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This week Be a Man, John Fiore and Tonzo talk about road trips with parents, Getting slapped in the car, Lot Lizards, Bench seats, cars with no AC, Smoking in the car, Drinking and driving back in the day, Driving instructors, DUI's, Riding dirty, Awkward rides with broads, Classic car guys, Bone cruises, Hitchhikers, Motorcycles, And some hilarious stories from the Be A Man Mafia. SHOP: http://www.Bostonbeaman.com ALL BE A MAN LINKS: http://www.direct.me/bostonbeaman  

Con una apuesta de alejarse de temas polarizantes como el metro de Bogotá, Gustavo Bolívar -exsenador y aliado del presidente Gustavo Petro- le apuesta a ganar en primera vuelta en Bogotá. En parte porque quiere una campaña rápida, y también porque, dentro de su círculo saben, que es un aspirante con el que los demás competidores no pueden tender puentes. Hoy hablamos de la apuesta de Gustavo Bolívar, de por qué es el más viable dentro de los candidatos del Pacto Histórico en el país, y de lo que tendría que hacer para lograr ganar con el 40 por ciento de los votos de la capital del país.Para saber más puede leer:El tarjetón de candidatos a la Alcaldía de Bogotá.Bolívar se lanza en Bogotá con una meta improbable.Recuerde que todo lo que necesita saber para elegir en octubre está en lasillavacia. Así que elija ser Súperamigo. Puede ser parte de nuestra comunidad acá.Un espacio de cuña en Huevos Revueltos puede ser suyo, excepto para contenido político y electoral. Si tiene interés, escriba a socampo@lasillavacia.com. Acá el formulario de inscripción si quiere asistir a los Huevos en Vivo Regionales.Chequeo de datos: Paula Doria, periodista de La Silla Vacía.Producción: Sergio García y Fernando Cruz, periodistas de La Silla Vacía.Foto de portada: Twitter LinaLole_

Matt Fanslow is with Chad Austin, the owner of Austin Automotive in Canon City, Colorado. They discuss Chad's background as a mechanic and the challenges and successes of running a shop. They also discuss the importance of having the right tools for the job, the challenges of working on electronic modules, and the benefits of using digital tools in automotive repair. They touch on air conditioning systems, diagnostic techniques, and the future of AC system repairs in electric vehicles. Overall, they provide valuable insights into the automotive repair industry.Also:Types of vehicles worked on at Austin AutomotiveWeather conditions in Canon City, ColoradoChallenges of programming and dealing with different vehicle modulesFrustration with the lack of access to software and tools for electronic module repairImportance of having the right tools in the shopThanks to our Partner, NAPA Autotech napaautotech.com Email Matt: mattfanslowpodcast@gmail.comDiagnosing the Aftermarket A - Z YouTube Channel HEREAftermarket Radio Network: https://aftermarketradionetwork.com/

Ramiro Suárez Corzo fue alcalde de Cúcuta hace 20 años. Fue condenado por asesinato hace 12 y aun así, sigue influyendo en la política de la principal región de la frontera con Venezuela: tira línea, pone alcaldes y ayuda en elecciones. Todo desde la cárcel. Su actual candidato, Leonardo Jácome, puntea en las encuestas, y él mismo lo visitaba en prisión. Justo por eso es que al Inpec le tocó volverlo a trasladar a Bogotá. Hoy hablamos con la periodista Lucy Araque*, quien ha cubierto el fenómeno del “ramirismo” en la capital de Norte de Santander.*Lucy es la editora de política de La Opinión de Cúcuta, el principal diario de la región. Su directora, Estefanía Colmenares, fue amenazada y declarada objetivo militar por las bandas criminales de la ciudad por, entre otros, el cubrimiento electoral.Para saber más puede leer:Quiénes son los candidatos a la Alcaldía de Cúcuta.Una ciudad bajo amenaza: el peligroso filo de Ramiro Suárez atemoriza a Cúcuta. Nota de El País América Colombia. Desde su casa por cárcel, Ramiro Suárez arranca campaña en Cúcuta.Ramiro Suárez quiere hacer moñona en Cúcuta.Recuerde que todo lo que necesita saber para elegir en octubre está en lasillavacia. Así que elija ser Súperamigo. Puede ser parte de nuestra comunidad acá. Un espacio de cuña en Huevos Revueltos puede ser suyo, excepto para contenido político y electoral. Si tiene interés, escriba a socampo@lasillavacia.com. Acá el formulario de inscripción si quiere asistir a los Huevos en Vivo Regionales.Chequeo de datos: Tatiana Duque, coordinadora de podcast de La Silla Vacía. Producción: Sergio García y Fernando Cruz, periodistas de La Silla Vacía.Foto de portada: La Silla Vacía.

Pigion Dysgwyr – Podlediad I Fyfyrwyr Bore Llun diwetha cafodd Aled Hughes sgwrs ar ei raglen gyda Cerith Rhys-Jones a Steffan Alun Leonard. Mae'r ddau wedi rhyddhau podlediad newydd o'r enw 'Sgwrsio am Brifysgol' sy'n rhoi blas i ddarpar-fyfyrwyr ar beth yw bywyd coleg, gyda phrofiadau myfyrwyr go iawn. Rhyddhau To release Darpar-fyfyrwyr Prospective students Rhannu profiadau Sharing experiences Gwerthfawr Valuable Cyflwyno To present Teimlo'n gartrefol Feeling at home I ryw raddau To some extent Yn gwmws Yn union Rhinwedd Merit Mewnwelediad Insight Trawstoriad eang A wide cross-section Pigion Dysgwyr – Tomatos Podlediad gwerthfawr iawn ac amserol hefyd gyda chymaint o fyfyrwyr yn cychwyn ar eu taith brifysgol yn ystod y mis hwn. Ychydig wythnosau yn ôl ar Pigion clywon ni sgwrs rhwng Adam Jones sef Adam yn yr Ardd a Shan Cothi. Rhoddodd Adam her i Shan i dyfu tomatos ac adrodd yn ôl ar ddiwedd yr haf ar sut aeth pethau. Dyma ddarn o'r sgwrs gafodd y ddau wythnos diwetha…. Her A challenge Teimlo fel oes Feels like ages Crasboeth Scorched Yn y cnawd In the flesh Awdurdod Authority Pencampwyr Champions Carotsen Moronen Llawn cystal Just as good Iseldiroedd Netherlands Chwerw Bitter Pigion Dysgwyr – Fflemeg Wel pwy fasai'n meddwl mai rhywun o'r Iseldiroedd sy'n gyfrifon am liw oren moron, on'd ife! Iseldireg wrth gwrs yw iaith y wlad honno, ond mae hi hefyd yn cael ei siarad mewn rhan o Wlad Belg sef Fflandrys. Ac yn Fflandrys yn ddiweddar mae'r Gweinidog Addysg wedi cyhoeddi cynlluniau i wneud Iseldireg yn unig iaith yr iard ysgol. Mae'r Dr Guto Rhys, yn byw ac yn magu ei blant yn Fflandrys a dyma fe i esbonio mwy am y sefyllfa ar Dros Ginio bnawn Mawrth…… Cenhedlaeth Generation Tafodieithoedd Dialects Cymhleth Complicated Pryder A concern Gorfodi To compel Tybio To presume Anniddigrwydd Discontent Anghyfleus Inconvenient Iaith leiafrifol Minority language Iaith rymus A powerful language Pigion Dysgwyr – Bethan Rhys Roberts Hanes sefyllfa gymhleth ieithoedd Gwlad Belg yn fanna gan Dr Guto Rhys. Mae'n wythnos a hanner bellach ers i ddaeargryn nerthol daro dinas Marrakech ac ardaloedd cyfagos. Un oedd yn y ddinas ar y pryd oedd Bethan Rhys Roberts, un o newyddiadurwyr BBC Cymru. Dyma hi ar raglen Bore Sul yn esbonio beth ddigwyddodd ar yr union eiliad pan darodd y daeargryn…… Daeargryn nerthol A powerful earthquake Hynafol Ancient Strydoedd culion Narrow streets Sŵn byddarol A deafening noise Dychrynllyd Frightening Ymgynnull To congregate Llafnau Slabs Dymchwel To collapse Sgrialu Scrambling Anhrefn Disarray Yn reddfol Instinctively Pigion Dysgwyr – La Liga Ac yn drist iawn wrth gwrs buodd miloedd o bobl farw ym Morocco yn dilyn y daeargryn. Bethan Rhys Roberts yn fanna yn rhoi syniad i ni o'r sefyllfa ddychrynllyd ym Marrakesh. Mae tîm pêl-droed pentre Llanfairpwll ar Ynys Môn wedi cael noddwyr newydd ar gyfer y tymor newydd. Mi fydd enw'r gynghrair Sbaenaidd - LaLiga - ar flaen crysau'r chwaraewyr eleni. Ie wir, darn o España ar dir Ynys Môn. Hannah Thomas ydy ysgrifennydd y tîm, a dyma hi i esbonio mwy ar Dros Frecwast fore Mercher Noddwyr Sponsors Ysgrifennydd Secretary Yn raddol Gradually Pwyllgor Committee Manteision Advantages Hogia Bechgyn Diolchgar Thankful Denu To attract Pigion Dysgwyr – Clwb Ifor Bach Wel dyna ni, tybed fyddwn ni'n gweld Llanfairpwll yn chwarae yn erbyn Barcelona neu Real Madrid yn y dyfodol! Dych chi wedi ymweld â Chlwb Ifor Bach yng Nghaerdydd erioed? Sefydlwyd y clwb bedwar deg o flynyddoedd yn ôl er mwyn rhoi llwyfan i fandiau Cymraeg chwarae, a hefyd fel man ble gallai siaradwyr Cymraeg y Brifddinas ddod i gymdeithasu. Nos Sul darlledwyd rhaglen i nodi y garreg filltir bwysig, hon ac mae cyfle wrth gwrs i chi wrando ar y rhaglen gyfan ar BBC Sounds….. Llwyfan A stage Darlledwyd Was broadcast Carreg filltir Milestone Sylfaenwyr Founders Cyfeddach Companionship Hwb cymdeithasol Social hub Sefydliad Establishment Cynhyrchydd Producer Pigion Dysgwyr – Rhys Taylor Sefydliad arall oedd yn dathlu carreg filltir arbennig oedd Ysgol Gyfun Penweddig, Aberystwyth, a dathlu pumdeg o flynyddoedd ers ei sefydlu oedd yr ysgol hon. Cafodd y cerddor Rhys Taylor sgwrs gyda Caryl Parry Jones wythnos diwetha gan fod Rhys yn gyn-ddisgybl yr ysgol. Nos Sadwrn roedd e'n un oedd yn cymryd rhan mewn cyngerdd yn Nghanolfan y Celfyddydau y dre fel rhan o'r dathliadau Cerddor Musician Breintiedig Privileged Oes euraidd Golden age Preswyl Residential Cerddorfeydd Orchestras Brolio To boast T'mod Rwyt ti'n gwybod

¿La felicidad se compra o se alcanza? Mucha gente dice que el dinero no te da felicidad, pero otros dicen lo contrario. Acá te diremos quién tiene razón y cómo hacer para que seas feliz con lo que tienes.

Si tu vida de pareja es aburrida y rutinaria, deberías pegarte una escapada de tu mujer, pero mucho ojo se te acaba el matrimonio. Acá te diremos cómo hacer para que tu mujer no se enoje tanto y no  se quiera separar cuando regreses.Y después de los mini extraterrestres que presentaron al público la semana pasada, te contamos de qué sabor eran y por qué Jaime Maussan se enojó tanto.

#151: Okay - the past couple days of clouds were a nice break from the hot weather. But love it or hate it... that L.A. heat is always just right around the corner. Controlling urban heat is a major issue: it touches everything from health, to the environment, to your wallet. And running the AC all day can cost a pretty penny, assuming you're not one of the 20% of Angelenos who live without AC. This is where cool roofs come in. It's L.A.'s new-fangled solution that got its start a couple thousand years ago in the Mediterranean, and is now required by law for all new roofs in the city. Join LAist climate reporter Erin Stone as she takes HTLA host Brian De Los Santos down to Watts. The neighborhood received a grant to install free cool roofs, AND solar, for local residents.   

El frente de guerra occidental del ELN libra una guerra con el clan del Golfo en las selvas del Chocó que genera el desplazamiento y confinamiento de cientos de habitantes. Por eso, la región es una "zona crítica", según la mesa de conversación entre el gobierno y el ELN.Hoy, por primera vez, uno de los líderes elenos en la zona habla con La Silla Vacía sobre el futuro de las conversaciones, el cese el fuego y su verdadera intención de dejar las armas.La entrevista completa está ya al aire en lasillavacia.com.Recuerde que todo lo que necesita saber para elegir en octubre está en lasillavacia. Así que elija ser Súperamigo. Puede ser parte de nuestra comunidad acá.Un espacio de cuña en Huevos Revueltos puede ser suyo, excepto para contenido político y electoral. Si tiene interés, escriba a socampo@lasillavacia.com. Acá el formulario de inscripción si quiere asistir a los Huevos en Vivo Regionales.Chequeo de datos: Santiago Rodríguez, periodista de La Silla Vacía. Producción: Sergio García y Fernando Cruz, periodistas de La Silla Vacía.Foto de portada: La Silla Vacía.

Healing is an emotionally-charged topic. There are people who believe healing is for today and those who don't. There are people who have been healed and those who haven't. There are people whom God has used to heal others, and those who've tried and “failed.” There are even people who've walked away from God because they sought healing for a loved one, but that person died. So, by just mentioning the topic, all sorts of emotions and memories come to mind. I've been asking God to teach me to pray for healing ever since my aunt died when I was 13 years old. And I've learned some things over the years, but as time passes it seems the main lesson I've learned is how much I still don't know. But I refuse to stop learning. I refuse to let the disappointments cause me to withdraw. I refuse to stop praying for the sick. I refuse to stop believing that God heals. Don't get me wrong, I have been privileged to participate in many amazing healings. Some people say, “I've never seen a real miracle with my own eyes,” but I've seen many. I could spend hours telling story after story that are phenomenal. I mean ones that time and medical evidence have proved out. So it's not that I doubt that God has the power. The real question for me is why some and not others. And I'm not comfortable with the answer that says God just doesn't choose to heal some. Yes, I know there's a time for everyone to die, but you'd have a hard time convincing me that some of those we've “lost” had arrived at their “time.” Luke actually takes two chapters (Ac 3, 4) to discuss this one remarkable healing and the effect it had on the city. And he gives such detail, and quotes Peter so precisely, that he presents us with a case-study on healing. Profound insights are given about how the apostles approached healing, and even what took place inside the lame man himself. So let's be open to learn. Let's watch Peter model healing and then listen as he explains what happened.

