Podcasts about broadway theater

In this episode, Kelly is joined by artist and his good friend Emily Farish! Join them as they discuss the ever important question of where to go to the bathroom in New York City! They start their bathroom journey in central park. Kelly talks about the Harlem Meer and where to go around there. Emily talks about her favorite destination bathrooms around the park. As they journey south, they talk about secret toilets that aren't on the map! Learn how to use the bathroom at the central park zoo, the MET and even the plaza hotel! Emily also talks about how to navigate the bathrooms of Broadway. Where to go if you are traveling with elders who may have trouble with stairs. They talk about the bathrooms in the area and which are accessible. Finally they talk about lower Manhattan: where to go on the High Line, the various parks of lower Manhattan, and a super secret bathroom that is straight out of the 1800s! Stay tuned for even more potty breaks during part two of this episode coming soon! But above all else, going to the bathroom is for New Yorkers. Kelly Kopp's Social Media@NewYorkCityKopp Chapters (00:00:00) - New Yorkers: A Podcast for New Yorkers(00:00:55) - Emily Farish on The Halloween Costume Contest(00:03:48) - Mazes of Flowers: Drawing in Manhattan(00:06:25) - Know Where the Bathrooms Are in NYC!(00:10:02) - Private Bathroom Near The Met(00:13:29) - The Met's Restrooms(00:15:06) - Central Park Explained(00:16:57) - Where to Use the Bathroom in Central Park(00:20:35) - How to Use a Bathroom in Central Park(00:23:46) - Where to Use the Potty in Central Park?(00:25:12) - How to Use a Bathroom in Manhattan(00:28:48) - What's The Accessibility of Broadway Theater?(00:32:53) - How to Use the Elevator at the Marriott Marquis(00:34:33) - The Radio City Mural(00:36:42) - Madison Square Park Does Not Have A Bathroom(00:39:23) - Where to Have a Restroom?(00:39:37) - How to Use the High Line Bathroom(00:42:43) - How to Use a Public Bathroom in Manhattan(00:45:55) - Emily on The Real Bathroom(00:48:21) - The New Yorkers Podcast: Thank You!

In this episode, Sam has guest Bessie Fong on to chat about all things social media. We dive into what it really takes to show up confidently and authentically, whether you're building a personal brand or just trying to connect online. They break down the difference between confidence and charisma—hint: both are totally learnable—and talk about the real struggle of putting yourself out there without letting self-doubt take over. Bessie drops some solid tips on creating content that truly resonates, while Sam emphasizes how mindset is everything when it comes to being visible online. Let's dive in!    Topics Include: How confidence is a result of taking courageous actions Why many people struggle with showing up online Authenticity and how it actually helps you stand out in a crowded market Different ways to create content without showing your face Mindset is everything when presenting yourself online. Shifting your focus to serving others, not on self-doubt. Breathing techniques that help calm nerves and improve performance. Your unique quirks and personality are your biggest strengths.   Let's connect on IG: @samanthajoharvey @fullout_podcast   Grab Sam's free POWER PORTAL GUIDEBOOK with 7 days of actionable steps to come home to you and unlock your next level.   Meet CLUB FULL OUT: The Membership your one stop shop for all things FULL OUT. Your membership includes:

PREVIEW: FEDERAL THEATER: Author James Shapiro, "The Playbook," reminds us that before HUAC assaulted Hollywood, the committee condemned the Federal Theater Project, 1935-39. More tonight. 1853 BROADWAY THEATER

MAGICIAN:  1/8: Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided by  Scott Eyman  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Scott-Eyman/dp/1982176350 Bestselling Hollywood biographer and film historian Scott Eyman tells the story of Charlie Chaplin's fall from grace. In the aftermath of World War II, Chaplin was criticized for being politically liberal and internationalist in outlook. He had never become a US citizen, something that would be held against him as xenophobia set in when the postwar Red Scare took hold. Politics aside, Chaplin had another problem: his sexual interest in young women. He had been married three times and had had numerous affairs. In the 1940s, he was the subject of a paternity suit, which he lost, despite blood tests that proved he was not the father. His sexuality became a convenient way for those who opposed his politics to condemn him. Refused permission to return to the US after a trip abroad, he settled in Switzerland and made his last two films in London. 1859 BROADWAY THEATER

Send us a Text Message.Welcome to another episode of The Broadway Besties Podcast! This week, we're diving into the nitty-gritty of theater etiquette—or rather, the lack thereof. From cell phones going off during pivotal scenes to those who can't seem to unwrap a candy quietly, we're airing our grievances about all the things that drive us nuts in the theater. We don't hold back, so buckle up for a candid, no-holds-barred discussion on what it really means to be a respectful audience member. Whether you're a seasoned theatergoer or a Broadway newbie, this episode is packed with insights, rants, and maybe a little bit of advice for making everyone's theater experience a little more magical.

In this episode, we link up in Hell's Kitchen and transform into experimental theater critics in order to provide an unbridled review and aesthetic analysis following our patronage of the new Broadway revival of Cabaret, a musical with a captivating history and a surprising relevance to many of our favorite themes and subjects. We talk about the century-long meme of Berlin debauchery, Sally Bowles as a feminine archetype in her many iterations, Eddie Redmayne's viral Emcee performance (and its chilling implications), and the wildly imaginative costume design work of Tom Scutt, from sleazy boudoir ensembles to fascistic menswear. LinksGo see Cabaret on Broadway!Cabaret – "Wilkommen" performance at the 77th Annual Tony AwardsCabaret (1972) starring Liza Minelli Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher IsherwoodMarch Vogue profile on the 2024 revival, feat. interviews with Eddie Redmayne and Gayle RankinHow a Broadway Theater was Remade Into a Queer Cabaret (interactive NYT article)Playbill interview with set and costume designer Tom Scutt, featuring costume sketches! Cabaret (2024) review in the LA TimesCabaret (2024) review in the New York TimesPrevious iconic Sally Bowles moments: Liza Minelli's "Mein Herr" and Jane Horrocks' "Cabaret"Biz's essay "2016, 2017"Find exclusive episodes here

In this episode, we link up in Hell's Kitchen and transform into experimental theater critics in order to provide an unbridled review and aesthetic analysis following our patronage of the new Broadway revival of Cabaret, a musical with a captivating history and a surprising relevance to many of our favorite themes and subjects. We talk about the century-long meme of Berlin debauchery, Sally Bowles as a feminine archetype in her many iterations, Eddie Redmayne's viral Emcee performance (and its chilling implications), and the wildly imaginative costume design work of Tom Scutt, from sleazy boudoir ensembles to fascistic menswear.LinksGo see Cabaret on Broadway!Cabaret – "Wilkommen" performance at the 77th Annual Tony AwardsCabaret (1972) starring Liza MinelliGoodbye to Berlin by Christopher IsherwoodMarch Vogue profile on the 2024 revival, feat. interviews with Eddie Redmayne and Gayle RankinHow a Broadway Theater was Remade Into a Queer Cabaret (interactive NYT article)Playbill interview with set and costume designer Tom Scutt, featuring costume sketches!Cabaret (2024) review in the LA TimesCabaret (2024) review in the New York TimesPrevious iconic Sally Bowles moments: Liza Minelli's "Mein Herr" and Jane Horrocks' "Cabaret"Biz's essay "2016, 2017"Find exclusive episodes here

From billion-dollar tech deals to Tony-winning musicals, Phil Kenny shares his unique journey from lawyer to Broadway producer. Hear how he applies his business acumen to the world of theater and what it takes to bring a hit show to life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to "Was it Chance" where we peel back the layers of serendipity to uncover the hard work and opportunities behind what looks like mere chance. In today's episode, we bring you a conversation with the extremely handsome and talented Andy Mientus, a true maverick of the stage and screen. From accidentally becoming one of Broadway's first social media managers to his heartwarming experience with Dolly Parton on the set of Heartstrings, and one amazing Broadway production credit after another, Andy's journey is one you don't want to miss. Andy shares with us his belief in staying proximate to your aspirations, even if the connection seems tangential, and how this philosophy led him to astounding opportunities—like touring with Spring Awakening and soaking in the Wicked Tour which felt like a "warm bath.” We're also have some juicy revelations—such as Alan Seales' surprising stance on Sondheim, the unexpected significance of The Met Gala for the theatre community, and the personal tales of failure that Andy calls his "close friends," teaching him resilience and the art of bouncing back. Moreover, Andy gives us a glimpse into his life beyond the stage lights. As a best-selling author of YA books and an actor who's not shied away from portraying significant LGBTQ+ roles, like the openly Gay character Hartley Rathaway in The Flash, Andy is a testament to the diverse avenues of artistic expression. And, if you stick around till the end, you'll be treated to pecial rendition of "Shut the Fuck Up Alan!" by Andy himself. Prepare to be inspired, entertained, and perhaps a little starstruck—this is an episode you won't want to miss! Connect with Andy on Instagram. Get his books The Backstagers series: Backstagers and The Ghost, Backstagers and The Theater of the Ancients, Backstagers and the Final Blackout as well as his latest book, Fraternity. Make sure to follow this podcast everywhere you find podcasts, leave a rating and a review, and slip into our Instagram DMs at @wasitchance. More about Heather via @heather_vickeryandco on Instagram, @Braveheather on TikTok, and listen to The Brave Files More about Alan via @theatre_podcast on Instagram and listen to The Theatre Podcast with Alan Seales EPISODE TAKEAWAYS Live Theatre may be the last frontier when it comes to avoiding AI Andy says he stumbled in the back door for every professional experience he's ever had Back in college, Andy stumbled upon Spring Awakening (by past WIC Guest, Stephen Sater) and he fell madly in love. He started a Facebook group for fans of the show and, thus, became one of the first-ever Broadway Theater social media managers. Not long after that, he auditioned for a role in Spring Awakening and joined the tour. Choose to be close to your goals, even if they are tangential. NEWSFLASH - Alan Seales doesn't resonate with Sondheim!  Working with Dolly Parton was a highlight for Andy and he was thrilled to act with her in an episode of Heartstrings that featured a Gay storyline with a happy ending. Tune in to hear why The Met Gala is a super important event for the theatre world (which most people don't know!). Being part of the Wicked Tour was like “a warm bath” for Andy because the show is always a wonderful, welcoming experience. Mientus has a rare neurological disorder called HNPP (Hereditary Neuropathy with Pressure Palsies). Andy is not just a live theater actor, he's also a TV and Film actor including playing the supervillain, Hartley Rathaway, in The Flash who is an openly Gay character in the series! Failure is one of Andy's close personal friends. He says he fails several times a week and it never gets easier but it's always a learning opportunity you can get better at dealing with, most of the time. Stay until the end of a special Andy Mientus rendition of Shut the Fuck Up Alan! tick, tick…Boom! runs June 5 to June 15 at the historic Cape Playhouse in Dennis, MA where Broadway goes to summer since 1927 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Last week you heard from theater director Des McAnuff as he shared his experiences with three of his biggest shows, Tommy, Jersey Boys, and Big River. We discussed his approach to each of these unique musicals. Well, now Des is back to talk his musicianship and his composition efforts as well as share the lessons and insecurities he's discovered in the director's chair by answering the Final Five Questions in this bonus episode of Why I'll Never Make It. To listen to bonus content like Auditions Stories and get early access to these full conversations ad-free, become a subscriber by going to whyillnevermakeit.com and click Subscribe. Podcast theme music created by host and producer Patrick Oliver Jones. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Drew Taylor & Jim Hill start off this week's show by talking up Pixar Fest (which starts this weekend at Disneyland Park). They then look ahead to which studios will be doing presentations at this year's Annecy International Animation Film Festival & Market For this episode, listeners will learn about: How many Disney-related items are coming up for bid at Van Eaton Galleries' next big event, “The Joel Magee Auction: Part Two” Which Pixar veteran is directing “Transformers One” for Paramount Animation When will “Robot Dreams” be released to select theaters in North America What became of the plaque in the lobby of NYC's Broadway Theater which commemorates “Steamboat Willie” ‘s world premiere in that same space back in 1928 Who was supposed to originally voice Fiona in the “Shrek” film series Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Drew Taylor & Jim Hill start off this week's show by talking up Pixar Fest (which starts this weekend at Disneyland Park). They then look ahead to which studios will be doing presentations at this year's Annecy International Animation Film Festival & Market For this episode, listeners will learn about: How many Disney-related items are coming up for bid at Van Eaton Galleries' next big event, “The Joel Magee Auction: Part Two” Which Pixar veteran is directing “Transformers One” for Paramount Animation When will “Robot Dreams” be released to select theaters in North America What became of the plaque in the lobby of NYC's Broadway Theater which commemorates “Steamboat Willie” ‘s world premiere in that same space back in 1928 Who was supposed to originally voice Fiona in the “Shrek” film series Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ariana Grande got the chance to witness boyfriend Ethan Slater's performance in Broadway's Spamalot one last time! Listen here and learn more at OKmagazine.com. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

After her Breakout performance on Broadway by originating the role of Katherine Howard in SIX: The Musical, Samantha Pauly comes to Take A Bow a day before she returns to Broadway at the Broadway Theater in the Great Gatsby. Sam chats with us right before heading to a call time for tech in her opening week of her first show in a brand new musical. This episode has it all from meaningful friendships, fandom, advice, knowledge, and so much more. Hear all about: Journey to becoming a performer/storyteller How theatre chose her Audition process of Gatsby How she heard she got the role (it was by accident) Returning to Broadway in Great Gatsby Pre-Broadway run at PaperMill Playhouse Journey to creating Jordan Baker How her songs have been cut, re-added, changed, etc. from the show. Sharing a stage with Jeremy Jordan and Evan Noblezada Falling in love with Noah J. Ricketts + So much more! (including a psa from our host about their school, PPAS) Curtain up, Sam Pauly Connect with Sam Pauly on Instagram: @sampauly Connect with Take A Bow on social: @takeabowpodcast Connect with host, Eli Tokash on social: @tokash_eli Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

ONCE ON THIS ISLAND  Book & Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, Music by Stephen Flaherty Works Consulted & Reference :Once On This Island (Libretto) by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen FlahertyMusic Credits:"Overture" from Dear World (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music by Jerry Herman | Performed by Dear World Orchestra & Donald Pippin"The Speed Test" from Thoroughly Modern Millie  (Original Broadway Cast Recording) | Music by Jeanine Tesori, Lyrics by Dick Scanlan | Performed by Marc Kudisch, Sutton Foster, Anne L. Nathan & Ensemble"Why God Why" from Miss Saigon: The Definitive Live Recording  (Original Cast Recording  / Deluxe)  | Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, Lyrics by Alain Boublil & Richard Maltby Jr.  | Performed by Alistair Brammer"Back to Before" from Ragtime: The Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music by Stephen Flaherty, Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens | Performed by Marin Mazzie"Chromolume #7 / Putting It Together" from Sunday in the Park with George (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music & Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim | Performed by Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Judith Moore, Cris Groenendaal, Charles Kimbrough, William Parry, Nancy Opel, Robert Westenberg, Dana Ivey, Kurt Knudson, Barbara Bryne"What's Inside" from Waitress (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music & Lyrics by Sara Bareilles | Performed by Jessie Mueller & Ensemble"Waiting for Life" from Once On This Island (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  | Music by Stephen Flaherty, Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens | Performed by LaChanze and 'Once On This Island' Company"Maria" from The Sound of Music (Original Soundtrack Recording)  | Music by Richard Rodgers, Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II | Performed by Evadne Baker, Anna Lee, Portia Nelson, Marni Nixon"My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music (Original Soundtrack Recording) | Music by Richard Rodgers, Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II | Performed by Julie Andrews"Corner of the Sky" from Pippin (New Broadway Cast Recording) | Music & Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz | Performed by Matthew James Thomas“What Comes Next?” from Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording) | Music & Lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda | Performed by Jonathan Groff

Pauly officially joins The Lunchador Podcast Network!An interview with The Executive Vice President of Rochester Broadway Theater League Linda Glosser.Mentioned in this episode:Level Up Coffee PodcastLevel Up your coffee game. Wade Reed and Aaron Pascucci, two coffee professionals discuss coffee and the culture surrounding it. https://levelupcoffee.captivate.fm/Food About TownFood About Town hosted by Chris Lindstrom, focusing on restaurants, food and drink of all kinds, and whatever topics I want to cover! https://foodabouttown.captivate.fm/

In this week's episode Sam interviews actor, corporate tech leader, entrepreneur and long-time client Bessie Fong. They look at Bessie's transformation and growth, from feeling unfulfilled and misaligned to reclaiming her power and creating a life she loves: mind, body, business and relationships.   Topics Include: 05:48 Believing in Possibilities 10:05 Sam + Bessie's first interaction, real deal or a scam?! 10:50 The power of support and collaboration 13:38 Bessie's Tangible Wins and Mindset Shifts 16:39 How Bessie deepened her family relationships 21:04 What reclaiming her power looked like 27:33 The power of investing in yourself 30:45 Embracing Authenticity and Vulnerability   Let's connect on IG: @samanthajoharvey @fullout_podcast @bessiefong   Meet CLUB FULL OUT: The Membership your one stop shop for all things FULL OUT. Your membership includes:

A Broadway Theater Shook When the Audience Recognized Loretta Young Walking Down the AisleAudiobook available now on Audible! Behind the Door: the Real Story of Loretta Young https://www.amazon.com/Behind-Door-Story-Loretta-Trilogy/dp/B0B4VHX8QB/ref=sr_1_1 My website: https://edwardjfunk.wordpress.com/ Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/Edward-Funk/e/B01AKG4WKM%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/edwardjfunk YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZMWyRig3XH5h8i9zd8rqAw

