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Toddlerhood is often described as a rollercoaster, which, as a mother to two myself, I can see why. Riding those emotional highs and lows can be a lot, but luckily, if you're also riding the waves, you're not alone. From epic meltdowns over the “wrong” snack to power struggles over everything from bedtime to toothbrushing, it's a season filled with big feelings (from both the kids and the parents!). That's why we're excited about this episode of Chick Chat. I'm chatting with Laura Amies, also known as Nanny Amies, all about surviving toddlerhood. Who is Laura Amies? Laura Amies – aka Nanny Amies – has worked with hundreds of children across her 20-year career, both in nurseries and as a private nanny, and was the TV expert "toddler tamer" for Channel Five's 'Toddlers Behaving (Very) Badly'. Laura has been supporting parents for the past 20 years. Offering a heartfelt approach to childcare and development within nurseries, schools, playgroups, family homes, and hotels worldwide. When it comes to children's behavior, she believes there's really nothing that she hasn't seen. What Did We Discuss? In this episode, Laura and I chick-chat about all things toddlerhood. She shares what's really behind common toddler behaviors, how to support your child through big emotions, and the best strategies to not just survive but thrive through raising your toddler. Whether you're in the thick of tantrums or just gearing up for this stage, this conversation will leave you feeling more informed, confident, and supported. Here are several of the questions that we covered in our conversation: Can you please share with us the most common challenges parents face during toddlerhood? How can parents best navigate these challenges? What are some common mistakes parents make when dealing with toddler tantrums, and how can they handle these situations more effectively? We've all heard people describe toddlerhood as the "terrible twos," the “threenager” stage and even the “fournados.” What are your thoughts when you hear these terms, and do you believe they are truly as terrible as people say? Emotional regulation is a huge milestone for children. How can we parents help our toddlers navigate big emotions like frustration, anger, or sadness?  What do you see as the most pivotal moments of toddler development?  What advice would you give to a first-time parent who's about to experience the challenges of toddlerhood? Toddlerhood doesn't have to feel like a battlefield. As Laura reminded us, these challenging moments are opportunities for connection, learning, and growth — for our children and for us as parents. With the right tools, realistic expectations, and a little perspective, you can feel more in control and less overwhelmed. If you're navigating the toddler trenches right now, I hope this episode reassures you that what you're experiencing is normal and that you're not alone. Laura's wisdom is a gift, and I'm so grateful she shared her practical, heartfelt strategies with us. Be sure to share this episode with a fellow parent who could use a little extra support during this season. We're all in this together! Laura's Resources Website: lauranannyamies.co.uk Instagram: @nannyamies TikTok: @nannyamies Facebook: @nannyamies Book: The Toddler Survival Guide Thank you for listening to our podcast. Cheers to surviving toddlerhood! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

OLIVER CROCKER on the original ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on December 15th 2024. This week's special guest is the film-maker, researcher, prolific podcaster, and author, OLIVER CROCKER who joins me to talk not about the long-running police drama THE BILL, about which he is something of an authority, but about another long-running drama from the 1970s and 1980s, the popular Yorkshire-set veterinary series ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL based upon the books by the author ALF WRIGHT who was better known by the pen name JAMES HERRIOT. Starring CHRISTOPHER TIMOTHY, ROBERT HARDY, CAROL DRINKWATER, and PETER DAVISON, with the likes of JOHN McGLYNN and LINDA BELLINGHAM joining the cast for its revival, ALL CREATURES was a huge success across seven series, ninety episodes, and appeared in the BBC schedules for over a decade, making household names of all of its stars, with a popular combination of light comedy, heart-wrenching drama, and lots and lots of the kind of photogenic cute furry animals that had viewers tuning in in their millions. OLIVER quite literally wrote the book on ALL CREATURES with his popular ALL MEMORIES GREAT AND SMALL, a collection of memories and production details about the making of a series which was so well loved that it has been successfully revived by CHANNEL FIVE for five series and counting, so I am very pleased to welcome him to VISION ON SOUND this week, to talk about this, and his TV career in general. PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content sometimes has to be removed for the podcast edition. All the spoken word content remains (mostly) as it was in the broadcast version. Hopefully this won't spoil your enjoyment of the show.

PAUL CHANDLER on some more contemporary psychological thrillers. First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on December 1st 2024. PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI is back, and this week he wanted to use as our starting point some of the telly that he'd been watching recently, and, because that's always a good prompt for an interesting television-related discussion, we did precisely that. So, whilst this does mean that, once again, the television we're talking about is a lot more modern than I'm usually familiar with, it does also mean that we're returning to a type of television that I've discussed with PAUL on at least one previous edition of the show, as we delve into the murky waters of the contemporary psychological thriller serial, the kind of show that Channel Five in particular seems to be producing in large numbers, and which it is promoting widely to a large audience who, much like PAUL, completely lap this kind of thing up. Our starting point today takes in three of serials first broadcast in 2024 that PAUL has enjoyed, THE CUCKOO starring JILL HALFPENNY and LEE INGLEBY which is a four-part series; THE WIVES, a six-part thriller with JAMIE BAMBER, JO JOYNER and TAMSIN OUTHWAITE; and THE TEACHER, another four-parter featuring KARA TOINTON and WILL MELLOR which serves as a follow-up to a previous series from 2022 featuring SHERIDAN SMITH. As ever, whilst this may be our starting point, our conversation meanders into all sorts of other mostly-related areas, and I do hope that you enjoy our observations over the course of the hour. PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content sometimes has to be removed for the podcast edition. All the spoken word content remains (mostly) as it was in the broadcast version. Hopefully this won't spoil your enjoyment of the show.

Stand Up is a daily podcast that I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of over 700 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls Check out StandUpwithPete.com to learn more Greg Proops at 31:20 minutes News and Clips at 12:39 I open with the Good Stuff! Here is Greg Proops Bio "Sharp dressed and even sharper witted." -LA Times "Proops has a fun, ranty, self-deprecating, flamboyant, quick comedy style with depth, range, and most importantly, great jokes." -SF Weekly Greg Proops is a stand up comic from San Francisco. He lives in Hollywood. And likes it. Mr. P has a spanking new stand up comedy CD called Proops Digs In. Available on iTunes and at http://www.aspecialthing.com Greg is shooting his second season on the hit Nickelodeon comedy series True Jackson VP. Starring Keke Palmer, NAACP Image Award winner, as True. Weekly on Nickelodeon. Mr. Proops is a frequent guest on The Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Chelsea Lately on E! and on Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld on Fox News. Greg joins long time cohorts Ryan Stiles, Jeff Davis and Chip Esten in the live improv show Whose Live Anyway? They are constantly touring the US and Canada. Proop pod has appeared on such notable comedy podcasts as WTF with Marc Maron, Doug Benson's I Love Movies and Kevin Pollak's Chat Show. Gregela is happy to be in the Streamy-winning of Easy to Assemble starring Illeana Douglass, as the shallow agent Ben. Seen on easytoassemble.tv. The Proopdog is best known for his unpredictable appearances on Whose Line is it Anyway? The hit, improvised comedy show on ABC hosted by Drew Carey. Greg is also a regular on the long running British version of WLIIA? Whose Line is currently seen on ABC Family Channel. Proops has been a guest on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon,The View and The Bonnie Hunt Show. Proopworld provides the announcer voice Hank "Buckshot" Holmes for the forthcoming game Mad World for SEGA. Darth Greg is heard as the bad guy Tal Merrick in the animated TV series Clone Wars on Cartoon Network. Greg can also be heard as the voice of Bob the Builder on the popular children's series seen on PBS. The HBO series Flight of Conchords features Greg as Martin Clarke an advertising executive and weasel. Greg joined long time cohort Ryan Stiles in a two-man improvised show, Unplanned. They performed for sell out crowds at the Just For laughs Festival in Montreal and taped a gala for the CBC. Mr. Proops cares like Bono and has performed and hosted at many events for the ACLU including the 2008 membership conference and a rally to stop torture with Rep. Dennis Kucinich, Senator Patrick Leahy and Larry Cox, Director of Amnesty International USA. Mr. Proopwell aided and abetted Joan and Melissa Rivers on the red carpet at the 2007 Oscars, Emmys, SAG and Grammy awards as a wag and celebrity traffic cop on TV Guide Channel. Mr. Prooples regularly hosts his own live comedy chat show at the ridiculously hip Hollywood rock joint Largo. Guests have included Flight of the Conchords, Jason Schwartzman, Russell Brand, Jack Black, Dave Grohl, Patton Oswalt, Sarah Silverman, Joe Walsh, Janeane Garofalo, David Cross, Margaret Cho, Dave Eggers, Joan Rivers, Aidan Quinn, Jeff Goldblum, Kathy Griffin, Lewis Black, Eddie Izzard and John C. Reilly. Providing musical magic is genius and imp Jon Brion. Mr. Proops has also performed his chat show in Aspen at the HBO Comedy Arts Festival, The Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Montreal at the Just For Laughs Festival. He also accompanied Drew Carey to the 2006 World Cup and produced and starred in Drew Carey's Sporting Adventures on the Travel Channel. Mr. Proops other television sightings include, Last Comic Standing, Ugly Betty, The Bigger Picture with Graham Norton on BBC, Mock the Week on BBC2 and The Drew Carey Show. Mr. P is very pleased to improvise with Drew Carey, Ryan Styles, Kathy Kinney, Colin Mochrie and many talented others as part of the Improv All Stars. They had the honor of performing for the troops in Bosnia, Kosovo and the Persian Gulf as part of the USO. The All-Stars can be seen on a fabulous Showtime comedy special. When over the pond in London, Greg sits in with the renowned Comedy Store Players. Darth Proops was so excited to portray Fode, one half of the pod race announcer in the hit motion picture Star Wars: The Phantom Menace and all the subsequent video games. As well as many voices in Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas. Greg went medieval as Cryptograf in the animated feature Asterix and the Vikings based on the popular French comic book. Greg may be heard as Gommi, the Articulate Worm in Kaena: The Prophecy a full length animated feature starring Kirsten Dunst. He was also Bernard, a mad scientist on Pam Anderson's animated series Stripperella. Mr. Greg was spotted hosting his own syndicated, national dating show Rendez View. He also hosted the now cult classic game show Comedy Central's VS. Senor Proops threw down an original half-hour of stand up on Comedy Central Presents. Which is repeated ad infinitum. Across the wide Atlantic in the United Kingdom Greg had his own chat show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival broadcast live on BBC Radio Scotland. Groovy guests like Candace Bushnell, Rich Hall, Geraldine Chaplin, Steven Berkoff and Garrison Keillor have snuggled his sofa. Mr. Proops performed stand up at How to Cook a benefit with Michael Palin and Terry Jones for the Peter Cook Foundation a BBC Christmas special. Greg was honored to be invited to rock the mike at Prince Charles' 50th Royal Birthday Gala seen on ITV in Britain. He performed a stand up half-hour on Comedy Store Five for Channel Five and has bantered on All Talk with Clive Anderson. The Proopkitty is a total smartyboots: he won The Weakest Link, Ben Stein's Money and Rock n' Roll Jeopardy. He also asked Dick Clark what his plans were for New Years Eve while guest hosting The Other Half. Proopmonkey rocks his stand up comedy all over the world and can be found most frequently performing in his beloved hometown of San Francisco. Mr. P. has toured the UK four times, sold out the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 28 years running and has kicked it live in Paris, Turkey, Milan, Aspen, Montreal, Scotland, Ireland, Norway, New Zealand and the United Arab Emirates. Below the Equator in New Zealand the Proopshobbit hosted the Oddfellows Comedy Gala for TVNZ and headlined the New Zealand International Comedy Festival. In Australia Speccy Spice jammed at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and hosted, Hey, Hey it's Saturday! A national TV institution. Mr. Proops is married to a woman, Jennifer. He doesn't deserve her. They reside in Lower California with their pet ocelot, Lady Gaga. The Stand Up Community Chat is always active with other Stand Up Subscribers on the Discord Platform.   Join us Monday and Thursday at 8EST for our Weekly Happy Hour Hangout!  Pete on Threads Pete on Tik Tok Pete on YouTube  Pete on Twitter Pete On Instagram Pete Personal FB page Stand Up with Pete FB page All things Jon Carroll  Follow and Support Pete Coe Buy Ava's Art  Hire DJ Monzyk to build your website or help you with Marketing

Tom Hauser from Channel Five, joined Vineeta to break down the latest Survey USA polling on the Presidential Race.

Tom Hauser from Channel Five, joined Vineeta to break down the latest Survey USA polling on the Presidential Race.

Sir Peter Bazalgette was until recently part of the previous Government's committee to review how the BBC was funded. In his distinguished career he has been responsible for shows such as Big Brother, Changing Rooms and Ready Steady Cook, he's also a former chair of Arts Council England and in September 2023 he stepped down as chair of ITV. He is now co-chair of the Creative Council. On this week's programme we discussed the Media Act (was anything left out), BBC funding and the future of public service broadcasters.I see Freely, which has recently been launched as an online way of getting all the public service broadcasting in a streaming service, I see that is just the beginning. I think there needs to be further mergers. And it'll be interesting to see what happens to Channel Five. Now that it looks like the owners Paramount are selling out, because I don't think it's going to be a priority for the new American owners. And it may well change hands in the next six to nine months. To support our journalism and receive a weekly blog sign up now for £1.99 per month: www.patreon.com/BeebWatch/membership Or if you'd rather make a one-off payment (which doesn't entitle you to the blog) please use our crowdfunding page:https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/roger-boltons-beeb-watch-podcast @BeebRogerInstagram: rogerboltonsbeebwatchLinkedIn: Roger Bolton's Beeb Watch email: roger@rogerboltonsbeebwatch.com   Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

******Support the channel****** Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenter PayPal: paypal.me/thedissenter PayPal Subscription 1 Dollar: https://tinyurl.com/yb3acuuy PayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ybn6bg9l PayPal Subscription 5 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/ycmr9gpz PayPal Subscription 10 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/y9r3fc9m PayPal Subscription 20 Dollars: https://tinyurl.com/y95uvkao   ******Follow me on****** Website: https://www.thedissenter.net/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thedissenteryt/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDissenterYT   This show is sponsored by Enlites, Learning & Development done differently. Check the website here: http://enlites.com/   Grace Blakeley is an author, journalist, and political commentator. She attended University of Oxford where she graduated with a first-class honors degree in philosophy, economics, and politics. She has written for the Guardian, Tribune and the New Statesman among others, and appears regularly on television and radio, including on ITV Good Morning Britain, TalkTV and Jeremy Vine on Channel Five. She is the author of Stolen (Repeater), The Corona Crash (Verso), and her latest book, Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom.   In this episode, we focus on Vulture Capitalism. We start by talking about the most common misconceptions people have about how capitalism works. We then discuss how businesses are planned, the importance of labor movements, how companies get state support, and how countries from the global North exploit countries from the global South. We discuss what “freedom” means, and how people can democratize institutions and take back control. Finally, we talk about the current state of the world, and reasons for being optimistic. -- A HUGE THANK YOU TO MY PATRONS/SUPPORTERS: PER HELGE LARSEN, JERRY MULLER, HANS FREDRIK SUNDE, BERNARDO SEIXAS, ADAM KESSEL, MATTHEW WHITINGBIRD, ARNAUD WOLFF, TIM HOLLOSY, HENRIK AHLENIUS, FILIP FORS CONNOLLY, DAN DEMETRIOU, ROBERT WINDHAGER, RUI INACIO, ZOOP, MARCO NEVES, COLIN HOLBROOK, PHIL KAVANAGH, SAMUEL ANDREEFF, FRANCIS FORDE, TIAGO NUNES, FERGAL CUSSEN, HAL HERZOG, NUNO MACHADO, JONATHAN LEIBRANT, JOÃO LINHARES, STANTON T, SAMUEL CORREA, ERIK HAINES, MARK SMITH, JOÃO EIRA, TOM HUMMEL, SARDUS FRANCE, DAVID SLOAN WILSON, YACILA DEZA-ARAUJO, ROMAIN ROCH, DIEGO LONDOÑO CORREA, YANICK PUNTER, CHARLOTTE BLEASE, NICOLE BARBARO, ADAM HUNT, PAWEL OSTASZEWSKI, NELLEKE BAK, GUY MADISON, GARY G HELLMANN, SAIMA AFZAL, ADRIAN JAEGGI, PAULO TOLENTINO, JOÃO BARBOSA, JULIAN PRICE, EDWARD HALL, HEDIN BRØNNER, DOUGLAS FRY, FRANCA BORTOLOTTI, GABRIEL PONS CORTÈS, URSULA LITZCKE, SCOTT, ZACHARY FISH, TIM DUFFY, SUNNY SMITH, JON WISMAN, WILLIAM BUCKNER, PAUL-GEORGE ARNAUD, LUKE GLOWACKI, GEORGIOS THEOPHANOUS, CHRIS WILLIAMSON, PETER WOLOSZYN, DAVID WILLIAMS, DIOGO COSTA, ANTON ERIKSSON, ALEX CHAU, AMAURI MARTÍNEZ, CORALIE CHEVALLIER, BANGALORE ATHEISTS, LARRY D. LEE JR., OLD HERRINGBONE, MICHAEL BAILEY, DAN SPERBER, ROBERT GRESSIS, IGOR N, JEFF MCMAHAN, JAKE ZUEHL, BARNABAS RADICS, MARK CAMPBELL, TOMAS DAUBNER, LUKE NISSEN, KIMBERLY JOHNSON, JESSICA NOWICKI, LINDA BRANDIN, NIKLAS CARLSSON, GEORGE CHORIATIS, VALENTIN STEINMANN, PER KRAULIS, KATE VON GOELER, ALEXANDER HUBBARD, BR, MASOUD ALIMOHAMMADI, JONAS HERTNER, URSULA GOODENOUGH, DAVID PINSOF, SEAN NELSON, MIKE LAVIGNE, JOS KNECHT, ERIK ENGMAN, LUCY, YHONATAN SHEMESH, MANVIR SINGH, PETRA WEIMANN, PEDRO BONILLA, CAROLA FEEST, AND STARRY! A SPECIAL THANKS TO MY PRODUCERS, YZAR WEHBE, JIM FRANK, ŁUKASZ STAFINIAK, TOM VANEGDOM, BERNARD HUGUENEY, CURTIS DIXON, BENEDIKT MUELLER, THOMAS TRUMBLE, KATHRINE AND PATRICK TOBIN, JONCARLO MONTENEGRO, AL NICK ORTIZ, NICK GOLDEN, AND CHRISTINE GLASS! AND TO MY EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS, MATTHEW LAVENDER, SERGIU CODREANU, BOGDAN KANIVETS, ROSEY, AND GREGORY HASTINGS!

Send us a Text Message.In today's episode, Debbi Kickham discusses luxury travel and fashion, highlighting unique discoveries and experiences. Debbi is a former editor of Robb Report, current senior editor at Honeymoons.com and luxury travel contributor to Forbes.com, WestFair and Travel Curator. Follow Debbi's life and work here: http://gorgeousglobetrotter.com/ Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/DebbiKickham/ X: https://x.com/debbikickham Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/debbikickham/ Honeymoons.com: https://honeymoons.com/about/ Westfair: https://westfaironline.com/author/dkickham/ Travel Curator: https://travelcurator.com/about-us/ Canyon Ranch: https://www.forbes.com/sites/debbikickham/2024/02/14/celebrate-beauty-and-wellness-at-canyon-ranch-spas-first-ever-special-event/ Miraval: https://www.forbes.com/sites/debbikickham/2022/11/15/world-spa-awards-reveals-the-best-spa-and-wellness-brands-for-2022/ Bill: https://westfaironline.com/author/debbi-and-william-d-kickham/ Regent Seven Seas Cruises: https://www.rssc.com/ Viking: https://www.vikingcruises.com/oceans/why-viking/the-viking-difference.html Paul Gauguin: https://www.pgcruises.com/ Channel Five, NY: https://www.fox5ny.com/ I love men in tassled loafers: https://www.amazon.com/Love-Men-Tasseled-Loafers-Judge/dp/155770029X Canfora Capri Sandals: https://www.canfora.com/ Ola: https://hawaiianbodyproducts.com/  French Kande: https://www.frenchkande.com/ Jet Set Candy: https://jetsetcandy.com/ Sandals Jamaica: https://honeymoons.com/best-sandals-in-jamaica/ Bora Bora: https://www.forbes.com/sites/debbikickham/2018/04/27/tahitis-overwater-bungalows-are-the-ultimate-luxury/ 25 Best Overwater Bungalows: https://honeymoons.com/overwater-bungalows-caribbean/ Transcendent Travel: https://www.forbes.com/sites/debbikickham/2024/05/15/transcendent-travel-reigns-supreme-and-will-cross-the-1-trillion-mark-in-2024/ It's Easy.com: https://www.itseasy.com/ Thank you for listening!  Please take a moment to rate, review and subscribe to the Media in Minutes podcast here or anywhere you get your podcasts:

25% off your motorhome insurance premium ➙ mhmp.info/ripe In this episode of the Motorhome Matt podcast, Keith and Matt take you on a live journey from the Southern Motorhome and Campervan Show 2024! Tune in as they delve into evolving industry trends, chat with show attendees like Moira, Jeremy, and Hazel about their fascinating adventures, and explore the allure of motorhome shows. Joining the discussion are Malish and Zoe from "Bonjour Motorhome," sharing captivating tales from their French travels and motorhome renovation experiences. In the news, recent findings from the AA have revealed alarming statistics on tyre-related incidents. Stay tuned for Matt's essential tips on tyre safety to ensure your upcoming travels are smooth and secure. Plus, Keith sits down with Paul Merton and Suki Webster, stars of the hit Channel Five show "Motorhoming with Merton and Webster," for an exclusive conversation about their motorhome escapades and invaluable insights. And don't miss out on our Q&A, where Matt addresses your questions about Crit'Air stickers and caravan hitch locks. ✅ MOTORHOME MATT APPROVED Services, products and educational resources used and approved by Motorhome Matt  mhmp.info/approved ❓ ASK MATT mhmp.info/askmatt

It's Thanksgiving weekend and you know what that means? It's time for our yearly (usually yearly) movie review podcast. We decided to watch Five Nights at Freddy's in the hope that we could spare any of you having to watch this boring, nothing-burger of a movie. So consider this your warning because we're spoiling everything about this movie. Are you spending the weekend with some relatives that are, let's say, not politically aligned with you? Well, this movie might give you something we can all hate together. Will our wooden protagonist manage to keep his little sister out of his evil aunt's clutches? Will the antagonist end up being the guy played by the most recognizable actor in the movie? Who was that girl at the food court? Wait, how do these animatronics work? How does this compare to Willy's Wonderworld? We'll (try to) answer all these questions and more.

