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From time to time I am contacted by someone who says they have an interesting and thought provoking guest who would be perfect for Unstoppable Mindset. Since I am of the opinion that everyone has a story within themselves worth telling I always work to learn more about the guest. Such was the case when I was contacted about our guest this time, Dre Baldwin. Dre and I had an initial conversation and I invited him to appear as a guest. I must say that he more than exceeded my expectations.   Dre grew up in Philadelphia. He wanted to do something with sports and tried out various options until he discovered Basketball in high school. While he wasn't considered overly exceptional and only played one year in high school he realized that Basketball was the sport for him.   Dre went to Penn State and played all four of his college years. Again, while he played consistently and reasonably well, he was not noticed and after college he was not signed to a professional team. He worked at a couple of jobs for a time and then decided to try to get noticed for basketball by going to a camp where he could be seen by scouts and where he could prove he had the talent to make basketball a profession. As he will tell us, eventually he did get a contract to play professionally. Other things happened along the way as you will hear. Dre discovered Youtube and the internet and began posting basketball tips which became popular.   While playing basketball professionally he also started blogging, posting videos and eventually he began selling video basketball lessons online. His internet business grew and by 2015 after playing basketball he decided to leave the sport and open his own business called, Work On Your Game Inc.   His business has given him the time to author 35 books, deliver 4 TDX talks, create thousands of videos and coach others. Dre and I talk about such concepts as discipline, mindset and the value of consistency. Our conversation will provide many useful insights and ideas you and all of us can use.       About the Guest:   As CEO and Founder of Work On Your Game Inc., Dre Baldwin has given 4 TEDxTalks on Discipline, Confidence, Mental Toughness & Personal Initiative and has authored 35 books. He has appeared in national campaigns with Nike, Finish Line, Wendy's, Gatorade, Buick, Wilson Sports, STASH Investments and DIME magazine.    Dre has published over 8,000 videos to 142,000+ subscribers, his content being consumed over 103 million times.    Dre's daily Work On Your Game MasterClass has amassed over 2,900 episodes and more than 7.3 million downloads.    In just 5 years, Dre went from the end of his high school team's bench to a 9-year professional basketball career. He played in 8 countries including Lithuania, Germany, Montenegro, Slovakia and Germany.    Dre invented his Work On Your Game framework as a "roadmap in reverse" to help professionals with High Performance, Consistency and Results.    A Philadelphia native, Dre lives in Miami.   Ways to connect with Dre:   http://Instagram.com/DreBaldwin http://YouTube.com/Dreupt https://www.facebook.com/WorkOnYourGameUniversity http://LinkedIn.com/in/DreAllDay http://X.com/DreAllDay http://TikTok.com/WorkOnYourGame       About the Host:   Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog.   Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards.   https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/   accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/   https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/       Thanks for listening!   Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! 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The podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us.   Michael Hingson ** 01:21 Hi again. Welcome to another edition of unstoppable mindset. Our goal in unstoppable mindset is to show you that, in fact, you are most likely more unstoppable than you think you are, at least that's the goal. Is to try to get people to believe that it's been fun talking to a lot of people about that, talking to people about the fact that they show that they're more unstoppable than they thought they were. And a lot of people tend to to stay that right out. Our guest today is a first for me. I've not ever talked to a professional basketball player live on unstoppable mindset. And our guest Dre Baldwin was a professional basketball player for a number of years, and I'm sure we're going to get into that, along with so many other things to talk about what he does today, because he's not doing basketball as such today. He's got a company called work on your game, Inc, and I'm sure that that relates back to basketball in some way. So we'll get to it. But anyway, Dre, I want to welcome you to unstoppable mindset, and thank you for taking the time to be here.   Dre Baldwin ** 02:28 Oh, thank you, Michael. And you can call me Dre, yes. Dre, yeah. So okay, I I appreciate, I appreciate you having me on. I'm looking forward to this conversation. Well, we're   Michael Hingson ** 02:38 glad that you're here and all that. Why don't we start by you maybe telling us about the early Dre growing up and some of those kinds of things.   Dre Baldwin ** 02:46 Sure, come from the city of Philadelphia, PA and now live in South Florida, but always played sports growing up, dabbled in a little bit of everything that was available. So went to my mom, put me in a little tennis camp once for a week or two, played a little football, touch football in the driveways. Played baseball for a couple years on an organized level, but didn't really find my find my groove in any sports. I got around to basketball, which is around age 14, which is pretty late to start playing a sport, if you're trying to go somewhere in it. That was my situation. No barely played in high school. Only played one year, and then it led to, I'm sure we'll get into what happened after that. But for the most part, as a youth, I was really into athletics and just figuring out what I could do athletically. So no, of course, you know, in the the street, you grow up on foot races, two hand, touch football, etc, things like that. But I figured that my meaning was going to be somewhere towards using my body in some way. I didn't know how, but that's what I figured I would do.   Michael Hingson ** 03:47 I would presume that along all the time you were in Philadelphia, you never did encounter Rocky Balboa running up the steps of Liberty Hall, or any of those things.   Dre Baldwin ** 03:57 Oh, that's, that's the art museum, the Philadelphia Art Museum. Oh, the art museum. Yeah, Rocky, running up the steps. I never did that. The only reason, no, go ahead, I was saying, the only reason I never did it is because where I grew up is kind of far from the art museum. Is big city, but had I moved near the art museum, then, yeah, I would have ran up steps as exercise. I just, I just, it just wasn't in proximity to me. So that's the only reason I didn't do   Michael Hingson ** 04:21 it, well, that's okay. Well, so what did you do after high school? Well,   Dre Baldwin ** 04:25 I wanted to go to college. I knew I was going to go to college period, even if it weren't for sports. I figured college was Well, first of all, I didn't know what I want to do with my life. Yet at age 18, and the small Inkling I had that I could be a professional athlete at this point, I got that idea around age 16. I wasn't not like I was good enough to be LeBron James or Kobe Bryant, who were no so good. They skipped college and went straight to playing at the program. I wasn't that good. So if I was going to play pro, I needed four more years of seasoning, which meant I needed to go to college. So just on that level alone, I knew I wanted to go. So, but because of my unimpressive high school career, if you want to call it a career, no one was recruiting me to come play in college. So whatever college I went to would not be on the basis of sports, it just be on the basis of I'm here, and let's see if I can get on the basketball team as an unknown, unverified person. So that's what I did. I walked on at a college that happened to be a division three college. Was the third tier of college sports. Most of your pro players are sourced from the Division One level. And I did go there, and I was able to get on the basketball team. Played four years of college basketball at the Division Three level, yet, and still Michael at that level, nobody at the pro level is really looking for pros from the Division Three level. Because, again, who cares about division three players? They can pull from the Division One ranks Division Three guys. So that was my situation. Graduated from college having played, but still, at that point, nobody was looking for me to come play at the   Michael Hingson ** 05:57 pro level. What did you get your degree in? I have a degree from   Dre Baldwin ** 06:01 Penn State University in business with a focus in management and marketing.   Michael Hingson ** 06:05 That explains where you went later, but and kind of how you ended up, yeah, sort of, and Penn State so you were a Nittany Lion, huh?   Dre Baldwin ** 06:17 Technically, yeah, we never talk about, we never say that. But yes,   Michael Hingson ** 06:21 well, yeah, whatever, yeah, Penn State, yeah, well, that's, I didn't know that they were division three in basketball. They certainly aren't in football. But okay, and they have more   Dre Baldwin ** 06:33 than one no, they have more than one campus. So, well, that's true, yeah. So I went to my degree, so just so people understand when Penn State has 23 campuses. So I started at Penn State Abington, which is a division three sports school, and I transferred to Penn State Altoona, which is also a division three sports school. At the time, Abington was not full fledged d3 it is now Altoona was so Altoona was the second highest level inside the entire Penn State system, which was a four years of sports school at the time. At the time, there were only two schools in the whole system where you could play four years. It was the main campus with the football team, and it was out tuning. Nowadays, there are several others who you can play four years of sports. But back then, for many other campuses, you can only play two years. And the other piece is, when you graduate from Penn State, any campus your degree is still Penn State, regardless of which campus you graduated from, I graduated from Altoona, so my degree still just says, it just says Penn State. It doesn't say which campus,   Michael Hingson ** 07:32 right? And, and in a sense, does it really matter? Not   Dre Baldwin ** 07:35 really maybe, to the people who go to the main campus, because they say, Oh, you all went to the other ones. So they try to, in a joking way, kind of discredit it. But I only went to Altoona for basketball. I was accepted into the main campus straight out of high school,   Michael Hingson ** 07:48 right? Well, so whatever. But at least you got a degree from Penn State, and you can't argue with that. Yes, you're right about that. I went to University of California, Irvine, UC Irvine, and when I enrolled my first year, my freshman year was the first year they had a graduating class. It was a new campus for UC system. So 1968 they had their first well 69 they had their first graduating class. And that was the year I was a freshman. And it was a only had like about 2500 2700 students that first year. I was back there in June of this year, they have 31,000 undergraduates. Now it's changed a little bit.   Dre Baldwin ** 08:34 Yeah, so you were part of the first class, where they had all four classes on campus at the same time. Then,   Michael Hingson ** 08:40 right, and they also had graduate school. They had started doing work. It was a well known, even back then, a biology school. In fact, if you wanted to major in biology in the first year I enrolled, I went into physics, so I didn't get to be a victim of this. But they had 1600 students enroll in biology, and the way they weeded them out was they insisted that before you could really take major biology courses, you had to take at least a year of organic chemistry. And so by the time students got to the end of their sophomore year that 1600 students got whittled down to 200 so they use organic chemistry to get get people out of it.   Dre Baldwin ** 09:29 Oh, well, that would have worked on me. Yeah. Well, yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 09:33 yeah, I had no interest in doing that either. So, you know, I dodged a bullet, but, but it was fun. So you went to college, you got a degree in in business and so on. And then what did you   Dre Baldwin ** 09:48 do? Well, then I wanted to play professional basketball. So this is 2004 give everybody a timeline. And initially I didn't have any. Nobody was calling me. Nobody was checking for me, nothing. I tried a few things when. To a couple of tryouts for local, what they call semi professional teams that were based in the United States on smaller towns. Nothing really came of that. So the first work thing I did after college was get a job at Foot Locker as an assistant manager. So I was selling sneakers with the referee shirt and all and everything. So that was my first job out of college. I did that for about six months, and then after that, I went and got a job at ballet Total Fitness was a fitness gym that's now out of business, but not because of me. I made a lot of sales for ballet total fitness, and that's a relief. It   Michael Hingson ** 10:34 wasn't you, what'd you say? I say that's a relief. It wasn't you, yes,   Dre Baldwin ** 10:38 it wasn't me. If it was for me, they'd still be in business that was making a lot of sales, or maybe not, because people didn't like their contracts, but so maybe I contributed to the problem one way or another. So I then, in the summer of 2005 so this is a year removed from graduation, I went to this event called an exposure camp. And then, Michael, you familiar with those? Heard of them?   Michael Hingson ** 10:57 I've heard of it. I don't know anything about it. I can imagine. Okay, I suppose   Dre Baldwin ** 11:00 you can't. Similar to a job fair or a casting call in sports world. So it's where a bunch of people who want a job or want a better job, they go to this place that announces, hey, the people who can give you a job are all going to be here. And they all converge in one place. And as opposed to a job fair, where you just show up and shake hands and hand out your resume at an exposure camp. You bring your sneakers and you actually play whatever the sport is, and you try to impress the decision makers in the audience, who are there to look for people like you. They're there to scout and find talent people like you. So I went to one of these events. It was in Orlando, Florida. At the time. I still live in Philadelphia, so me and a couple college teammates who had similar ambitions to me. We rented a car in Philadelphia and drove to Orlando. It's about a 1517, hour drive, depending on traffic, and we showed up there 9am Saturday morning, hopped out the car, and that's the exact time that the exposure camp began. So I tell people, I could get away with that at age 23 Michael couldn't do it now, but then I could do it. How about the car and just start playing a two day event, and I played pretty well at that event. From there, I got two key things that I needed. One was a scouting report of a scout, a professional level Scout, who just wrote up some positive things about me that basically affirmed, like, Hey, this guy does have the ability to play at the pro level. Another thing I got was footage from those games, because you need in the sports world, you need proof of yourself playing. You can't just say you can play. You got to prove it, and the game film is your proof. So that game film was important to me, because even though I had played in college at college, I was only playing against Division Three level talent. At this exposure camp, I was playing against professional level talent. So this footage mattered a whole lot more. So with that footage, I had to be back in Philadelphia. I was still working in ballet, Total Fitness at the time. I negotiated, I had negotiated with my boss to get the weekend off just to go to this camp. Had to be back at work on Monday morning. So the camp was Saturday and Sunday, and had to be back at work on Monday so we when that camp ended on Sunday afternoon, we hopped right back in the car and drove right back home. So and I didn't sleep that Sunday night or that previous Friday night. And from there, what I started doing was cold calling basketball agents. So the way that agents work in the sports world is pretty similar to the literary or entertainment world, where the agent is basically the go between, between the person who has some ability, or at least they think they do, and the people who like to hire people with ability. And usually agents call you if you show potential, because they believe they can help well, they believe you have the potential to make money. And we know all know what agents do. They're the middleman. So if they help you make money, then they make money. Right? Of course, they want to find people who are going to make money. But no agent had ever been calling me, Michael, because it didn't look like I was going to make any money. But after I went to this exposure camp. Now I had some proof that maybe, maybe I might make some money. So at the same time, no agent knew who I was, so I started calling them. I started calling basketball agents myself, and I was selling myself to them and saying, Hey, I have this scouting report. This is some proof. I have this game footage. Here's some more proof. I called about 60 basketball agents. This is straight up cold calling. And after calling those 60 agents, I was well, through calling those 60, I was able to get in touch with 20 of those 20. I sent the footage to all 20, and one of those 20 was interested in representing me, and he's the one who signed me to become my agent. Now, when you get signed to an agent, doesn't mean you get any money, it just means somebody's working to help you make some money. And then he went and found me my first contract, which was in the late summer of 2005 August, 2005 playing in countless Lithuania. So that's how I started my professional basketball career.   Michael Hingson ** 14:33 So you weren't playing in the US, and it was a long commute to go to Lithuania. So, so how long did you play there? Then? What happened? Well,   Dre Baldwin ** 14:42 each year, for almost 10 years, playing ball, every year I was in a different place. So I never played in the same place more than one season. So I was in that year, I was in Lithuania. I came back to the USA later, later in that in the middle of that season, and I played for a Troy. Traveling team in the USA. It wasn't the team that any of you would know from TV, but play for a traveling team in the USA. Then from there was Mexico from there. After that, you had Montenegro, you had and this is as years are going on. So I don't know when you go through every single one, but I'm just fast forwarding here. Yeah, Mexico is Montenegro. There was Germany, there was Croatia, there was Slovakia. There was a couple other places. I'm not thinking of right off the top of my head, but this was between 2005 and 2015 these are all the different places that I played. Sometimes there were gaps in my schedule. I'm sure we'll talk about that. And there were other things I was doing besides just playing basketball, because the life of a professional athlete, for those who don't know, is a long day of work for us, might be four hours of committed time at work, that's all told. So we have a whole lot of time on our hands. So athletes tend to do other things besides play sports, because we have the time and space to do so,   Michael Hingson ** 15:55 right? And so how did you fill your time? Because you couldn't practice all the time,   Dre Baldwin ** 16:00 right? Yes, physically, there's only so much practice you can do. So I am an internet geek, a closet internet geek. So what I was doing, even back to when I was a child, I was always into computers. So I'm sure you remember given the frame that you gave me here, but I remember the days of the one computer in the whole school, we had a room called the computer we had. It'd be one room with maybe a couple computers. When I was in high school, there was one room with enough computers for everybody. But when I was in second grade, there was one room with one computer, and there was this the green screen, and we would play Oregon Trail and games like that in the computer with a little floppy disk. So that's as far back as I go. So I was always into computers, even back then. And then by the time I graduated college in 2004 now, we were starting to get what I guess people call web 2.0 so this was the Internet where you could kind of create your own stuff, even if you didn't know anything about the back end of the internet, like coding and HTML, etc. So that was about my era when I got out of college, and when I saw that during college, I said to myself, this internet thing, I'm going to do something on the internet. I didn't know what, but I knew I was going to do something. This is before we had we didn't quite have social media yet. We had some software or platforms where you could kind of make profiles and talk to people, but it was nothing like what we have now. So anyway, to answer your question, finally, in 2005 I took the footage from that exposure camp that I went to and at this good footage that I had this. It was not a link that I got this footage on. This is not a download. This was this thing called a VHS tape. Mike, you remember those? Oh, yeah, yeah. So the VHS tape was the format for my footage. It   Michael Hingson ** 17:42 was VHS and VHS, and not beta max, huh? And not   Dre Baldwin ** 17:47 that old, not that old. Remember VHS? Only the VHS the farthest back that I go. So with the VHS tape, I knew that no you can lose this. You can leave it in the sun. You can get it dropping in mortar. You destroy your footage. I needed this footage to last forever, so I took it to an audio visual store, and they transferred it onto a data CD, and that CD I uploaded to, I took the footage off that CD and uploaded to this new website called youtube.com and this website claimed that you could publish as much footage as you want for free. Now, yeah, and I said clean, because 2005 nobody knows is this YouTube thing going to stick around? So I put my footage up there and didn't think anything of it, because, I mean, who cares about putting videos on YouTube in 2005 and maybe six months later, I went just to check on the website make sure it still existed, and there were people who were leaving comments on my video. I didn't know. These people. Didn't know who they were or why they were looking for me. Turns out, they were not looking for me. They were just looking for a basketball period, and I happened to be providing it through my footage. And they were asking questions like, Where do you play? What schools you go to, how often do you practice? They just want to know more about this random person who is showing them this guy looks like he can play basketball. So who is he, and they were hoping maybe that I might give them more of what they were seeing on that footage. And that's it wasn't immediate, Michael, but over the next maybe year or two, the light bulb went off in my head that, hey, these players are just looking for help with basketball, right? And I can provide it, because I do actually practice every day. I can actually play. I'm at the pro level now, and at this point, by about 2007 I had this cheap little digital camera, $100 digital camera, because it's before we had cameras on our phones. So now I could just bring this camera with me to the gym every day, because I go every day anyway. Only difference is now I'm going to film myself working out, and I can take little pieces from what I do, and I can put it on his YouTube site, and if it can help some kids out and maybe stroke my ego a little bit, because they're happy to show them how to play basketball, and why not? So that that was the seed of what led to me building my name on the internet well,   Michael Hingson ** 19:53 and that makes sense for me when I started at UC Irvine back in 19. 68 that was the first time I really encountered any kind of a computer. And what we had were, well, we had in a building, mainframes and terminals around the campus, but we certainly didn't have individual machines. A little bit later on, I started to encounter, for a variety of reasons, more mini and micro computers, like the digital equipment, PDP, 8e, and Data General, no, but to later on, but mostly it was all terminals connected to a big computer. Actually, there were two big computers and and that was, that was what we did. Now for me, of course, it was more of a challenge because all of it was very visual, right? And back then, we didn't have software to make computers talk or anything like that. So there were other adaptions that adaptations that I had to do, but I know exactly what you're talking about. And then I appreciate all the the the challenges and things that you ran into. But obviously it worked for you. And by putting that stuff up on YouTube, I knew you were going to what you were going to say, and how that actually started to open the door. You're right, yeah, which is cool. Well, you So you started helping people by putting up shots and so on. So what happened from that? I assume that more and more people wanted to know more and more about you and what you did and and started asking more questions   Dre Baldwin ** 21:28 between 2005 when I first put the first footage up in 2009 I was putting video out sporadically. So every now and then Michael, I put a new video up on YouTube. I would record my workouts, but I didn't always put something up. So one thing about basketball, as in almost any profession, is that you're doing a lot of the same stuff over and over again. So it's not like I keep putting up the same video me doing the same drills. So I was just put stuff out randomly whenever I got around to it. On top of the fact this is compounded by the fact that there was nothing personal to gain from having people on YouTube watching your video again, you can get a little bit of an ego boost. But other than that, there was nothing tangible to get out of it, so I didn't really care. And mind you, at the same time, I'm playing basketball, my main thing is actually playing basketball, not YouTube. So in 2009 what happened is, Michael, I found myself unemployed, so I was in between jobs, waiting for the phone to ring, and the phone was not yet ringing. I wasn't sure if or when it was going to ring. Good news is going back in the story a little bit. And I got introduced to what I found out to be network marketing when I was in college, and I just wanted to a bulletin board posting about making some money, extra money in the summertime. Turns out some guy was doing network marketing, and I had gone to a few of the meetings. Didn't stay in the in the industry or build a business, but I go into a few of the meetings where a couple breakthrough things happened in my mind. Number one is that the speaker on the stage was talking about business in ways that my college experience had not taught, never even touched on. So that was one that was eye opening. Number two is that the speaker said, if you're going to build your business, you must also build yourself at the same time, because your business cannot business cannot grow any more than you grow. And that made perfect sense to me, and that introduced and then he went on to introduce the concept of personal development, or reinforce it to the people who had heard the message before. That was a phrase I'd never heard of before. I'd always been into reading and human psychology, but I didn't know there was a term called personal development. And number three, he mentioned a couple of the books that he was suggesting that everyone read, and he name dropped some some authors like Napoleon Hill and Zig Ziglar and Brian Tracy and Jim Rohn and Errol Nightingale. And I'd never heard of these people, but I kept them in mind, even though he sold us outside of this hotel room, there's people selling books with these same authors. Just bought a book. Well, I was a broke college student. I could not afford the book, so I didn't buy the book, so I didn't buy the books, Michael, but I went on eBay when I got back to college, and I bought some pi rated copies of some of these books. And there were two of them that made a big impact on me that led to what happened in the future. One was thinking, Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, rich, right? Which showed me that there's a way that you could intentionally and consciously alter your thought patterns that lead to an alteration in your actions. And the other was Rich Dad, Poor Dad, by Robert Kiyosaki. And when reading that book, I realized, okay, there's another way that you can earn revenue and make money in life, aside from what my school teachers, college professors and parents were demonstrating to me. And this is what really set me on the path toward entrepreneur. Entrepreneurship. These, these, this little story I'm telling you here. And this all happened in the middle of my college years, right? So 2009 I just finished reading. I've always been reading. So I just finished reading another book, which was almost like the the New Age version of Rich Dad, Poor Dad. And it was made for people who knew how to use computers, and it was called The Four Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss. And Tim was talking about similar it was a similar direction as Mr. Kiyosaki. Difference is Tim Ferriss was telling you how to do all of these things through the internet. He was the first person, for example, that ever heard say you can hire someone to work for you who doesn't even you know. Even physically met. They can live in India or the Philippines, where they cost the living is a lot lower than the United States, which means you can pay them less than you need to pay an American, and they can still do the same job as long as it's on the internet. I never heard anyone explain it, and then he explained exactly how to do it. And he talked about, know, how you need to structure, how you talk to them and deconstruct things. And my mind, my mind works in that way. So it was perfect for me. So all that is said to say 2009 Michael, that flashed forward in the story when my when I'm unemployed and trying to figure out what to do, I asked myself a really important question, which was, how do I combine these three things? One is my ability to play basketball. Number two is me being an internet geek, and number three is my desire to earn revenue in a way that I control. And what I just explained, the backstory tells you why all three of these matter, right? So that's how I started to build what we now call a personal brand. At the time, that was a new phrase. So when I what I started doing was, first of all putting videos on YouTube every single day. Because another thing that happened about that? Yeah, so another thing that happened at that time Michael was YouTube got purchased by Google and Google, and people don't remember this, maybe, but YouTube was not monetized up to that point. So YouTube was losing a lot of money. It was very popular, but they were losing money because they were spending all this money on the the space to hold all these these videos, but they weren't making any money. So by monetizing the site, ie that means putting advertisements on the videos. There was a time those of you listening that you could watch YouTube all day with no ads, but they started putting ads on the videos, and this allowed them to make money, and it also allowed them to share in the profits. So people like myself, the more videos we put out, and the more I got viewed, the more money we made. So I started making videos every day. Other thing was, I had always been blogging. I've always been a big reader, always a big writer. So I started writing more often, just about my experiences playing overseas. And also I started writing about my background in basketball, and also about how to play overseas, because there's a a niche market, but a hungry market of basketball players who believe they could play overseas the same way that I've once believed it. The thing is, is, unlike being a doctor or a lawyer, there's no, like, quote, unquote, official documentation on how to do it. So I started writing and explaining that, because I have the ability not only to have done certain things, but also I'm pretty good at explaining them. So I started doing that. That was the writing piece. And as I continue to do this, people started to know my name on the internet. So then I started to become kind of a, what we now call an influencer, specifically for basketball players, because of what I was doing online. So this all happened during that about 2009 to 2000 maybe 11 period, and the two other pieces I'll add to this cap, this long answer to a short question, which is also Tim Ferriss introduced this concept of you can sell your own products on the internet. And he gave a little experiment on how to test out the market viability. I did it. I started selling my own products. My first two products, Michael, were $4.99 each. That was the price. One was for dribbling the basketball. Ones for shooting the basketball, and they started selling immediately, as soon as I put them out. And the reason was because I had a hungry audience who was already following me, and I had already built a relationship with them, not because I was any type of marketing expert, but I kind of was. But by accident, I didn't, I didn't think of it as marketing. I just thought of it as I had something they want. And the last thing is, self publishing became a thing. So I told you I told you I was a big reader, big writer, so now I can write my own books, and I didn't have to go through a publisher to do it, because I always had the idea writing a book, but I didn't know anything about going through the traditional publishing process, which eventually I have done. But at the time, I wasn't thinking about doing that. But now I can write a book, and I can put it out tomorrow if I want to. So that's what I started doing. So all of this happened between 2009 and 2000 1101. More piece. I'm sorry. Lot of things happen in this period. One more piece was that the players who were following me online, basketball players, 99% of my audience, they started finding out about my background, because every now and then I would reply in the comments telling them, oh, well, I only played one year of high school, or I walked on to play in college, or I played overseas because I went to this exposure camp, or I would make a video just talking, just explaining these things, because I got asked the same question so often. And when players found out about this background of mine, they started asking questions about mindset. They started asking me things like, what kept you disciplined? What keeps you disciplined to keep working out because you put these videos out every day, or, where do you get the confidence to show up and perform at an exposure camp when you only have two days basically to make or break your career? Or why'd you keep trying when you were getting cut from your high school team over and over again, because they would say, hey, Dre I got cut from my team, but I feel like quitting. So why'd you keep trying? What is it that kept you going? Or they would ask something about, how do you get started now? How do you get started playing overseas? How do you get started getting known on the internet? Because now, internet? Because now this is when we start to have the seeds, Michael, of this generation of kids who, instead of growing up wanting to be a police officer or a firefighter, now they want to be YouTubers, because this is what they're seeing. And I was, I guess I was that to them. So they just want to know, how do you get started with all these things that you seem to be doing? Troy, so you. Now that's the end of my long answer to your short question. All of these things happen around a three year span, and that's kind of what sent me in the next direction I ended up going.   Michael Hingson ** 30:08 So I'm curious. One thing you said earlier was that one of the things that you discovered by going to the meeting of the network marketing guy was that he was telling you things that were significantly different than what you learned in business courses in college. What kinds of things were different?   Dre Baldwin ** 30:31 Well, so much so number one, the guy, well, the first, first thing is, I'm sure you've been to a network marketing meeting before. I everybody, I think my age or older has been someone so in these meetings, the first thing that they do, I would say, about 70% of the presentation is just helping you understand a different way of thinking about earning money and just money period. And the other 20 to 30% of the presentation is about the actual product or service that you would actually be selling if you were to take advantage of the join the business opportunity, as they call it. So the first thing is, they help people understand that to make more money, most people just go looking for ways to do more work, put in more time, put in more hours, when they explain instead, you should look for ways to have a network, or for ways to have assets that will do work for you, so you're making money, even if you're not doing the work. And then you language it in a way that makes it simple for the everyday person to understand, not the way that I just said it, but they make it really simple to understand. That's the first   Michael Hingson ** 31:32 thing. But the reality is that while people may or may not realize it, anybody who tends to be very successful in business has probably essentially done the same thing, whether they acknowledge it or not. So I mean, I appreciate what you're saying anyway. Go ahead, yeah.   Dre Baldwin ** 31:47 So that's the first thing. Is they help you understand that to make more money is not give more time to your job, whatever, because most people there have a job may introduce the business for the first time like myself, and many of them no older than me. So that's the first thing. The second thing is them helping you understand that, hey, it's possible to have other people working for you, which everyone logically understands, but most of us have this block in our minds that to get people working for me. Well, first of all, I had to have my own company. Secondly, I got to make a lot of money. And third, I got to go find the people. Fourth, I got to teach them what to do. And fifth, I got to watch them. And network marketing kind of handles all those problems at the same time. Because if you join the business and you get other people to join with you, the system teaches them all that stuff. You don't have to spend any money to get them on your team. You don't actually even be having you don't have to be making that much money yourself to get someone else on your team. And every time they make money, you make money, right? So it kind of solves all those problems of getting people on your team to where their efforts put money in your pocket without you having to do all the work. So that was the second breakthrough that happened in that meeting, and the third breakthrough to me, Michael, because I've always been a person who I consider myself a critical thinker, and I try to be as logical and as objective as I can be. As I already told you, I have a business degree from Penn State University, so I'm thinking to myself, why haven't any of my college professors ever mentioned anything is being told to us in this meeting? I just didn't understand it. Why are they not talking about this? Because it sounds like it makes perfect sense. So if it's wrong, maybe they can explain why it's wrong. But if it's right, why are they not talking about it? So these are the three biggest things that stuck in my head after I went to that meeting.   Michael Hingson ** 33:26 How did you or what did you discover? Was the answer to that last one, why they don't talk about it?   Dre Baldwin ** 33:33 We have a whole conversation on that so I understand the answer is that the system that we have in the United States, especially educational system is designed to produce employees. It's designed to produce people. We're going to go work for somebody else and work out your no salvation for someone else. Because if you are, this is just my my opinion here. If you are independently making your own money, then you are less controlled, and you are, it's harder to keep you under the thumb of anything or anyone else, and you can do or say, you have much more freedom. Let's just put it that way, when you have your own business and you're making your own money, as opposed to when you work somewhere and they set the rules upon you. So I believe the educational system not I believe, I know the educational system was initially created the way that it is to train people to be ready to be ready to go work in factories during the Industrial Revolution. Now we're not in that space anymore. Now it's more mental work than it is physical labor. But the system is the framework of the system still exists the exact same way teaching   Michael Hingson ** 34:33 entrepreneurialism, if you will, is still something that is not nearly as common as it as it really probably should be correct. Yeah. So that happens. Well, so how long did you continue to play basketball?   Dre Baldwin ** 34:48 I played basketball to 2015 so by this 2009 to 2011 period. Now I basically had two, if you want to call them jobs, neither one of them was well, basketball is technically a job. If you're a contractor, but I basically had two jobs playing basketball, and I have this internet thing going on that we now call personal brand, or you can call it a business, but I wasn't calling it either of those back then. I was just a guy who was known on YouTube, and I sell products, and I got books, and there was no word for it. So in this time period that last four or five years that I was playing basketball, of course, I'm traveling back and forth and playing, but as I told you, our long days of work are four hours, so I have plenty of time on my hands. So I'm blogging, I'm making videos, I'm updating my website. I'm making more programs, because when those first two four hour and 99 cent programs started selling, I said, Well, I know I got more about basketball than just two things. Let me just make programs for everything that I know. So I just made programs for every single aspect of the game that I understood, and I just kept putting them out. And I just was selling those programs to the point that I was making money online. And I got to the point probably about 2010 that I remember telling a friend that whatever this is that we're going to call this, that I'm doing on the internet is going to be bigger for me than basketball. I can see that very clearly, Michael, it's just for the simple fact that athletes have a very short shelf life. You can only play a professional sport for so long, no matter how good you are, because the body can't keep doing that at that level forever. But what I had created when I started selling products was what we call intellectual property. And you can create intellectual property forever, as long as your brain works and you can either write or you can talk or some way of communicating, you can sell intellectual property your entire life. You cannot sell physical property, at least not through your physical body, forever, not in the sports realm. So I knew my time was going to end in basketball, and my time using my brain to communicate something and sell it, hopefully that would never expire. To this point, I'm it's still true, so that's how I knew what I was going to be doing next. So   Michael Hingson ** 36:46 you played basketball, but eventually, I gather that what you're really saying is you made the decision that you were going to go into to doing the marketing, to strengthening your brand and creating new intellectual property, and you were going to do that full time?   Dre Baldwin ** 37:03 Yes, absolutely. So I was doing it from, again, my 2010 and 2015 I guess you could call it part time, right? And, but again, you had the off season, and I had a lot more time doing that than I had on the basketball court, right? And it was just building the business. Because remember the network marketing experience, reading Robert Kiyosaki, reading Tim Ferriss. I knew I wanted to go into the business world, because after sports, you start to do something. I mean, it's not like you just sit around do nothing for the rest of your life. You're 30 something years old. I was 33 when I stopped playing, so I knew there was something else that I was going to be doing, and I knew I didn't want to go the traditional route. So I knew that from watching my parents, I knew that from listening to my college professors, and I knew that from looking at my college classmates, I said, I'm not like these people. I need a different option. What else am I going to do? So I already knew that route was my route.   Michael Hingson ** 37:51 When did you come up with the the title and the concept work on your game?   Dre Baldwin ** 37:57 That same time period about 2009 so this was early in the days when I first started publishing on YouTube a little bit more consistently. And my audience is steadily growing, of athletes at this point. And athletes were starting to just ask me a lot of questions about, help can you help me with this? Help me with that? And one day, I was in a 24 hour fitness gym here in Miami, as a matter of fact, excuse me, and I just had my camera with me. My little $100 camera still had it, and I was finishing a workout on my own at about four o'clock in the morning, because I was couldn't sleep, so I just went to the gym, and I was stretching after my workout. And I remember recording this video. It's about two minutes long, and it's still on YouTube to this day. And what I said in the video was that a lot of you players, the reason that you all are having trouble getting better or making a team or you play, but nobody wants to give you the ball is because you all are spending way too much time watching me on youtube or playing Xbox than you are actually doing what I'm doing, which is being in the gym and literally working on your game. So I said in a little bit more colorful language than that, but when I put that out there, Michael, people really loved the phrase. They loved the phrase work on your game because they hadn't heard it used so forcefully in such a way. And it took about a year and a half of people repeating it back to me, seeing me in a mall, seeing me on internet, and saying it when I realized, you know what, I could just name. I can put a name on this and call it work on your game. Because the good thing about it is, because I already had this business mindset. Even though a lot of these players only knew me for basketball, I was thinking bigger than just basketball. And the phrase, the great thing about the phrase is that it doesn't limit you to sports. So that's where I first said it,   Michael Hingson ** 39:32 right, which makes perfect sense, you know? And and one of the things that I'm reacting to is when you said earlier that people kept asking you, well, why did you continue? Why did you keep working and trying to get on basketball, even though you didn't get very far in high school and you did some in college, but you never got to be pro, and then you eventually went to the resilience camp and so on. But ultimately, a lot of it comes down to discipline. Uh, and you, you chose to be disciplined about what you did, which I think is really a very important thing. So the question I would ask is, why is discipline such a very important part of success?   Dre Baldwin ** 40:16 I believe it's the biggest differentiator between, if you have people who have potential or resources. Biggest differentiator between who actually makes it and who doesn't is who has discipline. Because if everyone in the room has potential and everyone has access to resources, information, knowledge, talent, etc, the person who's the most disciplined is the one who's going to get the most out of the opportunities that are in front of them. And I believe so few people have discipline that it becomes the opportunity. Because I tell people, Michael, the opportunity is always in the opposites. So you just look around at what most people in any space are doing. If you could just be the opposite of that, that's where the opportunity is. You just have to ask yourself, all right, looking at how everybody else is and what everybody else is doing or thinking or saying, if I looked at the opposite of that, where's the opportunity? Because the opportunity somewhere over there. So if you just wrote, you'll find it so discipline, easy differentiator, because most people are not disciplined,   Michael Hingson ** 41:10 no and and even the people who are, they're generally looking for that difference that they can take advantage of, which makes perfect sense. How about discipline and how it actually helps in building confidence?   Dre Baldwin ** 41:28 Great question. Well, discipline produces confidence, and most people don't go looking for discipline, even though everyone understands that they need it. If you ask, if you stop the 100 people on the street and say, Do you need more discipline, everybody will laugh and say yes. And they can point to several areas in life in which they need it, but most people don't have it, even though everyone claims that they need it, because this is one of those things. But if you ask 100 people, would you like to be more confident, and in what area, most people would also say yes. The challenge is, most people don't know how to go about getting confidence. They don't know how to get this one either. But confidence, since you want it, confidence comes from discipline. So the more disciplined you are, the more confident you'll become, because discipline is basically about doing the work consistently, and confidence is your belief and your ability to do a thing. So the more you do your homework, so to speak, the more prepared you are for the test. If people can follow that metaphor, and that's what confidence is really about. And a lot of people tend to think confidence comes from faking it until you make it, or pretending that you're something that you're not. The problem with that is eventually you had to stop faking and then you have to go back to being who you were before. So you don't want to be on this roller coaster of up and down. Instead, you want to become it. And the way you become anything is by embodying it, by doing the things that that person that's you, the future version of you would already do. All you have to do is figure out what's the process, what are the disciplines of that type of person that already exists? You can model after that, follow the structure that's already been put in place by someone who's already done it, or already has become it. You follow it, and you can get the same result. So that's where confidence actually comes from, and it's based on following the disciplines, and you follow disciplines when you simply have a structure to plug yourself into.   Michael Hingson ** 43:06 I am also a firm believer in the fact that if you try to fake it, people are going to see through it. People are generally smarter than people who fake it. Give them credit for being and the fact of the matter is, you can fake it all you want, but they're going to see through it. And the reality is, if you're authentic, no matter what you do, you're going to go a whole heck of a lot further Anyway, yes. So the other thing is that, when you're dealing with discipline and so on, another sort of phrase that comes to mind is the whole idea of mental toughness and and you've gotta be able to become tough enough to be able to cope with whatever you know you're going to be able to do, and you've gotta have the conviction to make it happen. That means you gotta be pretty tough internally,   Dre Baldwin ** 43:54 yes, and that's another differentiating factor. All of these are differentiators, but mental toughness is about understanding that no matter how prepared you are, no matter how disciplined, how confident at some point along the way, many points along the way, things are not going to go the way that you expecting them to go. Something's going to go left, that you expect them to go right, a person's going to let you down. Just something randomly pops up that throws a wrench in your plans. And what people should understand is that everyone has these kind of things happen to them. Everyone has stuff happen in their lives. There's no one who is immune to this. The difference between the people who get to tell their story and everyone else, because everyone has a story, but not everyone has the luxury of getting their story heard, is that the people who get to tell their story are those who persevered through the stuff and came out on the other side to where they can tell their story. They created some success despite the stuff that they went through, and now, because you created the success, now you have this credibility, and you're on this sort of pedestal that makes people want to hear what you have to say and hear about your story. But it's not that the people who are in the audience don't have a story. Is simply that until you create a certain level of success, people don't care to hear your story. They only want to hear the story when you become a success. But you can't just be a success with no story. Instead of person who hasn't gone through stuff but they became quote unquote successful, nobody wants to hear that either. So you have to go through the process of going through the stuff, going through the challenges, the times where it looks like you're going to lose and you figure out a way to make it work. Then, once you're a success, now you get to tell your story. So that's what mental toughness is about.   Michael Hingson ** 45:27 I wrote a book, and started it around the time the pandemic started began, and the idea behind the book was to teach people to learn that they can control fear and that fear doesn't need to overwhelm them and blind them and make them incapable of making decisions. And if they truly learn about fear and how to use it, they can use it in a very positive way to further them. And of course, that's for me. The example is what I learned in order that, as it turns out, I survived being in the World Trade Center on September 11 and escaping with a guide dog. And it's and it's all about really learning those skills, learning to be tough, learning to persevere, and at the same time, being, I think, resilient, and being able to go sometimes with the flow. You talked about the fact that, in reality, many times things will happen that you don't expect, and it can can take you down. But the other part about it is, if you analyze the things that are happening to you, especially when there's something that you don't expect happening, and it occurs, what are you going to do about it? What do you learn from that? And that's, I think the thing that most people never really discover is that they can go back and from all the challenges they face. They're not failures, and they can learn from that, and they just don't do that.   Dre Baldwin ** 46:50 I agree with that completely. Is that, well, one reasons people don't tend to not look back often enough at the things that they've gone through, and also people are just not very people tend to not want to be too much of a critical thinker about themselves. Now, people will be critics of themselves or criticize themselves, but being a critical thinker doesn't necessarily mean beating yourself down. It just means looking at the situation and asking yourself, uh, given the same circumstances, if i What did I overlook at the beginning? What did I not notice that I sort of noticed, and of course, looking at what we know now after going through the situation, maybe what what I have done differently. But a lot of people don't take the time to really think critically about their own lives and their own situations. Therefore, they miss the opportunities in kind of debriefing, so to speak, as you describe it. And   Michael Hingson ** 47:35 the other part about that is they don't develop, if you will, the mind muscle to be able to analyze and be introspective and learn from the challenges that happened, or even when they do something well, could I do it better? We don't. We don't tend to do that. And I think that so many people become so critical of themselves, it's a very negative thing. And I used to say it, I'm my own worst critic, because I like to listen to speeches that I give and learn from them. But over the past year, year and a half, what I really discovered is wrong thing to say. It's not I'm my own worst critic. I'm my own best teacher, which is absolutely true. I am the only one that can really teach me. And my own best teacher puts everything in a much more positive light. That's right, and which is cool. And you know, you, you, you certainly demonstrated a lot of personal initiative. You You stuck to it. You were mentally tough, and so on. And you build a business, and now that business, I gather, is pretty successful. You've written, what, 35 books, you've created lots of videos, and you continue to do things. What do you think the most important thing is that people get from you today and that they've gotten from you?   Dre Baldwin ** 48:51 Great question. Well, I'll tell you the answer that I've gotten from people who work with us because I asked that question, I asked them, or I framed it by saying, I know, and you know, Mister client, that I'm not the only person in the world who does what I do, not the only person offering what I offer or talking about what I talk about. So what is it about my material? If you see an I sent an email, you see I just put out a video, or you're getting in a conversation with me, what is it about my approach that makes it different from anyone else who might be offering something similar in the marketplace, and the common answer that I get every time is, it's your style of delivery. So it's Dre you're no nonsense. You're no fluff. You get straight to the point. You're honest, you're objective, you keep it real. You do a good job of explaining different angles of things, while at the same time letting people know your opinion. So I just people tell me they just appreciate my style of communication. But nobody ever says, Dre you're the best in the world when it comes to talking about discipline or confidence or writing books or entrepreneurship or nobody ever says that even though I may be the best in the world, nobody says I'm the best in the world. They all say, we like the way that you get your point across. That's what they appreciate the most.   Michael Hingson ** 50:01 Well, and I, I would buy into that anyway, because I think that authenticity and telling the truth in a way that that people can accept it is so important and and so often we don't see that. So I can appreciate them saying that to you.   Dre Baldwin ** 50:18 Well, thank you.   Michael Hingson ** 50:20 Me why? Yeah, go ahead. No,   Dre Baldwin ** 50:22 I agree.   Michael Hingson ** 50:24 Well, there you go. We'll see, see. Okay, we both bought into that one. Why is discipline more important than motivation? I mean, everybody talks about motivation. There are a lot of motivational speakers out there. I know that a lot of times I'm providing motivational or inspirational talks, but and I suspect that the answer you're going to give will explain the but, but, why is it that motivation isn't nearly as as crucial as discipline? Well,   Dre Baldwin ** 50:51 just like you, Michael, I will give out motivational messages as well, so to speak. And if someone is booking me to speak and they say, need a motivational speaker, I'll take it right? They want me on the stage, so I'm good with that. The thing is, motivation and discipline are not diametrically opposed, and sometimes when we talk about these things, people tend to get the idea that they are like enemies. They're not enemies. They work together. The thing is, motivation comes and goes. We don't know when motivation is going to show up. Sometimes we're motivated, sometimes we're not, discipline always shows up. So even in the times when we are not motivated, if you're disciplined, you're still going to go to the gym, you're still going to write the next 500 words in your book, you're still going to record your show, you're still going to do the paperwork you're supposed to do. You'll still check your email inbox, whatever it is that you're supposed to do for the discipline. So motivation, if and when I have it, great, but if I don't have it, no one would know the days that I'm not motivated, because I'm still going to do the same work. So motivation is a good thing because, again, it'll get people fired up. It'll get you moving. It can light a fire under someone and get them to do something that they otherwise would not have done. The problem is motivation is much more temporary than the long term effects of discipline. So when people are going around looking for motivation, especially at the professional level, you're setting yourself up for a problem. Because at the professional level, you're getting paid to do something as your main occupation, which means you have to deliver consistently. The problem is motivation is not always there. So what will you do when you're not motivated? This is where discipline picks up. So what I advise people, and I give them a whole structure for this, is you need to take their short term motivations and convert them into long term disciplines, because that's the one that you can   Michael Hingson ** 52:31 count on. I would also submit that those long term disciplines will greatly enhance the amount of time you're motivated as well. Good point, because the the reality is that the discipline

