Podcast appearances and mentions of Ben Norris

In Episode 15 Antonia and special guest Ben Norris wander into a wood and get lost in John Burnside's poem ‘Lost', They try to work out if there are different ways of being lost and how this might relate to the Gospel (Matthew 10:7-15) of being sent out without shoes, haversack or purse. Since it is the feast of St Benedict on 11th July, they wonder about his rule and the relation between the manual work of the garden and prayer and how this might create a ‘rule of peace'. Music: Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67: Nos. 1 by Sergei Prokofiev connected by Leopold Stokowski and performed by the Stadium Symphony Orchestra of New York. Florilegium is a programme on Radio Maria which seeks to weave together liturgy, literature and  gardening in rambling, hopefully fruitful ways. It is written and presented by Kate Banks and Antonia Shack. About the Creators Antonia leads a patchwork life with jobs including but not limited to mother, book designer, editor, actor and teacher. She and Kate began discussing poetry, liturgy and gardening at the Willibrord Fellowship reading group in London and are delighted to be continuing these conversations on Radio Maria.  Kate (currently on leave from Florilegium) is a teacher of Literature, Philosophy and Theology, with a particularly keen regard for the poet and artist David Jones around whom many of her studies and her teaching-subjects have been based. She also briefly worked as a gardener in London, though she now lives with her little boy on the river Exe in Devon. If you enjoyed this programme, please consider making a once off or monthly donation to Radio Maria England by visiting www.RadioMariaEngland.uk or calling 0300 302 1251 during office hours. It is only through the ongoing support of our listeners that we continue to be a Christian voice by your side.

