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"I want to make sure that I'm always bringing in at least one client a month, one new client a month. So I'm not going to waste my time only doing four episodes in the month. Instead, I'm going to go much more. I'm going to do 16, 17 episodes in the month. Most hosts never achieve the results they hoped for. They're falling short on listenership and monetization, meaning their message isn't being heard and their show ends up costing them money. This podcast was created to help you grow your listenership and make money while you're at it. Get ready to take notes. Here's your host, Adam Adams. Hey, Podcaster. It's your host, Adam Adams, and we are talking about monetizing your podcast. We're talking about the three most common ways that podcasters will monetize. Now, if you look at other episodes that we've done on this podcast, and actually I'll have my team put a few of the monetization episodes in our show notes right now. So now you're listening and you're going to be able to scroll down and see what are the other ways to monetize because in this episode, we're talking about the three most common ways that people monetize their show. So if you want to know the other seven or eight ways, go and check out the links that are in the show notes. We will link to other episodes with other ways of monetizing. We're going to talk about the three most common ways, the three most common ways. The first is CPM. This means cost per meal, and it doesn't mean cost per million. It means cost per thousand. I think meal, M -I -L, must have Latin roots. It must be like Latin, cost per meal. Cost per thousand downloads is the most common way that most people try to monetize. As the three ways that I'm talking about today, this is the worst of the three ways. So I'm going to share what CPM is. I'm going to explain how it works, and then I'm going to share with you a better way. I'm going to explain how that works and how people get a hold of people because you make a lot more than your CPM model. And then I'm going to explain the third way, which is the way that you can make the absolute most amount of money. CPM cost per meal means that an advertiser who, and here's kind of like the caveat to it, and it's an advertiser, they don't necessarily have your same avatar. They're just more of like a general audience advertiser. And so you might have a real estate show. You might have the podcast on podcasting. You might have a show about your health and wellness. You might have something about piloting. You might have something about, you know, aviation, or we can just talk about millions of these things. Education, we can talk about movies, whatever your podcast is about. If you were going to go with a CPM model, that would mean that you would get an advertiser on that had a general ad. They're usually about 30 seconds or a minute long. So that advertiser, they wouldn't even really conversate with you. They would end up just putting up their ads in your place. And so one of the ways that we do this is there's some platforms out there that allow these ads to happen automatically. And when I say automatically, they can be dynamic ads, which means they can do it to episodes that you've already been published, that have already been published, you published a long time ago. And they just basically push a button and then one, two, three, or four different ads, one, podcast. And when it's a dynamic ad insertion, that's going to mean that there's going to be a 30 second ad followed by another 30 second ad followed by maybe a one minute ad followed by a 30 second ad. And that's before you ever give anybody value. Before anyone ever hears anything on the podcast, before you've said anything good, they get bombarded with these CPM model advertisements. One might be about diapers. One might be about home improvement. Another might be about a meal prep service. And the fourth one might be in Spanish or some other language that you don't even understand and neither does your listener. And this is a real story. This is actual true story. And so do you want the CPM model? Maybe. So far, it doesn't sound very enticing, does it? They don't even share my same avatar, you're thinking. If they're not going to help my perfect person, why do I want them? Well, you might not want them at all. You probably don't. And how do I get paid? That's your next question. How do I get paid with CPM? Well, most of these places, they will say, hey, I'm going to give $5 CPM. Or if they really have a lot of money to throw around, they're going to say $20 CPM. And if you found a way to just get the cream of the crop, the best of the best, you might get $30 CPM. What does that mean? That means that per thousand listeners that you have, so think about it, how many listeners do you have? The average podcast has about a hundred listeners. A top 10 % podcast has about 300 listeners. The average one has about a hundred. A top 10 % has 300. A top 1 % podcast has about 3 ,500 downloads per episode. Now you know how you get paid. If I'm getting $5 CPM and I have a thousand people listening, I'm going to make $5. Awesome. Now, if I had three advertisers, I would make 15 bucks per episode. So all the time, the effort, the work, the value that you're trying to give, and then you go ahead and you make 20 bucks, you sell out, you make 20 bucks, and you turn off your listener. You're a very awesome listener that has been coming every single day that you publish an episode. They get excited about it. Well, now they have to sit through three or four ads. And by the way, one of them's in a language they don't even understand because you went with a CPM model. That type of sellout, no offense if you're doing this already, but yes, offense if you're doing this already, that type of sellout isn't going to have a prolonged active podcast. Let's just say you had a thousand people downloading and you had four ads. So you're about to make 20 bucks. Now you're probably going to have like 500 people listening because they don't like the freaking ads. So now your income goes down to 10 bucks. If on the highest end, think about the CPM being on the highest end. Like I'm really crushing it. In the top 1 % of all podcasts in the entire world, I've got about 3 ,500 say I'm even above that. I've got 4 ,000 downloads per episode. And you're looking at a CPM model where you're able to somehow negotiate 20 bucks per each episode, per each CPM, per meal, per thousand downloads. And you got 4 ,000, you just made 80 bucks per episode. I do the math on this. Let's just say you're doing one episode a week. So 52 times 80 bucks. This is the best you could do. At the end of the year, you've only made four grand. It won't even pay for your editor. That's why I don't like the CPM model. That's also why did I bring it up first? I brought it up first because it's the absolute most common way and it sucks. And people get excited because they think they're making all this money, but really they're making like $2 because listen here, I'm going back to the CPM And negotiate you $20 per meal, cost per thousand. You're going to make two bucks, two bucks. You're going to make a 10th of it because you only have a hundred listeners when you need a thousand. So you made two bucks on that episode. What can you get with two bucks today? A candy bar? So if you do this the whole year, you can buy a candy bar every single week. It sucks. Option number two is partnership. This is a sponsor that is partnered with the show. And why is this different than CPM? It's way different because in CPM, they are chasing you. They are putting it at that $5, $10, $20 per meal. And then they're reaching out to people and saying that they'll give you like $20 per thousand. And you think to yourself, Ooh, I get almost a thousand downloads per month. And so I'm going to make like 20 bucks a month. And that's one way. Okay. What is the partnership? This is when you reach out to them. When I give you an example, I coach a ton of people to do number two. And it's because I think the CPM model sucks. And so I tell them, why don't you find a partner of the show or a sponsor of the show? Now, this does not mean an advertiser. The CPM is more of an advertiser who reaches out to you and says, I'm only going to do $5 CPM. And I'm going to do it with anybody who wants to do it. When you're getting a hold of a partner to your show or a sponsor of the show, you reach out to them and then you dictate how much money you're going to be making. So let's just say you've got a hundred downloads per episode. In this case, you'd be able to command much closer to let's just say 1500 bucks a month. If you are an average podcast, you would probably be able to command about 1500 bucks a month. Let's say that your 1500 bucks means that you've got 4 .333 episodes per week, because that's how the math really works. You don't have four episodes a month. I mean, you don't have four episodes a month. You have 4 .333 episodes a month because 52 weeks divided by 12 months is 4 .333 weeks per month. And so in this case, you would be making $348 per episode. Now that's a lot better worth your time, isn't it? Think about how long does it take you to do an episode? If you have a team that edits your podcast for you, then your podcast is only going to take you about 30 to 60 minutes, maybe 90 if you're doing a little bit of research. So for example, you spend 90 minutes to do this. So I'm going to divide $348 by the 90 minutes that it takes you. 348 divided by 90 equals, I don't know why I was even thinking about 90. 90 minutes is an hour and a half. Okay. So I needed divided by 1 .5. So I did that. I was like, what the heck? Why isn't this adding up when I divide it by 90? Okay. You were making about two bucks a minute, but when you look at how much are you making per hour with that podcast, if it takes you 90 minutes to come up with the content or invite your guests, do a little bit of research and then press record, then in the partnership slash sponsorship version number two, you're making $232 per hour. That's if it takes you 90 minutes. Now, if it only takes you five minutes to do an episode, 10 minutes to do an episode, you make a lot more. On the other hand, you are editing your own podcast and it takes you 12 to 15 hours to do all the editing of post -production, create all of your marketing pieces and all of that. Then let's just divide this by 15 instead. So I'm going to do 300 divided by 15 hours. You're making about 20 bucks an hour. And that's not terrible. It's slightly higher than the average minimum wage right now. So it's close to minimum wage. It's not amazing, but it's not terrible. It's not $5 an hour, $10 an hour stuff. So that's okay. You want to spend 15 hours editing and all of this for your podcast, you make about 20 bucks an hour. If you use the partnership slash sponsorship version, that's version number two. There was CPM was number one. Partnership is number two. Number three is going to be selling your own stuff. And that's the cream of the crop. We'll be there in just a moment. So I tell a quick story. I had a podcast client. Well, still have a podcast client. But this is in the past. So Alex came to me, he wanted to make money. He had a top 1 % podcast. So he had about 3000 downloads per each episode. And I told him, Hey, if you do CPM, you're going to be able to make something like $20 CPM. You've got 3000. So that three X of what the cost per meal is. And so you make $60 per podcast. And is that how much you want to make Alex? And he would say, no, it's not worth my time. Why would want to offend my listener to listen to an ad? That's not even going to serve them that comes in in the beginning of my episode before I've even added any value. And I do all of that for 60 bucks just to lose listeners. So that later I'm only making 30 bucks because it goes from 3000 people to 1500 people now. And so of course he's going to say no. So then it goes, Alex, here's a way to partner with somebody. And in the real estate space, I said, one of the main people that you reach out to is a lender. Alex has a real estate podcast. And so he teaches fix and flip and he teaches mindset and he teaches how to scale a business. And when it comes to him getting his sponsor and reaching out to them as a partner of the show, I told him one of the best, easiest places that you can go is a lender. So think about this, Alex, think about a private money lender, a hard money lender, somebody who lands on these fix and flips. Now you can still do coaching for listener and they still need somebody to fund the deals. So you having a fix and flip partner, it definitely both of you serve the same person, but neither of you take away business from the other person. Now, in fact, Alex probably makes more money if he has somebody who can really support his people with money. And the person who lends the money, the hard money lender, probably makes more money when Alex has more clients as well. So it's a win -win. Instead of detracting from the business that Alex can get, it actually supports his business and he's more profitable and effective and his sponsor or his partner of the show is more effective. And Alex says, well, with my 3000 plus downloads a month, because I'm in a top 1%, I could either make 60 bucks if I do CPM or if I do this partnership, how much do you think I can make? So five to 10 grand. And he's like, five to 10 grand? Are you sure? And I'm like dead serious. I am sure you could easily make five to 10 grand if you are the one who reaches out to them. So I taught him how to reach out to them. He and I even role played. So he practiced it. Step one was we decided who are the people that can help him. He writes down the hard money lender. Step two is we decide how do we play to the player? How do we give a pitch to that hard money lender? How do we give them that what's in it for me so that they even give a darn? And step three is to do that first call and to go out of your comfort zone and to call the hard money lender and let them know about the opportunity. So he did this behind my back. Well, we at the end of a coaching call, I said, okay, go and do this. And so he did, but he did it with two people instead of one. So he asked the first person for about five grand. And then he called the second person and asked them for about five grand. And so guess what? Alex could have made 60 bucks an episode, but instead he made 10 ,000 a month. He was doing eight or nine episodes a month. So I need to put in this math, $10 ,000 divided by approximately nine episodes a month because he's doing two a week. So this is an approximation. He's making $1 ,111 every single episode. He's making $1 ,111 per episode. And I know for a fact that Alex has my team doing all of the back office. So it takes him about 45 minutes to make $1 ,111. So I'm going to multiply this by 0 .75 because it's three quarters of an hour that it takes him to do that. Oh, I need to divide it by 0 .75. And he's making $1 ,481 an hour with his podcast. So partnership slash sponsorship, way better than CPM. Do you still want to do that CPM model? No. So the partnership is a much better way to go because Alex was able to make $1 ,400 in per hour instead of 60 bucks or 70 bucks an hour. Much, much better. Now let's go to the third option. The third option is selling your own stuff and this can yield you so much more fruit than the partnership slash sponsorship. So if you want to make more than $1 ,481 .33 every F an hour that you do your podcast, stay tuned. We'll be right back after this episode. Hey my friend, as you know, this episode is sponsored by my company, growyourshow .com. We want you to be able to have the best tools at your disposal without costing you a whole arm and a leg. So right now you can get a free list of vetted equipment that like mics, mixers, webcams, sound treatment, editing software, everything that you need. I created the whole PDF with direct purchase links just to save you time and money to help it be more convenient for you. So this free PDF will help you skip all the guesswork. If it's on there, it's vetted and approved by yours truly. And if it's not on there, it's probably not worth the money. So go ahead and get yours at growyourshow .com forward slash PDF. Let's get back into the show. We are back. We are talking about the three most common ways that people monetize their show. The first was the CPM model. We decided together that that one effing sucks. The second one was partnership. That one's really pretty cool. Like that one's pretty cool. Remember Alex making $1 ,481 .33 every single hour that he works on his podcast. When you like that too, or would you like something even a step better? A step better would be you selling your own services. You would sell your own coaching, your own consulting, whatever you can do, coaching masterminds for your listener. And let's imagine that you've got a products. One of my products is above $40 ,000. So the client would come to us and they would pay about $3 ,000. They would pay a little upfront fee and then they would pay about three grand a month and we would serve them for the 12 months. Okay. We would serve them for the next 12 months. So that ends up being more than 40 grand. When you add the three grand a month, but times 12 plus the down payment as well, it's over 40 grand. So for that package, if I get one person, just one per month, then we gross just like you would be grossing the CPM. You would be grossing the partnership money or sponsorship money. You are also grossing. You're selling your own services. So in this case, if all I do is just sell one person, that one package, and I have other packages available that are more and less, all I do is just sell one of those packages once a month and I'm doing four or five or six episodes each week. If I just sell one a month, then I make 40 grand every month, more than 40 grand every month. I'm doing the math right now on my phone, on my calculator, my trusty phone calculator. And I'm assuming that I do four episodes per week, four episodes a week. Now, two of those episodes are 10 minutes on average. We'll just say 12 minutes on average. Let's just say 15 minutes on average because that'll be actually easier with math. And the others are 45 minutes on average. And so I've got basically two hours of work, two hours of work each week because I've got a 45, a 15, a 45 and a 15. I hope that's making sense. So two hours a week. And so I've got 17 episodes happening and almost exactly 17 hours of work. Now, if I divide $40 ,000 by 17 hours of work, it's $2 ,352 .94. It's $2 ,352 .94. So let's recap. Option number one, CPM. You can make 60 bucks -ish max, maybe $5 per episode. Let's imagine that you are doing four episodes a week. And so you're making, let's just say 40 bucks a week. That's a hundred. And anyway, I don't want to give you too much numbers. I'm now realizing that I keep throwing out numbers and that's going to get confusing. So I'm not going to waste my time doing all of that since this is an audio and I don't have something to show you. I'm just going to explain it to you. On one way, you are most likely making about 20 bucks an hour. The next one, you're making closer to a thousand bucks an hour. And on the next one, you're making about $2 ,000 per hour. Now for me, I'm doing four episodes a week. If I was only doing one episode a week, of course I could quadruple that, but I want to make sure that I'm always making that. I want to make sure that I'm always bringing in at least one client a month, one new client a month. So I'm not going to waste my time only doing four episodes in the month. Instead, I'm going to go much more. I'm going to do 16, 17 episodes in the month. If I do 17 episodes in a month, I'm still making $2 ,352 and 94 cents per hour. And in additionally, about $2 ,352 per episode. Now, if with that type of motivation, think about it for a second. If you were doing four episodes a week and you were selling one $40 ,000 thing per month, would you have some motivation to get behind the mic? If you knew that you were going to record for about an hour and you're going to make over two grand, it would become your favorite thing to do. You would choose to record an episode before you would go do something else that was fun. Because it's like, I can get behind the mic for just an hour and I can make two grand. So let's recap. CPM, shitty. Partnership, pretty freaking good. Selling your own crap, your own good stuff. Hopefully nobody sells crap. Hopefully you're only selling really quality things that you've got. Well, that's the way to make the most amount of money. So those were the three most common ways that podcasters make money through their podcast. We talked about how they work and we talked about why the last one is the one that I suggest that you get started on right now. And if you need help, my name is Adam Adams. I coach people for a living. I support people. I help you to be able to make your 40 grand a month, even just 10 or 20 grand a month through your podcast because you're doing fewer episodes. That's great too. That's really, really good too. And I coach people to do that. So feel free to go into the show notes and schedule a call with me so that you and I can start working together. That's going to be a discovery call. And in the show notes is a link to our website. It's growyourshow .com. You'll see the link. And at the top right, you see a button. The button says schedule a discovery call. It's green. It's bright. It tells you exactly what I'm telling you right now. So you just go to that button, push it and schedule a call with me and we will help you start making your 10, 20, 30 or $40 ,000 a month through your podcast by selling your own stuff. See you on the next episode. This is serious. Don't go. Now that you've gotten whatever value that you feel that you got the actionable takeaways, you need to implement the stuff that you learn. If you remember me talking about bird church once and they learn how to fly and then they walk home. I don't want you to walk home. I want you to fly home. So take the steps, take the actionable steps for your benefits that you can become a better podcaster. That's the only thing that I ask of you. And I'll see you for more actionable tips on the very next episode.