The GAA's decision to end the practice of allowing U16s to attend games for free has created a lot of debate in recent days. They will charge U16s €5 per game for next season's Allianz League Division One and Two games in both codes - 1A and 1B in hurling. This will be an extension of the financial arrangement that exists for Championship games, with higher prices set for the latter stages of the All-Ireland series. The GAA said it reserves the right to increase these prices for games that may reach capacity. U16 tickets can only be purchased with an adult ticket, while juveniles can still avail of free admission to Division Three and Four football and Division Two and Three hurling games. For more on this, Alan Morrissey was joined by Clare FM's Football Analyst, Rory Hickeyand Clare FM's GAA Commentator, Syl O'Connor.

13 Pro Am Community RL Show, Episode 36 SynopsisWath Brow Hornets Reign Supreme:Dave Parkinson and Ste Beech kick off the show by celebrating Wath Brow Hornets' victory over Maryport in the Holmen Iggesund Cumberland League. They discuss the significance of this win and its impact on the league standings.North West Mens League Recap:The duo delve into the results from the North West Mens League, highlighting key matchups and performances. They provide insights into the competitive nature of the league and discuss potential title contenders.Yorkshire Men's League Cup Final Disappointment:Despite Doncaster Toll Bar's defeat in the Yorkshire Men's League Cup final against Mirfield, Ste and Dave analyze the match and offer their thoughts on the team's performance. This marks the third final loss for Doncaster Toll Bar this season.National Conference League Update:The show covers the latest developments in the National Conference League, including:Siddal's successful playoff semi-final.Hunslet's victory over Rochdale Mayfield.Dewsbury Moor's behind-closed-doors match against Ince Rose Bridge.Division Two and Three Finals:Oldham St Annes' triumph in the Division Two Finals is discussed.Drighlington's promotion from Division Three is celebrated, highlighting their impressive season.Overall, Episode 36 of the 13 Pro Am Community RL Show provides a comprehensive overview of the latest rugby league action, focusing on key matches, results, and league standings.

As a part of an unprecedented transition from Division Three to Division One, the University of St. Thomas continues to push the boundary of what a sports program to do. Tommie Football and Head Coach Glen Caruso lead the way going from a dominant Division Three program in the MIAC to a championship contender having already found success in winning the Pioneer Football League. Coach Caruso joins Dave and Pete to recap their Week 1 game against the University of Sioux Falls and previewing a contest against Northern Iowa on Saturday. From The Sports Huddle from September 1st on News/Talk 830 WCCO. 

Ian Bryson is a former PNE captain who entertained North End fans in the 90s, leading the club to Division Three glory along the way. From being a dairy farmer full-time to scoring perhaps the best ever goal at the old Wembley, Bryson tells ex-PNE striker Neil Mellor and Broadcaster Niall McCaughan about playing in the Premier League, heartbreak and ecstasy in a Preston shirt, and why playing at Deepdale helped him fall in love with North End. Follow our socials here: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialPNEFC Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pnefcofficial X: https://twitter.com/pnefc TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@pnefc YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@pnefcofficial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

E-Gaming Series | EA College Football 2025 | Call of Duty Franchise | The Division Series FranchiseWelcome to the Sports Chasers Podcast. Join us for high-level discussions of well-researched opinions, facts, and statistics about the beautiful world of sports. Join us live every Thursday at 7:30 p.m. EST!

“He does it…Marino Keith!”From Peterhead to Plymouth, Marino Keith was a hero in Green and part of the crop of Argyle players who won two championships.Growing up in Aberdeenshire he made his professional bow later than most. After a strong performance in the Highland Leagues for Fraserburgh, he got his dream move to boyhood club Dundee United.After spells at Falkirk and Livingston, Marino ventured about as south as south goes and joined Argyle in the November of 2001.In his first season he helped Argyle clinch promotion from Division Three, scoring in the clincher at Rochdale.He was never prolific but was a scorer of important goals at important times. None more so than on a Tuesday night in December 2003, poking home the winner against Swindon Town – cue incredible scenes in the away end.Unfortunately, injury cut his career short but Marino, who had spent hours on the team coach studying computing, now is the managing director of Xeretec.This is the story of Marino Keith.

Reactions from players and management after Clare captured the National LGFA LIDL National Football League Division Three title with a 1-6 to 1-4 win over Roscommon in St Brendan's Park Birr

On this podcast: Clare FM's Derek Dormer speaks with Clare manager Wayne Freeman, captain Caoimhe Harvey, and players Amy Sexton & Siofra ní Chonaill ahead of their showdown with Roscommon.

The manager of the Clare ladies footballers insists his side will not be short of motivation in this weekend's National League Final. Clare will face Roscommon in the Division Three decider on Saturday where they will be hoping to avenge a defeat by the minimum in last year's final against Kildare. The sides have already met in this season's group stages, with the contest finishing in stalemate at Cusack Park on a scoreline of 1-7 apiece. Clare boss Wayne Freeman says securing league silverware will be a vital springboard for championship. Throw in at St.Brendans Park Birr is on Saturday at 4pm with live commentary on Clare FM in association with Fanny O'Deas Bar and Restaurant Lissycasey,

Clare LGFA Captain Caoimhe Harvey On Division Three League Final

Join Dave Parkinson and Steve Beech for a jam-packed episode of the 13 Pro-Am Community RL Show as we recap the opening weekend of the National Conference League (NCL) season!Our hosts look forward to the start of the North West Men's League season, talking about the league structure and the opening fixtures.Crosfields Take the NCL Spotlight: We kick things off with a detailed breakdown of Crosfields' victory over Skirlaugh in Division One. Hear directly from Crosfields' scrum-half Brad Stanway, who masterminded the win with his kicking and a crucial try. We'll also get player perspectives from Elliot Liku and coach Rob Campbell.More Match Reports: We don't just focus on Crosfields! Get reports from across the NCL with results and highlights from the Premier Division, Division One, Division Two, and Division Three. We'll cover close contests like Dewsbury Moor's last-minute win over Waterhead Warriors and Wigan St Pats' dramatic victory against Leigh Miners Rangers.Special Guests: The show features exclusive interviews with:Dave Crow from Heysham AtomsPete Warriner from Bentley (looking ahead to their clubhouse opening next week)Danny Rowse discussing Hunslet ARLFC's win over SiddalJoel Gibson reflecting on Thornhill Trojans' impressive win at Pilkington RecsThree-try hero Kieran Prescott talking about Leigh East's dominant performance against Featherstone LionsLooking Ahead: We finish the show with a look toward next weekend's fixtures, including the official opening of Bentley's new clubhouse and key matchups like the Kells vs Egremont Rangers derby and Thatto Heath Crusaders vs Wath Brow Hornets clash.Don't miss this exciting episode of the 13 Pro-Am Community RL Show!

In 2002, none other than Michael Jackson came to Exeter City's stadium to deliver a speech to the 7,000 fans in attendance.  What followed was a rambling speech about curing AIDS, stopping poverty, and for good measure, ending racism. What made this even stranger was that Exeter City were at the bottom of Division Three at the time. Within weeks of his visit, Jackson would be appointed to their board. If you'd like more Sports Bizarre, become a member of Bizarre Plus. Click here to join today As a member, you'll get: A weekly bonus podcast Access to all past episodes Exclusive behind-the-scenes access A fortnightly newsletter Access to the members-only chatroom Ability to vote on future episodes Early access to any live show tickets Follow Sports Bizarre on: Instagram Facebook Twitter TikTok YouTubeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

WE have two special guests on this week's podcast – Bantry Blues manager Ivan Kingston joins to reflect on his team's first U21A championship win in 12 years, and St Oliver Plunkett's manager Margaret Keohane joins to look forward to a Munster junior B final which takes place this weekend.Kingston chats to Seán Holland about his great group of players, the support from around Bantry and what it means for a club to win a championship after a long wait.Keohane is on the other side of a big final, waiting for throw-in, and joins Seán Holland to look forward to a huge game against Tipperary's Shannon Rovers in Limerick at 2pm on Sunday.We also look back on another defeat for Cork, this time at home to Cavan, and ask what needs to be done now to avoid relegation into Division Three.All this and more on this week's Star Sport Podcast.Follow our hosts on Twitter: @dyldonot, @seanholland_15 & @KieranMcC_SSProduced by Dylan Mangan.***The Star Sport Podcast is brought to you in association with Access Credit Union.Access Credit Union - Where your bank really does matter. Choose the Credit Union, Choose Local, Choose Community.For more visit www.accesscu.ie. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Coming up on the show, we look ahead to Clare's National Hurling League showdown with Waterford as Brian Lohan takes his side to the newly revamped Walsh Park to face Davy's Deise. It's another big weekend on the local soccer front with the Ennis Carpets Clare Cup getting underway while Avenue United will be hoping to make more inroads in the Munster Junior Cup as they go to Dunmanway in West Cork to face Togher in the last eight of the provincial competition. Clare's ladies footballers are hoping to take a huge step toward promotion from Division Three of the National League when they host Roscommon in Cusack Park on Sunday afternoon, while the minors begin their provincial series with a home tie in Miltown against Cork 24 hours earlier. Alan Troy brings us this weeks Greyhound Focus and plenty more besides.

The long-haired left-back from Liverpool.Or at least that was where he was born. Jon Beswetherick lived out many kids dream and pulled on the shirt of the club he grew up supporting – the green short of Argyle.Converted from a 43 goal a season striker in local junior football, to a marauding left-back, Bezzie established himself as a regular at Home Park during the late 1990s.He was part of the Division Three championship winning season in 2001/02 and was somewhat of a cult figure at the club for his long hair, mazy runs and wicked left foot.He swapped Devon for Yorkshire in the summer after promotion was achieved but didn't have the same success at Sheffield Wednesday and eventually lost his love for the game.This is the story of Jon Beswetherick.

Coming up on the show: We look ahead to Clare's 2024 National Football League as the Banner begin life in Division Three with a new look management and a new look squad. We hear from the Clare camogie and ladies football camps, we look ahead to the action this weekend in the local soccer leagues, and Alan Troy will be along with Greyhound Focus.

We're back! The Stride Report's new interview show called, "Lane Nine" has returned with another high-profile guest. This week, Brett Haffner chats with one of the greatest D3 distance runners of all-time, Alex Phillip! The guys chat about John Carroll's rise during cross country, Phillip's pursuit of D3 records, the insane competition level within D3 and his future move to North Carolina as a graduate transfer. Phillip's high school recruiting journey (0:32) The rise of John Carroll XC (1:53) Thoughts on final moments of 2021 D3 NCAA XC Championships (6:44) Initial expectations for 2022 D3 NCAA XC Championships (10:32) The evolution and growing talent within Division Three (13:45) Chasing D3 distance records (17:31) Championship racing tactics & analyzing contenders for NCAA gold (19:01) Phillip's decision to join the North Carolina men as a graduate transfer in the fall (23:24)

Ryan Wilson is our next guest in our Lane Nine interview series! The now-former MIT runner is arguably the greatest Division Three middle distance runner of all-time. He details his delayed start to collegiate competition, what his rise to stardom has been like and his motivation of choosing Duke as a graduate transfer. Choosing MIT out of high school (0:32) Initial draw to running (4:25) Health challenges during freshman year (6:15) Staying motivated during pandemic (10:02) Welcome to the NCAA moment (11:17) Attributing success at MIT to coaching (12:39) Workouts leading up to NCAA D3 records (14:11) Running the D3 mile record at Boston U. (16:47) Winning his first national title (19:31) Running the 800 meters vs the mile (24:16) Decision to go to Duke as a graduate transfer (25:33) Main takeaways from being at Duke (28:00) Goals while at Duke (29:45)

This week, Callum and Lewis are again joined by rugby nause, Richard Hopkins.The boys are back to talk all things North Wales Rugby.They review Division One to Division Three, RGC, University and College rugby and the Women's game.They also touch on the wider world of rugby and what their plans for rugby in Wales may look like.

Are you tired of letting your fears hold you back from starting your own podcast? Do you want to overcome those fears and finally launch your show? In this episode, our guest Jonathan Jones will reveal the solution to help you conquer your fears and achieve your podcasting goals. Get ready to unlock your potential and make your podcasting dreams a reality.Jonathan Jones is a highly accomplished individual with a diverse background. He has played basketball at the Division Three junior college level and has also served as a team manager. Jonathan's experience in the world of athletics has given him a deep understanding of the challenges faced by athletes when transitioning out of sports. He firmly believes that many athletes fail to realize their full potential and often overlook their other interests and passions outside of their sport. Jonathan emphasizes the importance of building strong networks and authentic relationships during an athlete's career, as these connections can play a crucial role in their future success. He advocates for athletes to consider starting their own podcasts as a platform to share their stories and insights, positioning themselves as thought leaders. With his passion for helping athletes succeed and his commitment to making a positive impact, Jonathan is dedicated to empowering athletes and student-athletes to thrive both on and off the field.The resources mentioned in this episode are:Unleash your potential: Transitioning out of sports challenges.Forge meaningful connections: Building authentic relationships in sports.Amplify your voice: Harness the power of podcasting for athletes.Conquer your fears: Overcoming the hurdles of starting a podcast.Boost your skills: Jonathan Jones' podcasting boot camp.Connect with Jonathan:websiteYoutubeHis podcastInstagramLet's connect:Book a 15-minute complimentary Coaching Call with me today!LinkedIn IG Facebook www.alexmoldencoaching.comBuy dope Merch here!

