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Lisa ranks the books she read in December 2024 from least favorite to most favorite. She read a number of young adult books this month and ranked those and then ranked the adult books. This eposide doesn't contain any spoilers of books.  Books discussed on this episode: Beezus and Ramona by Beverly Cleary Ramona and her Mother by Bevery ClearyRamona Quimby Age EightMouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery The Best Christmas Pageant Ever: A Christmas holiday book for kids by Barbara Robinson To all the boys I loved before The Hurting Kind by Ada Limon  So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men by Claire Keegan  The Wonderful World of Oz by L. Frank Baum We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker The Matchmaker's Gift by Lynda Cohen Loigman The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics  by Daniel James Brown For more information, find Lisa on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and her website.

Everyone else seems to know Nick is in love with Jess and Jess is in love with Nick except Nick and Jess. Everyone knows Cece is pregnant except Cece. Break the news with a house full of flowers and blueberry pancakes!

Yesterday, Missouri executed 55-year-old Marcellus Williams, ignoring calls from prosecutors and the victim's family asking the state to spare his life. We discussed the ethics of the death penalty and how listeners feel about it.GBH executive arts editor Jared Bowen discussed a notorious vandal who smashed an Ai Wei Wei sculpture, plus, "Laughs in Spanish" at the SpeakEasy and "Urinetown" at Lyric Stage.Harvard national security expert Juliette Kayyem discussed our nation's history of political violence and the context of today's violent rhetoric.NBC Boston's Sue O'Connell discussed Biden's final speech to the UN and Ellen DeGeneres' new Netflix special.Then, we talked about chicken tenders and nuggets for six minutes on why Americans hate to love the little chicken snacks.Naturalist Sy Montgomery zoomed in to discuss her recent trip to Ecuador diving with giant manta rays and a Rhode Island community mourning the loss of their 20-year-old library tarantula, Beezus.Then, we asked about your best and worst excuses for getting out of commitments. Sorry, we have worm brain.

Al & Val are BACK after a summer break and ready to be uber critical about Den Brother.Enjoy a recap of our summers. Den Brother chat starts at 34min.Den Brother (August 13, 2010)IMDB WikipediaDirected by Mark L. Taylor (Actor - The Other Me & Eddie's Million Dollar Cookoff)Written by James Krieg (Clueless show, Scooby Doo, LEGO properties, 2 other random TV movies) & Michael Horowitz (Burn Notice, The Gifted)Starring: Hutch Dano as Alex Pearson (Ramona & Beezus, Zeke & Luther) Genevieve Hannelius as Emily Pearson (Leo Little's Big Show, Sonny with a Chance, voice acting)Vicki Lewis as Dina Reams (voice & character actor - NewsRadio, Three Sisters, Finding Dory)Kelsey Asbille Chow as Matisse Burrows (One Tree Hill, Pair of Kings, Teen Wolf, Fargo, Yellowstone)David Lambert as Danny "Goose" Gustavo (Aaron Stone, The Fosters, Good Trouble)Kelly Gould as Rachel (Lucky Louie, Rita Rocks, stopped in 2013)Kiara Muhammad as Ursula (voice of Doc McStuffins)Haley Tju as Tina (voice actor)Maurice Godin as Jasper Pearson (voice actor, character actor, Life with Roger, Working) Debra Mooney as Allie Jacklitz (acting since 1976 - Tootsie, Dead Poets Society, Davis Rules, Kirk, Everwood, Scandal, Grey's Anatomy, Inventing Anna)Rick Dano (real-life father of Hutch Dano) makes a cameo as Delivery ManSynopsis: Suspended from his hockey team, a teenager (Hutch Dano) becomes a substitute leader for his sister's (G. Hannelius) Girl Scout troop.Next Movie: Camp Rock 2 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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Beezus and Ramona are beloved characters from a series of children's books by Beverly Cleary. Explore the adventures and sibling dynamics of these iconic characters, brought to life by Rachel Teichman, LMSW, and Victor Varnado, KSN.Produced and hosted by Victor Varnado & Rachel TeichmanFull Wikipedia article here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beezus_and_RamonaSubscribe to our new newsletter, WikiWeekly at https://newsletter.wikilisten.com/ for a fun fact every week to feel smart and impress your friends, and MORE! https://www.patreon.com/wikilistenpodcastFind us on social media!https://www.facebook.com/WikiListenInstagram @WikiListenTwitter @Wiki_ListenGet bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lisa and Amy are back from their VERY long hiatus! This episode was recorded last October and is worth the wait! It's the final part of Ramona and Her Mother you've been waiting for! Beezus wants to go to the hair salon rather than receive Mrs. Quimby's version of a haircut. Ramona gets new pajamas and continues to deal with the angst of family stability.In Lisa's ender, it's a “Club Halo de Paree” party from Any time is Party Time. Floye L. Free also calls this a “Naughty Time" Party!  No need to worry, though, the party was revised for the church crowd.Please rate and review on Apple Podcasts. It really helps us get the word out about the podcast! I You can still listen on your regular platform. Follow this link and click the “listen on Apple podcast” button. Then click on the rate and review tab to reach the correct page. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/books-from-the-basement/id1544343334Please email us at booksfromthebasementpc@gmail.comVisit our FB Page:  https://www.facebook.com/booksfromthebasementJoin our FB Group: www.facebook.com/groups/booksfromthebasementpcIf you want to help us keep our podcast ad-free, please go to www.buymeacoffee.com/booksbasement, where you can donate by buying us a "book" instead of a coffee!             

Susan had the chance to sit down with brilliant debut author Alice Ross this week, where they discussed Alice's novel The Nowhere Thief and Alice's journey to becoming an author, as well as SO MANY wonderful books and stories which shaped her into the author she is today. Alice is as big a fan of Diana Wynne Jones as we are here on the podcast, but as well as the work of the incomparable DWJ, there are loads of other fantastic stories mentioned here - each one a portal to an amazing world of story. Strap in, and join us as we get Storyshaped!Books mentioned in this week's episode include Alice's own:The Nowhere Thief (Nosy Crow)And the books and stories which shaped her include:The Mr Men books, by Roger HargreavesThe work of CS LewisThe work of Roald DahlThe work of Laura Ingalls WilderRamona and Beezus, by Beverly ClearyMalory Towers, by Enid BlytonGobbolino the Witch's Cat, by Ursula Moray WilliamsCharmed Life, by Diana Wynne JonesThe Lives of Christopher Chant, by Diana Wynne JonesThe Magician's Nephew, by CS LewisThe Homeward Bounders, by Diana Wynne JonesHidden Turnings, ed. Diana Wynne Jones(inc. The Walled Garden, by Lisa Tuttle)Tom's Midnight Garden, by Philippa PearceFire and Hemlock, by Diana Wynne JonesReflections: On the Magic of Writing, by Diana Wynne JonesHowl's Moving Castle, by Diana Wynne JonesThe work of Holly JacksonOne of Us Is Lying, by Karen McManusThis Book Kills, by Ravena GuronThe Thief of Farrowfell, by Ravena GuronThe work of Anne RiceLockwood and Co., by Jonathan StroudThe work of Stephen KingOur podcast bookshop in Ireland is Halfway Up the Stairs: www.halfwayupthestairs.ieIn the UK, check out our storefront on: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/Storyshaped. Disclaimer: If you buy books linked to our site, we may earn a commission from bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookshops. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On Today's Show "I think there's so much you can do. It's so rich because you have words, you have pictures. Sometimes they say the same things, sometimes they say opposite things. There's such an interplay between the two that I feel like there's so many possibilities." - Victoria Jamieson Victoria Jamieson was always an introverted child, but a move across states in middle school pushed her further inward and made her grasp for familiarity. She quickly found comfort in the local library after her mother became the regular host of their summer reading program. While Victoria was an avid reader, burning through Ramona Quimby stories, she also found herself deeply interested in the Sunday comics in newspapers, and eventually comics such as Calvin and Hobbes. This lifelong interest in artwork and storytelling would inspire her own career as an author-illustrator. But as Victoria discovered an additional gap in the comic industry for middle-grade literature, she was influenced to take a shot at writing her own graphic novel.Today, Victoria talks to us about why she loves illustrations in literature, authors that inspired her, and how a dream job rejection inspired her first book.This episode's Beanstack featured librarian is John Henry Evans, a school librarian at Walter T. Helms Middle School at West Contra Costa Unified School District in California. Today, John Henry shares a moving story about a student, a book, and an unexpected post-it note.As with all episodes, our author guest creates a unique reading challenge that is available on Beanstack and also at thereadingculturepod.com. Listen to the episode to learn more about Victoria's challenge of looking through some new “little windows”.ContentsChapter 1 - Owner of the library (2:04)Chapter 2 - Ramona and Beezus (6:57)Chapter 3 - From Ramona to Rollergirl (11:01)Chapter 4 - Astrid, The Likeable (15:07)Chapter 5 - The allure of Lego manuals (18:06)Chapter 6 - Omar's Story (24:40)Chapter 7 - Warm Welcomes (32:27)Chapter 8 - Little Windows (36:33)Chapter 9 - Beanstack Featured Librarian (37:45)Links thereadingculturepod.com https://www.victoriajamieson.com/ https://www.beanstack.com https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-childrens-book-podcast/ https://www.wccusd.net/

