Podcast appearances and mentions of edward stephens

Edward Stephens and Keith Raynor interview the one and only Matty Tsang, head coach of the USA World Games team! They then preview the upcoming Northwest Challenge and how the college season is shaping up.Watch Northwest Challenge!Catch Up on the 2025 College season! Make sure to listen to the Deep Look subscribers-only bonus segment, Out the Back, where Edward and Keith discuss the biggest chokes in ultimate!

Keith is joined by Edward Stephens to reveal this year's Club Players of the Year! After the break, Charlie and Keith interview Fury players and multiple-time Club Champions, Anna Thompson and Cree Howard.

Keith is Joined by Edward Stephens to discuss the exciting conclusion of the World Ultimate Championships and the implications for the broader context of international ultimate. After the break, they touch on results from the Pro Championships and some sectionals results.

Keith is joined by guest host Edward Stephens to discuss the seedings and pools for the World Ultimate Championships, as well as a preview of the upcoming Elite-Select Challenge! But first, Alex Rubin makes an appearance to recap the upset-filled UFA divisional finals weekend.

Keith Raynor and guest host Edward Stephens recap the Premier Ultimate League Championship weekend as well as the Detroit Mechanix' first win in 7 years. The two also dip into the club season and discuss some of the early roster releases!

Charlie and Keith are joined by Jake Thorne and Edward Stephens to discuss the US National team tryouts for the World Ultimate Championships. Who impressed and who fell flat? Tune in LIVE on Youtube March 12th at 12PM Eastern!Deep Look is sponsored by Sunset Lake CBD! Use coupon code “deeplook” for 20% off your order.Deep Look is also sponsored by Tokay Ultimate! 

Deep Look goes live on YouTube for the first time! Tune in to hear from Senior Writer Edward Stephens about the action at Florida Warm Up. Later Keith and Charlie check in on the UFA's new Super Series as well as previewing the upcoming QCTU and D3 Grand Prix!

Keith is joined by Edward Stephens, and together they run down the big takeaways from PAUC. Then they dive in to the 2023 Top 25 Club Player rankings to look at how they would have been influenced by Nationals and beyond.

Keith goes over a bit of the news from the ultimate world before Edward Stephens joins the show to discuss the scene in the early stages of the Pan-American Ultimate Championships. Then Jake Thorne comes on to give his impressions from the U20 US National Team West tryouts.

Charlie Eisenhood and Keith Raynor went live in the Ultiworld Discord and brought on Edward Stephens and Jenna Weiner to react to the Day 2 prequarterfinal action at the 2023 D-I College Championships!

Charlie Eisenhood and Keith Raynor went live in the Ultiworld Discord and brought on Edward Stephens and Jenna Weiner to react to the Day 1 action at the 2023 D-I College Championships!

Charlie and Keith give their takes on the PUL's 2023 landscape based on the newly announced rosters. Then they are joined by Edward Stephens to talk about a very impactful Smoky Mountain Invite. After recapping Stanford Invite men's, they dive in to the women's tournament, and make their WUL picks for the 2023 season.

Charlie Eisenhood and Keith Raynor recap the 2022 World Games with Ultiworld reporter Edward Stephens. They're then joined by Team Australia star handler Tom Tulett before diving into a big batch of listener mail.Visit www.sunsetlakecbd.com and use coupon code "deeplook" for 20% off.

Charlie Eisenhood and Keith Raynor bring on Ultiworld reporter Edward Stephens to preview this week's World Games and make their picks, before talking with Team USA players Kaela Helton and Claire Trop and coach Matty Tsang.Chapters0:00 Introduction2:15 World Games Preview45:50 Team USA's Helton, Trop, & Tsang1:09:00 Final Thoughts

In this grab bag episode, Pat and Tad touch on everything from Winter League finals to a college freshman listener's first High Tide. Then the guys welcome Edward Stephens on to break down, in excruciating detail, the event of the college season thus far: Mamabird gaslighting that dude on Brown into thinking he caught his own throw in the SMI championship.

