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For this weeks episode we were joined by Kev and Rajan, the co-founders of fashion content hub Thread Culture Blog. If you haven't heard of the pair, you should really get to know! They create content that leverages fashion insight from your favourite fashion influencers alongside the everyday fashion enthusiast. The main way they do this is via their street interview content. Despite having only started the blog a few years ago they. have already managed to amass a following of over 100k across both Instagram and TikTok. However their journey of course did not just start with the blog. Hailing from North West London, the pair have been friends since secondary school and have always been interested in fashion. Like many of the people you see on this podcast, they were inspired by the likes of ASAP Rocky and were fans of brands like Stussy and Supreme. This interest coupled in with a desire to make money led them to start their own clothing line - This was the actually beginning of Thread Culture Blog and the rest is history.Given their nature of what the pair do, they've acquired a wealth of knowledge that can be beneficial to brand owners and those interested in fashion so it was this that formed the basis of the conversation. We discussed everything from what brands people on the streets are wearing the most,  why people choose to wear particular brands, what it takes to be a fashion content creator and much, much more! The pair shared gems throughout and we had a real laugh whilst we were at it! The lads brought the energy and I'm sure this will be an enjoyable watch/listen for all of you! Since recording the pair have continued to drop great content and we've also soon them do a couple collaborations with stores including BSTn in Brixton! I'm really enjoying watching their journey develop and I'm excited to see what their future holds. Could we see a return of the Thread Culture fashion brand... Could we see the start of a Thread Culture consultancy.... Who knows! But whatever it will be I'm sure it will be LIT so make sure you follow them up now on Instagram, TikTok and stay locked into their journey!

It's the 193rd episode of the WhoDatJedi podcast! This week, your hosts -- Aaron Svoboda (@Aaron_Svoboda), Alfredo Narvaez (@NOLA_Fredo) and Dave Gladow (@davegladow) -- are joined by special guest Kurt Hargis (@teacher_kurt) from the NolaNerdCouple blog (@nolanerdcouple). For the uninitiated, that blog is a nerd culture-focused enterprise spearheaded by Kurt and his wife, with a particular focus on the Con experience. Our hosts asked Kurt about the couple's travel experiences, about writing a blog together, and of course about some Star Wars too. Listen on Podbean, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Pandora, Tune In + Alexa, Amazon Music/Audible, iHeartRadio, and follow us on Twitter & Facebook!  If you like what you hear, be sure to click that follow button and leave us a positive review!  Read more of Fredo's musings here. Read more of Dave's musings here. Song credit: Far, Far Away (Star Wars Jazz), by the Swamp Donkeys Check them out on Apple Music! -- Related: NolaNerdCouple.com Related: George Lucas to receive honorary Palm D'Or at Cannes Film festival

Paul Lundberg believes every good team needs a healthy PIT STOP along the way and during his conversation with Phil, he talks about leveraging the acronym RISE (Reconnect, Inspire, Serve, and Evaluate) to ensure teams are connected and clear on where they are going next. See the CULTURE BLOG for a PIT STOP template to guide your teams reflection time.  

Phil Boyte and guest Dr. Deborah Beagle, Director of Student Activities, share activities that build connections and school culture! From playdough, coins, balloons, to paper airplanes, hear how Debbie uses common items with activities to teach lessons of being intentional, kind, seizing the moment, and more! Check out our Culture Blog for resources to download, including Debbie's paper airplane example to inspire positivity. 

