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A lively Mariachi band can make for great entertainment at a wedding, young Pokemon trainers are being raised within Cody's House, and a discussion of one of the most underappreciated sci-fi films to have come out in the last 20 years; these are the contents of this week's episode of Parallel Quest. Listen in as Cody and Zach share about the time they saw the movie Super 8 and how it became an instant classic for each one of them. Seeing this movie did not come without a little bit of drama beforehand, though, for Cody and Zach have a history of not-so-great movie theater experiences together. Super 8, definitely delivered in spite of skepticism going in. The film combines nostalgia, tried and true storytelling methods, and a heavy handed theme, which all comes together to make a fun film for people of all ages.Watch the show on YouTubeBuy Zach's newest book, Something Strange at Grandma's House: https://www.steellakestudio.com/booksSign up for our E-MAIL LIST: https://www.steellakestudio.com/emailTIMESTAMPS0:00 Welcome0:30 First Time Mariachi Experience10:30 Not Knowing anyone at a Wedding16:00 Cody's Kids getting into Pokemon29:18 What the Guys are Reading40:00 A Question about the Potential Shortcomings of Horror45:45 2011 State of the World56:21 MAIN TOPIC: SUPER 8 // Summary and Stats 1:04:00 How they Approached Filming Child Actors1:10:00 A Film that Connected us with the Previous Generation.1:19:20 Zach's Redemption Story1:23:00 The Importance of the Monster Makeup and Models1:27:00 This Movie Reminds us of our Own Childhood1:32:00 The Importance of Keeping the Alien Off-Screen1:36:11 One of Our Favorite Abrams Films but…1:48:40 There aren't a lot of Movies Like this Anymore.1:56:40 Lasting Appeal and GoodbyeThank you so much for checking out Parallel Quest. This is a production of Steel Lake Studio. We don't just have one podcast though, we are a team of storytellers trying to use a variety of different mediums to tell stories that we have been working on our whole lives. If you would like to check out more of what we do, check out https://www.steellakestudio.com/I you enjoy the show and would like to SUPPORT the show, you can do so on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/steellakestudioIf you REALLY like the show, consider rocking some Parallel Quest themed MERCHANDISE:https://www.steellakestudio.com/merch
Understanding what it takes to raise your kids as a new dad is half the battle won. This week, our guest ANKHLEJOHN does just that by being creative in his fatherhood journey and adapting to the new normal, hopefully for the better. Also hear about...
This week, we bring on Hip-Hop culture boss Tuma Basa who heads up Black Music & Culture at YouTube. You'll find out what new dad life feels like as we learn about Tuma's new world as the father to an infant. Tuma shares the move he and and his wife made to help maintain their African heritage as a cornerstone of their son's upbringing. Also hear about...
Maybe you haven't heard about this film, so here's a little cheat sheet on SHADOW IN THE CLOUD: It stars Chloe Grace Moretz (I don't know how to make that umlaut above the "e" in her first name, but if I did, all the "e's" would have it). It takes place during WWII. And there's a shadow in the cloud. Anymore than that would be a disservice. So if you want to know more, listen to the Film School Janitors review of SHADOW IN THE CLOUD!
It's another round of that Dad Talk as we welcome up and coming rapper Mike Smiff from Miami! On this episode it's just KGB holding it down as Manny Digital is still road tripping on his long ass vacation and DJ EFN's schedule went to complete (poop emoji) with both of his kids getting sick. In any case, it's still business as usual as KGB and Mike Smiff talk about modern day parenting, resentment with absentee fathers and getting mentored by Miami legend Trick Daddy. Check it out! You'll hear about...
Scott Nadelson reads his short story "Liberté," backed by an original Storybound remix with Mount Comfort, and sound design and arrangement by Jude Brewer. Scott Nadelson is the author of three story collections, most recently "Aftermath," a memoir, "The Next Scott Nadelson: A Life in Progress," and a novel, "Between You and Me." His stories and essays have appeared in Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, The Southern Review, Crazyhorse, New England Review, Prairie Schooner, and Alaska Quarterly Review, and have been cited as notable in both Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays. Winner of the Oregon Book Award, the Great Lakes Colleges New Writers Award, and the Reform Judaism Fiction Prize, he teaches at Willamette University and lives in Salem, Oregon. Mount Comfort is a Fayetteville, Arkansas based indie band. Melding relaxed beats, guitars, and synths, Mount Comfort serves up chilled slow-burners that will keep you daydreaming. Their latest release, Anymore, came out in 2021. Support Storybound by supporting our sponsors: Norton brings you Michael Lewis' The Premonition: A Pandemic Story, a nonfiction thriller that pits a band of medical visionaries against a wall of ignorance as the COVID-19 pandemic looms. Scribd combines the latest technology with the best human minds to recommend content that you'll love. Go to try.scribd.com/storybound to get 60 days of Scribd for free. Finding You is an inspirational romantic drama full of heart and humor about finding the strength to be true to oneself. Now playing only in theaters. Acorn.tv is the largest commercial free British streaming service with hundreds of exclusive shows from around the world. Try acorn.tv for free for 30 days by going to acorn.tv and using promo code Storybound. Storybound is hosted by Jude Brewer and brought to you by The Podglomerate and Lit Hub Radio. Let us know what you think of the show on Instagram and Twitter @storyboundpod. *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since you're listening to Storybound, you might enjoy reading, writing, and storytelling. We'd like to suggest you also try the History of Literature or Book Dreams. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Being a Hip-Hop personality while being a father to three boys is not easy. You're away on tour and when you're not, you're in the studio putting it down. On this episode, Mic Geronimo shows us how he does it and then some as he shares the highs and the lows of the life he lives now that he has children, his family's experience dealing with autism and what that means for his career as an artist. You'll hear about...
As Fathers, our job is to provide for and protect our family. A good provider makes sure their family is well taken care of, even when they're no longer around to do that. The Father Hoods chop it up on this episode as well as get into a variety of topics ranging from politics to social media to Manny Digital checking in from his family road-trip to Florida in an electric vehicle! You'll hear about...
It's summertime and the Father Hoods discuss the activities they each have planned for their families. While, DJ EFN jokes about the stress he is feeling right now with work, Manny Digital worries about his new company, KGB shares some info on the vaccine efficacy with all the new strain talk coming out. They also talk about their kids learning how to swim. All in a day's work for these dads. You'll hear about...
We got some good conversations going on this week on the podcast! The Father Hoods get to learn and share some gems about family life and how our actions affect the world our kids live in. On this episode we welcome in actor and producer Amin Joseph of Snowfall, The Expendables and Baywatch. He shares what it's like to be a dad and a husband from an actor's perspective, as well as starting his family at a later age than most. You'll also hear some discussions about...
We had the pleasure of interviewing Jake Scott over Zoom video! Jake Scott releases his eight-track project titled Goldenboy, a record that taps a top-shelf collection of pop's hottest collaborators, including Noah Conrad (Ashe, Niall Horan, LANY), Rob Moose (Bon Iver, Taylor Swift, Phoebe Bridgers), Josh Kerr (Kelsea Ballerini, Camilo Cabello, Little Big Town), Martin Johnson (Boys Like Girls, Jason Derulo), Brandon Paddock (Avril Lavigne, Christina Perri), John Greenham (Billie Eilish, Finneas, Cautious Clay) and Chad Copelin (Train, Third Eye Blind). Raised in a rural Southern household, Scott breaks the stereotypical mold by vulnerably shedding the traditional tropes of masculinity. While Scott recorded most of the project from a family barn in Arkansas, the sonics are anything but homegrown. He has a smooth sound similar to JP Saxe's catchy, relatable intimacy, and he flawlessly blends it with soulful pop melodies reminiscent of Ed Sheeran. Accompanying the EP is a colorful visualization of Scott grappling with breaking out of society's mold. Watch the “Goldenboy” video above and here. To celebrate Goldenboy, Scott recently launched his own virtual donut shop, Goldenboy Donuts. Available exclusively through Grubhub, Goldenboy Donuts is partnering with local brick-and-mortar donut shops in 11 cities for a six-month partnership. Each donut is handpicked by Scott and named after songs off the EP. Flavors include “Off” The Beaten Path (Apple Fritter), The Shadow (Chocolate Long John), and The Goldenboy (Regular Glazed), and more. Read more about the delicious partnership via Forbes, and order your own Goldenboy Donuts here. The LA-based passionate-pop-heartthrob has made waves as an independent artist with more than 280 million cumulative streams. Scott's first three songs off Goldenboy --“Off,” “Meet My Shadow,” and “Anymore” -- have already amassed more than 4 million streams and landed on Spotify's New Music Friday, Chill Pop, Fresh & Chill, and Pop Right Now, plus Apple Music's New In Pop and Relationship Goals, just to name a few. Scott has risen to become one of streaming's breakout stars with his unconventional release strategy of writing, producing, and releasing one new song a month, which he did from 2018-2020, earning him 150M+ Spotify streams in 2020 alone. Known for writing "the lyrical language of love and life" (Music Connection), Scott not only pens all his own music -- like hits "Like No One Does” (34M + Spotify streams), “Tuesdays” (28M+ Spotify streams), and “Favorite T-Shirt” (28M+ Spotify streams) -- additionally, he's been a collaborator for some of today's biggest names, including Aloe Blacc, Carrie Underwood, Jason Mraz and Christina Perri. We want to hear from you! Please email Tera@BringinitBackwards.com.www.BringinitBackwards.com#podcast #interview #bringinbackpod #JakeScott #zoom #aspn #americansongwriter #americansongwriterpodcastnetworkListen & Subscribe to BiBFollow our podcast on Instagram and Twitter!
