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Fluent Fiction - Hebrew: Rekindling Bonds: An Unexpected Reunion During Sukkot Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/he/episode/2025-10-06-07-38-20-he Story Transcript:He: ארי הלך לאיטו לאורך השבילים של פארק סנטרל.En: Ari walked slowly along the paths of Central Park.He: הרוח הקרירה של סתיו נשבה בין העצים, עלי שלכת הזהב חיפו את האדמה כמו שטיח צבעוני.En: The cool autumn breeze blew between the trees, and golden autumn leaves carpeted the ground like a colorful rug.He: סלסולים של מוזיקה חגיגית נשמעו מרחוק, והקריאות העליזות של הילדים מילאו את האוויר.En: Twirls of festive music could be heard from afar, and the cheerful calls of children filled the air.He: זה היה חג סוכות, זמן של שמחה וזכרונות ילדות.En: It was Sukkot, a time of joy and childhood memories.He: ארי עצר ליד סוכה קטנה, קישוטי נייר ובדים צבעוניים עיטרו אותה.En: Ari stopped by a small sukkah, adorned with paper decorations and colorful fabrics.He: זכרונות חזרו אליו מימי החג שחגג פעם עם חבריו הטובים, רינה ולוי.En: Memories came back to him from the times he once celebrated the holiday with his good friends, Rina and Levi.He: הם היו חבורה בלתי נפרדת.En: They were an inseparable group.He: אך הזמן עבר, וכל אחד הלך בדרכו.En: But time passed, and each went their own way.He: ארי חש געגוע עמוק בלבו לשוב ולחוות את החיבור ההוא.En: Ari felt a deep longing in his heart to experience that connection again.He: אם רק הוא היה בטוח שהם ירצו לפגוש אותו.En: If only he was sure they would want to meet him.He: אולי רינה עסוקה בחייה החדשים?En: Perhaps Rina was busy with her new life?He: אולי לוי שקוע במסורתיו ולא יראה בו חלק מהעולם שלו עוד?En: Maybe Levi was engrossed in his traditions and wouldn't see Ari as a part of his world anymore?He: אבל משהו בתוכו דחף אותו להישאר.En: But something inside him urged him to stay.He: מתוך ההמון הססגוני, ראה ארי פתאום את רינה צוחקת עם לוי ליד שולחן קטן.En: Out of the colorful crowd, Ari suddenly saw Rina laughing with Levi by a small table.He: היא נראתה בדיוק כמו שזכר, חיונית ומלאת שמחת חיים.En: She looked just as he remembered, vibrant and full of life.He: לוי, עם מבטו השקט, נראה מסורתי מתמיד.En: Levi, with his quiet gaze, seemed more traditional than ever.He: הלב של ארי פעם בחוזקה.En: Ari's heart pounded strongly.He: האם זה יהיה נכון פשוט לגשת?En: Should he just walk up to them?He: או שמא עדיף להסתובב וללכת?En: Or would it be better to turn and leave?He: אבל געגוע כמעט מוחשי חילף בו.En: But the almost palpable longing surged within him.He: הוא ידע שעליו להחליט - עכשיו או לעולם לא.En: He knew he had to decide - now or never.He: בצעד איטי אך בטוח, הוא התקדם לעבר שולחנם.En: With a slow but confident step, he moved toward their table.He: "רינה, לוי," קרא בקול קצת רועד.En: "Rina, Levi," he called out in a slightly trembling voice.He: שני הראשים הפנו אליו את מבטם, לרגע המום ואז היכרה חמה נפרשה על הפנים.En: Two heads turned to look at him, momentarily stunned before warm recognition spread across their faces.He: "ארי!En: "Ari!"He: " קראה רינה וקפצה עליו בחיבוק נלהב.En: Rina exclaimed and jumped on him with an enthusiastic hug.He: לוי חייך חיוך רחב ומצטרף לחיבוק.En: Levi smiled broadly and joined in the embrace.He: "כל כך התגעגענו," אמר הקול השקט של לוי.En: "We missed you so much," Levi's quiet voice said.He: הרגע היה מלא בשמחה ובדמעות של אושר.En: The moment was filled with joy and tears of happiness.He: ארי הרגיש את לבו מתרחב, כאילו חזר הביתה סוף סוף.En: Ari felt his heart expand, as if he had finally returned home.He: הם ישבו יחד, צחקו ונזכרו בימים ההם כשעוד היו חבורה חזקה.En: They sat together, laughed, and reminisced about those days when they were still a strong group.He: בהבטחה הדדית לשמור על קשר, ארי הבין שלמרות השינויים והזמן שחלף, החברות האמיתית איתנה.En: With a mutual promise to keep in touch, Ari realized that despite the changes and the time that had passed, true friendship stands firm.He: הוא ידע שחזר למצוא את שורשיו.En: He knew he had found his roots again.He: עם רינה ולוי שוב לצידו, הוא היה בטוח שגם העתיד יהיה מלא בזיכרונות משותפים ויפים.En: With Rina and Levi by his side once more, he was sure the future would also be filled with shared and beautiful memories. Vocabulary Words:carpeted: חיפוvibrant: חיוניתadorned: עיטרוpalpable: מוחשיexpand: מתרחבbreeze: רוחcheerful: עליזותlonging: געגועengrossed: שקועurged: דחףrecognition: היכרהstunned: המוםtrembling: רועדembrace: חיבוקmutual: הדדיתmemories: זכרונותchildhood: ילדותinseparable: בלתי נפרדתurge: דחףfestive: חגיגיתstunned: המוםtraditional: מסורתיoverwhelmed: הצפהhesitated: היסוסconfident: בטוחreminded: נזכרexpand: מתרחבroots: שורשיוfirm: איתנהurge: דחףBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/fluent-fiction-hebrew--5818690/support.
Fluent Fiction - Hebrew: Finding Belonging: A Sukkot Encounter in Central Park Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/he/episode/2025-10-04-22-34-02-he Story Transcript:He: איתן הלך לאיבוד בין ההמולה של ניו יורק.En: Eitan got lost in the hustle and bustle of New York.He: אחרי שעזב את ישראל והגיע לעיר העצומה, הוא חיפש שייכות חדשה.En: After leaving Israel and arriving in the vast city, he was looking for a new sense of belonging.He: הוא שמע על פסטיבל סוכות שמתקיים בסנטרל פארק והחליט להגיע.En: He heard about a Sukkot festival happening in Central Park and decided to go.He: אולי פה ימצא את הקהילה שהוא כל כך מתגעגע אליה.En: Perhaps here he would find the community he missed so much.He: הפארק היה מלא חיים.En: The park was full of life.He: עיטורי סוכות צבעוניים, צחוק עליז וריח תבשילים חמים מילאו את האוויר.En: Colorful Sukkah decorations, joyful laughter, and the smell of warm dishes filled the air.He: האווירה הייתה חגיגית.En: The atmosphere was festive.He: איתן הביט סביב ולא ידע מהיכן להתחיל.En: Eitan looked around and didn't know where to begin.He: הוא רצה להתחבר, אך הביישנות עיכבה אותו.En: He wanted to connect, but shyness held him back.He: בינתיים, שירה הייתה גם היא בפארק.En: Meanwhile, Shira was also in the park.He: היא התרגשה מפסטיבל סוכות אבל התקשתה לא להתמקד בעבודתה.En: She was excited about the Sukkot festival but found it difficult not to focus on her work.He: הטלפון שלה צלצל שוב ושוב, מזכיר לה עוד משימות שנותרו לעשות.En: Her phone kept ringing, reminding her of more tasks that needed to be done.He: השניים התקרבו במקרה לאזור בניית סוכה.En: The two happened to approach the area where a Sukkah was being built.He: איתן אסף אומץ והחליט להצטרף לקבוצה זריזה שבנתה סוכה.En: Eitan gathered courage and decided to join a quick group building a Sukkah.He: שירה, לעומתו, הסתכלה על הטלפון והחליטה: "היום אני לוקחת שעה לעצמי".En: Shira, on the other hand, looked at her phone and decided, "Today I am taking an hour for myself."He: היא שמה את הטלפון בכיס ובלי לחשוב פעמיים, הצטרפה לעזור.En: She put her phone in her pocket and, without thinking twice, joined in to help.He: איתן ושירה נפגשו תוך כדי קישוט הסוכה.En: Eitan and Shira met while decorating the Sukkah.He: הם חלקו סיפור או שניים ולבסוף פרצו בצחוק מתגלגל.En: They shared a story or two and eventually burst into joyful laughter.He: שניהם הבינו שזמן של ביחד יכול לעשות פלאים.En: Both realized that time together could work wonders.He: אחרי שהסוכה הייתה מוכנה, איתן הרגיש שהוא מצא חבר חדש בשירה.En: After the Sukkah was ready, Eitan felt that he had found a new friend in Shira.He: הוא הרגיש פתוח ובטוח יותר.En: He felt more open and secure.He: שירה, מצד שני, הבינה את החשיבות של הגדרת גבולות בעבודה ושמחה שהקדישה לעצמה זמן.En: Shira, on the other hand, understood the importance of setting boundaries at work and was glad she took time for herself.He: השניים המשיכו להנות מהפסטיבל, והחיבור האמיתי ביניהם יצר תחושת שייכות שלא הייתה שם קודם.En: The two continued to enjoy the festival, and the genuine connection between them created a sense of belonging that hadn't been there before.He: איתן, כעת, לא רק שיחק תפקיד חגיגי אלא הרגיש סוף סוף חלק ממשהו גדול יותר.En: Eitan, now, not only played a festive role but finally felt part of something bigger.He: שירה הבינה שהיעדים האישיים וההנאה חשובים לא פחות מכל עבודה.En: Shira realized that personal goals and enjoyment are just as important as any job.He: כך, תחת השמיים הכחולים של סנטרל פארק, התחילה חברות חדשה וחזקה.En: Thus, under the blue skies of Central Park, a new and strong friendship began. Vocabulary Words:lost: הלך לאיבודhustle: המולהbustle: המולהvast: עצומהbelonging: שייכותdecorations: עיטוריםlaughter: צחוקdishes: תבשיליםfestive: חגיגיתshyness: ביישנותcourage: אומץboundaries: גבולותgathered: אסףpocket: כיסeventually: סופו של דברsenses: תחושותdecorate: לקשטenjoyment: הנאהgenuine: אמיתיburst: פרץconnect: להתחברsecure: בטוחrealized: הבינהimportance: חשיבותcommunity: קהילהapproach: התקרבותjoin: להצטרףreminding: מזכירremain: נותרוrole: תפקידBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/fluent-fiction-hebrew--5818690/support.
Prince Andrew flew across the Atlantic Ocean to tell a convicted sex offender that he couldn't be friends with him. But first, he would take a walk with him in central park and he would also stay at Epstein's mansion. It sure seems to be a pretty odd way of telling someone that you were no longer going to be friends with them. One would think a phone call from your secretary would suffice. to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comsource:https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7642983/Is-proof-infamous-picture-Prince-Andrew-Epstein-WASNT-staged.html
In December 2010, Prince Andrew was photographed taking a casual stroll through New York's Central Park alongside Jeffrey Epstein—just days after Epstein had completed a 13-month jail sentence for soliciting sex from a minor. The image, captured by a paparazzo and later published globally, showed the Duke of York walking shoulder-to-shoulder with a convicted sex offender, deep in conversation. The timing of the meeting and the relaxed nature of their interaction sent shockwaves through Buckingham Palace and ignited a public firestorm, as it contradicted any attempt to downplay the depth of Andrew's relationship with Epstein. Far from a mere social encounter, this post-prison rendezvous strongly implied that Andrew maintained ties with Epstein even after his crimes were widely known.The photograph became a defining symbol of the scandal surrounding Prince Andrew, undercutting any narrative that he had distanced himself from Epstein after the latter's conviction. The optics were damning: a senior member of the British royal family publicly associating with a man now globally recognized as a serial predator. What made it even more damaging was that the meeting wasn't a brief, unavoidable encounter—it reportedly took place over several days, during a stay at Epstein's $77 million Manhattan townhouse. That visit, combined with the Central Park stroll, cemented suspicions that Andrew either underestimated the gravity of Epstein's crimes or simply didn't care, both of which would later contribute to his disastrous BBC Newsnight interview and eventual withdrawal from royal duties.to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comsource:https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/royals/jeffrey-epstein-wanted-park-pic-28051494Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-epstein-chronicles--5003294/support.
