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“Ebbene sì, maledetto Carter! Hai vinto anche stavolta!“. La frase di chiusura di Supergulp pronunciata dall'acerrimo nemico dell'investigatore privato newyorkese (col berretto di Sherlock Holmes, l'impermeabile di Humphrey Bogart e un papillon rosso a pois) Nick Carter, il trasformista Stanislao Moulinsky con la voce di Mauro Mattioli (1950), imitando quella di Amedeo Nazzari (1907-1979), è ancorata saldamente nella memoria di ogni (ultra) 50enne…Supergulp: l'ibridazioneNick Carter era il personaggio principale di una curiosa ibridazione (come si dice oggi) di fumetti e cartoni animati. Supergulp (inizialmente solo Gulp!), andò in onda in due periodi distanziati: la prima volta il 14 settembre 1972 alle 21,15 sul Secondo con una presentazione di Cochi e Renato e poi sulla Rete 2 (in seguito Rai 2) dal 15 marzo 1977 al 1981, divenendo Buonasera con… Supergulp!.

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Yes!  You are in!  Well, this one will definitely be different.  What happens when you die?  Is life a test?  We've tackled those subjects before.  However, I have never done it with video.  Gulp!  So, you get first access.  Bonus, the scientific method and actual math is involved.  What?  Faith and the scientific method and math?  Stick around and I'll explain more.Thank you Two Tall for that opening hook.  For those new, you can learn more about him by going back a few episodes.  Is life a test?  What happens when you die?  Deep questions.  How well can you answer them?  And I don't mean just blurting out, "There is a heaven" or "You are worm food..."eventually.  Can you back it up with logic, science and math?  I bet the average atheist thinks they can.  I bet the average Christian can't.  So that is what we tackle.  Can faith and science co-exist?  Absolutely.  Science is simply the pursuit of truth.  And good science will not be afraid to correct itself.  Good science cannot ignore math.  Good science should not be politicized.  We flawed humans do that.  So some of you have lost someone profound.  Some of you fear death.  Some of you are not so sure.  That's why this podcast started over 7 years ago.  And since we are trailblazers in technology... that's tongue in cheek.  I'm testing video.  This is where DeepHikes, Deep Bikes was born.  I got the vision to enter the wilderness and ask the toughest, deepest questions.  Questions that you can use at your next small group, date night or family event.  So here is the YouTube link.  Notice it is still unlisted.  Why?  Refinement.  Well, it also scares the crap out of me.  Part of me likes hiding behind a mic.  With video, you are literally out there.  Back to refinement, I'm GenX.  On this front, who better to ask for mentors than GenZ.  So special shout out to Tanner Dude and Antoine Dude to help shape these.  We'll see if we graduate to Tik Tok and Instas.  One thing I do know: we need more Hope on this broken, brutal frustrating planet.  So here you go.  Some hopeful Light for your day in a different way.  Oh and if you have suggestions for improvement, please let us know.  Simply comment in that video.  Bonus: You may have a Deep question.  If you think worthy, you are welcome to share.  Oh right, please find the link below...https://youtu.be/YZUo8JQF0RcNow, go, love, serve, encourage someone out there today.

How many goblins does it take to solve a mystery during a fantasy war behind enemy lines? Turns out it's nine! Plus an veterinarian elf and some magical creatures and maybe even a wizard or two! This month we read 'Nine Goblins' by T. Kingfisher, a 2013 novella about goblin antics. (Discussion begins around 26:30). But before that, we check in on what we've been playing, reading, and watching.Playing:Divinity: Original Sin II (PC)Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream (Switch)Reading:'Gulp' by Mary RoachWatching:LOL: Last One Laughing UK (Amazon Prime)Find us on Twitter & Instagram: @NovelGamingPodSend us an e-mail: novelgamingpodcast@gmail.comLogo by: Katie!Theme song: "Bit Bossa" by Azureflux

In this electronic age in which we live, identity theft is the big new crime. If someone can steal your identity – well, they can own everything you own. But what if you and I aren't really sure of our identity in the first place? What if you and I woke up one day and simply didn't know who we were? Then what would we have?   Lost Without a Passport I remember once a few years back being at the airport in Christchurch, New Zealand. My international flight from Australia was late in getting in, and I had to race to make a last domestic connection that night to my final destination – Wellington, New Zealand's capital. And in the rush, I left my passport lying in one of those luggage trolleys at the international terminal – something I didn't realise until I was checking in on the domestic flight at the next terminal. Oh, panic attack! Can you imagine losing your passport while you're overseas? No passport, no identity. Now what? How could I tell people that it was me? I couldn't leave the country; I couldn't stay there ... It turns out that our identity is very important. I've never forgotten that, and in a very real sense, the same is true in life. We need to know the answer to that all-important question: Who am I? Other people need to know who we are. It's so basic; it's so fundamental, and yet so many people don't have a deep sense of who they really are. It's a problem deep-down, and it's not something we talk about much, but it's there, and as I talk to people, I think it goes something like this. Often we live life day to day without really thinking. We just go along and do the things we've always been doing: We go to work or we go to school or we look after the children, whatever it is, but bubbling away deep inside somewhere is a sense of: What's this all about? Why am I doing this? What's the point? The reality is this. We just have one life to live here on earth. It's not a dress rehearsal. We can't hit the rewind button and play it over again. When today's gone, it's gone; that's it, and every year, every week, every day, every moment that you and I have lived up to this point is gone. We can never get it back. The only thing left in our time here on earth is the time between right now and when we breathe our last breath. It's a sobering thought, and at the same time, most people have some sort of sense of destiny. Whether or not they believe in Jesus or some god even, they believe in things that are meant to be. How often have you heard someone say, "Well, it was just meant to be", or "If it's meant to be, it'll happen?" Whether it's karma or whether it's "que sera sera", whatever will be will be, we all have some sense of a future and a destiny to be fulfilled. It's as though there's some intelligent design or destiny that we just can't quite put our fingers on. I believe that that's there because in each one of us, God has made us in His image – each one of us, and when we look at the time we have left in the context of some sort of sense of destiny, a profound question of life emerges. Am I being the 'me' that I was actually meant to be? Am I living the destiny that I'm supposed to be living? They're huge questions. It's not about having things; it's more about being. The turning-point of my life was when I was reading a book, and the author asked this question. He said: 'Do you want to be, or do you want to have?' and I realised very clearly that I was one of those people who wanted to have, and having things is not being. Having is about the next car; the next sound system; the next pair of shoes, but being is a profound sense of joy and contentment; being really happy with who we are and what we're doing, and how we're living, and enjoying the relationships that we're having. When I realised that, it was so incredibly unsettling for me because I tried to do stuff my way, and it was turning out to be empty. Let me ask you something. As you contemplate the remaining time you have left here on planet earth, when you ask yourself the question, "Am I being the 'me' I was meant to be? Am I living out the destiny that I was meant to live?" What's the answer? Yes, or no? If your answer is "yes", then you're talking about some profound sense of joy and peace and contentment – the sort of stuff I was talking about just before, but if the answer is "no", then probably there's this nagging sense that you're missing out on something. Is this all there is? Surely there has to be something more than this. You know, in my experience, most people (by far the majority) are in the 'no' category. They have a sense that there should be – that there is – some destiny for their lives, but they also have a nagging suspicion that they're not really living it out. That's why we're kicking off a brand new series of programmes over these coming few weeks called "Discover Your Destiny" – to … I don't know … help us unscramble that, and maybe get a solid foundation of life sorted out in our hearts, get our lives on track, to live them out to the full so that when we're on death's doorstep, we can look back at our lives with a deep sense of satisfaction, and say to ourselves, "You know what? I've lived it to the full. I became the 'me' I was meant to be, and now I'm ready for my eternity with God." The starting-point of all that is an understanding of who we're meant to be. It's knowing where we come from and who we are, and what a tragedy it is for so many people who live their lives without knowing those things about themselves; without having a sense of what their lives are all about; without having, in effect, a really good handle on who they are – their identity. We live in a world that wants to tell us who we should be. We live in a world shaped by commerce and sales targets and advertising, that tells us: 'You're this, and if you're not, you're not successful, and if you're not successful, if you buy this, then you will be, and then you'll be happy. Then you'll have a sense of who you are, and where you're going'. Hey, I lived out that life for a good many years. I mean, I lived it out par excellence, and so successful was it that it drove me to the point of suicide. God's take is completely different. God tells us that we're made in His image – you and I. He tells us that not only did He make us who we are, but He also made every day of our lives to fit with who we are. More about that a little bit later, but right now, all I'm really trying to do is put my finger on the problem; that nagging thing that just doesn't seem to want to go away; that sense that so many of us have that we're missing out on something – something that we just can't quite explain. Surely there must be more to life than this, this drudgery. Surely there has to be something that sets my heart on fire; that inspires me; that lets me be the me I was meant to be; that lets me live out the destiny for my life. Do you really know who you are, who you were made to be, what you're meant to be doing, or is your life a bit like a cork bobbing around in an ocean, completely at the mercy of the elements – sunny one day, stormy the next, but just drifting – kind of drifting?   The Perennial Pollution Problem I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but living an average, normal, everyday life creates dirt. I mean, just eating and drinking and living – the most basic things – create waste: Carbon dioxide we all breathe out with every breath (and of course if we didn't get rid of it, it would poison us), perspiration, and we excrete waste. If we kept all of those things inside us, you know, they'd kill us in a pretty short time. On a global scale, we call this pollution; it's a perennial problem. It's just the way it is. For so many years, I have to tell you, I listened to these Christians talking about this word sin, thinking, "Oh, go on, get a life. I don't need this guilt trip. I don't need to go to confession or to be absolved or any of that stuff. I mean, I'm basically ok. I haven't killed anyone; I haven't robbed a bank ... please just leave me alone." The notion of sin had no place in my reckoning. "This is a dog-eat-dog world, and hey, there's plenty of dog to go around. I will tread on whoever I want to; I will do whatever I want to, as long as I don't break the law. I'm right, Jack." That was kind of my attitude because, in today's psyche, hey, anything goes, but this anything-goes thing doesn't always work so well because it's all about me, and for you it's all about you; and when I spend on me, me, me, that's great, but real satisfaction comes when we give of ourselves, of who we are and what we have. It's not until we give sacrificially to someone in need that we really get satisfaction in life, and that's where we really discover who we are and what life is all about. For many, many years I kidded myself that I was ok, but it didn't work. Just living my life created waste and mess and dirt and pollution, and here's the rub: When we live the I-am-the-centre-of-the-universe, me-me-me philosophy, we want everything to flow in, and that stuff includes the waste and the mess and the dirt, and it stays inside with everything flowing in, and ultimately it poisons our system. It ruins our lives. Do you get it? The word "sin", as it's used in the Bible, literally means to miss the mark. Like an archer aiming at a target, his aim doesn't have to be off by much for him to miss the target altogether. That's the idea of sin. It's missing the mark or, as we might say these days, missing the point. Can you imagine getting to the end of your life, on your deathbed, looking back and thinking to yourself, "You know, the way I lived my life, I didn't love people the way I should have loved them. I didn't serve people the way I should have served them. I didn't make the difference that I could have made. I haven't left behind a lasting legacy of good at all. You know something? I think my life missed the mark. I think I missed the whole point." Can you even begin to imagine what a tragedy that would be? We're chatting this week about discovering who we are meant to be – our identity, and laying hold of what our life was always meant to accomplish – our destiny, and we can't do that if we miss the mark; if we miss the whole point. We just can't. You can't, and I can't. See, God has a plan for us. I'm reading now from Psalm 139:13: God, You created my innermost being. You knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I'm fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful, I know that full well because my frame wasn't hidden from You when I was being made in that secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, Your eyes saw my unformed substance, and all the days ordained for me were written in Your book before even one of them came to be. It seems to me that we can either cooperate with God's plan or we can run hard against it, and whatever we may want to call it, whatever word we may want to use for doing the wrong thing – for running against God's plan, whether it's the word "sin" or something else, you and I know when we're swimming against the tide. You and I know when we're into things that are selfish and angry and dishonest and just plain wrong. Come on; we know, and if that's the way we want to live our lives, then the last thing we're going to be doing is cooperating with God's plan. The last thing we're going to be doing is discovering our destiny; all those days that were written down in God's book before any of them as yet existed. The last thing we're going to be doing is being the person we were made to be, and living the life God made us to live. Does it make sense to you? I mean, does it seem like a wise way of spending your life, this one precious life that you've been given to live? The reason we're talking about this today is that the last thing I want for you, and honestly, the last thing God wants for any of us, is to waste our lives; to miss out on our destinies; to live as square pegs in round holes, and this thing sin, the wrong things in our life – that's what robs us of our identity and it robs us of our destiny, and I can't say it any plainer than this: That's just about the dumbest thing that we can do with our lives, you and I. The problem is that you and I are very good at rationalising away our sin, at justifying it, at defending the indefensible. I was just talking to a couple of smokers the other day, some builders working outside the front of my house. I used to smoke heavily, and as I talked to them about their smoking, you know what their response was? "Oh, look, yeah. We know it's wrong. We know it's stupid, but hey, we just can't stop." See, we get addicted to this stuff. We get addicted to this poison in our systems. We know it's wrong; we just can't stop, so we rationalise it. We brush it off. We resign ourselves to it, as though it doesn't matter. And when others challenge us about it, when others confront us with the consequences of our sin, we say, "Come on mate. Get off the grass. It's none of your business what I do with my life." Well, I guess it's not, but if you and I want to live a life that God intended us to live, if you and I want to be the person that God intended us to be, if you and I want to fulfil the destiny that God has for us, we need to deal with this. Listen to me: We need to deal with the sin. When we come face to face with Jesus Christ, we know in our heart of hearts the things that are wrong. There's a woman you can read about in John's gospel chapter 8 if you have a Bible, caught in adultery and they dragged her out to stone her in front of Jesus, and they were just going to trap Jesus (now there was a legal issue, which we won't go into now), and Jesus said, "Look. If any of you is without sin, let him be the first one to cast the stone." You know what happened? Those who heard began to drift away – the older ones first, until the only people left were Jesus and the woman. When we look Jesus in the face, we know the stuff that's wrong in our lives. The question is, how do we fix that?   I Find Myself With a Dilemma I remember how hard it was for me to give up smoking. What did it for me was when I was with someone when they died of lung cancer. I watched them breathe their last breath, and when I walked out of that hospital-room just over thirty years ago now, I threw my packet of cigarettes in the bin and I haven't smoked since that day. It wasn't easy. It was a day by day proposition – a craving by craving proposition. Letting go of that habit actually took years, and there are still times today thirty years on when I feel like a smoke, but I figure I can do it for just one more day. Giving up bad things can be really, really hard. Before the break, we chatted about this me, me, me, anything-goes model. The problem is, for anyone who's ever tried it, you end up facing a dilemma. On the one hand you know It's not working. I mean, I did it for much of my life. I'm a very intelligent person; I'm also short so there's no pride in that; I just happen to be a bright person, and I had everything going for me; and you looked on the outside and everything was going well, but it wasn't working on the inside, and we know this stuff (me-me-me) doesn't work. Now on the other hand, we want with all our hearts sometimes to believe in God – to have a relationship with Him that's awesome and amazing and fulfilling and exciting and tender and wonderful, but we know there are some things in life that He wants us to give up. It's like there's a roadblock between us and our destiny with God. With me it was ego; it was a huge thing. I'd speak at conferences all round the world in the IT industry, and I was frankly full of myself and I had an ego the size of a small planet, but I read the bit in the Bible that says God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble. Gulp. Looks like He wants me to do something with my pride, so there's a crunch time for me. Hey, there always is. There's always one or two things, often that's all there is, that we really need to give up; and they're inevitably things that are so important to us that we want to hang on to them for dear life, or should |I say for grim death (because they're bad for us and they're poisoning our lives). When you have a strong pride that dominates who you are, you can't have close relationships. Pride is also worrying about how other people see you, so you never have any peace. Life is always a competition to be the best; it's one-upmanship, but I knew I had to give this up, and it's like giving up smoking. There are two parts: the first part is that deep-down decision of throwing the packet of cigarettes into the bin. You see, you can't be double-minded about this. You can't have your cake and eat it too. You can't be a smoker and a non-smoker at the same time, can you? So what is it with you; what's the sin? I hope you don't mind me using that word, but it'll do. We have a sense of what it means. What's the sin that's robbing you of your identity – the sin that's robbing you of your destiny, and is it really worth it? Maybe it's anger or maybe you're cheating on your spouse or being dishonest at work or being selfish. Perhaps you like playing politics; undermining people behind their backs; playing the game just so you can win, not for the good of others. We don't have enough time in the day to go through them all, but there's always something, isn't there? And here's what I know because I learned it the hard way: That something is going to rob you of your destiny – the amazing future God has planned for you. Friend, that's a tragedy. Can I ask you to think right now what's the one thing, the one sin, that's robbing you of your destiny? Just think. Know it in your mind. Just look at it; turn it over and over; that one thing – your something. Now let me ask you two questions about it. Firstly, are you proud of it, or do you hide it? The chances are you hide it. That's what we inevitably do when we know that we're doing something wrong, and secondly, of what benefit is it to you? The very same question that the apostle Paul asks in the New Testament. Romans 6:21: So, what advantage did you then get from the things of which you are now ashamed? The end of those things is death. The key to letting that one thing go, your something – your sin, is realising that it's not good for you. It's not good for those around you, it's not good for the people you love, and it's robbing you of your destiny. Remember you can't be a non-smoker and a smoker at the same time. You can't have your cake and eat it as well. You can't hang on to sin and fulfil your destiny. You just can't. Deciding to make the change is something only you can do. I can encourage you, but you have to make the choice. Some people want God on their own terms. "Well, you know, you know, um, I'm living with my girlfriend or I'm living with my boyfriend and that's just the way things are these days, and if God wants me, He has to accept that because that's the way I am." You know, we want to remake God in our image to suit our consumer lifestyle. I'm sorry, but that's not the way it works because our identity, our true identity, is in God Himself. Genesis Chapter 1. God said, "Let us make man in our own image, in our own likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and the livestock – over everything", so God created us in His own image; in the image of God He created us, male and female He created us. Letting go of sin is hard, but when we live through that – every craving; every urge; every disappointment – just to honour Him, to be true to our identity, He blesses us because the sin robs us of life, and when we finally put Him at the top of the heap with all our hearts – with every fibre of our being, then doors open. Being true to our identity opens the door to our destiny. When we put our trust in Jesus alone, we're embarking on a journey that's not going to be easy – a journey that's going to have trials and temptations and some days we'll make mistakes and we'll fail, and you'll have to get up again and brush yourself off and keep on going for Him, but you know something? When we commit to that journey, and we understand that we have to work through the issues in our lives failure by failure, craving by craving, temptation by temptation, day by day, week by week, month by month, all of a sudden what happens (and this is what I experience; this is what so many others experience) ... When we go through that, after months and years, you look back and think, "You know something? I'm the person that God meant me to be! That's the direction I've headed in; that's where my life's going; that's how He's using me; that's how people are starting to see me … I'm actually living my destiny." Are you being the person God meant you to be? Have you made Jesus Christ the Lord of your life?

