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DIARY OF A MADMAN, the 2nd album from OZZY OSBOURNE (and his band, BLIZZARD OF OZZ) is a perfect example of how an artist's follow-up album often eclipses their debut outing. With a heftier mix and heavier riffs, darker lyrical themes & eerie gothic metal elements, and of course the disturbingly graphic album artwork, DIARY represents a quantum leap forward for “The Prince Of Darkness”, combining each of the aforementioned components into one of the darkest and heaviest metal albums ever to have emerged from 1981. Get ready to “call the lawyers” and prepare to be bathed “in a huge spray…of light” from those who may engage in “different tax practices” than you're accustomed to. Prepare to bear witness to the quintessential heavy metal album that would leave an indelible mark on all metal subgenres that would follow it, grab your favorite “juice box”, and JOIN US as we flip through the pages of macabre madness and metal mayhem that dwell within the DIARY OF A MADMAN. 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Follow us on the Socials: Facebook - Instagram - Twitter Email: metalnerdery@gmail.com   Can't be LOUD Enough Playlist on Spotify Metal Nerdery Munchies on YouTube @metalnerderypodcast Show Notes: (00:01): “I'm ready…I'm so ready…”/ #HappyNewYear #2025 / “I notice you're keeping a ‘high and tight'…”/ “I like to have stripes…”/ “I'm gonna shave my shit…”/ “The last time mine was colored…brown…”/ “Like to have a matching set…I like to have a little brown…”/ “I still use my #manscaped products…”/ #markthetime / ***WARNING: #listenerdiscretionisadvised *** / ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST IN 2025!!!*** / #superduper / “Did you guys see the shirt?” / ***GO TO METALNERDERY.COM/MERCH AND CHECK OUT OUR NEW METAL NERDERY SHIRT!!!*** / “How long is that sale going on?” / #teepublic / “We should give Norvyn thanks…”/ #blackdog / “Is it weird or does it seem like people have had…”/ #longcovid / #longcold #rinovirus / “That's what those drones are droppin'…”   (06:27): “This is not a ‘new' beer of the episode…”/ #twelve5s #coffeebasedgoodness / “I go Irish every Christmas…”/ “They go excellent with the #MrBlack …”/ #hyperbole / NOTE:  It was an 8 pack, NOT a 12 pack…but all thanks go to Russell…”/ ***IF YOU WANT TO SKIP THE NONSENSE, GO TO #THEDOCKET *** / “You wanna hear some heartbreaking shit?” / “Which is fine…which is right…”/ “Do they always poke the bear?” / “How did you vote?” / #letsnotdopolitics / #youpeople / “I don't wish ill will…”/ “Y'all won, STFU! Y'all WON!” / #taxpractices / “If you can't talk about it rationally…”/ #sociallyliberal #fiscallyconservative #libertarian / “Would you call them liberal or would you call them leftist?” / #classicalliberal / NOTE: It was Argentina…/ #SouthAmerica / “Was it a #fleshlight?”/ “You're the one with the hand gestures, bro…”/ #markthetime / “Knock it down to a beam…but if you push it all the way back…”/ “Oh the seizure lights…the ones that distract you while you're driving…?”/ “…and alcohol…that's what made the day special.”/ #RussellsReflectionsMovieEdition / #BadSanta / “The little fella…”/ #onmicburp / “Make that a button…”/ #ElCaminoChristmas / “How weird would an El Camino look if it came out now?”/ “It was the mullet of cars…”   (18:02): “Shall we pay heed to our special people?” / ***JOIN OUR PATREON AT PATREON.COM/METALNERDERYPODCAST *** / #MetalNerderyPodcastCalendar / #PatreonShoutout / #ThankYou / “2025 is gonna be a different year…”/ “He said ‘seen'…”/ “It's like a #deathmetal #Superbad in a way…”/ “Have you ever had an orgasm that you came so hard that you literally thought you had died?” / “What if you have a #deathgasm when you die?”/ #TrumpCompilationASMR / “I'm gonna start doing that…”/ ***EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com *** / #TrademarkInfringement / #HeavyMetalNerdery / “I'm gonna Sharon Osbourne the fuck out of them…”/ “Call the lawyers, ASAP…”/ #whatsitcalled? / “Junior Slayer in the best ways…” / #Annihilated BLOOD OF THE MARTYR (Scorched Earth Policy – 2010) / #bluejeansex / “It's high blood pressure in your balls…”/ “And we're back…”/ #NWOOSTM / “I heard the R roll…”/ “They sound a little bit like #Evile too…”/ BURNING OF THE SOUTHERN CROSS / “It sounds like Tom's oldest son has a band…”   (29:37): “C'mon…it's been a while…”/ ***IF YOU WANNA GIVE US A CALL AND LEAVE US A VOICEMAIL YOU CAN GIVE US A CALL AND LEAVE US A VOICEMAIL AT 980-666-8182!!!