guard. I want to see him just being unleashed, not having the ball a lot, just worrying about hitting threes, being an occasional, you know, make -shit -happen guy and being like the third or fourth best guy on a team without having the offensive responsibility to have. All their half court issues got blamed on him for the last couple of years. And I get it. They weren't like an awesome half -court team, even the other one in the finals, but I really value that dude. I had him, even I did the trade value list in August and I had him 37th and I had Dame 23rd. I think he's one of the best 30 players in the league still. He's 33 years old, which, you know, I'm going to talk in a second about when guards hit their mid -30s, but just in general, I think he's a real asset. If he goes to a team like the Celtics and they can keep Derek White and Tatum and Brown in the center, it's like, look out, man. So little mini sweepstakes, rarely do we get the trade, but then we still get another asset to talk about. Thank you for everyone involved in the trade. And then the fourth small point is just that, you know, not rocket science, Milwaukee bought some Giannis time here. They have one of the best 20 players of all time. They were staring down the barrel of a situation that was not good. I was talking about it on this podcast in late June and early July. I thought he was going to put them on the clock. I thought Mark Lasry selling his stake was a really bad sign for all of this because that dude is smart. As I laid out in June, that guy is really smart. And if he's feeling like, you know what, it's time for me to sell my buck stock, that makes me nervous. And then all the stuff that Giannis said and did, which I thought he did really fairly and really smartly. And I think that dude's about titles and that's it. And I know we say that about players, but I think in his case, I don't think he cares about, you know, what's my legacy, how do I compare against Dirk DeWhisky, any of that stuff. I just think he wants more rings. I mean, think about the guys who have won two rings out of the best 35 guys on my list of my pyramid. Those are all guys in my top 35 that won multiple wings. You go to the one -ring side, Jerry West, Oscar, Moses, Dirk, Jokic, Giannis, Pettit, Garnett, Kawhi, Rick Barry. That's the list he's on now. I certainly don't think he's looking at that list going, I got to get away from these guys, but it's a slightly different list. I think when you win multiple rings in multiple situations, it elevates you in a certain way. I think he fundamentally understands that at least a little bit. I want to be the best player since LeBron James. I think that's a thing that he wants. How am I going to do that? I need more rings. I need more finals trips. He knew from last year and maybe even the Boston series that they just weren't good enough. Whether this trade is going to be the thing that propels them, we'll find out, but he's been in the league 10 years, two MVPs, five first teams, two second teams, and now we have this little two -year window. Kawhi and the Raptors was a one -year window. This is a two -year window, I feel like. With Giannis, he's got two years left in his deals. So does Lopez. Middleton has two in a player option. Dame's got two, and then this crazy $120 million player option extension thingy that he has that just keeps going and going. It's probably two years. There's a world where this could go terribly this season, at least for what the expectations are, and then maybe it becomes Kawhi, Raptors. Maybe Giannis is like, you know what? That didn't work. Trade me. And the Bucks, who have no picks left and no future, they look at it next summer, and they go, all right. We tried it. Giannis, what can we get for you? Dame, what can we get? And they just do a reboot, rehaul. Remember, they won in 2021, which just takes so much pressure out of this. It's so much different than the Clippers situation, where they went all in on Kawhi and Paul George. They give up all those picks and SGA, and they've gotten nothing out of it. They haven't even made the finals. So it's got to happen. I think they at least probably have to make the finals. If they get bounced in round two, do I think Giannis is going to stay because they made this Dame -Mower trade? Probably not. So that leads to the big question, is how good of a trade was this? So there's a big picture angle on Dame, and it's going to sound negative, but I really don't want it to sound negative because I think Dame, I voted for him for NBA Top 75. I think he's been one of the best guards in the last 15 years. I think there's a ton of great things you can say, and there's a chance that he goes to Milwaukee, and this thing is fucking awesome. I know any Celtic fan I've talked to, including Isaiah, who's helping produce this podcast today, the Giannis -Dame pick and roll is just terrifying. Other than Jokic and Murray, it's going to be the single most unstoppable offensive play in the league. It is. We are conceding that point. The spot Dame is in right now, big picture -wise, it's weird. He's a superstar, but he's not, and we've seen guys like this before. I judge superstars by, do you have the resume statistically, and is your team succeeding consistently at a certain level? You can't totally say that about Dame. He's never been on a 55 -win team. He's missed the playoffs completely four times in 11 years. He said three first -round exits. He made the Final Four once in 2019, which was really lucky because Golden State and Houston were the two best teams, and then they got smoked. He's never been on a true contender ever. Instinctively, you go, well, that's not his fault. Who's he played with? Well, he played with LaMarcus Aldridge and CJ McCollum and a couple other guys, but not really anybody. The reason I'm putting this up is there's a success element that he has not had yet that for somebody with his resume is actually kind of unusual. I went and I looked up how many guards in the history of the league averaged 22 points a game for their career and played at least 700 games. I thought the list would be like 20. I didn't know. I didn't know what I was walking into. Only I think 75 guys have averaged 22 a game. So I went and I looked up the list, and it was 10 guys, 700 games, 22 a game for their career. There were some guys who came close like David Thompson, who I think is one of the best guards I've seen in the last 45 years, but had a short career and had some drug issues. He didn't make it. He didn't play enough games. Pete Maravich, 24 .2 points a game, but he didn't play enough games. Kyrie hasn't played enough games yet. Bradley Beale is five games away. I'm actually kind of glad the cutoff's at 700 so we don't have to talk about him. And then Mitchell and Trey Young aren't there yet. There's only 10 guys that made it, and the 10 guys are all fucking awesome. And again, I mentioned this in the context of Dame, who we think he is versus the success he's had. So the 10 guys, Michael Jordan, 30 .1, Jerry West, 27 .1, Allen Averson, 26 .7, George Gervin, 26 .2, Oscar Robertson, 25 .7, Kobe, 25 .0, Harden, 24 .7, Curry, 24 .6, Wade, 22, barely made it, and Russ, 22 .4, and then Dame is at 25 again. All right, what does he not have that those other guys have? Well, MJ, don't need to talk about him. Don't need to talk about Jerry West, who's the freaking logo. Allen Averson, pretty good comparison, right? Big stats, really memorable player, but not a ton of success. Here's the difference. Averson made the finals once. He won an MVP. Dame has done neither of those things. George Gervin was the best scoring guard of the 70s. He made two final fours. He had some bad luck. He really, in 79, really should have came close. And some of it's on him, right? He could have come through. Bobby Dandridge is the one that ended up coming through for the Bullets. They lose. But two final fours, he had four top five MVP finishes, five first teams, four second teams. He was just unassailably the best guard in the league until MJ. Oscar Robertson, don't need to go through him, but he won a ring and an MVP. Kobe, five rings and an MVP. Eleven first teams for Kobe, by the way. James Harden, three final fours, an MVP, six top five MVP finishes, six first team MBAs. And even though Harden has never made the finals as the best guy, he made it with OKC as the sixth man, you could build a contender around Harden. We saw it. We haven't really seen it with Dame. I think that's a fair thing to bring up. Curry, four rings, two MVPs, you know, the Curry thing. Dwayne Wade, three rings, two top five MVPs, two first teams, three second teams. He's more in the Dame waters a little bit, but he had the 2006 finals and he was the second best guy with LeBron on those heat teams. And then Westbrook, who you would say, well, Dame had a better career than Westbrook. Did he? Westbrook made the finals in 2012. He was second best guy on that team. Almost made the finals in 2016. He won an MVP. He had two first teams and five second teams. It's at least like a real argument. And I think when you look at Dame, he only had that one 2019 round three, got bounced. He's only had one top five MVP finish. He's only had one first team MBA and four second team MBAs. Really, really good top 75 career. But the piece that's missing is, have you been on a really good team? Have you made a real run at it? Which is why, you know, I think this Milwaukee trade is so much fun. This is his real chance. I get nervous about a couple things with this trade. One is that, you know, if you look at the 33 and older guards who average 22 points a game in a season. Jordan did it twice. Curry did it twice. Still going. Kobe did it three times. Jerry West twice. Sam Jones once. Hal Greer once. That's the entire list. Now the NBA is different. We have more three -pointers now. It's easier to score. Scoring is the easiest it's ever been. Guys can play at a longer age. So I'm not ruling out Dane being good for the next three years. But just pointing out, history is saying, be a little nervous. In general with guards, like Chris Paul, we saw from age 35 to 36 to 37, like it just dropped. But that's two years older than Dane. Maybe it's fine. I just worry about guards. We have not a lot of instances with guards in their mid -30s of them either peaking as players or being able to sustain whatever success they had during their prime. It always starts to go down with really no exceptions, except for Steph Curry. He's the only non -exception. So if your case is Dane's as good as Steph Curry, or Dane can be as potent as Steph Curry on a winning team, like, you know, Steph Curry is better than Dane, but I'm not going to argue that he couldn't do a lot of the stuff that Curry did in Golden State. The bigger issue for me, the age I'm definitely worried about. Dane has not been healthy the last couple of years, and we have not seen him play nine straight months at playoff basketball with a big bullseye on his back. Everybody coming after you, you're the best team. We haven't seen him do that ever, much less than the last couple of seasons. So can he stay up? Can he stay healthy? That's one thing. The defense with Dane just got kind of swept under the rug the last couple days, and I don't really understand it because there's five categories of defensive player I feel like. There's excellent, there's good, there's average, there's not so good, and then there's bad. And I think Dane's a bad defender. I think the stats back it up. Like, his defensive rating last year was 245 out of the guards. He's the 245th guard for defensive rating. You know, 117 .4 individual defensive rating is 483 overall. Portland's team's always defensively, it was the Achilles heel for them. Partly because of Dane, because he couldn't guard anybody. He's too small. And, you know, think about what we saw from the playoffs the last couple years. I think about the 2020 bubble Celtics playoffs, not infrequently, because I think that team had a chance to potentially win a title. What happened? Everyone hunted Kemba Walker. It was hunting season. It's like, where is he? Got to get a switch. Got to get Kemba Walker guarding somebody who's bigger, or got to beat him off the dribble, and it just became a hunt session with him. And basically, he got played out of the league. He's not in the league anymore. You know, we had this with Isaiah Thomas, too, in the mid -2010s. I think it's been an issue with Kyrie Irving. The Celtics certainly went at him in the playoff series with Brooklyn a couple years ago. Curry, you saw, who I think is a better defender than people give him credit for, but the And he's a much better defender than Dame is. Jordan Poole is somebody that got hunted in playoff series recently. Chris Paul, obviously, is a big one. Jalen Brunson, remember what the Heat did to him? Mitchell, when he was on Utah, this was a huge issue. And then Trae Young, obviously. My fear with Dame is he's a DH, and I think in Portland, part of the reasons he was able to put up the stats he did was because he wasn't playing defense, right? It was just, how many points can I score? My team isn't very good, and I'm just going to do my thing. He's an incredible offensive player. But how much of a trade -off is the defense, right? Well, you think, all right, well, Milwaukee, they're really good defensively. They'll be able to protect him. Here's the team. Giannis, Dame, Lopez, Portis, Middleton, Conaton, Beauchamp, Crowder. Who's guarding Trae Young on this team? Who's guarding Jason Tatum? Here's a partial list of guys that I don't think this team will be able to guard this season. Devin Booker, Tatum, Butler, Trae Young, Kyrie, Curry. Who's going to be chasing Curry around the screens? Dame lowered? Good luck. SGA, Luca, Mitchell, Murray, Edwards, Brunson, Ja, Garland, Fox, Halburn. Are they going to be able to cover Derek White? I don't know. The way this team is constructed, they are not going to have the ability to guard other guards at all, which means they're just going to have to be in a shooting match with them, right? It's going to be not much different than what's going to happen with Phoenix, where they're just literally going to have to outscore the other team. I've just watched too much playoff basketball over the last couple years, where it's like, if you have that weak link on defense, and you're playing a team that's smart enough, they're going to go after that weak link. Like, think about them against the Lakers, right? The Lakers figure their crunch time. Let's say they make the finals. It's Milwaukee and the Lakers, and Lakers crunch time. They're going to have LeBron and Davis and Austin Reeves and, I don't know, a shooter and a point guard, whatever. All they're going to be doing is trying to find where Dame is on the court and going after him. What about when they play Boston? Boston puts out White and Brogdon and Tatum and Brown and a center, and all they're going to be doing is trying to make sure Dame is covering somebody who has the ball who's now torturing him. I think it's a real problem for them. And what's funny is they gave up Drew's defense and, you know, they, what they gave up on defense, which is significant, and they gained an offense, it might end up just being a wash and they might just be a different version of the same team where they still have a huge flaw. It's just on the other end of the court. I'm just shocked that nobody brought up the defense. I agree he's an amazing offensive player and what's cool about this trade and what I'm excited about as a basketball fan is, can he go up a level? Right? A lot of these stats he put up, especially the last couple years. They didn't mean anything. They were, he was on bad teams. Like, who cares? Ultimately, Bradley Beal scored 30 points a game on the Wizards. Who cares? I think most really good offensive players, if they're on a bad team, can get between 25 and 30 a night. Can you do it nine months in a row? Can you do it when you're getting hunted on defense all over the place? How much can Milwaukee protect him? And what does he have in the tank at age 33 with 900 plus games on the O 'Dominor already? I'm still afraid of the Bucks, but people have, like, FanDuel had them as best odds in basketball and I think most people feel like they're the favorite now. I don't feel like there's a favorite. I think you can go through every team. Boston, I could, I'm scared of Porzingis. What's going to happen with Jalen Brown out there? He has contracts. Can Peyton Pritchard, all these different things. Philly, God only knows. Miami, they're unquestionably worse. Yeah, Milwaukee is going to be really good, but depending where Holiday lands and how this all plays out, I just think it's still wide open. And the other piece, so if you're just talking Boston, Miami, Tatum kills Milwaukee. I have no idea why. Boston is kind of built to at least stay with Dame and, you know, Derek White is about as good of a person you're going to have to try to keep Dame in check, at least. And Boston's done a really good job of guarding Giannis over the years. They don't have Grant Williams this year, but I just don't think, I think there's as many ways this goes wrong as it goes right, I guess would be my final thought on this because for what they gave up, especially with that 29 unprotected and the two swaps and, you know, they are all in on this team. And you know my theory, when you go all in on a team, you better think you can win. Not positive, but it's an awesome trade. It really is. It makes the league so much more fun. Dame and Giannis together. I'm going to enjoy watching Portland. I still have my eating stock. Watching Phoenix fans slowly realize that Derkiszna isn't the answer is going to be fun and then we'll see where Drew Holliday goes. So really fun trade. We're going to talk about it a little bit more with Die Hard Bucks fan, Ben Thompson in one second. Let's take a break.
