Podcasts about capris

PREVIOUS EPISODE: https://youtu.be/ilNWNKMlTcI?si=0VCDvNdZ_1NDCCZ8I wanna set the scene for y'all…I'm at the gym, on the treadmill, following my own advice and moving my body so I don't feel the pains of being a tall girl. And so, there's a glass window in front of the treadmills so when you look through it, you can see outside. And there's a store across the street from my gym, so when I look out of this glass window, I can see the store. Now in the store window, I see a bunch of mannequins and one of the mannequins in particular (I don't think you're ready for this lol), was wearing one of the worst sights of my life. That mannequin was wearing CAPRIS. Not like jean capris, more like legging capris – I'm sure you understand what I'm saying. But I have no words, honestly. And if you're a tall girly reading this, I'm sure you can understand the amount of disgust I felt. In today's episode, we're gonna discuss why this new fashion trend is an absolute atrocity and why fashion trends these days don't really work for tall girls. Tune in!Buy Me A Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/atallgirlspodcast Subscribe to A Tall Girl's Newsletter: https://atallgirlspodcast.beehiiv.com/subscribeLet's stay connected: https://beacons.ai/atallgirlspodcast Leave a review and let me know how tall you are: https://atallgirlspodcast.com/reviews 

Brian Returns but with sad news, JP , Topher,Brian & Stephen discuss things as the nfl draft is happening

In this episode of Shoujo Sundae, Chika, Giana, and cosplayer Jahara Jayde review episodes one through three of My Love Story with Yamada Kun at Lv999! In episode one, Akane is dumped by her cheating boyfriend, and fluctuates through stages of grief. At an in-person event for a game her ex-boyfriend, Takuma, introduced her to, Akane bribes an attractive guy to pretend to be her boyfriend in front of Takuma and his new lady. This attractive guy turns out to be a locally famous professional gamer, Yamada. In episode two, Akane wakes up at Yamada's apartment after getting too drunk the night before, and worries that something happened between them. At home, Akane realizes she lost her necklace at Yamada's place. In episode three, Akane learns she's been frustrating her guild members by placing low level gear inside their shared storage, and doesn't log into Forest of Savior for several days. After reconnecting with the guild at Yamada's behest, Akane attends an IRL meetup at a cafe with her guild members, eager to find out the true identity of the cute, sweet guild leader, Rurihime. Grab your spoon, and let's dig in!Follow our wonderful guest, Jahara Jayde!https://link.space/@jaharajayde Check out music by Supafly Arturohttps://open.spotify.com/artist/6ADtbYAl9se2tJcKnoJAg4?si=ir3Q5Cx-Q1--dZAhEdJr6ghttps://music.apple.com/us/artist/supafly-arturo/1603249728https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0p_nxTUxeT_fdZ1Zt8Vs4g EPISODE 1[0:52] About Jahara Jade[21:40] Soft Serve Summary[23:40] Sprinkles on Top[29:06] Floats Your Boat[44:46] Banana Split[55:27] Rocky Road[56:31] Nuts[59:31] Hot Fudge[1:03:47] I Scream, You Scream[1:06:55] Cherry on TopEPISODE 2[1:09:33] Soft Serve Summary[1:11:05] Sprinkles on Top[1:18:02] Floats Your Boat[1:25:48 ] Banana Split[1:31:21] Rocky Road[1:35:00] Nuts[1:36:18] Hot Fudge[1:42:41] I Scream, You Scream[1:44:52] Cherry on TopEPISODE 3[1:45:16] Soft Serve Summary[1:46:28] Sprinkles on Top[1:47:00] Floats Your Boat[1:53:52] Banana Split[1:17:49] Hot Fudge[1:57:43] I Scream You Scream[2:00:05] Cherry on TopAbout Shoujo Sundae:Shoujo Sundae is a podcast safe haven for fans that are in love with shoujo anime and manga. Hosted by Giana Luna and Chika Supreme, Shoujo Sundae aims to review and reflect on shoujo properties that deserve more attention than what they currently receive. Giana Luna is a podcaster by moonlight and a musician by daylight.Chika Supreme is a podcaster by moonlight and a social media manager by daylight.Find Shoujo Sundae wherever you listen to your podcasts: https://pod.link/1634859352If you enjoyed this episode, SHARE it with a friend and RATE/REVIEW it on Apple Podcasts and Spotify!Connect with Giana, Chika, and Shoujo Sundae!Visit our website: http://shoujosundae.com Pledge on Patreon: https://patreon.com/shoujosundae Shoujo Sundae's Social Media: https://linktr.ee/shoujosundaeSend us an email: shoujosundaepodcast@gmail.comFollow Giana Luna on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/gianaluna.bsky.social Follow her on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/giana_luna_ Follow Chika Supreme on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/chika.shoujosundae.com Follow her on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chikasupreme A breakdown of the Shoujo Sundae segments:-A Soft Serve Summary (episode/film recap)-Sprinkles on Top (symbolism in the media)-Floats Your Boat (enjoyed moments)-Banana Split (split opinion or confusing moments)-Rocky Road (sad moments)-Nuts (shocking moments)-Hot Fudge (hot takes or angry rants)-I Scream, You Scream (disliked moments)- Cherry on Top (favorite moment)

Ford slår på tromme for en moderne Ford Capri, men det er ikke nødvendigvis nogen god idé, mener eksperterne i denne uges Bilradio. Ford Motor Company står med en delikat udfordring: Hvordan ærer man sin historie uden at miste autenticiteten? Ford lancerer nu en elektrisk udgave af deres klassiker, Ford Capri – en model, der oprindeligt legemliggjorde frihed, fart og ren køreglæde i 70'erne. Spørgsmålet er dog, om en stor elektrisk familiebil kan leve op til den ikoniske arv, eller om Ford blot rider med på elektrificeringsbølgen uden respekt for fortiden. I ugens Bilradio dykker to bileksperter ned i denne genfødte model og udforsker, om Fords valg af design og teknologi kan genskabe den oprindelige Capris magi. Samtidig gennemgår de priserne på Kia EV6, Euro-NCAP's seneste undersøgelse af assistentsystemer og fortæller om den kommende Hyundai Ioniq 9. De ser også frem mod kåringen af Årets Firmabil. Der bliver desuden tid til en historie om Volkswagens nye Scout og en test af Mini Countryman, som appellerer til den moderne storbyboer. Til sidst runder Bilradio af med lytterspørgsmål.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode of the BrownCarGuy podcast, I chat with Kirpal Singh Randhawa, the founder of West London Classics, one of the UK's fast-growing and most exciting classic car clubs. We discuss the growth of West London Classics, the power of car culture in the UK, and Kirpal's extensive experience with Ford Capris, including his thoughts on the controversial new electric Capri. Kirpal shares the importance of car shows, community, and the role classic cars play in connecting people and in mental health. Whether you're a car enthusiast or simply curious about the classic car scene, this conversation is packed with insights and stories. Chapters: In this episode of the BrownCarGuy podcast, I chat with Kirpal Singh Randhawa, the founder of West London Classics, one of the UK's fast-growing and most exciting classic car clubs. We discuss the growth of West London Classics, the power of car culture in the UK, and Kirpal's extensive experience with Ford Capris, including his thoughts on the controversial new electric Capri. Kirpal shares the importance of car shows, community, and the role classic cars play in connecting people and in mental health. Whether you're a car enthusiast or simply curious about the classic car scene, this conversation is packed with insights and stories. Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction to the Podcast 04:12 - How West London Classics Started 06:34 - The Growth of Classic Car Events in 202410:17 - Unique style of WLC Events20:23 - Mental Health and the Importance of Car Communities21:50 - Support from Ciro of Petrolheadonism 23:39 - Kirpal's Capri Collection & His Passion for Capris 29:45 - The New Electric Ford Capri – Kirpal's Honest Opinion33:32 - What about modern cars?38:27 - What the dog thinks of Sadiq Khan (London Mayor) 48:00 - Future Plans for West London Classics Make sure you like, comment, share and subscribe for more great motoring vlogs and podcasts! Please subscribe/follow YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/browncarguy?sub_confirmation=1 And follow all my channels https://linktr.ee/browncarguy Get my books 'The ULEZ Files'

Capris done. Belt almost done. Both tunics still to go. Show Notes: The theme song for Thread Snippings is “Puzzle Pieces,” by Lee Rosevere, from the album Music for Podcasts 2. This song is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license and is available via freemusicarchive.org. The post DDoP 2024 Ep20: Thread Snippings 093: Saturday Night Con Crunch appeared first on Amy Bowen's Creative Endeavors.

Daniel Musto is a celebrity stylist, co-founder of the clothing line Daniel Diamond, and TV personality. He joins Simone and Danielle to pop off about the hottest summer trends: from skorts and thong sandals to the rise of brat green, courtesy of Charli XCX.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Fool #2 murders another one for the ladies that wear capri pants waaay too much.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Director of Bridesmaids, Paul Feig joins Tanya Rose at Dukes Hotel with his fabulous travel secrets this week.Paul shares why he keeps going back to Capris, his unexpected experience vacationing by train in Peru and his favourite surprise meal in Venice.Plus, as a well-connected movie mogul, he shares how he gets his must-sees when travelling and he shares how he came to create Artingstall: his own gin brand. Don't forget to follow @travelsecretsthepodcast and remember, you can watch all of our episodes on YouTube.PLACES MENTIONEDDukes HotelCaeser Augustus Hotel, CapriLa Colombe d'Or, NiceMarbella Club, SpainPeruGritti Palace, VeniceMachu PichuOrient Express Hotel Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today we're keeping things light as we dive into our initial reactions and random hot takes on various topics. We polled ya'll on the gram to give us single words to react and give our thoughts on, and as always, you came through.Tune in as we share our opinions on everything from marijuana, wellness trends, cookies, mental health, capris and everything in between. And if you enjoyed this style of episode - let us know over on the gram @paradigmnutrition_ ! Sar & Nic

Buckle up for an exhilarating ride with rally champions Andy and Mercedes Lilienthal as they steer us through their bone-chilling conquest in the Alcan 5000. Their tale isn't just about the miles; it's a masterclass in precision driving through winter's worst without the crutch of modern tech. In a tale that encapsulates the raw, unforgiving nature of rally racing, the Lilienthals reveal how their trusty 2024 Ineos Grenadier weathered the icy gauntlet, emerging not just as a winner, but as a seasoned warrior of the Arctic.The spirit of adventure doesn't end there; we salute the grit of all 36 teams that carved paths through the winter rally realm. Each journey is a testament to endurance, but imagine tackling snow-clogged transmission tunnels in a stock Mini Cooper Clubman – that's the kind of plucky resolve we're talking about. From vintage Capris to reliable Pajeros, these stories aren't just about the cars; they're about the relentless heart behind the wheel. And when it comes to the Grenadier, you'll get the inside scoop on its evolution from a mere prototype to an Arctic rally icon, now sitting proudly in a dealership, its battle scars worn like medals of honor.But what's an adventure without friends to share it with? Pull up a chair as we reminisce about old pals, the kind that bring tales of solar eclipses and leave you yearning for the next reunion. Switching gears, we lavish some attention on the 2023 Lexus LX600, an embodiment of luxury that proves you can have both velvet and vigor. From its upscale cabin comforts to the punchy performance of its twin-turbo V6, we explore the LX600's highs and lows, reinforcing our love for the companionship and storytelling that drive the heart of the automotive community.The Original Lupe' Tortilla Restaurants Lupe Tortilla in Katy, TexasSponsored by Gulf Coast Auto Shield Paint protection and more!Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.---- ----- Want more In Wheel Time Car Talk any time? In Wheel Time Car Talk is now available on iHeartRadio! Just go to iheartradio.com/InWheelTimeCarTalk where ever you are.----- -----Be sure to subscribe on your favorite podcast provider for the next episode of In Wheel Time Car Talk and check out our live broadcast every Saturday, 8a-11aCT simulcasting on iHeartRadio, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Twitch and InWheelTime.com.In Wheel Time Car Talk podcast can be heard on you mobile device from providers such as:Apple Podcasts, Pandora Podcast, Amazon Music Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcasts, iHeartRadio podcast, TuneIn + Alexa, Podcast Addict, Castro, Castbox and more on your mobile device.Follow InWheelTime.com for the latest updates!Twitter: https://twitter.com/InWheelTimeInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/inwheeltime/https://www.iheart.com/live/in-wheel-time-car-talk-9327/https://www.youtube.com/inwheeltimehttps://www.Facebook.com/InWheelTimeFor more information about In Wheel Time Car Talk, email us at info@inwheeltime.comTags: In Wheel Time, automotive car talk show, car talk, Live car talk show, In Wheel Time Car Talk

