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What if your dealership isn't losing deals because of price… but because of the experience? "Disney's mission is simple: to make people happy." — Vance Morris In this episode of the Millionaire Car Salesman Podcast, Sean V. Bradley sits down with former Disney leader Vance Morris to explore a concept most dealerships overlook: how customer experience can become your biggest competitive advantage! Dealerships often focus on inventory, pricing, and traffic… but the real differentiator may lie in something far less talked about. Vance brings a completely different perspective, shaped by years of building world-class experiences in environments where every detail matters and every interaction is intentional! "Price is only relevant with the absence of value." — Sean V. Bradley This conversation challenges how dealerships think about the customer journey, from the very first interaction to long after the sale is complete. It highlights why average experiences produce average results… and why the stores that stand out are the ones that create something customers actually remember. "Your best customer is a referred customer. It's almost a guaranteed close." — Vance Morris Learn why most dealership experiences feel the same to customers and how small moments can create a massive impact!  If you're a dealer principal, general manager, sales manager, or automotive professional looking to elevate your dealership beyond price and competition, this episode will challenge your perspective on what truly drives success. Because in today's market… customers don't just remember what they bought… they remember how you made them feel! Key Takeaways: ✅ Anticipatory Service: Car dealerships should adopt anticipatory service, like Disney, by anticipating customers' needs before they express them. ✅ Customer Satisfaction Focus: Processes should prioritize making customers happy as a mission, not merely completing sales tasks. ✅ Wow Packages: Implement post-sale wow packages that enhance the ownership experience, encouraging customer retention and referrals. ✅ Human Interaction: Whenever possible, replace automated phone systems with live operators to improve customer engagement. ✅ Referral Incentives: Utilize referral cards in wow packages to attract new customers and strengthen community ties.   About Vance Morris Vance is a former Birth Control Factory Security Guard and turned that into a wild journey from Disney leader to bankrupt out-of-work executive to carpet cleaner to successful entrepreneur. Today, he's the guy businesses call when they're bleeding profit and can't figure out why. He delivers real-world systems that stop customers from quietly disappearing and stop money from leaking out the back door. He's the only expert on the planet, who blends direct-response marketing with engineered customer loyalty and retention.     Creating Exceptional Customer Experiences: Lessons from Disney to Dealerships   Key Takeaways Adopt Anticipatory Service: Deliver superior customer service by anticipating client needs before they even ask. Create Memorable Experiences: Businesses should turn routine interactions into memorable experiences, making every customer interaction remarkable. Implement Systems: Establish systems and processes to free up employee brain power for engaging, personalized customer experiences.   Discovering the Power of Anticipatory Service In the competitive world of automobile sales, providing anticipatory service can set a dealership apart from the rest. Vance Morris, drawing upon his extensive decade-long experience with Disney, emphasizes that Disney's strength lies in its ability to foresee customer needs before requests are made. As Morris illustrates, Disney's approach to anticipatory service transforms mundane customer service into extraordinary experiences: "On a hot day, Disney employees might offer water before it's requested, making it an anticipatory service rather than just satisfactory." Application in Dealerships Dealerships can take a page from Disney's book by proactively addressing potential car buyer needs. For example, implementing a system where salesperson greets visitors with detailed guidance on where to explore specific car models, just as Disney employees guide patrons throughout the park, enhances the initial customer interaction. Such preemptive assistance makes the car buying experience smoother and more enjoyable. Through anticipatory service, dealerships not only meet but exceed customer expectations, transforming them into raving fans and lifelong customers. This approach, as Morris asserts, significantly reduces friction in the buying process, enhancing overall customer satisfaction. Crafting Memorable Customer Experiences Creating memorable experiences isn't just Disney's forte; it's a principle applicable across all industries, including car dealerships. Morris shares this fundamental principle, explaining its transformative impact on customer loyalty and long-term retention: "Disney has figured out how to create an experience out of all the boring and mundane things." Strategies for Dealerships To replicate this strategy, dealerships should focus on delivering a memorable experience from the