Postcards to the Universe with Melisa
Medium Isabeau Maxwell Describes 'The Sage Method'
"Those who are listening and they want to do a course with you. Let's talk a little bit about the sage method and they want to do a course. Are you teaching people how to be a medium? What do you teach in your course? The sage method is structured in such a way that it shows you what's blocking you. Which can be a challenge to walk through. But it does three things. It shows you what's blocking you. It explains how intuition works. The in between, all the stuff that we've been talking about. More depth so you kind of understand how the engine runs. And then lastly, it holds you in a space of experimenting with not only psychic, but mediumship experiments. And in both of those, you try psychic abilities in 10 different ways. And you try mediumship abilities in 10 different ways at the end of the course. And when you're done, you walk away from the course knowing if you're more psychic or more medium. And you also walk away from the course knowing how to best hold yourself to access your intuition. Oh wow, sounds really, really interesting. So then yes, there are going to be some people who will start communicating with spirit then from the course. I imagine that will happen. And I like that you said that it shows people where their blocks are because that's the biggest thing to manifest. And when people are like, oh, I do all the things that everybody tells me to do and I practice and practice and nothing's coming to me. And that's because they don't realize they have so many unconscious blocks that are blocking those things from coming into you. I mean, if we're a magnet, we're attracting those things into our life, you may be unconsciously blocking things because of a belief system or something that's running in the background that you don't even realize that's running the show in your life, right? Exactly, exactly. My favorite feedback from this course, I've been teaching the course since 2007 or 2008. And for many years I taught it in person and then I put it online a number of years ago. But favorite my bits of feedback are the frequent feedback where people say, I took this course to open up my intuition. And while that did happen, I ended up finishing the course happier than I was before. And I'm like, yeah, because the blocks that are blocking your intuition are also the things that are causing you distress.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat - 09/28/23
"Stay tuned for a free health tip brought to you by Peloton. Whether you're doing a dance to your favorite artist in the office parking lot or being guided into warrior one in the break room before your shift. Whether you're running on your Peloton tread at your mom's house while she watches the baby or counting your breaths on the subway. Peloton is for all of us wherever we are whenever we need it. Download the free Peloton app today. Peloton app available through free tier or paid subscription starting at $12 .99 per month. Embrace the power of daily walks for improved health and well -being. Walking is a simple yet effective form of exercise that offers a wide range of health benefits. Whether you stroll through the park, walk around your neighborhood or take a brisk walk during your lunch break. There are a lot of health benefits to getting in your daily walks. Next time you may be craving that afternoon cup of coffee, try a Peloton walk outside to go grab your coffee. The Peloton app offers structured walking experiences regardless of your environment. So get out and enjoy that fresh air with the help of Peloton. Birthday 85 years old today. So a little stand by me. It was a joy. First of all, you did great. I was just saying the news channel product last night was fun and it was great to hook up from the house and just join you in the immediate aftermath. We've slept on it now. Do you feel any differently? I may resent it even more now than I did last night. What a colossal waste of time. Not for Donald Trump. The winner was Donald Trump. That's just it. I mean, and you said it earlier. He's he's a genius once again in his decision to stay away. And I've been thinking a lot about DeSantis's decision to go after Trump on this issue. I would think, you know, Governor DeSantis, if he has any chance at all, has to win over Trump supporters. Correct. How do you win over Trump supporters by trashing the guy who made the brilliant decision to stay away from that train wreck last night? And it was a train wreck. How many times in your career, Mark, have you decided to do something that you just wish like heck you could take back? I mean, I don't know. Maybe. Oh, I could. I could just start with Monday. You know, I mean, if you're Dana Perino, you're going to spend the rest of your career asking yourself, why did I think the survivor question was going to go over? Well, so stupid. So stupid. And that couldn't have been couldn't have been her. That's got to be some staffer, even some executive or some consultant who said, hey, let's lighten the mood or do something kind of fun. And sometimes I'm actually OK with the moment that sort of humanizes them. I mean, like in a one on one debate or maybe when there's just two or three people left or to say, look, you guys are up there to sort of knock each other around. Tell me one really good, praiseworthy thing about each other, you know, about you, about your opponent. And that's kind of neat. And it sort of cuts. But this was so unbelievably stupid. And and there were a lot of cringe moments. I mean, poor Mike Pence. I've slept with the school teacher for 38 years. And everybody kind of groaned. And Chris Christie, oh, you're not Donald Trump. You're Donald Duck. Somebody wrote that for him and he thought it would go well. Or maybe it was his. Once again, I don't know whose idea it was, but it was terrible. And let's go back to programing decisions. The Univision lady, are you serious? I want to be as careful as I've ever been for anything. Univision, God bless them. Great. Univision, whatever Hispanic news media. Great. And I bet she's great on it. I bet she's wonderful.
Stuff You Should Know
A highlight from Revenge: Bitter, Not Sweet
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Well, you can join heart of the game as they explore these questions and more with some of the greatest families in sports Listen to heart of the game on the I heart radio app Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts Hey everybody get this we have a mind -bending announcement to make the stuff You should know episode on vinyl is now on vinyl. You can learn about records by listening to a record It's possibly the first time a podcast episode has ever been put to wax and we did it along with our friends at born Losers records It comes in three awesome colors black white and a super cool splatter core and you can order it for pre -sale now at Syskvinyl .com Records will ship on October 20th just in time for Halloween whatever that means So go to syskvinyl .com right now to get this super duper limited edition super cool stuff You should know thing a record on records Welcome to stuff. You should know a production of I heart radio Hey and welcome to the podcast I'm Josh and there's Chuck and Jerry's here too and this is stuff you should know the podcast about revenge We've done an episode on it was like a top 10 on cases legendary cases of revenge Oh, yeah, I remember that but we didn't talk much about Revenge itself and I feel it was high time. We've been dancing around it for decades now And here we are I Thought this is a great idea. So kudos to you because it Dave helped us out with this one and it's a lot of like science and studies have Sort of and I'm not gonna spoil anything but have sort of About revenge and what it means for the person getting the revenge. Yeah, I think most people How we feel about revenge it's from watching movies and it's like deeply satisfying to watch the Bad guy who deserves revenge get get their comeuppance right sure is or even be killed Just like yes that guy deserved that kind of thing. But in reality carrying out acts of revenge or They just it's not like the movies I guess is what I'm trying to say and yet there's a lot of evidence of revenge in real life so much so that the New York Police Department came out with a study in 2012 and Found out that 42 % of the homicides in New York were motivated by revenge man, so and that actually kind of underscores like a problem with revenge is That when you enact vengeance on somebody and you leave them alive almost Invariably that person feels like you overdid What in response to what they they did it was disproportionate. So now they have to strike back again And it can go back and forth until somebody dies or else somebody can die right away is the first act of revenge But the the point of the whole thing is is that once you do carry out revenge no matter if it's petty exciting somebody up for spam or Killing somebody in response to whatever Slight like road rage. They cut you off in in traffic. You don't feel good afterward You actually feel worse and that's the underlying point of this entire episode Yeah, you know my my favorite petty I don't do it, but my favorite petty revenge to witnesses It's pin and it's so dumb Everyone just settle down is on a highway when someone Is on an expressway and they clean their windows and it gets all over the car behind them Yeah, I see people all the time race in front of that person and do the same thing. Oh my god, really? Yeah, that is Petty that is Tom Petty. That's not Tom Petty because somebody was great That's just petty and I also wanted to say to you talked about Revenge coming back harder or whatever Emily has her own personal Saying like when we're messing around and I like I will do something to her Or I'll say something kind of mean as a joke. She'll she'll eviscerate me if it is and she calls it coming back double She goes I come back double. Oh boy I was one of those people that Think she gets pushed in the corner and is and man she comes out hard So it's it's a good trait and it can and one to be wary of at the same time Yes, I'm suddenly way more wary of Emily than I was before luckily I stayed on her good side You wouldn't come at Emily. Anyway, you're smart. No, so There's a lot of questions revolving around revenge if if the if we know for a fact It feels good to think about but then feels bad to do. Mm -hmm Despite the fact that when we're thinking about it, we're like this is going to feel good It's not the act of thinking about it. That feels good It's fantasizing about how good it's gonna feel to get that person back And set the universe right again to do all sorts of things that revenge allegedly does and it turns out When you carry out an act of revenge you are playing the chump to evolution and on behalf of society as a whole and That's kind of like the whole basis of a revenge. There's a Extensively in the animal kingdom and it really collides with the the modern evolved humans That live in these complex societies. We've formed today When you get those two things together an interesting podcast comes out. That's right what you're talking about the animal kingdom is also called retaliatory aggression and that is the idea that So let's say a lion mama goes out and kills an animal To leave for her little cubs to eat Another animal is like oh, you know Let me see if I could sneak in there eat some of that too The mama lion doesn't just scare this thing off to preserve that meat for the kids The mama lion goes and hunts down and kills that animal. Yes, that's good. They come back double Emily style Right. I mean like the the problem solved the hyena has been chased away But to leave your kids and go find it and kill it. That's that is Seems only retaliatory aggressive. Yeah, and this next one too. I'm gonna mention These are interesting because it made me sort of question the idea of revenge versus punishment Right because I think those are different things. Yeah, the rhesus monkey We've talked a lot about their vocalizations like they're all about the group or they should be at least and like when they find food Let's say they will tell everyone. Hey, I found food But if a rhesus monkey is ever like, you know I'm gonna have a little bit of this first before I call out and if they find that out There's a punishment for that rhesus monkey. I don't think they kill it But there is a punishment and this is the idea that these retaliatory aggressions are Deterrence it's like a punishment for everyone to see to prevent future transgressions like hey, did you hyena see that? Did you other rhesus monkey see that? So that you know would be an advantageous thing Evolutionarily speaking so that gene gets passed on Yeah Because the more the more you're prone to do that the the likelier you are to not have food stolen from you for your kids The likelier it is for your kids to survive and and your lineage to survive. So it makes sense Evolutionarily speaking this retaliatory aggression does at least right? Yeah, which I would still argue is punishment more than revenge. I Absolutely, I think you're absolutely right and there's a there's a story a couple of stories of Tigers actually engaging in what can only be described as revenge and it's very much up in the air whether what we're witnessing is actual revenge, but like you know, like there was a very famous story out of Russia where like a poacher not only shot a But also took some of their kill and that the tiger tracked the guy down found his his little lodging destroyed everything you could find in lodging and then waited outside for the hunter to come back and then kill them and that the Tiger managed to hold this idea in his head Or I think it was a her her head for up to maybe 24 hours after the the hunter shot her There's a there's a couple of stories out there that seem to pertain to Tigers Specifically that it's almost like it does contain an emotional component to it, but for the most part Yes, it's it's solving in a problem and then maybe preventing future problems among the animals Yeah, you know one of my favorite sayings is revenge is a meal best served cold Yeah, I don't know why cuz I'm not a revenge guy really, but I just I think that it's just such a great saying I just like it, you know, there's something about like oh, no, no The real revenge is like when you wait around for a while Oh, yeah, and then when you would might not be suspected you come back and take that revenge Yeah, because if you just immediately do it in response, you're a hothead and a dummy anybody can do that But just sit there and really stew on it and figure out the best way to really get back at the person that takes intellect Yeah, I agree and a little bit of craziness.