En este episodio Regina Garza y Adriana Rangel platican sobre cómo podemos maximizar el potencial de nuestro negocio a través del comercio en línea. Hablamos de la importancia del contacto directo en la categoría de alimentos y sobre la evolución de la adopción de tecnología en las marcas. ¡No te pierdas este episodio! En el episodio #93 de Serious Sellers Podcast en Español, platicamos de: 00:00 - Comercio en Línea Y Crecimiento Empresarial 10:55 - Evolución De Marcas en Ferias 20:27- Aprovechando Eventos Y Contenido Visual Transcripción Adriana Rangel O nos acompaña Regina Garza desde México. Regina vende en la categoría de alimentos y desde hace ya varios años posicionó su producto en Amazon. O nos cuenta cómo ella ve que las marcas tanto grandes como las pequeñas en este sector se apoyan del comercio en línea y de todo lo digital para crecer sus negocios? Estás listo para aprender y sacar le provecho esta oportunidad? Si es así, bienvenidos a Sur's Air Podcast en español. Bienvenidos a todos a este episodio de Sur's Air Podcast en español. Mi nombre es Adriana Rangel y yo estoy aquí para platicar sobre las mejores estrategias de crear y crecer tu innovación Amazon, walmart y ToyCommerce en general para venderes de todos los niveles.   Regina: Comenzamos, hola, regina ¿cómo estás, Hola Adriana? muy bien y tú muy contenta estar contigo nuevamente.   Adriana Rangel Gracias, regina, pues te agradezco mucho que me has tomado la invitación. Platicamos hace 12 meses, pero yo sé que has hecho. Bueno, te veo, bueno, yo, porque te sigo en tu redes, ¿verdad, entonces? veo que estás en todas partes del mundo participando en estas ferias. Yo sé que en tu categoría, tú que vendes en la categoría de alimentos, es muy importante el como face to face, ¿verdad? O sea el ver al cliente en persona, en ir a estas ferias que se ven increíbles, o sea. Creo que estuviste en una en Chicago hace poquito y, oye, yo no sé ni cómo le hacen para, para recorrer todos los stands, ¿verdad, porque son en estos como centros enormes. Entonces, bueno, obviamente te va a preguntar sobre eso, ahorita, Regina, obviamente, en contexto al tema online, ¿verdad, Porque yo sé que, ahorita, todas las marcas, desde las grandes hasta las pequeñas y las medianas, obviamente también se están apoyando, obviamente de lo digital para crecer.   ¿verdad, entonces? pero bueno, para la gente que no conocía a Regina por ahí, hace, en el episodio número 40, o sea, hace un año platicamos con ella y ella nos compartió su historia. ¿verdad, regina, para la gente que no te conoce, ¿nos quieres dar un breve, breve, breve ahora sí, que resumen de cómo empezaste en este mundo. ¿por qué? Porque yo sé que tú ya estabas en el negocio, creciéndolo.   Regina: Realmente el tema de ventas, por llamarlo de la manera tradicional, antigua, que se de cómo se ha hecho. Hasta hace 20 años, realmente era muy personal, de cara a cara, platicamos así vendieras un sartén, así vendieras unos zapatos o cosméticos de puerta, viendo la persona. Ahora llega este mundo digital en el que todo el mundo tiene acceso. Es una cancha, pues, es un piso parejo, vamos a decirlo, y ya depende del presupuesto, esfuerzo y tiempo que cada quien le pueda dedicar. Es que es exitoso o no un negocio digital.   Entonces, pues, nosotros teníamos la manera de ventas, como te comentó, tradicional y dije ¿por qué no empezar a explorar esta parte digital? Ahora todo mundo tenemos nuestro teléfono en la mano, que tiene la tarjeta de crédito conectada, y los alimentos. Pues, es la única industria en la que tienes a 7 billones de personas todos los días necesitando tu producto, porque todo el mundo tiene que comer. Entonces, ¿por qué no llevar esto a lo digital? Ya ven que uno se acaba enamorando de la comida por las fotos. ¿cuántas veces no vamos a ir a un restaurante con alguna amiga o amigo o lo que sea, y te dice mira, te gusta, y te manda su perfil en alguna red social para ver si se te antoja algún platillo o no?   Creo que le hemos hecho esto entonces, bueno, pues fue una idea que tuvimos a bien implementar como prueba y realmente pues nos gustó mucho y se quedó. Claro que cada vez que conozco un poco más del mundo de Amazon, pues me voy dando cuenta que no es nada más. Una plataforma de ventas ya acaba siendo un search engine, una comparativa entre competencias, digo entre diferentes productos, y pues genera competencia que, al final de cuentas, por quien se acaba beneficiando es el consumidor. Entonces, obviamente un marketing powerhouse entonces es mucho más que un marketplace. Entonces realmente sí, es una gran herramienta. A nosotros nos ha servido muchísimo y nada. Pues ya me invito a que todo mundo la use.   Adriana Rangel Claro, claro. Oye, regina, por ahí me estabas contando, antes de comenzar a grabar, que te has estado apalancando por ahí un poquito, de una manera poco tradicional, del tema de la logística de Amazon, dfa para mandarle samples o pruebas a clientes potenciales, porque obviamente la gente tiene que probar el producto antes de comprarlo. Especialmente estos son clientes que generalmente compran, y compran en cantidades grandes, ¿verdad? Y luego son compras recurrentes. Entonces cuéntame cómo tú, desde acá, desde México, cómo te apoyas de la logística de Amazon para mandarle el paquete, el producto, hasta no sé igual hay un cliente que esté en Ohio o en Seattle o algo así.   Regina: Claro, claro, muchas veces pasa con estos. Bueno, primero que nada, un poco de contexto. De México, estados Unidos, aunque tienen el tratado de libre comercio T-MEC ahora México, estados Unidos y Canadá, perdón, si alguien manda un alimento de México a Estados Unidos por una paquetería comercial común, el producto llega. A veces llega, pasa que en la aduana, por ser alimento lo abren y lo revisan. Entonces pues no puedes correr ese riesgo de que, por ejemplo, si mandaste una bolsa de imagínate papitas y llega abierta, pues pueden llegar ya con humedad y hasta aguadas, claro sí, es un riesgo que pues no puedes correr.   Sobre todo si lo que quieres es mandarle muestras a un cliente potencial, tienen que quedar como que mandar solamente lo mejor y evitar este tipo de riesgos.   Entonces, cuando hay muchas, muchas ferias o trade shows de alimentos en todo el mundo y a las que he ido, por ejemplo, en Estados Unidos hay una grande, hay varias grandes en Chicago, en centros de convenciones que hacen enormes en el McCormick Place, hay otra muy, muy grande en Anaheim, cerquita de Los Ángeles, ahí en Filadélfano, new York, hay en muchos lugares. Entonces lo que yo me apalanco en este tipo de ferias, en este tipo de ferias, pues las personas y las empresas que van, obviamente están pues todo el día caminando, a veces traen, no sé, van dos o tres días, medio express a una feria y no se pueden llevar muestras de todos los productos que quisieran.   Entonces sí, porque igual trae el peso restringido en el avión, verdad? entonces a lo mejor una muestra de 500 gramos, pues es mucho. Entonces lo que yo hago ahí mismo es, cuando estoy con ellos y les interesa una muestra, ahí mismo me meto a Amazon desde mi celular, les pido su dirección, les así como si les mandara un regalito, como que senda gifts por medio de Amazon, y es ahí como les hago llegar la muestra. Entonces gracias al Envio Prime, pues ellos llegan a su oficina y ya tienen la muestra ahí. no tengo que esperar a mandárselas, a que les llegue, no, ahí mismo. Entonces ya, en lo que yo estoy buscando a otros clientes, esas muestras ya están en camino.   Entonces le vas ahorrando tiempo y en mi caso, muy particular, pues yo tendría que regresar a México y luego hacer una exportación formal para cruzar Estados Unidos y de Estados Unidos ir a mandar las muestras. Entonces de esta manera, como ya se hizo esa exportación formal en Amazon digo más bien para para surtirle a Amazon el producto ya se cuenta que tienes una bodega personalizada y le va a llegar muy, muy rápido a tu cliente a hacer llegar esas muestras. Entonces realmente es pues creo que es una manera no, no tan convencional, pero a mí me ha servido, me ha servido muchísimo porque pues, el producto llega bien, llega empacado, llega a tiempo, entonces no, y llega rápido que en en negocios, antes de que se pierde el interés o se enfrían las cosas pues a veces no es, no es lo mejor, no, entonces es una manera muy, muy como novedosa de apalancarte de Amazon, en mi opinión.   Adriana Rangel Sí, sí, no, cómo no?   y aparte, bueno, o sea, si pensamos en los costos de hacer eso a escala, especialmente porque, pues, a eso vas, verdad, a conocer a mucha gente Me imagino que conoces docenas, verdad, de personas, al menos en ese tipo de de faires, porque van miles de personas en ocasiones, verdad? Entonces, oye, mandar, como dices tú, desde acá, desde México, el envío te va a salir obviamente muchísimo más caro que, inclusive aún cuando tuvieras una bodega, tu verdad, de tu propia marca, tu propia empresa en Estados Unidos y esto, quisieras enviar un producto por UPS o por Fedex o algo así, el precio, el costo de las guías de Amazon, fba son muchísimo más bajas, son las más bajas en el mercado, verdad? Entonces, este aún cuando dijiste yo no, pero yo vivo en Estados Unidos, o yo tengo alguien que me lo mande de Estados Unidos, pues sí, pero como quiera te va a salir, o sea, es lo más probable, verdad, que te va a salir más costoso ese envío Y como es esto el tema del del tiempo y que realmente son unos cuantos clicks, verdad? O sea, si tú quisieras mandar un, un sámpolo o un regalito o algo así, desde tu bodega en Estados Unidos, desde tu casa, si quieres, en Estados Unidos, como quiera Enrique, oye, que esperara que ya sea dejarlo, verdad, en las, en las oficinas de UPS o Fedex, o que pase por él, etcétera.   Acá, como es esto? simplemente te metes ahí al listado, te creas una fulfillment order, verdad, es algo así que este es el tipo de orden que este que le pides a Amazon que haga, y simplemente pone la dirección y ya o sea. Fueron unos cuantos clicks, en dos minutos te encargaste de hacer ese envío, verdad? Y como dices tú, oye, si no llegas o sea, si dejas que las cosas se enfríen, igual, si dejas que pasen cinco días o una semana, ya, no es lo mismo o sea. En cualquier tipo de negociación y de este de relación de negocios, tienes que moverte rápido, verdad?   Regina: Y y también, por ejemplo las personas que van a las verias, pues también ellos traen en su cabeza ellos van a muchísimas tarjetas de presentación y muestras, y claro entonces el hecho de que ellos lleguen a la oficina y la tuya ya esté ahí, en lugar de que tengan que esperar a que las demás personas que les iban a mandar muestras lleguen, se sienten en su computadora, pidan direcciones y demás. La tuya ya está ahí, o sea llegó primero que las de los demás. Entonces este te puede empezar a llegar primero.   Exactamente como que atender primero y ya ocupar su atención en, en, en ti, en tu producto y todo. Entonces, la verdad, si no se ha servido muchísimo esta herramienta.   Adriana Rangel Sí, qué bien, Regina. Oye, y regresando al tema de las verias, a mí me encanta porque yo veo que subes este stories a Instagram y todo y yo digo oye, bueno, yo he notado que llevas ya varios años yendo a estas ferias, y quien mejor que tú para que nos cuentes un poquito sobre oye, cuáles son o sea, cómo has visto la evolución, verdad, en la adoptación de tecnología en las marcas, porque tú ya llevas vendiendo en Amazon ya varios años, pero me imagino que, pues, ese no es el caso para todas las marcas, especialmente las marcas más pequeñas. Entonces, como has notado que oye, igual y no sea, hace cinco años serán muy poquitos los que tenían una presencia en Amazon, en línea en general, y ahora me imagino que ya son más. Y también como, que, como han cambiado los hábitos de la gente, de la gente que va a visitar esos, esos boots, verdad, esos stands, este que es lo que ellos ya están esperando que estas marcas tengan en cuanto a presencia en línea, etcétera. Cuéntanos qué es lo que han notado.   Regina: Pues, lo que, lo que he notado es bueno, muchas más marcas latinas, hispanas, internacionales.   Y entonces para estas, para estas marcas, pues, vender en Amazon es este, como que para para las marcas que van empezando, sean latinas o sean lativas de Estados Unidos, como que el primer lugar donde venden es Amazon, como ya saben que el tráfico está ahí.   Entonces ya, nada más con, pues, con mis propias redes sociales, empezará a mandar a los clientes como a ese canal. No, entonces, como que Amazon es como el primer retailer donde empiezan a trabajar, luego a veces acaban Amazon y sus páginas de internet de la empresa normal y y también ya después empiezan a ir a este tipo de ferias y empiezan a conectar con clientes, con distribuidores, con supermercados, tiendas, gourmet, etcétera, y ya empiezan como que por ahí. Pero ya, amazon es como el, como el primer paso de que ya estoy vendiendo en algún lugar y al y al cliente, o sea al retailer, al que le van a vender al supermercado, dice ah bueno, ya venden en Amazon, como que no soy yo la única persona que está como apostándole algo nuevo que a lo mejor no funciona y quita espacio de vender otros productos que sí. Entonces, como que se va dando como legitimidad en el mercado.   Adriana Rangel Claro, claro, claro, cómo no? cómo es tu, oye, si yo voy a hacer, porque me imagino que esos contratos, este, pues, son contratos de mucho dinero y también son compromisos, en ocasiones a largo plazo, verdad? Entonces, yo lo que he notado, no únicamente cuando se trata de este tipo de productos, pero realmente, oí, es, realmente puedes ir a una tienda, este física, verdad, y estás buscando un producto y todo y como, ya lo buscas en Amazon, así como que, a ver, déjame ver, a ver este, a ver cuáles son las reseñas de este, de este tipo de producto, a ver, haber sido otra gente ya validó ese producto, verdad?   es lo que estamos buscando.   Regina: Claro, las reseñas de Amazon son una gran herramienta y creo que es uno de sus activos más importantes, además de lo que ya mencioné. Pero como consumidores, claro que es una gran, gran, gran herramienta. Yo, por ejemplo, tengo que me ha tocado ir a estas ferias y veo alguna marca que me interesa, o que es nueva, o que, digo yo, podría hacer un prospecto de cliente para mí. Déjame ver qué onda, por así decirlo. Vamos a ver qué pasó, digo su página de internet. Pues claro que van a hablar siempre bien de ellos, los procesos normal de todas las empresas y de todo mundo.   Pero entonces sí me meto a ver ahí este, las reseñas que tienen sus productos en Amazon y ya empiezo a ver oye, es que a mí sí me gustó el empaque, está muy, muy bien, el producto sabe rico, bla, bla y sobre todo en tema de alimentos, es la venta como que personal, es muy importante por el tema de que pruebas el producto ahí. Entonces no es como algún otro tipo de venta que pues todo es igual acá, pues cada producto es diferente, o sea una no sé sparkling water de sabor frambuesa. Si hay siete marcas, pues a lo mejor vas a ver diferente en cada una de las siete marcas.   No explico, claro sí, sí El hecho de que a veces en el mismo reseña alguien diga ay, es que sabía muy dulce, pero si alguien está buscando una un sabor un poco más dulce, pues sabe que esa puede hacer una opción. Me explico, o sea como, que es una manera, tanto para el cliente final como para un comprador de una cadena, saber qué es lo que la gente está diciendo de este producto.   Adriana Rangel Sí, sí, como que escuchar todas las diferentes opiniones de las personas, porque si tú tienes no sé, una cadena de tiendas, sabemos que en México existen ese tipo de tiendas más pequeñas, de conveniencia, por así decirlo, aparte de las cadenas grandes, como quises saber. Déjame, quiero trabajar con esta persona. A mí me gusta, como sabes este, como dices tú, esta agua de frambuesa, lo que sea, pero déjame ver qué es lo que la gente está diciendo, a ver si a todos les gusta, o a ver si a la mayoría les gusta. También, cuando estoy comprando algo, independientemente o sea, muy probablemente lo va a comprar ahí en la tienda, pero digo a ver, déjame ver, a ver qué es lo que la gente está diciendo del producto.   Regina: Entonces creo que es definitivamente una herramienta, como decimos en México, como para tantear, claro, y también al revés porque, por ejemplo y yo no te comentará quizá a mí no me gusta la papaya, por así decirlo, ¿no? Y hay alguien que vende papaya con gomitas de papaya? pues, a mí no me gustan. Aunque las pruebe y el empaque esté precioso, a mí es un producto que no me va a gustar. Porque no me gusta, ¿verdad? Entonces, el hecho de leer las reseñas y que alguien diga o bien ni sabían la papaya, o tiene un ligero sabor, pues dices ah bueno, entonces al mejor sí, me animaría a probarlas, porque no sabe tanto, por decirlo, o o sea como que es para los lados, si a ti te gusta, o si no te gusta, y dice hombre, casi ni sabe, o, por ejemplo, pasa mucho con los enchilados, es que esperaba que picara más, o de que hay pica muchísimo, entonces pues tienes que ir midiendo ahí. ¿cómo? qué cuantas? sí, qué tipo de comentarios hacen?   Adriana Rangel Claro, y a mí se me viene de inmediato a la mente pero bueno, yo, porque siempre pienso así, como que el no sé, así mi cerebro funciona, que luego luego me vuelvo a los analíticos, digo a ver, bueno, primero que nada, ajá, si yo quiero distribuir el producto en mi tienda, en mi país, en mi ciudad, digo a ver, déjenme ver cuánto está vendiendo este producto. Y qué mejor manera de ver las ventas utilizando herramientas, podemos utilizar, no sé que si xray o reviewing sites, todas estas herramientas que tenemos disponibles dentro de la extensión de Chrome, de helium 10, por ahí podemos ver oye, cuánto ha vendido este producto, verdad? oye, hay demanda al final del día, por eso nos queremos enterar de las ventas, porque queremos ver hay demanda o sea, claro, nos podemos ya meter más a fondo y ver oye, que cuántas palabras clave hay, con cuántas búsquedas mensuales, verdad? el tema de las reseñas sí, podemos leer cada reseña una por una. Así es que así lo queremos. Pero también podemos ver esto resumen dentro de reviewing sites, como para ver qué es lo que la gente está diciendo, como dices tú, verdad? oye, no es que pica mucho este producto, o pica muy poquito, o sabe mucho a papaya, o sabe poco, etcétera. Dices bueno, al final del día, qué importa si a mí me gusta la papaya o no. Quiero ver cuánto está vendiendo este producto, verdad? y qué es lo que la gente está diciendo mediante estas herramientas que en ocasiones te dan más bien, la mayoría de las veces, verdad? te da esta información en cuestión de segundos.   Entonces, qué interesante, ¿verdad? ¿Cómo podemos apalancarnos de la tecnología?   Regina: o sea de los marketplaces, todo esto.   Adriana Rangel Sí, en la vida, este in real life, como dicen en inglés, ¿verdad En persona, en estas experiencias, este en este tipo de eventos que me imagino también, regina, que oye, hace o sea. bueno, yo me pongo a pensar y digo oye, todas estas fotos que puedo tomar, imágenes, ¿verdad De gente probando el producto de, inclusive videos? ¿verdad De gente ahí mismo en el evento. todo este contenido, igual, y lo puedes postear en tu listado, verdad, los videos, las imágenes? cuéntame, regina o sea, si aprovechas este, todo este, pues, todo este contenido visual para ponerlo en tu listado, en tus redes sociales, o qué haces con esas imágenes?   Regina: Sí, por supuesto, si me gusta bueno aprovechar este tipo de eventos, estas ferias y trade shows y expos, si sirve para apalancarte, porque realmente hay unos stands que parecen una verdadera obra de arte. En serio, En serio, sí, ya está la infraestructura hecha y pues ya, nada más. ya sé que lleves tu cámara o tu teléfono y ahí puedes tomar fotos y vídeos y lo usarlas tú en tus redes sociales, como en tu listado también. De hecho, por ejemplo, hace no me acuerdo, hace varias semanas vi un vídeo tuyo, adriana, precisamente de tu sí bueno, no sé si se ven y no, pero Adriana tiene un canal que publica cada jueves.   Son muy buenos vídeos para los que quieran vender en Amazon y hay un vídeo muy, muy bueno, muy interesante, de optimización del listado. Habla precisamente de utilizar imágenes y vídeos para optimizar. Entonces, sí, sí, me gusta aprovecharme, no aprovecharme, ¿verdad? Tomar imágenes durante ese tipo de eventos, porque te digo que, pues, sí, tienen, están muy bonitos los backgrounds, puedes ver a gente, probando, escuchando sus comentarios, lo que te dicen. Entonces, sí, realmente es llevar lo del mundo real a lo digital y lo digital al mundo real, o sea, ya llegó este punto donde hay como una fusión entre ambos y es una excelente herramienta para que las marcas aprovechen y puedan palancarse de ambas y crecer en varios canales, no, nada más en uno.   Adriana Rangel Claro, claro que loco, verdad, regina o sea. En qué momento llegamos a este punto? ¿verdad, donde, como es tú, oye, la gente que está en persona en un evento, como quieras, se palanca. Oye, saca el celular, como para ver, oye a ver cuáles son las reseñas, qué es lo que están diciendo esta página. Te metes ahí de esta marca, perdón, te metes ahí a la página.   Ves entonces, como que hay, haces eso, verdad, haces este, ese palancamiento en lo digital, verdad, como tú, verdad que mandas los samples mediante utilizando Amazon, en este caso el envío de FBA, para que llegue de manera rápida y más económica allá a tus clientes potenciales, verdad? y también, viceversa, la verdad que dices oye a ver ahora, cómo crees con lo digital, oye, pues, me apalancó, aprovecho que estoy en este tipo de eventos que, como dices tú, oye, también lo inviertes, porque me imagino que es una inversión grande el participar en este tipo de eventos. Me imagino que, desde lo que te cobran, verdad, por el stand también, me imagino que tienes que, por ahí este, llenar una aplicación y que ellos evaluen si, si, si, verdad, si quieren tener tu marca ahí en su, en su evento, etcétera entonces, ya, tanto esfuerzo, igual, igual, y en ocasiones también llevas a oye, tienes que viajar tú, verdad, en ocasiones también gente de tu equipo.   Entonces, oye, pagar hotel, vuelo, todo eso. Entonces, como que dices oye, ¿sabes qué, le voy a sacar todo el jugo a este evento y déjame, me pongo a tomar fotos, este de tomar video, de entrevistar a gente a ver qué es lo que opina de mi producto, etcétera, y todo eso lo subo al, al listado o a las redes, etcétera. Qué curioso, regina, verdad que ahora tenemos que estar pensando en estos dos como aspectos si queremos crecer nuestro negocio realmente. Entonces, bueno, regina, ya sabes que no te puedo dejar ir sin pedirte el tip especial, un tip cortito para la gente que nos está escuchando, para crecer su negocio, verdad, en general, que nos puedes compartir.   Regina: Gracias Adriana. Pues sí, lo que yo me gustaría compartir es que realmente no hay nadie mejor que tú para ser tu embajador de marca. Tenemos esta idea de que, de que hay que contratar a influencers de redes sociales o de ciertos temas, que claro que no estuve en contra de eso jamás. Pero primero tienes que ser tú quien hable de tu marca. Entonces plátícale a la gente cuando sea el momento, por supuesto, de tu producto y luego eventualmente ya más gente se va a empezar a sumar. Pero tú tienes que ser el principal promotor y bueno, en las empresas pequeñas o que van empezando, pues el que empieza esto luego es la imagen, empieza a ser de operaciones, empieza a ser el de finanzas en la contabilidad, entonces es un poco abrumante, pero conforme. La empresa va creciendo, pues se van creando y necesitándonos puestos de trabajo y ya el dueño puede como irse dedicando específicamente a así o a exacto, exacto, o hacer la imagen y a seguir hablando del producto y demás.   Adriana Rangel Sí, sí, sí, y es un proceso, verdad o sea. Toma años, años en ocasiones, ese proceso de pasar de ser el todólogo a ir un poquito delegando, y especialmente porque al inicio, la primera persona o la segunda persona que contrates, igual y no es la persona que se va a quedar, verdad, igual no es la persona indicada para el puesto, entonces es como hay una frustración porque, pues, a empezar de nuevo otra vez, a buscar otro diseñado, o a buscar a alguien que te vive con el tema de las operaciones, que sé yo, verdad, entonces, pero sí, invitaría a la gente a que tomara este ejemplo, verdad, el de Regina y su empresa y su negocio, como un poquito de inspiración, este de cómo pueden crecer su marca, más allá de este, pues sí, de las ventas que están obteniendo y del negocio que tienen en su país, en su ciudad. Verdad, regina, pues, de México, verdad, y ahorita ella está vendiendo en Estados Unidos y eso le abre la puerta, verdad, el, precisamente en que la gente vea que tiene presencia en línea y que está creciendo, etcétera, para poder participar en estas ferias que luego le estará más negocio, verdad, y más oportunidades, más crecimiento a su negocio, regina. Pues, te agradezco mucho tu tiempo.   Seguramente por ahí te voy a volver a contactar en unos 12 meses para que nos cuentes que es lo que has visto, verdad? que novedades para, para darnos ideas de cómo crecernos a nosotros, nuestro negocio. Verdad, independientemente de en qué categoría vendamos, la verdad es que este muchas de estas ideas aplican, verdad, aplican para para todo tipo de negocios. Entonces, de nuevo, muchas gracias, regina, y espero este que te vaya muy bien este año. Seguramente te vaya muy bien y espero tenerte regreso pronto.   Regina: Gracias, adriana, por la invitación, por tus buenos deseos, y ojalá que sea lo mismo para ti, tus negocios.   Adriana Rangel Gracias, regina, hasta pronto.   Regina: Hasta luego, bye, bye, bye, bye.

