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In this episode of Welcome to Cloudlandia, we reflect on how places, people, and experiences shape our perspectives. The conversation begins with casual observations, from warm weather making transitions easier to memorable encounters like “Spam Man,” a mysterious figure spotted at the Hazleton Hotel. We also explore the impact of changing landscapes, both physical and cultural. From real estate in Toronto to how cities evolve, we discuss how development can shape or diminish the character of a place. This leads to a broader conversation about timeless architecture, like Toronto's Harris Filtration Plant, and how thoughtful design contributes to a city's identity. Technology's role in daily life also comes up, especially how smartphones dominate attention. A simple observation of people walking through Yorkville reveals how deeply connected we are to our screens, often at the expense of real-world engagement. We contrast this with the idea that some things, like human connection and cooperation, remain unchanged even as technology advances. The discussion closes with thoughts on long-term impact—what lasts and fades over time. Whether it's historic buildings, enduring habits, or fundamental human behaviors, the conversation emphasizes that while trends come and go, specific principles and ways of thinking remain relevant across generations. SHOW HIGHLIGHTS In Phoenix, during a rooftop party, we witnessed a surprise appearance of a SpaceX rocket, which sparked our discussion on extraordinary events blending with everyday life. We explored the curious case of "Spam man," a local legend in Hazleton, whose mysterious persona intrigued us as much as any UFO sighting. We shared our fascination with the dynamic real estate landscape in Hazleton, discussing new constructions and their impact on scenic views. Our conversation touched on unique weather patterns at the beaches near the lake, emphasizing the influence of water temperatures on seasonal climate variations. We delved into the topic of warmer winters, reflecting on how both humans and nature adapt to milder temperatures, particularly during February 2024. Our discussion included insights from Morgan Housel's book, which inspired our reflections on nature's resilience and adaptation over millions of years. We highlighted local activities like windsurfing and kite skiing, noting the favorable wind conditions at the beaches, a rarity in Canada's cold-weather climate. Links: WelcomeToCloudlandia.com StrategicCoach.com DeanJackson.com ListingAgentLifestyle.com TRANSCRIPT (AI transcript provided as supporting material and may contain errors) Dean: Mr Sullivan. Dan: Mr Jackson. I hope you behaved when you were out of my sight. Dean: I did. I'll have to tell you something. I can't tell you how much I appreciate the arrangement of this warm weather. For me, it's made the transition much more palatable warm weather. Dan: for me it's made the transition much more palatable. Dean: I mean our backstage team is really getting good at this sort of thing, and you know when we were in. Dan: we were in Phoenix a couple of weeks ago and we had a rooftop party and right in the middle of the party we arranged for Elon Musk to send one of his rockets out. Dean: I saw that a satellite launch yeah. Dan: Yeah, can you imagine that guy and how busy he is? But just you know, just to handle our request he just ended up with, yeah, must be some money involved with that. Dean: Well, that's what happens, Dan. We have a positive attitude on the new budget. Dan: Yeah, and you think in terms of unique ability, collaboration, you know, breakthroughs free zone you know, all that stuff, it's all. Dean: it's the future. Dan: Yeah. So good Well he sent the rocket up and they're rescuing the astronauts today. Dean: Oh, is that right? How long has it been now since they've been? Dan: It's been a long time seven, eight months, I think, Uh-huh, yeah and Boeing couldn't get them down. Boeing sent them up, but they couldn't get them down. You know, which is only half the job, really. Dean: That was in the Seinfeld episode about taking the reservation and holding the reservation. Yeah. They can take the reservation. They just can't hold the reservation yeah. Dan: It's like back really the integral part. Back during the moonshot, they thought that the Russians were going to be first to the moon. Kennedy made his famous speech. You know we're going to put a man on and they thought the Russians, right off the bat, would beat him, because Kennedy said we'll bring him back safely and the Russians didn't include that in their prediction. That's funny. Dean: We had that. We're all abuzz with excitement over here at the Hazleton. There's a funny thing that happened. It started last summer that Chad Jenkins Krista Smith-Klein is that her name yeah, yeah. So we were sitting in the lobby one night at the Hazleton here and this guy came down from the residences into the lobby. It was talking to the concierge but he had this Einstein-like hair and blue spam t-shirts that's, you know, like the can spam thing on it and pink, pink shorts and he was, you know, talking to the concierge. And then he went. Then he went back upstairs and this left such an impression on us that we have been, you know, lovingly referring to him as Spam man since the summer, and we've been every time here on alert, on watch, because we have to meet and get to know Spam man, because there's got to be a story behind a guy like that in a place like this. And so this morning I had coffee with Chad and then Chad was going to get a massage and as he walked into the spa he saw Spamman and he met him and he took a picture, a selfie, with him and texted it. But I haven't that. His massage was at 10 o'clock, so all I have is the picture and the fact that he met Spamman, but I haven't that. His massage was at 10 o'clock, so all I have is the picture and the fact that he met Spam man, but I don't have the story yet. But it's just fascinating to me that this. I want to hear the story and know this guy now. I often wonder how funny that would appear to him. That made such an impression on us last summer that every time we've been at the Hazleton we've been sitting in the lobby on Spam man. Watch, so funny. I'll tell you the story tomorrow. I'll get to the bottom of it. Dan: It's almost like UFO watchers. They think they saw it once and they keep going back to the same place you know hoping that'll happen again, yeah. Dean: Is there a? Dan: spot. Is there a spot at the Hazleton? Dean: There is yeah. Dan: Oh, I didn't know that. Dean: So there's some eclectic people that live here, like seeing just the regulars or whatever that I see coming in and out of the of the residence because it shares. Dan: There's a lot, you know, yeah that's a that's pretty expensive real estate. Actually, the hazelton, yeah for sure, especially if you get the rooftop one, although they've destroyed I I think you were telling me they've destroyed the value of the rooftop because now they're building 40-story buildings to block off the view. Dean: I mean that's crazy. Right Right next door. Yeah, yeah, but there you go. How are things in the beaches as well? Dan: Yeah. You know it's interesting because we're so close to the lake it's cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter, you know. Dean: Oh, okay. Dan: You know, because controlled by water temperatures. Dean: Water temperatures. Dan: Yes, exactly, I mean even you know, even if it's cold, you know the water temperature is maybe 65, 66. Dean: Fahrenheit, you know it's not frigid. Dan: It's not frigid. Dean: They have wintertime plungers down here people who go in you know during the winter yeah, but this is that you and babs aren't members of the polar bear club that would not be us um but anyway, uh, they do a lot of uh windsurfing. Dan: There's at the far end of our beach going uh towards the city. They have really great wind conditions there. You see the kite skiers. They have kites and they go in the air. It's quite a known spot here. I mean, canada doesn't have too much of this because we're such a cold-weather country. There isn't the water, it's pretty cold even during the summertime yeah exactly yeah, but the lake doesn't freeze, that's oh, it does, it does yeah, yeah we've had, we've had winters, where it goes out, you know, goes out a quarter mile it'll be. Dean: I didn't realize that Wow. Dan: Yeah, yeah, yeah, but not this winter. It never froze over this winter, but we have, you know, within the last two or three winters, we've had ice on the. We've had ice, you know, for part of the winter. Dean: It's funny to me, dan, to see this. Like you know, it's going gonna be 59 degrees today, so, yeah, it's funny to me to see people you know out wearing shorts and like, but it must be like a, you know, a heat wave. Compared to what? You had in the first half of march here, right, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah, so that's good. Dan: Yeah, last February not this past month, but February of 2024, we had 10 days in February where it was over 70. Dean: And. Dan: I often wonder if the trees get pulled, the plants get pulled. Dean: It triggers them to like hey, oh my. Dan: God. But apparently temperature is just one of the factors that govern their behavior. The other one is the angle of the light. Dean: And that doesn't change the angle of the sunlight. Dan: Yeah, so they. You know I mean things work themselves out over millions of years. So you know there's, you know they probably have all sorts of indicators and you have 10 boxes to check and if only one of them is checked, that doesn't, it doesn't fool them. You know they have a lot of things that I sent you and I don't know if we ever discussed it or you picked it up after I recommended it was Morgan Housel, famous ever. Dean: Did you like that? Did you like that? Dan: book. I did, I loved. It was Morgan Housel famous ever. Did you like that? Did you like that book? Dean: I did, I loved it. I mean it was really like, and I think ever you know, very, very interesting to me because of what I've been doing, you know the last little while, as I described, reading back over you know 29 years of journals, picking random things and seeing so much of what, so much of what, the themes that go that time feels the last. You know 30 years has gone by so fast that I, when I'm reading in that journal, I can remember exactly like where I was and I can remember the time because I would date and place them each journal entry. So I know where I was when I'm writing them. But I thought that was a really, I thought it was a really interesting book. What stood out for you from? Dan: Yeah, I think the biggest thing is that really great things take a long time to create. Dean: Yeah. Dan: Because they have to be tested against all sorts of changing conditions and if they get stronger, it's like you know they're going to last for a long time. Dean: And. Dan: I'm struck by it because the book, the little book that I'm writing for the quarter, is called the Bill of Rights Economy and the Bill of Rights really started with the United States. It was December 15th 1791. So that's when, I think, washington was just inaugurated at that time as the first president. But, how durable they are, and you can read the newspaper every day of things going on in Washington and you can just check off the first 10 amendments. This is a Fifth Amendment issue. This is a second amendment you know and everything like that, and it's just how much they created such a durable framework for a country. They were about 3 million people at that time and now there are 300 and whatever probably upwards of 350 million. And basically, the country runs essentially according to those first 10 amendments and then the articles which say how the machinery of government actually operates. And it's by far the longest continuous governing system in the world. That's really interesting. But that's why you know I really like things that you know, that you know that have stood the test of time. I like having my life based on things that have stood the test of time. And then I've got, you know, I've got some really good habits which I've developed over the last 50 years of coaching. Got, you know, I've got some really good habits which I've developed over the last 50 years of coaching and you know they work. You know I don't fool around with things that work. Yeah Well, I want to bring in something. I really am more and more struck how there's a word that's used in the high technology field because I was just at Abundance 360. And it's the word disruption and it's seen as a good thing, and I don't see disruption as good. I don't really see it as a good thing. I see it as something that might happen as a result of a new thing, but I don't think the disruption is a good thing. Dean: Yeah, it feels like it's not. It seems like the opposite of collaboration. Yeah, it really is. It feels like the negative. You know the I forget who said it, but you know the two ways they have the biggest building. Dan: I really mean Chucky movie. Dean: Yeah, there was somebody said the two ways to have the biggest building in town, the tallest building is to build the tallest building or to tear down all the other buildings that are taller than yours, and that's what disruption feels like to see in the real estate industry is always one that is, you know, set up as the big fat cat ready for disruption. And people have tried and tried to disrupt the real estate industry and, you know, I came away from the first, the first abundance 360, realizing that, you know, perhaps the thing that same makes real estate possible is that you can't digitize the last hundred feet of a real estate transaction. You know, and I think that there are certain industries, certain things that we are, that there's a human element to things. Dan: That is very yeah, yeah, I mean, it's really interesting just to switch on to that subject. On the real, estate. If you take Silicon Valley, Hollywood and Wall Street, who are the richest people in the area Silicon? Dean: Valley. Dan: Hollywood and Wall Street. Who are the richest people in the area? Dean: Silicon Valley Hollywood and Wall Street. Dan: Who are the real money makers? Dean: Yeah, Wall Street. Dan: No, the real estate developers. Dean: Oh, I see, oh, the real estate developers. Oh yeah, yeah, that's true, right, that's true. Dan: I don't care what you've invented or what your activity is. I'll tell you the people who really make the money are the people who are into real estate. Dean: Yeah, you can't digitize it, that's for sure. Dan: Well, I think the answer is in the word. It's real. Dean: What was that site, dan, that you were talking about? That was is it real? Or is it Bach or whatever? Or is it Guy or whatever? What was? Or is it AI or Bach? Dan: Well, no, I was. Yeah, I was watching. It was a little, you know, it was on YouTube and it was Bach versus AI. Dean: So what they've? Dan: done. You know you can identify the. You know the building components that Bach uses to you know to write his music and then you know you can take it apart and you know you can say do a little bit of this, do a little bit of this, do a little bit of this. And then what they have? They play two pieces. They play an actual piece by Bach and then they play another piece which is Bach-like you know, and there were six of them. And there was a of them and there was a host on the show and he's a musician, and whether he was responding realistically or whether he was sort of faking it, he would say boy, I can't really tell that one, but I guessed on all six of them and I guessed I guessed right. Dean: I know there was just something about the real Bach and I think I think it was emotional more than you know that could be the mirror neurons that you know you can sense the transfer of emotion through that music, you know. Dan: Yeah, and I listen to Bach a lot I still get surprised by something he's got these amazing chord changes you know, and what he does. And my sense is, as we enter more and more into the AI world, our you know, our perceptions and our sensitivities are going to heighten to say is that the real deal or not? Dean: you know yeah sensitivities are going to heighten to say is that the real deal or not? You know, and yeah, that's what you know, jerry Spence, I think I mentioned. Dan: Jerry Spence about that that Jerry Spence said. Dean: our psychic tentacles are in the background measuring everything for authenticity, and they can detect the thin clank of the counterfeit. Yeah, and I think that's no matter what. You can always tell exactly. I mean, you can tell the things that are digitized. It's getting more and more realistic, though, in terms of the voice things for AI. I'm seeing more and more of those voice caller showing up in my news feed, and we were talking about Chris Johnson. Chris Johnson, yeah, yeah, chris Johnson. Dan: This is really good because he's really fine-tuned it to. First of all, it's a constantly changing voice. That's the one thing I noticed. The second version, first version, not so much, but I've heard two versions of the caller. And what I noticed is, almost every time she talks, there's a little bit of difference to the tone. There's a little bit, you know, and she's in a conversation. Dean: Is it mirroring kind of thing, Like is it adapting to the voice on the other end? Dan: Yeah, I think there's. I certainly think there's some of that. And that is part of what we check out as being legitimate or not, because you know that it wouldn't be the same, because there's meaning. You know meaning different meaning, different voice, if you're talking to an actual individual who's not you know, who's not real monotonic. But yeah, the big thing about this is that I think we get smarter. I was talking, we were on a trip to Israel and we were talking in this one kibbutz up near the Sea of Galilee and these people had been in and then they were forced out. In 2005, I think it was, the Israeli government decided to give the Gaza territory back to the Palestinians. But it was announced about six months before it happened and things changed right away. The danger kicked up. There was violence and you know, kicked up. And I was talking to them. You know how can you send your kids out? You know, just out on their own. And they said, oh, first thing that they learned. You know he said three, four or five years old. They can spot danger in people. You know, if they see someone, they can spot danger with it. And I said boy oh boy, you know, it just shows you the, under certain conditions, people's awareness and their alertness kicks up enormously. They can take things into account that you went here in Toronto, for example. You know, you know, you know that's wild. Dean: Yeah, this whole, I mean, I think in Toronto. Dan: The only thing you'd really notice is who's offering the biggest pizza at the lowest price. Dean: Oh, that's so funny. There's some qualitative element around that too. It's so funny. You think about the things that are. I definitely see this Cloudlandia-enhan. You know that's really what the main thing is, but you think about how much of what's going on. We're definitely living in Cloudlandia. I sat last night, dan, I was in the lobby and I was writing in my journal, and I just went outside for a little bit and I sat on one of the benches in the in front of the park. Oh yeah, in front of the hotel and it was a beautiful night. Dan: Like I mean temperature was? Dean: yeah, it was beautiful. So I'm sitting out there, you know, on a Saturday night in Yorkville and I'm looking at March. I'm just yeah, I'm just watching, and I left my phone. I'm making a real concerted effort to detach from my oxygen tank as much as I can. Right, and my call, that's what I've been calling my iPhone right, because we are definitely connected to it. And I just sat there without my phone and I was watching people, like head up, looking and observing, and I got to. I just thought to myself I'm going to count, I'm going to, I'm going to observe the next 50 people that walk by and I'm going to see how many of them are glued to their phone and how many have no visible phone in sight, and so do you. Dan: What was it? Nine out of 10? Dean: Yeah, it wasn't even that. Yeah, that's exactly what it was. It was 46, but it wasn't even 10. Yeah, it was real. That's exactly what it was. It was 46. Dan: It wasn't even 10%, it was 19. It wasn't even no, it was 19 out of 20. Dean: Yeah, I mean, isn't that something, dan? Like it was and I'm talking like some of them were just like, literally, you know, immersed in their phone, but their body was walking, yeah, and the others, but their body was walking. But it's interesting too. Dan: If you had encountered me. I think my phone is at home and I know it's not charged up. Dean: Yeah, it's really something, dan, that was an eye-opener to me. It's really something, dan, that was an eye-opener to me, and the interesting thing was that the four that weren't on the phone were couples, so there were two people, but of the individuals, it was 100% of. The individuals walking were attached to their phones. Dan: Yeah. Dean: And I think that's where we're at right now. Dan: No, yeah, I don't know, it's just that. Dean: No, I'm saying that's observation. Dan: It's like Well, that's where we are, in Yorkville, in front of Okay, right, right, right yeah. No, it's just that I find Yorkville is a peculiarly Are you saying it's an outlier? It's not so much of an outlier but it's probably the least connected group of people in Toronto would be in Yorkville because they'd be out for the. They don't live there. You know most don't live there, they're and they're somewhere. There's probably the highest level of strangers you know, on any given night in toronto would probably be in yorkville I think it's sort of outliers sort of situation. I mean, I mean, if you came to the beaches on a yeah last night, the vast majority of people would be chatting with each other and talking with each other. They would be on their phones. I think think it's just a. It's probably the most what I would call cosmopolitan part of Toronto, in other words it's the part of Toronto that has the least to do