EP300 - GoodwillFinds CEO Matt Kaness In this interview, we cover the sale of ModCloth to Walmart, Matts's subsequent work at Lucky Brand and Afterpay, and his new role as CEO at Goodwillfinds. Goodwillfinds.com is an e-commerce site, which sells previously owned merchandise, which has been donated to Goodwill. We cover many of the tactical challenges (onboarding SKUs, product content, fulfillment, and curation), as well as the opportunities of this new "CircularCommerce" space. We also get some of Matt's predictions about what's coming next in digital commerce. Episode 300 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Wednesday January 4th, 2023. http://jasonandscot.com Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, Chief Commerce Strategy Officer at Publicis, and Scot Wingo, CEO of GetSpiffy and Co-Founder of ChannelAdvisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing. Episode 300 is an interview with Matt Kaness, CEO of Goodwillfinds.com. Matt was formerly on episode 79, when he was CEO of Modcloth, which later sold to Walmart. Transcript Jason: [0:23] Welcome to the Jason and Scot show this is the much-anticipated episode number 300 being recorded on Wednesday January 4th, 20:23 I'm your host Jason retailgeek Goldberg and as usual I'm here with your co-host Scot Wingo. Scot: [0:41] Hey Jason and welcome back Jason and Scot show listeners Jason not only is this the first show of 20:23 it's a big milestone for us with episode what better way to celebrate than having one of our oldest friends for both you and I personally but also to the show back for an update Matt kaness he was last on the show back in episode 79 I think many listeners will remember that one and certainly your mom who's one of our biggest fans and back then he was CEO of ModCloth, a lot has changed since then so we're looking forward to getting an update some of the highlights Matt help sell ModCloth to Walmart he was exact chair and interim CEO at Lucky Brand he's on several boards yeah I've been advisory to several companies and since September of 2022 he has been CEO of goodwillfinds.com Matt welcome back to the show. Matt: [1:35] Great to be here guys thanks for having me. Jason: [1:38] Oh my gosh Matt we are really excited to catch up it seems like if you factor in the pandemic your last episode was about 15 years ago if I'm and so happy I'm happy to report we've added a bunch of listeners since then so before we jump into it can you kind of remind the listeners about your background and how you got in e-commerce. Matt: [2:02] Yeah have you too I like to think about my career or having two careers to date the first one was, very foundational for what I'm doing now but very quantitative, process-oriented mechanical engineering patent law Manufacturing, Ops Consulting things that had nothing to do with retail or fashion or e-commerce and then I. [2:32] Fell into the category when I was a full-time consultant at Burton Snowboards about 16 17 years ago, and fell in love with lifestyle Brands and have, try to stay in that lane for the majority of that time period since, from Burton Snowboards I went onto Urban Outfitters was there for close to eight years up sensibly and I had a growth roll my last title there was Chief strategy officer and then from there I went to ModCloth, where I was the CEO for three years and was running the company when we sold it to Walmart I will say that, I've been in hindsight found myself attracted to these amazing consumer lifestyle brands, that are experiencing inflection points either in their business or in the industry when I was at Burton snowboarding was really for the first time finding a mass audience crossing over into, the Olympics the next games and, when I was at Urban it was the rise of Web 2.0 and I got to ride that wave my entire time there and really, I'll be on the Forefront of pioneering you know what everybody know of calls omni-channel. [3:59] ModCloth the founder of their Susan Koger was one of the pioneers of inclusive fashion and so I felt personally accountable to try to scale that and I think we, if once the industry specifically plus size women's fashion and you know today you look around and it's become pretty normative, for Brands to design into extra extra small to 4X and I'm really proud of the work we did at ModCloth being on the front end of that and then. I do some Consulting work at after pay where buy now pay later was really just becoming a thing, we're younger consumers were focused more on debit versus credit products so with really fortunate to get connected with that team and enjoyed, partnering with them and being an advisor and then you know what I'm doing now at Goodwill where secondhand is really having a moment, in the culture and getting a chance to come in and lead a ground-up startup for the Goodwill Network and helping them to. It's a digitized so to speak and you bring this new Marketplace into the world, it's just for me it's like the next chapter in that really fortunate career second career that I've had. Jason: [5:23] Very cool and I know some of those roles were Bay Area based but you are a Philly guy correct. Matt: [5:29] Philly guy born and raised I'm probably on the short list of people who have moved back to Philly twice. I was in Boston the first time when my wife became. Preggers with our oldest and we wanted to be closer to family and then the second time was when we were in the Bay Area after I left Walmart, we had a break in the action and our oldest was about to start high school and we decide we want to be back here. For the high school years but we've lived all around and I'd obviously travel a lot for work so I have an affinity for the bay area as well as some other places around the country but but Phillies the hometown. Jason: [6:14] Yeah but I'm assuming it's Philly sports teams most importantly. Matt: [6:18] I have been an eagle season ticket holders 2000 yes. Jason: [6:23] Awesome and for people that don't know Philadelphia and Pennsylvania as a whole is a is is a weird e-commerce concentration Point like there's a lot of e-commerce kind of was born or gravitated in the area so I think of like Mark Rubin and Dick's Sporting Good and in Pittsburgh and urban obviously was a huge player there was Urban your first like hardcore e-commerce experience or were you doing a lot of e-commerce at Burton. Matt: [6:56] I was not at Burton Urban is really where I started to cut my teeth on e-commerce. Direct to Consumer more than e-commerce it was really about this when I got there this billion dollar Consolidated Enterprise across there are three main brands, Urban Outfitters anthropology and Free People and the business had started as a catalog, division of what was you know let's call it 95 percent of the sales came through their store Channel. For retail versus direct to Consumer and so when I got there or there was a there was a. [7:43] 100 million Consolidated direct-to-consumer business which was split between catalog and e-commerce, but it was nascent it was not a strategic focus and then you know the founder of their dick ain't really had. This put a natural understanding of consumer behavior and where the industry was going and he had a vision for how to scale the business multi-channel and so we were all, trying to make that that future reality every day for the eight years I was there and we had a lot of success going back to your point about Pennsylvania and Philly first round capital, one of their there I believe their original headquarters and then one of their major offices, is in Philly and so I think I think a lot of it stems from their presence as well not just decaying and Reuben and some others, but also Philly from a talent perspective is kind of like a six suburb or borough of New York, where you get a lot of folks in New York and then they realize that. It's just the standard of living the cost of living is so much better in Philadelphia and so you get a lot of transplants to come down to Philly as well working in e-commerce. Jason: [9:11] Yeah and I want to say I met you I think we all met on the shop dot-org board when you were at Urban later in your your tenure Urban and some of my Fondest Memories another good friend of the show Billy met who at the time was at Abercrombie is the two of you like heckling each other about like your two brands. Matt: [9:34] Yeah like that was that was really fun for me because you know Urban. Um was pretty insular you meaning that we were so obsessively focused on the customer, and on the fashion trends and on what we were doing internally, that we never really thought about competition so we didn't spend a ton of time looking around the industry, so for me that was that was kind of a an introduction to what else was happening across the industry and then Billy occasionally would call me and say. Hey you guys make me look bad because you just had another great quarter ecomp rowing and you know your your results are now The Benchmark that I have to deliver against. But you know what I what I found in that shop or Community which is now part of NRF, is that it was not very competitive it was very collaborative I couldn't believe. [10:46] How much everybody support each other and wanted to share strategies and ideas and Etc and I think that's one of the things that really drew me into this career path on the digital Commerce side, versus pursuing merchandising or. We're kind of the brick-and-mortar offline space is it's just how, how great that the digital Community has been in the US that I've experienced so that's one of the one of the things that I try to do now is to make sure that. Making myself available I'm kind of giving back and spending time with folks and helping them along and sharing ideas because I know that you guys and others certainly do that for me way back in the day. Jason: [11:32] Yeah I feel like we all have done that for each other and I feel like we've all obviously benefited greatly from that community, and so then you leave the Eagles behind and you go join what at the time was a Founder led a venture back pure-d to see is that, a fair characterization for Vermont cough if when you. Matt: [11:58] Yes my father my father is a pure pointy Taylor yeah. Like 10,000 uniques on the site all third party. The company was vertically integrated so homegrown Ruby on Rails codebase e-commerce. Order management system warehouse management system all the way down to the call center and the warehouse it was, um pretty pioneering on the web services side as far as. [12:35] Look it was an early social commerce player as far as leveraging Pinterest and things that you could do with. Facebook and some of the other platforms Tumblr to engage customers and get them to participate in the shopping experience we were one of the first to integrate, ugc from customers into the shopping experience into the carousels on the website, um we had personalization that was driven by customer reviews that were captured in the website versus outsourced to a bizarre Voice or the like so it was the technology is pretty pioneering, the business was was very underdeveloped and the brand I felt was. Had a lot of opportunity to broaden its appeal when I got there so it was a little bit of a turnaround, financially what I'm joined which having now done this a few times there's always a reason they bring in an outside CEO. Jason: [13:44] It's not because things are just going awesome and they just want to share the awesomeness. Matt: [13:47] Yeah I can't I can't think of a single time that CEO in a business that's humming and doing great he says you know what let's bring in somebody else to do this so I. Jason: [13:57] I think Andy jassy is saying that about Amazon right now by the way. Matt: [14:02] Yeah yeah yeah what I mean there's there's a there's a lot of chatter about looking at. It was on the Facebook and Tesla and what those Founders were doing the last couple years selling stock so I think they kind of all knew what was about to happen. But you know just quickly on ModCloth I'll say that you know we were able to quickly come in. [14:32] Turn around the business financially but more importantly we pivoted it to what then was called a DM BB model, a digitally native vertical brand model which was just meant that the vertical piece that you were procuring designing selling your own product or exclusive product versus, third party which you know in the world of Amazon it's really hard to scale a business that you know what you're selling you can find on Amazon or other larger marketplaces, so we build out a design studio and sourcing operation weary platform the entire Tech stack we developed, a showroom concept similar to what we're being bonobos had developed and tested that and rolled that out and had a really aggressive growth plan against that we went out to raise money and her wound up, getting an offer from the team at jet.com that 6-month previous had, I've been sold to Walmart and they came in and made an offer and the board accepted it and so we sold it. And and I stayed on at Walmart for a year and oversaw our integration into that that ecosystem. Scot: [15:51] Cool the that was kind of a chain reaction right where you guys several companies they Acquired and did you play a role in kind of that roll up. Matt: [16:01] We were like the third or fourth of six or seven Acquisitions and they did within a year and a half two year period. And then as part of my year there I did get involved in some of their business development MMA, conversations and and I did spend a little bit of time helping them, on one of the further Acquisitions but you know they what I learned about Walmart when I was there is. They have such a strong culture they have a real clear view of who their customer is and why they're serving them and you know I would tell you that. The Acquisitions that spray that they went on those two years was really a catalyst for. Something that W Mellon said at a meeting that I attended where he talked about convenience. [17:03] Being valued as much as low-cost in the kind of the online or multi-channel retail environment versus pre-internet, and so they had to find a catalyst under Mark Lori to accelerate their the cultural change, to understand how customers writ large were valuing convenience as much as low-cost when their Heritage had been, Yoda Point technology to make improvements in supply chain and sourcing and Merchandising so that they could always win on price now they had a win on price and convenience, and so though the individual Acquisitions You could argue whether there was an Roi on them or not against the purchase price. I would say that. Internally it was a massive success in creating that kind of cultural change that Doug. Mandated from. Mark and and then you know I was only there a year and I left but just watching what progressed and if you look at the moldable on Walmart stock I think it's hard to argue that it wasn't a success. Scot: [18:18] Yes tricky with Acquisitions you can't just look at the you know the interior ModCloth business you have to look at the whole halo effect and the stock price yeah there's a multi-faceted way to look at these things that's kind of complicated. Matt: [18:32] Yeah I think any business that they could grow if you could grow organically in definitely I think most businesses would do that there's a reason why companies you know use MMA to your point. Scot: [18:46] Did some point I think I saw a ModCloth working to the stores where you there for that. Matt: [18:53] No no that I left before any of those kind of process integration initiatives occurred. Scot: [19:03] Yeah and then didn't they do they sell it back out do they spin it. Matt: [19:08] Yeah they sold it back out there were some after I left there were some further leadership changes that occurred and and they wound up the best thing it and selling it to I want to say it was a fermented New York. Scot: [19:23] Like a private Equity Firm or another. Matt: [19:24] Yeah I think so yeah. Scot: [19:28] Did you didn't want to jump in there and take it over again usually they call the previous CEO I bet there's an 80% chance you got a call. Matt: [19:37] No comment. Scot: [19:41] All right we found something you don't want to talk about good it's part of my goal on this show is to see if we can we can find that you have any family safe Mark Lori stories I've spent a fair amount of time with him he's a he's a pretty wacky dude. Matt: [19:56] I mean I didn't spend that much time working for him but I mean man like talk about somebody who just has total belief in himself and the team and what's possible, and so much energy for. For Commerce for startups for Innovation so I mean it's it was contagious working for him, um working for his team's I wanted to takeaways I had for my time at Walmart and my time working with. [20:32] With Mark and his jet team is I just didn't have that kind of passion for the mass-market the way that, you had to have to be successful working at a Walmart or working at a jet before the acquisition, yeah I love the specialty space I love you know the Branded premium space I love, Yoda kind of the Middle Market where it's not based on price and it's not luxury it's somewhere in between. I just find that that it's super creative there's lots of opportunities for differentiation. There's always new things that you get to learn but you know Walmart I got there was a camera don't quote me on the exact number but. [21:27] Like there was a conversation about like how many millions of American flags are they going to sell between Memorial Day and and. And Fourth of July. [21:38] On one of their promos and I was just like I couldn't even fathom the scale of having to move that many units and so, yep so for me it was kind of a validation of the lane that I've been in and and enjoyed being in and so when I left. Eventually wind up going to Lucky that was kind of part of the calculus on my part was to get back into the into that that category that Wayne of specialty. Scot: [22:07] My one of my first Mark Laurie experiences I was at Jet and he was telling us how the Company motto was billions or body bags and I was like that's kind of a weird way to motivate, and then I talked to several employees I was like how do you like it here and there like billions of body bags that like they were just like it was a mantra like you know that they were just so focused on it was either going to be 0 or this huge outcome and sure enough it was billions. Matt: [22:31] Yeah there's there's definitely I mean I think think he was a successful High School athlete so there's definitely a lot of rah-rah with with him in the team it's that's not my personality I. ModCloth one of the investors accused me of being two column in the boardroom. They said you know Matt if you had slammed on the table a little bit more you know and I'm sitting there like like. That's the that never crossed my mind trying to make an argument to do something required me slamming my hand on the table. Scot: [23:14] A tantrum yeah. Matt: [23:15] My voice yeah but maybe that's Versa tween you know a founder and yeah an operator. Jason: [23:23] Scot was definitely a table Slammer. Matt: [23:25] I don't believe you. Scot: [23:26] Like man I have an engineering background and they drummed that out of us in those four years. Matt: [23:33] Totally yeah I think you're right I think the scientific method does not allow for that that level of emotion that come into into the argument. Jason: [23:44] Yeah but I will say a lot of mechanical things can be fixed by hitting them with a hammer I will, the so I'm super grateful that you guys didn't throw Mark Glory under the table because I at the moment have to totally pandor to him because his new business he has Starbucks trucks that will drive to your house and deliver coffee to your house, so I like I feel like I need to stay in his good graces, but so so the sale happens you transition out of ModCloth you've you've got kids in college and or in school and no source of free clothing so I'm guessing that's what drove the, you're interesting lucky brands. Matt: [24:28] Yeah well I got to say. When I worked at Urban my wife definitely took advantage of the anthropology discount. [24:43] And I act funny funny and true story, when I was considering the opportunity at ModCloth I was having a couple other conversations in the in the fashion space. And I showed my daughter who at the time was probably about seven or eight I showed her the apps for the shopping apps for, the three businesses that I was talking to and I won't say who but there was one in particular based in La that she was like Dad no way she was like you cannot work selling that fashion. But she approved of ModCloth and so so I got her endorsement so yeah when I went to Lucky it's really I wasn't necessarily looking. You're back into fashion as much as I really thought that there was this route there's a unique opportunity with lucky they were. Over a billion in gmv which is to say the direct to Consumer wholesale and the value of their licensing business in the market was over a billion dollars. So brand revenues and net revenue is like call it 650 million and it was independent. [26:08] And there were not a lot of businesses at that scale. In the u.s. that still were independent versus part of a conglomerate. [26:21] And we're had already gone public and so I had been friendly with one of the partners at Wintergreen. Who called me about the opportunity and after spending some time with them talking about it I said. You really need somebody in LA full time in the arts district where they were headquartered and I'm not moving to LA and moving actually back east and they said. Hey would you come in and manage the company to get us through holiday while we won for somebody. And also give us a strategy like a like a financial model a business case three-year strategy. And so that's how I initially got involved there was more as like a board advisor interim manager and then. By January of twenty I'd really seen this amazing Lane. For an older Millennial younger Gen-X. That we could reposition Lucky Brand to be a cause marketer the company did a tremendous amount of good work in Downtown LA taking. Old Denim and. [27:50] Giving it. Nonprofits that work with the homeless population there for clothing to for installation. And then other other efforts to help that population, and so I felt like we could reposition lucky to not mean like going to the casino getting lucky but meaning gratitude. Like I feel lucky I made it I have the ability to spend a hundred dollars in a pair of jeans and I want to support. [28:27] This this amazing company that does all this good work and so. That I had this vision for how you could reposition the brand the business was running like it was 2005 as far as. Go to market so there was a lot of heavy lifting that had to be done around digital transformation around merchandising around. Rationalizing the stores there was way too much discount so there's a lot of work to do, but I got really excited about the opportunity and wound up agreeing to stay on as exact chair in January 2020. And part of my remit would have been to hire a CEO and partner with that individual and I had to kill people in my network that I thought would be great for it who be willing to move to LA. But two months later the covid walk down start. And then it turned into something you know completely different than we were just trying to survive we lost ninety percent of our revenue and that April. And we wound up. [29:43] Making it through to July August that summer but at that point yeah the damage had been done and the private Equity Firm decided to. Sell it to a party that had been interested in the business for a number of years which was authentic Brands group out of New York so I stayed on to oversee that process and then once the deal is done I. Said that was a lot of work I'm exhausted and wound up turning down the opportunity to stay on with a b g and left but, I got to say I'm really grateful thankful for the team that I had there because they were amazing, to work with during such a difficult period that that Q2. And early summer of 2020 it was it was really really challenging to be in the market and I learned a lot about myself as a leader from it. Jason: [30:46] Oh my gosh I I am sure you did I'm laughing though because you think about all the work involved there and so you decided to do something easier in your next gig like oh I don't know like starting from scratch business in the middle of a really old non-profit. Matt: [31:08] Well I gotta say you know after after the lucky experience. Um I really felt drained I didn't have. The passion for retail for e-commerce digital for. Brands for fashion like I had for the previous you know well 15 years and. I was fortunate that I have the ability to do this but I basically gave myself 2021 off. I've been sitting on a few boards I did some Consulting work I had been Angel Investing for a few years so I had a number of startup Founders and CEOs that I was mentoring and Advising, and I just said to myself I really need to get re-inspired I need to like, get back out in the market broadly see what's happening see where the Innovation is occurring and and, get excited but also get lucky because a lot of these things from a career perspective is based on timing I was really fortunate that. [32:27] I went to Urban when I did I was really fortunate to be part of, ModCloth the journey during the years that was there the year that I was at Walmart was a really critical year in the Amazon the Walmart Battle. Um amazing timing too. Be available to do Consulting work with the after pay the exact summer that the founder moved from Australia to San Francisco. So you know I'm acutely aware that you can't control timing and, and yet the kind of put yourself out there so that was my plan last year and in doing so what I realized was I'm like I get the most energy and I do my best work when, back in the phase of a company where it's. [33:22] Focused on growth and Innovation and so no more turnarounds the end of Lucky business was a turnaround. ModCloth was a pseudo turn around, so I just said you know I want to get back to you know that stage where it's really about solving for customer needs and Market positioning and Prague service Innovation and deploying technology, and then a couple that with also wanted to get in a part of retail where I can learn. And you know secondhand what's happening right now the this whole cultural phenomenon around thrifting, and you're the pioneering work of a thread up and a real real Poshmark deep op-ed see ya the last decade, that was the that was the heavy lifting you know those Founders you know basically creating the category, but now there's a critical mass now there's a consumer acceptance so I don't see it as it as a, as hard as maybe it looks like from the outside it's I think it's the timing is great for the Goodwill Network to Rally around this new platform for us. As a separate entity to stand up this new company to launch this new Marketplace. [34:48] There's definitely engineering challenges to figuring out how do you successfully profitably scale. Um second-hand and vintage when you know every item is unique and we have a distributed model where our sellers are. Various. Goodwill members across the u.s. so we're not centralized so there's definitely some some challenges but to me that's part of the fun that's part of the learning. Jason: [35:18] I can imagine I want to take just half a step backwards to make sure the listeners are tracking with exactly what you're doing now because I think it's super interesting so, formal title is CEO of goodwillfinds and goodwillfinds is a new offering from Goodwill that is selling Goodwill Merchant previously owned Goodwill merchandise via a website is that the in my clothes. Matt: [35:44] Yeah yeah so I think it's worth kind of spelling out the context a little bit because it took me a little bit honestly to fully understand it and grasp it. Goodwill has been around for over 100 Years everybody knows Goodwill it's an amazing nonprofit franchise. There is a I call it a holding company I don't know that that's the right. Firm but there is a parent company that owns the Goodwill Master license in Metro DC and they have. License out the brand to I believe the numbers 155, individual territories across the u.s. and each of those territories have, Goodwill organization with their own leadership team their own operations around treasury their own board of directors obviously they vary in. Size and location and specification and you know mix the revenue and all those things but they all share the same Mission and the mission a Goodwill is. [36:57] To enhance lives for the Dignity of work, and it's my older brother was born with a disability and I've watched him go on and off disability a few times in his life and I tell you, that he's his best self when he's working. So when I first got connected with the folks at Goodwill earlier last year it really touched my heart like I really. I wanted this to be successful for them because I know how important their mission is but as I got to learn more about the network. [37:37] Of 155 Goodwill's and more about the opportunity and there are six founding. Good we'll see EOS that came together to organize this new separate entity called goodwillfinds where a virtual Delaware company. And those six are the ones that are the board that I report to and they've been working on this for years they were, ready to watch this last year and decided that they needed to hire a CEO, to come in build a team set up the company oversee the launch so I joined pre-revenue and we're now in our fourth month of selling, the consumer response has been. Unbelievable sales are more than doubling month-over-month it's it's really. A unique opportunity to build something that is not only. [38:39] In a part of retail that is innovating and growing and scaling rapidly but it's also doing it for this amazing Mission and you know really trying to redefine what does. Nonprofit in the circular economy look like to deliver social impact at scale so I feel like that's the Mandate that I signed up for and the team that I'm building. And the business model that we're designing right now to go with the marketplace are the is the execution of that but the bigger Vision here is to create this platform that not only. [39:24] Overtime all 155 Goodwill members will have access to be on as sellers but that. For the first time we'll have decentralized marketing funnel brands. Strategy content messaging 1p data and then. [39:48] But technical roadmap that were able to deploy that will integrate with the store operations and the back of house operations that will allow for scared investments in technology that all the good wolf can take advantage of. On the consumer side I think all the players and secondhand have the same goal which is to make the. [40:10] The option to buy second-hand versus new so compelling and so convenient and so exciting and cool. That more and more consumption dollars go towards second hand and move away from New and by, doing that, it has this incredibly measurable impact on the environment in creating sustainable. Impact and then in our case you add to it. The fact that every net dollar that we collect from our sales go back to the location where the Goodwill was the item was donated to fund the Goodwill programs I mean it's I feel like we're pioneering, this new this new kind of business model for circularity and so all that to me is like super compelling super interesting, and I'm really fortunate that this opportunity found me. Scot: [41:19] Cool hearing you talk about it I can tell you like to build stuff the channel visor we had a lot of customers that were kind of in this General space the challenge with this use Consignment World Is You Gotta you know I'm sure these Goodwills are getting, they're only going to sell online a fraction of what comes in so you got to figure out what what things do you want to sell in the store versus online you gotta create digital assets which are the descriptions and the pictures and then you gotta you know imagine you're not going to send them to a central location so then you've got to create a shipping method that works down at the store level how are you guys solving all those problems at scale. Matt: [42:00] Yeah well I'll tell you a couple of things and you're exactly right there's a ton of operational challenges we have a couple things going for us one. These Goodwills already have the physical infrastructure they already have, donation centers they already have Micro warehouses that are already selling online as a three-piece seller through Amazon and eBay and some other Regional marketplaces, so they have a lot of these physical operations setup, so we're leveraging that and we're not having to deploy Capital to do it. That's 12 there's a there's a maturity in the technology vendor Market you'd be surprised at how many. Providers are in the space to automate. We have a partner that we work with that leverages Google Lens technology and Leverage is the Einstein a I was Salesforce that allows us to, take a lot of the heavy lifting out of item creation we have vendors that we work with that. [43:15] Take images of items three-dimensional scans that send it to and Outsource in India where descriptions are being written for these items you know so there's, and I'm learning this right but you'd be shocked at how much software deployment automation deployment already exists. [43:38] So we're managing that to deploy in a way that integrates into these existing operations at and. The other thing that we have an advantage of is because we are nonprofit. [43:53] We're selling primarily me exclusively right now but overtime will be primarily selling donated items which have. Is this not a zero cost of goods but it's a near zero cost of goods. So we have room in the margin line to play with value-added services on each item, if we feel like there's a lift that we can justify with that you know with respect to photography with respect to. Metadata on each of the items with respect to Howard thinking about tagging, there's a lot there's a lot of players out there that we're evaluating right now and we watched with. [44:42] Over 100,000 unique items back in the first week of October. Mid-December we were at nearly 200,000 items. And our roadmap is to have a million unique items in our active. Catalog by October of this year so this entire endeavor. Has been from the start designed for scale. So we feel like that's giving us an advantage because we're able to do some things that, other startups that are venture-backed that are having to start from scratch with a lot of that infrastructure that have a cost of sourcing and and Supply acquisition that we don't, it would be financially prohibitive for them to make some of the Investments that we're making right now. Scot: [45:43] Yeah it's interesting to hear you say you're using some of the AI Jason's not a believer in AI but I'm a big proponent. Jason: [45:50] Haha I haven't said a word on this whole podcast I've just been using my AI Avatar. Scot: [45:57] Ugh. Matt: [45:58] For the record this isn't Matt talking this is Matt's chat TPT talking. Jason: [46:04] Yeah we tested both in the shed she'd Beatty was much more Salient so we went with that. [46:17] Yeah so it's interesting to me mad because, you mentioned a lot of the early Pioneers in our e-commerce and by the way just from buzzword Bingo like are you re Commerce person or you like do you have a favorite label for what you're doing now. Matt: [46:34] Yeah I'm. I'm back in the the interview circuit right now trying to get the word out about what we're doing and promoting the Goodwill Mission so I'm still trying some phrases on I mean yeah RI Commerce is definitely. [46:50] What. The buzzword but I think what we're doing at goodwillfinds and and in partnership with the Goodwill network is really about circularity you know in my mind's eye. Getting a Marketplace standing up a new Marketplace from the zero. You know it's the old Beezus flywheel the back of the napkin that I think about every day and in my version of it their supply demand admission and without the mission we don't get supply. And the better job we do partnering with our members sellers in acquiring the right Supply and and listing it. In a high-quality way, you know then that allows us to be able to meet demand in the market which the proceeds from those sales go right back to the Goodwill where we got the donation and there's the kind of the flywheels complete, and one of the stories around that and this is what we have to do a better job. [47:52] This year versus last year's to get these stories these amazing stories about the Goodwill Network out into the world, the more successful we are Google finds meaning the more that we're able to sell and scale demand. The more people each of the Goodwill sellers have to hire in their e-commerce operations. Because they're doing the listings they're doing the pick pack and ship on the on the outbound but those jobs are higher skill and they and they pay better. And so it actually accelerates the local mission. [48:27] The more successful we are because they have to hire more people and bring more people and train them into these higher value jobs that then they go get placed somewhere else they can go work within. The digital economy you know the digital retail industry and so we really I really think about what we're doing as pioneering circularity. We also are talking to some retailers and Brands you want to partner with us on they're both on the demand and supply side and part of it is because we're a nonprofit that there's a tax, right up Advantage for them but it's there's also this, PSG component to the large corporates that they have to think about especially in, in apparel where they had to think about you know what is their end to end environmental impact and. [49:27] It's it's really I can't believe the timing of this but it's really a moment right now not just with consumers but in the industry and so that's another aspect of circularity where you have. Yeah it's not Nike so but I'll just use them as an example to speak of Austria of Lee imagine Nike telling their full price customers. That they can buy second-hand Nike at goodwillfinds.com. Or imagine a Chanel it's not Chanel so I'll just use them electrically but imagine them. [50:04] Wanting to use us as their authentication partner so that when you find second-hand should now at goodwillfinds.com versus a real real or somewhere else, you can you can you know that you have this objective third-party authenticator that you can partner with to control, the the brand experience in the second hand market so it's, I'm really excited about the possibilities and and we have a really big vision for what we're doing I don't I think we Commerce to me feels, like a term that soap a little bit Limited. Jason: [50:41] Totally fair so maybe circular Commerce its, it's interesting to me though like so we've had a bunch of those Founders from the circular Commerce. Brands on and like their fundamental problem is not your fundamental like their biggest problem is sourcing, the goods by getting people to send them stuff and then when they curate it they're mostly interested in, luxury designer so they end up with a relatively poor yield and they don't have. [51:13] Any monetization or you know frankly like a ecologically redeeming way to deal with, all the goods they get that aren't they don't meet their criteria so it's like you you seem like they're like through the Goodwill Network you've got all these stores to put Goods in you've got a bunch of you do have luxury consumers that are searching for vintage and value but you also have more pure value consumers you it just seems like it's a really interesting fit because you saw some of the, problems that are endemic to the re Commerce guys you've got the first gen, Val you guys like the you know the fast fashion guys who are you know of course making stuff cheap but it's a psychological disaster and they only sell like half of it and the other half ends up in a landfill and all that and then you've got the, discount guys who I think is the funniest of all I don't know if you follow this but Burlington Coat Factory, right before the pandemic shut down their e-commerce and they shut it down because they fundamentally couldn't solve what you're doing like they couldn't figure out how to cost effectively make, product detail pages for all the super thin inventory that they had and so it just interesting like, because you built this business on top of the Google Network it feels like you got a nice sort of Head Start in the in all three corners of that problem if you will. Matt: [52:36] Yeah Jason so first off I know a lot of the players the founders execs at those other places and, again I want them all to be successful because the more successful the category is it's a tide that will lift all boats and I think we're all being led by the consumer who is voting yes yes yes, I also think that the consumer, um is not just the the deal Seeker the value Seeker but it really is a trend ribbon, style driven younger consumer who if you think about you know the. [53:19] Tick Tock and Instagram and this this viral social world that we live in where you nobody wants to look the same, wearing the same things that shopping vintage and second-hand is actually a way to differentiate yourself and show your, your individual style so it's there's a really interesting marriage there between second hand and kind of social morality, and what's happening there and then there's also a tell you a more affluent customer or aspirational customer who could Shop full price and does Shop full price but they really care about, about the impact in the narrative and they want to talk about the story, where they bought it not just what they bought and so there's it feels like there's this really. [54:15] Great timing of all three customer segments and then the last thing I tell you is compared to the Discounters. Do I have read about some of them struggling, with figuring out e-commerce and I think I've read the rational rationalization was that it's hard to do Discovery online versus in the store. What I would tell you is that what we're doing augments the in-store thrifting experience at goodwillfinds, now if you're shopping Goodwill at your local store. The assortment is very limited it's what just showed up that week or that month as far as donations go but, you can do that because there are certain categories of people like to touch and feel or try on because fit matters or Texture and finish and, and material matter you know how home goods and furniture and the like one of those big bulky items that you know are easier to buy and store but to be able to couple that with. [55:29] Now shopping you know I don't want to say the best but the that e-commerce. Assortment of other Goodwills across the country. We're now you're getting access to donations from New York to LA Seattle to Miami, Chicago to Austin and I mean wow like what a treasure Trove to be able to shop your Goodwill store and go online and get access to all these thrift stores in one place, in our case I think it's a massive value add and. Given the fact that the Goodwill brand has been around for 100 years and already has tens of millions of customers shopping their stores you know our primary focus to start is how do we, how do we complement the in-store shopping experience to those tens of millions of customers to convert them to be multi-channel customers with the brand, and at the same time how do we compete in the market too. [56:38] Solicit this this these other two audiences that I mentioned the style and Trend driven younger consumer that's looking for vintage that's looking for. For differentiated as well as this this aspirational and more affluent customer who loves the loves the purpose loves the mission loves the story of circularity and wants to participate. Scot: [57:03] Cool sounds like your you're fired up and it's going to be exciting to watch the progress we're running up against time but while we have you you've been that this over 15 years the whole e-commerce retail thing what are some of the other Trends you're watching other than this circular kind of recycling element anything anything interesting on your radar for example do you think the digitally native vertical brand thing has played out or is that still got legs any other trends that are interesting to you. Matt: [57:36] Yeah well on DM BB which just a an iteration of DTC. Did you see to me was always a go to market strategy was never a business model. Scot: [57:47] Yeah. Matt: [57:49] The the early players the first movers in that space who did the, you know go to the source and sell an item at the wholesale price versus the retail price because you're cutting out the middleman Zappos is kind of one of the one of the pioneers of that, um That was a momentum thing I've always viewed and again kind of sticking to my knitting here in this specialty premium you know Market space. I've always viewed, yeah the brand equity which is what we're all striving to create and grow and maintain. It gets generated by picking an attractive customer, that you want to obsess about and I don't and attractive I mean somebody that you think is a viable there's enough of them and they're viable to have a long-term relationship with. [58:56] And obsessing about them to the point where you understand their needs better than they and you can create differentiated product and service, where, they fall in love with your Solutions with your customer experience and they want to tell their friends and then you couple that with the right distribution, so that you can find more people like them which allows you to scale in an efficient manner and direct-to-consumer now going back 15 years, was just the new go to market to find more like-minded customers to ones that you already had so urban urban already had amazingly strong brands with a lot of brand equity, so what we did writing the Web 2.0 wave was really just figuring out you know how do we, how do we reach the same or similar customers and give them a better experience a different experience online than what they experience in store, and then Mark what was the opposite I got there and we had no physical experience and so the exercise was how do we take this brand love that exists. [1:00:07] At this website and and translate it into a three-dimensional experience that, the existing customers would love but would allow us to expand our market and introduce the brand and more people so I yeah so I don't I never saw DM BB by itself as a sustainable business model. [1:00:27] As far as other Trends in the market today I when I left Walmart I did a talk. [1:00:37] Where I said I felt like it was an amazing time, to start a brand and I really meant it and I really believe that the market was was so like there's so much sameness in the market that. That there's a huge opportunity for four new brands coming to the market Leverage The technologies that have matured and and really differentiate against the incumbents I tell you sitting here right now after. I feel like consumers. [1:01:12] Have now accepted the fact that their multi-line store is where they shop for everything. The whole idea of this retailers essential and that one's not and those shutdowns for a year plus I think really changed consumer. Perception of where's viable to shop the where it's not and I and so I think the bigger players, have a massive advantage in this market especially this year with inflation continuing going into a recession I think it's I think this year is going to be really hard, for smaller players to differentiate and survive so that's more from a consumer lens. From a technology lens I'm sorry to say Jason but I'm a big believer in AI, and I think it's early days and what I counseled a lot of folks who are earlier in their career is find a mega technology trend, in the market that you can get passionate about learning that you think is early Innings and ride it. [1:02:17] I certainly did that with e-commerce I was. They're early with the that whole Social Mobile Local, moment you know that was existing after the iPhone and Facebook launched, I'm I feel like marketplaces are like halfway up the s-curve I feel like there's still a lot more room to grow and so I'm working on that technology curve right now with goodwillfinds. But I would say that I don't I'm not a Believer it in web 3.0 today it feels like, the.com in the late 90s where it was five years too early, there just weren't enough participants to make it viable I think web 3.0 in whatever form it takes is five years out before becomes something that you could commercially work on. And then you know I'd say I think the subscription in. In a lot of categories is having a lot of success right now which is less about technology and more about, business model but that's that's that's an area as well that I think is worth exploring for a lot of businesses that are trying to figure out ways to monetize Their audience. Jason: [1:03:40] Matt that is awesome, basically we're mostly aligned I'm 100% with you on a I I'm also with you on web 3 / metaverse being too early the one thing I'm gonna just for the record disagree on is I I can't public admit that marketplaces are thing because that'll that'll go to Scott said too much if we admit that. But, it's going to surprise no one mat that has happened again we've used slightly more than our allotted time so we're gonna leave it with those words of wisdom from you as always if listeners found value from this show we sure would love it if you'd jump on iTunes and leave us that five star review but Matt, so awesome to reconnecting and congrats on everything you're doing it's it's fun to watch and and put your point like it's also adding a heck of a lot of value to the world. Matt: [1:04:33] Guys I really appreciate the time always great to reconnect congrats on the pot I'm a huge fan and let's do it again at number five hundred. Scot: [1:04:44] Sounds good Matt if folks want to find you online or you on the on MySpace where do you hang out. Matt: [1:04:52] Yeah have you heard of Tumblr no. Um yeah I would just say if anybody needs to get ahold of me reach out through Linkedin and my contact information is there. Scot: [1:05:06] Sounds good we really appreciate taking time and good luck with the new Venture sounds really exciting. Matt: [1:05:11] Thanks guys. Jason: [1:05:12] And until next time happy commercing.