Are you looking to hit the ground running with powerful ground marketing strategies? Our ground marketing course offers a range of actionable steps utilizing local restaurants, gyms, corporate locations, and small businesses in your area! With step-by-step scripts, foolproof plans, and real-time video demonstrations, you'll master the art of effectively engaging with your local community to attract new patients effortlessly. Click this link to join the community! https://thedentalmarketer.lpages.co/the-ground-marketing-course-open-enrollment/‍‍Guest: Michael SonickBusiness Name: Michael SonickCheck out Michael's Media:Website: https://www.michaelsonick.com/Michael's Book - Treating People Not Patients: https://a.co/d/gsHKkx3Email: mike@sonickdmd.comPhone: 203-209-7029Free Course Preview: https://www.michaelsonick.com/freepreview‍‍Other Mentions and Links:Dennis tarnowChristian CoachmanPeter DiamandisBroadway TheaterMonopolyUnreasonable Hospitality - Will GuidaraDanny Meyer Shake ShackEleven Madison ParkGramercy TavernUnion Square CafeZagat ModelAdam GrantThe Wizard of OzBlink - Malcolm GladwellHarvard UniversityInvisalignDavid GarberFrank Spear‍Host: Michael Arias‍Website: The Dental Marketer Join my newsletter: https://thedentalmarketer.lpages.co/newsletter/‍Join this podcast's Facebook Group: The Dental Marketer Society‍‍My Key Takeaways:How can you really wow patients, going above and beyond their expectations?What are the keys to hiring, including personality, effective roles, and must-haves?What is the first, and most important step to bringing on effective team members?The 5 core values of Dr. Sonick's practice, and how he implements them.Human to human interaction is irreplaceable when it comes to connecting with patients.The secret sauce Dr. Sonick takes from the restaurant industry to apply to his practice.‍Please don't forget to share with us on Instagram when you are listening to the podcast AND if you are really wanting to show us love, then please leave a 5 star review on iTunes! [Click here to leave a review on iTunes]‍p.s. Some links are affiliate links, which means that if you choose to make a purchase, I will earn a commission. This commission comes at no additional cost to you. Please understand that we have experience with these products/ company, and I recommend them because they are helpful and useful, not because of the small commissions we make if you decide to buy something. Please do not spend any money unless you feel you need them or that they will help you with your goals.‍Episode Transcript (Auto-Generated - Please Excuse Errors)Michael Arias: all right, it's time to talk with our featured guest, Dr. Michael Sonic. Michael, how's it going? Michael Sonick: It's going great. Thank you for having me on the show, Michael. Michael Arias: Yeah, definitely. Definitely. I appreciate you coming on. If you don't mind me asking right now, tell us a little bit about your past, your present.How did you get to where you are today? Michael Sonick: Well, I'm a perinatalist. I've been private practice since 1985 and I graduated dental school in 1979. So I'm probably than most of your audience. And I've had a true passion for, you know, working with my hands and also customer service. And so over the course of my 35, 40 years of building a practice, One of the things that resonated with me was really developing great connections with my patients.And my background was in the, not only the furniture business and woodworking, I was a lifeguard, but I also played cocktail piano. I did a lot of work in the restaurant business. So I waited on tables. I was a bartender. I was a busboy. Um, I even was a chef in the kitchen. So in college, every, every summer I would have a job, you know, when I wasn't lifeguarding, I moved over to hospitality. And that was a lot of fun. I met a lot of people and I realized the importance of connecting with, you know, my customers who are people in the restaurant. So for years, I always thought about the importance of really serving, people and we do that as dentists and also serving people in the restaurant business.So there were a lot of parallels between the restaurant business and my office. So when I first opened up my practice, I opened up in 1985 and for whatever reason I was sort of entrepreneurial. I didn't know it at the time, but I just decided I just wanted to work for myself. And, you know, today we have a lot of different choices.You can work for somebody else. You can work for a large corporation. You can open up your own practice. I still think there's a real strong need for people to be in their own practices and to connect with other human beings. But you're going to connect with other human beings, even if you're in a large corporation, or if you're working for somebody.That is critical. So in dental school. I did okay, you know, I liked it, but when I became a periodontist, you know, I was a general dentist for a few years, and then I went to my residency program, became a periodontist, and then I really just really enjoyed it, and I'd pull all nighters, and even though there weren't any grades, and it was a pass fail, I just really, really got into it, and I spent a lot of time the first 15 20 years of my, my, my career.Building my craft. And I think that's essential. You have to be really good at what you do. Most patients don't really know if you graduated first or last, or if you did a good crown prep or a bad ground prep, or you're good at dentures or extracting teeth, but what do they know? They know that you didn't hurt them.They know what your fees are and they know what the experience was like. Unless it's a front tooth, they're really not going to understand, the quality of your work. So. I still think it's real important to do great quality work, because it puts you in a niche, a top. So that's what I did. My first part of my career, I just studied, and I went to a lot of courses, and I spent a lot of time teaching, and I've been teaching for 40 years clinically.But I also realize it's real important to be able to connect with the people that you serve. And you have to do it by building a strong team. And that's by hiring the right people. And that's a whole different, you know, that's a whole different thing. How do you hire, how do you get the right people?How do you develop a culture? So there's a number of things that I believe you have to do to be a really successful dentist. One, you have to be great at your craft. Two, you have to have a nice looking office. It has to be clean. It has to be neat. You have to be clean and neat. And three, I can't say it's most importantly, but it's really important.And it's something that's not taught in dental schools. You have to have the ability to be able to give great superior customer service. Now, when I say customer service, it's not the stuff that's expected. It's the stuff that's not expected. It's the unexpected. It's going above and beyond. And, you know, Mike, I'm sure you remember those four or five great meals you had in restaurants or somewhere it could have been in someone's house.And you, if I asked you what was a great meal, you probably could think like, well, it's this meal. And what happened during that meal was the food was good, but there's also something very special that meal. Maybe it was the type of wine they opened. Maybe it was the way they. Gave you special attention.Maybe you didn't tell them that it was, you know, your friend's birthday. And then they came over with it and they did an over the top, you know, thing for them. Those are the things that, that we really remember. And I try to do that for my patients on every visit. We called it in our office, giving them the wow experience.Michael Arias: I really like how you pointed out these four things. You got to be great at your craft, nice looking office, ability to give great customer service. And I remember not that long ago, I read this book called Unreasonable Hospitality.And it provides... By William Godera. Michael Sonick: Yes, uh huh. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a classic. Michael Arias: Love that book. And I like how he said, service is black and white, but hospitality is color. Right. And so it is what you said, like you got to go above and beyond. So how do we do that in a practice? Because I know you're kind of a master at this.You wrote a book called Treating People, Not Patients. And so you dive deeper into this topic on just hospitality or what is that about? Michael Sonick: Yeah, that's a good question. Well, Will Guderia's mentor was Danny Meyer. I don't know if you know who that is. Danny Meyer. People know Danny Meyer because of Shake Shack, but Will Guderia, his restaurant, 11 Madison Park, was top restaurant in the world one year, voted.it's one of the best restaurants in Manhattan. Well, that was Danny restaurant, and Will Guderia bought that restaurant from him. Danny Meyer started Gramercy Tavern. And he started a union square cafe and he hunted 11 Madison park. He has about 50 restaurants in Manhattan, but he got put on the map financially because he started Shake Shack.And that's a, that's a whole nother story. that's what made him very wealthy, but he, he brought what we call hospitality to the restaurants. And we'll get there ran with that because, you know, he was a mentee of Danny Meyer and took it to the top. And in his book, he talks about the things that they do.They actually have somebody on staff there that's just there. I think it calls the director of customer experiences. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Great experiences there, buddy. He gives them those, those unique experiences. And in his book, he talks about. these like four people there. I think they were from Iowa and it was their last meal in Manhattan.And they're about to go back to Iowa. And he goes, what restaurants were you here? And I talked about it and, you know, a bunch of food. He used to talk about the same thing. And he probably a foodie if he read that book he says, well, what was your best experience? They go, we had a lot of good ones.He goes, anything you missed? He goes, yes. We never had a New York city hot dog. And so we'll get the era who's, you know, owns the restaurant. He goes outside in his suit in the middle of the day and he gets a couple of hot dogs in the street. brings to the kitchen and he asked them to cut them up.He says to serve and they play them with mustard and relish and, you know, some sauerkraut. And it comes out, of course, the chef didn't want to do that, you know, being a, chef in a, in a top restaurant, but he wanted to do it to give them that experience. Now, whatever kind of food they had, I think they had duck that night.It didn't really matter. They're going to be talking about the hot dog and the hot dog has nothing about food. So how do you do that? And in my book, I have 10 different chapters. I also have a series of videos that you can purchase that are specifically there to train the staff and there are different techniques you need.You need to be able be nice. It's basically four words, be nice to people. And when you have somebody in your chair. Or in your office, or in your waiting room, you know, are you nice to them? And how does your practice look to them? So the model of my practice is actually based on the restaurants, but it's called the Zagat model.Now, Zagat was a restaurant review book that was published by Tim and Nina Zagat out of Yale. It's no longer on the market. It was bought by Google, but they rated restaurants based upon three things, food, service, and decor. So I'm going to make an assumption that every dentist out there knows what they need to do to do good dentistry.So we don't serve food, we serve dentistry. But we still have to have good decor, and we still have to have good service in our practice. So how do you do the decor? Well, there's a whole series of checklists that we have, and we have a checklist for everything that we do in our practice. We have a checklist for the human being in our practice.Is your hair combed? Are you clean? Is your uniform pressed? Do you have a nice smile? Are your fingernails clean? you wear nice shoes? We have something in our office called the white sneakers. So in our practice, everybody wears white sneakers, and they're clean, and I buy them for everybody. And if they're not clean, they go out and buy a new pair, and they're had permission to do that.So when people join our practice, we tell them what our team is about, what our culture is about. And as one of one of the most important things in the dental practice is to be neat and clean because people are afraid of a couple of things in the office. They're afraid of pain. They're afraid of how much it's going to cost.afraid of the unknown, but they're also afraid of diseases and germs and cleanliness over the top clean office. You're going to stand out. Very few offices are like that. So we do a check and we go through it. We go through everything in the office and I do sort of, I'm sort of very picky when it comes to cleanliness and having everything run very smoothly.So I'll do little things like I'll unscrew a light bulb. I'll see how long it's going to take for somebody to realize that the light bulb is unscrewed. And I say, hey, how come nobody saw that light go? We used to have telephones with the cords that used to be raveled. I used to, if I saw a raveled phone cord, I said unravel it.And then when I unravel it, I'd unplug the phone and take the cord out. So people would answer the phone and there'd be nothing there because the cord would be unraveled. They go, Oh, Dr. Sonic was there doing that again. Sometimes I'll leave a piece of trash on the front lawn. I go, didn't anybody see that?and I do sort of games like, you know, with that, with, with the people want to practice. I say, bring it up, bring it up, bring it up. So I think to do that, you have to just make a decision early on. Are you going to be an excellent practitioner? Are you going to be someone who really wants to give great service to your patient?Do you realize that's important? Because I'm telling you it is. It makes such a difference with your patients if you are present for them. And I have a lot of different strategies for that. Cleanliness is one. Another one is giving everybody. On every visit, a phone call after their first visit there, whether it's surgery or not surgery from the team.And the next day, I will call a patient. So, a patient gets two phone calls from our office. Not many people get that from their dentists or their doctors. Another thing that I do that's really important and that I've recommended to every dentist, but nobody does it, is the patient letter. every first visit, Michael, if you came to see me as a new patient, let's say you had, you come in and you look like you have nice teeth, you have no disease or anything.Michael, it's a pleasure seeing you today. Today we did a diagnosis on you and a comprehensive examination. The good news is you have no periodontal disease, you have no decay. You don't grind your teeth. You don't need a bite guard. Okay. And, um, I'm very happy to say that if you get your teeth cleaned every four to six months and just brush and floss, you'll probably not need any dentistry for the rest of your life.Pleasure having you here. If you have any questions, feel free to call me on my cell phone, 203 209 7029, or email me at my private email, mikeatsonicdmd. com. Who gets that from their dentist or their doctor? Now, if you had a severe problem, you'd get a more detailed letter. And then I would say to you, go home, read this, discuss it with your, you know, loved one, or your friend, or maybe you know somebody else who's a dentist.Read it, and if you're not sure about whether you want to go through a treatment, come on back with your, you know, husband, your wife, your mother, whatever, your son, daughter, and let's have a consultation, we'll talk again, and share that letter. So what I do is a very specific strategies as I give information and I make it very easy for patients to communicate with me now.A lot of doctors. Now, I work with a lot of positions. It's really hard to communicate with positions. They want to communicate with faxes. They do not give you your personal email. You never get their cell phone. So if I'm going to meet somebody new, Michael, if you were a new person I'm working with, doctor Michael, what's your cell phone, what's your personal email.I get that all the time. And I have a database and I have a huge database so that I can call you directly when I want to communicate, as opposed to, I haven't heard back from him. I haven't heard back. So I'm very proactive about getting things done. I think my skill is I'm well known as a good surgeon, someone who does a lot of implants, et cetera, but my real skill is good communication.being very clear and direct with my patients. No ambiguity. You know, I don't know if you know about Adam Grant. I'm sure you've read his work as well, a psychologist from the University of Pennsylvania. He says what people find more and more challenging is not getting negative information or positive.It's that one in between. It's the ambiguity. When someone is ambiguous, It's confusing. And you've probably been with people, I mean, a lot of people do this. they don't do it advertently, but they may do it, you know, because it's just their habit. They use confusion to control you because they don't want to make a decision.So they'll start to say, you know, well, I could do this, this way. And you're talking with a patient, it's like, are you going to go through treatment or you're not going to go through treatment? What's the deal? So I find out, I go, you know, seem a little confused. I go, what is it? Is it the money? Are you fear of going through it?Have you had bad experiences? Do you not think you're worth it? Do you want to give the money to your children? Or do you have to pay for something else? Or do you just not trust me because you don't think I'm competent at what I'm doing? Here's what I can do. And I give patients all the information that I can.And I have, I can give it to him many ways. I can talk to him like I'm talking to you. I can write down the pictures. I can open up my website. This is another topic we can talk about. We should have over 1200 pages of content on my website. So they can go there. I've written six books, four of them picture books that are self published in the office.So this is a gum graph before, this is after. And we can all do this. We can just take a picture and do that. So I show them my work so they can say, this is my stuff. So you can look at it. Very few doctors will show you that. I don't know what that's like. Oh, you don't know what a bone wrap looks like?Here, here's a PowerPoint presentation. This is a flap reflector. This is the bone. This is the graft. This is what it looks like six months later. I will show them. I'll take away the mystery. I always say to patients, it's sort of like you're in the Wizard of Oz, and I'm the wizard, very omniscient, have all these powers, I'm behind a curtain.Here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to take back the curtain, I'm going to bring you into my world. I'm going to take you backstage. And I love going backstage in operations, but I'm going to take you to my backstage. And I'm going to show you what I actually do. And a lot of doctors are afraid to show the patients what they do.And then it becomes ambiguous because they don't trust you. And what's the most important thing you want to bring to a dentist or doctor or anybody that has a responsibility? You want to be able to trust them because you want to be able to feel love. cared for, nurtured. It's almost a spiritual experience when you're having that kind of a relationship.It's not an I it relationship where like you're an object and I'm just giving you a coin like I'm going to a toll. It's a really intimate relationship. and I try to break down those barriers. Now, I look, I've been practicing a long time. I couldn't do this when I was 30. I had developed confidence I was very arrogant as a young dentist, because you know, I was good.I was good. You know, I was good. I was good in my residency program. I had no experience, but I thought I was good. I thought I was smart. I thought it was cool. it was all basically a front because I was insecure. I realized I didn't know anything. I've been practicing one year. How do I talk to a patient with confidence?It's very hard to do that. what do you do as a young person? If you don't know how to, if you don't do that, you tell the patient what you can do. You tell the patients what you do know. You tell the patients what your experiences is. And you give them that great experience, you know, in that area. there are a lot of little hints that I can give you to do that.You know, from the simplest ones, to writing a letter, to cleanliness, to calling the patients, to developing a team. Now, developing a team is a very difficult thing to do. Most dentists say, Oh, I love the dentistry. I just hate my staff. Well, that's a problem. Okay, you want to be able to love your staff and you want your staff to support you.I get a lot of compliments on my staff. Most, actually, most people leave the dental practice not because of the quality of the dentist, but because of their relationship with the staff. before I even meet a patient, you know this 'cause, because this is what you do for a living before a doctor, before a patient even meets me.They probably have 15 to 20 different touchstones with our practice before the referral. The phone call, the website, the location, the outside of the building, the parking lot, what is the door squeak or not when you walk in, when it confirmed properly, did they say, or do you say hello? Hey, Michael, welcome or say, what's your name?they know it's at 11 o'clock. We've got one patient coming in. Might as well greet them by their name. How are you doing? The nurse meets them, they go in there. By the time I walk into that room, I got to really be bad to blow it, because they've already been sold. They've been sold because they've been treated well up until that point.And it's like, all of a sudden I walk in, it's like I'm a movie star walking into that room. Because they say, oh, a doctor's here. Yeah, but they've been treated well up until that point. And they often say, you know, well, Danielle or Amelia treat us really well. Whatever they say to do, we'll do, because our team is really what supports us and lifts us up.Michael Arias: Gotcha. And I feel Can you give us a little bit more insight on like how we can build the perfect team? I feel like there's a lot of people who feel like they get B players and they turn into C They get A players and then the B players are bringing them down kind of thing Michael Sonick: it really started, it starts with the, with the leader of your organization when dentistry, how do we become dentists?Well, you got to get good grades in school. It has nothing to do with clinical skills or building a team or being nice to people, right? it means you're good at multiple choice tests. I always say to some of my friends, you know, that are really smart.But they're not successful. I said, you know, the problem is you're too smart. you always the expression, the, uh, the A students work for the C students, you know, so it's a different skill set to build a team and it's, I have a whole chapter on hiring and how do you build a team?And we build it. First of all, you got to know what you want. And I think before you build a team, you got to figure out who you are and that sort of starts with developing a mission statement or a statement of purpose or whatever you want to call it. It starts like, well, what is it? What does your practice want to look like?does your practice want to look like someone who's just making money that just does high quality dentistry? Or does it want to look like someone who really. helps other people. So we developed our mission statement decades ago, and it's really, we've dumbed it down now. It's not really dumbed down, it's simplified.And it's really to improve the quality of patients lives. So when I hire people, I want people to be able to be similar to my mission. I want them to be able to help people. Now, I can't really train people to be nice. You know, I hire nice people. So that's, that's what I would hire you. You seem like a nice guy.No, you're, you're smiling. You're good. You connect with people. So you'd be great. You know, I would probably hire you based upon this, this podcast right now. you can really get, you know, Malcolm Gladwell, I'm sure you know, he talks about a blink, you know, it's like immediately you sort of know. So we develop our core values and I think every practice should look at their mission and their core values.And that's, that's a lot of self work and our core values are involved being servant hearted. So I want people to be servant hearted. I want them to be able to treat Patients. Well, I want them to have very high integrity. I want to be health oriented, and I want them to be teammates. I want them to be educational.So those are our five core values. So the most important ones, okay, are having integrity. That's, that's a, that's a non negotiable in our office. You know, if you don't have integrity, if you lie, if you steal, et cetera, that doesn't work. Um, and you have to be serving hearted. You have to want to serve the people.So everybody in my practice, I have 25 people in my practice. Everybody is there to serve. Okay, that's what we're there and also they should be good teammates. So we want to get along when you have 24, 25 people in the office, small office. It's not always easy, but we always talk about it. We talk about that and we're very transparent.No ambiguity, like I talked about earlier. So we're transparent and that there's a problem. we're going to bring it up and we can say, Hey, what's the problem here? Not make it personal, but talk about what the problem is. So once I find who I want, then we craft an ad and we, we interview people, but before we interview them, we get their resume, and you can tell a lot from resume, We get them to fill out a, um, employment application, you know, some basic information, but what's really important is we do something called a culture index. And not a lot of people know about this, but I do this on almost everybody in my life. What a culture index is, is, is a way that we can, I can look at somebody's personality and I look at them for seven different characteristics.Are they autonomous? Are they going to work on their own? Are they going to follow orders? Are they very social? Or are they very, are they not social? Are they very detail oriented? Something very important for dental assistant or they're not detail oriented. Do they have a sense of urgency or if they're really laid back and they'll just move at a slower pace.So those are the four major ones, but then it's like, how logical are they? I want people who are logical. Do they, are they creative? And do they have higher or lower energy? So I look at that and I'll tell you something. If I look, there's seven dots and I can look at these seven dots and I look at probably, probably look at 15 resumes and culture and disease a week.I can look at them and within about literally seven or eight seconds, I know what that person's like. Okay. I can, I don't know their integrity. I don't know if they're smart, but I know what kind of worker they're going to be. If they have the wrong culture index, they're not getting hired. And every time I don't follow the culture index, I hire the wrong person.Okay. I always try to fire it. So the culture index, the resume and the, um, appointment application. If I like the culture index and their resume, which is about one out of every 25, then they get a FaceTime interview with one of my office managers. If they like them after the FaceTime interview, they bring them in and then we do the blink and I look at them and within about three or four seconds, I know if they're a pretty good fit or not, if they know nothing about my practice, you know, if they haven't read the website, they're probably not very good.They're not curious, and they're probably not the right fit. If they don't stand up and look me in the eye and shake my hand with a firm handshake. They're not going to get hired. If they come in, they are looking terrible, disheveled, unwashed hair. If they're 15 minutes late, okay. If their fingernails are dirty and their shoes are all scuffed up, they're gone.So, I mean, it's just very quickly and it saves us a lot of time. We very rarely hire the wrong person anymore. It took me a long time to do this. And when I like, if I like them doing that blink, then the rest of my team interviews them. If they like that, they go home. Then if we like them at that point in time, we make them back for a working interview where they spend a full day with my team.And that's not for me. My team that makes the final decision. Are they a good teammate or not? We know very, very quickly. If I ever feel badly, sometimes people look great on paper and they, you know, and the other people like them, but they give me a knot in my stomach. They don't get hired. And I think, you know, that you either like it or it's a very, it's a chemical thing that happens.And once you're pretty perceptive and you become perceptive to this, and you can train yourself to become more perceptive, you start to see, because there's nothing worse than hiring the wrong person, and now they're there for four or five months. Now you got to let them go. It's stressful. their life. I'm doing somebody a favor if I don't hire them. you know, I don't want to have to hire somebody to fire them and we very rarely fire anybody. the reason people leave is because, um, usually, you know, the husband gets transferred or wife gets transferred, something like that, or, or they go back to school.We have a lot of people go back to school and, you know, better themselves. You know, I have like three or four people who went to medical school or dental school. So the hiring process is something I find very fascinating because I get to put the team together and I'm not hiring me. I'm hiring a teammates and it's like somebody doesn't work out one area.We have other jobs in the office where I can move them around to like, one of my best. One of my assistants is really social, but she's terrible with details. I mean, you know, I asked her to hand me the blue thing. She hands me the red thing. I know that about her. She's been with me for 11 years, always forgetting stuff.But she's the nicest person, and she always takes care of people who are nervous, and she'll do whatever it takes to really connect with people. She's the best connector, but she's the less detailed. So that's what we use her for, connecting with people, making people feel good. She's great, you know, and we love her.She's just a great, great human being. And I have other people that are really detailed, and really, and really persnickety. They're going to get everything right. great. Those are the people who do all my ordering and make sure everything is there. You know, so I'm not going to give my ordering to the person that's really nice, but not detail oriented and vice versa. I'm not going to put that person, uh, who's very detail oriented, not always that nice, you know, with a, with a disgruntled patient, something like that. very fascinating. How do you put the team, the teams together, stress when I have a good team. Michael Arias: you built like a, a system here to do that. You know what I mean?Especially tailored to you, or I think you can kind of like create this, uh, system and put it in literally any practice, but then they can kind of tailor to their mission statement and stuff like that. Right. and it's very strict in the sense of like, or not strict, I guess, but it's more like, Hey, this is the requirements because every, everything has to have a requirement.Right. In order to, to function well, even if you have, if you play Monopoly, right, you can't just, if I were to play Monopoly with you and I decided to do my own rules, you're going to be like, this is not fun no more. Right. I don't like doing this, but if I were to go by the rules, we can all enjoy it. And it's fun.And, uh, Michael Sonick: nobody in my life is perfect and I'm certainly not perfect. So we're all different. We all know, like my partner, I have two partners and my, partner, Ray Ma, he has a very different personality than I do, but I don't expect him to have my personality he's not a visionary.He's very good surgeon. And he's very detailed and he likes to look at numbers now. I'm good with numbers, but I don't like numbers. I don't like to look at him. I don't like to look at the pros and cons. I give it to somebody else. I make money, but I don't, do the spreadsheets. I don't even know how to use a spreadsheet.I mean, that's, that's not what my, where my brain is. So, like, we said, you know, can you teach me numbers? Yeah, I can teach you numbers. You know, if you make money. And then you have this much, this much debt, you subtract your debt from the money. What's left over is the number that you got. That's your, that's your net worth.I just really simplify it, but he's great at that. And we work out very well because we do different things. So I try to get everybody into their own lane in the practice. So my lane is very clear. You know, I'm the visionary and a marketing person and I do surgery and I try to keep the call and I try to keep to culture.Running well. So when I'm not there, because right now I only work two days a week, I work Tuesdays and Wednesdays. So the rest of my time is either teaching or, um, you know, writing which I love to do too. So I, well, I'm there Tuesday, Wednesday.So I come in Tuesday morning. I'll be frank with you. It's not the same as when I leave on Wednesday night and, you know, boxes may be out. This is here. I go, what's going on? And I just come through and they know it, they know what's coming on. I go. That's right. Dad's back in the house. Okay, get in line, man.I know it. I know it. But I buy him lunch too. And I'm real nice to him during the day, but they know exactly what I want, when I want it. last night we had a, uh, we had a meeting with a group of dentists. We do a lot of education in the office. We have a study club and last night, The other dentists were going, man, they really treat you well.they're putting a cup of coffee down for me. They're cleaning up my area. I go, yeah, they are. They are treating me well. It's not because I beat them. It's because they have certain roles to do. So do I, if I have to entertain 30 dentists, do I need to go down and make a cup of coffee at that time?Isn't my time better spent up there running that room and doing the education, doing everything else. And I make sure that they're all. They're all rewarded for that. they don't know this yet, but we do a bonus system. this month, each of my staff is getting a 2, 000 bonus because based upon what we do, I don't push them to make money because they're not, they're not on this bonus system.Like the more we do, because I don't want to do that. But you know, when we, when their office does better and we're above a certain percentage, you know, they, they get the share in It's always like a gift that they never expect, but nobody would do that.So nobody's on like a percentage there or anything like that. There are hourly employees, including my hygienist, and some people like to bonus them for doing more, but they don't have to do any selling for me. They just go in there and work. then when they work hard, you know, sometimes they get, they get rewarded.So we haven't told him that. I just found that out last night, my partner, because he doesn't. Michael Arias: That's fantastic. And it's good to do that, you know what I mean? To see the team achieve it and everything like that. Michael Sonick: Yeah, and we buy them lunch. We do a lot of nice things for the staff. We go to a Danny Meyers restaurant every year.we rent out the back room. This year we rented out the back room at Gramercy Tavern, which is an unbelievable room. And a lot of my team members have never been to New York City. They've never been to a Broadway play. You know, we'll We spend nine o'clock in the morning until probably midnight every summer, you know, taking the team to New York with four or five events, staying in great restaurants and having a really, really nice time.And so they talk about it to the patients, and then they bring back the same culture from Danny Meyer's restaurant to our office. And they know that we're running Meyer's restaurant. On the cover of my book, my blurb is Mike's deeper calling is to use hospitality gifts to make people feel better as lessons applied in a customer facing business.And it's Danny Myers. he gave me a blog top of the book, which was a big deal. I mean, that meant a lot to me. He, for me, is my role model for hospitality. And Will Guderian. Of course, I mean, you know, he's, he's phenomenal what he does, you know, we call it a wild experience.You know, he tries to do that for everybody in his, in his place. And that's how he became number one restaurant in the world. If you read his book, you know, he, the first time he was, he was invited to Europe. I think it was London. And, uh, they were going to give him an award for being one of the top 50 restaurants.He goes, yeah, great. One of the top 50, but they didn't know where he was. He was number 50. Okay, so one of the top 50, but I'm 50, it bothered him and that was the night he went back to his hotel room with his, um, partner, the chef, and he wrote down on a piece of paper because we're going to be number one, you know, within the next five years.And I think it took two years later. And then he wrote down unreasonable hospitality and that's what he wanted to do. Every time a patient comes in, I want to give them something that they're going to think about. It could be, like, if you want the best restaurants in my area, I have a list. If you want a place to walk, I have a list.If you want the top neurologist, I have that number. You want to go to hospital special surgery, you need knee replacement surgery, I have a list of doctors down there. I have a periodontist in L. A., I know who to send you to out in L. A. So, we make sure that our patients always are well taken care of, and I connect with other people that are similar.And so you end up building a network of like minded people, you know, so if you want to be great, you want to run a really successful practice, look at other successful people and ask them, how can you help me? Call me. I don't do consulting, you know, I just do teaching and, you know, lectures, that's what I don't have a consulting business.But if you have a question, send me an email, mikeatsonicdmd. com. I'm happy to give you some advice. I have it in a direct you to the right place. Oh, you're you're, you're in Idaho. I know somebody out there. That's pretty good that you can look at. You're in Columbus, Ohio. I know a great guy there that you can talk to, find other people to mentor you because great people love to mentor others.I mean, that's what you do. You like to help people. I mean, that's sort of what the core value of your business is making the people that you work with more successful. And that's a, it's a pretty cool way of living that every day I get to go to work and be the gift to my patients, which basically, you know, they always say giving is better than receiving.It is. It is. I mean, it definitely, it definitely is. it's, it's just a great, and you get paid for doing it too. I mean, we, we have a great job. We get to help people get paid for it, do clinical things, meet all these great people. I mean, you know, and improve the quality of people's lives. Yeah, I could be better than that.Michael Arias: Yeah, a thousand percent. So then where can we, cause I know right now we kind of just talked parts of the book, right? Where can we go get this book? Michael Sonick: Well, you can buy it on Amazon, so it's, uh, it's called Treating People, Not Patients. You can go to my website, which is my name, michaelsonic. com, and, uh, on my website, you can see courses that we teach.you can download videos, uh, there's a video series that, that is, uh, I think very powerful. It's three and a half hours videos that you, that are in segments, 15 minute segments. So once a week, you sit down with your team. And you look at the segment comes with a workbook, a course workbook, you can have your whole team right through the course workbook.And there's a series of questions and you get to evaluate your office. You know, there's a bunch of series in there. Like, how do patients want to be cared for? Are you good at telling a story? You know, do you do comprehensive examination? We haven't talked about that, but that being comprehensive is really important.most doctors, most dentists do not do a comprehensive examination. They look for procedures to do Most dentists are pothole fillers and they don't treat people comprehensively because they think they got to fill their book and they got to make money. Bottom line is you treat people comprehensively.Even if they don't need any treatment, they're going to refer you to other people that want the same thing. And going to be waiting around the corner to get into your office, you know, I mean, I booked until January and I don't do any. I mean, I don't do any real marketing.My marketing is all internal. I just started to do some external marketing because I have two partners, my younger one to build their practice and I was just playing around with it, and I take no insurance, so I've never taken insurance. And, uh, 4 to 7 percent of the population, dentists don't take insurance.My partner who joined me 10 years ago, wanted to take insurance to get busy. I go, no, wait, just treat people. And it took him a couple of years. He got busy. It's slower to build a practice if you don't take insurance, but you can do it, but you can't do it by being mediocre. You've got to be exceptional, not as a dentist, but as a human being to your patients, and if you want to do that, you can do that.That's a lot more fun. and my, my youngest partner, you know, she's been with me two years. She thinks no insurance either. So I'm booked. Uh, I'm booked until January. My mid range partner who's middle age, she's 40. He's booked until I don't know, he's booked like six weeks. And, uh, my youngest person, she's out on pregnancy leave now, but she's got a full schedule.not the waiting list, but she's on me when I have 2 years, but in 2 more years, you're not going to get into her schedule either. So, yeah, you know, I always say to my partner. the way, I'm an American I practice in my hometown, 200 yards from where I went to high school.Ray Ma is from, China. communist border of North Korea. Uh, Soo Jin Yoo is from, Korea, Seoul. So, I mean, you know, and I have five, six people from Europe here. I have a very international practice and it doesn't really matter. It doesn't really matter where you're from. The same principles apply.I, I said to my partner, he goes, well, you know, I can't really do what you do. Cause I'm not from Fairfield. I said, I can open up a practice in downtown Beijing and be busier than you. I said, as an American, he goes, what are you talking about? I said, because I'm going to treat people well. And the joke was, cause he's Chinese, all the Chinese patients came in and wanted to see me.Not him, I didn't realize at the time that it was like a, status to see an American dentist, as opposed to a Chinese dentist. It's like everybody in Korea wants to go to Harvard, Yeah. Yeah. Michael Arias: Gotcha. Interesting. My, my Korean Michael Sonick: partner did go to Harvard. So, Michael Arias: yeah, yeah, no, that's interesting.you're doing a lot, man. The seminars, study clubs and the book, right. And then your practice that you're running. It's a lot. So if you could, uh, one of the final pieces of advice that you can give our listeners right now, that would kind of help them move the needle towards where they want to go.Michael Sonick: first of all, I'd take two days. Go to a hotel room by yourself, or somewhere by yourself, and start to write. And write what your practice would look like, if you could do whatever you wanted. If you could take a magic wand and wave it in front of you, what would you like that to look like?And then, I mean, spend some time doing it. Do you want to be a restorative dentist? Do you want to do a lot of Invisalign? Do you want to do a multi specialty practice? Do you want to be, you know, you want to own a group of practices? Because there's so many different options. You know, if you feel like you're entrepreneurial, you want to buy practices, you don't really want to work, but you want them, and create them.And then find mentors and role models that have done that. And hang out with them. I remember when I was in my Early thirties, I said to a friend of mine, I said, in 25 years, this is what I want to do. I want to teach all over the world. I want to be well known nationally and internationally, and I want to be an educator, and I want to write articles, and I want to be well known like these people.And the people at the time were David Garber, who a lot of people know, and Frank Spear. And I said, I, that's where I that's a lofty way to be. I said, and I said, that's what I want. And so what I did was I started to meet those people. And all the well known people in our field. I know, you know, I wouldn't say they're friends of mine, but I have all their cell numbers and I talk to them all the time the sharing that goes on is really, really magical.So create a network of people. One of the things that a lot of people do today, especially your younger audience, is they do things on their own with social media and they learn from Instagram and they see other people and they text, that is a way to do it. I'm not saying it's wrong. But it's not a way to really connect with people.You don't build your practice by texting. You don't build it with social media only. it's a way to get people in front of you, but you really build it with human connectivity. All the work you do for your clients is useless if they come into a dirty office where the dentist doesn't care to them, doesn't spend the time looking in their eye, talking to them, and asking if they have any questions, and handing the business card with their cell phone number or personal email.You don't have to do that. By the way, my cell phone does not go off when a patient is calling me. They very rarely call me, but when they do, if I'm there for them to re cement a crown on it, like as I did last Sunday morning, before the patient flew off to Portugal for two weeks, because their front tooth fell out, you know, his dentist didn't, I'm a periodontist, his general dentist didn't pick up the phone, I did, and I re cemented it in with permanent cement, so he'll be okay in Portugal, and I gave him the name of a dentist I know in Lisbon, say call him if you have a problem.Giving it, not only cementing it, but give him a contact and then giving him my cell phone saying, if you're listening, the tooth falls out, call me. That's a wow experience. That's a hospitality that's over the top. And what did it cost me? I live a mile from my office. It cost me 25 minutes and a little bit of cement, and that is great marketing.Because that patient's going to be telling that story. And I said to him, I said, he goes, well, what do I leave for this? I go, nothing. He goes, nothing? What am I going to charge you? Can I make enough money for that one visit to get the marketing value? Then, not only was I there, I didn't charge him. I said, nothing.I said, you know why? I said, because you're going to be telling this story to people for the next 10 years about how nobody would call you back, but I came, your periodontist came in and re cement your tooth and gave you a cell phone number and a dentist and Lisbon. I told him exactly what I was doing for him.He happened to be a retired guy who was, who used to be in marketing himself. So I told him, and that's kind of transparency was pretty fun, you know? Yeah. Because you could say that I wasn't saying, well, oh, don't worry about, no, hey here, I'm doing it because I'm manipulating you to promote my practice and come back here.By the way, he's gonna need an implant there, so he's gonna be back in, you know, in, in and a few weeks, and I'll take care of him at that point in time. But that really gives great value to him and I, and I, by the way, I sent him a follow up letter to say, call me when you get back. Let's take a look and come up with a treatment plan.Okay? Not only did I see him, Did, did the service, gave 'em a contact number, gave 'em my cell phone. I sent them a letter. Okay, that's over the top and it's fun doing so. What do I do? Be nice to people. Be really nice to people. Connect with them. don't rush off. Be there. And the biggest way you can build your practice is when something goes wrong.Fix it. don't dismiss yourself in a part. That's a lot of younger people. I don't want this complication. Be there. If you can't fix it, find someone who can and develop relationships with those people. It's all about human connectivity and those will transform your relationships, you with everybody.Yeah. This is not about dentistry. This is just about, you know, connecting with people. Michael Arias: No, that's wonderful. Wonderful. So with that in mind, if anybody wanted to reach out to you. Call you or anything like that. Where can they reach out to you? Michael Sonick: Well, they can email me at Mike and Mike at sonic dmd. com. They can text me on my phone.Two Oh three, two Oh nine, seven Oh two nine. They can go to any of my websites, my name, michaelsonic. com. You can read my book, which I think you'll find very helpful, a lot of dentists have read it. I've had over 170 reviews from dentists from Dennis Tarnow to Christian Coachman to leaders in industry like Peter Diamandis and others.It's been really well received. Um, my goal is to get this book into every dental school so that we change the culture of how we treat people, you know, both dental and medical schools. and I'm, I'm talking to physicians as well about this. So it's my passion. I'm not hard to find. So nice, nice, Michael Arias: awesome.So guys, that's going to be in the show notes below. So definitely reach out to Michael and Michael, thank you so much for being with us. It's been a pleasure and we'll hear from you soon. Michael Sonick: Okay. Thank you, Michael. Thank you for having me.‍

