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This week we're talking about Renny Harlin's The Exorcist: The Beginning because we're contractually obligated to due to the format of the show. Mike and Stephen are here to talk about hot moms, the 1995 coming of age movie Angus, (featuring not one but TWO Oscar winners), the Angus soundtrack, what makes up the weakest entry in the Back to the Future series, whether or not Paul Schrader directed Clifford the Big Red Dog, the latest addition to our soundboard and so much more. All right, we talk about the movie a little bit, and ask the question whether it is better to be a serviceable, feels like it's made for television feature, or a wild swing and massive miss like The Heretic? Plus, we ask the question: Has there ever been a successful exorcism in any of The Exorcist movies? Ultimately, The Beginning is “The Goofus” to Dominion's “Gallant”: a big, dumb, spectacle of a movie with poorly rendered, early aughts CGI that passes a couple hours but has all the lasting power of a stick of Juicy Fruit gum. If you like what you're listening to make sure to subscribe wherever you get your podcast feeds. Please take a moment to rate and review us on the Apple Podcast app, or rate us on the Spotify app. Reviews and five star ratings help new listeners find us every day, and we greatly appreciate the feedback and support. Check out our website for easy access to our full catalog of shows, with hundreds of hours of free content. You can search the catalog, leave a review and even leave us feedback all from the site. Go to www.podandthependulum.com to check it out. If you have the means, consider becoming a patron today and support the show. Patreon members get exclusive full length episodes, audio fan commentaries, exclusive mini-sodes and more. Join today at patreon.com/podandthependulum.

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for February 13, 2025 is: gallant • GAL-unt • adjective Someone or something described as gallant is very courageous and brave. Gallant is also sometimes used to mean “large and impressive” (as in “a gallant ship”), or to describe someone who has or shows politeness and respect for women. // Though they failed to reach the summit, the mountaineering team made a gallant attempt. See the entry > Examples: “He turned to go, and was promptly whacked across the backside by Miss Chokfi. ‘Ouch?' he said. ‘What was that for?' She was standing up very straight and gallant, though it still left her a foot and a half shorter than him, with the office stapler ready by her hand. ‘That was for not stopping him,' she said. ‘Was there anything else you need?' ‘Not a thing,' said Barrow, and tipped his hat to her.” — Francis Spufford, Cahokia Jazz: A Novel, 2024 Did you know? If you're familiar with the long-running comic strip “Goofus and Gallant,” created by Garry Cleveland Myers and published in the monthly children's magazine Highlights, you likely have a particularly good sense of the meaning of the adjective gallant. In the comic, the character of Goofus demonstrates to young readers all sorts of bad habits and behaviors, while Gallant provides examples of proper conduct and comportment when in circumstances similar to those of his ill-mannered counterpart. The characters' names were, of course, chosen with purpose. We record several different senses of gallant and all are compliments. Someone described as gallant may be smartly dressed, courteous and chivalrous, or valiant and brave. Goofus, bless his heart, is none of these things (while we do not define the adjective goofus, the Oxford English Dictionary does: “stupid, foolish”). Perhaps ironically, gallant comes from the Middle French verb galer, meaning “to squander in pleasures”; such squandering is something Goofus is likely to do, and Gallant never would.

This week, Goofus and Gallant discuss some trailers for The Electric State and The Monkey, the upcoming Beatles 64 documentary, Wolverine and Deadpool potentially hosting the Oscars, the Pokemon TeraLeak, as well as Check 'Ems of Universal Monster movies, the cinematic masterpiece The Mummy, Disney villains, My Hero Academia, DanDaDan, Castlevania Nocturne AND MORE! Hey! Do you like our logo? Do you also like t-shirts, mugs, and other cool stuff? Well, now you can get a shirt or mug with our logo! Head to our TeePublic (https://www.teepublic.com/user/nerdoverloadnow) page to check them out!

The football team has added a couple new recruits, there's a particularly ridiculous new lawsuit and college football, and Terence Shannon is acquitted. We discuss it all, and then take your (week 3!) Twitter questions. Join in for the last week @Spartan_Pod on X (lol) and Instagram.

“You thought that I'd be dead without you, but I'm still here.” Some moments in life are fleeting (like seeing Brock Davies in a pair of heels or getting a rash from chub rub). Other moments stay with us forever (like when Kristin fumbled an easy trivia question and has eternal regret…or when Miranda was forced to run a 7 MINUTE MILE). Life is funny like that. Some might call it Hot-n-Cold. One minute you are eating sugared peanut butter bread and the next minute it's a bland cup of Yoplait with a side of tasteless avocado. (Add it to the list of icks!) Thankfully, Kristin has The Little Mermaid to guide her lifestyle choices and Miranda has a .01 Semaglutide vial keeping her in check. All that to say…will you be joining our ACOTAR book club or what? Happy Tuesday, PodcATTS! (TW: Eating Disorders) Learn more about the All That To Say Podcast by visiting www.podcatts.com.  Want even more from Miranda and Kristin? Subscribe to our Patreon for just $6/month. Enjoy bonus episodes and exclusive ATTS content you won't find anywhere else! Looking for something we mentioned? Shop our recommendations on our Amazon page! CALL US on the Honesty Hotline (HoHo!) anytime! 877-914-6464. We want to hear from you. Leave an anonymous message to be featured on an upcoming episode! Maybe you need to get something off your chest or need our honest opinion on something? We want to hear it! Follow us on Instagram at @allthattosay_podcast. We love meeting new people, so leave a comment or better yet...share the love with your friends! You can also find our weekly podcast videos on our YouTube channel! If you love our content, be sure to like, subscribe, download, rate, and review! We hope to continue bringing this unhinged FIRE CONTENT every week. xoxo

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When an unsuspecting woman stops at a remote gas station in the dead of night, she's locked inside and forced to listen to a podcast with questionable taste and morals. To survive she must not only scoff at their jokes, but also figure out who would actually listen to this and why. On Episode 587 of Trick or Treat Radio we discuss the Shudder Original film Night of the Hunted from director Franck Khalfoun! We also talk about music to summon a demon to, our favorite fruit spreads, and we get a tiny bit political and discuss real world events. So grab your bulletproof vest, take your favorite pharmaceutical, and strap on for the world's most dangerous podcast!Stuff we talk about: Real life horrors, Goofus and Gallant, putting the dick back in addicted, My Demon Lover, jelly jam or preserves?, petroleum jelly, Urine Flavored R. Jelly, Dokken, Guac and Shock, PLE, forbidden notes, Allegoria, Lords of Salem, The Gate, Deathgasm, Studio 666, Constantine TV Show, Sleepy Hollow, Hannibal, Fat Boys, Splattered Membrane, Matt Ryan, Garth Ennis, watersports in the shower, Call of Duty, Goldeneye, WCW vs. The World, Psycho Patrick, Lust for Life, Grand Theft Auto III, RIP Castle Wolfenstein, Richard Roundtree, From Dusk Till Dawn, Shaft, Se7en, Fred Williamson, Allen Funt, What Do You Say To A Naked Lady?, Fred Williamson, pupil shaming, Ocular Improvements, Alexandre Aja, Maniac (2012), Joe Spinell, William Lustig, Camille Rowe, Tom Hardy, Locke, gun control, strictly American problems, showing both sides of a situation, single location thriller, V/H/S/85, GODISNOWHERE, Italian Insurance Agency, pharmaceutical companies, Holy Shit!, Mt. Dew, Pringles, Spaghetti-Os, The Mist, American Beauty, MacGyver, Three Kings, Dark Clerks, leaving your phone in the car, Down Range, When Evil Lurks, Tales From Darkside, Halloween III: Season of the Witch, Tom Atkins, Danhausen, Joe Bob Briggs, Demons II, All Hallows Evil, Art the Clown, Transylvania 6-5000, Michael Richards, and Go Funt Yourself!Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/trickortreatradioJoin our Discord Community: discord.trickortreatradio.comSend Email/Voicemail: mailto:podcast@trickortreatradio.comVisit our website: http://trickortreatradio.comStart your own podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=386Use our Amazon link: http://amzn.to/2CTdZzKFB Group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/trickortreatradioTwitter: http://twitter.com/TrickTreatRadioFacebook: http://facebook.com/TrickOrTreatRadioYouTube: http://youtube.com/TrickOrTreatRadioInstagram: http://instagram.com/TrickorTreatRadioSupport the show

As a child, I was asked to do chores around the house.  I was asked, and then didn't do them.  But, as a child I enjoyed watching my dad plant the garden, pick fruit from the tree, and mow the lawn with the cylinder blade push lawn mower we had.  I studied how he mowed and collected the grass on the hottest of summer days.  Although I neglected to do chores most of the time, one summer day, when I was around 10 or 11, I decided to work in the yard and be like my father.  My dad was at work, and my mom was not home.  I decided to help mow the lawn.  I got the lawn mower out of the garage and started cutting back and forth across the front lawn, just like my dad.  In part, this illustration may serve to help understand our parable for today.