In this solo episode, we are chatting about spring trends and giving our honest opinions as true fashion connoisseurs. But before we get into it, Kristina and Raeann catch us up on what's new. Kristina and Raeann unveil that they are both thriving in their fitness era — Kristina even signed up for a triathlon!! Raeann confesses her love for buffalo sauce, Kristina shares stories about her nanny, and the girls find agreement on ending friendships if they associate with disrespectful men. Also, does Kelly Clarkson know she's the face of weight loss pills that are targeting old parents?!    As spring is just around the corner, we can't WAIT to stash the puffers away until next winter. We analyze the hottest spring trends from dressy shorts to feminine rosettes. There is a slight departure from the long-time standing clean girl aesthetic, as we are seeing boxer shorts, funky glasses, and cheetah-print pants. Now, Raeann and Kristina are in debate about balloon jeans and mesh shoes, but it might just be all in how you style them. We dive into micro-trends and our current go-to fashion brands. Whatever trends you do or don't participate in, just remember that cool girls rewear their clothes! Happy styling! New podcast episodes of Confident Collective drop every Tuesday. Resources: Submit your question for the next Ask Away: Click Here Follow us on Instagram: @confidentcollective Follow the Hosts/Founders: @kristinazias & @raeannlangas Learn more: https://www.theconfidentcollective.com/ Stay in the know with our newsletter!  Thanks to our sponsor! OneSkin: Get 15% off OneSkin with the code TCC at https://www.oneskin.co/ #oneskinpod

Koper je eno naših najstarejših mest. Letos praznuje 1500 let nastanka. Vse do dvajsetega stoletja je bil otok. Poseljen je bil že v predrimskem obdoju. Geostrateška obmorska lega v širšem prostoru severnega Jadrana, pomorska plovba in trgovina so ključi njegovega razvoja. Zaznamovale so ga številne menjave oblasti, obdobja gospodarskega in kulturnega razcveta ter usihanja. Menjaval je tudi imena: Aegida, Capris, Justinopolis, Caput Histrie, Capodistria ali Koper. Nekaj mejnikov razgibane zgodovine Kopra kot otoka, obmorskega mesta in pristanišča nam bo predstavil zgodovinar dr. Salvator Žitko. V oddajo Morje in mi ga je povabila Lea Širok.

In the final episode of 2023, Jonny and Richard are together in a hotel room in Coventry to discuss Britain's swollen waterways, misfire versus leak, why the word ‘damp' is never used in a positive way, Keith Moon's transport shenanigans, Senna and Tamiya, top-of-the-range cars with smaller engines, Merc slogans, starting engines with shotgun cartridges, feeling the similarities between old and new cars from the same maker, Defender bums, engines that are taller than the car they're in, a Carperv fleet round-up, love for the Alfa Giulia, friends with Capris, and very fluttery singers. Also, we sell hats now. Thanks to everyone who has stuck with Smith and Sniff this year. See you in 2024 for more of whatever this is. patreon.com/smithandsniff Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Piše: Miša Gams, bereta: Eva Longyka Marušič in Igor Velše. Andrej Medved, pesnik, prevajalec, esejist, urednik in vsestranski ustvarjalec, ki je za svojo poezijo prejel Jenkovo in Veronikino nagrado, Čašo nesmrtnosti in nagrado Prešernovega sklada, je v zbirki, ki jo je naslovil v grškem jeziku KreteSamos, postavil v ospredje doživljanje pokrajine na Kreti in Samosu. Knjigo je posvetil prijatelju Matjažu Kocbeku – pesniku, ki je tudi sam užival v lepotah Krete in ki je eno izmed svojih zbirk tudi poimenoval po tem grškem otoku. Čeprav ga Medved izrecno ne omenja, se ljubezen do prijatelja razodeva v beleženju pristnosti svobodnega duha, zavedanju minljivosti in opazovanju mogočne narave, ki v očeh opazovalca ostaja neokrnjena. Na pesniško potovanje se odpravi kot kakšen Odisej, ki se prepušča neznanim vplivom, da ga vodijo med Scilo in Karibdo skušnjav in hrepenenj, ki se jim ne more upreti. Svojo odisejado začenja med ostanki ruševin v Maliji, ki “utripa, kot utripa mavrični metulj nad pokopanim mestom,” in se v jutranji zarji odpravi v Faistos, kjer ga pritegnejo “nagnjeni boki hiš, ki so v času izpuhtele … in zdrsna plošča trga, ki že nevarno pada”, pa do otoka gobavcev, kjer so “podrte hiše in sredi vrta oljka, kot axis mundi” in do Kalamate, kjer se nahaja rimsko mesto z amfiteatrom in svetiščem. Pesnik je najbolj očaran nad antičnimi ruševinami in njihovim zlivanjem z okolico. Kadar ne najde ustreznega poimenovanja v slovenskem jeziku ali ga želi še dodatno poudariti, uporabi latinski izraz in z njim vnese v pesem subtilnost in milino, ki še bolj izpostavi liričnost njegove poezije. V nasprotju z nekaterimi bolj “esejistično” obarvanimi pesniškimi zbirkami zbirka KreteSamos nima filozofskega naboja, v ospredju pa je panteistični eros, ki povezuje žive stvari z neživimi. Verzi, ki si sledijo na straneh, povezanih s svetlo turkiznimi vložki, dajejo vtis, kot da gre eno samo neskončno pesem brez izrazitega začetka in konca. Metafore so spretno umeščene kot vezni členi, ki na eni strani povezujejo stavčne bloke, po drugi pa vnašajo v liriko dodatno živost, barvitost in kontrastnost – kot je to razvidno iz opisa pristanišča: “Palmove veje ljubkujejo drogove, ki povezujejo, z elektriko, / koščene žice … na cesti, ki se spušča v pristanišče. Zeleno modra ptica / zdaj odskoči, kot slepa, izstreljena / kača v kanal ob bisernih nasadih oljk … in kot vodikovi / baloni, ki z visokim tlakom v gumijasti cevi … mahoma … izginejo v stratosferi.” Barvitost grške pokrajine pesnik podkrepi z numinoznimi opisi jam, slapov in morja ter jih primerja z gladkostjo knjige in gracioznostjo metuljev in pavov: “Tako se mrak, svetloba in tema vlepijo v dlani na plavkastem trebuhu … in se odpre polteni / vhod v neskončno jamo, kot se / razlista knjiga s svilenim dnom v pršenje dlačic / z ustnic beloglavega metulja … Približani, uparjeni izstrelek iz / kosti se sprime s črnim repom v poležanem perju pava, ki vzdrhti s predirnim krikom …” Andrej Medved nam v verzih pričara podobo čudeža, zamrznjenega v trenutek, ki ga bralec, ki je zmožen močne vizualizacije, uzre v seriji fotoutrinkov, ki se prelivajo v različne prepoznavne podobe. Pesnik lucidno “skače” z enega motiva na drugega in združuje na videz nezdružljive podobe, da se pred bralcem razgaljajo kot neverjetni prividi. Njegova odločitev, da namesto posameznih haikujev ali formalno zaključenih pesmi sestavi neskončen verz, ki ga povezujejo tropičja, se zdi upravičena, saj nam na vsaki strani pušča dovolj praznega prostora, da zapisane besede premislimo, preden obrnemo list papirja. Zasledimo tudi temačne podobe, ki jih pesnik postavi v vmesni prostor med erosom in thanatosom, tuzemeskim in onstranskim, ter jih zastavi kot neke vrste nelogičen rebus ali nerešljivo uganko: “… Naenkrat brizgne kri iz podočnjakov … / in iz ust, odprtih za poljub, ki se, z bliskanjem podbradne žile, sesedajo v žilnato / pol živo in pol mrtvo bitje … pol / angela, pol deklice, pol srne … Naenkrat se za vedno … /spet zdani in dan prinese odrešitev v stoletja skrite in pozabljene uganke …” Zadnje strani zbirke KreteSamos so posvečene pesnikovemu vračanju domov v Koper, ki ga poimenuje Capris. Miklavž Komelj v spremni besedi piše, da se prav “po tem pesniškem potovanju še močneje zavemo, da ima tudi to mesto v današnji Sloveniji helenski izvor.” Potovanje se tako konča z vplutjem v rojstno mesto in tako se sklene krog, ki ga je pesnik začel pred meseci v iskanju nekega izgubljenega časa, prijateljstva in razvozlavanja ugank, ki jih vedno znova odpira grški logos. Čeprav je bralec v tej odprtosti lahko nekoliko zmeden, pa se kmalu prepusti ležernosti in pomirjenosti nad spoznanjem, da brezčasnost poezije ne ponuja nobenega determinizma ali dogmatične resnice. Le morje minevajočih trenutkov, ki se kot zvezdni utrinki za hip zableščijo in za vekomaj padejo v praznino ...

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Looking to bounce back? Having a tough time riding the emotional rollercoaster of reunion? Listen into a particular empowering interview with Lisa as she goes deep on resilience, mindset, her take on our higher power and much more. Insights galore. Lisa A. Quaites was born in South Korea, but adopted to the United States and raised by a Black military family. She lived much of her life in America's Heartland, where she met her husband James.  The couple raised two daughters, Capris and Candace, who also reside in the Midwest. Lisa's stepson, Chris, lives in Georgia with his wife and two children. Results from a consumer DNA test uncovered Lisa's Caribbean roots and unexpectedly matched her with biological relatives. Faith & Favor is Lisa's debut memoir detailing her personal journey to discover her birth family. This inspiring story highlights her redemptive resilience as she navigates the challenges of being a mixed-race Korean. An IT professional by trade, Lisa travels for leisure as much as possible, plays volleyball and tennis, and loves the live music scene.Here's that link to the interview with Sara Easterly I mention if you'd like to hear more about her and her Adoptee Voices writing group https://pod.fo/e/1e4668https://summersolsticepublishing.com/https://www.instagram.com/lisaquaites

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This episode of Discussion and Drinks, Jimmy and Mike talk about how Mike's short legs make his shorts capris, standing out in a crowd, the writing of their new "country/pop" song, expanding as writers, what makes a great cover, their favorite songs to cover and so much more while drinking some new Jameson Cola!Get some more helpings of BIMP at http://www.patreon.com/baconismypodcastFind everything else BIMP:Twitter: @BaconisMyPodInstagram: @BaconisMyPodFacebook: www.facebook.com/baconismypodAnd of course our website: www.baconismypodcast.comWant some visual Bacon is My Podcast?Check out this episode and all others on Strangerhood TV on YouTube.www.strangerhoodtv.com and make sure to check out all the other great content on the channel!Get additional BIMP content at www.patreon.com/baconismypodcastWe're proudly sponsored by Manscaped and when you use the promo code BACONPOD at manscaped.com you'll get 20% your entire order!We'd like to introduce our new sponsor, Mythical Beards as well!  Use the promo code BACON15 for 15% off at mythicalbeards.comDon't forget to use the promo code BACON at our sponsors NativeBlendClothing.com, DrinkWildBills.com, PodDecks.com and GrillYourAssOff.com the best deals on your order!#podcast #baconismypassion #strangerhoodtv #youtubechannel #youtubepodcast #cravingstrange #somethingheavy #betterthanradio #baconismypodcast #poweredbypoddecks #manscaped #drinkwildbills #grillyourassoff #mythicalbeards ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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NCUA held its mid-year budget on July 20 and approved six new staff positions:Cybersecurity Support: An addition of four positions is requested to augment the NCUA's cybersecurity and is consistent with independent, third-party assessments of the NCUA's cybersecurity efforts. Two positions would focus on vulnerability analysis. Worldwide cybersecurity vulnerabilities disclosed in 2022 increased by over 25% to 25,227, with 56% of those being exploited within one week after disclosure. To counter this growing risk, OCIO has made significant efforts over the last several years to reduce response times for threat mitigation; however, the continued increase in the number of vulnerabilities and the workload this creates warrant the addition of two positions. The other two positions requested would help with cloud architecture and security, and management of the NCUA's cloud strategy. Moving information technology services to the cloud changes the cybersecurity responsibility model and requires a strategy for a secure move while capturing the new risk landscape after the move. For this effort OCIO requires two additional positions to manage and secure the NCUA's enterprise architecture in the cloud while minimizing the impact of cloud migration to on-premises systems. • Support to Credit Unions: An addition of two positions is requested to augment CURE's consumer access efforts. The Consumer Access Division processes field-ofmembership expansions and conversions, bylaw amendments, low-income designation requests, charter conversions, and ad hoc special projects. In the past few years, the division has received an increased number of applications of all types, which have simultaneously become more voluminous and complex. Based on estimated work hours for these transactions, the workload for 2023 is more than double what it was in 2018. The additional positions will allow CURE to better support the agency's mission to assist credit unions with providing access to safe, fair, and affordable financial products and services to current and potential members, including those of modest means. CURE is committed to the continuous review of the field-of-membership process and procedures to ensure an efficient and positive customer service experience which include the streamlining of information requirements and improving clarity in application forms. Management will analyze and identify potential adjustments and clarifications that will reduce staff time for processing applications. This includes field-of-membership expansions and new credit union charters. CURE will support customer service by implementing technical changes that will reduce duplicative or unnecessary administrative requirements, follow the time requirements for certain field-ofmembership transaction codes, and implement enhancements to the CAPRIS system that will allow CURE to process all occupational and associational common bond groups, regardless of potential membership size. Currently, credit unions that request changes to their field-of-membership exceeding 3,000 individuals must use paper-based forms, and NCUA staff reviews and processes these requests manually. The enhancements to CAPRIS are scheduled to begin in August.Reach out to learn how we assist credit unions with all things NCUA.

