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Segment 1: President Trump Pardons 23 Pro-Life Activists Former President Donald Trump has made a bold statement by pardoning 23 pro-life activists, whom many believe were unfairly prosecuted under extreme measures. These individuals were arrested for standing up for the unborn, and Trump's decision to grant them clemency is being hailed as a victory for the pro-life movement. We'll discuss the implications of this decision and what it signals for the future of religious and free speech protections. Segment 2: Dr. Harper Reports from the White House Dr. Anthony Harper brings us an exclusive report from inside the White House, covering how the new administration is taking shape. As policies shift, what can Christians and conservatives expect from the new leadership? Dr. Harper provides firsthand insight into how Washington is reacting to key issues, including religious liberty, pro-life policies, and faith-based initiatives. Segment 3: What's Next for America Under the New Administration? Dr. Harper weighs in on the atmosphere in Washington D.C. now that the new president is in town. With executive orders, cabinet appointments, and policy changes already underway, what does this mean for people of faith? Will we see increased restrictions on religious expression or a renewed push for conservative values? Dr. Harper shares his expectations for the coming months. Get free alerts at http://PrayInJesusName.org © 2025, Chaplain Gordon James Klingenschmitt, PhD. Airs on NRB TV, Direct TV Ch.378, Roku, AppleTV, Amazon FireTV, AndroidTV, GoogleTV, Smart TV, iTunes and www.PrayInJesusName.org

As the first book-length study of auctions in early America, America Under the Hammer: Auctions and the Emergence of Market Values (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) follows this ubiquitous but largely overlooked institution to reveal how, across the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, price became an accepted expression of value. From the earliest days of colonial conquest, auctions put Native land and human beings up for bidding alongside material goods, normalizing new economic practices that turned social relations into economic calculations and eventually became recognizable as nineteenth-century American capitalism. Starting in the eighteenth century, neighbors collectively turned speculative value into economic “facts” in the form of concrete prices for specific items, thereby establishing ideas about fair exchange in their communities. This consensus soon fractured: during the Revolutionary War, state governments auctioned loyalist property, weaponizing local group participation in pricing and distribution to punish political enemies. By the early nineteenth century, suspicion that auction outcomes were determined by manipulative auctioneers prompted politicians and satirists to police the boundaries of what counted as economic exchange and for whose benefit the economy operated. Women at auctions—as commodities, bidders, or beneficiaries—became a focal point for gendering economic value itself. By the 1830s, as abolitionists attacked the public sale of enslaved men, women, and children, auctions had enshrined a set of economic ideas—that any entity could be coded as property and priced through competition—that have become commonsense understandings all too seldom challenged. In contrast to histories focused on banks, currencies, or plantations, America Under the Hammer highlights an institution that integrated market, community, and household in ways that put gender, race, and social bonds at the center of ideas about economic worth. Women and men, enslaved and free, are active participants in this story rather than bystanders, and their labor, judgments, and bodies define the resulting contours of the American economy. Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor is Professor of History at the University of California, Davis, and author of The Ties That Buy: Women and Commerce in Revolutionary America, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies

As the first book-length study of auctions in early America, America Under the Hammer: Auctions and the Emergence of Market Values (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) follows this ubiquitous but largely overlooked institution to reveal how, across the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, price became an accepted expression of value. From the earliest days of colonial conquest, auctions put Native land and human beings up for bidding alongside material goods, normalizing new economic practices that turned social relations into economic calculations and eventually became recognizable as nineteenth-century American capitalism. Starting in the eighteenth century, neighbors collectively turned speculative value into economic “facts” in the form of concrete prices for specific items, thereby establishing ideas about fair exchange in their communities. This consensus soon fractured: during the Revolutionary War, state governments auctioned loyalist property, weaponizing local group participation in pricing and distribution to punish political enemies. By the early nineteenth century, suspicion that auction outcomes were determined by manipulative auctioneers prompted politicians and satirists to police the boundaries of what counted as economic exchange and for whose benefit the economy operated. Women at auctions—as commodities, bidders, or beneficiaries—became a focal point for gendering economic value itself. By the 1830s, as abolitionists attacked the public sale of enslaved men, women, and children, auctions had enshrined a set of economic ideas—that any entity could be coded as property and priced through competition—that have become commonsense understandings all too seldom challenged. In contrast to histories focused on banks, currencies, or plantations, America Under the Hammer highlights an institution that integrated market, community, and household in ways that put gender, race, and social bonds at the center of ideas about economic worth. Women and men, enslaved and free, are active participants in this story rather than bystanders, and their labor, judgments, and bodies define the resulting contours of the American economy. Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor is Professor of History at the University of California, Davis, and author of The Ties That Buy: Women and Commerce in Revolutionary America, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

As the first book-length study of auctions in early America, America Under the Hammer: Auctions and the Emergence of Market Values (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) follows this ubiquitous but largely overlooked institution to reveal how, across the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, price became an accepted expression of value. From the earliest days of colonial conquest, auctions put Native land and human beings up for bidding alongside material goods, normalizing new economic practices that turned social relations into economic calculations and eventually became recognizable as nineteenth-century American capitalism. Starting in the eighteenth century, neighbors collectively turned speculative value into economic “facts” in the form of concrete prices for specific items, thereby establishing ideas about fair exchange in their communities. This consensus soon fractured: during the Revolutionary War, state governments auctioned loyalist property, weaponizing local group participation in pricing and distribution to punish political enemies. By the early nineteenth century, suspicion that auction outcomes were determined by manipulative auctioneers prompted politicians and satirists to police the boundaries of what counted as economic exchange and for whose benefit the economy operated. Women at auctions—as commodities, bidders, or beneficiaries—became a focal point for gendering economic value itself. By the 1830s, as abolitionists attacked the public sale of enslaved men, women, and children, auctions had enshrined a set of economic ideas—that any entity could be coded as property and priced through competition—that have become commonsense understandings all too seldom challenged. In contrast to histories focused on banks, currencies, or plantations, America Under the Hammer highlights an institution that integrated market, community, and household in ways that put gender, race, and social bonds at the center of ideas about economic worth. Women and men, enslaved and free, are active participants in this story rather than bystanders, and their labor, judgments, and bodies define the resulting contours of the American economy. Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor is Professor of History at the University of California, Davis, and author of The Ties That Buy: Women and Commerce in Revolutionary America, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

As the first book-length study of auctions in early America, America Under the Hammer: Auctions and the Emergence of Market Values (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) follows this ubiquitous but largely overlooked institution to reveal how, across the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, price became an accepted expression of value. From the earliest days of colonial conquest, auctions put Native land and human beings up for bidding alongside material goods, normalizing new economic practices that turned social relations into economic calculations and eventually became recognizable as nineteenth-century American capitalism. Starting in the eighteenth century, neighbors collectively turned speculative value into economic “facts” in the form of concrete prices for specific items, thereby establishing ideas about fair exchange in their communities. This consensus soon fractured: during the Revolutionary War, state governments auctioned loyalist property, weaponizing local group participation in pricing and distribution to punish political enemies. By the early nineteenth century, suspicion that auction outcomes were determined by manipulative auctioneers prompted politicians and satirists to police the boundaries of what counted as economic exchange and for whose benefit the economy operated. Women at auctions—as commodities, bidders, or beneficiaries—became a focal point for gendering economic value itself. By the 1830s, as abolitionists attacked the public sale of enslaved men, women, and children, auctions had enshrined a set of economic ideas—that any entity could be coded as property and priced through competition—that have become commonsense understandings all too seldom challenged. In contrast to histories focused on banks, currencies, or plantations, America Under the Hammer highlights an institution that integrated market, community, and household in ways that put gender, race, and social bonds at the center of ideas about economic worth. Women and men, enslaved and free, are active participants in this story rather than bystanders, and their labor, judgments, and bodies define the resulting contours of the American economy. Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor is Professor of History at the University of California, Davis, and author of The Ties That Buy: Women and Commerce in Revolutionary America, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As the first book-length study of auctions in early America, America Under the Hammer: Auctions and the Emergence of Market Values (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) follows this ubiquitous but largely overlooked institution to reveal how, across the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, price became an accepted expression of value. From the earliest days of colonial conquest, auctions put Native land and human beings up for bidding alongside material goods, normalizing new economic practices that turned social relations into economic calculations and eventually became recognizable as nineteenth-century American capitalism. Starting in the eighteenth century, neighbors collectively turned speculative value into economic “facts” in the form of concrete prices for specific items, thereby establishing ideas about fair exchange in their communities. This consensus soon fractured: during the Revolutionary War, state governments auctioned loyalist property, weaponizing local group participation in pricing and distribution to punish political enemies. By the early nineteenth century, suspicion that auction outcomes were determined by manipulative auctioneers prompted politicians and satirists to police the boundaries of what counted as economic exchange and for whose benefit the economy operated. Women at auctions—as commodities, bidders, or beneficiaries—became a focal point for gendering economic value itself. By the 1830s, as abolitionists attacked the public sale of enslaved men, women, and children, auctions had enshrined a set of economic ideas—that any entity could be coded as property and priced through competition—that have become commonsense understandings all too seldom challenged. In contrast to histories focused on banks, currencies, or plantations, America Under the Hammer highlights an institution that integrated market, community, and household in ways that put gender, race, and social bonds at the center of ideas about economic worth. Women and men, enslaved and free, are active participants in this story rather than bystanders, and their labor, judgments, and bodies define the resulting contours of the American economy. Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor is Professor of History at the University of California, Davis, and author of The Ties That Buy: Women and Commerce in Revolutionary America, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

As the first book-length study of auctions in early America, America Under the Hammer: Auctions and the Emergence of Market Values (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) follows this ubiquitous but largely overlooked institution to reveal how, across the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, price became an accepted expression of value. From the earliest days of colonial conquest, auctions put Native land and human beings up for bidding alongside material goods, normalizing new economic practices that turned social relations into economic calculations and eventually became recognizable as nineteenth-century American capitalism. Starting in the eighteenth century, neighbors collectively turned speculative value into economic “facts” in the form of concrete prices for specific items, thereby establishing ideas about fair exchange in their communities. This consensus soon fractured: during the Revolutionary War, state governments auctioned loyalist property, weaponizing local group participation in pricing and distribution to punish political enemies. By the early nineteenth century, suspicion that auction outcomes were determined by manipulative auctioneers prompted politicians and satirists to police the boundaries of what counted as economic exchange and for whose benefit the economy operated. Women at auctions—as commodities, bidders, or beneficiaries—became a focal point for gendering economic value itself. By the 1830s, as abolitionists attacked the public sale of enslaved men, women, and children, auctions had enshrined a set of economic ideas—that any entity could be coded as property and priced through competition—that have become commonsense understandings all too seldom challenged. In contrast to histories focused on banks, currencies, or plantations, America Under the Hammer highlights an institution that integrated market, community, and household in ways that put gender, race, and social bonds at the center of ideas about economic worth. Women and men, enslaved and free, are active participants in this story rather than bystanders, and their labor, judgments, and bodies define the resulting contours of the American economy. Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor is Professor of History at the University of California, Davis, and author of The Ties That Buy: Women and Commerce in Revolutionary America, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What does it take to build a brand known for both service and culture? In this weeks episode I am joined by Omar Soliman, co-founder of College Hunks Hauling Junk, to explore this question. Omar discusses the company's unique culture, which is built on trust, selective hiring, and a commitment to employee development. Approaching its 20th anniversary, College Hunks now aims for $1 billion in revenue, with Omar emphasizing a continued focus on learning, mentorship, and positive community impact.Tune in to discover how they've built a team that doesn't just move items but inspires loyalty, positivity, and growth—within their ranks and in every community they touch. Whether you're a business leader or aspiring entrepreneur, this episode offers invaluable lessons on cultivating a thriving brand culture.Learn more about Omar:Omar Soliman is a published author, entrepreneur, and TV personality. He is the Co-Founder of College H.U.N.K.S. Hauling Junk and Moving, a national junk removal and moving franchise with over 200 franchises across the country. CHHJ was named one of the fastest-growing franchises in the nation by Entrepreneur Magazine and currently employs over 10,000 people nationwide.Recognized for his entrepreneurial achievements, Omar was named 'Top 30 Entrepreneurs in America Under 30' by Inc. Magazine, awarded Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year, and honored as the International Franchise Association's Entrepreneur of the Year. Omar has also made TV appearances as a frequent guest on FOX Business News and MSNBC, and starred in the series premiere of ABC's Shark Tank as well as on CBS's Undercover Boss.Omar's Links:Website: https://www.omarsoliman.com/Website: https://www.collegehunkshaulingjunk.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/omarsolimanceoConnect with Veronica on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vromney/If you're serious about advancing your career in marketing and you're looking for some personal insights into how then I invite you to schedule a free Pathway to Promotion call with me: https://pathwaycall.com/If you found value in today's episode, I would appreciate it if you could leave a rating and review.