Charlie Eisenhood and Keith Raynor have a BIG edition of Deep Look for you this week. They talk with Edward Stephens about the Smoky Mountain Invite and Jenna Weiner about the Stanford Invite before turning their attention to the start of the 2022 Western Ultimate League season. They also discuss Khalif El-Salaam's reported salary with the Atlanta Hustle and the PUL's new Sponsor-a-Player program.Chapters0:00 Introduction2:05 Smoky Mountain with Edward Stephens33:40 Final SMI Thoughts36:50 Stanford with Jenna Weiner1:05:40 Final Stanford Thoughts1:08:55 Stanford Invite Men's Results1:16:15 World Games Roster1:23:50 WUL Season & Picks1:37:10 AUDL/PUL News

Grey Nurses are mysterious figures that appear in hospitals all across the world, regardless of culture or region. Who are they and where do they come from? It's hard to say - but Adelaide, South Australia may be the key to finding out.   Follow the Podcast on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/crimesandwitchdemeanors Submit your feedback or personal stories to crimesandwitchdemeanors@gmail.com  Like The Podcast on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/crimesandwitchdemeanors  Episode Transcript: Available below the sources in the show notes Visit the website: https://www.crimesandwitchdemeanors.com    Sources: Alison Green's answer to Nurses, have you ever seen the ghost of a recently deceased patient? - Quora. (n.d.). Retrieved May 3, 2021, from https://www.quora.com/Nurses-have-you-ever-seen-the-ghost-of-a-recently-deceased-patient/answer/Alison-Green-104?ch=10&share=081d3000&srid=ua4ka   aquilareen. (2019). North Adelaide Calvary Hospital chapel [Photo]. https://www.flickr.com/photos/31967465@N04/48810339713/ at 3:54pm, 31st October 2017. (n.d.).   Aldershot's “Haunted” Military Hospital: Who Is The Grey Lady? Forces Network. Retrieved April 29, 2021, from https://www.forces.net/news/aldershots-haunted-military-hospital-who-grey-lady   Austin Health: The ghosts that roam our hospitals. (n.d.). Retrieved April 29, 2021, from https://www.austin.org.au/ghoststhatroamourhospitals/   GREY LADY OF NORTH ADELAIDE CITY'S BEST GHOST STORY. (1929, October 17). Register News-Pictorial (Adelaide, SA : 1929 - 1931), 30.   History and heritage. (n.d.). Calvary Health Care. Retrieved May 8, 2021, from https://www.calvarycare.org.au/about/heritage/   Museum, O. (2017, September 14). 30 Nurses Share their Most Blood-Curdling Hospital Ghost Stories. The Occult Museum. http://www.theoccultmuseum.com/nurses-share-hospital-ghost-stories/   Paranormal Investigation at the Former Royal Adelaide Hospital—Searching for the 'Grey Nurse'—Review of Adelaide's Haunted Horizons Ghost Tours, Adelaide, Australia. (n.d.). Tripadvisor. Retrieved April 29, 2021, from http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g255093-d6948983-r596869442-Adelaide_s_Haunted_Horizons_Ghost_Tours-Adelaide_Greater_Adelaide_South_Australi.html   Smith, K. & R.N. (2017, October 31). 8 Terrifying Ghost Stories as Shared by Nurses. Nurseslabs. https://nurseslabs.com/8-ghost-stories-shared-nurses/   Strangways Terrace. (n.d.-a). State Library of South Australia. Retrieved May 11, 2021, from https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+43308   Strangways Terrace. (n.d.-b). State Library of South Australia. Retrieved May 11, 2021, from https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+8517   Strangways Terrace. (n.d.-c). State Library of South Australia. Retrieved May 11, 2021, from https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+7428   Strangways Terrace, North Adelaide. (n.d.). State Library of South Australia. Retrieved May 11, 2021, from https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+1294   The Grey Nurse. (2011, May 10). Personal Ghost Stories. https://personalghoststories.wordpress.com/2011/05/10/the-grey-nurse/   The Grey Nurse Hospital Ghost Phenomena—Truth or Urban Myth? (2020, March 1). Haunted Horizons Adelaide. https://adelaidehauntedhorizons.com.au/grey-nurse-hospital-ghost/   William Younghusband. (2020). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William_Younghusband&oldid=941797985   Transcript: Hello, and welcome to another episode of Crimes & Witch-Demeanors!  The paranormal podcast where we go beyond rehashing wikipedia pages and delve into archival and historic resources to uncover the truth behind our favorite spooky tales.  I'm your host and sardonic librarian, Joshua Spellman. N Today's episode has been inspired by recent personal events dealing with hospitals and nurses and the title is of course inspired by Willam.  If you know, you know, if you don't, you don't.  And that's fine, some of us have our own little club.   