Fatherhood can be a real challenge, especially during the early years when our children are still very young. There's the lack of sleep, the constant need for attention, the tantrums, the sick days, all while doing our jobs to put food on the table and a roof over our heads. On this episode of Father Hoods, the gang details some of their day to day experiences. Hear DJ EFN's struggles with his 2 year old daughter and her tantrums and the continued jealousy she feels toward her baby brother. KGB shares how he deals with his son's lying and Manny Digital talks about how to tire out his kids to get that much needed rest. You'll also hear some discussions about:
Well, most therapists in the wilds of private practice create a trail of pebbles, leaves, & shiny stuff leading to their office door. Just kidding! We don't do that. Anymore. How to attract more clients is a broad question that usually comes from private practice newbies (welcome!) & people feeling stalled in their business building (we've been there, & we're here for you!) Check out this week's Ask Allison & worksheet to take a thorough look at the four necessary to-do list items for all private practice clinicians to have full, healthy, happy businesses. Sponsored by: TherapyNotes™ Looking for some help? Check out our resources page for fast, actionable steps to get you started!
Join Luke and Mark as they go beyond and continue their coverage of volume 26 of the My Hero Academia Manga by Kohei Horikoshi! On this episode we cover chapter 253 "Shirakumo" (07:49) and chapter 254 "More of a Hero than Anymore" (34:18). You can email the podcast at Herotespodcast@gmail.com! Plus Ultra! Soundtrack | Boku No Hero Academia - You Say Run Anime | My Hero Academia [僕のヒーローアカデミア] View on YouTube | https://youtu.be/BcIiEjEvpOE Music promoted by FBS Anime | https://goo.gl/DwdAxM Artist: Friedrich Habe
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Anymore, I just shake my head. I am in a totally different mind set. For me, my health. This childish behavior used to bother me. But I have come to realize with wisdom... you can't change peoples immature behavior. However, what you can change is how you respond. The next generation watches our every move. As an adult, you are the example. What the next generation sees are the actions of adults around them. Make sure yours is a positive one. All else fails, remember one golden rule. You have the power to remove yourself from negative, toxicity of others. No one is worth your health nor emotional well being. #Hear And See The World #Choose 4D Satellite Home Security
Being a father to a child that isn't yours, even after you divorce her mother... deep right? We rap with The Bad Seed about his paternal journey and some of the challenges he's faced from within his own family around raising his daughter. We also talk about...
We have a fan My Main Man Nick request a Monday Night Raw on May 17 1993. So we go back and watch a classic Raw with the debut of the smoking guns and the(123)Kid aka xpac. Really good episode thanks for the request
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The prison industrial complex has led to an unimaginable number of fathers locked up behind bars. Our guest today explains how he went away for 23 years and was still able to father his two children. Fellow podcaster Deuce22 joins the Father Hoods and we get into...
[As heard on WTAG, WHYN, WHJJ 2021-05-25 - Automated Transcript] Craig Peterson: [00:00:00] On with Mr. Polito this morning, and we gave a little bit of a eulogy to Microsoft internet Explorer. Finally, almost gone. And I don't know if it will ever be completely gone. So here we go with Mr. Polito, [00:00:17] Jim Polito: [00:00:17] Our good friend, Craig Peterson, nothing like a little rage against the machine. To introduce our tech talk guru, the master of all machines, right? [00:00:33] He is our tech talk guru here to talk about the death of Microsoft Explorer. What is that? Joining us now? Craig Peterson. Good morning, Craig. [00:00:48] Craig Peterson: [00:00:48] Hey, good morning. Microsoft Explorer of course had been used for years by Microsoft in order to let you go online. And it was the source of a major lawsuit against Microsoft. [00:01:02]Right now you're talking about what's happening with this whole apple lawsuit and what directions is going to go what's happening? Microsoft had this major problem years ago, and that is. It did not have anything to do with the internet at all. Microsoft was a very much a late comer to the internet and to all of the connectivity that comes from it. [00:01:26] And so what they did is they stole, borrowed some software from NCSA, this lab over in Europe. And use that as a basis to create a web browser. And since of course, Microsoft didn't really care so much about the internet as they never put much thought or work into it. However, Many of these kids that are doing programming thought internet Explorer is the way to go. [00:01:54] And the people who were running the businesses who had windows on their desks, they looked at it and said in genetics blowers, what we need to do. So a large percentage of businesses over 50% of businesses designed their website. To work with internet Explorer and never bothered checking any other web browsers out there to see if they were compatible. [00:02:19] Yeah. So Microsoft got even more and more into this and Microsoft added things to internet Explorer made it the most dangerous browser on the internet. It allows a website to take control of your computer. It allowed websites to download malicious software and start running with it. It might be Microsoft. [00:02:41] It just sometimes drives me crazy. [00:02:44] Jim Polito: [00:02:44] Let's roll it. You've just put a lot out there. So let's just go back and take a look at it. First of all, Dan and I were laughing earlier and you just said it. Oh, Microsoft didn't think this internet was going to be a big deal. Yeah. So bill gates is our real genius. [00:02:59]Something comes along like the internet. Eh, so Netscape was really the big browser in the beginning. Am I correct? [00:03:07] Craig Peterson: [00:03:07] It was one of the early Browns. Yeah, very popular one. The internet didn't really start really going anywhere until the browsers came out. NCSA mosaic was really the first one. [00:03:22] Wow. I used that one extensively way back when and yeah. Firefox has been around. Yeah, Microsoft. Yeah. As part of an incredible internal arrogance decided that it would wire internet Explorer into the operating system, for lack of a better term, you could argue that Microsoft has never had a true operating system until the latest ones, but it hardwired the men. [00:03:51] So now. You had places like Firefox Mozilla project and some of these other like Google, et cetera. Say, wait a minute wait. We have browsers. And there is no way to delete internet Exploder off of your computer. Oh, I forgot about [00:04:09] Jim Polito: [00:04:09] that. Nickname, internet Exploder. Greg you're, we're talking with our tech dog guru, Craig Peterson. [00:04:15] We're having a little bit of a way care. He's performing the eulogy for internet Explorer. So they get rid of it. Does that mean that Microsoft is out of the browsing business? [00:04:27] Craig Peterson: [00:04:27] Oh, I never very big way. See Microsoft decided that people fought that Microsoft was it, they're the go-to people. [00:04:35] And so they said we've got to get rid of, first of all, we've got to get out of the operating system because the courts ordered it. And so they finally did. And so now there's some competition in the browser space and then they came up with. The edge browser, you could still use internet Explorer on your windows, computer, and still came with it because so many websites were so poorly programmed. [00:05:02] They would only ever work with this one browser. So they came up with the edge browser, which was their answer to everything. And of course it didn't work so good and it didn't work with most websites that had any complexity to them. And so they came up with another edge. Browser and they called it an edge because it was a completely different browser. [00:05:23] And then they went and said, okay this just isn't working so well. So nowadays Microsoft edge browser is, do you have a drum roll? Oh yeah. Hold on. Hold on a second. I got it. Ready. Alright. Here Microsoft edge is actually Google Chrome. Are you kidding? There you go. No it's based on what Microsoft did is Google had open source. [00:05:55] In other words, it made available the source code, the program, and they call the chromium and chromium is the base for for the Chrome web browser, Google Chrome web browser. Wow. So now Microsoft edge, the latest versions of edge, they have completely benched all of them. Terrible software or web browsers anyway, still got plenty left. [00:06:19]And they are now, if you're running Microsoft edge, you are actually running Google Chrome and Microsoft of course has made changes to it and is tracking you in different ways. And Jen number one question I have from listeners really is. What browser should I use? And [00:06:38]Jim Polito: [00:06:38] Your answer to the question? [00:06:41] Craig Peterson: [00:06:41] Sure. It depends but Firefox. Wow. [00:06:47] Jim Polito: [00:06:47] I haven't been I haven't been using it. Here at work, I use Chrome. I didn't use it on my home laptop Firefox. But I hardly use my laptop at home. Anymore, because I use my smartphone or my tablet to do most things when I'm at home. So that's all very interesting now let's move on to something that came up earlier and you made the recommendation, is that Jim start using duck go. [00:07:20] For your searching because they don't track you and they have a better rhythms. They don't get political with their algorithms. You said, Jim, if you're going shopping, yes, Google is still the best place to go. But if you want information, it's duck go. This came up earlier because we've been discussing the power. [00:07:44] That Google exerts in politics. And, there's real evidence that if you search for a liberal candidate for office versus a conservative, you're going to get. Better results of the liberal or the liberals results are going to be at the top of results, as opposed to a conservative and Google will say it's the algorithm, it's based on hits and bologna, people make out algorithms. [00:08:12] The algorithms don't drop from the sky, right? [00:08:15] Craig Peterson: [00:08:15] Yeah. You're absolutely right. Yeah. And there is no such thing as artificial intelligence, at least not in this day and age, but here's the, I, I mentioned this to you before I think, but here's that quote from a study that was done in a top on this is student news daily. [00:08:32] But he was talking about a study that I read. We found significant pro liberal bias on Google enough, quite easily to have flipped all three congressional districts in orange county, California for Republican to Democrat. Okay. Very big deal. And that the study looked at the 2016 looked at 2018 as well. [00:08:57] I haven't seen any good studies out yet about 2020, but Google and in you. And I saw this Google goes in and. Purposely makes changes to the recommendations, their search results. So you can look for a story and hardly find any evidence of it. And yet that story was covered by all of the major news agencies, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, you name it, they all discuss it. [00:09:28] And yet you look forward on Google and it just doesn't show up. So you're right. And now the rhythm of a computer program is written by a person. Computers are not writing the code and there are biases in everything you and I would agree. We're bias, right? Thousands of articles, of course, thousands of articles. [00:09:51] And I put together six to 10 of them every week that I think are important. That's showing some bias why you thought they were important. And that's the reason you're talking about things today, George foil, and then other things, right? Because you think they're important. And so that bias leaks out. [00:10:09] And when it comes to Google and almost all of these big tech, not only does it leaked out, they enforce their bias on. You, which is why I recommend duck go. And then for browsers, Firefox Mozilla Firefox is a good general browser. There are some reasons not to use it. And I still recommend epic API C if you want very private browsing, if not, quite as good as it used to be, but it's also okay. [00:10:39] Based on chromium. It's basically Google Chrome that they ripped. All of the tracking code out of epic browser.com is where you can find it online. Oh, this has been [00:10:49] Jim Polito: [00:10:49] fantastic. Very helpful as usual and Firefox and duck go. And that is Craig's opinion, his well-educated opinion, but that's his opinion. [00:11:02] Look. Greg, I've got an example for you, and then I've got to let you go, Kathy and I went to a museum. With the boys in New York city this past weekend and the museum, the it's called the Frick museum. It's right near the met and their location is undergoing renovations. They're actually in an old mansion. [00:11:23] And so they're in a temporary location where they couldn't show their entire collection. So they picked from their collection. What they thought was best, the curator. Came up with what they thought was best in their opinion, in their collection. And that's exactly what Google people are doing, except it involves politics, not art. [00:11:51] Yeah. Politics. And that's the issue I have with it. I'll take the opinion of a curator who will say, this is what we think is the finest in our collection, but not Google. No, not it comes to politics. [00:12:06] Craig Peterson: [00:12:06] Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. And you're right, doing that doctor go by the way, you can set it as your default search engine on your Android device, on your iOS device, on your computers. [00:12:18] You can, it's integrated everywhere. It's just not the default. Yeah. I think [00:12:22] Jim Polito: [00:12:22] it's great. Craig, how is your lovely wife doing? How is her recovery going from her fall? [00:12:27]Craig Peterson: [00:12:27] I am totally amazing. You saw the doctor yesterday. And she is only three weeks now, post-op emergency surgery and she's doing better than most of the patients had six months. [00:12:40] Wow. So amazing. Yeah. She's, I'm doing amazing. That's great. [00:12:45]Jim Polito: [00:12:45] The center. Our best. And then how do people get in touch with you so that you can send them while your best? [00:12:52]Craig Peterson: [00:12:52] If you'd go to Craig peterson.com/subscribe, you can subscribe, get the newsletter. I'm going to send you a bunch of little special reports there, five to 10 pages telling you what to do to help make your life safer. All it's all free. Okay. I'm going to try to squeeze you for anything, but you do have to sign up and I'll send those to you all automatically. You'll get my, not quite weekly with Karen down newsletter as well. And you can also get links right there to the podcast, so you can listen to my whole shows on the weekend. [00:13:27] Great. [00:13:27] Jim Polito: [00:13:27] Craig Peterson everybody, our tech talk guru, Craig, I look forward to it talking with you next week. [00:13:33] Craig Peterson: [00:13:33] You too, Jim. Take care. Thanks.