We chat to Ben Norris & Madeleine Leslay who play Ben Archer & Chelsea Horrobin in The ArchersYou can find out more information on their play “A Leap In The Dark” and book tickets here: https://www.newvictheatre.org.uk/productions/a-leap-in-the-dark/You can support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AllAboutTheArchersDo join ‘All About The Archers' on our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1127587031446013 See you there!You can also watch this on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@AllAboutTheArchers-vv8jz/videosThe ArchersAmbridgeBBCRadio4#BenNorris#BenArcher#ChelseaHorrobin#MadeleineLeslay #Brookfield #TheArchers #AllAboutTheArchers #radio4 #bbcradio #bbcradio4 #Ambridge #soapopera #borchester #bridgefarm #podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week the guys discuss possible coaching candidates, who is the right fit, along with news from around the league. Then Actor Ben Norris joins the Breakaway to discuss.. yes high school musicals, his NYR fandom, thoughts on the offseason and more Finally the guys return and answer a bunch of 5 star questions including, not wanting to trade Panarin, which, they feel like shouldn't be a hot take. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week the guys discuss possible coaching candidates, who is the right fit, along with news from around the league. Then Actor Ben Norris joins the Breakaway to discuss.. yes high school musicals, his NYR fandom, thoughts on the offseason and more Finally the guys return and answer a bunch of 5 star questions including, not wanting to trade Panarin, which, they feel like shouldn't be a hot take. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Ty Hatch, who started sketchnoting as a practice to pay attention and stay awake shares why he still loves the art and his work on creating headshot illustrations and creating sketchnotes for meetings and conferences.Sponsored by ConceptsThis episode of the Sketchnote Army Podcast is brought to you by Concepts, a perfect tool for sketchnoting, available on iOS, Windows, and Android.Concepts' vector-based drawing feature gives you the power to adjust your drawings — any time you like. You can nudge the curve of a line, swap out one brush for another, or change stroke thickness and color at any stage of your drawing — saving hours and hours of rework.Vectors provide clean, crisp, high-resolution output for your sketchnotes at any size you need — large or small. Never worry about fuzzy sketchnotes again.Concepts is a powerful, flexible tool that's ideal for sketchnoting.SEARCH “Concepts” in your favorite app store to give it a try.Running OrderIntroWelcomeWho is Ty Hatch?Origin StoryTy's current workSponsor: ConceptsTipsToolsWhere to find TyOutroLinksAmazon affiliate links support the Sketchnote Army Podcast.Ty's websiteTy on TwitterTy on InstagramTy on LinkedInTy on MastodonTy on PinterestTy on Artist Trading CardsTy On DribbleUX Week 2008 SketchnotesInktoberTy's Son's Pokémon DrawingsToolsAmazon affiliate links support the Sketchnote Army Podcast. Mechanical pencilBallpoint Rotring 600 pencilKaweco fountain penPost-It-NotesGlobal Art Materials SketchbookMoleskine Art sketchbookSketchnote Idea bookPaper by WeTransferiPad ProApple pencilProcreate Adobe FrescoTipsEverybody is creative in their own way, and that's okay.Enjoy what you do. You can like a range of different things, and that's okay.Set boundaries for the things that are really important to you, in your life that are not work-related. Set those boundaries, talk about them, and live your life in a way that reflects your priorities. CreditsProducer: Alec PulianasTheme music: Jon SchiedermayerShownotes and transcripts: Esther OdoroSubscribe to the Sketchnote Army PodcastYou can subscribe to the podcast through iTunes, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube or your favorite podcast listening source.Support the PodcastTo support the creation, production and hosting of the Sketchnote Army Podcast, buy one of Mike Rohde's bestselling books. Use code ROHDE40 at Peachpit.com for 40% off!Episode TranscriptMike Rohde: Hey everyone, this is Mike, and I'm here with Ty Hatch. Ty, welcome to the show. It's so good to have you.Ty Hatch: Thanks, Mike. It's great to be here.MR: Ty, we've known each other for years and years. We were talking about when we thought we connected, you had a pretty pinpoint accurate time-point.TH: Yeah. It's funny. Back in 2008, I went to a UX Week, which was a conference put on by, for those that remember Adaptive Path, I think they got purchased and became the in-house UX department for Capital One a few years ago. I was there and I was like, "I need to pay attention." Did some sketch notes, or just did notes, I wasn't thinking about it. Got an email from you after I posted them up on the OG photo-sharing Flickr, and you're like, "Hey, can I put these into my Sketch Note Army?" And so, we just stayed in touch throughout the years since then, so.MR: Yep. Well, that leads right into telling us a little bit about who you are and what you do.TH: You bet. I am a UX manager for O.C. Tanner, which is an employee recognition company. I help create the space for employee recognition. I Work with a team. I have three people on my team. We're part of a larger experience group, and we focus on how can people feel appreciated at work by the employers. It's a really fun thing to do. I also, as you know, do sketch notes at times and random doodles and whatnot when the time allows. That's me. I enjoy UX design. It's a fun problem space to be in.MR: Well, I can relate to that as a UX principle, UX designer. I find it fascinating as well. I focus on software, but there are tons of opportunities to make things better, always, seems like. It's good to hear you're focusing on that, and that's such a critical space, especially now with all the challenges of hiring people and maintaining employees, and having them not leave by recognition. Huge, huge opportunities there, I would think.TH: Yeah. It's huge. You, like me, it's hard to feel sometimes like you're moving the needle and you're making a difference for people. One of the things that really gets me going is knowing that the work that I'm doing is actually helping people feel that appreciation, that they get that recognition from not only their peers, but from their leaders and whatnot.MR: Yep. Super important. It's something that often goes under the radar and managers might not think much about it, but is so critical. Often it doesn't cost you much other than time and a little bit of thoughtfulness. So, that's really cool. I would love to hear a little bit more about how you ended up in the space where you are both professionally, but also as a sketchnoter. Had you always drawn since you were a little kid? What's been your history? Let's start from when you're just a little guy.TH: I spent a lot of time outdoors growing up. I grew up in Southern Idaho and southeastern Washington. Miles outside of my small town. There wasn't much to do there. We were too far out to get TV reception. We often joked we got matching ants on our TV screen because this was back in the days before cable. We had terrible TV reception on our black and white TV. We did have indoor plumbing, and electricity, so that was always good.My brother and I, we would leave the house, go out in the backyard. We didn't have neighbors at the time, and so, we would just go out sometime after breakfast and typically we'd come back around dinnertime 'cause we were hungry. We would always have some sort of adventure and whatnot. I think at some point, a friend of ours introduced us to Dungeons and Dragons and I became a really big fantasy nut.This was the early days of D&D. I used to have a first edition, Monster Manual and Player CanBall and DMS Guide and all that. We colored them, I coloring books 'cause they were all just black and white illustrations. I loved it. Got into reading books and whatnot. Wanted to play football, but didn't seem to get enough interest for college people. We were in a small town, nobody really knows what's going on with a small town.I served a mission for my church for a couple years and then returned home. I was visiting my grandparent's house, and this is probably my favorite story about what got me into what I do today is there was this really awesome a couple of these burly looking pirates on it. I was like, "Well, this is cool, visual stimuli to get someone board at grandma and grandpa's house, right? It said the white family, I said, "Oh, that's a Piratey name."I was like, "Oh, let's read about these pirates." It wasn't pirates. It was a story about the artistic legacy of NC Wyatt and his son Andrew, and his grandson Jamie. I just got hooked and in fact, I have a self-portrait from that issue that I took out of the magazine. I think I found a couple copies over the years. But there was a really little self-portrait that he did that I have hanging on my wall.There was some painters tape. And I was like, "Oh, you get paid doing art? What? Completely radical concept for me. I'd always loved comic books. My brother and I collected comics over the years. I figured, I was like, "Oh, what can I do with art?" I started exploring the different art-related careers and I stumbled upon graphic design because as I learned about illustration as a career, I was like, "That's really competitive. I don't know that I'm good enough to compete there, but I can definitely think visually and solve problems." So, I tended toward that.That was about the time I was a junior at state school in Washington State where I'd met my wife and I applied for an art school in Portland and I'm like, "There's no way they'll let me in." But surprisingly, they did. I finished a BFA in graphic design. My senior capstone project there at the time was a website, this is what? 1998 I wanna say. Right about the time my oldest was born. And my senior project was an informational website on typography, which is still out there.I did a really quick redesign of it the next year 'cause it was a hideous thing when I got looking at it in reality. But it's still fitting there, 20-some-odd years later. It was an informational website about typography. Cause actually, I fell in love with typography in school. That's one of the things I absolutely loved. I was like, "Oh, could I make money doing typography?" I was like, "No, I can't." Type is another one of those professions, it's a very niche specialty.MR: Yeah. You can do it, but you have to really work at it.TH: Yeah. But I love design. I love the visual solving of problems and communicating clearly with design. For several years, I did that and slowly over time morphed into more of an interaction UX designer. Just as the industry changed, I'm like, "This is a good thing. This can provide for me and my family and I enjoy doing it." You slowly over the years gravitated into technology and doing UX.That was the thing that got me where I'm at. Particularly doing sketchnotes, like the sketch note that I did at UX Week was the first time that I actually shared anything that I'd done like that. I would do 'em in my sketchbooks 'cause it helped me process what was being communicated, presentations that I would go to.I really took off though, I wanna say about 2014, 2015 when I got my first iPad. There's this little app that was really cool. I'm like, "This is cool." I was trying to use it with my finger, but the company that made the app, which is Paper. The company at the time was called, FiftyThree.MR: FiftyThree. Yep.TH: I think I got one of their styluses, which looked like a carpenter's pencil. I was like, "This is cool." But I didn't like the drag of the rubber on it, but it made my finger drawings not as crappy. I'd used that stylus. I tried to play around with it a bit more. Then Apple introduced the pencil and it was a game changer for me.I've dabbled a bit with other applications, but the Paper is still my go-to when it comes to sketchiness because of how it works. I still maintain sketchbooks. I have one now. It's more random skulls and patterns and headshots. Like you see I participate in October each year, which is a drawing challenge. If you go over into my Instagram, you'll see that I have a few. I think I actually made it through all 31 days this year.MR: You did.TH: Which is like maybe the second or third time that I've done it. I've completed Inktober. But that's just fun. It's a good challenge to just do random headshots. I enjoy the personalities that come out of those headshots. That's a bit of how I got into it, what I've been doing.MR: Wow. And now, do you still do sketchnoting from time to time?TH: I do. I haven't had as much with the pandemic. Right before the pandemic, I was actually doing a fair amount of it. I was getting contacted by conferences to help with that. I did a Mind the Product conference and did a plural site live as well. They were a lot of fun. Did the thing with—what I like about—my particular process with sketchnotes is I prefer being in person at any one event 'cause processing that real-time is the thing that I did. I've tried to do it with different random, YouTube presentations and stuff like that, but I don't get quite the energy and the vibe off of a live event.MR: Interesting. When I look at your style, I see you have a very unique ink style, I dunno how to describe it, but it looks like you're using a brush pen or something. There is some single-line work, right, but there's some that looks like it's kind of thick and thin. What is the tool that you're using to achieve that? I assume you're still on Paper, right?TH: Yeah. Looking at the ink over stuff, I typically, I'll pencil it out, I'll sketch out in pencil and then I just use fine liners. I use a fine linear and then like a 0.8. Sometimes I'll go in with the smaller one. One little tool that I saw, a Kaweco.MR: Oh, yeah.TH: I was like, I put it in my cart and it's really hard to justify that experience. Not a cheap thing, hey. But it got low enough and I'm like, okay, it was my birthday. And I was like, I told my wife, "I'm gonna splurge and get this." And like, okay. I love it. I haven't done much drawing with it. I got an extra broad nib and it's a little too thick for me. My pen addiction, my writing instrument addiction is breathing and well, and I collect art supplies when I'm trying to figure out something I wanna do. I ordered a broad nib off of Jet pens, which is not a good site if you like ready instruments. It's not good for your wallet. It's a great size.MR: Great site, and yeah, you spend a lot of money there pretty easily.TH: Oh yeah.MR: Paper now is owned by, WeTransfer the file transfer company, and still is maintained and has had some updates. Like you, I use Procreate for illustration work, but if I'm doing sketch notes, I go right to Paper. At this point, it feels really natural, the tools, I'm very aware of them. When you do sketchnoting in Paper, what are the tools that you like to use there? I'm just curious about that. Looking at, just have one of your samples up here on my screen. Looks like you're—TH: I have an iPad Pro that I use with an Apple pencil. Typically, when I do it, I'll—what I love about Paper is the intuitiveness of the tools. They have a paintbrush, they have a ink pen or fountain pen. They have a couple different types of markers and a pencil. Typically, I like to do a little sketch of the presenter. And so, if you look at it, you'll see that most frequently. Then notes around the topics they're talking about.Often, I'll get the sketch of the presenter. I do that in the quiet moments of their presentation. I'll either use the ink pen, the fountain pen version, a medium nib. It's relatively inexpensive to pay for the pro version for Procreate or for the Paper.MR: Right. It's $12 a year, I think.TH: Yeah. I'm more than happy to pay that 'cause it's given me a lot of opportunities. The thing that I love is the color mixing. They've nailed color mixing like nobody else has, and I think it's one of the best things that they've done in software. I'll use that or I'll use a one the fine liner to do the block letters and whatnot.Every now and then, I have little people pop up that are just a head body and arms, legs to sometimes self-characters and concepts that the designers are doing. Because the thing that I found really interesting with sketch notes is that it's that real-time synthesizing of the concepts that they're presenting that I get the most out of 'em. Largely, it started as a selfish practice to pay attention and stay awake, but I found that I still love doing that because it really helps me to get something outta these presentations as well. But yeah, Paper is hands down the most intuitive tool, I think, for just sketching out in general. I love it.MR: I agree. Well, we're talking a little bit about Sketchnoting specifically. We've done who you are and what you do. We got your story of your origin. Tell us a little bit about something you're working on now, whether it's work or personal that you're excited about that you can share with us.TH: Well, let's see. One of the things I'm really excited about, I have no clue how to do it, is I want to try and figure out how I can work a little bit more in conversational device. Conversational device seem to be taken a lot. There's the ChatGPT bot that everybody's talking about. All these AI-based tools, which have their place, I think. But how can I build a conversational way to present my work or to present myself?I've done some really terrible things. Experiments that will never see the light of day. One of the things I love about design is that's experimentation is part of trying to figure out a solution. You and I both know as designers, it's like, you can't really come up with a good solution unless you know what the problem is. And so, trying to figure that out from my perspective, like, okay, how can I make something like this happen and in a way that I can somehow manage, right?I will fully admit to being an old school. It's like my personal psych is there. I think I got a redesign out last year that I'm really happy with. That was the seven-year cycle of refreshing a personal site. It seems like seven to eight years is about the time it takes for me to get around to saying, "I should probably redesign my personal site." And actually, finding the time to do it.I want to, being able to maintain that in a way because with all the different social media things, it's really hard to improvise where your content is in a good way. 