HMO Success Podcast Episode 89 - You've seen him on the streets now hear him on my podcast! Paul Shamplina on his career, the Private Rented Sector and the role of HMOs in providing much needed housing. My guest this week is the (in)famous Paul Shamplina from Landlord Action, now part of the Hamilton Fraser group. Not only is Paul an eviction expert, he is a serial entrepreneur, having founded many businesses which support, train and service landlords. These include the Property Redress Scheme, My Deposits and Client Money Protect.  You may have seen him on one of the many series of Channel Five's ‘Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords' in his role as founder of Landlord Action, where he sought to deal with many problem situations! I was therefore honoured to interview him to understand his views on the private rented sector and HMOs.  As always he is engaging, thoughtful and immensely knowledgeable. You'll enjoy this one!   https://www.landlordaction.co.uk/paul-shamplina https://www.theprs.co.uk/news/a-day-in-the-life-of-paul-shamplina-filming-nightmare-tenants-slum-landlords  

Skip the Queue is brought to you by Rubber Cheese, a digital agency that builds remarkable systems and websites for attractions that helps them increase their visitor numbers. Your host is  Kelly Molson, Founder of Rubber Cheese.Download the Rubber Cheese 2022 Visitor Attraction Website Report - the first digital benchmark statistics for the attractions sector.If you like what you hear, you can subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, and all the usual channels by searching Skip the Queue or visit our website rubbercheese.com/podcast.If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a five star review, it really helps others find us. And remember to follow us on Twitter for your chance to win the books that have been mentioned in this podcastCompetition ends July 31st 2023. The winner will be contacted via Twitter.  Show references:  https://www.alnwickgarden.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianjmcallister/https://www.itv.com/news/tyne-tees/2023-05-24/worlds-biggest-play-park-set-to-open Ian McAllister is the Strategic Head of Marketing and Communications at The Alnwick Garden and Lilidorei.  His route into attraction marketing wasn't an obvious one – from not joining the RAF (based mainly on eyesight and petulance) he dabbled in recruitment ( based mainly on proximity to his flat) then television (based mainly on flatmate work envy).  He manages a team of marketers who deliver all marketing, PR and communications to these two attractions based in Northumberland. Transcriptions: Kelly Molson: Welcome to Skip The Queue, a podcast for people working in or working with visitor attractions. I'm your host, Kelly Molson. Each episode, I speak with industry experts from the attractions world. In today's episode I speak with Ian McAllister, Strategic Head of Marketing and Communications at The Alnwick Garden.Ian shares with us the magical story behind Lilidorei, logistics of creating a play structure over 26 meters tall, snot ice cream, free Fridays and the impact this will have on the local area and children. If you like what you hear, you can subscribe on all the usual channels by searching Skip the Queue. Kelly Molson: Ian, I'm so excited to have you on the podcast today. Thank you for coming to join me. Ian McAllister: No problem. Kelly Molson: Let's start with some icebreakers, shall we? Ian and I, we had a little pre podcast chat a few weeks ago and we established that we're both from sunny old Essex. This could end up quite messy, really, couldn't it? Because I tend to whenever I'm speaking to my Essex kinfolk, my accent goes, very Essex. This might get messy. Ian McAllister: The good thing is, living up here, people don't know my real accent, but once they hear that, I'm sure that it'll come out. Kelly Molson: They will after this, Ian. Right, okay, icebreakers. I want to know, topical, what's the worst Essex nightclub that you've ever been in? Ian McAllister: Tots, Southend. But it was so bad that I used to go every Friday. It was bad for the sticky floors and for the people that were there and for the music they played and everything about it was terrible. But every Friday I would still go up there. I don't know why.Kelly Molson: So bad. It's so good. I can remember driving there from my part of Essex and going out Tots. Someone broke my big toe into Tots. Literally, like, stamped on my big toe and broke it. Ian McAllister: Do you remember? There was a place called Ritzes, which I think was in Romford, and went there one night, and this was back in the day, where people thought if you were wearing trainers, you were going to cause trouble, so you weren't allowed to wear trainers. And a mate of mine, Paul Mayo. I had two good friends in Essex, Paul Mayo and Ross Gherkin, so they were the three of us. But Paul Mayo went up to the club and they wouldn't let me say trainers. So he left the queue and went around the corner, took his shoes off and took his black socks off, put his trainers back on and his black socks over his trainers, and they just let him straight in. Kelly Molson: Wow. Ian McAllister: Yeah. Which made Moonwalking brilliant, because he had a really good sock that he could moonwalk across the dance floor. Kelly Molson: That is ridiculous. That's ridiculous. So sorry, we just need to go back to your friend's names as well. Mayo and Gherkin. Are you joking? Ian McAllister: Mayo and Gherkin? No. So, I mean, I was always Mac. So I was always Ian Mac. Then there was Mayo and Gherkin. So they were the three of us that used to kick around together in Essex. Kelly Molson: That is chaos already. Ian McAllister: There you go. Opening question. Kelly Molson: This is an ethics thing as well, right? Everybody has nicknames, don't they? You know the Gavin and Stacy thing, where you got Smithy and what? Chinese Allen. That's the thing. That is so Essex, it's ridiculous. Ian McAllister: My nickname for ages was I wasn't a good looking chap growing up. And I had a brace, a demi wave, and I had these big reactor like glasses and I don't know if you've ever seen the National Lampoons European vacation, but the sun was called Rusty Grizzwald. So my friend Gary decided that I was just called Rusty, so he still calls me it to this day. So I'm still just Rusty. Kelly Molson: Oh, God, that's so weird, because my next question was going to be, if you ever been told you look like someone famous, who was it? Ian McAllister: Yeah, but that's not a positive thing. Kelly Molson: No. I wasn't expecting Rusty from National Lampoons to come up. Ian McAllister: I mean, lots of people to try and compare themselves to you, like some Brad Pitt and George Clooney, whereas I'm going for 15 year old Rusty Grizzled. Kelly Molson: Humble. I think that's quite humble, isn't it? Right, final one. I feel like the ice is well and truly broken, melted. What is your best scar story? Ian McAllister: My best scar story is a very recent one. Last year on New Year's Day, I took the kids for a lovely walk to our local woods with the dog. And me being me, I challenged them both to climb a tree. And it was a tree that was like one of these trees that's too good not to climb, do you know what I mean? It was really big branches and big trunk. So I've got twins, 14 year old twins, a boy and a girl. So my daughter was like a whippet and she went up the tree and then my son, with a bit of encouragement, went up the tree and he got his foot wedged in, like the V of the branch, about seven and a half, eight foot up, so he couldn't get out. Ian McAllister: So I climbed up behind him and I held onto a branch either side of him. I said, "Right, all you got to do is just wiggle your foot a little bit". So he obviously didn't hear a word I said. He yanked his foot out, so we both fell out the tree. So I grabbed onto him and he landed on me. And as he landed, I heard ankle snap. So I'm at the top of a woods, probably a mile into the woods. So the kids that week before have been at Scouts and they learned about what three words. So we had to phone an ambulance and they did the what three words and this, that and the other. Ian McAllister: So the ambulance had to then he couldn't drive, so you had to push the stretcher for a mile, pretty much up an incline to get to me. Had to take a breather because it was so far up, put me on the stretcher, but then the ambulance had to drop, so it's just me and the kids that live here with the dog. So the ambulance then had to drop the dog and my kids at my house before they took me to hospital. So turned out I completely broken my ankle, so I had to go for an operation. And I had a metal plate pulse, ligament and wiring all around my ankle. Ian McAllister: So I've got a treat of a scar on my ankle that they also cut through two nerves, so I also can't feel from a nerve down from the little toe, from a knee down to the little toe at the minute. Kelly Molson: I feel like we're going to have to put a warning on this podcast episode, if anyone's like a slightly queasy disposition. Wow. I was not expecting that. Ian McAllister: Yeah, it's a lovely story, isn't it? I think I've learned the lesson. I made a blue plaque on photoshop about Ian fell here and I went back to the tree afterwards and pinned it on the tree. Kelly Molson: It's a special moment. Ian McAllister: That tree will always be in my memory. Kelly Molson: But well done, your children, on learning the skills to get you out of a very tricky situation. Ian McAllister: Yeah, it was great, but they loved it because they got riding an ambulance, so their Snapchat stories were filled up that day with pictures of them and the dog in an ambulance on a muddy New Year's Day. Kelly Molson: Great story. Thank you for sharing. I feel like we've started the podcast on high. Ian McAllister: We can't really go any lower than this, can we? Kelly Molson: Not really, no. Your unpopular opinion, Ian. I dread to think what this might be. Ian McAllister: Had a few and I was trying to think which one would upset the least people. So I had a few. I was trying to think which one upset the least people. So this one's cake. And I hate cake. And I've always hated cake, really dislike cake. And I think people say to me, "what is it you don't like about cake?". And I think I've narrowed it down to the taste, the texture, the smell and the look. Because just everything about a cake, I don't like. So when it comes to birthdays, the kids obviously get me a birthday cake because they can eat it themselves, but I just don't like cake. I've got a bit of a funny not so much now, but I had a funny food thing. I'm sorry in advance. I didn't eat yellow food for about six months. Ian McAllister: It was anything yellow, even to the point where if I got a packet of M&Ms, I wouldn't eat the yellow ones. Kelly Molson: Can I just ask what age you were? Was this 30? Ian McAllister: Probably worse than that? It's about 35. Like my late 30s. Genuinely, genuinely developed an aversion to yellow food. So my friend Steven, who's head of HR at work, he went through a phase of thinking to try and reeducate me. So every Friday he'd go through Steven's adventures in food. It was all the food that I probably should have eaten by the time I was, like, 40 years and hadn't. So things like sushi or porridge. Every Friday he'd bring in something and it would be a chart, like a reward chart. And he'd put a little sticker on if I liked it or didn't like it. Just because people don't know I'm a 47 year old man with two children. Kelly Molson: Oh, God. And have you eaten a banana since? That's what I need to know. Ian McAllister: Yeah, since I started re eating yellow food, I'm all over it. I like a banana, like a bit of pineapple. Cheese is great. We just have the argument because people would say to me, and this was my bugbear, and they get really irritated with this. It's a what about chips? Chips aren't yellow. They're like a beige. So chips were allowed. Kelly Molson: Okay. And pasta as well. They're all in the beige category rather than yellow. Okay. Ian McAllister: Yeah. So can you imagine presenting me with a yellow cake? Yellow cake? That'd be my idea of h***. Kelly Molson: That's your worst nightmare, isn't it? Jaffa Cake. How do you sit about that? Is that a cake or a biscuit? Ian McAllister: But food of choice would always be a chocolate hobnob. No question. Kelly Molson: Great biscuit. Yeah. In the fridge. Ian McAllister: Great biscuit. Crunch. Good for the dunk. Always in the fridge, yeah. Chocolate. What do you think about this chocolate? Does it live in your cupboard or in your fridge? Kelly Molson: Fridge. I like a crunch. I like it to go crunch and then I like that it then melts in your mouth. It's like two different sensations in one. People will argue about this. This is not an unpopular popular opinion, by the way, but people will not be happy about this at all. Ian McAllister: No, but I mean, the people that aren't happy with it are wrong. Kelly Molson: They are. Agreed. Oh, my goodness, what a start for this podcast. Okay, how did an Essex boy end up in Northumberland? Tell me a little bit about your background, because you're not from attractions background at all, are you? You come from a completely different sector. Ian McAllister: Yeah, when I got married, which since divorced, but when I got married, my best man suggested it was witness protection. That's what kind of brought me 350 miles north. But the fact was I was working, I'm from Essex, as we've previously mentioned, and I then went to university in Surrey. I went to Kingston and I was working just locally, really, just in pubs and clubs. And I went downstairs to my flat and it was a redeployment, so I thought, it's time to get a proper job. And it was literally under my flat and I ended up working there, mainly because it was under my flat and it took about 10 seconds to commute to it. So I spent a bit of time in recruitment and at the time I was living with two flatmates weirdly, both called Marcus. Ian McAllister: So Marcus One and Marcus Two both worked in TV. One worked, I think Channel Five and One was a BBC or ITV. And I kept telling how good their jobs were and how great their life was, and I thought, "Well, you know what, can't beat them, got to join them". So I did actually beat them. So I wrote to MTV with a really cocky letter saying how much it be their big mistake if they didn't recruit me and this and the other. So I went in for my interview and the guy said, I've got you in because you're either really good or really cocky. And I don't know which one it is. So eventually they gave me a job. So I worked in media in London and I think I was there for two years. Ian McAllister: I just got sick of the rat race and it was just the commute to London. It was an hour each way and I was fed up of it, and I was fed up with the people and I was fed up of the busyness. And I met my then wife, who is from up here, but she had a flat in Edinburgh. I just thought, "You know what, I've got no real commitments down here". I don't have any kids or pets or any of that sort of stuff. So I just chose to order and we moved to Edinburgh and I kind of flipped around in recruitment and odds and ends, moved to the north and set up a property company. So were renting properties to students. Ian McAllister: Then I went to work for a marketing company and then I ended up working where I do now, The Alnwick Garden part time doing marketing and then just kind of worked my way up from there. I couldn't remember what the question was. Was it your background? Kelly Molson: Yeah, you answered it well. Yeah. Well done. Ian McAllister: Thanks. Definitely didn't come from tourism, but I kind of came from marketing kind of sales. And I think I've always been one of these people that might be clear by now that could just talk. Kelly Molson: That's coming across. Definitely getting that on this episode. But I like that you sound like someone who makes their own opportunities in life, which I like. You just go out and get what you want and what's going to fit for you. Tell us a little bit about Alnwick Garden because we're going to talk a little bit about something attached to Alnwick Garden. But Alnwick Gardens itself is quite spectacular. Think it dates back is it 1996? It dates back to is that when. Ian McAllister: It was originally about 1890s. We can date it back to. So it was the original garden kitchen garden for the Alnwick Castle. So it was throughout the two World Wars, it was what fed all the local farmers and the local community and this, that and the other. So come the 90s is when the Duchess of Northumberland, who lives in the castle, was married to the Duke. That's when she took it on as a bit of a project. And she got in some designers from, I think Belgium called Vertz Design. So it's a Vertz design garden and she took it over as a garden and she always wanted it to be she always said it was going to be a stage for people to do whatever they want in, so we can put on events. Ian McAllister: We've had random things, like we've had mixed martial arts in the garden and then we've had Peppa Pig characters coming in. So it's a real variety of things that we do in the garden. But, yeah, so it's been open for 20 odd years now. We're a charity, so we're just about celebrating the 20th year of becoming a charity. So, yeah, the Alnwick Garden itself is a garden, as you'd expect. It's got world's largest Taihaku cherry orchard outside of Japan, got Poison Garden, it's got the world's largest treehouse, which is a restaurant. It's got all these kind of unusual things that you wouldn't necessarily put in, like an RHS garden or a queue garden type place. And it's a great big open space that we market, people come and we do weird events in. Kelly Molson: So it's quite special in its own right, isn't it? But then, about twelve years ago, Jane Percy, the Duchess of Northumberland, she had another idea, didn't she? And that's what we're going to talk about today. Do you all get a little bit worried when she says, "I've got this idea?". Because this one's been a pretty mental one, hasn't it? Spectacularly mental one. Ian McAllister: Yeah. It's kind of that first glimmer of, "Oh, God, what's it going to be now with the backup of the thing is that when she has an idea, she sees it through". And I say this, I know a lot of people chuck this phrase around loosely, and I don't mean it this at all. She's a visionary, because she has these completely off the wall ideas, but has then got the determination and the team behind her to actually see them through. So the new project being the biggie, which has been years in the making and years in the planning, and I'm sure do you want to introduce it or do you want me to say what it is? Kelly Molson: Well, what do you do it. The world's biggest children's play park. Ian McAllister: Yeah. So it's called Lilidorei, which every single thing in it is from her head. And she's got this really creative outlook on life, and she's then pulls in the right people to kind of bring them to life. So she imagined this place where kids could just be away from technology, where they could play and actually play like we used to when were little. And we'd go out making dens and kind of making up our own stories. And it's called Lilidorei,. So the concept of the place is that it's a Lilidorei, village and there's nine clans that live in this village and all of the clans worship Christmas. So you've got good clans and you've got bad clans. Ian McAllister: And it's weird talking about this in a normal way now, and I've seen construction staff talk about this, and it feels weird to be saying things like the elves and the fairies and the pixies. But it got to the point when were building where you'd see the big construction workers and the joiners fags in their mouth, talking about pixies houses and fairies and elves. But the concept is that some of the clans are really good, like the fairies and the pixies, and then some are a bit more troublesome, like the goblins and the hobgoblins and the trolls. But at Christmas time, they all come together to worship Christmas. So whilst it's Christmas themed, it's not Christmas all year, apart from the gift shop, which is fully Christmas at every time. Ian McAllister: They can buy a ball tomorrow if you want, but we've also got the world's largest play structure. So the place structure was built by a company called MONSTROM, who are based in Denmark. And it's one of these things that's got to be seen to believed, which makes marketing it quite tricky because you can't really feel it until you stood underneath it. But local landmark, the angel of the north, is always a good point of reference. So our play structure is 6 meters taller than the angel of the north. And there's a slide from the top, so it's a 26 meters high structure and there's a slide that comes from 20 meters up. Ian McAllister: But to get to this slide, you go around this really convoluted system of walkways and corridors and climbing up uncomfortable spaces and squeezing through things and climbing up nets, and that's just part of it. The rest of it is all these clan houses. So it's a really fascinating place. Kelly Molson: It's amazing, isn't it, that all of this came out of her head? So I watched the ITV, did a publication on your launch, which was it was only a couple of weeks ago, wasn't it, that it opened? The presenter of the snippet, he went up the slide and came down it and he was talking it through and he was saying, 26 meters. And I was like, "Yeah, that's quite high, isn't it?". But you can't really grasp when someone says that. To me, I couldn't really kind of grasp what the height of 26 meters actually looked like. So when you said that comparison that you've just given about the angel of the north, that's really big. Ian McAllister: But there's no point. It's all enclosed. So, like, you've got open netting and this and other but there's nowhere that kids can actually fall off, if you like. So I think kids, it tests their bravery. It's handy for us from an insurance point of view, health and safety, certainly, but kids like, test themselves. So you'll see them start the session and they'll just be on the little swings at the bottom or on the little spinny mushrooms, and then by the end of the session, you see them at the top running around like it's no one's business, just testing bravery. I think that's the big thing. Kelly Molson: Yeah. And I love the idea that it opens your imagination. You can be any part of that story. You've got that underlying story of the clans and that they worship Christmas, but then you make your own part of that story to go with it, and based on where you interact and where you go and where you climb or what houses you go into and all of those kind of things. It is pure magic, isn't it? Ian McAllister: It is. And we've got a team of people that work. They're called secret keepers. So they're sitting in their outfits and costumes, but they're really extravagantly dressed with feathers in their hats and all sorts. Their job is almost to facilitate the play. So it was almost a marketer's dream when I started off because we couldn't really talk about what it was because people didn't understand until it was built, couldn't see it. So I came up with a concept, which is the most lazy marketing you'll ever think of and the whole tagline which is carried through is, what's your story? So really what we're doing is we're encouraging people to make their own narrative and to make their own story, which saves me the job for a start, but also we don't want to dictate that. Ian McAllister: Well, that clan looks like this because you can't see the clans, you can see the houses and you can imagine how they are, but you can't actually see anything. So when you get there, it's all brought together by this immersive sound we've got. It's like a million quids worth of sound system for each clan. House has got its own immersive sound system that kind of gives you implications or ideas as to what that clan might be up to or what's happening inside the house. So you can look into their house window and you can see how it's all set up. So it kind of starts to build this picture and then the secret keepers are there to encourage that with the kids and, "What do you think they look like? And could you hear that sort of noise?". Ian McAllister: And it gives this underlying narrative for every kid that comes, is obviously going to leave with a different picture of what a particular clan or a particular circumstance is like. Kelly Molson: That's amazing. So you don't have the characters. They never see what the goblins look like, for instance. They have to make all of that upload in their own minds. Ian McAllister: Yeah, I mean, we've got this sort of narrative in the background. We've got an idea of what Duchess has imagined the Clans to look like or the Clans to do, or the Clans to kind of be like. But we never tell the kids this. It's all about provoking thought and provoking story. There was books that I used to read when I was a kid, and they would choose your own adventure books, and it was kind of you make your own adventure. So every even if one kid came to Lilidorei, five times, they might have a completely different experience each time just because of their imagination and the sort of stuff that the secret keepers have fed them, if you like. Kelly Molson: I love that. While we're talking about secret keepers, you've got ahead of Play, haven't you, Nathan? I don't know any other organisations or attractions that have got ahead of Play. How did that kind of come about? Ian McAllister: So to give me his full name, it's Nathan Bonk.Kelly Molson: Excellent name. Ian McAllister: Nathan Bonk, he's come over from America specifically to organise the play and the secret keepers and this. So that's his kind of creation, if you like, in conjunction with the Duchess. So he was meeting with the duchess virtually daily to make sure he's on the right lines, and she was happy with what he was doing, but to kind of put an extra element of weirdness into the story, which in case we haven't had enough weirdness in the podcast already in the Garden going back two or three years, I'm friends with a guy called Stewart who's the reigning Mr. Gay World, and he's only reigning because they disbanded the competition after he finished it. So he kept title. He's kept that. So he got in touch to say that he wanted somewhere to host Mr. Gay England, which is like a pride initiative. Ian McAllister: And it's not just a catwalk, it's education and it's exams, and then the winner of it ends up representing the gay community to go to Parliament and lobby Parliament and speak in schools and this and the other. So I said, well, the best place, really, if you think of the most sort of unusual place that you could think of in a really rural town where there aren't many people of any persuasion, would be Alnwick. So we put it in the middle of the garden. The cat walks right down the middle of the garden, and we've rebranded that entire day, which we're doing again this year, Gay Day. So what we do is we have Gay Day, and it's everything. We've got market traders, LBTQ+ friendly market traders and face painters, and we do trails and all sorts of things. Ian McAllister: So anyway, last year we had Mr. Gay Europe and Nathan's friends with Stewart. So Nathan came over to help with the competition. Mr. Norway had COVID, so couldn't turn up. So there were one person short. So Nathan ended up weirdly representing America in the Mr. Gay Europe competition. Kelly Molson: Wow. Ian McAllister: If you get to know Nathan, as you'd understand, he's always got an outfit of two just stashed away just in case. So he came out with like, the short camouflage shorts and the face paint and waving the USA flag. Anyway, after Gay Day, he went home and he'd fallen in love with Alnwick. And it was just it wasn't New York. He lived like a six minute walk to Central Park. So it's totally different. But he fell in love with the place. And he sent me an email, a bit of a video explaining why love Alnwick and if there's any opportunities that came up, and this, that, and the other. And the only thing that popped in them ahead as soon as I saw his video was the head of play, and I just knew that he would be the person for this role. Kelly Molson: But was it a role that you were looking for or did you create. Ian McAllister: It for the role we discussed? We always discussed that we needed someone. It was going to be it's almost like a head of operations for Lillidorei, but that sounds far too boring. So we always knew there was going to be a role for somebody. I don't think we quite realised to the extent of how influential this role would be in creating the entire story and the entire visit. So Nathan, with his ideas, he's opened theme parks before. He's been in stunt performances in various theme parks. He opened, like, the Harry Potter experiences in Orlando. So he's done all this stuff already. But I remember he Zoom called me one morning. He said, you're never going to believe it. I've got an interview with the Duchess at lunchtime. Brilliant. So I gave him a few bit of background and what were working towards. Ian McAllister: About 2 hours later, he zoomed me back. He said, you're never going to believe it. I've got the job. They sort me out a house. I'm flying over next week, and I've got a tea at the castle with the Duchess. It's like every American film you've seen where they tried to represent England in a completely fictional way. He was living it. Kelly Molson: What a life. Wow. Ian McAllister: And that was it. And he's been here since. And he loves it. He's absolutely settled. He's incredible. He's got this team of amazing people who do things like juggling with Diablos and teaching kids that go on balance boards and hula hoops. Their job is to interact with everybody that comes in and just create the atmosphere. Kelly Molson: And that's what makes the place so special, isn't it? It's that interaction from the people and the encouragement of the ideas that the children have to explore them that makes it a magical place. Ian McAllister: It is. It's incredible to sit as a construction site. All of a sudden. And now to see 600, 700 kids running around each session screaming and laughing and coming out with ruddy faces and wet trousers, it's everything we wanted it to be come to life, a Kelly Molson: It sounds magic. And I've seen those faces, I've seen the kids faces on the ITV clip, which we'll put in the show notes, actually, so you can have a look at it if you haven't had a chance to go up there yet. I want to talk a little bit about, because you've said a few times now, Alnwick want to talk a little bit about, because you've said a few times now, Alnwick, it's relatively rural, a small community, there's not a huge amount going on there other than this spectacular Alnwick Garden and Lilidorei that's just launched. You offer Free Fridays. And I saw the Duchess talk about this. It's for local children, school children, to come for free on a Friday so they can experience what's happening there. What impact do you think that Lilidorei is going to have on the local community and the children there? Ian McAllister: I think so. Two elements to that, really, then, the creation of the attraction itself. We've always estimated roughly, or looking quite accurately, based on recent figures, that it's going to bring an extra 200,000 people a year into the area. And that's going to benefit, obviously, it's going to benefit us, it's going to benefit the Alnwick Garden Trust, it's going to benefit the Alnwick Castle, which is another attraction up the road. All the local restaurants, pubs, hotels, everyone's going to benefit because what we're hoping to do is turn AlnwickAll the local restaurants, pubs, hotels, everyone's going to benefit because what we're hoping to do is turn Alnwick into a multi day destination, so people won't just come for one of the things and go back to Newcastle, back to Edinburgh. They'll do it as a day trip. So we're hoping that it will really kind of drive the local economy. Ian McAllister: So in terms of local economic benefit, I think that's kind of nailed, really. The figures are already quite obvious. In terms of the Free Fridays, then you don't have to go that far out of Alnwick, particularly if you went to South Northumberland and there's quite a lot of people that are in all sorts of various situations. There's schools in different areas, there's kids that just would not be able to afford to come otherwise because it's comparable to other attractions. But it's still not a cheap day out, it's not three quid to go to the local soft play. So there's a lot of kids that the Duchess particularly just didn't think it was fair, wouldn't be able to experience it, hence Free Fridays. Ian McAllister: So the idea of Free Friday is that every school child in Northumberland, and then eventually, when we've kind of been running for a bit, we'll widen it to Tyne and Wear into Newcastle. But at the minute, every child in Northumberland should be able to experience Lillidorei without having to pay. So we've opened up this application process where local schools can apply to come to one of the sessions and that's for any Friday throughout the year. So already the mini uptake has been phenomenal and there's schools that you see that you think, you know, I know exactly what area that school is in and without making too many judgments, you know, that they just would not be able to afford to come, so we're giving them the opportunity to come. Ian McAllister: So that's part one of Free Fridays, which is well underway at the minute, and I think we're almost booked up for the rest of the next twelve months with Fridays. Kelly Molson: That's amazing. Ian McAllister: But the next part is that the Duchess is to now do other initiatives to try and put money into a ring fenced account. So then eventually when that account builds up, we'll also be able to start to subsidise travel. So if you've got a school that's an hour's journey away, hopefully this pot of money, they can apply to it to pay for their hiring of a school coach or a minibus or whatever it's going to be to actually bring the kids up. So it's an entirely free day and there's different things like she's doing private tours, we're doing packages where you can have a nice meal at the treehouse and then come into Lilidorei afterwards. So like I say, that's all going to be ring fence specifically for transport from Free Fridays. Kelly Molson: That's incredible. What an opportunity. And like you say, for the kids that just would not have that opportunity to be able to go and experience it. It's just such a wonderful thing to be able to do. Ian McAllister: It is, it's incredible. And I think a lot of the feedback we saw before we opened, because again, as I say, it was quite hard to explain the concept of it and what you actually got for your 15 quid entry fee. So a lot of people say you've outpriced us and we can't afford it and this, that and the other. And that's why it was really good to then say, "Look, if you want to bring your kids, just tell your kids to speak to their teacher and get the teacher to speak to us and we can facilitate them for free". So it's making a difference already. It's incredible. Kelly Molson: Yeah. And I guess then it's about selling what that 15 pounds gets you the benefits of that 15 pounds. Yes, it's a relatively higher price point, but you start to break it down about the experience that they get there and the magic that can actually happen that they can't get anywhere else, and then it starts to become slightly more appealing purchase.  You can stay there for quite a long time, right? You've got that dwell time as well. So when you work it out, cost per hour, it actually seemed quite reasonable. Ian McAllister: And I think having two kids myself, I think what am I going to compare this to? So you can't compare it to going to local council run park because it's nowhere near the same, it's not just a climbing frame. And then I think, "Well, what else would I do for the kids for that time period on a Saturday if we're bored?" Probably get the cinema. So the cinema is going to be 1520 quid to get in. And then, sweetness, you got 2 hours of sitting in silence watching a film and then you come out, go home and that's done. Ian McAllister: So to compare it to that, to Lilidorei, you've got a three hour session where you can come in, whole family can interact and it's running free and it's fresh air, I mean, it's not fumbling, it's always fresh air and by fresh I mean probably freezing most of the time. But you've got this it's a completely different experience and I think where people were just looking at it as it's a climbing frame, well, I could just go up the park. So it's trying to explain to people that it is different and yeah, it doesn't work out a really cheap day if you've got two parents and three kids, for example. But what we have done, we've introduced, and we're going to look at this after some holidays, we introduced the founder Lilidorei membership. Ian McAllister: My idea with this is always it's got to be for the child focused. So it's the child that has the membership. So little Johnny could have a membership for him and an adult, or him and two adults, and that means they could bring in mum and dad or they could bring in Nanny Granddad or they could bring in whoever they want. But it's always for me been the child that dictates this whole thing. So we always say that well behaved adults can come in with a responsible child. So we've kind of flipped the narrative a little bit there. And in terms of the membership itself, I used to read the Beano when I was a kid and the only thing I ever wanted grown up was Dennis the Menace fan club membership. Ian McAllister: And with that it cut a wallet, a membership card and a badge. And so for me, Lilidorei membership, you get a wallet, a card and a badge. So all these founder lidorians walk around proudly displaying their badge because there was a limited number of to be the very first people to be these members. But it's empowering the kids. The adults are allowed to come if the kid says they can come. I almost wanted to wake up on a Saturday morning and the child go, "Right, mom, you've been good, you can come with me. Dad, you got to wash the car and do the dishes". Kelly Molson: I love that. I love that giving them the choice of who they take and to take Granny as well. Yeah, it's a really good point about the memberships, isn't it? Because it is generally tied to the adult and the children that they have. But I love that you've empowered the kids to make that choice. Yeah. So you've got to be the kid. The parents have to be good all week. Ian McAllister: Exactly. That's to end the story points.Kelly Molson: Yeah. Well, we're going back to your food eating and your little sticker chart, aren't we? That's what you need. There you go. Sell that in the shop for the adults to buy their sticker reward chart, whether they get to come back or not on the next visit. Ian McAllister: That's a great idea, talking to the shop, actually, just briefly, because you may. Kelly Molson: Segue listen, I'm on fire today, Ian. Segue into the shop. Ian McAllister: My good friend Matthew Henderson, who anyone who listens to podcast will have heard him before. He has been incredible. He's been absolutely amazing. It was him that put you and I in touch in the first place. We bought him in to get the shop ready. And to say it's shop ready is the biggest understatement of the century, because I've never seen anything like it. The people that work in retail, a retail manager, Tracy, to coin a phrase, and not sound corny, it's like all the Christmases have come at once, because she's always wanted this shop that she's proud of, that she's selling things that she believes in. It's all been sourced specifically for her. And Matt has done just what a job. It's incredible. Kelly Molson: He is such a great guy, Matt. So Matthew came on our podcast. It was only a few episodes away, actually, ago, actually, and Matt used to work at Beamish and now he's out on his own. He's a consultant now and helps lots of attractions work out their special offering, the uniqueness when it comes to products. And I have seen a photograph of the shop and, oh, my God, it looks like an attraction in itself. It looks like something you'd pay to go visit in itself, like a Santa's Grotte or say. It's just incredible. Ian McAllister: It's phenomenal. And he was also fundamental in helping us with all the food and stuff that we're doing across site, but mainly in there. You know about the ice creams? Kelly Molson: I know about the ice cream. Tell us. Ian McAllister: So there's three flavours. I mean, you've got a vanilla, but then you've got the other obvious choices. You've got Troll Snot ice cream and you've got fairy dust ice cream. So fairy dust is like a raspberry ripple with popping candy. And Troll Snot is pure bright green, but it's sour apple, which sounds vile, but it's actually really nice. But I've got pictures of him with a hair net at the ice cream facility, which I keep telling him should be his next Tinder profile. He's got so involved in it, he's been instrumental in the whole thing. I don't think we'd be anywhere near where we are now without Matthew. Kelly Molson: Oh, wow. Well, that is a massive compliment to Matthew in itself, isn't it? No, he's a great guy. And I think it's something that sometimes gets a bit overlooked when it comes to shop. And you often go to places and you see the same things. Exit through the gift shop, you see the same things, and it genuinely just feels like, and I can only say this from the photos, but it just feels like you're stepping into such a magical world as an extension of the magical world that you've just come out of. Ian McAllister: It really is. It's surreal because on Press Day, we had a launch day a couple of weeks ago, it was so hot. It was a beautiful day. I clearly have the sunglasses on all day, caught a nice tan. Apart from the work stuff, it was a really nice day. But then you do, you exit into the shop and it's like you've already sudden fast forwarded six months and you're in the middle of Christmas. There's Christmas trees and candy canes and balls, not to mention the ridiculous amount of old fashioned sweet jars with trolls fingers and different fudges. And it is surreal because then you've had this 20 minutes Christmas experience in the shop and then you're back into 24 degree heat again. It's bizarre. Kelly Molson: You opened on was it the 25th of May? Is that your opening day? Ian McAllister: Yeah. So a couple of days before half term, were supposed to have a lot more testing than we had, but because of construction issues, we ended up with two testing days. We were supposed to have at least a month or two months testing, but we had to literally do it all in two days. So we opened a VIP date and then we opened for the public on the Thursday. We would never have predicted this, the Thursday Friday, and then the full half term, every single slot was sold out to the point where after a couple of days, we made a judgment call to up capacity and then we upped it again. And it's been full, absolutely full. Kelly Molson: And have you kept that capacity as well? Ian McAllister: Because I think we didn't want the risk of opening, saying, right, we're going to get 800 kids in per session, and then all of a sudden there's 800 people trying to go down a slide. So we didn't want to ruin the visitors experience with queues and with too many people and crowds and this and the other. So we opened with 300 capacity, which was, I mean, once 300 people are on the play structure, you kind of see it. It's like you can't hear them, you can't see them, they've just vanished like ants. So we upped it to five and we're looking at up in it again to, I think, 750. We're going to maybe try and push it up to for some holidays. Kelly Molson: Gosh, that's incredible. So safe to say that it's been a successful launch, then. Ian McAllister: You know what, we couldn't have asked for more. We've had the weather, we've had the publicity. Everything has been going so well. It's been a really positive experience. It was touch and go for a bit where we're all sort of walking around a few days before launch. S***, there's a bump there. There's a thing here. And the construction team, I've never seen anyone react like it like the lighting team would pretty much work until 04:00 in the morning. So they'd work all day. But then they'd want to test their lights so they'd have to wait until it got dark. But then they'd work all night till 04:00 the next morning, go home for a few hours kip and then come back again. Ian McAllister: And we've got a big thank you party tonight at Lilidorei to thank all of the staff, volunteers and construction team for everything they've done to a few hundred people coming tonight. And it's been overwhelming how everybody's got involved, even contractors that might be there for a week doing something. It's been almost like a pride project for them. Kelly Molson: It's amazing. Well, but that shines through in what you've created, right? Everybody that's touched it has taken some kind of ownership of it. What a lovely thing to do. Just throw the party as well to say thank you. It's June now. The story behind Lilidorei obviously involves Christmas. I'm really intrigued as to what you might have planned for Christmas. Are you allowed to talk about any of that yet or is it embargoed? Ian McAllister: I can talk about it a little bit because I've seen it. So we had a sneak peek. So for the last two years, we've been followed around by MGM who have been filming the documentary for Channel Four. So Channel Four documentary goes out, I think, August. So there's a six part Saturday night documentary going out all about the Duchess. It's called The Duchess, but it's all about her leading up to this project. So their last filming day was VIP press day. Kelly Molson: Wow. Ian McAllister: About three days before that, we had a preview one night at 10:00. We would like to go onto site to get a preview of Christmas. I don't even think I can come up with the words. And I'm quite good with words. I can't even put together a sentence that explains quite how magical it is. It's just the lights, the sounds, the atmosphere. And this was a summer's night at 10:00, so I can't even think what it would be like when it is actually Christmas. And we've got three Santa's grottos. To talk, you kind of back a little bit.  Ian McAllister: You've probably seen the picture of the big Lilidorei entrance gate. So when you get to the gate, you've got sounds. You've got a troll talking to a pixie and who wants pixie, wants to let us in and the troll won't let her. So you stand there and you can hear this immersive sound and they won't open the gate. So what you have to do is kind of find a way around and go through a hidden tunnel. At Christmas, those gates will open and it's like, all of a sudden, Christmas is there. So you come in, every Christmas tree is going to be lit, and bear in mind, we've got 1400 Christmas trees. Every Christmas trees got fairy lights in. The atmosphere was just phenomenal. It sounds like a cop out, but it's got to be seen to believed. Kelly Molson: Well, I look forward to that, because that sounds right up my street. Ian McAllister: You know, you're welcome. You're more than welcome. I'll even treat you to some troll snot ice cream. Kelly Molson: How could I possibly say no to that? Ian McAllister: It's the Essex charm, isn't it? Kelly Molson: Just wins me over every time Ian, thank you for coming on. So we always ask our guests to recommend a book at the end of a podcast. What have you got for us today? Ian McAllister: And it was post, COVID I read it and someone had recommended it. So I went and bought a copy and it's got to the point now where I've probably funded about 90% of the book sales because I'll keep buying copies and saying to someone, you love this, I've given them a copy and it's The Midnight Library by Matt Haig. Have you read it? Kelly Molson: Yeah. Great book. Ian McAllister: For me, I think I am where I am now and my career path, my life path, everything was based on decisions and sometimes it's easy to sit and think, that's a bad decision. If I hadn't made that decision, I'd be much happier now. And The Midnight Library, for anyone who hasn't read it, is all about going back and retrospectively looking at your decisions that you've made in life and you get a glimpse of where that decision took you. And I think for me, what it did was instead of me constantly going back, not depressed or anything, but you kind of sit and dwell sometimes instead of thinking well. Ian McAllister: So, for example, I nearly joined the RAF when I was 17 and I wanted to be military police, but because I've got terrible eyesight, they said, well, we can't give you a gun because you probably shoot the wrong person. So they offered me dentistry. So, looking at the time, I was typical Essex. Toys were out, the pram, I'm not doing this, I don't want to do it. So I went to uni and did all that stuff. But I often think back, I think, you know what? If I'd have gone in the RFN and had paid to train me as a dentist and I've done the service, I could have come out and sat me in dental practice and this, that and the other.Ian McAllister: And I often think, would I be happier had I done that and done that as a career path and been a professional, if you like, because I still don't consider myself a professional. But then this book almost made me reframe that a little bit and think, you know what, I might not have done that. I might have hated it or something else would have changed and I wouldn't have had my beautiful children, I'm a stupid dog, or wouldn't have any of that sort of stuff now if I'd have taken that career path. So in a nutshell, for me, The Midnight Library is a really good read. It's quite an easy read, I found, because I was really invested in it, but it made me reframe a little bit. Kelly Molson: Yeah, it's a great book. I've read it a couple of times now and similar to you, it's made me look back at not so much choices but events that have happened to us. Me and my partner, we've had a load of people this is quite public knowledge, we've had a load of trouble having children and we lost quite a few along the way and multiple rounds of IVF and all of that malarkey. And I think that book made me reflect on some of those things that had happened because you start to question, am I a bad person here? Or like, why are these things happening to us? We're good people, what's wrong? Kelly Molson: But some of those things that have happened regardless, despite them being really difficult and quite awful, they've led you to other things that are magic and they've given you gifts of something really tragic happened. Has been able to give us the gift of being able to talk about it openly, which has then gone on and helped other people be able to talk about it or share how they are or just given someone found them, someone that they can talk to. And I think you have to just kind of look back at those things and I don't know, it's a long winded way of saying I completely agree with you and it's a really good book. If you're feeling a bit reflective about your life, it's definitely one to go and have a read of. So yeah, good read. Ian McAllister: I think it may me kind of start to think about the ways I've handled things and how I sort of shape things moving forward so that my best friend died when were at college and my nephew died when he was eight. And all these things in your life that at the time are the worst thing that could ever possibly happen and you could either go one way or the other and it almost explained or kind of put into context a little bit. I think that these things happen not necessarily for a reason, but the way that you cope with it and deal with it and move on after it. That's almost like the learning that you take from it. But this is a different podcast altogether. This is like a griefcast, so we'll do another one. Kelly Molson: This has ended on a complete opposite spectrum than it started, Ian. Anyway, listeners, if you want to win a copy of that book, I'd highly recommend you go and do this. So go over to this podcast announcement and retweet it with the words I want Ian's book. And you will be put into the draw to win a copy of The Midnight Garden. Kelly Molson: Midnight Garden? Midnight Library. Midnight Garden is a whole different book, kids book Midnight Library.Kelly Molson: Ian, thanks for coming on today. It's been brilliant to chat to you. We will put all of the information about Lilidorei and Alnwick Gardens into the show notes so you can have a little look for yourself. But those tickets for Christmas are going to sell out quickly, people, so get yourself on the mailing list. That's all I'm going to say. Ian McAllister: Thank you, Kelly. It's been so nice to talk to you. Living this far north, it's nice to establish my roots with an Essex person again. Kelly Molson: Well, always welcome. Six months check in, right?Ian McAllister: Thanks, Kelly.  Kelly Molson: Thanks for listening to Skip the Queue. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a five star review. It really helps others find us. And remember to follow us on Twitter for your chance to win the books that have been mentioned. Skip The Queue is brought to you by Rubber Cheese, a digital agency that builds remarkable systems and websites for attractions that helps them increase their visitor numbers. You can find show notes and transcriptions from this episode and more over on our website, rubbercheese.com/podcast.

