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In this episode of "Discovering Grayslake," host Dave sits down with Alan, a local lawyer, to discuss life, law, and community in Grayslake. Alan shares heartfelt stories from his legal career, insights into family and criminal law, and his passion for giving back through local organizations. The conversation is filled with humor, personal anecdotes, and reflections on Grayslake's vibrant spirit—from favorite pizza spots to community events. With a warm, hometown feel, this episode highlights the importance of connection, kindness, and supporting one another in the Grayslake community. Automatically Transcribed With Podsqueeze Speaker 1 00:00:03  Looking for a car dealer that actually feels like your hometown. Welcome to City Chevrolet of Grayslake, where the vibe is friendly, the pressure is off and you'll always be treated like family. Meet Anthony Scala. He's just not the owner. He's a guy that grew up in the car business, worked his way from porter to owner. 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Speaker 1 00:01:58  So shout out to Agora for having us here. so I'm not going to mess up your name because you help me. So I'm here with Alan and Ziggy today. That's right buddy. Speaker 2 00:02:07  Hi, Dave. Nice to see you. And, Hello, internet. Speaker 1 00:02:09  Yes. So, actually, it's funny that we, Just as we sat down, we went over just a short thing of all the people from Grayslake that we just from just the Grayslake people that we know we have in common. Speaker 2 00:02:20  Right? I was living in Grayslake for the last 15, 20 years, and, my family lives in Grayslake. My mom does still, even though my dad passed away and I've been active in the Grayslake Exchange Club for a long time. So that's how I kind of got to know the people in that business community, stuff like that. Speaker 1 00:02:35  Right. Okay, so when I got arrested for the third time when I called you and then I called you, and I've not been arrested. Speaker 2 00:02:42  I would not be able to disclose the details unless you told me it was okay. Speaker 2 00:02:45  So just let me know, and I'm happy to. But we have attorney client confidentiality, which prohibits me from talking about it. Speaker 1 00:02:51  Which means all the fun stories that I want to ask you about to tell me today. You can't. Speaker 2 00:02:54  I can tell you stories, but I can't say like, hey, you know my client, Sergio. Guess what happened, right? I can't say that, but I can say I had this one guy and this one thing. I could do that, right? Speaker 1 00:03:03  He looked a lot like Mike Steiner, but. Speaker 2 00:03:06  Nobody looks like Mike Steiner. No, Mike Steiner is like Mike Steiner. Speaker 1 00:03:10  Doesn't even look like Mike Steiner. Speaker 2 00:03:12  He's like a ten. I mean, he's like, maybe mistaken for George Clooney from time to time. Speaker 1 00:03:17  He gets that a lot. I am. Speaker 2 00:03:18  Sure. Speaker 1 00:03:19  Shout out. Shout out to right at home. By the way, one of the sponsors of. Speaker 2 00:03:21  The show is an okay. Speaker 1 00:03:22  Dude. He's great. okay, so, Grayslake has changed, but what is your job? Speaker 2 00:03:27  Okay. Speaker 2 00:03:28  I am a lawyer. Speaker 1 00:03:29  Okay. What kind of a lawyer? Speaker 2 00:03:30  Okay, so my background is as a prosecutor. And when I was a prosecutor with the state's attorney's office. I guess I'll answer this in a long winded way. The easy question is, I tell people at Christmas parties. Like, what kind of lawyer are you? Divorces and DUIs. Okay. Okay. Because that's an easy way to break down family and criminal law. Those are my two specialties. I'm in a law firm called Johnston, Tommy Lansky and Goldberg. I'm one of the founding partners of that law firm, and we do everything collectively. I have a partner that does real estate. I have a partner that does business formation. I have a partner that does wills and trusts. We do probate litigation, foreclosures. We do all kinds of stuff. But my particular role at that law firm is family. So your divorces, child custody, child support type cases sometimes, and then also criminal cases. And, like, I have a murder right now. Speaker 2 00:04:20  So everything from murders down to traffic tickets and suspended licenses. Speaker 1 00:04:24  Is that normal for me? Because this shows how much I know. Is it normal for an attorney to have such a broad range of things like that? Speaker 2 00:04:30  So for me, I want two things, you know, so two things is pretty normal. If you're a guy that only, let's say only does criminal, it's I don't know you people do that, but I like to have a second sort of, type of case because sometimes it ebbs and flows in what you're getting. You know, the family law cases are hourly. The, criminal cases are a flat fee. Usually both are great. The family law cases are more, I guess intellectually and emotionally challenging sometimes. Which which maybe surprises some people. My criminal cases are usually a joy. Like family law cases can be tough. Speaker 1 00:05:08  Yeah, and that's one thing, because, it's no secret that I've been divorced twice. And, you know, for the for the people. And many people listen to the show, I mean, just from the, from the age demographics that I know that if people gone through these, like, heart wrenching, terrible parts of their life where they need someone like you to help guide them through and and hopefully make it as easy as possible. Speaker 2 00:05:29  Divorces are hard. I mean, a lot of you that are listening, have experienced it or your parents did or whatever. So, divorces are very difficult for people, and the plan with me would be just to get them done on time and under budget with a handshake at the end. Speaker 1 00:05:44  Okay. And I've never heard that before because I, I unfortunately, you know, I was spending a lot of time in courtrooms and seeing stuff like that, that it seems like, you know, the guys maybe that aren't doing well, or maybe they need to pay off their boat or something, string things along as long as they can. Speaker 2 00:05:58  They okay. I would never cast aspersions. I tell you, you might be surprised. The family law bar in Lake County is mostly fantastic people. Yeah. most of those lawyers I really like, I get along with the strength of our bench, you know, which means the judges in Lake County is good. Our bench is good. Our bar is good. there are a couple of lawyers that I'm like, oh, I got a case with her again. Speaker 2 00:06:21  Oh, I got a case with that guy. Right? because sometimes the law, just like any maybe more than some other, professions, can attract people with, like, a type of personality. That's annoying. I don't know, I don't want to. I'm not a psychiatrist or psychologist, so I can't say, like, all my clients come in and they say, oh, my husband, he's a narcissist. Or like, he's gaslighting me. People like those psychological sort of terms from today. Like the now times. Like we didn't know what narcissism and gaslighting was in 1997, right? Or I didn't, but now I do for sure, because all my clients are like, he's gaslighting me, he's a narcissist, he's a blah, blah. Speaker 1 00:07:01  One minute your world is normal, the next it's gone. A flood, a fire, a crime scene. Your home shattered, your business shut down, your life on pause. But in the darkest hour, when chaos knocks at your door, that's when Servpro of Northwest Lake County shows up. Speaker 1 00:07:20  Not just a company, not just a cleanup crew, but neighbors, parents, coaches, locals who care. Drake and his team aren't just restoring properties. They're restoring peace, restoring dignity, restoring lives. So when your worst day arrives, call the oh no guy who becomes your, thank God guy. Servpro of Northwest Lake County, locally owned, nationally known, unshakable and trusted from devastation to restoration. Duration. Servpro, northwest Lake County. Speaker 3 00:07:50  Hey, neighbors, this is Bill Mack with the Grayslake Chamber of Commerce. And if you're looking for a network of hardworking, customer focused and generally friendly local businesses who are dedicated to helping each other succeed, then I'd like to invite you to check out and consider joining our Grayslake chamber. We offer our members so many ways to advance their businesses through social networking events, special events, sponsorships, informative lunch and learns, and the ever popular after hours mixers. Come see why we say we're the new wave of business here in Lake County. Speaker 1 00:08:22  Well, at this time of day, everything needs a label, right? Speaker 2 00:08:24  They throw those labels around. Speaker 2 00:08:26  Which, I mean, there's there's nothing wrong with it. it helps me to identify, at least. Now, I don't know if the person saying he's a narcissist means that. Really, she's right and he is a narcissist. Or if it just is helping me to flag this case is going to be a little bit tougher than maybe some other ones. Truth, right? I could see that. It's like one. Okay. Like in internet. Now, I'm sure people are, like, watching TikTok. Like red flag. Red flag. Like I see, yes, red flags when those kind of cases walk in. Speaker 1 00:08:56  Absolutely. Yeah. And I'm sure things changed like that too. Okay. So I want to go back a little bit because you have a it's a very interesting that for me, if I was doing your job I would love it that you could do one day like you have a murderer thing. Totally. But but then you can have a family law case or maybe help a dad get, you know, custody of his child. Speaker 1 00:09:13  Like, yeah, at least there's a little variety for fun, right? Speaker 2 00:09:15  It's interesting. I mean, today I had a couple of DUIs up, you know? And DUIs are like a bread and butter type case for a criminal defense attorney. Because most people, especially in Grayslake, especially in Lake County, they're not murderers. They're not gang members, but otherwise good dude or an otherwise good lady who is not necessarily manifesting a criminal intent. Like I'm going to go shoplift. It's a guy saying, I've had too much to drink, I'm gonna drive. He's making a dumb choice to drive home, but he's not having the criminal intent. Like I want to endanger somebody tonight. Right. Right. And so a DUI is usually the first time that somebody that's a good person is in hot trouble. Speaker 1 00:09:55  Okay. Gotcha. And, you know, it's got to be nice to, some of these, I'm sure, having satisfaction to be able to to help people out and help them navigate through things they have no idea what they're getting into. Speaker 1 00:10:05  Right. Speaker 2 00:10:05  So. Okay, I used to work for a really fantastic attorney in Round Lake Beach, and I want to make sure to give a shout out to Round Lake Beach. That is an awesome town full of super awesome people. And this lawyer I used to work with, named Bruce Scotland. He taught me a lot. And he's still out in Round Lake. He's a competitor of mine, but I really respect him. And when I started working for him, he. He said, Alan, we love helping people for money. And I'm like, yeah, I love helping people for money. Right. Speaker 1 00:10:34  Well put. Right. It wouldn't be as fun as if you didn't get. Speaker 2 00:10:37  Paid for it. No, but I mean, and that, you know, it's a business. You want to help people? Yes. For money. Right. Right. So. And I'm not trying to sound cold, I do some pro bono. I know it's me, but I don't do pro bono divorces. Speaker 2 00:10:47  No way. They're too hot. They take too long. I'll do a pro bono traffic ticket. I'll give people. I used to volunteer at a safe place, and they have a, a battered women's shelter in Zion. And I used to go there, and I used to talk to the ladies about free legal advice. How can I help you? What do you. They have questions about everything, and I would just volunteer and talk to them. I love that, but, a really hot case to do pro bono is is a big mistake for attorney, in my opinion. Yeah. Attorney in my position, I'd say right. Speaker 1 00:11:16  Okay, so the one thing that really, that I found appealing when I was looking through, when we got connected and I went through your website and I was looking at things like places, like a safe place, like, those are people that really need help, right? Yeah. It's tough. I tip my hat to you for going in there and helping out, because I know there's a list of different things that that you do to give back, which is which is extremely generous of you. Speaker 2 00:11:39  Thanks. I just I just signed up to do the mock interviews at Libertyville High School. That's a cool program. Yeah. Cool. That high school has a really good program where they have these kids that are in the business class, and you give them mock interviews to, you know, improve their skills, to hone their hone their interviewing abilities. And I was blown away by how great the kids were. Really? I was like, you're really smart. You're really smart. Wow. You're what an active, wonderful person. And I was like a bump on the log. When I was in high school, I wasn't active like. Speaker 1 00:12:10  I would have loved to seen what my interview would have been like in high school. Speaker 2 00:12:14  I don't know, they were fantastic, but. So some of the stuff I do, yeah. In Libertyville, I was been active in Grayslake because I lived in Grayslake for many years. over there on West Trail. my mom lives in Harrison Farms and, yeah, that's we were living in Grayslake ever since about the turn of the millennium. Speaker 2 00:12:32  So that that wave of people that like third wave of of immigrants to Grayslake that began in the 90s when the, you know, when they started building the subdivision. Speaker 1 00:12:42  Farms, right? Yes. I think that I was one of the first off the Mayflower to when I landed at Avon on the Prairie, one of the first ones off of Atkinson. That was like one of the first things that wasn't in, you know, Grayslake proper. Right. So to say. Right. Right. That's what we showed up. But but so then how long ago is that? Speaker 2 00:13:01  So we moved here in like 2001. Okay. So my mom and dad bought a place in Grayslake on West Trail North in Harrison Farms. And I remember the first day we came to graze. Like, I'm from Florence, Illinois. Speaker 1 00:13:12  Okay. I was just gonna say. Where did you originally come from? Speaker 2 00:13:14  I'm from philosopher. I went to Homewood Philosopher High School. I was born in Harvey, at Ingalls. and, But that's why sometimes I get, like, a Chicago accent. Speaker 2 00:13:22  I don't know, whatever. It's like, it's a but but floss more is is a nice town in the 90s. I mean, it's like the lake bluff of the south side. Yeah. So we we had a good time growing up. Speaker 1 00:13:31  They should put that on their sign. Speaker 2 00:13:32  By the way. Yeah. Right. The lake bluff off. Speaker 1 00:13:35  The. Speaker 2 00:13:35  South side. I need the. Speaker 1 00:13:36  T. Speaker 2 00:13:36  Shirt. I mean, it is. I mean, it's kind of like being the tallest midget, you know? I mean, but no offense to people that are little people. I love them, too. but, you know, I don't know where I was going at that. Speaker 1 00:13:51  Time of growing up in Hollywood or more. Speaker 2 00:13:54  Grew up there. So then I came to, I lived in Champaign because I went to school down at U of I and Champaign, and it was fantastic. And my parents moved up to to Grayslake. So I come up to Grayslake, and on our first day, the restaurant they took me to was Bill's Pub North. Speaker 2 00:14:08  Yeah, right. Engages like and I just thought in my mind I'm like, I'm in the woods. My parents moved to Wisconsin, you know, where am I? I'm like, this is the woods. I mean, here in Wisconsin, there's a polar bear hanging there and there's fish every on, on the wall. And I thought, this is this is great. And it turned out Lake County's not quite Wisconsin, but it's close. It's an interesting. Speaker 1 00:14:29  Perception, I guess if you've never been here. And that's the place they took, I had to. Speaker 2 00:14:33  The only thing I had done with Grayslake before that when my parents moved here, Let's go to Prairie Crossing. Okay. Because my aunt and uncle lived in Prairie Crossing, which is a interesting. I wouldn't say the word weird, but it's an anomalous little part of the world. Prairie crossing is. Speaker 1 00:14:51  Absolutely. Speaker 2 00:14:51  I had never seen anything like that before, because I think that community at the time was novel and maybe still is. so I thought that all Lake County was like that. Speaker 2 00:15:00  And then I saw Bill's Pub and I went, oh my gosh, I'm in Wisconsin. Speaker 1 00:15:03  What's going on? You have no idea. Speaker 2 00:15:04  Where you're at. Am I at the U.P.? I mean, how is ten feet of snow? You know, this is I came from 708. You know, the land of good pizza and terrible baseball. Now, here I am. Speaker 1 00:15:15  The lake bluff on the south side. Speaker 2 00:15:17  Right, right. Yes. Speaker 1 00:15:18  That's awesome. okay, so, when you're studying law. So when you went to, you went to U of, I, law school? Speaker 2 00:15:25  No. So I went to I was an undergrad at u of I. Okay. and then I went to law school at DePaul. Speaker 1 00:15:30  We're taking a quick break just to say hello, because everybody knows Nano and Nano knows real estate. And actually I believe that's the name of her Instagram page. So if you're looking to buy a home, sell a home, or know somebody in the market for a home, contact nano from Baird and Warner. Speaker 1 00:15:44  She's a Grayslake girl helping out Grayslake people. And when you when you went to law school, did you know what you wanted to practice? Speaker 2 00:15:52  Yeah. So I don't mean to be, like, whatever, a little bit, emotional or emo in the, in the interview, but it was September 11th of 2001. Right. And you probably remember that day, but I could remember that day. I wanted a date with the girl. I looked in the sky and I saw there was no jet contrails. What a what a crazy day. And after that day, I thought to myself, I would like to be in law enforcement because I'd like to help our country for, I don't know, because America, I like America. Amen. And I was mad. Oh, I'm nine over 11, right? I mean, come on. Speaker 1 00:16:27  Everybody was. Yes. Speaker 2 00:16:28  So. But after that, I thought I'd go into criminal law. I thought I wanted to be a prosecutor, So then I got a job with Mike Waller, at the State's Attorney's office. Speaker 2 00:16:39  And I tell you, you know Mike Waller, I owe him everything. I love the guy. I know some people don't, but he's a politician. There's people that hate his guts, people that love and support him. He always was a gentleman to me, and I never. I just thought that, the decision making he made was good, and he gave me a job saving my bacon. You know, and so I got to begin my career as a prosecutor. And I was a line assistant state's attorney in Waukegan. They start you off as a DUI assistant. So, you know, brand new 25 year old kid. I was prosecuting DUIs. Misdemeanor DUIs. Right? Misdemeanor traffic cases out in the branch courts. And that was very good. Fulfilling. Fun work, I liked it. Okay. You know, you did. and then, they switched me to just misdemeanor stuff. And I was prosecuting your retail thefts. And back when weed was illegal, I was prosecuting your weed cases and your trespassing. Speaker 2 00:17:31  And here's your fights. And then they stuck me in the domestic violence division for a long time. Speaker 1 00:17:35  Okay, so how was that? Speaker 2 00:17:38  Okay. You know Lew Frank. Of course. Okay. Lew Frank is a fantastic Grayslake. And he would say felt like five minutes underwater, you know, to to be a line assistant in the domestic violence courtroom is hard. Speaker 1 00:17:55  I. Speaker 2 00:17:55  Bet. Because you have to look at the cases. And so, like, are you familiar with the cycle of violence? This is this theory. Speaker 1 00:18:02  I am not. Speaker 2 00:18:03  Okay. So it's a theory that's a big part of criminal prosecutions of domestic violence. And the cycle of violence goes like this. Right now we're having a fight, and I'm going to use the gender of he and she, you know, whatever. But sometimes women can be the victim of domestic violence. Sometimes guys can. But in a classic situation, let's say he slaps her. Okay. Then she calls the police. He's arrested. But then in a few days she's like, maybe he's not that bad or I need him out of jail so he can, like, work and pick up our kid from school. Speaker 2 00:18:35  Like you've been a parent, you know? And so maybe she takes them back and then they have a honeymoon period where it's, like, passionate, like we love each other, and then it can happen again, you know? And that cycle of violence. The State's Attorney's office was really keen to interrupt it. Right. But then that meant that lots of times you'd have the victims, I guess recanting, they'd say, hey, that didn't happen like that, or I'm not coming to court, you know? And so that was frustrating. And then sometimes you had cases, not all, sometimes you had cases where it was a situation where the family's going through a domestic violence thing. Maybe. But maybe what it really is, is a child custody thing. And somebody ringing the bell of domestic violence to get a leg up on somebody in a child custody type proceeding. Right. Like, like I'm going to get an order of protection against him. So I get our kid, which, I mean, I get that, but you need to really be careful about abuses of the system. Speaker 2 00:19:32  So as a line assistant with the State Attorney's office, as back then, I mean, things have changed a little bit now. They have had two different, changeovers between the state's attorney. but anyway, long story short, you still have to use your discretion to decide what really happened. And at least at the time I was a state's attorney, we were empowered with a good amount of discretion. It was awesome. Speaker 1 00:19:53  Really. Speaker 2 00:19:54  So. Speaker 1 00:19:54  Yeah. And and I'm sure with that, too, like, you probably get to be a really good read of people. but then sometimes you probably think you are and then people bamboozle whatever. And you probably don't even know. Speaker 2 00:20:06  I mean, you ever been lied to about your own kid, right? Speaker 1 00:20:09  I mean, you believe. Speaker 2 00:20:09  Him, and then you believe him, and you're like, I have egg on my face. I was lied to in kind. You know, so sometimes, you know, you just you don't have a, a lie detector that buzzes when she lies or he lies, you don't know. Speaker 2 00:20:25  So you have to do your best with what the facts are. But there was a good team at the time. But yeah, I did. Two and a half years as a as a domestic violence prosecutor. And then so when I left the State's Attorney's office, I thought to myself, well, I've been doing family law cases basically already. I may as well do them as a business. Sure. You know, so that's what I did. So now my practice is a hybrid. That's why I say divorces and DUIs. It's family law cases. And then it's criminal law cases too, because I've done all that. Speaker 1 00:20:52  Wow. So your resume is quite deep for all kinds of different things, right? Speaker 2 00:20:58  I guess. Speaker 1 00:20:59  Right. Speaker 2 00:20:59  You know, it's just like, I don't know how other people get through life. This is just what I did. Right. Speaker 1 00:21:05  Well, and everybody, you know, people look at different people, whether you're a doctor, whether you're a lawyer, whether you're a podcaster, where whatever you do that, everybody does something for a line of work that, you know, people are. Speaker 1 00:21:16  You deal with very delicate situations, people going through stuff. And especially the one thing about the family law stuff, it it must be hard for you to stay. You have to almost train yourself to not get emotionally involved in some of those things, right? Speaker 2 00:21:28  I sometimes. Speaker 1 00:21:28  Do. Speaker 2 00:21:29  I remember my first adoption. You know, we had a case that was a very ugly family law case, and it went on a long time. And then at the end of it, the dad, he agreed to put the child up for adoption. To the mom and her new husband. Okay. So the dad was making a very hard choice. Because, I mean, to give up your child, you know, and to look in the mirror and say, all right, I wasn't doing that good of a job. This new dude who's married my ex girl, he'll do better in the best interest of my child. It takes kind of like a man to do that. Speaker 1 00:22:06  Oh, that's a big decision, right? It's a big leap of faith. Speaker 2 00:22:08  But on the other hand, too, you know, maybe people are judging him about. You walked away from your kid, you didn't fight harder. So it's very tough, you know. And that's the type of case I remember I had, like, one manly tear going down my. Speaker 1 00:22:18  Face. Speaker 2 00:22:19  Looking into my steely eyed gaze. No it wasn't. I was bawling like a baby. I was so happy for them, you know? But also that's that's. Those are big moments. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:22:30  So you cool stuff too? Yeah, right. And to see people come through stuff that they deserve that the, the law can either work in your favor or against you. And it's nice when it actually works, right. Speaker 2 00:22:40  It's hard. I will say, okay. I was worried as a kid that I would come into the law and see a lot of weird stuff, like judges tossing cases in exchange for Cubs tickets. I have never seen any of that in Lake County. Really? I have never seen anything crooked or weird. Speaker 2 00:22:58  Everybody's been really professional. I mean, and I'm like, me that right? It's not just because I want to keep on working with these people. Most of them are fantastic. Speaker 1 00:23:06  Well, well, the Cubs have been doing that. Speaker 2 00:23:08  Well, no better than the White Sox, sadly. Speaker 1 00:23:11  Now, if somebody did something bad. Speaker 2 00:23:12  For White Sox. Speaker 1 00:23:13  Tickets, we really question what. Speaker 2 00:23:15  I heard. You could buy some chili at Wendy's and you get free season tickets to the White Sox, right? A cup of chili at Wendy's. Speaker 1 00:23:22  So well. In all seriousness, it is really good to hear you say that because, you know, everybody watches all these TV show, every law TV show and court TV show that people have this fantasy of things, how how they how they go along. Speaker 2 00:23:34  I don't ever watch any legal TV at all. Ever. I just don't. That's probably a good idea. The last legal movie was probably Liar Liar with Jim Carrey, which is a fantastic movie. Speaker 1 00:23:46  Very serious movie about the law. Speaker 2 00:23:48  I don't because I like do it for a living. And then honestly, at 502 when I'm at home, I'm like, I'll see you tomorrow. That sounds like a a modern day problem, al. Speaker 1 00:23:58  Right. Right. Speaker 2 00:24:00  So no, because otherwise you go insane. Speaker 1 00:24:02  No. Yeah, well, everybody needs a break from their job. Nobody wants to go home and do it. And that's why, you know, I've been self-employed for a very long time. That's why most self-employed people end up getting in office in hopes that when you go to the office, you can leave and leave your work there and go home. And if they can make that work. Speaker 2 00:24:20  That's why I don't work from home. Ever. Speaker 1 00:24:22  Yeah, well, good for you. Speaker 2 00:24:23  I mean, I guess ever is a word, I mean. I, I don't. Never say never. I don't like to work from home. And I very, very, very seldom. Speaker 1 00:24:30  Do. Speaker 2 00:24:30  It. Speaker 1 00:24:30  Right. Okay. That's good. Speaker 1 00:24:32  let's do something, because I have a couple other questions to ask you, but, you've said you've listened to a couple of podcasts. Sure. so we do something about halfway through. I call the Grayslake hot seat, where we have some rapid fire questions to get to know you just a little bit better. Speaker 2 00:24:45  I ain't scared enough. 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I'm looking around for the mirror with the guy behind it. Speaker 1 00:25:42  It's just. It is behind there. We just have the, newer ones, so to say. okay. So, Grayslake. Casey, did you play a, a sport in high school in the lake bluff of the the swimming. Speaker 2 00:25:58  I was on my country club swim team. The floss. More flyers. Yeah. Wow. Speaker 1 00:26:03  Yeah, that sounds bougie as all good. Speaker 2 00:26:05  It was kind of bougie, but, I mean, at the time, I didn't think it was. And at the time, I thought I looked fat in that Speedo. But now I look at those pictures, I'm like, you looked awesome, right? Speaker 1 00:26:13  Well, you got to look back. Speaker 2 00:26:14  Were you wearing a Speedo and everything? It was the 90s. Speaker 1 00:26:17  Were you good? Speaker 2 00:26:18  I mean, okay. Okay. I didn't come in last place because I'm kind of tall, right? And they made me swim a lot. I mean, in the morning, they would say it's 7:00 in the morning, do a bunch of laps. And when you're 14, 15, 16, you do that a lot. You get to be fit. Speaker 1 00:26:32  Oh, absolutely. It's the best. Speaker 2 00:26:34  That was nice. I like that I played T-ball as a little kid. but no, swimming was my jam. And then I became a lifeguard. I was a lifeguard for the H.F. Park district. That was fantastic. Speaker 1 00:26:43  Yeah, that's not a bad gig to have. Awesome gig. Yeah. Nice. First car. Speaker 2 00:26:48  Well, Volvo 740, a blue baby blue Volvo 740. Speaker 1 00:26:52  Nice. I'm a Volvo. Speaker 2 00:26:54  It helped me get one of my first girlfriends who was, honest to God, a Swedish foreign exchange student at my high school. No way. Anne-Marie. Honest to God. Speaker 2 00:27:04  And she. Speaker 1 00:27:04  Got her with a Volvo. Speaker 2 00:27:06  Because they make them in Sweden. And she. She sees it and she goes, oh, she goes, what an awesome car. But I wish it was a Saab. Speaker 1 00:27:14  You did? Speaker 2 00:27:15  She did. Totally. Speaker 1 00:27:16  That's so great. And, folks, I want you to listen closely. Maybe. Hit the rewind button there, because that is the first and last time you'll ever hear on the show about how a guy got a girl because of a Volvo. Speaker 2 00:27:25  That was unlikely. Speaker 1 00:27:27  The only reason that it will happen, totally. Speaker 2 00:27:29  But it was it was. That was my Volvo. It was my in with the Swedish girl. I was fine by me. Speaker 1 00:27:34  That was hilarious. Yeah, and they don't make many blue ones like that either. So it. Speaker 2 00:27:38  Was cool. It was a baby blue Volvo. I mean, whatever, I don't think it was. No, it wasn't cool, but it got me from A to B and. Right. Speaker 1 00:27:45  Whatever, man. Speaker 1 00:27:46  Hey, I got 200,000 on mine sitting in the parking lot. Speaker 2 00:27:48  I had a Dodge Neon for a while. I love that Dodge Neon. Right. I can talk about cars. Speaker 1 00:27:51  Yeah. You were, Yes. The the, two of the hottest cars. I could think of. Hot stuff in my head. speaking of that. So this is what? Oh, maybe this would be a fun one for you. What's the fastest you've ever gone in a in a vehicle? Speaker 2 00:28:06  Well, I got, like, an airplane, like. Speaker 1 00:28:07  No, no, no, we'll leave that out. Speaker 2 00:28:09  Like in. Speaker 1 00:28:10  A car. In a car. Speaker 2 00:28:10  I don't know, a hundred. Speaker 1 00:28:12  Just a. Speaker 2 00:28:12  Hundred, you know. Yeah. Because, I mean, I was a kid and stepping on it. Right. And nowadays, if you do that, like, I never do that anymore. I don't speed anymore. I don't, because the consequences. And I don't mean like death and dismemberment. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:28:24  That happens. Speaker 1 00:28:25  That's all legal consequences. Speaker 2 00:28:26  Yeah. The cops light you up, you know, and the the cases are class A misdemeanors. and they're punishable by up to a year in jail and or a fine of $2,500. Speaker 1 00:28:36  Wow. Speaker 2 00:28:37  Back when I was a prosecutor, I became friends with some police. And maybe they don't say this anymore, but I used to hear nine year fine, 11 year mine. Okay. All right. Which is consistent with my lived experience. Speaker 1 00:28:49  Of going nine miles over. Speaker 2 00:28:50  Nine year fine 11 year. Mine is what the police would say. And and that bears with what I've seen during the time that I've, I've done lots and lots of traffic tickets as a, as a prosecutor and as a defense attorney. And you never see somebody getting pulled over for five over. Right? You know, they are looking at you for 11 to 15 starting at 11, maybe 15 now 20. They want you right? You know, but like I said, nine. You're fine. Speaker 2 00:29:15  11. Your mind. I think that's pretty good. That's the advice I give a lot of the kids that I represent. This is. Speaker 4 00:29:20  Bob Churchill. 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I won't tell you how fast I've gone then, because I would not have been fine. Tell me something. Do you like to travel? You have not been. Speaker 2 00:30:25  So I've been like Johnny Cash. I've been everywhere, you know. I have been to lots of different places in this country because my wife is a maniac for travel. She loves it. And we have little kids and we take road trips. But we had little kids. Now they're getting old. my oldest is a sophomore in high school. Speaker 1 00:30:40  Oh, my gosh, it goes fast. It does it really. It just moves. It moves moves, moves so fast. And then I think I heard you have a ten year old too, right? Speaker 2 00:30:46  He's he's a wonderful guy. Awesome guy. but yeah, I have a of a 16 to 12 and a ten, and we've always done road trips around the country. you know, I don't know, early ones where? Tennessee and Kentucky, Upper Peninsula of Michigan, all through Wisconsin. Speaker 2 00:31:00  Indiana. Out to Maine. East coast, Florida. A lot of times we've flown out to California, Utah and Nevada. so around the country And then, like I used to, I lived in Europe briefly. I lived in London for a few years. Speaker 1 00:31:14  Did she really? How cool is that? Speaker 2 00:31:16  My mom, she was a lawyer at, Amoco. Right. The the gasoline company, you know, Amoco. They used to have that big white tower in downtown Chicago. The Amoco building, right? Absolutely. Formerly Standard Oil of Indiana. John Rockefeller's thing. And then they trust. Busted it. Whatever. Monopoly busted it. Right. So. But Amoco, if you remember, in the 90s, merged with BP, British Petroleum. So they moved my mom's job from Chicago to London. So we lived there for a while, and I was kind of in school in champagne and going to London in the summertime. That was awesome. Speaker 1 00:31:47  Oh yeah, especially at that age. But it was really cool. Speaker 2 00:31:50  I worked at a bar. I worked at a pub called the Prince Albert Stafford. That is the guy. It was awesome. Speaker 1 00:31:58  Folks, this isn't a real interview. Just so you know, I just brought one of my buddies in. Speaker 2 00:32:02  I worked at a at a pub called the Prince Albert, and it was in, Notting Hill. Right. You remember Notting Hill with the Hugh Grant movie? You've probably never seen that movie. Speaker 1 00:32:11  I've seen the movie poster. Speaker 2 00:32:12  I saw the poster. Yeah. So Hugh Grant, I thought he was good in the dad movie. But I never saw Notting Hill. But I worked in Notting Hill. so. Yeah, I don't know. Travel places. Speaker 1 00:32:23  There's nothing that you have, like a bucket list. Like I gotta. Speaker 2 00:32:26  Go. Like I don't need to go to Thailand. I don't know. I guess if I had infinite money, I'd travel Europe again, I like it. Sure. Speaker 1 00:32:32  You know, when the. The age of your kid. It sounds like you did your traveling and you did what you wanted to. Speaker 1 00:32:36  And your kids have got, like, some of the best education that kids can get is traveling all over the United States because the United States is cool. Speaker 2 00:32:43  It's fantastic. And like when you travel the United States, like the other day I was coming back from Florida on I-65. We stopped at the Bucky's in Athens, Alabama, which is, you know, a Bucky's is like a like a, you know, if you, you know, a Bucky's, of course. Yeah. It's a giant gas station in front of a giant Walmart, basically. You know, or maybe more like a Kmart. Speaker 1 00:33:03  But one of my favorite places, one of my favorite things, if anybody goes on TikTok right now, there's a woman that explains what Buc-ees is and is the most brilliant thing I've ever seen in my whole life. I love it. Like, if you want to feel like your true, true white trash, she explains exactly what it is. And because we all get excited to go to a Bucky's right. Speaker 2 00:33:22  My kids were stupid excited. They were. And I'm like, guys, it's a gas station that's in front of a K-Mart. What are you talking about? You know. Speaker 1 00:33:29  Exactly what. Speaker 2 00:33:30  It is. I mean, whatever. Back in the old days, Kmart used to have barbecue sandwiches, too. True. Speaker 1 00:33:35  You just couldn't get a puzzle. A sweatshirt and a, you know, corned beef sandwich? No. All at the same time. Speaker 2 00:33:40  It's a fancy dress I've traveled around. It's great. I like. Speaker 1 00:33:43  The train. I like the Bucky's. Was one of the highlights on your trip. Kept coming back. It kind of was. It's kind of. It's kind of fun. And we're getting one close to here now. I keep seeing the signs. God love. Yeah. Speaker 2 00:33:53  God love them. I hope that they take over. I'm ready for Bucky's to be the only employer in the United States. Speaker 1 00:34:00  Did we talk? What was your first job when you were. So you lifeguard was a lifeguard? Speaker 2 00:34:05  Yeah, I was a lifeguard. Speaker 1 00:34:05  Did we call that a job? Is that a job? Speaker 2 00:34:07  Oh, really? Man. Lifeguard. It could be my career. That is a fantastic job. Speaker 1 00:34:12  Maybe when you want to retire, you can go back and be a lifeguard. Speaker 2 00:34:14  My uncle, actually, he was like a car salesman and stuff. And then when he retired, he used to be a lifeguard at his, you know, apartment complex. Like, that's a great job, dude. Come on. Speaker 1 00:34:24  Wow. Maybe when I grow up, I'll look into that. Speaker 2 00:34:26  Be a lifeguard. Speaker 1 00:34:27  It's cool. I'm gonna. Speaker 2 00:34:28  It's cool. Speaker 1 00:34:29  I think it could be a. Speaker 2 00:34:30  Tad creepy. Speaker 1 00:34:31  If I applied at the Grayslake pool right now. Speaker 2 00:34:33  No, I mean, they need people that with with with maturity and experience. Yes. You know. Speaker 1 00:34:39  I have a shirt that says that that's for my requirements. Speaker 2 00:34:42  And it was nice. And I worked at Jewel. I worked at the library in summer. I mean, it was great. Speaker 1 00:34:47  So you had a lot of different jobs? Yeah. Speaker 1 00:34:48  So you actually were taught some work ethic as a as a child from your parents as well? Speaker 2 00:34:53  Well, they worked hard. My parents, they loved each other. They stayed together the whole time. They were both lawyers. They worked. And I just wanted to work. Right. Speaker 1 00:35:01  I don't know. They said very good examples, right? That's awesome. first concert you ever attended? Speaker 2 00:35:07  Man, I don't know. okay. It was, the World Music Center, right? Yeah. Q101 had one of those concerts that's like, not it wasn't, not not, Twisted Christmas. It's the one they did in the summertime. And I remember that garbage. Jamiroquai. Mighty, mighty. Speaker 1 00:35:27  Boston's nice. Speaker 2 00:35:29  Were there. I mean, that's, like, awesome. And I went with a Swedish girl. Really? So. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:35:34  Did you drive the Volvo. Speaker 2 00:35:35  There, though? Maybe I might have got dropped off by my parents, so. Speaker 1 00:35:39  Good, good. Good concert. Speaker 2 00:35:41  I saw the Smashing Pumpkins down there, but that was a different day. Speaker 2 00:35:44  Oh, nice. Billy Corgan, love that guy. Speaker 1 00:35:46  Yeah. He, Billy was at that because I had forever. I forget that where they're from, around North Shore. Yeah, right. And I was hanging out, and I was doing a daddy daughter dance, and a guy came up that looked a lot like Billy Corgan and asked for a song. And I had told him no. Yeah, because it wasn't really. It wasn't really appropriate. Yeah, right. And then somebody came back and one of the people said, well, Mr. Corgan asked for a song, and I guess you told him that you weren't going to play it. And I'm like, okay, well, it just didn't fit with what we were going to do, because I like to think that I do the right thing, right? You do the wood, you work music, you do the right thing for the party. You got to know your audience, unless it's Billy Corgan. And then you just say. Speaker 2 00:36:23  Do what he says. Speaker 1 00:36:24  Right? Speaker 5 00:36:24  Despite all my rage, he's awesome. Speaker 2 00:36:27  It was the best. Speaker 1 00:36:28  And it wasn't a pumpkin song, though. Speaker 2 00:36:29  Oh, that's too bad. Speaker 1 00:36:30  I wish I knew what the song was, though, to look back. Speaker 2 00:36:32  I would think that Billy loves putting on pumpkin songs. I would think that he lists the pumpkins all the time. Speaker 1 00:36:38  He's driving around right now listening. Speaker 2 00:36:40  To all these new stuff because his old stuff is for posers. He's like that old stuff. I'm over it. Only my new stuff. Only Billy and Machines have got to listen to right now. Speaker 1 00:36:48  Yeah. That's hilarious. if you had to have a superpower, what would it be? Speaker 2 00:36:54  Being the greatest golfer ever. Speaker 1 00:36:57  Really? Speaker 2 00:36:57  Yeah. Speaker 1 00:36:58  Come on. That would be good. But then you wouldn't have. Would it be any fun? Because then you beat everybody all the time. But yeah, you could play with people though. Speaker 2 00:37:05  Then you'd be good at golf. And that's what my dream would be. I would love to. Speaker 2 00:37:08  I'm not that good at golf. I wish I were okay. I practice and practice and the people that are naturally gifted, I look at them with such envy, you know? Speaker 1 00:37:17  Now, being a being an attorney makes you a better golfer, though. Doesn't like doctors and attorneys and like. Speaker 2 00:37:22  Yeah, yeah. And some of the attorneys really suck, which is great because I can just stuff them. You know, these old guys especially that that don't play that much. Oh, I'm way better than them. That makes me feel so good about myself just to stuff them. Yeah. Hey. Nice chat counsel. Oh. Speaker 1 00:37:38  That's fantastic. what do you wish you learned sooner in life? Speaker 2 00:37:43  Spanish. Really? Totally, dude. Speaker 1 00:37:45  It's a great answer. Speaker 2 00:37:46  Spanish. Speaker 1 00:37:47  Wow. Okay. So, you know, young people, people in high school, people go in and they're like. I have to tell them. It's probably one of the best things you can do. Right. As an education level, Just. Speaker 2 00:38:00  Your friends, your coworkers, your clients. You know, I mean, learning Spanish is awesome. I personally have a super awesome, legal assistant, and, she is bilingual and she helps me do so much. So I shout out to Crystal. Crystal, you're fantastic. But, like I said, if only I had paid more attention in school and I was better at Spanish, I wish. Right? Speaker 1 00:38:21  Yeah. No. And it's really. That's a great answer. I'm going to. Maybe I'll start learning a different language. have you ever eaten a roller dog from a gas station? No, really? With all the all the road trips you've taken. Speaker 2 00:38:34  I don't do that. Speaker 1 00:38:35  Maybe I'm smarter than me. Speaker 2 00:38:36  Because I'm worried about, like, dying from bacteria. Like it's. Guys, it's only ten more hours to Chicago. Stop 11. Speaker 5 00:38:43  Times. Speaker 2 00:38:43  Or having. Speaker 1 00:38:44  Explosive diarrhea on a. Speaker 2 00:38:45  On a road trip. You know, I don't either. I never eaten, I mean, I've bought stuff at gas stations, beer, I've bought smokes, I've bought lots of things. Speaker 2 00:38:53  if I'm gonna shop for food at gas stations, it's probably beef jerky. Speaker 1 00:38:57  They do have some coffee. Speaker 2 00:38:58  Beef jerky. Maybe some candy. Speaker 1 00:39:00  Okay, nice. what's the chance that, Bigfoot exists? Speaker 2 00:39:04  0%. Speaker 1 00:39:05  Really? Speaker 2 00:39:05  It's a hoax. Speaker 1 00:39:06  Really? Speaker 2 00:39:07  Yeah, I don't believe. I don't think so. Cryptids. Speaker 1 00:39:09  Really? Speaker 2 00:39:10  I'm not aliens. I'm not sure. Ghosts I don't believe in. Okay, okay. Speaker 1 00:39:15  All right. Okay. We were friends right up until. Let's see, what's the mark on there? 3605. Speaker 2 00:39:21  It's okay. You think that Bigfoot exists? Speaker 1 00:39:23  I. I think that the best, the best answer I ever got from it was from Doctor Terry Silky. our wonderful big. One of the biggest philanthropists in town. who's a orthodontic specialist for Lake County. Big shout out, Terry. he said that we think about all the things that we've gone through, like from history, from dinosaurs, to, like, all this thing. He's like, if you don't think it's a distinct possibility that we have a Bigfoot, maybe. Speaker 1 00:39:48  Maybe not today. Right. But maybe in the past. Like with all the things that we've had, he said. But, you know, this guy's been on 20 safaris and you've seen the whole thing. Speaker 2 00:39:58  You would think that there would be, like, Bigfoot heads mounted in the Smithsonian, you know. Speaker 1 00:40:03  Or at Bill's Pub. Speaker 2 00:40:04  Or Bill's Pub. Definitely. You know. I mean, there would be that. And I mean, the fact is, like, I know people lie and they sometimes lie for attention. So ergo, could it have been a hoax, too? Oh. Speaker 1 00:40:15  Maybe. Speaker 2 00:40:16  Right. Speaker 1 00:40:16  And actually, if anybody's watching, I just got this shirt as a gift. It's come from. It's from Logan, Ohio. And they have a, in the summertime. They have a Bigfoot festival there. Yeah. So my only thing is, if he doesn't exist, because this is this podcast is really about Bigfoot. It's not about you. Just so you know. Speaker 2 00:40:35  But I. Speaker 1 00:40:35  Hear you. But why or why is it such a big hoax everywhere? Then why do they have festivals for these? Speaker 2 00:40:40  Cute. I mean, like, people, you know? I mean, people, like, they think he's adorable. He's funny. He's like a meme. I think before memes. Speaker 1 00:40:47  Kill people, I think that might be. Speaker 2 00:40:49  What about Harry and the Hendersons? He was nice. Speaker 1 00:40:51  Yeah, that was just a. That's fiction. Like, he was nice, like Notting Hill. Speaker 2 00:40:54  He would always be like. He would always, like, hide bashfully in the closet. He's cool. Speaker 1 00:40:59  And John Lithgow, isn't that too? Speaker 2 00:41:00  He's nice. Right? He's always frustrated here. He does something. Speaker 1 00:41:04  Well, when I have evidence, I'm calling you. Speaker 2 00:41:06  Call me. I would love to be proven wrong about this, and I will. I would be happy to to to shake Bigfoot's hand. Speaker 1 00:41:12  Okay, good. Because now that we have these new phones that have better, you know, they focus better. Speaker 1 00:41:16  Now we'll get a clear picture of them, not just the fuzzy ones. Speaker 2 00:41:19  I only wish that Nessie was existing. The Loch Ness monster, that's my favorite cryptid. And I have never seen any good proof of that. That's a darn shame. Speaker 1 00:41:28  Yeah, well, hey, you never know. We're finding out all kinds of fun things these days. You never know. All right, so I think it's time we switch off of our hotseat. Questions that we've covered the really important stuff. Thank you. one thing I want to thank you for, because I know that you are a part of an organization, here, which is the Exchange Club. Yeah. so I know that, let's talk for people that aren't familiar with the Exchange Club. What is it? What is it based upon? Speaker 2 00:41:53  Okay, so the Exchange Club is cool. It's really an old organization. It's from, I don't know, 1913. And it is a group that I like in Grayslake because I just get together with my friends and have lunch. Speaker 2 00:42:05  Right. You know, so it's a bunch of business and community leaders. or not even, I mean, not at all. Some of them are just regular people. We have a, you know, like, I don't know, I want to say a retired teacher, not a community leader, but, you know, retired teachers come. And we had a retired accountant lady for a long time. And, you know, people that are just townies. Right. and, they come on, they have lunch where at first draft it's noon. if anybody wants to come to the Exchange Club, it's free lunch. Call me. (847) 549-0600. You can be my guest, but I like the Exchange club, because the main thing is that they plan big parties for the town. You know, they have the craft beer festival, you know, they do, stuff with, I got a taste of Grayslake downtown summer thing. Yeah. Speaker 1 00:42:46  And what did you change the name of all the time? Summer days. Speaker 1 00:42:48  Summer days, Summerfest. Speaker 2 00:42:50  They. but they they do cool stuff. They raise money and then they give that money away to kids in grades, like to go to school, right? Speaker 1 00:42:56  SIPs for scholarships. That's what the, the the craft beer festival is. Speaker 2 00:42:59  Yes. And then and it's good money. They're like, here's a thousand bucks, kid. And it's a Grayslake student that's a top student to go to college. You know, they do good stuff like that. They promote Americanism. you know, what is that? It is what? It's that Americanism is like liking 911 and being interested in our country and like. Right. You know, so it's a cool organization. Check it out. Speaker 1 00:43:21  Yeah. And I like all the nice things they do and the, the men and women that are involved in that. I happen to be fond of a lot of them. Yeah. I think the one day that I knew I knew nothing about the Exchange Club, and I think it was the day that you guys were doing your, you you had picked a couple of kids for scholarships. Speaker 1 00:43:36  You were giving them. And I saw these kids first. I was walking down to have an afternoon beer at the first draft or something like that. So I saw these two kids, like walking back to school and these big smiles on their faces. right? So I get to the bottom and a bunch of the Exchange Club members are hanging out, and to see these men that were standing there, and they were so blown away and so happy and so just straightforward, just happy about what they did. It was it made me really have a fondness for the organization. Speaker 2 00:44:05  And I just want to shout out to the Grayslake kids from North and Central. They're like really fantastic kids, you know? the some of the kids that are winning these awards, I mean, back when I was a kid, I tried to get good grades. I tried to do well in my tests, but otherwise I just went home. Speaker 1 00:44:22  How did I get so smart? Speaker 2 00:44:23  I don't, and they. And they have the energy, this boundless energy that is really. Speaker 2 00:44:27  It's admirable and kind of scary. So God level, I mean, whatever. Speaker 1 00:44:33  Which is. Speaker 2 00:44:34  Good. Don't you ever nap, you know, don't you ever eat too much pizza and then go to sleep, right, like me. So. Speaker 1 00:44:39  Right. Right. And especially as a high school kid. Right. And these guys are doing really, really well with things. Yeah. Speaker 6 00:44:44  Hey, Lake County, I know you know, a teacher out there that needs to be recognized. I'm Jodi, former educator, now realtor, and I'm here representing Educators Advantage. We want you to nominate a teacher of the month. Click the link in the show notes and nominate your favorite teacher. Make your favorite teacher feel appreciated and give them a shout out. Speaker 1 00:45:09  Cool! So I love to see people that get involved with organizations, especially like when going back, like the Safe Place kind of things. So explain this to me too. Are there more than one location for Safe Place? Because there's one in Zion. Speaker 1 00:45:21  Is there also one in Mundelein? Speaker 2 00:45:23  So okay, that is the family visitation center. Okay. Okay. That I believe has moved. Okay. So you'd want to check with Safe Place about the details for when I was involved in the organization. They had two places. They had a women's shelter. That was like a big apartment building in Zion, and it's tucked away. So you don't know about it, right? God love them. But then they also have a really important role that they play, having to do with, facilitating visitation or exchanges of parties that have, like ops against each other. Orders of protection. Yep. Okay. So you've got to go there. You, like drop off your kid in the front, and then dad comes in the back, and then they have like a meeting and they hang out for an hour and have pizza. And then there's people watching, like little child. Jimmy smiled when you saw dad. Right. And they take notes and they give that to the court and the safe place. Speaker 2 00:46:16  Like, honestly, so many exchanges, so much visitation just couldn't happen because of the acrimony between the parties. But for what a safe place does. So they're cool. They're they're fantastic. Speaker 1 00:46:27  I love them and it's nice. And I like places that are put together that look for the best for the children and to keep them safe to and keep, because sometimes just two people just don't get along. So that's a nice way to then get in there. Speaker 2 00:46:38  It's one of the toughest things about family cases is when you have a tremendous amount of acrimony, even like a good divorce, where it's just. I don't love him anymore. You know, you've got to co-parent the kid. But when it's a situation where it's like he raped me or he beat me up, or he right got 60 Y's or he. Whatever those cases, you know, the judges are very reluctant to totally shut out a parent. So they'll give him or her sometimes. Sometimes it's a her, you know, supervised visitation, wrangled by a safe place or supervised by perhaps somebody else, like a mom or grandma or whatever. Speaker 2 00:47:13  Okay. but those, those organizations that facilitate the, the best interest of the kid and the, the parenting time, the the courts. I don't know how they could function before that. That, safe place started doing that. Speaker 1 00:47:26  Yeah. No, it must be a really, really hard thing to do. well, one of the things that I really enjoy, I have to tell you, because I was having a conversation before we got together today, and a man was, who's potential, guest on another show was asking me my my, my motivations on why he wanted to come on. And the guy clearly, wanted to come out and just advertise his business. Right. And I was trying to explain to him that this these are the conversations you are having. You and I are having right now that I really like that. very soon, hopefully, we're gonna have Chief Myra chief of police on, because I really like humanizing. some people have jobs or positions that people don't really get to know, right? So if I had to hire somebody for a family attorney or a DUI attorney or a criminal attorney, I hope that I get to listen to the show so that they get to know your personality, to know that you're a human being, right? Speaker 2 00:48:16  My personality is is unique, but there are a lot of really good attorneys in Lake County. Speaker 2 00:48:21  I'm happy to help people. Whatever. Speaker 1 00:48:23  Yeah. Well, no. And I think it's nice. Speaker 2 00:48:24  I like to be humble. I'm not trying to. Well, you're very humble out there, right? I'm not. I'm not trying to be like. Oh, yeah. I'm like the only one around because I'm not, you know, and like I said, in Lake County, we're blessed with a strong bench and bar, right. You know, and honestly, I get along with just about all of them. Speaker 1 00:48:40  That's cool. Okay, so let's do this. because of people. So let's, to help our listeners out there listening. So let's talk. first of all, when starting to divorce proceedings like they're they know they're going to get divorced, maybe some advice on how they go about finding an attorney that would be right for them. Is that a hard question? Speaker 2 00:49:00  Yeah. So finding an attorney. I mean, a lot of people want to do word of mouth. They talk to their their cousin. Speaker 2 00:49:06  How you got divorced in Lake County. Tell me who you use and then call that guy. That's probably a good decision. Speaker 1 00:49:12  Not to tell you who not to use. Speaker 2 00:49:13  Right? Speaker 1 00:49:14  In their opinion, though, totally right. maybe the decision didn't go their way so it could be false information, right? Speaker 2 00:49:21  Totally. A lot of people just go to Google and they'll Google like Libertyville divorce attorney or Lake County divorce attorney or whatever. And you can get hits there. And you look at their Google reviews we have I mean, my law firm has fantastic reviews, but that's just because we try to just, I don't know, do a good job and then clear the case. You know, try to Because, like, if you take one guy's divorce case and you're like a vampire on his neck and you drain him till he's totally out of blood. Well, you know, that's one case, okay? I'd rather just, like, help a guy and then get a good review and help another guy and get a good review and help a guy and get a good review, and then just, like, kind of build it up that way. Speaker 2 00:49:56  That's way better, right? Speaker 1 00:49:58  And with integrity, when you're walking away, then you can sleep at night and make sure that you know that you can help people out. Speaker 2 00:50:04  I sleep. Speaker 1 00:50:04  At night. Right. That's good. Yeah. All right, so how about, DUI? Speaker 2 00:50:09  So. Okay. How to find a DUI attorney or. So same. Speaker 1 00:50:13  Thing. I know how to get one. Speaker 2 00:50:14  I know. Speaker 1 00:50:15  It's just not the. Speaker 2 00:50:16  Attorney. So, I mean, man, I use Lyfts now. Yes. You know, I, I really do I. Speaker 1 00:50:21  I cheapest thing to do. Right. Speaker 2 00:50:23  It's 20 bucks here and back and you don't have to worry about. Am I going to get in trouble. Right. You know, and you don't have to worry about. Am I going to hurt somebody or whatever? Speaker 1 00:50:32  So yeah, I heard somebody. Maybe it was another stupid social media thing I saw. But there again, like it was a $20 ride home, right? For, let's say I have to go from Grayslake up to Atkinson, like at the bar. Speaker 1 00:50:42  How many Lyft rides would it take to equal to a two? Would it cost to hire an attorney to go through the DUI process? Speaker 2 00:50:51  So I think it was NHTSA, the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, one of those organizations, used to run a billboard campaign here in Lake County. And one of the billboards I remember was a picture of a kid blowing into a portable breath test. And there's the police cars, lights behind him, and it says, you just blew $10,000. Speaker 1 00:51:12  Most people have no idea what to do with their aging loved one who needs help. Well, there is a solution. A company that provides care and assistance to make your loved one feel right at home, at right, at home. Their mission statement is to improve the quality of life for those they serve. They offer extensive services personal and companion care, safety, supervision and transportation, fall prevention, dressing and bathing assistance. Medical reminders, meal prep, hospice support, ambulation support, stroke recovery, Parkinson's support, the list goes on and on and on. Speaker 1 00:51:43  If you have an aging loved one that needs help, call. Right at home. Most people prefer to age in their home rather than moving to an assisted living or nursing home. Right at home can make this happen. Contact right at home at right at home NHL.com or give them a call (847) 984-0103. Now back to the show. Speaker 2 00:52:02  You know, which I think is like not inaccurate. Speaker 1 00:52:06  Ten. Speaker 2 00:52:06  Grand right. Because like so the legal fees like, I don't know, cheap one 2500, you know, a hot felony DUI 568, whatever, $1,000. So that's good money there. But even for your first time misdemeanor DUI, you're spending 2500, $3,500 on a lawyer. And then you get the fines, the court costs. There are 3 or $4000. There's treatment that you must do, you know, so you do alcohol or risk evaluations and pay for the classes and then woo woo. It gets to be expensive. So yeah, you know,