How badly do we all need to expand our type vocabulary‽ This episode starts with Skeleton fonts, a typeface that brings the glom, creative pixelation, and the Goofus and Gallant of font releases, and then the guys rank the definitive* list of type words, phrases, and concepts that everyone should know. Josh just won't let you forget about Blackletter fonts and Kyle is all about those ligatures, but it turns out you probably won't impress people by being able to tell the difference between a dash and a hyphen. And then the 90s came around (heavy sigh)...*Absolutely not definitiveSupport the Words of Type Kickstarter here!Font releases highlighted in this episode:FT Lambert from FrosTypeRoutine from Blaze Type Kyoshi from Alanna Munro Lardent and Dopple from Colophon FoundrySupport the Interrogang and help us expand what Proof&Co. and the Interrogang have to offer!Subscribe to TypeCraft, our sister podcast, for hour long interviews and visual companions from some of the industry leaders in type!Subscribe to the Weekly Newsletter or The Concierge Newsletter for all the independent type news that's fit to email!Get your 2022 Annual Report and Almanac, our data-driven look at the world of independent typography in 2022!Support the show

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On this episode: Elizabeth, Zak and Jamilah help a listener decide how to support her skirt-loving eight-year-old-son — and how to get his hesitant grandmother to come around. We also go over some ‘triumphs and fails' from the past week — and then, if you're sticking around for Slate Plus, we explore the history of the comic strip Goofus and Gallant… and what 80 years can tell us about the evolution of parenthood. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows—you'll also be supporting the work we do here on Mom and Dad are Fighting. Sign up now at slate.com/momanddadplus to help support our work. Join us on Facebook and email us at momanddad@slate.com to ask us new questions, tell us what you thought of today's show, and give us ideas about what we should talk about in future episodes. You can also call our phone line: (646) 357-9318.  Podcast produced by Rosemary Belson and Maura Currie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode: Elizabeth, Zak and Jamilah help a listener decide how to support her skirt-loving eight-year-old-son — and how to get his hesitant grandmother to come around. We also go over some ‘triumphs and fails' from the past week — and then, if you're sticking around for Slate Plus, we explore the history of the comic strip Goofus and Gallant… and what 80 years can tell us about the evolution of parenthood. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows—you'll also be supporting the work we do here on Mom and Dad are Fighting. Sign up now at slate.com/momanddadplus to help support our work. Join us on Facebook and email us at momanddad@slate.com to ask us new questions, tell us what you thought of today's show, and give us ideas about what we should talk about in future episodes. You can also call our phone line: (646) 357-9318.  Podcast produced by Rosemary Belson and Maura Currie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode: Elizabeth, Zak and Jamilah help a listener decide how to support her skirt-loving eight-year-old-son — and how to get his hesitant grandmother to come around. We also go over some ‘triumphs and fails' from the past week — and then, if you're sticking around for Slate Plus, we explore the history of the comic strip Goofus and Gallant… and what 80 years can tell us about the evolution of parenthood. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows—you'll also be supporting the work we do here on Mom and Dad are Fighting. Sign up now at slate.com/momanddadplus to help support our work. Join us on Facebook and email us at momanddad@slate.com to ask us new questions, tell us what you thought of today's show, and give us ideas about what we should talk about in future episodes. You can also call our phone line: (646) 357-9318.  Podcast produced by Rosemary Belson and Maura Currie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we talk redundancies in pop culture. From completely interchangeable celebrity couples to nerdy, male actors, we discuss who we don't really need and who is the apex of their trope. Plus we settle who has the best fast food and we talk redundancies in pop culture.MENTIONS10-Year anni merch is only available until this Friday, July 7 at knoxandjamie.com/live. BFOTS have a 20% off coupon in Patreon here. Situation: AI images we didn't use for last week's episode Define: Stolen lunch money- there is a need for this type of thing / role / service / actor etc but who/what we traditionally associate with it has shifted.Pop culture redundancies- there was a need for this type of thing / role / service / actor etc but now it is no longer needed at all.Not needed: Scamanda | Frosted TipsTrope: Black best friend4/3: Toy Story 4 | Pirates 4 | MIB 4 | Indiana Jones 4 | Penny Dreadful (see also: Goofus and Gallant)Mentions: Dr. Hartman | Readers DigestChoose: Ryan Reynolds & Blake Lively | Orlando Bloom & Katy Perry | Ashton Kutcher & Mila Kunis | Justin Timberlake & Jessica Biel | Joaquin Phoenix & Rooney Mara | Dax Shepard & Kristen Bell | Blake Shelton & Gwen StefaniLineup: Christian Bale | Mahershala Ali | Pedro Pascal | Colin Ferrell | Cillian Murphy | Donald Glover | Tom Hardy | Jake Johnson | Oscar Isaac | Chris Pine | Brian Tyree Henry | Ryan Gosling | Joseph Gordon-Levitt | Steven Yeun | Andrew Garfield | Chiwetel Ejiofor | Adam Driver | Dev PatelChoose: Chris O'Dowd | Michael Cera | Justin Long | Mr. Bean | Brain | David Tennant | David Schwimmer | Jim Parsons | McLovin | Johnny Galecki | Jesse Eisenberg | Andrew Garfield (see also: red carpet, Batkid) | Daniel Radcliffe | Simon Pegg | Alfonso RiberioSee also: Tessemae's | Garlic Expressions | Dorothy Lynch | Raising Cane'sRed light mentions: The Bear S2 | LetterboxdBONUS SEGMENTOur Patreon supporters can get full access to this week's The More You Know news segment. Become a partner. This week we discussed:Vampire by Olivia RodrigoDune 2GREEN LIGHTSJamie: movies- Past Lives | Joy RideKnox: books- Clytemnestra by Constanza Casati | Aurora by David Koepp (movie)SHOW SPONSORSHONEY: Try Honey for free at joinhoney.com/popcastSubscribe to Episodes: iTunes | Android Subscribe to our Monthly Newsletter: knoxandjamie.com/newsletterShop our Amazon Link: amazon.com/shop/thepopcast | this week's featured itemFollow Us: Instagram | Twitter | FacebookSupport Us: Monthly Donation | One-Time Donation | SwagSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Join Merris and Lillian as they explore a variety of the worst cryptids ever. And most of them explode! Learn about the Hide Behind, the Goofus, and the fur bearing trout! Learn that none of them are scary, all of them are stupid, and one is so ugly it cries all the time which...relatableMerris's 40th birthday! Venmo: Lillian-Asterios, Cash App: $LillianAsterios, and paypal merrisasterios@gmail.comWishlist:  https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/27B33PGTM6XL6?ref_=wl_shareMerch, discord and more: https://linktr.ee/cruelteaSupport the show

Dregs of Craigs is here folks! We got a good one for ya! On this episode we discuss Hippy Parties and Turkeynapping, Goody Moana with the Devil, The Wandering Ronin Entrepreneur, Goofus & Gallant's Kama Sutra, and more! Find out more at https://dregs-of-craigs.pinecast.co Send us your feedback online: https://pinecast.com/feedback/dregs-of-craigs/7185fa89-b6c1-49c7-b50a-9de69e358f1e This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

