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Rachel Bilson is an American actress. Born to a Californian show-business family, Bilson made her television debut in 2003, and then landed the role of Summer Roberts on the prime-time drama series The O.C. Olivia Allen is Co-Host of Broad Ideas Podcast with Rachel Bilson and Olivia Allen. Olivia got her start as an actress, landing roles on Reba, Seventh Heaven, American Dreams, and more. Broad Ideas with Rachel Bilson & Olivia Allen https://www.youtube.com/@BroadIdeasPod Howie Mandel Does Stuff Available on every Podcast Platform Howie Mandel Does Stuff Merchandise available on Amazon.com here https://www.amazon.com/shop/howiemandeldoesstuff Join the "Official Howie Mandel Does Stuff" Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/HowieMandelPodcast/ Say Hello to our house band Sunny and the Black Pack! Follow them here! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BlackMediaPresents TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@blackmediapresents Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/01uFmntCHwOW438t7enYOO?si=0Oc-_QJdQ0CrMkWii42BWA&nd=1&dlsi=a9792af062844b4f Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SunnyAndTheBlackPack/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blackmediapresents/ Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/blackmediapresents Twitter: twitter.com/blackmedia https://youtu.be/LSawToI0sko @howiemandel @jackelynshultz @rachelbilson @obliviaallen

Corey Stevenson and Zak Shaffer from the great Podcasting After Dark join the platoon this week for the Bilson and DeMeo-scripted pulp serial treat ZONE TROOPERS! The movie is a gleeful genre mashup (think E.T. meets the Howling Commandos and you're halfway there), featuring a cast full of holdovers from TRANCERS and a great, tongue-in-cheek sense of humor.  Hosted by Jarrod Hornbeck and Steve Guntli  Theme song by Kyle Hornbeck  Logo by Doug McCambridge  Email: puppetmasterscastlefreaks@gmail.com Instagram/Threads: @puppetmasters_castlefreaks  YouTube: @PuppetMastersCastleFreaks  Next week's episode: The Caller 

Small business commissioner Bruce Bilson joined David & Will on the 3G network coming to an end. Listen live on the FIVEAA Player. Follow us on Facebook, X and Instagram.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this, our last episode of Season One, the team at Dear Beth welcomes acclaimed, award-winning author and activist Soraya Chemaly. Chemaly's book, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger poses a simple, yet provocative question: Why do we not appreciate women's anger as a catalyst for social change? In their conversation with Chemaly, Brea and Leah unpack why her book is so influential - particularly for those working in male-dominated fields such as law. They also explore the reasons why women's anger has long been suppressed and be-littled, while the anger of men is allowed more expression and given more validity. Chemaly encourages listeners to consider how the emotion of anger can be viewed in a different light: as an emotion that can be channeled for personal growth and a powerful tool to fight against injustice.  In the last half of the episode, Brea, Beth, Leah and Jen sit down to reflect on their favorite moments from the past season and the power of storytelling which they captured in their own book: Creating a Seat at the Table: Reflections From Women in Law. Sharing their perspectives on the book and what they learned about the experience of women in law is Professor of Law Dwight Newman and Law Student Brock Melnyk both of the University of Saskatchewan Law School. And we also hear once again from entertainment lawyer and Canadian musician Safwan Javed who shares his perspective on allyship and how to use one's privilege for good.    GUEST BIO: Soraya Chemaly is an award-winning author and activist. She writes and speaks frequently on topics related to gender, inclusivity, social justice, free speech, sexualized violence, and technology. The former Executive Director of The Representation Project and Director and co-founder of the Women's Media Center Speech Project, she has long been committed to expanding women's civic and political participation. Soraya is also the author of Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger, which was recognized as a Best Book of 2018 by the Washington Post, Fast Company, Psychology Today, and NPR and has been translated into multiple languages. She is a contributor to several anthologies, most recently Free Speech in the Digital Age and Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change The World.  Soraya is also a co-producer of a WMC #NameItChangeIt PSA highlighting the effects of online harassment on women in politics in America.  Her work is featured widely in media, documentaries, books, and academic research. As an activist, Ms. Chemaly has spearheaded several successful global campaigns challenging corporations to address online hate and harassment, restrictive content moderation and censorship, and institutional biases that undermine equity and negatively affect free speech. Prior to 2010, Ms. Chemaly spent more than fifteen years as a market development executive and consultant in the media and data technology industries. Her upcoming book, The Resilience Myth: New Thinking on Strength, Grit, and Growth After Trauma, will be released May 2024. Photo Credit: Elizabeth Dranitzke Additional Reading:  CHEMALY, S. (2024). Rage becomes her. SIMON & SCHUSTER LTD.  Chemaly, S. (May 2024). Resilience myth: New thinking on grit, strength, and growth after trauma. Atria Books.  Bilson, B., Howie, L., & Lowenberger, B. (2023). Creating a seat at The table: Reflections From Women in Law. University of Regina Press.  Co-Editor Bios:  Beth Bilson, KC, PhD has enjoyed a career of teaching, writing, deaning, arbitrating, and community engagement that began at the University of Saskatchewan in 1979, and she has never run out of interesting things to do. Leah Howie, BEng, BSc, LLB, LLM lives in beautiful Saskatoon with her husband, two daughters, two dogs, and two cats. She loves reading, connecting people, travelling, and spending time outside on the prairies, in the mountains, by the river, and in the boreal forest. She enjoys thinking about ways to improve the law in her work in the area of law reform, and teaching and coaching law students as a sessional lecturer for the College of Law. Brea Lowenberger, BA, JD, LLM is a lifelong learner and collaborator who hopes to leave the individuals and communities she interacts with a bit better than she found them. She is passionate about teaching and implementing design strategies that improve access to justice for Saskatchewan residents through her roles as Access to Justice coordinator, director of CREATE Justice, and sessional lecturer for the College of Law. When she isn't working, she enjoys adventures with family and friends, travelling, being active, nature, reading, and creating music and art.  

Viajar y seguir a Tigres te permite conocer lugares increíbles y vivir experiencias que nunca imaginaste, esto nos comparte Bilson Domínguez quien organiza viajes para seguir al equipo desde aquella invasión en 2013 a San Luis hasta el día de hoy. Durante el episodio nos compartió sus inicios organizando viajes, los retos a los que se ha enfrentado, la buena relación con la Comunidad Tigre, anécdotas para conseguir boletos en finales, viajes internacionales y más. Síguenos en Facebook e Instagram. Apoya este proyecto adquiriendo una playera, sudadera o bandera de Aguerridos.

Justin Bilson Justin Bilson serves as one of the lead teaching pastors at Fellowship Bible Church in Little Rock, Arkansas. Fellowship is "one church in six locations" through Central Arkansas with a mission to make disciples who live by God's grace and for His glory at home and across the world. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications from Elon University and a Master of Divinity degree from Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Justin has been a communicator and shepherd in the local church for more than two decades, and he also serves as a conference speaker for Family Life's Weekend to Remember marriage conferences.

Another year, another birthday episode for our biggest fan Kellee; however, we are upset this year that Bilson did not DM Brandon to tell him we need Kellee on. But regardless, she's here, and talking about her favorite topics: movies, soccer, crossdressing, and Shakespeare. Join us as we dive into the career of the wickedly talented Amanda Bynes as she pretends to be her brother in order to play soccer. How many of the movies that we watch and review does Kellee actually watch? What is a friendectomy? And how often is Seth talking about French philosopher Michael Foucault? Tune in this week to find out all this and more, but only on "The Good, The Bad, & The Movies"! P.S. Check out these links below to stay connected with TGTBTM: Discord: https://discord.gg/rKuMYcKv Youtube: https://youtu.be/gJxodJ8KKgU --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tgtbtm/message

Rachel Bilson and Melinda Clarke are joined by Kathleen York, who played Renee Wheeler on The OC. It's already that time: Chrismukkah! Yet this year, it's “The Chrismukkah That Almost Wasn't” (S2 Ep6). Kathleen's story can be inspirational for aspiring actors; listen and hear how Kathleen found her success. She talks about a guest spot on a show she wasn't interested in, leading to a singing appearance at the Oscars! And, she shares her experience playing a masseuse on “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” (which stars Larry David, Rachel's celebrity crush!). They dive into the Julie and Jimmy sex scene, making Melinda blush and “plead the Bilson.” The hosts surmise how Renee explained to Lindsay where her dad was. And, they share memories from filming those giant kitchen scenes with the entire cast in them. Of course, this episode notes all of the Chrismukkah charm: Seth's job wheel, the yamaclaus, and the band Guster's "Carol of the Meows" that plays throughout! The Chrismukkah That Almost Wasn't Synopsis: The whole gang is invited to Chrismukkah at the Cohens' house, but Seth's favorite holiday is nearly ruined as secrets are revealed that will change the Cohen family forever. Jimmy and Julie are more than friendly and Seth, Summer, Marissa and Ryan make a plan to save Chrismukkah.

(00:00) Welcome to Decorating by the Book Podcast(00:13) Suzy Chase(00:20) Estelle Bilson(00:26) 70's House by Estelle Bilson(00:48) Nostalgia(00:56) 1970's(01:10) Buy Book Here(01:26) Barbara Hulanicki(01:29) Biba(01:36) Terence Conran(01:50) Barbara's Biba(02:11) Big Biba(02:21) More Big Biba(02:24) Colors of the 60's and 70's(02:35) Sludgy Colors(02:50) Orange(03:00) 70's House(03:37) Brown and Orange(03:52) Evokes a Feeling(04:05) The Decade that Taste Forgot(04:25) Estelle Bilson's Website(04:40) The Beverly Hillbillies(05:00) Vintage Clothing(05:05) Vintage Compact (05:17) The 70's House Book(05:25) Bring Joy(05:47) The Decorating Show(06:12) Love of Orange(06:28) Unapologetically Authentic (07:03) Georgian and Victorian(07:30) Things I Love(07:40) The 1970's(07:59) Why the 70's?(08:38) Take Screenshot to Buy Book (09:18) Website(09:52) The Only Design Book Podcast(10:45) Book(11:19) Marcel Breuer Long Chair(11:55) Marcel Breuer(12:49) Long Chair(13:42) Purchase the Book Here(14:18) Your host Suzy Chase(15:07) The New Chair (15:51) Earth Day(16:07) A Strange Decade(16:56) Macrame(17:02) Crochet(17:12) The Good Life(17:34) Can We Raise Our Own Food(17:54) Graphic Stripes on the Wall(18:16) Barbara Stauffacher Solomon(18:22) Sea Ranch Project(18:34) Supergraphic Kit(18:52) Masking Tape and Paint(19:31) Conversation Pit(19:48) Sunken Couch(20:30) Estelle(20:39) Grey(20:45) Estelle Bilson's Book 70's House(21:24) West German Pottery(22:32) Space Age Design(22:49) 2001 A Space Odyssey(23:03) Tulip Chair(23:22) Take Screenshot to Buy Book (23:45) Why Not an Avocado Bathroom(23:58) Avocado Bathroom(24:28) Brown Bathroom(24:48) Browns(25:20) Follow the Show on Apple Podcasts(25:35) Studio 54(25:43) 8 Track(25:56) Disco Balls(26:30) This Week's Book(26:40) Life's Too Short(26:46) Lava Lamp(27:31) Egg Timer(27:58) 9 Disco Balls(28:02) 2 Lava Lamps(28:06) Space Projector(28:22) 70's House Manchester(28:59) Her Website(29:10) Outro(29:18) Thanks for ListeningChapters, images & show notes powered by vizzy.fm.