Fatherhood often times transcends the nuclear family. Sometimes you have men who shoulder the responsibility for the whole neighborhood. On this episode of the Father Hoods we rap with long time Roc Marciano collaborator Knowledge the Pirate to learn what Dad life means to him. We get into...
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Sagebrush country covers loads of the Intermountain West. If you're passing through on the highway, it can look barren and brown -- but sagebrush is the backbone of a unique, American ecosystem. Anymore, sagebrush habitat (and the animals that depend on it) is threatened by change -- invasive weeds mean different fire regimes, and humans mean more weeds. Hunter and conservationist Hannah Nikonow joins Artemis to talk about the intricacies of this unique habitat, and why everyone should care about its survival. 3:00 Smoked grouse with a sweet brine (maple syrup, rose hips... oh yeah) 4:00 Intermountain West Joint Venture 6:30 A quick ode to sagebrush country 8:00 An Artemis flashback - Sagebrush in the Gros Ventre Wilderness video 10:30 Some species that depend on sage habitat: pygmy rabbits, sage grouse, sage thresher, sagebrush sparrow, antelope 13:00 The wicked weed trio: cheatgrass, ventenata, medusa head 18:00 Fire regimes before cheatgrass vs now 22:00 Juniper encroachment changes the functional properties of sage habitat 29:00 Lekking... and party-crashing eagles 35:00 Advocacy mantra: They stick out their breasts for us, so we should stick out our chest for them 36:00 Why should hunters care about sagebrush? And what that looks like in practice 38:00 Pick weed seeds of your shoes/dogs; watch your trailer chains; stay on designated trails 41:00 The war on cheatgrass 45:00 PartnersInTheSage.com for more on this miraculous habitat 52:00 It's hard out there for a chicken & trapping skunks (& removing skunk smells) 56:00 Changing the stock on your shotgun for a better fit
This week we are joined by Duck, lead singer of Joystick. Duck tells us about how he got into ska music, where he got his nickname, Joystick’s history and the meaning of their song 7675. Duck also tells us about the new album, I Can’t Take it Anymore. We have a group discussion about what bands we would like to see have action figures. Lastly, we give you ska news and our ska picks of the Week. On The Upbeat Social Media: www.Instagram.com/ontheupbeatska www.facebook.com/ontheupbeatska www.twitter.com/ontheupbeatska Support On The Upbeat: https://ko-fi.com/ontheupbeat Joystick: http://smarturl.it/joystickcanttakeit •Ska News: -Bruce Lee band On March 25 The Bruce Lee band dropped a new song Division in the Heartland. You can download it on the band camp page for Asian man records. All the money from the track goes to stop Asian hate. New album drops May 28. https://asianmanrecords.bandcamp.com/track/division-in-the-heartland -The Third Rates On March 19th The Third Rates announced they are crowd sourcing their new album, See What Sticks on vinyl. For ordering the album you get three bonus tracks and a digital copy of the album. https://qrates.com/projects/23339-the-third-rates-see-what-sticks-vinyl-record -Ska Box The only all-ska membership-based subscription box. A monthly, curated (mystery) box designed for ska fans by ska fans. Every month you will receive several hand-selected items from ska bands all over the world. Small town to big names, SKA BOX includes ska bands from all over the world! Patches, pins, stickers, and more! Ska-punk or 3rd-wave, two-tone, trojan & rocksteady, trad-ska, skacore, and everything in between! Monthly Order Deadline is the 5th. Boxes ship the 15th-25th every month . www.skaboxrox.com Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2DikTsRPk4dspXejk9bFko?si=4t99iodzRYieAhd3qT1ZkQ Ska News Theme Song by Dang!t https://dangitband.bandcamp.com/music On The Upbeat Main Theme by Millington https://millingtonband.bandcamp.com/music You can buy the main theme song here: https://ontheupbeat.bandcamp.com/releases
Discover today how one man went from amatuer to professional property investor overnight! Kevin is joined by Ranjit, just one of Progressive Property's many success stories. Ranjit shares his journey to success using the VIP programme and together they discuss how slow and steady wins the race, the benefits of the VIP programme and how you should always remember to enjoy the journey. KEY TAKEAWAYS Many people go into property thinking they are going to get rich quickly, however this is not that case and many people soon realise that. When the deals are there the money will come, slow and steady every little bit helps. In the VIP programme at Progressive Property, you will receive one to one mentoring. As well as this you can attend a ‘deal clinic' meaning you can go on stage and share about a property deal you have got and all the other members of the VIP programme can give you advice on how to go forward with that deal. They can also offer funding for that property deal and enter a JV partnership with you. The sweet spot for HMOs in 4-6 bedrooms. Anymore than this then you start getting into planning permission requirements. When you go into 7+ bedrooms, professionals do not necessarily want to live there. It is likely that a HMo with more than 7 bedrooms will attract a lower demographic tenant type. The knowledge you gain on the VIP programmes is invaluable. Having the education behind you ensures that you will avoid making costly mistakes. You will also have the opportunity to make long lasting friends who can help and advise you along your property journey. Whist free education is good, there comes a time where paying for it will give you a huge advantage in your industry. You can either pay for it and learn from the mistakes of others, or learn from your own mistakes by going it alone. Life has its ups and downs, there could be a grand opportunity right around the corner. Do small but high quality projects, often and you will get results. Make sure to enjoy the journey along the way with your business partner and those who you meet along the way. Learn the basics slowly, take a bit of time to learn the basics so you have a good grounding before you decide to jump straight into it. Focus on one thing and do that really well. That focus will help you reach your goals. There will always be something that appears to be bigger and better, avoid that distraction and focus on one thing at a time. BEST MOMENTS “I had never heard of HMO's, but I soon realised that I had lived in one.” “At VIP you get mentored one to one.” “Get as much free education as you can, but there comes a point where you have got to pay your cost of entry.” “At the pace of the tortoise not the hare.” Episode One: How to Perfectly Invest £10,000 | The Best Stocks | Property | Gold & Classic Cars Watch Live On The Progressive Property YouTube Channel Every Monday At 7 PM Tiny.cc/PPTV Listen To Audio Recordings On The Money Podcast bit.ly/moneypodcastitunes ABOUT THE HOST Kevin McDonnell is a Speaker, Author, Mentor & Professional Property Investor. He is an expert when it comes to creative property investment strategies. His book No Money Down: Property Invest talks about how to control and cash flow other people's property to create financial freedom. CONTACT METHOD https://www.facebook.com/kevinMcDonnellProperty/ https://kevinmcdonnell.co.uk/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week we are joined by Tara Hanh from Half Past Two. Tara talks to us about the band's new song, Mean Green. Tara talks about how the music came together and she gives us some insight into the meaning of the lyrics. We spend much of the episode telingl you our thoughts on the true legacy of 90’s ska punk. We of course give you some ska news and our ska picks of the week. On The Upbeat: www.Instagram.com/ontheupbeatska www.facebook.com/ontheupbeatska www.twitter.com/ontheupbeatska Support On The Upbeat: https://ko-fi.com/ontheupbeat Half Past Two: www.halfpasttwoska.com Ska News: -Joystick Bad Time Records announce this week that they are releasing a brand new album from Joystick called “I Can’t Take it Anymore”! The album officially drops April 16th but Vinyl pre-orders are available now in the merch store at Bad Time Records, as well as a unique variant from Stomp Records in Canada!The first single “Parallelograms” is streaming everywhere now, along with an awesome new video now playing on YouTube. https://badtimerecords.limitedrun.com/categories/joystick -Courtesy of Tim On Friday March 19th Courtesy of Tim is releasing a new single called Human Resource to announce their Kickstarter campaign for their new album, Tomorrow, Again. Rewards include an invite to their annual Mario Party, vinyl, and virtual hangouts with individual members of the band. There's even the option to choose a song for them to cover. https://linktr.ee/courtesyoftim -Bite Me Bambi WEDNESDAY (3/17) - 8PM PST We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming to bring you a BONUS Twitch stream this week! And we are doing it St. Patrick's style. Come join us for some themed covers, lots of green clothing, getting Tahlena Ice'd (Do they make green Smirnoff Ice? Asking for a friend) and more! Is there a certain song you wanna hear? Go to our Discord and let us in know in the song requests channel! Also, show us you rocking the green on our Discord and you might appear on the stream! https://twitch.tv/bitemebambi -The Last Blockbuster A documentary film about the last remaining Blockbuster video. This film is directed by the director of PIck It Up: Ska in the 90’s. https://www.netflix.com/title/81354557?s=i&trkid=13747225 Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2DikTsRPk4dspXejk9bFko?si=4t99iodzRYieAhd3qT1ZkQ Ska News Theme Song by Dang!t https://dangitband.bandcamp.com/music On The Upbeat Main Theme by Millington https://millingtonband.bandcamp.com/music You can buy the main theme song here: https://ontheupbeat.bandcamp.com/releases
Tonight we decided to bring in a new member of the crypto community to answer a few questions. Whenever people are into something new, there are a ton of questions many have on where to begin. We go over some of the basic starting points when getting into crypto. Anymore more questions? Drop them below or on our YouTube channel. Generational wealth is the goal, will you join us on this journey? *Find links to topics we discuss under our YouTube video for this episode - https://bit.ly/37bPdwJ *
- RECALL NEWSOM: "California's Governor Declares, 'We're Not Going Back to 'Normal' in State of the State Address as Recall Election Grows More Imminent" - PASTOR RYAN CASEY WALLER: Depression, Anxiety, and Other Things We Don't Want to Talk About - President Biden Set to Sign ANOTHER "COVID STIMULUS PACKAGE." Will it "Lift MILLIONS of CHILDREN OUT OF POVERTY" as its Supporters Claim? - Emmy Award-Winning News Anchor Leaves 20+Year Career Behind after Determining "there is No More Balance in the Media" Anymore"
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Today was a 70 minute LSD workout, Doordash, SmartWod and Zwift. #MarathonProject #6dayRace #EnduranceTraining @GregMcMillan “Never underestimate the power that one good workout can have on your mind. Keeping the dream alive is half the battle.” Kara Goucher Six Days in the Home Mon December 28 - Sun January 3 2021 https://runsignup.com/Race/CA/Bakersf... @davidlikesyou Today in karma news, Reebok’s @mardy_hehir and Saucony’s @IBuiltTheArk pushed Alberto Salazar out of the U.S. men’s all time top 10 in the marathon. @themile @mardy_hehir = 5th American sub-4 and sub-2:10, joining Greg Meyer (1st), Ken Martin, Alan Culpepper & Galen Rupp. StopwatchFlag of United States #RareAir @usatf The 4x1500m world record of 16:27.02 set by the quartet of @KarissaSchweiz4 @shelbo800 @steeple_squigs and Elise Cranny in Portland on July 31 has been ratified. @Steph_Rothstein When you’ve experienced the highs and lows of the sport you can genuinely be happy for the success of others when you’re down. Because you know there’s risk/reward in training on the edge and someone’s performance doesn’t always come at the expense of yours. @iRunFar The World Mountain Running Championships and Trail Running World Championships are scheduled to merge in Chiang Mai, Thailand in November 2021. @ChrisChavez “After Chicago, I said, ‘I’ve arrived in the arena of my marathon potential but I still feel I’m sitting in the nosebleeds.’...I like to think I’ve proven myself as a competitor beyond just being the puke guy or the beer-drinking hero.” - @IBuiltTheArk Six Final Thoughts About The Marathon Project: 2:09 Isn’t 2:09 Anymore, Des Linden Says America Needs to Join the 2:19 Party, & More https://www.letsrun.com/news/2020/12/... --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/andy-noise/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/andy-noise/support
Dear Rebecca and Burns,The pandemic has really changed a lot of things. Especially when it comes to how my children view health. Especially my oldest who is a teenager has now decided to become a vegan. I’m proud of him for taking care of himself and eating healthy but now he has been insistent that our family adopt the same diet as him. So much so that he won’t eat with us at dinner if eat things he disagrees with.How do I handle this with grace?
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I'm gonna scream 100 000 wordsNow that your fever is long goneYour wishes I couldn't tell, seeI don't hear you talking but pretending
Walking around thinking the same againTo get to you I'll go down on my kneesLast night I swear it wouldn't be the sameLast night I swear it never was the sameTwo is for a while but then one has got to leaveThat's it! I ain't lying and I won't ask you pleaseI'll tell you what I have in mind
Let goIt's so hard to fill me inYou'd better run as fast as you canWhen your eyes are getting lowTomorrow'll say if you're lost and found
What's CYBERFLASHING? Nope, not an online sale. If you're a woman on an online dating app you've probably gotten one of these. Anymore guesses? Yup, the unsolicited dick pic. Whyyyyyy??? One of the members from the DCU Crew received one of those pics and boy was she not having it. How would you react? Let us know. Take a listen and enjoy the show.
Listener, in their best Hamilton voice, Janae and Theo insist you don't throw away your shot! Janae and Theo how to deal with different political opinions in a marriage and what a difference one vote can make. They even have a brief digression into nostalgia of the 90s. They also introduce a new segment called a millennial minute. An opportunity to rave, rant, discuss anything from climate change, economical struggles, student loans and more that's relevant to millennials. They invite you to send in any ideas for discussion in Millennial Minute and hope you enjoy!As promised, here are the links to check your voter registration status, register to vote request an absentee ballot, sign up for election reminders, or find polling locations. Anymore can be found here. Disclaimer: all the view, thoughts and opinions expressed belong solely to us, by us and you should take it at your own discretion. Want a question of yours answered? Email us at planetmarriagepodcast@gmail.com
Phew, what an amazing month. Ok, I was shaking off some things from August, but now the clarity has made me produce an asset which I now believe in building my online platform to the point that I NEVER have to work for people ANYMORE. Here it is!
TIME STAMP INFO: (01:00) Panel Intros (10:00) The Xbox Tweet that "Shocked the World" or "Confused the World" it depends on who you ask. We breakdown what it means for Xbox Gamers! (27:00) The Xbox Series S has "Leaked AGAIN", we ask the BIG question: When will Microsoft Tell us about the "Worst Kept Secret" in Gaming already and how much will it cost?? (56:00) The PS4 was "Heavily" depended on Indie Titles and 3rd Party Games because of the "Lackluster" 1st Party launch games. Microsoft finds themselves in the exact same position with Halo Infinite delayed. I found SEVERAL AA and Indie title that could make the XSX launch a HUGE success, find out what the panel had to say on the matter. (1:38:00) WB Games NOT for sale ANYMORE, what does THIS mean for Xbox Game Studios and "Who" do the purchase next? (2:07:00) Panel Outros and Special Message to the community. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/craig-ravitch/support
Dear Rebecca and Burns,My husband did not grow up in a Christian household and I had finally gotten him involved at our church when COVID hit. He hung in there for a little while, but then told me that online services weren't doing it for him. Now our church is meeting again, but I can't get him to come with me and the kids.This is so important to me and I don't know what to do.
Caleb Auman is the Owner of the Auman Landscape LLC which is based in Carroll, Ohio and they serve the Fairfield County region, Lancaster, and selected Columbus clients. From crashing his old business he survived and managed to get up again when he met his wife Brittany Auman who has been supportive to him until now. Brittany manages and signs all of his paychecks and he is very proud to say that. They pick up all the pieces together to create and establish their landscaping business. And now, they not only do landscape but also other types of construction services such as Commercial Stormwater service. Caleb is not only a businessman but is also an awesome mentor and you can see him mostly on his Social Media channels on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Check him out you will learn a lot from this awesome man. “A company is a blank book that you can write, finish to the beginning and so you say I want to end up here. I don't want to have those incredible burdens like running a big company. You can run a company with two or three guys and yourself, it's your book, write it how you want it.” - Caleb Auman Today's Topic we discuss: 4:19 - Stage three is where Caleb's business is right now, where they go out in the field and they have employees to do the job, his wife, and him doing the sales, marketing, and running the business. They also open up another division of their business called Auman Environmental. Awesome, right? 13:18 - Fear and Confidence Issue gets in the way for you to raise up your price. But you need to realize what is your worth and you got to know how to get to that too. Don't let fear and confidence issues prevent you from getting what you deserve. 18:59 - The tax issue is a common problem in a start-up business, especially if you don't have a bookkeeper to manage your finances. This might lead to business failure if not managed pretty well. 20:30 - It's not easy to manage your finances if you will do it just yourself. The biggest benefit you'll get from hiring an accountant is, you will have someone to look into your records and tell you where your money is going. They could give you any advice about your tax issues too. 25:09 - Building a company is not as easy as you think. The difficult part of it is if you mismanaged your business because you don't have the goal of building something in your life. 28:45 - Mentors, you got to have one. If you can't pay one find a legend who you could look up to, know their history. If you can't follow their footsteps because we all have our own strategies and ways. Learn from their mistakes, and take only those that could help you. Caleb shared some of their names, looked them up, and researched them. 30:48 - Listen to this, guys. Caleb's advice to guys out there who feel that they are trapped in a deep abyss of business failure. Helpful resources for you: CALEB'S LINKS: Instagram: Auman Landscape LLC Website: https://www.aumanlandscape.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/AumanLandscape KEITH'S LINKS: My Blog: https://keith-kalfas.mykajabi.com/blog/ My Podcast: https://www.keithkalfas.com/podcast Get a Trial of QuickBooks Here: https://quickbooks.grsm.io/keithkalfa... Get your FREE Trial of JOBBER here. https://jobber.grsm.io/keithkalfas8521 DISCLAIMER: This description contains affiliate links. If you buy something, I earn a small percentage.... Get a FREE Trial of JOBBER Software & save 20% for the first 6 months. https://jobber.grsm.io/keithkalfas8521 Key Takeaways “And just even if it's a confidence issue just start slow, raising your rates, slowly, anything, you got anything you got to do to get to that light, you got to do it. And it's tough, man, I've been there. And it's tough, but you got to get there because you got to build a company that you can survive on that you'd be proud of.” - Caleb Auman “One of the hard things to get over is the fear and the shame of actually having somebody look at your business and how good you're not really doing and like and so because you're afraid they're gonna go, "What, what the hell are you doing?" - Keith Kalfas “Get someone, it's gonna cost a lot of money but it's worth it. And you'll end up making you money and it'll save you a ton of heartache down the road. So get a bookkeeper, you know, we were so adamant generally about hiring a professional to do something right like how you hire a guy to build your website. Why not hire somebody for your books?” - Caleb Auman “Seek your accountant's advice on that. Absolutely. Depending on how you file your taxes and everything but we pay yourself a reasonable salary, but basically by the time the winter comes, when I finally said, Oh my God if I wanted to, I could literally just sit around on my ass and watch Netflix all winter and do nothing. Until springtime, because I have enough money budgeted out to pay all the bills for Christmas forever. And obviously you like you wouldn't do that. But I think when you get like to that level, once you start having some money where you can go on a vacation or two, and you can experience the freedom of the business and you get over that first or second hump, you start to reap the benefits.” - Keith Kalfas The Transcript (Note: This transcript was created using Otter, an AI transcription software. Please forgive any transcription or grammatical errors. We probably sounded better in real life.) Intro Welcome to the untrapped podcast where we're motivated and inspired about success, small business, and personal development. And now Keith Kalfas. Keith Kalfas 0:14 Three.. Two... One. What's up guys, this Keith Kalfas with the untrapped podcast coming at you from Mendota Heights, Minnesota. We are in Stanley dirt, monkey genetics, living room right now, hanging out. We'll talk about that later. You can check that on my YouTube channel, but I'm next to sitting down across from Caleb Auman from Auman Landscape. Caleb and his wife run a breaching on a million-dollar landscaping business in Columbus, Ohio. And Caleb is an awesome mentor and he's rising up as a leader in the green industry. And I was on Instagram like two days ago, and he's live. He's sitting in a truck waiting for some concrete or something to be delivered on an actual job site. He's got crew out working, a project manager, and all this stuff going on. 1:04 And he's talking about efficiently running a landscaping business and people are flowing in the comments asking all these really good intelligent questions about like hiring, project management, measuring, bidding, all these questions that you would ask when you were in the first few years of your landscape business and you're reaching out for some mentorship and Caleb is just literally spitting out golden nuggets left and right. I stopped everything that I was doing. And I tuned in and I just and I was learning all these things. I was like, “Oh my god, this is really, really good.” And he doesn't let his ego get in the way. And he just flows value because he's been through pain and suffering. He's had a business failure and now he's back climbing back top of his business and he's crushing it and now inspiring others to do the same. So what's up Caleb? Caleb Auman 1:49 Hey, Keith, man, it's awesome to be here and thanks for the kind words and as I was saying earlier I followed you for a long time. So to hear like a dude I've like followed admired for such a long time to say that stuff is like really flattering. It's cool. So thanks, man. Thanks for having me. Keith Kalfas 2:01 You're welcome, man. And thank you, just talking to you for five minutes. It just became very apparent to me. And that's what we're going to talk about today. We're gonna dive right in and talk about hiring people hiring the right people, project management, taking your hands off your business a little bit. So you're not stressed out trying to do 100 things at once to the point of breakdown, and how do you do that? And how do you get to the point where you can afford to do that? And I really like the saying what got you here won't get you there. So let's dive right in. So you guys did what 6 or 700,000 last year you said? Caleb Auman 2:30 Yeah, last year, our sales were right at about 700 I think we had 690 or 710, something like that. And we did that with four guys in the field Brittany and I in the office. She and I did a little bit of work. I think she and I did maybe about 100 grand worth of work ourselves. Keith Kalfas 2:4 Brittany, is your wife? Caleb Auman 2:45 Yeah, I'm sorry. Yeah, Brittany is my wife. She's on the company for 10 years, she signs my paychecks and essentially started a new company after I crashed my old one. There's a whole long story there of me doing stupid with a capitalist for about 10 years prior to that. Keith Kalfas 2:59 How old are you now? Caleb Auman 3:01 37, I think about that for a second. haha Keith Kalfas 3:02 You guys are married and have three kids? Caleb Auman 3:04 Yeah, married with three kids. And we've, our sole income is the company and we wouldn't have any other crazy lifestyle but we wouldn't have any other way. Keith Kalfas 3:12 Awesome and I saw you guys on Instagram you're about to hit 20,000 subscribers and followers on Instagram. Caleb Auman 3:17 Yeah, Instagram's my jam. I just love Instagram and I've learned so much from other contractors that I admire on Instagram. Keith Kalfas 3:24 What's your tag so people can check you out? Caleb Auman 3:26 It's Auman, it's @aumanlandscapellc is our environment. My foreman has one it's out on the landscape but he doesn't put much on there. Keith Kalfas 3:33 So, a-u-m-a-n? Caleb Auman 3:34 Correct. Yeah, the Spelling's crazy. Yeah, Auman. A-u-m-a-n. Yes, Sir. Keith Kalfas 3:38 Alright, sweet. So, all right. So stage one business, the guys running around by him by himself in a pickup truck, like a chicken with his head cut off trying to do it all. He's getting home at dark then trying to do paperwork. His books are a mess. He doesn't even know what his numbers are because he doesn't have time to do them. And the profit margins are to the point where he can hire stage two. It's maybe you've got a couple of guys working and you can leave the job site for a few hours to go sell. You're doing marketing. You've got some guys on payroll, stage three is where you're out of the field. And you've got guys now working and you're doing sales, marketing, running the business and making sure that calendar stays full. Where are you at? Stage three is where Caleb's business is right now, where they go out in the field and they have employees to do the job, his wife, and him doing the sales, marketing, and running the business. They also open up another division of their business called Auman Environmental. Awesome, right? Caleb Auman 4:19 We're, I guess we're stage three at the moment. So yeah, I'm, we do. Brittany and I will go out and do a little bit of like, almost like emergencies. We started another division or a company called Auman Environmental and so it handles like stormwater management type work. So you'll see like retention ponds at like grocery stores and stuff like outflows. So we've been cleaning, we clean those out or we put new big rip rap in there or fix broken pipes or the drains in parking lots we go fix those. So a store will notice a sinkhole and like they need a pretty quick turnaround on that sinkhole repair and so her and I usually jump in a truck grab an excavator and run and take care of that. So that's kind of like her nice like emergency response kind of deal otherwise, our other project manager john handles that stuff. It's if it's a little more scheduled out so that's what she and I do, but primarily we're kind of I think vision casting is what I call it earlier and I think it's a maybe that's common, I don't know. But she and I are trying to just keep the direction of the company right away keep our four guys that are in the field because they consume a lot of work and a lot of materials and so we've got to be more than ever diligent with like working, you know, working on the business and not in you know.. Keith Kalfas 5:18 These guys out here. They're cutting lawns and edging and? Caleb Auman 5:21 We don't, we got out of lawncare about six years ago, I think. Keith Kalfas 5:26 And you're doing hardscapes and patios and construction? Caleb Auman 5:29 Yeah, that's the primary portion of our business at the moment is hardscape construction, landscape design, so paver patios, retaining walls, and then horticultural work planting trees and shrubs and doing landscape install stuff like that. And then the other division of the company is more construction based. And we're working on getting that off the ground with our project manager there and that's, that's exciting. You know, sometimes that's fresh. Sometimes like a breath of fresh air starting something new or new venture is like is really exciting, and it's cool because it's also diversifying us because it's deemed essential work too. So, with this new quote, new normal unquote, you know, that we're going into, I think that kind of work is going to be, we just want to diversify that way long story short, we want to kind of like target was able to stay open during this whole pandemic thing because they carried some groceries, how fortunate 6:16 I bet you they'll take a loss on that division of their company for the rest of time, just to be able to stay open during a pandemic or something should these shutdowns which are going probably going to be the new normal which I hate to say so diversity is diversification of work and work styles is like pretty important to me but trying and the same time and not to get caught up in that trap of like doing every style work there because I used to do that too. I wouldn't turn anything down I know to a freakin thing man we'd be, I'd be up in a tree that I should not be in on a ladder cut and topping out a tree to bring it down. Dude, I've done so much crazy dumb stuff in contracting and not at all the hard way and not make money and all that stuff. So, you know, it's maybe more typical than that is but I like I'm not afraid to share because I don't want guys to go down that same road that I did or hopefully they don't, or at least, you know, they don't get hurt as hard as I did by losing their company, their first company or whatever. So that's why I try to be as open as I can be. Here we are. Keith Kalfas 7:09 Thank you so much. So I'm trying to do a million things at once we do that because you know, I go deep in @PaulJamison was making fun of me about this the other day, I mean, all the civil I love Paul man he.. Caleb Auman 7:21 He is a genuine Heart of Gold dude. Keith Kalfas 7:23 So, what's up, Paul, so, but your sympathetic nervous system takes over it's a fight or flight response is the part of your brain that makes you survive, you know, then just strictly the mammalian part of the brain. So you can't access the structure and strategy and actually calm the fuck down for a few minutes and then take a look at what are we going to do to strategize for this thing long term? What are the right decisions to make? What is my f**** man-hour rate? What are my numbers? I wonder my books like? And when people say things like that to me, like "What do you mean you don't have QuickBooks and you're not tracking every penny?" like, and it would be like almost like, take on all this shame when they would say that. And it's because Dude, I wasn't even charging enough to even afford the time to do that I was just trying to get the lights on and keep the bills paid. So can you talk about the transition from going to that? How do you get out of that and get to the next step where you start putting some structure and systems in your business? Caleb Auman 8:19 Sure. A huge part of it for me early in business and even I still even struggle with it to some extent now, but like, I heard you say, your awesome presentation at Entrepreneur last summer, last winter? Or was it still 2020 that went on or is that 2019? Anyways? Yeah, 19 duh. But you say you know, you got to know your worth and I was way underselling our skills, way underselling our ethics because we were at what I mean by that is we were an ethical company, we were good and like honest, and we didn't put a dollar value on that of like selling what we were worth and so as the part, it was like a self-respect issue possibly of like, not just not selling our company in our services for what it's worth. And so you then get it. That issue of you start to get behind an eight ball, you get behind the eight balls of like. It starts to become tough to get ahead of like taking the time to run your numbers and figure out and I would run numbers sometimes back in my first company and it'd be ugly of like oh god we hit $25 of man-hour there. That's not good and I would kind of like always kick can down the road. Okay, next month is going to be better we'll price our work for what I know this job is going to take I'm going to put that number on it because I know that's what it's gonna take to hit $60 of man-hour, whatever. And it just didn't materialize for so long. Keith Kalfas 9:32 Why not? Caleb Auman 9:33 Fear and honestly like I probably you know, really cuz I guess we're just gonna be really I'll be really open here like, I just don't know if I it's weird cuz I didn't see it like this at the time but like thinking, hey, that customer will never pay that for further work and not I just really didn't even realize but it didn't respect my own time enough to like charge enough to run a business off of it. Greg Wittstock so said something. He's like Keith Kalfas 9:55 The pond guy. Caleb Auman 9:56 Oh, gosh, man. He's driven, Dude. Yeah, he is. And he's built a huge, huge, amazing company. And one of the greatest things I heard him say, was like, "Never place your value of $1 against your client's value of $1 or the value of a project" just because this patty, I can build this patty, I can build a patio, and like I would never pay $10,000 for a patio. But that's because I'm looking at from a standpoint like I can build this myself. Like I can do it way cheaper because I know how to do it, I've got the stuff. And so I'm putting my value of a project on against the homeowner's value project. Well, the homeowner, like with a website, like I'm willing to pay someone a lot of money to build a website because the value to me is there because I don't know how to Freakin' do it. And hopefully, that web person respects their time because, their own time, because I respect their time enough to be willing to pay a premium for it. But I fell in this trap of not respecting my own time enough and there's a lot of things to like early on in my company like we weren't efficient enough. You know, we didn't like for a long time we didn't own any skid steer so we were renting one and that whole debacle of going to get a machine doing it. Try to get done in the allotted amount of time return it, then, oh crap, we really need it tomorrow. 11:04 But we don't have the budget forward just so we're up to 85 wheelbarrows and make it, I'm exaggerating, but and so you. So the big thing is like you've got to know your numbers with your company and know what you need to survive dollar-wise, first off, and then be able to pass on jobs that aren't going to, aren't going to get you there. You got to have the skill level of course. But the thing is most guys have the skill level. It's the business acumen they lack. And you got to put so much effort into really knowing how to run a proper company, a proper business and it's something I knew a lot of stuff because I used to study like Charles Vander Kooi, who was a huge like, multiple overhead recovery system gurus, you know, he always he signed a book I bought from such a dork. I mean, I understood all the things in your heart of hearts. I knew my first company was failing, like, I knew what was wrong, but I just, you just get so busy and just again, that 10 million things to do. It just becomes hard to write the shift eventually. And so you got to recognize if that's what's going on in your company, you got to recognize it and figure out a way to push pause or scale back a little bit and just try to get your head above water. 12:08 And just even if it's a confidence issue just start slow, raising your rates, slowly, anything, you got anything you got to do to get to that light, you got to do it. And it's tough, man, I've been there. And it's tough, but you got to get there because you got to build a company that you can survive on that you'd be proud of. And that was, I said this the other day, so I feel like I'm the reason I say I feel like just I repeat myself too much sometimes. But like, when I was younger, especially and this is one of my things when I was 24 and even 20 a lot of guys I knew that age or you know, they had lawn care businesses, and they would have you know like they would end up having kids or get somebody pregnant or whatever, like well, I got rid of my lawncare company cuz I need to get a real business need to get a real job, need to go get a real job, and I always heard that and just curled my skin and like curled my blood, so just like, but this isn't a real job. And I just it just lit a fire in me to like I swear I'm going to have a real company someday that I can draw a salary off support a family and do some of the nice things in life with that. And it took me way too long to get there, Keith. But we finally got to where we're drawing a decent salary and can do some stuff but it took me learning the hard way a long time. So I don't know I think I rambled on there for a little bit sorry, man, but it's just for me, it was a confidence issue. Fear and Confidence Issue gets in the way for you to raise up your price. But you need to realize what is your worth and you got to know how to get to that too. Don't let fear and confidence issues prevent you from getting what you deserve. 13:18 I think a lot of like, just knowing my worth, like you preach a lot. And you gotta, you got to come to that realization of what's your worth and you got to know how to get to that too. You got to know and it's really not that hard is the crazy thing you've really figured out, you know, how many man-hours a year you're going to work and generally, for the seasonal business, you know, if we're not planting everything, 1500, 2000 hours if you're really going nuts, and then you divide your overhead into that, you know what I mean? All your bills, I'll help you give an hourly rate. Let's just keep the math simple. Like you're if you're gonna work 1000 hours this year, and you need to make at least $35,000 a year. Okay, right. There are 35 bucks an hour on your charge. You've got to have 35 an hour in there just to make your own salary, and then truck payment and your truck or whatever or even if you don't have truck payments, you need to be banking up that cash. To buy things is the revolving door of purchasing, updating your asset. And so like you take your phone bill and divided in at 30,000 hours and you know your internet and you've all these fixed overhead costs. And so it's not super hard, it can be intimidating, but just you know, just start taking a stab, there's software out there that can help you do this. There are people out there who can help you do this, you know, invest 500 or 1000 bucks and somebody can help you figure these things out and you'll be all the better off for it. Keith Kalfas 14:18 One of the hard things to get over is the fear and the shame of actually having somebody look at your business and how good you're not really doing and like and so because you're afraid they're gonna go, "What, what the hell are you doing?" Caleb Auman 13:18 I know, dude, I did a job for an accountant one time and I know he knows I did the job to cheap and he's like, "Caleb, I'd love to help you with your business someday. And like, you know, I'd love to all look at your books, no charge. I'd love to help you just see if I can help you in any way." And I say one of the things like I think he wanted to mentor me but I was young and dumb, and I knew everything and, and I knew again in my heart hearts like I would embarrass myself because I knew in my heart hearts, I was not charging enough and I wouldn't make any money. And I didn't let him do it. And it's one of those things like I believe things have got to take their course. And I wouldn't change my history or trajectory in any way because it put me right here on this couch right now, I believe. So it's like, you have to go back and change some things. Everything I've learned up till now is like, got me where I'm at. I wouldn't change anything. But it same time. It's like, gosh, man, what would the trick what would look different? If I would have been open enough? Be like, "Yes, God, let's do it. Yeah. Okay, let's do this." And like, what would that have done? You know, or what? Or what I've, you know, so it's just you look back and you can't dwell on stuff too much. But you know, if somebody is willing to help you consider it, I guess is what I'm getting at. Keith Kalfas 15:42 My good friend Joshua Latimer says that he has a PhD in pain and suffering. Caleb Auman 15:48 Yeah. He says he has a PhD in d u MB. Yeah, d-u-m-b. Dave Ramsey. Break 16:00 More of today's edition of the Untrapped Podcast continues right after this. Keith Kalfas 16:06 Guys if you need help, being more organized, and being perceived as a professional to your clients and prospective customers, then you get to check out Jobber. Jobber is an awesome software that you can run your entire service business. You can create invoices, quotes, estimates, work orders, it integrates with your calendar, you can collect money, you can run your whole business on jobber and grow with it as well. Get your 14 days free trial of Jobber at keithkalfas.com/jobber. I use Jobber in my business and it's awesome. Break 16:44 The Untrapped Podcast continues. here's your host, Keith Kalfas. Keith Kalfas 16:49 So, but when the students ready the teacher will appear. You know that you know when like you know, Okay, I'm ready like you just know that you're there now for instance when I hired a bookkeeper to manage all my books. I started looking at what it was gonna cost. And I was like, "I don't know if I'm ready for that." And I was like, You know what? I asked myself because I don't like to point the finger at anybody else. But I say "Who the f*** am I becoming?" Do I want to be like, the people that I aspire to be like, because if they're not doing their books or having someone in house and they have a bookkeeper, right? So, when I finally hired a bookkeeper, and now I would, I would never go back. Right? And because you look at when you finally get started getting P&L statements, and you know what's going on in the business and you're looking at the numbers, you go, "Oh, my God, it's all becoming clear." So that just made your money right there because you have a sense of clarity. If you don't know where you're at. That's the first and most important thing I think is seeing with the brutal reality of where you're at. How did you start to see, where you were in order to start making the changes? Oh, geez. Caleb Auman 17:58 Uhm. Well, it's kind of cool. I don't know. I've never been asked that question that way so that's interesting. I was thinking about that a little bit and I would love to know Britt, my wife's perspective on that because her and I kind of, I, get off really. Oh boy, Keith You know, it was one of the things. I was getting tired sick and tired of being sick and tired. Like I was just like, so fed up with being broke all the time. But I'll tell you the one thing man that really likes really began to get me like oh, it's real now because for like for a long time my company was like 1st four or five years from like, when I was a kid, 16 to like 22 probably? We're getting by the as okay kid, money, all that kind of stuff you know like I get by. But then after that where I started trying to be like big-time Joe big-time contractor is what I call myself and like trying to take on projects we didn't own the right machinery for and all this stuff like that's in having guys on payroll and trying to hold payroll taxes myself, guess where that because I didn't hire a bookkeeper and things got nasty fat and so like I ended up long story short, getting behind super behind in payroll taxes and sales tax and all this junk eventually got to a point where I was trying to run my problem. The tax issue is a common problem in a start-up business, especially if you don't have a bookkeeper to manage your finances. This might lead to business failure if not managed pretty well 18:59 I go into winter time go work down on my cousin's ranch in Oklahoma and I got a letter one time my sister would get my mail for me and all that stuff back home and she would go through it and she's like "Caleb there's a letter from the IRS" and long story short was like they're gonna say they say they're gonna start coming to get stuff if you don't contact them so I just totally wrote them off forever and you know A that's the symptoms like run trying to run from your problems for too long because they'll get you eventually they'll catch up with you. And so that was kind of like actually like the great moment of reckoning of like, Oh my gosh, like it's, it's finally it's caught up with me now like, you know, these chickens have come home to roost and the taxman says "Guess what? Pay up or we're coming to take stuff" and a time I really have anything to take but it was still like from the IRS. That's scary. Do you know what I mean? Like it was the first of many of those letters I learned how to begin to like navigate those waters cuz I was in a terrible mess. And like that was the beginning of the awakening, let's say of like, dude, life is real. Now. I can't run from this and I got to figure something out. And so, fortunately, Britt and I started dating right about that time and the hierarchy or not hierarchy this Keith Kalfas 20:05 Hey, wait. One more thing, you say a key indicator. It's real now and I can't run from this Caleb Auman 20:11 Anymore yeah, Keith Kalfas 20:12 Yeah, it's sometimes we do that I had an old friend that said I don't like to make tough decisions so I wait for somebody to make the decision for me or just or things get so bad or in a predicament where I'm forced to make the decision. And he was so honest about that. I was like, wow! It's not easy to manage your finances if you will do it just yourself. The biggest benefit you'll get from hiring an accountant is, you will have someone to look into your records and tell you where your money is going. They could give you any advice about your tax issues too. Caleb Auman 20:30 That's open Yeah. Yeah, that's boy, that's crazy. And that's kind of guess where I was like I got it to where a decision was made for me and then it forced me to buck up and take care of it and even you know, and boy, that was a long road and I'm still paying off my state taxes and I'm behind on I got six more months and payments on state taxes and federal stuff. We're still ironing out but it's mostly done. And Dude, that's 10 years later, by the way, and so that's why the reason I share this stuff is like if you're behind in taxes, or you have issues, do the smart thing like Keith did and get someone, it's gonna cost a lot of money but it's worth it. And you'll end up making you money and it'll save you a ton of heartache down the road. So get a bookkeeper, you know, we were so adamant generally about hiring a professional to do something right like how you hire a guy to build your website. Why not hire somebody for your books? Keith Kalfas 21:13 Wait a second, now you're talking about hiring people and I just want to say to keep going. Because I want.. I'm always I used to be the guy who said yeah, but I would get angry when I'm here at guys like you successful guys like you. And I would say what the fuck you're telling me to just go hire somebody. I'm sitting here trying to just go hire somebody. Right? And I would hear things like that and I would go insane. And then I would go work like eight days in a row to like till 10 o'clock at night come home to my wife screaming at me threatening to divorce me. And I would go like frantic crazy because I didn't have any control I can access. So it's interesting how like, you have to have a place to live. So you have to pay rent, you have to have gas, phone, electricity, you got to have good internet to run your business and you have to have a good cell phone with a good cell phone plan so you can run your business. You have to have a good running truck with oil changes. You have to have insurance you have to have this you have to and I go through this whole damn thing. I'm like, Oh my God, this cost so much money like in the beginning, and I'm not saying everybody here listening to this in the beginning, but it seems so freaking expensive. And if you have dependents you can feel like you're being squeezed through the cracks where you have no freedom. And then you just look in your eyes every day. And you're like, you have deep bags under your eyes. And you're, you become a shell of your former self and you become the person you always feared you'd become, which is a guy who, who's painted himself into a corner who's just and then people say, "Well, you're spending too much money you need to live. You're living beyond your means." Like "What? what do you mean? I go out to eat once a month?" And they're like, "No, look at those shoes you're wearing." Then they'll cut you down like some Dave Ramsey shit-talking about? Well, you need to go to work four jobs and live a cardboard box for three days. And like that shit pissed me off so bad that I just started like savagely pulling that work the harder lever and raise the price. lever yeah taking chances because but I had to be backed into a corner. I felt I had no choice. What about you? Caleb Auman 23:06 I guess that's probably when the Taxman came that's pretty much where I was. That was, again that the hard iceberg of reality that finally was like, I can't run from this anymore. I need to figure out how to fix it. Keith Kalfas 23:17 But you had all the self-limiting beliefs back then too, right? Caleb Auman 23:20 Yeah, yeah. Still Yeah, like we weren't charging enough for our work. And Keith Kalfas 23:24 So did you just work yourself to death? Caleb Auman 23:26 Yeah, more or less. Yeah, just worked like crazy and I still have like a good like mid I still have like a good 20-year-old lifestyle, let's say of like, I still travel a little bit with my buddies on a shoestring budget, you know, I'd get paid from a job and take some of that money and go on a trip. We didn't plan for a while and, you know, do all that dumb stuff, but same time, like I'm probably behind in my insurance, and you know, live living that dumb, mid-20-year-old lifestyle with no kids and you know, like, and that's another thing to have. Like as you get older, you start to like, and I need to get some things together to get things together for the future, right? Keith Kalfas 23:58 Have you ever had those thoughts, but I don't want to get my life together while I'm out here with the sun beating on me working in the dirt every day? Caleb Auman 24:04 Dude, I deal with that still like it's so, so one of the things about when Brittany and I get called into the field to go to a service job or something or the company if we're like we spent some time on some jobs we're working on a job for two weeks and dude the company I say this because it feels like it's not really but dude the company falls apart when we're out in the field because like it's not it's it reminds me so much it harkens back to the days where how I got in trouble the first place like oh my god, you know, I left the house at six this morning, we're pulling in at six again, I do not feel like returning the seven voicemails I've got waiting on me or like dealing with an upset, you know, client and it's like, I see how it keeps me grounded to remember like what it's like to be at that level of the grind, you know? And so, yeah, it's so tough to be an owner-operator. And so it reminds me of that, I forget, I guess whereas even going with this, but I know I totally relate to like, yeah, it just it's so hard to be the producer and facilitate all the stuff that's involved to take the run the company and I guess that's where you got to decide where you're going to go as a company, are you going to be a guy that just works like that? Are you going to set a goal of building something in your life? Building a company is not as easy as you think. The difficult part of it is if you mismanaged your business because you don't have the goal of building something in your life. 25:09 And it's going to take like, crazy discipline, which is something I didn't have a lot of when I'm in my mid-20s. And I eat we always did good work, quality work. We were a good contracting business. We weren't a good business, you know what I mean? And I was just young and I but you know, I know guys that were like just had a different mentality of me that were my age and they built some incredible companies that were profitable and it just the way my stubborn had had to be, I guess it's just my, my temperament was just how I had to be and how my whole life has worked out the way it has just because it's how it had to be for me, I guess, but it still didn't change the fact that ultimately, eventually, like, I made the decision of like, I'm not going back to that lifestyle, trying to figure out how I'm going to pay, you know, bills that month and also to I was just so in love with the industry. 25:57 I'd put off paying a phone bill to buy a new string trimmer or like a new concrete saw or something like that just go so in love with the business or you know the actual like work as in love with the work and maybe not so much the business and so, you know, I finally really came to a point where it's like I want to build you know I'm going to build I've always had that mentality like I'm going to build a company and we finally got there I believe but they're just been with a lot of hard times and I but I bit of self-inflicted hard times because I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth, but I wasn't like dirt level poverty either. And I had a good upbringing I'm very blessed for that night count those blessings constantly. But you know, at the same time, I managed to screw up what blessings I did have and drive them into the ground because just mismanagement and all that stuff and I had to work ethic to overcome the shortsightedness of not no financial management so that when all that was like a long-winded route there but yeah, Keith so that's, you know, I've been all through all that stuff. 26:54 So I get them and like you said of like, it's easy for me to sit here now and say, yeah, just go hire someone because I get that like, I know the times when you don't have someone you know the money to just go hire someone you've just got to find it yourself to figure out how you're going to make that happen if you want to get ahead in life and it's just that it's that complicated and it's that simple just all you've got to figure out a way to make it happen and that's just it. Keith Kalfas 27:18 No, like you. You really know how to dial in the way you talk about what it's like to be a contractor. You talk the language bro. Doesn't he, Brian? Brian Fullerton here. He said, yes. Caleb Auman 27:34 Well, I've done stupid been stupid and I'm not much removed from it now but because I talked to guys going through this crap and even at Brian's event, like, Dude came up to me so sharing stuff about my tax issue and he came up to me like, and this is what makes it all worth it. You know, you go out and you tell her to tell a crowd of 500 people I've been bankrupt. That s** you know, who would want to go say that right? Like, Hey, I'm so dumb. You know, I've been I went broke. I crashed a company, but like this dude came up, he's like, Hey, man, I got some taxes. You know how to get them handled. It's like, so cool. It makes it all worth it. Like it's critical to open yourself up like it, you know, makes it all worth it. Keith Kalfas 28:10 Do you have mentors in your life or people around you your Fab Five? Caleb Auman 28:14 Yeah, totally. And, and I've always been blessed with the man one of my biggest blessings in life is to be surrounded by people that were like, passionate about what they did, regardless of what it was and good about what it was and I was always still studying and reading like Charles Vander Kooi, Marty Grunder, and Frank Mariani and Dick Hensley. I could throw names forever of guys that like a lot of my never even met and they're mentors of mine they don't even know if you know, kind of deal and but I still especially in the construction and building realm I always was talking to guys about learning to build I love building like it just building is in my blood. Mentors you got to have one. If you can't pay one find a legend who you could look up to, know their history. If you can't follow their footsteps because we all have our own strategies and ways. Learn from their mistakes, and take only those that could help you. Caleb shared some of their names, looked them up, and researched them. Keith Kalfas 28:45 Say those guys' names again. Caleb Auman 28:46 This is something I want to do someday with a series of like to introduce the Social Media generation to the I would say like almost the founding fathers of the landscape industry and it's Frank Mariani Mardi Grunder, Frank J. Schmidt. Charles Vander Kooi. Keith Kalfas 29:01 We got to go hunt these guys down. Caleb Auman 29:04 There are so many dudes out there that like had a big influence in my life and in my college instructors at my community college I went to Dick Hensley, Steven Neil, and Fred Howard. Those dudes were just passionate professionals about what they did and a lot of positive average attributes to them I guess like emulating what they did with their companies when they built companies and sold them or did whatever but you've got to find guys that are where you want to be and just do your best with prudence you know, figure out what they're doing like you're saying early and emulate that and I do that now with guys of like, where I want to be and I see what they're doing and I asked him I try to be open and ask and fortunately, a lot of guys share their experiences and it's good, it's good. So you gotta be willing to be open and open yourself up to like, Look, I'm screwing this up real bad. Can you help me and it stops some guys say no, and other guys will and, you know, just take that advice with a grain of salt. And you know, dude, darndest to get ahead for your sake, and your posterity's sake. Keith Kalfas 30:01 I got one last question for you. It's, have you ever got those thoughts? Or what would you say for the guys that think, but I don't want to be the guy who owns a landscaping business. And I've built this whole thing like imagine if they see where they're at right now. And they're in a place of working their tail off. And they think of owning some business that's four or five times the size, like five nooses around their neck, rather, they have no freedom in their life, even if they did make more money doing it. How? Do you experience any freedom from your business where they can visualize themselves in a place where like, oh, that would actually be awesome, right? If they're seeing that in a negative light, and they feel like they're just building a big trap? Listen to this, guys. This is Caleb's advice to guys out there who feel that they are trapped in a deep abyss of business failure. Caleb Auman 30:48 Right. A company is a blank book that you can write, finish to the beginning and so you say I want to end up here. I don't want to have those incredible burdens of like running a big company. You can run a company with two or three guys and yourself, it's your book, write it how you want it. And if you don't want that, and that's not your drive in life, you don't have to scale to $2 million, or even a million dollars that matter, you can be plenty profitable, like Steve was talking earlier today, like, you can be plenty profitable at three or $400,000 make a good living. And if you're smart with it, and set it aside and invest and do stuff like it, you'll set yourself up so fantastically. It'll make your head spin. So it's all about you've got to write those chapters in that book the way you want it to be and you have that freedom, fortunately, it might how you get there might be challenging and the toughest thing you've ever done in your life, but it's totally possible don't feel that's a trap that I fell into of thinking with my first company like I have to scale I have to hit XYZ sales, you know, dollar, you know, sales or whatever you don't have to you can be very profitable at $300,000 in sales or whatever, or even just a solo guy out mowing grass for you know, and you're bringing in $100,000 a year and you're netting 50 off that like it's totally it's your book and you write it how you want and don't let him tell you what your business should be. It's all it's entirely up to you. I mean, it's you've got to know your why. So why are you in business? Is it to work yourself to death? Or is it to work yourself to death for a little while because that's what it takes. And then you build this, this machine that takes you where you want to go. Keith Kalfas 32:12 You know, is one of the biggest blessings? I used to plow snow for years, but I do different stuff now with the internet business. I am full heavy on into landscaping. We do a lot of landscaping. We're booked out for nine weeks right now. But it was going from barely being able to afford to pay my bills and hating my landscaping business to, I opened up a savings account and it's called winter savings account, right? And we're on the payroll, but I also take draws from the business to just balance that out and talk to my accountant. Seek your accountant's advice on that. Absolutely. Depending on how you file your taxes and everything but we pay yourself a reasonable salary, but basically by the time the winter comes, when I finally said, Oh my God if I wanted to, I could literally just sit around on my ass and watch Netflix all winter and do nothing. Until springtime, because I have enough money budgeted out to pay all the bills for Christmas forever. And obviously you like you wouldn't do that. But I think when you get like to that level, once you start having some money where you can go on a vacation or two, and you can experience the freedom of the business and you get over that first or second hump, you start to reap the benefits. And have you been able to reap those benefits? Caleb Auman 33:21 We have Yeah, we have and we've, you know, from 10 years ago, we were always super fruit, like, we got kind of funny, you mentioned Dave Ramsey thing, but like we got super into the Dave Ramsey thing and we ate slept and breathed it from cleaning up my old mess. And like Britt came into the picture like right, pretty much when the Taxman started coming after me. And it's this archetype and I heard it so well from Jordan Peterson, the guy just love what he has to say about anything. But he was a lot of Disney movies follow these archetypes of like the script of the plot. And so Beauty and the Beast, right, a beautiful young woman comes and rescues this monster and turns them into a gentleman, right? And so like Britt's kind of like this archetype. Over his overall archetype of generally like a woman will come into your life and straighten you out. Thank God. Like that's what happened to me. And like Britt helped me get my shit together ultimately and like without her I don't who knows I may be back to a second crash company at this point Who knows? Keith Kalfas 34:14 That's my wife too Caleb Auman 34:16 I heard. I understand that and it's it follows those archetypes, right? You know, so I just thought that was just an interesting correlation. Like you know, the reason people like those movies because they follow these themes that are so prevalent we don't even know it. You know? Keith Kalfas 34:27 My wife has this keen ability to spot out any little unconscious thing I have that I'm not aware of some even down to a nervous tick, she can pull it out and show it to me and I'll try to stick my head in the sand on it and shoulders hold it there until I till I see the light and I've become so much better for it and bro, I'd love to have you back on the show sometime Caleb Auman 34:50 I'd be flattered. Keith Kalfas 34:50 As soon as I can work get my way into Ohio which should be pretty soon here. We're going to show up to the company that should have logged and had you on the channel. How can people check you out? Caleb Auman 34:59 All our Social Media handles everything is @AumanLandscape twitter Instagram, Snapchat TikTok. You name it. Keith Kalfas 35:06 Bro, You are a gem. Thanks for being on The Untrapped Podcast. Go to keithkalfas.com/podcast you can find us on any major platform we just hit one top 100 in entrepreneurship on Apple. If you like the show, go there and show it by leaving us a good word positive Five Star Review. It really helps the show out it'll take you 90 seconds go to Apple podcasts and leave us a well worded positive five-star review and I'll see you on the next show. Right now we're releasing shows every Monday. We're gonna pump it up to two times a week soon. See you later, guys.
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In this episode of The Babylon Bee podcast, editor-in-chief Kyle Mann and creative director Ethan Nicolle talk about the biggest stories of the week like our cities burning down, the most righteous heroes of the riots, SpaceX scrubbing a launch because of a nosy Karen, and all our politicians suddenly became Bible experts overnight. Be sure to stick around for the main topic where two white guys decide to talk about critical race theory in the church and society, because why not? In the subscriber portion, subscribers get to listen to Kyle and Ethan dive headfirst into the mailbag and talk about even more stories! Pre-order the new Babylon Bee Best-Of Coffee Table Book coming in 2020! Get a Sneak Peak! Send your emails to podcast@babylonbee.com and maybe we will answer you in our next Mailbag segment! Show Outline Introduction We are out of quarantine and into curfew, but at least we have new swag for the office. Stuff That’s Good Kyle likes Brave Ollie Possum: the audio book. Ethan likes his own Spotify playlist: Every Song Is Perfect. This News Is Weird 'The bird is free': India 'releases Pakistani pigeon held on spying charges' Knocking on Florida couple's door were two alligators fighting Monkeys attack lab worker, steal COVID-19 blood test samples Turtle crashes through windshield on Georgia highway Scientists say they went 'cuckoo' due to laughing gas from penguin poo Five-year-old pulled over by cops on his way to buy a Lamborghini Stories of the Week Story 1 Powerful: Protesters Spell Out 'Love' With Burning Homes And Businesses Summary: In a powerful display of love and tolerance, peaceful protesters in Minneapolis burned several city blocks so the fire would read “LOVE” from the air. Wow. Such love. Much peace. The real story: Riots have engulfed the country. It seems like overnight COVID-19 disappeared and were replaced with absolute mayhem everywhere. The riots are over the wrongful death of George Floyd, who was killed by a police officer who had his knee on his neck for nine minutes. (We’ll discuss more in the main topic.) Top 10 heroes of the riots Somehow Chris Matthews and Chris Hanson both make an appearance Story 2 SpaceX Launch Scrubbed After Local Karen Calls The Cops Summary: SpaceX had tried to launch a rocket but was forced to scrub the launch after a local Karen called the cops, reporting that people were outside doing things and she did not like it. The real story: If ever there were a good time to leave Earth… SpaceX did have a scrubbed launch but then launched for real later in the week. Its module successfully docked with the ISS. Story 3 Trump, Pelosi Face Off In Intense Game Of Bible Jeopardy Topic of the Week Critical Race Theory in the church / racial divides in church culture There have been some strange reactions in the Evangelical world to this whole situation. Some funny/interesting reactions from inside and outside the church: Matt Walsh posted a video of white people kneeling to black people: https://twitter.com/mattwalshblog/status/1267507181689192448? Dean of Union Seminary: “What has alienated America from its very soul, thereby virtually normalizing violence against Black lives? Answer: whiteness itself.” (link and soundbyte) NBA Announcer fired for tweeting “All lives matter” (link) CRU (formerly Campus Crusade for Christ) is holding segregated prayer meetings (link) NBA reporter cheers on burning down of low income housing but then calls rioters "animals" when they come around his neighborhood. There is a blueprint for racial reconciliation being adopted by many in the evangelical Christian world that seems to come from something called Critical Theory, or Critical Race Theory. So what is it? Yearning for justice points us to objective reality in Jesus Christ Hate Mail A man is concerned our story on the Constitution dying from coronavirus may cause confusion. Paid-subscriber portion Mailbag! Kyle and Ethan answer some fair criticism about The Babylon Bee's coverage of Joe Biden. Story 1 Oh No! The Scientist Gavin Newsom Has Been Listening To Is Actually A Bunch Of Raccoons Stuffed In A Lab Coat Summary: Gavin Newsom has been listening to scientists throughout the pandemic, but it turns out the main scientist he was listening to is actually a bunch of raccoons in a lab coat. Sad! Are we not listening to SCIENCE! Anymore now that there are progressive crowds out and about? Story 2 Archaeologists Unearth Galilean Coffee Shop Where Jesus Held Small Group Summary: Archaeologists have found one of the coolest Bible landmarks: the coffee shop in Galilee where Jesus and His disciples would hold their weekly small groups. How would Jesus’s small group have been? Small groups: yay or nay? What’s wrong with a good old-fashioned Bible study? Where’s the coolest place for a small group to hang out? Small group horror stories Subscribers, send us small group stories! To watch or listen to the full length podcast, become a paid subscriber at https://babylonbee.com/plans
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