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On this episode of Dads with Daughters, host Christopher Lewis invites entrepreneur and author Peter Shankman to discuss their experiences as fathers raising daughters. They start off by sharing relatable stories about dealing with slime during the pandemic and the challenges of explaining divorce to their young daughters. Peter emphasizes the importance of being present for his daughter and finding balance in his life through managing his ADHD. Peter shares his personal journey with ADHD, discovering it as an adult and developing coping mechanisms to navigate the condition. He believes that medication is not always necessary for success and suggests exploring alternative coping mechanisms. As the author of "The Boy with the Faster Brain," he aims to help kids with ADHD feel less misunderstood and prevent them from experiencing shame in the long run. The conversation also delves into the concept of neurodiversity and the beauty of thinking differently. They discuss the importance of understanding and embracing neurodiverse needs, highlighting what children are good at, and finding ways for them to have fun while learning. The episode concludes with a heartwarming story about a spontaneous trip to a water park that the speaker and his daughter will cherish forever. Join Christopher Lewis and his guests for inspiring conversations and practical advice on raising strong, independent daughters every week on Dads with Daughters. If you've enjoyed today's episode of the Dads With Daughters podcast, we invite you to check out the Fatherhood Insider. The Fatherhood Insider is the essential resource for any dad that wants to be the best dad that he can be. We know that no child comes with an instruction manual, and most are figuring it out as they go along. The Fatherhood Insider is full of valuable resources and information that will up your game on fatherhood. Through our extensive course library, interactive forum, step-by-step roadmaps, and more you will engage and learn with experts but more importantly with dads like you. So check it out today!   TRANSCRIPT Christopher Lewis [00:00:06]: Welcome to dads with daughters. In this show, we spotlight dads resources and more to help you be the best dad you can be. Christopher Lewis [00:00:17]: Hey everyone, this is Chris. And welcome back to the Dads with Daughters podcast, where we bring you guests to be active participants in your daughters lives, raising them to be strong, independent women. Really excited to be back with you again this week. As always, we're on a journey together in looking at ways in which we can best raise our daughters to be those strong, independent women that we want them to be and to be able to be successful in their own journeys as individuals. And every week I have the pleasure of being able to bring you different dads that are doing it different ways, dads that you can learn from and be able to get different ideas from, different experiences from, because every father fathers in a little bit different way. And that's great because we don't have to be the same type of dads, but we can learn from each other and be better fathers in the end. And that's what this show is all about. Today. We got a great guest with us. Peter Shankman is with us. And Peter is a I'm just going to say he's a multi entrepreneur. He has done many different things in his career that has led him down the pipeline of being very successful in what he does. But most recently, he has become a author, a kids author, I'm going to say, because he has a brand new book called The Boy with the Faster Brain. And it's a little bit of, I'm going to say a little biographical in a way, in the sense of talking about his own experience and finding out that he had ADHD and what that journey was like for him. But also it's a book to allow for other kids and parents to be able to explore that in a little bit different way. So we're going to be talking about that as well. He also is a father of a daughter. He has a ten year old daughter and we'll be talking about that as well. Peter, thanks so much for being here today. Peter Shankman [00:02:07]: My pleasure. My dog obviously says hello as well. Christopher Lewis [00:02:10]: Well, I love being able to talk to different dads, and what I would love to do first and foremost is turn the clock back in time. I said you have a ten year old daughter, so I want to go back to that first moment, that first moment when you found out that you were going to be a father to a daughter. What was going through your head? Peter Shankman [00:02:26]: It's actually a really funny story. When I first found out, when my wife called me, most dads, they find out they're going to be a dad in some special way, the wife does something sweet, they put a little onesie inside the dinner table or something. I'm coming back from a meeting in Washington, DC. I'm on the Metro, heading over to Union Station to get an Amtrak back to New York, and my phone rings, and I see it's my wife, and I'm like, hey, honey, what's up? Because I'm pregnant. Okay, well, I turn around to, like, the 14 guys on the subway. I'm like, should I get them cigars? How does this work? So, yeah, that was how I found out in that amazing and overwhelming way. And of course, when we found out it was a girl, I was sitting in her my wife's office. She was at work. She's like, they're going to call us soon. I'm sitting there, I wanted a girl. I don't know why, but I wanted a girl. And so I was really excited. I was going to be this great girl dad, and I like to think I've kind of lived up to that. We have a lot of fun. She is a daredevil to an extent. Like, her dad haven't taken her Skydiving yet, but I know that's on the I'm sure that's on the list the second she and is 18. Christopher Lewis [00:03:20]: So one of the things that I hear from a lot of dads is that in becoming a father, there's fears, but there's also some fear going into raising daughters. And I guess for you, what was your biggest fear in raising a daughter. Peter Shankman [00:03:34]: Who'S going to be like me? I think there's a ton of fear, but my fears weren't the norm. I didn't have that whole, oh, I'm going to get a shotgun, and she can't date. That's not my thing. I wanted to get hurt. The only way you learn is if you get hurt, right? At least in my experience. My fear is that she was going to be she's a very sensitive kid. She cares about everything. We live in New York City, homeless capital of the world. I live two blocks west of Times Square, and so when COVID hit, it just decimated our area because all the homeless population in New York City was moved into a five block radius around my apartment because all the hotels here were turned into homeless facilities, which is fine, but they weren't made into homeless facilities with services. They were just made into places for people to stay. And that was a huge problem because you can't take 9000 people, put them in a five block radius and not give them services. And so it was tough. I had her explain to my daughter at age seven, the, no, honey, he's not dead. The needle sticking out of his arm means he has a problem, but he's getting help. It was tough. So she's very sensitive, and she cares that she wants to solve the world's problems. And sometimes, as much of a bitch as it is, you need to explain, honey, you can't solve all the world. Not all the world's problems can be solved at this moment. On the walk to the corner store and we've had countless talks about that, about what we can do to help homelessness. So we volunteer and we work at a soup kitchen. We're on the Hell's Kitchen litter brigade, and we built a dog park in an empty space overlooking Port Authority under the bus bridges. That this empty area. So we do things. But I call her Warrior Princess, and I love that she's as sensitive as she is. She will change the world, but I want her to live her life and not have to solve every single problem that the world throws at her. There has to be a middle ground there because unfortunately, she definitely got my sensitivity. Christopher Lewis [00:05:21]: I mentioned you've got your hands in a lot of different things. You've had that for many years and you have been a multi entrepreneur in many different ways and been successful in many different ways, but you have been busy. So talk to me about balance and how you have been able to balance being that serial entrepreneur as well as being able to be present and engaged with your daughter as you've raised her. Peter Shankman [00:05:51]: So my balance for me comes from my ADHD. There are certain things I have to do in my life to make sure that I can live the life I want in the way I want it and be the dad I want, I think, for lack of better word. So what does that mean? My day starts around 430 every morning with exercise. If I am not exercise, I am not the best person I could be. And so for me, I was up at 430 this morning. I was on the peloton. I got my couple of hours in. That's my definition of balance because I'm on that bike before she wakes up. And so when I get off the bike, I take a shower, I wake her up and I'm present. Right. The dopamine, the serotonin, the adrenaline that I receive from that ride gives me that balance, lets me be the best dad I could be, the best person I could be, the best entrepreneur I could be, best parent I could be, the best son I could be, best boyfriend I could be. So it has to start with that. From there, there are other things I'm able to do. I take her on as many business trips as I can. I'm speaking in January, I just landed the confirmation yesterday. I'm speaking in Greece at a keynote in January. And part of the contract, they have to fly me and my daughter out. So Florida school for a few days, we're going to Greece, things like that. So last summer we went to Michigan. I had to give a keynote at McIntyre Island. We spent an extra couple of days trips and around the island and Michigan, things like that. So for me it's sort of figuring out how to do that and where to go and what to do and making sure that as busy as I am, she's included and understands it. She doesn't just see me at a computer doing busy work. She understands. Today daddy's speaking. Tomorrow daddy's going on TV. Everything makes sense. It's a circle. Christopher Lewis [00:07:25]: So being a father is not always an easy thing. There are highs, there are lows, there are ups and downs. I mean, it's a roller coaster of a ride at times. What's been the hardest part for you as a father to a daughter? Peter Shankman [00:07:39]: Wiping slime off every conceivable surface in my house. We discovered slime during the pandemic, and it doesn't fucking end. It just never ends. There's always more slime to be made. But no, if that was the worst thing, I'd be thrilled. I think the hardest thing. I've had to answer the question several times, why aren't you and Mommy married anymore? We get divorced when she was three, and so for the first couple of years, anytime I did anything that didn't involve her, there was jealousy and there was a fear that I was going to leave, when in fact, nothing could be obviously further from the truth. I'm constantly here. It's gotten easier. So I think that the hardest thing for me as a girl. Dad hasn't really hit yet. I think it's going to come as she gets older. There have been a couple of times where I've seen her. Her teachers have told me that, yeah, she's very active, she has tons of friends, but sometimes she just prefers to sit by herself at the playground and read or make her own games up. And that doesn't really bother me so much because I was a loner, too. There's a big difference between being alone and being lonely, and I think she understands that already. That's the case. She's doing better than me. At the end of the day, I think the goal is I just want her to be happy, and I know that's going to come with some sadness, but I'm okay with that because you have to have that balance. Christopher Lewis [00:08:49]: You talked about that you try to make memories with your daughter that probably at age 18, you're going to be taking her Skydiving. There's been other experiences. What's been the most memorable experience that you and your daughter have been able to share together? Peter Shankman [00:09:01]: Here's a classic ADHD moment. Last summer in late July, early August, we were bored one night, and I tell her, she's not allowed to be bored. Even the inside of your mind goes on forever. It's endless. You cannot be bored. There's always something to do. So she's like, Daddy, I have nothing to do. I'm like, all right, let's search something. Let's look something up online. What do you want to look up online? Let's look up the biggest water slides in the world. Great. So we sit down in front of the computer and we start looking up the biggest lives of the world. And would you believe one of the top ten water parks in the world is in Tenerife. So I'm like, would you believe one of the largest water parks in the world is in this small little island to African called Tenerife? We should go there. She didn't say that, I did. And so I look at her calendar, I'm like, yeah, you have like, three more weeks of summer camp, and you have like, ten days between summer camp. Yeah. Let's go to tenerife. And so we booked a flight like that night, right? And I pity god, I pity whoever this kid marries. This kid, god, this kid better be rich, because it's not even about money for me. I just have billions of miles because of how much I travel for work. But yeah, she's going to want to go somewhere. She better make no, actually, screw that. She better make a lot of money. She better be able to do this because the funniest line she ever said to me was once she goes, how come Mommy, when Mommy and I get on a plane, when Daddy and I going to play me sit in the front, and when Mommy and I get on, play me sit the back? I don't know. You have to talk to mom about that. I can't really sorry escape and avoid that one. But no, what it comes down to is that ADHD brain kicks in. We went Tenerife, spent four days sliding down these amazing waters. I had a blast. And it was just this, what a wonderful way to end fourth grade or end third grade, fourth grade. And those are the kind of things that I want her to remember for the rest of her life. And I want to do with her these just random, spur of the moment, let's go somewhere and have fun trips. There are times for the other side of the coin, too. Her mom is taking her to Paris at the end of August, and they've been planning this for over a year and a half, and I think it's wonderful, right? They have their schedule. They know exactly what they're going to do every day. They're going to do this this day and this, this day and sit here. That's great. And I love that. And there's definitely a place in the world for that. My idea of travel is, okay, we're here, let's figure it out, right? And so if she has the best of both those worlds, I think that's amazing. Christopher Lewis [00:11:09]: Now, I mentioned at the beginning of the show that one of the reasons that we're talking today is you've got a brand new book, and this isn't your first book, but it is your first children's book that you have written called The Boy With the Faster Brain. And you've talked about ADHD in the past, but more on the business side of things. And you also have had a number of other books out there in talking about business customer service and influencing and things like that. Talk to me about the genesis of this new book and what made you decide that you wanted to move into writing a book for kids. Peter Shankman [00:11:48]: I wrote this book because I don't want any kid to have to grow up feeling as broken as I felt. I had a pretty rough childhood, and that doesn't mean I grew up in a van down by the river. It doesn't mean that my parents weren't totally supportive. They were. My problem was that I grew up in New York City, in the public school system, in the where ADHD didn't exist. What existed was, sit down, you're disrupting the class disease. And I had that very, very bad. And so every day, every single day, I would come home with a note from the teachers about the fact that I was disruptive, that I couldn't sit still, that I was causing trouble for the other students, that I was being a disruptive influence. The irony, of course, is that I was being disruptive because every time I felt like I couldn't focus, I would crack a joke. And what winds up happening when you crack a joke is the class laughs and you get a dopamine hit, which would allow me to focus. So, ironically, I was getting in trouble because I was trying to focus, but I wasn't told, hey, your brain thinks different. Your brain is different. Let's figure out better ways for you. I wasn't told that. I was told you're being difficult and there's something wrong with you. And when you spend the first 18 years of your life hearing that, you spend the next 30 trying to unlearn the fact that you're broke. If I can help kids who are five, six, seven years old today learn at that age that they're not broken, that they're gifted, then they won't have to spend the next 30 years of their lives in therapy like I had. And they're not going to assume that every good thing that they do is actually just a fluke and they haven't had any of their true success at all. Waffles. Shut up. They won't assume they've had any real success in their life at all. I assume that everything I've done every day today is the day that The New York Times writes a story about what a fraud I am. And every day when they don't do it, it's obviously because I'm not important enough for The New York Times to write a story. This goes on every single day. So if I can help a child understand that having a different brain is actually a good thing, and I can stop them from going down the shame spiral for the next 30 years, then it's worth every single thing. And it was a fun book to write in typically ADHD fashion. I had people from the day I launched faster than normal. I had people say, oh my God, just do a kids book and ADHD. I said, yeah, I should. It took five years to do it, and then I wrote it in 2 hours. And when I wrote it, I found this amazing illustrator out of Brazil and she did all the illustrations, and the book was Live in a Month. And so it's one of those things where I really, really believe that children with neurodiverse brains are going to save us all. Nothing new has ever come from anyone with a normal brain. And that doesn't mean there's not a place in the world for normal brains. There are. But if you want creative, I just gave a talk last month to Morgan Stanley 80,000 employees about neurodiversity because they finally are at the point where they understand that neurodiversity is something that should be celebrated and something that can improve your company and improve your bottom line. So now I'm getting calls from Adobe, from Google to go in and talk about this stuff. And that's my goal, is to help expand that conversation. Companies are finally spending more on mental health. I'm speaking to schools all about this, and the boy with the faster brain, like I said, was really written for those kids. I remember I spoke to a school in Wayne, New Jersey, a couple of months ago, and this kid comes up to me the end of the talk, and I'm going to cry because I can't talk about this crying. Kid comes up to me fifth grader, his eyes were down the entire time, sitting on the floor. He wasn't really looking. And he comes up to me, the end, his eyes are still down. He goes, I just want to thank you have never read a book about someone like me before. And I just gave him like the biggest hug. That's what I want to do. And if this book does that even in slightest, then I have succeeded beyond my wildest dreams. Christopher Lewis [00:15:13]: You talk about the importance of everyone understanding neurodiversity more and how not only impacts us as parents, but how it impacts the child. What are some of the biggest let's just say, what are some of the things that people don't understand the most when it comes to neurodiversity? And what do parents need to understand if they believe that their own child is neurodiverse and they want to be able to support them better? Peter Shankman [00:15:42]: Well, the first one is most definitely that your child is not broken, your child's gifted. The premise of children with neurodiverse needs special help. Just to be normal is bullshit. You're not normal. That's the beauty of it. That's what I want, right? You want to not be normal. You want to be thinking differently. You want to have this fun. So that right there is the very first answer. And so I would take it a step further and say that, yes, when you're told there's something different about your child, your first instinct is to freak out don't learn as much as you can. Talk to more than one doctor. It's like buying a house. You don't just go visit one house. Talk to more than one doctor because you might have a misunderstanding of what neurodiversity is. Again, when I was growing up, it was sit down and disrupt in the class, and so you felt like everything you were doing was wrong, when in fact, I was reading on a college level from first grade because I loved it so much, right? It was the stuff that I was bad at, the stuff I didn't love so much that I was bad at that I couldn't math, science, things that I just couldn't grasp. So it's all about figuring out what the kid is good at and highlighting those things, really enjoying those things, letting the kids have fun with the things that are most important to them. Look, I'm not anti medication. I think in some instances, I have a prescription for Concerta. I think I took last time I took a pill was about five weeks ago, six weeks ago. I just rarely take it. I take it on days when my assistant says, if you don't get these five expense reports into me today, and we get them to the client, you're not getting paid. She goes, Take your damn pill and do it. So be it. But most of the time for me, I am able to use other ways to focus and other ways to get that dope meaning. So work with your kid and understand there are different ways and different things they can do to learn about themselves, and they're not broken. This is not a death sentence. It's not a curse, nothing like that. CHristopher Lewis [00:17:26]: I have to agree with you there, because I found out also as an adult that I had ADHD. And people in my life have probably always known they've always known that I had that in my life. The way that I thought, the way that I did things, the way that I balanced many other things. But just like you, I tried medication, found it, didn't really do what I needed it to do. And I've built a lot of coping mechanisms throughout the years to be able to deal with it. Now, if I talk to my partner in my life, I think she would probably tell you that there are still some times where she probably thinks that I probably should be on some meds to be able to calm things down. But she understands, and we learned together that I had this in my life as well. And at least one of my daughters I know has it as well, and she does not want medication either. And we've talked about coping mechanisms and things that they can do to be able to be successful in that regard. And I think that for parents, it's good to understand that your child does not have to be on medication to be able to be successful. In some cases, you might need that, but it doesn't mean that you have to do that. And that doesn't have to be just because that you have a diagnosis doesn't mean the first step means medication. Peter Shankman [00:18:47]: And that's the thing, I think, that a lot of parents don't understand, is that medication doesn't need to be a first line of defense. It could be a last resort. It can be combined. It should be combined. Pills don't teach skills. Right. If you're out there taking medication every day, there's tons of stories about kids who get on meds when they're five years old. They're on meds, so they're 25. Then they're kicked off their parents insurance, and they can't afford it. Now. What? They've learned nothing. Right? So now all of you don't have the crutch of medication. Now what do you do? So, yeah, there's a lot of things that can be done in addition to medication. Dialectical Behavioral Therapy. CBT, DBT, regular therapist. And I've been going to the same therapist now for over 20 years. The guy's amazing. He looks like Einstein. He has a social acuity. He is the technological acuity of a turnip. But he saved my life more than once. So those are the things that you need to understand, is that medication is just one arrow in the quiver of everything you're doing. Christopher Lewis [00:19:37]: Peter, I think you made this clear, but I want to hit home the point that for you, as you share this book out into the world, you get it in front of different audiences, you get it into local libraries, you get it into those local bookstores. You get it in front of the PTAs and teachers. What's the biggest takeaway that you want for parents and kids in reading this and leaving at the end of the book? Peter Shankman [00:20:03]: Different kids learn differently. You can't sit 35 kids in a classroom and expect them all to be automatrons and do the exact same thing. That's what happened to me. And it starts off with, you sit wherever you want, and then a couple of weeks later, they notice you getting distracted. They move you to the front of the room. Well, now when you get distracted, it's a lot easier for the teachers to see that you're getting distracted now. You get in more trouble quicker. What they should do is they should push in the back of the room, and they should say, okay, you know what? I get the way you are. If you need to stand up or walk outside, do a couple of jumping jacks, whatever, do some deep knee squats, whatever, come back in with a little bit more dopamine, feel free. Those are the kind of things that I'm seeing now in some schools. It's wonderful. We also all grew up with the premise of sit down in the morning, watch your cartoons while eating two bowls of chocolate frosted sugar bombs, then get driven to school. How about we take a 30 minutes walk, then give a kids a couple of eggs and some protein and a big glass of water, and then send them to school? So different things. They tried that in Texas. They replaced 20 minutes of recess with an hour every day, and they replaced breakfast and lunch that were mostly carbs and sugars with proteins and good fats. And they saw something like a 19% decrease in outbursts from ADHD, outbursts from boys, and a I think it was like a 29% increase in girls participating in class because girls present ADHD differently than boys do. And so that's massive. That's massive. Did nothing else. But they gave them more exercise, and they changed the food. So you look at things like that, you're like, wow. Christopher Lewis [00:21:26]: Peter, we always finish our interviews with what I like to call our Fatherhood Five, where I ask you five more questions to delve deeper into you as a dad. Are you ready? Peter Shankman [00:21:33]: Go for it. Christopher Lewis [00:21:34]: In one word, what is fatherhood? Peter Shankman [00:21:37]: That I've walked the face of this earth? Christopher Lewis [00:21:39]: When was the time that you finally felt like you succeeded at being a father to a daughter? Peter Shankman [00:21:43]: When I picked up my daughter from school earlier this year. One day, I picked her up almost every day, and I picked her up, and the teacher came over to me, said, no big deal. Just want to let you know that Jessa and a boy got into a little argument, and Jesse used a curse word when talking to him. I said, well, what'd she say? He goes, she called him an asshole. And I know that she totally got that from me, because we're on our scooter. We go on our scooter every day to school, and you try scooting in Manhattan, you're going to call someone asshole on every trip. It's just what it is. And so he goes, she called him an asshole. I go, we fucking deserved it, right? And the teacher just cracked up. That was when I knew I was a good parent. That's what I knew. I was a great dad parent. Christopher Lewis [00:22:28]: Now, if I was to talk to your daughter, how would she describe you as a dad? Peter Shankman [00:22:32]: Dad is crazy. Dad makes me laugh. Dad is a skydiver. And dad goes on TV a lot, and he loves me very much. Christopher Lewis [00:22:41]: Who inspires you to be a better dad? Peter Shankman [00:22:43]: My father. Without question. My father. And then I think my daughter as crazy as it sounds. Because when I had sort of my awakening in 2016, when I realized everything, this is when I realized about my ADHD, when I wrote the first book on ADHD, everything. In 2016, I caught my awakening year. I realized that the only people whose opinions really matter to me are my daughter, my parents, my girlfriend. That's it. And I stopped caring what other people thought. And that was just this incredible, incredible level of freedom. And so. Yeah. I'd say my daughter inspires me because I want to do the best job I can for her, because she's who matters. Christopher Lewis [00:23:19]: You've given a lot of piece of advice today as we finish up today, what's one piece of advice that you'd like to give to every dad? Peter Shankman [00:23:27]: I think there comes a point when we realize that we feel like we're trapped, right? Oh, I have a kid. I'd love to be living in Asia right now. There's no question about it, right? Especially with what's happened to America in the past, like, five years. I'd love to be gone. I'd love to be in Asia. I love Asia, for I could live like a goddamn king on one 10th the amount of money it cost me to live in New York. And I could live 20 times better if I was in South Vietnam or something, right know? But you can, right? But the one thing you can control is the people you associate with. And one of the greatest quotes I ever heard ever came from an old skydiver friend of mine. And you want to listen to old Skydiver because if they're still alive, if Skydiver 40 years, they've done something, right? And this guy said to me goes, I was complaining about how the people who I live in the city with don't understand why I go up to the Skydive every weekend. The people who I Skydive with don't understand why I want to come home every weekend. You know, come home because I like things like hot water, and I go up to the drop zones. I like jumping. I was kind of surfing that duality, right, where both things were different. And this old guy looks at me and goes, you know, if you can't change the people around you, change the people around you blew my mind. I'm like, that's the best piece of advice ever gotten. And it goes back to what I said earlier. Life's too short to surround yourself with annoying people. So the best piece of advice if you can't change the people around you, find better people. Christopher Lewis [00:24:35]: Peter, if people want to find out more about you, about the book, about your other books, where's the best place. Peter Shankman [00:24:41]: For them to go? My entire life is@shankman.com my email is peter@shankman.com. All my books are on Amazon. They're everywhere. And then I'm at Peter Shankman on all the socials except Twitter. I quit Twitter because I just cannot take what has become. But other than that, I'm at Peter Shankman everywhere else. I'm pretty big on Instagram, so, yeah, feel free to follow me anywhere you'd like. Christopher Lewis [00:24:58]: Well, Peter, I just want to say thank you. Thank you for sharing your story. Thank you for writing this book for kids like you and other kids that, as you said, may have been not seeing people like themselves in books. And I wish you all the best. Peter Shankman [00:25:15]: Pleasure was mine. Great to be here. Christopher Lewis [00:25:17]: We know that no child comes with an instruction manual, and most dads are figuring it out as they go along. And the Fatherhood Insider is full of resources and information that will up your game on Fatherhood. Through our extensive course, library, interactive forum, step by step, roadmaps and more, you will engage and learn with experts, but more importantly, dads like you. So check it out@fatheringtogether.org. If you are a father of a daughter and have not yet joined the Dadswithdaughters Facebook community, there's a link in the notes. Today dads withdaughters is a program of Fathering together. Find out more@fatheringtogether.org. We look forward to having you back for another great guest next week, all geared to helping you raise strong, empowered daughters and be the best dad that you can be. Christopher Lewis [00:26:06]: We're all in the same boat and it's full of tiny screaming passengers. We spend the time we give the lessons we make the meals we buy them present bring your AC because those kids are growing fast. The time goes by just like a dynamite calling astronauts and firemen carpenters and muscle men get out and be the one to them be the best that you can be be the best that you can be you close.