Fool #2 murders another one for the ladies that wear capri pants waaay too much.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Fool #2 murders another one for the ladies that wear capri pants waaay too much.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

After a long leave of absence, Geoff and Reilly are once again joined by the fan favorite Alfred Bardwell-Evans as they open their relationship, hide their Amazon history, and more!  Follow at: IG: @reillyanspaugh & @geoffreyjames Twitter: @reilecoyote & @GeoffBoyardee Produced by Daniel Ramos @Schubirds Advertise on Review Revue via Gumball.fm  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Old Town Records: Good guys countdown featuring Old Town Records, set up by the Weiss brothers and featuring hit makers such as the Solitaires, the Capris, the Fiestas and a whole lot more.

Full Court Press: NBA Draft Recap, Phoenix Mercury Drama, and a Brittney Griner Update   An Interview With: Author of Inaugural Ballers: The True Story of the First U.S. Women's Basketball Team, Andrew Maraniss  And Also: Rue the Cat, Softball Reference, Steph Cutlery, “We're Pregnant”, Robinson Crusoe Sucks, Slenderman, BPA (Best Player Available), Bedazzled Dice Chains, Shitty Ramadas, Wahoo Nebraska, Rafael Nadal's Capris, SUNY Plattsburgh    Sponsor:   BetterHelp: Get matched easily with a licensed, board-accredited counselor today. More than 3000 therapists with 38 million+ counseling sessions are ready to help you! Get 10% off your first month at www.betterhelp.com/horse.    Find Us Online - website: horsehoops.com - patreon: patreon.com/horsehoops - twitter: twitter.com/horse_hoops - instagram: instagram.com/horsehoops - facebook: facebook.com/horsehoops - multitude: multitude.productions   HORSE is hosted by Mike Schubert and Adam Mamawala. Created by Eric Silver and Mike Schubert. Edited by Mischa Stanton. Theme song by Bettina Campomanes. Art by Allyson Wakeman. Website by Kelly Schubert.   About Us On HORSE, we don't analyze wins and losses. We talk beefs, dig into Internet drama, and have fun. The NBA is now a 365-day league and it's never been more present in pop culture. From Kevin Durant's burner accounts to LeBron taking his talents anywhere to trusting the Process, the NBA is becoming a pop culture requirement. At the same time, sports can have gatekeepers that make it insular and frustrating for people who aren't die hard fans. We're here to prove that basketball is entertaining to follow for all fans, whether you're actively watching the games or not. Recently featured in The New York Times!

Super excited about this week's guest, Gelly, a friend of the show. There are plenty of laughs to enjoy, so let's get into it. Alright, we have all been petty in a relationship or friendship. We both share one of our moments. Social Buzz this week is simple: Caresha Please Podcast & Nick Cannon is still having kids!Next up, a listener requested topic, Summer fashion. All this talk of "Hoochie Daddy Shorts." Brittney is over the phrase, but they talk about what they think Summer fashion will look like this year. Rest assured, Sun Dress Season is still a thing. Let's get a little serious. Over the past several months, most of us have experienced Covid. Very few people are talking about the lasting after-effects on the mind and body. They talk about everything from depression to hair loss after testing positive for Covid. And, let's end things on a high note. Gelly comes with her share of questions for Brittney, so pull up for a little mini-interview of your host. Instagram: Angelica: @gellygelzGirlfriend's Ave: @girlfriends.ave

Fool #2 murders another one for the ladies that wear capri pants waaay too much. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

He's one of the UK's finest and most famous impressionists, having appeared on the Queen's Royal Variety performance amongst countless TV and radio shows over his illustrious career, but away from the limelight, Jon has a deep rooted passion for old Fords! Fuelled by a love of classic cop shows like The Sweeney and The Professionals, Jon has a soft spot for old Granadas, Cortinas and Capris, and has even built up a small but very prized collection, which he shares with Jason and Dave.

After be attacked by the @DaBoyDame for having Creases in the jeans, Cause i wont wear the lady pants the guys wear cause they are in fashion!! And Showing calfs all summer! I Had enough! Lets just take them everywhere!! Creases for Life!! Even brought in fellow Crease brother @TuckyBlunt to help. But here come Dame & @Novultures sticking for man capris!! Its the battle of the ageism!! No more man capris