Dansion update  Scooter update Agent GPT - https://agentgpt.reworkd.ai/ Jessop Demo  RIP Rattenhund 440ml - now available in 355mL ABAC claims up - https://brewsnews.com.au/abac-quarterly-report-shows-increase-in-complaints/ - full report http://www.abac.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/ABAC-Q1-2023-Quarterly-Report-April-2023.pdf - Billsons appeal to children, Hard Fizz breaches again, “The Company did not remove the marketing material and the complaint was referred to the Queensland Liquor Authority.” Top 50 US brewery companies - https://www.brewersassociation.org/press-releases/brewers-association-releases-annual-craft-brewing-industry-production-report-and-top-50-producing-craft-brewing-companies-for-2022/ 12 questions https://www.facebook.com/groups/bossandthebrewer/permalink/990790168971364/?comment_id=990797922303922&reply_comment_id=990818185635229¬if_id=1681975868739899¬if_t=group_comment&ref=notif Whole transcript  Whoa. Very good. How does this work? Why does it happen every time? Um, well, I've got the old Logitech Brio and it's got a little app that goes with it that I can adjust the exposure, uh, and that sort of thing. I'm about to go and buy a mirrorless camera as a webcam, so I get all the bk fucking background and shit. What does that mean? Blurred BK means blurred in Japanese. That's what that camera does. Yeah. If you get like a camera with a really low F lens, it bends the light more and therefore what is you, you stay in focus and everything behind, um, becomes, um, blurred and that sort of thing, like all professional and shit. Okay. I need to get one of those thousand dollars camera. Oh. Oh. Fuck that. I'm not getting one of those. Yeah, but you're on the fucking Yeah, because you don't have anything to blur in the background, mate. You're sitting on the casting couch. So, yeah, I've got the ca, I've got the casting couch. I want you to see my, I want you to see my stuff. Have you got a beer? I do, actually. I'm gonna stick with the fucking classics tonight. Okay. I have this got the old Pop Nation rep. Oh, wow. I put that on the, yeah, the, the, I didn't think you had one of those. There you go. Oh, what, what do you mean? Did you do something? Yeah, that's a, that's a topic. Oh, is it? Yeah. Oh, sick. Yeah. I'll, there you go. Good. You must, you must know that, um, was that, was that just a, oh, I just, I just thought he, um, oh, okay. Yeah, I can see that there. Oh, well. Okay. There you go. I'm drinking a ratin one. It's in the four 40 mill, and it's apparently a traditional pilsner, but I think it's becoming a, what are they? Um, uh, not traditional pills. And I saw it on the bloody internet today. Well, we can talk about that when it comes up in the ticket. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's do it. What you got? I've got a beer here. Cause after the last week's episode, um, and you suggested that you're gonna go into BWS and get a, um, free Byron Bay Fruity Beer with every purchase. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Did you um, Aaron went into BWS and bought something and got this for free. They've just given that shit away. Hey, that Empire Fruity Beer and everything. It's a, it's technically a sponsored beer. This has been going on for months now. They've been given that stuff away. Have you had the orange making? It's phenomenal. Yeah, I have. It's not too bad. I've nearly got this. I've nearly got this glass thing sorted out. Look at that. Look at that glass. Oh, that's so close. Wait, lemme screenshot that. So close. Show us the stoner wood logo. Oh no, we don't want that, David, because it's not a stoner wood beer in there. No, no. That would be sacrilegious, but that's not too bad. It's not too bad. I'll get there. That's good. Do you know, you know what's happened? How, how I'm getting to my glasses are becoming cleaner. That smell good? No, um, you're wiping them? No, Adam Shell, what do you do? You didn't ask which one. Oh, sorry, which one? Which, which Adam Shell, the other one. Oh, I see. I feel like we know which one now. Cause we've only really got one. Like there are still two I know. And the other one's just got back from, well, the, the one, not the other one. Yeah. Has just gotten back from Japan. So I was watering his plants while he was away. And how does that relate to the glass improvement? Oh, well, we were just, aie and I were just having a beer and. He gave me some tips on how to clean glasses. Okay. And he said, get yourself a dish wand and some tan dish washing liquid from Aldi. Okay. A dish wand. So yeah, the, you know, the wand that's got, you fill it up with the detergent and you do that and you know, it's like, it's got a scour on that on the end and you can just shove it all the way down the glass. Yeah. A dedicated beer glass one though, right? You don't use well, yeah. Well the thing is, I went to bloody alley, but, and got tan obviously, because that's what they do, but there was no Dish ones there. So this was actually cleaned with like, just a clean chucks and, um, rinse with hot water. And I'm nearly there. I'm nearly there. Etsy, you'd be very proud. I have a, I have a separate thing that doesn't have detergent in it, but it's just a, you know, like a long glass, clean of, you know, brush. Is it, is it for glasses or do you use it for other stuff? I don't use it for anything else. I only use it for, for glasses. Right. Yeah. And I mean, look at this. Look at the head on this. That looks sensational. The results. I'm getting a photo of that. Hang on. Wait. Lemme get this in the photo. Get a photo. Hang on. Hang on. Hang. Oh my God. Okay. Let's have a look here. Oh, wait, I can only see myself. Hang on a second. Oh no. Got a pin. Okay, go. Oh, you look amazing. Oh, good. Um, so shout out to all the people that messaged me after last week's episode with Concreting advice. That was, that was super useful. Oh, good. Yeah. Really useful to know how to concrete something after I've already done it and moved on to the next job. Mm-hmm. Apparently you can, I, apparently I could have just dug a hole where the post was, build the hole up with water, and then just poured the rabbit set in there and you're fucking done. You don't even need to mix it. No. That's courtesy of Matt from Facebook. Thanks for that advice. Really? Yeah. So they, that was ing advice. That was Ting advice. My ing advice was terrible. Well, it was educational. I learned something because Yeah. I, I at least remember that it was concrete that he suggested not cement. Not cement. Did you go fix it? Fuck, no. I moved onto the next thing. You know what I did today, right? So Right when I, when I got this house going right, I, I was tossing up about what trees I should put out the front. And I really wanted something like, my house is like, it's like a Minecraft house. It's real brutal from the front. Yep. Wood and concrete, like, um, and I wanted something to soen that. So I've found this tree called a pink trumpet tree, whereas living in Varsity Lakes, you saw them everywhere. You see them everywhere. They're like a, they're not like a especially fancy tree. If you see a tree with like pink leaves, it's probably one of those. Yes. Um, and have my heart set on this. So like, for like six months, every time I saw one, I'm like, oh, there's a pink trumpet tree. Like, it was a big thing. So anyway, when I got the house, I finally bought one, went out to the nursery of Mount Tambourine. I bought an established one. It cost me like, I can't remember how much, maybe a thousand bucks, maybe more, I don't even know. Was like an establish tree? Yes. Got delivered and it's like, it was 150 liter, um, pot. So it's, it's big. It's like, it's like the size of a, a barrel, basically a half a barrel. Mm-hmm. Um, so I got delivered in the, in the plastic pot thing, dug a hole, chucked it in there. Mm-hmm. And then realized that you can't put in there with the plastic on cuz it's so heavy. You can't get the fucking plastic on. By the way, I didn't read instructions. Okay. I just bit of a pa, bit of a theme going on here and there. I'll, I'll get to. So I put it in there and then when it was in, when it was in there, I realized, fuck, I need to cut the plastic off. So I've got my arm under there trying to cut the plastic off. Finally got it in there. The roots are going everywhere. Dirt's going everywhere. It's a complete disaster. I put it in, it's not straight, and I'm like, fuck it. That'll do, because it'll probably straighten up. I don't know how trees work. Anyway, I've been staring at it every day for like six months. Okay. At one point I was like, I've gotta straighten this fucking tree because it's ridiculous. It goes like that leaning tower side and push it around. Tried to straighten it. That didn't help. So the tree was it again? Pink trumpet tree. They're really pink. Trumpet tree. If you, if you've ever been to Sanctuary Cove on the Gold Coast, they've got like really full established ones. They're huge. They look like they're looking up what it looks like. Pink trumpet tree. Here we go. A tab Taboo Rose. That's it. That's the one. Oh yeah, they look sick. Well, mine didn't look like that. This one, the one I see on the internet leaning. Oh, okay. Leaning. That could be my one. Does it have any leaves or, or, uh, flowers on it. Pink flowers. Pink flowers mate. And a cop car under it. Oh, it could be mine. Alright. So anyway, anyway, so I had this tree, the leaves started dying. I, I put in, in the Facebook group about landscaping. I'm like, what did I do about this tree? Didn't get anything useful. Eventually I'm like, fuck this tree. I don't like it. It's leaning. The leaves are dying. It's not working. So I ordered cuz I was always tossing up between that and Fran pan tree because Fran like Fran trees, I remember from when I was a kid. They're everywhere around here. They're pretty, they smell and they grow fast and they're pretty hardy fast. They, you can replant them and they're put in your ear when you put one in your ear and all, all those sort of things. I like doing that. Yeah. And when I knocked this house down, I had two amazing grand pan. That got destroyed when the house got knocked down, which I was really bummed about. I wanted to move one of them, but it's too hard. And anyway, so I'm like, fuck it, I'm gonna replace this tree with a fringe APA tree and I'm not gonna make the same mistake. So I ordered the fringe APA tree, and today the guy's like, it's coming. Um, you might need a couple of guys to lift it cuz this is a 200 liter one, which is even bigger. Yes. So it's probably like a 300 liter barrel, like half of that. Right. Um, so this thing, this thing was fucking huge. And it's a two, it's a two and a half meter tree. How do you lift this by yourself? Well, I'll get to that. So she rung me up and she said, all, all right. Um, get some neighbors around cause you need like four or five people to lift this thing. Okay. Like this, this, I can't do that. I'm just here. I'm here by myself. There's no one, no one's gonna help me with it. So this guy rocks up by himself with his massive tree. And wait, before then, I'm like, I've gotta get rid of the other tree first. So I dug the other tree out, I chopped the whole thing up, put it in my willie bin. So my, so my willy bin has this entire tree in it, which was about, it was like a two meter tree. So chopped all that up. Got it. In the willy bin. I'll mate rocks up with this gigantic tree and then we drag it onto the back of the truck and he is got a lift thing to get it to the ground, which is good. And then we drag it up to the hole because I only paid to get it delivered to the curb, but it's out the front of the house. I'm like, if I don't get him to do it now, I'm not gonna even be able to get it in. Okay. I want him to drag it there. And I left it right on the side of the hole. And then I, I thought about the podcast and thought what I should do is watch a video on instructions. Right. On how to plan the trees. So I did that. Yes. And the instructions basically said you take it out of the plastic thing first. Right. And you sit it there in the roots and then you kind of, you know, trim roots if necessary and kind of maneuver into positions. Yes. That kinda thing. Yep. I didn't do that though. Did you? Same thing. I just did the same thing that I did last time, which is I got it close to the edge and then I dragged it in and dumped it in the hole again. Hang on a second. So you actually went and got instruction on how to do something on YouTube? I did. And then you completely ignored it. I, I did. I in the moment, yes, I did ignore it. Yes. Out of expediency, you just wanted to get the job done or impatience, I think. And also like, I just had it so close to the edge and I cut a few little bits of it. I literally did, I don't know, like it just, I just did exactly the same thing that I did last time. I don't even know why I just made a mistake. So now the tree is in the bloody hole with plastic all over it. The other trees in the wheelie bin. This tree is in the hole with plastic all over. The roots are already starting to fall apart because I'd like smudged it in there and then I start cutting the plastic off and I'm trying to rip it out and I calm, my back's fucked and I managed to get under it. Finally rip the thing out. The roots are gone everywhere. I'd push it up and it's like wobbling. It doesn't even stand up. So I've got, I pull all the stakes out of the other parts of the garden that were holding my other trees up to put around this tree to hold this tree up. And I've only got little bits of string so I get it all up like reasonably in line. And the other thing that the video said was like that every tree has like a nice angle to look at it from. Mm-hmm. Like a face. Sure. So I was like, I need to line up this angle facing the road so that when you look at the house, you've got a nice Yep. Tree. Yeah. But then when I looked at it, all the spinning and shit, it's like facing me and it looks pretty average from the street. Okay. Anyway, I finally got it up there and I got it vertical, filled it in, and then I'm just sitting there, my back's fucked. I'm like, this, I've just cut. Totally fucked this whole thing up. Um, but I was happy it was in there. And then some lady walks past and she like stopped. She had her dog and she looks up at the tree. She goes, I don't like these trees. They put their leaves everywhere, all over the ground after you put in all that effort. Oh my God. Did you tell her to get stuffed? My blood started to boil. Yeah. God, I blame you. And I, and I don't, and I don't believe in violence against women or any person for that matter. Yes, yes. So I murdered her dog. It was one of those fluffy white ones. It was. All right. No, no harm done. All right. That's my dancing update. How's the scooter going? The scooters got terrible. Guess what I've gotta do on the weekend? I buy another, no, I'm gonna buy a motorbike. Oh, for fuck sake. What do you mean? You've already got a motorbike? Yeah, I've gotta buy another one. Why? Um, cause I've been looking at, uh, just cause of the motorbike that I've got, right? The, the, the CB 900 Hornet, which I absolutely love to ride. And I've had it since 2015. Right? And, um, it's 2002. It's not getting, it's nothing wrong with this not getting, like, it's rough around the edges, but it's super reliable and I can work on it and all that sort of thing. Uh, years ago when I was living in Geelong, you know, back in 10, 10 years ago, I had a, I think it was a 2002 or 2004 Honda VFR 800. So it's a v4, right? Yeah. And just sounded so fucking beautiful. Like it's half a V eight mate, so just, it's a motorbike that sounded like that. And um, and just over the last few months I've just sort of been started looking at 'em again on like Facebook oh nine Marketplace and stuff like that. That's where it all fucking starts. Exactly. This Facebook marketplace has been the bane of my existence in the last fucking, so bad 12 months. It's fucked. I've just spent so much money on, it's just, just keeping the economy going anyway, so I know exactly what under VFR 800 I want, I want the last of the sixth. Sixth generation. Sixth generation? I think so. Um, wait, so this is the bike you used to have? Yeah, I had a 2002. Okay. Um, but, um, um, but I, but they sort of didn't really change the, they sort of changed the shape in 2001 and they didn't change it again until 2014. Why do you, why did you get rid of that? To get the current bike bought? The Commodore trade it in for the Commodore. Oh, you got, oh, okay. And then you went without a bike for a while. For, for about three years and that sort of thing. So, uh, sorry, is it sixth generation? Yeah, sixth generation Honda bfr 800 and, um, 2013. So it's the last of the good ones because the, the, the seventh generation was just that, not that great. Sorry. The eighth generation just wasn't that, that fucking, it was just boring. Right. And so vfr, what is it? VFR 800. VFR 800. Do you wanna pull up a photo? Yeah. Um, might be able to pull up your Facebook. Um, pull up a photo, mate. Oh, that's sick. That's like a, uh, like a sports kind bike. Sports touring bike. Yeah, exactly. Oh yeah, yeah. Oh, he's the one that I want, here's the one that I want and lemme share my screen. Oh. Need to let me share a screen mate. Good. Can I go? Can I go? You can go like that is exactly what I want. Handicap red is is the beer, is the vtr. The half baring Vtr is the thousand CCV twin. Yeah. And it's like a half bear sort of, but it looks similar to that, doesn't it? Oh, that's more upright. Yeah, they little. They do. Yeah. But this is, but that, that's, that's the bike that I'm looking at at going and buying. So basically handy up this bike that I've found, it's up in Nua that I'm gonna have it dry right up there on Saturday. Handy Apple, red gold rim, gold rims, and a stain tune exhaust system on it. And it's just, I saw it pop up on Buddy Facebook and it was, And it was a good, really sharp price and the pays weren't too bad on it and that sort of thing. And it's like being sold by a dealer, which I don't know if that's a good thing or not a good thing. Um, but that, look at it, it's fucking beautiful. Yeah, that's pretty sick. And so the, I, so when I own mine, um, uh, the, the last one that I owned, I really enjoyed riding it. It just handled so well, you know, it was just so comfortable to ride. And I actually rode it from, well, I tried to ride it from Melbourne or Geelong when I was in Geelong, up to Queensland for a holidays in 2011. And the old ones, the pre 2000 eights actually had a problem where the regulator rectifier the thing that that charges the battery, not the generator of the stator, but the, the regulator rectifier would burn, would burn out the stator. So I was riding, I was just outside 50 Ks outside of Kuni Bar brand going up the new highway. And it just clapped out. Oh. And died. Had to get towed to Kobrand. Um, and this was right when we had that big cyclone that just hummed, um, you know, Gunda windy and all that sort of stuff, right? Yes. And I was heading to my brother's place. And he lives in Anor. Dan thought. Yes. And, and, um, and so he, he drove, he jumped in his ute, drove six hours, picked me in the bike up. I drove the six hours back, and we were two kilometers away from, um, his house. And the, the, the New England Highway had flooded and we couldn't get home. Oh no. Yeah. It was the last bridge. It was the last bridge that we had to cross before his place. And it was flooded. Oh my God. And he had his full drive and he was, we looked at it, we, uh, should we do it? Uh, and he said, no, no. We'll just, he called up a friend who was on that side of the creek. And, um, and, and so we went round to the friend's place and we just smashed whiskey. Like fucking, absolutely. Just, just pounding. Just, just whiskey rocks, right? Oh yeah. That's what my brother likes to do. And, um, and so, um, we've got, um, we stayed a couple of hours and then we'd heard that the, that the, um, um, that the creek, the creek had subsided a little bit. And so, um, we just changed up to the ute and went, and the creek had subsided and the bridge would become visible again. And we're so lucky we didn't attempt to cross the creek because half the road that we were gonna drive across had literally washed out and we would've, oh no. Gone in and fucked Ute and the bike so that the moral of that story is if it's flooded, forget it. And that is for reel. I actually did, I actually did cross one of those little rivers in Dan Thorpe that was flooded, but it was, it was pr reasonably obvious that it wasn't too bad, although I don't fucking have a clue what I'm doing, but it was kind of like, you could sort of tell when it was high and when it was low and it was kind of getting closer. Yeah. But yeah, it happens all the time in it, like every time. Yeah. Yeah. Ex. Yeah, exactly. So, um, so yeah. But anyway, it turns out that was a known problem with that year model, but this 2013 or 2008 onwards doesn't have this problem. And I reluctantly sold the bike in, you know, or traded it in actually on, on the Commod in 2013. So I didn't really have much of a choice because I was, I, I was a, I just just became an owner of a brewing company that didn't make any beer. Yeah. I, my old, my old 1991 Toyota Camry, I crashed. And, um, on, on the way into Meredith Music Festival, just fucking, just, I was fucking just driving, driving down the road into the Meredith Music Festival. The fucking sunflowers were out. It was a beautiful day, and I'm just pumped that I'm, you know, going to go to music. Mar Meredith Music Festival, have a amazing time and that sort of thing. And I'm like, ah, this is amazing. And look in front of me. Like, fuck. Cause the cars had all stopped and I, and I smashed into the car, um, in front of me and, and then a car smashed into me, behind me. Oh, the car in front was one of the people that we were convoying into camp with, and the car behind was my ex-girlfriend, uh, Erica. And, um, and so she crashed into me and she was in a borrowed car because she crashed her car like the week prior. It was just a complete and utter cluster fuck. And so I wound up with my, my Camry was still drivable, her borrowed car was not. And um, uh, and so I had this dodgy fucking, couldn't open the boot, couldn't open the bonnet Toyota Camry that I had to get rid of. So I just sold it to the records for 250 bucks. And I had to buy a new car. And I didn't have any money, but all I had was the VFR and I had to trade it in to buy a car. Oh, okay. So that's how I have, uh, what's the price differential between your bike and that? Like, would, are you talking lots of money or Probably not. Not a huge amount. My, you mean my current bike? Yeah. Oh, my current bike's. A 2002, probably worth 1500 bucks. Now. Don't get much for it. No, no, I don't expect to get more than 500,000 bucks for it. I'll, I'll see if I can trade it. Um, but this thing's like five grand, so it's a bloody good price too. Ah, that's pretty good. Yeah. Crazy. I've gotten so cheap. It's only 80,000 Ks for a 2013. That's not too bad. And hopefully it's been looked after. So that's my job as I'm riding up to new sale on Saturday morning to go have a look at this bike. Nice. Post some pics. Yeah, maybe I'll get it. Maybe I won't. Either way I'll get a nice ride out of it so it looks good. Yeah. Um, well the thing is, what I wanna do is, um, you know, go and do some more motor camping and that sort of thing, and that's kind of the ideal bike for it because you can get some pans for it and a, and a rear rear sack for it. You know, Chuck, your, your, your tent and your, and your, and your sleeping bag and. Just go, you know? Yeah, just go, go. It looks like, it looks like a, looks sick, but it looks like it would be reasonably comfortable to ride, like it looks a little bit more upright at the front. Like you're not gonna be like, it is. Yeah. It's, it's a call, a sports tour, so it's got the fairing, but it's meant for doing long distances and, and, and lot and all that sort of thing, so yeah. See what happens. Field trips. Yeah, absolutely. So, right. Can I, sh can I try and demo my app, Voya? Yeah. How you going? Can you share a screen with it or something? I, I think I can, I, I haven't tested this though, so if I can't then then I can't. Okay. iPhone. I, here we go. iPhone, iPad. Let's see what happens here. You to tell me what you can say. Oh. Oh, I can see your phone. It's your phone. I'm sick. Okay. Alright. Um, so, alright, well set expectations first. It's an MVP so it's not super. How many fucking apps have you got? All kinds of shit. Right. So Bill, chap, G gb, gbt, share feedback. Yep. Yep. Start testing. Okay. So this is the, this is like the homepage. Um, yep. So let's think of something, um, uh, well on, uh, what was it? G, G, uh, C, cb CB 900. F. CB B for Barry. Ah, cb. Cb. Alright. Uh, 2002 is chat. Gbt gonna write this. 2002. So I'll, I'll put, um, change. Okay. So I'll, so, so pardon p you can either start it from scratch, which will just be blank. Yeah. Yes. Or use AI to create the process for. So that like editor there that you can see is just like, it's just like a note or like a document generating. Yes, yes. That's a misspelling. So what's happening now, so this is to, this is creating content forming. So this, this content here that's coming back here is whatever open AI is given me. So it may be right, it may be wrong. Um, well allow the oil drone, remove the oil filter. Four quarts of oil. That's perfect. Yeah, it takes exactly four liters of oil. Nice. Okay. Okay. So, um, and then you can finalize it or you can do like a multi-page. So I could do what's a multi-page? I'll do that. So I'll do the, I'll do oil and then I'll do, um, so that's step one oil. And then I'll do another one for change air filter. So in, in the editor here, I can just write this out or I can Yes. Use that button to do it here. So what was it? 2002? 2002. Honda CB 900 F. Right. So this, so this is like, you either create the whole thing with AI or this is just like, if you wanna do a bit of text yourself or, and have a bit using OpenAI, you can add in the piece. Yes. So you'd look at that, you'd review it. Yeah. This is, this is chat. It's pretty good. Yeah. Yeah, I get it. I'm not responsible for it, but it's uh No, that's fine. Gives you start Of course. And so you go and insert it. Yeah. So you put in there and then you can edit it if you want. Like, if it's something in there that you don't like or whatever. Um, so finalize, yes. So there it is. There in amongst the SOPs. Mm-hmm. And now what you can do is go, we can add employees in, but I'll, I'll, um, I think I've got, I've got em here. I've got myself. Oh, actually don't have myself. Do I have myself? I don't know if I've got myself as an employee. I'll put you in. Okay. Heo, HEO Henderson. That'll do. What's your email? I'm not gonna put it on the fucking screen or on the podcast. Then I'll do my email. That's not my email down to it is not my email. Ok. But I haven't built all the features to, um, stop you from adding bullshit emails. So yeah. Alright. So what do here as you go, like assign sap? Yes. So changing oil, sign that to Henderson and what does the signing it do? So if I log in, so now I've got this user's area, right? So I've got you there and you can see whether it, I can see that you've got an s p assigned to you, but you haven't completed it. Yes. So if I log in as you, I'll have to remember the email I use or is it down to. So I'll log in as the user we just created. Yes, yes, yes. So see, when I log in, I've got the, I've got the s a P there waiting for me, and it's got a little exclamation point saying that I need to complete it. Mm-hmm. So then you go here and then it'll have, so that's the s a P there. I can just look at it. Yes, read it. I can swipe to the next page. Yep. How do you put pictures in complete? In the editor. Oh, you can put pictures in there. Yeah. And then that's complete. And videos as well gone away. So I'm logged in with Google. Oh, I'm not logged in with Google. Oh, that's a different account. Anyway. If I logged in with, oh, actually I think I know the account. Hang on, let me, let me log in. Not Dan too. Just regular Dan. Yeah, that is my email address, so if anyone sees that, feel free to email me. Yeah, that's fine. We all know that, especially if you want to be to test the app cuz I'm looking for people to test it. There you go. So there you go. Now it's got you as completed. Okay. And so what if I'm an employee, not Dan too, and I want to follow that s o p or something like that? Um, what do you mean? So basically it just brings it up and you just follow it and that sort of thing? Yeah. Yeah. Well you could, you can, you can do a couple of things. You can do, um, it just brings it up and you just read it through. Or if you want to do it as an actual check box that you like, want to check off the things. Yes, you can change this from bullet points. Yes, to check boxes. Ah, so if you change it to check boxes, I'll update it and then, um, I won't log in again. Oh, you can go and tap the thing. Oh, this is good. Yeah. I like that. Yeah. You, you have to check them in order to Yes. Be allowed to complete the, so p like it. Yeah. So that's all I got. So this is, I think it's heading in the right direction. Who coded that? My developer from up, from Upwork. Yeah. Right. And this is Punch, this is on React. You punch much money in that or, um, Android and iPhone. But what, why is it, why is it work on an Android and iPhone? It uses this React native thing, which is like a, which is like a framework for building kind of like mobile agnostic or I guess os agnostic, like OS agnostic native mobile. Yeah, so it's like, it's, it's a, it's a native app, but it'll be native app on Android. And, um, I'll also have like a web app for, you know, because if you, I, I think a lot of people will still use on the computer and we will wanna actually type. But yes, once you can use the AI to generate a lot of content, you'd be surprised how much you can actually create on the phone. Yes. That's pretty nifty, mate. I think that's got some potential. So what's the plan next with it? Well, I wanna, I want to give it to anyone who wants to play with it and then just see what they do, pretty much. Mm-hmm. And then hopefully get some indications that people want to use it. I think with the, with the, I've got a bunch of email addresses of people who did my survey and stuff, so I'll send out to them and be like, do you wanna use it? See what happens if I get feedback back saying it's cool, but I'm not gonna use. Yep. Then cool. Probably not great, but if it's people start using it or people are like, I would use it if I, if you had this feature, then I'm, I'll probably keep building it. Yep. Um, yeah. Fantastic mate. Yeah. What do you think, well, what are your thoughts when you see it? I think it's got a lot of potential, mate. It's like early, early days for it, but, you know, you can go in, you can get the AI to, to sort of create a framework for the, so p get someone else to validate it. I, I can see some future sort of requirements around things like version control and stuff like that. That's a later issue. Yeah. Um, makes writing SOPs very easy, at least getting 80% of the way there. And that's the biggest challenge that I face when I work with my clients is they lack the time to write SRPs. Yeah. It's very common problem. Yeah. And so if you can get most of the way there with ai. Well then you're sort of, you're doing okay, you know? Yeah, I guess, I guess the, the, um, the thing is like the, you can get most of the way there with AI anyway because you can just use chat g p T to do that. Yes. Yeah. So I guess the question's gonna be is that G P T three or four three? Because I don't have a API access to four. Right. Um, like I think the question with a lot of these apps that use AI is like, is chat g P t gonna get so good and so ubiquitous that people are just gonna use that for everything? And do they even need any other apps? Yeah. I think it's going to evolve over time and with the plugins like, oh G P T four, that's gonna be really interesting. Yeah. I think getting it to, um, getting um, G P T four with the plugin so I can access the internet in real time. That's pretty interesting. Have you, have you seen that? Seen that I found, what's that? Oh, I was gonna say, have you seen that agent G P T thing? No, what's that for you? Does what? I'll post it in the notes. I have to find the address. It, it's, it's like a, it's called, it's not that. There's a few of 'em. It's called like Agent G P T or some shit like that. Yeah. And it's, what does it do? It's like a, it's like chat G B t, except that it operates without you and creates tasks for itself. So. Oh shit. What? It's pretty wild. I, I haven't been able to get it to do anything useful for me, but yeah, the idea, do you know what I, you know, you know that the weird thing that I saw, I saw, I watched this video on YouTube about how you can get, um, how you can get chat G B T to write prompts for chat. G B T. Yes. Yep. What the fuck? Yes. Yeah. It's crazy. It's mind blowing, you know, some of the stuff you can do with it. Do you know the thing that's really disappointing at the same time, right? Uh, as, as sort of chat g p t is becoming this amazing sort of, you know, um, thing you just talk to naturally. Right. And do you know what's gone backwards is I've got a Google Home. I don't know if you have a Google Home. Yeah, I've got Alexa. Alexa, yeah. And it's getting worse a hundred percent. It's shit. Yeah. Like, like I used to be able to say to it, turn on the living room lights and turn on the bedroom lights and it would turn on both the lights, but now it won't even, it won't do that. I have to ask it separately. It's like it's taking a fucking step backwards. Interesting. Google is gonna get the first time are under serious threat. Oh yeah. They're gonna get done. Yeah. And probably Amazon as well, to be fair. Microsoft is back baby. A hundred percent. Who would've predicted? I would've never predicted that. Cuz I have never liked Microsoft. But they're back. Yeah. My, um, my whole IT crew was built around, you know, Microsoft technology and stuff like that, and it's like, fuck yeah. They, they lost it, you know, they lost the, the, the, the, you know, the server market and all that sort of stuff to and Gmail and they look, the biggest mistake was the missing the phone. That was the big one. Yeah. The phone thing. Yeah, exactly. But they come back with the, no, actually the, the biggest mistake was back in 1994 when they built, was when Windows 95 came out and I went to the launch of Windows 95 in late 1994. Yeah. And everyone was going, um, was like, I remember the launch of Windows 95, and the really cool thing was seeing the little paper fly outta the folder when you copied a file and stuff like that. Mm-hmm. And everyone goes, Ooh. And then like, and then, and then, oh, we've got this thing called M S N. And so they basically built their own internet. Yeah. And, and it was built into Windows 95 and it locked. And I remember going to the Microsoft Conference, I think it was 96 9 19 96, like they literally the following year. And they were just like, internet, internet, internet. Cause they knew that they'd fucked up and they were just like, we have to do internet. And that was where it all sort of took off. And there an internet explorer became a thing and all that sort of stuff. And you know, and that's, that's kind of what, what, what sort of happened, you know, they make these decisions, they get on the back foot. They, they, they take a step back in technology. And I think that's what Google is about to experience is, is going to be behind the eight ball. And it could last a decade, you know. You know, the other thing, the other thing Windows fucked up was Skype. Like, can you, yeah. Even imagine like, Skype was so popular, it was like the only tour people used. For what exactly what we're doing right now for messaging people. Like before WhatsApp? Yes. Before Zoom, before iMessage, before Messenger, before all that shit. Yes. Skype did all of the shit. All that. All those things. Yes. And now it's just nothing. Yes. How the fuck did that happen? I don't know. Crazy. No, it's crazy. And just, just these, these, um, you know, tech companies just buy things to either just destroy them or, or, you know, park them and, and they buy these, these, these technologies. And, but do Windows even have a messaging? Like, like what do you use if you are a Windows guy, you just use Android? What do you to message people? Oh, uh, when? Well, oh, I don't know. Well, I mean, Skype was a thing. What's your preferred, like, you messaged me on, on Messenger, but like, what's your preferred like, messaging thing to message your friends? Oh, now? Yeah. Now, It would be probably, uh, mixed between, um, messenger and WhatsApp. Yeah, WhatsApp. See, I mean, why don't you, yeah, I mean that's, Skype did all of that. Yes. Crazy. Um, apparently, apparently Samsung are considering, and it could be just jockeying for a better deal, but apparently they're considering swapping from Google to Microsoft as a default search engine on their phones. Wow. And that wouldn't surprise me if, if Bing is getting, um, you know, Bing was always played second fiddle to, to Google for search, but Oh yeah. People aren't in, in 12 to two years time. People aren't gonna be searching anymore. I think for some things you will, I was thinking about today, cuz for some things I still use Google a little bit because it gives you, it gives you those instant answers for UpToDate things and chat. G Chat g p t gives you like content, it gives you like rich content. Lots of details on stuff, but like for simple things like my tree, I wanted advice on the tree. Google does a pretty good job of giving you that real quick. Yes. Um, I mean Bing now does, oh, I just pulled up Bing. And it says you can ask introducing New bi, new Bing prior. Okay, let's try it. Oh, I need to throw, oh shit. The 10 billion catch p t deal. Yeah. Yeah. So, uh, there, um, uh, how do I change the oil on a 2002 on CB 900 or so? Are they doing what? Where did you click on them? Do you have this Edge browser? Just went to Bing, click on Bing? No, no. I mean, still in Chrome. Just went to bingle bing bing.com today you Yeah. But you, but you click introducing New Bing. Yeah. Oh, so you did, you are actually just searching the normal, in the normal section. But then it does this thing on the side where it pulls up some AI and shit. Hmm. Interesting. Not quite. Not quite there. I'm just gonna go back to my picture movie. Sorry. I see, I see, I see, I see. Oh, yeah, yeah. Okay. No, that, yeah, that's not the same thing. That's like, that's, that's just normal search. Yeah. Yeah. But let me, no, no, no. But I think if you go to, if you click Learn more. Yeah. Here we go. bing.com. Yes. I Sure. I can see it is three. Three. Share. Share your screen. So I just click thing, I need to throw a dinner and it does this thing over the side here and everything. Oh, I see. And then it's got, let's chat. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Interesting. Yeah, I was sort of wondering, oh, you can only do conversational search in Microsoft Edge. Wow. Ah, that's the issue. That's smart. Is it? Why do they care so much about who, what browser are you using? Uh, it's the, it's the internet. Yeah. Interesting. It's like Netscape Navigator. Internet Explorer killed it. Internet Explorer was great. I was a fan. Oh. It was pretty fucking insecure. I don't care about that. I don't mean insecure as in it had trust issues or anything like that, but insecure as in it wasn't very secure. No. Microsoft stuff is secure and hacked all the time. Yeah. Microsoft sucks. Yeah. That's what kept me employed. Yeah. No, that's good. No, they're doing well. Good on them. Hey, I wanna ask you another entrepreneurial question. Yeah. Are you, you still mates with Tuckie? Uh, I, I know him. I, I, I wouldn't say I'm mates with him. I'm, I've met him once in my life. Yeah. Yeah. What do you think of him? He seems great. Yeah. I, I'm, I'm like online friends with him. Yeah. He seems great. Yeah. Yeah. Why? Uh, I'm about to, I'm thinking about doing his next Level program cause I did his first, the first one in 2020 and that's kind of the basis of Rockstar and I'm thinking about doing his next program. It's very expensive though. Mm-hmm. Very expensive. I've never done any of, of, of his courses or anything. His content seems good. He seems like a good guy, but I, I, yeah. I've never done any of his content. I will say though. You are, um, I was, cuz I've tried to put together a thing for tonight's show and it didn't work, which I'll do next week using that script app. Yes. But I didn't realize you had the, the voice thing already. So I went to your YouTube and I used an app. Get your audio from one of your videos because you need 30 minutes of video to come up with digitized voice. Yes. Your YouTube's fucking awesome. Yeah, thanks man. I need to put some more work into it. That's one of the reasons for signing up with Darkie is to get better content. I actually had a chat with Adie about it last week as well, because, you know, whenever, uh, actually there's a couple of really interesting things happened on that this afternoon. Cause I was like, um, um, I mean, you, you're in craft beer professionals on Facebook Aren. Yeah. Yeah. So there was a guy who, they did, they had a session from this guy called, uh, called a, his, this YouTube channel called Adam Makes Bid Year. And I'd had his CVP thing just added to my watch later and I actually watched it this afternoon finally, three weeks later. And he's very interesting. So he, he's, he's like a content creator that sort of does. He's, he, I actually wanna meet him cause he's very fascinating guy, right? Because he's a teacher as well, or ex-teacher. Mm-hmm. And he's a, he's been a brewer for about 12 years and he does YouTube videos of stuff that he does in the brewery and how he makes beer and all that sort of stuff. Yeah. And then he does like live streams. I'm like, fuck, I wanted to do that. And so I watched his presentation, his CBP presentation, and he mentioned his Instagram and I've just followed him on Instagram and he's just written me back an Instagram message going, oh man, you're the reason I started my YouTube channel. Oh, no way. So, um, you could do lots on, so, okay, so your channel, do you, is that like, is that like old videos I was looking at there or are they like, oh, there's heap. So I, I released four in January and um, I did three part series on yeast propagator, which fucking blew up the internet because people think you can't propagate yeast and plastic. And um, and then I did one about dissolved oxygen and stuff like that. And, you know, I remember when I had come around to yours in like fucking 2017 or 2018 or something like that. Shot, shot down at HQ and yeah. And Kazi was in it and all that sort of thing. And, and um, uh, and it, over the years, like I've really neglected the YouTube channel and it's just such a great way to build trust with potential clients and that sort of thing. And I enjoyed doing it, but it's really hard to do because if you wanna make a 10 minute YouTube video, the amount of work you've gotta put in to write, um, shoot, edit, and publish. Yeah, that's a lot of work. It's a full-time job, I think if you to to be a content creator. Absolutely. Yeah. Um, but you can actually really that 10-minute YouTube video then just have a, a video like, There must be a huge opportunity in like TikTok and Instagram reels and like short form videos, correct? Yeah. And so one of the things I learned from, from this guy Adam, makes beer today, was like, um, he, he said, well, what I do is I'm just very natural. I do, I shoot some stuff in the, in the um, uh, in the, um, in the brewery. And then I'd do a live stream once a month where I just do a q and a and people just ask questions. Sometimes you get home brewers, sometimes you get professional brewers and then just chop out the video from that and share. And what he does, he chops out the bit. But the thing is, mate, is that I've got, and three and a half years of back catalog live coaching call content that's all recorded and can be repurposed and ready to go. And I'm thinking about are they one that that's, that's one to many. That's not like one-on-one is it? It's one to many, but it's basically people asking questions and me giving an answer off the cuff. I'm thinking you can pay someone to just rip all that out and turn it into Correct. Yes, yes. Yeah, exactly. So, and I've got like easily a hundred, hundred 50 hours of content there. And do you have like a path, like a, cuz you said on the o podcast we did the other day, you made like a fair bit of money out of the the um, ye propagator one. Did you, did you Yeah, look, it's um, you know, it the, the prop. Sorry, but actually I just remembered that wasn't a podcast, that was a chat after. Yeah, it was like the, the yeast propagator video series. It was actually something I kind of was interested in and I just went and released those three videos, um, you know, to make a Ye cuz no one had ever, cuz no one had created it. And I was like, fuck, you can just go and create a yeast propagator and save money on yeast and make better beer and stuff like that. And it was just something I was genuinely interested in. And I think that that sort of content is. I feel better about it because with professional brewers, they can really act like fucking home brewers sometimes. Mm-hmm. You come up with an I idea and, and you know, like the, the amount of hate that is propagated series came up with, or, or you know, generated people just going, oh, you can't propagate him plastic and ah, this won't work. That's fine. You have to skin, that's fine. Yeah. It just didn't bother me. I've spoken about that before and it's like, um, but the thing is right, is that there were so many more people who just went, fuck, this is really good. Oh, you've got a coaching program. Oh, we'll join that. And it's, yeah. No, that was, that was the reason I, a question cuz if you've got like a, if you like know you've got a path to create a lot more content and you've got a good path to monetize that, I feel like you're like 99% there to just doing Yes. That, like you, I'm definitely 99% there. Yeah. Yeah. And it's been really interesting, you know, sort of, um, you know, over the last few weeks, uh, like, you know, you always have that imposter syndrome thing happening as well, particularly with social media. I don't know if you have it or anything like that. Everyone's got it. I definitely did. Yes. And, um, and so, you know, if you follow, you know, me on Instagram, you'll probably notice over the last few weeks I've been sort of posting more stories and stuff like that. And um, and that's just me basically building my confidence. Yeah. Um, uh, and I know that sounds weird, a lot of people are gonna go fucking what you're on social media all the time. It's like I just happen to be in the places where people happen to be looking. I don't tend to be on social media. It's a different fucking thing. And, um, and so yeah, like, oh, I need to roll this, but I, VED, Heen. Fuck you're getting after it, aren't you? Nice? Yeah. Well I'm on the traditional thing. Do I roll this? Am I supposed to roll this? Give it a go. See what happens. I'm rolling it. It's not a Cooper's, but here we are. Fuck. Go everywhere. Oh shit. Oh shit. I'm good. Shame you stopped talking cuz you're on a roll. Um, sorry. And so, but no, the thing is, is that like, you know, all that, all that stuff that I've been posting on Instagram, you know, over the last sort of few weeks and that sort of thing is, is really about sort of me, um, you know, building my confidence, sharing a living kit of what goes on in my life. Cause I'm pretty protective what goes on in my personal life and that sort of thing. And um, um, and it's just for no reason. You know, I ride my fucking push bike or I go for a fucking hike or something like that. It's whatever, you know. Hmm. But I do stuff outside of beer and I think that's what people need to know is that I do things outside of beer. Yeah. Ride my motorbike, you know, do, do dumb shit. And I sink a bit of piss. Dude, you should go full influencer mode. Like it's a, it's a fucking no-brainer. Yeah. I wish I knew how Well, you do know how you're, you're literally doing it already. The, the only, the only thing you need to do more of is more short form video. Like just do short. Yeah. I think, and, and to be fair, you know, I think that's probably what's gonna happen next is needing to go full, full influencer mode because, um, um, because I'm just enjoy sharing information about, you know, brewing and stuff like that. And, um, you've got as much knowledge as anyone. You've got as good a networks as anyone you, you've proven you can do all the content and you can monetize it at the back end. Yeah. You've got it all covered. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Um, um, so yeah, watch out for that. Fuck yeah. Um, what have you got there? I've got a pulse. Oh, okay. I haven't seen this one. Any good about to find out? Well actually I've had it before. Yeah, it's good. It's tasty. That's the, oh, sorry, we didn't need to say for the audio only people. That's the black hops. Tinney, neer. Give us a look at it. Probably gonna be better fruit. Now just look it in the glass if you can. Oh God. Then now that glass looks fucking, there you go. Look at that. Yeah. That's all right. It's not too bad. See those bubbles? Kenya? You can't see him. That's the, uh, tiny sch of glass. Have you still got your skin of glass? Yeah, of course I do. Nice. Yeah, so it's kind of dumb, you know, because like, I just don't see myself as like an influencer. I know that sounds really, uh, dumb, you know? Um, I think, I think the term is the, the term has been corrupted by what we all think of an influencer like, but like before this whole influencer. I used to do loads of content online, loads and loads, and I didn't feel any shame or fear or anything. I just shared everything with a lot of content out there. There was no influencer. It was just, this is what I'm doing. This is some content that would be useful. Um, but now it's, I I know what you're saying. You kind of, anytime you put something online, you're fucking nervous about it. You don't wanna be seen as an influencer. I'm not, I'm not nervous about it. But, but the thing is, is that, um, like I am aware that I do have an influence on the industry, particularly the Australian craft brewing industry and stuff like that. Um, and, you know, that has the potential to have sort of, uh, you know, like, um, uh, potential knock on effects, you know, and that sort of thing. And. And, but the thing is right, is that I actually, I don't see myself as an influencer. I just see myself just being me and just putting shit online cuz I think it's either funny or interesting or something like that. That's perfect. And how other people. And how other people, and that's, that's good. Well, well, exactly. But if how other people choose to perceive me well that, that's entirely up, up to them, you know? And, um, uh, and you know, I I, I love everyone in the industry and that sort of thing. And, um, you know, and I, I love this industry, uh, and yeah, it's just sort of like, um, I just, I'm just being myself, you know? And some people don't like it. And don't like it. Cool. I don't care. I don't think anyone doesn't like it. You, you, you are awesome. Just fucking send it. You're doing great. Yeah. I'm a fan. Yeah. I'll just go full. Send then I'm one fucking, what have I got? What have I got? Lose exactly. A hundred percent. Alright, let's get into the news. Um, Ratton Hunt is now only a hundred and three fifty five mil cans. I just finished mine. Fuck God. It's bittersweet. Oh yeah. Okay. So, uh, I love that Ratton Hunt was in a four 40 mil can, but I completely understand the reason that it's in a 3 55 mil can. Mm-hmm. I think they're taken a core range and that sort of thing. Oh, okay. That, that was fucking delicious. Nice. That was delicious. Um, and I think it's getting a little bit of a name change. It's not traditional pills and it's something else, Pilsner and that sort of thing. Mm-hmm. Um, and, um, yeah, more people drink pills. Now we, Australians don't understand pills now. No. Um, you know, they don't understand the word pilsner. Um, but um, that'd be it. It was the first, the very first batch that won. The trophy of the ABAs, I think it was last year. And that sort of thing was phenomenal. And then it didn't get so great, but now it's back with the vengeance. Nice. Has been, has been for the last, uh, for the whole of this year. Um, and I've been drinking it quite frequently and that was sensational, the date code on it. Nice. We should, we should get a screen. Wouldn't you get a screenshot of that to be What, what we Yeah, we did. We did. Oh, that was it. Yeah, we did. Um, um, so yeah, I, I'm not a fan of the big can anyway. I know. It's like a, people love it cuz it's bigger, but it's just big cans are silly. Yeah. No, no, no. I, I, I agree. Taking it to a smaller can I think is a great idea. But three 50 fives. Oh, that one hurt. That one hurt. I won't lie. That hurt. Yeah. Just gimme a 3 75, you know. Oh, just makes sense. They're clued on dudes over there. They probably know what they're doing. Yeah, they, well, I think all their other cans are 3 55, so I think it's just compatible with what they do. That's just personal preference. It's fucking, that's just an opinion. Speaks nothing of the fucking awesome beer that it is and the awesome people that make it, you know? Yeah. Um, so yeah, and at the end of the day, if they can, you know, I, I've never looked into it too much, but if you can sell 3 55 and people pay about the same and the business is better off for it than fucking, I'm all for it. Yeah, absolutely. But would you buy a six pack of it? Correct. Answer is yes. The correct answer is yes. I don't, I don't like it probably comes in a four pack, in which case you buy two, four packs, but that makes eight pack. Yeah. Better than the six pack. That's, yeah, that's true. All right. Did you see this, the aac, so I put in here the aback, um, claims quarterly. Article from Bruce News, but also direct link to the, um, pdf. I have a little skim through. There's some interesting shit in here. Really? How interesting would Okay. Pull up. Give us the fucking weirdest well hard fears of just chat in the bed again and they just don't give a fuck. That goes without saying. The funniest bit from the hard PI thing was, do I need to go to the AVAC website for the um, no, I put in the notes the pdf. Oh, oh, got it, got it, got it. There. Had something in there saying like, oh, here we go. The company did not remove the marketing material and the complaint was referred to the Queensland Liquor Authority. Ah, absolutely. That's what they do. So that's not great. So that one was, that's what they do. Oh, is this hard? Fizz. Oh, MSC box tails. Yeah. Where's hard fizz. I just wanna see how they've chat the be. Oh, here we go. Uh, Concern that images. So the complaint is the concern that images of people that seem under the influence of the statement who says, this shit doesn't get you drunk, that ain't give a fuck, it's that ain't give a fuck. It's so irresponsible. Like, whether you like aback or not say that when you're dealing with liquor. Yeah, no, it, because there, there are people out there that have alcohol addiction, all sort of stuff. It's like you just, you just can't, oh, it's so bad. Well, the other thing, the thing about the AVA code, it's common sense. Yeah, I was gonna say, if all these things keep getting referred to Queensland Liquor, then they're starting to get the message that people don't give a fuck about AAC and they'll probably just ditch it and then introduce government regulation. Oh, absolutely. If we get government regulation because of these guys, I'm gonna be fucking pissed. Yeah. That'll be shit. But the next step, and this is gonna be the really interesting thing, right? Is they'll get referred to, uh, Queensland Liquor Licensing cuz I, I assume that that's where their liquor license is. And what will happen is they'll start getting rsa um, issues, fines and all that sort of stuff. And that's when the real shit happens. Right. So kind of comes down to the states to, but they don't have much, I think their business is mainly a wholesale business. I don't think they're You mean for the tapering? Is that what you mean For rsa? No, your, your marketing. Oh, for the, on social media. Yeah. Um, can be seen as not being responsible service of alcohol. Oh, true. And then your licenses are threat and then you fucked. Correct. Exactly. And then they're put outta business. This is, this is the thing. So ABAC don't have any teeth in that regard, but state liquor licensing, um, you know, commissions do. Yeah. The Bilsens one was interesting too. Where's the Bilsens one? What happened? There's bilsens, like the, uh, great bubblegum vodka. Oh, fairy floss fruit tingle. Yeah. Angle creamy soda. Toffy apple. Yep. This is like their whole business selling these things. And they were massive. They were like, when we did the, um, last year, I think we went to the Endeavor Group, supplier Awards. Bilson won fucking everything. Yeah. It's like their best product. They, um, they, it's a really interesting one. I think I saw some beers from, uh, edge Brewing Project as well over the last 24 hours that were called, uh, you know, tropical Pop. And it can't use the, it specifically says the Abic cannot use the word pop because that, that, that, that, that implies soft drink. Yeah. Yep. All right. And, um, so, you know, see what happens. Oh, the voucher you BOTAs T-shirt. I think that was Okay. The, the T-shirt with the VP logo shows the BB can dressed as a kid with the Santa Claus character has a very strong appeal to minors. Fuck off. Yeah. That's not a child. That's a green Santa. That the kid is a child. No, that be the can is a child, I think. Oh, Anne's got a kid's face. Oh. Uh, okay. I think the bigger problem is just a kid sitting on an old man's lap. That's creepy as fuck. That's Santa. That's what Santa does. That's so creepy. Dude. If you ever walk across the Superman supermarket, there's like these little kids sitting on some old dude's lap. It's fucking weird. Just what happens at Christmas. Yeah. It shouldn't though. Shouldn't, let's be honest about that. It should let your kids sit. Sit on Santa's lap. Fuck no. Um, I've always wondered about these ones. So this one, herbal Law of Cures. Yes. It literally just makes all these claims about how it makes you more relaxed and. Therapeutic benefits and all this strength and power. Like, you can't do that shit, guys. No, you definitely can't do that shit. But there was, and then the BWS one, some call it natural medicine. We call it delicious. Oh my God. Wow. You definitely cannot say that. You actually cannot say that alcohol is a therapeutic. Uh uh uh, wow. It's just so, it's so funny that people just go into this game just thinking, oh, we can do whatever we want, but not realizing that it's alcohol and you've got like a social responsibility and that sort of, dude, I, I was the same. We found out the hard way that you can't just put whatever the fuck you want on a beer can. Yeah. Um, had no idea. What about this BWS one at 24 beers in a day? Day 24. 24 hours In a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence. Coincidence. That's a, that's a sign out the front of a t Y bws. A Ws. Pretty funny. It's an old saying. Yeah. But yeah. You can't do that cartoons with Is that fucking Pauline Hansen? Dude, this one was interesting because this one was like a cartoon that I think they're, um, like someone else made, like they didn't make it. I think they were like a distributor. Yeah. Right. Didn't create the video and had no entitle. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Which is something we've uh, we've wondered before is like if like the inspired unemployed do something Yes. It's not appropriate. Is that the same as if Better Bear do something it's not appropriate? Yes. Or if their customers do and it get shipp, oh, someone complained about the VB button. You press the VB button twice and then you get a case of VB delivered. No, but they said that's sweet. Yeah, of course. It's everyone should have a BB part. Vbs fucking sick. Vbs. Very gross. Yeah. There's a lot in here where they said that hadn't been breach a held a lot of complaints. Someone's busy here making complaints, that's for sure. Yeah. Lots of different people. Mm-hmm. Anyway, fucking you back. All right, what have we got? One more top 50 US brewing companies and also this article, um, I think it's said in here that the craft beer market share had increased Good in American in the us Good. Yeah. Yeah, because they had a Oh yeah. Okay. Yeah. Shrink 3%, 6% growth over 2021. Yep. Yep. So what's the top 50? What's number one there? Is that you, wait, are you looking at it? You can guess. Yeah. Uh, Sierra. Oh, Ling England. Yeah, of course. Boston Beer Company. Yes. Here in Nevada? Yes. Uh, dove Morga, which is Firestone Walker. Oh, really? Something el Yeah. Yeah. Deve owns Firestone Walker. I dunno what the one city is. Uh, Gambino owned Shire. Yes. Gabri. These fucking brewing companies. Can, can I, oh, there's some, there's some, um, like conglomerates, like ment in the top 10 there. Why does Stone have an districts next to it? Where Stone Brewing, uh, does not include fbs FSBs. Uh, I have no idea what that means. Tilray Beer brands. Dunno who that is. Uh, Brooklyn. Deschutes New Athletic. The athletic Athletic is, is non the number 13. High country. Get out. Fucking huge, huh? Yeah. Unbelievable. Allagash, Georgetown, Odell Ryan, guys. Yeah. Some fucking great breweries. We should go to the States and do a brewery tour. I went to odell. That's in, um, Fort Collins. That place is called Shit. You should go to the, the, we should go to the us. Oh. We can go to a, we can go to a watch, A Starship launch, which I think is happening tonight. Cause it's four 20. Four 20. Yeah. Tomorrow morning. Oh, tonight. Yeah, tonight. And can you stay up to watch the other one? Uh, no, but I probably, I, cause I was pretty well 90% sure they were gonna scrub it for some reason. Oh. I'll probably scrubbed this one as well. I stayed up. It was, it was looking good until like eight minutes to go and then it was like, no scrubbed. Yeah. I'll probably watch this one this time around. When is that? Let me have a look. Spice six, it was 10 o'clock at night. I wasn't that late. Mm-hmm. Because it was nine in the morning over there. Upcoming Starship test flight April. 8 28 CT nine 30 ct. What does that mean in English or Australian? Five 40. Oh no, it's no, uh, 5:40 AM Is that right? What time? That sounds sick. Wait, five? No, three hours from now? Yeah. So it'll be, oh yeah, it'll be like 10 30, 11, 11:00 PM something. 1141, nearly midnight. Yeah. Unbelievable. Fuck. I'm keen to see it. Yeah. No US trip. I'm keen Do we have to like pack heat or whatever or? Probably. Okay. Do you know how to shoot guns? Yes. Okay. Orley, I don't really know anything about them, but my, my mate down the street's got a gun cabinet with like all these guns and shit in it. Yeah. No, I'm not, I'm not a gun gun person by any means, but, um, Uh, but you know, my, my, my brother had a farm and had rifles and shotguns and stuff like that, and we'd shoot the things that that fling in the air, you know, like the Olympics, the little clay, pigeons, pigeons, clay, pigeons. It would shoot those shoots. But I feel like you need to, if you go to America, man, if you gotta do it, you have to do it. It's so fucked. And it just feels so fucking weird that they're so into guns. But it's so weird. I, I listened to a episode of Joe Rogan the other day and he is going on about how good Australia is, and he is like, dude, Australia's the best. Like it's the best now talking about, and they're like, yeah, the only problem is they just need more guns. Like that is, no, we don't. We absolutely do not. No can hell. We absolutely do not know you've some of the