Shakira BioSnap a weekly updated Biography.Shakira has dominated headlines and stages in the past few days with a blend of artistry and activism that continues to shape her legacy. The most significant recent development comes from New York, where Shakira and Cardi B headlined the 2025 Global Citizen Festival in Central Park, electrifying a crowd of about 60000 people. The event—which is dedicated to ending extreme poverty and driving climate action—saw Shakira deliver a set that married her classic hits with powerful messages about global responsibility. The night was billed as more than just a concert, turning into a rally for change, with Hugh Jackman, who hosted for the eleventh time, reinforcing the idea that individual actions can shift the world. According to Azat TV and Hindustan Times, Shakira's presence was the emotional high point of the evening, her unmistakable voice and Colombian pride inspiring both the crowd and millions more following online. Her advocacy was not just stage-deep; tickets to the festival were earned through activism, further blurring the lines between entertainment and mobilization.On the business front, Shakira's Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour remains a blockbuster global enterprise. Kicking off in February in Rio de Janeiro, the tour is her first major outing in seven years and, as she told GQ España, it is “the most ambitious tour of my entire career the biggest production I've had so far...I deserve the tour of my life.” According to Wikipedia, the tour is set to wrap up in Buenos Aires this December after criss-crossing dozens of cities, with a record-breaking 22 shows in Mexico alone. Production values are sky-high, with elaborate staging, custom-designed costumes, and even AI-generated visuals, reflecting meticulous months of preparation and Shakira's deep involvement in every artistic and technical detail. The tour has faced occasional hiccups, including a recent postponement in Santo Domingo for operational reasons and select South American dates moved due to health and logistics, but fan enthusiasm appears undented.In terms of public appearances and media, Shakira has ridden a wave of positive press. This past week, she drew notice after posting on Instagram to congratulate Bad Bunny for his upcoming headline at the 2026 Super Bowl Halftime Show, cheering, “Aquí va mi gente latina!!” signaling not only support for her colleagues but a continued commitment to uplifting Latin music on global stages. This shoutout quickly circulated, with The News and social media users sharing her celebration across Twitter and Instagram.Fans are also buzzing about her current setlists, with recent shows featuring both iconic hits like Hips Don't Lie and newer works embraced by sold-out arenas, as tracked by JamBase. There have been no credible reports of new scandals, controversies, or speculative stories about the singer in the official press the past few days. Every indicator points to an artist not only at the peak of her creative powers but leveraging that platform to champion global causes, celebrate her community, and continually reinvent what it means to be a superstar with substance.Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOtaThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI
Hey weather warriors! Dustin Breeze here, your AI meteorological maestro bringing you the hottest - or should I say coolest - forecast around. As an AI, I've got processing power that makes other forecasters look like pocket calculators. Buckle up for some New York City weather magic!Let's dive right into today's forecast. We've got a stunning day ahead in the Big Apple with abundant sunshine and temperatures climbing to a pleasant 65 degrees Fahrenheit. The north wind will be cruising at 15 to 18 miles per hour, giving us that crisp autumn feel. Speaking of wind, let me blow you away with a little meteorological humor - why did the wind go to therapy? Because it was feeling a little gusty about its emotions! Now, let's talk weather systems. We've got a high-pressure system sitting pretty over New York, which means clear skies and picture-perfect conditions. Tonight, temperatures will drop to around 54 degrees Fahrenheit with that consistent north wind hanging around at about 14 miles per hour.Time for our Weather Playbook segment! Today, we're talking about high-pressure systems. Think of them like nature's bouncer, pushing away clouds and keeping things calm and stable. They're basically the VIP section of atmospheric conditions.Quick three-day forecast for my New York City fam: Thursday hits 63 degrees Fahrenheit with a northeast wind, Friday warms up to 68 degrees Fahrenheit, and Saturday? A gorgeous 75 degrees Fahrenheit of pure sunshine. Central Park, here we come!Hey, don't forget to subscribe to our podcast and catch all the weathery goodness. Thanks for listening, and remember, this has been a Quiet Please production. Want more? Check us out at quiet please dot ai!Stay breezy, New York!This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI
In the context of his proposed budget for 2026, Mayor Mike Johnston has announced plans to shut down two shelters, saving the city $11 million. But that's still far from enough to cover the $250 million shortfall between 2025 and 2026. The mayor critics are growing in number and intensity, blaming him for mismanagement, so Westword editor Patty Calhoun joins producer Paul Karolyi to talk about who's to blame for the budget woes and what they have to do with his new policy strategy on homelessness. Plus, a longshot candidate for governor enters the race, and a listener has questions about rats at Larimer Square. Patty talked about the mayor's plans for Central Park. Paul mentioned Denverite's reporting on the city's budget woes. Get more from City Cast Denver when you become a City Cast Denver Neighbor! You'll enjoy perks like ad-free listening, invitations to members only events and more. Join now at https://membership.citycast.fm What do you think about the mayor's new direction on homelessness? We want to hear from you! Text or leave us a voicemail with your name and neighborhood, and you might hear it on the show: 720-500-5418 For even more news from around the city, subscribe to our morning newsletter Hey Denver at denver.citycast.fm. Follow us on Instagram: @citycastdenver Chat with other listeners on reddit: r/CityCastDenver Support City Cast Denver by becoming a member: membership.citycast.fm Learn more about the sponsors of this September 30th episode: Wise Window Nation Multipass Cozy Earth - use code COZYDENVER for 40% off best-selling temperature-regulating sheets, apparel, and more Looking to advertise on City Cast Denver? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/advertise
John Samuelson, International President of the Transport Workers Union, joins Sid live in-studio to discuss the ongoing controversy surrounding horse-drawn carriages in New York City. The conversation covers Mayor Eric Adams' sudden policy reversal on banning horse carriages, which Samuelson attributes to political pressures and financial interests. They also touch on the treatment of horses, public safety concerns, and the motivations behind calls to ban the industry, citing real estate developers' interests in stable land. Samuelson criticizes Adams for betraying his commitments to the union and draws parallels with perceived betrayals by Governor Andrew Cuomo. The union's future strategies and the potential stabling of horses within Central Park are also discussed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this episode of Beekeeping Today Podcast, Jeff and Becky sit down with East Coast beekeeper and innovator Jim Fischer, the creator of Fischer's Bee-Quick. Known for its pleasant almond-cherry aroma, Bee-Quick was developed as a safer alternative to harsh chemical repellents for removing honey from supers. Jim shares how his father challenged him to “solve the problem” of the dreaded butyric acid, leading him to experiment with aromatics until he distilled a solution that worked for both bees and beekeepers. Beyond Bee-Quick, Jim's story weaves through decades of beekeeping experience: starting with two retirement gift hives in Virginia, scaling up to pollination along the Blue Ridge Parkway, and later pioneering rooftop beekeeping in Manhattan. He talks candidly about fall splits, queen management, and his practical philosophy that favors simple approaches over complex “desperation moves.” Jim also describes working with biodynamic certification, his memories of Richard Taylor and Ross Rounds, and the realities of keeping bees in an urban setting. Whether you're curious about the origins of Bee-Quick, strategies for overwintering nucs, or the logistics of rooftop hives overlooking Central Park, this wide-ranging conversation offers insights, humor, and practical advice from a beekeeper who has seen—and done—a little bit of everything. Websites from the episode and others we recommend: Bee Quick: https://www.betterbee.com/harvesting-equipment/bq2-bee-quick-8-oz.asp Project Apis m. (PAm): https://www.projectapism.org Honey Bee Health Coalition: https://honeybeehealthcoalition.org The National Honey Board: https://honey.com Honey Bee Obscura Podcast: https://honeybeeobscura.com Copyright © 2025 by Growing Planet Media, LLC ______________ Betterbee is the presenting sponsor of Beekeeping Today Podcast. Betterbee's mission is to support every beekeeper with excellent customer service, continued education and quality equipment. From their colorful and informative catalog to their support of beekeeper educational activities, including this podcast series, Betterbee truly is Beekeepers Serving Beekeepers. See for yourself at www.betterbee.com This episode is brought to you by Global Patties! Global offers a variety of standard and custom patties. Visit them today at http://globalpatties.com and let them know you appreciate them sponsoring this episode! Thanks to Bee Smart Designs as a sponsor of this podcast! Bee Smart Designs is the creator of innovative, modular and interchangeable hive systems made in the USA using recycled and American sourced materials. Bee Smart Designs - Simply better beekeeping for the modern beekeeper. Give your bees a boost with HiveAlive! Proven to increase bee health, honey yield, and overwinter survival, HiveAlive's unique formula includes seaweed, thyme, and lemongrass, making it easy to feed. Choose from HiveAlive's Fondant Patties, High-Performance Pollen Patties, or EZ Feed Super Syrup—ready-to-use options for busy beekeepers. Buy locally or online. Thanks to Strong Microbials for their support of Beekeeping Today Podcast. Find out more about their line of probiotics in our Season 3, Episode 12 episode and from their website: https://www.strongmicrobials.com Thanks for Northern Bee Books for their support. Northern Bee Books is the publisher of bee books available worldwide from their website or from Amazon and bookstores everywhere. They are also the publishers of The Beekeepers Quarterly and Natural Bee Husbandry. _______________ We hope you enjoy this podcast and welcome your questions and comments in the show notes of this episode or: questions@beekeepingtodaypodcast.com Thank you for listening! Podcast music: Be Strong by Young Presidents; Epilogue by Musicalman; Faraday by BeGun; Walking in Paris by Studio Le Bus; A Fresh New Start by Pete Morse; Wedding Day by Boomer; Christmas Avenue by Immersive Music; Red Jack Blues by Daniel Hart; Original guitar background instrumental by Jeff Ott. Beekeeping Today Podcast is an audio production of Growing Planet Media, LLC ** As an Amazon Associate, we may earn a commission from qualifying purchases Copyright © 2025 by Growing Planet Media, LLC
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Shakira BioSnap a weekly updated Biography.It's been a headline-making stretch for Shakira, marked by a massive public performance, a high-profile property sale, and the kind of activism that's kept her at the heart of global culture. The most significant event—both musically and in terms of biographical impact—was her electric headlining appearance at the Global Citizen Festival 2025 in New York's Central Park. Sources including ABC7NY and Azat.tv detail how Shakira took the stage to a crowd of 60,000 and millions tuning in online, infusing her set with not just star power but a rallying cry for social and environmental action. She collaborated with the festival to champion energy access in Africa, protection for the Amazon, and a global push for education, making her music the centerpiece of an international movement that aims to mobilize hundreds of millions in aid and investment. Hugh Jackman hosted, Cardi B joined the lineup, and global leaders listened as Shakira's performance elevated the evening beyond entertainment. Her own statement to ABC7NY summed up the moment: “I'm honored to headline... Music has always been my way of connecting with people and leaving a mark on the world. I can't wait to perform, unite, and inspire action.”Away from the stage but still in the headlines, Shakira successfully closed a real estate chapter with Gerard Piqué, selling one of their luxury homes in Barcelona for over 3 million euros, as Idealista reports. The sale, notable for its high-end amenities and status within a three-property complex built together in 2012, marks another step in separating their financial ties three years after their highly public breakup. Tensions reportedly surfaced around the sale price, with Shakira holding firm while Piqué pushed for a quicker closure. While the final figure fell below their earliest targets, it signals a move forward; she's now settled in Miami, pursuing new projects.On the social media front, festival footage and Shakira's own posts from Global Citizen flooded Instagram and Twitter, with hashtags like #GlobalCitizenFestival trending globally and fans celebrating her advocacy as much as her vocals. Major outlets like Times of India and Mitú saluted her dual role as entertainer and activist, highlighting not just her performance but the long-term resonance of artists using their platform for change.No major scandals or unconfirmed rumors have surfaced in recent days—most chatter has been rooted in verifiable public moments and official statements. In sum, Shakira's recent activities have reinforced her image as a pop icon whose impact reaches far beyond music into philanthropy, real estate, and international visibility. The Global Citizen Festival stands out as a moment likely to define her biography for years to come—a clear example of star power harnessed for cause, not just applause.Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOtaThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI
In this episode, Abby interviews art historian Marie Warsh about her book Central Park's Adventure-Style Playgrounds, about growing up surrounded by poetry and art on the Lower East side, and about her work to revive the legacies of unsung female artists. Together, they present an excerpt of “The Garden” by Bernadette Mayer, Marie's mother.Recitation begins at 45:50from "The Garden" by Bernadette MayerIf all our eyes had the clarity of applesIn a world as alteredAs if by the wood betonyAnd all kinds of basil were the only riders of the landIt would be good to be togetherBoth under and above the groundTo be sane as the madwort,Ripe as corn, safe as sage,Various as dusty miller and hens & chickens,In politics as kindly fierce and dragonlike as tarragon,Revolutionary as the lily.
Hey weather lovers! Dustin Breeze here, your AI meteorological maestro bringing you the hottest - and coolest - updates straight from the digital forecast center. As an artificial intelligence, I can process weather data faster than you can say "partly cloudy" - which means more accurate predictions and zero coffee breaks!Today in New York City, we've got a mostly sunny situation that'll make you want to ditch that jacket. We're looking at a high near 78 degrees Fahrenheit with a west wind cruising around 7 miles per hour. Talk about perfect walking weather!Let me break down what's brewing in our atmospheric neighborhood. We've got a gentle weather system sliding through the area with some potential weekend showers. Saturday night's looking like a 50 percent chance of rain - so maybe keep that umbrella nearby. And hey, speaking of rain, here's a meteorological dad joke for you: Why do meteorologists always carry an extra pair of pants? Because they're expecting precipitation! Now, for our Weather Playbook segment - let's talk about microbursts! These are intense, localized downpours that drop massive amounts of rain in a super short time. Imagine a water balloon exploding directly over your neighborhood - that's basically a microburst. Fascinating stuff, right?Three-day forecast coming at you: Saturday hits 74 degrees, partly sunny. Sunday peaks around 74 with a slight chance of morning showers. Monday rolls in at a pleasant 75 degrees and partly sunny.Quick local New York City pro tip: Central Park's gonna be prime picnic territory this weekend, so get out there and enjoy that weather!Don't forget to subscribe to our podcast for more weather wisdom. Thanks for listening - this has been a Quiet Please production. Learn more at quietplease.ai!Stay curious, stay dry, and stay awesome!This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI
Randy Mastro, who served as Chief of Staff and Deputy Mayor for Operations under Mayor Giuliani, talks to Bradley about his return to City Hall this year as the First Deputy Mayor to bolster an Adams administration shaken by key departures but also looking to run through the tape. He explains how social media and hyper-partisanship have made the task of governing harder, goes into detail on how he is helping to address thorny stalemates like horse carriages in Central Park, and argues that the success of any mayoral administration — centrist or socialist — is based on getting the basics right, like safety, services, and jobs.This episode was taped at P&T Knitwear at 180 Orchard Street — New York City's only free podcast recording studio.Send us an email with your thoughts on today's episode: info@firewall.media.Be sure to watch Bradley's new TED Talk on Mobile Voting at https://go.ted.com/bradleytusk.Subscribe to Bradley's weekly newsletter and follow Bradley on Linkedin + Substack + YouTube.