Episode one hundred and forty-two of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “God Only Knows" by the Beach Boys, and the creation of the Pet Sounds album. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a ten-minute bonus episode available, on "Sunny" by Bobby Hebb. Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt's irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/ Resources There is no Mixcloud this week, because there were too many Beach Boys songs in the episode. I used many resources for this episode, most of which will be used in future Beach Boys episodes too. It's difficult to enumerate everything here, because I have been an active member of the Beach Boys fan community for twenty-four years, and have at times just used my accumulated knowledge for this. But the resources I list here are ones I've checked for specific things. Stephen McParland has published many, many books on the California surf and hot-rod music scenes, including several on both the Beach Boys and Gary Usher.  His books can be found at https://payhip.com/CMusicBooks Andrew Doe's Bellagio 10452 site is an invaluable resource. Jon Stebbins' The Beach Boys FAQ is a good balance between accuracy and readability. And Philip Lambert's Inside the Music of Brian Wilson is an excellent, though sadly out of print, musicological analysis of Wilson's music from 1962 through 67. I have also referred to Brian Wilson's autobiography, I Am Brian Wilson, and to Mike Love's, Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy. For material specific to Pet Sounds I have used Kingsley Abbot's The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds: The Greatest Album of the Twentieth Century and Charles L Granata's I Just Wasn't Made For These Times: Brian Wilson and the Making of Pet Sounds.  I also used the 126-page book The Making of Pet Sounds by David Leaf, which came as part of the The Pet Sounds Sessions box set, which also included the many alternate versions of songs from the album used here. Sadly both that box set and the 2016 updated reissue of it appear currently to be out of print, but either is well worth obtaining for anyone who is interested in how great records are made. Of the versions of Pet Sounds that are still in print, this double-CD version is the one I'd recommend. It has the original mono mix of the album, the more recent stereo remix, the instrumental backing tracks, and live versions of several songs. As a good starting point for the Beach Boys' music in general, I would recommend this budget-priced three-CD set, which has a surprisingly good selection of their material on it. The YouTube drum tutorial I excerpted a few seconds of to show a shuffle beat is here. Transcript We're still in the run of episodes that deal with the LA pop music scene -- though next week we're going to move away from LA, while still dealing with a lot of the people who would play a part in that scene. But today we're hitting something that requires a bit of explanation. Most artists covered in this podcast get one or at the most two episodes. Some get slightly more -- the major artists who are present for many revolutions in music, or who have particularly important careers, like Fats Domino or the Supremes. And then there are a few very major artists who get a lot more. The Beatles, for example, are going to get eight in total, plus there will be episodes on some of their solo careers. Elvis has had six, and will get one more wrap-up episode. This is the third Beach Boys episode, and there are going to be three more after this, because the Beach Boys were one of the most important acts of the decade. But normally, I limit major acts to one episode per calendar year of their career. This means that they will average at most one episode every ten episodes, so while for example the episodes on "Mystery Train" and "Heartbreak Hotel" came close together, there was then a reasonable gap before another Elvis episode. This is not possible for the Beach Boys, because this episode and the next two Beach Boys ones all take place over an incredibly compressed timeline. In May 1966, they released an album that has consistently been voted the best album ever in polls of critics, and which is certainly one of the most influential even if one does not believe there is such a thing as a "best album ever". In October 1966 they released one of the most important singles ever -- a record that is again often considered the single best pop single of all time, and which again was massively influential. And then in July 1967 they released the single that was intended to be the lead-off single from their album Smile, an album that didn't get released until decades later, and which became a legend of rock music that was arguably more influential by *not* being released than most records that are released manage to be. And these are all very different stories, stories that need to be told separately. This means that episode one hundred and forty-two, episode one hundred and forty-six, and episode one hundred and fifty-three are all going to be about the Beach Boys. There will be one final later episode about them, too, but the next few months are going to be very dominated by them, so I apologise in advance for that if that's not something you're interested in. Though it also means that with luck some of these episodes will be closer to the shorter length of podcast I prefer rather than the ninety-minute mammoths we've had recently. Though I'm afraid this is another long one. When we left the Beach Boys, we'd just heard that Glen Campbell had temporarily replaced Brian Wilson on the road, after Wilson's mental health had finally been unable to take the strain of touring while also being the group's record producer, principal songwriter, and leader. To thank Campbell, who at this point was not at all well known in his own right, though he was a respected session guitarist and had released a few singles, Brian had co-written and produced "Guess I'm Dumb" for him, a track which prefigured the musical style that Wilson was going to use for the next year or so: [Excerpt: Glen Campbell, "Guess I'm Dumb"] It's worth looking at "Guess I'm Dumb" in a little detail, as it points the way forward to a lot of Wilson's songwriting over the next year. Firstly, of course, there are the lyrical themes of insecurity and of what might even be descriptions of mental illness in the first verse -- "the way I act don't seem like me, I'm not on top like I used to be". The lyrics are by Russ Titelman, but it's reasonable to assume that as with many of his collaborations, Brian brought in the initial idea. There's also a noticeable change in the melodic style compared to Wilson's earlier melodies. Up to this point, Wilson has mostly been writing what get called "horizontal" melody lines -- ones with very little movement, and small movements, often centred on a single note or two. There are exceptions of course, and plenty of them, but a typical Brian Wilson melody up to this point is the kind of thing where even I can hit the notes more or less OK -- [sings] "Well, she got her daddy's car and she cruised through the hamburger stand now". It's not quite a monotone, but it's within a tight range, and you don't have to move far from one note to another. But "Guess I'm Dumb" is incorporating the influence of Roy Orbison, and more obviously of Burt Bacharach, and it's *ludicrously* vertical, with gigantic leaps all over the place, in places that are not obvious. It requires the kind of precision that only a singer like Campbell can attain, to make it sound at all natural: [Excerpt: Glen Campbell, "Guess I'm Dumb"] Bacharach's influence is also noticeable in the way that the chord changes are very different from those that Wilson was using before. Up to this point, when Wilson wrote unusual chord changes, it was mostly patterns like "The Warmth of the Sun", which is wildly inventive, but mostly uses very simple triads and sevenths. Now he was starting to do things like the line "I guess I'm dumb but I don't care", which is sort of a tumbling set of inversions of the same chord that goes from a triad with the fifth in the bass, to a major sixth, to a minor eleventh, to a minor seventh. Part of the reason that Brian could start using these more complex voicings was that he was also moving away from using just the standard guitar/bass/drums lineup, sometimes with keyboards and saxophone, which had been used on almost every Beach Boys track to this point. Instead, as well as the influence of Bacharach, Wilson was also being influenced by Jack Nitzsche's arrangements for Phil Spector's records, and in particular by the way Nitzsche would double instruments, and have, say, a harpsichord and a piano play the same line, to create a timbre that was different from either individual instrument. But where Nitzsche and Spector used the technique along with a lot of reverb and overdubbing to create a wall of sound which was oppressive and overwhelming, and which obliterated the sounds of the individual instruments, Wilson used the same instrumentalists, the Wrecking Crew, to create something far more delicate: [Excerpt: Glen Campbell, "Guess I'm Dumb (instrumental and backing vocals)"] Campbell does such a good job on "Guess I'm Dumb" that one has to wonder what would  have happened if he'd remained with the Beach Boys. But Campbell had of course not been able to join the group permanently -- he had his own career to attend to, and that would soon take off in a big way, though he would keep playing on the Beach Boys' records for a while yet as a member of the Wrecking Crew. But Brian Wilson was still not well enough to tour. In fact, as he explained to the rest of the group, he never intended to tour again -- and he wouldn't be a regular live performer for another twelve years. At first the group were terrified -- they thought he was talking about quitting the group, or the group splitting up altogether. But Brian had a different plan. From that point on, there were two subtly different lineups of the group. In the studio, Brian would sing his parts as always, but the group would get a permanent replacement for him on tour -- someone who could replace him on stage. While the group was on tour, Brian would use the time to write songs and to record backing tracks. He'd already started using the Wrecking Crew to add a bit of additional musical colour to some of the group's records, but from this point on, he'd use them to record the whole track, maybe getting Carl to add a bit of guitar as well if he happened to be around, but otherwise just using the group to provide vocals. It's important to note that this *was* a big change. A lot of general music history sources will say things like "the Beach Boys never played on their own records", and this is taken as fact by people who haven't investigated further. In fact, the basic tracks for all their early hits were performed by the group themselves -- "Surfin'", "Surfin' Safari", "409", "Surfer Girl", "Little Deuce Coupe", "Don't Worry Baby" and many more were entirely performed by the Beach Boys, while others like "I Get Around" featured the group with a couple of additional musicians augmenting them. The idea that the group never played on their records comes entirely from their recordings from 1965 and 66, and even there often Carl would overdub a guitar part. And at this point, the Beach Boys were still playing on the majority of their recordings, even on sophisticated-sounding records like "She Knows Me Too Well", which is entirely a group performance other than Brian's friend, Russ Titelman, the co-writer of "Guess I'm Dumb", adding some percussion by hitting a microphone stand with a screwdriver: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "She Knows Me Too Well"] So the plan to replace the group's instrumental performances in the studio was actually a bigger change than it might seem. But an even bigger change was the live performances, which of course required the group bringing in a permanent live replacement for Brian. They'd already tried this once before, when he'd quit the road for a while and they'd brought Al Jardine back in, but David Marks quitting had forced him back on stage. Now they needed someone to take his place for good. They phoned up their friend Bruce Johnston to see if he knew anyone, and after suggesting a couple of names that didn't work out, he volunteered his own services, and as of this recording he's spent more than fifty years in the band (he quit for a few years in the mid-seventies, but came back). We've seen Johnston turn up several times already, most notably in the episode on "LSD-25", where he was one of the musicians on the track we looked at, but for those of you who don't remember those episodes, he was pretty much *everywhere* in California music in the late fifties and early sixties. He had been in a band at school with Phil Spector and Sandy Nelson, and another band with Jan and Dean, and he'd played on Nelson's "Teen Beat", produced by Art Laboe: [Excerpt: Sandy Nelson, "Teen Beat"] He'd been in the house band at those shows Laboe put on at El Monte stadium we talked about a couple of episodes back, he'd been a witness to John Dolphin's murder, he'd been a record producer for Bob Keane, where he'd written and produced songs for Ron Holden, the man who had introduced "Louie Louie" to Seattle: [Excerpt: Ron Holden, "Gee But I'm Lonesome"] He'd written "The Tender Touch" for Richard Berry's backing group The Pharaos, with Berry singing backing vocals on this one: [Excerpt: The Pharaos, "The Tender Touch"] He'd helped Bob Keane compile Ritchie Valens' first posthumous album, he'd played on "LSD-25" and "Moon Dawg" by the Gamblers: [Excerpt: The Gamblers, "Moon Dawg"] He'd arranged and produced the top ten hit “Those Oldies but Goodies (Remind Me of You)” for Little Caesar and the Romans: [Excerpt Little Caesar and the Romans, "Those Oldies but Goodies (Remind Me of You)"] Basically, wherever you looked in the LA music scene in the early sixties, there was Bruce Johnston somewhere in the background. But in particular, he was suitable for the Beach Boys because he had a lot of experience in making music that sounded more than a little like theirs. He'd made cheap surf records as the Bruce Johnston Surfing Band: [Excerpt: Bruce Johnston, "The Hamptons"] And with his long-time friend and creative partner Terry Melcher he had, as well as working on several Paul Revere and the Raiders records, also recorded hit Beach Boys soundalikes both as their own duo, Bruce and Terry: [Excerpt: Bruce and Terry, "Summer Means Fun"] and under the name of a real group that Melcher had signed, but who don't seem to have sung much on their own big hit, the Rip Chords: [Excerpt: The Rip Chords, "Hey Little Cobra"] Johnston fit in well with the band, though he wasn't a bass player before joining, and had to be taught the parts by Carl and Al. But he's probably the technically strongest musician in the band, and while he would later switch to playing keyboards on stage, he was quickly able to get up to speed on the bass well enough to play the parts that were needed. He also wasn't quite as strong a falsetto singer as Brian Wilson, as can be heard by listening to this live recording of the group singing "I Get Around" in 1966: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "I Get Around (live 1966)"] Johnston is actually an excellent singer -- and can still hit the high notes today. He sings the extremely high falsetto part on "Fun Fun Fun" at the end of every Beach Boys show. But his falsetto was thinner than Wilson's, and he also has a distinctive voice which can be picked out from the blend in a way that none of the other Beach Boys' voices could -- the Wilson brothers and Mike Love all have a strong family resemblance, and Al Jardine always sounded spookily close to them. This meant that increasingly, the band would rearrange the vocal parts on stage, with Carl or Al taking the part that Brian had taken in the studio. Which meant that if, say, Al sang Brian's high part, Carl would have to move up to sing the part that Al had been singing, and then Bruce would slot in singing the part Carl had sung in the studio. This is a bigger difference than it sounds, and it meant that there was now a need for someone to work out live arrangements that were different from the arrangements on the records -- someone had to reassign the vocal parts, and also work out how to play songs that had been performed by maybe eighteen session musicians playing French horns and accordions and vibraphones with a standard rock-band lineup without it sounding too different from the record. Carl Wilson, still only eighteen when Brian retired from the road, stepped into that role, and would become the de facto musical director of the Beach Boys on stage for most of the next thirty years, to the point that many of the group's contracts for live performances at this point specified that the promoter was getting "Carl Wilson and four other musicians". This was a major change to the group's dynamics. Up to this point, they had been a group with a leader -- Brian -- and a frontman -- Mike, and three other members. Now they were a more democratic group on stage, and more of a dictatorship in the studio. This was, as you can imagine, not a stable situation, and was one that would not last long. But at first, this plan seemed to go very, very well. The first album to come out of this new hybrid way of working, The Beach Boys Today!, was started before Brian retired from touring, and some of the songs on it were still mostly or solely performed by the group, but as we heard with "She Knows Me Too Well" earlier, the music was still more sophisticated than on previous records, and this can be heard on songs like "When I Grow Up to Be a Man", where the only session musician is the harmonica player, with everything else played by the group: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "When I Grow Up to Be a Man"] But the newer sophistication really shows up on songs like "Kiss Me Baby", where most of the instrumentation is provided by the Wrecking Crew -- though Carl and Brian both play on the track -- and so there are saxophones, vibraphones, French horn, cor anglais, and multiple layers of twelve-string guitar: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Kiss Me Baby"] Today had several hit singles on it -- "Dance, Dance, Dance", "When I Grow Up to be a Man", and their cover version of Bobby Freeman's "Do You Wanna Dance?" all charted -- but the big hit song on the album actually didn't become a hit in that version. "Help Me Ronda" was a piece of album filler with a harmonica part played by Billy Lee Riley, and was one of Al Jardine's first lead vocals on a Beach Boys record -- he'd only previously sung lead on the song "Christmas Day" on their Christmas album: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Help Me Ronda"] While the song was only intended as album filler, other people saw the commercial potential in the song. Bruce Johnston was at this time still signed to Columbia records as an artist, and wasn't yet singing on Beach Boys records, and he recorded a version of the song with Terry Melcher as a potential single: [Excerpt: Bruce and Terry, "Help Me Rhonda"] But on seeing the reaction to the song, Brian decided to rerecord it as a single. Unfortunately, Murry Wilson turned up to the session. Murry had been fired as the group's manager by his sons the previous year, though he still owned the publishing company that published their songs. In the meantime, he'd decided to show his family who the real talent behind the group was by taking on another group of teenagers and managing and producing them. The Sunrays had a couple of minor hits, like "I Live for the Sun": [Excerpt: The Sunrays, "I Live for the Sun"] But nothing made the US top forty, and by this point it was clear, though not in the way that Murry hoped, who the real talent behind the group *actually* was. But he turned up to the recording session, with his wife in tow, and started trying to produce it: [Excerpt: Beach Boys and Murry Wilson "Help Me Rhonda" sessions] It ended up with Brian physically trying to move his drunk father away from the control panel in the studio, and having a heartbreaking conversation with him, where the twenty-two-year-old who is recovering from a nervous breakdown only a few months earlier sounds calmer, healthier, and more mature than his forty-seven-year-old father: [Excerpt: Beach Boys and Murry Wilson, "Help Me Rhonda" sessions] Knowing that this was the family dynamic helps make the comedy filler track on the next album, "I'm Bugged at My Old Man", seem rather less of a joke than it otherwise would: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "I'm Bugged at My Old Man"] But with Murry out of the way, the group did eventually complete recording "Help Me Rhonda" (and for those of you reading this as a blog post rather than listening to the podcast, yes they did spell it two different ways for the two different versions), and it became the group's second number one hit: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Help Me, Rhonda"] As well as Murry Wilson, though, another figure was in the control room then -- Loren Daro (who at the time went by his birth surname, but I'm going to refer to him throughout by the name he chose).  