How can you transform a simple idea into a thriving franchise empire? In this week's episode of Fordify LIVE! The Business Growth Show, Ford Saeks hosts Nick Friedman, co-founder of College H.U.N.K.S Hauling Junk & Moving. Nick shares his exceptional journey and invaluable insights into entrepreneurship and leadership, providing essential guidance for anyone looking to grow their business. In this episode, Ford and Nick delve into the core of successful entrepreneurship. Nick, who started with a beat-up cargo van and a catchy name, built College H.U.N.K.S. into a nationally recognized brand. He emphasizes the importance of persistence, innovation, and the ability to adapt to new challenges. His story is a evidence of how a simple idea, when executed with passion and strategy, can lead to astonishing success. Nick's approach to business growth is both practical and inspiring. He shares the significance of starting small, leveraging available resources, and gradually scaling up. This principle, he explains, is crucial for any entrepreneur aiming to build a sustainable business. Through relatable anecdotes and real-world examples, Nick illustrates how effective planning and execution turned his startup into a franchise powerhouse. From the early days of distributing flyers to establishing a strong national presence, Nick recounts his journey with College H.U.N.K.S. and offers a unique perspective on the entrepreneurial process, highlighting the importance of branding, customer service, and maintaining a consistent vision. His story underscores the value of hands-on experience and the importance of being adaptable and receptive to feedback. Ford and Nick address common challenges faced by entrepreneurs today, particularly in maintaining focus and discipline amidst rapid growth. Nick emphasizes that successful business leaders must be willing to make tough decisions and stay true to their core values. Nick shares his belief that leadership is not just about giving orders but about inspiring and empowering others. He explains that mentoring and developing strong relationships within the organization are key components of successful leadership. This approach fosters a collaborative and supportive environment that drives business growth and innovation. Ford complements Nick's insights with his own experiences, reinforcing the importance of personal accountability and continuous learning. Together, they explore the impact of strategic planning and the need for entrepreneurs to adapt their strategies to meet changing market conditions. This adaptability, they agree, is a critical factor in sustaining long-term business success. Nick's philosophy that “urgency of effort but patience for results” resonates throughout the episode. He emphasizes that the idea that while entrepreneurs must work diligently, they should also be patient with the outcomes. This concept is particularly relevant in the fast-paced world of business, where instant gratification often overshadows the value of long-term planning and perseverance. Nick and Ford discuss the future of entrepreneurship and the evolving role of technology and innovation. They touch on the challenges and opportunities presented by digital transformation and the importance of staying ahead of industry trends. Nick's insights provide valuable guidance for entrepreneurs looking to navigate these changes while continuing to grow their businesses. Watch the full interview on YouTube. Join Fordify LIVE! every Wednesday at 11 AM Central on your favorite social platforms and catch The Business Growth Show Podcast every Thursday for a weekly dose of business growth wisdom. Don't miss out on these engaging discussions that can transform your approach to leadership and business growth. About Nick Friedman Nick Friedman is Co-Founder & Visionary of College H.U.N.K.S. Hauling Junk & Moving, the largest and fastest-growing junk removal and local moving franchise opportunity in North America. Nick started the business in college with his childhood best friend in a beat-up cargo van and has grown it to over 250 franchises and $300 million in annual sales. Named among the Top 30 Entrepreneurs in America Under 30 by INC Magazine, Nick was featured alongside Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Michael Dell in a Newsweek article titled “College Kid to Millionaire.” He is a three-time Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award Finalist, winning the prestigious award in 2018. Nick has been featured in numerous business books and textbooks, as well as in Forbes, Fortune, and many other notable publications. His company has consistently appeared on the INC 5000 list of Fastest Growing Companies and has twice been featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show. As a TV personality, Nick has appeared on the first episode of ABC's Shark Tank, Bravo's Millionaire Matchmaker, CNBC's Blue-Collar Millionaires, and CBS's Undercover Boss. He is also a Board Member of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO). As an author, Nick co-wrote the bestselling book Effortless Entrepreneur: Work Smart, Play Hard and recently executive produced and acted in a biopic movie about Jeff Bezos and the founding of Amazon. He was recently awarded "Entrepreneur of the Year" at the 2024 IFA Annual Convention. Learn more about the College H.U.N.K.S. franchise.  About Ford Saeks Ford Saeks, a Business Growth Accelerator with over 20 years of experience, has redefined the formula for success, generating over a billion dollars in sales worldwide for companies ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500s. As the President and CEO of Prime Concepts Group, Inc., Ford specializes in helping businesses attract loyal and repeat customers, expand brand awareness, and ignite innovation. A tenacious and innovative powerhouse, Ford has founded over ten companies, authored five books, been awarded three U.S. patents, and received numerous industry awards. His expertise extends to AI prompt engineering, where he is renowned for training AI to craft compelling content that drives engagement and results. Ford recently showcased this expertise at the prestigious “Unleash AI for Business Summit,” discussing how ChatGPT is revolutionizing operations, marketing & sales, and the customer experience. Learn more about Ford Saeks at ProfitRichResults.com and watch his TV Show at Fordify.tv.

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg2】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ Hello, everyone. And welcome back to America Under the Microscope. Hi, Lulu. Hi, James.This is the advanced episode for sex education.So we're gonna continue our talk about sex education we were doing in the basic episode, and I'd like to jump into some of the debates that Americans have on this topic, en...which there are many.I can imagine. The other day I actually watched a video on social media. I think the teacher was teaching, I don't know like something related to LGBTQ and then there was an angry parent storming into the classroom and tried to rip off the pride flag or something like that.YEAH. So that is actually one of the big debates right now. So it isn't really like a subject to debate whether sex that should be taught. But the content of the lessons is a debate yeah. because some parents all they want is the basic biology. It's like ovum, testis, sperm, fertilizers and egg and so on and so forth and really dry science.en. And some are on the opposite end of the spectrum and they want to talk about everything from sexual orientation to gender identity, whatnot. And just like every kind of debate you can't always find, people can't always find the middle ground here.Yeah, but would you consider this I'm not gonna ask you about your personal opinion on this, but I am just going to ask, would you consider gender identity part of this sex education thing? because to me gender is kind of a different...basically it's a whole different topic.I honestly would put it in a separate unit, completely separate part of the curriculum. It's like part of the social emotional learning because it doesn't necessarily need to be in line with sexual education because sex ed is at least in my mind it is the actual act of partake in sexual relationships. It doesn't really matter who was two adults, then you need to know about how to do it in a responsible safe way. And gender identity, that's an identity lesson and I think that should actually be a separate lesson from sex ed. Yeah. so this point of view, it was like these debates and controversies, they're mostly about what should be included in sex education.Yeah. It's very much that and people's own personal beliefs, their own of whether they're more conservative in these kind of situations are not really do affect what gets done in the classroom. And since it's part of (you know ) the curriculum, this means it's also subject to the board of education and they get to also decide what is and is not included.Yeah, and then it's the protests and then it's the... more debates and then it's the media coverage, the whole shebang.AH. American media coverage. It is an interesting watch.But you know that I think who is going to be really conflicted and also be put in a dilemma. I think are the teachers, the educators because they will have to teach the curriculum. But they have to teach it in a way that is non offensive to every single parent otherwise to get into trouble.So they do the impossible, got it.Yeah.If I could teach a way to make every single parent happy that would make me the best teacher on the planet.

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg2】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ Hi, everyone. And welcome back to America Under the Microscope. 欢迎回来【闲话美国】. Hi, James. Hi Lulu. Hi, everyone. It has been sometimes since last time we've spoke. So how's the new semester treating you？It's been busy , dealing with teenagers is a handful. Actually I thought today we can talk about education-related topic. Cool. In fact the other day, I was talking to some of my students. I said what kind of subjects you did in school, and apart from the the major subjects, the academic subjects, we were talking about health education, specifically sex education. Really?Yeah.Usually that's a topic I find many students don't want to talk about.Well. I mean, I think many of my students they were saying that they wish they had more of a comprehensive sex education when they were in school. Because there wasn't any when they were growing up. Yeah. So I thought let's talk about that. A little bit of a risky topic is talk about on this platform, but I thought it's a ,nonetheless, it is an essential element of education. Right？I agree it's very important. So first of all, let's talk about your own experience when you were in school, did you get any like formal sex education？Yes I did have ‘sex and health education' what a lot of schools call it. And I had it at all three levels from primary school, middle school and high school. Oh, So that's always in the curriculum, 就是一直在课程设置里面的是吧？Yes, and most public schools it very much is part of the curriculum. And let me guess based on all these other topics we talked about, it's not the same across the country. Every state has their own standards. That should be a mean for this program. It's not the same everywhere in America. No. A lot of people if they have never been to America, if they were just like listening to social media, whatever, people have this general perception of Americans are very, very open-minded when it comes to sexuality, for example, I don't think that's true. Is it?Not really ,to be honest, most Americans tend to be kind of conservative about it. Don't trust what you see in the media. Most people kind of keep to themselves about that kind of stuff. So what is like the sort of general family attitudes, like parents attitude? Are they happy that it's included or...? Well, I've read recently in a poll from planned parenthood, which is a big nonprofit organization that deals with sex education and pregnancy, that most parents are supportive of these programs in schools. And they want the schools to teach the children. The key factors which are involved are sexuality and health because it's part of being human and it's part of growing up. Em... Hang on a minute. You mentioned planned parenthood. Yes, in English there is something called like Family Planning, right? So It's kind of like has to do with when you want to get pregnant when you want to have babies. Is that true? 就有点计划生育就是跟我们的计划生育不是一样的意思, but it sort of is about planning when do you have kids?It's along those same lines, but a lot of planned parenthood, what they do is they also do education about sexuality, sexual health, sexually transmitted infections and prevention and all these things.  So it's not like necessarily about family planning. But when to have children. Em....try to avoid. Understanding what leads to children. And also to sort of like prevent unwanted pregnancy.

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg2】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ Hello everyone, and welcome back to America Under the Microscope, advanced episode. Hi Lulu. Hi James.So we're gonna continue our talk about transportation which we were talking about in the basic episode. And we want to start off this episode by talking about money.Oh, how much it costs?Yeah, because this is always our concern, isn't it? Now, how much do you think it costs to or how much do you think Americans spend on transportation every year?When you say transportation, does this include everything like driving?Yeah, all inclusive, all inclusive.All inclusive, I don't know, maybe six, five, six thousand, it's got to be more than that. Right?Yes. It's about $10,000 a year in transportation costs. 10,000?!Yes.OK, so, what if you, like, would it cost as much if you don't drive?No, it would be a lot less, the biggest things including this are like fuel, insurance and maintenance of your car. I see. But it also includes like if you take flight or anything like this, it's quite a lot. And, if you're in the lower income levels of the society, it's a big chunk of money.That is a lot of money, $10,000 per year just on transport.Yeah, it's like I don't even think I get close to that here, but of course I don't own a car in China, so that does really lower my transportation costs.Yeah, I don't regularly drive a car, I mean I can drive, but I don't really drive in Beijing. So, I don't really know how much it costs to maintain a car to pay all of the taxes and parking. So, you guys can educate us and leave us a comment, telling us as a car owner how much you spend on transport a year. Does it sound like a major chunk of your spending?Yeah. This comes into a major issue. Because if you're trying to move up and trying to make money and you don't have a car, or you have a major accident with your car. You just lost a big chunk of your savings of trying to get it fixed or replaced. And due to our limited public transportation options in many places. There isn't an alternative if you don't have a car.

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg2】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ Hi, everyone. And welcome back to America Under the Microscope. 欢迎回来【闲话美国】.Hi, James. Hi, LuLu. Hi, everyone. Actually I would like to propose a topic.Cool. Now around the holiday I wanna travel back to Wuhan, I was trying to get a train tickets. When I'm now traveling from Beijing to Wuhan, I almost always get the train because it's so fast. If you consider the flight takes about 2 hours and then there's a long commute to the actual airport. But the train station is also usually located center of town and the train only takes 4 hours, sometimes even a bit under 4 hours. I know I love Chinese high speed trains, so nice. So I thought let's talk about the transport in America. I know you guys don't really have a lot of trains or like your trains are not really great. We have trains. We have a whole two high speed trains in the whole country. You have high speed train? That's news to me. How fast are they? Well, the one in the northeast that goes between Washington DC and I think up to Boston, I think it can get up to 190. Kilometers per hour. But for very limited stretches because it has many stops. There's a brand new one in Florida between Miami and Orlando and it can go 378 kilometers in 3.5 hours. OK, that is like 120, 130 per hour. Yeah. That doesn't sound very impressive. Sorry to say that. It's not. So really, trains that I wouldn't say that you have kept up with the world in terms of development of trains. We have not. America is well behind. If you look at many European countries like France, the UK, Germany, Italy, they all have forms of high speed rail. And then if you take Japan, it's like their high speed rails are outstanding. Chinese, high speed rail is really outstanding. Yeah, there's America. It's sad. But why is that? Because it's such a vast country why? Money. But even building airports also cost money, right? Yes, it does, but there's a few things. So it's just really expensive to build rail because it's not just about the train station. You also have to lay down the track and all that other stuff which you don't have to do for an airport. Oh, I see. So is it fair to say that when it comes to traveling cross country, most Americans won't even think of rail travel. It's not even on the radar now. Who's taking the trains then? It depends on which part of the country you're in. If you're in the northeast. So New York city region, there are quite a bit more trains where you can usually go from like New York to Boston, New York to Washington DC, New York to Philadelphia. In that part of the country, there are quite a few trains that you can take. But if you're from where I am, there is no train station in my hometown. The closest train station is an hour drive away and the train comes once a day. And you might as well just take the plane. Yeah, it would honestly be cheaper. But air travel, I mean I've also watched a lot of videos of people complaining about air travel and it's almost like a meme. When you watch a TV shows from America, people also complain about air travel. 其实很多美剧或者美国电影里面都有很多人去吐槽美国的飞机，就航空业各种各样的，说服务也好，什么也好，基建也好，so what do you think about the air travel? Right. So air travel is the easiest way to get across the country because a lot of people always seem to forget that America is really big. It takes 5 hours to fly across the country. It's a big place, but because it's high demand and there's high competition, a lot of the airline companies have done... done things to try to remain competitive. And consumers have voted with their feet and they decided that they want cheaper tickets than having all the bells and whistles of airlines.