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In this episode I am joined by Ian Cunningham, the founder of the Self-Managed Learning College (SMLC) in Brighton; Dr Naomi Fisher, a clinical psychologist who sends her children to SMLC; and Ellie Costello, the Director of Square Peg, a social enterprise that supports young people and families with barriers to attendance. We are here to discuss the Schools Bill currently going through the English Parliament, which presents a significant challenge for people seeking to rethink education; indeed, if it goes through largely unamended, it looks like it will be a hugely retrograde step in many alarming ways, all of which we will get into in the podcast. And so, with apologies to international listeners, this episode is strongly Anglocentric. CORRECTION: Regarding Andy Bilson's research: 44% of all children will be referred to children's (social) services before their 16th birthday. RESEARCH LINKS: The Munro Review of Child Protection: Final Report A child-centred system: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/175391/Munro-Review.pdf Bilson et al - How child protection's ‘investigative turn' impacts on poor and deprived communities: http://bilson.org.uk/Family_Law_prepub.pdf MacDonald & MacDonald - Safeguarding: A Case for Intelligent Risk Management: https://academic.oup.com/bjsw/article-abstract/40/4/1174/1631451 Munro - Predictive analytics in child protection: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332528200_Predictive_analytics_in_child_protection Hardy (2017) - In Defence of Actuarialism: Interrogating the Logic of Risk in Social Work Practice: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02650533.2017.1394828 Contact your MP - or member of the House of Lords: https://www.parliament.uk/get-involved/contact-an-mp-or-lord/contact-your-mp Petition - We must stop the Schools Bill: Act now to protect vulnerable families from persecution: https://www.change.org/p/updated-attendance-guidance-encourages-prosecution-and-fines-of-families-facing-barriers-to-attendance-undiagnosed-children-with-send-are-particularly-at-risk-time-for-positive-action-for-send-in-education LET'S GET TOGETHER - THE RETHINKING EDUCATION CONFERENCE 2022: Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lets-get-together-the-rethinking-education-conference-2022-tickets-226415834857 Share our social media links: Youtube (trailer): https://youtu.be/JKz8ALX2QFM Twitter: https://twitter.com/Rethinking_Ed/status/1528046472444485638 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/100004976851081/videos/706113054004294/ Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/james-mannion_too-often-the-education-debate-is-dominated-activity-6933887283146207232-53h0 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tv/Cd1b__3svlV