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Single Women Seek Instruction In Fellatio Arts.Based on a post by TheDoctah. Listen to the ►Podcast at Steamy Stories.We finished the wine bottle, well what else were we going to do with it? My wife's straight-laced friends were getting giggly. The four of us had been having a good time.“Spin The Bottle!” they shouted at once, before dissolving into giggles.“You want to play spin the bottle,” I asked. “How's that going to work? I notice that there are three women and one guy at this party, and the guy is married to one of the women. Or have you all gone gay all of a sudden?”Marlene, my wife, spoke up. “No, honey, we have not gone gay. And I don't want you having sex with these disreputable sluts, I mean, my best friends. But it's true, you're the only boy at the party.”I looked at her two friends. Loraine was tall, a dishwater blond with a slim body, and Roxy. Roxy was a short, buxom Italian cutie who could not help flirting, no matter what.“OK,” I said, “What's the idea then?”“Seven minutes of heaven,” Roxy interjected, and everybody took a sip and laughed.“With me,” I wanted to make sure I was understanding this."Well duh,” Marlene said. “We already told you we're not going gay. And you're the only male person here.”I gave her a sharp look. “And you're okay with this,” I asked her."Sure,” she said. “It's just a game. And I am pretty sure you'll have a good time.” Understatement of the year. All three women were grinning at me. I asked, “How does this work?”Roxy said; “whoever it points to, they go into the closet for seven minutes and do anything they want. Then they come out and somebody spins the bottle again.“Marlene: "And since there's one of you, just us girls will spin it, and see who goes in the closet with you.Marlene & I have been married a long time, and I trust that Marlene, same as me, has not been with anybody else for years. Loraine and Roxy were two of my wife's best friends. But I had never even flirted with either of them.The ladies were seated on the floor.  Marlene held the bottle dramatically out in the middle of their circle, looked at both her friends, and gave it a fast spin.It stopped, pointing at Roxy. She's not the shy type but you could see her take a big swallow."Well, Roxy.” my wife said. “You get seven minutes of heaven with Jacob.”“Yeah,” Roxy said, “You're sure this is okay?”“Absolutely,” Marlene said. “But look, how about a rule? No fucking in there, okay?”“Okay.” “Okay.” Loraine and Roxy said.“Unless it's me,” Marlene quipped, and they all giggled.Roxy said, “Okay, here goes.”Now in the hall closet, my ears were ringing, my hands were shaking, my dick was hard. And with Roxy. Are you kidding me?I said, “What are we supposed to –” but Roxy grabbed my head and pulled my face to hers in the dark and opened her mouth and attacked my mouth with her tongue. “Here. let me help you;” she reached behind herself to unsnap her bra and voila, those beautiful breasts fell into my eager hands.She was stroking my cock through my jeans. I could have shot a load right then. I pushed my fingers between her legs and she spread them to let me stroke her over the thin fabric of her pants. Her fingers outlined my penis as they slipped up and down its length, and then we heard a voice call, “That's six minutes!”Roxy giggled and broke our kiss, reached behind herself and put everything back. I stepped back, hoping my erection would subside before the door opened.“Okay, time!”I turned the knob and pushed the closet door open. Loraine and Marlene were sitting on the floor looking at us. I could see Marlene trying not to look at my face too closely, she was dying of curiosity but covering it well.“You ready for the next spin,” Marlene asked me. I felt she was taunting me. My cock at least was not trying to bust my zipper any more."Sure,” I said. “I win every round.”“Yeah, you do,” the ladies agreed. Another sip of wine, more laughter, and Marlene took up the bottle again.“What happens if he gets the same person twice,” Roxy asked."I don't see what's wrong with that,” Marlene said.“Well it doesn't seem fair,” Roxy said. “I mean, I'm all for going in there again, but it wouldn't seem right to leave you two sitting out here waiting that long.”Loraine agreed, and Marlene seemed to see the sense of it. She said, “Okay, so the next round it will just be me and Loraine.” Marlene gave the bottle a twist and let it go and it finally stopped, pointing at my wife.“Huh, that's ironic,” Marlene laughed. “I mean, a guy making out with his own wife, it seems kind of weird.”“Let's try it,” I said, taking her hand. We went into the closet and I kissed her. “I hope you're having fun,” she said.“Are you kidding,” I laughed. Marlene Starts a Blowjob SchoolMarlene dropped to her knees and in two seconds she had my belt unbuckled and my pants pushed down around my knees. "Hey, is that allowed,” I asked. She wrapped her lips around the head of my cock and took several slurps. Then she looked up at me and said, "Yes, it's allowed. I am, after all, married to you.” She took a couple more nibbles and said, “And also, it's not fucking.” Then she put her lips around my cock and sunk her nose down into my pubic hair, deep-throating me and doing something with her tongue on my shaft. She began bobbing up and down on me, slurping and giving me pleasure in ways she had learned after years of marriage. She was an expert cocksucker, I must say.“Now, be careful,” I said. “You don't want to make me cum.”“Why not,” she asked."Because I'll want to stop the game,” I said.“Good point,” she said, as she attacked my penis with her mouth, always stopping just when my breathing turned to moans. She used her hand alongside her lips and kept me on the brink until someone called, “Six minutes.” I helped her to her feet. She kissed me and said, “And don't you forget it.” I could taste the cum in her kiss, definitely a sexy flavor.“Oh, I won't,” I said.A minute later I opened the door and we stepped out. The other two looked at us, again, with curiosity. Marlene and I both smiled at them, and Marlene said, “Well I guess I'm not included in this round.” She sat on the couch and Roxy moved to the floor, across from Loraine.Loraine took the bottle in her hand, but Roxy said, “Lori, you're the only one who hasn't gone in the closet with him. Maybe you ought to just go.”“That wouldn't be fair,” Loraine said. “It wouldn't really be a game, would it?”"It seems fair to me,” Roxy said.“I'll spin it, and we'll see what happens,” Loraine said. With a flick of the wrist she sent the bottle twirling on the carpet between the two of them. All of us watched, fixated on it, imagining possible outcomes. The bottle slowed and came to a stop pointing at Roxy.“See,” Roxy said. "It's me again. That isn't fair.”“Sure it is,” my wife said. “That's how you play.” She gave Roxy a significant look, almost daring her to take this game past the limits.Roxy stared back at her and then stood slowly. “Okay,” she said, “I won this round.”“Yes, you did,” Marlene said with a laugh. “You and Jacob won this one.” Honestly, it seemed like Marlene wanted it to get out of hand.Roxy and I went into the closet and I pulled the door shut. She whispered, “She didn't finish you off in here, did she?”“No,” I said. “Close, but no.”“Good,” Roxy said, and her hand went immediately to my cock, which was already hard in anticipation. We began making out as she jacked me off through the denim of my jeans. I stroked her crotch and she reached down and unbuttoned her cotton pants. “Here, I'll make it easy for you,” she giggled. Her pussy was soaking wet when my fingers got under her panties. I squeezed again, and then began rolling her clit between my fingers slowly, until she arched her back and stifled a profound grunt, buried her face against me and spasmed uncontrollably for half a minute.“ She was laughing when she stopped. "Oh my god,” she whispered. “It has been a long time.” She renewed her attack on my cock and had me near the edge when they called six minutes.I'm sure I looked like I'd been hit over the head with a hammer when we came out. Marlene looked at Loraine and said, “Enough of this, it's your turn. I get him every night.”“Huh, good point,” Loraine said. “Okay, we'll pretend we spun it and it landed on me.”“Sure,” Marlene said. She picked up the bottle and set it on the floor pointing at Loraine. “There you go. Have fun.”Loraine said, “What have you guys been doing in here? I don't know what to do.”“We can do anything you want to do,” I said. “Except fuck me.”She stood there.“Come here,” I said, and I put my arms around her and kissed her, and she kissed like a schoolgirl. I used my tongue to pry her lips apart, and after a minute or so she got the idea. I ran my hands over her body and she responded coyly.She ran her hands over my upper body and whispered, “Is it okay if I touch you?”“Absolutely,” I said. I was not sure what she meant but I liked the sound of it. “I would love that.”Then she surprised the shit out of me by unbuckling my belt, pulling my pants down, and pulling my cock out. She ran her fingers over it, slowly jacking me off, tugging and stroking. I said, “That is amazing.”“You like that,” she said."Yes. A lot. You better be a little careful or you're going to make me cum.”“Wow, really?” She didn't seem to believe me, and continued stroking me.After a couple of minutes of that I said, “You better stop. It was just too good.”“Too good,” she laughed. "Too good?”“Yes,” I said, “If you keep going, the game will be over.”“I see.” I kissed her some more and we made out until they gave the alarm.The other two studied us as we came out. Loraine looked kind of embarrassed and flustered, but happy.“How was it,” Roxy asked, tactlessly."It was great,” I said.“Yes, it was great,” Loraine said.“You still able to keep playing,” my wife taunted me."Yes, absolutely, I wouldn't miss this for the world,” I said. “Let's have a sip of wine and rest up for the next round.”Loraine said, “I was scared at first. In fact, I was glad when the bottle never pointed at me. I thought I'd get out of doing it, going in there with Jacob, I feel much better now. But it was a little awkward. I never know what to do.”“Never,” Marlene asked."Yes,” Loraine said, “With guys. I mean, I just let them do what they want, and that seems to make them happy.”“What would you want to do,” Marlene asked. We were all feeling the intensity of the evening and the wine."I don't know,” Loraine said. “I just don't know how to do anything.”“We all feel like that,” Roxy said.“Really,” Marlene said. "I don't think I feel that way, unless I'm missing something.” She turned to Loraine, “Do you mean you don't have orgasms?”“No,” Loraine seemed to be blushing. “No, I'm okay with that. But I don't know how to do anything.”Marlene gazed at her. “Oh, I see.” We all took a thoughtful sip of wine, wondering where this was going. Looking at Loraine she continued, “So you don't feel like you are kinky enough or something?”Loraine looked at the floor. “No. Like a blow job, I know girls do that all the time but I don't know how to do it.”Marlene laughed, almost spitting out some wine. “Oh, well, that's easy. You just need to practice.”“Yeah, sure, with who?”Marlene spoke up. “Okay, I said no fucking, remember?” Everybody nodded. “But I didn't say no blow jobs.” Hearts were pounding. Marlene looked at Roxy. “Don't tell me you don't know how to give a blow job either?”Roxy said, “I've tried it before but I don't think it really worked.”Marlene stood up and paced around the room. “Well this is ridiculous. Jacob, you see what we have to do here. You are going to have to teach my friends how to give head.”Marlene laughed. “Sex school. Girls, it's time to learn the tricks of the trade. I don't know about you using our bed.” She thought some more. “Oh well, why not? I'll burn some sage or something. Why don't you & Loraine go into our room, Jacob do your best to show her what to do.”Roxy said, “What about me?”Marlene looked at her. “Yeah, what about you? Well, tell you what, Jacob see if you can get through a 7 minute lesson without blowing your load, think you can do that, honey?”I nodded. Marlene went on: “Okay, Loraine, then Roxy. Is that okay?”Roxy didn't look extremely happy with the deal but she agreed to it.Loraine and I went into the bedroom. I turned on the closet light and turned off the overhead. “How are we going to do this,” I asked."I don't know,” she said, “You're teaching me.”“Yeah, okay. So you don't know how to give a blow job, that's it?”“Yeah.”“Have you ever tried?”“Yeah, a couple of times.”“And what happened?”“He just wanted me to stop.”“Okay, so first, let me see what you do. We are going to get into the bed. Actually we'll both get naked.”We lay in the bed, her head on my arm, against my chest. My cock was pointing. I said, “Okay, well this is a little awkward but we'll do what we can. Why don't you go down on me and show me what you do.”I felt her lips touch the tip of my cock and then something, maybe she was licking it. Her lips took an inch or so of me and went up and down a few times.“Okay,” I said. “I see where we're at. Let me tell you a couple of things to start with. First of all, when I come, I want you to swallow it. Have you ever done that?”“Swallow what,” she asked.I thought for a few seconds. "Here's the deal, if you are doing this well, the guy is going shoot a load of sperm into your mouth. I'm going to try not to today, but I mean in real life. I don't know what it tastes like, it might be a little salty I think, but whatever, when he cums, swallow it like it is the finest Belgian chocolate, whether you like it or not. Gulp it down and lick up the last drops. You got that?”“I can't imagine that but yes, I hear you.”“But we're not going to do that now. I'm just telling you, if you are going to give a good blow job you're going to swallow it. Now, to get practical. There are two things that guys find irresistible. There is a little notch under the head of my penis, I'm circumcised, but I suppose everybody has this, that's called the frenulum. Look closely at it. See where it's like the two halves meet, right under the tip? That is extremely sensitive. Touch that with your tongue and you will drive a man crazy.” I held my cock in place so she could see it from a few inches away.“Yeah, okay, I think I see where you mean.”“Good. Do it.”Oh my god, she did that. After two seconds she stopped. “No,” I said, “Keep doing it. Lick that part of me lightly. You have to be gentle there. It is very sensitive.”I kept bouncing away from her and had to tell her to grip my shaft. I was moaning, I could have blasted right then.“Okay, good,” I said, “Now you have to stop. Oh my fucking god. Stop!” She stopped.“There is one other major skill. And I'll tell you, most girls can't do this and it's okay if you can't, but it's good to try. It's called deep throating, have you ever heard of that?”“I've heard the term,” she said.“Do you know what it means,” I asked her."No. I mean I can imagine but not really.”“Okay, well you see my cock is about average length. But still, if you tried to stuff it all in your mouth you would probably choke on it. Go ahead, try.”Loraine leaned over me and took me into her mouth. She got pretty far and began to gag.“So here's the deal,” I said. “You can learn not to gag. Maybe not right away, but if you can get a guy's cock down your throat he will do anything you say. He will be your slave for life. Go ahead, try. Go as far as you can, then relax and see if you can go a little farther. If you start to gag, back up a little and try again. Just try to relax your throat.”I lay back on the pillow with my hands behind my head, watching this slender cutie working on my cock. She would get half of it and begin to choke, and start again. She was actually making progress. Finally she had reached her limit, and it was time to move on.“Okay, good,” I said, “Stop. You were getting good at that. The two best things for a guy are one, licking his frenulum, and two, getting your lips around the base of his cock. But deep-throating is hard. In general, the main technique you will use is just fucking him with your mouth. You want to try that?”“Sure,” she said. “What do I do?”“Well wrap your lips around the middle of my shaft, not too far down, you don't have to choke for this. Now tighten your lips and move your mouth up to the tip of my cock. Then move it back down to the middle, maybe a little farther if that's comfortable. Keep going up and down like that. I think sometimes when you are near the head of it, you can work on the frenulum for a second, too, like with your tongue. Try it.”Holy shit! Her lips were snug and she began working on me methodically. I knew I had to save something for the next lesson but I would have been very happy to blast a load down this woman's throat, skipping right to the last lesson. She was blowing me like a pro. Finally I said, “Okay, stop. Stop Loraine, that is amazing. Let's take a break for a minute.”I caught my breath and then said, “Okay, let's try it again. Say you were on a date and a guy invited you in and you want to make an impression on him. Show me what you'd do.”She got up and walked around the bed and came up between my legs. Taking my cock in her hand, she looked up into my eyes and touched the tip of her tongue to the underside of my cock. She licked lightly until I could not watch any more. I was moaning and panting. Then I felt her lips surround my cock and proceed down the shaft until she had me down her throat. I could not open my eyes, but I'm sure she had the whole thing. She held that position for a few seconds and then began fucking me with her mouth, up and down on my shaft, devouring me until I literally pushed her head away and shouted, “No, stop, you have to stop.” She came and lay beside me again and I told her she was a wonderful student and I hoped we could have some more lessons in the future.She thanked me for teaching her, then said, “Well it's time for Roxy to learn.” There was no jealousy in her voice. It sounded like she was eager for her friend to learn this valuable lesson, as she had.“Yes,” I said, “Roxy's turn. Can you go send her in? You were an A student, by the way, that was wonderful.”Loraine gave me a passionate salty-tasting kiss, with tongue this time, and a hug, and she hopped up, pulled her clothes on, and hurried out the door, calling Roxy.I lay on my back, panting. I was appreciating my crazy wife more than anything. I always knew she was adventurous but she was also traditional in so many ways, she would not risk her marriage. I never would have imagined this.Roxy came in with a wine glass in her hand. She paused in the doorway, then pulled the door shut.“How was it?” she asked me. “Did Loraine learn something?”“I'd say she did,” I said. “So tell me, is this true, you don't know how to give a blow job?”“Yeah,” she sa