moment the customer walks in. This could involve greeting customers with a curated welcome package, including branded merchandise and personalized gifts. The idea is to evoke positive emotions, leaving a lasting impression that encourages customers to return. Similarly, just as Disney pays attention to detail, dealerships can ensure that the car-buying process is smooth and engaging by incorporating small but significant gestures. For instance, asking customers about their favorite music during appointment confirmations and having their preferred station playing during the test drive can make an immense difference. Dealers are encouraged to transform ordinary transactions into unique experiences, fostering a strong emotional connection with their customers that keeps them coming back. Building Systems for Consistent Excellence Systems and processes are the backbone of a consistently superior customer service. Vance Morris emphasizes the importance of streamlined operations, a principle he mastered at Disney, to ensure consistent service delivery: "Disney runs on systems and processes… it frees up brain space to do all the nice things." Implementing Robust Processes Just as Disney utilizes comprehensive systems and processes, dealerships are advised to develop and implement detailed operational guidelines ensuring each customer interaction is seamless. For instance, integrating a robust CRM system allows for detailed tracking of customer interactions, valuable for personalized follow-ups and service consistency. Furthermore, employing systematic approaches in areas like staff training can ensure every interaction is executed with precision, maintaining high service standards. This not only enhances customer satisfaction but also fosters an efficient working environment conducive to continued business success. Recapturing the essence of the conversation between Sean V. Bradley and Vance Morris, the central narrative revolves around crafting exceptional interactions through anticipatory service, memorable experiences, and systematic operations. With a legacy rooted in Disney's pioneering customer service strategies, businesses, especially car dealerships, stand to gain significantly by integrating these principles. Transforming typical customer service interactions into extraordinary experiences creates loyal customers willing to share their positive encounters, establishing a potent competitive advantage in the marketplace.     Resources + Our Proud Sponsors:   ➼ The Millionaire Car Salesman Facebook Group: Join the #1 Automotive Sales Mastermind Facebook Group with over 29,000 automotive professionals worldwide. The Millionaire Car Salesman Facebook Group is the go-to community for car salespeople, BDC agents, sales managers, general managers, and dealer principals looking to increase performance, income, and leadership skills. Inside the group, members collaborate daily on automotive sales strategies, lead handling, phone scripts, closing techniques, CRM best practices, dealership leadership, and accountability systems. Learn directly from top automotive trainers, industry mentors, and high-performing sales leaders who are actively winning in today's market. If you're serious about growing your automotive career, increasing car sales, and building long-term success, join The Millionaire Car Salesman Facebook Group today! ➼ Dealer Synergy: Dealer Synergy is the automotive industry's #1 Sales Training, Consulting, and Accountability Firm, with over 20 years of proven dealership success nationwide. We specialize in helping car dealerships increase sales, improve processes, and build high-performing Sales, Internet, and BDC departments from the ground up. Our expertise includes automotive phone scripts, rebuttals, CRM action plans, lead handling strategies, BDC workflows, Internet sales processes, management training, and accountability systems. Dealer Synergy partners directly with dealership leadership to align people, process, and technology, ensuring consistent results and scalable growth. From independent dealers to large dealer groups and OEM partnerships, Dealer Synergy delivers measurable performance improvements, stronger teams, and sustainable profitability. ➼ Bradley On Demand: Bradley On Demand is the automotive industry's most advanced interactive training, tracking, testing, and certification platform for car dealerships — built to develop top-performing teams across Sales, Internet Sales, BDC, CRM, Phone Skills, Leadership, and Management. In addition to LIVE virtual automotive training classes and a library of 9,000+ on-demand dealership training modules, Bradley On Demand now includes AI Phone Roleplaying and Coaching to help salespeople and BDC agents practice real dealership conversations before they ever get on the phone with customers. This AI-powered roleplay technology strengthens phone scripts, objection handling, appointment setting, lead follow-up, and closing skills, while providing measurable coaching feedback for continuous improvement. Bradley On Demand empowers dealerships to train faster, coach smarter, improve call performance, increase closing ratios, and sell more cars more profitably — all through structured, trackable, modern automotive training.