with Toronto. Dean: Okay. Dan: It's trying to be New York, yorkville is trying to be. Dean: New York. Dan: Yeah, it's the Toronto Life magazine version of Toronto. Dean: Yeah, you idealize the avatar of Toronto, right yeah? Dan: In Toronto Life. They always say Toronto is a world-class city and I said no. I said, london's a world-class city. Dean: New. Dan: York is a world-class city. Tokyo is a world-class city. You know how, you know they're a world class city. Dean: They don't have to call themselves a world class city. Dan: They don't call themselves a world class city. They just are If you say you're a world class city. It's proof that you're not a world class city. Dean: That's funny. Yeah, I'll tell you what I think. I've told you what really brought that home for me was at the Four Seasons in London at Trinity Square, and Qatar TV and all these Arab the Emirates TV, all these things, just to see how many other cultures there are in the world. I mean, london is definitely a global crossroads, for sure. Dan: Yeah yeah. And that's what makes something the center, and that is made up of a thousand different little non-reproducible vectors. You know just, you know, just, you know. It's just that's why I like London so much. I just like London. It's just a great wandering city. You just come out of the hotel, walk out in any direction. Guarantee you, in seven minutes you're lost you have the foggiest idea where you are and you're seeing something new that you'd never seen before. And it's 25, the year 1625. Dean: I remember you and I walking through London 10 years ago, wandering through for a long time and coming to one of these great bookstores. You know, yeah, but you're right, like the winding in some of the back streets, and that was a great time. Yeah, you can't really wander and wander and wander. Dan: Yeah, it was a city designed by cows on the way home, right, exactly. Yeah, you can't really wander and wander and wander. Dean: Yeah, it was a city designed by cows on the way home, Right exactly. Dan: Yeah, it's really interesting. You know, that brings up a subject why virtual reality hasn't taken off, and I've been thinking about that because the buzz, you know how long ago was it? You would say seven years ago, seven, eight years ago everything's going to be virtual reality. Would that be about right? Oh, yeah, yeah. Dean: That was when virtual reality was in the lead. Remember then the goggles, the Oculus, yeah, yeah, that was what, yeah, pre-covid, so probably seven years ago 17, 17. And it's kind of disappeared, hasn't it compared to you know? Dan: why it doesn't have enough variety in it. And this relates back to the beginning of our conversation today. How do you know whether it's fake or not and we were talking on the subject of London that on any block, what's on that block was created by 10,000 different people over 500 years and there's just a minute kind of uniqueness about so much of what goes on there when you have the virtual reality. Let's say they create a London scene, but it'll be maybe a team of five people who put it together. And it's got a sameness to it. It's got, you know, oh definitely. Dean: That's where you see in the architecture like I don't. You know, one of the things I always look forward to is on the journey from here to strategic coach. So tomorrow, when we ride down University through Queen's Park and the old University of Toronto and all those old buildings there that are just so beautiful Stone buildings the architecture is stunning. Nobody's building anything like that now. No, like none of the buildings that you see have any soul or are going to be remembered well and they're not designed. Dan: They're not really designed to last more than 50 years. I have a architect. Well, you know richard hamlin he says that those, the newest skyscrapers you see in Toronto, isn't designed to last more than 50 years. You know, and, and you know, it's all utilitarian, everything is utilitarian, but there's no emphasis on beauty, you know. There's no emphasis on attractiveness. There's a few but not many. Attractiveness there's a few but not many. And, as a matter of fact, my favorite building in Toronto is about six blocks further down the lake from us, right here. It's called the Harris Filtration Plant. Dean: Oh yeah, we've walked by there, right at the end of the building. Dan: Built in 19, I think they finished in 1936. Dean: Yeah. Dan: And it's just an amazing building. I mean it's on three levels, they have three different buildings and it goes up a hill and it's where the water. You know, at that time it was all the water in Toronto that came out of the lake and they have 17 different process. You know the steps. And you go in there and there's no humans in there, it's all machinery. You can just hear the buzz and that's the water being filtered. It's about a quarter of the city now comes through that building. But it's just an absolutely gorgeous building and they spared no cost on it. And the man who built it, harris, he was the city manager. They had a position back there. It was city manager and it was basically the bureaucrat who got things done, and he also built the bridge across the Down Valley on Bloor. Dean: Yeah, beautiful bridge Right. Dan: He built that bridge and he was uneducated. He had no education, had no training, but he was just a go-getter. He was also in charge of the water system and the transportation system. And you know he put in the first streetcars and everything like that, probably the greatest bureaucrat toronto ever had, you know in the history of toronto this is the finest what year is that building from? yeah, the filtration plant was started in 29 and it was finished in 36 and wow they yeah, they had to rip out a whole section. It was actually partially woods, partially, I think, you know they had everything there, but they decided that would be the best place to bring it in there. Dean: You know it's got a lot more than 100 years. Dan: Yeah, but it's the finest building it's it's rated as one of the top 10 government buildings in north america yeah, it's beautiful. Dean: And that bridge I mean that bridge in the Don Valley is beautiful too. Dan: Yeah, it was really interesting. He put the bridge in and the bridge was put in probably in the 30s too. I mean that was vital because the valley really kept one part of Toronto apart from the other part of Toronto. It was hard to get from one part of Toronto apart from the other part of Toronto. You know, it's hard to get from one part of Toronto to the next. And so they put that bridge in, and that was about in the 30s and then in the no, I think it was in the 20s, they put that in 1920, so 100 years. And in the 1950s they decided to put in their first subway system. So they had Yonge Street and so Yonge Street north, and then they had Buller and Danforth. So they budgeted that they were going to really have to retrofit the bridge. And when they got it and they took all the dimensions, he had already anticipated that they were going to put a subway in. So it was all correct. And so anyway, he saw he had 30 or 40 years that they were going to put up. They would have to put a subway in. So it was all correct and yeah and so anyway he saw I had 30 or 40 years that they were going to put up. They would have to put, they're going to put the subway and it had to go through the bridge and so so they didn't have to retrofit it at all. Yeah, pretty cool. Dean: What do you think we're doing now? That's going to be remembered in 100 years or it's going to be impacted in 100 years? Dan: Well, we're not going backwards with technology, so any technology we have today we'll have 100 years from now. So you know, I mean I think the you know. Well, you just asked a question that explains why I'm not in the stock market. Dean: Exactly. Warren Buffett can't predict what's going to happen. We can't even tell what's going to change in the next five years. Dan: I don't know what's going to happen next year. I don't know what's going to happen next year. Dean: Isn't it interesting? I think a lot of the things that we're at could see, see the path to improvement or expansion, like when the railroad came in. You know it's interesting that you could see that that was we. You know, part of it was, you know, filling the territory, connecting the territory with all the, with all this stuff, and you could see that happening. But even now, you know, this is why warren buffett, you know, again with the, probably one of the largest owners of railroad things in the states, him, yeah, and because that's not changed in 200, yeah, or whatever, 150 years anyway, yeah, yeah, yeah, most of the country probably, you know, 150 years at least. Yeah, and so all of that, all those things, and even in the first half of the 1900s, you know all the big change stuff, yeah, yeah. Dan: Yeah. Dean: So it's funny because it's like I can't even see what categories are the biggest. Dan: Well, I think they'll be more intangibles than tangibles. For example, I think all my tools work 100 years from now. Yeah, I think all my thinking tools work 100 years from now. Dean: Well, because our brains will still be the same in 100 years. Yeah, all that interaction, right, the human behavior stuff. Dan: yeah, yeah yeah I don't think human behavior, um I think it's really durable you know, and that it's very interesting, um, and there was a phrase being used at Abundance that was used about four or five times during the two days that we were becoming godlike, and I said, no, I don't think so. Dean: I guess are they saying in that we can do things because of technology, we can do things. Dan: And I said nah, it's just the next. It's just the next new thing. You know that we've created, but human nature is, you know, there's a scientist, Joe Henrich, and a really bright guy. He's written a book you might be interested in. It's called the Secret of Our Success. And he was just exploring why humans, of all the species on the planet, became the dominant species. And you wouldn't have predicted it. Because we're not very fast, we're not very strong, we don't climb particularly well, we don't swim particularly well, we can't fly and everything like that. So you know, compared with a lot of the other species. But he said that somewhere along the line he buys into the normal thing that we came from ape-like species before we were human. But he says at one point there was a crossover and that one ape was looking at another ape. And he says he does things differently than I. I do. If I can work out a deal with him, he can do this while I'm doing that and we're twice as well. Dean: I was calling that. Dan: I've been calling that the cooperation game but that's really and that's playing that and we're the only species that can continually invent new ways to do that, and I mean every most. You know higher level. And mammals anyway can cooperate. You know they cooperate with each other. They know a friend from anatomy and they know how to get together. But they don't know too much more at the end of their life than they knew at the beginning of their life. You know in other words. They pretty well had it down by the time they were one year old and they didn't invent new ways of cooperating really. But humans do this on a daily basis. Humans will invent new ways of cooperating from morning till night. And he says that's the reason we just have this infinite ability to cooperate in new ways. And he says that's the reason we just have this infinite ability to cooperate in new ways. And he says that's why we're the top species. The other thing is we're the only species that take care of other species. We're the only species that study and document other species. We're the only species that actually create new species. You know put this together with that and we get something. Yeah, yeah and so, so, so, anyway, and so that's where you begin the. You know if you're talking about sameness. What do we know 100 years from now? Dean: What we know over the 100 years is that humans will have found almost countless new ways to cooperate with each other yeah, I think that that's, and but the access to right, the access to, that's why I think these, the access to capabilities, as a, you know, commodity I'm not saying commodity in a, you know, I'm not trying to like lower the status of ability, but to emphasize the tradability of it. You know that it's something that is a known quantity you know yeah. Dan: But my sense is that the relative comparison, that one person, let's say you take 10 people. Let's take 100 people that the percentage of them that could cooperate with each other at high levels, I believe isn't any different in 2024 than it was in 1924. If you take 100 people. Some have very high levels to cooperate with each other and they do, and the vast majority of them very limited amount to cooperate with each other, but are you talking about. Dean: That comes down, then, to the ability to be versus capability. That they have the capability. Dan: Yeah, they have the capability, but they don't individually have the ability. Dean: Right. Dan: Yeah, and I don't think the percentage changes. Dean: Yeah, that's why this whole, that's why we're I think you know, the environment that we're creating in FreeZone is an ecosystem of people who are, who get this. Dan: Yeah, well, I don't think they, yeah, I don't think they became collaborative because they were in free zone. I think they were collaborative, looking for a better place to do it. Dean: Yes, yeah, it's almost like it's almost so, just with the technologies. Now, the one thing that has improved so much is the ability to seamlessly integrate with other people, with other collaborators. Dan: Yeah, now you're talking about the piano, you're not talking about the musicians, that's exactly right, but I think there really was something to that right. It's a good distinction. Dean: It's a really good distinction that you've created. Yeah, I should say yesterday at lunch you and I were talking about that I don't know that we've talked about it on the podcast here the difference, the distinction that we've discovered between capability and ability. And so I was looking at, in that, the capability column of the VCR formula, vision, capability, reach that in the capability column I was realizing the distinction between the base of something and the example that I gave was if you have a piano or a certain piece of equipment or a computer or a camera or whatever it is. We have a piano, you have the capability to be a concert pianist, but without the ability to do it. You know that. You're that that's the difference, and I think that everybody has access to the capabilities and who, not how, brings us in to contact with the who's right, who are masters at the capabilities? Dan: Yeah, you're talking about in. You know the sort of society that we live in. Yes, Because you know there's you know there's, you know easily, probably 15% of the world that doesn't have access to electricity. Dean: Yes exactly. Dan: I mean, they don't have the capability, you know, they just don't have yeah, yeah and yeah, it's a very, very unequal world, but I think there's a real breakthrough thinking that you're doing here. The fact that there's capability says nothing about an individual's ability. Dean: Right, that's exactly it. Yeah, and I think this is a very important idea, but I'm not going to write a book on it. Oh, my goodness, this is example, a right, I had the capability, with the idea of the capability and ability. Yeah, yeah, I didn't have the ability. Yeah, I've heard, do you know, the comedian Ron White? Dan: Yeah, I have the capability to write a book and I have the ability to write a book, but I'm not going to do either. Dean: So he talked about getting arrested outside of a bar and he said I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability that's pretty funny, right. But yeah, this is really like it's exciting. It's exciting times right now. I mean it really is exciting times to even projecting for the next, the next 30 years. I think I see that the through line, you know, is that you know that a brunch at the four seasons is going to be an appealing thing 30 years from now, as it is now and was 30 years ago, or three line stuff, or yeah, or some such hotel in toronto yes exactly right. Dan: Right, it may not be. Yeah, I think the four seasons, I think is pretty durable. And the reason is they don't own any of their property. Dean: You know and I think that's. Dan: They have 130 hotels now. I'm quite friendly with the general manager of the Nashville Four Seasons because we're there every quarter Four Seasons because we're there every quarter and you know it's difficult being one of their managers. I think because you have two bosses, you have the Four. Seasons organization but you also have the investor, who owns the property, and so they don't own any of their own property. That's all owned by investors. Dean: Right. Dan: Yeah. Dean: So go ahead. When was the previous? I know it's not the original, but when was the one on Yorkville here Yorkville and Avenue? When was that built? Was that in the 70s or the 60s? Dan: Well, it was a Hyatt. It was a Hyatt Hotel. Dean: Oh, it was, they took it over. Dan: Yeah, and it was a big jump for them and that was, you know, I think it was in the 60s, probably I don't know when they started exactly I'll have to look that up, but they were at a certain point they hit financial difficulties because there's been ups and downs in the economy and they overreach sometimes, and the big heavy load was the fact that they own the real estate. So they sold all the real estate and that bailed them out. Real estate and that bailed them out. And then from that point forward, they were just a system that you competed for. If you were deciding to build a luxury hotel, you had to compete to see if the Four Seasons would be interested in coming in and managing it. Okay, so they. It's a unique process. Basically, it's a unique process that they have. Dean: Yeah. Dan: It's got a huge brand value worldwide. You're a somebody as a city. If the Four Seasons come to your city, I think you're right. Ottawa used to have one. It doesn't have one now. Vancouver used to have one. It doesn't have one now. I think, calgary had one. Calgary doesn't Because now Vancouver used to have one, doesn't have one now I think Calgary had one. Calgary doesn't Because it was a Canadian hotel to start with. Dean: Yeah. Dan: And Belleville had one at one time. Dean: Oh, really yeah. Dan: I'm one of the few people who have stayed at the Belleville Four Seasons. Dean: Hotel the Belleville Four Seasons. Dan: Yeah, of all the people you know, dean dean, I may be the only person you know who stayed at the belleville four seasons now, what they did is they had a partnership with bell canada. Bell canada created the training center in belleville oh and uh, and they did a deal four seasons would go into it with them. So they took over a motel and they turned it into Four Seasons, so they used it as their training center. Okay, so you know, it was trainees serving trainees, as it turned out. Dean: I forget who I was talking to, but we were kind of saying it would be a really interesting experience to take over the top two floors of the hotel beside the Chicago Strategic Coach, there the Holiday Inn or whatever that is. Take over the top two floors and turn those into a because you've got enough traffic. That could be a neat experience, yeah. Dan: It wouldn't be us. Dean: Oh well, I need somebody. You know that could be a an interesting. I think if that was an option there would be. Dan: Probably work better for us to have a floor of one of the hotels. Dean: That's what I meant. Yeah, a floor of the the top two floors of the hotel there to get. Yeah, there's two of them. That's what I meant. Yeah, a floor of the top two floors of the hotel there to get. Dan: Yeah, there's two of them. There's two of them. Dean: Oh, yeah, yeah. Dan: There's the Sheraton, and what's Sinesta? Sinesta, right the. Dean: Sinesta is the one I'm thinking of. Dan: That's the closest one right, the one Scott Harry carries in the Right, right right. There you carries in them, right, yeah, well, it's an interesting, but it is what it is and we're, yeah, but we have almost one whole floor now and I mean those are that's a big building. It's got really a lot of square footage in the building. That's what. Is it cb re? Is it cb? You do know the nationwide. Dean: Oh yeah. Dan: Coldwood Banker. Oh yeah, yeah, coldwood Banker, that's who our landlord is. And they're good they're actually good, but they've gone through about three owners since we've been there. We've been there, 25 years, 26. This is our 26th year. Yeah, and generally speaking they've been good landlords that we've had. Yeah, it's well kept up. They have instant response when you have a maintenance problem and everything. I think they're really good. Dean: Yeah, well, I'm going to have to come and see it. Maybe when the fall happens, maybe between the good months, the fall or something, I might come and take a look. Dan: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Dean: Well, I'm excited and take a look yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Well. Dan: I've been there. Yeah, we have our workshop. We have our workshop tomorrow here and then we go to Chicago and we have another one on Thursday and then the second Chicago workshop for the quarter is in the first week of April. Oh, wow, yeah, yeah, and this is working out. We'll probably be a year away, maybe a year and a half away, from having a fourth date during the quarter. Oh, wow. Dean: Yeah. Dan: Do we? Dean: have any new people for FreeZone Small? Dan: Don't know Okay. Dean: No one is back. Dan: Yeah, yeah, I don't really know, I don't really know, I think we added 30 last year or so it's. The numbers are going up. Yes, that's great. Yeah, I think we're about 120 total right now. That's awesome. That's awesome. Yeah, yeah, it's fun, though. It's nice people. Dean: Yeah, it's nice to see it all. It's nice to see it all growing. Very cool, all right well, enjoy yourself. Yes, you too and I will see you. Tonight at five. That's right, all right, I'll be there. Dan: Thanks Dan. Dean: Okay.