For 30 years Chris Beall has led software start-ups as a founder or early-stage developer. He believes the most powerful part of a software system is the human being, and that the value key is to let the computer do what it does well — go fast without getting bored — in order to free up human potential. Chris is currently CEO of ConnectAndSell, Inc., based in Silicon Valley, and hosts a podcast at MarketDominanceGuys.   Most passionate about What I'm doing now, and I've been doing for quite a while, is running a company called It helps companies dominate their markets by leading with the human voice. I've been passionate for a long time about having computers and humans work together in a way that unleashes the strengths of each. Chris's career and story I was raised out in the desert in Arizona, pretty far away from most people. I was raised by animals—by horses and dogs and cats and goats and all manner of creatures like that. I think that's how I learned how to sell. My first sale ever, where I was successful, was getting a bridle on a horse when I was seven years old. I was very interested in mathematics and the physical sciences. Kerry Wilcox took me aside and said, “I want to let you know something that might change your mind about teaching.” Here I was with this dream of being a teacher. She said to me, “You are an entrepreneur by nature.” “I invest in my former students' companies.” This was all a revelation to me, that she was an angel investor. She said, “You can teach if you want to, but I don't want you to go off into industry, get a job in some field where there's a lot of opportunity.” I reluctantly followed her instructions when I got a job at an NCR computer company in 1979. Sure enough, I was dissatisfied. That led me down a path where, within four years, I was starting my first company. Best advice for entrepreneurs One thing I find that's the number one mistake that entrepreneurs make is that they build the product before they sell the product. I think you should do it the other way around. I highly recommend that any entrepreneur who wants to be a product entrepreneur, especially in B2B, start by having conversations—sales conversations, not survey conversations. If you're not doing it under pressure, you're probably not really doing it. So, try to sell your product before you build it and be serious about it. The biggest, most critical failure with customers I can go back to 1984. The company was called Unison software. Unison was an ERP system before there were ERP systems. So, it was called an MRP II system. It was intended to help primarily manufacturers with their processes around Bilson material and so forth, but it had a complete accounting system in it. The biggest failure was that we could go after two kinds of markets. We had discrete manufacturing folks who put parts together in order to make up a product. And then there was what's called continuous or flow manufacturing. So, there are no parts; there are inputs and outputs and then control conditions and all that kind of stuff. What we failed to do, rather dramatically, was focus on one or the other. We could have done very well. We had impatient investors who drove us down a path that was impossible. It ended up shrinking the software. Biggest success with customers It was in 1998 and I was at a company called Requisite Technology. Requisite had the world's most advanced (at that time) electronic cataloging technology for business to build. First, we had to invent a whole new cataloging technology from scratch, which we managed to do in six weeks. We did it by simplifying and accepting something that everybody said was true, which was that it was impossible to build this kind of technology on top of a convention. The big triumph, the big success, was in focusing on only four customers for the entire year and having only...