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Si no hay un acuerdo o salida legal en las próximas semanas, en Colombia no habrá quién expida pasaportes a partir del próximo 2 de octubre. La fecha es el día en que se le vence el contrato a una empresa que ha hecho esa labor por 17 años. Luego de una polémica licitación, el canciller Álvaro Leyva decidió declarar desierto el proceso del contrato. Y eso trajo un embolate legal e institucional. Hoy desenredamos el lío y explicamos por qué es mejor no perder el pasaporte en las próximas semanas.Para saber más puede leer:Así favorece la Cancillería a Thomas Greg en licitación de pasaportesLicitación de Cancillería sigue favoreciendo a Thomas GregNueva licitación inclinada a favor de Thomas Greg & SonsRecuerde que todo lo que necesita saber para elegir en octubre está en lasillavacia. Así que elija ser Súperamigo. Puede ser parte de nuestra comunidad acá:Un espacio de cuña en Huevos Revueltos puede ser suyo, excepto para contenido político y electoral. Si tiene interés, escriba a socampo@lasillavacia.com. Acá el formulario de inscripción si quiere asistir a los Huevos en Vivo Regionales: https://forms.gle/4iappMQ9o8Wzotmp6 Chequeo de datos: Jineth Prieto, coordinadora de investigaciones de La Silla Vacía. Producción: Sergio García y Fernando Cruz, periodistas de La Silla Vacía.Foto de portada: Twitter de Álvaro Leyva.

A full five days of the Sickness this week after last week's holiday. We kicked things off with the "Monday Morning Throwback" and we talked to this year's bike winner, Aaron Balow of Holmen.  On Monday's edition of "Bad News with Happy Music", we had stories about a tow truck driver who was allegedly drunk when he crashed into FOURTEEN cars while towing another vehicle, a guy who spent almost three hours reeling in a 283lb alligator gar, and a woman who left her kids locked in a car without any air conditioning who then asked for the officers who arrested her to turn on the AC in the cruiser. Tuesday morning we discussed some corporate buzzwords/phrases that we find annoying, and we talked about the guy who bought a bunch of incandescent light bulbs now that they've been banned. On Tuesday's edition of "Bad News with Happy Music", we had stories about a guy who chased some kids in a car only to realize one of them was his neighbor, a #FloridaMan who stole an excavator & crashed it into a Walmart, a couple who got busted joining the "Mile-High Club", and a candidate in Virginia who performed sex acts on her husband on various websites to raise money for her campaign. We got you over the hump on Wednesday with an emotional story about two 90 year-old sisters who said goodbye to one another for possibly the final time. We also talked about the AI robots that showed up at a recent NFL game. On Wednesday's edition of "Bad News with Happy Music", we had stories about a woman who set a fire in a Target to cover up her attempt to steal baby formula, a plane that had to make an emergency landing but did a terrible job taking care of it's passengers, a wild & drunken brawl at a wedding in Rhode Island, and a construction sign that got hacked. On Thursday, we discussed the weirdest ways people have earned some cash, and on Thursday's edition of "Bad News with Happy Music", we had stories about surfer who got bit on the HEAD by a shark, the Mexican alien remains, a Canadian woman who twerked at a Mountie, and got an update on the Virginia candidate who is performing sex acts online to raise money for her campaign. And of course, a new list of things to do in & around La Crosse this weekend.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Leaves are starting to turn on the trees that turn the earliest. It is the time to pay attention to cherry leaf drop. Indeed, fall is not here, but the weather has turned a corner in Tennessee to cooler nights and mornings. AC is off more than on. Fresh air in the house makes everything fee better. Animals are friskier and garden plants are doing a last push. Strategically, we are reducing time needed on the homestead to care for things so that one person can more easily manage it. Featured Event: Homestead Advanced Wound Care with Chuck Peoples: https://selfreliancefestival.com/product/homestead-medical/?aff=nicolesauce Sponsor 1: Freesteading.com: https://bit.ly/3o2BcMR Sponsor 2: AgoristTaxAdvice.com: https://bit.ly/3hDFWpa Forage Missed my tree shaking Goldenrod is everywhere Nettles are ready for harvest Mints, etc still harvestable Grabbing Yarrow Echinacea Seed collection to start additional patches Chicken of the woods this week Livestock Baby sheep playing this morning Really close to another round of babies Timing rotation so that the sheep are easy to get to for SRF Starting to rotate goats again when fencing is simplified Deer season is nigh and there are many in the area Time to process rabbits Picking up a rooster or two (Need leg bands to mark them) Time to put on ear tags for the new lambs Grow Lettuce is up and needs thinning - transplant to the AP system May have enough peppers to do another round of salsa Getting ready to prepare beds for spring planting Preparing bed for garlic Last brussels sprout harvest this weekend Flowers did great this year Holler Neighbors/Community SRF Stage Assistance Filling in when we are gone The roaster repair Infrastructure Semi permanent electric fencing to make life easier (Making straight shots) Building a new rabbitry - need to put pine tar on the structural wood (Making a big mess under Tajmaholler Finances Expensive chicken eggs are night - Today is the earliest day for eggs Tracking system is working well Andy has sheep shares  Make it a great week! GUYS! Don't forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. It makes a great Christmas Gift! Community Mewe Group: https://mewe.com/join/lftn Telegram Group: https://t.me/LFTNGroup Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@livingfree:b Advisory Board The Booze Whisperer The Tactical Redneck Chef Brett Samantha the Savings Ninja Resources Membership Sign Up Holler Roast Coffee Harvest Right Affiliate Link

Astronomers Find Exoplanet That May Be Covered In WaterScientists using the James Webb Space Telescope made an exciting discovery this week: Exoplanet K2-18 b, 120 light years away from our solar system, could be covered by a water ocean, similar to Earth. Astronomers say this could be a big leap in our exploration of life on other planets.This news comes amid another JWST discovery: The earliest black holes seem to be much larger than black holes today. This news also provides evidence that black holes can form without stars, a theorized phenomenon that has never been directly observed.Joining Ira to talk about these and other science stories of the week is Tim Revell, Deputy U.S. Editor of New Scientist, based in New York, New York. What Radioactive Animals Teach Us About Nuclear FalloutWhen you hear the words “radioactive wildlife,” your brain probably jumps to Chernobyl's wolves, which—despite the odds—are still thriving at the site of the nuclear disaster. Or maybe you've heard of the rat snakes in Fukushima that pick up radioactive contamination as they slither around.Well, it's time to add two more to that list of radioactive critters: turtles and wild boar. They're the subjects of two new studies that looked at radioactivity in wildlife and mapped out where it came from. Ira talks with Dr. Cyler Conrad, archaeologist at Pacific Northwest National Lab in Richland, Washington who worked on the turtle study, and Dr. Georg Steinhauser, professor of applied radiochemistry at the Vienna University of Technology in Austria, who studied boar. They chat about the two studies, how wildlife can clue us into radioactive contamination, and what we can learn from critters in nuclear fallout zones. Waiting for the Bus in Houston is Hot. And Dangerous.It was a hot summer day and Glory Medina and her daughter Jade, who was 3 at the time, were running a quick errand at the grocery store near their apartment in Gulfton. They had taken the bus and once they arrived, the two of them faced a giant unshaded parking lot, the black asphalt radiating heat into their faces as they walked across it.The blast of AC felt cool as they entered the store, and Medina bent down to lift her daughter into the grocery cart. That's when she noticed Jade's face was red, almost purple.“I got scared,” Medina said in Spanish, remembering that day four years ago.Read more at sciencefriday.com. The Psychology Behind Wide Receivers' Jersey NumbersFootball season is officially here, with the NFL's first game kicking off last Sunday. And if you've been watching the sport for a long time, you may have noticed some changes: better-padded helmets meant to reduce serious brain injury, new “sticky” gloves that make it easier for players to hold the ball, and lighter-weight jerseys that make it harder for other players to grab onto. But you'll also notice the numbers on those jerseys are different, too.For most of the NFL's history, wide receivers could only pick jersey numbers between 80 and 89. But in 2004, the league relaxed this policy, allowing players to also pick numbers between 10 and 19. Many players preferred these smaller values explaining that the 1 looked slimmer than the 8, and made them feel thinner and faster. As of 2019, 80% of wide receivers made the switch.But is there an actual association between smaller numbers and perception of body size?To investigate whether this was fact or superstition, Dr. Ladan Shams, professor of psychology, bioengineering, and neuroscience at UCLA, ran a study that found those wide receivers were onto something: the results suggest there is a correlation between smaller numbers and perceived body size. Her team's research was published in PLOS One. She joins Ira to talk about the study and what it could tell us about implicit bias. To stay updated on all-things-science, sign up for Science Friday's newsletters.Transcripts for each segment will be available the week after the show airs on sciencefriday.com.

What up PEEPS! It's another edition of the Daddy Issues Podcast. This week it's haircuts and hairlines, shoes, DC's question, heat waves, AC temperatures, and dealing with pets. 

La movida política en Antioquia tiene que ver con la alianza entre el candidato uribista a la Gobernación, Andrés Julián Rendón; y el candidato a la Alcaldía, Federico “Fico” Gutiérrez. Detrás hay una estrategia del aspirante uribista para ganar en la capital del departamento, clave para ganar en Antioquia. Y demuestra, de nuevo, que Fico y el uribismo están más cerca de lo que el mismo aspirante favorito en Medellín quiere mostrar. Hoy hablamos de qué suma, qué resta y cómo queda la carrera a la Gobernación de uno de los departamentos más ricos y poblados de Colombia.Para saber más puede leer:Quiénes son los candidatos a la Gobernación de Antioquia Recuerde que todo lo que necesita saber para elegir en octubre está en lasillavacia. Así que elija ser Súperamigo. Puede ser parte de nuestra comunidad acá.Un espacio de cuña en Huevos Revueltos puede ser suyo, excepto para contenido político y electoral. Si tiene interés, escriba a socampo@lasillavacia.com Acá el formulario de inscripción si quiere asistir a los Huevos en Vivo Regionales: https://forms.gle/4iappMQ9o8Wzotmp6 Chequeo de datos: Edgar Quintero, periodista de La Silla Vacía. Producción: Sergio García y Fernando Cruz, periodistas de La Silla Vacía.Foto de portada: Twitter de Andrés Julián Rendón.

With no new comic book content to cover, AC and Jake look back at the movies from June to August, picking their four favorites of the summer! WATCH ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/mZ6e7cZlTGQ JOIN OUR PATREON: Patreon.com/mcuniversitypod BUY MERCH: https://www.teepublic.com/user/marvel-cinematic-university Follow the show: @mcuniversitypod (Twitter/Insta) Follow AC: @anthonycanton_3 Follow Jake: @thejakechristie