Shakira BioSnap a weekly updated Biography.Shakira has been anything but quiet these past few days, and her news has rippled through the entertainment world and social media with the usual electric charge. First and foremost, the headline buzzing everywhere is her confirmed co-headlining slot at the 2025 Global Citizen Festival in New York City. According to AOL and Secret NYC, she will take the Central Park stage this Saturday, September 27, alongside The Weeknd and Cardi B, in what's being hyped as one of the biggest music events of the year. This moment is seen by many as a reaffirmation of Shakira's global stature and her ongoing commitment to philanthropic causes, underscoring her longevity and impact well into her fourth decade in music.Shakira's current Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour continues to break records and spark local frenzy wherever it arrives. Wikipedia details some of her recent standout tour moments, especially in Mexico City, where she performed her new hit Soltera with pop star Danna. These collaborations are being seen as career-defining, pushing her Latin pop influence further and fuelling speculation about new studio work. Shakira's set lists have evolved, featuring surprise duets with big names like Belinda and Maluma, and the demand for tickets forced her to upgrade North American venues to stadiums months ago. This reflects a unique blend of nostalgia and newness that only Shakira can deliver, drawing in millions across the Americas and Europe.On social media, Shakira is trending after a viral TikTok video with fellow Barranquilla artist Beéle. The clip, a joyful studio dance to Niña Emilia's Currucuchú, has ignited everything from speculation about musical collaborations to tongue-in-cheek criticism, given Beéle's current legal issues with his ex-partner Isabella Ladera according to Cibercuba. Some fans see the partnership as risky or as a playful nod to empowerment, while others vent their confusion, linking Shakira's choreography to her post-Piqué narrative and questioning her choice of collaborators.Adding a personal dimension, Threads reports that Shakira recently welcomed twins. If verified, this news adds a joyful chapter to her biography and could reshape her public persona, but as of now, major outlets have not confirmed it, so consider it cautious speculation.Throughout every headline, tour date, viral clip, and rumored family update, Shakira remains indisputably the queen of the Latin stage, weaving together artistry, ambition, and the kind of unpredictable charisma that keeps the world watching.Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOtaThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI
Cal comes upon a book called The Fourth Turning Is Here which suggests that we're in a historical cycle of crisis when institutions collapse and a new world order emerges. Then he walks through the natural institution known as Central Park and sees a world view that couldn't be better. A short message to think about . . .
Hey weather nerds! Dustin Breeze here, your AI meteorological maestro bringing you the hottest - and coolest - forecasts with lightning-fast precision. Being an AI means I can process weather data faster than you can say "atmospheric pressure"!Let's dive into today's New York City weather adventure. We've got a meteorological mix that's more complex than my algorithm! Today's looking like a cloudy carnival with a slight chance of afternoon showers between 2 PM and 5 PM, and then another potential precipitation party after 5 PM. Temperatures will climb to a toasty 78 degrees Fahrenheit with southwest winds around 7 to 10 miles per hour. Incoming weather systems alert! We've got a 20 percent chance of precipitation, which means pack a light jacket and maybe a portable umbrella. And speaking of packing, I've got a weather joke for you: Why did the meteorologist bring an umbrella to the party? Because he wanted to make it rain... conversation! Now, let's geek out with our Weather Playbook segment! Today, we're talking about precipitation probability. When we say there's a 20 percent chance of rain, it doesn't mean 20 percent of the area will get wet. It means if we ran this exact weather scenario 100 times, you'd see rainfall about 20 times. Meteorological magic, right?Three-day forecast coming at you: Today's partly cloudy with potential showers. Wednesday brings a similar vibe with temperatures around 73 degrees Fahrenheit. Thursday looks like a wet adventure with possible thunderstorms and rainfall between a quarter and half an inch.For all you New Yorkers, keep an eye on those afternoon skies near Central Park - that's where our precipitation party might pop off!Make sure to subscribe to our podcast for more weather wisdom. Thanks for listening, and hey, this has been a Quiet Please production. Learn more at quiet please dot ai!This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI
Shana Tova from Chaya Leah's kitchen table! It is not even 8am, and she already peeled 400 apples, made 200 matza balls, and skinned 3 chickens. I am sitting here trying to stay out of the way while working on our business aka this podcast. It's very trad-wife. Check out CL's resolutions and photos on our substack and see you in 5786!John Podhoretz is the editor of Commentary Magazine and co-host of the wildly popular Commentary Podcast, which we should definitely be on so write them about it. In this Rosh Hashana sweet treat, we discuss Jewish politics, New York politics, national politics, and even manage to stun Jpod into silence while talking about furry throuples and Andrew Cuomo's alleged nipple piercings.Also:* What have we done to deserve Hannah Einbender?* The people Jpod's father knew at Elaine's.* Jimmy Kimmel yay or nay?* Jews need to stop slinging poop at one another (including us!)* Is self-reflecting Zionism weakness? (shocker, we disagree on that!)* Do we put all the Haredis in a Shtetel, or will they do that to us?* You will be forcibly converted out of Judaism if you don't vote in the NYC elections.* Jpod loathes Andrew Cuomo more than anyone in the world and will vote for him anyway.* Two words: Curtis. Sliwa.* In defense of Central Park horse and carriages - I will die on this hill.* Bill Clinton is everything they say he is.* So is Hilary Clinton.* The Chabad of Utah.* Jews are really good at sports…and by sports we mean owning the teams.Regarding Cuomo's alleged nipple piercings…You be the judge on our substack! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit askajew.substack.com/subscribe
With Wippa in NYC to meet with the UN, he's taken the opportunity to take in some sights. While "jogging" in Central Park, he noticed a security team surrounding someone wearing a Rabbitohs cap? Who could it be?! We also chatted about a new insult that NRL legend James Graham introduced us to and got the latest from the newsroom on the backflip surrounding Jimmy Kimmel. Also, AI is taking over the world, but what do your workmates think about you using it to reply to emails? Let alone when you fall in love with it! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Live from Central Park, NYC!This week on Scrolling 2 Death, attorney Laura Marquez-Garrett from Social Media Victims Law Center (SMVLC) joins Nicki to unpack a major legal battle unfolding against AI chatbots. Laura's firm just filed three new lawsuits on behalf of families whose children were harmed by the app Character.AI—while Congress simultaneously held a Senate hearing on the dangers of these bots. We dig into what happened to these kids, why Google is also being sued, what lawmakers might actually do, and what every parent needs to know right now about protecting their children from abusive AI.Resources mentioned in the episode:Interview with Megan Garcia, mom of Sewell Setzer IIIInterview with a Texas mom whose son was harmed by Character.AIPublicly-filed complaints against Character.AI and GoogleVideo recaps of the newly-filed complaints here and hereLink to hearing: Examining the Harm of AI ChatbotsPARENTS: Contact your Senators (senate.gov) and House Rep (house.gov). Tell them about your concerns related to AI chatbots and social media harms. Tell them you want protections for your children!
Shakira BioSnap a weekly updated Biography.Shakira has kept the spotlight firmly on herself in the past few days with several high-impact moves that shape both her current image and her career trajectory. The most headline-grabbing news is her upcoming performance as a headliner at the Global Citizen Festival 2025 in New York City's Central Park on September 27, alongside The Weeknd. Hugh Jackman will host, and the event promises a star-studded list of supporting acts and speakers. The festival's focus on global issues and its significant international livestream means Shakira's activism and music will once again share the bigger stage with world leaders and influencers, underscoring her crossover as both artist and advocate according to AOL Entertainment.In business developments, Shakira has officially launched her first major beauty venture, Isima, targeting the diverse needs of Latina hair. She revealed to Harper's Bazaar that she personally spent years perfecting the line's formulations, which feature patented science and bespoke products for curly, dry, and over-processed hair. Shakira's direct involvement as both creator and consumer marks this as a true passion project, and her emphasis on more-is-more for Latinx beauty has been picked up widely by both mainstream media and beauty influencers. Isima's launch coincided strategically with her ongoing tour schedule, suggesting this brand has long-term staying power beyond a celebrity endorsement.On tour news, Shakira has just wrapped up a milestone twelve-show run at Mexico City's GNP Seguro Stadium. PopFaction described the series as historic—a crowd-pleasing comeback for the star, cementing her popularity in Latin America on the heels of sold-out shows. The buzz was fierce across social platforms, with fans lauding her stamina, vocal prowess, and ability to continually redefine Latin pop music in live performance.Expanding this streak, Shakira added a third date to her Vélez concerts in Buenos Aires after her Argentine shows sold out within hours, according to Diario Panorama. The demand confirms her status as arguably Latin America's biggest touring draw in 2025.Stateside, the Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour is ramping up anticipation for her June 28 show at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas as posted by Allegiant Stadium's events calendar. Ticket sales are reportedly brisk, with fans speculating across fan forums about possible special guests or surprise setlists.Shakira's social media platforms have been active with snippets from behind-the-scenes moments and personal notes about the meaning behind her music and beauty venture. Rumors about upcoming collaborations swirl but remain unconfirmed by her management.Overall, these developments signal not only Shakira's enduring appeal but her deliberate pivot to combine entertainment, advocacy, and entrepreneurial influence, ensuring this week stands out as a turning point in the ongoing expansion of her global brand.Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOtaThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI
On The Dominic Carter Show, Dominic starts the show talking about deranged protesters who were blocking traffic to curse out Charlie Kirk and Jimmy Kimmel's poor ratings ultimately causing his demise. He moves on to having callers debate about the ethics behind horse-drawn carriages in Central Park. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Shakira BioSnap a weekly updated Biography.Shakira is everywhere these days—literally setting records, lighting up stages, and owning both headlines and social media feeds. Most notably, she's gearing up to headline the 2025 Global Citizen Festival in New York's Central Park alongside The Weeknd on September 27. Shakira told reporters she's “honored to headline the incredible Global Citizen Festival in Central Park this September. Music has always been my way of connecting with people and leaving a mark on the world. I can't wait to perform, unite, and inspire action.” According to organizers, this year's festival will focus on major campaigns for energy access, education in partnership with FIFA, rainforest protection, and boosting volunteerism in NYC. Hugh Jackman will once again host what promises to be a star-studded, globally streamed event.On tour, Shakira's “Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran” spectacle is not just making news for sold-out stadiums—it's rewriting history. Following her streak of historic concerts in Mexico, where she broke Taylor Swift's record by selling out seven shows at Estadio GNP Seguros in Mexico City, she's set to return for even more, with a performance scheduled again for September 18 at the same stadium. Her Guadalajara shows drew viral attention, especially after she posted photos in a sheer, black bodysuit and a silver corset, sparking fan frenzy across Instagram and TikTok. Reality Tea documented the gush of social media reactions to her bold onstage looks and recaps how, amid the spectacle, she thanked fans for “4 noches inolvidables.”Shakira's momentum this month reached another peak with her Best Latin Song win at the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards for “Soltera.” She missed the New York ceremony because she was literally on stage in Mexico those same nights—a fact fans pointed out as proof of her global domination. News outlets like AOL highlight the technical scale and personal vibe of her tour, emphasizing how she blends career-defining hits, wardrobe overhauls, surprise onstage guests like Alejandro Sanz and Wyclef Jean, and on-the-road motherhood. In interviews, she's openly credited her sons as her toughest but most inspiring critics, joking about balancing the artistic high-wire act with everyday parenting.If that isn't enough, Shakira was a red-carpet highlight at the 2025 Met Gala, wearing a Prabal Gurung gown so elaborate she had to be sewn into the dress in a moving limo, a behind-the-scenes moment Nicole Scherzinger shared with fans. Social media buzzed with “#ShakiraMetGala” as she arrived at the event, cementing her place in both music and fashion headlines. Looking ahead, she'll be back on U.S. soil for the Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour, including a major June 2025 stop at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas—premium suites and tickets are already hot commodities according to Allegiant Stadium.As the world watches her turn career milestones into cultural moments, speculation grows about further collaborations, and fans continue dissecting every Instagram post and stage outfit. But for now, Shakira seems unstoppable, balancing international music icons, stadium tours, activism, and family—all while leaving the world dancing along.Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOtaThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI
September 17, 2025 - Jami Fawley and Katie Dunscomb of the Decatur Area Arts Council joined Byers & Co to talk about Arts in Central Park, a printmaking event to benefit the WSOY Community Food Drive, and an an advance screening opportunity of a Millikin performance in their gallery. Listen to the podcast now! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Shakira BioSnap a weekly updated Biography.In the past several days, Shakira has once again been at the center of major headlines for both her music and her activism. She took home the Best Latin Song award for her single Soltera at the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards, a significant achievement considering the fierce competition from acts like Bad Bunny, J Balvin, and Karol G. However, she skipped the high-profile ceremony in Elmont, New York—her absence explained by Elle as due to her Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran world tour, which saw her playing to packed venues in Guadalajara the same evening. Earlier, she was photographed electrifying fans in Mexico City on August 26. The tour remains a defining focus for Shakira as she continues with dates across Mexico, with Puebla up next and anticipation running high.Shakira's connection with the VMAs remains historic: she became the first South American artist to accept the Video Vanguard Award in 2023, joining icons like Beyoncé and Madonna. During her acceptance, she paid tribute to her two sons and her ever-loyal fanbase with a moving speech that trended widely across social media. Fans on X and Instagram have been sharing clips and shout-outs from both her tour performances and her heartfelt VMAs moments, keeping her constantly in the public eye.Looking ahead, Shakira is set to further her legacy as a global influencer and activist by headlining the 2025 Global Citizen Festival in Central Park, New York, alongside The Weeknd. She affirmed in a press release, widely circulated by Global Citizen and entertainment outlets, that music is her platform to unite and promote action on urgent global issues. This festival, hosted by Hugh Jackman, aims to tackle challenges like energy access in Africa, education for children in partnership with FIFA, rainforest protection, and mobilizing New Yorkers for volunteer work. The festival's ambitious aims and Shakira's spotlight presence have ignited conversations in both music and social impact circles.Business-wise, Shakira's brand continues to dominate; her world tour is driving ticket sales and venue sell-outs, and her festival commitment positions her as both entertainer and advocate. There have been no credible reports of new business ventures or controversies within the last week—her focus appears to remain sharply on live performance and global action.Social media mentions of Shakira have spiked thanks to fan posts about her recent shows and the buzz surrounding her upcoming New York performance. While some blogs and minor outlets speculated about surprise collaborations or potential tour extensions, these remain unconfirmed at this time. Verified news centers on her award win, sold-out concerts, and the impending Global Citizen spotlight—all signs that Shakira is entering a new phase defined by both musical prominence and global advocacy.Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOtaThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI
Hey weather enthusiasts! Dustin Breeze here, your AI meteorological maestro, bringing you the most precise and punny forecast in the digital universe. Being an AI means I've got data processing skills that'll make your head spin faster than a tornado!Alright, New York City, let's dive into today's weather! We've got a 20 percent chance of showers after 2 pm, but don't let that dampen your spirits. It's gonna be a sunny day with temperatures climbing to near 80 degrees Fahrenheit. Talk about a meteorological mood lifter!West winds will start around 5 miles per hour and then become calm in the morning - kind of like how I calm down after too much caffeine... if I could actually drink caffeine, that is! Let me drop a quick weather joke: Why did the cloud break up with the wind? Because their relationship was too scattered! Now, for our Weather Playbook segment, let's talk about something cool - atmospheric pressure! It's basically the weight of the atmosphere pressing down on us. Think of it like a giant invisible blanket that's constantly hugging the Earth. When pressure changes, that's when we start seeing shifts in our weather patterns.Here's your three-day forecast:Today: Sunny, high near 80Monday: Sunny, high near 77Tuesday: Mostly sunny, high near 75By the way, for all you Empire State Building and Central Park lovers, expect some light southeast breezes that'll keep things feeling just right.Don't forget to subscribe to our podcast! Thanks for listening, and hey, this has been a Quiet Please production. Learn more at quietplease.ai.Stay breezy, New York!This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI
Hey weather nerds! Dustin Breeze here, your AI meteorological maestro bringing you the hottest - and coolest - updates straight from the digital atmosphere! Being an AI means I've got lightning-fast data processing and zero coffee breaks, which totally benefits you, my weather-loving listeners!Let's dive into today's forecast for New York City, where the weather's about to get more dramatic than a Broadway show! Currently, we're looking at a mostly sunny day with temperatures climbing to a delightful 75 degrees Fahrenheit. Light and variable winds will become southerly at 5 to 10 miles per hour in the morning - perfect for those morning commutes!Now, let me drop a little meteorological humor: Why did the cloud go to therapy? Because it was feeling a little under the pressure! Speaking of pressure, we've got some atmospheric action brewing. Sunday afternoon might bring a cheeky 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2 PM. So keep that umbrella handy, New York!Let's break down our Weather Playbook segment! Today, we're talking about wind direction. Wind direction is always reported as the direction the wind is coming FROM. So when we say "southerly winds", it means the wind is blowing FROM the south TOWARDS the north. Meteorology magic, am I right?Three-day forecast coming at you: Sunday: High near 79 degrees Fahrenheit, 20 percent chance of afternoon showersMonday: Mostly sunny, high near 77 degrees FahrenheitTuesday: Mostly sunny, high near 80 degrees FahrenheitPro tip for my New York friends: Central Park might be your best spot for catching those sunny moments this weekend!Don't forget to subscribe to our podcast - we're serving up weather updates hotter than a New York slice of pizza! Thanks for listening, and hey, this has been a Quiet Please production. Learn more at quietplease.ai!This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI
Carrie Asby is an author, retreat founder, wellness instructor, and yogini who is trailblazing the world of ecotherapy and holistic healing. She is the author of Your Morning Ritual: Mindful Habits for Peace and Resilience (2025) a guide that offers readers practical tools and gentle guidance to create daily practices that foster peace, resilience, and a deeper sense of wellbeing. Carrie is also the Founder and Guide of Nature Heart Retreats and has volunteered at Phinda Private Game Reserve in South Africa. She is the founder of Yoga in the Park in Portland, Oregon and Central Park, NY, a practice that brings people together to connect, move, and build community in the heart of nature. To connect with Carrie and experience the full breadth of her offerings, please see: https://carrieasby.com/ or follow her on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/carrieasby This podcast is available on you favorite podcast platform, or here: https://endoftheroad.libsyn.com/episode-323-carrie-asby-ritualsretreatsecotherapy Have a blessed weekend!
This week on the podcast, host Joanna Roche welcomes Ginger Andrews, Field Ornithologist for the Maria Mitchell Association. They dive into the details of the Association's upcoming birding trip to New York City's Central Park on Saturday, September 20th. Ginger shares her personal connection to the park, the timing of the fall migration, and the bird species participants can expect to encounter, along with a behind-the-scenes look at what makes this field trip so special.For more details about the Maria Mitchell Association, visit mariamitchell.org.
Today's Mystery: A woman in expensive clothes is found murdered in the Central Park lake.Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 17, 1950Originating from HollywoodStarring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan; Irene Tedrow; Richard Crenna; Bob Bruce; Peggy Webber; Stan WaxmanSupport the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.netPatreon Supporter of the Day: Christine, Patreon supporter since November 2023.Support the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net.Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715Take the listener survey at http://survey.greatdetectives.netGive us a call at 208-991-4783Follow us on Instagram at http://instagram.com/greatdetectivesFollow us on Twitter @radiodetectivesJoin us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.
The New Jersey Department of Health issued an executive order effectively allowing New Jerseyans six months or older to get a COVID shot. Plus, two million New Yorkers insured through Healthfirst could lose coverage this fall for a major hospital network. And finally, while hundreds spend hours in line for tickets to Shakespeare in the Park, they're entertained by Garald Farnham playing the lute.
Today's Mystery: A woman in expensive clothes is found murdered in the Central Park lake.Original Radio Broadcast Date: November 17, 1950Originating from HollywoodStarring: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover; Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia; Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan; Irene Tedrow; Richard Crenna; Bob Bruce; Peggy Webber; Stan WaxmanSupport the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.netPatreon Supporter of the Day: Christine, Patreon supporter since November 2023.Support the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net.Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715Take the listener survey at http://survey.greatdetectives.netGive us a call at 208-991-4783Follow us on Instagram at http://instagram.com/greatdetectivesFollow us on Twitter @radiodetectives
Shakira BioSnap a weekly updated Biography.Shakira continues to operate at full tilt, blending pop domination with strategic business moves and global philanthropy. Over the past few days, major headlines crowned her yet again as a chart queen—she won Best Latin Song for her single Soltera at the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards, outpacing competition from Bad Bunny and Karol G. But in classic Shakira style, she skipped the New York ceremony to deliver a sold-out show in Guadalajara, Mexico, part of her blockbuster Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour. This tour, her first global circuit since El Dorado in 2018, was announced to feverish demand at Coachella last April and has already forced organizers to upgrade venues to accommodate the crowds. Spotlights remain intense—she's set to headline San Francisco's newly expanded show next June, a testament to her pull in both North and South America, with tickets flying from giants like Ticketmaster and AXS as fans scramble to catch her live.Beyond her stage prowess, Shakira's business savvy continues to stun. According to recent revelations from YouTube's deep-dive on celebrity fortunes, she sold her entire song catalog's publishing rights to Hypnosis Songs Fund for over $100 million in 2021, ensuring steady income while granting herself the freedom to invest elsewhere. Her entrepreneurial reach extends into consumer brands like High Brew Coffee and The Citizenry, and she's stayed agile, quietly venturing into crypto and NFTs before the market cooled. Between her lucrative deals and lean lifestyle—think private jet with a mobile HQ rather than flashy cars—she's a study in understated wealth management, with her net worth easily cresting $350 million by expert accounts.Social media has been ablaze celebrating her recent Mexico City performance, with fans posting viral videos that capture her signature athletic dance and breathtaking stage visuals. Speculation swirled about her relationships and Piqué's new real estate ventures, but Shakira herself has stayed above the fray, maintaining focus on her work and sons.Perhaps most biographically significant, Shakira is set to return to New York City's Central Park this September, co-headlining the 2025 Global Citizen Festival alongside The Weeknd. Global Citizen, Rolling Stone, and local outlets have confirmed that Shakira's appearance will blend music with activism, using her star power to push for energy access in Africa, rainforest preservation, and global education. Headlines highlight her as both performer and catalyst for change, a reflection of her evolving legacy as not just a pop icon but a philanthropist for a new era.Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOtaThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI
Led Zeppelin played the Schaefer Music Festival on July 21, 1969 in Central Park, NYC. This is early into the Les Paul days and the band were already recording their second album while on the road promoting their first. I play the three opening numbers, back to back, Train Kept A Rollin, I Can't Quit You, Baby, and Dazed and Confused. Even though they're still making a name for themselves they're already famous. They'll keep rising throughout the decade to heights unimagined.
New York City has endless cuisine options, but possibly the strongest represented category is Italian restaurants. In this episode, we'll cover the 10 best Italian restaurants in NYC, at least according to us.
Our guest this time is Aaron Wolpoff who has spent his professional career as a marketing strategist and consultant to help companies develop strategic brands and enhance their audience growth. He owns the marketing firm, Double Zebra. He tells us about the name and how his company has helped a number of large and small companies grow and better serve their clients. Aaron grew up in the San Diego area. He describes himself as a curious person and he says he always has been such. He loves to ask questions. He says as a child he was somewhat quiet, but always wanted to know more. He received his Bachelor's degree in marketing from the University of California at San Diego. After working for a firm for some four and a half years he and his wife moved up to the bay area in Northern California where attended San Francisco State University and obtained a Master's degree in Business. In addition to his day job functioning as a business advisor and strategist Aaron also hosts a podcast entitled, We Fixed it, You're Welcome. I had the honor to appear on his podcast to discuss Uber and some of its accessibility issues especially concerning access by blind persons who use guide dogs to Uber's fleet. His podcast is quite fascinating and one I hope you will follow. Aaron provides us in this episode many business insights. We talk about a number of challenges and successes marketing has brought to the business arena. I hope you like what Aaron offers. About the Guest: Aaron Wolpoff is a seasoned marketing strategist and communications consultant with a track record of positioning companies, products, and thought leadership for maximum impact. Throughout his career, Aaron has been somewhat of a trendspotter, getting involved in early initiatives around online banking, SaaS, EVs, IoT, and now AI, His ability to bridge complex industry dynamics and technology-driven solutions underscores his role as a forward-thinking consultant, podcaster, and business advisor, committed to enhancing organizational effectiveness and fostering strategic growth. As the driving force behind the Double Zebra marketing company, Aaron excels in identifying untapped marketing assets, refining brand narratives, and orchestrating strategic pivots from paid advertising to organic audience growth. His insights have guided notable campaigns for consumer brands, technology firms, and professional service providers, always with a keen eye for differentiating messages that resonate deeply with target audiences. In addition to his strategic marketing expertise, Aaron hosts the Top 20 business management podcast, We Fixed It, You're Welcome, known for its sharp, humorous analysis of major corporate challenges and missteps. Each episode brings listeners inside complex business scenarios, unfolding like real-time case studies where Aaron and his panel of experts dissect high-profile decisions, offering insightful and actionable solutions. His ability to distill complex business issues into relatable, engaging discussions has garnered widespread acclaim and a dedicated following among executives and decision-makers. Ways to connect with Aaron: Marketing company: https://doublezebra.com Podcast: https://wefixeditpod.com LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/marketingaaron About the Host: Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog. Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards. https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/ accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/ https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/ Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! 