(00:00-18:18) Gutting Roger Dean after Spring Training. Rumor has it the Cardinals may be building TMA an outdoor booth. War Arenado getting kolaches? Arenado may have to expand his list. Jackson talking with John Denton. Soft confirmation. Oli stopping by to fact check some things. Mt. Rushmore of Rihanna songs. Marmol may have rehabilitated his image on our show. (18:26-34:01) Martin's news and notes from Oli Marmol's press conference. Lotta guys you thought would be gone are back. Is Mozeliak driving a Dodge Neon? Power ranking the week's interviews. (34:11-43:52) John Mozeliak sits down for his third appearance of the week. He was NOT in a Dodge Neon. Mo taking a chance to dunk on some people. Mozeliak's thoughts on Jim Edmonds' comments. Asking Mo if we could come down to Jupiter. Leaving question of the day in the past. Might have been a compliment mixed in there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

(00:00-18:18) Gutting Roger Dean after Spring Training. Rumor has it the Cardinals may be building TMA an outdoor booth. War Arenado getting kolaches? Arenado may have to expand his list. Jackson talking with John Denton. Soft confirmation. Oli stopping by to fact check some things. Mt. Rushmore of Rihanna songs. Marmol may have rehabilitated his image on our show. (18:26-34:01) Martin's news and notes from Oli Marmol's press conference. Lotta guys you thought would be gone are back. Is Mozeliak driving a Dodge Neon? Power ranking the week's interviews. (34:11-43:52) John Mozeliak sits down for his third appearance of the week. He was NOT in a Dodge Neon. Mo taking a chance to dunk on some people. Mozeliak's thoughts on Jim Edmonds' comments. Asking Mo if we could come down to Jupiter. Leaving question of the day in the past. Might have been a compliment mixed in there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Send us a Text Message.Buckle up, gearheads! This week's solo episode of Late to Grid is a personal one, as host Bill takes you on a nostalgic journey through his own motorsports adventures. From early days at the Indy 500 to his current role as founder of Atomic Autosports, Bill shares stories of karting, endurance racing, and the creation of Raider Racing, a successful team built around the iconic Dodge Neon.Get ready for a mix of laughs, wisdom, and inspiring anecdotes as Bill reveals the lessons learned through years of wrenching, racing, and building a business in the fast-paced world of motorsports.In this episode, you'll:- Hear about Bill's early exposure to motorsports and his first experiences with the IndyCar series.- Discover how a chance encounter at the Nelson Ledges 24-hour race led to a passion for endurance racing and a life-changing connection.- Learn about the challenges and triumphs of building a successful race team and the importance of community and support.- Get tips on conquering the dreaded "late to grid" syndrome and how to make the most of your time on track.Whether you're a seasoned competitor or just starting out, Bill's insights on finding joy, maximizing opportunities, and the importance of community will resonate. Don't miss this unique opportunity to get to know the man behind the mic and gain valuable knowledge from his fascinating journey!_Atomic Autosports is a race prep shop in Ohio. From prepping your autocross, HPDE, or race car to being the host of the Late To Grid podcast, we're here to help grow and support grassroots racing.Subscribe to our channel:  @AtomicAutosportsLLC  Atomic Autosports Website: https://atomicautosports.com/ Thanks for listening and taking an interest in growing grassroots racing. The Late To Grid podcast shares the stories and inspiration that help listeners along their motorsports journey. Find all episodes on the Atomic Autosports website.