Willie discusses a father killing his three sons last night with Channel Five's Brian Hammerick, changing the age to become a police officer to 18 with Rep Cindy Abrams, and the state of national politics with Wayne Allen Root.

Willie discusses a father killing his three sons last night with Channel Five's Brian Hammerick, changing the age to become a police officer to 18 with Rep Cindy Abrams, and the state of national politics with Wayne Allen Root.

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on December 4th 2022 Our old friend SANDY McGREGOR got in touch recently to point out that, amidst all of the ballyhoo and hullaballoo surrounding the centenary of one particular British broadcasting institution, it was easy for shows that talk about television like this one to forget that another television Channel had passed a significant milestone this year. Because, on the very weekend the BBC was proudly marking one hundred years of existence, CHANNEL FOUR also reached an impressive and remarkable anniversary, with this young and once troublesome upstart becoming forty years old. This is actually slightly worrying to me, as I remember dashing home on its very first evening of transmission, just so that I could see what seemed like a paradigm shift in British Broadcasting at the time, and, with apologies to CHANNEL FIVE and all that it does, witness the birth of perhaps the last great national broadcaster, and thereby discovered COUNTDOWN. Those next few years would certainly try to give a brand new perspective on the world to its viewers. Often challenging, sometimes controversial, and sometimes looking as if they were making it up as they go along, CHANNEL FOUR staggered along, often with the derision of the tabloids ringing in its ears, until, very suddenly, it suddenly started to gain a certain amount of respectability and become very much the discerning channel of choice, at least amongst a more youthful demographic. In its early years, and indeed throughout its entire history, this enfant terrible of national terrestrial television channels has challenged the status quo and tried to create a genuine alternative to what's on the other side, and explore the alternative culture in a manner that outlying broadcasters like ourselves can only admire, and we genuinely appreciate the fact that it still does. And, for making much of its back catalogue available, for free, streaming on ALL4, it is still pushing boundaries, which is much appreciated by the likes of us. Programmes like THE WORD, THE TUBE, THE BIG BREAKFAST, VIC REEVES BIG NIGHT OUT, and BIG BROTHER seemed to change our relationship with television itself, and many high profile dramas, which existed for a long time alongside the challenging twenty-one year run of BROOKSIDE, like A VERY BRITISH COUP, GBH, QUEER AS FOLK, THIS IS ENGLAND, NATIONAL TREASURE and IT'S A SIN, have proved that, creatively, this has truly become a channel to be reckoned with. There were also a whole raft of fine comedies; DESMONDS, SMACK THE PONY, FATHER TED, PEEP SHOW, and excellent current affairs programmes like DISPATCHES and the sublime CHANNEL FOUR NEWS still trying in its own way to speak truth to power. Whilst CHANNEL FIVE did come along later on, it never felt quite as significant a moment to me, perhaps because it took a long time to become fully national, but also because television itself had changed since the birth of CHANNEL FOUR, and national free-to-air programming was under threat from the satellite, and later still, the streaming services. These days, unfortunately, certain people amongst the POWERS THAT BE, perhaps some of whom tend to instinctively distrust those alternative or youthful demographics, have CHANNEL FOUR in their sights, and want to change the unique way it operates, despite not appearing to actually understand quite how it operates, and, as ever, when people with power who have vested interests get involved, it doesn't seem as if they intend to change it for the better. Anyway, SANDY quite rightly pointed out that we ought to do a programme about CHANNEL FOUR and put it out before the actual anniversary year was over, so here we are, trawling through another newspaper top forty list, to wish it all the best from all of us here at VISION ON SOUND. PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content sometimes has to be removed for the podcast edition.

In this episode Colum speaks with Ash Byrne-Hansen from Channel Five's Endzone about her love of the NFL and her recent trip to Lambeau Field.

Es klingt wie der Epilog eines Horrorfilms: Am 04. Dezember 1872 wird mitten im Atlantik ein ziellos umhertreibendes Schiff von der Besatzung der Dei Gratia gesichtet. Die böse Vorahnung der Seeleute wird bald darauf bestätigt, denn als sie die nahezu unbeschädigte Mary Celeste betreten, fehlt von der Besatzung jede Spur. Was war passiert? Die Versuche, eines der größten Mysterien der Seefahrtsgeschichte aufzuklären, dauern bis heute an und beinhalten verschiedenste Theorien von Mord, Meuterei und Aliens bis zu detaillierten Analysen und wissenschaftlichen Experimenten. Und tatsächlich: dank genauer Kenntnisse des Schiffes und wissenschaftlichem Vorgehen konnte eine plausible Erklärung gefunden werden...........FOLGENBILDDas Folgenbild zeigt eine Illustration von John Cawse zum Buch "Ghost Ship", 1847.........WERBUNGDu willst dir die Rabatte unserer Werbepartner sichern? Hier geht's zu den Angeboten!........LITERATURHicks, Brian: Ghost Ship. The Mysterious True Story of the Mary Celeste and Her Missing Crew, New York/ Toronto 2004.Fritsche, Olaf: Gibt es Geisterschiffe wirklich? Die Wahrheit hinter den Meeres-Mythen, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2018.Die angesprochene Dokumentation mit dem Experiment konnten wir leider nicht finden, sie lief 2006 auf dem britischen Channel Five. Hier ist ein Bericht zum Experiment des University College London..........UNTERSTÜTZUNGIhr könnt uns dabei unterstützen, weiterhin jeden 10., 20. und 30. des Monats eine Folge zu veröffentlichen!Folgt und bewertet uns bei Spotify, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Podimo, Instagram, Twitter oder über eure Lieblings-Podcastplattformen. Über diesen Spendenlink oder unseren Fanartikel-Shop könnt ihr uns auch finanziell unterstützen!Wir freuen uns über euer Feedback, Input und Vorschläge zum Podcast, die ihr uns über das Kontaktformular auf der Website, Instagram und unsere Feedback E-Mail: kontakt@his2go.de schicken könnt. An dieser Stelle nochmals vielen Dank an jede einzelne Rückmeldung, die uns bisher erreicht hat und uns sehr motiviert. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The latest episode of A Brit Talks Vintage TV is now available to stream and download! Below is a transcript of the podcast. Hello there, and welcome to A Brit talks Vintage TV, with me Jamie Dyer. I was somewhat surprised to hear this week that Neighbours, the Australian soap opera that ended earlier this year, would be resurrected by Amazon through their Freevee streaming service. The show, which began in 1985 and ran for over 8000 episodes, ended due to cuts made at its UK broadcaster Channel Five. After this, it seemed as though Fremantle couldn't find a partner to keep the show going, how wrong we all were. While this show isn't strictly vintage, I think it falls into a category of television that is mostly associated with the past. It is no accident that reports of the show's demise were accompanied by cast photographs from the 1980s featuring Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan; The show made its biggest cultural impact in that decade; Especially in the united kingdom. If the BBC hadn't picked up the show in 1986 as a bit of daytime filler, there's a chance it wouldn't have lasted five years...let alone thirty-seven. It might seem strange to an American that this bizarre Australian institution is being resurrected by Amazon for new episodes, but it makes sense from all points of view. Neighbours, besides its corny reputation, was a show that broke boundaries, touched audiences and made stars of its cast. The likes of Liam Hemsworth, Margot Robbie, Guy Pierce, Russell Crowe, Alan Dale, Natalie Imbruglia, Delta Goodrem and Holly Valance have all made appearances in the show, before making it big elsewhere. These names alone are enough to intrigue audiences who are yet to be introduced to the residents of Ramsay Street. Part of the deal between programme makers Fremantle and Amazon is that thousands of episodes from the archive will be made available alongside new episodes. This is surely unprecedented for a soap opera, which normally seems to lock away a majority of past episodes to keep you interested in the new. This huge drop into their catalogue of content will also provide the ad-supported service with instant revenue potential too, which means a bigger chance of the deal being long-term. Audiences, old and new, will be able to experience the many iconic characters that have graced the street over the years. Personally, I'm looking forward to tracing the story of two characters who were like Neighbours' version of Ken Barlow and Mike Baldwin, Harold Bishop and Lou Carpenter. Those guys were the face of the show, for me, for a long time. So overall, I think this is a solid move for all parties. Fans, who never wanted it axed in the first place, can rejoice that their treasured show has returned. Amazon and Fremantle can count the money while the BBC and Channel 5 watch from afar. As the theme tune says, "everybody needs good Neighbours". It seems the show has found that with Amazon Freevee in 2023. So what else is there to say? I've said enough. If you have anything to say about the shows mentioned in this podcast, you can email Jamie@OldTimeReview.co.uk, tweet @OldTimeReview on Twitter or check out the Facebook page, Old Time Review. This is Jamie Dyer signing off.

Chaos and Connor introduce the latest podcast and Connor tells the story of being a newspaper delivery boy.

This week we have something a little different for you. We love talking to improvisoers about their improv journeys and about a whole variety of improv related topics, but we are also keen to discuss other passions that improvisers may have. Our host Iain has mentioned in many of the show chats over the years that he is a big fan of the Aussie TV soap 'neighbours' and as it happens so are previous show guests San George and Kat Cooke. On 29th July 2022 Channel 5 aired the final ever episode of Neighbours in the UK and this was a very sad day indeed for Neighbours fans all over the world. Iain, San and Kat decided to get together and talk about the show that they have loved all of their lives and how genuinly upset they all are now that it has come to an end. It is definitley a little something different, but there are still some links to improv that will shed light on a few things in terms of how Iain's improv brain works. Think about something you absolutely adore and then think about how you would feel if somebody took it away from you. That is how Iain, San and Kat feel & they want to share their feelings with you all. So sit back, relax and enjoy discovering the true story of how everybody really does need good Neighbours.

This is one of a special series of short episodes speaking to some of the best comedians appearing at this year's Edinburgh Fringe! These episodes will be released daily during the week of 8 August 2022.Sunil Patel is a comedian who found early success as a finalist in the BBC New Comedy Award and as a Chortle Best Newcomer nominee. He is best known for his starring role in Channel Five's mockumentary series Borderline (Channel 5) and as John Robbins' sidekick in Beat the Internet (Dave). He also co-hosts the BBC Sounds podcast series But Where Are You Really From?.It was great fun speaking with Sunil, talking about how he always knew he was destined for comedy and hearing how he goes about planning his shows.Links:Buy tickets for Sunil's show, Faster Horses, on at the Monkey Barrel at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2022Follow Sunil on TwitterVisit Sunil's websitePage One - The Writer's Podcast is brought to you by Write Gear, creators of Page One - the Writer's Notebook. Learn more and order yours now: https://www.writegear.co.uk/page-oneFollow us on Twitter: @ukPageOneFollow us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/ukPageOneFollow us on Instagram: @ukPageOne Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

You didn't think the Cleveland boys were going to let the Nick Saban-Jimbo Fisher Wrestling Live on Channel Five-type war of words pass without comment, did you? Plus, a huge week of baseball tournaments will be challenged by seasonable Mississippi weather this week.