The British photographer Anthony Kersting was the most prolific and widely travelled architectural photographer of his generation. He travelled extensively across the Middle East throughout the 1940s and 1950s to document the architecture and people of the region. And upon his death in 2008, he donated his archive – containing some 42,000 photographic prints and negatives – to the Conway Library at the Courtauld Gallery in London. On this episode of the PastCast, Tom Bilson, Head of Digital Media at the Courtauld, discusses a new exhibition showcasing a selection of Kersting's photography from Kurdistan. He also describes the digitisation project currently being undertaken to preserve the Conway Library's extensive archive for future generations. Bilson spoke with regular PastCast presenter, Calum Henderson. Kersting's work is the subject of a short article in the latest issue of Minerva magazine, out now in the UK, and which is also available in full on The Past website. The Past brings together the most exciting stories and the very best writing from the realms of history, archaeology, heritage, and the ancient world. You can subscribe to The Past today for just £7.99. If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider liking it, subscribing, and sharing it around.

Its episode 123, The Prop Masters!   We are very excited for this episode this week. We have Greg Bilson Jr. in the studio. Prop Master, CEO of the largest hand prop house in the world Independent Studio Services and one of the Heads of the Board on the new Prop Masters Guild.    He is in the studio to talk about all things props. Ever wonder how one gets to make a living to just play with toys? We are here to tell you how.   ISS has made some of your favorite props including custom props from Marvel and Star Wars movies and pretty much any TV show you have seen over the past 20 years.   Since we have a prop expert in the house we do a top ten of the most famous props of all time.   As always we get into the topic of recent releases and rumored movies and tv shows. We tell a few new fail stories.   Be sure to check out our new sponsor, if you want to buy or sell music, beats or sounds Beat Stars is your place. it is pretty much the only place to do it. It is pretty much the etsy for music. Go to beatstars.com/sell-beats and open your own shop. Use promo code "Hollywood" during check out and your first month free!     We are proud members of the Inner Circle Podcast Network. If you like our podcast you will love any podcast in our inner circle family. To check out us or any of the other shows visit innercirclepn.com and subscribe on social media @innercirclepn Check out all of our Inner Families best shows   The Plunge Shit Happens When You Party Naked Simmons and Moore Podcast The Untrained Eye The Angry Dad Podcast     Follow us on Instagram: @failinghollywood     Facebook: @failinghollywoodpodcast     Twitter: @failinghollywoo     Email us: failinghollywoodpodcast@gmail.com     And call us with and fail stories or questions or thoughts : (818) 928-5379     If you are listening to us please rate us and review us, any feed back really helps.

This week, Rachel Bilson and Melinda Clarke are joined by Kathleen York, who played Renee Wheeler on The OC. It's already that time: Chrismukkah! Yet this year, it's “The Chrismukkah That Almost Wasn't” (S2 Ep6). Kathleen's story can be inspirational for aspiring actors; listen and hear how Kathleen found her success. She talks about a guest spot on a show she wasn't interested in, leading to a singing appearance at the Oscars! And, she shares her experience playing a masseuse on “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” (which stars Larry David, Rachel's celebrity crush!). They dive into the Julie and Jimmy sex scene, making Melinda blush and “plead the Bilson.” The hosts surmise how Renee explained to Lindsay where her dad was. And, they share memories from filming those giant kitchen scenes with the entire cast in them. Of course, this episode notes all of the Chrismukkah charm: Seth's job wheel, the yamaclaus, and the band Guster's "Carol of the Meows" that plays throughout! The Chrismukkah That Almost Wasn't Synopsis: The whole gang is invited to Chrismukkah at the Cohens' house, but Seth's favorite holiday is nearly ruined as secrets are revealed that will change the Cohen family forever. Jimmy and Julie are more than friendly and Seth, Summer, Marissa and Ryan make a plan to save Chrismukkah. Leave the OC, Bitches a message: https://www.speakpipe.com/ocbitches Please support our sponsors: Work out for free anytime, anywhere with FitOn. Text OC to 64-000 to join FitOn for free!  Modern Fertility is an easy and affordable way to test your fertility hormones at home with a simple finger prick. Get $20 off your fertility test when you go to https://www.ModernFertility.com/OC. Visit https://www.athleticgreens.com/theoc to take control of your health and give AG1 a try. You'll receive an immune-supporting FREE 1 year supply of Vitamin D AND 5 free travel packs with your first purchase. Furnish your home with Article! Welcome to the OC, Bitches! Listeners can get $50 off their first purchase of one hundred dollars or more. Go to https://www.Article.com/OC and the discount will be automatically applied at checkout Follow @rachelbilson and @themelindaclarke on Instagram! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Why are there three pedals on the piano, when we have only two feet? Revered American fortepianist Malcolm Bilson, a pioneer in the historic performance movement, talks with Tom about how the movement took off in the 1970s, when he made his beloved recordings of the John Eliot Gardner series of Mozart piano concertos on fortepiano. Contrary to a commonly held perception of two kinds of pianos—period and modern—the fortepiano evolved as much from the mid-17th to the mid 18th century as the modern piano did over the century that followed, with each mechanical “improvement” affecting interpretation and the resulting sound.

Welcome to the OC, Bitches! is the name of Rachel Bilson & Melinda Clarke's new Podcast. About The Podcast: Join the original OC bitches, friends and co-stars Rachel Bilson and Melinda Clarke, for a trip back to the early 2000s. Zip up your Juicy Couture tracksuits and grab a seat by the pool while they deliver the ultimate OC-rewatch podcast. Each week they'll take you back to a particular episode, share behind-the-scenes scoop, and interview guests who were part of the OC experience. Superfans rejoice: Rachel and Melinda will even invite you to join in on this juicy action!  About Rachel Bilson: Most recently, Rachel Bilson starred as ‘Sam Swift' in the ABC series “Take Two” alongside Eddie Cibrian. She was also recently seen in Season 5 of the CMT series “Nashville,” where she played ‘Alyssa Green,' a Silicon Valley marketing expert. From 2011 – 2015, she starred as ‘Dr. Zoe Hart' in four seasons of The CW series “Hart of Dixie,” a fish-out-of-water story about a New York City doctor adjusting to life in a small Southern town after she inherits a local medical practice. She also starred as ‘Constance Kopp' in an episode from Season 4 and as ‘Helen Callaghan' in an episode from Season 6 of “Drunk History.” Her film credits include “The To Do List,” opposite Bill Hader and Aubrey Plaza. She also starred as the female lead in “Waiting for Forever,” as well as in “Jumper” for 20th Century Fox Studios; “L!fe Happens” opposite Kate Bosworth, “The Last Kiss,” with Zach Braff and directed by Tony Goldwyn for Paramount, and opposite Andy Garcia in a film called “New York, I Love You,” comprised of a series of shorts. She also appeared twice as a guest star on the television series “How I Met Your Mother,” as well as Josh Schwartz's “Chuck.”  Bilson became an integral part of pop culture due to her series regular role on the very popular television show “The O.C.” for four seasons. She also had guest-starring roles in television series such as “That ‘70s Show,” “Mad TV,” “8 Simple Rules” and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”About Melinda Clarke: Melinda Patrice "Mindy" Clarke is an American actress who has worked primarily in television. Clarke is known for playing Faith Taylor on the daytime drama Days of Our Lives, the manipulative and cunning Julie Cooper on The O.C., and the professional dominatrix Lady Heather on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.Find their new show here: https://t.co/MTdt7dCR7C?amp=1Connect with Rachel & Melinda on Social Media: Rachel Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/rachelbilson/Melinda Clarke Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/themelindaclarke/Twitter - https://twitter.com/therealmsclarkeFollow The Story Box on Social MediaINSTAGRAM ► - https://www.instagram.com/thestoryboxpodcast/ TWITTER ► - https://twitter.com/jay_fantom FACEBOOK ► - https://www.facebook.com/thestoryboxpodcast WEBSITE ► - https://thestoryboxpodcast.com/SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE! Apple Podcast ► - https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-story-box/id1486295252 Spotify ► - https://open.spotify.com/show/7h8Qv3r2ZV29f7ktJOwmgM?si=FXxYC1JFSHesBv7_d1WtNQ WATCH HERE:YouTube ► - https://www.youtube.com/c/TheStoryBox If you enjoyed this episode please subscribe to YouTube & Apple Podcasts, and leave a 5-star positive rating and review over on Apple Podcasts. Share it around with your friends and family.FREE MINDVALLEY COURSES: CPM: https://mval.li/?a=9745&c=2880&p=r&s1=Sleep: https://mval.li/?a=9745&c=2839&p=r&s1=Life Visioning: https://mval.li/?a=9745&c=2881&p=r&s1=Speak & Inspire:  https://mval.li/?a=9745&c=2511&p=r&s1= See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On the first ever episode of Betches Moms, hosts Aleen Dreksler and Brittany Levine start the show with a conversation about the two of them being pregnant at the same time during a pandemic. Then they're joined by actress Rachel Bilson to talk about her new podcast “Welcome to the OC Bitches” and what it's like to raise a six year old as a working actress. They discuss what it's like for a child to start virtual kindergarten, how she handles co-parenting and whether or not Bilson's daughter knows just how famous her parents really are. Plus, they talk about the ‘hot grandma shit' they like to do and Rachel shares a great parenting hack to keep kids busy. Then they play a game of “What the F*ck Did You Just Say” featuring some of the craziest things the Betches Moms followers have heard from their children. They close things out with some embarrassing stories of the week, and Rachel reveals whether or not she'd ever do an OC reunion.

Welcome to Heilman & Haver - Episode 17.  We hope you enjoy the show! Please join the conversation - email us with thoughts and ideas and connect with the show on Facebook and Twitter.   IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Danny Bilson Danny Bilson comes from a long line of writers, from his Grandfather George, who was a producer/writer/director and head of the trailer department at Warner Brothers, to his grandmother Hattie, who interviewed stars for fan magazines and wrote shorts for RKO. After a long television and film career at Warner Brothers, Disney and Paramount himself,  Bilson served as a senior executive in the video game industry at both Electronic Arts, and THQ.  Danny has experience developing properties in film, video games, TV, theme parks and comic books. Bilson currently has a major motion picture, Da 5 Bloods, directed by Spike Lee, available for streaming on Netflix and front and center in this season’s award chatter. Danny has consulted at Walt Disney Imagineering as well as Tencent games where he runs the Tencent Spectrum training program for their senior producers and developers twice each year.  Bilson has been on the faculty of the USC School of Cinematic Arts since 2005, where he teaches screenwriting, narrative design and  Advanced Game Production.  Danny is Chairman of the Interactive Media and Games Division and was recently appointed Director of USC Games, where he leads the joint program shared by both The School of Cinematic Arts and the Viterbi School of Engineering. Connect with Danny: Web: www.dannybilson.com Twitter: twitter.com/dannybilson   COMING UP NEXT WEEK: Next weekend, we’ll be joined by Tim Conway Jr. - talk show host at KFI in LA, the No. 1 news/talk radio station in the country, and, as you might have guessed, eldest son of Tim Conway, legendary comedian and star of The Carol Burnett Show, McHale’s Navy, and who could forget, Dorf.  Tim will share stories from his career in broadcasting and childhood growing up a Conway.

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A conversation with Robyn Bilson, owner of the creative branding agency Hatched Studio. She found her way into her marketing business by way of the fashion world, after launching and learning to market Semblance boutique (now closed) several years ago. With host Jason Boyett, she shares about introducing some of Austin to Amarillo, the state of women's fashion, and why more and more women-owned businesses are taking shape in our city. This episode is sponsored by Shemen Dental and La-Z-Boy Furniture Galleries. 

In which you will learn: Who the most unlikeable characters on TV are Why you should like them and their show Some great fun facts about Danny DeVito

On this episode of the DevReady Podcast, Andrew and Anthony talk to the founder and CEO of Primary, a tech consulting firm based in the Greater Melbourne Area. They talk about the challenges of modeling, working with clients, and the art of storytelling. James talks about his history in the tech world and expresses some of the frustrations he experienced as an early developer. Among these are the problems he saw with the companies that used the agile model. He speaks to why agile doesn't really provide any solutions for the customer, and what tech companies need to do is create models that address real problems to create real value. Andrew and Anthony share in this frustration because of all the projects they have been on where apps were developed that ultimately did not create any value for the customer. The key takeaways from this episode iare James's ideas that modeling is probably the most important step in the early stages of development, and that you can add value to the user's experience by involving them in the story that the product is telling. In other words, storytelling has the power to create a meaningful experience (and valuable interactions in the real world). By building and model and developing a “scaffolding” of storytelling in your application, you can provide your customers with solutions they actually want instead of meaningless products that offer no value and ultimately hurt your company in the long run. Topics Covered: ● Getting customers to clearly express their needs in the startup phase. ● The agile approach as a “solution” to real problems. ● The world of use-case models. ● PHP and user-management systems. ● The problems with novel tech and integration of systems. ● Storytelling as a way to connect the user to the app experience. ● Defining what the software actually should be doing. ● How just jumping in will often build the skills you need. ● Start by building a model. Key Quotes ❏ “We were a hacker shop—we were just making it up as we went along.” (6:00) ❏ “I ended up building a lot of stuff that was beautifully crafted but did stuff that was stupid and that nobody wanted.” (8:55) ❏ “I agree that the agile solution that's been bandied around--I don't think it is.” (13:00) ❏ “You want to create a series of stories...that merge the tool and the communication piece.” (15:40) ❏ “A user must end up doing something of value to them in the real world.” (19:32) ❏ “Interfaces as an organizational structure are not great.” (22:35) ❏ “If you have too many conditions in the story, then the story arc is lost.” (25:40) ❏ “You can involve the other dev people [in the modeling process] and they can have real value.” (30:35) ❏ “Sometimes the answer is no dev, not pursuing an outcome at all.” (34:00) ❏ “We link processes that people are already carrying out.” (36:12) ❏ “It's a massive win if you can take even just one or two iterations out.” (37:55) ❏ “There is this reticence to get started—just jump in.” (39:00) ❏ “The product will evolve over time as your relationship develops with the customers.” (44:10)

On this episode of the DevReady Podcast, Andrew and Anthony talk to the founder and CEO of Primary, a tech consulting firm based in the Greater Melbourne Area. They talk about the challenges of modeling, working with clients, and the [...] The post DevReady Podcast E48 – Storytelling, Modelling & Creating Value in a Start-up with James Bilson appeared first on DevReady Academy.

This week I chat with Estelle Bilson from 70s House Manchester,Estelle has the most stunning 70's decorated home, full of vintage treasures, she has turned her passion into designing 70's inspired wallpapers and home wears.Guest: www.70shousemanchester.comSponsor: To take advantage of the generous 15% discount from my sponsor Thorndown, please visit http://bit.ly/TVCarpenter. Discount code: TVCarpenterContact me: www.theTVcarpenter.com Music: "What's the Angle" by Shane Ivers

Join the Master of… team as they interview one of their own. Queen Victoria herself.

Carole Bilson, President of The Design Management Institute, speaks about the importance of diverse representation in the design world and how we can pave a path for the next generation of women and people of color in the industry.

Screenwriter/Producer Danny Bilson & friend of the show Tarik JacksonJoin the podcast to talk Bilson’s latest film Da 5 Bloods directed by Spike Lee, the process of writing and being advocate for helping people of color in his respective industry.Follow us:https://www.instagram.com/nickofcomedy https://www.instagram.com/tysterlinhttps://www.instagram.com/comedypopuphttps://www.comedypopupla.com/cpupodcasts

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On this episode, we mostly just talk about our experiences as guests (and a little bit as monsters) at Knott's Scary Farm over the past 20+ years. Some of the topics we discuss are:-Our first impressions of Haunt-Best monster interactions we've seen-Best props we've seen or used-Favorite and least favorite mazes of all time...and many more!

We discuss it all in this next episode with our March Sister Girl, Mrs. Bilson! She is full of so much wisdom and provides the listener key insight on how to choose a therapist and expresses the difference between the therapist and the pastor within the church! We encourage you also to follow Sharita Bilson on Facebook and @mrssharitabilson on instagram. 

Beth Bilson, Q.C., former Dean at the College of Law at the University of Saskatchewan discusses how everyone has a role to play in educating the public about missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.

#007- Lindsay Bilson, DPTWelcome to an amazing interview with Lindsay Bilson! Lindsay is an outpatient physical therapist with a great perspective on communication.Tune in while she shares her insight on treating the patient as a whole, roles and specialization in healthcare and much more!If you would like to see the show notes for this episode head to:Show Notes

So very sad to hear of the passing of chef Tony Bilson. Here's a tiny bite from a chat we had 10 years ago. I remember him being so excited as he told me about his recent trip to Northeast Arnhem Land and the cooking techniques learned from the Yolngu people. Techniques that are now being experimented with by many young chefs. Tony played such an important part in the developing Aussie food culture across an incredible career. His 2011 book Insatiable is one of my favourites...   