Today's topic took me on quite the journey (as good research often tends to do): you begin one place and think you know where you're going to land but you wind up in an entirely unintended location.  And in this case — that's fine!  I mean, that's how the scientific process works.  Never try and prove your own hypothesis, be your own worst enemy — like I am in my love life.   But today I went from researching phenomenon spanning continents to zeroing in on the homes and hospitals of the beautiful coastal capital of South Australia—Adelaide,.  Not a bad place to end up, if you ask me!   So settle in, buckle up, we've got a long flight ahead. ____   “Alright, you've got this” Cassie said to herself in the mirror, splashing water on her face. This was her first night on the job as an evening nurse in a new facility — and through a series of unfortunate events — she was the only one on staff.  Something like this wouldn't happen back in the city, but things are different when you're in a small town…as Cassie would soon find out.   Making her way back out to the nurses station, Cassie paused to look around.  The hubbub and bustling activity of the day had all but faded away.  By this time, most of the patients were already asleep in their beds, leaving Cassie feeling unnaturally alone.  The place felt almost abandoned.  Even the smallest of sounds: a patient's distant cough, the water dripping from the leaky faucet, her footsteps on the ground, bounced and echoed through the tiled halls; rising and falling in a cacophony of silence.   BZZT!   Cassie nearly jumped out of her skin.  It was only the call button of a patient requiring assistance.  She made her way over to the patient's room “Hi there, I'm Cassie, the new evening nurse, what seems to be the matter” she glanced at the patient's chart “Miss Roebel?”    “Oh please dear, call me Trish” the old woman replied “I have the bladder of a small old lady despite being a spry young thing of 79” she chuckled “if you could please help me on over to the lavatory”   “Oh, of course!” Cassie replied, rushing to Trish's bedside to help her up.  She walked Trish over to the bathroom and onto the toilet.  BZZT!  Another patient needing assistance.  “Do you mind if I go and help them?  It can give you your privacy” Cassie asked.   “Oh, of course!” Trish replied.   “But don't try any funny business and try and get back to bed on your own” Cassie warned, mockingly wagging her finger at Trish.   “Aye, aye captain!” Trish retorted as Cassie made her way to assist the other patient.   He was an older gentleman who, while trying to get comfortable in bed, had accidentally ripped out his IV.  Cassie was still a little nervous and being new, it took her minute to locate the sterile needles.  After successfully administering the IV, which took a little longer than expected since the man was afraid of needles, Cassie rushed back over to Trish's room.   And that's when she found Trish…tucked neatly into bed, ready for sleep.  “Trish…” Cassie started, “I told you to wait for me so I could help you into bed.  You could have fallen!” “Oh…but I didn't!” Trish exclaimed, “the other nurse came in and helped me”   Confused, Cassie asked with skepticism “The other nurse?”   “The one in the grey uniform, with the hat”   “Ah, yes.  Of course” Cassie replied, not wanting to alarm the old woman “Goodnight Trish” she said as she turned off her light.   As Cassie made her way back into the hall, the phone at the nurse's station began to ring.  She rushed over to answer, “Hello, Valley County medical center, Cassie speaking”   “Oh, hi Cassie!  This is Frida, the day nurse, I just wanted to check in and make sure everything is going alright before I headed to sleep, my apologies that we're so short staffed”   “Oh, hello Frida!  Yes, yes, everything is going alright…but did you happen to have someone else come in to help work my shift?  I just came back from a patient who-“   Frida cut her off, “Oh…so you've already seen her then?”   “Seen…who?”   “Oh, never mind.” Said Frida, “Just something silly.  Anyways, have a good night, please call if anything urgent comes up”   “Of course, thanks for checking in.  Goodnight!” Cassie said, hanging up the phone.  What was she on about?  But Cassie didn't have time to mull it over as she heard the echo of shuffling of feet.  Another patient out of bed?    Cassie got up from the nurses station and peered around the corner.  There was someone at the end of the long hall.  Cassie squinted to see clearer in the dim light, was that Trish?  “Trish!” Cassie scolded, walking closer “I told you not to get out of bed on your own”   As she made her way closer to the figure she realized it was a nurse.  