Bitcoin Audible
A highlight from Read_768 - Living Through the Fall of Rome
"Today, historians focus on the symptoms of Rome's fall, the consequences, the moral decay, the economic decline, the fall in public safety, the multiplying plagues from dysfunctional public services, the hollowed out military that ultimately invited barbarian invasions. But we know these well, in fact we're living through many of them. What's a lot more interesting is the why, because that's how you stop it. The best in Bitcoin made audible. I am Guy Swan and this is Bitcoin Audible. What is up guys, welcome back to Bitcoin Audible. I am Guy Swan, the guy who has read more about Bitcoin than anybody else you know. And we've got a great read today. Are we living through the fall of Rome? We have Peter Saint -Ange making it back to the show today, which we had an interview with him, which I will have in the show notes. In fact, let me mark that down so I don't forget it right now. Article interview, blah, blah, blah. And yeah, so that was a really fun episode actually. I really, really had a great time with Peter and I've read a couple of his articles on the show, but he just has an incredible kind of a catalog of videos and explanations and breakdowns. He has like weekly things. One of my favorite things to just actually stop and watch on Twitter. Always has really great bite sized analysis of kind of the stuff that's been going on and just spot on with Austrian theory and the way to think about things, I think. So highly recommended. And then there's this everybody think about the Roman Empire meme going around, which is hilarious, but it's a perfect analogy. And I think there's very good reason why it's a popular meme right now is because for all intents and purposes, it's accurate. And I think Saint -Ange makes a really great case here. So we're just going to go ahead and jump right into it. Just a heads up. Don't forget to subscribe to stay tuned. We have a another really fun guys take coming probably in the next day or two and an interview finally that we're actually having to redo. But it was so good that I cannot, I can't lose it. I can't lose it. We lost the audio or the video of like a huge section. I lost his thing. So it was just like me weirdly sitting there and making a comment every like five minutes while he explained a bunch of things. So and we lost a big enough section that we're just gonna have to redo the whole thing. But trust me, you're not going to want to miss this one. This one is Bitcoin hyper decentralization. Why I think there is an incredible opportunity and why this person is potentially finding a way in to capitalize on this opportunity to actually figure out how to produce and how to spread this as quickly as possible. Make mining Bitcoin more decentralized than it has ever been. Trust me, you don't miss this one. Stay tuned. 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Crypto News Alerts | Daily Bitcoin (BTC) & Cryptocurrency News
A highlight from 1414: Bitcoin Will Reach $10 Million By This Date - Adam Back
"In today's show, Bitcoin priced the $30 ,000 in October, says analysts as the Bitcoin price climbs 2%. And check it out, Coinbase CEO slams Chase UK for a totally inappropriate crypto move. And I'd say the same thing. Also, breaking news, the SEC chairman Gary Gensler says Bitcoin is not a security, but refuses to say it's a commodity. Max Keiser's response, Bitcoin is a synthetic commodity willed into existence by humanity's greed as a species for perfect money. It regulates itself, and it obviates the need for the nation state preach. Also in today's show, we'll be discussing the SEC pushes back the deadline for ARK 21 shares, spot Bitcoin ETF to January, continuing to kick the can down the road. However, breaking news, US lawmakers call on the SEC chairman Gary Gensler to approve a spot Bitcoin ETF immediately. Key word, immediately. Also in today's show, we'll be discussing Bitcoin price can hit $10 million within the next nine years, according to the Blockstream CEO, Adam Back. And speaking of a $10 million Bitcoin price, did you know Hal Finney was calculating a Bitcoin price of $10 million per coin just one week after the Genesis block on January 3rd of 2009? Talk about an absolute legend. We'll also be taking a look at the overall crypto market, all this plus so much more in today's show. Yo, what's good crypto fam? This is first and foremost, a video show. So if you want the full premium experience with video, visit my YouTube channel at cryptonewsalerts .net. Again that's cryptonewsalerts .net. Welcome to everyone just joining us on our live stream. This is pod episode number 1414. I'm your host JV and today is September 27th, 2023. We've got another action packed show for you today. Let's kick it off with our market watch. It's good to see a lot of the cryptos are back in the green with Bitcoin holding on to $26 ,200 as support and checking out coinmarketcap .com we can see the crypto market cap pretty stagnant at just above a trillion dollars, we're roughly $28 billion in volume in the past 24 hours with a Bitcoin dominance pretty stagnant as well at 48 .9 % and the ether dominance at 18 .3 % and checking out the top 100 crypto gainers of the past 24 hours. We got Bitcoin cash leading the pack up 7 % trading at roughly $230 followed by the infamous Pepe up 5 .6 % followed by Chainlink up three and a half percent trading at $7 .65. Which altcoins if any are you most bullish on right now? Drop it in the comment section right down below and at the end of the show I'll be reading everyone's comments out loud and checking out the top 100 crypto gainers of the past week we can see it's a mix between a sea of red and a sea of green. We have Bitcoin cash up 7 % again link is up three and a half percent and RLB up four and a half percent and checking out one of my favorite indicators which is the crypto greed and fear index you can see we're currently rated a 46 in fear yesterday was a 47 last week a 46 and last month a 38 in fear so there you have it fam how many of you are bullish for this upcoming October which is only a few days out? Let me know your honest thoughts in the comments right down below and speaking of technical analysis let's dive into today's ta and check out the charts and what is popping with the king crypto.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
New York Judges Obviously Don't Have Access to Zillow
"My other favorite story of the morning. This is a revelation. New York judges do not have any awareness of or access to Zillow because yesterday a New York judge ruled that Donald Trump committed fraud because he overvalued his property. And apparently, judging by Eric Trump's ex post yesterday, the New York judge valued Mar -a -Lago at about 80 bucks. And apparently it's worth more than that. Now, who among us have not Zillowed a property that you drove by when you saw it for sale? Who among us have not Zillowed a property that that we thought that would be a nice place to live? I wonder what it cost. Zillow has brought the multiple listing service to you. And and so apparently New York judges do not have access to Zillow because the idea that a real estate developer inflated their value. First of all, I work. I know real estate developers. I worked for a real estate developer. Real estate developers are my friend. I hope Leonard Frank is listening right now. Leonard is retired from Pardee, which was my largest and biggest client for a quarter century. And but I mean the Baldwin brothers and Sun Cal and Lusk and you name it. I represented him on Endangered Species Wetlands and CEQA NEPA issues. And I have never met in 25 years of legal practice, a developer who undervalued their properties. Never. It does not happen. But the judge in New York, because it's New York and by the way, this this helps Trump. This helps Trump as much as the story is Trump say he might want to buy a Glock as a felony. That story as well. At some point, you just laugh and you think, I hate the media so much, even if I don't like Donald Trump, I'm talking to you people out there who don't like Donald Trump. At some point, you know, you're going to vote for him because you want to see their heads explode on Election Night 2024.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Hugh Feels Surprise Sympathy for the White House Press Secretary
"I actually have a very unusual experience this morning. I am feeling sympathy for Karine Jean -Pierre. And you want to know why? It's because there are two stories out there that are, they're just, you don't want to wake up like the White House press secretary, I assume, wakes up at least as early as I do and starts with the British papers. So the telegraph has a headline this morning and maybe the least favorite headline Karine Jean -Pierre has ever seen. Inside Team Biden's plan to stop the president falling over. That's the headline in the United Kingdom's major newspaper other than the Times of London. The left reads the time, the right, the center right reads the telegraph. Inside Team Biden's plan to stop the president falling over. I, you know, most people don't go beyond the headline, right? They're scrolling around there. Oh, the president's in danger of falling over. That's not good. So I can't wait for Peter Doocy to say, well, do you have any comment on the headline in the telegraph inside the president team plan to prevent him from falling over? And then she's going to accuse Peter of some heinous crime and move on without answering.
Leading Saints Podcast
A highlight from YSA Leaders in the Church
"As many of you know, we recently published three episodes from the new podcast called At the Table. This is produced by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints, and I had the privilege to help with this project as a consultant. After publishing the recent podcast on Leading Saints, those working at the church on this project were so impressed by the results and the feedback from the audience that they asked if we could share more episodes. So for the next three episodes of the Leading Saints podcast, we will feature the three remaining episodes for the first season of the At the Table podcast. Enjoy! And don't forget to send your feedback by taking the survey for each individual episode, which we will link in the show notes. Welcome to the At the Table podcast, a production of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints. On this podcast, we aim to explore how church leaders can more effectively understand and utilize the voices of young single adults in their words and stakes. You'll hear from experienced church leaders and young single adults about best practices, inspiring stories, and encouraging methods to help us all follow Jesus Christ together. My name is Kami Castrijon. I'm originally from Colombia. I was born and raised there, and I moved to the United States when I was 16. I moved to the big city of New York, and that's where I joined the church. And then soon after, I served my mission in Riverside, California. Then after my mission, I moved to Utah, and I've been here ever since. I love dancing, especially salsa, hiking, baking, and I am thrilled to be part of this amazing podcast, At the Table. I'm Jared Pearson, and I have the pleasure to be a co -host on the At the Table podcast. I'm currently in Provo, Utah, but I was born and raised in Livermore, California, right outside San Francisco, California. I ended up serving my mission in New Hampshire, the New Hampshire Manchester Mission, and some of my favorite things are playing pickleball, tennis, or staying inside playing some board games or reading books as well. And I'm just really excited to be part of this.
Addiction Unlimited Podcast | Alcoholism | 12 Steps | Living Sober | Addiction Treatment
A highlight from 6 Tips to Stay Sober on Vacation
"Do you want to stay sober and still travel and have amazing vacations? Maybe you're newly sober and worried about taking your first trip without alcohol, or maybe you've been sober a while, but you have a big trip coming up, a bachelorette party in Vegas or a wedding in Mexico, and that's making you anxious just thinking about doing it without drinking. From pub crawls to beach parties to boozy boat cruises, the thought of traveling can be a major trigger. Whatever your situation might be, you can be a person who travels alcohol -free and still has the time of your life. Hey everybody, welcome to the Addiction Unlimited podcast, where you get to learn everything you want to know about addiction and recovery. I'm your host, Angela Pugh, co -founder of Kansas City Recovery, Life Coach, and Recovering Alcoholics. To learn more about me, you can listen to episode zero on your podcast app, or find us on the web at addictionunlimited .com. What do you have planned for your next trip? A family vacation, a family reunion, a work trip, a camping trip? You're probably thinking days on the beach, nights on the town. It's hard to imagine doing any of it without a drink in hand, especially if you're new to sobriety or if you're facing your first ever sober travel. Going on vacation usually means relaxing and being carefree, and for many of us, relaxing meant excessive consumption of alcohol and or other substances. I was exactly the same way. Every trip I ever took was a drinking trip. I mean, honestly, everything I ever did was about drinking, whether it was a trip or not. But one of the greatest things about being sober is that my whole world expanded, and I mean that literally. I've gotten to travel the world, see beautiful places, have phenomenal experiences that I never could have done in my drinking life. When I was drinking, I would always talk about all the traveling I wanted to do, all the places I wanted to go and see, but I couldn't actually do any of it. I was a bit lucky because I lived in Southern California, and there are a lot of fun things you can do spur of the moment. And I promise you, I have had my fair share of last minute decisions drunken to drive to Vegas after work at 3 a .m. with all my drunk friends. But as a sober person, traveling is full of triggers, and that can feel daunting. And that's one of the main reasons I wanted to start hosting sober vacations. It's so much to think about if you're going on a work trip or a family trip where you may be the only non -drinking person. It's like every event every day comes with its own special side of anxiety as you obsess about getting through each thing without drinking, also without looking like a weirdo being the only one not drinking, and at the same time trying not to be overwhelmed by FOMO and somehow still manage to have some fun. Wow, sounds great, doesn't it? So my first sober vacation group trip is just around the corner, and the next sober vacation with me is in Bali in 2024. So I thought this would be the perfect time to do an episode about traveling and staying sober while you do it. So if you've got a vacation coming up or you're just thinking about traveling or you're traveling with me, here's my advice for taking an epic sober trip. Number one, this is not going to surprise you. If you've been following me for any length of time, you probably know this is going to be the first thing I'm going to say. Plan ahead. Okay, think about what parts of the trip will be most challenging. Will it be the packing, the planning, sitting at the airport, being on the plane, the layover, right? Think it through. What is going to be the most challenging part of the journey for you? And then create solutions for those hardest parts. And one thing you're going to hear me stress throughout this episode too is to do things differently. Okay, your brain makes thousands decisions of all day, every day. So it goes on autopilot a lot, right? Any things we do that are regular we're doing day in and day out, your brain will go on autopilot. Like when you drive to work. Have you ever had one of those moments you start your car and you go and all of a sudden you're at work and you don't really remember the drive because you're on autopilot and that helps your brain conserve energy. So when you're making changes in your life, it's hugely important to do things differently because it snaps you out of that autopilot mode so you don't end up with a drink in your hand. So think this through. Plan ahead. What's going to be your hardest part and then create solutions for the hardest part. Don't just do things on autopilot the way you've always done and then expect to have a different result. If you do everything exactly the way you've always done, you're going to end up with a drink in your hand if you're used to getting to the airport and having a drink in your hand. So do things differently and think this through for when you get there. Also, do you have a hard time in the evening at dinner or is it lunch time? If it's lunch time because you're usually laying on the beach getting your food and drinks served to you, then don't just lay there on the beach like you did in your drinking life. Get up, go for a walk, schedule a surfing lesson, take your own drinks with you. Whatever you need to do, just do it differently. If it's dinner time, schedule an activity for early the next morning so you have something to look forward to and a reason to go back to your room and go to bed early. Do it differently but think through those pieces of the journey. What is going to be most challenging for you and create some solutions for those time frames? And we're going to talk about some of those solutions moving forward. The next one is the flight part. Be prepared to fly. Airports and airplanes are full of potential triggers from long security lines to the liquor they serve during the flight. Try to distract yourself from temptation along the way, right? Buy a yummy coffee or some kind of fruit drink or something after you go through security. Get a treat to make you happy and take your mind off a drink. For me, it's gummies. I'm gummy obsessed. I can buy a bag at the airport. I can keep them handy. I can munch on them while I'm walking around the airport shopping or while I'm working, waiting for my flight. And one of the biggest things that saves me in this whole travel journey and I've traveled a ton. So I'm not super triggered by traveling. I'm an introvert. I just get quiet. I go inside my head in my own little world and I can do it pretty easily. But one of my saving graces is earbuds, right? Put your earbuds in. Take out a good book. Play a game. Listen to podcasts. Listen to music. Anything to keep you occupied throughout the duration of your journey. But be prepared. What is that going to look like? Again, know what the most difficult parts of your journey are going to be and make sure you have things in place to get you through those times. For on the flight, this is the next one. Make an in -flight toolkit. And this is a lot of things I just rattled off. Being on the airplane has its own special brand of triggers, because it's really stressful. It takes a long time, especially if you are impatient and judgy and you're sitting there watching everything everybody does, just tearing them down and being mad that people are taking so long and they're not doing it the way you would do it and the way you think is right. If that's where your thoughts are, listen, you're going to be irritated. Also, the other part of in -flight is airplanes are essentially a giant bar flying through the sky. And if you previously relied on drinks to get you through the airport and or the flight, then I definitely recommend making an airplane toolkit, especially if it's a long flight. You can sleep on planes, then bring the stuff that will make you comfortable to sleep on the plane. Research the best neck pillow and get it. Maybe you already have it, so don't forget it. Take a really good eye mask to block out the brightness of the plane. Also creating some privacy, right? I think all of us know when you look at your neighbor and they've got their earbuds in and an eye mask on, you're not going to be talking to that person and trying to carry on conversation, right? But if you are a person that's an extrovert and you want to chat it up, you want to talk to the people around you, then don't put in your earbuds and put on your eye mask yet. But have your pillow, if it's super long flight, have some compression socks, have plenty of food and snacks in your bag. Have your tablet, you know, an iPad full of books or movies or tv shows. I always take my favorite thermal water cup. It goes with me everywhere in my life and I take it when I travel also. Obviously it's empty. I throw it in my carry -on duffel bag and when the flight attendants come offering drinks, I just hand her my water cup and say, can I get some water? And they fill my water cup, I'm good to go. I also always plan on in wi -flight -fi. I just plan on it. I don't care about the expense. I get a lot of work done when I'm flying because I'm a captive audience, right? There's nothing else. It's not like when I'm at home in my office, like where there's a million distractions and things to do and it's like, oh, let me cook this or start some laundry or make this phone call or take a lunch break, right? When I'm on a flight, I'm captive and that is a beautiful time to get a ton of work done. So I just plan on getting the in -flight wi -fi. I don't care if it's ten dollars for the day or whatever. I'm just doing it. Also, when I have wi -fi, I can log on to any of my streaming services and watch my favorite stuff or I can go on YouTube and put on one of my favorite long podcasts, right? There's all kinds of podcasters that have these super long podcasts like Huberman who I love, right? Huberman Lab. His stuff is like two freaking hours long, but that's a great thing to do in a flight. I've got my earbuds in, log on to YouTube. I can start a Huberman or Lewis Howes or Jay Shetty and I can listen to that while I work and do my thing. Earbuds, earbuds, earbuds. I also take my iPad and I have my favorite game on my iPad. I love playing match 3D and I just went to Phoenix a couple of weeks ago. It was brilliant. I went to see my best friend and his family and it was the first time I ever like took my iPad to play my game, but it was amazing, especially when you're sitting in your seat and you're waiting for everybody else to board. All that impatient judginess I was talking about, distract yourself from that. Don't put yourself in a bad mood or cause yourself unnecessary stress or create a bunch of negative thinking. It's just not worth it. It's dumb. It's pointless. It's a waste of your energy. So I just sat there and opened up my iPad and I played match 3D and that's what I did and it was perfect, especially until we took off and then I got on my computer and whatever.