We're joined by Ian Morris, British historian, archaeologist, and author of Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels Ian's central argument is both simple and radical: our beliefs about fairness, justice, hierarchy, equality, and even democracy are not timeless moral truths floating above history. They are shaped, constrained, and repeatedly reorganised by the ways societies extract and use energy. Across tens of thousands of years, he argues, there is a pattern beneath the chaos.   We dive into: • Why hunter-gatherer societies tended to enforce radical egalitarianism • How agriculture made hierarchy, inheritance, patriarchy, and forced labor more functional • Why fossil fuel societies unexpectedly shifted back toward equality and democracy • How values evolve like adaptations to changing material conditions • Why the industrial age expanded the moral community • Why inequality has begun rising again in recent decades • Whether we are entering a fourth great shift in human values • What energy transitions, AI, and new technologies could mean for democracy and civilisation   Key Takeaways from the Episode: 1. Human Values Are Not Fixed — They Adapt to Energy Systems Morris argues that values are not random, but nor are they eternal. Over the long run, societies repeatedly develop moral systems that fit the material conditions created by how they capture energy from the world. This is not a metaphor. Morris means it in a nearly biological sense: values that match the prevailing energy regime help societies function, grow, and outcompete their neighbours — while mismatched values lead to stagnation, fragmentation, or collapse. The mechanism is cultural evolution, operating on a civilisational timescale. A foraging band that tried to enforce agrarian-style kingship would fall apart. An industrial economy run on feudal principles would be outproduced by its rivals. Morris draws on decades of archaeological and anthropological data — compiled in his earlier work Why the West Rules — for Now — to show that this pattern holds across every major region and epoch. The implication is unsettling: the values we consider timeless may be temporary artefacts of the energy system we happen to inhabit. 2. Hunter-Gatherer Life Favoured Equality In low-energy societies, people lived in small, mobile groups with little surplus and little material inheritance. Under those conditions, strong egalitarian norms were not idealistic luxuries — they were necessary for survival and cohesion. Morris draws on ethnographic evidence from groups like the Kung San of the Kalahari and the Hadza of Tanzania to show that foraging bands actively enforced equality through what Christopher Boehm calls “reverse dominance hierarchies” — systems in which the group collectively suppresses anyone who tries to accumulate too much power or prestige. The tools were social: ridicule, gossip, ostracism, and in extreme cases, targeted violence. This was not paradise. Per capita rates of violent death among foragers were far higher than in modern states. But it was a system that worked under the constraints of low energy capture. When you cannot store surplus, when anyone can walk away from the group, when survival depends on mutual cooperation, radical equality is not a philosophy — it is an engineering requirement. 3. Agriculture Made Inequality Functional Once farming emerged, people settled, accumulated land, inherited property, and built larger social structures. In that world, hierarchy, patriarchy, kingship, and coercive labour became easier to justify and more useful for organising society. Morris is careful to frame this not as moral decline but as adaptive reorganisation. Agrarian societies that developed clear lines of inheritance, centralised leadership, and mechanisms for extracting surplus labour — whether through serfdom, taxation, or slavery — were able to build irrigation systems, raise armies, and defend territory more effectively than those that did not. The Gini coefficients of agrarian civilisations, from ancient Rome to Qing Dynasty China, consistently clustered between 0.40 and 0.60 — far higher than anything observed in foraging societies. Patriarchy, too, became structurally embedded: when wealth flows through land and land flows through lineage, control of reproduction becomes an economic imperative. As Morris puts it, agrarian societies did not choose hierarchy because they were morally inferior. They chose it — or more precisely, it chose them — because it was the value system that worked at that scale of energy capture. 4. Industrialisation Reversed the Pattern The fossil fuel age created such a dramatic expansion in energy capture that it supported a return toward broader equality. Democracy, women's rights, religious tolerance, and mass political participation became more functional in industrial societies than they had been in agrarian ones. The scale of the shift is difficult to overstate. Drawing on the data compiled in his Social Development Index, Morris shows that Western economies went from capturing roughly 38,000 kilocalories per person per day in 1800 to 230,000 by the 1970s. This explosion of productive capacity required a workforce that was literate, mobile, and motivated — not coerced. Slavery became economically irrational when a free worker operating a power loom could outproduce a plantation of forced labourers. The franchise expanded because industrial states needed buy-in from the populations whose labour and consumption drove growth. The period between 1945 and 1975 — what economists call the Great Compression — saw inequality fall to historic lows across the industrialised world, a pattern Morris attributes directly to the structural demands of fossil-fuel economies rather than to moral awakening alone. 