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"Alright live from Studio 6B on a Monday. New month. October is here. Slick Rick's gonna do some news. Lots to talk about. Harry on the highways in the building. Aaron and Fran holding it down as always. And of course you live from Studio 6B audience. New week. New month. Hope everybody had a great weekend. We were off Friday. I was off Thursday. Thanks to the great David Zier for sitting in for me on short notice. As always appreciate that. So I feel like I haven't been here in a long time. Slick Rick how are you? Fantastic big day. How was your weekend? It was terrible. Oh why you ask? Why? Well I'll tell you why. Because if there's one sporting event in the world that I almost paint my face red white and blue that's how much I'm into it. As you know Slick Rick and I know you know what I'm about to say. Is the Ryder Cup. It's the one event in golf. There's a lot of events in golf I love being a golfer my whole life. But the Ryder Cup is is the event that I look forward to and root as hard as you can root for the American team especially as they flip-flop home and away home and away when they're away in Europe for the Ryder Cup. And your favorite player of all shine. And this was an unmitigated disaster for the US. But first let me say David Zier how are you? I'm wonderful thank you so much for asking. What's under Marxist leftist assault? New York. New York is crazy. Washington's not far behind. Check. Is there anything new? Another day that ends in Y. Mayor Adams is going to Mexico City we should revoke his. Yeah. Oh the white shirt. I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm hearing something in my ear. Is that going to air Fran? No. Oh it's not going to air. Okay that's Harry on the highway. The white shirt is black is blaring. Harry of course comes in and takes over the microphones talking to us. White balance. If you were at least going to air Harry that'd be better so people could hear you. Yeah yeah well anyway EV mandates are here for trucks we'll get into that if you want. Great. You know. Fantastic. Takes away 20% of the cargo weight of a truck that's good news for the truckers. All right so we're gonna get into all that. David Zier's got a bunch of news he wants to get into. Slick's gonna have sports but just to get back to what I just and then we'll get into. We'll get into Gates and all this nonsense and then McCarthy and it's it's this is a cut we'll get into all of that what's going on motion to vacate is on the floor okay rah rah rah great we'll get into all of that how we got here and what the real real problem is here it's not Gates and it's honestly not McCarthy it's this whole damn party that that's really the bottom line so we'll get into all of that and how we got here and some of the things maybe you didn't know that happened you know I I said to somebody this weekend when all this was going down if you're at the table in your short stacked and you have seven deuce offsuit for those of you who play poker you know it's gonna be harder for you to be the bully at the table then if you have got you know 70% of the chips in play and you've got aces every hand you know then you can bluff and and bully and do these things and here we are with a four-seat majority and all along what have we talked about on this show we have talked about the fact that you actually have to get to the shutdown you have to get to the shutdown and with a four-seat majority how much are you gonna be able to do without eventually playing into McCarthy's hands and have him turn around and work with the Democrats which is not exactly what happened but pretty damn close pretty close to what we talked about but before we even get to that because this is gonna be a night of basically drawing the distinction between the Democrats and the Republican Party as a whole because that's really we're pretty much screwed with the party that we have now it's just it's just a fact but just to just to draw the distinction let's talk about California for a second so what happens in California Diane Feinstein passes away last week I guess on Friday was it Friday yeah I saw the news or Thursday Friday whatever it was now California is obviously a huge state and you'd have to figure it's it's California's become a you know leftist progressive utopia over the last years and of course slick slick Newsome running the show and everybody's talking about him and how he's gonna worm his way into the presidency and whatever he gets to a point this person in the to replace Feinstein so you look at you look at California and you got to think well there's got to be a lot of up-and-coming Marxists in the state Senate state legislature some government body there in California that he can go to House members whoever well Gavin Newsom goes to someone that wasn't elected to anything in California as a we can tell she's registered to vote in Maryland didn't she scrub her Twitter page she did today so he appointed a quote first of all black female because that was if you're gonna check the boxes on what she had to have it wasn't you know good legislative history it wasn't smart it wasn't black female check black lesbian female okay we're about to get the box number two does that seem you know kind of random black woman who of course he promised the point that's not even from California so why do you pick her of course that brings us to box two not only she a black female she's a lesbian activist so now we have two boxes checked and that brings us to of course box three which is she's a rabid abortion activist she's the head of Emily's list which is the biggest pro abortion organization that the left you know is in bed with or whatever so this just draws the distinction between the Republican Party and the Democrats the Democrats will get whoever serves their purposes the most on the issues that matter to them the most at the time they matter and they will do whatever they have to to get their biggest activists their biggest player for whatever they're trying to tackle they'll do whatever and wherever to get those persons in those positions the Republicans would never do something like this the Republicans would never make a move like this abortions hot what does he do goes out and gets a black lesbian abortion activist who's not even a Californian to put in this Senate seat which is a hugely powerful seat and she campaign advisor to Kamala Harris they take their best fighters at the time they need them for the issues they need them for and do whatever they have to to get them in position to fight for what they want the Republicans just don't do it they just don't do it you'd never see something like that as we face every existential crisis known to man coming at us border inflation debt biomedical tyranny judicial tyranny all over this country so do you mean that the left always puts the most hardcore person up and we don't we always put a moderate they they put what they put whoever the most vicious yeah killer to attack issue they think they can leverage to win because when we started 2023 what were the Republican leverage points that we had we had to we had the debt ceiling and we had the September 30th deadline that we knew was coming for the budget that was the leverage Republicans had heading into 2023 correct everybody knew that this is your chance to not give the American Express black card to the Democrats again with no limit decide what you're gonna fund decide what you're not gonna fund and use your leverage points to get what you want and what's amazing about where we are is that in all of the times on this show I've talked about these debt ceilings Pelosi and Schumer rolling McConnell rolling McCarthy rolling who ever was in charge they always got their ass kicked all over the place always but in previous years they always had the leader of the party whether they were in control the White House or not had the ability to actually help them in messaging and now we're in this fight with a president and leader of their party who can't put a complete sentence together is half dead is half comatose every single day not even there to help them fight this fight and yet the outcome is still no different still no different so you can't fight on a party that it's extremely disliked a president that is extremely disliked on issues that the American people favor your position on most and they couldn't even fight for 24 48 72 hours past the deadline for government shutdown they were more scared of the actual shutdown than they are of what's going on at the border what's going on it with inflation what's going on as everything that cripples your life that's crushing your existence that's crushing your Liberty no they're not scared about that they're scared about all but the the the the deadline to shut down the government we couldn't even get to a government shutdown which has been the point I've talked about for you have to get to the shutdown which is why Chip Roy who clearly saw this coming a mile away and Byron Donald's had put together to start an 8% credit cut across the board and catch and release some other border provisions as at least a point to say here's our jump-off point here's what we're gonna stand behind we're gonna pass this and send it to marble mouth and let him pressure would it have mattered that Democrats didn't have the Democrats have to say in an election year are we gonna are we gonna work we're gonna be responsible for this shutdown right now are we gonna be responsible for saying no no no we don't want to secure the border at all yeah I think one by the way before you before you go on the word on the street is that 8% that they discussed two weeks ago not got shut down went to 30% yeah on Friday afternoon I saw it because that's what they had promised back in March and they said let's do it 30% cut I saw that but you know again in the end does it do anything my my concern is that I don't care if the government shuts down let us shut down when new gang rich which surprisingly you know was ripping apart Matt gates because new Cambridge shut down the government and we got the largest tax crease in cuts up until that point in the history of America the economy took off like a rocket ship in 1996 I'm in the building industry for 35 years I watched it it happened and also they got Clinton to balance the budget over it but I just wanted to add Ben Burquam on the war room tonight if you didn't catch it go online and watch the segment with Ben because you know they he was on fire that they should all walk out of Congress just over the border situation but anyway that's that's why that's why they discussed using the border as a jump-off point it was easily understandable by the public it was something that every almost every you would think everybody in the in their caucus even the mainstream Rhino caucus and if certainly the Freedom Caucus would have been on board with you throw in an 8% cut for the 30 45 days and say this is our jump-off point it's not this is not what we want we know this is not going to be signed but this is our jump-off point in the house here you go let Schumer and them say no we don't we're not gonna do this let them be responsible for the messaging but we could never get there all right a lot more on this and some of the other things that happened this past weekend and the real question is when is enough enough for the Republicans all right 17 past the hour live from studio 6b we'll do some sports and news here in a second so just to finish these first thoughts so I was away for two days and all this was going down I mean I have no confidence that in 45 days anything's gonna be any different and I just I just don't know how how much worse does it have to get like where do we have to get to that the Republicans can actually unify behind some messaging is there any amount of people across the border is there any amount of inflation is there any amount of our Liberty be taken away that the Republicans can unify behind positions and you know how unify behind messaging at the actual time that it actually matters like how lives have to be destroyed how many people have to be targeted how much how much does the Trump family have to deal with how much degradation to your way of living does there have to be political targeting of opponents of Americans j6 or like how much is there anything that will elicit a unified response from the Republican Party is the question that I would ask myself tonight what if the you know the Freedom Caucus and the conservative people who claim to be more conservative what if they're not happy with what the Republicans are doing there's no fight in the mainstream Republican Party I think in normal times I could be down with that argument you have a four-seat majority you have to play the hand at some point you have to play the hand you're dealt you could argue that what Gates is doing and I always say what do I say about Gates he's always on offense he's sometimes the only one but you have to be somewhat pragmatic about what you can get at the time what do you have right now you have 45 days of Biden's agenda still fully funded with not a single concession I think the left you've lost the plot my friend I think the left wants to annihilate our country they want to flood the country with the Legals they want to tear it all down and that's their that's their end game so you know the Republicans are complicit in it by not taking tougher stands you know so I understand what you're saying I honestly don't even think it's like one it's not even about gates it's not even about McCarthy it's about the party as a whole it's not even about one person yeah I dare say it's not even about marble mouth it's not about one person when you look at this party when you look at where we are is there anybody that thinks in 45 days this is going to be any different now he's put a motion to vacate on the floor I don't think he's gonna get 218 votes and he admits that he says he probably won't get it on the first time around so maybe they'll come to a consensus by then you know maybe they make gains maybe gates makes gains and they come out swinging after that right I mean it's always worst before the dawn right I don't know I think the gates is doing us any favors right now with the way he says but I also don't think like if he was out of the picture that we would be like sailing off to conservative utopia either I don't think that's I don't think that's the case either right that's what I'm saying I don't think it's about one person at this point with the party it's the whole party as a whole it's bigger than I don't know what we can do about it I don't know I don't know if we can do anything about it even if we dig in our heels unless they say I'm not coming to Congress anymore and we're gonna shut down the government for good until we fix the border you know and other things I mean we're being destroyed like we are being destroyed right now there's one thing you can say in past years Republicans have never had the people on the inside to fight the fight now we have people who are willing to fight the fight but they're not part of it right yeah exactly but no one now we have the outside not paying attention most people are not paying attention to what's going on the 104th Congress you know in the Republican Revolution did make dramatic gains it was a special time in our history and in the end you know people like Scarborough it's a total jerk you know was part of that Republican Revolution but they got a lot done right in the beginning they got a lot done and you know I don't know I feel like the civil and criminal courts are controlled by leftists and Marxists I feel the federal government is controlled by people who want you dead they want us dead they don't want us around and you know we're in the fight for our lives so you know I just it just bothers me that there's gonna be like you know negotiating you know I don't know what to do I don't know what to do but you know we're all getting hurt we're all getting hurt and people can't pay their bills right now does anyone does anyone think in these 45 days that McCarthy can get eight appropriations bills with actual key priorities that the Republicans say they are gonna stand for and actually stand in unity before the what we should have been doing in August when we went on recess which is part of the problem mrs. Warren McCarthy screwed us again not only to screw us on the debt ceiling he screwed us on this too why weren't we doing this in August putting the 12 appropriations bills together and then again say here's what's the messaging here's what we're standing behind here's what we're doing we're ready to go for September 30th we're ready to go we're passing this and here you go Senate I look at it like when you read the news the mainstream media and they say gates is bad I feel like he's doing something right but I also agree with what you're saying you know I get it but you know they want it they want to demonize the right yeah all right we'll do more on this more news with David dear let's do some sports though and here with that is slick Rick Rick Amorani sports brought to you by Mike Lindell if you didn't see Lindell today on war room I shared the clip on our social media and it's just a constant he's just another one it's just how much just a constant attack now he's getting audited there's five or six audits going on now all of a sudden at my pillow if you didn't see it it's on our social media check that out but Mike Lindell sponsor sports LFS XP is the code slick Rick what's going on I big D well before I get to recap the games we have to pick the NFL game on tonight the Monday night game odds makers Aaron and I it's the New York Giants hosting the Seattle Seahawks in MetLife Giants on the move big D they got the ball down around the 30-yard line five minutes into the game so who you gonna take Aaron I'm taking the Giants tonight okay and I'm gonna take Seattle so that makes it interesting I'll take Seattle Seattle's laying two and a half points big D so mark that down in the book and before I get to any of the other odds makers do I do want to get to a story that really disturbed me this morning disturbed my 70s and early 80s football former Pro Bowl tight end Russ Francis dies in a plane crash and we're terrible ESPN report this morning for Pro Bowl tight tight end Russ Francis was killed in a plane crash in Lake Placid New York on Sunday according to family members Francis was 70 Francis and Richard McSpadden a former commander of the US Air Force Thunderbirds rolled hard to the left after takeoff from Lake Placid Airport before crashing according to a NTSB spokesman it was not immediately clear whether Francis or McSpadden was flying the plane Francis was taken by the New York New England Patriots in the first round of the 1975 draft he made three pole Pro Bowls for the team in 1982 he moved on to the San Francisco 49ers he won a Super Bowl there in 1984 and Francis returned to the Patriots in 1987 before concluding his career the following season Pro Bowl career my older brother Russ Francis was just killed in an airplane crash in Lake Placid New York Francis's brother Ed Francis wrote on Facebook yesterday flying was my brother's lifelong passion and perhaps a fitting way for him to go godspeed to you my big brother very sad story a lot of the old 70s and 80s football fans remember he was one of the prototype phenomenal tight ends of his day big day with the Patriots and very sad news and I'll get to a couple of quick scores so odds makers over the weekend Aaron and I we both split we went two and two she won the Notre Dame game do do do did not pull it out in the end and then I had Kentucky over Florida yes she had Ole Miss over LSU and the Colorado bad now Dion kept it close big day 21 and a half point dog and that game turned into a dog fight at the end 48 41 USC Caleb Williams just getting out of Dodge before that game wrapped that was a heck of a game on Sunday and that's a wrap in sports if we get time later I'll get to the NFL breakdown how we did on that I will do some more sports right when we get back and then we'll do some news with David Zier more news on the budget and where we are what we think is gonna happen we're gonna cover Charlie Kirk tonight his first tour stop in San Jose we'll cover that as well in our to live from studio 60 more to do I 30 minutes past the hour live from studio 6p on a Monday night glad you're in new week new month lots to talk about lots to do as I said we're gonna be covering real America's voice is gonna be covering Charlie Kirk is going on on his think it's called live free tour it's a college tour he's gonna go challenge the progressives I think on these college campuses and when he does we're gonna be covering it so any night that Charlie's out there we're gonna cover it whenever we whenever he goes live we will go to Charlie Kirk tonight I think it's gonna be around 930 or so so last half hour of the show you're gonna get Charlie Kirk live from San Jose on the live free tour so we'll keep an eye on that as soon as they take the stage there we will go live to San Jose and bring you that in its entirety so let's do some more sports 30 minutes past the hour since Slick didn't have a ton of time slick Rick sponsored by Mike Lindell and my pillow LFS XP you know how many emails I got today you know what the majority of them were what's the new shirt of the month that was the number one question I got today in the email is what was the new shirt of the month which I will reveal before the end of the show you've already actually decided what the shirt of the month is the audience you did that last month when you picked the did not comply will not comply you know it was second that's the new shirt of the month and it was really close to the winner last month so that's what we're gonna go with slick what else is going on sports all right well listen to this one Patrick Mahomes goal line slide shifts millions at is in in Vegas David Purdum ESPN staff writer Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Holmes slid down at the New York Jets two-yard line sealing a 23-20 win over the Jets on Sunday night a decision that shifted tens of millions of dollars at sportsbooks around the nation the Chiefs closing as eight-point favorites over the Jets and received overwhelming support from the betting public at sportsbooks an hour before kickoff 91% of the bets and 84% of the money wage it on the game's point spread were on Kansas City at Caesars sportsbook met MGM and draft kings also reported heavy action on the Chiefs a Mahomes touchdown an extra point would have put the Chiefs up ten enough to cover the spread with less than two minutes to play he instead made the heady play to give himself up allowing the Chiefs to kneel run out the final seconds and secure the win big day books makers knew early the last week that they need all all the Jets for a big decision in the Sunday night game all week money from the betting public had poured in on the Jets who opened a nine-and-a-half point road favorites over the Jets yet some big bets from sharp bettors caused the line to move in favor of the Jets in the hours ahead of kickoff Caesars reported taking in a $350,000 bet and a $240,000 bet on the Jets plus eight and a half on Sunday yet still had lopsided action on the Chiefs somebody knew something there big day but the sharp money came in on the Jets and we're still rooting for them Adam pull in this isn't directed the Caesars book said Sunday shortly after the game kicked off the Chiefs jumped out to a 17-nothing lead but of course we know the story the Jets came back Zach Wilson played a stellar game a lot of folks think that the Jets might have got shift you know got the slip down that on that one call that big D little jockey and back and forth between Jets great sauce gardener and the Kansas City receiver skips my mind right now and there was a flag thrown Wow unbelievable so what are you gonna do that's the way it goes and let's just quickly recap the NFL games Aaron and I had picked on Thursday night in advance of Fridays because we weren't on Lions did end up defeating the Packers 34 to 20 therefore I did cover that game we split on that one bills over the Dolphins but blowout 48 to 22 a tug of a low is still looking for his hat unbelievable game there and so that was 48 21 that won the Eagles that was a loss over the commanders minus eight they did pull that game out 34 31 in overtime but they did not cover the Vikings over the Panthers they did cover they won 21 to 13 and we both had the Chiefs beating the Jets they did beat them but they did not win by nine and a half as I just mentioned in that story about my homes and all that money in Vegas big D so for the weekend we were two and two on the NCAA college picks that I mentioned in the last segment and then three and two on the pro so and not such a great weekend there in the NFL I am 21 and 10 on the season right now big day I'm not sure what very impressive your numbers I'm not sure what I think Aaron's 500 that's fantastic too yeah I think I'm just about 500 15 and 15 about fantastic good from both of you so far yeah no not bad pick so we'll have more picks up we got this Friday we have to show a big day so we'll definitely do that do you want to get into the Ryder Cup or you want to skip that news then we'll get into the Ryder Cup because I have some thoughts to offer you on the Ryder Cup too and our captain so we'll get into that more sports thanks LeCric sports is brought to you by Michael and Dallas do some news news is brought to you by seven cells sitting in for Rick Delgado of course the great David Zia mr. Zia hey what's going on in your world there's a lot going on you know I have a background in real estate so this stuff hits home yeah about Trump I mean I don't have assets anywhere near you know or virtually any assets except a home but listen join a club listen all of this stuff has to get vetted through a bank and as my new friend Mandy Katz says her monarch real estate he's an expert a veteran in Manhattan you know there are appraisals their insurance companies is underwriting the site visits there's comps nobody gives out money from a bank you know as lawyer as Trump's lawyers you know crazy put out today nobody's gonna give you a loan based on you say if you were 3.8 billion if you're really only worth 2 billion so the whole thing's fraudulent but you know as Mandy Katz had he had a great quote with me in our conversation that the iconic Trump organization is going to be chopped up and and they want to get rid of the Trump name and bury it under the streets of Manhattan why is it okay for Jeff Bezos to buy a property in Beverly Hills for a hundred and sixty five million dollars on just a couple of acres that's only 12,000 square feet or why is it okay for him to buy a 10,000 foot home not even in a nicer area than Mar-a-Lago's in Palm Beach Island which is the creme de la creme it's the French Riviera of the East Coast of the United States you know for 68 million dollars for a 10,000 foot house or 12,000 foot house I think it's 10 on just a couple of acres people are selling land on Palm Beach Island and right there for 200 million dollars for two acres for three acres just for the land Mar-a-Lago's 30 acres it's 63,000 feet it's the iconic Marjorie Post family from the famous cereal Empire was built it's this incredible property it's probably worth a billion dollars but also Jeff Bezos bought all these properties in Manhattan 17 million 16 million 80 million 11 Madison Park or one of those addresses you know but they're not as nice as Trump Tower and these other iconic and the Trump brand brings so much to it so we're watching this and it's very very sad because when you buy a Trump brand it's like a trophy asset on millionaire or billionaires row it has meaning and depth to it and the value is arbitrary you know you could say it's worth whatever you want it's only what somebody's willing to pay for exactly which with is what it's worth but anyway I just wanted to get that off my chest it's what it's upsetting to watch because now anybody crazy anybody's can be a target if you're on the right and you're in New York doing business your target yeah it's Banana Republic stuff and it's an that's an insult to bananas to say that that's how bad it is it's ridiculous I mean if anyone's ever bought or sold a house I mean you know what's involved with even just doing that when it comes to banks and it comes to appraisers and it comes to pricing and it comes to what they'll lend you and all you ever anybody who's done basic transactions know how valuations work and how and who they're left up to and I've never in all the transactions I've ever done had some radical leftist judge be a part of it or maybe any decisions about it or give his opinion about it yeah it's it's out of control here this is this is another just trying to put the handcuffs on President Trump so that he has continued money issues borrowing issues campaign issues campaign calendar issues whatever they can do it's just so blatantly obvious and wearing a leftist Marxist takeover of a criminal and civil courts like Giuliani says and it's just the way it is and Latisha James Trump calls her a racist has a history of prosecuting or trying to prosecute white men falsely past the Doyle from the cornerstone Church upstate Cornerstone Church he had a reawaken America tour come to his church she wanted him arrested for domestic terrorism or extremism and the Rensselaer County County County executive won a case I think it was the county executive up there won a case against James she wanted to put him in jail and he beat her you know another way she wanted to go after Cuomo and then run for governor herself this woman I mean it's insane yeah and she doesn't have the intellectual capacity to respect the Constitution there's no one more politically motivated in this country than her no and but it's it's on a grand scale and you know that's where we're at and I got some funny videos for you later and I got a story on time you want to do some we still got time you want to talk about EV trucking really quick yeah you know these EV mandates I just interviewed Mike Kucharski again I interview him a lot he's the head of the largest refrigerator corporate refrigerator truck corporation in America these guys are operating on a shoestring they're already going out of business the mandates the health insurance all the stuff that's going on the crazy laws in California you can't have a truck that's more than 10 years old right now it only costs 180 to 200,000 for a tractor trailer only but these EV trucks they're gonna cost over $300,000 do you know that the batteries there's two 8,000 pound batteries in these trucks they weigh 16,000 pounds now most trucks in the United States only have a gross vehicle weight of about 80,000 pounds on the road because the roads can't take it anything more than that so you're gonna lose 20% of your cargo load now you have to stop now a diesel truck has two 150 gallon tanks plus another diesel tank for the refrigeration up front you only have to stop once on an 1800 mile run you get 1600 to 1800 miles with the electric vehicles the most range they've gotten so far is about 377 miles if I'm not correct and every time you stop to charge you use the power of 200 homes from the grid and it takes 10 hours to charge so good luck getting strawberries from California to shop right on Long Island New York in anything less than a week and it's gonna be devastating for the industry and it only takes 20 to 40 minutes to fill up your truck with diesel and you don't create the torque with EV that a diesel can only diesel and diesel is also non flammable Volvo released the line of electric trucks and they're telling you not to keep them indoors because all your other trucks are gonna burn down so what's going on here are mandates that in some states are going to be in as early as 2030 I think parts of California and some of the ports and these guys are already and this guy Mike Kutarsky from JK JKC trucking it's the largest refrigerator truck company in America he drives a Prius and you know he gets 57 miles a gallon he's not knocking innovation but it's got to be market-fed it's got it can't be can't be pushed or mandated it's got to be market driven I mean so you know either works or it doesn't and he's proponent of even hybrid technology but it should incorporate hydrogen but hydrogen is very flammable as well but that's the only thing that can create the torque for a truck so again they're shoving these things down our throat you can't change the laws of physics and we're gonna destroy an already struggling industry yeah all right we'll do some more news with David zero do some more sports with slick Aaron and Fran holding it down as always on a Monday night live from studio 6b and we'll continue to talk about what is going on within this Republican Party and where we go from here okay we got 45 days we got no concessions we got bond all of Biden's agenda still funded for 45 more days and where do we go from there and what is the crux and the core of the problem with the Republican Party we'll get into that we'll get into some other issues as well including this New York case President Trump what happened today is some of the case gonna get thrown out on statute of limitations we'll talk about that as well and Charlie Kirk in our to buy from studio 6b I 13 to the hour live from studio 6b got an email forwarded to me here came in Damon please why don't you make a public announcement invitation demand that Mitch McConnell come on your show and answer dead serious questions about why he is so quiet about the terrible border crisis I dare you to mention this on air and demand the response from McConnell we never hear anything from him on the border David thank you for the email couple things number one you don't have to demand me just talk about it on air if you've watched this show consistently since 2015 since I've done it or since 2020 since we've been on real America's voice I've talked about Mitch McConnell incessantly hundreds of thousands of times about what a political disaster loser wussy he is he will never go on any true conservative talk show not this one not that I'm putting this show in that realm but he would never go on with Hannity he'll never go on with Levin he would have never gone on with rush he'll never go on with Ben Shapiro he'll never go on with Michael Knowles he'll never go on with Dan Bongino he'd never come on with us he'd never go on with Megyn Kelly he'd never go on with anyone he'll go on MSNBC he'll go on CNN he may go on Fox with maybe Brett Baer back when he had when he had it somewhat together but he will do no true conservative show where he'll get any real questions or pushback ever so it's a it's a moot point and again I understand the frustration but it's a total moot point he'll never do any place that he'll get any serious questions or pushback or not allowed to just you know do that for 20 minutes well no so he won't go on shows where he can't do that so it's it's a it's a moot point he's never gonna come on here for many reasons and most a lot of people won't a lot of people a lot of these Republicans won't go anywhere I want to see a Biden Fetterman and McConnell roundtable that's a no-brainer where they're gonna any serious questions none of them will that's why you see the real real conservatives even like I mean they don't have any guests on their show most of the time very few they don't have guests piled up every night because none of them will go there they want to go where they're loved that's why they you know they want to go on MSNBC it's why they take shots at Trump cuz that make the what do you think Chris Christie's on every damn channel 24-7 for that fat bastard cuz he's taking shots at Trump all the time oh let's get Christie on he took another shot at Trump put him on with Jake Tapper it'll be great get him on the view that'll be great that's what they do so thanks for the email but that's this is not gonna happen so Daniel Horowitz today the right has a problem it's not merely a Mitch McConnell or Kevin McCarthy problem it's a Republican Party problem conservatives will never have leverage to fight the issues that matter in any meaningful way until we find a new home that is the stone-cold truth of the matter before we can move forward we all must face this inconvenient reality on Saturday 82% of Senate Republicans 82% and 50% of the allegedly more conservative House GOP conference voted to continue funding every single odious Biden administration policy including destructive inflationary spending for another seven weeks without a single concession in return in doing so they show that they fear the partial shutdown more than they fear anything else that the government's targeting a government shutdown has not been averted because we now face the ultimate government shutdown indefinitely with no strategy or political vehicle to end it Republicans began this year with the most auspicious potential to block Joe Biden's agenda they had the twin leverage points of the debt ceiling the budget deadline whereby they could have refused to grant Joe Biden any more funding for any of his harmful Marxist policies without serious concessions to the Republicans in many respect Republicans had more leverage than ever before because they could theoretically govern with a simple majority in the house while Democrats needed 60 votes to use their majority in the Senate moreover unlike during the ten years of Bill Clinton or Barack Obama Democrats are saddled with an extremely unpopular president who could not command the bully pulpit during any shutdown fight so of course what happened Republicans in June gave Biden a blank check for the remainder of his term by suspending the debt ceiling until 2025 more time than he had asked for the debt has grown quicker than ever before as a result the GOP's final leverage point was the budget and the anticipation of the border invasion gave congressional Republicans the perfect mandate to fight through a government shutdown yet with both of these leverage points Republican leaders showed us that there is no degree of danger in which Biden can place this country in that would prompt them to engage in any brinkmanship whatsoever they wouldn't even go up to the line and allow a lapse in funding for at least Sunday when most government facilities are closed anyway they fear one minute of temporary funding lapse more than they fear inflation debt illegal aliens and the FBI picking off their political opponents you should shudder to think exactly what it would take to shift Republican leaders attention away from the old paradigm everything we have been through these past few years was evidently not enough it's also shocking how Republicans had no problem shutting down the entire country for months yet they zealously clamor to avoid one minute of a partial federal furlough over a weekend what's clear is nothing has changed about this party since the era of Trump began not among leadership not among the overwhelming majority of rank-and-file members if they can't even fight for a few days into a government shutdown over issues like the border inflation debt against this Democrat president and these Democrat opponents they will never fight for us ever we will now suffer through endless inflation invasion at the border war on our energy war on our freedoms political persecution with zero backstop in sight there was quite literally nothing Democrats can do that would seem to elicit a unified righteous response from the Republican Party it's not that they don't have values they certainly care deeply about funding Ukraine it's just that you and I are not part of their value system and that really is the main point now that we can't even wait till 2025 to redress any of the aforementioned crises but nothing will change then either even if Republicans win all three branches with such a maniacal degree of fear of a debt ceiling or budget funding lamps Republicans will never have leverage to fulfill a single campaign promise assuming any of those promises are even a little sincere Democrats will always have enough votes in the Senate to filibuster any GOP budget bill GOP leaders have made it clear that they will never allow the government to shut down not even for a day by definition that means the Democrats will always win a budget fight a hundred percent of the time we need not speculate about the future when in fact this is what occurred when Republicans controlled the trifecta of government with Donald Trump as president McConnell as Senate Majority Leader Paul Ryan is Speaker of the House and as I noted earlier this year Kevin McCarthy was the House Majority Leader and shepherded nearly every budget bill through the floor with more support from Democrats than they had from Republicans nothing has changed from then and nothing will but it's worse than the political math at the federal level in more than 20 states Republicans enjoy control of all three branches with filibuster proof majorities why is it we can barely find Republicans outside of Florida willing to fight on issues such as green energy and illegal immigration they wield dominant majorities in some states to the point where there aren't enough Democrats to populate all of the committees yet Republicans still betray us at some point we have to face the music that the obstacle the reform has nothing to do with the Democrats the Republican Party is the problem more sports news coming up all right hour two nine o'clock on the East Coast real America's voice glad you're in on a Monday October 2nd new week new month lots to talk about lots to do everybody's complaining cuz I'm talking I wasn't here Thursday wasn't here Friday so I got a lot to say Delgado's not here you think Delgado was hosting this show it doesn't matter who's sitting in the seat you complain about whoever's here they talk too much right slick right now always absolutely yeah he gets it I yield my time all night slick right tell Delgado to shut up get right on it Damon talks too much David oh well oh well thanks for watching all right slick's gonna do some sports Aaron and Fran holding it down the great David's here it's sitting in for Rick Delgado who does have a birthday tonight that he's significant family birthday yes significant others birthday so he took the night off David's gonna do some news and we're gonna Charlie Kirk is traveling around the country doing a live free tour and I think tonight he is with University of San Jose students which I would think would be fiery because I can't imagine well I don't know I can't imagine any of these places I think that's the point of it right he's gonna go he's going into the enemy territory he's been great you know when he was at ASU I think it was last week you know he's like they don't want to debate they just want to curse at me you know so now he's this is their opportunity to have intelligent discussion if they're capable of it well so we're gonna bring that to you on the nights that he does these and there's they're spread out here over the next couple months I think couple nights and it'll interrupt the last part of our show but we're happy to do it because I think it'll be great to watch so first one is tonight we expected around 930 or so maybe a little earlier maybe a little later but we'll throw to Charlie out at University of San Jose whenever he goes live so let's do some news with David I'm not gonna talk the rest of this I'm done it's turned over to David's ear and slick Rick we'll start with news news is brought to you by our friends over at seven cells David Zia what's going on I have nothing to say for a change don't make me pull the fire alarm to get us out of here he was upset about that too huh wasn't a principal too he said he didn't know what it was for he thought the door would open when he pulled the thing come on sounds very insurrection to me and yeah be charges should be filed already get 22 years at least he was in DC while he committed in the building committed it an obstruction so okay lot going on and it'll be fun they should film the parking lot after Charlie Kirk's done tonight of all the kids getting in their parents Lexus to go home you know after they scream about social justice anyway Gingrich let's see Anthony Agüero RAV correspondent extraordinaire you know listen all of them Benjamin Michael Yan Ben Burke qualms the greatest Anthony Aguero Oscar Obleu watch this footage it's heartbreaking so if I could talk over this you know what you're watching is illegals on their way up I don't know if they're in the u.s.