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In today's episode of Welcome to Cloudlandia, we unpack the fascinating story of how Toronto transformed over the decades thanks to the pivotal work of urban theorist Jane Jacobs. As we debate whether our growing dependency on virtual spaces like "Cloudlandia" is weakening local connections, we ponder journalism's evolution from its regional roots. We reminisce about bygone media eras over a nostalgic lunch at Table 10 and trace how universities and ideological factions shaped radio's founding. As always, we aim to provide a balanced look at technology's ability to bring people together globally while potentially distancing them locally.   SHOW HIGHLIGHTS The episode begins with a discussion about Jane Jacobs' significant role in preserving Toronto's neighborhoods in the 80s and how it has shaped the city to this day. There's an exploration of the shift to Cloudlandia and how this virtual universe could be curbing our desire to travel and reinforcing local areas. We rewind to the 80s and trace the evolution of regional media landscapes, debating the impact of Canadians having links to Florida and the emergence of new franchise models. Dan and I discuss the rise of Cloudlandia and its impact on our lives, connecting us to the world like never before. The power dynamics in radio broadcasting, specifically AT&T's control of the AM spectrum are examined. We delve into the ideological divide in radio before the advent of the internet, discussing how universities pioneered FM radio, while AM radio was seized by the right-wing. We contemplate the implications of geographical shifts and changing economic patterns triggered by our migration to the cloud. The future of communication and travel is questioned, and whether our lives continue to be dictated by Newton's laws or if we're slowly transitioning into a world governed by Moore's Law. The episode concludes with the hosts suggesting that as the virtual world expands, people may start reinforcing their local areas more, indicating a balance between global and local influences. Overall, the episode offers a thought-provoking journey through changing times, digital landscapes, and the very fabric of our lives. Links: WelcomeToCloudlandia.com StrategicCoach.com DeanJackson.com ListingAgentLifestyle.com TRANSCRIPT (AI transcript provided as supporting material and may contain errors) Dean: Mr Sullivan. Dan: Never gonna leave you. Never gonna leave you. Well come here I am. That's one thing about Cloudlandia Once you're in there, you can't leave. Dean: It's so convenient you know it's addictive. It really is. How was your week? Dan: I had a really super week, I have to tell you. I mean it was a four day week because of the holiday. Dean: Yeah. Dan: And it's not so much what I'm doing, that's what the company is doing, and there's just all sorts of independent projects which have been more or less under the surface. You know, there's kind of an interesting woman from the 80s and economist by the name of Jane Jacobs have you ever heard that name? I haven't. Dean: No. Dan: Yeah, and you know, in Toronto, when they stopped the Spadina Expressway. Yeah, I don't know if you remember that. What seems like yeah, well, you know the Allen Expressway. Dean: I do know the Allen. Dan: Expressway. Yeah, that was supposed to be the Spadina Expressway and it went off. It's gonna go all the way down to the center of the city Right, right, right. Right through the center of the city and it would have gone to the Gardner, it would have hooked up and then they would have traded clover leaves down at the bottom. Dean: And they would have had to remove. Dan: They would have had to remove all those neighborhoods. It would have gone right through Forest Hills actually. I think that was part of the reason why it got stopped, because wealthy people have more votes than poor people. I don't know if you've noticed that Not in my backyard Right exactly. And then the other one was the Scarborough Expressway, which you know, the Gardner extension that went out to the beaches. Dean: You know it went out and it was just called the. Dan: Gardner yeah, it's completely gone. They tore that down one night, basically, oh my goodness. We were away for two days and we had it when we left and when we got back it was gone, you know and but that whole area of Lake now from basically charity, erie Streep, actually, you know where the Gardner goes up the Don Valley. Dean: Yes, exactly. Dan: Yeah, well, that's where you took the extension off and they just tore it down. They tore it down in two, two stages, once about 10 years ago, and then they tore it down again, and so, but this was all the 40 year impact of Jane Jacobs, okay, and she said that she had to preserve your neighborhoods if you're going to have a great city and to tear down I mean, and it's turned Toronto into a congestion madhouse. I mean, that's the downside of it, but on the upside of it, toronto you know, toronto tries to call itself a world class city. Have you ever come across that? And what I noticed is that world class cities don't call themselves world class cities, they just are. Dean: New York. Dan: New York doesn't call itself a world class city, it just is. London doesn't call itself a world class city, it just is you know. So if you're still calling yourself a world class city. That means you're not, oh man it's a Toronto life syndrome. I mean Toronto Life Magazine. Dean: Yeah, and they're Toronto, by a magazine. I'm very intrigued, I'm very, I am very intrigued by these micro you know economies, or micro you know global lenses. I guess that we see through and you're not kind of talked about the whether that is. Dan: I'm talking about mainland. This is mainland stuff. Yeah, that's what I mean. Dean: Yeah, and I wonder if that is. I wonder if that sense is diminishing now that we've fully migrated. Dan: No, I think it's okay, I think it's coming back with, with the vengeance actually you know, and my sense is that the week that COVID started in March I think it was March 13th, friday the 13th I remember when it visited itself upon us, when clients were saying you know, we were seeing 50% drop-offs in future attendance for workshops because of COVID and it was partially, you know, but it was the lockdowns, it was the dropping off of airline flights and everything else I remember I mean all our cash flow got taken away in about a month, right Right and we had to switch. We had to switch to Zoom, you know, and and we had about a three month period where we just had to rework our entire you know, our entire business model to take all the in-person workshops and turn them over to Zoom workshops, you know. So, that's the upside of Cloudlandia, is that if they take away your mainland existence, you have to switch to Cloudlandia to compensate, and it's a bigger opportunity, bigger, broader everything. Yeah, but one of the downsides of this is that people don't feel like traveling anymore. Dean: I mean are you talking about me? Dan: No, I'm talking about us and you know. Dean: I know, yeah, exactly. Dan: I'm talking about everyone you meet, you know. Dean: I know exactly. Dan: You know, our only time when we have full attendance during the week, where we have people in the office, is Wednesday, monday and Tuesday, thursday and Friday, or when there's a in-person workshop. You have to be in the, you have to be in the company on workshop days. Okay and so, but the thing, the Jane Jacobs, the people who really got involved with the number one person in Toronto was Cromby, mayor Cromby, and he was one of the forefront leaders in stopping the Spadina Expressway and the Scarborough Expressway. Okay and so I'm just showing you the interrelationship between mainland and Cloudlandia. My feeling is that the more that Cloudlandia expands, the more people go back and start reinforcing their local areas. That's what I wonder about the whole cycle. How's that for a topic that we didn't know about five minutes ago? Dean: Well, exactly, but I think that I think there is something to that. You know, like I look at the, I think I've been I've mentioned before, like without having moved away from Toronto, like coming into Florida and yeah, when's the last time? Dan: when's the last time you flew to Toronto? Yeah, no, it's been three years, and three years, yeah, the next time will be whenever, april, if you April, if you decide you're coming to Toronto 12th of April is the first Toronto oh it's already set, yeah, it takes us about a year, because we've got to guarantee that we've got a date when people can also do their 10 times workshop in person. I got you, okay, yeah, so you know, I mean pre-zoners, double duty, you know, they double. Dean: Yeah, yeah, okay. Well, this is very exciting. So April 12 is on my calendar then, okay. Dan: I'm pretty sure you're taking a statistic from Dan Sullivan here. So yeah, we better double check on this Well, april 12 is Friday, yeah. It's in the calendar and I think the pre-zone is on or the 10 times is on the Thursday. Dean: Okay, so the 11th and 12th. Dan: All right. Dean: Well, now we're talking. Dan: Dan, and then Dan is on the Saturday and that's what I'm most excited about. Dean: Yeah Well, this will be for those who aren't listening. Dan: Table 10 is Dean and I met meeting for lunch on a Saturday, which really got everything we're doing together started was the table 10. Dean: Exactly right. Dan: Yeah, but that's a mainland, that's a mainland reality which may be possible. Dean: Yes, that's exactly right and I think that this now this is where I can, as I've reflected, I look at where I've been spending time, taking snapshot comparisons this week of today and 25 years ago and seeing where we are. You know, if I look at 25 years and 30 years ago kind of thing, I look back at when I started my you know sort of being in the result economy or launched my entrepreneurial career in 1988. So I look at that as coming up on, you know, 35 years. Dan: this year, 35 years, yeah, yeah, and I just want to look from there Well, it's 35 years. Right now it's 35 years. I mean, we're in the 35th year. Dean: So yeah. Dan: And, what's really interesting, our program where we have workshop programs, started in 1989. Dean: So next year is our 35th year you know it's year 35. Dan: So it's the 35th year of the program and I'll be 80 in May and I've been coaching for 50 years in August. Okay. So it's sort of an anniversary year Nashville in May we're going to have our first worldwide conference in Nashville. Coach Coach Con yeah, coach Con, coach Con, yeah, yeah you can take that in two ways. Coach Con. You can take Coach Con in two ways. Yeah, you can. It's the coach conference, or it's just shows you what 35 years of counting people will do for you. Dean: Oh, that's so funny. Well, I'm very excited about both of those. I'm very excited about both of those things. So where I was going was, you know, in 1988, looking back at the things, it was very much a Toronto-centric kind of lens because I had spent. I left Toronto in 1984 to come down to Florida and finish up. I've been spending a lot of time down there. I spent, you know, I spent those years and driving through this I remember the first time driving down on my own. I had a friend with me. But driving down going through the different cities, like going through Dayton, ohio, and going through Cincinnati. Dan: Ninety-five hits in 75. That's what we took. Dean: That's the main route to Florida. That's the main route, exactly, yeah, yeah, you crossed over at. Dan: Detroit. You probably crossed. Did you cross over at Detroit? Dean: We got a tip to cross over at Port Huron, so up further, which was Further north yeah. Dan: Yeah, but then once you were across it was a straight shot superhighway all the way to Florida, and the reason is that Canadians Florida is part of their Canada. Yeah, I mean Ontario. My Florida includesmy Canada includes Florida. Dean: Yeah, exactly that's true, isn't it? It's like the Southern Extension. You've gotten places in or things in Canadians. Have, you know, links to Florida? You're absolutely right, yeah. Dan: Half the Canadian adult population from around November to April. Well, let's say October to April includes Florida, Scottsdale. Dean: I was just going to say that Calgary you look at the other side, then Calgary is. Yeah, calgary is connected to Palm Springs and Phoenix. Dan: Yes, and then Maui, because I don't know what the situation is now, but I suspect they'll go to the part that didn't burn down. Dean: Yeah, but what struck me was the newspapers. So this is, what struck me is the newspapers and television stations, because we would stay, you know on the road. We would Hotels. Yeah, you would stay, yeah, we would stay in a hotel. And so I don't always, you know, get the newspaper. I've had a long time love for USA Today, which I've always kind of loved as just getting a overview of everything. But it struck me how I had grown up with the lens newspaper, lens being the globe and mail, the Toronto Sun and the Toronto Star and looking that, you know, without any sense of left and right leaning. You know, I didn't understand at that point, you know, the bent of and how that shapes things. But, it was amazing to me that I learned I got kind of on that deep level, these regional kind of markets you know I don't know how to fully describe it, but it was an awakening that I knew that, hey, if you've got something you know that worked in, it was kind of like this franchise. I'd be seeing franchise thinking in place, you know, in different places and seeing the Cracker Barrel restaurant. You have the same exact Cracker Barrel experience at any drop off point along Highway 75, you know, and so yeah. Dan: And that was. Dean: Yeah, at the time the thing was I mean in those days it was the new model. Yeah, yeah, for young college students traveling abroad. Right, but it was so great and that level of you know you wouldn't have any window into Louisville, kentucky, unless you're passing through Louisville and you tune in to the Louisville Echo Chamber or ecosystem where you're seeing the. Louisville anchors and the news and the local things, and you're reading the Louisville newspaper, you know. Dan: And then Macon Georgia. Dean: Yeah. Dan: Macon and everything. Dean: Because you usually made. Dan: I always remember that we shot for Louisville or Lexington on the first night. Yeah, lexington, yeah yeah, but we never saw any of the horse farms. Well, you did I mean because 75 went past the. But you never got off. Dean: Yeah, yeah. Dan: You had Oasis which were franchise Oasis. Dean: Yeah, exactly, and that way you know what you're going to. You know what you're going to get you know, but now I see now how those things are like with the rise of Cloudlandia, the access to what's going on a national scale and global scale kind of thing, is what direct to the individual. You know, now you've got access to everything, and I've been. Do you follow or is on your list of news outlets? Do you come to Daily Wire? Is that part of your routine or? Dan: are you familiar with. No, that's not one of my. Dean: Do you know? Dan: about the. Dean: Daily Wire. Dan: I've heard of it, but that's not really what I it's not. Dean: No, I mean I'll look at it. Dan: now that you're talking about it, I'll look at it. Dean: Well, Ben Shapiro is the one who basically I know Ben, he's the guy that started the Daily Wire. Dan: Yeah. I'm a Breitbart guy, I'm a Breitbart guy. I check daily caller town hall Breitbart, you know. Dean: Yeah well, the Daily Wire is now a $200 million. They do $2 million a year now and they just Last year. If you think about the VCR formula. And the reason I'm bringing up the Daily Wire is that is a cloudland-centric, a media empire that was started 100% to be online and took advantage of one. They tapped into Facebook's reach and they funneled those people into get readership and get subscribers to their news service and use that money to buy more attention on Facebook. That was the whole very simple model and they executed it flawlessly. And so they built this huge reach and they had a relationship with Harry's Razors. Do you remember? Dan: Oh yeah, Like Dollar. Dean: Shade Club and Harry's Razors. So Harry's Razors was a big advertiser on Daily Wire, doing very successfully, and then Harry's took exception to some content on the Daily Wire that suggested that men are men and women are women and that would Whoa, whoa, whoa. Dan: That's like touching the third rail of the subway, absolutely. Dean: And they dropped it. They stopped advertising, but what Jeremy Borencher, I think, is the president, who's the CEO of the company what they did was they started on the backs of that company called Jeremy's Razors and they built this whole. They did a whole ad launching the process because it's their own audience. They were already very successfully selling Harry's razors to their audience by letting Harry tap into their reach, and so when Harry's left, instead of looking for somebody to replace Harry's as an advertising partner, they said, well, we'll just make the razors ourselves. And they started Jeremy's razors and now Jeremy's razors is a huge subscription-based company speaking directly to the reach that they've built with the media company. And it struck me that now we're getting to where these very specialized. I don't think we're separating geographically as much as we're ideologically now that there's brands for the right and there's brands for the left and there's you know, there's woke brands and there's I won't say successful brands. Now. Dan: But the. Dean: I mean the writings on the wall. I'll tell you. Dan: I'll tell you. Can I tell you an earlier crossover that? Dean: set that up. Dan: Yeah Well, actually FM radio was technologically possible in the 1930s and 1940s but it was never approved by the FEC until the 1970s. Actually, there was about a 40-year thing where the federal what's the FEC, federal communications they couldn't get it passed for, even though it was available and and but FM is strictly a local radio reach. You know, during the day you can get about maybe 30 miles. You lived in Georgetown, I think, when you lived in. Toronto right. Well you could get CJRT, which was an. FM station and you could, but once you got, let's say, up to Orangeville or Newcastle, you couldn't get CJRT anymore. Okay, Because, FM is gets interrupted by solar energy during the day. Am we? When I was growing up, I could listen to New York, I could listen to Chicago. Dean: Yeah. Dan: Remember you put on a clear night, real clear nights. I could get New Orleans, philadelphia was easy, boston was easy on. Am because it's a different bandwidth, okay, and it doesn't get interfered with by the sun, but the sun won't let FM go further than about 30 or 40 miles. It's not true anymore, because all the FM stations now go on the internet you know, so I have an internet delivery so I can get Los Angeles Jazz Station on, you know, on the internet and they're taking advantage of the internet. But what happened was it was AT&T really controlled the AM spectrum. At&t, yeah, I mean they talked about the dominant technologies. You know Google and Meta and you know and everything they talked about it today. You know Amazon, that nobody, they didn't get up to the knees that the type of control that AT&T had. Okay, and. AT&T didn't want any competition for its AM networks and they came in and the. But because FM is a local, it's you know, it's a region, it's where you are, you get a real. The universities are the ones who started it all. Okay, so in you know, cjrt was Ryerson and the Toronto and everywhere you went, like if you went to Louisville it would be the University of Louisville you know, and and everything else. And so, right off the bat, the ideology of the universities by that time was left. You know, that was where the left wing people you know symphony music and it was, you know, the various FM stations, and they abandoned. Am got abandoned and the right took over AM radio, you know, and Ross Limbaugh was the first person who really took advantage of that, and this was strictly the right side of the political spectrum. Dean: Okay so. Dan: AM talk radio. Am talk radio. The left tried to get into talk radio and nobody would listen to it. Dean: Okay, Nobody so the you know. Dan: And so what happened? You already had that ideological split at the radio stage. Okay, so if you were left wing and you were driving to Florida, you would go from university town to university town and pick up the FM station, but you weren't less than the AM radio anymore. So that was the first split. Before you ever got to, you know, you got to the internet with. That split had already happened in the radio spectrum. Dean: Yeah, amazing. Dan: That was before you were born. Dean: Right, right, right, that's something. Dan: But I mean, imagine something happened in the world before you were born. Dean: It is so funny. But I look at that, you know, and it is like it's amazing to see how this is going, and certainly club Landia is enabling that and my, to bring it all, we're back around to the. What we started talking about with the local, saving the neighborhoods kind of thing is, yeah, I wonder if we're starting to see geography kind of shaping up here, that Florida and Texas are becoming like sort of you know conservative, you know safety and some kind of thing that they're gathering all the people there, yeah, yeah, and they've surpassed New York, they've surpassed New York state, they've surpassed Illinois, they've surpassed California. You know the states. Dan: People are leaving those states and going to Florida and they're going to Texas and so, but I believe in Moore's law, which essentially is the you know, the technological formula that's created Cloud Landia is Moore's law, but mainland is controlled by Newton's law and. Newton's third law I mean Moore's law is that every 18 to two years the computing power of the microchip will double and the price of it will get in half, that's the we've lived in that world for the last 50 years. Dean: And but. Dan: But Newton's law is for every action there's an opposite and equal reaction. Yeah, so if you yeah, so so you got to look at both laws. Dean: And I wonder, you know one law triggers the yeah. Yeah, it is interesting to see the like. I wonder if you were to you know, are we bringing back now? The importance of the local infrastructure, the local like. What is the role of the community now in our lives, in our world? I mean, I feel like I'm it's getting narrower on less and less like inclined to have to travel to other places, and it's funny, you know, I don't know. Dan: Well, I won't travel, I mean, except for my own workshops. I won't travel to business, I won't travel for anything. And you know and I mean all my speeches what I used to give speeches for. Now you know where I would be invited to a big conference and I cut that off in 2013. I just you know, you can have me as a speaker, but it's going to be a podcast at the conference. Dean: Yeah right. Yeah, that's kind of the way I've been doing. Dan: Things too is zooming in as opposed to traveling and flying in yeah, yeah and it's easy because you know you're doing whatever you're doing at the Four Seasons Valhalla and then you're someplace else in the world. Dean: Yeah yeah that's so true right. Dan: Yeah so, but people think that because there's a new realm available that eliminates all the previous realms, but actually just the opposite happens. Dean: Yeah, I posted and it's so. I think about how we really have the ability to be a beacon. You know I'm Jamie Smart. I don't know if you've ever met Jamie? Dan: Yeah, well, I know of him. I know of him, yeah. Dean: Yeah, wrote clarity, just like when we were doing all the big seminars. You know when we stopped doing that in 2009,. That was a big, you know, big shift in our world. You know, in terms of having spent 15 years every single month doing a big event somewhere new. Joe was having a conversation with Jamie about that and he was like because for him it had been even longer, you know, doing that with his identity of being a speaker, going to town and being on stage. And Jamie talked about it as a transition from going from being a torch bearer, where you have to take the torch and go city to city to spread the message, switching to being a lighthouse, where you stay in there and be your light from when everybody comes to you and that was a big shift. And even then, 2009, the Internet was here and all the infrastructure and everything was here, but it certainly wasn't the same place as it is now. Zoom and all that stuff was not yet. Now it's just. I look at it and you start to see, man, there's just so many ways to reach the world from your Zoom room. You can really have a global. There's nothing stopping you from having a global broadcasting center in a 6x6 room in your house. Dan: Yeah, it's interesting. You were very helpful to us because we had that flood in our Fraser Street building. Then we were knocked out. I mean, we had just come back from lockdown, from COVID lockdown, and we got three months in and we had the city water main next to our building when Underground just destroyed our my recording studios, our tech team, where our tech team was, where all of our materials were. But they closed the building down because the city inspectors had to come in and they had to check out. Maybe the whole building had to come down because the support structures may have been weakened and they'll just condemn the building, but we were out for eight months before we could get back in, you know. But, in destroying our recording studio we had a company. Toronto is a great post-production center for the film industry. So it's dependent upon the Canadian dollar. If the Canadian dollar is really weak, film studios in the United States ship their post-production work you know of editing and everything and there's about 15 movie studios, tv and movie studios in the Toronto area, all the way from Pickering to Hamilton. You know these are big studios but they do all their inside. They bring all their inside work to Toronto. And now they're creating actual virtual towns with CGI. So did you catch any of the Jack Reacher series. Dean: I did not. Dan: It was a huge hit. But the town that's depicted where Jack Reacher is, it's a small town in Georgia. The first season was the small town in Georgia. It was one Lee Child book, Jack Reacher, and that entire town was created in CGI, doesn't exactly? That's crazy, right, but when you look at it. And then all the inside scenes were constructed in the film studios. You know the homes and everything like that. But that shows you the relationship between Cloudlandia and the mainland. Okay, because once you cross an international border, you're in a different currency system. Yeah even though I mean digitally. Dean: I mean so many things are possible now. I posted up a video. Dan: The one thing that remains constant is the US dollar Okay. I mean the US dollar. And people say, well, why does everybody use the US dollar? And I said you just answered your question. Dean: It's right there Back up to the first part of your sentence. Why does everybody you know that's like yeah, I mean it's like English. Dan: Why does everybody speak English? I said you just answered your question. Dean: That's like the Yogi Berra Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded right. Dan: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, and yeah. And so the big thing is that since 1989, the differential the average differential, between the Canadian dollar and the US dollar has been 26% in favor of the American dollar. So we get 80% of the US dollar, it's dollar 36, dollar 36 right now Are you crazy? Dean: Well, that's crazy. So I checked the number. Dan: I checked the number no no, because in 19, it was $5.55. Dean: Oh, wow, yeah, but it's been hanging around in the mid 30s. Dan: 30% now for, I would say, last three or four years it's been you know could be as low as 30% and it got up to 42% per hour, but that so we didn't plan it this way. It was just a lucky break for us that we started in. Toronto, and so 80% of our income is in US dollars, but 80% of our expenses are in Canadian dollars and basically can buy the same thing with a Canadian dollar in Canada as you can with a US dollar in the United States. So we've got we don't have 26% because it's 80%. It's not 100, but we've averaged 20% for the four years we've averaged. So every dollar that comes across it's worth a dollar 20 if it comes across from the United States. Dean: Yeah, right Wow. And that's kind of where we're talking about the infrastructure, you know the infrastructure thing of being able to now, you know, build with a main or a Cloudlandia audience to reach with all the but with the capabilities or the expenses and physical delivery stuff happening in the most favorable, you know, mainland place. And I wonder if that's the opportunity that geographically you know places will get, will become sort of specialist in certain things. Dan: Well, that has been the case actually for the last 30 years. Okay, because of one factor that 90% of global trade, 90% so every day, the all the transactions in the world, it's, like you know, it can be like 4 trillion to 6 and a half trillion every day. The total value of it, well, 85% of it is in US dollars, okay, is in US dollars and all of that is. 90% of all global trade happens on water Is that right 90% of all global interactions and you know the, if you just take a look that it's water travel and that's only safe because of one factor, and that's the US Navy. And since you know since and that was. That wasn't for economic purposes for the US, it wasn't at all for you at. You know the everybody says well, the Americans, you know they just did this for their economic that actually the US. You know how much 10, how much percentage of the US economy is actually involved in cross border trade? 10%. Wow the other 90% is just Americans making stuff and selling it to Americans. So the US really doesn't isn't really that involved in the world but they had a problem after the Second World War and it was called the Soviet Union. And so what they did after the war said you know, we don't want to fight the Russians head on, so what we'll do? We'll just create a great economic deal with every other country in the world that's not communist and we'll promise them that we'll guarantee all their trade routes by water and they can sell anything they want into the US without any tariffs. And it was a great deal. Modern China only exists because the US guaranteed all their trade, and now the US has decided not to guarantee their trade, their water transportation and that's why. China's hit a wall, you know, and, and so I mean. But it's really interesting, dean, you're the one who came up with the cloud land idea on the podcast, and. But what I've been examining more and more is what happened if the cloud, if cloud land idea changes your ability to communicate and travel. You know, physically it's not like the mainland is going to be the same after that. I mean, if you make a change in one realm, it's going to make changes. I think this localization is now the, so if you're globalizing on the one hand, you're localizing on the other because you got a balance. That's what I wonder now, and I don't see. Dean: I'm starting to see like there's some shifts in the way that you know. I think that cities or towns I'm not, I can just speak about for winter, what I'm noticing a lot of development in is winter haven is sort of focused on the downtown, on making that kind of a more vibrant gathering center. It's not, you know, spread out like within strip plazas, like it was in the 70s, and it's not about the mall. Now it's about the downtown and they're taking kind of this ghost kitchen or you know model, but building it around social spaces. So there's two or three now of these developing areas where they've got multiple restaurants in one gathering place, right, so it becomes like a social hub where you can go there and they have live music and people gathering but you can eat at whatever, whatever type of food you want. Dan: So it's not like going inside to ask you a question I mean winter haven is a fairly small geographic area, but are there are there new residents buildings? Going up where these social centers are. Dean: Yeah, see, that's the thing? Dan: yeah, because the internet, you know the interstate highway system had bypassed all the downtowns. Dean: You know back in the 50s the right. Dan: You know the. The interstate highway system in the United States is the greatest public works project in the history of the world. It's about 63,000 miles now and they add about another 500 miles every every year. You know bypasses and connectors and everything like that, so it's a never ending project. But in the 50s it just bankrupted almost every small town in the United States when it. You had to go through the small. We went to Florida in 1956 and it was small town after small town after small town. There was no interstate. 75. Dean: Yeah, wow, yeah, that's kind of like Route 66 was going the cross. Dan: Yeah, yeah, you can still take Route 66, but it's small town after small town, you know yeah yeah, just listen to the words of the, the song you know, route 66 and tell you all the small and none of them were big cities. They were small towns you went through, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah, so we're creating an interesting model here that Moore's Law is expanding, you know one realm. But the Moore's Law or Newton's Law says, yeah, if you do that in Cloudlandia, then that there's going to be a decentralization that goes on in the mainland. So winter I mean, you'll probably have people you know more or less spend their life in winter. Hey, winter haven't, because anywhere they want to go else, wise, they'll do it in Cloudlandia. Dean: Yeah, that's what I'm seeing. I just looked up the winter haven in the population right now it's 57,000. Dan: So yeah yeah, and I see you know yeah, yeah, and the interesting thing about the malls, that Mark Mills wrote a great book. Mark Mills is an economist in the Manhattan Institute. I think it's the Manhattan Institute, which, as you the name suggests, is a think tank in New York. City and he writes about the malls. He's got a whole chapter on the malls and he says the malls are going to, they're being abandoned. There's about a thousand failed shopping malls in the United States at any given time. There's about a thousand that have been abandoned. You know they just go bankrupt. And he says they're going to be turned into factories or they're going to be turned into warehouses shipping centers and they're beautiful because they they've got parking for all the work they've already got all the. You know the delivery sites like they have the, the delivering docks you know loading docks, right, the loading that. They've got all the loading docks. They got massive amounts of space and he says that they're going to be robotic and automated factories it's amazing, it's so. Dean: It's such an amazing time to be alive right now. You know, I mean, you think about where, the things that are ready to implement that are all here right now. You know, I don't know that. The next thing, like, as I mentioned, I was doing snapshot comparisons of you know day to day 1988 versus today and, as I said to Stuart Stuart, my operations guy, was with me, we were going, we went to the movie studio movie grill here in about 30, 40 minutes away and I started recounting the day with him, like as we were. I was in these comparisons. I'm saying, okay, so here's how the day started. I him in the morning and said you know, let's go to the movie. I forget what movie was out, but it was a great movie that was had just come out that day or whatever. And so we were going to go for lunch and go to the movie there, because they have Studio Movie Grill is like a dining theater, so you go and they bring food and everything. So started out with the text of that. Then I went to the studio. My video studio recorded a video that I, stuart, and I left. From there I bought the tickets for the movie online through Fandango and, you know, bought the tickets in advance. So we all we had to do was scan the barcode. They just scanned it on my phone when we got there, but the Tesla drove us there using the autopilot function, so we were driven to the movie. We got in our seats without having to go to the thing. We scanned a QR code for the menu of what to get. We pushed a button. They came and took our order, brought us the food. We got back in the car, had the coordinates. The car starts driving us. We were listening to a podcast on the way back and it just in that moment, just that little thing. There's not a single element of that day. That was possible in 1988. Dan: Yeah. I will remind you that in 1988, you probably said what an amazing time to be alive. Yeah, you're probably right. Dean: I mean the dot was like what I got. Dan: Yeah. Dean: I mean look at this. Dan: The fact are you kidding me. Dean: We can send a piece of paper over the telephone. What a relief it comes back. Dan: Yeah, now I'm going to. We've got a mainland collision happening in about five minutes, Okay, okay, and that is from when we started today, the one we finished, because I'm visiting Winterhaven from. I'm in Chicago today, so I'm visiting Winterhaven, florida, from 10 o'clock to two minutes to 11. But in 11,. I have to go to Vienna, Austria, and have an hour's talk with Kim White. Dean: Okay, right, right, right. Yeah, I got to get on the flight to Vienna, right. Dan: Yeah Well, it's a click actually. Dean: Yeah, the zoom I got to get in. Well, I have to switch over. Dan: I have to switch over from my phone to my computer because it's on zoom and anyway, but that I mean what we're seeing here, is you and I are. You know we're early adapters. You know you and I are early adapters, so I say, okay, the world's changed, so how do I have to change? You know, that's my basic response and and all of us got sent to bootcamp for two years during the COVID lockdown. And we might not have chosen the route that we're on right now, but we were forced to. You know we were forced to, right, yeah, you know, I have a goal of never being on welfare during the rest of my life. Okay, yeah, I like to make my own money and everything, but it's an interesting thing. But, more and more, I think that you have to take both Moore's law and Newton's third law into account, because one of them explains the virtual world and Cloudlandia world, but the other one explains what happens to the mainland. When the Cloudlandia keeps getting bigger and bigger, the mainland keeps getting more and more local, like winter. Yeah, so yeah but you gotta you gotta be good at operating in both worlds. Dean: Yeah, you're right. You know I'm staying off welfare, that's well, you know, Dan, there's this little thing. There's a thing called cash confidence, and most people think it's about having an amount of money, but what it's really about is having the ability to create value for other people. So as long, as you keep focused on that, you're going to be just fine. Dan: Yeah. Dean: Yeah. Dan: This is really yeah, and I'm feeling very good going down 80, that I'm starting to get good at living yeah. Dean: So amazing, isn't it? What a world, yeah, the journey. Dan: Yeah. Yeah, Actually you know, the most amazing part of being alive being alive. Dean: Yeah, that is part of it all. That is exactly right. Dan: That is exactly right. Dean: It beats the alternatives you know, and it's funny. Dan: The answer. The answer is in the question. Yeah, I just heard Dion Sanders was talking about how the whole body everything about us is oriented for moving forward and it would be neat if Colorado ends up in the playoffs and the 14 playoffs, oh. Dean: I mean, well, they just beat Nebraska yesterday, so they're two and oh, right now. Yeah, I mean, it's just. It's the most amazing thing to watch. But do you ever think we're meant for moving forward Our eyes, look forward Our ears? Are perfectly positioned to bring us all the sound and everything from in front of us. Our mouth are meant to project forward. There's only one part of our body that points backwards. Dan: And that's the exhaust. That's where, all the way you leave all the way behind you If you keep moving forward. I guess the evolution figured this out a long time ago. Dean: Yeah, a lot of problems. Don't worry about what's happening behind there, don't look back, just keep moving forward. Dan: You know that's in our years of doing the podcast. I think that's the greatest closing statement we've ever had. Dean: Well, it struck me as this that's the first time I've ever heard it explained like that, but it's absolutely true. So that's why it's even more important, to be the lead guy in the line you don't want to be that. Yeah, it's like sled dogs. Dan: Yeah, if you're not with sled dogs. If you're not the lead dog, the future always looks the same. Dean: Oh man, what a day. All right. Well, you have my best. We've got a date, we've got a date next. Dan: If you're up to it, we've got a next Sunday. Dean: Oh yeah, I'm in Chicago today. Dan: So I'm in Chicago today, so I'll be back in Toronto next week. No, it's a permanent fixture in my calendar. Dean: All right. Dan: Thanks a lot, Dean. Dean: Thanks. Dan: bye, bye.