She was dressed in grey from head to toe, with a funny old-fashioned hat.  The nurse nodded to Cassie with a wry smile and winked as she tilted her cap.  Then, suddenly the woman turned on her heel, walked straight into the adjoining wall and vanished.   ___   Stories like Cassie's are not unfamiliar to nurses — regardless of culture or region.  Benign nurse figures are often seen roaming hospitals across the world and are referred to as Grey Nurses or Grey ladies because of the color of their uniforms.    Are these apparitions the spirits of departed healthcare workers who loved their jobs so much in life that they carry on in death? Which I find hard to believe…while there are many great nurses out there on the front lines saving us from the pandemic I immediately think of all my high school bullies who can barely spell catheter let alone insert one who are now probably all angels of death…   Which is actually a great segway while throwing some subtle shade at former cheerleaders—maybe grey nurses are not ghosts at all but instead are inhuman spirits taking on a familiar form, who seek to comfort and care for our sick and dying.  I guess that's literally the definition an angel?  Well, not the kind that are concentric spinning rings of fire with seventeen glowing eyes that are so horrifying that gazing upon them them will wreck your feeble human mind…you know like kind of angels in the Bible.  But you know, grey nurses are like the hallmark, Touched By an Angel type that Christians believe in despite their holy book describing them as horrific creatures.   But I digress.    While we may not have all the answers to these questions, we can surely try and answer them.   Despite being a worldwide paranormal phenomenon, my research kept circling back to hospitals in one city: Adelaide.  Specifically, the former Adelaide Royal Hospital, now known as Lot Fourteen and Austin Hospital.   Unlike the Windsor Hotel from last week, Austin Hospital has an entire webpage devoted to stories from staff about their ghostly grey nurse.   This following story is from their former Divisional Director of Cancer and Neurosciences, Cherie Cheshire…which, by the way, is an amazingly alliterative name.  If you're looking to name a character in a book you're writing I suggest you snatch that name up before somebody else takes it!  Anyway, here is her story:   “We were supposed to be three nurses on night shift, but we were short staffed and only had two. One patient named Carol had complete paralysis due to MS. She could not take a drink of water herself however suffered from terrible dry mouth. So, the nursing staff attended to her at least hourly to help her sip some water, even overnight. On this shift we were flat out. At around 9.30pm I filled Carol's one litre jug with iced water and gave her a drink. It then got very busy and I didn't manage to go back to her room until midnight. When I did, she only had half a jug of water. She told me the other nurse had been in several times and helped her drink. I knew this wasn't right however checked with the other nurse who said she had not been in the room. When I asked Carol about who helped her with her water again, she said it was the older agency nurse in the old-fashioned grey dress…”   This next story from the former director of Nursing and former ICU Unit Manager, Jen Hancock, served as the inspiration to the narrative portion of today's episode:   “While working nights on the old 6A in Heidelberg House, the buzzer rang and a lady needed a pan. I took it to her and asked her to buzz when finished. Ten minutes later, there was no buzz, so l went to check. She was lying down in bed half asleep, curtains pulled back. She told me that the other nurse in the grey uniform with a veil had taken it and made her comfortable. I was working with a male Enrolled Nurse. I asked the Registered Nurse who was between the three wards in Heidelberg House, if she knew anyone in a different uniform. She didn't. I was later told it was a common occurrence in Heidelberg House and that patients had often described the grey nurse.”   Other nurses reported ghostly occurrences like floating utensils, a hallways that is always ice cold at night, and seeing the grey nurse turn a corner and disappear.   The former Royal Adelaide Hospital, which I believe has been converted or demolished in favor of residential and commercial space, also had tales of the Grey nurse.    I tried to do some digging, but there isn't much to go on with these stories: no name, no cause of death, no era, no nothing.   However, I did manage to dig up an old newspaper article about a ghost story that has been circulating for at least a century and a half: the Grey Lady of Adelaide.  