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Jared, Oriana and Ned talk about Oriana's choice of topic: Gollum. For all the high adventure, heroics great and small and world-shattering consequences and much more that exists in Tolkien's legendarium, arguably the most fascinating character he created in the end is his most racked, ruined and miserable, first encountered as a mysterious slimy creature living and lurking in a subterranean lake with only one thing of particular value to his name. Tolkien's introduction of both Gollum and a magic ring into this world was, to borrow a phrase from the narrator of The Hobbit, a turning point in his career, the more when as he embarked on the writing that would result in The Lord of the Rings he realized he needed to rethink and redo the original, much more comically grotesque version of Gollum into a being living out any number of emotional and physical extremities at once. Arguably both this transformation and then the incorporation of this version of Gollum into his grand story became something he never quite got over, based on his various reactions over time as seen most clearly in his published letters on the subject. Why might the strongest scene for the entire Lord of the Rings be the simple gesture of Gollum tentatively reaching out to touch a sleeping Frodo on the way to Cirith Ungol? What is it about Tolkien's self retcon of what Gollum is at heart that is fascinating still? Does the unspoken backstory of Sméagol and Déagol's relationship suggest deep waters indeed, and how did Tolkien regard them both? And did Gollum really eat babies in the end or was that just something dreamed up by dirtbag elves?SHOW NOTES.Jared's doodle – just waiting on some fish as the endless, timeless years stretch on…Was there rain? There was rain. The HarperCollins Union strike looks to be over! Here's a press announcement.Like we said, rumors, no more, about Embracer and Warner Bros. Who knows.The BBC Repair Shop story is a treat.Just hanging around Tolkien and Gandalf in Warsaw.Lord of the Bins! Well, good luck.Gollum's touching of Frodo's knee should be portrayed more in fan art, but maybe we're not looking hard enough. But there is this at least.All letters quoted taken from the standard Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien collection. The letter to Eileen Elgar quoted later in the episode can be read in full here.Our episodes on Sam Gamgee and the Red Book of Westmarch.Andy Serkis's retelling on how he first considered the Gollum casting can be found in both the movie documentaries and his own book on the role.Admittedly that Cat in the Hat fish is a punk.Grendel? Fascinating and monstrous character…but not Gollum.John D. Rateliff's The History Of The Hobbit breaks down the history of the book from manuscript through its later editions, including the abandoned early 1960s rewrite.The Third Man is a great, great film. Were the elves spreading stories of atrocity propaganda? Well…Serkis himself sees Gollum through the lens of addiction, but the evidence that Tolkien himself had that in mind is scanty at best.The David Foster Wallace piece in question – one of several on tennis, his favorite sport – is “The String Theory.” (The exact quote: “It's the sort of love whose measure is what it's cost, what one's given up for it.”)Déagol, shadowy and still crucial.Yeah sure, Midsomer Murders, but really it's about Rosemary & Thyme as we say. And we do want that TV series we dream up.Goofus and Gallant forever. If you like.How associated is the phrase ‘unstuck in time' with Kurt Vonnegut? Quite a bit. And go go go Everything Everywhere All At Once! Surely it can win everything.Support By-The-Bywater through our network, Megaphonic, and hang out with us in a friendly Discord.

The Certified Tea Sippers are rally for all the “lame cousins” out there. Atlanta's episode “The Goof Who Sat by the Door” blew the crew's mind! “A Goofy Movie” was really the blackest movie of all time! The tea sippers pay tribute to Takeoff, wish Nelly a happy birthday, and the importance of the Louisiana ballot. Click play

