Podcast appearances and mentions of anthony bordain

Food and Travel Nation with Elizabeth DoughertyThe TRUTH about Food and Travel Broadcast Date:  11/25/2023 Full Show:  A special edition of the show where we dig into both the archives of the show and podcast download statistics.  After Elizabeth's Food and Travel News, you'll hear the most downloaded segments of Server's Revenge, Food Shortages, and our Taste Test that the DID involve food.  In the travel hour, the most downloaded Airline Debacles, RV Tips, and not one but TWO Destination Unknown segments.  In between, the most downloaded interview segment of all time... Elizabeth's 2010 conversation with Anthony Bordain.   ### About the show:  Food And Travel Nation with Elizabeth Dougherty is the fusion of food and travel. This fresh, compelling nationally-syndicated weekend program includes information for homesteading, traveling, gardening, taste tests, and in a twist, listeners hear what restaurant servers say about customers. Each week our listeners get the very latest food and travel information We produce homemade videos of healthy, easy to make recipes We feature no-holds barred interviews in a LIVE, fast-paced, nationwide call-in show. Elizabeth Dougherty is a writer, trained chef, world traveler and now an award-winning talk show host. Food Nation Radio was on the forefront of presenting expert guests with vital information about GMOs, at a time when no one was talking about or even knew about the subject. We give our listeners, advertisers and stations a LIVE SHOW. (NO “BEST OF'S” EVER!) We present hard-hitting topics and interviews without the same old political spin. We are very social media conscious and stay in touch with our audience. (200,000 plus) We work closely with advertisers and stations to ensure their success. We are ready to deliver a fresh, tight, first-class show to your station from our digital studio utilizing Comrex Access and our own automation system. Executive Producer – Michael Serio Requests: Sammone@proton.me website:  FoodAndTravelNation.com email:  Elizabeth@FoodAndTravelNation.com

On the line today: dorking out about our fave real and fictional cooks and chefs! Also on deck, we've got Buttergate, Dungeons & Dragons: Among Thieves, body modification & appropriation, Gritty Vs. Phillie Phantic, Ratatouille, Michelin-starred restaurants, and a side of friendship. Order up! SERVICE! FURTHER DORKSCUSSION:Anthony BourdainJames BarberJamie OliverRemy Uncle RogerSanjiSwedish ChefJulie van RosendaalJiro OnoGordon RamsayStephanie PrinceBONUS CONTENT:Gritty & Phillie Phanatic DanceCheck out Yabra's new ep, Vulcan NightsPöpcørnButtergateUncle Roger x SanjiSOCIALS:Here's where you can find us!Lexi' Hunt's website and twitter and instagramBen Rankel's website and instagram and where to buy his book: Amazon.ca / Comixology / Ind!go / Renegade ArtsJess Schmidt's website, twitter and instagramDork Matter's website(WIP) and twitter and instagram and redditThis podcast is created on the traditional territories of the Blackfoot Nations, which includes the Siksika, the Piikani, and the Kainai. We also acknowledge the Stoney Nakota Nation, Tsuut'ina, and Metis Nation Region 3.Help your dorky pals spread the word: share us on social media or give Dork Matters a rating and review on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your pods! Thank you for helping us to share our love of all things Dork!“Chefs are nutters. They're all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls, and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.” ― Gordon Ramsay

Guest: Charles Leerhsen, author, “Down and Out in Paradise: The Life of Anthony Bourdain”

Luke and Andrew stumble on a new list of the “Top 100 TV Shows Of All Time” and turn it into a game. Plus, a new book promises to reveal the messy details of Anthony Bordain's life. But should it?

Luke and Andrew stumble on a new list of the “Top 100 TV Shows Of All Time” and turn it into a game. Plus, a new book promises to reveal the messy details of Anthony Bordain's life. But should it?

Real Men Feel ep273 No Lucks Given | Mental Health In The Kitchen Today Real Men Feel ventures into the kitchen to talk with Chef Brother Luck. Brother is an award-winning chef, entrepreneur, and advocate for the pursuit of self-discovery. He is on a mission to prove to others that while our past is forever a part of who we are, it does not determine the people we become. Brother has appeared on Chopped, Beat Bobby Flay, and Top Chef. He also owns two restaurants, Four by Brother Luck, and Lucky Dumpling, located in his home, Colorado Springs. And he has just released his memoir, No Lucks Given. We discuss courage, vulnerability, mentorship, and the freedom of tears. TRIGGER WARNING: We also talk about suicide attempts and the death of Anthony Bordain. Sometimes the bravest thing a man can do is ask for help. Topics and Questions 1:05 - What first got you interested in cooking? 2:54 - Before chefs, was there anyone in your life who told you, "good job"? 3:25 - What told you that you were following the wrong people? 4:05 - Traditionally, women predominantly do cooking, yet most famous chefs are men. Where does that discrepancy comes from? 5:57 - Is it difficult to leap from chef to celebrity chef? 7:05 - Your memoir is titled, No Lucks Given; what does that mean? 8:51 - Was perseverance natural for you? 9:27 - What was your childhood like? 10:11 - Hitting his breaking point? 11:54 - Who is the worst judge of Brother Luck? 12:49 - ls a professional kitchen supportive of mental health? 15:39 - Do you still find time to enjoy cooking? 16:22 - If you're one thing. Be vulnerable. 18:23 - Do you come across 16-year-olds who remind you of yourself? 21:11 - How did Anthony Bourdain's death by suicide affect you? 23:30 - After your attempt, what was your next step? 25:20 - What worked well for you that you would recommend to others? 30:00 - Tell me about your advocacy work for mental health. 30:37 - What's the best way to learn more about you and everything you are up to? 31:13 - What is one thing you wish more men knew? Links Brother Luck -- https://chefbrotherluck.com/ Connect with Andy and the Real Men Feel Podcast: Interested in a Clarity Call with Andy? - visit theandygrant.com/talk Instagram | @realmenfeelshow & @andy_grant Personal Website | theandygrant.com for coaching, healing, and book info! Podcast Website | realmenfeel.org for all things podcast-related! YouTube | Real Men Feel --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/realmenfeel/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/realmenfeel/support

Food and Travel Nation with Elizabeth DoughertyFrom the Show Archives Guest: Anthony Bourdain - Elizabeth Dougherty spoke with Anthony Bourdain before his November 2010 appearance at The Mahaffey Center in Tampa Bay.  In this interview he opens up about his world travels, fellow chefs, not offending his hosts, and at the very end he mentions a troubled past that he had overcome. website:  FoodAndTravelNation.com email:  Elizabeth@FoodAndTravelNation.com text: (321) 877-9898

Tracy Nguyen is a foodie tour guide in Hanoi and an expert on the cuisine of Vietnam. She talks with us about eggs in your coffee and a scalding noodle dish that has nothing to do with temperature. Plus, Tracy shares the story of a dish rescued by Anthony Bordain and why the chaos of traffic in Hanoi is more organized than you think. [Ep 180] Show Notes: Hanoi Street Food Tours website Pena Palace in Sintra website Brent's story about Ape trucks

Sizzling Samachar of the day - 14th April 2022Welcome to Sizzling Samachar of the day on OTTplay , I'm your host NikhilNews first up,Ted prequel series announcedAcclaimed actor, filmmaker, and comedian, Seth MacFarlane, is set to helm a prequel series to the hit adult comedy film Ted. Set in 1993, the story will be about the foul-mouthed talking toy bear, Ted, and his best friend John Bennett. Max Burkholder will essay the role of a 16-year old John, previously played by Mark Wahlberg in the films. Giorgia Whigham and Scott Grimes will play supporting roles in the Peacock series. New film titled, Two and Only, adds Ariana DeBose to its castAcademy Award winner Ariana DeBose, who won several major awards in recent months, has been added to the cast of Two and Only. The screenwriter for Selena: The Series, Jen Rivas-DeLoose, will work on the script for the film. The film is set to be an LGBTQ+ comedy film, with DeBose also serving as executive producer. David Bowie documentary, Moonage Daydream, is in the worksA new documentary based on the legendary singer and songwriter, David Bowie, is in development. The film will be released in the US by Neon on IMAX screens, while it will be released internationally by HBO Documentary Films. Brett Morgen, who has previously helmed Cobain: Montage of Heck, will write and direct the documentary based on Bowie. The film will feature never-before-seen footage, music, and performances, and it is the only officially announced film about Bowie, who is widely regarded as one of the greatest musicians of all time. Romantic thriller ‘Love Lies Bleeding' adds Kristen Stewart to its castKristen Stewart, who was recently nominated for Best Actress for essaying the role of Princess Diana in the film Spencer, is set to star in a new romantic thriller titled, Love Lies Bleeding. Saint Maud director Rose Glass will helm the new film.  A24, the producers of the critically acclaimed film Everything Everywhere All at Once is backing the project. Salma Hayek to replace Thandiwe Newton in Magic Mike's Last DanceVeteran British actress Thandie Newton has exited the upcoming film Magic Mike's Last Dance due to family reasons and she will be replaced by Salma Hayek. The film will be the third installment of Magic Mike films, with lead star Channing Tatum set to reprise his role. Steven Soderbergh, who directed the first film will also be returning along with writer Reid Carolin.Andy Kaufman documentary in the worksA documentary based on the life of Andy Kaufman is in development. Morgan Neville, the director of the critically acclaimed Anthony Bordain documentary titled, Roadrunner, will produce the Andy Kaufman documentary. Alex Braverman will direct the untitled project based on the life of the former SNL star. Kaufman was previously played by Jim Carrey in the 1999 film Man on the Moon.Jodi Balfour joins Ted Lasso season 3Apple TV's multiple Emmy-award winning series Ted Lasso has added Jodi Balfour to its cast for season 3. The For All Mankind alum will essay a recurring character, a charming venture capitalist named Jack in the series. She will be joined by returning cast members Jason Sudeikis, Brendan Hunt, Hannah Waddingham, Brett Goldstein, Juno Temple, Nick Mohammed, and Phil Dunster. The third season is currently under production and the story about the American football coach landing a job in England as a professional football coach is set to be even bigger.  Apple has acquired the official licensing from the Premier League, the top flight of English football and the biggest sporting league in the world.  Well that's the Sizzling samachar from the world of movies and entertainment, until the next episode it's your host Nikhil signing out.Aaj kya dekhoge OTTplay se poocho

October 3-9, 1992 This week Ken welcomes filmmaker, and all around talent, Shaina Feinberg to the show. Ken and Shaina discuss newly borns, how 1992 is a good year for Ken, Joan Rivers, The Real World, MTV, growing up in Manhattan, how big a difference a few years seems when you are younger, how people with a different style than you can seem way older, Bob Newhart, pitching a show for a 95 year old, home shopping network, the many phases of a creative career, directing a play, finding your direction in life later in life, having a ton of different jobs, favorite female directors, being a woman in a industry seen as a man's industry, Penelope Spheeris, shooting things in a pandemic, getting into directing via acting, Amy Heckerling, Martha Coolidge, My So-Called Life, Kate & Allie, Fringe, This Way Up, UK Shows, showing your kids positive role models, showcasing women, making Cheers now, doing staged readings of sitcom scripts, travel shows, food shows, Somebody Feed Phil, Anthony Bordain, Nailed It!, making documentaries about Shaina's mom, how people end up in Manhattan, how stand up comedy is like being a chef, wanting your kids to have a better life than you did, having a love of making stuff, having a lot of pans in the fire, wanting to write for Work in Progress, blue sky shows, not making shows with incredibly unlikable characters and introducing the youngest guest in the history of TV Guidance Counselor.