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Junto a otras bandas como Bon Jovi, Van Halen, Mötley Crüe, Scorpions, Metallica, Guns N' Roses, Iron Maiden, etcétera, es reconocida como una de las bandas de heavy metal superventas de los años 1980.​Junto a grupos como Iron Maiden o Saxon fueron una de las bandas de cabecera de la New Wave of British Heavy Metal. Def Leppard ha vendido más de 100 millones de álbumes en todo el mundo, y dos de sus producciones han alcanzado la certificación de Diamante de la RIAA (Pyromania e Hysteria). De esta forma, se convirtieron junto a The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Van Halen y Led Zeppelin en uno de los cinco grupos de rock con dos álbumes de estudio originales con ventas por más de 10 millones de copias solo en los Estados Unidos y más de 20 en todo el mundo. La banda ocupa el número 31 del ranking de VH1 Los 100 mejores artistas de Hard Rock y el puesto número 70 en Los 100 artistas más grandes de todos los tiempos.​​ Su mayor éxito es la canción "Pour Some Sugar on Me", considerada por la cadena Vh1 la segunda mejor canción de los años 1980.​Sus conocidos e influyentes álbumes de estudio Pyromania e Hysteria han sido incluidos por la revista Rolling Stone en su lista de los 500 mejores álbumes de todos los tiempos según Rolling Stone. La propia revista Rolling Stone ha situado a Hysteria en la primera posición en su lista de los 50 mejores discos de glam metal de la historia.​ Han sido incluidos en el prestigioso Salón de la Fama del Rock and Roll en 2019. En el año 1977, el bajista Rick Savage, el guitarrista Pete Willis y el baterista Tony Kenning, todos ellos estudiantes de la escuela Tapton, de Sheffield, (Reino Unido), se unieron para formar una banda de rock a la que denominarían Atomic Mass. 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Acto seguido, Kenning se retiraría, a finales del mismo año, justo antes de que entraran al estudio para grabar su primer Extended Play, sería reemplazado por Frank Noon, quien solamente estaría junto a la banda para la grabación de lo que se convertiría en el famoso Def Leppard EP.​ Las ventas de dicho EP se elevarían, gracias a la difusión del tema Getcha Rocks Off que daría el Dj de la BBC Radio John Peel, considerado en ese momento, como una autoridad en el punk rock y de la música new wave. Finalmente, en noviembre de 1978, se uniría a la banda, el baterista Rick Allen, que en ese entonces sólo contaba con 15 años de edad. En el transcurso del año 1979 la banda iría ganando una fiel fanaticada entre el público metalero del Reino Unido, y serían considerados como los líderes iniciales del movimiento denominado como New Wave Of British Heavy Metal, cediendo, con el paso del tiempo, ese puesto en favor de Iron Maiden. Esta popularidad emergente resultaría en un contrato discográfico con el sello Phonogram/Vertigo.​ Su álbum debut, On Through the Night, saldría al mercado el 14 de marzo de 1980. A pesar del éxito de su EP anterior y el éxito comercial de On Through The Night, los fanáticos de la banda rechazarían la clara intención del grupo de ingresar en el mercado estadounidense. Esto quedaría en evidencia en temas como Hello America. Tal sería el rechazo de los fanáticos británicos, que en el Festival de Reading el público daría la bienvenida a la banda arrojándole desechos al escenario.​​​ La banda capta la atención del productor Robert John “Mutt" Lange quien trabajaba con AC/DC. Este accedería a producir el segundo trabajo discográfico denominado como High 'N' Dry, el cual fue editado en 1981. Lange logró potenciar de muy buena manera las características de cada uno de los miembros de la agrupación. Este trabajo consiguió ventas más pobres que su predecesor, pero el vídeo de la canción Bringin’ On The Heartbreak fue uno de los primeros videos de heavy metal de 1982 emitidos en la cadena de televisión MTV. Esto le otorgó a la banda mucho reconocimiento en los Estados Unidos.​ Phil Collen, guitarrista de la banda glam rock llamada Girl, reemplaza a Pete Willis, quien fue despedido el 11 de julio de 1982 por problemas de alcoholismo. Esto ocurrió durante la grabación de su trabajo Pyromania, el cual saldría al mercado el 20 de enero de 1983. Este disco también fue producido por "Mutt" Lange. El primer sencillo Photograph convirtió a Def Leppard en una banda reconocida mundialmente. Además dominaron los charts estadounidenses durante seis semanas. Pyromania vendió más de 20 millones de discos en todo el mundo, incluidos más de 10 solo en los EE. UU. siendo certificado como Álbum de Diamante en ese país, y llevándolo al estatus de clásico de heavy metal.​ Por desgracia, el baterista Rick Allen pierde un brazo en un accidente automovilístico en el día de año nuevo de 1985, quedando la banda fuera de la escena musical hasta 1987.​ A finales de agosto de 1987 lanzan al mercado el álbum Hysteria, en el cual Rick Allen toca con un solo brazo una batería-caja de ritmos adaptada especialmente para su discapacidad. De este álbum, seis de sus siete singles alcanzan el top 20 estadounidense. Dicho álbum, junto con Thriller y Bad de Michael Jackson, y Born in the U.S.A. de Bruce Springsteen son los únicos álbumes que han logrado tener siete temas dentro del US Hot 100 Singles de los EE. UU. Hysteria ha vendido más de 20 millones de copias en todo el mundo.​ El 22 de agosto se lanza en el Reino Unido el primer sencillo denominado Animal, el cual llega al lugar 6 dentro del Top 10. El día 29 del mismo mes se lanza el álbum y debuta en el Reino Unido en el número 1, dando el éxito final al grupo en su tierra natal. Sorprendentemente en EE. UU., donde ya gozaban de una grandísima popularidad, no alcanza inmediatamente esta posición, alcanzando al principio el número 4. En relación con el lento ascenso en tierras estadounidenses, el 5 de septiembre el primer sencillo en EE. UU., Women, llega hasta el número 80. El 1 de octubre la banda comienza el tour en Glens Fall, Nueva York, donde se introduce el famoso escenario In The Round.​ El 3 de octubre se lanza en el Reino Unido el tema Pour Some Sugar On Me el cual llega hasta el puesto 18. El 5 de diciembre en Reino Unido aparece el tercer sencillo, Hysteria, que alcanza el puesto 26. El 26 de diciembre se lanza el sencillo Animal en los EE. UU. Se trata del primero de los seis singles del álbum que alcanzarán el Top 20. En este caso este tema alcanza el puesto 19 en la lista estadounidense.​ El 26 de marzo se lanza en EE. UU. el primer Top ten, Hysteria, alcanzando el número 10. El 16 de abril el tema Armageddon It llega al número 20 en el Reino Unido. El 5 de julio se lanza el video Historia que contiene todos los clips hasta la fecha desde los '80. Tiene también como un video conmemorativo de los 18 años del grupo. El 23 de julio se lanza Pour Some Sugar On Me, en EE. UU. y alcanza el puesto No. 2 tras Hold On To The Night de Richard Marx, siendo certificado con oro al alcanzar más de un millón de ventas en ese país. Al mismo tiempo, Hysteria lidera el US Album Chart (lista de álbumes en los Estados Unidos) después de 49 semanas. Es la primera vez que una banda de rock vende más de 5 millones de copias de dos álbumes consecutivos en los EE. UU. El 30 de julio la balada Love Bites llega al 11 en el Reino Unido. El 8 de diciembre se lanza el quinto sencillo en los EE. UU., Love Bites, que llega al 1 en la lista US Hot 100 Singles Chart e Hysteria alcanza el rango supremo de los US Album Charts. A finales de octubre finaliza el tour de 225 días, y la banda ingresa al estudio para grabar un nuevo disco con la promesa de que en 18 meses estará listo. De esta forma, pretenden evitar demorarse nuevamente otros cuatro años en editar un nuevo disco. El 8 de enero de 1991, su guitarrista líder Steve Clark, muere debido a la fatal combinación de medicamentos con alcohol.​ Posteriormente a esta época, y tras superar la muerte de Clark, sale a la venta en 1992 el álbum Adrenalize, nuevamente de gran éxito, (llegó al número 1 en EE. UU.) aunque de menor impacto comparado con su antecesor y esta vez con Vivian Campbell (ex Dio y Whitesnake) como guitarrista, en reemplazo del fallecido Clark. El disco ha vendido alrededor de 8 millones de copias a nivel mundial. A partir de ese momento, con la aparición del grunge, Def Leppard pierde la aceptación masiva que gozaba en los años 80's. En 1992 actúan en el Concierto en Tributo a Freddie Mercury, en el cual se rinde homenaje al fallecido vocalista de la agrupación inglesa Queen, de la que se han declarado fanáticos en muchas ocasiones los músicos de Def Leppard.​ La banda vuelve a la cima saliendo de gira y logrando un gran reconocimiento en su ciudad natal, Sheffield, Reino Unido, donde tocaron con entradas agotadas en el estado de Don Valley en junio de 1993. También para ese año el grupo lanza un nuevo trabajo, Retro Active, que contiene caras B remezcladas, y 2 nuevos temas Two Steps Behind (originalmente incluida como parte de la banda sonora de la película Last Action Hero de Arnold Schwarzenegger) y Miss You In A Heartbeat que logran ser hits en los Estados Unidos y Canadá. En este álbum evitan salir de gira y después de unas pequeñas vacaciones, la banda va a España a grabar su próximo trabajo. Con el séptimo álbum casi listo, lanzan un CD de Grandes éxitos llamado Vault, que contiene un nuevo tema llamado When Love & Hate Collide. El 5 de octubre de 1995, la ciudad natal de Def Leppard, Sheffield, les brinda un homenaje presentando una placa en su honor y abriendo el National Centre For Popular Music con material de la banda. Días después la banda logra un récord mundial tocando 3 shows en 3 continentes diferentes en sólo un día: Tánger, Marruecos, en (África); Londres, Reino Unido, en (Europa) y Vancouver, Canadá, (Norteamérica).​ En 1996, editan Slang, un álbum que marca una nueva dirección musical, con un sonido muy diferente a todo lo anterior, con gran influencia grunge, un sonido noventero más fresco y menos sobreproducido respecto a los discos anteriores. Comienzan un tour en Asia y se embarcan en una gira mundial llegando a Sudamérica por primera vez. Aunque Slang tuvo excelentes críticas de la prensa, no fue un éxito comercial. Las bajas ventas del disco fueron un aviso para la banda de que los fanáticos querían de vuelta el sonido característico de Def Leppard.​ A sabiendas de las solicitudes de su público para su noveno trabajo, Def Leppard retorna al sonido más roquero que supo tener en Pyromania e Hysteria. En 1999, lanzan el disco Euphoria, volviendo al sonido que los hizo conocidos y además contando con la colaboración nuevamente de Mutt Lange, que participa como co-compositor en tres de las 13 canciones del álbum. Para el verano de 1999 la banda sale nuevamente de gira en los Estados Unidos. Finalmente, en septiembre de 2000, Def Leppard es presentado por el guitarrista de Queen, Brian May, en una ceremonia homenajeando su inclusión en Rock Walk de Hollywood, California, EE. UU. Todos los miembros dejaron sus manos estampadas en cemento, junto con Lauren la hija de Rick Allen, y un espacio especial destinado a Steve Clark. El décimo disco de su carrera, se tituló X y salió al mercado en agosto de 2002. Se trata de un álbum bastante comercial en el que han trabajado con varios de los mejores productores del mundo y que mezcla el estilo de Slang con el de Adrenalize y Euphoria. Al igual que el anterior Euphoria, ha existido el grave problema de que la discográfica no ha prestado prácticamente apoyo a la banda, resultando una promoción pésima que ha influido gravemente en las ventas. A pesar de esto la agrupación realizó una exitosa gira promocional. En octubre de 2004, su discográfica ha lanzado al mercado Best Of Def Leppard, un álbum sencillo con 17 temas a modo de actualización del recopilatorio Vault que salió en 1995 y un CD Doble con 34 canciones, edición que salió para el resto del mundo (en Estados Unidos y Norteamérica, salió en 2005 Rock of Ages The Definitive Collection). En 2005 solo para Norteamérica, salió al mercado Rock of Ages The Definitive Collection, acompañado este disco de una gira compartida con Bryan Adams solo por Estados Unidos, también tuvieron presentaciones en Canadá y después de 8 años regresaron a México. A mediados del año 2006 Def Leppard saca al mercado un álbum de versiones de artistas de los años 60 y 70 que influyeron a la banda, y que se ha llamado Yeah!, con temas de David Bowie, Roxy Music, The Kinks, entre otros, que tenían grabado desde hace más de dos años y que por diversos motivos no pudieron lanzar anteriormente. En el verano de 2006 salen de gira compartiendo escenario con Journey, haciendo presentaciones en EE. UU., algunos conciertos en Europa y cerrando su gira en Puerto Rico. En julio de 2007, lanzan una edición especial de Hysteria remasterizada en dos CD, para conmemorar los 20 años de su salida al mercado. Lleva por título "Hysteria the Luxe Edición" que incluye, además, las caras B, versiones extendidas y canciones en vivo. Para el verano de 2007, salen de gira nuevamente, acompañados por Styx, Reo Speedwagon y Cheap Trick, al mismo tiempo fueron preparando su nuevo disco, Songs from the Sparkle Lounge. Para 2008 sale el Álbum "Songs from the Sparkle Lounge" y la banda realiza un tour junto con la banda Whitesnake, donde recorren parte de Europa y el Reino Unido en junio.​ Su nuevo álbum Songs From The Sparkle Lounge, retorna a un sonido más roquero. El primer sencillo del disco es "Nine Lives", incluye la participación del cantautor country Tim McGraw. El segundo sencillo " C'mon C'mon" fue la canción con la que se promocionó la Temporada 2008 de la NHL. La banda con este último disco ha tenido bastante mejor apoyo mediático que sus antecesores de esta década, esto es ayudado, entre otras cosas, con la aparición con tres temas para el popular videojuego Guitar Hero III. Tuvieron también a finales de 2008 una participación especial con Taylor Swift, en el programa CMT Crossroads que junta estrellas de música country con estrellas de rock o pop, interpretaron a dueto Photograph, When Love and Hate Collide, Hysteria y Pour Some Sugar on Me, así como algunas canciones de Taylor Swift.​ Para 2009, Bret Michaels, vocalista de Poison, anunció un tour en conjunto con Def Leppard y Cheap Trick, el cual empezó en junio y contempló 40 conciertos sólo para Estados Unidos. El 12 de junio de 2010 comenzaron su gira dando un concierto en el O2 de Dublín junto a Whitesnake y Journey.​ El 30 de octubre de 2015, la banda presenta su nuevo álbum de estudio titulado Def Leppard, que supone un cambio de discográfica y una búsqueda de su sonido característico. Tras un éxito notable de sus dos sencillos ("Let's Go" y "Dangerous"), el álbum alcanzó el puesto No. 10 en las listas generales y el primero en las de rock.​ En una entrevista, Joe Elliott afirmó que el disco se titularía Def Leppard porque es precisamente a lo que suena, a Def Leppard. El guitarrista Phil Collen afirmó que es el mejor trabajo desde Hysteria. El grupo se mostró orgulloso de las similitudes presentes en el álbum con Queen y Led Zeppelin.​ Por primera vez la banda experimenta con el sonido funk en la canción "Man Enough" (con un estilo similar a la canción "Another One Bites the Dust" de Queen). En la balada "We Belong" los cinco integrantes de la agrupación cantan en una misma canción por primera vez en su carrera. El disco generó una muy buena recepción en los fanáticos de la banda de Sheffield, siendo un poco más discreta por parte de la crítica, aunque mejorando las valoraciones de sus predecesores.​ Pagina Oficial: https://www.defleppard.com/Escucha este episodio completo y accede a todo el contenido exclusivo de Biblioteca Del Metal - (Recopilation). Descubre antes que nadie los nuevos episodios, y participa en la comunidad exclusiva de oyentes en https://go.ivoox.com/sq/308558