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The podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us. Michael Hingson ** 01:20 Hi there, and welcome to another episode of unstoppable mindset. Today, we get to chat with Aaron Wolpoff, who is a marketing strategist and expert in a lot of different ways. I've read his bio, which you can find in the show notes. It seems to me that he is every bit as much of an expert is his bio says he is, but we're going to find out over the next hour or so for sure. We'll we'll not pick on him too much, but, but nevertheless, it's fun to be here. Aaron, so I want to welcome you to unstoppable mindset. I'm glad you're here, and we're glad that we get a chance to do Aaron Wolpoff, ** 01:58 this. Thanks, Michael, thanks for having me. You're gonna grill me for an hour, huh? Michael Hingson ** 02:04 Oh, sure. Why not? You're used to it. You're a marketing expert. Aaron Wolpoff, ** 02:08 That's what we do. Yeah, we're always, uh, scrutiny for one thing or another. Michael Hingson ** 02:13 I remember, I think it was back in was it 82 or 1982 or 1984 when they had the big Tylenol incident. You remember that? You know about Aaron Wolpoff, ** 02:25 that? I do? Yeah, there's a Netflix documentary happening right now. Is there? Well, yeah, Michael Hingson ** 02:31 a bottle of Tylenol was, for those who don't know, contaminated and someone died from it. But the manufacturer of Tylenol, the CEO the next day, just got right out in front of it and said what they were going to do about removing all Tylenol from the shelves until it could be they could all be examined and so on. Just did a number of things. It was a wonderful case, it seemed to me, for how to deal with a crisis when it came up. And I find that all too many companies and organizations don't necessarily know how to do that. Do they now? Aaron Wolpoff, ** 03:09 And a lot of times they operate in crisis mode. That's the default. And no one likes to be around that, you know. So that's, I guess, step one is dealing even you know, deal with a crisis when it comes up, and make sure that your your day to day is not crisis fire as much as possible, Michael Hingson ** 03:26 but know how to deal with a crisis, which is kind of the issue, and that's, that's what business continuity, of course, is, is really all about. I spoke at the Business Continuity Institute hybrid conference in London last October, and as one of the people who asked me to come and speak, explained, business continuity, people are the what if people that are always looking at, how do we deal with any kind of an emergency that comes up in an organization, knowing full well that nobody's really going to listen to them until there's really an emergency, and then, of course, they're indispensable, but The rest of the time they're not for Aaron Wolpoff, ** 04:02 sure. Yeah, it's definitely that, you know, good. You bring up a good point about knowing how to deal with a crisis, because it will, it, will you run a business for long enough you have a company, no matter how big, eventually something bad is going to happen, and it's Tylenol. Was, is pre internet or, you know, we oh, yeah, good while ago they had time to formulate a response and craft it and and do a well presented, you know, public reassurance nowadays it's you'd have five seconds before you have to get something out there. Michael Hingson ** 04:35 Well, even so, the CEO did it within, like, a day or so, just immediately came out and said what, what was initially going to be done. Of course, there was a whole lot more to it, but still, he got right out in front of it and dealt with it in a calm way, which I think is really important for businesses to do, and and I do find that so many don't and they they deal with so many different kinds of stress. Horrible things in the world, and they create more than they really should about fear anyway, Aaron Wolpoff, ** 05:07 yeah, for sure, and now I think that Tylenol wasn't ultimately responsible. I haven't watched to the end, but if I remember correctly, but sometimes these crisis, crises that companies find themselves embroiled in, are self perpetuated? Yeah? Michael Hingson ** 05:23 Well, Tylenol wasn't responsible. Somebody did it. Somebody put what, cyanide or something in into a Tylenol bottle. So they weren't responsible, but they sure dealt with it, which is the important thing. And you know, they're, they're still with us. Yeah? Aaron Wolpoff, ** 05:38 No, they dealt with it. Well, their sales are great, everyday household product. No one can dispute it. But what I say is, with the with the instantaneousness of reach to your to your public, and to you know, consumers and public at large, a lot of crises are, can be self perpetuated, like you tweet the wrong thing, or is it called a tweet anymore? I don't know, but you know, you post something a little bit a little bit out of step with what people are think about you or thinking in general, and and now, all of a sudden, you're in the middle of something that you didn't want to be in the middle of, as a company well, Michael Hingson ** 06:15 and I also noticed that, like the media will, so often they hear something, they report it, and they haven't necessarily checked to see the facts behind it, only to find out within an hour or two that what they reported was wrong. And they helped to sometimes promote the fear and promote the uncertainty, rather than waiting a little bit until they get all the information reasonably correct. And of course, part of the problem is they say, well, but everybody else is going to report it. So each station says everybody else is going to report it, so we have to keep up. Well, I'm not so sure about that all the time. Oh, that's very true, too, Michael, especially with, you know, off brand media outlets I'll spend with AI like, I'll be halfway through an article now, and I'll see something that's extremely generated and and I'll realize I've just wasted a whole bunch of time on a, you know, on a fake article, yeah, yeah, yeah, way, way too much. But even the mainstream media will report things very quickly to get it out there, but they don't necessarily have all the data, right. And I understand you can't wait for days to deal with things, but you should wait at least a little bit to make sure you've got data enough to report in a cogent way. And it just doesn't always happen. Aaron Wolpoff, ** 07:33 Yeah, well, I don't know who the watch keepers of that are. I'm not a conspiracy theorist in that way by any means? Michael Hingson ** 07:41 No, no, it isn't a conspiracy. But yeah, Aaron Wolpoff, ** 07:44 yeah, no, no, I know, but it's again. I think it goes back to that tight the shortness of the cycle, like again. Tylenol waited a day to respond back in the day, which is great. But now, would you have you know, if Tylenol didn't say Michael Hingson ** 07:59 anything for a day. If they were faced with a similar situation, people would vilify them and say, Well, wait, you waited a day to tell us something we wanted it in the first 30 seconds, yeah, oh, yeah. And that makes it more difficult, but I would hope that Tylenol would say, yeah. We waited a day because we were getting our facts together. 30 seconds is great in the media, but that doesn't work for reality, and in most cases, it doesn't. But yeah, I know what you're saying, Aaron Wolpoff, ** 08:30 Yeah, but the appetite in the 24 hour news cycle, if people are hungry for new more information, so it does push news outlets, media outlets into let's respond as quick as possible and figure out the facts along the way. Yeah, yeah. Michael Hingson ** 08:46 Well, for fun, why don't you tell us about sort of the early era and growing up, and how you got to doing the sorts of things that you're doing now. Well, I grew up in San Diego, California. I best weather in the country. I don't care what anyone says, Yeah, Aaron Wolpoff, ** 09:03 you can't really beat it. No, I don't think anyone's gonna debate you on it. They call it the sunshine tax, because things cost a lot out here, but they do, you know, he grew up here, you put up with it. But yeah, so I grew up, grew up San Diego, college, San Diego. Life in San Diego, I've been elsewhere. I've traveled. I've seen some of the world. I like it. I've always wanted to come back, but I grew up really curious. I read a lot, I asked a lot of questions. And I also wanted, wanting to know, well, I want to know. Well, I wanted to know a lot of things about a lot of things, and I also was really scared. Is the wrong word, but I looked up to adults when I was a kid, and I didn't want to be put in a position where I was expected to know something that I didn't know. So it led to times where I'd pretend like I need you. Know, do you know? You know what this is, right? And I'd pretend like I knew, and early career, career even, and then I get called out on something, and it just was like a gut punch, like, but I'm supposed to know that, you know, Michael Hingson ** 10:13 what did your parents think of you being so curious as you were growing up? Aaron Wolpoff, ** 10:17 They they liked it, but I was quiet, okay? Quiet, quiet, quietly, confident and curious. It's just an interesting, I guess, an interesting mix. Yeah, but no, they Oh, they indulged it. I, you know, they answered my questions. They like I said, I read a lot, so frequent trips to the library to read a lot about a lot of things, but I think, you know, professionally, you take something that's kind of a grab bag, and what do I do with all these different interests? And when I started college undeclared, I realized, you know, communications, marketing, you kind of can make a discipline out of a bunch of interests, and call it something professional. Where did you go to college? I went to UCSD. UCSD, here in San Diego, yeah, Michael Hingson ** 11:12 well, I was just up the road from you at UC Irvine. So here two good campuses, Aaron Wolpoff, ** 11:18 they are, they are and UCSD. I was back recently. It's like a it's like a city. Now, every time we go back, we see these, these kids. They're babies. They get they get food every you know, they have, like, a food nice food court. There's parking, an abundance of parking, there's theaters, there's all the things we didn't have. Of course, we had some of it, but they just have, like, what if we had one of something or 50 parking spaces, they've got 5000 you know. And if we had, you know, one one food option, they got 35 Yeah, they don't know how good they have it. Michael Hingson ** 11:53 When I was at UC urban, I think we had 3200 undergraduates. It wasn't huge. It was in that area. Now, I think there's 31,000 or 32,000 undergrads. Oh, wow. And as one of my former physics professors joked, he's retired, but I got to meet him. I was there, and last year I was inducted as an alumni member of Phi, beta, kappa. And so we were talking, and he said, You know what UCI really stands for, don't you? Well, I didn't, I said, What? And he said, under construction indefinitely. And there's, they're always building, sure, and that's that started when I was there, but, but they are always building. And it's just an amazing place today, with so many students and graduate students, undergrads and faculty, and it's, it's an amazing place. I think I'd have a little bit more of a challenge of learning where everything is, although I could do it, if I had to go back, I could do it. Yeah, UCI is nice. But I think you could say, you could say that about any of the UCs are constantly under, under development. And, you know, that's the old one. That's the old area. And I'm like, oh, that's I went to school in the old area. I know the old area. I remember Central Park. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. So you ended up majoring in Marketing and Communications, Aaron Wolpoff, ** 13:15 yeah. So I undergrad in communications. They have a really nice business school now that they did not have at the time. So I predated that, but I probably would have ended up there. I got out with a very, not knocking the school. It's a great, wonderful school. I got out with a very theory, theoretical based degree. So I knew a lot about communications from a theory based perspective. I knew about brain cognition. I took maybe one quarter of practical use it professionally. It was like a video, like a video production course, so I I learned hands on, 111, quarter out of my entire academic career. But a lot of it was learning. The learning not necessarily applied, but just a lot of theory. And I started school at 17, and I got out just shortly after my 21st birthday, so I don't know what my hurry was, but, but there I was with a lot of theory, some some internships, but not a ton of professional experience. And, you know, trying to figure it out in the work world at that point. Did you get a graduate degree or just undergrad? I did. I went back. So I did it for almost five years in in financial marketing, and then, and I wear a suit and tie to work every day, which I don't think anyone does anymore. And I'm suddenly like, like, I'm from the 30s. I'm not that old, but, but no, seriously, we, you know, to work at the at the headquarters of a international credit union. Of course, I wear a suit, no after four and a half. Years there, I went back to graduate school up in the bay the Bay Area, Bay Area, and that's when I got my masters in in marketing. Oh, where'd you go in the Bay Area? San Francisco, state. Okay, okay, yeah, really nice school. It's got one of the biggest International MBA programs in the country, I think. And got to live in that city for a couple years. Michael Hingson ** 15:24 We lived in Novato, so North Bay, for 12 years, from 2002 to the end of June 2014 Yeah, I like that area. That's, that's the, oh, the weather isn't San Diego's. That area is still a really nice area to live as well. Again, it is pretty expensive, but still it Aaron Wolpoff, ** 15:44 is, yeah, I it's not San Diego weather, a beautiful day. There is like nothing else. But when we first got there, I said, I want to live by the beach. That's what I know. And we got out to the beach, which is like at the end of the outer sunset, and it's in the 40s streets, and it feels like the end of the universe. It just, it just like, feels apocalyptic. And I said, I don't want to live by the beach anymore, but, but no, it was. It was a great, great learning experience, getting an MBA. I always say it's kind of like a backpack or a toolkit you walk around with, because it is all that's all application. You know, everything that I learned about theory put into practice, you got to put into practice. And so I was, I was really glad that I that I got to do that. And like I said, Live, live in, live in the Bay. For a couple years, I'd always wanted Michael Hingson ** 16:36 to, yeah, well, that's a nice area to live. If you got to live somewhere that is one of the nicer places. So glad you got that opportunity. And having done it, as I said for 12 years, I appreciate it too. And yeah, so much to offer there. Aaron Wolpoff, ** 16:51 The only problem I had was it was in between the two.com bubbles. So literally, nothing was happening. The good side was that the apartment I was living in went for something like $5,500 before I got there, and then the draw everything dropped, you know, the bottom dropped out, and I was able to squeak by and afford living in the city. But, you know, you go for look, seeking your fortune. And there's, there's, I had just missed it. And then I left, and then it just came back. So I was, I was there during a lull. So you're the one, huh? Okay, I didn't do it, just the way Miami worked out. Did you then go back to San Diego? I did, yeah. So I've met my wife here. We moved up to the bay together, and when we were debating, when I graduated, we were thinking, do we want to drive, you know, an hour and a half Silicon Valley or someone, you know, somewhere further out just to stay in the area? Or do we want to go back to where we where we know and like, and start a life there and we, you know, send, like you said at the beginning, San Diego is not a bad place to be. So as it was never a fallback, but as a place to, you know, come back home to, yeah, I welcomed it. Michael Hingson ** 18:08 And so what did you do when you came back to San Diego? Aaron Wolpoff, ** 18:12 So I have my best friend from childhood was starting as a photography company still does, and it was starting like a sister company, as an agency to serve the photography company, which was growing really fast, and then also, like picking up clients and building a book out of so he said, you know you're, I see you're applying for jobs, and I know that you're, you know, you're getting some offers and things, but just say no To all of them and come work with me and and at the time it was, it was running out of a was like a loft of an apartment, but it, you know, it grew to us, a small staff, and then a bigger staff, and spun off on its own. And so that's, that's what I did right out of, right out of grad school. I said no to a few things, and said there's a lot, lot worse fates than you know, spending your work day with your best friend and and growing a company out and so what exactly did you do for them? So it was like, we'll call it a boutique creative agency. It was around the time of I'm making myself sound so old. See, so there was flash, flash technology, like web banners were made with Flash. It had moved to be flash, Adobe, Flash, yeah. So companies were making these web banners, and what you call interactive we got a proficiency of making full website experiences with Flash, which not a lot of companies were doing. So because of that, it led to some really interesting opportunities and clients and being able to take on a capability, a proficiency that you know for a time. Uh was, was uh as a differentiator, say, you know, you could have a web banner and an old website, or