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg2】加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~Hello, everyone. And welcome back to America Under the Microscope, advanced episode. Hi, Lulu. Hi, James. Let's go ahead and continue our talk we were having about Americans and DIY. Last time you said DIY is partly because of money, because labor costs a lot. Certainly does. But also because people in America, you guys do find a sense of accomplishment from all these DIY projects.So Americans really get very proud with their work. What comes with that is when we are really proud of our own work is a lack of trust in other people's work.I could imagine, but bring that back a little bit. What happens when you actually have the money to hire professionals to do pretty much everything? Let's just say. You're upper middle class, you've got the money to pay all of your contractors. Would people still do it themselves or would they consider outsourcing?Once you're in that situation, it really becomes more of not so much of a money issue, but more of a prime issue. So they are... people who are still upper middle class and have money, they might still do honey do projects and still do things. But they're gonna be focusing is like this project will take X amount of hours. This one will take two X amount of hours. So they might do the shorter project themselves but hire someone to do a longer project or hire someone who would do the project that goes well beyond their own skills.I see.So really just they're gonna do more of a cost benefit analysis and just timing and all those things. Whereas people who have lower income, they don't have that option.That actually makes sense, for example, like when I'm thinking about hiring a cleaner to clean, this is what I think if I can, within the same amount of time, make more money, then I would out source that because it makes more financial sense. Right? What about you James? like let's say if you guys moved back to the States and you bought a house, what kind of things are you willing to do yourself? What kind of things, what kind of work would you out source? Myself? any kind of painting I would do, I don't need to hire anyone to do that.Anything that evolves simple like repairs, like if I need to put up the... like fix the molding, things like this, I can do whether it's like outdoor things, fixing the fence, fixing the garden type stuff. I have no problem doing that myself.But no piping.Piping no, I would hire a plumber for that. Or if it's things related to the wiring.Electricity.Yes, then I would definitely hire a contractor for that. I don't trust myself enough like I can replace a light socket, I know how to do that. I know how to install a new light switch, that I can do; beyond that, I don't...I can't do it.Yeah, the thing is, just a side note, in my home it's basically my dad who's doing all of that. My dad actually does not trust other people to do that. But then again, he is an electrical engineer, sort of makes sense.He has the skills. Exactly.But since last time you were talking about saying that if you go to an American's home, then they are going to talk your ear off about what they have done in terms of home improvement.

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg2】加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~Hi, everyone. And welcome back to America Under the Microscope. 欢迎回来【美国美国】. Hi, James. Hi, Lulu. Hi, everyone. What are we going to talk about today？I have a question for you. It's actually more of an observation that I've noticed while living here. While living in China, one thing I noticed is that people are always like remodeling or fixing up their homes, right？I've never seen anyone paint their own homes. They always hire people to do it. Why is that? You mean paint their walls？Yes.Is that not normal？You're confusing me because in my understanding it's just like you have to paint your wall or have your wall painted, then you hire a guy, you hire a contractor, hire someone who professionally...Does that, is that not the same in America？We do have professional painters and you can hire someone to do it. What you're more likely to come across in America is the Americans doing that themselves. I guess that's what we're gonna talk about today, the whole do it yourself, DIY. Because in America, DIY is a pretty big thing. And we'll talk about several reasons why that is. I mean that's kind of built in your DNA so to speak. That's a good way to put it. I mean Americans do kind of like to go their own way or create their own stuff. So the idea of doing it yourself is really ingrained in us. But come on. So when we were talking about why Americans like DIY does it not have anything to do with money？No, that almost certainly has everything to do with money. It's money because hiring people to do things for you is expensive. People are basically saying, obviously I don't really have the exact number. But is it true that contractors or let's say like plumbers, electricians, these people they actually make very good money. Yes. If I was an electrician in America, I would be making more money than I am currently as a teacher. Wow. But then I can imagine hiring someone to do painting to fix your pipes will be very expensive. Yeah, although when you're using like the term like an electrician or a plumber, those would be a couple of exceptions and most Americans would hire someone to do those things because making a mistake with wiring or pipes can lead to disaster. 水电还是要找人做的, but painting your house, what mistakes can you make？Couple of hand prints here or there, you might have painted over something you weren't supposed to, but it's pretty easy to fix. But the other thing, the reason why we like to do it is Americans really like to pride themselves on what they've accomplished themselves. So one way we kind of really express ourselves and like if you ever get a chance to go to an American's home, they will talk your ear off about all the things that they have done to improve their home.

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~Hello, everyone and welcome back to America Under the Microscope, advanced episode.Hi, lulu, hi, everyone.Hi James.So let's go on and continue our talk about vacationing and traveling that we were previously covering.I have a question.YeahBecause when we were wrapping up last time, you were talking about how you traveling is more seen as family event, because if you're just single or if you just got married, you probably don't have a lot of money to travel. And you probably will spend the time working. I have a question then do people generally see traveling as a must or luxury because in Europe, I kind of got the feeling like in the UK and also in, let's say Southern European countries, going on vacation is like their right, every summer they have to do it. It would be pretty awkward, it would be pretty weird if you don't go on a vacation.But what about in America, do people see it as a must or luxury?No, that's completely different. Americans definitely see it as a luxury not a must, not a right. Because for one, a lot of Americans don't really like the idea of something being a must. It goes against like our freedom to choose. But also a lot of Americans they have to work pretty hard to have the life that they want to have. And that means sacrifice since traveling is a pretty big expense that is one of the things that gets sacrificed.It's not unusual to come across Americans who don't travel much or can't travel because they have other things that they need to pay for. They have to feed their kids and other stuff, so it's very much a luxury.Yeah. I think this is why in movies and TV shows it's very common to see the sort of like when an older couple when they both retired, they're like now we can finally travel.Yeah, because they don't have to worry about their kids. Their kids are all grown up. They don't have other responsibilities. So it is usual for retirees to travel a bit more, they have the freedom to do so.So if it's a luxury then do people show off their vacations like to your colleagues?Oh, yeah. Like it's not unusual to... this was almost like we just got back from the Bahamas. Here's a picture of my husband's swimming in the beach. Here's a picture of ...we got really bad.... sun brings addiction, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It goes on and on. So it's absolutely sometimes Americans will talk about and show off about.So you just talked about going to the beach at beach resorts. But sometimes you see in America, people travel not by the usual methods they would have like an RV.Yes, right.A recreational vehicle like 房车. Is that very common, those are expensive, aren't they? They're very expensive?From my part of the country they're extremely common whether it's the full RV camper or if it's just a camper trailer which you connect to the back of a truck, those are extremely common for upper middle class, suburban or more rural Americans because they want to travel and see nature but they want the comforts of home.I see, and people buy those right, they don't rent RV.Oh, you can rent them, but for the most part people buy them, like a big RV it's about the same price as a house, camper vans are...they're not cheap, a camper van again it's gonna be $100,000 expense to buy and then you have to maintain them.A camper van. It's just like a smaller version of RV?Yes, so we think of it as the smaller version of it.So when American thinks of an RV think of bus size it's the size of a bus.I see.When we think of camper vans they're much smaller. Like in china I've seen camper vans in china, I can see it's becoming more and more popular to rent one and go on in the countryside and stuff. But I've never seen an RV here, not one.Because they're hugely expensive. I think they cost millions.And they're just hugely huge. They would have a difficult time going on a lot of roads in china.And also in China, we just don't have the infrastructure for RVs like where are you

关注公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】获得全文稿哦~Hi, everyone. And welcome back to America Under the Microscope. 欢迎回来【闲话美国】. Hi, James. Hi, Lulu. Hi, everyone. Has been a long time. I know. Yeah. I think we've managed to cover a lot of the topics already. So do you have any topic suggestions？I was thinking that since we have finally reopened the country and we can go places, we should probably talk about vacation and traveling. Yes. Actually that's a great idea. Now the other day you, me and 安澜, we were talking about... in Across the Pond where we're talking about what we would do if we're traveling to other places in the world. So I thought maybe it would be a good idea to talk about how typical Americans travel, or how they see this idea of traveling, vacationing. That sounds great. We should definitely talk about that. But first things first, can I ask you, I mean, this has been confusing me for ages. So the idea of holiday and vacation都可以有假日的意思. But if you say you go on holiday and go on vacation, first of all, do you guys use that？And if so, are they the same？So this is where it gets a little confusing because Americans would never say I'm going on holiday. It's not an Americanism. We would say I'm going on vacation or I'm going to take a vacation or I have a vacation, these are... we are more likely to use this word ‘vacation'. To an American holiday is Christmas, Thanksgiving. I see, so it's more like this is a public holiday that sort of idea. It's not about you going anywhere. No, because there's like we have a holiday this week, what are you gonna do？Stay home. I see. I see. So now let's talk about vacations. First of all, how long when people say they're going on a vacation？What is the average time they would spend on a vacation. A week.? 2 weeks? I wish it was that long. But sadly, not. Most Americans when they go on a vacation, we think of it more like they're taking a long weekend, so like 3 or 4 days. Because paid holiday... there's not a lot of paid holiday or paid break. Just out of curiosity, you said there's not a lot of paid holidays. So annual leave, the paid annual leave for average American workers. How long is that?It really varies from company to company, but it averages out to 2 or 3 weeks, a year.

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ Hi, everyone. And welcome back to America Under the Microscope. 欢迎回来【闲话美国】.Actually, this is a special edition. Hi James.Hi, lulu, hi everyone, special edition. Why is it special? Yes, because instead of talking about American society, American life, today we are gonna talk about you. Me? Why would people want to hear about me? People, our audience they know you, they are interested in your life as well. Actually James just had a major, I would say, a major change in his life. Before he was teaching in university. And then recently you joined an international school in Beijing. Indeed I did, I have changed my jobs. I've gone from teaching college students to teaching middle schoolers at an international school. Okay. So first of all, congratulations on the new job.Thank you.But what is it like?Today I thought we would just invite James to share with us a little bit of… about his life in international school in Beijing which I'm assume… the thing is our audience, I think there are lots of parents as well, and then maybe there are also international school students. Can be.So this would be an interesting topic, a bit more personal touch to it.First of all, when did you make the move, like it was a month, 2 months ago? I started applying for the job earlier this year. I managed to land the job in May. And I began working for the school in August, so I've been teaching here for 2 months now. Ok, and you're fully settled there, right? Yeah, I've…Fully settled in.I moved out here and have been teaching and my life is… here now and I'm really comfortable where I am. Okay. First of all, you're in the outskirts of Beijing?I wouldn't say it's the outskirts. It's right next to the outskirts. I see. It's a nice sort of natural surrounding. It's much better than us here, just the hustle and bustle. You've got mountains, you've got green, lots of greenery. Yeah, that's pretty common for a lot of international schools. They tend to get built more in the suburban areas of cities as there's more land available.Where my campus is, we got… were surrounded by mountains, parks, not… sadly does come with a few disadvantages. There aren't restaurants or supermarkets that are super close by. I see. Well, you can't have the cake and eat it too usually, it's the convenience or the quiet… right, it's the quiet suburban life. I like the quiet. But let's talk about the school, let's talk about your work environment. So the people that you work with, are they mostly Chinese or mostly non-Chinese like the other teachers? It's actually 50:50, so my colleagues are a mix. And all of them, they come from all over the world, like I have a supervisor from Venezuela. I have colleagues that are from Pakistan, America, Australia, France, Mexico. And everyone is well educated. My Chinese colleagues have Masters Degrees from top universities. Everyone tends to be have education certificates or trained in education.