On yesterday's programme, the Conservative MP for Don Valley, Nick Fletcher, championed the idea of a Minister for Men. He says statistics show that 75% of people taking their lives are men, that the life expectancy of men is 3.7 years lower than it is for women, that 83% of rough sleepers are men and that 96% of the prison population is men. Do you agree with Nick? Could a Minister help tackle some of the issues many young men seem to be struggling with, such as masculinity, pornography, consent and their role in society? Could a minister for men also make life better for women? And could it be a way to tackle the rise of influencers such as Andrew Tate – a self-declared misogynist? Today Nuala McGovern talks to Michael Conroy, the founder of Men at Work, which focuses on unpicking some of the social influences on the values and beliefs of boys and young men – and how some of those influences can manifest in a range of problematic behaviours. Hear him and have your say live on air by calling Nuala. The phone lines open at 0800 on Wednesday 6 September. Call us on 03700 100 444 or you can text the programme - the number is 84844. Texts will be charged at your standard message rate. On social media we're @BBCWomansHour. And you can email us through our website. Presenter: Nuala McGovern Producer Lisa Jenkinson Studio Managers: Donald McDonald and Emma Harth

The former SNP leadership contender Kate Forbes, found herself at the centre of a political storm about her religious views. In response to interviews questions, she said the idea of having children outside of marriage conflicted with her Christian faith and confirmed that she was anti-abortion. Ms Forbes also said she would not have voted for same-sex marriage if she had been a politician in 2014 when the law passed. The backlash against these views led SNP colleagues to abandon her campaign in droves. In her first major broadcast interview after withdrawing from the leadership race, Kate Forbes said “We live in a world where it's our duty and responsibility to coexist in a compassionate, caring, loving way. There is no doubt – people put this to me all the time – that if I had perhaps not been honest, and not been truthful, if I had tried to make certain things more palatable, or politically correct, then would I have been more successful? Perhaps”. This inspires a discussion on relationship between faith and politics and whether the two can work together. In a special episode of Beyond Belief, recorded in front of a live audience at the Religion Media Festival in London. Aleem is joined by: NICK FLETCHER, Conservative MP for Don Valley, who's talked in the past about the way in which he sees himself as a Christian first and politician second RUTH CADBURY, Labour MP for Brentford and Isleworth, who's a Quaker. She was among the MPs who signed an early day motion calling for the abolition of parliamentary prayers DABINDERJIT SINGH OBE is former director of the National Audit Office and for decades has played a prominent role in government-Sikh relations. REV SALLY HITCHENER is an Anglican priest, Associate Vicar at St Martin-in-the-Fields, charity co-founder and LGBTQ+ rights activist. Producer: Linda Walker and Katharine Longworth Presenter: Aleem Maqbool Assistant Producer: Naomi Wellings