Telecom Reseller
A highlight from Whitepaper: The emergence of Automation and AI for Customer Service, Podcast
"This is Doug Green, and I'm the publisher of Telecom Reseller, and I'm very pleased to have with us today Blair Pleasant. Blair, thank you for joining us today. Thanks, Doug. Good to be here. I'm glad to see you again. And we also have with us Anna Baker of EnReach. Anna, thank you for joining me today. Hi, Doug. Thank you for hosting us. We're going to be talking about one of my favorite topics, actually two of my favorite topics, automation and AI. And we're going to be talking specifically about a new white paper that just came out a couple of weeks ago, the emergence of automation. And we're going to be sort of diving into this topic. What I like about what we're going to be talking about this morning is, you know, everybody, literally, everybody is talking about AI and automation nonstop. Here we're going to be talking about it in a practical manner. We're going to talk about how it actually can be applied in the field for contact centers and other applications as well. So before we dive into that, Anna, you know, I think our readers and listeners and so on see EnReach all the time, but tell us briefly what your company does. OK. Yeah. So EnReach is a unified communication provider in Europe. We're one of the biggest players there. And we provide our communication services through partners to the smaller and medium businesses. And on the other hand, we also have integrated communication solutions for for Salesforce or for Microsoft, which we provide to the bigger companies and my team as part of EnReach. We focus on the AI part. So we've built a conversational AI platform, which we're probably going to talk about a bit today. And the idea, basically, that you guys have been talking about for a while is actually using AI, making it work for companies, for applications and so on. Am I right about that? Yeah, that's right. Yeah. The thing we discussed with Blair is we showed some cases in which we use AI to fully automate certain conversations. I think one of the examples in the white paper is about a taxi company. You can imagine how narrow these conversations typically are about people ordering taxis and how AI can really help smoothen that process or even completely automate the process. So, you know, staying with that for a second and maybe before and after, how do businesses perceive AI? Is it still an unknown or is it becoming more known? I think it's becoming more known. I mean, if you if you open LinkedIn, you can't get away from AI. And most people have played with with things like chat GPT. So in that sense, it's known. I think the thing that is still unknown is what I can do once you connect it to the data of your company. So where in chat GPT, if you chat with it, you can ask general questions. Once you connect it to the data of your company, you can ask really specific questions and get specific answers. I think this is where you now see a lot of applications is pulling the generic AI conversational AI functionality into the company space and connect it with the company's data. So, Blair, you know, in starting to work on this, how is the digital world of social media smartphones and apps impacted customer service? Yeah, basically, customers want to be able to interact with companies and brands, you know, how they want and when they want. They don't want to have to go through multiple IVR menus before they can reach an agent or get the information that they want. And more and more people are using tools like WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger for all types of things. And they expect to be able to use those channels for customer service as well now. And mainly, you know, people want to be able to get service when they need it, how they need it, you know, not just during business hours. And they're really tired of, you know, the IVR and they want more intuitive ways of interacting with organizations. And one thing is that, you know, we're finding the use of, you know, social media and apps and, you know, all these other things. It's going across demographics and generations. You know, people think, oh, you know, WhatsApp is just for, you know, 20 -somethings or 30 -somethings, but it's not. And so one thing I found is that, you know, regardless of age or, you know, whatever demographic, people want to use these tools and they are using these tools. You know, and staying with that for just a second, those tools are not just communication tools. They're emerging as basically a marketplace. They're the shopping mall. They're the place, especially in many parts of the world, where people transact everything from a haircut to buying a pair of shoes. Exactly. Yeah. So people are used to using these tools and these apps. So why shouldn't they be using it for customer service as well? And then and so, you know, businesses need to really think about this. They need to make that a part of their culture and not just something that's onto the side. Am I right about that? Oh, absolutely. And we're definitely starting to see it. You know, what used to be something kind of separate is now becoming part of organizations workflows and really the way that they do business. Santa, in customer engagement settings, how do you determine which processes are better suited for automation and which should be handled by live agents, which should be handled by live engines or maybe machine? Yeah. Yeah, I think it's all to do with whether customers allow these conversations to be automated. So if you're doing a really goal oriented conversation and it's short, you typically allow, they typically won't mind an automated process. And also from the other side, having short and narrow conversations are a lot easier to automate. And as the conversation gets longer, we see AI struggle with keeping consistent conversation and we'd rather have a human in the loop and an agent taking the conversation while the AI is supporting the agent in that conversation. Did I hear you say the word frustrate? Yeah, I think there still is a lot of frustration. I think there's frustration with the fact that the customers just want to get to an agent as quick as possible. On the other end, they're in the queue and there's many other customers trying to get to the agent. And our role is to make sure that those conversations that are, that can be automated, that can be routed more efficiently, are routed more efficiently so that we free up time for those lengthier conversations that do need agents. This sounds like it's a complicated thing. In other words, we have to make a number of important decisions if you're a company in applications about which calls go where. Yeah, typically it starts with kind of a routing. We ask people their intent, why people are calling or why people are reaching out. And based on that, we make a decision whether to see if we can help them by self service and automated service or whether we directly route to the to an agent. Because a certain conversation that doesn't make sense to try and automate you only frustrate. So let's stick with this frustration thing, because I think, you know, by the time someone's actually contacting a contact center, they're pretty frustrated sometimes. And so I need to I mean, Blair, I need to ask, is AI sometimes seen as a cost reduction tool? And can that be a problem? For some organizations, it is seen as a cost reduction tool. And down the road, I think more and more it will be. But I think right now, organizations are looking at it as a way to improve the service that they provide to customers. And you know, customers are demanding self service. You know, we know that, you know, again, across generations, across age groups, people want that self service capability and to be able to get what they need when they need it without having to, you know, wait in queue for an agent. So whatever organizations can do to help enhance self service is really seen as a benefit right now. And AI is really helping enhance those self service capabilities. And it's also helping agents be more productive when customers do talk to the agents. So I think it is seen as a cost reduction, but I think a lot of organizations are really seeing it as a way to provide better self service capabilities to customers and then also to enhance the agent performance and the agent's ability to answer and resolve the customer's issue when the customer does talk to the agent. You know, a lot of people talk about, you know, being able to replace their agents and saving money that way. But right now, it's really about agent augmentation. It's not about replacing agents and saving money that way. It really is about giving the agents the tools that they need to be more effective and to provide better service to customers. So down the road, yeah, we're going to see, you know, cost reductions based on lowering, reducing the number of agents. But right now, it's really about helping agents be more effective and helping customers get those self service capabilities that they want. Is it also about improving brand loyalty? Oh, absolutely. You know, if customers can get the information that they want, when they want it, how they want it, then that's definitely going to improve brand loyalty and customer loyalty. No doubt about that. But, you know, you were talking about frustration before. If it's a frustrating experience to customers and they can't get the information, then that impacts customer loyalty negatively. So that's why having the right tools that can really assist agents and assist customers is so important. So Blair, are consumers becoming more accepting of automated and self service environments? I'd say yes and no. You know, consumers really want to use self service and studies that I've done show that the large majority of customers will try self service before reaching out to a contact center. But that being said, a lot of people get really frustrated with automated and self service applications that can only answer specific types of questions and they don't always work as advertised. You know, I think the first generation of chatbots really didn't work very well. And customers got very frustrated, you know, frankly, personally, I hated using chatbots for the longest time because the experience was really bad. You know, it didn't provide the right answers. And half the time it didn't understand the questions. It didn't know where I was coming from. And a lot of people just gave up and stopped using this first generation. But I'd say in the past year or so, or maybe two years, the technology really has improved. And we have more conversational AI tools that do understand the questions and can provide better responses. And this is just going to keep getting better with generative AI that lets you ask questions in a more natural way and provide better responses that are easy to understand. So yes, it's been frustrating, but I think customers are becoming more accepting and will be as the technology keeps improving. So you know, Anna, you know, AI is usually perceived, I think, as a large enterprise solution. Is that correct? Can it be used with medium sized companies or even smaller companies? Yeah, I think the answer is yes and no. It's still a big topic. Integrating your data, integrating your system with AI is a lot of work. And enterprises spend a lot of money on that. And that's something that is hard for smaller businesses to replicate. On the other hand, providers like ourselves have already pre -integrated AI into the core of communication, which makes it the solution that is also achievable for those smaller players. Think about taking your IVR experience and upgrading it to a voice IVR, where instead of having to listen to the menu, you can just say, I have a question about my invoice, and the IVR system routes you to the right department. And this is something that we've basically built out of the box as a turnkey solution now. And with these large language models, it's also a lot easier to train and model for your company. So there are definitely solutions we see that are within reach for the smaller and medium businesses.
Real Estate Coaching Radio
A highlight from How To Turn Your STRESS Into SUCCESS!
"Welcome to Real Estate Coaching Radio, starring award -winning real estate coaches and number one international bestselling authors, Tim and Julie Harris. This is the number one daily radio show for realtors looking for a no BS, authentic, real time coaching experience. What's really working in today's market, how to generate more leads, make more money, and have more time for what you love in your life. And now your hosts, Tim and Julie Harris. Welcome back. Today we're going to be talking about how to turn your stress into success. Here's a simple fact. All of us, no matter how organized you are, no matter how drilled down your schedule was, no matter how perfect you think you got things going for you, you're going to experience stress. It's normal, but how you react to the stress that you're experiencing, that is something that you can actually control to a great extent, not 100%. So what we're going to do today is we're going to go through, it's going to be a two -part podcast. We're going to go through a system where you can essentially acknowledge your stress. I'm not going to say manage your stress or manage your time, because those things are often unmanageable, and the very prospect of trying to manage either actually causes you more stress. That's true. Which is ironic. But what we're going to do is take you through a process so that you can really turn what mostly is an unconscious reaction to something external into something that you will find that you can derive power from and focus. So get ready to take notes, and as always, all of our notes are available down below in the show description. If you're on iTunes or YouTube or, hey, we're now on, what's that new video platform called? I forget. Anyway. Something new. Something new where videos actually are also living. And all the other, Spotify, Amazon, everywhere. We're on Google Listen and everywhere. So yes, everywhere that the podcast is listened to, you can also find the notes for our show. We oftentimes will put all of the notes that we're using. Notes are all copywritten, of course, but at the end of the day, we want you to feel free to use these when training your own agents or maybe your small brokerage, whatever. This content is designed to help you first, and then hopefully you're going to help others with this information as well. And while there also, there's a lot of links in the show description below, and you can join the premier coaching program. There's information about our eXp Real Estate Group, which you might want to consider joining all kinds of good stuff. So just scroll down and it's all there waiting for you. So Julie, let's roll into your points. Yes. And it is true that one of the most common questions we get from podcast listeners and coaching clients when you guys text us or reach out, it sounds, you know, it comes in different flavors, but it usually sounds something like this. I feel out of control with my time. I'm spending a lot of time chasing after scarce listings from my buyers, negotiating multiple offers on my own listings, and then putting out fires on my pending deals. So how can I get back into control? You're wondering what's okay to stop doing, or you should be wondering what's okay to stop doing, and what must you never drop when you're feeling out of control. There's an old saying that goes like this. If you're not controlling your time, someone or something else always will. So we're going to give you a multiple step plan. It's a little bit of this is mindset, how to control your, how you're thinking about it, and some action steps. So here are things what to get rid of and what to keep. Well, I mean, just reading your description there gave me a little bit of stress, I have to say. Did you do that on purpose, Julie? No. You'll feel better by the end, I promise. I wanted to share with them something, because the thing that actually drove my stress up a little bit when you were talking about not enough listings, guys, in the next few days, we're doing a podcast that is, I think Julie is now, what, 30 different sources? Yes. I'm actually excited. And in a couple of days, we're going to do a one -part podcast, which is all of the different online sources, resources, other than your MLS, to find listings. And there's quite a variety. We're going to talk about farms, land, ranch, commercial, normal residential, vacation properties, foreclosure, everything. But what we're doing is we're actually giving you guys links of where you can go to find homes that are for sale that are not in the MLS. That's the main thing. So the notes already have, I think it's like 25 or 30 different websites, mostly, well, I mean, they're all websites, where you can click on the link and then you can be taken to a list of a source of homes for sale. Again, these are not in the MLS. And these are almost all nationwide, by the way. Right. And we're going to be doing this the next couple of days. So yes, if you are feeling stressed from not having enough inventory, we're going to cure that in the next couple of days, listen to the podcast. All right, Julie. So part one. You got it. All right. So let's see. What to let go of versus what to keep. So let's see part one. Number one, mindset check. Are you really that busy or are you just disorganized? Take a day to get real about what you're actually managing. Sometimes just dedicating a day or even two days to getting a grip is all you actually need. So don't keep telling yourself you're overwhelmed. Instead, your affirmation is that you are surrounded by opportunity. Isn't that more accurate? This is why this is the first step. When you do that first, you'll realize that your state of overwhelm is actually temporary versus allowing it to become a lifestyle. So I don't, I didn't scan your notes, but did you talk to them at all about the brain dump? I didn't. Yes. You can add it right in here. I was thinking this would be a perfect spot. Bonus point. One and a half. That's right. Bonus point. One and a half. So one of the systems that we've used for decades, especially with coaching clients, is when they're feeling overwhelmed. Take a tablet of paper and I don't know why tablets of paper where you're writing it out is more effective than if you're typing it out. Typing it out almost, I don't know, it doesn't stick in your brain as much. So take a tablet of paper. Take like maybe one of those long yellow legal tabs or tablets and then write down everything that's in your brain. Don't stop writing until essentially everything that's in your mind that you think you should be thinking about is completely cleared out and you can do personal and business and go through every single thing. So that's the first cure because what you're going to find out oftentimes is that you're going to start, like you'll write down maybe 10 or 20 different things and then you're writing them down in different versions. Like you're going to say, take in the dry cleaning and then you're going to realize that you wrote that down as the fourth thing and now you're seeing that you write it down as the 18th thing. In other words, what you'll discover is a lot of thoughts that you're having that are feeling like they're, you know, bogging down your ability to think clearly are the same thoughts. In other words, you don't really have that many things that you think you have more going on in your head than you actually do. So when you write all this down, then you're going to look at this list and there's three filters that you run all these things through and it's called do it, delegate it or ditch it. So the things that you absolutely positively must always be doing are going to be the things that fall into