5. Moral Progress May Be Less Moral Than We Think One of the most provocative ideas in the conversation is that what we call moral progress may often be adaptation. Values spread not simply because they are truer or nobler, but because they work better under new productive conditions. Morris is not arguing that moral reasoning is meaningless — he acknowledges the role of philosophers, activists, and reformers in articulating new ethical frameworks. But he insists that these frameworks gain traction only when the material conditions are right. The abolition of slavery is his sharpest example: anti-slavery arguments had existed since antiquity, from Stoic philosophers to medieval theologians. They gained no lasting foothold until the fossil fuel revolution made free industrial labour more productive than coerced agricultural labour. In this reading, the abolitionists were morally right — but they succeeded because the energy regime had shifted in their favour. The danger in this insight, as Princeton philosopher Christine Korsgaard argues in her response to Morris's Tanner Lectures, is that it can erode our confidence in the permanence of our own moral achievements. If democracy rose with fossil fuels, what happens when fossil fuels decline? 6. The Last 40 Years May Mark the Start of a New Shift Morris suggests the egalitarian arc of the fossil fuel age may be weakening. Since the late 20th century, rising inequality and growing acceptance of concentrated power may signal the beginnings of a fourth great transformation in values. The data supports the concern. According to the World Inequality Database, the share of national income captured by the top one per cent in the United States roughly doubled between 1980 and 2020, returning to levels last seen before the Great Depression. Freedom House has documented eighteen consecutive years of global democratic decline. Morris interprets these trends not as policy failures to be corrected but as potential symptoms of a deeper structural shift: as economies move from mass industrial production toward automation, platform monopolies, and AI-driven services, the number of people whose active participation is economically essential may be shrinking. If the fossil fuel age favoured equality because it needed mass labour and mass consumption, an age of intelligent machines may not. The egalitarian values we assumed were permanent may have been contingent on a phase of industrial development that is now passing. 7. Energy Abundance Does Not Automatically Create Equality Cases like Qatar and other resource-rich states show that energy alone is not enough. The social context into which new energy arrives matters enormously; pre-existing structures can allow elites to monopolise wealth and preserve hierarchy. Qatar holds the fourth-highest GDP per capita in the world, yet ranks near the bottom of the V-Dem Electoral Democracy Index. Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait, and Brunei tell similar stories: vast energy wealth, minimal democratic development. Morris argues this is not a contradiction of his thesis but a refinement. What matters is not merely how much energy a society captures, but how many people must participate in capturing it. In industrial economies, millions of workers were needed — creating structural pressure for education, wages, and political rights. In petrostates, a tiny elite controls extraction, distributes revenue as patronage, and faces no structural need to empower the broader population. The lesson is critical for understanding the current energy transition: if the next energy regime — whether solar, nuclear, or AI-driven — can be controlled by a narrow class of technologists and capital owners, the democratic dividend may not follow. 8. The Future May Be a Contest Between Democratic and Authoritarian Models As energy systems, technology, and AI evolve, Morris sees a real competitive struggle ahead between more egalitarian democratic societies and more centralised, authoritarian ones. The question is not only what kind of world we want — but which kind will prove more effective. Democracy's advantages are significant: distributed innovation, self-correcting institutions, the ability to attract global talent through individual freedom. But authoritarian systems have their own competitive strengths, particularly in an age of AI-enabled surveillance and rapid state-directed investment. China's ability to mobilise resources for infrastructure, energy, and technology development without electoral friction presents a genuine challenge to the