This specter is known as the first ghost of Adelaide…which is a little Eurocentric considering there were probably many Aboriginal ghosts prior to the colonization of the area but I digress… the color association here is interesting. Could this Grey Lady and the grey nurses be one in the same?   The ghost of the Grey Lady was said to haunt Younghusband Mansion.  I was curious where this mansion was located — was it in the vicinity of one of these hospitals?  Or perhaps it was demolished and one of the aforementioned hospitals built over top.   I found my answer in the October 17, 1929 issue of The Register News-Pictorial. It reads thusly:     GREY LADY OF NORTH ADELAIDE - CITY'S BEST GHOST STORY And There Was Another In A Castle WhoLeft Illicit Still Behind   ROMANTIC GHOST WHO SAT IN CELLAR SHE haunted the Younghusband mansion, this Grey Lady of North Adelaide, and in the basement each night could be seen, 60 years and less ago, sitting in her chair in her own particular cellar. Memory recalls only that much of this spirit with the romantic title, but when the Nursing Sisters of Calvary Hospital became owners of the Younghusband mansion, they closed the Grey Lady's cellar. And the Grey Lady went out of memory. The Archbishop of Adelaide (Dr. Spence), when he laid the foundation stone of a convent home for the Nursing Sisters of the Calvary Hospital, North Adelaide, revived, perhaps, Adelaide's two sole ghost stories.   He recalled that the sisters never saw the Grey Lady but the story, no doubt, added to their discomfort. The acre on which Calvary Hospital stands was first owned by Robert Gouger, the State's first Colonial Secretary. He, too, owned land near the present Gouger street, where he built his home, and there were buried his wife and child. This is the foundation of the story of the Grey Lady, it is thought. However illogical might be the idea of the North Adelaide property being haunted, the story grew, and was known up to 29 years ago, when the Nursing Sisters took over the property from the Baker family. When the old house was pulled down to give place to the present modern structure at Calvary Hospital, the story gained another lease of life.       I wanted to learn a little bit more about this mansion and it led me down…quite the path.  If you follow the podcast on instagram @crimesandwitchdemeanors then you already know where this is going.    The article wasn't very clear on whether Calvary Hospital was the mansion, replaced the mansion, or if the mansion was just used as a convent for the Nuns of Calvary Hospital.   In trying to answer these questions, I stumbled across the blog of a man named Allen Tiller.  Who, if you've seen the original Teen Titans cartoon, is a dead-ringer for the villain Control Freak.  He is quote “a historian, genealogist, author, paranormal investigator, and the 2017 emerging South Australian Historian of the Year.”   Quite the decorated man! Now, although his website looks like it was plucked straight from Xanga, awful div transparencies and all, it was useful because it led me to his book, The Haunts of Adelaide: History, Mystery, and the Paranormal REVISED EDITION.  The revised part is in all caps so you know it's important.    However, I'm grateful for his book because it includes a chapter on the Younghusband Mansion - for which there is virtually no digital resources on.  I'm just glad I have Kindle unlimited so I didn't have to pay for it.  The entire introduction read like a thread of rage-tweets lambasting the prior publisher.  Maybe not the best look, Allen.  Save it for twitter.  Not the book.  It kind of diminishes what credibility you earned.  But I'm not the 2017 Emerging South Australian Historian of the Year so you know, I should probably keep my big mouth shut.   Here's what I've gleaned for his book:   The parcel of land Younghusband mansion was built on was originally purchased tin 1837 by Robert Cock during the first land sale held in Adelaide.  Later, Cock sold the land to the first colonial secretary of South Australia: Robert Gouger.   Gouger bought the land because he was under the impression that its high elevation would help ease the pain of his ailing wife, Harriet, who was suffering from tuberculosis.  They erected  a modest wooden cabin on the land but sadly the high elevation proved to offer no health benefits and Harriet, along with her infant child, died.  Gouger buried both his wife and child on the land, though they were later moved and interred at West Terrace cemetery.   This history is what led to the story of the Grey Lady as outlined in the news article.  However, its legacy doesn't end there.  In 1842 the land was sold to Edward Stephens and then again in 1846 to William Younghusband.   