Single Women Seek Instruction In Fellatio Arts.Based on a post by TheDoctah. Listen to the ►Podcast at Steamy Stories.We finished the wine bottle, well what else were we going to do with it? My wife's straight-laced friends were getting giggly. The four of us had been having a good time.“Spin The Bottle!” they shouted at once, before dissolving into giggles.“You want to play spin the bottle,” I asked. “How's that going to work? I notice that there are three women and one guy at this party, and the guy is married to one of the women. Or have you all gone gay all of a sudden?”Marlene, my wife, spoke up. “No, honey, we have not gone gay. And I don't want you having sex with these disreputable sluts, I mean, my best friends. But it's true, you're the only boy at the party.”I looked at her two friends. Loraine was tall, a dishwater blond with a slim body, and Roxy. Roxy was a short, buxom Italian cutie who could not help flirting, no matter what.“OK,” I said, “What's the idea then?”“Seven minutes of heaven,” Roxy interjected, and everybody took a sip and laughed.“With me,” I wanted to make sure I was understanding this."Well duh,” Marlene said. “We already told you we're not going gay. And you're the only male person here.”I gave her a sharp look. “And you're okay with this,” I asked her."Sure,” she said. “It's just a game. And I am pretty sure you'll have a good time.” Understatement of the year. All three women were grinning at me. I asked, “How does this work?”Roxy said; “whoever it points to, they go into the closet for seven minutes and do anything they want. Then they come out and somebody spins the bottle again.“Marlene: "And since there's one of you, just us girls will spin it, and see who goes in the closet with you.Marlene & I have been married a long time, and I trust that Marlene, same as me, has not been with anybody else for years. Loraine and Roxy were two of my wife's best friends. But I had never even flirted with either of them.The ladies were seated on the floor.  Marlene held the bottle dramatically out in the middle of their circle, looked at both her friends, and gave it a fast spin.It stopped, pointing at Roxy. She's not the shy type but you could see her take a big swallow."Well, Roxy.” my wife said. “You get seven minutes of heaven with Jacob.”“Yeah,” Roxy said, “You're sure this is okay?”“Absolutely,” Marlene said. “But look, how about a rule? No fucking in there, okay?”“Okay.” “Okay.” Loraine and Roxy said.“Unless it's me,” Marlene quipped, and they all giggled.Roxy said, “Okay, here goes.”Now in the hall closet, my ears were ringing, my hands were shaking, my dick was hard. And with Roxy. Are you kidding me?I said, “What are we supposed to –” but Roxy grabbed my head and pulled my face to hers in the dark and opened her mouth and attacked my mouth with her tongue. “Here. let me help you;” she reached behind herself to unsnap her bra and voila, those beautiful breasts fell into my eager hands.She was stroking my cock through my jeans. I could have shot a load right then. I pushed my fingers between her legs and she spread them to let me stroke her over the thin fabric of her pants. Her fingers outlined my penis as they slipped up and down its length, and then we heard a voice call, “That's six minutes!”Roxy giggled and broke our kiss, reached behind herself and put everything back. I stepped back, hoping my erection would subside before the door opened.“Okay, time!”I turned the knob and pushed the closet door open. Loraine and Marlene were sitting on the floor looking at us. I could see Marlene trying not to look at my face too closely, she was dying of curiosity but covering it well.“You ready for the next spin,” Marlene asked me. I felt she was taunting me. My cock at least was not trying to bust my zipper any more."Sure,” I said. “I win every round.”“Yeah, you do,” the ladies agreed. Another sip of wine, more laughter, and Marlene took up the bottle again.“What happens if he gets the same person twice,” Roxy asked."I don't see what's wrong with that,” Marlene said.“Well it doesn't seem fair,” Roxy said. “I mean, I'm all for going in there again, but it wouldn't seem right to leave you two sitting out here waiting that long.”Loraine agreed, and Marlene seemed to see the sense of it. She said, “Okay, so the next round it will just be me and Loraine.” Marlene gave the bottle a twist and let it go and it finally stopped, pointing at my wife.“Huh, that's ironic,” Marlene laughed. “I mean, a guy making out with his own wife, it seems kind of weird.”“Let's try it,” I said, taking her hand. We went into the closet and I kissed her. “I hope you're having fun,” she said.“Are you kidding,” I laughed. Marlene Starts a Blowjob SchoolMarlene dropped to her knees and in two seconds she had my belt unbuckled and my pants pushed down around my knees. "Hey, is that allowed,” I asked. She wrapped her lips around the head of my cock and took several slurps. Then she looked up at me and said, "Yes, it's allowed. I am, after all, married to you.” She took a couple more nibbles and said, “And also, it's not fucking.” Then she put her lips around my cock and sunk her nose down into my pubic hair, deep-throating me and doing something with her tongue on my shaft. She began bobbing up and down on me, slurping and giving me pleasure in ways she had learned after years of marriage. She was an expert cocksucker, I must say.“Now, be careful,” I said. “You don't want to make me cum.”“Why not,” she asked."Because I'll want to stop the game,” I said.“Good point,” she said, as she attacked my penis with her mouth, always stopping just when my breathing turned to moans. She used her hand alongside her lips and kept me on the brink until someone called, “Six minutes.” I helped her to her feet. She kissed me and said, “And don't you forget it.” I could taste the cum in her kiss, definitely a sexy flavor.“Oh, I won't,” I said.A minute later I opened the door and we stepped out. The other two looked at us, again, with curiosity. Marlene and I both smiled at them, and Marlene said, “Well I guess I'm not included in this round.” She sat on the couch and Roxy moved to the floor, across from Loraine.Loraine took the bottle in her hand, but Roxy said, “Lori, you're the only one who hasn't gone in the closet with him. Maybe you ought to just go.”“That wouldn't be fair,” Loraine said. “It wouldn't really be a game, would it?”"It seems fair to me,” Roxy said.“I'll spin it, and we'll see what happens,” Loraine said. With a flick of the wrist she sent the bottle twirling on the carpet between the two of them. All of us watched, fixated on it, imagining possible outcomes. The bottle slowed and came to a stop pointing at Roxy.“See,” Roxy said. "It's me again. That isn't fair.”“Sure it is,” my wife said. “That's how you play.” She gave Roxy a significant look, almost daring her to take this game past the limits.Roxy stared back at her and then stood slowly. “Okay,” she said, “I won this round.”“Yes, you did,” Marlene said with a laugh. “You and Jacob won this one.” Honestly, it seemed like Marlene wanted it to get out of hand.Roxy and I went into the closet and I pulled the door shut. She whispered, “She didn't finish you off in here, did she?”“No,” I said. “Close, but no.”“Good,” Roxy said, and her hand went immediately to my cock, which was already hard in anticipation. We began making out as she jacked me off through the denim of my jeans. I stroked her crotch and she reached down and unbuttoned her cotton pants. “Here, I'll make it easy for you,” she giggled. Her pussy was soaking wet when my fingers got under her panties. I squeezed again, and then began rolling her clit between my fingers slowly, until she arched her back and stifled a profound grunt, buried her face against me and spasmed uncontrollably for half a minute.“ She was laughing when she stopped. "Oh my god,” she whispered. “It has been a long time.” She renewed her attack on my cock and had me near the edge when they called six minutes.I'm sure I looked like I'd been hit over the head with a hammer when we came out. Marlene looked at Loraine and said, “Enough of this, it's your turn. I get him every night.”“Huh, good point,” Loraine said. “Okay, we'll pretend we spun it and it landed on me.”“Sure,” Marlene said. She picked up the bottle and set it on the floor pointing at Loraine. “There you go. Have fun.”Loraine said, “What have you guys been doing in here? I don't know what to do.”“We can do anything you want to do,” I said. “Except fuck me.”She stood there.“Come here,” I said, and I put my arms around her and kissed her, and she kissed like a schoolgirl. I used my tongue to pry her lips apart, and after a minute or so she got the idea. I ran my hands over her body and she responded coyly.She ran her hands over my upper body and whispered, “Is it okay if I touch you?”“Absolutely,” I said. I was not sure what she meant but I liked the sound of it. “I would love that.”Then she surprised the shit out of me by unbuckling my belt, pulling my pants down, and pulling my cock out. She ran her fingers over it, slowly jacking me off, tugging and stroking. I said, “That is amazing.”“You like that,” she said."Yes. A lot. You better be a little careful or you're going to make me cum.”“Wow, really?” She didn't seem to believe me, and continued stroking me.After a couple of minutes of that I said, “You better stop. It was just too good.”“Too good,” she laughed. "Too good?”“Yes,” I said, “If you keep going, the game will be over.”“I see.” I kissed her some more and we made out until they gave the alarm.The other two studied us as we came out. Loraine looked kind of embarrassed and flustered, but happy.“How was it,” Roxy asked, tactlessly."It was great,” I said.“Yes, it was great,” Loraine said.“You still able to keep playing,” my wife taunted me."Yes, absolutely, I wouldn't miss this for the world,” I said. “Let's have a sip of wine and rest up for the next round.”Loraine said, “I was scared at first. In fact, I was glad when the bottle never pointed at me. I thought I'd get out of doing it, going in there with Jacob, I feel much better now. But it was a little awkward. I never know what to do.”“Never,” Marlene asked."Yes,” Loraine said, “With guys. I mean, I just let them do what they want, and that seems to make them happy.”“What would you want to do,” Marlene asked. We were all feeling the intensity of the evening and the wine."I don't know,” Loraine said. “I just don't know how to do anything.”“We all feel like that,” Roxy said.“Really,” Marlene said. "I don't think I feel that way, unless I'm missing something.” She turned to Loraine, “Do you mean you don't have orgasms?”“No,” Loraine seemed to be blushing. “No, I'm okay with that. But I don't know how to do anything.”Marlene gazed at her. “Oh, I see.” We all took a thoughtful sip of wine, wondering where this was going. Looking at Loraine she continued, “So you don't feel like you are kinky enough or something?”Loraine looked at the floor. “No. Like a blow job, I know girls do that all the time but I don't know how to do it.”Marlene laughed, almost spitting out some wine. “Oh, well, that's easy. You just need to practice.”“Yeah, sure, with who?”Marlene spoke up. “Okay, I said no fucking, remember?” Everybody nodded. “But I didn't say no blow jobs.” Hearts were pounding. Marlene looked at Roxy. “Don't tell me you don't know how to give a blow job either?”Roxy said, “I've tried it before but I don't think it really worked.”Marlene stood up and paced around the room. “Well this is ridiculous. Jacob, you see what we have to do here. You are going to have to teach my friends how to give head.”Marlene laughed. “Sex school. Girls, it's time to learn the tricks of the trade. I don't know about you using our bed.” She thought some more. “Oh well, why not? I'll burn some sage or something. Why don't you & Loraine go into our room, Jacob do your best to show her what to do.”Roxy said, “What about me?”Marlene looked at her. “Yeah, what about you? Well, tell you what, Jacob see if you can get through a 7 minute lesson without blowing your load, think you can do that, honey?”I nodded. Marlene went on: “Okay, Loraine, then Roxy. Is that okay?”Roxy didn't look extremely happy with the deal but she agreed to it.Loraine and I went into the bedroom. I turned on the closet light and turned off the overhead. “How are we going to do this,” I asked."I don't know,” she said, “You're teaching me.”“Yeah, okay. So you don't know how to give a blow job, that's it?”“Yeah.”“Have you ever tried?”“Yeah, a couple of times.”“And what happened?”“He just wanted me to stop.”“Okay, so first, let me see what you do. We are going to get into the bed. Actually we'll both get naked.”We lay in the bed, her head on my arm, against my chest. My cock was pointing. I said, “Okay, well this is a little awkward but we'll do what we can. Why don't you go down on me and show me what you do.”I felt her lips touch the tip of my cock and then something, maybe she was licking it. Her lips took an inch or so of me and went up and down a few times.“Okay,” I said. “I see where we're at. Let me tell you a couple of things to start with. First of all, when I come, I want you to swallow it. Have you ever done that?”“Swallow what,” she asked.I thought for a few seconds. "Here's the deal, if you are doing this well, the guy is going shoot a load of sperm into your mouth. I'm going to try not to today, but I mean in real life. I don't know what it tastes like, it might be a little salty I think, but whatever, when he cums, swallow it like it is the finest Belgian chocolate, whether you like it or not. Gulp it down and lick up the last drops. You got that?”“I can't imagine that but yes, I hear you.”“But we're not going to do that now. I'm just telling you, if you are going to give a good blow job you're going to swallow it. Now, to get practical. There are two things that guys find irresistible. There is a little notch under the head of my penis, I'm circumcised, but I suppose everybody has this, that's called the frenulum. Look closely at it. See where it's like the two halves meet, right under the tip? That is extremely sensitive. Touch that with your tongue and you will drive a man crazy.” I held my cock in place so she could see it from a few inches away.“Yeah, okay, I think I see where you mean.”“Good. Do it.”Oh my god, she did that. After two seconds she stopped. “No,” I said, “Keep doing it. Lick that part of me lightly. You have to be gentle there. It is very sensitive.”I kept bouncing away from her and had to tell her to grip my shaft. I was moaning, I could have blasted right then.“Okay, good,” I said, “Now you have to stop. Oh my fucking god. Stop!” She stopped.“There is one other major skill. And I'll tell you, most girls can't do this and it's okay if you can't, but it's good to try. It's called deep throating, have you ever heard of that?”“I've heard the term,” she said.“Do you know what it means,” I asked her."No. I mean I can imagine but not really.”“Okay, well you see my cock is about average length. But still, if you tried to stuff it all in your mouth you would probably choke on it. Go ahead, try.”Loraine leaned over me and took me into her mouth. She got pretty far and began to gag.“So here's the deal,” I said. “You can learn not to gag. Maybe not right away, but if you can get a guy's cock down your throat he will do anything you say. He will be your slave for life. Go ahead, try. Go as far as you can, then relax and see if you can go a little farther. If you start to gag, back up a little and try again. Just try to relax your throat.”I lay back on the pillow with my hands behind my head, watching this slender cutie working on my cock. She would get half of it and begin to choke, and start again. She was actually making progress. Finally she had reached her limit, and it was time to move on.“Okay, good,” I said, “Stop. You were getting good at that. The two best things for a guy are one, licking his frenulum, and two, getting your lips around the base of his cock. But deep-throating is hard. In general, the main technique you will use is just fucking him with your mouth. You want to try that?”“Sure,” she said. “What do I do?”“Well wrap your lips around the middle of my shaft, not too far down, you don't have to choke for this. Now tighten your lips and move your mouth up to the tip of my cock. Then move it back down to the middle, maybe a little farther if that's comfortable. Keep going up and down like that. I think sometimes when you are near the head of it, you can work on the frenulum for a second, too, like with your tongue. Try it.”Holy shit! Her lips were snug and she began working on me methodically. I knew I had to save something for the next lesson but I would have been very happy to blast a load down this woman's throat, skipping right to the last lesson. She was blowing me like a pro. Finally I said, “Okay, stop. Stop Loraine, that is amazing. Let's take a break for a minute.”I caught my breath and then said, “Okay, let's try it again. Say you were on a date and a guy invited you in and you want to make an impression on him. Show me what you'd do.”She got up and walked around the bed and came up between my legs. Taking my cock in her hand, she looked up into my eyes and touched the tip of her tongue to the underside of my cock. She licked lightly until I could not watch any more. I was moaning and panting. Then I felt her lips surround my cock and proceed down the shaft until she had me down her throat. I could not open my eyes, but I'm sure she had the whole thing. She held that position for a few seconds and then began fucking me with her mouth, up and down on my shaft, devouring me until I literally pushed her head away and shouted, “No, stop, you have to stop.” She came and lay beside me again and I told her she was a wonderful student and I hoped we could have some more lessons in the future.She thanked me for teaching her, then said, “Well it's time for Roxy to learn.” There was no jealousy in her voice. It sounded like she was eager for her friend to learn this valuable lesson, as she had.“Yes,” I said, “Roxy's turn. Can you go send her in? You were an A student, by the way, that was wonderful.”Loraine gave me a passionate salty-tasting kiss, with tongue this time, and a hug, and she hopped up, pulled her clothes on, and hurried out the door, calling Roxy.I lay on my back, panting. I was appreciating my crazy wife more than anything. I always knew she was adventurous but she was also traditional in so many ways, she would not risk her marriage. I never would have imagined this.Roxy came in with a wine glass in her hand. She paused in the doorway, then pulled the door shut.“How was it?” she asked me. “Did Loraine learn something?”“I'd say she did,” I said. “So tell me, is this true, you don't know how to give a blow job?”“Yeah,” she sa