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Susanna Mattiangeli"Ramona la peste"Beverly Clearyil Barbagianni Editorehttps://ilbarbagiannieditore.it/"Ramona la peste"traduzione: Susanna Mattiangeliillustrazioni: Jacqueline RogersEsilarante, indomabile, irritante, bizzosa, esplosiva ma anche tenerissima, buffa e insicura: è Ramona la peste, alle prese con i suoi primi giorni di Kindergarten, la classe-ponte che in America prepara al primo vero anno della primaria, pronta a conquistare con la sua genuina irriverenza lettrici e lettori di ogni età.Dopo il vulcanico Beezus e Ramona, uscito lo scorso giugno, Il Barbagianni editore pubblica il secondo titolo della serie cult ideata dalla celebre autrice americana Beverly Cleary, consegnandoci un romanzo pieno di azione e di momenti introspettivi che non era mai arrivato in Italia prima d'ora.La pluripremiata scrittrice, autrice del capolavoro senza tempo Caro Mr. Henshaw (traduzione di Susanna Mattiangeli, Il Barbagianni editore, 2021), vincitore del Newbery Medal, finalista in Italia al Premio Andersen 2022, in Ramona la peste si addentra nell'ingombrante e contraddittorio universo emotivo di una cinquenne in lotta con tutti ma soprattutto con se stessa.Piccola in mezzo ai grandiSeguiamo il filo rosso dei primi giorni di scuola della protagonista che, vivace e curiosa, aspetta con ansia ed eccitazione di vivere questa nuova esperienza. Uno dei suoi problemi è che i grandi, purtroppo, spesso faticano a comprendere delle cose – per lei – ovvie. Per esempio che è la sua mamma l'unica persona che dovrebbe accompagnarla in classe il primo giorno, nessun altro! Tantomeno l'amica di sua sorella Beezus, che si diverte a trattarla da bebè.Come spesso le accade, però, Ramona tende a esagerare. E lo fa anche a scuola: finge di russare per dimostrare quanto sia brava a riposare, tira i capelli a un'altra bambina perché i suoi ricci sono irresistibili… E quando un suo coetaneo la chiama “peste”, va in crisi. Come bambina, in fondo, commuove per quel suo essere vittima e carnefice della sua stessa esuberanza.La penna esperta di Beverly Cleary si sofferma a tratteggiare, con infinita grazia, oltre che con sguardo acuto e umorismo sottile, il rapporto, pieno di aspettative, che si crea fin dal primo momento con Miss Binney, la sua maestra. Attenta, affettuosa, decisa, capace di chiedere scusa per un (esilarante) malinteso, questa figura accogliente ma autorevole entra immediatamente nel cuore della piccola Ramona e anche in quello dei lettori. Non mancano poi gli episodi buffi di quotidianità con i coetanei, tra ripicche, piccole cattiverie, curiosità, insicurezze, maldestri tentativi di piacere e di essere accettata.Il libro, inedito nel nostro paese, è il secondo di otto romanzi.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEAscoltare fa Pensarehttps://ilpostodelleparole.it/

Lisa and Amy conclude their discussion of Beverly Cleary's Ramona and Her Father. The second half of the book is all about a sheep costume Ramona needs for the annual church Christmas pageant. With Henry Huggins as Joseph and Beezus as the virtuous Mary, Ramona struggles to find a way to feel important in her own right.In Lisa's ender, it's time for yet another Hobo Party. This time it's courtesy of Benice Wells Carlson in The Junior Party Book.Please rate, review and subscribe on Apple Podcasts. It's free to subscribe, and you can still listen on your regular platform. Follow this link and click the “listen on Apple podcast” button. Then click on the rate and review tab to reach the correct page. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/books-from-the-basement/id1544343334Email us at booksfromthebasementpc@gmail.comVisit our FB Page:  https://www.facebook.com/booksfromthebasement Join our FB Group: www.facebook.com/groups/booksfromthebasementpcIf you want to help us keep our podcast ad-free, please go to www.buymeacoffee.com/booksbasement, where you can donate by buying us a "book" instead of a coffee!             

Beezus and Ramona! We read the conclusion of the Miracle Man (but not that Miracle Man) saga in Defenders #121. Topics include: substitute swear words, colonialism, and Southeast NH's alternative music scene in the 1990s. Enjoy! Enjoy!If you enjoy the show and would like access to bonus materials, please consider donating at patreon.com/ttwasteland You can get into touch with us at ttwasteland@gmail.com or Titan Up the Defense PO Box 20311 Portland, OR 97294

The Author of the Beezus and Ramona books brings us Emily's Runaway Imagination. Emily lives in the small town of Pitchfork, and wishes it had it's own library. She and her mother are working hard to start one in their town. Join her in all of her adventures.

The Author of the Beezus and Ramona books brings us Emily's Runaway Imagination. Emily lives in the small town of Pitchfork, and wishes it had it's own library. She and her mother are working hard to start one in their town. Join her in all of her adventures.

The Author of the Beezus and Ramona books brings us Emily's Runaway Imagination. Emily lives in the small town of Pitchfork, and wishes it had it's own library. She and her mother are working hard to start one in their town. Join her in all of her adventures.

The Author of the Beezus and Ramona books brings us Emily's Runaway Imagination. Emily lives in the small town of Pitchfork, and wishes it had it's own library. She and her mother are working hard to start one in their town. Join her in all of her adventures.

The Author of the Beezus and Ramona books brings us Emily's Runaway Imagination. Emily lives in the small town of Pitchfork, and wishes it had it's own library. She and her mother are working hard to start one in their town. Join her in all of her adventures.

The Author of the Beezus and Ramona books brings us Emily's Runaway Imagination. Emily lives in the small town of Pitchfork, and wishes it had it's own library. She and her mother are working hard to start one in their town. Join her in all of her adventures.

The Author of the Beezus and Ramona books brings us Emily's Runaway Imagination. Emily lives in the small town of Pitchfork, and wishes it had it's own library. She and her mother are working hard to start one in their town. Join her in all of her adventures.

In this episode, Lisa & Amy finish up their review of Beverly Cleary's Beezus and Ramona. Ramona is up to even more trouble as Beezus waits with excitement for her birthday to arrive. Luckily, a crate of apples and an impromptu party distract Beezus as she edges closer to that magic age of 10. Know somebody who's about to retire? Tune in for Lisa's ender as she lays out a “Time of Your Life Party” anyone can throw at a moment's notice. Well, anyone who has the help of the professional party planner, Floye L. Free and her handy book Any time is Party Time.Please rate, review and subscribe on Apple Podcasts. It's free to subscribe, and you can still listen on your regular platform. Follow this link and click the “listen on Apple podcast” button. Then click on the rate and review tab to reach the correct page. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/books-from-the-basement/id1544343334Please email us at booksfromthebasementpc@gmail.comVisit our FB Page:  https://www.facebook.com/booksfromthebasement Join our FB Group: www.facebook.com/groups/booksfromthebasementpcIf you want to help us keep our podcast ad-free, please go to www.buymeacoffee.com/booksbasement, where you can donate by buying us a "book" instead of a coffee!             

The Author of the Beezus and Ramona books brings us Emily's Runaway Imagination. Emily lives in the small town of Pitchfork, and wishes it had it's own library. She and her mother are working hard to start one in their town. Join her in all of her adventures.

The Author of the Beezus and Ramona books brings us Emily's Runaway Imagination. Emily lives in the small town of Pitchfork, and wishes it had it's own library. She and her mother are working hard to start one in their town. Join her in all of her adventures.

It's time for a new series, and Lisa has chosen the Ramona books by Beverly Cleary. First up is Beezus and Ramona published in 1955. Four-year-old Ramona knows just how to antagonize her older sister, Beezus. In this episode, Lisa and Amy revisit some of Ramona's creative antics and reminisce about their own childhoods. For Lisa's ender, there's a perfect party for Tax Day. It's paying up time, so enjoy the “Deadline Party” from Any time is Party Time by Floye L. Free.Please rate, review and subscribe on Apple Podcasts. It's free to subscribe, and you can still listen on your regular platform. Follow this link and click the “listen on Apple podcast” button. Then click on the rate and review tab to reach the correct page. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/books-from-the-basement/id1544343334Please email us at booksfromthebasementpc@gmail.comVisit our FB Page:  https://www.facebook.com/booksfromthebasement Join our FB Group: www.facebook.com/groups/booksfromthebasementpcIf you want to help us keep our podcast ad-free, please go to www.buymeacoffee.com/booksbasement, where you can donate by buying us a "book" instead of a coffee!             