UNIQUE SHOWS COME FROM UNIQUE PERSONALITIES When you try to be all things to all people, you end up being nothing. You're not unique. PICK A SIDE Focus your topic on what you know best. Be opinionated. Be passionate. Pick a side. Be unique. Most of all, be consistent. When you try to discuss an industry in general, your audience won't know what to expect when they visit your show. Let's take Dave Ramsey for example. During the opening of “The Dave Ramsey Show”, Dave would say, "Where debt is dumb, cash is king, and the paid-off home mortgage has taken the place of the BMW as the status symbol of choice." Dave's show is a personal finance show. Moreover, it is a show about getting out of debt. Dave helps people find ways to pay off their debt and become financially stable. "The Dave Ramsey Show" didn't discuss particular stocks or mutual funds. It didn't discuss how to go about investing other than simply suggesting you sock away 15 percent of your income for retirement and then some for college. Dave's show recommends 7 basic steps to financial security. He has been doing a show on these 7 steps for over 30 years. Every show, everyday, every call. It was all about these 7 steps in some way or another. When you tuned into "The Dave Ramsey Show", you knew what you would get. Dave was focused. CHANGING DAVE As Dave gets older and closer to retirement, he is thinking about the future of the show and company. He changed the name of the show from The Dave Ramsey Show to The Ramsey Show. To help him ease his way into retirement, Dave incorporates other Ramsey Personalities into the show as co-hosts or hosts when he is gone. The show isn't just hosted by Dave. When you tune in, it could be hosted by Ken Coleman, Rachel Cruze, Dr. John Delony, George Kamel or Jade Warshaw. It may even be hosted by a couple of them if Dave is not there. The intro of the show has changed. When it was the Dave Ramsey show, Dave would say, "Where debt is dumb, cash is king, and the paid off home mortgage has taken the place of the BMW as the status symbol of choice." Now with 6 different hosts with different areas of expertise, the intro of the show says, "Where we help people build wealth, do work that they love, and create amazing relationships." The show has become less focused on getting out of debt and personal wealth and more about life in general. Before, I knew what I got. I was in financial trouble and needed answers. Now, I could get anything. Does the show help me with my job search, or my relationship with my in-laws, or getting out of debt, or starting a business, or dealing with my boss, or my kids assuming I will watch the grandkids, or negotiating my credit card rate? All of it. You don't know what you're going to get or who will be giving it to you. The show is losing its clarity. Give your podcast focus. Your audience will appreciate the consistency. YOU UNIQUE What makes you different? When you try to please everyone, you end up pleasing no one. Make people take notice. You are an expert at your opinion. Give it to people. Take a stand. Pick a side. Some of the nicest people make the worst podcast hosts. They try to please everyone in the audience. Those people tend to blend into the background and go unnoticed. I once coached a radio host who was one of the best storytellers I had ever met. When he and I would meet one-on-one for coaching, he would tell me some of the funniest stories I had ever heard. He would tell me stories of his dad that would have me crying from laughing so hard. He once told me his dad was absolutely convinced the PT Cruiser was the best car ever made. As much as my host would try to explain that the PT Cruiser was simply the Dodge Neon chassis with a different body, his father wouldn't believe it. The two of them would get in these heated arguments in public about this car. Of all the things in life you could argue about, this happened to be the PT Cruiser. The way the story was told was full of fabulous details. The host really had the ability to make the stories come to life. As much as I would encourage him, the host wouldn't tell those stories on the radio. He didn't believe the audience as a whole would be interested. Instead, he played it safe. He only discussed vanilla content that wouldn't upset anyone. Unfortunately, the show never took hold. UPSET THEM If you're not upsetting someone, you aren't trying hard enough. I would much rather have half the audience hate me and the other half love me rather than the entire audience have no opinion one way or the other. If the audience doesn't have an opinion, they don't care. I'm doing nothing to stir their emotion if I'm not making them pick a side. If you haven't picked a side and really focused your topic, people won't care. They won't be passionate about your show. Speak your mind. Be different. Get noticed. Make people care. BIG PARTY Big Party on the other hand lived his life on the radio. I hired Mike from the college station to be the morning host on our Top 40 station. His on-air name was Big Party, because that's exactly what you got. Big Party has a unique perspective on the world. He would ask questions everyone wanted to ask, but was afraid of asking. He would tell stories and share thoughts nobody would share. It was my job to help him share his stories and bring out the right pieces to create great content. We shaped his stories to allow the audience get to know him and what he was all about. People loved it. And, they loved him. Everywhere Party went, he knew people and they knew him. The show was authentic, engaging, hilarious, and some of the best radio. His show quickly went to #1. CONNECT Your success is all about connecting, inspiring and motivating your listeners. When you connect, inspire and motivate your audience, you stir emotions within your listener. Those emotions are powerful. Emotions make people come back for more, because the create a bonding relationship. Connect with your listener by revealing things about yourself. Revelations make you human. They show your listener that you are a normal person and just like them. They can relate to you. Tell your listener about yourself. Describe the mistakes you've made. Talk about your hardships. Discuss the obstacles you've overcome. Your listener will relate to that. I WASN'T UNIQUE When I first began in broadcasting, I had no idea what I was doing. In fact, I was getting my degree in Architecture. I started drafting when I was 13. That was all I ever wanted to do. I fell into broadcasting by accident. While working weekends at a roller skating rink, I was offered a part-time job at a radio station running some equipment. I was making a few dollars to blow in college … while getting my degree in Architecture. My first full-time broadcasting job came while still studying Architecture. Each day I was on the air, I felt like an imposter. What right did I have to be on the radio talking to thousands of people everyday? I didn't know anything about broadcasting. After finishing my Architecture degree, I stayed in radio. Everyday, I learned a little more about broadcasting. I read all I could about the field. Little by little, my confidence grew. Years later, I realized I could reveal things about myself during my show. People did actually care about me. Relationships formed. Success came my way. REVEAL THINGS Self revelation during your show will help your relationships grow as well. Have confidence in yourself to connect with your audience. Once you've started to build that relationship, you can begin to inspire your audience. If you can do it, they can do it, too. Give him hope. Light that fire of desire within her. Stir emotions. Describe success. Now that your listener can envision success, show her how to get there. Motivate her to take action. Break the process down to small steps that she can easily take. Motivate her to take a step each day. Connect, inspire and motivate your listener with each podcast. When you create strong relationships with your audience, you create fans for life. If I can turn a degree in Architecture into a career in broadcasting, you can be successful there as well. Make it happen. YOUR UNIQUE AUTHORITY To become an authority and influencer in your niche, you need to stand out and be unique. You can do that by sharing yourself. Develop your personality and which parts you'd like to highlight on your show. Then, tell stories to develop that reputation with your audience. Build relationships.   If you don't have a mentor who can take your hand and walk you every step of the way, go to www.PodcastTalentCoach.com/apply, click the button and apply to have a chat with me. We will develop your plan and see how I can help and support you to achieve your podcast goals.

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Join Wes this week on Shaping Success as he interviews his good friend Jhae Pfenning who is also is co host on One Drink Wednesday currently on Instagram, but they are looking to move it to YouTube. Wes and Jhae talk about growing up and cars.In keeping with the spirit of One Drink Wednesday, Wes and Jhae take a shot of the energy drink Magic Mind. Jhae found when he took it in the morning, he doesn't get that 2:30 pm slump. He would typically need some coffee at that time for a pick-me-up, but he didn't need it. Wes and Jhae agree that Magic Mind is healthier than coffee and booze, and it also tastes good! One Drink Wednesday is a show co hosted by Wes and Jhae every Wednesday at 7pm PST. They typically have a show and tell, this day in history, and just added a segment called Rotten Tomatoes. They are looking into having a guest along with him and Jhae to play the Rotten Tomato game. Wes and Jhae talk about vehicles. They have different habits when it comes to obtaining vehicles and the types of vehicles they favor. Wes favors Honda and Chevrolet. He likes to shuffle newer vehicles. He typically leases his vehicles and switches them out every so often. He had a Honda Pilot, but when he and his family moved to the country away from everything, it wasn't a good choice. It also wasn't big enough for his family. He ended up leasing a Tahoe and buying a Honda Civic. He likes the fact he gets 40 miles to the gallon in the Civic. He also says he feels more comfortable in a Honda Civic with snow tires in the winter than a 4-wheel drive with no snow tires.  Jhae is drawn to Dodge and buys used cars because before it was all they could afford. His wife bought a used Dodge Neon. Jhae had to drive that thing around campus when he was in school, and snow tires helped him get around in that vehicle that otherwise he'd be stuck. He and Wes discuss the best snow tires and studless versus studded. The conversation turns to their kids and are they mature enough to drive when they are old enough to drive? Jhae points out that just because a person is old enough to drive, doesn't mean they should. The same can be said for drinking. Know your kids. Will they appreciate the hard work their parents put into getting them a car and just giving it to them, or do they feel like they are entitled? If they feel entitled, it may be best to let them work for it.  Jhae and Wes point out that when kids start a job and have to pay for their own stuff, that is when they begin to appreciate their things and take care of them. In Arizona where Jhae is, kids don't have to go to driving school to get a driver's license. Kids can be taught independently. If kids take the driver's education course, they get an insurance break. In Idaho, it's mandatory to take the driver's course in order to get a license. Wes says his Nieces and Nephews had to have 6 hours of driving in the course to get their license.Growing up in Texas, Jhae got his first car when his Grandmother passed away, and his parents sold it to him. He was 20 and in college at the time. His parents would help him with payments and car insurance a few times when he couldn't make the payments. For Wes, growing up in Oregon he passed his drivers test on the first try in his Mom's truck which was a stick. Even though he passed, his parents felt someone had to still be in the vehSupport the showFor merchandise, podcast and youtube: westankersley.com Check out our sponsor The Warriors Collection for coffee, gear and more use code TANK at check out for a special Discount! https://warriorscollectionbrand.com/ Follow Shaping Success https://shapingsuccesspodcast.buzzsprout.com/ Email Wes@westankersley.com for guest ideas or to be on the show!