Single Women Seek Instruction In Fellatio Arts.Based on a post by TheDoctah. Listen to the ►Podcast at Steamy Stories.We finished the wine bottle, well what else were we going to do with it? My wife's straight-laced friends were getting giggly. The four of us had been having a good time.“Spin The Bottle!” they shouted at once, before dissolving into giggles.“You want to play spin the bottle,” I asked. “How's that going to work? I notice that there are three women and one guy at this party, and the guy is married to one of the women. Or have you all gone gay all of a sudden?”Marlene, my wife, spoke up. “No, honey, we have not gone gay. And I don't want you having sex with these disreputable sluts, I mean, my best friends. But it's true, you're the only boy at the party.”I looked at her two friends. Loraine was tall, a dishwater blond with a slim body, and Roxy. Roxy was a short, buxom Italian cutie who could not help flirting, no matter what.“OK,” I said, “What's the idea then?”“Seven minutes of heaven,” Roxy interjected, and everybody took a sip and laughed.“With me,” I wanted to make sure I was understanding this."Well duh,” Marlene said. “We already told you we're not going gay. And you're the only male person here.”I gave her a sharp look. “And you're okay with this,” I asked her."Sure,” she said. “It's just a game. And I am pretty sure you'll have a good time.” Understatement of the year. All three women were grinning at me. I asked, “How does this work?”Roxy said; “whoever it points to, they go into the closet for seven minutes and do anything they want. Then they come out and somebody spins the bottle again.“Marlene: "And since there's one of you, just us girls will spin it, and see who goes in the closet with you.Marlene & I have been married a long time, and I trust that Marlene, same as me, has not been with anybody else for years. Loraine and Roxy were two of my wife's best friends. But I had never even flirted with either of them.The ladies were seated on the floor.  Marlene held the bottle dramatically out in the middle of their circle, looked at both her friends, and gave it a fast spin.It stopped, pointing at Roxy. She's not the shy type but you could see her take a big swallow."Well, Roxy.” my wife said. “You get seven minutes of heaven with Jacob.”“Yeah,” Roxy said, “You're sure this is okay?”“Absolutely,” Marlene said. “But look, how about a rule? No fucking in there, okay?”“Okay.” “Okay.” Loraine and Roxy said.“Unless it's me,” Marlene quipped, and they all giggled.Roxy said, “Okay, here goes.”Now in the hall closet, my ears were ringing, my hands were shaking, my dick was hard. And with Roxy. Are you kidding me?I said, “What are we supposed to –” but Roxy grabbed my head and pulled my face to hers in the dark and opened her mouth and attacked my mouth with her tongue. “Here. let me help you;” she reached behind herself to unsnap her bra and voila, those beautiful breasts fell into my eager hands.She was stroking my cock through my jeans. I could have shot a load right then. I pushed my fingers between her legs and she spread them to let me stroke her over the thin fabric of her pants. Her fingers outlined my penis as they slipped up and down its length, and then we heard a voice call, “That's six minutes!”Roxy giggled and broke our kiss, reached behind herself and put everything back. I stepped back, hoping my erection would subside before the door opened.“Okay, time!”I turned the knob and pushed the closet door open. Loraine and Marlene were sitting on the floor looking at us. I could see Marlene trying not to look at my face too closely, she was dying of curiosity but covering it well.“You ready for the next spin,” Marlene asked me. I felt she was taunting me. My cock at least was not trying to bust my zipper any more."Sure,” I said. “I win every round.”“Yeah, you do,” the ladies agreed. Another sip of wine, more laughter, and Marlene took up the bottle again.“What happens if he gets the same person twice,” Roxy asked."I don't see what's wrong with that,” Marlene said.“Well it doesn't seem fair,” Roxy said. “I mean, I'm all for going in there again, but it wouldn't seem right to leave you two sitting out here waiting that long.”Loraine agreed, and Marlene seemed to see the sense of it. She said, “Okay, so the next round it will just be me and Loraine.” Marlene gave the bottle a twist and let it go and it finally stopped, pointing at my wife.“Huh, that's ironic,” Marlene laughed. “I mean, a guy making out with his own wife, it seems kind of weird.”“Let's try it,” I said, taking her hand. We went into the closet and I kissed her. “I hope you're having fun,” she said.“Are you kidding,” I laughed. Marlene Starts a Blowjob SchoolMarlene dropped to her knees and in two seconds she had my belt unbuckled and my pants pushed down around my knees. "Hey, is that allowed,” I asked. She wrapped her lips around the head of my cock and took several slurps. Then she looked up at me and said, "Yes, it's allowed. I am, after all, married to you.” She took a couple more nibbles and said, “And also, it's not fucking.” Then she put her lips around my cock and sunk her nose down into my pubic hair, deep-throating me and doing something with her tongue on my shaft. She began bobbing up and down on me, slurping and giving me pleasure in ways she had learned after years of marriage. She was an expert cocksucker, I must say.“Now, be careful,” I said. “You don't want to make me cum.”“Why not,” she asked."Because I'll want to stop the game,” I said.“Good point,” she said, as she attacked my penis with her mouth, always stopping just when my breathing turned to moans. She used her hand alongside her lips and kept me on the brink until someone called, “Six minutes.” I helped her to her feet. She kissed me and said, “And don't you forget it.” I could taste the cum in her kiss, definitely a sexy flavor.“Oh, I won't,” I said.A minute later I opened the door and we stepped out. The other two looked at us, again, with curiosity. Marlene and I both smiled at them, and Marlene said, “Well I guess I'm not included in this round.” She sat on the couch and Roxy moved to the floor, across from Loraine.Loraine took the bottle in her hand, but Roxy said, “Lori, you're the only one who hasn't gone in the closet with him. Maybe you ought to just go.”“That wouldn't be fair,” Loraine said. “It wouldn't really be a game, would it?”"It seems fair to me,” Roxy said.“I'll spin it, and we'll see what happens,” Loraine said. With a flick of the wrist she sent the bottle twirling on the carpet between the two of them. All of us watched, fixated on it, imagining possible outcomes. The bottle slowed and came to a stop pointing at Roxy.“See,” Roxy said. "It's me again. That isn't fair.”“Sure it is,” my wife said. “That's how you play.” She gave Roxy a significant look, almost daring her to take this game past the limits.Roxy stared back at her and then stood slowly. “Okay,” she said, “I won this round.”“Yes, you did,” Marlene said with a laugh. “You and Jacob won this one.” Honestly, it seemed like Marlene wanted it to get out of hand.Roxy and I went into the closet and I pulled the door shut. She whispered, “She didn't finish you off in here, did she?”“No,” I said. “Close, but no.”“Good,” Roxy said, and her hand went immediately to my cock, which was already hard in anticipation. We began making out as she jacked me off through the denim of my jeans. I stroked her crotch and she reached down and unbuttoned her cotton pants. “Here, I'll make it easy for you,” she giggled. Her pussy was soaking wet when my fingers got under her panties. I squeezed again, and then began rolling her clit between my fingers slowly, until she arched her back and stifled a profound grunt, buried her face against me and spasmed uncontrollably for half a minute.“ She was laughing when she stopped. "Oh my god,” she whispered. “It has been a long time.” She renewed her attack on my cock and had me near the edge when they called six minutes.I'm sure I looked like I'd been hit over the head with a hammer when we came out. Marlene looked at Loraine and said, “Enough of this, it's your turn. I get him every night.”“Huh, good point,” Loraine said. “Okay, we'll pretend we spun it and it landed on me.”“Sure,” Marlene said. She picked up the bottle and set it on the floor pointing at Loraine. “There you go. Have fun.”Loraine said, “What have you guys been doing in here? I don't know what to do.”“We can do anything you want to do,” I said. “Except fuck me.”She stood there.“Come here,” I said, and I put my arms around her and kissed her, and she kissed like a schoolgirl. I used my tongue to pry her lips apart, and after a minute or so she got the idea. I ran my hands over her body and she responded coyly.She ran her hands over my upper body and whispered, “Is it okay if I touch you?”“Absolutely,” I said. I was not sure what she meant but I liked the sound of it. “I would love that.”Then she surprised the shit out of me by unbuckling my belt, pulling my pants down, and pulling my cock out. She ran her fingers over it, slowly jacking me off, tugging and stroking. I said, “That is amazing.”“You like that,” she said."Yes. A lot. You better be a little careful or you're going to make me cum.”“Wow, really?” She didn't seem to believe me, and continued stroking me.After a couple of minutes of that I said, “You better stop. It was just too good.”“Too good,” she laughed. "Too good?”“Yes,” I said, “If you keep going, the game will be over.”“I see.” I kissed her some more and we made out until they gave the alarm.The other two studied us as we came out. Loraine looked kind of embarrassed and flustered, but happy.“How was it,” Roxy asked, tactlessly."It was great,” I said.“Yes, it was great,” Loraine said.“You still able to keep playing,” my wife taunted me."Yes, absolutely, I wouldn't miss this for the world,” I said. “Let's have a sip of wine and rest up for the next round.”Loraine said, “I was scared at first. In fact, I was glad when the bottle never pointed at me. I thought I'd get out of doing it, going in there with Jacob, I feel much better now. But it was a little awkward. I never know what to do.”“Never,” Marlene asked."Yes,” Loraine said, “With guys. I mean, I just let them do what they want, and that seems to make them happy.”“What would you want to do,” Marlene asked. We were all feeling the intensity of the evening and the wine."I don't know,” Loraine said. “I just don't know how to do anything.”“We all feel like that,” Roxy said.“Really,” Marlene said. "I don't think I feel that way, unless I'm missing something.” She turned to Loraine, “Do you mean you don't have orgasms?”“No,” Loraine seemed to be blushing. “No, I'm okay with that. But I don't know how to do anything.”Marlene gazed at her. “Oh, I see.” We all took a thoughtful sip of wine, wondering where this was going. Looking at Loraine she continued, “So you don't feel like you are kinky enough or something?”Loraine looked at the floor. “No. Like a blow job, I know girls do that all the time but I don't know how to do it.”Marlene laughed, almost spitting out some wine. “Oh, well, that's easy. You just need to practice.”“Yeah, sure, with who?”Marlene spoke up. “Okay, I said no fucking, remember?” Everybody nodded. “But I didn't say no blow jobs.” Hearts were pounding. Marlene looked at Roxy. “Don't tell me you don't know how to give a blow job either?”Roxy said, “I've tried it before but I don't think it really worked.”Marlene stood up and paced around the room. “Well this is ridiculous. Jacob, you see what we have to do here. You are going to have to teach my friends how to give head.”Marlene laughed. “Sex school. Girls, it's time to learn the tricks of the trade. I don't know about you using our bed.” She thought some more. “Oh well, why not? I'll burn some sage or something. Why don't you & Loraine go into our room, Jacob do your best to show her what to do.”Roxy said, “What about me?”Marlene looked at her. “Yeah, what about you? Well, tell you what, Jacob see if you can get through a 7 minute lesson without blowing your load, think you can do that, honey?”I nodded. Marlene went on: “Okay, Loraine, then Roxy. Is that okay?”Roxy didn't look extremely happy with the deal but she agreed to it.Loraine and I went into the bedroom. I turned on the closet light and turned off the overhead. “How are we going to do this,” I asked."I don't know,” she said, “You're teaching me.”“Yeah, okay. So you don't know how to give a blow job, that's it?”“Yeah.”“Have you ever tried?”“Yeah, a couple of times.”“And what happened?”“He just wanted me to stop.”“Okay, so first, let me see what you do. We are going to get into the bed. Actually we'll both get naked.”We lay in the bed, her head on my arm, against my chest. My cock was pointing. I said, “Okay, well this is a little awkward but we'll do what we can. Why don't you go down on me and show me what you do.”I felt her lips touch the tip of my cock and then something, maybe she was licking it. Her lips took an inch or so of me and went up and down a few times.“Okay,” I said. “I see where we're at. Let me tell you a couple of things to start with. First of all, when I come, I want you to swallow it. Have you ever done that?”“Swallow what,” she asked.I thought for a few seconds. "Here's the deal, if you are doing this well, the guy is going shoot a load of sperm into your mouth. I'm going to try not to today, but I mean in real life. I don't know what it tastes like, it might be a little salty I think, but whatever, when he cums, swallow it like it is the finest Belgian chocolate, whether you like it or not. Gulp it down and lick up the last drops. You got that?”“I can't imagine that but yes, I hear you.”“But we're not going to do that now. I'm just telling you, if you are going to give a good blow job you're going to swallow it. Now, to get practical. There are two things that guys find irresistible. There is a little notch under the head of my penis, I'm circumcised, but I suppose everybody has this, that's called the frenulum. Look closely at it. See where it's like the two halves meet, right under the tip? That is extremely sensitive. Touch that with your tongue and you will drive a man crazy.” I held my cock in place so she could see it from a few inches away.“Yeah, okay, I think I see where you mean.”“Good. Do it.”Oh my god, she did that. After two seconds she stopped. “No,” I said, “Keep doing it. Lick that part of me lightly. You have to be gentle there. It is very sensitive.”I kept bouncing away from her and had to tell her to grip my shaft. I was moaning, I could have blasted right then.“Okay, good,” I said, “Now you have to stop. Oh my fucking god. Stop!” She stopped.“There is one other major skill. And I'll tell you, most girls can't do this and it's okay if you can't, but it's good to try. It's called deep throating, have you ever heard of that?”“I've heard the term,” she said.“Do you know what it means,” I asked her."No. I mean I can imagine but not really.”“Okay, well you see my cock is about average length. But still, if you tried to stuff it all in your mouth you would probably choke on it. Go ahead, try.”Loraine leaned over me and took me into her mouth. She got pretty far and began to gag.“So here's the deal,” I said. “You can learn not to gag. Maybe not right away, but if you can get a guy's cock down your throat he will do anything you say. He will be your slave for life. Go ahead, try. Go as far as you can, then relax and see if you can go a little farther. If you start to gag, back up a little and try again. Just try to relax your throat.”I lay back on the pillow with my hands behind my head, watching this slender cutie working on my cock. She would get half of it and begin to choke, and start again. She was actually making progress. Finally she had reached her limit, and it was time to move on.“Okay, good,” I said, “Stop. You were getting good at that. The two best things for a guy are one, licking his frenulum, and two, getting your lips around the base of his cock. But deep-throating is hard. In general, the main technique you will use is just fucking him with your mouth. You want to try that?”“Sure,” she said. “What do I do?”“Well wrap your lips around the middle of my shaft, not too far down, you don't have to choke for this. Now tighten your lips and move your mouth up to the tip of my cock. Then move it back down to the middle, maybe a little farther if that's comfortable. Keep going up and down like that. I think sometimes when you are near the head of it, you can work on the frenulum for a second, too, like with your tongue. Try it.”Holy shit! Her lips were snug and she began working on me methodically. I knew I had to save something for the next lesson but I would have been very happy to blast a load down this woman's throat, skipping right to the last lesson. She was blowing me like a pro. Finally I said, “Okay, stop. Stop Loraine, that is amazing. Let's take a break for a minute.”I caught my breath and then said, “Okay, let's try it again. Say you were on a date and a guy invited you in and you want to make an impression on him. Show me what you'd do.”She got up and walked around the bed and came up between my legs. Taking my cock in her hand, she looked up into my eyes and touched the tip of her tongue to the underside of my cock. She licked lightly until I could not watch any more. I was moaning and panting. Then I felt her lips surround my cock and proceed down the shaft until she had me down her throat. I could not open my eyes, but I'm sure she had the whole thing. She held that position for a few seconds and then began fucking me with her mouth, up and down on my shaft, devouring me until I literally pushed her head away and shouted, “No, stop, you have to stop.” She came and lay beside me again and I told her she was a wonderful student and I hoped we could have some more lessons in the future.She thanked me for teaching her, then said, “Well it's time for Roxy to learn.” There was no jealousy in her voice. It sounded like she was eager for her friend to learn this valuable lesson, as she had.“Yes,” I said, “Roxy's turn. Can you go send her in? You were an A student, by the way, that was wonderful.”Loraine gave me a passionate salty-tasting kiss, with tongue this time, and a hug, and she hopped up, pulled her clothes on, and hurried out the door, calling Roxy.I lay on my back, panting. I was appreciating my crazy wife more than anything. I always knew she was adventurous but she was also traditional in so many ways, she would not risk her marriage. I never would have imagined this.Roxy came in with a wine glass in her hand. She paused in the doorway, then pulled the door shut.“How was it?” she asked me. “Did Loraine learn something?”“I'd say she did,” I said. “So tell me, is this true, you don't know how to give a blow job?”“Yeah,” she sa