In this Artist Exploration, Beth and Charlie discuss: Closing down her school & Going on tour with a rock band Journey back to finish Undergrad and Grad School Commercial World Her experience with Fun Home  How type has affected Beth  Writing a musical with an Indigo Girl Beth's advice to Keep not quitting  If you are interested in hearing more from Beth check out the following places:  Pillsbury Commercial ( with Norbert Leo Butz -- discussed in the episode!) @thebethmalone on Instagram  Look out for STARSTRUCK coming to a Broadway Theater in 2024 (we hope!) If you have any questions about the college audition process, feel free to reach out at mailbag@mappingthecollegeaudition.com. If you're interested in working with MTCA for help with your individualized preparation for your College Audition journey, please check us out at mtcollegeauditions.com, or on Instagram or Facebook.  Follow Us!  Instagram: @musicaltheatercollegeauditions YouTube: @MTCA (Musical Theater College Auditions)  TikTok: @mtcollegeauditions  Charlie Murphy:@charmur7  Meghan Cordier:@meghanmarie2014 About MTCA:  Musical Theater College Auditions (MTCA) is the leader in coaching acting and musical theater students through the college audition process and beyond with superlative results. MTCA has assembled a roster of expert artist-educators who can guide students artistically, organizationally, strategically, and psychologically through the competitive college audition process. MTCA provides the tools, resources, and expertise along with a vast and strong support system. They train the unique individual, empowering the artist to bring their true, authentic self to their work. MTCA believes that by helping students reveal their potential it allows each school to connect with those who are truly right for their programs, which in turn guides each student toward their best college fit.  About Charlie Murphy:  Charlie is a proud graduate of Carnegie Mellon University's BFA program. As an Actor he has performed with theaters such as: NY Public Theatre's “Shakespeare in the Park”, The Pearl Theatre Company, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Chautauqua Theatre Company, Kinetic Theatre Company, and the Shakespeare Theatre of DC. With MTCA [Musical Theater College Auditions -- mtca.nyc], he has been helping prospective theatre students through the college process for over 15 years. As a Teacher and Director, he is able to do a few of his favorite things in life: help students to find their authentic selves as artists, and then help them find their best fit for their collegiate journey. Through this podcast, he hopes to continue that work as well as help demystify this intricate process. This episode was produced by Meghan Cordier and Charlie Murphy. Episode theme music is created by Will Reynolds.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tania Richard performed on Broadway ‘The Song of Jacob Zulu' with Ladysmith Black Mambazo. She recently appeared in ‘School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls' play at the Goodman Theatre. Television appearances include Chicago Fire, Chicago Justice, Chicago PD, Empire, The Chi. She's a published author and an award-winning playwright. Her writing has been featured on NPR's All Things Considered, The Story, Write Club, This Much is True, Essay Fiesta. Richard is an Antiracism Educator and has led antiracism workshops for Fortune 500 Companies, tech startups, non-profit organizations, universities, theatres, Broadway. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ TANIA RICHARD ⌲ IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1470841/ ⌲ Website: https://www.taniarichard.com/ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ The Moving Spotlight Podcast ⌲ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-moving-spotlight/id1597207264 ⌲ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7cjqYAWSFXz2hgCHiAjy27 ⌲ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/themovingspotlight ⌲ ALL: https://linktr.ee/themovingspotlight ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ #Empire #ChicagoPD #ChicagoFire #ChicagoJustice #TheChi #TheSongOfJacobZulu #LadysmithBlackMambazo #WomanKing #SchoolGirlsOrTheAfricanMeanGirls #Inclusion #DiversityAndInclusion #Emmys #TVTime #iTunes #Actor #ActorsLife #Believe #Success #Inspiration #Broadway #Netflix #Hulu #Amazon #HBO #AppleTV #Showtime #Acting #Artist #Theatre #Film #YourBestBadActing #Content #CorbinCoyle #JohnRuby #RealFIREacting #TMS_Pod --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-moving-spotlight/support