Episode Summary Ismail Salhi is an unstoppable person by any standard. As he says, “I am a computer scientist by training. But fell in love with entrepreneurship in the last 10 years”. His company, Wildgrain was formed in 2020 as the Covid-19 pandemic swept across the world. Mr. Salhi and his wife had a dream and they decided not to let anything stop them from bringing their dream to reality. Today they arguably make the best sourdough bread around. Come join me and hear not only the Wildgrain story, but hear a story of someone just like you and me who shows us all that no matter what, we can be unstoppable. Who knows, you might even discover a new tasty item that is even healthy for your diet. Thanks for listening and I hope you will let me know your thoughts about our episode and the Unstoppable Mindset podcast by emailing me at michaelhi@accessibe.com. About the Guest: I am Ismail Salhi, Co-Founder of Wildgrain. I am a computer scientist by training. But fell in love with entrepreneurship in the last 10 years. I teach computer science and digital marketing at UMASS Boston and mentor students and staff members who are interested in starting their own ventures. I am passionate about product design and how technology can help people live a simpler life. Whether through food, hardware, or software. I thrive to build experiences that simplify our day-to-day. With Wildgrain, we help our members get healthier, artisan, and delicious “bake-from-frozen” bread, pasta, and pastries within 30 minutes. 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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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 01:21 Well, Hi, and welcome to another episode of unstoppable mindset. Glad you're here, wherever you are. And we have an interesting guest today. Somebody who I have to tell you the story upfront, I discovered by accident, we received an invitation to a shower from one of our relatives. And in the invite, which was an email was an advertisement for something called Wildgrain. It sounded pretty intriguing. And we weren't sure that we wanted to spend a lot of money. But by the same token, it was interesting to look at. So I went to the Wildgrain website and the first thing I heard was put your browser in a screen reader mode. Button. That immediately told me that it was a site that was helped to be made accessible by accessiBe, which is the company that I worked for. And that was pretty exciting. And that was enough to sell me on it right there. But we, we we explored it further. And you'll hear more about the company wild green a little bit later. But the bottom line was that we signed up and so because of excessive B they have a new customer so I have the one of the cofounders of wild grain with us today. Ismail Salhi, am I pronouncing that right? Ismail Salhi 02:53 That's perfect. Michael Hingson 02:54 and Ismail Welcome to unstoppable mindset. Ismail Salhi 02:58 Thanks for having me. I'm really excited to be here. and Ismail Michael Hingson 03:01 is in Boston, which are actually close to it right. You're not You're not in the city or you Ismail Salhi 03:08 know, I mean, I'm in Somerville, mass, Michael Hingson 03:10 Somerville, right. But I'm jealous. I lived in Boston for three years. And, of course, there's great food in Boston. And now we know about wildbrain. So it's even better. But I'd love to hear a little bit about your story of where you where you came from, how you grew up, and what got you into the things that you do. He is a computer science teacher at University of Massachusetts at Somerville and also is the founder of a company so there's a lot to talk about here. Ismail Salhi 03:41 Yeah, I come from North Africa country named Algeria. And I was born and raised there lived there until I was 23. Eight, I believe, and then got my engineering degree in computer science there moved to Paris to do my PhD in computer science. Then finished my PhD. This is where the bed the bread bug got into me because Paris is bread paradise. Basically, there is good bread in every street corner. But to come back to the story i i lived there for 10 years. I got my PhD degree and then I started working for a technology transfer office. I was helping companies and startups in professors and labs start new businesses and new ventures and fund them. And so I worked there for a while and got the entrepreneurship bug myself started to think about starting my own business. And then I did and that got me to Boston. We got investors here in downtown Boston and they asked us if we wanted to move to the US I send my co founder and now wife, and I moved here. Six years ago, I believe, and worked on that business for a while, got it to a certain place. And then COVID happened and destroyed the business, our most customers were in the hospitality and the support in the event business. And so all those were shut down for pretty much a year and a half. And we lost a lot of customers. And in the meantime, we were my wife got pregnant with our first son Jack, and she was looking for healthy bread to eat. And we started looking and we couldn't find anything that made us happy, because we had the European bread, we were really looking for a European style bread and, and then she started learning how to make bread and based on wild yeast, and sourdough, and she was making so much that we had to give a lot to friends and family here in the area. And we discovered that if you freeze it, it's actually more convenient, because you can refresh it whenever you want. And you have fresh bread every day, whenever you want. And that's where the idea came in. Michael Hingson 06:18 So why is it called? So the company is called Wildgrain? And why is it called Wildgrain. Ismail Salhi 06:25 So it's a play on wild yeast, which is really the main strength of our products. We use natural sourdough starter for making our breads. And that brings a lot of different health benefits to people who eat that bread. So part of it. So that's the first part of the name. And then grain is natural. We specialize in all sorts of grain products. So pasta, pastries, anything that has wheat in it, we try to make it make it delicious, but also make it a little healthier, a little easier to use and mainly focus on the artisanal process. Michael Hingson 07:09 And now you you have the company, it's up and running and you're shipping all over the United States. Ismail Salhi 07:17 Correct? We're shipping to 48. States. Yes. Michael Hingson 07:21 So you haven't gone to Alaska and Hawaii and spoiled them yet? Ismail Salhi 07:25 Not yet. It's it's pretty hard to get frozen boxes, frozen through to Alaska and Hawaii. But we'll try it. Michael Hingson 07:35 Yeah, it is, it is certainly more of a challenge, the longer you have to go, we got our first box. And it turns out that the boxes have dry ice on on the inside on the top, and ours had melted. So we understand that it would be even more of a challenge going to Hawaii. But now we're getting into the summer. So I suspect you're all going to put more dry ice in. And that will help. Ismail Salhi 08:01 Absolutely we we base the dry ice quantity that we put in every box based on where you live. So depending on your zip code, we know. We know first of all the weather that week. And that helps us know if it's going to be too warm or less warm that we can then define the quantity of dry ice we're gonna put in your box, Michael Hingson 08:20 you'd probablyhave to use a lot of dry ice if we were getting anything today. It's supposed to be in the 90s and down the hill in Los Angeles. It's supposed to get up to 100. But we're going to be in the high 80s and low 90s. So it's starting to warm up. Ismail Salhi 08:35 Luckily, we're not shipping today. Right? We don't ship in Thursday. Michael Hingson 08:42 Well, it's it's of course hit and miss with the weather anyway, we're amazed. I still think that we all missed out on not getting jobs as as weather people at television stations because it's amazing how quickly they change and how inaccurate they are for the longest period of time. I think we all missed out on getting a great source of income. That they really do try. It's it's interesting. We we lived in New Jersey for six years and we coming from California were quite amazed at the amount of bread available and pastries but especially bread. In New Jersey Of course it's very Italian and so on. So there is a lot but nothing compares to what we've been tasting with Wildgrain. Ismail Salhi 09:34 That's amazing to hear. We the secret is partly the sourdough so because because we don't sell in retail. We sell purely online we can afford basically to not put a lot of things that they have to put to be in retail. When you put a loaf on a shelf at a supermarket. You want to optimize that love to stay as long as possible. It attracted on that shelf. And so you have to put a lot of preservatives and additives to make it look good and make it stay longer. And that and they the other piece is that they because of the industrial process that they use in commercial bakeries, they churn Lopes in 20 minutes, they have these chemical E's that they use that make it pop very quickly. But that makes it deprived of all the nutrients that you want in a bread. And we use the oldest method of making food, which is fermentation that's been usually used in ancient Egypt, the same process, it's all handshake. We start with the sourdough starter, we let it ferment for more than 20 hours. And then once it's ready and full of that good bacteria that your body wants, we put it in the oven, part bake it to almost 80% of the baking is happening. And then we flash freeze it shipped to your door, and then you can finish the bake at home and have amazing fresh, high quality, very nutritious, very healthy bread at home. Michael Hingson 11:10 Which explains why it's suggested that you keep the bread frozen until you put it in the oven that you don't thought. Exactly, yes. What happens if people saw their bread and then they cook it? It's good, Ismail Salhi 11:23 you get a slight decrease in quality. It's not it's usually when you let it thaw for a day it's not noticeable but you know, the longer it stays outside in thought in the air the quickest it's going to start stealing and so yeah, the best taste you really want to make it from Frozen. Michael Hingson 11:44 Yeah, I I agree. Based on everything we've tasted stove so far. It's it's interesting, though, that you do this and you teach at UMass aren't those both kind of full time jobs. Ismail Salhi 12:00 I am part time and UMass. So I, I am an entrepreneur and residents. And so what that means is not only I get to teach every now and then but also I mentor students, staff members, when they want to, they're interested in starting their own venture, I sit down with them, help them with fundraising, help them with tech, help them with marketing. And I use my network here in Boston to support them when I can. And so it's I do it because I love it. It's just something that I always thought I'd be a teacher, but then the entrepreneur side of me one. And so I still tried to give back and talk to young people who are interested in entrepreneurship and the kind of demystify part of it, there is a lot of mean fairy tales told about entrepreneurship, good and bad. And so I want to help them see through that. Michael Hingson 13:00 What are some of the stories that people have told you, or that that you've heard about people interested in going into entrepreneurship, maybe some of the good and the bad kinds of things that you hear and the things that you have to demystify? Ismail Salhi 13:15 Yeah, a lot of them, you know, the myth of the solo founder, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. And people think if you have a vision, and you build a product, and then people will buy it, and they, you just need to be sort of a genius. And, and that's, that's it, and you know, they'll get it, they will come in my experience with my own companies and with other founders that I know it's never like this, it's really a teamwork, you better surround yourself with smarter people than yourself very early. Challenge your idea. And the second myth sort of is, the idea is key, like a lot of people think, Oh, I have an idea. Or I could have done some some of that, like, Oh, it's just an idea. Idea is maybe 2% of the business. And then 98% of it is how you execute it, how you build a team around it, how you choose the right people to work with you. And then how do you grow it from that seed into into a big forest that that sustains everything? And so I tried to show them that I tried to ask them hard questions about why they want to do what they want to do. Because if, for example, if you want money, it's better not to start. entrepreneur is a risky way to get money. There's other safer way safer ways to make money. And so usually I try to seek something about passion or something about what they really can because there's a high chance of failure. There's I think nine out of 10 startups fail. And so you really want to put that number into their head and everybody of course thinks they're going to be that 10% but more Like we they're not, they're not and they're going to fail. And so the lesson there is, hey, what how are you going to handle that failure that you're there's going to be failure within the company, there's going to be failure maybe of the entire company. So there's there's that. And then the good, of course, is just, it's amazing to meet people who have good ideas and who have that spirit in them, even though they don't know financing, or they don't know accounting, or they don't know tech. Those are things they can acquire and learn. And that's what I get excited to come in and try to help them. Michael Hingson 15:36 I've been fortunate to be around a few companies as they started up and start up. My first exposure into all of that was, in the 1970s, I was involved with the National Federation of the Blind, and Dr. Ray Kurzweil, the futurist and inventor when he was starting his company and the National Federation of blind worked with him to get funding to create what he wanted to develop, which was a machine that would read print out loud, he had developed an algorithm to literally provide Omni font optical character recognition, and was looking for a home and decided that the first thing he wanted to do was to create a machine that would read print out loud. And he did that and was helped by the National Federation of the Blind. And then I went to work for Ray, the original job I had was working for the National Federation of the Blind, with machines going to various parts of the country. And my job was to take them there, leave them, teach people to use them, do all the other things that related to making people comfortable, comfortable with a whole new concept, which was literally reading print out loud, rather than it being in Braille or just to recording. And then went to work for Ray and got to observe upfront, exactly what goes on inside of a company as its starting up. And as it's growing. And the fact was almost a victim of one of the big mistakes that a lot of technical and technology oriented startups make, and that is that the company hired too many non revenue producing people. And so they were doing lots of stuff. But they weren't bringing in the income for it. And I was actually called in one day, and I was told we've got to lay you off. It isn't that your work is bad. It is simply that we need to get more revenue produces, so we have to lay you off. And then the guy who was talking with me said, unless you want to go into sales, which was a was a compliment, although I love to say, thinking about it, knowing that the unemployment rate then as now, the unemployment rate among employable blind people is like 70%, that's seven zero. And what I love to say to people is I decided I'd lower my standards and go into sales. But the reality is, it was quite a compliment that they wanted me to do that. And they didn't want me to sell the reading machine for the blind, they had developed a new product, which really quickly became sort of the flagship product, even though the reading machine was the most well known. But the new product was a commercial version of the reading machine that banks, lawyers, publishers and other companies could purchase, to literally scan documents and convert them to various different computer forms, whether it be text or word, well, our word perfect at that time or other places. So I went into sales, and again, got to continue to watch the company grow. And I'm telling this story, because I really appreciate the work that goes into it. And you're absolutely right. It's all about the team. And it is a vision. I think any entrepreneur that has any chance of success has to have a vision, but part of that vision has to be how you're going to make it happen. Ismail Salhi 19:06 Absolutely, yeah, go to market and my first my first company was also a victim of that I was a technical founder. And as you know, technical founders, I fell in for the myth of build it they will come and then make a great product and people will buy it. And the truth is you're right you need people who to promote the product people to sell it people to talk about it, people who and it's a full time job, it's a different job and it and tech people don't know how to do it. And so you need to surround yourself early and the mistake I've made in my previous business was to focus too much on product and not focus enough on go to market and and I think that's why one of the reasons when we started Wildling was to hire ally who you know, who is our head of marketing, who is the champion at at getting the product in front of people's eyes and making people know about us, in addition of making a great product, you also need to build a machine to that helps you get that product in front of people. Otherwise, you're just making things. Michael Hingson 20:16 I joined accessiBe in January of 2021. And one of the main reasons I joined as I investigated the company and talked to a number of people at the company, was that, clearly, it was a team effort. And there was a really strong depth of knowledge about what needed to be done to make a company successful. There were, there were things that the company needed to learn. And I was able to be a part of helping that and continue to be a part of helping that. And part of that is also this podcast. But the fact is that there was a great team, the three people who were co founders of the company, founded the company, because of necessity of making websites accessible in Israel. But they saw the value and the mission and the vision of making a product that others could use. And they're still learning all the ins and outs of how to market to the community of persons with disabilities. And the things to say and not to say and that it's a very sensitive consumer group. But at the same time, they are building and continue to build a great team of people who come on board. And the company spends a good amount of time getting them to get a new hires, especially to understand what the vision is and what the goals are. And really wants to make people fit and be a part of the organization and be real contributors at all levels. Ismail Salhi 21:57 Yeah, that's, that's extremely important. I fell in love with the product itself. As a technical person and a product person in general, I am an engineer. And when I see a simple product that brings a lot of value. And in a beautiful, simple, efficient way, and that does the job, it can tell you the number of people who write in our reviews, or thank us for using accessiBe, because it's just simply very well done it it integrates beautifully with our it was a great way to onboard with them and get them started out, get us started with the product and make it work. And so I've been a promoter of accessiBe to every founder that I know and telling them how easy first of all it is to and how low impact it is for you to make your website accessible to a maximum amount of people is just a first of all, it's not because it's just a good thing to do. It's also because it's the right marketing and right way to present your company to the people you want to sell to. And we set it up, it worked amazingly fast. And we are complemented by our members and it doesn't obstruct with anything we do. And the way from just the the technical point of view of just using the product and seeing how it's built. I can see how that how much thought and how many, probably I don't know how many engineers were behind it. But I can see that it's really well done. Michael Hingson 23:42 Yeah, there, they have done a tremendous job. And there are always things to improve some of the things that the artificial intelligent widget doesn't necessarily do yet. And the reality is that will change over time. But things like you have a video up on the site and it doesn't say anything. So I as a blind person have no idea what was in the video. And of course, I corresponded with all of you about that now you're working with accessiBe to address that issue. Ismail Salhi 24:09 Absolutely. Yeah, we, I we have a lot to learn as a company on that topic. And we I mean, it was amazing that you guys pointed that out and let us know that he doesn't let the thing also you need to be thinking about now we think about it every time but and we expect that from SSV not only because we use their product but also to be our coach in learning more about how we can make websites and even our experience in general more accessible. Michael Hingson 24:43 How long have you had accessiBe to be on the site now? Ismail Salhi 24:46 I would say probably a year Michael Hingson 24:49 so you've you've grown with accessiBe be a little bit because certainly the overtime the widget is has changed and evolved. That's pretty cool. Ismail Salhi 24:56 Yeah, yeah, it's it's very, I remember it RST was pre, just this is technicalities, but it was taken some of the time to load and it was a pretty heavy piece of code. And now it's just a breezy, it doesn't impact in any way. The way our website loads, it loads nicely, synchronously. And it doesn't disrupt anything else. And so it's, it's awesome. We're very happy to have it. Michael Hingson 25:25 Yeah, it's, it's an exciting product. And it's an evolving product. And of course, it's using some of the state of the art, bleeding edge technology, this thing we call artificial intelligence, which it has been evolving for a long time. I mean, Ray Kurzweil used some of that with the original Kurzweil Reading Machine developing into it, and ability to learn different type styles or learn to recognize appropriately different characters as the machine saw them. And the more I saw of different characters, and using different algorithms, the more accurate the OCR became, with the commercial version of the machine, they actually produced a mechanism by which the user could interact with the technology and say, No, you got this word wrong, this is what it is. And that, of course, improved a lot of things in a hurry as well, they were able to do a little bit more of that with the commercial version than they could with the reading machine for the blind. But also, the reading machine for the blind originally was just a high end agency device, $50,000 per machine, so the average individual wouldn't purchase it. But Ray always knew that was going to come down. And I think that with accessiBe, again, the vision is of the technology becoming even more scalable, and more usable, and accessiBe, be providing the other tools that deal with the parts of a website, that the widget doesn't, doesn't necessarily do. And we're seeing a lot of progress in that, which is pretty exciting. Ismail Salhi 27:06 That's awesome. Yeah, I'm very excited to see what what's coming in the product line and, and honestly, understand more as well on how we can improve our access to our website and our products in general. Michael Hingson 27:24 So, so Wildgrain was co founded by you, and presumably it's your wife, who's the other co founder. Yes, correct. I'll bet she has lots of stories to tell about founding a new entrepreneurial type of endeavor to Ismail Salhi 27:39 Yeah, we're, we did it forever with our previous business. And we loved it so much that on when when our previous business was about to shut down, we were thinking about what we should do. And both of us sat down and had the option to take different jobs. And each one of us takes their own job. And we sat down and we were like, We need to work together again, because we like it. We're good at it. She's more she's a designer, a product designer by training, and very avid Baker. I am a tech person. And so we complement each other very well. And she she became an entrepreneur, just as I become become one now just jumping right into it, learning, getting better at it everyday working hard on it. And then when it came to Walgreens, there was no even there was no discussion they will it had to happen with her. And she was actually the the first loves we sold the first boxes we built were made by her hands entirely. Well, the craziest story is that we we found in Wildgrain on January 2020. So right before the pandemic, and our son was a few days old. And so we just had a newborn and started a business. And every time we tell this story, people tell us either that were very brave, or that were very stupid. Michael Hingson 29:18 Or very adventurous. Yes. What was it like founding a new venture in the time of COVID that had to create a lot of challenges and a lot of a lot of issues that you had to deal with. But at the same time, since you were moving forward with it, it must have been part of a really great adventure. Yeah, it Ismail Salhi 29:41 was like, you know, every entrepreneur story has some sort of event or dramatic event that changed everything and COVID was one of them. We we were planning to open our own bakery and do our own everything ourselves. And we did that for a while but then we People were ordering bread a lot online and we couldn't cope with the orders were just me and her and the baby. And we left our home kitchen to go to a commercial kitchen here in Woburn, Massachusetts. And then, we quickly outgrew that place. And we started trying to hire people to work for us. And but it was locked down. And nobody was working. I used to remember I, we used to drive in an empty highway because we were the only one going to work. And we couldn't hire people. And then we had a phone call with a bakery that lost a lot of business, because of COVID. So they were selling bread to hotels and to restaurants and everything was shut down. So they they didn't have any orders coming in. And we convinced them to make some of the bread for us. We taught them our recipes without them or proper baking process, how we freeze our loaves. And we partnered with them, and then we realized that that would be the right way to do it. And so instead of opening our own bakery ourselves, we started partnering with small bakeries across the country, and teaching them our method and helping them how to make our products. And that's yeah, and then we kept growing. But I remember when we were making everything, I don't know if you remember the first weeks of the pandemic, there was shortages of everything, including Oh, and so I, I remember driving with my van and I just buying flower bags and bags of 50 pounds of flour everywhere, I could find them and bringing them home. And so the baby's room will became the flower room because we just stockpiled all the flour, all the ingredients, the nuts and everything in the baby's room because we didn't have room to put them anywhere else. Michael Hingson 32:00 So I have to ask what is Jack's job in Wildgrain? I mean, you must be putting him to work Ismail Salhi 32:09 how can I describe that the his first job when we started was to just be in his bouncer and look at us bake and make pasta and make pastries and, and mix dough. And then as as we grew, he was at the office with my colleagues every day basically until we we can we can bring him babysit or we could bring a babysitter after COVID restrictions slowed down a little bit. And then he was a little bit out of the office. But my second son, Rob Robbie, he's here and he's, you can barely hear him, but he's on the back with my wife at the office and his bouncer chilling with us. Michael Hingson 32:54 Well, you certainly have to future executives, hopefully at the company. I hope I hope they Ismail Salhi 33:03 do something else. It's very, they do something more relaxing, but who knows, Michael Hingson 33:09 or, or adventurous. And I mean, you've gone through enough that you you know that sometimes you got to take risks and at least allow people to grow. And that's I think that's a scary thing today with with our society for kids, it's really tough to let them take a lot of the risks that you took, and that I took and deal with a lot of the things that we did growing up just because it's a kind of a scarier time, don't you think? Ismail Salhi 33:39 Yeah, I keep thinking about that. And I, at one point, I think we always think that but then I try to refrain from thinking that way. Because it's I tried to think about entrepreneurs 50 years ago, there was no Internet, there was no way to learn all this stuff very quickly, like we have access to there was no way to meet other like minded people and hire people online and work remotely and and so we I think we we have tools that are making entrepreneurship easier. You can test your product for very cheap now you can run interviews online, you can build websites pretty cheap. But at the same time, you you're the risk of running a business and then failing and then finding yourself in a financial complex situation that that's also scary and but I think entrepreneurs don't really care about money, they care about the thrill of the job. And they I remember I when I had normal quote unquote normal jobs, I would get really antsy and if the if I'm not challenged by the job, I would get bored very quickly. And I think it's part of that that drives entrepreneurs is this thrive to just be be challenged and work on hard problems to solve. Michael Hingson 35:03 Well, the other side of it is that if you never try it, you won't learn nearly as much as if you just read about the theory. So at some point, you have to step out. And it's the same with kids, they've got to experience it's part of growing up, it's part of life. It's part of evolving. Ismail Salhi 35:22 Yeah, absolutely. I, I am a fervent believer of, yeah, do it, do it to learn it that 10,000 hours, whatever you want to do spend $10,000 doing it, and you'll be good at it. There's no, there is talent. Of course, there's people who are gifted, but you can't count on that, as an individual, you have to really put in the work and, and once you put in the work, you'll get good at it regardless. So i i That's why part of what attracted me in to move into the US is this really attitude toward work and the work ethic of Americans in general is very interesting to me, and a very good concept that you don't find in other places of the world that I've been Michael Hingson 36:11 to. So what what's different? What do you what do you mean by that? Ismail Salhi 36:16 I think a lot of Europeans, for example, work, but see work as just work as part of their life. And they live for the weekend, they, of course, I'm generalizing. And this is not everybody, but in the US, I think people make work more part of their life and embedded more into what their personal beliefs and what their passion is. And they try to make it it's more important part of their life than I think in Europe. And there is less cynicism about work here and more positive attitude toward work ethic and putting in the hard work and trying to improve and learning and failing. There's also a very good attitude toward failure here, that doesn't exist in Africa or in Europe, where if you fail there, it's it's kind of a stigma versus in the US, if you fail, the first question they ask you is what did you learn about your failure? Michael Hingson 37:17 And how will you then use that knowledge? Ismail Salhi 37:20 Exactly? Michael Hingson 37:21 What do you think about the concept that we often hear, which is that in the case of companies, especially companies that have shareholders and so on, their only function is to make money for shareholders and to make them richer? Well, I Ismail Salhi 37:38 yeah, I disagree with that, I don't think I think you you are a company that doesn't, doesn't care about their shareholder cannot function and cannot attract more investors or more customers. And, and, and so I don't think refusing that entirely is a good idea. But I think the opposite is also a crazy idea. I think the first people I think I'll be for my shareholders is my employees, and my customers, and then the shareholders are important as well, because they support us into this mission. Um, but I'm, I'm not I'm definitely not waking up every day thinking about my shareholders, I think about how my customers are feeling I think about my employees and how the workplace is for them and how I can support them. But I do not work for my shareholders, I work for my customers, I think, and that's a good attitude to have. Michael Hingson 38:37 If it's interesting now, what last week, we just heard that at one of the major Amazon warehouses in New York, they unionize the first time that's happened. And of course, I'm know that there are two sides to it. But you hear employees and the more, if you will, liberal aspects of society saying that's a good thing. I suspect that there are people on the other side of that as well. But one has to wonder why enough people felt it was necessary to unionize, to cause that to occur, and whether that's a sign that maybe they weren't paying enough attention to employees, I don't know. And now the union coming along and saying we want you to pay attention to us. I come from Ismail Salhi 39:27 Europe where and I forgot actually where almost every job is unionized. And so for me, it's less shocking than it is in the US. I I am. I'm not anti union. I think I'm at least in Germany and in France. Every job is unionized, almost 90% of jobs are unionized. And there it's a good thing. It's structured in a way that the union tries to help the employees have a say. I think it's always better when your company you can make everybody happy without having to unionize. But I agree with you when you say, if they are unionizing them then then there is maybe something wrong in the communication between the leadership and the employees of the company, Michael Hingson 40:16 somewhere there has to be a disconnect or connection that needs to be reestablished when that sort of thing occurs. I know I've seen examples of, of unionization, where the unions had too much power. I remember working for a company. Well, it was actually quantum Corporation, the company I worked for when I was in the World Trade Center on September 11, but before then, I was working for Quantum. And we had when actually was even way before Quantum. But anyway, I was working for a company that made a product that a financial firm wanted to buy. And in addition to the product, they wanted us to manufacture a device or a stand to hold the product, what it what it was, the product itself, can best be described as a pizza box. And at that time, Sun Microsystems made what was called the spark workstation, which was a pizza box, you put it on a table, and you could put the monitor on top of it, it was very flat, literally, it looked like a pizza box. And we made a disk subsystem in the same form factor. And this particular company said we want you to make a bracket. So we can mount the pizza box to the side of a desk. Okay, that made sense. Then, when we made the first prototypes, the union heard about it and came in and said to the financial company, are these people a union shop? And they asked us and no, it wasn't, it was a small company that I was working for at the time, it wasn't quite them. And they said, we were not a union shop. And the union said, well, then you can buy it from them, we have to make it and we're gonna charge you $160 whereas we were going to charge $40. And when the guy told me this, who we were working with at the firm, he said, over the weekend, the union is gonna probably flex its muscles to drive the point home that we can't work with you, we have to work with them. And they did, they actually caused an elevator to stop running. And so suddenly, they had to have a marshal fire marshal, the union representatives from the elevator company come in on a Friday night to check the elevator. And that meant that it was after five o'clock, so they got time and a half or double time for that. And they kept the elevator not working and eventually deciding that they could now test it, even though they didn't have to do anything to the elevator. But they started testing it at about midnight, which meant now we went into Saturday, which meant that the people doing the work got triple time. And eventually, like about five in the morning, they said the elevator could be used. There was nothing wrong, but it was all about saying the unions are the only ones you can listen to. And that's unfortunate, too. Ismail Salhi 43:13 Yes, absolutely. It's always you know, a fight between two sides. And the best place to be is to be in the middle where nobody's fighting, and your company is doing a great job communicating with everybody and not people don't feel the need to unionize, if if you're doing a good job. If you're not, then you probably have been doing some damage for quite a while. And now people are upset. And so it's kind of tricky to navigate that on and maintain. And so I think that the job of a founder is always to be eyes open and ears open to their employees and their customers, as I said, like, this is the obsession that we have is to make sure that everybody's happy at that company and every customer is happy. And as long as you have that the magic formula will work. If you don't have that you're kind of starting the trouble. Michael Hingson 44:09 I think you say that in a in a really interesting way when everyone is working together when people at the company are generally happy and and the the leadership of the company is making people feel like they're part of it. It is magic. And it is something that you don't see in other places. And the magic is really important. Ismail Salhi 44:32 Oh yeah, it's crucial. I mean, it's we spend most of our awake time at work. It's the place where we spend the most time we spend time at work more than with our spouses with our children. And so it's extremely important to show people especially the new generations are having so much opportunity you have to show them that they're valued you have to show them that they have an impact and you have to give them ownership of Have their jobs so that they can evolve in them and be happy and it is established in them. And, and I think if you if you fail to do that you will lose your best people, you invest employees and, and customers start feeling that and then it's a vicious cycle. And the opposite is true. If you make your employees happy, it's going to reflect on your customers, and it's a virtuous cycle and people will use your company will be better that way. And so I think as long as you have the mission, and that drives people, as long as you have the right people, and as long as you're building the right stuff, you're you're doing the right thing. As a founder, Michael Hingson 45:46 it's always a balance to make sure that people are happy and feeling satisfied, but at the same time, getting them to feel the drive and wanting and hoping that they will drive and work as hard in their own ways as you the visionary does, because you really want them to become part of the vision and emotionally buy into it, as opposed to forcing people to do that. Ismail Salhi 46:14 Absolutely. And that's, that's part of why we hire. We don't have a strong belief in hiring very experienced people, we were very, how can I phrase this, we want people who are versatile, so we're in the startup, you know, it's everybody does everything until it becomes too much. And then we try to solve that. And, for example, I was doing even our label design, and I was doing the website, and then engineering and the financials, the bookkeeping, and then I was doing customer support and marketing. And Brandon was sometimes jumping on the packing line, and sometimes working on operations. And every single one of us has multiple roles. And when you try to hire people who won't budge on that, and won't buy into division, they will quickly get overwhelmed and say this is not why he was hired for and, and that attitude, I understand it, not everybody's cut for a startup. But that's why hiring for us is very important. And we try to find that spark, in in people, when we try when we talk to them in interviews, and we try to bring them into the company is are you really ready to for this, it's gonna be a lot of you know, sweat and blood and tears, and it's gonna be hard. But hopefully there's a reward, you see the effect of your work, you'll learn a lot more than in other jobs. And you in in one or two years, you'll learn what you would learn in an corporate job, maybe in four or five years, because everything goes so fast. They say, you know, your job changes every six months in a startup? Well, in COVID times, I think it was every three months, your job title changes. Michael Hingson 48:06 Yeah, it's part of the necessity, I sort of learned a lot of the things that I learned more vicariously than from experience. I didn't have any kind of job in high school other than my brother and I had a paper route. But he also went to work for a restaurant, he wanted his own job, and he wanted to earn some money. So he applied at this place of wouldn't be a fast food, it was a diner kind of place near where we lived. And they said, Okay, we're gonna hire you. First thing we want you to do is to go out into the lot in the back and pull weeds. He went out without question, pulled and got rid of all of the weeds in the backyard. And the the owner came out like two hours later and said, you're done. And he said, Yeah, they're there all times, which made him really much more respected by the owner because he just did it. And it was what he was asked to do. And he felt that his job was to take direction. And over time, he he did other things there, but and it was a good thing. But he he did what he should. And I remember that even though I never had a job. I remember that. The reality is that you're going to have a lot of different opportunities. And also you need to be flexible in what you do. And what you want to do because it doesn't always start out just the way you think it will. Ismail Salhi 49:35 Exactly never does. Michael Hingson 49:38 It never does. How large is wildbrain today. Ismail Salhi 49:43 We are a small team of four people work here and then we have partners partner bakeries all across the country. So in Maine and Massachusetts and Wisconsin and California. We have our fulfillment party. nors we have our member support team, who is the six people team? And yeah, that's it. We have a couple of consultants for digital marketing. Michael Hingson 50:12 So. So do we get our bread from a bakery here in California? Ismail Salhi 50:18 Most likely, yes. Michael Hingson 50:21 Where do you have partners in Southern California? Ismail Salhi 50:24 I think we have partners in San Francisco. Michael Hingson 50:29 Okay. Well, that's a good place for sourdough anyway. Ismail Salhi 50:32 Yes. I mean, it's sourdough in the US. Michael Hingson 50:36 Yeah. Well, I will certainly be looking forward to someday being up back up there and going into someplace and finding that they're using Wildgrain sourdough, that'll be the ultimate for me. But it is a it's it is an adventure. And it's great that you're partnering. And obviously, as you grow, you'll you'll get more people and more partners and so on. How big of a company is it right now in terms of sales and all that if that's something you can talk about? Ismail Salhi 51:07 I can't share too much. But I can share that we've grown 300% from 2020 to 2021. And we're still growing pretty strong in 2022. Oh, great. We're it's it's a crazy ride. It's it's been very, very pleasant to watch, but also very hard to execute on a lot of challenges. As you may imagine, you've been through the startup many businesses and say that, you know, and so yeah, we're we're extremely happy with with the way people are responding to our product, people can go to our reviews page and see how people what people think it's my favorite thing to do. When I feel too tired and exhausted from work, I go to the reviews page. And it makes me extremely happy to see how people react to our product. Michael Hingson 52:01 I'm assuming there is continued, and maybe even accelerating growth as we come out of COVID. Ismail Salhi 52:08 Yes, it is. We were kind of on the lookout on what was happening post COVID. But it doesn't look like people are changing their habits, I think they got introduced to a lot of things. So part of a lot of our members are live in areas where there is no good bakery around. And so in an urban area, it's in provincial areas, there's sometimes the closest thing to their house is a Walmart and it's a 30 minute ride. And so having high quality products delivered to their door without them having to drive an hour to get it is a tremendous value proposition for them. And so we are very proud to serve these customers and get them our products. I Michael Hingson 52:58 remember growing up living in a town fairly close to us, but 55 miles away Palmdale, California, we had a bakery that we would visit, especially on Saturday mornings, because we would time it to get there just as they were pulling rye bread out of the oven. Yeah. And so it was too hot to even put in a plastic bag, we would get it in the loaf bag paper, take it home. And just cut off hunks and put butter on it and eat it off all of us. And in my family. There's nothing like fresh baked bread like that, which is Ismail Salhi 53:38 the best way to eat bread is to eat it warm and to eat it with butter and or olive oil or any like the simplest thing and it becomes a meal and it's the best meal. It's the oldest food one of the oldest foods we react very, you know, it's a very primal reaction to regret is the oldest thing humans, one of the oldest things humans have been eating for a long, long time. Michael Hingson 54:01 As an entrepreneur, where do you see conditions and things going over the next few years? Hopefully, as we come out of COVID whether it be how will it be enhancing and improving for wildbrain? Or what do you see in terms of just business and opportunities? Ismail Salhi 54:19 Yeah, we're, we're excited about the future. We think people and our generation and people in general are looking for healthier options for their diet. People are more in tune with with their bodies want and are kind of sick of artificial things and and so we we our job is to educate people on why you know, carbs isn't are not bad carbs are bad when they're deprived of their nutrients and why they're good for you if you make them the right way than the way nature intended, as we say and I've agreed, and that's where we're pushing For and so our job as a company is going to be to educate people on eating healthier. Breads, pasta pastries, providing the best quality we can provide and delivering a five star delivery to your door where you and your family can enjoy all our products. And so as long as we keep doing that, we the sky's the limit, we want to become the online bakery of everybody in the country. And we're building the team and the products to do so. Michael Hingson 55:35 You have my vote. Thank you appreciate that. So when did we get to see you on the Food Network channel in some way or, or something like that. Ismail Salhi 55:45 We were featured in Channel Five here in the local channel. News in Boston back when when the pandemic started, and we were still in our commercial kitchen testing and making rounds. And so I am not I prefer my wife to be the face of the company. I am more of a shy engineer that wants to stay behind his computer screen. So you won't see me on the Food Network anytime soon. I Michael Hingson 56:14 will have to figure out how we get her there. We we need to get Guy Fieri on diners, drive ins and dives to come and look at the bakery or Robert Irvine or somebody to come in and talk about you guys because you do have a great story to tell. Ismail Salhi 56:28 Thanks. Thanks. Episode, Michael Hingson 56:32 then there's always getting Bobby Flay to come up and you could do a throw down who makes the best sourdough bread? I don't think he stands a chance to do that. I don't think he stands a chance. Well, let's smell it's been wonderful having you here on unstoppable mindset today, if people want to learn more about you, and Wildgrain, where do they go? And how can they find or talk with you and so on Ismail Salhi 56:58 wildgrain.com, they can go there. And there's everything to know to reach out to us or to learn about our product. And if they have any questions, our member support team will be super happy to talk to them. And even me or Johanna would be very happy to to interact with them. Michael Hingson 57:16 And, and I can say that going to Wildgrain.com was a very accessible experience. And I was able to use the shopping cart and all the features on the site. And for me, it doesn't get any better than that. Ismail Salhi 57:29 That's awesome to hear. Michael Hingson 57:31 Well, thank you again for being with us. And I want to thank you out there listening. We really appreciate you and all of your thoughts and comments. 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Episode Summary Bob Brill has been in radio for over 50 years. Not only has he seen and covered it all live, but as you will hear he has been an unexpectant participant and victim. As a radio newscaster and anchor Bob is known for covering the news for networks and local stations. In 1992 he covered the famous, or infamous riots that took place after the acquittal of four policemen who were accused of beating a black man, Rodney King in Los Angeles. As you will hear in a live segment of Bob's coverage, he was attacked. Talk about unexpected. Bob is an author of a number of books. He tells us about them as he describes his life and treats us to many memories. Thanks for listening and I hope you will let me know your thoughts about our episode and the Unstoppable Mindset podcast by emailing me at michaelhi@accessibe.com.   About the Guest:  Bob Brill is an award winning journalist with a long history in radio as well as print. He is currently a news anchor and reporter at the all news radio station in Los Angeles, KNX News Radio. A former National Correspondent and L-A base bureau chief for the UPI Radio Network, Bob has covered everything from Hollywood to the western White House during the Reagan years, and traveled to 27 countries either for work or pleasure. He is currently applying for dual citizenship with Italy, as he continues to work on his families genealogy (another one of his passions). A sports enthusiast and a life long fan of his home town teams from Pittsburgh, Bob hosts two podcasts. He does a weekly NFL podcast with former NFL Quarterback Erik Kramer while the second is more varied. "Interesting People with Bob Brill" started as a way to introduce everyday people and their jobs to the world. Bob now uses it more for telling stories of his "life on the radio," including radio documentaries he has produced. An accomplished writer, Bob has authored 13 books, written 20 screenplays and pilots and writes a weekly baseball column about baseball in the 1960s. He has written six of the planned 10 books in his western novel series "Lancer; Hero of the West." His latest book, "The Tattoo Murder," is based in Ventura, CA, and is the story of a former Army Ranger who is now a cop in what is a racy detective novel. He has also produced four short films. Bob's claim to fame occurred when he was attacked while reporting from the scene of the 1992 Los Angeles riots at Florence & Normandy. While he has recovered from that beating he still suffers some physical effects of it today. The beating itself is considered an iconic piece of audio which has been heard around the world and continues to be heard on the Internet whenever stories appear about the Rodney King beating and the riots which followed. One of Bob's pleasures as well as a part of his business life is buying and selling baseball cards. 