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Hello Larry! Today the guys talk while they watch PTI, WNBA Fever, News, Lethal Weapon, Colin Cowherd and for This week in TV history its May 20th-27th 1987 & 1993 keithpaesel.com keithpaesel.com/donate Follow on The socials https://www.facebook.com/groups/thesuperstation https://www.facebook.com/keith.paesel.5 https://www.instagram.com/keithpaesel/ https://www.tiktok.com/@keithpaesel

March 24-30, 1979 This week Ken welcomes writer, podcaster, and lover of all things Mego, the man behind Plaid Stallions, Brian Heiler to the show. Ken and Brian discuss Canada, how long Ken has been following Brian's work, memorizing TV Guide as a kid, being the TV Oracle, late night horror and monster movies, Crestwood books, V, tourist traps, Hollywood Museum, Slim Goodbody, Mr. Rourke as devil or angel, Fantasy Island, toothless Animal House TV rip offs, fountain pens, how small pop culture used to be, being a smoker, Canada vs US buying cigarettes, loving cigarette machines even though you don't smoke, The Frozen Dead, The Last Man on Earth, Dracula '79, Cliff Hangers, Track and Field for women by Colgate, disco, Forever Night, Silk Stalkings, Steve Guttenberg, Merv Griffin, movie parodies, George Kennedy toys, Computer Dating, Rack Toys, Bruce Villanch's song writing career, Herve Valechez, Wendy Schaal, Susan Tyrell, Pyschotronic Films, Charlton Heston, marketing cases, Aydes weight loss product, made for TV Movies, SCTV, how Buddy Cole grew out of Johnny LaRue, Scott Thompson, The King of Kensington, Guy Big, Seeing Things, Canadian sitcoms, Friday the 13th the Series, Percy Rodriguez, The Starlost, Happy Days, Star Wars rip offs, Buck Rogers, Jason of Star Command, The Dark Secrets of Harvest Home, Rene Aborgenious, jiggle TV, Charlie's Angels, Vegas, monkeys on TV, Baby I'm Back, Delta House, Carter Country, pirate satellites, lessons in irony, Barnaby Jones, why Jack Kirby IS the King, 3-D comics, Barney Miller, Brian's cop dad who isn't a cop, Times Square, pen paling with James Gregory, Turnabout, body switching, Hello Larry, being forced to watch Dallas, and Mego. 

Barry and Scott are out this week so Dakota and Coby join Dave, Joe, and Andrew. How were your holidays? Xmas down under is a g'day, mate. Instafan Theatre with a very beautiful Larry. Dakota and Coby review our theme song. Where's a guy gotta go to get a steak around here? Fun fact, Dave has none. Rate, Review, Subscribe and email us at getblindsidedpod@gmail.com!

This week, Tony and Fingers review the Casa Cuba Divine Inspiration cigar and Daviess County Kentucky Straight Bourbon French Oak Cask Finish. Tony Katz and Fingers Malloy (http://eatdrinksmokeshow.com) host Eat! Drink! Smoke! (http://facebook.com/eatdrinksmoke) recorded live at Blend Bar Cigar (http://blendbarcigar.com) in Indianapolis, IN. Topics this week include; What are the most popular beers and snacks of 2022? The answers may surprise you. Information on a new recall of Target pajamas. Big-box retailers are stuck with too much inventory, which may be good news for consumers. Retirees are returning to work. Their reasoning makes sense. Three's Company vs. Hello Larry. Yes, you read that right. All that and much more on episode 190 of Eat! Drink! Smoke! Follow Eat! Drink! Smoke! Twitter: https://twitter.com/GoEatDrinkSmoke | @GoEatDrinkSmoke Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/eatdrinksmoke | @eatdrinksmoke IG: https://www.instagram.com/eatdrinksmokepodcast | @EatDrinkSmokePodcast The Podcast is Free! Click Below! On Apple Podcasts (http://bit.ly/eatdrinksmoke) On Amazon Music (https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/09697f78-947d-4008-92f6-18f6b241774a/Eat-Drink-Smoke) On Stitcher (https://www.stitcher.com/show/eat-drink-smoke) On Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/6Qf6qSmnpb5ctSMEtaB6lp)

This week we farewell a TV legend, bring you multiple exclusives and cut through the spin for the half year ratings results. In this episode:· 1.51 – Remembering the legendary Jono Coleman· 9.34 – EXCLUSIVE: Launch date for THE CHASE with Larry Emdur revealed· 12.02 – 10 pits THE BACHELOR and SURVIVOR against the Olympics· 19.07 – Foxtel to launch a subscription streaming news service – can it work?· 25.23 – MasterChef betting scandal· 30.08 – EXCLUSIVE: Location and theme for Survivor 2022 revealed· 35.43 – Hatches & Dispatches· 37.07 – Half Year Ratings wrap· 1.00.45 – TV Bingebox Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/tv-blackbox. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The first half of the remastered series wraps up with Episode 12 looking at show favorite McLean Stevenson and his 1979-80 NBC vehicle Hello, Larry. In this episode, the crew tries to find reasons as to why this show was considered one of the worst shows ever and if it was justified.

CRAGG Live From January 9th, 2021Guest: Krista ErricksonJoin us as we chat with our guest actress & journalist Krista Errickson (Little Darlings, Hello Larry, 21 Jump Street, Mama's Family, Jeckyll & Hyde Together Again, etc). Listen to the show HERE.What is CRAGG Live Anyways?!  The flagship radio show of Cult Radio A-Go-Go!'s, CRAGG Live is a lively 3 hour talk radio show hosted by Terry and Tiffany DuFoe LIVE from an old abandoned Drive-In Movie theater with Wicked Kitty and Fritz the studio cats and CRAGG The Gargoyle. We play retro pop culture, Drive-In movie, classic TV and old radio audio along with LIVE on the air celebrity interviews from the world of movies, TV, music, print, internet and a few odd balls thrown in for good measure. We air Saturdays 6:30-9:30 pm PST.We air on www.cultradioagogo.com which is a 24/7 free internet radio network of old time radio, music, movie trailers, old nostalgic commercials, snack bar audio, AND much more!  This show is copyright 2021 DuFoe Entertainment and the live interviews contained in this show may not be reproduced, transcribed or posted to a blog, social network or website without written permission from DuFoe Entertainment.NOTE* There is a brief leader before & after the show which was recorded "LIVE" off the air.

After an original song from Chris' archives, the twins go down a rabbit hole, mostly about Hollywood Boulevard in the 1970s - when it was new to them. They also discuss their South African heritage, the old Columbia Studios on Gower and Sunset, Western Costume and much more. SHOW NOTES: 0:00 - "Castaway" by Chris Yale 5:18 - Chris' "Emotional Support" Chihuahuas 6:52 - Our South African Heritage 8:32 - The Castle Beer Show - Original Yale Brothers 9:51 - Dad's apartment at Peyton Hall in Hollywood / McLean Stevenson / It was at Hollywood and Fuller, not Orange / Olympic-sized pool and Esther Williams 12:14 - Macho Posturing 13:02 - "Hello Larry" vs. "M*A*S*H" 13:02 - Baltimore / KIX / Author Troy Nooe / "Don't Close Your Eyes" 16:13 - Hollywood Boulevard in the 1970s La Brea Avenue / Hollywood Walk of Fame / Hollywood Magic / Hollywood Toys 20:15 - Chris' Vintage Magic Tricks / Tarbell Course in Magic / Mark Wilson's Course in Magic / Robert Harbin / Walter Gibson aka Maxwell Grant - "The Shadow" 22:43 - Pickwick Books / Collector's Bookstore / Bennett's / Bond Street Books / Cherokee Bookstore 23:48 - Chinese Theatre / Egyptian Theatre / Paramount/El Capitan Theatre / Pantages 25:22 - ArcLight Cinemas (Cinerama Dome) / Musso and Frank Grill / Newsstands / The Gold Cup 28:13 - Crying at Concerts 29:39 - Miceli's / Bobby Pompey's Las Palmas Barber Shop 31:16 - Columbia Studios / Sunset Gower Studios / The "Hollywood USA" idea 34:43 - Western Costume, Sherlock Holmes and "Targo" 35:48 - LuLu's North Myrtle Beach 36:17 - Hurricane Colinz 36:29 - Thoughts on COVID-19, booking shows and more 37:17 - Sick Stooges (Roger was a founding member. Read his tribute HERE.

PHP Internals News: Episode 69: Short Functions London, UK Thursday, November 5th 2020, 09:32 GMT In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I talk with Larry Garfield (Twitter, Website, GitHub) about a new RFC that's he proposing related to Short Functions. The RSS feed for this podcast is https://derickrethans.nl/feed-phpinternalsnews.xml, you can download this episode's MP3 file, and it's available on Spotify and iTunes. There is a dedicated website: https://phpinternals.news Transcript Derick Rethans 0:15 Hi, I'm Derick, and this is PHP internals news, a weekly podcast dedicated to demystifying the development of the PHP language. Derick Rethans 0:24 Hello, this is Episode 69. Today I'm talking with Larry Garfield, about an RFC that he's just announced called short functions. Hello Larry, would you please introduce yourself? Larry Garfield 0:35 Hello World, I'm Larry Garfield, the director of developer experience at platform.sh. These days, you may know me in the PHP world mainly from my work with PHP FIG. The recent book on functional programming in PHP. And I've gotten more involved in internals in the last several months which is why we're here. Derick Rethans 0:57 I'm pretty sure we'll get back to functional programming in a moment, and your book that you've written about it. But first let's talk about short functions, what are short functions, what is the problem that are trying to solve? Larry Garfield 1:11 Well that starts with the book actually. Oh. Earlier this year, I published a book called Thinking functionally in PHP, on functional programming in PHP, during which I do write a lot of functional code, you know, that kind of goes with the territory. And one of the things I found was that the syntax for short functions, or arrow function, or can be short lambdas, or arrow functions, you know whatever name you want to give them, was really nice for functions where the whole function is just one expression. Which when you're doing functional code is really really common. And it was kind of annoying to have to write the long version with curly braces in PSR 2, PSR 12 format for functions that I wanted to have a name, but we're really just one line anyway does return, blah blah blah. It worked, got the job done. Larry Garfield 2:13 Then hanging around with internals people, friend of the pod Nikita Popov mentioned that it should be really easy. Now that we've got short functions, or short lambdas, do the same thing for named functions. And I thought about. Yeah, that should be doable just in the lexer, which means, even I might be able to pull it off given my paltry miniscule knowledge of PHP internals. So, I took a stab at it and it turned out to be pretty easy. Short functions are just a more compact syntax for writing functions or methods, where the whole thing is just returning an expression. Derick Rethans 2:56 Just a single expression? Larry Garfield 2:58 Yes. If your function is returning two parameters multiplied together, it's a trivial case but you often have functions or methods that are doing. Just one expression and then returning the value. It's a shorter way of writing that. Mirrored on the syntax that short lambdas use. It doesn't enable you to really do anything new, it just lets you write things in a more compact fashion. But the advantage I see is not just less typing. It lets you think about functions in a more expression type way, that this function is simply a map from input to this expression, which is a mindset shift. So yes it's less typing but it's also I can think about my problem as simply an expression translation. And that's very very common in functional programming, also it helps encourage writing pure functions which functional programming is built on, and is just general good practice anyway, pure functions have no side effects. Take no stealth input from globals or anything like that. And their only output is their return value. You want most of your codebase to be that, and a short function is really hard to not make that, you can but it's hard not to. In one sense it's just syntax saving, in another sense it's enabling a more functional mindset, as you're writing code, which I'm very much in favor of. Derick Rethans 4:27 What is it that you're proposing then? Larry Garfield 4:29 The specific syntax is the same function, signatures we have now: function name, open paren, parameters, closed paren, optionally colon return type. But then instead of open curly brace, it's just a double arrow expression semi colon, the exact same body style as a short lambda has. Derick Rethans 4:52 Or as a match expression? Larry Garfield 4:54 Or a match expression or, you know, just array values, you know they're all examples of double arrow expression, which means this thing becomes that thing, wraps that thing. And so it's a very familiar syntax, and it can all go on on one line or you can drop it to the next line and indents depending on how long your code is. I've done both with short lambdas, they both read just fine. That is the exact same semantic meaning as open curly brace return that expression closed curly brace. Derick Rethans 5:28 Yeah, and that wouldn't allow you to allow multiple statements in that case, because the syntax just wouldn't allow for it. Larry Garfield 5:34 Correct. There's just like short lambdas. If you have multiple statements we'll get to that, that's not a thing. There is discussion of having short lambdas now take multiple lines. I haven't weighed in on that yet I'm not getting into that, at this point. Derick Rethans 5:50 Where came up more recently again was with the match expression for PHP 8.0, where, because you're limited to this one expression on the right hand side, there was originally talk of extending that to multiple lines, but then again that wouldn't met, that wouldn't match with the short lambdas that we have, or your short functions if they make it into the language. Larry Garfield 6:11 Right, all of that comes down to the idea of block expressions, which would be a multi lines set of statements that gets interpreted as an expression, which doesn't exist in PHP today, is how something like Rust works, but lifting that into PHP while there might be advantages to it is a big lift, and that needs a lot of thinking through to make it actually makes sense, it may not make sense. Again, I have not dug into that in much detail yet, other than to say, we really need to think that through before doing anything about it. Derick Rethans 6:45 Yeah, especially about what kind of return value you'll end of returning from it because a return without the return keyword is tricky to. It's tricky to create semantic reasoning for and how to do that right. Larry Garfield 6:56 Yeah, there's a lot of semantic trickery involved there so I explicitly avoiding that in this RFC, it's a nice simple surgical change. Derick Rethans 7:05 You mentioned some use cases in the form of, they're useful in functional programming, but most people don't use functional programming with PHP, or maybe in your opinion don't use it yet. Would would be use cases for non functional programming with PHP for this new syntax? Larry Garfield 7:22 Even if you're not doing formal functional programming. There's still a lot of cases where you have a function that just ends up being one line because that's all it needs to be. Especially if you're doing object oriented code. How many classes have you written that have, they're an entity class and they have eight properties, which means you have eight getter methods on them, each of which does nothing except return this arrow, you're removing three lines out of each one of those again using standard syntax conventions. By using a short function for that. You may also have a lot of refactoring techniques encourage producing single line functions or single line methods. For example, if you have an if statement, or a while statement or some other kind of check and check is A and B, and or C equals D, or some kind of complex logic there. Very common recommendation is alright break that out to a utility method, or utility function that can give a name to and becomes more self documenting. This is a good refactor and giving you a bunch of single line functions that are just really an expression. So, I'll write structure them as just an expression. My feeling is is more advantageous with standalone functions than with methods, but most of the logic applies to both equally well. Derick Rethans 8:51 In the case of setters and getters, that actually makes quite a bit of sense righ? Larry Garfield 8:55 It's just for getters for setters generally you set something, and then return this or return null, or something like that and that is a different statement, so it wouldn't work for setters. There are ways to click around that by calling a sub function there which I'm not actually going to encourage but you can do. Derick Rethans 9:15 Yeah, I guess you could create a lambda. Larry Garfield 9:17 And actually what you do is have a function that just takes a parameter and ignores and returns a second parameter. And then the body of your setter is calling that function with the Sep sabyinyo this row foo equals whatever, then your second parameter is this, and it ends up working. I don't actually suggest people do that. Derick Rethans 9:39 It's also too complicated for me to understand what you're trying to say there so let's, let's not encourage that use of it. Larry Garfield 9:46 I did it just to see if I could not because it's a good idea. Derick Rethans 9:50 Okay, your conclusion was, it's not a good idea. Larry Garfield 9:54 Cute hack. Derick Rethans 9:55 I saw in a discussion on the mailing list, some people talking about why is this using function and not fn. What is your opinion about that? Larry Garfield 10:04 Mainly because using function was easier to implement initially. So that's what I went with; just the way some of the lexer rules are structured, it was a bit trickier to use, to do fn. And I figured go with the easy one. That said, Sara Goleman gave a patch that's takes care the FN part. So there are patches available for both. Personally I moderately prefer function, I think it has less confusion. And if you have to convert a function from one to the other, it's less work then. But I don't really care all that much so if the consensus is we like the feature but we want to use fn I'm good with that too. There's some interesting discussion around, we were saying, there are some people trying to push right now to have short lambdas also take multiple statements, or to have long lambdas, anonymous functions, do auto capture. And so this question is now okay, the double arrow versus the FN, which one means auto capture, which one means single expression. I haven't weighed in on that yet. It'd be sense to sort all of it out and make it all, logically consistent, but as long as things are consistent I don't particularly care which keyword gets used where. Derick Rethans 11:20 By adding this feature to PHP, the syntax feature, is there a possibility for backward compatibility breaks? Larry Garfield 11:27 I don't believe so. The syntax I'm proposing would be a syntax error right now, so there shouldn't be any backward compatibility issues. Other use case I forgot to mention before, is if you're doing functional style code. Then, very often want to branch, your logic. Very concisely without full if statements, people are used to Haskell, I use the pattern matching and stuff like that, I'm not proposing that here. But the new match statement in PHP eight zero is a single expression. That gives you a branching capability. And so that dovetails together very nicely to say: okay, here's a function branch, using a match statement based on its inputs. And it maps to a single expression. Could be a call to another function, could be just a single expression. It's just another place where it doesn't make possible, anything you couldn't do before. It just makes certain patterns more convenient. Derick Rethans 12:25 So no BC breaks, but more use cases. Can you see what else could be added to this kind of style functionality for the future? Larry Garfield 12:35 I think this syntax itself is very easily self contained, does one simple thing and does it well and there's not much room to expand on it. There's no reason to have closures on named functions that's not really a thing. One of the things I like about it though, is it dovetails nicely with some other things that are in flight. A teasier for future episodes I suppose I'm collaborating with Ilya Tovolo on enumerations that hopefully will support methods on enumeration values. It is an excellent case for single line expressions because there's not much else to do in a lot of cases. So you can end up writing a very compact enumeration that has methods that are single expression, and boom, you've got a state machine. I've been working on a pipe operator that allows you to chain functions together. You can now have a single line, single expression, function that is just: take input and pipe it through a bunch of other functions. And now you have a complex pipeline that is just one single expression function. Hopefully these things will come to pass. I still got quite a bit of time before eight one's feature freeze, so we'll see what happens, but to me all of these things dovetail together nicely. And I like it when functionality dovetails together nicely. That means you can have functions or functionality that has benefit on its own. But in tandem with something else they're greater than the sum of their parts and that's to me the sign of good language design and good architecture. Derick Rethans 14:09 And we have been getting to some of that that PHP 8.0 with having both named arguments and promoted constructor arguments for example. Larry Garfield 14:17 Exactly. You talked about that several episodes ago. Derick Rethans 14:20 Would you have anything else to add? Larry Garfield 14:22 Like, the. A lot of the changes that have happened in PHP eight that have made, 7.4 and eight, that have made functional style code more viable and more natural. And that's the direction that I'm hoping to push more with my limited technical skills in this area, and better design skills and collaborating with others, but there's a lot of targeted things we could do in PHP 8.1 to make functional style code easier and more viable, which works really well in a request response environment. Which PHP's use cases are very well suited to functional programming. I'm hoping to have a lot of these small targeted changes like this that add up to continuing that trend of making PHP a more functional friendly language, Derick Rethans 15:11 But you're not proposing to turn into a functional language altogether? Larry Garfield 15:15 A strictly functional language? No, that would not make any sense. A language in which doing functional style things is easier and more natural? Absolutely. I think there's a lot of benefits to that, even in a world where people are used to doing things in an OO fashion. Those are not at odds with each other. Functional programming and object oriented code. A lot of the principles of functional programming are also principles of good OO code, like stateless services. That's a pure function by a different name. Ways to do a lot of those things more easily. I think is a benefit to everyone. Those who agree with me, I could use help on that, volunteers welcome. Derick Rethans 15:54 As always, as always. Okay, thank you, Larry for taking the time this morning slash afternoon to talk to me about short functions. Larry Garfield 16:02 Thank you, Derick and take care of PHP world. Derick Rethans 16:06 Thanks for listening to this installment of PHP internals news, the weekly podcast dedicated to demystifying the development of the PHP language. I maintain a Patreon account for supporters of this podcast, as well as the Xdebug debugging tool. You can sign up for Patreon at https://drck.me slash patron. If you have comments or suggestions, feel free to email them to derick@phpinternals.news. Thank you for listening, and I'll see you next week. Show Notes RFC: Short Functions Credits Music: Chipper Doodle v2 — Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

Devoted husband, doting grandfather, loved educator, civic leader, pastor....and, oh yeah, beloved director at the Brownwood Lyric Theatre. Hello Larry! 

Dennis is joined by author Scott Eyman, whose latest book is "Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise". They discuss the amount of research that went into the book, from assuming that his mother had died when, in actuality she had been committed to an asylum, starting his career as an acrobat, his five wives, his friendship with Charlie Chaplin, experimenting with LSD and the decision to ultimately stop acting. Scott also talks about working with Robert Wagner, who just celebrated his 90th birthday. Dennis also talks to Christian, Lindsey and Stemper about Columbus Day, the latest polling that shows Biden way ahead of President Trump, why people shouldn't work if they earn less than $60,000 and what the first year of a Biden administration would look like. They also talk about Ben Hur, Spartacus, Diana Rigg, Ambien, LSD, "Hello Larry", George Stevens, Monty Python, George Stevens, the demise of Souplantation, Panera, Norm MacDonald, Short Round, Bill Paxton and the Titanic. This episode is brought to you by our sponsors: Omax Health (Code: Miller) National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Jim Syoen and Harry Bartosiak re-visit classic and "not so classic" TV Shows that we all remember. In this episode, hear Harry get every Airport movie confused with another, hear how the head of the network called McLean Stevenson "buffoonish" and learn about Jerry Stiller, the drunk. Plus Robert Wagner tries to shoot a rocket at a plane to kill his girlfriend! And another mediocre Jack Carter story! Learn why Jerry Stiller had a hatred for Dick Clark, and Bryan Cranston commits a felony years before Breaking Bad.

Larry Burns joins me to talk UFC, Comic-Con, and whatever else pops into his mind.

This week Adam and I do some Commentary over a season 1 episode of Hello Larry, which is a failed sitcom from the 80's. Then we dip back into a round of Bears QB history. More on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfOgkhBoY76y8Y91U4i9z8Q Adams Plugs: https://twitter.com/InsecureComic https://www.instagram.com/adamkroshus https://www.facebook.com/adam.kroshus Follow the Show & Keith Twitter: https://twitter.com/KeithPaesel Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/keithpaesel Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/keith.paesel.5 Keithpaesel.com

In this week's triad of episodes on "It Was a Thing on TV" the gang looks two of the most notorious shows in TV history along with a look inside the snowglobe of Chad Allen.   First, the guys look into the Alder family as they say "Hello, Larry." Was it as bad as the critics made it sound? Can they find anything redeeming about one of the worst shows ever? Just remember, Portland is a long way from L.A.   Then Mike, Greg and Chico look into what the Tommy Westphal Universe entails, some of the weird connections of many include a fictional brand of cigarettes, and they discover a plethora of new entries.   And then ABC had one of its big shows in the 70's at sea. NBC tried to duplicate that popularity on rails. It ended up being regarded as one of the worst shows in TV history, almost bankrupting NBC. Hop aboard as we delve into "Supertrain," including music cues which were recycled years later.

The guys peek into the Alder work and family life as they look into "Hello, Larry."  Was it as bad as critics make it sound?  Can they find anything redeeming about one of the worst shows ever?  Just remember, Portland is a long way from LA.

Matthew & I discuss and/or mention in passing: Karen Carpenter, The Ayds Diet Plan, Real People, That’s Incredible, Hello Larry, Diff’rent Strokes, Elvira Mistress of the Dark, Skip Stephenson, Cathy Lee Crosby, Fran Tarkenton, Love Sidney, Tony Randall, Teachers Only, Jean Smart, Lynn Redgrave, Tim Reid, WKRP in Cincinnati, Joel Brooks, Norman Fell, Filthy Rich, Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, Dixie Carter, Delta Burke, Designing Women, MTV, Fred Silverman, Mary Tyler Moore, Grant Tinker, The Cosby Show, Golden Girls, Family Ties, Dallas, Dynasty, Luke & Laura, General Hospital, SNL, Charles Rocket, Joe Piscopo, Eddie Murphy, Gail Matthius, Denny Dillon, Gilbert Gottfried, Dream On, Family Ties, Little House On The Prairie, The Katzenjammer Kids, Alan Thicke, Joanna Kerns, Kirk Cameron, Oreos, Fig Newtons, Ritz Crackers, 2-XL by Mego, Teddy Ruxpin, Willie Tyler & Lester, Gone With The Wind, Modern Family, Wine, Eve Arden, Ronald Reagan, John Hinckley, Valerie Bertinelli, Eddie Van Halen.

Most Ricochet Podcasts follow a longstanding format: A little chat with the hosts, a couple of guests, some closing thoughts, a tune, and we're out. But when you've got our old friend and current White House chief economic adviser Larry Kudlow on the podcast just hours after some very strong economic news, well, you throw out your format and let Larry drive the bus. We talk to him about the... Source

Matthew and I talk about and/or mention Diff’rent Strokes, Welcome Back Kotter, Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, Three’s Company, Love American Style, Six Million Dollar Man, Norman Lear, All In The Family, Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Carol Burnett Show, Little House On The Prairie, Fantasy Island, Eve Plumb, Peter Graves, The Incredible Hulk, Here’s Boomer, Pink Lady and Jeff, The Carol Burnett Show, Family, Mork & Mindy, WKRP in Cincinnati, Hello Larry, Kim Richards, MacLean Stevenson, Benson, Stockard Channing in Just Friends vs. The Stockard Channing Show, Mrs. Butterworth, The Mickey Mouse Club, Li’l Abner, Threepenny Opera, Growing Pains, Thicke of the Night, Robin Thicke, Barbra Streisand, Helen Reddy, Gloria Loring, Melissa Manchester, Markie Post, Daryl Hannah, Nedra Volz, Gary Coleman’s height, Hello Dolly!, Mary Jo Catlett, Pearl Bailey, Mimi Hines, Friends, Billie Jean King, Nadia Comaneci, Geri Jewell, The golden Girls, Sue Sylvester, Glee, One Day At A Time, David Spade, Richard Grieco, MacKenzie Astin, Cinnamon, Snake, and other stuff.

THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Friday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) How Was Your Week?/Greaseproofing Your Controller/Wanting the Warriors to Win/Ending with a Big Bang/Petrol's Really Getting Up There

We step away from the normal format of the show in order to hold space for the passing of Larry Harvey. Burner Podcast team members Navjeet Sarna and Tori Massie join Arash to read messages and stories written to and about The Man in the Hat.    Listen on iTunes, Stitcher, TuneIn Radio, iHeart Radio, Mixcloud or SoundCloud.        *******************   Lynn Marie Morski... I attended my first burn amid much strife in my capoeira life. I had wanted to play in the orchestra that leads the capoeira games, but my low status in the group prevented me from doing so. In capoeira,` your cord (belt) color is a rank like other martial arts, and only the higher cords were allowed to play instruments.But not on the playa. I went to a capoeira class my first day and there were no cords, no hierarchy. When it came time to play, I asked who was going to lead the orchestra. They said whomever could lead...So *I* led. For the first time ever. And I've never looked back. Thanks, Larry, for creating a hierarchy-less paradise for me to find my strength and my home in the orchestra. ******************* Arthur Mamou-Mani... Larry Harvey - you are in our thoughts. The Temple 2018 will be here for you and for the community that you have so deeply inspired and changed for the better. ******************* Amy Vogler…. The result of your little beach bonfire party has changed the course of my life in so many aspects, and exposed me to more love, compassion, & creativity than I thought possible; within the community, and within myself. Thanks for your participation! ******************* Kat Ripley…. R.I.P. Larry Harvey Thank you so much for all you have done for humanity. I think it would be impossible to overstate the positive impact you made across the globe. I don’t know if I can make one one hundredth of an impact on this world as you have, but I promise I will try. ******************* Absinthia Vermut…. I first remember Larry when I was still at Burning Man, two days after the Man burned in 1995. I celebrated my 25th birthday on playa, fell madly in love with Burning Man, and I stayed to clean up. I just couldn't leave! A year earlier, I had moved to San Francisco, a dream I had since I first visited as a young girl. I never dreamed I would find something like Burning Man in an incredible location like Black Rock Desert, but there I was. Home. Two years later, I remember Larry pulling my then boyfriend, Paul Addis, and me into a meeting late one night on Hualapai Playa. We were there with maybe two dozen others as he explained that the sheriff had relieved the gate of its cash, and he needed us to walk around and collect cash donations from participants. Of course, we did. He offered me a lifetime ticket to Burning Man for $500. I was a starving artist and couldn’t afford it, but more importantly, I thought it was a terrible idea and a huge waste of money. There was no way this thing would continue! Turns out Larry was as much of a pitbull with Burning Man as I have been with my absinthe. That was right around the time I started bootlegging absinthe, and Larry was a huge fan, perhaps my biggest. Since his passing, a friend told me that there was a night when Larry, Flash, and Peter were craving absinthe and set out into Black Rock City to find some. To find me. As they wandered through camps asking if Absinthia was camped there, they left a trail of participants asking, “Was that….Larry Harvey?” I have memories of him at the Anon Salons, holding court with a neon green glass in his hand. One memory in particular stands out, where he had five glasses and was quite belligerent. Marian was there and while she was annoyed by his behavior, we also found it hilarious and endearing. A performer named Magenta was there that night and met him on that fifth glass of absinthe, and then wowed us all by spinning in circles with a knife on her scarved head.I once witnessed Larry managing his fame. I was in first camp and saw him on the poop deck. I walked up to say hello, and he said a very formal “Yes, hello” without looking up. A moment later, he did and caught my eye, “OH! Hello dear, how are you?” It was clear that he heard “Hello Larry” often from people he didn’t know. It was interesting to be treated like a stranger and then recognized by a man whom everyone knew. Ah, playa celebrity. But of course, he was more than that. So much more. The moment made me stop and think what it must be like to walk through Black Rock City as Larry Harvey. Have you ever thought about that? The last time I saw Larry was burn night 2017. I was walking back from the burn to Marian’s absinthe bar to serve my absinthe, my burn night tradition. I had just witnessed a man dive into the fire, and I was completely shell shocked. I remember telling Larry this, and he, too, seemed shell shocked. We didn’t have that nice warm welcome that we usually have. It was too intense of an evening for us all.My favorite story of Larry occured burn night in 2015. I arrived at Marian’s pop up absinthe bar, and no one was around. I found a black baseball cap that said, MEOW, in the bar, and put that on without a second thought. I wandered over to first camp to drum up some interest. I walked in, and Larry caught my eye and gave me a huge smile. Now, Larry had never ever flirted with me before, he was always like an uncle to me, my crazy Uncle Larry, but on this night, I was dressed as Marian, with an all black outfit, a long blonde wig, and the last minute addition of the MEOW hat. Perhaps the only night I have ever not worn green on playa, I was Absinthia dressed as Marian serving Absinthia’s absinthe in Marian’s pop up bar. Larry didn’t leave my side all night. He escorted me back to the bar and I served him and many others absinthe that evening. A lot of absinthe. I said, “MEOW” a lot; what else does one say when they are mimicking Maid Marian? Larry told the story of how he had almost been arrested earlier that night during the burn. The Man was taking forever to burn, and Larry was getting worried. He also wasn’t wearing his Hat - I had witnessed him toss it into the crowd at the GLC a few years prior. He just wasn’t as recognizable without it, and beneath the slowly burning Man, a young LEO, as Larry described him, stopped him and asked him what he was doing so close to the Man, with people lying on the ground nearby watching it burn. “I am worried about it falling,” Larry said.“Well, that is not your concern. Get out of this area.”“Listen, son…” Larry started to say.“Son? Don’t you condescend to me! Now leave this area before I have you arrested and taken away!”Larry loved this story and told it several times that evening. We continued drinking absinthe, talking about such things as what to do about the Plug and Play camps, Larry sharing his ideas about building small Temples in the keyholes, and more. When the evening wore down and we all had more than enough absinthe, Larry offered to drive me, still dressed as Marian, home. I was all the way out in Illumination Village at 3 o’clock and A that year, and welcomed the ride. Larry spent about ten minutes debating with himself whether or not to drive his golf cart or his Jeep, and in the end, the Jeep won. He tried to unlock the door with his key, and I had to hold his arm to help him get the key in the lock. I went around and got in the passenger side to see him put a half full glass of absinthe in the cup holder! “Larry! You are driving me home with a glass of absinthe in the cup holder?” “Of course I am, dear, now let’s get going.” He drove out onto the playa and headed to my camp. “OMG LARRY that is a piece of art!” I hollered when a big something jumped out in front of the car. He slowed down and narrowly missed it. When found my camp, he seemed determined to drive me all the way to my door. Now, IllVille is home to a lot of fire art, which means there are propane tanks, gas lines, and art everywhere. A bad place for anyone to drive, but like I said, he really wanted to drive me to my door. We got to a spot where he had to stop, and I jumped out before he could drive any further into dangerous fire art, grabbed my case of absinthe, and gave him a big hug. I told him I loved him. He seemed embarrassed, and turned his Jeep around and drove home. Thank you, Larry. You created a world I never dreamt I would find. Thanks to you, I found my Island of Misfit Toys and a place where I belong. I came to the playa a shy photographer, hiding behind my camera, and there I found my dreams, my crazy absinthe induced green fairy dreams, and I made them a reality. I am a different person now. We all are. Like all of us, you are flawed, you are human, you are loved. You and your friends gave us the landscape to make magic happen. You left one hell of a trace, my friend.Cheers, Absinthia Vermut ******************* Rebekah Waites... I only met him a few times so don’t really have any stories. I just know that he loved Church Trap and talked about it in interviews. Found out after that he carried a picture of it in his journal. Finding that out meant a lot to me. Only story I have was one on his bday at a party at Headquarters. I didn’t know anyone and am a bit shy. Jennifer Raiser invited me and when i got there told me to go say hi to Larry. When I tried to introduce myself he snapped “I just woke up.” So i ran away. Haha! When Jennifer asked me later if I said hi to him, I said I tried to but it didn’t go over very well. So she told me to go say hi again. This time I caught him in the line for tacos and started to say who I was. His response: “who???!” “Larry... it’s me. Rebekah. Rebekah Waites who did Church Trap.” Aaaaaaaand then I got the biggest hug from Larry and we talked for a moment. It was awesome. I’ll never forget that. ******************* Danielle White... Larry Harvey passed into his next journey. Thank you for the amazing growth, change and experience that this incarnation brought to my life. I am eternally grateful.

McLean Stevenson is a 52-year old actor playing Larry Alder, a 44-year old radio psychologist. Recently divorced, and retaining full custody of his two teenage daughters, Larry has moved from Los Angeles to Portland, turning the trios life completely upside down. One night, Larry's oldest daughter, Diane, is overcome with homesickness and decides to hitch a ride back to LA, in the fairly mediocre episode, The Hitchhiker.TortureVision Rating: BADGood features were better than expected. Bad features were awful, yet still enjoyable. Abortions were utter torment to sit through. Right-Click "Save As" to download .MP3!

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Audio File:  Download MP3Transcript: Terry Morreale:  Hi, this is Terry Morreale from the National Centre for Women in Information Technology, or NCWIT. This is part of a series of interviews with fabulous entrepreneurs, with women who have started IT companies in a variety of sectors. All of whom have incredible stories to tell us about being entrepreneurs. With me is Larry Nelson from w3w3.com. Hello Larry, how are you? Larry Nelson:  I'm magnificent and I'm so happy to be here today. At w3w3.com we record all business people from all over the place. We really like to focus in on entrepreneurs. You can listen to this interview and others on w3w3.com. Terry:  Great, thank you. Today we are interviewing an entrepreneur with more than 35 years experience in the startup community. Carol Clark is the co‑founder of "Mind Leaders Inc" and served as the CEO and chair of the board of the company from its formation in 1981, until "Mind Leaders" was acquired in 2007. "Mind Leaders Inc." integrates talent management and e‑learning resources to deliver development solutions from a single platform. Carol currently serves on the board of directors at "Ed Map Inc," "Sia Linden Associates Corp," and "Ecolibrium Solar Inc," on the investment committee for the "Patient Capital Collaborative 13" fund, and on the executive committee of the "Ohio TechAngels Fund." Before we start Carol, tell us a little bit more about your current endeavors. Carol Clark:  What I'm doing now, is I'm an active "Angel" investor. That means that we invest in young companies. I am on the patient collaborative investment committee. That's part of investors circle. We focus on impact investing. The "Ohio TechAngels" group in Ohio, naturally, we focus on medical devices, technology, Ohio company. I'm also a member of Golden Seeds, which is an "Angel" group in New York City. They have chapters on the west coast and in Texas. Two years ago I founded "X Squared Angels" which is a group here in Columbus, very much after "Golden Seeds." We focus on women led companies. Women companies can be anywhere in the country, actually anywhere in the world, because you apply to us from Canada, and it can be in any market. We're just trying to invest in companies that have women in management teams. Being an active angel investor is a lot of work [laughs] . But it's also a lot of fun. You get to meet the investors, you hear all kinds of interesting ideas for companies, and you meet lots and lots of interesting people. That's what I'm doing now. Terry:  Sounds fun. Larry:  Wow, I love it. Terry:  [laughs] Tell us how you first got into technology, Carol? Carol:  I was a math major in college. Way back in the dark ages. When I graduated from college, the large companies would go around and interview at the liberal arts schools. "IBM" was one of the companies that came to interview at Gettysburg College where I graduated. I thought, "well, that sounds like fun, computers," and I wanted to go to New York City anyway. Back then they gave you a programmer's aptitude test. If you passed the test and some series of interviews, then they offered you a job. I started as what was called the system service representative, which ultimately became a systems engineer in one of the Manhattan offices in New York City. I got into computers in the early 60s, really when computers were just starting. Terry:  Wow. Carol:  It was just so much fun. Terry:  That's fantastic. What technologies do you think are cool today? Carol:  I never thought I would say this, but I think "Twitter" is. When "Twitter" first came out, I thought, "this is technology looking for some application. What is anybody going to do with it?" What I think has happened is that "Twitter" is really our news of the world today. Nothing really can happen in the world without somebody knowing it, and somebody sending it through their cell phone over "Twitter". I think "Twitter" is really cool. That would be one thing. The viruses that are popping up all the time are really cool. You write a program and I look at the program, and I say "well, I can get around your program" until I do, and then you look at what I've done and you get around it. This particular thing is what's pushing the programming world today. It certainly doesn't have nice ramifications, but I think it's really cool technology. The third and final thing would be what they're doing with Quantum calculations. Encryption on the web, the World Wide Web, is done with RSA encryption. It basically is just multiplying random numbers together, prime numbers together, and then encrypting them through an algorithm. It's done once each time data is sent. Nobody can break it, because it takes too long to re‑engineer that calculation. What they're doing now is they're using quantum mechanics to calculate in a different way, and they're going to be able to encrypt everything a whole lot faster. I just saw a TV show on it about two weeks ago and I thought it was really cool. They're my three things. Larry:  Wow. We'll have to look that up for sure. Just to switch gears, Carol, a little bit, why are you an entrepreneur? What about entrepreneurship that makes you tick? Carol:  I think people become entrepreneurs because they want to control their own time, control what they do. What you quickly find out is, many people say, "I'd like to become an entrepreneur because I'm my own boss." You're never your own boss. When you're an entrepreneur, your customers are your own boss. I really liked having the customer as my boss because there were very few politics involved in it [laughs] . They either like what you're doing and they pay you money for it, or they don't. It's a very simple, nice relationship. I thought I would be an entrepreneur because you can control your own time, you can create what you want and make it as good as you want it, but what I really found that I liked was the fact that you're working for your customers. They're leading the way. I liked that a lot. Larry:  With that kind of comment about the time, that you mentioned, you ought to teach a class on time management. [laughter] Carol:  I would probably make people crazy. I already make my husband crazy with my time management. [laughter] Terry:  Carol, tell us who influenced or supported you to take this career path? Role models, mentors, people like that? Carol:  I gave this one a little bit of thought. I would put my parents first. They really provide the unconditional love, self confidence, and they say you can do whatever you want. My mother did that. My father also did that. My father would say, "I don't have a clue what you're doing with these computers, I don't understand it. I don't know what it is, but I'm all for it" [laughs] . He built ships, so he had physical things that he created, and for me to go into software was really hard for him to understand. Nevertheless, he supported it and was the cheering section all along the way. Then I would have to say that my husband was there the whole time and said, "just go do it. If you think it's the right thing to do, go do it." Terry:  That's great. Larry:  Wow. With all the different things you've been through, you've got such a fabulous background. Along the way you've had a lot of interesting things happen. What are the toughest things that you've had to do in your career? Carol:  One of the toughest things you have to learn, maybe two things. One is, don't take yourself seriously. Really, nobody's watching. If you fall on your face, nobody's paying any attention. You might feel silly, but I think the first thing is you can't take yourself too seriously. It takes a while to learn that. That would be number one. The second thing is, if you're going to lead, and if you're an entrepreneur you are going to lead, the first thing you have to remember about leadership is you have to make sure people are following [laughs] . You could have the best idea in the world, but if nobody agrees with you or nobody will come with you, you're not going to get very far. You have to keep looking over your shoulder to make sure that those people that are every bit as important, maybe more important than you are to the success of the company, are right there with you. Those are the two toughest things to learn. Larry:  Yes. Terry:  Indeed, in life and in entrepreneurship [laughs] . Carol:  Right [laughs] . Terry:  If you were sitting here with a young person today and giving them advice about entrepreneurship, what advice would you give them? Carol:  I actually do a fair amount of counseling with people of all ages, but many young people. The first thing I say is, "Is there a market for this product? Is there a large market for it? 500 million or larger?" Because when you start out with this product, you're only going to get a little teeny tiny piece of the market. The market has to be big enough for you to make money doing this. Number one is the market. Number two is the product. You might think you have the coolest technology in the world, but if nobody's going to pay you for it, you don't have a business. Talk to those potential customers and find out whether they're interested in buying what it is you want to sell. That would be number two. The third one is, you absolutely need to understand the financial statements. You can't go anywhere without understanding the financial statements. If I say to you as a potential entrepreneur, "OK, give me three years of projections month by month, and make a list of the assumptions that you're making about this business," and you can't do that or you don't want to do that, you're going to really have a difficult time. You have to understand the numbers. You never should run out of cash. The final thing is you need to understand your own limitations. You need to know what you don't know and go hire it, or find someone who will do those things for you. Those would be the four things. Make you've got a big, big market for this. Make somebody will pay money for this product, understand the numbers, find out what your limitations are, and get a team around you that can make up for your limitations. Terry:  That is wonderful advice. Thank you, Carol. Larry:  Excellent. Maybe I shouldn't even ask this question. It just seems natural with everything you've said so far. What personal characteristics do you think you have, that have given you the advantage as an entrepreneur? Carol:  The first one if a sense of humor. [laughter] Carol:  I really do. You're going to do things wrong, you're going to do stupid things. You're going to say stupid things. You just have to laugh about it. It's not the end of the world, you're still you. You pick yourself up and you go forward. That is probably the first one. The next is hiring good people. Those are the only two things. You need to be able to hire people that complement who you are and what you want to do. You're going to make mistakes there too. I guess the rule is hire slowly and fire quickly. I think that's true. Terry:  Carol, what do you do to bring balance into your personal and professional lives? Carol:  I think it's a gift, but I really can turn off the professional piece. I do have four children. They're all grown, of course. Certainly, you have to be able to turn off your professional life when you're raising a family. My husband and I love to travel, so we travel. I love to ride my bike. I go out on the roads or the trails. I'm not fast. I just mosey along, stop and talk to people or stop and look at flowers or insects or trees, or whatever happens to interest me. That just as peaceful. It is pure joy. You need to have interests other than professional or you make yourself crazy, and you need to be able to turn them off. Larry:  Absolutely. Carol, you've already achieved a great deal. We'll make sure that we have all those links and ideas and stuff up on the home pages and so on. What's next for you? Carol:  I think I'm going to remain an active "Angel" investor. I really do enjoy that. I love, as I said, meeting entrepreneurs, hearing the new ideas, staying current with the technology. I think that's going to be what I do for the next little while. After that, I don't know [laughs] . We'll see what presents itself. Larry:  We'll follow you, so we'll know. Terry:  Absolutely [laughs] . Carol:  Just so you don't stalk me, that's all right. Terry:  We'll follow you on twitter, how about that? Carol:  [laughs] There's a thought. Terry:  Carol, this has been an absolute pleasure, getting a chance to chat with you, getting a chance to know you a little bit better and learn from you. You gave some fantastic tips for our listeners. We look forward to sharing them with our entire NCWIT community, and with the w3w3.com community as well. Larry:  Over the years, my wife and I, we've started 12 different companies, I wish we had know you back then. Carol, thanks. Your advice was absolutely super. Thank you. Carol:  Thank you, my pleasure. Terry:  Have a great afternoon. Carol:  OK. Bye bye. Series: Entrepreneurial HeroesInterviewee: Carol ClarkInterview Summary: Carol Clark, co-founder of MindLeaders Inc., www.mindleaders.com, served as CEO/Chair of the Board of the company from its formation in 1981 until MindLeaders was acquired in 2007. Carol has more than 35 years of management experience as well as an extensive background in computer programming, software development and education. Carol currently serves on the Board of Directors of EdMap Inc., Sealund and Associates Corp. and Ecolibrium Solar Inc.; on the Investment Committee for the Patient Capital Collaborative ’13 Fund; and on the Executive Committee of the Ohio TechAngels Funds. "When you're an entrepreneur, your customers are your own boss. I really liked having the customer as my boss because there were very few politics involved in it." said Carol about what it means to be an entrepreneur. "They either like what you're doing and they pay you money for it, or they don't. It's a very simple, nice relationship."  Release Date: November 19, 2014Interviewer(s): Terry Morreale and Larry NelsonDuration: 15:10

Audio File:  Download MP3Transcript: Terry Morreale:  Hi, this is Terry Morreale, from the National Center for Women in Information Technology or, NCWIT. This is part of a series of interviews that we are having with fabulous entrepreneurs. Women who have started IT companies in a variety of sectors, all of whom have just fantastic stories to tell us about being entrepreneurs. With me is Larry Nelson from w3w3.com. Hello Larry, how are you? Larry Nelson:  Hello, I can't wait to get into this interview. We love what NCWIT is doing and we have everything posted on our w3w3.com website. It's all business and of course here we're focused on women IT entrepreneurs. Terry:  Today we are interviewing an industrial designer turned entrepreneur, who was named one of "Fortune Magazine's" most powerful women entrepreneurs in 2013. Jules Pieri is the CEO and co‑founder of The Grommet. The Grommet is a company that launches undiscovered products or "grommets" and helps them succeed. The Grommet is Jules' third start‑up. She's also an entrepreneur in residence at the Harvard Business School. Before we start, Jules, tell us a little bit about the latest at The Grommet. Jules Pieri:  The thing I'm working hard on right now is we have an annual competition called the Product Pitch on March 20th. Believe it or not, we're in Boston and we have all of Fenway Park for that. The point that people that listening to the podcast would care about is that we're taking submissions for that. So, if people have an ordinary problem solver or hack that they think the world should know about and if it's in one of two categories, ready for crowd‑funding or ready for market. We're looking at all those submissions starting last night and for the next 12 days. Terry:  Thank you for that information. How did you first get into technology, Jules? Jules:  I guess through the back door. In high school, I simply had that girl disease of not necessarily thinking it was for me but I did keep succeeding whenever I tried. There was a programming course in the high school. It was new to the school. I just kept acing it and I would get 100s. I would never get 100s on the tests. The teacher decided girls couldn't have 100s so he would actually always find something wrong on my page to make it 99. It was bizarre. However, I was always top of the class. So, I guess, I knew I had some capability but it still felt back door even through college because I ended up becoming an industrial designer, which is kind of a different flavor of technology. It's not as hardcore as if I'd studied computer science but you do have to have a really solid base of understanding, particularly in mechanical engineering and ergonomics and human factors and now a lot of new words that people use to describe the things that I had to master. And so, it felt like a blend of business and technology as a profession to me. Terry:  What are some of the technologies you think are cool today? Jules:  Actually, we're just barely scratching the surface of 3D printing. One of the reasons I founded The Grommet was its existence. I was blown away when I went to a prototype lab at Savannah College of Art and Design several years ago and I saw three 3D printers for rent for $15 an hour. I saw that and said, "That changes everything," because for me it was something I could directly relate to because I had been an industrial design student. I knew what it was like to conceive of ideas and then execute them, prototype them. I knew how hard it was without 3D printing and that your ideas could even be limited by your ability to actually build the model or draw something. When I saw that for such a cheap access point, $15 an hour, I was already working on The Grommet but it just sort of made me double down on the idea to see that. I was reading "Food and Wine" magazine last night and they were giving a big overview to 3D printing and showing some spun sugar creations that were being done by 3D printing. And so, it's infiltrating but it's far from mainstream. It's far from the future of when we'll be able to print products at home, but it's so important to the maker movement, which is where I spend my days thinking. It's the one I'm probably most excited about. Larry:  I couldn't agree more. Very exciting area. Taking your background and everything that you've been involved with why are you an entrepreneur? And then, also, what is it that makes you tick as an entrepreneur? Jules:  That's interesting. I think there are genetic entrepreneurs who have to be them. They're born that way. And then there are people who almost become it by necessity. They trip on an idea they have to do. I'm a little of both, more necessity. The both part, genetic part, is that I've always been very comfortable creating things. It's my preference. I've never had a job that any one had before me where I was just repeating something or making it better. As an industrial designer you're trained to attack the white space, to find the opportunity, to not be intimidated about having to create something from your own observations and insights. It's a really important discipline in being an entrepreneur that most people wouldn't have. I didn't know I was being taught to be an entrepreneur but I effectively was when I was learning and practicing as a designer. Having said all that, I wasn't one of those people who walked around saying, "I can't work for someone else." They have to do their own thing. Frankly, I like working for other people because it's way easier than working for myself. I'm a tougher boss. But the necessity part kicked in over the course of my career. "Why do the best products don't win?" That's almost anti‑American or anti‑capitalism to say that because we think that the market decides and the best products win but it's far from true. Today and for a long time it's been the case that people have a chance of making the products you see one of two ways. They either are part of a large organization and then they can muscle their way through. It's still not guaranteed but you have better odds. Or there's kind of a lucky break scenario where Oprah calls or something big happens that's outside of your control. That's a really crummy business plan and it means that a lot of really good products don't see the light of day. That was a business opportunity that I saw that somebody had to attack. It just had to get done. It wouldn't have been possible without technology. Social media, broadband, the ubiquity of video. A lot of things were happening that enabled the business. Honestly, if I think about it, I saw the problem as far back as the '90s, that the best products aren't winning. But earlier I was just throwing up my hands until just before this company. I was president of a social network called Ziggs.com. I saw what social media meant. That was one component of the bigger picture that cracked the puzzle of putting the access to these kind of products and the power into the hands of people, the power to decide which companies we wanted to support by sharing them or buying their products. Social media changed everything. This is really an idea that was enabled by technology and also I have to acknowledge the change of behavior that those technologies enabled. That's the business side. Me, as an entrepreneur, what makes me tick? I went to a really rigorous high school. I kicked myself out of Detroit. Actually I grew up in a tough neighborhood in Detroit and I went to tough public schools until I was 14. And then I was thinking about applying to an exam school. Public school, my teacher that I loved told me to apply to boarding school so I did. I snuck, actually, behind my parents' back and did it. Not because they didn't support it ultimately but I didn't want anyone to tell me, "No." I applied. They had to fill out financial aid forms so they found out. I got a scholarship. Even though I was in this really rigorous academic school it happened to have really wonderful art facilities. And so, I would spend a lot of time making things when I was in school. When I had time at night I would go and weave. I liked wood shop. I liked working in the ceramics studio, jewelry, anything I could make something. It was really important to me and now I'm making a business. I extend that creativity to a whole business model but around me I'm enabling makers as well. I get a lot of kicks out just watching their creativity and then when I need to actually make something I'll do it at home on the weekend. It's really the creation of a business model that's very exciting to me. Terry:  I'm guessing that you had some mentors or role models along the way. Did you have folks that influenced you that way? Jules:  I mentioned that one teacher in terms of he gave me a sense of possibility outside of where I could to on my bike, basically, as a young person. And also when I was in elementary school I read every biography and autobiography in my little school library. Those lessons were really important to me. I really did get the sense an ordinary person could do something extraordinary. It sounds trite, reading books, but I didn't have access to a lot of role models. Nobody in my neighborhood went to college. People went to jail. It was not like I could personally know people who could be my mentors in that environment. My parents were solid and I knew a lot of really solid people in the neighborhood but there were bad things going on around us in Detroit that were going the wrong way. We were part of it. But then I got lucky. Let's fast forward a little bit to later in my career, in '91, '92. I had a boss land on my head in a consumer products company. I've gone back and forth between technology companies and big consumer product companies. I was working at Keds, the show company. Meg Whitman, who ended up running eBay, running for governor of California and now she's CEO of Hewlett Packard. She landed on my head as my boss. I ended up following her and working for her directly in three different companies. I wouldn't call her an entrepreneurial role model. She's not an entrepreneur but I would call her a leadership role model. It mattered that she was a woman, I'm sure, on some level but I had the chance to work so closely with her for so long that I definitely absorbed a lot of her learnings and things that she succeeded. Her techniques and ways she worked with people. Larry:  Boy, that's for sure. I can relate to that a great deal. We interviewed Meg Whitman a number of years ago now. Also, I was born in Detroit so I can relate to what you were talking about. I know you've been through so many different things and I would say you probably have faced a number of challenges along the way but if you had to pick out. what is the single most toughest thing you had to do in your career? Jules:  It was definitely this business and raising money for this business. I literally walked my shoes off to do that. I have a funny picture. I was near MIT and Kendall Square and Cambridge walking from one venture capital office to another in these Stuart Weitzman platform shoes I had on ‑‑ just those basic black shoes ‑‑ started disintegrating. I'm not kidding. They just literally started falling apart and this platform was about three or four inches high so that platform going down to one inch high was a big difference. They were a mess and it was kind of symbolic of what I did. We started the business in 2008 when the sky was falling and we were working on the maker movement before it had words. Nobody had a name for what we were working on and Kickstarter didn't exist yet and 3D printing didn't hit the mainstream press. A lot of things we knew about were just invisible to the average investor and then the average investor was scared to death. Raising money was definitely the hardest but there was one ...We almost died three times. We almost went bankrupt three times. That's no fun to come up with that plan and just unwinding the business. You just have to do what you have to do. There was one dramatic moment which crystallizes it. My shoes were a symbol but there was a moment where it all came together in a positive way but it was coupled with a sad event, although ultimately we raised a wonderful investment from a Japanese company called Rakuten, the third largest eCommerce company in the world and the CEO is kind of the Japanese Jeff Bezos or Steve Jobs. Very, very well known. It's a happy day but at the time I was negotiating that deal my mother was dying. She had colon cancer. This really mystical thing happened. At the moment that she died I got a phone call. I was staying at my childhood best friend's house near the hospital and my aunt called me to say my mother had passed. It was 3:00 in the morning. I was already awake because there was this tremendous lightning and thunderstorm that only Detroit can serve up. I was awake, looking at that. I got the phone call which is the phone call you might expect but never want and then, since I was awake and had my phone in my hand I hung up, looked at my phone, and there was the letter of intent from Rakuten. All three things happened at once. It was amazing. I think my mother went up to heaven and kicked up some dust. Said, "Get this deal done. My daughter deserves a break," and it happened. Terry:  Wow, what a story. Jules, if you were sitting here with a young person today giving them advice about entrepreneurship what advice would you give them? Jules:  I think entrepreneurs, kind of nicely, are almost like modern day rock stars or Olympic athletes but there's a lot that goes with being an Olympic athlete. There's a lot of hard work and defying the odds and being the crazy person. I'd try to help them understand what that looks likes or what that feels like in reality without discouraging them. I'd try to help them find what in their own life symbolizes the ability to be an entrepreneur because it's about taking yourself into some really uncomfortable zones at times. There's not a lot of certainty. There's a lot of anxiety and ambiguity about being an entrepreneur. Even when you're young you might have to deal with that. If you've made choices or you had a choice and you chose something difficult. It's really hard to go away for college. It's against the norm, against the grain and more expensive or you're going where you don't know anybody. Those kind of choices where somebody else took something more comfortable or if you pick an athletic event or a sport that's really hard for you or you try out for a play. If you take challenges that you don't have to take and you get through it you realize you're left standing on the other side. You're still alive and all that. You understand you can do it. I think somebody just thinking they might want to be an entrepreneur wants to look for a bit of a pattern of that in their life, of creating firsts around them. Doing something the first time. I was the first girl in the Detroit Public Schools to wear pants to school. I was really young and I was just mad that it was freezing cold there and I had to wear a dress. I went home at lunch one day and changed. The policy changed the next day. It was bizarre. It was just like somebody standing up to it. I don't know. Something collided but even pretty young people have those kind of opportunities to do something different than the norm and claim it as their own achievement. I'd look for a pattern of that. I think that there has to be a bias for action as an entrepreneur. You have to be able to defer gratification, have good impulse control because you're not going to get a lot of feedback in the near term every day that you're doing the right thing. If you're doing something really big, really different you're automatically going to get the opposite feedback because there's nothing like it out there and people can't make easy comparisons to match patterns about your idea. If you're working on something pretty big the world provides a lot of friction for a while. If you're somebody who does not need that immediate feedback, has some inner strength and confidence about your ideas, that helps a lot, too. Larry:  With all the different things that you've been through and the things you've started and faced all different types of challenges what would you say is the single most personal characteristic that's given you the advantage of being an entrepreneur? Jules:  Definitely tenacity because it never was easy for me to do anything I did. To leave home, go to boarding school. To go to school in a tough school where I was worried about chairs flying over my head instead of studying. Everything I did as a young person required tenacity, sticktoitiveness. There's a lot of truth to that kind affirmism about 90 percent of success is just showing up. That somewhat defined another quality of being an entrepreneur is tenacity. Terry:  What do you do to bring balance into your personal and professional lives? Jules:  What is that? Larry:  It starts with a B. Jules:  I'm a little unusual. I have done two other start ups but this was the first one I started. It's a really higher level of commitment when you start the company and the buck stops with you. I started this company when I was 47. That's pretty meaningful because I have three sons and the youngest was in middle school at that time. I had one in college. Basically my boys were somewhat autonomous at that time. That made a big difference because, for me, it would have been really hard to do this at the level of commitment I made and the tough economic times where the wind was definitely in our face if I'd done it at an early stage in my life. I was also more efficient and effective. I had a better network than I did when I was younger. I'm very confident in my decisions. I never do something twice or take longer than I need to. My co‑founder, similar vintage. We practice divide and conquer. It's an excuse. We never do the same thing together if one of us can do it. That helps, too, to have a strong co‑founder. But I will say, having said all of that, that it helped having oldere family be more effective myself, being older. I did let the physical side of balance go in 2011. It's 2014 now. It's been a couple years since I had time when I said, "Look, I'm going to re‑calibrate here." It was a pretty traumatic time. It was hard. My brother had just died and my mother was sick. The economic times were horrible. We had a lot of financial stress from me not getting paid and my husband's work was a little bit dried up for the time. Here's the kids in college. Huge demands. I even had a little battle with cancer so a lot of really hard things. I just named a grocery list but it didn't seem like a grocery list in those years. I was getting worn out, basically. No better way to describe it. That was an unusual feeling for me. I did have to re‑calibrate. I did have to focus more on sleep. Really basic things that you could read in any health magazine but basic things. Diet, sleep, exercise. I had to make sure I was covering those really well and I still do. I'm really disciplined about exercise and sleep now. Sleep's a weapon that I didn't really recognize it as a weapon before but I do now. Larry:  You have really been through a great deal personally and professionally. You're on an exciting road right now with Grommet. Jules:  We grew 450 percent last year. We've launched products now that you would know but when we launched them were unknown. Things like Fitbit. Wearable technology is such the rage. We saw the potential of that way before the average person or investor or retailer would see it. We launched an ordinary kitchen device, the SodaStream. It makes soda. It's a kind of eco‑friendly product for your home. We launched something that you see in every start‑up office on the planet now, IdeaPaint. I'm sitting at the Harvard Business School at their Innovation Lab, the wall is painted like whiteboard. You can write on the walls thanks to these debts and college entrepreneurs. We are moving from where we used to be which was recognizing what could make a market to now we actually move markets. Our community's big enough that when we launch a product the sales and social entity trait is meaningful but because we're trusted and respected by bigger companies, like media companies and retail companies our Grommet makers get those phone calls and press coverage and the things that they dream of because The Grommet has lent their reputation to them. A new product every day at noon with a video story that's been thoroughly researched. We see about 200 ideas a week and we're only working with five. Only five of them are Grommet worthy. We've created a global community of people to submit ideas to us. This year we have a goal that 30 percent of the Grommets we launch will be totally new to market. Nobody's seen them before. We pick up where crowd‑funding platforms leave off, ready to become a company. We have a goal that eventually, I think it's going to take a couple more years, we'll be a household name so that when somebody has a great idea they think of us first. It's their first choice for, "How am I going to take this from first production run to a business? How am I going to gain the trust and get my story out there in a way that has enduring impact, that will help my business be sustainable." I want the next thought to be, "The Grommet." This year we'll grow to have about three and a half million people in our community to see The Grommet every day. One in 150 Americans, something like that, will be part of our community. That's on the supporters side. They're not necessarily makers but those supporters send us ideas. They use a product they love or they've heard of one and they send it to us because it would be really old fashioned for us to have a giant team of scouts when social media, anybody can be a scout for our business and they are. They can submit publicly to something called our Citizens Gallery. Anyone can see the ideas that we're seeing that come through that particular vehicle. Others come in through Pinterest and Twitter and Instagram. There are lots of social media vehicles for getting ideas our way but the Gallery on our own site is the one where it's easiest to see some of the ideas coming through. Clearly so. I want to be associated with that. I want to be heroic to makers. I want our business and our community to be heroic to them, to change the game. It sounds so basic. Changing how products get discovered and sold. It's so generic. The way I describe our business is a product launch platform. Those words don't really mean anything but neither did crowd‑funding or online auctions or Internet radio. If you do something really new you have to invent words for it and then eventually the words mean something to other people. That's the goal. Larry:  That's super. Obviously there's a lot coming up for you in the next number of years. We'll have everything posted on the w3w3.com website, our blog, our podcast directory, and most importantly the NCWIT.org site. I want to thank you for joining us today, Jules. Terry:  Yes. Thank you so much for your time. We appreciate it and we know our listeners are going to be thrilled to hear what's been going on with The Grommet. Larry:  That's a fact. Jules:  Great. Thank you so much. It's fun to take the minute to think about these things and share them. It actually energizes me. I thank you. Larry:  That's great. Series: Entrepreneurial HeroesInterviewee: Jules PieriInterview Summary: Jules Pieri is the founder and CEO of The Grommet. The Grommet is a company that launches undiscovered products or "grommets" and helps them succeed. "Meg Whitman, who ended up running eBay, running for governor of California and now she's CEO of Hewlett Packard," Jules said of one of her leadership role models. "She landed on my head as my boss. I ended up following her and working for her directly in three different companies. I wouldn't call her an entrepreneurial role model. She's not an entrepreneur but I would call her a leadership role model. It mattered that she was a woman, I'm sure, on some level but I had the chance to work so closely with her for so long that I definitely absorbed a lot of her learnings and things that she succeeded." Release Date: April 3, 2014Interview Subject: Jules Pieri, Founder and CEO of The GrommetInterviewer(s): Terry Morreale and Larry NelsonDuration: 25:12

Jason, Dan, David, Steve, and special guest Philip Michaels talk more old movies, “Magnum P.I.,” “Hello Larry,” Dwight David Eisenhower, Alfred Hitchcock, and The Bad News Bears.

Jason, Dan, David, Steve, and special guest Philip Michaels talk more old movies, "Magnum P.I.," "Hello Larry," Dwight David Eisenhower, Alfred Hitchcock, and The Bad News Bears.

After our first show 93 was deleted we got back together a few days later and recorded this masterpiece. We go over what happened the first time we recorded this show, and give you some news from Doc and Keith. Then we laugh ourselves stupid making fun of Larry King. We have e-mails from Jeffery and C.B., and a call from Tony and Jake. Give us a call at (206) 309-7308, or send e-mails to show@insignificast.com.