democratic model. Morris draws on the framework laid out by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson in Why Nations Fail — the contest between inclusive and extractive institutions — but adds an energy dimension: the outcome may depend less on which system we prefer and more on which system the next energy regime structurally favours. If renewable energy is distributed and requires broad participation, democracy may thrive. If AI and automation concentrate power, authoritarianism may prove more durable than we hope. Timestamps: (00:00) – Introduction to Ian Morris and the core thesis of Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels (01:00) – Why values are not random: the pattern across history (02:10) – Hunter-gatherers, equality, and the logic of low-energy societies (03:10) – Agriculture, hierarchy, kingship, and why inequality became moralized (06:00) – Energy capture as the hidden driver of value systems (09:10) – Why farming societies relied on inheritance, patriarchy, and force (15:20) – Rousseau, Hobbes, and why both misunderstood early humans (17:20) – Cultural evolution and how values adapt like biological traits (21:20) – Why fossil fuel societies moved back toward equality (28:20) – Factory labor, capitalism, and the widening of the moral community (34:20) – Are we now moving into a fourth great shift? (36:20) – Inequality, EROI, and the current energy transition (38:00) – Why Morris thinks we are still early in a new energy revolution (44:00) – Elon Musk, elite power, and why democracy is being questioned again (46:10) – Oil-rich states, Qatar, and why history still matters (54:40) – What readers should take from the book for navigating the future (56:00) – China, democracy, and the coming civilizational competition

What You Need to Know is three big things about the terrible border bill. First, why does a border bill include billions of dollars of foreign aid for Ukraine and Israel? Foreign conflicts are a separate issue than our Southern border. Second, anything good that would come from the bill could be done right now by the executive branch, which is already empowered and expected to secure the border. Finally, all the other parts of the border bill would simply formalize the insane slew of illegal migrants flooding the country and would make it harder for the next President to deport them. Col. John Mills (Ret.), retired army colonel and author of The Nation Will Follow and War Against the Deep State, joins Ed to discuss the importance of election integrity and how it can be ensured. Col. Mills emphasizes the importance of validation of the 2020 election, because the truth is important. Ed and Col. Mills also discuss the involvement of nonprofit and for profit companies involved in government projects and impacting election integrity. Michael Morris is the Director of the Media Research Center's Free Speech America. He joins Ed to discuss Newsguard, an online firm that pretends to rate media outlets on their bias. As Morris and the MRC point out, Newsguard is not truthful and is itself biased. Newsguard has a liberal bent, and MRC is taking them on. Wrap Up: We the People need robust and well-rounded sources if we're going to successfully “distrust and verify” then talk to our friends and family about it. Take a look at the Phyllis Schlafly network of the Phyllis Schlafly Report and column, the Pro America Report, Unauthorized Caucus, and the Education Reporter for some great sources that take you across the issues and deep into them as well.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Boss Project is here to help service based businesses design their businesses around their lives - not the other way around! Check out more at https://bossproject.com/about Today's episode features the CFO and co-founder of The Boss Project, Abigail Pumphrey. She and Morris have a great conversation regarding the services her company provides in a time where it's most needed! As Morris says at the end- "Wow this is so much more than I initially thought! I thought it was mostly administrative and systems based but you do so much more!" Abigail's response? "Don't underestimate me!" We're looking to grow our audience - Would you help us if you could? Follow us on Spotify, share the show with your friends, recommend us to people in your network that would benefit from listening to TBOS! We love our sponsor!  Allego's AI-powered sales enablement platform equips sellers with the skills, knowledge, and content to engage buyers with confidence and produce more wins and revenue.  ⁠CLICK HERE⁠ to schedule a demo! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tbospodcast/support