"英文小酒馆致力于打造沉浸式英语学习社群，无论是微信社群、有声节目、线上活动和课程，我们都全心全意为爱好英语的你带去一份专属于英语的快乐。公号: 【璐璐的英文小酒馆】 查音频节目文稿，了解广阔的世界。跟随我们的脚步，体会英语的温度。" Hello, everyone and welcome to America Under the Microscope advanced episode. Hi, Lulu. Hi, James. Let's continue with our talk about American game shows. Alrighty. Let's talk about household names, specifically the host of the three shows we talked about in the basic level, Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy and The Price Is Right.I would imagine with those big three being so popular and then they've been on air for so many years. So the hosts of these game shows they would be, like you said, household names, everyone at least recognize those names even if they don't watch it.For Wheel of Fortune, the hosts are Pat Sajak and Vanna White. These two people are household names, everyone in the country knows them.And how long have they been the hosts?30+ years. And that they never changed hosts?No, I don't think they want to quit because they get paid really well to do this. Multi-million dollar contracts to make the show and…It's not that difficult, is it?It's not like acting. They don't have to remember scripts or anything like that. And so they get paid a lot, and same with Jeopardy's host, Alex Trebek.I've heard that name before, Alex Trebek.Suddenly, his name would show up in the news a lot more now because he has cancer. So Jeopardy is going to have to find a new host in the very near future.And he is still hosting?Yes. He still is, but that's going to come to an end soon…And then… For The Price Is Right, you have the old host Bob Barker which everyone knows, but he retired several years ago. And now is Drew Carey who's a famous comedian and he had it on his own TV shows in the past. Everyone knows these people. Apart from these household names. Are there any references? I would imagine there's some references in terms of the phrases they use on the show, because in China, this was the case. Yeah, that's true, too. So like from Wheel of Fortune, people might use the phrase and conversations like I'd like to buy a vowel when they want to like get clues…and stuff.Get hints. I'd like to buy a vowel. Because vowels are… they are more useful than consonants, aren't they?And like lots of them from The Price Is Right like Come on down or How much do you bid? And all these catch phrases, people will use them for playing other games or they'll… like English teachers use these all the time in class to make classroom games.And is one of those things, if you say to an American, especially in that voice, they would immediately recognize. And you also see parodies of these games.A lot of comedy shows will do parodies of them, and they'll do be parodies of them on sitcoms, and they are that big.I have to say that I'm perhaps more familiar with some of the British game shows because of the summer I stayed England for 2 months. I did watch quite a bit of game shows. A lot of those game shows in the UK, they would have celebrity special, so they would invite famous people or minor celebrities to be the contestants.Oh, we do that too and they play for charity.So that's the same. So they play and the money because they already quite rich, they don't really need the money. They play for exposure and then for charity. Yeah, and those episodes are never serious, like they have Celebrity Jeopardy episodes and they never asked them that hard because...that… doesn't look good, and the celebrities don't take it seriously because no matter what they do, they get money for their charity whether they win or lose.Yeah, in the UK, the only the winner would get money for their charity.American TV shows like You lost. That's okay. We'll still give $10,000 to your charity.

"英文小酒馆致力于打造沉浸式英语学习社群，无论是微信社群、有声节目、线上活动和课程，我们都全心全意为爱好英语的你带去一份专属于英语的快乐。公号: 【璐璐的英文小酒馆】 查音频节目文稿，了解广阔的世界。跟随我们的脚步，体会英语的温度。" Hello, everyone and welcome to America Under the Microscope advanced episode. Hi, Lulu. Hi, James. Let's continue with our talk about American game shows. Alrighty. Let's talk about household names, specifically the host of the three shows we talked about in the basic level, Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy and The Price Is Right.I would imagine with those big three being so popular and then they've been on air for so many years. So the hosts of these game shows they would be, like you said, household names, everyone at least recognize those names even if they don't watch it.For Wheel of Fortune, the hosts are Pat Sajak and Vanna White. These two people are household names, everyone in the country knows them.And how long have they been the hosts?30+ years. And that they never changed hosts?No, I don't think they want to quit because they get paid really well to do this. Multi-million dollar contracts to make the show and…It's not that difficult, is it?It's not like acting. They don't have to remember scripts or anything like that. And so they get paid a lot, and same with Jeopardy's host, Alex Trebek.I've heard that name before, Alex Trebek.Suddenly, his name would show up in the news a lot more now because he has cancer. So Jeopardy is going to have to find a new host in the very near future.And he is still hosting?Yes. He still is, but that's going to come to an end soon…And then… For The Price Is Right, you have the old host Bob Barker which everyone knows, but he retired several years ago. And now is Drew Carey who's a famous comedian and he had it on his own TV shows in the past. Everyone knows these people. Apart from these household names. Are there any references? I would imagine there's some references in terms of the phrases they use on the show, because in China, this was the case. Yeah, that's true, too. So like from Wheel of Fortune, people might use the phrase and conversations like I'd like to buy a vowel when they want to like get clues…and stuff.Get hints. I'd like to buy a vowel. Because vowels are… they are more useful than consonants, aren't they?And like lots of them from The Price Is Right like Come on down or How much do you bid? And all these catch phrases, people will use them for playing other games or they'll… like English teachers use these all the time in class to make classroom games.And is one of those things, if you say to an American, especially in that voice, they would immediately recognize. And you also see parodies of these games.A lot of comedy shows will do parodies of them, and they'll do be parodies of them on sitcoms, and they are that big.I have to say that I'm perhaps more familiar with some of the British game shows because of the summer I stayed England for 2 months. I did watch quite a bit of game shows. A lot of those game shows in the UK, they would have celebrity special, so they would invite famous people or minor celebrities to be the contestants.Oh, we do that too and they play for charity.So that's the same. So they play and the money because they already quite rich, they don't really need the money. They play for exposure and then for charity. Yeah, and those episodes are never serious, like they have Celebrity Jeopardy episodes and they never asked them that hard because...that… doesn't look good, and the celebrities don't take it seriously because no matter what they do, they get money for their charity whether they win or lose.Yeah, in the UK, the only the winner would get money for their charity.American TV shows like You lost. That's okay. We'll still give $10,000 to your charity.

"英文小酒馆致力于打造沉浸式英语学习社群，无论是微信社群、有声节目、线上活动和课程，我们都全心全意为爱好英语的你带去一份专属于英语的快乐。公号: 【璐璐的英文小酒馆】 查音频节目文稿，了解广阔的世界。跟随我们的脚步，体会英语的温度。" Hello again and welcome back to America Under the Microscope. 欢迎你又回到【闲话美国】. Hello, James. Hi, Lulu. So what are we going to talk about today? I wanna ask you a question, what's on TV at 7:00 pm every night in China? That would be 【新闻联播】, that would be the news. That's not very exciting. In the United States, usually around this time, we would be basically our Game Show hour where there will be two of the biggest Game Shows. Game Show, this is usually with contestants and people competing for a prize. Correct. So these are shows where the contestants are regular people like you or me and they are playing for prizes usually money. 就是这种综艺答题型的节目或者竞技型的节目Game Shows. There're some really long lived Game Shows in America, right? Yeah, we're gonna talk about three of them today. We're gonna talk about these because these are household names in America. They are known by everyone in the country. So even if you don't watch it, you've heard of it. And they are constant references of these Game Shows in American TV shows or movies. Yeah, they'll show up everywhere. 大家看美剧或者说美国电影的时候, 经常就会听见有人提, 其实是一个文化梗。I bet one of them is Wheel of Fortune. It is. The first one we were gonna talk about is Wheel of Fortune. Ok, let's talk about the big three. Yes, so let's start off with Wheel of Fortune (Since 1983). So Wheel of Fortune is basically Hangman game…Guessing Words. It is. Hangman是一个猜单词的双人游戏。由一个玩家想出一个单词或短语，另一个玩家猜出其中的每一个字母。出题玩家一般会画一个绞刑架，当猜词的玩家猜出了短语中存在的一个字母时，出题的玩家就将这个字母存在的所有位置都填上。如果玩家猜的字母不在单词或短语中，那么出题的玩家就给绞刑架上小人添上一笔，直到7笔过后，小人被吊死，游戏结束。So you have three contestants, and then there's a big wheel, like a really big wheel. On each turn one of the contestants will spin the wheel. It will land on a money amounts like $100 $200 $500, something like that. And then they guess letters to try to guess… to put into the phrase and they try to guess the phrase. So if they guess a letter correctly, they can spin again to get a higher amount, then guess another letter and so on and so on.And if they guessed it wrong, then it's someone else's …Then it goes to the next player. If they spin the wheel and lose a turn, it goes to the next player. If they guess wrong like they try to guess the phrase like maybe the phrase is like they should guess like the end of the movie and they say it's the end of the book. Wrong guess, it goes to the next player.Okay, so whoever has the correct guess, how much money is this person collecting? However much they spun and guessed correctly. So it accumulates, so they guessed two letters and each letter was 500, they now get $1,000. Okay. I'm getting a bit confused. Yeah, but don't you get an extra point for guessing the entire sentence? You get to keep the money. Everyone else who didn't guess it loses the money from that round. Okay. So how many rounds are there? I mean, how many phrases are there? Usually there's four or so, because it doesn't take that long to guess the phrase and whoever has the most money at the end will do the final phrase all by themselves. And they'll win a grand prize, usually something like $25,000. So it's not a huge amount of money. Do they do this every day?Yes, Monday through Friday.

"英文小酒馆致力于打造沉浸式英语学习社群，无论是微信社群、有声节目、线上活动和课程，我们都全心全意为爱好英语的你带去一份专属于英语的快乐。公号: 【璐璐的英文小酒馆】 查音频节目文稿，了解广阔的世界。跟随我们的脚步，体会英语的温度。" Hello again and welcome back to America Under the Microscope. 欢迎你又回到【闲话美国】. Hello, James. Hi, Lulu. So what are we going to talk about today? I wanna ask you a question, what's on TV at 7:00 pm every night in China? That would be 【新闻联播】, that would be the news. That's not very exciting. In the United States, usually around this time, we would be basically our Game Show hour where there will be two of the biggest Game Shows. Game Show, this is usually with contestants and people competing for a prize. Correct. So these are shows where the contestants are regular people like you or me and they are playing for prizes usually money. 就是这种综艺答题型的节目或者竞技型的节目Game Shows. There're some really long lived Game Shows in America, right? Yeah, we're gonna talk about three of them today. We're gonna talk about these because these are household names in America. They are known by everyone in the country. So even if you don't watch it, you've heard of it. And they are constant references of these Game Shows in American TV shows or movies. Yeah, they'll show up everywhere. 大家看美剧或者说美国电影的时候, 经常就会听见有人提, 其实是一个文化梗。I bet one of them is Wheel of Fortune. It is. The first one we were gonna talk about is Wheel of Fortune. Ok, let's talk about the big three. Yes, so let's start off with Wheel of Fortune (Since 1983). So Wheel of Fortune is basically Hangman game…Guessing Words. It is. Hangman是一个猜单词的双人游戏。由一个玩家想出一个单词或短语，另一个玩家猜出其中的每一个字母。出题玩家一般会画一个绞刑架，当猜词的玩家猜出了短语中存在的一个字母时，出题的玩家就将这个字母存在的所有位置都填上。如果玩家猜的字母不在单词或短语中，那么出题的玩家就给绞刑架上小人添上一笔，直到7笔过后，小人被吊死，游戏结束。So you have three contestants, and then there's a big wheel, like a really big wheel. On each turn one of the contestants will spin the wheel. It will land on a money amounts like $100 $200 $500, something like that. And then they guess letters to try to guess… to put into the phrase and they try to guess the phrase. So if they guess a letter correctly, they can spin again to get a higher amount, then guess another letter and so on and so on.And if they guessed it wrong, then it's someone else's …Then it goes to the next player. If they spin the wheel and lose a turn, it goes to the next player. If they guess wrong like they try to guess the phrase like maybe the phrase is like they should guess like the end of the movie and they say it's the end of the book. Wrong guess, it goes to the next player.Okay, so whoever has the correct guess, how much money is this person collecting? However much they spun and guessed correctly. So it accumulates, so they guessed two letters and each letter was 500, they now get $1,000. Okay. I'm getting a bit confused. Yeah, but don't you get an extra point for guessing the entire sentence? You get to keep the money. Everyone else who didn't guess it loses the money from that round. Okay. So how many rounds are there? I mean, how many phrases are there? Usually there's four or so, because it doesn't take that long to guess the phrase and whoever has the most money at the end will do the final phrase all by themselves. And they'll win a grand prize, usually something like $25,000. So it's not a huge amount of money. Do they do this every day?Yes, Monday through Friday.

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ Hello, everyone. And welcome back to America Under the Microscope, advanced episode. Hi, Lulu. Hi, James.In our basic episode, we were talking about the generalities of political correctness. For this advanced episode, I want to get into the more nitty gritty of PC language, specifically how it's almost impossible to know what is PC now.Yeah. Has it been taken too far?I, me personally, I think some people do take it a bit too far. You can see this by how the standard just keeps changing. And there is no set standard of what is or is not PC, but it seems like people keep moving the goal post. It's like… it's like you can say this but not that. Now you can't say that either you have to say this, now you can't say this, you have to say those. It's like… what is right?Yeah. And who's to decide what's right?That's the other key, it's like who gets to make the decision, because if it's say, if we're going to talk about like the common one that shows up a lot, let's say just simply, should you say black or should you say African American?OK. So who is the one who decides which is politically correct? If you're talking about the community that you're directly referring to, they don't… themselves have a consensus of what is or is not PC. So if you have the group, you're trying to avoid offending, who can't decide whether it is or is not offensive, then you're at a loss.The other thing is, you were talking about language being ever changing, especially this whole PC language. You know that the whole idea of reclaiming certain words.For example, that's just again use this idea of black. So white is okay but black is not, it's been for a period of time people thought that was not PC, you have to say African American, what not. And then there are people saying, no, why shouldn't we say black? We should reclaim that word and then just use it in a positive sense. You see, in a lot of aspects, language has been reclaimed to mean something positive because why should you think black is an offensive term if it's just a word?So, as… there's no good answer to that and I… sociologists and other much more educated people than us debate this all the time and they don't get anywhere with it.No, it's almost like debating for debating's sake.I think that's what they get paid to do. They're talking heads. Yeah. The other thing that's very big, that's also relevant to PC language is the idea of cancel culture.Yes, cancel culture. This is a big one right now. And you see this a lot, like this is something big, you'll see in a lot of college campuses in America right now, is students trying to stop speakers from coming to the school to give presentations, because some of the students don't agree with the views or the things that speaker says, even though the university invited them to introduce different views and different opinions.And right now, cancel culture, I personally think cancel culture is extremely dangerous, just because somebody doesn't like something is not a reason that you should stop them from speaking. Because if you use like in a classroom, like I spend time in the classroom, we have questions and discussions, and students get to share their opinions. I don't always agree with my students' opinions, but I'm not going to prevent them from sharing their views in class. And I'm also not going to let my students argue or insult students for sharing opposing views.