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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  01:21 Hi, and welcome to unstoppable mindset wherever you may be. We're glad you're here with us. Thanks very much for joining. We have an interesting guest today. I say that all the time, don't I? But anyway, this person is someone I've heard for years on the radio, never had a chance to meet him. And yesterday when we chatted, I asked him why is your name so familiar? And he said, Well, do you listen to KNX and there we are and then just clicked. So Bob Brill, welcome to unstoppable mindset. Bob Brill  01:51 Thanks for Thank you. I appreciate being here. And I appreciate the fact you're also a listener. Michael Hingson  01:58 Well, we try right. And of course, Bob and I have interesting interests in common. We we do know the Twilight Zone and watch it when Bob Brill  02:11 we're zone heads. I guess. Michael Hingson  02:13 That's it. And as I said yesterday, I still remember the Saturday Night Live with Ricky Nelson. That was so much fun. Bob Brill  02:21 What else His funeral was one of the assignments I had it up i Radio Network, and it was a really touching funeral thing. You know, I love covering funerals. Hollywood, I really did. I was head of the obit files that up I radio. And I know we're getting ahead of ourselves here, but you brought it up. So I just mentioned it. And I remember the one thing his daughter Tracy, talking about him. And the one thing that stood out is the fact that she goes and he loved ice cream. And that hit me hard because I love ice cream is one of my favorite foods, you know, and but I remember that and, and the TED night funeral was so great, because we were everybody was waiting at least I was for someone to mention Chuckles The Clown and the chuckles So, and Gavin McLeod could be there. And Gavin sent a letter to be read at the funeral and it was read at the end. He said, Ted, you are a little song, a little dance a little seltzer down your pants, which was Chuckles The Clown famous line? Yeah, very well show. And I was waiting for that hope and I just blessed to be up with them. I'll say that you're laughing in this crowd outside of reporters. If you're looking at me, like no, you had to be there. You had to be there. Michael Hingson  03:35 I get it. Yeah. i Because I remember Chuckles The Clown from the late 1950s. Being a kid and watching. I think it was Channel Five in California. I know Bozo was on no chuckles was on 11 I think and Bozo was on five and BUZZA was on five. Larry Harmon Bob Brill  03:52 was Larry Harmon. The play Bozo. Was it? Michael Hingson  03:56 I think? I think it was. Yeah, I Bob Brill  03:59 interviewed him once. On one of the anniversaries of bozos of the cloud or something. And he gave me his famous laugh, you know, and on tape somewhere around here somewhere anyway. Anyway, of Michael Hingson  04:10 course, of course, the memorable one from the late 1950s. Well, and a lot of the 1950s in the 1960s is a Sheriff John. Bob Brill  04:19 Yes. Yes. And I used to watch Sheriff John as as did you and, and about a billion other kids, I think and he had his problems later on. And but he was he was certainly I think, I don't know if he call me hero to us kids, but I think he was someone we did. I mean, my heroes, Lone Ranger, but I mean, you know, so he wasn't to that level. But you know, it was like, Was he the one? I'm trying to think he had a train did he? Did he have a train and that was engineer bill. Engineer. Bill had the train. That's right. They'll still Yes, and the little train that could you know, but no, I mean, And there's all those guys in the 50s and 60s, who we used to watch every afternoon in Pittsburgh. When I was growing up really in Pittsburgh, there was a show like that. And there was the sidekick was named Ganesh. Okay, obviously a Jewish term, he returned, and conditio was a mop that and the strings from the mop where his hair and he had two eyes on there somewhere, I don't remember, it was the broom or mop payable. And that was Kadesh. And it was every afternoon Kadesh would introduce the cartoons, and it was Popeye, and I forget some of the others. But it was like every little every city had their own version, as well as you know, bozo, and some of the Michael Hingson  05:53 Chicago had Johnny Coons and, and, but Sheriff John had the breakfast brigade and the lunch brigade. So he was on twice and, and really owned for kids K T TV channel, 11. Bob Brill  06:07 And, you know, the other one that I became very good friends with was Tom hat. Tom, I was just gonna say, and Tom passed away a couple of years ago. Yeah. And I talked to his partner who was very, very gracious. And Tom and I worked together at Ken X. And brief story. As as a kid, I was living in Ventura when 1960 or 61. And Tom was making an appearance at a local toy store. And of course, Tom was for sale or used to draw, you know, Popeye and everything. And, yeah, and so I would, my mom and I had planned to go there. We went, and he didn't show canceled, and years later, and they gave me a three by five postcard thing of Tom hat, you know, as a giveaway and things like that as a remembrance, and I kept it all these years. So it kind of rolled up. It was a little bigger than three by five, I guess. And so years later, my son Bobby, was watching the Sunday morning deal that he did on I guess was Channel Five. And he was watching and he sent in his card to be a winner for two tickets, the Breeland they pulled his name. And they said, You know, Bobby Brill wins, you know, blah, blah, blah. And so they he also got one of those cards right? And as part of the deal, so I was working at filling in at KK annex FM, which was upstairs from the Columbia square of K and X. And I went down and I I knew Tom was working down there doing his entertainment reports in the morning. So I got both those cards, and I took him down. And Roger Goodell, who was the assistant news director, was standing five feet away from Tom, I saw Tom sitting there, and very loudly when Roger greevey says, Hey, Bob, how you doing? I said, Well, I came down for a special thing. And I directed my voice over toward Tom. And I said, because I really wanted to show something to Tom Hatton. And Tom looked up from his typewriter. And I said, Tom, how you doing? He goes, Oh, great, Bob, we started talking. And I showed the two pictures over he goes, Oh my gosh. He pointed out that was the only the one inventor was the only personal parents he ever missed. And he always felt really bad about it. That was the only one he ever missed. And I was I was like seven years old at the time. And Tom and I became great friends after that, and we talk and you know, and and they weren't, you know, later it came accident. He left Canada shortly after that and and passed away. He was very big in theater at Pasadena Playhouse and passed away a few years ago. So that was my I had to say that story because I know you'd love it. Michael Hingson  08:58 And for those in those who don't know, we're talking mostly about local personalities in various cities. Typically for most of us around Los Angeles. Engineer Bill was on channel nine Tom Hatton hosted Popeye every night and was very famous for doing squiggles. He could take a turn anything into a drawing. And he would do it right on the air, which was so much fun. And so we we have those and Sheriff John was another one that we mentioned. And there was another one on channel 13. And I cannot remember the person's name but all the kids shows they were they were fun. Bob Brill  09:40 And then of course there was Elvira mistress of the Diane there was that who you fell in love with when you were 13 After you got out of the kid shows? Michael Hingson  09:49 Yeah. Well, and then there was see more alert what Larry Vincent right. And Seymour came to do a a lecturer at UC Irvine when I was there, and he actually hosted five science fiction films. So you were there in the science lecture hall for hours. And he narrated them all. But the fourth one he did was the silent film version of Phantom of the Opera. Oh, and of course, being the guy with a morbid sense of humor that I am. The film started and see more yelled outs, everybody can see it. Okay. And of course, what did I have to do but say no. And somebody must have explained who I was. Because when he described it, and did a good job of describing it, I never did get to meet him, but he did describe it, which was a lot of fun. When actually I think he was before outlier, but Elvira mistress of the dark. Yes, absolutely. Was was all over. Well, how did you say you were a kid in Pittsburgh? And then you moved to California. When did you move to California? Bob Brill  10:58 We moved twice. We moved out in 59. I believe it was and we stayed here. My father was a home delivery milkman and for those who don't know what that is, it's a milkman who delivers the milk to your house every morning or every other morning and our nation are manifold. Yeah, I am actually band full. And then he went a actually in Pittsburgh, he I remember him with menzi dairy, but before that, he did. He did work carnation. And when he came out here, he worked for Arden dairy in Ventura, which went belly up and that's when we moved back to Pittsburgh. And then we came back out he went to work for man full and then a door farms after that. Because I think a door bought man full. But no. He went to a man full Jessup indoor farms because a lot of farms bought Jessup and Justin has purchased manful oil. So all the consolidation is that business started shrinking very badly. But anyway, so he lost his job, the dairy went belly up in Ventura. So we moved back to Pittsburgh, and he went back to work for menzi dairy, and then he couldn't take the winters, he had arthritis and bursitis. And, and just, you know, at that time, it was ice on a truck. And some of the trucks out here had refrigeration. So I didn't have to load up ice every morning, when I was getting when we were getting milk delivered, it was all ice. Yeah. And you know, you'd have to load up the truck in the morning, with all the glass and cartons were starting to come in. And then you would lay these bags of ice on top of it, you had to fill the bags of ice first and then get to lay them on top. And then you go on the route. And out through the day, you know, and then summertime, I'd go with him a couple of days a month. And it was always fun, because I would drink chocolate milk and I would all the kids would follow me and I'd have these chocolate milk samples. And we'd go through the neighborhood. And when my dad would stop the deliver all the kids would come to the back of the truck about him. I hand out samples of chocolate milk, or ice, which if it was really hot out, I give mice you know, and I became this, you know, local hero so to speak. But my first touch at that, but then probably my only touch of that. But so anyway, we moved back to California because my dad's health and and in 63 and here ever since I started my radio jobs where i i moved to Tulsa, El Paso. Weatherford, Oklahoma, Raton New Mexico, Prescott, Arizona, all my radio career, places I've gone to Michael Hingson  13:33 how did you get into radio, so you went to high school out here are willing to Bob Brill  13:37 do it. So my high school and the year before I graduated, I kind of wasn't sure what I wanted to do. I definitely want to play baseball. That was my goal. I wanted to play baseball and and in, I guess the sixth grade. This is done. My teacher asked me we had to write an essay what we wanted to be when we grew up, and I said I want to play baseball. She goes, What's your backup? And I said, I don't know what the what's a backup? And I don't play baseball and she doesn't release them in case it doesn't work. And I said, Oh, okay, well, sure, why not? I'll throw something out there. And I thought, You know what I want to do that would keep me close to baseball. That's all I really ever wanted to do. And so I thought play by play announcer right. So radio. So I put that down. And then my year before I graduated, I saw an ad for Career Academy school of broadcasting. And I said, What kind of probably gotta get serious about this thing. And so I said, I applied, they sent me a letter back saying they couldn't talk to me because I hadn't graduated yet. They can only talk to me if I'm a senior. So I said okay, um, so I set that aside. And then the next year before I graduated, I got a letter from them. And I said, Well, this is cool. You know, they they must really want me right, you know, remember? Yeah, they they remembered me and everything. So I ended up going there was a four month course. I remember I got it. It was $1,000 I got a student loan for the $1,000 and I paid it back $33 a month for three years. That's it At once I got a job. And I basically I got it. I had a Volkswagen van, my father purchased us. And I had $600. And I broadcast your book, and a boatload of tapes that I made in broadcasting School, which was four months long. And I set out and was going to hit every radio station, that my license would let me work outside of the LA market because I knew I would get a job there. And first off was banning California. I went on the air one night, two hours left, the next morning will actually left that night Neverland back there, never got paid. And within a week, I had a job at canto T and Prescott, Arizona, and I was there for four months before I got fired. For probably being me insubordinate, I think is probably the word that the assistant manager who actually was in charge of firing me, probably would have used stronger words than that. But I was, you know, I was a 18 year old kid on it at that point, all now it's almost like to 72 hours 84 piss and vinegar and you know, and I'm gonna set the world on fire and, you know, probably said a few things the System Manager she didn't like, and so I was gone. Get back to LA. Within a week, I had a job as a studio engineer at kV FM, and the panorama towers. And, and the thing was, they were paying me in Panama City. $1.60 an hour. A year earlier, I've been working at country cousins market, getting paid as a boxboard getting paid $1.65 an hour. So I was making less money. But hey, I was in LA radio, right? Michael Hingson  16:49 Start somewhere. Bob Brill  16:51 You got it. But I'll tell you my first words on the air at the K pass and banning, there's no record of it. I know it because there was no tape recorder or anything. But I want it was distract you. And I wanted to call myself by some wild name. You know, you know, all the big guys. Emperor Hudson and Eddie's royal names, right. So I figured what goes with Bob RELLIS. It was a baron, right? Var o n. So I opened the microphone and said, Good evening, the Baron Bobby Brill saying Good evening. First words ever on the air. So anyway, profound. Yes. Michael Hingson  17:31 Baron doesn't stick to this day. Bob Brill  17:34 No, no, I used it for about 10 days when I got the job in Prescott. And they said, drop it. Drop it. And I said, Okay. I also on the weekend, I was playing some some older hits. I play off these all these goodies albums, nowhere to play one of those two of those an hour, and I would introduce some solid gold. Well, Monday morning, I got my rear end handed to me on that one. You can say it's a solid gold record from 1965. But you can't say that ever, whatever word that is you're using? And I said we saw the gold? Yeah, you can't use that. Don't stop it. I don't wanna hear that. Okay. I started by path down the there was enough of those things that kind of got under my skin that was like, okay, yeah, that I let it go one day. So anyway, ancient history, but fun history. Michael Hingson  18:31 What do you do? Of course, then you've got people like George Carlin with wonderful wine. Oh, radio that always talked about solid gold. So Bob Brill  18:38 yes, yes. You know, and that was that was the term for for boss radio at the time, you know, rock and roll radio top 40 radio, which was actually top 30 radio, you know, and that was a term was being used, and I just decided to use it. That's what I knew. And, and the people the radio station in Prescott, Arizona didn't like it. And so I had to conform. And I did. And, you know, there were some things that happened. I think what? Well, that's for another time. It's too long a story. So well, we'll tell another time. Michael Hingson  19:16 Well, but you, you did adapt. And you know, one of the things that that I find when I'm talking to people who are talking about what they did and something didn't work we talked about it on unstoppable mindset. The the idea of the mindset is, though, that you adapt, and you you learn what works, and then you make it happen. And that's of course, what what we all need to do. So you you came back to California eventually. And where did you go from there? You eventually ended up at UPI. Bob Brill  19:51 Yeah, I kind of left la again. I knew I needed to get more CSD and I wasn't going to get a job. I'm in LA. So I ended up going. I worked in Palm Springs that KCM J there. And I was there for less than a year, before I got offered a job at kpsi Across town, which was much more listen to radio station and much more modern, a little bit more pay not a lot. And I was married at this time. And kid on the way, had first kid there. And from there, I moved on. I kind of really I fell in love with news. I was the associate news director and a kpsi as well as disc jockey and I was evening jock. And I'd fill under mornings and stuff, but I really started to fall in love with dudes. And that's when and I still wanted to do play by play. I got offered a job to go to El Paso to work at ke ELP there to be the afternoon or midday news guy. I was gonna do news at midday. And then I was gonna do play by play or do local high school football play by and look at Michael Hingson  21:07 what's happening here. Now, instead of just being the new kid on the block, you're actually being offered jobs. So there Yeah. Bob Brill  21:12 Anyway, so yeah, it was it was a nice feeling. And so I got there and shortly thereafter, the management of Gods get named with a company, it was a pretty big company, they own wo ai and a whole bunch of others. In Texas, it was a change, decided they didn't like the way their direction was going. So they fired everybody who had hired me. And I was kind of left blown in the wind to the the new people coming in who had their friends they wanted to bring in and I was in that sort of nonconformist situation again, and I ended up losing my job. They're going to radio stations across town where I get overnight dis jockeying just till I could find another job and went to toss that offered a job in Tulsa did co anchor morning news there. And from there, I went back to an afternoon anchor job in Bakersfield, moved back to California wanted to get back to California Family. By this time I had two kids. And the family really didn't like living in Tulsa and things were going great at the radio station. So but took the job in Bakersfield came eventually became news director remarked how left and to go to KCBS in San Francisco. Now he went to Fresno. And so I became news directors because and then moved up to Fresno at Coyote, which was the original boss rock station and became news director there and eventually took a job. At the LA Times, the LA Times was starting a new project. It was if you remember the 976 numbers, and they were starting sort of a little radio station using 976. And they had no clue what they were doing. They mismanaged the project terribly. They treated us okay, they kept us on the payroll for like six months after they folded the project. But they got me back to LA. I was doing some stuff part time at UPI, and eventually worked my way into a full time job there. Based on the fact that you may remember when James puberty, went nuts at the McDonald's in San Ysidro Diego and killed a bunch of people I did. They had me do work the phones, I was the only one in the area because everybody else had gone to the Democratic Convention in San Francisco. So it was me. I was staffing the bureau during that time as a part timer. And that probably one of the best jobs ever did. I put out enormous amount of material. And the next morning they call I said, Well, you got a job want to go to Washington or New York. And I said, Well, I don't really want to go to Washington or New York. I want to stay in LA. And they said, well, that's not going to happen, because we're not going to open up another position there. Because we have two people when I said I understand that. And about a year later, I guess they decided to move one of the two people in the LA Bureau to open up bureau in Miami because he was the space dude was Rob Davis. And Rob did all the space stuff. He works at NASA Now. And so to save money, they moved him there, which left an opening and they called me back and I said, Yeah, what do you want me to start? They said tomorrow, I said I'm there. And so I was at UPI with Bob Fosse. Bob eventually moved on. I became bureau chief. And, you know, I was there until like 95 And then I started my own publication and did some other things still did some radio and moved on. And then about 2009 I had opened a baseball card store in the meantime. So I was doing part time radio UPI, and other part time radio and running a baseball card store. And things started really, really getting pretty bad the industry. And so I made a phone call. They call me back. They needed a part time people KX I got they hired me and I've been there 17 years. Michael Hingson  25:30 Wow. So you never did other than the high school experience get to really do play by play I did Bob Brill  25:39 in Fresno. We did in Fresno. Yeah, I did that one season in Fresno. And I still have my tapes. And in fact, they're sitting next to me or I'm doing some audio dubbing, the current month and just doubling off some stuff. And I've had tapes here in front of me. I was actually pretty good to play by play, football play by play. I never got a chance to do why did get a chance to do some pseudo baseball. In my first job in Prescott. I sold a weekend package. I was doing sales as well. And Prescott, Arizona is one of the best places of the country. For men's Top competition, softball Fastpitch softball teams come from all over the country to play their tournaments and everything every weekend. And so I sold this package and I would do the play by play. I do two games one Saturday, one Friday, that one Saturday night. And so I got to do that. And so it's baseball playbook play. I did the football in Fresno. And that was pretty much what I got to do. And then as a correspondent I have to cover, you know, all the major events, World Series, Super Bowls, NFL championships, things like that. Michael Hingson  26:51 You didn't get to do baseball for the Dodgers. Sorry to hear that. But I would prefer the pirates. But that's well, yeah, but that's okay. Bob Brill  26:59 I did love this job when I was 13. There you are. I got it. I still have the letter I got back saying I'm being considered like everybody else. Michael Hingson  27:10 That's all right. When you know, back in the day, when 1968 came around, and I turned 18 We had the lottery for the draft. And the first thing I got was a letter from the government saying your classified one day and I was just waiting for the day they were going to draft the bank. And I was one a for about four months, which was the classification for being drafted. And then somebody caught up to it and they classified me for FiOS thought it was discriminatory. So you know, what do you do? Bob Brill  27:39 I remember what it was at Wired broadcasting school. As the numbers, the lottery numbers were coming up. And mine came up 345, which I was excited about because I didn't want to go with that. And the war was winding down. I mean, if I got drafted, I would obviously were gone. But, and one of our other guys, his number came up number five, and you could have picked him up off the floor after that, you know, and he never went. It was I think it was soul surviving son or something. But we met years later, he works at LAPD now. And we ran into each other just through, you know, doing stories and stuff. But it was like, that was one of those moments. You know, you just kind of your life could change in a heartbeat. But anyway, Michael Hingson  28:25 I did have a number for a while and I don't remember when it came up but I wasn't alone number anyway, even though by that time I was four F so I wasn't gonna go anyway. But, but it's still a fun memory. So you you have written books? Yes, yes, I've Bob Brill  28:42 written 13 I produce short I produce for short films. I've written Oh by 20 scripts I haven't sold any yet still working on that. We're doing a very wonderful podcast. We're working on it now. But latest book is well written six of six books of a 10 book series called Lancer hero the west so it's it's it's enjoy this because it's basically Lancer is to different adventure each time. Lancer is a compilation of 1950s and 60s, TV Western heroes. He's kind of two dimensional, but he's he's a good guy Gunslinger and sort of a combination of those guys. And then some things I threw myself with the latest and that there's going to be 10 of those. There's six out now. And I've got to get right the seventh one but kind of behind on my schedule. But the one that's out now is doing very well. It's called the tattoo murderer. And there are other books called the tattoo murderer but this one is the tattoo murder as well. It's a fictional, racy detective novel. It takes place in Ventura, California, where I spent many years of my life and it's basic Lay he's when it comes to the ladies, he's sort of like a local James Bond. Good looking, you know, that kind of guy has a lot of ladies. But he does things old school he's very reliable a serfs. That's one of his big things. And the tattoo murder is get to unique twist to it. One of the things we did, and people told me, they can't put it down. And I think this is one of the reasons is, when I wrote it, I didn't write it as chapters, although it has chapters now, the publisher put those in, but I wrote it with a timeframe. So every scene in the book, it's like a movie, and like a movie script, and that each scene starts with the time, the date, the day, and the time of day, and where so you know, you're at Ventura pier at 230, in the afternoon, on Monday, the 29th, or whatever. And each scene and low scenes may be two pages long. So I think what happens is people read that, and I think we all would we read, I'm getting tired, but how many pages to the end of the chapter. And so they can read to the end of the next scene, and know it, pick it up again, or things out. Next scene is only two pages long, it's only two pages long, or five pages or whatever. And then the other thing we did, is my wife does photography. And she and I went to Ventura and took pictures of places where the fictional accounts to place the actual places. And in the center of the book, there's 10 photos of actual places you can go to in Ventura, where these fictional crimes took place, and, and other other scenes in the book. And I based some of the characters on people I know, in Ventura. I can't say all of them, I can mention a couple, but it's about 335 pages, I think it's it really is, it's the best thing I've ever written. You can find it on Amazon, you can find it at my website, Bob brill, books.com, which is easy to remember. And, you know, it's, it's just one of those books that I've always dreamed of writing, I wrote it back in 2014. Let my daughter read it and sign it, okay, she can't, she couldn't read the SEC seats, because your dad read it wrote it. Bob Brill  32:27 If you gotta write that stuff, you gotta get show it to your daughter, or your wife, or anybody like that, or cousins or sisters, although I did, and therefore what I did was I toned it down, and I probably needed to tone it down, it's gonna get, and they're still, the sex scenes are still steamy. They're just not as graphic as I originally wrote them. And I get a lot of comments on them positive, no negatives at this point. And it's a, it's a good read. And it's one of those things that I, I feel, it's probably the only book I've ever written. And like I said, I've written 13 that has the possibility of making it to one of the best seller lists, you know, and it's, you know, it's hard in fiction, you know, to get there, and most of that stuff is true life stories, as you know. And, you know, and telltale books and things like that. So, you know, cuz fiction is one of those where you make stuff up, you know, and it's easier. I think it's easier to write fiction than the true stuff, although I've written both. And I think with fiction, your research is easier. With nonfiction. If you're telling somebody's life, you're really always behind the eight ball. Because unless it's your life, you're always am I going to make a mistake? Am I gonna offend somebody? Am I going to get sued? You know, that kind of stuff? Did I misinterpret what they say? Did I forget what they said? You know, so my baseball memoir book was like that. You know, I, it's my recollections. It's called. I'll tell so my baseball tales, my baseball life growing up as a child of the 60s, and it's about playing baseball, in the in the 60s, but it's about relationships, and fathers, brothers, friends, uncles, coaches, whatever, and everything is true in that everything's right down to the tee. Except I miss named one person. I, I meant to mention, the father who was my coach, and I used his son's name as the father's name. I just, I mixed it up. i i i n. You know, it was guiding the coach was Cliff Miller. The son was Glenn Miller, and I call the coach Glenn Miller. Probably somewhere in the back of my mind my my father's favorite band was Glenn Miller. It's bad. But I just I screwed up. And I didn't double check it to the point where I should have caught it. So old age sitting in early, but it's fun, but it really is. It's, I had to get that on down because for posterity for myself and my kids and my grandkids, I was, you know, want to leave them something. And we did a similar thing on my, my interesting people with Bob row podcast, where I talked about, you know, been in radio 50 years, and I wanted to do a month of stories about life on the radio. And so each day I did for the month of March, I did, I told a story about something some tragic, some good, some mostly funny, you know about things I did, or that happened in my radio career, and which isn't over yet. But I wanted to get something down for my grant, my grandkids are getting older. And I wanted to have that for posterity. Michael Hingson  35:54 Well, you know, we can't forget the fact that you do have a broadcast that at least to you, and I think to a lot of people is famous, something that happened to you. And of course, we have to mention that right? Bob Brill  36:09 Sure. No, I have no problem. It's the This year marks the 30th anniversary of the 1992 riots, the LA riots, stemming from the non conviction of the four police officers who attributed to the beating of Rodney King. And I My job was to cover the reaction to the Rodney King verdict, and to go to South Central South LA now. But at the time, it was so central light and long story short, I ended up at Florence and Normandie. I heard my friend Pete Habitrail, who was working for KfW be at the time, say if there's going to be a flashpoint. It's going to be a foreign to Normandy. Well, as a reporter covering that type of story. You hear the word Flashpoint. You know, that's where the story is. That's where you have my assignment was to go to the AME Church, because that's where chief gates and Mayor Bradley and members of the African American community, were going to be meeting and talking, calling for calm calling for peace ship Murray, who was a reverend do who was of that church at the time. And so I checked with the desk and I said, you know, I think I should go to Florence and Normandie. And they said, Do you feel safe? And I said, I was the first white guy at an all black baseball team down here. Of course, I feel safe. You know, little did I think, you know that. How stupid was that to put in into my head. But you know, so I was dressed. I probably look like a cop. I have a UPI blue baseball cap on. I was wearing a blue windbreaker for tennis shoes, jeans, you know. And so I went to Florence in Normandy, and I saw activity taking place in the middle of the intersection. I expected to see yellow tape. I really did. I didn't. By that time, what happened was the cops on the other side of the intersection and fled. They left they were called out, things got too hot. Instead of bringing in more cops and more police, more cars and that kind of stuff. Chief gates pulled everybody out. And so I didn't see yellow tape because there were no cops there. So I made a U turn in the intersection because I saw a payphone on the left hand side. So I parked but 1520 feet away from the payphone, went to the payphone, picked it up, call the desk, said start recording, I'm in the middle arrived, I won't say exactly what I was. I said because I use some different language when I call them. And so they started rolling tape. And I just started describing what I was saying. And it was pretty much anywhere between nine to 14 minutes, I think. I was just planning to get out. Reggie, Reginald Denny drove his truck at the intersection. And I'm probably 40 yards 50 yards away from him and describing that, and then the terrible BDD was taken. I mean, I still see visions of it. I you know, and of course, it's all over the internet. So but it's, it's it was just horrible, just horrible. And I was on the payphone. And it's one of those standard pay phones. It wasn't a Superman change of clothes type of those. You know, it was the one that stand ups and the kind of Superman in the first Superman movie, looked at and said, I can't change my clothes. Yeah. So Bob Brill  39:35 anyway, so I I'm describing it and I was very aware of my surroundings. I was very aware. And I had made my plan to exit how I was going to exit I was will be safe and everything else. Well, I got distracted. A guy dressed very nicely, came up, came toward me and said, What the hell are you doing here and I let my guard down. I stepped away from the phone booth. I said As you can hear on the audio, audio tape, a reporter of, you know, doing my job, whatever I said, and then he looked past me. And thank God, I wasn't 10 years younger, because it was 10 years younger, I would have been quicker. And I would have turned and look to see what he was looking at. But I didn't turn fast enough. And what happened was, there was a guy with a 64 ounce beer bottles in his hand, and he smashed it on my head. If I turned around to get it right in the middle of the face could have been blinded. That was I could have had class all over my face. Any any number of things would have happened. And as it was, I got on the side of my head, punctured eardrum cracked skull, I immediately went down. And then whoever it was started kicking and beating me, and you can hear that on the tape. I stopped, and I grabbed the phone. And I said, Did you get that? And they said, Yes. I said, Well, I just had the crap beat out of me. I'm gonna head to the hospital. I said, go, go, go. And so I I started to leave. My thumb was broken, smashed, difficult to get into my car, turning the key. And I knew as soon as I started the vehicle, there were people coming toward my car. And I knew that soon as I started, I would get a car to get him rocks and bottles and which is exactly what happened. And a guy and I don't know if it's a guy beat me up or what. But there was a guy, I caught a corner, my eye on the right hand side, winding up with a piece of rock junk rock concrete, and he was winding up like a pitcher wood, and was gonna throw it in my car. And immediately, my right rear window exploded, and the rock landed in the backseat. And just, you know, I took off. And I could luckily, I couldn't see anything because was beer and all kinds of stuff on my windshield. And I luckily, there was nobody in front of me when I left. Or if they weren't they they moved pretty quickly. Because I couldn't see I have my glasses were gone. My tape recorder was stolen. I was I couldn't see what was on the road in front of me until I got down the road, about a half mile, call the desk again, then went to the hospital. And but that audio tape, and I always said I still have a rock today, that audio tape is unheard, how many millions of times it's on pretty much almost every internet video of the riots that put people put up on YouTube, they'll play part of that I only copyright to it now than I did. And I even have it on my website. I mean, I don't have any probabilistic to it. It's not. It was my it happened to me, it was my moment. Physically, I've recovered, except I still have some negative effects. My I have caused some pain in my neck, you know, from the early arthritis that the beating brought on. And, and some of the other damage that you know, it's evidently negligible. But when you're dealing with your neck and your spine pain happens? Michael Hingson  43:19 Well, I hear what you're saying. And of course, it's the, in a sense, the same thing that that I experienced and deal with from the World Trade Center. And I can certainly listen to discussions about it. And for the last 20 years, plus, I have been traveling the world talking about it, I give speeches talking about the lessons we should learn and, and talking about my story and my experience. And I think talking about it helps as much as anything does. Bob Brill  43:47 I agree with you very, very much. You know, and like me, you don't mind talking about it. It comes up, you know what's going to come up? You've told the story 1000 times. And, you know, for us, you and me. I mean, that's a piece of history. You know, it's a piece of history that maybe 20 years from now or even today somebody Google's you know, and, you know, there's there's some comfort in that, I think in that, you know, you want your legacy to be something that you leave the world. It's never really up to us what the world chooses to remember us why? Or how to remember us. Hopefully we have some influence on it. But there are times when in our case, is it it wasn't up to us. It happened. Michael Hingson  44:36 If you don't mind. We'll we'll put a little piece of the broadcast in then.  Bob Brill  44:41 Sure.No, go ahead,  Audio Recording  44:42 man. In fact, now he's closer. torinese still bleeding all over the place trying to get back into his truck is getting back into his truck at the transit. Transit mixed truck. He's white he's trying to get to try to drive through this intersection. Now he has enough power to on his own. Just get out of the air. a news reporter on how she smoked something. Michael Hingson  45:17 Here's my question to you. How much do you think we've learned? It's been 30 years and so many things continue to happen. Are we learning anything from lessons like the whole Rodney King riots? Bob Brill  45:29 I think we have. I think a couple of things have happened. I think the black community has become empowered. And while at the same time, I think some things we haven't learned, we still have George Floyd, we still have Breanna Taylor, we still have, you know, constantly, you know, you know, you look back at the incident in LA, and there's blame to go around for everybody. Yeah, you know, we, I think we've learned how better to deal with it. I think Rodney King was the start of something because Rodney King, I think is a reference point. Yes. There were many, many instances before Rodney King, going back into the 17 1800s. I mean, you know, everything from Dred Scott to, you know, I can't think of the guys that Emmet. I can't think of his name off top my head. But many, many cases that nobody ever talks about, especially in the south, when you have the Klan and stuff. If we had had mass media, in the 1800s. Maybe we wouldn't be where we are today. You know, we'd be past it. But Rodney King was the reference point. It sort of everything after Rodney King. And like I said, you know, it still happens today. I mean, how many times during the year do we have to have these incidences that before we wake up? And you know, if you say it's bad apples? Yeah, it is bad apples is people making mistakes. And it's also people doing the wrong thing. Because they haven't learned. They think they're doing the right thing. They're not thinking before reacting, you know, a man runs away, you know, from a traffic stop. Number one, it shouldn't run away. Number two, the cops shouldn't chase them and shoot an unarmed man. Okay. Two wrongs don't make a right in any any case. You know, the guy who ran away looks at it and says, Well, I was afraid I'm a black man in a car being stopped by a cop in front of me we get shot. Okay, well, that's a real possibility, you know? And what is the cop think? So? I mean, these things, probably will never go away. Totally. But they should never be happening even as much as they're happening now. You know, so have we learned? Yeah, I think we've progressed, I don't think we've learned I think we've progressed. And I think empowerment from the victim side has become more powerful. And now there's this movement with our political system being so split, that there's a movement to put that down or change that or keep that from going further. You know, we're so radicalized that, and I don't want to get into politics, but we are so radicalized that, you know, this isn't going well. And I don't expect it to go get any better. You know, in my opinion, over the next five years, I'd be shocked if it got better. I, if it stayed the same, it might be progress, but it's gonna get worse. Michael Hingson  49:05 Yeah. And that's what's so unfortunate and so scary. We have gotten so polarized, and in some senses so radicalized that we're not dealing with this at all now, and it seems that to a large degree, we've lost a moral compass. And somehow we've got to move away from that. Bob Brill  49:24 We know politics is supposed to be all about compromise. It's not supposed to be winner take all. And because you have so many diverse groups, and today, as opposed to let's say when my grandparents came over in 1896 today, so we're, I think we're more diverse, but the other thing is, the diversity has more of a voice. In other words, in 1896, when my grandparents came over, they could vote for one thing. And they didn't have they were surviving. They didn't have they didn't really have a voice in what was being done in the country. If they did, it was put down immediately. Where today, whether you're Asian, Pacific Islander, Indian, black, Muslim, whatever you are, you've got a political voice. And you're organized groups that you're a part of. And all those political voices are so diverse, that it's almost like a parliament. You know, and maybe that's the answer is to go back to go to a parliamentary system, instead of a two party system. I mean, this unique experiment that we have here is just tremendous. And we've been lucky, you know, but and I'm not advocating parliamentary systems. But, you know, the rest of the world does it that way. We don't. And we've been strong for almost 300 years, 250 years, but, you know, it's like, okay, where's this going next? Can this political system survive? Michael Hingson  51:01 The problem is we're much more diverse, but we're not inclusive. And that's what we really need to change and see changed in some way. And until we truly become an inclusive society, we're going to have these problems. You know, Bob Brill  51:22 I had to describe me once that it was chip Marie, that that described it, we've gone from the melting pot to the salad bowl. Now it's the melting pot. We're all Americans, we all blend together. Now, we're the salad bowl, where we're all Americans, but some of us are raisins. Some of us are peanuts, some of us are in dive, some of us are dressing, some of us are carrots, some of us are celery, you know, we're all Americans. But we're individual. And, you know, whether we identify as Italian American, or as American, or we identified as Polish American, or American, you know, and I don't think there's anything wrong with identifying yourself with your heritage. Because, you know, I, I'm an amateur genealogist, I love doing Family Research, I'm thrilled that the 1950 census is now out, and I can look at it, you know, but, you know, at the same time, that does have a tendency to lead to more individualism, as opposed to, when we grew up, growing up in the 50s, and the 60s, we were this melting pot, and we were all, you know, and we have to look to a lot of what we were taught in history was a lie, you know, or fabricated, or stretched, you know, and you start looking at really, who did what and history and it's like, okay, we worship this guy. It's like, Ty Cobb, being in the Hall of Fame. You know, if Ty Cobb were alive today, you probably wouldn't be in the Hall of Fame, because nobody would vote for that blank, blank light, Michael Hingson  53:00 you know. Other side is we never, we're, we're so focused on one part of it that we forget the rest of the accomplishments, okay, people say Woodrow Wilson was a racist. But Woodrow Wilson, also was the President of the United States and did help to accomplish a number of good things. Yep. And, Bob Brill  53:22 and, you know, and that, that is a big part of, I think everything when people talk about this is they forget it real. They forget to realize we all make mistakes. Now, if we atone for those mistakes, or we're truly sorry, and not just publicity. Sorry, I think you can think everybody has to be forgiven for something. And, I mean, you know, we get into religion for that. But, you know, everybody makes mistakes. And if you are truly sorry for those mistakes, you truly correct them or whatever you need to do to make up for them and then start the new path. You know that. That's what I think a lot of people forget people hold grudges for. Ever. It seems like you know, you don't we Michael Hingson  54:12 don't start the new path. And we don't give people the opportunity to start the new path. Yeah, that's true. Exactly. And that's the problem. Well, this has been absolutely fun. It has been we've been trying to we got to do it some more. Bob Brill  54:25 I'm a fort. I definitely know this. This has been just a great time, Michael. I really enjoyed it. Michael Hingson  54:33 How well I do want to do it again. We will have to do it some more. Figure it out and make it happen. We could we could do a whole one on the Twilight Zone and yes, he had most of the twilight zone right. But But how do people learn more about you if they want to get in touch with you and so on and learn about your books and I know some of them are even audio which I'm going to go hunt down and find but how do people reach out to you Bob Brill  54:59 The easiest way is if you Google me, I usually come up if you Google Bob Brill, or Bob Brill reporter, the easiest way just Google Bob Brill. I'll come up. Usually 17 of the top 20 Bob Grill now I'm not Bob Brill, the drummer for Berlin. I'm not Bob Brill, the IP lawyer in Chicago. I'm not Bob Brill, the Tony winning set designer, and I'm definitely not Bob Brill, the bodybuilder. That guy is off the charts. Unbelievable. I wish I had some of his muscles. But anyway, but that's the easiest way or you can go to Bobbrill.com. And for the books, Amazon or you can go to my website, as I mentioned before as Bobbrillbooks.com. And all those things usually come up. Interesting people with Bob Brill comes up and my contact information is that all those places, you can email me and just reach out to me and and I'm on Facebook as well. Facebook, Twitter, and some other websites. But yeah, that's easiest way. I'm always open. So cool. Michael Hingson  56:19 Well, Bob Brill, the reporter thanks very much. You're welcome. Thanks very much for being here. This has been a lot of fun and I hope all of you have enjoyed this. Wherever you're listening, please give us a five star rating. We appreciate that bobble appreciate that too. And, and you can always reach out to me, I'd love to hear your thoughts on this podcast or what we're doing. You can email me at Michaelhi M I C H A E L H A I at accessibe A C C E S S I B E.com. And for those who don't know, research accessibe.com It's a company that helps make websites accessible. And you can also go to our podcast page Michaelhingson.com/podcast M I C H A E L H I N G S O N.com/podcast. And check us out there and listen to more episodes, but you can find them wherever you find podcasts episodes. So again, thanks for listening. And Bob, we really appreciate you being here today. Bob Brill  57:20 Thank you. I had a great time, Michael anytime and I appreciate you having me on. Thank you. UM Intro/Outro  57:32 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. 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An old woman with her can of spray paint invokes the anger of the Argentinian government, a group of armed civilians, and an American newsroom run by some questionable characters. At the core of what becomes an international crisis lies an ancient cave painting: hundreds of human hands overlapping each other. A painting to which the old lady feels drawn, and which might just hold the key to the secret art of floating.CW: homophobia, xenophobia, misogynyStories from the Hearth is an experimental storytelling podcast, a free artistic space in the style of a painter's studio or collagist's scrapbook. It is a place for you to lose yourself in truly original short stories and their immersive soundscapes, written, narrated, and produced by Scottish poet Cal Bannerman.Episode #18 out on 24th April (24.04.22)Support the podcast and earn exclusive perks through my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/storiesfromthehearthpodcastWebsite: www.storiesfromthehearth.co.ukInstagram: @storiesfromthehearthTwitter: @Hearth_PodcastYouTube: Stories from the HearthEmail: storiesfromthehearthpodcast@gmail.comOriginal Artwork by Anna FerraraAnna's Instagram: @giallosardinaAnna's Portfolio: https://annaferrara.carbonmade.com/Thank you for listening. Please consider following, subscribing to, and sharing this episode, and please do tell your friends all about Stories from the Hearth.Some of the recorded audio in this episode is courtesy of www.freesound.org.Water by The Kyoto Connection is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license. Accordingly, this episode of Stories from the Hearth is also licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license. To read more about this license, click here.