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"Imagine being able to reach out for support without the pressure of immediate responses or the need for lengthy conversations. That's the unique advantage of Help Text, text message support for caregivers. It's not just about practical advice, but it's about normalizing the feelings of loneliness and isolation that often come along with caregiver journeys. We are joined by Wanda Medina, a devoted caregiver for her husband Hector, who has early onset Alzheimer's. She shares her personal journey with Help Text from grief to caregiving. Welcome to Fading Memories, a podcast for caregivers of loved ones with dementia. I'm your host, Jennifer Fink. My mom had Alzheimer's for 20 years, and when I went looking for answers, I had to start a podcast to find them. This podcast is your beacon of support and empowerment. Let's share our experiences, find solace, and discover the strength within us. Get ready to embark on a transformative caregiving journey with Fading Memories. If you're looking for additional advice, be sure to sign up for our weekly email newsletter. It's brief, gives you great advice, you can read it in less than five minutes, and you know where to find the link. It's in the website, on the show notes. We're working on subscriber -only information and specials, so you're not going to want to miss out. Unfortunately, it's part of our modern world that some people will look to prey on the most vulnerable members of our society. With modern technology, scammers have more avenues to exploit people than ever before. Americans over the age of 65, especially those living with Alzheimer's and dementia, are receiving an average of almost 200 unwanted landline calls every week. That's more than 28 calls a day from bad actors trying to defraud our loved ones. Even worse, nearly 10 percent of these calls have no caller ID, making it even harder to distinguish between legitimate and fraudulent calls. Older adults are less likely to be tech -savvy and more likely to be home during the day to answer these calls. Please don't rely on notes by the phone as an attempt to stop a crime before it happens. You need IMP. IMP offers advanced call protection and a variety of other features to keep you and your loved ones safe from scams. IMP only allows wanted callers to ring through. Stopped are 100 percent of the spam, scam, political, fundraising, debt collection, and survey calls before a single ring. Traditional call blockers can't do this and neither can the do not call registry. Don't wait until it's too late. Protect yourself and your loved ones by going to www .joinimp .com. Now, on with our show. Hello, listeners! You know I appreciate you giving me some time. This week we are talking to Melissa and Wanda. Also, the link is in the show notes. And Wanda is a passionate advocate of help text and you're probably thinking, what in the heck is help text? And that is what we're talking about today. So, we're going to start with Melissa. Hi, Melissa. Why don't you tell us your title and a little bit about your background with the company? Sure. Thanks for having us. My name is Melissa Lunardini and I am Head of Clinical at Help Text. I'm also a former caregiver of two of my grandparents who I got to shepherd into their kind of final resting place during their actively dying stage and caring for them for many years in advance. And I also have a hospice background as well in bereavement. Part of my role is just to make sure that the texts that we are delivering to people who sign up for our caregiver product, for example, that those texts feel like we're addressing anticipatory grief but also how to better care for their loved ones during end of life and gentle reminders on how to take care of yourself because we know that it's emotionally and physically hard to be a caregiver.
Bloomberg Daybreak Asia
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"Union berlin three to two the real shocker manchester nighted what a miserable season it's been so far they lose at home in old traffic galatasaray three to two as maro cardi scores a winner in the eighty -first minute manchester united playing a man down from the seventy seventh minute on samira went out with the red card arsenal loses the lens two to one round the dreads of the past napoli three to city and i hope in finishing at to all arsenal falling against the lens two to one in a real surprise as well baseball scoreboard it is the wild card round just turned away it is the post -season rangers early behind jordan montgomery knocking off the rays in tampa for nothing twins getting past the blue jays three -to -one in minnesota it's part of the four city milwaukee the arizona dining backs leading the brewers four to three top three marlins and the phillies are scoreless in philadelphia nba season not so so far away the preseason getting underway shortly the philadelphia seventy sixers still kind of waiting to see if james hardin is going to show up or not on the campus of colorado state university where they are practicing he is expected to be there as he's at an offseason where he is wanting to be traded out of philadelphia unhappy with their situation and the contract where he believed that they were going to trade in by doing so he took less money to come back for this season sixers saying there's no reason to trade them as they have not gotten a fair offer for at this point i'm dan sportsman that's your bloomberg world sports update Doug alright denny let's take a closer look now the at hours top story certainly the day's big story and perhaps one of the big stories of the year kevin mccarthy has been ousted as u s house speaker by a group of republican dissidents want to take a closer look now with uh... rick davis he is bloomberg politics contributor he's also a partner at court stone capital rick it's always a pleasure we just covered the press conference which uh... mister mccarthy held ran about forty five minutes i'd seem to be that he was so relaxed no animus he almost was
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
A highlight from Caregiver Connections: Exploring The Impact of Personalized Text Messages
"Imagine being able to reach out for support without the pressure of immediate responses or the need for lengthy conversations. That's the unique advantage of Help Text, text message support for caregivers. It's not just about practical advice, but it's about normalizing the feelings of loneliness and isolation that often come along with caregiver journeys. We are joined by Wanda Medina, a devoted caregiver for her husband Hector, who has early onset Alzheimer's. She shares her personal journey with Help Text from grief to caregiving. Welcome to Fading Memories, a podcast for caregivers of loved ones with dementia. I'm your host, Jennifer Fink. My mom had Alzheimer's for 20 years, and when I went looking for answers, I had to start a podcast to find them. This podcast is your beacon of support and empowerment. Let's share our experiences, find solace, and discover the strength within us. Get ready to embark on a transformative caregiving journey with Fading Memories. If you're looking for additional advice, be sure to sign up for our weekly email newsletter. It's brief, gives you great advice, you can read it in less than five minutes, and you know where to find the link. It's in the website, on the show notes. We're working on subscriber -only information and specials, so you're not going to want to miss out. Unfortunately, it's part of our modern world that some people will look to prey on the most vulnerable members of our society. With modern technology, scammers have more avenues to exploit people than ever before. Americans over the age of 65, especially those living with Alzheimer's and dementia, are receiving an average of almost 200 unwanted landline calls every week. That's more than 28 calls a day from bad actors trying to defraud our loved ones. Even worse, nearly 10 percent of these calls have no caller ID, making it even harder to distinguish between legitimate and fraudulent calls. Older adults are less likely to be tech -savvy and more likely to be home during the day to answer these calls. Please don't rely on notes by the phone as an attempt to stop a crime before it happens. You need IMP. IMP offers advanced call protection and a variety of other features to keep you and your loved ones safe from scams. IMP only allows wanted callers to ring through. Stopped are 100 percent of the spam, scam, political, fundraising, debt collection, and survey calls before a single ring. Traditional call blockers can't do this and neither can the do not call registry. Don't wait until it's too late. Protect yourself and your loved ones by going to www .joinimp .com. Now, on with our show. Hello, listeners! You know I appreciate you giving me some time. This week we are talking to Melissa and Wanda. Also, the link is in the show notes. And Wanda is a passionate advocate of help text and you're probably thinking, what in the heck is help text? And that is what we're talking about today. So, we're going to start with Melissa. Hi, Melissa. Why don't you tell us your title and a little bit about your background with the company? Sure. Thanks for having us. My name is Melissa Lunardini and I am Head of Clinical at Help Text. I'm also a former caregiver of two of my grandparents who I got to shepherd into their kind of final resting place during their actively dying stage and caring for them for many years in advance. And I also have a hospice background as well in bereavement. Part of my role is just to make sure that the texts that we are delivering to people who sign up for our caregiver product, for example, that those texts feel like we're addressing anticipatory grief but also how to better care for their loved ones during end of life and gentle reminders on how to take care of yourself because we know that it's emotionally and physically hard to be a caregiver.
Morning News with Manda Factor and Gregg Hersholt
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"Time to time but the really heavy rain should be done with us at least for a while. High temps tomorrow in the low mid to 60s and just a little warmer each passing day until we get to the weekend when we could see the mid or even upper 70s in some areas on Saturday and Sunday. Today Seattle expects to hit about 60 -61. It's 58 right now. On the Midday News with Taylor VanCise on Newsradio 1000 FM 977. Your information station sponsored Muckleshoot Casino. Bill O 'Neill is at the editor's desk. Among our headlines that to we're following block today the a vote effort to oust House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has failed which means there probably be will a vote in the house to remove McCarthy as speaker after about an hour of debate. They're debating right now. McCarthy called for a vote on his speakership after Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz put forward the motion to vacate the chair yesterday. When the vote begins and a result comes in we expect to bring you special coverage from ABC News and it's day two of former President Trump's civil fraud trial in New York State Attorney General Letitia James. A veteran lawmaker found himself at the end of a pistol last night near his in home Washington DC. Who created social security? Henry Cuellar has represented a region of Texas stretching from San Antonio to the Mexican border since 2005. Cuellar's chief of staff says that as he was parking his car near his Washington DC home last night three armed men rushed the 68 year old and demanded his vehicle. Cuellar complied and the robber sped away. This is one of 750 carjackings in Washington DC this year. The second criminal attack on a member of Congress. His car was later found. Jim Ryan ABC News. A nine -year -old girl who was missing in a New York park was found alive after an tense days -long search the governor of New York Kathy Hochul confirming that Charlotte Cena was object was snapped and that her suspected abductor was taken into custody. Family and friends gathered at a vigil. in upstate New York overnight erupting in cheers the moment they got the news. Charlotte's family overcome thanking the hundreds of rescuers who jumped into action after she disappeared at Moreau Lake State Park on Saturday while biking with friends. Police believing she was abducted. On Monday New York State Police confirming Charlotte was found in good health and a suspect was taken into custody after leaving a ransom note at the Cena family home. State police immediately go to the mailbox and identify what is a ransom note that had been left behind for Charlotte 4th 20 in the morning Opens the mailbox and inserts the ransom note leaving a critical piece of evidence behind his own fingerprint the suspect identified as 47 year old Craig Nelson Ross Jr. New York Governor Kathy Hochul saying overnight they found him and Charlotte in a camper behind his mother's home 13 miles from the Senna's house Charlotte found in cabinet. a The little girl was found in a cabinet covered she was Charlotte taken to a local hospital Governor Hochul saying she appeared to be outwardly physically Charlotte unharmed had last been seen at 615 Saturday evening at the state Park where she was camping with her family riding bikes with friends around this loop when she decided to go around it one last time by herself before sunset when the fourth grader didn't return after 15 minutes her parents started searching at 645 her bike was found along the path Charlotte but was gone you can never be too careful with your kids you know pay attention to where they're at they're what doing for her to ride her bike around that loop would take her about four minutes five minutes you think they're safe doing that at years nine old but you just got to be cognizant and be paying attention to things around your surroundings all the time police say a fingerprint on the ransom note was matched to fingerprints from the suspects arrest in this area in 1999 for driving while intoxicated ABC's Stephanie Ramos reporting Northwest News Time
The Dan Bongino Show
Dan Bongino: Get the Hell Out of New York, California, & Illinois
"You the truth. And saying I'm this because I love you guys, man. I love you all in the audience, both the podcast and the radio. I see you out there, you say the nicest things to me. It's real love, that God -given emotion. It's an attachment I can't explain. You guys mean the world to me. I'm telling you right now, get the hell out of New York and California and Illinois. Listen me. to I'm giving you some tough love right now. Some of you may not want to hear this, but Dan, my kid plays Little League. My daughter's got friends here. Folks, we are five minutes away from full police state. It is here. I tell you I'm long in the United States, I've got to tell you I'm getting shorter. Nobody is stopping this. Please hear me out. There are things I see being in the conservative content space in here and also being an investor in multiple companies that you don't see. I don't say it to try to sound like some elitist foie gras eating snob. to I try say because there are things out of giving people my word on one front and ethically, business -wise and legally I just can't say. But I can say this, however bad you think it is, however bad, to the most skeptical person right now in my audience who thinks
The Podcast On Podcasting
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"I want to make sure that I'm always bringing in at least one client a month, one new client a month. So I'm not going to waste my time only doing four episodes in the month. Instead, I'm going to go much more. I'm going to do 16, 17 episodes in the month. Most hosts never achieve the results they hoped for. They're falling short on listenership and monetization, meaning their message isn't being heard and their show ends up costing them money. This podcast was created to help you grow your listenership and make money while you're at it. Get ready to take notes. Here's your host, Adam Adams. Hey, Podcaster. It's your host, Adam Adams, and we are talking about monetizing your podcast. We're talking about the three most common ways that podcasters will monetize. Now, if you look at other episodes that we've done on this podcast, and actually I'll have my team put a few of the monetization episodes in our show notes right now. So now you're listening and you're going to be able to scroll down and see what are the other ways to monetize because in this episode, we're talking about the three most common ways that people monetize their show. So if you want to know the other seven or eight ways, go and check out the links that are in the show notes. We will link to other episodes with other ways of monetizing. We're going to talk about the three most common ways, the three most common ways. The first is CPM. This means cost per meal, and it doesn't mean cost per million. It means cost per thousand. I think meal, M-I-L, must have Latin roots. It must be like Latin, cost per meal. Cost per thousand downloads is the most common way that most people try to monetize. As the three ways that I'm talking about today, this is the worst of the three ways. So I'm going to share what CPM is. I'm going to explain how it works, and then I'm going to share with you a better way. I'm going to explain how that works and how people get a hold of people because you make a lot more than your CPM model. And then I'm going to explain the third way, which is the way that you can make the absolute most amount of money. CPM cost per meal means that an advertiser who, and here's kind of like the caveat to it, and it's an advertiser, they don't necessarily have your same avatar. They're just more of like a general audience advertiser. And so you might have a real estate show. You might have the podcast on podcasting. You might have a show about your health and wellness. You might have something about piloting. You might have something about, you know, aviation, or we can just talk about millions of these things. Education, we can talk about movies, whatever your podcast is about. If you were going to go with a CPM model, that would mean that you would get an advertiser on that had a general ad. They're usually about 30 seconds or a minute long. So that advertiser, they wouldn't even really conversate with you. They would end up just putting up their ads in your place. And so one of the ways that we do this is there's some platforms out there that allow these ads to happen automatically. And when I say automatically, they can be dynamic ads, which means they can do it to episodes that you've already been published, that have already been published, you published a long time ago. And they just basically push a button and then one, two, three, or four different ads, one, podcast. And when it's a dynamic ad insertion, that's going to mean that there's going to be a 30 second ad followed by another 30 second ad followed by maybe a one minute ad followed by a 30 second ad. And that's before you ever give anybody value. Before anyone ever hears anything on the podcast, before you've said anything good, they get bombarded with these CPM model advertisements. One might be about diapers. One might be about home improvement. Another might be about a meal prep service. And the fourth one might be in Spanish or some other language that you don't even understand and neither does your listener. And this is a real story. This is actual true story. And so do you want the CPM model? Maybe. So far, it doesn't sound very enticing, does it? They don't even share my same avatar, you're thinking. If they're not going to help my perfect person, why do I want them? Well, you might not want them at all. You probably don't. And how do I get paid? That's your next question. How do I get paid with CPM? Well, most of these places, they will say, hey, I'm going to give $5 CPM. Or if they really have a lot of money to throw around, they're going to say $20 CPM. And if you found a way to just get the cream of the crop, the best of the best, you might get $30 CPM. What does that mean? That means that per thousand listeners that you have, so think about it, how many listeners do you have? The average podcast has about a hundred listeners. A top 10% podcast has about 300 listeners. The average one has about a hundred. A top 10% has 300. A top 1% podcast has about 3,500 downloads per episode. Now you know how you get paid. If I'm getting $5 CPM and I have a thousand people listening, I'm going to make $5. Awesome. Now, if I had three advertisers, I would make 15 bucks per episode. So all the time, the effort, the work, the value that you're trying to give, and then you go ahead and you make 20 bucks, you sell out, you make 20 bucks, and you turn off your listener. You're a very awesome listener that has been coming every single day that you publish an episode. They get excited about it. Well, now they have to sit through three or four ads. And by the way, one of them's in a language they don't even understand because you went with a CPM model. That type of sellout, no offense if you're doing this already, but yes, offense if you're doing this already, that type of sellout isn't going to have a prolonged active podcast. Let's just say you had a thousand people downloading and you had four ads. So you're about to make 20 bucks. Now you're probably going to have like 500 people listening because they don't like the freaking ads. So now your income goes down to 10 bucks. If on the highest end, think about the CPM being on the highest end. Like I'm really crushing it. In the top 1% of all podcasts in the entire world, I've got about 3,500 say I'm even above that. I've got 4,000 downloads per episode. And you're looking at a CPM model where you're able to somehow negotiate 20 bucks per each episode, per each CPM, per meal, per thousand downloads. And you got 4,000, you just made 80 bucks per episode. I do the math on this. Let's just say you're doing one episode a week. So 52 times 80 bucks. This is the best you could do. At the end of the year, you've only made four grand. It won't even pay for your editor. That's why I don't like the CPM model. That's also why did I bring it up first? I brought it up first because it's the absolute most common way and it sucks. And people get excited because they think they're making all this money, but really they're making like $2 because listen here, I'm going back to the CPM And you negotiate $20 per meal, cost per thousand. You're going to make two bucks, two bucks. You're going to make a 10th of it because you only have a hundred listeners when you need a thousand. So you made two bucks on that episode. What can you get with two bucks today? A candy bar? So if you do this the whole year, you can buy a candy bar every single week. It sucks. Option number two is partnership. This is a sponsor that is partnered with the show. And why is this different than CPM? It's way different because in CPM, they are chasing you. They are putting it at that $5, $10, $20 per meal. And then they're reaching out to people and saying that they'll give you like $20 per thousand. And you think to yourself, Ooh, I get almost a thousand downloads per month. And so I'm going to make like 20 bucks a month. And that's one way. Okay. What is the partnership? This is when you reach out to them. When I give you an example, I coach a ton of people to do number two. And it's because I think the CPM model sucks. And so I tell them, why don't you find a partner of the show or a sponsor of the show? Now, this does not mean an advertiser. The CPM is more of an advertiser who reaches out to you and says, I'm only going to do $5 CPM. And I'm going to do it with anybody who wants to do it. When you're getting a hold of a partner to your show or a sponsor of the show, you reach out to them and then you dictate how much money you're going to be making. So let's just say you've got a hundred downloads per episode. In this case, you'd be able to command much closer to let's just say 1500 bucks a month. If you are an average podcast, you would probably be able to command about 1500 bucks a month. Let's say that your 1500 bucks means that you've got 4.333 episodes per week, because that's how the math really works. You don't have four episodes a month. I mean, you don't have four episodes a month. You have 4.333 episodes a month because 52 weeks divided by 12 months is 4.333 weeks per month. And so in this case, you would be making $348 per episode. Now that's a lot better worth your time, isn't it? Think about how long does it take you to do an episode? If you have a team that edits your podcast for you, then your podcast is only going to take you about 30 to 60 minutes, maybe 90 if you're doing a little bit of research. So for example, you spend 90 minutes to do this. So I'm going to divide $348 by the 90 minutes that it takes you. 348 divided by 90 equals, I don't know why I was even thinking about 90. 