This week we have a very special, very cute episode for you all - we interviewed our moms!  Well, we each interviewed our respective moms.  Buckle up for some cute stories and wide-ranging children's book opinions.  Theo and his mom issue a challenge.  Jackie and her mom learn some surprisingly spooky information about each other.  Rachel and her mom actually discuss books.Books mentioned: Little House on the Prairie, Winnie the Pooh, Martha Speaks, Pride & Prejudice, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Are You My Mother?, The Runaway Bunny, Hop on Pop, Beezus and Ramona, Ramona the Pest, Henry Huggins, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, The Boxcar Children, My Side of the Mountain, Walden, Mr. Popper's Penguins, Harry Potter, Ender's Game, big dinosaur books, Follow That Truck!, The Poky Little Puppy, Hooked on Phonics, Sesame Street, Barney, The Monster at the End of This Book, and The Scarlet Letter.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Beverly Cleary's many books for young readers have endured the decades with her boisterous heroine Ramona Quimby remaining a perennial favorite for both parents and children. In this episode we examine the original bookends of the Ramona books, beginning with Beezus and Ramona and ending with Ramona Forever. We discuss being the eldest child, the most beautiful doll names, the perils of returning damaged library books, and dead cats.  We also tackle the topic of sibling dynamics by consulting some true experts, our own siblings.  These Books Made Me is a podcast about the literary heroines who shaped us and is a product of the Prince George's County Memorial Library System podcast network. Stay in touch with us via Twitter @PGCMLS with #TheseBooksMadeMe or by email at TheseBooksMadeMe@pgcmls.info. For recommended readalikes and deep dives into topics related to each episode, visit our blog at https://pgcmls.medium.com/. We cover a lot of ground in this episode and used some books and articles as jumping off points. Here's a brief list of some of them if you want to do your own further research:Historical pregnancy weight gain recommendations: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK235249/Beverly Cleary:https://www.readingrockets.org/books/interviews/clearyBirth order theory:https://www.webmd.com/parenting/what-to-know-about-birth-order#:~:text=A%20researcher%20named%20Alfred%20Adler,in%20shaping%20a%20child's%20personality.

Today is a little bit of a longer episode as the Little Sleep Ladies have a very important guest on our show! Our great friend Zoe Wollman joins us to talk about the beloved Beverly Cleary, as we celebrate this amazing author's birthday. We take a little trip down memory lane and went back to our child hoods. Marissa talked about Beverly and touched on her memoir "A Girl From Yamhill" Zoe went for a classic "Ramona and Beezus" and Liza brought us into the world of "Muggy Maggie"! We had tons of fun doing this episode and celebrating such a wonderful person. If you are interested you can follow Zoe on instagram at @Nervousrack and be sure to go visit her cool website at zwollman.cargo.site

Happy Women's History Month! This week, we started off by talking about Kim K's wild ass work ethic statement she recently made followed by a lot of other random topics (ya'll know how we do!) & then we closed it out by talking about signs of non-physical abuse. Anyway, make sure you like, share and subscribe!Please contact us at unstuckyourlifepodcast@gmail.com if you need advice on how to get unstuck!Please use code unstuck to get 15% off goody gear, sex toys, & replay of goody's workshops -- just go to https://www.askgoody.com/Check out the website: https://unstuckcounseling.com/unstuck-your-life-podcast/You can also get unstuck with us on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbbzArGOMNPh1ePxN3YYmPwFor more information on J. Dior Productions, please send an email to: milbournejd@yahoo.com

There are some stories which leave you heartbroken when you think of the trauma and sadness of what an animal has endured. The story of Beezus is no different but Beezus has Lori on her side as an encouraging and inspiring soulmate to be her guide and be her partner in life.The bond between Lori and Beezus is evident in every photo or video Lori shares on her social media and you can see how deeply their love flows for one another. Lori found Beezus at a time in her life when she was least expecting to and yet has enriched it so much and has given her so much more than she could ever have dreamed.Beezus is a classic cruelty case and spent the first 5 years of her life kept inside a cage in a dark basement as part of a hoarding house. She was  not socialised and due to the bad conditions she was living in her eyes were a constant pain for her and she was suffering.One day an angel came and found help for Beezus and the 40 animals also suffering in the same way. Beezus began her new life. Her eyes were so badly infected that they had to be removed but you would never know.Beezus lives an incredible free life now with Lori who is always by her side. She can explore with Lori and feel the grass on her toes and the sun on her fur as she sunbathes inside her favourite plant pots. You would never know Beezus was not socialised because she's so affectionate with Lori and trusts her completely.Lori explains her decisions in adopting her and then how she dealt with finding out Beezus has epilepsy and her medication routines, This story is not one which leaves you sad but instead inspired to know that even in a dark day there is always love if you care to find it, there is hope through every dark time and braveness even in the lost souls of the world.Share in the bond between these 2 special souls and feel the love in Lori's every word! You can follow Beezus on Instagram @beezusthebrave or Lori @therawwildhearts as well as checking our Lori's website Beezus the Brave - The Raw & Wild Hearts (therawandwildhearts.com) where she has a blog as well as her own podcast episodes.Hope you enjoy listeningFiona XSupport the show

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Notes from "Don't Shoot the Dog", published by juliawise on the LessWrong. I just finished Karen Pryor's “Don't Shoot the Dog: the New Art of Teaching and Training.” Partly because a friend points out that it's not on Audible and therefore she can't possibly read it, here are the notes I took and some thoughts. It's a quick, easy read. The book applies behavioral psychology to training animals and people. The author started off as a dolphin trainer at an aquarium park in the 1960s and moved on to horses, dogs, and her own children. There are a lot of anecdotes about how to train animals (apparently polar bears like raisins). At the time, training animals without violence was considered novel and maybe impossible. I read it as a parenting book since I don't plan to train dogs, horses, or polar bears. It's probably not the best guide to training dogs since a lot of it is about people, and not the best guide to training people since a lot is about animals. She's written a bunch of other books about training dogs and cats. But this book is an entertaining overview of all of it. The specter of behaviorism I can understand not wanting to use behavioral methods on children; the idea can sound overly harsh or reductive. The thing is, we already reinforce behavior all the time, including bad behavior, often without meaning to. So you might as well notice what you're doing. To people schooled in the humanistic tradition, the manipulation of human behavior by some sort of conscious technique seems incorrigibly wicked, in spite of the obvious fact that we all go around trying to manipulate one another's behavior all the time, by whatever means come to hand. There are still people who shudder at the very name of Skinner, which conjures in their minds some amalgam of Brave New World, mind control, and electric shock. (B. F. Skinner in fact believed that punishment was not an effective learning tool, and that positive reinforcement was much better for teaching.) Pryor argues that behavioral training allows you to get good results more pleasantly than with other methods. She describes her daughter's experience directing a play in high school: At the closing performance the drama coach told me that she'd been amazed to see that throughout rehearsals Gale never yelled at her cast. Student directors always yell, but Gale never yelled. ‘Of course not,' I said without thinking, ‘she's an animal trainer.' From the look on the teacher's face, I realized I'd said the wrong thing—her students were not animals! But of course all I meant was that Gale would know how to establish stimulus control without unnecessary escalation. Of course there are bad applications of behavioral training: “The psychological literature abounds with shaping programs that are so unimaginative, not to say ham-handed, that they constitute in my opinion cruel and unusual punishment.” I don't know a lot about ABA (applied behavior analysis), which is one application of behaviorism. My understanding is that its bad applications are certainly cruel and ham-handed, although there also seem to be good applications. I think that even people opposed to ABA should be able to find a lot of useful material in this book. You're already doing reinforcement training One point I think is underappreciated is that we all reinforce each other, and children train parents as well as the other way around. A child is tantruming in the store for candy. The parent gives in and lets the child have a candy bar. The tantruming is positively reinforced by the candy, but the more powerful event is that the parent is negatively reinforced for giving in, since the public tantrum, so aversive and embarrassing for the parent, actually stopped. It's also easy to accidentally reinforce bad behavior. I recently read Beverly Cleary's Beezus and Ramona w...

Please visit us at http://www.patreon.com/TheCharacterNetwork (www.Patreon.com/TheCharacterNetwork) to help support TCN and help us keep providing these unique and extremely effective research based Bully and Violence Prevention and Character Education Programs to schools around the world, and help more kids who desperately need special intervention. Go to http://www.thecharacternetwork.org/ (www.TheCharacterNetwork.org) to learn more and get involved. Thank you! Public use in schools requires a site license, please visit The Character Network to find out how your school can get these life changing program as a part of the TCN METHOD for school violence and bully prevention. Go HERE for a Free Copy of Jim Lord's Life Changing Breakthrough Novel, Mr. Delaney's Mirror, A Reflection of Your Futurehttps://characternetwork.krtra.com/t/E6KcJXqk8olF (https://bit.ly/GetDelaneysMirrorHere)************** A HERO is someone who does something special to HELP OTHERS. Every hero STARTS as a CHILD, and every Child can CHOOSE to become a Hero... Just like THIS one!We all have some special friends who really only live in books we read about them. Do any of these friends sound familiar? Ramona Quimby, Fudge, Henry Huggins, Ellen Tebbits, and Runaway Ralph? Well, if it had not been for a wonderful lady named Beverly Cleary, we wouldn t have those great friends like Ramona and her sister Beezus. When Beverly was just a young girl in school, she had a hard time learning to read, but after she worked at it very hard, she found that she loved reading, especially books that were fun. In fact, she loved books so much, she decided to be a writer when she grew up. She w ent to college to learn to be a librarian but she kept her dream about writing books. After she was married, her husband asked her one day why she didn t just go ahead and write a book. She laughed and said, Because I never have a sharpened pencil?! Well, the very next day, Mr. C leary came home with a brand new pencil sharpener so she could begin writing. First, she wrote about Henry Huggins and his dog Ribsy. And she just kept on writing, mostly about the everyday things that children do. Of all her characters, Beverly Cleary said that Ramona is the most like she was as a child. She wanted the children who read her books to find characters like themselves. Most of all she wanted her books to be fun and funny like the ones she enjoyed reading as a little girl. She has reached her goal of making children everywhere happy with her books. She has become a HERO. That's what I know about the beginning of This Hero, and I know that YOU Can Be a Hero TOO!Dear Parents, After years of development, trial, and revision, we are so excited to now share with you the most effective version yet of our Proactive Bully Prevention Program that has proven to "change the culture" at hundreds of campuses across America in profound ways. Research has shown the TCN Method™ to be the single most effective school based Violence and Bully Prevention Intervention of its entire genre. We have hundreds of testimonials from educators describing the results they have gotten, and you can view many of these at http://www.thecharacternetwork.org/Testimonials (www.TheCharacterNetwork.org/Testimonials) This program, The Beginning of a Famous Hero™ is used in conjunction with a companion program called Bully Alert!™ in schools played over the intercom during morning announcements twice or more each school week, and backed up by a common culture which reinforces the principles taught, at every turn, and incorporates the phrases of the academic language during any teachable moment. These two sets of stories work together to convey a common academic language which says, “A bully is a person who hurts others on purpose (even if it's just hurting their feelings) but a HERO is a person who HELPS others. So CHOOSE to be a HERO by HELPING instead of a bully by hurting.” They also promote the concept of POSITIVE... Support this podcast

Jasmine Vyas is an attorney, a privacy professional, a mother, and a serious bookworm. Which sounds like a Wonder Woman biography, doesn't it? Interestingly, today she joined me to talk about laziness. Specifically, how toxic the “work harder” mentality can be, and how the book “Laziness Does Not Exist” changed her attitude toward work.   Support the Best Book Ever Podcast on Patreon   Follow the Best Book Ever Podcast on Instagram or on the Best Book Ever Website   Host: Julie Strauss Website/Instagram   Guest: Jasmine Vyas Instagram/GoodReads   Want to be a guest on the Best Book Ever Podcast? Go here!   Discussed in this episode: Laziness Does Not Exist by Dr. Devon Price Your Favorite Book Podcast with Malavika Praseed The Stacks Podcast What Should I Read Next Podcast What We Carry: A Memoir by Maya Shanbhag Lang Two Spies in Caracas by Moisés Naím Slouching Toward Bethlehem: Essays by Joan Didion Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenidge Britt Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman A Man Called Ove by Frederik Backman Beartown by Frederick Backman Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri   Discussed in our Patreon Excerpt: Romana Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary (check out this cute 8-book box set of Ramona and Beezus books!) The Baby-Sitter's Club by Ann M. Martin– I found a fun Retro Set and a Graphic Novel collection! Sweet Valley Twins Hatchet by Gary Paulson Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey   (Note: Some of the above links are affiliate links, meaning I get a few bucks off your purchase at no extra expense to you. Anytime you shop for books, you can use my affiliate link on Bookshop, which also supports Indie Bookstores around the country. If you're shopping for everything else – clothes, office supplies, gluten-free pasta, couches – you can use my affiliate link for Amazon. Thank you for helping to keep the Best Book Ever Podcast in business!)

Jasmine Vyas is an attorney, a privacy professional, a mother, and a serious bookworm. Which sounds like a Wonder Woman biography, doesn't it? Interestingly, today she joined me to talk about laziness. Specifically, how toxic the “work harder” mentality can be, and how the book “Laziness Does Not Exist” changed her attitude toward work.   Support the Best Book Ever Podcast on Patreon   Follow the Best Book Ever Podcast on Instagram or on the Best Book Ever Website   Host: Julie Strauss Website/Instagram   Guest: Jasmine Vyas Instagram/GoodReads   Want to be a guest on the Best Book Ever Podcast? Go here!   Discussed in this episode: Laziness Does Not Exist by Dr. Devon Price Your Favorite Book Podcast with Malavika Praseed The Stacks Podcast What Should I Read Next Podcast What We Carry: A Memoir by Maya Shanbhag Lang Two Spies in Caracas by Moisés Naím Slouching Toward Bethlehem: Essays by Joan Didion Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenidge Britt Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman A Man Called Ove by Frederik Backman Beartown by Frederick Backman Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri   Discussed in our Patreon Excerpt: Romana Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary (check out this cute 8-book box set of Ramona and Beezus books!) The Baby-Sitter's Club by Ann M. Martin– I found a fun Retro Set and a Graphic Novel collection! Sweet Valley Twins Hatchet by Gary Paulson Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey   (Note: Some of the above links are affiliate links, meaning I get a few bucks off your purchase at no extra expense to you. Anytime you shop for books, you can use my affiliate link on Bookshop, which also supports Indie Bookstores around the country. If you're shopping for everything else – clothes, office supplies, gluten-free pasta, couches – you can use my affiliate link for Amazon. Thank you for helping to keep the Best Book Ever Podcast in business!)

Guys, Beezus & Ramona (1955), by Beverly Cleary, is a NATIONAL TREASURE. However, if you're feeling a little cynical, reading this book might raise some questions you had never considered before. Questions like... What would you do if 15 preschoolers (and one baby) just showed up, unannounced, at your door? Why is baking a cake so hard for Mrs. Quimby? And when did the public library stop demanding to know the occupations of all of its card-carriers' fathers? It really does make you stop and think.Enjoy what you're hearing? Please like and subscribe! Follow us on Twitter (@aytgpodcast) and shoot us your emails (aytgpodcast@gmail.com)! Tell your friends! You'll be glad you did.Next time: Crash Landing (Sweet Valley High #20), by Francine Pascal. Ooooh, get ready.

Did you guys know that Gertrude Chandler Warner wrote The Boxcar Children in 1925.... and then wrote it all over again in 1942? We didn't, either. At least, not until we got together to record this podcast. Hilarious hijinks ensue between your two awesome lady podcasters! By golly, they do!If you're enjoying the pod, please like and subscribe! Tell your friends!!! Next time: Beezus and Ramona, by Beverly Cleary. See you then!

QUIET ON THE SET ! We are back in the basement with another bomb boss lady. This one we've been waiting on for a while. Energy on exuberant. Yes I will be using big words all up and through this episode because our guest is really THAT girl. She is multifaceted and multi-talented. Grown and Sexy. Smart and funny....and black.The Founder/CEO of Acting With Ramona LLC, the actress, singer and personality. Ramona, No Beezus. The acting coach sat down with us to discuss a plethora of things from exclusive techniques used to memorize a script, to black trauma porn in the film industry. We could have spat out random movie lines and quotes for hours between the three of us. The love for storytelling was very apparent in this room. Key Takeaways: Ramona shares her experience being an extra on the set of Wonder Woman and what you should do when the director tells you to "Run Past the Actors". Matrimony or Thin Line Between Love & Hate.. Who was really in the wring? Get in where you fit in. A mothers Inspiration She is hosting an acting class "Acting With Ramona" on June 13th. Cashapp $20 ----->>>>> $Rideout365 TAP IN TAP IN TAP IN TAP IN !!!!!!!!! As Always Drink Your Water & Mind Your Business ! Follow the guest -------->> @actingwithramona Follow us on Instagram to stay up to date ------->> @aight_sooboom Follow your host ------>> @larutaN_Beauty & @dre2X__ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/aightsooboomthepodcast/support

This week Annie is answering listeners' literary conundrums in this episode of Literary Therapy. The books mentioned on today’s episode are available at The Bookshelf: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Ramona and Beezus by Beverly Cleary A Deadly Education The Extraordinaries by TJ Klune House on the Cerulean Sea Once and Future Witches The Night Circus Cinder The Scorpio Races The Caraval series Devil and the Dark Water Piranesi House on Vesper Sands Sorrow & Bliss Brood Early Morning Riser Crying in H Mart Take Me Home Tonight The Best Babysitters Ever series Olympus, Texas by Stacey Swann Competitive Grieving by Nora Zelavansky Musical Chairs by Amy Poeppel Good Company  Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin Somebody's Daughter by Ashley Ford The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli In the Country We Love: My Family Divided by Diane Guerrero A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende With The Fire On High by Elizabeth Acevedo Rules for Visiting The Other’s Gold Young Jane Young Savage News Hello, Sunshine Rise & Shine The Dutch House Low Country Late Migrations Ruby & Roland A Station on the Path to Somewhere Better Fresh Water for Flowers Five Tuesdays in Winter The Harpy Milk Blood Heat The Dragons, the Giant, the Women All the Water I've Seen Is Running Britt-Marie Was Here Olive, Again This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance The Ride of Her Life City of Girls Hannah Coulter State of Wonder Afterlife by Julia Alvarez Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com.  A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here. Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations.  This week, Annie is reading Home Stretch by Graham Norton. If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch. We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

We are discussing Ramona the Brave (1975), written by the late, great Beverly Cleary. Buy the book on Amazon, borrow it from your local library on Overdrive, or read the book summary on Wikipedia. For further discussion: Care to read the novelization of "License to Drive?" What about "E.T.?"Did you know that teachers are heroes? Sam Seaborn does. Maybe Mrs. Griggs is having a bad day? 