Basée à Lille, Estelle BILSON est consultante informatique en freelance avec 20 ans d’expérience dans le monde Informatique dont 10 ans d’expérience en gestion de projets. Partageant la vision d’une Afrique poumon de l’industrie mondiale du numérique, elle souhaite former la jeunesse Africaine au métier du TEST logiciel. Cette femme déterminée est aussi porteuse d’un projet visant à combattre le phénomène d’enfants et adultes ‘invisible’ en Côte d’Ivoire et en Afrique. Découvrez dans cet article son profil professionnel et ses activités à impact en Afrique. Comment Estelle est entrée dans le métier du TEST ? Au cours de sa vie professionnelle précédant le TEST, Estelle a constaté que certains projets n’aboutissaient pas et ou finissaient en gouffre financier, très souvent parce la solution logicielle proposée ne correspondait aux spécifications du client ou simplement certaines fonctionnalités ne fonctionnent pas comme spécifié dans les besoins, finalement le produit n’est pas utilisable. D’où son intérêt pour ce métier de test et de validation. Car un testeur vérifie en amont du projet si le livrable correspond au cahier de charge et teste les fonctionnalités demandées. Même si la relation entre testeur et développeur peut être souvent tendue. La collaboration est nécessaire. Avec Estelle nous nous sommes fixé comme Objectif de sortir des enfants de l'invisibilité administrative et de leur apprendre un des métiers du numérique. Vous aussi : rejoignez le réseau d'Experts 10.000 Codeurs Du Sens, de la Visibilité, des opportunités d'affaires sur le Continent. Vous aussi, comme Estelle, rejoignez notre réseau d'Experts bienveillants au service de l'insertion professionnelle de la Jeunesse Africaine par les métiers du numérique. Abonnez vous sur iTunes / Spotify ou rendez vous sur notre site : http://www.podcast.10000codeurs.com Partagez autour de vous et aussi laissez nous un gentil commentaire avec 5 étoiles ! Contacter 10000 Codeurs sur: Linkedin / Facebook/ Twitter et Instagram

DISCLAIMER: Don't listen to this episode. I literally considered never publishing this because it's so stupid. It's full of nonsense, inside jokes, drunkenness and all kinds of other stupidity that nobody should listen to. If you do decide to listen, prepare to lose brain cells. You've been warned...On this episode, my guests are my two brothers Kevin and Jeffrey Moore, my cousin Ryan Moore and my friend Paul Bilson. This was recorded late at night after the final night of Midsummer Scream 2019. Some of us were drunk, most of us were stupid, and all of us were tired. Some of the topics we discuss are:-Midsummer Scream-Knott's Scary Farm-Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights-Roca Scary Farm-The time Jeffrey scooped our dad on Christmas morning-The scary cyclops lady that lived behind our childhood house-The time Andy grew a mullet so he could take glamour shots at Walmart-The time Ryan left his dad a voicemail saying he got into a car accident and died-The time Paul and Andy almost got Ryan arrested-Why the midwest states suck-We time travel, but Paul gets left behind-The best maze in Knott's history-We drink some whiskey from Costco-Andy takes off his shirt-Why Ryan stopped driving around with a machete in his car-The time Ryan and Andy dressed up in full pirate costumes and went to a BBQ restaurant-A little bit of scaring discussion...and so many other stupid topics

“When I go and give a master class, I’m almost never telling anybody what to do. I’m always telling them what to read.” In this episode, you’ll: Encounter surprising contradictions between historical and modern practices; Learn new concepts about interpreting classical-era music; Understand the importance of experimentation; and Get resources to learn more about historical performance practice.

Recorded at The Grand and The Lighthouse for release W/C 8th July 2019   This week Stephen Tompkinson talks about his role in Educating Rita at The Grand, we chat with some of the cast or Sprint Awakening from Let me in, Simon Archer tells us about Bilson in Bloom and we find out about The Story of the Guitar Heroes at The Gatehouse.

Keep Going: Suffering and Prayer - James 5:7-20 - Amy Bilson by St. Mark's Church, Tollington Park

