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This week on Skip the Queue, we're stepping into the turret and turning up the tension, as we explore one of the UK's most talked-about immersive experiences.Our guest is Neil Connolly, Creative Director at The Everywhere Group, who have brought The Traitors Live Experience to life. With over 10 million viewers watching every betrayal, backstab and banishment on the BBC show, expectations for the live version were nothing short of murderous.So, how do you even begin to transform a TV juggernaut into a thrilling, guest-led experience? Let's find out who's playing the game… and who's about to be banished…Skip the Queue is brought to you by Rubber Cheese, a digital agency that builds remarkable systems and websites for attractions that helps them increase their visitor numbers. Your host is Paul Marden.If you like what you hear, you can subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, and all the usual channels by searching Skip the Queue or visit our website SkiptheQueue.fm.If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a five star review, it really helps others find us. And remember to follow us on LinkedIn. Show references: The Traitors Live website: https://www.thetraitorslive.co.uk/Neil's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neil-connolly-499054110/Neil Connolly is a creative leader of design and production teams focused on development, production and installation of live theatre, entertainment, multi-media and attractions for the themed entertainment industry worldwide.Neil began his career as a performer, writer, producer & artist in Londons alternative theatre/art scene. It was during this time Neil developed a love and passion for story telling through the platform of interactive playable immersive theatre.Having been at the vanguard of playable & immersive theatre since 2007, Neil had a career defining opportunity in 2019 when he devised, wrote & directed an immersive experience as part of Sainsbury's 150th Birthday Celebrations. Making him the only immersive theatre & game maker in the world to have HRH Elizabeth Regina attend one of their experiences.In a distinguished career spanning 20 years, Neil has brought that passion to every facet of themed entertainment in the creative direction and production of attractions such as; Handels Messiah, Snowman & The Snowdog, Peppa Pig Surprise Party, Traitors Live, The Crystal Maze Live Experience, Tomb Raider Live Experience & Chaos Karts, an AR go-kart real life battle. Other clients and activations include: Harrods, Sainsbury's, Camelot/The National Lottery, Samsung, Blenheim Palace, Land Rover and Warner Brothers.Neil has worked across 4 continents for many years with private individuals; designing, producing and delivering live entertainment on land, sea & air. A world without boundaries requires freethinking.Neil is currently working with Immersive Everywhere on creative development of show and attraction content for projects across U.K, Europe, North America & Asia. Transcriptions:  Paul Marden: This week on Skip the Queue, we're stepping into the turret and turning up the tension as we explore one of the UK's most talked about immersive experiences.Paul Marden: Our guest is Neil Connolly, Creative Director at The Everywhere Group, who've brought The Traitor's live experience to life. With over 10 million viewers watching every betrayal, backstab and banishment on the BBC show, expectations for the live version were nothing short of murderous. So how do you even begin to transform a TV juggernaut into a thrilling guest-led experience? Let's find out who's playing the game and who's about to be banished.Paul Marden: So, we're underground. Lots of groups running currently, aren't they? How did you make that happenNeil Connolly: Yeah, so now we're two floors under us. There's a lower basement and some other basement. So the building that we are in, there's a family in the 1890s who owned all of the land around Covent Garden and specifically the Adelphi Theatre.Paul Marden: Right.Neil Connolly: And they wanted their theatre to be the first theatre in the UK to have its lights powered by electricity. So they built their own private power station in this building. Like, literally like, all this, this is a power station. But unfortunately for these the Savoy had taken to that moniker, so they quickly built their important institution. The family had this building until the 1980s when the establishment was assumed through the important UK network.Neil Connolly: And then it was sat there empty, doing nothing for 40 years. And so the landlord that is now started redeveloping the building 10 years ago, added two floors onto the top of the building. So now what we're in is an eight-storey structure and we've basically got the bottom four floors. Two of which are ground and mezzanine, which is our hospitality area. And the lower two floors, which are all in the basement, are our experience floors. What we're looking at right now is, if you look off down this way to the right, not you people on audio, but me here.Neil Connolly: Off this side is five of the round table rooms. There's another one behind me and there's two more upstairs. And then I've got some Tretters Towers off to the left and I've got my show control system down there.Neil Connolly: On the floor above me, we've got the lounges. So each lounge is connected to one of the round table rooms. Because when you get murdered or banished, one of the biggest challenges that I faced was what happens to people when they get murdered or banished? Because you get kicked out of the game. It's not a lot of fun, is it? Therefore, for me, you also get kicked out of the round table room. So this is a huge challenge I face. But I built these lounge concepts where you go— it's the lounge of the dead— and you can see and hear the round table room that you've just left. We'll go walk into the room in a while. There's lots of interactivity. But yeah, super fun. Neil Connolly: But unfortunately for these the Savoy had taken to that moniker, so they quickly built their important institution. The family had this establishment until the 1980s when the establishment was considered through the important UK network.Paul Marden: Yeah. So we've got 10 million people tuning in to Traitors per episode. So this must be a lot of pressure for you to get it right. Tell us about the experience and what challenges you faced along the way, from, you know, that initial text message through to the final creation that we're stood in now.Neil Connolly: So many challenges, but to quote Scroobius Pip on this, do you know Scroobius Pip? Paul Marden: No. Neil Connolly: Great, he's amazing. UK rapper from Essex.Neil Connolly: Some people see a mousetrap and think death. I see free cheese and a challenge.Neil Connolly: There's never any problems in my logic, in my thinking. There's always just challenges to overcome. So one of the biggest challenges was what happens to people when they get murdered or banished. The truth of the matter is I had to design a whole other show, which happens after this show. It is one big show. But you go to the Lounge of the Dead, there's more interactivity. And navigating that with the former controller, which is O3 Media and IDTV, who created the original format in the Netherlands, and basically designing a game that is in the world and follows the rules of their game with some reasonable adjustments, because TV and live are not the same thing.Neil Connolly: It takes 14 days to film 12 episodes of The Traitors. Paul Marden: Really? Okay. Neil Connolly: So I was like, how do I truncate 14 days of somebody's life down into a two-hour experience and still deliver that same impact, that same power, that same punch?Paul Marden: Yep.Neil Connolly: But I knew from the beginning of this that it wasn't about time. There is a magic triangle when it comes to the traitors, which is time, space, atmosphere. And time was the thing that I always struggled with. I don't have a Scottish cattle show, and I don't have two weeks. No. So I'm like, 'Cool, I've got to do it in two hours.' So our format follows exactly the same format. We do a breakfast scene, then a mission, then a roundtable banishment, then there's a conclave where the traitors meet and they murder somebody. And I do that in a seven-day structure, a seven-day cycle. But it all happens within two hours around this round table.Neil Connolly: I'm the creative director for Immersive Everywhere. We're a vertically integrated structure in the sense that we take on our own venues. So we're now standing in Shorts Gardens in the middle of Covent Garden. So we've leased this building. We've got a lease that is for a number of years and we have built the show into it. But we also identify the IP, go after that ourselves, we capitalise the projects ourselves. We seek strategic partners, promoters, other people to kind of come involved in that journey. But because we're also the team that are licensing the product, we are also the producers and I'm the creative director for that company. So I developed the creative in line with while also getting the deal done. This is incredibly unusual because other producers will be like, 'Hey, I've identified this IP and I've got it.' Now I'm going to approach a creative agency and I'm going to get them to develop the product. And now I've done all of that, I'm going to find someone else to operationally put it on, or I'm going to find a venue to put it on in, and then I'm going to find my ticketing partner.  But we don't do that. We have our own ticketing platform, and we have our own database, so we mark our own shoulders.Neil Connolly: As well as other experiences too. Back, we have our own creative industry, we are the producers, we are the female workers. So we cast it, we hire all the front of house team, we run the food and beverage, we run the bars. The operations team is our operations team because they run the venue as well as the show at the same time. So that's what I mean. We're a vertically integrated structure, which means we do it, which makes us a very unusual proposition within... certainly within the UK market, possibly the world. It makes us incredibly agile as a company and makes us to be able to be adaptive and proactive and reactive to the product, to the show, to the market that we're operating in, because it's all under one roof.Neil Connolly: This show started January 24th, 2023. Right. It's very specific because I was sitting on my sofa drinking a lovely glass of Merlot and I had just watched... UK Traitors, Season One. Yep. Because it came out that Christmas. Immediately I was like, 'Oh my God, this is insane.' And then I got a text message that particular night from our head of licensing, a guy named Tom Rowe, lovely man. And he was like, Neil, I'm at a licensing event with some friends of mine and everyone's talking about this thing called Traitors. I've not watched it. Have you watched it? Sounds like it might be a good thing. And so I sat back and drank my Merlot. And about five minutes later, I text him back and I was like, Tom, get us that license.Neil Connolly: And then I sent him a bunch of other details of how the show in my head would work, both from a commercial standpoint, but also from a creative standpoint, because I'm a commercially minded creative. Right. So I instantly took out my notebook and I started writing down exactly how I thought the show was going to do, the challenges that we would face and being able to translate this into a live thing. But I literally started writing it that night. And then he watched the first episode on the train on the way home. And then he texted me the next morning and he was like, 'I love it.' What do we need to do? And I was like, 'Get us in the room.' Two days later, we were in the room with all three media who own the format globally.Paul Marden: Okay.Neil Connolly: So we sat down and then they came to see one of our other shows and they were like, 'Okay, we get it now.' And then that was like two and a half years of just building the show, getting the deal done and facing the myriad of challenges. But yeah, sometimes it just starts with the text message.Paul Marden: So they get to experience all the key parts of the TV.Neil Connolly: All the key beats. Like right now, I'm holding one of the slates. They're not chalkboard slates. Again, this is... Oh, actually, this is a good challenge. So in the TV show, they've got a piece of slate and they write on it with a chalkboard pen. This seems so innocuous and I can't believe I'm talking about this on a podcast.Neil Connolly: Slategate was like six months of my life. Not in its entirety, but it was a six month long conversation about how we do the slates correctly. Because we do... 48 shows a day, six days a week. And those slates will crack. They will bash. And they're kind of a bit health and safety standards. I was like, can't have them. Also, they write on them with chalk pens, white ink chalk pens. But in the TV show, you only do it once a night. Yeah.Paul Marden: And then you have a producer and a runner.Neil Connolly: They just clean them very, very leisurely and set them back for the next day. And I was like, no, I've got to do a whole bunch of roundtable banishments in two hours. So we talked a lot about material, about style, literal viewership, because if you take a seat at the table. Yeah. If you're sitting at the table here, you'll notice that we've got a raised bit in the middle. If I turn mine around, the other person on the other side can't see it. So I was like, 'Okay, cool.' So we had to do a whole bunch of choreography. But also, the room's quite dark. Yes. At times, atmospheric. Yeah. In that magic triangle time-space atmosphere. So anything that was darker, or even that black slate, you just couldn't read it. And then there was, and then I had to— this is the level of detail that we have to go into when we're designing this kind of stuff. I was like, 'Yeah, but I can't clean off these slates with the white ink because everyone will have to have like a wet cloth chamois. Then I've just got loads of chamois around my venue that I just don't need.' And so then we're like, 'Oh, let's use real slates with real chalk.' And I was like, 'No, because dust will get everywhere.' I'll get chalk just all over my table. It'll just ruin everything. It'll ruin the technology that's inside the table because there's lots of hidden tricks inside of it. Paul Marden: Is there really? Yeah, yeah, yeah.  Neil Connolly: There's loads of hidden tricks inside the table. So after a while, going through many different permutations, I sat down with Christian Elenis, who's my set designer and my art director. And we were, the two of us were nearly in tears because we were like, 'We need,' and this only happened like.Neil Connolly: I would say two, three weeks before we opened. We still hadn't solved how to do the slate, which is a big thing in the show. Anybody who's seen the show and loves the show knows that they want to come in, they want to write somebody's name on the slate, and they want to spell the name incorrectly.Neil Connolly: Everyone does it on purpose. But I wanted to give people that opportunity. So then eventually we sat down and we were like, Christian, Neil. And the two of us in conversation went, why don't we just get a clear piece of Perspex, back it with a light coloured vinyl. And then Christian was like, 'Ooh,' and I'll make it nice and soft and put some felt on the back of it, which is what I'm holding. And then why don't we get a black pen? And we were like, 'Yeah,' like a whiteboard marker. And then we can just write on it. And then A, I can see it from the other side of the table. Thing one achieved. Two. Every marker pen's got an eraser on the top of it. I don't know why everyone thinks this is important, but it is. That you can just rub out like that, and I'm like, 'There's no dirt, there's no mess, and I can reuse this multiple times, like dozens of times in the same show.' And I know that sounds really weird, but that's the level of design I'm going to need.Paul Marden: I was just about to say, and that is just for the chalkboard. Yeah. Now you need to multiply that. How many decisions?Neil Connolly: How many decisions in each game. But also remember that there are eight round tables in this building. Each round table seats 14 people. And we do six sessions a day. So first ones at 10 a. m. Then we do 12, 2, 4, 6, and 8 p. m. So we do 48 shows a day, six days a week.Paul Marden: I love the concept that these are shows. This is not this is not visitor attraction. This is theater repeated multiple times a day for multi audience is concurrently.Neil Connolly: And I've just spent five minutes describing a slate to you. Yeah. But like, I haven't even got— it's like the sheer amount of technology that is in the show. And again, theatrical, like, look above our heads. Yeah. You've got this ring light above every seat. It's got a pin light. There's also microphones which are picking up all the audio in the room, which again is translating to the lounge of the dead. Every single one of the round table rooms has four CCTV cameras. Can you see that one in the corner? Each one of them is 4K resolution. It's quite high spec, which is aimed at the opposite side of the table to give you the resolution in the TV. In the other room. Then you've got these video contents. This is constantly displaying secret information through the course of the show to the traitors when they're in Conclave because everyone's in blindfolds and they took them off. They get secret instructions from that. There's also a live actor in the room. A live actor who is Claudia? They're not Claudia. They're not pastiches of Claudia. They are characters that we have created and they are the host of The Traitor's Game. Right. They only exist inside this building. We never have them portrayed outside of this building in any way whatsoever.Neil Connolly: They are characters, but they live, they breathe— the game of Traitors, the world of Traitors, and the building that we have designed and constructed here. And they facilitate the game for the people. And they facilitate the game for the people. One actor to 14 people. There are no plants, even though everyone tries to tell me. Members of the public will be convinced that they are the only person that's in that show and that everyone else is a plant. And I'm like, no, because that would be insane.Neil Connolly: The only actor in the room is the host.Paul Marden: 14 people that can sit around this table. How many of them are in the same group? Are you with your friends or is it put together where there are other people that you won't know in the room? If you book together, you play together.Neil Connolly: Yes. Okay, so if you don't book 14 people... Ah, we also capped the number of tickets that you can purchase to eight. Right. So you can only purchase a maximum of eight tickets unless you do want a full table of 14, at which point you have to then purchase a VIP package because you are booking out a whole table for yourselves. The game doesn't work if there's less than 10 people at the table. So there has to be 10, 11, 12, 13 or 14 people sat at a round table for the show to actually happen, for it to work. By capping the number of tickets that you book for eight, then that guarantees that strangers will be playing together. And that is the basis of strangers. Yeah, yeah. Like, you need to be sat around a table with people you know, you don't know, that you trust and you don't trust. Yeah. Fact of the matter. And do you see people turning on the others in their own group? Every single time. People think genuinely, and I love this from the public, you would think that if you're turning up as a group of eight and a group of four and a group of two, that the bigger group would just pick everybody off to make sure that someone in their group gets through to the end game.Neil Connolly: I'm sure they think that and they probably plot and plan that before they arrive on site. As soon as this game starts, gloves are off and everyone just starts going for each other. We've been open nearly two months now. I have seen, like, children murdered of their mothers.Neil Connolly: Husbands murder their wives, wives murder their husbands. I've seen, like, three generations—like, we get, because it's so intergenerational, like our lowest, the lowest age that you can play this is 12. Right. And then it's upwards. I've seen three generations of family come in and I've seen grandkids murder their own nan.Neil Connolly: Absolutely convinced that they're a traitor. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 100%. Or they banish them. Like, it's just mental. I've also seen nans, who are traitors, murder their grandkids.Neil Connolly: Like, and this is in a room full of strangers. They're just like, 'No, I'm not going to go for Barbara, who I met two hours ago in the bar. I'm going to go for my own grandson. It's mental.'Neil Connolly: The very, very first thing that I always think about whenever I'm creating an experience or whenever I'm designing a show is I put myself in the position of 'I'm a member of the public.' I have bought a ticketNeil Connolly: What's the coolest thing that I am going to do for my money? What is my perceived value of my ticket over actually what is the value of that ticket? I wanted to give people the experience of knowing what it was like to be sitting in one of these chairs at this table and feeling their heart. The pounding in their chest and I mean, the pounding in their chest, that rush of adrenaline from doing nothing— from sitting in a chair and all you were doing was sitting in a room talking to people and your heart is going.Neil Connolly: Because you're either being accused of being a liar. And trying to defend against it. And trying to defend against it. Or you actually are lying and you're trying to whittle your way out of it. And that feeling is the most alive that you will ever feel. Not ever. Like, I'm sure they're... No, no, no. But, like, give people that opportunity and that experience, as well as, like, access to the world of traitors and the law and everything else. But also, it's like any other theme park ride. People go on roller coasters because the imminent fear of death is always there. Yeah. And you feel alive. You're like, you've got such a buzz of adrenaline. Whereas, arguably, we do exactly the same thing as roller coasters, but in a much more longer-drawn format and multiple times. Yeah. And people do feel alive. When people walk out of the show, you see them go upstairs to the bar, and they are... Yeah.Paul Marden: You've said to me already that you don't use the word 'immersive,' but you know, I'm, I'm, I'm sat. The company is called 'immersive' everywhere. I'm sat behind the scenes. Okay. I'm sat in the room and the room is hugely convincing. It's like the highest fidelity escape room type experience that I've ever sat in. It feels like I'm on set, yeah, yeah. Um, I can totally believe that, in those two hours, you can slip. I sat on a game. It was only a two-minute game at iApple, but I was being filmed by one of the team. But within 30 seconds, I'd forgotten that they were there because I was completely immersed in the game. I can believe that, sitting in here right now, you could forget where you were and what you were doing, that you were completely submerged in the reality of the land that you're in.Neil Connolly: Yeah, 100%. Like, the world does not exist beyond these worlds. And for some people, like, I have my own definition. Everyone's got a different definition of what immersive is. I've got my own definition. But... I can tell you right now, as soon as people enter this building, they're in the bar, they're kind of slowly immersed in that world because the bar is a themed bar. It's done to the same, like we designed and built that bar as well. But as soon as they start descending that spiral staircase and coming into the gameplay floors, into the show floors, they just forget the rest of the world exists. And especially when they sit down at this table, it doesn't matter. I'm sat next to you here, but you could be sat at this table with your loved one, strangers, whatever. The gloves come off and just nothing exists apart from the game that you're about to go through.Paul Marden: You've been open now for a couple of months. More success than you were anticipating, I think. So pre-sales went through the roof? Yes. So you're very happy with the results?Neil Connolly: Yeah, yeah, we were. Yeah, well, we still are.Neil Connolly: We were very confident before we'd even started building the show, like the literal structural build, because we did very well. But then that set expectations quite high because I had a lot of people that had bought tickets and I was like, 'OK, I need to put on a good show for these people. And I need to make sure that they get satisfaction relative to the tickets that they bought.' But I don't feel pressure. I do feel anxiety quite a lot. Creatively? Yeah. I mean, I meditate every day.Paul Marden: But you've created this amazing world and you're inviting people into it. And as a creative, you're opening yourself up, aren't you? People are walking into the world that you've created.Neil Connolly: Yeah, this was said to me. This is not something that I came up with myself, and I do say this really humbly, but it was something that was said to me. It was on opening day, and a bunch of my friends came to playtest the show. And they were like, 'Oh, this is your brain in a building.'Neil Connolly: And I was like, 'Yeah, I hadn't thought about that.' But yeah, it is my brain in a building. But also that's terrifying, I think, for everybody else, because I know what happens inside my brain and it's really quite chaotic.Neil Connolly: But, you know, this I am. I'm so proud of this show. Like you could not believe how proud I am of this show. But also a huge part of my job is to find people that are smarter than me at the relative thing that they do, such as the rest of my creative team. They're all so much smarter than me. My job is vision and to be able to communicate that vision clearly and effectively so that they go, 'I understand.' The amount of times that people on the creative team turn around to me and go, 'Neil, that's a completely mental idea.' If people are saying to me, 'No one's ever done that before' or 'that's not the way things are done.'Neil Connolly: Or we can do that, but we're going to have to probably invent a whole new thing. If people are saying those things to me, I know I'm doing my job correctly. And I'm not doing that to challenge myself, but everything that I approach in terms of how I build shows is not about format. It's not about blueprints. It's not like, 'Hey, I've done this before, so I'm just going to do this again because I know that's a really neat trick.' I go back to, 'I made the show because I wanted people's heart to pound in their chest while they're sitting in a chair and make them feel alive.'Paul Marden: Is that the vision that you had in your head? So you're articulating that really, really clearly. Is that the vision that you sold to everybody on, not maybe day one, but within a couple of days of talking about this? No, it was day one.Neil Connolly: It was day one. Everyone went, that's a completely mental idea. But, you know, it's my job to try and communicate that as effectively and clearly as I can. But again, I am just one man. My job is vision. And, you know, there's lighting design, sound design, art direction, there's game logic. We haven't even gotten to the technology of how this show works yet, or how this room works.Neil Connolly: Actually, I'll wander down the corner. Yeah, let's do that. But, like, there's other, like, lots of hidden tricks. Like, this is one of the games, one of the missions. In the world and the lore of the show, the round table is sacrosanct.Paul Marden: Yes.Neil Connolly: Traitors is the game. The game is in other people. I can do so many missions and there's loads of missions and they're really fun in this show. But the game is in other people. It's in the people sat on the other side of the room. But also I wanted to do a thing where people could interact directly with the set. And so I designed one of the missions to be in the round table itself.Neil Connolly: So there's a course of these moon dials, which you basically have to align through the course of it. And there are sensors built into the table so that they know when they're in the correct position. How you find out the correct position is by solving a very, very simple puzzle and then communicating effectively to a bunch of strangers that you just met.Neil Connolly: And the sensors basically read it all. And when that all gets into position, the lights react, the sound reacts, the video content reacts, the whole room reacts to you. So I wanted to give people something tangible that they can touch and they make the room react to them. Yes, it's. I mean, I've designed, I've got background in escape rooms as well, right? Um, so I've done a lot of that kind of stuff as well. So I wanted people to feel in touch, same, but like, there's more tangible props over here. Um, yeah, that is a model box of the room that we are stood in, yeah. Also, there's an exact replica of it on the other side of it. There are very subtle differences between it, and that informs one of the missions. So that is two model boxes in this roundtable room. There's one of these in every single roundtable room. So there's 16 model boxes of the show that you're stood in on the set. And again, theatre. It's a show. But it's one of the missions, because I wanted people to kind of go, 'Oh, there's a live actor in front of me.' I'm having fun. Oh, look at all these lights and all the sound. Oh, there's a model box over here. That's in theatre land and blah, blah, blah. But that is also a really expensive joke. It's a really expensive joke. And there's other, like, lots of hidden tricks.Neil Connolly: Let's go look at backstage. Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely.Neil Connolly: I say backstage, like how we refer to it or how I always go. I use 'I' and 'we' very interchangeably. Like right now you're on the set. Like you're on the stage. Yes. We're just wandering around a long corridor. There are round table rooms off to either side. But like, you know, there's a green room upstairs where the actors get changed, where the front of house team are, where the bar team all are. But as soon as they go out onto the show floor, they're on stage—yes, completely. We'll very quickly have a look at the gallery—yes, show control. Hi, Robbo. Do you mind if I stand in your room for the purposes of the audio? I'm talking to the technical manager, Thomas Robson. We're recording a podcast.Paul Marden: Robbo, oh yeah, okay. My mind is absolutely blown. So you've got every single room up on screen.Neil Connolly: Yeah, so that's great. There's 164 cameras—something like that. But every roundtable room has four cameras in it. Each camera is 4K resolution. So we've got cameras on all of them. We've got audio into those rooms. That's two-way, so that if show control needs to talk directly to them, they just press a button here and they can talk directly to the room itself. Mainly just like, stop misbehaving, we're watching you.Neil Connolly: We've then got cameras into all of the lounges, all of the show spaces, all the front of house, all of the bar areas, the mezzanine and back of house. And then you've got QLab running across all of the different shows. We've got backups on all of these screens. So if one... of the computers goes down, we can very quickly swap it in for a backup that's already running. We've got show control, which is, there's a company called Clockwork Dog, who, they're an amazing company. What COGS, their show control system, is doing is pulling in all of the QLab from sound, all of the QLab from lighting, and also we built our own app. to be able to run the show. So there's a whole logic and decision tree based on the decisions that the public do through the course of the game. So yes, there is a beginning, a middle, and an end in terms of our narrative beats and the narrative story of the show that we're telling people. But also that narrative can go in. Hundreds of different directions depending on the actions and the gameplay that the people do during the course of the show. So, you haven't just learned one show— you have to learn like You have to learn a world, and you have to learn a whole game.Neil Connolly: Like, there's the server, stacks, which we had to build. You had to network and cable the entire building. So we have built an entire new attraction, which didn't exist before. And also we're pulling in information from the front of house system which is also going into the show itself because again, you put your name into the iPad when you arrive on site and then you tick a box very crucially to say, 'Do you want to be selected as a trader? Yes or No.' Because in the game, it's a fundamental rule. If you say no, you cannot be selected as a traitor by the host during traitor selection. That doesn't mean you can't be recruited.Paul Marden: By the traitors later on in the game. So you could come and do this multiple times and not experience the same story because there were so many different pathways that you could go down.Neil Connolly: But also, the game is in other people. Yes. The show is sat on the opposite side of the table to you because, like, Bob and Sandra don't know each other. They'll never see each other ever again. But Bob comes again and he's now playing against Laura. Who's Laura? She's an unknown quantity. That's a whole new game. That's a whole new show. There's a whole new dynamic. That's a whole new storyline that you have to develop. And so the actors are doing an incredible job of managing all of that.Paul Marden: Thanks, Robbo. Thank you. So you've worked with some really, really impressive leading IP, Traders, Peppa Pig, Doctor Who, Great Gatsby. What challenges do you face taking things from screen to the live experience?Paul Marden: Challenges do I face? We're wandering here.Neil Connolly: So we are in... Oh, we're in the tower.Neil Connolly: Excellent. Yep, so we're now in Traitor's Tower. Good time for you to ask me the question, what challenges do I face? Things like this. We're now stood in Traitor's Tower. Paul, let me ask you the question. Without the show lights being on, so we're just stood on a set under workers, what's your opinion of the room that we're stood in?Paul Marden: Oh, it's hugely impressive. It feels like, apart from the fact you've punched the fourth wall out of the telly, it does feel like you're on set.Neil Connolly: It's a really faithful reproduction of the set. So that's kind of one of the challenges is managing the public's expectations of what they see, do and feel on site. So that I don't change the show so that people come and play the game that they're expecting to play. But making reasonable adjustments within that, because TV and live are two very, very different things. So first and foremost was making sure that we get the format right. So the game that people play, which informs the narrative of the show and the narrative structure of the show. Breakfast, mission, round table, conclave. Breakfast, mission, round table, conclave. I've designed a whole bunch of new missions that are in this, taken some inspiration from missions that people know and love from the TV shows, whether that's the UK territory or other territories around the world. And also just other stuff is just clear out of my head. So there's original content in there. paying homage and respect to the world that they've built and allowing ourselves to also play and develop and build out that world at the same time. Other challenges.Neil Connolly: This is not a cheap project. No, no. I mean, the production quality of this is beautiful. Yeah, yeah, thank you. It is stunning. When people walk in here, they're like, 'Oh my God, this is... High end.' I am in a luxury event at a very affordable price.Paul Marden: Thank you. And then we're going back upstairs again. Yes. And in the stairwell, we've got the crossed out photos of all of those that have fallen before us.Neil Connolly: No, not quite. All of the people that are in this corridor, there's about 100 photos. These are all the people who built the show.Neil Connolly: So this is David Gregory. He's the sound designer. This is Kitty, who is Immersive Everywhere's office manager. She also works in ticketing. That is Tallulah and Alba, who work in the art department. Elliot, who's our lighting designer. So all of these people are the people who brought the show to life.Paul Marden: Amazing.Neil Connolly: And we wanted to pay homage to them because some of them gave years of their lives to building the show from literally the inception that I had in 2023. Through to now and others are the people who literally spent months of their life underground in these basements building hand-building this set and so we wanted to pay homage to them so we got all of their photos we did the iconic red cross through it yeah and we stuck them all up in the corridor just because we thought it'd be a nice thing to do.Paul Marden: You're in the business of trading and experiences and that ranges from art exhibitions to touring shows. There's always going to be a challenge of balancing innovation and profitability. What is the formula? What is the magic formula?Neil Connolly: I believe, first and foremost, going back to what I was telling you earlier about us being a collaborative organisation. We are not a creative crack that has been used for the show. We are also the producers of the show. And to make my point again, I'm a commercially minded creative. So I actually sit down with the producers and go, 'Okay, cool.' There are 112 seats in the show.Paul Marden: Yep.Neil Connolly: Therefore, how many shows do we need to do per day? How many shows do we need to do per week? How many shows do we need to do per year? Therefore, let's build out a P &L. And we build a whole business plan based around that.Paul Marden: By having everybody— that you need in the team— makes it much easier to talk about that sort of stuff. It makes it much easier for you to design things with the end result in mind. You don't have a creative in a creative agency going off— feeding their creative wants without really thinking about the practicalities of delivering on it.Neil Connolly: Exactly. So you've got to think like, literally, from the very, very beginning: you've got to think about guest flow. You've got to think about throughput. You've got to think about your capacities. Then you've got to basically build out a budget that you think— how much, hey, how much really is this going to cost? Yeah. Then you build out an entire business plan and then you go and start raising the money to try and put that on. And then you find a venue. I mean, like the other magic triangle, like the traitor's magic triangle is, you know, time, space, atmosphere. That's how you do a show. Like with my producer's hat on, the other magic triangle is show, money, venue.Neil Connolly: The truth of the matter, like I make no bones about it, I can design shows till the cows come home, but I'm always going to need money to put them on and a venue to put them in. Also, I want to stress this really important. I use the words 'I' and 'we' very interchangeably.Paul Marden: It's a team effort.Neil Connolly: You can see that in that corridor. I am not a one-man band. I am the creative director of a company. I am a cog that is in that machine, and everybody is doing... We are, as a team... I cannot stress this enough. Some of the best in the business are doing what we do. And everyone is so wildly talented. And that's just us on the producing side. That's immersive everywhere, limited. Then I've got a whole other creative team. Then we've got operations. Then we've got... It's just mad. It's just mad, isn't it? This is a job. Who would have thought, when you were at school, this was an opportunity? Not my principal or my maths teacher.Neil Connolly: So, sorry, just to balance the kind of economies of scale. That was the question, wasn't it?Paul Marden: Well, we were talking about what is the formula for making that an investment, but you know, the authority here is the effort you've put in to do this feels high, but at the same time, you have to find this thing. There is a lot of investment that goes into the front.Neil Connolly: But that comes back to creatives. Caring and I'm not saying the creatives don't, but I care. I care about building businesses. Yeah, not necessarily like building my own CV, like there's so many projects that across our desks. I'll be like, 'Yeah, that'd be really fun to work on.' But do I think that I can make that a touring product? Can it be a long-running location-based entertainment sit-down product? Can it be an art shop? Like you've kind of got a balance with what do you think is just creatively cool versus what can we do as a company that is a commercially viable and financially stable product? And so all that comes through in terms of the creative, but also in terms of the activities of how we run the building, how this model realizes. Because if you think about it, let's make Phantom of the Opera run in the West End. Yes. The show is very obvious, with many casts on a room, away, fruit team away, terrace, it's a big activity. If they haven't sold half that away, they have to use the whole show and play all those people.Neil Connolly: But if they haven't sold half that away from one of my shows... I only have to activate four of my rooms, not eight of them. Therefore, I don't have to call in four actors. I don't have to call in a bunch of the other front of house team and I can scale in the operations on the back. It's an entirely scalable process. Flexible, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, 100%. But also, like, we've got eight rooms here. If we decide to take this to another territory, and that territory demands a much higher throughput, then instead of eight rooms, I can do 20 rooms, 30 rooms. As long as we know that the market is there to be able to kind of get people through it.Neil Connolly: I love this show and I'm so proud of it. The main reason why I'm proud of it is when the show finishes, let's go into one of the lounges. Have you been into one of the lounges?Paul Marden: I've had a nose around a lounge.Neil Connolly: There are different shapes and sizes. We won't go into that one. We'll go into this one down here. That one, that one. It's always such a buzz when you're stood in the bar and the shows kick out, and you see tables and tables of 14 people going up into the bar.Neil Connolly: Area and before they've even gotten a drink, they will run straight over to their friends, families, strangers, whoever they were playing with in that table of 14, and instantly be like, 'Right, I need to know everything that was going on inside your head, your heart, and your soul over the last two hours of my life because this was my experience.'Neil Connolly: And they'll just go, and they'll be like, 'And this is what I was thinking.' And then I thought it was you because you did this and you touched your nose in a weird way. And then I thought you were sending secret signals. And then everyone's like, 'No, that's not what I was doing.' I was just trying to be a normal person. And they were like, 'Well, why did you say that thing?' It sounded super weird. And they're like, 'That's just what I do.' And it's just totally mental. And then they all get a drink from the bar. And we call it the bar tab chat.Neil Connolly: It's another revenue stream.Neil Connolly: I do talk about this like it's a show. And it is a show. You've walked around, do you think it's a show? Completely. I talk to established houses all the time. Like, you know, the big theatres of the land. Organisations that are national portfolio organisations who receive a lot of Arts Council funding. The thing that they want to talk to us about all the time is new audiences. They're like, 'How do I get new audiences through my door?' What can I do? And I'm like, 'Well, firstly, make a show that people want to go and see.'Neil Connolly: Again, they're like, 'But I've got this amazing writer and he's a really big name and everyone's going to come because it's that name.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, that's wicked. That's cool.' And they can all go pay reverence to that person. That's really wonderful. Whereas when you look at the attractions landscape or the immersive theatre landscape or like anything like... Squid Game, or The Elvis, Evolution, or War of the Worlds, which has also laid reality, or any of that kind of stuff, across the landscape, it is nothing but new audiences. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It is nothing but actual ticket-buying audiences.Neil Connolly: And they come from all different walks of life. And what I love is that they do come in to this experience and we hit them with this like secret theatre.Neil Connolly: And they're like, 'Oh my God.' And often it's a gateway to them being like, 'Oh, I didn't realise that.' Maybe I'll go see a Western show or maybe I will go to the National Theatre and see something. Because that's the level of archery. Because those organisations, I love them and I've worked in a few of them, but those buildings can be quite austere, even though they're open and porous, but it's still very difficult to walk through that threshold and feel a part of it.Paul Marden: Whereas coming in here, coming into an event like this, can feel like a thing that they do.Neil Connolly: Because it's the same demographic as theme park junkies. People who love going to theme parks love going to stuff like this because it's an experience, it's an otherness, it's an other nature kind of thing. Because modern audiences want to play and do, not sit and watch. But we all exist in the kind of same ecosystem. I'm not taking on the National Theatre.Paul Marden: Gosh, no. I always talk about that. I think the reason why so many attractions work together in the collaborative way that they do is they recognise that they're not competing with each other. They're competing with sitting on your backside and watching Netflix.Paul Marden: Yeah, yeah.Paul Marden: Our job for all of us is to drag people away from their screens and drag people off of their sofas to do something. And then that's the biggest challenge that we all face.Neil Connolly: I think then that kind of answers the question that you asked me earlier, which I didn't answer. And I'm very sorry.Neil Connolly: is about identifying different pieces of IP. Like, yes, we largely exist in the world of licensing IP. And how do we identify that kind of IP to be able to translate? Not just how do we do it, but like, actually, how do we identify the right thing that's going to... How do you spot the winner? Yeah, exactly. Yeah. And that is one of the biggest challenges to your point of we're talking directly to people who consume arts, culture and media and technology in a slightly more passive way, whether that's just at home and watching Netflix and then bringing that to life. In a very, very different way. If you have a very clear marketing campaign that tells people what it is that they're buying and what they're expected to see or do on their particular night out, because that's what modern people really care about, what they do with their money. Yeah. And they want to have a good night out. And I'm in the business of giving people a good night out. We also happen to be murdering a lot of people in the course of the show.Neil Connolly: Still a good night out. Still a good night out. But I'm in a place where the dead sit. Yeah, exactly. Lounge of the dead. And like, you know, this is a really cool space. Oh, it's just beautiful. You know, we've got the telephone really works. There's lots of information that comes through that. The radio works, that does different things. The TV screen on the wall, that has the actual live feed into the round table room that you've just left. And there's other little puzzles and hints and tricks in this room, which means that after you've been murdered or banished and you come to the Lounge of the Dead, you're still engaged with the game to a degree. You just don't directly influence the outcome of the game. But you're still involved in it. You're still involved in it. It's super fun. Oh, and you can have a drink in here.Paul Marden: I don't let people drink in the round table. Even more important. What's this?Neil Connolly: The dolls, the creepy dolls. What this is, this is the void. Creatively speaking, this is where all the gold goes when people win or lose it. And the creepy dolls are from the TV show. Ydyn nhw'r un gwirioneddol o'r sioe? Felly, gafodd studio Lambert, sy'n gwneud y sioe tebyg, llawer o brops o'r sioe tebyg i ni eu rhoi ar y ddispleiddio yma. Felly, mae gennych chi'r Dolls Creepy o'r lles 3 yno. Rydyn ni'n mynd i fyny. Yn ôl yma, mae'r peintiwch Deathmatch.Paul Marden: Which is from season three.Neil Connolly: And they get the quill and they write the names and got the quill upstairs. We've also got over here, the cards that they used to play the death match with. Excellent.Paul Marden: So you began your career in theatre. How did that evolve into the world of immersive live experiences?Neil Connolly: Life story. I am the son of a postman and a cook. And if you haven't noticed already, I'm from Ireland. There was no theatre in our lives, my life, when I was growing up. And I stumbled into a youth theatre. It's called Kildare Youth Theatre. And the reason why I joined that is because there was a girl that I really fancied.Neil Connolly: She had just joined this youth theatre and I was like, 'Oh, I'm gonna join that as well' and that kind of opened the world of theatre for me. At the same time, I then got spotted by this guy, his name's Vijay Baton, his real name's Om, but he converted to Hare Krishnanism in the 90s. And he set up a street theatre company in Ireland. He just taught me street theatre. So he taught me stilt walk, he taught me juggling, he taught me how to build puppets. And so I spent years building puppets with him and going around Ireland doing lots of different street theatre while I was a teenager. And doing street theatre and doing my youth theatre and then kind of all of that kind of came to a head when I had to decide what I was going to do with my life. I applied to go to drama school. And I applied to two drama schools. One was Radha. Didn't get in. Didn't even get an audition. And the other one was Rose Bruford. And they took me. And the reason why they took me— I probably wasn't even that good. But on the day that I was auditioning to get into Rose Bruford was the same day as my maths exam for my final exams at school. You call them your A-levels, we call them the leaving certificate.Neil Connolly: And while all of my friends were back in Ireland doing their maths exam, I was in an audition room pretending to be a tree or the colour black.Neil Connolly: Who knows? And they kind of went, 'Well, if I fail my maths exam, I don't get into university in Ireland.' Like, it's just a blanket thing. And so I was like, 'I literally sat across the panel' and I was like, 'eggs, basket.' And they were like, 'cool.' So they let me in based off of that. So I got a classical training. Then what happened is I came out of university. I was living with two of my friends, Natalie and Joe. And we had our own little production company called The Lab Collective. And we just started making shows. In weird ways, we joined a company called Theatre Delicatessen. Let's get away from this. Yeah, yeah, yeah.Neil Connolly: So Theatre Deli was a company set up to take over disused spaces in London and convert them into art spaces.Neil Connolly: Basically legalised squatting. It's the same as like a guardianship. But we weren't living in the buildings. We were just putting on shows and we put on art shows, we put on theatre shows. We did Shakespeare for a while. We wrote our own work and we just did lots of really, really cool stuff. And I worked in music festivals, classically trained actor. So I was trying to do shows. I did a lot of devising. I also joined an improvisation group. And kind of through all that mix, like those years at Delhi, which was making these weird shows in these weird buildings, were very, very formative years for us. The Arts Council wouldn't support the kind of work that we were making. We were like, 'Cool, how do we get space?Neil Connolly: How do we get or make money to support ourselves? And what are the shows? There's the magic triangle all over again. Space, show, money. And that's your apprenticeship, I guess, that brings you to here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And like, again, I make no bones about it. 10 years ago, I was selling programs on the door of the Royal Festival Hall while doing all of that stuff. So in one of the Theatre Daily buildings, we did a show called Heist, which is you break into a building and steal stuff. That's what the public do.Neil Connolly: And a bunch of us did that. I mean, it's so much fun— kind of doing it. And off the back of that, somebody else basically tried to chase down the crystal maze. And then they went away, and then they called me up and they were like, 'Hey, I've got the rights. Do you want to make the crystal maze?' And I was like, 'Yeah, sounds like fun.' So I got involved with that, did that for a while. And then, from there, this is the end of a very long story. I'm so apologised. Yeah, from there, all of those different things that I've done through the course of my life in terms of operations, designing experiences, being a creative, understanding business.Neil Connolly: Building a P&L, building a budget, talking to investors, trying to convince them to give you money. All of that stuff kind of basically came together. And over the last few years, like the wildest ride is that pre-2020.Neil Connolly: We were just a bunch of people doing a bunch of weird things, making weird shows and weird attractions in kind of different ways. And then that year happened. And I don't know what happened, but literally every single major studio, film, TV production, game designer, licensor in the world, suddenly just went— brand extensions, world extensions, and they all just started calling us. And they were like, 'Hi, I've got this thing.' Can you develop it into a thing? Because I need to extend my brand or I want to build a world and extend that for the public. And we were like, 'Yeah, okay, cool.' And we were just lucky, serendipitously, to be in the right place at the right time. To be those people that people can approach. And we're always, we're very approachable.Neil Connolly: As you can tell, I talk a lot. And, you know, so the last five years, it's just been a mad ride.Paul Marden: So look, Neil, it's been amazing. I have had the most fun. Last question for you. What's next? Are you putting your feet up now because you finished this? Or on to the next? Neil Connolly: Very much on to the next thing. So we're already in production with our new show, which is called Peppa Pig Surprise Party. And that is opening at the Metro Centre in Gateshead next year. Oh, how exciting is that? It's very exciting.Paul Marden: So quite a different demographic.Neil Connolly: The demographic for Peppa Pig is two to five year olds. It's been a really fun show to design and create. To go back to a question that you asked me very early on, there is no blueprint, there is no format. I have embraced the chaos tattooed on my arm. And always when I approach things, any new show or any new creative, I am thinking of it from a ticket buying perspective: 'I have paid my money.' What is the coolest thing that I can possibly do with that money? And so therefore, I'm now looking at families and, like, what's the coolest thing that they can do for that ticket price in the world of Peppa Pig?Paul Marden: Let's come back in the new year, once you've opened Peppa Pig, let's go to Gateshead and see that. That sounds pretty awesome to me. I reckon there's a whole new episode of Designing Worlds for two to five-year-olds that we could fill an hour on.Neil Connolly: Oh yeah, 100%. It's a totally different beast. And super fun to design.Paul Marden: Oh mate. 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Territory Marks crosses over to the dark side when Corey from Podcasting After Dark joins Paul & Zak to discuss Owen Hart vs Razor Ramon from 1995! We wrap up the annual Two Dollar Late Fee and Podcasting After Dark crossover extravaganza with a rare WWF match that took place at the old Stampede Wrestling territory in honor of Stu Hart's 80th birthday! We discuss Owen Hart vs Razor Ramon, tease what's to come on this month's Legends of the Territories on our ⁠Patreon⁠, and much more! Enjoy! You can watch the match discussed in this episode at the link below: ⁠Owen Hart vs Razor Ramon “Stu Hart's 80th Birthday Celebration” 1995⁠ As mentioned in the episode, here are links to ⁠“Pastamania!” WCW Monday Night Nitro premiere ⁠ If you'd like more information on Martha Hart's charity The Owen Hart Foundation click on the link below: ⁠https://owenhartfoundation.org⁠ Order Jeff Lieberman's autobiography (Day of the Living Me: Adventures of a Subversive Cult Filmmaker from the Golden Age) and movie (Remote Control) via his website: ⁠https://jeffliebermandirector.com⁠ Dig our show? Please consider supporting us on Patreon for tons of bonus content including “Legends of the Territories”: ⁠⁠www.patreon.com/twodollarlatefee⁠⁠ Please follow/subscribe and rate us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts! Apple Podcasts: ⁠⁠podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/two-dollar-late-fee⁠⁠ Spotify: ⁠⁠open.spotify.com/show/⁠⁠ Instagram: ⁠⁠@territorymarks⁠⁠ Instagram: ⁠⁠@twodollarlatefee⁠⁠ Paul London's Kayfabe Academy: ⁠⁠@kayfabeacademy⁠⁠ Subscribe to our ⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠ Territory Marks logo by ⁠⁠VideoForce⁠⁠ Check out Jim Walker's intro/outro music on Bandcamp: ⁠⁠jvamusic1.bandcamp.com⁠⁠ Facebook: ⁠⁠facebook.com/Two-Dollar-Late-Fee-Podcast⁠⁠ Merch:⁠⁠ https://www.teepublic.com/user/two-dollar-late-fee⁠⁠ IMDB: ⁠⁠https://www.imdb.com⁠⁠ Two Dollar Late Fee is a part of the nutritious ⁠⁠Geekscape Network⁠⁠ Every episode is produced, edited, and coddled by Zak Shaffer (⁠⁠@zakshaffer⁠⁠) & Dustin Rubin (⁠⁠@dustinrubinvo⁠⁠) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Territory Marks crosses over to the dark side when Corey from Podcasting After Dark joins Paul London & Zak to discuss Owen Hart vs Razor Ramon from 1995!We wrap up the annual Two Dollar Late Fee and Podcasting After Dark crossover extravaganza with a rare WWF match that took place at the old Stampede Wrestling territory in honor of Stu Hart's 80th birthday! We discuss Owen Hart vs Razor Ramon, tease what's to come on this month's Legends of the Territories on our ⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠, and much more! Enjoy!You can watch the match discussed in this episode at the link below:⁠⁠Owen Hart vs Razor Ramon “Stu Hart's 80th Birthday Celebration” 1995⁠⁠As mentioned in the episode, here are links to ⁠⁠“Pastamania!” WCW Monday Night Nitro premiere ⁠⁠If you'd like more information on Martha Hart's charity The Owen Hart Foundation click on the link below:⁠⁠https://owenhartfoundation.org— SUPPORT PODCASTING AFTER DARK —PATREON - Two extra shows a month including Wrap-Up After Dark and The Carpenter Factor, plus other exclusive content!MERCH STORE - We have a fully dedicated merch store at TeePublic with multiple designs and products!INSTAGRAM / FACEBOOK / LETTERBOXD - Follow us on social media for updates and announcements!This podcast is part of the BFOP Network