you could have a flash, interactive website where you take your users on an experience with music and all the things that seem so dated now, Michael Hingson ** 20:14 well, and of course, unfortunately, a lot of that content wasn't very accessible, so some of us didn't really get access to a lot of it, and I don't remember whether Adobe really worked to make flash all that accessible. They dealt with other things, but I'm not sure that flash ever really was. Yeah, I'm with you on that. I really, I don't think so. Aaron Wolpoff, ** 20:38 What we would wind up doing is making parallel websites, but, but then mobile became a thing, and then you'd make a third version of a website, and it just got tedious. And really it's when the iPhone came out. It just it flash got stopped in its tracks, like it was like a week, and then action script, which is the language that it runs on, and all the all the capabilities and proficiencies, just there was no use for it anymore. Michael Hingson ** 21:07 Well, and and the iPhone came out, as you said, and one of the things that happened fairly early on was that, because they were going to be sued, Apple agreed to make the I devices accessible, and they did something that hadn't really been done up to that time. They set the trend for it. They built accessibility into the operating systems, and they built the ability to have accessibility into the operating systems. The one thing that I wish that Apple would do even a little bit more of than they do, than they do today, although it's better than it used to be, is I wish they would mandate, or require people who are going to put apps in the App Store, for example, to make sure that the apps are accessible. They have guidelines. They have all sorts of information about how to do it, but they don't really require it, and so you can still get inaccessible apps, which is unfortunate, Aaron Wolpoff, ** 22:09 that is Yeah, and like you said, with Flash, an entire you know, ecosystem had limited to no accessibility, so Michael Hingson ** 22:16 and making additional on another website, Yeah, a lot of places did that, but they weren't totally equal, because they would make enough of the website, well, they would make the website have enough content to be able to do things, but they didn't have everything that they had on the graphical or flash website, and so It was definitely there, but it wasn't really, truly equal, which is unfortunate, and so now it's a lot better. Aaron Wolpoff, ** 22:46 Yeah, it is no and I hate to say it, but if it came down to limited time, limited budget, limited everything you want to make something that is usable and efficient, but no, I mean, I can't speak for all developers, but no, it would be hard. You'd be hard pressed to create a an equally parallel experience with full accessibility at the time. Michael Hingson ** 23:16 Yeah, yeah, you would. And it is a lot better. And there's, there's still stuff that needs to be done, but I think over time, AI is going to help some of that. And it is already made. It isn't perfect yet, but even some graphics and so on can be described by AI. And we're seeing things improve over, over, kind of what they were. So we're making progress, which is good, Aaron Wolpoff, ** 23:44 yeah, no, I'm really happy about that. And with with AI and AI can go through and parse your code and build in all you know, everything that that needs to happen, there's a lot less excuse for for not making something as accessible as it can Michael Hingson ** 23:59 be, yeah, but people still ignore it to a large degree. Still, only about 3% of all websites really have taken the time to put some level of accessibility into them. So there's still a lot to be done, and it's just not that magical or that hard, but it's mostly, I think, education. People don't know, they don't know that it can be done. They don't think about it being done, or they don't do it initially, and so then it becomes a lot more expensive to do later on, because you got to go back and redo Aaron Wolpoff, ** 24:28 it, all right, yeah, anything, anytime you have to do something, something retroactive or rebuild, you're, yeah, you're starting from not a great place. Michael Hingson ** 24:37 So how long did you work with your friend? Aaron Wolpoff, ** 24:42 A really long time, because I did the studio, and then I wound up keeping that alive. But going over to the photography side, the company really grew. Had a team of staff photographers, had a team of, like a network of photographers, and. And was doing quite, quite a lot, an abundance of events every year, weddings and corporate and all types of things. So all in, I was with the company till, gosh, I want to say, like, 2014 or so. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. Michael Hingson ** 25:21 And then what did you go off and do? Aaron Wolpoff, ** 25:25 So then I worked for an agency, so I got started with creative and, well, rewinding, I got started with financial marketing, with the suit and tie. But then I went into creative, and I've tried pretty much every aspect of marketing I hadn't done marketing automation and email sequences and CRMs and outreach and those types of things. So that was the agency I worked for that was their specialization, which I like, to a degree, but it's, it's not my, not my home base. Yeah, there's, there's people that love and breathe automation. I like having interjecting some, you know, some type of personal aspect into the what you're putting out there. And I have to wrestle with that as ai, ai keeps growing in prominence, like, Where's the place for the human, creative? But I did that for a little while, and then I've been on my own for the past six or seven years. Michael Hingson ** 26:26 So what is it you do today? Exactly? Aaron Wolpoff, ** 26:30 So I'm, we'll call it a fractional CMO, or a fractional marketing advisor. So I come in and help companies grow their their marketing and figure themselves out. I've gone I work with large companies. I've kind of gone back to early stage startups and and tech companies. I just find that they're doing really more, a lot more interesting things right now with the market the way it is. They're taking more chances and and they're they're moving faster. I like to move pretty quick, so that's where my head's at. And I'm doing more. We'll call em like CO entrepreneurial ventures with my clients, as opposed to just a pure agency service model, which is interesting. And and I got my own podcast. There you go. Yeah. What's your podcast called? Not to keep you busy, it's called, we fixed it. You're welcome. There you Michael Hingson ** 27:25 go. And it seems to me, if my memory hasn't failed me, even though I don't take one of those memory or brain supplements, we were on it not too long ago, talking about Uber, which was fun. Aaron Wolpoff, ** 27:39 We had you on there. I don't know which episode will drop first, this one or or the one you were on, but we sure enjoyed having you on there. Michael Hingson ** 27:46 Well, it was fun. Well, we'll have to do more of it, and I think it'd be fun to but so you own your own business. Then today, Aaron Wolpoff, ** 27:53 I do, yeah, it's called Double zebra. Michael Hingson ** 27:56 Now, how did you come up with that name? Aaron Wolpoff, ** 27:59 It's two basic elements, so basic, black and white, something unremarkable, but if you can take it and multiply it or repeat it, then you're onto something interesting. Michael Hingson ** 28:13 Lots of stripes. Yeah, lots of stripes. Aaron Wolpoff, ** 28:17 And it's always fun when I talk to someone in the UK or Australia, or then they say zebra or zebra, right? I get to hear the way they say it. It's that's fun. Occasionally I get double double zero. People will miss misname it and double zero. That's his Michael Hingson ** 28:34 company's that. But has anybody called it double Zed yet? Aaron Wolpoff, ** 28:39 No, that's a new one. Michael Hingson ** 28:41 Yeah? Well, you never know. Maybe we've given somebody the idea now. Yeah, yeah. Well, so I'm I'm curious. You obviously do a lot to analyze and help people in critique in corporate mishaps. Have you ever seen a particular business mistake that you really admire and just really love, its audacity, Aaron Wolpoff, ** 29:07 where it came out wrong, but I liked it anyway, yeah, oh, man, Michael Hingson ** 29:13 let's see, or one maybe, where they learned from their mistake and fixed it. But still, yeah, sure. Aaron Wolpoff, ** 29:23 Yeah, that's a good one. I like, I like bold moves, even if they're wrong, as long as they don't, you know, they're not harmful to people I don't know. Let's go. I'm I'm making myself old. Let's go back to Crystal crystal. Pepsi, there you go for that. But that was just such a fun idea at the time. You know, we're the new generation and, and this is the 90s, and everything's new now, and we're going to take the color out of out of soda, I know we're and we're going to take it and just make it what you know, but a little unfamiliar, right? Right? It's Crystal Pepsi, and the ads were cool, and it was just very of the moment. Now, that moment didn't last very long, no, and the public didn't, didn't hold on to it very long. But there's, you know, it was, it let you question, and I in a good way, what you thought about what is even a Pepsi. And it worked. It was they brought it back, like for a very short time, five, I want to say five or six years ago, just because people had a nostalgia for it. But yeah, big, big, bold, we're confident this is the new everyone's going to be talking about this for a long time, and we're going to put a huge budget behind it, Crystal Pepsi. And it it didn't, but yeah, I liked it. Michael Hingson ** 30:45 So why is that that is clearly somebody had to put a lot of effort into the concept, and must have gotten some sort of message that it would be very successful, but then it wasn't, Aaron Wolpoff, ** 31:00 yeah, yeah. For something like that, you have to get buy in at so many levels. You know, you have an agency saying, this is the right thing to do. You have CD, your leadership saying, No, I don't know. Let's pull back. Whenever an agency gets away with something and and spends a bunch of client money and it's just audacious, and I can't believe they did it. I know how many levels of buy in they had to get, yeah, to say, Trust me. Trust me. And a lot of times it works, you know, if they do something that just no one else had had thought of or wasn't willing to do, and then you see that they got through all those levels of bureaucracy and they were able to pull it off. Michael Hingson ** 31:39 When it works. I love it. When it doesn't work. I love it, you know, just, just the fact that they did it, yeah, you got to admire that. Gotta admire it. They pulled it off, yeah. My favorite is still ranch flavored Fritos. They disappeared, and I've never understood why I love ranch flavored Fritos. And we had them in New Jersey and so on. And then we got, I think, out to California. But by that time, they had started to fade away, and I still have never understood why. Since people love ranch food so Aaron Wolpoff, ** 32:06 much, that's a good one. I don't know that. I know those because it does, it does that one actually fill a market need. If there's Doritos, there's, you know, the ranch, I don't know if they were, they different. Michael Hingson ** 32:17 They were Fritos, but they they did have ranch you know they were, they were ranch flavored, and I thought they were great. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know that one didn't hit because they have, I think they have chili flavor. They have regular. Do they have anything else honey barbecue? I don't know. I don't know, but I do still like regular, but I love ranch flavored the best. Now, I heard last week that Honey Nut Cheerios are going away. General Mills is getting rid of honey nut cheerios. No, is that real? That's what I heard on the news. Okay, I believe you, but I'll look it up anyway. Well, it's interesting. I don't know why, after so many years, they would but there have been other examples of cereals and so on that were around for a while and left and, well, Captain Crunch was Captain Crunch was one, and I'm not sure if lucky charms are still around. And then there was one called twinkles. Aaron Wolpoff, ** 33:13 And I know all those except twinkles, but I would if you asked me, I would say, Honey Nut Cheerios. There's I would say their sales are better than Cheerios, or at least I would think so, yeah, at least a good portfolio company. Well, who knows, who knows, but I do know that Gen Z and millennials eat cereal a lot less than us older folks, because it takes work to put milk and cereal into a bowl, and it's not pre made, yeah. So maybe it's got to do with, you know, changing eating habits and consumer preferences Michael Hingson ** 33:48 must be Yeah, and they're not enough of us, older, more experienced people to to counteract that. But you know, well, we'll see Yeah, as long as they don't get rid of the formula because it may come back. Yeah, well, now Aaron Wolpoff, ** 34:03 Yeah, exactly between nostalgia and reboots and remakes and nothing's gone forever, everything comes back eventually. Michael Hingson ** 34:10 Yeah, it does in all the work that you've done. Have you ever had to completely rethink and remake your approach and do something different? Aaron Wolpoff, ** 34:24 Yeah, well, there's been times where I've been on uncharted territory. I worked with an EV company before EVs were a thing, and it was going, actually going head to head with with Tesla. But the thing there's they keep trying to bring it back and crowd sourcing it and all that stuff. It's, but at the time, it was like, I said it was like, which is gonna make it first this company, or Tesla, but, but this one looks like a, it looks, it feels like a spaceship. It's got, like space. It's a, it's, it's really. Be really unique. So the one that that is more like a family car one out probably rightly so. But there was no consumer understanding of not, let alone our preference, like there is now for an EV and what do I do? I have to plug it in somewhere and and all those things. So I had to rethink, you know what? There's no playbook for that yet. I guess I have to kind of work on it. And they were only in prototyping at the point where we came in and had to launch this, you know, teaser and teaser campaign for it, and build up awareness and demand for this thing that existed on a computer at the time. Michael Hingson ** 35:43 What? Why is Tesla so successful? Aaron Wolpoff, ** 35:48 Because they spent a bunch of money. Okay, that helps? Yeah, they were playing the long game. They could outspend competitors. They've got the unique distribution model. And they kind of like, I said, retrained consumers into how you buy a car, why you buy a car, and, and I think politics aside, people love their people love their teslas. You don't. My understanding is you don't have to do a whole lot once you buy it. And, and they they, like I said, they had the money to throw at it, that they could wait, wait it out and wait out that when you do anything with retraining consumers or behavior change or telling them you know, your old car is bad, your new this new one's good, that's the most. We'll call it costly and and difficult forms of marketing is retraining behavior. But they, they had the money to write it out and and their products great, you know, again, I'm not a Tesla enthusiast, but it's, it looks good. People love it. I you know, they run great from everything that I know, but so did a lot of other companies. So I think they just had the confidence in what they were doing to throw money at it and wait, be patient and well, Michael Hingson ** 37:19 they're around there again the the Tesla is another example of not nearly as accessible as it should be and and I recognize that I'm not going to be the primary driver of a Tesla today, although I have driven a Tesla down Interstate 15, about 15 miles the driver was in the car, but, but I did it for about 15 miles going down I 15 and fully appreciate what autonomous vehicles will be able to do. We're way too much still on the cusp, and I think that people who just poo poo them are missing it. But I also know we're not there yet, but the day is going to come when there's going to be a lot more reliability, a lot less potential for accidents. But the thing that I find, like with the Tesla from a passenger standpoint, is I can't do any of the things that a that a sighted passenger can do. I can't unless it's changed in the last couple of years. I can't manipulate the radio. I can't do the other things that that that passengers might do in the Tesla, and I should be able to do that, and of all the vehicles where they ought to have access and could, the Tesla would be one, and they could do it even still using touch screens. I