Market Proof Marketing · Ep 302: The Measure of SuccessIn this episode, Kevin Oakly, Andrew Peek and Jen Barkan! The team is currently participating in fantasy football and Jen shares her stats so far. Together, they consider how to measure the success of an ad if it doesn't become a lead and talk about how everything is hanging on interest rates right now. Spicy Kevin makes several appearances and keeps the conversation interesting!Story Time (06:34)Andrew is trying to figure out how you measure the success of a phone call or ad if it doesn't end up becoming a lead? Or can it be considered successful at all?Jen's daughter is going through the vet school application process and it's made her compare that process to people applying for The Nationals this year.Kevin says that managers and senior leaders who have zero desire to unpack why things are working are insecure in their own ability with what would be revealed. News (31:26)New sustainability tools help businesses and cities map environmental information (https://blog-google.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/blog.google/products/maps/google-maps-apis-environment-sustainability/amp/)In Its First Monopoly Trial of Modern Internet Era, U.S. Sets Sights on Google (https://dnyuz.com/2023/09/06/in-its-first-monopoly-trial-of-modern-internet-era-u-s-sets-sights-on-google/)Mortgage demand drops to 27-year low as interest rates pull back (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/06/mortgage-demand-drops-to-27-year-low-as-interest-rates-pull-back.html)ONE+ By Rocket Mortgage® Is A 1% Down Payment Option (https://www.rocketmortgage.com/learn/one-plus?qls=QNS_20180523.0123456789)Favorites/Hates (59:50)Andrew watched a documentary film called “The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia” on Amazon. Jen loves that college football is back!Kevin's favorite is a sports jacket and a youtube video by Kyla Scanlon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdBSaG2cujM Questions? Comments? Email show@doyouconvert.com or call 404-369-2595 and we'll address them on the next episode. More insights, discussions, and opportunities can be found at Do You Convert All Access or on the Market Proof Marketing Facebook group.Subscribe on iTunesFollow on SpotifyListen On StitcherA weekly new home marketing podcast for home builders and developers. Each week Kevin Oakley, Andrew Peek, Jackie Lipinski, Julie Jarnagin, and other team members from Do You Convert will break down the headlines, share best practices and stories from the front line, and perform a deep dive on a relevant marketing topic. We're here to help you – not to sell you!Transcript:KevinJen do you know who you want to trade?JenWell, I tried to pull one over on Jackie Lipinski and tried to get Justin Jefferson from her, as if she didn't know who that was. But I did. I did try to offer her a couple of really good legit players, but she denied me.KevinOh.JenYes, I have not.KevinYou're a fantasy football professional, so can you talk right now who's like, if you had to call it right now, who has the best team? Do you think?JenUm, I mean, Jackie has a pretty good team. Mike has a pretty good team. I have a pretty decent team. I mean, I'm really not a professional. I just like to pretend that I know what you want.KevinRight. You won that unicorn trophy.AndrewIt's great.JenYeah, I won.AndrewIt's gold.JenI won once. Yes, but it's really just. It's really just luck. Plus, the way that we do it, guys, is this auto draft. So it's not even like you, you just, just auto automatically picks your players. You don't really have any say in what's.AndrewGoing to have the winners decided with the auto draft.JenSort of yeah.AndrewWell if you don't like such a.JenLineup it says projected standings with Mike Ryan and first place.AndrewSo happens every year somehow.JenTrying to.KevinRAZ Even though he's the commissioner right? Yeah.JenYeah. Like Jalen hurts or your quarterback.KevinLet's see. Here's here's what makes me mad is I had to make myself like math again. Like I failed the honors pre-calculus. And I took it twice. And then I never had to take math again. And I was like, I'm never. I chose a different like, I was like, I'm going to go Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Science because I'm not taking anything close to math.KevinAnd then I had to make myself like math when I became a marketer, became important. Yeah. So it drives me nuts. Like I'm going up against Lipinski and it says projected score of 124 and a half for me, this is 122 and a half for her. Okay. How is it possible that what's going to happen is going to happen?KevinI'm going to get 65 and she's going to have 172. I mean, that's just gambling. That's just randomness.JenThey're just taking average projections. But what happens is somebody could get hurt. They might not even play. Hey, I mean, like, you never know.KevinI just think if we have, you know, I that can take us to Mars and back. Can it give us better projections at this? Like, come on, ESPN, get some GPUs fired up And.JenThen but there is.KevinMachine learning.AndrewHuman.JenTo human factor.AndrewAre reliable, unreliable.JenHuman factor.KevinBut they're all being paid off to like take a fall and stuff anyway. Right. Like it's it's all statistically for sure. Oh, it's all over.AndrewIf there is no drama in the game, no.JenOne wants to think.AndrewIt's like people think all the housewife shows are real. Like if there's no drama, there'd be no show. It's all manufactured.KevinI just think it should show around. You should be like, Here's. Here's that. Every year I am like, okay, I'll give Fantasy another shot. And then after the first two or three weeks of the same thing happening every time, or it's like I should have 180 points and I get 30.JenLike, there's no no, you just have to make sure that your players don't have a bye.KevinI don't. I do believe that never happens the first two or three weeks before I get.JenOkay.KevinSo that's why I was wondering, besides you and Mike, who is most likely to win so I can just trade them my best players now.JenBut now you're playing that game we're not in. Oh, man.AndrewI just opted out this year because now we have enough people. I do convert, you know, I don't feel like I'm like.JenNo pressure.AndrewNo pressure because I was not adding to it. I would I would set my thing, but I was just like, Oh, there's another person playing. I don't watch football. I watched some college football, but professional. But they said on.JenUsually guys, I went to the Virginia Tech Old Dominion game this past weekend. It was freaking electric. I was pretty sure Old Dominion was going to get pummeled, but they played pretty good. You know, that's my alma mater.AndrewSince that's where you went.JenThat's where I went to school, right? I'm a die hard fan. I go, Every time you have a home game, I'm there. But when they started playing Enter Sandman at the beginning, I mean, it was like it. In fact, they when everybody's jumping like that, it registers on the text size. Yeah, my grandma, I don't know what the type, but I registers as an earthquake.JenIt was crazy. Like, I was like, almost. I was so overcome with emotion. I was, I was like, it's not even I mean, look, I pay Virginia Tech a lot of money because my child goes there. So I like either way, whoever won it was fine. But I was like, Oh my gosh. Like, I brought me back to Meredith Oliver's fanatical selling and like, we have to our customers need to be fans of, you know, our our business and our brand and our company.JenAnd yeah, I mean, it was it was a thing, man. I was like, I'm all in on these Hokies.AndrewSo you can't replace you cannot replace humans, I guess is what it is.KevinYeah. It's not human to happening this year, but sometimes soon I'm going to have to get my kids to the summit just for like the first 30 minutes and then tell them to leave, because I think that's the only atmosphere that work. And I understand like, Oh, okay, Dad, you do you do real work outside of just talking to your computer upstairs.AndrewOr they might be like, wait, So you go on stage and talk for like a couple of minutes and all these people give you give you money, they listen to you. I don't know. That sounds like a scam. I feel like that's what you promise.KevinNo more sports talk for the rest of the podcast.AndrewNo more sports.KevinLet's start. Walk on to marketers marketing the podcast from the industry leaders. How do you convert where we talk about the current and future state of marketing and online sales for builders and developers across the globe? We're not here to sell you. We're here to help you and to try and elevate the conversation. Is there a topic you'd like us to cover or a question you'd like us to answer?KevinWe'll do it. Simply send an email to show at. Do you convert? Dot com. Welcome to episode 302. I'm Kevin. Okay. And with me today is Andrew Peek and Jen Barkin.AndrewWe're here. It's so exciting.KevinIt's a chat. Are we allowed to announce what's happening?JenOh, my gosh. What's happening?KevinSee, the thing that you're doing?JenAm I doing.KevinFast with the ends with podcast? Oh, are you kidding me? Talking about that? And we're not talking.JenAbout that yet.KevinOkay, we'll talk about it.AndrewI think you just talked about it like it's like, what do you know?KevinWe didn't.JenWe are pretty sure you didn't mind people talking.KevinOh, all right. Well, that's funny. What do you got?AndrewOh, what I got This is a fun question. And I talked about yesterday and this morning, so my. Oh, this could be open discussion. Maybe we make it a parallel to the online sales world. But at the same time, how do you measure a successful ad or how do you measure a successful phone call if it doesn't end up with a lead or an appointment?AndrewCan it still be successful? It's kind of like a gay like principle or like theory. Question This is like the long essay question at the end of an SAT. I don't know if they still do that or not. It's been quite a few years, so sort of open ended discussion. So let's talk about this with Beth, a coach convert and Bryce, a marketing strategist.AndrewAnd it really went down to this rabbit hole of like, oh, you kind of need to be rooted in some type of principles before you decide what is success or not success, because it could be like, Hey, it's really efficient. Was that successful or not? We need every single click out there. Like maybe that's actually the opposite. It's unsuccessful or maybe a very, very limited budget.AndrewSo having a really low or very efficient cost per click is success. Or maybe it's a coming soon community. You need as many leads as you can and you just need to spend as much as can. It doesn't matter what the cost per lead is because the urgency of more leads is significantly more important than trying to save some of the marketing budget.AndrewSo I kind of just gave the answer. It really depends. It really depends. There's no there's no good.JenAnswer, but the right answer as to your.KevinQuestion, it's a hard question. Salespeople leads.AndrewWell, that's it's online sales. People talk.JenAnd I was going to say I was going to say I don't know what the right answer is, but I would think it would be a good ad, would get leads and appointments and sales.AndrewYeah, sounds good to me.KevinYou know. Yeah.JenIf it's a it's.KevinIt's you know, I other maybe maybe land I don't know of a longer purchase cycle for most people to deal with and then homes.AndrewYeah.KevinMaybe mega yachts or airplanes I mean but like if you're shopping for an airplane, is that comparable to shopping for a car? I don't know. Like.AndrewYeah, yeah, yeah. Boats, boats and car boats and there's lots of personalized ocean.KevinLike I've seen lots of visualization tools for customizing your own private jet. Being advertised is like the new way to sell expensive stuff to people.JenI mean, ads are the need though just that really any.KevinWell right but I mean is like the number of decisions and trade offs to consider and you know but at that that's just what makes it all more complicated and.AndrewVery complicated. It's a hard question. Like it's well, it's I think it's.KevinIt's it's the question in advertising. But for us, it's important. Remember that there are multiple parts of the funnel. Different ads serve different purposes for different customers in different stages. You know, you can't I think about this way if you think about a pie pizza and everyone inside of that pie, it doesn't matter if you spend $2 million or $2,000 a month on search, if it's only within that pie, there is always a tradeoff of like if you spend all $2 million and the pie doesn't expand and it's not really pie, it's Rubik's Cube because it's like seven dimensional.KevinBut you you can't have any one tactic that you can just never max out.JenNow.KevinNot just in terms of I guess what I'm trying to convey is it's not just that the ads will get more expensive, but it will not raise the number of people that it reaches if it's defined by a certain radius or shape or audience already and so can't.AndrewYeah, we can't really create a market sort of.KevinWell, yes, but I guess my point is each channel is by definition we don't think about this way. It's own market. Like only the people who are searching can be reached by search marketing. It makes sense. Yeah. If people who aren't searching or they're not searching at every moment of their decision making process. Right.JenAnd so if they're searching, we want to capture them with your.KevinYeah, if they are search, you want to capture them. But you also have to realize that every every line goes back to Steve Schumacher's joke, which you repeat all the time, is if you've got five different things that are viable reasons why someone ends up being a purchaser or they have a realtor, they're referred by a friend, they saw you on a social ad, they did a search, they went on an event and then they purchase who gets credit.KevinBut it's just the acknowledgment that you have to have that every customer becomes a member of multiple channels, advertising channels all the time. And so, like there is this well-rounded ness that I don't think I understood early in my career that now that everyone's I mean, it's everyone's I'm data driven, dated or data driven, and it's like that curve that we get a name Dunning, Kruger data or whatever.AndrewGreater than.KevinFeeling data over.AndrewThat data.KevinYeah, but I would say to your point, what's the word you used to start with a piece that we need.AndrewPeople we.KevinKnow we need. Well, anyway, it's a good ad we need. We need what?AndrewBefore to me is as context we need I don't even know. I don't know where it's just come out my mouth is what usually happens.JenIt's a struggle and.AndrewEventually it forms a sentence that makes sense.KevinYeah, but anyway, the whole world has gone so over onto the data side that for sure there is a serious lack of around principles of thinking principle.AndrewThat we have principles.KevinHere that we will.AndrewLive by principles. That's what we need and building principles come from.KevinThis is the LinkedIn post that I made a little while ago. The principles come from having an ultra deep understanding of what your consumer's experiencing and doing and thinking That's not defined by just asking them, What are you doing? What are you thinking? Because they can't, they can't articulate. They do what's called preference falsification, where they just say what they feel like they're supposed to say to appear good.KevinAnd so you have to have that deep understanding. Just know like, well, of course they're doing these other things. And I don't actually I need data to continually prove to me that they're doing that because I'm constantly watching consumers do what they do and interacting with them and talking to them anyway.AndrewYeah, it's a loaded question. Yeah, we talked about it probably like an hour and a half until yesterday and today. Beth and Bryce. Well, not that single question, but it was a series of question. Yeah, from a very intelligent builder partner of ours. And it was like, Oh, this is actually like, this gets deep. Like you can't that's not a surface level question.AndrewIt's not like, Hey, just check on that. Click the rate, the CPC and conversion rate, and it is your answer because you could have amazing conversion rate.KevinAnd I think.AndrewI just asked.KevinMy sister, here's our episode and she doesn't listen anyway, but she's a CMO now at a at a university, I guess. I mean, sorry, Kristen, but, you know, remember all those bad things she did to me when I was a kid? There's no payback. She she read like a Harvard Business Review magazine article and then, you know, reached out to me and was like, how do I get my team to do this?KevinLike, I read this in an article and it's like, I mean, okay. But I think that's where our prints were. The principles come from Your principles either come from just things you like, observed from afar, or someone else just told you that's a terrible way to develop or principle you can shortcut by getting a coach right? Jenn My coaches help you shortcut to the best principles, but if you're going to your coach and you're like, Hey, I think maybe we should do, you know, squats this way.KevinAndrew Instead of this other way. Why I someone on TikTok said so you're like, Well, I've been in a couple competition. Like, that's, that's not good, right? So I think that's, that's where the friction comes from, is people who have strong principles without strong experience of testing those principles. They just decided it were good principles. Like that's and I it's just important for me to articulate, I guess, to everyone else.KevinAnd our principles don't come from our feelings. Back to your T-shirt. Andrew Yeah, the principles come from the data, but the data combined with experience and observation, not just data on its own. Yeah.AndrewAnd then kind of testing against those principles reinforces the.JenPrinciple, the direction this conversation was going about ads, successful ads.KevinThere. Again.AndrewI think moving it towards online sales world is like a principle on a phone call. Here's the intent of this.JenSo this this kind of plays into yeah, let's just just well, it just plays into the whole coaching and being coachable and wanting to do things the right way and the like. You said, the experience that like our coaching team, do you convert as like thousands upon thousands of hours in the seat. But, but then also coaching and training, I mean, just thousands.JenI don't even know what that might be.KevinHundreds of years. I think if you add up the whole. Yes.JenYeah, hundreds of years. And so it's like when we are speaking from like experience and relevance in the market because we work with, you know, over a couple of hundred online sales specials a month. So we know like what's happening in real time. It's a few, it's like this is yeah, like this is we're not this is not just, are we?JenWe're not is like pulling this out of thin air. What we think like this is what we know, you know, because of what we see on a daily basis. So and you got to be coachable. You got to be open to listening and learning. And I was actually on a podcast yesterday with the homes for Hope program. Yeah, it's awesome.JenDerek And he asked me something came up about coach ability and I was like, Yeah, you know, as a coach you can, you can be like, we're totally invested in that online sales specialist, right? But they have to be invested back in us. We can train, we can coach, we can lead them to the water. We can't make them drink.JenIt can't make them do that. They got to be invested back. And so, yeah.KevinThat's well, and I'm going to get I mean, you use a spice emoji so I'm, I don't know if you've chilled out since then, but I'm going to bring some spice back. So I feel, I think it's not the right word. I don't want use that word. There are absolutely managers and senior leaders out there who have zero desire to unpack why things work are working, and that it seems to be my hunch would be my hunch would be managers told me my wife, that I should never use that word.KevinDo people not use the word hunch anymore?JenI just know. Yeah, I use that hunch.KevinOkay. She's like, when you use that word, stop it.AndrewIs it like, quote, a word? I don't know if like that. That phrase.JenLike moist.KevinYou know, my hunch is that they are insecure in their own ability with whatever it is that would be unpacked.JenAbsolutely.KevinAnd that leads them to be like, nope, don't want to like results are good, don't care about. And I'll give you the tangible example here. There is a builder we were speaking with who it looked like the online salesperson was averaging like 30 to 40 leads a month for the last six months. Okay. And we were on a quarterly leadership call and our online sales coach, working with that person has been talking about things a certain way based upon an understanding that that lead volume, by the way, that lead volume is given by the LSC in the reporting that we use, it comes from the CRM, but he's always have the availability to make sureKevinthe numbers are accurate and consistent. So our leadership and the leadership sales manager, VP of Sales Marketing is like, Oh no, no, no. That only gets like way more than that. We're talking like a hundred plus more leads a month than what that is showing. But it's in this other system that doesn't talk to our CRM and, and I was like, well, that's why for about an issue, I don't know, two years we've recommended to stop using that thing and sorry the answer came back was but it's working really well for us.KevinLike how do you know?JenDo you know.KevinBecause you're your online salesperson doesn't know. Apparently because they don't, they don't count those things. There's no tracking of of how those people are followed up with. And what it boils down to is it's just someone who's highly uncomfortable with the use of technology themselves, someone somewhere told them or whatever, like this is a good thing to use and things are going fine enough, but that's just a that's a huge blind spot that is going to cause massive panic at some point that could be avoided if you just.JenHear.KevinMore about how you how you got to that end result.JenThere is definitely a.KevinKnow.JenYou know, listen online sales contribution is so high. I mean, 45 to 50%.KevinOf.JenSales are coming from this program. But there's still this disconnect of the resources, the support, the time spent understanding, learning the tools, the systems, the reporting.KevinFor this role.JenAnd so there's a lot of like just wild, Wild West happening out there with some of the online sales specialist because there's management is not is not getting in there and taking the time to understand it's it's like you said, Kevin, maybe a lack of understanding or technology but there's also bandwidth issues to feel like everybody is spread so thin and when push comes to shove, we need sales to keep everything running, right?JenSo I'm going to take my efforts and focus on the the sale, the end of the funnel here. But really, we're not going to get sales unless we have a point difference. And if we don't have a point, we got to manage it. So it's really the shift perspective that needs to happen. And I was talking with somebody earlier today that there's still there's still broken parts of the CRM, there's still broken parts of how the leads are managed and things like that.JenAnd it's like, Hey, we've been talking about this for like a year that's still broken.KevinLike, isn't that funny? Like serums As a broader topic, I feel like, you know, there was a time where it was like, are you using Outlook Express or Outlook or like, what's your email client? I haven't heard maybe once in the last two years someone talk about email or questions are around email and how to write their own email client, right?KevinMm hmm. Why the heck aren't serums the same way? It's 2023.Andrew2023. That would stress me out like I won Lead, lost or won. Lee That you lose. I'm like, that could be X amount of profit from one sale of the home that they just ignore that to someone else.KevinAgain.AndrewAnd that just like.KevinAll this.AndrewThat makes me feel.KevinOlder. We're on the call and I'm looking through their CRM system and there were months at a time where not a single prospect was ever entered into the CRM by the onsite sales team. That's like millions more months in a row, not a single lead.AndrewMy that could have been like, that's like, I get weird. I'm like, we could it's like they could have just like, paid someone to pay the whole company notification.JenI mean.AndrewAnywhere.KevinThey were always the lost revenue or. Ms..JenMs. Yeah. Or, you know, just looking at even when we could go on and on about this. I mean, you just looking at like, you know, average appointment to sale number right now is 21%. That's a, that's, that's strong 21%. Right. The average walk in traffic conversion is historically like 10 to 12%. Right. So we go, okay, we're still 21%, like one out of five keep appointments are going to write a contract, but we're still not focusing on that.JenDuring the handoff or making sure that this connection with on site and online is at the forefront of our training and our our discussions. I had some math this episode is all about now. I did some math on Friday where they're right, right now they're at 11% conversion of appointment to sale. And I'm like, if you did these four steps and you were able to increase your conversion to 21%, that's an additional $19 million of revenue.JenYeah, sales revenue, 19 million, 50 million, which equated to like an additional because we did this math in front of the sales team, that's an additional 400 and something thousand dollars in commission or whatever. That's like being left on the table as like when you put it in that perspective, like, well, oh, you know, like just, you know, like these.JenAnd again, this goes back to what we were just talking about, Like we're not just coming up with like, yeah, we think you should do it this way. Like, we know this works. We have the data to support it. We have the conversion metrics to show that this is what the averages are.KevinOkay, What do you think.JenThese four things.KevinOne more thing. Let's just say just for fun.AndrewOkay, fancy.KevinBecause no one else is listening. Right? Lower left lead to employment ratio. Yeah. Is currently.AndrewCan brighten 18.KevinPercent and our and our average benchmark currently is.Jen40.Kevin40. Okay lead to of women.JenWill get to women. Yeah.KevinMy favorite is when the person who has an 18% lead to appointment currently is again the one suggesting that they have found a better way something comes out. I mean and this is where this is where our approaches differ because we're all different humans that do convert, as I'm kind of like I mean, I'm going to explain to you why there's that.KevinThat's a bad idea. But you don't I would say to everyone, like, you don't pay me enough to make your decision for you. So, I mean, try it for a week or two, but not longer because you can't afford to go to five. Like 18 is bad enough. Let's get you to 35 with these proven things right first.KevinOh, yeah.JenYeah. Now, I just say that.KevinJohn, about that school application, I.JenOh, man, I feel like I you go back to school just by now. You know, I did apply to vet school and I if you guys knew that I did at one time want to be a veterinarian.AndrewSent a telegram I.KevinThink like, yes.JenI didn't get in. There's only 30 vet schools in the world.KevinOhio State is one of the best I hear like, yes, there goes a.AndrewLot of things.JenMy daughter is in her senior year, Virginia Tech, and is going through the vet school application process right now. She's applying and like I think 15 schools out of the 30. Oh oh yeah.KevinIs she going to live here or something?JenI so I said if you if you get into Ohio State you can go to Kevin's for dinner. So you know he'll take care of things every sale, you know, they'll feed you, make sure you're okay. But as she's going through this, you know, she's super stressed out. She's having to, like, go back through the last ten years of her life and basically and think about all these things and these prompts.JenIt's like, what's the defining moment of when you wanted to be a veterinarian, Right? So she's having to go through this. And I said.AndrewThese questions are terrible.JenWell, and listen, the vet schools, they only accept it's like the hardest one of the hardest things to get into. They only accept like a 100 out of thousands and thousands of applications. Wow. So I'm like, you've got to do something in this essay to make like to stand out. Like the first sentence has got to be some catchy thing, you know?JenBut it made me think about a couple a different think it's a one. If you are thinking about applying to the Nationals, you should because it's a great way to go through and like you go back into the archives, you just document all of this awesome stuff that you've done in your career and put it on paper. And if you're thinking about doing it, you should go for it.JenBut also make sure you tell this, tell a story that is what is going to help you stand out All in all of those applications that come in. So tell a story, be specific how you overcame something or whatever. But also maybe think about like when we're communicating with our customers and we're sending follow up and we're sending and we're leaving phone messages and we're communicating like you got a you got to spice it up a little bit.JenLike you got to be personal. You got to you got to put something in the subject line that's going to break through the clutter. It's going to make you stand out instead of touching base, checking in. How's it going? Because people's inboxes are inundated, like and they just get so many, you know, especially if if they're looking at your builder, they're looking at ten other builders that are all sending emails that are all sitting to these letters of.KevinWe are.JenAll doing all the things.KevinWe have.JenWe hope. We think, who knows? But you've got us. We've got to break through the digital pollution, right, and cut through the clutter. So that's good luck to Mia. Little Mia.KevinShe's like, Our.JenLocations are due September 18th.AndrewSo 15 of them, But I'd be paying someone to do that, I think.JenYeah, Yeah. That's what I would like to donate to the MIA application fund. But you've got to, like, pay like zillion dollars for all these different applications. So I'm really excited for. So put out some deposit invites.AndrewTo the universe.JenYes.KevinTo see what's her favorite animal is a dogs.JenYes. She's actually doing the research study on cows right now. So she gets to go hang out with cows and draw blood and do little like feeds. She had to, like, pile up on a big, like, green machine and, like, feed them. And I don't know, she's she likes horses, too. She's done some stuff with the horses, but mainly small animals.KevinNot a horse fan. Human kryptonite, those things.JenYou're not a