Matt Hollod is the associate head coach at Northwest Nazarene University in Idaho. With over 20 years of coaching experience at various levels, including Division One, Division Two, Division Three, and junior college, Matt brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to the podcast.Summary:In this episode, Patrick Jones interviews Matt Hollod, associate head coach at Northwest Nazarene University. They discuss the recruiting process, the transfer portal, and the differences between different levels of college baseball. Matt emphasizes the importance of considering factors beyond getting drafted when choosing a college program. He also shares his insights on developing pitchers and the value of command.Key Takeaways:Only a small percentage of Division One players get drafted, so it's important to consider other factors when choosing a college program.Division Two and junior college players are increasingly being recruited by Division One programs.It's important to be realistic about your abilities and consider all levels of college baseball, not just Division One.Command is a crucial skill for pitchers, and it can be developed through consistent practice and repetition.Confidence is key to developing command, and getting on the mound more frequently can help build that confidence.Quotes:"We all want to play at the highest level, but there are many other variables that are more important than getting drafted." - Matt Hollod"Confidence equals command. The more you believe in yourself, the better you'll be able to execute pitches." - Matt HollodTimestamps for Matt Hollod [3:20] Only 4.7% of D1 Players get Drafted [8:18] What Separates the Levels [12:38] Delusion and Dominance [19:14] Having Fun while Playing[22:06] Rules in the Transfer Portal[26:13] The Things that a coach value and implement among pitchers [39:33] Percentage In-between outings on the mound in the game[44:54] Taking Pride in Keeping the Guys Healthy Follow Matt on Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the 13 Pro Am Show, your weekly round-up of all the latest news from the world of community rugby league. This week, we're joined by Dave Parkinson and Ste Beech. We'll hear from Wigan St. Judes Reece Matthews and boss Dave Myerscough, as well as Woolston Rovers counterpart Mal Holt. Neil Cherryholme also speaks about a brilliant season from Oldham St Annes that has seen them pip Ellenborough Rangers to the Division Three title. So tune in this week for all the latest news and views from the world of community rugby league

Today, I am joined by Robert Harris, a local Talent Acquisition Specialist at Euclid Systems Corporation.    Robert shares his wealth of experience and insights into the world of career development and finding purpose in one's work.  Listen in as he shares his education and career journey and how his love for basketball has played into his leadership roles in college and his career. He discusses how to stand out in the job market, nurture your passions, and keep dreaming big while building a game plan for success.  Plus, he shares his most important advice for anyone graduating college and Leaving the Nest on the power of pursuing what you love to find fulfillment in your professional life and unlock your true potential to achieve greatness in any field. Thanks again for listening to "Leaving The Nest." I hope you enjoy my conversation with Robert! Please leave us a review wherever you are listening and share this episode with others you know who are just Leaving the Nest.  In This Episode [00:32] - Kathleen introduces us to her guest, Robert Harris, a local Talent Acquisition Specialist, and the episode will focus on the importance of doing what you love and being passionate about work. [01:42] - Robert introduces himself and shares his background, including his basketball prowess.   [02:08] - The call Robert received that took him back to Shenandoah University, the role he played there, and how he got his start in recruiting.  [03:58] - The significant role basketball played in Rober's career path. [04:30] - Robert's big advice to anybody headed to college. [05:55] - Robert emphasizes the importance of doing what you love and finding excitement in your daily life. [06:10] - The need for personalized guidance and conversations about a student's interests and passions. [06:49] - Robert encourages pursuing unique talents and incorporating them into academic pursuits, sharing his experience as a basketball coach. [07:26] - Robert highlights his involvement in sports marketing and promotions, implementing Division One-level strategies at the Division Three level. [08:41] - Robert discusses his roles as an Athletic Director, Director of Basketball Operations, and Job Coach and how those roles serve his passion for coaching and developing people. [10:04] - Robert discusses his career transitions and his desire to expand his horizons by always being open to the next challenge.  [12:01] - The question of balancing academics, athletics, and counseling and the importance of doing what you love and finding joy in the activities. [13:51] - Robert describes how understanding goals and problem-solving were simplified by his mathematical background, which he carried into his career. [14:40] - Overcoming the daunting aspects of balancing academics and parental expectations, how Robert persevered and achieved his goals. [14:55] - Kathleen acknowledges the pattern in Robert's career— each job had its own niche but shared similarities.  [16:39] - Robert highlights the need to understand and adapt to each individual's diverse characteristics and skill sets to motivate and guide them effectively, drawing parallels to coaching basketball. [17:17] - Where true leaders find success.  [17:57] - Why working with people is the best (and worst). [18:56] - How you can be a part of doing something you love, even if you lack the necessary skills. [20:04] - Every job has something you don't like, but knowing your why helps.  [21:54] - Robert discusses his son's passion for basketball and explores alternative career paths within the sports industry that would allow him to stay involved in what he loves. [22:54] - Success is achieved by planning and taking steps towards your goals. [23:43] - Robert admits he's not a big risk taker; having a game plan is crucial. [24:06] - Robert shares the importance of dreaming with people who believe in you in moving forward with determination towards your dreams.  [24:29] - Robert stresses the significance of putting your plans down on paper for purpose and direction. [24:49] - Kathleen shares the importance of having the right kind of energy around you.  [25:49] - Robert uses LeBron James as an example to explore the meaning of "working hard" and emphasizes the importance of dedication and mastering tasks. [28:20] - More than merely graduating from education is needed; one must strive to improve and enhance their skills. [28:58 - How to make your learning curve to success shorter.  [29:52] - Robert shares the advice he would offer if he were standing in front of the students graduating from Shenandoah who are about to leave the nest and start their careers.  [31:06] - Robert loves to help people and support their dreams; if you would like to get in touch with Robert, you can find him on LinkedIn. [31:49] - Thanks again for listening to Leaving the Nest. To find your next job, visit us at ROCS Grad Staffing. If you are a business in need of help staffing entry-level positions in your office, please reach out to Kathleen directly at Kathleen@rocsjobs.com. If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions, feel free to give Kathleen a call at 703-579-6677. Resources: ROCS Grad Staffing Listen to Leaving The Nest Podcast  Connect with Kathleen: kathleen@rocsjobs.com LinkedIn  Call: 703-579-6677 Connect with Robert: LinkedIn  Euclid Systems Corporation   

Surprise! We've got another podcast now on tap. This time, it was TSR writer Kevin Fischer from our Division Three team joining Garrett to give his thoughts on all of the action from the D3 NCAA Outdoor Championships... Women's 800 Meters (1:20) Men's 800 Meters (5:43) Women's 1500 Meters (10:41) Men's 1500 Meters (14:30) Women's 5000 Meters (18:04) Men's 5000 Meters (21:08) Women's 10,000 Meters (26:32) Men's 10,000 Meters (30:12) Women's 3k Steeplechase (33:12) Men's 3k Steeplechase (36:58)

Justice Kathleen E. O'Leary is the first female Presiding Justice of the California Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District, Division Three. Prior to her appointment to the Court of Appeal, she also served as presiding judge of the Orange County Superior Court. Justice O'Leary discusses her path to the bench, her career as a public defender prior to joining the bench, and offers encouragement to newer lawyers to pursue opportunities and take risks in their careers.

Saturday the 11th of May 1985 was supposed to be a day of celebration for the fans of Bradford City AFC. They'd just clinched the Division Three title and the last game of the season against Lincoln City was set to be a lap of honour.But as half time approached, faint wisps of smoke appeared from the Main Stand of Valley Parade. They quickly turned to visible orange flames. The carnival atmosphere quickly took a turn as the flames grew. In just over four minutes, the entire stand was ablaze. It's estimated that temperatures reached 900 degrees celsius.While many fans survived by escaping onto the pitch, 56 didn't. But despite it being one of the deadliest events in football history, the fire at Valley Parade has faded somewhat into obscurity.Investigative journalist, Mobeen Azhar, speaks to those who were at the ground that fateful day, to get a sense of the tragedy. From police officers, to the radio commentator, we hear the shocking details of one of the worst days in football history. 900 Degrees is a What's The Story original podcast series. What's The Story are the leaders in premium true-crime podcasts and audio story-telling.The whole series of 900 Degrees is available to listen to on What's The Story? Crime - your new home for compelling true crime content. On there you'll get all episodes of 900 Degrees ad-free, as well as access to the best true-crime series like Smoking Gun and The Missing, bonus episodes, early access and exclusive series you can't hear anywhere else.If you listen on Apple Podcasts, simply search for 'Crime Corner'. Or if you're on Spotify, or any other platform, just click HERE, and set up What's The Story? Crime on your chosen platform.What's The Story? Crime costs less than a cup of coffee, and helps ensure we can make more series like this one. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ken Cail interviews Ted Diers, Assistant Director of the NH Department of Environmental Services and a New London resident Tayler Mattos. A former Kearsarge Regional High School basketball standout. Tayler, who led the Cougars to their first Division Three title in 2017 and was the Division Three Player of the Year in that same season, also won the Division Two Player of the Year award in 2018. He recently signed a contract to play professional basketball in the Republic of Malta

In the first Three and Out EXTRA, Ben and Mike make their picks of breakout players for the 2022-23 NFL season.

Jan Rosenberg is a former Division three All American for Coe College. Back in high school, Jan was a 2x New Jersey state place winner. Today, Jan is an assistant coach at Coe and a Nurse at the University of Iowa.

Our first interview is with former Fulham full back Robbie Herrera. In discussion with Alan Drewett, Robbie tells us all about his current role as Head of Youth at Torquay United, lifts the lid on his time at Craven Cottage, including the Micky Adams' inspired promotion from Division Three in 1996/97 and the difference between chairmen Jimmy Hill and Mohamed Al-Fayed. We'd like to thank Robbie for sparing the time to talk to us and we hope you enjoy listening to his reflections on his time with the Whites. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

Stamford Chidge and Martin King interview John Bumstead, an unsung hero for Chelsea, and talk about his love for the club; what it was like to experience the lows of relegation and highs of promotion during the 1980's; playing for John Neal and Bobby Campbell and playing with the likes of Nigel Spackman and Kerry Dxion and against David Platt and Paul GascoigneJohn Bumstead or Johnny B as he was affectionately known by the supporters, played for Chelsea from 1978 until 1991, making 409 appearances, the 9th highest appearance maker for Chelsea and scoring 44 goals.There are few Chelsea players who have experienced the rollercoaster of what it was like to play for Chelsea in that 13 year period of the doldrums of Division Two; near relegation to Division Three; promotion to Division One; winning the Full Members Cup; relegation back to Division Two via a play off and then promotion again the next season with a record number of points. Throughout it all he remained loyal to his boyhood club until being transferred to Charlton.Johnny B was the ultimate selfless team player, playing at the heart of Chelsea's midfield, doing the simple things very well and he hardly ever had a bad game for the club.He may have been small in stature but he was a steely competitor and his fearless, courageous challenges meant that injuries were a recurring theme throughout his career. He had an eye for goal and was an accomplished free kick taker with his last goal for Chelsea coming in a 3-2 victory over Spurs on December 1st 1990, the start of an unbeaten run against our North London rivals that was to last for 28 years. But perhaps he should best be remembered for the way he could shackle opposition flair players from the likes of Tony Currie to David Platt and Paul Gascoigne.If you were to sum John Bumstead up, I can think of no better description than understated excellence. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Stamford Chidge and Martin King interview Gary Chivers, who played for Chelsea from 1979 to 1983. Having joined Chelsea as a youth player, Gary Chivers made his debut as an 18 year old against Middlesbrough in April 1979. By a strange quirk of fate Gary's last match for the club was also against Middlesbrough a mere four years later, with the club escaping a drop in to Division Three by the skin of their teeth. In between, Gary enjoyed or more accurately endured some of the leanest, up and down eras of Chelsea Football Club. In an engaging interview, Gary talks about players such as Ron Harris, Ray Wilkins, Mike Fillery, Duncan McKenzie and Johan Cruyff and the managers he played for such as Danny Blanchflower and Geoff Hurst as well as some of the matches he played in. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Justice Lee Smalley Edmon is the Presiding Justice of the Second District, Division Three of the California Courts of Appeal. She previously served as a judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court from 2000 to 2015, and was that court's first female presiding judge from 2011 to 2012. Before joining the bench, she practiced civil litigation at Adams, Duque & Hazeltine and Dewey Ballentine, and served in leadership positions in numerous bar associations and legal nonprofit boards, including as President of the Los Angeles County Bar Association.

Longford football manager Billy O'Loughlin spoke to Ger Gilroy about how Division Three and Four teams have lost all hope in the Leinster SFC and the opportunities created by the Tailteann Cup. He also discussed whether teams in Leinster could consider a boycott of the Leinster Senior Football Championship. #OTBAM with @Gillette UK | #EffortlessFlow

Latics Shorts - Damian & Lynne18 December 198240 YearsSnowSneaking OffStill Going StrongIn this episode of the 'Latics Shorts' we hear from life long supporters, Damian & Lynne who had a dilemma on their Wedding Day, a 3pm kick off at Springfield Park, Latics entertaining Oxford United in a Division Three game, whilst the newly weds were entertaining guests at their wedding reception in Standish, or were they?If you'd like to chat about your own 'Latics Short' please get in touch

When a young man is found shot and beaten in the bedroom of his apartment, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department struggle to identify a motive or suspects. Written and read by Jordan Crittenden Music by Jordan Crittenden, Doug Maxwell, Anno Domini BeatsSources consulted: - Los Angeles Daily News. "Lancaster woman convicted in 1997 slaying of boyfriend." 2007. - People vs Preasmyer: Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Three. Filed April 28, 2010. https://www.leagle.com/decision/incaco20100428026 - Dateline (NBC): Season 19, Episode 12, "Mean Girls." 2017. To support Dark Dark World: http://www.patreon.com/darkdarkworldWeb: http://www.darkdarkworld.com Store: https://www.etsy.com/shop/DDWstore Twitter: @darkworldpod Instagram: @darkdarkworldpodcast Email: darkworldpod@gmail.com Thank you for listening!

Longford's Mickey Quinn joined Ger and Eoin on OTB AM to discuss his county's league campaign, which saw them retain their Division Three status. They also previewed this weekend's Division Three and Four finals in Croke Park, and he gave his thoughts on the Tailteann Cup. Before that the lads discussed the venie debacle over Cork v Kerry in the Munster football championship!

Coming up on the show, we will look ahead to Clare's final round tie in the National Football League as Colm Collins brings his side up to Down, who are already gone down, to Division Three. We will also reflect on Clare's National Hurling league campaign and talk to Clare's All Ireland senior handball champion. There's a preview of this weekend's local soccer action, a round up of the Greyhound results and a look ahead to Scariff's All Ireland hurling semi final too.

Justice Eileen C. Moore of the California Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District, Division Three, joins us today to provide a historical perspective on the challenges women faced in becoming lawyers in the 1970s, and how far both she and other women lawyers have come in their legal careers. She also discusses the long-lasting impact of her service in the Vietnam War, and her commitment to military veterans.

After Paul quit as co-manager at Newmains United there have been more developments at the club this week. Paul gives us the latest as one era ends at Victoria Park and another begins Craig Menzies also joins us to discuss his move to Premier League leaders Pollok at the age of 35 – and Southy's shock exit from St Cadocs which led to his decision to leave too. With just a few games left this season we look down across all the divisions in the West of Scotland League. We hear Paul's team of the season so far, why he thinks the conferences have worked and the big issue about the new Division Three next term. Plus there's Mark Mackay's Best of the West. It's all here as we go Down The Divisions. We'd like to give a quick mention to our sponsors FortyFour Creative. They have a team of highly skilled and passionate photographers, graphic designers, videographers and video editors to help promote your content, brand, organisation or event. They make creation personal. Find out more at www.fortyfourcreativehq.com If you have any comments we'd love to hear from you. Likewise if you're at a club who would like your post-match audio featured on the show then do get in touch. You can email downthedivisions@gmail.com or contact us through Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. Down The Divisions logo design Adam Aitken Intro and outro music Bensound    

Justice G. Helen Whitener is a fascinating person. Her life story, her path to the Washington State Supreme Court, and her extensive experience in law in our state, and lived experience as a Black, immigrant, LGBT and disabled person is worth listening to and learning from. In this re-broadcast, Crystal and Justice Whitener get into why representation matters and the purpose of the law. A full text transcript of the show is available below and at officialhacksandwonks.com.  Find the host, Crystal Fincher, on Twitter at @finchfrii.   References Claiming your identity by understanding your self-worth, TEDxPortofSpain talk by Justice G. Helen Whitener: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57FMau29O_g&list=PL3vudArV4R9e5USALmWYa4v38zP_2nviP    Transcript Crystal Fincher: [00:00:00] Welcome to Hacks and Wonks. I'm your host, Crystal Fincher. On this show, we don't just talk politics and policy, but also how they affect our lives and shape our communities. As we dive into the backstories behind what we read in the news, we bring voices to the table that we don't hear from often enough. Well today on Hacks and Wonks, we are very thrilled to be speaking with Justice Helen Whitener today. And Justice Whitener currently serves on the Washington State Supreme Court. She was appointed this past April by overnor Inslee and is running to finish the term of her predecessor which is a term that will last two remaining years. So prior to this, Justice Whitener served as a judge on the Board of Industrial Insurance Appeals for two years, followed by five years of service on the Pierce County Superior Court, beginning in 2015. Thank you so much for joining us Justice Whitener.  Justice Whitener: [00:01:04] Thank you so much for having me.  Crystal Fincher: [00:01:06] So I just wanted to start out and get an understanding of how - what your role was - what your path was to the State Supreme Court. How did you get there? What is your background?  Justice Whitener: [00:01:20] Well, my background is very varied. I started in law school, working for the Attorney General's office. I worked for the Department of Corrections, it was called back then. And then it became the Criminal Justice Division. From there, I got to Pierce County working for the Attorney General's office in their DSHS division, and I did dependencies and those types of cases out at Remann Hall here in Pierce County. By the time I graduated law school, I had 25 trials under my belt - and that's jury trials, because I also worked as a City of Tacoma prosecutor, Rule 9 prosecutor we call them - when you're in school and you're under the supervision of an attorney.  So by the time I graduated, I had over 25 trials under my belt. I then had a job waiting for me with the City of Tacoma prosecutor's office. But unfortunately there was a hiring freeze that year, so I had to find a job and I found one at the City of Olympia prosecutor's office, but it was a part-time job. So while I was working there - I stayed there for about six months - my supervisor there, who's now a judge in Thurston County, Kalo Wilcox - she had contacted the prosecutor out of Island County prosecutor's office on my behalf. I interviewed with him over the phone, got the job, and literally was driving from Renton, where I resided at the time, to Island County - two and a half hours each way. I decided that was too much, so I moved to Island County and I stayed there for a little over a year working at the prosecutor's office. While there, one of the attorneys I worked against in Pierce County - he was a public defender - contacted me and we were chatting and he said, Where are you? And I said, I'm out in Island County - I'm a prosecutor here. And he said, Are you interested in coming back to Pierce County? But I'd need to do public defense - I'd never done defense work, so I jumped at the opportunity. One, I wanted to come back where my roots were, and two - do defense work, public defense work. Came back, worked there for over two and a half years. I was doing a murder case with one of their top public defenders, Dino Sepe. And we were doing this murder case together. I was then recruited by the prosecutors we were up against - one is now a judge and he is - what is his name? It slips me right now, but it was against him and one of the top prosecutors there, Dawn Farina, and Jerry Costello - that's, that's who the judge is now, but he was a prosecutor then. And I actually went back to prosecution after that murder trial was completed, right here in Pierce County. So I've worked in Pierce County and it's really interesting, Crystal. I have been a prosecutor, a public defender, as well as a private defense counsel, but I've also been a judicial officer on all the trial level courts. So that's Municipal Court, District Court, and Superior Court. Because when I finished at the prosecutor's office - I stayed there for over two years, I believe - I then started my own firm and it was a solo practice for a few years. And then I took on two partners and it became Whitener Rainey Writt, and we handled Class A felonies - actually all levels of criminal matters, as well as some civil cases. And then we also had an appellate attorney. She was the writ in the practice and she was a law professor out of Seattle U Law School, who joined the practice. So I did that for eight years, but while I was doing that, I also pro-tem as a judge - and that is someone who sits in for a sitting judge when the judge takes leave. I was a pro-tem judge on the Municipal Court here in Tacoma, the City of Tacoma Municipal Court, as well as the Pierce County District Courts. So I have the unusual background of having been a prosecutor, defense attorney, and a judicial officer on all three trial level courts here. And then in 2015, the Governor appointed me to the Superior Court, as you've stated.  Crystal Fincher: [00:05:55] Well, and that varied experience seems unusual for any kind of justice related to State Supreme Court, the national Supreme Court. Is that unique to have that much and that varied type of experience, coming to the bench? And how do you think that makes a difference in your approach versus others?  Justice Whitener: [00:06:21] I think it is unique. You have judges and justices who have done one side, and you may have a judge -  I don't think we have any justices - that have done both sides. But what is truly unusual is to have done all three, on all three level trial level courts, which is what I have. And I think the unique perspective it gives me is I have a very intimate knowledge of the trial level courts and what the courts face on a daily basis, having gone through it on both sides, as well as sitting on the bench in those courts as well. And yes, it is unusual, but I think being an immigrant that's probably..  Crystal Fincher: [00:07:06]   Well, and it will probably do well right now just to - most people don't have a lot of exposure to the State Supreme Court or to a lot of courts - except for at the Supreme Court level, hearing that there was a major case decided - but they may only catch the headline and not know the details or understand what's really involved with being a justice. So what are you responsible for? What is the job of a justice like on a daily basis?  Justice Whitener: [00:07:36] Now I can answer that question, but I will preface it with this. My ascent to the Supreme Court is truly unusual because we're faced with COVID right now. And the pandemic has caused the workings of the court to be a little different. So when I got appointed, I got appointed in a virtual world. So I have not sat on the bench with my colleagues yet, yet I've sat through a term and I'm getting ready actually, we just started the second term. So I literally will be going through one year of being a Supreme Court justice, and never sat on the bench with my colleagues. We hold oral arguments in a virtual world. So my experience right now may be a little unusual and maybe very different than what is considered normal. But in regards to cases, we handle - just about any case comes to the Supreme Court, can come, is whether or not we accept it for review, it has to meet certain criteria. And I'll give you an example. If there is a decision on the law court, the court of appeals - the first intermediary court before you get to the Supreme Court - but it's the court between the trial court and the Supreme Court. If a case is heard in Division One - there are three divisions - and they come down with a decision one particular way. And then in Division Three, a very similar case with very similar issues comes before Division Three, and they come down a different way as far as interpreting the Supreme Court's decision that everyone should be following. Then the court will take that up because it's clear there's a conflict between how the court on the appellate level is interpreting a Supreme Court opinion. That's one very simple example. Another set of cases we hear are personal restraint petitions. In criminal matters, the defendant, after conviction, has a number of remedies available to him or her, but once they've exhausted all those remedies, they still have an opportunity to request a review by the Supreme Court. But then again, they have to meet certain criterias - it has to be done within a year on a number of those cases, if you're going to do a collateral attack of your underlying conviction. So that's another type of case that we hear, but we hear literally just about any type of case that can come before the court - is whether or not it is worthy of review. Is it going to have substantial public import or public interest? Is it going to affect a large section of the community that we are serving? Those types of things. Is it something that is worthy of review - is the easiest way to conceptualize what it is the Supreme Court will look at. So many cases come before us wanting review, but not many get review because they are not meeting the criteria that is necessary for review.  Crystal Fincher: [00:10:52] That makes sense and in those discussions, I'm assuming that there are discussions between you and the other justices, do your backgrounds - does your professional experience, lived experience inform how you process what is important, what may be significant, how something affects a lot of people. How do your experiences, and I guess, how do the justices themselves help inform what kinds of cases get chosen or the approach to that?  Justice Whitener: [00:11:32] So that's a wonderful question because yes, we get a number of cases, but judges and justices are human beings. We have our backgrounds that we bring to the table - not just our legal backgrounds - but our lived and lived, as you indicated, background. And when we sit and assess a case, we are doing that through our lens, whatever lens that is, we bring to the table. So, and that's your experiences as well. So being a Black woman may be relevant in some instance, depending on the case or the issue before the court. Being an immigrant may be relevant and it may be an experience others don't have - which in this case they don't, because I was born an immigrant. I was born in Trinidad and Tobago, so I am an immigrant. I'm not an immigrant descent. So my perspective may be a little different. LGBT - being someone who is not of the mainstream sexual orientation may my lens may be different from some of my colleagues . Identifying as disabled - depending on the case, I may be seeing it through accommodation eyes, whereas they may not because they don't have that experience. So I think our experiences, whether it's even on the Supreme Court or even on the lower trial level courts or the appellate courts, is relevant in regards to assessing cases that come before the court - because our experiences are different, which means the way a decision may impact a particular subset of the population may be relevant on a particular issue regarding the particular facts that come before the court. So I think it's extremely important.  What's wonderful about the Washington State Supreme Court is it is the most diverse court in the United States. When I joined, we became the most diverse court. I don't think it was just because I joined, but I think I had a little bit to do with it. So we have five white individuals - four of them women, one white male. That's unusual because normally the Supreme Court benches are heavily white male. Then we have one Latino male, one male of color. We have one Asian/Mexican 'cause she's biracial and Supreme Court justice. And she's also openly gay. So she brings that experience to the table. We then have one, and the only, Native American Supreme Court justice in the country. And then you get me, the first black female, the fourth immigrant born, the second LGBT, but the only black LGBT judge in the entire state. So the discussions that we have and the depth of the discussion and, and the amount of citizenry we can cover is amazing. And we really work through the cases, trying to make sure we don't leave anyone behind. And what's important as well too, is economics - none of us, or not all of us, were born with a golden spoon, or however they say it. We have gone through struggles, different types of struggles economically, at different points in our lives and some more recent than others. So that is also very important to the discussion because we always try to make sure that we're not leaving anyone out in the decision as much as we can. Because of course, sometimes you just can't cover everyone under the law. But the law was meant to embrace and cover all of its citizenry and that's something we really try to do. And I'm really proud of my colleagues when I got there and saw that's how they approach things. Crystal Fincher: [00:15:55] You're listening to Hacks and Wonks with your host Crystal Fincher on KVRU 105.7 FM. And I appreciate you talking about the composition of this court and the diversity of the court. And I watched the announcement of your appointment live - and a number of people I know did - and there were certainly lots of excited group chats and posts and you know, My goodness, I'm watching a Black woman be appointed and oh my goodness, a new LGBT member! Just excitement across the board. And I've seen similar excitement, like you talk about, having the only Native American justice in the country. And LGBTQ representation. And how important that is to people or why it feels meaningful - I think you talked about - it gives people hope that there will be - that the court will become more accessible, that the court will become more fair , that the law will serve and consider and account for more people, more types of people, the entire community, and ... Justice Whitener: [00:17:10] It builds the trust and confidence in the institution. Having representation at the table when these serious discussions and issues are being addressed, builds trust and confidence in the judiciary, in the legal system. I remember when I was a litigator walking into a courtroom and I'm the only Black person in the courtroom. Or I'm the only woman in the courtroom. Or my client is the only person of color. The jury pool not reflecting who we are. So it really builds confidence in the judiciary and in the decision. Not everybody is going to always get what they want. That is not what the law is about. But the law is about trying to bring well-reasoned decisions based in the law and taking into account real-life experiences so that the decision has useful meaning to its citizenry. That's truly important.  Crystal Fincher: [00:18:18] It's critically important. And so I guess, where do you feel like we're at right now in terms of everyone being served fairly and equally by the law, and what can be done to improve where we're at right now?  Justice Whitener: [00:18:39] Well, it's not working and it hasn't been working for years. And it probably won't work for everyone for a while. The hope - and that is the end goal - is to be the court or the legal system that truly encapsulates everyone. That is not the reality. And the Supreme Court, after the killing of George Floyd, put out a letter to the community. I don't know if you are aware of that and the letter.  Crystal Fincher: [00:19:17] I am aware of it. And it was - I know a lot of people were surprised and heartened by it. It was unique.  Justice Whitener: [00:19:25] Yes, it was. And it was well thought out, but what was really important for people to get from that letter - is that all nine justices signed it. Didn't have to - all nine justices signed it. And when we sign something, it says, We believe in it, we support it, and we're putting our badge, our signature, on it. And that is what I think resonated with everyone in the legal community of the judges in other states, who have been trying to get their judiciary to acknowledge, that there is an inequality in how people are treated in our legal system. And unfortunately it has taken recent incidences on our media - different mediums - for our population to see it. People have been saying it for years, but to have it be acknowledged in such a vivid way was shocking. And that is what the law is about - when you see something like that occurring, it is time for change, because it's a systemic issue that has not been resolved with whatever mechanisms we were using before. So now is the time - and the legal system has really jumped on this. I actually, to be honest, was surprised at how much the legal community jumped on this. Because they realize - those who did not work within the trial system, the trial level courts - I think they were surprised at some of the things that had been occurring in the trial level courts. And it is causing the legal system to take a hard look at itself because this is how one subset, and there are many subsets, but this is how one subset - Black people - have been treated in the legal system that has been validated for everyone to see. The question became, What are you going to do about it? You have a responsibility to act. This was not a time to be silent. This was not a time to be complacent. This was a time to act. And the court acted. Well, what we did not envision is the legal community was waiting for that and they are now acting. They're now assessing the system. And hopefully we will have some changes take place and it will not just be for Black people. When people try to make this a Black people thing, that is very disturbing to me. This is a people problem. Unfortunately, it took a Black man losing his life - and Black men and women losing their lives - and this being shown on such a high medium - social media click - oop, everybody's seeing it. It took that scenario to have change, or have the discussion occur. But any change that occurs is going to be helping everyone, because unfortunately Black people, we have been at the bottom of the bucket. So if you help us, you're only making it better for you. So that's the kind of change that I see happening. That's the change I've always wanted to see, even when I was a litigator, but I realize now, as I moved up in my profession, my voice became stronger because I've always been very vocal and visible. My voice became stronger and now I can actually participate in - at the big people table, so to speak. And not only just have a say, but have their ear, because it's one thing to sit at the table - and I've been at many tables where you're talking and ain't nobody hearing, or somebody takes what you just said, reconfigure it, and it sounds like it's just something that just came out of their mouth and you're sitting there going, Am I the only one seeing that they just kinda stole what I just said, but now they're hearing it, whereas when I said it, they weren't.  And that has happened to many women as we move up and we're in this room with a lot of men, unfortunately - that's what they like to do. That is changing, you know? So as I move up, I realize my voice is not just being heard anymore. They're actually listening and trying to understand - and I'm doing the same too. 'Cause I'm learning a lot about differences as well, because I'm - in an odd way, I've always tried to see similarities. So for me, this is unique because I'm now seeing differences. And I think that's a good thing for me.  Crystal Fincher: [00:24:41] Absolutely. And you're doing this - you talked about your - you are doing the work of justice right now. And also, you are running a campaign and you're going to be on the ballot in November. And so what's that like? And how is your campaign going?  Justice Whitener: [00:25:05] Well, running a campaign in a virtual world is different. I've ran one campaign before and that was 2012, but in 2020, in this virtual world, that's different. In 2015 I was up for election - I didn't get an opponent. 2016 - didn't get an opponent. I got out there and I connected with the community anyway, 'cause it's just something I like to do. But this year that's different and I'm having to reach out through Zoom and virtual platforms. And to be honest, that's the correct thing to do right now. It is just too deadly of a virus to take a chance, not just on myself and my family, but on others. So it's been difficult, but I'm connecting. And I'm connecting in a way that I've always connected, which is - if this is the platform, Justice Whitener, formerly Judge Whitener - I'm going to be there, we're going to chat, let's have a discussion. And I love talking about the law. This race is a little different, not just because it's the virtual world, but I have an opponent. Remember I didn't get one in 2015 or 2016, so that's different. What's unique as well is my opponent was recently sworn in as an attorney, just when I got appointed to the Supreme Court. So he has never practiced law as an attorney, which means he's never practiced law because to do so without being certified by the bar is illegal, so he has never practiced law. He just passed the bar - in April, he got sworn in - in February, I think he passed the bar. He graduated law school, I think, 20 years ago when I - I graduated in '98 - he graduated, I think in '99 and failed, and then decided to go into education. Why he decided to run now is anybody's guess, but our Constitution actually does not prohibit him from running. To run for an appellate level position, you have to have at least five years of being an attorney. For the Supreme Court, you don't. So it is very important to me, this election cycle, that I inform people of what could happen if I don't prevail. You could have someone sitting on the Supreme Court who has never practiced law, and that can make it rather difficult for the other individuals, but most importantly, what can happen to our law. And I'm very vested in the law - and to make sure that it's held in high esteem, that it should. So campaigning this year is a little different - that's an understatement.  Crystal Fincher: [00:27:58] Well, and it certainly is different. If people do want more information about you, they can head over to justicehelenwhitener.com and learn all about your campaign and read more about you. But you bring up a really interesting point about your opponent and that he hadn't practiced law, hadn't been a lawyer before this campaign, and the surprising bit of information that being a State Supreme Court justice actually does not require that, even though other levels do. And especially at a time right now when, I think a lot of people are looking at the people who we are electing and placing in positions of power, and looking at the difference between those who came with experience and a resumé that people were able to look at, and judge the value of similar work, and use that to inform how future work might be. And then looking at people who were elected, who did not have experience , and also seemed to make a decision out of the blue to run, and the consequences of that. That knowledge actually does count and experience actually does count. Lots of things can be knowledge and lots of things can be experience, but it is important to understand the role that you're taking. And so, having none is certainly at the very extreme of the end, but also, as you talked about in the beginning, you are actually on the other extreme - of lived experience and professional experience and the variety of experience , and how that is able to help you see more of the community, more of the impacts and effects of the law , and how important that is. Justice Whitener: [00:29:55] Yes, the law is very difficult. The intricacies of applying the law - it takes experience. If I had just gotten out of law school and tried for the Supreme Court and got onto the Supreme Court, I don't think I would be able to do the job, one. And even if I was to try to do the job, I would be a burden on the system because I would not be pulling my own weight. It really does take experience. It's like going to medical school or going - getting a pilots license - just because you have the license does not mean to say you can fly a commercial flight without an experienced pilot at your side. All professions have that learning curve to get to the highest position. So people can look at that and make whatever decision they like, but also think of the impact it can have on your life. Because most cases that are heard in the State come through the trial level court - family law cases, criminal cases, civil cases, and I've handled all of them - they're complex cases. Asbestos cases with 15 co-defendants - I've handled those. And then when those things go up to the high court for final resolution - because the lower courts may have made a mistake here or there, that's not something you learn overnight. That's not something you get in a textbook at law school either. It really comes from experience. So we'll see what happens in November.  Crystal Fincher: [00:31:45] Well, I appreciate the time that you've taken to speak with us today. I could listen to you forever, but unfortunately, we've come upon the time for this show today. So thank you so much for being willing to serve, thank you for all the work that you've done in the community and on the bench, even the virtual bench. And just am excited to see how this campaign unfolds and to see how this new term turns out. Thank you very much, Justice Whitener.  Justice Whitener: [00:32:14] Thank you, Crystal. Thank you for giving me the space where my voice can be heard. I appreciate you. Crystal Fincher: [00:32:26] Thank you for listening to Hacks and Wonks. Thank you to KVRU 105.7 FM in Seattle where we record this show. Our chief audio engineer is Maurice Jones Jr. And our producer is Lisl Stadler. If you want more Hacks and Wonks content, go to officialhacksandwonks.com, subscribe to Hacks and Wonks on your favorite podcatcher, or follow me on Twitter @finchfrii. Catch you on the other side.