Happy Mother's Day! This year we are specifically blessing many different types of Moms. You all define what it means to be Mom so beautifully. We reference some of our favorite characters as a guide for different types of Moms - none of them are perfect. Just like none of us are perfect. But we can still identify with them. Here's a list- Marmee (Little Women), Ma Ingalls (Little House on the Prairie), Fran Fine (The Nanny), Mama (All of a Kind Family), Mother (Ramona and Beezus), Lorelai Gilmore (Gilmore Girls), Mary Jackson (Hidden Figures), Rainbow Johnson (Blackish) and Mrs. Brown (Paddington).

In this episode of Your Potential for Everything, host Alex brings on Brent “Lord Beezus” Aasgaard a professional esports player for Jazz Gaming of the NBA 2K League. Brent talks to Alex about NBA 2K, Being a Gamer, & the NBA Draft. Brent was a gamer from a young age and never dreamed that going pro in NBA 2K would be in his future. He was drafted in the NBA 2K League Draft in 2019 as the #24 overall pick by the Indiana Pacers. He points out similarities between professional esports athletes and professional traditional sports athletes. Brent played traditional basketball for a long time before an injury sidelined him. He believes is real-life experience in basketball helps him as a gamer in the NBA 2K League. He encourages everyone who is interested in esports to network in the industry and get familiar with the different career paths you can take. Being a professional gamer is great, but he points out there are jobs behind the scenes that are important and diverse as well. He also mentioned he was happy that women are getting drafted into the NBA 2K League because diversity is a great thing to have. Follow along with Brent: Jazz Gaming: https://jazzgaming.nba.com/ Twitter: @LordBeezus_ Instagram: @beezythor Twitch: @LordBeEzUs_ Follow along with Alex: Website: yourpotentialforeverything.com Instagram: @yourpotentialforeverything Book a call: https://www.yourpotentialforeverything.com/booknow Book Series: yourpotentialforeverything.com/books    

This week we celebrate the life of Beverly Cleary and revisit Beezus and Ramona.           Music: Newer Wave by Kevin MacLeod Link: //incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/7016-newer-wave License: //creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The gang takes on a ghostly ship. Beezus makes a find; Banny disapproves. 

Special guest: ‘Lord Beezus' Brent Aasgaard, Professional NBA2K player for the Utah Jazz Beezus has worked with me for a long time and I am super excited for our talk. He was one of the many amateur players we developed in our ecosystem that made it to the big leagues. He was first drafted in 2019 under the Indiana Pacers 2K team and has now found his home with the Utah Jazz. This week we are talking about the life of a professional gamer. Being a pro is WAY more difficult than people think—these players put their all into their careers and make tough sacrifices along the way to achieve their ultimate dreams. Beezus is proof that our Pathway2Pro works and I can't wait to catch up! Be sure to tune in EVERY TUESDAY (on my LinkedIn page) at 9am CST to catch my podcast and learn everything that is esports! https://www.linkedin.com/in/dannyrmartin/

For full show notes, visit the Fox and Heron Blog. Christy's Ep 1 Booklist: Just Only John by Jack Kent Ferdinand the Bull by Munro Leaf How Fletcher Was Hatched by Wende Devlin Anne of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery Fear Street series by RL Stein On that Dark Night by Carol Beach York Fabulous Five by Betsy Haynes Baby Sitters Club by Ann M. Martin Nancy Drew & River Heights by Carolyn Keene Sweet Valley High by Francine Pascal Eva by Peter Dickinson Archie Comics Josie's Ep 1 Booklist: Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish; The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson; Little Women by Louisa May Alcott; Beezus and Ramona by Beverly Cleary; World Book Encyclopedia; The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher; Last Night at The Chateau Marmont by Lauren Weisberger; Harry Potter by JK Rowling; Tweet Cute by Emma Lord --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/foxandheron/message

The party adopts some interesting aliases to get information from Banny's suspected father. Beezus asks about birds and fish.

This episode should have been titled Magical Vegetarianism, but our editor forgot which audio went with which episode! Some slimy trolls crawl onto the Flicker. Beezus thinks some deep thoughts.   If you are interested in becoming a patron, check out our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/savagebirdcasts

Joshua David Duhamel was born in Minot, North Dakota. Before his acting career, the football player studied biology and earned his Bachelor's degree at Minot State University with the intention of pursuing dentistry.At 26 years old, Josh worked in construction, and it was by chance that he got into showbusiness. Modeling eventually gave way to acting as Josh was asked to audition for the title character in The Picture of Dorian Gray (2004), from the novel by Oscar Wilde. Duhamel can be seen in Vince Gilligan and David Shore's CBS series, "Battle Creek." He is in production on four films: "Lost In The Sun," "Bravetown," "The Wrong Stuff," and "Beyond Deceit."Duhamel also starred alongside Hillary Swank and Emmy Rossum in the George C. Wolfe directed drama, "You're Not You." Duhamel also starred opposite Julianne Hough in Lasse Hallstrom's "Safe Haven," a drama based on the best-selling novel by Nicholas Sparks and the thriller "Scenic Route," which tells the story of two friends stranded in the desert. In addition, Duhamel was seen in the star-studded, ensemble comedy "Movie 43" alongside Emma Stone, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Kate Winslet, Richard Gere among many others. Co-directed by Peter Farrelly and Patrik Forsberg, the film features various intertwining, raunchy tales.Other projects include Garry Marshall's "New Year's Eve" alongside Michelle Pfeiffer, Robert DeNiro, Halle Berry, and Hilary Swank and Michael Bay's "Transformers: Dark of the Moon," where he reprised his role of Captain William Lennox for the third installment of the franchise. Additional film credits include the romantic comedy "Life as We Know It" alongside Katherine Heigl, "Ramona and Beezus," "When in Rome" and "The Romantics." On television, Josh is best known for his role as Danny McCoy on the NBC crime drama "Las Vegas." Additionally, he lent his voice to Nickelodeon's Emmy Award-winning animated series "Fanboy & Chum Chum" and starred in several seasons of the long-running ABC soap opera "All My Children," in which he received three consecutive Daytime Emmy nominations. 

Meghan Kabir is a multi-talented singer and multi-platinum songwriter.  Having written such chart-topping hits as Kelly Clarkson's "People Like Us," Selena Gomez's "Live Like There's No Tomorrow" from the Ramona and Beezus soundtrack, and over 10 Billboard charted songs, her success in the industry is remarkable!  With a deep love and fondness for Afghan culture, food, and dress Meghan speaks with the Girls about her musical influences, including Ahmad Zahir and Haider Saleem, as well as Nashville Country Music and LA Pop Stars. Learn more and connect with Meghan Kabir!  Wanderlust on Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/track/4Khn0hcr58bZREozcReEew Socials: Instagram: @meghankabir Twitter: @meghankabir    Be sure to subscribe, rate, and review The Girls of Wisdom podcast on Apple iTunes! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/girls-of-wisdom/id1501231780 Send your questions to the girls at thegirlsofwisdom@gmail.com. You just might get your question or comment featured in an upcoming episode! If you loved today's show, be sure to screenshot the episode, share it in your Instagram stories, and tag the girls @thegirlsofwisdom. The girls just might share your share! Instagram: @thegirlsofwisdom Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thegirlsofwisdom/ Twitter: @WisdomGirls Email: thegirlsofwisdom@gmail.com Website: www.thegirlsofwisdom.com

Whether you’re overwhelmed with all of the change in your life or you’re sick of the monotony, we are here to empathize! Emily is in a big season of change with a new job and a new house and frankly, too many new things to keep up with! Katie has nothing but groundhogs days so she has been forced to find ways to make things new again. WHAT WE CHAT ABOUT: what our kid's schooling looks like right now Emily prepping her new condo in the woods Katie making fancy coffees from home the books that Emily and her family have been listening to new summer hair colors at Katie’s house Emily’s new job what’s giving us life and what’s killing us softly LINKS MENTIONED: Ruggable (https://ruggable.com/) Starbucks Verismo Milk Frother (https://amzn.to/322XIWS) Audible (https://www.audible.com/) Beezus and Ramona series (https://amzn.to/3kRY7nN) Stuck (https://www.audible.com/pd/Stuck-Audiobook/B085F3F6CX) Wishes and Wellingtons (https://amzn.to/3kNsR9v) All the Light We Cannot See (https://amzn.to/3kPVx1w) The Alice Network (https://amzn.to/2FzezsT) The Things We Cannot Say (https://amzn.to/3aESJzB) Cardi B hair mask (https://people.com/style/cardi-b-shares-diy-hair-mask-recipe-instagram/) Prose (https://prose.com/) Arctic Fox Hair Color (https://arcticfoxhaircolor.com/) StitchFix (https://www.stitchfix.com/) Nordstrom Trunk Club (https://www.trunkclub.com/) Democracy “Ab”solution Jeans (https://democracyclothing.com/collections/absolution%C2%AE) ADAY clothing (https://www.thisisaday.com/) Disclaimer: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.  CONNECT WITH KATIE: instagram (https://www.instagram.com/kateordway/) | website (https://momstrugglingwell.com/struggling-sisters)   CONNECT WITH EMILY: website (https://momstrugglingwell.com/) | instagram (https://www.instagram.com/momstrugglingwell/) | facebook (https://www.facebook.com/momstrugglingwell/) | patreon (https://www.patreon.com/momstrugglingwell) EPISODE SPONSORS: Prep Dish (https://prepdish.com/msw) : try it free for 2 weeks when you visit https://prepdish.com/msw SUPPORT THE SHOW: Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/momstrugglingwell)   SHARE THE STRUGGLE! If you've been encouraged, share this episode with a friend.  The struggle is real.  We might as well do this together! Do you love Mom Struggling Well? Please leave a review here (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-struggle-well-project/id1046121933?mt=2) !

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A read aloud of Beezus and Ramona by Beverly Cleary. Approximately, ~10min per clip.

Patron Shoutouts Ramona and Beezus Fan Polls First Blood Preview

Patron Shoutouts Ramona and Beezus Fan Polls First Blood Preview

Family does not have to be your blood relatives; you can find family all around you. The friends you choose can be more of a family than the family you are born into. This week we will be speaking w/ Yesenia C Poblano and Lindsay Michelle Ridder founders of Cannacoven.They will talk to us about how their coven came to be form, how they are building their brand, and how they are creating meaningful change in the industry with their coven of cannawitches! So sit back, roll up and get higher with BlueDream Radio!! Music by:  @lidopimienta “Nada” @latasha "who I am” . . . Sponsor By:  @prestodoctor_official  @oaksterdamuniversity  @nxtleveledibles @popped.nyc . . . Blogs and Articles on:  @cannasseurmagazine  @_blackcannabis . . . Subscribe to our Podcast on:  @spotify @itunes @googleplaymusic @soundcloud . . . . #bluedreamradio #cannabislife #outnow #ny #ct #nj #peoplepower #educate #agitate #organize #ganjagirls #cannabispodcast #marijuanajustice #legalizeit #cannabisjustice #cannabisculture #cannabiscommunity #cannabiscommunity #ctcannabiscommunity #thc #cbd #medical #cannabisislife #blackpodcasts #blackpodcastsmatter #blackmediamatters #podcastlatino #comunidadcannabis #realtalk #letsgethigh

A rambunctious young girl uses her imagination to escape a life that's quickly spinning out of her control. Nothing timely about this one… It's Ramona and Beezus, and This Film is Lit. Was that in the Book? Better in the Book Better in the Movie The Movie Nailed It Odds and Ends Final Verdict Our next movie is First Blood

A rambunctious young girl uses her imagination to escape a life that’s quickly spinning out of her control. Nothing timely about this one… It’s Ramona and Beezus, and This Film is Lit. Was that in the Book? Better in the Book Better in the Movie The Movie Nailed It Odds and Ends Final Verdict Our next movie is First Blood

Patron Shoutouts Whip It Fan Polls Learning with TFIL: Beverly Cleary Ramona and Beezus Preview

Patron Shoutouts Whip It Fan Polls Learning with TFIL: Beverly Cleary Ramona and Beezus Preview

A coming-of-age tale with tattoos, fishnets, and bruises. It’s Whip It, and This Film is Lit. Let Me Sum Up Guess Who? Was that in the Book? Better in the Book Better in the Movie The Movie Nailed It Odds and Ends Final Verdict Our next movie is Ramona and Beezus

A coming-of-age tale with tattoos, fishnets, and bruises. It's Whip It, and This Film is Lit. Let Me Sum Up Guess Who? Was that in the Book? Better in the Book Better in the Movie The Movie Nailed It Odds and Ends Final Verdict Our next movie is Ramona and Beezus

It’s the surprisingly in-depth discussion of 2010’s omnibus film Ramona and Beezus that you didn’t know you needed. Host Phil Gonzales and John McCoy.

First Draft Episode #239: Ben Blacker Ben Blacker is a writer and producer known for The Thrilling Adventure Hour, Supernatural, Hex Wives, and the new Audible audio series CUT + RUN. He also hosts The Writer’s Panel and Dead Pilots Society podcasts. Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode Hear Ben’s writing partner, Ben Acker, on his episode of First Draft here! Beverly Cleary, author of Beezus and Ramona, and Ramona Quimby, Age 8 was one of Ben’s early favorite authors Zilpha Keatley Snyder, author of The Egypt Game and The Famous Stanley Kidnapping Case was another early influence Three’s Company The Love Boat Ben wrote fanfiction for the TV show Scarecrow and Mrs. King Francine Prose, author of Reading Like a Writer: A Guide For People Who Love Books and Those Who Want to Write Them, told Ben Blacker he would never become a writer Ben and Ben wrote two spec scripts for Buffy the Vampire Slayer as some of their first collaborative Ben wrote a spec script for Mad About You and his teacher at Emerson (who wrote for Roseanne) sent it to Paul Reiser Dharma and Greg Meanwhile, Ben Acker was working as an office PA for Will&Grace Marc Evan Jackson, Paul F. Tompkins, and Paget Brewster were part of the constant cast of Thrilling Adventure Hour Ben’s interview with Traci on The Stacks Podcast is great and you should listen to it! In fact, you should listen to all of The Stacks Podcast because it’s ALL great and Traci rules. Len Wein who created Wolverine, Swamp Thing, editor of Watchmen, and more Bewitched (TV show) In this episode of Comic Book Commentary, colorist Marissa Louise explains her process for coloring Hex Wives to Ben Hear director Maggie Levin on a recent episode of First Draft, as well as an episode of the Writer’s Panel podcast! The Writer’s Panel started 826 LA Ben recommends the recent episode of The Writer’s Panel featuring Mark Frost (co-creator, Twin Peaks), Steven Canals (co-creator, Pose), Harley Peyton (Project Blue Book; Channel Zero; upcoming: Child's Play) as a jumping off point to get into the podcast Ben also loves this recently re-released episode with Carlton Cuse (LOST, and Bates Motel), Mike Shur (who got his start on The Office and then created Parks and Recreation, Brooklyn 99, and The Good Place), and J.J. Philbin (New Girl, creator of Single Parents) The Sopranos and Mad Men are some prestige shows that ushered in a time of “showrunner auteur” Vince Gilligan, creator of Breaking Bad Damon Lindelof, co-creator of LOST Marc Evan Jackson hosts The Good Place podcast, which was running concurrent to new episodes of The Good Place, the TV show — and now he’s doing one for Brooklyn 99’s podcast, too! Andrew Reich, writer for Friends and Worst Week, created The Dead Pilots Society podcast Dexter Fargo, Weeds, and later seasons of Breaking Bad are shows that Ben says are representative of he and Ben Acker’s writing tone Weeds creator Jenji Kohan (side note, I really loved the Emily Nussbaum feature profile about Jenji featured in The New Yorker and her book, I Like to Watch) Edgar Wright (Baby Driver), Wes Anderson (Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums), Rian Johnson (Knives Out), and Greta Gerwig (Little Women) are all filmmakers Ben cites as great examples of people with very specific individual tones Humphrey Ker and Katie Wood were staff writers for CUT + RUN, and you can hear them talk to Ben and Ben about the writing process on The Writer’s Panel! Hear Janet Varney, comedian, writer, and co-founder of SF Sketchfest, on her episode of First Draft! The cast of CUT + RUN is amazing and includes: Meg Ryan, Sam Richardson, D’Arcy Carden, Rachel Bloom (listen to the episode of The Writer’s Panel where Ben sat down with Rachel and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend showrunner Aline Brosh McKenna), Ed Begley, Jr. Why would I miss a chance to mention The Princess Bride? And why not link to the book, written by famous screenwriter William Goldman Aimee Mann and Ted Leo recorded “Dynamite Lady,” an original song to play over the credits of CUT + RUN   I want to hear from you! Have a question about writing or creativity for Sarah Enni or her guests to answer? To leave a voicemail, call (818) 533-1998. Subscribe To First Draft with Sarah Enni Every Tuesday, I speak to storytellers like Veronica Roth, author of Divergent; Linda Holmes, author and host of NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast; Jonny Sun, internet superstar, illustrator of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Gmorning, Gnight! and author and illustrator of Everyone’s an Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too;  Michael Dante  DiMartino, co-creator of Avatar: The Last Airbender; John August, screenwriter of Big Fish, Charlie’s Angels, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; or Rhett Miller, musician and frontman for The Old 97s. Together, we take deep dives on their careers and creative works. Don’t miss an episode! Subscribe in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. It’s free! Rate, Review, and Recommend How do you like the show? Please take a moment to rate and review First Draft with Sarah Enni in Apple Podcasts, Google Play, or wherever you listen to podcasts. 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How do we handle cursing and crude language with our children? Each family is different, but the same principles can apply for leading and guiding our children through this sticky subject. In this episode we unpack the following concepts:Set the bar for your family. (But, help your kids understand that different families may have different standards / expectations and that is ok.)Provide clear lines for your kids.Focus less on obedient behavior and more on the heart of being respectful, considerate, and polite towards other people.Start young and keep communication open about what words are inappropriate and why (teaching your kids what their meaning is and why they are hurtful, inappropriate or problematic).As your children get older, have conversations with them about the words their friends are using and the terms they hear in music and see in movies / TV.Bonus suggestion: Never blast your kids' playlists throughout the house without examining the songs first!The Stat of the Week looks at cursing and movies via Wikipedia. You can Google it if you really want to see the full list. In lieu of that link, here are some of our favorite family movies we have seen lately: Spiderman: Into the Spider-verse, Instant Family (includes some swearing), Ramona & Beezus, Klaus, Matilda, Ralph Breaks the Internet, Paddington.We truly appreciate you listening! Please take a minute to share this episode with a friend who might be encouraged by this conversation or who just needs a good laugh at our expense.Also, please join our Growing Up with Kids Facebook group and engage in the encouraging conversation about the heart of marriage and parenting.

This Prospect Profile features Brent Aasgaard (aka Lord Beezus) who was a PF/C with the Pacers Gaming in Season 2 of the NBA2K League. Although"Beezy" is slightly older, you will learn how this could be a big advantage in the League because he knows when to be the vocal leader and when to play more of a supportive role on the team. Combine his outstanding stick skills with the confidence that comes with a Bachelors Degree in Marketing, and you have a player who could help any team in Season 3 in many ways.

Joey King has been acting, and passionate about acting, since her first acting job: in a Life cereal commercial. At only age 20, she’s already been nominated for Emmy, SAG, and Golden Globe Awards—all as the real-life Gypsy Rose Blanchard in Hulu’s limited series “The Act” opposite Patricia Arquette. She had her breakout leading role as Ramona Quimby in “Ramona and Beezus,” and has appeared in “Crazy Stupid Love,” “The Dark Knight Rises,” “The Kissing Booth,” and much more—and given her knowledge of and commitment to her craft, she’s only getting started. This episode is brought to you by HBO. -- For over 50 years, Backstage has been the most trusted place for actors to find jobs and career advice, and for casting professionals to find the right performers for their projects. “In the Envelope: An Awards Podcast” features interviews with some of the most exciting actors and storytellers working today. Check out more here: https://bit.ly/2OMryWQ Listen and subscribe to “In the Envelope” on: - iTunes: https://apple.co/2rs0llz - Google Play: https://bit.ly/2DHkPwt - Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2QNmu6C - Stitcher: https://bit.ly/2DJv6bD - Overcast: https://bit.ly/2OJvWGk - SoundCloud: https://bit.ly/2jUpnnw Follow Backstage and “In the Envelope” on social media: - https://www.facebook.com/backstage - https://www.twitter.com/backstage - https://www.twitter.com/intheenvelope - https://www.instagram.com/backstagecast Special thanks to... - Host: Jack Smart - Producer: Jamie Muffett - Social Media Manager: Katie Minard - Design: Mark Stinson and Caitlin Watkins - Additional Support: Samantha Sherlock and Kasey Howe

First Draft Episode #227: Courtenay Hameister Courtenay Hameister, debut author of memoir Okay Fine Whatever: The Year I Went From Being Afraid of Everything to Only Being Afraid of Most Things, and former host, co-producer and head writer of Live Wire Radio. Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode Books by Beverly Cleary (author of Ramona Quimby, Age 8, Beezus and Ramona, and The Mouse and the Motorcycle) and and Judy Blume (author of Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret, Forever, and Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing) and The Crystal Cave series by Mary Stewart were some of Courtenay’s favorites growing up Create More, Fear Less is an organization in Portland Courtenay volunteers with that works with anxious kids While Courtenay went to New York University, she had the chance to work with legendary comedy group The State. The State — made up of Kevin Allison, Michael Ian Black, Robert Ben Garant, Todd Holoubek, Michael Patrick Jann, Kerri Kenney-Silver, Thomas Lennon, Joe Lo Truglio, Ken Marino, Michael Showalter, and David Wain — was formed in 1998 and had a self-titled comedy sketch show on MTV from 1992-1995. You can learn more about the history of the group in The Union of the State by Corey Stulce. Members of The State went on to create Reno 911, which is coming back! “The 7,000 Dollar Pyramid,” is one of The State’s sketches that Courtenay remembers Robert Ben Garant writing Writing Movies For Fun and Profit: How We Made a Billion Dollars at the Box Office, and You Can, Too! by former State members and co-writers Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant The Joan Didion quote Courtenay paraphrases is, “I don't know what I think until I write it down.” Some of Courtenay’s favorite guests from her many years of hosting Live Wire include: comedian, storyteller, director and actor Mike Birbiglia, who is best known for Sleepwalk With Me, which was also a comedy special and a New York Times bestselling book, Sleepwalk with Me and Other Painfully True Stories, and his new comedy special, The New One is also going to be a book, coming out in May 20202, The New One: Painfully True Stories from a Reluctant Dad; Carrie Brownstein, guitarist with Sleater-Kinney (who have a new CD in 2019, The Center Won’t Hold), co-creator and writer of TV show Portlandia, and author of memoir Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl; director Todd Haynes (who has directed Velvet Goldmine, Far From Heaven, and this year’s Dark Waters; Cheryl Strayed, author of Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life From Dear Sugar and memoir Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail; and David Rakoff, humorist and author of Fraud: Essays, Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never- Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems Courtenay’s friend Daniel H. Wilson wrote Robopocalypse: A Novel (which was optioned by Steven Spielberg, but after some delays has now been thrown over to Michael Bay) was the one who introduced Courtenay to his agent, Laurie Fox, who is an author in her own right, of The Lost Girls: A Novel and My Sister From the Black Lagoon: A Novel of My Life. Jean Garnett at Little, Brown was Courtenay’s editor Courtenay super recommends Sleepwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer (and, oh my god, would you look at that, he also has a TED talk!) The Oprah and James Frey controversy which exploded over his memoir, A Million Little Pieces, is an inevitable reference point for a conversation about what “truth” means in the memoir category Courtenay’s recommendation for David Carr’s memoir, Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of His Life. His Own, was so persuasive that I bought the audiobook that night! I admit to being a complete comedy nerd, and having recently mightily enjoyed John Hodgman’s collection of personal essays, Medallion Status: True Stories From Secret Rooms. Jennifer Pastiloff (author of On Being Human: A Memoir of Waking Up, Living Real, and Listening Hard) and Lidia Yuknavitch (author of memoir The Chronology of Water and Verge: Stories, out Feb. 4, 2020!) teach a class called “Writing and the Body” that incorporates yoga and writing to enrich personal stories. Humor writer Steve Almond, author of Bad Stories: What Just Happened to Our Country? and William Stoner and the Battle For the Inner Life: Bookmarked. Writers Samantha Irby (author of We Are Never Meeting in Real Life: Essays, Meaty: Essays and omg she has a new one coming out this year, Wow, No Thank You!) and Jenny Lawson, aka The Blogess (author of Let’s Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir and Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things), were bloggers before they had books, and they indicate the kind of conversational writing style that Courtenay tends to naturally align with in her writing Elizabeth Gilbert’s 2009 TED Talk, “Your Elusive Creative Genius” Dan Harris, author of 10% Happier Revised Edition: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works--A True Story, and Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics: A 10% Happier How-to Book Susan Cain, author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking and her TED talk on the subject of introverts Courtenay admires Michael Ian Black’s evolution as a writer. Especially significant to her was his honesty in the memoir Navel Gazing: True Stories of Bodies, Mostly Mine (But Also My Mom’s, Which I Know Sounds Weird). His newest book, A Better Man, tackles toxic masculinity in the form of letters to his son as he goes off to college. I have always dreamt of being able to link to an article about Jeff Bezos’s dick pics (just kidding but here we go): this incident was wild - The National Enquirer allegedly tried to blackmail Jeff Bezos, threatening to release intimate pictures of him unless he paid up. Instead, Bezos released the pics himself and told them to screw off. It was wild. It was great. That incident calls to mind So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson “To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This,” the Modern Love essay by Mandy Len Catron, references Dr. Arthur Aron’s study, which included 36 questions to generate intimacy. (And hey, look at that, Mandy has TED talks about love stories, too!) I want to hear from you! 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This episode a special guest is in attendance; @beatrice_beezus aka "@jaeldaddy's sister." She sits down to enlighten the team on what art courses in college consist of. They also speak on the student crisis and whether student loans should be forgiven or not. Grab a glass of Eagle Rare and enjoy!

Adrienne & Sarah are on their fourth podcast in two days so they dig deep on this episode. They are going to start their own hair care line where it’s just ocean water in a spray bottle. Then they go into a tangent on how weird it is to call up a restaurant to tell them you got diarrhea from their establishment and no one else called.

Ramona Quimby was nine years old. She had brown hair, brown eyes, and no cavities. She had a mother, a father, a big sister named Beatrice who was called Beezus by the family, and—this was the exciting part—a baby sister named Roberta after her father, Robert Quimby. Host Phil Gonzales and John McCoy.

Welcome to the second episode of Pacers Gaming Podcast presented by Salesforce. Our three new players, Man_In_A_Car, Lord Beezus, and Matty introduce themselves and talk about March Madness, Twitch streamers, and their favorite Pacers Gaming stories so far! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/pacersgaming Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/pacersgaming Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/pacers_gaming Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pacersgaming Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pacersgaming Discord: https://discord.gg/fFrGK9G The NBA is the first U.S. professional sports league to operate an official eSports league. The NBA 2K League is a joint venture between the NBA and Take Two Interactive, publishers of NBA 2K. The league will feature the best 2K players in the world. Pacers Gaming is one of 21 teams in the NBA 2K League.

“Guess what?” Ramona Quimby asked one Friday evening when her Aunt Beatrice dropped by to show off her new ski clothes and stay for supper. Ramona’s mother, father, and big sister Beezus, whose real name was Beatrice, paid no attention and went on eating. Picky-picky, the cat, meowed through the basement door, asking to share the meal. Host Phil Gonzales and John McCoy.