How can you protect your intellectual property and uncover the invisible wealth within your knowledge?What are the most common mistakes when it comes to protecting intellectual property?Liz Ward is an intellectual property specialist. The former chemist retrained as a lawyer and has been running her firm, Virtuoso Legal, since 2007.  She takes us through some critically important "need to knows" when it comes to protecting your intellectual property (IP) and what to do if you accidentally infringe somebody else's.How do you value your IP? What is one of the essential ingredients of a patent? How can you uncover the invisible wealth within your knowledge? Should you use AI-generated legal agreements, and what are the implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on IP and the creative industries?Liz also covers interesting developments in cyber-squatting and Companies House tightening up its due diligence. Plus ownership of IP you create with partners and suppliers.This episode includes many actionable insights from Liz and you can learn more from her in her book, "If You're So Clever, Why Aren't You Rich? 10 Ways to Take Your IP to the Bank", her podcast, and at www.virtuosolegal.comAlso on the show: my round up of funding opportunities and eventsThe UK Shared Prosperity Fund Low Carbon Project: https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/business/uk-shared-prosperity-fund-low-carbon-projectThe Yorkshire Content Fund: https://www.screenyorkshire.co.uk/content-fundingThe Royal Academy of Engineering Ingenious public engagement grants: https://raeng.org.uk/programmes-and-prizes/programmes/uk-grants-and-prizes/ingenious-public-engagement-grants-scheme/The British Business Bank's Business Finance Week: https://www.british-business-bank.co.uk/news-and-events/events/business-finance-weekSheffield Live! at 25 – Birthday Celebration and Fundraiser: https://web.sheffieldlive.org/sheffield-live-at-25-celebration-and-fundraiser/What next?Listen to the episode and let me know what you thinkVisit Liz's website, www.virtuosolegal.comContact me to nominate yourself or someone else as a potential guest for this show, telling me why there's a good fit (our audience: curious entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurs running businesses which make a positive impact for people, places or planet. Our priorities: inspiration and practical, actionable tips).This is episode 399 of the Business Live radio show, for curious entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurs. Thanks for listening to the programme and to Sheffield Live! for broadcasting us on DAB and FM radio.