William Younghusband was an Englishman who made a killing investing in the Burra Mines and his house reflected his wealth.  Younghusband Mansion at one point was once known as the finest home in Adelaide…though that may be because it was the only one of its kind in the area.  The mansion was opulent and grand: it had a ballroom, ornate gardens, secret rooms, underground tunnels, a unique iron fence, and it was outfitted head to toe in cedar.   After Younghusband's death in 1865, the house changed hands quite a few times before the the lease came to rest in the hands of Miss Isabella Baker in 1883.  Miss Baker had plans to convert the home into a private hospital but she could not do so until the owned the property herself.  It took some time, but after six years she finally convinced the remaining trustee to relinquish the property. The mansion became the living quarters of the nuns.  The two rooms facing the streets were used as bedrooms, behind them was a box room, below a large basement, and there was another room that had been sealed up. Behind the seal was a room that had not been finished during the Younghusband's occupation of the home.  It was full of construction materials, dust, and rocks.  During the time the Younghusband's stayed in the house, many people noticed the sealed up room, and because many people knew about Gouger's wife and her baby that died on the property, the legend of the Grey Lady began.  The story really took off in 1869 when a newspaper published a story about a ghost spotted sitting in a chair in the basement.  Younghusband mansion was eventually torn down and Calvary Hospital was built on the grounds.  Could the Grey Lady have become one of the grey nurses?  Or is her entity altogether separate? The former Royal Adelaide Hospital was one of the biggest hotspots of grey nurse encounters.  Allegedly, a whole floor of the building was closed due to paranormal activity in the 1980's, though no evidence of this exists.  It seems a little farfetched. As with most grey nurses, her identity was unknown but her story follows the usual pattern: she was the wife of a doctor who died on the operating table, she died in a car accident on her way to work, she was pushed down the stairs by a mental health patient, or she accidentally delivered a fatal overdose and committed suicide. The Royal Adelaide Hospital has moved to a new building and the old one was partially demolished and partially renovated and converted into shops, apartments, and the new location for the Australian Space Agency. Construction workers on the site witnessed paranormal activity.  Allegedly, a number of workers sent messages to our good friend Allen Tiller describing their encounters.  Frequently, a “person in blue” was spotted on the upper floors watching the construction staff work.  When they called security to find the person, since it's dangerous to be on an active construction site, no one was found.  This happened on numerous occasions. Now again.  My brain always goes to speedy squatters, and no I'm not talking about me the day after I have chipotle.  An abandoned building is the perfect place for someone to seek shelter with little risk of running into anyone. Regardless, the construction workers believe it to be a ghost and the blue outfit could possibly be scrubs.  I will say that oftentimes grey can appear blue in certain circumstances.  White ladies, men in black hats, and grey nurses…are they distinct spirits who choose to appear in these forms?  Or are they archetypes that have been burned into our collective subconscious?  It's safe to say we may never learn the identities of these homogenous haunts, if they are ghosts at all.  But they do make for fun stories to tell in the dark. Next week's episode is going to be my personal ghost stories and will follow a different format than usual.  Next week is my birthday week, and I'm also getting the second dose of my vaccine so I'm planning on feeling icky for a few days and would rather not have to write a few thousand words with a fever!  So if that interests you, you have something to look forward to! If you know anyone who would enjoy the show — please share it with them!  Word of mouth, and a pyramid scheme, is the best way to grow our family of bibli-ahh-graphers.  Follow the podcast's instagram for goodies, and of course, if you're listening on overcast hit that little star icon, if you're an Apple fiend, please leave a kind review! And remember, if you find yourself in a hospital…keep your eyes peeled for a grey nurse, never badmouth previous publishers in your revised edition..its' quite unbecoming…and as always, stay spooky.  Bye~

Keith Raynor is joined by Daniel Prentice, Edward Stephens, and Colin Clauset to look back at the big stories of the Pro Championships and at this regular season, as well as project forward towards Nationals. We touch on the women's (6:44), men's (26:25), and mixed (44:40) divisions.

Keith hosts another episode, and talks U24 Worlds with a special guest from Germany (2:55), before turning to USAU club to discuss all the craziness at Pro-Elite Challenge. He's joined by Edward Stephens to discuss the men's division (16:27), Colin Clauset to chat mixed (30:55), and Graham Gerhart to go over women's (46:52).

Join Slidewhistle, Aaron, and Immunization as they talk about the World of Warcraft! This week our time warp is being held hostage by SweatyGumbo so we couldn't play it, instead we found a brand new game that was just begging to be used! We also play catch up on the 15th anniversary box, classic announcement date, and new cinematic (they happened right after we recorded last week.) You'll also get to "meat" the primo sausage vendor of Boralus...EDWARD STEPHENS!   Credit to Purple Planet for their song Stalking The Prey, which was used for The 100,000 Copper Necropolis gameplay song

Edward Stephens is director of the global brokerage at the Angel Investment Network, where he’s worked since 2010. In that time, he’s helped raise money for more than 400+ start-ups, including What3Words and Simba Mattresses. He also hosts a podcast called The Startup Microdose, which he started with a colleague. Guests have included the founders of Huel, Depop and Killing Kittens.   “Something that was meant to be liquid, easy, cash in, rolling the business through, turned to absolute hell.” – Edward Stephens   Worst investment ever Young deal-maker wants a piece of the action In 2012, Ed was 25 years old and had had two years of deal-making already at Angel Investment Network, getting a feel for what a good deal looked like. It was very appealing to look at what investors are looking at and feed off their excitement. Until that point, he didn't have any money of his own to invest but he felt it was strange to be deal broking without having any real experience of the pain points for investors who were having their capital put at risk and not understanding it. He started thinking about joining in all the fun. Sets eyes on attractive lending business idea Ed was working on a deal on a lending business called “Cash until Friday”, that was looking great. The entrepreneur liked Ed, and the investors were really excited. It was to be readied for trading on AIM, a secondary market of the London Stock Exchange. One big investor was putting in 500,000 UK pounds, so Ed joined in with 2,500 and he persuaded his father to invest 10,000 pounds. Conflict arises almost as soon as money goes in Almost as soon as they did, the main investor and the entrepreneur had a falling out. They were accusing each other of dark practices and the investor was adding strange fees onto the listing statements of the shell company. The investor also started to add consulting fees for the entrepreneur to pay to regain his investment and then wanted to pay for his investment in instalments in some kind of “weird equity clawback”. Sky darkens further Meanwhile, the AIM market looked as though it was on the verge of collapsing. The type of business relies on operating – lending cash – and the investor was angry and wanted to start lobbying other investors to get a court order to stop the business trading. If the business did so, it would die and be scrapped for the remains and the spoils divided. Battle lines drawn The ex-army entrepreneur started to put up the barricades and wanted to play hardball and it appeared as though Ed and his father were not only not going to get their equity in the business but that they would lose their entire outlay. They had not been given share certificates, the entrepreneur had their cash, and they had no means of getting it back. Deal’s off but father offers a life lesson  Ed didn’t sleep for a week because of feelings of failure, the loss of his own money and that of his father, but his father reminded him: “This is life. Shit happens.” His calm parent advised that they sit down with the entrepreneur and appeal to his goodwill. The entrepreneur agreed to service their capital back to them as a 7% loan. Chasing payments adds insult to injury While they had to chase the entrepreneur’s payments on a monthly basis, and sometimes the guy disappeared for months at a time, they got their equity back at 7% interest. In the end, it wasn’t that bad a result. The AIM market survived, there were no lawsuits, and the company was still trading as some kind of bridging-loan company. But Ed says the shocking thing was that it went bad so quickly. And it took such a long time to get the money back that even getting the repayments ended up being a nightmare. So it was a big relief when the last payment was made. However, the opportunity cost of capital, the stress to everybody for the 7% definitely wasn’t worth it. While it definitely built up some strength in Ed, it was “really unpleasant”.   