the five categories of the things that make you money in real estate, which is proactively generation, you know, obviously prequalifying, presenting a lead follow up, negotiating, those types of things that we teach in premier coaching. Those are the things that you should not be delegating and you have to do it. So the do it category are the things that you absolutely positively should leave on your list. The delegated category are, there's lots of things you could be delegating, lots of things you don't have to be doing. Lots of things that may be frankly under the delegation category are things that maybe not only not don't have to do yourself, but maybe don't need done at all. In other words, you put them on your list, you thought they were important. Somebody told you they were important, maybe even, and guess what? They aren't important. So get rid of them. And then the last one is ditch it and that's where essentially the lot of the things in your second, you know, the delegated part, they're going to go to the ditch it category and just completely remove them from your list. Or another thing to do is if there's longer term projects or things you wanted to be doing, write them on a completely separate list and then segment your list. But the most important thing is if you want to really get control, and this is a good, this is a really, at the end of the day, this is a mindset point, but if you really want to clear your brain and start feeling a resemblance of control, I did, did this just the other day. Honestly, I had a big, uh, to do list and it was, um, I keep lists. I'm a list guy. I know a lot of people have different systems for it, but lists work for me because I derive immense pleasure crossing them out. Yes, it is very satisfying. That's why it's very cathartic to take a damn thing is bought in that damn list and getting rid of it. Bye bye. That's right. I enjoy that. So that's my payoff. But there's a system. So do a delegated or ditch it, but start out by doing what we call a brain dump and write everything down and then go through it. And then you'll start seeing after you actually write everything on a piece of paper, you will feel better. You will feel some sort of a cloud will lift. It will. It really will. Then you look at all the things are floating around your head and like I said, remove the duplicates first because a lot of them will be duplicates and then go for a do it delegated or ditch it and then you know, move forward. That's a simple system. Well, that's a perfect 0 .1 and a half because remember we started by saying, are you really that busy? Are you just a bit disorganized? Maybe your mind is feeling disorganized because you haven't written it down and done the brain dump, right? So that goes hand in hand. And speaking of the do it part of the do it, ditch it or delegate it. Point number two, proactively generation cannot stop. This is the first thing that agents drop when they get even a tiny bit busy. You must actively pursue new qualified appointments every single work day. And it is the most important action that you take daily, whether you have a, whether you have pending transactions or not, whether you have active listings or not, always on every call, whether it's a home inspector or lender, a past client or a pending ask, you guys should know it by now, whom do you know who could use my help buying or selling real estate or Tim's version, which I like even better. What two or three people do you know who could use my help buying or selling real estate? So make the commitment to a minimum standard of contacts every work day, even when you're feeling busy, refer to our previous podcasts about how to list and sell the homes that you need to sell your magic number as well as lead generation from best to worst. We've done so much work on this with you guys on previous podcasts and in premier coaching. So I'm going to actually, I'm going to reinforce all your points, but I'm also going to give these guys a bit of a relief valve. I have coached people who are just for some reason wired to be disorganized. They're wired to basically be Liberty Gibbets bouncing here, bouncing there. That's just how they are. But then yet they're very successful. And why are they very successful? Because they always lean back into the things that are going to make them money. And oftentimes they have really vibrant personalities and people like them, despite the fact that they're wearing shoes that don't match and you know, things like that. All right. So how do, what's the solution when you're coaching somebody like that? The solution is not trying to find them a solution. The solution is just making sure they do to the three to five things every single day that they should be doing at a high level and then holding them accountable as three to five things and then giving them permission to be whatever the hell they want to do with their time the rest of the day. In other words, they can't, it's too much emotional stress for them to be held to a schedule for more than maybe two or three hours a day at, you know, in other words, they can only really, let's air quote here, time block two or three hours a day. So what are the things they should be doing in those two or three hours? And Julie and I talk about this on the podcast all the time, but obviously Julie's pointing about proactive lead generation. We want to talk about, you know, if you had a listing appointment, presenting, negotiating, all those types of things we teach in the coaching program. But really guys, if you really want to know how to really feel long -term control of your day, your day should come down to having mastered the art and science of really doing only three to five things every day. And those things are, in our opinion, now you can modify, but this is sort of a holistic approach to this, right? You need to be making your self -determined number of contacts per day as determined by your real estate treasure map, which we give you in the first level of Premier Coaching. So whatever your number of contacts per day, you need to be making those per day. You need to be having done all your lead follow up by the end of the day. I'm giving you a whole bunch and you guys choose which ones. Ideally, when you are very, you know, essentially advanced as a proactive lead generator, you should be setting one pre -qualified listing appointment per day. Julie and I are huge advocates of doing some sort of physical workout routine every single day, taking some kind of supplements every single day, showing overt gratitude. You know, I love you Julie, I love you Tim. You know, showing overt gratitude to the people that mean the most to you every single day. If you just basically write down the things that you have to do every single day, the accumulative effect of doing those things every single day will pay off in ways that you can't even understand. It's a multiplication effect. There's a compounding of duplicating those efforts. The obvious one being is that if you're working out and you're, you know, hopefully taking care of what you eat, you're going to see, not right away, but over time, your energy level increases, your physicality increases, same goes with making contacts. But the key to making this work is do those same things every single day and then often will come down to doing what you don't want to do when you don't want to do it at the highest level, which by the way, is the founding principle of our coaching program, but also of anyone I've ever met in life who's successful at any level. They knew that they had to do what they didn't want to do when they didn't want to do it at the highest level over long periods of time. And that's what we're prescribing to all of you guys as well, because it does pay off. So really, if you're wanting to get in control, but you're absolutely one of these people that can't be in control as your coach, I give you permission not to be in control for anything other than those two or three hours, ideally in the morning, because when you get those three to five things done every single day, even if the rest of the day is like a, you know, high speed roller coaster, it does not matter because you did the most important things. Well, that's right. That's the most important thing that you said is what you do with those two to three hours is what's critical. What you're not doing is giving them permission to just say, well, I'm just a disorganized person or go on Instagram or make a bunch of TikTok videos or do a bunch of passive lead generation or go on Facebook and take a bunch of surveys. All this silliness that doesn't lead to anything. That stuff doesn't count. Okay. So we're talking about what to keep and what to ditch. Point number three, deadlines cannot be ignored or procrastinated. You can lose a deal by losing track of time or having misunderstandings with the other side. So remember that people scan through DocuSign without really realizing what they're signing or remembering it or being able to even find it again. You can't be part of that. So use a transaction coordinator if that's getting out of control or if you're your transaction coordinator, you have to be careful with your earnest money deposits, contingency releases, inspection dates. Don't let those fall behind just because you're behind. Get clarity and or get help. And I'll tell you what one of my coaching clients does is when she does new transactions. Yes, of course, that's all in DocuSign and transaction management and transaction coordinators and all that. But in also her alarms, in her phone, she gives herself two or three day warnings. There's a contingency coming up. You've got to release that so that even if she's really super busy showing houses, maybe she's got somebody coming into town and it's a really intense appointment weekend. The alarm is going to save her butt. So that's just a backup plan. There's lots of different things that you can do. But this is one thing that you really can't blow off because it could cost you a deal. Well, I'll give you some exciting news. I know because you and I are investing some frankly, some money and time into developing some A .I. bots and apps for our different businesses, that there are absolutely people that are developing A .I. right now to work directly with the major CRM or transaction management platforms. So agents are going to be able to have an A .I. bot that's essentially going to act as a real live admin who's going to oversee the entire process. It's amazing. And ChatGPT4 and Bard and all these others, this week, ChatGPT4 is releasing a version for their paid users where essentially it's going to start using voice. So remember we were talking about on the podcast yesterday about all this? Well, the technology is here. So you're going to start having a voice. In other words, it's a real human voice. It does not sound like an old fashioned answering machine. That's good. And you know, I just laughed at myself because how many people? They don't know what an answering machine is. Right. Anyway, so back to 2023 or 2024 when you're listening. So the moral of the story is that there are going to be massive advancements in this A .I. technology that's going to make your lives a lot easier, which will give you a lot more room and time to spend on the things that matter most. That's assuming that you know what those things are and you actually know how to do them. That's what coaching is all about. And yeah, a lot of this technology is going to be coming through. I shouldn't maybe necessarily say this, but I know eXp Realty is working on developing a lot of these A .I. bots. Glenn Sanford is unbelievably intelligent about creating these technologies that streamline a lot of agent processes. And really, there's no downside. The experience is better from the customer's perspective, the agent's perspective, the broker's perspective. So all that's coming to a brokerage near you, assuming you're with Juli and I at eXp Realty. There you are. All right, now our final point for today is maybe one of my favorite points in terms of getting agents and brokers really organized and giving you peace. And that is point number four today, keeping your visual accountability, your whiteboards updated. You can't ignore that. You can't put it off, update it every day. In order to know if you are on track ahead or behind, keep that updated. Don't ignore your boards just because you feel like you're currently on track or ahead or hide out from them if you feel like you're behind. Not tracking your business is what will make you behind in a matter of days or weeks. Now, there's a rule in aviation called the one in 60 rule. When a plane veers off its course by just one degree, it misses its target destination by one mile for every 60 miles it's flown. Isn't that interesting, right? It is. You think it's just one degree. What's the big deal? I can find the airport, but maybe it's not the airport you were looking for. You're the plane. Stay on course. Visual is accountability the dashboard of your business. I have to say, Tim, I know you've had this experience too. Once agents start really embracing the visual accountability, and yes, we know you've got all this kept track of in a spreadsheet or your broker tracks it or whatever. We're talking about in your office on whiteboards in front of you. It works because it is visual. They'll say, oh, my gosh, I just feel so much more peaceful knowing and seeing I've got this many listing leads. I've got this many active listings. I've got this many pending, and I've got that many closed, which means I'm exactly three deals ahead of where I should be based on my treasure map. A lot of the stress in real estate really in life is just not knowing stuff, right? Not knowing about your finances, not knowing about what's going on inside your contracts, not knowing whether you're on track ahead or behind. It will give you peace to know. Well, the dry erase boards are the reason that obviously we know about all the technologies and all the widgets that give you creative dashboards that show you all your key performance indicators and all those things. We use those things in our business as well, but it's what Julie just said. The problem with all that technology is that you can hide from it, and it hides from you. A dry erase board, especially a large dominant one, and I was thinking when you were talking how when somebody, we get Premier Coaching clients, they'll post pictures of these big -ass dry erase boards, and they'll put them up on their walls. I'm talking about the monster ones, and that's the only way to do it because it doesn't leave any typically room for anything else on the wall. Tell them what the dry erase board should be because not everybody is a coaching client. Yes, well, they should be, and we'll tell them about that in a minute. What should you track? I like to think of it chronologically, right? Every transaction that becomes a closing starts as a lead, so you track your especially listing leads. Right. I'm looking at my wall. I want to know what the dry erase boards are. That's what I'm saying. I want to know which of them are. Okay. The first dry erase board is? Leads because everything starts as a lead. Okay. Then it becomes a listing. That's the second board is active listings. Okay. Then the last one is closings. You have one in between, pendings, and then you have closed. If your goal is to close 24 transactions, your closed board will be one through 24. As they travel through your boards, they land on the closed board, and you can see, are you on deal number three? Are you on deal number five? Where are you versus where you should be? On the closed board, sellers are in red, buyers are in blue. The other thing you can also do, and this is really fine tuning all of the accountability you have for yourself, is write down on the closed board what the price was and what the commission was, and then also really drill down on what the source of the lead was. We've talked for literally thousands of hours on this podcast of the importance of never just going by how the lead actually showed up in your life. You're going to need to ask secondary and sometimes third. What would be it? Cursary? Tertiary. Tertiary. That's right. That same question more than once. You need to ask them, who originally referred you to me? Where did you originally find me? How do we connect it? The story that Julie and I tell that seems to work is we were in our office when we were selling real estate, and one of our chief transaction coordinators was this gal named Kelly. Kelly was using a prequalification seller form, so she had at her desk buyer prequalification for him and seller prequalification for him. So Julie and I were in our office, and she was doing the seller prequalification, and one of the questions was halfway through the script was basically, so why did you decide to call Tim and Julie out for the job of selling your home? I think that was the question. And she wrote down the answer, but she didn't listen to herself ask the question, and she didn't watch herself write down the answer. So she asked the question two times in a row, and the first way that they answered it was like a sign or whatever. And then she asked the same exact question, and then they answered it, and we watched as they wrote down that it was a referral from so -and -so. And so that was the real tip -off that if you don't ask for what like drill down and really dig into where they're or why they're contacting you, you're going to make the mistake of assuming that they basically are contacting you because of Facebook. Because what happens is that you're at Orange Theory, somebody asked you for a referral for a roofer. You're going to say, Jack's roofing, I don't necessarily have his phone number, my phone's in my car, whatever it is. But the person you're going to talk to remembers Jack's roofing in, say, Georgetown, Texas. So they're going to go and they're going to drop into Google, Jack's roofing, Georgetown, Texas. So the first thing that's going to come up is Jack's Facebook business page, let's say, or Instagram or whatever the hell it's going to be. And then you're going to message them through that app, and then Jack's going to get the message from Facebook that you are interested in having your roof fixed. All the while, Jack's going to then assume, hey, my Facebook campaign is working, you know? Of course. Look, I'm going to post more pictures of my lunch every single day, evidently that's generating business for me. Right. All the while, the real reason that Jack got that lead was because it was a referral from somebody you knew at the gym. You guys get the point? So if you're not asking those real drill down questions, you're really going to lose contact with the source of your business. You're not going to realize how much of your business comes from the things that don't cost any money, signs, for example, centers of influence and past clients, for example. People you maybe like, they could be somebody that an old neighbor, oh, you don't even know. You're going to have to ask. And that's what you'll self -discover, what Julie and I have been coaching all you guys for decades, is the percent of business comes from any kind of marketing and advertising is typically less than 10 % because most everyone chooses who they're going to use as a real estate professional, like 90 % based on the things we coach you guys to do, which cost you no money, which aren't anything to do with marketing, branding, and advertising. Don't misunderstand what I'm saying. Back to the roofing example, had Jack the roofer not had a business Facebook page and that person had gone to Google and tried to search for him, he may not have ever found Jack's phone number to actually make the, you know, to get in contact, right? So it's important that you have a presence online, but you've got to see it for what it is.