Scotty Walden is the head football coach at Austin Peay University. He's the youngest head football coach in Division One at 31 years old. After a football career that saw him play quarterback in college at the Division Three level, he went into coaching and became a college football head coach at just 26 years old with East Baptist University (D-III). At the time of his hiring to East Baptist, he was the youngest college football head coach in America.  After one season at East Baptist, Walden became the receivers coach at Division 1 Southern Miss. In 2019, he was promoted to Co-Offensive Coordinator and in 2020, became the interim head coach for four games before taking the Austin Peay job in October 2020.  Today on the podcast, we talk to Scotty Walden about coaching spring football games in 2021 at Austin Peay, how the Lord led him through his coaching decisions, why unity is the secret to success in college football and how he's handled being the youngest head coach in division one college football.  --- If you enjoyed this conversation with Scotty Walden, we know you'll love these podcasts as well: - Indiana high school coach Marc Davidson on winning Indiana state title, battling cancer, trusting Jesus - Bryce Drew - Grand Canyon University Men's Basketball Coach  Receive our 10-day Sports Spectrum Devotional written by professional athletes for FREE when you sign up for our Sports Spectrum Weekly Email Newsletter. Sign up here. 

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Another random fixture, selected from a stash of 1970s matchday programmes that have recently come my way ... Millwall 1-2 Colchester United 1979 Division Three.PLEASE LEAVE US A REVIEW ON APPLE PODCASTS! https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/achtung-millwall-podcast/id1006650617ACHTUNG! ACHTUNG! Achtung! Millwall is backing the @lionsfoodhub - the more you listen to our show, the more help can be given to families in SE16. I call that a win-win deal.Tinned food, toiletries, household goods are all needed urgently - please DM us or @lionsfoodhub if you can help.To donate visit - https://www.bankuet.co.uk/lionsfoodhubBased at the Manor & Rennie Estate hall, Galleywall Rd and run by our own Kelly WebsterArrivederci MillwallNickachtungmillwall@gmail.com0208 144 0232@AchtungMillwall Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Another random fixture, selected from a stash of 1970s matchday programmes that have recently come my way ... Millwall 1-2 Colchester United 1979 Division Three.PLEASE LEAVE US A REVIEW ON APPLE PODCASTS! https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/achtung-millwall-podcast/id1006650617ACHTUNG! ACHTUNG! Achtung! Millwall is backing the @lionsfoodhub - the more you listen to our show, the more help can be given to families in SE16. I call that a win-win deal.Tinned food, toiletries, household goods are all needed urgently - please DM us or @lionsfoodhub if you can help.To donate visit - https://www.bankuet.co.uk/lionsfoodhubBased at the Manor & Rennie Estate hall, Galleywall Rd and run by our own Kelly WebsterArrivederci MillwallNickachtungmillwall@gmail.com0208 144 0232@AchtungMillwall See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to episode 33 of the Cow Corner Podcast. The BIG S.C.C.L. Division Three Pre Season Preview! In Episode 33: - James is joined by special guests Adam Shimmons, Gurj Saini and Dan Harris. - We talk about the latest news in Shropshire Cricket - We discuss the issues for Welsh sides starting the season! - We predict what is to come in 2021... - We preview EVERY side in the SCCL Division Three in 2021 - Harrisons Hierarchy returns! The lads pick their top 10 for 2021. - As well as all the usual Cow Corner fun! All this and much more on another bumper episode of the Cow Corner Podcast! #CowCorner33 | #CowCornerSCCL | #CowCorner

George Jacks, who came through the East London schoolboy ranks with Harry Redknapp, reminisces with Neil about playing for the #Millwall in the swinging sixties and the early 1970s. A member of the squad that won promotion from Division Three in 1966 under Billy Gray and the side that went 59 home games unbeaten, he talks about big-name stars from that era like Alex Stepney, Harry Cripps, Barry Kitchener, Eamon Dunphy, among others. George was a fan favourite for his unhurried style who came into his own as a man marker digs deep into a huge treasure trove of stories from a golden period in the club's history.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/that-millwall-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This week I got to sit down with current Division Three basketball player and friend of mine Steve Dillard. We talked about trying to balance intensive college schooling alongside competing on the court at a high level. We talk about everything from basketball influencers to the beauty of making someone's day. Enjoy. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

We spoke to Jamie Mitchell, Simon Bochenski, Jason Rockett, Chris Tate, Ben Worrall, Neil Campbell and Tony Elliott, members of the Scarborough FC 1997/98 squad who lost out in the Division Three (now League Two) play-offs against Torquay.

In this re-broadcast, Crystal talks with Washington State Supreme Court Justice G. Helen Whitener about her path to the state supreme court, what the job of a supreme court justice actually looks like, and why representation matters in our court system. A full text transcript of the show is available below, and on the Hacks & Wonks blog at www.officialhacksandwonks.com. Find the host, Crystal Fincher on Twitter at @finchfrii. More info is available at officialhacksandwonks.com. References: Claiming your identity by understanding your self-worth, TEDxPortofSpain talk by Justice G. Helen Whitener https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57FMau29O_g&list=PL3vudArV4R9e5USALmWYa4v38zP_2nviP  Full Transcript:  Crystal Fincher: [00:00:00] Welcome to Hacks and Wonks. I'm your host, Crystal Fincher. On this show, we don't just talk politics and policy, but also how they affect our lives and shape our communities. As we dive into the backstories behind what we read in the news, we bring voices to the table that we don't hear from often enough. Well today on Hacks and Wonks, we are very thrilled to be speaking with Justice Helen Whitener today. And Justice Whitener currently serves on the Washington State Supreme Court. She was appointed this past April by overnor Inslee and is running to finish the term of her predecessor which is a term that will last two remaining years. So prior to this, Justice Whitener served as a judge on the Board of Industrial Insurance Appeals for two years, followed by five years of service on the Pierce County Superior Court, beginning in 2015. Thank you so much for joining us Justice Whitener.  Justice Whitener: [00:01:04] Thank you so much for having me.  Crystal Fincher: [00:01:06] So I just wanted to start out and get an understanding of how - what your role was - what your path was to the State Supreme Court. How did you get there? What is your background?  Justice Whitener: [00:01:20] Well, my background is very varied. I started in law school, working for the Attorney General's office. I worked for the Department of Corrections, it was called back then. And then it became the Criminal Justice Division. From there, I got to Pierce County working for the Attorney General's office in their DSHS division, and I did dependencies and those types of cases out at Remann Hall here in Pierce County. By the time I graduated law school, I had 25 trials under my belt - and that's jury trials, because I also worked as a City of Tacoma prosecutor, Rule 9 prosecutor we call them - when you're in school and you're under the supervision of an attorney.  So by the time I graduated, I had over 25 trials under my belt. I then had a job waiting for me with the City of Tacoma prosecutor's office. But unfortunately there was a hiring freeze that year, so I had to find a job and I found one at the City of Olympia prosecutor's office, but it was a part-time job. So while I was working there - I stayed there for about six months - my supervisor there, who's now a judge in Thurston County, Kalo Wilcox - she had contacted the prosecutor out of Island County prosecutor's office on my behalf. I interviewed with him over the phone, got the job, and literally was driving from Renton, where I resided at the time, to Island County - two and a half hours each way. I decided that was too much, so I moved to Island County and I stayed there for a little over a year working at the prosecutor's office. While there, one of the attorneys I worked against in Pierce County - he was a public defender - contacted me and we were chatting and he said, Where are you? And I said, I'm out in Island County - I'm a prosecutor here. And he said, Are you interested in coming back to Pierce County? But I'd need to do public defense - I'd never done defense work, so I jumped at the opportunity. One, I wanted to come back where my roots were, and two - do defense work, public defense work. Came back, worked there for over two and a half years. I was doing a murder case with one of their top public defenders, Dino Sepe. And we were doing this murder case together. I was then recruited by the prosecutors we were up against - one is now a judge and he is - what is his name? It slips me right now, but it was against him and one of the top prosecutors there, Dawn Farina, and Jerry Costello - that's, that's who the judge is now, but he was a prosecutor then. And I actually went back to prosecution after that murder trial was completed, right here in Pierce County. So I've worked in Pierce County and it's really interesting, Crystal. I have been a prosecutor, a public defender, as well as a private defense counsel, but I've also been a judicial officer on all the trial level courts. So that's Municipal Court, District Court, and Superior Court. Because when I finished at the prosecutor's office - I stayed there for over two years, I believe - I then started my own firm and it was a solo practice for a few years. And then I took on two partners and it became Whitener Rainey Writt, and we handled Class A felonies - actually all levels of criminal matters, as well as some civil cases. And then we also had an appellate attorney. She was the writ in the practice and she was a law professor out of Seattle U Law School, who joined the practice. So I did that for eight years, but while I was doing that, I also pro-tem as a judge - and that is someone who sits in for a sitting judge when the judge takes leave. I was a pro-tem judge on the Municipal Court here in Tacoma, the City of Tacoma Municipal Court, as well as the Pierce County District Courts. So I have the unusual background of having been a prosecutor, defense attorney, and a judicial officer on all three trial level courts here. And then in 2015, the Governor appointed me to the Superior Court, as you've stated.  Crystal Fincher: [00:05:55] Well, and that varied experience seems unusual for any kind of justice related to State Supreme Court, the national Supreme Court. Is that unique to have that much and that varied type of experience, coming to the bench? And how do you think that makes a difference in your approach versus others?  Justice Whitener: [00:06:21] I think it is unique. You have judges and justices who have done one side, and you may have a judge -  I don't think we have any justices - that have done both sides. But what is truly unusual is to have done all three, on all three level trial level courts, which is what I have. And I think the unique perspective it gives me is I have a very intimate knowledge of the trial level courts and what the courts face on a daily basis, having gone through it on both sides, as well as sitting on the bench in those courts as well. And yes, it is unusual, but I think being an immigrant that's probably..  Crystal Fincher: [00:07:06]   Well, and it will probably do well right now just to - most people don't have a lot of exposure to the State Supreme Court or to a lot of courts - except for at the Supreme Court level, hearing that there was a major case decided - but they may only catch the headline and not know the details or understand what's really involved with being a justice. So what are you responsible for? What is the job of a justice like on a daily basis?  Justice Whitener: [00:07:36] Now I can answer that question, but I will preface it with this. My ascent to the Supreme Court is truly unusual because we're faced with COVID right now. And the pandemic has caused the workings of the court to be a little different. So when I got appointed, I got appointed in a virtual world. So I have not sat on the bench with my colleagues yet, yet I've sat through a term and I'm getting ready actually, we just started the second term. So I literally will be going through one year of being a Supreme Court justice, and never sat on the bench with my colleagues. We hold oral arguments in a virtual world. So my experience right now may be a little unusual and maybe very different than what is considered normal. But in regards to cases, we handle - just about any case comes to the Supreme Court, can come, is whether or not we accept it for review, it has to meet certain criteria. And I'll give you an example. If there is a decision on the law court, the court of appeals - the first intermediary court before you get to the Supreme Court - but it's the court between the trial court and the Supreme Court. If a case is heard in Division One - there are three divisions - and they come down with a decision one particular way. And then in Division Three, a very similar case with very similar issues comes before Division Three, and they come down a different way as far as interpreting the Supreme Court's decision that everyone should be following. Then the court will take that up because it's clear there's a conflict between how the court on the appellate level is interpreting a Supreme Court opinion. That's one very simple example. Another set of cases we hear are personal restraint petitions. In criminal matters, the defendant, after conviction, has a number of remedies available to him or her, but once they've exhausted all those remedies, they still have an opportunity to request a review by the Supreme Court. But then again, they have to meet certain criterias - it has to be done within a year on a number of those cases, if you're going to do a collateral attack of your underlying conviction. So that's another type of case that we hear, but we hear literally just about any type of case that can come before the court - is whether or not it is worthy of review. Is it going to have substantial public import or public interest? Is it going to affect a large section of the community that we are serving? Those types of things. Is it something that is worthy of review - is the easiest way to conceptualize what it is the Supreme Court will look at. So many cases come before us wanting review, but not many get review because they are not meeting the criteria that is necessary for review.  Crystal Fincher: [00:10:52] That makes sense and in those discussions, I'm assuming that there are discussions between you and the other justices, do your backgrounds - does your professional experience, lived experience inform how you process what is important, what may be significant, how something affects a lot of people. How do your experiences, and I guess, how do the justices themselves help inform what kinds of cases get chosen or the approach to that?  Justice Whitener: [00:11:32] So that's a wonderful question because yes, we get a number of cases, but judges and justices are human beings. We have our backgrounds that we bring to the table - not just our legal backgrounds - but our lived and lived, as you indicated, background. And when we sit and assess a case, we are doing that through our lens, whatever lens that is, we bring to the table. So, and that's your experiences as well. So being a Black woman may be relevant in some instance, depending on the case or the issue before the court. Being an immigrant may be relevant and it may be an experience others don't have - which in this case they don't, because I was born an immigrant. I was born in Trinidad and Tobago, so I am an immigrant. I'm not an immigrant descent. So my perspective may be a little different. LGBT - being someone who is not of the mainstream sexual orientation may my lens may be different from some of my colleagues . Identifying as disabled - depending on the case, I may be seeing it through accommodation eyes, whereas they may not because they don't have that experience. So I think our experiences, whether it's even on the Supreme Court or even on the lower trial level courts or the appellate courts, is relevant in regards to assessing cases that come before the court - because our experiences are different, which means the way a decision may impact a particular subset of the population may be relevant on a particular issue regarding the particular facts that come before the court. So I think it's extremely important.  What's wonderful about the Washington State Supreme Court is it is the most diverse court in the United States. When I joined, we became the most diverse court. I don't think it was just because I joined, but I think I had a little bit to do with it. So we have five white individuals - four of them women, one white male. That's unusual because normally the Supreme Court benches are heavily white male. Then we have one Latino male, one male of color. We have one Asian/Mexican 'cause she's biracial and Supreme Court justice. And she's also openly gay. So she brings that experience to the table. We then have one, and the only, Native American Supreme Court justice in the country. And then you get me, the first black female, the fourth immigrant born, the second LGBT, but the only black LGBT judge in the entire state. So the discussions that we have and the depth of the discussion and, and the amount of citizenry we can cover is amazing. And we really work through the cases, trying to make sure we don't leave anyone behind. And what's important as well too, is economics - none of us, or not all of us, were born with a golden spoon, or however they say it. We have gone through struggles, different types of struggles economically, at different points in our lives and some more recent than others. So that is also very important to the discussion because we always try to make sure that we're not leaving anyone out in the decision as much as we can. Because of course, sometimes you just can't cover everyone under the law. But the law was meant to embrace and cover all of its citizenry and that's something we really try to do. And I'm really proud of my colleagues when I got there and saw that's how they approach things. Crystal Fincher: [00:15:55] You're listening to Hacks and Wonks with your host Crystal Fincher on KVRU 105.7 FM. And I appreciate you talking about the composition of this court and the diversity of the court. And I watched the announcement of your appointment live - and a number of people I know did - and there were certainly lots of excited group chats and posts and you know, My goodness, I'm watching a Black woman be appointed and oh my goodness, a new LGBT member! Just excitement across the board. And I've seen similar excitement, like you talk about, having the only Native American justice in the country. And LGBTQ representation. And how important that is to people or why it feels meaningful - I think you talked about - it gives people hope that there will be - that the court will become more accessible, that the court will become more fair , that the law will serve and consider and account for more people, more types of people, the entire community, and ... Justice Whitener: [00:17:10] It builds the trust and confidence in the institution. Having representation at the table when these serious discussions and issues are being addressed, builds trust and confidence in the judiciary, in the legal system. I remember when I was a litigator walking into a courtroom and I'm the only Black person in the courtroom. Or I'm the only woman in the courtroom. Or my client is the only person of color. The jury pool not reflecting who we are. So it really builds confidence in the judiciary and in the decision. Not everybody is going to always get what they want. That is not what the law is about. But the law is about trying to bring well-reasoned decisions based in the law and taking into account real-life experiences so that the decision has useful meaning to its citizenry. That's truly important.  Crystal Fincher: [00:18:18] It's critically important. And so I guess, where do you feel like we're at right now in terms of everyone being served fairly and equally by the law, and what can be done to improve where we're at right now?  Justice Whitener: [00:18:39] Well, it's not working and it hasn't been working for years. And it probably won't work for everyone for a while. The hope - and that is the end goal - is to be the court or the legal system that truly encapsulates everyone. That is not the reality. And the Supreme Court, after the killing of George Floyd, put out a letter to the community. I don't know if you are aware of that and the letter.  Crystal Fincher: [00:19:17] I am aware of it. And it was - I know a lot of people were surprised and heartened by it. It was unique.  Justice Whitener: [00:19:25] Yes, it was. And it was well thought out, but what was really important for people to get from that letter - is that all nine justices signed it. Didn't have to - all nine justices signed it. And when we sign something, it says, We believe in it, we support it, and we're putting our badge, our signature, on it. And that is what I think resonated with everyone in the legal community of the judges in other states, who have been trying to get their judiciary to acknowledge, that there is an inequality in how people are treated in our legal system. And unfortunately it has taken recent incidences on our media - different mediums - for our population to see it. People have been saying it for years, but to have it be acknowledged in such a vivid way was shocking. And that is what the law is about - when you see something like that occurring, it is time for change, because it's a systemic issue that has not been resolved with whatever mechanisms we were using before. So now is the time - and the legal system has really jumped on this. I actually, to be honest, was surprised at how much the legal community jumped on this. Because they realize - those who did not work within the trial system, the trial level courts - I think they were surprised at some of the things that had been occurring in the trial level courts. And it is causing the legal system to take a hard look at itself because this is how one subset, and there are many subsets, but this is how one subset - Black people - have been treated in the legal system that has been validated for everyone to see. The question became, What are you going to do about it? You have a responsibility to act. This was not a time to be silent. This was not a time to be complacent. This was a time to act. And the court acted. Well, what we did not envision is the legal community was waiting for that and they are now acting. They're now assessing the system. And hopefully we will have some changes take place and it will not just be for Black people. When people try to make this a Black people thing, that is very disturbing to me. This is a people problem. Unfortunately, it took a Black man losing his life - and Black men and women losing their lives - and this being shown on such a high medium - social media click - oop, everybody's seeing it. It took that scenario to have change, or have the discussion occur. But any change that occurs is going to be helping everyone, because unfortunately Black people, we have been at the bottom of the bucket. So if you help us, you're only making it better for you. So that's the kind of change that I see happening. That's the change I've always wanted to see, even when I was a litigator, but I realize now, as I moved up in my profession, my voice became stronger because I've always been very vocal and visible. My voice became stronger and now I can actually participate in - at the big people table, so to speak. And not only just have a say, but have their ear, because it's one thing to sit at the table - and I've been at many tables where you're talking and ain't nobody hearing, or somebody takes what you just said, reconfigure it, and it sounds like it's just something that just came out of their mouth and you're sitting there going, Am I the only one seeing that they just kinda stole what I just said, but now they're hearing it, whereas when I said it, they weren't.  And that has happened to many women as we move up and we're in this room with a lot of men, unfortunately - that's what they like to do. That is changing, you know? So as I move up, I realize my voice is not just being heard anymore. They're actually listening and trying to understand - and I'm doing the same too. 'Cause I'm learning a lot about differences as well, because I'm - in an odd way, I've always tried to see similarities. So for me, this is unique because I'm now seeing differences. And I think that's a good thing for me.  Crystal Fincher: [00:24:41] Absolutely. And you're doing this - you talked about your - you are doing the work of justice right now. And also, you are running a campaign and you're going to be on the ballot in November. And so what's that like? And how is your campaign going?  Justice Whitener: [00:25:05] Well, running a campaign in a virtual world is different. I've ran one campaign before and that was 2012, but in 2020, in this virtual world, that's different. In 2015 I was up for election - I didn't get an opponent. 2016 - didn't get an opponent. I got out there and I connected with the community anyway, 'cause it's just something I like to do. But this year that's different and I'm having to reach out through Zoom and virtual platforms. And to be honest, that's the correct thing to do right now. It is just too deadly of a virus to take a chance, not just on myself and my family, but on others. So it's been difficult, but I'm connecting. And I'm connecting in a way that I've always connected, which is - if this is the platform, Justice Whitener, formerly Judge Whitener - I'm going to be there, we're going to chat, let's have a discussion. And I love talking about the law. This race is a little different, not just because it's the virtual world, but I have an opponent. Remember I didn't get one in 2015 or 2016, so that's different. What's unique as well is my opponent was recently sworn in as an attorney, just when I got appointed to the Supreme Court. So he has never practiced law as an attorney, which means he's never practiced law because to do so without being certified by the bar is illegal, so he has never practiced law. He just passed the bar - in April, he got sworn in - in February, I think he passed the bar. He graduated law school, I think, 20 years ago when I - I graduated in '98 - he graduated, I think in '99 and failed, and then decided to go into education. Why he decided to run now is anybody's guess, but our Constitution actually does not prohibit him from running. To run for an appellate level position, you have to have at least five years of being an attorney. For the Supreme Court, you don't. So it is very important to me, this election cycle, that I inform people of what could happen if I don't prevail. You could have someone sitting on the Supreme Court who has never practiced law, and that can make it rather difficult for the other individuals, but most importantly, what can happen to our law. And I'm very vested in the law - and to make sure that it's held in high esteem, that it should. So campaigning this year is a little different - that's an understatement.  Crystal Fincher: [00:27:58] Well, and it certainly is different. If people do want more information about you, they can head over to justicehelenwhitener.com and learn all about your campaign and read more about you. But you bring up a really interesting point about your opponent and that he hadn't practiced law, hadn't been a lawyer before this campaign, and the surprising bit of information that being a State Supreme Court justice actually does not require that, even though other levels do. And especially at a time right now when, I think a lot of people are looking at the people who we are electing and placing in positions of power, and looking at the difference between those who came with experience and a resumé that people were able to look at, and judge the value of similar work, and use that to inform how future work might be. And then looking at people who were elected, who did not have experience , and also seemed to make a decision out of the blue to run, and the consequences of that. That knowledge actually does count and experience actually does count. Lots of things can be knowledge and lots of things can be experience, but it is important to understand the role that you're taking. And so, having none is certainly at the very extreme of the end, but also, as you talked about in the beginning, you are actually on the other extreme - of lived experience and professional experience and the variety of experience , and how that is able to help you see more of the community, more of the impacts and effects of the law , and how important that is. Justice Whitener: [00:29:55] Yes, the law is very difficult. The intricacies of applying the law - it takes experience. If I had just gotten out of law school and tried for the Supreme Court and got onto the Supreme Court, I don't think I would be able to do the job, one. And even if I was to try to do the job, I would be a burden on the system because I would not be pulling my own weight. It really does take experience. It's like going to medical school or going - getting a pilots license - just because you have the license does not mean to say you can fly a commercial flight without an experienced pilot at your side. All professions have that learning curve to get to the highest position. So people can look at that and make whatever decision they like, but also think of the impact it can have on your life. Because most cases that are heard in the State come through the trial level court - family law cases, criminal cases, civil cases, and I've handled all of them - they're complex cases. Asbestos cases with 15 co-defendants - I've handled those. And then when those things go up to the high court for final resolution - because the lower courts may have made a mistake here or there, that's not something you learn overnight. That's not something you get in a textbook at law school either. It really comes from experience. So we'll see what happens in November.  Crystal Fincher: [00:31:45] Well, I appreciate the time that you've taken to speak with us today. I could listen to you forever, but unfortunately, we've come upon the time for this show today. So thank you so much for being willing to serve, thank you for all the work that you've done in the community and on the bench, even the virtual bench. And just am excited to see how this campaign unfolds and to see how this new term turns out. Thank you very much, Justice Whitener.  Justice Whitener: [00:32:14] Thank you, Crystal. Thank you for giving me the space where my voice can be heard. I appreciate you.

About Emmett Irwin: Emmett is a social security disability and Elder Law Attorney in Baltimore, Maryland, who previously was paid by hospitals and nursing homes to get disability and medical benefits for patients. Several years ago, Emmet started his own law firm, so he could work for private clients, and is the co-chair of the disability benefits section of the Maryland Association for Justice, the Vice-Chair of the elder law and disability Right section of the Maryland State Bar Association and a member of the peer review of the state of Maryland. Emmitt is also a former Division Three basketball player. In this episode, Steve and Emmett discuss:1. So how long have you been handling SSD cases?Since 2008, so, years.2. Can you give me a ballpark figure as to when you started seeing early-onset dementia cases? It's been since I started but they were fewer and far between back then. They've been getting more and more prevalent. As you know, the population starts to age, the silver tsunami, as you would say, baby boomers are getting a little older, and some people are starting to have some issues with dementia.3. What would you say are the average age of an early onset dementia client?People I’m seeing are from 58 to 64 years old, 65 years old, after 65 SSD really isn't an issue because you hit full retirement age at 66 or 67 years old. So we're really not applying for SSD, for people older than about 65.4.  You only take cases up to 65 because after 65 they automatically get social security, retirement, whether they're disabled or not correct?That's correct.5. what is the likelihood of the person that comes to you at 58 years old, and they've got early onset dementia or Alzheimer's, being able to get social security disability within a reasonable period of time?It's a really great chance. Early-onset Alzheimer's and other kinds of dementia, we see vascular dementia, we see Frontotemporal dementia, but the symptoms are really very similar. What happens is short term memory issues, their concentration issues. Most of the clients that I see have higher-level type jobs, very skilled type jobs. Sedentary jobs where they need the brain functioning very well and then once the early signs that the short term memory problems hit, and the concentration issues hit, there's really no way they can do those jobs anymore. So they either quit or get fired or take an early retirement. Then they come to me and ask, Well, what can I do about this? Really, the driving force in an SSD case is the symptoms, just the diagnosis of one of the dimensions isn't going to get social security to approve disability. They're really going to look at the symptoms. How much are the short term memory issues impacting your daily life? How much are the concentration issues affecting your daily life?6.  What are some examples of how it can affect their daily life or affect their ability to do their job?Some of the examples are, there'll be complex problems. I have a client, that was at it at a relatively high level IT job as a middle manager, and would have to project manage these very complex international projects. As you can imagine that, if you're trying to manage one of these projects, and you keep forgetting what you just read, that that's going to have a big, big impact on your job and that's really one of the first things forgetting what you read is, you know that happens with age anyway, to a certain extent, but when you're having to read things two or three more times, to understand them, then that can be indicative of a problem, the mental fatigue from concentration issues. That is one of the problems that I'm seeing where what you have to do in a 10 hour day and concentrate, the great majority of that time, you start at 8 am. and by about 1 pm, you just can't concentrate on anything anymore. That's one of the issues that I see in people that have this diagnosis also.7.  Are the people who are white-collar workers, who have to do a lot of thinking and reading and basically concentrating so that they can show that they just can't do that, they just don't have the faculties now to be able to do that job. If they show that, and you can prove it, then what is the likelihood that Social Security is going to approve them?It depends on associated issues, such as physical issues, though, when someone's 60 something years old, and they have dementia, it's usually not the only thing that they have. So it's a fairly easy case. If, for example, there are knee problems, documented back problems, documented knee problems, some kind of problems, physical in nature, if we can document those problems and document the cognitive issues Then it's generally a pretty easy case if there are not any physical issues at all, and it's just the cognitive issues, that it's a little more difficult and probably will take a little more time. But in the end, we're successful with 90% of these cases. I mean, these are, these are generally really good cases to get approved for SSDI social security disability.8. Would it actually be easier if blue-collar workers got the same symptoms that we described earlier? With the concentration and with memory and just their ability to function mentally, even though they don't need to do that for their job. The fact that if they have those symptoms, as well as a lot of physical issues, is it actually going to be a smoother ride for them?Well, it's just inherently a smoother ride for blue-collar workers, although we are seeing a lot of denials coming down now for some reason. But traditionally, it's been a really smooth ride for blue-collar workers, and then adding on the cognitive issues is the cherry on top. Oftentimes not necessary, but we're never comfortable with the amount of evidence we have. We always want more evidence of someone's inability to function at 100% on a day to day basis. Whether that functioning is physical knee problems, back problems, or mental with cognitive issues, short term memory issues, concentration issues. The frustration involved also is a factor because as you notice the somebody whose cognitive abilities are going downhill usually gets really easily frustrated, and some depression can kick in also, and we use all of that because social security looks at all of that. And the combination of impairments generally does help with a case.9. Is Social Security particularly hostile to this type of case? Are the denials just global as far as that, it could be for any type of condition or any type of injury or disease, or is it just focused on the early onset of dementia individuals?It's everything so it's across the board and the older people are being affected along with everybody else, but I think it's particularly damaging to our older clients and older people in general, because of the multitude of problems that they have.10. What is the Social Security Administration looking for? Is there anything written that says if you have this, this, and this, you automatically are eligible for benefits or it's going to increase your chances of getting the benefits? So what, specifically are they looking for in early-onset dementia cases?What Social Security is looking for are activities of daily living away from work that are being affected. I don't know why that is. I have no idea. Because I would think that it would matter quite a bit. What happens in the workplace. It really doesn't matter at the initial application level. What they're looking for is daily evidence of loss of complex attention. executive function, learning, and memory, loss of language ability, something called perceptual-motor, which means is that you're having trouble picking things up. You're having trouble judging stares, for example, because your brain isn't perceiving what's around you correctly. There’s also then social cognition, which means you’re losing your ability to understand what's socially acceptable."What I prefer is a really good psychiatrist to document things." —  Emmett Irwin To find out more about the National Injured Senior Law Center or to set up a free consultation go to https://www.injuredseniorhotline.com/ or call 855-622-6530Connect with Emmett Irwin:  Facebook: Disability Benefits ChannelWebsite: EBI LawPhone: 443-839-0818YouTube: Disability Benefits ChannelEmail: ebi@ebilaw.com CONNECT WITH STEVE H. HEISLER:Website: www.injuredseniorhotline.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/attorneysteveheisler/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-law-offices-of-steven-h.-heisler/about/ Email: info@injuredseniorhotline.com  Show notes by Podcastologist: Kristen BraunAudio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it. 