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ Hello, everyone. And welcome back to America Under the Microscope, advanced episode. Hi, Lulu. Hi, James.In our basic episode, we were talking about the generalities of political correctness. For this advanced episode, I want to get into the more nitty gritty of PC language, specifically how it's almost impossible to know what is PC now.Yeah. Has it been taken too far?I, me personally, I think some people do take it a bit too far. You can see this by how the standard just keeps changing. And there is no set standard of what is or is not PC, but it seems like people keep moving the goal post. It's like… it's like you can say this but not that. Now you can't say that either you have to say this, now you can't say this, you have to say those. It's like… what is right?Yeah. And who's to decide what's right?That's the other key, it's like who gets to make the decision, because if it's say, if we're going to talk about like the common one that shows up a lot, let's say just simply, should you say black or should you say African American?OK. So who is the one who decides which is politically correct? If you're talking about the community that you're directly referring to, they don't… themselves have a consensus of what is or is not PC. So if you have the group, you're trying to avoid offending, who can't decide whether it is or is not offensive, then you're at a loss.The other thing is, you were talking about language being ever changing, especially this whole PC language. You know that the whole idea of reclaiming certain words.For example, that's just again use this idea of black. So white is okay but black is not, it's been for a period of time people thought that was not PC, you have to say African American, what not. And then there are people saying, no, why shouldn't we say black? We should reclaim that word and then just use it in a positive sense. You see, in a lot of aspects, language has been reclaimed to mean something positive because why should you think black is an offensive term if it's just a word?So, as… there's no good answer to that and I… sociologists and other much more educated people than us debate this all the time and they don't get anywhere with it.No, it's almost like debating for debating's sake.I think that's what they get paid to do. They're talking heads. Yeah. The other thing that's very big, that's also relevant to PC language is the idea of cancel culture.Yes, cancel culture. This is a big one right now. And you see this a lot, like this is something big, you'll see in a lot of college campuses in America right now, is students trying to stop speakers from coming to the school to give presentations, because some of the students don't agree with the views or the things that speaker says, even though the university invited them to introduce different views and different opinions.And right now, cancel culture, I personally think cancel culture is extremely dangerous, just because somebody doesn't like something is not a reason that you should stop them from speaking. Because if you use like in a classroom, like I spend time in the classroom, we have questions and discussions, and students get to share their opinions. I don't always agree with my students' opinions, but I'm not going to prevent them from sharing their views in class. And I'm also not going to let my students argue or insult students for sharing opposing views.

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ Hi, everyone. And welcome back to America Under the Microscope. 欢迎回来. 闲话美国. Hi, James. Hi, Lulu. Hi everyone. So what are we gonna talk about today? Right. So I have a question for you. And it is have you ever noticed how some Americans are always very careful about how they address or refer to other people? What do you mean? Let me give me an example. So a lot of students, when they learn English, they learn words like businessman, but we don't use that word anymore. It's now business person. Oh, ok. So you don't say businessman, you say business person. I know what you're talking about, are you talking about political correctness? PC.Yes, PC, political correctness is the topic of the day. PC直译的话就叫政治正确. I think if you watch a lot of American TV shows or talk shows, you definitely, definitely have heard of this expression, but I think many of our listeners probably don't really know the ins and outs of it. So first of all, James, give us a definition, what exactly is political correctness. Okay. So in simple terms, think of it as a way of using English that tries its best to avoid offending other people. 就是尽量不要冒犯别人的这种用词. So the original goal of this is try to be polite, not to offend. Right? It's kind of a combination of that. So it's about things like to avoid generalization or grouping people together or assuming things about others. It's even if it's talking about positive stereotypes. So if we take like a very common positive stereotype, like Asians are good at math that is not technically politically correct. Because it's a stereotype. That's a stereotype and a generalization, even though it's considered a positive stereotype, it's still not politically correct. It's about avoiding implying anything based on somebody's gender, race, nationality and so on. I see. When did this whole PC trend start? That's really kind of difficult to point down, but generally it got kind of big in the late 80s and 90s, and it's really big now. Yeah, and it's just constantly evolving as well. I think is it fair to say even for native speakers, even for Americans, not everyone's fully aware of all the PC terms that you should be using. This is quite complex, partially because the PC terms do change from time to time. I mean it's hard to keep up with what is or is not. Okay. Also, there is no agreement completely of what is or is not okay, because it's about not offending others. If you think about it, is it ever really possible to avoid not offending everybody? 搜索【璐璐的英文小酒馆】查看全文稿和其他精彩内容哦~

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ Hi, everyone. And welcome back to America Under the Microscope. 欢迎回来. 闲话美国. Hi, James. Hi, Lulu. Hi everyone. So what are we gonna talk about today? Right. So I have a question for you. And it is have you ever noticed how some Americans are always very careful about how they address or refer to other people? What do you mean? Let me give me an example. So a lot of students, when they learn English, they learn words like businessman, but we don't use that word anymore. It's now business person. Oh, ok. So you don't say businessman, you say business person. I know what you're talking about, are you talking about political correctness? PC.Yes, PC, political correctness is the topic of the day. PC直译的话就叫政治正确. I think if you watch a lot of American TV shows or talk shows, you definitely, definitely have heard of this expression, but I think many of our listeners probably don't really know the ins and outs of it. So first of all, James, give us a definition, what exactly is political correctness. Okay. So in simple terms, think of it as a way of using English that tries its best to avoid offending other people. 就是尽量不要冒犯别人的这种用词. So the original goal of this is try to be polite, not to offend. Right? It's kind of a combination of that. So it's about things like to avoid generalization or grouping people together or assuming things about others. It's even if it's talking about positive stereotypes. So if we take like a very common positive stereotype, like Asians are good at math that is not technically politically correct. Because it's a stereotype. That's a stereotype and a generalization, even though it's considered a positive stereotype, it's still not politically correct. It's about avoiding implying anything based on somebody's gender, race, nationality and so on. I see. When did this whole PC trend start? That's really kind of difficult to point down, but generally it got kind of big in the late 80s and 90s, and it's really big now. Yeah, and it's just constantly evolving as well. I think is it fair to say even for native speakers, even for Americans, not everyone's fully aware of all the PC terms that you should be using. This is quite complex, partially because the PC terms do change from time to time. I mean it's hard to keep up with what is or is not. Okay. Also, there is no agreement completely of what is or is not okay, because it's about not offending others. If you think about it, is it ever really possible to avoid not offending everybody? 搜索【璐璐的英文小酒馆】查看全文稿和其他精彩内容哦~

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~Hello everyone, and welcome back to America Under the Microscope, advanced episode. Hi Lulu.Hi, James.Let's continue our talk about text books and curriculum, and let's get into the more controversial issues related to textbooks in America.Oh, yes. I've heard about some of the issues. Yeah. So let's go and talk about some of that textbook content that people find to be questionable. As we talked about in the last episode, so the states choose the standards and the textbooks that can be used. But this also leads to political influence because different states have like different views of what should or should not be taught.Different political leanings.And this can reflect into the textbooks for use and what get taught. Good example of this in America would be the American Civil War.Oh, American Civil War, I thought now is pretty much settled like people have a generalized leaning on this, or people still disagree on which side should be supported?Well, in general you're not going to find people arguing that because slavery was bad. It's more of like in some states, more commonly in the Southeast will still frame it as like a war against Northern aggression.I see.Instead of a war about… Abandoning…abolishing slavery.So, I mean, they still talk about the abolishing slavery, but they also talk about some of the atrocities that the Northern armies did, and they focus more on that. They're not teaching incorrect information, but they're just skewing it and putting a kind of a spin on it.I think it was history textbooks, it's always… perhaps it attracts more debates because history is one of those, the facts might be the same, but how you spin it, how you interpret it will directly affect people you are teaching.And the other subject that this is really noticeable in are biology and English.Biology and English? Yes. Biology, the big one in biology is evolution.Oh, yes, because there are people who don't believe in evolution.There are quite a few Americans, due to their religious beliefs, don't believe in evolution and don't want evolution to be taught in schools. Or if it is taught in schools, it needs to be taught alongside something called intelligent design.Intelligent design?Yeah, it's a religious idea. I don't quite understand it. But it is…Is it just creationism?Yean, it is, under a new term.Can I just clarify this? It is against law to teach students, directly teach students religion in public school, right?Yes, separation of church and states. So the schools cannot do any kind of religious activity or religious indoctrination in schools. What they can do is they can teach about the religions as in this is a religion, this is what people believe, this is where it is practiced as an you know just general cultural knowledge. But you cannot tell a student that is like there is one god, that you will get you fired.But now it sounds like you're saying people who are religious are saying if you teach, if you teach evolution, if you teach that human came from monkeys, then you must teach religion as well.In some states, yes, not in all states. I was lucky in my state that did not happen. My state is like you learned evolution, that was what you learned. Yeah. The other thing I would imagine is sex education.That's another big one. But mostly it's just whether it is taught, how much it's taught, or is it not taught. So some places they just don't teach it.At all?At all. Some places teach it really well. So it depends. And I suppose when.Yeah, also when they teach it too.And you also mentioned English language, what's that aboutHa, a big part of the issue and English is like the novels you read.Oh, the book list. So a lot of parents don't want their kids read certain novels because they contain themes they don't like, or language they don't like.可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~Hello everyone, and welcome back to America Under the Microscope, advanced episode. Hi Lulu.Hi, James.Let's continue our talk about text books and curriculum, and let's get into the more controversial issues related to textbooks in America.Oh, yes. I've heard about some of the issues. Yeah. So let's go and talk about some of that textbook content that people find to be questionable. As we talked about in the last episode, so the states choose the standards and the textbooks that can be used. But this also leads to political influence because different states have like different views of what should or should not be taught.Different political leanings.And this can reflect into the textbooks for use and what get taught. Good example of this in America would be the American Civil War.Oh, American Civil War, I thought now is pretty much settled like people have a generalized leaning on this, or people still disagree on which side should be supported?Well, in general you're not going to find people arguing that because slavery was bad. It's more of like in some states, more commonly in the Southeast will still frame it as like a war against Northern aggression.I see.Instead of a war about… Abandoning…abolishing slavery.So, I mean, they still talk about the abolishing slavery, but they also talk about some of the atrocities that the Northern armies did, and they focus more on that. They're not teaching incorrect information, but they're just skewing it and putting a kind of a spin on it.I think it was history textbooks, it's always… perhaps it attracts more debates because history is one of those, the facts might be the same, but how you spin it, how you interpret it will directly affect people you are teaching.And the other subject that this is really noticeable in are biology and English.Biology and English? Yes. Biology, the big one in biology is evolution.Oh, yes, because there are people who don't believe in evolution.There are quite a few Americans, due to their religious beliefs, don't believe in evolution and don't want evolution to be taught in schools. Or if it is taught in schools, it needs to be taught alongside something called intelligent design.Intelligent design?Yeah, it's a religious idea. I don't quite understand it. But it is…Is it just creationism?Yean, it is, under a new term.Can I just clarify this? It is against law to teach students, directly teach students religion in public school, right?Yes, separation of church and states. So the schools cannot do any kind of religious activity or religious indoctrination in schools. What they can do is they can teach about the religions as in this is a religion, this is what people believe, this is where it is practiced as an you know just general cultural knowledge. But you cannot tell a student that is like there is one god, that you will get you fired.But now it sounds like you're saying people who are religious are saying if you teach, if you teach evolution, if you teach that human came from monkeys, then you must teach religion as well.In some states, yes, not in all states. I was lucky in my state that did not happen. My state is like you learned evolution, that was what you learned. Yeah. The other thing I would imagine is sex education.That's another big one. But mostly it's just whether it is taught, how much it's taught, or is it not taught. So some places they just don't teach it.At all?At all. Some places teach it really well. So it depends. And I suppose when.Yeah, also when they teach it too.And you also mentioned English language, what's that aboutHa, a big part of the issue and English is like the novels you read.Oh, the book list. So a lot of parents don't want their kids read certain novels because they contain themes they don't like, or language they don't like.可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~