*** / #whoareyou? / #ThePost #HairMetalASMR / “That really resonated with me…”/ “We've got another…”/ #ChildrenOfBodom and #BritneySpears #tangentionalality    (31:54): #TheDocket METAL NERDERY PODCAST PRESENTS:  OZZY OSBOURNE – DIARY OF A MADMAN / ***Check out our #OzzyOsbourne 80's episode*** / The drama behind the recording of the album and royalties and such / #OldeFaece / “They came in for ‘tur…”/ #outofcontrol / “It's a different level of songwriting…”/ “His solos are awesome but his riffs are killer too…”/ #castle / “We're gonna nick that…”/ “What did y'all think of the #albumcover when you saw it?” / #talesfromthedarkside / #backalbumcover / “I bet…seriously, literally, totally…”/ “It looks like he's reading a book of spells…”/ #PetrineCross / #notworthy / #96RockInTheDaytime #shootinghoops / Popular songs back in 1981 relative to #DiaryOfAMadman / “Whatever happened to #JuiceNewton?” / “It makes you wonder…where did the juice come from?” / #juicebox    (42:28): #killeropener OVER THE MOUNTAIN (“We've gotta play the solo…”) / THAT is metal!!! / “Don't need no astrology…it's inside of you and me…”/ “I see…”/ #guitarsoloASMR / “It's a double tracked solo…”/ “I don't think it was a #FloydRose with a #lockingnut …”/ #ThankYe / “I thought he was talking about airplanes…is that #Delta9 airlines?” / FLYING HIGH AGAIN (“It sounds loud…”) / #usethoseheadphones / “Maybe another solo? It IS #RandyRhoads…”/ “Neoclassical weedly woos…”/ “That just sounds creepy af…it's almost like #OzzyCartman…”/ “That is metal…that's the next wave…”/ “He wasn't a Sabbath fan…at all.” / “It was less bluesy and had more #neoclassical modes and minor stuff…faster and darker…”   (50:47): YOU CAN'T KILL ROCK AND ROLL / “Not for 7 minutes though…”/ “There's hints of later Sabbath in that…”/ BELIEVER #creepyscary / “That's like #Slayer before Slayer was Slayer…”/ “Those weird noises back there are just creepy…”/ “It's got an evil solo…”/ “So it was Sharon that did that and not Ozzy that did that…”/ #reissue #lawsuits #contracts #royalties #studiomusicians / “Is that what their contract said?”/ “We want everything that #Spotify doesn't get (which is nothing)…”/ “Think about the parallels…#DefJam…#JetRecords…” / “That WAS the #killercloser…”   (58:58): “I kinda think it's sweet and beautiful, but at the same time…”/ #unbelievablesex / #balldraining / “Yeah she did…”/ #IAmOzzy / “I'm sensing probrem…”/ #bloodyhell / “They had chickens…”/ “Don't you think everybody at some point has a melt down moment?” #timetodestroy #scorchedearth / Side Two #killeropener LITTLE DOLLS #bigdrums / “It's like #Exodus kinda…”/ “I can hear #TheBeatles influence…it's unmistakable…”/ “The killer who remains a mystery…”/ “That's like someone who's a surgeon with seizure shakes all the time, and then you give them a scalpel…”/ “New Wave is kinda like metal…”/ TONIGHT / #longdistancededication #onwiththecountdown / “I will use lube…”/ “He sounds drunk…” (1:09:12): “It's somebody's initials or something…”/ “Sailing Across The Ocean…”/ #SATOASMR / “It's pretty close…”/ #SexualAnalTotallyObvious / “If we write a song like this, we can prove that we can be taken seriously…”/ S.A.T.O. #notontheboat / “Fast and creepy…”/ “This is almost Sabbath…”/ “Pound the best?”/ “It's kinda Maidenish…”/ “Something else I forgot about Randy's sound…”/ #CBLE / “This one could very easily fit on Sabotage…”/ #YodaASMR / DIARY OF A MADMAN / #creepyASMR / “I hear an electric and an acoustic…”/ “This is the part that kinda reminds me of Sabotage…”/ #emotionalweirdness / “The solo's kinda creepy too…”/ #creepyoutro / “Oh that's scary…”/ “I had to back track to get to #BlackSabbath …”/ “We indulged each other…”/ “Almost halfway done with this decade…the twenties…”/ THANK YOU FOR JOINING US!!! / “That's gonna be a super special…to celebrate his volume of work…”/ #untilthenext #andyou #outroreel