Ukraine's First Lady, Olena Zelenska, has given a very personal interview to the BBC 18 months after the Russian invasion and subsequent war in her country. In it, she speaks about having to live in a different location to her husband, President Zelensky, and her fears for her children's future. The BBC's Yalda Hakim joins Nuala McGovern. A male politician is calling for a Minister for Men. Nick Fletcher, the Conservative MP for Don Valley, believes that men face such serious difficulties in today's society that they need a specific champion. The second in our Rebuilding My Life series. When Martine Wright was rescued from the wreckage of a bombed Tube train on what became known as 7/7, her injuries were so severe that she could not be identified. Both her legs were amputated above the knee. Eighteen years on, Martine speaks to Nuala about her road to recovery, physically and emotionally. Past Lives is the directorial debut from the New York playwright turned filmmaker Celine Song. She tells the story of Nora and her childhood sweetheart, Hae Sung, who she left behind in Seoul when her family immigrated to Canada. But they reconnect years later in New York, when Nora is happily married - and grapple with what they are to each other now… and whether they missed their chance. Do you wish you cooked more but don't know where to start? Yotam Ottolenghi called Bee Wilson 'the ultimate food scholar'. She's the author of six books on food-related subjects. Now she's written her first cookbook, The Secret of Cooking: Recipes for an Easier Life in the Kitchen. Presenter: Nuala McGovern Producer: Lucinda Montefiore Opener 00:00 Olena Zelenska 01:40 Nick Fletcher 09:10 Rebuilding My Life - Martine Wright 24:29 Past Lives 37:35 Bee Wilson 45:51

“From the first day I went out I had a blast out on the trails meeting new trail runners and I was hooked.”Sean Symes has gone full circle with Toronto Trail Runners, from chasing leads while discovering new trails to leading groups of wide-eyed trail runners. He's clearly passionate about the community and the sport and I had a fantastic time learning more about trail running in the city of Toronto. Toronto is a former home of mine and a place I really enjoy, so learning about the trail running culture there was a lot of fun! Toronto is a multicultural city that celebrates its diversity and Sean takes pride in how inclusive Toronto Trail Runners is. It's important to him as a Black Person to show other Black People that they are represented.“Being a Black runner, there's not too many Black People in trail running, in the trail running community. So I think it's also good to have representation, especially in the city of Toronto, a lot of minorities might not feel comfortable joining trail sessions. So I think it's important as myself, being a Black Person, to be a lead there to show people that there's inclusivity on the trails.”Toronto Trail Runners sounds like a great group to get out with and I'm going to have to look them up next time I'm spending some time in that wonderful city!“Don't mess with the Don” is another project Sean is working on. They organize clean-ups in the Don Valley which is a place they love to run. They are accomplishing great things and you should totally check out the website! Spotify: Click HereGoogle Podcasts: Click HereApple Podcasts: Click HereMusic by REDproductions from Pixabay.Like, share, subscribe and commentIf you enjoy this podcast, I would really appreciate it if you could like, share, subscribe, or comment! I'm trying to make this the best trail running podcast it can be and I certainly appreciate your time. Thank you all and happy trails :)Myeloma RideI'm thrilled to be riding in the 2023 Richmond @myeloma_canada Fundraising Ride.Myeloma is a blood cancer made by bone marrow and people living with Myeloma, like my friend Misty, are able to prolong and improve their quality of life through treatments like chemotherapy but there is no cure and those treatments often cause other adverse effects on the body.If you can help out the cause with a donation, we would be incredibly grateful!Donate here! Get full access to Community Trail Running at communitytrailrunning.substack.com/subscribe

Rob Parsons and Dan O'Donohue are back for another episode of The Northern Agenda podcast, discussing the heatwave of July 2022, Boris Johnson's last ever PMQs, and the Tory leadership contest.Dan chats to Nick Fletcher, the Conservative MP for Don Valley, about the fight to save Doncaster Sheffield Airport from closure. The Red Wall MP also tells the podcast why he is backing a Minister for the North, and his thoughts on the contest to become the next prime minister.And Dr Dave Beck, a lecturer in social policy at the University of Salford, discusses the potential of Universal Basic Income being introduced to the UK. The food poverty expert explains why he thinks UBI would be good for the economy, wellbeing, and the environment - and how it could be implemented sooner than we think.The Northern Agenda is a Laudable production for Reach. It is presented by Rob Parsons and Daniel O'Donoghue, and it is produced by Daniel J. McLaughlin.You can subscribe to the daily Northern Agenda newsletter here: http://www.thenorthernagenda.co.uk/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Nick Fletcher is the conservative MP for Don Valley which he has represented since 2019.  We were particularly interested in having Nick on the podcast to discuss his work as Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Working Group for Issues concerning Men and Boys since men and boys are over-represented in the criminal justice system.

Brent Gunning & Sam McKee start The Golf Show with a conversation about Sam's round at Don Valley on Saturday, next the guys talk about Masters content, Tiger's return, their Augusta National hole draft and finish up by doing some best bets!The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the hosts and guests and do not necessarily reflect the position of Rogers Sports & Media or any affiliates.

Brent Gunning & Sam McKee start The Golf Show with a conversation about Sam's round at Don Valley on Saturday, next the guys talk about Masters content, Tiger's return, their Augusta National hole draft and finish up by doing some best bets!The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the hosts and guests and do not necessarily reflect the position of Rogers Sports & Media or any affiliates.

Today we celebrate a Canadian conservationist and author. We'll also learn about a pioneering Belgian-American gardener, poet, and novelist. We hear an excerpt about how poets find inspiration in nature. We Grow That Garden Library™ with a cookbook that shows how to prepare beautiful meals with fewer ingredients and offers foolproof meal-prepping and effortless entertaining. And then we’ll wrap things up with the story of a brand new gazebo in a community garden.   Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart To listen to the show while you're at home, just ask Alexa or Google to “Play the latest episode of The Daily Gardener Podcast.” And she will. It's just that easy.   The Daily Gardener Friday Newsletter Sign up for the FREE Friday Newsletter featuring: A personal update from me Garden-related items for your calendar The Grow That Garden Library™ featured books for the week Gardener gift ideas Garden-inspired recipes Exclusive updates regarding the show Plus, each week, one lucky subscriber wins a book from the Grow That Garden Library™ bookshelf.   Gardener Greetings Send your garden pics, stories, birthday wishes, and so forth to  Jennifer@theDailyGardener.org   Curated News 5 Agritourism Destinations for Modern Farmers Once it’s Safe Again | Modern Farmer | Shelby Vittek   Facebook Group If you'd like to check out my curated news articles and original blog posts for yourself, you're in luck. I share all of it with the Listener Community in the Free Facebook Group - The Daily Gardener Community. So, there’s no need to take notes or search for links. The next time you're on Facebook, search for Daily Gardener Community, where you’d search for a friend... and request to join. I'd love to meet you in the group.   Important Events May 3, 1904 Today is the birthday of the naturalist and conservationist Charles Joseph Sauriol. An esteemed son of Toronto, Charles worked to preserve natural areas in Canada. He was primarily devoted to the forests and waterways of Ontario, including his beloved Don River Valley - where his family had a cottage. Even as a teenager, Charles loved the Don, writing in an unpublished manuscript: “The perfume I liked was the smell of a wood fire.... The dance floor I knew best was a long carpet of Pine needles.” In 1927 Charles purchased the 40-hectare property at the Forks of the Don, which would become his second home. The Sauriol family cottage became the place that Charles and his wife and their four children would stay over the long months of the summer. Life at the cottage was elemental and straightforward. Charles tapped the maple trees for syrup and kept beehives near his cottage. The family also had ducks, a goat, and a pet raccoon named Davy, who followed Charles around like a dog. Charles wrote: “In the '20s and 30s, entire slopes of the East Don Valley...were carpeted with flowering trilliums in the spring. It was an unforgettable sight… A woodland without wildflowers is as empty and desolate in some respects as a community without children."  During 2018 the Toronto Archives shared many of Charles’s charming diary entries on their Twitter feed. The Toronto Archives is the repository for the Charles Sauriol record and it consists of diaries, manuscripts, subject files, and over 3,000 photos. Charles kept a lifelong diary. At the Don cottage, Charles created a little woodland garden. Many of his diary entries share his gardening adventures and philosophies on plants, like this one from 1938: "I find it hard to come in from the flower borders. My Pansies are a garden of enchantment in themselves. People who love Pansies should grow them from seed. I took the advice, and I have never had such a profusion of bloom and of so many colors." and "One particular toad has taken quite a fancy to the Wild Flower garden. His den is alongside the Hepatica plant. There he sits, half-buried, and blinks up at me while I shower water on him." At the end of his first summer at the cottage in Don Valley, Charles wrote about leaving the place he loved so much: With summer’s heat, the weeks sped by, And springtime streams did all but dry. But days grew short and followed on, Oh, blissful memory of the Don. Of you, we think with saddened heart, Our time is up, and we must part. Today the annual Charles Sauriol Leadership Award recognizes people who make lasting contributions to conservation.   May 3, 1912 Today is the birthday of the prolific writer and poet May Sarton. She came out in 1965 after her parents died. The decision impacted her career. May’s writing centers on our humanity, our relationships with ourselves and others, our values, and mindfulness. In a 1983 profile in The New York Times, May said, “I make people think, 'I have flowers in my house, why don't I look at them?' The thing that is peaceful for me is that I feel I have helped people. I'm constantly told, 'You've said the things I've wanted to say.'” Margaret Roach writes about discovering May Sarton this way: “She actually came to my attention thanks to two men, at different times in my life. I might have missed her altogether if not for a one-two punch by Sydney Schanberg, an ex-New York Times colleague who, thirty-odd years ago, offhandedly said, “You would like May Sarton,” and then years later my therapist gave me “Journal of a Solitude”... They knew that the natural world, and specifically the garden, called to me, as it did Sarton.” May wrote : “A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.” May’s tiny home in Nelson, New Hampshire, was her happy place. She had a garden which she loved, and she cared for many houseplants. She once wrote these relatable garden witticisms: “I am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy.” “True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root.” And some of her thoughts on gardening are prayerlike: “Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.” “Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.”   Unearthed Words The seasonal urge is strong in poets.  Milton wrote chiefly in winter.  Keats looked for spring to wake him up (as it did in the miraculous months of April and May 1819).  Burns chose autumn.  Longfellow liked the month of September.  Shelley flourished in the hot months.  Some poets, like Wordsworth, have gone outdoors to work.  Others, like Auden, keep to the curtained room.  Schiller needed the smell of rotten apples about him to make a poem. Tennyson and Walter de la Mare had to smoke.  Auden drinks lots of tea, Spender coffee; Hart Crane drank alcohol. Pope, Byron, and William Morris were creative late at night.  And so it goes. ― Helen Bevington, American poet, prose author, and educator, When Found, Make a Verse of   Grow That Garden Library Half Baked Harvest Super Simple by Tieghan Gerard This book came out in October of 2019, and the subtitle is More Than 125 Recipes for Instant, Overnight, Meal-Prepped, and Easy Comfort Foods: A Cookbook. In this New York Times Best-Selling cookbook, Tieghan delights and tempts us with comfort food - much of it made with ingredients fresh from the garden - in her Half Baked Harvest Super Simple. Tieghan is known for her blog, where she effortlessly shows how to make beautiful food for your family. Her Super Simple versions of her famous recipes are distilled into quicker, more manageable dishes. Tieghan includes one-pot meals, night-before meal prep, and even some Instant Pot® or slow cooker recipes. Highlights for family meals include everyday dishes like Spinach and Artichoke Mac and Cheese and Lobster Tacos. And Tieghan’s stress-free dinner party recipes include Slow Roasted Moroccan Salmon and Fresh Corn and Zucchini Summer Lasagna. Tieghan’s cookbook was named one of the best cookbooks of the year by Buzzfeed and Food Network. This book is 288 pages of the 125 easy, show-stopping recipes - each with fewer ingredients, foolproof meal-prepping, and effortless entertaining. You can get a copy of Half Baked Harvest Super Simple by Tieghan Gerard and support the show using the Amazon Link in today's Show Notes for around $15   Today’s Botanic Spark Reviving the little botanic spark in your heart Today at the Grow Regina Yara community garden, a gazebo, designed by Victor Cicansky, will be installed. Two years ago, the Regina community garden received a $90,000 grant from Federated Co-op.  Grow Regina wanted to add a gazebo to the community garden for many years. The garden is a unique space in that it offered the community a place to grow and a place to admire art. The garden features a variety of art pieces, including two massive sculptures installed in August of 2010 that frame the entrance to the garden by local artist Victor Cicansky. Gardens have been a consistent theme in Victor’s life. His 2019 memoir, Up From Garlic Flats, is set in the east end of the community in Regina, Saskatchewan. Victor’s father came from Romania, and his Romanian ancestors were gardeners. To Victor, the garden is a place of endless inspiration. Much of Victor’s work features garden tools like shovels and spades, along with aspects of nature like roots and trees. Victor even incorporates garden imagery from fruit, vegetables, and canning jars in his creations. An article featured in the Regina Post from June 2019 said one of Victor’s pieces called “Compost Shovel”  featured, “A gigantic blue ceramic shovel covered in vegetables, eggshells, and soil.” Today, the installation of the gazebo today marks the beginning of a new chapter for the garden. Once the install is completed later this week, the gazebo will host numerous functions. And to give you an idea of how beautiful Victor's artistic gazebo is: Imagine a gazebo that has sculpted trees with branches for support beams and a canopy of leaves for a roof. And then the railing of the gazebo features the garden harvest - all kinds of vegetables.   Thanks for listening to The Daily Gardener. And remember: "For a happy, healthy life, garden every day."

This week Tim Farron shares his views on the European Super League and asks Conservative MP Nick Fletcher, who left the church as a teenager, what made him come back to faith as an adult to become a born-again Christian. Nick's constituency of Don Valley was part of the crumbling 'Red Wall' - having been Labour since 1922 until he won it in 2019 - and he describes what it's like being a Tory in an area that has seen a huge political shift.   To ask Tim a question, add this number to your phone and send us a message on WhatsApp: 07711 701133, or email your question to farron@premier.org.uk 