About MikeBeside his duties as The Duckbill Group's CEO, Mike is the author of O'Reilly's Practical Monitoring, and previously wrote the Monitoring Weekly newsletter and hosted the Real World DevOps podcast. He was previously a DevOps Engineer for companies such as Taos Consulting, Peak Hosting, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and many more. Mike is originally from Knoxville, TN (Go Vols!) and currently resides in Portland, OR.Links Referenced: @Mike_Julian: https://twitter.com/Mike_Julian mikejulian.com: https://mikejulian.com duckbillgroup.com: https://duckbillgroup.com TranscriptAnnouncer: Hello, and welcome to Screaming in the Cloud with your host, Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, Corey Quinn. This weekly show features conversations with people doing interesting work in the world of cloud, thoughtful commentary on the state of the technical world, and ridiculous titles for which Corey refuses to apologize. This is Screaming in the Cloud.Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by our friends at AWS AppConfig. Engineers love to solve, and occasionally create, problems. But not when it's an on-call fire-drill at 4 in the morning. Software problems should drive innovation and collaboration, NOT stress, and sleeplessness, and threats of violence. That's why so many developers are realizing the value of AWS AppConfig Feature Flags. Feature Flags let developers push code to production, but hide that that feature from customers so that the developers can release their feature when it's ready. This practice allows for safe, fast, and convenient software development. You can seamlessly incorporate AppConfig Feature Flags into your AWS or cloud environment and ship your Features with excitement, not trepidation and fear. To get started, go to snark.cloud/appconfig. That's snark.cloud/appconfig.Corey: Forget everything you know about SSH and try Tailscale. Imagine if you didn't need to manage PKI or rotate SSH keys every time someone leaves. That'd be pretty sweet, wouldn't it? With Tailscale SSH, you can do exactly that. Tailscale gives each server and user device a node key to connect to its VPN, and it uses the same node key to authorize and authenticate SSH.Basically you're SSHing the same way you manage access to your app. What's the benefit here? Built in key rotation, permissions is code, connectivity between any two devices, reduce latency and there's a lot more, but there's a time limit here. You can also ask users to reauthenticate for that extra bit of security. Sounds expensive?Nope, I wish it were. Tailscale is completely free for personal use on up to 20 devices. To learn more, visit snark.cloud/tailscale. Again, that's snark.cloud/tailscaleCorey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud. I'm Cloud Economist Corey Quinn, and my guest is a returning guest on this show, my business partner and CEO of The Duckbill Group, Mike Julian. Mike, thanks for making the time.Mike: Lucky number three, I believe?Corey: Something like that, but numbers are hard. I have databases for that of varying quality and appropriateness for the task, but it works out. Anything's a database. If you're brave enough.Mike: With you inviting me this many times, I'm starting to think you'd like me or something.Corey: I know, I know. So, let's talk about something that is going to put that rumor to rest.Mike: [laugh].Corey: Clearly, you have made some poor choices in the course of your career, like being my business partner being the obvious one. But what's really in a dead heat for which is the worst decision is you've written a book previously. And now you are starting the process of writing another book because, I don't know, we don't keep you busy enough or something. What are you doing?Mike: Making very bad decisions. When I finished writing Practical Monitoring—O'Reilly, and by the way, you should go buy a copy if interested in monitoring—I finished the book and said, “Wow, that was awful. I'm never doing it again.” And about a month later, I started thinking of new books to write. So, that was 2017, and Corey and I started Duckbill and kind of stopped thinking about writing books because small companies are basically small children. But now I'm going to write a book about consulting.Corey: Oh, thank God. I thought you're going to go down the observability path a second time.Mike: You know, I'm actually dreading the day that O'Reilly asks me to do a second edition because I don't really want to.Corey: Yeah. Effectively turn it into an entire story where the only monitoring tool you really need is the AWS bill. That'll go well.Mike: [laugh]. Yeah. So yeah, like, basically, I've been doing consulting for such a long time, and most of my career is consulting in some form or fashion, and I head up all the consulting at Duckbill. I've learned a lot about consulting. And I've found that people have a lot of questions about consulting, particularly at the higher-end levels. Once you start getting into advisory sort of stuff, there's not a lot of great information out there aimed at engineering.Corey: There's a bunch of different views on what consulting is. You have independent contractors billing by the hour as staff replacement who call what they do consulting; you have the big consultancies, like Bain or BCG; you've got what we do in an advisory sense, and of course, you have a bunch of MBA new grads going to a lot of the big consultancies who are going to see a book on consulting and think that it's potentially for them. I don't know that you necessarily have a lot of advice for the new grad type, so who is this for? What is your target customer for this book?Mike: If you're interested in joining McKinsey out of college, I don't have a lot to add; I don't have a lot to tell you. The reason for that is kind of twofold. One is that shops like McKinsey and Deloitte and Accenture and BCG and Bain, all those, are playing very different games than what most of us think about when we think consulting. Their entire model revolves around running a process. And it's the same process for every client they work with. But, like, you're buying them because of their process.And that process is nothing new or novel. You don't go to those firms because you want the best advice possible. You go to those firms because it's the most defensible advice. It's sort of those things like, “No one gets fired for buying Cisco,” no one got fired for buying IBM, like, that sort of thing, it's a very defensible choice. But you're not going to get great results from it.But because of that, their entire model revolves around throwing dozens, in some cases, hundreds of new grads at a problem and saying, “Run this process. Have fun. Let us know if you need help.” That's not consulting I have any experience with. It's honestly not consulting that most of us want to do.Most of that is staffed by MBAs and accountants. When I think consulting, I think about specialized advice and providing that specialized advice to people. And I wager that most of us think about that in the same way, too. In some cases, it might just be, “I'm going to write code for you as a freelancer,” or I'm just going to tell you like, “Hey, put the nail in here instead of over here because it's going to be better for you.” Like, paying for advice is good.But with that, I also have a… one of the first things I say in the beginning of the book, which [laugh] I've already started writing because I'm a glutton for punishment, is I don't think junior people should be consultants. I actually think it's really bad idea because to be a consultant, you have to have expertise in some area, and junior staff don't. They haven't been in their careers long enough to develop that yet. So, they're just going to flounder. So, my advice is generally aimed at people that have been in their careers for quite some time, generally, people that are 10, 15, 20 years into their career, looking to do something.Corey: One of the problems that we see when whenever we talk about these things on Twitter is that we get an awful lot of people telling us that we're wrong, that it can't be made to work, et cetera, et cetera. But following this model, I've been independent for—well, I was independent and then we became The Duckbill Group; add them together because figuring out exactly where that divide happened is always a mental leap for me, but it's been six years at this point. We've definitely proven our ability to not go out of business every month. It's kind of amazing. Without even an exception case of, “That one time.”Mike: [laugh]. Yeah, we are living proof that it does work, but you don't really have to take just our word for it because there are a lot of other firms that exist entirely on an advisory-only, high-expertise model. And it works out really well. We've worked with several of them, so it does work; it just isn't very common inside of tech and particularly inside of engineering.Corey: So, one of the things that I find is what differentiates an expert from an enthusiastic amateur is, among other things, the number of mistakes that they've made. So, I guess a different way of asking this is what qualifies you to write this book, but instead, I'm going to frame it in a very negative way. What have you screwed up on that puts you in a position of, “Ah, I'm going to write a book so that someone else can make better choices.”Mike: One of my favorite stories to tell—and Corey, I actually think you might not have heard this story before—Corey: That seems unlikely, but give it a shot.Mike: Yeah. So, early in my career, I was working for a consulting firm that did ERP implementations. We worked with mainly large, old-school manufacturing firms. So, my job there was to do the engineering side of the implementation. So, a lot of rack-and-stack, a lot of Windows Server configuration, a lot of pulling cables, that sort of thing. So, I thought I was pretty good at this. I quickly learned that I was actually not nearly as good as I thought I was.Corey: A common affliction among many different people.Mike: A common affliction. But I did not realize that until this one particular incident. So, me and my boss are both on site at this large manufacturing facility, and the CFO pulls my boss aside and I can hear them talking and, like, she's pretty upset. She points at me and says, “I never want this asshole in my office ever again.” So, he and I have a long drive back to our office, like