EP157 - Bain & Company Partner Cesar Brea  Ceasar Brea (@cesarbrea) is a partner at Bain & Company, focused in the Advanced Analytics and Marketing practices.  We cover a variety of topics related to the disruption and future of commerce. Don't forget to like our facebook page, and if you enjoyed this episode please write us a review on itunes. Episode 157 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Monday, November 19th 2018. Transcript Jason: [0:25] Welcome to the Jason and Scott show this episode being recorded on Monday November 19th 2018 I'm your host Jason retailgeek Goldberg and as usual I'm here with your clothes Scott Wingo. Scot & Cesar: [0:38] Hey Jason and welcome back Jason Scott show listeners Jason we have a really exciting guest on tonight show our good mutual friend Rob Schmaltz said hey have you guys ever thought of having Caesar Brea on the show and we said who is that you said you need to get him out of there ASAP and when Rob talks we listen so we're real excited to have Caesar on the show Cesar is a partner at Bain & Company where he is in the advanced analytics and marketing marketing practice welcome to the show Cesar. [1:12] Thanks for inviting me guys a pleasure to do it. Jason: [1:15] We are thrilled to have you in a Caesar if you've heard the show before you know we always like to start off by having guests give us a little bit of their background and how they sort of came into their current role so could you give us that the recap of your trip. Scot & Cesar: [1:30] Sure so I am a. Several time vain person actually the last time I was here was in the mid-late 90s I was doing a lot of work in high-tech and and software and I left to help build a couple different software companies. Ended up at one point helping to run sales and marketing at razorfish and then later on I built a marketing analytics consulting firm. And a couple years ago I got invited to come back to beIN and I've been back in a couple of years and I'm really enjoying this this latest iteration. Jason: [2:08] That's so you're basically a boomerang. Scot & Cesar: [2:11] Yes I am kind of I guess one way of putting that as I can't hold a job very well but but I'm really glad to be back at the firm. Jason: [2:20] And you mentioned that one of your previous roles was at at my current employer razorfish which book make me super excited but it's also kind of sad because I feel like that's a a storybrand and name in our industry that is a falling under decreasing use as a all the agencies in the Pacific group sort of merge together. Scot & Cesar: [2:43] Yeah it's true I I I'm a proud razorfish Alum it was a privilege to work there I got a chance to work with some incredibly talented people Bob Lord is now at IBM as an old friend than a and a former boss and he originally asked me to come help out there and. Got a chance to work with really some incredible people that to this day I started following and keep track of intimate touch with. I still learn a ton from so it's I feel the same way about it and it was really amazing place and but that's the way a lot of things work out so. Jason: [3:20] Indeed add a fun fact on Bob I run into him occasionally at industry events and my my favorite thing is to for those that don't know Bob is that the Chief digital officer for IBM answer my favorite question to ask him is why IBM needs a chief digital officer I always am I who's the chief digital officer at Facebook or Google. Scot & Cesar: [3:43] Yeah I think the premier that's a thinly-veiled excuse to to have Bob Lord so they're lucky to have him and whatever whatever will make sense doesn't matter so that's why I look at things like. Jason: [3:54] No I I totally agree to it until I agree but it's it's fun to needle in a little bit as he also was my former boss though it's and it's safer now. Scot & Cesar: [4:05] Cesar what is so analytics and marketing are near and dear to our heart muscle bit more about what that entails. [4:13] So the simplest explanation that I have for for folks who say what the hell do you do is I tell people I help big companies use big data to spend really big ad budgets better. How's that is that! Yeah yeah I like a I like to do so big around budgets especially in terms of what we, get involved with here it really is what I've been doing it ranges pretty widely it said everything from. Turn reduction programs to assortment optimization to media mix optimization. Really just a demand forecasting really just a whole range of things that were that were getting involved in to help our clients do better, ghost sounds like someone in your company is engaging with a company and they they need an analytic ninja to come solve some really hard problem and they call Caesar what happens well I would ya like but I guess that's part of it more broadly typically the the work that we do involves sort of tackling in a bigger issue for which analytics is kind of one part of the overall solution so I think that's you know to distinguish it from situations where you might just hire say a modeling firm to build you a model or you know her or something like that. [5:39] Yeah seems like you're solving acute problems with data and and getting to Solutions certainly are it's a lot of fun it's a great time to be in the business. How much is there is a pie chart of kind of the verticals that you company vertical see you interact with how much of that pie chart would be what we would think of is retail and how much is something like I don't know the travel industry you're the finance industry. Yeah so you know that's that's a varied a lot over over my career I've actually worked in lots of different retail settings big and small here I would say that. You're probably about a quarter to a third of what I do is retail get involved in cpg a lot and then the rest of berries could be everything from Telecommunications. Finance any number of different categories but retail is certainly now and then certainly over the course of the years I've been doing this. A big piece of it principally because that's where a lot of the action is right it's generally speaking a less-regulated place. People that the margins are spinner so being good at data and put it in a lytx is more existential for four people the other you know that the people that can do that tend to survive in the people that can. Don't so so it's it's always been a part of what part of what I've been up to over the years. [6:57] Call will just go ahead and go to the big elephant that's always in the retail and increasingly other Industries rooms is the Amazon elephant what do you have you put any thought against Amazon and how retailers can either inoculate themselves or protect themselves even just plain survive in a world where Amazon has become so first of all the first thing to observe is is it really is amazing how. How they are beginning to go into places where you know historically you you didn't think of historically thought of Amazon is okay you know I go and buy stuff online but now when you think about it there. They're moving into customer experiences into a physical retail into into social of kind of formats and everything. And also on the back and on the product side you know that what they've done in terms of beginning to take over product categories with you know what their private labels. That's that's really extraordinary so it's interesting you know Baynes done a lot of research into how. What what Amazon is doing and how how to try to in a build a strategy that that. [8:09] It will let me not be Amazon proof it actually gives you a better shot of competing with them no one at one of the things that. That you think about is you kind of have a couple of choices when it is you know do I. Do I try to find a place within their orbit where I can actually. You know through some form of coopertition kind of you know coexist with them and the other is you know can I can I try to build some ability to. Distinguish myself or at least you know you have a business in places that are that are sort of less susceptible to the Bezos flywheel. [8:45] The examples of the former would be. Things like you know best by deciding to sort of carry Amazon Fire TVs or Kohl's deciding to accept Amazon returns because it brings people into the store and then they can sell them other stuff that they sell at Kohl's right those are those are kinds of kind of examples of of people trying to coexist and then on the other side you know there's the question of well you know and this is kind of been the subject of some some research we've done. [9:17] About how do you how do you actually in a carve out a space where where you can survive so for example you know you if. At one way to do it is through exclusive things that they don't otherwise selling Amazon right and historically I would have said Apple was an example but it's all recently now that they're you know more and more there their they're actually beginning to do. First-party distribution through Amazon I guess that the new iPhone x are is going to go through there now it's all an announcement against in the last week on that. There there are if you're big enough within a category you can actually be cost-competitive good example is you know tonight. If you go on Walmart.com you can buy the Viva paper towels 12 pack for like under ten bucks in the same things on sale at Amazon for 15. We're close to 16 actually so that you know if you're if you're a player like Walmart that buys a lot of paper towels or stay Home Depot that buys a lot of you know stuff 240i wires. [10:22] Chances are you you know you can you can compete on cost but it but that's that's going to be tough another example of a company that I think. It is that's really interesting to me is Wayfair here locally in Boston they I think do a really good job on analytics on actually helping people discover what products should have go with which products you know in the long tail of things that they have in their product offering and doing a really good job of certain Fina putting together rooms and kind of cross-selling different products to people and so. You got to find some way. And if you think of the Beezus flywheel is kind of Fino selection and cost and experience you've got to find some way to think okay how am I going to. And run what they're doing in one of those places at least. Abacus you can't if you if you if you just try to sort us a while I'll just try to keep up you know you're you're going to get crushed so that's I think a productive way to sort of unpack that problem and think about maybe what your strategic alternatives are. Jason: [11:30] Yeah interesting and obviously everyone has to ask her to find a different vector to compete with them I'm curious you mentioned up front that a lot of your analytics work goes towards helping people optimize their their big advertising spends and you mentioned you work with cpg so it's in that that segments it's interesting because it seems like, the cpgs are both having to compete with their advertising spends against Amazon who I think is the largest spender on Google for example and then increasingly Amazon isn't it. An important advertising platform that cpgs are spending on so I like how do you how do you think about that and are you saying budgets shift to Amazon and and you know what how do you think that's all going to play out. Scot & Cesar: [12:21] Yeah definitely it it's. [12:25] You know being being on Amazon if you're if you're a cpg you're being a frankly if you're in the other consumer Products company that with products to be sold there is now got to be a part of the of the strategy I insert when I said be on Amazon being being there from an advertising perspective earlier this year acquired a, digital agency that would work with for many years from called forward out in frwd out in Minneapolis and that that has a lot of experience in these areas and that's you know helping clients figure out. How powder. How to make that work is now a big part of what we're doing in our marketing practice and and the other things I think their mind therapy people talk about you know analytics but in this case. News limited history right so a lot of what we end up getting involved with his actually testing this stuff and setting up tests programs to you know to to figure out what was actually going to work. Jason: [13:24] Yeah and I I guess I'm curious about that like does Analytics. Mean a lot of sort of attribution modeling and figuring out. You know how to spend the next s dollar and immediate mixes and those sorts of things or is it more Predictive Analytics and and soda programmatic AI based bidding type stuff or both. Scot & Cesar: [13:47] I think I think the answer is I think the answer is both but but I think I think. One way I break it down in terms of thinking what you're getting at I think for my for my perspective is actually thinking both macro and micro and end here here's here's a point of view on this that might be useful. You know a lot of people a lot of marketing organizations and up doing a lot of wonderful sort of micro optimization whether they do it themselves or they do it with Partners you know they'll figure out like you know how can I tune my by search budget or how how can I how can I figure out a way to get lift over control on my I might display budgets with programmatic and then there's you know tmp's and cdp's and everything they're using to do all that stuff with. [14:36] But what's what's interesting about that is if they typically are missing big opportunities at the macro level that they tend to sort of get down once a year and say okay our overall Investments going to be actually going to split it roughly this way across the channels and then we tend to sort of your ossify during the course of the Year about about no power going to sort of allocate that money across across different channels a lot of cases if if they're using TV for example to just go out and say all right you know The Weeknd car. This amount of money and we're going to go buy it as cheaply as possible at the upfront and then we're just going to go run the campaign for the year and will report it each week as we go but there's not any meaningful you know sort of movement of budgets are testing or anything like that the top. [15:19] And so you know a lot of people see historically this kind of. Down media mix modeling approach in the bottom of attribution approaches kind of In conflict and I actually see them as as you know. Pate yin and yang of of of of what we're trying to do in marketing where it is very important to be doing kind of within a channel specific optimization certainly want to take advantage of those opportunities for example you know when search let's say you know D average in your spend and maybe doing things by day week or by day part or across your keywords whatever but but equally important is actually to have this macro view where you say you know like at any given point in time is my bottleneck in my business you know attract engage convert or retain and how should I be kind of disproportionately Shifting my attention and my resources to solve things you know at that bottle neck and in the latest month in the latest quarter and once I saw that there. Then I can throw to move on to the next bottle and I can figure out where my where my attention out of be as opposed to just sort of saying okay we're in 6 channels let's be as sophisticated as possible in each of them and optimized to a fare-thee-well at the micro-level miss the big. Mr. big pictures. Jason: [16:38] Yeah so I can definitely see that and I'm particularly interested in that sort of macroview why do you Tennessee clients. Getting more sophisticated about how they do the macro View and I mean to me it feels like the media mix modeling is several decades old now and it seems like that's still the the predominant and I'm just it's hard to believe that that still the best the best approach. Scot & Cesar: [17:03] Yeah you know so I think I think we need to distinguish between the analytics and the politics so. There's nothing that you know media mix modeling course is only as good as the data goes that goes into it if you don't have any variation you know in your date if you just keep doing the same plan all the time you really never going to have a useful model because it's not going to tell you much. If you do have some of that there's there's certainly lessons that you can draw from the data I think what. What happens though is that a lot of organizations are in was that old expression about culture reading strategy for breakfast the if you have a. A way of doing things that has led to the creation of a certain sort of an organizational structure and collection of Partners and agencies and so forth those things all have a certain momentum associated with them. And I think actually you know the well there are certainly opportunities to improve media mix models through creating. You know tests and creating and just artificially creating more variation your data to help you you know that would sort of the statistical significance of what you're looking at I think they're much more important thing for people to really look at it to try to get people on the same page about. [18:22] Where are the opportunities might lie and and what they could be doing about that and and not try to get fixed on Unser to some holy war between you know one analytic techniques versus another. Jason: [18:34] No that's that seems like great advice. Speaking of Holy Wars I want to transition to a buzzword that seems like it comes up most often especially when you used Big Data three times in the same sentence and that's a artificial intelligence and in particular machine learning and. You know you go to any of our industry events now and you know you'll see a hundred vendors claiming that there in ml base solution like including the custodial Services seem like they're machine learning based. And that feels like a little bit of hype to me but at the same time it seems like they're there really is something there I'm curious how you think about Ai and machine learning and is it is it really being embraced particular by Rita. Scot & Cesar: [19:20] Well a couple of thoughts first of all. IU know that movie Fight Club right in the first rule of Fight Club is we don't talk about Fight Club we we have a saying around here which is the first rule of advanced analytics is we don't talk about Advanced analytics we talk about results and. For me all this stuff you have any conversation that you have about AI or machine learning whatever has to start not with well you know. Do you have a squad of phds and are you using tensorflow and you know yada yada but but really. [19:56] Is the Baseline performance of the business process and the statistical metric associated with that business process that you're trying to improve off of and what progress have you made in the last you know three six months whatever on both of those things. And so I don't care whether you get there with a simple algorithm or a or a you know neural-net or a three eyed pigeon. Yeah that you keep feds underneath your desk I think the important thing is that these conversations have to shift from from talking about the thing to talking about the result. The second thing that people need their kind of Bear in mind when they think about AI is that AI isn't a tool so much as it's a process right you need to think in terms of you know picking the right question making sure you have the right data for it you can't do real sort of. [20:46] AI without really big data and you have to sort of maintain a data platform be able to do that you know and then and then you kind of got to make sure you can do something about it right so if you have some great insight, if you don't have the you know the marketing infrastructure let's say to a sort of act and we'll talk later by personalization but you know if if you can. [21:05] If you discover that you know you can turn it down to an individual level and distinguish people's preferences if you don't have the sort of digital asset management system of the content management system is so far to be able to handle Communications about level granularity you're really you're really kind of you know not getting anywhere and so I think I think we see a lot, is is people pulling together components of of an AI or an ml solution but not thinking about the full system it so they don't get the full value of it, I'm familiar with one company that you had one group that actually went out and bought a DMP but they hadn't really hired the people who new kind of what to do with something like that so basically sat on the shelf for about a year until you managed to come together and actually help them apply at that you know to something does something useful get a result and then actually get some enthusiasm for investing and all the pieces they need to do to take advantage of that and that's it that's a good example having said that. [22:06] You know there's there's exciting stuff happening with with AI in the world of RetailMeNot you know one example there's nobody like playing around on tracks that you're probably familiar with you know that that basically use image recognition to help you kind of keep your your you know your shelves kind of the way they need to be and and then and then help you tune that and that's, no that's that's actually a you know there's there's applications like that that I think have enormous potential obviously to the kind of reshape the category but it all starts with having a clear idea what problem you're trying to solve it supposed to just for the talking kind of you know breathlessly about Ai and how in all the intergalactically wonderful things that you can be able to do with it. Jason: [22:49] Yeah I know for sure I doubt that the the company you mentioned that that invest in a DMP with no plans for using it was alone by the way in that. Scot & Cesar: [23:00] Don't know what happens all the time right it's it's just you know and I think I think it's a symptom of this idea that. We we have confused the means for the ends where people are pursuing these things as you know things to be bought initiatives to be you know undertaken as opposed to sort of viewing it from a results and performance perspective and saying you know. How well am I how efficiently and effectively am I out there you know attracting engaging converting customers and to what degree does a DMP powered solution actually create some sort of lift Over Control. You know over what I had before. You know and at what point do I get diminishing returns so I don't need to worry as much about the tack and need to worry more about say the content I have or the offer that I'm making or something like that right. Jason: [23:51] Yeah I know for sure and I mean we on the show we talked about a lot is sort of the the shiny bauble problem that you know some some board member goes to a conference and then come back and sent a note to the VP of e-commerce what are we doing in machine learning and 3 months later they've got this cool data Lake that's doing propensity modeling with you know zero plan to act on that or to change any customer to experience as a result of it. Scot & Cesar: [24:17] Now that's that's that's true story, night you know you got it only seems you got a Target better and Market better right so if you only do the Target that are part and you don't have the ant the engine to kind of do the market better part you're you're not going to get there. Jason: [24:32] Yeah I'm just the one example you you gave was I sort of think of is back-of-house optimization sort of improving inventory and and shelf management I've heard a couple people theorize that the in the short term that the biggest opportunities for machine learning to make really you know practical impact on on retail are those kinds of things that it's it's inventory optimization and cost avoidance in those things more so than necessary necessarily dramatically do new or different customer experiences. Scot & Cesar: [25:08] Yeah I I I think. Prefer not to generalize too much about it I like to find itches to be scratched right so in a 1-1 company that I'm familiar with you know looked at it from the perspective of having a chronic problem with over ordering for you know for the sales they had never variety reasons why this happened you know a demand forecast it wasn't as accurate as it needed to be they had kind of a hard to learn ordering application they had organizational structures that a grown up the you know to compensate for that that introduce a lot of bias into the system and and so in that case you know we. You know what we we were able to help him basically reduce the forecast error that they had improved the order management interface and actually, what kind of change some of the organization and operating practices that kind of wrapped around all that and and what's what's interesting about that is is that it's for me all these things come up from very specific use cases II I would say. I just prefer generally not to you know not to sort of right off one. One category or another every conversation that we have in our tries to start with tell me tell me specifically kind of what. [26:37] You know your date is telling you about where the problems are in your business and and then through work up from something specific that we can get our arms around that that's proven to be kind of a. [26:48] You're generally more more successful way instead of tackling the application these kinds of Technologies. Jason: [26:54] Know that that seems I totally fair and wise and I hundred percent agree the three-eyed pigeon under Scott's desk has way too much open to buy and is definitely over spending. Scot & Cesar: [27:04] It's one thing I kind of. What is machine learning stuff it feels like as a startup guy kind of like the next Network effect right so you're you're getting more day that you're getting smarter that creates this nonlinear advantage over competitors and then I started looking well then is it true that companies with the most data win so so then I kind of come to this place where no one's and have as much transactional data as the big guys like. Ecommerce side Alibaba Amazon yeah babe didn't even on the ad networks you know we all thought these ad networks would create this huge democratization of had platforms, but now they're really just kind of Ogle opoly with Sprite there's two of them exactly so so does it mean kind of game over because those guys have all the add data and the car or stay there or is there hope if I am a smaller independent company that could mean you'd like in a Best Buy in this this world were talking about yeah. Help me understand that it is kind of an outsider of how you're thinking about them yeah so. [28:20] One way to a take to process all this is there's no there's no question that. The types of sophisticated machine learning algorithms things like in a deep learning and neural net approaches and things like that. Those really begin to shine when they have a lot of data to work with you don't you know a lot of people misunderstand that that unless you have a lot of data in general the performance of one of those will you know. [28:51] May not even be as good as what you get with and it was some of the you know some of the more conventional machine learning approaches things like you know. Gradient boosted trees and things like that so what I would say is though is that. It isn't just about how much data you have it really it's really back to this idea that you want to think systemically you want to be performance-oriented been think systemically about about what you're doing and in terms of you know being aligned and where the opportunity is at any given moment being at you having the access to the data to work with it but then also having the the kind of the operational flexibility to act on it I actually think that the people that are winning and winning less because they have big data and more because they actually just have cultures that are data-driven that are Nimble that are better to and and and that you know frankly are just you know they're wired tube to move in a more agile way then then their traditional folks are that and in the proof of that pudding actually is just so you know if you look in if you look in sort of the cpg world for example and you look at where all the growth is Ben it really is coming from these insurgents that are so much smaller then. [30:12] You know than the than the traditional than the traditional players in the categories that they happen to plan but they just move faster and there you know they are more, analytic by Nature even if they don't have access to the massive datasets some of the you know some of the bigger players you know. The gravis if they had the inclination to do it. [30:33] Cool so let's set some kind of best practices of The Cutting Edge to backtrack a little bit you've got a long history of seeing this what are some common pitfalls folks fall on when they when they kind of think about. [30:47] Using data and analytics to solve a problem well I think the Alpena kalpana scenario you see a lot which is company X hires firm why they give him all their data the guys go off site they build models they come back they present an answer and nobody understands the answer and so they don't believe in so they don't do anything about it right the biggest the biggest so what what's the so what out of that the biggest so what is that there is an enormous opportunity to get more out of your modeling efforts by making the process of understanding the data that's going into it something that's much more sort of shared there's famous a famous statistician named John tukey who invented of a field called exploratory data analysis and one of the things that we're very keen on is kind of exploratory data analysis for the masses and so what do we mean by that right so like. What that means is rather than let's take the in the media mix modeling context rather than sort of waiting for the firm to come back and tell you that the marginal Roi of searches you know is Aksum that of TV is why. Let's just go through some basic line charts up on the wall. [32:07] And look at what happens when you spend more in TV to do searches go up dude you know dude site visits go up to conversions go up and just begin to have a conversation as business people about what we're seeing actually in the data before we actually turn it over to the modeling firms to actually go process that and crunch it and come back and tell us you know what it all what it all meant if died of an aggregate in a statistical measure perspective because I think that, you doing that really empowers marketers it did kind of takes analyst and marketers you know who typically you're kind of at this passive-aggressive relationship and turn them into collectively analytic marketers and that. That part of the process I think it's highly underrated as as a really valuable. You know part of the whole machine learning process that that the companies are trying to take advantage of. Jason: [33:01] I'm sensing a trend that it almost seems like in general it's wise for for businesses to start to have a practical well-grounded macro strategy before they jump right into crazy tactic. Scot & Cesar: [33:15] I think I think it just certainly I think what I see a lot of is companies that a fact. Couple things I've seen this week basically we're people have kind of a product out report out kind of way of interacting with their data and decision-making where they say all right you know we we have Project X it's week, you know end of the year compared this week with last week and you know in the context of the overall media plan we change the creative this week. Either they're basically just thinking insert a very static kind of. You know we already are just reporting on what they're doing as opposed to saying you know. [34:01] What is what is the bottleneck in our business if you ask that question you say okay where is the bottleneck and what are we doing about it that that. Drives you to go you know explore the data in different ways and if you're just basically saying you know how did this week compared with last week or how did this quarter compared to last quarter a year-on-year whatever comparison you're trying to make and that that we find is a. You know healthy lb access it's really important is it it's an accessible way of thinking about the problem. [34:33] Which is which is important in a world where even though obviously data and analytics are more important there's a lot of you know marketers retailers e-commerce errors out there that that. They didn't grow up that way and then or just coming to this. Jason: [34:49] For sure and speaking of not growing up that way and having having to evolve the question we get asked on the show super frequently is about omni-channel attribution right and I'm I'm curious if you have any sort of thoughts or best practices and you know if folks are starting to break the silos in. Scot & Cesar: [35:10] I'll tell you I'll tell you what not to do and then I'll back into what may be some some things to do work what doesn't work is the classic okay let's gather up all our data let's throw it into one big you know repository and then try to big one one big honking attribution model out of it even if that's down at the granular level what you're saying okay you know. Idx saw this ad you know 30 days ago and you know came back and and so we'll assume that that at work. That is. [35:40] That kind of like throw it all into one big pot kind of approach I think cuz has been most people that sort of realized they know that that. That doesn't work in the work that I've done that had the opportunity to work some really you know of strong people in this. [35:58] In this category give me example. The guys are visual like you were my first landlord back in the day when I had my old company in those guys are pros and they they know what they're doing. [36:11] When we work together one of the things that we did was we tried to First Look at the kind of macro categories of lab results and spending and so forth and figure out okay which are the dominant channels that we need to optimize against each other in this overall mix and then just focus on just getting like one one pair of in a couple of channels working together productively right so so if their mix had you know say. TV and search and then and then you know from there though obviously the conversion through the through the vine Channel we try to just. And I try to get DBA search Optimus together if it was Search and say I wish this play in Search and you're just trying to basically say okay to what degree does display spending Drive such a subsequent search behavior let's let's get you know let's get bad kind of taken care of and and so the the smart approach was in a sequence to it was picking you know, prioritizing the channels that mattered getting those two working together you know well seeing what kind of lift you got in terms of the results there and then recycling both the results in the lessons Into The Next Step at you take as opposed to this kind of Dino throw it up throw it all into one. Big pot and I hope the best. Jason: [37:30] That that's what I make sense it's funny when I went over to ask her about omni-channel attribution I find the. There's even dramatically different dimensions that people are thinking about like often their thinking about the the various advertising Vehicles like television versus search for example which I think is that first thing you took sometimes they're talking about the channel attribution. You know when when someone does a mobile check out in that stores that are online sale. Store sale no starts at things and sometimes that you're talking about a touch device attribution when someone browse is on that tablet and then consummates the purchase on that desktop how do we how do we do that sort of things. And the one that I'm most interested at the moment as we were right in the throes of Black Friday and it's it's going to be the most digital sort of holiday we've ever had both both online and in the stores any particular thoughts or or pitfalls or best practices you're seeing in terms of that the actual Channel attribution the that online to in-store and vice versa that kind of stuff. Scot & Cesar: [38:46] Well what's really interesting is what I'm seeing a lot right now is people trying to jump the gun on the on Black Friday all the Black Friday deals that are now being trolled kind of you know in advance and and I've been tracking a few things just both for professional and personal interest. [39:13] And watching the you know the prices come down and and and and seeing whether or not it's almost like we're almost watching sort of like Airline pricing happening in sort of you know retail world now where you're basically you know you have this attempts were to drop the price and see if you can actually get. People to you know to buy before Black Friday at the Black Friday price or something close to it because it's really it's really in its if you think about it it's a it's an experience nightmare right to try to cram everybody into the store at a specific time have people trampled to death and I was you as you as you go in and answer anything you can do to basically sort of smooth and and optimize the yeah. The flow of demand into your channels and your ability to fulfill that is actually going to be, it is actually going to be something that's to the benefit of the business so to me that's the most interesting thing about this particular addition of a Black Friday and Cyber Monday is to sort of watch kind of the you know the sort of. [40:25] Sort of like the back in the old days the Oklahoma Sooners who were trying to jump out ahead of other people too kind of stake their claim and and it's not unlike. You know airline seat pricing now I think is what we're beginning to see happening in in retail yeah. So one of the big battle areas is cpg and in your sounds like you're involved in there to some degree and grocery where do you think that's going to wear seeing Walmart really kind of triple down on curbside grocery there's a lot of people experimenting with delivery of groceries and then within cpg you know you have, so what's going on with these new Challengers that are our kind of digitally native brands you got the old guys trying to react to that may be acquiring some give us some thoughts on where you see this phone well so. [41:23] You know that the the question here is very often at what point do these insurgents you know gif. Buy the bigger players because obviously the bigger players do you know bring a lot of advantages to the the table in terms of distribution in terms of yeah I was just in terms of their ability to also on the back and provide a a supply chain to actually get things built at scale that a lot of these folks can't you know can't manage as they're trying to grow so. On the other hand all the groesten and pretty much all the growth in cpg over the last few years is Ben from these that should have been searching players that are for building these at least these are these new brands go out of authenticity and everything in them. [42:17] What one of the things that's interesting you know his historical e in cpg. [42:21] Yuri may be familiar with the kind of a felony in Byron sharp who basically said for a fast moving consumer goods it's really all about mental and physical availability right so it's not it's not about loyalty so much for segmentation that's about just making sure that. You're out there reaching and repeating and then that you have distribution in the stores and the basically that's how you want in that category what. What we're seeing now is sort of a a movement away from that we're certain brands developer loyal followings you do in fact segment more than you used to and I think we're bending the sea is this kind of weird middle Zone wear. You know the the the new folks and the old folks would have need each other it's kind of a symbiotic kind of thing where you know the the cpgs need these Insurgent brands. I will acquire them to to drive growth to begin their kind of expand their opportunities but at the same time be Insurgent Brands and a really need. The the the half-ton the scale in the distribution of the bus on the manufacturing side of the distribution side that a you know that is step one of these large cpgs with their big sale sources for example and I can bring to bear. [43:33] And that it was probably that sort of interplay between you know. Those those those two kind of types of players is probably the most interesting place right now. I see you've all been particularly in a world where even as that's happening the distribution channels are evolving right everything from from you know drone delivery to you know to Amazon is an advertising channel to yes but that's. That's what I kind of Zone. There's a geographic term for that that that's not coming to my but that's that's I think where we should watch for a lot of interesting action if it was next couple years. Jason: [44:16] Yeah I told you I think it's going to be a really interesting category to follow cuz I feel like the disruption is is really only just getting started there at the moment I wanted to give it a little bit to another. Potentially interesting topic that comes up a lot but also has a a buzzworthy component and that is personalization so you know again lots of lots of folks get get directors from their board members to have a personal Malaysian initiative how do you feel about that and what what sort of best practices are you saying there is that a real thing. Scot & Cesar: [44:54] So again let's not confuse the thing for the result right when people talk about this the question I have is. What degree is personalization are we talkin about right and end are there is is is everybody sufficiently different. That each person should actually have a materially different you know offer or experience presented to them in order to generate the kind of lift that over over some more aggregated approach that you know that you need to see so in general yesayya what we know they're there been their studies out there that basically say that you know compared with a plain-vanilla US offer the same thing to everybody you know that obviously up personalized targeted segmented approach is actually get Kratom lift but is it really is a question of degree there are certain. [45:52] There's certain things that are also easier to personalize that other things so for example you know you can you know to the degree that it's legally Bob permissible you can obviously very upright at very low price relatively easily in an offer but executing creative sometimes can be you know challenging and you certainly can't necessarily just you know kind of like morph the product itself on the Fly for every individual customer maybe in some age where we have you know 3D printing in a widely-distributed you can you can kind of do that sort of thing but we basically. You know beat the other there limits to what you could do on certain dimensions and there's possibilities there's more flexibility have another another dimension. I think that the way to approach personalization is through having a really really strong program of experimentation and kind of test test results test for learning where you know you're constantly sort of testing whether or not. You know that extra sort of bit of variety actually provides enough economic lift that it's worth the incremental complexity that adding and is it said in some cases the dimension that you're burying The Experience on what is actually much more flexible than than another a number in a digital you know. [47:14] A degree of offer a promotional discount in an email is much easier to bury than even the creative this wrapped around that. At least at the moment it may eventually be that we get to automated creative and so forth but that's we are beginning to but but for the moment it's it's. [47:32] You know for most companies are there limits to just how how finally they can slice things cool so we're up against time but we we love to ask kind of more of an out there question we've been kind of tactical here and I've seen you guys really interesting tweets about AR VR and you just mentioned 3D printing and Jason I love to think about some this stuff sometimes just kind of get out of it the day today where do you see the future of Commerce and feel free to kind of Go Out 3 5 10 20 years would love to get your thoughts on them wow well you know. I think I think one way to think about this is is is that we in the end we buying things and consuming them as sort of a means to visit to meeting physical and emotional needs right and and so to the degree that technology involves. We will were ultimately need to think yeah we ultimately need to think in terms of how we're sort of doing you know doing those things as opposed to the products that happened to be the this word of vehicles for fulfilling those those objectives. [48:47] Let me not not to be like super esoteric about it but you know it if if I am, let me know let's take for example clothing right you know if if if in the world of, Evo VR and so forth I can begin to sort of project an avatar out there you know then then basically you your way of sort of interacting with people may change and if your ability to sort of you know shift your shape on the Flies revolves it it means it has heard implications for the whole sort of you know fashion industry rights I don't want to. To intergalactically distance on this but I think the main point is to basically say that we, should not confuse the means for the ends we should think about the future of. Retail in retail technology as something that serving these physical and emotional needs as opposed to figuring out how to get specific product X to you you know more more quickly or or give you a different perspective on it. Jason: [49:57] Well that's a great perspective it's going to be interesting to watch it all play out and that's going to be a great place to leave it tonight because it's happen again we've used up all our a lot of time but if listeners have any comments or questions about today show we encourage you to jump on our Facebook page and continue the dialogue there as always of this show is valuable to you we sure would appreciate it if you would jump on iTunes and give us that five star review. Scot & Cesar: [50:23] Cesar folks want to learn more about us some of the topics that you covered in and see what you're you're talking about on social media where should they find you. Sure Caesar Brea Mall when were done both Twitter and Linkedin so I'll certainly post dust up there with some of the stuff we talked about here and and hopefully that'll be useful fucks, put a link to that in the show notes and we really appreciate you coming on the show thanks for joining us thanks very much for inviting me I really appreciate it. Jason: [50:53] Is internally our pleasure thanks very much Caesar and until next time happy commercing.