XXXIX. As the famed "demon barber of Fleet Street" gets ready to flash his razor and do his deeds once again in a new Broadway production, The Gilded Gentleman goes back in time to the early years of London's Victoria era to look at just how Sweeney Todd and his tale came to be.  Born in the world of the sensational and gruesome stories of the "penny dreadfuls", Sweeney Todd and his story were quite different from what theater audiences know today.  The episode features a very special treat - an interview with Sarah Rice who created the role of Johanna, Sweeney Todd's daughter in the original 1979 Broadway production of "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street".  Sarah shares what it was like to get the role, how she went about creating the character, and most of all, what it was like to work with extraordinary colleagues such as Angela Lansbury, Len Cariou, and of course Stephen Sondheim and Hal Prince themselves.  In the interview, Sarah shares the most important lessons she learned from Stephen Sondheim and Angela Lansbury in particular. 

Highlights:1) Sheldon's journey & book: "My Own Directions: A Black Man's Journey in the American Theatre" 2) Sheldon's dedication to the ongoing evolution of the theatre industry3) The practice he uses to keep himself clear, creative, and grounded4) The challenges Mr. Epps experienced resulting from race5) How his leadership has helped radically change diversityMy guest is Sheldon Epps who is one of the all-time most influential African-American theatre leaders, as well as a prolific director of television. He's directed on Broadway, the West End, and is the director of the upcoming BET+ movie Christmas Party Crashers. He received the NAACP Community Service Award and the prestigious James Irvine Foundation Leadership Award for his many accomplishments. His new book, a memoir, is titled: MY OWN DIRECTIONS A Black Man's Journey in the American Theatre. Mr. Epps is a long-time member of the Executive Board of the Society of Directors and Choreographers and served as Chair of the SDC Foundation Board of Trustees. He is also on the board of the Ten Chimneys Foundation. Mr. Epps is a two-time recipient of the Theatre Communications Group/Pew Charitable Trust National Theatre Artists Residency Grant. Currently, he is honored to serve as Senior Artistic Advisor at Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC. Find Sheldon on Instagram.WELCOME to the award-winning DARE TO DREAM Podcast! Your #1 transformation conversation.SUPPORT THIS SHOW - Subscribe, Like, Comment; we read them all!"Dare to Dream" podcast, with host, Debbi Dachinger, offers cutting-edge conversation on metaphysics, quantum creating, channeling, healing, UFO's, paranormal and extraterrestrials. For 15+ years Debbi hosts this award-winning podcast. Join Debbi on Instagram: @daretodreampodcast and @debbidachingerDebbi is a Book Writing coach, so you pen and publish an engaging book. Her company launches your book to a guaranteed international bestselling status & it's fully-done-for-the-author, plus she is the best coach for how to be Interviewed on podcast shows for big results. Learn how now - get your free how-to media videos: https://debbidachinger.com/gift#podcast #DebbiDachinger #DareToDream #Instagood #instalove #instawork #instapeople #instatime #health #quantum #Book #spiritual #consciousness #metaphysical #et #transformation #meditate #ceremony #alien #love #beautiful #happy #tbt #followme #nofilter #life #yoga #amazing #FBF #media #podcaster #paranormal #listening #channel #extraterrestrial #wellness #meditation #relationship #love #ceremony #heal #interview #ufo #SheldonEpps #pasadenaplayhouse #books #theatrebooks #memoir #americantheater #broadway #musicals #theater #blacktheatre #blacklivesmatter #blackhistorymonth #blackhistory365 #director #stagedirector #bluesinthenight #playon @sheldon_l_epps @broadwaypodcastnetwork @mcfarlandpublishing @pasadenaplayhouse @mcfarland_publishing_ @northcoastrep The show is sponsored by DrDainHeer.com and Access Consciousness.

Highlights: 1) Sheldon's journey & book: "My Own Directions: A Black Man's Journey in the American Theatre" 2) Sheldon's dedication to the ongoing evolution of the theatre industry 3) The practice he uses to keep himself clear, creative, and grounded 4) The challenges Mr. Epps experienced resulting from race 5) How his leadership has helped radically change diversity My guest is Sheldon Epps who is one of the all-time most influential African-American theatre leaders, as well as a prolific director of television. He's directed on Broadway, the West End, and is the director of the upcoming BET+ movie Christmas Party Crashers. He received the NAACP Community Service Award and the prestigious James Irvine Foundation Leadership Award for his many accomplishments. His new book, a memoir, is titled: MY OWN DIRECTIONS A Black Man's Journey in the American Theatre. Mr. Epps is a long-time member of the Executive Board of the Society of Directors and Choreographers and served as Chair of the SDC Foundation Board of Trustees. He is also on the board of the Ten Chimneys Foundation. Mr. Epps is a two-time recipient of the Theatre Communications Group/Pew Charitable Trust National Theatre Artists Residency Grant. Currently, he is honored to serve as Senior Artistic Advisor at Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC. Find Sheldon on Instagram. WELCOME to the award-winning DARE TO DREAM Podcast! Your #1 transformation conversation. SUPPORT THIS SHOW - Subscribe, Like, Comment; we read them all! "Dare to Dream" podcast, with host, Debbi Dachinger, offers cutting-edge conversation on metaphysics, quantum creating, channeling, healing, UFO's, paranormal and extraterrestrials. For 15+ years Debbi hosts this award-winning podcast. Join Debbi on Instagram: @daretodreampodcast and @debbidachinger Debbi is a Book Writing coach, so you pen and publish an engaging book. Her company launches your book to a guaranteed international bestselling status & it's fully-done-for-the-author, plus she is the best coach for how to be Interviewed on podcast shows for big results. Learn how now - get your free how-to media videos: https://debbidachinger.com/gift #podcast #DebbiDachinger #DareToDream #Instagood #instalove #instawork #instapeople #instatime #health #quantum #Book #spiritual #consciousness #metaphysical #et #transformation #meditate #ceremony #alien #love #beautiful #happy #tbt #followme #nofilter #life #yoga #amazing #FBF #media #podcaster #paranormal #listening #channel #extraterrestrial #wellness #meditation #relationship #love #ceremony #heal #interview #ufo #SheldonEpps #pasadenaplayhouse #books #theatrebooks #memoir #americantheater #broadway #musicals #theater #blacktheatre #blacklivesmatter #blackhistorymonth #blackhistory365 #director #stagedirector #bluesinthenight #playon @sheldon_l_epps @broadwaypodcastnetwork @mcfarlandpublishing @pasadenaplayhouse @mcfarland_publishing_ @northcoastrep The show is sponsored by DrDainHeer.com and Access Consciousness. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/debbi-dachinger/message

Are you ready to start investing but don't know where to start? Get VIP access to the top investment strategies, active and passive, from today's guest, Real Estate Investor, #1 Best-Selling Author, and Tony Award Winner Matt Picheny! Matt went from earning less than $8,000 a year as an actor to generating half a billion dollars of real estate transactions. In just six years, Matt invested in over 10,000 apartments nationwide and helped his own clients amass tens of millions of dollars in profit. He's also the author of the #1 best-selling book Backstage Guide to Real Estate: Produce Passive Income, Write Your Own Story, and Direct Your Dollars Towards Positive Change. Matt and his wife have two Tony Awards® as co-producers of the Broadway shows Moulin Rouge and American Utopia. They have invested in many other theatrical productions, including the iconic musicals Hamilton and Wicked. Matt shares what it was like overcoming his fears and investing in his first passive and active deals, the challenges he faced, and how he was able to apply the things he learned to his business along the way. He shares how important building a relationship, being persistent, and being educated are to successful investing as well as the three pillars of investing that he uses to generate cash flow and live his life to its fullest. HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE EPISODE 00:00 - Coming up 00:13 - Intro 00:54 - Welcome Matt to the show 01:20 - Matt shares his background 03:24 - How he got into real estate 05:18 - His experience in active investing 07:15 - Working as a property manager 09:25 - Cost segregation study 12:40 - What you should know as an investor 15:17 - First passive investment 21:05 - Investing and purchase strategies 24:51 - Attitude of operators 27:16 - His journey back into the active space 31:02 - Podcast or book recommendations 32:10 - Resources that new investors might find helpful 34:17 - A recent bucket item list that he has checked off 35:30 - Final thoughts LINKS FROM THE EPISODE Get Matt's Book- The Backstage Guide to Real Estate- https://picheny.com/backstage-guide/ Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail by Ray Dalio- https://www.amazon.com/Changing-World-Order-Nations-Succeed/dp/1982160276 Matt Linkedin- https://www.linkedin.com/in/picheny/ CONNECT WITH THE GUEST Connect with Matt at www.picheny.com CONNECT WITH THE HOST Connect with our host, Randy Smith, for more educational content or to discuss investment opportunities in the real estate syndication space at www.impactequity.net, https://www.linkedin.com/in/randallsmith or on Instagram at @salesguyinvestor --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Follow us on social media @the.gentle.art.of.crushing.it Listen, like, subscribe, comment: http://thegentleartofcrushingit.com/

Well we celebrated out 8000th radio show episode with special guest Trent Harris at the wonderful Broadway Theater with the help of Waterpocket Distillery. Hear us swear, joke and celebrate with Trent and our listeners that came out to enjoy the event with us!

In this Artist Exploration, Beth and Charlie discuss: Closing down her school & Going on tour with a rock band Journey back to finish Undergrad and Grad School Commercial World Her experience with Fun Home  How type has affected Beth  Writing a musical with an Indigo Girl Beth's advice to Keep not quitting  If you are interested in hearing more from Beth check out the following places:  Pillsbury Commercial ( with Norbert Leo Butz -- discussed in the episode!) @thebethmalone on Instagram  Look out for STARSTRUCK coming to a Broadway Theater in 2024 (we hope!) If you have any questions about the college audition process, feel free to reach out at mailbag@mappingthecollegeaudition.com. If you're interested in working with MTCA for help with your individualized preparation for your College Audition journey, please check us out at mtcollegeauditions.com, or on Instagram or Facebook.  Follow Us!  Instagram: @musicaltheatercollegeauditions YouTube: @MTCA (Musical Theater College Auditions)  TikTok: @mtcollegeauditions  Charlie Murphy:@charmur7  Meghan Cordier:@meghanmarie2014 About MTCA:  Musical Theater College Auditions (MTCA) is the leader in coaching acting and musical theater students through the college audition process and beyond with superlative results. MTCA has assembled a roster of expert artist-educators who can guide students artistically, organizationally, strategically, and psychologically through the competitive college audition process. MTCA provides the tools, resources, and expertise along with a vast and strong support system. They train the unique individual, empowering the artist to bring their true, authentic self to their work. MTCA believes that by helping students reveal their potential it allows each school to connect with those who are truly right for their programs, which in turn guides each student toward their best college fit.  About Charlie Murphy:  Charlie is a proud graduate of Carnegie Mellon University's BFA program. As an Actor he has performed with theaters such as: NY Public Theatre's “Shakespeare in the Park”, The Pearl Theatre Company, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Chautauqua Theatre Company, Kinetic Theatre Company, and the Shakespeare Theatre of DC. With MTCA [Musical Theater College Auditions -- mtca.nyc], he has been helping prospective theatre students through the college process for over 15 years. As a Teacher and Director, he is able to do a few of his favorite things in life: help students to find their authentic selves as artists, and then help them find their best fit for their collegiate journey. Through this podcast, he hopes to continue that work as well as help demystify this intricate process. This episode was produced by Meghan Cordier and Charlie Murphy. Episode theme music is created by Will Reynolds.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A small town in Alberta thinks solar panels give off radiation and won't allow an important fast charger be built. But a small Saskatchewan Co-op embraces electrifcation and kindness! Link to video version of the commercial we made for the Riverbend Co-op in Davidson, Saskatchewan to thank them for support electric vehicles. Small modular nuclear reactors will not solve climate change. Loblaws has deployed fully driverless trucks on city streets in Toronto. The upcoming Tesla Cybertruck will work as a boat for short periods of time. My first repair to my 10 year old Nissan LEAF The green community that survived Hurricane Ian and kept the lights on India's home-grown ten thousand dollar EV And in spite of supply chain constraints, EV sales are on track to where they need to by by their 2030 benchmark for global warming Brian and I welcome the long-awaited 3rd party charging to a much needed location where we live. And it has soft serve ice cream! Thanks for listening to our show! Consider rating The Clean Energy Show on iTunes, Spotify or wherever you listen to our show. Follow us on TikTok! Check out our YouTube Channel! Follow us on Twitter! Your hosts: James Whittingham https://twitter.com/jewhittingham Brian Stockton: https://twitter.com/brianstockton Email us at cleanenergyshow@gmail.com Leave us an online voicemail at http://speakpipe.com/cleanenergyshow Transcript Yesterday, the governor announced that all new cars purchased in New York State will be zero emission cars, which is what lawmakers in California mandated in our state last month. This will take effect starting in 2035, if we make it to 2035. And while it's never going to be the same when a cabbie's yelling you to go F yourself from a Nissan Leaf, it's definitely for the best. Hello, and welcome to episode 133 of the Clean Energy Show. I'm Brian Stockton. I'm James Woodtingham. This week, small modular nuclear reactors will not solve climate change. This in spite of the fact one powers Brian's $1700 expression machine. It was only 1400. Loblaws has deployed fully driverless trucks on city streets. In Toronto, there is still a human in the passenger seat. Just as a courtesy so other drivers have someone to give the finger to. We reveal the stupidest place in North America, and it's not wherever Donald Trump is. The upcoming Tesla Cyber truck will work as a boat for short periods of time. If it floats, maybe it can toss a lifeline to the Tesla stock price. Oh, all that admora this edition of the a Clean Energy Show. Brian, we also have this week my first repair. My knees are leaf. It's ten years old. And in spite of supply chain constraints, EV sales are back on track where they need to be by their 2030 benchmark for global warming targets. And Brian and I welcomed the long awaited third party charging to a much needed location where we live. And it has soft serve ice cream. Wow. I can give it the charging long charging sessions with lots of ice cream. All right, so update on my house. We spray foam the ceiling in our kitchen, and it was, like, super messy and dusty for about a week, but the drywallers have finished, so that's now all sealed up, well, drywallers. They have to keep coming back and back over and over again, don't they? Yeah. They don't have to spend a whole day. They come, they do some mudding, they have to let it dry, and they come back and sand do a bit more mudding. So the whole thing took about eight days, which wasn't too bad, but the kitchen was kind of closed off with sheets of plastic, and so we had kind of limited access to our kitchen, which was annoying, but that's now all done. And then next week, they're going to do the other half where the living room is, and so it continues. So we'll have a very wellinsulated ceiling, which is great. Did you eat out a lot? We did a lot of door dashing and that kind of thing. What's your favorite during that time period? Bar burrito. I'm a big fan of bar burrito. What kind of food is that? Mexican burritos and tacos. So what specifically did you eat? I need to know. Ground beef burrito. Ground beef burrito. Classic. Nothing too fancy. Nothing too unusual. But you're Taco Time fan, but you like that. Tell me about that. Yeah, I think, Barbara, it's a little bit more like real food, really. TacoTime is very fast foody kind of thing. But how much more expensive would you say it was? Not 20%. Maybe I should try it. They have multiple locations or just one? No, multiple locations. Let's do it. Barbaros well, we could use a sponsorship on the show, too. Please reach out. Barbarito. Oh, I have another one. Milu. Vietnamese place. It's been here a while, but I just discovered it. Fantastic. Vietnamese vermicelli, noodle bowls. Love it. Amazing. I guess we both got the Bivalent vaccine. Is that what's yeah, I had a lot of side effects. I might still be feeling that after a week. It was mainly one day, but I kind of felt good the second day. But then when I actually did something and then when I mean did something, I mean, go to the fridge or something, I didn't have a lot of stamina. Like, it wore down fairly quickly. It's a good thing I wasn't employed or something. Yeah. So yesterday we had wonderful news because we've talked about the two cities in the province where we live is Regina and Saskatoon. They're two and a half hours away. My son is up there now, coming back on Friday, and he's going to school there. We make lots of trips. You make lots of trips. You make more trips than most people do out there. And it's a great, stupidly great city. It's just I don't know if I've told this story before, but the ones I was doing a madly off in All Directions, a CBC radio comedy series, a one off where I was guesting on stage at the Broadway Theater in front of 500 people with my comedy partner. And we naively. We both grew up in Regina, the sister city kind of, to that city. And we said, we're from Regina, and the whole place booed us. Why? Why would they do that? I had no idea that they hated us just because we have the center of government here. I mean, they have everything else. And my assessment of the situation is the people in Saskatoon have a rivalry with Vagina, but the Regina people don't care. I've always considered them superior. Why would they care? Why would they not just pity us now? They're much bigger. When I was a kid, they were smaller than us. That's right. So the halfway point is a town called Davidson, Saskatchewan, and it got a Tesla V, three supercharger stalls a few years ago, right? Two or three years ago. Yeah, about three years ago, which changed life for Tesla's. People like you could easily go to Saskatoon and top up for the hell of it, or use it in very cold weather when your range is reduced and give you security. It was one of the reasons I bought my Tesla. Was it made that trip by there was no third party charger there for three years. And we've been begging everyone online. I've been Tweeting A and W who says there's these cluster of different businesses. There Tim Hortons, the Esso station, which is one thing at a Dairy Queen, and then there's a across the street there's an ANW, which I sometimes go to. You've gone to the and w, sure you've gone. You've probably done everything there. But up the road there's a Coop gas station, and that's where the supercharger is. That's kind of the Prairie Gas Station, one of the brands that also run grocery stores. So they have that. But they just announced yesterday that they're getting the flow charges, which are 100 kilowatt. Before, these gas stations had different branded chargers, which are 50 kilowatt. And they were always broken, like always. Yeah, the Coop branded ones, yeah. So apparently these flow chargers are, I'm told by the EV Association, a lot more rock solid because it's something we talk about on the show all the time, is the reliability of charging non Teslas like non Tesla charging networks are terrible. And I hear that all the time, especially in the States. It's no different. So I naively expressed regret online yesterday that I wished it was at the place where I go, which is the AEW, and I don't go to the Tim Hortons, but it seems like I might because I enjoy the Tim Hortons donut shop in return. And I found out that the EV people have been trying really hard for years behind the scenes to do something, and I'm not supposed to talk about what went on, but I'm very happy that the co op is in charge. Right, but I also made a joke online when I said that. Why isn't that this other place? They said, Are you disappointed? I said, I'm not disappointed. The Coop responded to me and said, Are you disappointed? I said, no, but I will be reviewing your pizza. Clearly they said they welcomed it. Then they offered to give me free pizza. But is it a review if they give you a free pizza? I mean, is it an honest review if you get something for free? I mean, as a clean energy food critic, I should be going in there in disguise or something. That's just the way it is. Yeah. Okay, well, this is great. I should add, too. So Tesla has finally made the CCS adapter available for tesla vehicles in north America. So 99% of the time, if you've got a Tesla, you're going to charge. It a Tesla station, and there's lots of them, but other cars use the CCS connector, and the adapter is finally available in North America. So if I were stuck some time and the Tesla supercharger wasn't working, I could get this adapter and charge at the flow or charge at the co op or whatever. Anyway, I went to order one online and it said, oh, sorry, your car can't use this yet. We're going to do a retrofit next year. So cars built before a certain date are missing something that the CCS adapter doesn't work. So my car was built just before that date. So sometime next year there'll be a retrofit available and then I'll be able to buy one. So they didn't sell it to me. They're probably trying to control the number of these that go out, and since they know that my car can't use it, they wouldn't sell it. How old is your model? Three? It's about two and a half years old. Two and a half years. Wow. Time flies. It's a quarter of a decade, Brian. Yeah, it really has. Yeah, I guess we had just started the podcast, I think. Oh, right, that's true. There was a couple of months into the pandemic and they did a touchless delivery to you. But I'm not done with the Riverband co op in Davidson because I asked them. I was in a discussion with my son who's going through there on Friday. As I said, if they have fresh donuts, because the co ops are known for great donuts at grocery stores, especially in small towns, they're somehow better in small towns like that. Yeah, for sure. My wife's not right is maybe the best owner sake one outside of the gourmet shop. So anyway, I asked them if they did and they said no. But for you, though, I can say we are discussing it. We are discussing it at the highest levels in the boardroom of the Davidson coop, whether to bring in fresh baking from the grocery store inside town. And I said, well, give us a heads up when you're passing through. At least we could do is get some donors to the grass bar for you. And everyone is just so happy that because without the co op, we would not have charging in Davidson, there was no other possibility to do it. No one willing to do it. So this is incredibly important to EV adoption for people who not only live near there, but live anywhere else, or you're traveling through the province in that direction. And so I'm incredibly grateful to them. And Matthew Pointer from the Sask EV association says this is arguably one of the most important charging locations in the province. So, Brian, what I did, I made them a commercial. Okay? I made the Riverband coop in Davidson a commercial because they deserve it. And here it is. Come to the Riverband Coop gas bar in beautiful Davidson, Saskatchewan, conveniently located on scenic highway eleven. Enjoy our pristine citrus, citrus washrooms as you stop to charge your Tesla, one of our lightning fast superchargers. And for our nontech industry friends, we are pleased to announce 100 kilowatt flow chargers coming in January. If you're still driving a gasguzzler, be assure that we here at coop sell only talk to your gasoline made to the highest Canadian standards. While you're here, satisfy your cravings with fresh cut veggies and sandwiches lovingly made at our grocery store just for you. Or twist it up with a smoothie by mixing a slushy soft drink of your choice with ice cream. Why pee anywhere else? The River Band. Coop in Davidson. More than a gas bar to heavenly oasis on a long road home. This commercials have improved by riverbank Coop flow charges 23 no responsible price screen trips on your floor of the seats. Very nice. So there you go. Free commercial for the Riverband Coop. Put that online, too, in video form. Thank you, Riverband Coop, for being good people. Yeah. And Davidson, Saskatchewan, they still have a newspaper as of a couple of years ago, and they were having a contest to give away the newspaper. I don't know if you remember that I considered, yeah, and you're supposed to write a letter and whoever writes the best letter would get the newspaper. I don't know what ever happened with that. Maybe somebody knows. We'll have to Google. We have a lot of local people listening. Okay, another personal news. The Leaf I had to take in to get fixed because I determined for a long time now, almost a year, that I had this tire noise. And I thought it was because my original tires were wearing out, they were becoming bald, and I thought, okay, no trad, they're becoming noisy, bought new tires, but they were cheap. They were half the price of the tires that you're supposed to buy. And so I thought, okay, well, it's a bit better, but it's still pretty noisy, and then I get noisier noiser. So I determined through online sleuthing that it's my bearings, my wheel bearings on my front left wheel, and because it gets noisier when you steer in one direction than the other. So I did that. But there's no place my Nissan dealership doesn't service EVs. And I looked up on how to do this repair, and you do have to kind of take one of the EV motor drive components out of the wheel hub, because it's a whole not just the actual little tiny bearing, but whole hub of bearings that has to be replaced, any specialized torque tools in order to do this. And I considered it, but then I thought, no. And anyway, I got the price from a place called okay Tire on Park Street in Regina. Because they are certified, they actually sent their people away to the United States to get training in servicing EVs and hybrids. Whereas the one Nissan dealership we have here and even several around us don't do they're not certified to do TVs. Even though Nissan sells the Leaf for well, minecar is ten years old, and twelve years ago they started selling them. So it was frustrating, but I took it there on the advice of others, and I wasn't happy with how it went because it's $1,400 for the front two hubs. And I thought it was just one hub, but they say, oh, no, the other one's going to be making noise as well. And also they charge you, like, $200 just to diagnose things. Okay. Right. It could be $200 to diagnose it. But then they diagnose everything on your car and get a big print out to make sure that everything else is okay. And they don't need to spend money fixing it out of your money. So that's complimentary. But the diagnose the problem is up to $200. So it's just BS. And I hate dealerships, and I can't afford it. So I'm in a pickle because my kid, my youngest, is going on a trip, a school trip to Quebec because we sent the first one. And as soon as we send the first one somewhere and my wife, by the way, wanted to set up the Uruguay was it Ecuador or Ecuador? To the ecological things out there. And I said, we do this. It's twice as much as you think it is because we have to send the other kid. There's no way of not sending the other kid. It doesn't work that way. So whatever you do for one, you do for the other. And so we're doing that for her now, and we have to get her to raise money. But they don't raise very much. And it's got to be a hard, economical year. Bad timing. That's too bad. And I'm giving away free commercials to cooperate anyhow that's that the car is supposed to be done. The beautiful thing is I've lost the EV joy because it's noisy. It's not giving me the luxury. And I can't wait. I can't wait, Brian, to get that back. But I also have to get more work done on the later. It's all related to tie rods and ball joints and stuff like that. And they send you a little video clips, part of their app to do that, to show you the wiggle. It's always great when you can spend money and really notice a difference. Like, that at least makes you feel better about it. Like our ceiling in the kitchen, it costs a fortune to do that. And all it does is look like it's supposed to. All it does is look like a ceiling. You don't get any satisfaction of it suddenly somehow being better. Right. It just doesn't lease. Now, this is hopefully something that I will just fall in love with again. But I started to fall out of love with car ownership because it's been a long time since I had to deal with car repairs because we've bought new cars. And the Leaf I've had for five years, and I haven't done anything to it. Like, it's just there's no oil to change. There's nothing to break down. I did buy the new tires a year ago, but other than that, I haven't done anything. How many kilometers on it? About 115 or something like that. It doesn't have fast charging. It was a rock bottom price. So it's only been a city car for anyone. But my family has been asking me, how long do I think it's going to go? And I don't see it not going indefinitely. Like I said, I don't have any reason to believe it won't go indefinitely. But if you don't do the tie rods or something, then maybe the tires are going to wear out. Well, the car could crash, things like that. One of the wheels could go. I've seen people do this on the roads. The wheel just goes all the way to one way and you get it towed. I won't be using it on the highway, let's put it that way. So, yeah, it's frustrating. And I can see the joy of maybe a subscription service to a robot taxi one day where you pay $20 a month and you never have to worry about car repairs because that is the biggest pain in the butt. That's why people buy newer cars. No, that's the future for sure. I mean, yeah, that's so much simpler. I've been talking about the pipeline plane that flies over my house. And then we got into it and I mentioned that there was a crash 13, 2013. And then there was one between our last two episodes of our podcast. Well, curiously, there's been no pipeline plane since that crash. So I got to feel weird about that because I feel like I have a connection with them because I'm in the mespeedo floating in the pool. God knows we've had some intimate contact. You've never seen me in my Speedo. These people have, and now they're gone. They're perished. So I just feel or maybe they've rounded pipeline planes or I don't know. But on the other hand, on the flip side, who's looking at my pipeline to see if it's not being inspected? Yeah. So that's kind of concerning for me as well. So here's a bit of trivia for you. In the year my Leaf was made, 2013, 130,000 EVs were sold globally that whole year. Brian yeah. Now more than that are being sold every week in the world. And that road, of course, is expanding rapidly. That's fantastic. That's great to hear. So my Leaf is like almost I've seen it referred to in videos on YouTube now by car reviewers as kind of like the Model T of EVs because it was the first mass produced it was produced even before Tesla's Model S. It was really the first mass produced EV in the world. So it's iconic, maybe worse, something someday. And I wanted to get to some updates to some stories that we've covered in the past. And we were talking about hurricanes in Florida and Will Walker in Florida. He was happily charging his allelectric Chevy bolt at a gas station charger while all the gas pumps were roped off, not because of electricity. The gas station was on a gas? Yes. And you can't just snap your fingers and get more gas in when there's a hurricane. So these places and we found this in the maritimes of Canada when Hurricane Fiona went through a couple of weeks ago. Gas stations are out of gas because everybody wants their generator running and everything. Right. Well, this is another reason gas stations don't operate with electricity during these situations, but they often don't operate when they do have electricity because they are out of gas. But he had electricity there and he was happily charging away. So he says, I can't count all the times that people ask me about what do you do when the power goes out? So it's just a joke to people who own TVs. Yeah. The New York Times, Florida, the post hurricane here, Jerry Jewelsk waited for about 6 hours to fill up for cans of gas. He was frustrated. Where is all the fuel? He asked. Every gas station or filling station was supposed to, under Florida law, have a generator prepared to go at all times. But that did not happen. Wow. In a news conference a couple of Saturdays ago, mr. DeSantis, or Satan, as I like to call him, said 1.6 million gallons of fuel had been removed pardon me? Had been moved to southwest Florida. But he acknowledged that some stations may not have had the electricity to operate their pumps. I'm laughing if you're in Florida, I'm not laughing at you. I'm laughing at the whole freaking idea and stupid things that happen. You need both. You need the fuel and you need the electricity. And on the electric car side, you just need the electricity. We've been talking about India a lot over the course of our podcast episodes, and we have concerns over the air quality and how great it would be for EVs to move in there. Well, Tata Motors, one of India's largest vehicle manufacturers, has announced a new Made in China pardon me, a new Made in India electric five door hatchback starting around $10,000 US. And it only has a 19.2 kilowatt hour battery with only 3.2 charging. That's kind of what my car is now. Started at 24. That's kind of your leaf range and charging speed. Look at this. It's supposed to have a range of 250 km. Yeah, well, I've made improvements since your car was made. Well, I'm thinking A is pretty darn light and it may not have an airbag and seatbelts or high tension steel or anything to protect the person. I don't know. I'm being kind of cynical about it. Yeah, but as we talked about, there's a lot of, like, two stroke engine vehicles in India. Small mopeds and motorcycles and stuff like that. And those things cause extra pollution. So if those kind of small vehicles, which is what this is going to sort of replace, can go electric, this will go a long way to improving the air quality in India. So for around 14, 500, US. Drivers can upgrade to a 24 kilowatt hour battery. That is what my car wasn't doing. But 315 range and 7.2 kilowatt charging, which is twice my car now. So that's I don't know, man. Maybe I should go to Indian, buy a car. Parts will be hard to get. Yeah. So driverless trucks in Toronto, we have reported on this before, but there's sort of more updates for it. So there are level four autonomous trucks, which began in August after the Ministry of Transportation approved them after a big audit. So this is Lablaws, the grocery chain from Canada, and they've got five routes going between Labs retail stores and a micro fulfillment center. So you can order your groceries online, go to this place, and pick them up. And this appears to be moving the groceries from the stores to this pickup center. So they've got five routes and five trucks. They are now driving fully autonomously. They do still have a human driver in the passenger seat. I'm not sure why he doesn't just sit in the driver's seat just in case they're showing off, but they say they have a safety record so far. This has been going on for quite a while now. And the person in the passenger seat is just there kind of as a courtesy. And also from feedback from the police department and the fire department, who said in case they need to pull the truck over, they wanted a human to interact with. And that does make sense. And of course, these are electric, and they can charge at sort of both ends of their trip, and that's what they do. And they're planning to expand this to something like 15 trucks in the near future. So, yeah, level four autonomous trucks. So this is Geofenced. They can only go on these specific routes. They couldn't just snap their fingers and expand this to other markets or other cities. They've carefully mapped out these routes. And the trucks take the same routes every day, but still quite remarkable that it is totally working. And they've driven tons of miles with these things, and 100% safe so far. Teller me surprised. I'm actually quite surprised by that, especially if you told me it was Los Angeles docks or something, I would believe you. But I'm surprised it's Toronto. Yes, Toronto streets can be kind of busy and crazy. That's an understatement. And some of the worst streets, worst traffic in North America. But you just start thinking about the math for this in terms of business. So not only are you saving on fuel because it's electric instead of gasoline or diesel, and then saving on the driver. And just imagine, as this slowly rolls out and expands, the amount of money that can be saved by so many businesses. Expect your grocery prices to go down, thanks to freedom of energy in the world like that. And I do use their service in our city. It's PC Express. How's that work? It works well. You order online, you pick up. We have had it delivered one time. All right. I have an update from the International Energy Agency and EVs are now at 13% of all new car sales globally this year. That's world market share. That's fantastic. I didn't know we were there yet. That is an inflection point, Mr. Stockton. We are toying with inflection rates here. It's doubled since last year, so that has not been happening. It's taken more than two years to double. A little bit more than two years. But now doubling in a year is not two years. So it's like 1718 months or something. Something weird like that. Like a year and a half. But now it's a year and we are on track. According to the IEA of reaching when they did the Paris Climate Accord, we need to do this, this and this to reach our climate targets. While the number of EVs on the road by 2030 was a checkpoint goal and they have saying that we are on track for it, in fact, we're better than on track. Areas not on track include improving the energy efficiency of building designs, developing clean and efficient district heating. That's when you hit like a heat. A neighborhood with one heating system phasing out coal powered generation. That's a little behind. Eliminating methane flaring, shifting aviation and shipping to cleaner fuels and making cement, chemical and steel production cleaner. That's from CNBC. Yes. So the transportation sector doing well. These other sectors, not so well. Yeah, but it's encouraging because we live in a place where there's so much cynicism about EVs that it's always good to see these stories. Yeah, that's great. All right, we have several Tesla stories this week. The first was, of course, they had AI day 2022, where they had a big presentation, basically a recruitment event. They're trying to convince people to come work for Tesla and work on their artificial intelligence stuff. They demonstrated the prototype of the Tesla bot. I didn't watch the whole thing because it was like three or 4 hours long. I watched a condensed 20 minutes version. So the robot doesn't do that much. So the stock market and casual observers were not for you. Was the robot more human than Elon Musk? Yes, it was okay. But I don't know if you had any thoughts about the Tesla bought. I do, and I did watch a lot of it. And I came away feeling pretty negative about Tesla and Musk and AI because there was nothing major announced. The robots didn't impress a lot of people because who's the company? I can't remember. The Boston Dynamics. Boston Dynamics. Who's been making those robots that flip and dance and they seem like years ahead. They're not humanoid, but do we need what is the need of having a humanoid robot rather than. Being creepy. I don't care what the thing looks like that does my dishes. It can look like a scorpion for all I care. Just do my dishes, you stupid robot, and answer my door and brush my teeth. Well, I think it's the same principle behind, like, what they're doing with selfdriving in the car. Like, the idea behind the Tesla selfdriving car is to replicate the humans. So humans drive with eyes in a brain. So Tesla's taking that approach with their car cameras and a computer eyes and a brain in the car. So my feeling would be that since the world is designed for humanoid form, that that's the most useful form for somebody who's going to do work. Well, are you going to test an FSD Beta Tesla robot in your home and hope it doesn't break your dishwasher handle? Sure, if they want to send me one, I'll take the interesting thing is they think that one day they'll sell them for $20,000. Seems low. I don't know. Does it? Brian, does the $35,000 model three seem low to you? That never happened. It was sold for, like, a couple of weeks, I think. Yeah, and very frustrating. Why announce these things? You have to have faith in their AI software for cars. We're not at that point yet. We're having a lot of faith because things are dragging on so slowly. It's just a super long process. So this stuff is potentially decades away. So what bothered me about the event was they invited all their Internet fanboys to it, so it became like a Tesla event. Oh, you're God, present your genitals. I wish to photograph them. This is stupid. I just hate that stuff. But the whole point of the event was to recruit because they want to bring on people to recruit. They need the best and AI people to develop this product. It's a recruiting day, so why invite all the fanboys? I guess you get some free advertising that way. But it just seemed I don't know, I'm pretty cynical about this, and I'm pretty cynical about Mr. Musk, who has decided, apparently, to buy Twitter. Yeah, it sounds like that's going through. Yeah, and I'm not happy about that. I'm not. I'm not happy at all. I mean, Twitter's not golden, but I need somewhere to go, Brian. I can't go on Facebook. It's not safe. It's killing the world. And now he's got to put what's his name back on there, the former POTUS. And why am I going to hurricane have killed him? Why is it killing his people? See him floating away on a piece of rock anyway? I don't understand. I'm worried. I'm worried about the world. And the world was quieter. It was quieter without him on it, and now he's going to be on it and all these horrible voices of conspiracy and BS. I don't know. I'm not happy with Musk. I mean, Musk is the guy I doubt for saving the world because he puts a cyber truck on stage, smashes the window, and suddenly Ford is releasing electric trucks a couple of years later. Right. I mean, they're in dealerships say they're at dealerships around our province, even a lot of them have moved here, I'm told. But kudos to Ford for actually making some vehicles because the Amaqui is like, I think, the number two selling electric vehicle in North America. No, there's actually some EVs in stock around us, and it's mostly like the Mustang and the F 150. So, yeah, the needle has moved. And I guess we're at 13%. We're at a near time where they say they have the stock and they don't actually have it. It's coming in. It's like it's coming into somebody who's ordered it. So unless somebody canceled their order and somebody did cancel their order for Chevy Bolt, but it was an older one and I didn't want to take it, people were pointing me towards that. But yeah, I'm told there's a year wait list, but I mean, even that's not bad for a truck. But I don't know. Megapack is arriving in Hawaii, and I just wanted to mention this, mostly because we had reported on the final shipment of coal going to Hawaii a few weeks ago. The last shipment of coal for their coal fired electricity plant, which they're going to close down. Well, it turns out at pretty much the same time, a whole whack of Tesla Megapack batteries were delivered to Hawaii. Hawaii's got an aggressive goal to get off fossil fuels. I think they've got some time. I think it was like 2045. They're going to be 100% green. I have a feeling they might be able to do it sooner than that. But they have tons of solar. Hawaii has the highest amount of solar deployed per capita, and they just need more batteries. And they are on their way to 100% clean energy, which is great. Yeah. You don't hear about non Tesla companies making power packs. I know they exist because they do exist. Yeah, they're putting some up around us. I don't know who's making them, though. We don't hear about who's making them. I don't know. I mean, the main battery makers are probably making them, like LG and what's the other one? Panasonic? Yeah. Or CATL. Yeah. I have heard other brands and their storage solutions, I just don't know off the top of my head. Well, that's something to look forward to. It's pretty cool that Hawaii can do that. And most people disregard batteries. I say this all the time. They poopoo them like you can't power. I know it seems far fetched because there's like thousands and tens of thousands and millions of little AA sized almost batteries, right? That power a grid. Come on. That's science fiction. But they are doing it and it works. And it meets the power fluctuations and saves them money. Instantly saves the money. If you're a casual observer, it probably seems absurd, but to the casual observer, I often hear hydrogen as the solution. But solar wind and batteries, as we often say, that's all you need. It is all you need. Not for maybe airliners and stuff like that, but for a lot of things. And the cybertruck musk has been talking about the cyber truck as well. Yeah, I guess, prompted by the recent hurricanes and flooding in Florida, that the cyber truck will travel temporarily as a boat for approximately 1100ft. Really? Yeah, it'll operate as a boat tweeted that's enough to get through a flooded underpass. Yeah. So we have seen this before, like with regular teslas and flooded underpasses that they can do fairly well getting through. We did a guy in the EV association who flooded his car in saskatoon and other claims, big fat insurance claim, battery gone, ruined his battery. So it's certainly and it's not an advertised feature, but this is now technically an advertised feature of the cyber truck that it can operate as a boat for a short period of time. So presumably they're just thinking about this more. I don't imagine they were thinking about it too much with the cars. But now that they know that the cars are fairly waterproof, they've, I guess, done a little bit of extra work and, you know, cyber truck will float for a while. Well, the rivian r 150 pickup truck, the all electric pickup truck from them, it was supposed to do a meter and a half of water, and they didn't say for how long, but they said anymore, and it floats. So they didn't want it to float floating back. Yeah, because then you lose control there. Yeah. Well, what do you do in the cyber truck? Do you take out a paddle? I mean, what do you do? I'm not sure, but they often show it with those big knobby tires. So it's possible the big knobby tires would give you a little bit of traction and steering. Give me the aqua tread when you're ordering tires, like summer all season and water. Well, there was that water aqua car. Somebody in town owns one from, like, in the 50s. Somebody made a car that works in the car? Yes. It's a convertible, right? Yeah, it's a convertible. Somebody in town owns one and every once in a while drives it in our local lake, which is saying a lot. You go down there, you're a dead person. Because it's nasty water. Yeah. So it has technically been done before. I don't know. Maybe they could add a little propeller on the back of that because that's what the aqua car has, like the one from the 50s. It has a little propeller at the back for one. Floating in the car. That would be an option, I suppose. Maybe you could outboard it to your trailer hitch or something and just sort of put a propeller on back there. Yeah, that would be great. Well, I wanted to talk about it over small nuclear reactors because CBC had an article on it and there's been well, there's always lots of stuff, and I'm always reading from people. I'm not against it. It's just not realistic. People love the new solutions. We'll solve climate change with this. This is great. I saw a video on it. I saw six videos on it. It's great. It's not great because they don't exist. You can't go to Walmart and buy one. You can go to Walmart and buy a solar panel. You can go to Walmart and buy a battery. You can go to Walmart and even buy a wind turbine in some stores. Come on. What we have is all we need. And I'm not saying other things aren't good, but if they cost ten times as much for one unit of electricity, and if you don't need them, then why are you wasting your time on it? Because our government, another government, and the Ontario government as well, are investing, and they're going to waste all our money in these damn things, putting money into it, and it's also just delaying climate action. Yeah. So here's something. This is Suzanne O'Donnell. She is an adjunct professor at the University of New Brunswick and St. Thomas University also works with a coalition for responsible energy development. And she has been researching SMR specifically during the last two years. And she was asked, what do you think of Saskatchewan and your province looking at building a small modular nuclear reactor? She says there's a huge leap she says diplomatically, there's a huge leap between having a design for an SMR and then getting to the point of having an engineer design where you can actually apply for a license to build one. The most advanced design for an SMR in the US is called New Scale, and they've spent almost a billion dollars on the engineered design, and they just got a license to build it. It's another huge leap between building a prototype that might actually work in a laboratory to getting one that actually commercially works in the real world. Why then, she was asked, with four provinces be looking at them? And she says, I'd have to say that the decisions around SMRs, at the federal level and certainly at the provincial level, where they're all conservative provinces, are political decisions rather than based on science. From reading peerreviewed science in three different countries, canada, the US. And the UK. It really doesn't make any economic sense. However, what we have happening here is very, very powerful industry, the nuclear industry, that has a long history in Canada, and they have been lobbying like crazy to get these things off the ground, because unfortunately, nuclear power hasn't been very successful financially, especially lately. So in New Brunswick, the Point La Puerto reactor has been a financial disaster for the province, has put US $3.6 billion in debt. And that's what we have to look forward to in our province because of idiots. I don't want any more debt. I don't want to know we got enough debt. My God. But making stupid decisions because you want to put off the climate action and not make the woke left happy, then you gotta do what you gotta do and waste all taxpayers money and then you drive the provinces of the ground. So I'm mad about that. Mad, mad, mad. So it's just bad. I don't like it. Okay, so I've got a story here from CP 24, which is a news outlet in the Toronto area of Canada. I thought this, it reminded me of the Apple story that we mentioned a couple of days ago that Apple is working on software for their phones that will sort of calculate the cleanest time of the day to charge your phones. I don't know, there's just a lot of activity around smartening up the grid. And so what they're going to do in Ontario is pay some customers to run their air conditioning less as part of an investment in energy efficiency program. So they're going to have networked smart thermostats in people's homes that can literally be controlled remotely by the power utility. So when they have these days when the grid is strained and everybody's air conditioning is cranked up, if you've agreed to be part of this program, you have one of these smart meters, they're going to creep up the temperature in your house, take away some of your nice cooling airflow from your air conditioner. And if you've got enough homes in this program and enough people willing to do it, and they will pay you to do it, like there's an incentive to do it, they'll give you some money for this. They will just turn up your thermostat a couple of degrees and you'll use less electricity for your air conditioning. And the more of these kind of smart grid strategies we can come up with, the more we can weather these coming storms of power supply as we kind of transition over into all clean energy. Well, again, I'm surprised. I'm surprised that Ontario is doing that. And it's very interesting. It would be interesting to see how it goes, what they learned from that. It reminds me of the summer heat wave in California where they texted people or an emergency alert and they responded, and they responded in times when they turned down the power because they said, if you don't, then we're going to have a power outage. I would rather have some power and maybe a couple of degrees warmer in my house than no power at all. And that's another great tool to have. But just imagine if somebody at the California Power Commission just has a switch where they can just turn up everybody's air conditioning. Like just imagine how that would drop the power going to the grid, like instantly. I'm not sure what some people would like the government coming to their homes. But you get paid for it. But you get paid for it, so you're compensated for it, that's the thing. But this is kind of the future that when we talk about smart grids, we are also talking about homes where we can suck a little bit of juice out of your EV for ten minutes just to balance the grid. And you get paid for that more than what it costs you to put it in. So, yeah, there's all kinds of different things and if this is one of those methods, then cool. No, and there was some progress on that in the US. They introduced the Bidirectional Act, it was introduced in the US Senate to promote electric school buses feeding into the grid. So I don't think this is all kind of fully plat passed or anything, but as they expand to electric school busses, they're trying to work this into the infrastructure where all of these school buses can feed into the grid. So it's nice to have some actual legislation to support that. Coming up in the show is the lightning Round, where we speed through the week's headlines in fast format. Brian, I've got a surprise new segment for you this week. What it's called? The Tweet of the week. Oftentimes I see a great tweet that I'd like to highlight on the show. Yeah. This is until I leave Twitter next week, so it could be a very shortlived segment. Here it is. It says, you know, who isn't in denial about climate change? The entire insurance industry. There will be entirely uninsurable areas of the populous places near coast sooner than you think. This is from MMA, who works in the real estate industry and was reteeded by many of my climate follows on Twitter. It's something I think about a lot in Florida, of course, top of mind because of the recent hurricane, but Florida, so many low lying areas in Florida and you just got to wonder when the real estate prices are going to hit the wall and people are going to have to retreat it. That hasn't happened yet, as far as I know. But, yeah, certainly I think there is already some places that are uninsurable in flood prone areas and the insurance industry doesn't mess around. I know because my life insurance just went up last week, tripled for some reason, because they saw you eating a box of donuts and they're like, damn it, they heard me talking about Davidson Gas Station donuts and just bingo. So my other tweet that I was considering has something to do with a politician down there saying, well, we will rebuild. And the other person said, Why? Yeah, why would you rebuild a place that's destroyed by a hurricane? You think it's not going to happen again? I mean, these happening, they're happening more frequently and more importantly, more powerfully and slower moving and more damaging. The same hurricanes because of climate change. Brian, we got a whole host of feedback this week. Sometimes the mailbag empty, dust bunnies fall out, nothing there, you know? And then sometimes it just rains, rains feedback. So I wanted to dip into it. Here's an email, says, hey, guys, big fan of the show from Martinsburg, West Virginia, USA. Not all of us in mumf, Egypt, are as narrow minded as our former commander in Cheeto when it comes to the environment. I can't swear on the show. You see, if I swear on the show, I have to change it to explicit. That's a whole lot of paperwork. I can't do that. So I just got an email from my power company asking if I was interested in enrolling in a new program they are starting up, which seems to be a solar collective. Do you think these types of programs the page is very vague. Have a place in the future for those who can't afford or non solar friendly areas like us? Cheers to here in Mendez. Now, I looked at it and basically, if your household uses X amount of kilowatts per month, you pay extra to have solar, to have clean power. Now, this is something that we did here 1215 years ago in my old house. Yeah, I would pay for extra money for clean energy credits. And we had wind back then and only when basically still do for the most part, and a small amount of wind. And of course, they sold out. So they stopped the program. They couldn't do it anymore, or that was their excuse. But you could pay a little bit extra on your power bill every month and know that you were getting clean power. Right, but here's my point. Clean power is cheaper than regular power. Yeah, right. And they want to charge you. Shitloads, sir, I swore crap loads of money more. It's like $40 a month extra just to have clean power, which is cheaper to them than it is the coal power or whatever. Like in West Virginia, solar is going to be incredibly cheaper than coal. It's displaced coal as the cheapest form of electricity by far. So my question is, where will the solar facilities be located? So they plan to build, own and operate five solar facilities located within West Virginia on property owned by the power company or its affiliates. They include a 26 acre reclaimed ash disposal site, a 51 acre adjacent to the power substation, 27 acres of retired ash disposal site. This is all coal terminology that I'm not familiar with, even though we do have coal mines here. So, yeah, they're reclaiming all this land from coal and putting solar panels on it and then charging people extra. Do you have any thoughts on this? My thought is the typical. It says for little $2 a month, but nobody uses 50 month. And my garden shed used more than that. You're more likely to spend over $40 a month to have clean electricity for that money. I think there's places that will. Sometimes if they let you put solar on your roof, you can lease solar for your roof and for like the same price as electricity, you're not paying anything extra. And then eventually, I think you make extra money. Yeah, it's going to be different. In every province, state, every city, it's going to be different. I know around here there is one or two solar cooperatives, and that's mainly for people who live in apartment buildings. So you don't necessarily have access to a roof that you can put solar panels on. So a bunch of people can get together and spend like, $100,000 on a solar farm somewhere. And basically, you live in an apartment. You can buy a share in that, and just everybody owns a piece of the action, and it feeds into the grid, and you get your benefit from your share of the thing. Whether this particular one makes any sense, I don't know. But certainly people should look into this wherever they live. Well, shout out to Mornsburg, West Virginia. And Mr. Mendez. Thanks for writing us. We really appreciate it. So here's another one. Good evening, gentlemen. My name is Landon Yereski, and I discovered your show earlier this year as listening material while taking our newborn for walks to fall asleep, which is interesting, Brian, because I always wonder what people do when they listen to our shows. I remember my first podcast in the very early days of podcasting in the early 2000s. Somebody said that they listened to me on the subway in Australia, and it blew my mind. It's like, wow, there's somebody doing that to my little show. Like, wow. Yeah. Community and of course is a popular thing, but taking your newborn out for walks to fall asleep, hadn't thought of that one, you know? By the way, I listen to podcasts to fall asleep when I want to have a nap sometimes. Ours, it's not that they're boring. The more interesting they are, the more I can focus my mind on something and then drift off. Right. They can't be too boring. That works for me, too. Yeah, it's got to be something to focus my mind. So I have been listening weekly ever since. He says the content is fantastic. And given I also live in the same city you do, I find all the commentary very relatable. Now he says I'm a business owner, and that piqued my interest, Brian. So I Googled his name, and it came up with his LinkedIn page and found out that he owns my favorite pot shop, Wid w I ID it's actually on the other end of the city from me. They have a great online portal, okay. And they have a whole craft load of inventory of all kinds of different things. And you can order it and pick it up in your leaf you're cartastic. And little did I know that the pot shop that I've been supporting supports green energy. That's great. And we're always looking for sponsors. Remember, everyone got free beer. The first plug is free. Brian made a joke. Okay, so he's also a board member of the Saskatchewan Electric Vehicle Association, something I reference here a lot. And he says, I love to use the insight on your show to help align my business with sustainable goals and get insight for the association. A fellow board member recently sent me this article I thought would be a great discussion point on your show, and it is, from Airdry today. Now, Airdri is a little city north of Calgary, the big mega city of Calgary, Alberta. I wouldn't call it a mega city, but it's a big city. Millions of people, he says a Rocky Mountain. I think it's a great discussion that could be had regarding NIMBYism, which is I had to look that up. Not in my backyard ism and fudd. You want to explain what fudd is again? Fear, uncertainty and doubt. That is things that people put around misinformation and bad information about new technologies to discourage either investment or adoption. And especially in this changing world that people are uncomfortable with how fast things are changing. The fact that that municipality rejected tens of millions in investment and permanent jobs due to false information is astounding. Keep up the good work. Now, the story is about somebody who wanted to pull up a charging station, much like we were talking about, because it's between two major cities, calgary and Emmetton. Just like that corridor needs lots of charging with people going back and forth. Ours does between Regina and Saskatoon. And this town also ran into problems because they didn't want anything to do with the charging station. Now they claim the problem with the charging station. I'll read you an excerpt. Okay, this is from the story objections raised because they wanted to put a solar installation with it, which is a business decision for them, because you supply electricity for someone, you want the cheapest electricity wholesale, right? That is what it is. So you build a little solar farm for your charging station, for your highway supercharging station. But the objections raised were more to do with the solar than the EV chargers. Apparently. He says objections raised included potential noise concerns with the cooling plant associated with the proposed solar farm, which is absurd. A person's air conditioner in their home is less noisy than that, and it's certainly closer to people than that would be increased vehicular traffic on highway 72. The solar farm would have increased traffic. I guess people going to see the solar farm or people going to charge their EVs next one taking farmland out of production. This is something that is coming up a lot lately, which is of course, crap. If the farmer wants to take his damn farmland out of production, he can, or she can. But you could also do mixed use. Farmers don't use every square inch of their land. Sometimes they have little bits of land that they mold with garden tractors that they could put up a huge installation on. And some more speculative complaints about the potential radiation hazards of building such a facility in close proximity to people living in the area. Rocky View, County Alberta you are officially the stupidest place on earth. So is that like solar radiation? Like everyone's going to get a suntan? Is that what they're saying? If I knew, I'd be in pain. You think you've heard it all? You think you've heard all the stupidest things that were people get passed around on Facebook. It's just utter BS. And by the way, whenever there's somebody like this, whenever there's people like this, they're always racist. You know, if you're stupid in one way, you're probably a racist too. So screw you. Rocky View, County Alberta. Get off the planet. Go somewhere else. Elon's, got a place for you on Mars. Lots of radiation up there. And Brian, I hope you're sitting down because we've got a rare voicemail click from our speak pipe page. Can you believe it? What? I cannot believe it. I thought that we should stop doing the speak pipe because nobody was calling. Well, I crossed my mind too, but this is Sean in Ireland. Hi. It's Sean from Ireland. Dublin, Ireland. Just want to say we love the show, love listening to it every Wednesday when it comes out. There is two big announcements in Ireland in the last few weeks regarding solar. Is no planning permission needed. Now, if you have solar panels on your roof before, if you wanted solar panels on your roof, you have to get planning permission. And there's been houses where people put up solar panels didn't get planned permission. The government made them take them down. So now you don't need plan permission. And also they've announced that they are going to give schools free solar panels so school supplies, and if they're suitable, they will get the price of the solar panels covered 100% by the government. Thanks, that's fantastic. I mean, that's crazy, right? Why isn't everybody doing that? We often ask questions like that. Schools, perfect place for solar panels, but giving them to them and then what do they do with the savings? They can put more money to music programs and educating your damn children. Yeah. I will say the high school right next to me where I went to high school, they've actually had solar panels on their roof for about 20 years now. And it was because I think some students and maybe a teacher or two were interested in the technology and they realized it was a good learning experience. So it was about 20 years ago, so they would have been much lower powered solar panels. But still, they've been generating power over there for 20 years and educating kids, and they could probably. Look up the doohickies to see what the sun is doing and probably be aware that solar panels generate electricity and cloudy days, for example. Yeah. And so also, the other thing Sean brought up is we got to get rid of the red tape involved in installing solar clean energy of all kinds. This is a climate emergency. We got to move fast. We got to make all this stuff as easy as possible. Now, Sean, we're so thankful that we said that. We would wish you a happy birthday on your birthday. So let us know when your birthday is, and if not, happy birthday in advance. Thank you, Sean. Yeah. I appreciate it. It's lovely to hear your voice and we'd love to hear from you. Contact us at cleanenergy show@gmail.com or on Twitter. We're on TikTok for now. Clean energy pod. Is our handle there? Don't forget to check out our YouTube channel for special features. Leave us a voicemail like Sean did@speakpipe.com. Cleanenergyshow. It's time for the lightning round, Brian. We have to whizz through this one quickly and it's a fat one, so it's going to be a challenge to get through. This is a fast paced look at the week and clean energy news. California becomes the first state to commit to ending the sale of polluting heaters. All fossil fuel heaters are gone by 2030, not far from now. Right, that's fantastic. And California often sets the tone for the rest of the US on clean energy things, so hopefully other states follow suit. Clean Energy canada predicts 1840 people will be employed in the Canadian EV industry by 20, 30, 26 times what there was in 2020. And, you know, I think that number is more than the number of people in oil and gas. So that's just EVs. That's not clean energy in total. Yeah, that's just EVs. Time for a fast fact. According to the IEA, the International Energy Agency the International Energy Agency, only 50% of the worldwide market is now using Led bulbs. Outraged, are you? Wow. Yeah, I mean, I guess that makes sense. It does take a hell of a long time to change all the how many humans does it take to change all the light bulbs in the water? I could do them all. I'll start tonight. Come on, people. Unscrew those stupid incandescent bulbs and put in an Led from your local dollar store because they're cheap. And imagine how much energy will be saved once we do that. Well, you know, those old bulbs don't last very long, so it's not going to take that long. Would it last a year at best or something like that? It's not good. The Nordstream Pipeline, which is the one that they claimed was bombed or sabotaged, it stopped leaking, but not before emitting the equivalent of what UK cars consume in a year. And there are 1.8 million oil pipelines in the world, some of them apparently leak. Yeah. So this is the pipeline between Russia and Germany, which has been the site of much discussion and problems in the UK world. But, yeah, this is a leaking and even just in your home, right? Like if you have a gas cooktop that can leak and release pollutants and ruin the air quality in your house and contribute to all these problems. From Bloomberg. The United States utility scale solar is now about one third cheaper than gas fired power. Wow. Well, onshore wind is 44% less expensive than gas fired. This is onshore wind, which is notoriously more expensive than offshore wind. So solar and wind now present a deflationary opportunity for electric supply costs. Deflation something I like to hear. Let's hope the inflation rates come down. You know, I watched this video by an engineer, a wind engineer, talking about how big can wind turbines get offline? I love that topic. It's very in depth, but apparently there's a cost of the machine returns. But I might get to that in a bit. We'll see. Another fast fact in 2022 and 600 million people in Africa still don't have access to electricity. And I can go to the hardware store and buy a solar panel and power my camper and lights and stuff and phones. Much of those without power are in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The DRC, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda. Research suggests that covering all of California's canals, which span roughly 4000 miles with solar panels could save up to 63 billion gallons of water. That's just putting them people say there's no place to put solar panels. You take up farmland, put them on the damn canals, safe water, billions of gallons of water. And I believe they have started at least one pilot project. So that's what it would look like if they did it all. That's amazing. Yes. And there's even some going on in Europe. And they said if you did that, you'd have like 13 nuclear reactors worth of peak output. So that's pretty cool. The two Chevy bulk variants set a quarterly sales record at 14, 700. GM says it will increase global production. This is interesting to me. So I'm following it to more than 70,000 units for the 2023 calendar year, which is almost double if it's 44,000 this year. So they're selling all the damn things and they've got to make more. Yeah, and presumably they've ramped up their battery supply, which is the other thing. So they presumably have enough batteries to do that, which is great. And for the regional leader, Post, our local newspaper, we have an oil ban. New York follows California in banning the sale of gas cars by 2035. That legislation is moving forward. So good to hear. World's largest wind solar hybrid complex. This is wind and solar in one piece of land is now 600. It goes online in India. It's the largest hybrid complex. Fairly big. Toyota president calls meeting California zero mission requirements difficult, even though in 2035, you can still have 20% of your new car sales from your company be long range PHEVs plug in hybrids. Yeah, well, it's not like Toyota is like a world leader in making cars or anything. No, I don't know how they could possibly do it. They don't want to. Tesla Giga, Nevada to receive recycled battery materials from Redwoods closed loop campus. That means, Brian, you could buy a Tesla and people say, oh, where did that battery come from? It was mine. While some of it might be recycled now already, and that's going to weigh go up in the future as more that's great. Yes, redwood is one of the big players in battery recycling started by one of the founders of Tesla. But, yeah, we were always worried about not having enough supply of batteries to recycle. But it's slow, but sure it'll come. It'll be a closed loop system one day. The Harris Ranch Tesla supercharger in California, that is the big one, the first one actually ever, and it's between San Francisco and Los Angeles, will have a 25 megawatt of solar installed. That is two, five times the solar farms they're putting in Saskatchewan. Okay, just for reference, at a very rural part of the I 500 stalls, that's 100 stalls, including some for towing. They're going to have some stalls. People are calling for that now that the trucks are out. So it's a halfway mark between La. And the Bay Area. So, yeah, cool. The EPA is doubling money for electric school buses, which you mentioned earlier due to overwhelming demand from all 50 states. Yeah, so the 50 states asked for money, and it was way more than they expected them to ask for. The state, the people, the school boards, the people, they want electric school buses, and they should because diesel bad for kids. Currently, only 1% of the country school buses are at electric. And you know what? I'm a little surprised that it's even 1% more than maybe I would have thought. And Brian, finally this week I'm going to end on good news from Asad Razuk, which I sometimes do, and good news on the climate fight that we could all use this week, ireland to put solar panels on every school. Okay, our caller already covered that. James, you didn't need to put that there, but we broke that news. India to go 50% renewables by 2030. Some more Indian news. We have listeners in India, so they're going to go 50% renewables. That's not bad for a country that said that maybe we can't because we want the middle class to expand and you guys have already had for 100 years, and we're a huge country, but, you know, things may be starting to move along there. That's great. That's our time for this week. Remember, clean energy show@gmail.com. We really appreciate you listening. Please subscribe to the show. So you get our shows every week. And we'll see you again next time. Next week. See you next week. Close Video.  