On this episode, Kelena takes a 5 night trip to Disney World with her sister and her mother to celebrate her mom's birthday! They attended Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party, Hoop De Doo Revue, and even took the Caring for Giants tour at Animal Kingdom. She shared how she liked using the quick serve dining plan, and shared some tips of how to use it during an EPCOT festival. She also talked about the low crowds and being happy to travel during one of the slowest weeks of the year for Disney World.Subscribe To The Show & Leave Us A ReviewApple Podcasts - Click HereSpotify - Click HereAmazon Podcasts - Click HereYouTube - Click HereFollow Us on Social Media Instagram: @capthemagicTikTok: @capturethemagicTwitter: @capthemagicCTM Facebook Community: @capthemagicSponsorsCTM Apparel Co - visit ctmapparelco.com for original designs that are pefect in the parks or at home!Zip Travel - visit vacationwithzip.com to see how they can help you plan the vacation of a lifetime!1901 Candle Co - visit 1901candleco.com to bring the magical smells you love home with 1901 Candle CoMore Links Club 32 - ctmvip.comCapture The Magic Website - ctm.showMain YouTube - youtube.com@capthemagic 

A new barber shop opened up a few doors down from where Eddie gets his haircut a while back and since then Eddie has stayed a loyal customer. However, he just recently found out that Emily had been taking her son to the competitor this whole time!Sky's journey wround the world continues today with Sky's Wheel of Food where we take her to India to try Butter ChickenToday is Sydney Sweeney's 28th Birthday and we look to find out if she is one of the hottest actressess under the age of 30 (we already know the answer to this one... DUH)