Theo Foley RIP - assistant manager to two promotion winning Millwall sides and a league champion with Arsenal, his career considered with Neil Andrews @goalkeepersdiff and yours truly ...Nick@AchtungMillwallemail - achtungmillwall@gmail.comvoicemail - 0208 144 0232SHOW NOTESTHEO FOLEY 1937-2020 - ‘a life in football'A proud Dubliner - true football man whose tributes have come from such diverse clubs as Exeter City - Northampton Town - Charlton Athletic - QPR - Arsenal and of course our own MillwallTwice promoted as assistant manager with the Lions:1975-76 as assistant to Gordon Jago - Millwall finishing 3rd in Division Three after being mid table at Christmas1984-85 as assistant to George Graham - Millwall finishing 2nd in Division Three“When he told me he was going, I just laughed and told him not to – he didn't know the ‘Millwall Way' and they would eat me alive at The Den. Little did I know he was taking me with him!”Two fantastic seasons that mean so much for those who followed Millwall at the timeAS A PLAYER - Irish Times obit - [after a play-off defeat v Spain] ‘And with that the 1966 World Cup passed Ireland by; symbolically, it seemed to sum up Foley's playing career. So close, yet so far.'Northampton Town -At Northampton, where between 1961 and 1968 he had the most successful spell of his playing career winning two promotions as the club rose from the old Fourth Division to the First, he ran a chicken shop to supplement his income.Capped 9 times for the Republic of Ireland - played against West Germany and Franz Beckenbauer AS A MANAGERSacked by Charlton Foley had finished playing with Charlton but during his spell in the dug-out, they slipped from the second to the third division.Patience was thin, even then.Days after receiving a rose bowl from the supporters and a fortnight before they were awarded£4,000 for being one of the highest scoring clubs, he was sacked.Brought in Mike Flanagan, Derek Hales and Colin PowellAS AN ASSISTANT THOUGH ... VERY SUCCESSFULQPR Thereafter, he flitted between coaching and broadcasting; at QPR, he teamed up with the irrepressible Terry Venables, then forging what would be a formidable career in management.MILLWALL assisted Gordon Jago in the 75-76 season which for me remains a very special season indeed - the first successful season I saw as a Millwall fanGordon Jago's blue & white army --MILLWALL joined with George Graham as assistant in December 1982.saved MFC from relegation to the Fourth Division 1982-83built the promotion squad of 1984-85ARSENAL - brought through the classic Arsenal team that won the league at Anfield 1988-89 on last game / last kick of the season.After that managed at Northampton and coached at Fulham, Southend and Spurs (back with George Graham)‘Theo gives us a ball ‘ twitter account to promote his book gives a sense of the warmth and esteem in which he was held - across the boardFrom a professional perspective he found his niche as a successful assistant, the pinnacle being Arsenal 1989 - that comes out from the twitter account But from our Millwall viewpoint, he made two major contributions in our history - 1975-76 and 1984-85 - he also leaves many warm feelings at The Den... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Theo Foley RIP - assistant manager to two promotion winning Millwall sides and a league champion with Arsenal, his career considered with Neil Andrews @goalkeepersdiff and yours truly ...Nick@AchtungMillwallemail - achtungmillwall@gmail.comvoicemail - 0208 144 0232SHOW NOTESTHEO FOLEY 1937-2020 - ‘a life in football’A proud Dubliner - true football man whose tributes have come from such diverse clubs as Exeter City - Northampton Town - Charlton Athletic - QPR - Arsenal and of course our own MillwallTwice promoted as assistant manager with the Lions:1975-76 as assistant to Gordon Jago - Millwall finishing 3rd in Division Three after being mid table at Christmas1984-85 as assistant to George Graham - Millwall finishing 2nd in Division Three“When he told me he was going, I just laughed and told him not to – he didn’t know the ‘Millwall Way’ and they would eat me alive at The Den. Little did I know he was taking me with him!”Two fantastic seasons that mean so much for those who followed Millwall at the timeAS A PLAYER - Irish Times obit - [after a play-off defeat v Spain] ‘And with that the 1966 World Cup passed Ireland by; symbolically, it seemed to sum up Foley’s playing career. So close, yet so far.’Northampton Town -At Northampton, where between 1961 and 1968 he had the most successful spell of his playing career winning two promotions as the club rose from the old Fourth Division to the First, he ran a chicken shop to supplement his income.Capped 9 times for the Republic of Ireland - played against West Germany and Franz Beckenbauer AS A MANAGERSacked by Charlton Foley had finished playing with Charlton but during his spell in the dug-out, they slipped from the second to the third division.Patience was thin, even then.Days after receiving a rose bowl from the supporters and a fortnight before they were awarded£4,000 for being one of the highest scoring clubs, he was sacked.Brought in Mike Flanagan, Derek Hales and Colin PowellAS AN ASSISTANT THOUGH ... VERY SUCCESSFULQPR Thereafter, he flitted between coaching and broadcasting; at QPR, he teamed up with the irrepressible Terry Venables, then forging what would be a formidable career in management.MILLWALL assisted Gordon Jago in the 75-76 season which for me remains a very special season indeed - the first successful season I saw as a Millwall fanGordon Jago’s blue & white army --MILLWALL joined with George Graham as assistant in December 1982.saved MFC from relegation to the Fourth Division 1982-83built the promotion squad of 1984-85ARSENAL - brought through the classic Arsenal team that won the league at Anfield 1988-89 on last game / last kick of the season.After that managed at Northampton and coached at Fulham, Southend and Spurs (back with George Graham)‘Theo gives us a ball ‘ twitter account to promote his book gives a sense of the warmth and esteem in which he was held - across the boardFrom a professional perspective he found his niche as a successful assistant, the pinnacle being Arsenal 1989 - that comes out from the twitter account But from our Millwall viewpoint, he made two major contributions in our history - 1975-76 and 1984-85 - he also leaves many warm feelings at The Den... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We're joined by ex-Cherries Keith Williams and Tony Funnell, players who were integral to the success in 1981/82 where Cherries won promotion to Division Three with a fourth-place finish. They discuss:

We're joined by ex-Cherries Keith Williams and Tony Funnell, players who were integral to the success in 1981/82 where Cherries won promotion to Division Three with a fourth-place finish. They discuss:

Welcome back to the fuel your legacy podcast. Each week we expose the faulty foundational mindsets of the past and rebuild a newer, stronger foundation essential in creating your meaningful legacy. We've got a lot of work to do. So let's get started.As much as you like this podcast, I'm certain that you're going to love the book that I just released on Amazon, fuel your legacy, the nine pillars to build a meaningful legacy. I wrote this to share with you the experiences that I had while I was identifying my identity, how I began to create my meaningful legacy and how you can create yours. You're gonna find this book on Kindle, Amazon and as always on my website, Sam Knickerbocker calm.Welcome back to fuel your legacy. And this week, we have an awesome guest. It's back in the springtime of 2020. So looking forward to moving on in life hopefully you guys reportFirst Quarter goals nailed down and you're just running. Because the first quarter goes away fast. I mean, I remember 2019 and it just ended before it got started. I feel like and that happens often in our lives. So remember to stay focused on your legacy and what are you doing daily to fuel that is our guest today. His name is Todd Palmer. Palmer is an executive coach, keynote speaker, renowned thought leader and author, CEO. He's just done a ton of different things in his life. something unique about him. If you're watching the video of this on YouTube, then you can see this but if you're just listening on Facebook, or not Facebook, on podcasts, you can't see this, but he has a lot of baseball memorabilia, and I'll let him identify what a lot is. I know there's a level ofyou don't want people coming down to your house and knowing what's inside your house. But he has a lot of it like more items than most of the people inIn this have earned in their lifetime dollars. So a significant amount.This is, to say the least. And that's just a hobby, right that has nothing to do with what he does for work, nothing to do with necessarily his businesses, but it's just a passion of his and I think that's the reason I'm bringing that out as it's important to identify your passions and learn what passions are yours that you're doing just because you want to do them. And then what other things are you doing in your life because there's a lot of things that I do just because I love doing them. And so make a list of that for you and say how often do I do these things that I do just because I love doing them? And are you allowing yourself to get that fulfillment daily or weekly or monthly? How often is that fulfillment coming in so Todd, thank you so much for joining here on on the fuel your legacy podcast? We're excited to hear all of your crazy crazy mindset coachings you know, helping us become better individuals, people, fathers, husbands, wives, daughters, sons, the whole bit business owners. Go ahead andGive us an introduction of who you are, where you came from, really what that transition looked like or that gap from when you went from being kind of in something you thought was going to fulfill you didn't quite hit the mark and transitioning into something where you found more fulfillment.You know, thank you so much for having me here. Today, I'm excited about being able to talk about the importance of legacy, the importance of following something that's going to fulfill us. There's a big difference between the spike of happiness You know, we can have a piece of chocolate feel pretty happy, but to create a life by design that has immense satisfaction, by the time our time. the time we're done here on earth is a very important thing to me. So I grew up kind of a quick down and dirty about me. I grew up on a farm in mid-Michigan, I went to a very small High School at 42 kids in my graduating class.At one of my first big life decisions was an opportunity to go play Division Three basketball, or go to the local community college on a talent scholarship. ForWriting in journalism because I thought I wanted to be a writer, I thought I was gonna be a newspaper reporter to have a passion at the time for writing. And the first flip for me was when I once I got to the college, and they were essentially compensating me with my free tuition to write, I discovered I didn't like it as much anymore. It's like when it was it went from being a hobby and a passion in the academic pursuit to something I was actually like responsible and accountable for there was a big shift.Upon graduating from college, I ended up teaching at a university for three years. And I love that work the light bulb moments of the students and to be able to work with someone to help them had those breakthroughs and understand what was very important to me. Right around the same time, I'd gotten married, and I had a son. And the marriage did not work out for a lot of reasons, which would you probably make a great podcast for someone who has to deal with the joys and sorrows of divorceand from that relationship,I had a son and I had custody of my son, I started raising my son from when he was from the age of two years old. And I was 24.I was working in corporate America, I was doing sales, I was doing sales for products. I was doing sales for services, like staffing and employee leasing. And I just realized for me that in or I couldn't live the life I wanted to as a single dad, going to school, getting my master's degree to continue to teach at night,as well as working during the day and wanting to be a good father. So I made one of the next big life decisions, I had to choose what was my number one priority in life. And I decided, for me, my number one priority was my son,which were then the Epiphany off of that was I couldn't be a good corporate employee, for me, because I wanted to be there for all those once in a lifetime moments from the first soccer game to the first field trip of school. And so I started the journey of trying to figure out what else I can do.With my abilities and skills, recognizing that I couldn't be all things to all people all the time.Around that time,entrepreneurship was just trying to get a little bit of traction in the world Entrepreneur magazine was out ink magazine and I was a voracious reader, reading all these stories of these people started in bootstrap their companies. And I knew at a time another group of people who had started in bootstrap their company, and they were doing what I thought was very well, they they, they, they weren't very high very quickly, and they ended up crashing because they were selling on price. And they didn't build any margin in the business. And they went out but they had a very, three to four-year run. That was I thought, from the outsider's perspective, very impressive. And I thought, huh, like maybe people were listening today identify that, well, they can do that. I can do that.So I wrote a business plan. a business plan was for $140,000 to start a temporary help company in Metro Detroit to plan around to the banks. And crazily enough, the bank said to me, Well, let's say you're a single father, you'dJust came out of a divorce, you have a ton of debt, and we're not going to listen to anybody at all. And it was very humbling. But I just kept talking to people and networking and having conversations about it. And I went and had lunch with an ex-boss of mine who had done well. And he said, Well, no, I'm not going to give you $140,000 Well, here's what I will do. I'm gonna challenge you to come back to me and tell you what the bare number you need is to start your company because I want to invest in you, the company secondary.And that was hugely empowering to get that message from a trusted older advisor to say I believe in you, the planet secondary. So I came back. As for $15,000, I started my company to a company called diversified industrial staffing. And we provided temporary help in Metro Detroit. And I went into that industry because I had worked in the industry in the past, so I knew how to do it, and I saw gaps in the marketplace that I thought I could fill in by day 72 we were profitable. So I gave myself about a 90-day window by day soReady to turn the corner, started hiring employees started growing and scaling the business, but not knowing what I needed to know.Flash forward nine years later, we were you know, we're having some highs and some lows in that timeframe, but doing okay2006 arrives. By September of that year, I was $600,000 in debt. I was two months away from running out of all of my money, including losing the house that my son and I lived in. I was deeply depressed, I was suffering from massive imposter syndrome because I thought I had to be all things to all people all the time. I had a toxic and dysfunctional culture. In my organization. I had employees that I didn't believe in they based on being poor performance of the company. I don't blame them. They didn't believe me. And I hired a coach on a credit card. And we work together. My mindset was awful. I was feeling very defeated by the life I was feeling verymyself my self-criticism, the IDIa bitty negative committee in my head was meeting daily telling me how awful I was doing. And I had a lot of mindset issues going through that. So we talked, we laid out a plan to turn around the company. And from that plan, I ended up having to make some difficult decisions. Because I had a breach of culture and a breach of trust within the organization. I didn't trust anyone who worked for me. So I walked in on September 9 of 2006. And I fired my entire company. So kind of a recap for the listener, I have $600,000 in debt, two months away from going to have all my money taken out of the additional expense of a coach. And I fired everybodythrough a lot of work through a lot of mindset shifting, such as every day, I had to do five positive things because my mindset was so incredibly negative. And I had to report it every day to my coach. What did I do? What like day three, I didn't report it. It's five o'clock phone rings, so I didn't get your text. What you do today. I didn't do anything. I didn't go in.And he read me the riot act. Like this is your business. You said you wanted to fix it.Don't waste my time. If you can't get out of bed by 905 you call me. That's my job. My job is to champion you through this. Because I told you if you work with me, we were into this thing around. I told you, you would not fail. I can only do that work. If you work with me. You've got to communicate and I chose not to. So I did five positive things before going to bed that night and resume the process started hiring people. Game of the process to hire for DNA, not for resume. I was always hiring state staffing industry people in the past. And I recognized that I had to shift how I did everything in the business, the coach was teaching don't just focus on revenue, you've got to focus on the margin business.Just about that time the recession kicks in.And we make the Inc 5000 is one of America's fastest-growing companies for the first six times. So to go from being $600,000 in debt to making the Inc 5006 times was not something I'd ever in my wildest dreams. Thinkhappened. Andfast forward, we pay off all the debt, they find the inflection point in the marketplace where we have increased demand and a diminished supply of people, we fill that gap in the center. In that filling of that gap, we're able to charge more to the customer for what we're doing. Get Paid faster, which pays off the debt quicker. And boom, they're there. There we go. We make the Inc 5000. And it's something thatit's it's just an incredible guy. It's such a great team working with me at the time, people were all focused on going in the right direction. We were doing the 90-day plans. We were doing your annual planning. But you know about five, six years ago, it dawned on me just because I could do something well, didn't mean I had a true love and a passion for the work.And it's funny, it was kind of like the emperor has no clothes syndrome. My whole staff knew it before I admitted to myself and I put together a plan to exit the business.Just two years ago, I started extraordinary advisors where I go around the globe telling people the story I just told your audience and talking about how you know, we have to work on our mindset. To grow your organization to grow your business, you have to grow yourself as a leader first. And, and now I've been fortunate. I've spoken in Toronto, I've spoken South Africa, I've spoken in Monterrey, Mexico, I've spoken all around the United States telling these stories about how entrepreneurs, there's a process to shift your mindset. There's a process to create a life by design.And I just had, you know, I just completed a one year engagement with a client, for example, he said, and the first year I've worked with Todd, my revenues have grown 70% my profits have grown by a factor of five x. So 500% growth in profits is not a bad thing. And he concludes the testimonial video I say, and I love my life, and I love my job.That's now become my purpose and my passion in life. And what it takes me back 30 years ago when I was teaching itThe university in the light bulb moments the students would have when I'm on stage, and someone has a light bulb moment by something I've shared with them. It's so soul-fulfilling. When a client sends something to me and they lean into those uncomfortable moments of, I don't know, my business is going to make it and they plug into my confidence in them. And then they turn the business around, they do the work, I just provide them some guidance. It's so incredibly rewarding that, you know, that I don't ever see myself retiring from coaching and speaking.I love that. It's, it's so cool. I'm excited to dive into a lot of these notes. But I think that that is the that's the journey of life and we are going to face aspects of this journey. And the question is, are we conscious of the journey or are we just allowing the journey to happen without any consciousness of what's happening? And one of the things you said just might work backward here. Like all the things that I love about thisBut before it there, there was a time So have you ever heard of Have you heard of Steve siebold? I have not. Okay, so Steve siebold and he has a book called The Hundred 77 mental toughness Secrets of the world-class. And, and if I remember correctly, his company had the contract with the Navy SEALs to do all the mental toughness coaching for them, like, okay and quality coach, the navy seals. So, for like 20 years his company had that contract. But one of the things that in this book he has like, his thoughts or his thoughts on one of the these hundred and 77, mental toughness secrets, and then he has an action step one of the action steps is to go and ask five people who are close closest to you, and basically who, what they see are your greatest gifts and why. Like, what is the top five reasons that you are guaranteed to succeed as anindividual. I love that's a great exercise. I've written this down. I've got the I will have this on my phone by the end of the day. Yeah, it's awesome. Anyways, I was just thinking, how often are we walking around our lives. We think we're good at something, we're succeeding whatever. And the other people around us, they're either they're too scared to tell us because we're in a position of authority over them. Or they just simply like, they don't want to derail us. They don't want to dissuade us from what we're doing. But really like, everybody around you can recognize that you're not in your passion and you have these very unique skills that if you just use those skills, to serve more people, you'd be happier because that's what like they can see that that's what lights your heart on fire. They don't have to like being told it, they can see that when you're performing a few simple activities. That's what gets you going. Everything else is the mundane stuff you don't enjoy but when you do those two activitiesWe don't accept it ourselves. because like you said, we want to be that everyone that everything man. Well, I think it's it's important for that. So going back to the people, you surround yourself with them, I'm part of a group called to the entrepreneur's organization. I've got a forum that I've been in the same form for 17 years. And when I told my forum mates, it is thinking of leaving the recruiting business and starting coaching, advising business. They were all for it because they said, You're the best coach on our table. You've given us the most knowledge and give back and learning. And ultimately what we did, we did an exercise. So similar. Again, I got to get the Siebel book, where we took a look at how do we define success in our 20s and 30s. And it was typically and which is nothing wrong with this. And listen, I'm a capitalist first and foremost, anybody should work for free. But the piece became like we used to define success as money houses, a wealth of a financial perspective, that was the definition of success. And then I saw a quote from Tony Robbins, and it shifted everything for me. So nowMy version of success to tie into your point is a success is doing what I want where I want with whom I want to do it with as often as I want to go do it. So if I'm, you know, I, I've been working a lot with some some students, and I've got a student that I worked with, he's signing his national letter of intent on Monday for baseball. He's going to go he's got a four year guaranteed ride to get his education. And I've worked with him on mindset. And it baseball is a very, he's a pitcher, and it's very complicated sport for him to get his his athletic abilities off the charts is getting his mindset caught up with it. And I've worked with him as a favor to his dad for free. That is such a rewarding thing because I'm doing what I want. I'm helping this young man, who I really think is a great kid, and he just needs some guidance, where I want we typically go have lunch and I'm happy to pay for it. When I want whatever. It's helping him be helping him at 17 create a life by design. And if he never makes pro ball, that's okay. But he's getting his education paid for he's gonna learn so much in this process and itThat work for me, just fills me up. So whether it's a 1617 year old kid, or it's a 50 year old CEO that, that success for me, but it's so different than what I thought was in my 20s and 30s, when success was gonna turn out to be, yeah, and it's something that that, as you mentioned, other people saw on you before you were alluding to. Exactly, exactly. And, and that's why it's so important to surround yourself. For me. I want to surround myself with people. It's funny because one of my core values is candidness, or candor, rather. And it's important for me to surround myself with people who are willing to just tell me bluntly, what they think about megood or bad, because it doesn't really affect me that much as far as like, what somebody thinks. But if nobody's willing to tell me that they think I'm wrong or that they think I should be doing something different, then I'm screwed ultimately, I I naturally have a confident voice. I naturally come across as like this is fact that it served me very well to have thatThat gait and tone in my my verbiage in my in my business as a leader it serves you but it also if you don't have other strong people around you that can hold you back because then everybody just lockstep follows you rather than saying no, we needed need to do something different you're better in this other area. Let me do that. You go do what you're better. And so I love that aspect of just finding people who are willing to recognize in you your giftedness and and encourage you to chase that sooner in your life. I think that's a really excellent point. I was just with the leadership team the other day 10 leaders in the room. And the CEO had been really the elephant in the room and had was not letting his team do their jobs, because he was just overpowering. So we created a process where we will go around the room to lay out the quarterly plan. And I had leader promise that he would speak last so he could hear and solicit the best ideas that said you've got a brilliant teamYou're paying them a lot of money, and you're holding them back. And you don't even realize it. And we had a real deep dive. It was why I want their ideas. I said, you have to speak last you mean it because the power of the room will drive the organization much stronger. The power of 10 versus the power of one. So we spent a lot of time so three or four people go around the room. CEO chimes in, I'm like, stop it, stop it. But I said, explain everybody upfront that he was supposed to speak less. So then it became a running joke. What it did is it took a lot of the governor's off of the other leaders in the room, you know, the chief marketing officer, it's really an ideas. CEO, I'd never heard them because he thought he had the best ideas, change the dynamic. The business, I think is gonna just take off like a, like the hockey stick of growth, because the leader was able to subordinate his natural instinct to dominate the room because he's usually the smartest one in the room. You get the power of everybody going for because you agreed to speak last. And by the end of it, he was so thankful. He's like, Oh my gosh, this is the best thing.we've ever had people feel buoyant, they feel encouraged, they feel empowered. And basically, all I did was say yes to other ideas. Because honestly, most of them were better than my ideas. Such a such a great opportunity for him to get that feedback from the room that he could have a better organization with the power in the leadership of a bunch of people not having to rely on themselves. Yeah, absolutely. I just know for myself from a perspective of being the leader.I'm aware that I'm just pulling stuff out of my butt most of the time, like, Yeah, let's do this. And I just say it confidently and be like, okay, yeah, let's do it. It's like no, if that's not the way that we should be, like, tell me, but because nobody's offering any advice, we just do it, you know, and we either fail forward or we we launch forward, but it's so it's just a fascinating aspect of humanity, where we have to balance that and as a leader if you're leading in your family, in your faith, and in your fitness wherever your you're leading currently beaware that there's people who have ideas, there's people who have thoughts that you're probably that are probably not being expressed because of, and I hate to use the word fear, but it is a little bit of fearof rejection at the very best. And at the very worst, their fear of losing their job or something a lot worse than that. No, I would, I would say there's an additional pink elephant The room is that fear of criticism, that fear of being shut down. I mean, think about it from a from a small child's perspective, if the parent is constantly dumping on them, you know, your ideas are terrible, you, your kids are naturally born with massive curiosity. And often the parents will call a crush that within the child not even knowing it thinking safety, first, good social protocols with social behaviors, then we do that as leaders with our teams because we essentially have the final say, so we can, it's it's such an art to be able to let your team know that that there is you're free to share ideas. You're free to disagree and there will be in you don't have to worryfear of reprisal or the fear of, of being terminated because ultimately we do control whether they stay or they go, the flipside in today's economy where there are 600,000 more manufacturing jobs, for example, than there are people that fill them. It really is a candidate market. So I'm trying to get employers to recognize like, the number one reason someone leaves a company isn't money, isn't ours is it's you. It's the leader. The greatest the number one source of your next great employee, are your current employees. So if you're a good leader, you buying it and people are going to tell their friends, hey, I work at this place. I work at this place, come work with us. So the leader can shift so much by allowing that that creative tension in the room to allow others to be able to express themselves especially with millennials. I have to tell people this constantly. Millennials are part of their mindset and how they were raised is they like to be part of a team. They like to think they need to be heard, but they realize that you ultimately have the funds but they want their voice in the room. They want their voice out of the decision. They recognize itSomeone else is going to ultimately have that decision. But they want to be heard and they're willing to trade money for freedom and flexibility. So don't demand a millennial is the first one in last one out like they didn't, my generation doesn't work that way anymore. So I think there's a lot of different things that you're talking about today, they can have wide cross appeal, ultimately, for the leader to have a more enjoyable life by design. But the greatest leader can do is build other leaders by teaching them they're part of a company by design, they're able to create titles by design, they're able to do a lot of different things under the surface so that they are enjoying the work they do is that they don't enjoy working for you. They're going to go want to go someplace where they do enjoy the work and the people they work with. Yep. 100% 100%. So moving back even farther into your story, because there's a few things that again, these are key things because there's so many people who are discounting their skills, they're discounting their passions or discounting what they're good at, for multiple reasons, but in your story onhighlight just a few of them.One of them is that we we have this opinion that a hobby and a passion. If we're being compensated for it, then it's no longer fun. Like, I don't understand that honestly, like, why is it that? Like, what do you think is happening in somebody's mind that as soon as they enjoy something as soon as they're being compensated for it, they're like, yeah, this isn't worth getting paid for. I still love it. But it's not worth getting paid for, like, what's that? Why is it that when we have a demand on us, and we have an expectation put on our hobby and passion, it's no longer fun? Well, I think part of it goes into I think our brains need to have a certain place to go to to relax. hobbies are up in those places. So as you mentioned earlier that you know, I have a large sports memorabilia collection, which I do. I've been asked multiple times do I want to get into the sports memorabilia business, and I really don't love the hobby. I have a passion in the skill set for growing leaders, which isNothing to do with my hobby. So I think we as multi multi dimensional creatures on the earth, we can have lots of different hobbies. But I think we also have to figure out what what is our what is our zone of genius. My zone of genius is not autographed by zone of genius is not baseball. I happen to enjoy it. But my I think my zone of uniqueness is growing and helping leaders through my experiences and through some best practices to grow their themselves and to grow their business. I enjoyed writing, but when I felt like when I had the, the freedoms of, of creativity removed, and I was instead, I used to create my own stories at the high school newspaper, at the college newspaper, I was assigned stories and I just wasn't interested in. I remember going back even being a student. I did really well in the classes. I was really interested in the classes I just needed to get through to get out of school. I did the barest of minimum. So that's how my brain worked.No, I love that because I think that there's a recognition there that maybe not everybody's conscious of. And that is that there's, you can be good at a lot of things you can love doing a lot of things. But ultimately,that, for me, it's almost like a sense of duty. I feel like because you said, your zone of genius, right? Yeah. Sometimes, sometimes you have a zone of genius, that really isn't the thing that you received the most fulfillment from. Right. But you recognize that this is a gift that you've been given really, with the purpose to share it with the world. And so it's almost like a duty to share that gift with the world and fully express that. Wow, still have having other areas and then grow to have fun doing your zone of genius. I think I think there's some truth in that. It's interesting. So a lot. We're talking about athletes before we got on the broadcast.You know, we're in Detroit, we've got Barry Sanders and Calvin Johnson, both excellent football players, what they what they talk about now that they both they both retired really early, they had many years left in their bodies to give to the game. The saying, Yeah, I enjoyed playing the game. I had an ability and a skill set that compensated me Well, I never loved playing the game. And I don't like being defined as just a football player. I want to do more with myself where you get other guys who, you know, I know. I still play competitive baseball around the country playing Michigan and play in Florida. I play in Phoenix and there are guys who love the game who are passionate about the game and do not have any ability to play the game. They just they just have no ability and they don't have that that you that gift. I think we all have gifts and I think part of is a figure out what our gift is. I've got friends who are who are excellent guitar players. And then I know people who are excellent musicians. There is a gap in their skill set. There's a gap with the marketplace.We'll pay them for, and it's getting to understand there's nothing wrong to recognize it, that self awareness comes into play. Hey, I love to play the guitar. And if someone wants to pay me to play 12 hours a day, I'd be happy to. The reality is nobody wants to pay me 12 hours a day to play the guitar. Whereas other guy can just, he's a virtual. So now if he has, if you have a virtual CIO with a passion for the hobby, a passion for the guitar passion for business, and I know serial entrepreneurs, Richard Branson's owns what 5060 companies, he loves owning businesses. What he doesn't love is he doesn't love operating the business. So again, is that Where's your zone of genius? Where's your unique contribution to the earth? And if you're, if you have a skill that you really love, but nobody really wants to pay for, but want to recognize that's a great hobby, and a great passion, but it's not something that you're able to feed your family on. Yeah, so now we're gonna go we're gonna go one step further here because I love I love where this is going. First off for you, whoever is listening, think about what is your zone of genius. What is yourgiftedness What is your one thing that that really that's what you feel you're meant to bring to this this earth and to share with with other people because I believe everything, at least for me, I try and structure my life around service, love and contribution. Like those those things are high on my list of what I want to be doing with my life are activities where I feel like I can fulfill that. But here's here's the next thing that I want the next limiting belief I find them limiting beliefs. When I'm talking with coaches, and I'm talking with different people.You were a teacher at college and you liked being a teacher you liked the seeing the light bulb go off. I love that I was one of my highest. Well, it was funny because I wasat a retreat a few months back and they asked us to write down a list of stuff that fulfills so I'm going to read a few things that are things that fulfill me and it was funny because if we contrast this list with my wife's list, and I'm doing things that fulfill meAlmost every every day, at least everything on this list happens once a month, if not more often on her list. It's like her list of stuff that fulfills her is smaller. And it also is not happening as often.Yeah, some of the things that really I love doing is leading other people's leading other people to Christ, seeing confidence come in somebody's eyes, personal development, business development, striving for excellence, seeing other people love creating transformation in people and having just conversations with random people. So I love all these, these things that I'm doing.But I used to think, well, I can't get paid for doing those things, right. And most teachers in America in America and I don't know how it is in other countries, but in America, most teachers, they just don't get paid very well. Okay, and I'm gonna I'm putting this in air quotes. If you're watching this because this is huge. People think that theyskill set. Maybe they like playing the guitar 10 hours a day or 12 hours a day. And they think, well, nobody's gonna pay me for it. And I would at least challenge it. Now, I'm not saying you have to go this route. But guess what, in my opinion, Todd is doing nothing more now than he was back then he's still teaching people. The question is, where are you trying to employ your, your giftedness or your talent or your passion? Agree? What's the venue that you're trying to do it? I have, I have clients who are teachers, and they teach at a high school at or a grade school and they get paid 30 $40,000 a year. I mean, it's just like, not very much. Then I have clients who are teaching the same exact content, but they're doing it in an online forum.And they're teaching multiple more students at once getting paid 100 plus thousand dollars a year. And the difference is where are you employing your skill? So maybe it's dancing, maybe it's being a chef, I had a guest on podcast A while back, who's a chef who has rose in the ranks in the hospital andWhat's the word? hotel industry wasn't getting paid what he wanted to get paid, stepped out of that became a just a consultant chef who would come in to an organization and reorganize the chef world in that organization, the food, the food, world, cafeteria, whatever, restaurant, and then he would move. So he was now a consultant chef rather than a salaried chef, and 10 times his income, right? So it's these smaller things is where are you actually choosing to employ your giftedness rather than, Oh, I can't make money at this. I gotta go find something else. No, find out where you can employ it. That's really going to give you the return that fits with your lifestyle. Right. One of my favorite speakers in the last 10 years is a guy named David Rendell. And he has a book called The freak factor and his whole theme, ology is what's you know, we often don't recognize the things that we get criticism for are really our unique ability. His tagline isWhat's weird makes you wonderful. And any any talks about, you know, being a case six, seven. So he's tall wherever he goes, he can't hide himself, right? And people think, wow, there's a lot of advantages to being tall. And then he talks about the disadvantages of being tall. And they talk that he part of his speech moves into talking about how he was guided by his by his his high school and college or his high school in elementary school. And he goes, I was told to, I talk too much. I have too many opinions, and I can't sit still as a kid. So those became my limiting beliefs. Now, as an adult, I get paid to talk, I get paid to move around, and I get paid to share opinions. And then they had great living. So that's that when I saw him, he blew my mind because I'm like, Oh, my gosh, the reinforcement we get is what's, you know, the things that we do are wrong or bad, you know, parents, teachers, things like that. But Dave was so wise to figure out is, what's weird makes you wonderful. So if you're someone like you're talking about who has he has skills,And abilities, your challenges and entrepreneur, your challenges, even a solo practitioners to figure out where can I apply my zone of genius, my unique abilities, which maybe other people told me 15 2030 years ago were weaknesses, which are actually strengths? And how do I apply them in a way that I'm earning the type of living that I want to earn. But the but the other part of it is you have to I found, what you're talking about is you have to be able to demonstrate a very clear return on investment for the buyer. You have, you know, I tell my clients, whatever you spend with me, you should expect to get four to six times return on investment. So that the client who just reported that they they've grown their revenue by 70%, and their profits by a factor of five x are they're thrilled they're getting 500% return on their investment with me. But that's the work that they've done. And so much of the work I've done with them was just like what you're talking about is getting them to figure out what do they do well, what do they do that nobody else in the world can do? How do they charge more for that, but still keep it cost?effective for the marketplace? And then how do they do that over and over and over and over again? Mm hmm. Absolutely. And I think that's, that's where hiring a coach can really add a lot of value into it. And so how many? Again, these are the common things that I come up against, and people are asking me, but how many people do you thinkwho have gotten to your position? Right who have reached the I'm gonna call it success, not just financial success, butoverall, in general, fulfilling their passion? How many of those people do you think started, their businesses started and they're getting the help they needed through some form of debt, whether that's credit cards, business loans, personal loans, so I'm excited when I look at protesting I don't, I'm gonna take your debt even a step further, and I'll get back to the money but but I think we have I for me, I had an internal self esteem debt. I had to prove to the world I could do this. I had to proveI was chasing a ghost. I have a client who recently shared with me that, you know, we probably broke him down against him. So why are you still so unhappy? I just wanted to prove I want to, I wanted to prove to my dad that I'm success is awesome. Let me let's set up a call with your dad. And we can talk about is my dad's been gone for 15 years. Like, wow. So he's he's now dealing with the ghost. So we have an internal debt. And what we fail to realize, I think most entrepreneurs are often self reliant. And we're rugged individualists. I know I was in this very clear in my arc of, of knowledge that that I needed coaching all the way and I had coaching and when I didn't have coaching is when I went down because I wasn't mature enough or savvy enough to have that outside person. Give me that perspective that I greatly needed. My father passed away when I was five years old, and my older brother lived across the country. So we didn't interact all the time and I'm an isolating, I think I've got this down and you are from the generation where we don't talk about our problems.anybody listening talking about your problems? You know, it's it's, there's a community of people out there that will listen. So I created my own debt. So it's almost as if you when you talk about the debt question, so I think we have an internal debt, we have an external debt, we give it to others. So if you've never seen anybody who's had battles with drugs and alcohol, they go, they have to hit what they call bottom. In order to get help. The first step is to ask for help. My journey was no different. Now my battle was with with debt in bad decisions, and self esteem, where other people deal with drugs and alcohol. But if you take a look at the behavior patterns of both categories, they're very eerily eerily similar. Entrepreneurs just focus their, their their issues on growing a business, but their disruptive behaviors with family and time and money are very classically similar. So I think to your question we all have, we all have challenges we all you know, for me, I can't work with a client until they're ready to change. My coach couldn't work with me until I was ready to change he asked me a lot of Are you ready toHave you had enough of this kind of questions we did. That was brilliant. I do that now. And the great thing about it is I've recognized and realized that I part of my life issues in life is I'm never satisfied, which makes me a lifelong learner. So I still have a coach in my life today. He's not a business coach. He's a neuroscientist, and he teaches me how my brain works. So I can stop doing the things that really drive me crazy and drive others crazy so I can do more of the things I enjoy and making others, you know, making the world a better place. So for, I think, the savvy person, the savvy entrepreneur recognizes that coaching is always needed. If you take a look at sports, Tiger Woods as a Swing Coach, Mike trout has a hitting coach, Nolan Ryan had a pitching coach, you know, in sports, it's encouraged that coaching is always going to be a part of your life. So you never take it out. But we go to university, we go to school, and I think goodness, I'm done learning. I'm done having teachers.I'm a big believer that we always have to have either peopleto peer learning, like in an EEO, coaching, like the services I provide, maybe you provide for, you know, that close, close, tight network of mastermind groups, coaching is is part of it. They say it takes a community to raise a child, I argue it takes a community to raise an entrepreneur too. Mm hmm. No, I completely agree. So, you got a little bit into this, but I want to,I would love for you to share even more in detail. But how is the the what are the parallels between entrepreneurial mindset and the 12 step recovery program? That's, you know, no one's ever really asked me that. And I certainly want to I want to preface it by saying I'm not a licensed counselor. I have personally never been through a 12 step program.But I have clients that have people intimately in my life who have so I'm going to kind of do my best to answer the question, but I want to make sure that people know you know, call me you know, reach out on my website, hey, I, you know, I need I need help with drugs and alcohol. That's not my area of expertise. So if you take a look at that,The entrepreneurial mindset as well as the the mindset of someone who's got a substance challenge. Typically, there's there's a, there's a I'm not good enough mindset attached. So we take they take the drugs and the alcohol to numb the feelings numb the pain, and it create a different version of themselves. A lot of entrepreneurs start a business to prove something to themselves because they feel deficient. They feel deficient either internally or they feel deficient inthe messages they received from childhood and how they behave. Then there be those deficiencies and create behaviors, those behaviors then exhibit themselves and some things that worked well. So they I when I was in college, I'd go out and drink and I had a great time. When I'm in my 40s I go out and drink and I feel like like I'm gonna die. I'm really mean to people. So a behavior may be work for them at one point socially, but then it became too much and it didn't work for them socially. Same with entrepreneurship. I'm a rugged individualist, I've grown my business, I've self reliant. I've taken it from, you know, 300,000 to 900,000. I've reached a ceiling of complexity.Well, I'm just gonna keep doing the same things I did 300,000 at 900,000, it doesn't work, the business is different. And you're building yourself a job now you're building yourself a company. And I've had clients say to me, I want to be on the Inc 5006 times like you were it. I said, that's a great goal. But that wasn't why I did what I did, in getting the ocean, why they do what they do. And a lot of times, why entrepreneurs do what they do, is to feed something into fill something with inside of themselves, just like the addict is wanting to feed and feel something inside of themselves. So part of it is to recognize those both categories have fear and self doubt.And often that self doubt turns into self loathing, depending on where they are in the journey. And the a lot of entrepreneurs suffer from imposter syndrome. I did you walk into a room of other entrepreneurs and other successful people being by society and you feel like, I'm not worthy. I don't belong here. I don't want to be a part of a club that would have me in it.PeopleDrug and Alcohol it dependencies feel like, I'm not worthy, I'm letting my family down. They don't know. They think they're hiding it. It's like I thought I was hiding some of my things. There, a lot of the traits and the behaviors are exhibited.Or the underlying algorithm for techies, the underlying algorithm is the same. They're just exhibited differently. So I always tell people like this, that I had to hit bottom in order to change. People say, Well, I want you to come in and change my company and change my leadership team. I can't do that. I have to work with the leader and the entrepreneur, they have to work on changing themselves and how they approach their team, how they approach their business and how they contribute to it. No different than the drug addict or the alcoholic who says, Yeah, it's my failure. The screwed up, I'm fine.Yep, know exactly that with my clients. When I work with them on a financial basis. They often they're like, I just want to talk about money, am I I'm not talking about money, like almost ever. 95% of what I do with my clients has nothing to do with money has everything to do with you.Your legacy, how do you want to be remembered? What are your core values? How do you receive fulfillment? Once we identify some of these basic foundational principles, thennow that that then all the confusion about the money concept where you're putting your money, how I'm talking, I mean, I've had a few clients now where you sit down with them, and they just are unaware of where their money is going. You ask them okay, well, let's let's track this Penny by penny. And turns out they're spending hundreds of dollars on fast food, snacks, drinks, or whatever. One of my clients out over $1,000 on fast food eating out, wow, it's like it. I have no problem. Like, whatever you feel fulfills you do it right. I'm not here to tell you whether it's good or bad. But I am going to challenge you and ask you, is it serving your legacy? Is it serving your core values? And does it really give you fulfillment? If the answer is none of those, thenthen why are we doing and then allow them to choose how they want to continue moving forward, but all of thathas to start with, again, who you are, what's your mindset, all these things and it has nothing to do with the actual manifestation of the activities that the money spending habits. It has to do with the indecision about who you want to become and what you want to leave. I think that's brilliant. I love the fulfillment question because so many entrepreneurs say I just want to be happy. I used to say, I just want to be happy and part of the the generation, you know, go to school, get married, start a family, get a great career and just be happy was kind of that that was how my family believed. And that was drilled into me talking to my current coach, and I was very frustrated one day he's like, so here I have a prescription for happiness.eat chocolate and then go to the gym. Because a spike of dopamine is the only way you're going to be happy. And he goes that he was they actually told me the story about how they did with lab rats and how they disliked them with me, and it made them absolutely insane. He was and he challenged me it's become a platform for what I do know, swap out happiness for satisfaction.Because satisfaction is a journey satisfyingis a hero's journey. And we look at your legacy. When you look back on your life, the only thing we take with is our memories. I mean, we can have all the money in the world, but we can't cheat that it's not going to buy us out of it didn't work for Steve Jobs. It's not gonna work for me. But what is our what is our satisfaction, and you take a look at the baby steps through the start of something to the end of the journey have a satisfying experience. There are highs and lows. It is the hero's journey, where if we're just focused on just being happy all the time, we're going to live a massive sense of disappointment. And if our only measure of having a successful life is cash, cash is a byproduct of other activities. So I think your question of fulfillment is spot on. Yeah. Well, thank you. I think so too. That's why I asked it but I just have loved having you on the guests. having you as a guest on the podcast. If we want to connect with you reach out and look for maybe coaching or conversation what where's the best place to connect with us on social media website? where's the best place to get a hold of you? The best place to get a hold of me is actually on mywebsite and I love the whole theme of the show of legacy because I'm really a legacy play in my life. Most entrepreneurs I think start their business we've talked about for a while to satisfy something with inside themselves to prove something to someone or someone else that they can do something. For me being an extraordinary advisors is my legacy. I've written one book, I so yeah, I guess I live on Amazon forever. But the legacy for me is having rich in conversations like we've had this morning. So I love anybody wants to connect with me on my website, extraordinary advisors, calm, I'm happy to give you a half hour of my time for free, no cost, to have an enriching conversation that's important to you. But my goal is to listen to absorb and then I'll respond so I can be of great service to you. And it's my opportunity to be able to I don't want to bother you. I know it's an opportunity for me to do what I love. It's an opportunity for me to connect with people have enriching conversations, and it allows me a part of my legacy thought process is to pay back all the great coaches and teachers I've had along my journey. A lot of them who never know the impact they've made on me, so please, anybody's interested. They gotvalue out of our conversation today. Please reach out at extraordinary advisors calm and I'm happy to give you 30 minutes. I love that. Okay, so really quickstory time for me. So I was listening to another podcast called entrepreneurs on fire. by john Lee Dumas he does that podcast and 2017 and 2017 I was working my butt off 4050 hours a week trying to make my business work struggling and listen to this podcast and a coach and other coach she lived up in Canada offered a 30 minute coaching call for free and I was just at the right moment where I was struggling enough that I was willing to call you know I was I had set my ego down I'm telling you guys this story so you can do the same right? I set my ego down and I got on the phone call is January two sorry December 23. A few days before Christmas and on this coaching callWith her, and in half an hour, we got to the bottom of that I flat out did not believe I was worthy of success. I didn't believe I was worthy of being a thought and I'm not saying that this is going to be your your story, but this was my story and what a half an hour can do for you.My income, monthly income from 2017 to 2018 quadrupled wow or x my income by simply once I recognize this is simply a worthiness issue. I put I am worthy in multiple contexts into my daily affirmations, and four times my income I'd like a half an hour of Todd's time, I promise you is worth it. If you're gonna get more specific questions answered, I promise you it's worth it. Don't miss out on that. And I can't express that enough because it was a half an hour coaching call that completely changed the trajectory of my life. That's awesome. What a great experience. share that. Thank you so much for sharing thatYeah, no, I love it. So please reach out to him. I'm grateful that I've had an hour of his time but, and you can go back and re listen to this podcast. But really, really think about that. And, and what it means for you and what it could mean for you moving forward, if you just got on a call, and were to identify one thing, one belief that you have that's not serving you. What could that do for your life and not about you and your income, because it's not about me and my income. It's about my wife and my kids and how I'm providing for them and how I'm able to now go back and serve more to help more people because I'm now financially stable. So, like,take the half hour, it's worth it every second of the day, okay. And the link will be in the show notes here. And you can just click the link to his website and go I'm assuming go get registered on your website for that half. Yeah, absolutely. We'll get it set up. Awesome. So here are the last two sections of the podcasts got about three minutes left. Sothis is called legacy on rapid fire. So I'mAsk you five questions and looking for one word or one sentence answers. If you use one word for the first question I'm gonna ask you to clarify. Okay, fair enough. So what do you believe is holding you back from reaching the next level of your legacy today?I think the thing holding me back right now is a lack of awareness in the marketplace of what I'm able to deliver. I love that. Okay, and what what is the hardest thing you've ever accomplished in your life?Oh my gosh, Ithink the hardest thing personally and I don't think I've ever shared this on a podcast is the three year custody battle that I fought by myself as a as a attorney improper to get custody of my son is by far my life's biggest accomplishment. That's cool. So that was that's what was gonna be the next question is what's your greatest success at this point in your life, getting custody of my son raising a great young man. He's a 28 year old account now from a personal perspective, and I thinkMy greatest business success isn't being on the Inc 5006 times it's honoring my commitments to others and paying that $600,000 in debt. I love that. See, that's so cool. It's comes back to what are the values, one of the core things and about an individual and integrity. And that's the great success is when you're getting the satisfaction, fulfillment of keeping your word. It's not what you build. It's about who have you as an individual become. It's the small distinctions I promise you that are separating the people who are leading the world from the people who are following in the world is the small distinctions of how they identify themselves and their inner values and who they've chosen to be. The next question is, what what is one of your secrets you believe contributes most to your success?I think really, one of my biggest secrets is getting rid of the word expectation and replacing it with the word intention.Fantastic. And what are two or three books that you would recommend to the fuel your legacy audience okay.So for me, I'll give you a couple. I mentioned one earlier freak factor from David Rendell. It really helps you figure out who your your your uniqueness is to the world. And it may not be what you think which I was really blown away by.One of the most pivotal pivotal books that I ever read for just pure business was good to great by Jim Collins, and the stories in there. I use his Stockdale paradox story when I speak to audiences. And the last one.Now, I've listened to this book now almost five times on Audible, known for less than two years. It's called the book. The book is better got it right here. It's the it's the subtle art of not giving a blank by Mark Manson. And what I like about that book is it really helps reframe your mindset around every aspect of life. talks about dating, he talks about kids, he talks about himself he talks about business and always driving like your shows.talk about today is what legacy Do you want to have? How do you want to be show? How do you want to show up in the world? And how do you want to be seen? And how is it that you can be exactly where you want to be and be okay with yourself at the same timethat now, maybe I'll get that book from my way. It's, it's, it's powerful. We did a we did a mastermind Leadership Retreat just based around that book. That's it and it's giving yourself that it's a such a permission. And while it's got a lot of blue language in it, I find this humor to be incredibly funny, so it takes a lot to offend me. But I like his, he tells us the story of the band of Metallica and how their original guitarist Dave Mustaine, who then went on to find a very successful hard rock band was still very jealous of not being in Metallica anymore. You compare that to him, he created a band called Megadeth that he went and talked about Pete best, who was the Beatles drummer before Ringo Starr and how they threw him out of the band.before their first album, now he had gone through the journey and how he made peace with that choice and how he was now living his life and didn't have jealousy for the four Beatles. He goes, it kind of goes, I have enough money to live my life comfortably. I can walk down the street, Paul McCartney can. Yeah, so true. like looking at the freedom of life, what you actually have, where Dave Mustaine was complaining about you know, I could I could have bet you I could have been in the biggest band in the world and you threw me out and you didn't let me do this and you didn't you get an alcohol issue. Started Megadeth which is sold 2030 million albums. It's not there. Nobody's ever heard of him. But he's still had that weird jealousy and issues with something that where Pete best is like, you know, life is good. Yeah, that's funny. perception, man. Everything's perception. Okay, here's my favorite question. So I saved it for last I love when surprise for people on this show. But we're going to pretend that you're dead now.Okay, and you are able to comeBack in whatever form you believe in, and view, your great, great, great, great, great grandchildren sitting around a table discussing your life. So this is six generations about 200 years from now. Okay, discussing your legacy in your lifetime. I want to know what do you want your great great, great, great grandchildren to be saying about your legacy in your life and what you brought to the earth?I would want them to saythat he was a lifelong learner.who, through trials and tribulations, discovered his authenticity, his transparency and was able to demonstrate his vulnerability to be at the service of others. Awesome. And if you've been listening to this podcast, which hopefully you didn't just skip to the end, but I think that that is an absolute alignment with who taught is it took him a while sometimes to get there throughout throughout his life to really identify that, but as soon as he has identified it, he's been living that and he's helping other people live the same. So that is it.I love that when it's in alignment, sometimes people answer that and it's not in alignment with the whole podcast like, hey, well, you got some work to do. Absolutely. It's so important. It's, it's human beings, I've discovered you can be a great speaker and not connect with your audience because parts of them don't believe that your your behaviors, your energies and your message are out of alignment with how you come across. So I may not be the world's greatest speaker. But I want people to feel that they're getting the real deal. And people are getting my clients getting or getting a real experience versus just a bunch of catchphrases and a bunch of polish and a bunch of sometimes even Shock Value like this is, I mean, I was literally $600,000 in debt. I literally fired all of my employees. I was literally a single parent who fought for custody for three years. AndI'm doing more than just fine. Yeah, yeah, exactly. And you're addingAnd even financially, that's one area but like you're really happy, satisfied, fulfilled. And you can see that you can see when somebody's completely relaxed and zero stress on their in their life. Sure, for external I mean, we always put have a level of stress we put on ourselves so we can continue to,to produce and excel and grow, which is kind of the lifelong learner thing. We were conscious that we don't know everything yet, which is a good thing. But it's not like we're feeling depressed or anxious about the future. Because that that's taken care of now. It's just pure creation mode. So I love it. Yeah, exactly. Cool. Well, thank you so much. And definitely again, go check out his website, take advantage of the free 30 minute. I hate to say free I just hate the word free because people don't value it as much. This is life changing and it could quadruple your income if you could double your income. If it could help you sleep an extra hour at night because you have a little bit more peace in your life. What is that?Is that worth to you? It's not free because the cost of not doing it is all that time all that pain that you are in not knowing. Right? Well, very well said Sir. Very well said. Okay. Anyways, I'll get off my soapbox. I'm super grateful party, Toddfor having me today. I had a great time. Yeah, thank you and we'll catch you guys next time on fuel your legacy.Thanks for joining us if what you heard today resonates with you please like comment and share on social media tag me and if you do give me a shout out I'll give you a shout out on the next episode. Thanks to all those who've left a review. It helps spread the message of what it takes to build a legacy that lasts and we'll catch you next time on fuel your legacy.

On this week's episode The Boys talk with UVM Head Basketball Coach John Becker. We talk to Coach Becker about how he went from a Division Three tennis coach to a Division One basketball coach. Coach Becker discusses the family environment he has created at Vermont, how he has had so much success recruiting in the Midwest, and his recruiting advice for young players. Coach also talks about who was the best player in college basketball this season, who would have won the National Championship, and who he would pick number one overall in the draft. Post Interview The Boys discuss why Anthony Edwards went to Georgia and if he is a real winner.