You can hear, on the recording, Brian Wilson asking Daro if he could "turn him on" -- slang that was at that point not widespread enough for Wilson's parents to understand the meaning. Daro was an agent working for the William Morris Agency, and he was part of a circle of young, hip, people who were taking drugs, investigating mysticism, and exploring new spiritual ideas. His circle included the Byrds -- Daro, like Roger McGuinn, later became a follower of Subud and changed his name as a result -- as well as people like the songwriter and keyboard player Van Dyke Parks, who will become a big part of this story in subsequent episodes, and Stephen Stills, who will also be turning up again. Daro had introduced Brian to cannabis, in 1964, and in early 1965 he gave Brian acid for the first time -- one hundred and twenty-five micrograms of pure Owsley LSD-25. Now, we're going to be looking at acid culture quite a lot in the next few months, as we get through 1966 and 1967, and I'll have a lot more to say about it, but what I will say is that even the biggest proponents of psychedelic drug use tend not to suggest that it is a good idea to give large doses of LSD in an uncontrolled setting to young men recovering from a nervous breakdown. Daro later described Wilson's experience as "ego death" -- a topic we will come to in a future episode, and not considered entirely negative -- and "a beautiful thing". But he has also talked about how Wilson was so terrified by his hallucinations that he ran into the bedroom, locked the door, and hid his head under a pillow for two hours, which doesn't sound so beautiful to me. Apparently after those two hours, he came out of the bedroom, said "Well, that's enough of that", and was back to normal. After that first trip, Wilson wrote a piece of music inspired by his psychedelic experience. A piece which starts like this, with an orchestral introduction very different from anything else the group had released as a single: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "California Girls"] Of course, when Mike Love added the lyrics to the song, it became about far more earthly and sensual concerns: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "California Girls"] But leaving the lyrics aside for a second, it's interesting to look at "California Girls" musically to see what Wilson's idea of psychedelic music -- by which I mean specifically music inspired by the use of psychedelic drugs, since at this point there was no codified genre known as psychedelic music or psychedelia -- actually was. So, first, Wilson has said repeatedly that the song was specifically inspired by "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" by Bach: [Excerpt: Bach, "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring"] And it's odd, because I see no real structural or musical resemblance between the two pieces that I can put my finger on, but at the same time I can totally see what he means. Normally at this point I'd say "this change here in this song relates to this change there in that song", but there's not much of that kind of thing here -- but I still. as soon as I read Wilson saying that for the first time, more than twenty years ago, thought "OK, that makes sense". There are a few similarities, though. Bach's piece is based around triplets, and they made Wilson think of a shuffle beat. If you remember *way* back in the second episode of the podcast, I talked about how one of the standard shuffle beats is to play triplets in four-four time. I'm going to excerpt a bit of recording from a YouTube drum tutorial (which I'll link in the liner notes) showing that kind of shuffle: [Excerpt: "3 Sweet Triplet Fills For Halftime Shuffles & Swung Grooves- Drum Lesson" , from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CwlSaQZLkY ] Now, while Bach's piece is in waltz time, I hope you can hear how the DA-da-da DA-da-da in Bach's piece may have made Wilson think of that kind of shuffle rhythm. Bach's piece also has a lot of emphasis of the first, fifth, and sixth notes of the scale -- which is fairly common, and not something particularly distinctive about the piece -- and those are the notes that make up the bass riff that Wilson introduces early in the song: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "California Girls (track)"] That bass riff, of course, is a famous one. Those of you who were listening to the very earliest episodes of the podcast might remember it from the intros to many, many, Ink Spots records: [Excerpt: The Ink Spots, "We Three (My Echo, My Shadow, and Me)"] But the association of that bassline to most people's ears would be Western music, particularly the kind of music that was in Western films in the thirties and forties. You hear something similar in "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine", as performed by Laurel and Hardy in their 1937 film Way Out West: [Excerpt: Laurel and Hardy, "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine"] But it's most associated with the song "Tumbling Tumbleweeds", first recorded in 1934 by the Western group Sons of the Pioneers, but more famous in their 1946 rerecording, made after the Ink Spots' success, where the part becomes more prominent: [Excerpt: The Sons of the Pioneers, "Tumbling Tumbleweeds"] That song was a standard of the Western genre, and by 1965 had been covered by everyone from Gene Autry to the Supremes, Bob Wills to Johnnie Ray, and it would also end up covered by several musicians in the LA pop music scene over the next few years, including Michael Nesmith and Curt Boettcher, both people part of the same general scene as the Beach Boys. The other notable thing about "California Girls" is that it's one of the first times that Wilson was able to use multi-tracking to its full effect. The vocal parts were recorded on an eight-track machine, meaning that Wilson could triple-track both Mike Love's lead vocal and the group's backing vocals. With Johnston now in the group -- "California Girls" was his first recording session with them -- that meant that on the record there were eighteen voices singing, leading to some truly staggering harmonies: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "California Girls (Stack-O-Vocals)"] So, that's what the psychedelic experience meant to Brian Wilson, at least -- Bach, orchestral influences, using the recording studio to create thicker vocal harmony parts, and the old West. Keep that in the back of your mind for the present, but it'll be something to remember in eleven episodes' time. "California Girls" was, of course, another massive hit, reaching number three on the charts. And while some Beach Boys fans see the album it was included on, Summer Days... And Summer Nights!, as something of a step backward from the sophistication of Today!, this is a relative thing. It's very much of a part with the music on the earlier album, and has many wonderful moments, with songs like "Let Him Run Wild" among the group's very best. But it was their next studio album that would cement the group's artistic reputation, and which would regularly be acclaimed by polls of critics as the greatest album of all time -- a somewhat meaningless claim; even more than there is no "first" anything in music, there's no "best" anything. The impulse to make what became Pet Sounds came, as Wilson has always told the story, from hearing the Beatles album Rubber Soul. Now, we've not yet covered Rubber Soul -- we're going to look at that, and at the album that came after it, in three episodes' time -- but it is often regarded as a major artistic leap forward for the Beatles. The record Wilson heard, though, wasn't the same record that most people nowadays think of when they think of Rubber Soul. Since the mid-eighties, the CD versions of the Beatles albums have (with one exception, Magical Mystery Tour) followed the tracklistings of the original British albums, as the Beatles and George Martin intended. But in the sixties, Capitol Records were eager to make as much money out of the Beatles as they could. The Beatles' albums generally had fourteen songs on, and often didn't include their singles. Capitol thought that ten or twelve songs per album was plenty, and didn't have any aversion to putting singles on albums. They took the three British albums Help!, Rubber Soul, and Revolver, plus the non-album "Day Tripper"/"We Can Work It Out" single and Ken Thorne's orchestral score for the Help! film, and turned that into four American albums -- Help!, Rubber Soul, Yesterday and Today, and Revolver. In the case of Rubber Soul, that meant that they removed four tracks from the British album -- "Drive My Car", "Nowhere Man", "What Goes On" and "If I Needed Someone" -- and added two songs from the British version of Help!, "I've Just Seen a Face" and "It's Only Love". Now, I've seen some people claim that this made the American Rubber Soul more of a folk-rock album -- I may even have said that myself in the past -- but that's not really true. Indeed, "Nowhere Man" and "If I Needed Someone" are two of the Beatles' most overtly folk-rock tracks, and both clearly show the influence of the Byrds. But what it did do was remove several of the more electric songs from the album, and replace them with acoustic ones: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "I've Just Seen a Face"] This, completely inadvertently, gave the American Rubber Soul lineup a greater sense of cohesion than the British one. Wilson later said "I listened to Rubber Soul, and I said, 'How could they possibly make an album where the songs all sound like they come from the same place?'" At other times he's described his shock at hearing "a whole album of only good songs" and similar phrases. Because up to this point, Wilson had always included filler tracks on albums, as pretty much everyone did in the early sixties. In the American pop music market, up to the mid sixties, albums were compilations of singles plus whatever random tracks happened to be lying around. And so for example in late 1963 the Beach Boys had released two albums less than a month apart -- Surfer Girl and Little Deuce Coupe. Given that Brian Wilson wrote or co-wrote all the group's original material, it wasn't all that surprising that Little Deuce Coupe had to include four songs that had been released on previous albums, including two that were on Surfer Girl from the previous month. It was the only way the group could keep up with the demand for new product from a company that had no concept of popular music as art. Other Beach Boys albums had included padding such as generic surf instrumentals, comedy sketches like "Cassius" Love vs. "Sonny" Wilson, and in the case of The Beach Boys Today!, a track titled "Bull Session With the Big Daddy", consisting of two minutes of random chatter with the photographer Earl Leaf while they all ate burgers: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys and Earl Leaf, "Bull Session With the Big Daddy"] This is not to attack the Beach Boys. This was a simple response to the commercial pressures of the marketplace. Between October 1962 and November 1965, they released eleven albums. That's about an album every three months, as well as a few non-album singles. And on top of that Brian had also been writing songs during that time for Jan & Dean, the Honeys, the Survivors and others, and had collaborated with Gary Usher and Roger Christian on songs for Muscle Beach Party, one of American International Pictures' series of Beach Party films. It's unsurprising that not everything produced on this industrial scale was a masterpiece. Indeed, the album the Beach Boys released directly before Pet Sounds could be argued to be an entire filler album. Many biographies say that Beach Boys Party! was recorded to buy Brian time to make Pet Sounds, but the timelines don't really match up on closer investigation. Beach Boys Party! was released in November 1965, before Brian ever heard Rubber Soul, which came out later, and before he started writing the material that became Pet Sounds. Beach Boys Party! was a solution to a simple problem -- the group were meant to deliver three albums that year, and they didn't have three albums worth of material. Some shows had been recorded for a possible live album, but they'd released a live album in 1964 and hadn't really changed their setlist very much in the interim. So instead, they made a live-in-the-studio album, with the conceit that it was recorded at a party the group were holding. Rather than the lush Wrecking Crew instrumentation they'd been using in recent months, everything was played on acoustic guitars, plus some bongos provided by Wrecking Crew drummer Hal Blaine and some harmonica from Billy Hinsche of the boy band Dino, Desi, and Billy, whose sister Carl Wilson was shortly to marry. The album included jokes and false starts, and was overlaid with crowd noise, to give the impression that you were listening to an actual party where a few people were sitting round with guitars and having fun. The album consisted of songs that the group liked and could play without rehearsal -- novelty hits from a few years earlier like "Alley Oop" and "Hully Gully", a few Beatles songs, and old favourites like the Everly Brothers hit "Devoted to You" -- in a rather lovely version with two-part harmony by Mike and Brian, which sounds much better in a remixed version released later without the party-noise overdubs: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Devoted to You (remix)"] But the song that defined the album, which became a massive hit, and which became an albatross around the band's neck about which some of them would complain for a long time to come, didn't even have one of the Beach Boys singing lead. As we discussed back in the episode on "Surf City", by this point Jan and Dean were recording their album "Folk 'n' Roll", their attempt at jumping on the folk-rock bandwagon, which included the truly awful "The Universal Coward", a right-wing answer song  to "The Universal Soldier" released as a Jan Berry solo single: [Excerpt: Jan Berry, "The Universal Coward"] Dean Torrence was by this point getting sick of working with Berry, and was also deeply unimpressed with the album they were making, so he popped out of the studio for a while to go and visit his friends in the Beach Boys, who were recording nearby. He came in during the Party sessions, and everyone was suggesting songs to perform, and asked Dean to suggest something. He remembered an old doo-wop song that Jan and Dean had recorded a cover version of, and suggested that. The group had Dean sing lead, and ran through a sloppy version of it, where none of them could remember the words properly: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Barbara Ann"] And rather incredibly, that became one of the biggest hits the group ever had, making number two on the Billboard chart (and number one on other industry charts like Cashbox), number three in the UK, and becoming a song that the group had to perform at almost every live show they ever did, together or separately, for at least the next fifty-seven years. But meanwhile, Brian had been working on other material. He had not yet had his idea for an album made up entirely of good songs, but he had been experimenting in the studio. He'd worked on a handful of tracks which had pointed in new directions. One was a single, "The Little Girl I Once Knew": [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "The Little Girl I Once Knew"] John Lennon gave that record a very favourable review, saying "This is the greatest! Turn it up, turn it right up. It's GOT to be a hit. It's the greatest record I've heard for weeks. It's fantastic." But the record only made number twenty -- a perfectly respectable chart placing, but nowhere near as good as the group's recent run of hits -- in part because its stop-start nature meant that the record had "dead air" -- moments of silence -- which made DJs avoid playing it, because they believed that dead air, even only a second of it here and there, would make people tune to another station. Another track that Brian had been working on was an old folk song suggested by Alan Jardine. Jardine had always been something of a folkie, of the Kingston Trio variety, and he had suggested that the group might record the old song "The Wreck of the John B", which the Kingston Trio had recorded. The Trio's version in turn had been inspired by the Weavers' version of the song from 1950: [Excerpt: The Weavers, "The Wreck of the John B"] Brian had at first not been impressed, but Jardine had fiddled with the chord sequence slightly, adding in a minor chord to make the song slightly more interesting, and Brian had agreed to record the track, though he left the instrumental without vocals for several months: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Sloop John B (instrumental)"] The track was eventually finished and released as a single, and unlike "The Little Girl I Once Knew" it was a big enough hit that it was included on the next album, though several people have said it doesn't fit. Lyrically, it definitely doesn't, but musically, it's very much of a piece with the other songs on what became Pet Sounds: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Sloop John B"] But while Wilson was able to create music by himself, he wasn't confident about his ability as a lyricist. Now, he's not a bad lyricist by any means -- he's written several extremely good lyrics by himself -- but Brian Wilson is not a particularly articulate or verbal person, and he wanted someone who could write lyrics as crafted as his music, but which would express the ideas he was trying to convey. He didn't think he could do it himself, and for whatever reason he didn't want to work with Mike Love, who had co-written the majority of his recent songs, or with any of his other collaborators. He did write one song with Terry Sachen, the Beach Boys' road manager at the time, which dealt obliquely with those acid-induced concepts of "ego death": [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Hang on to Your Ego"] But while the group recorded that song, Mike Love objected vociferously to the lyrics. While Love did try cannabis a few times in the late sixties and early seventies, he's always been generally opposed to the use of illegal drugs, and certainly didn't want the group to be making records that promoted their use -- though I would personally argue that "Hang on to Your Ego" is at best deeply ambiguous about the prospect of ego death.  