Terry Morris, President of Morris & Fellows Real Estate Services, Inc. joins the Atlanta Real Estate Forum Radio podcast to dive into the rich company history and remark on notable career milestones. Morris joins host Carol Morgan as the fifth Legends of Real Estate series guest. A 1970 graduate of Florida State University, Morris took his first professional leap by starting his career in retail management. After several years and a closer look at his financial goals, Morris began searching for new opportunities when a friend suggested commercial mortgage banking. In 1974, he accepted a position at The Commonwealth Corporation in Tallahassee, Florida as a commercial loan officer, a move that soon coincided with the first recession Morris would weather in his career. The company asked him to obtain his Florida real estate license and formally trained him in appraisals. When not working on a commercial project, Morris assisted the residential lending division of the company with residential appraisals, his first introduction to the residential side of real estate. The recession hit the southeast particularly hard, prompting Morris and his wife, Cheri, to look for greener pastures to better support their family of four. Morris said, “We studied the national economy by region and city and determined that the best opportunities at the time were in either Austin, Texas or Wichita, Kansas. For a young, dual-career couple raised in the south, this looked like an adventure and an opportunity to see another part of the country outside our comfort zone." Morris and his family packed up and moved to Kansas, Cheri working for Melvin Simon and Associates and Morris for J.P. Weigand & Sons, Inc., a residential and commercial brokerage firm founded in 1902.  He opened a new office for the company and eventually took over relocation services as well. Brokerage is conducted somewhat differently in every state based on state laws and customs developed over decades.  During this time, it was common for brokers to not only list and sell real estate but to also close loans in the broker's office, which led to some interesting situations. Morris said, “I'll never forget the day when a buyer showed up for an all-cash residential closing and put stacks of one-hundred-dollar bills on my desk. I couldn't get that closing done quick enough and get to the bank!” While they loved their life in Wichita, they felt far from home. Both Morris and his wife grew up in the southeast and knew it was time to pull out the map again and choose where their next and hopefully permanent stop would be. Atlanta seemed an attractive option with its opportunity for growth in both of their separate career paths. Cheri joined up with Tom Cousins as Vice President of marketing in the spring of 1978, and Morris joined Northside Realty, run at that time by Johnny Isakson. While working for Isakson, Morris first managed the North Sandy Springs office and then the Smyrna office, familiarizing himself with nuances of the Atlanta real estate market, Georgia laws, and customs. This was a wonderful opportunity to dig into the largest real estate market in the southeast working with a premier real estate brokerage firm. As Morris grew in his position with Northside, the second recession of his career loomed large. In the early 1980s, Morris found himself responsible for expanding a profit center while the market experienced interest rates of 18% and higher. Morris said, “That didn't stop us. We developed all sorts of creative ways to sell and finance homes. In our small office in West Cobb County, we sold one house a day on average in 1982 at 18% interest rates.” Morris and his team took advantage of the rent versus sell pros and cons and developed other innovative solutions to satisfy customer needs. Aided by Morris' financial background, he and his team became proficient problem solvers in challenging times. While in Smyrna,

Introduction 0:00 Welcome to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast, the Jurassic Park podcast about Michael Crichton's 1990 novel Jurassic Park, and also not about that, too.  Find the episode webpage at: Episode 8 - The Shore of The Inland Sea Guest interview 6:10  In this episode, my terrific guest Justin Kiley from the Missing Compys podcast chats with me about:  Jurassic Park, Jurassic World Dominion, Michael Crichton, podcasting, cloning people, horror films, returning to the text, militarizing dinosaurs, misusing biotechnology, better villains, Lew Dodgson, black market dinosaurs, ecological criticism, environmental consequences, State of Fear, compies, procompsognathus, escaped dinosaurs, off-site labs, Jurassic Park timelines, Site B, novel Hammond v. film Hammond, Norm Atherton and Atherton Labs, Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom, Maisie and Lockwood, Biosyn, fan theories for Jurassic World Dominion, bad capitalism, park design and layout on Isla Nublar, Ed Regis, writing trilogies v. writing sequels, animal rights, ethics, Ian Malcolm, spinosaurus? Dinosaur news 1:44 Plus dinosaur news about: New Ankylosaurian Cranial Remains From the Lower Cretaceous (Upper Albian) Toolebuc Formation of Queensland, Australia (Ankylosaurus) Nest of Juveniles Provides Evidence of Family Structure Among Dinosaurs (Maiasaura) Music by Snale the rock band 0:52 Featuring the music of Snale https://snalerock.bandcamp.com/releases  Intro: Grow Old Or Don't. Outro: Centipede. Synopsis 56:20 The Text: Paleontologist Alan Grant is excavating the first complete skeleton of a baby carnivore in Snakewater Montana, when he's visited by Bob Morris from the EPA, who has questions about the mysterious goings-on at InGen and the Hammond Foundation, which