Hear how gratitude can change your life and your business  Michele Bailey and I had such a terrific interview discussing her own life's journey and how to be a successful woman entrepreneur. She is the founder of The Blazing Group, a brand and culture agency born of her strategy-first approach to business, her flair for sharing stories, and her desire to enhance employee wellness while pursuing business goals. Now she has a new program to improve employee mentoring and wellness called My Big Idea® which accelerates business growth while addressing the challenges of balancing work and personal life. Listen in! Watch and listen to our conversation here The power of gratitude can be life-changing Michele Bailey was a driving force in bringing the first Women Presidents' Organization (WPO) chapter to Canada and currently sits on the WPO board as its international representative. She is committed to supporting entrepreneurs in the underrepresented diverse and inclusion markets, and is also a successful author. Her new book, The Currency of Gratitude, published in 2021 by ForbesBooks, focuses on the power of gratitude. On this we agree. Together we offer exceptional advice for women in business: focus on the power of the person, and gratitude is a gift that keeps giving. Want to connect with Michele? Reach out on Linkedin, Twitter, Facebook and either of her websites: My Big Idea or Blazing.  Need more gratitude in your life and your business? Start here: Blog: Time to Add Gratitude to Your Life—And Your Company's Culture Blog: 5 Ways You Can Find Happiness And Joy In These Turbulent Times Podcast: Richard Sheridan—How To Lead With Joy And Purpose! Additional resources for you My award-winning second book: Rethink: Smashing The Myths of Women in Business My award-winning first book: On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights Simon Associates Management Consultants    Read the transcript of our podcast here Andi Simon: Welcome to On the Brink With Andi Simon. Thanks for joining us today. My job, as you know, is to be your host and your guide. What I want to do is get you off the brink. I want you to see, feel and think in new ways so that you can change. So I have with me today a wonderful woman, Michele Bailey from Canada. Michele and I met through the Women Business Collaborative, an organization we're both extremely involved with and very fond of, all of which is there to help women become the best that they can be. What I'd like to do today, though, is let Michele tell you a little bit about herself after I introduce her to all of you because her bio is beautiful. And I don't want her to shortchange you because it's really exciting. She's the founder of The Blazing Crew which is a brand and culture agency born out of her strategy-first approach to business. She has a flair for sharing stories, and a desire to enhance employee wellness while pursuing business goals. This is sort of interesting because as you listen to her today, you'll know that business isn't about selling things or making things, it's about people things. And the wellness and well-being of your people and their belonging is not to be underestimated. It is the differentiator that can take you and separate you from the rest. And she's shaking her head for those who are listening. And she's saying yes. Her advertising agency, Blazing, is turning branding inside out. Her My Big Idea and Employee Mentoring and Wellness Program is designed to propel individuals forward in their quest for personal and professional success. My Big Idea is a really cool one so it's delivered virtually or in person. And it's really uniquely designed for business owners, leaders and employees to address the challenges of work and personal life. And we'll talk today about that work-life balance, who is in the pursuit of what I've never understood. I'm an anthropologist, and I look at our society, and I can't quite figure out why life and work are different. So work life and life work. I mean, this is all kind of a blend of being a professional. Since the time my kids were three weeks old, I knew that there was a blend, it wasn't either or, there was together. It was who we were. So the difference and the balancing is a challenge, even for the guys. Michele is on a quest to get her clients to take one important step further, to make true gratitude integral to the way business is done. True gratitude, as you're listening or watching, we're going to talk a lot about it because gratitude is not inconsequential, it is essential to our well-being. So her passion for gratitude is contagious. And I think you're going to capture that. She has a new book out, and I'm so delighted to share it with you. It's called The Currency of Gratitude and was just published. And it offers a moving and straightforward guide to enabling business growth using gratitude as your currency, and you're gonna say, But I think gratitude is not inconsequential. Now Michele will tell you, she's a biracial woman and has faced her share of challenges. Her boundless energy and vision have earned her international recognition as a champion of women in business. She's a driving force bringing the first Women Presidents Organization chapter, the WPO, to Canada, and she sits on the WPO board as its international representative. I think you know enough about Michele to know that you want to listen carefully, and enjoy our time together. I shall thank you for joining me today. Michele Bailey: Andi, I'm so delighted to be here. Andi Simon: Well tell the listener who is Michele because you've had a journey. I can't capture it reading your bio as much as I have enjoyed it. So give us a little bit about your background. Michele Bailey: Thank you, Andi. First of all, I want to start by saying that I have lived in multiple states in different countries my whole life. It wasn't until I turned 18 that I landed in Canada with going to school and I have stayed here. So I'm a dual citizen. I'm an American, as well as a Canadian. I have lived in New Hampshire, Vermont, New York City, Michigan, and the island of Haiti. So I have quite a varied background. And I've experienced many cultures which have allowed me to be the woman I am today. And through this all, Andi, we're talking about gratitude. I have to tell you, because I never stayed anywhere long, it was really hard to make friends because people knew that I'd be moving and they didn't want to waste time on people that aren't going to be hanging around. So at an early age, I made gratitude my core. I learned to embrace each and every relationship that was put in front of me, whether it be for a season or a lifetime, because people mean everything to me. This fast forwards us to being in Toronto today. So to take a step back, I have an agency called Blazing. You might not know who we are, but you will certainly have heard of the clients that we have done work for the last 27 years. And to be a woman in this industry for that long is really almost unheard of because it's a dog-eat-dog world. It's a burn-and-churn business. People usually don't last longer than 18 or 24 months because you burn them out. However, Blazing has stood the test of time. And my average tenured employee is 11 years. Andi Simon: Wow. In today's world, that is amazing. Michele Bailey: And Andi, that is actually why people kept saying to me, how do you hold on to people in an industry that is just soburn-and-churn for the length of time that you do. And I will tell you, it's a few things. It's about creating an awesome culture at work. So people feel connected. They want to love and they watch each other's backs. That's the first and most important thing. It's also about appreciating and recognizing the contributions they bring, both as team members and as individuals, also very important. So I didn't know that Blazing was so special until people started saying to me, You don't lose your people. And all the people you get are through word of mouth. You don't have to use headhunters or you don't have to use hiring people. I said, No, it's all word of mouth. So that's what I was doing at Blazing. When people were asking me what I do differently, I thought, I do something differently than most people I know. I do things like setting up my goals, both personally and professionally every year. I am very clear with what I need to do, as a business owner, as a leader, as a mother, and as a friend. So what I do is, I actually broke down my