Some lessons Stick to what you know. This situation had Ed playing outside his field of expertise. He does add however:   “But don’t limit yourself; you can always explore new things.” – Edward Stephens Don’t invest in what you don’t care about. If it does go wrong, then you find it hard to reconcile the loss of time and energy that has gone into such a shallow purpose. Ed admitted that he was just chasing money and had no real interest in the activity. Create a check-in plan, a period of time you allow yourself in which you can’t look at your investment so you don’t have it under a microscope. When you’re in a bad investment everything can look bad. Looking at an investment every day, good or bad, will drive you crazy.   Andrew’s takeaways It’s fine to make a play in new areas. Try different things but do that with a very small amount of capital, particularly in the beginning. Be prepared for external events. Most people forget to think about this when they invest that there are all manner of unpredictable external events that can happen, such as the oil price shooting up or dropping cataclysmically, interest rates climbing, or the government changes policy. Such things can’t be predicted but we must expect that they can happen, and better still, have contingency plans in place when they do. Bringing family into any investment is hard. Sometimes we go into ventures blindly, thinking we’re doing a favor for somebody in our family. But in the end, it can be extremely dangerous. However, if it doesn’t work out, if you need to close a business, or if the investment doesn’t go according to plan, do not feel too bad for the investors and yourself if you have made clear from the beginning that they were investing in a high-risk, start-up enterprise. Sadly, sometimes people are going to lose, but that is what investing is about and that is what is involved when investing in start-up type companies.   Actionable advice Strip away the money side of the investment. Stick to what you know and what you enjoy being invested in. Otherwise, it doesn’t really make sense.   No.1 goal for the next 12 months Ed wants to grow his group’s podcast, The Startup Microdose, by talking to some more entrepreneurs “because it is really great to learn from people and their experiences”, and because he sees it as a legacy activity. He would also like to take the Angel Investment Network to further growth on the world stage and start to focus attention on impact-related investments, involve more women investors and get more and more people into the discussion worldwide.   Parting words “There is a lot of uncertainty in the world … I think in the face of it, it’s pretty good if everybody takes some individual agency over the decisions we make, because I think, in aggregate, if we make the right decisions starting from us and don’t feel like we are victims of external circumstances, I think the world will generally become a better place bit by bit. Too many people feel like they’re bobbing around in the ocean, with politics preying on them and that is true to some degree, but we are still empowered to make our own choices and vote with our capital where possible.”   You can also check out Andrew’s books How to Start Building Your Wealth Investing in the Stock Market My Worst Investment Ever 9 Valuation Mistakes and How to Avoid Them Transform Your Business with Dr.Deming’s 14 Points    Connect with Edward Stephens  LinkedIn  Twitter   Startup Microdose Twitter   Startup Microdose Podcast   Email  Connect with Andrew Stotz astotz.com  LinkedIn Facebook  Instagram Twitter  YouTube My Worst Investment Ever Podcast 

Charlie Eisenhood and Keith Raynor discuss the end of the undefeated streaks for both UNC Darkside and the UCSD Psychos before talking with Ultiworld reporters Edward Stephens and Katie Raynolds about Easterns (11:04) and Northwest Challenge (41:39), respectively. Later in the show, Keith and Charlie debate the state of the USAU rankings (1:03:25) before doing a preview of the upcoming AUDL season (1:27:32).

Asheville's YMI Cultural Center celebrates 120 years since it opened in 1893 as The Young Men's Institute. Founded by African Americans Isaac Dickson and Dr. Edward Stephens and funded by George Vanderbilt, it housed a kindergarten, adult schools, a library, drugstore, doctor's offices, swimming pool and more. Historian Dr. Darrin Waters and YMI Director Sharon West share its history.

"How utterly the alabaster spreads / to shade the coming light." Good poetry gets better with background sound and music. Here are two poems: "Schuylkill Smoketacks at Sunrise," and "The Town Historian," written by my friend Edward Stephens, and remixed by me.