From Toyota showing off their newest GR, Gazoo Racing sports car, the Toyota FT Se concept, Mazda showcasing a return to beautiful car design, with the Iconic SP Concept, and Nissan giving us an alien-level concept, with the Hyper Force Concept, the Tokyo Mobility Show had something for everyone. Honda also made a splash with the return of the then legend... the Honda Prelude. Also in this episode, I cover what Subaru is passing off as our future of mobility, new concepts for drag tracks, and incredible records set by a Dodge Neon. Tokyo proved that auto shows can return to the glory days and I hope that this helps spark manufacturers to get back to those days for larger markets in the US. Wrapping up this episode are some quick thoughts on the upcoming SEMA Show and my excitement for what is to come in the aftermarket space. Sit back, grab some snacks, and enjoy, this is CarQuicks! - #CarQuicks #podcast #automotivepodcast #mazdaiconicsp #toyota #mazda #toyotaftse #tokyoautoshow #tokyomobility #gazooracing #grcorolla #semashow #episode33 #CarQuicksPodcast #automotivenews #conceptcars #Nissan #GTR #HyperForce #electriccar #Lamborghini #Huracan #V8 #hybrid #EV #Supercar #texasmile #jdm #porsche #honda #hondaprelude - 00:00 Introduction 02:41 Toyota FT Se Concept 12:51 Honda Prelude Concept 18:00 Nissan Hyper Force Concept 22:19 Subaru Mobility Concept 24:56 Mazda Iconic SP Concept 31:02 Intermission - Camera Died 32:24 Auto Shows Can Be Better 37:51 EV Sales are Slowing Down 43:18 The NEW Lamborghini Huracan Successor 47:45 Legal Street Racing in Socal 50:09 Dodge Neon goes 200 MPH 51:49 Final Thoughts: GR Corolla Updates and SEMA Show

Hey folks! I'm in Denver so I had Harold join me. This episode is filled with technical difficulties. Would it be as fun if it was perfect?

Dodge EV, Chevrolet bison, new Chinese Super car U9, Ford lighting , new chevy electric Dolley, E85 is it bad for your engine ????, RS3 compared to a SUBARU???? Dodge Neon, BMW 340i. What happened to my car? Tackle box gets pulled over by a State trooper. is Audi a drift car? Local Meet.

What started off as an idea to get the Wednesday Night Crew together for build updates and advice turned into a long episode of laughter and jokes.  We managed to get some updates on their two Dodge Neon builds and talked about about two of the  team's current sponsors, Heritage Coffee & Hoppin' Frog Brewery.Check out our sponsors:LMS-EFI Website, Facebook, InstagramAtomic Autosports Website, Facebook, InstagramETC Coaching Michael Ribas on LinkedIn, ETC Website, ETC InstagramFollow us!Late to Grid - InstagramLate To Grid - FacebookLate To Grid - TwitterEpisodes on YouTubeOur Host, Bill - Instagram and TikTok

8 Minute Yoga Practice | Tree pose | For Beginners ❤️Welcome to Baptiste Power Vinyasa Flow Yoga with Kari! Our mission is to create high-quality yoga podcasts for people in Twelve Step Recovery programs. In these audios you will find simple, but powerful yoga and meditation practices that support sustainable recovery. We welcome all levels, all bodies, all genders, and all recovery programs! SUBSCRIBE to the channel to join our recovery family! Discover new yoga practices and recovery themed talks that include recovery principles with yoga. Learn what it feels like to practice these principles in all of your poses! _________________________________________________ Join the Luminous Recovery Yoga online studio! Your online membership includes LIVE weekly yoga classes with Kari and access to a full video-on-demand library with styles like Vinyasa, Yang/Yin, Mellow flows, Power flows, and Recovery themed yoga practices. This is your one stop shop for yoga, recovery, meditation, and all things Luminous! ========================================= ➡️➡️➡️Sign up for a FREE class with me https://www.luminousrecoveryyoga.com/free-class ➡️➡️➡️Join my Patreon https://bit.ly/3CaKmuY

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Originally recorded 1/4/23 Happy New Year everyone! I told you'd we back. The boys open things up by playing with Bruce's new White Elephant podcast light.  Boys and their toys...right? Up next is holiday chatter. Discussion of Bruce's son's disastrous shredder work is followed up with praise for him getting a job. Then we segue into tonight's main event. In response to the glut of Hallmark movies around the holidays, Stephe took it upon himself to take on the Twelve Days of Liam.  Yes, he watched twelve Liam Neeson movies so, thankfully, we don't have to. Here's the list: Honest Thief Blacklight Memory Unknown A Walk Among the Tombstones The A-Team (with lots of gunfire sound effects) Cold Pursuit Under Suspicion The Commuter Non-Stop Darkman Taken2 We all owe the man a debt of gratitude. Bruce shared his somewhat less arduous holiday viewing: Glass Onion Bullet Train Only Murders in the Building Then we spent an inordinate amount of time discussing Zardoz thanks to a meme Bruce posted. We ended with a rousing round of "What's on Your Desk?" - featuring the Dream of the Magi.  What does that mean?  Listen! We also mentioned Hunter Roberts' Dodge Neon bit.  HERE IS THE PROMISED LINK.

Chris and Rob are back to talk about 90s cars on Chris & Rob Talk About 90s Cars. Today, Rob regales us with another story involving his first car and one fateful night. This story has twists, turns, and of course, a 1998 Dodge Neon. 

Chris and Rob are back to talk about 90s cars on Chris & Rob Talk About 90s Cars. Today, Rob regales us with another story involving his first car and one fateful night. This story has twists, turns, and of course, a 1998 Dodge Neon. 

In this episode of The Carmudgeon Show, amateur interior designer Jason Cammisa and living encyclopedia Derek “Hyphen” Tam-Scott go back to the basics and recall their respective foundations in their respective automotive ecosystems. Derek embarks on a trip into his past of Alfa Romeo brake jobs, buying and selling old cars, and building a prolific knowledge of cars and planes through books received since his childhood. In fact, Derek's encyclopedia became certified by age 8 when elaborating on engineering differences between a Porsche 956 and 962 to his family's local mechanic. Jason similarly recalls his beginnings watching and memorizing his parents' movements driving manual transmissions as a child. As a prize for his attentiveness at age 14, he wins an unrealized $50 bet after successfully not stalling his father's FJ60 Toyota Land Cruiser, a journey filled with risky hill-starts and rev-match downshifts. Amidst a discussion of calibrating driving styles and learning how to drive old cars properly, Jason discusses a recent drive in a friend's Ferrari Mondial T after doing some throttle tinkering. As it turns out, the more broken a car is, the better you become as a driver by circumventing the brokenness. And anyway, who's really broken- you or the car? Throughout the episode, Jason and Derek engage in a conversation about the importance of being objective in the world of automotive storytelling. Jason identifies the rewards that come with experiential curiosity and the art of purposeful ambiguity- perhaps, at the cost of being fooled by a PR department behind an Audi RS3 or a similarly FWD-feeling Dodge Neon. Maybe- just maybe- we can all learn to understand a hateful vehicle. All this and more- brought to you by the Hagerty Podcast Network.

Raised in  thenBrooklyn, N.Y., Darryl Charles went to school for engineering before starting his comedy career in Philadelphia. He realized he was kind of good at that and moved down I-95 to Baltimore. His debut album, Black Gentrifier, debuted at No. 3 on iTunes at the beginning of 2020 and he's almost got another hour done.  Darryl co-hosts the podcast: DTF: The Darryl and Timaree Funhour. He's also got a great story about his first guest spot in front of his proud girlfriend -- now, his wife -- her friend and a determined security guard.Follow Darryl Charles: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/darryldarryl_/Twitter: https://twitter.com/darryldarryl_YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/darrylcharlescomedyWebsite: http://www.darrylcharlescomedy.com/home.htmlSupport the show

This week, your hosts Steve Lowry and Yvonne Godfrey interview Jim Gilbert of The Gilbert Law Group, PC (https://www.thegilbertlawgroup.com/)   Remember to rate and review GTP on iTunes: Click Here To Rate and Review   Case Details: Jim Gilbert, the founder of Colorado's The Gilbert Law Group, PC and former national chairman of the Attorneys Information Exchange Group, shares how he successfully represented Bosnian War refugee Dzemila Heco after she suffered life-altering injuries due to a defective seatback. In August 2007, Dzemila's 2000 Dodge Neon was rear-ended by another car at a stoplight in Vermont. Dzemila, who was wearing a seatbelt at the time of the accident, should have been able to walk away from this minor traffic accident, but her seatback collapsed on impact, causing her to sustain a neck injury that rendered her a permanent quadriplegic in need of round-the-clock care. In today's new episode, learn how "Lawyer of the Year" honoree Jim Gilbert held the seatback manufacturer, Johnson Controls, Inc., responsible for their defective design. Jim discusses how he used expert testimony as well as Johnson Controls, Inc.'s own testing and internal documents against them, including Johnson Controls, Inc.'s 1998 patent filing that stressed the disadvantages of a single-sided recliner. Two years after filing, the same single-sided recliner was implemented in the design of Dzemila's 2000 Dodge Neon. In spite of the defendant's claims that the seat in Dzemila's car met Chrysler's requirements and exceeded government and industry safety standards, the Chittenden County, Vermont jury found the seat to be defective. In June 2013, the jury awarded Dzemila a groundbreaking $43.1 million verdict, the largest jury verdict in the state of Vermont at the time.  Click Here to Read/Download the Complete Trial Documents   Guest Bio: Jim Gilbert A 1968 graduate of New York University Law School, James L. Gilbert is the owner of The Gilbert Law Group, P.C. an Arvada, Colorado law firm.  The firm specializes in product defect litigation, primarily automotive and truck products.  He now has over 45 years of experience litigating complex cases against some of the world's largest corporations.  Jim Gilbert was voted 2019 Lawyer of the Year in Colorado. Highly skilled and comfortable in the courtroom, Mr. Gilbert has received a number of favorable jury verdicts. His work involving defective aftermarket windshield installations, including a $6,100,000 jury verdict against an aftermarket installer, was chronicled in a cover story in Lawyers Weekly entitled "Personal Injury Cases That Made a Difference." Jim Gilbert has obtained many eight-figure jury verdicts including $35,000,000 (California) awarded in a conversion van case, $17,500,000 (Colorado) awarded in a seatbelt case, $43,500,000 (Vermont) awarded in a seatback failure case, and most recently $52,000,000 (Colorado) in a seatbelt failure case.  Mr. Gilbert is a frequent lecturer and member of the Inner Circle of Advocates, an invitation-only group with membership limited to 100 lawyers. He is an invited fellow in the Society of Trial Lawyers, a fellow in the International Society of Barristers, is listed as a Top 100 in the National Trial Lawyers Organization, and is listed in Best Lawyers in America and several other national organizations.  He was the national chairman of the Attorneys Information Exchange Group for 15 years. Read Full Bio   Show Sponsors: Legal Technology Services - LegalTechService.com Digital Law Marketing - DigitalLawMarketing.com Harris Lowry Manton LLP - hlmlawfirm.com   Free Resources: Stages Of A Jury Trial - Part 1 Stages Of A Jury Trial - Part 2

Welcome to a new podcast! On "Chris & Rob Talk About 90s Cars", Chris and Rob (and guests) talk about 90s cars. Each episode dives deep on a particular year, make, and model we owned / drove / appreciated. Hear what we loved and hated about the car, personal stories about said car,  fascinating facts from the car's wikipedia (for example, did you know the 1995 Oldsmobile Aurora was designed by Maurice "Bud" Chandler?), and play along as we try to guess what the car is worth today. On our first episode, we focus on the 1998 Dodge Neon and hear about one of the many times Rob almost got arrested or died in one when he was in high school. 

Welcome to a new podcast! On "Chris & Rob Talk About 90s Cars", Chris and Rob (and guests) talk about 90s cars. Each episode dives deep on a particular year, make, and model we owned / drove / appreciated. Hear what we loved and hated about the car, personal stories about said car,  fascinating facts from the car's wikipedia (for example, did you know the 1995 Oldsmobile Aurora was designed by Maurice "Bud" Chandler?), and play along as we try to guess what the car is worth today. On our first episode, we focus on the 1998 Dodge Neon and hear about one of the many times Rob almost got arrested or died in one when he was in high school. 

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In a year as jam packed with classic entertainment and landmark inventions as 1994, some things were bound to fall through the cracks of history – but Sarah & Joe are here to thrust them back into the limelight in this heroic twenty-fourth episode! Come along as the hosts whirl from personal favorite films (Love Affair, The Fantastic Four) to TV shows (Saved by the Bell: The College Years, Herman's Head) to new commercial products (the Dodge Neon, the Nutrageous candy bar) before finally arriving at the MVP of unsung greatness from this year – Reese's Peanut Butter Puffs cereal. Along the way much discussion is given to Warren Beatty films of ‘90s, all the movie iterations of the First Family of Marvel, the relationships between Katharine and Audrey Hepburn, Bob and Mike Golic, Deborah and Steve Kerr, the seven wonders of the food engineering world, Joe's uncanny ability to guess celebrity birth years, and a thorough breakdown of the best breakfast cereals of all-time. Plenty of topics to discuss, and wrapping up with perhaps the greatest end sequence in It Happened One Year history!

The Audi TT sparked a design revolution in cars that brought us the New Beetle, Ford GT, and dubiously the Dodge Neon. But which one is the best TT? And are you better off just getting a Golf? Steve and Adam are on the case this week!

Buddy bought a Dodge Neon for $1 million...or $250,000. We're not really sure.

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Episode 25 - Happy New Year!F-ups: Josh gave wrong information about Ernest P. WorrelFirst Thoughts with Lara#PLSituation - Should a 16  year old kid cut weight?#NewLifterTip - Setup the same every time!Josh's 3rd attempt Squat Song ChoicesBruno Mars - Uptown FunkEminem - Till I CollapseEssentialism PodcastSeason 1, Episode 11: Digital MinimalismTeam Rohr Powerlifting 100% Individualized Programming, Meet Day Preparation and Live Virtual Coaching

1998 Subaru Outback High Compression Engine. Poor Idle. Fuel Quality. Mice in a Vehicle. 1968 Camaro gets a New GTO Drivetrain. Train To Be A Tech! We need you in the industry. Check out Universal Technical Institute. 2004 Dodge Neon winter car. Manual Transmission or Clutch problem. Shifter Cables.2008 Chevy Silverado. Charging System error. 2005 Silverado Dead Dash and Radio and Heater. Instrument Cluster failure. Chris' Daughter gets her license. 

I spent my first 26 years of life in St. Louis, Missouri. I came to Arizona a couple of times to visit, and decided this is where I wanted to be. So I filled my little Dodge Neon with as much as I could, and I drove out West.I absolutely love Arizona, and definitely do not plan on leaving. I've now been here for 14 years.I've been interested in photography ever since I was little. My grandma was a photographer who developed her own photos in a dark room, and I was always so fascinated by the whole process. I've also loved the fact that beauty can be found in ANYTHING (but not everyone can see it). Or how one photo can make a person laugh, cry, or smile. Life is beautiful, and I want to help capture it!Sarah's Cell: 928-420-4255 Facebook & Instagram: @SarahSeisingerPhotography Email: sarahseisinger@Gmail.com