life into nine categories. And this is what led to the evolution and creation of My Big Idea. My Big Idea helps people come up with their big idea. You can have work-life integration and blend. So Andi, I start every year by sitting down and answering 13 questions under reflection. What worked and what didn't work this past year. And because it's my homework for myself, I'm dead honest. Because if I'm not dead honest, I can't change, improve, or discard things that haven't been working for me. So I talk about things like, what was my biggest challenge? What was my biggest success? Who inspired me? And why? What do I need to let go of? Who do I need to let go of? Who do I need to allow in my life? Questions like that. So I start with reflection, then I go into personal goals. And I again have 10 questions I'm asking myself, and then I have a section in my workbook where I have to list at least one, but not more than three, personal goals. And it has to be about me, not my kids, not my family, it's got to be about me. I do the same for professional goals. I ask myself what I want to accomplish this year. Then I go into health and wellness goals. I go into finance and wealth goals. Then I go into relationship goals. Andi, when I created relationship goals, I never knew how impactful this would be. I actually asked people to answer the questions on relationship goals but did not set a goal. I need you to do an exercise called creating your support network. And in this exercise, I have people with professional careers, name a mentor or mentee, friends, family, and emotional support. I have a whole little grid and I start putting people's names in there. And then I look at that grid and I go through it. I have a little marker with two different colored markers, and I mark who gives me positive energy, who gives me negative energy and whose energy is neutral. So once I've identified and looked at my support network, then I go back and set my relationship goal for the year. And sometimes it gets rid of or creates strict boundaries around people who don't always want or wish the best for me. It's about keeping it real. Then I go into my refueling section. What do I need to do for myself to be the best version of me for me and everyone around me? And then I always end with my gratitude goals. I have a list and I just write people's names down. I write down the relationship to me, and what I want to thank them for. And in those relationships, aside from the gratitude goals, what I do is, I have six questions that if I answer them honestly, to the person I want to thank, I will change my relationship with them. The questions go something like this: You came into my life…, you bring me joy by..., you inspire me because..., I hope to add to our journey together..., and I want to thank you for…. I put those down, and then answer them in under five minutes. And that has impacted my relationships, both personally and professionally, like nothing else I've ever experienced. So Andi, this is why I now have The Currency of Gratitude, my book, by ForbesBooks. ForbesBooks came to me and they said, We hear you've got a different spin on gratitude. And I said, I do. And I said, please understand that I think gratitude journals are so important. And I think looking at each day, and seeing the three things you need to be most grateful for, is also very important. But I'm on a quest to teach people that if you push gratitude outside of yourself, you will have much bigger, better, stronger and sticky relationships with people in your life. So ForbesBooks said, Could you write a book about 50,000 words? I said, No, I could write in 30,000 words on how gratitude has changed my life and I hope to teach other people how gratitude can change your life. Andi Simon: So this is a journey you've been on. I'm fascinated with each step along the way. And as you're thinking about it, I'm just curious whether this has come from any kind of catalytic moment, aha moment. You know, when we were talking in advance, I said, The pressure to write a book comes from all kinds of places. Was there a particular thing that became other than ForbesBooks coming to you and saying, Would you write a book? Michele Bailey: And I didn't think it was time to tell the story. And I didn't even understand that gratitude was my brand. It was my Managing Partner, Eric Marshall, who showed me that gratitude was my brand. And it started because someone came and said, We want you to open a women's conference up in Toronto. There'll be hundreds of women there. We want you on stage to kick it off by talking about spending five minutes talking about a passion project, something you're passionate about. We want the audience to feel your passion. So I went to the office and I said to Eric, I'm going to kick off this conference. And I'm going to talk about work-life blend and integration through My Big Idea and how if you focus on those nine areas of your life, you will get clearer, and you will have a blend that works for you. So he looked at me and said, You're going to talk about My Big Idea. Yeah, that's your five minute passion. I said, absolutely. He said, I don't think so. I looked him and said, You don't think so? He said, Passion is what makes you come alive. He said, Gratitude is your passion. And he walked out of the room. I'm like, Who's he to tell me what my passion is? So you know what? I got up there. And he and I talked about gratitude. And when you do it from a source of abundance, when you have gratitude as your guiding north star, the world presents opportunities to you that you aren't even aware of. Andi Simon: So, Michele, for those who sign a gratitude diary, it's not the three things that you're grateful for each day. It's not sending a gratitude note. It's something different. Talk to us before we talk about the book. What is it that you found in the word gratitude that can flush it out for us, give it a personality beyond them. The tactical practical that we hear because this sounds like a life strategy, something that gives you richness beyond anything in particular, but something bigger and richer. Am I hearing you correctly? Michelle Bailey: Yes, and you are. For me, gratitude is about energy. Think of a ball of light. And when you give that ball of light to someone else, gratitude shows up in so many ways. You are giving energy to another person, and allowing them to receive something that you see in them. Too often, we are all so busy, we're racing. We just need to get through the next thing. When you have gratitude as an anchor, it allows magic to appear. And I'll give you a very short little story. Over the last two years, as you know, a lot of people have lost their jobs or resigned from their jobs, etc. There's a woman that I know in banking. I had lost touch with her for years, but I heard she had lost her job. And I didn't think anything of it. We'd lost touch. I got a call from her husband. How he found my number, my name, I don't know. And he called me up and he said, Michele, my wife is in a really bad way. Could you please reach out to her because she's not getting off the couch. And it's been weeks. I'll be honest, I hung up that phone, I thought, I have no time for this. And I thought to myself, a man looked for my number. He doesn't know me, himself, by calling me and saying that his wife needs help. I know she hasn't been in touch, please help her. So I reached out to her. And I didn't tell her her husband called me. I reached out and I suggested we go for a walk. She came up; I live in the country. She came out and we walked and I let silence do the lifting and I just listened. That was my act of gratitude. I just listened to her hurt, her overwhelmingness of being let go. Not knowing, I just listened. And I invited her back two weeks later. And what I did when we went on the walk is I told her all the wonderful things I saw in her, both personally and professionally in the 10 years I had known her, even though we had lost contact, and I reminded her that she is special. And there's someone out there, a corporation that's going to see that. Silence, listening, observing, and just being present with to get this woman back in a good space. And she's got a great job now. Something as simple as that, that's an act of gratitude. Andi Simon: I love it. I love it. Because anyone listening can do that. It's not like you need to go take it. But you do need to pause for a moment and think about how you can help somebody. Now I'm going to pause for a moment. So Michele has told us an amazing story that sort of has been captured now in her book. And what I'd like her to do is talk about the different chapters in the book so that this gratitude currency can come alive, even more than just the gift that she gave this lovely lady who needed a hand, but also so you can begin to hear about what gratitude can become for you, as you're dealing with all of the transformation coming out of the pandemic. And who knows whether we'll be coming back into another one. Michele, share with us the contents inside your book, please. Michele Bailey: Absolutely Andi. I am pleased to share that. So I'm showing people how, Chapter One, placing gratitude at the center of your personal brand changes relationships. And again, I talk about those questions I teach people to answer. Also about creating brand ambassadors. That's Chapter Two. Blazing has created brand ambassadors. That's why I never have to advertise for jobs. People come to me through word of mouth because of brand ambassadors. I talk about gratitude in winning business. I do not take winning business for granted. And I'm not one to win business and start going to the next piece of business. I want to win business to make sure it stays and when I lose business, and I do, I continue keeping in touch and I go back and win more business then I've lost. Chapter Four, gratitude as a means of retaining clients and customers. Almost all of Blazing business is grown through referrals. That's about retaining clients and customers. Chapter Five is about gratitude and self care. If we can't be grateful to ourselves..first big act of gratitude: be grateful and kind to yourself. Then I wrote about gratitude during times of crisis. I held back on the publishing of this book. Forbes was not too happy, because I saw gratitude unfolding during the pandemic. I needed to talk about how people show up in cooperation for other people in times of crisis. And then my last chapter is about making gratitude a habit. I have a daily planner, it's called The My Big Idea planner. And every week at a glance, I have to write about things to do personally, things to do professionally, what I need to reflect on or who I need to reflect on, and who I need to think about. As I look at my planner, right now, I see that there's five gratitude cards that I need to put out. As far as reflection, there's two people that I need to reach out to, because they need a little extra something from someone. And I've chosen that this is the week I'm going to reach out to them. So that's how I make it a habit. And it becomes a habit. Andi, it's every Sunday night, five minutes for me to set up my week so I know what I need to do. Andi Simon: Now, as you're thinking about this, think about it as if you're the audience listening in. You greatly created a personal strategy for your life. And you created the action steps to make that come alive. And you're telling us a story about how it's transformed. We'd love to know a little more about the transformation, because you didn't start doing this. This has come along in your life journey where you began to see how to build those relationships in particular ways. You know, do you have an insight in terms of who Michele is now versus where you might have been, as you were starting through all of this. Was Blazing a different kind of company before it began to have that epiphany that this was what matters? Michele Bailey: Actually, Blazing was a different company. I was focused on culture, gratitude. That was always my focus. It was all about creating an awesome culture, and to be a company where I wanted to work, because I had two previous employers, and I dreaded Mondays. So it showed me what I wanted to create. So that's creating a winning culture. I think it was about 10 years ago, when my dad died, who was my mentor. My dad was everything to me. He also lived with us, and he worked at Blazing. So when he died, I was so busy taking care of my immediate family, and then my brothers and their families all throughout the US, and then I went back to the office to take care of my team. We've been working with Dr. Fritz for years and years. Nobody was coping well with his death. For me, for three weeks I tried to get everything and everyone settled. And then I realized that I hadn't grieved, breathed this immense loss in my life. So I took a backpack and I went down to Costa Rica by myself for two weeks and off the grid, no electronics. I brought a pen and paper. I brought paints. I brought poems to read and I hiked in the rainforests of Costa Rica every day. It was only my last day there, when I sat down and I wrote a letter to my father that I began to heal. So on that plane ride home, I sat on the plane, and I made a list of all the people in my life that I needed to thank. And that's what transformed to understanding that gratitude expressed to people will really show them the impact they have on your life and tell them when they're alive. So you don't have to write a letter like I did to my dad. Andi Simon: But as you known, the gift of giving is as much a gift to ourselves as it is to somebody else, and that bond, just then, you need it. Unfortunately, that catalyst was to realize it. But what a blessing that it came to you at the right time to begin to grow to the next woman who you were becoming. Michele Bailey: It was. My father gave me a great gift. And I didn't realize how big it was. But now that I know that gift was given to me, I'm trying to teach it. others. Andi Simon: Well, it's so exciting. But we are just about ready to wrap up this beautiful podcast together. And I've so enjoyed talking with you. A couple of things you don't want the listener to forget? Michele Bailey: I want all the listeners to know that your personal and professional life are never going to be balanced. So make it integrated and blended together first. The second thing is, it takes five minutes, no more than five minutes, to answer those questions I put at the beginning, and change a relationship with someone who means the world to you. Know they can't read your mind. And the third thing is, you are always teaching people how to treat you. Peggy Gras, my mentor, has always told me that you are teaching people how to treat you. So get treated the way you want. Andi Simon: This is such an interesting, important, wonderful, I don't know the right adjective. My words are always empty when they don't really capture the beauty of your story and the mission that you're on to help the world become a much better place. I think it's a global mission at a time when we need it a lot. It's a very, very difficult time. And one was like gratitude, the relationships, the personal presence that Michele was talking about. Carefully listen to this podcast a second time and begin to think about it and even buy her book. It's a great book to begin to understand how giving gratitude is not about one way, it's about two ways and as you give, you receive, but also about how you build that life that's worth living. And you might wonder about how to blend it, or how to balance it. But at the end of the day, life and work are together. We need to live and we need to have work, so somehow we have to pull it all into place so that our families and friends and those around us all thrive. So this is a great time. Do you want to put up that book one more time? What is the name of it? And how can they buy it. Michele Bailey: The Currency of Gratitude by Michele Bailey. You can buy it on Amazon or wherever business books are sold. ForbesBooks is the publisher. Andi Simon: And ForbesBooks is very happy to promote that. So this is a great time. Let me say goodbye to all of you who come with such attention and send me great emails, info@andisimon.com. Send them along and I love your ideas. And I love the people you want me to interview. It's sharing at its best. Now my book, Rethink: Smashing The Myths of Women in Business, won the bronze Best Business Book for 2022 in the Women in Business category by Axiom. And so I'm honored. And my first book, On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights, won the same award but in a different category in 2017. So writing books is a challenge. And then when it works, it's so exciting. So Michele, thank you for coming today. And for all our listeners, thank you for coming. I'll see you soon. Take care now. Bye bye.

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Grimes claims responsibility for 2012 hack of culture blog Hipster Runoff; Atari collaborates with Cariuma to create a 50th anniversary sneaker collection;

Hear how Simran Arora develops her posts, what inspires her, and how she remains authentic throughout everything she shares on her blog A Room of One's Own. Check out Simran's blog: https://aroomofonesownbysimranarora.wordpress.com/ Follow Simran on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamsimranarora/  

Nancy Good is a multi-disciplinary artist with an incredibly diverse background. Her creative pursuits over the past three decades have been heavily influenced by: travels to Australia, Africa, Vietnam; childhood residency in Japan; adult life as an artist, photographer, musician, fly-fishing guide, backpacker, writer, and teacher in Montana, Nevada, California, Tennessee and Illinois, along with her eclectic DNA revealing connections with cultures the world over. A common thread through Good's work is how she employs materials and tools of modern times while playfully utilizing aesthetics of ancient ancestries, including symbols and primitive mark-making. The late Ed Fuentes (Paint This Desert, Arts & Culture Blog) described Good's art as Hockney-esque in color and aboriginal in expression. Most recently, Good has received three Congressional Commendations for her artistic contributions.

When I started this podcast, my inspiration was taken from my own experience with friends having Video Nights at least once a week for a few years at one of those friends’ houses. That friend is this episode’s guest, and it’s been a long time coming. But you ARE somewhat familiar with previous guest/co-host Jon […] The post Nothing by Andrew Bargeron appeared first on Ouch My Ego! - Music, Art, & Culture Blog of the Rio Grande Valley.

Joel Gascoigne, CEO and founder of Buffer is this week's guest on The SaaS Revolution Show. Joel shares his top lessons learned over the past ten years building Buffer: a fully-remote, transparent and profitable business. From the early days and Buffer's very first revenue, to splitting with his co-founders and taking on the role of a solo founder, to his experience of and recovery from burnout, this extended episode is an open, honest and engaging conversation.

Finally, we get to talk about Motorama. This 1991 film was a solitary staple for me in my late high school years. I knew no one who had talked of seeing it. It had a good run on HBO or Cinemax (both since they are owned by the same folks swap movies all the time). […] The post Motorama by Andrew Bargeron appeared first on Ouch My Ego! - Music, Art, & Culture Blog of the Rio Grande Valley.

There’s really not much to preface this episode with as far as show notes goes. This movie title “I Bought A Vampire Motorcycle” is as good a summary of the film as ever, though you’ll hear Jon contest this as a demon bike rather than a vampire bike. Anyway, it’s fun, sloppy, super low budget, […] The post I bought a vampire Motorcycle by Andrew Bargeron appeared first on Ouch My Ego! - Music, Art, & Culture Blog of the Rio Grande Valley.

Dr. Adam Frank and Dennis talk personal histories, astrophysics, spirituality, Zen Buddhism, and more... Adam Frank is a Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Rochester as well as a popular science writer. He is the co-founder of NPR's 13.7 Cosmos and Culture Blog. He also does regular on-air commentaries for All Things Considered and has two books on science culture published (the last one for Simon & Schuster). Professor Frank received his Ph.D. in Physics (1992) from University of Washington. He held postdoctoral and visiting scientist positions at Leiden University and the University of Minnesota. In 1995, he was awarded a Hubble Fellowship. He joined the University as an Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy in 1996. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2000 and to Professor in 2004. He received a University Bridging Fellowship in 2005. Prof. Frank's research is in the general area of Theoretical Astrophysics, and in particular the hydrodynamic and magneto-hydrodynamic evolution of matter ejected from stars. Current research topic include jets from Young Stellar Objects, bipolar outflows from evolved stars such as Planetary Nebulae and Massive stars. Investigations are carried out though the use of large scale numerical simulations. Here is a link to Adam's webpage: https://www.adamfrankscience.com This episode of "A Conversation with..." was produced by Renée Yaworsky and Dennis Tardan. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dennis-tardan/support

Hot on the heels of our discussion about nutsoid sci-fi horror teen farce Detention, comes an episode about another teen film, but one that’s mostly forgotten, in spite of Criterion reissuing a super deluxe version on blu-ray: Frances Ford Coppola’s direction of S.E. Hinton’s Rumble Fish. When we think of teen movies, we think of […] The post Rumble Fish by Andrew Bargeron appeared first on Ouch My Ego! - Music, Art, & Culture Blog of the Rio Grande Valley.

Recently I’ve come to understand that I like some teen movies. Previous to this realization I claimed that I didn’t like teen movies much at all, but upon examination the opposite would be true. And while there are few titles that could be included on my show here (Bill & Ted, Weird Science, Better Off […] The post Detention by Andrew Bargeron appeared first on Ouch My Ego! - Music, Art, & Culture Blog of the Rio Grande Valley.

It’s a rare thing that I’ll accept this deviation from the norm here. Usually we cover strange films that feature mostly practical special effects, sometimes cg animation but never, until now, have we covered a fully animated feature. Belladonna of Sadness isn’t JUST an animated film, but it’s an anime from 1973! And it’s not […] The post Belladonna of Sadness by Andrew Bargeron appeared first on Ouch My Ego! - Music, Art, & Culture Blog of the Rio Grande Valley.

Like Making Contact, our film for this episode, XTRO, desperately wants to be a Speilberg movie. It doesn’t succeed in being that, but it is presented in marketing as a sort of horror response to Close encounters of the Third Kind & even more so, E.T. the Extraterrestrial. My guest on this show is writer […] The post Xtro by Andrew Bargeron appeared first on Ouch My Ego! - Music, Art, & Culture Blog of the Rio Grande Valley.

I think I’ll keep this one pretty short. This is the final episode of the year. The film is Hudsucker Proxy and the guest is the old standby, Jon. This is, for both of us, a favorite film from the first time either of us first watched it. It belongs on this show because it […] The post Hudsucker Proxy by Andrew Bargeron appeared first on Ouch My Ego! - Music, Art, & Culture Blog of the Rio Grande Valley.

I often skimp on talking about the directors of the films we discuss. I suppose it’s because I’m more interested in the film itself than the behind the scenes trivia, and I don’t exactly like to flex my knowledge on such (whether I have the info or not, and I don’t often consult search engines […] The post Eden Log by Andrew Bargeron appeared first on Ouch My Ego! - Music, Art, & Culture Blog of the Rio Grande Valley.

It’s that time again, kiddies. The Spookiest time of the year! It’s October and as such it’s time to feature a creepier than usual flick. So, I’ve chosen 1986’s SPOOKIES. Full disclosure, I have seen this one time before this viewing, and that was last year when I first learned of the film. Or should […] The post SPOOKIES by Andrew Bargeron appeared first on Ouch My Ego! - Music, Art, & Culture Blog of the Rio Grande Valley.

I’m not sure if I saw Arnold Schwarzenegger’s attempt at a meta satire of the Hollywood action movie, the Last Action Hero in the cinema. I probably did. I know I saw Jurassic Park (which came out the same day) but I saw that one much later, and maybe on VHS…and full disclosure, I was […] The post the Last Action Hero by Andrew Bargeron appeared first on Ouch My Ego! - Music, Art, & Culture Blog of the Rio Grande Valley.

Nothing screams summer to me more than ‘teen movies’ made in sunny Southern California. They don’t even have to be set during the summer. California is ideal for year round shooting for a reason after all. So, why not have a guest from So Cal for this episode about Gregg Araki’s Teenage Apocalypse flick NOWHERE? […] The post NOWHERE by Andrew Bargeron appeared first on Ouch My Ego! - Music, Art, & Culture Blog of the Rio Grande Valley.

On this episode of Get A Clu! we are starting our conversation on Clu’s work in comedy films of the 1980s. Clu is generally known for his horror characters in this decade, but take a closer look and you’ll find a plethora of dynamic appearances that, although variant in size, really do help round out Clu’s career […] The post Episode 3: ’80s Comedies (pt. 1) by Elbee Bargeron appeared first on Ouch My Ego! - Music, Art, & Culture Blog of the Rio Grande Valley.

The High Blog is a cannabis lifestyle and culture blog founded and run by Lily. Lily is an journalist, writer, and author based on Canada. In this episode we discuss The High Blog, cannabis legalization, and the decision to leave more traditional jobs to pursue cannabis careers. The High Blog - https://thehighblog.com/ The High Blog on Twitter - https://twitter.com/TheHighBlog

1989 was not a strong year for conventional film. But for weirdo movies, it did OK. For example, this episode is about Meet the Hollowheads (otherwise known as Life on the edge). Written by Lisa Morton & Tom Burman with Burman directing, Hollowheads is possibly the strangest pg-13 movie to come out of ’89, maybe […] The post Meet the Hollowheads by Andrew Bargeron appeared first on Ouch My Ego! - Music, Art, & Culture Blog of the Rio Grande Valley.

In 65 years since his debut as a metaphor for the dangers of nuclear weapons, Godzilla has gone from terrifying monster to pop culture darling. He has done battle with various Kaiju creatures (including the mighty King Kong,) and even some lesser known foes such as Marvel Comic’s Avengers and even some famous sportsball player […] The post Godzilla Final Wars by Andrew Bargeron appeared first on Ouch My Ego! - Music, Art, & Culture Blog of the Rio Grande Valley.

We started off the year, and continued, with (four months of) schlocky nonsense. I mean a LOT of it. So it’s high time we have a change around here, if only for one episode, before we jump back to doing silly weirdo movies, let’s dig into 1990’s surreal childhood drama, The Reflecting Skin. Joining me […] The post the Reflecting Skin by Andrew Bargeron appeared first on Ouch My Ego! - Music, Art, & Culture Blog of the Rio Grande Valley.

This episode delves into cinematic territory that we have not quite entered or even entertained here on the show. Tokusatsu: Japanese special effects driven superhero stories. Specially, Mechanical Violator Hakaider. This film is a mid-90s reboot/spinoff of a villain character from the old 1970s Android Kikaider show. Yet here, he’s presented as a mysterious antihero […] The post Mechanical Violator Hakaider by Andrew Bargeron appeared first on Ouch My Ego! - Music, Art, & Culture Blog of the Rio Grande Valley.

Is it necessary to wear your 'Black & Proud' tee for the world to see? Or even use the term 'unapologetically black' in 2019? Tune in for a powerful conversation with me and my special guest, Founder/Lifestyle Blogger of Vibe with the Culture, I Am Ms. Dajh! Be sure to comment, like and share! Follow Dajh on Facebook: I Am Ms. Dajh and Twitter: Vibe with the Culture Blog: www.vibewiththeculture.com Show Sponsor: Dinjii Eyewear Be sure to follow: Facebook: Snapptalk with Shaundra Twitter: Snapptalk Blog: www.snappedbydinjii.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/snapptalkwithshaundra/support

This episode sees the return of Michael Cook, primary host of all the shows from Retro Rocket Entertainment, & co-host to the first show I’ve ever been a part of, Videonight! On our first go-round here on WDWJW?!? Michael played it relatively safe with Hudson Hawk, a film so ‘normal’ in its plot but so weird in […] The post FREAKED by Andrew Bargeron appeared first on Ouch My Ego! - Music, Art, & Culture Blog of the Rio Grande Valley.

This episode threw me for a loop, rather. Jon Threw me for a loop. You’ll hear how/why in this episode soon enough. But let me just say, Hansel & Gretel Witch Hunters is the most Sam Raimi movie that isn’t directed or produced by Sam Raimi. This is a major sticking point with me on […] The post Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters by Andrew Bargeron appeared first on Ouch My Ego! - Music, Art, & Culture Blog of the Rio Grande Valley.

Episode 46 - Kathryn Pauline, of Cardamom and Tea, is a world-renowned food blogger. Her blog was a 2018 finalist for Saveur’s Best Food and Culture Blog award and was featured on Amsterdam Diary’s Top 20 Up and Coming Food Blogs in 2018. In this episode you will learn about Kathryn’s life in Hong Kong and how her passion for baking and cooking led her to create Cardamom and Tea, where she shares Assyrian inspired dishes with the world. Website: www.cardamomandtea.com Facebook: cardamomandtea Instagram: @cardamom.and.tea Support for this week’s episode of The Assyrian Podcast is brought to you by Tony Kalogerakos and the injury lawyers of Illinois and New York. If you know anyone that has been in a serious accident, please reach out to Tony Kalogerakos. Tony has been recognized as a Top 40 lawyer, and a Rising Star by Super Lawyers Publication and has obtained multiple multi-million-dollar awards. Tony can be reached at InjuryRights.com or 847-982-9516.

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Consider this episode a bit of a palate cleanser from all the creepy spooky flicks you’ve undoubtedly gorged yourself on last month*.  The film we discuss is 1989’s Dream A Little Dream that features Coreys Feldman and Haim as best pals who stumble upon a wacky sci-fi plot involving sunglasses…WAIT! No! That’s the 1994 sequel […] The post Dream a little dream by Andrew Bargeron appeared first on Ouch My Ego! - Music, Art, & Culture Blog of the Rio Grande Valley.

It’s October! And that means a glut of scary and macabre movies to gorge on! Last episode had us warming up with the very fun loving comedy-horror-sci-fi farce Freaks of Nature. This month has us exploring vintage horror vignettes by way of the Waxwork Duology! The two films star Zach Galligan (yes, Billy from Gremlins) […] The post Waxwork Duology by Andrew Bargeron appeared first on Ouch My Ego! - Music, Art, & Culture Blog of the Rio Grande Valley.

We’re back again today talking about a seemingly long forgotten era of television: the 1950s and ’60s TV western. Many of Clu Gulager’s fans may not realize he was technically a TV star back in those days, so we are very excited to introduce him in a light that some people may not even know […] The post EPISODE 02: 1960s TV by Elbee Bargeron appeared first on Ouch My Ego! - Music, Art, & Culture Blog of the Rio Grande Valley.

Hello, and welcome to Get A Clu! During the course of this limited series show, Elbee and Mike will be leading you on a journey through the long and fascinating life and career of beloved cult actor Clu Gulager. Part biography series, part film and TV discussion, and part cultural analysis, we hope to bring you a […] The post EPISODE 01: ’80S HORROR PT. 1 by Elbee Bargeron appeared first on Ouch My Ego! - Music, Art, & Culture Blog of the Rio Grande Valley.

Hello again, friends, and welcome to our special Noirvember episode! We've got a double-header for you, starting with Otto Preminger's 1944 film noir staple starring Vincent Price, Laura. If you haven't seen Laura, you should really remedy that right now. It's a classic, a timeless mystery tale: the lovely Laura (Gene Tierney), a woman bewitching to every […] The post LAURA (AND SINGAPORE SLING) by Elbee Bargeron appeared first on Ouch My Ego! - Music, Art, & Culture Blog of the Rio Grande Valley.

Whatever happened to scary movies for kids? In the early 1980s, Disney produced a string of both animated and live-action films that pushed the boundaries of the macabre in family entertainment. Movies like Return to Oz, The Black Cauldron, The Black Hole, and The Watcher in the Woods scared their young audiences alongside entertaining them, and we here at VPL […] The post SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES by Elbee Bargeron appeared first on Ouch My Ego! - Music, Art, & Culture Blog of the Rio Grande Valley.