'Cause if you post on social media, you don't have a real centralized location for any of the content that you can put out. You have to say, "I'm gonna focus on this platform."That's really the dangerous thing, I think. How do you position yourself not only as a working professional, a design professional like we're as an artist you know, and give yourself a home where people know, "Oh, if I go here, I'll be able to find and go look at all the other things."'Cause as much as I love social media and Instagram, I'm tired of seeing an ad every third post in Instagram as I scroll through my feed. Then you have other social media services that kinda self-destruct. I want to have a good centralized location, and I haven't been able to get that fully done yet.'Cause as much as everybody loves WordPress and it powers so many sites, you have to really want to put in that time and effort to make WordPress work. There's other platforms and stuff too, but it's like, how can you make your content your own and have it in a place that everybody can know, "Okay, if I go here, I'll find their stuff." I'm trying to figure that out for myself.MR: That's something that challenged me as well. Years ago, I decided to go to Squarespace just because I could build what I wanted and not think too much about it, and constrained me a lot. Paper does provide, and it's grown to meet my needs over time. That's been really good to secure as well. I had an instance where I ran websites on WordPress and didn't update, and someone was running a legal pharmaceutical site buried in my website, and I was like, "All right. Not doing that anymore."I was out on WordPress self-hosting and switched to Squarespace, and it's been a good experience. But yeah, I felt the same way you talk about, you know, scrolling through Instagram, it feels like more and more of its ads and less and less of its actual content. I have to really fight through the ads to actually get to my friends for interesting things, and that's frustrating. Someone's going to hopefully solve that problem soon.TH: There's a lot of different platforms out there, you know, Mastodon is taking off, but it's like, in my mind, it's a little too complex for the normal person. Just about everything, you have to feed the algorithm. You have to continually be putting stuff out there to maintain any audience. People have lives outside of posting on social media.One thing I think in general that people don't think about too much is I have a life that is very important to me with my family, and it's like, I'm not gonna be posting all the time for these different platforms. It's great. I love doing it, but it's like, that's not my primary, one of my key focuses.MR: That's the question everybody has to ask, right, to what am I gonna feed this thing? What are its expectations of me? 'Cause sometimes you come to realize that these platforms have expectations for what they want you to do that doesn't align with what you wanna do. You have to make that decision because you only get so much time. It keeps going away. That's really fascinating. Well, I hope that redesigning your website goes well. I know what that feels like. I haven't done it for a while, so I know what a challenge it is.TH: I appreciate that. One thing I'm really interested in trying out, and maybe I'll be doing it a little bit this week a bit if I can, is AWS has this thing called Amplify Studio where they've pre-built some components and whatnot, in React powered by a Figma template. And so, you change your components in the Figma template, connect your account, and you should be able to launch out some app or whatever.I have the template, it's been taunting and mocking me for several months since I discovered it. An inanimate software can't do that. AI might be able to do that, but inanimate software doesn't necessarily do that as you're constant saying, "Hey, you got this, are you gonna do something at some point?"MR: For those who don't know, Figma is a design tool, vector-based design tool where many designers build often their prototypes and their mockups with. What Ty's talking about is he would build a mockup of his site and then use React, which is kind of a backend technology, I think is a fair way to describe it populated by—TH: It's a JavaScript framework—MR: Framework, that's the word I was looking for.TH: Yeah. Just help build out components. AWS is Amazon Web Services, which is the—basically simple way of looking at it is they provide a lot of the Cloud hosting services for a lot of providers. When your services aren't working, there might be an AWS outage somewhere causing some of that stuff. When the internet services go down, sometimes there's outage with some of these cloud providers—MR: Well later in the show, we'll definitely have a link to your website. Maybe by the time this episode launches, you'll have a new site up there that people can look at.TH: It gives me a goal to work on.MR: There you go. There you go. Let's take a little shift now and talk about tools. We've hinted at some, you talked about Paper by WeTransfer as a digital tool. Let's jump back into analog, and more specifically, are there brands of pens that you like, brands of paper, notebooks, pencils, so that people who are listening can dig them up and maybe experiment a little bit?TH: Absolutely. Right now, if I look at my desk, I have a mechanical pencil, and I'll send you some links so you can put these in show notes. It's a mechanical pencil, 0.51 with a metal coral is by Uni. The nice thing is, when you have a metal pencil, you'll often have this little nib that kinda gets bent and breaks. But what's nice about this pencil is that it retracts. It's fairly affordable. I think it's like maybe about 15 bucks. It's not a polymer is on the back of it.I also love fine liners. I've gotten the rounds with a whole bunch, I have some, Copics. The current one that I'm using is a Uni pen fine liner. I've found that I really like these really good waterproof so I can lay down watercolor washes or alcohol on so on. I got this one earlier this year. We did a team offsite. We got a rotating 600.MR: Those beautiful pens.TH: It was a Ballpoint. I'm not such a huge fan of ballpoint pens. But I discovered that Kaweco makes a gel pin insert refill, and so, I got a Kaweco gel pen insert in there. Then have a Kaweco fountain little porch fountain pen. The thing that amazes me-- yeah, it's tinier than I thought it was, but the thing I love about it is that the ink just flows and it's beautiful. It's really great.As far as what do I draw on, in the day, it's often post notes, making lists, and whatnot. I have sketchbooks. Right now, I'm using one. I've been experimenting a little bit with what I want to use for sketchbooks and stuff. This one's by a company, Global Art materials. It's just a generic kinda sketchbook.For years and years, I've used Moleskin's Art sketchbooks, which are great. I love that size. I got a eight by eight, or seven and a half by seven and a half watercolor sketchbook. I found that that was a little too precious. I was like, "Oh, I gotta do art in this stuff." I got the Kickstarter for "The Sketchnote Idea Book."MR: Thank you.TH: I love it, Mike. It's fantastic. The pages are bright white, which I absolutely love and they held all sorts of things. I got some watercolor in my old one. I have one somewhere, an Emergency Kit in case I have to go somewhere. I have another one somewhere that I'm like, lemme experiment with this stuff, and then maybe I'll get back to the Idea book. I found that that notebook that you guys put together was really one of my favorites in recent years.MR: Great.TH: The quality of the paper and the whiteness and the thickness made it really, really flexible. The only thing for me is maybe it was a hair too big, a little too wide. I like a little bit smaller, but I absolutely love the paper quality you guys did on that. Then like sketch notes or not sketch notes, but on the Ink Tobra drawings, I found a five by seven Strathmore 400 pad of paper that's really thick that I absolutely love.All of the years, and 2021s, I only did like 16 of them. I have all those originals hanging out on a piece of paper somewhere. One my goals with my personal site is to be able to set up a way to sell some of these 'cause that's fun or good if this is just sitting and collecting dust in your house. If you do it, I think that one of the real choices of making art is sharing it with people and helping them appreciate it. One of the things I wanna get going as well.MR: That sounds good. As far as digital, you talked about, of course, Paper. We got into that a little bit already. Are there any other tools that you like to play with? Or is that your go-to for pretty much everything?TH: I do have Procreate on my iPad. My kids use it a lot more than I do. One thing I found is I don't like the glossy slide of the Apple pencil on just a make a screen so I have a textured screen protector on it to give it that textural fill of paper. I found that that makes a huge difference for making marks on iPad. That's really it. I've toyed with, Adobe Fresco, Concepts app. There's one that the Icon Factory does, I can't remember it's Ben's go-to tool.MR: I think Ben Crothers likes that—Ben Norris likes that one.TH: Norris, yeah. I dabbled that a little bit. What I like about Paper is the ability to go from pencil to ink to watercolor. The brush that they have in Paper is fantastic. How you can lay your color, make it deeper and rich if you want.I haven't been able to get Procreate to do that. Procreate's a fantastic tool. I love it. But for Sketch notes, to me, it feels like it's a little too powerful. What I love about Paper is Paper's really good at just capturing your flow of thinking, whereas you have to be a lot more deliberate in your usage of Procreate. Although, if you're a Concept artist or somebody that's doing stuff like that, then absolutely that's a great place.My son does a lot of—he loves Pokemon, he loves Mario. He's been doing it. He's gonna be turning 25 this next year. And I'm like, "Dude, you could do commissions of people's Pokemon on teams." He does this fantastic stuff. I'll send you a link to his Pokemon stuff. He'll do characters and whatnot. He's drawn so many Mario things. He's drawn hundreds of Pokemon and he gets them scaled. I just absolutely love looking at his stuff. I'm like, "Dude, you could probably do something with this. "But he's like, "Yeah, I know Dad, but I do this for fun." Which is great.MR: That sounds like a great variety of tools. You had quite a span. Some that I hadn't thought about, especially the Kaweco. I think it was the Kaweco insert that goes into the Rotring, I think you talked about. 'Cause I'm not a ballpoint fan either. There's a Schaffer insert that I use in my Retro 51s that I really like too. Probably a similar insert, I suppose.TH: I really like the Kaweco one. There's another one that seems to get pretty good reviews that I've seen on, I wanna call it Otto.MR: Oh yeah. Otto. I've had otto. Yeah, those are great. That's Japanese, I think.TH: Mark-making on a budget is a big deal for me. It's not necessarily the tools that make the person, it's what you do with the tools that you have. I think having a widely available set of tools is really important, but also making sure that they're budget-friendly, right?MR: Mm-hmm.TH: Is an important thing too.MR: Yep. I totally agree. Let's make one last shift into tips. The way I frame this is to imagine someone's listening. Maybe they're kind of at a plateau, or they just need some inspiration, little inspiration, little boost. What'd be three tips you would give that person to encourage them in their sketchnoting or visual thinking or just thinking, doing visual work experience.TH: The first tip, and I think this is a pretty important one. I've had a lot of people, when they find out I'm a designer, they throw, "Oh, I'm not artistic." And to me, it's not about being artistic. It's about being creative. I like to tell people everyone's creative in their own way. How you express your creativity is going to be different than how I express my creativity.My creativity comes out in the form of sketch notes and these random headshot illustrations that I do. Your creativity may be that you are a fantastic accountant and you can come up with really great ways to make things better and more efficient. Other people may just be fantastic books or bakers. Everybody expresses their creativity differently.It's not about being artistic, it's about expressing yourself in the work that you do. I think it's perfectly okay to admire for somebody's work and say, "Oh, that's fantastic," and be a fan of it, but also not beat yourself up like, "Oh, I'm not that good at because I can't draw like my sorority and illustrate all these school books." I can draw my own thing and I can be happy with it. And so, I think my first one would be, everybody is creative in their own way, and that's okay.With that, it goes to what I would say is my second tip is enjoy what you do. That it's really hard, I think, especially today for people to feel like, oh, I can enjoy this. I think you need to give yourself permission to enjoy those things that you find pleasing. There's so many things out there today, it's easy to get overwhelmed with them.I think it's okay to be nerdy and geeky or really into sports or, you can like a range of different things. If my kids were tell you what I like, they'd rattle off a list of dozens of things 'cause I don't think it's good to limit yourself to liking just one thing. You can like a range of different things, and that's okay. That would be my second one.The third one is, there's a script quote from Iron Glass. You've probably heard this. You can find a YouTube video on it somewhere, but he's talking about the work that you want to do when you—everybody has a particular taste and style in their head that they imagine. But then when you try and do it, it doesn't meet those mental expectations, but you can get there by working at it.I really think that everybody's capable of doing really great stuff, but you need to work to get to that point. Don't give up, but that's the whole—and I think follow your passion is really bad advice, but I think do what you enjoy because it may be that you may not enjoy your job which is providing for you and maybe your family. But if there's something outside of that that brings you joy and that you enjoy doing, do that in a way that helps you be happy.Over time, what you do with that will match what you see in your head. There may be opportunities that come up as a result of doing that because you never know. Opportunity—I forget who said this quote. Opportunity is often masked as hard work. If you're not doing the work to prepare for the thing that you want to do when that opportunity comes, you're gonna be ill-prepared to do that, that you want to do.And so, it's important to do the things that you feel are important that you love and you'll have an opportunity at some point. Timing is really important. I'll do a fourth one because this one I feel—and I've mentioned a little bit. You need set boundaries for yourself on what you do. You need to be able to say, this is what's important to me, and these other things aren't so important.And so, when it comes down to it, you know, I won't be doing this, this, or this because it conflicts with my more important thing. For me, personally, my most important thing is my family, and everything that I do, I do—I love design. I find that an extremely fulfilling, rewarding career, but it's a means to be able to provide for the family and make sure that they're taken care of.I think that a lot of people are like, this is my hustle. This is my thing. If you put so much of yourself into that, that you identify that with that, and if that thing goes away, where are you left? Set the boundaries for the things that are really important to you in your life that are not work-related. Because I can guarantee you everybody has something that's very important to them, that it's not work-related.Set those boundaries, talk about those boundaries, and live your life in a way that reflects your priorities because as you do that, people will see that, they'll understand that, they'll respect that. And as you do those things and you express yourself through whatever creative means you have, you'll gain those opportunities to be able to do those things and then lead a more fulfilling life and that you're you're happy with. You won't be living with regrets if you do those things.MR: I love the fourth tip. That's really great. Really encouraging. Well, thank you for all those tips and we appreciate your wisdom for all of us here. It seems like just minutes and suddenly we're near the end of the show. I'd love to hear where's the best place for people to find you? Websites, social media, whatever you think would be the best place to start and connect.TH: You bet. I do have a personal site as we were talking about. It's at tyhatch.com. That's gonna be where you can find me. I have links off to all my socials. I'm on Twitter for however long that's still up. I'm on Instagram. You can find me at both of those. Most social media, you can find me at Ty Hatch. Instagram, Twitter, those have been my mainstays. I do have a profile on Mastodon as well. You can find me there tyhatch@mastodon.online. And then also most of my schedule archive of at this point in time lives over on Pinterest. You go to pinterest.com/tyhatch.com/sketchnotes. I think I have a collection of about 300 different sketch notes that I've done.MR: Oh, that's great.TH: You can find me there. I'm always happy to field any questions. If you see something you like, send me a note. Say, "Hey Ty, I really like this sketch. Do you have it?" And if it's something from October, happy to do that. I did a thing years ago, oh gosh, it's been almost 10 years. Really, Mike, I'm getting old. I did this thing about 10 years ago called Artist Trading Cards, or ATC. I think it might still be up if you go to apcs.tyhatch.I did a bunch of Artist Trading Cards. It started off ostensibly as like, "I'm gonna do a little Christmas present for coworkers." And it turned into a four-month project that I had a daily post of thumb little sketch that I did. I'm happy to sell these or trade with you if you want to trade physical objects. There's a whole range of those out there as well. It's fun. I enjoy doing random doodles and I think some point, there will be an opportunity for 'em, but until then I get to enjoy them.TH: Yep.MR: Cool. Well, we'll definitely get show notes put into the episode. So if you're anything in or any of these things pique your interest, you can go check it out. We have links to it. And thanks so much, Ty for being on the show. I'm so appreciate the work you do and the representation you put into the world and your leadership really need people like you doing that. And I'm so glad that you do it.TH: Thanks, Mike. It's been a pleasure. It's been fantastic talking with you today.MR: You too. Well, and for everyone listening, that'll wrap another episode of "The Sketchnote Army Podcast." Till the next episode, this is Mike. Talk to you soon. All right. I'm gonna stop my recording.