Today we chat with Carolyn Scott-Hamilton. Carolyn, is the creator and host of The Healthy Voyager web series, site, and overall brand. An award winning healthy, special diet and green living and travel expert, holistic nutritionist, plant based vegan chef, best-selling cookbook author, media spokesperson, sought after speaker, consultant and television personality, Carolyn Scott-Hamilton is a respected figure in the world of healthy lifestyle and travel as well as special diet cooking and nutrition.This series features conversations I conducted with individuals who have dedicated their work and lives to Vegan research, businesses, art, and society. This podcast series is hosted by Patricia Kathleen and Wilde Agency Media. TRANSCRIPTION[00:00:10] Hi, I'm Patricia. And this is investigating Vegan life with Patricia Kathleen. This series features interviews and conversations I conduct with experts from food and fashion to tech and agriculture, from medicine and science to health and humanitarian arenas. Our inquiry is an effort to examine the variety of industries and lifestyle tenants in the world of Vegan life. To that end. We will cover topics that have revealed themselves as Kofman and integral when exploring veganism. The dialog captured here is part of our ongoing effort to host transparent and honest rhetoric. For those of you who, like myself, find great value in hearing the expertize and opinions of individuals who have dedicated their work and lives to their ideals. You can find information about myself and my podcast at Patricia Kathleen dot com. Welcome to Investigating Vegan Life. Now let's start the conversation. Hi, everyone, and welcome back.  [00:01:15] I am your host, Patricia. And today I am sitting down with Carolyn Scott Hamilton.  [00:01:20] She is the founder of the Healthy Voyager. You can find it at Healthy Voyager dot com. Welcome, Carolyn.  [00:01:27] Hello. Thank you so much for having me this morning.  [00:01:30] Absolutely. I'm excited to get into everything that you're doing and for everyone listening. I'll read your bio on Carolyn. But before I do that, I always offer our audience a quick roadmap of where I intend to have some of my inquiry's go throughout the podcast. And today, we'll be looking at a brief history on Carolyn's academic and professional life as it pertains to her Vegan endeavors and plant based endeavors that will include some of her accomplishments, such as her cookbook and some of her other business endeavors, and also her personal history and her rhetoric as it plays out with her Vegan living or plant based lifestyles. Things of that nature. And then we'll also look at other businesses that Carolyn has. She has an entire brand associated with the healthy Voyager. We'll wrap everything up with kind of the ethos of what the embodiment of her brand and her lifestyle is, as well as ways that anyone can contact her and get involved with what she's doing. A quick bio on Carolyn before we get into all of those things. The Healthy Voyager, a.k.a. Carolyn Scott Hamilton is the creator and host of the Healthy Voyager Web series site and overall brand, an award winning healthy special diet and green living and travel expert, holistic nutritionist, plant based vegan chef, bestselling cookbook author, media spokesperson, sought after speaker consultant and television personality Carolyn Scott. Hamilton is a respected figure in the world of healthy lifestyle and travel, as well as special diet, cooking and nutrition. The Healthy Voyager aims to help people live. Well, one veggie at a time.  [00:03:09] So, Carolyn, you've got such a prolific pass in history and right now so many different endeavors that you're working on.  [00:03:16] But I'm hoping before we get started with all of that, you can dress kind of a story or a narrative of your academic past and professional history prior to where you came to right now look like.  [00:03:29] Well, it's it's I always say that when I moved to Los Angeles. Ever since I got here to now, I've lived nine lives. I, I came out here for kind of what most people come out here for, for the industry. And it's it's been a part of my life the entire time. But I've said Wade and gone off path and off tangents so many times. But somehow it all kind of still ties in. So I went to college at the University of Miami for undergrad. I actually was on the medical school track and I wanted to be a pediatric surgeon. And I remember one Christmas break I was talking to a doctor. I was I was actually working at a dentist office and my dentist and I were chatting and he was like, you know, the medical field isn't what it used to be and, you know, all kinds of things. And I never had any doubts about what I wanted to do. But that conversation did kind of bring something up for me that I thought, well, wow, you know what? If this is something that I really, really want to do, it's going to be years before I'm actually done. So I would have had medical school, then residency and then specialty and fellowship. It would have I would have been in school for like 15 years. I thought, well, what if after all of that schooling, I don't like it? Or I thought, well, what if I want to have a family and I'm never gonna have the time to enjoy them because I'll be on call it all started to kind of come up for me. And I thought, well, if I'm having these doubts now, then maybe I should walk away from it. And I was on full scholarship, so I had a couple of years left. And to my mother's chagrin, I said, OK, I'm not going to medical school. And I said, I'm going to I'm going to go to film school. And she was not happy with me, but my father was because he was the creative. And I had actually been since I was five years old, actually, since I was three. I had been dancing and since I was five, I'd been acting. So I'd and I'd been writing my whole life and singing. So I, I kind of went back to my creative roots and I was like, I'm going to do this. And it kind of was no skin off my teeth because I didn't I didn't have to pay. If I had to pay for school to do that, I probably wouldn't have made such a bold choice. But I did because I. I really thought, you know what, I. I've always been creative. I've always wanted to do things in a different way. And when I remember speaking to that dentist that day at work and he did say he's like, you don't really get to do things the way you want to do them anymore. And I thought, wow, if I can't practice medicine the way I want to, then maybe this isn't for me. And it all worked out because once I got to L.A., I came out here. I didn't know anybody. Right after undergrad, I got out here, packed up my Dodge Neon and pulled a tight little U-Haul cross country through through a hurricane. And I got here and my life has been pretty, pretty insane in a in a cool way. I'd say I was working in the industry for a while. I was I was acting and I was singing. And I realized a few years in that it wasn't how I imagined it. I did pretty well growing up in Florida. But the scene out here is quite different. And excuse me, I am I didn't love it anymore because I didn't get to be creative. I didn't like the business side of it. And I didn't like the. How do I say just the kind of the myopic view about things in the business as far as. It wasn't so much based on talent. It really was based on looks and not not so not so much good looks. It just very much type berry type. I'm Latina, but I don't necessarily look Latina to casting directors. So I started to see a pattern and I was like, this is just an uphill battle and I don't even love doing this anymore. And I said, I'm out. And I ended up falling into PR. I was working with a woman and we launched now pretty successful yoga clothing line. And I learned invaluable information and skills from from launching that brand. I learned about ya and and launching a line and and the clothing world and all of that. And I ended up leaving there and going to PR firm. And then I ended up starting my own PR firm. And from that. Yeah. So I thought I was going to do it myself and do it for clients that can't necessarily pay a twenty five hundred to five thousand dollar retainer fee. I want to help the little guy. So I did. So I was doing PR and events. So I did everything from lifestyle PR for clients to weddings, to wrap parties, to fashion shows. And I. That was my life for for quite a while. But before that. Probably within the first few months that I moved to L.A. because of the whole looks and being in the industry, I had read a book called Fit for Life. And it was about food combining because, of course, I got here and I thought, oh, my gosh, I'm going to be really skinny. You know, 22 year old me was thinking kind of a little bit on the shallow side, but it was a book that changed my life. And because it was a fad about food, combining about combining your carbs and your proteins again. Twenty two year old me thought, oh, well, I'd rather eat carbs than protein. And I ended up going vegan plant based pretty much overnight without really knowing much about it. Just that I wanted to. To lose weight or, you know, some ridiculous reason. But it resonated with me so much that I started to really research it. And because I wanted to do it for health reasons and do it correctly. I learned to love it. I ended up getting my masters in holistic nutrition and I started my PGA natural pathic medicine. And I thought, wow, I'm so glad I left medical school because this this makes so much more sense to me. And has at the time, back in 98, there was there was nothing I didn't know any begins. There were there wasn't even a Whole Foods yet. There were, you know, small little markets and everything was very hippie dippy in that space. So I was one of the only people that I knew that was eating that way and living that lifestyle. And I kind of got tired of eating bowls of guacamole and and cucumber sandwiches and salad. I thought there's got to be more to life than the signs of going to culinary school, because I really I always loved cooking, but I wanted to see what else was out there as far as swaps and figuring out how to eat, you know, in this new lifestyle. But I did all of that for my own knowledge, not necessarily to become a chef at a restaurant or open a restaurant or anything like that. I did do some private nutrition counseling for clients, but I. I knew that that wasn't my passion either. So really, I just loved having that knowledge base behind me. So cut to I had my PR firm and I'm doing quite a bit of travel. And because of my dietary restrictions, I was always figuring out ways to manipulate menus. I would I like to say McGyver cook in my hotel room. I always have snacks and I thought, hey, I can't be the only person that's going through this. Not necessarily that there are other beacons out there, but anyone with a dietary restriction, be they diabetic or want to look fat or whatever the case may be. There are a lot of dietary issues out there that keep people from traveling. And I've been traveling since I was a kid. I was born in Colombia. I'm Colombian and I've been all over the world. And I thought, hey, this this could be a resource for people. So I started pitching the idea for a show around two networks back in 2005 for my show, The Healthy Voyager. And it was a little too early in the space they did, but they were way too afraid to take a risk on anything health related. I had a major network say we love the idea, but we don't do healthy. And that's the whole point. We need to have options because at the time the most popular travel shows were either eating bugs in the Amazon we see or eating like a 50 pound burger. And I was like, well, that might be entertaining to watch, but for the consumer and the viewer, this doesn't help them. No one's actively going to travel just to look for these things, you know? So. So I said, you know what? I'm going to launch it on my own because I was a publicist and because I had the film background, I created the show on my own and I launched it on YouTube. And because I couldn't necessarily travel all the time, I I started a little companion blog to do some write ups about places and even local places. And then I started to post my recipes.  [00:12:54] And so what was that original show about? Was it a catchall? Was it just you discussing you interviewing people? You talking about new places to eat? What was the healthy Voyager that first original YouTube series about?  [00:13:09] It was. It was a travel show. So I would travel to places and I would go to Vegan restaurants or find Vegan food at specific restaurants. So that was very, very niche. Now it's I still have the travel show, but it's more adventure based, sustainability based. I do talk about food and some restaurants, but I found that that content is an evergreen because restaurants, clothes, restaurants change. So, you know, some of those old episodes that are still up, it's funny, like none of the restaurants exist. So I thought. And because I started traveling more and getting sponsored more and working with with big brands, I was able to to put together a much more well-rounded show. So I do some really cool things now. It really is more adventure based, culture based. There's still that culinary aspect, but not in the sense of promoting specific Rothera restaurants, because, again, you know, they come and go. So. So, yeah. So I love the show. And then within all this time I had a cooking show, I, I, I watched all kinds of little businesses under the umbrella of the healthy voyageur. But yeah. That the little idea that came from pitching to networks is now my full time job this week. It's 15 years old, at least from the idea with the germ of the idea. When I had it was 2005 and now it's my full time gig and I. I love it.  [00:14:40] Absolutely. So what was kind of your first turning break when you started making you said you started garnering sponsorships and you were developing all these projects. You have a cookbook out. What is the name of your cookbook? It is.  [00:14:54] Is it the Healthy Boyages Global Kitchen?  [00:14:58] There it is. And so when did that come out?  [00:15:02] That came out December of 2011. So next year, I can't believe it'll be 10 years. I'm going to release 10 year anniversary edition and add some more recipes and kind of update it. Yeah.  [00:15:17] Did you have sponsorships prior to that or did they kind of come and go? And do you find, given that you have the PR backing? Are people approaching you? When was that career turn?  [00:15:30] You know, there are a lot of people that have been in industries and they're like at some point people started approaching me.  [00:15:35] Yet that started to happen a little earlier than I had expected. But because I started the brand way before social media even existed, there was no Facebook. There was no Twitter. There was no Instagram. There was nothing. I was kind of screaming into a vacuum. I didn't know who my audience was, but I was building an email list because that was the only way that I could basically chat with my with my audience and fans or anyone that had any questions. So I started a newsletter, and that was my way to keep in contact with people. And then as social media started to grow, I was always an early adopter. So I was able to kind of jump on the bandwagon. Each time a new platform popped up on the ground floor. So but I think I was able. To get ahead of the game, because I was around before that started so early on, because, yes, I was a publicist. I was pitching myself to brands and I was kind of teaching them the new way to market their their product or service before influencers were even a thing because they were using all of their marketing budgets for traditional media. So print media, TV media spots, things like that. And I was saying, hey, for a fraction of that cost, I can create this content for you. I have X amount of eyeballs and viewers and that sort of thing. So I was able to work with brands and kind of teach them a new way of thinking. And then as social media started to pop up, more people started to come to me. And then now their social media agencies that wrangle all the brands and then companies. So it started off early on with me pitching and then people started to find me. And then social media blew up. And and now it's it's me kind of being able to say, oh, I'm not going to work with that brand or this brand. But yeah, it's been a pretty neat evolution, seeing it from its infancy where there was no way to talk to people outside of the traditional pitching. And now it's it's just crazy.  [00:17:48] Well, hindsight's beautiful, too, because you can see that like Winding Road, which at the time is usually just kind of seeming chaotic.  [00:17:55] I think I'm curious with because you've dropped into a little bit about the fact that, you know, you move to L.A. was a very external physical environment that made you health conscious or at least looked towards this fit for Lifebook. But I'm wondering after that and how you would define your Vegan life now, what attributes do you tie into it? And also, what is the differentiation that you make between the terms Vegan and plant based?  [00:18:28] Yeah, well, starting off with that, I say Vegan just because it's easier, I, I like I prefer a plant based because I went plant based. For health purposes, I solely talk about it from a health perspective and a dietary perspective. What I'm consuming, whereas Vegan is the catch all for people who live the lifestyle that have no animal products whatsoever. So how they eat, how they dress, the products they use. And that tends to be people who are more on the animal rights side of veganism. I still identify with that because I. I do love animals. I don't wear animal products. I don't use any cosmetics or beauty products or anything household products that contain any animal products. But that's only because after I realized that it wasn't I wasn't just doing myself a favor eating plant based, that I was helping the environment and helping the animals. That's when I started to realize, oh, I can live this holistic lifestyle that that helps everything, not just me, but I still my number one reason for having done it is for health reasons. So that's why I tend to use plant based, because unfortunately, Vegan tends to have a knee jerk reaction. For most people that is negative. And I, I understand why there. I mean, I find that any extreme lifestyle has there there are loud mouths that kind of ruin it for everybody else, you know. So, you know, be a beat as and be at Crossfade, be whatever it is. Anyone that's evangelical about something tends to kind of leave a bad taste in other people's mouths that are like, oh, that's crazy and cultish, you know? So I get it. I understand the passion behind the hardcore vegans, but I have always led by example. I've never been negative, I've never been preachy. And in fact, I, I have been able to persuade people to become Vegan probably more than most vegans that I can think of, because I've just said, hey, look, I live my life, I travel the world, I. I hang out with people that are not Vegan most of none of my friends. Very few of my friends are actually being. And so I've always been very inclusive. I feel that that's that's why I like the word plant base, because it just sounds so much nicer and approachable, because unfortunately, the word Vegan is a bit of a turnoff, even though now, again, with the hindsight, I would have never imagined how insanely popular it has become.  [00:21:22] Right. Well, and even more so over the past, I thought it was kind of gaining traction.  [00:21:26] And then things like game changers and the certain things have come out that have sent people into the plant pace interest that probably would never have been there throughout X three generations. And what people? Why people come over and how it's defined? I think that for a long time, companies were turning to the term plant base to, like you say, kind of avoid the stigma. However, I've spoken to a couple of Vegan restaurant owners and things like that, particularly overseas, over the past couple of months. And a lot of them are a little disgruntled because people are using the term plant based to include things and items and products, even in stores that are not Vegan. And so they're kind of attaching, you know, plant base has become this new like fortified by the deep fortified. Yeah. And it's it's this concept of saying something healthy without it being healthy, which if you know, a lot of the documentaries and information systems coming out will show you is that that's actually the form of manipulation to the downfall of a product. You know, when you start fortifying something with vitamins, you start actually depleting it of what was originally good for it. And so people saying plant based and kind of taking over that term, there's a lot of fear that it will become molested to the point where it no longer even identifies with being plant based or Vegan. And so I'm wondering, as a cookbook author, do you? You must care a great deal about ingredients and what is going in and and really identifying. But do you think that the term plant based has become manipulated or do you think it's still like a strong avenue for people to trust that it's meaning something? I mean, I think people are identifying something that is more healthy. Fewer ingredients.  [00:23:10] Yeah, I got it. I agree because I remember when everyone started jumping on the natural bandwagon. Everything anything can be labeled natural because there's no regulation. So as long as there's water in the product, they can label it as natural. So it really is misleading for the consumer. And unfortunately. So I actually heard that organic will now be unregulated so people can use that and mislead customers. So I think it is unfortunate that the word plant base, because I do think that it it sounds nicer. I think it is kind of all encompassing. But just because it's plant based doesn't mean it's Vegan. But if it's Vegan, it is always plant based. Right. So I think people just need to be discerning when they're reading labels and what they're getting. But it is unfortunate that people will take something that's good and use it to manipulate the consumer, unfortunately. But absolutely. Yeah. I want to get back.  [00:24:16] Yeah, I do. I do too.  [00:24:17] I like the term and I hope it stays pure. I hope we get some regulatory measures in mind as well, because having something plant based that you turn around and has like yellow number three and it feels deceptive for some reason.  [00:24:29] And I want to get back to something you mentioned about the cookbook you talked about or early on and just kind of starting off the ethos of your career. You talked about really caring about dietary restrictions and, you know, turning to this Vegan way of living and things like that. It really opens you up to people who weren't just Vegan, but people who had all kinds of dietary restrictions, which now is kind of a really big deal for, you know, people who are lactose intolerant or people who have a gluten tolerance and things of that nature. And I'm wondering if as you go about constructing the cookbook, I know it's it's now almost a decade over now, but do you pay special attention because your original focus was dietary restrictions when you go to combine or as a chef when you go to make things like that, do you specifically ask yourself, looking at a dish like what can I exclude or include to make sure that those people with restrictions are included in a certain number of meals? Or is that a consideration that you have?  [00:25:33] Yeah, actually, when I wrote the book, I had that exact thing in mind where I wanted it to be inclusive for as many people as possible. So each recipe has an option for gluten free, low sodium, low sugar. So actually should send you a copy of the book. But there is a little key with little icons, and that's at the top of each page. And then there Asterix at the bottom for the squawks. If you want to make this dish for two specific for nice special diet. So I thought of that early on because I didn't want it again, because I always wanted to be inclusive, not just Vegan. And I actually remember fighting with my publisher because they wanted me. It says right under the heading, right under the title. It says one hundred fifty plant based recipes from around the world. And I fought them on the word plant based versus Vegan because again, my scope was always casting a wider net and being more mainstream versus niche. And I think that's why I've been able to I was always more mainstream. I never started in the Vegan world and, you know, jumped the river. I was always on the other side of the river and figured, well, the vegans will find me anyway. For me, it was much more important to be inclusive of everyone else and and showcase this alternative as an actual alternative. Not not anything that needs to be black and white. Not that you have to completely go vegan or anything like that. I wanted it to be an option for people and to be. Approachable to not turn anyone away. So I'm glad that I I won that battle. Yeah. But what I did. Very inclusive and all the recipes that I make on my site as well. I try to offer. There are some that are kind of difficult to do a certain way. But I would say a good eighty five percent of my recipes can be made to suit any special diet.  [00:27:43] Yeah. And substitutions I think are key. I mean, I really feel and I've I've been Vegan, you know, for over seven years now.  [00:27:52] And so I definitely am a little bit more sage in that. But I think that the first thing that people think is you must live off breads. And then the second I tell them that I'm gluten free, they think you don't need anything. But actually, I think every cuisine and I want to get into this on your site, you kind of get into like a hint towards this, but every cuisine all over the world can be altered. You know, and and made to be whether it's Vegan or gluten free. And there's actually a lot of freedom once you start to just understand the ingredients of that land, like what they you know, I just got back from Fiji and all of my friends said, did you starve? And I said, no, they have cassava, which is like this healthy friend of the potato, which I think potatoes are healthy anyway. But many people here don't like it. And I give them a start to things like that. But cassava is this even healthier big sister of a potato and that all these do they have long beans, which are green beans anyway, once you kind of. And it actually changes your relationship with traveling, you know, as a Vegan, you know, actually cooking and things like that and going places and having these conversations which become education. Introducing the concept of veganism to a Fijian is fascinating. You know, it's a fun time because they'll say, OK. So you don't eat any of that. But do you eat fish, you know? I mean, you climb through almost every single category. And so I want to turn to that with you just because I think your Web site, especially as it as a Voyager is as this site is called the Healthy Voyager. I, I want to get into your experience with traveling and what what determines what bits and pieces you include in the site and therefore your overall brand and how you kind of curate all of it. Can you climb us through, first of all, what the site is intended to do and kind of explain to your viewer?  [00:29:44] Sure. Yeah, it's it's definitely a resource for people and not just people wanting to go on culinary trips. It's geared towards travel destinations around the world. And I showcase the hotels, sustainable activities and services. Obviously, restaurants, tips. And and then I have the recipes. And then I also host lifestyle healthy articles, things like that. I used to do product reviews, but I kind of got away from that just because so many people do that. And I kind of feel like I wanted to to narrow it back down to to boil it down to to the core of what I'm interested in, which is, of course, travel and food. But as far as curating, I travel all the time for work. So it really depends. I cover every place that I go. And some of the times I'm traveling because I'm working with a tourism board or I'm working with a cruise line or I'm working with a local CBB. So it really just depends which I also love because it's never the same thing. Every trip is completely different. Sometimes it's solo travel. Sometimes it's a solo press trip. Sometimes I'm with a group of media. Sometimes I get to bring somebody with me. So it's all very different. And every destination has been quite different in the way that the itineraries have been set. Whether it's by me or in tandem with the tourism board or them setting it up for me entirely. So the scope is always different, but I try to find the most interesting things. I do like to cover some of the, I would say maybe generic things for those travelers who are looking for that. But then I will showcase something that is off the beaten path or a hidden gem. I like a mix and match of that because not everyone I was actually speaking with someone. Yes. Or about yesterday about this. Not everyone is super adventurous. I tend to take quite a few risks and I like I like some crazy adventures. And the the more exotic and kooky and less touristy places, the more I like it. But that's not true for everyone.  [00:32:07] So I like to be able to be of service to everyone and showcase something for every person because everyone has different tastes and needs when it comes to travel. But one of one of the things I've really loved to do, and this has happened more and more, more over the past few years, is do things with locals. Recently I was, well, not too recent, but I was in Finland and I was in the Arctic Circle and this little town called Rovaniemi, and it was late summer and it was absolutely gorgeous. And I met this woman who shows how traditional lap Landis lifestyle was and how she's keeping it alive. And she hosted these really cool classes. She does these really cool art projects and brings people into her home. So she and I went foraging in the forest behind her house and picked lingonberries that went back to her house and made a Vegan lingonberry pie. So for me, that was just an incredible experience. And for her, again, like you were saying, to explain being Vegan to someone who lives off the land in Finland like that is like, what are you talking about?  [00:33:17] But she when we finished the pie, she's like, wow, this is really delicious. And it doesn't taste any different than the one that we would've normally made. So it's so fun to be able to share my knowledge and lifestyle with somebody who wouldn't normally and then vice versa. So I've found that to be the the most special thing that's coming out of what I'm doing now as the show and my brand has evolved.  [00:33:43] Absolutely. Yeah, I think it's true.  [00:33:46] I think that those kinds of interactions and growth opportunities, when I first became Vegan, you know, even the opportunity to call ahead, when you were when I was making reservations towards restaurants that required it and things like that, and then having opening up a dialog with chefs and things was just not pursued with me, you know, to have them reevaluate their craft. Most restaurants with chefs that, you know, where you take reservations and things of that nature, like they're they care. You know, they're artists and they're scientists. They're craft makers. And they really want to explore some of those things.  [00:34:21] And so I've had really good experiences. You know, everyone's had bad. Anytime you come across across an exclusionary lifestyle.  [00:34:29] But I've had some really beautiful opportunities as well. And I think that anytime there's an opportunity to open up a dialog between an industry and an individual or two individuals, it's it's gonna be a good thing. So I always I try to push those stories more. You know, when people get a little bit nervous and the day has come and gone for being nervous about a plant based or Vegan lifestyle, because if anyone has turned on any kind of social, you know, that's where all of us and most definitely our great grandchildren are headed. We cannot sustain the ME Dadri industry. So is not meoh mathematics. This is not my belief anymore. Like they pushed the numbers.  [00:35:05] So coming to light every day.  [00:35:09] Absolutely. So if someone wanted to work with you or get your advice or get your consulting expertize the best way to contact you is it through healthy Voyager, your dot com.  [00:35:20] Yeah, yeah, absolutely, if I can share my emails. Carolyn at the healthy Voyager dot com and I help people in all sorts of ways, from nutrition counseling to personal branding. In fact, right now with them, with our current situation. I've I've been setting up a new website just for my consulting because I just have it kind of as a page on Healthy Boyd Recombinant tends to be buried by all the other content. But I'm launching a Web site that's just going to be for. Consulting and coaching and all the different things that I can help people with from personal PR or business PR menu, recipe development, health and wellness. So I. Because of my nine lives. I have quite a bit of information that I can help people in their transitions in life or setting up new businesses, entrepreneurs, anything like that.  [00:36:21] So I've decided to make that a separate thing from healthy Voyager. And hopefully I'll have that coming soon.  [00:36:29] Absolutely. For everyone listening. You can reach out to her as an as as these things come about. I'm sure that they're updated on her Web site. I want to say thank you so much, Carolyn, for speaking with me today.  [00:36:41] I know it's a crazy time period, and I know you're really busy and I appreciate you taking the time to lend us your wisdom.  [00:36:47] Yes. Thank you so much for having me.  [00:36:49] Absolutely. And for everyone else listening, you can contact her one more time. You've been speaking with Carolyn Scott Hamilton. Her Web site is Healthy Voyager dot com.  [00:36:59] And until we speak again next time. Stay safe and eat clean. 