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Vernon Steiner was appointed President and CEO of State Fund on June 9, 2014. Vern has 30 years of insurance industry experience, the majority in workers' compensation. As the President and CEO, he reports directly to the Board of Directors and is responsible for the day-to-day operations at State Fund. Vern began his career in 1990, as a Claims Examiner. Early in his career, Vern experienced the workers' compensation system from the point of view of a third party administrator, a self-insured/self-administered employer and a managed care organization. In 1995, Vern joined AIG as a Service Center Manager, and by 2003, when he left AIG, he was the Regional Vice President, Northwest. He worked for CNA from 2003 to 2007, starting as the Vice President, Field Operations and ultimately Vice President, Workers' Compensation. Prior to joining State Fund, Vern served as Senior Vice President, Claims at Zenith Insurance from 2007 to 2014. Vern was a member of the Workers' Compensation Research Institute's (WCRI) advisory board from 2009 to 2016, and he served as the California Workers' Compensation Institute's (CWCI) Board of Directors Chairman and as a member of the Fraud Assessment Commission from 2014 to 2016. He is currently on the CWCI board, the executive committee of the board, and has served on the WCIRB Governing Committee since 2014. Vern received his Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from the University of California, Los Angeles. He also earned the Leadership Fellow designation from the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD). Highlights from the Show The State Comp Fund was setup to provide Workers Compensation insurance to businesses in California that weren't able to find it elsewhere What they've really focused on over the past few years, they've realized they can't just be a market of last resort if they wanted to genuinely meet the needs of businesses that turn to them for coverage SCIF swelled to being the largest carrier in California, and the country overall due to market conditions Due to restrictions on hiring and investment in tools, they weren't able to scale their staff to meet the surge in business, and feel they were not serving the market acceptably, and that hurt their brand and the organization's morale For the past 8 years, they've been working to transform the culture and brand by accepting their past shortcomings and working to do better They started an effort around innovation that engaged the entire organization, training everyone on design thinking (which they called Experience by Design) and running  Challenges for employees to come up with new ideas to improve the company They also took a look at their 10 core values, like Honesty, that were good, but were hard to identify with or see how they really applied to the business; they come up with four new ones that came from the people and were more action-oriented, like Be Innovative They also embrace the ideas that don't move ahead for various reasons like prioritization calls that have to be made, and ensure people are still engaged even if their idea isn't taken up We discussed SCIF's innovation in their direct business, which was essentially the same process and approach as their broker business, but without an advisor to guide you through something very long, arduous and confusing for most business owners SCIF realized that the way people buy insurance will be disrupted and change, and they need to able to engage in that shift themselves Simplifying things a bit, SCIF doesn't actually underwrite since they're a Take All Comers market; instead they just need to develop a price, allowing them to cut out more questions than a carrier doing risk selection in addition to pricing might have to do When they built and launched their new direct, digital journey, they learned that people buy insurance around the clock, even on Thanksgiving and Christmas They've since found additional ways to simplify the process and automate things like post-bind data validation and re-underwriting so they make better calls about what risks need to be reworked, and then to do that more effectively One major lesson they learned from all of this is the need for the right person to own and champion an innovation project, who has the appetite to take risks and push the team to keep moving ahead even when it's tough, while also staying open to feedback and insights from all around them They also created Innovation Design Centers, a team that is dedicated to looking at what's out there through the lens of the problems and needs of the business, and it's tended to have more success on specific solutions for specific parts of the business than things that look across multiple functions of the business at once They also played with a metaverse-like solution to help with remote working and the way that can make casual collaboration tougher, but people didn't really take to it despite there really being a need Part of this is likely because it was yet another change on top of lots of others during the pandemic But it was still worth trying, learning from it, and making good decisions about what you keep doing and what you realize won't be a winner and need to move on from Vern things the future will vary by market segment, and most of their business is small business, which is generally more interested in self-service than perhaps larger accounts are, so you need to meet those on-demand needs digitally today This episode is brought to you by The Future of Insurance thought leadership series (future-of-insurance.com). 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Spirituality of the Heart–Michelle Vass–Consoling Models (Zechariah & Elizabeth are consoling models for us as we celebrate Jesus' birth again in our hearts this Christmas They certainly knew about longing &waiting, and probably also the difficulty of maintaining faith and hope. Many of us can relate to their situation. How do we surrender to the creative imagination of God for our lives, particularly when it seems a long time coming?