horse.KevinThey can be really good. Yeah. It's not safe. Yeah, that'll.JenOh, they're so beautiful too.AndrewAbout, like, the miniature horses. Those are fun.KevinLittle tiny, maybe. Yeah. Yeah.AndrewWas just to see.KevinWhat would you rather be? Fight one giant hundred foot horse or 101 foot tiny horses?AndrewIt's like running around a little baby horses.KevinSorry, everyone. I'm in some kind of strange, strange minute here. On to the news multiverse.AndrewThis is Earth four.JenHey, online sales specialist, your D convert, Coach Jen Barkin here. Are you looking for guidance, structure and proven methods to help you set more appointments and create more sales? Then join online sales coach Jesse Suggs and myself. We are offering an intense two day virtual training experience, followed by eight weeks of training and coaching through our online sales academy.JenThis fall. Jesse and I have been in your shoes and we teach from our direct experience and years of coaching online sales specialists. Just like you. This will be hands on and real world no theory here. If you're interested, don't miss this incredible opportunity to reserve your spot today by visiting. Do you convert dot.com.KevinMan first up from D and Y use as I stand for, I need to know the news. The news. It's like.AndrewOkay, so two syllables that has generated.KevinThis one wasn't me.AndrewHow about this?KevinSo we're we're using the link and its first monopoly trial of modern Internet era. The US sets its sights on Google. So for those of you old enough to remember, I think the last big Monopoly trial breakup that happened was AT&T.; That was then split up into seven different regional companies in 1984, the article says. But effectively, the United States government is saying that Google is preventing any new opportunity for search to occur.KevinGoogle basically does what Facebook did back in the day. It was like any popular social app. We'll just go out and buy them. I mean, if you guys spend $1,000,000,000, going to spend $1,000,000,000 to Instagram, but it just prevents anyone from getting to the point where they could be a rival. And the charge here is that they're doing that with search and what's going to be so one, it's a big deal.KevinThe other thing is it's hard for monopolies. Monopolies are not illegal monopolies that harm consumers are illegal. And Android Android is was one really smart move by Google of saying we're going to make an operating system that's basically free. I mean, the catch is it has Google search built in as the default option, but it's hard to prove monopoly like consumers don't pay for ads on Google.KevinConsumers don't pay for Google sheets for Google Docs. They don't pay for it. I guess you're getting a lot of, you know, in quotes, free as are straight resources.JenYeah.KevinYou're getting a lot of resources as a consumer that you don't directly pay for. But they're going after it. And I think it's it's not I don't want to say this, it's just a distraction, but it's a really big distraction because this is like a very low percentage chance. But if it does like you, you just imagine working at Google in the senior leadership and you're like, we should be working on AI and we should be making this better and this better and YouTube and oh crap, we are.AndrewThere like we have Mitch McConnell reason out over here telling us what or how to run the business. I agree.KevinIt seems like Google is a monopoly.AndrewI think their monopoly in that they own their own search. Like you Google something, it's the verb, it's what you do versus what you do. I think they're trying to prove, right. Did they do things that were like the competitive nature? Of course they did. They wanted to get rid of the competition. So there's times where I'm like, I don't make any sense this.AndrewI can't stand this type of thing. But then I'm like, we kind of need more regulation over here and like zero regulation and stuff like this. So I feel like, you know, like there's contradictions there with government involvement in business and stuff like that. But this is like, come on, like, this is so dumb. Like everyone that.JenLike it.AndrewOn this thing against Google uses Google likely for their search engine and they're not on asked Jeeves or or Amazon.com or Bain. They're using Google to do it so and there's a reason it's still the better product. And they kind of prove that if even if they did all these, I think that's where the cases is. Probably even if we did not do these things, people would still use Google.AndrewThey're not using Bing. They're not switching to another search platform at all.JenThey're going all use being anymore.KevinYeah, they don't.AndrewEven have points. You can get the search stuff.KevinOn pay, please. Bing.AndrewThey try to pay you. Yeah. You give pretty.KevinLittle coupons or. Yeah. I mean, this is just one line builder here in Texas as an example. But year to date, they have 330,000 unique sessions from Google Search, and they have 13,000 from Bing, 4000 from Yahoo! 2000 from DuckDuckGo Technical.AndrewAnd those are the people, the tin foil hats, but the DuckDuckGo. So yeah, like the conversions, they're like, well, those are the crazy ones, so you don't want those people.KevinSo next from Google itself, new sustainability tools help businesses and cities map environmental information. This is again interesting one to me because Zillow's kind of led the charge of adding all this additional information around property. You know, like safety scores. And I think they also they do have it was started by Brad, Adam and I forget the name of the company where they give like a climate score rating.KevinBut now this is being built into Google Maps platform. They're going to let you see solar energy potential. So it'll identify roofs and talk about the amount of information that likelihood that it will produce a certain amount of power, air quality information and common allergens. That's and so everyone who has a Google map built into their site, you wouldn't, in essence, if you thought that this was important enough to be able to opt for offer a toggle on your own site or experience with access to this same information.AndrewLike it's pretty cool. The solar one is a little bit interesting because our you know, our electricity rates here expensive. We have a moderately large our home 3300 feet so we and I'm home all day so there's no saving of power during the day by turn AC down and we run the AC 23 to 60 days of the year for the most part.AndrewSo we've considered solar. So Project sunroof in our home is newer. Like for some reason, like our house is not in there yet, which is really bizarre. Sort of imagine even like a brand new home. It's obviously not going to be in there, but being that we have no trees because they tore everything down to make it easier and more efficient to develop.AndrewWe have some trees growing, but I'm like, man, solar is like ripe for most new home builds, especially in the South. Like, I think we did do a private survey with our property at one point and like the amount of power we can produce is insane. So I think that's like, oh, that could be that could be a really cool selling tool to go new home construction.AndrewIt's more efficient. Oh, and then now you have solar, the ROI on that. The payback is extremely quick because like you, the efficiency of it for a new home compared to an existing home, an older established neighborhood would be there. So be nice if they I would imagine as it gets use more often the how it refreshes the map and how that would be a little bit quicker.AndrewYeah, just fast for like two, three, five years from now. Pretty cool. All the tools we have.KevinI don't have the exact number, but whoever originally shared this article in my social network also included a stat that I, if I remember it was either close to 50% or like 60% of people who were surveyed had considered at least one environmental factor as part of their search for a home. I imagine both of you living near water in Virginia Beach and near Tampa, that like that's a but even in Ohio, like you can't build homes in a certain level of a floodplain.KevinLet's say 100 year flood, I think is you just can't build in here. So it's kind of surprising in one sense that that number sounded like a good number to use as a stat because I would think like 100% of people are considering like possession of the sun and amount of shade. Yeah, it seems like people who, you know, still quote like, did you know that 94.9% of people use the Internet to shop for a house?KevinAnd like we stop talking about this, it's everyone is like everyone.AndrewJust remember that.KevinAre we doing this? Yeah. Well, like, of course, the environment's a big like, that's what location is. It's all those things wrapped up together. But I mean, do you remember doing, like, a specific thing that you were?AndrewI'm a for me, definitely with hurricane evacuate like we just had a hurricane one week ago that passed by us. So we still had, you know, work zones. I think it's part of the same records and it's like ABCD and then X non evacuate or like a is like you're on the beach or you're a mobile home. The trailer home, manufactured home, no such a wind, wind and water and then B and then we're C, we're actually like B and a half.AndrewLike our kitchen is a B, the rest of the house is a C for whatever reason. So we, we stick with C, we're like, okay, if that gets wet over there, it's fine. We're staying like we're 13. You're yeah, you're gone. You're thinking.JenI'm underwater.AndrewYou're under water. So we're like 13 feet above sea level. You're below sea, you're like a bowl. You're like, you know.JenTraffic is is.AndrewYou have tunnels.KevinSinking. Oh, yeah. Yeah.JenSo you're saying bought a house in the flood zone. And I knew that. So this I'm not a good candidate.KevinIt's gone. But you still porous. I mean, if it was bad, it's.JenOkay to tension Lake. Yeah. Yeah.AndrewIf you need insurance, if you don't like, that's a huge factor.JenFlood insurance required.KevinIt's just a good thing that it's me. It goes in the category of if this place your advantage, you should be talking about it. If you're a builder in Albuquerque, New Mexico, or Southern California or the center of California, and you have now the ability availability to show the potential of solar usage on a on a home like you should be.KevinYou should be talking about that. Definitely. Yeah. All right. Next up from CNBC dot com, we're going to start with the scary and then get to someone trying to offer a solution. Mortgage demand drops to a 27 year low as interest rates pull back the average contract interest rate for 30 year fixed mortgages was $726,000 or less, decreased to 7.2% from 7.3%.KevinApplications for a mortgage to purchase a home fell 2% or 28% lower than the same week. One year ago. So affordability matters, huh? Who would have thought who.AndrewWould have thought of that? You were going to think there's some really smart builders that are offering some bite out of mortgages and I think the show 5.45 or any number less than seven is really attractive.KevinYeah, rates are I mean, again, I think it's catching people off guard. And I don't want to go into an economics lesson, but what's happening right now is that the government has to sell so many more treasuries to fund the government that investors are demanding a higher rate of return. And so, again, people just keep getting confused. It's worth at this point, it's it's kind of like, again, it's September of 20, 23.KevinInterest rates have been kind of a big deal for a while now. So if when I say interest rate, Treasury bonds, Treasury bills, tenure and you're like, whatever, just shut up and move on to the next topic, you should go watch a couple YouTube videos. Well, I'll give yeah, something like this. You know, it's a bit like you have at some point you have to be like, Huh, I guess this is big deal.KevinYou you don't have to understand it to solve it. You again, you can't empathize with your customers, say can't communicate, you can't educate, you cannot build trust. If you're not making any content about this at all because you're scared of it. Like just, you know, so people are like, I don't understand. We didn't raise interest rates or interest rates only went up by X when the Fed.KevinWell, the Fed's not the only factor here. You know, and and so rates are still sliding higher and the government's going to need more money for a while.AndrewSo I mean I think you would say. Kevin and to end interest rates is the I'm trying to think of the right word to phrase it at principal. That's a strong word. I think we all can feel that word. What it means like interest rates, that is the single biggest factor right now, above all everything else, like you could have a purple house with backwards doors and windows upside down, sideways, all this stuff.AndrewAnd the interest rate is right on that single home. Somehow, who cares? Nothing is selling, right? Yeah. Like it overrides the most amazing campaign, the most amazing website, the most amazing content. Yeah. Location. All that stuff is the rate right now. Shoot, we had a home just list in our neighborhood, and it's one that's like, closest to our our size home and like, Oh, what's something listed for?AndrewIt's like seven something. And then I see that's not the Zestimate, the Zillow's I've heard the call their, their mortgage calculator. I'm like, Oh gosh. I'm like, that's a whole different type of person income job life wise compared to, say myself.KevinI mean.AndrewWhen we got it and at this house now we're at two points, you know, like that's a whole different ballgame as far.KevinAs ask your parents for money. I don't know if you saw that Barbara Corcoran video. So. Barbara Corcoran, she's had a couple of these viral comments. I don't know if she just doesn't have anything going on with her real life.AndrewCPR form.KevinStatements that are compelling. But the first one was, of course, like if rates go, go down, prices will go up. So you better buy now. It's like, okay, we just want to look at one way and that could happen. It also could be their rates go down because the economy is terrible and people that have to sell their house and then there's more supply, then demand, and then prices go down.KevinSo either one could happen, but now she's come out and she just her it was one of these like dude bro podcast about like how to get rich quick. She's like, you just got to get into real estate and like if you can't afford it, no big deal. Just ask your parents for the money. Like the boomers have money, just get their money.KevinAnd so then she's just getting trolled. Get the boom so hard by people who are screenshotted that and they're like, you know, in their clearly not rich surroundings. And these are like teenagers even. They're like, yeah, thanks, Barbara. I'll definitely just ask my parents for, you know, a couple million to buy that apartment in Manhattan. And I'm like.AndrewI can imagine the reactions on that would be hilarious.JenWell, you know, just despite the Straits, it's not like, you know, you can easily slip into this, like, dude, I'm like, oh, my gosh, this sucks, right? But when we look at I mean, I just talked to a builders like we had our best month. August was our best month than ever, you know, at their best, Like it was.KevinThe best.JenMonth ever, ever. And, you know, conversion rates are still really strong, even more so than they were first quarter. Like.KevinYeah.JenSo it's like, yes, it's there and it's harder, but there's still a lot of positives happening justifying.KevinWay more there. There are actually way more positives than the negatives. I'm telling you I would rather have rates where they are or higher than I would like to have the same number of existing homes available on the market today as there were in 2018. If that happens, I'm telling you it's not that that is bad. I will find it.KevinA whole bunch of other things. More fire will take an extra couple million homes, you're saying?JenBecause you're saying because the existing inventory is so low. That's yes, it's so good for us. Yeah.KevinThe only common factor, not not the only the main common factor that unites individual markets that are struggling right now are builders are not hitting or exceeding their goals is where existing home supply get This has returned to like normal normal. And it's not like poems are sitting around forever, but they're like this is the same month supply that was like considered healthy is violently unhealthy now because.KevinBecause why? Because if you get the same healthy supply as is normal and demand is still down here, that's not good like you. Yeah. And so anything that reduces supply and this is why people get into housing experiences of like builders don't want to build that. People truly think this is hilarious. They think home builders are like Louis Vuitton and they're thinking of like, you know what?KevinWe'll do here's we'll do Jen. We'll just build homes a little bit slower or we'll make them a little less available just to protect the prices of our homes. Right. They've never met D.R. Horton. They've never met else, you know, Century Jimmy, like some of these builders that just focus on volume like that. It's hilarious. But your point is again, Andrew, 100% correct.KevinWe would not be in this House now when rates went down to three and a half and then kept going lower. I was like, Melanie, I mean, we own this property since 2015 that we built on and we had a loan and still the we were paying off on the land. But the loan on land was like seven and a half percent.KevinYour land aside, you realize that if we build a that's basically the same size as the house we're in now on the seven acres versus a three quarter acre, we all have a lower payment than what we are paying right now, paying the land and.JenThe spray money. Basically.AndrewShe was like, Shut the front door. Kevin, are you serious? This real interest rate, principally.KevinWhat she said like, well, then why.JenAre not doing that will ever see is that low.AndrewYeah. I don't I don't ever want to see that low.KevinBut that's.AndrewThat's.KevinConspiracy. That's what I wish more people would just honestly talk about if it went back to that guess what would happen like there's there is my friend Rob John says that you know there's just that these are the five these are four days and we added a fifth I think. But deaths, diamonds, diapers, divorce, divorce and displacement like physical, those are the reasons people move.KevinYeah, those reasons haven't stopped.JenRight.KevinWhat has stopped is the availability to easily move around.JenRight.KevinAnd transact. And so that means that I think it's very likely that when rates do go down, there's going to be a whole bunch of people just like the the race was on and people realized that there are still going to make money During the factors. Half of the world was shut down. The race was on to buy things and do things and get things.KevinI think there's a whole bunch of people who the minute rates get below 500 are like, Oh, this is our chance. We got we've got to say this. Yes, we made the dumbest decision ever to move to Nowhere Vermont and work remotely and try to raise yak wool on the side. We need to get back home to Chicago.KevinYeah, You know, put their house up 400%. Yeah. And that is. I'm just telling you, whatever keeps inventory low as what I'm in favor of for our industry now as a human being and wanting people to be able to have access to housing, I think it's terrible. Absolutely terrible. Yeah. But it it is it makes the market work right now.AndrewI think there's a lot of people that regret not doing something with the massive amount of equity they have. So they're like this. This might be like, who knows what's going to happen? Like, this is our chance. We have half million or whatever, number two, three, 400,000 inequity. I want to do something with it. I want to move.AndrewSo there's there's a lot of reasons, I guess.KevinYeah. Now, you can't really touch that equity because there's.JenA lot of people.AndrewLook expensive.JenWebsites and looking and lots of traffic to get you know people are looking.AndrewPeople love new.JenHomes. It's just waiting.KevinBut it's to the rescue, maybe.AndrewRescue.KevinTo the rescue, maybe.AndrewLike a rocket is.KevinIs one. Plus buy rocket mortgage, a 1% down payment option. Andrew, you found this?AndrewI did find this. I was actually. So we reified with Rocket. I logged in, we revived like 20, 20, 20, 21 or whatever, whenever it was. And then I saw this as like an ad something like, Oh, they got me. They got me enough to share this with, with the team. Like, this is interesting and it just read the fine detail.AndrewSo it, it essentially it is targeting it's first time buyers or if you're a repeat buyer, but you do have to fit certain income requirements they give you. You could put down 1%. That's all they're asking for, 1% down payment. They'll give a 2% grant as part of that down payment. So you're at three and you could only give up to 3%.AndrewSo there's max down, payment is 5%. So they're making sure that like, okay, they they'll make more money with less down payment. They have more principle to have interest attached, attached to, but then there's no PMI on it. So that's really interesting. But the and the credit requirements to you looking at this, I'm not a mortgage broker. I'm not a finance person, but you're like, okay, 620 or better.AndrewThat's pretty low. I feel like for like what seems in my brain like this seems to be like a higher risk product or, you know. Beth our team was like, This feels really familiar to VR alone in terms of requirements. Like it's it's kind of what the VA offers for military. But there are you know, there's that every mean something I'm not educated enough in this as far as like what does qualified income mean versus income on it.AndrewBut it seems like it is targeting kind of like the middle ish class income levels and that kind of like in number, we're not probably a lot of people that are very great renters. They pay on time. They have no issue with that yet. They're stuck. They're kind of like, I can't get a down payment, I can't get a down payment on houses, keep going up.AndrewInterest rates are higher. I want to get out of renting. This seems to be the perfect thing for them.KevinSo, yeah, my niece, this seems like a product product for and it's not it's not just I'm almost positive this is a government for Fannie and Freddie have kind of somehow this has been devised and rocket does always a really good job of packaging things up. They do easily and simply for people but I'm pretty sure this option exists for from a lot of different sources.KevinBut my nieces, I think she's 24. She's made good money for a couple of years. She's lived with her her mom. She's getting married and she's like, I really want to buy a house, but I can only afford to put down or only want to put down X. Even though she has more money, she just doesn't want to put it on one.JenOf the.KevinMedia.AndrewYou want to have backup? Yeah. You're like, Cool. That which makes sense. Yeah. You think that'd be like, rewarded somehow? Maybe it is like less down payment.KevinBy banks because they know that's more risk for.AndrewThem. It is risk. But another thing I think a take on this too, is if you read it, I think most builders I'll be meaning for a second any incentives, they're usually not great at explaining them on their website. Intentional, not intentional. To me, I think clear is kind of the more direct you are with it, the better conversions you'll have.AndrewSo I don't know if there's any like, Hey, just leave a little bit info out. People want to call. Well, that's not good because it's in the cards you get or confused. People like, Hey, I'm trying to read this thing, you know, online salesperson. Like, well, they didn't tell me either, so I don't really know. I don't really know.AndrewSo I think I.JenRead that deceptive. What itself what are you talking about?AndrewI think it's like 90% clear and at the bottom there are some like really? Well, that number does make sense. You know, about 6000 there but that's not reference in I was little details I think might not be the best.JenAnswer but it's just written the word incentive. Okay. We're like.AndrewIncentive.JenBuying options.KevinHome buying like.JenNew home options.AndrewOkay, I'm buying.KevinI don't know if.AndrewI can tell if you're messing with me or not, because.JenOptions.AndrewFeels like a really weird word. Really? Oh, we should talk about that. And options versus incentives and do a Did you watch the story on Netflix? I'm really distracting this right now, but it's about words choosing words. It's about when oxycodone content was created and they did a group what's a focus group on naming the drug? Like what is morphine mean to you?AndrewThey're like cancer death, my grandmother passing. What does this word mean to you? Oh, headache. What does this word mean to you? OxyContin, Breathing like oxygen and as all positive words. And they're sitting there and you're like, oh, well, this is terrible. Like, if you if you watch another person affected by it, you're.JenSitting there like, so and so and so it's it makes a big.KevinDifference.JenAnd will mean something rid of the word appointment of somebody is like thinking like I blow.AndrewMy mind. I'm stuck in nerd corner only know what's happening.JenAnd now we we were like don't even say appointment because that means that's transactional and the last more stressful. Like if you get an appointment like you're, you're going to go to contract basically what.AndrewWord to be like.JenSo like we don't even say that we were to discovery tours this Discovery tour community visit. If there's somebody who's really like, I don't know, like, Hey, how about let's just touch up with an informational session to get you started? Like, I.AndrewHope they're not like, so, like an appointment. I feel like I'm Jerry Seinfeld, right?JenBut I guess softening that verbiage, that's when like, you know, anyway, I don't know how we.AndrewGot my language is.KevinMy grandma.AndrewMeans something while.KevinShe's still alive. She's 104. So there might be something to this. But her and my grandfather used to take vitamin. Oh, Andrew.AndrewThat sounds made up too.KevinAnd it like had oxygen in it. And I, like, I was, I don't know, five at a time.AndrewI see it now.KevinBut I was so like, I'm pretty sure you can't put oxygen into powder form and shove it inside of a capsule.AndrewLike it's just hydrogen.KevinAnd I think they're probably that's one of the jokers got away with that is they're like, well you're breathing, you know, you're breathing while you're taking it. So you're taking it out.AndrewI guess I need to know what's in this. I found.JenIt. It's like.AndrewWell, I found the Amazon thing, which is terrible. It's it's like a white he gets like a white and blue bottle vitamin. Know about it, But no ingredients. Ingredients aren't even.KevinYeah, well, my father in law also sells total shyster thing. He sells saltwater. It's a cure all. He's from West Virginia. Okay. Okay. And then my mom used to take Queen Bee Rock Royal Honey, It was. It was special honey in gel tabs that only came from Queen Bees because Queen bees have some ideas. Like, why do we all want to live for?KevinOh, wait, I guess that's insane.AndrewSay I'm quality over quantity. I don't know.KevinIf on.AndrewAny given time.KevinI'll just be paying way more attention to cosmetics and vitamin companies. Yeah, because I know more and that's just make up more stuff. It's getting.AndrewLet's make it as.KevinWe have plenty to talk about. That's interesting to them that we don't have to.AndrewMake it and we have discovery tours. We could tell them about this information.KevinOh, it's I like this. I don't know. Do you like this, Kevin? Or do you hate this? Kevin, This Kevin could never appear another episode again. It's just too much cost me.JenHave you heard today? Maybe. Is it too much or not enough?KevinNo, I think I think it's just the knowing that this is my last thing of today. And I get that you.AndrewSo every Thursday for the month of September, I think it's month to September, Starbucks is doing buy one, get one fall drinks after 12:00. Oh they.KevinShould be Stanley.AndrewThey should be sponsoring me. Right. And that's why I went and got one before. Like this little thing doesn't look so little. I don't I'm not a big dude. I'm like, five, eight. But that's in this cup look so dainty. Like, that's a top, but it's the pumpkin cream cold brew.KevinPeople always think this stuff is contrived and made up, but I will add a Starbucks card and all access you all can scan.AndrewAnd they better post a picture using it.KevinBut I'm just kidding. Ha ha ha ha.AndrewYou better use.KevinAll right, let's move on to our favorites or things we hate either in either one. Oh gosh. What are your favorite shows? Books, Things you've watched. I'm going to give away one of my secret favorite thing I like. You know, I share a lot, but then I'm always like, Ooh, that person's got really good stuff. I can't share it with anyone, but I will.KevinI will share it today. You want I start inter Yeah.AndrewYou talk about West Virginia. So we were recommended. I'm not recommending this.KevinI'm just West Virginia. You're you wonderful people. My home.AndrewCountry roads. Shenandoah River. Right. It's a great place. So there's this documentary. I think Johnny, Johnny Knoxville made it so someone from East, right? But it's the wild and wonderful whites of West Virginia. Just watch on the Amazon. It seems like it's a high school project. Someone made an I'm movie and it's about this family the house and West Virginia and Boone County, Boone County, West Virginia.AndrewAnd it's just a train wreck of I mean, you don't watch it and try to figure out who the father is of any of these children. I think it's one person, the great grandfather or the grandfather. It's the craziest thing. But it's about this family that's they're all related interbred. So it's it's it's insane. I'm like, what are we watching right now?AndrewBut someone recommended it to us. So sure enough, we watched it. I'm not advising to watch it or to not watch it, but if you need something that's a change of pace.KevinYou're doing this with, you're like, Hey, watch this thing.JenYou don't need to be. You don't need to justify your favorite. Oh, you're very handsome.AndrewThis is definitely not I mean, this is about a ancestral family that's inbred. It's a little.JenWeird. Are you favoring favor?AndrewI don't know. This is just.JenWild. It's.AndrewIt's interesting when we finish this whole thing, if that says anything. So we didn't turn it off. I've heard people left.JenIt was like the train movie.AndrewNobody watching it was a train wreck. You're like, Wow, this is real. Everybody. When I said West Virginia, so am I, my boom mic. But the boom, my boom arm that I got, the new one, it's perfect. It doesn't.KevinMove.AndrewThe other one's on the ground. I need to throw it away.JenSo not 2