Episode 18 is a total sister act! Alli and guest Penny Luksic — both older sisters in their own families — at long last gab about the Quimby family, focusing on Beverly Cleary's 1955 Beezus and Ramona, which was the first in the Ramona series. We discuss Ramona's many pest-like — but lovable — antics, reflect on our own experiences growing up with younger siblings, and chat about the lack of diversity and complexity among families featured in the books of this era. Follow Penny on Instagram (@lennypuksic) and Twitter (@lennypuksic)!

This week, we form the Ocean’s 11 of food crimes. Mike slaps a sports horse on the butt, Michael sends a bill to the moon. We take a moment to think about old people smashing it. Highlights Include: Food crimes never pay. [13:00] Bill It to the Moon [20:05] The Queen Mary 2 [29:00] The Flea’s Bees [37:30] A shower of shower thoughts. [43:00]

“I am not a pest,” Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus. Host Phil Gonzales and John McCoy.

AFTERBUZZ TV – New Girl edition, is a weekly “after show” for fans of FOX’s New Girl. In this show, hosts Ally Nasta and Tessa Cevaal discuss episode 22. RSS Feed: http://afterbuzztv.staging.wpengine.com/aftershows/new-girl-afterbuzz-tv-aftershow/feed/ ABOUT NEW GIRL: A new single-camera comedy from … Read the rest The post New Girl S:6 | Five Stars for Beezus E:22 | AfterBuzz TV AfterShow appeared first on AfterBuzz TV Network.

Beatrice Quimby’s biggest problem was her little sister Ramona. Host Phil Gonzales and John McCoy.

Hear the Dandy Warhol's new record early at a dive bar near you; get moved by BodyVox's big collaboration with A-list non-dancers; tune in to an opbmusic session with the Thermals; meet Oregon's new poet laureate and more. BodyVox Brings Its A-Team - 1:01The dance company BodyVox does not do normal, choosing instead to push boundaries of genre and form. So how are they pushing forward with their new performance, “The Pearl Dive Project”? How about asking eight top-tier artists to choreograph for them. Only thing: none of the artists are actually dancers. Instead, they're folks like Pink Martini singer China Forbes, Oregon Symphony music director Carlos Kalmar, and visual artist Malia Jensen.Elizabeth Woody Names New Oregon Poet Laureate - 9:40Governor Kate Brown has appointed Elizabeth Woody as Oregon’s next poet laureate. Her mandate: to represent the poetic powers, to encourage the reading and writing of poetry, and to be our mirror, reflecting on public life. Woody’s maternal family is part of the Confederated Tribe of the Warm Springs, but she was born on the Navajo Reservation — among her father’s folks — and identifies as Buddhist. Pioneer Mall Shows Its Galleries the Door - 14:45For the past several years, one of downtown Portland’s most unusual art hubs in has been on the top floor of the Pioneer Place Mall. Mark Woolley Gallery, People’s Art of Portland, Artist in Residence Gallery and One Der Gallery have lured the art walk crowds past J. Crews and Forever 21s and up escalators to take in fine art in a building where skill and quality is generally associated with Louis Vuitton. Now, mall management has informed the galleries they need to make way for a new commercial tenant by the end of April.opbmusic Session with The Thermals - 16:28The Thermals’ newest release, “We Disappear,” dives deep, exploring concepts of love, loss and technology’s role in both. Of course, the dark subject matter doesn’t mean Hutch Harris, Kathy Foster and Westin Glass have ditched their penchant for writing fun, catchy sing-a-longs, like “My Heart Went Cold.” What Can Portland Learn From San Francisco? 24:14What are we supposed to make of what’s happening in the Bay Area. Is it a cautionary tale of what could happen as Portland’s Oregon’s growth keeps surging? Or a preview of things that are definitely coming, no matter what we do? We sit down with Gil Kelley, San Francisco's citywide planning director who formerly directed Portland’s Bureau of Planning and Sustainability, to talk about his unique view on how the city's compare.Beverly Cleary Turns 100 - 36:58We are celebrating a huge 100th birthday for a true Oregon original: the one and only Beverly Cleary. Mrs. Cleary’s books, featuring Ramona, Beezus, Henry Huggins, and other kids, helped invent what we understand today as children’s literature, and remade the rules for how girls are represented in books. While she was at it, she brought a slice of Northeast Portland’s Klickitat Street to vivid life for people all over the world. We listen in on part of Cleary's conversation with Oregon Art Beat in preview of Art Beat's half-hour special, "Discovering Beverly Cleary."Chris Arellano - 44:20In Albany and Corvallis, people know Chris Arellano as a music teacher and guitarist. In New Mexico, he’s quickly becoming a star. Be the First to Hear the Dandy Warhol's Newest Record: At a Dive Bar Near You - 47:57There are two places the public can hear the Dandy Warhol's first album in four years, "Distortland," in advance of its Apr. 8 release: on the jukebox at Tony's Tavern on West Burnside and at Tony's Tavern on Northeast Sandy. The band held a listening party at the Burnside dive on Saturday because, according to bandleader Courtney Taylor-Taylor, it has the single best sound system in any Portland bar.Read the full story: http://www.opb.org/radio/article/beverly-cleary-on-turning-100-the-thermals-go-dark-what-portland-can-learn-from-san-francisco

Actress Joey King shares about the Lifetime movie "Outlaw Prophet: Warren Jeffs." Plus, she opens up about the most important thing that she's learned since her first lead role in "Ramona and Beezus."

Another Newberry award winning Geek Shock has joined the frey and competes for your scholastic dollars.  In this wonderful return to form we talk about Power-Con/Thundercon, maggots, banned books, Simpson trouble, the new 52, and much more.  So get off of your fused butt and get ready for a Geek Shock.

Recently recorded in Boston, film critic John Black participated in a roundtable interview with actress/singer Selena Gomez, whose new film Monte Carlo is now playing nationwide. Visit the Post-Movie Podcast online at Post-Movie.netIntro music by Stereo Soul Future (stereosoulfuture.com)Follow Steve on Twitter at twitter.com/steveheadQuestions? Email us at contact@post-movie.net

Since the Chili's encounter with JOEY KING in PQP #026, you guyz have been asking for another JOEY-PIPER pair-up!!! HERE IT IS!! The Planet's youngest (and kewlest) entertainment reporter & red carpet interviewer met up with JOEY again right before BATTLE LA hit the theaters...the movie JUST ARRIVED on DVD this week, so we're droppin' another PiPeRiFiC Piper's QUICK Picks with one of our favorite young actresses, JOEY KING! OH!!! Piper also saw JOEY KING at the 32nd Annual Young Artist Awards! JOEY won Best Performance for her amazing work in "RAMONA and BEEZUS"!!! YEAH baby! Follow Joey on Twitter: www.Twitter.com/JoeyLittleKingVisit Joey's Website: www.JoeyKing.net Title: JOEY KING Back Again with Piper Reese Talking "BATTLE LOS ANGELES" on the Red Carpet! PIPER on iMDB: http://imdb.me/PiperReese REGISTER on PIPERSPICKS.TV: http://piperspicks.tv/INSTAGRAM: http://instagram.com/PipersPIcksTVTWITTER: http://www.twitter.com/PipersPicksTVFACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/PipersPicksTV ©2011 Piper's Picks® TV

YEAH BABY!!!  The 1 and only Tween Entertainment Reporter...Red Carpet Interviewer...Planet's Youngest Podcaster...yadda yadda yadda...Piper Reese meets up with the super-cute & talented star of Ramona and Beezus, JOEY KING!!!!  Holy PiPeRiFiC personalities!!!  Joey is mega-kewl and so sweet to take a few minutes from working hard to help out Chili's support St. Jude Children's Hospital!  She'll give you the D&L on what was goin' down!  Go...watch...now (we'll know if you don't)!!!!! PIPER on iMDB: http://imdb.me/PiperReese REGISTER on PIPERSPICKS.TV: http://piperspicks.tv/INSTAGRAM: http://instagram.com/PipersPIcksTVTWITTER: http://www.twitter.com/PipersPicksTVFACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/PipersPicksTV ©2010 Piper's Picks® TV

Fr. Larry Snyder of Catholic Charities USA explains why he is working to have the Gulf oil spill declared a national disaster; CNS Spotlight: Oil spill's impact; New Vatican procedures to deal with sexual abuse and clergy: Bp. Blase Cupich; Fact of Faith: Admirabilis Fresco in Rome; CRS' John Belanger explains the agency's work with Iraqi refugees in Egypt; Rome Report: Roman Missal iPad app; Movie Review: "Ramona and Beezus."

Movie Meltdown - Episode 88.1 You and Mandy?! Yeah right, in your dreams!! Ok, that's true. But after being creeped out by Bryan’s sappy dream, we get to this week’s buzz. Plus, all jokes (about a horse) aside, we go out on an amazing song. (Seriously Mandy, forget that Ryan guy… call me.)  And once our host woke up, we talk about… Allison Scagliotti, Sharkarracuda, Daniel Craig, Napalm Death, The Raven, Burning Bright, Bryan romances Mandy (in his dreams), Warehouse 13, pickle juice, Brad Pitt would make a hot zombie, Stargate SG1, Texas popcorn, Will Ferrell’s serious acting, fat MacGyver, World War Z, Hansel and Gretel in 3D!!, Quantum of Solace, going on roadtrips with Wyatt Earp, the man with the largest face ever!, Tiger in the House, painting a night time seascape, Mr. Markie Mark, Snakes on a Train, naked Ramona and Beezus?, Daniel Radcliffe, Selena Gomez eating, ghosts are totally racists, Bob Ross, Earp: Saints for Sinners...and a horse! “Is drunk an emotion??"

Jeff and Eric recommend a low-”Salt” diet on this week’s edition of Movie B.S. with Bayer and Snider. “Ramona and Beezus,” on the other hand, is a cute and sweet movie that you could take the kids to. “Winter’s Bone” is a solid indie drama that you should not take the kids to, unless they like movies about hillbilly meth farmers. Jeff and Eric also discuss their favorite books from childhood, an upcoming casual meet-up at Ground Kontrol, Jeff’s over-indulgence at yesterday’s Brewfest, and Eric’s mother’s bladder. QOTW for next week: What’s a movie that you drastically changed your opinion of, either from love to hate or hate to love? E-mail moviebspdx@gmail.com

Joey King talks about working with Selena Gomez in the new film, Ramona and Beezus. Find out about the fun they had on the set along with what Joey is up to these days.

Ramona and Beezus

Good news, everyone! “Inception,” which Eric and Jeff both had pegged as their most-anticipated film of the summer, turned out to be fantastic. They talk about it — spoiler-free — in this week’s Movie B.S. with Bayer and Snider. They also discuss “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice,” which is reasonably fun family entertainment, and “The Kids Are All Right,” which is good but not for the whole family. Then there’s a new game, SwitchFix; discussion of the QOTW (most disappointing films), and a new QOTW for next week: What were your favorite books as a kid (’cause “Ramona and Beezus” is coming out)? E-mail moviebspdx@gmail.com.

Episode 119 with Zoe Darazsdi.“Even though I don't necessarily have the desire to fit in, I think being understood is the greatest feeling on Earth.”Zoe is a neurodivergent mental health counselor who specializes in empowering autistic and ADHD clients. She has helped countless teens and adults to navigate the challenges and gifts of living with a unique brain. Her practice is trauma-informed and guided by Adlerian counseling theory and disability rights activism.Zoe & I talk all about some of the stigmas and biases faced by autistic & ADHD clients within therapy, as well as strategies for neurodivergent self-advocacy in therapeutic relationships. We also talk about how mental health counselors can better serve their neurodivergent clients.Zoe's work is supported by her own autistic self-advocacy and the professional research she conducts on autistic peoples' experiences in counseling. When Zoe is not counseling, she is writing, kickboxing, and playing with her dog, Beezus.Website: zoedarazsdi.comInstagram: @zoedarazsdicounselingEpisode edited by E Podcast ProductionsFind the transcript of this episode at www.womenandadhd.com/transcriptsThis episode is sponsored by Athletic Greens. As a Women & ADHD listener, Athletic Greens is giving you a FREE 1-year supply of Vitamin D AND 5 free travel packs with your first purchase. Head to athleticgreens.com/womenadhd. - - - - -This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. As a Women & ADHD listener, you'll receive 10% off your first month of BetterHelp when you use this link: betterhelp.com/womenadhd- - - - -Women & ADHD Book Club: www.womenandadhd.com/bookclub- - - - -Small group coaching with Katy: www.womenandadhd.com/groupcoaching- - - - -Work 1-on-1 with Katy: www.womenandadhd.com/coaching- - - - -Order the “Hey, it's ADHD!” course: www.womenandadhd.com/adhdcourse- - - - -Finally ... you've found your people! Now come join us in the Women & ADHD online community: www.womenandadhd.com- - - - -If you are a woman who was diagnosed with ADHD in adulthood and you'd like to be a guest on this podcast, please reach out to Katy via email womenandADHDpodcast (at) gmail.com.Instagram: @womenandadhdpodcastTiktok: @womenandadhdpodcastTwitter: @womenandadhdFacebook: @womenandadhdAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

A rambunctious young girl uses her imagination to escape a life that's quickly spinning out of her control. Nothing timely about this one… It's *Ramona and Beezus*, and **This Film is Lit**. - Was that in the Book? - Better in the Book - Better in the Movie - The Movie Nailed It - Odds and Ends - Final Verdict Our next movie is **First Blood**

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A coming-of-age tale with tattoos, fishnets, and bruises. It's *Whip It*, and **This Film is Lit**. - Let Me Sum Up - Guess Who? - Was that in the Book? - Better in the Book - Better in the Movie - The Movie Nailed It - Odds and Ends - Final Verdict Our next movie is **Ramona and Beezus**

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