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on September 19th 2021 As I wallowed in my continuing recent poorly-sickedness, PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI himself returned to the show to bring along a little chicken soup for the soul (naturally with a file concealed inside it), to join me for an episode-length chat about one of the TV genres that he has watched an awful lot of, the Women's Prison Drama series. So, over the course of this week's hour we natter about WITHIN THESE WALLS - including some conjecture about the one that got away - and PRISONER (as he calls it, although I know it better as PRISONER: CELL BLOCK H). We also briefly travel back in time to the Second World War drama TENKO, take a quick peek at those BAD GIRLS, idly wonder whether ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, take a look inside WENTWORTH, and brings us right up to date with Channel Five's CLINK. PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content sometimes has to be removed for the podcast edition. All the spoken word content remains (mostly) as it was in the broadcast version. Hopefully this won't spoil your enjoyment of the show.

Adapting your business to be in lockstep with evolving consumer expectations has proven to increase loyalty and customer lifetime value. Learn the Five Pillars of Adaptive Retailing to start making the right changes to ensure you Lead, Today and Tomorrow. In today's ever evolving retail world, the need for digital transformation is not optional. The focus is based on your customers transformation to digital. That alone qualifies the effort. But with all things, there is more to it. And that leads us to the most compelling reason for this conversation. Adapting your business to fit what your customer is looking for immediately translates in increased loyalty, accelerated revenue and margin, and a much more sustainable business. Knowing not only what your customer wanted, but what she may want, enables an amazing business model transformation. You must be prepared to meet your customer where she's headed. This will culturally shift your business in ways you've never dreamed of. Seeking lasting improvements that not only solidify your relationship with the shopper but also morph all of your processes into customer service roles. This is the change necessary to lead now and tomorrow.

About the Show:                           We had a chance to sit down with Paul Gatling, the Editor and Associate Publisher of the https://talkbusiness.net/category/regions/northwest-arkansas-region/ (Northwest Arkansas Business Journal) recently. Paul has worked in Northwest Arkansas for more than two decades and cut his teeth in journalism and media at a daily newspaper in Central Arkansas as well as the Henderson State Sports Information office.  Paul walks us through the genesis of the business journal from its origins in Little Rock to the creation and evolution of the business newspaper/magazine here in Northwest Arkansas.  In addition to the https://talkbusiness.net/category/regions/northwest-arkansas-region/ (NWABJ magazine), they have a website, https://talkbusiness.net/ (Talk Business, and Politics) which updates daily business news here in NWA and beyond. They also have a podcast, a radio segment on https://www.kuaf.com/post/ozarks-large-thursday-july-22-2021 (Ozarks at Large on KUAF - Northwest Arkansas Business Journal Report), and the https://talkbusiness.net/about-roby-brock/ (Roby Report) every Sunday morning on Channel Five here in Northwest Arkansas. We chronicle a lot of the changes that have taken place to put Northwest Arkansas on the map and how Walmart and some of the other large firms in the area have helped to propel the economic and population growth of the region. All this and more on this episode of I am Northwest Arkansas. Important Links and Mentions on the Show*: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-gatling-79aa8545 (Paul Gatling on LinkedIn) Paul Gatling NWABJ Email https://talkbusiness.net/category/regions/northwest-arkansas-region/ (NWABJ Website) https://twitter.com/NWABJ/status/1415649587633827843 (NWABJ on Twitter) https://www.facebook.com/NWABJ/ (NWABJ on Facebook) https://talkbusiness.net/subscribe-nwa-business-journal/ (Subscribe to NWABJ) https://talkbusiness.net/category/video-podcasts/ (NWABJ Podcast) Paul's favorite restaurants: https://www.doeseatplace.com/ (Doe's) https://www.mcclards.com/ (McClards) http://www.thecatfishhole.com/ (Catfish Hole) https://www.flyingfishinthe.net/ (Flying Fish) Paul's favorite Book right now:  https://amzn.to/3ySDUod (The Cubs Way)   This episode is sponsored by*:   https://www.signature.bank/ (Signature Bank of Arkansas) -   https://www.signature.bank/ (Signature Bank) was founded here in Northwest Arkansas in 2005. Their focus is personal and community banking. When you bank with a community bank, you're investing in local businesses, local entrepreneurs, local charities, and the causes close to home. Signature Bank has worked hard to earn its tagline, “Community Banking at its Best.” You may ask why bank at Signature?  Because they focus on the customer instead of having a branch on every corner, this means you can have your questions answered by a real person, whether you're reaching out to the call center or your banker's cell phone. You can access any ATM in the country without fear of a fee.  They will refund all of those fees at the end of every month. Finally, they are constantly improving their digital offerings to ensure you can access the best financial tools from your laptop, phone, or tablet 24 hours a day. Signature Bank of Arkansas is a full-service bank offering traditional checking and savings accounts, investment accounts, business and personal loans, and mortgages.   Give the folks at Signature Bank a call (479-684-4700) or visit their website https://www.signature.bank/ (Signature.Bank) and let them know you heard about them on the I am Northwest Arkansas Podcast.    https://www.signature.bank/ (Signature Bank of Arkansas) is a Member of the FDIC and an Equal Housing Lender.    

Punk legend TV Smith joins me for Episode 208 of Life In The Stocks. This is an incredibly exciting guest for me, as The Adverts are on of my all-time favourite punk bands and TV Smith is one of my all-time favourite songwriters. The first two Adverts albums, and his debut solo album, Channel Five, have been key records throughout my life. His new album Lockdown Holiday is also great - it addresses not only the global pandemic that we're still in, but also the state of humanity and where we find ourselves in 2021. I really hope you enjoy this conversation one of the all-time great British songwriters.Life In The Stocks is sponsored by Radical Clothing. Be sure to follow them on Facebook & Instagram (@radicalclothinguk) and check out their website for the all-new spring range: www.radicalclothinguk.comFollow me on Facebook / Twitter / Instagram: @mattstocksdjCheck out the Life In The Stocks Patreon page, support this podcast, and get all kinds of extras in return, from bonus podcasts & DJ mixes to archive print interviews & radio shows.www.patreon.com/lifeinthestocksMy first book, 'Life In The Stocks: Veracious Conversations with Musicians & Creatives (Vol. 01)' is also out NOW and is available via Amazon, Waterstones, Blackwell's & Rare Bird Publishing.https://rarebirdlit.com/life-in-the-stocks-veracious-conversations-with-musicians-creatives/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week the Pauls take a break from bad movies to talk about two very very good ones and four other movies ranging from okay to balls. That’s right, it’s the one good thing about the Terminator franchise! Featuring: the’m’terminator, Ronald “The Clown” McDonald, Danny Mullet, Channel Five, Steve Sepia, That’s John, the Monkey Terminator Hypothesis and the Muscle Net Lady Trap.  NEW NEWS! NEWS NEWS! NEWAAARRGGHHHBRRBLEGLES  Goodman is appearing in the new season of Role To Cast (the Baby Bearders' frankly awesome TTRPG podcast) in the Pulp Cthulhu world! Tune in on all good podcatchers to Role To Cast for an Eldritch & Mummydiana Jones-type adventure full of outrageous accents, strengthy punch work and larger-than-life fun all around! https://open.spotify.com/show/3rBG7cpLYwIr4ujEZE4R2Khttps://ogtpod.podbean.comhttps://facebook.com/ogtpodhttps://twitter.com/ogtpod We have a Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/ogtpod - sign up for exclusive content for as little as $1 a month. ***** https://soundcloud.com/lovetraitor ***** http://alottagreen.com.au ***** Check out Paul Salt's reviews on Screen Mayhem HERE! But mainly, here: https://screenmayhem.com/author/paul-salt/

Graham Bell meets musician and soccer star Chelcee Grimes. Chelcee has worked with Dua Lipa, Kylie Minogue, the Saturdays and Kesha. She's also a very talented footballer: her past clubs include Liverpool Ladies, Tottenham Hotspur Ladies and Fulham. Chelcee is also starting out on a broadcasting career, working on the Match of the Day spinoff show Match of the Day XL for BBC Two. She's also presenting segments of the NFL End Zone on Channel Five. In lockdown, she launched her own podcast called ‘What Could Have Been’, interviewing stars of music and sport. In this episode Chelcee shares her fitness secrets and explains to Graham how she maintains her motivation, even when faced with lockdown.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, Rebecca Rideal chats to historian, broadcaster and bestselling author Professor Bettany Hughes about Ancient Greece, virgin sacrifice and her brand new Channel Five series Greek Odyssey. Written and narrated by Rebecca RidealProducer/Editor: Peter CurryVoice Actors: Duncan Barrett and Laura DarrallTheme music: "Circles" by The Broxton Hundred

Kay Hutchison is the author of My Life In Thirty Seven Therapies: From Yoga To Hypnosis and Why Voodoo is Never the Answer (UK Belle Media print version & US audio release, spring 2020)She is a content creator with extensive experience in radio, television and publishing. After gaining her BMus and MA in music at Glasgow University, she joined Decca Records in London and then BBC Radio as a Producer. Kay moved across to television with Channel 4 and went on to lead the launch teams for Disney TV and Channel Five. In the build-up to the 2012 London Olympics, she successfully led the legacy partnership that delivered a long-term future for the multi-million-pound Olympics Broadcast Centre. Kay founded her own company, Belle Media and launched Belle Kids in 2015, producing multi-platform, conservation-focused content for children.

Kay Hutchison is the author of My Life In Thirty Seven Therapies: From Yoga To Hypnosis and Why Voodoo is Never the Answer (UK Belle Media print version & US audio release, spring 2020) She is a content creator with extensive experience in radio, television and publishing. After gaining her BMus and MA in music at Glasgow University, she joined Decca Records in London and then BBC Radio as a Producer. Kay moved across to television with Channel 4 and went on to lead the launch teams for Disney TV and Channel Five. In the build-up to the 2012 London Olympics, she successfully led the legacy partnership that delivered a long-term future for the multi-million-pound Olympics Broadcast Centre. Kay founded her own company, Belle Media and launched Belle Kids in 2015, producing multi-platform, conservation-focused content for children.

Jon Bentley joined the BBC’s Top Gear Program as a researcher. He went on to become Producer and Executive Producer of that hit TV show between 1987 and 1999. He produced other programs for the BBC including The Car’s The Star. In 2002, after time as a producer with ITV and the BBC Natural History Unit, he launched Fifth Gear for Channel Five and produced the show until 2004 when he joined The Gadget Show as a presenter. This gave him the opportunity to indulge in another childhood passion; technology. He is now established as the Program’s main gadget reviewer. Jon writes for Amateur Photographer and has penned stories for numerous other publications. In November 2019, Jon wrote his first book titled, Autopia: The Future of Cars, which was published by Atlantic Books. 