This week's Quitter is Ben Norris of “Never Have I Ever” fame. He tells us about what it took to quit his desk job to chase the Hollywood pipe dream and dealing with the barrage of “nos” in the acting pipeline. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue about the philosophy of Schelling, Spinoza, idealism, and realism. They talk about how he came to write his book on Schelling and Spinoza and how one can define idealism and realism. They talk about the three claims of idealism, Spinoza's ethics, and the importance of Jacobi's critiques on German idealism. They also talk about Spinoza's god, the infinite and finite, modes and attributes of substance, principle of sufficient reason, and Kant's synthetic judgements. They talk about Schelling's philosophy of nature and his shift from philosophy of nature to philosophy of identity. They also mention the absolute, blotobjectivism, Kant's antinomies, the problem of evil, and Schelling's notion of potencies. They also mention Žižek's three phases of Schelling's philosophy, Schelling's tripartite-tripartite soul, and many more topics. Benjamin Norris is a philosopher and professor at Rowan University. He has his PhD in philosophy from the New School for Social Research. His main interests are German idealism, history of philosophy, and social and political philosophy. He is the author of the book, Schelling and Spinoza: Realism, Idealism, and the Absolute. You can find his work here. Twitter: @absoluteorgan This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit convergingdialogues.substack.com

The paper review show in which comedians discuss the top news stories of the day.Today's Headliners are Simon Evans, Leo Kearse & Ben Norris.The team discuss Liz Truss hinting she will scrap bankers' bonus cap, Nato accusing Russia of escalating the Ukraine war, and a Guardian story suggesting Kenyans are embracing genderless fashion.All that and much more on this episode of Headliners. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Would you donate one of your kidneys to a complete stranger?  In fact, a stranger that you've never met and may never meet?  Well that's exactly what 21 year-old Ben Norris did.Listen to this short, inspiring 15 minute episode to learn about what made Ben decide to do this and why we all should consider donating, not necessarily a kidney, but blood, platelets, plasma etc, and becoming an organ donor (upon death).For more information about kidney donation, please visit:https://www.kidney.org/To stay connected with Better Place Project and for updates and behind the scenes info, please follow us on social media:Website:https://www.betterplaceproject.org/Instagram: @BetterPlaceProj  To follow Steve & Erin on Instagram:@SteveNorrisOfficial @ErinorrisFacebook: Facebook.com/BetterPlaceProjectPodcastTwitter: @BetterPlaceProjEmail: BetterPlaceProjectPodcast@gmail.com

Ben Norris is a videographer and BMX homie from Sydney. He's been filming Lewis Mills forever, and the 2 of them have had a pretty significant impact on the BMX world. I'm so hyped we got to chat for the first time "face to face" and talk about how he got into it, how he thinks, and what all went into the latest epic video LEW IS FIENDING.

Tim Dormer and Estelle Landy's on-screen Big Brother feud spilled onto social media last week, with the pair becoming embroiled in a heated exchange on Twitter... Here's everything that went down: The REAL reason behind Tim and Estelle's feud revealed! What does Big Brother season 9 winner Ben Norris have to do with it all? Multiple contestants weigh in on the drama! Is the feud real or is it all just one big publicity STUNT? Sources reveal Estelle was a "NIGHTMARE" on set for producers! Numerous claims of BULLYING during and after filming! Season 10 contestant Nathan Little makes explosive claims that Tim and Drew made his Big Brother experience a 'living hell"! PLUS LOTS MORE! Listen to 'The Kyle and Jackie O/Domenica and Ella/Olivia and Jackson Saga Unpacked ' on PATREON now! Want more of the latest gossip? So Dramatic! has a BRAND NEW podcast - 'So Dramatic! DAILY!' Listen now on SPOTIFY: https://spoti.fi/3ghmLwW  Listen now on APPLE: https://apple.co/3ARKVaW  Visit the SO DRAMATIC! ONLINEwebsite and sign up for our newsletter! Follow So Dramatic! on INSTAGRAM, FACEBOOK, TIK TOK, and join the PRIVATE FACEBOOK GROUP! For exclusive tea too hot for anywhere else, join the So Dramatic! PATREON! Got a hot tip, request, question, or receipts? Contact: tips@sodramaticmedia.com Got a media enquiry? Contact: hello@sodramaticmedia.com This is an independent podcast by entertainment journalist Megan Pustetto, who is dedicated to bringing you the hottest tea to your ears each week! The best way you can support So Dramatic! is by subscribing, leaving a (gushing!) review, (five star!) rating and super spreading the word on social media with your followers (or haters!) - you will be doing God's work! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Author and podcaster Giovanna Fletcher trained as an actor, but with several bestselling novels under her belt and her hit podcast Happy Mum Happy Baby featuring guests stars such as the Duchess of Cambridge, she has had little time to take to the stage in recent years. Now she stars in the West End in Danny Robins's terrifying new play 2.22 A Ghost Story at London's Gielgud Theatre. During lockdown, Femi Fadugba's debut novel, which combines his expertise in quantum physics with a thrilling time travel story set in Peckham, became a bestseller and was quickly snapped up by Netflix for a film adaptation. Ben Norris combines his skills as a poet, actor and playwright in The Choir of Man, a new feelgood show in the West End, which uses hits by the likes of Sia and and Guns'n'Roses to celebrate the power of community. After an incredible story from listener Helen Kirkham on last week's show about the devastating accident that almost took her life, we reunite Helen with someone very special. Darling Buds of May, Matilda and Call the Midwife actor Pam Ferris chooses her Inheritance Tracks: You Are My Heart's Delight by Richard Tauber and Bonde by Ali Farka Toure with Ry Cooder. And we have a Thank You from Topsy Kennedy. Producer: Tim Bano

Join a ragtag group of life long friends as they head out from Waterdeep on a mission for the Watchful Order, and dive head first into the world of Spelljammer. What they'll find is far more exciting, and terrifying, than anything they could every imagine. Sit back into that helm and hold on tight, we're heading to Wild Space! Cast DM: Ben Norris Bugs: Phoebe Hammond Zidar: Wesley Crutchley Halxian: Samuel Walpole Matches: James Williams Written and produced by Ben Norris as part of the We Speak Common Network Want to get involved? Support the Podcast on Patreon Find us on twitter: @WeSpeakCommon Email us at wespeakcommon@hotmail.com Visit us online at https://wespeakcommon.com/ Theme "NanoPhage" by Tri-Tachyon (freemusicarchive.org) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Soundtrack: Ivan Duch - https://ivanduch.com • The Void Dragon • Escape from Shrlogoth • Stormwall • At Night (Modern Nights) • A Warriors Sorrow • At Night • The Dragon Hoard • Battle of the Dune • Daggers in the Dark • Drenger • Trollocs • The Last Stand • The Hoard Daniel Birch - freemusicarchive.com • Safe as House Kevin MacLoed - incompetech.com • Twisting • Diversion • Furious Freak All tracks licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Additional sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com

Join a ragtag group of life long friends as they head out from Waterdeep on a mission for the Watchful Order, and dive head first into the world of Spelljammer. What they'll find is far more exciting, and terrifying, than anything they could every imagine. Sit back into that helm and hold on tight, we're heading to Wild Space! Cast DM: Ben Norris Bugs: Phoebe Hammond Zidar: Wesley Crutchley Halxian: Samuel Walpole Matches: James Williams Written and produced by Ben Norris as part of the We Speak Common Network Want to get involved? Support the Podcast on Patreon Find us on twitter: @WeSpeakCommon Email us at wespeakcommon@hotmail.com Visit us online at https://wespeakcommon.com/ Theme "NanoPhage" by Tri-Tachyon (freemusicarchive.org) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Soundtrack: Ivan Duch - https://ivanduch.com • Forgotten King's • Wayland • The Void Dragon • Escape from Shrlogoth Kevin MacLoed - incompetech.com • Leaving Home • Limit 70 • Twisting • Andreas Theme • Shadowlands 2 Daniel Birch - freemusicarchive.com • Safe as House All tracks licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Additional sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com

Join a ragtag group of life long friends as they head out from Waterdeep on a mission for the Watchful Order, and dive head first into the world of Spelljammer. What they'll find is far more exciting, and terrifying, than anything they could every imagine. Sit back into that helm and hold on tight, we're heading to Wild Space! Cast DM: Ben Norris Bugs: Phoebe Hammond Zidar: Wesley Crutchley Halxian: Samuel Walpole Matches: James Williams Written and produced by Ben Norris as part of the We Speak Common Network Want to get involved? Support the Podcast on Patreon Find us on twitter: @WeSpeakCommon Email us at wespeakcommon@hotmail.com Visit us online at https://wespeakcommon.com/ Theme "NanoPhage" by Tri-Tachyon (freemusicarchive.org) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Soundtrack: Ivan Duch - https://ivanduch.com • The Mountain • The Forest • Edmond's Field • Small Town Feeling Kevin MacLoed - incompetech.com • Leaving Home • Limit 70 • Furious Freak • Intuit 256 • Mana Two - Part 1 • Mana Two - Part 3 • Andreas Theme • SCP-X6X • Man Down • Blip Trance • Lightless Dwan All tracks licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Additional sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com

Join a ragtag group of life long friends as they head out from Waterdeep on a mission for the Watchful Order, and dive head first into the world of Spelljammer. What they'll find is far more exciting, and terrifying, than anything they could every imagine. Sit back into that helm and hold on tight, we're heading to Wild Space! Cast DM: Ben Norris Bugs: Phoebe Hammond Zidar: Wesley Crutchley Halxian: Samuel Walpole Matches: James Williams Written and produced by Ben Norris as part of the We Speak Common Network Want to get involved? Support the Podcast on Patreon Find us on twitter: @WeSpeakCommon Email us at wespeakcommon@hotmail.com Visit us online at https://wespeakcommon.com/ Theme "NanoPhage" by Tri-Tachyon (freemusicarchive.org) under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Soundtrack: Ivan Duch - https://ivanduch.com • The crazy Squirrel tavern • One hundred friend tavern • Edmonds Field • The Streets of Baeralon Kevin MacLoed - incompetech.com • Special Harvest • Leaving Home All tracks licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Additional sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com

