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Quaranteam-Northwest: Part 4 The House. Based on a post by Break The Bar. Listen to the ► Podcast at Explicit Novels. The pounding on the front door echoed through the house again, and I literally fell out of the bed trying to disentangle my foot from the mess of the sheets. Erica and I had stumbled inside late as fuck, trying to be quiet and not wake up Leo and Dani, and now I could see we'd tracked in dirt and grass with us. The sheets were filthy. I got shorts on and stood, shaking Erica by the shoulder. "What?" she groaned. "Someone is at the door, and it's sun up. The worker might need to start working. I'll close the door and give you as much time as I can, but could you at least put on a top in case anyone pops in here by accident?" "Let 'em look," Erica grunted. "What happened to those being my tits, and mine alone?" I grinned. "..... Fine," she said and held up a hand in the air. I found her a shirt and put it in her hand, and she started trying to get it on without lifting her head from the pillow or opening her eyes. I shut the bedroom door behind me and met up with Leo in the hallway; he was only slightly more dressed than I was, with a single sock and an undershirt over his shorts. "Mornin'" he grunted. "Yep," I said, and we headed for the door. When I opened it I was expecting Vanessa and her big 'gorilla' work crew, but instead it was Agent Sourpuss. It was even earlier in the day than I had expected. "What took you two so long?" she said, sneering at the two of us. "Never mind, come with me." She started walking around the house, so Leo and I followed barefoot. Just as we were stepping out and shutting the front door, the crew vans started pulling in, ferrying the surveyors and workers. A few of them called and waved, taunting us for looking like we were getting called to the Principal's office. "We have solved the temporary housing issue for you two," Agent Sourpuss said as we rounded the corner, and she presented us with the new additions to the backyard. Hunkered up next to the two sea cans that all of our stuff was being loaded into for storage were two brand new, state-of-the-art, still gleaming chrome and white from the lot, RVs. The two fuckers were huge. I had no idea how anyone other than an 18-wheeler truck driver could pilot one of them. They had to be worth at least a couple hundred thousand dollars each. "God damn," I said, coming awake. "One for each of us?" Leo asked. "You and your partners," the Agent said. "Follow me." We did, crossing the backyard as the Agent told us that we would need to be ready to move them at a moment's notice; our presence couldn't be allowed to slow down the construction process. We were also in charge of maintaining them, and organizing with the construction general manager when they arrived on site to make sure they were getting properly emptied (the septic) and filled (the fuel). "Mr. Lacoste, you have the one on the left," the Agent said, handing a set of keys to Leo. He actually giggled with glee, taking the keys and darting to his new home. "Mr. Black, yours is clearly the right. As is your new partner waiting for you inside," she said. I blinked. "I'm sorry, what?" "Your second partner drove with us this morning. She's waiting inside for you and is ready for imprinting. I suggest not making her wait too long." Agent Sourpuss then began to walk away, back to her car at the front of the house. "Wait, wait, wait," I said, following her. "I already have a partner. Erica and I are bonded or whatever." "Not how it works, Mr. Black," the Agent said, still walking. "You're rated at Tier Four, and you must have been somewhat open to a non-monogamous relationship, as is Miss Lacoste. Your new partner is suited to the two of you. You shouldn't keep her waiting." There wasn't any stopping her, so I diverted and headed back into the house. "Erica!" I called, heading for the stairs. "What?" she asked, rubbing the sleep from her eyes but coming out of my room dressed in my shirt from last night, and a pair of her shorts. "The Agent just dropped off the big ass RVs we're living in," I said. "And a woman who I'm supposed to bond with." "Oh, shit. That was fast," she said. "What do you mean, that was fast?" I asked. "You knew about this?" "I mean, they said at the information seminar that it was possible people would begin getting partnered into existing relationships based on the matchmaking and available matches," Erica said. We were heading down the stairs again. "I assumed since I'm Bi, and you're a guy, it wouldn't be unlikely we'd get someone else eventually. I didn't think it would be day three, obviously. Why would this person pick us over a single guy?" We got outside and to the RV, and I knocked. "It's open," called a voice. It was light and feminine, but with a distinct accent. I opened the door and mounted the steps, stopping when I saw the woman within, only for Erica to push me the rest of the way up so she could see as well. She was dark blonde, almost brunette, and her hair hung in waves down just past her shoulders. The woman was slight, and obviously so because all she was wearing was lingerie made up of thin mesh through which I could see her rosy pink nipples on her smallish tits, and lots of buckles for straps. The right side of her body was fresh and clean, though down the center of her abdomen, from under her chin all the way to her pubic mound, was a thin black line of a tattoo splitting her in half. On the left side of that tattoo her body was designed with black ink in floral tribal patterns, fleur-de-lis motifs and other designs. She was smiling demurely despite her dress and the fact that she was lounging in the sitting area of the RV, her legs splayed as she absently rubbed her twat through her mesh thong. "Bonjour," she said, grinning even brighter as Erica followed me in. Her accent was distinctly French Canadian and she couldn't be older than twenty-three. "My name is Ivy Gauthier, and I was expecting just a cock, but I am more than happy to make Mommy happy too if she wants to sit on my face." "Fuck," Erica said, and looked at me. "Can we keep her?" Ivy Erica, as usual, took to the rapidly changing social situation a little faster than I did. "So you're sure about all of this?" she asked the girl, Ivy. We were sitting in the lounge area of the RV that the government had delivered to us that morning. "Well, it is too late for me to back out now," Ivy said. She was French Canadian, with that very specific Quebecois accent that extended vowels and clipped some consonants. I only really knew the difference between hers and a traditional French-from-France accent because I'd once drank with a unit of French soldiers while I was deployed in Germany. "I have already been poked with the needles. I chose Harrison because he reminded me of a sexy version of the boys I grew up with in the north of Quebec. Very sexy lumberjack, yes?" Erica smirked, glancing at me and patting my knee. "Yes, very sexy woodsman." "As I said, I was not expecting a sexy woman as well, but I am the bisexual," Ivy continued. "In fact, Erica, you are very much my type." "And what type is that?" Erica asked. Ivy grinned but blushed, biting her lip for a moment as if she were embarrassed, but I could see the hunger in her big, expressive eyes. "Most girls in my job, they have what you call the 'Daddy Issues', yes? Well, my father made many mistakes, but was always very good to my sister et moil. An ex I have, she said I have 'Mommy Issues' instead. I like strong women, older than me, with tits and ass like yours." The little minx actually reached out and caressed the side of Erica's tit when she said it. "What job is it you've been working?" I asked, though I had a feeling I knew the general field. "I am a dancer," Ivy said, turning back to me and looking all the world like a worried teenager, rather than the seductive woman clad in mesh lingerie that was sitting between Erica and me. "I hope that is not so bad to you, Harrison. I know some men, they think it means I am dirty or spoiled. But I am not." Then she got another little lascivious smirk as she tilted her chin down looking up at you through her lashes. "Well, I could also be a very dirty girl for the right man. Or woman." She touched Erica's leg without looking. "Okay, seriously Ivy," I said. "Unless this is really who you are, and who you want to be, you can tone down the seduction. Erica and I aren't going to turn you away, but you have got to be real with us." Ivy frowned, and it was like she went through a little transformation as she absorbed what I said and metabolized it. She bit the inside of her cheek for a moment, then nodded and stood up, crossed to the murphy table that was in the kitchenette and pulled a robe I hadn't even noticed from where it was hanging. She wrapped it around herself quickly and then sat back down. "I am sorry," she said. "I am; this vaccine is making me very horny. I did not know what to expect, yes? I thought it best to treat you like private clients." "Oh, sweetie," Erica sighed. "I know. The nervousness, that little itch all over?" Ivy nodded. "Maybe let's start from the beginning," I suggested. "Just be honest with us." "I was being honest," Ivy said. "My name is Ivy Gauthier, I was born in a little town in northern Quebec and raised by my father and grandmother, along with my sister. I am an exotic dancer. I started in Montreal, and decided to try and do a tour of the USA. My visa was running out when the Quarantine happened. They said it would not be a problem if I took the experimental vaccine." "Wait, hold on," I said. "Fuck. Would you have taken the vaccine if you weren't worried about your visa?" Ivy thought about it and then shrugged. "I don't know? Maybe? I never had to think about it without the visa on the table." "This is fucked up," I said. "And it's too late to change anything," Erica said. "Harri, you know it's too late." "I know," I grunted. "But that doesn't mean I have to like it." "And you know if it's not you, it'll be someone else." I took in a long breath and nodded. "Ivy, I assume you went through the whole set of meetings and videos that Erica did, but I just have to ask; are you absolutely sure you want this?" Ivy pursed her lips, looking between Erica and me. Her hands were in her lap, most of her tattoos covered by the worn, velvet red robe she was wearing. She looked younger and older at the same time. She ended up looking to Erica. "Is he a good man?" "The best," Erica said immediately. "And is she a good woman?" Ivy asked me. I took Erica's hand in mine. "Better than anyone could ever deserve." "Then I am fine with this," Ivy said. "It is the end of the world, oui? Why should I not be with two sexy people who love each other, and will share their bed with me?" Erica laughed. "Well, she's direct." "Alright. You know what the next steps are?" I asked Ivy. "You fuck me, and I will become your; how did they say.? Umm, bonded something?" "We haven't figured out the right word yet either," Erica said. "For now, it might be easiest if you're just our fuckbuddy." "I like this," Ivy said. "You two are a couple, and I will be your fuckbuddy." The way she said it made it sound a little sillier, a little naughtier. This girl would have been dangerous if Erica and I weren't in the current situation. "You have some time," I said. "Would you rather wait a bit, or do it now?" "Now," Ivy said. "I would very much like to taste you, Erica. While Harrison fucks my ass." "Wow, that's very hot and specific," Erica said. Ivy smiled. "I am what you would say is an 'Anal Queen.' My father, he had children with three different women. It made me afraid of pregnancy, so I learned as a girl to prefer it in my butt." "Well, I guess you're getting to crush some ass, babe," Erica said, smirking and then kissing me on the cheek. "Hey, you know what?" I asked. "However you want it, Ivy, I'm happy to provide. Is there anything else you'd like us to know before we go to the bed?" Ivy stood up, slipping the robe back off of her and hanging it back up. "I can be very loud," she said. "Just a warning. And I like many things, but this time, I think we keep it to a simple threesome, yes? I will suck cock and eat cunt, and I would very much like to be fingered, and fucked in the ass." "So simple," Erica chuckled. "Ivy, I think Harrison is still a little hesitant; he is a natural protector, so don't think he's timid. He's just worried and doesn't want to take advantage." "Oh," Ivy said, looking at me for a moment with a cocked head, taking my measure. "Now I; Okay, yes, I understand." She came forward and pushed me back by the shoulders until I was sitting fully upright on the cushioned bench seat instead of leaning forward. Then she crawled into my lap, on her knees with them outside my legs, and sat her perky bum on my legs. "Harrison, I have told you I think you are sexy, yes? Well here, I will prove it." She took my hand and brought my fingers to her lips, taking my pointer and middle fingers and sucking on them lewdly, then bringing them down between us to her crotch. She pulled the mesh panties aside and put my fingers against her hole and pivoted, taking my two thick fingers into her clenching cunt. "I want to fuck you. And I will tell you another thing about me; I like a man who takes me how he wants. Throw me on the bed, put my legs behind my head. Make me your little pretzel girl as you fuck my ass. I am sure I will love this 'big brother' you in time, too. But I need you first to be my man." Then she kissed me, grinding on my fingers. I breathed in through my nose, and she pressed her chest against mine, and I reached around her with the hand that wasn't busy at her cunt and grabbed her ass firmly. "Umm, yes," she mumbled into my mouth. "Like that." "God, I hope I didn't look that fucking horny when I kissed you that first time," Erica said. She was still sitting on the other end of the L-shaped bench from us, watching me get frenched by the little French minx who had just fallen into our lives. I pulled back from the kiss, and Ivy looked at me with concern, searching my face. "Go kiss Erica," I said. She grinned and slipped from my lap, my fingers leaving her cunt, and slid right onto Erica's lap and pulled my girlfriend into a hard kiss as their disproportionate tits pressed together. Erica was much bustier than Ivy, though the younger woman's figure was just as sexy. As they started to make out I stood up, walking to the back of the RV and surveying the space. The back of the vehicle was dominated by the bedroom, which had what looked like a bed that was too big for the space. I pulled the blanket and top sheet off of it, knowing how Erica had a tendency to leave wet spots after fucking, and then kicked off my boots and returned to the women. "Alright, come here," I said, and lifted Ivy off of Erica and tossed her over my shoulder so I was carrying her ass forward. She howled a laugh, kicking her legs, and I offered Erica my other hand up. "She is going to be a lot of fun," Erica said. "I know," I said. "But I need to ask you, too. Is this what you want?" Erica smiled, almost sadly, and shrugged. "I told you I'd introduce you to a lot of strippers. I just didn't know it would happen so fast. Like she said, it's the end of the world, at least as we know it. Why not?" I nodded, and then bounced Ivy on my shoulder and gave her a soft spank on the butt. "What are you giggling so hard for?" "Nothing," she said. "Everything." "Crazy French girl," I said, and carried her to the end of the RV and tossed her on the bed like she wanted. She landed and immediately twisted and turned, biting her lip as she positioned herself on her stomach, looking at me eagerly as she slowly kicked her legs and her little bum bounced, humping the air a little. "Oh, I think she wants to suck your cock," Erica said, coming up behind me and resting her cheek on my shoulder. She reached around my waist and started lowering my shorts. "Is that what you want, Ivy?" Ivy nodded, grinning. "Well, I've got a surprise for a naughty girl. You are very lucky, because you picked a man who happens to have a very nice, fat cock." Erica said, and dropped my shorts, letting my mostly-hard cock out. "Oh, fuck," Ivy said, her eyes going happily large. "It is a very good cock." She looked up at Erica. "May I please suck the very good cock?" "Good manners," Erica said. "Yes, Ivy, you may suck Harrison. But from now on you should call it his fat cock." "Yes, mo" the rest of what she was saying became garbled as she leaned forward and spoke with the head of my cock between her lips, and came. She hadn't been expecting it, and her legs started to kick as she tensed up and pulled away from my cock, lowering her face to the bed. Then her body released all its tension and she sucked in a deep, ragged breath. "Woah!" she exhaled, loud and wordless, as a second wave of the orgasm passed through her. Erica reached around and ran her fingers through Ivy's hair as the smaller, younger woman rode a third and final wave of the vaccine-induced orgasm. She was left panting, and rolled over onto her back and looked back up at us in confusion and what looked like drunken delight. "What was that? I have never come so fast," she said in wonder "Didn't they tell you to expect that?" Erica asked. Ivy shook her head. "Huh, that's weird. They told my group," Erica said. "That was the imprinting process starting. Can you feel that ache, down in your clit? That's the vaccine too. Soon you'll feel it on your tongue, aching to get Harri's come anywhere you can inside you." "I already wanted this," Ivy said, her grin not slipping. She rolled back over onto her stomach and opened her mouth, but then hesitated. "Does this,” "No," I said, "Not every time." "Too bad, but also good," Ivy said. "It would be very hard to suck your cock if this happened every time." Then she took me back into her mouth and began bobbing her head quickly. I had a feeling she was actually a brunette and dyed her hair up to the dirty blonde she wore it. The dark undertones were more real than the light ones. Erica came around me now and slipped out of her shorts, going down to her panties and my shirt she'd been wearing, and got on her knees on the bed next to Ivy. She sat tall, and I kissed her as Ivy suckled on my cock. "Enjoy yourself, babe," Erica assured me. "We both want this." I raised an eyebrow and reached around her, grabbing her meatier ass. "You don't need to keep reassuring me, E. Or does 'mommy' need a good seeing to as well?" "Oh, I always need a good seeing to," Erica grinned. She started to lower down slowly, maintaining eye contact with me. "But first I think I need to make sure our naughty girl here knows how to treat you properly. Let me see you suck his cock, Ivy." Ivy beamed up at me, eyes flicking between my face and Erica's as the older woman leaned close. "Good, really slobber on that cock," Erica said softly, stroking Ivy's hair. "It's going to be cracking that cute little ass of yours open soon, so it needs to be very hard and very slippery." Ivy mumbled something unintelligible. "But don't forget his balls," Erica said. Ivy immediately took my cock from her mouth and lifted it with a hand, trying to take my sack between her lips but only fitting one nut as she tongued and worked her mouth. Erica took Ivy's place at my cock, putting her lips around the head and starting to blow me. "Oh, fuck, that's new," I groaned, looking down at both women staring up at me with smiles in their eyes. I put a hand on each of their heads. Ivy didn't let up, switching from one ball to the other as my cock rubbed across her face, but Erica popped off of the end and grinned at me before sliding back on the bed and taking up a position behind Ivy. "Now, what do we have here?" Erica asked, wrapping her fingers into the elastic band of Ivy's mesh panties. "Someone is a very naughty girl, dressing so slutty. Look, I can see everything! So what could possibly be the point of this?" She started pulling the panties down over Ivy's ass, and the younger woman shifted her hips eagerly, letting her do it. "Back to my cock now," I grunted, and Ivy followed my orders. Once I was back in her mouth, I ran my fingers down the side of her face, just watching as she looked up at me with adoringly needy eyes. Erica had gotten Ivy's panties off, and she tossed them aside as she knelt next to the pale girl and started to massage her upturned butt. "Ivy, you have a very cute ass," she said, stroking the girl's smooth skin. Just like her front, Ivy had a thin black line running down the middle of her spine, bisecting her from her hairline all the way down to her ass crack. On one side of the line her pale, smooth skin was flawless. On the other, she sported a collection of black tattoos; most of them flowery and nicely designed, a few of them more 'witchy' like flying crows and a jagged, leafless tree. "M'ank 'oo," Ivy mumbled around my cock, and wiggled her butt. Erica quickly sucked two fingers into her mouth and, biting the inside of her lip as she grinned, slipped them down between Ivy's legs and began slowly, teasingly fingering the younger woman's cunt. Ivy immediately responded by shuddering and starting to blow me faster, bobbing her head as she moaned with my cock in her mouth, pressing against the inside of her cheeks. "For a girl who prefers it in the ass, our naughty little girl gets very wet," Erica said to me. "Is that right?" I asked, and looked down at Ivy and her big eyes. "Do you get wet and ready for a cock even if you don't want one in that hole?" "Umm hmm," she hummed and nodded, then pulled her lips from my cock. "When I am ready, the right man will have a very good time with my naughty cunt." Erica leaned forward, bringing her lips to Ivy's ear from behind. "And what about Harrison? Is he the right man?" I could see the conflict warring in Ivy. She didn't know; her instincts were to shy away. But the vaccine, that need and horniness it had put in Erica, was in Ivy as well. She wanted me, wanted my cum. Wanted it inside her, to match with the vaccine. Chemically, she wanted to say yes. "You don't need to answer that," I told her reassuringly, stroking the side of her face again. Then I glanced at Erica, who raised an eyebrow at me, but I just shook my head. Ivy, a thankful look in her eyes, quickly went back to blowing me while Erica played with her cunt. Eventually I pulled away, and in one move picked up and flipped Ivy over onto her back. She giggled, and I was glad that she'd been honest with me about wanting to be thrown around in bed; I would have likely asked, or maybe told, her to move. Instead she seemed to really enjoy the manhandling. "Get the rest of the lingerie off," I said. The mesh bra did nothing to hide her perky, small boobs from me, but I wanted her naked. There was a practical element; once the bonding process was completed, she was going to zonk out and having that strappy lingerie on for hours and hours wouldn't be good for her or it. But there was also a primal thing in me that just wanted this strangely innocent, strangely filthy girl naked for me. She stripped quickly, and Erica took that time to peel off my shirt that she was wearing as well, revealing her bigger, heavy tits. "Oh, my," Ivy said, and sat up, reaching for Erica's chest. "You are so beautiful, Erica." Erica grinned and leaned forward a bit, allowing Ivy to press her face into Erica's cleavage. "She's like a horny teenage boy," Erica laughed. Ivy was kissing and licking her cleavage all over. "So am I, when it comes to you," I said, and slipped off the bed to stand behind her, kissing her on the cheek and then down to her neck while I reached around and cupped her tits from below, lifting them for Ivy to feast on. "Oh, god, this is heaven," Erica moaned, leaning her head back on my shoulder. "Have you ever done a threesome before?" I asked her quietly. "Once. Three women," she mumbled. "Not that great, really." "Too much fake cock?" I asked. "That, and tribbing is stupid. Doesn't do anything for me, and they both loved it." "Hear that, Ivy? No tribbing," I said. "But can I eat her cunt?" Ivy asked, coming up for air from the bounty of tits she was enjoying. "I think my answer is 'whenever you want,'" Erica laughed. "First I want more of your mouth," I said to Ivy. "Lay back down. And Erica, I'd love to see you eat her out." Erica grinned. "Ever seen a lesbian act in person before?" "Nothing more explicit than two drunk girls kissing to rile up some guys at a party," I said. Ivy had lain back, spreading her legs, and Erica knelt between them and slowly brought her face down to Ivy's bare cunt. It was pretty, almost like the clean and clinical specimen you would see in a biology textbook. "Do you want me to lick your cunt, Ivy?" Erica asked teasingly. "Yes, please," Ivy said and grabbed the bedspread in her fingers in anticipation. Erica went to work, and Ivy moaned loudly and wordlessly as her body tensed and then relaxed into the sensations. "Is it good," I asked. "Uh-huh," Ivy nodded and moaned. I knelt down next to her head and turned her face sideways, tapping my cock against her lips. She immediately opened them, and I slid between her lips and she began suckling. Then, after looking down and seeing the smile in Erica's eyes as she watched me getting blown while she ate cunt, I began to thrust lightly into Ivy's mouth. The dirty blonde dropped her jaw, and worked her tongue, and soon I was pumping steadily, treating her lips just roughly enough to feel divine. I reached down and palmed her tit, which so far had been almost entirely ignored. I happened to grab the tattooed side of her, where the boob itself was still a blank canvas but was surrounded by them dark patterns. Her nipple was a firm little nub in my palm, and her moaning on my cock changed to a higher pitch when I grabbed her more firmly, and then began playing with her nipple between my fingers. Erica, seeing the change in Ivy, mimicked me and reached up for her other tit and grabbed it as well. "Muh," Ivy moaned, but didn't try to pull away from my thrusting. She whined on my cock, thrusting her hips up and down, grinding against Erica's face. Then, seeing her coming to a peak, I thrust in and held my cock deep in her mouth, but not to the point of gagging her. I pinched the nipple I was holding, and Erica focused on her clit, and Ivy went off with a long shudder and another muffled howl. I pulled my cock from her mouth when she was coming down. "Keep going," I told Erica. "Get her there again." Then I stepped off of the bed and behind Erica, whose panty-clad ass was up in the air at the edge of the bed. I pulled her panties down to her thighs, set my cock against her puffy cunt, and thrust inside firmly, claiming her as mine again. "Yes, babe," Erica gasped into Ivy's cunt. "Fuck, yes, my fucking stud." "Oh, fuck," Ivy groaned, eyes half-closed as she grabbed at her own tits harshly and watched me fucking Erica from behind. Within five thrusts I was burying deep into my girlfriend at a good, steady pace. "You two are so fucking hot," Ivy said breathily, her accent turning every croon into a delightful sentence instead of something that might have come across as crude. I fucked Erica steadily, one hand on her hip and the other keeping hold of her wonderful ass, and she thrust back at me while trying to keep her lips and tongue working. I wanted Erica to feel how desirable I found her, even in this threesome with a brand new woman between us. I wanted her to know she wasn't just forced on me; she was a choice. She chose me, and I chose her back. Leaning forward, I let go of her waist and ass and grabbed her tits hanging below her, palming them and lifting their weight as she remained ass up and face down in Ivy's cunt. "I fucking love you, E," I said. "I love your body, I love your personality, and I love your mind. And right now, I really love how fucking sexual you are." "Fuck," Ivy groaned. "Fuck, that is so hot." Erica was starting to falter in her fucking back at me, which I knew meant she was getting close but I wanted to push her farther. "Ivy," I said. "It's almost time. How much prep does your ass need?" Ivy licked her lips, that carnal need growing inside of her with every passing minute. "For most guys, two fingers would be enough. But for you, I think three, if Mommy will do it for me?" "What do you think, 'mommy,'" I grinned. "Are you up for prepping her?" Erica slurped off of Ivy's cunt and flipped the girl onto her stomach, then spread her ass cheeks and spit onto her asshole. "For her, and to watch you fuck this cute little ass, absolutely," Erica said. I really couldn't see all that much of the oral portion of the prep, since I continued to fuck Erica. I slowed, and thrust deep and firm instead of faster and harder, and gave her the chance to work. Soon enough, Erica had two fingers in Ivy's ass and was adding a third. "Oh, mommy, yes," Ivy moaned. "Finger my ass. Spread my asshole for our man. God, I want that fat cock up my ass so badly. Harrison, please don't make me wait. Please don't back out, I need it so badly." "Who does this ass belong to now, Ivy?" Erica asked her. "Fuck, fuck," Ivy gasped. Erica slapped the side of her ass cheek. "Who does this ass belong to now, dirty little girl?" "Harrison," Ivy moaned. "Oh, fuck, Harrison. Fuck my ass. Take my ass. Take it. Take it." I pulled out of Erica, watching for just a moment as her cunt was split by me and didn't want to let go, then hopped back up on the bed. Erica pulled her fingers out of Ivy's hole, and I spun the younger woman around on the bed and pulled her up onto her hands and knees. Ivy dropped her face to the mattress as she reached back and held her ass cheeks open, her butthole winking at me. "Fuck my ass. Please, Butt fuck me. Own my butt," she panted. I placed my cock to her asshole and pressed forward. "Oh, fuck yes," Ivy almost howled. "Oh, it is so good. Merci, merci, oh fuck yes." I was halfway in when she finally clenched and I stopped. Erica, meanwhile, had shifted her seating on the bed so she was on her ass, and she spread her legs in front of Ivy's face. "Hey, now it's time for you to lick my cunt, dirty girl," she said. Ivy lifted her head and groaned as she tasted Erica for the first time, and as she did Ivy's ass relaxed, and I pushed in the rest of the way. "Yes," she mumbled. "Yes, fuck, so good. So full." I slowly pulled back out, then pushed back in. I'd tried anal before, once with a German girl I met off base, but it had been tough going. With Ivy, it was like she was just built different. She squeezed back at me, pushed to get me deeper. "She really is an Anal Queen," I gasped to Erica, who opened her eyes and grinned savagely at me. "I can't believe you're fucking her in the ass right now," she said. "Neither can I," I said, and started to properly thrust into that tight but forgiving asshole. "She's fucking good with her tongue, too," Erica groaned. "I can feel myself getting soaked." "Careful," I snickered. "There are the only sheets we have right now." "Oh, fuck off," Erica laughed. I had just started fucking into Ivy harder still, and she was sucking in deep breaths and moaning like a pornstar, when there was a loud banging on the main door of the RV. There was absolutely no way they couldn't hear what was happening in here, let alone that I had to assume the RV was rocking a bit. "Don't stop," Ivy gasped, lifting her face from Erica's cunt and begging me over her shoulder. "Please, keep fucking my ass. You can't stop. I need you to keep going." "Fuck, I was so close," Erica groaned, and the knocking happened again, banging on the door. Erica rolled off the bed. "You can't stop now, you might break her mind. I'll deal with this." "Yes, Harri, fuck me. So good, fuck my ass. Fuck my ass!" Ivy moaned, even fucking louder now that she didn't have Erica's cunt to muffle her. Erica stalked naked out into the main area of the RV, and she slipped on the robe that Ivy had been using earlier. She pulled it closed in the front and opened the door. "Hey, so this is awkward,” I could hear Vanessa say, but then I was shocked when instead of going outside to talk to her, Erica reached out and pulled her inside the RV. "Fuck, E! You didn't shut the door," I said. "Oh, shit. Sorry!" Erica called, and I only half believed her. There was one long moment of chaos where Vanessa was inside, looking down the length of the RV right at me as I was thrusting away, my nuts slapping against Ivy's cunt as I fucked her ass at speed. "Fuck," I grunted, and I made to pull out. "No, please, merde. Don't stop fucking my ass. Don't stop. Fuck my little ass. Come inside, I need you to come inside. Rempli-moi, mon homme. Mon cher. Fuck, mon amour!" I couldn't stop. I was so fucking close to coming, but I also had to move. So I did the only thing I could do; I wrapped my arms around Ivy's torso, fucked my cock as deep into her ass as I could, and picked her up and lifted her off of the bed. "Fuck, mon amour. I love you fucking my ass. Own my ass, mon amour. Fill me, fuck me," she babbled. I got us out of direct line of sight, pressing Ivy against the wall of the RV just next to the door to the bedroom, and I fumbled with one hand and slammed it shut as I kept thrusting into her. "Fuck. Fuck! I want you, I want it inside. Je veux croquer la pomme. Je suis très mouillée pour toi, mon amour. Fuck me. I love you?" she gasped the last words, like she was unsure, but enlightened by the idea. And then I came, pressing her up against the wood paneling and carpet of the RV walls. I came deep inside her ass, and she leaned back into me as her entire body shook. Her jaw was clenched tight, a small whine coming through almost like one of those dog whistles. "Sorry about that, Vanessa," I heard Erica talking through the walls. "We got a new vaccine partner who moved in with the RV. We were just, um, going through the bonding process." "That is; I mean, I'm sorry?" Vanessa mumbled. "It was obvious what was... happening, but we kind of need to get to work again. I wasn't expecting you to..." "That's totally my fault," Erica said. "I was a little fuck drunk; Harrison is very capable, and our new partner Ivy has a very skilled tongue." ".....Okay," Vanessa exhaled. That was when it felt more like I was holding Ivy up, rather than her standing on her own, and I carefully pulled my cock from her still-clenching butt and scooped her up in my arms. "Imprinting. Imprinting," she was mumbling. "Still fucking creepy," I grumbled, shaking my head as I looked at her in my arms. She was all woman, but like this I couldn't help but feel protective of the young woman who'd been forced into making choices that led her to my bed. The whole experience was amazing, but it was still... ugh. I set Ivy down on the bed and lay the sheet over her, and she curled up around a pillow and continued to mumble. This let me find and pull my shorts back on and exit the room. Erica was sitting on the murphy table, which she'd folded down, and Vanessa was sitting on the L-bench. "Vanessa, I am so sorry you got an eyeful of me like that," I said. "No, it's fine," Vanessa said, raising a hand. "You guys explained some of it last night, and Erica was just telling me again about the whole vaccine process and stuff. I didn't realize that's what this was and you couldn't, ah, interrupt the process." I nodded, and during the following brief conversation I apologized a couple more times. We quickly went through the plan for the day; which included finishing up all the rest of the moving out of the house so that it could be demolished the next morning. "And that's it," Vanessa nodded. "Uh, before I go; could I see her?" "You mean Ivy?" Erica asked. "Yeah," Vanessa said. "I mean, not if she's in a compromising position or whatever. But last night you and Leo talked about the 'imprinting' thing, and I'm probably going to have to do that eventually. I'd like to see it beforehand." I sucked my teeth for a moment, then nodded. "Sure, I think she should be decent." I led Vanessa to the back of the RV and opened the bedroom door. Ivy was still where I'd left her. Vanessa scooted around the outside of the bed, leaning forward and watching Ivy's face as she smiled and mumbled 'Imprinting' over and over. "That's freaky," Vanessa whispered, standing back up and coming out of the room. "But she's also gorgeous." "Just wait until you see her tattoos," Erica said. "She has some really interesting work done." "Yeah?" Vanessa asked. "Cool. I'm looking forward to meeting her." Erica smiled. "So, uh, how long before you need us?" "Like, twenty minutes ago," Vanessa smirked. "No," Erica shook her head. "I mean, how long until you need us." "Oh!" Vanessa said again, her eyes going wide. "Um.. another... fifteen minutes?" Erica smiled and winked. "I'll make it work." Vanessa, blushing, left the RV and shut the door behind her, while Erica turned and dropped the robe, revealing her naked body to me again. "I need you to fuck my orgasm back to life, babe," she said, staring hotly. "Fuck me fast and hard." I pulled her into my arms, laughing along with her as I glanced around the RV, deciding which part of the big luxury vehicle we should christen first. With Ivy safely tucked away in the back of the RV, and Erica and I working the knots out of her system quickly, it really was time to get to work. While Erica and I had been busy, Leo had been equally busy, going to wake up Danielle and show her their new temporary home as well. "Come on, rabbits," Erica called, knocking on the back window of their RV. "You would have been so pissed if he did that to you," I said. Erica laughed and shrugged. "Yeah, so?" "You two have a very different relationship than me and my sister," I said. The curtain on the window pulled aside a little, Leo glancing out and glaring at Erica. "Fuck off," he said, flashing her the finger. "We need to get to work!" Erica called again. Leo looked like he was about to say something snarky, but was pulled away and Danielle was now in the open corner of the window. "Sorry," she said, barely audible through the glass and over the sounds of construction work happening nearby. "I'll make sure we're quick." Her angelic face flashed us both a smile, and then she dropped the curtain. "Did you see what I saw?" Erica asked, turning to me. "You mean her whole naked tit?" I asked. "God damn, it's like that girl was manufactured to be 'Sexiest Woman Alive," Erica chuckled. "I don't know about that," I said, taking her hand and leading her away. "You'd give her a run for her money." "Compliments will serve you well, boyfriend," Erica smiled, squeezing my hand and winking. It turned out that the surveyors didn't need major tours again yet, so I was more free to help with the packing and the moving. Once Leo and Danielle joined us; letting us know the water pressure in the RV showers was pitiful at best; the work went quickly. We moved our clothing and things we knew we'd need sooner than later into the RVs, everything else got moved into the storage containers. A third container was dropped off to help with housing Leo's woodworking equipment, which gave us more space to start organizing things as well. How long did a house take to build? How long until they even started on our houses? These were the sorts of questions we just didn't have answers to, so we had to guess we would probably be in the RVs at least through the fall and winter and into next year. It was around the middle of the afternoon, and I was busy securing my father's old gun safe in the storage container with the woodworking tools, when I heard the telltale sound of another vehicle pulling up the driveway. Not three days ago, that sort of commotion would have had me wondering who it could be, and why they were out here in the middle of nowhere. And that wasn't just because of the pandemic quarantine; it had been that way my whole childhood. There were three kinds of visitors to the Black family ranch; expected, in need, and unwanted. Now I heard vans and trucks moving almost constantly, and there must have been thirty or more people working just within fifty yards and I'd only met half of them. It was strange. "Excuse me, Mr. Black?" A man asked. I turned from the gun safe and found a scraggly-looking kid, maybe all of twenty and looking like he was all bones and unkempt facial hair. He was wearing a reflective construction vest and had a hard hat tucked under one arm. "Just Harrison is fine," I said, shutting the safe and spinning the dial to lock it. "What can I do for you? Is Vanessa looking for me?" "Who? No, I don't think so," the kid said. "I'm with the grading crew working on the highway? There's, uh, some people who showed up demanding to talk to you." I took a breath and nodded. It could have been a couple of different people. "What did they look like?" "Well," he hesitated. "There were two women and three men, and they pulled up in a green pickup truck and a white panel van." "Kid, are they all Natives?" I asked. "Um, yeah," he said, clearly uncomfortable. He'd likely grown up somewhere far from a reservation, and probably in a major city, so his experience was limited to a little bubble. "Alright, I know what this is," I sighed. Part of me considered opening the gun safe back up, but I ended up figuring it would just make things worse. Guns usually did. It was tempting, though. I followed the kid out to the front and waved down Erica and Vanessa as they were talking on the front stoop of the house. "Hey, I need to head down to t

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He has been a guest on leading podcasts like Smart Passive Income, Marketing Made Simple, and Read to Lead. He lives in Alexandria, VA. Get the Bestselling You Are The Brand Book (no affiliate on this. I just love the book.) youarethebrandbook.com Connect with Mike Website: mikekim.com Instagram: @mikekimtv Facebook: facebook.com/mikekimtv Twitter: twitter.com/mikekimtv LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikekimtv/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/youarethebrand Episode Transcript 7-12-21 Mike Kim [00:00:00] Mike Kim: [00:00:00] This may sound super obvious, but no one really says this is that you can't just go out on eBay or Craigslist and buy a personal brand. You can't buy a Bernay Brown's influence. You can't buy Tony Robbins influence. Even if you were to acquire the rights to their intellectual property and their customer databases, their social media. [00:00:20] You can't buy it. It, when it comes to this, this, this thing called a personal brand, everyone starts from zero. [00:00:32] Izolda Trakhtenberg: [00:00:32] Hi and welcome to the innovative mindset podcast. I'm your host. Izolda Trakhtenberg. On the show. You get my conversations with peak performing thought leaders, creatives, and entrepreneurs. We explore how you can innovate through creativity, compassion, and collaboration. I believe that innovation combined with compassion and creative thinking can save the world and I aim to bring you ways. [00:00:55] You can do it too. If you're enjoying the show, I'd be super grateful. If you could support it by [00:01:00] buying me a cup of coffee, you can buy me a cup of@buymeacoffee.com slash Izolda tea. And now let's get on with the show. [00:01:17] Hey there and welcome to the innovative mindset podcast. My name is Izolda Trakhtenberg. I am thrilled that you're here and I'm so happy and thrilled and honored. To bring you this week's guest. Mike Kim is a speaker and marketing strategist, and that is putting it lightly, who specializes in brand strategy and copywriting. [00:01:34] He's been hired by some of today's most influential thought leaders, brands, including John Maxwell, Donald Miller, Suzanne Evans, and capital. For years, he was the chief marketing officer of a successful multi-million dollar company near New York city. Nowadays, you're going to find him speaking at conferences, looking for the next great place to scuba dive, which I love or sipping a glass of Macallan 15, which I also love all while teaching everything. [00:01:59] He knows [00:02:00] about branding, entrepreneurship, and life through his hit podcast brand. You Mike, I'm so thrilled that you're here. Thank you so much for being here. Well, [00:02:08] Mike Kim: [00:02:08] There's is all of the thank you for having me. Uh, it is a pleasure to be here. I hope to add some value to you today and to all of our listeners. [00:02:15] And I knew you were a good woman of taste Macallan 15 is the way to go. Nothing. [00:02:22] Izolda Trakhtenberg: [00:02:22] Yeah, absolutely. It's so smooth. Okay. We could, we could talk a whiskey till the cows come home, but let's not do that. Uh, so talk to me about what's going on with you. You have a brand new book you're first coming out. [00:02:36] Tomorrow. Talk to me about you are the brand, which I love as the title. What prompted you to write the book? [00:02:45] Mike Kim: [00:02:45] Well, it's funny. And thank you for allowing me to share a little bit about this. Um, it's funny. Cause I signed a book deal about five years ago. I was supposed to write this book five years ago. My publisher assigned me five years ago and then my, my personal life went sideways, [00:03:00] um, a little bit and I just had no creative energy to write the book. [00:03:03] And, um, every ear that passed since then, you know, I was kind of getting my bearings in life and in business and all that sort of thing. Um, last year happens, right? The quarantines, the lockdowns and everything, you know, I travel a lot. Um, and of course that came, you know, much to a halt and I thought about it. [00:03:27] What am I going to do this year? And I had a friend tell me, because I had done a lot of little things. I've built a lot of programs and stuff like that, but I found myself getting a little frustrated cause I was felt like I was a hamster on the, on the wheel running around and he said to me, Hey, um, you do a lot of things. [00:03:44] You're, you're very busy. You're always kind of moving on the move, but you know, it's really fun to build things, to build things that last a long time. And he's a multiple time bestselling author. And he shared that with me and [00:04:00] said, you know, maybe this is the time you build a book. I mean, you don't have to do it this year, but you know, it's fun to build things, build things that will take in last years. [00:04:10] And I really took that advice to heart. Hunkered down, call my publisher back, hired a book, coach hired several coaches and just started writing. And I was like, if there's anything I walk out of from this year of being locked down because of the current virus and all that, it's going to be a book. And that's, that is the hard and fast truth of it. [00:04:32] I mean, I think there are a lot of books that never make it to the light of day because their authors, uh, decide to give up. Um, and I did that for a while, but, um, I was like, this will be the year that I really, really, you know, put this into play and I'm really glad I did. So that's why I wrote it. [00:04:50] Izolda Trakhtenberg: [00:04:50] Oh, that's fantastic. [00:04:51] I love it. And here, here, there so much of what you just said made me go high. I have to ask all these questions in here. The, the, the [00:05:00] one that sticks in my head though, is. There is this, this notion that we can, that we can do something, but then there's the imposter that goes, you really can't do this. You, you know, the little voice inside your head, that's tap, dancing and telling you not to. [00:05:17] And it sounds like you had some strategies that allowed you to go, you know what? No, I I've gone through all sorts of infernos and now I'm coming out the other side and I'm going to do that. Did you have a voice inside your head? And if so, what did that voice. [00:05:32] Mike Kim: [00:05:32] The voice. So the biggest, I, you know, there's a lot there. [00:05:37] Um, I would say after I finished the book, uh, but I don't think it was a joke. I was like, this is like the third hardest thing I've ever done in my life. And partially it was because I was writing about a time in my life that was really difficult to revisit. Um, my life turned out very different than I thought it would all those years ago when I first signed this book. [00:05:59] Um, [00:06:00] secondly, my writing style changed over the years because I had been a blogger. I had written stories and you know, a lot of that stuff, but the last five, six years I've really spent more as a copywriter in the marketing space, which is to make sales. And when I sat down to write this book, It was a completely different discipline of writing. [00:06:24] Actually, one of my friends, Karen Anderson, who was, who served as a book coach for me through the process. She's like, she's known me for a long time. She said, Hey, your book has no heart in it. She's like, it's got great facts. The frameworks. It's got great information, but I need some more of your personality in this, right? [00:06:44] The warmth that is, you know, who you are. I need the humor. I need a little bit more story, you know, to contextualize it. In the, in the entire book really is about that journey. From how I reinvented myself, I had walked away from a [00:07:00] pretty established career, stepped into a new career, got a job as the chief marketing officer, as you mentioned for that company. [00:07:06] And then within two years, I left to start my own business. So really that three to four year period of my life was very turbulent. I look back on it now and just like, I don't know how I survived that or what I did. When I look back on what I intuitively did. The good things that I did. That's what made it into the book. [00:07:26] And all these years, since I've tested these frameworks, tested how to coach people in building a personal brand. And I'm actually really glad that the book is coming out now because it is, you know, two grades better than what it would have been five years ago. Um, and you can't mess with the timing. I mean, just in the last year and a half, we've all experienced this locked down and shut down and. [00:07:50] People are really rethinking work. They're working from home a lot more, and it is the perfect time for this book to come out. So I'm very, very grateful [00:08:00] for all those things. But yeah, there were definitely voices that were like, this is a pain. I hate this. This is like slogging through mud. And I just kept on putting one foot in front of the other and doing it. [00:08:09] Izolda Trakhtenberg: [00:08:09] And you know, it's funny that you say that, that the voices were saying, this is a pain you're going through molasses when you're in the stew, when you're in it. And you're, and you're just like, I just have to put one foot in front of the other. Do you have any practices, anything that you do that goes, okay, I'm going to get my head back in the game. [00:08:28] I'm going to get myself right to do this, or is it just survive at all costs for [00:08:32] Mike Kim: [00:08:32] you? Hmm. Well, one of the things that I really did was, um, stop trying to do it the right way because. When I have all these friends who are authors and they're like, oh yeah, I use this Scrivener program. It's like some software program that people write books in. [00:08:50] Right. And I'm like, okay, fine. I'll use that. Oh yeah. It makes it so easy. And I'm like sitting there on my computer is old and I'm like, I don't know how to use this program. I've never used this before. My job is [00:09:00] not to learn how to use using your program is to write a book. Right. So I stopped doing that. [00:09:04] Then I was like, okay, well I just got to tough it out, but in seat, that's what I heard all the time. BIS, but in C. Get just start writing and then I'd sit down at my computer and I wouldn't write. And I realized it's because I was on my computer all day because the zoom calls. So I hated sitting. On like sitting at my computer, it just, it just drove me crazy. [00:09:26] Right. So then I try to write in, in bed with my laptop and that wasn't good either. Cause I was like, okay, this time. So this is, this is crazy. What I actually did was I took everything out of these, you know, godforsaken programs. Everyone was telling me, you use dumped everything into Google docs and just started writing the book on my phone. [00:09:45] And I would chip away at it. I, I, once I live in Virginia, just outside of Washington, DC right now, and as soon as a couple of places opened back up, you know, bars, restaurants, whatnot, I would go out, I would call an [00:10:00] Uber. I would clack away on my phone and in Google docs in the 20, 30 minutes in the Uber sit down at the bar. [00:10:09] And just collect oil on my phone. And I just chipped away at this thing over the course of like probably nine or 10 months and just kept refining, kept refining, getting, setting it into the editor, getting feedback, you know, refining, refining, refining. And that was really the first and most important thing I had to find out what worked for me and be okay with that. [00:10:33] The second thing I think I really had to do, um, to, to push through that was to, um, create deadlines that I definitely had to stick with. Like I told the publisher, here's the release date I want. I went ahead and had the meeting with the publishers and the, okay. We've all decided it's going to come out July 13th. [00:10:52] Right. I'm like, sure. And I mean, every step of the way, they're like, we cannot print your book. If you don't get this in, by this day. [00:11:00] And those self-imposed deadlines are actually how I work whenever. And this is just how I've worked in business. Anytime that I've really needed to get something done, I've made promises to other people that have it'll be done. [00:11:13] And that has forced me. To take action. Those deadlines have driven action. Um, I'm very grateful to my publisher Morgan James fellowship. They were very patient with me, you know, um, in a lot of ways, uh, I was picky about the artwork. I was picky about the typeface in the book and all that, but all this is. [00:11:35] It's a journey as a creative, it's a journey as a leader, it's a journey as a journey in self-expression, um, to really understand yourself more. I feel so much better equipped if I ever write another book again, which I probably will, but I've learned a lot about myself through this process. [00:11:54] Izolda Trakhtenberg: [00:11:54] I'm taking all that in for a second, because there was so much in what you just said. [00:11:58] It's so [00:12:00] I love, love, love, love, love that you said that how much you learned about yourself as part of writing the book and, and it, and it's funny to me that you said that it took patients on the part of your publisher because you were picky about things and I'm like, well, I've written six books. By gum, you better be picky. [00:12:17] It's your baby, you know, and believe me when you hold it for the first time, it's going to be amazing. I wrote this, but, but yet this, this notion of learning a lot about myself, I CA I keep, you know, this is the innovative mindset podcast. So I keep coming back to that. What, what did you learn? What was the thing that changed from, from before you wrote the book to when. [00:12:41] Gave it to the publisher and said it's finished. What was, what was the transformation inside you? [00:12:47] Mike Kim: [00:12:47] I think the biggest thing for me with that was, um, understanding this is a little bit more out there. Um, When quarantines [00:13:00] first happened, bend, it really slowed my life down. Like it did for a lot of other people. [00:13:05] And I thought I had this dream one day, or like, I don't know, just, just one of these meditative experiences about what I really wanted to do with my life. And I realized, I was like, I don't know that I'm doing it yet. Or maybe that changes who knows. Right. And I said to myself, what do. Will really live on after I'm gone. [00:13:29] And again, this is framed by what my friend Jeff told me, you know, it's fun to build things, build things that lasts. And as I was writing this book, I realized, you know what, my nephews are going to read this. They're going to read this if they want to, it'll be there. You know, even after I'm long gone, you know, they're five years old and three years old right now. [00:13:48] And, uh, When I had that kind of experience that this little dream thing, you know, one of those in between waking and sleeping moments, I was like, I just want to write stories. I [00:14:00] just want to tell stories. Stories are what live on. We live. We read stories from hundreds of years ago that were written thousands of years ago. [00:14:06] These stories have been written and we still repurpose and reinterpret and re-express them today. So while I love marketing and I love business coaching, I, I felt very strongly what I really wanted to do later on tap back into telling stories in writing. The book has opened up or reignited part of my creative muscle to, to write, to just write for the sake of, uh, sharing my thoughts, sharing my, um, feeling feelings, but also holding space and creating space for other people. [00:14:43] So, right. Um, not too long ago, um, back in March, when, you know, there were a lot of crazy events going on in the county. And there was a shooting in Atlanta of many Korean women. Um, working out this massage probably really impacted [00:15:00] me because I was like these women, like my mom's age, you know, there's a lot of anti-Asian hate going on. [00:15:05] And I wrote an article it's old, it's just on my blog and it went viral thousands and thousands, and thousands of people read this. And, um, the feedback I got was just as, if not more fulfilling, Than the feedback I got from my clients. Hey, thanks for helping me discover my voice or giving me clarity on my marketing strategy. [00:15:29] But I realized with just a few strokes on the keyboard, I could really create space and hold space for people. Or for the world at large. And I, I don't know what that looks like yet. Right. I've just published the book comes out tomorrow. Right. But, um, and I'm not in a rush to leave the business and marketing space, but I'm starting to get an inkling of what I might want to do in the next phase of my life. [00:15:53] And that's been really funny. I don't think it would have happened. Had it not been for writing this [00:16:00] book. [00:16:03] Izolda Trakhtenberg: [00:16:03] I, I love the notion that it's opening, opening that part of you almost up again. You're such a creative person in all ways that I've seen, you know, you're one of my teachers I've learned so much from you and, and yet, uh, and not yet, but, and also. Having having, uh, learning something like marketing and business from someone who is a creative, like you is so fulfilling and inspiring. [00:16:31] And at the same time, this is a strange question because we who are in sort of the entrepreneur space, forget that most people aren't in it. Right. But if you want to further a cause or a business, it seems. It's a great idea to, to, to build that brand. And so I guess the question is how much do you think your personal brand, you might, Kim, your personal brand will, uh, help your [00:17:00] efforts in that next phase? [00:17:01] Whenever that comes you, you may not be in a hurry to leave the personal brand business, but when that next phase comes, how much of what you've built already? We'll help you move forward. [00:17:13] Mike Kim: [00:17:13] Okay. I think it helps a lot. And this is one of the concepts that I cover in the book. Um, the path of the personal brand, right. [00:17:21] And, um, one of the most unique and challenging things about building a business around my self. You know, w which I've done and you've done. Um, certainly as well. Uh, we hear this phrase personal brand thrown out around a lot. And, um, my best attempt to define what a personal brand is, is basically a public identity you've crafted for an express purpose. [00:17:43] Right. Um, and it's a confluence of your ideas, your expertise, your reputation, and your personality. That's, that's an identity, all those things in one. And the funny thing that I've seen in this space, And this may sound super obvious, but no one really says this is that you can't just go out [00:18:00] on eBay or Craigslist and buy. [00:18:02] A personal brand, you can't buy a Bernay Brown's influence. You can't buy Tony Robbins influence. Even if you were to acquire the rights to their intellectual property and their customer databases, their social media accounts, you can't buy it when it comes to this, this, this thing called a personal brand. [00:18:23] Everyone starts from zero. So. Um, when people talk about starting a brand or they, they ask me, you know, how should I start, um, building a brand, um, I asked a lot of them, well, what do you want it to do for you? And they, they often say, this is all they said, well, I want to do whatever I want. And they want to like live in this magical place, which I've since dubbed the land of whatever I want. [00:18:49] And they'll say things like, oh, look at the rock, Dwayne Johnson, you or Oprah, or Carrie Vaynerchuk or Joe Rogan. They can make money doing anything they want. And [00:19:00] what most people don't understand is that there is a path to a place of that kind of influence. That these folks have reached, but it requires that you walk through this really lonely place that I call the valley of focus. [00:19:13] So I can, I can jump into this if that's cool, because I think this will be fun for us to talk about. So, um, you know, let's say you start your journey, you write blog posts, you share some inspirational quotes on social media. You start a new podcast. And unfortunately it doesn't really feel like anyone's listening and this is totally. [00:19:30] Right. Your friends, your family, your colleagues. They're a bit confused by what you're doing in some even stuff following you online, because they're like, what is Mike doing? What is this all to doing? And you feel more alone than ever. And, uh, great news. You're now in the valley of focus and in this valley of focus, you whittle down all of your random ideas. [00:19:51] To focus on one topic, one idea or one market, and you decide, you know, whether you're going to specialize in, you know, helping [00:20:00] people get healthy or you'll make more money or build better relationships. You narrow your focus even further to, to determine what you're going to do in that particular market marketing is a big market, right? [00:20:10] So I had to like narrow that down and say, I'm going to help people with personal branding and copywriting writing their words. And you start to slowly understand much like a nightclub or dance club. You can't play five different types of music and expect like everyone to come to your place. Right. They just don't mix. [00:20:29] You have to have clarity. So I experienced this when I started in business and marketing, probably 90% of the people who follow me just start. Right. A few of them followed me. Um, as I stepped out into this venture, um, but what happens is when you stay focused and you get more narrowed down, um, you become known for a few things and then just eventually, you know, one or two things, but strangely enough, this attracts other influential [00:21:00] people to you who have followings of their own. [00:21:03] And because of that clarity, they may hire you. They may give you a platform. They meet you. Opportunity to speak to their audience about your area of expertise and lo and behold, a bunch of their followers just start following you. Right? And then some other influential person who sees that influential person. [00:21:19] Number one, connected with you, asks you to speak to their audience and boom, the phenomenon happens all over again, and you're starting to gain an audience, build an audience or gain followers rapidly, much more. And your, your story of becoming this rising star and over time. And this is where I feel like I'm starting to step into over time. [00:21:41] Over many years, your audience keeps following you. Not just because of what you know, but because you have who you are, you're not just building a brand, you're becoming your brand. That's the message of the book. You are the brand, right? Because of all this focus, your work [00:22:00] improves, your expertise becomes established and some of your biggest fans become super fans. [00:22:05] If you will, who will gladly follow you into any of your future pursuits? And if you have enough of these people, they will help you reach the land of whatever I want and stay there. Now I've seen this play out. In front of my very eyes with the rock, Dwayne Johnson. When I was in college, I loved this guy. [00:22:26] He was a wrestler, right? Does that today? Everyone knows him as one of the world's biggest action stars are used to all these movies, but yeah, professional wrestling for like 15 years was his valley of focus. And he didn't even really want to become a wrestler. He played college football and wanted to make the NFL and he didn't make. [00:22:45] Right. So this dude pivots into wrestling stays the course. Most people don't realize this either. They don't know this fans hated the rock. When he was first a wrestler, they boot him out of the building. They hated him, right. [00:23:00] They just thought he was so cheesy. He thought their character, the character was stupid and he just kept with it. [00:23:06] And the WWE, you know, his company started reform as I did. And just starting to get really popular. And at the height of his popularity, when I was in college, I remember this, um, he started to make some movies and he was just so good. He was so charismatic. He was so entertaining. He started to leave, uh, wrestling at times to go shoot these movies. [00:23:28] And what happened is the wrestling fans felt like he sold out. And not all of them were thrilled. He was acting so they just stopped following him. They started booing him when he'd come back to wrestling, even though he's one of the most popular people in the company. And yet enough people, enough people like me watched his movies. [00:23:49] I was a fan of him as a wrestler enough people like me watch this movie. And now I still follow him on social media. I probably have bought [00:24:00] under armor, you know, workout gear because he endorses it. Right. And he can do whatever he wants, the workout gear, the athletic apparel, Lisa, oddly enough, he sells tequila that doesn't really seem on brand for a guy who, you know, works out all the time. [00:24:16] You're drinking tequila, you know, but he could do whatever he wants, but people don't realize. Oh, my gosh, the guy labored for 15, 20 years as a wrestler, he had to deal with the heartache of not making the NFL. This is not somebody who just said, I'm going to just talk about everything and whatever I want and people are going to follow me. [00:24:36] So all, all of this, just kind of tying a bow on this. Do I feel like my personal brand will help me in future endeavors? Absolutely. I'm not as popular as a rock, but I do believe that there are some people who have said, Mike, we just like you, we just like what you do. We'd like what you stand for. And I'm curious to see where you're going to go and I'm going to follow. [00:24:58] And because of [00:25:00] that, um, I feel this amount of freedom, I feel a certain amount of freedom and Liberty to go explore these new things. [00:25:10] Izolda Trakhtenberg: [00:25:10] First of all. I'm so glad that you talked about the rock because it's a lot of what you said. It really resonates with me because what I, I, I follow him also. And it's not just because he's charismatic. [00:25:20] It's because he's welcoming. If you see what I mean, like he's doing his thing and I know there are millions of fans and it's not like, I feel like he is. Talking directly to me, except for, I kind of do. And, you know, and, and I think for him, it's probably on, on many levels, it's authentic, but also it's very practical, right? [00:25:41] It's a very practical, this is who I am, and this is what I stand for. And he kind of. Set all the dominoes up and knocked all the dominoes down. And that's one of the things I really respect about you is that you are, in addition to being creative, you're very practical. You break things down [00:26:00] in, in the work that I followed with you in the classes I've taken with you in, in a very, um, and I hate the word actionable because it's a weird word, but it's really true. [00:26:09] If I take action on the things that you recommend, things open up. Right? So, so. What, if you can talk about that a little bit, how do you reconcile or combined the very creative parts of who you are with that very practical part of you? [00:26:27] Mike Kim: [00:26:27] Yeah, I think it, you know, it, that's a great question. I think I have always felt more of a bias towards action. [00:26:36] Um, when I've taken various self-assessment, you know, tests and stuff like that, uh, StrengthsFinders was one of them. Uh, I dunno, how many of you listening may have heard of strength finders? Um, but with StrengthsFinder number one was maximizer. Um, which means that I don't like to start things completely from scratch. [00:26:56] I like to take good things and make them. [00:27:00] And I'm like, oh, no wonder I'm a consultant. Right. And then number two was, um, implement. Which means I just go do things. I, I overthink every other area of my life except for creativity and business. I mean, I'm like, I'm like, I want it done yesterday. I just go do it. [00:27:20] Um, it's probably why I work really long hours and get stressed out and stuff because I have more ideas than I can ever execute on. Right. And I have realized that I don't know if I came up with this phrase or I heard it somewhere, but I like it. Um, we are idea rich and execution. Poor. And this world of social media has made that even more of an anathema, if you will. [00:27:43] I mean, it is a sickness it's easy to post other people's ideas. It's really hard to go do them. Sure. So, um, when I see other people take a long time to execute on things, I'm just, it just drives me nuts. Right. And I'm like, okay, that's their own pace. That's their own journey. I'm not going to judge them. [00:27:59] But for [00:28:00] me, um, I, some, sometimes I can't sleep on this. I get it. So I'm like, okay. Uh, I I'm, I'm biased that way, you know, bias towards action. Um, and then the third strength on strength finder was just, it was just a strategic oversight. Like I just see the big picture. I'm always a big picture person. So I'm very bad with little details. [00:28:22] Um, it's why I have an assistant that handles these things, right. I'm just like, I have this idea. I want to see this happen. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. And sometimes I, I am my own worst enemy because I know how to do too many things. And so I execute very quickly or I can't wait to get things executed, which makes me a very poor delegate. [00:28:41] Hmm. So I've learned all these things about my workflow in my work life and how I made, and I've realized that that has had to force me as a leader to grow in other areas. I have to become a better leader. I have to become a more patient person. I have to become [00:29:00] more of a visionary and less of a hands-on person. [00:29:02] These are all really big areas I have to grow in. You know, we're here, we're talking about the innovative mindset, right? I have to innovate those parts of my life. Otherwise I will relegate myself to living like this until I'm dead. Um, so it's either changed. And grow and, and, and work with people and work with teams or do this for the rest of my life. [00:29:25] And it is what it is. And there's no wrong answer. That's the other thing, um, that I've really realized there's no wrong answer. I know a lot of people who are like me, and this is what they want. That is how they want to live. They don't want a big team. They don't want an administrator. They don't want people on payroll. [00:29:44] They're okay with doing that. Right. And then there are other people who, who have made that shift and both are valuable. Both are building their business and their life around the kind of life and business they want. Um, so really I'm at that [00:30:00] crossroads where it's like, I'm a creative, but I'm also like very, very wired to take action. [00:30:05] And the more and more self-aware I become, I see options laid out on the table for me. It's like, okay, which path am I going to go down? I have to decide. And that's really, that's really how I see it. [00:30:19] Izolda Trakhtenberg: [00:30:19] And it's lovely that it's about self-awareness, you know, so much of this. Is knowing who you are and knowing what you can offer. [00:30:28] And I, and I, I I'm, I'm grateful that you, that you talked about that because I think that's what the book is going to do on a much larger scale for you is it's going to take that particular message and, and amplify it. Uh, and so I'm, I'm really grateful. I want to say that. Because it comes out tomorrow and you should all go get it. [00:30:48] It's you are the brand, the eighth step blueprint to showcase your unique expertise and build a highly profitable business. So if you are interested in learning how to do that, you need to go get this book. [00:31:00] That's just how it is Mike. I'm. I, I could keep you for the next six hours, but I know you have a life to get back to. [00:31:06] So I will ask you the one question you might remember this, you might not that I ask everybody who comes on the show. And before I do that, I will, I will say thank you again for joining me. This was so fabulous and wonderful to get to talk to you about your book and about where you are and where you're going. [00:31:24] The question is this. If you had an airplane that could sky write anything for the whole world to see, what would you say? [00:31:32] Mike Kim: [00:31:32] Oh, yeah, I remember this question. Okay. Um, you know what I've got to say, you are the brand. Um, and, and it's not just because of the book, but it's really the charge that I want to lay out, you know, to my readers, to my friends, to my colleagues, um, there we all, we all have a brand. [00:31:54] Um, we all have a reputation, you know, personal branding. This phrases become, you know, this. [00:32:00] Popular term now. Um, but it's just, it's just your reputation. It's just what people think of you. It's just the identity that you hold in in the, in the minds and hearts of people who know you. And, um, I think one of the things I've learned about life through my work is that entrepreneurship thinking outside the box, it has a way of bringing out the best parts. [00:32:26] And also revealing some of your roughest edges and in a world of image and social media followers. My message really is, you know, be someone worth following, be that truly be who you're trying to sell to people, whether it's, you know, through an Instagram account for fun or trying to land a new job or, or trying to start your business, like you are the brand, don't just build a brand. [00:32:53] Be the brand you that that's who you are. And it's a call for us to, to grow and mature and to be the [00:33:00] best version of ourselves. So that's what I would write across the sky. And it's not just because the book's out tomorrow. [00:33:06] Izolda Trakhtenberg: [00:33:06] No, but I w you know what? I think that's great. And it's a call to be. Your authentic self, which is, which is the best way to be, because there's so much that we have to fair it through that isn't authentic and real, and you're calling for us to be real. [00:33:22] And I think that's great, Mike, thank you again so much for being here and being so generous with your wisdom and your knowledge. I appreciate it very much. [00:33:31] Mike Kim: [00:33:31] It was a pleasure to be here. And thank you for, uh, sharing me with, with everybody here today and sharing your platform and salt. I've really, really appreciate it. [00:33:38] Izolda Trakhtenberg: [00:33:38] My absolute pleasure. This is Izolda Trakhtenberg for the innovative mindset podcast. If you want to find Mike Kim, you can go to Mike kim.com. You can learn all about him. You can learn all about the book. You can get the book, you should get the book because obviously he knows. Stuff until next time. This is Izolda Trakhtenberg for the innovative mindset [00:34:00] podcast, reminding you to listen, learn, laugh, and love a whole lot. [00:34:10] Thanks so much for joining me today. I really appreciate you being here. Please subscribe to the podcast if you're new and if you like what you're hearing, please review it and rate it and let other people know. And if you'd like to be a sponsor of the show, I'd love to meet you. On patrion.com/innovative mindset. [00:34:28] I also have lots of exclusive goodies to share just with the show supporters there today's episode was produced by Izolda Trakhtenberg in his copyright 2021 as always. Please remember, this is for educational and entertainment purposes. Only past performance does not guarantee future results, although we can always hope until next time, keep living in your innovative mindset.  

On this week's episode of the Worst. Comic. Podcast. EVER!, we are back to peek nerdiness, as we have an all-star line-up of podcast champions in our studio tonight. Batting first and hosting the podcast is Cullen Stapleton, a.k.a. The Blonde Ambition! When he's not reading comics or driving the Portland backroads, Cullen is saving the world one shared social media post at a time. Next up is the one-and-only Electric Boogaloo himself, Jerry McMullen. Hunkered down in the basement of the Hall of Justice, Jerry sustains himself by consuming Galactus-style all of the Hostess Fruit Pie advertisements from the 1970s comics.  And batting clean-up for WCPEver, returning from a nine-month quarantined stay in the halls of Blue Valley North, we have the Jukebox Hero himself... John Holloway, master of the Zoom! Yes, the rumors are true that the sultry voice that once inspired Sade to record Smooth Operator is back where he belongs -- in his basement talking comics with the boys. Seriously, do we need to keep up with more show notes here? You have all three of the guys talking nerdy to you, our loyal listeners. Enjoy the show, people. Enjoy the show!  We would love to hear your comments on the show. Let us know what you’ve been reading or watching this week. Contact us on our website, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or email. We want to hear from you! As always, we are the Worst. Comic. Podcast. EVER! and we hope you enjoy the show. The Worst. Comic. Podcast. EVER! is proudly sponsored by Clint’s Comics. Clint’s is located at 3941 Main in Kansas City, Missouri, and is open Monday through Saturday. Whether it is new comics, trade paperbacks, action figures, statues, posters, or T-shirts, the friendly and knowledgeable staff can help you find whatever it is that you need. You should also know that Clint’s Comics has the most extensive collection of back issues in the metro area. If you need to find a particular book to finish the run of a title, head on down to Clint’s or check out their website at clintscomics.com. Tell them that the Worst. Comic. Podcast. EVER! sent you.

This week's episode of "Hunkered In The Bunker" is another two parter. The first part was the afternoon "Kids show" with Lulu. Everyone is in fine form as we get songs about baseball, tropical trees, various methods of preparing cooked poultry as well as two new songs about the HITB cat, Coco. There is a reading of "Cleaver the Gronk" and it's all capped off with a Jell-O Snarfing face off. Stakes are high this week in the Bunker so tie on your regulation snarfing bib* ,settle in and as always...stay hunkered(at least until the evening show up next. Yep, it's about the Moon) *patent pending. the Jell-O people are asking for a huge bite of the HITB revenue so Larry is in talks with the Turkish equavalent for licensing, which also can be used as not only a wheel lubricant but also a pet dander salve...so we've gone from strength to strength on this one. Thanks Larry. this deal not only fell through but also created some big problems for Larry and indirectly the entire Bunker family. Details of the magnitude are spotty. The Bunker is now located in New Mexico so ya know...don't mess with the Jell-O people Please help support all here at Hunkered In The Bunker: PayPal dbhq@danbern.com Venmo @Dan-Bern-1 "Hunkered Goddess" Originally Aired : 2020/04/18 11:58 PM PST All Songs Written By Dan Bern unless otherwise noted in italics Whole show with Lulu R= Reading -------Tracklist-------- Hunkered Theme → Moon Will Follow 42 Yasiel Puig R Cleaver the Gronk – Bernsteinn Oh Coco -interview with Coco the cat Coco the Cat Sput Sput Sputter Jumpy's Gonna Jump Fried Chickens Palm Trees Yellow Submarine (The Beatles) -snarf comp Hunkered In The Bunker is : Performed by Dan Bern Produced by Larry Transferred/Edited by Jeff Davis Brought to you by Jello https://www.danbern.com/ https://apps.apple.com/us/app/radio-free-bernsteinn/id1123684286?ls=1 https://danbern.bandcamp.com/ https://www.zazzle.com/store/danbernmerch/products https://twitter.com/danbernhq?lang=en Hosted by ZenCast.fm

Good Evening and Good Morrow(depending on when you read this...and if you are fans of Milton. If not, Good Morning, I guess) to you all. This week's second installment is the evening show from way back on April 18th where the secret word was "Moon"...wait, this isn't Pee-Wee's Playhouse. Man, remember Pee-Wee's Playhouse? Brilliant, right? I loved that talking chair and especially...wait, I'm losing track here. Back to the Bunker "Moon" show. And what a show... The lunar magic is everywhere on this show from the covers(Cat Stevens to R.E.M. to Van Morrison to Dean Martin and all points between) to the readings(Poe to Bernsteinn) to the original cuts(Closer To The Moon is especially fine) as well as the improv songs(all the various Gibbous Moon tunes throughout) so without further delay(well, I will mention that it is revealed that Dutch is infact "Bad German". We are treated to a quick lesson from Dan regarding this) we give you Hunkered in The bunker...The Moon episode. So take "One small step" and as always...Stay hunkerd Please help support all here at Hunkered In The Bunker: PayPal dbhq@danbern.com Venmo @Dan-Bern-1 "Hunkered Moon" Originally Aired : 2020/04/18 4:37 PM PST All Songs Written By Dan Bern unless otherwise noted in italics R= Reading -------Tracklist-------- Hunkered Theme → Moon River (Mancini/Mercer) That's Amore (Warren/Brooks) You Hung The Moon Kababa Fly Me To The Moon (Bart Howard) Polkadots & Moonbeams (Van Heusen/Burke) When You Conquer The World R “Harmonica”/Reconsidering Nixon – Bernsteinn Rising Of The Moon (John Keegan Casey) Blue Moon (Hermes/Green) Moonshadow (Cat Stevens) Closer To The Moon Man On The Moon (R.E.M) Four Minute Delay Blue Moon Of Kentucky (Bill Monroe) R Annabel Lee – Edgar Allan Poe R “Kurt Cobain's Guitar”/Reconsidering Nixon – Bernsteinn Moondance (Van Morrison) Hoody Moonrise “Moon” Overture (Fly Me Too The Moon → Hey Diddle Diddle → Moonshadow → Blue Moon → Moondance → Blue Moon Of Kentucky → Polka Dots and Moonbeams → Moon Between Us → Rising Of The Moon → That's Amore) → When You See The Moon It Means I Love You Jerusalem Gibbous Moon Hunkered In The Bunker is : Performed by Dan Bern Produced by Larry Transferred/Edited by Jeff Davis Brought to you by Eye Juice Multi-Purpose Soultion https://www.danbern.com/ https://apps.apple.com/us/app/radio-free-bernsteinn/id1123684286?ls=1 https://danbern.bandcamp.com/ https://www.zazzle.com/store/danbernmerch/products https://twitter.com/danbernhq?lang=en Hosted by ZenCast.fm

This week's installment(s) of "Hunkered In The Bunker" is a special treat wherein we break with protocol and say "screw the calender" and jump ahead to the recent, Bunkernista created/curated top 50(well...top like 200 plus) Bernsteinn song list series of shows Dan put on once he Zoomed with the Bunker Family and got to see not only a puppet show(how many artists can say that of their fanbase?) but also an intricately curated and meticulously organized list of favorite songs. He was moved to take the on list and play the songs while telling stories about the genesis of some of the compositions over 5 magical shows. Well, we here at the midwest Bunker HQ(podcast and distillery division, a subsidary of LarryCo) are not going to make you all wait to hear these shows again for the months it should take according to the usual podcast schedule. So here they are... the top 50...over 5 shows...in one serving. Enjoy responsibly and as always...stay hunkered! Especially the amazing Hunkered family of regulars who REALLY help make the show the special thing that it is. Cheers! Please help support all here at Hunkered In The Bunker: PayPal dbhq@danbern.com Venmo @Dan-Bern-1 "Hunkered Top 10 - 1(Storytellers Edition)" Originally Aired : 2021/02/13 7:05 PM PST All Songs Written By Dan Bern P = on Piano -------Tracklist-------- Hunkered Theme 10 One Thing Real 9 New American Language 8 Breathe 7 Estelle 6 I Need You 5 God Said No 4 Jerusalem 3 Black Tornado 2 Chelsea Hotel 1 Alberquerque Lullabye Colonoscopy Oophorectomy P Henry -> P Chelsea Hotel ...Dark View Of The Moon Hunkered In The Bunker is : Performed by Dan Bern Produced by Larry Transferred/Edited by Jeff Davis Brought to you by the Bunkernistas https://www.danbern.com/ https://apps.apple.com/us/app/radio-free-bernsteinn/id1123684286?ls=1 https://danbern.bandcamp.com/ https://www.zazzle.com/store/danbernmerch/products https://twitter.com/danbernhq?lang=en Hosted by ZenCast.fm

This week's installment(s) of "Hunkered In The Bunker" is a special treat wherein we break with protocol and say "screw the calender" and jump ahead to the recent, Bunkernista created/curated top 50(well...top like 200 plus) Bernsteinn song list series of shows Dan put on once he Zoomed with the Bunker Family and got to see not only a puppet show(how many artists can say that of their fanbase?) but also an intricately curated and meticulously organized list of favorite songs. He was moved to take the on list and play the songs while telling stories about the genesis of some of the compositions over 5 magical shows. Well, we here at the midwest Bunker HQ(podcast and distillery division, a subsidary of LarryCo) are not going to make you all wait to hear these shows again for the months it should take according to the usual podcast schedule. So here they are... the top 50...over 5 shows...in one serving. Enjoy responsibly and as always...stay hunkered! Especially the amazing Hunkered family of regulars who REALLY help make the show the special thing that it is. Cheers! Please help support all here at Hunkered In The Bunker: PayPal dbhq@danbern.com Venmo @Dan-Bern-1 "Hunkered Top 50 - 41(Storytellers Edition)" Originally Aired : 2021/01/21 PM PST All Songs Written By Dan Bern unless otherwise noted in italics -------Tracklist-------- Hunkered Theme 50 City Of Juarez 49 Fascist In Me 48 After The Parade 47 Alright Kinda Girl 46 Don't Make Me Leave 45 Revolution Begins In The Basement 44 Slowly Turn Around 43 Kid Prayer 42 Alaska Highway 41 Past Beliefs This Land Is Your Land (Woody Guthrie) (prerecorded...Dan singing/popping along) 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover (Paul Simon) Hunkered In The Bunker is : Performed by Dan Bern Produced by Larry Transferred/Edited by Jeff Davis Brought to you by the Bunkernistas https://www.danbern.com/ https://apps.apple.com/us/app/radio-free-bernsteinn/id1123684286?ls=1 https://danbern.bandcamp.com/ https://www.zazzle.com/store/danbernmerch/products https://twitter.com/danbernhq?lang=en Hosted by ZenCast.fm

This week's installment(s) of "Hunkered In The Bunker" is a special treat wherein we break with protocol and say "screw the calender" and jump ahead to the recent, Bunkernista created/curated top 50(well...top like 200 plus) Bernsteinn song list series of shows Dan put on once he Zoomed with the Bunker Family and got to see not only a puppet show(how many artists can say that of their fanbase?) but also an intricately curated and meticulously organized list of favorite songs. He was moved to take the on list and play the songs while telling stories about the genesis of some of the compositions over 5 magical shows. Well, we here at the midwest Bunker HQ(podcast and distillery division, a subsidary of LarryCo) are not going to make you all wait to hear these shows again for the months it should take according to the usual podcast schedule. So here they are... the top 50...over 5 shows...in one serving. Enjoy responsibly and as always...stay hunkered! Especially the amazing Hunkered family of regulars who REALLY help make the show the special thing that it is. Cheers! Please help support all here at Hunkered In The Bunker: PayPal dbhq@danbern.com Venmo @Dan-Bern-1 "Hunkered Top 30 - 21(Storytellers Edition)" Originally Aired : 2021/01/30 7:03 PM PST All Songs Written By Dan Bern unless otherwise noted in italics P = on Piano -------Tracklist-------- Hunkered Theme 30 Blue Highway 29 Hoody 28 Talkin' Woody, Bob, Bruce & Dan Blues 27 Lifeline 26 Baby Bye Bye 25 Lightning Jazz 24 Tiger Woods 23 Soul 22 One Song 21 Party By Myself P Bullet In The Ballpark (714) P Variant P Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Elton John/Bernie Taupin) Hunkered In The Bunker is : Performed by Dan Bern Produced by Larry Transferred/Edited by Jeff Davis Brought to you by the Bunkernistas https://www.danbern.com/ https://apps.apple.com/us/app/radio-free-bernsteinn/id1123684286?ls=1 https://danbern.bandcamp.com/ https://www.zazzle.com/store/danbernmerch/products https://twitter.com/danbernhq?lang=en Hosted by ZenCast.fm

This week's installment(s) of "Hunkered In The Bunker" is a special treat wherein we break with protocol and say "screw the calender" and jump ahead to the recent, Bunkernista created/curated top 50(well...top like 200 plus) Bernsteinn song list series of shows Dan put on once he Zoomed with the Bunker Family and got to see not only a puppet show(how many artists can say that of their fanbase?) but also an intricately curated and meticulously organized list of favorite songs. He was moved to take the on list and play the songs while telling stories about the genesis of some of the compositions over 5 magical shows. Well, we here at the midwest Bunker HQ(podcast and distillery division, a subsidary of LarryCo) are not going to make you all wait to hear these shows again for the months it should take according to the usual podcast schedule. So here they are... the top 50...over 5 shows...in one serving. Enjoy responsibly and as always...stay hunkered! Especially the amazing Hunkered family of regulars who REALLY help make the show the special thing that it is. Cheers! Please help support all here at Hunkered In The Bunker: PayPal dbhq@danbern.com Venmo @Dan-Bern-1 "Hunkered Top 20 - 11(Storytellers Edition)" Originally Aired : 2021/02/06 7:04 PM PST All Songs Written By Dan Bern unless otherwise noted in italics P = on Piano R = Readings -------Tracklist-------- Hunkered Theme 20 Oh Sister 19 One Dance 18 True Revolutionaries 17 Thanksgiving Day Parade 16 Live Another Day R "Post Office" excerpt - Charles Bukowski 15 Wasteland 14 I'm Not The Guy 13 Lithuania 12 Beautiful Ride R "Miguel" excerpt - Bernsteinn 11 The Golden Voice Of Vin Scully Lasers From Space Brady & Mahomes Variant P Henry P Killin' Time P Shining P Accidents Will Happen (Elvis Costello) Hunkered In The Bunker is : Performed by Dan Bern Produced by Larry Transferred/Edited by Jeff Davis Brought to you by the Bunkernistas https://www.danbern.com/ https://apps.apple.com/us/app/radio-free-bernsteinn/id1123684286?ls=1 https://danbern.bandcamp.com/ https://www.zazzle.com/store/danbernmerch/products https://twitter.com/danbernhq?lang=en Hosted by ZenCast.fm

This week's installment(s) of "Hunkered In The Bunker" is a special treat wherein we break with protocol and say "screw the calender" and jump ahead to the recent, Bunkernista created/curated top 50(well...top like 200 plus) Bernsteinn song list series of shows Dan put on once he Zoomed with the Bunker Family and got to see not only a puppet show(how many artists can say that of their fanbase?) but also an intricately curated and meticulously organized list of favorite songs. He was moved to take the on list and play the songs while telling stories about the genesis of some of the compositions over 5 magical shows. Well, we here at the midwest Bunker HQ(podcast and distillery division, a subsidary of LarryCo) are not going to make you all wait to hear these shows again for the months it should take according to the usual podcast schedule. So here they are... the top 50...over 5 shows...in one serving. Enjoy responsibly and as always...stay hunkered! Especially the amazing Hunkered family of regulars who REALLY help make the show the special thing that it is. Cheers! Please help support all here at Hunkered In The Bunker: PayPal dbhq@danbern.com Venmo @Dan-Bern-1 "Hunkered Top 40 - 31(Storytellers Edition)" Originally Aired : 2021/01/25 7:04 PM PST All Songs Written By Dan Bern unless otherwise noted in italics P = on Piano -------Tracklist-------- Hunkered Theme "Dylan, Bruce & Neil Get Involved..." 40 In God's Time 39 Ballpark 38 George Floyd (Line jumper) Love Makes All The Other Worlds Go Round 37 My Love Is Not For Sale 36 Marilyn 35 Regent Street 34 Talkin' Alien Abduction Blues 33 Crosses 32 Love Makes All The Other Worlds Go Round P 31 Shining P Sculptures & Beautiful Girls P Reach Hunkered In The Bunker is : Performed by Dan Bern Produced by Larry Transferred/Edited by Jeff Davis Brought to you by the Bunkernistas https://www.danbern.com/ https://apps.apple.com/us/app/radio-free-bernsteinn/id1123684286?ls=1 https://danbern.bandcamp.com/ https://www.zazzle.com/store/danbernmerch/products https://twitter.com/danbernhq?lang=en Hosted by ZenCast.fm

This week's episode of "Hunkered In The Bunker" finds Dan answering the call of "The God show was great but where the Sam Hill is the Goddess show???" Well, here it is and this show is phenominal and loaded with treats. Starting with a "long note" warm up segment where we learn about Bernsteinn's penchant for holding a note so long that he passes out and yet still manages to continue playing in a trance-like state (I wanna see One Direction do that). The Goddesses are on full display tonight as we are treated to songs by the likes of Elizabeth Cotten, Ani Difranco, Orit Shimoni, Dar Williams and Tegan & Sara while also being treated to songs celebrating Venus & Serena, not to mention readings by Mother Theresa, Laura Chagnon and Ruth Kruger. At a certain point a couple hours in he starts to wrap up and in true Bernsteinn fashion, he rolls on for another hour or so. So, in that "encore" period we get a great run of classics like "22nd Street", "City", "Everybody's Baby" and "Chelse Hotel". We also start to see the disenchantment with Larry blossom and yet Dan still tries to help him with his crossword puzzle. Heady times indeed. Also not to be missed is a killer version of Andrew Calhoun's epic, year-in-a-day type song "Roads in Disrepair" sandwiched between classics "When I'm Gone"(Phil Ochs) and "Thunder Road"(BRUUUUCE) as well as a reimagining of "Piano Man" for the harmonica leaning heroes. So all hail the universe's Goddesses and as always...stay hunkered Please help support all here at Hunkered In The Bunker: PayPal dbhq@danbern.com Venmo @Dan-Bern-1 "Hunkered Goddess" Originally Aired : 2020/04/17 4:41 PM PST All Songs Written By Dan Bern unless otherwise noted in italics R= Reading L=w/ Lulu -------Tracklist-------- Hunkered Theme -> Quarantine Me -> Freight Train Blues (Bob Dylan)-> Lifeline -> Friday Nights Venus & Serena Jerusalem Frieght Train (Elizabeth Cotten) R God Talking To Crows -Laura Shaneil Christians & The Pagans (Dar Williams) Both Hands (Ani DiFranco) I Hear Noises (Tegan & Sara)-> Strange & Beautiful (Orit Shimoni) R Between God & You - Mother Theresa Sweetness Talkin' Dust Bowl Blues (Woody Guthrie) Boll Weevil R Still Alive - Ruth Kluger "Harmonica Man" Blue Highway Merle, Hank & Johnny -> Blue Is The Color Of The Blues (George Strait)-> Lovesick Blues (Hank Williams)-> Hello In There (John Prine)-> My Kingdom (Eric Kufs) Genesis of "Wagon Wheel"(w Rock Me Mama(Bob Dylan)) Angels R L "Shaking" - Shel Silverstein Desert Wind I'm Not From Around Here When I'm Gone (Phil Ochs) Roads In Disrepair (Andrew Calhoun) Thunder Road (Bruce Springsteen) Don't Stay Up All Night 22nd Street City Everybody's Baby -> Chelsea Hotel Airplane Blues (Lightnin' Hopkins) -> Bright Lights Are You Gonna Follow Your Soul? I'm A Lonesome Fugative (Merel Haggard) Streets Of Bakersfield (Buck Owens)-> Rollerblades R "Eszter Balint" from "Encounters" - Bernsteinn It Won't Hurt (Dwight Yoakam) How Come Everybody Knows -> Tiger Woods Hunkered In The Bunker is : Performed by Dan Bern Produced by Larry Transferred/Edited by Jeff Davis Brought to you by Multi-Purpose Solution, Warm Salt Water & Warm Liquids in general

This week's episode of "Hunkered In The Bunker" finds Dan taking on quite the topic...none other than God. Something like this can be tricky. Especially since Dan had recently narrowly avoided a Fatwa for allegedly/heroically harboring the producer/refugee/burro guru "Harry" in the Bunker (For the record, Harry's disappearance and Larry's emergence occuring on the same day, and the fact that they had similar skill sets as well as bearing a striking resemblance to each other is merely coincidental. Also, Larry, according to this show, isn't as tall as Harry. He's "only 6'9", 6'10"" says Bernsteinn). Anyway, moving on to the show, there are great performances of some stellar cover songs like "One Of Us", "Highway 61", 'God Only Knows" and "G-D's Song" to mention but a few. As for Dan's songs, Lightning Jazz(always a treat), Breathe, God Said No and In God's Time all shine here. We get a snippit of Carlin's "Devine Plan" bit as well as a taste of The Lord's Prayer so most Holy bases are covered. There is also a nice medley at the end that is referred to here as the "God Wrap Up Medley" that is well worth checking out. So today, do what you have to to get right with God, Allah, Yahweh or Carlin, pour yourself a nice cup of tea(it's cold out there...at least in the U.S. today) and as always...stay hunkered Please help support all here at Hunkered In The Bunker: PayPal dbhq@danbern.com Venmo @Dan-Bern-1 "Hunkered God" Originally Aired : 2020/04/16 12:05 PM PST All Songs Written By Dan Bern unless otherwise noted in italics R= Reading L=w/ Lulu -------Tracklist-------- Hunkered Theme L 42 Jerusalem God Only Knows (The Beach Boys) Little Green Apples (Bobby Russell) R "Letter To His Wife" - Mark Twain One Of Us (Eric Bazilian) God (John Lennon) God Has A Lot Of Time On His Hands Highway 61 revisited (Bob Dylan) In God's Time God Told Me I Could Come (Andrew Calhoun) Breathe Lightning Jazz Alaska Highway G-D's Song (Randy Kaplan) Closer To You "Hunkered News" Eleanore God Said No God Wrap Up Medley(One Of Us/Little Green Apples/One Of Us) -> Eva -> Hobo's Lullabye (Woody Guthrie) Hunkered In The Bunker is : Performed by Dan Bern Produced by Larry Transferred/Edited by Jeff Davis Brought to you by God(yep, we go em on board for this one) https://www.danbern.com/ https://apps.apple.com/us/app/radio-free-bernsteinn/id1123684286?ls=1 https://danbern.bandcamp.com/ https://www.zazzle.com/store/danbernmerch/products https://twitter.com/danbernhq?lang=en Hosted by ZenCast.fm

Pia Thompson, Brooklyn-based home organizing consultant and owner of Sweet Digs, joins us for a call-in about cleaning, tidying, and organizing your home this winter. 

This week's episode of "Hunkered In The Bunker" finds us sharing Easter Sunday with Bernsteinn. It is a real classic episode of the Bunker for many reasons. Here are some just of the necessary boxes it ticks to establish itself as a "classic". First, there is a great mix of songs...new and old, popular and deep cut, originals and covers, topical and completely random; Next, there are a lot of extended and reimagined versions of songs, unique to the specific performance; Then there are great sequences of not only songs but also songs and stories that create mini suites throughout the show(for example, the gorgeous chain of songs by Woody and Leadbelly) lending an almost theater like feel to the show(there is even an "intermission" on this episode). Finally, Dan is chatty and beautifully all over the map...From encounters with both the Easter Bunny(who is a little fed up, and understandably so) and Lightnin' Hopkins to pondering the immense satisfaction derived from mastering "The Claw" to the EPIC dissection of Johnny Cash's "One Piece At A Time"(referred to below as a Tutorial/TED Talk version). We even get the ever ellusive (esp in the times of Lulu's Hoover-esqe obscenity fine leveeing reign) "No Missing Link" when after an F-bomb was already dropped in passing, Dan kicks into the illustrious song like a Sandinista. However, the gravity of the event must have brought him to his senses and he wisely delivers a scrubbed version, saving himself the terror of Lulu's wrath. Also of particular note(sentimentally of course) is the warm interactions between Dan and Larry...There were no cracks in the veneer yet, no bootleg caviar, no boro trading corruption scandal, Maron hadn't yet stuck his nose in Larry's affairs... just the simple halcyon days of the Bunker. So sit back and enjoy. and as always...stay hunkered Please help support all here at Hunkered In The Bunker: PayPal dbhq@danbern.com Venmo @Dan-Bern-1 "Hunkered Easter Sunday" Originally Aired : 2020/04/12 11:46 AM PST All Songs Written By Dan Bern unless otherwise noted in italics R= Reading -------Tracklist-------- 04/12 Hunkered Theme Christmas In Prison (John Prine) Sunday Morning Coming Down (Kris Kristofferson) Here Comes Peter Cotton Tail (Rollins/ Nelson) → Encounters with Easter Bunny and Lightning Hopkins → Here Comes Peter Cotton Tail (Rollins/ Nelson) Paint It Black (Rolling Stones) Raining In Madrid No Missing Link(G Rated) Theresa Brown Jerusalem I Wish Clay County Company Town Wasteland Breathe Sunday R Jimmy Carter Beautiful Ride → Eva → Yesterday (Beatles) One Piece At A Time (Johnny Cash) [Tutorial/TED Talk Version] → I Ain't Go No Home In This World Anymore (Woody Guthrie) → Goodnight Irene (Huddie Ledbetter) → Stealin' (Will Shade) → On A Monday (Huddie Ledbetter) → House Of The Rising Sun (Turner & Martin) “Knock Knock” w/ Lulu When I'm Gone (Phil Ochs) Hello In There (John Prine) Souvenirs (John Prine) Pocahontas (Neil Young) Sky Hunkered In The Bunker is : Performed by Dan Bern Produced by Larry Transferred/Edited by Jeff Davis Brought to you by "Nunya" https://www.danbern.com/ https://apps.apple.com/us/app/radio-free-bernsteinn/id1123684286?ls=1

This week's episode of "Hunkered In The Bunker" was the first of two shows performed that day and was the 5th Bunker Kid's Show with Lulu guesting throung the entirety of the show.It was a shorter show but it still managed to include a reading from "Cleaver the Gronk", a matzo flick challenge, a ukelele bust out as well as some tips from Lulu on making "Holiday Eggs". We are also treated to a tune from the Stinky & Dirty song cycle even though Dan's marketing/financial/legal team and "Dirty" were not seeing eye to eye and thus "Dirty" was a hold out as a official sponsor of HITB at the time. "Stinky" was an absolute mensch from day one. Anyway, the show pressed on and was big fun with both Dan and Lulu in strong voice. We hope you enjoy this musical amuse bouche and as always...stay hunkered Please help support all here at Hunkered In The Bunker: PayPal dbhq@danbern.com Venmo @Dan-Bern-1 "Hunkered Kid's Show # 5" Originally Aired : 2020/04/11 1:31 PM PST All Songs Written By Dan Bern unless otherwise noted in italics Entire show with Lulu R= Reading U = Ukelele -------Tracklist-------- Hunkered Theme -> Bright Here Comes Peter Cotton Tail (Rollins/ Nelson) Nature Eggs w/ Lulu Plagues Matzo Ball Soup Road Trip Cheetah U Yellow Submarine (The Beatles) Cleaver the Gronk 42 Hunkered In The Bunker is : Performed by Dan Bern Produced by Larry Transferred/Edited by Jeff Davis Brought to you by Stinky (Dirty was still a hold out) https://www.danbern.com/ https://apps.apple.com/us/app/radio-free-bernsteinn/id1123684286?ls=1 https://danbern.bandcamp.com/ https://www.zazzle.com/store/danbernmerch/products https://twitter.com/danbernhq?lang=en Hosted by ZenCast.fm

This week's episode of "Hunkered In The Bunker" was the first of two shows performed that day and was the 5th Bunker Kid's Show with Lulu guesting throung the entirety of the show.It was a shorter show but it still managed to include a reading from "Cleaver the Gronk", a matzo flick challenge, a ukelele bust out as well as some tips from Lulu on making "Holiday Eggs". We are also treated to a tune from the Stinky & Dirty song cycle even though Dan's marketing/financial/legal team and "Dirty" were not seeing eye to eye and thus "Dirty" was a hold out as a official sponsor of HITB at the time. "Stinky" was an absolute mensch from day one. Anyway, the show pressed on and was big fun with both Dan and Lulu in strong voice. We hope you enjoy this musical amuse bouche and as always...stay hunkered Please help support all here at Hunkered In The Bunker: PayPal dbhq@danbern.com Venmo @Dan-Bern-1 "Hunkered Kid's Show # 5" Originally Aired : 2020/04/11 1:31 PM PST All Songs Written By Dan Bern unless otherwise noted in italics Entire show with Lulu R= Reading U = Ukelele -------Tracklist-------- Hunkered Theme -> Bright Here Comes Peter Cotton Tail (Rollins/ Nelson) Nature Eggs w/ Lulu Plagues Matzo Ball Soup Road Trip Cheetah U Yellow Submarine (The Beatles) Cleaver the Gronk 42 Hunkered In The Bunker is : Performed by Dan Bern Produced by Larry Transferred/Edited by Jeff Davis Brought to you by Stinky (Dirty was still a hold out) https://www.danbern.com/ https://apps.apple.com/us/app/radio-free-bernsteinn/id1123684286?ls=1 https://danbern.bandcamp.com/ https://www.zazzle.com/store/danbernmerch/products https://twitter.com/danbernhq?lang=en Hosted by ZenCast.fm

This week's episode of "Hunkered In The Bunker" was the evening show of this day back in April 2020 and it was the "Road Trip" special. We are not gonna dive into descriptions or pour over setlists here. I think the very spirit of this one is best served by just jumping in and going for the ride. I almost didn't type the setlist below but that would be silly. (Actually, I can't NOT mention the beautiful suite of songs/reading near the end of the show...Tonight I'm Coming Home ->"On the Road" -Jack Kerouac -> I Ain't Got No Home (Woody Guthrie) ->This Land Is Your Land (Woody Guthrie) -> City Of New Orleans (Arlo Guthrie) -> Sam Stone (John Prine)...It's a real beaut!) So pack your tin of beans, harmonica and favorite eye juice into you bindle and enjoy the trip and as always...stay hunkered Please help support all here at Hunkered In The Bunker: PayPal dbhq@danbern.com Venmo @Dan-Bern-1 "Hunkered Road Trip" Originally Aired : 2020/04/11 6:53 PM PST All Songs Written By Dan Bern unless otherwise noted in italics L = Lulu R= Reading -------Tracklist-------- L Road Trip R Excerpt from "On The Road" - Jack Kerouac Filling Station Uneasy Rider (Charlie Daniels Band) Amarillo By Morning (George Strait) Bobby Fuller Ballarina You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go (Bob Dylan) Wednesday Night One Million Miles From You "...Conor Oberst said "uh uhh...not here"" Dreaming of Saskatoon (Amanda Starks) We Will Meet In Amsterdam (Colin Priestner) Regent Street Decadent Town R Ballad Of Dave & Eddie Sunset Boulevard Crosses Alberquerque Lullaby On My Mind Terre Haute Waffle House Thunder Road (Bruce Springsteen) Back Of The Bus Learning To Drive R Lightning Hopkins - "Encounters" - Bernsteinn Vancouver (Andrew Calhoun) Alazka Highway Stranded In Kodiak Streets Of Bakersfield (Homer Joy) I'm A Lonesome Fugative (Merle Haggard) El Paso (Marty Robbins) Tonight I'm Coming Home -> "On the Road" -Jack Kerouac -> I Ain't Got No Home (Woody Guthrie) -> This Land Is Your Land (Woody Guthrie) -> City Of New Orleans (Arlo Guthrie) -> Sam Stone (John Prine) Eugene Grandma Blew a .2 Hunkered In The Bunker is : Performed by Dan Bern Produced by Larry Transferred/Edited by Jeff Davis Brought to you by Eye Juice https://www.danbern.com/ https://apps.apple.com/us/app/radio-free-bernsteinn/id1123684286?ls=1 https://danbern.bandcamp.com/ https://www.zazzle.com/store/danbernmerch/products https://twitter.com/danbernhq?lang=en Hosted by ZenCast.fm

This week's episode of "Hunkered In The Bunker" was the Easter/ Passover show(later dubbed "extravaganza" mid show by Bernsteinn himself). This show was chock-a-block full of holiday magic and wonder including but not limited to songs about Ol' Peter Cottontail, Soft Boiled Eggs, Matzo Ball Soup, Jerusalem(with Mountains of Olives...shout out to the Bunker Buds), Passover as well as some amazing tales of the history of Moses...from parting the Red Sea to his later work in Vegas as a Croupier. There is also the moment where Bernsteinn risks life and limb during the peanut flick challange by attempting to use matzo pieces instead of the usual regulation nuts and legumes*. Thus is his mania and it shows just how far he's willing to go to deliver an exciting show. At the same time we are treated to readings from Johnathan Swift and Martain Luther King Jr as well as songs from the likes of Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Warren Zevon, John Prine and Joe Glazer. It's one heck of a show so remember next time you're in Vegas, listen to Moses(you don't ALWAYS have to split Kings...but it does help) and as always...Stay Hunkered *You are hereby notified that the stunts and tricks displayed in this Facebook Live video and it's affiliated podcast are performed by professionals in controlled environments, such as closed-circuit road tracks or bunker studio. Do not attempt to duplicate, re-create, or perform the same or similar stunts and tricks at home, as personal injury or property damage may result. The producers of this video and podcast are not responsible for any such injury or damage either to the, or caused by personal peanuts/matzo. Please help support all here at Hunkered In The Bunker: PayPal dbhq@danbern.com Venmo @Dan-Bern-1 "Hunkered In The Bunker "Hunkered 8(?)" Originally Aired : 2020/04/09 11:25 AM PST All Songs Written By Dan Bern unless otherwise noted in italics L = w/ Lulu on hand claps R= Reading Improv/Story = Italics -------Tracklist-------- Hunkered Theme -> Freight Train Blues (Bob Dylan) Hello In There (John Prine) Moses the Croupier Holy House Here Come Peter Cottontail (Rollins/ Nelson) Plagues Jerusalem L Matzo Ball Soup Matzo Flick* Hen Party Soft Boiled Eggs (Harry Blaisure) Dump The Bosses of Your Back (Joe Glazer) Maggie's farm (Bob Dylan) Sammy's Bat R I Have A Dream -excerpt (Martin Luther King Jr) New American Language They Shall Pass Over I Believe R Political Lying -excerpt (Johnathan Swift) Luke The Drifter Midsummer Night Moving On Don't Let Us Get Sick (Warren Zevon) Reason To Believe (Bruce Springsteen) Hunkered In The Bunker is : Performed by Dan Bern Produced by Larry Transferred/Edited by Jeff Davis Brought to you by Matzo, and Moses @ Poker Palace Casino https://www.danbern.com/ https://apps.apple.com/us/app/radio-free-bernsteinn/id1123684286?ls=1 https://danbern.bandcamp.com/ https://www.zazzle.com/store/danbernmerch/products https://twitter.com/danbernhq?lang=en Hosted by ZenCas...

Well, this is just a little thank you to the Hunkered in the Bunker regulars who help make this this so vibrant and unique. We here in the Midwest HITB Podcast HQ/Production office thought it would be a fun change of pace to open up the vault and present some fun live classics from Dan way back in the days where we all could be in a room and enjoy music in person. I wanted to pick something from a period that was, like it is now, a very unique and polarizing time in our world and therefore a very special time in the world of Bernsteinn. 2004, NYC, Bush was up for re-election, protests for the RNC which was to be held at MSG, and Dan was there. Writing, playing, painting, protesting, playing a Sunday night residency at Joe's Pub, as well as playing great sets at Housing Works Used Book Cafe and on WFUV loaded with a bank of new material that was as strong as anything he's ever put together before. I was going to choos one show but instead, in the spirit of the absurdly epic scale of HITB, here is the month of March, 2004 and the shows it contained. Here's part 3... So enjoy and as always...Stay Hunkered Please help support all here at Hunkered In The Bunker: PayPal dbhq@danbern.com Venmo @Dan-Bern-1 between song chat in (Brackets) 2004/03/26 Housing Works Used Book Cafe New York, NY 01 (intro) 02 One Thing Real 03 Earthgirl 04 Kids' Prayer 05 (luck) 06 Chelsea Hotel (CUT!) 07 (new songs) 08 Mars 09 73 10 Elliott 11 (intro to:) 12 Protest Song 13 (antichrist period) 14 Jerusalem 15 President 16 Live Another Day 17 Cheese 18 Oh Sister 19 Wasteland 2004/03/12 Live on WFUV Fordham University New York, NY Interview Mars Interview 73 Interview Elliott Smith Interview Protest Song Interview President Interview Hunkered In The Bunker is : Performed by Dan Bern Produced by Larry Transferred/Edited by Jeff Davis https://www.danbern.com/ https://apps.apple.com/us/app/radio-free-bernsteinn/id1123684286?ls=1 https://danbern.bandcamp.com/ https://www.zazzle.com/store/danbernmerch/products https://twitter.com/danbernhq?lang=en Hosted by ZenCast.fm

Well, this is just a little thank you to the Hunkered in the Bunker regulars who help make this this so vibrant and unique. We here in the Midwest HITB Podcast HQ/Production office thought it would be a fun change of pace to open up the vault and present some fun live classics from Dan way back in the days where we all could be in a room and enjoy music in person. I wanted to pick something from a period that was, like it is now, a very unique and polarizing time in our world and therefore a very special time in the world of Bernsteinn. 2004, NYC, Bush was up for re-election, protests for the RNC which was to be held at MSG, and Dan was there. Writing, playing, painting, protesting, playing a Sunday night residency at Joe's Pub, as well as playing great sets at Housing Works Used Book Cafe and on WFUV loaded with a bank of new material that was as strong as anything he's ever put together before. I was going to choos one show but instead, in the spirit of the absurdly epic scale of HITB, here is the month of March, 2004 and the shows it contained. Here's part 1... So enjoy and as always...Stay Hunkered Please help support all here at Hunkered In The Bunker: PayPal dbhq@danbern.com Venmo @Dan-Bern-1 between song chat in (Brackets) 2004/03/07 Joe's Pub New York, NY 01 New American Language 02 Jerusalem 03 Ostrich Town 04 Mars 05 Crossroads 06 Elliott 07 73 08 The Dispassion of Joe Christ 09 Protest Song 10 If I was Famous 11 Hard Times 12 President 13 (plans) 14 Eva 15 Branford Marsalis 2004/03/14 Joe's Pub New York, NY 01 One Thing Real (intro cut) 02 God Said No 03 Crossroads 04 Party By Myself 05 Fascist 06 Chelsea Hotel 07 You Hung The Moon 08 Baby Bye Bye 09 Brand New Song 10 Martin Luther King 11 Mountain 12 Alabaster 13 Rollerblades 14 Visions of Johanna (Bob Dylan) 15 Wasteland 16 Queen 17 (sports radio) 18 Sports Rap 19 Talkin' Woody, Bob, Bruce and Dan Blues 20 Freight Train Blues Hunkered In The Bunker is : Performed by Dan Bern Produced by Larry Transferred/Edited by Jeff Davis https://www.danbern.com/ https://apps.apple.com/us/app/radio-free-bernsteinn/id1123684286?ls=1 https://danbern.bandcamp.com/ https://www.zazzle.com/store/danbernmerch/products https://twitter.com/danbernhq?lang=en Hosted by ZenCast.fm

Well, this is just a little thank you to the Hunkered in the Bunker regulars who help make this this so vibrant and unique. We here in the Midwest HITB Podcast HQ/Production office thought it would be a fun change of pace to open up the vault and present some fun live classics from Dan way back in the days where we all could be in a room and enjoy music in person. I wanted to pick something from a period that was, like it is now, a very unique and polarizing time in our world and therefore a very special time in the world of Bernsteinn. 2004, NYC, Bush was up for re-election, protests for the RNC which was to be held at MSG, and Dan was there. Writing, playing, painting, protesting, playing a Sunday night residency at Joe's Pub, as well as playing great sets at Housing Works Used Book Cafe and on WFUV loaded with a bank of new material that was as strong as anything he's ever put together before. I was going to choos one show but instead, in the spirit of the absurdly epic scale of HITB, here is the month of March, 2004 and the shows it contained. Here's part 2... So enjoy and as always...Stay Hunkered Please help support all here at Hunkered In The Bunker: PayPal dbhq@danbern.com Venmo @Dan-Bern-1 between song chat labeled in (brackets) 2004/03/21 Joe's Pub New York, NY 01 Tiger Woods 02 Crossroads (incomplete) 03 The Dispassion of Joe Christ 04 (blind) 05 I'm not the Guy 06 City of Models 07 (ice cream) 08 Sunday 09 Coffee with Dick 10 (Housing Works) 11 Wood Fucking Racket 12 Drifting Along 13 Drum 14 Black Boys on Mopeds (Sinead O'Connor) 15 After the Parade 16 My Country Too 17 Tyranny 18 Thunder Road (Bruce Springsteen) 19 Too Late to Die Young 20 Oh Sister 21 Beatles 2004/03/28 Joe's Pub New York, NY 01 Black Tornado (beginning cut) 02 (bike) 03 City 04 Pete Rose 05 I Need You 06 Cure for AIDS 07 Chelsea Hotel 08 Elliott 09 (cello) 10 One More Light 11 Lithuania 12 NYC 911 13 Jesus 14 President 15 Lightning Jazz 16 Bush Must be Defeated 17 Jerusalem 18 Soul 19 Let It Be (The Beatles) Hunkered In The Bunker is : Performed by Dan Bern Produced by Larry Transferred/Edited by Jeff Davis https://www.danbern.com/ https://apps.apple.com/us/app/radio-free-bernsteinn/id1123684286?ls=1 https://danbern.bandcamp.com/ https://www.zazzle.com/store/danbernmerch/products https://twitter.com/danbernhq?lang=en Hosted by ZenCast.fm

This week's episode of "Hunkered In The Bunker" needs no great explaination. It's the special Covers show. Ever wonder what a great college radio station(like WFUV for example) would sound like if they couldn't secure rights but still wanted to play songs by the Beatles, Bruce, Prine, Dar Williams, Leonard Cohen and Common Rotation? Well, they'd probably recruit Monsiuer Bernsteinn to just play everyone's songs for them. Well, here's what that would resemble... Also of note: this was the only show to be sponsored by "Sahtekar Caviar", one of Larry's collaborators in the used Turkish mixing equiptment/ bootleg caviar ring. It was not exactly widely announced by Dan as it was a precarious situation at the time but a necessary move to take the Bunker to the next level. It's not very dissimilar to all the mob money that controlled the airwaves in the 50's-60's. Now that we here at the Bunker are all above board with our wonderful sponsors it is an important piece of history and imperative to one's full understanding of the wild history surrounding the world's favorite quarantine FB live series. So enjoy the show and as always...Stay Hunkered Please help support all here at Hunkered In The Bunker: PayPal dbhq@danbern.com Venmo @Dan-Bern-1 "Hunkered Covers" Originally Aired : 2020/04/04 4:35 PM PST All songs this week are covers R = Readings L = w/ Lulu -------Tracklist-------- R For Whom The Bell Tolls – John Donne Don't Let Us Get Sick (Warren Zevon) That Thing You Do (Adam Schlesinger) Sam Stone (John Prine) Joe Roberts (Bruce Springsteen) My Kingdom (Common Rotation) Yesterday (Beatle Paul) I'm A Believer (The Monkees) Daydream Believer (The Monkees) Christians & the Pagans (Dar Williams) Uncle John's Band (Grateful Dead) Everybody Knows (Leonard Cohen) On A Plain (Nirvana) Birdhouse In Your Soul (They Might Be Giants) Both Hands (Ani DiFranco) Raspberry Beret (Prince) Hard Times In Cairo (Greg Prestopino) 279 East 10th Street (Mike Viola) Strange & Beautiful Things (Orit Shimoni) Vancouver (Andrew Calhoun) Abandoned Love (Bob Dylan) I Just Like The Rain (Janos) Pocahontas (Everclear) Break My Stride (Matthew Wilder) Fight Fiercely Harvard (Tom Lerel) City Of New Orleanes (Steve Goodman) Disappearing Railroad Blues (Arlo Guthrie) Jersey Diner (Kar Davis) Basket Case (Green Day) Color Of The Blues (John Prine) Amarillo By Morning (George Strait) Freight Train Blues (Bob Dylan) Lovesick Blues (Hank Williams) God (John Lennon) L Chains (The Beatles) Reason To Believe (Bruce Springsteen) Hunkered In The Bunker is : Performed by Dan Bern Produced by Larry Transferred/Edited by Jeff Davis Brought to you by Sahtekar Caviar https://www.danbern.com/ https://apps.apple.com/us/app/radio-free-bernsteinn/id1123684286?ls=1 https://danbern.bandcamp.com/ https://www.zazzle.com/store/danbernmerch/products https://twitter.com/danbernhq?lang=en Hosted by ZenCast.fm

This week's installment of HITB is a double feature. Here is presented for your enjoyment, one deluxe kid's edition of the Bunker with the entire show co-hosted by Lulu Bern and she kicks it into gear bringing a touch of class with a rendition of Ludwig Van's glorious bagatelle, "Für Elise". We are also treated to several readings as well as some high stakes peanut flicking. Bernsteinn songs mingle with Johnny Cash in a way that bridges the universal gap between Stinky and Dirty and the Man in Black("One Piece at a Time" almost seems like it could be a Stinky and Dirty sidekick's song). The episode closes out with a beautiful take on Imagine and when is that ever a bad thing? So as usual, enjoy and for the love of God, Stay Hunkered! Please help support all here at Hunkered In The Bunker: PayPal dbhq@danbern.com Venmo @Dan-Bern-1 "Hunkered Kids #4" Originally Aired : 2020/04/04 12:01 PM PST All Songs Written By Dan Bern unless otherwise noted in italics L = w/ Lulu R = Reading -------Tracklist-------- L P Für Elise (Beethoven) Hunkered Theme – Kid's Edition L Jumpy's Gonna Jump Not Too Young For A Song L Sput Sput Sputter L A + B: A Play In Two Acts L Peanut Challenge Halsey Hall L Chickens L Legend Of Yasiel Puig One Piece At A Time (Johnny Cash) Froggy Went A Courtin' (Tex Ritter) L R “Where The Sidewalk Ends” (Shel Silversteen) L Swimming L Fried Chickens L 42 Shoes Sunrise L R “Mary”, “Recipe For A Hippopotamus Sandwich” (Shel Silversteen) L Imagine (John Lennon) Hunkered In The Bunker is : Performed by Dan Bern Produced by Larry Transferred/Edited by Jeff Davis Brought to you by Peanuts(official regulation flicking models) https://www.danbern.com/ https://apps.apple.com/us/app/radio-free-bernsteinn/id1123684286?ls=1 https://danbern.bandcamp.com/ https://www.zazzle.com/store/danbernmerch/products https://twitter.com/danbernhq?lang=en Hosted by ZenCast.fm

This week's episode of "Hunkered In The Bunker" not only gives us Bernsteinn feeling loose and throwing out a few big medleys (with songs from Bruce, Bob, George Strait, Leiber & Stoller) as well as several more Dylan covers mixed in with another batch of originals, both live staples as well as deep cuts but we also learn just who was in the house(or Bunker). So Sit back, enjoy(in this case...the Dutch feed is particularly well done. All praise be to Larry) and as always...Stay Hunkered Please help support all here at Hunkered In The Bunker: PayPal dbhq@danbern.com Venmo @Dan-Bern-1 "Hunkered In The Bunker "Hunkered 8(?)" Originally Aired : 2020/04/03 4:27 PM PST All Songs Written By Dan Bern unless otherwise noted in italics L = w/ Lulu -------Tracklist-------- Hunkered Theme → This Land Is Your Land (Woody Guthrie) Black Tornado L Jumpy's Gonna Jump L Matzo Ball Soup L I Got An App For That Chelsea Hotel Generation Isolation World We Got James O'Brien In The House When I Paint My Masterpiece (Bob Dylan) → Amarillo By Morning (George Strait) → Youngstown (Bruce Springsteen) → You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go (Bob Dylan) → Kansas City (Leiber & Stoller) → T For Texas (Jimmie Rodgers) Vancouver (Andrew Calhoun) Slowly Turning Around Crossroads → David Shephard Grossman Is In The House Mexican Vacation Warm Party By Myself Abandoned Love (Bob Dylan) Turn On A Dime (Cliff Hillis) Home Airplane Blues Fright Train Blues (Bob Dylan) → Blue Jay Way (Beatle George) → New American Language The Sound Of Running Water If The Dodgers Had Stayed In Brooklyn Seven Miles An Hour Haarlem Alaska Highway Stranded In Kodiak Yucca Pretty Boy Floyd (Bob Dylan) Hunkered In The Bunker is : Performed by Dan Bern Produced by Larry Transferred/Edited by Jeff Davis Brought to you by Bugles...the Dunce Cap of Salty Snacks https://www.danbern.com/ https://apps.apple.com/us/app/radio-free-bernsteinn/id1123684286?ls=1 https://danbern.bandcamp.com/ https://www.zazzle.com/store/danbernmerch/products https://twitter.com/danbernhq?lang=en Hosted by ZenCast.fm

In this 238th episode of “Elton Jim” Turano’s “CAPTAIN POD-TASTIC,” Jim Turano shares some of the recent TV shows he’s been binging on while sheltered in place, including “The Undoing,” “The Flight Attendant,” “The Queen’s Gambit,” and “Big Sky.”

This week's episode of "Hunkered In The Bunker" needs no great explaination (other than the ep title...the numbering was sometimes handled in a very zen fashion, at times itself it's own abstract piece of art). This show is Dan showcasing some of his most trusted warhorses. Songs that could be counted on on both sides of the microphone (Jerusalem, Chelsea Hotel, Black Tornado, Wasteland) to never disappoint as well as some that became the mark that it was going to be a special night (Lightning Jazz) as well as some less played gems(Shakespeare's Got a Gun) and some of the new era defining batch( Quarantine Me, Wash Your Hands, Social Distancing, Til The Quarantine Is Through). Add in the beautifully heartbreaking "Live Another Day", reading of Yeats and Bernsteinn and some great covers(Cash, Green Day, Odetta, The Monkees) and you have a show as solid as (as my grandfather used to say) a brick shit-house. Now I owe Lulu a dollar. Thanks a lot, Pop. Well, that dollar's my cross to bear. Don't worry about me. Just enjoy the show and as always...Stay Hunkered Please help support all here at Hunkered In The Bunker: PayPal dbhq@danbern.com Venmo @Dan-Bern-1 "Hunkered In The Bunker "Hunkered 8(?)" Originally Aired : 2020/03/229 11:48 AM PST All Songs Written By Dan Bern unless otherwise noted in italics R = Reading L + w/ Lulu -------Tracklist-------- Hunkered Theme → Wash Your Hands → Daydream Believer (Monkees) Jerusalem Quarantine Me Black Tornado R Second Coming (W.B. Yeats) Hoody R Reconsidering Nixon Shakespeare's Got A Gun Lifeline L Fried Chicken Chelsea Hotel Lightning Jazz I Need You Basket Case (Green Day) Regent Street One Piece At A Time (Johnny Cash) Til The Quarantine Is Through Running Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child (Odetta) Wasteland Sky Live Another Day Soul Social Distancing Hunkered In The Bunker is : Performed by Dan Bern Produced by Larry Transferred/Edited by Jeff Davis Brought to you by DBHQ https://www.danbern.com/ https://apps.apple.com/us/app/radio-free-bernsteinn/id1123684286?ls=1 https://danbern.bandcamp.com/ https://www.zazzle.com/store/danbernmerch/products https://twitter.com/danbernhq?lang=en Hosted by ZenCast.fm

Another lockdown? Another podcast. Join us as we talk: - How to "get hunkered" - Books we recommend for being cozy - American candy favourites

This week's Hunkered installment is a double feature. Here is the morning "kid's show" installment and man...does Dan and Lulu ever bring the heat! From Halsey Hall to Stealing Signs to Hen Party to Clark The Dog, this show is a pot pourri songwriting fire! If you ever wanted to go from Bob Dylan to Stinky and Dirty to the Beatles...well, this is the show for you. And just listen to those dynamic recordings. Larry REALLY comes into his own here... So until the evening show recorded a few hours later Stay Hunkered... Please help support all here at Hunkered In The Bunker: PayPal dbhq@danbern.com Venmo @Dan-Bern-1 "Hunkered In The Bunker "Hunkered A.M. Kid's Show" Originally Aired : 2020/03/28 11:43AM PST All Songs Written By Dan Bern unless otherwise noted in italics Entire Show w/ Lulu -------Tracklist-------- Hunkered Theme Not Too Young For A Song Mister Lister Stinky & Dirty Theme Let's Get Dirty Smellin' Trouser Hen Party Clark The Dog Favorite Cat -> Thayer's Turning 5 Stealing Signs Halsey Hall Blowin' In The Wind (Bob Dylan) Swimming Ding-A-Long Song Chains (The Beatles) Hunkered In The Bunker is : Performed by Dan Bern Produced by Larry Transferred/Edited by Jeff Davis Brought to you by Eye Juice and Radio Free Bernsteinn https://www.danbern.com/ https://apps.apple.com/us/app/radio-free-bernsteinn/id1123684286?ls=1 https://danbern.bandcamp.com/ https://www.zazzle.com/store/danbernmerch/products https://twitter.com/danbernhq?lang=en Hosted by ZenCast.fm

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This week's Hunkered takes us on a nice, heartfelt ride through some of Bernsteinn's more well known concert(remember those) workhorses like "Chelsea Hotel"(which has a big fun intro), "Tiger Woods", "Wasteland", "Turning Over" and "I Need You" while... This week's Hunkered takes us on a nice, heartfelt ride through some of Bernsteinn's more well known concert(remember those) workhorses like "Chelsea Hotel"(which has a big fun intro), "Tiger Woods", "Wasteland", "Turning Over" and "I Need You" while not short-changing the deep cut “Bunk-Heads” and delivering the glorious "Sweet Sweet Bagels of Montreal". A Cover of Bruce's “Highway Patrolman” and a couple of readings from Yeats' “Second Coming” adds to the weight of the show, setting the table for an installment of the always nail-bitingly exciting “Peanut Invitational”. So if you crave classic Bernsteinn action as well as some info on Colloidal Silver, we here at the Bunker podcast team have you covered. So until next week, Stay Hunkered... Please help support all here at Hunkered In The Bunker: PayPal dbhq@danbern.com Venmo @Dan-Bern-1 "Hunkered In The Bunker "Hunkered #8" Originally Aired : 2020/03/27 4:57 PST All Songs Written By Dan Bern unless otherwise noted in italics R = Reading L = w/ Lulu -------Tracklist-------- Hunkered Theme Intro (w/ colloidal silver info) Highway Patrolman (Bruce Springsteen) R excerpt from “Second Coming” - W.B. Yeats Turning Over Tiger Woods Luke The Drifter L Stealing Signs Chelsea Hotel The Sweet Sweet Bagels Of Montreal Wasteland Restless Earth Girl I Wish Everybody's Baby City Of Angels Til The Quarantine Is Through Love In The Time Of Plague R another excerpt from “Second Coming” - W.B. Yeats Things Break Down I Need You Hunkered In The Bunker is : Performed by Dan Bern Produced by Larry Transferred/Edited by Jeff Davis Brought to you by Eye Juice and Radio Free Bernsteinn https://www.danbern.com/ https://apps.apple.com/us/app/radio-free-bernsteinn/id1123684286?ls=1 https://danbern.bandcamp.com/ https://www.zazzle.com/store/danbernmerch/products https://twitter.com/danbernhq?lang=en Hosted by ZenCast.fm

On the show today – Pam Traxel, Vice President For Alliance Development at the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, known in acronym-land as ACSCAN. Hunkered down deep in Washington DC’s beltway, ACSCAN is the dedicated policy arm of The American Cancer Society — and as appendages go, it’s a good choice. We all need to strong-arm things from time to time to elicit even the slightest semblance of progress and justice in this country. ACSCAN’s mission is to ensure that elected leaders make ending suffering and death from cancer a top priority. As opposed to, I guess, ending suffering from too many Pumpkin Spice Latte commercials, which, while not apples to apples, is, in the broadcaster’s opinion, an egregious affront to the laws of hot beverage nature that should be toned down just a bit. The key to getting anything done in Washington — at least as far as getting policies enacted to help people facing cancer — is advocacy; more so, the stories of those advocates who, with one well-spooled yarn, can convince a lawmaker to sign on to a bill that could Schoohouse Rock itself into becoming a law that could help millions of people suffer less. Advocacy and lobbying — when done the right way — always begin with a story. One person’s story. And the sacred art of telling your story can quite literally change the cancer world forever. So, while policy might be the end game for change, never forget that whether you number in the hundreds for a Hill Day or lobby a staffer as an army of one, advocacy works. Advocacy matters. Advocacy forever. Enjoy my chat with Pam Traxel. Learn more at https://www.fightcancer.org

The "seventh" episode of "Hunkered In The Bunker" is in many ways one of the first Hunkered's to truly feel like what it has since turned into. And that's not easy to pinpoint but the Hunkereds(what the American press is calling the fans of the show.... The "seventh" episode of "Hunkered In The Bunker" is in many ways one of the first Hunkered's to truly feel like what it has since turned into. And that's not easy to pinpoint but the Hunkereds(what the American press is calling the fans of the show. However in Larry's native Turkey, they are knows as "Sığınak Manyakları Hunker" which roughly translated means "Bunker Maniacs Who Hunker") it's something they know when they hear/see it. Maybe it was the new contracts signed with both Kombucha AND Clouds (the legal/P.R. team really starting to spread their wings here), maybe it was the cards and letters that started rolling in, maybe it was the painting segment(Baseballers on show in preperation for Opening Day episode...which, by the way is on deck for next week!), who knows...maybe it was the slight technical glitches that Larry shepherded our beloved Bernsteinn through that inspired the energy but whatever the reasons...THIS ONE HAS IT ALL. All the key ingredients that make the roux of all the great Hunkered in the Bunker episodes are here. We have Classic DB songs, both new(Regent Street, Not Perfect) and old(Estelle, Talkin' Alien Abduction Blues), readings (For Whom The Bell Tolls), Kid's songs with Lulu firing on all cylinders(Fried Chicken followed by Swimming...a Killer 1 - 2 punch if ever there was one), great covers (Johnny Cash, George Strait), lesser played gems (Via Gioberti, Visit in My Dream, Annie Beasley), fun improvs (a two song cycle...Two Rudies and Dos Javiers) as well as epic 9-10 minute versions of Seven Miles an Hour and Freight Train Blues with all kinds of stuff going on in them. What? The episode is only in English you say??? Heck, there are songs with some German, French, Italian and Spanish! This is a good one. Enjoy and as always... Bleib Geduckt or Rester Accroupi or Resta Accovacciato or Permanecer Agachado (Stay Hunkered) Please help support all here at Hunkered In The Bunker: PayPal dbhq@danbern.com Venmo @Dan-Bern-1 "Hunkered In The Bunker "Hunkered #7" Originally Aired : 2020/03/22 11:54 AM PST All Songs Written By Dan Bern unless otherwise noted in italics ? = Improv or Tentative Title R = Reading L = w/ Lulu -------Tracklist-------- Hunkered Theme Hunkered In The Bunker Theme R For Whom The Bell Tolls (John Donne) Til The Quarantine Is Through My Kingdom (Common Rotation) ? Two Rudies King Of The World God Said No Let Your Worries Be As Few As Mine Annie Beasley Regent Street Not Perfect Amirillo By Morning (George Strait) Estelle Talkin' Alien Abduction Blues Comme Vous LeFaites Tous ? Dos Javiers Breathe L Fried Chicken L Swimming Via Gioberti Jerusalem Quarantine Me Visit In A Dreaming Social Distancing Seven Mile An Hour One Piece At A Time (Johnny Cash) Freight Train Blues (Bob Dylan) I Want To Hold Your Hand → (The Beatles) Komm gib mir deine Hand (die Beatles) Hunkered In The Bunker is : Performed by Dan Bern Produced by Larry Transferred/Edited by Jeff Davis Brought to you by Kombucha and Clouds https://www.danbern.com/ https://apps.apple....

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In this special dispatch, we offer some ideas and resources to make productive use of the unexpected free time most of us are currently experiencing to ensure we're primed and ready (personally and professionally) for when the wheels start turning again. Featuring Steven Adelman (Adelman Law Group/Event Safety Alliance), Anna Glover (Yale University) and Danielle Hernandez (Furman University).Show Notes:PodcastsThe Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santoshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-happiness-lab-with-dr-laurie-santos/id1474245040?utm_medium=email&utm_source=other&utm_campaign=opencourse.rUHfSakHEeeQ3gpuC4Fs_g.announcements~opencourse.rUHfSakHEeeQ3gpuC4Fs_g.173LbfpNSPiYS-j17luW9AThe Tim Ferriss Showhttps://tim.blog/podcast/The Rich Roll Podcasthttps://www.richroll.com/The All Things Risk Podcasthttp://www.allthingsrisk.co.uk/How to learn something newhttps://www.freecodecamp.org/news/here-are-380-ivy-league-courses-you-can-take-online-right-now-for-free-9b3ffcbd7b8c/https://www.classcentral.com/help/moocs

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Hunkered away in studio, escaping the heat and escaping the smoke filled air (BC Wildfires), PodGuy talks about Shark Week, Sharknado and big plans for Shark Week 2018. DESTINY is pulling up on the left – prepare to pull over. PodGal has a new go to when anything uneventful is goin' down. PodGuy has some sad news – Art on Fire.  So sad Shag.  (the paintings should always go onthe tit's side of the building) CRUD virgin comes over to join the gang for a game of CRUD and the kickoff mission to find Tony Shalhoub takes place.  Dimming the lights and monkey butler concerns. If there's an ape invasion, the Pod Couple is F'd. A very weird BBQ experience – should PodGal do the on trend vomit? What if Colonel Akbar joined the BBQ What would you do if you were asked to don a blindfold on the way to a business lunch? Join the Pod Couple for a round of WHAT WOULD YOU DO? PodGuy has a life hack #143 Hosts: PodGuy and PodGal Twitter: @thepodcouple Email: thepodcouple@hotmail.com Facebook:  www.facebook.com/ThePodCouple Instagram: @thepodcouple Website: www.thepodcouple.ca Patreon: Coming VERY soon! Zedge: Check out our Notifications and Wallpapers. Pod Guy is really into it! Books: Presidential 21 on Smashwords Have a great day - hope it just got a little bit better!