We had a great time with my nephew, Chef Troy Tucker. Among other things, we discuss his residency as head chef at a hotel in Debuque, Iowa that once served as a remote getaway for Al Capone, The Field of Dreams, the sitting president stumbling into the women's room, "Tiger Blood", Anthony Bordain vs. Gordon Ramsey, family and the time we shared a "Big Poop" together. People in the culinary world can be exposed to a wealth of life experiences, and when a large portion of your career has taken place in the epicenter of the most important caucus of the presidential election the stories can take on a life of their own. We miss Terri, Amanda and Troy and treasure opportunities like this to catch up! Troy's Page at the Hotel Julien Website https://hoteljuliendubuque.com/meet-the-team-troy-tucker/ Yeah Uh Huh on Facebook https://facebook.com/yeahuhhuhpod Yeah Uh Huh on Twitter https://twitter.com/yeahuhhuhpod Yeah Un Huh on Instagram https://instagram.com/yeahuhhuhpod Yeah Uh Huh Website https://yeah-uh-huh.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lisa-huey/message

Evan & Brandon with a mid week show as they talk about their Foo Fighters show experience in Cincinnati and they review the Doc “Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bordain” and MORE! OUR REVIEWS: Brandon - 5.0 ---- Evan 5.0 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/e2b2podcast/support

Those plant-based "meats" are just as nutritious as real meat, right?  WRONG!  Our guest says the fake stuff is NOT "nutritionally interchangeable" and you show know what you're eating. (22:47)  We talk about the Anthony Bordain documentary (1:08:45) , our Destination Unknown takes us to a gallery inside Yosemite (1:18:50) and our Deal of the Week focuses on a trip to the dessert of Arizona. (1:26:45) Listen to the LIVE feed of the show Saturday mornings at 8am ET and replays all week on Food and Travel Nation Radio  