an hour and a half.And we had a long chat about what that meant for me. I was not there for very long after that, as you might imagine, but the thing is, I still have no idea to this day what I did to upset her. I know that she was pissed and he knows that she was pissed. And he never told me exactly what it was, only that's you take care of your client. And the client believes that I screwed up so massively that she wanted me fired.Him not wanting to argue—he didn't; he just kind of went with it—and put me on other clients. But as a result of that, it really got me thinking that I screwed something up so badly to make this person hate me so much and I still have no idea what it was that I did. Which tells me that even at the time, I did not understand what was going on around me. I did not understand how to manage clients well, and to really take care of them. That was probably the first really massive mistake that I've made my career—or, like, the first time I came to the realization that there's a whole lot I don't know and it's really costing me.Corey: From where I sit, there have been a number of things that we have done as we've built our consultancy, and I'm curious—you know, let's get this even more personal—in the past, well, we'll call it four years that we have been The Duckbill Group—which I think is right—what have we gotten right and what have we gotten wrong? You are the expert; you're writing a book on this for God's sake.Mike: So, what I think we've gotten right is one of my core beliefs is never bill hourly. Shout out to Jonathan Stark. He wrote I really good book that is a much better explanation of that than I've ever been able to come up with. But I've always had the belief that billing hourly is just a bad idea, so we've never done that and that's worked out really well for us. We've turned down work because that's the model they wanted and it's like, “Sorry, that's not what we do. You're going to have to go work for someone else—or hire someone else.”Other things that I think we've gotten right is a focus on staying on the advisory side and not doing any implementation. That's allowed us to get really good at what we do very quickly because we don't get mired in long-term implementation detail-level projects. So, that's been great. Where we went a little wrong, I think—or what we have gotten wrong, lessons that we've learned. I had this idea that we could build out a junior and mid-level staff and have them overseen by very senior people.And, as it turns out, that didn't work for us, entirely because it didn't work for me. That was really my failure. I went from being an IC to being the leader of a company in one single step. I've never been a manager before Duckbill. So, that particular mistake was really about my lack of abilities in being a good manager and being a good leader.So, building that out, that did not work for us because it didn't work for me and I didn't know how to do it. So, I made way too many mistakes that were kind of amateur-level stuff in terms of management. So, that didn't work. And the other major mistake that I think we've made is not putting enough effort into marketing. So, we get most of our leads by inbound or referral, as is common with boutique consulting firms, but a lot of the income that we get comes through Last Week in AWS, which is really awesome.But we don't put a whole lot of effort into content or any marketing stuff related to the thing that we do, like cost management. I think a lot of that is just that we don't really know how, aside from just creating content and publishing it. We don't really understand how to market ourselves very well on that side of things. I think that's a mistake we've made.Corey: It's an effective strategy against what's a very complicated problem because unlike most things, if—let's go back to your old life—if we have an observability problem, we will talk about that very publicly on Twitter and people will come over and get—“Hey, hey, have you tried to buy my company's product?” Or they'll offer consulting services, or they'll point us in the right direction, all of which is sometimes appreciated. Whereas when you have a big AWS bill, you generally don't talk about it in public, especially if you're a serious company because that's going to, uh, I think the phrase is, “Shake investor confidence,” when you're actually live tweeting slash shitposting about your own AWS bill. And our initial thesis was therefore, since we can't wind up reaching out to these people when they're having the pain because there's no external indication of it, instead what we have to do is be loud enough and notable in this space, where they find us where it shouldn't take more than them asking one or two of their friends before they get pointed to us. What's always fun as the stories we hear is, “Okay, so I asked some other people because I wanted a second opinion, and they told us to go to you, too.” Word of mouth is where our customers come from. But how do you bootstrap that? I don't know. I'm lucky that I got it right the first time.Mike: Yeah, and as I mentioned a minute ago, that a lot of that really comes through your content, which is not really cost management-related. It's much more AWS broad. We don't put out a lot of cost management specific content. And honestly, I think that's to our detriment. We should and we absolutely can. We just haven't. I think that's one of the really big things that we've missed on doing.Corey: There's an argument that the people who come to us do not spend their entire day thinking about AWS bills. I mean, I can't imagine what that would be like, but they don't for whatever reason; they're trying to do something ridiculous, like you know, run a profitable company. So, getting in front of them when they're not thinking about the bills means, on some level, that they're going to reach out to us when the bill strikes. At least that's been my operating theory.Mike: Yeah, I mean, this really just comes down to content strategy and broader marketing strategy. Because one of the things you have to think about with marketing is how do you meet a customer at the time that they have the problem that you solve? And what most marketing people talk about here is what's called the triggering event. Something causes someone to take an action. What is that something? Who is that someone, and what is that action?And for us, one of the things that we thought early on is that well, the bill comes out the first week of the month, every month, so people are going to opened the bill freak out, and a big influx of leads are going to come our way and that's going to happen every single month. The reality is that never happened. That turns out was not a triggering event for anyone.Corey: And early on, when we didn't have that many leads coming in, it was a statistical aberration that I thought I saw, like, “Oh, out of the three leads this month, two of them showed up in the same day. Clearly, it's an AWS billing day thing.” No. It turns out that every company's internal cadence is radically different.Mike: Right. And I wish I could say that we have found what our triggering events are, but I actually don't think we have. We know who the people are and we know what they reach out for, but we haven't really uncovered that triggering event. And it could also be there, there isn't a one. Or at least, if there is one, it's not one that we could see externally, which is kind of fine.Corey: Well, for the half of our consulting that does contract negotiation for large-scale commitments with AWS, it comes up for renewal or the initial discount contract gets offered, those are very clear triggering events but the challenge is that we don't—Mike: You can't see them externally.Corey: —really see that from the outside. Yeah.Mike: Right. And this is one of those things where there are triggering events for basically everything and it's probably going to be pretty consistent once you get down to specific services. Like we provide cost optimization services and contract negotiation services. I'm willing to bet that I can predict exactly what the trigger events for both of those will be pretty well. The problem is, you can never see those externally, which is kind of fine.Ideally, you would be able to see it externally, but you can't, so we roll with it, which means our entire strategy has revolved around always being top-of-mind because at the time where it happens, we're already there. And that's a much more difficult strategy to employ, but it does work.Corey: All it takes is time and being really lucky and being really prolific, and, and, and. It's one of those things where if I were to set out to replicate it, I don't even know how I'd go about doing it.Mike: People have been asking me. They say, “I want to create The Duckbill Group for X. What do I do?” And I say, “First step, get yourself a Corey Quinn.” And they're like, “Well, I can't do that. There's only one.” I'm like, “Yep. Sucks to be you.” [laugh].Corey: Yeah, we called the Jerk Store. They're running out of him. Yeah, it's a problem. And I don't think the world needs a whole lot more of my type of humor, to be honest, because the failure mode that I have experienced brutally and firsthand is not that people don't find me funny; it's that it really hurts people's feelings. I have put significant effort into correcting those mistakes and not repeating them, but it sucks every time I get it wrong.Mike: Yeah.Corey: Another question I have for you around the book targeting, are you aiming this at individual independent consultants or are you looking to advise people who are building agencies?Mike: Explicitly not the latter. My framing around this is that there are a number of people who are doing consulting right now and they've kind of fell into it. Often, they'll leave one job and do a little consulting while they're waiting on their next thing. And in some cases, that might be a month or two. In some cases, it might go on years, but that whole time, they're just like, “Oh, yeah, I'm doing consulting in between things.”But at some point, some of those think, “You know what? I want this to be my thing. I don't want there to be a next thing. This is my thing. So therefore, how do I get serious about doing consulting? How do I get serious about being a consultant?”And that's where I think I can add a lot of value because casually consulting of, like, taking whatever work just kind of falls