A new barber shop opened up a few doors down from where Eddie gets his haircut a while back and since then Eddie has stayed a loyal customer. However, he just recently found out that Emily had been taking her son to the competitor this whole time!Sky's journey wround the world continues today with Sky's Wheel of Food where we take her to India to try Butter ChickenToday is Sydney Sweeney's 28th Birthday and we look to find out if she is one of the hottest actressess under the age of 30 (we already know the answer to this one... DUH)

In episode 60 of Lifting, Running, and Living, hosts Kelly and JK discuss what it means to live an active lifestyle. They start with updates from their personal lives, including Kelly's decision to stop purchasing from Amazon and Target and insights into their recent birthdays. The main topic delves into differentiating between being 'active' and having an 'active lifestyle,' exploring modern challenges like sedentary jobs, increased screen time, and convenience culture. They discuss recommendations from various health organizations and provide thought-provoking questions to help listeners identify if they are truly living actively. Tune in for an engaging conversation on integrating more movement into your daily life.00:00 Introduction and Episode Kickoff00:38 Personal Updates: Kelly's Shopping Challenge07:59 Birthday Celebrations and Reflections14:24 Nutrition and Maintenance Phase Insights17:20 Exploring the MATADOR Protocol25:28 Active Lifestyle Discussion31:02 Exercise Recommendations from Various Organizations34:45 Defining an Active Lifestyle48:00 Modern Challenges to Staying Active54:45 Questions to Assess Your Active Lifestyle56:58 Conclusion and Contact InformationLinks:​​https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNGLuBDxMFR/?igsh=ZG4wbnZ4Zjd4bTk1Follow the pod at ⁠⁠⁠@liftingrunninglivingpod⁠⁠⁠Email us at ⁠⁠⁠liftingrunninglivingpod@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠Follow JK at ⁠⁠@coachjkmcleod⁠⁠Follow Kelly at ⁠⁠⁠@runningklutz ⁠