For our Season 3 finale, Naga is in conversation with podcaster and content guru - Jay Acunzo to discuss, what differentiates great creators from all others, how to find your first 10-50 true fans? Is there a one size fits all approach to monetization?   Reach out to Jay Acunzo and Check out his content - Member Group (Paid) - https://jayacunzo.com/membership  Podcast - 3 Clips – https://jayacunzo.com/3-clips  Podcast - Unthinkable – https://jayacunzo.com/unthinkable-podcast  Twitter – https://twitter.com/jayacunzo Website - https://jayacunzo.com/  Books: Break the Wheel: Question Best Practices, Hone Your Intuition, and Do Your Best Work   Reach out to Naga –  Twitter - @n1n3stuff / @PassionPeop1 (https://twitter.com/ThePassionPeop1 ) Facebook -The Passion People Podcast Instagram -https://www.instagram.com/thepassionpeoplepodcast/   More about EpLog Media - You can follow us and leave us feedback on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter @eplogmedia, For advertising/partnerships send you can send us an email at bonjour@eplog.media. If you like this show, please subscribe and leave us a review wherever you get your podcasts, so other people can find us. 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All music other than the jingle on the episode is under the CC0 License and downloaded from freesound.org , freemusicarchive.org and unminus.com Transcript [00:00:00] Jay Acunzo: [00:00:00] you hear the phrase creator economy used quite often. And I think what we're living through is a very dangerous transition for a group of people who are trying to earn a living and a comfortable living at that using their creativity. [00:00:15]it's also very dangerous because with that momentum comes this, misunderstanding that to do this, you need to be famous that you need to be an influencer. And I think fame and influence  is becoming way too closely tied to the creator economy. [00:00:31]most importantly, this shifting mindset from essentially building on rented land like YouTube or Twitter and moving over to a platform you actually own like your own website and email list. [00:00:43] Naga S: [00:00:43] Hey Jay. Hello and welcome to the passionate people podcast. And thank you for taking the time [00:00:48] to be on the show. [00:00:49]Jay Acunzo: [00:00:49] Thanks for having me. I really appreciate it, [00:00:50]Naga S: [00:00:50] Jay, you have an extremely unique perspective, given your background in content marketing, the kind of shows that you've launched and the amazing work that you do at three clips. [00:01:01]So as, as we start. I would love to just get like a 30,000 feet view of the content landscape from your lens and how it looked at the start of 2020 and how COVID has changed it. [00:01:13]Jay Acunzo: [00:01:13] Yeah.  I'd love to answer. I spend very little time thinking about the trends and what everyone else is doing, because if I did that, I think I would probably break down. [00:01:22]I'm so focused on trying to. Serve the audience that I'd like to serve that it's difficult to follow the trends, but I will say that I think what we're living through,  you hear the phrase creator economy used quite often. And I think what we're living through is a very dangerous transition for a group of people who are trying to earn a living and a comfortable living at that using their creativity. [00:01:46]Because on the one hand you have momentum. Which is helping more and more people say, well, I have this craft,  for me,  I like to create shows. I like to tell stories about the workplace. Somebody else might focus on a different niche, [00:02:00] but I have this creative craft. It's never been a better time to go and build your own audience, which by the way means moving off of social media, using social media, but not stopping there, moving people to your website and your email list, building an audience. [00:02:14]And serving that audience more deeply with products and experiences that they pay for. So it's never been a better time for that, but it's also very dangerous because with that momentum comes this, misunderstanding that to do this, you need to be famous that you need to be an influencer. And I think fame and influence  is becoming way too closely tied to the creator economy. [00:02:39]So I think where I'd like to see this all go. Is to have a middle-class develop. So middle-class in a, like a classic sense that there's a sociologist named Dennis Gilbert. He wrote a great book called the American class structure in an age of growing and an inequality. And Gilbert defines middle-class as upper and lower middle-class. [00:02:59] So there's two little segments, but they combined to make up about 45 to 50% of the total population. And that 45 to 50% is judged based on their ability to have a comfortable standard of living significant economic security, considerable work autonomy, and a reliance on their own expertise to sustain themselves. [00:03:21]So what I'd like to see is a future in the not too distant future, by the way, where we stop trying to be super famous and have. Massive and impressive audience reach. And we actually truly embrace the ideas like Kevin Kelly's 1000 true fans or Seth Godin's smallest viable audience and try and find a small number of people who react in a big way to what we do and serve them more deeply. [00:03:49]And how do we get there? I think we need to stop trying to be social media famous and trying to serve people with our craft. So  my fear. Is that way too many people are [00:04:00] way too excited about more and more, more bigger, bigger, bigger, get famous in a niche or anything. General. My hope is that we can get to a place where 45 to 50%. [00:04:08] And that's, I think that's the bar. If you look at all, creators are 45 are about half of them able to earn a comfortable standard of living with significant economic security work autonomy. Using their expertise to sustain themselves. And I think it's going to take a lot of education to get there better tools. [00:04:27]And most importantly, this shifting mindset from essentially building on rented land like YouTube or Twitter and moving over to a platform you actually own like your own website and email list. [00:04:39]Naga S: [00:04:39] Got it. Let me double click on some of the concepts that you've spoken about here. Right? First one is Kevin Kelly's , a hundred true fans or legions thousand true fans, or what they talk about in terms of how much money are these folks willing to give you so that you are able to pursue your craft. [00:04:56]Right? So in order for us to be able to get to these thousand of these hundred people, you will at least need to reach like a 10,000 folks or like, you know, 5,000 folks. Right. And they might eventually convert into those smaller number of people who might end up being, who are potentially be able to sustain us financially. [00:05:14]So if your suggestion is for folks not to be too worried about having a broad reach, or I think what you're really trying to say is that people should not approach like a, have a spray and pray approach, where they say that I'm trying to get  everyone is my audience. And you're saying that you really need to have a niche. [00:05:31]But my question is more fundamental in terms of how do you really build that first initial audience who would be like the top of the funnel for your paying customers later on? [00:05:41]Jay Acunzo: [00:05:41] Everything I'm about to say is going to sound incredibly hard to do, because everybody wants to see the final result, but I assure you, I don't know any other way to do this other than you get incredibly lucky. [00:05:51]Lightning strikes and suddenly lots of people know who you are. So I think those stories are mostly myth here. Here's what I encourage people to [00:06:00] do. Stop thinking about the funnel and think about your audience as a series of concentric circles. So kind of like a bullseye in the middle and bigger and bigger circles moving out from the middle. [00:06:09]When you think of it like a funnel, I think you do think of it kind of the way you just described it, Naga where you need to reach 10,000 people to get a hundred or a thousand to. For example, subscribed to your newsletter. I actually think you need to just put aside the funnel, right? Stop trying to reach a lot of people first and convert a few people in the end of it all. [00:06:29]And start thinking about these concentric circles, where in the middle there's this circle called super fans. And as you radiate out from super fans, you get closer and closer to total strangers. What most of us try to do when we market, what we do is we go to total, strangers may be passive observers of our work, and we try to basically try to get them to like us quickly. [00:06:52]And that makes no sense. So whether you think in like human relationship terms or dollars and cents. It's inefficient and ineffective to try and convince total strangers that you're worth subscribing to or paying it's a lot easier and a lot more in line with how humans work to go to five other human beings that, you know, you can serve more deeply and try to build something that they like. [00:07:14]So I think most of us are in a position where we have some people in our network, social network or otherwise like online network or in the real world where we can reach a very small number of people. I mean, whatever small means to you, one, five, 15, 5,500, it depends on you and give them something that they love and react too strongly. [00:07:34]And if you can't do that, Then that's the problem. The problem isn't I can't reach more people, but I need to, the problem is you haven't actually built something that people are willing to refer others. So ostensibly, if you reach, I don't know, let's pick a number, a hundred people to listen to your podcast episode. [00:07:52]You should be  pretty well situated to grow the show more easily because those hundred people should be spending [00:08:00] a lot of time with you and telling all their friends. You know, relevant friends, check out that show. I think we assume we do that. We assume that we're actually creating something for super fans that is worth sharing. [00:08:12]And then we say, well, it's not growing. So the problem must be the marketing. We have to go reach 10,000 people. I don't think that's true. I think actually, when you think about building a real-world community, you think about meeting up for coffee or drinks with two or three people, then two or three more next time than five or six more. [00:08:30] The next time, then you have an event, then you have a panel. Then you have a huge conference. Like it really is that slow build approach. It's the same online, just because you can reach a lot of people doesn't mean that that's actually an effective way to grow. It actually starts by making something that one or a few people really, truly do love. [00:08:48]And tell their friends about, and it's a dangerous assumption to make. If you're not growing to assume you've actually done that. So the way it's sum this up is most of the time we don't have a marketing problem, we have a product problem. We have a service problem. We have a depth problem, not a reach problem. [00:09:04]Naga S: [00:09:04] Got it. I also think that some of this narrative is being carried over from like the startup world or like SAAS businesses in general, that they refer to all of these numbers of like funnels and that that's how they look at the world. However, the mental model that you suggested, which is how actual  communities really get built. [00:09:23] It's the way creator should be looking at it. Like, no, it should be like, they're talking to the first individual 5,000. How many of the people that they can and then see how they can expand that. That's a great insight that you give that. So then the next question I have for your Jay is that now you mentioned that it's not about marketing, it's your product and you've, you've seen a ton of content. [00:09:46]And there will be some things that set apart great content from everything else that's out there.   In global shows, your, you spoke about, we don't really need another podcast, which talks to you [00:10:00] know, famous authors and how they got there. [00:10:01] But what we need is something. A lot more specific though. Can I just ask you to dive a little bit deeper into  what makes a great product, especially now that our attention spans are so low and there's so many things that are finding to make us want to look at [00:10:16]Jay Acunzo: [00:10:16] Sure. I mean, our attention spans aren't so low because we're bingeing, Netflix shows we're subscribing to newsletters that write essays. [00:10:23]We're reading books were having conversations with friends and family. I read somewhere and I wish I remember who said this. This is not my quote. We don't have we don't have shorter attention spans. We have shorter interest spans, which means we are going to tolerate things that are not engaging and not personal for less time. So table stakes be relevant. Table stakes, be enjoyable. Differentiating is to feel refreshing that you've done something different and good, not just a random stunt, not a gimmick that feels hollow to grab attention, but something delightful that people didn't expect in a welcome way. Differentiating is to feel personal. [00:11:02] Like you want the reaction not to be, this is a popular thing, but you want it to be, this is my favorite thing. And favorite is not number one in the category. It's not different because you pulled a stunned. Favorite means somebody's personal and preferred pick for a specific purpose. So when you think about a product, a service content, any experience today, the goal is to make it feel personal to the other person you're trying to serve, or the audience we're trying to serve. [00:11:28] In other words, the best reaction you can get is they say to you, now this is speaking to my soul. That's what you want. Your brand, the way you position it, the story you just publish, the way you talk about the world and see the world and lead your community. This is speaking to my soul. It is my personal preferred pick for this specific purpose. [00:11:47] It is my favorite. And so, you know, your favorite restaurant may not be the top rated restaurant. Your favorite shirt may not win any awards for fashion. My favorite basketball team is the New York Knicks. If [00:12:00] you know anything about basketball, you know, the New York Knicks are one of the worst basketball teams. [00:12:04] So just really think about that objectively. One of the worst things in this set is my favorite thing. So feeling like someone's favorite has nothing to do with how big it is or how academically or objectively awesome it is. It has nothing to do with the things we look at. When we look at our peers, it has everything to do with, are you resonating deeply with somebody on a personal level? [00:12:26]So backing all the way up to starting your build a product content, a podcast, something else. There's really some set problems you're going to face, which I think we fail to address because we're so focused on the tech and the distribution and the measurement of it all. But the first challenge you're going to face is are you saying something that matters? [00:12:46]So if it's a podcast, for example, have you actually developed a premise for your show? And a premise is not just the topics you explore. It's not just what you cover. It's also how you explore them. So it's your topics plus your hook? So there's plenty of sales podcasts in the world who talked to experts in sales, but there is only one podcast for salespeople that explore the value of practice in your sales job. [00:13:13]And that's a show called practice first from a SAAS company called Lessonly. So that's a good example. Lessonly is saying something that matters. They observed their sales audience and they're like, look, you want to be better at sales? Well, I think you need to be better at practicing your craft. So Lessonly sells training software for salespeople, and they know that their customers who value practice close faster, and they're more valuable for their businesses. [00:13:38]Well, they're also then saying to the world, we need to elevate the role of practice. So we're not going to just interview a bunch of sales executives on this show on practice. First, we're going to learn how world-class practices do that to then try to translate it to our world in sales. So they'll talk to Olympians, they'll talk to Somalis. [00:13:58]They will talk to coaches. [00:14:00] And to me that is. That's IP that's intellectual property. That is defensible because when you say that to the world, like, actually this is something that matters to us and to the community, someone is saying, man, that is speaking to my soul. I'm with you, I'm on the journey to understand practice and how to practice better as a sales individual. [00:14:20]And someone else is saying, yes, I'm in sales, but I don't believe that practice is that important. Well, that's fine. This is not a show for you. That's okay. Also, if you, if you tried our product, you would dislike our product too. So it's that level of specificity and saying something that truly matters of combining your topics. [00:14:38] In other words, what you explore with your hook, that unique angle into the topics, your point of view, your quest, that you're bringing people on. Those are the things that combined to say something that matters. And those are the starting points for building in your words, a great product. [00:14:53]Naga S: [00:14:53] So now we've spoken about the number of people that you need for your, like a minimum viable audience you've spoken about. How do you make a great product once content creator has achieved both of these things? What do you think is the next best way to achieve? Monetization. And what I mean by monetization is that the audience typically is expecting to either be entertained or to learn something new or to be taken on a journey or be disconnected from reality, so to speak because they just want to relax and unwind when, when they're consuming content apart from these three broad value teams, what are some of the other Aspects that creators can keep in mind so that they can move towards monetization in a quicker and more thoughtful manner. [00:15:43]Jay Acunzo: [00:15:43] I can't answer that question because it's too general. Because there's a million, everything at our disposal today, our tools. Right. So like, could you do a course? Sure. Could you run ads? Sure. Could you sell a book? Absolutely. You know, could you create a membership group? Absolutely. These are all tools. [00:15:58]And so [00:16:00] rather than have me give a general answer, I would encourage people to go and talk to their audience and understand what is. Still bugging them. What problem is left under addressed or what thing is under explored that they'd like to understand better? So we have all these tools at our disposal and I'm kind of struck by today. [00:16:20] We're all looking for that, answer, that silver bullet, you know, the savior tactic, you should do this. Well that's general advice and I don't know the variables of your specific situation. So just ignore what I say and go talk to your audience. You know, a good example of this is,  this podcast called three clips, which is where podcasts join us and take us inside their best work. [00:16:41]And we do so by playing three different clips and breaking them down together. So I talked to the audience of three clips all the time on social media. I do one-on-one video calls through my newsletter. And one of the things I've recognized is this audience desperately wants to create really awesome shows, but there's this disassociation. [00:17:02] They feel between their heroes and them, whether they admire great podcasts, but they're like, Oh, I could never do anything that big. Well, it's like, okay. But if you're like, listen to the show, these people aren't describing anything big or stunt, like they're describing these tiny choices they made all the time that combined to making a great show. [00:17:20]So you can put process to that. Well, what is the process I was, you know, okay, I'll go write some essays about what I'm learning from the show. I'll send some tweets, I'll send some newsletter, additions, all about the things I'm learning and thinking about as a result of this show. And now I'm looking for, you know, am I getting a strong reaction from the audience? [00:17:38]Okay, the answer is yes. Great. Well, how do I then go a level deeper with these ideas? Let me take one specific thing. And in this case, I took the premise because that is such an important and overlooked thing. How do you develop a premise for your podcast? That's what prompts subscription. That's what drives the sharing of your show? [00:17:55] It's what helps you make choices inside your show? The premise development is [00:18:00] crucial, but most people don't think of the premise. They think of growth. They think of growing the show. How do I know that? Because I talked to these people and when I bring up premise development, it's like their eyes glaze over and they have no idea what I'm talking about. [00:18:12] Then I explain it, you know, then I explain it, then they get it. So when I talk about growth, they lean in, when I talk about premise development, they lean back. So I have to put the two together. So you want to grow your show. Great. What makes a growable show? Well, it starts with the premise. So then I developed a course. [00:18:29]To help people grow their shows by developing a better premise called it Growable shows. So all those decisions from the content I'm creating, you know, that's away from the show to pressure test my ideas to the name itself growable shows because I could have called it premise development. It all comes from me talking to the audience. [00:18:47] So as a creator today, it can be overwhelming because you have myriad tools and tons of different products that you could create for your audience. There's no way you can pick that out. In theory, you have to just pursue endless curiosity and pursue little threads that your audience surfaces to you. And for me, the best way to do that is actually not to create podcast episodes it's to write is to use writing as a way to explore. [00:19:11]I might learn something through the podcast, but then I'm like, great. I'm going to write a ton about this stuff. I'll write stuff on Twitter. I'll write stuff in my blog. I'll write stuff on my newsletter. I'll write and write and write until I understand these things better. And have process and have technique I can teach. [00:19:25] And I'm also getting a feedback loop for my audience to understand if they're, if they're picking up what I'm putting down. So I know that's a long answer, but I don't think there is a simple answer. I think it is go talk to your audience, but be process-driven about it. [00:19:36]Naga S: [00:19:36] Yup. I love the fact that you're, you're not only engaging with your audience and in one form. [00:19:42] Right? And, and even as part of the clips, you also have like specific episodes that are just dedicated to input your conversation with the listeners and the kind of stuff that you hear back from them. [00:19:52]Jay Acunzo: [00:19:52] That's another great example of talking to the audience that I sort of discovered by accident. It's like I do. [00:19:58]A listener mailbag episode, [00:20:00] once in awhile, where mostly on Twitter, I ask if people have questions about creating shows and we'll do five to seven questions in an episode that I'll answer. So we don't have a guest. It's not the usual production. It's just Q and a, and I'm answering questions I got on Twitter. [00:20:14]And what I realized is everybody's questions, or a lot of questions tend to focus on things that they think they need to know. But I want to show them actually, what you really need to know is over here. And I can't just say that I have to start with the problems that they think they have and walk them every step of the way to the problem that I know they have. [00:20:36]Which is something I learned as a public speaker, because when you give a keynote speech, unlike a breakout speech or talk, you're giving like a big idea how to think talk. And so the keynote, you can't just get up there and be like, everybody's doing it wrong. Think about it this way. Instead you have to say, so we all want to get over there. [00:20:54]Right. And here's how we're going about it today. Okay. We're in agreement. Okay. Well, here's the problems with the status quo with our current approach. And people go, huh? Hadn't thought about it or, Oh my goodness. Yep. You get me. Those are the problems I deal with all the time. And then you can say, okay, well consider this different thing here. [00:21:13] Let me give you a story that shows what it looks like. Let me break it down into a framework that we can use with some lessons and some examples, you know, and let's go deeper if you want away from the speech. Let's talk after subscribe to my newsletter, take a course, et cetera. So this idea of being a keynote speaker kind of taught me that our jobs as creators is not the pander to existing market demand. It's actually to look at what people think they need and actually tell them what they really need. You know, the, the classic idea of Henry Ford talking about his customers. Like if I asked my customers what they wanted, they would've said faster horses. [00:21:46]So actually we're all in the business of understanding the pain, understanding the problems, understanding what is broken about the status quo and people's current processes. But then we can't just propose a radically new and different solution or category. We have to [00:22:00] start with where they're at and move them every step of the way towards something better. [00:22:03]And for my money, one of the best ways to do that today is to start a podcast. So that's why I love it because a podcast is like a journey between the status quo or your current understanding. And something better in the distance. So it kind of mirrors a keynote speech stretched out over a much longer period of time, but either way as a creative person, you are in the business of making change and helping people do something better or differently. [00:22:26] Not just saying everybody's asking for this. So I'll write a bunch of stuff that addresses that you're in the business of change. [00:22:32]Naga S: [00:22:32] You spoke about how every creator's journey to monetization. Is different. And you also said that, , that there are different things that they might not know that they want, but it's up to us to find out what they really need and help them bridge the gap. [00:22:47]One of the ways to bridge the gap also is to see what someone else is doing in your blog posts. You've spoken about extraction. It's spoken about how do you observe and document like. The underlying framework of a particular episode. I think I wrote about it in reference to a TV show. [00:23:04]How can somebody apply that in terms of borrowing, so to speak best practices from other creators so that they're able to apply it for their content? [00:23:15] Jay Acunzo: [00:23:15] It's a great question. I rejected the idea early in my life that creativity. And great creative projects have a format, have a structure, have a repeatable process. [00:23:25]But if you look at everything from scientific studies about creativity, to just real-world examples and advice from people, constraints actually yield better creativity. I think we, we believe the opposite. We believe we want creative freedom, but I think that's only because we've had bad constraints or constraints we disagree with or didn't know were there. [00:23:44] With teammates, employers, ourselves, but putting positive or proactive constraints on your work actually breeds better creativity. And one amazing type of constraint to put on your work is the format of whatever it is you're creating. So for me, those are [00:24:00] shows. So I have a, I have two podcasts. I've mentioned three clips. [00:24:03]The other one I have is a show called unthinkable, which three clips has kind of a segmented interview on thinkable as a narrative style show. So to heavier production, lots of story and voiceover and music and sound design, and the audience gets one end to end episode. Every time it feels like one coherent story. [00:24:20]But what I know is happening underneath an episode, which then makes me better to create it is I know we have six or seven blocks of content with the same purpose. A block is for this B block is for that. And they have different runtimes. And we have to fill those blocks with content. So we're going to go and research. [00:24:36] We're going to go interview. We're going to craft it and in editing. And I got that idea from TV because in TV you have both visible and invisible what they call rundowns. So visible rundown is like a news program often has that you see the ticker of what subjects they're covering and when a sit-com or a story style show, anything where you don't know the format, it's not told to you. [00:25:00] That's an invisible rundown. And so my favorite storyteller is Anthony Bordain and his show parts unknown on CNN before, you know, he tragically died and I took a notebook early in my time, creating unthinkable. And I sat down with that show and I just tried to document what is it that makes his show so magical? [00:25:18] Like what's the format, even if him and his production team didn't have it in their heads. There's something going on in repeatable fashion here. And if I could extract the rundown. I can modify it and use it for my show. So I'm not trying to imitate Bordain. I'm just trying to have a flow that feels similar to his. [00:25:36]So my voice is different, but the structure is the same. And you can do that with anything you admire take a notebook, see if you can figure out what your favorite creators are doing underneath their content. What's the structure of a given story of your favorite newsletter or book. You know, how do they actually format that video that you love? [00:25:54]And chances are, you can come up with something that approximates their plan, or maybe they didn't have a plan, but you have [00:26:00] a structure anyway. So I call that exercise and extraction and it can really radically transform your creativity. You know, first of all, it gives you a repeatable process. So you don't burn out every time. [00:26:11] Like every episode of unthinkable early on for me, felt like I was just kind of proceeding on gut feel alone and I would burn out a lot. Well, now you have a repeatable process. I know what I need to get in my research in my interviews with people in post, I have a plan. The second thing that happens is the audience gets a better final result because you have a plan to get them to the end of the thing, you know, in my case, in episode. [00:26:33]So I have like a structure to it. Not just because it's fun or sounds right, but because lineup, all these sections, you have one great coherent experience that people don't want to leave. So it benefits your production, it benefits your audience sticking around, and it also benefits the longevity or show because you can look at that rundown and re-invent with purpose. [00:26:52]Instead of being like, I have all these ideas for new types of episodes or additions. If my newsletter or my blog, you can say, well, this is the structure, you know, in my case of an episode, and every time we hit B block, it seems to fall apart. So let me change it. Or actually, I think we could try to experiment with a playful type of segment at the end, or maybe that becomes a mini series or a whole new show after we do it five or six times inside an existing episode. [00:27:17]So you get to reinvent with purpose. So I think having structure is transformative, but we fight it too much as creative people. And I think that's a huge missed opportunity. [00:27:25]Naga S: [00:27:25] The first time that I really, , had my brush with structure was when I was studying to get into business school. And I was reading about , reading comprehension, how do you break down a passage?  It was just a revelation for me to realize that even in my favorite Netflix show, there is a specific story arc. [00:27:42]The protagonist is going through certain things and it always ends. With a clincher and that sort of  keeps you coming back for more and more and more. And this, like you said, like let's structure everywhere, but it's just that we're not really thinking about it or looking for it or looking for inspiration from those places. [00:27:58]Jay Acunzo: [00:27:58] Yeah. Like there's, there [00:28:00] are some famous story structures, you know Joseph Campbell's hero's journey is a big one. There's a modified version of that that's been used in pop culture and entertainment from. Dan Harmon, who's the showrunner behind shows like community and Rick and Morty. He uses something called the story circle. [00:28:15] You can just pull up Google images and search for hero's journey or Dan Harmon story circle. And you'll find that it just makes sense, like these visuals explain story. I mean, even tiny little heuristics, like there's, there's a technique called the open loop. So here's an example of an open loop. So Naga this morning I went downstairs to my kitchen and  my notebook was sitting on the counter and I read the first page of my notebook, which had five words that inspired me. [00:28:43] And I read them every  morning. Okay. Nothing happened in that story like this, literally a story about nothing. I went to the kitchen, I looked at my notebook. I read five words that inspire me, but the question on your mind immediately, Is [00:28:55] Naga S: [00:28:55] what are those five words? [00:28:56] Jay Acunzo: [00:28:56] Exactly. And so you're like that story is about nothing, but please continue. [00:29:01]And so open loops are just, you start a sequence of events and you end them later, you open questions or raise intrigue and you resolve them later. Open loops, even the word, but is a form of open loops. And that's what I thought. But then Naga called me. Who's Naga. Why he call you? How did it change your perception of what you thought the word, but is like a form of a tiny little open loop. [00:29:25] It's a storytelling device. Open loops can span years, like game of Thrones who will sit on the throne. That's an open loop that the name itself opened for the audience. It raised intrigue. Before you even saw the show. If you just heard the name during the promotion for season one, now there's already an open loop and that lasted 10 years. [00:29:43]So big and small, you have this technique called the open loop and we don't know how to wield it as creators. So either we don't use intrigue or don't create questions. And so our experiences are flat or we use it in a very. Abusive way. We, you know, we re we [00:30:00] abused the responsibility inherent and being a communicator. [00:30:03] And we do things like clickbait headlines, which is like a crude form of an open loop. And I think if you learn how to tactfully use tension, that's what creates great stories. And that is where these story structures come in, because it's like, okay, what details happened before the tension? Where do I introduce the tension? [00:30:21] Where do I relieve the tension? And sometimes it's as simple as one, two, three, sometimes it's a little bit more nuanced and like a wave that, you know, rises and falls and story structure or ways for you to focus that. But without the structure and without even knowing these open loops exist, we're just winging it and good for us for doing that because a lot of people won't even try that. [00:30:42]But if we want to have a sustainable thriving career, And we want to be better at this craft. I think we're far better learning about what actually goes on in the theory of it all to the structure, the format. How do we make things consistently and make things consistently better every single time? [00:30:57]Naga S: [00:30:57] Absolutely. I think that's a phenomenal note for us to wrap up this conversation, Jay, who we've spoken about of extraction and spoken about structure, spoken about honing a craft and spoken about. The product or the premise marketing the right way. So can you bottom line it for us? [00:31:15]Jay Acunzo: [00:31:15] Don't Mark it more matter more. [00:31:17]If you just focus on that, you'll be set up for success. It's really hard to do because it's easy to market more. It's really hard to matter more, but I think if we focus on the wrong things, eventually we find out it's actually a lot easier to focus on mattering to people than marketing to people. [00:31:33]Naga S: [00:31:33] Fantastic. Can people reach out to you? What's the best way for them to reach out, [00:31:38]to reach out Twitter? You know, my show is three clips. That's about podcasting. And then my other show is about creativity at work, which is unthinkable. [00:31:45]Fantastic. I'll make sure that I include the links to your shows as well as your Twitter handle in the show notes. [00:31:52]Jay Acunzo: [00:31:52] Thanks Naga. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today's episode rounds out our series on utilizing your location as a tool to financial independence and is led by just thew of us hosts. You may hear this idea called geo-arbitrage. We wanted to pick two locations where we would actually like to take a test run of financial independence in a foreign country. Cody picked Santiago, Chile and Justin picked Porto, Portugal. This episode covers an honest and holistic look at what it would cost for a couple to live in these countries while still really exploring and enjoying them. Take a listen and consider where you'd move if you had the freedom. Santiago, Chile Housing - $500 for a one BR apartment - Comes with parking, laundry, gym, BBQ and pool Utilities (Electricity, Heat, Cooling, Water, Garbage) $135 per month Cost of Flights to Other Locations - Flights around South America starting as low as $35. - $385 to get back to  Cody's home in New England Restaurant Samplings - Simple meal at inexpensive restaurant costs $5 Grocery Samplings - $30-35 per week. With mostly fish, vegetables, beans, eggs, “healthy” pasta, fruits, and smoothies Phone/Internet - $45 per month Public Transportation - Taxis will take you anywhere for less than $10 - Average of $150 per month (per expat survey) Healthcare - Ranked 33 out of 190 countries (similar to Australia and Denmark and many of the doctors speak english) - $100-120 for healthy adult expat insurance Visa Requirements (how long can I stay?) - 90 days (plus can pay $100 for another 90 day extension) Weather - Coldest months are June and July with average highs of 61 degrees Fahrenheit - Only downside is that it rains 4-5 days per week Total cost = $1650/month 500 housing 135 utilities 120 groceries 250 restaurants 45 phone/internet 100 transport 120 healthcare 400 entertainment $19,800 per year   Porto, Portugal Housing - $833 for a one BR apartment in heart of the city - Comes with parking, laundry, wifi, all utilities Utilities (Electricity, Heat, Cooling, Water, Garbage) Included Cost of Flights to Other Locations - Flights around Europe starting as low as $25. Paris: $25 Barcelona $49 Milan $53 - $670 to get back to  Justin's home in Austin Restaurant Samplings - Simple meal at inexpensive restaurant costs $6 - Anthony Bordain visited restaurant also serves $1.80 martinis Grocery Samplings - $40 per week. $2.60/lb chicken, $1.30/lb pork, $0.75 fresh bread, $0.90 apples, $2.50 bottle of wine as examples Phone/Internet - Wifi is free, 22gb data and unlimited call cell phone for $18 Public Transportation -Amazing train system for very cheap which I factor into "Travel" Healthcare - Emergency room visits are free - Research shows ~$40 per month for plans Visa Requirements (how long can I stay?) - 90 days with just the passport - Full citizenship appears attainable if you can prove you have healthcare as well as stable income source to fund your retirement Weather - Lowest highs are 57 degrees December/January - Highest highs are 77 degrees in July/August Total cost = $1770/month (for a couple) 833 housing 140 groceries 300 restaurants 18 phone/internet 80 healthcare 400 entertainment (includes transportation) $21,240 per year   Join the Community We’d love to hear your comments and questions about this week’s episode. Here are some of the best ways to stay in touch and get involved in The FI Show community! Grab our FREE Budget Planner Join our Facebook Group Leave us a voicemail Send an email to contact [at] TheFIshow [dot] com If you like what you hear, please subscribe and leave a rating/review! >> You can do that by clicking here