your way is interesting for a while, but once you get serious about it, and you have to start thinking, well, how do I actually deliver engagements? How do I do that consistently? How do I do it repeatedly? How to do it profitably? How do I price my stuff? How do I package it? How do I attract the leads that I want? How do I work with the customers I want?And turning that whole thing from a casual, “Yeah, whatever,” into, “This is my business,” is a very different way of thinking. And most people don't think that way because they didn't really set out to build a business. They set out to just pass time and earn a little bit of money before they went off to the next job. So, the framing that I have here is that I'm aiming to help people that are wanting to get serious about doing consulting. But they generally have experience doing it already.Corey: Managing shards. Maintenance windows. Overprovisioning. ElastiCache bills. I know, I know. It's a spooky season and you're already shaking. It's time for caching to be simpler. Momento Serverless Cache lets you forget the backend to focus on good code and great user experiences. With true autoscaling and a pay-per-use pricing model, it makes caching easy. No matter your cloud provider, get going for free at gomemento.co/screaming That's GO M-O-M-E-N-T-O dot co slash screamingCorey: We went from effectively being the two of us on the consulting delivery side, two scaling up to, I believe, at one point we were six of us, and now we have scaled back down to largely the two of us, aided by very specific external folk, when it makes sense.Mike: And don't forget April.Corey: And of course. I'm talking delivery.Mike: [laugh].Corey: There's a reason I—Mike: Delivery. Yes.Corey: —prefaced it that way. There's a lot of support structure here, let's not get ourselves, and they make this entire place work. But why did we scale up? And then why did we scale down? Because I don't believe we've ever really talked about that publicly.Mike: No, not publicly. In fact, most people probably don't even notice that it happened. We got pretty big for—I mean, not big. So, we hit, I think, six full-time people at one point. And that was quite a bit.Corey: On the delivery side. Let's be clear.Mike: Yeah. No, I think actually with support structure, too. Like, if you add in everyone that we had with the sales and marketing as well, we were like 11 people. And that was a pretty sizable company. But then in July this year, it kind of hit a point where I found that I just wasn't enjoying my job anymore.And I looked around and noticed that a lot of other people was kind of feeling the same way, is just things had gotten harder. And the business wasn't suffering at all, it was just everything felt more difficult. And I finally realized that, for me personally at least, I started Duckbill because I love working with clients, I love doing consulting. And what I have found is that as the company grew larger and larger, I spent most of my time keeping the trains running and taking care of the staff. Which is exactly what I should be doing when we're that size, like, that is my job at that size, but I didn't actually enjoy it.I went into management as, like, this job going from having never done it before. So, I didn't have anything to compare it to. I didn't know if I would like it or not. And once I got here, I realized I actually don't. And I spent a lot of efforts to get better at it and I think I did. I've been working with a leadership coach for years now.But it finally came to a point where I just realized that I wasn't actually enjoying it anymore. I wasn't enjoying the job that I had created. And I think that really panned out to you as well. So, we decided, we had kind of an opportune time where one of our team decided that they were also wanting to go back to do independent consulting. I'm like, “Well, this is actually pretty good time. Why don't we just start scaling things back?” And like, maybe we'll scale it up again in the future; maybe we won't. But like, let's just buy ourselves some breathing room.Corey: One of the things that I think we didn't spend quite enough time really asking ourselves was what kind of place do we want to work at. Because we've explicitly stated that you and I both view this as the last job either of us is ever going to have, which means that we're not trying to do the get big quickly to get acquired, or we want to raise a whole bunch of other people's money to scale massively. Those aren't things either of us enjoy. And it turns out that handling the challenges of a business with as many people working here as we had wasn't what either one of us really wanted to do.Mike: Yeah. You know what—[laugh] it's funny because a lot of our advisors kept asking the same thing. Like, “So, what kind of company do you want?” And like, we had some pretty good answers for that, in that we didn't want to build a VC-backed company, we didn't ever want to be hyperscale. But there's a wide gulf of things between two-person company and hyperscale and we didn't really think too much about that.In fact, being a ten-person company is very different than being a three-person company, and we didn't really think about that either. We should have really put a lot more thought into that of what does it mean to be a ten-person company, and is that what we want? Or is three, four, or five-person more our style? But then again, I don't know that we could have predicted that as a concern had we not tried it first.Corey: Yeah, that was very much something that, for better or worse, we pay advisors for their advice—that's kind of definitionally how it works—and then we ignored it, on some level, though we thought we were doing something different at the time because there's some lessons you've just got to learn by making the mistake yourself.Mike: Yeah, we definitely made a few of those. [laugh].Corey: And it's been an interesting ride and I've got zero problem with how things have shaken out. I like what we do quite a bit. And honestly, the biggest fear I've got going forward is that my jackass business partner is about to distract the hell out of himself by writing a book, which is never as easy as even the most pessimistic estimates would be. So, that's going to be awesome and fun.Mike: Yeah, just wait until you see the dedication page.Corey: Yeah, I wasn't mentioned at all in the last book that you wrote, which I found personally offensive. So, if I'm not mentioned this time, you're fired.Mike: Oh, no, you are. It's just I'm also adding an anti-dedication page, which just has a photo of you.Corey: Oh, wonderful, wonderful. This is going to be one of those stories of the good consultant and the bad consultant, and I'm going to be the Goofus to your Gallant, aren't I?Mike: [laugh]. Yes, yes. You are.Corey: “Goofus wants to bill by the hour.”Mike: It's going to have a page of, like, “Here's this [unintelligible 00:25:05] book is dedicated to. Here's my acknowledgments. And [BLEEP] this guy.”Corey: I love it. I absolutely love it. I think that there is definitely a bright future for telling other people how to consult properly. May just suggest as a subtitle for the book is Consulting—subtitle—You Have Problems and Money. We'll Take Both.Mike: [laugh]. Yeah. My working title for this is Practical Consulting, but only because my previous book was Practical Monitoring. Pretty sure O'Reilly would have a fit if I did that. I actually have no idea what I'm going to call the book, still.Corey: Naming things is super hard. I would suggest asking people at AWS who name services and then doing the exact opposite of whatever they suggest. Like, take their list of recommendations and sort by reverse order and that'll get you started.Mike: Yeah. [laugh].Corey: I want to thank you for giving us an update on what you're working on and why you have less hair every time I see you because you're mostly ripping it out due to self-inflicted pain. If people want to follow your adventures, where's the best place to keep updated on this ridiculous, ridiculous nonsense that I cannot talk you out of?Mike: Two places. You can follow me on Twitter, @Mike_Julian, or you can sign up for the newsletter on my site at mikejulian.com where I'll be posting all the updates.Corey: Excellent. And I look forward to skewering the living hell out of them.Mike: I look forward to ignoring them.Corey: Thank you, Mike. It is always a pleasure.Mike: Thank you, Corey.Corey: Mike Julian, CEO at The Duckbill Group, and my unwilling best friend. I'm Cloud Economist Corey Quinn and this is Screaming in the Cloud. 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An old favourite to start us off- Frankie and Johnny. The best version, from Jimmie Rodgers. Then another variation of the Unfortunate Rake, an 18th century Anglo- Irish folk song. Here we have Bright Summer Morning from The Virgin Islands. Recorded in 1953, Viola Penn sings and plays guitar. He's back, Milton Brown and his Brownies- Fan it! and Goofus. Moondog with two tracks. An extraordinary artist and performer and composer. Genre defying. He performed on the streets of New York from the 1940s to the 1970s. Leonard Bernstein, Benny Goodman knew him. Charlie Parker was a fan and he influenced Philip Glass. He was blind, made his own instruments and dressed as a Viking. Brilliant. Back to a 78rpm and way back to 1918. The Six Brown Brothers, they were brothers, with When Aunt Dinah's daughter Hannah bangs on the piano. They were a Vaudeville act that all played saxophones. In fact they are credited with making the sax popular in the USA. Four in a row. Dallas String Band with Dallas Rag(1927), Jeeps Blues- Port Arthur Jubileers, Too tight Henry- Charlston contest part 2(1928) and Florene- Leon Selph and his Blue Ridge Playboys(1941). We had Georgia fiddle music a couple of episodes ago, now its Texas fiddle. Sally Johnson- The Lewis Brothers and the very scottish sounding Eck Robertson - Great big Taters. We go out with glorious 78s all the way. Josh white with I'm gonna move to the outskirts of town. A modern, more affluent take on the blues. White recorded quite a few tracks in London at this time, early 1950s. Bessie Smith with Muddy Water(1927). She's with her Blues boys. One of which was Fletcher Henderson. As if I'd planned it he's up next with PDQ Blues also 1927. We finish with more Western Swing. Adolp and Emil Hofner duetting on Swing with the music. I really hope you have been.   