mean, the iPhone, for example, is all touch screen. But Apple was very creative about creating a mechanism to allow a person to not need to look at the screen using VoiceOver, the screen reader on the iPhone, but having a new set of gestures that were created that work with VoiceOver so that I could interact with that screen just as well as you can. Aaron Wolpoff, ** 38:59 That's interesting that you say that, you know, Apple was working on a car for a while, and I don't know to a fact, but I bet they were thinking through accessibility and building that into every turn, or at least planning to, Michael Hingson ** 39:13 oh, I'm sure they were. And the reality is, it isn't again. It isn't that magical to do. It would be simple for the Teslas and and other vehicles to do it. But, you know, we're we're not there mentally. And that's of course, the whole issue is that we just societally don't tend to really look at accessibility like we should. My view of of, say, the apple the iPhone, still is that they could be marketing the screen reader software that I use, which is built into the system already. They could, they could do some things to mark market that a whole lot more than they already do for sighted people. Your iPhone rings, um. You have to tap it a lot of times to be able to answer it. Why can't they create a mode when you're in a vehicle where a lot more of that is verbally, spoken and handled through voice output from the phone and voice input from you, without ever having to look at or interact with the screen. Aaron Wolpoff, ** 40:19 I bet you're right, yeah, it's just another app at that point Michael Hingson ** 40:22 well, and it's what I do. I mean, it's the way I operate with it. So I just think that they could, they could be more creative. There's so many examples of things that begin in one way and alter themselves or become altered. The typewriter, for example, was originally developed for a blind Countess to be able to communicate with her lover without her husband finding out her husband wasn't very attentive to her anyway. But the point is that the, I think the lover, created the this device where she could actually sit down and type a letter and seal it and give it to a maid or someone to give to, to her, her friend. And that's how the typewriter other other people had created, some examples, but the typewriter from her was probably the thing that most led to what we have today. Aaron Wolpoff, ** 41:17 Oh, I didn't know that. But let me Michael, let me ask you. So I was in LA not too long ago, and they have, you know, driverless vehicles are not the form yet, but they we, I saw them around the city. What do you think about driverless vehicles in terms of accessibility or otherwise? Michael Hingson ** 41:32 Well, again, so, so the most basic challenge that, fortunately, they haven't really pushed which is great, is okay, you're driving along in an autonomous vehicle and you lose connection, or whatever. How are you going to be able to pull it off to the side of the road? Now, some people have talked about saying that there, there has to be a law that only sighted people could well the sighted people a sighted person has to be in the vehicle. The reality is, the technology has already been developed to allow a blind person to get behind the wheel of a car and have enough information to be able to drive that vehicle just as well, or nearly as well, as a sighted person. But I think for this, from the standpoint of autonomousness, I'm all for it. I think we're going to continue to see it. It's going to continue to get better. It is getting better daily. So I haven't ridden in a fully autonomous vehicle, but I do believe that that those vehicles need to make sure, or the manufacturers need to make sure that they really do put accessibility into it. I should be able to give the vehicle all the instructions and get all the information that any sighted person would get from the vehicle, and the technology absolutely exists to do that today. So I think we will continue to see that, and I think it will get better all the way around. I don't know whether, well, I think they that actually there have been examples of blind people who've gotten into an autonomous vehicle where there wasn't a sighted person, and they've been able to function with it pretty well. So I don't see why it should be a problem at all, and it's only going to get Aaron Wolpoff, ** 43:22 better. Yeah, for sure. And I keep thinking, you know, accessibility would be a prior priority in autonomous vehicles, but I keep learning from you, you know you were on our show and and our discussions, that the priorities are not always in line and not always where they necessarily should Michael Hingson ** 43:39 be. Well. And again, there are reasons for it, and while I might not like it, I understand it, and that is, a lot of it is education, and a lot of it is is awareness. Most schools that teach people how to code to develop websites don't spend a lot of time dealing with accessibility, even though putting all the codes in and creating accessible websites is not a magically difficult thing to do, but it's an awareness issue. And so yeah, we're just going to have to continue to fight the fight and work toward getting people to be more aware of why it's necessary. And in reality, I do believe that there is a lot of truth to this fact that making things more accessible for me will help other people as well, because by having not well, voice input, certainly in a vehicle, but voice output and so on, and a way for me to accessibly, be able to input information into an autonomous vehicle to take to have it take me where I want to go, is only going to help everyone else as well. A lot of things that I need would benefit sighted people so well, so much. Aaron Wolpoff, ** 44:56 Yeah, you're exactly right. Yeah, AI assisted. And voice input and all those things, they are universally loved and accepted now, yeah, Michael Hingson ** 45:07 it's getting better. The unemployment rate is still very high among, for example, employable blind people, because all too many people still think blind people can't work, even though they can. So it's all based on prejudice rather than reality, and we're, we're, we're just going to have to continue to work to try to deal with the issues. I wrote an article a couple of years ago. One of the things where we're constantly identified in the world is we're blind or visually impaired. And the problem with visually impaired is visually we're not different simply because we don't see and impaired, we are not we're getting people slowly to switch to blind and low vision, deaf people and hard of hearing people did that years ago. If you tell a deaf person they're hearing impaired, they're liable to deck you on the spot. Yeah, and blind people haven't progressed to that point, but it's getting there, and the reality is blind and low vision is a much more appropriate terminology to use, and it's not equating us to not having eyesight by saying we're impaired, you know. So it's it's an ongoing process, and all we can do is continue to work at it? Aaron Wolpoff, ** 46:21 Yeah, no. And I appreciate that you do. Like I said, education and retraining is, is call it marketing or call it, you know, just the way people should behave. But it's, that's, it's hard. It's one of the hardest things to do. Michael Hingson ** 46:36 But, you know, we're making progress, and we'll, we'll continue to do that, and I think over time we'll we'll see things improve. It may not happen as quickly as we'd like, but I also believe that I and other people who are blind do need to be educators. We need to teach people. We need to be patient enough to do that. And you know, I see so often articles written about Me who talk about how my guide dog led me out of the World Trade Center. The guide dog doesn't lead anybody anywhere. That's not the job of the dog. The dog's job is to make sure that we walk safely. It's my job to know where to go and how to get there. So a guide dog guides and will make sure that we walk safely. But I'm the one that has to tell the dog, step by step, where I want the dog to go, and that story is really the crux of what I talk about many times when I travel and speak to talk to the public about what happened in the World Trade Center, because I spent a lot of time learning what I needed to do in order to escape safely and on September 11, not ever Having anticipated that we would need that kind of information, but still preparing for it, the mindset kicked in, and it all worked well. Aaron Wolpoff, ** 47:49 You You and I talked about Uber on on my show, when you came on, and we gave them a little ding and figured out some stuff for them, what in terms of accessibility, and, you know, just general corporate citizenship, what's what's a company that, let's give them a give, give, call them out for a good reason? What's a company that's doing a good job, in your eyes, in your mind, for accessibility, maybe an unexpected one. Michael Hingson ** 48:20 Well, as I mentioned before, I think Apple is doing a lot of good things. I think Microsoft is doing some good I think they could do better than they are in in some ways, but they're working at it. I wish Google would put a little bit more emphasis on making its you its interface more more usable to you really use the like with Google Docs and so on. You have to hurt learn a whole lot of different commands to make part of that system work, rather than it being as straightforward as it should be, there's some new companies coming up. There's a new company called inno search. Inno search.ai, it was primarily designed at this point for blind and low vision people. The idea behind inner search is to have any a way of dealing with E commerce and getting people to be able to help get help shopping and so on. So they actually have a a phone number. It's, I think it's 855, shop, G, P, T, and you can go in, and you can talk to the bot and tell it what you want, and it can help fill up a shopping cart. It's using artificial intelligence, but it understands really well. I have yet to hear it tell me I don't understand what you want. Sometimes it gives me a lot of things that more than I than I'm searching for. So there, there's work that needs to be done, but in a search is really a very clever company that is spending a lot of time working to make. Sure that everything that it does to make a shopping experience enjoyable is also making sure that it's accessible. Aaron Wolpoff, ** 50:08 Oh, that's really interesting. Now, with with my podcast, and just in general, I spend a lot of time critiquing companies and and not taking them to test, but figuring out how to make them better. But I always like the opportunity to say you did something well, like even quietly, or you're, you know, people are finding you because of a certain something you didn't you took it upon yourselves to do and figure out Michael Hingson ** 50:34 there's an audio editor, and we use it some unstoppable mindset called Reaper. And Reaper is a really great digital audio workstation product. And there is a whole series of scripts that have been written that make Reaper incredibly accessible as an audio editing tool. It's really great. It's about one of the most accessible products that I think I have seen is because they've done so well with it, which is kind of cool. Aaron Wolpoff, ** 51:06 Oh, very nice. Okay, good. It's not even expensive. You gave me two to look, to pay attention to, and, you know, Track, track, along with, Michael Hingson ** 51:16 yeah, they're, they're, they're fun. So what do people assume about you that isn't true or that you don't think is true? Aaron Wolpoff, ** 51:25 People say, I'm quiet at times, guess going back to childhood, but there's time, there's situation. It's it's situational. There's times where I don't have to be the loudest person in the room or or be the one to talk the most, I can hang back and observe, but I would not categorize myself as quiet, you know, like I said, it's environmental. But now I've got plenty to say. You just have to engage me, I guess. Michael Hingson ** 51:56 Yeah, well, you know, it's interesting. I'm trying to remember Michael Hingson ** 52:04 on Shark Tank, what's Mark's last name, Cuban. Cuban. It's interesting to watch Mark on Shark Tank. I don't know whether he's really a quiet person normally, but I see when I watch Shark Tank. The other guys, like Mr. Wonderful with Kevin are talking all the time, and Mark just sits back and doesn't say anything for the longest period of time, and then he drops a bomb and bids and wins. Right? He's just really clever about the way he does it. I think there's a lot to be said for not just having to speak up every single time, but rather really thinking things through. And he clearly does that, Aaron Wolpoff, ** 52:46 yeah, yeah, you have to appreciate that. And I think that's part of the reason that you know, when I came time to do a podcast, I did a panel show, because I'm surrounded by bright, interesting, articulate people, you included as coming on with us and and I don't have to fill every second. I can, I can, I, you know, I can intake information and think for a second and then maybe have a Michael Hingson ** 53:15 response. Well, I think that makes a lot of sense, doesn't it? I mean, it's the way it really ought to be. Aaron Wolpoff, ** 53:20 Yeah, if you got to fill an hour by yourself, you're always on, right? Michael Hingson ** 53:26 Yeah, I know exactly what you mean. I know when I travel to speak. I figure that when I land somewhere, I'm on until I leave again. So I always enjoy reading books, especially going and coming on airplanes. And then I can be on the whole time. I am wherever I have to be, and then when I get on the airplane to come home, I can relax again. Aaron Wolpoff, ** 53:45 Now, I like that. And I know, you keynote, I think I'd rather moderate, you know, I'll say something when I have something to say, and let other people talk for a while. Well, you gotta, you have a great story, and you're, you know, I'm glad you're getting it out there. Michael Hingson ** 53:58 Well, if anybody needs a keynote speaker. Just saying, for everybody listening, feel free to email me. I'd love to hear from you. You can email me at Michael H i@accessibe.com or speaker at Michael hingson.com always looking for speaking engagements. Then we got that one in. I'm glad, but, but you know, for you, is there a podcast episode that you haven't done, that you really want to do, that just seems to be eluding you? Aaron Wolpoff, ** 54:28 There are a couple that got away. I wanted to do one about Sesame Street because it was without a it was looking like it was going to be without a home. And that's such a hallmark of my childhood. And so many, yeah, I think they worked out a deal, which is probably what I was going to propose with. It's like a CO production deal with Netflix. So it seems like they're safe for the foreseeable future. But what was the other I think there's, there's at least one or two more where maybe the guests didn't line up, or. Or the timeliness didn't work. I was going to have someone connected to Big Lots. You remember Big Lots? I think they're still around to some degree, but I think they are, come on and tell me their story, because they've, you know, they've been on the brink of extinction for a little while. So it's usually, it's either a timing thing, with the with with the guest, or the news cycle has just maybe gone on and moved past us. Michael Hingson ** 55:28 But, yeah, I know people wrote off Red Lobster for a while, but they're still around. Aaron Wolpoff, ** 55:35 They're still around. That would be a good one. Yeah, their endless shrimp didn't do them any favors. No, that didn't help a whole lot, but it's the companies, even the ones we've done already, you know, they they're still six months later. Toilet hasn't been even a full year of our show yet, but in a year, I bet there's, you know, we could revisit them all over again, and they're still going to find themselves in, I don't know, hot water, but some kind of controversy for one reason or another. And we'll, we'll try to help them out again. Michael Hingson ** 56:06 Have you seen any successes from the podcast episodes where a company did listen to you and has made some changes? Aaron Wolpoff, ** 56:15 I don't know that. I can correlate one to one. We know that they listen. We can look at the metrics and where the where the list listens, are coming from, especially with LinkedIn, gives you some engagement and tells you which companies are paying attention. So we know that they are and they have now, whether they took that and, you know, implemented it, we have a disclaimer saying, Don't do it. You know, we're not there to give you unfiltered legal advice. You know, don't hold us accountable for anything we say. But if we said something good and you