How does a small agency regularly pull in $100,000+ from small, 20 to 40 person events? This week on The Inbound Success Podcast, Oli Billson shares how he has brought in over $1 million dollars in new business revenue from a series of just five small, workshop-style events.  Oli is the Founder of Oliver Billson Marketing and a popular marketing speaker featured in conferences around the world. His small educational events for entrepreneurs have become a significant driver of revenue (both one time and recurring) for his business, and in this week's episode, he shares the exact process he uses to plan, promote, and monetize these events. This week's episode of The Inbound Success Podcast is brought to you by our sponsor, IMPACT Live,  the most immersive and high energy learning experience for marketers and business leaders. IMPACT Live takes place August 6-7, 2019 in Hartford Connecticut and is headlined by Marcus Sheridan along with special guests including world-renowned Facebook marketing expert Mari Smith and Drift CEO and Co-Founder David Cancel. Inbound Success Podcast listeners can save 10% off the price of tickets with the code "SUCCESS".  Click here to learn more or purchase tickets for IMPACT Live Some highlights from my conversation with Oli include: Oli speaks at a lot of marketing conferences around the world, and uses that as an opportunity to hold local events in the conference cities for area entrepreneurs and business owners. In the past year, he has run 5 of these small events around the US and Canada. Oli's events are two-day workshops designed to help businesses go "from inspiration to implementation." At the event, attendees get the "Automation Playbook," a pre-built, pre-packaged, well-engineered marketing that they could go and put to work immediately in their business. Every attendee is also given a free, 30 day trial of Oli's monthly membership program called "Player's Club." After the initial 30 days, membership continues at $400 per month. The average attendee stays in the membership program for 9.5 months. Attendees are also given the option to upgrade and join Oli's mastermind group at $15,000 a year. In most of the cities where Oli has held events, he does not have a lot of local contacts, so he relies on a two-step direct mail campaign targeted at a list he purchases from InfoUSA. The response rate for this campaign was 60%. This is coupled with a text and ringless voicemail campaign aimed at driving registrations. The key to monetizing events like Oli does, is to have offers that you can use to upsell attendees. In this case, Oli's offers were structured in a way to deliver recurring revenue to his business. Once someone registers for an event, Oli sends them what he calls a "shock and awe" box with event swag and a "stick letter" reaffirming their decision to register. This has contributed to a 90% attendance rate. Resources from this episode: Save 10% off the price of tickets to IMPACT Live with promo code "SUCCESS" Visit the Oliver Billson Marketing website Connect with Oli on LinkedIn Follow Oli on Facebook Follow Oli on Twitter Listen to the podcast to learn the exact marketing plan that Oli uses to generate six-figure revenue from small, workshop-style events. Transcript Kathleen Booth (Host): Welcome back to the Inbound Success Podcast. I'm your host Kathleen Booth, and this week my guest is Oliver Billson, who is the owner and founder of Oliver Billson Marketing, and a serial entrepreneur with a fascinating background, welcome Oliver. Oli Billson (Guest): Hey, thanks for having me on. I'm looking forward to it. Oli and Kathleen recording this episode Kathleen: I'm looking forward to it too. So for my audience, I first met Oliver at a Digital Marketer's agency training day about a month ago, and he gave a fantastic talk on how he's driven traffic to these local events that he's been holding, and then the impact that that's had on his business and revenue growth. And so I was, as soon as I heard it I was like, "Ooh, I need to share this with my listeners!" About Oliver Billson Kathleen: But before we jump into that, can you talk a little bit about yourself, because you have a fascinating background, and I was interested to read on your site the evolution of you as a businessperson and how you wound up doing what you do now. Oli: Yes, sure, so it is a bit of an interesting story, I guess. I've never actually worked for anybody, I started my first business when I was 15 years old, building computers out of my mom and dad's back room, and that was my first foray, really, into entrepreneurship. And I, as well as having a passion for computing and building computers at that age, I also had a passion for cars, I absolutely love cars, still do to this day, and so what I did was I started an automated after-market business, and really kind of understood at that point, building that service-based business, the importance really, the lifeblood of every business, which is getting and keeping customers. And I was really lucky to be exposed to direct response marketing at a fairly young age, I was only about 19 years old, actually, when I read my first book on direct response marketing, immediately applied it, and really had some profound results from implementing that type of marketing. And it kind of defied conventional wisdom and popular belief, in terms of my circles at that time, the people that I knew that were building businesses. And they were quite amazed at the growth and the catalyst that that had had on my business, and so we grew those businesses and I kind of became known, now I suppose, for building businesses inside of businesses. So we started out as a service-based business, then we started helping other people in my niche at that time, start, grow and scale their own businesses, then we'd create another business inside of that business, which was our exclusive franchise, which we took from zero to 170 franchisees internationally in just less than four years, so very quick growth there. And then inside of that business I built another business which was a marketing agency out of the capabilities I built around marketing inside of that business, and then we transcended that into membership, and selling information and knowledge and expertise online through our memberships, and then into where we are today, which is nextlevelbusiness.com, which is an e-learning business where we help, obviously, service-based businesses, client-based businesses scale. Kathleen: Wow, it is so clear that entrepreneurship runs in your blood, very strongly. I love hearing stories like that, because there's an interesting pattern I've noticed in, I've now like 90-some-odd episodes into this podcast, and I interview different people every week, and they're all people who are getting phenomenal results with some kind of marketing. And what I've started to notice is that a lot of them, probably the majority of them, are not trained as marketers. They are people who have that very entrepreneurial spirit, they're very naturally curious, they're the kind of people who jump in and want to know the answers to things and figure things out, and they love a problem and figuring out how to solve it, and I feel like that is so what I'm hearing from you. It's great, it's- Oli: Yeah, absolutely. It's all about solving the problems for people, you know? Kathleen: Yeah, well, [crosstalk] and I think that's what makes you a great entrepreneur, is figuring it out and taking your business to the next step, because let's be honest, as an entrepreneur you're constantly going to be faced with, somebody once said to me, "As your company gets bigger, you don't have fewer problems, you have maybe the same number of problems but they tend to be bigger problems." And so there's only more things to figure out, so you've got to love that. Oli: Absolutely, yes. Yeah, totally agree with that. How Oli Grew His Business Through Events Kathleen: So let's talk a little bit about what I heard you talk about at Digital Marketer, which is these events. And this started out as something very small, that you quickly saw you were getting results from and then it expanded. Can you kind of rewind the clock and maybe share with the listeners what your original objective and idea was when you first began? Oli: Yeah, sure. Probably like a lot of people, I love attending events, and for those who know me well, I'm fortunate enough now to be asked to speak at events pretty much all around the world, so I love speaking at them, I love attending them. I think there's something special that comes with events in terms of the bond that you can create with people, potential customers, with the proximity that they bring. And there's lots of benefits to running events, from a sales, customer acquisition standpoint, of course, and they're often used as a vehicle, and over the years I've helped lots of other people actually put on their own events, and put butts in seats, and monetize them and have the whole strategy behind it. But although I knew all the benefits of running an event, I was actually a little bit shy to actually do my own events, for a number of different reasons, and probably those reasons were many of the reasons why people don't ultimately do it. Perhaps they're worried about attracting enough people to actually attend the event, they're thinking, "Well maybe I don't have a large enough list of potential people to attend the event," or maybe, "What happens if I can't get people to register for the event, what happens if I can't get them to show up to the event, and what happens or if it was a failure, how would I be perceived in the market if it was a failure?" And so, all of these are the common fears, really, that were running through my mind, and probably run through a lot of minds of the people that may even be listening to this. And really what happened was I was speaking at an event in San Diego, and a good friend of mine said to me, "Look, Oli, you're missing a huge opportunity here to really share your knowledge, expertise, wisdom, experience, with people when you come and speak at these other marketing events," and that's really how this initially evolved was, why not leverage my time in putting on a small workshop ahead or bookending it, really, to somewhere where I was already going to be? And for those of you who can't tell, this isn't an Australian accent, I'm from the UK, so I spend a lot of time over in the States, and most of our clients' customers are in the States. So I wanted to use this as an opportunity to run these events. But I was kind of, really what had stopped me before was all these falsehoods, really, that come with running events. And I thought, okay I'm going to do this, and the first one that I, at this point to just kind of just zoom out, we, over the past 12 months we ran five of these small events in the format that we'll go ahead and talk about here. And the first one that I ran was actually in San Diego. I was going to be back there again in a few months, almost a year from the day, actually, that we're doing this interview, now. And what I guess I didn't quite imagine would happen was exactly how well they would go, and whether it was just by luck or by some level of judgment and strategic thinking, we really did things quite differently to the way that most would go about this, and it really really had a very big impact. I think right now, just to, not brag, but just to kind of say as it is, we went from really going, I think one point, about $1.2 million in revenue from doing these small, big money, from these small events, really. In the format that we're going to hear. So it really does work, and it was done in a way that was very different. And what I mean by that is, I'm sure we've all attended the events where there's a, people have to make sales, right? They just have to make sales, they bring in other speakers, there's lots of pitching, and it creates sometimes not the best experience for the people that are attending. What I knew I wanted to do was stay true to our values and our business, which was really to provide lots of value, to provide a great experience for people who were there. And if they wanted to continue the journey with us, they could. So we all, we were kind of very clear on those principles before we started putting this together, which I think really helped us to stay grounded towards what we actually wanted to try and create, really. Kathleen: All right. That's great, I love hearing those specific revenue numbers, it's definitely not bragging and I think, the feedback I've gotten from my listeners is the more specific the data, the better, because, [crosstalk] it's one thing to come on and say, "I'm getting great results," it's another to be like, "This is how much money we're making off of it," so keep that coming. Oli: Good. The Event Format Kathleen: Let's talk about the event format, because I think that's really the next thing here is, exactly what do these events look like, where were they held, what was the cost structure, how many people did you target, et cetera? Oli: Sure. So we can run through them in detail. So the first event that we ran was in San Diego, and it was a two-day workshop. And it was sharply focused on people being able to go from information to implementation. So rather than just going to the event and getting information, that they would take home and hopefully execute themselves, we would largely be able to give them pre-built, pre-packaged, well-engineered marketing that they could go and put to work immediately in their business. So we could almost do a lot of the work for them, and create these marketing campaigns that they could deploy themselves, but take away a lot of the strain and the struggle that comes with doing it themselves. And so we called the event The Automation Playbook, because really it was largely about creating this predictable lead to customer journey, and having these playbooks, these campaigns, put into their business. And so what we decided to do was run these events so they were very, they were easy for people to be able to make the decision to come. So the price point was only $97.00 to attend the workshop. But because of- Kathleen: That's a no-brainer. Upselling Event Registrants Oli: Absolutely, no-brainer, right? But in order to make this a different, you know we're not going to get rich, and you could also argue how much value can you really also give for $97.00? And so what we did was, something that really goes against what most people will tell you about these events. And so what we did was, we actually got people to take a free trial of our membership at the time, of Player's Club, which was a inner-circle, my inner-circle, which was $400.00 a month. So what it meant was, just so you understand how it looked, they came and registered for the workshop for $97.00, but they also took a 30 day test drive of Player's Club. And it so happened the things that we would talk about at the workshop were the things that they'd get as part of membership. So they actually get these campaigns, these playbooks as part of membership anyway. So we obviously wanted them to continue the journey with us beyond this. But that meant then, we were really converting the workshop from a sales mechanism, to actually being more of a membership event. So it was a very different feeling. We actually spent most of our time at the event engendering them, indoctrinating them to the value of membership, and really getting the results for them that they wanted with the time that we had together. So it meant that after the 30 days, they would then hopefully continue as a member. And that's really where our revenue was going to be based in the back end, rather than in the front. And so it was on us to perform, and we did that, we did that very well. Oli's Event Marketing Plan Oli: What we ended up doing, to give you the exact numbers, and how we got people to the event, was, we have a little advantage, maybe, over some because I have a name in the industry, I suppose, speaking at different events. But, so we have a small list, in California, we had about, and a little wider than that, we had a list about five and a half thousand people, which is not insignificant, but they were people that were on our list. But we also knew that we wanted to go out to the market and meet them where they were, so we actually procured a list of 1200 businesses in the local area. So a very targeted list that we purchased from InfoUSA, to be able to target people with direct mail. Now a lot of you might be thinking, "Well in a digital age, why, why would we do that? Can we find other ways of doing this?" Well, we did a two-step direct mail campaign to these people, which actually prevailed to be the most expensive people to actually put into the event, but have subsequently, now we know all the numbers on the back end, actually prevailed to be the best long-term members and customers for us. And that worked extremely well. So we did email to our house list, to our targeted list of people that we'd already got, we also did some internal lead generation with text messaging, so asking people on our list, "Text the words San Diego," or "Diego," whatever it was, back, and then we would send them the information and invitation to then event, and then we also did ringless voicemail as well. So we did a recorded message that would show on their phone. And we got them then to text us back from that ringless voicemail, for us to then send the information about the event. So all in all, the net result was we ended up having, we ended up doing, what was it now, let me have a quick look here, I had to make a note of it for you. We sold 32 tickets to the event. Measuring Event ROI Oli: Now again, on high-level you may look at that and think, "Gosh Oli, 32 people? It doesn't sound like a lot of people in the room, how'd you make that work?" Well least we forget, they paid $97, which liquidated the cost of running the event for the two dates. You know, to get the hotel, and refreshments and that kind of thing, liquidated the cost for us. But also, because we promoted this in a four-week window, remember they were taking the 30 day trial of membership, they weren't actually charged their $400 for the membership, until after the event. Well what that meant was, only 10 people out of the 32 actually canceled membership, because they loved the event, they loved what we delivered, and they wanted to continue being a member. And that was fantastic because now we've got reoccurring revenue, obviously, from those people. And we also took the opportunity at the event to offer them an opportunity to apply for our Mastermind. So what it meant was 10 people out of the 32, they applied to become a Mastermind member at $15,000 a year, and six of those people actually bought. They didn't buy to pay over the year, they actually paid in full. So it looked like out of those 32 people it's a massive number per delegate that were there, of course. $93,000 in revenue, up front revenue, was generated from the event. And then, $8,000 of recurring revenue on the back end! And what I can tell you is, that model and that run rate, the stick rate, the attrition, was a nine, ended up to be a nine and a half month stick rate at $400.00 a month. Kathleen: Wow. Oli: So, fantastic lifetime value for using an event as a way to acquire members as well, and get them to stick. They actually ended up to be very, very good members, because not all lead sources are obviously the same, and what I'm trying to say here, if you get my point, is if we'd have acquired members through Facebook advertising, for example, then the cost of acquisition might have been less, than running an event, but the stick rate might not have been the same. It could have been three months, two months, as it has been in some circumstances. So, worked extremely well. Kathleen: Yeah, I have so many questions for you. But the first thing I think that really jumps out at me from listening to you talk, is that events, one of the reasons that events probably have a terrible reputation, is that I think too many businesses hold events thinking the event itself is going to be the money-maker. And what I'm hearing you say is really, the event is just essentially the gateway drug or the tripwire, to what is really a bigger offer that you have, and so if I'm listening to this, I think the first thing that I would be thinking is, "What is it that I'm really trying to sell?" It's not the ticket to the event, that's just the promise that the person's going to show up and the way to cover the cost. I need something bigger, longer term, perhaps recurring, that I'm really looking to sell to them, is that right? Oli: Yeah, absolutely. I think you've always got to start with the end in mind, and if you think really about this, the journey that you want to take people on, and the experience, on that journey, that you want them to have. I think what I really like about events is, and I'm totally sold on this now of course, but what I really like about these types of events is really the proximity and the bond that you can have with people, because you find out so much more about people's fears, frustrations, challenges, objections, and that then allows you to be able to iterate and change your offers and the way that you talk about things, in a much more accurate way to mirror and match those problems that you're solving for people, because of the time that you're spending with each other. Using Events for Audience Research Oli: And of course, you can also, I found out, find out very succinctly why people are also taking advantage of these offers, why they're continuing in membership, what they really thought about the experience, because they're going to give you that feedback. You're going to get it a lot quicker than you perhaps would in terms of some level of delay from a webinar, for example, or a post, you know, an NPS follow-up. Which are all great by the way, but there's nothing quite like events to be able to have that interaction with people. Kathleen: That's a really good point, because there's a big difference. You know marketers talk a good game about doing persona research and audience research, and there's a difference between setting an appointment and saying, "I'm going to call you and ask you 10 questions for my audience research," and sitting and having a cup of coffee with somebody before a workshop presentation. I think in the latter case, you get a much less guarded, more candid set of feedback than you do when you're in a structured interview setting. So that's an interesting point that you make there. Oli: Yeah, I think we also really embodied that feedback loop, because when you do an event like this, you get to know very, very quickly whether or not something works or it doesn't work or it resonates or it doesn't. And I remember listening to, I actually asked the question at the event, "Is there any reason why you wouldn't continue the journey in membership beyond this point? Is there any reason why you would cancel, I'd love to find out." Not to, if not for any other reason than I don't feel that we will have done our job, and it's my duty to find out how we can best serve you, and so I'd love to know your candid feedback, so please give that to me. And I think because I was just very authentic with that as well, that helped. But because it was different, you're face-to-face, toe-to-toe with these people, it really, you don't need to be something that you're not, right? You're engineering something for their benefit. I think people could tell that and see that, that you actually cared. And I think... You've got to go into these things in the right way, and I think the thing that we did that, somebody's looking at adding information, education, training, mentorship, whatever to their business, and they were thinking about doing this kind of model with a ticket and then a trial of membership, I think it really gave people the opportunity to find out whether or not we were right for them. It gave them a taste of, so rather than doing a lot of indoctrinating, a lot of reselling, a lot of reaffirming when they onboarded as a member, now we could do that in the confines of an event. That's probably the reason why it worked so well long term. Using Direct Mail for Event Promotion Kathleen: Yeah. All right, I'm going to shift gears, and I want to ask you some more kind of nitty-gritty questions. You talked about some interesting things in terms of how you acquired registrants, or put butts in seats, as we like to say. You talked about direct mail, and you mentioned you got your list from Info USA, which is definitely a source that I'm familiar with, and to clarify, you really purchased that list to do direct mail, not to do email campaigns, correct? Oli: Yeah, that's right. Kathleen: Yeah. So how many different direct mail pieces did you do, like for one individual recipient? Oli: So we did a two-step direct mail campaign, so sent an eight page sales letter to begin with, to all of those people, and then we followed that up with, anybody that didn't respond, with a postcard, a typical postcard, to again take people to, the actual call to action was one, to go to a vanity URL just so we could track the traffic and then obviously the opt-ins, and then secondly, to text a keyword. Because pretty much when people receive direct mail these days, they're not far away from their mobile phones, let alone going online and keying something in. You'd actually be surprised that the majority of people actually text in to receive the information for us, and then we have an automated text conversation, to then get them to the point where they had the opportunity to purchase a ticket. Kathleen: Now, if my memory serves, I seem to recall you mentioning that having two steps in that direct mail sequence was really important, because, even though you had the eight page sales letter, which would seem like, boy if anything was going to convince them it would be those eight pages, and then you followed it with a very simple postcard. Am I right in remembering that on that second step you actually had a really good response rate? Oli: It was almost double. Kathleen: Wow. Oli: It was almost double. In fact I think for this first event that we're just talking about here, it was like 60%. Kathleen: Wow. Oli: So, it was a lot, lot better response than just taking the first step. So we would have basically not, we would have got a whole lot less registrants from the direct mail. It would've almost meant that it wasn't profitable almost to run the first step.It would have just been one step. So actually by investing into two it actually paid dividends. And to be honest, multi-step, multi-media follow-up works every single day. So having this mix really works, and of course once they were in the funnel, once we'd actually lead-generated them, then they weren't just getting, they were getting all sorts of media as well to get them to convert. And the thing that we should also talk about, really is, and you're probably coming on to it, is how we got people to actually show up, because one of the big things with events is, and you'll hear this a lot in the industry is, they'll be like, "Yeah, we can get registrants, we just can't get them to actually show up," Kathleen: Yeah. Oli: And our show up rate across five events now, is 90-odd percent- Kathleen: That's huge! Oli: I can't remember the exact number. Kathleen: That's so huge! I run a HubSpot user group where I'm located in Maryland, and my rule of thumb is to expect about 50% of the people to show up. Now I don't charge for it, which probably if I charged money, I'm not allowed to do that, but if I could? It would probably make a little bit of a difference, but that's huge. Oli: Yeah, yeah. It's so big, because, and you have to invest into that, it's a little bit like the lead generation on the front end, you know that it's going to be a higher cost of registrant, for example, but arguably a higher quality. It could be the least cost of, it could be the lowest cost of acquiring a customer, as well, so that is a consideration. We did direct mail when people bought a ticket, we actually sent a box in the mail. So you can imagine, you buy a $97.00 ticket to a workshop, you're not getting any direct mail from that. Because we knew our numbers on the back end, we knew the value of the membership, we know how we can really help people, it meant that we could invest in that relationship. So we did a shock and awe box in the mail. We even did a customized tee-shirt, as well, that was sent to them. We had a whole welcome package that was sent over, a whole bunch of, it was like a box of goodies, really, that they got before they even got to the event. Because really what we're doing is, we're not just welcoming them to buying a ticket, but now we're reselling them on the benefits immediately of becoming a member, which clearly works well. Kathleen: All right. So you did these two direct mail pieces, how far apart were they sent? Oli: So we did, it was about five days, there or thereabouts. You could send them in slightly closer succession, the thing with direct mail is that there's a little bit of latency, where there's kind of the factor that they hang around, a little bit. See the funny thing is with it, is people that didn't respond to the first direct mail piece, they got the second, but sometimes that we actually found that they actually came back and actually responded from the first, because we used a way to track the difference, to discern the difference between the two direct mail pieces that we used. This is actually interesting numbers, that they got the second piece but didn't respond, but did from the first, even though they got the second. Kathleen: Yeah, it just gave them that nudge that they needed. Oli: Nudge, yeah. Just like an eight page sounds like, it doesn't really kind of go away, like it hangs around a bit, you know? Text Campaigns for Event Promotion Kathleen: Yeah. Now, you mentioned you directed them to a vanity URL so that you could track, and you also mentioned getting people to text. What was the platform that you used for the texting campaign? Oli: So we used Fix Your Funnel for the text campaign, but if you wanted to use something that was more HubSpot centric, then Yeti Text is a great alternative. It's made by the same people but just more focused into HubSpot. And that would be something to consider. Kathleen: And did the same platform also provide you with the ringless voicemail? Oli: Yep, they do ringless from there as well, but we didn't actually use them, we used a company called Slybroadcast which actually, funnily enough they actually use on the back end of their service anyway, so truly integrated. Yeah, and that's what we used for the ringless voicemail. I was very intentional with the ringless voicemail, was to say, "Hey it's Oli Billson here, I just wanted to reach out to you, obviously I've got your voicemail, but I just wanted to leave a quick note just to say I'd love for you to attend the Automation Playbook Live in San Diego, which is coming up in a few weeks. And right now is a great time to lock in your spot because we've got a few spaces left. Just text me back on this number, and I'll make sure that we will send you a link to find out more information." So what I did very intentionally was, the number that I called from doing the ringless voicemail, is actually the unified number for two-way texting, so I knew that when they picked it up, they could just text their number back that actually gave them the voicemail in the first place and that match really worked well. Kathleen: Now this is a really nitty-gritty question, but I need to ask it, because I've played around with texting and ringless voicemail campaigns, and a lot of the providers that I've worked with, they don't necessarily give you a full phone number, they give you a separate, special number for texting that doesn't look like a phone number? But I feel like, with ringless voicemail it doesn't seem like that would work as well, because it wouldn't look like a real person's number. So in your case, what did that look like? Oli: Yeah, so what we do is we buy, we bought a local number, that was local to where the event was. So when we did this in Toronto, we bought a Toronto number, and when we ran it in Austin, I bought an Austin number. And so, what that meant was, yes it was a local landline number, but we were just telling them that they could text back on that number. And it worked, it worked insanely well. I guess somebody's thought process wouldn't be, "This is obviously not a mobile number," but they do know that it's the local number, and they're tying in, "He said San Diego, this is a San Diego area code, I am in San Diego, okay." Kathleen: Yeah. Oli: Regardless of whatever he said I could text in, and you know there's a match there in some way. Kathleen: Yeah, thanks for clarifying that, because I think it's like those little details that really matter when you're doing these things, and they're the things that are the easiest to screw up if you haven't done them before. So you got people to come to the landing page, they engaged with the text campaign, they got the ringless voicemail, if they signed up you then sent them the box? What was in the box? The "Shock and Awe" Box Oli: Yeah, so, a bunch of, a bunch of things. I think most people wouldn't have expected to see everything that we put in there. So we had a branded tee-shirt. So we had a tee-shirt that was printed by us from, I think it was Custom Ink, was the website. And it was a lovely like, a really nice tee-shirt, it wasn't just like a crappy Fruit of the Loom thing, it was a nice branded tee-shirt. And then we had an agenda, for the event, a printed agenda for the event. It also had a stick letter, which is a letter, really that they'd read that we know that they would get, congratulating them on the decision that they'd made, and again in kind of reselling the benefit of the event. And then we put a bunch of testimonials, like a whole brochure, a 32-page brochure of testimonials from people that, if they're marketers, they would probably know who they are. So if somebody was like an Infusionsoft user, then they would know the CEO of Infusionsoft, we have a testimonial from them. If there was, just all sorts of different people who are like celebrities I suppose, in the marketing space, I have testimonials from them because they paid me for consulting or whatever it may be so I've got testimonials. And then also a bunch of transformative testimonials as well, from just normal people that they can relate to in lots of different industries, service-based businesses, client-based businesses as well and that I've helped over the years as well. So I sent them that for proof, and that really helped as well. And then we sent them a couple of of gimmicky things, like a little bookmark that they could use that was branded. We were going to do, like usually when we do this stuff we usually like to appeal to people's taste, so you could send some cookies or something like that in the box. We didn't do that in this particular case, but it's something that you could do in the future and you could tie them eating that to something in the letter, like you could reference it. Kathleen: Like "Take a bite out of your competition" or? Oli: Yeah, exactly. Yeah yeah yeah. So we just tried to create a situation that, all of the different pieces are paid for and everything in there, they all feel like, it's only a little thing, but they all feel different, that's more of a tactile thing. So people wanted to go through it and keep seeing what was in the box, and it had pink shredded paper- Kathleen: Oh, crinkle? Oli: Underneath it, they all sat on top of that. Yeah, that's it. So it didn't, they weren't rattling around in the box, you know what I mean? Kathleen: Yeah. Oli: And the box itself, I was on a podcast a couple of weeks ago with my friend Bill Glazer, and Bill was like, "I've still got the box!" Like, he's actually got it there, right? Because it was a high-quality, printed, branded box that we had. And, yeah. And we sent it FedEx as well, so again, all of those things kind of matter, because you know that it's like Christmas when somebody is opening it. Kathleen: It's so funny, I used to own an agency and we did a lot of, we called it dimensional mail, but it's essentially direct mail in a three dimensional package, with stuff in it, right? And it's amazing, the difference in response rates and reactions to people who get a box, than from people who get flat mail. I mean we used to have response rates of like 15 to 20%, and direct mail as you know, it's usually like 1 to 2%. Because everybody likes getting a box, they think it's like, "I might be getting a present," right? Oli: Exactly, yeah. Kathleen: And boxes get past gatekeepers, which is also a great thing. Oli: Absolutely. Measuring the Results of Oli's Events Kathleen: Well I love this, so I want to just circle back and recap, and let's talk again about what it cost you to put the event on, and then what your results were because I want to just drive that point home, of what this meant in terms of ROI. Oli: Sure thing. So the first event that we ran as I mentioned, $93,000 in front-end revenue and just under $8,000 in monthly recurring revenue. So then what we did was, I replicated exactly the same model in Toronto so I looked at another area, like another hub that would work, and I wanted to try Canada, so I did exactly the same thing. And in this case we generate 53 ticket sales, not 32, and it meant that we had 35 people out of the 53 continue in membership, so that was like $13,800 in recurring revenue, that we had from that event, right, because there was a lot more tickets that we sold, and $80,000 in front end revenue because nine people applied for Mastermind and five people became members at 15 grand each. So again, another 80 grand plus another nearly 14 grand a month in recurring revenue, which was great, okay? So those are the two results that we had, and I was like, "Don't stop now!" You know, don't stop doing this. So I was speaking at the ManyChat conference in Austin at the end of last year, and I thought, well I'm speaking at this conference, it was super last minute, super last minute, but I decided to put on another event. And I only had two weeks to promote it, so I knew that I wasn't going to sell like 50-dd tickets, 35 tickets, but because of how good the back end was on doing it, I thought, "What the Hell, I'll do it anyway." So I ran it in Austin and we only sold 17 tickets, which again, might sound like, ugh! That's not great- Kathleen: Well you're already there, anyway. Yeah. Oli: I'm already there anyway, right? But from that, 12 people that continued their memberships, out of 17, that was like $4,700 a month of recurring revenue, which was great. And six people applied to become Mastermind members, and five actually became members. So it was a little over $75,000 there from what was, and that was a one-day event because it was all very much last minute, I couldn't do my usual two-day event, so that's like $75,000 for one day, and then also then of course we've got $5,000 coming in from the recurring, from one day, so it made sense like, this is great, keep doing it. Kathleen: Yeah. It sounds like it's about $100,000 or more in revenue, per event. Can you, have you ever quantified fully what it costs you to put in on, not just the hotel and the catering, but the cost of acquisition? Oli: Yeah, sure. So for a two-day event, the first one that we ever ran, we ran on a real shoestring budget. So we didn't do catering. We put it in a really nice hotel, we did it at the Andaz Hotel in San Diego, which is downtown, it's a lovely place, great experience for a place, but we just didn't do lunch and we didn't do coffee and we didn't do that type of thing. We actually went to Starbuck's and bought the coffee ourselves, it was like, that kind of ghetto. But our cost for running the event was like, three and a half thousand dollars, that was it. That included room hire, we didn't do food and beverage with the hotel, we managed to negotiate it all, so that was really light. $3500 is negligible, right? What it worked out to in Toronto and Austin for those events, Austin was a bit different, we ran it at the Fairmont for one day, so it was a little bit more that what you'd expect to be half of that cost, and we started to put lunches on them. So what we found was, some people that wanted to consider joining Mastermind, we actually used that as a vehicle to then bring them into a lunch, so that I could actually get to know them better, not just what was on paper. We actually wanted to buy them lunch, because I wanted to find out more about them and whether or not we could really help them, and a great way to do that is to get to know people over lunch, after they've made their application. So there were some other costs, but I think on average, for a two-day event, it was under $5,000, for sure. Kathleen: Wow, that's insane ROI, so, there you go. That seems like a no-brainer! And you've been pretty generous in sharing, I know online and in different places, some examples of some of the things you've sent out, and so maybe I'll try and see if I can dig up some of that and include it in the show notes. Kathleen's Two Questions Kathleen: Before we wrap though, I have two questions that I always ask my guests, and I'd love to know what you have to say. I talk a lot of people doing inbound marketing on this podcast, when you think about inbound marketing today, company or individual, is there a certain person or company that stands out as doing it really well right now? Oli: I think from an inbound perspective, I think that you can really learn a lot from the education that, obviously HubSpot is such a big player, and you're so involved in their ecosystem, they're doing great stuff. But people like Marcus Sheridan, people like that, great people to follow, great people to model, and there's no, we're not short of great examples of inbound from those guys at all really. And some of the things, I was just on your website actually, earlier today, and you were, what was I searching? Oh, I was searching some definitions, this is how powerful inbound can be, I was searching some definitions for sales teams stages. And I was just setting up a new pipeline, and you were like the first result. IMPACT was the first result for discerning MQLs, SQL, and so I was like, "That's just the power of that." We're on a podcast together now, which is great, but that's amazing, isn't it, you know? Kathleen: It's cool when this stuff actually works. Oli: Absolutely, yeah. Absolutely. Kathleen: No, it is. Well the other question I have, and I always love, I love asking this because selfishly I want to know the answer, is digital marketing is just changing so quickly, there's so much happening. It's like drinking from a fire hose, and the biggest complaint I hear from marketers is just, "How do I stay up-to-date?" And so, how do you personally stay up-to-date? Do you have any go-to sources of information that you rely on so that you're always current on what's happening in the world of digital marketing? Oli: I think that people can really get hung up on doing a lot of learning, and not enough implementing. I would say again, none of us are short of resources and advice that we can go and get for free, or paid, whether it's programs or courses or groups or whatever. Or podcasts we could listen to, but really the learning comes from doing. And what I'd say, my advice to somebody is, really you don't have to spend too much time in this field to figure out what you could do, you just need to figure out what you should focus on, and go and do it. And make your own distinctions as you go, on what's working based on the numbers and the data to guide you on where the deficiencies are, so that you can plug those gaps and get help and support where you need them. And then hire in help for people to help you who have those specialist skills, to be able to do it. So I think I'm really big on implementation, and information's great, but there's nothing better than actually doing it. Kathleen: Yeah, that's great advice because I do think that it would be very easy to spend, as you say, spend all your time trying to learn and then really falling victim to shiny object syndrome, and thinking, "Oh, I just learned this, I need to try that," like you've got to kind of pick a few things and test them, and then if they work stick with them. So, great advice. Well Oliver I have learned so much, I learned so much when I listened to you speak at Digital Marketer, but it was, I'm actually really glad I got to hear it a second time around, because there were some new details that you shared that were so interesting, and we do a lot of events, so hopefully you feel like imitation is the sincerest form of flattery [crosstalk] because we may try some of those things. How Connect With Oli Billson Kathleen: But if somebody is listening and wants to learn more about this or about what you're doing or check out information on your events or your company, what's the nest way for them to connect with you online? Oli: Sure, so they should go to nextlevelbusiness.com/learn, and I actually put together a free resource for people that are there, who may want to learn about how to drive qualified leads into sales appointments, to actually have good quality sales conversations and that's using our framework called the Funnel Framework. So I've prepared a bit of training to give to your listeners, which it was previously a paid-for premium training, but you can go and get access to it, get a 24-hour pass to it at least to go and watch it, at nextlevelbusiness.com/learn, and you can go there and go and check it out. You Know What To Do Next... Kathleen: Perfect, I will definitely put the link to that in the show notes. Thank you so much, this was really fun, and great to dig in on all the details. If you're listening and you enjoyed what you heard or you learned something new, of course I would appreciate it if you would leave a five star review on Apple podcasts for the Inbound Success podcast, and if you know someone doing kick-ass inbound marketing work, tweet me @workmommywork, because I would love to interview them. Kathleen: Thanks again, Oli! Oli: Thank you, cheers.