Today we celebrate one of the best British scientific botanical artists of the 20th century. We'll also learn about a Canadian naturalist who was battling a mole problem on this day 83 years ago today. We hear a wonderful excerpt from a garden design book published two years ago today We Grow That Garden Library™ with a book about the secret design tips of the great Bunny Mellon. And then we’ll wrap things up with a glimpse behind the scenes of life as a student botanist at Kew.   Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart To listen to the show while you're at home, just ask Alexa or Google to “Play the latest episode of The Daily Gardener Podcast.” And she will. It's just that easy.   The Daily Gardener Friday Newsletter Sign up forthe FREE Friday Newsletter featuring: A personal update from me Garden-related items for your calendar The Grow That Garden Library™ featured books for the week Gardener gift ideas Garden-inspired recipes Exclusive updates regarding the show Plus, each week, one lucky subscriber wins a book from the Grow That Garden Library™ bookshelf.   Gardener Greetings Send your garden pics, stories, birthday wishes, and so forth to Jennifer@theDailyGardener.org   Curated News France on hunt for centuries-old oaks to rebuild spire of Notre Dame | The Guardian | Kim Willsher   Facebook Group If you'd like to check out my curated news articles and original blog posts for yourself, you're in luck. I share all of it with the Listener Community in the Free Facebook Group - The Daily Gardener Community. So, there’s no need to take notes or search for links. The next time you're on Facebook, search for Daily Gardener Community, where you’d search for a friend... and request to join. I'd love to meet you in the group.   Important Events March 19, 1906 Today is the birthday of the English illustrator who specialized in the native flora of Britain, Stella Ross-Craig. When Stella was 23, she landed a job at Kew Gardens, where she worked as a botanical illustrator, taxonomist, and contributor to Curtis's Botanical Magazine. When Stella’s work caught the attention of the director of Kew, Sir Edward Sailsbury, he made sure to introduce her to a publisher, and the rest, as they say, is history. Today we remember Stella as one of the best British scientific botanical artists of the 20th century. In total, Stella illustrated over 1,300 species in her monumental and highly detailed series called, Drawings of British Plants series - something she worked on for over twenty-five years. The series was available in 31 individual paperback books or eight hardcover volumes. Stella’s paperbacks were revolutionary; She was one of the first botanical writers to publish an illustrated book of British plants that were both inexpensive and accessible to readers. On Twitter, the ecologist and author Alex Morss wrote, “The best wild flower guides offer keys, but artists bring the music. Here is one of the masters, scientific illustrator Stella Ross-Craig. She breathed life into Kew's dried specimens with stunning accuracy.” To look at photos of Stella Ross-Craig from the 1990s forward is to see a happy woman with kind eyes and perfectly coiffed snow-white hair reminiscent of a loving grandmother or even Mrs. Claus. In pictures, Stella is always smiling. In the twilight of her life, Stella received many well-deserved honors. When she was 93, she became the sixth person ever to receive the Kew International Medal. Following this honor, Stella’s work was exhibited at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and then at the Kew Gardens Gallery. And in 2002, at the age of 86, Stella was awarded the Royal Horticultural Society's Gold Veitch Memorial Medal. One of the many plants that are better-understood thanks to Stella Ross-Craig is the Fritillaria. A member of the lily family, the fritillary is a spring-blooming flower, and each plant generally produces a single blossom from April to May. With pendulous lily-shaped flowers, the blossoms have a distinct checkered pattern that is stunning, and the blooms are either purple, pink, or white. Most gardeners treat Fritillaria imperialis as an annual and plant new specimens every single year. Fritillarias love the sun and can tolerate dappled shade. The etymology of the fritillary is from the Latin “frills,” meaning “dice box” - a reference to the checkered pattern on the petals in a number of species. And here’s a fun fact, the checkered pattern of the fritillaria inspired the checkerboard pattern on Croatia’s coat of arms. The fritillaria is native to Croatia, where it is regarded as the national flower and is known as “Kockavica” (“COX-ah-veet-sah”) or the Checkered Lily.   March 19, 1938 It was on this day that the Canadian Naturalist Charles Joseph Sauriol (“Sar-ee-all”) jotted down a sweet diary entry, and it was shared bythe Toronto Archiveson their fabulous twitter feed - which is a wonderful thing to follow. Charles wrote: "We have a visitor. A long winding trail of tunneled earth flanked tool room, etc...& ended in a hummock of earth inside.... Mr. Mole, you can tunnel if you wish, but my flower seeds will be planted elsewhere than where you happen to be."  An esteemed son of Toronto, Charles, who was born in 1904, was a one-man conservation powerhouse - saving many natural areas in Ontario and across Canada. Charles owned property in the Don River Valley and was an advocate for the Valley's preservation. Even as a teenager, he loved the Don, writing in an unpublished manuscript: “The perfume I liked was the smell of a wood fire. Planting seed or trees was preferable to throwing one’s seed around recklessly... The dance floor I knew best was a long carpet of Pine needles.” In 1927 Charles purchased a 40-hectare property at the Forks of the Don. He used this as a cottage, and every year, he and his wife and four kids stayed there over the long months of the summer. Life at the cottage was simple and elemental; there were ducks, a goat, and a pet raccoon named Davy, who followed Charles around like a dog. At the end of his first summer at the cottage in Don Valley, Charles wrote about leaving the place he loved: With summer’s heat the weeks sped by, And springtime streams did all but dry. But days grew short and followed on, Oh, blissful memory of the Don. Of you we think with saddened heart, Our time is up and we must part.   Unearthed Words Gardens are for living in, not just for looking at, from the other side of a window. I want the environments I create to be visually alluring. But also, and more importantly, to be so incredibly comfortable and functional that they draw my clients out of doors and keep them there, relaxing, reading, eating, entertaining, whether alone or with family and friends. A professor once told me to think about plants as people - as my friends - and to select the living materials for a garden as if I were having a party and throwing a group together. Some like to drink. Some are teetotallers. Some like to bask in the sun. Some need to be in the shade. Some play well with others. Some prefer to be by themselves. Some bloom. Others do not. Still, others go dormant. I love dissecting the properties of plants in that fundamental, personalized way. And I love selecting, placing, and caring for them so that they feel at home and perform at their best to compliment a house and enhance a client's life. — Scott Schrader, The Art of Outdoor Living   Grow That Garden Library Garden Secrets of Bunny Mellon by Linda Holden This book came out in 2020, and I'm a huge Bunny Mellon fan - so I was very excited to order my copy. Now what's special about this book is that it shares Bunny's personal advice, her philosophy about design, many of her wonderful sayings, and her approach to the garden. Now another thing that readers of this book will like is the way that it's organized — because chapters are organized by elements of the garden. So you might have a chapter on climate, space, shape, atmosphere, or even light — and so on and so forth. Now the effect of this is that you feel like Bunny is right there with you, helping you to see both these elements more clearly and appreciate the important role that they play in your garden design. Now, before I continue, I just wanted to take a quick second and share with you a little bit about Bunny's personal story. When Bunny was alive, her favorite thing to do was to design a garden. Her husband, Paul Mellon, was one of America's wealthiest men. Together, Bunny and Paul, maintained five homes in New York, Cape Cod Nantucket and Tigua and Upperville Virginia. In addition to designing the gardens for all of her own homes. Bunny designed gardens for some of her closest friends and celebrities. Now the author of this book, Linda Holden, is really the perfect person to help preserve Bunny's legacy and all the tips and insights that she pulled together during her lifetime. Linda wrote another book about Bunny Mellon that I recommended back in January of last year. That book is called The Gardens of Bunny Mellon, and it features most of the gardens that Bunny created. Now to my way of thinking, this book was the natural followup to that first book because now Linda is sharing all of Bunny’s Garden secrets with us — her secrets to garden design — and it's like having a master class in design with Bunny Mellon. And so,  I personally want to thank Linda Holden for that, because as I already mentioned, I'm a huge Bunny Mellon fan. Linda's book is 176 pages of garden secrets from the late great Bunny Mellon. You can get garden secrets of Bunny Mellon by Linda Holden and support the show using the Amazon link in today's show notes for around $16.    Today’s Botanic Spark Reviving the little botanic spark in your heart It was on this day, back in 2019, that another wonderful book was published: The Plant Messiah by Carlos Magdalena. This is one of my favorite books because it gives us a glimpse into what it's like to be a botanist in search of the world's rarest species. And it's almost like getting a chance to shadow Carlos in his fascinating job with plants. And I thought you would enjoy hearing this little excerpt where Carlos shares what it was like to take one of his first exams. At Q. This is a passage that has stuck with me ever since the day I read it. And I'm sure it will leave an impression on you as well. So once again, here's a little excerpt from the plant Messiah. Bye Carlos Magdalena. First, I was given a plant identification test. I was shown into a small greenhouse with thirty numbered plant samples. I had to identify them all, giving their genus species, family (if known), and common name. Some were common garden plants, others less familiar. As I studied each plant carefully, I realized that the common ones were the trickiest because you never use the family or Latin name. I trusted my gut instinct and tried to stay calm — not easy when the result meant so much. We moved on to a random plant on a bench, sitting next to a selection of cutting tools, lots of different sizes, and several options to encourage rooting, including a missed bench and a tray of compost. “Can you propagate this plant?” one member of the selection panel asked. “Sure!” I said, grabbing a knife. Immediately the questioning started up again. “Why the knife and not the scalpel or the secateurs?” They wanted to know my thought processes, not just my knowledge of the plants. I kept things simple. My feeling was that underplaying an answer was better than brashly responding as if I knew everything already. I am not sure. But I think it's because secateurs damaged the stem when you close the blades to make the cut,” I said. “You want to clean, cut that slices through the tissue, like a surgeon's blade. Scalpels are fine for soft growth, so a knife is the right tool to use here.” Finally, I faced the interview panel made up of senior members of staff. Including heads of departments and senior horticulturists, they sat behind a long bench and fired off questions. “Look out the window. Can you see that tree? What is it?” “It looks like a Pinus Wallinchiana.” “Can you name the five species of pine?” “Pinus nigra, Pinus pinea, Pinus this, Pinus that... “ My mentor throughout was Ian Leese, head of the school of horticulture. Late one night, as he opened the door to the computer room to switch off the lights, he saw me. “Oh, you still hear Carlos? “Buenas noches,” he said before heading off to collect his bike. I stayed until 2:00 AM. Then, at 6:00 AM, the ring of my mobile phone dragged me from my bed. On the other end was a distressed fellow student. Who broke the news that Ian had died overnight. I was stunned. Any time I felt overwhelmed. Ian would say, “It is simple. Just keep going. And you will achieve your goal.” I often hear his voice in my head. Even now.   Thanks for listening to The Daily Gardener. And remember: "For a happy, healthy life, garden every day."

Deal or no deal? The team talk about the latest Brexit developments. We hear from Caroline Flint, the former Labour MP for Don Valley, who lost her seat a year ago. One year on, does she feel that the Labour Party is in a better place? BBC Radio Bradford launched earlier this month. New breakfast presenter Rima Ahmed talks about why the new radio station is important for local communities. And without summer concerts and Christmas events how are Yorkshire's brass bands coping? Alex Parker from the Save our Brass Band Campaign talks to the team about the impact of the pandemic. Producer: Louise Wheeler Sound: Adam Campbell Studio Director: Daryl Wintle

A Look back at some dark days for the Millers at The Don Valley stadium. We try and find some positives from our time there whilst looking at DVS many bad parts See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today is National Garden Meditation Day.   Forget about your troubles   Go to the garden (if you're not there already).   Feel the breeze or the sprinkles.   Smell the rain.   Look at all the signs of life around you... all the shades of green emerging from the ground.   Listen to the sound of spring.   Garden time is restorative and resetting.   Use #GardenMeditationDay today when you post on social media.       Brevities   #OTD Born on this day in 1863, Walter Elias Broadway; a kew gardener and authority on West Indian plants.   Broadway was recognized by George V for his work in horticulture, although his career was shaded by bad blood with his supervisor John Hart and a drinking problem.   In 1888, Kew sent Broadway to Trinidad and Tobago to take up the newly created role of Assistant Superintendent of the Royal Botanic Garden.   Initially, everything seemed wonderful; the islands were a tropical plant-lovers paradise and there was already a botanic garden and herbarium in place. All Broadway needed to do was launch himself into learning everything he could about the tropical plants without a definitive reference to guide him. How hard could that be?   Along the way, his eagerness to get plant id's from Kew and the British Museum, led him to go around his boss. It wasn't long before Hart required Broadway to funnel all of his collected specimens through him. Things deteriorated further when Hart ordered Broadway to devote his discretionary time to the garden - calling him in from his beloved field time and severely limiting his ability to collect new plant specimens.   Broadway found other pursuits to bring him joy and satisfaction. He adored learning about the history of Trinidad. He found he loved to collect insect specimens. He helped found the Trinidad Field Naturalists' Club. Despite Hart's limitations, Walter Broadway truly mastered the art of plant collecting.    Broadway took the chance to get away from the day to day with Hart when the curator of the Botanic Gardens in Grenada opened up. It was there, that he started collecting for private herbariums. It didn't make him rich, but it helped alleviate his frequent financial difficulties.   Broadway spent over a decade in Grenada before heading to neighboring Tobago. By 1908, Hart had been forced to retire. Broadway resumed collecting with great zeal; he even sent mosses to Elisabeth Britton.   By 1915, Broadway was transferred back to Trinidad. He continued exploring remote parts of the island to collect plants.    Broadway retired in 1923 and he lived his final years in Trinidad - the island that had stolen his heart. His devotion to the natural world never waned and he was always on the lookout for new or interesting plants to sell to his private clientele. Although a flora of Trinidad and Tobago was published in 1928, Broadway was not a part of it. That said, much of the works cited references Broadway's collections - there was simply no disputing his collecting contributions.   botanist Andrew Carr described Broadway as "an exceptionally fine man. Entirely unselfish in spirit, he was always ready to share his vast knowledge of the botany of the island with other interested persons. I shall never forget his joy at discovering a new species of moss in a drain in Oxford Street. He was regarded, and justifiably so, as a walking encyclopedia on the botany of these parts ... "   Today, at the annual flower show of The Trinidad & Tobago, the Walter Elias Broadway Memorial Trophy is awarded for the best foliage plant exhibit.   #OTD On this day in 1819, botanist and philanthropist Henry Shaw arrived in St. Louis. St. Louis had been founded over fifty years before Shaw's arrival, and the population by 1820 was just over 10,000 people. Shaw is commemorated on the St. Louis Walk of Fame with this epitaph: Henry Shaw, only 18 when he came to St. Louis, was one of the city’s largest landowners by age 40. Working with leading botanists, he planned, funded and built the Missouri Botanical Garden, which opened in 1859. Shaw donated the land for Tower Grove Park and helped with its construction. He wrote botanical tracts, endowed Washington University’s School of Botany, helped found the Missouri Historical Society, and gave the city a school and land for a hospital. Of Shaw’s gifts, the Botanical Garden is best-known. Said as early as 1868 to have “no equal in the United States, and, indeed, few anywhere in the world." In addition to the Botanical Garden, Shaw built the Linnean House in 1882. It is the oldest continuously operated public greenhouse west of the Mississippi River and was originally designed to be an orangery; a place to overwinter citrus trees, palms and tree ferns.     #OTD On this day in 2015, all Saks Fifth Avenue stores simultaneously revealed their month-long May spring theme of Glam Gardens and each store was transformed into a garden paradise.   Beauty-themed garden installations flourished in windows and throughout the stores with floral themes in the Glam Gardens catalog and on saks.com. With the help of 35 beauty and fragrance vendors, Saks Fifth Avenue created individual gardenscapes within each window; woven into magnificent floral façades. To achieve the look, over 120 boxwood balls, ten full-grown climbing topiary trees, and more than 100,000 flowers were installed. Like the store’s iconic holiday windows, each garden vignette offered a distinctive botanical world to inspire customers and create conversations.   Mark Briggs, Chief Marketing Officer, Saks Fifth Avenue lauded the Glam Gardens event, saying, “Through Glam Gardens we have created a breathtaking living tribute to Mother Nature. Spring fragrance and color inspirations will be brought to life through blooming cascades of floral artistry. We hope to bring an element of delight to all who visit Saks this season.”     Today, Friday, May 3 - Sunday, May 5 marks the annual Valleyof Flowers Festival in Florissant, Missouri.   One of the oldest settlements in the state of Missouri, the Flowers Festival has been held in Florissant every year since 1963. Established by French settlers, the village was originally called "Fleurissant", meaning "Blooming". Originally a separate town, it's now an inner suburb of St. Louis.     Unearthed Words #OTD An esteemed son of Toronto was born on this day in 1904: Naturalist Charles Joseph Sauriol, (May 3, 1904 – December 16, 1995); a one man conservation powerhouse - saving of many natural areas in Ontario and across Canada.   Here’s a sweet diary entry for today by Canadian Naturalist Charles Joseph Sauriol (“Sar-ee-all”) from 1938 shared by the Toronto Archiveson their fabulous twitter feed - which is a wonderful thing to follow:   Charles Sauriol owned property in the Don River valley and was an advocate for the valley's preservation.  Even as a teenager, he loved it, writing in an unpublished manuscript: “The perfume I liked was the smell of a wood fire. Planting seed or trees was preferable to throwing one’s seed around recklessly... The dance floor I knew best was a long carpet of Pine needles.” In 1927 he purchased a 40 hectare property at the Forks of the Don. He used this as a cottage and every year he and his wife and four kids stayed there during the summer. There were ducks, a goat and a pet raccoon named Davy who followed Sauriol around like a dog.   At the end of his first summer at the cottage in Don Valley, Sauriol wrote about leaving the place he loved: With summer’s heat the weeks sped by, And springtime streams did all but dry. But days grew short and followed on, Oh, blissful memory of the Don. Of you we think with saddened heart, Our time is up and we must part.     Today's book recommendation  American Eden: David Hosack, Botany and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic, by Award-winning historian and author Victoria Johnson Johnson will deliver the 2019 John Dwyer Public Lecture at 4 p.m. today in the Shoenberg Auditorium at the Missouri Botanical Garden. Johnson’s illustrated lecture features her new book, American Eden, which both the Wall Street Journal and Ron Chernow, author of Alexander Hamilton, have called “captivating.” David Hosack established the nation's first public botanical garden, including plants from South America, Asia and Australia, in the early 1800s. Today, his former garden is the site of Rockefeller Center.        Today's Garden Chore It's another Photo Friday in the Garden.   In honor of garden meditation day, bring your smartphone to the garden and take a panoramic photo of your favorite spot. You might have to practice doing this a few times; and if you don't know how you can watch a quick YouTube video for help. Once you've finished, you'll have your favorite spot with you at all times and you can meditate in your garden even you're away.     Something Sweet  Reviving the little botanic spark in your heart   While researching Henry Shaw, I stumbled on a story that reveals Shaw's great love for the plants in his garden.    It was posted in the St. Louis Star and Times on April 5, 1933 "Mr. Shaw was escorting a lady through his gardens, pointing out objects of interest.   The visitor said: " I cannot understand, Sir, how you are able to remember all of these difficult names."   He replied, with a courtly bow, "Madame, did you ever know a mother to forget the names of her children? These plants and flowers are my little ones."     Thanks for listening to the daily gardener, and remember: "For a happy, healthy life, garden every day."

Listen to the debate from the Battle of Ideas Festival 2018. In Brexit Britain, much focus has fallen on the divides that cut across generational, educational and class lines. But increasingly there is a new geographical divide that is taking shape – one where voguish metropolitan regions, prosperous urban centres and university towns contrast starkly with vast swathes of territory now labelled ‘left-behind Britain’. Is it still possible to rejuvenate former ports, market towns, coastal resorts and county towns? Should the focus be economic investment or a social and cultural transformation? Do we need a new urban paradigm, or should we create incentives to save, rebuild and inject new life into these urban areas? DR RUTH DUDLEY EDWARDSjournalist and writer; award-winning author CAROLINE FLINT MPmember of parliament, Don Valley; co-chair, Northern Powerhouse All Party Parliamentary Group DAVID GOODHARThead of demography, Policy Exchange; author, The Road to Somewhere MO LOVATTwriter and researcher specialising in arts and culture policy; co-chair, The Great Debate CHAIR: ALASTAIR DONALDassociate director, Academy of Ideas; codirector, Future Cities Project

Caroline Flint, Labour Member of Parliament for Don Valley spoke to Anand Menon about the #Brexitdeal, why she disagrees with a #peoplesvotes and what she would improve if she became Prime Minister.

Mickey and Hannah went to the Houses of Parliament to meet MP for Don Valley, Caroline Flint, to talk about 21 years in the Commons, changing attitudes to women in politics and why Labour has yet to have a female leader. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Predacast Episode 2 - I'M NOT GONNA PUKE! Kenny & Moe talk about Trail Running in the Don Valley. Moe also goes back in time and talks about Kenny's crazy bodybuilding diets of the past.