Love rewrote some of the lyrics, changing the title to "I Know There's an Answer", though as with all such bowdlerisation efforts he inadvertently left in some of the drug references: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "I Know There's an Answer"] But Wilson wasn't going to rely on Sachen for all the lyrics. Instead he turned to Tony Asher. Asher was an advertising executive, who Wilson probably met through Loren Daro -- there is some confusion over the timeline of their meeting, with some sources saying they'd first met in 1963 and that Asher had introduced Wilson to Daro, but others saying that the introductions went the other way, and that Daro introduced Asher to Wilson in 1965. But Asher and Daro had been friends for a long time, and so Wilson and Asher were definitely orbiting in the same circles. The most common version of the story seems to be that Asher was working in Western Studios, where he was recording a jingle - the advertising agency had him writing jingles because he was an amateur songwriter, and as he later put it nobody else at the agency knew the difference between E flat and A flat. Wilson was also working in the studio complex, and Wilson dragged Asher in to listen to some of the demos he was recording -- at that time Wilson was in the habit of inviting anyone who was around to listen to his works in progress. Asher chatted with him for a while, and thought nothing of it, until he got a phone call at work a few weeks later from Brian Wilson, suggesting the two write together. Wilson was impressed with Asher, who he thought of as very verbal and very intelligent, but Asher was less impressed with Wilson. He has softened his statements in recent decades, but in the early seventies he would describe Wilson as "a genius musician but an amateur human being", and sharply criticise his taste in films and literature, and his relationship with his wife. This attitude seems at least in part to have been shared by a lot of the people that Wilson was meeting and becoming influenced by. One of the things that is very noticeable about Wilson is that he has no filters at all, and that makes his music some of the most honest music ever recorded. But that same honesty also meant that he could never be cool or hip. He was -- and remains -- enthusiastic about the things he likes, and he likes things that speak to the person he is, not things that fit some idea of what the in crowd like. And the person Brian Wilson is is a man born in 1942, brought up in a middle-class suburban white family in California, and his tastes are the tastes one would expect from that background. And those tastes were not the tastes of the hipsters and scenesters who were starting to become part of his circle at the time. And so there's a thinly-veiled contempt in the way a lot of those people talked about Wilson, particularly in the late sixties and early seventies. Wilson, meanwhile, was desperate for their approval, and trying hard to fit in, but not quite managing it. Again, Asher has softened his statements more recently, and I don't want to sound too harsh about Asher -- both men were in their twenties, and still  trying to find their place in the world, and I wouldn't want to hold anyone's opinions from their twenties against them decades later. But that was the dynamic that existed between them. Asher saw himself as something of a sophisticate, and Wilson as something of a hick in contrast, but a hick who unlike him had created a string of massive hit records. And Asher did, always, respect Wilson's musical abilities. And Wilson in turn looked up to Asher, even while remaining the dominant partner, because he respected Asher's verbal facility. Asher took a two-week sabbatical from his job at the advertising agency, and during those two weeks, he and Wilson collaborated on eight songs that would make up the backbone of the album that would become Pet Sounds. The first song the two worked on was a track that had originally been titled "In My Childhood". Wilson had already recorded the backing track for this, including the sounds of bicycle horns and bells to evoke the feel of being a child: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "You Still Believe in Me (instrumental track)"] The two men wrote a new lyric for the song, based around a theme that appears in many of Wilson's songs -- the inadequate man who is loved by a woman who is infinitely superior to him, who doesn't understand why he's loved, but is astonished by it. The song became "You Still Believe in Me": [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "You Still Believe in Me"] That song also featured an instrumental contribution of sorts by Asher. Even though the main backing track had been recorded before the two started working together, Wilson came up with an idea for an intro for the song, which would require a particular piano sound. To get that sound, Wilson held down the keys on a piano, while Asher leaned into the piano and plucked the strings manually. The result, with Wilson singing over the top, sounds utterly lovely: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "You Still Believe in Me"] Note that I said that Wilson and Asher came up with new lyrics together. There has been some slight dispute about the way songwriting credits were apportioned to the songs. Generally the credits said that Wilson wrote all the music, while Asher and Wilson wrote the lyrics together, so Asher got twenty-five percent of the songwriting royalties and Wilson seventy-five percent. Asher, though, has said that there are some songs for which he wrote the whole lyric by himself, and that he also made some contributions to the music on some songs -- though he has always said that the majority of the musical contribution was Wilson's, and that most of the time the general theme of the lyric, at least, was suggested by Wilson. For the most part, Asher hasn't had a problem with that credit split, but he has often seemed aggrieved -- and to my mind justifiably -- about the song "Wouldn't it Be Nice". Asher wrote the whole lyric for the song, though inspired by conversations with Wilson, but accepted his customary fifty percent of the lyrical credit. The result became one of the big hits from the album: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Wouldn't It Be Nice?"] But -- at least according to Mike Love, in the studio he added a single line to the song: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Wouldn't it Be Nice?"] When Love sued Brian Wilson in 1994, over the credits to thirty-five songs, he included "Wouldn't it Be Nice" in the list because of that contribution. Love now gets a third of the songwriting royalties, taken proportionally from the other two writers. Which means that he gets a third of Wilson's share and a third of Asher's share. So Brian Wilson gets half the money, for writing all the music, Mike Love gets a third of the money, for writing "Good night baby, sleep tight baby", and Tony Asher gets a sixth of the money -- half as much as Love -- for writing all the rest of the lyric. Again, this is not any one individual doing anything wrong – most of the songs in the lawsuit were ones where Love wrote the entire lyric, or a substantial chunk of it, and because the lawsuit covered a lot of songs the same formula was applied to borderline cases like “Wouldn't it Be Nice” as it was to clearcut ones like “California Girls”, where nobody disputes Love's authorship of the whole lyric. It's just the result of a series of reasonable decisions, each one of which makes sense in isolation, but which has left Asher earning significantly less from one of the most successful songs he ever wrote in his career than he should have earned. The songs that Asher co-wrote with Wilson were all very much of a piece, both musically and lyrically. Pet Sounds really works as a whole album better than it does individual tracks, and while some of the claims made about it -- that it's a concept album, for example -- are clearly false, it does have a unity to it, with ideas coming back in different forms. For example, musically, almost every new song on the album contains a key change down a minor third at some point -- not the kind of thing where the listener consciously notices that an idea has been repeated, but definitely the kind of thing that makes a whole album hold together. It also differs from earlier Beach Boys albums in that the majority of the lead vocals are by Brian Wilson. Previously, Mike Love had been the dominant voice on Beach Boys records, with Brian as second lead and the other members taking few or none. Now Love only took two main lead vocals, and was the secondary lead on three more. Brian, on the other hand, took six primary lead vocals and two partial leads. The later claims by some people that this was a Brian Wilson solo album in all but name are exaggerations -- the group members did perform on almost all of the tracks -- but it is definitely much more of a personal, individual statement than the earlier albums had been. The epitome of this was "I Just Wasn't Made For These Times", which Asher wrote the lyrics for but which was definitely Brian's idea, rather than Asher's. [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "I Just Wasn't Made For These Times"] That track also featured the first use on a Beach Boys record of the electro-theremin, an electronic instrument invented by session musician Paul Tanner, a former trombone player with the Glenn Miller band, who had created it to approximate the sound of a Theremin while being easier to play: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "I Just Wasn't Made For These Times"] That sound would turn up on future Beach Boys records... But the song that became the most lasting result of the Wilson/Asher collaboration was actually one that is nowhere near as personal as many of the other songs on the record, that didn't contain a lot of the musical hallmarks that unify the album, and that didn't have Brian Wilson singing lead. Of all the songs on the album, "God Only Knows" is the one that has the most of Tony Asher's fingerprints on it. Asher has spoken in the past about how when he and Wilson were writing, Asher's touchstones were old standards like "Stella By Starlight" and "How Deep is the Ocean?", and "God Only Knows" easily fits into that category. It's a crafted song rather than a deep personal expression, but the kind of craft that one would find in writers like the Gershwins, every note and syllable perfectly chosen: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "God Only Knows"] One of the things that is often wrongly said about the song is that it's the first pop song to have the word "God" in the title. It isn't, and indeed it isn't even the first pop song to be called "God Only Knows", as there was a song of that name recorded by the doo-wop group the Capris in 1954: [Excerpt: The Capris, "God Only Knows"] But what's definitely true is that Wilson, even though he was interested in creating spiritual music, and was holding prayer sessions with his brother Carl before vocal takes, was reluctant to include the word in the song at first, fearing it would harm radio play. He was probably justified in his fears -- a couple of years earlier he'd produced a record called "Pray for Surf" by the Honeys, a girl-group featuring his wife: [Excerpt: The Honeys, "Pray For Surf"] That record hadn't been played on the radio, in part because it was considered to be trivialising religion. But Asher eventually persuaded Wilson that it would be OK, saying "What do you think we should do instead? Say 'heck only knows'?" Asher's lyric was far more ambiguous than it may seem -- while it's on one level a straightforward love song, Asher has always pointed out that the protagonist never says that he loves the object of the song, just that he'll make her *believe* that he loves her. Coupled with the second verse, which could easily be read as a threat of suicide if the object leaves the singer, it would be very, very, easy to make the song into something that sounds like it was from the point of view of a narcissistic, manipulative, abuser. That ambiguity is also there in the music, which never settles in a strong sense of key. The song starts out with an A chord, which you'd expect to lead to the song being in A, but when the horn comes in, you get a D# note, which isn't in that key, and then when the verse starts, it starts on an inversion of a D chord, before giving you enough clues that by the end of the verse you're fairly sure you're in the key of E, but it never really confirms that: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "God Only Knows (instrumental)"] So this is an unsettling, ambiguous, song in many ways. But that's not how it sounds, nor how Brian at least intended it to sound. So why doesn't it sound that way? In large part it's down to the choice of lead vocalist. If Mike Love had sung this song, it might have sounded almost aggressive. Brian *did* sing it in early attempts at the track, and he doesn't sound quite right either -- his vocal attitude is just... not right: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "God Only Knows (Brian Wilson vocal)"] But eventually Brian hit on getting his younger brother Carl to sing lead. At this point Carl had sung very few leads on record -- there has been some dispute about who sang what, exactly,  because of the family resemblance which meant all the core band members could sound a little like each other, but it's generally considered that he had sung full leads on two album tracks -- "Pom Pom Play Girl" and "Girl Don't Tell Me" -- and partial leads on two other tracks, covers of "Louie Louie" and "Summertime Blues". At this point he wasn't really thought of as anything other than a backing vocalist, but his soft, gentle, performance on "God Only Knows" is one of the great performances: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "God Only Knows (vocals)"] The track was actually one of those that required a great deal of work in the studio to create the form which now seems inevitable. Early attempts at the recording included a quite awful saxophone solo: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys "God Only Knows (early version)"] And there were a lot of problems with the middle until session keyboard player Don Randi suggested the staccato break that would eventually be used: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "God Only Knows"] And similarly, the tag of the record was originally intended as a mass of harmony including all the Beach Boys, the Honeys, and Terry Melcher: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "God Only Knows (alternate version with a capella tag)"] Before Brian decided to strip it right back, and to have only three voices on the tag -- himself on the top and the bottom, and Bruce Johnston singing in the middle: [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "God Only Knows"] When Pet Sounds came out, it was less successful in the US than hoped -- it became the first of the group's albums not to go gold on its release, and it only made number ten on the album charts. By any objective standards, this is still a success, but it was less successful than the record label had hoped, and was taken as a worrying sign. In the UK, though, it was a different matter. Up to this point, the Beach Boys had not had much commercial success in the UK, but recently Andrew Loog Oldham had become a fan, and had become the UK publisher of their original songs, and was interested in giving them the same kind of promotion that he'd given Phil Spector's records. Keith Moon of the Who was also a massive fan, and the Beach Boys had recently taken on Derek Taylor, with his strong British connections, as their publicist. Not only that, but Bruce Johnston's old friend Kim Fowley was now based in London and making waves there. So in May, in advance of a planned UK tour set for November that year, Bruce Johnston and Derek Taylor flew over to the UK to press the flesh and schmooze. Of all the group members, Johnston was the perfect choice to do this -- he's by far the most polished of them in terms of social interaction, and he was also the one who, other than Brian, had the least ambiguous feelings about the group's new direction, being wholeheartedly in favour of it. Johnston and Taylor met up with Keith Moon, Lennon and McCartney, and other pop luminaries, and played them the record. McCartney in particular was so impressed by Pet Sounds and especially "God Only Knows", that he wrote this, inspired by the song, and recorded it even before Pet Sounds' UK release at the end of June: [Excerpt: The Beatles, "Here, There, and Everywhere"] As a result of Johnston and Taylor's efforts, and the promotional work by Oldham and others, Pet Sounds reached number two on the UK album charts, and "God Only Knows" made number two on the singles charts. (In the US, it was the B-side to "Wouldn't it Be Nice", although it made the top forty on its own merits too). The Beach Boys displaced the Beatles in the readers' choice polls for best band in the NME in 1966, largely as a result of the album, and Melody Maker voted it joint best album of the year along with the Beatles' Revolver. The Beach Boys' commercial fortunes were slightly on the wane in the US, but they were becoming bigger than ever in the UK. But a big part of this was creating expectations around Brian Wilson in particular. Derek Taylor had picked up on a phrase that had been bandied around -- enough that Murry Wilson had used it to mock Brian in the awful "Help Me, Rhonda" sessions -- and was promoting it widely as a truism. Everyone was now agreed that Brian Wilson was a genius. And we'll see how that expectation plays out over the next few weeks.. [Excerpt: The Beach Boys, "Caroline, No"]