Join a ragtag group of life long friends as they head out from Waterdeep on a mission for the Watchful Order, and dive head first into the world of Spelljammer. What they'll find is far more exciting, and terrifying, than anything they could every imagine. Sit back into that helm and hold on tight, we're heading to Wild Space! Cast DM: Ben Norris Bugs: Phoebe Hammond Zidar: Wesley Crutchley Halxian: Samuel Walpole Matches: James Williams Written and produced by Ben Norris as part of the We Speak Common Network Want to get involved? Support the Podcast on Patreon Find us on twitter: @WeSpeakCommon Email us at wespeakcommon@hotmail.com Visit us online at https://wespeakcommon.com/ Theme "NanoPhage" by Tri-Tachyon (freemusicarchive.org) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Soundtrack: Ivan Duch - https://ivanduch.com • Battle of the Dunes • The Hoard • The Last Stand • Daggers in the Dark • Stormwall • Edmonds • One Hundred Friends Tavern Table Top Audio - tabletopaudio.com • The Bog Standard Daniel Birch - freemusicarchive.com • Growing Pains Kevin MacLoed - incompetech.com • Special Harvest All tracks licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Additional sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com

In this episode I talk with Ben Norris, a software developer, sketchnoter, mental health advocate, blacksmith, a loving husband and father of 7.Ben shares his passion for mental health, and how sketchnoting is a meditative practice he's used to support his own journey with ideas for you too.Journey along with us on this thoughtful discussion.Sponsored by ConceptsThis episode of the Sketchnote Army Podcast is brought to you by Concepts. An infinite canvas sketching app built for tablets with a stylus, like the iPad Pro, Microsoft Surface, and Samsung Galaxy Tab.Concepts' infinite canvas lets you spread out and sketch in any direction. Draw and take notes with liquid pens, markers and brushes in your favorite Copic designer colors.Everything you draw in Concepts is a flexible vector, so you can move your notes around the canvas, or change their color, tool or size with a simple gesture. Drag and drop images onto the canvas, and use layers and grids to organize your creative space. When you're ready to share, export straight to your friends or team.SEARCH ”Concepts” in your favorite app store for infinite, flexible sketching.Learn more: Concepts AppRunning OrderIntro: Who is Ben?Ben's origin storyThe possibilities of career changeLayering sketchnotes on top of something you loveSketchnoting as a means to solving problemsSermon and church sketchnotesConference sketchnotesWhat does Ben do to keep sane in a pandemic?Creating family experiences togetherLearning and practicing mindfulnessSketchnoting as a mindfulness practiceTools3 tipsOutroLinksBen's WebsiteMental Work HealthSketchnotableGospel SketcherBen on Micro.blogBen on TwitterBen on InstagramBen on LinkedInBack of the Napkin by Dan RoamEva-Lotta LammJeffrey ZeldmanBalsamiqJason Barron on the Sketchnote Army PodcastRob DimeoBook: Understanding Comics by Scott McCloudToolsAmazon affiliate links support the Sketchnote Army Podcast.Moleskine SketchbooksThe Sketchnote IdeabookStudio Neat's TotebookPilot G2 0.7mm Gel PeniPad ProApple PencilLinea SketchPaper by WeTransferProcreateTipsBelieve in yourself!Listen well.Try different layoutsFollow those who teach drawing, load ideas into your handCreditsProducer: Alec PulianasTheme music: Jon SchiedermayerSubscribe to the Sketchnote Army PodcastYou can subscribe to the podcast through iTunes, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music or your favorite podcast listening source.Support the PodcastTo support the creation, production and hosting of the Sketchnote Army Podcast, buy one of Mike Rohde's bestselling books. Use code ROHDE40 at Peachpit.com for 40% off!

Join a ragtag group of life long friends as they head out from Waterdeep on a mission for the Watchful Order, and dive head first into the world of Spelljammer. What they'll find is far more exciting, and terrifying, than anything they could every imagine. Sit back into that helm and hold on tight, we're heading to Wild Space! Cast DM: Ben Norris Bugs: Phoebe Hammond Zidar: Wesley Crutchley Halxian: Samuel Walpole Matches: James Williams Written and produced by Ben Norris as part of the We Speak Common Network Want to get involved? Support the Podcast on Patreon Find us on twitter: @WeSpeakCommon Email us at wespeakcommon@hotmail.com Visit us online at https://wespeakcommon.com/ Theme "NanoPhage" by Tri-Tachyon (freemusicarchive.org) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Soundtrack: Kevin MacLoed - incompetech.com • Promising Relationship • Screen saver • Babylon • Bleeping Demo • Furious Freak • Lightless dawn Daniel Birch - freemusicarchive.com • Safe As Houses • Growing Pains The Fiechters - YouTube • Into the Unknown Tabletop Audio - Tabletopaudio.com • Waterkeep • Medieval town Ivan Duch - ivanduch.com • Edmond's Field • Small Town Feeling • A Warriors Sorrow • The Streets of Baerlon All tracks licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Additional sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com

Join a ragtag group of life long friends as they head out from Waterdeep on a mission for the Watchful Order, and dive head first into the world of Spelljammer. What they'll find is far more exciting, and terrifying, than anything they could every imagine. Sit back into that helm and hold on tight, we're heading to Wild Space! Cast DM: Ben Norris Bugs: Phoebe Hammond Zidar: Wesley Crutchley Halxian: Samuel Walpole Matches: James Williams Written and produced by Ben Norris as part of the We Speak Common Network Want to get involved? Support the Podcast on Patreon Find us on twitter: @WeSpeakCommon Email us at wespeakcommon@hotmail.com Visit us online at https://wespeakcommon.com/ Theme "NanoPhage" by Tri-Tachyon (freemusicarchive.org) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Soundtrack: Ivan Duch - https://ivanduch.com • Into The Forrest • Small Town Feeling • The Temple • Escape from Sharlogoth • Daggers in the Dark • The Horde • Battle of the Dunes • The Streets of Baerlon All tracks licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Additional sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com

We Speak Common Presents - The Cosmic Causeway is a Spelljammer 5e mini series. Join a ragtag group of life long friends as they head out from Waterdeep on a mission for the Watchful Order, and dive head first into the world of Spelljammer. What they'll find is far more exciting, and terrifying, than anything they could every imagine. Sit back into that helm and hold on tight, we're heading to Wild Space! Cast DM: Ben Norris Bugs: Phoebe Hammond Zidar: Wesley Crutchley Halxian: Samuel Walpole Matches: James Williams Written and produced by Ben Norris as part of the We Speak Common Network Want to get involved? Support the Podcast on Patreon Find us on twitter: @WeSpeakCommon Email us at wespeakcommon@hotmail.com Visit us online at https://wespeakcommon.com/   Tracks Kevin MacLoed - incompetech.com • Bicycle • Late Night Radio • Sincerely • Wholesome • Exciting Trailer   All tracks licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Additional sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com

In this episode I chat to comedian and songwriter Ben Norris.Also check out our recent video collaboration: https://youtu.be/llZNra5t-NESupport the show (https://www.facebook.com/whileiwasresting/)

We're bringing back the very first interview we did for Scaredy Chat with actor and comedian Ben Norris. It was just so great and we were worried some of you may have missed it. And some of you may just want to listen again. But first, Monica and Kaitlin will warm up the scare with a chat about how theme parks continue to haunt them.... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2021 Summer Vacation Series Destination: Banbury, England Read the article at https://comedywham.com/interviews/ryan-mold---holding-the-record This week, Ryan Mold sits down with Valerie Lopez to talk about funnel cakes, commonalities and differences between British and American comedy, holding a world record, and how much he enjoyed performing by Zoom. Want to know more about comedy in Banbury, England (south of London)? Ryan's recommendations for comics to check out from England include: Harry Hill, Spencer Jones, Michael McIntyre, Mo Millegan, James A. Custer, Scott Bennett, Andrew Bird, Ben Norris, Jeff Innocent, Mike Gunn, Marcel Luconte. If you're in the greater London area, check out the comedy scene where you'll watch comperes in action and where very inventive and creative shows abound. Follow Ryan Website - ryanmold.com Twitter - @RyanMoldComedy Instagram - @RyanMoldComedy Facebook - Facebook.com/RyanMoldComedy Atic Pub - RocktheAtic.com Ryan can be seen and heard: Shooting the Breeze Podcast At his bar ATIC in Oxfordshire and Banbury

In this final episode of our series on leisure we look at holidays. During the pandemic, we've seen campaigners arguing for the “right to holiday”; now, as we finally begin to open up, we see the complications of permitting limited international travel as the pandemic continues to devastate other countries. Meanwhile, the hospitality industry within the UK braces itself for what could be its busiest ever season. All this gave us at TWT cause to reflect on the psychic and political framing of holidaying. The aesthetics of holidays are bound by class; from the gentrification and dispossession that tourism and holiday home ownership can engender, to the extreme indulgences of luxury travel. Rethinking the conditions and implications of holidaying is part of a wider socialist project. TWT FM is a podcast from The World Transformed. This episode was produced by Sarah Vowden, Matt Huxley, Aron Keller, Oli Cox and Charlie Clarke, with contributions from Stephanie Sherman from Autonomy, Owen Hatherley, Mark Jenkin, Ben Norris and Martha Dillon from Its Freezing in LA.

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Episode 24 sees the Joppa Superstar joined by the brilliant Ben Norris, who is transported into an in depth interview about a life he did not live.  Amongst other adventures we hear about Ben growing up around counter espionage & rock with his Mum Stella Rimington and Dad Mick Jagger, the Norris shorts fashion line, his Benjios restaurant chain, arranging the Bruschetta Aid concert, Ben's role in building a £20 billion nuclear plant near Suffolk and what is takes to be a bat whisperer.

Annihilation is so good it took us two episodes to get through all our content! Hopefully the box office output of this episode is better than the film, because we know we'll be boosting search algorithms all over the world for 'Annihilation,' and 'Alex Garland.'

Part sci-fi, horror, mystery, thriller, action, drama, etc - Annihilation refracts genres as well as its mysterious Shimmer refracts DNA. Here to discuss Alex Garland's box office disaster is horror and sci-fi film producer Michael Facey, as we cut to the core of what made this movie so great... but not great enough to see at the cinema.

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It is one of the most expensive films ever made, costing Disney $200 million after box office receipts. At least it was a critical success... oh wait, it wasn't. 'Failure' isn't an adequate description of Andrew Stanton's 'John Carter.'

A film which received as much criticism as it made money, a cast that couldn't save it and some weird fan "shipping" of Eddie Brock and his symbiote. We can only be talking about Ruben Fleischer's Venom.

It's officially the worst Star Wars film. Just ask Rotten Tomatoes. A disappointing end to a disappointing trilogy, and an even worse ending to such an amazing story. Let's dig into why.