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"Do that. So yeah, and when it comes to paper, I still have a ream of Disney style, 16 field bond paper. I recently got some more tone because I worked on this is a little exclusive, which I'm not going to say too much about. But I recently did an animated short for Disney and the new year. Or at the end of last year, rather and they actually set me out paper from some of their old archives of 16 filled paper because I don't know that they make it so much. Because I ordered some 16 field that's pretty close. It might be in the same paper. I think it's called Ingram is the style of camera everywhere I got it, but there's a little tooth to it. It's a little thinner. You can still get it. Yeah. You can still get it. That's not quite as good, yeah, you're right. It's a little thinner than what we used to have. Anyway, I didn't have to buy it. I guess that's a good thing. I didn't have to buy it in the send it to me. It's always a good way to go. Got a free reign. I feel like we can quite a bit. Hopefully there were fun little stories here and there. I hope you guys enjoyed it. And if you did, give us a review if you guys don't mind go to iTunes and on their podcast page, find the bankrupt brothers animation podcast. Give us a review. We'd love to hear a little shout out every once in a while too. And not just about our poor sound quality. So that would be nice. We have had a few lately, because we're recording it off with zoom and sometimes we just have to do that. But yeah, we apologize for the light box episode where Tom interviewed the animators that was a bad bad record. Nothing to do with that. We tried to fix quality, by the way. That was the best we could do with that. It was everybody. Just skip that one. You know, just skip over that. I don't know. There's some value there. There's some good stuff in there actually. Yeah. The animators, not me, but the animator said some great stuff. So anyway, thank you for joining us, Tony, and as we always say and from the heart. Because these are a few of my favorite things.
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"Now, 'cause I got a really good bad one. I'm gonna say it and you're gonna go. Yeah. But this popped into my head and I did get excited about it, and it really, it was worth it. I hate saying it. But I'm like, I mean it. What if? What if? What if serious? Marvel, what if serious? And I thought you were gonna go old school. No, I was going to. I had some hamburger ones. I know, that's valid. That's a valid answer, Tom. I'm gonna allow you like the stories in that what if we're as good I would think and it's weird for medium and say this is why I went to it was stories. It is content marvel characters I love marble. But it's not artistic. Normally I would go for an artistically driven thing and that's like a samurai Jack. Like I just put what if I were saying right? Yeah, can you believe it? I can't. But it just popped in my head as something that I was excited about and it came through and it's even CG animated to be honest. Yeah, I was a 2D look. But man, they pull off the look to the point where I enjoyed it and I can't say that I love love love. They are style, but it was so well done. For what they did, they pulled it off. Because I don't normally like CG with tune rendering or whatever you want to call that. I like marvel zombie. Episode. Man, the writing. It was as good, I would say, as any of the future films. Or any of the marvel series, that's for sure. Yeah. Oh, for sure, certainly of the TV series that marvel was doing, streaming series. It was up there with any of them. So yeah, if you haven't seen the what ifs and I can't wait for the next season to drop. All right, one of the last ones here, I think it is, and we should be wrapping up, I think. Is favorite artistic supply. Favorite thing to that you go to that you use as an artist's supply to do your job. You can't take mine. Yeah, go first. I'm going to take mine. So I'm going to go for the big obvious one, and that is a wacom cintiq. Or a wacom or a wacom, cintiq. You got to say it right. Well, we've been told that they accept either. Well, they do. There is a correct way of saying it. And it's why. It's the wacom. Right. It's Japanese. Like the I get it. Yeah. Okay, so the wacom cintiq, it is the go to for both of us. We both draw pencil and paper. I must admit in the last few years, I got to say it. I pulled away from pencil and paper. I would say, and I don't draw near as much. We both don't. As we used to. Because we're directing and things like that now and supervising more than we do get to actually be on the boards, be driven by deadlines fortunately. I probably do more than you, but yeah, you probably did. That's true. That's true. Yeah. But we both loved digital animation. And I say to digital animation specifically. So that's all given on the wacom cintiq and I deal with a lot of the brushes and stuff for so I don't hand ink like I used to economist some of that, but I must admit it's just so much easier. A cintiq in Photoshop to do that. So that's my answer. All right, I'm going to go classic. You know, I'm going to go class. I want to say, I already know it. Can I say it? Yeah. Black queen. No, I'm not a big black queen pencil guy. What? No, my go to in the old days of animated Disney was all the polychromos, so German pencil. And they had an ultramarine or somewhere in the blue. Yeah, it's in the blue purplish range. And I started using that and never let go. I think I added most of animated most of The Lion King with that pencil and probably emperor's new groove. Here's my question, because we all know the good pencils. They stop making. Yeah. Do they still make them? I think they do. Yeah, I've seen them at swains and art stores when I was in California. I used to be able to get them. So online. I think I have a box that I'm slowly going through. I don't draw so much or animate so much with that pencil anymore. So I can make a box last for a decade. I know, I'm the same way. You know. Of course you and I are not big. Sharpeners. Really? Yeah, and like a doll. But I also like, I also like, you know, color race I use a non photo color race I use for color race, red, quite a bit too. The prismacolor color race it's called Carmen red, it's my favorite. That's what we're digging into pencils, and we can talk about this the whole podcast. I don't like the non photo coal race. It's too light. But then the blue axis. But then the blue is too dark. There's one that's called light blue. Do you know this? Yes. It is almost impossible to find. I think they've stopped making what they call a light blue color. I might have a couple if you want one, but I do. But I like the prismacolor premiere non photo blue for sketching in rough and things out. So prismacolor, they make a great non photo bet that will not erase though at all. It doesn't erase. It's very permanent. That's true. I don't use it. Yeah. So it's a give and take, though. Sometimes you want to draw in a rough drawing that has some underdrawing to it. It looks good. I think so anyway.
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"Oh, is that Tarzan? It wasn't that line either, but there's my butt. I just remember you did something with butts. That's a nice way to go. But I guess that was earlier. It was just, yeah, it was before I left Disney, but then I came back for brother. So I did run to brother, but anyway. That was a long answer. Well, I wanted to tell a story. Yeah, we got a long story. So what was the question? You didn't work on. Okay. I'm gonna go classic. I have talked about this before. Big fan of lady and the tramp. And to have been a part of that, we're not even, it's not really even a question of you made it into films we didn't get to work on. But I know. For me, I'm just a fan. I can't go back to the old ones. You weren't even alive for. Well, of course, it's not the question was favorite Disney film that we didn't work on. I thought that would imply in our generation, though. Okay. But keep going. This is interesting. Lady and the tramp is one of my favorites because I love anthropomorphized animal films. And so Lion King, of course, being one too, where it's talking animals. You know what do I like? I did. Puma the warthog. Based on Instagram. Yeah. Based on my flatulence, bro a lot of fun things. But no, I just love how and that was the 9 old men generation and some there's some beautiful design production design, stories so, so, but I'll tell you those characters are so real and so fun. All of them animals, the beaver in it, with this little funny way of talking. A little whistle. Yeah. Loved it all. And mill called is some of the most brilliant animation of tramp in that. But all the dogs, all the characters and stuff. I just think they were so well done. And it was at a level of production design and budget level. I think one of the last ones that they put a lot of work into and really cared about in the layout and the background painting. It was everything. And after that, I think they got into the Xerox process, right? It was one of the last ones that probably didn't have enough of a return. And therefore, we had to change gears and how they made movies and stuff. Yeah. You're right. One of the last of the really classics. Although a 101 dalmatians, which is part of the newer generation of cheaper films, is still a classic. It's a beautiful and that's the great animation. So, okay, next one, favorite artist of all time. This is a big one. Obviously, too big to pick one. I don't even know if I can answer. You just have to just throw out one that just I'm going to just say off the top of my head is Charles Schulz. Okay. I've always been a huge Charles Schultz fan. I think his drawings should be in MoMA or in European and the Louvre. I would love to see Charles Schulz there. I just put him up there with classic wonderful doesn't matter if he paints or not. I just think he's the ultimate when it comes to what we do in our craft. That's a good one. That's a good one. I'm going to go to comic books because man, when we were growing up, I was so into comics and comic art. It seems so. Unaccessible. It was just out of my reach, artistically, too, which is super disappointing to this day. But I'm going to go with John Byrne. Really? Comic book artist, you know, not a lot of our listeners don't know who he is. Well, and I would say, you know, just traditionally, he doesn't get that kind of credit of being like a master artist too. Bernie writes in or if it's like a big marvel comic fan and there's a lot of those, but Marvel Comics, especially of the 80s and 90s, even for the back 70s, 80s, 90s. You know who John Byrne is probably. And he basically reinvented the X-Men in the 80s. And really made those stories that now they're making movies out of and things like that, but he was not the writer, but the artist of that, but then became a writer artist of Fantastic Four for a long run. Anyway, reinvented Superman D.C. did stuff at marvel and D.C.. I'm looking at your little track pad. Johnny's old enough to have a trackpad. That for his mouse. Marvel comic characters and like half of all Jon burns. Oh, those are all jumper. That's a big challenge. So he was like the guy in the, what do you think that is 80s? That's probably 80. It could be 90s too, but you early 90s. So anyway, look them up, John Byrne. Again, kind of like Glen Keane, the ones that I want to go to when we're just off the top of our head saying absolute favorites are ones that I still get excited when I see it. And man, I can't. There's a few things that give me as excited as a nice job for her piece of artwork. I've done my track pad is really exciting for you to look at. Stop looking at it. Whenever I come in here, I want to put that over here, right in front of you. So you can enjoy that. Yeah, thank you. That's what I got. I'll stop talking. I love it John. Oh man, huge just the best. So this is perfect. And yes, this is the right amount of like anatomy simplicity simplicity design and a little bit of cartoon eNOS in there. There was a lot of jealousy of John Byrne I would say in those marvel days of the 90s or whatever. Well, and let's be honest, a lot of it. It was fast. But yeah, he was known to be kind of a jerk and things like that. I think he was kind of conceded and stuff because he owned the 90s at marvel. He was fast. He was kind of commercial. I think the other artists kind of saw him as commercial. But he passed away. You can draw anything in his own style. And it had to be his own style, of course, but it was appealing. All of it. Very appealing. Anyway, okay. What I would say if you were like, he's the Disney style of the Marvel Comics. Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. So next question to you, Tony. I don't love this one. Favorite animated series. Series or show or something like that. Oh, it has to be TV. Well, it can be streamed. You know what I mean? Series. Yeah, okay. I'm not going to say put TV in front of it. All right, so limiting. Because it's so hard for me. I will say I don't tend to watch a lot of animated TV shows. I'm more into the future side. And therefore never have. But gravity falls, I would say, is one that's very high out there. We've recorded a podcast with Alex hirsch before. Had him on a couple of times, I think. But never went too extensive and to gravity falls, I want to say, but I think it's a brilliant show production design model character design, the look of it, just very imaginative, I think it was one of the first that kind of did really offbeat stories in a new and different way. And yet still was very relatable for a lot of people too. So I'm going to say gravity falls. That's good. That's a good one. And it was Disney. It doesn't have to be Disney though. No. That was Disney. Yeah. I don't even think of gravity falls in Disney half the time. But I know it is. Yeah. Dang it. I wanted to go really eclectic and different on this. Speed Racer. But I don't get excited. I'm trying to think of the things that are excited me that were on TV. One of them is see now I get multiple answers. He's cool too, yeah, it's a classic. I'm looking around in your office.
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"When we first were starting in 1989 at the Disney you met framework. No. Hold on. Frank Thomas. So a lot of the 9 old men came when we first opened that studio in Disney MGM studios. It was the first Disney studio that had been opened. I don't know in 60 years or 80 years in Orlando, Florida. Florida dated bided the remaining 9 old men and a few others Jimmy McConnell was like a sound effects guy for Disney for many years, but basically a boss old guys. There's probably 6 or 7 of them. But Mark Davis and Frank and Ollie were there and more Kimball. They were all live. And again, this was 89. And they had put out a really cool, I'm sure you have this a little booklet for the magic of Disney Animation. It was sort of for the tour, but it was like also a special edition, I think, for the opening for May of 1989. And it had this. I have it. I remember having tons of them at one point. But a few of them, I got signed. And so I remember taking that and it was like a little square, you know, what we'll say like 8 by 8 kind of a thing. And the flap on the front kind of flopped open to show even more artwork and anyways, really cool. But I remember I took it to Frank and I said, hey, will you sign this? And I don't think he'd seen it. He's like looking through it. Oh, wow. This is so nice. I'm like, hey, we'll set you up. We'll get you on, don't you worry. I'm like like a brand new employee. But anyway, and he looks at it, he flops to the opening thing that folds open and it's a big image of brave little tailor Mickey. Yes. Rehabilitation is that hero pose where he's like, just down. He's holding the scissors. And I go, oh, that's probably Freddie, you know, you would have remembered that. He's like, no, that's my drawing. And I was like, what? Really? I think for years, everybody thought it was a Freddy scene. He's like, no, no, no, I animated that shot. It was one of my very first, I remembered that drawing. Well, it's what I'm saying. That drawing in that scene is actually an illusion of life. So you should have known that too. I should have probably. He was credited. Now here's the thing. I want to go back and look in the illusion of life and see who it's credited to because I kind of still think he's wrong. No. You think was it Frank? Because now here's the thing. And this is why I thought that. I'm going to dig down. Ollie was a beginning animator on that film. Yes. A lot of people don't know is Frank was ahead of Ollie, he kind of moved up the ladder faster, I think. So he was animating some key scenes. That's why I thought it was a Freddy. More because I'm like, there's no way that's a main shot within that. It's like one of the most prominent Mickey scenes in that short. Frank or Freddy had to have done it. 'cause everybody had known that Ollie was sort of just a training to a crowd shots. But I think on that film. So anyway, that's why I was a little confused by that, I suppose. A little assumptions were made. I mean, I feel like that's more embarrassing for you because I think most people that I'm happy to share it to me of the illusion of life would know that that was a Freddie Moore. I mean, sorry, Frank Thomas seen because he I know. They wrote that book. They put that scene in there and then he credited himself for that. It was I'm just saying, so I think he would know. Most people would look at that whole film and they think of it as a Freddy Moore film. Well, yeah. That's short. He was the senior Taylor. Okay, so question to you, Tom. Favorite animator, Disney or not. Oh. Oh, is it Disney or not? Oh. Well, it's not gonna change my answer. Although this does go, okay. I've had two in my head. I'm just gonna pick one. It has to be Glenn king. Grandkids. Thank you. We try to mention every single podcast in some way, shape, or form. How do I not say that because when I start when I think about what excites me about animation, if it's not a Glenn Keane, anything Glenn king animates or draws or anything I get excited. Like, what gives me that puristic side? Because I was going to say James Baxter. Because I just love his animation and everything I see that moves from James Baxter. It gets me that excited to that level. But I'm just talking about even drawings from Glenn. I get excited. You know what I mean? How do you not say that he just has all that juice that excitement that I get from animation and just the power and the, I don't know. The passion, it's all passion a 100% of the time. And inspiration for those that are around. So if you don't know blinking, he's still alive. He's still doing it. Actually, we had a meeting with them. I haven't told this story yet. I had a Zoom meeting with Glenn maybe a month ago. Tony? Yeah. It was right here. I was sitting in that chair that you're sitting here right now. Where was Glenn? It was a Zoom meeting. Oh, okay, so he lives. Yeah, wherever he was. And you were in the meeting, but you did say hi. I popped in. Yeah, popped in. And I can't say what it was about. But we were discussing what a future together, potentially. The future animated, maybe we could say. Nothing more than that can be said. But, you know, will it work out? We don't know. It's still a little bit of a long shot. Is a busy guy. He's very busy. But to say that that wasn't still, after all these years, me being an old guy and working animation, but to have Glenn even considering anything to work together on, but also just talking to him. I mean, you know, and here in his viewpoint of what we're doing and things like that, it was pretty cool. So that is cool. We'll tell that story a little bit more fleshed out if things work out down the road, but that's slinky. Well, I like that we talk about earlier animators and their influences, but just that we had front row seats and learn from a guy like Glenn Keane that he was part of our kind of our generation. He was still a little bit ahead of us, obviously. Yeah, I don't think of him as our generation. That's funny, 'cause I think of us as the generation below him for sure. Because I'm sure he does too. And I mean Marquez. Mark Glenn, you know, those were the generation before us that we're training our generation. I don't know. We're not talking a hundred years, but we are talking about sort of artistic generations, I guess. Yeah, artistic generations. I think we're third generation, then you could say, because first generation is the 9 old men. But they stay there a long time before hiring new people. They're generation was a generation. It was a long generation. And then, yeah, those guys claim keen. Then the second tier came in that we were really part of the third tier of 2D animators.
The Bancroft Brothers Animation Podcast
"favorite" Discussed on The Bancroft Brothers Animation Podcast
"Of my favorite things. When the dog bites, when the bee stings, when I'm feeling sad, I simply remember these favor, I think. And then I don't feel so bad all right. Welcome to another band crop brothers. Well, we're the twins, Simon Tony Bancroft. And we never sing and sing in unison. So that was fun. It was Tony, you always seen. I just never seen with you. I love it, Tom. You know, I don't know if I told you this, but I always wanted to be a rockstar when we were young. Oh, but yet you're into show tunes. That's not going to work. I know, I feel on this show tunes actually when I was at Disney. I had my roommate Mike suri and I used to play show tunes all the time. Sing all night long while we're enemy Lion King. It's funny, 'cause I got into tangent. I got into show tunes and musicals and stuff while at Disney too. Obviously it has something to do with we were there, right? As the musicals were being made, the Disney. That's right, musicals in the 90s. Well, speaking of being there, we're here together in my office at home on a Saturday doing this podcast for you guys. These are rainy Saturday. It is a bit of a rainy Saturday. It's Easter Easter weekend for us where we sit right now. We wanted to do a little fun podcast, and this one's about our favorite things. So we'll keep them animation specific. Yeah. But a few of our things that we love, we just have never talked about. So you guys are going to get to know us a little bit today. Well, hopefully get to know a little bit of me a few movies and TV shows, things like that, but hopefully you haven't seen and maybe it just is one of those kind of talks too, where you go, oh, I'm going to make a jot that down. I got to go watch that. Or see that artist or find a person. Yeah. So let's dig into this. It's a casual podcast today, but any industry things we want to talk about beforehand, I don't know. Who cares? I don't. No, I mean, we're finishing up school at lip scuba animation. We did a big thing about the master's degree. If you're interested in studying deeper into an master's degree in animation, Tom and I teach one and we'd happy to be your teacher and mentor at lipscomb animation. We also do undergrad there too. We may start another degree, and accounting. So if you're interested in that, too. Let us know. I would not go to us for accounting whatsoever or business development, probably either. But anyway, we love animation, we're passionate about that. That's why we do the podcast. That's why we're here with how we teach. That's why I have a company. It's all about making animation because yeah, I'm hoping. I'm hoping I'll keep doing that for at least 20 more years. Wow. Do you have a retirement plan, Tony? I don't mean like the finances. We don't have to get into that. I don't see myself retiring. I have a lot of people that I think I'm just going to, I want to be like Joe grant. Do you know Joe grant? I sure do. Okay, so Joe grant was this like Disney veteran. He was there when Walt Disney was at the studios. And then Snow White. He wasn't working. He was the head of the character model department that used to call it at that time. And so a lot of those early Snow White model sheets have JG on them as a signature because he approved them. Joe grant. Amazing. And like 14. I know. He worked there for like 30 years, and then he started his own company for a long time, left Disney, and then retired for a time, and then his wife was like, you need to stop. Because he kept drawing at home and stuff. She's like, yeah, you need to stop just kicking around the house and go back to work. So he went back to Disney in his 70s and 80s, late 70s, early 80s, probably. And became part of the visual development department at Disney and development department. And what I love about Joe is they treated him like, well, like you should, sort of, this legend, they didn't necessarily know what they needed. They didn't have anything for him that he had to do. No. He wasn't even really attached to a particular float around. And hey, I got this little idea for your film. Here you go, Tony. He literally for when so he was there when Barry cook and I were directing Mulan. He would, and we were on the same. More importantly, in the development phase of Mulan. Yes. And he did this on all the pictures for all the directors. That's what I heard later, but he would just like, you'd be sitting at your desk. He wouldn't even knock on the door. You just see a little piece of paper. Shuffle underneath the door. Like a little drawing of tricky, doing some playing the fiddle or, you know, just a little gag idea that he had. And he would literally just like be working away all day. And then you'd make rounds and go by director's doors or store people or artist stores, and slide a little drawings underneath. They were like silent but deadly fart, deadly farts. But daddy farts. Silent but deadly. Because they were just like, that's how he got his ideas out there. He didn't do a big pitch, was anything formally just like, hand this idea. But he came on a little bit more formally. I remember that him and Bernie Madison were sharing an office. Bernie just died. Yeah. Both animation legends. But Bernie had never left, right? He'd been there the whole time and been there was basically the oldest Disney feature animation employee, I guess. Yeah. Yeah, I think he'd been there. I want to say 70 years or something like that. In the 50s or something, I'm guessing he started. Yeah, so that was really cool. Just to have those two guys sharing an office and I know people would bet they were just part of the tour, basically when any famous person would come through, they would probably take them by their office, I'm sure every time. But all of us in the building too would try and find reasons to go by or I mean, they were totally open and people coming in too and just shooting the hay for a little while and stuff. But they were actively trying to get things done. They had their own little pet projects to I felt like Bernie was still like boarding and doing development for I remember he had like a dog movie that he was developing. He was doing with cats. It was all cats. He was one with like alley cats that he had for years that he was working on. I remember Andrea deja involved with that and Hans bacher also did some images for that too. So there was a group that were just kind of like, oh, I love what you're doing.
Rescot Creative
"favorite" Discussed on Rescot Creative
"Herself hopping on a double decker bus to see Big Ben and at the houses of parliament, strolling along the River Thames good choice, stell said, besides Jane ends up with fun, rich, mister bingley, but Meg Morris that poor boring mister Brooke, she stuck out her tongue. But mister bingley is much more exciting with all his fancy balls, she raised her arms and twirled a pirouette, then sank onto the love seat next to Adrian, Marie laughed as she fixed the stray pieces of her hair back into her ponytail. All right, one vote for Pride and Prejudice. She hurried to the kitchen in returned with the bag of leftover chocolate chips. As she sat down on the floor, she tossed one chip on the table as a counter for the votes. I'm next. Adrian grabbed a cookie. It's tough to choose between Joe Marge and Elizabeth Bennet, Victoria rolled her eyes. That's because they're both main characters, lucky, second born sisters. Joseph Ryder, which I'm not Adrian continued, and she has no sense of fashion. Her eyes started to the French apron. She had yet to remove. Then looked up again. But Elizabeth Mary's mister Darcy, my favorite romantic character. So I choose her. Still is blue eyes sparkled. History and if you're Elizabeth, who's mister Darcy Adrian laughed, I would imagine a tall dark handsome European. Aw, come on, Marie ground. Pick someone we know, oh, all right. Adrian's stranger shoulders. Let's see. I'll have to choose someone attractive an image of Jerry and his handsome tux came to Victoria's mind. Why couldn't she stop thinking about him? She was being ridiculous. I guess I'd have to say dairy. What? Victoria exclaimed leaping from the couch. The blood rush to her face and a fainting sensation reader sit back down. Adrienne frowned. You don't think he's attractive or accomplished? I do, but then what's the problem? Adrian raised her eyebrows. Stella jumped up and down, a flurry of pink. Victorious jealous that you get to marry Jerry. Victoria chucked a pillow at Stella. That's not it, Victoria lied. I don't think Jerry seems very British. It was a lame excuse, confirmed by Marie's pointed look. That's two for Pride and Prejudice, Marie tallied and other chocolate chip on.
Sucias are my Favorite
"favorite" Discussed on Sucias are my Favorite
"Yourself and condemning group just for something that they are seems contradictory like. Why are you judging someone. It's not your job to judge anyone. That's god's job and of course actual judges any case says my so. That's kinda my idea mentality behind not being able to get behind being part of groups because there's usually something at their core that i just can't agree with so being on my own is better than trying to be something and make myself. I see myself as a hypocrite. And the only other thing that i can identify with or be a part of that's mostly inclusive is roller derby. But all that aside we're trying to get at is mandy was my favorite not just for the sex but for the relationship we had and for her bringing me to i guess my core or base identity as a kingston saddam as a socio so i doubt manny's listening because i haven't heard or seen from her in about twenty years and that's another story. I need to share how we stopped seeing each other. so that's two more episodes. I need to do and make notes of and i wanna apologize you guys for being late with this episode normally. Try to have everything for thursdays and fridays at midnight pacific. But i had kidney stone. Or i mean. I still haven't had to go to the hospital for it. And so i was out and knocked down with pain pills and stuff for the past Thirty hours yeah so like midnight. Wait now about ten o'clock tuesday for wednesday to go to the hospital. And then so yeah was out tilts thursday morning and starting to record this and i'll try to get this out to you guys as soon as possible. So hopefully you'll hear this before noon so politics were being late. But i do want to thank you for being here on a thank you again for sticking around this long and putting up with my nonsense remember. I love you hear worthy of it until next time vessels..
Sucias are my Favorite
"favorite" Discussed on Sucias are my Favorite
"Going down on them. So the similar idea or concept th where they're getting pleasure from someone else and not necessarily that you provided it not like you gave them over to them or you. I mean he did give them permission. It is whatever that you discussed. But because you're a swinger because you're in that environment that you you're allowing it to happen because it's communication. It's not like they just go out and cheat on you. It is one giving the other permission to be with someone else. And of course they trade off. Sometimes they don't even see it just knowing that they're getting the pleasure so it's more about the idea of giving your spouse more pleasure than they can get just from you. Hopefully that makes sense in. Although there may be some times where The mail or even females like to be cooked there are females to like or enjoy being cooked there is also the swingers and enjoy being voyeurs. Some of them just by choice others because they or at least a male sometimes air impotent. They're having et issues especially back in the nineties. They couldn't do anything about it. There wasn't viagra so having a d. Back then the only way your spouse can have pleasure is through having other partners and then there are of course some of those in the swinging community where the males that can't give pleasure to their spouse because they have. Add issues there are females at enjoy giving oral two guys can't get hard What that's called remembered there was a term for back then but there was females. That would give head to males. It had a hard time getting direction and some of them did it. Just because he liked having a soft one in their mouth. Other times i had heard that they disliked the challenge of trying to get the guy to get hard or semi heart. But any case mandy was my favorite unicorn because of all of these things together one. Because we have so many threesomes and foursomes actually were. Where does an orgy start like. Does it start at five. People are more or is it like six or more like what's the number i'm guessing it's more than four like a four. Some is a number of never heard of a fivesome but eighty five and more. I'm guessing as an orgy so the few orgies that we had dozens of or not even done this. Probably one dozen. Maybe twenty twenty four sums and then an ungodly amount of threesomes so there is that one aspect of the sex with multiple females. The reason that i say she's my favorite is because she eventually led me into the community and this is where i learned hands on through other thumbs how to be a dumb. The one thing i do regret is not learning the terms at the time. Even now it's difficult to try to search online for what ex wires he is for example. I had no idea what aftercare rephrase it i didn't know the term aftercare. The only reason i'll know after care is because of tiktok..
Sucias are my Favorite
"favorite" Discussed on Sucias are my Favorite
"Each swingers club would have a night for the kinks tres for people that were nubia sam. That's where i got introduced to all the blm stuff that i know now so back then remain now still for the most part but most kink club's most kink communities have to share a space rent a space from swingers club. Because there is not. I guess too many kinks tres compared to swingers which i find odd but the kinks tres people that are into anything outside of swingers and there there is some overlap. There are some swingers. they're also into kink. And they're also kingston. Senator swinging just depends or voyeurism. Whatever but for the most part. I guess there is not enough demand for kinks tres. To have a club because most of them do stuff at their own home. Many case at the kings tonight or the kingston parties temple depending on what the group calls. The night that they meet up there would be kind of a buffet of kinks tres. That would do stuff. And it usually be kinda short night because they would show around six to start setting up because they're setting up in the space of swingers and swingers just needed beds beds and sheets whereas kingston is we have to set up. Saint andrew's crosses Saddles horseshoes. Horse they called saw horses setup. Saw horses crosses all the things that we would need to be able to do. Things like flogging shabery suspension so all the different things it would need set up to be able to do kinky stuff and then everything would around midnight to people to tear everything down in time to leave and be out by two and on the kinks irs nights. There was no alcohol served but they see it was. Byu ob and the club would provide setups so soft drinks juices and ice. So you're allowed to bring your own alcohol but you couldn't bring. I think he can bring is to keep a cold but not so much to serve. You can bring cups. Yeah just icing. Alcohol's you can bring in. But any case so while on the while they're at the kingston club is when i realized. Oh shit this is. This is more my jam. Because i wasn't so open to the idea of.