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Hello again, monster kids! On this episode of VPL, we're turning back the clock a bit to 2007, the year that Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino released their cult classic-informed double feature, Grindhouse.Nostalgia is kind of a weird beast, sometimes making us remember things a bit more fondly than they may deserve. It's also tricky when […] The post GRINDHOUSE by Elbee Bargeron appeared first on Ouch My Ego! - Music, Art, & Culture Blog of the Rio Grande Valley.

Greetings and salutations! Today we are delving into the mind of the prolific-yet-classically underrated director, M. Night Shyamalan. In this episode, we're discussing his most impressive work-to-date, Split. M. Night gets a lot of grief for his “twist ending” trope, with most of the complaints saying that his movies rely heavily on that twist without providing […] The post SPLIT by Elbee Bargeron appeared first on Ouch My Ego! - Music, Art, & Culture Blog of the Rio Grande Valley.

Ahoy all ye buccaneers and scalawags! Grab yer grog an' get yer sealegs on because we're 'bout to set sail on the haunted high seas! Ahem. I mean, hey guys! On this episode of VPL we are bringing you two ghastly, ghostly maritime tales: 2002's trip to a haunted oceanliner, Ghost Ship, and 2002's WWII submarine adventure, Below. At […] The post GHOST SHIP / BELOW by Elbee Bargeron appeared first on Ouch My Ego! - Music, Art, & Culture Blog of the Rio Grande Valley.

This episode is a long time coming. Over a year ago, we set out to do a show on 2015's Poltergeist by itself. However, as we discuss in this show, it's not exactly possible to examine a remake without the original film entering into the conversation. So we decided to put the idea of the episode on the […] The post POLTERGEIST & POLTERGEIST by Elbee Bargeron appeared first on Ouch My Ego! - Music, Art, & Culture Blog of the Rio Grande Valley.

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This week, we're talking about a couple of short films. We didn't plan on it when we discussed which ones we should include in this episode, but turns out the ones we chose have a bit of a similar theme. They both have to do with how society perceives the mentally ill. Up first is […] The post HEIR / BURKITTSVILLE 7 by Elbee Bargeron appeared first on Ouch My Ego! - Music, Art, & Culture Blog of the Rio Grande Valley.

Happy soon-to-be-Thanksgiving, creepazoids and monster kids! On this episode, we take a look at a hidden gem of a slasher film, 1987's Blood Rage. Although we watch them, we're not the biggest slasher fans. Honestly, we'd rather cozy up with a nice old fashioned ghost story or creature feature than subject ourselves to crazy gore and “kills”. […] The post BLOOD RAGE by Elbee Bargeron appeared first on Ouch My Ego! - Music, Art, & Culture Blog of the Rio Grande Valley.

More than 30 years ago, power trio Tommy Lee Wallace, Debra Hill, and John Carpenter set out to change the game when it came to Halloween movies. They envisioned a franchise that would be an anthology of sorts, birthed out of the story of Michael Myers, but not limited to it. Each year a new, […] The post HALLOWEEN III: SEASON OF THE WITCH by Elbee Bargeron appeared first on Ouch My Ego! - Music, Art, & Culture Blog of the Rio Grande Valley.

How's everyone's October going? We hope it's extra spoooooooky! For this episode, we wanted to talk about a couple of our most favorite Halloween specials. No, not the Paul Lynde Halloween Special, but that's a close third. Friends, this week we are talking about Ghostwatch and the WNUF Halloween Special. GHOSTWATCH (1992) Held as one of the most […] The post GHOSTWATCH / WNUF HALLOWEEN SPECIAL by Elbee Bargeron appeared first on Ouch My Ego! - Music, Art, & Culture Blog of the Rio Grande Valley.

Lately we've been encountering a few lost souls who seem to think the horror genre didn't start until 1970. An “old” scary movie to them is The Exorcist, or Texas Chainsaw Massacre, or Lord have mercy, even Friday the 13th. It's probably a generational thing, and we understand that when you were born in 1997, a film from […] The post HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL by Elbee Bargeron appeared first on Ouch My Ego! - Music, Art, & Culture Blog of the Rio Grande Valley.

On this episode, we tackle the Ariel Award-winning Spanish-language film, Kilometro 31! This film showed up on our radar a couple of years after its initial Mexican release. We saw it sometime around 2008 or 2009, and were impressed by its visual style. When we moved to the Rio Grande Valley of Texas last year, we […] The post KM31 by Elbee Bargeron appeared first on Ouch My Ego! - Music, Art, & Culture Blog of the Rio Grande Valley.

Join us this week as we tackle not one, not two, not even three films! This jam-packed episode covers The Evil Dead, Evil Dead II, Army of Darkness, Evil Dead (2013), and Ash vs. Evil Dead. What can we say about the Evil Dead series that hasn't already been said? The films have been discussed and re-discussed ad […] The post THE EVIL DEAD SERIES by Elbee Bargeron appeared first on Ouch My Ego! - Music, Art, & Culture Blog of the Rio Grande Valley.

Here we go with another two-fer, folks! The two films discussed in this episode of Vincent Price's Laugh are remarkably similar, however retaining distinct differences. They're both “siege” films in their own ways, both involve the confrontation of an unknown entity, and both pose pseudo-philosophical questions about the very nature of good and evil. We're talking […] The post LET US PREY / PRINCE OF DARKNESS by Elbee Bargeron appeared first on Ouch My Ego! - Music, Art, & Culture Blog of the Rio Grande Valley.

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