Ben Norris joins the podcast tonight. No news, so lets to a team building and discussion episode! The guys help me build a team for Dial H for Heroclix upcoming Prince tournament where you can only have figures of rarity super prime and higher. We also discuss if you can make a profit on selling Heroclix. Make sure you visit glasscabinethobbies.com and use code CLIXINIT for 5% off your Heroclix order. Also head over to patreon.com/clixinit and join our patreon to have a chance to win some amazing prizes for our monthly giveaways!

There probably isn't a Star Wars film as divisive as Rian Johnson's The Last Jedi, so we sat down to figure out why. From casinos to Space Jesus, it's all a bunch of, "This Isn't My Star Wars." Let's talk about why.

Comedian Ben Norris shares his funny taste in music with Andrew Bird. Companion playlist https://open.spotify.com/playlist/50CGAfH7G9enWf4BuCfTSD?si=BxoMDI43SQmEJgW8yMISiw | Support us if you can via patreon.com/andrewbirdcomedian | podcast by producer paul | Music by kind permission of Jon Allen | For live dates and more hit andrewbirdcomedian.com |Twitter is: @benny_norris | Instagram: @bennorris_comic | Facebook: @BenNorriscomic | website: http://www.bennorris.co.uk | Buy the CD of 'Moral Vacuum' here: Ben Norris - Shop | Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/a-funny-taste-in-music-with-andrew-bird. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Season Two: Bangers Incoming is here and, as promised, so is the Star Wars Special. What's more Unwatchable than a trilogy which made over $4.5 billion and has a collective Rotten Tomatoes score of 77%? We're not sure - but listen anyway!

Roifield and Ben chat about his first day on set of the Archers See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dan drinks award-winning Barrell Bourbon with Ben Norris, star of the Netflix series Never Have I Ever. Also on the show, Barrell Craft Spirits founder Joe Beatrice on his company's unique approach to making and selling whiskey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Can we invite Trent? Too late, already did. This week, we're joined by Ben Norris (Trent), who shares his favorite onscreen and offscreen moments, regales us with his audition story, gets really into ships #TRELEANOR, and confirms that Trent is indeed a stoner. Eleanor may be really into beige, but we had a blast talking about friendship, awkward love triangles, and Ben's terrifying face cake.

Ben Norris won Big Brother in 2012 but what's been happening since?

2012 Big Brother WINNER Ben Norris popped in to see Dave, Sam and Ash to talk all things Big Bro, how he spent his winnings and if he will or wont be making an appearance on this years BB????

Ben Norris & Alana McLean from the new streaming morning show Ticker Jumpstart joined Rach & Dean on MAD Wednesday for a fun chat about their early morning shenanigans. How early do they have to […] http://media.rawvoice.com/joy_madwednesdays/p/joy.org.au/madwednesdays/wp-content/uploads/sites/348/2020/06/MW-TJ-BN-BB-1005.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 14:03 — 19.3MB) Subscribe or Follow Us: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS The post From Ticker Jumpstart to Big Brother with Benjamin Norris & Alana McLean appeared first on Mad Wednesdays.

Our internal compass is pointed directly at the Wachowski's latest box office and critical disaster, 'Jupiter Ascending,' this time with special guest and fan of all things Wachowski, Tim Smith. Chipper by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3502-chipper License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

This week we've got 12 poems from 12 poets. Thats it - lush, contemporary poetry. Featuring (in order of appearance): Shruti Chauhan, Elisabeth Sennitt Clough, Jemima Foxtrot, Jamal Mehmood, Ben Norris, Maria Ferguson, Bryony Littlefair, Hannah Gordon, Toby Campion, Alice Frecknall, Talia Randall, Cecilia Knapp To see more on all the featured artists go to: https://taliarandall.com/2020/06/03/ctr-8-featured-artists More on UniSlam: https://www.uni-slam.com For a transcript of this episode go to:https://taliarandall.com/2020/06/03/ctr-8-transcript Cassette Tape Radio is written and presented by Talia Randall. Music and audio engineering by Jamie Payne.

How do you follow up two masterpieces of science fiction? By hiring a rookie filmmaker and shooting without a script! Brent Evans, Kori Reay-Mackey and Ben Norris take a look at the ugly sibling of the Alien franchise, David Fincher's debut feature film, 'Alien 3.' Chipper by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3502-chipper License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Ageism in comedy, fears for the future and an indepth chat on cumgate. And you never know when opportunity will knock (like in the middle of an interview)!

In most, if not all companies, there are occasions where a company’s strategic direction provides what feels at the time like limiting constraints on the product team (UX Designer, Engineering Lead, and Product Manager). These constraints can often cause severe thrashing within and across the product teams. Join us and learn from a current case study, how our product team is taking our company’s strategy, applying thoughtful product practices, and producing value-creating products. View this presentation on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A28eJYJ1kwo Check out producthive.org to see the latest events, join our community on Slack, and more. A big thanks to O.C. Tanner for sponsoring this meetup Thanks to Joakim Karud for our music. soundcloud.com/joakimkarud/keep-on-going

Former Big Brother Winner Ben Norris Reveals His Predictions For The 2020 Series  

Big Brother Exclusive Info | Gawndy Dish Debacle | Ash Misses Her Workmates On Today's Show: We have Ben Norris a past Big Brother winner join us to chat the new series and the leaked contestants. While he's on he tells us about an awkward run in he had with Ash on a red carpet years ago. Gawndy needs Ash to settle a debate between Jaimee and himself over a pretty filthy habit according to him. Ash misses her work colleagues in only a way Ash can. We play Celeb Net Worth  Ask mumma Pollard some questions  Gawndy goes down in one last Smarter Than Gawndy All of this & much more 

Imagine being trapped in a building with three film nerds and having to shoot your way out! Okay, now imagine you're Karl Urban's mouth, outperforming and outgunning any thug that comes his way in Alex Garland's 2012 action masterpiece, Dredd.

The film that perfected Bayhem, inspired a generation of 13 year old boys and disappointed literally everybody else. Brent Evans, Kori Reay-Mackey and Ben Norris spend probably too much time diving into the depths of what works and what doesn't in Michael Bay's 'Bad Boys II.' Chipper by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3502-chipper License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

It's the ultimate Nobleman team-up episode! Filmmaker Kori Reay-Mackey joins the desk to discuss his not-even-guilty pleasure, the divisive critical disaster that is Zack Snyder's 'Batman v Superman.' Chipper by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3502-chipper License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

This week, we have an interview with Chris Warren , the CEO of Triptico. Chris inspires us with his innovative approaches to edtech and education.  We also hear from Ben Norris from Brainbox Games.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/edinnovators/message

In a quest to find the answer to the human condition, Brent Evans and Ben Norris discuss the philosophical debate movie of the decade: 'The Sunset Limited' directed by and starring Tommy Lee Jones alongside Samuel L. Jackson. Chipper by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3502-chipper License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

It's all fun and games until Ben Norris makes a startling announcement! And if that isn't enough he asks Rob a question that provides new insight and gets very emotional.This is one episode with it all folks!Each week the TV Blackbox team take you behind the scenes, wade through the PR spin and launch into the reality that is the Australian television business.In this episode:2.30 - 7's Big Bash Bombshell5.22 - Channel 7 admits paying Ben Cousins for his big new interview9.50 - Why Quadan Bayles turned down Ellen for NITV13.29 - 10 announce Locky Gilllies as the new Bachelor, but it doesn't all go according to plan19.25 - We reveal who 10 has signed up as the new Bachelorette22.14 - Can Denise Drysdale save Studio 10?31.20 - The surprising secret about Gogglebox33.37 - A new segment: TV Blackvault (it's basically 'Guess Who Don't Sue')35.00 - Sarah has the latest instalment of Hatches & Dispatches39.08 - Molk's programming wrap41.59 - Brooky's Big Issue54.56 - The Binge BoxFollow the @TVBB_podcast crew:@rob_mcknight@shrimptank@viscountbrooky@BenjaminJNorris@SteveMolk See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The whole team (including new recruit Ben Norris) is all together for one of the biggest weeks of the year in TV!Finally, Nine confirm TV's worst kept secret with the return of Karl Stefanovic to the TODAY show but that's not the story that really fires up the team.Each week the TV Blackbox team take you behind the scenes, wade through the PR spin and launch into the reality that is the Australian television business.On this episode:2:31 - A new look TODAY in 2020, but will it be any different?17:36 - Sonia Kruger leaving Nine... but just what is she doing at Seven?24:01 - Sky News fails free-to-air viewers during the bushfire crisis28:08 - A controversial episode of Q&A censored by the ABC34:44 - The ABC's clever budget strategy37:12 - Foxtel's drama streaming service could be too little too late40:38 - The Force comes to end end on Channel 7, but goes out with legal issues43:40 - Sarah has another dose of Hatches & Dispatches46:00 - Brooky has a special report on the ABC's Upfronts56:42 - We open the Binge Box to find out what everyone's been watchingFollow the @TVBB_podcast crew:@rob_mcknight@shrimptank@viscountbrooky@BenjaminJNorris@SteveMolkFollow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tv_blackboxFind us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/TVBlackbox/Visit our website: https://tvblackbox.com.au See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sarah's back but Molk and Brooky are missing in action! A fill-in team will keep you hooked though with inside gossip and a good dose of banter.Big Brother winner Ben Norris drops a bombshell allegation about the trustworthiness of a psychologist used on a reality TV show and TV Blackbox contributor Aaron Ryan shares some of his programming nous. Each week the TV Blackbox team take you behind the scenes, wade through the PR spin and launch into the reality that is the Australian television business.On this episode:5.00 - Nine launches a 24/7 crisis hotline for reality TV contestants13.45 - Seven confirms our Big Brother story but there's plenty more to discuss16.23 - Those rumours about the TODAY show simply won't go away, but now things are getting nasty24.34 - Why can't 10 pin Carrie Bickmore down and what is the truth behind all these offers being made public27.13 - Channel 7 set to make a bold play for the NRL rights30.50 - Just who will the new host of Q&A be?32.39 - Sarah brings us a new dose of Hatches & Dispatches35.47 - Our Big Issue asks how should the media report newsworthy events like the death of serial killer Ivan Milat 48.58 - Everyone gives up all the TV they're devouring this week in the TV Blackbox's BINGE BOX.TV BlackBox is your weekly source of inside information across all facets of the Australian TV industry.Follow the @TVBB_podcast crew:@rob_mcknight @shrimptank@SteveMolk@viscountbrookyFollow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tv_blackboxFind us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/TVBlackbox/Visit our website: https://tvblackbox.com.au See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode, I talk with my good friend Ben Norris (as seen on Unfortunatly Ashly, about to be seen on Netflix MAYBE YOU'VE HEARD OF IT) about perseverance, puking, and plays. Ben's one of my favorite people and I'd bet he's soon to be one of yours too! If you're not into two people talking about how cool Shakespeare is, skip to 12 minutes in hehe. If you want to follow Ben: YT: https://www.youtube.com/user/LiveYrLyfe IG: @benanorris Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rod-blast-podcast/id1246645986 If you want to join my patreon account for exclusive episodes, newsletters, and more: https://www.patreon.com/ThingsIUsedToLieAbout