Do you know what happened to Joseph, Mary and the baby Jesus right after Christmas? They all became refugees. They were already dirt poor and homeless; now, they also became fugitives. Today we do a very different take on the Christmas story. God is in great mortal peril. Joseph and Mary – two kids who are barely 18 and 12 years old, most likely – have to cross six hundred miles (one thousand Kms) of lethal desert to save baby Jesus from the tyrant who wants to kill him. Incredibly, astonishingly, God incarnate put himself under enormous peril every day He spent among us on Earth.

What do 1 Chronicles 17:11-14 and Jeremiah 23:5-6 have to do with Christmas? They show us that Jesus had announced to David that He would send a son and establish a king who would rule forever bringing peace, unity and Heaven to Earth.

What do 1 Chronicles 17:11-14 and Jeremiah 23:5-6 have to do with Christmas? They show us that Jesus had announced to David that He would send a son and establish a king who would rule forever bringing peace, unity and Heaven to Earth.

This week Coaches Jonny and Brizzle rant about other 'Fitness Professionals', specifically what they're telling others to do over Christmas They discuss both ends of the spectrum, from those treating Christmas like it's some kind of war to grind through, to those essentially encouraging people to treat it like an all out Christmas binge, cause it's Christmas and only happens once a year Give it a listen to see what NNN thinks...

Matt Duvall is back for a night of drinking and movie watching. This time the gang decides to go for the new Kurt Russell Netflix movie The Christmas Chronicles. What would you name a new generation of reindeer? Is Santa technically an X-man? Is this movie trying to existentially replicate the feeling of Christmas? They answer all these questions and more!

Christmas is right around the corner. It will be here before you know it! For many singles, not having a significant other brings on the holiday blues. They have thoughts like; it's unfair that another Christmas is coming and I am still single, what am I going to say to my family when they ask me the big question - why aren't you married yet? how am I going to spend the holidays so that I won't be alone or feel lonely? Philippians 4:11 says, "Not that I speak in regard to need, for have learned in whatever state I am, to be content." 1 Corinthians 7:32 says "He who is unmarried cares for the things of the Lord - how he may please the Lord." This series is designed to help singles maximize their singleness during the holidays. I will teach on and discuss some tough issues and holiday dating practices. The series include the topics: Single and Strong, Single and Dateless, Hitched for the Holidays, and Maximize Your Singleness: Closing Statements. What do singles do at Christmas? They stand tall walking in integrity and character during the holidays.