Job’s a Good’un is the podcast where comedian Chris Washington delves into the employment history of comedians, actors, musicians…..and his best mate Martin, who’s had over 100 jobs and is the only human alive to have been sacked from the same Asda 3 times! They’ll have a natter about life before they were in the public eye, when they were working for ‘the man’ and when the dream looked very different. This week, Chris meets Channel Five presenter of Celebs On The Farm and comedian Stephen Bailey to find out how chatting up grannies in Sainsbury's led to a career in comedy. Listen and subscribe to Job's A Good 'Un now, on Global Player or wherever you get your podcasts. Twitter @ChrisWash_

Our hunt to catch all the PokéClones continues with the regrettable localization of Cardcaptor Sakura and the deeply problematic “Human Pokémon” of Zatch Bell. The anime dungeon seals are broken, and the Dawn of the Long Boys has begun.This week on Saturday Morning Tuesdays:Andy opens his goat mouth to scream an anime curse • Everyone has full crushes on Julian, the boy of unsurpassed length • Sakura definitely cannot catch all the Clow cards in just her jammies • Whose job was it to animate briefs onto Gash’s jeepers • Skateboarding incels are slightly more fun?Today’s Episode Sponsor: Jake Gyllenhaal-Bot, Channel Five™THIS WEEK'S EPISODESCardcaptors Episode 1, “One Fateful Day”Zatch Bell Episode 1, “The Lightning Boy From Another World”The Boys: Andrew Eric Davison (Seattle), Austin Bridges (Portland), Rory Voie (Seattle)Audio Production: Andrew Eric Davison (Seattle)

Caroline Dower is a psychotherapist and currently Head of the Counselling Service at Durham University. She has a special interest in the experience of psychological distress, and the experience of anxiety in young adults. Ceyda Uzun is a student at Kings College London, currently in her final year studying English Literature. She is a former Into Film Reporter and Head Editor of The Strand Magazine who has written on topics including mental health, identity and youth culture. Stephen Briers is a British clinical psychologist who took part in BBC Three's Little Angels and Teen Angels, working with Tanya Byron. He has presented the Channel 4 series, Make Me A Grownup, The 10 Demandments for Channel Five and appeared on GMTV. He has written a parenting book called Superpowers for Parents, Help your Child to Succeed in Life and contributes frequently to the Times Educational Supplement. BBC Action Line 08000 155 998 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/actionline

it's Friday (gotta get down on Friday) so that means it's an all new #wRestlingReverb on Brainbusta Radio! This week Josh and Kevin are joined by the Podfather himself, Wilfred! We talk some NJPW, the perception of Vince McMahon, Becky Lynch and so much more! Big thanks to Wilf for popping in on this week's show! Follow Josh and Kevin on Twitter @JoshRobinson00 and @KevinCWrestling Follow Brainbusta Radio @BrainbustaRadio

Is there anything left to find in the sands of Egypt??? YES! And this man knows how and (potentially) where!!  Dr Chris Naunton is an Egyptologist, broadcaster and author. In addition to being the former director of the Egypt Exploration Society, he’s appeared on the BBC and Channel Five, hosting shows covering Flinders Petrie (the founding father of scientific Egyptology) and Tutankhamun, among numerous other subject relating to ancient Egypt. He’s currently the Director of the Robert Anderson Research Charitable Trust (RARCT), a London-based charity that provides support to visiting academics, and President of the International Association of Egyptologists ….and on top of all of that-  he’s written a fascinating, and I mean that sincerely, fantastically interesting book Searching for the Lost Tombs of Egypt! Which takes us on an historical and modern tour of the potential sites of the final resting places of some of the most famous ancient Pharaohs and personalities from history. It really is my great pleasure to introduce Dr Chris Naunton! https://chrisnaunton.com/ https://twitter.com/chrisnaunton (@chrisnaunton) https://www.facebook.com/chrisnauntonofficial Searching for the Lost Tombs of Egypt - https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/0500051992/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_U_x_OonUCb8SRKJF7 via @AmazonUK The EES (Egypt Exploration Society) https://www.ees.ac.uk/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psusennes_I https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Montet Kingsley Amis https://www.worldofbooks.com/en-gb/books/the-egyptologists/GOR004177032?keyword=&gclid=Cj0KCQjwwODlBRDuARIsAMy_28Un15-lYA6FWCSrwNU3HfhGEUy8UixknnURrvmMU2h3BSTm71aBef4aAg7REALw_wcB Also, I should give a big shout out and thank you to the Egypt Exploration Society for accommodating Chris and I at very short notice, and allowing us a space to record this interview – there is some background noise and the occasional phone, but overall I’m extremely happy how this turned out, so thank you guys, it is much appreciated – please check out the EES and their research and membership scheme, they have a fantastic library in central London and it’s really an oasis of calm in the busy centre of town!  As I mentioned in the podcast, I had a dozen other questions that I wanted to ask Chris, but unfortunately there simply wasn’t time, however, he’s promised to come back for round 2, so we’ll be revisiting Chris hopefully soon after he’s returned from the next round of Egyptian exploration! Speaking of, if you fancy heading to Egypt with Dr Chris, he runs annual tours, so check out is website www.chrisnaunton.com for more details, and I urge you to pick up his book Searching for the Lost Tombs of Egypt, it reads like a novel, and it really is a fun exploration of the some of the most fascinating and enduring aspects of the field. Thanks so much for tuning in, and have a great Easter holiday everyone! – oh and before I forget, Chris and I both appear on the brand new show Egypt’s Unexplained Files over on Discovery Science Channel, it debuted last Sunday and should be running for the next couple of months, so please check that out and let me know how it goes because I don’t carry the channel and I never get to see these shows! Thanks all! 

Worrying is a natural part of growing-up. And yet the incidence of serious anxiety and depression is rapidly increasing. Psychologist Stephen Briers from TV's Teen Angels, student Ceyda Uzun and Durham University's head of counselling Caroline Dower join Anne McElvoy at the Free Thinking Festival to explore the possible causes and the influence of digital technology and social pressures. The discussion was recorded with an audience at Sage Gateshead. Caroline Dower is a psychotherapist and currently Head of the Counselling Service at Durham University. She has a special interest in the experience of psychological distress, and the experience of anxiety in young adults. Ceyda Uzun is a student at Kings College London, currently in her final year studying English Literature. She is a former Into Film Reporter and Head Editor of The Strand Magazine who has written on topics including mental health, identity and youth culture. Stephen Briers is a British clinical psychologist who took part in BBC Three's Little Angels and Teen Angels, working with Tanya Byron. He has presented the Channel 4 series, Make Me A Grownup, The 10 Demandments for Channel Five and appeared on GMTV. He has written a parenting book called Superpowers for Parents, Help your Child to Succeed in Life and contributes frequently to the Times Educational Supplement. BBC Action Line 08000 155 998 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/actionline Producer: Debbie Kilbride

After years on the circuit, American comedian Tim Renkow has just released his first TV series - Jerk. The BBC Three show follows a "heightened" version of Renkow, who has cerebral palsy. TV Tim is "too lazy" to sort out his own visa, so instead he plays on and uses his disability to mess with people and take advantage of every situation. Tim reveals to BBC Ouch how much truth was behind the sitcom, how he got The Soprano's actress Lorraine Bracco to play his mother and what it was like to have a fist-fight with fellow comedian and Britain's Got Talent winner, Lost Voice Guy, who also has cerebral palsy. Bashir Aziz, who has vitiligo, and Rachel Reynolds who has thousands of tumours on her body, talk about living with visible differences and what it was like to live together for 10 days in new Channel Five show, The House of Extraordinary People. Presented by Simon Minty and Kate Monaghan. Subscribe now in BBC Sounds or ask for us on your smart speaker by saying "play Ouch disability talk from the BBC". Picture courtesy of Roughcut Television Ltd.

Gary and Matt return with reviews of the final Bodyguard, Netflix's Maniac, Australian crime drama Mystery Road, the return of Strictly Come Dancing and Channel Five sending Michael Palin to North Korea.

Gary and Matt return with reviews of the final Bodyguard, Netflix's Maniac, Australian crime drama Mystery Road, the return of Strictly Come Dancing and Channel Five sending Michael Palin to North Korea.

Welcome to Anger Management and More! This is the first of a series of 6 episodes exploring anger management with me Gavin Bloom and renowned Anger Management Guru, Mike Fisher. Mike has over 19 years of experience in the field of personal and professional development. He has become known as the leading expert in the field of anger management in the UK and has contributed to many radio interviews, magazine and newspaper articles and television documentaries including ‘NASTY BOSSES’, ‘THE ANGRIEST MAN IN BRITAIN’, ‘LOSING IT’, ‘ VIOLENT FATHERS’, ‘BIG BROTHER’S LITTLE BROTHER’ and a 1-hour programme for BBC3 called ‘CAN’T STOP LOSING MY COOL’. As well as a very potent documentary produced for Channel Five called ‘BEAT IT: ANGRY WITH MY FATHER’. Over 65,000 copies of his book BEATING ANGER have been sold since its release. His second book, ‘MINDFULNESS AND THE ART OF MANAGING ANGER’ was published recently to critical acclaim. Mike originally trained in psychosynthesis, he completed a Diploma in Individual Psychology & Adlerian Counselling, as well as a Diploma in Humanistic Psychology and Group Facilitation with the Institute for the Development of Human Potential. Mike was co-founder of the Centre for Men’s Development in London. He became centre director for the Mankind Project which culminated in him setting up the British Association of Anger Management. In this episode we discuss the difference between self esteem and confidence.

Dr Bisbey is ill with the flu, so please enjoy this reboot of: W is for Whore   Hi everyone!  Welcome to the A to Z of Sex.  I'm Dr Lori Beth and I am your host.  We are working our way through the erotic alphabet one letter at a time.  Just a reminder this podcast deals with adult content, so if you don't have total privacy, you might want to put on your headphones.  Today the letter is W and W is for Whores.   At present, the word whore refers both to a sex worker and is the most popular insult to hurl at a woman who is too independent, taking too much charge of her sexuality and her life.    This week I am happy to be joined by and expert on the history of the term whore, and whores and sex workers themselves.  Dr. Kate Lister is a researcher at Leeds Trinity University in historical attitudes to sexuality and sex work. She has published on the history of media narratives around sex work, the history of menstruation and sexual violence in historical dramas. She is the curator of the online research project whoresofyore.com which archives the work of sex workers, activists, academics and artists, and bring the message of sexual positivity to an even wider audience. The project has over 95,000 followers on Twitter.    Kate is on the board of the international sex work research hub, is a columnist for the   independent and has worked as a historical consultant for Channel Five's upcoming "My Sexual Fantasy".    We started by talking about the history of the word whore and then the history of the word cunt.  Kate told us that cunt is the oldest word and that in the middle ages, this was the word for female genitalia.  She also highlighted that entomylogically, vagina means sheath.  So the word we now use for our genitals means sheath.   We spoke about the use of the word cunt in the UK and how in Scotland it can be used casually with a man calling another man a ‘wee cunt'.  She said that it is still considered the strongest insult and is on a par with the ‘N' word.  We looked at the comparison – that one word highlights some of the biggest atrocities that have been done to human beings and the other word is the word for female genitalia and we wondered how it was that these became comparable and that we view female genitalia with such shame and disgust.    We spoke about how sex workers view the word whore and whether it is even appropriate for non-sex workers to use the word.  Kate talked about the more general use of the word whore meaning she who desires which was the original meaning that was proposed.  She said the word is ancient.      We spoke about the wide variety of sex workers and the fact that women use sex workers often as well.  Kate spoke about going for a tantric yoni massage and that the experience was extremely profound.  She recommends this to all women to have the opportunity to step out of sexual scripts and just receive.  We spoke about how rare it is to have a safe space in which women are not expected to perform (and that men also have scripts) and to have a space where you are only expected to receive.  We spoke about how petrifying this can be but how cathartic the experience can be as well.    If you want to find Dr Kate Lister, follow her on twitter @whoresofyore Or the website: Whoresofyore.com Kate also mentioned that there is a section on the website for people to share their sexual experiences and have their sexual voice heard.  She said you can be completely anonymous and that there is editing available if you have concerns about your spelling and grammar.   Thanks for joining me for the A to Z of Sex. Write to me with suggestions for the show, questions you want answered at drloribeth@atozofsex.com , follow me on twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Check out my YouTube channel: Dr Lori Beth Bisbey. For a free 30-minute strategy session with me, go to https://atozofsex.com/ and click the button that says Schedule Now! See you next week when the

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Hi everyone!  Welcome to the A to Z of Sex.  I'm Dr Lori Beth and I am your host.  We are working our way through the erotic alphabet one letter at a time.  Just a reminder this podcast deals with adult content, so if you don't have total privacy, you might want to put on your headphones.  Today the letter is W and W is for Whores.   At present, the word whore refers both to a sex worker and is the most popular insult to hurl at a woman who is too independent, taking too much charge of her sexuality and her life.    This week I am happy to be joined by and expert on the history of the term whore, and whores and sex workers themselves.  Dr. Kate Lister is a researcher at Leeds Trinity University in historical attitudes to sexuality and sex work. She has published on the history of media narratives around sex work, the history of menstruation and sexual violence in historical dramas. She is the curator of the online research project whoresofyore.com which archives the work of sex workers, activists, academics and artists, and bring the message of sexual positivity to an even wider audience. The project has over 95,000 followers on Twitter.    Kate is on the board of the international sex work research hub, is a columnist for the   independent and has worked as a historical consultant for Channel Five's upcoming "My Sexual Fantasy".    We started by talking about the history of the word whore and then the history of the word cunt.  Kate told us that cunt is the oldest word and that in the middle ages, this was the word for female genitalia.  She also highlighted that entomylogically, vagina means sheath.  So the word we now use for our genitals means sheath.   We spoke about the use of the word cunt in the UK and how in Scotland it can be used casually with a man calling another man a ‘wee cunt'.  She said that it is still considered the strongest insult and is on a par with the ‘N' word.  We looked at the comparison – that one word highlights some of the biggest atrocities that have been done to human beings and the other word is the word for female genitalia and we wondered how it was that these became comparable and that we view female genitalia with such shame and disgust.    We spoke about how sex workers view the word whore and whether it is even appropriate for non-sex workers to use the word.  Kate talked about the more general use of the word whore meaning she who desires which was the original meaning that was proposed.  She said the word is ancient.      We spoke about the wide variety of sex workers and the fact that women use sex workers often as well.  Kate spoke about going for a tantric yoni massage and that the experience was extremely profound.  She recommends this to all women to have the opportunity to step out of sexual scripts and just receive.  We spoke about how rare it is to have a safe space in which women are not expected to perform (and that men also have scripts) and to have a space where you are only expected to receive.  We spoke about how petrifying this can be but how cathartic the experience can be as well.    If you want to find Dr Kate Lister, follow her on twitter @whoresofyore Or the website: Whoresofyore.com Kate also mentioned that there is a section on the website for people to share their sexual experiences and have their sexual voice heard.  She said you can be completely anonymous and that there is editing available if you have concerns about your spelling and grammar.   Thanks for joining me for the A to Z of SexÒ. Write to me with suggestions for the show, questions you want answered at drloribeth@atozofsex.com , follow me on twitter, Instagram and Facebook..  Check out my YouTube channel: Dr Lori Beth Bisbey.  For a free 30-minute strategy session with me, go to https://atozofsex.com/ and click the button that says Schedule Now! See you next week when the letter will be X and X is for X Rated again.  

Graham (@mrgrahamksmith) has been an Executive Producer for the BBC and a Commissioning Executive for Channel 4 and Channel Five. He has also run his own successful independent production company.He's currently the co-founder and owner of Grand Scheme Media (@grand_scheme).I got him on the pod to talk about - How to develop a great TV pitch.The future of TV and how advertising is going to impact the future development of the mediumWhy comedy (generally) doesn’t make money on TV.The future of “second screen” experiences in TV.Why building a community is the future of content.Why comedy is harder than drama. AND MORE!This podcast would be useful to anyone interested in the behind-the-scenes of the TV industry, or who is trying to get their idea on the box!You can stream the podcast here (with show notes) - http://simoncaine.co.uk/ATI/GrahamSmithOr get it on iTunes here - https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/ask-the-industry-podcast/id946220937If you enjoyed it please consider supporting the podcast by becoming a Patron for only $1 (80p) per episode! https://www.patreon.com/AskTheIndustryPodcast Please buy a ticket or three to my Edinburgh Fringe 2019 show - https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/simon-caine-every-room-becomes-a-panic-room-when-you-overthink-enoughOr come see me on tour - http://simoncaine.co.uk/PanicRoomEvery little bit helps! Alternatively you can support the show by giving it a review in iTunes or just by sharing the episode with a friend or two!Thanks,SixWant more content from me? Why wouldn't you!Please check out my other podcast - The Audio Time Capsule. In each episode a guest comes on, leaves 20 questions, then a year later comes back on and answers them. I then edit it so they're talking to their past self.Here are the links -iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-audio-time-capsule-podcast/id1303205943Webstream - http://simoncaine.co.uk/AudioTimeCapsulePodcastYouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHFZ_FLH1XqrCZysA1nFISwFacebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/1008996252556647/?ref=br_rsTwitter - https://twitter.com/audiotimetravel See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A report from BARB (The Broadcasters Audience Research Board) estimates that Netflix is now in some 5 million UK households, stating that: 'Netflix is by some margin the market leader' among subscription video on demand services. But can its subscriber base keep pace with its ambition to become 'a global Internet TV network'? To discuss, Steve is joined by media analyst Mathew Horsman, from Mediatique. Channel Five is weeks into its first rebrand in five years, aiming to attract younger and more affluent audiences. Its head of programmes Ben Frow has been reportedly handed a 'double digit increase' in his programming budget to change perceptions about the channel. So, what commissioning decisions is he taking to make this happen? He speaks to Steve Hewlett about his ambitions. A Media Society debate tonight will ask, 'is this the end of print?' The Independent's spin-off, the i, is continuing in print form under new ownership; Trinity Mirror has recently launched a new national daily, The New Day, and the free distributed Metro and London Evening Standard are turning a profit. So is it too soon to write off the traditional newspaper? Steve Hewlett asks journalist and Professor of Journalism at City University Roy Greenslade, Independent Digital Editor Christian Broughton and Sarah Baxter, deputy editor of the Sunday Times. Producer: Katy Takatsuki.

Welcome to the sixth episode of Flipped. After a bit of a summer break, we're back and delighted to present to you an interview with Joris van Hulzen - animator and director on projects as diverse as Peppa Pig and The Big Knights to Tim Burton's The Corpse Bride and the Amazing World of Gumball. Enjoy. Podcast Powered By Podbean Subscribe here in iTunes Download episode (right/ctrl click) Facebook page Podcast Contents 00:01 - Intro 01:10 - Education and Early Work 04:54 - Moving to London - Stardust, 06:00 - Meeting Mark Barker and Neville Astley 08:27 - The Big Knights 11:22 - Freelancing in London - Studio AKA, Pesky 13:20 - 3D vs 2D Animation 14:10 - Peppa Pig series 1 -  Beginnings 17:48 - Peppa Pig - Success 20:21 - Hopping around - Uli Meyers, Passion, Studio AKA, The Corpse Bride 22:36 -Peppa Pig Series 2 & Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 28:04 - The Amazing World of Gumball 30:43 - Directing Peppa 33:25 - The Animation Process References The Big Knights - You can buy the Big Knights on Blu Ray/DVD here Peppa Pig (can be seen on TV channels all over the world including RTE Jr) The Corpse Bride (watch out for 2D shadow animation!) Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom (can be seen on Channel Five, Nick Jr and RTE Jr) The Amazing World of Gumball (Can be seen in Uk and Ireland on Cartoon Network) You can find out more information on CelAction (2D animation software) here Flipped was produced by Aidan McAteer & Megan McMahon, edited by Aidan McAteer and featured music from www.royaltyfreemusiclibrary.com We wanted to say a special thanks to Joris for taking the time to talk to us. We hope you enjoy the podcast - let us know what you think at flippedpodcast(at)gmail.com or contact us on our facebook page www.flippedpodcast.com

#92. On the pod United's upcoming Europa League campaign. We talk Premier League - reviewing United's victory over Wolves last weekend, and the games with QPR and Fulham to come this week. And we ponder the latest twist in Ryan Giggs' ongoing court battle with Imogen Thomas. We also talk transfers - who might United buy in the winter window. Or more accurately, who United will not. With apologies for the slight loss of fidelity on Ed's audio this week.No Question About That is available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, YouTube, Amazon Music and all good podcast apps. We really appreciate your support. Please hit that subscribe button, leave a rating and write us a review! Talk to us on Twitter and Instagram. No Question About That is produced by the award-winning Tom Jenkins.  If you are interested in supporting the show and accessing some cool rewards, check out our crowdfunding page and become a Patron!

Продолжение Хип-Хоп ветки от Dj Erik. На этот раз у скретч-мастера в гостях чемпион России и Вице-чемпион Мира по битбоксу Вахтанга Каландадзе и талантливый музыкант Андрея Grizz-Lee. 1. Dj Krush - Keeping The Motion (Instrumental) 2. Jurassic 5 - Concrete Schoolyard (Instrumental) 3. Marco Polo - Marquee (instrumental) 4. DJ Cam - Awesome Two feat Channel Five 5. Just Ice feat Big Daddy Cane – Just Rhymin‘ with Kane 6. Nas - I Know I Can(instrumental) 7. Rakim - When I Be On The Mic (Instrumental) (prod. by DJ Premier) 8. Grizz-lee – Добрых Больше (LIVE) 9. Beasti Boys – Shure Shop (Instrumental) 10. Saukrates feat Common – Play Dis 11. Blockhead - Triptych 12. Das EFX & Mobb Deep – Microphone Masters (Instrumental) 13. Warren G – This Dj (Instrumental) 14. MC Hammer – Sunshine Is Summertime (Instrumental) 15. Naughty By Nature - O.P.P. 16. Eric B & Rakim - Don't Sweat The Technique 17. Wu-Tang Clan – C.R.E.A.M. (Instrumental) 18. Limp Bizkit - My Way (DJ Premier Way Instrumental) 19. Ego G. – Rise & Shine 20. A Tribe Called Quest – Scenario (Instrumental)

Продолжение Хип-Хоп ветки от Dj Erik. На этот раз у скретч-мастера в гостях чемпион России и Вице-чемпион Мира по битбоксу Вахтанга Каландадзе и талантливый музыкант Андрея Grizz-Lee. 1. Dj Krush - Keeping The Motion (Instrumental) 2. Jurassic 5 - Concrete Schoolyard (Instrumental) 3. Marco Polo - Marquee (instrumental) 4. DJ Cam - Awesome Two feat Channel Five 5. Just Ice feat Big Daddy Cane – Just Rhymin‘ with Kane 6. Nas - I Know I Can(instrumental) 7. Rakim - When I Be On The Mic (Instrumental) (prod. by DJ Premier) 8. Grizz-lee – Добрых Больше (LIVE) 9. Beasti Boys – Shure Shop (Instrumental) 10. Saukrates feat Common – Play Dis 11. Blockhead - Triptych 12. Das EFX & Mobb Deep – Microphone Masters (Instrumental) 13. Warren G – This Dj (Instrumental) 14. MC Hammer – Sunshine Is Summertime (Instrumental) 15. Naughty By Nature - O.P.P. 16. Eric B & Rakim - Don't Sweat The Technique 17. Wu-Tang Clan – C.R.E.A.M. (Instrumental) 18. Limp Bizkit - My Way (DJ Premier Way Instrumental) 19. Ego G. – Rise & Shine 20. A Tribe Called Quest – Scenario (Instrumental)

Iain Coyle is joined by The Oracle, Ashley Blaker to discuss whether Liverpool are the most inked team in the Premier League, are we toxic, are these the darkest days, who did we miss out on transfer deadline day, and can we meet Man United at the weekend? It's cheerful stuff!

Is the netbook as a concept finished? Is the iPad the future? James, David and John discuss the rise and fall of the netbook and the potential of Apple's iPad. With James Clay, David Sugden and John Whalley. This is the forty-seventh e-Learning Stuff Podcast, Is the netbook finished and now the iPad is the future? Subscribe to the podcast in iTunes Shownotes The netbook is dead Channel Five's Gadget Show TuneIn Radio - iPhone App of the Week You can do what with the iPad? e-Learning Stuff Podcast #006 – You say Asus and I say Asus…