We're back with another episode of the Tall Girl Reacts To Tall Girl Problem series! Today, we're talking about taking baths, drying your clothes, turning jeans into capris, and meeting boys for the first time. Are these true tall girl problems or are they fake assumptions? Tune in to find out!Let's stay connected! Follow my socials and check out my website: https://linktr.ee/atallgirlspodcast

Our game of the year special, The You, Me & Capris, is here! All of the You, Me & Capri contributors are here to give their three favorite games we played in 2021 as well as a bunch of the community's picks! PlugsPatreon: http://patreon.com/youmecapriYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/youmecapriConsoleCaito:http://instagram.com/consolecaitohttp://twitter.com/consolecaito http://youtube.com/consolecaitoGarret:http://twitter.com/BlandExplosionhttp://twitch.tv/PSVGhttp://twitch.tv/BlandExplosionMatt:http://twitter.com/burnout_matthttp://www.youtube.com/burnoutbrighterhttps://t.co/sY7bpqmIAd?amp=1Sean:http://twitter.com/seancaprihttp://twitch.tv/seancaprihttp://patreon.com/youmecapriRyan:http://twitter.com/ryanturfordhttp://youtube.com/ryanturfordhttp://twitch.tv/ryanturford

Our game of the year special, The You, Me & Capris, is here! All of the You, Me & Capri contributors are here to give their three favorite games we played in 2021 as well as a bunch of the community's picks! PlugsPatreon: http://patreon.com/youmecapriYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/youmecapriConsoleCaito:http://instagram.com/consolecaitohttp://twitter.com/consolecaito http://youtube.com/consolecaitoGarret:http://twitter.com/BlandExplosionhttp://twitch.tv/PSVGhttp://twitch.tv/BlandExplosionMatt:http://twitter.com/burnout_matthttp://www.youtube.com/burnoutbrighterhttps://t.co/sY7bpqmIAd?amp=1Sean:http://twitter.com/seancaprihttp://twitch.tv/seancaprihttp://patreon.com/youmecapriRyan:http://twitter.com/ryanturfordhttp://youtube.com/ryanturfordhttp://twitch.tv/ryanturford

Our game of the year special, The You, Me & Capris, is here! All of the You, Me & Capri contributors are here to give their three favorite games we played in 2021 as well as a bunch of the community's picks! Plugs Patreon: http://patreon.com/youmecapri YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/youmecapri ConsoleCaito: http://instagram.com/consolecaito http://twitter.com/consolecaito http://youtube.com/consolecaito Garret: http://twitter.com/BlandExplosion http://twitch.tv/PSVG http://twitch.tv/BlandExplosion Matt: http://twitter.com/burnout_matt http://www.youtube.com/burnoutbrighter https://t.co/sY7bpqmIAd?amp=1 Sean: http://twitter.com/seancapri http://twitch.tv/seancapri http://patreon.com/youmecapri Ryan: http://twitter.com/ryanturford http://youtube.com/ryanturford http://twitch.tv/ryanturford

Our game of the year special, The You, Me & Capris, is here! All of the You, Me & Capri contributors are here to give their three favorite games we played in 2021 as well as a bunch of the community's picks! PlugsPatreon: http://patreon.com/youmecapriYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/youmecapriConsoleCaito:http://instagram.com/consolecaitohttp://twitter.com/consolecaito http://youtube.com/consolecaitoGarret:http://twitter.com/BlandExplosionhttp://twitch.tv/PSVGhttp://twitch.tv/BlandExplosionMatt:http://twitter.com/burnout_matthttp://www.youtube.com/burnoutbrighterhttps://t.co/sY7bpqmIAd?amp=1Sean:http://twitter.com/seancaprihttp://twitch.tv/seancaprihttp://patreon.com/youmecapriRyan:http://twitter.com/ryanturfordhttp://youtube.com/ryanturfordhttp://twitch.tv/ryanturford

Our game of the year special, The You, Me & Capris, is here! All of the You, Me & Capri contributors are here to give their three favorite games we played in 2021 as well as a bunch of the community's picks! PlugsPatreon: http://patreon.com/youmecapriYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/youmecapriConsoleCaito:http://instagram.com/consolecaitohttp://twitter.com/consolecaito http://youtube.com/consolecaitoGarret:http://twitter.com/BlandExplosionhttp://twitch.tv/PSVGhttp://twitch.tv/BlandExplosionMatt:http://twitter.com/burnout_matthttp://www.youtube.com/burnoutbrighterhttps://t.co/sY7bpqmIAd?amp=1Sean:http://twitter.com/seancaprihttp://twitch.tv/seancaprihttp://patreon.com/youmecapriRyan:http://twitter.com/ryanturfordhttp://youtube.com/ryanturfordhttp://twitch.tv/ryanturford

Watch this episode on YouTube: http://YouTube.com/YouMeCapri Support the show on Patreon: http://pateron.com/YouMeCapriJoin the Free Discord: https://discord.gg/zN4cZbAFollow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/youmecaprisFollow us on Instagram: http://instagram.com/youmecapris If you enjoy the show and want to support what we do, PLUS, get some incredible perks and exclusive content - please consider supporting us at http://patreon.com/YouMeCapri The Most PlayStation-rific Podcast On The Internet, The PlayStation Drive is back with Episode 31. This week Matt played . Ryan played . Cleaning the GarageIf you like what we do, support the Show. You can subscribe to us on your podcast feed of choice!Subscribe to YouTube.com/YouMeCapriYou can get early access and exclusive content at Patreon.com/YouMeCapri.Our GOTY show, The You, Me & Capris, will be on podcast feeds and YouTube on December 31st! Let us know your favorite game of 2021 at this link to be part of the show: https://forms.gle/5P77mnGJXxs5xA1x8The PlaylistRyan: The Matrix Awakens, Final Fantasy XIV: EndwalkerMatt: The Matrix Awakens, 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim Braking News Sony have announced new controller colors and face plates! The five new colors are Midnight Black, Cosmic Red, Nova Pink, Starlight Blue and Galactic Purple. All 5 colors will have dualsense controllers and face plates associated with them and are available for preorder now.Fulish Fuji @fulish_fuji - With the new coloured covers and controllers coming out, do you see Sony potentially creating special edition cover and controller sets in the future? For instance, a Spiderman design.https://blog.playstation.com/2021/12/13/new-dualsense-wireless-controller-colors-arrive-next-month-followed-by-new-ps5-console-covers/Persona 4 Arena Ultimax is coming to PS4 on March 17th!https://www.ign.com/articles/persona-4-arena-ultimax-game-awards-2021Alan Wake 2 was officially announced, it will be coming sometime in 2023 as a survival horror game

Watch this episode on YouTube: http://YouTube.com/YouMeCapri Support the show on Patreon: http://pateron.com/YouMeCapriJoin the Free Discord: https://discord.gg/zN4cZbAFollow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/youmecaprisFollow us on Instagram: http://instagram.com/youmecapris If you enjoy the show and want to support what we do, PLUS, get some incredible perks and exclusive content - please consider supporting us at http://patreon.com/YouMeCapri The Xbox Drive Episode 220 Shownotes Show Notes: The Xbox Drive is back with Episode 220. This week Sean played . Ryan played Mass Effect. Cleaning the GarageIf you like what we do, support the Show. Subscribe to http://YouTube.com/YouMeCapri You can get early access and exclusive content at http://Patreon.com/YouMeCapriOur GOTY show, The You, Me & Capris, will be on podcast feeds and YouTube on December 31st! Let us know your favorite game of 2021 at this link to be part of the show: https://forms.gle/5P77mnGJXxs5xA1x8The PlaylistRyan: Mass Effect, The Matrix Awakens, Final Fantasy XIV: EndwalkerSean: Forza Horizon 5, NHL 22 Braking News The following games are coming to Game Pass today: Among UsBen 10: Power TripBroken AgeFirewatchThe GunkLakeMortal Kombat 11PAW Patrol Mighty Pups Save Adventure BayRace With RyanRecord of Lodoss War: Deedlit in Wonder LabyrinthTransformers: BattlegroundsThe following games are leaving Game Pass on December 31st:Pro Evolution Soccer 2021The Little AcreYakuza 0Yakuza Kiwami 1Yakuza Kiwami 2https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2021/12/14/coming-soon-xbox-game-pass-december-2021-wave-2/The 6 episode documentary, Power On: The Story of Xbox is out now to watch! https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2021/12/13/xbox-docuseries-power-on-release/Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course finally has a release date! It'll launch on Xbox One on June 30th! https://www.ign.com/articles/cuphead-delicious-last-course-dlc-release-dateTunic finally has a release date! It'll launch on Xbox One on March 16th!https://www.ign.com/articles/tunic-isometric-action-game-cute-fox-release-dateAlan Wake 2 was officially announced, it will be coming sometime in 2023 as a survival horror gamehttps://www.ign.com/articles/alan-wake-2-announced-game-awardsSonic Frontiers, a new open world Sonic game, was announced for fall 2022https://www.ign.com/articles/sonic-frontiers-officially-announced-open-worldCrossfire X will officially launch on Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One on February 10th!https://www.ign.com/articles/crossfirex-release-date-xbox-series-xErik Cave - Is it just me, or has the Video Games Awards show become more about world premieres and trailers than awards? What awards and announcements surprised you and what games do you feel got snubbed? I wish Psychonauts 2 would have won something.Ubisoft have announced a full remake of the original Splinter Cell is in development at Ubisoft Toronto using the Snowdrop Engine! It will NOT be an open world game. No release window was provided for the remake. https://news.ubisoft.com/en-us/article/4adJLuhgYrPboHAPRfK7Oz/splinter-cell-remake-begins-development-at-ubisoft-toronto Ubisoft have announced a free crossover for both Assassin's Creed Valhalla and Assassin's Creed Odyssey that will have Eivor and Kassandra meet for the first time. There has been a mission added to both games and it's unclear if this is building to something more besides these singular missions. In addition, a new expansion for Valhalla was announced called Dawn of Ragnarok and it will launch on March 10th!https://twitter.com/UbisoftCanada/status/1470442139519700998?s=20 As part of a future update you'll be able to update your Xbox's background via Microsoft Edge; this update is live for Alpha ring insidershttps://www.windowscentral.com/xbox-youll-soon-be-able-set-images-microsoft-edge-your-home-screen-background The Carpool - follow on Twitter, leave a comment on YouTube, or join the Discord to leave a question and be part of the show. Court Lalonde @courtlalonde - What was your favourite game you ever got for Christmas?Jordan LaRose @JLA_15 - What's one game that you didn't finish this year that you're going to go back to and complete over the holiday break? PlugsiTunes: https://goo.gl/CMv4frSpotify: https://goo.gl/Vh4DH4YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/youmecapriSean:http://twitter.com/seancaprihttp://twitch.tv/seancaprihttp://patreon.com/youmecapriRyan:http://twitter.com/ryanturfordhttp://youtube.com/ryanturfordhttp://twitch.tv/ryanturford