It’s the topic everyone loves to hear about, but hardly anyone is willing to talk about. And that’s the inside secrets of distribution. Distributors “hold all the chips” so it’s time we find out how deals are made. We sit down with Mike Bridges, who owns Jack's Liquor Beer Wine in Fremont, Nebraska and was once a rep for Nebraska Wine and Spirits which was later purchased by Republic. He talks about what really happens behind those closed doors, who gets allocations (high volume stores vs small mom and pop shops), and consumer frustrations. There’s a lot of ground to cover in this one. Show Partners: Find out what it’s like to taste whiskey straight from the barrel with Barrell Craft Spirits. Learn more at BarrellBourbon.com. Receive $25 off your first order at RackHouse Whiskey Club with code "Pursuit". Visit RackhouseWhiskeyClub.com. Show Notes: This week’s Above the Char with Fred Minnick talks about the smoked grain debate. How did you get into bourbon? Tell us about your time in the food and beverage industry. How did you transition into a distributor position? What was the distributor called at that time? How do allocations work? Is there any transparency between the rep and the business? Do they tell you how you can get the allocated items? What motivates a distributor to sell products? How do distributors spend money to get retailers to carry products? Talk about high volume retailers vs mom and pop retailers. Do your distributors take price gouging seriously? How much blame are you putting on the distillers for not getting allocated items? Are they using the distributors to take the blame? Would a distributor advise a brand to raise a price? Do stores ever do favors for distributors in order to get allocated items? What would be a better system? Are allocations really down every year? How has your view changed as a retailer now? 0:00 I'm not bashing the wholesaler so to speak, you know, I consider him like my wife can live with her can live without her. I mean 0:21 what's up everybody it is Episode 236 of bourbon pursuit. I'm kenny. And we got some news to cover, so let's get to it. The Kentucky Derby Museum is back with the legend series. It offers three nights of casual in depth conversations with pioneers and titans of the bourbon industry. And each night in the series is hosted by our very own Fred MiniK in each evening features a different bourbon master who handpicks a selection of Bourbons to go and taste or each legend shares his or her expertise and engages with guests through their senses as they taste fine Bourbons and enjoy appetizers as well, on January 23. We'll have Peggy noe Stevens who was our guest back on episode 198. 1:00 into a fourth on Thursday, January 30. We have none other than Freddy Johnson who we all know and love. And he's been back on episode 59 in 115. And wrapping it up on February 6 is Connor Driscoll who you heard most recently on episode 231. tickets to each event is $75 or there is a complete package for $200. You can buy your tickets right now by going online to Derby museum.org Woodford Reserve has released its annual expression of the double double oak bourbon. It's part of its annual series that celebrates master distiller Chris Moore's his commitment to innovation and craftsmanship. double double oak is the result of finishing fully mature, Woodford Reserve and double oak bourbon for an additional year and a second heavily toasted but lightly charred new oak barrel. The extra year in the barrel creates a bourbon that is distinctly spicier than its original counterpart, known for its sweeter taste and finish. The product is available in limited quantities at Woodford Reserve distillery. 2:00 And select liquor stores around Kentucky coming in at 90.4 proof with a suggested retail price of 4999 for a 375 ml bottle. Oklahoma Attorney General Mike hunter issued an opinion Tuesday that could affect who could potentially obtain a license to sell alcohol and the state. residency requirements for obtaining a retail license for wine and spirits or even though wholesalers license and Oklahoma are likely to be found in violation of the Commerce Clause and the US Constitution. Oklahoma currently has a five year residency requirement for those seeking to obtain a license to sell Wine and Spirits at retail or wholesale level. In other words, a liquor store owner has to approve he or she has been a resident for five years before applying for the retail license. The same goes to wholesalers. Tennessee had this similar requirement of two years residency for some liquor license. And that rule was challenged in the US Supreme Court deemed it unconstitutional back in 2019. So we'll see where this is gonna play out this weekend. 3:00 celebrates 160 years of early times whiskey. So here's a quick history lesson. early times was originally produced using the clinical early times method of whiskey making, and this consisted of mashing grain and small tubs and boiling beer and whiskey and copper stills over open fires. This unique method of production continued until 1918. With prohibition, five years barrels of mature early times whiskey sat idle in the distilleries, classic ironclad maturation warehouses, in dire need of whiskey to operate as a bottler and wholesaler during Prohibition owlsley Brown owner of brown Forman acquired early time stocks in 1923, the company's first ever purchased brand, and it resumed sales under its medicinal whiskey permit. As prohibition came to a close brown Forman geared up to begin distilling early times once again. To keep up with the bourbon brands growth brown Forman acquired the old Kentucky distillery which later became early times distillery providing a brand a home of its own. 4:00 Whiskey popularity grew early times one of the first brands to recognize and capitalize on the mixability of bourbon and cocktail trends, which led to become the number one Kentucky bourbon in America back in 1953. Today the historic plant has now named the brown Forman distillery. But it remains home of early times and stands as the longest continually operating distillery under the same ownership in Kentucky. This year early times is honoring their tradition with a throwback advertisement that once said, The whiskey that made Kentucky whiskeys famous. If you follow bourbon pursuit on any of our social handles, you seen that Ryan and I we took a quick trip to Woodinville whiskey company last week. We took the 6am flight from Louisville to Seattle drove up to Woodinville, which is surrounded by 100 plus wineries and sat down with the co founder Brett Carlyle and got to know more about their story and what they're producing for an upcoming podcast. Then after that we tasted through some barrels and selected to that will become prestigious 5:00 series, y'all, Ryan and I, we can't even begin to describe how good their bourbon is. They're doing everything right with locally sourced grains, a finely tuned still an operation that was under the guidance of the late great Dave pickerel. He goes going into the barrel at 110 proof aging and Rick structures two hours away that mimic the climate of the Midwest, and nothing is getting pulled until it's the least five years old. And if you're in the know already, and you've tasted it, then you're probably already a fan. But we are super excited to be able to get these special barrels into the hands of all of you soon and looking forward to an eventual release from Woodinville whiskey as well. Make sure you follow us on social and Patreon for all the latest updates for pursuit series. For today's show, it's one of those podcast topics that people love to hear about. It's the inside Secrets of the trade that usually no one's willing to talk about. However, we sit down with Mike bridges. He owns Jack's liquor, beer and wine in Fremont, Nebraska. He was also once a rep for distributor for 6:00 braska wine and spirits, he talks about what really happens behind those closed door deals. Who gets the allocation? Is it the high volume stores? Or is it the small mom and pop shops? And where does most of that consumer frustration really stem from? We cover a lot of ground in this one, I'm sure you're really going to like it. You know, we like to see what people think of the show as well. Leaving reviews helps new people searching podcasts, find us. And you can help us by going to rate this podcast.com slash bourbon. And you can leave a review for iTunes, Spotify or pod chaser. We always appreciate seeing these as it helps grow the show and find new listeners. All right, now let's get on with it. You can sit back and relax. Let's hear what Joe has to say from barrel bourbon. And then you've got Fred minich with above the char. 6:46 It's Joe from barrell bourbon. Tasting whiskey straight from the barrel was truly a life changing moment for me. In 2013. I launched barrel craft spirits so everyone could have the experience of tasting whiskey, a cast strength next time ask your bartender for 6:59 barrell bourbon. 7:01 I'm Fred MinnicK. And this is above the char. If you follow me on Instagram, you may recall this post I put up a few few months ago. It was when I was in California. Somebody had brought me a bottle of war Bringer mesquite, smoked Southwest bourbon finished in a Sherry cask. I was very excited to taste this because anytime I see mosquito on anything, my mouth starts to water. And I think of my childhood days eating all that great mesquite smoked barbecue sopping up that sauce with a piece of white bread. I love mesquite barbecue, so good. But anyway, I digress. I'm not talking about barbecue. I'm talking about whiskey. So I was very excited to taste this stuff. And which bag did I put it in? I put it in my carry on not my check in so TSA was very glad to take the bottle from me. They actually thanked me later and said they would have a good time with it. So 8:01 You're listening to say, I hope you enjoyed it, but you also kind of suck. So anyway, I get a bottle sent to me from the company because I really wanted to taste this stuff. And I tasted just the other day and I was kind of like nervous about tasting is because I love mesquite so much that I kind of, I'm always I'm always a little nervous when someone plays around with one of my favorite flavors. And sure enough, it kind of hit the mark. I tasted the musky, you really cannot. You can't. You can't taste this without getting a big ol mouthful of mesquite and it got me to thinking what are some other products out there that are using smoke techniques for the grains? Well, there's actually quite a few. One of my favorite is the MB Roland dark fire they use a dark 9:00 Fire technique to smoke their corn. Dark fires a term that they use in Western Kentucky for a procedure in which they kind of like slow smoke the tobacco before they roll it up and in be rolling, which is in Christian County, Kentucky, applied that nice local technique to their whiskey and it shows and they're fantastic. But here's the thing. They are so far left or to the right, of what we anticipate bourbon to taste like that. If you put if you put this in a flight of regular Kentucky bourbon, you know this mesquite smoke bourbon or the dark fire bourbon, you're going to think it's flawed if you don't know it's got a special smoking technique to it. So over the years, we have had all of these incredible debates about whether or not barrel finishes such as angels envy. 10:00 In fact, urban on now, when you have the smoking techniques being applied, we might have to start applying a new debate to the conversation of what his bourbon is bourbon allowed to have smoke applied to the grains. I think that's a question. We need to start asking because traditionally it has not been applied to grains. Now it's, it's applied throughout in scotch and Irish whiskey. But if we start seeing a political of smoke grains enter Kentucky bourbon or other states Bourbons, then what we're going to find is there's going to be all kinds of different flavor profiles in Kentucky bourbon, or Missouri bourbon or whatever type of bourbon. You may think that's good, some traditionals may think it's not. Either way. I'm open for 11:00 debate. I think it's a good conversation to have. So hit me up on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook and let me know your opinion as to whether or not smoked bourbon should in fact be bourbon or should it be called something else? So I look forward to your comments and we may even read them on the air in the next episode of bourbon pursuit. And that's this week's above the char. Hey, hit me up on that Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook at Fred minich. Until next week, cheers 11:37 Welcome back to that episode of bourbon pursuit the official podcast of bourbon the trio here tonight talking for a really fun subject because this is actually one that we had talked about it for probably Ryan and I, we probably discussed it for maybe over a year to now of trying to find somebody from the I don't know it's tough to kind of say like put an adjective to a 12:00 But from the distributor world, and having to come on the show and kind of reveal some dirty secrets, because it's, it's something that's really, really hard to get, you know, nobody for the actual companies seem to want to talk about it. But we kind of backdoored a little bit to actually make it happen. So I'm kind of really excited to get this juicy scoop on what happens and why liquor stores get certain allocations why some don't do some play favorites. Some, some maybe do some don't. I don't know. But I guess we'll find out. Uh, you know, what do you all think we're going to get into tonight, Ryan, I'll hand it over to you. 12:36 Well, I think distributors are an evil empire and an organized mafia. 12:44 But I you know, with that, I don't exactly know what all goes on what takes place. So it would be I am interested to see what goes on and what takes place and you know, maybe there's a world we don't understand and and why. Maybe 13:00 Our negative outlook on distributors is maybe not the correct one but I have a feeling it might be and so yeah, just bring it to you. You're already like my magic eight ball I already know what it's gonna say exact I'm trying to give him the benefit of the doubt you know so that's why we have them on but I know for sure really excited about because like I said we we hit on distributors all the time and especially being in the business now we've made them more so well I mean, let's give some context of the story like so what what is it that that we're it let's not say hate right we're not hate because we have to work with them. It's it's a nice Yeah, well, but kind of talk about like, what is the what what's what's the what's really grinding your gears right now with it? I mean, basically, it's just a pastor in you know, for big brands, I can totally understand because the distributors out there marketing and selling for you, helping push product but like small brands, it's really just a pastor and it it seems like they're just getting a piece of pie just because it's mandated through law. 14:00 And it just doesn't seem fair right to the people that are actually making the product don't make as much money as the distributors or percentage as much as distributors or the retailer. And and you know that's that's why I don't like it. Wish we could all be DC Yep, exactly we got a we got a long way to go until that happens. What about you Fred Do you have a Do you have a probably as a more realistic outlook on love or disdain some of my best friends are distributors like very higher up high very high up in the food chain and San Francisco world spirits competition has several fellow judges who are distributors so I know the business very well. And and I know kind of you know that they are the they are the cogs that really make this this world work. And they also have a very powerful lobby and it's 15:00 It's incredible. It's incredible, because, you know, what a lot of Ryan said is is not untrue. And the distributors would say the same thing. 15:14 You know, big, but at the same time, the reason why distributors are they have so much power is they can always go to like, you know, the government and say like we are the We Are the line of legal age drinking, like you don't have 15:36 people ensuring that accounts aren't serving, 15:41 you know, serving to minors and the distributors actively, actually kind of, you know, police that so they they have built in a network in the in this country that our government cannot cover and so when 16:00 It when we ever come to talking about getting rid of distributors, they can always raise their hand and say, well, we're kind of the reason why your 16 year old isn't getting drunk all the time. And that and that's the picture they paint. And you know, maybe it's accurate, I don't know, but 16:17 they're very good at protecting themselves. It kind of sounds like the TSA because the TSA is never actually stopped a terrorist attack there a false sense of security in the day, so I don't know. I mean, so I'll give you my TSA story. The, in their defense, I was in, I was unlovable, and a guy ahead of me, had a loaded handgun and shin and as he should know, he should I mean, I think the general populace knows you can't walk in with a handgun today. This is like a 55 year old guy and he's like, oh, man, I left him in there. No, I thought it was a my check in. Yeah, I don't know what happened to him. I mean, I I looked but I never saw 17:00 reports about it, but he, but I don't know what he was going to do with that. But I know that TSA stopped that guy with a loaded handgun from getting into the low level plane. So Well, that's a first I'll give you that. 17:15 Alright, so let's go ahead and introduce our guests tonight. So tonight we are today, whoever whenever you're listening to this show, we have Mike bridges. Mike is the minority owner and general manager of Jax liquor and wine in Fremont, Nebraska. So Mike, welcome to the show. Thank you. It's great to be here. Absolutely. So before we kind of dive into this, you know, I kind of want to give people an understanding of you would always like to start off with one question is, how did you get into bourbon 17:42 to the modern age bourbon, I got into it. When a guy named Brett Atlas stumbled into our store, and he's, he's a, he's a he's a friend of the show. I think we're all pretty relatively familiar with him. 17:55 Before that, it was just drinking it but you don't only walked up to the counter 18:00 With about 17 different bottles of things. And so I started asking questions and, you know, we had some Elijah Craig 12 year old label both sizes, we hit, you know, 750s 175 we had some before 18 years and different things. And that conversation led to another conversation which, you know, he mentored me on things to look for and things to ask my distributor for. 18:23 Oddly enough things that they wouldn't volunteer to me, unless I, you know, started asking the questions. When I worked for the distributor, six, seven years before that. 18:33 My biggest experience with bourbon is when Maker's Mark we couldn't get 175 or leaders because they ran out of juice and they were low on supply. So that would have been 2007 2008. So it was, it was pretty interesting. But yeah, it's a it's been a world of change since basically 2015. You know, that let you say that. I don't even think Maker's Mark still makes the 1.7 19:00 Five do they favor? Do they ever come back? I can't remember they do. Absolutely they do now right that's the number one the number one skew in like you know five or six party martes no 19:15 big ballers up in there then so I guess kind of let's okay let's let's rewind the clocks a little bit, kind of talk about you know your time working in the the food and beverage industry as well because I know you had mentioned that before we started recording. You know, when I was in Phoenix for the 16 years I was there I was at the Venetian resort all 16 years, and was everything from a banquet server all the way up to director destination services when I left and move back to Nebraska where I'm from so that's kind of where it was, but those years were all spent in the wine world. So when I came back to Nebraska and got my job within Nebraska wine and spirits, I was considered quote unquote a wine expert and did a lot of 20:00 My own wine dinners for my customers and things like that. And again, other than drinking knob Creek back in the day, and learning what Maker's Mark was when we didn't have it to sell and getting yelled at by every account. 20:14 That's kind of where it was and how it went. 20:19 And then so that was at the Venetian and then kind of talk about your transition into working for the distributor side. You know, oddly enough, I just took a director of food and beverage job at the brand new Hilton in downtown Omaha, when I got a call from an old high school coach of mine who was in the distributor business, and asked if I really had any interest in moving to my back to my hometown, as he had a salesman job that he thought I'd be really good for and good at. And that's how that started. That's how that came to be. And that was back in 2006. It's always about knowing the right people. Very true. Nobody, nobody actually applies for a job anymore. It's just all inside handshakes. I think that's how it all goes. 21:00 You know, it's ironic about that I had applied at three different distributorships before that, and never gotten an interview. 21:07 This will show them exactly right. If I didn't do Fred's yard, or no Kenny, they would not be part of bourbon pursuit. So there you go, that 21:18 looks nice this year, by the way. 21:21 Let's see what happens. You know, he actually sharpen my blade on my mower. Fred, does he do that for you? Fred doesn't know. You know, I actually don't mow my yard right now. 21:35 So back to conversation here. So you were working. What was the distributor called at that time? Because I know you had mentioned it. It eventually got either bought out or purchased by a larger one. Yeah, at the time it was Nebraska wine and spirits. And then there was also united distillers which was a separate side. So Nebraska Wine and Spirits was being if you will, and united was brown Forman and then Republic national distributing company came into 22:00 State bought both companies and then you had a Falcon and Eagle division in Nebraska, and are in DC. Gotcha. So just that the Empire just keeps growing for, for Republic then correct? Yep. So let's, um, you know, I guess let's let's kind of dive into the meat of the subject here because this is, this is one of the things that people are always fascinated to know more about. And I mean, let's just kind of just go blunt and straight into it, like, how do allocations work? Like how do people get something of one thing versus something else? 22:35 You know, it's gonna sound wrong, but it's pay to play. And I don't mean illegally pay to play. It's I asked that question for year three years ago. How do I get more allocated items? How do I get barrel pics? How do I do this stuff? And basically it was support the brands that those portfolios are part of stack them high in the store, and you know, so we did it and we have an owner, a majority 23:00 owner with with endless funds and we bought and stacked and if you came into our store it would, it would kind of probably surprise you for the for the small sizes, the amount of displays we have and how big they are. I know we're talking bourbon but it's not odd. We buy 1200 cases of Windsor Canadian at a time just because it's so popular in Nebraska. I've always got 100 beam on the floor. I've got 50 to 80 Maker's Mark. And then you go to Sam's rack and everything they they do often 200 fireball, you know everybody's favorite whiskey on the floor. And that's how we got to where we are. And it really did you know last year when we got to do an O w a barrel a Blanton's in a Buffalo Trace all at the same time was kind of, if you will, our arrival and yeah, but we had to really invest in that to get to where we were. Then if you fast forward to where we are now. I've got some executives from RTC coming out tomorrow because I don't feel I'm getting what we deserve. 24:01 was certain things that are coming out. 24:04 And based on allocations, so they'll tell you that but yet, when things like old fits 13 year spring edition come out, every account gets one bottle. So whether you buy a lot or you don't I know that's a different distributor. But it gets very frustrating to display what you do and invest what you do, and then sell it and then get the same one bottle allocation everybody else does or the other 60 people in the state and nobody wants to believe that they come into your store and you tell them, Hey, we got one bottle and it went to our best customer. They will not leave you they'll sit there and argue with you. 24:41 Is there any like transparency that happens between a rep and the business? Because when I when I think about this, you know, I come from a tech background and there's a lot of stuff out there about like open data collection like the government does it and you have access to be able to see exactly like what's happening here. 25:00 There, but is everything sort of like, Hey, my name is Jim, I'm your account, whatever you want, you have to go through me. And you say, Jim, I bought, you know, XYZ cases last year, I want to be able to get a, b and c. And he's like, that's just not in my calculator. Like, is there something that like, there's their level of transparency there? Or is it just completely like, all blocked off because of one person? You know, it's a little of both. You really, it's constant, constant constant, you know, badgering of that salesperson who then has to get ahold of his boss, who then has to get ahold of his boss. Just recently, As matter of fact, last week, whistlepig became available in the state of Nebraska. Well, we've known it's been coming for about, I don't know, six weeks. So I texted my salesperson to say, Hey, I hear whistle pigs in stock. When will it show up? He's like, No, it's not. And so I screenshot at an event in Lincoln or in Omaha, Nebraska that was doing a launch party for whistlepig 26:00 Yeah no idea and neither did his boss and so that's why nobody's get nobody sharing emails is no that's why they're coming out to me with me tomorrow you know because then I throw a fit to say listen I'm not saying that I should get all this allocated whistlepig or I should be the first shot at it I just want to be communicated to because we have customers that walk through that door or text or message me all day long about hey, I see whistle pigs here I'm going to stop out and get some oh sorry we don't have any and then they again some will understand and others flat out call you a liar that oh yeah you did who who got it Brett who got it George who got it you know and they'll sit there and try to pick off names about who gets what and why they got it. 26:45 So I think up front like say like so this is how many Is it like you said the walkers whiskey. I don't even know what she said blended whiskey, and this is how many This is what it's going to take to get on those how allocation was 27:00 Or did they even give you a number to shoot for? Or like, here's the plan, you know, to get to those? 27:06 Or is it just like, spend as much as you can? And we'll get over that later. We'll figure it out. Yeah. That you know what, you just nailed it. It's like, you know, by everything we have to sell, yeah. In the month each month, we're going to have deals and not listen. I'm not bashing the wholesaler, so to speak, you know, I consider him like, my wife can live with her can live without her. I mean, 27:30 we need them as much as they need us. And that's the frustrating part. But so yeah, it's, you know, 27:39 to start, you know, or one of the little story was two years ago, after all the beats that came out and Pappy allocations came out. They came in into November, wanting to know if I would do a buy on 1792 small batch. And I said, well, what's the deal and that was something like buy 20 cases get a free and I don't think they thought I was going to say yes, I said, Well, yeah, that's 28:00 a no brainer. 28:01 Yeah, they had their bosses with them. And all of a sudden he's like, yeah, you know, getting the computer, I think we can get him another three GTS is, you know, for doing this. And so I looked at him and I just said, that's what irritates me. You got extra bottles because I bought this now Come on What will you know, what is the deal here? Why wouldn't that have been distributed according to who buys and who deserves it? A month ago when it got distributed? Why do you have bottles sitting back? You know, they'll tell you Oh, we had people that didn't pick up or, you know, named me one retailer that gets allocated three bottles or something like that, that doesn't pick it up. We're going to do it every time. So you know, it's a little bit frustrating. But yeah, that's to answer your question. There's no general number other than, hey, just buy and we'll make sure you get taken care of so we're getting taken care of is you know, there's never enough to go around. You know, if I get last year, probably mix and match. 29:00 13 to 14 bottles of Pappy Van Winkle between the 10 year all the way up to the 23 year. Well, those are gone before they even hit the store. Because we sell them to the to our best customers. 29:11 We don't play favorites, but I've had people come in the store and just yell at me as to why I don't have the lottery for those. Well, I understand that but at the same time, then how do I explain to one of my regular customers that spends $1,000 a month? Oh, yeah, you're not going to get any because we're going to we're going to raffle these off. So people that don't shop here get them. 29:33 So let's go back to your distribution days for a minute. Okay, what was your What was your last year as a distributor? 2013 14 Okay, so you wouldn't you have you experienced a little bit of the boom you experience some of the rise of the craft, the craft brands. This is something I get told by a lot of craft distillers. Now craft is that you know 29:59 People can, can say it's good, it's not good. But the fact is, is they get distribution in a lot of these markets. 30:08 And then the bottles just sit in their warehouse. The distributors do nothing to try and promote the brands or get them in a store or To my knowledge, even put them in a catalog to say, Hey, this is why we have an inventory. They're just sitting in a warehouse and hoping that and those those distillers are hoping that someone finds out about them. 30:32 What what gets a distributor to get off their ass and try and move product for a supplier? The distiller you know, Fred, I think there's there's two ways about that. Oftentimes, 30:48 I read all your guys's publications and listen and so forth. I learned things from you guys, months before our distributor has a clue. So I will like do a screenshot and say hey here 31:00 A particular product that please look out for me put it on my list. I really want this. And all the way up to the top that respond. Never heard of it. Well, yeah, it's coming. You know, the most recent one was well, or full proof. 31:13 You know, an Elmer t hundred anniversary or the 100 proof that's coming. There's things like that that they don't know about. So to answer your question, a lot of those craft distilleries and craft products, it has to be something that we as retailers have heard about, that we asked about, and then they will, they'll research or so to speak and then oh, yeah, I do carry that by the way. Unless somebody is really putting the pressure on them to get it out into the market. It has to you have to ask about it. Those salesmen have too many other brands and too many other pods if you will, that they have to hit to get it out the marketplace and you're right even as a salesman. I'm going to be honest with you. If it was the end of fiscal whether that was June or December for a certain brand, I was going 32:00 After things that I was going to make a bonus on, I was going after, you know, our biggest suppliers on the on the liquor and the wine side to make sure I hit those numbers because that's what ensured I kept my job. So, so let's stay Let's stay on the distributor side. Yes. One question about that because I heard some lingo and there wasn't familiar with what's a pod? Yeah, what's a pod? A pod is a placement. So if Yellowstone which is in Nebraska and I happen to be a big fan of hits the market, they might have certain amount of pods they have to hit and a pod means they have 15 accounts they need to do a placement of which is basically a three bottle placement. If they get a three bottle placement at our store, that particular sales, we got his pod for that brand. The problem is they come into the store with 22 different brands that need placements or pods, and then it becomes a real estate issue within a store. 32:54 Gotcha. Now we're now we're starting to talk your language. All right. So when we so let's take a look 33:00 Look at like, 33:03 like how the distributors spend money with with on premise and off premise. As you know, it's illegal for them to say, Hey, here's some cash carry this correct, but they do spend money in stores, what? How are they able to how are they able to slip under the law to give retailers and bars, money to carry products? You know, I don't think a lot of that goes on in Nebraska anymore. I'm not going to say that it doesn't because I think there probably are some exceptions and some things that just don't add up. But it was something that wouldn't add up. Give me an example. You don't have to name any names. No, it's a certain store getting four bottles of let's say, Buffalo Trace William Lou Weller 34:00 The antique collection and I look across the street going huh? They do about a 10th of the business we do. And all of a sudden they got these bottles and the same time those bottles showed up Look at this huge Southern Comfort display that showed up well Southern Comfort Zone by my sash rack. So they need to go in there and figure out a way to get that Southern Comfort in there. To me to Southern Comfort number What a way to entice them is with some bottles, or I know it's tapping with with cash or, or goods dealer loaders as they call them. 34:35 That from golf bags all the way to whatever that used to run rampant when I was a salesman I saw that all the time. But to that question, Fred, the 34:47 the how the mom and pop distributors going away and corporate america if you will, the southerners the r&d sees Johnson brothers, that corporate cultures kind of put it into a lot 35:00 That stuff. Again. I'm pretty sure it goes on. I've heard stories and I see things but yeah, that that's kind of how that works. 35:09 Well, you know, you go to certain resort destinations and Dr. Usha will own the entire bar. You know, they'll own entire liquor stores. You go to Vegas and beemo have an entire hotel. You know, so it's like these things are not just happening because the the the bar owners and the hotel owners happen to be big fans of those particular products. I mean, something's happening somewhere. Yeah, there's somewhere Oh, there there absolutely is, you know, it could come down to to free goods or any of that stuff. You know, the conversation as the retailers I had because we are one of the bigger ones in Nebraska from a volume standpoint. 35:56 You know, if you ever thought about trying to give us money or bias 36:00 You know what, take whatever money you were going to give us and knock the bottle costs down so we can make money. 36:06 It's never come to that and we never do that. But yeah, I guarantee you, there's some of that stuff going on. Now my son, my oldest son happens to be at on premise salesman in Omaha. And yeah, there's times where brown Forman or or beam or people will go into a certain bar or a ballpark or college world series, a certain bar down there. I remember Cruz and Ron took over probably the most popular bar in Omaha. I'm assuming they give them all these umbrellas and all this other good stuff. And yeah, they'll do that. So. But if if there's money under the table or things like that, I'm not I can't 100% say that it happens. I'm sure it does. So your son's in the business. That means Thanksgiving and Christmas must be kind of heated sometimes. Yeah, the dumb little kid. Thanks craft beers where it's 36:58 from all of our barrel pics. 36:59 crying out loud. He's the you know, he's, we he's been to Kentucky with us three times. We're going back again in July. And, you know, every time he shows up for the holidays, he wants to bring some pretty beer. 37:13 So there is a there's a good question that came in in the chat here from Mike bliss. And it's kind of talking about the difference in high volume retailers, you know, you're talking to the total wines and liquor barn to the world versus some value, add specialty retailers that are sort of your your mom and pop your corner shops and stuff like that. Where did the where does the line draw in what distributors do in in what they're able to allocate? Or how do they decide, oh, well, this this store does insane amounts of business. You know, we don't even have to sit there and have an argument with them. We're just going to go and sell a bunch of stuff. You know, sure. They've got it. They've got to take care or make happy multiple entities. You know, you've got on premise you've got off premise so yeah, sure bars 38:00 Need a certain allocation as well, you hope that they expose that to more drinkers based off of you know, 20 something pours out of a bottle that's going to go out to a bar customer whereas we're selling it by the bottle 38:14 it's a 38:16 it's my argument with the wholesalers. It's my argument it's my fight to say how does a little bar out in western Nebraska in a town of 300 people get just as many bottles of blood off pack five as I do, I don't understand that. Especially again, even with that portfolio, I support Rebel Yell and all those brands as well. 38:39 And it gets tiring for me because I have to then throw a fit and have a conversation with people as to what's going on. I don't want those people to not get products I understand that they need to build a business. But building a businesses in this this industry bourbon, if you will. You got to spend money as well. It's no different than any 39:00 else did you invest money in to build your business? So I guess I kind of want you to talk about that a bit more. Because you know, you were talking about, you know, how does this bar in the middle of nowhere with 300 people get the same allocation of something. But honestly, like, how does that happen? Like, is there? I mean, you were on that side at one point like is, is the internal 39:22 workings in here to say, all right, well, let's say all four of us work for a distributor, we all cover different patches, we all get 25% of the allotment, and we go decide how 25% we're going to go and do it in our particular market. Like is that is that a typical thing? Like, how does it happen internally, Kenny, don't say that 39:42 happens. That's the other frustrating part. They'll get these allocated items that come into the warehouse, and they'll say, okay, Division Two, you get five bottles, Division Three, and I'll go down the line and then they'll let these guys decide where they go. Well, you can then get up you can say, Well, I have a really good friend that owns 40:00 liquor store, I'm going to make sure he gets a bottle. He doesn't even buy anything from that portfolio. But he does carry Barton vodka as well. And so they'll get those certain things where my fight with them has always been, hey, somebody at the top of your company needs to start looking at these Bourbons it is what makes this this liquor industry tick right now and make sure that you're taking care of people that that one work hard to get it in the right people's hands, you don't want to get it into flipper hands and things like that. And yeah, I take a lot of criticism at our store. Because I asked for ideas when people come in to buy stuff I want to know who they are, I want to get to know them and I want to make sure I'm not going to find it on the secondary market. And you know, as I did yesterday, oddly enough with one of our knob Creek barrel pics that just came in, 40:52 you know, in the in the state of Nebraska, if you will, it's and I know I'm getting a little off off par here off topic, but it's 41:00 illegal to buy or sell alcohol if you don't have a license, or you can't buy it from somebody without a license. So that flipping market or secondary market is is very much against the law in Nebraska. But you know, I want to make sure the people that are buying bourbon and so forth, it's getting into the people's hands that want to enjoy it, share it and develop it. So that's my other fight with the wholesalers to say because there are stores in Omaha that we can all walk into right now and you can pay $199 for a bottle of Elmer t that sitting on the shelf you can pay 199 for a bottle of Blanton's, you can pay 3000 for Pappy and, and I don't understand how those people get an allocation when that's how they put it on their shelves. And the distributors have now said they agree and that they will not get future allocations because of that. We see it all the time here in the local. There's plenty of stores that Yeah, the right now you can go you can find a bottle of one as well or 107 it will have a 42:00 $99 price tag on it. There's a few stores in the city that do it. However, it's not stopping them from getting allocation continual. So I mean, do you mean when you were on that side? I mean, I don't think gouging or price markups were that big I think in 2014 timeframe, but I mean, are you starting to really think that distributors are taking this serious? I think they are. I think they're starting to figure it out. Again, this is all new to them too. This is brand new territory for them, you know, they have to understand that retailers like myself and others. What's most important to us right now is those allocated items and those Bourbons and that diversity and that's that variety and selection. 42:43 You know, when will it came to Nebraska, all I'm gonna say six months ago. 42:48 Maybe it was a little longer than that. But you had to buy everything they owned before you could get a couple bottles of their family estate stuff. And sure enough, we did we bought all the pot still the nose mill the roads. 43:00 yield Bardstown, pure Kentucky, all that stuff. And I've still got it all over our store, still have yet to see any family estate stuff come in. And the Johnson brothers distributor will say, well, we got to take care of, you know, some of our other customers. Well, this is where I will point the finger. Well, those other customers are the ones that buy hundred cases of barefoot wine. And we all know who those customers are. So I don't do that. And I won't buy barefoot wine at 100 cases at a time. So I can sell it at $1 higher than the grocery store. But that's where you're going to find the family estate stuff in Nebraska. 43:35 So let's take a look at the suppliers to distillers. 43:41 You keep bringing up these portfolios. And you're talking about, you know, largely Sazerac. You've mentioned a couple others you just mentioned, will it you know, at what, 43:54 how much blame are you putting on the distillers here in this equation? 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You know, the Steelers are pretty hands off. You know this. The distilleries, they've got the people that their suppliers that go to market. 45:47 I think some of the distilleries would be pretty amused and amazed at what actually goes on in the marketplace. I don't think they have the time. It's like a you know, 45:58 a time or that time to under 46:00 And all that goes on with that. They're probably like, if you're taking 25%, you better earn it. I don't care how you earn it. 46:08 You know, listen, those suppliers put those financial goals to those wholesalers to say, this is what needs to happen. And so then I think the wholesalers do whatever it takes to do it, because they don't always know what they're dealing with and what products they have in their portfolio. 46:24 So does it would a distributor like tele brand, say like Buffalo Trace, for example, because we keep using them because they're so popular, but 46:34 would they tell them or advise them that, hey, you need to raise prices because we need to kind of slow down this demand or what a distillery does that that who decides pricing? I guess, I think that comes from either to, you know, on that particular case that either comes from Buffalo Trace or SAS rack. And I can speak to that that's most definitely the distilleries they dictate SRP which dictates the wholesale price 47:00 Mt. 47:01 Mike if I'm wrong with this, correct me, but the the wholesaler price is usually half of what the SRP is, and then they mark it up, you know, 15 20% to the retailer and then you guys mark it up whatever is left in the margin about right. I would say that's pretty close. from what I gather, I don't think there's as much margin on that first leg that you mentioned from the to the wholesaler what the wholesaler buys it at, so to speak. 47:34 You know, so that they are that's a little tricky, if you will. 47:40 Again, and maybe it's because I'm biased from a retailer standpoint about how much we mark stuff up. But you know, I just saw somebody got a barrel of Blanton's here in Nebraska, ours isn't going to be here for another six weeks and I saw what they posted their bottle price and I'm just like, holy crap, did plans go up again? Or am I just stupid selling it for 55 48:00 dollars a bottle still, you know, also, but our customers, you know, that's what we want to do so, but yeah, to your to your point. I think that's really strong at the distillery and that's why I've always respected Sazerac and Buffalo Trace. They're pretty adamant about trying to catch those people that are abusing that retail markup in their retail stores. Right now, you're not just saying that so you get a better allocation of Pappy 48:31 damn right. I am. 48:34 Son and he's just got a sweet talk his son? Yeah. 48:38 I guess the devil's advocate to like pay to play what do you what would you say to like, you know, the mom and pop stores have been in business forever. And they can't compete on the pay to play just because they're in a smaller town or in a smaller market, but they still have customers they want to take care of and get, you know, some allocation and they've been getting them for years. And they were kind of you know, there before the 49:00 Before everything kind of happened, well, that that's just my counter argument to this. No, I agree. You know, because I've often thought and role played Hey, what if I went out on my complete own and opened up my own little mom and pop store? You know, I know at that point what I've done with the store we have now will Linda No. allocations are what I deserve to this new place. It's just one bottle at a time. That's what we did at our store. And I think that's what any mom and pop has the ability to do. You know, pick and choose your battles if you can't pick and choose every supplier that's out there. Go after if it says rack and Buffalo Trace will then really support those brands. And then yeah, you're going to get bottles at that point. You know, I think the other misconception is, there's more bottles that come into each market than we realize when you realize how many stores are going those bottles are going out too. So there's there's product available to then develop a customer base and develop 50:00 A relationship with some key customers. So I got a kind of a doozy of a question here. You mentioned a little bit a while ago talking about there might be like this favorite scheme that somebody that works a distributor, they have a certain store that they'll go and hook somebody up because they carry a well, whatever it is, and they can potentially slide into their store. How much do you think of allocated items go to things like I don't know, if you consider this something like insider trading, where say all of us here we get 25% of a pie. I know that I really want the new Booker's, whatever it's going to come out this year, but we'll just whatever it's going to be. And what I'm gonna do is I'm going to go to a store that I like, I'm going to say, Hey, I'm going to get you this bottle but this bottles mine. 50:50 You mean the the salesman or their manager coming in saying, hey, you're going to get this ball allocated to you, but you're going to sell it to me? Exactly. 51:00 happens all the time. See, that's the that's the crazy thing. It's like, people always talk about access and trying to make a free access to everything. And when you talk about even the I've seen it before with my own eyes, it happened with a with a victors bottle. I think it was a 20 or 25 year bourbon. And I know the store that ran through, and it was just kind of like, Oh, it was a favorite from distributor. And they just ran it to the store for somebody to go there and pick it up. Sir. They just had it laying around just for that. I mean it it kind of blows my mind that that there's this sort of like insider game that you can do, because you have access to all this stuff. And yeah, what how how fair is it that 51:47 you know, bourbon has, you know, a, you know, in order to get your allocation of a bourbon. How in the world is it fair to be 52:00 expected to carry a vodka or a low level gin? Or an unattractive tequila? It seems to me like that. That's, that's the most egregious thing of all happening right now is you're being forced to carry shit, you know, to get the good stuff. 52:19 Fred when you walk into our store, and you take your first step in and right to your left, you've got about 90 cases of vodka all into the price of 999 for a half gallon, or a 175. From Fleischmanns departments and school and platinum in summit, well Smirnoff a little higher Pinnacle, you name it, and that's why they're there. And yes, we sell a lot of it, don't get me wrong, but those are brands are there for a reason because there's other brands we could choose pop off and others, but hey, those are all part of a lot of those who are part of the soundtrack portfolio 52:58 to you 53:00 you're you're you're front loading your store, because you feel like it gives you a better chance for that allocation. Absolutely. 53:09 I agree it's horseshit. 53:11 To say that what if what if we all just kind of work together because this could be the way to end vodka if you think about it. 53:19 The only reason why stores are carrying vodka then let's just Yeah, the wagons and you know find a way to put bourbon there and when your vodka revolt 53:30 the biker rebellion, Fred 53:33 I this just 53:36 it just feels scammy to me it's always felt like 53:43 you know, very 1930s you know a mafioso kind of like we were saying, but how else are they supposed to dictate who gets what what is a better system? Better? I mean, if you think about it, why not just a free market system like okay, 54:00 This is what I want. Like, if people aren't buying x y&z like you shouldn't be has to be like forced to be able to carry those like that should. The thing is is nothing triple all the way back to the distiller where like they have to rethink their strategy or they have to rethink their go to market on a particular product because it's just sitting on the shelves. And if it's if you get to the point where it's not moving, then it comes all the way back to the producer. It's hard, it's tough, because in those categories, they're all commodities. They're, you know, they're, they're, 54:32 you know, base price like, and so they have to buy shelf space to compete to kind of get their product out there. It happens in cereal, it happens in groceries and in everything, you know, you buy shelf space to kind of get your product that it's this is how it is. That is true. When you walk into Barnes and Noble. Those books right there. Those are all purchased that space was purchased by the publisher. That's true. Yeah, and you know, and I I've heard stories, you know, with some of the chain accounts that 55:00 You know, hey, you want this in cap, it's $800 cash, you want this in cap, it's $400 cash, if you want, any of the back end caps is $200 cash. Again, that's never happened to me directly as a salesperson. 55:13 I will tell you that, you know, and these people are no longer there. When I was a salesperson. I often got asked when I would go in and pitch a deal, well, what's in it for me? And that's when I would walk away, and nothing against who I used to work for. But, you know, I had the dubious title of the lowest market share and what was the biggest grocery account in Nebraska? Every CL sales meeting, I had to hear about how I did that or had the lowest market share but I wasn't going to play that game of somebody else more company wanted to do that great Go for it. But you know, I was going to do it the right way. 55:47 But because I was new and scared, but I you know, again, I don't know the other answer to what you're saying. Fred is if you know how do you distribute it? They came to me and told me that 56:00 The liquor commission is standard rasca said those allocated items need to go to the people that support that portfolio. So will we I guess you have to define the portfolio. Does that include just the bourbon portfolio? It's as or accurate, does that include everything in it, if you will? I do know last year I'm sorry, in the end of 2017. 56:22 You had to buy eight cases of Southern Comfort to get a case of Blanton's. 56:27 Wow. And that's where I flipped out. And I said wait a second, you know, so, you know, it's it's, it's interesting, and it's odd. Again, I don't know that you can blame them again. I think this is all new to the wholesalers to this this crazy game we're in with with bourbon right now. And 56:48 you know, it's um, it's tough, but somebody at those disturbed those distillery somebody at those wholesalers needs to be burning the midnight oil and they're not doing that to figure out how 57:00 this all works and where these products are going and how they're being sold. Because the guy from SAS rack right to my face and the guy from Brown Forman that was in the store a couple weeks ago, flat out said they will not support these retailers that are gouging the public. So I'm hoping that assignment, you know, they're forcing the wholesalers hands to not necessarily just give whoever you know, is on the buddy list allocated items because then like like, we've just talked about how do you deal with these mom and pop stores that have been in business for 20 years, 30 years in Nebraska, that have stumbled onto the bourbon world as well you know, how do you not take care of them? 57:43 You know, it's that you bring up a good point to it should be noted that it is illegal. Federal code, you know, does not allow a distiller or supplier to dictate where, where their bottles go. So like 58:00 The best they can do is tell these distributors like we don't want this we don't want that they can't outright say don't go to Bob store because he's price gouging. But they can say something like, Hey, we don't want to see price gouging, you know, but there there there is some, there is some very particular laws that that the distiller must follow the distiller to the wholesaler. Yeah, yeah. So the distiller to the wholesaler like what they can say to dictate where things go. It's very, you know, if there's a paper trail there, you know, they always get caught, you see people get, you know, million dollar fines every other year from these, you know, from these larger wholesale companies, because they get entangled in into these like, messes and, and that the, the federal government does, like track wholesalers quite a bit closer, you know, then I think people realize, Oh, yeah, absolutely. They do it. 59:00 I completely agree with that. And I've heard it firsthand and actually seen it firsthand. 59:05 You know, an odd story when I right before I left to take this job at this liquor store, and then, you know, through the luck of success become an owner, 59:17 my boss at this particular wholesaler, you know, we got, you know, we started seeing things in our computer like, Oh, I didn't sell this account this many cases, what's going on here? I didn't think much of it just thought it was a computer glitch. And so we're all in a sales meeting. And we get asked to go down to this boardroom and there's a State Patrol. And it turns out that our, our boss and our division was taking things and billing them to accounts and and selling it out of his trunk. Oh, nice. Let me tell you what I that you want to talk about that, that moment where you start shaking, 59:56 you know, and then it becomes like 1:00:00 accounts that Wait a second, you know, Mr. salesman in Lincoln, Nebraska, how did you not know that this guy hasn't bought Jagermeister in five years? You know, where do you think he's been buying it from? And so it became quite interesting. And I'm thinking, you know, we're the ones that turned this guy in because we started seeing things on our computer. So yeah, I'm assuming there's plenty of ways to get in and around these rules for wholesalers. And again, Canada, you're one of the original points there is zero transparency. I can't ask the wholesaler Can you tell me how much Buffalo Trace antique came into the state? And when I can ask them how much birthday bourbon came into the state and what accounts Got it? All I know is I got one bottle. Yeah. So it is one good thing about the controlled states is that you can you know, because it's all tax related and public record. You can see exactly where all those bottles went in Pennsylvania, there's mysteriously five bottles that 1:01:00 disappear every year when they get their allocation to the county when they all go to state senators. Yeah. 1:01:08 So we've we've now established the fact that there is no map and it's just all kind of like just a crazy process. There's no process there's there's literally there's nothing I think we've established that at this point. But here's here's the funny thing that I always find. I mean, it doesn't matter you you ask any store owner in when it comes to fall release season and I'm sure that Mike you hear the same exact thing is and you're going to say it every single year to his allocations are down this year. It's I mean, literally, I've heard that same exact line for the past five years in a row how our allocations always down every single year. You know, I don't know that. I'm going to tell you I was very happy with my Pappy allocation this year, this past year in 2018. What was extremely upset about my Buffalo Trace antique collection, so I don't know if they decided to, to cut me on one and give me more. The other thing 1:02:00 That would keep me quiet and keep me happy if you will. 1:02:04 But yeah, I can tell you I got one bottle of birthday bourbon this year I've always gotten to and not that that's a lot, especially when I hear and see other markets and what they get. 1:02:14 And so I flat out asked the the brown Forman guy two weeks ago when he was in the store, you know, hey, I'd be glad to do a jack daniels barrel. Again, I'd be happy to do a Woodford Reserve and an old forester barrel at the store because I know we can sell him. Is that going to get me any more birthday bourbon, he flat out looked at me said no, because the state of Nebraska is only getting so much. You know, you know, then at that point, we have to make a decision, but at least he was honest. And he was he seemed to be pretty clear about you know, he doesn't really like I think Fred said he doesn't control where those bottles go once they come into the state of Nebraska, as far as what account gets them. Yep, absolutely. So to kind of wrap this up, you know, and this has been a fantastic conversation and you know, Mike, I really love the passion that you have here. You can tell that you 1:03:00 You've got a lot of a lot to talk about in this but you know, since you've gone from, I don't know one dark side to the other maybe you're seeing the light I don't know which which is the better end here. But now that you're on the other end how's your view changed to be now dealing with the people that you once worth of a salesperson 1:03:21 you know, somebody sent me a I don't know what you call them a GIF or whatever those things are 1:03:27 a Forrest Gump running You know, when in a movie when he takes off down the lane and it's out on the road and takes off. And I literally said, that's me at the end of the month when I see the sales people come in. 1:03:39 They all got some deal, that's the best that's ever been and, you know, and and but again, my perception is I've learned how to control it and learn how to understand it. And you know, with all this innovation from all these different flavors, you know, 1:03:55 that there's only so much real estate in a store and even the big stores, you know, 1:04:00 There's only so much they can put down and carry on their shelves before they run out of room. And so something has to give. So I just kind of look at basically what's the value for that particular product that comes in into one of Fred's points earlier, I kind of look for those craft distilleries. I'm just looking for a variety of whiskey that I think tastes good. I don't want to sell something to you or anybody else that you're going to take home and whether you pay $30 or $100, and be like, Oh my gosh, I've had Buffalo Trace. And this is horrible compared to that. 1:04:35 It's a shame that you have to do your own research as a store owner, because these craft distilleries are paying these distributors to push their brands for them. And that you know, they're not you as a store owner going out of your way to get those people involved in a chance on the dance. 1:04:51 And it just sucks because like, what is the point of a distributor for a brand that's, you know, a craft brand because it's just a pastor and it doesn't 1:05:00 Seemed like they're doing a service for them. And also, would you like to iterate what they're usually costing on top of of the cost? What do you mean? Well, Ryan, we mean we go we know what how many points that distributors take on top of it. You want to kind of talk about that? Yeah. And it's, you know, you're paying, you know, for us to do distribution here, we're paying 25% margin, not 25% markup, so it's 25% margin on the fob costs that we're sending to them. And then on top of that, the retailer's taking 25% margin. On top of that, we go through all this hard work to go pick the whiskies decide throne, go through all the risks, the legal stuff, all the taxes, all this stuff, and the end user is getting the most margin, and the distributors are two versus the end. So as a craft brand, you know, we're like, well, what's the point? You know, so, what is the point? 1:05:54 That's why I just right. 1:05:57 But you know what, that's th