Below The Belt Show (www.belowthebeltshow.com) presents an interview what you could call MAGICAL with actor and magician Rich Hanley! RIch can be seen in the upcoming Tubi TV series "Culture Shock: Bridging Cultures Through Magic". Described as Anthony Bordain meets David Blaine, Rich talks about what to expect from his upcoming show, how different culture perceive magic and much more! Rich also talks about working with Cameron Diaz and Maggie Grace in "Knight and Day" and his upcoming project "Acre Beyond The Rye" which stars Lacey Chabert and Lance Hendrickson. Don't miss this interview!

Below The Belt Show (www.belowthebeltshow.com) presents a show that you could call MAGICAL! Our featured guest is actor and magician Rich Hanley who you can see in the upcoming Tubi TV series "Culture Shock: Bridging Cultures Through Magic". Described as Anthony Bordain meets David Blaine, Rich talks about what to expect from his upcoming show, how different culture perceive magic and much more! Rich also talks about working with Cameron Diaz and Maggie Grace in "Knight and Day" and his upcoming project "Acre Beyond The Rye" which stars Lacey Chabert and Lance Hendrickson. Don't miss this interview! In addition, we welcome an up and coming rapper, Andre Xcellence! Andre talks to us about his rap career, his new single Bring Em Out, musical influences and which artists he would love to collaborate with. Andre's first EP “I’m Coming 2.0” has had over 1.5 million streams. Check out his website at https://www.xcellentmusic.com. BTB’s host with the most Al Sotto and co-host Chachi McFly bring to you another excellent program! This week we welcome the return of some BTB favorites, "The Captain" Big Nick, Oleg The Gay Russian and actress and filmmaker Alexis Barone! So expect all the late-breaking news on pop culture, entertainment, and more! Listen to our gut busting humor, insightful commentary, and thought provoking opinions on the world of entertainment uncensored only on Below The Belt Show (www.belowthebeltshow.com)! Song Credits Classic Cut: ACDC "Hell's Bells" Andre Xcellence "Bring Em Out"

Today I'm speaking with Photographer Jim Herrington. Jim's celebrity portraits include Willie Nelson, Morgan Freeman, Dolly Parton, and his images have appeared in magazines like Rolling Stone and Esquire. He has a fabulous portrait series of many of the climbing legends such as Ricardo Cassin, Royal Robbins, Fred Beckey, and many more in his acclaimed book The Climbers which was awarded the grand prize at the 2017 Banff Book Awards.   Facebook Twitter Instagram   The Outdoor Biz Podcast   Please give us a rating and review HERE   Show Notes Jim Herrington.com The Climbers Book When did you pick up your first camera? How old were you? Well, there was an old Argus, twin lens reflex that was rattling around and family. Probably a 1950s model with a leather case. I remember getting my hands on that, playing around some, but then, I got a Kodak Instamatic around 1972 or something when I was a nine. The first significant camera was a Pentax K 1000. And I got that when I was about 12 or 13. And actually that's kind of the way I measure it back to when things really started. I ended up photographing Benny Goodman on that camera. When I was a young teen and I always call that ground zero of where it all began. You're pretty much self-taught then I guess? Well, yeah, I mean, people say self-taught, but that just usually means they've gone and sought out really good teachers. I did go to school briefly. It wasn't for me, but I had intentionally picked out really exceptional mentors, people I wanted to learn from and, certainly tons of books and movies and going to museums and just really looking. So I guess in a way I taught myself, but you know, you're learning from somebody somehow. I guess you're more picking how you're taught if you do it that way. You're kind of looking at how they get that and how they do that and figuring it out on your own. What kind of things did you shoot as a kid, did you just shoot everything or did you have a specific photo or image in mind? You know, of course, I shot the dog and stuff like that. There were these old life magazines around the house and I think my father was kind of casually collecting from the thirties and forties. And you know, they had these big, full-bleed, black and white photographs. from World War two and Paris and Antarctica, Brigitte Bardot, and all these amazing things to look at. I can remember my earliest memories were laying on the floor in the living room, just going through those pages and being taken somewhere to these places. And it was a while before I thought, Oh, somebody is taking these photos. I was so young. I didn't even know someone took these photos. They were like pictures. I didn't know where pictures came from, but then it dawned on me that someone was taking them. And then, later on, I realized these people are getting paid to take these pictures and it just immediately became my obsession. This must be the best life possible, traveling around the world and encountering these people, places, and things, and sort of showing your little creative version of it. That's the way my mind could put it together. I mean, I didn't realize there were people like the great photographers Dorothy Lange and Walker Evans. But that's who a lot of those people were. So it was a good early place, just kind of the first place where I saw good, interesting photography. What were you shooting? I was trying to mimic that lifestyle probably. I felt like I did have kind of a serious approach to it, even if the results didn't show it. I was definitely influenced by that stuff. We also had an old 1950s encyclopedia Britannica in the house filled with stock photography to illustrate whatever entry was. But, you know, even that stuff had this kind of, Jobie craft to it. Even if it wasn't art there was a kind of beauty to some of these. I remember looking up the Sierra Nevada and just seeing some black and white photo of it with a red filter probably on it, so that you've got the dark sky and just this classic Sierra image and immediately thinking, well, this is where I have to go. Walker Evans would have turned into kind of an artistic style and statement, which wasn't that far from just a guy shooting stock photography in a way. So I kind of liked that approach early on. Just finding these things that had their kind of inherent, quiet, coolness. And a lot of those shots back then versus now seemed like they were more artistic and more crafted as opposed to looking through magazines these days. And granted there's a lot more magazines and a lot more images, but some of them just look like stock photography. These days it just looks like somebody who's out there firing off snapshots. Those shots, those shots back in those magazines were art almost as well. A lot of it was art. It was beautiful. Back then you had to know what you were doing. You, you had to learn how to operate a film camera. You had to usually know how to work in the dark rooms so that the learning curve was of a certain, you know, distance and math. You couldn't really just pick up a digital camera and futz around in Photoshop and end up with something. So there was a kind of base-level ability to those people. Looking at it now, anything shot on a big format camera, even if it wasn't so great holds a bit of weight, looks a bit serious. People now it's, just such a different playing field, there are so many photographs. We, as a culture, as a world, the humans we've seen so many photos were so burnt on everything, we've seen it all nonstop. And that was a certain naivete back then. People weren't burned out on photos. There was a lot of newness. It just wasn't that not everybody could do it. In the first 10 or even 20 years of my life, there were certain jobs that I got, simply because I owned a camera. I'm not joking, you know, “who do we know that owns a photographic camera?” Uh, well, this guy, Jim Harrington knows, in fact, he even knows how to operate it. It just was true. You know, I got a lot of jobs that way. I remember in the nineties, I would get weird jobs in North Dakota or somewhere. And it was just because we didn't have as many photographers. Now you could pick the tiniest village in North Dakota and there's probably 20 guys with a website or girls, you know, cause they're a photographer. Tell us about your first portrait shoot. Was that the family dog. Did you have the dog sit for a shoot? Was it a family member? First portrait shoot, where I thought I was actually doing something? Well, that shot I did of Benny Goodman, wasn't a portrait sitting. It was him live. And my dad turned me on to Benny Goodman when I was like, practically a seed, very young. I love that kind of music. And at one point Dad said, “Benny Goodman is coming to town. Do you want to go?” And I said, yes. I had that first FinTech and I shot a couple of frames, I was very scared, walked up to the stage in front of all these people. That felt like I was actually doing something, trying something, and actually got something out of it, but still portraits. I'm sure it was just one of my friends that I grabbed where I was trying something that was a little more considered that I'd seen and in some kind of art book or photography magazine and just attempting it. Was there a first paid portrait shoot that was kind of like, Ooh, this is important. I gotta make sure I do good. This is so sad that it's noteworthy and telling. But there, I don't guess this happens anymore, but in the old days when I was young if you were some sort of celebrity, maybe an actor or actress or musician, and maybe you had gone a bit beyond your prime. If there was, for instance, a new appliance store opening in some town, you would appear at the grand opening. And sure enough, this early friend that I'd made, an older guy and he'd lived in London, kind of exciting person. I met in Charlotte and he had been around the music scene of London. He was managing this tiny, mid-century kind of mall, like a prototype of a mall. And there was an appliance store in it. And Eileen Fulton, I don't know if anybody's going to recognize this name, but she was a big soap opera star in the fifties and sixties and seventies. But I think by like 1981, she was probably a bit washed up. Still glamorous, but you know, a little past the due date. And she came to be an appliance store celeb. So I got paid $40 to go photograph Eileen Fulton at the opening. Ah, humble beginnings What inspired your quest to photograph all the famous old climbers? Well, it still kind of goes back to the life magazine stuff. And later on, I don't know if you want to call it journalism documentary, it's a little of both. But you know, it slowly started growing out to these more cerebral types of documentary street people. Gary Winogrand, Friedlaender, even Diane Arbus, Robert Frank, Cartier Bresson, you know, I just started really getting into the whole world and the history of this stuff. And, being very influenced by these people I had a real hunger for the history of photography and the great people that had done it through the decades. And I did start shooting the music scene early on, kind of the punk rock, new wave, et cetera, scene of Charlotte and I kind of felt like I was documenting that. Then I moved out to Hollywood pretty early on and started seeking out the current scene. But I was definitely interested in finding some of these kinds of older obscure people, which I did throughout all my music photography. And in fact kind of really got into that. As years went on, really finding a lot of these kinds of roots in America, a blues country, Jazz, R & B, whatever. Especially if some of these people had kind of disappeared and that became a bit of my schtick for a long time and I built up a big archive of that. And with climbing, it was kind of the same thing. Cause I got into climbing, and everything kind of happened around the same time. The early mid-seventies when I started hearing about stuff and I'm into exactly what I was into as a kid. And climbing. I mean, especially, in America in the seventies, the California influence, you know, kind of driven by the Sierra, even the, you know, just the Chouinard catalogs, just that whole thing. It was like propaganda and, um, or even the, um, do you remember the, uh, save mono Lake poster? Yeah, I was going to say even that the Sunset magazines and AAA, all those things had photographs of Yosemite, Death Valley. All that stuff. There was such a strong California propaganda to me, as a guy that had his antennas up, certainly for the climbing. But yeah, Sunset magazine, the beauty of that stuff. And even like I said, that encyclopedia Britannica just seeing the Sierra Nevada. I mean, you know, just the trees, the way the whole place looked like a Japanese Zen Garden, it all made sense to me. And I particularly got super into the history of it and reading about it. And so, around the mid-nineties, I decided, well I knew that Glen Dawson and Jules Eichorn were still alive. And they were about the oldest people I could imagine, anyone else older would have died already. So I just thought, well, I'm going to go find these guys and photograph them and meet them and that's that, right? And so I did, I ended up, this is in the pretty early days of the internet. I don't even know, this was before Google. I don't know what I would have even searched on back then, but I actually somehow found Doug Robinson's phone number. I mean, this is like a primal search. I have no idea, but suddenly it came up on the screen, Doug Robinson, here's his phone number. I thought, really this easy huh? And I just immediately called him. I'm just going to completely, this is probably not the way you're supposed to use the internet, but I'm calling this guy. And so he picked up, we talked for like two hours and just kind of really hit it off. And I told him, I said, you know, I think I'm going to come out. So he thought that was very cool. And then somehow that turned into him and I climbing together and photographing him, Cause I love Doug's writing, I was deeply impressionable and fell under the gaze of Doug's. It was just part of the whole stew that I was digging, you know? And so I went out there and I got Glen Dawson down in Pasadena and then I drove up to Owens Valley and met Doug and we had this amazing two weeks together. We did a first ascent in the Palisades. We went all over the place, went to the needles, a really incredible trip all the way along. And then after that went up to the Bay area and shot Jules. And so, boom, I had these three guys and, it felt kinda cool and it's like maybe I should continue and get these Sierra Nevada guys. This will be a cool little project. So I did, whenever I got the money, you know, this was just a personal project and I was living in Nashville at the time. So I had to keep paying for plane tickets, just all that. That was always a thing. But I slowly got Royal Robbins and Chouinard and got more of these people. And so I thought, maybe there's a little Sierra Nevada series. Maybe it's, I don't know, Outside magazine did a spread, but then at some point, it just kinda grew. I got Bradford Washburn on the East coast, which suddenly it wasn't a Sierra project anymore. Okay. It's an American project, but then a couple of years, three years later or more, I ended up getting Ricardo Cassin and Italy and suddenly it was international and nobody gave a damn about this thing. Really. It was just, people thought I was crazy. It was climbers like some really smart, interesting climbers thought, well, why are you doing this? Like you're shooting like young, hot climbers. It's like, really don't fucking get this at all. I just, it's so obvious to me. I wouldn't want to be shooting young, hot climbers. Like these are legends man. And they're sitting around in their living room. Some of them just waiting for someone to come visit. It was like a dream job and nobody recognized it. That's awesome. It's amazing. You went all over the world doing it and for a personal project! That has gotta be some expense involved in that, but you got some great portraits. I love it. And I love some of the stories you were telling when you were here in Bishop about how you got some of those guys, I forget who it was, you were photographing at his kitchen table. And that story was just, that had to be a great experience. I mean, unbelievable. It was crazy. I started getting very bold in my penniless travels, putting myself way out there without a way home with my camera and my bindle. And it was, I mean, I've always traveled, you know, since I could, since I was young, but it was definitely an experiment of just how far out on the edge you can go with an idea and no money. How about the inspiration for each individual? Did you have a person that you just wanted to, get on the list or you wanted to meet him? Did you have a recipe or an idea of the shot before? You know, again, the early recipe was the Sierra Nevada. The fact that I got Bradford Washburn who was amazing and also his photography was amazing. I just thought, how can I turn that down? That kind of made me turn it into, okay, it's an American thing. I didn't really want to be this big about it, but it's getting big. It also, while it made it more difficult, it also made it easier without the restriction of just the Sierra Nevada. Now, if there's these other people that it's going to make it bigger and messier, suddenly I know I can get this guy and this guy. It's a mixture of guys that I knew and respected. I did have to start thinking about well, I don't want to get too many from one area. You know, this thing's becoming global, then I want to diffuse it out a bit. Sometimes it was all about the person. Sometimes it was wanting to represent an area or scene, obviously the Alps or the Calanques, you know, outside of Marseille. There became these sort of little mini reasons. Obviously I wanted to get some Sherpas, there were all these many reasons. Some people died that were really heartbreaking that I couldn't get, and got so close to that was a super big bummer, but I had to philosophize that and how to keep myself sane. And ultimately I had, and I liked the reasoning that I used, which is this book is a representation of an era. It was never intended to be a who's who complete encyclopedia. That would have been too big anyway. It would have been a really unwieldy book. It would have been just too much so, and that's true. And also it saved me from going insane for the people that I did miss. So I do feel confident that I represented the era very well, which is the 1920s to 1970s. I think if you'd had just tried to get everybody, then all of a sudden it becomes too much like an encyclopedia or library book or something, and it loses the emotion. I think that you've captured the emotion of the era as well as the stories. It's great. And the book is a good size. It's not too big. There are 60 climbers, 60 portraits. I think that's just about right. Any more than that and they sort of lose importance. It may make you skip a couple of pages and keep looking. What were the years photographing the musicians like that had to be pretty wild too, cause those were some wild years. Well, that was fun. I mean, I'm still doing it. I never really quit, but you know, it's a different playing field now. Well, certainly with COVID, but who knows what's going to happen. I'm a huge music fan and grew up loving, I was kind of a product, I guess, of the punk rock years. But I was a big, again, I love big band, Benny Goodman, the stuff my mom and dad turned me on to early rock and roll and jazz. So just everything good. I was into, good as subjective, and I just wanted to document it and I did kind of force that one along. It was great, you know, it was, it was fun to start getting published and getting my name on album covers and magazines and getting paid. But it really was, these were my people. I was an only child in a small town in North Carolina and I didn't feel like, it felt like I had to go out in the world to find this world that I related to. I felt like this was where I should be. And I just had to go find these people. These were friends I hadn't made yet is the way I felt about it. And it turned out to be true. And I think it's the same for those people too. Everybody wants to find their people. I got to be friends with a lot of them, many of them. I mean, And the same with climbing you know, Doug Robinson's one of my best friends. I mean, it's weird cause he was this legend in my eyes. I have to call him today, check up on his new hip. So yeah, I always just felt it was, you create the world you want to be in and that's the world I wanted to be in and it was comfortable and I understood it. And I felt, I kind of felt like I was doing a public service documenting these people. Like maybe you don't realize it now, but one day you'll look at these pictures after this was all gone. And it was pretty adventurous of you to go travel around the world. And even as a youngster doing this stuff, are there adventurers in your family or where did that adventure bug come from? Well, this is something I think about a lot. I had to learn how to do that. I mean you know, my dad turned me on to it. I remember I sorta had the blueprints in our humble little living room. We had a globe, you know, an old fashioned globe. We had an Atlas, we had these life magazines and we had an encyclopedia. And that was like the only four things I remember. It was some kind of visual stimulus, but it was everything. If something came on the news on TV, you know, dad would always show it. We'd look on the map. It's like, Holy shit, what's that? The middle East? What are those people, I want to go. So I had are very early on, but the thing is the Herrington's, um, where a burgeoning grocery empire in the tiny town of Salsbury, North Carolina, My dad's dad who kind of inherited the three very happening stores and a fish market, that my dad's dad's dad's dad had started. But then my grandfather, my dad's dad, he seemed to be some kind of traveling Playboy. As I heard it told he would only come home long enough to get my grandmother pregnant, then take off again. But we have a passport stamped with Tokyo during world war two. And I can't figure out why in the hell . . . we also have papers that he was on the Graf Zeppelin from Rio to Europe. And they used to say, well, you know with the grocery store you would have to travel. You would have to go to Cuba to buy bananas and coffee. And I believed that for a few years. But then I got just slightly older and it's like, no he's not! I mean, at best he would go to Miami, but there are distribution points. He's not going to Cuba to pick out bananas. Cuba to talk to Castro, maybe. So, I don't know. But, um, I guess it's a Herrington thing. My dad was a traveler. There's definitely some restless stuff in the DNA. What about favorite people, who was the most fun to photograph? Oh, there's a bunch, there's so many, you know, Dolly Parton, I always mention her because I think everybody kind of loves Dolly Parton. You know she plays the dumb blonde act. I think most people, you know, that it's actually an act. She's not really acting. She's just kind of effortlessly amazing. I mean, she's truly got an aura around her of super cool, super funny, razor, sharp, smart business. She writes all her songs. She's just like a fully formed, complete human being. I really loved her. Keith Richards, he's a good guy. There's a lot of them. Morgan Freeman was great. Was anybody specifically challenging in a unique way? Couldn't get them to engage? Yeah. I don't like to give them much press, but I've definitely had some dark moments with some people that are definitely good bar stories. I'll tell ya. We'll save that for when you come to Bishop, we'll have a beer somewhere. I sort of, I talk about Warren Harding in my slideshow. That's a long soliloquy, he was . . . we'll call that challenging. Our friendship was over the phone strictly, and things fell apart before we actually met. But, but it did make up a good long story for the slide show, which is kind of dark and funny. I was talking to Greg Thomsen as I was preparing for this interview. And he was saying, he thinks of you as the Anthony Bordain of photography and climbing history, but way more alive. What do you say to that? Well, I'm a fan of Bordain. I will accept the compliment and I met Bordain actually. I was doing a job shooting, Kris Kristofferson, and basically just around him for the day in New York City. And he had to go to the David Letterman show for a couple of hours to do a little thing. So we went to the Letterman show together and, you know, you just hang around backstage for a couple of hours before you do your bits. So I was there, Joan Baez was in a room. It's very low key and quiet back there. Steve Martin stopped by for a bit, but basically it was just kind of boring. And then I passed this one dressing room on the far end and poked my head in and I was like, wonder who's in there. And it was Bordain. Just sitting by himself, watching TV up on the wall, near the ceiling. He kind of looked over and nodded. So I went in and we ended up talking for an hour, he was that guy. I like him, very sad to hear him gone. Have you photographed the Thomsen brothers yet? You know, I should do the kind of a formal thing with them because, they're the other guys that I had heard about early on out of California, these guys doing stuff. And in fact, on a photoshoot, I ended up becoming the defacto model for some Wilderness Experience stuff that was shot. I actually got a free Wilderness Experience pack in the early eighties. But yeah, I knew of those guys and, you know, they did such great work. It's been cool to get to be friends with them. And Greg has done some wonderful things for me, for the book, like really super great stuff. So I'm in debt. I'm glad I've gotten to be really friendly with them over the last couple of years. Hi boys. Do you have any suggestions or advice for someone wanting to get into photography these days? Well, that's a tough one because I guess I would need to know what their reasons were. Why would you want to do this? It's so challenging, it always was. I mean it always was a hard thing to get into and no doubt, but God, there's just oceans of photographers. Now everybody has a nice DSLR and the learning curve, the progress is so fast because they can get good results and Photoshop. So that just makes the playing field thick. But also it's, the magazines haven't raised their rates in a long time. It's really, you know, digital has hurt everything from the record industry to publishing. So those people, a lot of them are just disappearing or they don't have the budgets they used to have. So it's a, just a battlefield everywhere, but it's also invented a lot of new opportunities, which I'm still sorting out myself. Like what, what are they. I guess my thing, and it's only my opinion, but I would definitely go kind of crazy deep into the history of photography. I do meet a lot of kids, young people who asked me this and I discover that they're not really learning about any of the past great people. I guess that's fine. Is that fuddy-duddy? I don't know when I was a kid I was obsessed with the history of it and these great people, and I think you can learn so much. I just think it's important to know the arc of it all. Then that will inform your craft and style so much. And I think just having a point of view is also the hard thing. When I see younger people there, sometimes they're kind of lucking by luck, falling into some good stuff, but, just developing a style and a point of view that is kind of replicable, or not copying, but have a unique way, develop yourself as an artist and have a reason for doing things this way. And don't be haphazard, really be serious about it Everything takes a certain amount of pain, you know? I sound like an old Catholic nun or something, but, like practicing guitar, practicing piano, or just being a painter, if you really want to rise above, there's going to be late nights, you're going to avoid your friends. There's going to be a certain amount of pain and hard work to kind of rise above. And I don't think that ever goes away. In any craft, sport, art, all of it. If it's too easy, you're not doing something right. Do you photograph every day? Oh, no, absolutely not. I'm thinking about it every day. I mean, even if it's in my mind, I'm working on it. Why am I doing it? What does it mean? What is the new stuff I have? My archives are so huge. It was really depressing the other day, I was looking for something and it just dawned on me. If I don't take another photo, the rest of my life starting now I have enough to keep me busy. That just put me in a funk for the rest of the day. Because if I choose to not do that, Oh, screw that I'm going to keep producing new work. Well, that means I'll never get to the old stuff. Or if I choose to just not do new stuff and only focus on the old stuff, then it's just that, I'm just catching up. Either outcome is kind of like, wow. Yeah, don't stay on that too long, go out and go and create. You've got to create, I find the creativity part of it is a huge part of it. I agree. But you know the whole thing that I do is kind of like this. I mean, the climber book was in a way going through the archives. Cause I did a lot of the photography, it was going back and putting this stuff together. Which I sort of feel like is a part of my archives is well I gotta get it while the getting's hot. You know, I take the pictures. I experience these stories, put these things together, but I can't do anything with them right now. So I'll keep accumulating. And then the other half of the equation is putting it together later. Does the inspiration for the project though sometimes comes later, I guess. And then once you're in the project, like the book, once you've got that started and you realize you want to get some other climbers, but sometimes you've got all this archive of work and the project doesn't come to you until you take this one photo and then realize, Oh, wait a minute, I've got all this, that, and the other, this could be a good book or presentation or whatever it might be does that happen? It's weird. I'm now officially an author. Who's done a book. But before that happened, which was only in 2017, I never had a book and to me, books were the, be all end all, I just really fetishize books, especially art photography, well-designed beautiful books. And I considered them better than a museum show. Like a really good book, is it? But you know, I was probably intimidated and knew that I wanted to do one, but could I do one, would it be good? And finally, I was able to do one, which I'm really happy about, and it was so much work. Does the project derive itself from the archive or an image? I guess it's kind of both. As the climbers, when it was the Sierra, I thought, well, maybe it's just a cool little magazine spread I can sell to somebody that's interested, look at the old Sierra climbers. I guess the way I go through life is just thinking this stuff's important. It's worth getting, I don't know what I'm going to do with it. But as I worked on the climbers, it was becoming apparent, okay, this could definitely be a book if I were only so lucky to get a publisher and money and blah, blah, blah. And now it's unbelievable that it came together. But it kind of morphs in importance and outcome as time goes on, it's kind of like a lava lamp in my brain of possibilities. You know, doing the stuff and then what the outcomes could be and how possible that is. Cause, if you're a, I don't like calling myself an artist, but I guess, people in this kind of world, you need some word for it, a person that does stuff like this, you're always doubting and wondering, and until you've actually done it, it takes a lot of shapes in your head of what it could be. Speaking of books, do you have any favorite books or books you give as gifts? Favorite books? I love Nightmare Alley by William Lindsey Gresham. I'm always terrible when people ask these questions, cause my mind goes blank. I love the writing of SJ Perelman. He was a neurotic Jew that really influenced Woody Allen. Actually I think Woody Allen's neurotic Jewish stick came very much from S J Perelman who was older and before him. He wrote for the New Yorker and things like that. But just these short, very funny, I think, stories that had an incredible vocabulary and he didn't become as big as Robert Benchley and some of those humorous of the same era. I actually thought he was better. Actually think I learned a lot from Perelman. I somehow found him when I was in high school. Jim Thompson, the pulped novel writer, Daniel, Farson Never a Normal Man, his tales of the postwar London art scene. Then there's a book that I recommend if I ever have a photography course with students, I think my textbook might be Photography Until Now by John Sarcowski, who was the great curator of photography at the museum of modern art. Do you have a favorite piece of outdoor gear you always take with you under a hundred dollars? Gadgets? Well, I go through periods of a favorite knife and especially since I've been finding these knives that I get in Spain, for some reason I keep coming back from Spain, Northern Spain, from the Pyrenees over to Bilbao. I just come back with knives. I'm not even one of those knife guys. They land in my possession somehow. I can be such a weirdo romantic. And I think of like some kind of old pictures, I saw people in the mountains high in the Swiss Alps, breaking for cheese and salami in the sunshine. And I think of the knife itself, as it cuts through it, just kind of a beautiful, simple knife, cutting out little chunks to put on a piece of Cracker or bread. So think of having a nice knife in the top of my pack. So when it's lunch break, slicing through a hard cheese cause there's nothing as good as that.   If people want to follow up, how can they reach out to you? I'll link to your website, Jim herrington.com. Is that the best place?   That's H-E-R-R, not the other spelling. Jim Herrington.com. And then Instagram is the same at Jim Herrington. Perfect. We'll put, we'll put links to those in the show notes.  Please rate and review us  HERE  Thank you!  

What's cooking this week on Who's The Best? It's a battle between the kings and queens of cuisine. Will it be Gordon Ramsay who wins the public vote for best celebrity chef, or one of the many other candidates, like Julia Child, Wolfgang Puck or Anthony Bordain? Joining host Sandro Monetti to debate the greats are veteran restauranteur Angelo Peloni and cooking show host Paige Murtaugh. They have the perfect recipe for entertainment on the latest episode of Who's The Best, brought to you by Big Screen Entertainment Group.

“Warning: Chuckwagon Outcast”This week Chef AC is joined with dope ass Chef Rodney Lienhart , writer with Cleaver and Blade. He is also co founder of Resturant Mental Health and self care group on fb. He is also Test kitchen chef with Wayhotsauce, and cannabis company, Krystillion. Chef Lienhart talks about his life’s journey and advocacy in the Culinary World. How the inspiration from his mother mixed with one of the greats Anthony Bordain lit the fire his venture in writing. We also talk about how he Cannabis has save his life and combined his passion with his craft of cooking.Intro Music: "Sho’Nuff" By 8 Ball and MJG feat. Tela___________________________Contact Information :Business and Ad inquires Email: warninglabelpod@gmail.com Listener Letters/Shut up I see you Shout outs: askwarninglabel@gmail.com Hosted by: Chef A.C & GuestHost: Chef Rodney LienhartSocial Media :Rodney Lienhart IG: @chef_rodney_117Warning Label Podcast IG: @warninglabelpod#warninglabelpod #⚠️pod #warninglabelapproved

Today's topic is a big one for us. It's one we've wanted to do since we started the podcast but one we have been nervous about doing as well. Suicide is one of those topics that's really hard to talk about for a lot of people. Yet we are seeing it more and more.  Over the last few years we've been hit with a wave of suicides from celebrities. People such as Robin Williams in 2014, Chester Bennington from Linkin Park in 2017, Anthony Bordain in 2018 and most recently, TV presenter Caroline Flack from the UK in February this year. Each one has taken us by surprise, each one with new lessons and new calls to talk openly about our emotions in order to prevent suicide.  So what do you need to know? What can we do if we're feeling this way, or if we know someone else who might be feeling this way? That's what we're talking about today. Read the blog post and citations here: http://bit.ly/TOSK27Suicide TOOLS Listen to Erica Davis-Crump's TedTalk called “It's Ok Not To Be Ok” https://youtu.be/x136YxQTUXo  It's Not Ok To Feel Blue and Other Lies - Scarlett Curtis For the US two big ones are... National Suicide Prevention Hotline: 1-800-273-8255/https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/ Crisis Text Line - Text HOME to 741741/https://www.crisistextline.org/ Call 116 123 https://www.samaritans.org/how-we-can-help/contact-samaritan/ For the UK, the major one is The Samaritans The suicide hotlines on our resource page Watch the Ted Talk “How to start a conversation about suicide” by Jeremy Forbeshttps://www.ted.com/talks/jeremy_forbes_how_to_start_a_conversation_about_suicide?language=en#t-555800 Watch Erica Davis-Crump in her TedTalk “It's Ok Not To Be Ok” https://youtu.be/x136YxQTUXo  Self Love Liv on Instagram...check her out.  

"When you start with dance, people aren't victims anymore. . .their full potential is reached," states Vandana Hart, creator of the highly regarded Netflix show, We Speak Dance. As a lifelong dancer trained with Alvin Ailey, Vandana's desire to effect greater change moved her into working with the UN on various humanitarian efforts all over the world, during which, her self-financed "Anthony Bordain" style show was born. Among many other things, future plans include launching a We Speak Dance Method which will benefit local dancers around the world, aid in solving the ecosystem of dance not being valued as an art form, educate dancers on how valuable it is to own your own IP, and much more! 

Today I sit down with Christina Matteucci. We talk everything from Anthony Bordain to making your own success to weddings! Check it out! Christina is an executive Director of David Beahm Destinations, Christina Matteucci plays an integral role within the special event industry as David Beahm’s right hand for 18 years. Having executed soirées all over the world, Christina has spent almost two decades perfecting the ins-and-outs of overseeing events from the bird’s eye down to the most infinitesimal details. As David’s “Number Two,” Christina has first-hand experience with the importance of building, from the ground up, a functional and sustainable team to support a growing celebrity design talent. As such, she is often the first person expanding designers and planners call, asking, "How do I find a Teucci?" Over the years, she has developed the practical knowledge with which to advise not only those CEO's, but also young and eager event professionals making the decision whether to seek employment underneath the umbrella of a larger company or to branch out and begin their own ventures. Accessible, speedy, and exceptionally precise, with an energy that buoys all who work with her; under David's tutelage, Christina has become a respected and sought-after force in the event industry. When Christina isn't trotting the globe producing David's visionary designs, she revels in her summers eating focaccia, and dipping her toes in the salty water of the Adriatic along Italy's Apulian coastline. You can contact Christina at the following: Insta: @teuccimama Email: christina@davidbeahm.com Website: www.davidbeahm.com

Street food, supperclubs and launching a product with Dixie - chef and creator of Aphrodite's Food For this episode we spoke to Dixie about her seriously impressive experience within the food industry. From growing up around artisan food at an early age to moving to London and starting a course at a catering college, Dixie has so many interesting stories to share from her career so far. A refreshingly honest insight into the highs and lows of working within food, we talk about the different avenues she has explored within the industry. We spoke about how her innovative pomegranate ketchup came to be, the process for designing the beautiful packaging, and the decision to keep the production at a small scale. Dixie also talks us through her experience on The Taste - a TV programme where chefs design the ultimate tasting spoon for Anthony Bordain, Nigella Lawson and Ludo Lefebvre. This episode is packed full of stories as we also hear about working in street food, starting a supperclub and we learn more about the projects Dixie is currently focusing on. You can find Dixie on Instagram @aphroditesfood and on her website www.aphroditesfood.com Find us on Instagram @whatscookingpodcast, on Twitter @whatscookingpod or via email thewhatscookingpodcast@gmail.com.

Adam Richaman Photo by Ray Tamarra GC via Getty Images Adam Richman caught up with Producer Kyle to talk about this great FREE event Tuesday at Lucas Oil Stadium to help fight hunger in Indianapolis with Gleaners Food Bank (details below), what Anthony Bordain meant to him, friendship with Andrew Zimmern of Bizarre Foods, stops in Indianapolis and Pittsburgh on Man vs Food and if he ever saw this show gaining the popularity that it did on the Travel Channel.   On Tuesday, July 16, Adam Richman, formerly of Man vs Food and the Ambassador to Make it to Break it has teamed up with GetGo Café and Market and are gathering thousands of Hoosiers on the field at Lucas Oil Stadium to help set a new Guinness World Record for “The Most People Making Sandwiches Simultaneously.” The previous record was set when 2,586 people came together to break the record in Dallas, Texas.  The best part: All sandwiches made at the event will be donated to Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana Register at:  http://www.getgomakeittobreakit.com/ The FREE event is open to all ages. Only those ages 16 and up can handle food product, and children under 18 must be accompanied by an adult. Everyone who participates will become a Guinness World Record Holder and receive a commemorative t-shirt. Also, five randomly selected attendees will receive free sandwiches for a year! Indianapolis Colts Cheerleaders and Blue the Mascot will be there. Attendees will also be able to explore The Colts new traveling 40-foot-long museum full of interactive Colts experiences, history and memorabilia including state of the art virtual reality, interactive games and photo opportunities. Other activities include live music, tailgating games, giveaways and surprises.

274 - Michael Steed Michael Steed is a film and television director & producer and our guest on this episode of The Paul Leslie Hour. Steed has worked on such shows as the James Beard Award-Winning The Mind of a Chef _(PBS) and the Emmy Award-Winning _Anthony Bordain: Parts Unknown (CNN). He's created content for the Travel Channel, A&E, Bravo and Netflix. In association with the Zero Point Zero production company, he directed Season 2 of My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman. We discussed his cinematography background, his college ties to Atlanta and his work with Anthony Bordain. In particular this interview focused on the most recent season of David Letterman's talk show. Michael Steed was at every theatre taping and on-location shooting. A man with great perspective and humility, get to know him right here on The Paul Leslie Hour. Support The Paul Leslie Hour by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/the-paul-leslie-hour

Jeff Bursey a creative force discusses his interests in art and all things associated with discovering of his world. Jeff discusses how he deals with synesthesia and the effects of having a multisensor stimulus firing in his everyday world. Jeffs in his twenties goes on a wanderlust to meet artists, writer, and musicians. Jeff tells of being working as an artist assistance for Fritz Sholder and how he makes stands for art.

Episode 51: Mike Peacock Sex Dolls Poop Knives Hitler "There are people out there who probably have no business doing podcasting" Dave is joined by Mike Peacock from On the Edge podcast and we call out all podcasters with terrible audio quality. Seriously, sort your shit out or move aside for the podcasters who actually give a shit about what they’re doing. Original discussion was recorded late last year when Jay from My Worst Holiday was still talking to Dave and he had yet to fall out with Steve from Baked and Awake podcast. He can be a little much at times. Go to www.manbrainpodcast.com for all the links, kinks, stinks and pussy winks. Listen on podcoin. Sign up to our group Patreon for exclusive content like late night intimate chats with Blunt Mommy and Dave. www.patreon.com/nsflproductions Mentions: Mike Peacock’s 2 podcasts: On the Edge and Misery Point Radio, Mark & Jay My Worst Holiday, Steve Baked & Awake, Ben Small Town Mentality, Eli Not So Crazy Podcast of Blizzard the Wizard & Eli, Jason Shit Happens When You Party Naked, Phil Oakley on Twitter, Blake Noise Pollution, Kenric Spoiler Country, Doug Anthony Who’s Right, Hank’s Dirty Monoball Synopsis: Adam Carolla rants, Phil Oakley starfucks, Joe Rogan shall not be named on the show, Blink 182 Ufologist, James Bond drinks, food & drink snobbery, podcaster delusions of grandeur, crippling perfectionism, cooking show contrivances, Gordon Ramsey fuck off hysterics, Suing Man Brain for causing permanent psychological damage, handling criticism of your podcast, rage quitting offensive podcasts & getting triggered, podcasting recording hardware & software, Zencastr fucks up with some crackles and pops, the Joe Rogan Michael Jackson microphone, Izotope RX noise reduction to reduce background noise, just the right amount of alcohol for podcasting, from Barry White to Michael Jackson, Dave is a mental case with no consistency with his voice, thinking about the room where you record, Hank’s shithouse microphone technique, unbearably annoying noises on podcasts, annoying noise rage quit episode idea, Podcast Impossible with Mike Peacock and Dave, Solving audio issues for My Worst Holiday and Baked and Awake, can enthusiasm make up for technical issues, podcasters can be oversensitive little bitches, Mike sucking the Chaffey hog, dumb Dave took months to work out mix minus setup to patch calls into his mixer, don’t so much of a perfectionist that you can’t release anything, Dave can’t get along with anyone; particularly he hasn’t had a great run with stoners, disappearing Comminski file damn those chemtrails, The podcast cabal really fucks around with indy podcasters, Wes Craven’s Shocker, Steve’s cooler & blowtorch dab, Frigging stoner lingo, emotional triggering, satirising ideologically inflexible people, Skullfucker triggering people, snowflakes with no mental resilience, weeping for humanity, Family Guy, building a wall, Mike loves mic preamps; like really really loves them, throwing them dollar bills at podcasting, gear snobbery, shopping for butt loving wives, acting on constructive criticism, Dave is Stutters McGee and it’s so fucking annoying, The US is a Nation of Pussies, Mike’s mystery celebrity family members, Who’s Right suicide episode was not the usual dour presentation, Anthony Bordain, cum buckets, podcaster self-doubt, Hank will be tackling all the tough issues on his show, Daddy Issues, Miserable Pricks, pandering to the lowest common denominator, the goal of humanity, fluffers and strokers, indy podcaster delusions of grandeur, podcast unique selling propositions, feather ruffling, self-critiquing, more weeping for humanity; over-protected and coddled, Marshall Applewhite and Heaven’s Gate Cult comet suicide near miss, old fat white sitar player weirdo, Hank striking out with women, setting up a podcasting cult, Nexium sex cult, manipulating people, sending out only good vibes into the Universe

“First Man” is a first rate, Oscar caliber film says, The Cogill’s, admiring the introspective approach to telling the personal story of astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man to step foot on the surface of the moon. Wine Expert, Hayley Hamilton Cogill, says if you want to explore the early days of the Texas wine industry you might start with Dr. Clinton McPherson, the "first man" to plant Sangivese in Texas cotton farming country. And finally, The Cogill’s mourn the loss of chef turned adventure traveler, Anthony Bordain. From "Les Halles" to "Kitchen Confidential" to "Parts Unknown," it was a life lived with wide eyed wonder.

This week we take a look at Shotz! in San Francisco, The Tony Awards and Robert De Niro, the Anthony Bordain tragedy, and finally your summer Broadway Show List! ------------------------------------------------------------------- AMIOSWEST WAS FOUNDED  in 2012 as the West Coast outpost of Amios.  Amios (Art and Music in our Souls) was founded in 2009 by alumni of the National Theatre Conservatory. Since its inception, Amios has worked with over 500 artists to produce more than 300 original short, one-act and full-length plays in New York City, San Francisco, Boston and Los Angeles. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here's the Next Performance of Shotz! THE MOON ALSO RISES July 11th at 7 PM 4th Street Theater 2020 Fourth St Berkeley, CA 94710 Get Tickets The ingredients. Each of the plays must: 1. Relate to the theme The Moon Also Rises 2. One character must experience disgust 3. Include the word gingivitis or mention a stone fruit The playwrights are Sunil Patel, Jess Thomas, Jeremy Cole, Christopher Magee, Michael Magee, Ray Renati and Malinda Coler The directors are Ray Renati, Anna Smith, Melanie Bandera-Hess, Puja Tolton, Malinda Coler, Jesse Lumb & Christopher Magee The actors are Moshe Goodman, Celia Maurice, Katie Whitcraft Randy Russell, Jayme Catalano, Cary Cronholm Rose, Megan Toth, Michael Magee, Christopher Magee, Anna Smith, Puja Tolton, Robyn Grahn, Angel Hertslet & Emily Stapleton $15 Online $20 at the Door -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CARLY OZARD Powerhouse Entertainer and actress Carly Ozard has had solo shows at The Rrazz Room, Feinstein's at the Nikko, Feinstein's/54 Below, Stage 72 at the Triad and The Metropolitan Room. She works in musical theatre, cabaret, and as a FEMcee for various events. An exceptional vocalist with comic and dark sides showcasing a repertoire that includes Musical Theatre, Contemporary Pop, Classic Rock and Electric Dance Music. A newly budding songwriter and cover artist, she just released her debut recording Universal Child on iTunes and CDBaby. Having acted as head judge of The Gay Pride Parade in San Francisco as well as a judge for The Voice of Vallarta and the San Francisco Cabaret Competition, Carly has been part of every community she has performed in. Carly has shared stages with Charles Strouse, Klea Blackhurst, Rita Moreno, Leslie Jordan, Maureen McGovern, Miranda Sings! and more. She is a two time Burner at Burning Man, a proud member of AEA and The New York City Friar's Club, and she is reinventing herself and expanding her fan base! Carly Ozard performs regularly in San Francisco and is based out of New York.   carlyozard.com amioswest.org rayrenati.com raysgreenroom.com

June 12, 2018 - We've Got Your Phonetaps courtesy of Mr. Luther Luffeigh! First, "Hotel Temp Hire" Then, "Door Dash Poke Bowl". Luther wants to get a job at hotel through a temp service he’s using for employment. The lady isn’t having anything to do with it, so Luther gets ‘Marco’ at ‘Excel Temp’ agency. Then, Luther calls from outside someone’s door with their food delivery and it seems like they are getting upset. Louie G leads another round of What Is It, and following the passing of both Kate Spade and Anthony Bordain, Dr Robin from Well Being Trust leads a discussion on mental health, plus #HipHop, Natalia with News, and more! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Dr. Nina discusses the recent high profile suicides of Kate Spade and Anthony Bordain, and explains why bariatric surgery is linked to an increased risk of suicide. She also gives strategies for how to comfort yourself without food and takes calls from listeners. Larry from Burbank asks about how to give himself reassurance when he feels hopeless, and Brian from Chicago asks about cognitive distortions, such as black and white thinking. Dr. Nina explains other cognitive distortions and tells us how to challenge our thinking. Don't miss this interesting show!

Let's talk mental health/ illness and depression -- as well as anxiety and suicidal ideation. If you need help please call the Suicide Hotline aSAP.

On this episode, I talk to Sylvia Morales. The first time I met here I could feel her strength and could see her drive. Sylvia Morales is a mother, a yogi, a writer & a lover of life. She is passionate about mental/emotional/physical fitness. She has been practicing yoga for 17 years and teaching for 10 years. She is a former smoker that is dedicated to helping guide others to the path of self love & self care. You can find her on Facebook under Sylvia Morales or email her directly at: yoginisyl@outlook.com She talks about a subject that has been trending on Social Media for the past week, Mental Health. With everything that has been going on with Kate Spade and Anthony Bordain, it has really struck a chord with a lot of people right here in the RGV. Many people on my newsfeed have come forward and started talking about how they struggle with depression as well. In this episode, she talks about a couple of centres that can help you if you struggle with depression. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/joshuamoroles/support

Let's talk mental health and depression -- as well as anxiety and suicidal ideation. If you need help please call the Suicide Hotline aSAP.

Let's talk mental health and depression -- as well as anxiety and suicidal ideation. If you need help please call the Suicide Hotline aSAP.

Let's talk mental health/ illness and depression -- as well as anxiety and suicidal ideation. If you need help please call the Suicide Hotline aSAP.

Joined by Snappy, Current Events, Anthony Bordain, Car Problems, NBA Finals, Gay Wedding Cake Ruling, Trump, Trade Wars, Pardons, OK Pot Vote, Schools, Ringtones, Telemarketers, Aligator Baptism, God of War, Origins, Top 5 Fighting Video Games

Just a few words I wanted to say about a celebrity chef I watched on TV for years.

Host Greg Gutfeld of the very popular Greg Gutfeld Show on Fox News, chats with Dr. Drew and Bob Forrest about their love of Scott Adams, the many recent suicide events and the different causes.  Our sincere condolences go out to the family of Anthony Bordain and Kate Spade. If you have thoughts of suicide, or know someone who does, please reach out to the National Suicide Prevention line, call 911 or consult your doctor. #YOULIVE    Bergamet and Hydralyte are our proud sponsors. 

In this episode, we talked about our road trip to FOLSOM, JOHNNY CASH, $1 TACOS, Charlie's recent CONAN taping, IRON & PLANK, the recent death of ANTHONY BORDAIN, Moviepass AGAIN, & Comedy ROASTS (our roady music).

This Fucking Week covers Steam becoming the new YouTube, Trump bringing his managerial expertise abroad, and how the AP royally screwed up its reporting on the suicide of Anthony Bordain. [CW: suicide, self-harm] Ace brings us the story on how the ALCU ironically made free speech worse. YAY! Barking Point: Create the worst new corporate scholarship and its resulting major. Theme Music: "Barking Point" by Solardog This week's Sponsors: Mogu the Panda, Henry Kissinger is Pokémon GOing to Die, Jake Soot, Takel, megaRammy, and Brandon Carey.

Greetings congregation! John graces us with his presence as he and Jed discuss Kanye West taking 2c-b, we pay our respects to a C&OD guest who recently passed away as a result of the disease of alcoholism, talk Anthony Bordain's suicide and more. Then, we are blessed to have world-renown tattoo artist/author Freddy Negrete come on the show to tell his story of growing up in foster care, getting locked up , learning tattooing in prison and pioneering the 'black & grey' realism style of tattooing. Freddy has been a guest judge on Spike's 'Ink Master', and designed the tattoos for the blade trilogy and from dusk till dawn films, to name a few. Freddy has an amazing story, and I hope you all enjoy it. Freddy recently wrote a book 'Smile now, Cry later' that can be found anywhere books are sold. churchandotherdrugs.com churchandotherdrugs@gmail.com freddynegrete.com

After last week's decapitation Torey has decided to come onto the podcast. We talk about the type of language we use like water fountain (not bubbler). Anthony Bordain's suicide is talked about, and how you shouldn't compare yourself to someone more successful committing suicide. Nick gashes his hand. Quinn looked at apartments. Jasmine keeps eye contact. Torey escapes another room. Make sure to Subscribe to our YouTube channel where we post fresh content every year: www.youtube.com/channel/UClfLbBXPoVnCozegb31aGYA Follow Digital Sandwich on Twitter: twitter.com/DigitalPodWich Subscribe to the Podcast on iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/digit…d1025344950?mt=2 Mandy's Etsy Shop: www.etsy.com/shop/JustALevel Twitters: Nick: twitter.com/OrganizedRemain Quinn: twitter.com/breadedchicken_ Jasmine: twitter.com/JazzyXforXlush Mandy: twitter.com/MeMandyMe --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/digitalsandwich/support

The Patrick Lalley Show on Friday, June 8, 2018. Guests include: Dana Loeske, chairman of the Friends of the Big Sioux River on issues with the expansion of a cheese factory in Lake Norden; The Buffalo Maiden remembers Anthony Bordain; Thea Miller Ryan of the Outdoor Campus teaches us about moths - really. I talk about my living with anxiety.

A portion of our Young Turks Main Show from May 14, 2018. For more go to http://www.tytnetwork.com/join.  Hour 1: Trump Stumps For Russia At The G7, War On Journalism,  Hour 2: Anthony Bordain Passes Away, Mental Health In America Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Jeff's enter into their own "Beer Mile" contest, but who will win. Also, Anthony Bordain on Yelp, and Wine Bloggers Conference antici.....pation.

Anil, Josh and Rob are joined by Jordan Commandeur, journalist for Mass Appeal and CBR, who has interviewed some great names such as RZA and Anthony Bordain. We share our favorite Dad's in TV and movies. Some may be obvious and others may surprise you. They may not be the best Dad's but they are certainly unforgettable. Go to generationxwing.com for links to Jordan's articles and more information about the show.

ios Ten and Sierra. Self Help. SnapChat. Anthony Bordain.

December 3-9, 1983 December 3-9, 1983 Today Ken welcomes comedian Todd Barry to the show. Ken and Todd discuss A/C removal, David Letterman, watching stand up comedy, Florida, Ft. Launderdale Spring Break, Ken's encyclopedic knowledge of 80s T&A Movies, Todd's first TV appearance in 1982, behind the scenes in showbiz, re-watching your old TV sets, having a Black and White TV way past the time it was ok to have a Black and White TV, watching the Deer Hunter uncut, watching TV in foreign lands, the wonder of international pharmacies, UK Comedy Nerds, getting a first national TV Gig on Conan via Louie CK, being a regular on Dr. Katz, being an in demand voice over artist, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Hawaii Five-O, Todd's Punk Rock Status, CHiPs, Quincy M.D., shivving, lack of comfort shows, avoiding TV comedy, Spinal Tap, Diner, Paul Reiser's musical genius, Rodney Dangerfield's car, meeting Grady from Sanford and Son, opening for Joe Bob Briggs, Richard Butler (from the Psychedelic Furs), where you are really from, Maui, the media infrastructure in Hawaii, Flipper, the slow pace of older shows, Comic Conventions, the strange world of paying for celebrity autographs, the Breaking Bad van, moving from acting into civilian jobs, Joanie loving rental cars, rerun money, singing with Donny Most, James at 15, The White Shadow of Ben Franklin, Leif Garrett, Shaun Cassidy, Happy Days, Henry Winkler, Dick Van Dyke's autograph hunts, celebrity pricing, Miami Vice, The Clash, Ellen Foley, What's Happening!!!, performing for Haywood Nelson, Barbara Walters Specials, 60 Minutes, 20/20, being both the homecoming princess and the Football QB, Barbara Walters as ABC's Marc Maron, Two Johnnies - Carson and Cash, keeping things private, interviewing Steve Martin, Michael Keaton's stand up, Twelve Years a Stand Up, Todd Playing Todd, free donuts, Richard Pryor, Pam Greir's autobiography, Kent McCord, Ralph Macchio's going rate, Trauma Center, the golden age of hospital shows, Lou Ferrigno, TV Theme songs, Orange is the New Black, picking your intro music, Devo's Uncontrollable Urge, letting Joe Jackson know you're the man, picky foodies, Anthony Bordain, auditioning for Larry David, not being pervy enough to play a child murderer, Doug the Tourguide on Spin City, Michael J. Fox, crushing on Justine Bateman, and befriending the cast of Satisfaction.

Buffalo New York is a great travel destination for everyone.  It's a great foodie city and has a lot to offer.  Described by Anthony Bordain as a "weirdly wonderful place", the people of Buffalo share a deep passion and pride for their city.  They love their Buffalo Bills and Sabres.  They also have a deep appreciation for Buffalo's diverse backgrounds.  With as many different cultures converging on to one another, you're going to have some great food options to choose from as well.  So take a trip out to Buffalo with Chris "the Bulldog" Parker of WGR 550 as he shows off Buffalo.

 Hello!Control Content Consumption Concisely by Collaborating. And by that I of course mean listen to this to get an idea if you will like some of this stuff... Episode #316 Segmented Thusly: Movie Monologue = The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies,The Unbelievers and The Guardians of the Galaxy (Again). Television Talk = The Layover with Anthony Bordain. Book Banter = Warchild by Esther Friesner Game Gabbin' = Valiant Hearts: the Great War Internet Intercourse = Watch Mojo (Top 10 Movie Soundtracks, Violent Movies & Fantasy Books), Angry Joe vs. Nintendo, TED: Bill Gates - The Next outbreak? We're not ready, and The Nerdist Podcast with guests Josh Gad & Billy Crystal.

With MECHANICAL VIOLATOR HAKAIDER in mind, we each pull a prime pick of pulpy storytelling from our libraries. MangaMatt serves up some chop-sake sushi action with GET JIRO! by Anthony Bordain and Joel Rose.  Jeronimo follows up with a choice New Pulp adventure, IRON MONSTERS OF DEATH by Joel Jenkins, from the anthology ROBOTS UNLEASHED. Closing out, Andrew shows us a distorted dystopia where androids serve ice cream and priests are our only salvation from the zombie threat in MESSIAH 2.0 by Robert T. Jeschonek. All three of these stories are highly recommended by us.

Dan and Eric talk about football, Sunday package delivery, shopping on Thansgiving, Starbucks, McRib, Reed Timmer, ex wife exorcism, Anthony Bordain, Detroit, Coin, invisible bike helmets, A Vagina Is Not, Eminem, Lady Gaga, The Deer Hunter, Bob Dylan, Messhugah, Jenna Marbles,

Dave and Chuck talk about kids signing explicit song lyrics unknowingly, couples still getting it on even when one person is sick, stories about outrageous things you did after heavy drinking, Anthony Bordain's visit to Detroit, eating placenta, careers most likely to employee psychopaths, and more!