Hoy es el dia 30 de octubre lanzamiento a nivel mundial del nuevo disco titulado"Def Leppard-Def Leppard. Escuchalo desde este portal de la hora del rock,dejamos tus comentarios del disco!!! Def Leppard Def Leppard es una banda británica de Hard Rock originaria de Sheffield, Reino Unido, que iniciara su carrera a finales de los años setenta, y que alcanzaría su éxito con mayúsculas en la década de los ochenta, acercando al heavy metal a las emisoras de radio y al gran público en general, gracias a una mezcla rara de hard rock melódico con un gran trabajo vocal. Junto a otras bandas como Scorpions, Van Halen, Bon Jovi, Guns N' Roses, Iron Maiden Etc, es reconocida como una de las bandas de Heavy Metal superventas de los años 80. Def Leppard ha vendido más de 100 millones de álbumes alrededor del mundo, y dos de sus producciones han alcanzado la certificación de Diamante de la RIAA (Pyromania e Hysteria). De esta forma, se convirtieron en uno de los muchos grupos de rock con dos álbumes de estudio originales con ventas por más de 10 millones de copias en solo en los Estados Unidos y más de 20 en todo el mundo. La banda ocupa el número 31 el ranking de VH1 Los 100 mejores artistas de Hard Rock y el puesto número 70 en Los 100 artistas más grandes de todos los tiempos. En el año 1977, el bajista Rick Savage, el guitarrista Pete Willis y el baterista Tony Kenning, todos ellos estudiantes de la escuela Tapton, de Sheffield, (Reino Unido), se unieron para formar una banda de rock a la que denominarían Atomic Mass. Inmediatamente, se uniría a ellos quien sería su vocalista, Joe Elliott, quien originalmente audicionó para ser el guitarrista de la agrupación. Durante su juventud, Savage fue considerado como un joven talento en el fútbol. Inclusive, fue seducido para unirse al Sheffield United, a pesar de ser fanático del equipo rival, el Sheffield Wednesday". Sin embargo, jugó unos años en el United, pero luego, elegiría tomar el camino de la música. Conformada la banda, adoptarían el nombre de Deaf Leopard (Leopardo Sordo) inspirados en una antigua idea de Elliott, pero luego, tomarían la sugerencia de Tony Kenning de modificarlo ligeramente a Def Leppard, con el fin de evitar que los conectaran con bandas de punk rock. Mientras perfeccionaban su sonido, ensayando en una fábrica de cucharas, la banda decidiría contratar a otro guitarrista, Steve Clark, en enero de 1978. Acto seguido, Kenning se retiraría, a finales del mismo año, justo antes de que entraran al estudio para grabar su primer Extended Play, sería reemplazado por Frank Noon, quien solamente estaría junto a la banda para la grabación de lo que se convertiría en el famoso Def Leppard EP. Las ventas de dicho EP se elevarían, gracias a la difusión del tema Getcha Rocks Off que daría el Dj de la BBC Radio John Peel, considerado en ese momento, como una autoridad en el punk rock y de la música new wave. Finalmente, en noviembre de 1978, se uniría a la banda, el baterista Rick Allen, que en ese entonces sólo contaba con 15 años de edad. En el trancurso del año 1979 la banda iría ganando una fiel fanaticada entre el público metalero del Reino Unido, y serían considerados como los líderes iniciales del movimiento denominado como New Wave Of British Heavy Metal, cediendo, con el paso del tiempo, ese puesto en favor de Iron Maiden. Esta popularidad emergente resultaría en un contrato discográfico con el sello Phonogram/Vertigo. ] Su álbum debut, On Through the Night, saldría al mercado el 14 de marzo de 1980. A pesar del éxito de su EP anterior y el éxito comercial de On Through The Night, los fanáticos de la banda rechazarían la clara intención del grupo de ingresar en el mercado estadounidense. Esto quedaría en evidencia en temas como Hello America. Tal sería el rechazo de los fanáticos británicos, que en el Festival de Reading el público daría la bienvenida a la banda arrojándole desechos al escenario. La banda capta la atención del productor Robert John “Mutt" Lange quien trabajaba con AC/DC. Este accedería a producir el segundo trabajo discográfico denominado como High 'N' Dry, el cual fue editado en 1981. Lange logró potenciar de muy buena manera las características de cada uno de los miembros de la agrupación. Este trabajo consiguió ventas más pobres que su predecesor, pero el vídeo de la canción Bringin' On The Heartbreak fue uno de los primeros videos de heavy metal de 1982 emitidos en la cadena de televisión MTV. Esto le otorgó a la banda mucho reconocimiento en los Estados Unidos. Phil Collen, guitarrista de la banda glam rock llamada Girl, reemplaza a Pete Willis, quien fue despedido el 11 de julio de 1982 por problemas de alcoholismo. Esto ocurrió durante la grabación de su trabajo Pyromania, el cual saldría al mercado el 20 de enero de 1983. Este disco también fue producido por "Mutt" Lange. El primer sencillo Photograph convirtió a Def Leppard en una banda reconocida mundialmente. Además dominaron los charts estadounidenses durante seis semanas. Pyromania vendió más de 20 millones de discos en todo el mundo, incluidos más de 10 solo en los EE.UU. siendo certificado como Álbum de Diamante en ese país, y llevándolo al estatus de clásico de heavy metal. Por desgracia, el baterista Rick Allen pierde un brazo en un accidente automovilístico en el día de año nuevo de 1985, quedando la banda fuera de la escena musical hasta 1987. A finales de agosto de 1987 lanzan al mercado el álbum Hysteria, en el cual Rick Allen toca con un sólo brazo una batería-caja de ritmos adaptada especialmente para su discapacidad. De este álbum, seis de sus siete singles alcanzan el top 20 estadounidense. Dicho álbum, junto con Thriller y Bad de Michael Jackson, y Born in the U.S.A. de Bruce Springsteen son los únicos álbumes que han logrado tener siete temas dentro del US Hot 100 Singles de los EE.UU. Hysteria ha vendido más de 20 millones de copias en todo el mundo. El 22 de agosto se lanza en el Reino Unido el primer single denominado Animal, el cual llega al lugar 6 dentro del Top 10. El día 29 del mismo mes se lanza el álbum y debuta en el Reino Unido en el número 1, dando el éxito final al grupo en su tierra natal. Sorprendentemente en EE.UU., donde ya gozaban de una grandísima popularidad, no alcanza inmediatamente esta posición, alcanzando al principio el número 4. En relación con el lento ascenso en tierras estadounidenses, el 5 de septiembre el primer single en EE.UU., Women, llega hasta el número 80. El 1 de octubre la banda comienza el tour en Glens Fall, Nueva York, donde se introduce el famoso escenario In The Round. El 3 de octubre se lanza en el Reino Unido el tema Pour Some Sugar On Me el cual llega hasta el puesto 18. El 5 de diciembre en Reino Unido aparece el tercer single, Hysteria, que alcanza el puesto 26. El 26 de diciembre se lanza el sencillo Animal en los EE.UU. Se trata del primero de los seis singles del álbum que alcanzarán el Top 20. En este caso este tema alcanza el puesto 19 en la lista estadounidense. Steve Clark, guitarrista fallecido en 1991. El 26 de marzo se lanza en EE.UU. el primer Top ten, Hysteria, alcanzando el número 10. El 16 de abril el tema Armageddon It llega al número 20 en el Reino Unido. El 5 de julio se lanza el video Historia que contiene todos los clips hasta la fecha desde los '80. Tiene también como un video conmemorativo de los 18 años del grupo. El 23 de julio se lanza Pour Some Sugar On Me, en EE.UU. y alcanza el puesto No. 2 tras Hold On To The Night de Richard Marx, siendo certificado con oro al alcanzar más de un millón de ventas en ese país. Al mismo tiempo, Hysteria lidera el US Album Chart (lista de álbumes en los Estados Unidos) después de 49 semanas. Es la primera vez que una banda de rock vende más de 5 millones de copias de dos álbumes consecutivos en los EE.UU. El 30 de julio la balada Love Bites llega al 11 en el Reino Unido. El 8 de diciembre se lanza el quinto single en los EE.UU., Love Bites, que llega al 1 en la lista US Hot 100 Singles Chart e Hysteria alcanza el rango supremo de los US Album Charts. A finales de octubre finaliza el tour de 225 días, y la banda ingresa al estudio para grabar un nuevo disco con la promesa de que en 18 meses estará listo. De esta forma, pretenden evitar demorarse nuevamente otros cuatro años en editar un nuevo disco. El 8 de enero de 1991, su guitarrista líder Steve Clark, muere debido a la fatal combinación de medicamentos con alcohol. , sale a la venta en 1992 el álbum Adrenalize, nuevamente de gran éxito, (llegó al número 1 en EE.UU.) aunque de menor impacto comparado con su antecesor y esta vez con Vivian Campbell (ex Dio y Whitesnake) como guitarrista, en reemplazo del fallecido Clark. El disco ha vendido alrededor de 8 millones de copias a nivel mundial. A partir de ese momento, con la aparición del grunge, Def Leppard pierde la aceptación masiva que gozaba en los años 80's. En 1992 actúan en el Concierto en Tributo a Freddie Mercury, en el cual se rinde homenaje al fallecido vocalista de la agrupación inglesa Queen, de la que se han declarado fanáticos en muchas ocasiones los músicos de Def Leppard. La banda vuelve a la cima saliendo de gira y logrando un gran reconocimiento en su ciudad natal, Sheffield, Reino Unido, donde tocaron con entradas agotadas en el estado de Don Valley en junio de 1993. También para ese año el grupo lanza un nuevo trabajo, “Retro Active” que contiene caras B remezcladas, y 2 nuevos temas Two Steps Behind (originalmente incluida como parte de la banda sonora de la película Last Action Hero de Arnold Schwarzenegger) y Miss You In A Heartbeat que logran ser hits en los Estados Unidos y Canadá. En este álbum evitan salir de gira y después de unas pequeñas vacaciones, la banda va a España a grabar su próximo trabajo. Con el séptimo álbum casi listo, lanzan un CD de Grandes éxitos llamado Vault, que contiene un nuevo tema llamado When Love & Hate Collide. El 5 de octubre de 1995, la ciudad natal de Def Leppard, Sheffield, les brinda un homenaje presentando una placa en su honor y abriendo el National Centre For Popular Music con material de la banda. Días después la banda logra un récord mundial tocando 3 shows en 3 continentes diferentes en sólo un día: Tánger, Marruecos, en En 1996, editan Slang, un álbum que marca una nueva dirección musical, con un sonido muy diferente a todo lo anterior, con gran influencia grunge, un sonido noventero más fresco y menos sobreproducido respecto a los discos anteriores. Comienzan un tour en Asia y se embarcan en una gira mundial llegando a Sudamérica por primera vez. Aunque Slang tuvo excelentes criticas de la prensa, no fue un éxito comercial. Las bajas ventas del disco fueron un aviso para la banda de que los fanáticos querían de vuelta el sonido característico de Def Leppard. A sabiendas de las solicitudes de su público para su noveno trabajo, Def Leppard retorna al sonido más roquero que supo tener en Pyromania e Hysteria. En 1999, lanzan el disco Euphoria, volviendo al sonido que los hizo conocidos y además contando con la colaboración nuevamente de Mutt Lange, que participa como co-compositor en tres de las 13 canciones del álbum. Para el verano de 1999 la banda sale nuevamente de gira en los Estados Unidos. Finalmente, en septiembre de 2000, Def Leppard es presentado por el guitarrista de Queen, Brian May, en una ceremonia homenajeando su inclusión en Rock Walk de Hollywood, California, EE.UU. Todos los miembros dejaron sus manos estampadas en cemento, junto con Lauren la hija de Rick Allen, y un espacio especial destinado a Steve Clark. Vivian Campbell, guitarrista que reemplazó al fallecido Steve Clark. El décimo disco de su carrera, se titula X, y salió al mercado en agosto de 2002. Se trata de un álbum bastante comercial en el que han trabajado con varios de los mejores productores del mundo y que mezcla el estilo de Slang con el de Adrenalize y Euphoria. Al igual que el anterior Euphoria, ha existido el grave problema de que la discográfica no ha prestado prácticamente apoyo a la banda, resultando una promoción pésima que ha influido gravemente en las ventas. A pesar de esto la agrupación realizó una exitosa gira promocional. En octubre de 2004, su discográfica ha lanzado al mercado Best Of Def Leppard, un álbum sencillo con 17 temas a modo de actualización del recopilatorio Vault que salió en 1995 y un Cd Doble con 34 canciones, edición que salió para el resto del mundo (en Estados Unidos y Norteamérica, salió en 2005 Rock of Ages The Definitive Collection). En 2005 solo para Norteamérica, salió al mercado Rock of Ages The Definitive Collection, acompañado este disco de una gira compartida con Bryan Adams solo por Estados Unidos, también tuvieron presentaciones en Canadá y después de 8 años regresaron a México. A mediados del año 2006 Def Leppard saca al mercado un álbum de versiones de artistas de los años 60 y 70 que influyeron a la banda, y que se ha llamado Yeah!, con temas de David Bowie, Roxy Music, The Kinks, entre otros, que tenían grabado desde hace más de dos años y que por diversos motivos no pudieron lanzar anteriormente. En el verano de 2006 salen de gira compartiendo escenario con Journey, haciendo presentaciones en EE.UU., algunos conciertos en Europa y cerrando su gira en Puerto Rico. En julio de 2007, lanzan una edición especial de Hysteria remasterizada en dos CD, para conmemorar los 20 años de su salida al mercado. Lleva por título "Hysteria the Luxe Edición" que incluye, además, las caras B, versiones extendidas y canciones en vivo. Para el Verano de 2007, salen de gira nuevamente, acompañados por Styx, Reo Speedwagon y Cheap Trick, al mismo tiempo fueron preparando su nuevo disco, Songs from the Sparkle Lounge. Para 2008 sale el Álbum "Songs from the Sparkle Lounge" y la banda realiza un tour junto con la banda Whitesnake, donde recorren parte de Europa y el Reino Unido en junio. Su nuevo álbum Songs From The Sparkle Lounge, retorna a un sonido más roquero. El primer single del disco es "Nine Lives", incluye la participación del cantautor country Tim McGraw. El segundo sencillo " C'mon C'mon" fue la canción con la que se promocionó la Temporada 2008 de la NHL. La banda con este último disco ha tenido bastante mejor apoyo mediático que sus antecesores de esta década, esto es ayudado, entre otras cosas, con la aparición con tres temas para el popular videojuego Guitar Hero III. Tuvieron también a finales de 2008 una participación especial con Taylor Swift, en el programa CMT Crossroads que junta estrellas de música country con estrellas de rock o pop, interpretaron a dueto Photograph, When Love and Hate Collide, Hysteria y Pour Some Sugar on Me, así como algunas canciones de Taylor Swift. Para 2009, Bret Michaels, vocalista de Poison, anunció un tour en conjunto con Def Leppard y Cheap Trick, el cual empezó en junio y contempló 40 conciertos sólo para Estados Unidos. El 12 de junio de 2010 comenzaron su gira dando un concierto en el O2 de Dublín junto a Whitesnake y Journey. Miembros Joe Elliott - Voz, Guitarra, Teclado - (1977-presente) Phil Collen – Guitarra solista, Guitarra rítmica, Coros - (1982 -presente) Vivian Campbell - Guitarra rítmica, Guitarra solista, Coros - (1992- presente) Rick Savage - Bajo eléctrico, Teclado, Coros - (1977-presente) Rick Allen - Batería, Percusión - (1978- presente) Antiguos miembros Steve Clark - Guitarra rítmica, Guitarra principal, Coros (1978-1991) Pete Willis - Guitarra solista, Guitarra rítmica, Coros (1977-1982) Tony Kenning - Batería, Percusión (1977-1978) Frank Noon - Batería, Percusión (1978) Músicos de gira Jeff Rich - Batería, Percusión (agosto de 1986 – Suplente de Rick Allen) Álbumes de estudio On Through the Night (1980) High 'N' Dry (1981) Pyromania (1983) Hysteria (1987) Adrenalize (1992) Slang (1996) Euphoria (1999) X (2002) Songs from the Sparkle Lounge (2008) Def Leppard -Def Leppard (2015)

At the University of Toronto, Colin Marshall talks with Mark Kingwell, professor of philosophy and author of such books as A Civil Tongue: Justice, Dialogue, and the Politics of Pluralism, The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age, Concrete Reveries: Consciousness and the City, and most recently the collection Unruly Voices: Essays on Democracy, Civility and the Human Imagination. They discuss how the "ongoing argument" that is Canada manifests in Toronto; the University of Toronto's thorough integration into the city itself; why outsiders think of Toronto as a kind of idea of the city made concrete; the many parallels between Toronto and Los Angeles, including the derision both cities draw; a "walking city" as a city where you can walk not just in but between places; where the Torontonian's perception of distance doesn't quite match the geography, as in the crossing of the Don Valley; what got him thinking about the city as a problem of consciousness; the "great stumbling block" of the "world class" designation, which probably means nothing; how to use philosophy and cities as nexuses of subjects, and the benefits of dispensing "mind candy" like Simpsons references in the process; public spaces from the impossible-in-this-century Central Park to the counterintuitively functional Nathan Phillips Square; the Toronto sub-industry of assigning grand names to alleys; quasi-public private space, and how the nicer you dress, the more of it you find; America's legal piety versus its misbehavior; Canada's respect for authority versus its explosions of passive-aggression; what you don't see when you walk through Toronto, such as any element of the erotic; this city as "a whole bunch of silver medals that add up to a pretty nice tally"; the distinction between politeness (which he doesn't actually find among Canadians) and civility; why Torontonians think Rob Ford became mayor; whether a city needs a center, and whether that center must be a public space or a monument of some kind; what it means that the CN Tower represents Toronto; and whether Toronto will keep playing its role as the "real archetypal city."

In June 2007 the River Don over topped its banks causing widespread flooding in the Don Valley area of our city. During this time a 14-year-old boy was swept away by the swollen River Sheaf and a 68 year old man died after attempting to cross a flooded road in Sheffield city centre. The Meadowhall shopping centre also had close due to flooding and the Sheffield Wednesday football ground, Hillsborough was under 6 feet of water. To mark the event, we present a reworking of the Sheffield Floods documentary we made in 2008. This is a collaborative work; featuring contributions from Fabian Beckett, Alan Fransman Joe Fowler, Kit Lawrenson, Graham Marshall, Hannah Patnick, Kevin Resley and Dave Williams. Special thanks go to the residents of Chapel Town, Sheffield City Council, Sheffield University and Sheffield Wednesday football club.