Bill Caswell and John Ackerman reminisce over their racing adventures from Rally Tennessee to the Nurburgring 24hr to Foutecross to the Monaco Grand Prix to the 24hrs of Lemons. The two discuss the best ways to see races, and how others sneak into sold-old races. They cover their first year entering the Baja Pig in the Baja 1000 and other important racing stuff like “How to destroy a BMW 750Il using a Dodge Neon.”

We go deep on the Coronavirus and the 2005 Dodge Neon on this weeks 1 Minute Podcast.

My first car (a White, 1997 Dodge Neon with chopped paint), the salt of the earth and the light of the world.

Platicamos de ya paso un año de nuestro Test Técnico al Nissan Kicks, por otra parte el lanzamiento del nuevo VW Virtus, comentamos sobre el piloto alemán Michael Schumacher que se recupera, Porsche aparece en la película de Playmobil, tuvimos un análisis de gama del Dodge Neon y sus rivales, ¿qué conviene comprar? Mazda6 nuevo o Clase C250 usado y ¿Comprar o no un auto demo?

On Friday, July 7, 2017, at approximately 8:50am, Columbus Police Officers and Medics were dispatched to the area of 350 S. Wayne Avenue, on report of a body inside the trunk of a Dodge Neon. Officers arrived and found the victim, Jesse Houser, unresponsive, inside the trunk of said vehicle.Anchor: https://anchor.fm/devil-we-know-podcastPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/DevilweknowpodcastTwitter: https://twitter.com/devilweknowpodFacebook:  https://www.facebook.com/devilweknowpodcast/This Week's Promo:  Spell Cast https://twitter.com/spellcastpodUnsigned band of the week:  Tiger Mimic : Listen to our Debut EP

There’s a dark and murky shadow encompassing Thread Corner, and it’s sinister nature seems to know no bounds! Is it Walt’s ghost back from the dead to seek vengeance on the owner of that Dodge Neon or is it just mere mortal fat-cat jealousy? Thread calls in experts Dr. Kevin Chadwick and lawyer Ronald Woodward to hear their expertise on the matter, while also making time to get psychologically down and dirty with the youtube.com thread, ‘Sad Laugh.’ Plus, a delightful message from Dr. Kar-In Tampon while she is on temporary leave! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2kxZ90PnAk Originally Recorded November 29, 2016 - Episode 21, pretty sure R.I.P. Walt Weathers 1983-2018 Catering provided by Nathan Ballard, Macklen Makhloghi, Megan Reisberg and Adam Wasser. threadweathers@gmail.com Twitter: @thread_corner, @threadweathers, @drkevinchadwick Insta: @joecooltampon, @d.o.c_2, @threadweathers, @thread_corner

Ron starts this episode talking about a Subaru that came into the shop that had overheated : takes a call on an 04 Dodge Neon that just slips into a vibration, bad running mode : takes a call on both an 08 Nissan Frontier with questions on the rear end and looking for headlight recommendations , and on a 65 Rambler Ambassador looking advice on tuning a carburetor. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Avsnitt 82 är här! Bring Gene Home! Krick inleder med ännu fler nattsvarta oturs-historier innan Ponkan lättar upp stämningen med en massa kul fakta om Mad Max Fury Road-bilarna. Troligtvis filmhistoriens mest ambitiösa bilprojekt. Krick riktar därefter siktet mot kampanjen för att få hem Gene Winfield från Finland. Det blir mörkt. Vi växlar istället över till Buddhistiska Cadillac likbilar och varför en har hamnat i Dalarna. Sen får Ponkan i uppgift att pricka in målgruppen på fem märkliga bilmodeller, t ex varför Dodge Neon ägs av Jehovas vittnen som vill men inte kan komma ut ur garderoben. Sen blir det värre. Häng med!

Ron starts this episode with the story of the three TPMS cars in his shop this week : takes a call on an 05 Dodge Neon with a P274 code : takes a call on an 89 Olds Toronado Trofeo where the CRT info screen has died and needs to be replaced or repaired : and takes a call on an 85 Volvo 240 where the caller is having issues with his mechanic and is looking for guidance. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Our first ever "listener guest hosted pod" is being brought to you by none other than Scott Westerberg. Scott is known for his time as a local sportscaster in Bismark and Cedar Rapids. We had a lot of fun hanging with Scott in Kansas City and hearing his story of the half court shot that won him a Dodge Neon. 

Matt Penridge and Andy Reid talk all kinds of crazy sports. You've got your football, your baseball, your hockey, your basketball... and even quasi-sports like the Detroit Neon. No for real, that was an indoor soccer team that played at the Palace from '94-'96.“The name Detroit Neon was a reference to the Dodge Neon and came from a sponsorship from the Chrysler Corporation ... In 1997 the naming rights were sold to General Motors and they were named after the GMC Safari minivan.”— WikipediaHow great is that? They were named after a car, and then a minivan! Only in Car City! 

Reviews of the Ford Ranger and Ford F-150. Mercedes E-Class - and all the tech. Ford Edge or Volvo XC60 Polestar? Is there a five-seat convertible on the new car market - no really is there? The answer could be rather a surprise. Shahzad's first ever Chinese car test - the Changan CS75. And what about the all-new Dodge Neon - going up against Corolla and Tiida. And what is it really? What is a Mercedes SLC? And why make up rules when you're going to break them with the AMG GT S Roadster?

Prueba de manejo Dodge Neon, Programa 3, Temporada 5 by Carglobe

4 Ways To Make Your Podcast Different Starting Today – Episode 098   When you try to please everyone, you end up pleasing no one. Make people take notice. You are an expert at your opinion. Give it to people.   Take a stand.   Pick a side.   Some of the nicest people make the worst podcast hosts. They try to please everyone in the audience. Those people tend to blend into the background and go unnoticed.   I once coached a radio host who was one of the best storytellers I had ever met. When he and I would meet one-on-one for coaching, he would tell me some of the funniest stories I had ever heard. He would tell me stories of his dad that would have me crying from laughing so hard.   He once told me his dad was absolutely convinced the PT Cruiser was the best car ever made. As much as my host would try to explain that the PT Cruiser was basically an incarnation of the Dodge Neon, his father wouldn't believe it.   The two of them would get in these heated arguments in public about this car. Of all the things in life you could argue about, this happened to be the PT Cruiser.   The way the story was told was full of fabulous details. The host really had the ability to make the stories come to life.   As much as I would encourage him, the host would not tell those stories on the radio. He didn't believe the audience as a whole would be interested.   Instead, he played it safe. He only discussed vanilla content that would not upset anyone. Unfortunately, the show never took hold.   Ray Romano is a great example of success stemming from the stories of real life. Ray used stories of his family in his stand-up comedy. That routine eventually became the hit TV show “Everybody Loves Raymond”.   If you are not upsetting someone, you aren't trying hard enough.   I would much rather have half the audience hate me and the other half love me rather than the entire audience have no opinion one way or the other. If the audience doesn't have an opinion, they don't care. I'm doing nothing to stir their emotion if I'm not making them pick a side.   If you haven't picked a side and really focused your topic, people won't care. They will not be passionate about your show.   Speak your mind. Be different. Get noticed. Make people care.   Here are four ways to make your podcast different from other shows in your niche.   Be real. Be yourself. Do no simply try to be an imitation of another show or host. Above all, tell the truth. It is much easier than remembers a character you have created. All people to know you through stories. The details within your stories will reveal who you are. People do business with those that they know, like and trust. This is the first step. Pick a side. Stand for something. That is the only way to stand out. Avoid shades of gray. Be drastically different.   I would love to help you with your podcast. E-mail me any time at Coach@PodcastTalentCoach.com.   You can find my podcast and other tools to help you create great content at www.PodcastTalentCoach.com.     Let's turn your information into engaging entertainment.

10-17-06 It's not a lecture, it's a gift. The Cheapo Company gave me a Dodge Neon and the President asked me to emblazon on his employees' chests a mantra. Bumping is good. This is not about me. A gift from yourself is the best gift of all, because it came from God. Like the Tinman. I'd put God inside me. (show interrupted by a trip to Taco Bell) I got a postcard from someone in my family describing the emotional impact of my non-presence. I've been to this Taco Bell before. My face and name are known. Is there a Creep Festival? They look like they want to stab me in the cheek and steel my tires and sell the rubber. This is not a gift session, it's a lecture. When you threaten a litigation it scares people. More creepy people. is this a homeless convention? Delilah is a hoot and has a son with Polio. Children are not born with diseases that their mothers didn't give them. That woman did that to her child. More scary people. People with ugly faces should not have children. There should be a standard. I am a celebrity but sometimes I just want people to go away, especially people with big noses. Subscribe in Itunes Subscribe with RSS myspace.com/howdoyoufeelpodcast Produced by Mark Baratelli