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Welcome back to Virgo Season! Joyhdae and Ryan are back with an unhinged episode that proves why Virgo energy is unmatched. From cult confessions to Cardi B courtroom chaos, this week is packed with laughs, hot takes, and just enough ghetto fabulousness to keep you locked in.Virgo Season & Birthday ShenanigansRyan is celebrating turning 40 with tattoos, San Francisco adventures, and WNBA games, while Joyhdae is deep in her rebrand binder and Virgo birthday prep. The vibes are chaotic, unfiltered, and all Virgo.The Cult of Nicolandria & The Kubalah Kingdom in ScotlandJoyhdae admits she's joined the “cult” of Nicolandria and dives into the bizarre story of three people declaring themselves royalty in a Scottish forest. Yes, you read that right.Cardi B vs. Crackjack Box AttorneyThe crew breaks down Cardi B's hilarious trial moments, including wigs, wild courtroom exchanges, and the viral phrase “security heavy.” Spoiler: Cardi wins again.Am I The Asshole?From boyfriends peeing the bed to awkward family drama, the AITA segment takes a messy turn—but Virgo logic keeps it all the way real.Dirty Jokes & Unfiltered LaughsThe episode closes with a round of dirty jokes from the Virgo bag that'll either have you crying with laughter or shaking your head. Either way, it's a vibe.Subscribe, Like & Share!Don't miss the chaos, culture, and comedy every week. Subscribe to Virgo Season Show, drop your thoughts in the comments, and join the conversation with Ryan and Joyhdae.Connect With Us:• Email: Virgoseasonshow@gmail.com• Website: Virgoseasonshow.com• YouTube, TikTok & Instagram: @VirgoSeasonShow• Ryan: @OhBlackRyan• Joyhdae: @Joyhdae----CHAPTERS(This week we let AI create the chapters...LOL)00:00 Intro00:05 Joining a Cult and Kelly Clarkson01:23 Virgo Season Vibes03:22 Birthday Celebrations and Tattoos06:49 Therapy and Life Reflections17:35 WNBA Games and San Francisco Adventures20:58  The Kubala Kingdom in Scotland25:11 Neighbor's Conspiracy Theories28:25 Late Night Perimenopause Thoughts28:50 Elon Musk and Broken Clocks29:45 A Family Member's Mental Health31:11 A Random Riddle32:49 Cardi B's Courtroom Drama37:16 Apple vs. Samsung: The Foldable Phone Debate39:27 Am I the Asshole? Peeing in Bed39:46 AITA46:28 Quarterly Hygiene Confessions55:07 Dirty Jokes and Sign Off01:00:00 Outro

SummaryIn this lively conversation, Queenie and TT share their experiences on Cape Cod, discussing beach adventures, birthday celebrations, and the launch of an inflatable island. They delve into cannabis-related topics, including legal updates and personal consumption experiences, while also sharing humorous stories and playing a game of true or false about bizarre news events. The conversation is filled with laughter, insights, and reflections on their time spent together.Welcome to the Closet Disco Queen Pot-Cast, a comedy podcast with music and pop culture references that keeps you laughing and engaged. Join our hosts, Queenie & TT as they share humorous anecdotes about daily life, offering women's perspectives on lifestyle and wellness. We dive into funny cannabis conversations and stories, creating an entertaining space where nothing is off-limits. Each episode features entertaining discussions on pop culture trends, as we discuss music, culture, and cannabis in a light-hearted and inclusive manner. Tune in for a delightful blend of humor, insight, and relatable stories that celebrate life's quirks and pleasures. Our Closet Disco Queen Pot-Cast deals with legal adult cannabis use and is intended for entertainment purposes only for those 21 and older Visit our Closet Disco Queen Pot-Cast merch store!Find us on Facebook and Green Coast RadioSound from Zapsplat.com, https://quicksounds.com, 101soundboards.com #ToneTransfer

In this episode, Hailey covers Oak Creek's milestone event—70 years in the making—which honors a legacy of community, growth, and progress. Lake Vista Park will be celebration central, filled with thrilling festivities and delicious food! Dive into the details of this spectacular event, and discover why you won't want to miss it!The Bobber is brought to you by Something Special from Wisconsin: https://www.somethingspecialwi.com/Read the blog here: https://discoverwisconsin.com/cheers-to-70-years-inside-oak-creeks-epic-birthday-celebration/The Bobber: https://discoverwisconsin.com/the-bobber-blog/The Cabin Podcast: https://the-cabin.simplecast.com. Follow on social @thecabinpodShop Discover Wisconsin: shop.discoverwisconsin.com. Follow on social @shopdiscoverwisconsinDiscover Wisconsin: https://discoverwisconsin.com/. Follow on social @discoverwisconsinDiscover Mediaworks: https://discovermediaworks.com/. Follow on social @discovermediaworksOak Creek: https://www.oakcreekwi.gov/. Follow on social @cityofoakcreek

The FIYAH SHOW, hosted by Yielded, airs on the Anointed Radio Network every Tuesday from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. (Central Standard Time). The FIYAH SHOW provides a platform for humor, inspiration, and uplifting conversations. It's a space where the Word of God meets everyday life, with the motto: Where Real Talk Sparks Real Change and the slogan: Putting a Lil Heat to da Word on the Street.  Download the Anointed Radio Network App from the Google Play or Apple App Store to tune in live. ⁠www.anointedradio.com/⁠ Social Media: YouTube: @ibeYielded Instagram: @ibeYielded Facebook: @YieldedMedia Business Inquiries Email: ⁠yieldedmedia@gmail.com⁠ Watch us on Roku TV via the Anointed Radio Network Channel. Support this show: ⁠https://linktr.ee/yieldedmedia⁠ #FIYAHSHOW #RealTalkRealChange #PuttingALilHeat #AnointedRadio #ibeyielded #GospelEntertainment #ChristianTalkShow #HumorAndInspiration

Inspired by recent conversations with other Content Creators, Liz and Sarah talk about their determination to start “batching,” especially when it comes to all of their non-TV work. In Take A Hike, Sarah reveals why planning a celebration for her recent birthday has made her happier. Spoiler alert: fondue is involved. Then, in The Craft (& Fain), they share listener Kayla’s advice to drastically lower their daily goals as they work on their novel. This week’s Hollywood Hack will improve your puzzling: The NYT Games app. Finally, Sarah recommends the memoir How To Lose Your Mother by Molly Jong-Fast Sign up for Liz and Sarah’s free weekly newsletter at https://happierinhollywoodpod.substack.com. Get in touch on Instagram: @Sfain & @LizCraft Get in touch on Threads: @Sfain & @LizCraft Visit our website: https://happierinhollywood.com Join our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/HappierinHollywood/ Happier in Hollywood is part of ‘The Onward Project,’ a family of podcasts brought together by Gretchen Rubin—all about how to make your life better. Check out the other Onward Project podcasts—Happier with Gretchen Rubin, and Side Hustle School . If you liked this episode, please subscribe, leave a review, and tell your friends! LINKS: Stay In LA: https://www.stayinla.org/ The Melting Pot: https://www.meltingpot.com/thousand-oaks-ca/ How To Lose Your Mother by Molly Jong-Fast: https://amzn.to/4mwGmdd Photo by Brooke Lark on UnsplashSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode of the Big Shot Bob Podcast, we're kicking off with Robert Horry's birthday celebrations! Robert talks about spending time with Lakers legends and sheds light on his 'swag' debate prompted by Jeff Teague's comments. The episode features a thoughtful tribute to Kobe Bryant, sharing stories and reflecting on his impact in the sports world. The team also dives into college football, making picks for major games including Georgia Tech vs. Colorado, Texas vs. Ohio State, Alabama vs. Florida State, and more. Join us for laughs, memories, and some heated football talk!   00:00 Introduction and Birthday Celebrations 01:34 Birthday Reflections and Lakers Reunion 02:43 Clutch Points Tribute and Club 520 Podcast Reaction 05:22 Responding to Jeff Teague's Comments 13:16 NBA Superstar Impact and Hypothetical Trades 20:03 Paul George vs. Klay Thompson Debate 25:12 Mario Chalmers' Hall of Fame Case 26:38 Reflecting on a Player's Career 27:27 Candace Parker's Jersey Retirement 28:17 WNBA Attendance Records and Concerns 31:23 Remembering Kobe Bryant 35:02 College Football Picks and Predictions

Sia Nejad is joined by Buckets, Mackenzie Brooks, Amags, and Larry Hartstein as they dish out their BEST BETS in the NFL, CFB, MLB, Golf, and MORE for Tuesday's games! (0:00) Intro + Buckets' Birthday Celebration (6:20) Amags' MLB Prop (8:45) Buckets' Soccer Bets (12:00) HR Model Picks (14:10) Mackenzie's CFB Week 1 Picks (19:25) Sia's NFL Prop (21:05) Larry's MLB Pick (23:35) SportsLine MLB Bet (24:35) Chat Questions (31:53) Recap

Originally uploaded February 5th, reloaded July 30th. January 25th 2025, MBN was on the road to MSU Kellogg Center in East Lansing, MI. This four part video will let you experience or relive the event experience from that evening. Burns Suppers have been part of Scottish culture for well over 250 years as a means of commemorating Scotland's best loved bard. The ritual was started by close friends of Burns, a few years after his death, as a tribute to his memory. You can go back to see the Pre-Program performed by Celtic Jam in video 1. Videos 2,3,4 take you through the program elements focusing on podium and stage presentations. In the program MBN's Chris Holman serves as Master of Ceremonies. Presentations include those by Glen Erin Pipe Band P/M William Collins, Address to a Haggis by John Downing. The Selkirk Grace delivered by The Rev. Robet A. Higle. As the evening progressed Chef Angus Campbell delivers a Keynote. Entertainment continues with Highland Dancing by Lochanna Mora Highland Dance Company, punctuated by music of Celtic Jam. The Glen Erin Pipe Band showcases on the evening, and you get to peak in on the Raffle Drawings.

Originally uploaded February 3rd, reloaded July 30th. January 25th 2025, MBN was on the road to MSU Kellogg Center in East Lansing, MI. This four part video will let you experience or relive the event experience from that evening. Burns Suppers have been part of Scottish culture for well over 250 years as a means of commemorating Scotland's best loved bard. The ritual was started by close friends of Burns, a few years after his death, as a tribute to his memory. You'll see the Pre-Program performed by Celtic Jam. Videos 2,3,4 will take you through the program elements focusing on podium and stage presentations. In the program MBN's Chris Holman serves as Master of Ceremonies. Presentations include those by Glen Erin Pipe Band P/M William Collins, Address to a Haggis by John Downing. The Selkirk Grace delivered by The Rev. Robet A. Higle. As the evening progressed Chef Angus Campbell delivers a Keynote. Entertainment continues with Highland Dancing by Lochanna Mora Highland Dance Company, punctuated by music of Celtic Jam. The Glen Erin Pipe Band showcases on the evening, and you get to peak in on the Raffle Drawings.

Originally uploaded February 4th, reloaded July 30th. January 25th 2025, MBN was on the road to MSU Kellogg Center in East Lansing, MI. This four part video will let you experience or relive the event experience from that evening. Burns Suppers have been part of Scottish culture for well over 250 years as a means of commemorating Scotland's best loved bard. The ritual was started by close friends of Burns, a few years after his death, as a tribute to his memory. You can go back to see the Pre-Program performed by Celtic Jam in video 1. Videos 2,3,4 take you through the program elements focusing on podium and stage presentations. In the program MBN's Chris Holman serves as Master of Ceremonies. Presentations include those by Glen Erin Pipe Band P/M William Collins, Address to a Haggis by John Downing. The Selkirk Grace delivered by The Rev. Robet A. Higle. As the evening progressed Chef Angus Campbell delivers a Keynote. Entertainment continues with Highland Dancing by Lochanna Mora Highland Dance Company, punctuated by music of Celtic Jam. The Glen Erin Pipe Band showcases on the evening, and you get to peak in on the Raffle Drawings.