Today on the show, Paul and Ben talk about stalling for time, Carlin vs Johannsen vs Wright, Goofus and Gallant, Gremlins, burning the necronomicon, Atlanta not highlighting the main cast in season 3, TV resolution, giving content freely to online platforms, ill-informed talk about the Jan 6th hearings, who's getting … Continue reading →

In the Deep - Shwebsi (@shwebsi) forges ahead without Jordan (@BuntSingles) to cover several deep league options he likes in an episode roughly 30% as good as a normal episode of ITD.  Timestamps Intro (0:18) Deep Dives (2:30) Jon Berti (7:45) Christian Bethancourt Honorable Mentions (13:35) Join PL+ and support the podcast, get an Ad-Free Website, and access to our Discord community!   If you enjoy the pod, please subscribe, drop us a 5-star review, and leave some kind words on your platform of choice: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Omny Feed Also be sure to follow Jordan, Shwebsi, and the official podcast account on Twitter, and check the pinned tweet on the show page for mailbag and feedback submissions! ITD Twitter | Jordan's Twitter | Shwebsi's Twitter | Mailbag Submissions Podcast cover art by Christine Weber Get PL+ and join our Discord: https://pitcherlist.com/plus

In the Deep - Shwebsi (@shwebsi) forges ahead without Jordan (@BuntSingles) to cover several deep league options he likes in an episode roughly 30% as good as a normal episode of ITD.  Timestamps Intro (0:18) Deep Dives (2:30) Jon Berti (7:45) Christian Bethancourt Honorable Mentions (13:35) Join PL+ and support the podcast, get an Ad-Free Website, and access to our Discord community!   If you enjoy the pod, please subscribe, drop us a 5-star review, and leave some kind words on your platform of choice: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Omny Feed Also be sure to follow Jordan, Shwebsi, and the official podcast account on Twitter, and check the pinned tweet on the show page for mailbag and feedback submissions! ITD Twitter | Jordan's Twitter | Shwebsi's Twitter | Mailbag Submissions Podcast cover art by Christine Weber Get PL+ and join our community and Discord server!: https://pitcherlist.com/plus

Caleb Franz from the Profiles In Liberty podcast drops by for his regular segment. Today Caleb gives us the lowdown on Richard Henry Lee's resolution which paved the way for the Declaration of Independence. If you're not familiar with the Milgram experiment, now might be a good time to do so. Thomas Harrington says the experiment has been restaged, this time with millions of real victims. Say what you will about the older generations but at least we didn't get offended by pancake syrup. Michelle Malkin notes that even Goofus & Gallant from Highlights magazine have gone woke. Most of us want to stand up for what's good and right but we're waiting for the moment when it's cool to do so. J.B. Shurk says if you're reading this message, you're ready to resist tyranny. If you haven't watched Matt Walsh's documentary "What Is a Woman?" this would be a great weekend to do so. Click on this link to watch the full documentary. Invite some friends over to watch it with you. It's not just political power-seekers who pose a threat to our liberties. Ryan McMaken explains how we find ourselves at the mercy of highly paid, unelected government experts thanks to progressive policies. Getting that feeling of deja vu lately? Kit Knightly says monkeypox is following the covid playbook step by step. You gotta hand it to Congress, they can work very quickly when they're feeling motivated. Unfortunately, as Kent McManigal points out, their current motivation is to burden us with more useless gun laws. Is there really such a thing as a "family friendly" drag show? Check out this article from Libs of Tiktok before you answer. Sponsors: Dixie Chiropractic HSL Ammo Sewing & Quilting Center Monticello College Life Saving Food The Heather Turner Team at Patriot Home Mortgage Govern Your Crypto --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/loving-liberty/support

Stand out and see Eye 2 Eye up on the half pipe with the Goof Troop this week. Also the season 2 finale for Owl House.

Boomer was off today but he had to call in and talk about his disappointment in the Rangers after a lopsided Game 4 loss Monday night. Seems like the Booms thinks Gallant is more like a Goofus?

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Blaseball isn't going to be back for a while, which leaves us and the fandom in a strange, spooky liminal space. Will Blaseball be okay? (yes) Is ICB ready? (no) Note: as we discuss in the top of the episode, we're going to take a few weeks of siesta ourselves to get our bearings and adjust our schedule. Thanks for standing by! In this episode: fandoms on hiatus, fic metrics, maybe what we all need is a shipping war, reports of Blaseball's death are greatly exaggerated, killing BACO is just a warmup for our final target: the Mackleboys (also BACO isn't dead), don't twitter, you know what they say about crabs and shells, future plans.  ~shoutouts zone~ The most recent Inside a Blaseball The most recent Inside a Blaseball except you can read it Fanboys the movie (this is not an endorsement) Goofus and Gallant Hurling highlight reel ~~~  

It's time to clear the docket! Eye-open kissing, the John-Claude Van Damme movie HARD TARGET, tacos, walking your mom to her car at night, 20 questions, and the return of the segment JUSTICE DELAYED! Plus we say goodbye for now to the Great Lakes Beach Report!

This week Kody manages to sink further into the depths of his abysmal behavior. I'm not sure what more to say, this whole episodes he's the absolute worst. Oh, and they have Christmas. Enjoy!I'd really appreciate it if you were able to give a 5 star review on Apple podcasts! Follow me on social media and more here! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Double Threat returns for the Double Deuce with a rundown of 2022 New Year's Resolutions for the podcast as mandated by their network. Including - More Trending Topics! Make a 900 Number! Record a One Hit Wonder! Plus an update on the latest TeePublic email, the giant topiary chicken, and Brett's Lemon Delights. Also James Corden vehicular manslaughter, planning Cindy Adams' birthday party, RIP Betty White, RIP Joan Didion, Tom and Julie imitate each other, Carey Grant tries to buy a ticket for Urinetown, cyanide tablets, apartment birds, burlesque, McDonald's dinner party, packing a lip, what Charles Manson thinks of Ted Bundy, Rumpelstiltskin, Tom and Julie's sloopband, Goofus and Gallant and Gary, The Creep and the Cage, Hot Stuff, fencing, Julie's 3rd Grade performance of Oh! Calcutta!, David Crosby's turkey basters, red equals green, new britches, and attractive horrible people. CLIPS FROM THIS EPISODE: *What Charles Manson Thinks of Ted Bundy https://www.tiktok.com/t/TTPdMQmakk *900 Numbers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt3Aj9p5KUs *John Stossel Interviews Wrestler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrX9Ca7LSyQ *The Cherry Pie Guy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odKt0EEwv6Q *Elizabeth from Knoxville Remix https://www.tiktok.com/t/TTPdMQqKVR LISTEN TO DOUBLE THREAT AD-FREE ON FOREVER DOG PLUS: http://foreverdogpodcasts.com/plus DOUBLE THREAT MERCH: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/double-threat SEND SUBMISSIONS TO: DoubleThreatPod@gmail.com FOLLOW DOUBLE THREAT: https://twitter.com/doublethreatpod https://www.instagram.com/doublethreatpod DOUBLE THREAT IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST: https://foreverdogpodcasts.com/podcasts/double-threat Theme song by Mike Krol Artwork by Michael Kupperman

This week Goofus and Gallant have had enough of their father, Kody announces he's living for Ariella, Robyn begs Janelle to take Kody off her hands and Janelle has an epic walk off!Find me on social media and more here! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Harry Potter, OCD germaphobes, the problem with "Born This Way," the recasting of women's self-defense as victim-blaming, feminists in search of chivalry, assault prevention training for alligators, and much more!