90 minutes is an hour and a half. Okay. So I needed divided by 1.5. So I did that. I was like, what the heck? Why isn't this adding up when I divide it by 90? Okay. You were making about two bucks a minute, but when you look at how much are you making per hour with that podcast, if it takes you 90 minutes to come up with the content or invite your guests, do a little bit of research and then press record, then in the partnership slash sponsorship version number two, you're making $232 per hour. That's if it takes you 90 minutes. Now, if it only takes you five minutes to do an episode, 10 minutes to do an episode, you make a lot more. On the other hand, you are editing your own podcast and it takes you 12 to 15 hours to do all the editing of post-production, create all of your marketing pieces and all of that. Then let's just divide this by 15 instead. So I'm going to do 300 divided by 15 hours. You're making about 20 bucks an hour. And that's not terrible. It's slightly higher than the average minimum wage right now. So it's close to minimum wage. It's not amazing, but it's not terrible. It's not $5 an hour, $10 an hour stuff. So that's okay. You want to spend 15 hours editing and all of this for your podcast, you make about 20 bucks an hour. If you use the partnership slash sponsorship version, that's version number two. There was CPM was number one. Partnership is number two. Number three is going to be selling your own stuff. And that's the cream of the crop. We'll be there in just a moment. So I tell a quick story. I had a podcast client. Well, still have a podcast client. But this is in the past. So Alex came to me, he wanted to make money. He had a top 1% podcast. So he had about 3000 downloads per each episode. And I told him, Hey, if you do CPM, you're going to be able to make something like $20 CPM. You've got 3000. So that three X of what the cost per meal is. And so you make $60 per podcast. And is that how much you want to make Alex? And he would say, no, it's not worth my time. Why would want to offend my listener to listen to an ad? That's not even going to serve them that comes in in the beginning of my episode before I've even added any value. And I do all of that for 60 bucks just to lose listeners. So that later I'm only making 30 bucks because it goes from 3000 people to 1500 people now. And so of course he's going to say no. So then it goes, Alex, here's a way to partner with somebody. And in the real estate space, I said, one of the main people that you reach out to is a lender. Alex has a real estate podcast. And so he teaches fix and flip and he teaches mindset and he teaches how to scale a business. And when it comes to him getting his sponsor and reaching out to them as a partner of the show, I told him one of the best, easiest places that you can go is a lender. So think about this, Alex, think about a private money lender, a hard money lender, somebody who lands on these fix and flips. Now you can still do coaching for listener and they still need somebody to fund the deals. So you having a fix and flip partner, it definitely both of you serve the same person, but neither of you take away business from the other person. Now, in fact, Alex probably makes more money if he has somebody who can really support his people with money. And the person who lends the money, the hard money lender, probably makes more money when Alex has more clients as well. So it's a win-win. Instead of detracting from the business that Alex can get, it actually supports his business and he's more profitable and effective and his sponsor or his partner of the show is more effective. And Alex says, well, with my 3000 plus downloads a month, because I'm in a top 1%, I could either make 60 bucks if I do CPM or if I do this partnership, how much do you think I can make? So five to 10 grand. And he's like, five to 10 grand? Are you sure? And I'm like dead serious. I am sure you could easily make five to 10 grand if you are the one who reaches out to them. So I taught him how to reach out to them. He and I even role played. So he practiced it. Step one was we decided who are the people that can help him. He writes down the hard money lender. Step two is we decide how do we play to the player? How do we give a pitch to that hard money lender? How do we give them that what's in it for me so that they even give a darn? And step three is to do that first call and to go out of your comfort zone and to call the hard money lender and let them know about the opportunity. So he did this behind my back. Well, we at the end of a coaching call, I said, okay, go and do this. And so he did, but he did it with two people instead of one. So he asked the first person for about five grand. And then he called the second person and asked them for about five grand. And so guess what? Alex could have made 60 bucks an episode, but instead he made 10,000 a month. He was doing eight or nine episodes a month. So I need to put in this math, $10,000 divided by approximately nine episodes a month because he's doing two a week. So this is an approximation. He's making $1,111 every single episode. He's making $1,111 per episode. And I know for a fact that Alex has my team doing all of the back office. So it takes him about 45 minutes to make $1,111. So I'm going to multiply this by 0.75 because it's three quarters of an hour that it takes him to do that. Oh, I need to divide it by 0.75. And he's making $1,481 an hour with his podcast. So partnership slash sponsorship, way better than CPM. Do you still want to do that CPM model? No. So the partnership is a much better way to go because Alex was able to make $1,400 in per hour instead of 60 bucks or 70 bucks an hour. Much, much better. Now let's go to the third option. The third option is selling your own stuff and this can yield you so much more fruit than the partnership slash sponsorship. So if you want to make more than $1,481.33 every F an hour that you do your podcast, stay tuned. We'll be right back after this episode. Hey my friend, as you know, this episode is sponsored by my company, growyourshow.com. We want you to be able to have the best tools at your disposal without costing you a whole arm and a leg. So right now you can get a free list of vetted equipment that like mics, mixers, webcams, sound treatment, editing software, everything that you need. I created the whole PDF with direct purchase links just to save you time and money to help it be more convenient for you. So this free PDF will help you skip all the guesswork. If it's on there, it's vetted and approved by yours truly. And if it's not on there, it's probably not worth the money. So go ahead and get yours at growyourshow.com forward slash PDF. Let's get back into the show. We are back. We are talking about the three most common ways that people monetize their show. The first was the CPM model. We decided together that that one effing sucks. The second one was partnership. That one's really pretty cool. Like that one's pretty cool. Remember Alex making $1,481.33 every single hour that he works on his podcast. When you like that too, or would you like something even a step better? A step better would be you selling your own services. You would sell your own coaching, your own consulting, whatever you can do, coaching masterminds for your listener. And let's imagine that you've got a products. One of my products is above $40,000. So the client would come to us and they would pay about $3,000. They would pay a little upfront fee and then they would pay about three grand a month and we would serve them for the 12 months. Okay. We would serve them for the next 12 months. So that ends up being more than 40 grand. When you add the three grand a month, but times 12 plus the down payment as well, it's over 40 grand. So for that package, if I get one person, just one per month, then we gross just like you would be grossing the CPM. You would be grossing the partnership money or sponsorship money. You are also grossing. You're selling your own services. So in this case, if all I do is just sell one person, that one package, and I have other packages available that are more and less, all I do is just sell one of those packages once a month and I'm doing four or five or six episodes each week. If I just sell one a month, then I make 40 grand every month, more than 40 grand every month. I'm doing the math right now on my phone, on my calculator, my trusty phone calculator. And I'm assuming that I do four episodes per week, four episodes a week. Now, two of those episodes are 10 minutes on average. We'll just say 12 minutes on average. Let's just say 15 minutes on average because that'll be actually easier with math. And the others are 45 minutes on average. And so I've got basically two hours of work, two hours of work each week because I've got a 45, a 15, a 45 and a 15. I hope that's making sense. So two hours a week. And so I've got 17 episodes happening and almost exactly 17 hours of work. Now, if I divide $40,000 by 17 hours of work, it's $2,352.94. It's $2,352.94. So let's recap. Option number one, CPM. You can make 60 bucks-ish max, maybe $5 per episode. Let's imagine that you are doing four episodes a week. And so you're making, let's just say 40 bucks a week. That's a hundred. And anyway, I don't want to give you too much numbers. I'm now realizing that I keep throwing out numbers and that's going to get confusing. So I'm not going to waste my time doing all of that since this is an audio and I don't have something to show you. I'm just going to explain it to you. On one way, you are most likely making about 20 bucks an hour. The next one, you're making closer to a thousand bucks an hour. And on the next one, you're making about $2,000 per hour. Now for me, I'm doing four episodes a week. If I was only doing one episode a week, of course I could quadruple that, but I want to make sure that I'm always making that. I want to make sure that I'm always bringing in at least one client a month, one new client a month. So I'm not going to waste my time only doing four episodes in the month. Instead, I'm going to go much more. I'm going to do 16, 17 episodes in the month. If I do 17 episodes in a month, I'm still making $2,352 and 94 cents per hour. And in additionally, about $2,352 per episode. Now, if with that type of motivation, think about it for a second. If you were doing four episodes a week and you were selling one $40,000 thing per month, would you have some motivation to get behind the mic? If you knew that you were going to record for about an hour and you're going to make over two grand, it would become your favorite thing to do. You would choose to record an episode before you would go do something else that was fun. Because it's like, I can get behind the mic for just an hour and I can make two grand. So let's recap. CPM, shitty. Partnership, pretty freaking good. Selling your own crap, your own good stuff. Hopefully nobody sells crap. Hopefully you're only selling really quality things that you've got. Well, that's the way to make the most amount of money. So those were the three most common ways that podcasters make money through their podcast. We talked about how they work and we talked about why the last one is the one that I suggest that you get started on right now. And if you need help, my name is Adam Adams. I coach people for a living. I support people. I help you to be able to make your 40 grand a month, even just 10 or 20 grand a month through your podcast because you're doing fewer episodes. That's great too. That's really, really good too. And I coach people to do that. So feel free to go into the show notes and schedule a call with me so that you and I can start working together. That's going to be a discovery call. And in the show notes is a link to our website. It's growyourshow.com. You'll see the link. And at the top right, you see a button. The button says schedule a discovery call. It's green. It's bright. It tells you exactly what I'm telling you right now. So you just go to that button, push it and schedule a call with me and we will help you start making your 10, 20, 30 or $40,000 a month through your podcast by selling your own stuff. See you on the next episode. This is serious. Don't go. Now that you've gotten whatever value that you feel that you got the actionable takeaways, you need to implement the stuff that you learn. If you remember me talking about bird church once and they learn how to fly and then they walk home. I don't want you to walk home. I want you to fly home. So take the steps, take the actionable steps for your benefits that you can become a better podcaster. That's the only thing that I ask of you. And I'll see you for more actionable tips on the very next episode.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
A highlight from Part 2: Zach Wilsons Alive, Belichicks in Trouble, Buffalos Cruising, and Week 5 Lines With Cousin Sal
"All right. So we're taping part one here. It is a little past 4 o 'clock Pacific time. Just watch the Pats completely shit the bed. We're not going to talk about that. That'll be part two. Part one. Ryan Russilla was here. We're talking Drew Holiday. The big trade. How is the NBA different for you right now, and are we done? Do we finally have the 30 rosters? Is this what we're looking at? Do we know who's going to be on everybody's team, or are we somehow not done? I never think we're done anymore in the NBA, and I know you're being a gracious host here, but you and I talked for five minutes today. I think you have the headline take on this, okay? I think you have the headline take on what the top of the league looks like. Are you ready to share it this early? I think Boston has the best top six. I did not feel that way 24 hours ago. I did not feel like there was a clear best. I trust this team in crunch time, and if Porzingis stays healthy, which is a huge if, I think they have the best six, and they can fill around, and they have the most ways that they can play whoever in the series. So from that vantage point, you had to do the trade. And they gave up a center who has been hurt every single year, and I don't fully trust that he's ever going to be out there when it matters. Brogdon, who was hurt, who was mad at the team, and two picks. And you get Drew Holliday, who was a 2021 Finals hero, who's one of the best defensive guards in the league, who's still really good, and just raises their ceiling. Now you can go white Holliday, Tatum Brown, and a center at crunch time, and you're good. You can switch on almost everything, especially if you get anything from Horford. So were you similarly enthused? Yeah, I love Drew. There's some stuff with his shooting in the playoffs where it's been pretty bad, or you're like, is that just because you can't make shots at the playoffs, or is it just what happened statistically? I mean, it does happen. I mean, if I'm getting the negative parts out of the way, like, yeah, sure, he's a little bit older. The big situation is a huge question mark. I can't believe what they got from Horford last year. So I don't know if you can just pencil that in, because he was way beyond expectations, at least for me, or for what I had for him. But when you can add Drew for those pieces, and I'm with you, when Rob Williams is right, it's really, really nice. But you can even tell when he's out there, you're like, is something wrong with him again? The number of times that I've watched Rob Williams in Celtics games, I'm like, I know he's out there, but wait, something. And every time, I thought Marcus Smart was trying to end his career with some of those Valley U passes, depending on how he lands, like, wait, is this going to be the last one we ever see from him? So to me, it makes a lot of sense. By the way, on that Rob point, my dad texted me after the trade, he's like, oh, I hate giving up Rob. I'm like, you complained about Rob more than anybody I know in my life. You would text me from the games going, oh, Rob's just off in the, Rob just walked in the tunnel again. I don't know what happened. I like just Brian Barrett had a tweet, 32 games, 29 games, 52 games, 61 games, 35 games. Those are Rob Williams' last five years. It just wasn't reliable enough for a team that's trying to win a title. I interrupted you. No, you didn't, because it's a it's a really good point, because what's going to happen? I mean, you know, it's just there's there's definitely like if Prozingis is hurt, it feels like the whole thing is screwed up and there's a really good chance that that could happen. But if you're talking about like the allocation of minutes and the talent that's getting those minutes, well, the talent that's getting those minutes just went up with Drew Holiday. And that's, I think, the simplest way to look at it. So they they turn Marcus Smart and Grant Williams and Brogdon and Rob Williams into Drew Holiday and Prozingis, more Derek White minutes, more Peyton Pritchard minutes. And then there's a little bit of an X factor with who's going to be like that ninth man, tenth man, kind of big four slash five person, maybe, or somebody you trade like that. I feel like that's the easiest position to pick up in January and February. The big thing for me is I think White was ready for a bigger role. I think White and Holiday together is magnificent as a as a backcourt. And I read some stuff today. They think White's going to come off the bench. I don't know if I see that. I think I would come out of the gates with White and Holiday and Tatum and Brown in the center and maybe bring to your Horford point, like maybe bring Horford off the bench and try to really try to rest his minutes during the season and be careful with him and make him a bench player. And then the playoffs reassess. But I think that having those four guys all together, they complement each other so well. You can play basically any kind of defense against any perimeter guy in the league. Those four guys and they're just better. I mean, there's there's just no way around it. They're better. He's a much better player than Marcus Smart was last year. And you know, you made that point about the shooting. He'd have those games. He'd go 5 for 22 in a playoff game. You know, he'd eat. But I do feel like he was asked to do a little bit more than maybe what he's supposed to be doing. I don't feel like he's a pure point guard. Right. Now you have White who can handle most of the ball handling. He could play off the ball and they're going to get the best version of him. Awesome locker room guy, too, by all accounts. I mean, really like a beloved teammate wherever he went. And I think they wanted to change the chemistry a little bit. I think this was an unhappier team than maybe they led on to the outside world last year. Yeah. Look, I definitely like him more than Smart. And you know, to be totally fair, when I'm looking at like the Lillard side of this trade last week before we knew the second piece of Drew and upgrading from Drew to Lillard, I'm going, OK, well, now you're top two in Milwaukee's like in the argument for the best two in the NBA. OK, that's that's really what this league has been about now post the teens decade where it was the arms race for your top three. It's you look around the league, you go, OK, who's got the two best? Like, let's come up with the five teams who have the two best. And with Lillard and Giannis, that's like a whole nother level. So when I was looking at it, it's like Lillard compared to Drew, you know, Drew is not somebody you're expecting to break down a defense off the dribble. Right. Oh, we're stuck into the shot clock, like make something happen where Lillard can literally do anything right in the final second of the shot clock and still you feel like it's still a decent look. So that part of it's a huge upgrade. But he's number three to four as far as an offensive option. He also and I don't know, this is just me talking out loud as I thought about the trade. It's pretty clear that when Boston's offense gets into trouble in the playoffs, like Tatum and Brown haven't figured out a way to kind of unlock it other than just like I can already picture my head like I know what the Tatum move is going to be. I already know what the Jaylen Brown move is going to be. And I don't know if Smart was able to make their life easier with the playmaking. And then sometimes I even think Smart would go like, well, if you guys are going to screw around, like I might just I might just be green light on this possession. I don't think Drew necessarily plays that way. So, you know, it's probably silly for me to think that like Drew is going to be the Steve Nash type who comes in and sets up all these great late playoff possessions. But there may be something in lessening the burden of those guys feeling that they have to do or defaulting to just forcing the issue as much as they do in the playoffs. I like how much ball handling they have, to your point, because they were talking about experimenting a little bit more with Tatum as a point forward this year, which makes me nervous a little bit just because, you know, he's six foot nine. I'm not sure that's the best use of him, but they seem pretty adamant. Like we feel like he could be a little bit more of a creator. And then you think White can do that. To me, White is the key to this season now, because if, you know, other than the Porzingis health thing, which I almost I'm going to knock on wood, but part of the reason they made all this movement and they got rid of Brogdon and Smart was I think they really wanted to push White to be the lead ball handler for them and a creator. And there's some unbelievable pick and roll stats with him. And just if certain people set him a pick in the way, even in the Miami series, he was one of the only guys who could create offense. So I think they have that plus they have Drew. And the reality is for Drew, this is this might be the deepest offensive team he's been on. Right. When you think back to like it was on some pretty weird Philly teams and some pretty weird New Orleans teams, and even when Milwaukee was at its best, it was really just Giannis, Middleton and Drew. And that was it. This is there's more shooting and playmaking around him than I think we've seen. Maybe it'll be a slight upgrade on the flip side. He doesn't have Giannis, who was the second best player of the century, probably, but I like the spot for him. It seemed like he really wanted to go to a contending team and I don't really know who they were competing against because for reading through some of the reports, it just seemed like Philly. I don't even know what the trade was for them. Portland wanted at least one piece back, probably two that they could do their keeper package. They wanted picks back. Golden State wasn't even in it. And it didn't seem like OKC ever threw their hat in the ring, which I was shocked by because I felt like OKC was the sleeping giant of this whole thing with Dort and some picks and just say, fuck it, let's let's see if we can be really good this year. So it seemed like it was down to Boston. The Clippers, they just had more assets. I don't know if Portland keeps Rob. He's on a good contract. They already have Ayton. My guess is that they're probably spinning him. Does it make sense that both of those guys? My sense is they're going to try it out, you know, but, you know, the thing with Rob is like, if you think he's an awesome defensive player that's just out there, like he's awesome when he's used a certain way. And once Boston unlocked that two years ago, where they stuck him on a non shooting big and then you could see other teams adapt to it, it's like, well, let's stop giving them an out where Rob can just roam off of this dude that's not a shooting threat, because I think that, you know, this is just going to turn into like now that he's not here. But I mean, have you listened to us talk about Rob Williams at all last couple of years? He you know, I don't I don't think he's I know what the defensive metrics are. I know the on off stuff. It's a big reason why I think the analytics models always love Boston. Like sometimes you look at him and be like, hey, I think this team's good, but like these numbers are overwhelming. This is like, yeah, it's it's so far like as if there's this huge gap between Boston and everybody else, which I never really felt going back these last two years. But you're if Chauncey Billups and you think like, OK, Rob Williams is going to go out there and like wreak havoc, it's like, well, he has to be used a certain way. So maybe they feel like that's in defensive support to Aiten. And with Aiten, you know, I have I'm not quite sure what to expect. Well, this is the one thing he's probably going to put up huge numbers because he's not going to have older dudes that have a higher status in the league that go, I'm sick of passing it to you. So he's probably going to get more touches. We'll probably see like early Aiten numbers and like twenty to ten for the first six weeks of the season. Yeah, I'm with you. Yeah. Like he'll he'll he'll put up some big numbers there. But, you know, defensively, it's really about his competitiveness because there were times I think going back two years ago when we were thinking about him with that run of the Suns, the finals, you're like, look at this guy. Like he can switch out on the smaller players. You can rotate. But it's all about the way he's wired. And I think long term, unfortunately, like we already kind of know the answer there. Like I don't think all of a sudden now you start playing with some fierceness after being in the league this long. So he was the fifth option on that team and there seemed to be real resentment toward him in that whole Phoenix culture of like, why doesn't he just realize we don't need his offense? We need him to basically rebound and block shots and crash the offensive boards. I think his attitude was probably twenty five years old. I want to be the best player I can be. I already went to a finals. I don't that's not I think I could do more than that. So I don't I don't think anyone was necessarily wrong. As I said, on my Thursday pot, I just hated the trade for Phoenix. I just thought they got the poopoo platter back. You know, they got some some some spare ribs back and a couple of egg rolls and and that's it. But they did not get an entree back. And I think he's an entree on the right team, whether he's a guy that made sense for them. I don't know. But I know that they didn't get a good haul for him. I think Rob, for his contract, for what his talents are, is a really intriguing piece for them or for another team, because you could trade for him. And it's not like a daunting salary. Right. I think he's in what is what is it, like 15 a year or something like that? No, it's a really good. Yeah. I mean, it was a really low cost extension and he's still a pretty young guy. Yes, so.
The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
Fresh update on "five minutes" discussed on The Bitboy Crypto Podcast
"I've just started like five minutes ago. So, we missed the first 10 minutes. Okay. That's what the deal is. Interesting. Cool. Interesting. All right. Well, yeah, guys. So, daily chart. It's really important to zoom out and continue to look here. Daily chart, this is not necessarily a bullish trend. In reality, to get a bullish trend going, we really got to kind of come up here and beat out 30,000 this peak that we had back here in August. But here's another thing, and this goes into the sense of, do you guys want us to just tell you what you want to hear, or do you want to hear what you need to hear? There's a very bearish pattern forming right now as we're speaking that you need to be aware of. Some of you guys have heard of it before. Some of you guys have even seen it. This right here and then this right here are the beginnings of what we call a head and shoulders pattern. So, unless Bitcoin price rallies above 32,000, setting a higher high in this trend, we're going to potentially see a head and shoulders pattern do the exact same thing. This would be our right shoulder. And the way you read this, guys, is you come to the top of the head. I want to go to the log chart for this because it gives us a little bit more of a conservative estimate. You come from the top of the head down to what we would call the neckline. In this case, our neckline is down here towards 24,800 or so, 25,000 give or take. You move that head over to the breakout pattern. If this does break, it will come down here. And this will give us a price prediction back down towards $19,200. You guys know I've been talking about 19,500, 19,700 being an interesting spot that would fill the CME gap that we have formed on the daily chart. So absolutely keep your eyes on that. And I know, again, we're really excited right now. We're happy for Bitcoin and what it's doing right now. But this is still a pattern very much in play. And guys, when you have a pullback, when you drop like we just did back here in July down to September. Come on now. Come with me here. When you drop, you know, in the months, 21 percent, you got a lot of work to do to get back into a bullish spread. And I'm loving what the bulls are doing right now on these shorter timeframes. But when you zoom out, we are not out of the woods just yet. Now, there's one more thing I want to show on Bitcoin, Deasy. And that is, of course, the question. Are we starting on October? September did close green. That's a very good sign. And October is starting out very, very nicely. Guys, just, you know, in the history of Bitcoin price, we've had 14 Octobers before 2023. Let me let me interject this whole monthly thing. Oh, Octobers are going to be this because 8 out of the last 10, to me, it's a little silly. It doesn't really hold any water. It's just what a lot of people are talking about. It's what a lot of people are talking about, but a lot of people say dumb things. Hey, guys, I told you I can get a lot of sleep here. I don't think we should look at, oh, September's did this usually, so, you know, I'm banking on this. October's did this usually, so I'm banking on this. Sure, there's a little bit with a 12-month investing strategy with tax implications. You know, there's a little bit of delta between, you know, December, you know, macro trades and January macro trades and July macro trades, but the delta is like 1%. You know, we're not seeing much fluctuations. I think once we zoom out and Bitcoin's been around 50 years, you know, no one will be looking at, yeah, but 63% of April's were green. I think they'll all trend towards 50% as we go forward in the decades. I agree with you very much, but my whole point, I'm even going away from it now because the whole point was there to say people are acting like Octobers are always green and that's not true. I was just showing the point that there are red Octobers. And that's more for you weasel wheels there, weasel wheels, yeah. People are saying, you know, yeah, typically Septembers are bearish, but me, I'm never going to say October's bullish usually, so I'm feeling good about this month. I'm more of a four-year cycle guy. Where does it play into that equation? It doesn't. The point is that people are just, the reason I was bringing that up, Deezy, was literally just people are convinced that Octobers are always green and so here we go, October coming, and it's like historically there are, there's been four of them that have been red, so they're not always green. Yeah, yeah, good point. Pointing out the red Octobers. We're hunting for them. There we go. There we go. And then the last thing, weekly chart. This is another thing that people are talking about right now, Deezy, that I just want to, I want people to calm their expectations. So with this move last night, in the month of October, we are now above the 200-week SMA. This is a very significant thing because up to this last bear market, we'd never cross below it. People are rejoicing this morning that we're back above it. Let me get rid of some of these, some of these lines. The problem is, guys, this is a weekly chart. It doesn't matter what wicks do. The wicks were also above it back here in February and then we ended up rejecting and coming back down a hefty percentage all the way back down below 20,000, right? My point here is these, this candle does not close until next Sunday. We just started it and yes, it's green right now and yes, it's above the 200 weekly, but let's watch what happens this week. There's some announcements coming out from the Fed. There's some data coming out from the economic forum and we got to continue to watch. Let's close the weekly candle of 200 and then we can start talking about how bullish that actually is. Two pump crypto. No, you didn't miss out on a daylight savings time. Although I like that theory. That is a good theory. You never know what it is. It always comes and surprises you. You know, I feel like I never hear about it until maybe on the Sunday, you know, like and then sometimes you don't even hear about yours. Your phone is just brighter at a different time. I just think where the wick will be at the top of October monthly, we're probably in the top. Ooh, good theory there. What happens first Bitcoin going to a hundred K or marijuana decriminalized on all 50 states? Probably not a bad question. It's a hundred K Bitcoin. I think so. Yeah. I see Utah dragging their feet and some of the Bible belt states really, really dragging their feet on that one. Uh, plus Bitcoin a hundred K inevitable. All right. Uh, what is inevitable is us going backwards in time, guys. Don't worry. We're just going to briefly look at market. Watch a Bitcoin is up 4.4% Ethereum is up 2.1% and BNB is at 1.6% Solana up a lot as well. If we just quickly look, you're going to see Bitcoin SV roll bit for chain E cash and render coming in the top five there and then top five losers, GMX maker chain link tokenize a T K X and Lido Dow. All right, let's get into the van X story. Yes. Yes. We jumped to number three is what we're going to tell people. That's what we're going to tell people. Right? Tim? Yeah. I'm still confused. What happened? We missed out on the first nine minutes. It literally just like when the video went live, we were 10 minutes into the show. Yes.
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
A highlight from Skin Deep: The Promising New Skin Test for Early Alzheimer's Detection
"What if there was a painless and non -evasive way to detect Alzheimer's disease earlier than ever? In this bonus episode, I chat with Frank Amato from SynapseDX, a pioneer in healthcare innovation who might just have the answer. In this engaging discussion, we dive into Frank's groundbreaking work on the DSCRN test, a revolutionary skin test for Alzheimer's. Frank's passion for healthcare and his mission to transform Alzheimer's diagnosis makes this conversation a must listen for anyone interested in the latest advancement in dementia healthcare. Welcome to Fading Memories, a podcast for caregivers of loved ones with dementia. I'm your host, Jennifer Fink. My mom had Alzheimer's for 20 years and when I went looking for answers, I had to start a podcast to find them. Join me as we navigate the challenges of dementia caregiving together. Through personal stories, expert interviews and practical advice, we'll explore effective communication strategies, stress management techniques and ways to cope with the emotional journey. This podcast is your beacon of support and empowerment. Let's share our experiences, find solace and discover the strength within us. Get ready to embark on a transformative caregiving journey with Memories. Fading If you're looking for additional advice, be sure to sign up for our weekly email newsletter. It's brief, gives you great advice. You can read it in less than five minutes and you know where to find the link. It's in the website, on the show notes. We're working on subscriber only information and specials so you're not going to want to miss out. Unfortunately, it's part of our modern world that some people will look to prey on the most vulnerable members of our society. With modern technology, scammers have more avenues to exploit people than ever before. Americans over the age of 65, especially those living with Alzheimer's and dementia, are receiving an average of almost 200 unwanted landline calls every week. That's more than 28 calls a day from bad actors trying to defraud our loved ones. Even worse, nearly 10 % of these calls have no caller ID, making it even harder to distinguish between legitimate and fraudulent calls. Older adults are less likely to be tech savvy and more likely to be home during the day to answer these calls. Please don't rely on notes by the phone as an attempt to stop a crime before it happens. You need IMP. IMP offers advanced call protection and a variety of other features to keep you and your loved ones safe from scams. IMP only allows wanted callers to ring through. Stopped are 100 % of the spam, scam, political, fundraising, debt collection, and survey calls before a single ring. Traditional call blockers can't do this and neither can the do not call registry. Don't wait until it's too late. Protect yourself and your loved ones by going to www .joinimpismhall .com. Also, the link is in the show notes.
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
A highlight from Skin Deep: The Promising New Skin Test for Early Alzheimer's Detection
"What if there was a painless and non -evasive way to detect Alzheimer's disease earlier than ever? In this bonus episode, I chat with Frank Amato from SynapseDX, a pioneer in healthcare innovation who might just have the answer. In this engaging discussion, we dive into Frank's groundbreaking work on the DSCRN test, a revolutionary skin test for Alzheimer's. Frank's passion for healthcare and his mission to transform Alzheimer's diagnosis makes this conversation a must listen for anyone interested in the latest advancement in dementia healthcare. Welcome to Fading Memories, a podcast for caregivers of loved ones with dementia. I'm your host, Jennifer Fink. My mom had Alzheimer's for 20 years and when I went looking for answers, I had to start a podcast to find them. Join me as we navigate the challenges of dementia caregiving together. Through personal stories, expert interviews and practical advice, we'll explore effective communication strategies, stress management techniques and ways to cope with the emotional journey. This podcast is your beacon of support and empowerment. Let's share our experiences, find solace and discover the strength within us. Get ready to embark on a transformative caregiving journey with Memories. Fading If you're looking for additional advice, be sure to sign up for our weekly email newsletter. It's brief, gives you great advice. You can read it in less than five minutes and you know where to find the link. It's in the website, on the show notes. We're working on subscriber only information and specials so you're not going to want to miss out. Unfortunately, it's part of our modern world that some people will look to prey on the most vulnerable members of our society. With modern technology, scammers have more avenues to exploit people than ever before. Americans over the age of 65, especially those living with Alzheimer's and dementia, are receiving an average of almost 200 unwanted landline calls every week. That's more than 28 calls a day from bad actors trying to defraud our loved ones. Even worse, nearly 10 % of these calls have no caller ID, making it even harder to distinguish between legitimate and fraudulent calls. Older adults are less likely to be tech savvy and more likely to be home during the day to answer these calls. Please don't rely on notes by the phone as an attempt to stop a crime before it happens. You need IMP. IMP offers advanced call protection and a variety of other features to keep you and your loved ones safe from scams. IMP only allows wanted callers to ring through. Stopped are 100 % of the spam, scam, political, fundraising, debt collection, and survey calls before a single ring. Traditional call blockers can't do this and neither can the do not call registry. Don't wait until it's too late. Protect yourself and your loved ones by going to www .joinimpismhall .com. Also, the link is in the show notes.
The Dan Bongino Show
Rep. Troy Nehls: Garland, Wray Will Do Everything to Cover Biden
"Willing to stop arresting political opponents and going full commie. So, until that point, we need more people willing to, cause it's radio, bust us bells if you know what I mean. We need bell busters. And you seem like one of them and I like that. So, this hearing is happening with Derek Farland the other day, otherwise known as Merrick Garland, and you were having none of this. You just sliced into this guy. This guy I think makes Eric Holder know what I mean? I'm a legitimate attorney general. This guy is the most corrupt person I in that office in my life. And I was glad you didn't get interrupted when you were calling him out. Your thoughts on the status of the Justice Department under Garland? Well, thank you. It's a great question and we I all know think the American people are figuring this out that there is that. We talk about the two -tier justice system, the justice system under Garland and even the FBI Director Wray that will do everything to provide that cover for the crime family named Biden and then what you're asking and what they've done to Donald Trump over the past several years. So no, there is a two -tier justice system. I guess I am one of those bell busters and I know that you served in NYPD for years. I'm a 30 -year lawman myself. I was a chair of a large county in Texas. So I just call it the way it is. I'm authentic and I think I think people appreciate it, but AG Garland, you know, you get five minutes and you want to seize that that moment sees that opportunity. I didn't give him a lot of time to answer the questions that I had for him because I knew I would just get nothing but delay tactics and lies. So I answered the questions to him, but he did the video, the video of Joe Biden up there talking about firing Viktor Shokin, the prosecutor, or Ukraine and get the one billion dollars to me. That is bribery. The quid
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. 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Thinking Crypto News & Interviews
A highlight from Ron Hammond Interview - Crypto Regulation News! SEC Gary Gensler Hearing, FTX Trial, Crypto Bills, Coinbase, Stablecoin Regulation
"Last time he spoke in front of the House Finance Service Committee, he kept saying multiple times, we have not lost a court case on crypto at all. We have brought several actions. And again, remind you, they call settlements wins. And so in their case, they were. They had won every single court case. But now that talking point is really faded because, as you mentioned, the Ripple's case, the Grayscale case, there's also ones like the Coinbase suit going on right now. This content is brought to you by Link2, which makes private equity investment easy. Link2 is a great platform that allows you to get equity in companies before they go public, before they do an IPO. Within their portfolio includes crypto companies, AI companies, and fintech companies. Some of the crypto companies you may recognize include Circle, Ripple, Chainalysis, Ledger, Dapper Labs, and many more. If you'd like to learn more about Link2, please visit the link in the description. Welcome back to the Thinking Crypto podcast, your home for cryptocurrency news and interviews. With me today is Ron Hammond, who's director of government relations at the Blockchain Association. Ron, great to have you back on. Thanks for having me. Always a pleasure. Ron, it's going to be a busy week. It's already a busy week here in DC. Tomorrow is, of course, the hearing with chairman of the SEC, Gary Gensler. Tell us about that and what can we expect. Definitely. For those who may not know, Gary Gensler, the chair of the SEC, is going to be testifying in front of the House Financial Services Committee for the second time this year. That's a really big deal because, to remind you, last year, they barely saw him at all in that committee when the Democrats had control. But if the Republicans can control, they want to exercise oversight of the SEC as much as possible. And again, it's pretty typical, though, for the opposite party to try to put the screws on to the party that has the White House. But in this case, a lot has happened, both in crypto, but also just generally, that it's going to get a lot of flack for Gary Gensler, whether it be on private funds, ESG. And again, crypto will definitely come up a lot after talking to several folks on the House side. He recently testified, though, in front of Senate Banking two weeks ago, and we didn't get too much out of that candidly. We saw a couple of questions from Senator Hagerty from Tennessee on the issues of promethium, for example, and Bitcoin ETF. We also saw some questions from Senator Lummis on SAB 121, which is more crypto accounting standards, and how do you custody actual crypto for banks. So I think we're going to see a lot more hard -hitting points from the House, especially on the Republican side. But I'd also like to caveat, as well, that the shutdown approaching, a lot of Democrats are going to use their time to hit the Republicans. It's just standard politics here. The Republicans are the ones in the House that are really slowing things down, unfortunately, when it comes to funding the government. So Democrat, any for the most part, is going to utilize their five minutes to not really talk about Gary Gensler, but talk about the Republicans shutting down the government. Because again, that's a major, major thing here. As much as crypto is big for us, the macro of all of the shutdown has a lot of implications. So we won't see crypto come up too much, but after talking to a couple offices, it does seem like we're going to have some definitely hard -hitting questions, very similar to what we saw earlier this year in the House. Yeah, and to your point of, you know, things have certainly changed since the last time he appeared, because you had the Ripple lawsuit decision, you had the Grayscale decision, where Grayscale won that, Ripple won a big chunk of theirs as well. And the Prometheum details are more about what Prometheum is and what they're up to. So do you think there's going to be some hard -hitting questions around that, those cases and those things that happened? Definitely. So if you recall, last time he spoke in front of the House Financial Services Committee, he kept saying multiple times, we have not lost a court case on crypto at all. We have brought several actions. And again, remind you, they call settlements wins. And so in their case, they were. They had won every single court case. But now that talking point is really faded because, as you mentioned, the Ripple case, the Grayscale case, there's also ones like the Coinbase suit going on right now. That's got a lot more attention. Actually, it looks a lot better for Coinbase post those decisions. And so he can't rely back on the courts here or say that, hey, look, I'm winning in all these court cases. And actually, especially in the Grayscale case, he lost 3 -0. And two of those judges were Democrat appointees and they're based here in D .C. And so I think that having that set the tone of like, look, you are really overextending here and you're losing in the courts, not by a small margin, by unanimous margin sometimes. And it's just not crypto. You are pushing the balance elsewhere where other industries like ESG or like private equity are seeing these wins and saying, you know what? I think we're going to actually have a chance to win against the SC as well. So like the ETF situation where crypto really just goes out ahead and fights a lot of these fires for more traditional finance. And then those folks kind of benefit from crypto's push. I think we're seeing some of that happening now with the Grayscale case and Ripple case and Coinbase case empowering other industries who feel like they are also having overreach from the SEC saying, you know what? I think we have actually a case here when we can actually win the courts. So I think it's going to be a major theme of this hearing going forward. But also there's going to be several other questions to your point about Prometheum. That was a major issue for that committee, which had Erin Caplan in front of that committee just a couple of months ago. And they reiterate all the talking points, securities laws are clear. The SEC gave us a way to work forward and move things forward. But that argument really fell apart pretty quickly. And we're seeing that in this case, that the Prometheum line that there is a pathway forward registration, there is a way to comply, just doesn't hold water. And so I'm pretty sure we'll see some members of Congress tighten the screws a little bit there because it's been really more of a black box, the SEC, of how this process went. Caplan just kept saying that we actually kept working the SEC and they were clear, but that has yet to even show itself. So I think there'll be a major other theme for this hearing as well. Now you mentioned Coinbase and everyone's looking at that lawsuit. There was also news reported, I think you mentioned it, where Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong will be on the Hill. They've also launched an education campaign around crypto. Tell us about that. Yeah, Coinbase has been a godsend, candidly. Again, we used to have only about five or six lobbyists during the infrastructure fight. And again, we're going up against the banks who have over 150 plus lobbyists. We have going against other agencies or other groups that have way more funding. But Coinbase really has stepped up and said, look, the fights here in DC, we are committed to the United States and we're committed to resources here in the United States and DC to educate Congress, to educate regulators, and to showcase in DC why crypto is important for the future of the United States. And so they're having a huge Hill day tomorrow, actually. Again, it lines up not on purpose at all with Kerry Gensler testifying and of course also the shutdown too. But they're going to be having a whole set of presentations for Hill staff and members of Congress to learn from founders. It's not just Coinbase itself. They're also bringing in other founders from other companies and having a whole demo day, a Hill day, you can say, to educate various offices. And so I think it's really important to have. We're all seeing a lot of other folks from the industry come down. So it's going to be quite the crypto week here in DC. Of course, bad timing with the shutdown, but no one can really plan it like that. So we're really excited to see how that plays out, especially with all the heat recently more moving to AI in terms of interest, but also scrutiny. I think it's good to have more adults in the room and say, hey, look, crypto was the AI about one or two years ago. We're still here. We're fighting a lot of big battles. We need Congress's help to move the needle. But at the same time, let's show you why this is important and why this technology needs to be in America and not be based elsewhere. Because unfortunately, we're seeing a lot of folks migrate over to London, migrate over to the EU. And Coinbase is really taking a strategic stand saying, we're here to stay. We're here to comply with the rules, but we also need some action from Congress. So we'll see how that goes. Sure. Yeah, that's really great that they're doing that. And education advocacy are certainly key. And speaking of legislation and regulations, obviously, we had the market structure bill get marked up in the house. You also have the stable coin bill. What's the latest with those and the next steps? I know the shutdown is probably delaying a lot of things. What are the latest on those items? Yeah, so we were kind of expecting by October timeframe to have a vote on the stable coin bill and the market structure bill. There are other crypto bills as well that passed out of the house financial service committee, but those are the two main big ones. And so the plan was, hopefully, was after this whole shutdown drama that we would have a vote probably in October, but it's looking more like November now. And again, our message to folks is the closer we get to that 2024 election, we're almost a year out, all of a sudden, all bipartisan politics goes away and folks start retreating back to their bases. And it's my team versus your team. And that's when everything grinds to a halt in DC. We're already seeing that right now a little bit with the shutdown where folks are saying it's my team versus your team, but the Republicans are a lot more splintered on their teams. And so we want to make sure that we get these bills pushed out of the house on a good bipartisan basis and then showcase to the Senate why it's important to take up this legislation. Now, there are been some rumors going around recently. Again, Politico report on it, Punchbowl report on it recently, too, that Patrick Henry gave an interview saying, look, the Senate Bank Committee, my Senate counterpart, they're doing completely different things than we're doing in the house. We're focusing on crypto and capital formation and data privacy. They're more focused on marijuana banking, exec compensation, and banking regs. So we are in two different camps on two major different issues. But if we were able to make a trade of some sort, the priorities that Sherrod Brown, who's running for reelection in deep red Ohio, who's going to need all the help he can get, would at least his case to voters saying, look, I'm actually working on this committee that traditionally has not passed that many bills. Mind you, again, they haven't passed a bill, except for this year, for four years before that. And that's during his time as well as Republicans in the chair time. It's crazy. And so in order for this to move the needle, they have to have a trade. And I think that's what's really important to say. If this trade were to happen, a lot does have to happen. But this does provide a pathway potentially for crypto legislation to move forward to the president's desk. Again, a lot has to happen. A lot can mess this up. But this isn't one of the first few times we're seeing kind of a light at the end of the tunnel. And we're really excited by it now again. But we have to have a lot of education because the Senate has not really given too much thought to this issue besides a couple handful of really powerful champions. Yeah, boy, fingers crossed, toes crossed, everything, hoping they can get something through the House and then we can go through the Senate. Boy, I'm hoping something happens by early next year before the madness of the election cycle. Now, there's also the trial for Sam Beckman Fried and the whole FTX debacle. In addition, there's been new updates around Sam Beckman Fried's parents and how money was moved to his aunt and Stanford University and much more. What do you expect to happen in October with this trial? So the main issue that we're going to have here in D .C. is just the noise. A lot of people are going to be talking about the SPF trial. It does have a huge media attention, for better or for worse. And again, we've really at least made sure we tell folks in D .C., again, this is not a crypto problem. This is a complete scammer just using newer technology. But guess what? Same old playbook as we've seen with Madoff and others. But there is concern that there are, at least in the case of the House, for example, we're voting on these big bills. FTX came up as a reason to support the bill, as a reason also to oppose the bill. Some folks say, look, there's no coming of a customer funds. That's what FTX did. And this bill bans that. On the other end, they're saying, you know, well, this legitimizes the crypto market. So this could potentially make more FTXs come up down the road. And so we've seen FTX kind of being pulled in two different directions when it comes to supporting or opposing legislation. And so our concern is the 300 plus members of Congress who have not sat in a crypto hearing who may not even know what Bitcoin or Ethereum is, are they going to listen to the headlines and say, look, actually, SPF is all crypto, which we all know it's not the case. Or they're going to say, SPF did this fraud. That's why we need to pass legislation to make sure this doesn't happen again. And so we're trying to really thread that needle. Of course, you know, we still know everything is going to come out through the trial. There could be some regulatory implications. Again, the campaign donations is a major factor and a major reason why a lot of folks in Congress are a lot more put back by crypto and kind of staying away on the sidelines because they don't get burned again. But as we're seeing kind of recently with the indictment with Senator Menendez recently from New Jersey, some members of the Senate took money from his PAC. And so there's a lot of, you know, just it doesn't matter if you're in crypto, doesn't matter if you're a Singh Senator, there's a lot of issues when it comes to campaign financing as a whole. And a lot of folks are on their toes here. But I think, you know, we want to make sure that we showcase it. Folks, SPF kind of went abroad and tried to really railroad the industry here in D .C. by trying to screw DeFi with his legislation and trying to protect his fraud and scam. Let's make sure it doesn't happen again. Let's put some rules on the road because, yes, SEC is not providing that right now. They haven't for years. And so it's time for Congress to act. So we'll see how that makes the dynamics. I'm sure, again, there'll be a lot of D .C. ties and connections with that court case. So if there's anything damning, we'll soon find out. But our hope is that this actually encourages Congress to act rather than sit on the sidelines saying, no, we're good. Crypto is kind of all SPF, FTX. And what do you think about the dynamic of and I don't know if this is going to be discussed in the trial at all, but Sam Beckman Fried and FTX officials met with the SEC many times. These are confirmed things on the calendar. I believe Sam met with Gary Gensler, according to some calendar updates. Does that play a factor at all? Because obviously we don't know what was discussed and what was the agenda items. But would that bring any pressure on Gary Gensler? Like you met with this guy. Yeah. He said in the New York Times article back in December that he met with SPF, I think it was twice actually, SPF and Gensler personally. But again, also remind you, it's a big organization. SPF was in D .C., more than any CEO in any industry I've seen in my time in D .C. But at the same front, staff meet all the time too. I mean, it wasn't just SPF. He had a whole team of staff that helped out on this front, both at the CFTC, at the SEC and of course with Congress as well. And so Gensler said again explicitly that he met with SPF twice. But I think it'd be good to know, look, how many times does your staff interact? How long do those conversations go? What do they lead to? Because there were some rumors swirling around that FTX is going to get a pass of sorts. And again, those are rumors. We have not had confirmation of that. But the one thing about the court case is that it's going to bring all this to light. So if there's anyone that's saying anything half -truths here or they're trying to protect their character or protect their image, it could really bite them if they have been lying to the press or they've been getting half -truths here. And so if I were to chair Gensler, this likely will come up in tomorrow's hearing. The question is like, look, it's going to come out. The truth will come out. We just want to make sure you're shored up here because it's going to be really bad for you on top of all the other things that have been happening in the courts if you've been caught potentially lying here. And again, I don't see any reason why he would in this situation, but I think the focus should be also not just on SPF and Garrett Gensler, but where do the staffs and the senior level execs and regulators also meet from FTX and the SEC? Hmm. I'm very curious to get those details. Now, speaking of FTX, obviously with the relation with Binance, and I forgot to ask you this earlier, the judge recently said it blocked the SEC from conducting further discovery, if I'm not mistaken, with Binance US. Have you heard anything about that? Not as much, at least in the DC front, but at least when it comes to the Binance situation as a whole, there's still that looming DOJ investigation that a lot of folks in DC are waiting for that shoe to drop. Again, there's various rumors of why that DOJ lawsuit hasn't dropped. There have been confirmation reports of central sanction evasion violations, as well as money laundering violations by Binance and the parent company, not Binance US to my knowledge, but Binance. What is the relationship though between Binance US and Binance? Is that there much cohesion there or is there actually a pretty separate line between those two entities? So one thing's for sure though, a lot of folks in DC or in the early of 2023 are hearing a lot more from Binance. They were definitely hitting DC a lot more, trying to get their narrative out. And I think the mounting allegations are pretty damning. And we've seen a lot of folks who were in DC for Binance trying to deliver that message. They're not here anymore. It was a very short stint for them. So whether that be for the company having financial problems, whether it be more of the regulatory issues, that's unclear at the moment. I would lean more to the regulatory issues, but I think it's all going to come more to light as time goes on, but it's pretty bad. So we'll see exactly how Binance recovers from this, if at all. But at least here in DC, the folks that they had speaking, they largely aren't here anymore. Wow. And final item here, obviously you got the Gensler hearing tomorrow with the House Financial Services Committee. Is there any other major hearings for the remainder of the year that we should be aware of? Not at the moment, at least in terms of big ones. We are seeing some small hearings, rumors coming up right now for more of Senate banking. Again, if they do consider crypto legislation, they've only had one major crypto hearing so far this year, whereas the House has had over 13. But again, like I mentioned earlier, that's just two separate priorities for two separate chairs. But if this trade were to happen, I think I'd just keep an eye on Senate banking. They just had their first AI hearing last week. And as they kind of get more into the AI issues and tech issues in finance, that's going to eventually loop in crypto more and more. So I think we'll keep an eye on Senate banking. And then finally, if we are looking for those votes happening on the House floor for the stablecoin bill, as well as the market structure bill, I probably keep a little eye on the House as well. I guess I think lastly, I'll say now, too, is tax issues. We've been talking a lot about securities law, commodities law for quite some time. But tax issues are really percolating to the surface here. Senate Finance, which is Ron Wyden, who's a big champion for crypto, Democrat side, as well as Mike Crapo from Idaho, they actually put a request out to the industry and another stakeholder saying, look, what does taxation for crypto look like? Please help us. Who should be reporting 1099s? Who should be doing various filings and such? So that's just a request ended in early September. And so we potentially could see some action or at least some legislative hearings on what does crypto taxation look like. And I think it's a very important issue with the broker definition coming out from Treasury. There's a lot of comments going through that system right now. So we'll see where that lines up by keeping an eye on tax issues. That's going to be a major fight for quite some time. And I think it's going to be really important. It's a little nitty gritty, but it's very important for any business to operate in the United States. Yeah, absolutely. That's a big one. And I know there's been some other things happening. I think the FASB rule and with corporations being able to hold Bitcoin and things like that on their balance sheet, I believe there were some updates there. Don't have the full details, but there's certainly a need for further clarity and for individuals and institutions. Ron, always great information, man. Thank you so much. Happy to help. Thanks for having me.
The Living Waters Birth Podcast
Katie's Birth Story: A First-Time Mom's 20-Minute, Accidental Home Birth
"It was like 4 a .m. when I woke up I remember checking the clock and it was pretty normal for me to wake up during pregnancy and I have to go pee in the middle of the night because you know pregnancy things. And so I woke up and I was laying there for a second before I got up and I was like oh actually I think I think I need to go number two. And so I was like okay maybe I'll walk across the apartment and go to the other restroom. And once I got there I was like oh okay I think this is a number three situation. Very TMI. So I went to the other bathroom so I wouldn't disturb my husband and truly I had diarrhea for I'm not even kidding three hours and I Oh my gosh that's ridiculous. But it was like actually diarrhea. Like I wasn't there was nothing else going on. I had no reason to assume anything else was happening. And I thought it was because I had some peanut butter the day before because I just never eat peanut butter. And so I was like you know maybe it just messed with me this time. So just like you can tell hormones were high like throughout this whole story you'll see I was not thinking straight no matter like just never I was never thinking straight it was quite hilarious. Yeah so basically so I go across and like in between like you know when like diarrhea hits and you're like I need to go now in between those moments I was going to the yoga ball and I figured like if I'm up in the middle of the night might as well be doing my mile circuit and just like stretching and so I was like doing things you would do in labor which is quite hilarious because I didn't I just wasn't thinking about any of it. So I was going back and forth between the toilet and the yoga ball and just doing all my things and then I just realized at some point I was like it's been a really long time like this is really absurd I'm going to go take a bath because the bath was my comfort when I was pregnant like that's just just where you want to be when you're pregnant you know yes and yes so I go back over to the other bathroom where my husband is sleeping in that room and I turn on the bath and I'm in between the bathtub and the toilet again and it's about seven thirty at this point so that was like let's see four that was three and a half hours of literally going number three like it was like rough and so I just like reached my breaking point and I came out and I was like Ben like I have been pooping for three hours what is going on and he poor thing had woken up and was reading in bed because he could literally hear me like this is it was just rough okay yes and so I come out and he's like it's okay like you're it it's just you know it's just you're going to the restroom it's fine and I was like I don't know and so I go back in and I'm kind of like I don't know but you call the midwife like I'm worried I'm hurting the baby I'm pooping so much you know like totally like not not rational at all so I have him call the midwives and he gets on the phone and he's like hey I don't know why I'm calling I think you know Katie's just pooping a lot and we just kind of want to check with you and the sweetest midwife answered the phone and she was just like don't worry like that's totally normal for your body to clear out as you're like leading up to labor like totally normal don't even worry a thing about it and so I was like okay that's reasonable I can I can work with that you know and so I go back to doing my business and I look down and I see what I think is just like some blood and I'm like oh my gosh Ben like now I'm bleeding like call them again like something like what is going on and I keep going back and forth between like this really peaceful state to like I'm going to hurt my baby because I'm pooping so much and this this is a very poop filled story I'm so sorry that's okay that's how so many women actually like that's how labor begins for a lot of people because like I don't know if you knew this but the prostaglandin that is produced by your body to ripen your cervix and get your body ready for labor it has effects on your GI system so that's why like a lot of the time that will happen for women and honestly so many birth stories are poop filled stories so don't even worry about it that's so funny okay good that's good okay yeah so basically I had him call them again they were like okay just let us know in 15 minutes how you're feeling and I was like okay that's fine so he hangs up and then I'm sitting there and I'm like actually will you call the doulas like I I just I just think they should know if like something weird is going on because I thought I would gonna I was gonna have to go to the hospital because something was wrong you know so he calls the doulas and he's like hey just wanted to let you know like Katie's and also just stumbles through trying to explain to them like why we're calling at 7am in the morning I guess it was probably like it was probably 7 .40 at this point and so he calls them and they're like okay like keep us updated sounds like she's doing fine and he's still on the phone with her and I had gotten into the bathtub and I just like felt the urge to check myself and so I reached out and I was like Ben I feel something soft and I like just had no idea what was going on and he he relays the message to the doula and he said okay she feels something soft and the doula goes okay I'm on my way over and I was like well that's weird okay and so the doula starts heading over we call the midwife back and we're just like hey like this is going on and she's like okay you know like this is just a little weird like if you wanna come in I'll just check you we'll just make sure you're all good and so I was like okay that sounds great and so I stand up to get out of the bed and immediately just squats down and pushes and I was like oh okay I can't stand up and so I try to do it again and the same thing happened my body squatted down and pushed and now I know it was the fetal ejection reflex but at the time I was just like what is going on so that was oh let me see if I can get yeah okay so that was like 745 and so after that I was like okay like call 911 like I don't know what needs to happen but like something's wrong like I was still very much in the mindset of like this baby is gonna be hurt by whatever is happening to me right now I'm sure you had no idea you were in labor no idea because I expected to feel contractions like I expected your normal signs and I just didn't have anything except for literally pooping for three hours yeah so that was super royal so at 746 my husband called 911 and he was on the phone with them and I was in the bathtub and he was like yeah like we just don't know what's going on like something weird is up and the lady starts asking him like about my due date and like how I'm doing and all this stuff and so while he's like answering all these questions I feel a massive pop and I was like oh my goodness I think my water broke and my husband was like oh okay and so he told the operator and they were like okay there's someone five minutes away and we'd say okay great and so he gets off the phone and it takes until 8 o 'clock for the EMS and the firefighters and the police department literally everybody to come into our small tiny apartment and so that is at 8 am they get here there's like 10 men that shuffle into my little bathroom in there because we live you know in a two bedroom apartment it's not huge and so like 10 men shuffle in and I just remember this guy coming in and he's like hey like I'm Michael and I was like hey Michael is it okay if I turn on the hot water and he was like yeah and I was like okay great and so I turned the hot water back on and I just like still don't know what's going on I'm just like something weird is up but like even though mentally I don't know my body knew exactly what I was doing which is why I think I was asking for the hot water and things like that so it's very interesting this whole time like I just feel like God was really taking care of me and telling me what to do when mentally I had no idea what was going on so they get there at 8 o 'clock and he's like you're gonna be fine like can you lean back so I can check you to see what's going on and I was like okay and so I leaned back and he was like oh okay yeah you're crowning and I leaned back forward and I was like oh this whole time I've been having a baby and I didn't realize it up until literally that point when I was crowning and so my body did the fetal ejection reflex two more times and she was born which is just super wild so at 803 she was born so I think I pushed like four times total and did not intentionally do it at all they were so awesome though the team just like let me stay in the bathtub let me do my thing they let me do skin to skin immediately after I they came with a hat and like came to clamp the cord and I was like don't put a hat on my child why would she need a hat and then I made sure they did delayed cord clamping so they were just super great at honoring everything that I asked for considering it was like just such a shock for everybody quite truly so it was super awesome but literally I think from the time that like we called the midwives to like the actual birth it was less than 30 minutes so that is like kind of what I consider what the labor was because that's when things really got intense and before that it was like super inconsistent nothing was really happening so yeah that's that's my
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
A highlight from From Struggle To Resilience: Finding Joy in the Face of Dementia
"I absolutely believe that if we were able to lead more improvisational and playful lives as a whole, not when the moment where you're hit with possibly one of the most upsetting and frightening moments in your life, then I think our relationship to a lot of this would shift. Does it make everything okay? Of course not. But it certainly would, again, empower us to be able to do different kinds of things, to create support, to be able to do something more powerful, more joyful, just more positive, more giving. We're not victims. I mean, there's a lot of things, nuances in that, but that's really what we're very committed to doing. In this compelling conversation, Mary Friedli, co -founder of The Joy of Dementia and Re -imagining Dementia joins us to shed light on the unique opportunities for connection that have arisen since the pandemic and the widespread adoption of Zoom. She emphasized the power of creating communities of support for those living with dementia and their families and care partners, transforming the often isolating journey into a joyful and meaningful experience. Mary also shares the critical need to re -imagine the stigma and fear surrounding dementia, revealing the power of resources, tools, and collective efforts in empowering individuals and combating isolation. Welcome to Fading Memories, a podcast for caregivers of loved ones with dementia. I'm your host, Jennifer Fink. My mom had Alzheimer's for 20 years, and when I went looking for answers, I had to start a podcast to find them. Join me as we navigate the challenges of dementia caregiving together. Through personal stories, expert interviews, and practical advice, we'll explore effective communication strategies, stress -free and effective communication strategies, management techniques, and ways to cope with the emotional journey. This podcast is your beacon of support and empowerment. Let's share our experiences, find solace, and discover the strength within us. Get ready to embark on a transformative caregiving journey with Fading Memories. If you're looking for additional advice, be sure to sign up for our weekly email newsletter. It's brief, gives you great advice. You can read it in less than five minutes, and you know where to find the link. It's in the website, on the show notes. We're working on subscriber -only information and specials, so you're not going to want to miss out. Unfortunately, it's part of our modern world that some people will look to prey on the most vulnerable members of our society. With modern technology, scammers have more avenues to exploit people than ever before. Americans over the age of 65, especially those living with Alzheimer's and dementia, are receiving an average of almost 200 unwanted landline calls every week. That's more than 28 calls a day from bad actors trying to defraud our loved ones. Even worse, nearly 10 % of these calls have no caller ID, making it even harder to distinguish between legitimate and fraudulent calls. Older adults are less likely to be tech savvy and more likely to be home during the day to answer these calls. Please don't rely on notes by the phone as an attempt to stop a crime before it happens. You need IMP. IMP offers advanced call protection and a variety of other features to keep you and your loved ones safe from scams. IMP only allows wanted callers to ring through. Stopped are 100 % of the spam, scam, political, fundraising, debt collection, and survey calls before a single ring. Traditional call blockers can't do this and neither can the do not call registry. Don't wait until it's too late. Protect yourself and your loved ones by going to www .joinimpasenhall .com. Also, the link is in the show notes.
Fading Memories: Alzheimer's Caregiver Support
A highlight from From Struggle To Resilience: Finding Joy in the Face of Dementia
"I absolutely believe that if we were able to lead more improvisational and playful lives as a whole, not when the moment where you're hit with possibly one of the most upsetting and frightening moments in your life, then I think our relationship to a lot of this would shift. Does it make everything okay? Of course not. But it certainly would, again, empower us to be able to do different kinds of things, to create support, to be able to do something more powerful, more joyful, just more positive, more giving. We're not victims. I mean, there's a lot of things, nuances in that, but that's really what we're very committed to doing. In this compelling conversation, Mary Friedli, co -founder of The Joy of Dementia and Re -imagining Dementia joins us to shed light on the unique opportunities for connection that have arisen since the pandemic and the widespread adoption of Zoom. She emphasized the power of creating communities of support for those living with dementia and their families and care partners, transforming the often isolating journey into a joyful and meaningful experience. Mary also shares the critical need to re -imagine the stigma and fear surrounding dementia, revealing the power of resources, tools, and collective efforts in empowering individuals and combating isolation. Welcome to Fading Memories, a podcast for caregivers of loved ones with dementia. I'm your host, Jennifer Fink. My mom had Alzheimer's for 20 years, and when I went looking for answers, I had to start a podcast to find them. Join me as we navigate the challenges of dementia caregiving together. Through personal stories, expert interviews, and practical advice, we'll explore effective communication strategies, stress -free and effective communication strategies, management techniques, and ways to cope with the emotional journey. This podcast is your beacon of support and empowerment. Let's share our experiences, find solace, and discover the strength within us. Get ready to embark on a transformative caregiving journey with Fading Memories. If you're looking for additional advice, be sure to sign up for our weekly email newsletter. It's brief, gives you great advice. You can read it in less than five minutes, and you know where to find the link. It's in the website, on the show notes. We're working on subscriber -only information and specials, so you're not going to want to miss out. Unfortunately, it's part of our modern world that some people will look to prey on the most vulnerable members of our society. With modern technology, scammers have more avenues to exploit people than ever before. Americans over the age of 65, especially those living with Alzheimer's and dementia, are receiving an average of almost 200 unwanted landline calls every week. That's more than 28 calls a day from bad actors trying to defraud our loved ones. Even worse, nearly 10 % of these calls have no caller ID, making it even harder to distinguish between legitimate and fraudulent calls. Older adults are less likely to be tech savvy and more likely to be home during the day to answer these calls. Please don't rely on notes by the phone as an attempt to stop a crime before it happens. You need IMP. IMP offers advanced call protection and a variety of other features to keep you and your loved ones safe from scams. IMP only allows wanted callers to ring through. Stopped are 100 % of the spam, scam, political, fundraising, debt collection, and survey calls before a single ring. Traditional call blockers can't do this and neither can the do not call registry. Don't wait until it's too late. Protect yourself and your loved ones by going to www .joinimpasenhall .com. Also, the link is in the show notes.
The Mason Minute
Predictable (MM #4567)
"As most of us know, a lot of movies are formulaic. You encounter them every now and again, even movies you don't really care about. I fell asleep the other night in my chair. My wife had gone up to bed and when I woke up, TV was still going, I think it was on TBS. And there was a movie with former WWE superstar Dave Bautista, I believe it was called My Spy. I had never seen this movie before, I had heard about it, I think I had heard about it, I didn't know anything about it. But I looked up and watched it for about five minutes and he of course is playing some former CIA guy, supposed to watch over a mother and her daughter. I looked up and said, okay, I know exactly how this is going to go. The little girl is going to take a shine to him and well, he's going to end up falling in love with the mother. Went to bed, didn't even think about it, didn't even know what happened. Of course, I said, well, I wonder what happened with the movie, I'll have to look up and see the synopsis of it and well, guess what happened? Exactly what I thought was going to happen. Because some things are so predictable. A lot of those little cute, I don't know, big wrestler guy movies, you know, Hulk Hogan did one, they're big and strong and they end up falling in love with somebody. It's kind of funny how things are predictable. Either that or I've been around too long and watched too many of these kinds of movies. I've been around too many of these kinds of movies. I've been around too many of these kinds movies.
The Mason Minute
Predictable (MM #4567)
"As most of us know, a lot of movies are formulaic. You encounter them every now and again, even movies you don't really care about. I fell asleep the other night in my chair. My wife had gone up to bed and when I woke up, TV was still going, I think it was on TBS. And there was a movie with former WWE superstar Dave Bautista, I believe it was called My Spy. I had never seen this movie before, I had heard about it, I think I had heard about it, I didn't know anything about it. But I looked up and watched it for about five minutes and he of course is playing some former CIA guy, supposed to watch over a mother and her daughter. I looked up and said, okay, I know exactly how this is going to go. The little girl is going to take a shine to him and well, he's going to end up falling in love with the mother. Went to bed, didn't even think about it, didn't even know what happened. Of course, I said, well, I wonder what happened with the movie, I'll have to look up and see the synopsis of it and well, guess what happened? Exactly what I thought was going to happen. Because some things are so predictable. A lot of those little cute, I don't know, big wrestler guy movies, you know, Hulk Hogan did one, they're big and strong and they end up falling in love with somebody. It's kind of funny how things are predictable. Either that or I've been around too long and watched too many of these kinds of movies. I've been around too many of these kinds of movies. I've been around too many of these kinds of movies.
The Mason Minute
Predictable (MM #4567)
"As most of us know, a lot of movies are formulaic. You encounter them every now and again, even movies you don't really care about. I fell asleep the other night in my chair. My wife had gone up to bed and when I woke up, TV was still going, I think it was on TBS. And there was a movie with former WWE superstar Dave Bautista, I believe it was called My Spy. I had never seen this movie before, I had heard about it, I think I had heard about it, I didn't know anything about it. But I looked up and watched it for about five minutes and he of course is playing some former CIA guy, supposed to watch over a mother and her daughter. I looked up and said, okay, I know exactly how this is going to go. The little girl is going to take a shine to him and well, he's going to end up falling in love with the mother. Went to bed, didn't even think about it, didn't even know what happened. Of course, I said, well, I wonder what happened with the movie, I'll have to look up and see the synopsis of it and well, guess what happened? Exactly what I thought was going to happen. Because some things are so predictable. A lot of those little cute, I don't know, big wrestler guy movies, you know, Hulk Hogan did one, they're big and strong and they end up falling in love with somebody. It's kind of funny how things are predictable. Either that or I've been around too long and watched too many of these kinds of movies. I've been around too many of these kinds of movies. I've been around too many of these kinds movies.
The Mason Minute
Predictable (MM #4567)
"As most of us know, a lot of movies are formulaic. You encounter them every now and again, even movies you don't really care about. I fell asleep the other night in my chair. My wife had gone up to bed and when I woke up, TV was still going, I think it was on TBS. And there was a movie with former WWE superstar Dave Bautista, I believe it was called My Spy. I had never seen this movie before, I had heard about it, I think I had heard about it, I didn't know anything about it. But I looked up and watched it for about five minutes and he of course is playing some former CIA guy, supposed to watch over a mother and her daughter. I looked up and said, okay, I know exactly how this is going to go. The little girl is going to take a shine to him and well, he's going to end up falling in love with the mother. Went to bed, didn't even think about it, didn't even know what happened. Of course, I said, well, I wonder what happened with the movie, I'll have to look up and see the synopsis of it and well, guess what happened? Exactly what I thought was going to happen. Because some things are so predictable. A lot of those little cute, I don't know, big wrestler guy movies, you know, Hulk Hogan did one, they're big and strong and they end up falling in love with somebody. It's kind of funny how things are predictable. Either that or I've been around too long and watched too many of these kinds of movies. I've been around too many of these kinds of movies. I've been around too many of these kinds movies.
The Mason Minute
Predictable (MM #4567)
"As most of us know, a lot of movies are formulaic. You encounter them every now and again, even movies you don't really care about. I fell asleep the other night in my chair. My wife had gone up to bed and when I woke up, TV was still going, I think it was on TBS. And there was a movie with former WWE superstar Dave Bautista, I believe it was called My Spy. I had never seen this movie before, I had heard about it, I think I had heard about it, I didn't know anything about it. But I looked up and watched it for about five minutes and he of course is playing some former CIA guy, supposed to watch over a mother and her daughter. I looked up and said, okay, I know exactly how this is going to go. The little girl is going to take a shine to him and well, he's going to end up falling in love with the mother. Went to bed, didn't even think about it, didn't even know what happened. Of course, I said, well, I wonder what happened with the movie, I'll have to look up and see the synopsis of it and well, guess what happened? Exactly what I thought was going to happen. Because some things are so predictable. A lot of those little cute, I don't know, big wrestler guy movies, you know, Hulk Hogan did one, they're big and strong and they end up falling in love with somebody. It's kind of funny how things are predictable. Either that or I've been around too long and watched too many of these kinds of movies. I've been around too many of these kinds of movies. I've been around too many of these kinds movies.
Forever35
"five minutes" Discussed on Forever35
"All right. We have returned. All right, get your pens ready because well, this will also be on our website. It will, it will. Okay, hi Kat and door. A listener was asking for gentler retinol. I very sensitive skin as well. I've had better luck using milder options when being mindful of maintaining and repairing my skin's barrier. A few vegan cruelty free options. One, gentler retinols, Paula's choice retinol, vitamin C and peptide moisturizer is $62 for two ounces. It replaces a multi step regimen. Mad hippie vitamin a serum is about $25 for 1.7 ounces. It is fairly gentle and layer as well. They also recommend glow recipe avocado retinol. Two, BHA, AHA alternatives like lactic or glycolic acid serum or essence, biossance lactic acid serum, Paula's choice BHA or AHA serum, the strongest option, glow recipe BHA PCA essence toner mad hippie exfoliating serum, Pacifica glow baby serum. Three, use a calming serum, moisturizer or acids or serum first. The ordinary HA or derma E hyaluronic acid serum, hyaluronic serum, or picnic and all moisturizer on damp skin. Let it absorb, then apply the retinol. Finish with a ceramide barrier repair moisturizer like Pacific a ceramide $17 for two ounces. First aid beauty's 6 moisturizer, $35 for 6 ounces with other calming ingredients, CeraVe moisturizer, $20 for 6 ounces, Pacifica's ceramide line. She could also apply the ceramide moisturizer first. Four, use mild unscented cleansers and don't scrub in the a.m. try something like inky list oat or boots squalling cleansers, $10 for two ounces, to remove makeup, use one of those first and follow with a gentle lathering cleanser like holiday holiday aloe or derma E hyaluronic face wash. 5, during the day, don't use exfoliating products. Instead use a peptide serum or moisturizer like a cure nighttime whipped moisturizer, the ordinary peptide serum and or ceramide moisturizer during the day. 6 zinc based sunscreen, this will help your heal the skin barrier and organic aloe Vera spray, organic rose water or. I would say sick up at 6. Spray can help also keep irritation down. Thanks for the lovely podcast wishing you both happiness and continuing success. Wow, this was comprehensive. Did you catch all of that? I mean, I didn't, and I was reading it. I would say there's so many good recommendations here. It's like, I don't even know. I almost don't even know where to begin, but I'm going to just begin with one thing. Okay. Especially interested in the old Pacific coming back up here. Okay. I only mentioned Pacifica because they were one of the first makeup products I bought like in my 30s. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, great rocks. Thank you, listener. I would love to know if any folks like if any of these resonated, like you've heard these before and you're like, yes, I use this. You know, this also reminded me of a very gentle retinol moisturizer that I also really like, which is the strada night shift. Oh yes. It has encapsulated retinol, but it's only .1, it's only .15% retinol, and it's very gentle. But I think it's a good one. Effective. That is a nice moisturizer, nice nighttime moisturizer. Yeah, good call. Thank you. All right. Well, let's share another listener 5 minute makeup routine. I'm going to let you read this one because that wouldn't was a mouthful for me. Yeah, take a break, have some water relax. All right, here's what this listener says. This is basically my daily ritual in the car on the way to work because getting out of the house on time with two toddlers under 5 is hard, but also my makeup makes me feel a little more put together. Number one, under eye concealer. Currently using Maybelline fit me in fair, taking wrecks on this one. Foundation, milk makeup sunshine, skin tint with SPF 30. Blush currently using eco fabulous powder brush in the camellia. Eyeliner. I'm loving araceli ojos perfectos, araceli ose perfect dose gel pens or eyeliner in gold for daily gold. Oh. Or steal a stay all day liquid waterproof eyeliner and intense black if I want a more dramatic look. Mascara, currently using Ilya, limitless slash mascara, but going to try elf next. Lips usually Burt's bees chopstick or one of my favorite bold matte lipsticks for colors. Sephora, lip stories, and a little magic. Or Fenty beauty, mata moselle in candy venom. Okay, so the Sephora one is a cool red and the Fenty beauty one is quote an amazing fuchsia hot pink that's been discontinued. Oh, how dare you? This combo stays on my face through my 13 hour shifts in my busy pharmacy and doesn't run. Thanks for the awesome pod and parasocial friendship. Well, you're welcome for the friendship. These are great racks. I love this list. I actually just bought a bunch of Burt's bees, lipstick, colors, like they have not lipstick Burt's bees. They're kind of like moisturizing lip balm in different colors. I bought three because I couldn't decide. So I'm testing them out right now. That's exciting, Kate. Yeah, this is just a great quick face of makeup. I love it. And I actually think it almost doesn't matter what the product is. These are just like, this is a very easy slap it on and go. Love that. But I want to ask, like, what is your 5 minute makeup routine? Person listening right now, anybody out there, please send it to us and we'll read it on the pod. Love these. All right, everybody. Tata for now. Bye.
Forever35
"five minutes" Discussed on Forever35
"As far as like things, other things to do and watch out for stuff like that, the dermatologists are pretty on top of keeping up with their patients on that because it's actually a federal law requirement that folks identifying as female have to have a negative pregnancy test every single month. And the doctor has to attest to that before they can get it at the pharmacy. Because it can cause some pretty severe birth defects if that is missed and somebody does end up pregnant while taking it. But yeah, I just wanted to offer that some professional advice. Like I said, I'm a pharmacist, so this is kind of my bread and butter over here. And I wish the best of luck to my fellow listener and thank you all for everything that you do. Been a loyal pod listener for a long time and you bring me a lot of joy on my commute to and from my very difficult job. So thanks. Bye. Community pharmacist. Welcome. Thank you for weighing in with your wisdom. Yeah. We're going to take a little break, and when we come back, we've got gentle, retinol recommendations. Okay. And another 5 minute makeup routine. People are sending us their 5 minute makeup routines, keep them coming. But we're going to bring you another one after the break. All right. Dory, you know, you and I have talked a lot about self care through playing games on our phones. And I just wanted to share my current favorite. Yes. So this is a full on baking game. I open up my mobile game love and pies. And not only do I get to just whip up a tasty treat for customers, making baked goods. But it goes deeper because there's also an investigative element. I get to dig into a salacious drama that involves former loves, maybe Orson. And a missing person's case. It's like the perfect tasty mix of love and drama, which as you know, I am on the hunt for. Yes. You love drama. I love drama. Here's how it works. So the game is split into days. I think I'm on like days, 16, 17 now, and the things that I've discovered about Amelia's family and the police and the cafe was in the state. It was in. Makes the mystery only more intriguing every time I open the app. I am obsessed with all the little stories that are interwoven into this game, plus there's like this mystery about Amelia's kind of shady uncle, a very daughter. A former flame, okay? Trill mixed games creates games that are snackable and nourishing to the heart. They aim to create safe and powering spaces for players of all ages, which we love. With each beautiful game they create their fostering a culture of trust, respect, and creativity, not to mention my renovated cafe is beautiful. And I get to try my hand at creative interior design without doing it in my actual house. It makes it fun and easy to just open the app, play for like 15 minutes here or there and then check in again later before I go to bed. Lulls me into a place of just comfort and relaxation, just like I'd say, a cozy mystery does. I'm listening. For a tasty mix of love and drama download love and pies for free today that's love and pies free to download in the App Store or Google Play. Kate, when you say that our pets are amazing, they're just like wonderful little companions. Mine is not so little, but it's true. It's like 80 pounds. He's like, yeah, he's the size of a second grader. No, bigger. I don't know. Possibly bigger. He's picked. He's a big boy. He's a big boy. But they also come with a lot of things that you have to kind of stay on top of. Oh my goodness, tell me about it. I'm talking about fleas and ticks. Oh, I've been there. I've been there, baby. And there are some Flank treatments on the market, but they are legit like powerful. And some people's pets respond really badly to them. So that's why we are big fans of today's sponsor wonder side because wonder side offers lab proven plant powered bug sprays for pets, families homes and yards. Harnessing the power of nature to do the job. It exceeds the same effectiveness Sanders as conventional products. It's safe around the whole family when used as directed. And it's easy to use. The sprays for dogs cats and people come in for fresh scents you'll love like cedarwood, lemongrass, rosemary, and peppermint. My personal favorite is rosemary. Yes, baby. I love a rosemary scent. I do too. There's no artificial colors fragrances or dyes. So we're talking cruelty free. We're talking vegan. We're talking plant powered. We're talking no artificial colors, fragrances, dyes. It's easy to use, but it works hard the yard sprays are safe for bees and butterflies because we want to keep those. Around. Dory, you might recall that I washed my hair with one of wonder sides, shampoo bars, which are intended for dogs. I do remember that. And my hair felt great, but I actually just used another one of their shampoo bars on my dog penny because penny goes and plays in the mud, and she's got long hair. And so I tested it out on an actual dog, not just myself. And it worked great. I love that. So you can protect your pack from bugs like ticks, fleas, and mosquitos with wonder side. Get 20% off wonder sides flee and tick and insect repellent lineup on wonder side dot com with coupon code forever. That's wonder sea IDE dot com.
Forever35
"five minutes" Discussed on Forever35
"Dory, we have a listener reach out to us. With questions about going on accutane, how to moisturize any products that might be helpful. And we received a lot of responses from people who have been on accutane. And so we'll play a couple of voicemails, but first we received this email. They wrote to us. I had amazing results and regretted that I hadn't done it sooner for my mild to moderate hormonal cystic acne. I'm considering another round, unfortunately, it wore off for me after 7 years, but 6 years of much clearer skin was worth it. Advice, invest in a large tub of aquaphor, a pri liberally to lips every 15 minutes. I thought my dermatologist was joking. He was not. Apply a thick layer on your hands at night and put on cotton gloves a few nights a week, not sexy, but it works to avoid chopped hands. I also love the Jack Black lip blob. Jack Black lip balm. Cut out all actives and just use a very simple, gentle cleanser, moisturizer, and sunscreen. I use purpose cleanser, recommended by my dermatologist and CeraVe p.m.. Stick with it. There is a perch phase, my course took me four months, and I had to increase my dose, but it really worked. And it was so liberating to feel comfortable and confident leaving the house without makeup. Good luck. Wow, I love the firsthand experience. We received a lot, a lot of first handers. Of which you and I are not first handers. I've never tried it. We are not, no, I haven't tried it either. All right, here is a voicemail. Hi, cat and door, long time, save our longtime scan of the pod. I'm calling to give a recommendation for the caller who's starting accutane. I was on accutane in 2020. What a time. And I tried almost everything like Sephora and Ulta, that claims it was moisturizing and my skin was so dry, it hurt, but the number one thing that made it turn around for me was the CeraVe moisturizing cream that comes in the tube. Lathering my face and my body in that means that a huge difference in the therapeutic moisturizing face wash was also a game changer. So best of luck to that listener, I've had great results from accutane after struggling for years with my acne. I'm 33 now and I have never looked back and my skin looks great and my acne has it's been life-changing the results. So I've rarely had a breakout ever since. So highly recommend talking to your doctor and seeing if it's right for you and the CeraVe moisturizing cream and the CeraVe moisturizing moisturizing face wash. So that's a book and thanks for the pot. Love you guys. Okay. Okay. Put it to the prod list, everybody. If you are an accutane, I love how you give everyone a fandom name. The accutane. That's true. I do tend to do that. I do tend to be like a nickname creator. Yeah, I like it. Yeah, it's a little, it can be annoying at times, but I stick with it. Kind of your thing. You're like a nickname? I am a nickname. It's interesting to me. I think one thing, as I've kind of been like refocusing my skin care products on a lot of these drugstore brands, I'm just reminded of the power of CeraVe. Sure. You know, sure. They really like, let's not get sidetracked by flashier things. When CeraVe really delivers the goods. That is that is that is fair. Although I will say, I do not like the CeraVe p.m.. Oh. Okay. That just doesn't do it for me. I just much prefer my vanicream. Hey, look, you know, we all have our personal preferences. Yeah. I'm a vanny girl. Okay, you're a vanity. How that worked for you then, nickname. Fanny girl. I mean, it's okay. I don't hate it. It's very gendered. Yeah, I feel like you could do better, honestly. Yeah. Okay, I'll work on work on the vanicream fandom name. Van fan? A van fam. Fan? Fan fan? I'm trying to think of like a vanicream Vanderpump rules. Mashup. Vanicream rules? No. Fan fam is good. Okay. I like this. All right, we've got it. Okay. Okay, let's hear another voicemail. Hey guys. I was catching up on some back episodes and listening to three 75. I wanted to respond to the caller who was asking about accutane. So I'm actually a community pharmacist, so I deal with accutane all the time. I have tons of folks of varying ages on it. And the main thing with that, it really can dry out your skin, making sure that you have a really nice soothing moisturizer, especially at night, so obviously every person's skin is different, but since this particular listener was using it for cystic acne and stuff like that, you know, I would probably do something like a user and something that's nice and heavy or sick. I know a previous listener had recommended using related skin food on their face. So maybe that might be a spoil me kind of option for them. And also just making sure that you're very, very strict with yourself. So it got done here. Obviously, you were always talking about sunscreen and some protection, but accutane can really make your skin more sensitive to everything, but that includes some exposure and sun damage. And we want to make sure that we're not treating one skin condition and then causing another sunburn and skin cancer. So especially with spring and summer coming up, at least in the northern hemisphere where we are, you know, we want to make sure that we're encouraging folks to protect their skin from sun damage. And then
Forever35
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"We're at 52% of our goal, we're at more than $10,000. I checked today to see if we crossed that $10,000 threshold. Thank you all so much for everyone who's donated so far. We are appreciate you, it's very cool. All right, and we have an announcement. Okay. We're doing another live digital show. We really had so much fun doing the first one. And we're doing another one to celebrate my birthday, quite honestly. Okay. How exciting is this? So this is going to be the Dory's birthday. Digital live show. Do I get to make a toast? Do you feel? Oh my gosh, I'm going to write a toast, and you know what? It's going to be heartfelt. Aw. I'm not going to roast. I'm not going to roast. I'm going to turn it on. Okay. Roasts make me uncomfortable. The toasts make me happy. We are going to have some special guests. This time, it's really, it's going to actually be a party. It will be fun. It's so much fun. Off the cuff. I mean, who knows what could happen? I mean, if you were at the, if you were the first one, you know how much fun this was. And if you missed the first one, I'm very sorry. But now you have the opportunity to come to another one. It is going to, I should probably tell people when it is. Okay. It's Wednesday, may 17th. My actual birthday is may 16th. Just FYI, everybody. And it's going to be at 5 30 p.m.. Pacific time. 8 30 Eastern Time. Ticket info ticket link is in the show notes, we're doing early bird tickets again for the first 48 hours of them being on sales. So if you know you want to go, head on over and get those tickets before the price goes up. It's 48 hours, like I just said. And we'll be talking about this more, but I just wanted to let everyone know that this is happening. In three weeks and not wait, we can not wait to see you there. Yes. Come one come all. We promise it'll be a good time. I always get nervous and excited. It's just going to be it's going to be great. I'm really excited. We get to toast door, the birth of doors. The birth of door, door birth. Also, I have to say that the first live show, the chat was really popping off. Oh, it was like going to my element. It was really fun. It was really fun. And it was fun. My favorite moment once we logged on and we were like, where's everybody from? And then everyone was saying where they were from and it was like this amazing smorgasbord of locales. We just warmed my little heart. It was so much. It was so cool. So we hope you'll be able to join us. Like last time, it will still be available for 7 days after it airs if you have a ticket. So you'll still be able to watch it. You just won't be able to participate in the chat. Or see anything happen live, but you'll still be able to watch it if you can't make it on the 17th. So that's what's going on. Kate, you had a big weekend. Dory, you know, talking about self care, I did what is probably one of my top self care practices, which is I went and saw my favorite band fish and this is going to air and I'll have seen more fish shows after this air is hopefully. But I flew, I flew to Portland, Oregon. I met up with one of my best Friends in the whole world and we drove to Seattle, and we saw our favorite band for two nights. Did you stay over in Seattle or you drove back to Portland? Oh no, it's a three hour drive. So we stayed Friday and Saturday night in Seattle. Yes, the ace hotel. Oh, fun. State of the ace hotel, they have a nice little free breakfast. Just want to give them a shout out, great hard boiled eggs at the ace hotel in Seattle. I love that. But it was great if you're listening to this podcast before you know that fish is my favorite band. Dory by the time of this recording, I will have seen three more shows here in Los Angeles. I will have seen, I think, if I've counted correctly, 84 fish shows in my lifetime. Wow. That's pretty good, right? Before I'm trying to get to at least a hundred. That is so many. I wonder how many of my brothers been to? Should I ask him right now? Yeah, ask him for his brother also a fish head. He and I have met up at a fish show and said hello. And it's just like being with a fish fan Dory. Is it? No. That's very different. You just look similar. We do look similar. Do you look similar? But yeah, you know what? It is, it's exhausting. I will say, I'm tired. It's staying up late. It's dancing. This sounds so old of me, but it's hard. It's hard on the body. And yet you see it as self care. I do because it's my happiest place. My friend and I were talking about this on our drive home of just how we really feel our most authentic selves. There's also kind of the feeling of connecting with something that meant a lot to us when we were younger that still means a lot to us and kind of honoring that, but also growing older and moving forward in life. It's just a really, it's just this music also live music is such a healing, connecting experience. And I think that was something I really feared losing at the start of COVID. When we couldn't go to the beach here in California, everything we couldn't go on a playground. There was just this feeling that we would never get to experience these things that are so transformative and nurturing and needed. And I'm so grateful to be able to see live music again. Yeah. That's really special. It was so much fun. I'm so glad you got the chance to do this. I love fish. I love fish. I love them. I just really do. There are a few forever 35 listeners who also love fish like I do. I don't think there's like a ton of us. Really know there are a few of you out there. Surprises me, actually. Yeah, there are a few. I mean, it's a lot. It is a lot to go see a band, 5 out of ten nights. I mentioned that there's not more fish fans. Oh, in our audience. Our audience, yeah. Well, I think it's hard to be a casual fish fan. You know, like, you can make casual Harry Styles fan and like go to his concert, but like fish, it's a lot. It is a commitment. The songs are long. That is fair. There's a lot of songs, like it's an intense, it's an intense hobby sometimes. Well, I respect that. Thank you. I had a great time. I'm really glad to hear that, Kate. Did your brother respond? He has not responded yet, which, frankly, is rude dairy. How dare he? All right, well then let's take a break. And when we come back, you know what's really interesting this episode, it's like all skin care makeup. Great. So I love it. After the break, we're talking about accutane. All right, we'll be right back. So
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Game of Crimes
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"Still continue to experience that, then you have some problems, okay? Because it was so annoying, okay? Every waking moment that I wasn't focused on something. If I just staffed and kind of looked down and not focused on it, there will be start in my head. It was just stop. And I could not control it. And eventually it all goes away. I talked to my wife who's an agent. And then I talked to some of the squad agents, and then talked to the we had squad bull Sessions, you know, and stuff. So it helped to talk to the squad mates. But at some point in time, if you start having, if you start continuing to have these reactions and you need to seek some psychological help, you know, there's normal normal stuff like loud noises which was scared me and startled me. It's like it's kind of like a jerk reaction. You know? Lack of sleep. I had a sleep because of my injury. I mean, I had my arm in a sling, and I had to have my arm elevated above my heart. For God, 14 months because my arm was still shit. I deadly sleep worth a bowl of beans for a year and a half, you know? Because I had to have, you know, I had to stay on my back. Because the pole holding up my arm had to be on the left side of the bed. I had to steep like this, and that was just like, it was horrible, you know? And I think the answer to that, how many times do you relive it is infinite? Because it just, you know, my partner was shot in 89 there in Miami and highly and it's funny because he and I never, I mean, we've been friends since then, you know, very close friends.
Game of Crimes
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"The gunshots sounded like they were muffled. And things were moving in slow motion, even though I was running for all I was worth, you know? But after I fell back, that's when the world changed. It was like, I was moving through molasses. I was like, it felt lethargic, it was like, there was no pain, but I'm sure I was moving normal. But my sensation was that I was like moving real slow.
Game of Crimes
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"One of them had an assault rifle, one of them had a revolver. And they hit the guard on the head and knocked him down, take his side arm, and they accosted the teller. And that typical words of encouragement, if you scream, bitch, I'll kill you, open the door, that type of stuff. You know, that kind of gets your attention. So the ladies all, you know, nervous stuff. She's all tense and shaking and crying and stuff. And she's, you know, saying, don't hurt me, don't hurt me. So she takes the key and she sticks it into the door knob to unlock the teller island. She was also carrying a teller bag. So when she sticks a key into the teller into the lock, she's so nervous that she breaks the key off inside the lock. That's a lot of nerve to break off one of those keys. That's not an easy thing to do. No, it's not. I mean, you have to admit that took a lot of pressure, okay? Well, you know what? At this point, if I was investigating this robbery, I'd be looking for somebody named Murphy because every time they come out rob, Murphy's law steps in. Well, thank God because if they were actually good at what they were doing, at least up to this point, probably more people might have been killed. They might have got more money, which would embolden them more. But on the other hand, they're getting so they don't seem that they're quite that good at it yet, but as we know with most criminals, right? That's the problem. They might get desperate things are gonna get a little bit worse. Yeah. Well, you know what, though, your comments are spot on because we were thinking the same thing. It was not quite the gang who couldn't shoot straight because God knows it fired a bunch. You know, but, you know, we could tell that they were kind of amateurish at bank robbing. Okay, our armored truck Robbie, because so far, you know, it was like, wow, what the hell, you know? So anyway, so there's teller, this woman basically off and she's crying, she don't kill me, don't kill me, you know? So they threaten her a bit, you know, saying, you bitch, you know, blah, blah, blah, you know, type of stuff. So, you know, they took the guards gun and they took the woman's little killer bag. It was one of those little, you know, not a huge bag, but it was the size of a Manila folder. You know, that type of stuff.
Game of Crimes
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"What shit did you have in your throat right before we start before that sounded terrible. Well, the more I talk, the horse or I get just throughout the day and my wife is always on my butt about go get something to drink because I was coming in here to turn this on. She's like, get you something to drink. I got me a bottle of Gatorade here. Yeah, right, sure. Gator gator 8. Down there in Florida. If you haven't figured it out now, we kind of skipped part of the introduction. Hey guys, welcome to game of crimes. The penultimate true crime podcast on the Internet. By the way, it's the only one. Where we actually talk to the real people involved in the real stories and it's done by real cobbs. Well, one real cop in a sort of want to be used to be a cop, but then kind of became a fed. And one guy that would go get your gas and change your tires. I mean, he's a trooper. Fucking a DEA won't do that for you, pal. It's courtesy and protection. We call trooper. You called troopers. That's right. Hey guys, so welcome back. This is episode 89. Game of crimes. I am here, you know, obviously it's me and Murph. You kind of figure that out by now. But this is gonna be a good one. We'll get into that in just a second. Just a little bit of housekeeping here, head on over to Apple and Spotify, hit those 5 stars. It really helps us out. It really really does. It's helped us bring on some new advertisers. We're trying to take this show to another level. So all of your help really helps us so we appreciate it, head on over to Apple Spotify. Hit those 5 stars, our advertisers do take a look at that. They see what kind of ratings we have. And you guys have definitely helped us out a lot. Also hit on over to our website, game of crimes, podcast
Joseyphina's World
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"Off as if they had been in touch since then she arrived at her auntie's home and then she was received warmly. The three of them chatted for a long while. Catching up cacho. Can you believe fritos about to get married. You should sit up. You're not getting any younger you know. She said in a lighthearted tone but her message was loud and clear. He laughed it off but he excused himself to his room. Not too long after when free to retire to the guest room. She quickly contacted her parents and then her husband to be. They chatted till she does off the next day cut. You drove his mother and freed around town as they went window. Shopping free noticed that he kept stealing glances her in the rear view mirror. She thought his actions to be flattering in the beginning but when he winked at her a red flag waved in her mind. The gesture was harmless in itself. But what she sensed behind. The wink made her cringe. She shrugged the uneasy feelings away. It was an interesting time doing window shopping with her anti. They were able to gather more ideas for her wedding. Bhagat magazines to flip through and make choices even cut. Joe offered some nice suggestions but the days that followed she had to go with cut joe alone her anti had some business to attend to. She didn't see the need to worry because after all cut joe was like a brother right and he was fun to hang out with and fun he was after a few rounds eat suggests they watch a movie or get launch or ice cream. He made it his mission to let her have a good time and a good time she had they would take southeast from time to time and during one such moment as they were goofing around. Gave me been kissed her cheek and his phone captured it. She was stunned and she looked at him for an explanation. He shrugged as if it wasn't a big deal. It's just a kiss on the cheek. Don't freak out. As if i did something serious just brotherly kiss no big deal. Well he was right. It wasn't like she hadn't done worse with her fiance. She let it go. She spoke with kevin every day as she updated him on her progress. He sounded uncomfortable when she informed him. She had been hanging out with her cousin. There's nothing to worry about honey. He's like my big brother. He's been very helpful even if you don't know him well to trust him. Then trust me. I won't let him come between us. She assured him he seemed convinced. She felt relieved after spending about three weeks with her. Anti frieda and cut. Joe had built a report that they felt comfortable discussing about almost anything. She asked him why he was single. A subject she had been wondering about well. I haven't found the right one yet. Many of the ladies these days are superficial. When the fun runs out so do they. Well you can come back to ghana and try your luck. I can't promise you won't run into the superficial kind back home especially with you being a yankee guy and all yeah i know but i don't have to worry much about that now because i think i've already found her. Oh you have. Do you have a photo of her. Yup you wanted to see it. She nodded curious to take a look. He took his phone in the gallery. He tacked a photo of the two of them and showed it to her. she scowled. that's us. I don't understand. He kissed her before her words ended the shock on her face was unmistakable when he leaned in again she stopped him by placing her hand on his chest. I'm engaged to be married. joe. I know but i- feelings for you freda. And i believe it's mutual when he kissed her again she resisted. Don't fight it against her lips. Freda couldn't believe this was happening when he kissed her again. She didn't stop him and she didn't know why she could have but she didn't. They ended up on his bed and before they both realized it was over just when they were both dreading what they had done. The door burst open and there stood her anti what is going on here. Her heart jumped into her tummy seeking refuge. I can't believe you cut. Joe freed your sister for crying out loud. get out before i hit you. She hit him with a pillow on his way out. Free to began crying out of shame. What were you thinking freda. You're about to get married. Why would you do this. I don't know what came over me. I'm very sorry. Cacho has dated more girls than i can count but i didn't think he'd see you as his next target. Maybe it is my fault. I should have worn both of you. I am sorry. She comforted her till she emptied her tear. Glands she left her alone she heard him shout at joe for the next ten minutes. She heard him say something back and then stormed out. Frieda felt so ashamed that she couldn't raise her head properly to eat her dinner. that day. kodjo tried to apologize that she wouldn't hear it. She was supposed to spend two months but she left the following week. Her anti promised to handle the shipment of the things they have ordered for. Kevin could tell something was wrong with freda since she got back but she would brush it. Aside cheat say it was the stress of the wedding planning getting to her but with time she was able to put this hour experience behind her and became herself again about three to the wedding. She fell ill. She wanted to buy drugs from the chemist or hoping to get better but kevin insisted she went to the hospital. She thought it would a malaria diagnosis at worst but she was hit with pregnancy news. What oh no. We should have waited. Kevin said anxious about how to break the news especially to freed his mother. She was one of the outspoken advocates for morality. In church but frida wasn't just bothered about that when she first heard the news. The i thought that struck her was that it was cut. Ios cheers filter is oh no. Don't cry we are going to get through this together. Heaven said trying to comfort her. He had no idea what was going through in her mind. Free to confided in her best friend and the first question she asked was. Did you sleep with kevin. You know i have. That is not. I mean before you left for the states. Yeah i think so. Then you don't have a problem freda as you said. Kevin thinks it's is it could be his. Why are you worrying yourself. What if it's not. I don't want us to start life together on a lie. Well the milk has already been spilt. My dear and there's no point in prying over it. Let's pretend you never did with the yankee boy. And let's think about how to tell your mother. I have a bad feeling about this. Something tells me it's cut ios. It's just the voice of guilt playing on repeat. ignore it. You have a good man who is madly in love with you. Don't let this five minutes out of line cost you everything would if it already has. The ball is in your court. You decide where it goes then came the breaking of the news. As expected freed. His mother was furious. She scolded us for an hour. Reciting all the bible verses. She knew about fornication. She didn't forget to mention how disappointed she was in them. Kevin felt sorry and apologized profusely. Freda was caught up in her own fears to care. She decided to take her friend's advice. And just go with the flow. As long as kevin believed the baby was his. She was good to go but her woes were not over. Apparently her mother and her frustration called her best friend in the states and lamented to her. About what a disappointing child. Her daughter was her friend out of worry. Confronted cut joe telling him about the pregnancy freed is heart left when she received a text message from cut joe out of the blue. She had ignored his calls when she returned and after a week or two. He stopped trying to get in touch with her. Why now is the baby. Mine was the brief but loaded question. Oh no her. Mother had just ruined everything for her. She quickly no. It's not and don't try contacting me again. She sighed in relief when he didn't reply. Maybe you would just back off. If she said it wasn't his then he didn't have to worry about the responsibilities attached but she was wrong about a week to her traditional marriage ceremony cut. Joe appeared out of nowhere in her home. If it was a dream she wanted to wake up immediately but no matter how hard. She pinched herself. The image of cut joe standing in her living room never left. He claimed he just came for a visit but free to new better. She tried to avoid him as long as she could but she found out how that was a mistake. Kevin came over to the house without informing her and the two guys met. Oh so you're the guy who helped my lady around. When she came over yes. I am and what brings you here just came for a visit. I hear the big days around the corner it is. I hope you'd be around for the ceremony. Oh i'm counting on it. Frito was eavesdropping behind the kitchen door. And she knew she was finished after. Kevin left free to decided to face the villain in her story. What are you really doing here. Oh so now you wanna talk Is it because your fiancee passed by. Are you scared that i will spill. Is that why you are here. I just wanted to know if it's mind freda. It's not if it wasn't. Do you think kevin would agree to marry an infertile. How can you know for sure. I am the one carrying the baby. I know. I wish i could believe that. So what are you going to do. Wait around till i deliver and have a look at the baby's face to see if there's a resemblance. Well guess what newborn babies look like everyone. We can always have a dna test for what what is it that you want if it were yours. Are you planning on taking him away from me so you can raise him in the states. Are you ready to be a father. I'm not sure but one thing i'm sure about is my feelings for you frida. I didn't say that the last time so you'd end up in my bed i really meant it if your feelings are genuine. You'd let me go. So i can be with the love of my life. You don't have feelings for me feelings. Come and go. i never had such feelings for you. So you just take a breather. The feelings will soon disappear but you need to leave. I'm sorry but i'm not meeting. I'm getting married in. You're not going to get in the way of that. I know we really bonded when we were together. And if only you'd be brave we could go to the states together and make it work. I'm sorry i don't love you for the last time i'm getting married. Traditional marriage went on smoothly with cudgel lurking in the background by covering ghost about four days to the wedding. Free to began bleeding as much as it was disheartening. Her mother couldn't help hide her delight that the product of her sin was being flushed out. Cut show was crushed. I'm sure there's no more reason for you to stay. I said to him as i was being whisked to the hospital. Unfortunately it wasn't a miscarriage but cudgel didn't need to know that two days later he flew back home with a lame excuse of an emergency back at home. Freda was relieved beyond words. The wedding ceremony took place and it was a lovely one. Two months later she received another tax from cacho. So i hear the baby didn't flush out after all. Just giving you a heads up might touchdown saying oh mommy not again. What would she do copyright josephine amoco twenty sixteen..
Joseyphina's World
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"Was loud and clear. He laughed it off but he excused himself to his room. Not too long after when free to retire to the guest room. She quickly contacted her parents and then her husband to be. They chatted till she does off the next day cut. You drove his mother and freed around town as they went window. Shopping freidan noticed that he kept stealing glances her in the rear view mirror. She thought his actions to be flattering in the beginning but when he winked at her a red flag waved in her mind. The gesture was harmless in itself. But what she sensed behind. The wink made her cringe. She shrugged the uneasy feelings away. It was an interesting time doing the window. Shopping with her anti they were able to gather more ideas for her wedding. Bhagat magazines to flip through and make choices even cut. Joe offered some nice suggestions but the days that followed she had to go with cut. Joe aloneness her anti had some business to attend to. She didn't see the need to worry because after all cut joe was like a brother right and he was fun to hang out with and fun he was after a few rounds he suggests they watch a movie or get launch or ice cream. He made it his mission to let her have a good time and a good time she had they would take southeast from time to time and during one such moment as they were goofing around he'd leaned in and kissed her cheek and his phone captured. It she was stunned and she looked at him for an explanation. He shrugged as if it wasn't a big deal. It's just a kiss on the cheek. Don't freak out. As if i did something serious just brotherly kiss no big deal. Well he was right. It wasn't like she hadn't done worse with her fiance. She let it go. She spoke with kevin every day as she updated him on her progress. He sounded uncomfortable when she informed him. She had been hanging out with her cousin. There's nothing to worry about honey. He's like my big brother. He's been very helpful even if you don't know him well to trust him. Then trust me. I won't let him come between us. She assured him he seemed convinced. She felt relieved after spending about three weeks with her. Anti free to cut. Joe had built a report that they felt comfortable discussing about almost anything. She asked him why he was single. A subject she had been wondering about well. I haven't found the right one yet. Many of the ladies these days are superficial. When the fun runs out so do they. Well you can come back to ghana and try your luck. I can't promise you won't run into the superficial kind back home especially with you being a yankee guy and all yeah i know but i don't have to worry much about that now because i think i've already found her. Oh you have. Do you have a photo of her. Yup you wanted to see it. She nodded curious to take a look. He took his phone in the gallery. He attacked a photo of the two of them and showed it to her. She scowled. that's us. I don't understand. He kissed her before her words ended the shock on her face was unmistakable when he leaned in again she stopped him by placing her hand on his chest. I'm engaged to be married. joe. I know but i- feelings for you freda. And i believe it's mutual when he kissed her again she resisted. Don't fight it. He whispered against her lips. Freda couldn't believe this was happening when he kissed her again. She didn't stop him and she didn't know why she could have but she didn't. They ended up on his bed and before they both realized it was over just when they were both dreading what they had done. The door burst open and there stood her anti what is going on here. Her heart jumped into her tummy seeking refuge. I can't believe you cut. Joe freed your sister for crying out loud. get out before i hit you. She hit him with a pillow on his way out. Free to began crying out of shame. What were you thinking freda. You're about to get married. Why would you do this. I don't know what came over me. I'm very sorry. Cacho has dated more girls than i can count but i didn't think he'd see you as his next target. Maybe it is my fault. I should have worn both of you. I am sorry. She comforted her till she emptied her tear clans. She left her alone. She heard him shout at joe for the next ten minutes. She heard him say something back and then stormed out. Frieda felt so ashamed that she couldn't raise her head properly to eat her dinner. that day. kodjo tried to apologize that she wouldn't hear it. She was supposed to spend two months but she left the following week. Her anti promised to handle the shipment of the things they have ordered for. Kevin could tell something was wrong with freda since she got back but she would brush it. Aside say it was the stress of the wedding planning getting to her but with time she was able to put this hour experience behind her and became herself again about three to the wedding. She fell ill. She wanted to buy drugs from the chemist or hoping to get better but kevin insisted she went to the hospital. She thought it would a malaria diagnosis at worst but she was hit with pregnancy news. What oh no. We should have waited. Kevin said anxious about how to break the news especially to freed his mother. She was one of the outspoken advocates for morality. In church but frida wasn't just bothered about that when she first heard the news. The i thought that struck her was that it was cut. Ios cheers filter is oh no. Don't cry we are going to get through this together. Heaven said trying to comfort her. He had no idea what was going through in her mind. Free to confided in her best friend and the first question she asked was. Did you sleep with kevin. You know i have. That is not. I mean before you left for the states. Yeah i think so. Then you don't have a problem freda as you said. Kevin thinks it's is it could be his. Why are you worrying yourself. What if it's not. I don't want us to start life together on a lie. Well the milk has already been spilt. My dear and there's no point in prying over it. Let's pretend you never did with the yankee boy. And let's think about how to tell your mother. I have a bad feeling about this. Something tells me it's cut ios. It's just the voice of guilt playing on repeat. ignore it. You have a good man who is madly in love with you. Don't let this five minutes out of line cost you everything would if it already has. The ball is in your court. You decide where it goes then came the breaking of the news. As expected freed. His mother was furious. She scolded us for an hour. Reciting all the bible verses. She knew about fornication. She didn't forget to mention how disappointed she was in them. Kevin felt sorry and apologized profusely. Freda was caught up in her own fears to care. She decided to take her friend's advice. And just go with the flow. As long as kevin believed the baby was his. She was good to go but her woes were not over. Apparently her mother and her frustration called her best friend in the states and lamented to her. About what a disappointing child. Her daughter was her friend out of worry. Confronted cut joe telling him about the pregnancy freed is heart left when she received a text message from cut joe out of the blue. She had ignored his calls when she returned and after a week or two. He stopped trying to get in touch with her. Why now is the baby. Mine was the brief but loaded question. Oh no her. Mother had just ruined everything for her. She quickly tucked no. It's not and don't try contacting me again. She sighed in relief when he didn't reply. Maybe you would just back off. If she said it wasn't his then he didn't have to worry about the responsibilities attached but she was wrong about a week to her traditional marriage ceremony cut. Joe appeared out of nowhere in her home. If it was a dream she wanted to wake up immediately but no matter how hard. She pinched herself. The image of cut joe standing in her living room never left. He claimed he just came for a visit but free to new better. She tried to avoid him as long as she could but she found out how that was a mistake. Kevin came over to the house without informing her and the two guys met. Oh so you're the guy who helped my lady around. When she came over yes. I am and what brings you here just came for a visit. I hear the big days around the corner it is. I hope you'd be around for the ceremony. Oh i'm counting on it. Frito was eavesdropping behind the kitchen door. And she knew she was finished after. Kevin left free to decided to face the villain in her story. What are you really doing here. Oh so now you wanna talk Is it because your fiancee passed by. Are you scared that i will spill. Is that why you are here. I just wanted to know if it's mind freda. It's not if it wasn't. Do you think kevin would agree to marry an infertile. How can you know for sure. I am the one carrying the baby..
Everyday Guru
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"I didn't do the things i wanted to do. Because i was so busy about. All these other things weren't meaningful to me. So right and i did. I tell people always going to be work. You're always gonna have work work. Don't be like. Oh when when i complete i complete that well you know what life can happen in life. There's always going to be conflict is always going to be emergency. Always going to be work. There's always going to be something you know. And that's a really good point because that's when people say things like that that i'll do this later. It's like they're they're giving up their life now for a future life and the idea that afflict time love life is to love the life you have right now and while you also create the life of your dreams or co create the live your dreams. It's a both end. It's not an oar because many people look at time like the whole idea of of ballots right like they're looking for work like balance or looking for whatever and and that visual. I have i see. Is this like this teeter. Totter rights like work. Life is and it's like well that. I don't want either one of those right now. What we're both to be you know Good i did not a you know. That's the problem with that idea of the the the balance right because there's no such thing as balance right so This idea flipping time is based on the maslow's hierarchy of needs pyramid. So you may remember this from your psychology courses that we had this pyramid needs and it it starts with your your basic human needs which are physical needs water shelter. Yes well and i really was very evident that this is a basic human need during the early times of the pandemic and that is because what was the first thing everybody was pursuit of paper. What i mean. You don't get more physical think about it. It was like so like apparent to me. I was like oh my gosh. Everybody's going back to the base the base of the needs and then the next one is safety security. Will that to been hugely important to people more so than you know. Maybe nine eleven was the last time as a as a nation or know world that we've been so security safety conscious And so that is still very forefront. Right when are we going to be able to go back to normal. Because everybody's like feeling so unsure about the future And then then you have your your steam needs your relationship needs and then you have self actualization and that goes back to what i said about flow and zone of genius and in a meaningful work and you know following your bliss. Follow your called adventure or whatever it is. It is your yours to do right so the pyramid get smaller at the top right. It's like i but it but the top is what were we all want to have more in our life. So i'd like well then instead of our way up a pyramid. Let's just flip the pyramid. Just totally change the way you look at things ride. So that the way you look at things changes and that's a A quote and it's think of it. Yeah i threw up all the time. I'm always putting my foot in my mouth. Yeah no. I didn't say it's i wanna make sure attributed to the person but change the look at things the way you look at things changes so if you look at the way you change the way you look at this right and you say okay. I'm going to put meaningful work by zona genius myself actualization my flow. I now i may just may at the beginning b. five minutes a day. But i'm going to put that first and then what i found is for myself and so many other people is everything else becomes better..
Everyday Guru
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"Welcome to the everyday group. Podcast jared tiffany. Each week we interview everyday gurus who wisdom love and laughter. Hope field story that needs to be shared with the world. We love receiving feedback. Please share leave a review. Our best of all voice message and you find value in our podcast. Please consider supporting us for as little as ninety nine cents a month by visiting anchor dot. Fm forward slash every move forward slash.
How to Live A Fantastic Life
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"Sure our audience will get advantage of that. So thank you. Thank you, thank you. Absolutely. And so it becomes, and you know this because you're in connection with people who are changing lives. It becomes a responsibility and how can we go more? How can we do more? And really, the thing that's so important and I'm sure your book mentions this as well is that it starts with purpose. It starts with knowing why you were meant to be on this planet to do something. I was not meant to do defense contracting. I was not meant to secure medical workers. I was meant to do what I'm doing right now. Help bring balance to people's lives, help people. And I'm going to interject there again because again, we're so far in sync. It's crazy. In our golden pearls, amongst our golden pearls, is purpose, and purpose in the Japanese sense is ikigai, which has four parts, and what one of them is you seek meaning another part is what other people want from you. Last one is what you get paid for. So they have four parts that they combine in this ikigai. So every time people should think of their purpose, they should think of four things and a part time ikigai is just to look around and decide what you like doing and what you can do for others. Those are two of the most important elements. Again, there is a ton of synergy. I speak to these things on stage quite often or virtually now, but the sweet spot is if you can find something that you love. And that thing that you love, you have a way to help other people and you could make money doing it. To me, like that's that tree. Well, there's three of the four and we look forward as purpose itself, so we've got all four out of the four. That's the guy. So I've been preaching it with that knowing the Japanese term for it. Well, doctor Richard, you're going to get a free copy of my book because I like to read. And in there, you will see the diagram of it. So it really makes it even more clear when you see the diagram because it just, of course, that's purpose. And it just hits you like a zeitgeist like substance amazing. That's awesome. Yeah. I mean, when we had our talk on my show, there was a tremendous amount of synergy, which is now one thing I want to do two things before we get off the show. One is I want to give a gift to all our guests. Something called golden pearls. And all they have to do is text this number one 8 one 9 7 one 7 25 15. One 8 one 9 7 one 7 25 15. The word gold and pearls. The reason why I'm saying that is because you will find out more about doctor Richards philosophy. He's already come up with four of my golden pearls and you will get that and more of this. If you want more insight from our book, my book, go to Amazon.com the secrets to living a fantastic life, doctor Alan leica and you can get a copy for just 99 cents. So I'm not giving that away because I think people have to put a little bit of sweat in the game. But if you don't have 99 cents, call me, I will give you a copy. I just want you to experience the stuff if you have any problems going on. I'd also like to give you a free consultation, a free mind setting session.
How to Live A Fantastic Life
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"So I sponsor to show an event for extremely talented women in Edmonton. And I did that because women in Edmonton everywhere are not getting the acceptance that they really, they are not getting the applause. You know, it's you and I, doctor Richard, that got applause along the way. A woman in those days would not get applause, in fact, men would look right over them. They'd look at two equally qualified women and say, geyser, I'll take the guy a 100% of the time. So I said, no, this has to change. Why? Because I've got four daughters and a wife, and they, I didn't want them to go through that. You know, it was as far my family. So I started, I started along a path where I started to get back. And there I met an amazing woman, because she applied for an award. Called the turning point award, her name is Harriet takea. She's a gorgeous black lady, and she went through a path similar to ours. You know, she was a world class model, you know, top of the she was burnt out. So she went to the university of Calgary, and a very evil man attacked her, stabbed her and left her for dead. Now, along the path, a real bright girl who was rehabbing at the same time her, said to her, you know, Harriet, you are stupid, she said. You should be giving back to others in inspiring others. So this little girl said to Harriet, you should do that. She saw this award, I was giving, applied for it. Now, after the award, Harriet up came up to me and said, doctor leica, can I take you for lunch? And you and all we have lunch in case she came up with the idea of let's write a book. The secrets to living a fantastic life. And while we talked, we realized there were golden pearls of wisdom. Things that we both knew, and I bet you you have some of them, too, Richard, because these pearls are universal. These pearls are there. Let me try one of them on you. It's not what happens to you. It's what you do with what happens. Is that something you know inside of you and realize? Well, absolutely. Okay, another one, another one. Love. Do you know love do you feel loved you give love? Yes, indeed. Another golden pearl, another what about inspiration? Are you inspired or give inspiration to somebody else? Check. My goodness. You're going to take my 13 golden pearls and light it yourself because these are universal. These we put these in a book. Now, Harriet and I became famous for this book because we put out the book during the great pandemic of 2020. We became a bestseller on the first day it was out. That's how many people needed this.
How to Live A Fantastic Life
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"This car that I'm so proud of, I can't take that with me or my watch or the other useless things I was buying. And I just realized in that moment, the shame, this guilt that my parents were going to get a call out of Saturday night that their son was dead. All of these things were weighing very heavy on me. I'm just going to interject for a minute because I had a near death experience too, but mine was in slow motion. I suddenly developed a right foot drop when I was in Disneyland. I saw a world leading neurologist and he said, doctor leika, you have 6 months to live, get your affairs in order. So mine was in slow motion. I was given 6 months. But you know, the doctor was wrong, thank God. That was in 2003, and it's now 2020. So I went through just about everything you did. I went through anger. I went through bargaining. I went through denial. I went through depression. You know, those are the phases that Elizabeth kubler ros says from the book on death and dying everybody goes through when they're dying. Yeah. Yeah. Now the last phase, the last phase is the toughest one. It's accepted acceptance. You and I did not accept the thing. We kept on going. Why didn't you accept it? What kept you from accepting it? Well, so spoiler alert I survived, right? And I kind of went through those first four stages in about two seconds. And I don't think these are stages. I think they all occurred to tediously, but our brain can only process one of them. So one second it's anger, the next one's bargaining, the next one's depression. So I broke my spine in this accident. And it took me a long time to recover and gave me a lot of time to think. And I would love to say to you and your audience that, you know, this moment, I like angrily shook my fist at the sky and said, from this moment on, I will only be altruistic. It wasn't like that at all. I actually went back to that role with that company that I was running for two years. Two years because I was so stuck in paralyzed by fear, fear of moving on because I didn't know what in the world I would do with my life, fear of the unknown, fear of letting down all these people that I told I was going to be a huge success. And so I went back to work and every day, there seemed like more and more of the color was kind of sucked out of the world. And I just was increasingly miserable until one day and you know this certainly a lot of people are motivated to change by fear by pain. I had had just enough and I quit I walked away from this 80 hour a week. Again, history is repeating itself. Again, we have mirror lives. I was a cosmetic doctor for 20 years, a top cosmetic doctor, a top one, and it was killing me. I'd work 18 to 20 hours a day. I love my patients, but they put such demands on me. Yes. Last year I had to walk away, you know? What I started to do was when I started to come out of my anger denial depression thing. I said, you know what can I do? Maybe I can feel better by starting to give back..
How to Live A Fantastic Life
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"Doctor Allen like a year and I'd like to welcome you to how to live.