What does air conditioning have to do with political dysfunction in Washington? Apparently, more than you’d imagine. We’ll get into the history behind AC in the halls of Congress and how that’s affected the way lawmakers do their jobs. Then, what drove Sen. Mitt Romney to call it quits? Plus, staging a career comeback isn’t easy. Naomi Osaka and Simone Biles are showing us how it’s done. Here’s everything we talked about today: “What Mitt Romney Saw in the Senate” from The Atlantic “Wall Street Bet Big on Used-Car Loans for Years. Now a Crisis May Be Looming.” from ProPublica “‘We Put in Air Conditionin', Stayed Year-Round, and Ruined America'” from Politico “Naomi Osaka and Simone Biles are modeling how to stage a career comeback” from Quartz “It Only Tuesday” from The Onion Got a question for the hosts? Leave us a voicemail at 508-U-B-SMART or email us at makemesmart@marketplace.org.

What does air conditioning have to do with political dysfunction in Washington? Apparently, more than you’d imagine. We’ll get into the history behind AC in the halls of Congress and how that’s affected the way lawmakers do their jobs. Then, what drove Sen. Mitt Romney to call it quits? Plus, staging a career comeback isn’t easy. Naomi Osaka and Simone Biles are showing us how it’s done. Here’s everything we talked about today: “What Mitt Romney Saw in the Senate” from The Atlantic “Wall Street Bet Big on Used-Car Loans for Years. Now a Crisis May Be Looming.” from ProPublica “‘We Put in Air Conditionin', Stayed Year-Round, and Ruined America'” from Politico “Naomi Osaka and Simone Biles are modeling how to stage a career comeback” from Quartz “It Only Tuesday” from The Onion Got a question for the hosts? Leave us a voicemail at 508-U-B-SMART or email us at makemesmart@marketplace.org.

What up PEEPS! It's another edition of the Daddy Issues Podcast. This week it's haircuts and hairlines, shoes, DC's question, heat waves, AC temperatures, and dealing with pets. 

Roberto Arlt es uno de los escritores fundamentales de la literatura argentina. Hoy, las universidades estudian la narrativa arltiana, que incluye novelas, cuentos, obras de teatro y, por supuesto, periodismo con sus maravillosas aguafuertes. Pero no siempre fue así. A lo largo de varias décadas, su nombre había pasado desapercibido en el ámbito literario. Al margen de los aspectos temáticos e ideológicos de su obra, hay un hecho curioso que caracteriza a muchos de sus textos: siempre aparece un hombre que sueña con ser inventor. Algo que no deja de ser un hecho autobiográfico porque el propio Arlt soñaba con pegarla con un gran invento. Era un amante de la física y de la química, incluso llegó a patentar algunas de sus iniciativas. En esta carta, le escribe a su hija, que acaba de ser aplazada en un examen. La consuela, le da calma y le dice que esos asuntos no son tan importantes. También le cuenta de un invento que ocupa toda su cabeza: unas medias para damas reforzadas con caucho. Acá va la fascinanción de un inventor fracasado. Acá va la narrativa de un escritor brillante. Lee el actor Mauricio Jortack. *** Querida Mirtita: Recibí tu carta. No es para tanto un aplazo. Partí del principio que nosotros los Arlt nunca hemos sido fuertes en gramática y ortografía. Yo todavía no sé a ciencia cierta que diferencia existe entre un verbo y un adverbio. En cuanto a ortografía no necesito darte referencias. En cuanto al viejo de mierda ese, paciencia. Volvé a dar el examen y tomá ese asunto con la tranquilidad que hay que darle a todos los asuntos debajo del sol. Si vos situás en otro planeta a una muchacha que aplazan en ortografía y gramática te darás cuenta que eso no tiene importancia. Estudiá otra vez y listo. No te he escrito con la frecuencia que quisiera y tampoco he ido por allá, porque constantemente estoy ocupado con este asunto de las medias, ya que queremos salir comercialmente con los primeros días. Y vamos a salir. (…) Te mando aquí un pedazo arrancado de una media tratada con mi procedimiento. Te darás cuenta que sacándole el brillo a la goma (me van a entregar ahora una goma sin brillo ni tacto como el que tiene ésta) el asunto es perfecto. Tendrán que usar mis medias en invierno. No hay disyuntiva. (…) Escribime diciendome qué impresión te produce este pedazo que te he enviado. Se puede lavar con agua caliente. No calentará la pierna en invierno porque su temperatura interna se contrabalanceará con la temperatura externa. Bueno, como ves, no pierdo tiempo. Esta media durará por lo menos un año. Su transparencia es notable. Ponele papel impreso atrás y podés leerlo. Querida Mirtita, tené la seguridad que esto pronto estará en marcha comercial. Yo no pierdo un solo día. Todos los días trabajo en esto, para ponerlo a punto industrialmente ya faltan muy pocos detalles, pero detalles que hay que ultimar. Dale saludos a mamá y recibí un abrazo de tu papá que te quiere y recuerda siempre. Trabajá en el ingles con el mismo ánimo que yo trabajo en las medias. Chau linda. Roberto