Originally uploaded February 4th, reloaded July 30th. January 25th 2025, MBN was on the road to MSU Kellogg Center in East Lansing, MI. This four part video will let you experience or relive the event experience from that evening. Burns Suppers have been part of Scottish culture for well over 250 years as a means of commemorating Scotland's best loved bard. The ritual was started by close friends of Burns, a few years after his death, as a tribute to his memory. You can go back to see the Pre-Program performed by Celtic Jam in video 1. Videos 2,3,4 take you through the program elements focusing on podium and stage presentations. In the program MBN's Chris Holman serves as Master of Ceremonies. Presentations include those by Glen Erin Pipe Band P/M William Collins, Address to a Haggis by John Downing. The Selkirk Grace delivered by The Rev. Robet A. Higle. As the evening progressed Chef Angus Campbell delivers a Keynote. Entertainment continues with Highland Dancing by Lochanna Mora Highland Dance Company, punctuated by music of Celtic Jam. The Glen Erin Pipe Band showcases on the evening, and you get to peak in on the Raffle Drawings.

IF it doesn't rain close to dinner time, we'll be flattop grilling Hoffmann's Hotdogs and pairing it with Publix baked beans and potato salad. IF it is rainy and stormy, I'll just toss the dogs in peanut oil and throw ‘em under the broiler until they pop! The Music Authority Podcast... download, listen, share, repeat…heard daily on Belter Radio, Podchaser, Deezer, Amazon Music, Audible, Listen Notes, Mixcloud, Player FM, Tune In, Podcast Addict, Cast Box, Radio Public, Pocket Cast, APPLE iTunes, and direct for the source distribution site: *Podcast - https://themusicauthority.transistor.fm/  AND NOW there is a website! TheMusicAuthority.comThe Music Authority Podcast! Special Recorded Network Shows, too! Different than my daily show! Seeing that I'm gone from FB now…Follow me on “X” Jim Prell@TMusicAuthority*The Music Authority on @BelterRadio Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 7 pm ET & Wednesday 9 pm ET*Radio Candy Radio Monday Wednesday, & Friday 7PM ET, 4PM PT*Rockin' The KOR Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday at 7PM UK time, 2PM ET, 11AM PT  www.koradio.rocks*Pop Radio UK Friday, Saturday, & Sunday 6PM UK, 1PM ET, 10AM PT! *The Sole Of Indie https://soleofindie.rocks/ Monday Through Friday 6-7PM EST!*AltPhillie.Rocks Sunday, Thursday, & Saturday At 11:00AM ET!August 22, 2025, Friday, stanza two…@The Ramones - Listen To My Heart@The Corrs - Only When I Sleep [Talk On Corners]@The Verbs - I Need Glue [Make Something Happen! A Tribute To The Flashcubes] (@Big Stir Records)@Billy Oliver With PD Wohl - I Dream in Blue@The Waspmen - Speechless [Swarm Warning]@Emperor Penguin - Planet Of Love (feat. @Lisa Mychols) [Corporation Pop!] (koolkatmusik.com)@The Right Here - Leaving For A Reason [Stick To The Plan] (@Rum Bar Records)@Nelson Bragg - Every Minute Of The Day [Mélodie de Nelson A Pop Anthology] (@Big Stir Records)@Spygenius - For Pete's Sake [Spygenius Blow Their Covers] (@Big Stir Records)@Ballzy Tomorrow - Back of My Hand [Sing Me a Song - A 50th Birthday Celebration of @Adam A Waltemire]@Jesse Norell - Uneven [Aorta Borealis]@Deco Auto - Empty Gestures [Got It Licked] (@Ice Cream Man Power Pop And More)@Ian George - Animal [A Fair]@Too Much Saturn - Photogenic [IPO Vol 16]@Deadlights - Running Wild [Blue Sides - EP]@Louis And The Shakes - Time Has Come@The Poppees - Jealousy [Pop Goes The Anthology] (@Bomp! Single)@MonaLisa twins - I Don't Know Birds That Well [IPO Vol 17]@The Bug Club - My Baby Loves Rock & Roll Music [Pure Particles]

Meeting every moment with the right floral arrangement and/or gift basket, Nanz & Kraft florists have served the city since 1850. Co-owner Eddie Kraft and his daughter Lydia visited WHAS Radio to shout out their awesome staff and throw a party for their fans.Listen for details on Saturday's celebration at the Nanz & Kraft location at 141 Breckenridge Lane in Louisville.

From 08/20 Hour 1: Cakes recaps how he celebrated his birthday yesterday.

MLVC celebrates Madonna's 67th birthday! We discuss her fantastic trip to Tuscany alongside her family, Debi Mazar, Ingrid, Guy Oseary, Jonas Akerland, photographer JR and Sting! And we have our Madonna wishes of what we hope the upcoming new album era bring us (besides an enormous Labubu cake...). Follow MLVC on all social channels: @mlvcpodcast Subscribe to MLVC's YouTube channel Donate to the podcast on Venmo: mlvcpodcast Listen to more episodes on Spotify/Apple/Amazon/Google Play or here: https://mlvc.podbean.com/ #mlvcpodcast #madonnaforever #madonna #madonnapodcast

It's Jacqueline Taylor Schimmel-Haas' birthday, and she's been preparing for months her 2025 list of things she hates - some are broad, some are niche, but all of them are felt deeply in her soul.Thanks for supporting my sponsors:Wayfair: Get organized, refreshed, and back to routine for way less at www.Wayfair.comNutrafol: For a limited time, use code BIBLE to get $10 off your first month's subscription and free shipping at www.Nutrafol.comSKIMS: Shop my favorite bras and underwear at www.SKIMS.comSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The Blerds are back bringing you all of their thooughts on everything happening in nerd culture! In this episode Shannon and James discuss a variety of topics ranging from character development in anime to the impact of fan culture on media consumption. They discuss the legal implications of copyright infringement in the gaming industry, share personal experiences with video games, and express excitement for upcoming films like Spider-Man and One Piece. The conversation also touches on the cultural phenomenon of K-Pop and the challenges of live-action adaptations, concluding with a nostalgic look at The Office and its upcoming spin-off.   Chapter Notes:  00:00Welcome and Birthday Celebrations 02:46Anime and Gaming Updates 05:32Exploring New Shows and Movies 08:19Conventions and Furry Culture 11:11Diving into Dark Themes in Anime 14:15Fan Reactions and Community Dynamics 17:25The Metrics of Enjoyment 20:21Fandom and Identity 22:00Supporting What You Love 27:56The Impact of Ratings and Reviews 29:47Legal Battles in Gaming 35:28Spider-Man's Practical Stunts 37:47Keeping Spoilers Under Wraps 39:22Spider-Punk and Spider-Man Noir 41:01K-Pop Demon Hunters Phenomenon 44:39Live-Action Adaptations Debate 46:17One Piece Season Two Expectations 50:53The Office Spinoff Discussion   Make sure to subscribe to our youtube channel and listen to us on your podcast app of choice!   Follow Us!  https://linktr.ee/blerdsnerds National Resources List https://linktr.ee/NationalResourcesList Youtube  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK56I-TNUnhKhcWLZxoUTaw Email us: Blerdsnerds@gmail.com Follow Our Social: https://www.instagram.com/blerdsnerds/ https://twitter.com/BlerdsNerds https://www.facebook.com/blerdsnerds https://tiktok.com/blerdsnerds_pod Shannon: https://www.instagram.com/luv_shenanigans James: https://www.instagram.com/llsuavej  Jaja: https://www.instagram.com/jajasmith3   

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What happens when two friends with no filter hit record and just let the conversation flow? Pure entertainment. In this milestone 184th episode, Jay recounts his recent birthday celebrations that included prime seats at a Toledo Mud Hens game and dining at the quirky Speed Trap Diner in Woodville – complete with its iconic police car mounted on the roof as a playful jab at the town's reputation for catching speeders.The food discussion takes center stage when John shares his discovery of Beckett's Burger Bar, leading to an unexpected revelation about their proprietary soda that blew both hosts away. "It's like a Pepsi on steroids," John exclaims, revealing how quickly his initial skepticism transformed into genuine enthusiasm. Their detailed breakdown of the restaurant's "tachos" (tater tot nachos) will have your mouth watering and adding this spot to your must-visit list.Entertainment reviews provide another highlight as John delivers his verdict on the new Naked Gun movie starring Liam Neeson. His enthusiastic endorsement praises how the film honors the original trilogy's comedy style while incorporating subtle modern touches. The hosts then dive into a music session, sampling tracks from metal bands like Psycho Frame and Still Remains, offering their unfiltered reactions and comparisons to other artists in the genre.The conversation takes interesting turns through relationship standards, dating expectations, and even a brief debate about whether Beyoncé has truly surpassed Michael Jackson's cultural impact (spoiler: they're firmly in the King of Pop's corner). Throughout it all, John and Jay maintain the authentic, conversational style that's kept listeners coming back for nearly four years.Ready for more unfiltered conversations, random discoveries, and laugh-out-loud moments? Subscribe now and join us next week when John tries Hot Heads Burritos and reports whether it lives up to the hype!Send us a text message and let us know how awesome we are! (Click the link)!Support the show'Beavis and Butt-head' Cover art created by Joe Crawford

In which John tells the crew all about history family's trip to WDW for his son's 5th birthday