Sucias are my Favorite
"favorite" Discussed on Sucias are my Favorite
"At the mall and so we wouldn't be able to see each other all the time especially during the week 'cause that was usually where she worked one of the agreements we had was that whenever i met a new female were picked up female or whatever she wanted to know about it. She wanted to know if there was someone new and what i did with them so normally it would be something along the lines of collar till. Hey i'm at this new chick. She's short petit brunette. Green is whatever. Bustier big ass. Whatever whatever description was tiller mater. How a matter. And i'm gonna go knock it out real quick and after it was done i call her up and tell her okay. Yeah we did this. We did that She didn't go down on me. She did go down on me. You know. whatever kits came on her face she swallowed. Whatever is she she wanted to know. You don't kind of like the broad strokes of what we did. I found out later. That which he liked to do is try to rub one out real quick while we're on the phone especially if those dead she wanted the story and run out whatever's going on so was ever considered cheating even though we weren't even really together we weren't monogamous relationship. None of us ever said okay. You're my boyfriend your girlfriend. it was just. We saw each other so much. That i guess it would have been more. Who would call friends with benefits. Now i guess fuck buddies. We called it then. I forget what it was but we didn't really have a relationship status to speak of but we were opening up to share information. The relationship we had was at least in my mind. Phenomenal is great. But the complain about a wish. I remember what it was that we didn't decide to be boyfriend and girlfriend. Because i could still hit my thousand goal with her by my side either on the sidelines joining in so i don't know what kept me from it..
Sucias are my Favorite
"favorite" Discussed on Sucias are my Favorite
"I mean we. I'd pick up girl or she would pick up girls at grocery stores fast food drive throughs in line at a fast food place restaurants waitresses hostesses. I mean she just had game on top of game. And i wish had paid attention to what she said because then i could've told her shared with my wife what she using what she said because my wife was also unicorn the only difference between the two was my wife of course was older but my wife was not good at picking up females. Everybody wanted to hook up with her so all she had pick and choose but if she wanted someone she didn't know how to pull a female to have a threesome with us and not that we had them as often as i did with with mandy but whenever we did it was usually just kind of a random thing where they wanted to figure it out that we were open to and then would go ahead and push forward or we agree to it or whatever but anyways mandy she and i had our put unquote booty call that was like ours and that was melissa. She worked for a foundation of a sports team owner so there was a sports team owner in houston that had like a foundation thing where they don't even know what they did there but the tours that she took us on at the office was essentially like this big section of Thank you. It was an american artist that made sculptures of native americans indigenous peoples. Just random stuff i mean. It was just like a whole floor of sculptures and paintings and indigenous artifacts So her job was whatever it was. He ended up working late usually into nine or ten o'clock at night and.
Sucias are my Favorite
"favorite" Discussed on Sucias are my Favorite
"Gave us a good gino's suzy. I'm that voto guy. Welcome to another episode of sushi are my favorite today. I'm gonna talk about my favorite unicorn now for those of you not in the know or maybe you know. Maybe you don't but a unicorn is the one. I'm speaking of is specifically to the lifestyle worse swingers where it's usually a young bisexual female that is single or is open to sleeping with about anyone that he know. She was a unicorn until we were seeing each other for a couple of months. I got backtrack bit here. So back in the nineties when on aol. Or right. as soon as i got. Not as soon as i got into to well. I started on People pc and then some other one. Before i got switched over to am l. So back then. I was still is nerdy as i am. Now where when i got onto the internet back then there wasn't google to be able to find websites you had to know through either chat rooms or whatever to be able to find a specific website. There was a few search engines. But they would give you like general pages it was. It's hard to explain. But back then essentially had to know about a website that he want to go to it other than like company websites and of course there was like a jio cities in alta vista which was trying to be what we have a social media now. But you had to create your own webpage So think of a more. Do it yourself my space in the ninety s so instead of having a website to make themes that you can just cut and paste. You had to know how to make your own so early on most people on a Early on in the days the internet most people figured out or learn how to do their own html to be able to build their own websites. And i was always trying to do push the envelope and do a little bit of extra stuff online to stand out so to speak. And of course i stumbled into the where scene where you can download applications though. It was difficult back. Then because even a twenty megabyte mega by not gigabyte. Megabyte file would take about a day or two to build download because internet connections. Were so slow any case..
The Ross Bolen Podcast
"favorite" Discussed on The Ross Bolen Podcast
"Jared one of the things i wanna do is a thirty four year. Old is take better. Poops and seat is the key to my journey. C dot com slash roscoe. Ross i think it every day. I'm not kidding. Guys have never done this before he did read. And then you did a segment and finish the read somehow and your goddamn right goddamn right. Happy birthday to me. In radicek hausky is will also to connor king on june ninth and griffin knocks. Coming later in june the twentieth. Happy birthday kanye west tomorrow tomorrow. Seriously morrow birthday genetically. How old is he going to be. I don't want to know damn it when my guess is forty. I'm going get this big bro. You really think so now. He's already forty-three he's going to be forty four tomorrow. Well forty four years old. The big four four god. Damn how old. Jay z fifty one fifty one years old. That's weird. I always pictured them as all being their thirties. Still i i still remember him wrapping thirty new twenty which makes me all this shit if he is twenty twenty one years ago. Do you look forward to your birthday. Still young one of those things where you're like you get stoked for it. I only get stoked for it because it's like i. I know that nobody can say anything. Whenever i do i wanna do. That's really what it is day of freedom. You get to do whatever you want to do. So if you want to after this episode forfeited that. Spank little ass than it's your birthday. You can do it okay. I'll keep that in mind. It's definitely not something that i look forward to anymore. It's like it's like It's i've had to check in so fucking much the past two years with myself that. I don't need this day for that anymore. So it's really just like responding to text messages from people who normally don't hit me up. Which is mildly annoying. But thank you all for. The birthday wishes means a lot. I really appreciate it by the way. Speaking of people really appreciate wanna say again. Thank you to mike and kate. And all of our other interns. Who have helped us over the past couple of years. Y'all are all amazing Jared nyah been finding more of you.
What A Day
"favorite" Discussed on What A Day
"Hey wad squad. So we've through a lot together in the past year and sometimes it's been really tough to keep our heads up but we wanted to wrap up the special edition of the pod by replaying one of our favourite interviews that really lifted our spirits sonic con. She's a student of public health at the university of arizona and she was one of the essential workers registering people when they arrive to get their vaccines. When we connected in march sauna talked about what the process was actually like and how fun it was to see. People relieved happy where on drive through vaccination on the mall and so people pull up and we have kind of perfected our process. So it's a minute thirty for the whole interaction for them to give us their license appointment confirmation pressed to look up for the actually give them the vaccine and have them like to observation. That whole process has gone to a minute thirty. Which is great that we're so fast. But because we like everyone wants to be really like chatty and tell you and i'm sure your experience so far has been took someone places to confirm their appointment and their date of birth and i thought it was their birthday so i like yelled up to the cars like hey how birthday and all the other cars started honking like. That's all vaccinators. All the scribes like everyone was just like yelling. Happy birthday to this guy who felt like he was in parade. He likes leaving with like. This is the best president. I could've got which was great and he was like. When can i start drinking. Can i start drinking in the observation area. Please drive home. I this point. Yeah he's like. I can't wait to have a jerk. We're like please that Yeah like other. I love when people come through with signs. That are like thank you. Healthcare workers which is pray I love asking people what they're opposed. Vaccination plans arm man when we were doing k. Through twelve teachers They like unanimously. Were like we cannot wait to be back in the classroom. And i can't wait to see like this one specific do that. So that was really. It's just a meaningful like it never gets old like my first person. I did like a thousand person that i did like. It's the same level of joy for each interaction. I mean do you encounter people who are hesitant Once they're there or do you encounter it in your life more generally like have you had people say like i'm not getting it. I'm scared The vaccine hesitancy is so interesting to me and again like this is like area of research too. So i'm i'm really interested in it but for the most part people are so excited to get the vaccine For people that are hesitant it's Not for like most of the reasons you would think like. No one who's hesitant is like. I hate all vaccines. I think there's a microchip in like that's not really what's driving hesitancy at the moment. What's driving has this. I think is more like a lack of information about and people just want to have like a conversation with somebody they trust about it and usually like once you have that one on one conversation when somebody like they are waiting to decide to get a vaccine anything and maybe this is an obvious question but what made you wanna volunteer for this specific role. Yeah there isn't terribly. My dad like this is public health and action. This is like why got in public health. It's incredible to be able to see like this like large of a public health effort. Take place the obvious answer is it is so refreshing to leave my house strangers. Be you know in front of the computer all day I mean. I'm still in front of a computer but like the computers outside so exactly like seeing people like strangers has been wonderful interacting with people. it's so wonderful and it's like the happiest honor right. Yeah definitely and also just like it's so refreshing and so rewarding to be able to help any small way they've been working on contact tracing in case investigation like for a full year now and those conversations are so difficult to have with people who have covid and when you're trying to contact tracing they're so sick and you know they've lost a loved one to covert or their whole family is sick like those conversations are so hard to have in there so draining on like our whole team like we always talk about like man. I had like ten. Really rough phone calls today So to be able to like after a full year of thought every day to be able to go out in in onto the mall and like help people get back needed amazing that was on a con a public health student at the university of arizona who we talked to in march offers. Av like the show. Me st subscribe review. Take of your grill master journey and tell your friends. Listen and if you're into reading and not just stuff that helps to process this year like me what. It is also a nightly newsletter. Check it out and subscribe. Crooked dot com slash. Subscribe ign akilah hughes getting interesting things for time to reflect. We appreciate it. We don't do it enough. What a day is a production of crooked media. It's reported in next best. Charlotte landis ton jazzy marine are associate producers are head writer. Is john milstein in our executive producers. Are leo duran. Akilah hughes and me. Our theme music is by tom. Gilead and khashaba..
Rare with Flair
"favorite" Discussed on Rare with Flair
"Chris was probably one of their their most famous ones. That it's kind of like vanilla e. with some like jam preserves and some like bits of oats soga. Oh that sounds good. Favorite thing to do to relax either watch. Tv or i put on an album. That's usually what. I end two-game okay. I've really loved meditating. I've gotten really into it. Like i started actually in march of two thousand twenty when i was having a complete mental breakdown and i'm not like saying that to be funny. I was like having a panic attack every day. At the very beginning of the pandemic i was like i probably should meditate and i did and i really like it And also okay. I have this playlist on spotify that i follow romantic jazz and it shows me out. I put on my romantic jazz playlist. And i make a cup of tea or get ready for bed and do my skin care. And i love that most locally. Ohi what are you favorite beverages. My favorite beverage. I i drink water exclusively pretty much an no same. I have a lot of health issues. That caffeine makes worse. So i re- every doctor. I have says. Avoid caffeine at all costs but my favorite other drink is chai tea. I could. I could have not every moment if i could. I particularly like an ice chai. And i try to just get one pump when i go to starbucks so it's not too much caffeine for me. yeah chysler. Goud to try reminds me of the fall. It's like following your mouth. I know it's like so many comforting spices. I love it. I love coffee. I really do so i. I love like a lot. 'cause i so my thing i drink coffee like once or twice every day but i think My my health issues happen. If like i have too much strong stuff so i have to have my coffee with milk or something to dilute it a little bit so strong so Yeah so i love a lot. I love i love tara bovici really oh i like it too. It's the only way drink to you. And i will. I will get to that later I also i. I drink alcohol. So my favorite cocktail is a manhattan I like i like bourbon. The tastes like the woody taste of it. And i love that. Manhattan's always have a cherry. Sorry i love the way you said i drink. Alcohol is you're like i drink alcohol. I didn't mean to. I'm just saying like it's a spoiler for later later. I hate to declare. I know i just wanted to clarify that. I do not know. That's why i made me laugh because you're like i know you don't grow. I don't want it to sound. Like i think i'm sold at all not at all not like that at all..
Rare with Flair
"favorite" Discussed on Rare with Flair
"I also favorite nonfiction book is. I don't know if i've mentioned this but it's called. Everything happens for a reason and other lies. That i've loved and her name. Is kate bowler. She's oh dot buck. I i read that in a day and it was beautiful basically. So she's very very very intelligent. She also is like a beautiful writer when she's appeared. D from i think Duke seminary school and she writes so like poignantly about like living with like illness So she's like she has cancer and she talks about her whole journey with like life and death and kind of living in between actually knowing. If like like what's going to happen to you an actually. She's coming out with another book. That's going to be released later this year that i'm very excited about but she's she also like she's a podcast also called like everything happens podcast. But she's she's kind of like a really soothing voice like she should read like meditations. i love. I love that. That sounds so nice. I need to check it out. It's a really great book favorite musical. I think we're gonna have the same answer. My favorite musicals actually wicked really. I'm surprised off seriously. Like when i think of musicals i think of wicked. It's hard not to like it. I've seen it like three times. I think and a lot for me. I do like going to see places. But like i don't i don't see them super super often but i have seen wicked several times. And it's a really just. I love the story. I think it's so well done. It's royal route. And i love the music. Yeah it's a great musical. I've seen wicked. Maybe you know. I don't know twenty five times I'm a little obsessed. It's one of my favorite things in media in general. But i also really love next to normal and hamilton as well i also i know you're a ham fan. I'm a ham fan too. I feel like it got super blown up but seriously it's just again super words that i mean it's so genius man linneman while he's got going on girl we just got the tickets to go see the in the heights movie. I am so cat okay. Sorry everybody favorite meal of the day. You gotta say denner. I feel like dinner. Is the only meal. I actually cook. And what i mean by. That is like for breakfast lunch. I just kinda get little sticky things like some hard boiled eggs in a rice cake and some other random crap but for dinner. I like i cook it. So eileen what about you i'm just basic. I'm such lebron's person. I love breakfast food though. So you do. I look i really love brench. I would say breakfast. But i've never up in time for breakfast. I'm i'm of lleida. assume so..
F That Noise
"favorite" Discussed on F That Noise
"On the empire strikes back and the gene kelly anyway with an eye on time already at the thirty minute mark. Here james Your favorite clip is up next. Looks like an hour episode by the way I don't know if you want the whole thing. My favorite part of any star wars. Be now my favorite film of all time and obviously i was talking about his empire strikes back by all time. Favorite clip of the star. Wars film is the finale of a new. Hope it's them walking down. They get them getting the medals. And the reason i love. This is because the look on luke skywalker face. Every time moves me to tears. Every time i watch. This movie really choked up. I because it's you. It's this whole adventure. That's all he's always wanted is to basically get off go and have an adventure and win the day when the girl whatever and he finally gets it and the look on his face when he looks up at her. It's just moves me every time. So i think it's just because he wants to fuck a sister off. Yes but i love it i i. That's my favorite part of showers for for the record for the record we all want anymore am from no. And that's when you realize oh are not dead. Yeah and then. Also that anticipation that luke gibbs the c. three po like. Oh my god. This is actually.