Watch this episode on YouTube: http://YouTube.com/YouMeCapri Support the show on Patreon: http://pateron.com/YouMeCapriJoin the Free Discord: https://discord.gg/zN4cZbAFollow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/youmecaprisFollow us on Instagram: http://instagram.com/youmecaprisIf you enjoy the show and want to support what we do, PLUS, get some incredible perks and exclusive content - please consider supporting us at http://patreon.com/YouMeCapriThe Xbox Drive Episode 219 ShownotesShow Notes:The Xbox Drive is back with Episode 219. This week Sean played Halo Infinite. Ryan played Halo Infinite.Cleaning the GarageIf you like what we do, support the Show.Subscribe to http://YouTube.com/YouMeCapriYou can get early access and exclusive content at http://Patreon.com/YouMeCapriOur GOTY show, The You, Me & Capris, will be on podcast feeds and YouTube on December 31st! Let us know your favorite game of 2021 at this link to be part of the show: https://forms.gle/5P77mnGJXxs5xA1x8The PlaylistRyan: Halo Infinite, Final Fantasy XIV: EndwalkerSean: Halo Infinite, FuriBraking NewsWhile Halo Infinite won't allow you to replay levels of the campaign at launch, 343 has confirmed that the feature will be available some time post launch.https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/6/22821522/halo-infinite-campaign-levels-replay-mission-select-343-industries-microsoftThe Halo live action series will have it's first full trailer during The Game Awards on Thursday night.https://twitter.com/geoffkeighley/status/1468280496895315968?s=20Respawn have announced that the original Titanfall has been officially delisted from sale. In addition, the game will be removed from EA Access on March 1st, 2022.https://twitter.com/Respawn/status/1466097260836519938?s=20The Carpool - follow on Twitter, leave a comment on YouTube, or join the Discord to leave a question and be part of the show.Erik Cave - Since the release of Halo Infinite multiplayer I have played and thought about nothing else. I'm surprised how much time I have found to dedicate to this game. I can't wait for the campaign to be released next week. My question to you is, "What percentage of time should I dedicate to multiplayer vs campaign?"Seumas MacIsaac @FamousSeumas - Today's the day! Might as well ask what is your favourite Halo moment? It can be a trailer/promotion thing, a story moment, an unbelievable multiplayer moment, or something outside of the games.Court Lalonde @courtlalonde - We reviewed Halo Infinite the game and the multiplayer separately but with the recent preload information. Should the two be considered as one?Dan Rodriguez @dannohh12 - More games are becoming tv shows and movies. Which ones were one of your favorites and least favorites? Second question, what are some tv shows/movies that are in your backlog now?TPR - lets say microsoft does their own tower of power for xbox...what are the components and why?PlugsiTunes: https://goo.gl/CMv4frSpotify: https://goo.gl/Vh4DH4YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/youmecapriSean:http://twitter.com/seancaprihttp://twitch.tv/seancaprihttp://patreon.com/youmecapriRyan:http://twitter.com/ryanturfordhttp://youtube.com/ryanturfordhttp://twitch.tv/ryanturford

Today we are joined by Ryan Turford from you me and capris. Talking all things video games, RPGs and more!

Facebook came to life when QAnon believers gathered on the grassy knoll to wait for JFK Jr. Or senior. Comedian and former pastor Steve Hernandez explains to Francesca the overlap between evangelicals and QAnon supporters. Listen to full episode 111 with bonus bish by becoming a patron today for as little as $5 a month: https://www.patreon.com/posts/death-by-with-ep-58240239 Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nicky and Hazel are here to SQUASH OUR BEEF with Adam from Me in Capris, but also we talk to him about BTMI, Hideaki Anno, Nier, ice cream escapades, Big Star, the unique difficulties of being a musician in the digital age, and more! All music used in this episode by Me in Capris https://meincapris.bandcamp.com/album/for-those-who-think-you-remaster

Sarah Dash defines the word "legend." As an award-winning vocalist, songwriter, motivational speaker, educator, entrepreneur, and humanitarian, Sarah is a unique force whose voice has touched millions of listeners around the world. From co-founding Patti LaBelle & the Bluebelles and making history as a member of Labelle to becoming the very first Music Ambassador (2017) of Trenton, New Jersey, Sarah has blazed a trail in every facet of her remarkable career. Music has been a constant source of inspiration in Sarah's life ever since her childhood in Trenton. The seventh of thirteen children born to Elder Abraham Dash and Mother Elizabeth Dash, Sarah sang in the Trenton Church of Christ Choir as a young girl and entertained her classmates with renditions of standards like "With These Hands." The radio dial introduced her to everything from R&B and rock 'n' roll to country and polka, with the voices of Tina Turner, Gladys Knight, and Smokey Robinson shaping some of Sarah's earliest influences alongside albums by Mahalia Jackson, Nat "King" Cole, Andy Williams, and her brother's jazz collection. Doo-wop groups The Capris and The Dells inspired the name of Sarah's first group, the Del-Capris, which included another Trenton-based singer, Nona Hendryx. When Sarah and Nona teamed with Patricia (Patti) Holte and Cynthia (Cindy) Birdsong of The Ordettes, a new group was born — The Bluebelles. Beginning in 1962, Patti LaBelle & the Bluebelles were among the most dynamic vocal groups of the 1960s, recording for major labels like Cameo-Parkway and Atlantic, touring the Chitlin' Circuit, and earning rave reviews for their appearances at the Apollo Theater where they were affectionately nicknamed "The Sweethearts of the Apollo." Four years after Cindy Birdsong left the Bluebelles to join Diana Ross & the Supremes, Sarah, Patti, and Nona signed with Warner Bros., unveiling a new name and a new style on Labelle (1971) and Moon Shadow (1972), and recording with acclaimed singer-songwriter Laura Nyro on Gonna Take a Miracle (1971). Working with manager and former Ready Steady Go! producer Vicki Wickham, the trio began writing their own songs and geared their sound towards a progressive fusion of rock and soul. With the release of Pressure Cookin' (1973) on RCA, Labelle transformed into funk-rock goddesses outfitted in fashion-forward couture. A trio of albums on Epic Records, the gold-selling Nightbirds (1974), Phoenix (1975), and Chameleon (1976), sparked Labelle's breakthrough to mainstream success. They topped the Hot 100 with "Lady Marmalade," graced the cover of Rolling Stone, sold out theaters across the country, and made history as the first black group to perform at New York's Metropolitan Opera House. After Labelle parted ways in 1977, Sarah embarked on a successful solo career. She acted in and wrote the theme song to Watch Your Mouth! (1978), a PBS series produced by Ellis Haizlip (Soul!) that also starred Joe Morton (Scandal). She released three albums on CBS-distributed Kirshner Records, Sarah Dash (1978), Oo-La-La (1980), and Close Enough (1981), scoring a massive disco hit with "Sinner Man," which featured Jerry Butler. Throughout the '80s and '90s, she recorded a series of club singles, including "Low Down Dirty Rhythm," plus her fourth solo effort You're All I Need (1988) on EMI-Manhattan Records. Her highly accalimed Gospel project featured several of her own self-penned tracks, including "I'm Still Here," which has since become a show-stopper of her concerts. In between producing her one-woman stage shows, "Dash of Diva" and "Sarah: One Woman," Sarah brought her talent to several different projects. Having worked with a variety of acts like Living Colour, Nile Rodgers, Alice Cooper, The Marshall Tucker Band, The O'Jays, Wilson Pickett and Bo Diddley over the years, she toured and recorded with Keith Richards' X-Pensive Winos and appeared on the Rolling Stones' Steel Wheels (1989) album. She reunited with Patti and Nona for the #1 club hit "Turn It Out" (1995), received the Rhythm & Blues Foundation's "Pioneer Award" in 1999, and recorded the Labelle reunion album Back to Now (2008), featuring productions by Lenny Kravitz, Wyclef Jean, and Kenny Gamble & Leon Huff. In 2017, the members of Labelle were inducted to the Philadelphia Music Alliance's Music Walk of Fame. She's a member of the Grammy Board of Governors (Philadelphia chapter), serves as the Grammy New Jersey Ambassador for the Advocacy Board of the Membership Committee, and is a member of the Grammy Hall of Fame (2003), as well as the Board of Trustees for the New Jersey Capital Philharmonic Orchestra. Most recently, she joined fellow legends at the Apollo Theater for the Jazz Foundation of America's salute to singer Merry Clayton. Sarah Dash has built on a legacy that traces more than 50 years of music. Like the greatest music legends, there is truly no limit to the inspiration Sarah Dash brings to every note she sings.

Today's episode features Keno of Keno Visuals, In a discussion of filming music videos, film school, and conspiracy theories

Hit the Bullseye- Radical Target Marketing: Have you heard of Chubbies—Radical Shorts for the Radical Man?Talk about Hit the Bullseye Targeting…the company's manifesto says they exist to bring you the best weekend clothing that has ever been conceived and tells the back story of how four guys started the company on two fundamental premises: First that pants are for work and second the state of today's shortswear was dire. Cargos. Capris. Men everywhere hiding their legs.They committed to one big idea: Making shorts—over 100 different designs including “The All Days”, “The Khakmeisters” and my favorite “The Sleepin Ins.”Chubbies also clearly defined their target market as irreverent dudes or guys who wish they were irreverent. Or just guys that don't really want to shop but also don't want to look too stupid or wear uncomfortable pants.The company leverages memorable messaging “Don't ever go into a store to buy shorts. Plain and simple” and creative promotions like their Thighber Monday sale. And Chubbies committed to Snapchat as a major social media platform to generate a buzz and to build a base of loyal followers they describe as Chubster Nation.Chubbies focuses on casual shorts for dudes and they Hit the Bullseye.Interview with Suzy Teele (Part 2)In this episode I'm back with Suzy Teele as we dive deeper into her career decisions that has led her to the entrepreneurial world of marketing consulting. Marketing is many times one of the most difficult positions one can take, as you are trying to influence a customer to take an action. Many times we take for granted the emotional connection a brand makes with a customer, and how difficult that can be to attain.After moving from banking to software and taking on new positions within the large corporate industries, Suzy left that behind to start her own consulting firm. She shares with me how it was to operate in that first year, and why she likes being an entrepreneur the most out of her various positions. For those that may be stuck in a mid-level position, or unsure of what their next move should be, Suzy gives valuable advice in how to find your passion through volunteering. It is through volunteering that Suzy discovered her love of helping startups and women-owned businesses, and she encourages others out there to do the same.About Suzy TeeleSuzy Teele is  Founder and Owner of Aceda which helps companies gain a competitive edge, acquire customers, grow sales, build teams and become market leaders through the rapid development and implementation of successful people, product, marketing, sales, and business development strategies.Suzy has spent her career helping companies grow profitably to become market leaders. She's an active adviser and mentor to the Pittsburgh community, especially to start-ups and women-owned businesses, and she teach courses on digital marketing, strategy and entrepreneurship for various organizations.Key Takeaways:[4:18]Suzy Teele's background summary Started at Mellon Banking, took a position at Legient software company Was asked to take on HR position with no experience Left to start consulting business with husband[8:58]The first year of starting your own business Got involved with VC firm in launching ecommerce businesses Took on many roles – HR, IT, Accounting, etc… Scary, but fostered a more creative environment[13:51]Suzy's “Big Idea” when it comes to Business Sales and marketing are not discrete entities, it is a continuum between the two Companies should be focused on customer retention and acquisition Important to have someone at the top with experience in both sales AND marketing[18:28]Suzy's favorite resource she couldn't live without Smartphone with note taking and calendar apps[20:23]Advice to those stuck/unsure of next career move Volunteering is a great way to explore passions without leaving job