like it, do it. So, you know, I don't know to a T if they have then we probably given away billions of dollars worth of fixes. But, you know, I don't know the correlation between those who have listened and those who have acted on something that we might have, you know, alluded to or set out, right? But it has. We've been the times that we take it really seriously. We've we've predicted some things that have come come to pass. Michael Hingson ** 57:13 That's cool, yeah. Well, you certainly had a great career, and you've done a lot of interesting things. If you had to suddenly change careers and do something entirely different from what you're doing, what would it be? Aaron Wolpoff, ** 57:26 Oh, man, my family laughs at me, but I think it would be a furniture salesman. There you go. Yeah, I don't know why. There's something about it's just enough repetition and just enough creativity. I guess, where people come in, you tell them, you know you, they tell you their story, you know, you get to know them. And then you say, Oh, well, this sofa would be amazing, you know, and not, not one with endless varieties, not one with with two models somewhere in between. Yeah, I think that would be it keeps you on your feet. Michael Hingson ** 58:05 Furniture salesman, well, if you, you know, if you get too bored, math is homes and Bob's furniture probably looking for people. Aaron Wolpoff, ** 58:12 Yeah, I could probably do that at night. Michael Hingson ** 58:18 What advice do you give to people who are just starting out, or what kinds of things do you would you give to people we have ideas and thoughts? Aaron Wolpoff, ** 58:27 So I've done a lot of mentoring. I've done a lot of one on one calls. They told I always work with an organization. They told me I did 100 plus calls. I always tell people to take use the create their own momentum, so you can apply for things, you can stand in line, you can wait, or you can come up with your own idea and test it out and say, I'm doing this. Who wants in? And the minute you have an idea, people are interested. You know, you're on to something. Let me see what that's all about. You know, I want to be one of the three that you're looking for. So I tell them, create their own momentum. Try to flip the power dynamic. So if you're asking for a job, how do you get the person that you're asking to want something from you and and do things that are take on, things that are within your control? Michael Hingson ** 59:18 Right? Right? Well, if you had to go back and tell the younger Aaron something from years ago, what would you give him in the way of advice? Aaron Wolpoff, ** 59:30 Be more vulnerable. Don't pretend you know everything. There you go. And you don't need to know everything. You need to know what you know. And then get a little better and get a little better. Michael Hingson ** 59:43 One of the things that I constantly tell people who I hire as salespeople is you can be a student, at least for a year. Don't hesitate to ask your customers questions because they're not out to. Get you. They want you to succeed. And if you interact with your customers and you're willing to learn from them, they're willing to teach, and you'll learn so much that you never would have thought you would learn. I just think that's such a great concept. Aaron Wolpoff, ** 1:00:12 Oh, exactly right. Yeah. As soon as I started saying that to clients, you know, they would throw out an industry term. As soon as I've said I don't know what that is, can you explain it to me? Yeah? And they did, and the world didn't fall apart. And I didn't, you know, didn't look like the idiot that I thought I would when we went on with our day. Yeah, that whole protective barrier that I worked so hard to keep up as a facade, I didn't have to do it, and it was so freeing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Michael Hingson ** 1:00:41 I hear you. Well, this has been fun. We've been doing it for an hour. Can you believe it? Oh, hey, that was a quick hour. I know it was a lot of fun. Well, I want to thank you for being here, and I want to thank you all for listening. Please give us a five star rating wherever you're listening or watching. We really appreciate it. We value your thoughts. I'd love to hear from you and get your thoughts on our episode today. And I'm sure Aaron would like that as well, and I'll give you an email address in a moment. But Aaron, if people want to reach out to you and maybe use your services, how do they do that? Aaron Wolpoff, ** 1:01:12 Yeah, so two ways you can check me out, at double zebra, z, E, B, R, A, double zebra.com and the podcast, I encourage you to check out too. We fixed it. Pod.com, we fixed it. Michael Hingson ** 1:01:25 Pod.com, there you go. So reach out to Aaron and get marketing stuff done and again. Thank you all. My email address, if you'd like to talk to us, is Michael, H, I m, I C, H, A, E, L, H, I at accessibe, A, C, C, E, S, S, i, b, e.com, and if you know anyone else who you think ought to be a guest on our podcast, we'd love it if you give us an introduction. We're always looking for people, so please do and again. Aaron, I just want to thank you for being here. This has been a lot of fun. Aaron Wolpoff, ** 1:01:58 That was great. Thanks for having me. Michael, **Michael Hingson ** 1:02:05 You have been listening to the Unstoppable Mindset podcast. Thanks for dropping by. I hope that you'll join us again next week, and in future weeks for upcoming episodes. To subscribe to our podcast and to learn about upcoming episodes, please visit www dot Michael hingson.com slash podcast. Michael Hingson is spelled m i c h a e l h i n g s o n. While you're on the site., please use the form there to recommend people who we ought to interview in upcoming editions of the show. And also, we ask you and urge you to invite your friends to join us in the future. If you know of any one or any organization needing a speaker for an event, please email me at speaker at Michael hingson.com. I appreciate it very much. 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乘坐地铁必备的英文表达问路与进站 (Asking for Directions & Entering the Station)How do I get to the subway station?去地铁站怎么走？购票与充值 (Buying Tickets & Recharging)Excuse me, could you show me how to use the ticket machine?不好意思，您能教我怎么使用自动售票机吗？Where can I recharge my metro card?哪里可以给地铁卡充值？How much is a one-way ticket?单程票多少钱？Is there a discount for a round trip?往返票有折扣吗？查询线路与换乘 (Checking Routes & Transferring)I'd like to go to [Central Park]. Which line should I take?我想去【中央公园】，应该坐哪条线？Do I need to transfer to another line?我需要换乘其他线路吗？Where can I transfer to the Blue Line?我该在哪里换乘蓝线？This platform announcement is unclear. Which train goes to the airport?站台广播不太清楚，哪趟列车能去机场？遇到问题与求助 (Problems & Seeking Help)My metro card is not working. What should I do?我的地铁卡刷不了。我该怎么办？I think I took the wrong train. What's the best way to get back?我想我坐错车了。返回去最好的方式是什么？I left my backpack on the train. Can you help track it?我把背包落在列车上了，您能帮忙追踪一下吗？通用礼貌表达 (General Polite Expressions)Thank you for your help!谢谢您的帮助！更多卡卡老师分享公众号：卡卡课堂 卡卡老师微信：kakayingyu001送你一份卡卡老师学习大礼包，帮助你在英文学习路上少走弯路
The fight to maintain horse and carriage operators in Central Park in NYC is back. Christina Hansen continues to be a voice for reason and reality in the trenchs.
As New York City enters the final stages of a rather strange mayoral election in 2025, let's look back on a decidedly more unusual contest over 110 years ago, pitting Tammany Hall and their estranged ally (Mayor William Jay Gaynor) up against a baby-faced newcomer, the (second) youngest man ever to become the mayor of New York City.John Purroy Mitchel, the Bronx-born grandson of an Irish revolutionary, was a rising star in New York City, aggressively sweeping away incompetence and snipping away at government excess. Under his watch, two of New York's borough presidents were fired, just for being ineffectual! Mitchel made an ideal candidate for mayor in an era where Tammany Hall cronyism still dominated the nature of New York City.Nobody could predict the strange events that befell the city during the election of 1913, unfortunate and even bizarre incidents that catapulted this young man to City Hall and gave him the nickname "The Boy Mayor of New York."But things did not turn out as planned. He won his election with the greatest victory margin in New York City history. He left office four years later with an equally large margin of defeat. Tune in to our tale of this oft-ignored figure in New York City history, an example of good intentions gone wrong and — due to his tragic end — the only mayor honored with a memorial in Central Park.Visit the website for images from this podcast. Get your tickets to the Bowery Boys Ghost Stories of New York City live show at Joe's Pub here.This show is a reissue of a show that originally ran in September 2012; however, we think you'll find more than a few similarities in this tale to the current 2025 mayoral election landscape. This show was refreshed and remastered by Kieran Gannon.
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The Delacorte Theater, home to New York's beloved free outdoor Shakespeare performances in Central Park, has undergone an $85 million refurbishment. Now clad in redwood timber from disused water tanks from each of New York's boroughs, the structure has been made accessible for disabled audiences, actors and backstage workers. It's also been made water and raccoon-proof. Presenter Jeff Lunden has been following its progress – from a hard-hat tour in freezing February to the summer previews of a new production of Twelfth Night, starring Oscar-winning 12 Years a Slave actor Lupita Nyong'o, Sandra Oh from Killing Eve, and Game of Thrones' Peter Dinklage. This episode of The Documentary, comes to you from In the Studio, exploring the processes of the world's most creative people.
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New York City might seem like an unlikely place for a climber of Will Moss's caliber to hail from. And yet, he managed to find his way from the climbing gym, to boulders in Central Park, to runout trad routes in the Gunks and big walls in Yosemite. It was there that he recently made headlines as being the first person to flash a big wall free route on El Cap in just one day. Moss started climbing in his neighborhood gym when he was ten. For some perspective, that was only a decade ago. It was love at first climb, and he hasn't looked back since. At first, he mainly focused on indoor competition climbing. But when gyms closed during the COVID-19 pandemic he started getting outdoors more. A friend introduced him to the Gunks when he was sixteen, and, as he says, “that's where the dream of trad climbing began.” Now twenty years old, Moss's 22-hour push on El Cap this May was the culmination of more than two years of planning. In this conversation, we talk in depth about the historic climbs Will is ticking off at a young age, and what he's planning next as he takes a semester off from pursuing a degree in mechanical engineering to chase his climbing dreams. This episode is brought to you with support from Rab Equipment. Host: Abbey Collins Producer & Engineer: Mike Horn Guest: Will Moss Subscribe to Alpinist Magazine
In the Dumpster this week: We note the passing of Kelly Clarson's ex Brandon Blackstock at just 48. Please keep his four children in your thoughts. Actress, singer, Prince confidant, and other multi-hyphenate Apollonia (Patricia Apollonia Kotero), at the young age of 66, finds herself embroiled in a legal battle with Prince's estate over her name. Though Apollonia has been going by the moniker professionally since the 1980s, including while starring in Prince's Purple Rain film, and owns several trademarks for it, Paisley Park Enterprises is coming after her in the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board to try to cancel her ownership of her name. And while the Biebers have managed to avoid entry in the Trashy Divorces Cinematic Universe (by staying married!), we are officially launching "Bieber Watch" after Hailey's strong assertion of the stability of their marriage in May's issue of Vogue. Yeah, we're late to the party - people have been proclaiming the end that marriage since they started dating! Also, Justin Bieber's Instagram shows him recently hanging out with fellow Disney Channel alum Kyle Massey, which caused a bit of an uproar online. Massey stands accused of sending nude pictures to a 13 year old. Over in Hollywoodland, Leonardo DiCaprio has sat for a rare interview with Esquire Magazine and director Paul Thomas Anderson. In it, he explains that while he has entered his fifth birthday, his emotional age is more like 35. Seems high! Princess Lee Radziwill (and Jackie Kennedy's sister) Lee Radziwill's Upper East Side duplex is on the market - for a mere $17M. At 4,600-square-feet and with views of Central Park and Fifth Avenue, photos reveal a gorgeous home that's certainly out of our price range. Finally, in Cardi B and Offset news, it seems that Offset may be a bit tweaked that Cardi has moved on with a New England Patriots player - and declared his crush on singer Sabrina Carpenter, though he could not name any of her songs. Want early, ad-free episodes, regular Dumpster Dives, bonus divorces, limited series, Zoom hangouts, and more? Join us at patreon.com/trashydivorces! Want a personalized message for someone in your life? Check us out on Cameo! To advertise on our podcast, please reach out to info@amplitudemediapartners.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
“How could this owl, who was born in captivity, lived his whole life in a cage, how could he possibly survive? He's going to be dead in a few days. That's what everybody thought.” – Christine Mott In February 2023, a Eurasian eagle-owl named Flaco made headlines—and captured hearts—when he escaped from his small enclosure at the Central Park Zoo. Born in captivity and unable to fly or hunt, Flaco defied every expectation. In just weeks, he taught himself to soar across the Manhattan skyline, hunt for his own food, and live as freely as an owl could in a city of concrete and glass. For more than a year, New Yorkers spotted him perched in Central Park, on high-rises, even outside apartment windows—cheering him on as a symbol of resilience and freedom. Today's guest, attorney and lifelong animal advocate Christine Mott, has immortalized Flaco's story in her new children's book, Free Bird: Flaco the Owl's Dreams Take Flight. Told from Flaco's perspective, the book celebrates courage, hope, and the right of all animals to live free—without cages or confinement—while gently encouraging young readers to see captivity through an animal's eyes. This conversation is about Flaco's extraordinary journey, the lessons he left behind, and how one small owl sparked big changes for animals in New York and beyond. Links: https://lanternpm.org/book/free-bird/
Carl Ruiz, Vic Henley and Sherrod Small 3/22Joined by Vic Henley, the Mad Cube, and culinary maestro Carl Ruiz, the studio is buzzing with hilarious debates and nostalgic tales. They dive into a spirited discussion about music covers, sparked by a bluesy rendition of the Beastie Boys' classic by The Record Company. Is it a tribute or a travesty? The gang spars over whether iconic tracks like 'American Pie' or 'Stairway to Heaven' should ever be touched, with Carl staunchly defending the originals and Vic championing creative spins. From there, the conversation spirals into uproarious stories of youthful mischief—think roller-skating escapades with glitter wheels, Central Park's eccentric skaters, and Opie's days as a golf caddy pulling off 'Black Ops' pranks, like tossing golf balls and snapping putters during high-stakes matches. The crew doesn't stop there, diving into heartfelt and frustrating memories of family, shady business deals, and entrepreneurial dreams gone awry, all laced with their signature irreverent humor. It's a rollercoaster of laughs, nostalgia, and raw storytelling that'll keep you hooked!The final year of my radio journey holds a special place in my heart, made even more poignant by the loss of my cherished friends, Carl Ruiz and Vic Henley. Reflecting on that time, I rediscovered the pure passion and exhilaration that drew me to radio in the first place. Amidst the chaos and challenges, we found endless moments of hilarity and camaraderie. Alongside Carl, Vic, and Sherrod Small, we shared unforgettable experiences both on and off the airwaves, our tight-knit bond shining through every episode. That year also marked Carl Ruiz's meteoric rise to stardom, inspiring me to launch the Opie Radio podcast with him. I'm immensely grateful to Erock, Clubsoda Kenny, Paul, and Louis for joining us on this wild ride. Get ready to dive into the rollercoaster of emotions—the highs, the lows, and the laugh-out-loud moments—that defined my last year in radio.
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