The Nicotine Murder of Linda Curry and The True Story of Batman and Robyn...At 11pm, on the night of June 9th, 1994, Paul Curry called 911 and reported his wife Linda was unconscious and not breathing. When the paramedics arrived, they were unable to revive her. Linda Curry's cause of death was massive acute nicotine poisoning, but how did non-smoker Linda come to die in such a way?Femme Fatale and spoilt brat Robyn 'Colette' Lindholm loved horses and manipulating men. When she found her lovers to no longer be useful, she would organise to have them murdered. Sex, drugs and her own hubris and greed would be her undoing.Become a Bloody Murder Patron (for as little as $1 per month, which you cancel at anytime) and have access to dozens of Patron only episodes (including our whole first season!) with new patron only content added every month! Go to https://www.patreon.com/bloodymurderLevels $5 and over go into our monthly merchandise draws and get FREE stickers and hand-made Barney Badges!See our website! bloodymurderpodcast.com for all our social media links, contact details, a gallery, fabulous merchandise (check out our new Bloody Murder SHOES! and now STICKERS and BACKPACKS and DUFFEL BAGS!!) and much much more.Wanna buy us a drink? Here's a donate link.Thanks to Jason Phillips for his TCNT on the book "Hot-House Inside Leavenworth Prison" by Pete Early.True Crime Nerd Time, a segment on Bloody Murder, needs your help because it stars you! We want you, our listeners, to submit your recommendations for anything true cime related! It could be books, TV shows, movies, documentaries, exhibitions, graphic novels, art, music etc. So send us your brief story (we’ll read it out) or record your story (it can just be a recording on your phone, and we’ll play it!). We will also publish it on our website. Keep it to about 2 mins please or 200 words. Email here! bloodymurderpodcast@gmail.com. Oh and if you give us your postal address we'll send you some stickers as a reward!Aussie As: An ambitious shoplifter attempts to steal hot spaghetti in his pantsWe are incredibly grateful for the support we receive from our patrons. To try to show them how much we love them we're holding monthly give-aways. Linda Curry Sources: PEOPLE v. CURRY, Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District, Division Three, Filed June 29, 2017. To Catch A Genius, 48 Hours, Erin Moriarty, August 6, 2016, Nicotine As A Murder Weapon? CBS News, Erin Moriarty, July 7, 2016. The Cold-Blooded Murderers Who Poisoned With Nicotine... and Nearly Got Away With It, True Crime Historian, Ash Woods, August 27, 2018. Nicotine: Poisoning People for Fun and Profit—Part 37, Anne R Allen, September 28, 2018. Nicotine and the Chemistry of Murder, Wired, Deborah Blum, 25 May, 2012. Fatal Mystery Illness Now Looks Like Poisoning, Los Angeles Times, H.G. REZA, May 14, 1995.Aussie As Sources: Would-be thief puts hot spaghetti down his pants and instantly regrets it, Yahoo News Australia, July 2019. 'Stupidity At Its Highest': Thief Burns Himself After Stuffing Hot Spaghetti Down Pants, 10 News Daily, Katie Hill, July 2, 2019.Robyn Lindholm Sources: The Guardian, Woman jailed for convincing lover to kill fiance, before having him killed too, Nov... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

David goes to war for Chapter 24 on Legion and Pat and Scott are here to talk you through the carnage. Division Three is about to have a real bad day as David, with a little help from Farouk, locates their flying fortress and brings the fight to them. A lot of people die, or nobody does, depending on if David can go back in time and “fix” things. Syd plays her card, Farouk is still scheming and Clark is trying to naughty Skype with his husband. Other than that its just a music filled murder fest that is setting us up for the final three episodes. Join us at the end for a long sing-a-long of some Elvis Costello and help us mourn the temporarily lost of Davids battle with his former friends on the Weekly Heroics Legioncast!

David goes to war for Chapter 24 on Legion and Pat and Scott are here to talk you through the carnage. Division Three is about to have a real bad day as David, with a little help from Farouk, locates their flying fortress and brings the fight to them. A lot of people die, or nobody does, depending on if David can go back in time and “fix” things. Syd plays her card, Farouk is still scheming and Clark is trying to naughty Skype with his husband. Other than that its just a music filled murder fest that is setting us up for the final three episodes. Join us at the end for a long sing-a-long of some Elvis Costello and help us mourn the temporarily lost of Davids battle with his former friends on the Weekly Heroics Legioncast!

Scott and Pat take on the fourth episode of Legions final season and in true X-Men fashion we learn that mucking about with time can cause some serious problems. Except when it comes to pop culture references and we get a fair few in this one. Everything is wonky and Davids attempts with Switch to “save” his infant self has let loose the Time Demons, who look suspiciously like either The Goddess Kali or Blue Meanies, take your pick. Farouk and the Division Three folks are off exploring a French science fiction movie, Lenny is just trying to get her love child into the world and David gets to talk to his mom when she was in the camps. Syd gets drunk with her past self, maybe, Ptonomy has some temporal and some mustache issues and Cary Loudermilk breaks Davids spell, so you know, this means war. Four more episodes to go and we have no idea whats to come, or has that part of the podcasts time stream just been devoured? Your guess is as good as ours, but were looking forward to completing the journey with you on Weekly Heroics Legioncast.

Scott and Pat take on the fourth episode of Legions final season and in true X-Men fashion we learn that mucking about with time can cause some serious problems. Except when it comes to pop culture references and we get a fair few in this one. Everything is wonky and Davids attempts with Switch to “save” his infant self has let loose the Time Demons, who look suspiciously like either The Goddess Kali or Blue Meanies, take your pick. Farouk and the Division Three folks are off exploring a French science fiction movie, Lenny is just trying to get her love child into the world and David gets to talk to his mom when she was in the camps. Syd gets drunk with her past self, maybe, Ptonomy has some temporal and some mustache issues and Cary Loudermilk breaks Davids spell, so you know, this means war. Four more episodes to go and we have no idea whats to come, or has that part of the podcasts time stream just been devoured? Your guess is as good as ours, but were looking forward to completing the journey with you on Weekly Heroics Legioncast.

Big Drew and Jeff Risdon talk about Matthew Stafford’s impressive beer chugging; a Division III powerhouse that’s no longer welcome in its respective conference; Darius Slay and Damon Harrison not showing up to Lions OTAs; the biggest Lions holes to fill on the roster; and sports having numerous scheduling issues:- Matthew Stafford dunks on Aaron Rodgers when it comes to chugging beer. If you’re Rodgers, how embarrassed should you be today?- A Division III powerhouse, aka the University of St. Thomas, has been kicked out of its own conference. Is this right or wrong?- What does Darius Slay and Damon Harrison not being at Lions OTAs ACTUALLY mean?- What are the biggest holes left for the Lions to fill, and how can they fill them?- Do sports have a scheduling issue? Which one big event would you reschedule?

Despite the season being over, the latest Official PNE Club Podcast is still here and the latest episode is now available featuring PNE legends Graham Alexander, Sean Gregan and more! This week’s episode is dedicated to this season’s popular feature ‘Star Six’ as we count through the 84 individual players picked by former North End favourites throughout the course of the season to bring you an all-star team. Amongst those picked is Lilywhites legend Graham Alexander. ‘Grezza’ talks to us about his first spell at Deepdale and the strength of character that group had first under David Moyes to win the Division Two title in 2000, before going on to reach the Division One Play-Off Final a year later. He also speaks about the frustrations of missing out on reaching the Premier League with PNE, again after suffering heartbreak in the Play-Offs against West Ham in 2005. Sean Gregan, another popular pick amongst his ex-teammates also joins us to reflect on being named in the side. Having captained the 2000 Division Two winning side he speaks about arriving from Darlington back in 1996, shortly after Gary Peters led the squad to promotion from Division Three and charts the journey to the cusp of the Premier League. Listen in to find out the other players selected as we count through the players picked by the former players to join us on this season’s podcast. As well as reflective and nostalgic look to those who have previously turned out for North End there is also news on next season’s home kit with pictures having been revealed ahead of the launch. Plus we also hear from striker Sean Maguire. Having joined up with Callum Robinson and Alan Browne on international duty with the Republic of Ireland, the forward analyses last season’s showing both from a personal and collective point of view ahead of returning for his third season with the club. The podcast is brought to you weekly by host Guy Clarke. It’s available through a number of platforms including iTunes, Soundcloud, TuneIn and right here on the club website. As always, if you want to feature on coming any episodes and share your views in our ‘Talk of the Terrace’ feature just email media@pne.com You can also get in touch through social media using #PNEPodcast.

It feels a lot like this is a crucial week in Ireland's rugby year - and not just in terms of the Six Nations. France come to Dublin at the weekend looking rejuvenated. Given how things have gone so far, are Ireland looking for a performance now or just the bare result? Gerry Thornley and Gavin Cummiskey are in studio with all the answers. With Mark English and Ciara Mageean both taking bronze on Sunday night, two medals is a fine return from the European Indoor Athletics Championships. Ian O'Riordan is our man in Glasgow and he joins us on the line to reflect on the weekend. The GAA story of the day is without a doubt Leitrim's promotion from the basement division of the football league. Terry Hyland has only been with them since October and already he has lifted them to Division Three at the first time of asking. We talk to him about promotion, second-tier All-Irelands and the merits of not accepting your place in life All in your Monday morning Added Time, with Malachy Clerkin and Pat Nugent. Running Order: Rugby 3.40 Athletics 20.20 Leitrim GAA 31.50

In this issue, Scott, Chris and Pat chat about Legion Chapter Thirteen and enjoy a little body horror and scene chewing by the newly alive again Lenny. Yes, the mystery of how Aubrey Plaza went from being a disembodied psychic entity to fully formed, bleeding human is solved, but not until Lenny has had her way playing mind games with the folks at Division Three. We also get treated to some Oliver and Farouk road show, Ptomony and the delusion and Dead Sea Donuts!!! Apparently all or nothing will be revealed on this weeks Weekly Heroics!!!

In this issue, Scott, Chris and Pat chat about Legion Chapter Thirteen and enjoy a little body horror and scene chewing by the newly alive again Lenny. Yes, the mystery of how Aubrey Plaza went from being a disembodied psychic entity to fully formed, bleeding human is solved, but not until Lenny has had her way playing mind games with the folks at Division Three. We also get treated to some Oliver and Farouk road show, Ptomony and the delusion and Dead Sea Donuts!!! Apparently all or nothing will be revealed on this weeks Weekly Heroics!!!

Weekly Heroics is back with coverage of Legion season two chapter nine (just go with it) and an apology from Scott who has been trapped in an orb for several months, or has he? Chris and Scott join with Pat Delmore to dive back into this weird and wild corner of the X-Men universe and the show hits the ground running. The Shadow King is in Olivers body and tear-assing around the world with head Lenny on a quest for power, Summerland has joined forces with Division Three, there are Sonny and Cher androids and waffle boats, and thats just the normal stuff. Legion is back and so are we, so strap into your sensory deprivation tanks and get ready for a dance off in Club Madness. Bingestorm to the astral plane!!!

Weekly Heroics is back with coverage of Legion season two chapter nine (just go with it) and an apology from Scott who has been trapped in an orb for several months, or has he? Chris and Scott join with Pat Delmore to dive back into this weird and wild corner of the X-Men universe and the show hits the ground running. The Shadow King is in Olivers body and tear-assing around the world with head Lenny on a quest for power, Summerland has joined forces with Division Three, there are Sonny and Cher androids and waffle boats, and thats just the normal stuff. Legion is back and so are we, so strap into your sensory deprivation tanks and get ready for a dance off in Club Madness. Bingestorm to the astral plane!!!

Joining INM's Will Slattery, Donnchadh Boyle and Roy Curtis on this week's Throw-In to preview the weekend football action was David Brady who described Mayo's clash in Ballybofey as D-Day for his county. He believes that if Mayo are relegated they could just as easily fall to Division Three in quick succession. "Mayo in Division Two is not a prospect to savour," he says. "Mayo play as good as they play against and their ability level will drop in Division Two where they will struggle. It’s a perfect storm. They could find themselves in Division Three very quickly if they relaxed going into Division Two." John Mullane also joined the panel to discuss the hurling quarter-finals and says the competition between the counties in Munster and Leinster is shaping up to be an exciting summer. Are we witnessing another decade of hurling counties breaking through just like the 1990s? For more: Independent.ie/sport The Throw-In is in association with Allianz.

It's still only January but Tim Fuell and Swampy are discussing promotion from two very different perspectives. First up Morpeth Town Chairman Ken Beattie and his sleep-depriving decision to be made on whether to take promotion to the Northern Premier League and risk the demise of the club he loves and has built over years as a community hub or stay in the Northern League and risk the wrath of the FA in not accepting promotion which appears to be mandatory for those finishing in the promotion spots with a suitable ground. A very interesting debate. Next Ben Connell, who started a team with his mates and now finds himself as manager of the side being hailed the first to be promoted in the football pyramid. 17 wins from 17 for Colne Athletic in Division Three of the Essex and Suffolk Border League Division Three and still 5 games to play with the title potentially wrapped up this weekend. Finally, a chat with former Molesey, Basingstoke Town, Crawley Town, Whitehawk and now Eastbourne Borough FC midfielder Sergio Torres on why a documentary is being made on is life. From an Argentinean brick factory to Old Trafford, his is a story of boyhood dreams and self-belief, the crowdfunding project to make the documentary is well advanced but still needs pledges to make it happen.

Its a bittersweet Weekly Heroics as Chris and Scott chat about the season one finale of Legion. It has been a wild and way too short of a ride and everything comes to a head in this one. The final battle for Davids mind is on and the Shadow King isnt going down without a fight. The same cant be said for Division Three who have seriously underestimated his powers. Mutant powers are used, Aubrey Plaza eats scenery and we get some back story on our other antagonist, Clark the interrogator from Chapter One. Also, listener email and some chat about upcoming Heroic properties. More Agents of SHIELD and CW recaps coming soon! Breathe in the air and join us for season finale Legion weirdness!

Its a bittersweet Weekly Heroics as Chris and Scott chat about the season one finale of Legion. It has been a wild and way too short of a ride and everything comes to a head in this one. The final battle for Davids mind is on and the Shadow King isnt going down without a fight. The same cant be said for Division Three who have seriously underestimated his powers. Mutant powers are used, Aubrey Plaza eats scenery and we get some back story on our other antagonist, Clark the interrogator from Chapter One. Also, listener email and some chat about upcoming Heroic properties. More Agents of SHIELD and CW recaps coming soon! Breathe in the air and join us for season finale Legion weirdness!

Little Man showed off the skills as he danced his Celtics to a sparkling win over the Orlando Magic.   BOSTON – The Isaiah Thomas Mixtape Tour filmed its latest volume against the Orlando Magic in a 107-96 win for the Celtics. It started with a spin to ball fake fadeaway, climaxed with a through the legs pass on the break and culminated with a hook shot over a seven-foot Jason Smith to ice the game with 38 second left. The Celtics are still a lost collection of dribble handoffs and Kelly Olynyk reaching fouls without human epoxy Jae Crowder, but they have won two games in a row to end a potentially detrimental standings free fall. Isaiah played like that former Division Three player at the Y, throwing up absurd floaters and pulling off unnecessary ball fakes that worked half the time. But when he went cold in the fourth, Avery Bradley came through with 8 of his 22 points and four of his nine rebounds on the night. The Celtics survived a 16-point fourth quarter by hammering the Magic in the paint during the third, scoring 20 of their 35 points in the paint.  Evan Turner looked like a sharpshooter for a change, knocking down jumpers from the perimeter and getting to the rim. He scored 11 in the third.

BHL: Justice Is Served - In this episode Black Hollywood Live host Mari Fagel interviews special guest Appellate Justice Eileen Moore. Associate Justice Eileen C. Moore graduated cum laude from University of California Irvine in 1975 with a Bachelor of Arts degree, and she received her Juris Doctor from Pepperdine University School of Law in 1978. In May 2004, she graduated from the University of Virginia with a Master of Laws in the Judicial Process. Justice Moore was admitted to the California State Bar in 1978 and to the United States District Court, Central District of California, in 1984. Justice Moore was appointed to the Superior Court of California, County of Orange in 1989 by Governor George Deukmejian and to the Fourth District Court of Appeal, Division Three in 2000 by Governor Gray Davis. She has lectured extensively at education programs for lawyers and judges, and, in 1990, she was a lecturer of business law at the University of California Irvine

Greig takes a week off, so it's me, John and Krys for this show. Krys gives us his regular SPL run down and John talks us through his day at Pittodrie. Ian Black has been called up to the Scotland squad, and it has led to many questioning whether a third division player should be considered for the national team. We give our thoughts on this subject. McBookie have pledged to donate the £10 per week stake for the charity bet, in what can simply be described as a great gesture. Thank you. Unfortunately we got three out of three wrong last week, my bad, so Krys takes on the role of bet selector. There are two ends to this podcast as I totally forget about the predictions. That wasnt my only mistake, because I think I referred to STV as SPL, on more than one occasion. Thanks for listening. Enjoy.

Greig takes a week off, so it's me, John and Krys for this show. Krys gives us his regular SPL run down and John talks us through his day at Pittodrie. Ian Black has been called up to the Scotland squad, and it has led to many questioning whether a third division player should be considered for the national team. We give our thoughts on this subject. McBookie have pledged to donate the £10 per week stake for the charity bet, in what can simply be described as a great gesture. Thank you. Unfortunately we got three out of three wrong last week, my bad, so Krys takes on the role of bet selector. There are two ends to this podcast as I totally forget about the predictions. That wasnt my only mistake, because I think I referred to STV as SPL, on more than one occasion. Thanks for listening. Enjoy.

The NCAA division three playoffs are here, and in the CAAC, Stevenson will be taking on St. Mary's. Tune in on The Lacrosse Radio Network.

The NCAA division three playoffs are here, and in the CAC, Stevenson will be taking on St. Mary's. Tune in on The Lacrosse Radio Network.

Washington College takes on Salisbury this afternoon in the last regular season NCAA Division Three Lacrosse game on The Lacrosse Radio Network.

The Salisbury Seagulls are looking to get hot before the NCAA Division Three Lacrosse tournament as they take on Stevenson  this afternoon.

The Salisbury Seagulls are looking to get hot before the NCAA Division Three Lacrosse tournament as they take on Hood College this afternoon.

In the first ever women's lacrosse game on The Lacrosse Radio Network, Weslt takes on Stevenson.

In our weekly NCAA Lacrosse game on The Lacrosse Radio Network, brought to you by SFMSports.net, Ursinus takes on Salisbury.

Division Three NCAA Lacrosse today brought to you by Herb FM, as Frostburg takes on Neumann on The Lacrosse Radio Network.

Division Three college lacrosse season is here, and tune into the first ever game on The Lacrosse Radio Network. Hamden Sydney will face off against Stevenson this afternoon, on The Lacrosse Radio Network.

We're joined by ex-Cherries Keith Williams and Tony Funnell, players who were integral to the success in 1981/82 where Cherries won promotion to Division Three with a fourth-place finish. They discuss: