20 Burst results for "Judy Short"
Animal Radio
A highlight from 1249. Catifying Your House With Jackson Galaxy
"Celebrating the connection with our pets, this is Animal Radio, featuring your dream team, veterinarian Dr. Debbie White and groomer Joey Vellani. And here are your hosts, Hal Abrams and Judy Francis. Just another tremendous show in what happens to be, I believe, the third episode of the season of stars by accident. The what? Well, we usually have the season of stars here on Animal Radio. Yeah, that went a couple months. A couple months. It went almost a year. Yeah, I guess it did. Holy moly, yes. And it's happening again for some reason. All the celebs are coming out. We had Joyce DeWitt on a couple weeks back. Today, Charlotte Ross will be joining us talking about the animals that she loves and has in her world. Next week, country star Lori Morgan will be joining us. And there's rumor that Hilary Swink will be joining us here in the near future. I love her. Oh, don't you though? And they love their animals too. And I know why she's going to be on. And this is going to be very, very, very cool. I just put two and two together here. Good for you. Good for you. You know who's on today? It's Jackson Galaxy, who's the big, he's like the cat whisperer. Yeah, he is. This will be his second or third time, or in Judy's head, maybe his sixth or seventh time. 13th. On Animal Radio. He's actually talking about his new book called Catification, which tells you how to turn your house into a cat friendly. That's cool. Yes. Into a cat house. A cat house. Cat friendly house. Basically, yep. So let's get going right here. What do you got, Tammy? What are you working on today? Well, you know, it's so hard if you have animals to find a place to rent. Everybody knows that and it's so terribly expensive. But there is one city in Northern California that may be putting a stop to landlords saying, no, I won't rent to you because you have a cat, a dog, a guinea pig, a fish, a bird or whatever. Well, I know that happens a lot. Hopefully you'll have answers for us coming up in just a few minutes right here on Animal Radio. Joey, what are you working on? Well, you know, I'm going to respond to getting yelled at this week for not getting someone in their holiday appointments that are coming up because we're already booked for the holidays. So I'm going to give people a tip on how to sneak their pets in real easy. You run and you open the door and you throw them in and you close the door and you take off. That usually works, too, but we boot them right back out at that point. Tips with Joey Vellani, the dog father, just a few minutes right here on Animal Radio. We welcome Steve to the show. Hi, Steve. Hi, how are you doing? Good. Where are you calling from today? Costa Mesa, California. Costa Mesa. Okay. Listening in Los Angeles. How can we help you? I got the whole team here for you. Yeah, I have a dog. I adopted him about seven years old now. It's a Red Morale Australian Shepherd, purebred. I adopted him about five years ago when he was two from the pound.
The Maverick Paradox Podcast
A highlight from Power is different to influence
"In this episode, I speak to Dr Karuna Ramathan about when a leader's ambition hides its vision and how power is different to influence. We discuss the challenges of large -scale change programmes including the importance of aligning the organisation's vision and the need for a collective consensus. We discuss the possibility of a culture shift within organisations and the challenges faced during large -scale change programmes. We also highlight the importance of collective will, new skills and leadership development in navigating complex change initiatives. In this conversation, we discuss the importance of influence in leadership and the difference between power and influence, emphasising that influence is often underestimated and requires effort to develop whilst power can be easily taken away. I create clear thinking and decisive leaders who can amplify their influence. Contact me to find out how I can help you or your organisation. And today, our guest is Karuna Ramathan. How are you doing? Absolutely well, Judy. Thanks for having me here.
Animal Radio
A highlight from 1248. Pet Prenups. Who Gets The Dog?
"Celebrating the connection with our pets. This is Animal Radio, featuring your dream team, veterinarian Dr. Debbie White and groomer Joey Vellani. And here are your hosts, Hal Abrams and Judy Francis. Dr. Debbie, she practices in Los Angeles. I don't know why she still practices. Los Angeles? I'm sorry. Las Vegas. I was going to say that was a mistake. She practices in Las Vegas, and I don't know why she's still practicing. She really does a fine job. I think she could move on to the actual thing right now, but she can answer your questions because she sees all kinds of weird, strange animals in Las Vegas. And you do see those in Los Angeles too, strange animals. And those are just the people. Yeah, those are two -legged kind. Hi Cheryl. Hi. What's going on with your animals? I have a nine -year -old Jack Russell Terrier that gets carsick. She's a real timid little dog and she gets really nervous in the car and took her on a trip to try it out. It was about a two -and -a -half -hour long trip and she threw up the whole way there. And on her way back she was exhausted, so she slept. But the problem is we were going to go on a vacation for about four days, and in the past we had another dog that we had to put down a couple months ago, and we would just leave them both at home and have someone come in and take care of them several times a day. And that worked out fine, but we really didn't want to leave her alone. And she's never really been kenneled. So I guess my question is, is there anything you can do for the car sickness? I believe it's caused by her getting really nervous. Yeah, yeah, definitely. There are things we can do for pets that have this problem, but you brought up a good point there is that for some pets it's truly a motion sickness problem, but for others it's really more of an anxiety -driven problem. And we can treat for motion sickness, but if they've got anxiety or fear for car travel, then it doesn't necessarily help them. So the first thing is to really kind of figure out which situation it is. If the sight of your car or just sitting in the car gets your dog salivating and gets them worked up, then we might be dealing more with an anxiety problem. Then if they're happy -go -lucky, they're in the car for a while, and then they get sick, that might be more of a motion sickness. So first thing is really the main way to treat this is to really condition the pet for car travel. So that's basically going to mean that we're going to slowly work up to exposures in the car and preferably not take them for that to our car ride until they are actually acclimated to the car. So we want to start really baby steps. So we get them maybe close to the car, we treat them, we give them goodies, we make it a pleasant experience, then we work up to opening the car door, making them sit in the car seat, coming back out, and then gradually turning on the car with the pet in it to actually going down the driveway. And as we do this, we're only doing little steps. So if at any point the pet shows fear, anxiety, or gets sick to their stomach, we stop because we're not going to win anything by trying to battle through it. We want to make it short, good exposures and make that car become a great thing that they become accustomed to. So that's how we work through that aspect. And eventually we build up to longer and longer exposures within the car. Now to do that, you might need some other tools to help you. And there's some kind of natural steps we might try. And then there's going to be also some different types of medications that we can look at. So if we're looking at a pet that has true motion sickness, I'm going to go for more or like Dramamine a drug called Cerenia. Both of those, you can talk to your veterinarian about the right doses, and they can be helpful for a lot of pets with car travel.
Animal Radio
A highlight from 1247. Should Homeless People Have Pets?
"Celebrating the connection with our pets, this is Animal Radio featuring your dream team veterinarian Dr. Debbie White and groomer Joey Vellani and here are your hosts Hal Abrams and Judy Francis. Ah, boo! You scared? No. Okay. Happy Halloween to you and all of your animals. There you go. Yes. We'd love to hear from you today. We can talk to Dr. Debbie or dog father Joey Vellani and we'd love to see their pictures of your costumed animals over at our Facebook page. So make sure that you upload those along with your videos over there. We're going to head to the phones for your calls right now but first let's find out what's going on in the newsroom. Ms. Lori Brooks, what are you working on? You know we're all big animal supporters here and there is yet a new study out that talks about the benefits of having animals with children specifically in the classroom. This is like far from the days of when I was a kid and our classroom pet was an ant farm. But I did love that ant farm and I used to take that home during the summer and well just one summer because, well, they didn't come back home. Hi. Who is this? You talking with me? I'm talking to you. You talking to me? I'm talking to you. I'm not talking to you. Okay. I'm Lucy. Hi Lucy. How you doing? I'm doing good. Where are you calling? Right now I'm calling in from Maryland. When I called you originally, I was in Arizona. You get around? Yes.
Animal Radio
A highlight from 1246. Cat Thwarts Suicide
"Celebrating the connection with our pets. This is Animal Radio featuring your dream team veterinarian Dr. Debbie White and groomer Joey Vellani and here are your hosts Hal Abrams and Judy Francis. Well it is very ghoulish in here today. All of the animals dressed up in their Halloween costumes and we ought to just get a group picture or a picture of some of these animals and put them up on the website because it is so absolutely adorable. Most of them like it. Except I think Nick Nicky is having trouble with. There is nothing going on in that gal's head. She just did not want to wear a hat. And who can blame her. You know some animals really get into this holiday and then some you know would rather just be curled up underneath the couch during that time because everything looks foreign to them and it kind of freaks them out. They can be freaked out real easy. Yeah I know my cat. I have a headband with horns and I can sit right there and look at him and I put the headbands on and he arches up and I take him off and he sits back down. I put the headband on and he arches up. Yeah Nicky she has a thing where we walk through the neighborhood neighbors put up a lot of those little fake gravestones and the ghouls crawling and she every year she gets really just disturbed and it takes her a couple times of walking around the neighborhood to see this until she realizes they're really not crawling out of the earth to get her. Now of course this is a busy time of the year at the office for you because of all of the candy and all the crap that the dogs ingest right? Yeah well there's a lot of not just the chocolate but the other candy so you know dog that eats lollipops. You know there's things like the physical hazards of the foreign objects of having a lollipop stick in their stomach. So we see that kind of thing and then just you know the sweets. There's so many different things when when kids have those things and they have them around their toys then those toys might even smell like sweets and then I've seen it happen in my own household where anything next to the candy was ingested because it has that strong odor. So they really can get into a lot of foreign object ingestions as well as you know the risk of the candy. Not just chocolate but don't they you know that fake sweetener what is that Xylitol? Xylitol yeah so and a lot of people think that giving sugar -free gum is a great alternative to these sweets to kids but a lot of the sugar -free gums contain Xylitol which is very toxic and actually believe it or not one piece of this can actually kill a dog. Hi Ellen. Hi how are you? Good where are you calling from today? I'm calling from Clearwater Florida. Clearwater Florida you had that kind of New York accent. Did you go from New York? Ah that's what I thought.
The Podcast On Podcasting
A highlight from Ep395: End Your Content Creation Struggles With These 4 AI Tools - Dino Cattaneo
"These tools are a lot more powerful, and as a matter of fact, a lot of the podcasting tools actually connect into the chat GPT engine to spit out the results. 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. What's up, podcaster? It's your host, Adam Adams. And about 70 -ish episodes ago, you guys had a really cool guy come on the podcast and you probably learned a lot from him. It's Dino Cattaneo, who was episode 331, basically talking about that your show needs to have goals and why does your show need to have goals? How do you track those? How do you track progress? We talked a little bit about that in episode 331. The link will be in the show notes. And guess what? There are some other links that are going to be in the show notes as well because today we're talking about AI, artificial intelligence. And Dino and I have been friends and connected for a while. He was a client for a short time as well, like a year and a half. I met him a couple of years ago at a conference and now we're hanging out again at this most recent conference. And while there, he was inspired by AI. And so there was a few different companies that were there. And I think he's also looked into other companies as well. And so what he's trying to figure out is how do we make our podcast easier? How do we make it more efficient? How do we make it just happen? And so he looked at Cap Show, podium, chat GBT and Memento. So all four of those links will be in the show notes as well. We're going to be talking about them now. Go back to episode 331 to learn more about Dino and which goals you need to have for your podcast, how to track it and why. And today we're talking about AI. Dino, how are you, my friend? I'm good, Adam. It's so good to see you. Very excited. We got to spend a lot of time together in Denver at the conference and it was very cool to be able to reconnect after two years and after all the work that we've done together. And yeah, so AI has been at the forefront for me in the past few months as it is for many podcasters and creative people. I think the world overall got a huge wake up of the course of the past year. It came into our life in a way that is maybe a little different. My wife is a songwriter and a songwriting professor. She taught for 20 years at Berklee College of Music. She left Berklee to fully dedicate her career to just the songwriting part, if you will, but is also teaching DevAster to stay to teach one of the online classes. And this class is a broader class on creative writing and they have assignments every week and they're writing assignments. And keep in mind, these are students who spend not a little amount of money to take a creative class to become better writers. And at some point, one of the students emailed my wife and told her that they felt that somebody else in the class was using chat GPT for the assignments. And it felt like a big betrayal in some ways. It felt like silly, if you will, on the part of somebody who's making that huge investment to become a better writer and then they're not really doing the work, which is how you become a writer. But it also sparked a big conversation for me, her and some of her songwriters and friends around what is an ethical use of AI, you know, as a creator. And on the other side, aside from being a podcaster and an executive coach, I'm a partner in a marketing agency and that's a conversation that we're having internally. What role is AI going to play for us? What is fair and what is not fair? What is the baseline that AI needs to set up for you if you're in the creativity business? And it turns out that this year, the conference had a really big series of tracks around AI. And I want to give another shout out, I think, to Culture & Code who was present at the conference and did a fabulous session the day before the conference started around the use of AI. Culture & Code also has a newsletter that talks about the use of AI and creativity. They're very sophisticated and they're one of the places where I go to learn myself. So if you're interested, it's cultureandcode, spelled U -R -E -A -N -D -C -O -D -E .io. And they have a thesis that John, who is the main person, used this parallel that really resonated with me. And he said that when people invented the camera and movies, they didn't invent them to just go do the theater and film a play, right? The fact that they had this new medium generated a whole series of additional creative uses where there was like the different angle cuts using special effects, et cetera. And his underlying theory, which I subscribe to to a certain extent, is that AI will do the same for creativity. We will get to a point where AI will be a tool that we use and will generate new level of creativity. There's other, I think, bigger issues because the reality is that AI eliminates a lot of the manual labor that goes into creative work. And there's certainly uses, if I think about my other world, which is the marketing world, if you think about when you're writing really tactical copy for acquisition creative, get an offer of 5%, get an offer of 10%. And you're testing it. And that, by the way, there was in that world, the using of data and simulated AI, even though it's not real AI, the use of data driven automation to optimize, to swap taxes already in place. But that's definitely a consideration. And someone else recently wrote about this is Rand Fishkin, founder of SparkToro, maybe known to your listeners more as one of the top four or five authority on SEO from the mid -2000s to now when he was working with Moz. And he said that basically what AI will do is replace the work of sort of the content factories that are just spitting out trite copy based on mechanical SEO rules. But what will never be replaced by AI is like the genuine great writing. So I came to the conference and I'm coming to you and your listeners, not as an expert, but as somebody who is smack in the middle of that journey, is trying to figure it out for himself, for a number of people that he works with. And I'm very happy to talk about the things that I discovered along the way. So let's do that. You looked into CapShow, Podium, Chad GPT and Memento. Well, my experimentation with AI started out probably a few months ago with Chad GPT. And Chad GPT has a free version, which is an older model. And then it has the paid version, which is the latest model. And they just announced an enterprise version. And then I also experimented just for fun for myself with MidJourney, which is an image generator. And so one thing I may butcher this, but one thing that made really clear what AI is to me and so that people can understand the term artificial intelligence in terms of what the technologies right now may be a little misleading, like AI is basically the of processing enormous amount of data, the finding relationships between these data, calculating probabilities. And so basically, if you think about you ask a question to AI, you give it a task. AI goes through all this data and sees what are the closest possible relationships and then spits out an answer. So I had that experience. I came to the conference. I tested CapShow because of Harry Duran from Fullcast, who told me he was using that. And actually, the second tool that I tried, which is Spodum, and I'll have some examples from them here. They were next to your booth. Oh, OK. Yeah, right next to me. Right next to you. And they were making the book. And so I tried that. There's another tool and I will have the name or I will send you the link before the episode if I don't manage to get the tool during the episode. That is a video tool. The reality overall is that this year AI is exploding and we're in a really, really early phase. And so you can go on Google and say text AI tools or best AI tools and you'll find a lot of tools. And one of the advantages of being in the phase right now is that everybody will have free trials. And so you can try the different tools and look at AI for podcasters, try the different tools and see what works for you. And in some ways, if you remember about 10 years ago when the social media management tools started coming out, right, Hootsuite, whatever the other tools were, you could get a subscription for $9 .99 because they were all in the land grab mode. They wanted to get customers. Now it's very hard to get a very good social media management tool for less than $49 .99. They've matured. The best tool have survived. A lot of tools have gone by the wayside. And AI is in that new frontier phase with the tools. Yeah. Another tool that I tried and I really like the CEO, David, is a tool called Memento and it's, I think, studio .memento .fm or memento .fm. And they found me actually in November of last year pitching me on LinkedIn because I had podcaster and so I was part of their beta Memento. The tool has evolved now. It's more sophisticated video editing tool. But at the time they took my episode, they basically just from the RSS feed and then they generated a transcription. They found like the five or six moments that they felt were most interesting in the episode. And then they gave me like five options of a video that has those moments already, different formatting, a tagline. So that's a lot of what the tools are doing now. Let me interrupt. I'm sensing what is the listener thinking right now? And I think they're like, well, what do each of these tools do? And if Dino's looked into them, how does he like them for that thing? So what does Capchio say that they do and how do you like them? What does Podium say that they do and how do you like them? Same thing with chat, GPT and Memento. What use do they have and for our listener who's a podcaster and like, is it good for that? What would you say if we went down that list? So the tools that you mentioned, Capchio, Podium, Memento, those are tools that are specifically targeted at podcasters. Chad GPT is one of the two or three dominant A .I. models like the BARD by Google. There's the one by Bing. And so what do you mean they're barred by Google? What is that? Google, they're basically an A .I. engine is one of the systems that have all the data and does the calculations and does the creative. So there's Chad GPT, which is from open A .I. is the one of the best known one. But Google has its own, which is called BARD, which you can join, which does similar things to Chad GPT. And then Bing has a tool. These tools are a lot more powerful. And as a matter of fact, a lot of the podcasting tools actually connect into the Chad GPT engine to spit out their results. But if you will, they put a layer on top of it. So I'm going to just stick to the podcasting tools and I'm going to talk about the use, which is the easiest, which is you have just recorded your episode. You need to do show notes. You want to create maybe social media posts from it. You want a transcription. You want to find the part that are more interesting. So all of these tools allow you to upload an episode. And then after a little bit of time, they give it to you. So I have tried that with Memento, as I mentioned in the past, when it was in the beta phase with CAPTCHA and with podium CAPTCHA. I found the interface very complicated in some ways. It doesn't give you the result immediately. It makes a transcription and then wants you to do edits. I tried the free version for two weeks and then it charged me when I went back this week to do the test with the episode that you and I were a part of. It had basically charged me, but it had erased my old files and I wasn't able to upload the file from our episode. So I can't speak to it. I don't want to be overly negative on the tool because I know that Harry Duran has been using it for a while and finds it very helpful. I probably didn't get enough time to figure out how it worked. But the reality is that when I tried podium, the output for me was a lot easier and faster to come through. So podium, you upload the episode and then it shoots two or three text files that you can download that have various things. So there's a highlights file, there's a show notes file, and then there's a transcription. And maybe something that may be helpful is I can go into the show notes from the episode that you and I did together episode 331 and just tell our listeners a little bit of the things that it said. Because to put that in context, imagine you're just dropping this into browser a and then about 10, 20 minutes later, you get all this out. So it starts with like episode keywords, podcasting, authentic leadership, listenership, content creation, refining questions, etc. Then it gives me title suggestions, exploring authentic leadership, meaningful content creation and client acquisition in podcasting. That's an example. This is the episode where you and I were talking about having goals, navigating the odyssey of podcasting, art of authentic leadership and content creation for podcasts, chasing success in podcasting through authenticity and creativity. The journey for authentic leadership to client acquisition in podcasts, mastering the art of podcasting, leadership content and client acquisition, exploring the power of authenticity and creativity in successful podcasting. So I will say real quick, I like a couple of those spit out maybe seven ideas, but I like a couple of them better than what my team ended up titling it. And that is the point. I think that this makes the heavy lifting faster because right now, if I have to come up with the title right now, instead of starting from scratch, I have the seven that I can look at. And none of them really works. But I can mix these two and create this one. And this is how I've been using it. I've done two episodes from my podcast, taking a look at the output from podium, and that's what I've been using it. What's really helpful is if I go, it gives me three different potential episode summaries with different flavors. Right. One says, prepare yourself for a journey into the heart of podcasting as we explore the heart of authentic leadership and help you navigate the path to success. This episode promises you the knowledge, the insights and the inspiration to grow your listenership, make money and stay true to your authenticity. Join me as I share my personal podcast journey ignited by the spark of Judy Fox and Rachel Cook evolving into an odyssey of regular content creation. Now, some of this is not really my voice, but re editing this or your voice for that matter, since it was your podcast. But re editing that podcast, right, we in the summary, creating maybe an intro. And then there's an alternative that says as you navigate the podcast world, hoping to make are you navigating the podcast world, hoping to make a mark? We've got insights from my own journey in this episode, right from the spark of inspiration from Judy Fox and Rachel Cook to regular content releases. So this is like a slightly different, more like I'm engaging the listener here. And another then alternative listening as we navigate the path of authentic leadership in podcasting, where most podcasters fall short of their goals. This episode takes you behind the scenes of my podcast journey, started from inspiration, blah, blah, blah. And they have I've read you the first paragraph from each example. Each one of the summaries is three paragraphs that I could take and probably get my notes done once again in a lot faster than it is. Right. And if you notice earlier, it talked about what were the main keywords, the keywords are put in the summaries in a way that would make sense for SEO. It does it. I love that. And I'm sorry that I'm cutting you off real quick. I'm very curious if it gives bullet points as well as the three paragraphs. So this is the summary episode chapters. So it comes up with four episode chapters, authentic leadership in podcasting, tips for creating meaningful podcasts and time, by the way. So it says twenty seven thirty finding the right clients being authentic. And then episode chapters with short key points. I just pick one in the middle. Thirty three fifty four. The importance of podcast editing, understand goals, determine resources, outsource podcast editing, invest in a professional editor for best listener experience, and then it has full summaries where you get a full paragraph. So if we go to the same point, important about editing, we explore the importance of understanding your goals for your podcast. And now this can help determine the amount of time and resources you're willing to commit to it. We learn why Dino Cattaneo chooses to outsource podcast editing and the cost of doing so. We also discover the value of investing in a professional editor in order to provide the best experience for your listeners. This is a very legit one paragraph summary of that part of the episode. Yeah, I like it. And as I said, and I love also that it leaves some of it up to the imagination. Like it's very good at not just giving the answer, but telling you what to listen for. Exactly. I think what you need to remember is that what we talked about, AI is really a statistical analysis of relationships and probabilities, right? So they transcribe the episode. They went through it and figure out like the most probable combination of how someone would use it is this. It doesn't have a voice right now, meaning a creative voice. So it's a little mechanical, but it allows you to just put in the time that you need to make it in your voice to make it more authentic to you. And it has all the information and the facts already collected for you. Yeah, it's really cool. So you mentioned earlier there was Cap Show. You said it was the interface was a little bit challenging for you. Yeah. It just wasn't more complicated than, for example, podium. The difference is that Cap Show, you need to walk through all the steps to create all the different things and give it direction. So in some ways, it's probably once you learn it, it's more powerful. Well, 100 percent on the fact that I did not invest the time into learning it. On the other side, the fact that my two episodes are gone and that yesterday I could not upload the episode, that's a technical fail. And then if you are all these tools, as I said, collect your episode and run it through an AI model. A lot of them use Chad GPT, but Chad GPT in itself is a very powerful tool for bigger content creation. So because AI is a statistical tool, the key thing is the prompt, right? You give the prompt, you tell AI, OK, create this for me. So write this for me for this audience in the voice of. So in Chad GPT, for instance, you can upload a bunch of pages of your writing and then say, this is the style of my writing. And so you can say, write a summary of this article in my voice. And then that's where you start getting into the more dark corners of the ethics, if you will, because technically I could go on GPT and say on Chad GPT and say, write a novel in the voice of Henry James, a novel that talks about this plot in the voice of Henry James. Yeah, I want to understand between Cap Show, Podium and Memento, which of those would you suggest or recommend to a listener who wanted to maybe offload some of the show notes, support social media and transcriptions? So I would say this. As I said, Henry has been very successful using Cap Show, so I don't want to discount them. I'm really enjoying what Podium is doing for me. And I also have a little bit of a bias, because at the conference I did spend time with the two founders of Podium, and I really like them. And I tend to form relationship. Memento, I will say that if I had the time to invest in really learning the new updates that they've done in the video editing, Memento is incredibly powerful. Just to give you an example, when I was in the beta phase and I don't have a TikTok account, but I just want to see what happened. So I open a TikTok account and then I literally just posted five text and graphic videos that Memento made for me just from the audio of my episode. So I went in and chose a template like literally seven minutes of work. And the first one that I posted got seven hundred and fifty views on a TikTok account that had zero followers and zero. And the quality is really good. So I would say this. These are only two of the tools. I've been happy with Podium, but we are really in a phase where I would advise people to explore. And I want to also mention something that is somebody that is not in the podcast world, but who I've known for about 15 years from the music world, from my world, managing my wife as a singer songwriter. Her name is Ariel Hyatt. She has something that's called cyber PR, and she was way ahead of the curve on digital marketing for artists. And she was explaining how artists should do social media way back in 2010. And now she's been very much ahead of the curve on the AI thing. And I'm going to look for the link. She has a four hour online class on how to use AI as a musician. And what I really like about that class is that she really knows her audience and she knows that musicians do not want to learn AI to do marketing. They just want to get the basics that they need to make their life easier. So this class is very simple. It teaches you everything that you need to do. And she has a number of platforms on it that she recommends. And so I think it's maybe I don't remember how much it is to enroll, but it's not very expensive. And it's definitely a great, great. I'm going to actually give you put the link in there. It's a great way to quickly understand what's going on, start playing around with things, because another really big part of AI is in doing the graphics, social media graphics, images, et cetera. And I can really help with that, too. So here is the link to cyber music PR. That's the home page on the front page. There is a webinar that talks about AI. And then somewhere in there, there will be the class they have, you know, and she has like 100 percent. They have a freebie where you can get 100 plus chat GPT prompts, which is a good way to start understanding what prompts are, how they work, because an exercise that we did in the culture code class was to come up with podcast a title and a podcast video promo using chat GPT and a video editing software. And so I have somewhere here I can share sort of like the example of the problems that you would give with judge GPT that kind of gives you an idea of how that works. And here I want to give credit once again to culture and code and the seminar they did. The three ingredients of a good prompt in chat GPT or in any AI tool is the goal. So what do you want to do the format? How do you want the output? And then has specific requests, you know, word count, include, exclude keywords, et cetera. So being example, this is how we did a podcast title. And this would be a persona. So act like a fiction podcast screenwriter. Write a five to seven words title for detective. So give me five, three word title options for a detective noir podcast that takes place in a small town in Louisiana. The audience are young adult females who like the Twilight book series. So as you can see, like when you're talking about creating things in AI, the details are really important. So I could go to chat GPT, which is just a general and say, you know, write me 10 tweets based on the transcript from my podcast that talks about leadership and practical steps to be a better leader and write them for Twitter, for an audience of senior executives. And so chat GPT would generate the tweets. Yeah, cool. And then you can take them and edit them. Yeah. And if you think about it, that's what what we were talking about. Rand was saying that it will take away the content factories. Right. Right now, when you hire one of these low cost services that are creating content for you, somebody is going and writing those 20 tweets. And it's instead you're using a tool. Yeah, I like it. Well, let's wrap it up real fast here. I've got a couple of links that are in the show notes. First and foremost, the link to episode 331 with Dino is in the show notes. Additionally, his coaching program, he is a business coach and the link to working with him is in the show notes as well. Any social media that Dino wanted you to have is down there. And then on top of that, links to Cap Show, Podium, Chat GPT and Memento are down there. And two other links that we will put in there. And it is cyber music dot com and PR music, cyber PR music dot com. And then the culture and code dot IO, that link will also be in the show notes. That way, anything that we talked about, you can easily find. So just scroll down. You can check that out and then just be able to find Dino wherever he is, wherever he is shared. Those links are down in the show notes already. And Dino will probably bring you back on. But this was fun. Like it was we'll call it more insightful because it's like I've been afraid of AI, not to the effect that I think it's going to take jobs and destroy the world. Although that might be true. I've been afraid of AI to the effect of like I don't know if I want to take that, be that pioneer, take the first step and learn it from scratch. So it's been really helpful to have your experience as you've been working with it prior to that conference and since that conference to be working with different ones and be able to share what they do. And there's a piece of feedback that I think is important for the listener. And that is at the end of this episode, the thing that you ought to be doing with AI is exploring different AI tools, not necessarily just going and picking the ones that we've shared here today, but exploring and seeing what they do, how they work, how the interface works for you and for your goals and the way that you work, which ones are complicated for you and easy for you. But with that said, CapShow is one that's really well known in the podcast space. I'm friends with the owner. And additionally, a lot of people say that they like it. Podium easier sounds to use and faster, and you don't have to figure out as much. And Memento is especially good for things like video podcasts and creating TikToks as well. Just with Instagram, real TikToks. Yes. Yeah, it's pretty fun. So all those links are down in the show notes. And you can also follow Dino there as well. This was a little bit longer episode, but the next episode is quite short. It is a solo episode that I queued up just for you who's listening with some information that I know that you need. And that's the next episode. So I would just jump over there. I'll see you on that episode. By the way, one way to ensure that you don't miss out on great content that we're producing on a regular basis is to make sure you're subscribed to the show. You need to be subscribed or following the Apple podcast or wherever you listen to it in order not to miss all of that. And before I let you go, I need to mention, because a lot of people are asking, do you help? Can you help me with this? And the answer is yes. My company actually does it. It's called Grow Your Show. And you can find that at growyourshow .com. Our clients, they call us the easy button for podcaster because they simply have to record their episode and they know that every single thing else is done for them. We sweat the hard stuff so you can be the star of your show. And if you would like help to make sure that we're editing and publishing and promoting and doing your social media, it's all in one place. And I think it's pretty affordable. You'll have to take a look for yourself. Just go to growyourshow .com and check us out. And by the way, I'll see you on the next episode.
Animal Radio
A highlight from 1245. Marshall Tucker Band's Doug Gray Gets Catty
"Celebrating the connection with our pets, this is Animal Radio, featuring veterinarian Dr. Debbie White, groomer Joey Volani, news director Lori Brooks. And now, here are your hosts Hal Abrams and Judy Francis. And your dream team of experts. Let us not forget bloody the world famous Russian dog wizard, the dog father Joey Volani and horse expert Ernie Rodino all here today. Coming up in just a few minutes, we're also going to talk to Doug Gray from the Marshall Tucker Band. What's the deal with him? Is he an animal lover? Why is he coming on the show? He's an animal lover. He's got some cats. Cats? He's a Persian cat guy. Persian? I just don't picture him as a Persian cat guy. I know, huh? I can't wait to talk to him. But that'll be a flashback to the 70s for me at least. Remember the song Can't You See? Remember that? Sure you do. See, I heard it in a love song is mine. Everybody has their favorite Marshall Tucker Band song. He'll be joining us in just a few minutes right here on Animal Radio. And Joey Volani, what will you be talking about? Smelly face dogs, you know, really stinky faces and how to deal with it quick and easy and get rid of the staining. And we move on from there. If you have a smelly face dog, and this will work on your husband, too. If he's a smelly faced husband, this tip, I believe, is kind of universal. You can use it all. Or smelly cat. Smelly cat. Smelly cat. Let's go to Ron. Hey, Ron, how are you doing? Okay, how are you? Good. Volani's right here. What's up with your dog? Oh, I have a German Shepherd that I got directly from the breeder as a puppy. Run, run, run, run, run, stop, stop, please. If you were the woman, I would kiss you right now. No, no, not again.
CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from CARPE CONSENSUS: Caroline Ellison Takes the Stand
"This is Carpe Consensus. Join hosts Ben Shiller and Danny Nelson as they seize the world of crypto. Hello and welcome to Carpe Consensus. This is a podcast from the CoinDesk podcast network and I am Ben Shiller here at CoinDesk. I'm a features editor here. And joining me today is the great Danny Nelson. He is a business reporter here and he is hot footing it here from the SBF trial. Hi, Danny. Hello. Well, today I will say I don't live in New York City. I live in Philadelphia. And today is one of those rare days in the month of October that I will be in Philadelphia. But throughout this week, I will be coming to you guys from New York City, from Manhattan downtown at the courtroom itself. Great. So Danny, we're going to talk to Danny today about the early rumblings of the trial, which has been going about a week now. And Danny has also been recording some snippets from the trial from the ground there, which we're going to play later in this recording for you. So, Danny, how's the trial going? Ben, the trial is going pretty well. The press pool is developing a sense of camaraderie because we have to get there so early in the morning, like we're recording today on Monday the 9th. Tomorrow, Tuesday, Caroline Ellison is going to testify. And I think that I'm going to get there at 5 a .m. Like that's my goal because that's the hottest ticket. Everyone wants to see the ex -girlfriend testify. It's going to be the highlight of the trial unless Sam himself takes the stand. And we just can't miss it. And for me, at least I want to be there in the room where it happens. So that means getting there really early. So Caroline Ellison is the head or former head of Alameda Research. Why is she so crucial to this case? Well, the big question is what happened to this money? This $8 billion in dollars in crypto that just went poof, just got deleted when FTX went to put. Apparently, allegedly, Alameda had a big role in doing that, whether that was from stealing the money, whether it was from just borrowing all of it, never repaying it, giving that money out to other people. And she was the head of that operation. So she should know pretty well what caused that money to go away and also what role Sam Baker Freed had. I'm really excited for that. I'm also excited for the cross -examination where I can only imagine that the whole love story is really going to get drilled down by the defense lawyers, because it's really just there's a lot that was wrong in Alameda and FTX. And one of the things that was wrong is you really shouldn't have two CEOs of two companies having a very adversarial personal relationship because that's just not good for any two businesses that work very closely together. And Ben, it's also worth noting that throughout the trial, we'll be bringing our listeners, you guys, little snippets that I record from outside the courthouse in New York City. And we'll be hearing some of those later today. So Danny, you've been at the courtroom every day. Just take us inside that courtroom. What's it like down there? Is it busy? Does it feel different from a normal reporting gig at Coindesk? Oh, it's so different. Most of the days at Coindesk, I'm shifting between my bed and my desk, just staring at Discord and wondering what it's like to be a real reporter. Not that what we're doing isn't real reporting, but like the whole idea of being on the ground up close and personal, witnessing the events. It's not something you can get every day in online a primarily reporting environment, which is what all of crypto journalism is and what a lot of journalism is these days, really. But in the courtroom, you're just entirely focused on what's happening there. We don't have our phones. We don't have our computers. We don't even have our smartwatches. If we have smartwatches, I don't. But all of the electronics you have to check in with the marshals at the beginning of the day and get the back at the end. So you have nothing to do but pay attention. And what you're paying attention to is this. It's not really a circus, but it is this really carefully coordinated. It is a performance, I guess, where the prosecutors are attempting through questioning witnesses to make a certain case. And then the defense team is through the same process trying to discredit that case. That is fascinating. One of the things that really fascinates me about this whole case is family the drama. I mean, you talk about it being a kind of theatrical piece. I mean, it's kind of like a Chekhovian sort of family drama here, isn't it? I mean, you've got the kind of wonder kid, the illustrious parents who got involved and were apparently very greedy themselves, you know, asking their son for money all the time to do their kind of pet projects. What do you make of this kind of family dynamic as it takes place in the courtroom? Well, the family is there. I don't know if Sam's brother has been in attendance. I don't think he has, but his parents certainly are every day. His mother and his father are, I think, in the second or third row just watching everything unfold, just like we are. It adds to this sense of something surreal is happening. Maybe 15 feet away from me, I'm looking at the back of Sam's head. Then to my right are the parents. In front of me, the prosecutor is the defense of the judge. And then there are other courtroom characters too. Sometimes Martin Shkreli shows up. There's Ben McKenzie, that actor who wrote a book. There are these sketch artists too, because you have to remember in a federal courtroom, there are no cameras allowed. But the media gets around that by hiring these oil pastel artists who sketch what's happening. And I love watching them work just to create a sense of what's going on because you have to find different ways of documenting what's happening in this courtroom because we don't have cameras. And I'll add to that, that although none of us reporters inside Coindesk are professional artists, we are certainly trying to moonlight as them during this trial. Nick Day, who is anchoring our coverage, he is using his own creativity to try to capture these moments himself. With some pretty high ranking on Google, I'm told, little sketches. So everyone should look up SPF trial sketch. Maybe you'll see some of our work. You can tell because it's the ones that aren't professional looking. Yeah. Not only a good writer, but also an emerging sketch artist, all of us. Something like that. So you talk about this strange environment where there are no electronic devices and people don't have their smartwatches. I mean, this is kind of a forced act of kind of digital detoxification. What does that feel like? It must be quite strange. Well, it is at least for the regular reporters. If you're a court reporter, which is to say, you only ever cover what's happening in the courtroom, regardless of what case it is, then you do get your electronics. Lawyers also get their electronics. But for the reporters, we have to invent new ways of doing things. For Coindesk, our MO right now is to beat anyone we're able to beat, which means having a system whereby we can take snippets of life inside the courtroom and get them out the door before the day is over. So we take turns running pieces of paper on which whoever's writing that day's story has written some element, whether that's a really spicy question or a characterization of the jury or something colorful about the judge. We run that outside, get our phones back from the check -in, and call it into our editors. They type it up, they send it out, and then that person goes back in. It sounds like a scene from a 1920s Hollywood movie, the golden age of journalism, where people were passing pieces of paper around. So, Danny, just take this forward. So we've got Caroline Allison. Who are the other major witnesses that we have to look forward to? She's the big kahuna, I gotta say. She's the one that everyone wants to hear the most from. Beyond Caroline, we still haven't heard from Nishad Singh, who was the fourth member of this inner circle. Once again, that's Gary Wong, who was the CTO. Caroline Allison, the CEO of Alameda Research, the trading firm. Sam himself, FTX and the head of everything. And Nishad Singh, who was director of engineering within FTX. All four of them allegedly knew what was happening with these shady business dealings. We haven't heard from Nishad. So he is the big one beyond Caroline. I'm looking forward to the mooch, if the mooch testifies, which he might. When we went down to the Bahamas conference over a year ago now, that was put on by Anthony Scaramucci's Skybridge, as well as FTX. So he wasn't privy, I don't believe, to the whole fraud, but he was a victim of it. And he's always colorful on CNBC. I think he'll do the same in the courtroom. And just to round this out, what about SPF himself? Do you think his team has made a decision as to whether he'll testify or not? And that must be a massive gamble for them to put him up there or? Well, it is and it isn't. If the trial is really going poorly and none of the questions are going the defense team's way, and it seems like he's already cooked, then the stakes might actually be pretty low, right? There might be no downside and unlimited upside for him to testify. We're still only one week into this thing. It's going to take possibly six, maybe longer, who knows? So it's too early to tell for sure. I would say it's usually unlikely for a defendant to take the stand just because you could usually only do more harm than good. But Sam is so, I'd say, convinced of his own innocence in this, that he might decide to take the stand regardless of what his lawyers say. The judge did remind him at the start of this trial, he has the right and it is his decision alone. If he wants to testify, his lawyers can advise him what to do, but they can't make him do anything. So Sam is known for throughout this whole collapse time, making his own decisions, he might make another one of his own decisions right here. So Danny, I mean, apart from the main protagonists in the trial, are there any other people worth watching in the courtroom? Certainly. There is first and foremost, the jury, the 12 people who will actually decide whether Sam Beckman Fried is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. It's hard to tell how one should read their reactions, if there are any reactions at all. But there are certain people in the jury that do seem to have reactions when something is especially surprising, I guess. It's hard to tell because what's surprising to me is different from what's surprising to them, presumably because I know so much already about what we're talking about in the courtroom. But sometimes jurors not off for a couple of minutes during really boring things. Other times they'll let out a little giggle. One guy was definitely bemused when prosecutors played the Larry David FTX Super Bowl commercial, which you have to admit was a really good commercial. He was very, he chuckled a lot at that, one of the jurors did. I also am very fascinated by what they're wearing. Sometimes they show, like none of the jurors are showing up in suits as the legal teams are. Some of them though, as the trial progresses, they're dressing up. Like if one day one guy is wearing just a random branded tee, the next day he's wearing a button -down shirt. So maybe that corresponds with how seriously the jurors are taking the trial. If they're dressing up, maybe they're thinking, oh, I understand the gravity of this. I don't know. It's hard to tell. It's also, there's just something that's fundamentally strange about, well, the people who decide Sam's whether guilty or not, they're just supposed to be normal people. Like, I don't know, I don't think there's a better system of rendering justice in this country. I'm just fascinated by that because I've never actually seen it play out firsthand. And I also never really watched Judge Judy. But of course there's no jury in Judge Judy, it's just Judy. But there is a sort of paradox here that the less you know about crypto, the less you know about SPF and what's been going on in the world in the last year, the more appropriate you are for jury service in this case, right? I guess that's exactly correct, right? Like, you don't want people who have already formed their opinion based on what we in the media are saying happened. Like, I'm pretty confident when I report something that is true, but I'm not attempting to make a case. I'm not attempting to defend or prosecute someone. I'm just trying to convey what I understand to be the facts. And the way that that process works is very different from the one in the courtroom. I mean, the mainstream media has come on strong at the beginning of the trial and it's been reporting on SPF's haircut and the witnesses and some of the atmospherics around the trial. Do you expect them to keep it up for six weeks? It seems unlikely to me that they would really have that focus. I mean, the mainstream media moves very quickly, probably more quickly than we do in the specialist crypto media. Do you think they'll be there at the end, the way they're there at the beginning? I think that some of the heaviest hitters will be there at the end. They've already been there for the beginning. They'll be there throughout. I know that the New York Times is going to be there every day. The Journal also going to be there every day. There's a Fox Business producer who's been there every day at the trial. I think he's going to be there throughout the six weeks. So there's a strong base of the regulars that I'm starting to become familiar with as we wait every morning to get into the courtroom. And they're all saying that they're going to be there throughout. There's a lot of tail end interest of people who don't show up early enough to get into the courtroom itself. I don't know if they're going to be there every day of the trial. I don't think they will. Like already, in the first week, the days when there were no star witnesses, they were definitely quieter than the other days. But right now, we're going through the moments where everyone, everyone, everyone, everyone is showing up. OK, we'll leave it there. That was Danny Nelson. And we'll be returning to lots more coverage of the SBF trial, the trial of crypto as some are calling it. And we'll be back with more much later.
The Maverick Paradox Podcast
A highlight from The concept of success DNA
"In this short talk episode I speak to Judy Wilkins -Smith about the concept of success DNA and how it is influenced by multi -generational patterns and epigenetic imprints. We explore the idea that individuals can consciously change these patterns and create their own success DNA by shifting their beliefs and focusing on their own adventures. Listen up to this interesting conversation. I create a clear thinking and decisive leaders who can amplify their influence. Contact me to find out how I can help you or your organisation. And today our guest is Judy Wilkins -Smith. How you doing Judy? Great, nice and warm still in Texas and I will take it. Well it's the evening here and it's a lot more chilly. Not at least keep it there. What do you do in Texas that you find enjoyable? Oh so many things. I'm often around my daughter and she's got a new home so we're setting that up. I have two kitties, two Siamese kitties so I love them. Other than that I do a lot of executive coaching and a lot of this kind of work and I love it all. Sounds fantastic. So I know today we've got very interesting topics. We're going to talk about success DNA, perceiving and transcending epigenetic ancestral blocks to success. Now you have to tell us more. Okay so your success isn't entirely, well it is and isn't, but isn't entirely dependent on just you. You have multi -generational patterns that you don't even know that you have. So we only go this far in the world. You shouldn't rise above your raising. You know what happens to successful people, they lose it all. Whatever stories we've been given we incorporate into our own library. And so it's really about looking at what have you incorporated into your library? Is it serving you now or are you the change agent? Because when a pattern comes down to you, it's come down to you because it's asking you to change it to something better or to start a new pattern. So that's what we look at for success DNA. And epigenetically if there is an event in the system where it's significant for the person in particular and it carries a high emotional resonance, you're going to find that we make up thoughts, feelings and actions around that and that creates an imprint on the genome. And there you go, the next thing you know you've activated the success or lack of success and you don't know why, except that now we do.
Animal Radio
A highlight from 1244. The Truth About Dog-Lick Bacteria
"Celebrating the connection with our pets, this is Animal Radio. Featuring your dream team, veterinarian Dr. Debbie White and groomer Joey Vellani. And here are your hosts, Hal Abrams and Judy Francis. And when you hop onto an airplane, you probably don't think that there's a dog somewhere doing work to help you take off. You know, you see the little baggage handlers out your window, they're loading luggage and you see the flight attendants getting all ready for the flight and the people checking you in at the airport. But yeah, there might be a dog that's actually helping you get from one location to another. We're going to find out what that's all about today here on Animal Radio. Very excited about that. Also on the show today, we've been doing this for over 18 years now. Hard to believe. And over the last 18 years, we've had some incredible guests on the show. And this week, we're introducing the Animal Radio Flashback. And on this week's show, you will hear an interview that we did several years ago with one of the top, if not the most popular cartoon voices in the world. Anyone want to take a guess at that? I know who it is. Scooby? No, the world. I mean, retro. No, no, no, no. I know who it is. And it's not Mickey Mouse. But I can't, I don't know how to mimic it. That's coming up in just a few minutes right here on Animal Radio. What are you working on over there, Laurie? Well, I have some information on the bucket list dog, Smoke, that we told you about last week. That hound who was at the shelter and had developed a bucket list. Oh, yeah, I remember that. Yeah, we have an update for you. And also, police in one state are saying that they believe that perhaps rescuing a pig might be better than, in this case, buying a burglar alarm.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat - 10/02/23
"The United States Border Patrol has exciting and rewarding career opportunities with the nation's largest law enforcement organization. Earn great pay with outstanding federal benefits and up to $20 ,000 in recruitment incentives. Learn more online at cbp .gov slash careers slash USBP. I went and read a book on Marx, a quartet practiced in the park, and we sang dirigence. The great Don McLean, Don McLean, McLean, the music died, is 78. We were singing bye bye. So Mike Gallagher is 11 years old for American Pie and I do too. Is this eight and a half minutes of masterpiece or just a butt whipping? I run across people who go, American Pie, ugh, what's the matter with you? I think it's a masterpiece. You know, disc jockeys always loved it because it was the song they put on when they had to go to the bathroom. Stairway to Heaven, Sweet Judy Blue Eyes, Mike Crosby, Stump Fashion Young, yeah buddy. I need a potty break. It is time. Well listen, here we go, first Monday in October, a Supreme Court in session and some fascinating decisions they're going to have. We got all kinds of shenanigans and hijinks happening with the Republicans and Matt Gaetz and I want to start something, I want to start a conversation with you about this rift between Kevin McCarthy and Matt Gaetz and the punditry that has decided to go after Matt Gaetz. This is very interesting to me. I get it. I appreciate, I'm going to speak for me and then I want to find out, pick your brain on where you think this is all going with the aversion of averting the government shutdown, no funding for Ukraine in this particular resolution. That's right. So we've taken out the funding for Ukraine, the government doesn't get shut down and the Democrats continue to implode as Gavin Newsom appoints a woman from Maryland to replace the Dianne Feinstein. Now they're scrubbing all references to the fact that she lives in Maryland because her dedication to abortion trumps everything else. Yes it does. You don't have to be a Californian to be a California senator. You've got to be all about abortion, which is we have got to, boy, I've got my final week of my preborn campaign and I hope people will make a contribution just to counter the nonsense going on in California right now with Gavin Newsom and this Emily's List lady. But let me go back to Matt Gaetz for just a moment.
Animal Radio
A highlight from 1243. Should You Trust Pet DNA Tests?
"Celebrating the connection with our pets, this is Animal Radio featuring your dream team, veterinarian Dr. Debbie White and groomer, Joey Vellani. And here are your hosts, Hal Abrams and Judy Francis. Do you know what kind of pet you have? Well, certainly if it's a cat or dog, you probably know the difference. But do you know what kind of breed? Is it a mutt? What is making up the DNA of your dog or your cat? And do you care? A lot of people do. There's about 10 different tests on the market right now where you can send in saliva or cheek spittle, I guess? Yeah, cheek swab. It's actually the epithelial. So it's the cells that you're getting off the cheek, not necessarily the spit. Epithelial? Is that what you said there? I learned so much from you. And they'll tell you if it's what kind of breed it is or if it's made up of several different breeds. You did this, Judy. I think your results came back like lion and elephant. They weren't even dogs. It was so bizarre. She's full grown now. She weighs nine pounds. And it came back all these St. Bernard's, German Shepherds, Belgian Malinois. I thought, really? So that was a cheek swab. And then when I did the blood... Oh, you did a blood test too? I did a blood. It came back Jack Russell, miniature pincher and Maltese. And are you going with that? Oh, definitely. She's definitely Jack Russell. It came out 50 % Jack Russell. And that's what she is. Now, why did you want to know this information? Well, first of all, I didn't want a Jack Russell because I did my research and I know how hyper they are. And I'm not that hyper person. I want a more laid back dog. And so I did my research and got her from a rescue when she was eight weeks old. They said she was a Chihuahua, but there was no Chihuahua in this girl. And I questioned that as she got a little bit older. And I thought, okay, I got to find out. And I wanted to know what she was because people ask, people look at her, and everybody had their guesses. And it's like, I don't know. And I wanted to know what my dog was. But would it be safe to say you didn't want a Jack Russell, but you love your dog? Oh, I would not trade her for the world. I'll keep that little 50 % Jack. So the blood test really made little difference in anything, really, except telling people. Just what it was. It was kind of like bragging rights to know what my dog is and be able to say when people ask. That's basically why I did it. But then again, still, at least I know if there's anything I should look at, you know, with the breeds that she may be predisposed to down the line. You mean like a sickness or a disease? Health? Yeah. If she starts doing something or something happens and I can say, well, that's typical of this breed. So what kind of diseases and sicknesses are typical of, what did you say? Was it Jack Russell? Jack Russell, 50%. And a Min Pin? Well, we can see a lot of things with knees, so we can see patellar luxations. She's had two knee surgeries, two back legs. But that also fits with a lot of other small breeds. But, you know, there can be some host of skin diseases, allergies that we may not have like a specific test for. You know, but there are some conditions in some breeds, like say golden retrievers have a genetic linked with seizures. So if you had a yellow large breed dog and you didn't know what it was and it started developing seizures. And if I knew this dog was a golden retriever, I'd say, wow, you know, sometimes golden retrievers can be very challenging to manage with seizures. And we really have to use every means at our disposal to try to get those seizures under control. So it wouldn't change necessarily, you know, would I treat or not treat, but it might make us say, okay, our expectations are this is going to be a more challenging patient to try to manage. So that's one example. But there's a whole tons of things, you know, cataracts are inherited, heart diseases with certain breeds can be inherited, and kidney problems with cats. There's a type of polycystic kidney disease, a kidney disease in Himalayans and Persian type cats that can cause different problems. So, you know, there's all sorts of things that there are genetic tests for. It doesn't mean your dog or cat will get them. It just may mean they have some genetic tendency or genetic marker for that. So I see these online tests and but you do it in your office there? Do veterinarians offer these tests? Yeah, I mean, not everyone is going to do that. But we we do like that. And it's one is it's kind of the ooh, cool factor, you know, so you can, you know, have a party and people will ask and you can actually have some answer that sounds, you know, like you didn't just make this up. That's one important thing. But I do think it can help guide some decisions on awareness and potentially your pet's health down the road. So I wouldn't say it will make me do something different for a patient as far as putting them to sleep. But I do think it's important information to be armed with to know what you need to worry about to watch for in your pet's life. I agree. And if you can't afford it and somebody asks what kind of dog you have, say snuffle up against it really will throw the middle. It'll be different. So we're going to talk to a lady today, a doctor, Dr. Lisa Moses. She practices pain and palliative care at the Angel Animal Medical Center in Boston. And she says you may not want to bet the farm when you do one of these tests, as sometimes the information may not be accurate. And I wanted to find out about this. How important is it? Are people making decisions with bad information? So we'll have her on the show in just a few minutes to talk about that. Also today, we're going to be talking to the folks over at Smoke Alarm Monitoring. What's this guy's name? It's spelled really weird. Z -S -O -L -T. Zolt. Is that Hungarian? What is that? Sounds like it could be. He says our pets are starting fires. He sells smoke alarms for a living. And he says that our pets are actually, while they're unattended, starting fires in our house. See, I hide the matches. You do? Little delinquents. Oh my goodness. Yes. What do you expect? But first, your calls toll free from the free animal radio app for iPhone and Android. Let's go to Gary. Hey, Gary. How are you? I'm very good, sir. How are you? Very good. Where are you calling from today? You have kind of that southern twang. North Carolina. North Carolina. How is North Carolina today? It's kind of warm. It's not unbearably hot, but it's a warm day. What's going on with the animals? I have the whole team here for you. Okay. Well, I've been listening to your program lately over the last several weeks and was interested in the discussion that I've heard about yeast infections, skin conditions, and the treatments. And then also, there was also somewhat of a separate discussion about the use of human products on animals and how effective they can be, or harmful, or whatever the case may be. And I wanted to tell you about my little guy. I'll give you a little background on him, a little of the tale of the tape. He's approximately eight years old, as far as we know. He's a Yorkie mix, he's a small guy, just a shade under eight pounds, and I found him abandoned out in the country. And he was in pretty bad shape. He was missing hair and had a lot of parasites and skin infections, yeast, and all that. And we've been battling it for nearly three years now, but he's made much improvement, just great improvement. I kind of took it upon myself to use a product that's designed for human females, actually, who might have that kind of affliction, and rubbed it liberally on the elephant skin areas of my dog. And after doing that for three or four days in a row, it really seemed to help clear it up. What do you think of that, Doc? Well, we have to be precise when we talk about different products, because there's some products that actually can have harmful ingredients in them, and some won't hurt, and actually have active ingredients that might be appropriate. So I'm going to back up, because when we talk about elephant skin, and kind of that thickened skin, like for anybody who's not seen this in dogs, it typically is when their skin gets real thick, leathery, they lose the hair in the area, and it actually, from a distance, looks like elephant skin. And that's a combination of what we call hyperpigmentation, so the skin turns dark, and lichenification, which is where the skin becomes thick, and there's extra layers, if you will, that kind of are put on top of the skin. Those things happen from a couple possibilities, and we can see it with allergies, but really with things like yeast and bacterial infections. So it sounds like you're certainly barking up the right tree there, but the cautions I have with some of the female yeast products that are used for vaginal yeast infections, there are some that actually contain anesthetics. A vagus cell, for example, contains an ingredient called benzocaine. And this can be highly - Well, that's actually what I used. I used the generic, but yeah, you're on the right tree there. Okay. Yeah, so actually, benzocaine can cause toxicities in both dogs and cats. So just licking it off their skin, it can actually be toxic to the red blood cells, causes what we call hemoglobinemia. So if it contains that ingredient, I would say, put it back on the shelf and save it for your wife in the household. But there are certainly, say, athlete's foot creams that contain chlorotrimazole, which is an antifungal. In that, we've used that on surface yeast infections. But the reality is, if we've got that kind of change in the skin, most of those pets actually need kind of a two -pronged approach. So the topicals only get you so far, and they really need to be on some kind of oral or systemic therapy. So most of the pets that I have with that kind of skin can take a course of maybe three months to get them improved, controlling the itch, controlling the infection. If they've got yeast or bacteria, then we put them on either an antibiotic or an oral yeast form, like ketoconazole, per se.
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A highlight from Short Stuff: The Dakota
"Hello everybody, the Xfinity 10G network was made for streaming giving you an incredible viewing experience now You can stream all of your favorite live sports shows and movies with way less buffering freezing and lagging Thanks to the next generation Xfinity 10G network You get a reliable connection so you can sit back relax and enjoy your favorite entertainment Get way more into what you're into when you stream on the Xfinity 10G network learn more at Xfinity .com Xfinity .com Hey and welcome to the short stuff, I'm Josh and there's Chuck and we're going short stuff architectural style specifically architectural style from the mid to late 19th century specifically in Manhattan and the Upper West Side specifically about the Dakota That's right. Can I say something very quickly since this is short stuff? Sure Right before we recorded you said Dakota Fanning and that reminded me I just got back from New York and I had six celebrity sightings One of which was Elle Fanning. Oh, yeah. Yeah, she's in the lobby of a hotel. I go in that hotel to pee I'm always got my head on a swivel in that town, especially in fancy hotel lobbies Sure, and I was like, hey, this is Dakota Fanning and I was like she was sitting with people I was like, there's got to be somebody else famous went to the bathroom came out sitting next to Jessica Chastain Wow, pretty major sighting then at one of my pavement shows I saw Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig Yeah, they're married okay Wow say so power couple yeah, I mean he co -wrote Barbie with her and Dean Wareham of Luna, they're all good friends and they were all together So that was a three banger in one and this this lady near me was jumping up and down like screaming it at Greta Gerwig and she was very sweet from up above in the balcony and like made the little heart symbol and like said she Loved her was very sweet. Oh, that's sweet. And then sat next to Tiffany Haddish on the way on the flight home Wow She was a girl across the aisle from me. Did you but did you bug her the whole time? No, I didn't say anything. Were you like, hey, hey Tiffany, you remember this one joke you told? Layers She's great though. She's very pretty too. Yeah. Yes. It is. Wonderful. I like that voice. She's got that sort of a low voice kind of like this I'm Tiffany Haddish. That's right Okay. All right. We got to go cuz we're talking the Dakota here and not Dakota fanning or Elle fanning No, the apartment building in New York City. That's right. The one where John Lennon was shot in front of Live there. No, no. No, he lived there and he was he was shot on the sidewalk outside the Dakota. So That's not the only reason the Dakota's famous. Although it's probably the biggest reason the Dakota's famous One of the reasons that Dakota is famous is because it was one of the first apartment buildings in New York City like they didn't do apartments back then and even more spectacular than that it being one of the first apartment buildings is that it was Plunked down in the Upper West Side at a time when Central Park West one of the most What is it white healed high healed? Well healed well healed like Bits of stretches of real estate in the world was a dirt road still and nowhere's Phil nowhere Yep, nobody wanted to go up that far. They're like, there's nothing up there That's right. Hey seeds in in fact, it was so far out that The guy who built the Dakota who will meet in the second Edward Cabot Clark bought it from an industrialist Whose wife threatened to divorce him if he built their house out there and he's like, I don't just get rid of this piece of Land then yeah, she's like I want to live down here where it's posh in alphabet city You know, it's funny is if you you remember if you go read our book There's a whole chapter on keeping up with the Joneses in it Oh, yeah talks a lot about this part of of New York history where there are all sorts of nowhere's Ville's around that today are just like incredibly and famous Expensive that's right. All right, so the Dakota like you said people were not living in apartments at the time they were living in brownstones, which were single -family homes and There were a couple like a couple started to spring up in the 1870s They weren't great. They were Kind of like you think of New York apartments. They were small. They didn't have a lot of light People didn't love renting And living in them and along came this guy Edward Cabot Clark that you mentioned He was the president of the Singer sewing machine company So he was loaded and he got together with an architect named Henry Janeway Hardenberg a great name and to get into real estate and the first thing they built which is sadly not there anymore is Kind of a prototype for the Dakota called the van Corlier a red brick five -story 36 apartment building that was on 7th between 55th and 56 Yeah, and it immediately improved on its predecessors Because the rooms were larger the apartments themselves were larger. There was a courtyard. So there was plenty of like natural light and air Had elevators apparently which are we're talking like the 1880s 1870s and there was also I think a What was there oh there was a ramp that went beneath it so then You didn't have to solely your family reputation by accepting deliveries out there in public You could go down to the basement and meet the delivery driver to get them to take whatever they gave you Yeah, and it was just nicer overall I think there was a an intercom system and you know, like Spanish tile. It was just it was just a step up for sure and all of a sudden in 1878 They rented out very quickly and so Clark was like, alright it turns out if you if you build it nice enough they will come and Apartments can be a real thing and like you said bought that property or I guess it was just land at the time, right? Yeah, yeah bought this land from Jacob Henry Schiff way way uptown and Decided to build his second Sort of dream property there. Yep, which would be the Dakota and I say that we pause for a message break and then return and begin talking about the Dakota some more and Tiffany Haddish right after this I'm Jonathan Strickland host of the podcast tech stuff I sat down with Sunun Shahani of Surfare Mobility, which recently went public We talked about flying and electric planes and regional air mobility The future of travel doesn't have to include crowded airports cramps seats or long road trips It can be as simple as using an app to book a short -range flight on an electric plane Learn more on tech stuff on the I heart radio app Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcast This episode of stuff you should know is brought to you by t -mobile for business Hey everybody have you ever been driving around looking for a parking spot getting more and more irritated and you think why can't I just Look up parking spaces around my area I mean like wouldn't that make sense and if you find the spot faster You're going to create less traffic and in that sense Everybody's life is made better just by the ability to look up a parking spot. 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That's right offering the nation's largest 5g network T -mobile is the best network partner to take your business to the next level now is the time to business Bravely and start building your future today Just go to t -mobile .com slash now to learn more So Chuck we're talking about the Dakota now starting now Okay, so if the van Corleer was a Advancement based on the stuff that came a few years before it the Dakota was an even better advancement Improvement based on the van Corleer. It had big apartments big rooms Courtyard lots of light Ramp underneath and all that stuff, but it was also like even more Luxuriously designed like if you came over to someone's apartment, you couldn't see through down the hallway to every single room the walls were kind of like designed around so that you couldn't like there was a Separation between your visitors in the living part of the apartment or the sleeping part, you know the family part I guess is what you call it just little details like that Another big detail is that it had its own power plant that generated electricity for it in the 1870s Yeah, not bad the kitchens had little balconies so if you had stinky stuff like garbage that you couldn't get down or Maybe even stinky food or something. You could put it just right outside the kitchen, which was something that a lot of places didn't have Yeah, they had a boiler So they had insulated pipes bringing steam and hot water into the building Which was a big innovation at the time and they had tennis courts. They had croquet courts It was it was a real gym. It still is it's one of my favorite buildings in New York Every time I go up there to Central Park, at least I try to pop out on that area and just go go Give it a look Because it's a beautiful building. It's sort of a mishmash of styles It's been called, you know, French Renaissance or got German Gothic or even Victorian and it's kind of a little bit of everything But it's it's beautiful. I don't think I've ever seen it in person if I have I didn't realize it You may have it's it's lovely. It's right there on a corner. So here's the thing when Edward Cabot Clark was creating the Dakota He was widely derided for it. They called it Clark's Folly because people were deeply insensitive in the 19th century and the reason why they call it that is because again, it's in the middle of nowhere and People aren't really into apartments Like we said they live in like three -story Brownstones like they live in homes They don't live in apartments the people who lived in apartments as far as this house stuff works article points out were widows Widowers and people who are waiting for their wealthy relatives to die so they could inherit their house And all of a sudden Clark is like no. No, we're changing the game Anyone who is anyone is gonna want to live in an apartment and it turns out his gamble paid off. He was right Yeah, he sadly he died before it was finished So he didn't get to see it come to fruition But it was certainly not his folly because like you said people lined up to rent these things or I guess I don't know were they all rentals at the time. I wonder if anyone were available for sale. I think they were all rentals Okay, well people rented him, but they were people that had money. They just weren't like robber barons who wanted to live in mansions They were they were sort of the early New York, you know upper class They were people who like were bank presidents and people who like the CEOs of the time, right? Apparently the Adams sisters were heirs to a chewing gum Fortune they live there with it and that flavor tea berry one of the greatest gum flavors of all time. That's a Was it tea berry? Now, are you kidding? Cuz I can't tell no. No, that's for real. It's like a Kind of salmon pink colored Gum, no, no the the wrapper is okay It tastes like salmon too. No, it's a really delicate unique flavor and you could probably find it like Cracker Barrel Don't they have all sorts of old -timey candies or one of those rocket fizz places? I have no idea anywhere that sells candy I'll bet they have tea berry stick gum and it's really worth trying. All right Nice tip there. Thanks. So The Dakota started a trend all of a sudden luxury apartment houses started popping up all over the place Kind of in the same model with like bigger rooms and higher ceilings and stuff like that and the Upper West Side it wasn't right then but around the early 1900s that really started to take off and Really changed the face of New York of New York, you know, they they started building up more after World War one, obviously when New York said they could and Apartments became the way to go. Yeah Eventually, the the Dakota started seeing a different clientele not you know Straights and squares like bank presidents but like stars like Lauren Bacall and Judy Garland Wowie Wow horse Karloff, too That's pretty cool Imagine living next to him and then of course two of the most famous residents John Lennon and Yoko Oh, no Is blamed widely for moving John Lennon to the Dakota and he would have lived had she not done that Do people say that? Probably somebody out there. Okay poking fun at those people. No, I think he loved the Dakota Yeah, it would seem to be his home. They were there for like a dozen years. I think right before he died I'm not sure how long he loved New York City though. It was it was a great scene for both. He and Yoko. Yep You anything else? I got nothing else go check out the Dakota if you're in New York It's a great great looking building.
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A highlight from 1242. Turning Your Pet Into A Social Media Influencer. Wise Words From An Expert.
"Celebrating the connection with our pets, this is Animal Radio, featuring your dream team, veterinarian, Dr. Debbie White and groomer, Joey Vellani. And here are your hosts, Hal Abrams and Judy Francis. If you're like Judy, you spend a lot of time online, social media, going through videos. You'll spend like an hour a day maybe just watching. I just get down a rabbit hole, you watch one and then another one pops up, oh, I got to see that. And it's like, oh, look at this one. And they're all animal or pet related. Is that mostly it? Yeah, I won't watch. I don't know if I'm not interested in the other ones. Yeah, sure. Sure. Yeah. So in your life, who would you say is the biggest social media influencer for you? What animal do you maybe even follow? You know what? I'm not a follower. In fact, no. And I like watching both cat and dog videos. So I don't really hone in on a certain animal and like follow that particular animal. I'm kind of like, I watch them all. Have you ever seen, I'm going to hold up a picture here. Have you ever seen this animal here? This is, this is Loki. I hadn't seen Loki. Again, I don't follow any certain animals if I happen to come across a video, but I don't, I don't, I, yeah. He's beautiful. Loki is, what kind of dog is Loki? He's like some kind of a Malamute wolf hybrid. Like a wolf. I'm not quite sure. He's a big dog. This particular picture that I'm holding up to the microphone is Loki and his guardian, Kelly. They're sitting in a hammock. You may have seen this picture. It's a picture that he just casually posted on his Instagram page. And then, uh, the people over at Bored Panda saw it, wanted to do an interview with him. Buzzfeed picked it up. Eventually he realized that his dog was becoming extremely popular online. And he decided after about a year after this picture went out to quit his job and focus on promoting his animal online to become a social media sensation. We're going to find out how he's doing on that and whether or not we should quit our jobs to become ladybugs. Yeah. Well, she has a Facebook page. It's not very popular. Maybe she needs to post more. Well, I just, you know, everybody go to her Facebook page and like her right now. So we're going to talk to this Kelly Lund coming up here. He's the guardian of Loki and we're going to find out what his secret is to becoming a viral sensation. Also on the show today. And in this hour, we're going to talk to Fiona Gilbert. Fiona, do you need to get that? I'm expecting a call from my pharmacist. Can we, can you just make sure? Cause I'm, I have to pick something up and I'm just waiting for them to call and say it's ready. So can you just check that? Thank you. Coming up this hour, Fiona Gilbert will be joining us. She has MS unfortunately, and she has a service dog to help her with her MS. What kind of dog is that there? It's a pit bull. It is a, it is a pit bull. Surprise, surprise. Well now how can that be? I mean a pit bull service dog? Is there such a thing as a pit bull service dog? Why not? Well, I guess not. Why not? I do know that Delta or American Airlines just banned service animals that happened to be pit bulls. I do know that in Denver it is illegal to have a pit bull. That's just wrong. That is wrong. I bet Fiona has a bone to pick with Delta Airlines. I'm guessing that. Or her dog does. Okay, we're going to find out about her service dog, her pit bull coming up here on Animal Radio. Lori, what are you working on for this hour? You were just a minute ago Hal talking about social media and Loki and everything. Well, I have for you a new list from Forbes. They did, I love this word influencers because I had never really heard of it before. I just thought, you're famous on social media. If you're famous on social media, you're an influencer. So Forbes had this edition where they had the top 10 people influencers, the top 10 chef influencers and on and on with everything. And they did a list on pets. So pets on social media. So I will tell you the most famous pets or influencers on social media. When Forbes is involved, there must be money involved. Of course. Okay. That list on the way. First year calls. Let's go to Wanda. Hi Wanda. Hi. How are you doing? Very good. I have the whole dream team here to answer your questions. What's going on with your pets? Okay. I have Dachshund miniature pincher mix. She's having skin problems. I switched vets like four times and they always said that it's yeast, airborne yeast. And they give her shots and she goes okay for two weeks. But then they give her prednisone. That makes her eat a lot. She still eating and she still have the yeast and she still have the smell. Okay. Yeah. I don't know what to do. So has she had any money in the beds? Okay. And have we used any medicine that specifically geared towards the yeast, either by a pill form or by a shampoo or a topical form? Well, they give me Mariset. Okay. And I have to bathe her every other day, but sometimes I can tell you the truth. I don't have time and it's cold and she gets very cold. I'll give her a bath every other day. Okay. And is that it or are they using any pills for that other than the prednisone? No. They give me Apoquel. Apoquel, she still eating and then the doctor say I will then give her Benadryl. Okay. So I'm going to kind of make some interpretations of what you've said and what I think may be the direction that your veterinarian is going here. So if your pet has yeast on the skin, the important thing to know about that is that yeast is generally not the primary problem. It's a secondary problem. So there's usually something else that's making that skin barrier unhealthy where the yeast can really grow and proliferate. So if they're using things like prednisone and Apoquel, it sounds like they're suspicious that she has an underlying allergy. So those medicines are geared towards the allergy. But the sad thing is if we use that and don't address infection and treat it with the medications for those conditions, we're really not going to get anywhere. So we're going to think that, you know, the medicine isn't working for allergies when we're really just not treating a bacterial infection or say a yeast infection that could be present. So what my consideration, and I'd ask you to talk to your veterinarian if this seems fair and like a direction that they would agree with, is that if we have yeast in the skin and it's chronic, especially if it creates some of the different symptoms I see with yeast, and I should mention those, yeast in the skin will often cause a really stinky foot odor. It smells like old man foot. I have to wash my bed and everything every day. Yeah. So it's a real strong smell. The dogs will often have kind of a greasy feel to them in those areas. And in some cases when it's present for chronic long -term periods of time, we'll actually get a thickening of the skin and it'll become kind of darkly pigmented and what almost I describe as elephantinized. So it kind of becomes like elephant skin. She had that in her tail, but then I gave her and gave and went away. Okay. So yeah, so that definitely, if those kinds of things are going on, then yeast is very suspicious. We usually confirm that by taking a sample from the skin and looking and you know, yeast show up pretty easy on an impression smear. So the thing I would ask you to talk to your veterinarian about is, can we use something systemic for her, for this yeast? And that might mean a couple different possible medicines, but they basically all fall under the category of an antifungal medicine, such as ketoconazole or itraconazole, or even one called terbenafene. Any of those are used with yeast infections, whether it be in the ears or say in the skin. So that would be something, and it does take a long period of time. We might get some improvement after maybe a week or two, but many times this is something that we have to treat for many weeks to months. So that would be something where, you know, I would definitely talk to them about that. The other thing is, you know, definitely the maliceb that you're using is certainly an appropriate one if we're suspicious of yeast, but there can be even some other things that we can use topically as well, as far as different types of mousses or sprays that we can use that contain either say chlorhexidine, which is a type of an antiseptic, or miconazole, which is an anti -yeast topical. So those can be things that we can add into the regimen. But I think the good thing in your situation is there is some things that I can suggest for you to try, and the big thing is sticking with it, because it really does take, I had just like a bald, kind of darkly skinned, very little hair. It only had hair on the tip of its tail and around its head, and it took four months of yeast therapy that we treated, and it finally got most of its hair back. It never did get all of it back, because it was so scarred, but it can really be very rewarding. You just kind of have to trek through it. So yeah, with her, she's black. When people see her and they tell me, why are you taking it? Because her top hair of her body is black, shiny, so pretty. It's just under the legs, on her stomach, at her four paws, and under the tail. You know, they don't have it, she doesn't have it anyplace else. And I bathe her, I bathe her, she's my baby. Yeah, well, and yeast is horribly itchy. Any human knows that. So it's a miserable thing. So definitely, and even some other kind of anti -itch remedies, you know, that we can use. I am using a lot of the canine atopic dermatitis immunoglobulin called CADI, and that helps a lot just to kind of stop the itch, to give pets relief while we're dealing with all the other things. Yes, I don't want to bite. I know that the steroids, they're going to hurt her a long time. And I say, what I'm giving to her is she's not going to be improving. That's why I hear you every morning. And I say on Sundays, and I say, I'm going to call because maybe I can go to the vet with some knowledge and say, hey, give me the yeast infection medication, take her away from the prednisone. Absolutely. And that makes it harder. The prednisone definitely makes it harder for her to fight these infections. So if we use it sparingly, just to kind of help relieve it, and then yeah, get her off that. I agree totally. So she needs to go to the vet and ask for something systematic. Is that right? Systemic. Systemic. A systemic and a yeast medicine. Yes, a yeast medicine. I will do that. Hopefully we can get her some good help and I wish you guys the best. Let us know how things turn out and hopefully we'll get her feeling and looking better and smelling better too. Thanks Wanda. Well, this portion of Animal Radio is underwritten by Fear Free Happy Homes. Don't forget you can get your fix of Animal Radio anytime you want with the Animal Radio app for iPhone and Android. Download it now. It's made possible by Fear Free Happy Homes. Helping your pets live their happiest, healthiest, fullest lives at home, at the vet, and everywhere in between. Visit them at fearfreehappyhomes .com. And thanks, Fear Free, for underwriting Animal Radio.
Animal Radio
A highlight from 1241. What Does It Mean When Your Favorite Drinking Buddy Is The Cat?
"Celebrating the connection with our pets. This is Animal Radio featuring your dream team veterinarian Dr. Debbie White and groomer Joey Vellani and here are your hosts Hal Abrams and Judy Francis. I'm going to go ahead and set the scene right now. Dr. Debbie is chowing down or drinking a drink I guess it's kombucha is that what you call that? Kombucha, yeah! It's a fabulous fermented drink that's got a little bit of vinegar it. to Any alcohol in it? Technically there's a warning on there yeah so but it's not like you drink it to get you know lit it's just it's just a natural process of the fermentation releases alcohols. Can I just say it looks absolutely disgusting. It is there's a sludge at the bottom and so you have to stir it but that's where the good stuff's at. You want that. Are there any redeeming factors of kombucha for animals? Can animals drink kombucha? You know because of the alcohol in there I've never heard of it actually being safe for for dogs but you know if we could develop one for dogs that would be appropriate. I guess the first thing would be would they like it because most kombuchas are kind of citrusy flavored or they have like you know different kind of additives to them that may not be appealing on the canine palette so we might have to find ways to make that a doggy attractant. I don't know. So there's no beef or chicken kombucha? Heck no. I wouldn't drink that. Is it good? Do you drink it because it's good for you? Yeah it's got a lot of live bacterial cultures that are good for your digestive tract. So it's actually in my opinion is better than yogurt because you can't get this amount of active cultures from just eating yogurt without the calories. This is awesome stuff. It's like 50 to 60 calories for a bottle. What about probiotics for pets because there's lots of those out there. That's true yeah and I think that there's a lot of probiotics out there. We just don't really know what cultures are necessarily the best cultures for dogs or cats or people even. I think they're still really looking at that and saying plus there's the problem of getting the probiotic in through the digestive tract and not have it digested. So there's got to be this kind of gets past the stomach and can actually do its work in the digestive tract so not all probiotics are the same. So where do you get this? Do you make it or do you buy it? Some people make it and I just buy it at the health food store, the grocery store. You could buy it everywhere now but it's definitely good for the gut and you know part of your immune system. So it's good for everything. I'm thinking about six years ago when you first came on to animal radio you used to come in with a diet Pepsi one. Yeah I've kind of evolved I'd say. Things have changed. You know who we're going to have on the show today is a lady who makes cocktails for animals for dogs and cats. Okay. I know this it sounds a little strange to me. Alcoholic? Well it's a pet winery and I don't think there's any alcohol involved. No there's no alcohol in it. I have a Fetch Me Noir and it looks like a bottle of wine. It really does. I have a Meow Sling and that Meow Sling looks like one of those little shots that you'd get on the airplane. And I also have a purgandy, a Fetch Me Grigio, a dog teeny, a cat teeny. A dog teeny and a cat teeny. Yeah about everything. I don't understand. So you can include your pets if you're having a party and do it in a safe way. Exactly. So for the holidays you're coming up you can pour a little martini gliese with a little bit of the puppy liquor in there and it'd be a safe alternative. They even have a bark brew if you know if your dog likes prefers beer instead. This is Barktober right? There you go. We're going to talk to this lady who's invented this stuff is that correct? She's coming up in just a few minutes right here on Animal Radio. What are you working on over there in the newsroom Lori? Got a very interesting story. How you you could think you have food poisoning but it's really your puppy that's making you sick. Okay it's your turn to reach out to Dr. Debbie right now in this portion of Animal Radio brought to you by Fear Free Happy Homes. Helping your pets live their happiest, healthiest, fullest lives at home, at the vet, everywhere in between. Visit them at fearfreehappyhomes .com and thanks Fear Free for underwriting Animal Radio. Hey Ted how you doing? Hey fine how are you? Good where are you calling from today? I'm calling from Los Angeles. The LA area listening on coast. How can we help you? The whole team is here for you. Oh thank you so much. I've got the problem with my dog. I've got a pit bull that was left me uh that was somebody my dog was going to sell and she hasn't sold and I've had the dog for years now and I can't get him to stop digging the backyard up. Everything is a nightmare. Okay.
Capstone Conversation
How Does a Chamber of Commerce Work With a City to Attract New Business? Bob Linscheid and Judy Lloyd Weigh In
"How does the chamber and other business organizations work with the city to be that vehicle to attract businesses? Then maybe Judy, if you could continue and then Bob. So this is less about attraction and more about the things we're doing to incentivize businesses who are coming in. So we work with the town. We have a business marketing grant program that we work with on the, with the town. Any business coming into Danville would be eligible for, and it offers complimentary video and photo packages. And that's all town sponsored administered by the chamber. We could take up to 20 businesses. We're full for this year, but it's a program that we did last year and did a great job and they're all featured on our website. So every business that's a chamber member gets their own page, which shows their video shows their photos. And so that's an incentive for people to not only join the chamber and be part of our community, but to come to Danville. We also run our merchant to the market program, which is our farmer's market, which allows our businesses to display at the farmer's market. And we're actually looking to do some more things to expand the Danville farmer's market. So that's one thing. And then some of the other things we're doing that I can go into later, but one, I do want to talk about it a little later in the program is our new women's enterprise initiatives. So we've got a lot of different things. We work with the town on largely on grads programs, festivals. When I say festivals, I mean the lighting of the old Oak tree, which is the kickoff of our shopping season. So we work with them on some of the bigger events. We have health and wellness day coming up where we're going to have some local celebrities. So there's lots of different things that we do to showcase Danville for the beautiful place it is. Bob? Yeah. So to get fundamental on you for a minute regarding the issue of attraction, our mission basically is to attract, support and grow business in the Walnut Creek region through advocacy, inclusive economic and business development. Those are just words. But when you work with a city of our size that has a, an economic development team of three plus people, we need to be, first of all, on the same page. And so our first initiative is to promote Walnut Creek as a premier East Bay location for corporate and satellite locations, targeting finance, professional services and tech. And tech could also include medical because we have such a strong medical presence. We're evaluating and investigating the possibility of forming essentially a wellness corridor along Nayshow Valley Road as an example. We discovered that the two cancer centers that are going in here will generate between 120 and 150 ,000 additional square footage just as a result of those two functions. When you talk about business attraction, I think it's important to talk about jobs and economic development is defined as the creation or retention of jobs. So we're focusing on some of the bigger roles, even though some of the smaller retail efforts are real important. Auto, the new auto industries is becoming very prevalent here. We're going to see some different things happening with the Toyota area of Walnut Creek. And so these are all about business attraction, but you have to have a unified voice of what we are as a community and we're developing that with our cities.
Capstone Conversation
Judy Lloyd and Bob Linscheid on How a Chamber of Commerce Can Attract New Business to a City
"How does the chamber and other business organizations work with the city to be that vehicle to attract businesses? Then maybe Judy, if you could continue and then Bob. So this is less about attraction and more about the things we're doing to incentivize businesses who are coming in. So we work with the town. We have a business marketing grant program that we work with on the, with the town. Any business coming into Danville would be eligible for, and it offers complimentary video and photo packages. And that's all town sponsored administered by the chamber. We could take up to 20 businesses. We're full for this year, but it's a program that we did last year and did a great job and they're all featured on our website. So every business that's a chamber member gets their own page, which shows their video shows their photos. And so that's an incentive for people to not only join the chamber and be part of our community, but to come to Danville. We also run our merchant to the market program, which is our farmer's market, which allows our businesses to display at the farmer's market. And we're actually looking to do some more things to expand the Danville farmer's market. So that's one thing. And then some of the other things we're doing that I can go into later, but one, I do want to talk about it a little later in the program is our new women's enterprise initiatives. So we've got a lot of different things. We work with the town on largely on grads programs, festivals. When I say festivals, I mean the lighting of the old Oak tree, which is the kickoff of our shopping season. So we work with them on some of the bigger events. We have health and wellness day coming up where we're going to have some local celebrities. So there's lots of different things that we do to showcase Danville for the beautiful place it is. Bob? Yeah. So to get fundamental on you for a minute regarding the issue of attraction, our mission basically is to attract, support and grow business in the Walnut Creek region through advocacy, inclusive economic and business development. Those are just words. But when you work with a city of our size that has a, an economic development team of three plus people, we need to be, first of all, on the same page. And so our first initiative is to promote Walnut Creek as a premier East Bay location for corporate and satellite locations, targeting finance, professional services and tech. And tech could also include medical because we have such a strong medical presence. We're evaluating and investigating the possibility of forming essentially a wellness corridor along Nayshow Valley Road as an example. We discovered that the two cancer centers that are going in here will generate between 120 and 150 ,000 additional square footage just as a result of those two functions. When you talk about business attraction, I think it's important to talk about jobs and economic development is defined as the creation or retention of jobs. So we're focusing on some of the bigger roles, even though some of the smaller retail efforts are real important. Auto, the new auto industries is becoming very prevalent here. We're going to see some different things happening with the Toyota area of Walnut Creek. And so these are all about business attraction, but you have to have a unified voice of what we are as a community and we're developing that with our cities.
Animal Radio
A highlight from 1240. A Therapy Duck? Can Kissing Your Pet Make You Fat?
"Celebrating the connection with our pets this is Animal Radio featuring your dream team veterinarian Dr. Debbie White and groomer Joey Vellani and here are your hosts Hal Abrams and Judy Francis. Well this is the show where we celebrate the animals that we love that are family and for most of us they may be dogs, cats, fish, birds, horses but for one lady it's a duck. She has a pet duck. Why not? And she's going to be joining us on the show today to tell us what it's like to have a pet duck in just a few minutes right here on Animal Radio. Let's see oh it is also week four of our new pet product special featuring the latest goodies and gadgets for you and your pets and we'll have giveaways today of today's item. Lori what are you working on over there in the newsroom? There's some interesting new research out that there's nothing definitive yet but there are hints and they are studying it if it's possible that by you kissing your pet you could make that pet heavier.
KOA 850 AM
"judy short" Discussed on KOA 850 AM
"And it just didn't get done. So I think the jury's still out a little bit on Kirk Cousins, and then obviously they also went the trade route. I mean, they have bred far they had case Keenum. So obviously you could say Brett Farve was really good for them at the time he was in Minnesota. Granted, they didn't make it to the end result of what they wanted to do there, either. But I think Brett Farve played well enough after his time in Green Bay that I think you could call that a success as well, bringing in Brett Farve. It was a big move, so they've tried everything first round picks. Trading for a quarterback and obviously the free agency, right. So George Payton, learning under Rick Spielman, and he was with Spielman at three different spots. He was with him with the Bears. He was with him in Miami, and he's been with him for Double digit years in Minnesota, so he saw everything. So I don't think that he's going to be afraid to pull the trigger and going a different route. A couple of those first round draft picks that the Vikings had on Lee got one year. I think the one that got the most was Teddy Bridgewater, and he got two years before he got hurt, then that was the end of that. So he's not afraid, if if it's not going the direction that he wants it to that he will go in a different direction. And I think if you have the opportunity to go out and get a top five quarterback that is what age 25 you do everything that you can. So that means three first round picks Andrew Luck. I'm definitely all in on that. And I even told you That I would even toss in Jerry Judy into that deal to sweeten it to make sure that that that can get done now granted, Let me just say this. I would try and get the deal done without throwing without Judy short, But here's my reasoning is toe why I would make him available in any particular deal. And obviously the shot. Watson has a no trade. So we could block coming to Denver, regardless of you offered the whole Bronco team for him, right, You know, But let's just say to Sean was interested in coming here, and I think he should be interested. Because if you look at the talent on this roster, it is young. And they're very talented. You have Courtland Sutton is the number one. And here's why I would give up. Jerry Judy in that scenario is because Tim Patrick to me last season showed me enough that he could be the number two number two wide receiver on this team. And you were gonna be successful with sudden and Patrick that you could say you don't have a burner out of those two, because I don't think anybody thinks of Of Courtland is a burner. But you did draft KJ handler who can stretch the football field, and I think he showed flashes of that last season. But Cortland sudden comes back healthy. And you have Tim Patrick in Cage, a handler, plus Noah fans. That is a lot of weapons for D Shawn Watson at his disposal, and I think Courtland sudden granted, he's not DeAndre Hopkins, but I think he is a rising superstar in this league. There's no question about that. I would completely agree. I would not I would not put Jerry Judy on the table as part of that deal of potential deal like that, right off that that's that's your ace in the hole that you're thinking long and hard about that. I mean, you're thinking. Okay. Even let's just say I'm not a drew locked believer. Someone is okay. That's fine. So drew locks a young quarterback that the Texans may or may not like what you put him in there. Because if you're getting too, Shawn Watson, you don't need drew lock. But if it's Judy, and lock and three first round picks I'm not saying I wouldn't make the deal, but I'm working really hard to make it a different player other than Jerry Juice, and let's be honest, This isn't about Drew lock it is about who does Sean watching inquest right now. No quiet..
Maranatha Ministries UPC
"judy short" Discussed on Maranatha Ministries UPC
"If no one else does it. I am going to live for god. Let me give you just a little bit of background of our story today. Real quickly jesus was. This is the story where jesus was on the seashore. The multitudes gathered around him to listen to his teachings and so he got himself on a boat and the into into the bay just a little bit and all. The people sat on the on the on the bank and he preached from the boat and taught from the boat and taught some very powerful lessons on that particular day. That was the day that he taught about the seed and the sower in the different type of seed that grows courage to read those and study those those parables good good good see seat fell on the ground fell on the stony ground. Parable one of the parables. He talked about that. Day was the parable of the light being hidden under under a bushel. We can't we have to put our light on a lamp stand. Don't hide your christianity. Don't be afraid to project your christianity. Don't be afraid to live your christianity. Go ahead and collapse. That's okay live your christianity and everything was good. I mean what how awesome is to sit down and listen to jesus talk about some of these things seed the you know the light just they were. They were awed by having raptured by him and then he was done. He said his apostles who were in the boat with a he. Let's go let's cross over to the other side and obviously they're gonna do it. I mean this is jesus. Let's cross over to the other side. So they start crossing over to the other side now. Listen i'm about ready to cross over to the other side of something. Twenty twenty is. I'm ready to let it go man. How many want to cross over to something better. I think if we can just cross over things we'll get anything to believe. Things are going to get better. I'll maybe no for sure gonna live forgotten it if it doesn't sister sister. Judy shorts is not with us this morning. She's feeling a little under the weather. Same sister suzanne not keep these people in prayer sister suzanne. How'd you hear our kids. By the way one of our first goals here one of our first goals for this new year is to get our nursery up and running with a screen down there with a service is being broadcast. You can take your kids into a nursery and still watch. The service isn't that can be a good thing that's going to be a good thing and i'm not complaining about the kids. Kids are kids you know. Someday we'd get embarrassed. Our kids act up. Listen we're doing the best we can right now right. We're all limping along here. Through this cove and stuff and figuring things out and we can't have sunday school right. We have no nursery right now. We can't but we're gonna open up the nursery make it large enough for kids to get down there and parents and take the kids down there still social distance and be able to watch the service on the screens. All right. that's what we're working towards. And then where was i. Who's listening to me preach today. They can tell me where i was. Nobody so i can start all over again. You're okay with that right. Let me just pick up somewhere. Listen we don't know what twenty twenty one holds. We are hopeful. It's going to get better so far. It's not worth three. What is assist the third or second third. We're three days into it. Ain't many better yet for me. I don't know what's going to happen. But when jesus says hey let's cross over to the other side you gotta believe it's going to get better than what we just saw we just saw the multitudes being taught these beautiful lessons and now jesus wants to cross over to the other side. The problem is we're crossing over to the other side. The storms are raging sleeping. And i don't know about you but there's been a few days during this pandemic that i felt like jesus was sleeping somewhere and not seeing what's really going on in my life. Can you say a man. Covid nineteen taken its toll financially and some many the motionlessly. Many people are torn up broken relationships because of the stress. We don't even realize it's because of the stress of what we've been through what we're going through. Businesses are struggling. We've had to fight through resist. Hold on his struggle with all the things that are going on in life to try to live for god. We set up rules and regulations in the house of god that we can and cannot do. We worship god with mask on. It's uncomfortable we sit away from each other. We don't shake hands. We have no. It's difficult come on now and we just want to get to the other side but in getting to the other side. Where is jesus if you look closely. He's there he's just asleep he's he's just asleep and so we have all of these things happening in our lives. All of these things and aside from cove nineteen. I don't mean to focus on covert nineteen like. That's the first thing that's ever gone wrong for any of us. Come on long before covid. Nineteen got here. We struggled with stuff. We had sicknesses and disease covid. Nineteen isn't the first sickness to affect the population. We had broken homes before covid nineteen hit we divorce rates high before covid nineteen. We had six children before covered nine hundred and not the real problem. But let me say this from births to depths sicknesses to diseases to situations to hurts to angers to anything you can imagine all of these things shape us. Don't they were. That was a trick question because it is not the things in your life that shape you. It is not the things that happened to you in your life that shape you how you react to the things happening in your life that shape you kanu because let's face it. The rain falls on the just. In on the unjust. So that means you can have the rainfall and you can still be just or you get. The rainfall caused you to become unjust. It's not what's happening. It's your response to what's happening and get an example. This happened just new year's day actually new year's day this happened to me as you know. We have been struggling for months now with our digital sound system. then it went on the blink. And i'll just give you a quick rundown of what we've been through when on the brink blink. Thank god for my son in law michael. Who is a. He's just a wiz with computer technology. All that stuff he went to work he worked on it. He'd worked on computers. He worked on the system. We contacted the company that makes the thing they worked with us over the phone on how to what to try to get it. We could not get. They told us a senate in. We patched package. Did all upset it out. They took it. They said they fixed it. They send it back to us. We hooked it up. It did not work. We got back on the phone with them. we talk. we tried other things. I send it back to us again. We said it getting old. We sent it back again. They sent back a note that we have hooked it up. Replaces we fix this and we hooked it up..