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2VP - Episode 3 - "Spy" part 1 of Chris' 2 part SPOOKTACULAR! Disclaimer: We have the boom situation corrected for part 2 (pro tip - missing sock collection makes excellent sound baffle.  Crinkle sounds, compliments of Mango the podcat.  Thank you for your continued patience while I work on improving the audio quality. 0:00 - The 2VP theme song 0:20 - Introducing the hosts Ben and Chris 0:34 - The word… spy 3:10 - MI6 has some budget oversight issues 5:00 - Top Secret RPG 8:20 - RPG hot take (from a middle aged white dude) 10:10 - Disco Elysium is a weird game 15:50 - Elliot Gould interlude 19:00 - Goofus and Gallant 22:00 - SpyTV shows and movies and a shout out to the “For Your Reference” podcast 30:10 - Impressions 31:40 - Ian Fleming and Bond; incredibly racist and sexist 36:00 - Bond actor rankings 43:38 - Chris' son introduction of the Golden Eye remaster 44:40 - A series of awful sounding closers

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FamilyLife Today® Radio Transcript  References to conferences, resources, or other special promotions may be obsolete. Guiding Your Son Through Boyhood Guest:                        Dennis RaineyFrom the series:       Stepping Up (day 2 of 5) Dennis:   You ever been lost?  Really lost in the woods?  Well, you know what?  I got lost, and there were no markers.  The land was flat, it was cold, and the sun was going down.  I didn't have a GPS on me.  I didn't have a compass.  I had no way to tell where to go or how to get out of there.  I admit that I was on the verge of panic.   That sense of being lost is what a boy can feel growing up today without a father guiding him.                                                                                                      Bob:  This is FamilyLife Today for Tuesday, March 8th.  Our host is the President of FamilyLife Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine.  We're going to talk about what we can do to help boys get pointed on the right path and pointed in the right direction as they step up to manhood.   Welcome to FamilyLife Today; thanks for joining us on the Tuesday edition.  Just wondering what's in the water there at the Rainey house?  Your wife writes this devotional for families around courage.  Now, you've got this book for men on courageous manhood.  Are they spiking you with something out there? Dennis:  You know it is in the country.  There is no telling.  I do think Barbara and I have been preaching to one another.  Do you think? Bob:  I just sense a little bit of this passion in your souls to see men, women, and children kind of step up and be courageous. Dennis:  Bob, I think this culture is robbing us of our courage.  I think it is discouraging us.  I think many are losing heart in well-doing as a result.  If there has ever been a time when, frankly, men needed to be encouraged, I believe it's today. Bob:  Well, now, this is a theme that has been simmering in your heart for almost a decade, maybe longer than a decade, as you've been in a number of settings challenging men to step up to courageous manhood.  Now, you've written a book that's called Stepping Up: A Call to Courageous Manhood. You break the book down—this is interesting—into six sections to help orient guys to the progression that you're calling them to. Dennis:  We do.  The first section is just all about courage.  Then, each of the following five sections are about the steps: stepping up to boyhood, adolescents, manhood, mentor, and patriarch.  Each of those six sections of the book begin with a story of courage.   Bob:  Let me ask you about boys stepping up to boyhood.  It seems like boyhood is something that just kind of happens to you.  It's not something that as a boy you're all that intentional about.  In fact, you're just kind of going through life, and the question is are you heeding direction or are you just following your own impulses? Dennis:  I clipped a cartoon out of a magazine that had a picture of a five year old boy barefoot and no shirt in cutoff jeans walking down a dusty, dirty road.  He had two cats that he was carrying, whose tails were tied together.  He was carrying them, you know, where the tails kind of were caught in the crook of his arm.  The caption on the cartoon read, “And he was bound to acquire experience rapidly.”    That's what boyhood is all about.  He's growing up through the childish years getting all this experience, but what has to happen?  He has to have an older man in his life directing that experience.  So, that as he grows from boyhood into adolescence, there is character there; there's the wisdom to know the right from wrong and enough of a conscience that he can begin to turn away from evil and make right choices.   Boyhood does just seem like a time when life does happen to him, but it's a time when every boy needs a father. Bob:  Tragically, we live a culture where there are a lot of boys who don't have fathers.  If a boy doesn't have a father or someone stepping in to provide direction, to say, “Here's where manhood is, come on follow me. Come this direction,” then, the carnal impulses take over and what you have is masculinity gone amok. Dennis:  Yes.  Newsweek, a few years back, ran an article called “The Trouble with Boys.”  They said in that article that one of the most reliable predictors of whether a boy will succeed or fail in high school rests upon a single question, one question: does he have a man in his life to look up to?  Unfortunately, in many cases, the answer is no.   I ran across this quote.  I've not been able to find out who said it, but it has a pound of wisdom in it.  It says, “A boy without a father is like an explorer without a map.”  That's what a boy is.  He's starting out life, and it's uncharted.  He doesn't have the experience to know how to deal with it.  Who is he going to look to, to gain the experience he needs to know how to navigate the valleys, the danger spots, the mountains?   There is a lot of life that just happens to us, but as we know, there is a lot of evil that can occur in a boy and for that matter a teenager's life before they make it to manhood. Bob:  I don't think when I became a father for the first time that I understood the responsibility of calling sons to manhood.  I don't know that I understood that mantle being put on my shoulders.  Did your dad assume that responsibility in your life?  Did he understand what it was that God had called him to do, do you think? Dennis:  This is one of the more fascinating stories of my life, Bob.  My dad had a profound impact on my life, but I have no idea where he got the training to do it because his dad deserted him as a boy.  He was in his early teenage years when his dad basically abandoned the family of eight children and kind of went his own way.   I grew up in a town of thirteen hundred people—I like to say I had a big dad in a small town.  My dad was big in my life because he was involved in my life.  He coached my little league team.  The first game we got beat twenty-two to nothing to the Early Birds.  Three years later we played them for the semi-finals.  If we'd won, we'd gone on to the championship of our age group.  They beat us again, but it was only three to two.  Now, isn't it interesting that I can remember that?   Well, the reason I remember that is I had a dad.  I've still got this picture of all of us: scruffy, little, little league baseball players.  I had a dad who was standing right in the middle of the picture.  Not that the focus was on him.  He was on the back row, but he was the coach.  He knew how to coach us in the fundamentals.  He taught me more than just the fundamentals of baseball; he taught me the fundamentals of life, of obedience to God, of having a character that has integrity.   He modeled it.  His life was granite solid.  It was amazing as I became a father like you're talking about, Bob, how many times I would go back to pictures of my father who was steady, who didn't leave, who didn't abandon me.   I know as I say this there are a bunch of our listeners who didn't have something like that.  They've had to pick up that mentoring of an older man in their life from another man, but every boy today needs a dad who sees that young lad as his responsibility.  I have no question that my dad loved me and that my dad was doing his best with what he'd been given to train me to be ready for life. Bob:  When I was a kid, I remember going to the dentist office.  The only thing I liked about the dentist office is they had a subscription to Highlights magazine.  Do you remember Highlights for kids? Dennis:  Oh, yes. Bob:  It had puzzles— Dennis:  Right. Bob:  And games and cartoons.  In every Highlights magazine, there was a cartoon series called Goofus and Gallant.  It was two boys.  One, Goofus, was always making foolish decisions; and Gallant was making wise decisions.  It was really a cartoon instructing in character.   I've thought about that since.  I've thought young boys growing up need to be pointed in the direction of character because their natural inclinations aren't going to lead them in that direction.  That is part of the responsibility a dad has.  For a boy to step into wise boyhood, they need to say, “I'm going to listen to the wisdom of a father or of older men and follow in their footsteps.” Dennis:  Bob, the book of Proverbs is all about that.  It is all about an older, wiser father speaking into the life of a boy calling his son to step up.  Now, it doesn't say in the Proverbs step up to manhood, but it is all over the pages.  Calling him away from foolishness to—was that Goofus? Bob:  Yes.  Right. Dennis:  To step up to wisdom, to Gallant. Bob:  Gallant.  Right. Dennis:  To Gallant.  If he's going to do that, he needs an older man whose arm is around him.  You know I can still remember watching the game of the week with my dad on Saturday afternoon.  My dad worked hard.  He worked five days a week and a half a day on Saturday.  Some days he would work all day on Saturday. I would go to sleep with him there in the living room on that couch with his arm around me.  I can still remember the hairs on his hand and his arm kind of touching my boyish face.  You know there is something about that that builds security, stability, direction.  As we grow up, it's what we call upon as we face our own challenges in life.   I'll never forget going deer hunting a number of years ago.  I used to laugh at people who would get lost in the woods.  Have you ever been lost by the way?  Really lost in the woods? Bob:  I've never been that deep into the woods.  I don't think.    Dennis:  You stayed away from the woods.  Well, you know what?  That's a good way not to be lost.   Well, I got lost, Bob.  I went in circles because I began to notice where I had been.  There were no markers.  The land was flat, it was cold, and the sun was going down.  I remember praying and going, “Lord, I'm lost.  I need help.  I need to get out of here.”  I admit that I was on the verge of panic.   Now, this was like—I don't know—twenty, twenty-five years ago.  When I finally stumbled out onto a logging road where I knew where I was, I was thrilled.  I didn't have a GPS on me.  I didn't have a compass.  I had no way to tell where to go or how to get out of there.  Well, you know what?  That sense of being lost is what a boy can feel growing up today without a father guiding him. I want to give dads just real quickly four points of direction to guide their sons.  Let's just call them compass points. Bob:  Okay. Dennis:  Compass point number one, character: train your son in what is wise and also what is foolish.  We just talked about the book of Proverbs.  That is what it is about.  Wisdom is skill in everyday living as God designed it. Bob:  I think as a dad you have to keep in mind that your son is naturally going to be drawn to foolishness.  “Foolishness is bound up,” Proverbs says, “in the heart of a child.”  As a dad, you're going to have to use up a variety of means to call him away from foolishness and to godly character.  He is not going to be naturally inclined in that direction. Dennis:  I'll never forget going to my dad's place of work.  If he said this to me one time, he said it a hundred times, “Son, these people are working.  Do not bother them.”      I think I just had a blast walking through the office talking to everybody because my dad owned the little company, you know.  “Son, I want you to know they're at work.  Don't bother—” Bob:  Leave them alone. Dennis:  “—the people.”  That's a very minor foolishness; but nonetheless, it's is foolishness.   A second point for our compasses are relationships: how do I love others?  The first one talks about our character: people being able to trust us that what we say is good. Bob:  What kind of person am I?  Dennis:  Right. Bob:  Yes. Dennis:  How we love other people is how we relate to them, care for them; how we're gentle with them, kind with them, forgive them, resolving conflicts with them.Bob:  So, what you're saying is that a father has a responsibility to help a son understand how to have healthy relationships with other people: with women, with siblings, with friends.  Just understand how to relate to people. Dennis:  Your family is a laboratory, and you're training your son how to live life and how to love other people.  Some of the lessons you are going to pass on to your sons are going to be out of your mistakes.  When you make a mistake and you have to ask your wife to forgive you in front of your kids, as I have done on more than one occasion.   On those occasions, some of them I would turn to the kids.  I would say, “You know, you're not going to remember your dad was perfect; but I do hope what you remember about him is that when he made a mistake and hurt another person, he was enough of a man that he could admit it and ask that other person to forgive him.” Identity is the third one.  That answers the question, who am I?  There are multiple areas today where that's got to be addressed with a boy.  One is “Who is he in relationship with God?” because it is only as he determines who God is in the Scriptures in his relationship to Jesus Christ that he is going to have a proper identity of who he is.   There's also the issue of sexual identity and what does it mean to be a boy and not a girl?  What does it mean to be a man and not a woman?  He is getting his first cues from his father as to how comfortable his father is in his own sexuality and how he treats his wife in terms of courtesies, in terms of serving her, in terms of her distinct femininity as a woman.  It is really those snapshots that a boy catches growing up in his home where he gets his first picture of what is a man and how does a man relate comfortably with a woman. Bob:  So, identity revolves around sexual identity; but you also said spiritual identity, understanding that your nature is prone to sin and that you are in need of a Savior and understanding who God is and the fact that life is to be lived for Him.  What is the last point on the compass? Dennis:  Well, it has to do with our mission and why am I here.  What is my purpose?  Ephesians 2:10 talks about “We're His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works that He prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.” I'll never forget a boy that my sons used to have over to the house, and I'll call him Mark.  His mom had, had four husbands.  Mark had not known a man in his life to be there consistently.  I don't know what prompted me one day, but I looked him in the eye; and I said, “Mark, God has a plan for you being here.  He has got something very, very powerful for you to do with your life if you'll but walk with Him and know Him and set Christ apart in your heart as Savior and Lord.”   It was interesting that was early in my adolescent sons' lives.  Mark continued to track with our kids all the way until his senior year, and he did some pretty dumb things.  Our paths crossed again.  I had to kind of pull our sons away and say, “You know I don't think it would be wise to continue to spend time with Mark.”   It was interesting Mark ran into me at school one day; and he said, “Mr. Rainey, I noticed that your sons are no longer running around with me.  I thought you believed that God had a plan for my life.”  Now, Bob, this is four years later.   Words to a young lad, especially a young lad growing up in the confusing years of adolescence, can be used in that boy's life to really center him and begin to set him on a course where maybe he begins to think about his life as something other than just on the human level; maybe he is created in the image of God; and there are spiritual purposes to his life that he needs to fulfill. A father, I believe, can have an enormous impact in his son's life reminding him of the truth about himself: that God has a plan for him.   Bob:  We're really back to the map illustration that you used earlier.  If a young child, if a young son, doesn't have compass points—doesn't have a map to point him in a direction, he will wander aimlessly and often wind up in a place that is not a good place.  It is a dad's responsibility to point him in the right direction and to give him those compass points; so, that where he winds up is a good place. Dennis:  Yes.  What a dad needs to understand is he possesses the DNA of life.  If you as a father are walking with Jesus Christ and you're in the Book, the Bible, you possess that DNA to pass on to your sons to show them how to live.  I love a poem that was written by General Douglas MacArthur because, as you might imagine as a general, he had a goal in mind especially for his son.  Let me just share this poem that I include in the book: Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid; one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.   Build me a son whose wishbone will not be where his backbone should be;  a son who will know Thee—and that to know himself is the foundation stone of knowledge.   Lead him, I pray, not in the path of ease and comfort, but under the stress and the spur of difficulties and challenge.  Here, let him learn to stand up in the storm; here, let him learn compassion for those who fail.   Build me a son whose heart will be clear, whose goal will be high; a son who will master himself before he seeks to master other men; one who will learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep; one who will reach into the future, yet never forget the past.   And after all these things are his, add, I pray, enough of a sense of humor, so that he may always be serious, yet never take himself too seriously.   Give him humility, so that he may always remember the simplicity of true greatness, the open mind of true wisdom, the meekness of true strength.   Now, listen to how this general concludes this prayer and his poem:             Then, I, his father, will dare to whisper, “I have not lived in vain.” There isn't a dad listening to us right now who doesn't understand the heart of that general because you want to impart the DNA of life and a sense of direction to our boys; so, they aren't caught off guard, but they live effective lives for Jesus Christ. Bob:  I think one of the things that causes dads to shrink back sometimes is that they lack confidence in their own direction.  They're not sure they are pointing in the right direction.  That is one of the reasons, I think, your book is going to be so helpful for so many of us because it gives us a clear picture of what the path to manhood looks like, what authentic, biblical manhood is.  Then, it takes us passed that to see that just being God's man is not where things stop, but God has a design for us even beyond that. I want to encourage our listeners.  This week we are making your book available to those who can help support the ministry with a donation.  All you have to do is go online to FamilyLifeToday.com.  Make an online donation or call 1-800-FL-TODAY.  When you do, you can request a copy of Dennis's new book, Stepping Up: A Call to Courageous Manhood.   Right now, the book is not available in stores or on Amazon; 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