Single Women Seek Instruction In Fellatio Arts.Based on a post by TheDoctah. Listen to the ►Podcast at Steamy Stories.We finished the wine bottle, well what else were we going to do with it? My wife's straight-laced friends were getting giggly. The four of us had been having a good time.“Spin The Bottle!” they shouted at once, before dissolving into giggles.“You want to play spin the bottle,” I asked. “How's that going to work? I notice that there are three women and one guy at this party, and the guy is married to one of the women. Or have you all gone gay all of a sudden?”Marlene, my wife, spoke up. “No, honey, we have not gone gay. And I don't want you having sex with these disreputable sluts, I mean, my best friends. But it's true, you're the only boy at the party.”I looked at her two friends. Loraine was tall, a dishwater blond with a slim body, and Roxy. Roxy was a short, buxom Italian cutie who could not help flirting, no matter what.“OK,” I said, “What's the idea then?”“Seven minutes of heaven,” Roxy interjected, and everybody took a sip and laughed.“With me,” I wanted to make sure I was understanding this."Well duh,” Marlene said. “We already told you we're not going gay. And you're the only male person here.”I gave her a sharp look. “And you're okay with this,” I asked her."Sure,” she said. “It's just a game. And I am pretty sure you'll have a good time.” Understatement of the year. All three women were grinning at me. I asked, “How does this work?”Roxy said; “whoever it points to, they go into the closet for seven minutes and do anything they want. Then they come out and somebody spins the bottle again.“Marlene: "And since there's one of you, just us girls will spin it, and see who goes in the closet with you.Marlene & I have been married a long time, and I trust that Marlene, same as me, has not been with anybody else for years. Loraine and Roxy were two of my wife's best friends. But I had never even flirted with either of them.The ladies were seated on the floor.  Marlene held the bottle dramatically out in the middle of their circle, looked at both her friends, and gave it a fast spin.It stopped, pointing at Roxy. She's not the shy type but you could see her take a big swallow."Well, Roxy.” my wife said. “You get seven minutes of heaven with Jacob.”“Yeah,” Roxy said, “You're sure this is okay?”“Absolutely,” Marlene said. “But look, how about a rule? No fucking in there, okay?”“Okay.” “Okay.” Loraine and Roxy said.“Unless it's me,” Marlene quipped, and they all giggled.Roxy said, “Okay, here goes.”Now in the hall closet, my ears were ringing, my hands were shaking, my dick was hard. And with Roxy. Are you kidding me?I said, “What are we supposed to –” but Roxy grabbed my head and pulled my face to hers in the dark and opened her mouth and attacked my mouth with her tongue. “Here. let me help you;” she reached behind herself to unsnap her bra and voila, those beautiful breasts fell into my eager hands.She was stroking my cock through my jeans. I could have shot a load right then. I pushed my fingers between her legs and she spread them to let me stroke her over the thin fabric of her pants. Her fingers outlined my penis as they slipped up and down its length, and then we heard a voice call, “That's six minutes!”Roxy giggled and broke our kiss, reached behind herself and put everything back. I stepped back, hoping my erection would subside before the door opened.“Okay, time!”I turned the knob and pushed the closet door open. Loraine and Marlene were sitting on the floor looking at us. I could see Marlene trying not to look at my face too closely, she was dying of curiosity but covering it well.“You ready for the next spin,” Marlene asked me. I felt she was taunting me. My cock at least was not trying to bust my zipper any more."Sure,” I said. “I win every round.”“Yeah, you do,” the ladies agreed. Another sip of wine, more laughter, and Marlene took up the bottle again.“What happens if he gets the same person twice,” Roxy asked."I don't see what's wrong with that,” Marlene said.“Well it doesn't seem fair,” Roxy said. “I mean, I'm all for going in there again, but it wouldn't seem right to leave you two sitting out here waiting that long.”Loraine agreed, and Marlene seemed to see the sense of it. She said, “Okay, so the next round it will just be me and Loraine.” Marlene gave the bottle a twist and let it go and it finally stopped, pointing at my wife.“Huh, that's ironic,” Marlene laughed. “I mean, a guy making out with his own wife, it seems kind of weird.”“Let's try it,” I said, taking her hand. We went into the closet and I kissed her. “I hope you're having fun,” she said.“Are you kidding,” I laughed. Marlene Starts a Blowjob SchoolMarlene dropped to her knees and in two seconds she had my belt unbuckled and my pants pushed down around my knees. "Hey, is that allowed,” I asked. She wrapped her lips around the head of my cock and took several slurps. Then she looked up at me and said, "Yes, it's allowed. I am, after all, married to you.” She took a couple more nibbles and said, “And also, it's not fucking.” Then she put her lips around my cock and sunk her nose down into my pubic hair, deep-throating me and doing something with her tongue on my shaft. She began bobbing up and down on me, slurping and giving me pleasure in ways she had learned after years of marriage. She was an expert cocksucker, I must say.“Now, be careful,” I said. “You don't want to make me cum.”“Why not,” she asked."Because I'll want to stop the game,” I said.“Good point,” she said, as she attacked my penis with her mouth, always stopping just when my breathing turned to moans. She used her hand alongside her lips and kept me on the brink until someone called, “Six minutes.” I helped her to her feet. She kissed me and said, “And don't you forget it.” I could taste the cum in her kiss, definitely a sexy flavor.“Oh, I won't,” I said.A minute later I opened the door and we stepped out. The other two looked at us, again, with curiosity. Marlene and I both smiled at them, and Marlene said, “Well I guess I'm not included in this round.” She sat on the couch and Roxy moved to the floor, across from Loraine.Loraine took the bottle in her hand, but Roxy said, “Lori, you're the only one who hasn't gone in the closet with him. Maybe you ought to just go.”“That wouldn't be fair,” Loraine said. “It wouldn't really be a game, would it?”"It seems fair to me,” Roxy said.“I'll spin it, and we'll see what happens,” Loraine said. With a flick of the wrist she sent the bottle twirling on the carpet between the two of them. All of us watched, fixated on it, imagining possible outcomes. The bottle slowed and came to a stop pointing at Roxy.“See,” Roxy said. "It's me again. That isn't fair.”“Sure it is,” my wife said. “That's how you play.” She gave Roxy a significant look, almost daring her to take this game past the limits.Roxy stared back at her and then stood slowly. “Okay,” she said, “I won this round.”“Yes, you did,” Marlene said with a laugh. “You and Jacob won this one.” Honestly, it seemed like Marlene wanted it to get out of hand.Roxy and I went into the closet and I pulled the door shut. She whispered, “She didn't finish you off in here, did she?”“No,” I said. “Close, but no.”“Good,” Roxy said, and her hand went immediately to my cock, which was already hard in anticipation. We began making out as she jacked me off through the denim of my jeans. I stroked her crotch and she reached down and unbuttoned her cotton pants. “Here, I'll make it easy for you,” she giggled. Her pussy was soaking wet when my fingers got under her panties. I squeezed again, and then began rolling her clit between my fingers slowly, until she arched her back and stifled a profound grunt, buried her face against me and spasmed uncontrollably for half a minute.“ She was laughing when she stopped. "Oh my god,” she whispered. “It has been a long time.” She renewed her attack on my cock and had me near the edge when they called six minutes.I'm sure I looked like I'd been hit over the head with a hammer when we came out. Marlene looked at Loraine and said, “Enough of this, it's your turn. I get him every night.”“Huh, good point,” Loraine said. “Okay, we'll pretend we spun it and it landed on me.”“Sure,” Marlene said. She picked up the bottle and set it on the floor pointing at Loraine. “There you go. Have fun.”Loraine said, “What have you guys been doing in here? I don't know what to do.”“We can do anything you want to do,” I said. “Except fuck me.”She stood there.“Come here,” I said, and I put my arms around her and kissed her, and she kissed like a schoolgirl. I used my tongue to pry her lips apart, and after a minute or so she got the idea. I ran my hands over her body and she responded coyly.She ran her hands over my upper body and whispered, “Is it okay if I touch you?”“Absolutely,” I said. I was not sure what she meant but I liked the sound of it. “I would love that.”Then she surprised the shit out of me by unbuckling my belt, pulling my pants down, and pulling my cock out. She ran her fingers over it, slowly jacking me off, tugging and stroking. I said, “That is amazing.”“You like that,” she said."Yes. A lot. You better be a little careful or you're going to make me cum.”“Wow, really?” She didn't seem to believe me, and continued stroking me.After a couple of minutes of that I said, “You better stop. It was just too good.”“Too good,” she laughed. "Too good?”“Yes,” I said, “If you keep going, the game will be over.”“I see.” I kissed her some more and we made out until they gave the alarm.The other two studied us as we came out. Loraine looked kind of embarrassed and flustered, but happy.“How was it,” Roxy asked, tactlessly."It was great,” I said.“Yes, it was great,” Loraine said.“You still able to keep playing,” my wife taunted me."Yes, absolutely, I wouldn't miss this for the world,” I said. “Let's have a sip of wine and rest up for the next round.”Loraine said, “I was scared at first. In fact, I was glad when the bottle never pointed at me. I thought I'd get out of doing it, going in there with Jacob, I feel much better now. But it was a little awkward. I never know what to do.”“Never,” Marlene asked."Yes,” Loraine said, “With guys. I mean, I just let them do what they want, and that seems to make them happy.”“What would you want to do,” Marlene asked. We were all feeling the intensity of the evening and the wine."I don't know,” Loraine said. “I just don't know how to do anything.”“We all feel like that,” Roxy said.“Really,” Marlene said. "I don't think I feel that way, unless I'm missing something.” She turned to Loraine, “Do you mean you don't have orgasms?”“No,” Loraine seemed to be blushing. “No, I'm okay with that. But I don't know how to do anything.”Marlene gazed at her. “Oh, I see.” We all took a thoughtful sip of wine, wondering where this was going. Looking at Loraine she continued, “So you don't feel like you are kinky enough or something?”Loraine looked at the floor. “No. Like a blow job, I know girls do that all the time but I don't know how to do it.”Marlene laughed, almost spitting out some wine. “Oh, well, that's easy. You just need to practice.”“Yeah, sure, with who?”Marlene spoke up. “Okay, I said no fucking, remember?” Everybody nodded. “But I didn't say no blow jobs.” Hearts were pounding. Marlene looked at Roxy. “Don't tell me you don't know how to give a blow job either?”Roxy said, “I've tried it before but I don't think it really worked.”Marlene stood up and paced around the room. “Well this is ridiculous. Jacob, you see what we have to do here. You are going to have to teach my friends how to give head.”Marlene laughed. “Sex school. Girls, it's time to learn the tricks of the trade. I don't know about you using our bed.” She thought some more. “Oh well, why not? I'll burn some sage or something. Why don't you & Loraine go into our room, Jacob do your best to show her what to do.”Roxy said, “What about me?”Marlene looked at her. “Yeah, what about you? Well, tell you what, Jacob see if you can get through a 7 minute lesson without blowing your load, think you can do that, honey?”I nodded. Marlene went on: “Okay, Loraine, then Roxy. Is that okay?”Roxy didn't look extremely happy with the deal but she agreed to it.Loraine and I went into the bedroom. I turned on the closet light and turned off the overhead. “How are we going to do this,” I asked."I don't know,” she said, “You're teaching me.”“Yeah, okay. So you don't know how to give a blow job, that's it?”“Yeah.”“Have you ever tried?”“Yeah, a couple of times.”“And what happened?”“He just wanted me to stop.”“Okay, so first, let me see what you do. We are going to get into the bed. Actually we'll both get naked.”We lay in the bed, her head on my arm, against my chest. My cock was pointing. I said, “Okay, well this is a little awkward but we'll do what we can. Why don't you go down on me and show me what you do.”I felt her lips touch the tip of my cock and then something, maybe she was licking it. Her lips took an inch or so of me and went up and down a few times.“Okay,” I said. “I see where we're at. Let me tell you a couple of things to start with. First of all, when I come, I want you to swallow it. Have you ever done that?”“Swallow what,” she asked.I thought for a few seconds. "Here's the deal, if you are doing this well, the guy is going shoot a load of sperm into your mouth. I'm going to try not to today, but I mean in real life. I don't know what it tastes like, it might be a little salty I think, but whatever, when he cums, swallow it like it is the finest Belgian chocolate, whether you like it or not. Gulp it down and lick up the last drops. You got that?”“I can't imagine that but yes, I hear you.”“But we're not going to do that now. I'm just telling you, if you are going to give a good blow job you're going to swallow it. Now, to get practical. There are two things that guys find irresistible. There is a little notch under the head of my penis, I'm circumcised, but I suppose everybody has this, that's called the frenulum. Look closely at it. See where it's like the two halves meet, right under the tip? That is extremely sensitive. Touch that with your tongue and you will drive a man crazy.” I held my cock in place so she could see it from a few inches away.“Yeah, okay, I think I see where you mean.”“Good. Do it.”Oh my god, she did that. After two seconds she stopped. “No,” I said, “Keep doing it. Lick that part of me lightly. You have to be gentle there. It is very sensitive.”I kept bouncing away from her and had to tell her to grip my shaft. I was moaning, I could have blasted right then.“Okay, good,” I said, “Now you have to stop. Oh my fucking god. Stop!” She stopped.“There is one other major skill. And I'll tell you, most girls can't do this and it's okay if you can't, but it's good to try. It's called deep throating, have you ever heard of that?”“I've heard the term,” she said.“Do you know what it means,” I asked her."No. I mean I can imagine but not really.”“Okay, well you see my cock is about average length. But still, if you tried to stuff it all in your mouth you would probably choke on it. Go ahead, try.”Loraine leaned over me and took me into her mouth. She got pretty far and began to gag.“So here's the deal,” I said. “You can learn not to gag. Maybe not right away, but if you can get a guy's cock down your throat he will do anything you say. He will be your slave for life. Go ahead, try. Go as far as you can, then relax and see if you can go a little farther. If you start to gag, back up a little and try again. Just try to relax your throat.”I lay back on the pillow with my hands behind my head, watching this slender cutie working on my cock. She would get half of it and begin to choke, and start again. She was actually making progress. Finally she had reached her limit, and it was time to move on.“Okay, good,” I said, “Stop. You were getting good at that. The two best things for a guy are one, licking his frenulum, and two, getting your lips around the base of his cock. But deep-throating is hard. In general, the main technique you will use is just fucking him with your mouth. You want to try that?”“Sure,” she said. “What do I do?”“Well wrap your lips around the middle of my shaft, not too far down, you don't have to choke for this. Now tighten your lips and move your mouth up to the tip of my cock. Then move it back down to the middle, maybe a little farther if that's comfortable. Keep going up and down like that. I think sometimes when you are near the head of it, you can work on the frenulum for a second, too, like with your tongue. Try it.”Holy shit! Her lips were snug and she began working on me methodically. I knew I had to save something for the next lesson but I would have been very happy to blast a load down this woman's throat, skipping right to the last lesson. She was blowing me like a pro. Finally I said, “Okay, stop. Stop Loraine, that is amazing. Let's take a break for a minute.”I caught my breath and then said, “Okay, let's try it again. Say you were on a date and a guy invited you in and you want to make an impression on him. Show me what you'd do.”She got up and walked around the bed and came up between my legs. Taking my cock in her hand, she looked up into my eyes and touched the tip of her tongue to the underside of my cock. She licked lightly until I could not watch any more. I was moaning and panting. Then I felt her lips surround my cock and proceed down the shaft until she had me down her throat. I could not open my eyes, but I'm sure she had the whole thing. She held that position for a few seconds and then began fucking me with her mouth, up and down on my shaft, devouring me until I literally pushed her head away and shouted, “No, stop, you have to stop.” She came and lay beside me again and I told her she was a wonderful student and I hoped we could have some more lessons in the future.She thanked me for teaching her, then said, “Well it's time for Roxy to learn.” There was no jealousy in her voice. It sounded like she was eager for her friend to learn this valuable lesson, as she had.“Yes,” I said, “Roxy's turn. Can you go send her in? You were an A student, by the way, that was wonderful.”Loraine gave me a passionate salty-tasting kiss, with tongue this time, and a hug, and she hopped up, pulled her clothes on, and hurried out the door, calling Roxy.I lay on my back, panting. I was appreciating my crazy wife more than anything. I always knew she was adventurous but she was also traditional in so many ways, she would not risk her marriage. I never would have imagined this.Roxy came in with a wine glass in her hand. She paused in the doorway, then pulled the door shut.“How was it?” she asked me. “Did Loraine learn something?”“I'd say she did,” I said. “So tell me, is this true, you don't know how to give a blow job?”“Yeah,” she sa

$250K in Debt to Millionaire as a Single Mom with Monica ScudieriWhat does it look like to stare down $250,000 in debt, a fresh divorce, two young kids, and a collapsing economy Gulp?! all at the same time! For most people, that's the point where you fold. Monica Scudieri didn't fold. She built a plan, worked it for 10 years, and crossed the millionaire finish line.In this episode of the Extreme Personal Finance Show, I sit down with Monica Scudieri, personal finance coach and author of Grab Your Slice of Financial Independence, to talk about her remarkable journey from financial rock bottom to financial independence. Monica coaches divorced and single parents, young professionals, and anyone rebuilding after a major financial setback, and she brings serious receipts to back up her approach.In this episode, you'll hear:How Monica found herself unemployed three separate times (totaling nearly two full years) during the early years of her financial independence journey — and how she kept moving forward anywayWhy she tracked her net worth from day one, even when it was so low she added line items for the value of her furniture and used car just to feel a little betterHow she discovered the FIRE community and personal finance blogs (shoutout to J. Money and Budgets Are Sexy) and used them as fuel when things felt impossibleHer real estate strategy: buying five rental properties in three years in the Raleigh, NC area — starting with a pre-approved loan she was told she'd never getThe creative financing move she used (a home equity line of credit) to make cash offers on properties and compete with investorsWhat her four-month coaching program looks like and why she intentionally designed it to put her out of a jobThe money myth she hears constantly that she wants to destroy: "If I just made more money, everything would be fine"Why knowing your "why" and defining what financial independence actually means to YOU changes everything about how you build toward itMonica's story isn't polished or perfect. It's real. There were smiley faces on to-do lists to get through the heavy days. There were borrowed dollars from a mom on a fixed income. There were jobs that paid barely anything and a house that took five years to sell out from underwater. And through all of it, she kept the long game in focus.Whether you're in the thick of a financial setback right now or just looking for proof that the path forward is real, this episode will hit different.Connect with Monica Scudieri:Website: grabyourslice.comEmail: monica@grabyourslice.comBook a free 30-minute consult directly from her websiteGrab Your Slice of Financial Independence — available on Amazon Contact Chris:https://heavymetal.moneyhttps://www.facebook.com/MoneyHeavyMetalhttps://x.com/MoneyHeavyMetalhttps://www.instagram.com/chrislugerhttps://www.tiktok.com/@heavymetalmoneyemail: chris at heavymetal.moneyResources and Links:Financial Freedom in 10 Years After Divorce and $250K in Debthttps://youtu.be/lgDkr_RINWU?si=gXc6ZeMJO0jq_684https://www.grabyourslice.comhttps://budgetsaresexy.com/

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On this episode of Currently Reading, Kaytee and Meredith are discussing: Bookish Moments: A new bookish metaphor and book moms in the wild Current Reads: all the great, interesting, and/or terrible stuff we've been reading lately Deep Dive: Explaining a Currently Reading literary society Before We Go: our new segment featuring bookish friend posts and a sleeper hit you should read. Show notes are time-stamped below for your convenience. Read the transcript of the episode (this link only works on the main site). . . . 1:44 - Bookish Moments of the Week 1:52 - Currently Reading Website 1:56 - Books We Want To Press Into Your Hands 3:03 - Best Books for Babies and Kids 3:42 - Castle of Water by Dane Huckelbridge 5:55 - A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms on HBO Max 7:12 - Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin 7:16 - A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms by George R. R. Martin (all 3 Dunk and Egg novellas) 7:55 - Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid 8:33 - Current Reads 8:41 - The Secret Library by Kekla Magoon (Kaytee) 11:47 - The Book Wanderers by Anna James 11:50 - The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon 11:54 - The Midnight Library by Matt Haig 13:08 - Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman (Meredith) 15:10 - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins 15:11 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams 15:45 - Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah 22:27 - Ready Player One by Ernest Cline 24:10 - Six Feet Over by Mary Roach (Kaytee) 27:20 - Gulp by Mary Roach 27:21 - Bonk by Mary Roach 27:22 - Stiff by Mary Roach 28:51 - Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie (Meredith) 32:06 - Agatha Christie's Marple by Mark Aldridge 34:18 - The Safekeep by Yael Van Der Wouden (Kaytee) 34:33 - Charter Books 39:00 - Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (Meredith) 42:28 - Dracula by Bram Stoker 45:21 - Turning Instagram into Bookstagram 47:25 - Sign up for the newsletter on our website 47:26 - Currently Reading Substack 50:48 - Currently Reading Instagram 50:54 - @HelloSunshine on Instagram 50:58 - @BookRiot on Instagram  51:00 - @NYTBooks on Instagram 51:40 - @Iamblackharry on Instagram 52:10 - Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak 52:28 - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 52:42 - The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion by Beth Brower 53:42 - The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides 53:48 - God of the Woods by Liz Moore 54:03 - Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir 56:13 - Sarah's Bookshelves Live 58:44 - Before We Go Meredith highlights a bookish friend post 59:34 - The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver 59:54 - The Correspondent by Virginia Evans Kaytee's Book She DNF'd: 1:01:22 - The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor 1:01:28 - Bookshelf Thomasville 1:02:57 - From the Front Porch podcast Support Us: Become a Bookish Friend | Grab Some Merch Shop Bookshop dot org | Shop Amazon Bookish Friends Receive: The Indie Press List with a curated list of five books hand sold by the indie of the month. February's list is a special romance curated list from Open Door Romance, The Novel Neighbor's Romance adjacent bookstore in Plainville, MA. Love and Chili Peppers with Kaytee and Rebekah - romance lovers get their due with this special episode focused entirely on the best selling genre fiction in the business All Things Murderful with Meredith and Elizabeth - special content for the scary-lovers, brought to you with the behind-the-scenes insights of an independent bookseller From the Editor's Desk with Kaytee and Bunmi Ishola - a quarterly peek behind the curtain at the publishing industry The Bookish Friends Facebook Group - where you can build community with bookish friends from around the globe as well as our hosts Connect With Us: The Show: Instagram | Website | Email | Threads | Substack | Youtube The Hosts and Regulars: Meredith | Kaytee | Mary | Roxanna Production and Editing: Megan Phouthavong Evans Affiliate Disclosure: All affiliate links go to Bookshop unless otherwise noted. Shopping here helps keep the lights on and benefits indie bookstores. Thanks for your support!

Hello Colorado Rapids fans! Welcome to season nine of Holding The High Line with Rabbi and Red! On this episode, we do our full 2026 Colorado Rapids season preview! Before we preview, we discuss Matt Doyle leaving MLS dot com. Mark gives his key observations from Rapids Media Day. We talk Miguel Navarro returning to the Rapids and the end of preseason. Here are our XI questions that will define the 2026 Colorado Rapids: What is Matt Wells' game model and will it work? What is Paxten Aaronson's role and how will the midfield work without Cole Bassett? Will Rafael Navarro stay and can the team support him offensively? What are our expectations for Dante Sealy given the $1.9 million price tag? Can Hamzat Ojediran be Hamzat The Destroyer and make the team concede less goals? Who is starting at left center back and left back and will they be good enough? Who starts at the other winger opposite Dante Sealy and will they be good enough? Who will be the captain and who will provide the vocal leadership this team needs? How will Denver Summit impact the Rapids? Can the Rapids capitalize on the game at Mile High and the World Cup? Will KSE bring back the members of the front office who are in a contract year? Oh, and we also talk about the Seattle Sounders game. Gulp. We discuss a few pieces of content during the episode. Here's Mark's Western Conference preview. Here's Matt Pollard's article about Matt Doyle. For those interested in MLS Fantasy, here's links for Kickbase, Fantasy UTD, and Sofascore. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

An abysmal performance from Arsenal sees them drop points at Wolves. 5-points clear but it's now all in City's hands. Gulp. Video format because there are moments of silence.

It has been an absolutely Awful Week for everyone who has been paying attention to the latest release of the Epstein files, both on this continent and around the world. We're taking a look at what the documents reveal about Europe's rich and powerful and whether any overdue reckonings might come out of the horrific revelations. On the brighter side: we also discuss a sitting president who does NOT want to be handed the Nobel Peace Prize. A win for us all!   Our guest this week is journalist Salsabil Fayed, co-author of the recent Follow the Money investigation “U.S. donors bankroll Europe's policy ideas through think tanks”. (Gulp.) What does it mean that some of the biggest American tech companies are financing some of the work of some of the most influential think tanks on this side of the Atlantic? Salsabil spells it all out.   This week's Inspiration Station recommendations are Fairphone and not looking at your phone in the morning. So…go out and touch grass. (But catch up on your podcasts first.)   Resources for this episode:   “Moldovan president rejects Nobel Peace Prize nomination, says Ukrainian POWs deserve it instead” – Yahoo! News, 6 February 2026 “Holding the Line Between Democracy and Putin | President of Moldova, Maia Sandu” – The Rest is Politics, 11 January 2026 “Los ‘miles de fallos' que exponen a las víctimas de los papeles de Epstein” – El Pais, 4 February 2026 “A survivor on the Epstein files – podcast” – The Guardian, 5 February 2026  Soundos el Ahmadi sets the record straight about misogynist violence on Flemish TV – De Afspraak, 7 February 2026 “U.S. donors bankroll Europe's policy ideas through think tanks” – Follow the Money, 23 October 2025 “Podcast | The hidden U.S. influence on Europe's policymaking” – Follow the Money, 10 December 2025 “US pressure revives call for powerful EU tech regulator” – Politico Europe, 18 January 2026  Screen time increases risk of dementia – Brankele Frank on Brainwash, January 2026 (In Dutch) “Digital dementia in the internet generation: excessive screen time during brain development will increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias in adulthood” – Journal of Integrative Neuroscience, 28 January 2022    Are you a visual learner rather than an auditory one? We got you. Here's our new newsletter. (Almost) all of what you like from the weekly podcast, but…quieter. It's nice. Try it.   This podcast was brought to you in cooperation with Euranet Plus, the leading radio network for EU news. But it's contributions from listeners that truly make it all possible—we could not continue to make the show without you! If you like what we do, you can chip in to help us cover our production costs at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/europeanspodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (in many different currencies), or you can gift a donation to a superfan. We'd also love it if you could tell two friends about this podcast. We think two feels like a reasonable number. Produced by Morgan Childs and Wojciech Oleksiak Editorial support from Katy Lee Mixing and mastering by Wojciech Oleksiak Music by Jim Barne and Mariska Martina YouTube | Bluesky | Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | Mastodon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | Substack | hello@europeanspodcast.com

TKras shares some intel on Bucs WR Mike Evans and his future. Gulp.

CIA in Venezuela, Cuba and BeyondWith Luis Ruedahttps://www.linkedin.com/in/luis-rueda-b060a217/and Peter Eisnerhttps://substack.com/@petereisner Follow Jeff Stein on Twitter:https://twitter.com/SpyTalkerFollow Karen Greenberg on Twitterhttps://x.com/KarenGreenberg3Follow Michael Isikoff on Twitter:https://twitter.com/isikoff Follow SpyTalk on Twitter:https://twitter.com/talk_spySubscribe to SpyTalk on Substack https://www.spytalk.co/Take our listener survey where you can give us feedback.http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=BffJOlI7qQcF&ver=short Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Introducing Rob Ruiz Meet Rob Ruiz, a seasoned Senior Full Stack Developer with nearly two decades of expertise in WordPress innovation and open-source magic. As the Lead Maintainer of WP Rig since 2020, Rob has been the driving force behind this groundbreaking open-source framework that empowers developers to craft high-performance, accessible, and progressively enhanced WordPress themes with ease. WP Rig isn’t just a starter theme—it’s a turbocharged toolkit that bundles modern build processes, linting, optimization, and testing to deliver lightning-fast, standards-compliant sites that shine on any device. Show Notes For more on Rob and WP Rig, check out these links: LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robcruiz WP Rig Official Site: https://wprig.io GitHub Repository: https://github.com/wprig/wprig Latest Releases: https://github.com/wprig/wprig/releases WP Rig 3.1 Announcement: https://wprig.io/wp-rig-3-1/ Transcript: Topher DeRosia: Hey everybody. Welcome to Hallway Chats. I’m your host Topher DeRosia, and with me today I have- Rob Ruiz: Rob Ruiz. Topher: Rob. You and I have talked a couple of times, once recently, and I learned about a project you’re working on, but not a whole lot about you. Where do you live? What do you do for a living? Rob: Yeah, for sure. Good question. Although I’m originally from Orlando, Florida, I’ve been living in Omaha, Nebraska for a couple of decades now. So I’m pretty much a native. I know a lot of people around here and I’ve been fairly involved in various local communities over the years. I’m a web developer. Started off as a graphic designer kind of out of college, and then got interested in web stuff. And so as a graphic designer turned future web developer, I guess, I was very interested in content management systems because it made the creating and managing of websites very, very easy. My first couple of sites were Flash websites, sites with macro media Flash. Then once I found content management systems, I was like, “Wow, this is way easier than coding the whole thing from scratch with Flash.” And then all the other obvious benefits that come from that. So I originally started with Joomla, interestingly enough, and used Joomla for about two or three years, then found WordPress and never looked back. And so I’ve been using WordPress ever since. As the years have gone on, WordPress has enabled me to slowly transition from a more kind of web designer, I guess, to a very full-blown web developer and software engineer, and even software architect to some degree. So here we are many years later. Topher: There’s a big step from designer to developer. How did that go for you? I’m assuming you went to PHP. Although if you were doing Flash sites, you probably learned ActionScript. Rob: Yeah. Yeah. That was very convenient when I started learning JavaScript. It made it very easy to learn JavaScript faster because I already had a familiarity with ActionScript. So there’s a lot of similarities there. But yeah. Even before I started doing PHP, I started learning more HTML and CSS. I did do a couple of static websites between there that were just like no content management system at all. So I was able to kind of sharpen my sword there with the CSS and HTML, which wasn’t particularly hard. But yeah, definitely, the PHP… that was a big step was PHP because it’s a proper logical programming language. There was a lot there I needed to unpack, and so it took me a while. I had to stick to it and really rinse and repeat before I finally got my feet under me. Topher: I can imagine. All right. So then you work for yourself or you freelance or do you have a real job, as it were? Rob: Currently, I do have a real job. Currently, I’m working at a company called Bold Orange out of Minneapolis. They’re a web agency. But I kind of bounce around from a lot of different jobs. And then, yes, I do freelance on the side, and I also develop my own products as well for myself and my company. Topher: Cool. Bold Orange sounds familiar. Who owns that? Rob: To be honest, I don’t know who the owners are. It’s just a pretty big web agency out of Minneapolis. They are a big company. You could just look them up at boldorange.com. They work for some pretty big companies. Topher: Cool. All right. You and I talked last about WP Rig. Give me a little background on where that came from and how you got it. Rob: Yeah, for sure. Well, there was a period of time where I was working at a company called Proxy Bid that is in the auction industry, and they had a product or a service — I don’t know how you want to look at that —called Auction Services. That product is basically just building WordPress sites for auction companies. They tasked us with a way to kind of standardize those websites essentially. And what we realized is that picking a different theme for every single site made things difficult to manage and increase tech debt by a lot. So what we were tasked with was, okay, if we’re going to build our own theme that we’re just going to make highly dynamic so we can make it look different from site to site. So we want to build it, but we want to build it smart and we want to make it reusable and maintainable. So let’s find a good framework to build this on so that we can maintain coding standards and end up with as little tech debt as possible, essentially. That’s when I first discovered WP Rig. In my research, I came across it and others. We came across Roots Sage and some of the other big names, I guess. It was actually a team exercise. We all went out and looked for different ones and studied different ones and mine that I found was WP Rig. And I was extremely interested in that one over the other ones. Interestingly enough- Topher: Can you tell me why over the other ones? Rob: That’s a great question. Yeah. I really liked the design patterns. I really liked the focus on WordPress coding standards. So having a system built in that checked all the code against WordPress coding standards was cool. I loved the compiling transpiling, whatever, for CSS and JavaScript kind of built in. That sounded really, really interesting. The fact that there was PHP unit testing built into it. So there’s like a starter testing framework built in that’s easy to extend so that you can add additional unit tests as your theme grows. We really wanted to make sure… because we were very into CICD pipelines. So we wanted to make sure that as developers were adding or contributing to any themes that we built with this, that we could have automated tests run and automated builds run, and just automate as much as possible. So WP rig just seemed like something that gave us those capabilities right out of the box. So that was a big thing. And I loved the way that they did it. Roots Sage does something similar, but they use their blade templating engine built in there. We really wanted to stick to something that was a bit more standard WordPress so that there wasn’t like a large knowledge overhead so that we didn’t have to say like, okay, if we’re bringing on other developers, like junior developers work on it, oh, it would be nice if you use Laravel too because we use this templating engine in all of our themes. We didn’t want to have to worry about that essentially. It was all object-oriented and all that stuff too. That’s what looked interesting to me. We ended up building a theme with WP Rig. I don’t know what they ended up doing with it after that, because I ended up getting let go shortly thereafter because the company had recently been acquired. Also, this was right after COVID too. So there was just a lot of moving parts and changing things at the time. So I ended up getting let go. But literally a week after I got let go, I came across a post on WP Tavern about how this framework was looking for new maintainers. Basically, this was a call put out by Morton, the original author of WP Rig. He reached out to WP Tavern and said, “Look, we’re not interested in maintaining this thing anymore, but it’s pretty cool. We like what we’ve built. And so we’re looking for other people to come in and adopt it essentially.” So I joined a Zoom meeting with a handful of other individuals that were also interested in this whole endeavor, and Morton reached out to me after the call and basically just said, “I looked you up. I liked some of the input that you had during the meeting. Let’s talk a little bit more.” And then that eventually led to conversations about me essentially taking the whole project over entirely. So, the branding, the hosting of the website, being lead maintainer on the project. Basically, gave me the keys to the kingdom in terms of GitHub and everything. So that’s how it ended up going in terms of the handoff between Morton and I. And I’m very grateful to him. They really created something super cool and I was honored to take it over and kind of, I don’t know, keep it going, I guess. Topher: I would be really curious. I don’t think either of us have the answer. I’d be curious to know how similar that path is to other project handoffs. It’s different from like an acquisition. You didn’t buy a plugin from somebody. It was kind of like vibes, I guess. Rob: It was like vibes. It was very vibey. I guess that’s probably the case in an open source situation. It’s very much an open source project. It’s a community-driven thing. It’s for everybody by everybody. I don’t know if all open source community projects roll like that, but that’s how this one worked out. There was some amount of ownership on Morton’s behalf. He did hire somebody to do the branding for WP Rig and the logo. And then obviously he was paying for stuff like the WPrig.io domain and the hosting through SiteGround and so on and so forth. So, we did have to transfer some of that and I’ve taken over those, I guess, financial burdens, if you want to think of it like that. But I’m totally okay with it. Topher: All right. You sort of mentioned some of the things Rig does, compiling and all that kind of stuff. Can you tell me… we didn’t discuss this before. I’m sitting at my desk and I think I want a website. How long does it take to go from that to looking at WordPress and logging into the admin with Rig? Rob: Okay. Rig is not an environment management system like local- Topher: I’m realizing my mistake. Somebody sends me a design in Figma. How long does it take me to go from that to, I’m not going to say complete because I mean, that’s CSS, but you know, how long does it take me to get to the point where I’m looking at a theme that is mine for the client that I’m going to start converting? Rob: Well, if you’re just looking for a starting point, if you’re just like, okay, how long does it take to get to like, okay, here’s my blank slate and I’m ready to start adopting all of these rules that are set up in Figma or whatever, I mean, you’re looking at maybe 5 minutes, 10 minutes, something like that. It’s pretty automated. You just need some simple knowledge of Git. And then there are some prerequisites to using WP Rig. You do have to have composer installed because we do leverage some Composer packages to some of it, although to be honest, you could probably get away with not using Composer. You just have to be okay with sacrificing some of the tools the WP Rig assumes you’re going to have. And then obviously Node. You have to have Node installed. A lot of our documentation assumes that you have NPM, that you’re using NPM for all your Nodes or your package management. But we did recently introduce support for Bun. And so you can use Bun instead of NPM, which is actually a lot faster and better in many ways. Topher: Okay. A lot of my audience are not developers, users, or light developers, like they’ll download a theme, hack a template, whatever. Is this for them? Am I boring those people right now? Rob: That’s a great question. I mean, and I think this is an interesting dichotomy and paradigm in the WordPress ecosystem, because you’ve got kind of this great divide. At least this is something I’ve noticed in my years in the WordPress community is you have many people that are not coders or developers that are very interested in expanding their knowledge of WordPress, but it’s strictly from a more of a marketing perspective where it’s like, I just want to know how to build websites with WordPress and how to use it to achieve my goals online from a marketing standpoint. You have that group of people, and then you have this other group of people that are very developer centric that want to know how to extend WordPress and how to empower those other people that we just discussed. Right? Topher: Right. Rob: So, yeah, that’s a very good question. I would say that WP Rig is very much designed for the developers, not for the marketers. The assumption there is that you’re going to be doing some amount of coding. Now, can you get away with doing a very light amount of coding? Yes. Yes, you can. I mean, if you compare what you’re going to get out of that assumed workflow to something that you would get off like Theme Forest or whatever, it’s going to be a night and day difference because those theme, Forest Themes, have hours, hundreds, sometimes hundreds of hours of development put into them. So, you’re not going to just out of the box immediately get something that is comparable to that. Topher: You need to put in those hundreds of hours of development to make a theme. Rob: As of today, yes. That may change soon though. Topher: Watch this space. Rob: That’s all I’ll say. Topher: Okay. So now we know who it’s for. I’m assuming there’s a website for it. What is it? Rob: Yeah. If you go to WPrig.io, we have a homepage that shows you all the features that are there in WP Rig. And then there’s a whole documentation area that helps people get up and running with WP Rig because there is a small learning curve there that’s pretty palatable for anybody who’s familiar with modern development workflows. So that is a thing. So the type of person that this is designed for anybody that wants to make a theme for anything. Let’s say you’re a big agency and you pull in a big client and that client wants something extremely custom and they come to you with Figma designs. Sure, you could go out there and find some premium theme and try to like child theme and overhaul that if you want. But in many situations, I would say in most situations, if you’re working from a Figma design that’s not based off of another theme already that’s just kind of somebody else’s brainchild, then you’re probably going to want to start from scratch. And so the idea here is that this is something to replace an approach, like underscores an approach. Actually, WP Pig was based off of underscores. The whole concept of it, as Morton explained it to me, was that he wanted to build an underscores that was more modern and full-featured from a development standpoint. Topher: Does it have any opinions about Gutenberg? Rob: It does now, but it did not when I took it over because Gutenberg did not exist yet when I took over WP Rig. Topher: Okay. What are its opinions? Rob: Yeah, sure. The opinion right out of the gate is that you can use Gutenberg as an editor and it has support like CSS rules in it for the standard blocks. So you should be able to use regular Gutenberg blocks in your theme and they should look just fine. There’s no resets in there. It doesn’t start from scratch. There’s not a bunch of styling you have to do for the blocks necessarily. Now, if you go to the full site editing or block-based mentality here, there are some things you need to do in WP Rig to convert the out-of-the-box WP Rig into another paradigm essentially. Right when you pull WP Rig, the assumption is you’re building what most people would refer to as a hybrid theme. The theme supports API or whatever, and the assumption is that you’re not going to be using the site editor. You’re just going to kind of do traditional WordPress, but you might be using Gutenberg for your content. So you’re just using Gutenberg kind of to author your pages and your posts and stuff like that, but not necessarily the whole site. WP Rig has the ability to kind of transform itself into other paradigms. So the first paradigm we built out was the universal theme approach. And the idea there is that you get a combination of the full site editing capabilities. But then you also have the traditional menu manager and the settings customizer framework or whatever is still there, right? These are things that don’t exist in a standard block-based theme. So I guess an easy example would be like the 2025 WordPress theme that comes right out of the box. It comes installed in WordPress. That is a true block-based theme, not a universal theme. So it doesn’t have those features because the assumption there is that it doesn’t need those features. You can kind of transform WP Rig into a universal theme that’s kind of a hybrid between a block-based and a classic theme. And then it can also transform into a strictly block-based theme as well. So following the same architecture as like the WordPress 2025 theme or Ollie or something like that is also a true block-based theme as well. So you can easily convert or transform the starting point of WP Rig into either of those paradigms if that’s the type of theme you’re setting out to build. Topher: Okay. That sounds super flexible. How much work is it to do that? Rob: It’s like one command line. Previously we had some tutorials on the website that showed you step-by-step, like what you needed to change about the theme to do that. You would have to add some files, delete some files, edit some code, add some theme supports into the base support class and some other stuff. I have recently, as of like a year and a half ago or a year ago, created a command line or a command that you can type into the command line that basically does that entire conversion process for you in like the blink of an eye. It takes probably a second to a second and a half to perform those changes to the code and then you’re good to go. It is best to do that conversion before you start building out your whole theme. It’s not impossible to do it after. But you’re more likely to run into problems or conflicts if you’ve already set out building your whole theme under one paradigm, and then you decide how the project you want to switch over to block-based or whatever. You’re likely to run into the need to refactor a bunch of stuff in that situation. So it is ideal to make that choice extremely early on in the process of developing your theme. But either way it’ll still work. That’s just one of the many tools that exist in WP Rig to transform it or convert it in several ways. That’s just one example. There are other examples of ways that Rig kind of converts itself to other paradigms as well. Topher: Yeah. All right. In my development life, I’ve had two parts to it. And one is the weekend hobbyist, or I download cadence and I whip something up in 20 minutes because I just want to experiment and the other is agency life where everything’s in Git, things are compiled, there are versions, blah, blah, blah. This sounds very friendly to that more professional pathway. Rob: Absolutely. Yes. Or, I mean, there’s another situation here too. If you’re a company who develops themes and publishes them to a platform like ThemeForest or any other platform, perhaps you’re selling themes on your own website, whatever, if you’re making things for sale, there’s no reason you couldn’t use WP Rig to build your themes. We have a bundle process that bundles your theme for publication or publishing. Whether you’re an agency or whether you’re putting your theme out for sale, it doesn’t matter, during that bundle process, it does actually white label the entire code base to where there’s no mention of WP Rig in the code whatsoever. Let’s say you were to build a theme that you wanted to put up for sale because you have some cool ideas. Say, page transitions now are completely supported in all modern or in most modern browsers. And when I say print page transitions, for those that are in the know, I am talking about not single page app page transitions, but through website page transitions. You can now do that. Let’s say you were like, “Hey, I’m feeling ambitious and I want to put out some new theme that comes with these page transitions built in,” and that’s going to be fancy on ThemeForest when people look at my demo, people might want to buy that. You could totally use WP Rig to build that out into a theme and the bundle process will white label all of the code. And then when people buy your theme and download that code, if they’re starting to go through and look through your code, they’re not going to have any way of knowing that it was built with WP Rig unless they’re familiar with the base WP Rig architecture, like how it does its object-oriented programming. It might be familiar with the patterns that it’s using and be able to kind of discern like, okay, well, this is the same pattern WP Rig uses, so high likelihood it was built with WP Rig. But they’re not going to be able to know by reading through the code. It’s not going to say WP Rig everywhere. It’s going to have the theme all over the place in the code. Topher: Okay. So then is that still WP Rig code? It just changed its labels? Rob: Yeah. Topher: So, it’s not like you’re exporting HTML, CSS and JavaScript? The underlying Rig framework is still there. Rob: Yeah. During the bundle process, it is bundling CSS and HTML. Well, HTML in the case of a block-based theme. But, yeah, it is bundling your PHP, your CSS, your JavaScript into the theme that you’re going to let people download when they buy it, or that you’re going to ship to your whatever client’s website. But all that code is going to be transpiled. In the case of CSS and JavaScript, there’s only going to be minified versions of that code in that theme. The source code is not actually going to be in there. Topher: This sounds pretty cool. You mentioned some stuff might be coming. You don’t have to tell me what it is, but do you have a timeline? When should we be watching for the next cool thing from Rig? Rob: Okay, cool. Well, I’m going to keep iterating on Rig forever. Regardless of any future products that might be built on WP Rig, WP Rig will always and forever remain an open source product for anybody to use for free and we, I, and possibly others in the future will continue to update it and support it over time. We just recently put out 3.1. You could expect the 3.2 anytime in the next six months to a year, probably closer to six months. One feature I’m looking at particularly closely right now is the new stuff coming out in version 6.9 of WordPress around the various APIs that are there. I think one of them is called the form… There’s a field API and a form API or view API or something like that. So WP Rig comes with a React-based settings framework in it. So if you want your theme to have a bunch of settings in it to make it flexible for whoever buys your theme, you can use this settings framework to easily create a bunch of fields, and then that framework will automatically manage all your fields and store all the data from those fields and make it easy to retrieve the values of the input on those fields, without knowing any React at all. Now, if you know React, you can go in there and, you know, embellish what’s already there, but it takes a JSON approach. So if you just understand JSON, you can go in and change the JSON for the framework, and that will automatically add fields into the settings framework. So you don’t even have to know React to extend the settings page if you want. That will likely get an overhaul using these new APIs being introduced into Rig. Topher: All right. How often have you run into something where, “Oh, look, WordPress has a new feature, I need to rebuild my system”? Rob: Over the last four or five years, it’s happened a lot because, yeah, I mean, like I said, when I first took this thing over, Gutenberg had not even been introduced yet. So, you had the introduction of Gutenberg and blocks. That was one thing. Then this whole full site editing became a thing, which later became the site editor. So that became a whole thing. Then all these various APIs. I mean, it happens quite frequently. So I’ve been working to keep it modern and up to date over the past four years and it’s been an incredible learning experience. It not only keeps my WordPress knowledge extremely sharp, but I’ve also learned how various other toolkits are built. That’s been the interesting thing. From a development standpoint, there’s two challenges here. One of the challenges is staying modern on the WordPress side of things. For instance, WordPress coding standards came out with a version 3 and then a version 3.1 about two years ago. I had to update WP Rig to leverage those modern coding standards. So that’s one example is as WordPress changes, the code in WP Rig also needs to change. Or for instance, if new CSS standards change, right, new CSS properties come out, it is ideal for the base CSS in WP Rig, meaning the CSS that you get right out of the box with it, comes with some of these, for instance, CSS grid, Flexbox, stuff like that. If I was adopting a theme framework to build a theme on, I would expect some of that stuff to be in there. And those things were extremely new when I first took over WP Rig and were not all baked in there essentially. So I’ve had to add a lot of that over time. Now there’s another side to this, which is not just keeping up with WordPress and CSS and PHP, 8. whatever, yada yada yada. You’ve also got the toolkit. There are various node packages and composer packages of power WP Rig and the process in which it does the transpiling, the bundling, the automated manipulation of your code during various aspects of the usage of WP Rig is a whole nother set of challenges because now you have to learn concepts like, well, how do I write custom node scripts? Right? Like there were no WP CLI commands built into WP Rig when I first took it over. Now there’s a whole list. There’s a whole library of WP CLI commands that come in Rig right out of the gate. And so I’ve had to learn about that. So just various things that come with knowing how do you automate the process of converting code, that’s something that was completely foreign to me when I first took over WP Rig. That’s been another incredible learning experience is understanding like what’s the difference between Webpack and Gulp. I didn’t know, right? I would tell people I’m using Gulp and WP Rig and they would be like, “Well, why don’t you just use Webpack?” and I would say, “I don’t know. I don’t know what the difference is.” So over time I could figure out what are the differences? Why aren’t we using Webpack? And I’m glad I spent some time on that because it turns out Webpack is not the hottest thing anymore, so I just skipped right over all that. When I overhauled for version 3, we’re now not using Gulp anymore as of 3.1. We’re now using more of a Vite-like process, far more modern than Webpack and far better and faster and sleeker and lighter. I had to learn a bunch about what powers Vite. What is Vite doing under the hood that we might be able to also do in WP Rig, but do it in a WordPress way. Because Vite is a SaaS tool. If you’re building a SaaS, like React with a… we’re not a SaaS. I guess a spa is a better term to use here. If you’re building a single page application with React or view or belt or whatever, right, then knowing what Vite is and just using Vite right out of the box is perfect. But it doesn’t translate perfectly to WordPress land because WordPress has its own opinions. And so I did have to do some dissecting there and figure out what to keep and what to not keep to what to kind of set aside so that WordPress can keep doing what WordPress does the way WordPress likes to do it, but also improve on how we’re doing some of the compiling and transpiling and the manipulation of the code during these various. Topher: All right. I want to pivot a little bit to some personal-ish questions. Rob: Okay. Topher: This is a big project. I’m sure it takes up plenty of your time. How scalable is that in your life? Do you want to do this for the rest of your life? Rob: That’s a fantastic question. I don’t know about the rest of my life. I mean, I definitely want to do web development for the rest of my life because the web has, let’s be honest, it’s transformed everyone’s way of life, whether you’re a web developer or not. You know, the fact that we have the internet in our pocket now, you know, it has changed everything. Apps, everything. It’s all built on the web. So I certainly want to be involved in the web the rest of my life. Do I want to keep doing WordPress the rest of my life? I don’t know. Do I want to keep doing WP Rig the rest of my life? I don’t know. But I will say that you bring up a very interesting point, which is it does take up a lot of time and also trust in open source over the past four or five years I would argue has diminished a little bit as a result of various events that have occurred over the past two or three years. I mean, we could cite the whole WP Engine Matt Mullerwig thing. We can also cite what’s going on with Oracle and JavaScript. Well, I mean, there’s many examples of this. I mean, we can cite the whole thing that happened… I mean, there’s various packages out there that are used and developed and open source to anybody, and some of them are going on maintained and it’s causing security vulnerabilities and degradation and all this stuff. So it’s a very important point. One thing I started thinking about after considering that in relation to WP Rig was I noticed that there’s usually a for-profit arm of any of these frameworks that seems to extend the lifespan of it. Let’s just talk about React, for example, React is an open source JavaScript framework, but it’s used by Facebook and Facebook is extremely for-profit. So companies that are making infrastructural or architectural decisions, they will base their choice on whether or not to use a framework largely on how long they think this framework is going to remain relevant or valid or maintained, right? A large part of that is, well, is there a company making money off of this thing? Because if there is, the chances- Topher: They’re going to keep doing that. Rob: They’re going to keep doing it. It’s going to stay around. That’s good. I think that’s healthy. A lot of people that like open source and want everything to be free, they might look at something like that and say like, well, I don’t want you to make a paid version of it or there shouldn’t be a pro version. I think that’s a very short-sighted way of looking at that software and these innovations. I think a more experienced way of looking at it is if you want something to remain relevant and maintained for a long period of time, having a for-profit way in which it’s leveraged is a very good thing. I mean, let’s be real. Would WordPress still be what it is today if there wasn’t a wordpress.com or if WooCommerce wasn’t owned by Automattic or whatever, right? They’ll be on top. I mean, it’s obviously impossible to say, but my argument would be, probably not. I mean, look at what’s happened to the other content management systems out there. You know, Joomla Drupal. They don’t really have a flourishing, you know, paid pro service that goes with their thing that’s very popular, at least definitely not as popular as WordPress.com or WordPress VIP or some of these other things that exist out there. And so having something that’s making and generating money that can then contribute back into it the way Automattic has been doing with WordPress over these years has, in my opinion, been instrumental. I mean, people can talk smack about Gutenberg all they want, but let’s be real, it’s 2025, would you still feel that WordPress is an elegant solution if we were still working from the WYSIWYG and using the classic editor? And I know a lot of people are still using the classic editor and there’s classic for us, the fork and all that stuff. But I mean, that only makes sense in a very specific implementation of WordPress, a very specific paradigm. If you want to explore any of these other paradigms out there, that way of thinking about WordPress kind of falls apart pretty quickly. I, for one, am happy that Gutenberg exists. I’m very happy that Automattic continues. And I’m grateful, actually, that Automattic continues to contribute back into WordPress. And not just them, obviously there’s other companies, XWP, 10Up, all these other companies are also contributing as well. But I’m very grateful that this ecosystem exists and that there’s contribution going back in and it’s happening from companies that are making money with this. And I think that’s vital. All that to say that WP Rig may and likely will have paid products in the future that leverage WP Rig. So that’s not to say that WP Rig will eventually cost money. That’s just to say that eventually people can expect other products to come out in the future that will be built on WP Rig and incentivize the continued contributions back into WP Rig. The open source version of WP Rig. Topher: That’s cool. I think that’s wise. If you want anything to stay alive, you have to feed it. Rob: That’s right. Topher: I had some more questions but I had forgotten them because I got caught up in your answer. Rob: Oh, thank you. I’ll take that as a compliment. I mean, my answer was eloquent. But I’m happy to expand on anything, know you, WordPress related, me related, you know, whether it comes to the ecosystem in WordPress, the whole WordCamp meetup thing is very interesting. I led the WP Omaha meetup for many years here in Omaha, Nebraska and I also led the WordCamp, the organizing of WordCamp here in Omaha for several years as well. That whole community, the whole ecosystem, at least in America seems to have largely fallen apart. I don’t know if you want to talk about that at all. But yeah, I’m ready to dive into any topics. Topher: I’m going to have one more question and then we’re going to wrap up. And it was that you were talking about all the things you had to learn. I’m sure there were nights where you were looking at your computer thinking, “Oh man, I had it working, now I gotta go learn a new thing.” I would love for you to go back in time and blog all of that if you would. But given that you can’t, I would be interested in a blog moving forward, documenting what you’re learning, how you’re learning it and starting maybe with a post that’s summarizes all of that. Obviously, that’s up to you and how you want to spend your time, but I think it’d be really valuable to other people starting a project, picking up somebody else’s project to see what the roadmap might look like. You know what I mean? Rob: For sure. Well, I can briefly summarize what I’ve learned over the years and where I’m at today with how I do this kind of stuff. I will say that a lot of the improvements to WP Rig that have happened over the last year or two would not be possible without the advent of AI. Topher: Interesting. Rob: That’s a fancy way of saying that I have been by coding a lot of WP Rig lately. If you know how to use AI, it is extremely powerful and it can help you do many things very quickly that previously would have taken much longer or more manpower. So, yeah, perhaps if there was like five, six, seven people actively, excuse me, actively contributing to WP Rig, then this type of stuff would have been possible previously, but that’s not the case. There is one person, well, one main contributor to WP Rig today and you’re talking to them. There are a handful of other people that have been likely contributing to WP Rig over the versions and you can find their contributions in the change log file in WP Rig. But those contributions have been extremely light compared to what I’ve been doing. I wouldn’t be able to do any of it without AI. I have learned my ability to learn things extremely rapidly has ramped up tenfold since I started learning how to properly leverage LLMs and AI. So that’s not to say that like, you know, WP Rig, all the code is just being completely written by AI and I’m just like. make it better, enter, and then like WP Rig is better. I wish it was that easy. It’s certainly not that. But when I needed to start asking some of these vital questions that I really didn’t have anyone to turn to to help answer them, I was able to turn to AI. For instance, let’s go back to the Webpack versus Gulp situation. Although Gulp is no longer used in WP Rig, you know, it was used in WP Rig until very recently. So I had to understand like, what is this system, how does it work, how do I extend it and how do I update it and all these things, right? And why aren’t we using WebPack and you know, is there validity to this criticism behind you should use webpack instead of Gulp or whatever, right? I was able to use AI to ask these questions and be able to get extremely good answers out of it and give me the direction I needed to make some of these kind of higher level decisions on like architecturally where should WP Rig go? It was through these virtual conversations with LLMs that I was able to refine the direction of WP Rig in a direction that is both modern and forward-thinking and architecturally sound. I learned a tremendous amount from AI about the architecture, about the code, about all of it. My advice to anybody that wants to extend their skill set a little bit in the development side of things is to leverage this new thing that we have in a way that is as productive as possible for you. So that’s going to vary from person to person. But for me, if I’m on a flight or if I’m stuck somewhere for a while, like, let’s say I got to take my kid to practice or something and I’m stuck there for an hour and I got to find some way to kill my time 9 times out of 10, I’m on my laptop or on my phone having conversations with Grok or ChatGPT or Gemini or whatever. I am literally refining… I’m just sitting there asking it questions that are on my mind that I wish I could ask somebody who’s like 10 times more capable than me. It has been instrumental. WP Rig wouldn’t be where it is today if it wasn’t for that. I would just say to anybody, especially now that it’s all on apps and you don’t have to be on a browser anymore, adopt that way of thinking. You know, if you’re on your lunch break or whatever and you have an hour lunch break and you only take 15 minutes to eat, what could you be doing with those other 45 minutes? You could just jump on this magical thing that we have now and start probing it for questions. Like, Hey, here’s what I know. Here’s what I don’t know. Fill these knowledge gaps for me.” And it is extremely good at doing that. Topher: So my question was, can you blog this and your answer told me that there’s more there that I want to hear. That’s the stuff that should be in your book when you write your book. Rob: I’m flattered that you would be interested in reading anything that I write. So thank you. I’ve written stuff in the past and it hasn’t gotten a lot of attention. But I also don’t have any platforms to market it either. But yeah, no, I made some… I’m sorry. Topher: I think your experience is valuable far beyond Rig or WordPress. If you abstract it out of a particular project to say, you know, I did this with a project, I learned this this way, I think that would be super valuable. Rob: Well, I will say that recently at my current job, I was challenged to create an end to end testing framework with Playwright that would speed up how long it takes to test things and also prevent, you know, to make things fail earlier, essentially, to prevent broken things from ending up in the wild, right, and having to catch them the hard way. I didn’t know a lot about Playwright, but I do know how toolkits work now because of WP Rig. And I was able to successfully in a matter of, I don’t know, three days, put together a starter kit for a test framework that we’re already using at work to test any website that we create for any client. It can be extended and it can be hooked into any CI CD pipeline and it generates reports for you and it does a whole bunch of stuff. I was able to do this relatively quickly. This knowledge, yes, does come in handy in other situations. Will I end up developing other toolkits like WP Rig in the future for other things? I guess if I can give any advice to anybody listening out there, another piece of advice I would give people is, you know, especially if you’re a junior developer and you’re still learning or whatever, or you’re just a marketing person and just want to have more control over the functionality side of what you’re creating or more insight into that so you could better, you know, manage projects or whatever. My advice would be to take on a small little project that is scoped relatively small that’s not too much for you to chew and go build something and do it with… Just doing that will be good. But if you can do it with the intent to then present it in some fashion, whether it be a blog article or creating a YouTube video or going to a meetup and giving a talk on it or even a lunch and learn at work or whatever, right, that will, in my experience, it will dramatically amplify how much you learn from that little pet project that’s kind of like a mini learning experience. And I highly encourage anybody out there to do that on the regular. Actually, no matter what your experience level is in development, I think you should do these things on a regular basis. Topher: All right. I’m going to wrap this up. I got to get back to work. You probably have to get back to work. Rob: Yeah. Topher: Thanks for talking. Rob: Thanks for having me, Topher. Really appreciate it. Topher: Where could people find you? WPrig.io?  Rob: Yeah, WPrig.io. WP rig has accounts on all of the major platforms and, even on Bluesky and Mastodon. You can look me up, Rob Ruiz. You can find me on LinkedIn. You can find me on all of those same platforms as well. You can add me on Facebook if you want, whatever. And I’m also in the WordPress Slack as well as Rob Ruiz. You can find me in the WordPress Slack. And then I’m on the WordPress Reddit and all that stuff. So yeah, reach out. If anybody wants to have any questions about Rig or anything else, I’m happy to engage.  Topher: Sounds good. All right, I’ll see you. Rob: All right, thanks, Topher. Have a good day. Topher: This has been an episode of the Hallway Chats podcast. I’m your host Topher DeRosia. Many thanks to our sponsor Nexcess. If you’d like to hear more Hallway Chats, please let us know on hallwaychats.com.

OK no excuses this time. Just well beaten at Sheffield United. It may be a bleak winter landscape for Leicester City, but it's a toasty Fosse Arms as we discuss playing football without a striker, possible outs for the January window, West Brom, and the complete lack of the possibility of a cup upset at Cheltenham. Gulp.

Deze aflevering nemen we nu al op met de bovenste knoop open, en dan moeten de feestdagen nog beginnen. De gezelligheidsagenda voor januari stroomt alweer vol, dus Gijsje, Femke en Barbara willen heel graag afspraken zoals in B&B Vol Liefde: dat ze samen ‘activiteiten' gaan ondernemen – en daarna pas gaan vreten. Verder zien we vol afgrijzen de opkomst van de winkelketengymp aan. En we zijn flink geschrokken van de alarmerende berichten over ‘the cliff' waarbij je op je 44e en op je 60e flink achteruit knalt. Een beetje zoals Oei ik groei, maar dan andersom. (‘Oei! Ik stort schoksgewijs in'). Om teleurstellingen in het echt te voorkomen, zullen we daarom al onze profielfoto's even aanpassen. Dan schuift Astrid Pascal aan, die vijf jaar lang spontaan met een nieuwe liefde de wereld over zeilde en terloops twee schipbreukelingen redde en 48 uur op windkracht 10 overleefde. Haar boodschap: je kan op je spaarcenten blijven zitten – maar je kan ze ook uitgeven aan het mooiste avontuur van je leven.MenzisLuister aflevering 41 van de Menzis podcastserie De Zorggids: Besluit, Begin, BeweegBears with BenefitsGebruik kortingscode SAARPODCAST15 voor 15% extra korting vanaf €20 bij Bears with Benefits, ook boven op de 38% korting op de Winter Glow kerstbox. Geldig t/m 21 december 2025!Adverteren?Wil je adverteren in deze podcast? Stuur dan een mailtje naar adverteren@bienmedia.nl.

This week, the gals hike up their snowpants to brave a specific northeastern tundra. Topics include the true wing king, a dastardly dioramist, and flirting via pussywillow. Gulp down a classic Tom & Jerry cocktail, put the Ouija board away, and tune in for Buffalo Crimes. For a full list of show sponsors, visit https://wineandcrimepodcast.com/sponsors. To advertise on Wine & Crime, please email ad-sales@libsyn.com or go to advertising.libsyn.com/winecrime.

This week, Lotus and John are feeling particularly thankful for the handful of absolutely bananas stories that dropped in their laps! Including:Tencent's ultimate investment in UbisoftYoko Taro's projects keep getting canceledUnity coming to UnrealMegabonk withdraws from The Game AwardsUnknown Worlds vs Krafton gets unbelievably weirdRoblox CEO says the wildest things you can imagine on a podcastAlso, Lotus and John played/watched/listened to:One Battle After Another (film)Lingo 2Berserk B.I.T.S.The Phlegms' new album Gulp (album)Pluribus (television show)We, of course, answer your burning HIVE QUESTIONS from our lovely Discord.

Send us a textAn escaped mental patient embarks on a murder spree after escaping from an institution in 1987 Oakland, CA. He encounters a group of punks and they all regale each other with tales about their shared love of movies, people, places and memories beyond our knowable universe. On Episode 695 of Trick or Treat Radio we have another Patreon Takeover, this time with EF Contentment! EF has selected the films Freaky Tales and Nightmare (1981) for us to discuss! We also talk about underdog films, video nasties, and the romantic sleaziness of big cities in the 80s. So grab your favorite 80s mixtape, equip your favorite Nazi smashing weapon, and strap on for the world's most dangerous podcast!Stuff we talk about: Patreon Takeover, EF Contentment, High Spirits, Steve Guttenberg, Liam Neeson, The Buggering, Crying Game, Neil Jordan, Blood Diner, Night Patrol, The Unknown Comic, Billy Barty, The Being, Ryan Prows, Lowlife, C.M. Punk, Justin Long, Ricardo Zarate, Mike Nichols, Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey, Stargate, DTS audio, SDDS, Brotherhood of the Wolf, Ali, The Gulp of Mexico, Skydance Paramount, Howard Dean, Mike Dukakis, Roman Polanski, G.I. Joe, “Bubba”, Univeral Healthcare, Sara Ottoman, Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson, Sugar, Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck, Freaky Tales, Captain Marvel, Go, Mystery Train, Pulp Fiction, Maniac, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Green Room, the punk rock hip-hop and metal scenes, Lost Boys, Ishtar, Raising Arizona, Radio Days, Tom Hanks, Sid and Nancy, Big Trouble in Little China, Breaking Away, Top 5 Underdog Movies, Roger Ebert, Repo Man, David Cronenberg, Quentin Tarantino, Megadeth, Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey, plagiarism vs. homage, Nancy Reagan, TOO $HORT, Jay Ellis, Blade, The Fury, Brian De Palma, Three Days in the Valley, Nightmare, Romano Scavolini, Video Nasty, Trick or Treats, Death Wish Club, Basket Case, Alice Sweet Alice, Astron-6, Steven Kostanski, Deathstalker, Patton Oswalt, Daniel Bernhardt, Brain Dead Studios, Once Bitten, Lake Placid, Transylvania 6-5000, Razorback, Lifeforce, Gremlins 2, The Funhouse, Demon Witch Child, Night of the Demon, Jim Carrey, and generational trauma.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

Your body already knows.It knows when something's right, when it's time to rest, when your next move is aligned. You just have to remember how to listen.This hypnotic journey is designed to be played as you drift to sleep at night. I'll guide you into the gentle space between waking and dreaming where your subconscious mind is open and receptive. From there, you'll reconnect to your body's wisdom and the intuitive signals that guide your every choice.Listen nightly for 30 days and notice the difference: you'll begin to sense your body's messages more clearly, trust them faster, and feel supported by your inner guidance in daily life.Your body is your oracle.CONNECT w/ LOVED ONES on the OTHER SIDE: https://www.jinaseer.com/email-lm-loved-ones//  TIME STAMPS // 0:00 - 4:30 :: An intro and how to use this episode.4:31 - END :: Directive Hypnotic Journey: Your Body As An Oracle// MORE HYP JOURNEY INFO + PREP // Access the PDF, hypnotic track and more here - https://www.jinaseer.com/session-prepEpisode 3 - Anatomy of a Past Life RegressionEpisode 214 - Awareness: Your New RealityEpisode 215 - Anatomy of a Hypnotic Journey: Another Lifetime, Higher Self & SuggestionEpisode 237 - Clear & Kind Communication With your Body  |  Theme Preview//  THE  VIDEO  //This sunset is from October in Joshua Tree National Park. I was set to do the longest hike I've ever done solo the day after this sunset. As I was sitting here I was looking at the trail maps (as I do hundreds of times before a big effort) and freaking myself out. I realized, "Oh I'll be hiking behind the mountains in the distance BEFORE the sun rises tomorrow." GULP. Nervousness elevated. I got to to the trail head the next morning and it was so dark I spent an hour getting the courage to begin. An intense morning. Hahahahaha. I did it tho! 37 mile hike in just under 11 hours on the California Riding and Hiking Trail in JTNP. A trail I've been stalking for years. I'm proud :) The video for this episode is available on...Youtube - http://www.youtube.com/@JinaSeerSpotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/2QVHsoLED5BZdHu5uMSG0s?si=jUnbXB6zTfqA2QUopImbKg//  SUBSCRIBE + LEARN MORE  // ⁠SeerSessions.com⁠ and ⁠SeerSessions.com/subscribe⁠ to get on my email list.

Hello Colorado Rapids fans. Well, that was underwhelming. This week on Holding The High Line, we break down the Rapids out of town scoreboard. The guys banter about the international break. The USMNT has two friendlies and no juice. Zack Steffen didn't get called up. He did not deserve it. We talk about Poch's every worrying comments. Also not that many of you are going to the game on Tuesday at DSGP. Then we take a high level view of the Real Salt Lake game and the Rocky Mountain Cup. Can Rapids fans take solace in retaining the Cup for the first time since in 19 years? Is the team for sure missing the playoffs? How about Cole Bassett again being played at left wing? We discuss the Chris Armas contract talks. Matt has some non-Rapids first team news to update you on. We look at playoff elimination scenarios for the weekend. Gulp. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The Lower Chesapeake Bay Fishing Report is your best resource for the Virginia Beach Fishing Report, Ocean View Fishing Report, Norfolk Fishing Report, Lynnhaven Inlet Fishing Report, and everywhere in between.For the anglers looking for an Eastern Shore Fishing Report, Hampton Fishing Report, Buckroe Beach Fishing Report, or York River Fishing Report, look no further. Every week we bring you a report for those anglers interested in a Cape Charles Fishing Report and a Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel Fishing Report and for every location in the Lower Chesapeake Bay. For our guys looking for the Virginia Fishing Report, we've got you covered.First this week, we catch up with Captain Robbie Bryan with Reel Release Sportfishing. Robbie shares an excellent flounder report, noting some of the best action he's seen in years with consistent fish in the 20–22 inch range and trophies pushing 30 inches. He also talks opening day cobia, tough sight-fishing conditions, and how salinity changes pushed fish deeper. Robbie dives into conservation tips, why patience is key when setting the hook on flounder, and how anglers can help sustain the cobia fishery by being selective in harvest. Next, we hear from Captain Colt North with Litigator Sportfishing. Colt kicks things off with a fun recap from North Carolina, where he and his crew enjoyed red-hot yellowfin tuna action, boating fish up to 70 pounds on ballyhoo/sea witch rigs. Back in the Bay, he reports strong flounder fishing with limits coming off bucktail/Gulp rigs around wrecks and pilings, along with the arrival of spadefish and sheepshead. He also gives an update on cobia, which are present but not quite fired up yet due to fluctuating temps. Colt highlights his summer Litigator Kids Camps, offering ages 8–16 the chance to learn hands-on techniques across cobia, drum, reef, and inshore fishing. Sponsors:Long Bay Pointe Bait and Tackle Shoreline PlasticsGreat Days OutdoorsKillerDockHilton's Realtime-NavigatorAFTCOSalts Gone Fish Bites Sea TowBlack BuffaloStayput Anchor

The Cubs became the first time in Wild Card round history to win the first game of a series at home and not sweep by winning the second. Well, at least no team that won the first game has ever lost the series. Yet. Gulp. Oleg and Praz are here to handle a very special RECRAP postgame.

‘This is England's best chance in a long time to take the urn home.' Teddy and Corbin break down England's newly announced 16-man squad for the Ashes this summer.We also update our race to open the batting rankings.Are we getting a bit nervous about these Ashes? Maybe…

‘This is England's best chance in a long time to take the urn home.' Teddy and Corbin break down England's newly announced 16-man squad for the Ashes this summer.We also update our race to open the batting rankings.Are we getting a bit nervous about these Ashes? Maybe…

‘This is England's best chance in a long time to take the urn home.' Teddy and Corbin break down England's newly announced 16-man squad for the Ashes this summer.We also update our race to open the batting rankings.Are we getting a bit nervous about these Ashes? Maybe…

Pigs with human kidneys. Iron lungs. Bionic prostheses. And bendable genitals. Mary Roach is here, and Alie is freaking out. Over the last two decades, this science icon has written seven New York Times bestsellers, including Stiff, Bonk, Gulp, and Packing for Mars. Her latest release, Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy is all about Human Technomorphology. Prep your flesh for getting to 4th base in a lab, bugs on drugs, elective amputation, gene-tweaked farm animals, vacuum chambers, beating hearts, leftover tendons and much more with a scicomm legend who's Alie's personal career hero. Visit Mary Roach's website and follow her on InstagramCheck out Mary's books including her latest, Replaceable You, available on Amazon and Bookshop.orgDonations went to The Amputee Coalition and United Ostomy Associations of AmericaMore episode sources and linksOther episodes you may enjoy: Disability Sociology (DISABILITY PRIDE), Genicular Traumatology (BAD KNEES), Stem Cell Biology (CELLS MAKING CELLS), Systems Biology (MEDICAL MATHEMATICS), Neurotechnology (AI + BRAIN TECH), Osteology (SKELETONS/BODY FARMS), Surgical Oncology (BREAST CANCER), Dipterology (FLIES)400+ Ologies episodes sorted by topicSmologies (short, classroom-safe) episodesSponsors of OlogiesTranscripts and bleeped episodesBecome a patron of Ologies for as little as a buck a monthOlogiesMerch.com has hats, shirts, hoodies, totes!Follow Ologies on Instagram and BlueskyFollow Alie Ward on Instagram and TikTokEditing by Mercedes Maitland of Maitland Audio Productions and Jake ChaffeeManaging Director: Susan HaleScheduling Producer: Noel DilworthTranscripts by Aveline Malek Website by Kelly R. DwyerTheme song by Nick Thorburn Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Our guest today is Mary Roach, a science writer who's often drawn to taboo, or simply squeamish subjects, like sex, cadavers, or the digestive process. In books like Stiff, Bonk, Gulp, and Packing For Mars, Roach teaches her readers about the human body as well as basic – and not so basic – scientific concepts. It's science through storytelling – and humor. On July 28, 2025. Roach came to KQED's studios in San Francisco to talk about her new book, Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy, with journalist Alexis Madrigal, the co-host of KQED's Forum.

What if showing up as your most authentic, playful self was the key to doing truly brilliant work?Bree Groff, author of Today Was Fun: A Book About Work (Seriously), shares her radical rules for injecting more joy, creativity and aliveness into your professional life. An eye-opening listen for anyone who wants to finally merge work and life into one joyful expression of their fullest self.You can find Bree at: Website | Instagram | Episode TranscriptIf you LOVED this episode, you'll also love the conversations we had with Seth Godin about turning the workplace into a wellspring of fulfillment and innovation.Check out our offerings & partners: Join My New Writing Project: Awake at the WheelVisit Our Sponsor Page For Great Resources & Discount CodesCheck out our offerings & partners: Beam Dream Powder: Visit https://shopbeam.com/GOODLIFE and use code GOODLIFE to get our exclusive discount of up to 40% off. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You can find this other places than the one that begins with an "S" and ends in a "Y". Just sayin'.

In Part 2 of "My Cougar Love Story", Jayna picks up where she left off—the most awkward "meet the parents" moment since Ben Stiller met Robert De Niro. These aren't just any parents... we're talking a pastor and his very proper wife. (Gulp.) If you could take one guess at how they might feel about their precious son dating a much older, twice divorced woman from another country....you'd probably be right. What you might not expect, however, are all the lengths Jayna would go through in order to try and win them over. Let's just say, she tried everything short of speaking in tongues- a full blown PR campaign for redemption! Was it a losing battle? Listen and find out!  If you enjoyed this episode and would like to send some love, please click here: Buymeacoffee.com/BigLashEnergy Our not-so-secret goal is to create a tribe of badass women who find beauty in the messiest parts of life. We're learning and laughing as we go! If you know someone who could use a little BLE in their life? If so, could you pretty please share this show with them! ...let's grow this tribe together!    HOW TO CONNECT:  Find us on INSTAGRAM!  BigLashPodcast   Jaynas makeup and personal IG: JaynaMarieMakeup   We're official! Here's our website: www.biglashpodcast.com    IN THIS EPISODE: -Navigating age gap relationships -Dating older women -Interracial love -Crazy Date Stories  -Unconventional love -Following your heart      

This week, party boat captain Payton Gepp and C&R regular captain Eric Kerber do some flounder pounding with your favorite smallmouth lure, we meet a real life striper fishing Jesus, stiff the girls at the trampoline park on anchoring tips, and invest our life savings in the wrong color Gulp.

Adam, Joanna, and Zach discuss orange wine phenomenon Gulp Hablo, a brand that has taken New York and other markets by storm over the last few years. What exactly is it about this orange wine from Spain that makes it so popular - the packaging, the size, the flavor profile, the varieties, or something else? Can other producers and brands learn some valuable lessons here? Please remember to subscribe to, rate, and review VinePair on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your episodes, and send any questions, comments, critiques, or suggestions to podcast@vinepair.com. Thanks for listening, and be well.Joanna is watching: VinePair's Best New BartenderZach is reading: The 10 Most Important Scotch Whiskies of the Last 25 YearsAdam is reading: The Unstoppable Rise of Gulp Hablo, Everyone's Favorite Liter of Orange WineInstagram: @adamteeter, @jcsciarrino, @zgeballe, @vinepair Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

At Kindred Church, we believe that God is radically inclusive because that's what Jesus repeatedly demonstrates. But if we're not careful, we can affirm the inclusivity of God without actually responding to it in our lives. In today's sermon, we'll explore a powerful passage in which Jesus reminds us that we are included by God while he also shows us how we might be excluding ourselves. Gulp! Get ready to be comforted and challenged…at the same time! Scripture Reading: Luke 14:15-24 Share: Know someone who needs this message right now? Send them the link! Connect: https://rb.gy/0gguyc Give: https://pushpay.com/g/kindredumc Prayer: https://rb.gy/xwmuok Newsletter: ​​https://mailchi.mp/kindrednc.church/kindreds-latest-6-22-2025

In this episode, Rachel introduces John Swartout, who is a political powerhouse (don't let that deter you- his stories are really interesting). During last week's CPW Commission meeting, Commissioner Robinson asked what it was people wanted the commission to do from a policy standpoint. John answered and it was powerful.I also talk a little (sneak listen alert) about my historical fiction piece. Gulp.This episode is brought to you by Adam Rose at Illiff Custom Cabinetry. Find him on The Facebook, man.Don't forget to check your cows, check your fields, and check your neighbors. It matters.

Today we've got David Dayen on to talk about the big Apple decision limiting fees on the company's app store, and then the building supply disruptions thanks to Trump's tariffs, which look to be comparable to what happened during the pandemic. Gulp.

Arne Slot and his merry men got the title over the line, but how does his (and his pal Jürgen Klopp's) Liverpool rank among the Premier League title-winning sides of old? That's the nice, uncontentious topic Marcus, Pete & Vish are discussing today. Gulp...Plus, after Jonás Gutiérrez was spotted busking in Newcastle city centre, who makes our garage band of rock-and-roll footballers?Our tour starts NEXT WEEK! Get your tickets now before it's too late: https://footballramblelive.com.Find us on Bluesky, X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and email us here: show@footballramble.com.Sign up to the Football Ramble Patreon for ad-free shows for just $5 per month: https://www.patreon.com/footballramble.***Please take the time to rate us on your podcast app. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Fantasy Baseball Live – April 27, 2025Microsoft Team Invite:Segment 1 and 2: Review the weekend gamesAdditional Observations and Questions:1.Word out of NY is that they might make a move with Devin Williams. Who would you speculate for saves?a.Speaking of closers, Emmanuel Clase pitched the eighth inning while Cade Smith took the ninth. I understand they are just trying to get Clase back on track, but could this signal a change in closers?2.Austin Hays hit two home runs on Saturday. He's now up to five, despite missing the season's first two weeks. Are you buying this?3.Speaking of buying this, Tyler Mahle had another terrific start on Saturday. He has a sub-1.14 ERA, 3 wins, but only 26 strikeouts in 31 innings. Thoughts?4.Gage Workman is now a member of the White Sox. Interesting.5.Tyler O'Neill hits the IL, and the Orioles call up Dylan Carlson. Any interest?6.Logan Gilbert was removed from his start due to forearm tightness. Gulp.Segment 3: Waiver WireSegment 4: Closer ReportClose

This week on the Giz Wiz, we find a way to suit up a pup in post-surgery style, Chad has an "extra" and revisits a throwback game with a high-tech twist, and Dick has a gadget a smash buttons like it's an Olympic sport!

Kuala Lumpur International Airport says no to a ransom attack, switches to whiteboard. A tired and jet-lagged Troy Hunt got Phished then listed himself on his own site. Cloudflare completely pulls the plug on port 80 (HTTP) API access. Malware is switching to obscure languages to avoid detection. FORTH, anyone? Password reuse doesn't appear to be dropping. Cloudflare has numbers. A listener shares his log of malicious Microsoft login attempts. Why no geofencing? 23andMe down for the count (reminder). A sobering Ransomware attack & victim listing website. Gulp! "InControl" keeps VR planes aloft. And the European Union gets serious about a switch to Linux Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1019-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: drata.com/securitynow outsystems.com/twit bitwarden.com/twit threatlocker.com for Security Now legatosecurity.com

Kuala Lumpur International Airport says no to a ransom attack, switches to whiteboard. A tired and jet-lagged Troy Hunt got Phished then listed himself on his own site. Cloudflare completely pulls the plug on port 80 (HTTP) API access. Malware is switching to obscure languages to avoid detection. FORTH, anyone? Password reuse doesn't appear to be dropping. Cloudflare has numbers. A listener shares his log of malicious Microsoft login attempts. Why no geofencing? 23andMe down for the count (reminder). A sobering Ransomware attack & victim listing website. Gulp! "InControl" keeps VR planes aloft. And the European Union gets serious about a switch to Linux Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1019-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: drata.com/securitynow outsystems.com/twit bitwarden.com/twit threatlocker.com for Security Now legatosecurity.com

Kuala Lumpur International Airport says no to a ransom attack, switches to whiteboard. A tired and jet-lagged Troy Hunt got Phished then listed himself on his own site. Cloudflare completely pulls the plug on port 80 (HTTP) API access. Malware is switching to obscure languages to avoid detection. FORTH, anyone? Password reuse doesn't appear to be dropping. Cloudflare has numbers. A listener shares his log of malicious Microsoft login attempts. Why no geofencing? 23andMe down for the count (reminder). A sobering Ransomware attack & victim listing website. Gulp! "InControl" keeps VR planes aloft. And the European Union gets serious about a switch to Linux Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1019-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: drata.com/securitynow outsystems.com/twit bitwarden.com/twit threatlocker.com for Security Now legatosecurity.com

Kuala Lumpur International Airport says no to a ransom attack, switches to whiteboard. A tired and jet-lagged Troy Hunt got Phished then listed himself on his own site. Cloudflare completely pulls the plug on port 80 (HTTP) API access. Malware is switching to obscure languages to avoid detection. FORTH, anyone? Password reuse doesn't appear to be dropping. Cloudflare has numbers. A listener shares his log of malicious Microsoft login attempts. Why no geofencing? 23andMe down for the count (reminder). A sobering Ransomware attack & victim listing website. Gulp! "InControl" keeps VR planes aloft. And the European Union gets serious about a switch to Linux Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1019-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now. You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: drata.com/securitynow outsystems.com/twit bitwarden.com/twit threatlocker.com for Security Now legatosecurity.com

#595: Eva is finally closing in on her financial independence goals, but she's grappling with how to make a smooth transition from accumulation to decumulation. What should she consider? John has noticed a game-changing omission from recent discussions about traditional versus Roth IRAs. Is this as big of a deal as he thinks it is? An anonymous caller is excited to convert his primary residence into a rental property. But he'll only make a profit if he first sells some equities to pay down the mortgage. Is this a good idea? Former financial planner Joe Saul-Sehy and I tackle these questions in today's episode. Enjoy! P.S. Got a question? Leave it at https://affordanything.com/voicemail For more information, visit the show notes at https://affordanything.com/podcast/binge Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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