9.14.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Child Poverty Rate Drops, Insurers Push Police Reform, Tyler Perry & Hollywood Diversity A new report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities indicates that government policies during the pandemic helped cut the child poverty rate to a record low.  We'll break that down with Economist William Spriggs.  Police misconduct settlements are in the billions.  Insurance companies are squeezing police departments demanding reforms, or they can forgo coverage.  In Texas, there seems to be a calculated attack on black judges by state republicans.  I'll talk to one judge who says they are coming after her. Tyler Perry is getting some heat for saying "time and training" are needed for lasting diversity in Hollywood.  I'll break that down.  James Earl Jones is honored with a Broadway Theater bearing his name.  And in today's Tech Talk, an all-in-one black business-centered app helps you find everything from shops, restaurants, and events.    Support RolandMartinUnfiltered and #BlackStarNetwork via the Cash App ☛ https://cash.app/$rmunfiltered PayPal ☛ https://www.paypal.me/rmartinunfiltered Venmo ☛https://venmo.com/rmunfiltered Zelle ☛ roland@rolandsmartin.com Annual or monthly recurring #BringTheFunk Fan Club membership via paypal ☛ https://rolandsmartin.com/rmu-paypal/ Download the #BlackStarNetwork app on iOS, AppleTV, Android, Android TV, Roku, FireTV, SamsungTV and XBox