Oli Billson started his first business at the age of 15. He now owns a portfolio of 4 multi-million dollar businesses, one of which he scaled internationally with 170 franchises and has recently sold. Oli’s superpower lies in strategizing and implementing conversion-led, money-making sales and marketing funnels. When he fancies it, he also spends time as a Consultant to many well-known entrepreneurs and business growth experts. His latest venture is NextLevelBusiness.com, which transforms “normal” businesses into fast-growth businesses that experience double-digit growth year after year.

On this second part of Episode 2, we shift gears from scaring onto some of the shenanigans we've gotten ourselves into over the past 20+ years. We prank call some horror film icons, talk about my 21st birthday celebration, discuss all the mullets we've had, talk about how we almost got my cousin arrested, and relive the night Paul almost got his head taken off by a gas station attendant.

On this episode, my guest is Paul Bilson who is a former Knott's Scary Farm monster. In his 10 years at Knott's, he scared in a variety of different places including Red Beard's Revenge and Boardwalk Streets aka Carnevil. We talk about annoying guests, some of our best scares, Paul's love for pooping in planters and how his time at Knott's Scary Farm abruptly came to an end (spoiler alert: it wasn't because he pooped in a planter). This is part one of a two part episode-the second part will be uploaded shortly...

Host: Allan NewsomeRunning time: 0:25:51 Bruce Bilson and Clint Howard join Neal for the last in this series of interviews. I encourage you to go back and listen/watch this series again because the information provided is a treasure for any fan of The Andy Griffith Show. For those who may not know, Clint played the […]

Host: Allan NewsomeRunning time: 0:32:21 Clint Howard joins Neal and Bruce on stage in part 4 of Neal Brower’s amazing interview with Bruce Bilson. Clint played the little cowboy with a peanut butter & jelly sandwich named “Leon” on The Andy Griffith Show. Clint is also the younger brother of Ron Howard who played “Opie.” […]

Host: Allan NewsomeRunning time: 0:31:57 Part 3 of Neal Brower’s amazing interview with Bruce Bilson is something you do not want to miss. Bruce Bilson was assistant director of “The Andy Griffith Show” from 1960-62 and in this series of podcast episodes we’ll hear Neal Brower’s interview from 2015 when Mr Bilson returned to Mayberry […]

Host: Allan NewsomeRunning time: 0:37:46 Bruce Bilson was assistant director of “The Andy Griffith Show” from 1960-62 and in this series of podcast episodes we’ll hear Neal Brower’s interview from 2015 when Mr Bilson returned to Mayberry Days to share his knowledge of Mayberry. Part of the interview has amazing information related to The Andy […]

Host: Allan NewsomeRunning time: 0:36:03 Back in January 2016, Two Chairs had an amazing series of episode featuring Neal Brower’s interview with The Andy Griffith Show assistant director Bruce Bilson. That original interview was recorded during “Professor Brower’s Class” at Mayberry Days 2011. If you haven’t heard them, check them out starting with part 1 […]

Gregg Bilson Jr, Married to Angie Bilson for 33 years, 3 sons, Hayden 29, Eric 24 and Ethan 22, all in the business and or in Local 44 as 3rd generation Prop People. I have run and now own ISS, SAT and Studio Graphics for 24 years. I am a 2nd generation Local 44 Property Master and left NYPD Blue to come and run ISS 24 years ago. ISS has offices in 9 States in the USA and a seperate company in England, Cohort Film Services, LTD. ISS is the fullest and best full service prop house in the world that works on over 70 percent of the TV and Movies made in the US.    Watch my Celebrity interviews on my YouTube Channel! Go here> https://goo.gl/EA9x6D Connect with Bert Martinez on Facebook. Connect with Bert Martinez on Twitter.

Award-winning, Sydney-based Celebrity Chef and business leader Guillaume Brahimi (Bistro Guillaume, Guillaume at Bennelong, Pond, Bilson’s and more), drops into the Pod to talk about his beginnings in France, training and working with some of the World’s most famous Chefs, balancing his priorities while running one of Australia’s most acclaimed restaurant groups, and why respect is more integral to successful leadership than perfectionism. Boyden's Leadership Matters podcast series is the brainchild of Boyden Australia's Allan Marks and Alun Parry as they look into what makes a leader. The series interviews a suite of Australian leaders to find out what makes them tick and the advice they would give to aspiring senior leaders.

Welcome to Learn on the go, a Community Care Inform podcast where we discuss what the latest research, practice models and policy guidance mean to your practice.In the episode, we discuss poverty, child protection and the care system. This episode was recorded in April 2017.The expertsPaul BywatersProfessor of social work at the University of Huddersfield and emeritus professor at Coventry University.Andy BilsonProfessor of social work at the University of Central Lancashire and adjunct professor at the University of Western Australia.The podcastStart – 16:30Paul Bywaters discusses his research into deprivation and child welfare intervention rates.16:31 – 43:30Andy Bilson discusses research looking at child protection referalls and investigations, which found that before their fifth birthday, one in five of all children in England have been referred to children’s services.34:31 – endAndy Bilson discusses trends in adoption and special guardianship.ReferencesBilson, A (2017)Written submission to BASW’s Adoption EnquiryUnpublishedBilson, A and Martin, K E C (2016)‘Referrals and Child Protection in England: One in Five Children Referred to Children’s Services and One in Nineteen Investigated before the Age of Five’British Journal of Social Work (online)Bilson, A; Featherstone, B and Martin, K.(2017) ‘How child protection’s ‘investigative turn’ impacts on poor and deprived communities’Family Law, Volume 47, pp316-319Bywaters, P (2017)Identifying and Understanding Inequalities in Child Welfare Intervention Rates: comparative studies in four UK countries. Briefing paper 1: EnglandNuffield FoundationBywaters, P; Brady, G; Sparks, T; Bos, E; Bunting, L; Daniel, B; Featherstone, B; Morris, K and Scourfield, J (2015)‘Exploring inequities in child welfare and child protection services: Explaining the “inverse intervention law.”’Children and Youth Services Review, Volume 57, pp98-105Bywaters, P; Bunting, L; Davidson, G; Hanratty, J; Mason, W; McCartan, C; Steils, N (2016)The relationship between poverty, child abuse and neglect: an evidence reviewJoseph Rowntree FoundationHarries, M; Cant, R L; Bilson, A and Thorpe, D (2014)‘Responding to information about children in adversity: Ten years of a differential response model in Western Australia’Child Abuse and Neglect (online)

Caught between a roc and a hard place? Lost your arms in battle? Never thought you’d live long enough to need a pension but now all you can afford is the occasional quince? Call us at Wombidge, Wombidge, Bilson, and Borge and we’ll be sure to find you someone to sue, or a free puppy is yours, that’s our guarantee. Someone sued or a free puppy with no questions asked...no questions asked. None... Wink.   Episode Art & Credits: http://www.dicepaperrole.com/podcast/episode-16-the-phoenix/

Bilson Flewit Promo Mix // EAST FORMS Drum&Bass, tune in via HearThisAt, MixCloud, iTunes, TuneIn & more This quiet bedroom producer from Guangzhou came into contact with drum & bass at the age of 13, and it wasn’t long before he tried producing in 2013. Influenced by Moresounds, Astophonica, and Om Unit, his beats evoke the hallmark sounds of Jungle, Dub, and Footwork. With a natural grasp of UK dance music, this young beatmaker is poised to make a breakout onto the China bass music scene. Tracklist: Paragon & Gremlinz - Frost (Original mix) [ThirtyOne Recordings] Dom & Roland - Unofficial Jah [Metalheadz] Moresounds - Rahstok [ThirtyOne Recordings] Moresounds - Blood [Astrophonica] Mikal - Dub Machine [Data Transmission] Phace, Noisia - Micro Organism [Neosignal Recordings] Above & Beyond - Sticky Fingers feat. Alex Vargas (Om Unit Remix) [Anjunadeep] Om Unit & Sam Binga - Full Bones [BUNIT] Machinedrum - Gunshotta (Om Unit's Rollers VIP) [Ninja Tune] Total Science - Contraband [Metalheadz] Sam Binga & Deft - Steppin feat. Redders [Critical Music] Red Light - Coca Cola (Ticklish Reboot) [Free] Om Unit & Sam Binga - Up And Under [BUNIT] Hyroglifics & Sam Binga - Thoroughbred feat. Redder [Critical Music] Taso - Murda Bass [Teklife] Die & Break vs Mad Hed City - 40 Hurts (Sam Binga Bludgeoned In The Basement Remix) [Gutterfunk] Zero T - The Funnel [Citrus Recordings] Alix Perez - Losing You [Exit Records] East Forms free mixes for offline on iTunes for iOS bit.ly/EastFormsDnB-iTunes East Forms free mixes for offline on TuneIn for Android bit.ly/EastFormsDnB-TuneIn Drum&Bass Sticker Pack for Telegram t.me/addstickers/drumandbass

Bilson Flewit Promo Mix // EAST FORMS Drum&Bass, tune in via HearThisAt, MixCloud, iTunes, TuneIn & more This quiet bedroom producer from Guangzhou came into contact with drum & bass at the age of 13, and it wasn’t long before he tried producing in 2013. Influenced by Moresounds, Astophonica, and Om Unit, his beats evoke the hallmark sounds of Jungle, Dub, and Footwork. With a natural grasp of UK dance music, this young beatmaker is poised to make a breakout onto the China bass music scene. Tracklist: Paragon & Gremlinz - Frost (Original mix) [ThirtyOne Recordings] Dom & Roland - Unofficial Jah [Metalheadz] Moresounds - Rahstok [ThirtyOne Recordings] Moresounds - Blood [Astrophonica] Mikal - Dub Machine [Data Transmission] Phace, Noisia - Micro Organism [Neosignal Recordings] Above & Beyond - Sticky Fingers feat. Alex Vargas (Om Unit Remix) [Anjunadeep] Om Unit & Sam Binga - Full Bones [BUNIT] Machinedrum - Gunshotta (Om Unit's Rollers VIP) [Ninja Tune] Total Science - Contraband [Metalheadz] Sam Binga & Deft - Steppin feat. Redders [Critical Music] Red Light - Coca Cola (Ticklish Reboot) [Free] Om Unit & Sam Binga - Up And Under [BUNIT] Hyroglifics & Sam Binga - Thoroughbred feat. Redder [Critical Music] Taso - Murda Bass [Teklife] Die & Break vs Mad Hed City - 40 Hurts (Sam Binga Bludgeoned In The Basement Remix) [Gutterfunk] Zero T - The Funnel [Citrus Recordings] Alix Perez - Losing You [Exit Records] East Forms free mixes for offline on iTunes for iOS bit.ly/EastFormsDnB-iTunes East Forms free mixes for offline on TuneIn for Android bit.ly/EastFormsDnB-TuneIn Drum&Bass Sticker Pack for Telegram t.me/addstickers/drumandbass

Adam and Tom speak with Don Bilson of Gordon Haskett. Find out more at: https://bullseyebrief.com https://sevensreport.com This episode was produced by Rob Schulte  https://robkschulte.com  

Born in the Phillipines, Callen spent the first fourteen years of his life overseas in countries like India, Pakistan, Lebanon, Greece and Saudi Arabia, before moving to the U.S. He went to high school in Massachusetts and earned his B.A. in History at the American University in Washington D.C. Bryan Callen has spent the last 17 years in Los Angeles fighting traffic because that’s where he seems to find the most work. (Bryan Callen is also writing this but making it seem like someone ELSE is writing this by referring to himself in the 3rd person) Callen got his start as an original cast member of MAD TV. He then went on to play numerous roles on the small and big screen including, “Old School” “Bad Santa”, “Sex and the City”, “Entourage,” “Californication”, “7th Heaven,” “King of Queens,” “Stacked,” “Las Vegas,” “West Wing,”“News Radio,” “Significant Others,” “CSI,” “NYPD Blue,”“Suddenly Susan,” and “Frasier.” He recently finished a two season character arc on USA’s“In Plain Sight” Callen is not a famous actor but sometimes people look at him and scream “Bilson, ” since that’s the character he played on several episodes of CBS’s “How I Met Your Mother.” His most recent TV role was Captain Frank Dashell, leader of the Undead Task Force, in the short lived but critically acclaimed MTV comedy, “Death Valley”. He’s been recognized for that role exactly 4 times but who cares since he’s been recognized over one million times (I’m guessing) as EDDIE, the Middle Eastern owner of a wedding chapel in a little movie called THE HANGOVER. Not to mention his role as Samir, in HANGOVER II where he played basically the same exact character only Samir had thick, curly, hair and darker skin which is actually a good look on Callen considering his Irish/Italian heritage has left him with a ruddy complexion and thinning, mouse-brown hair. His most recent role on the big screen was in the Lion’s Gate drama WARRIOR where he did an excellent job playing himself. Between acting gigs Callen spends his time power lifting, taming lions, vanquishing evil and making people laugh as a stand up comic. That’s why he can currently be seen on SHOWTIME performing a stand up comedy special called MAN CLASS.

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On this episode of the Tour Bus Music Show: Raw Rock Power is what powers this bus and let me tell you that after today’s show the tank is full and the bus is ready to roll. This T.Mic of The Tour Bus Music Show and our featured guest is no stranger to the Audios Maximus Network. We first interviewed him back on The Tour Bus Music Show – Episode# 7, he returned for the 2010 year end special. Heaven Below, is Fronted by Patrick Kennison on lead vocals & guitar, lead guitarist Jesse "Bawls" Billson, and rounded out by rhythm section John Younger on bass guitar & Aaron Rossi on drums, the band and their music has become a force to be reckoned with in the rock scene. Of course tonight’s featured guest is Patrick Kennison of Heaven Below! Heaven Below has to its credit: Number 1 in sales at tradebit.com, top 10 on Amazon.com New Hard Rock Release Chart, Top 20 on Music Choice." These types of recognitions are typical of veteran rock bands, but Heaven Below has already taken home these honors in the short time this Los Angeles based unit has been together. "When Daylight Dies" took the radio airwaves by storm in 2010 with syndicated radio shows such as Hard Drive and The Rock 30 were spinning the Ben Moody (Evanescence) and has since been played on 50+ radio stations across the country. Press outlets such as Hard Rock Haven have hailed Heaven Below as "the next Guns N' Roses". The New York Examiner referred to their live performances as "unbridled balls to the wall ferocity". With the buzz and momentum of the band growing, the opportunity to tour and spread the word beyond radio and internet hype has been inevitable. The band has put 4 successful club tours under it's belt, sharing the stage with major artists such as Buckcherry & Avenged Sevenfold along the way. Since the release of their most recent album “Falling From Zero” the band has had some great opportunities that have presented themselves to bring their music to an even wider audience (more details on this coming soon) as well as pairing up to perform with great bands such as Queensryche , Steel Panther, Lynch Mob and many others. Patrick shares with us on this episode what has been happening with the band, talks about the new album and some of the stories behind the music on their new album. Yes, Heaven below is going places and at a break-neck pace to be sure. They are also an exceptional rock act to see live. If they are coming anywhere near your town they are definitely a band to make the trip to see. In the meantime be sure to check out their album “ Falling From Zero” which is packed with some great tracks and a few surprises (but you will have to listen to the album to find them).  You can find out more information on Heaven Below at www.heavenbelow.com and remember you can also hear our previous interview with Patrick and Jesse on Episode# 7 of The Tour Bus Music Show at www.audiosmaximus.com & www.amnpodcast.com or at www.thetourbusmusicshow.com. You can also subscribe to and hear The Tour Bus Music Show at iTunes and on Stitcher Smart Radio at: www.stitcher.com/thetourbusmusicshow. 

Best of Volatility Views: The Great Skew Debate Mark, Mark, and Don discuss volatility and skew with John Bilson, Professor of Finance at the Illinois Institute of Technology's Stuart School of Finance. Professor Bilson also proposes two new types of contracts for the marketplace.

Writers Danny Bilson and Paul Demeo are back to discuss RED MENACE , the new WILDSTORM mini series about a 1950's superhero who unmasks for the anti communist US senate committee, led by Joe McCarthy. The book is co-authored by actor Adam Brody, who plays Seth Cohen on FOX TV's THE OC, and art is provided by the great Jerry Ordway. Billson & Demeo also discuss their run on the DC comic THE FLASH,and the chorus of internet complaints about the shift from Wally West to Bart Allen as the scarlet speedster. For more talk about their work on THE FLASH tv series, and movie work on THE ROCKETEER & TRANCERS, check out my first interview with the guys here http://www.wordballoon.com/files/WBflashguys.mp3 src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/WordballoonPodcasts?i=http://wordballoon.blogspot.com/2006/11/red-menaced-return-of-bilson-demeo.html" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">