公号: 【璐璐的英文小酒馆】 查音频节目文稿，了解广阔的世界。跟随我们的脚步，体会英语的温度。Hi, everyone. And welcome back to America Under the Microscope. 欢迎回来《闲话美国》。Hi, James. Hi, Lulu, hi everyone. Every time I'll start the episode by asking you what we're gonna talk about today, but instead of doing that, I would like to propose a specific topic. I see. Go ahead. Have you been following the latest heated discussion about textbooks? The problem with Chinese text books on social media. Ah, I have seen posts about it, but I haven't really been following that news. So a lot of people are getting really angry about the problems with these text books. I thought it would be quite interesting to talk about text books that you guys use in United States. That's a very good topic. Let's do it. First things first, in China, our textbooks, especially for K12, so for primary education and secondary education, they are generally approved by the Ministry of Education, 是由教育部这边要审核和认可的。 And then how the curriculum as well, 整个课程计划, what about in the States? I'm guessing, from based on what we were talking about before in other episodes, each State will have their own rules. That is a very good guess and you are correct, in America, it's a lot more complicated than here in China. Don't you have Department of Education? Don't they have a say like more of a generalized control over this? OK, so we do have a Department of Education at the Federal level, but in America, the Department of Education does not set curriculum and does not choose or write the text books that the schools use. The Department of Education sets the education policy, such as who can go to school like don't discriminate against your students, things like this; and making sure that the schools are credited, and are safe and suitable for students. But the material, the curriculum is all done at the local State level. I see, so Department of Education is very much about macro policy, 更多是宏观的一些政策, very vague, very general. That's right. And then what does State do?The State Departments of Education, they are the ones who really control what is taught in the classroom. So the State Education Departments, they're the ones that set such curriculum and choose the standards which the teachers need to be teaching in the classroom. Additionally, they also approve the text books that are to be used in school. Okay, you know in China, we would say at this grade you should be, for example, you should recognize, let's say 3,000 Chinese characters at this age or at this grade, you should be able to do geometry, so that sort of thing is set by the States. Yeah, governments uhhhThose are what we'd call the standards. I see. I have a question though, because each State will have this much power over how kids are taught, what kind of contents are taught in school, then the difference between states can be significant, right, technically some states can set a very low standard for the students for the kids?Now there are some nationwide standards that the States can choose to use. Some people may be familiar with the term Common Core. What is Common Core?This is a standard for English Language Arts and Math that has been adopted in many States across the country as part of their school standards; and Common Core states things like by this Grade students will be able to analyze text and write a descriptive essay, by this Grade, they can know this kind of math formula and things like that it's a standard, but States can choose their own. Common Core听起来有点像我们统一的教学大纲。But you also said they're about English Language Arts and Math. 公号: 【璐璐的英文小酒馆】 查音频节目文稿，了解广阔的世界。跟随我们的脚步，体会英语的温度。

公号: 【璐璐的英文小酒馆】 查音频节目文稿，了解广阔的世界。跟随我们的脚步，体会英语的温度。Hi, everyone. And welcome back to America Under the Microscope. 欢迎回来《闲话美国》。Hi, James. Hi, Lulu, hi everyone. Every time I'll start the episode by asking you what we're gonna talk about today, but instead of doing that, I would like to propose a specific topic. I see. Go ahead. Have you been following the latest heated discussion about textbooks? The problem with Chinese text books on social media. Ah, I have seen posts about it, but I haven't really been following that news. So a lot of people are getting really angry about the problems with these text books. I thought it would be quite interesting to talk about text books that you guys use in United States. That's a very good topic. Let's do it. First things first, in China, our textbooks, especially for K12, so for primary education and secondary education, they are generally approved by the Ministry of Education, 是由教育部这边要审核和认可的。 And then how the curriculum as well, 整个课程计划, what about in the States? I'm guessing, from based on what we were talking about before in other episodes, each State will have their own rules. That is a very good guess and you are correct, in America, it's a lot more complicated than here in China. Don't you have Department of Education? Don't they have a say like more of a generalized control over this? OK, so we do have a Department of Education at the Federal level, but in America, the Department of Education does not set curriculum and does not choose or write the text books that the schools use. The Department of Education sets the education policy, such as who can go to school like don't discriminate against your students, things like this; and making sure that the schools are credited, and are safe and suitable for students. But the material, the curriculum is all done at the local State level. I see, so Department of Education is very much about macro policy, 更多是宏观的一些政策, very vague, very general. That's right. And then what does State do?The State Departments of Education, they are the ones who really control what is taught in the classroom. So the State Education Departments, they're the ones that set such curriculum and choose the standards which the teachers need to be teaching in the classroom. Additionally, they also approve the text books that are to be used in school. Okay, you know in China, we would say at this grade you should be, for example, you should recognize, let's say 3,000 Chinese characters at this age or at this grade, you should be able to do geometry, so that sort of thing is set by the States. Yeah, governments uhhhThose are what we'd call the standards. I see. I have a question though, because each State will have this much power over how kids are taught, what kind of contents are taught in school, then the difference between states can be significant, right, technically some states can set a very low standard for the students for the kids?Now there are some nationwide standards that the States can choose to use. Some people may be familiar with the term Common Core. What is Common Core?This is a standard for English Language Arts and Math that has been adopted in many States across the country as part of their school standards; and Common Core states things like by this Grade students will be able to analyze text and write a descriptive essay, by this Grade, they can know this kind of math formula and things like that it's a standard, but States can choose their own. Common Core听起来有点像我们统一的教学大纲。But you also said they're about English Language Arts and Math. 公号: 【璐璐的英文小酒馆】 查音频节目文稿，了解广阔的世界。跟随我们的脚步，体会英语的温度。

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~【America Under the Microscope】Advanced Keywords• Late night wars （Previous generation of famous comics）Fight for viewersControversy over who takes over the show• Outdated formatYouTube and subscription-based TVNo need to stay up late to watchLack of originality • Modern hostsMuch more friendly rivalryHello everyone, and welcome back to America Under the Microscope, advanced episode. Hi, Lulu. Hi, James.So we're gonna continue our talk about late night talk shows, and I want to know what talk shows do you like?I've been watching the Daily Show.I've watched a lot of Daily Show, but not so much with the new host.Trevor Noah?Yeah.I mean, I like Trevor Noah. But I started watching the Daily Show when John Stewart was still the host.I remember watching the Daily Show when I was still in university, a long time ago. What attracts you to… for example the Daily Show.What I liked about the Daily Show is because it was different than other late night talk shows, yet and also, Stephen Colbert's previous show, The Colbert Report. Oh, I love Colbert Report. Because they were literally fake news. So it was kind of poking fun of like the Cable News programs. So they were just doing things very differently; and also their interviews that they did. They interviewed people that you wouldn't see on the regular talk shows because they interviewed like scientists, writers that you would not normally think of…One thing that always shocks me about the Daily Shows is like some of the interviews these people they look legit, you think are they just playing alone with this whole comic act? I think sometimes they were. Or do they actually think this is a serious interview?Most of them are aware that it's a comic act, but the hosts were pretty good at like jesting based on the guest that they had there. So they know some can be more playful or others play a more straight.Yeah, but I mean, I'm not saying it's scripted, but they've definitely talked to these people before. It's not like live interview. One thing that always gets to me is that sometimes people get really offended by like the Daily Show. And then they're like this is just fake. This is not true.Well, dah, this is like we're comedians. It's not a news program.I think this is very important to see things like the Daily Show as just satirical comedy. There's satirical about absolutely everything, to not take it seriously. This is one thing I think that… personally I think it's the ability to take a joke, you don't have to agree with them, right? And that's the thing. What I like about some of these shows especially like the Daily Show is that I like the sort of the comedy timing, a lot of the hosts and also the co-hosts on this show they've got perfect comedy timing, and their own different style.They're all comedians and they're all have practicing it for years and getting on the Daily Show like if you're a comedian and get on the daily shows. You're really an upcoming comic.I do watch things like Fallon and Kimmel sometimes, but honestly for me personally that is a little bit too family friendly for my taste.Yeah, they're… the big ones like Fallon and Kimmel, they're trying mass appeal, they're trying to reach out to be… the general public. I mean Colbert is a little bit different. He does bit more satire, so it kind of misses with some of the population.He's actually involved in politics, right? Colbert?Partially. I mean, he's jokingly run things, um, but he is known to be a bit more political than the other hosts. 可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~【America Under the Microscope】Advanced Keywords• Late night wars （Previous generation of famous comics）Fight for viewersControversy over who takes over the show• Outdated formatYouTube and subscription-based TVNo need to stay up late to watchLack of originality • Modern hostsMuch more friendly rivalryHello everyone, and welcome back to America Under the Microscope, advanced episode. Hi, Lulu. Hi, James.So we're gonna continue our talk about late night talk shows, and I want to know what talk shows do you like?I've been watching the Daily Show.I've watched a lot of Daily Show, but not so much with the new host.Trevor Noah?Yeah.I mean, I like Trevor Noah. But I started watching the Daily Show when John Stewart was still the host.I remember watching the Daily Show when I was still in university, a long time ago. What attracts you to… for example the Daily Show.What I liked about the Daily Show is because it was different than other late night talk shows, yet and also, Stephen Colbert's previous show, The Colbert Report. Oh, I love Colbert Report. Because they were literally fake news. So it was kind of poking fun of like the Cable News programs. So they were just doing things very differently; and also their interviews that they did. They interviewed people that you wouldn't see on the regular talk shows because they interviewed like scientists, writers that you would not normally think of…One thing that always shocks me about the Daily Shows is like some of the interviews these people they look legit, you think are they just playing alone with this whole comic act? I think sometimes they were. Or do they actually think this is a serious interview?Most of them are aware that it's a comic act, but the hosts were pretty good at like jesting based on the guest that they had there. So they know some can be more playful or others play a more straight.Yeah, but I mean, I'm not saying it's scripted, but they've definitely talked to these people before. It's not like live interview. One thing that always gets to me is that sometimes people get really offended by like the Daily Show. And then they're like this is just fake. This is not true.Well, dah, this is like we're comedians. It's not a news program.I think this is very important to see things like the Daily Show as just satirical comedy. There's satirical about absolutely everything, to not take it seriously. This is one thing I think that… personally I think it's the ability to take a joke, you don't have to agree with them, right? And that's the thing. What I like about some of these shows especially like the Daily Show is that I like the sort of the comedy timing, a lot of the hosts and also the co-hosts on this show they've got perfect comedy timing, and their own different style.They're all comedians and they're all have practicing it for years and getting on the Daily Show like if you're a comedian and get on the daily shows. You're really an upcoming comic.I do watch things like Fallon and Kimmel sometimes, but honestly for me personally that is a little bit too family friendly for my taste.Yeah, they're… the big ones like Fallon and Kimmel, they're trying mass appeal, they're trying to reach out to be… the general public. I mean Colbert is a little bit different. He does bit more satire, so it kind of misses with some of the population.He's actually involved in politics, right? Colbert?Partially. I mean, he's jokingly run things, um, but he is known to be a bit more political than the other hosts. 可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~

搜公号: 【璐璐的英文小酒馆】 查音频节目文稿，了解广阔的世界。跟随我们的脚步，体会英语的温度。KEY WORDS• Late night talk show Basic• Video clips of Jimmy Fallon/Kimmel and Stephen Colbert are popular on Chinese social media• What is Late night talk shows? History• Started late 40s early 50s• Evolved from variety shows• Created the format • Monologue • Comedy• Celebrity interviews• A house band• Musical performances• Format hasn't changed Now the big three popular talk shows? • The Late Show• The Tonight Show• Jimmy Kimmel Live• Evolution Late night comedy news The daily Show Hi everyone, and welcome back to America Under the Microscope. 欢迎回来【 闲话美国】.Hi James.Hi Lulu, hi everyone. So what's our topic today? Well, I've been noticing on Chinese social media a lot right now, clips from comedians like Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert seem to be really popular here. Are we going to about talk shows?We're going to talk about talk shows, specifically kind of like the American style of talk shows. First of all, what is the idea of talk show? In Chinese, we translated it directly into脱口秀, but is it just like a one host and then guest speakers so… like what we're doing now? A little bit like what we're doing now, so talk show, you have the host.Uh.And usually, the host is a comedian because they're also gonna, you know, spend part of the time just talking by themselves and tell jokes, but then they interview usually celebrities, but it could be things like musicians, comedians, actors, famous authors, and even sometimes politicians, too. But the whole undertone of it is comic? Yes. The undertone of these shows is comic and entertaining. So the interviews usually are not serious, it 's not a news interview or anything like that. So they are no serious talk shows? Like a serious dialogue asking, for example, politicians about the policies they want to make?In those kind of things, we would consider that more of a news talk show, and those do exist. But usually that's not going to be hosted by a comedian that's going to be hosted by a journalist. Oh, so when people about talk shows in America, most people would think it's more like a comic.More light hearted. We do have kind of like daytime talk shows which tend to be more… not serious but not quite comedic. That's another thing. When it comes to脱口秀, you have the idea of daytime就是日间的脱口秀and late night深夜脱口秀. 去【璐璐的英文小酒馆】 查音频节目全文逐字文稿~

搜公号: 【璐璐的英文小酒馆】 查音频节目文稿，了解广阔的世界。跟随我们的脚步，体会英语的温度。KEY WORDS• Late night talk show Basic• Video clips of Jimmy Fallon/Kimmel and Stephen Colbert are popular on Chinese social media• What is Late night talk shows? History• Started late 40s early 50s• Evolved from variety shows• Created the format • Monologue • Comedy• Celebrity interviews• A house band• Musical performances• Format hasn't changed Now the big three popular talk shows? • The Late Show• The Tonight Show• Jimmy Kimmel Live• Evolution Late night comedy news The daily Show Hi everyone, and welcome back to America Under the Microscope. 欢迎回来【 闲话美国】.Hi James.Hi Lulu, hi everyone. So what's our topic today? Well, I've been noticing on Chinese social media a lot right now, clips from comedians like Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert seem to be really popular here. Are we going to about talk shows?We're going to talk about talk shows, specifically kind of like the American style of talk shows. First of all, what is the idea of talk show? In Chinese, we translated it directly into脱口秀, but is it just like a one host and then guest speakers so… like what we're doing now? A little bit like what we're doing now, so talk show, you have the host.Uh.And usually, the host is a comedian because they're also gonna, you know, spend part of the time just talking by themselves and tell jokes, but then they interview usually celebrities, but it could be things like musicians, comedians, actors, famous authors, and even sometimes politicians, too. But the whole undertone of it is comic? Yes. The undertone of these shows is comic and entertaining. So the interviews usually are not serious, it 's not a news interview or anything like that. So they are no serious talk shows? Like a serious dialogue asking, for example, politicians about the policies they want to make?In those kind of things, we would consider that more of a news talk show, and those do exist. But usually that's not going to be hosted by a comedian that's going to be hosted by a journalist. Oh, so when people about talk shows in America, most people would think it's more like a comic.More light hearted. We do have kind of like daytime talk shows which tend to be more… not serious but not quite comedic. That's another thing. When it comes to脱口秀, you have the idea of daytime就是日间的脱口秀and late night深夜脱口秀. 去【璐璐的英文小酒馆】 查音频节目全文逐字文稿~