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On a hot Saturday afternoon in September 1964, a military police officer dropped off his two young stepsons outside the Broadway Theater on Hay Street in downtown Fayetteville. As storms from a waning hurricane rumbled over Fayetteville, the stepfather said he went to the theatre after dark and waited for the boys to emerge. The never came out. In fact, they were never seen again.

Today I sat down with Michael Roderick and spoke about the many different ways we connect with other people. Michael explains how his career led him from education to the exciting world of Broadway Theater, Tech, and finally back towards an educational focus. Michael tells us that it is important to actively listen to those around us. When we engage in active listening, we can build stronger and more impactful relationships with our peers and mentors. Of particular note, are Michael's four main ways of asking for something, and he does a great job breaking down the different ways we can use them.

Today's episode of The Friday Fireside is devoted to "Taking Wing—Legends of Emimencia", an under-development virtual-reality and augmented-reality Broadway show from producer, Julie Saltman, and Broadway star, Richard Blake. It will take you out of your comfort zone into a Broadway theater with an immersive VR/AR experience and Cirque du Soleil acrobats flying from the ceiling. YIKES! It's a fascinating departure from our usual TV-based Friday Firesides.

Matt Gibson aka "The Voice of God" talks about the best moment of his life in a swimming pool in Arizona and shares his amazing experience of making a rescue dive in Bahrain in 1969 aboard the USS STICKELL DD-888. Matt Gibson was the narrator of The Bible Experience, a Broadway Theater actor, Hollywood movie actor, Voice Actor, Navy photographer and a key facilitator at The World Stage jazz club in Los Angeles. www.streetwisenglish.com Instagram: streetwisenglish Watch on YouTube Intro Music: CasualChris Email us: streetwisenglishpodcast@gmail.com

Matt Gibson aka "The Voice of God" talks about punching out his Navy Chief boss in 1969. Matt Gibson was the narrator of The Bible Experience, a Broadway Theater actor, Hollywood movie actor, Voice Actor, Navy photographer and a key facilitator at The World Stage jazz club in Los Angeles. www.streetwisenglish.com Instagram: streetwisenglish Watch on YouTube Intro Music: CasualChris Email us: streetwisenglishpodcast@gmail.com

This theater podcast describes the trials, tribulations, terror, and treat of being an understudy on Broadway.  The intro provides insider information about the business as well as vocabulary terms that we use throughout the show.  It's . . . an amuse bouche before the tasty episodes begin.   Enjoy! https://www.waitinginthewingsbroadway.com

Synopsis On today's date in 1940, Disney's animated film Fantasia opened at New York's Broadway Theater. Disney's film was a milestone in cultural “cross-over”, in which classical music – in the person of conductor Leopold Stokowski – shook hands (literally and figuratively) with pop culture – in the person of Mickey Mouse. It was also a milestone in cinematic sound. For its initial East and West Coast release, the Philadelphia Orchestra recorded nine special tracks, one for each section of the orchestra. These were mixed by Stokowski into a 4-track stereo soundtrack to be played in synchronization with the film on special equipment made by RCA for a multiple-loudspeaker theater installation called "Fantasound.” Three large speakers were positioned behind the projection screen, and no fewer than 65 smaller speakers were placed around the walls of the theater. The resulting “surround-sound” was stunning by 1940 standards, but cost $85,000 to set up. After the 2nd full installation at the Carthay Circle Theater in Los Angeles, “Fantasound” was not employed anywhere else. Instead, eight reduced "Fantasia Road Show" speaker set- ups toured American movie theaters until 1941, when, following the outbreak of World War II, Disney diverted his funds, technology, and even Mickey Mouse toward the war effort. Music Played in Today's Program Bach, Tchaikovsky, Dukas, Stravinsky, Beethoven, Ponchielli, Mussorgsky and Schubert — excerpts from Fantasia soundtrack (Philadelphia Orchestra; Leopold Stokowski, cond.) Buena Vista 600072

Jhett Tolentino is a Grammy Award Winner and 3-time Tony Award Winner Producer who grew up in the slums of Iloilo City in the Philippines. Jhett's family was poor and if it weren't for a scholarship he received in high school, he wouldn't be where he is today - a successful Broadway Theater producer. Tune in and get to know more about Jhett Tolentino and how his journey led him to the be the 2nd ever Filipino to win a Tony Award after 22 years when Leah Salongga won for Best Actress in a Musical in 1991. Jhett's humble beginning is an inspirational story that we hope to share with so many dreamers, who are still looking for their calling. We cannot help but feel proud and super grateful that Jhet spent an hour chatting with us about his life, aspirations, insights, and even skincare! Please follow, subscribe, and leave a comment. You can also connect with us on Instagram @allabroadpodcast. Thank you for your support!

What were those first weeks of March 2020 like for the Broadway actor? This week Charlie talks with dancer, actor, and choreographer Reed Luplau who has been part of Moulin Rouge since its early workshop days in 2017. As theater reopens back in NYC after 18 months, Charlie and Reed talk about how he navigated this time, and the ways he continued to create content in different ways. Reed shares illuminating anecdotes from his decade long career, and what he has learned about professionalism, collaboration, and sacrifice. Another amazing conversation about the creative life. You can follow CBP on Instagram @creatingbehavior, and Charlie's NYC acting conservatory, the Maggie Flanigan Studio @maggieflaniganstudio. For written transcripts, Charlie's blog, or to contact him for private coaching, check out https://www.creatingbehaviorpodcast.com

Emerging from the pandemic, Jasmin and Montana sit down for drinks at the Crosby Street Hotel and chat through what's next for New York City, what's happening in the performing arts world that could inform the post-pandemic renaissance, and how we might marry our love for the arts with our strategy skillsets to embark on a new research project dubbed 'Ensemble." 

Tonight on Into the Absurd, we talked with singer and actress Trudy Graboyes about her love of musical theater, her many roles in stages throughout the Philadelphia area, her background in theater producing and her upcoming one woman show based on her grandmother's immigrant experience titled Her Strength, Our Story. ~~~~~~~ Trudy Graboyes is a Philadelphia based singer and actor. She is currently in rehearsal for her one woman show, Her Strength, Our Story. Recent stage appearances include the Chaperone in THE DROWSY CHAPERONE and Mrs Brice in FUNNY GIRL at the Broadway Theater in Pitman, New Jersey, Mrs. STRAKOSH and Vera at The Candlelight Dinner Theater and Rose in GYPSY at Shannondell Performing Arts Center. She was nominated for both a 2014 Perry award and 2014 Broadway World best actress award as Fraulein Schneider in CABARET, the musical. Trudy was nominated for and won The Subscribers Choice Award from The Ritz Theater for her portrayal of Yente in the musical, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. She appeared in, IF THE SLIPPER FITS with the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, in RAGTIME at Centre Theater, in NUNSENSE JAMBOREE and ANNIE at the Media Theater. In ANNIE Trudy was cast in the ensemble and was understudy to Ms. Hannigan who was played by comedienne, Wanda Sykes. Trudy has performed at Walnut Street, Arden, Ritz, Hedgerow, Plays and Players, and New York Dinner Theaters. She was in the cast of TONY AND TINAS' WEDDING Show for 6 years (as Mrs. Vitale; mother of the bride). Trudy is also a cabaret singer. Her cabaret, DUSTPAN DIVA, a history of American musicals told through the eyes of a cleaning woman, was produced at NYC's cabaret, Don't Tell Mama to rave reviews. Trudy wrote, produced, and is the singer on the children's tape entitled, DOODLE DEE DOO. Trudy's day job is as a Standardized Patient for medical schools and clinical skills programs in the region. ~~~~~~~ To explore past episodes of Into the Absurd, visit our Facebook page:https://www.facebook.com/pg/IdiopathicRidiculopathyConsortium/videos/ORThe IRC's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist... And while you're there, be sure to SUBSCRIBE, so you don't miss any future episodes.