This week, Tim and Maggie catch up from two different corners of the continent, Maggie joins live from Toronto, where she's filming Boston Blue, while Tim just wrapped filming the newest season of Paradise. They chat about birthday celebrations, life on set, and share some exciting goals they have for the future. Make sure to follow @bostonbluecbs @bostonbluefans on Instagram, and rewatch Model Behavior with us here: https://tinyurl.com/3ykh76uf Sponsors: Cornbread Hemp - Save 30% on your first order by going to cornbreadhemp.com/pineapple and use the code “pineapple” at checkout. Quince Cookware: quince.com/maggie for free shipping and 365 day returns Quince Apparel: quince.com/pineapple for free shipping and 365 day returns Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on the Toy Power Podcast; we bring you a whole episode dedicated to the 2025 San Diego Comic Con baby!! And boy do we have a BIG episode for ya! (This could just be the LONGEST episode we have ever recorded!) We systematically run through each Manufacturer & attempt to call out all the awesome reveals that has oh so very excited!! - Mattel- Jada- Nacelle- Four Horsemen- Mondo- Neca- Mezco- Super7- Playmates- McFarlane- Hasbro- The Loyal SubjectsPlus we have Birthday Celebrations; round table thoughts of the Con itself & much much more! ENJOY!!Support the show: http://patreon.com/toypowerpodcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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In this very special episode, Kelly celebrates a monumental milestone, her 40th birthday! It's a time for reflection, growth, and gratitude, and in this episode, Kelly shares powerful insights on aligning desires with actions, embracing personal evolution, and shifting perspectives on wealth. With heartfelt thanks to all the incredible guests who have graced the show, this episode is packed with valuable lessons on personal growth, wealth, and authenticity. [1:11] Incredible Conversations with Unforgettable Guests “I've had incredible guests on the show, and I'm so grateful for every single one of them who took time out of their days.” [3:12] Everything is a Gift “Put your hand on your heart and just say thank you, God, for this, for letting me experience that, whether it is good or unfortunate.” [9:56] Stack Your Desires “As your desires are stacking, you've got to stack your actions. So, what actions are in alignment with your desires?" [16:14] Money is Energy “The ultimately true belief is that money is always in motion.” [22:59] My Biggest Birthday Wish “My biggest birthday wish for you is to be You and be unapologetic about yourself and what you want in life.” [26:28] This Ends With Me “I'm evolving not just for me. I'm evolving for my family, for my friends, for generations to come. I want to change the narrative so I'm not passing down generational curses.” [32:12] Embracing Healthy Attachment “Becoming securely attached means doing things by yourself.” Don't forget to rate, review, and subscribe!  Connect with Kelly here: Follow Me on Instagram at @chaselifewithkelly  Follow Me on TikTok at @iamkellychase Subscribe to My YouTube Channel Work with Me: Private 1:1 Business & Mindset Coaching- More Details Rejection to Redemption - More Details Money Magnet - More Details Goddess Magic Course Bundle -  More Details Kelly's Favorites Visit Our Website!

Throughout the decades, Bunji Garlin has been an underappreciated icon in the music industry. Raised from the roots of soca, he spread his wings to other genres and this is a celebration of the art form at it's best. Fulljoy!

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  In this lively episode of the Top Five podcast, Kris and Annie kick off an exhilarating new series where they explore their favorite songs from A to Z.   This week's theme is 'songs about animals,' and the challenge is to select tracks that mention animals without any overlap. From fun and quirky tracks to serious ballads, the hosts share their top five picks, along with some interesting backstories and honorable mentions.   Tune in to discover new music and enjoy a nostalgic trip down memory lane with Kris and Annie.     Oh - and the playlist?  RIGHT HERE.   00:00 Introduction and Birthday Celebration 00:35 Introducing the New Series: A to Z Songs 01:04 Songs About Animals: Starting with the Letter A 02:25 First Picks: Rock Lobster and Sheep Go to Heaven 04:55 Diverse Animal Songs: From Horses to Stray Cats 07:18 Karaoke Stories and Beatles Covers 10:10 Wacky and Weird Animal Songs 14:11 Honorable Mentions and Final Picks 19:50 Recap and Conclusion

When there is a beer involved, the episode usually runs longer and is slightly more chaotic than usual. Well, that's what you got! lol It starts with a nasty birthday surprise, moves effortlessly into death and then finishes with bumhole moulds. It's a good one!As mentioned on the pod, if you'd like to donate £1 here is the link https://ko-fi.com/thepaddedcellpodcastGoFundMe has a site enforced minimum donation of £5 I'm afraid, but if you'd prefer to use this platform, then here is the link https://gofund.me/834c6485Thank you so much xxxChapters:00:00 Introduction01:09 New Ventures04:32 Birthday Celebrations and Spider Bites13:03 Support the Podcast18:09 Historical Reflections and War Stories24:09 Princess Diana's Legacy30:30 Unique Burial Practices Around the World33:44 The Deadly Consequences of Cannibalism35:07 Modern Echoes of Endocannibalism35:59 Travel Tales: India and Egypt37:49 The Tower of Silence: Mumbai's Unique Burial Practice42:47 Sky Burials in the Himalayas52:27 Cave Burials in Alaska57:10 Hanging Coffins of Southern China01:00:24 Plastination: Turning Cadavers into Art01:04:46 Fun with Sunglasses and Final Thoughts▶︎ Support us on Patreon for bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/ThePaddedCellPodcast▶︎ www.thepaddedcellpodcast.co.uk▶︎ www.thepaddedcellpodcast.store Watch the podcast on YouTube:▶︎ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@ThePaddedCellPodcastFollow The Padded Cell for more:▶︎ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61551425184285▶︎ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/thepaddedcell_podcast/?hl=en-gb▶︎ TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@thepaddedcellpodcastRecorded and Produced by Liverpool Podcast Studios▶︎ Web - http://www.liverpoolpodcaststudios.com▶︎ Instagram - http://www.instagram.com/liverpoolpodcaststudios▶︎ LinkedIn - http://www.linkedin.com/company/liverpool-podcast-studios

Go to https://surfshark.com/unsubscribe and use code unsubscribe at checkout to get 4 extra months of Surfshark VPN! Welcome to the Unsub Army 250th special! In this HUGE episode we are joined by very special guests General George, Secretary Dan Driscoll, SMA Mike Weimer, Maryland Governor Wes Moore & our boy Chef Rush! ENJOY!! https://drinkechelon.com/collections/energy-drinks Watch this episode ad-free and uncensored on Pepperbox! https://www.pepperbox.tv/ MERCH: https://www.bunkerbranding.com/collections/unsubscribe-podcast ------------------------------ THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS! FUM Head to https://www.tryfum.com/UNSUB and use promo code UNSUB to get your free gift with purchase and start the Good Habit today! CASHAPP Download Cash App Today: UNSUB10 #CashAppPod *Referral Reward Disclaimer: As a Cash App partner, I may earn a commission when you sign up for a Cash App account. GHOSTBED Get an extra 10% off when you use code UNSUBSCRIBE at checkout. Go to http://GhostBed.com/unsubscribe to get started. SURFSHARK Go to https://surfshark.com/unsubscribe and use code unsubscribe at checkout to get 4 extra months of Surfshark VPN! ------------------------------ FOLLOW OUR SOCIALS! Unsubscribe Podcast https://www.instagram.com/unsubscribepodcast https://www.tiktok.com/@unsubscribepodcast https://x.com/unsubscribecast Eli Doubletap https://www.instagram.com/eli_doubletap/ https://x.com/Eli_Doubletap https://www.youtube.com/c/EliDoubletap Brandon Herrera https://www.youtube.com/@BrandonHerrera https://x.com/TheAKGuy https://www.instagram.com/realbrandonherrera Donut Operator https://www.youtube.com/@DonutOperator https://x.com/DonutOperator https://www.instagram.com/donutoperator The Fat Electrician https://www.youtube.com/@the_fat_electrician https://thefatelectrician.com/ https://www.instagram.com/the_fat_electrician https://www.tiktok.com/@the_fat_electrician ------------------------------ unsubscribe pod podcast episode ep unsub funny comedy military army comedian texas podcasts #podcast #comedy #funnypodcast Chapters: 0:00 Welcome To Unsub 2:08 General George Is Here! 4:18 General George Talks About His Army Experience 6:16 Clint Romesha 7:02 Army 250th Birthday 10:08 General George's House 14:18 A Message From General George 15:59 Dan Driscoll Is Here! 17:30 Dan Talks About His Army Experience & Going To Yale 20:10 Dan Discusses The ATF 23:49 The Age Of Drones 27:54 Improving The Army Based On Soliders' Feedback 33:47 There's Soldiers On The Moon?? 36:13 Mike Weimer Is Here! 36:36 Mike Discusses His Experience In The Army 42:46 The Weimer Family Portrait 45:10 Mike's Transition To SMA 48:09 Mike Talks About His Purple Hearts 49:32 Mike's Inspirations For Joining The Army 55:41 Rich Makes A Pitch 57:18 The Boys' Experiences In DC 58:27 Humanizing The Army & Making Meaningful Changes 1:03:58 Governor Wes Moore Joins Us! 1:05:01 Wes Talks About His Military Experiences 1:17:54 Wes Talks About Getting Into Politics 1:24:57 Politics Vs The Military 1:30:54 Divisiveness Vs Conversations 1:37:04 Chef Rush Is Here! 1:43:33 Chef Rush Talks About His Social Media Career 1:50:53 Chef Rush Talks About His Experience With Celebrities & Working On TV Shows Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

While Trump abuses and weaponizes our armed forces to stop protests, he's also hijacking the 250th anniversary celebration of the US Army and making it about him. Steve Schmidt looks at Trump's "Führer parade" and explains how the media is helping to sell his message. Subscribe for more and follow me here: Substack: https://steveschmidt.substack.com/subscribe Store: https://thewarningwithsteveschmidt.com/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thewarningses.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SteveSchmidtSES/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thewarningses Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thewarningses/ X: https://x.com/SteveSchmidtSES

Explore the science behind the "Sugar Diet," a low-protein, high-carbohydrate or high-fat dietary regimen. We'll discuss how this approach influences metabolic pathways, its potential benefits for fat loss, and the importance of nutrient quality in achieving optimal health outcomes. All things considered, do we recommend anyone utilize this strategy? Tune in to find out! APPLY FOR COACHING: https://www.lvltncoaching.com/1-1-coaching SDE Method app: https://www.lvltncoaching.com/sde-method-app Macros Guide https://www.lvltncoaching.com/free-resources/calculate-your-macros Join the Facebook Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/lvltncoaching FREE TOOLS to start your health and fitness journey: https://www.lvltncoaching.com/resources/freebies Alessandra's Instagram: http://instagram.com/alessandrascutnik Joelle's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joellesamantha?igsh=ZnVhZjFjczN0OTdn Josh's Instagram: http://instagram.com/joshscutnik ‍ Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction and Birthday Celebrations 02:57 Understanding the Sugar Diet 05:58 The Science Behind Low Protein Diets 09:56 Critique of the Sugar Diet 12:43 Metabolic Health and Individual Responses 15:51 Long-term Implications of the Sugar Diet 18:50 Conclusion and Final Thoughts 23:38 The Impact of Diet on Health 25:38 Understanding mTOR and AMPK 26:33 Taurine and Its Role in Diet 27:28 The Efficiency of Low Protein Diets 29:24 The Nuances of Dietary Strategies 30:17 Target Audience for New Diets 31:42 The Risks of Misleading Headlines 33:30 The Importance of Metabolic Health 34:46 Navigating the Health and Fitness Industry 36:34 Exploring Nutrient-Dense Carbohydrate Sources 38:24 Limitations of Low Protein Diets 40:11 Long-Term Effects of High Sugar Diets 42:25 Key Takeaways and Recommendations

Solana reveals his plans to celebrate his 31st birthday next Sunday but Hoch takes issue with the “invite” and thinks Solana is being selfish.

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Jbird recaps his worst Bday moments and has KVJ do an impromptu Freestyle Rap!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.