Grant may know something about. As Morris leaves, Grant receives a call asking to help identify some mysterious remains. Discussions - 1:18:19 Discussions surround Columbo, Responsibility and Safety, the Portrayal of Women, Chapter Titles, Ecological Criticism, Working Class v. Upper Class, Due Diligence, MacGuffin, and Building a Mystery. The Surgeon General advises against it:  Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here). Thank you! The Jura-Sick Park-cast is a part of the Spring Chickens banner of amateur intellectual properties including the Spring Chickens funny pages, Tomb of the Undead graphic novel, the Second Lapse graphic novelettes, The Infantry, and the worst of it all, the King St. Capers. You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I'm on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.  Thank you, dearly, for tuning in to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast, the Jurassic Park podcast where we talk about the novel Jurassic Park, and also not that, too. Until next time!  #JurassicPark #MichaelCrichton 

Mania surrounding messianic prophets has defined the national consciousness since the American Revolution. From Civil War veteran and virulent anticapitalist Cyrus Teed, to the dapper and overlooked civil rights pioneer Father Divine, to even the megalomaniacal Jim Jones, these figures have routinely been dismissed as dangerous and hysterical outliers.After years of studying these emblematic figures, Adam Morris demonstrates that messiahs are not just a classic trope of our national culture; their visions are essential for understanding American history. As Morris demonstrates, these charismatic, if flawed, would-be prophets sought to expose and ameliorate deep social ills-such as income inequality, gender conformity, and racial injustice. Provocative and long overdue, this is the story of those who tried to point the way toward an impossible "American Dream": men and women who momentarily captured the imagination of a nation always searching for salvation.-Adam Morris is a writer and literary translator who lives in California. He is a recipient of the Susan Sontag Foundation Prize in literary translation, a Northern California Book Award in prose translation, and a Ph.D. in literature from Stanford University. His first book is American Messiahs: False Prophets of a Damned Nation. You can follow him on Twitter @adamjaymorris.---Support for the Age of Jackson Podcast was provided by Isabelle Laskari, Jared Riddick, John Muller, Julianne Johnson, Laura Lochner, Mark Etherton, Marshall Steinbaum, Martha S. Jones, Michael Gorodiloff, Mitchell Oxford, Richard D. Brown, Rod, Rosa, Stephen Campbell, and Victoria Johnson, Alice Burton, as well as Andrew Jackson's Hermitage​ in Nashville, TN.

As Morris and Brandon ramble about the next topic for the episode, it turns into an episode all in itself. Get a glimpse of the conversations and thought process behind how the Know Better Do Better train keeps moving. Upcoming topics, networking and an impromptu appearance by "Uncle Harv" are included. #knowbetterdobetter

For the newest Denver Nuggets Daily Podcast, T.J. McBride had a special guest. Denver Nuggets backup point guard Monte Morris joined the show to talk about his hometown of Flint, Michigan and the water crisis that his old neighborhood is currently enduring. Throughout the podcast, Morris discussed the water crisis, how he has been able to assist his community (so far), how the water crisis is hurting children more than anyone else, and how nothing has been done to solve the issue even after nearly five years of unusable and undrinkable water. If you are looking for a way to donate, support, or help fund people who are trying to make a difference in Flint as the community suffers through this water crisis, here are a few ways to do so: Reach out to the Flint Water Fund to donate money to supply residents with clean bottled water. The Convoy of Hope is another charitable organization that takes donations that they then use to supply the city of Flint with clean water. As Morris said in the interview, it is children who are usually most affected by the water crisis in Flint. You can donate to Save the Children or the Community Foundation of a Greater Flint which are organizations that specifically look to help educate and help kids in the area.

It's the question on everyone's mind: How the hell did we get here, Donald Trump's America? How did our belief in democratic ideals get warped into what Errol Morris terms the “bat shit craziness” of the Trump era? LARB's Tom Lutz talks with Morris about his brilliant new film Wormword, which debuts this week on Netflix, and how it's tale of an army scientist's suspicious death in 1953 relates to the current crisis of a government we feel we fundamentally can't trust. As Morris explains, a society that builds powerful, secretive, violent institutions cannot also be an honest democracy with citizens who demand to know the truth - and what better way to deliver this message than an uncanny, six-part, binge-worthy, murder mystery. Also, John Freeman returns to recommend Solmaz Sharif's sublime book of verse, Look.