Woods : This is Going Public . I'm Dan woods. We're talking today with Suzanne Hightower. She's president of the Cape Broadway Theatre. It's a nonprofit, here in Cape Girardeau. Suzanne, welcome to the program. Hightower : Thank you. I'm glad to be here. Woods : So we wanted to talk with you about your efforts and your nonprofit's efforts to restore the Broadway Theatre here in Cape Girardeau. Before we do that, though, tell us a little bit about yourself. Hightower : Um, well, I am the president of the nonprofit Cape Broadway Theatre. I also just started a company called Speakeasy Coffee Company that is going to be opened here in the next month or two. And I am a pharmacist by trade, which I work to pay for the other projects that I have that are kind of my passion projects. And I am a single mother of with four kids. Woods : Wow. So you're busy. Hightower : I am very busy. Woods : And so your interest in bringing back the Broadway Theater. Speakeasy Coffee is going to be I guess,

JEFFREY LODIN and WILLIAM SQUIER have collaborated on the musicals Disney’s Doug Live! (Walt Disney World), 100 Years into the Heart (Village Theater Festival of New Musicals, Spirit of Broadway, NYMF), Top of the Heap (Gallery Players, SBT, NMTN “Director’s Choice”, Global Search for New Musicals, Curtain Call, New Voices in the Heartland), Rebels 1775 (Starlight Theatre, SBT), A Merry Mulberry Street Musical (Curtain Call), Baby Bumps (Curtain Call, B.T. McNicholl, dir., Finger Lakes Musical Theater Festival’s The PiTCH) and their latest collaboration, Love on Ice (Book & Co-Lyrics: Bill Nabel). In 2013, the team was commissioned to write a musical stage adaptation of the successful children’s book Merrilee Mannerly, in collaboration with authors Mary Cashman and Cynthia Whipple. They were also commissioned by the Spirit of Broadway Theater to write the score for Benedict Arnold, in collaboration with Pulitzer-nominated playwright Richard Vetere. Their songs have appeared on television: P.B.&J. Otter; film: Doug’s First Movie; and at the International Children’s Festival. Both Jeff and Bill are members of the Dramatists Guild and BMI.

A family run business with decades of a history with an elite clientele that provided cleaning concierge service for Broadway theaters by cleaning stage garments and costumes for all of the theaters in the Broadway Theater district. The family grew the business to a nearly 8-figure a year business and was flying high until COVID […] The post From Flying High to Bankruptcy to a Successful Exit appeared first on Business Exit Stories.

A family run business with decades of a history with an elite clientele that provided cleaning concierge service for Broadway theaters by cleaning stage garments and costumes for all of the theaters in the Broadway Theater district. The family grew the business to a nearly 8-figure a year business and was flying high until COVID […] The post From Flying High to Bankruptcy to a Successful Exit appeared first on Business Exit Stories.

Joe Traina sits down with Peter Filichia to discuss his career and his passion for Broadway theater. Read some of Peter's books: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=peter+filichia&i=stripbooks&hvadid=78134157464220&hvbmt=bb&hvdev=c&hvqmt=p&tag=mh0b-20&ref=pd_sl_9sy73d7vmq_b Follow Please Join Me on Instagram: @pleasejoinmepod Find Joe Traina: joetrainamusic.com This podcast was produced by Caroline Voigt of CVPromotions.

Die Met und die Broadway-Theater sind offiziell noch bis zum Sommer geschlossen, eine halbe Million Schauspieler, Sänger, Musiker, Künstler und Kreative sind arbeitslos. Millionen von Dollar gehen der Stadt durch die Lappen. Mit einer Serie von Pop-Up-Shows will New York jetzt seine Covid-geplagten Bewohner wieder zu Kunstevents locken, nachdem die Szene fast ein Jahr brach gelegen hat.

In this episode, we chat with Mike Zarate about which of life's lessons can be learned from Boubil and Schonberg's second opus - Miss Saigon!"THERE may never have been a musical that made more people angry before its Broadway debut than "Miss Saigon."Here is a show with something for everyone to resent -- in principle, at least. Its imported stars, the English actor Jonathan Pryce and the Filipino actress Lea Salonga, are playing roles that neglected Asian-American performers feel are rightfully theirs. Its top ticket price of $100 is a new Broadway high, sprung by an English producer, if you please, on a recession-straitened American public. More incendiary still is the musical's content. A loose adaptation of "Madama Butterfly" transplanted to the Vietnam War by French authors, the "Les Miserables" team of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg, "Miss Saigon" insists on revisiting the most calamitous and morally dubious military adventure in American history and, through an unfortunate accident of timing, arrives in New York even as the jingoistic celebrations of a successful American war are going full blast.So take your rage with you to the Broadway Theater, where "Miss Saigon" opened last night, and hold on tight. Then see just how long you can cling to the anger when confronted by the work itself. For all that seems galling about "Miss Saigon" -- and for all that is indeed simplistic, derivative and, at odd instances, laughable about it -- this musical is a gripping entertainment of the old school (specifically, the Rodgers and Hammerstein East-meets-West school of "South Pacific" and "The King and I"). Among other pleasures, it offers lush melodies, spectacular performances by Mr. Pryce, Miss Salonga and the American actor Hinton Battle, and a good cry. Nor are its achievements divorced from its traumatic subject, as cynics might suspect. Without imparting one fresh or daring thought about the Vietnam War, the show still manages to plunge the audience back into the quagmire of a generation ago, stirring up feelings of anguish and rage that run even deeper than the controversies that attended "Miss Saigon" before its curtain went up." - By Frank Richhttps://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/12/theater/review-theater-miss-saigon-arrives-from-the-old-school.htmlhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Saigonhttps://stageagent.com/shows/musical/1590/miss-saigonhttps://www.mtishows.com.au/miss-saigonhttps://broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/misssaigon.htmhttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt6162808/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/17/theater/the-battle-of-miss-saigon-yellowface-art-and-opportunity.htmlhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude-Michel_Sch%C3%B6nberghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Boublil

in which we discuss how to train a child for excellence – in everything, The Red Shoes, Agnes Varda, and enormous changes at the last minute.

Einfach losgehen, ausprobieren, Erfahrungen sammeln, die dir keiner nehmen kann, daran wachsen und dann total geflasht von dir sein... ! Willst du das auch? Was für ein großartiges Interview mit Patrick Reymann, Momentesammler und Mitgründer von speechless, die Plattform für deine Message! Im Rahmen meines Online-Kongresses „Lebendig mit allen Sinnen“ im Jahr 2019 entstand dieses Interview. Patrick sprudelt vor Energie! Als Keynote-Fotograf unsichtbar - auf der Speechless Bühne eine Rampensau. Mit Neugierde, Offenheit und der Idee etwas anders zu machen, als andere, begann er seinen Weg. Nach und nach traf er auf gleichgesinnte Menschen, die er an Orten fand, die er mutig besuchte. Heute sieht er seine Aufgabe nicht nur darin, als Momentesammler Menschen im Rampenlicht in bewegenden Momenten einzufangen. Seine Passion ist es, Menschen mit seiner Arbeit zu verbinden. Er hat selbst Menschen an der Seite, die ihn unterstützten. Menschen, die ihn bereits viel früher da sahen, wo er heute steht und ihm Kraft geben, seinen Weg zu gehen. Aus eigener Erfahrung weiß er, welch ein Anker und Antriebsmotor ein Foto sein kann, dass in einem emotionalen Moment entstanden ist. Seine Begabung, diese Momente mit seiner Kamera einzufangen, haben Menschen, wie Tobias Beck und Hermann Scherer erkannt, die er heute bis nach New York ins Broadway Theater begleitet. Patricks Karriere ist ein wunderbares Beispiel dafür, dass mit dem Start ins Berufsleben noch lange nicht die eigene Passion entdeckt sein muss. Es macht so Spaß, Patrick zu lauschen, wenn er seinen Weg von der Schulzeit bis heute beschreibt. So greifen wir tatsächlich auch das Thema Schulsystem auf, was unseren Erachtens schnellstens überarbeitet werden sollte. Patrick hat für sich erkannt, wie wertvoll es ist, mit Menschen tatkräftig im Austausch zu sein und selber ins Dienen zu gehen. So hat er anfangs dankbar seinen Mentor Tobias Beck kostenfrei mit seiner Fotografie unterstützt und hat heute selber Menschen an der Seite, die wiederum ihn kostenfrei unterstützen, weil sie an ihn und seine Projekte glauben. So entsteht ein gegenseitiges geben und nehmen. Patricks Ausführungen zeigen dir, dass es möglich ist, sich zu ändern...Den Blickwinkel auf´s Leben zu ändern und seinen Wert zu erkennen. Die Ausrede: "Ich bin halt so!" gilt somit nicht mehr!

In this week's episode, Shereen and Noor discuss and analyze their favourite music from Classic Rock hits to Broadway Theater!Everything we say will be very frank and based on our own lived experiences. If they, for whatever reason, don’t match up with your own experiences/ideas that’s okay and you're welcome to e-mail us at thebabapod@gmail.com or DM us on Twitter or Instagram @thebabapod

Dani Daniels and her husband Vic do this podcast episode solo and discuss their recent trips, buying a Christmas tree in NYC, Scotch, Broadway Theater and what Vic thinks Dani tastes like.  You got to listen to find out!

Happy Wednesday, October 23rd Everyone! Weather in the parks today will be sunny with a high of 90 degrees. Park hours today, Disneyland will be open from 8 am - 11 pm and DCA 8 am - 9 pm. Happy Anniversary to Disney's 4th Animated Feature Film, DUMBO. Dumbo premiered on this day in the year 1941 at the Broadway Theater in New York City. Also on this day in the year 2011, ABC-TV premiered the Fairytale Drama series, Once Upon a Time. In Park news, It looks as though the Holiday season is Making an Early appearance. Our Beautiful Castle is already showing Snow and Christmas Merch has begun to hit the parks. In more Park news, It's a Small World has closed for refurbishment as it transforms into its Seasonal Overlay and will return on November 8th as It's a Small World Holiday.

We are going to review the #Minds IRL event that took place at the SugarHouse Casino on Saturday 8/31 in Philadelphia PA. We had a fantastic time at the event, but were in a tough spot after the Broadway Theater of Pitman deplatformed us. We met Desi-Rae at the event and are looking forward to our discussion with her!

Sommaire de l'émission avec Isabelle Richer: Concentration de moisissures et de bactéries au Centre de tri de Montréal; Chronique internationale de Xavier Savard-Fournier:Manifestations en Russie; Réaction de Québec au vol de données à Capital One:Entrevue avec Eric Caire; Politique avec Marie Grégoire:Sondage sur les changements climatiques; Décrypteurs avec Jeff Yates:MH17, cinq ans après l'écrasement; Chronique économique d'Andrée-Anne St-Arnaud; Programme pour personnes handicapées chez Walmart:Reportage de Marie-Eve Cousineau; Programme de lutte contre l'agrile du frêne:Entrevue avec Pierre Duval; Mambo Italiano au Broadway Theater de Westchester:Entrevue avec Steve Gallucio.

Happy Tuesday, November 13th Everyone! This is #TheMinnieMiceMinute Weather in the parks today is Sunny & Windy with a High of 79 degrees. As most of you have already heard, Yesterday we lost a Legend. Marvel's Biggest Hero, Stan Lee passed yesterday morning. May He rest in Peace. New Characters & Character Posters Released today for Pixar's New Toy Story 4 Movie. Featuring 2 new Characters, Ducky & Bunny voiced by Comedians Key & Peele Today in Disney History, in the year 1940, Disney's 3rd Feature Film, Fantasia Premiers at New York's Broadway Theater. The film Introduces Stereophonic Sound to the Motion Picture Via a special sound system dubbed Fantasound, which literally vibrates the theater seats. Although a Triumphant Premiere, Fantasia will not be appreciated for many years until its re-release in the 1970's makes it a hit! On this day in the year 1991, Disney's Beauty & The Beast premiers at the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood Ca. Also on this day in the year 1999, Disney/Pixar's Toy Story Premiers at the El Capitan theater in Hollywood Ca. Today, In the year 2000, Disney's Live Action Feature Film 102 Dalmatians has its World Premiere at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. For More Minnie Mice Minute Updates, Subscribe on Itunes, SoundCloud or Google Play! Again, I'm Mama Mouse Cynthia, co-host of The Minnie Mice Show, Make sure you check us out at @TheMinniemice Thanks for listening…. This is the Minnie Mice sounding off! Until Next time, Be Kind & Spread Some Magic!

Contact info: Social Media: Facebook: Faith Trust and Pixie Dust - Podcast Email: 1stgeek411@gmail.com Twitters: @Sparkle_Fists @SpilledXWater @deanna790Segment: Episode movie to watch “Feature Film”Tease other segmentsUnder WrapsSegment: This week in Disney history “Once Upon a Time”This week in Disney HistoryOctober 23— 1941:Disney's newest animated feature film, Dumbo (directed by Ben Sharpsteen) world premieres at the Broadway Theater in NewYork City.October 24— 2003:Disney's Brother Bear (featuring 5 new songs by Phil Collins) premieres at the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood.October 25 - 1965:In Miami, Florida Governor Haydon Burns confirms the rumors that Disney "will build the greatest attraction yet known in the history of Florida."1971:The formal dedication of Walt Disney World in Florida, takes place with Walt's brother Roy O. Disney officiating. (The park has been opened since October 1.)1997:The Disney Channel Original Movie Under Wraps - about a trio of 12-year-old kids who discover a mummy in the basement of a dead man's house - debuts.Segment: Misc “Whosits and Whatsits Galore”Our Experiences at EPCOTSegment: News/Announcements “The Newsies Banner”There will be 2 new fireworks shows in EPCOT in the coming future replacing Illuminations Reflections of EarthNew Nature inspired resort will be opening in 2022Nutcracker and the four realms premieres Nov. 2Segment: weekly top 4 (secret from each other)”Let’s get down to business”Disney Villain familiarsTease Next Week: Disney Villains and Hocus PocusContact Info Again: Social Media: Facebook: Faith Trust and Pixie Dust - Podcast Email: 1stgeek411@gmail.com Twitters: @Sparkle_Fists @SpilledXWater @deanna790Disney Villain Animal Familiars/Sidekicks:IagoFlotsam and JestamDiabloRoscoe and Desoto

CLICK HERE FOR OFF-BROADWAY TICKETS S1 E6: BREAKING NEWS! Good Morning New York opens Off-Broadway at The Players Theatre in January 2020. Jacklyn Thrapp talks about we got the gig. Hear what's on the agenda now. Plus - "Ask Me Anything" with the producer. Special Guests: Bridget Greaney (Off-Broadway producer & television editor) & Morgan DeTogne (Singer, Actress & Comedian) DON'T FORGET TO LIKE AND RATE OUR PODCAST (PLEASE & THANKS) GoodMorningNewYorkMusical.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Join us as we interview key contributors to the documentary “Church and State,” James Huntsman, Holly Tuckett, and Mark Lawrence.  Mormon Stories is honored to host a private screening of the award-winning documentary “Church and State.” This screening will be held on Wednesday, July 18th, 2018 at 7:00 pm at the Broadway Theater in Salt Lake. This movie is the improbable story of a brash, inexperienced gay activist and a tiny Salt Lake City law firm that joined forces to topple Utah’s gay marriage ban. The film’s ride on the bumpy road to equality in Utah offers a glimpse at the Mormon church’s influence in state politics and the squabbles inside the gay community that nearly derailed a chance to make history.

Bill O'Reilly live at the Broadway Theater in Pittman, NJ with Dom Giordano discussing his current legal fight to clear his name, finding success as an author, and his latest book in the killing series, "Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence." 

Scott Elliott is an artistic director and the founder of The New Group, a non-profit company with a commitment to developing and producing powerful, contemporary theater. He has directed shows such as Avenue Q, Present Laughter, The Three Sisters, Barefoot in the Park, and The Threepenny Opera. His company has produced shows such as Hurlyburly, This Is Our Youth, Buried Child, Rasheeda Speaking, and more. Scott and I chatted about where he got his “I’ll just figure it out” attitude on this week’s podcast, as well as: Why The New Group doesn’t want a Broadway Theater. What happened to commercial Off Broadway. Why you can’t be afraid of “no” when you’re raising money. Thinking about starting a theater company?  Here’s his shocking opinion. The reaction he hates from audiences. Keep up with me: @KenDavenportBway www.theproducersperspective.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Live Events: Concerts, Broadway Theater, Power Rangers on Ice. What's your favorite Live Event? Hosts Michael Kanfer and Ethan Feldstein talk about everything media; music, movies, TV, Internet shows and much more!

We describe 10 shows we’re are excited to see in September and then add 13 more shows in a lightning round. That’s a lot of theater. Did we miss anything? Let us know on Twitter at Maxamoo, Jose, Jack, and Lindsay. The Black Crook: An Original, Magical and Spectacular Musical Drama at Abrons Art Center[...]

I recently described today's guest, the great Danny Burstein, as a glow worm. On stage, the man, truly, is lit from within. If you've ever seen him in anything,you know what I'm talking about. Whether the role is large or small, passionate or passive, when he's on stage, you can't take your eyes off of him, and you wouldn't want to--he's just magnetic that way. Danny began his career in New York in the early 90s taking a lot of small roles and understudy gigs. Then, a few years on, he made the terrifying decision that actors sometimes do--not to take any work that didn't challenge him artistically and advance him towards a more fulfilling career. Of course, we all know the rest. He went on to earn five Tony Award nominations for his work in such shows as 'The Drowsy Chaperone,' 'South Pacific,' 'Follies,' 'Golden Boy,' and 'Cabaret.' This season he's back on Broadway wowing audiences 8 times a week as Tevye in the stunning Bartlett Sher production of 'Fiddler on the Roof,' currently playing at the Broadway Theater. I know I say this a lot, but it really was an honor to get to sit with this man for forty minutes in his dressing room and talk about his amazing body of work. Enjoy!!!

It's now been 40 years since Westchester Broadway Theatre opened July 9, 1974 with ”Kiss Me Kate” and has gone on to present 184 productions, becoming the longest running year-round professional equity theatre in New York State. They say that behind every good is a good womam - well producers Bob Funking and Bill Stutler have more than just one good woman making their 40 years such a success. Meet Von Ann Stutler, Pia Haas, Ginny Baisi, Lisa Tiso and more - the Women of The Westchester Broadway Theater! Join me on August 21st at 10amPT/1pmET as I share these amazing women here on Word of Mom Radio - the show for Mompreneurs - the NEW Business Women. Thanks to our show sponsors This is How We Grow and Safety First Bags. Meet all our sponsors in our Momprenuer Marketplace. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and Goodle+, and email dori@wordofmomradio.com with questions, comments and information on how you can share with us. Word of Mom Radio - sharing the wisdom of women.

An historic look at the rise and fall of the country’s greatest moving picture theater district.