“A new Dawn, a new Day for America”Under the umbrella of “Our Meeting at the Crossroads” comes our new Venture, “The Gents of the 3.5”. Trailing our last experience “After Talk”, and Sessions.“What's up man, ... What it do.... Do we have everybody” It's “The Gents of the 3.5”. “Hit the road Jack.”This is a show about friends. Just guys shooting the breeze. Talking about any and everything. Men don't just have locker room conversation, ladies. A day in the life of the squad, the fellas, dem boys, it's just us people. “GMD” (not to be confused with GMC trucks).Friends, how many of us have them? “We're just a band of brothers, hanging out in good company. So don't you dare try to judge us, negate on what you can't hear or see”. We are just the 3.5 folks. Nothing more, nothing less, but damn sure worth it.This segment  is about politics unfortunately, music, live performances, the out with old in with the new, and  the welcoming of 2021. “To be a fly on the wall, at the barber shop or gym near the bathroom stall or when he's on his way from hangin out or after work at the end of the day”. These are “The Gents of the 3.5”. Come join us for a casual conversation. If you have any questions, inquires, or just things you'd like to add. Please reach out and  message us on Instagram @O.M.A.T.C, or @UpandOnProd and or Facebook @UpwardandOnwardProductions or @Our.Meeting.at.the.Crossroads (page or fb. group). We appreciate you, and hope to see you there. “The Gents of the 3.5” Podcast Founder - Upward and Onward Productions Concept Co-Creators - Darren Lorenzo and Bruno DiazHost - George Papas, Mike Hammond, and Darren LorenzoPodcast Director/Theme Song Writer - Darren LorenzoSound Editors/Mixers/VO - Bruno Diaz and Jardé PierreContent Editor/Producer - Darren Lorenzo

In this episode, we have our two dear guests Lisa Gansky — the eternal entrepreneur, great thinker and our long term advisor — and Bill Fischer, professor at IMD in Lausanne with whom we’ve developed the very first Rendanheyi Masterclass based on Haier’s revolutionary organisational model and a partner in our long term research on the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Enabling Organization.In our conversation, we wanted to pick their brains on the key theses emerging from the research for our upcoming 2020 Whitepaper, such as acknowledging marketplace pervasiveness, seeing a systemic shift happening towards health and redrawing the human development thesis to reverse the trend that machine development has long outpaced human development.Following an initial framing, Bill and Lisa take turns in providing amazing reflections on where the world seems to be headed, from an organisational, systems and cultural perspective and related to business ecosystems and innovation.Remember that you can find the show notes and transcripts from all our episodes on our Medium publication.  Here are some important links from the conversation:See the previous Podcast episodes with Lisa and Bill> Checkpoint episode with Lisa Gansky: Ecosystems - between the “no more” and the “not yet”, https://stories.platformdesigntoolkit.com/checkpoint-episode-with-lisa-gansky-ecosystems-between-the-no-more-and-the-not-yet-c183d21257c4> Leadership as Architecting: Transforming Organisations into Thriving Ecosystems — with Bill Fischer. https://stories.platformdesigntoolkit.com/leadership-as-architecting-transforming-organisations-into-thriving-ecosystems-7-4af8dd0cf06c Other references and mentions:> Warren Bennis, 1998. The Temporary Society: What is Happening to Business and Family Life in America Under the Impact of Accelerating Change. https://www.amazon.com/Temporary-Society-Happening-Accelerating-Management/dp/0787943312  > Structural Shifts podcast by Aperture Hub, with Rita Gunther McGrath, Seeing Around Corners (#19): https://medium.com/aperture-hub/seeing-around-corners-19-ec64b2260337> Tessy Britton, “Universal Basic Everything” - .creating essential infrastructure for post Covid 19 neighbourhoods. https://medium.com/@TessyBritton/universal-basic-everything-f149afc4cef1> Simone Cicero,  “An Entrepreneurial, Ecosystem Enabling Organization - What’s emerging from understanding Haier Group”. https://stories.platformdesigntoolkit.com/an-entrepreneurial-ecosystem-enabling-organization-c35eaf5acd9cFind out more about the show and the research at Boundaryless at www.platformdesigntoolkit.com/podcast Thanks for the ad-hoc music to Liosound / Walter Mobilio. Find his portfolio here: www.platformdesigntoolkit.com/music Recorded on July 1st 2020

Jungian analyst and clinical psychologist Dr. Donald Kalsched joins us from Santa Fe, New Mexico to discuss his essay, "Wrestling with Our Angels: Inner & Outer Democracy in America Under the Shadow of Donald Trump" in the new book, Cultural Complexes & the Soul of America: Myth, Psyche, & Politics, edited by Jungian analyst Dr. Thomas Singer

Andrew Greenwell, former star of Million Dollar Listing San Francisco "Have to and Get to Markets, San Francisco and Hawaii" on Global Luxury Real Estate Mastermind Podcast with Michael Valdes #114Andrew Greenwell shares his entrepreneurial spirit that came from his humblebeginnings being raised from his mother as a single parent that started a billion-dollar construction company, and inspired him to start his own brokerage company at 19 years of age. As the star of a globally syndicated show that brought him mixed notoriety, he learned to harness that to continue to build his success. A great friend of Michael, this emotional and candid conversation brings great lessonsfor the listener.More About Andrew GreenwellWith over a decade of experience, Andrew Greenwell is the CEO and principal at Venture Sotheby’s International Realty, specializing in ultra-luxury real estate in the San Francisco area.  Throughout his career, Greenwell has sold nearly four billion dollars of real estate between his own sales and the deals he has overseen as CEO. Greenwell founded his own brokerage at age 19, while earning his college degree at Florida State University and simultaneously grew the company to three offices. After being named one of Realtor Magazine's "Top 30 Realtors in America Under 30," he decided to leave Florida behind and head west to Seattle, where he spent four successful years, before settling down in the Bay Area. Prior to starting his own company in September 2014, he worked as a CEO and team leader of Keller Williams Tri-Valley Realty, managing more than 150 agents. With a work hard, play harder approach, Greenwell’s philosophy is “go big or don’t go at all.”  Driven to succeed, this real estate shark is extremely impatient and wants everything done yesterday.  He doesn’t hold his tongue, and if you cross him, you better sleep with one eye open. When he isn’t buying the domain names of his competitors, Greenwell is busy planning his extravagant wedding with his fiancé Paal. More About Michael ValdesMichael Valdes is the Senior Vice President of Global Servicing for Realogy Corporation. In that role he oversees the international servicing platform for all Realogy brands including Century 21, Coldwell Banker, ERA, Better Homes & Garden, Corcoran, Climb and Sotheby’s International Realty in 113 countries. He has been with Realogy in a variety of roles for the past 14 years. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Valdes was Director of Private Banking at Deutsche Bank for just under a decade where he oversaw a book of business of just under $1 billion. He has the distinction of being the first Director in the United States of Latino descent. Mr. Valdes is the Chair of the AREAA Global Advisory Board and co-host of the 2020 AREAA Global Luxury Summit. He is also a current member of the NAHREP Corporate Board of Governors. Additonally, he is a member of the Realogy Diversity Board as well as the Executive Chair of the ONE VOZ, Hispanic ERG for the firm. He is a former Board Member of Mount Sinai Hospital in Miami Beach as well as the Shanti Organization in San Francisco. Michael was also a Board Member of Pink & Blue for 2, an organization started by Olivia Newton-John to promote breast and prostate cancer awareness. He currently resides in New York City and has a home in Miami.

Omar Soliman is a published author, entrepreneur and TV personality. He is the Co-Founder & CEO of COLLEGE HUNKS HAULING JUNK, a national junk removal and moving franchise with over 120 franchises across the country. CHHJ was named one of the fastest growing franchises in the nation by Entrepreneur Magazine and currently employs over 2,000 people nationwide. Omar was named 'Top 30 Entrepreneurs in America Under 30' by INC magazine and is an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year winner. Omar has appeared as a frequent guest on FOX Business News, MSNBC and ABC's hit TV show Shark Tank. Omar co-authored his first book along with his business partner Nick Friedman titled EFFORTLESS ENTREPRENEUR. The book has become a national best seller and is a must read for anyone looking to start a business. Omar is a guest speaker at universities, high schools and corporate events. “focus on a vision, focus on how that vision helps people, focus on how your company builds relationships and creates unique experiences for your clients and for your employees. And if you can do those things you've got something successful. You don't need to invent the next Facebook or come up with some high-tech thing that nobody's thought of. You can take simple businesses like moving like hauling like painting or plumbing and you can put a new-age spin on them and try to address and marketplace by solving the pain points that clients have. And you can do well at that so don't always look for the next Google. Sometimes the business is right in front of you”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7l6

Guest: Nick Friedman Age: 37 years  Location: Tampa, FL Bio: Nick Friedman is President and Co-Founder of College H.U.N.K.S. Hauling Junk & Moving, the largest and fastest-growing moving and junk removal franchise opportunity in North America. Nick started the business in college with his childhood best friend in a beat-up cargo van and has grown to over 100 franchises and $100 Million sales nationwide. He has since been named among the Top 30 Entrepreneurs in America Under 30 by INC Magazine and was named on the same list as Mark Zuckerberg as one of the 30 Most Influential CEO’s Under 30. Nick is a three-time Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award Finalist, and he won the prestigious award in 2018. He has been featured in numerous business books and textbooks, as well as Forbes, Fortune, and many other national publications. Nick’s company has appeared every year on the INC 5000 list of Fastest-Growing US Companies and has appeared twice on the Oprah Winfrey Show. Nick is also a TV personality, having appeared as a guest on shows, including the first episode of ABC’s Shark Tank, Bravo’s Millionaire Matchmaker, and CNBC’s BlueCollar Millionaires. He is also a Board Member of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO). As an author, Nick co-wrote a bestselling book entitled Effortless Entrepreneur: Work Smart, Play Hard, Make Millions, which seeks to entertain and inspire budding entrepreneurs. The world needs more: 1. Purpose Driven Organizations 2. Trust 3. Positivity 4. Altruism WOW factor: I realized that I was never the most talented nor smartest person, but that I could make up for what I lacked in natural ability with hard work and persistence. A few moments that have helped shape this for me were when I pursued basketball in high school and college, I was always a benchwarmer, and I was able to work hard and eventually earn my way to a starting spot and eventually a college opportunity. Also when we launched our business in a highly competitive industry, and with persistence and hustle, we were able to overcome obstacles to win. My team members observe this work ethic and model it for themselves as well. I also realized that I enjoy coaching and inspiring others as a result of this. Favorite Color: Blue

A MESSAGE FOR AMERICA JULY 2019 W/ #HOWCEE RADIO BEATRICE, AL. 36425 "You shall also love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. — Deuteronomy 10:19" https://www.blogtalkradio.com/howcee-productions-gospel/2019/02/28/truth-or-false-america-pass-or-what-news-do-you-really-think-we-are-blind Day 899: Moving forward. SUNDAY JULY 7 2019 America Under the Leadership President Donald Trump? A MESSAGE FOR AMERICA JULY 2019.  What Happen in your Life? Are you doing what you can to help someone along the way? What about Family? Mom? Dad? Children? sister? brother? Love for your fellow man? Your walk of faith on earth how is it going?  Email freddiechoward@gmail.comHowcee Email howceegospel@yahoo.comHowcee Productions GospelHowcee Talk MusicHowcee PodcastGuest Call In (713) 955-046Be the Difference  ?  