In this episode we talk to rising theatre star Eve Austin alongside Director, Stef O’Driscoll about LIT – a Nottingham-based play that explores the turbulent years of a young woman looking for love in all the wrong places.We also catch up with Ben Norris about his career so far, his role on BBC Radio 4’s The Archers, and his upcoming show A Quite Enormous Poetry Event – which takes to our main stage this October. Lit: https://www.nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk/whats-on/drama/lit-2019/ A Quite Enormous Poetry Event: https://www.nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk/whats-on/workshop/a-quite-enormous-poetry-event/

Ben Norris speaking on prayers of declaration

Ben Norris is best known as the first openly gay winner of Big Brother Australia. Since then he has had a successful career in the media, from hosting a number one ratings breakfast show for […] http://media.rawvoice.com/joy_word/p/joy.org.au/wordforword/wp-content/uploads/sites/135/2019/08/Ben_Norris_CRN_mixdown.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 55:50 — 76.7MB) Subscribe or Follow Us: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS The post Ben Norris appeared first on Word for Word.

Ben Norris speaking on Chapter 8

Episode 7 of 'Kidding Me: Comedian Parents' features comedian and parent Ben Norris. Ben has been doing stand up for 25 years, he's been on 'Mock The Week' many times and has triplets! He shares his stories and tips with fellow comedian and parent Joe Bor.

This week’s guest, Ben Norris, is a husband and father of six children (plus a new puppy), as well as being an iOS developer, a blogger and a sketchnoter. He has also written quite movingly about mental illness and healing, and we chat about that a bit. Ben’s Sketchnote of Manton’s Talk at Peers Conference Sketchnotable Mormon Sketcher Coming Out (tl;dr Hi, I’m Ben, and I have OCD.

In this episode Ben Norris chats to Bethan Buswell openly, frankly and honestly about his family and relationships, how he recovered when his life took an unexpected turn. .Ben Norris is a poet, playwright and actor. In this podcast you will gain insight into his relationship with his father. How turning the spotlight on this relationship through his work helped them to develop. You will also hear about the dark period he went through after a sporting injury stopped his dream of becoming a long-distance pro runner. Ben will speak about how new social relationships at University helped him to recover from this. Lastly Ben talks about how he looks after his mental health day to day while trying to balance, freelance work, acting and running and everything else that comes with adult life.What is the Mental Health Foundation Podcast? This is the Mental Health Foundation podcast. A series which brings to you a range of mental health topics, real life stories, expert comments, and mental health tips.Bethan Buswell and Stu Hill are hosts. Bethan & Stu and the Mental Health Foundation want to raise awareness, get people talking and provide support and hope.Podcast notes:Ben Norris website: https://www.bennorris.net/Guide to investing in your relationships: https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/publications/guide-investing-your-relationshipsFind out more about the Mental Health Foundation:Website: mentalhealth.org.ukInstagram: @mentalhealthfoundationFacebook: @mentalhealthfoundationTwitter: @mentalhealthGet in touch with us: online@mentalhealth.org.uk**Remember to rate, like, review and subscribe**Helplines:If you are feeling like ending your life, please call 999 or go to A&E and ask for the contact of the nearest crisis resolution team. These are teams of mental health care professionals who work with people in severe distress.If you need someone to talk to then Samaritans are available on 116 123 (UK) for free, 24/7. They are there to talk to and listen.

In this episode Ben Norris chats to Bethan Buswell openly, frankly and honestly about his family and relationships, how he recovered when his life took an unexpected turn and shares day to day tips on looking after his mental health. ~~~~ Ben Norris is a poet, playwright and actor. In this podcast you will gain insight into his relationship with his father. How turning the spotlight on this relationship through his work helped them to develop. You will also hear about the dark period he went through after a sporting injury stopped his dream of becoming a long-distance pro runner. Ben will speak about how new social relationships at University helped him to recover from this. Lastly Ben talks about how he looks after his mental health day to day while trying to balance, freelance work, acting and running and everything else that comes with adult life. ~~~~~ Podcast notes: Ben Norris website: https://www.bennorris.net/ Guide to investing in your relationships: https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/publications/guide-investing-your-relationships

This November at the Mental Health Foundation, we're focusing on men's mental health. So, in this podcast episode, we decided to invite three men to join Stuart to talk about various topics relating to mental health. The panelists were comedian Dave Chawner, entrepreneur George Kiley and actor and writer Ben Norris. The panel discussed routine, exercise, mindfulness and support, among other things. The guys certainly had fun recording it, we hope you enjoy listening. If you are a man wanting to talk to someone about mental health, you can call 0800 58 58 58 for support every evening. You can also talk to them online at their website: https://www.thecalmzone.net/ Stuart Hill Twitter: https://twitter.com/stuhill90 Dave Chawner Twitter: https://twitter.com/DaveChawner Ben Norris Twitter: https://twitter.com/BenNorris7 George Kiley LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/georgekiley Bethan Buswell Twitter: https://twitter.com/BeaBuswell

This episode focuses on men's mental health. We invite three men to join Stuart to talk about various topics relating to mental health. The panelists were comedian Dave Chawner, entrepreneur George Kiley and actor and writer Ben Norris.The panel discussed routine, exercise, mindfulness and support, among other things. The guys certainly had fun recording it, we hope you enjoy listening.What is the Mental Health Foundation Podcast? This is the Mental Health Foundation podcast. A series which brings to you a range of mental health topics, real life stories, expert comments, and mental health tips.Bethan Buswell and Stu Hill are hosts. Bethan & Stu and the Mental Health Foundation want to raise awareness, get people talking and provide support and hope.Stuart Hill Twitter: https://twitter.com/stuhill90Dave Chawner Twitter: https://twitter.com/DaveChawnerBen Norris Twitter: https://twitter.com/BenNorris7George Kiley LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/georgekiley Find out more about the Mental Health Foundation:Website: mentalhealth.org.ukInstagram: @mentalhealthfoundationFacebook: @mentalhealthfoundationTwitter: @mentalhealthGet in touch with us: online@mentalhealth.org.uk**Remember to rate, like, review and subscribe**Helplines:If you are feeling like ending your life, please call 999 or go to A&E and ask for the contact of the nearest crisis resolution team. These are teams of mental health care professionals who work with people in severe distress.If you need someone to talk to then Samaritans are available on 116 123 (UK) for free, 24/7. They are there to talk to and listen.

For over 5 years Ben Norris has been the man behind the lens crafting the worlds perception of Lewis Mills as he rose to be notoriety as Garrett's Australian recruit. They take us back to how they found BMX on the Northern Beaches to the trappings of Sydney city culture that pushed them to pursue riding and making videos 100%. We talk about how weird Sydney is, passing through phases, making art for a living and the journey to potential future projects together. These 2 are the future, you'll be seeing plenty more from these guys don't you worry. Editors note: Ben's recent videos are proof of a young master craftsman on the rise. He released one of our favourite videos of 2018 with Jacman Hinss and I have no doubt he's gonna make another favourite in 2019. 8 days after we recorded this, Lewis debuted in Sydney X-games and won silver in his hometown. Check out the edits mentioned in this interview: Jacman - Volume X Demolition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugCEU... Eclat X Kansas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1go5... Another gem - Make it rain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wyomt... Lewis wins X-games Silver https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELOa0... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-win...

On this week's Never Write Off The Germans, we bring this special episode LIVE from the Albany on London's Great Portland Street! Barry Castagnola is joined by Lucy Jones, Ben Norris and Leo Kearse to be tested on their World Cup trivia and discuss the upcoming semi final games. Don't miss an episode of this tournament's series and hitting the SUBSCRIBE button will be the best way of hearing the jokes your mates will be repeating before they get a chance to do so! Never Write Off the Germans is backed for the season by Ladbrokes. Get our famous World Cup specials at bet.neverwriteoffthegermans.com neverwriteoffthegermans.com twitter.com/neverwriteoff Written and Hosted by Barry Castagnola Produced by Mike Leigh and Paul Myers Original Format by Ashley Blaker Engineered by Oli Slack A Playback Media Production playbackmedia.co.uk Copyright 2018 Playback Media Ltd - playbackmedia.co.uk/copyright

On this week's Never Write Off The Germans, we bring this special episode LIVE from the Albany on London's Great Portland Street! Barry Castagnola is joined by Lucy Jones, Ben Norris and Leo Kearse to be tested on their World Cup trivia and discuss the upcoming semi final games. Don't miss an episode of this tournament's series and hitting the SUBSCRIBE button will be the best way of hearing the jokes your mates will be repeating before they get a chance to do so! Never Write Off the Germans is backed for the season by Ladbrokes. Get our famous World Cup specials at bet.neverwriteoffthegermans.com neverwriteoffthegermans.com twitter.com/neverwriteoff Written and Hosted by Barry Castagnola Produced by Mike Leigh and Paul Myers Original Format by Ashley Blaker Engineered by Oli Slack A Playback Media Production playbackmedia.co.uk Copyright 2018 Playback Media Ltd - playbackmedia.co.uk/copyright

Chris and David chat with Ben Norris about his triplets, his career and the extra special treat of music performed by Ben. website: www.bennorris.co.uk Twitter: Benny_norris

This week in Stuff That Interests Me I'm joined by comedian Ben Norris. Ben is a veteran of the comedy circuit having played clubs up and down the country and around the world for some 20 years or more. His TV appearances include Mock The Week and Never Mind The Buzzcocks, but he's in that odd category of comedian (and there about 10-20 acts like this) which is: known and admired on the circuit, but not a household name, can play pretty much any room under any circumstances, the other acts will always interrupt their conversations to watch him when he's on (this is a rare thing) and, basically, a great comic who, if the wind had been blowing slightly differently could have sailed the good ship Big Name Comic.  Follow Ben: @Benny_Norrisbennorris.co.uk See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit frisby.substack.com/subscribe