Were talking about patience this morning. Have you run out of that lately? Nobody? A couple of you? Well, Ill just preach to the Roberts then this morning. Learning to wait. He talks in the book about the fourth watch. Jesus walks to the disciples. Its the fourth watch between 3 oclock and 6 oclock in the morning. The storm is still going on. Why did Jesus wait so long? Why not come earlier? Why not calm the storm first before Peter walks on the water? Why not calm the storm before you get to the disciples? Why did He have the storm last? Why did He wait until that late in the night to come, the fourth watch? Because God is obviously trying to teach them something. Hes trying to teach them to learn to wait. We have fourth watch experiences. The Bible is full of fourth watch experiences. Theres Daniel in the lions den. Youd think God would deliver him before he gets in the lions den, right, if youre Daniel? But, God waits until he gets in the lions den. If youre Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, you hope God will deliver you before you get into the fiery furnace, but God waits until theyre in the fiery furnace. If youre Moses, youre hoping that God parts the Sea before the Egyptians get to you, but God waits until the last minute when the Egyptians are right there and the Sea is right on the other side before He parts the water. How many of you have had fourth watch experiences where it seems like God waits until the last possible minute and sometimes even beyond that? Let me see your hands. All right, so Im talking to the right group here. Were going to look at a fourth watch situation here in John 11, if you would turn there. We talk about patience; the truth of the matter is sometimes we are impatient with God. Sometimes before we can gather all the facts, we make assumptions about Gods character. We make assumptions about Gods nature. If God is allowing me to go through this, He couldnt be good. If God is not going to answer my prayers, maybe He doesnt hear, or maybe He doesnt care, or maybe He is not powerful enough to intervene in this situation. Therefore, we make judgment calls. We become impatient with God. We disagree with the way He has worked or what He has done. Anybody here ever made a judgment without getting all the facts? All of us have, right? Its easy to do. Its called an assumption. I wont go there, to the definition of that, but… I definitely demonstrated that a couple of weeks ago when I was driving home. My oldest daughter drives a forest green Dodge Neon. So I saw a forest green Dodge Neon. I dont get close enough to see my daughter, but I know its her, so I start waving at the Dodge Neon going, Hi Honey! Hi Honey! Boy, the look on his face when I got close enough to see him. That was a little embarrassing. I was like, Oh, sorry. He was happy to see me, kind of thing. I heard one even worse than that. A gentleman was woken up at 3 oclock in the morning from a sound sleep. He wakes up; the doorbell is ringing. Its 3 oclock in the morning, and hes saying, This better be important. He goes down the stairs, opens the door, and heres this intoxicated man on his front step. The man says, Yes? The man on the front step replies, Can you give me a pussshh? He says, No, I cant give you a push. Its 3 oclock in the morning. I have to get up early. Besides that, its raining outside. Youre on your own. He closes the door. He goes upstairs. He feels a little bit bad, but come on; he has to take care of himself. He gets into bed, and his wife says, Who was that, honey? Some drunken guy. Well, what did he want? He wanted a push. Did you give him a push? Well, no. Its 3 oclock in the morning. Its raining, and I have to get up early. Silence. Well, you remember, two months ago, we were stranded, and those strangers helped us out by pushing our car off the side of the road. Dont you think you should return the favor? OKAY! he said. He gets out of bed, puts on his shoes and his coat. He goes outside in the dark and the rain and says, Hello, are you still out here? Yes! says the drunk man. Do you still need a push? Yes! said the drunk man. Where are you? he asked. Im over here on your porch swing. Youve got to get the facts, right? If you dont get the facts, youre in trouble. Sometimes we can make judgments without getting all the facts. Were going to find in this story an angry Mary and Martha. Why are they angry? Because Jesus didnt act in a timely manner, and Jesus didnt act in the way that they thought He should. Lazarus, His friend, is sick, and they send an urgent message in Verse 3 of John 11 (page 1063 of pew Bibles), So the sisters sent word to Jesus, Lord, the one you love is sick. The messenger brought this with a sense of urgency. He said, Master, You need to come, Lazarus is very sick. This word means badly sick. Hes not saying, Hey, just wanted to let you know Lazarus has a tummy ache. This is the kind of word that says if you want to see this person again, you better come now. Theyre very sick. These are the kind of words that mean, Hey, if you want to see this person that you love, you better get here right away because they might not last much longer. That kind of urgency, only in this case, its You better come right now because Youre our only hope. Thats what theyre saying to Jesus. We need You because if You would come, You could heal Lazarus, and Youre his only chance, so You need to come right away. Now, one thing the author talked about is Jesus identified with us in so many ways. Hes tempted as we are. Hes part of our human emotions. He gets happy; Hes sad; Hes gone through betrayal and rejection, pain, hunger, thirst, exhaustion, all of those things. But, He was never frantic. Have you noticed that? And he identifies with almost all of our human emotions, except Hes never frantic. Hes never hurried. Hes never out of sorts. Jesus gets this news, and the disciples are expecting a quick exodus, but what does it say in Verse 6? It says, Yet, when He heard that Lazarus was sick, He stayed where He was two more days. Didnt expect that! They expected, Lets go! Come on! Lazarus is sick! We have to get going! Hurry, hurry, hurry!! He does something very unexpected. He waits. Sometimes when we pray, and we want God to move right now. We say, God this is really important. You have to act right now! You have to move! You have to intervene! Go! Go! Go! And He has not moved. He doesnt listen to us! We cant control Him! And that makes us mad. I love Johns [Ortberg] quote in the book. He said, Sometimes we are double espresso followers of a decaf God. Were all hyped up with caffeine, Look at us go! Were following a decaf God. Hes not in a hurry. Were so in a hurry that we want what we want, and we want it now. We cant stand to wait. I remember we wanted to build this building. I wanted it so bad. For years, we were setting up and tearing down every week. What a hassle! You set up all your chairs, and you tear all your chairs down. You set up all your lighting, and you tear all your lighting down. You set up all your sound equipment and you tear all your sound equipment down. You set up your nursery, and you tear it down. You set up your childrens church, and you tear that down. In the wintertime, the heat doesnt work half the time. In the summertime, theres no air conditioning. It smelled musty. We wanted to use the building at other times, and theyd say we couldnt. We just wanted our own building so bad. At one point, I was like, God, I dont understand. Why cant you provide this now? Then, I came to our board and said, Guys, why dont we just sell the back acres that we wont need and just build on this front end? Why dont we just mortgage our future so we can have a building now? Needless to say, that didnt go over real well. And thank God it didnt, right? Because were getting ready to build. By the way, since December, January, February, the last three months, this body has given about one quarter of a million dollars to ministry, $246,000 in the last three months. Praise God for that! In the last two months, weve knocked off $50,000 principal on this building in January, and then we just did it again! Its possible we could get this thing paid for this year and get going, so keep it up. Keep it up! So, thats a praise. But, the board said, No, we cant sell our future. And sometimes we want to do that. Im reminded of a scene from Willy Wonka. Do you remember Veronica Salt? Remember her? Spoiled Veronica. She wants what she wants, and she wants it now. Im not going to ask for a raise of hands this morning. Weve all had our share of being Veruca Salt, havent we? God, youre supposed to meet my demands the way I want it, when I want it, and how I want it; and if I dont get the things Im after, Im going to scream! Im going to throw a fit because I know best! One of the marks of maturity in the life of a believer is when we come to not only recognize Gods sovereignty but to celebrate Gods sovereignty. Gods sovereignty means that He is in control, and we are not. Lets look again at the story. Jesus now comes to Bethany, and Lazarus has already passed away. In Verse 21, Martha confronts the Lord. You remember Martha, dont you? She was the same one who confronted Jesus before when Mary was sitting at His feet while she was doing all the household chores. She says, Lord, dont you care that she is just sitting here while Im doing all the work? Jesus says, Martha, Martha, Martha. So, theres another Martha moment here. Shes always correcting Jesus; she always knows better. Shes got some control issues. She says, Lord, if you had been there, my brother would not have died. Shes trying to cast a little guilt complex onto the Lord. This is all Your fault. Weve done that. Were guilty of that. Lord, this is Your fault. If You would have answered the prayers I gave, this wouldnt have happened. If You would have done it at the time I… If You would have given me what I wanted when I wanted it, this wouldnt have happened. So, Martha tries to lecture the Lord, If You had been here… Who can blame her? Its the truth. If Jesus had come sooner, Lazarus would not have died, but God had other plans. She needed to trust His sovereignty. In Verse 22, She says, But I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask. Thats sovereignty. I know that even now, God will give you whatever you ask. We had a definition of peace last week. Do you remember what it was? Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of Christ. Ill give you a working definition of patience: Patience is a calm assurance based on a certain knowledge that God is in control. Romans 8:28, God causes all things to work together for good. How many things? All things to work together for good. For everybody? Those who love Him are called according to His purpose. I heard a story about a woman who had a very dear handkerchief that had great sentimental value to her. She became careless with it. She put a pen in her pocket on the handkerchief, and the ink from the pen made a big stain or a big blotch. A friend of hers who was a very well known, very respected artist saw the handkerchief and said, It just breaks my heart. This has such sentimental value to me, and Ive ruined it. Ive destroyed it. The artist said, Well, why dont you let me have the handkerchief? She said, I guess so. Its of no value to me anymore. I was too careless with it. So she gave the artist her handkerchief. A few days later she got it back. The artist had taken that ink spot in the middle of her handkerchief and used it as the base of his design and formed a design around it, incorporating the ink spot. It became more beautiful than it ever was before, more valuable than it ever was before, and more dear than it ever was before. Not only was it this meaningful handkerchief, but now her artist friend had made it even more significant and valuable to her and returned it to her. Thats the way God works. He takes the carelessness of our lives, the ink blots, the stains, and we say, Lord, Ive made a mess of this. I really messed this up. God, Im going to give it to you, and we trust His sovereignty. He can take that ink blot, and He can begin to make something beautiful out of it. Thats His promise. Only God can do that. You and I cant do that. We have to trust when we encounter those storms in our lives, when we encounter those fourth watch experiences of our lives, that God is up to something wonderful in our lives. See, patience is not just sitting back and doing nothing. Patience is doing everything you can and trusting God to take care of the rest. Martha did everything she knew to do. She sent word to Jesus. She prayed. She took care of Lazarus the best she could, and she waited. Ephesians 6 says, Having done everything to stand firm… what? Stand firm, therefore. Having done everything to stand firm, having done everything you know to do, thats when you wait and trust that in Gods time and in Gods way, Hes going to take care of it. Hell do it in a way thats for your best interest and for His glory. Janet [Pascal] has come to sing a song that talks about the fact that God is up to something good in our lives. (_________________) Thirdly, we respect His wisdom. He [John Ortberg] wants us to take a look at the 38th verse of that chapter. Jesus is now at the tomb of His friend Lazarus who has passed away. It says, Jesus, once more deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance. Take away the stone, he said. But, Lord, said Martha, the sister of the dead man, by this time there is a bad odor, for he has been there four days. Again, Martha takes issue with Jesus. Again, she disagrees with His wisdom. She thinks thats a bad idea. Then Jesus said, Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God? So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said, Father, I thank You that You have heard Me. I know that You always hear Me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that You sent Me. When He had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, Lazarus, come out! The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face. Jesus said to them, Take off the grave clothes and let him go. In mans wisdom, the best thing to do would have been to heal Lazarus before he died, correct? Save the heartache; save the pain, none of this coming in the fourth watch of the night sort of thing. Dont let Lazarus suffer anymore. Dont make us suffer by watching him suffer. Dont make us go through the agony of death and the loss of our brother, our friend. Heal him now! Thats what human wisdom says, but Jesus allowed him to physically die. Roll away the stone! No, thats not a good idea! You think Martha learned to respect the wisdom of Jesus after this scenario? See, our human wisdom, our rationale, well, lets look at it after what happened with God, the way God did it. Jesus had taught in this chapter, I am the Resurrection and the Life. After Lazarus rises again from the dead, do you think that phrase took on a new meaning to her? I am the resurrection and the life? Talk about an object lesson, right? Its one thing to say, I am the Resurrection and Life; you can kind of understand what that means; but then watching Him say the word and speak life to a dead man. Then you see that dead man come out; I really understand that scripture now, that You werent kidding, were You? You are the Resurrection and the Life. Secondly, think of all the people that benefited. If Lazarus would have been healed before he died, Mary and Martha and Lazarus would have known about it, and they would have celebrated. But now, just think of all the people who were there who witnessed this miracle. Think of all the hundreds of people who came to Christ that day because of what happened. Think of all the generations of believers who had been moved and blessed and understood the truth that He is the Resurrection and the Life through the recounting of the story of the resurrection of Lazarus. How many millions of believers have been touched because God did it His way? Do you think Mary and Marthas faith was strengthened after the resurrection of Lazarus? Hello? Talk about faith thats now off the charts! Whatever You say, were going to do! We know You are who You say You are, and You can do what You say You can do. They have faith that is off the charts because Jesus did it His way. They didnt trust His way; they trusted their way. They were angry at Him, but He was sovereign. He knew what He was doing. So often, we think we know, but our knowledge is so limited. I was watching a television program this week. You have to take turns. Its one way to a happy marriage. Sometimes you have to put on sports; most times you have sports on; but sometimes you have to watch what she wants to watch. What she likes to watch is medical shows, not like E.R. She likes the real stuff, like gross operations and emergency room shows. So were watching the Discovery Channel, and theyre telling this story about a motorcycle rider who ran into a tree. The branch of the tree broke off and went into his head. When he came into the ER, he had this tree coming out of his head. It was sticking out of his helmet, and he didnt know how bad it was. It had leaves on it and twigs, everything. He was walking in there. They had to go get the gardener to bring his shears to the emergency room. I bet that was a peculiar call, Hey, we need you in surgery. Can you bring those clippers with you? He was like, Okay?!? So, they clipped the tree, they take his helmet off, and they say, Whoa! Look at this thing! It went in here and came out up here and went out his head. He had no idea the severity of it, and neither did they. The first thing they had to do was get some X-Rays. They would have to see if this thing hit something important in there and what would happen if they tried to pull it out. Do you know what he wanted to do? He wanted to take matters into his own hands. He even tried to take it out. He said, Cant I just take this out? Get this out of my head! They would grab his hands and put them down. Trust us! Later on, when he understood the severity of it, when he began to realize this thing was sticking out of his head and maybe he could lose his life, he began to panic and say, I want to get it out now! The doctors were basically saying, Look, you trusted us enough to come in here. Trust us enough to fix the problem. Trust our wisdom. Trust that we know what we are doing. Sure enough, they found out that luck was with this guy. The tree had missed everything important inside there, any artery or anything that would have affected his breathing. He got lucky. So they were able to take the branch out of his head and stitch him up. He put his helmet back on and rode his motorcycle away from the hospital. Believe it…or not. That was an amazing story. But I thought about that guy as I was preparing this message, and I thought, Isnt that us sometimes? We have these intrusions and obstacles in our lives, and we give it to God, and God doesnt do it as quickly as we want Him to. We dont agree with His procedures, so were tempted to just say, Let me take care of it myself! We dont even realize the damage we could cause, how we could complicate the matter even more. Weve done that. You and I have all done that. Weve all failed to recognize or celebrate Gods sovereignty and said, Im going to control. I know better. Instead of respecting His wisdom, we take matters into our own hands, and we make things worse. How many times have we dealt with situations where a couple wants a divorce? Or we have a believing spouse that is married to a non-believing spouse, and he or she just wants out. We take them to 1 Corinthians 7, and we say, "You know what?" Gods word says, If youre a believing spouse, and youre married to a non-believing spouse, dont divorce them. You dont know, Paul says, whether God can use you to bring your husband [or wife] to salvation. Theyll argue with you. They know better. Their wisdom knows better. Ill say, Look, Ive seen marriages where there has been adultery, marriages where there has been alcoholism, marriages where one spouse doesnt know the Lord, and God-over time-has worked a miracle there. Those couples have strong, happy marriages now. They will argue with you. They dont care what Gods word says. They want out now. They know better than God. The opposite is couples that want to shack up, and [they think] its okay, Well just live together. Gods word says thats wrong. Well, show me where it says that is wrong in Gods Word. Youll show them, and theyll get mad at you! Youre like, Look, I didnt write this stuff. Im just telling you what it says. Theyll say, Well, we know better than that. Our wisdom is greater than that. Friends, anytime you think your wiser than God, youre in trouble. Youre in big trouble. Youre heading for a fall. Youre in for a crash. Come to the place in our lives where we trust His timing. Im not saying we understand His timing. Im not saying we ever get to the point where we like the fourth watch appearances. I dont think that will ever happen. I think we always want the waters parted before we have to step into the water. I think we would rather be spared the lions den or the fiery furnace if at all possible. Its just like Mary and Martha if they could have been spared the loss of their brother, but Gods way was the best. We come to the point where we celebrate His sovereignty and say, Thank God Youre in control and not me because when I mess up my life with the ink stains and blotches of my life, only You can turn this into something wonderful, God, so Im going to allow you to. Im going to respect Your wisdom because Your wisdom is higher than mine. Nowhere is that demonstrated more powerfully than the cross. Think about the cross. The cross was a place of defeat, and God in His wisdom and His sovereignty turned it into a place of victory. The cross was a place of despair, and God turned it into a place of hope. The cross was a place of death. Its where people go to die, and now its a reminder of the resurrection and the life. Only God can do that. The disciples said, Thats it. His voice is silenced. Our cause is gone. Its lost. Evil has triumphed over good. Sin has triumphed over righteousness. God in His sovereignty, God in His timing, God in His wisdom, turns something bad into the greatest event in the history of mankind: The resurrection of our Lord, Jesus Christ. If you can trust your life into His hands, you can trust your circumstances into His hands, you can trust His wisdom. When you come across the obstacles and intrusions in your life, dont take the matters into your own hands. Dont say, Just let me take care of this. You might be the person who put that there in the first place. Let Him work it out for you. Lets pray together. Father, as we prepare to receive communion, it is a reminder to us of Your wisdom, of Your sovereignty, of Your goodness. Forgive us for the time when we have judged You. We have made assessments without gathering all the facts, and because You did not answer in the way we expected You to, Lord, or how we expected You to, or when we expected You to, we have made judgments about You. We have said, Youre not good; or Youre not caring; or Youre not powerful enough; or Youre not listening to us. Lord, those judgments were unfair. Youve already demonstrated Your goodness, Your kindness and Your love. Help us to come to the place where we celebrate Your sovereignty, that You are in control and not us. Help us come to the place where we respect Your wisdom. Lord, Im convinced that was the last time Martha ever questioned You, the last time she ever became angry at Your actions or Your inactions. Lord, help us to do everything we can, everything we know to do, and having done all to stand firm-stand firm therefore. Wait upon You. I pray for the ones who are in a fourth watch experience even now, that they would trust in Your goodness; they would trust that Romans 8:28 is for them as well. I pray this in Jesus name, Amen.