Crime detectives get ready for our 3rd installment of America Under fire where fellow Crime detective Alex Cardinale talks to you about some of the worst Mass Shootings in American history. We have already covered the Columbine High School shooting, Sandy Hook Shooting, Virginia tech shooting and some of the other huge ones!On the 3rd edition of America Under Fire, I will be discussing some of the more recent shootings and some of the Mass Shootings that are not well known! It is my goal to get these mass shootings known for a good reason, to prevent future mass shootings. I'm also going to give you some information on how you can survive or help others survive if you get shot. Find out what happens when you get shot and the damages a bullet can do.This is a good listen for all the fellow ID discovery lovers and crime lovers!Here is what's Planned for the Show:~ What Happens when you Get Shot~ How to Survive if your Shot~ The following Mass Shootings will be Discussed:Las Vegas shooting 2017Sutherland Springs church shooting 2017Edmond post office shooting 1986Binghamton shootings 2009Fort Hood shooting 2009Enjoy the show! Thanks for listening! Please feel free to share and leave a review on I-tunes! Check out my other shows on A.C. Network. alexcardnetwork.buzzsprout.comNEED A VOICE OVER FOR A CELEBRATION, PODCAST INTRO/OUTRO, YOUTUBE, ETC..... I WILL BE HAPPY TO DO IT FOR YOU.MORE INFO AT LINK BELOW COPY AND PASTE:https://www.fiverr.com/alexcardinale/record-a-voice-over-for-youSupport the show

On this weeks Episode 161 of Breaking Par with Bernard Sheridan we are joined with Golf Digest Best Young Teacher 2017 Steve Sieracki.  Steve Sieracki graduated from Bishop Eustace Preparatory School in Pennsauken, NJ and graduated from LaSalle University where he played Division I golf. Over the past 7 years, Steve has had the privilege of teaching alongside Golf Digest Top 50 teachers, Mike Bennett and Andy Plummer. Steve was recently awarded Golf Digest's Best Young Teachers in America Under 40 for the 2016-2017 season. He also just received the Youth Player Development Award in the Philadelphia Section for 2016. He is regarded as one of the best young and upcoming teachers in the Philadelphia area.  Steve teaches top ranked amateurs and accomplished professional golfers in the New Jersey and Philadelphia area, as well as professional golfers playing on various tours around the world. He specializes in developing young golfers into competitive players. Over the past 5 years he has taught 3 first time winners of Philly PGA Junior, IJGT and GAP events. He has an impressive record of preparing his students for college level golf. Over 65% of his students go on to play in college, including some on scholarship.  In addition to developing youngsters, Steve has a proven ability to teach golfers of all ages. From shooting a personal best round, to playing competitively, his passion for the game is evident as he helps students of all levels reach their goals. Steve brings a fresh approach to instruction and youth Golf. He shares his award winning experience with our listeners in this episode.  

How can you create a purpose-driven, values-based, socially-conscious company that can deliver both success and significance? Shep Hyken interviews Nick Friedman, co-founder of College Hunks Hauling Junk and Moving about how to develop a customer-focused, values-based company that can benefit you, your employees and your customers. First Up: Shep Hyken’s opening comments focus on how delivering great service is about being a little bit better consistently, with special opportunities to step up whenever there is a complaint, problem or a chance to create a Moment of Magic. To illustrate his point, Shep related a story of Cesar Larios, a student at The Art Institute of Florida and a part-time employee of College Hunks Moving, who was inside an elevator with a 79-year-old resident of an assisted living facility when the elevator got stuck. The resident didn’t think she could stand long enough until the two could be rescued. So, Cesar dropped to his hands and knees to turn himself into a human bench until they were saved. Shep then quoted Nick Friedman, president of College Hunks, as saying, “I thought this was a great example of old-fashioned service and helping your fellow neighbor. Our mission is to move the world, both literally and emotionally. This was a perfect example of a brand coming to life.” Featured Interview: Nick Friedman started the College Hunks Hauling Junk and Moving in college with his childhood best friend, now business partner, Omar Soliman in a beat-up cargo van and has grown to over 100 franchises nationwide. So, Shep begins his interview by asking Nick Friedman how can a relationship survive with someone who is both a business partner and best friend? Nick answered by saying that the long-term reason for their success and partnership is because their vision and values have always been in alignment. The partners communicate regularly, openly and candidly. Any time that they do disagree on how they are going to accomplish something, they have a discussion then decide to commit to that decision, even if one of the partners doesn’t fully agree. Nick then explained how his company’s brand promise, which comprises the acronym H.U.N.K.S., standing for Honest, Uniformed, Nice, Knowledgeable, and Service has made a huge difference. Top Takeaways: • Emotions matter in any service industry, especially with a stranger coming in to the home (or office). • The two emotions that matter most to a homeowner are trust and care. (This applies to anyone in any business.) • You want to provide people a stress-free experience that will lead to the three R’s: repeat, referral and reputation. • In your employee training, don’t just show what has gone wrong and how to fix it, but also celebrate what has gone right, and ask how can we make more of THIS happen? About: Nick Friedman is the President and Co-Founder of College Hunks Hauling Junk and College Hunks Moving, the largest and fastest growing junk removal and moving franchise opportunity in North America with over 100 franchisees. He has been named among the Top 30 Entrepreneurs in America Under 30 by Under30CEO.com. Shep Hyken is a customer service and experience expert, best-selling author and your host of Amazing Business Radio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What Makes You Different?  How often do you feel different from your peers in America? Under what circumstances do you find your values at odds with your immediate cultural environment? How do you assert your sense of uniqueness? Listen to our latest podcast episode “What Makes You Different?” Twin sisters Chellie and Sara Zou narrate their blog about how they see race as multi-racial kids in Indiana.   http://chinapersonified.com/how-i-see-race-as-a-multiracial-kid/ Zara Zhang will read her story about “Warm Water.”  http://chinapersonified.com/warm-water/ We want to include you in this conversation To send us your comments or stories, just go to our Facebook page, or our website at ChinaPersonified.com under “Pitch a Story.” Share your thoughts? Pitch me a story? “One in a Billion” is listening to #China, one person at a time. Subscribe to "One in a Billion" below: PRx | iTunes | SoundCloud Music Used: David O'Brien's Busy Bees, 1648/5 (Album) Audio Network Josh Woodward's Once Tomorrow, Creative Commons Music Jahzzar's The Shine, Jamendo Music Sláinte's Banish, Beejayzus Records Hyson's Whispers, Honest Music

Laura Roeder, began her entrepreneurial journey at the age of 22, when she quit a design job and decided to launch her first business. Since then, she founded B-School with Marie Forleo, and has run successful courses of her own, such as Creating Fame. Since then she founded Edgar, which was created out of a need Laura had in her own business to more effectively manage social media—and so in 2014 Laura pivoted her business to dive into the SaaS (Software as a Service) world. She was named a Top 100 Entrepreneur in America Under 35, several years in a row, and has spoken at the White House on entrepreneurship. What was a realization that you had that led you on your path? I was “bossy” or the one who was in charge. I was a designer, and wanted to do more. What was the biggest risk you took? I asked to go part time at the job I had and at the last minute they said, that I couldn't do that. So, I quit. What is a company principal that you foster? Kindness. My top three values are: kindness, ownership, and value for value. Value for value is that business is a fair exchange for value for value, whether that's time for money or whatever that exchange is, that both parties feel that they are getting the better end of the stick. What is your best piece of advice? Take action on anything, as soon as possible. The only way you can find out if your idea works is to test it out. What do you believe to be true? You reap what you sow. No matter what you want, you have to put forth the effort, in order to make that happen. How to connect with Laura Roeder and learn more about Edgar software : Meet Edgar.com: MeetEdgar Thanks for Listening and Subscribing! Also, for my blogs (my take on every episode) go to: www.innernorthstar.com and receive my free eBook with my appreciation for joining the tribe! Thank you so much for joining me on this episode. If you have some feedback you'd like to share. Leave a note in the comment section below! If you enjoyed this episode, please share it using the social media buttons you see to the left of this post. Also, please leave a review for The Game Changer Podcast on iTunes! Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated! They do matter in the rankings of the show, and I read each and every one of them. And while you're there, don't forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes to get automatic updates! Until next time!

Laura Roeder, began her entrepreneurial journey at the age of 22, when she quit a design job and decided to launch her first business. Since then, she founded B-School with Marie Forleo, and has run successful courses of her own, such as Creating Fame. Since then she founded Edgar, which was created out of a need Laura had in her own business to more effectively manage social media—and so in 2014 Laura pivoted her business to dive into the SaaS (Software as a Service) world. She was named a Top 100 Entrepreneur in America Under 35, several years in a row, and has spoken at the White House on entrepreneurship.   What was a realization that you had that led you on your path? I was “bossy” or the one who was in charge.  I was a designer, and wanted to do more.   What was the biggest risk you took? I asked to go part time at the job I had and at the last minute they said, that I couldn’t do that.  So, I quit.   What is a company principal that you foster? Kindness.  My top three values are: kindness, ownership, and value for value.  Value for value is that business is a fair exchange for value for value, whether that’s time for money or whatever that exchange is, that both parties feel that they are getting the better end of the stick.   What is your best piece of advice? Take action on anything, as soon as possible.  The only way you can find out if your idea works is to test it out.   What do you believe to be true? You reap what you sow.  No matter what you want, you have to put forth the effort, in order to make that happen.   How to connect with Laura Roeder and learn more about Edgar software : Meet Edgar.com: http://meetedgar.com/ (MeetEdgar   )     Thanks for Listening and Subscribing! Also, for my blogs (my take on every episode) go to: http://www.innernorthstar.com (www.innernorthstar.com) and receive my free eBook with my appreciation for joining the tribe! Thank you so much for joining me on this episode. If you have some feedback you'd like to share. Leave a note in the comment section below! If you enjoyed this episode, please share it using the social media buttons you see to the left of this post. Also, https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-game-changer-podcast/id1045184666?mt=2&ls=1 (please leave a review for The Game Changer Podcast on iTunes)! Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated! They do matter in the rankings of the show, and I read each and every one of them. And while you’re there, don't forget to https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-game-changer-podcast/id1045184666?mt=2&ls=1 (subscribe to the show on iTunes) to get automatic updates! Until next time!   Support this podcast

This week were were able to schedule (pun intended) some time with a social media insider and MeetEgdar.com Founder; Laura Roeder! Laura began her entrepreneurial journey at the age of 22, when she quit a design job and decided to launch her first business. Since then, she founded B-School with Marie Forleo, has run successful courses of her own like Creating Fame, and was named a Top 100 Entrepreneur in America Under 30.Her most recent venture; Meet Edgar was created out of a need in her own business to more effectively manage social media - and so in 2014 Laura pivoted her business to dive into the SaaS world. Since Edgar’s launch in mid-2014, their remote team has grown to more than a dozen people, they’ve hit more than $150,000 in monthly recurring revenue, AND bootstrapped the entire way. They’re now happily providing social solutions to more than 3,000 customers; Rules of Success as one of them.  To check out further details and to reach out to her directly visit MeetEdgar.comRulesofSuccess.com is your source for all links to iTunes, direct streaming and our blog. Please be sure to subscribe, rate and review us on iTunes AND subscribe to our list for other free resources delivered right to your inbox. If you were inspired by The Science of Getting Rich presented by Rules of Success check out ApplytheScience.com

Ever since Laura  Roeder quit a design job and started her first business at age 22, she has been an entrepreneur since then and she's traveled the world (in fact  she met her husband on the road). She has launched successful businesses like B-School with Marie Forleo, and was even named a Top 100 Entrepreneur in America Under 30 a few years ago.  Now, Laura has pivoted her business to focus on Edgar, which was created out of a need Laura had in her own business to more effectively manage social media. Laura and her husband built Edgar from the ground up, have bootstrapped the entire way, and have spent the past year building a remote team and a really profitable business from scratch.  In this episode we discuss: The importance of content marketingRepurposing contentBuilding a company from the ground upFollowing your passionWhy you shouldn't delegate your core businessHow to build your teamWhy she loves the challenge of bootstrappingWhy Edgar is the best tool to manage all your... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Our guest is Brad Baldia, who is the Director of Turnkey StartupSpace, a new co-working outfit in Philadelphia.Brad is a business and community activist at the same time. He is the President of Philippine Chamber of Commerce of Pennsylvania and Southern New Jersey. He has received numerous awards for his efforts, including the "Unsung Heroes Award" by Keystone Mercy Health Plan, and "National Brotherhood /Sisterhood Award" by the National Conference of Community and Justice. In 2002, he was recognized as one of the "Top 30 Most Influential Asians in America Under the Age of 30". In 2007, Brad was one of fifty individuals citywide that was nominated for the “Spirit of Philadelphia” award by Greater Philadelphia Cares.Tune-in Wednesday, April 111:00 am 

Our guest is Brad Baldia, who is the Director of Turnkey StartupSpace, a new co-working outfit in Philadelphia.Brad is a business and community activist at the same time. He is the President of Philippine Chamber of Commerce of Pennsylvania and Southern New Jersey. He has received numerous awards for his efforts, including the "Unsung Heroes Award" by Keystone Mercy Health Plan, and "National Brotherhood /Sisterhood Award" by the National Conference of Community and Justice. In 2002, he was recognized as one of the "Top 30 Most Influential Asians in America Under the Age of 30". In 2007, Brad was one of fifty individuals citywide that was nominated for the “Spirit of Philadelphia” award by Greater Philadelphia Cares.Tune-in Wednesday, April 111:00 am 

Join me "Live" tonight with my two guests: Deanna Zenger - Executive Director of the Association of Golf Fitness Professionals & Hole In One Pilates Int'l Deanna has been involved in the movement industry for the past 15 years. 10 years ago, she became involved with the golf industry and has developed certification programs training movement, medical and golf teaching professionals in what is required physically in the golf swing, how to help find a client’s best swing, how to work with the technology available today and perhaps most importantly, how to prevent golfing injury. Plus, Trent Wearner - Teaching Professional & Owner of "Trent Wearner Golf". Top 20 Golf Teacher in America Under 40 (Golf Digest) PGA Golf Teacher of the Year (Colorado section 2004) Top Teacher in the Southwestern U.S. (GOLF Mag) Best Golf Teacher in State (Golf Digest 2005-present) Certified Golf Coach (Dr. Rick Jensen) National Advisory Staff for TaylorMade-adidas Golf Author of popular practice book Golf Scrimmages