It's the question on everyone's mind: How the hell did we get here, Donald Trump's America? How did our belief in democratic ideals get warped into what Errol Morris terms the “bat shit craziness” of the Trump era? LARB's Tom Lutz talks with Morris about his brilliant new film Wormword, which debuts this week on Netflix, and how it's tale of an army scientist's suspicious death in 1953 relates to the current crisis of a government we feel we fundamentally can't trust. As Morris explains, a society that builds powerful, secretive, violent institutions cannot also be an honest democracy with citizens who demand to know the truth - and what better way to deliver this message than an uncanny, six-part, binge-worthy, murder mystery. Also, John Freeman returns to recommend Solmaz Sharif's sublime book of verse, Look.

For generations, many of us have aspired to be like the heroes and heroines we see on the big screen. The charisma, the confidence, and, of course, the incredible physiques have motivated people to hit the gym for decades. Morris Chestnut is definitely on that list of favorite fit actors for millions of people. In his own words, getting in shape and staying in shape wasn’t that hard for him. But then something changed… As Morris was busy doing his thing making movies and television shows, he noticed that the extra weight wasn’t hopping off of his frame like it used to. In fact, the weight snuck up on him so fast that he barely knew what hit him. And, as life would so poetically write it, this is when he gets a call for a big movie role where he needs to be in jaw-dropping shape. He needed an assist, big time! And this is where celebrity fitness trainer Obi Obadike steps on the scene. In this episode you’re going to learn Morris and Obi’s story, and how they were able to transform Morris’ physique (and get just as many people talking about his body as the movie itself). Most importantly, you’re going to learn the valuable fitness lessons that anyone can use to break through and accomplish their fitness goals. They are excited to show you that this process of getting in incredible shape is simple, attainable, and even fun! Listen in as we breakdown the common fitness myths and provide you the tools you need to create the body and health that you deserve. Check out the video, but make sure to listen to the audio podcast for some of the extras to ensure you take things to a whole new level. Enjoy! In this episode you'll discover: Which nutrient can protect your brain from the effects of sleep deprivation. What the most important factor is in any diet that you choose. How carbohydrate intake can affect water retention in the body. What carbohydrate spillover is and how it impacts body fat. How extra weight can creep up on you. Why actors tend to get fat on set. The most significant thing that a trainer has to establish with their client. How weekend weight gain changed Morris’ perception about fitness. Whether or not eating more smaller meals throughout the day accelerates fat loss. What impact (if any) does eating carbs in the evening have on weight gain. Why it’s actually encouraged for you to indulge in your favorite foods on The Cut program. How dropping calories too low can sabotage your weight loss. Why eating some smart carbs for dinner can actually help you sleep better. Items mentioned in this episode include: Onnit.com/Model 

In this first episode we meet Michael J Morris, who was visiting Australia for the PSI conference. This wide-ranging discussion took place in a corridor at Melbourne University where we discussed ecosexuality, dance research, gender and all in between. Morris’ dance practices and interests are broad from Butoh to Burlesque, often concerned with destabilising normative gender and sexuality categories. Their experience in dance reveals there are multiple pathways to making a career in dance. As Morris explained “there are people who are fed from the experience on stage and others find it draining.” Morris’ PhD explored ecosexuality based partially on interviews with activists/artists Elizabeth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle. Morris is currently an Associate Professor of Dance at Denison University, where they teach Queer, Women’s and Gender Studies. Morris has an amazing blog full of musings and writing, which you should check out; you can also follow them on twitter If you have enjoyed this discussion share it with a friend. Stay tuned for another stimulating episode. We will be hitting the web in two weeks time as we continue to explore the world of dance, with interviews from Deborah Jowett, Gideon Obarzanek, Stephanie Lake, Rafael Bonachela and many more. “Even our most mundane sexual practices have an ecological impact”