This week in Stuff That Interests Me I'm joined by comedian Ben Norris. Ben is a veteran of the comedy circuit having played clubs up and down the country and around the world for some 20 years or more. His TV appearances include Mock The Week and Never Mind The Buzzcocks, but he's in that odd category of comedian (and there about 10-20 acts like this) which is: known and admired on the circuit, but not a household name, can play pretty much any room under any circumstances, the other acts will always interrupt their conversations to watch him when he's on (this is a rare thing) and, basically, a great comic who, if the wind had been blowing slightly differently could have sailed the good ship Big Name Comic. Follow Ben: @Benny_Norrisbennorris.co.uk See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The final Find the Right Words of 2016, hosted by Jess Green. This is an edited but uncensored version of the night. Ben Norris is an actor and writer. In 2013 he became the UK All-Star Poetry Slam Champion and has since performed his spoken-word across the country, from Latitude Festival to the Proms at the Royal Albert Hall. His work has been broadcast across BBC radio, his first poetry pamphlet was published in 2014 and his debut solo show, ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Family‘, won the 2015 IdeasTap Underbelly Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival before touring the UK extensively in autumn 2016, finishing with a sell-out run at Southbank Centre. Keisha Thompson is a writer, poet, and performer. Keisha is also the Young People's Producer at the Contact Theatre, Manchester. ​ Plus open mic and the speed poem challenge. For more info on Find the Right Words: Facebook.com/FindTheRightWords Twitter: @FTRWPoetry www.jessgreenpoet.com ​ Theme Songs "Singing in the Rain instrumental" and "Mocking Bird instrumental" by David Mumford.  CC BY-NC-SA 3.0  Modified to use as theme song freemusicarchive.org/music/David_Mumford/

Mick Ferry, Ben Norris, and John all catch up with Justin. We all go for a run and the postbag returns from the wilderness.

Another Fringe first-time performer! Ben Norris, who is in Edinburgh with his show The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Family, talks about his first time festival experience and shares with us his favourite caffeine fuel stops. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this edition we cover the elections in Greece and the UK, comedians who get involved in politics, the limits of causing offence, social injustice in the Middle East, Davos, the Greens, the far-Right, sex and media-presentation, including a long and profound symposium on the aesthetics of the testicles. James O'Brien hosts, with Tiffany Stevenson, Rich Peppiatt, Helen Lewis, Bob Mills and music from Ben Norris.

It's time to bring you the final episode of Big Brother Oz for season 2014 as Ben, Kristan & Alex all sit down to discuss the MASSIV (see what we did there) final episode and talk about the winner, the runner-up and everything else as well as the season in general after a massive season 11 came to a close! We also bring in our resident expert Ben Norris to close out the season in style and wrap up a very busy year of our third spin-off show! Let's get into it!

The penultimate episode of Big Brother Oz for season 11 is here, and after a massive triple eviction overnight on Big Brother Australia it's time to decode everything that happened with Ben & Kristan and look ahead to the massive finale tonight that will decide the winner for 2014! Speaking of winners, we also sit down with 2012 winner Ben Norris to hear his take on the evictions overnight and hear his tip for the win ahead of the big show tonight! You don't want to miss this!

The middle of the week is here and the days are counting down till the finale of Big Brother Australia, so it's perfect time for Ben & Kristan to sit down and go over the last couple of days with another episode of Big Brother Oz! We also welcome back 2012 winner Ben Norris to give us all the gossip and news direct from the Gold Coast! BRING IT ON!

Wednesday is fast becoming your favourite day of the week as we bring you another episode of Big Brother Oz to chat about everything happening with season 11 of Big Brother Australia! Ben & Kristan are back to give their take on three big evictions and two big episodes, and of course they aren't alone when they bring in 2012 winner Ben Norris to give his unique views on the past week and also bring you all the goss direct from the Gold Coast! Ben even brings in his own 'surprise guest' in none other than 2014 housemate and the recently evicted Jason Roses! WOW!

Wednesday! Sweet Wednesday! It means it's Big Brother Oz day as Ben & Kristan go over the first half of the week on everything Big Brother Australia and give their thoughts and insight into one big week in the house! We also bring in our resident expert in 2012 winner Ben Norris for all the goss, news and everything else direct from the Gold Coast! We know you are clicking below already!

So he missed out on singing in the house, so I gave him his big chance.Does he stuff it up? Jason gets presented with an amazing birthday present from thehouselive on this show also find out what happened after the eviction with his family,with his partying in the gold coast during the GC600 at a party with Tahan, previous BigBrother winners Tim Dormer and Ben Norris.I caught a vibe that there may have been a few crossed words between the two winners.Then again when Tim the drama queen is involved theres usually some sort of drama.Thats why we love him! Dont forget to subscribe!! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

It's that day of the week where all the Big Brother Australia action has to be recapped, as Ben & Kristan sit down (and hopefully don't kill each other) to decode all the happenings in the Big Brother house as well as discussing the big eviction overnight of Sandra! Oh, and of course we have to bring in our weekly expert in 2012 winner Ben Norris to help us chat about everything too! Click below for all the fun!

Wednesday is back and it's once again time to bring you Big Brother Oz and bring you all the news and gossip from the Big Brother Australia house! Ben & Kristan are back once again to give you their take on the eviction overnight, and our resident Wednesday expert in 2012 winner Ben Norris is here again to bring you all the gossip from the Gold Coast as well as bringing back plenty of memories from his time in the house!

Hump day Wednesday is here which means another episode of Big Brother Oz with two action packed days of Big Brother Australia to discuss, two big evictions to discuss as well as look ahead to nominations tonight and bringing back 2012 winner Ben Norris to give his thoughts on everything that has happened and is happening! WOW!

The middle of the week is here and it's time to talk Big Brother Australia on Big Brother Oz as Ben & Kristan go over the 2 evictions this week as well as looking ahead to the nominations and intruder special happening tonight. We also bring in our resident Big Brother expert in season 9 winner Ben Norris to bring us all the gossip from the Gold Coast and get his thoughts as we enter week 4 in the Big Brother house!

Wednesday is upon us and on Big Brother Oz that means it's time for our post eviction wrap up episode with Ben & Kristan as well as bringing in 2012 winner Ben Norris direct from the Gold Coast to give us all the gossip from the Big Brother house and look ahead to nominations tonight! Exciting!

It's Wednesday which means it's time to bring you our mid-week edition of Big Brother Oz. In our final Wednesday edition that won't be a wrap up of an eviction, Ben brings in two big names to help get your Big Brother Australia fix as we chat to 2003 winner (and Tasmanian icon) Regina 'Reggie' Sorensen as well as bringing in 2012 winner Ben Norris for the first of his weekly segments to chat about their thoughts of the season so far as well as each of their times in the house!

In this edition, Dave Fulton inadvertently reveals the polyerotic undertones of being caught in an avalanche when a discussion of the Winter Olympics goes off-piste; Jonny and the Baptists share some of their fanmail from UKIP, while Alistair Barrie channels the party's soul with uncanny and chilling accuracy. Phill Jupitus and Ben Norris offer insight on why the British are not inclined to rebel, and Viv Groskop and Nick Revell try different ways of making sense of the situation in Ukraine.

In our special from 2012 Michael James & Straight Michael got the chance to have an extended one on one with winner of Big Brother 2012 Ben Norris. We got some amazing insight on his time inside & outside of the house, what it took to get on the show and why you should never give up! PLUS we have an amazing interview with 2006 contestant Farmer Dave Graham about his new role with the MAC in QLD and what he is doing to help fight HIV/AIDS in Qld and Australia wide.

B. Norris A.Smith Nunhead American Radio with Lewis Schaffer. The only radio program for Americans living in Nunhead and for all Nunheaders, with a special focus on the increasingly in-demand area of Nunhead Heights.   Download Nunhead_American_Radio_128kbps_-_27th_January_2014.mp3 Nunhead American Radio on facebook@NunheadRadio on twitter Listen to Nunhead American Radio with Lewis Schaffer live every Monday evening at 6:30PM on www.resonancefm.com and 104.4fm London, subscribe to Nunhead American Radio on iTunes or FeedBurner.  Lewis Schaffer: American in London at the Leicester Square Theatre every Sunday. £10. Full details and tickets. Lewis Schaffer is Free until Famous every Tuesday and Wednesday at the Source Below, Soho. Free admission. Full details and reservations.

The Two Jonnies: Morning Breath is recorded as soon as Jonny Greatrex and Jonny Pearson wake up in their Dickensian living conditions in a cattle shed, appropriately, on Cowgate, in Edinburgh. The pair are embarking on their first Edinburgh Festival together, performing their Two Jonnies: Hack and Hacker show every day at 12.30pm at the Why Not? on George Street. Come along if you're free. Listen to Day Eight for a very detailed overnight flatulence report, JG continues to harass Ben Norris, the wonderful Lucy Porter makes an appearance. And there’s the WORST kebab yet. The chucklesome couple are on a hunt for Edinburgh's best - and worst - kebab. If you can recommend a good - or awful - kebab shop in central Edinburgh contact the Two Jonnies via these Twitter handles: @jonnygreatrex @jonnyp_comic

The Two Jonnies: Morning Breath is recorded as soon as Jonny Greatrex and Jonny Pearson wake up in their swanky hostel accommodation. Assuming Jonny P has been to bed. Henry Blofeld. The pair are embarking on their first Edinburgh Festival together, performing their Two Jonnies: Hack and Hacker show every day at 12.30pm at the Why Not? on George Street. Come along if you're free. Henry Blofeld Listen to Day Seven for contrition from JP over his drunken antics, more woes for Jonny around Ben Norris, kebab review, flatulence report and – did we mention? – Henry Blofeld will be joining us. The chucklesome couple are on a hunt for Edinburgh's best - and worst - kebab. If you can recommend a good - or awful - kebab shop in central Edinburgh contact the Two Jonnies via these Twitter handles: @jonnygreatrex @jonnyp_comic

Already an experienced headliner, Ben is on a continuing quest to unleash the improvisational demon within. But can he run naked into battle without the temptation to put his pants back on? Also discussed: why comedians are such terrible human beings. Trapdoor Comedy Club, West End Centre, Aldershot, The Cartoon, The Plough, Clapham Jongleurs, Late N Live, Noel James, Ivor Dembina, Patrick Marber, The BAR, Willesden, Paul Tonkinson, Rudi Lickwood, Victoria Coren, The Comedy Store, Setlist, Matt Kirshen, Paul Provenza, Glastonbury, Ed Byrne, Dara O'Briain, Andrew Maxwell, Glenn Wool, Edinburgh PBH Free Fringe, Barnstormers, The Gulbenkian, Canterbury, Tony Hancock See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.