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Sir Rod Stewart has made another promise to Newstalk ZB's Mike Hosking. When the British rock icon joined Hosking, the radio host reminded him of his last time in New Zealand, where he dedicated a song to him. "You said was I coming to the show and I said I'd come to the show if you played Handbags and Gladrags and I was joking. But you did, and you dedicated it to me and that meant the world. I thought it was one of the greatest nights of my life," Hosking said. Chuckling, Sir Rod asked if there is anything else Hosking would like to hear to which he replies People Get Ready, which is a song that is performed regularly, and the artist tells Hosking he will "see you there." The 78-year-old was last in New Zealand in 2015 and is back next month for the third, and possibly final, time with shows in Dunedin, Hawke's Bay and Auckland. With a record of 250 million records sold and an entry into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Sir Rod says he and his team have their shows down to a science. "It does take a lot of planning," the London-born rocker told Newstalk ZB's Mike Hosking. "Not too much rehearsal, because we don't take years off. We played our last show only two weeks ago, so we don't need any rehearsals." Stewart prides himself on his performances and will be bringing his alter ego to New Zealand in order to give fans one last taste of his infectious live show, saying he brings as much of his personality as he can. "I'm old school, it's entertainment, people want to be entertained," he says. "I'm Mr. Razzle Dazzle, aren't I?" "I lived through the sixties and the seventies and the eighties were especially razzle dazzle, but I've always been a bit of a show off." After Australia and New Zealand, the United States and Britain are on the itinerary and while many at 78 would recoil at the thought of spending months on end at the other side of the world, Sir Rod Stewart relishes in the opportunity. "Love it! It wouldn't be doing it if I didn't love it. It's what the good Lord put me on this earth to do." The inevitable retirement rumours have swirled in recent years, with many predicting Sir Rod to hang up his microphone. He says he plans to work with a number of artists, including Jools Holland, and produce some music of some other genres and take up some new endeavours. "I just want to get away from what I'm doing, I've been doing it a hell of a long time and I love it, but I want a new challenge." In recent years he has become something of a philanthropist, having notoriously been called cheap in the past by Ronnie Wood, most recently housing a number of Ukrainian refugees who had fled the Russian invasion. "Lovely, lovely people. We've got to win this war, it'll be the end of man-kind as we know it if we don't." This is not the only example of the rock legend's generosity. In late February, he visited Essex Hospital and paid for a full day's worth of MRI scans following a phone call with Sky News, in a bid to reduce waiting times. He told Mike Hosking he had heard the effort had reduced times but 10 percent. If these are in fact Sir Rod Stewart's final shows in New Zealand they promise to be full of razzle dazzle, although fans will be hoping this is not the last time we see the famed performer on our shores. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This episode features the incredible story of Chris Beaudry, who shares his transformative journey from trauma to healing. Growing up with an addict mother, Chris experienced uncertainty, abuse, and the constant fear of abandonment. As he navigated life, he turned to anger and addiction as coping mechanisms. However, with a deep commitment to his own well-being, Chris embarked on a path of self-discovery and healing. Through therapy, spirituality, and embodiment practices, and yoga, he found his way to forward after witnessing the aftermath of the crash site of the Humboldt Broncos bus crash in 2018. Today, Chris is a public speaker who uses his experiences to inspire and connect with others, emphasizing the importance of embracing our pain as a catalyst for growth. ............................................................... Learn more about Chris: website: www.crbwellness.ca instagram: @chrisbeaudry9 ................................................................ 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This is rising strong mental health and resilience. This podcast came about because I believe in the healing power of stories. They teach us and they connect us. Please be warned that some details might be disturbing to some listeners. Today I have Chris Beaudry with me who is sharing his experiences with pain and his journey forward. Welcome to the show, Chris. Thank you. Glad to be here. So you have been through a lot, starting with your childhood. Tell us about your life at home when you were growing up. When I was a kid, I really thought that I had a great childhood. And part of the reason too that I thought that was my parents told me how good it was. And that being said, there were aspects that were really good. But growing up with a mum who is an addict had a lot of difficulties. There was always that background uncertainty of like, is mom going to be there when I get home? How many more days until we get beat again? What's going to be the thing that sets her off this time? And when my dad, who worked away, even when he was home, it's like, okay, how many more days till we have the sleepless night where we just hear them screaming till 11:00 or we hear mum screaming and dad just sitting at the table quietly, wow, that must have been really hard. We all grow up in these little silos and as kids, we think that what we're experiencing is normal. When did you get to a point where you thought most kids aren't experiencing this kind of thing? My thirty s. Oh, really? Well, yeah, I assumed everyone was spanked. I thought everyone would hide it, be like, oh, I got a little slap on the hand and I thought they were just sugar coating things, being like, oh, no, you were taken out to the barn and had Your *** totally kicked, weren't you? Or your mom broke wooden spoons over your ***. And when I realized that that wasn't normal and that's not how everyone is raised, I started to question all of the scenarios in life. It's like, oh, your sister didn't get left at school, your mom didn't run away. When you guys are in the bathtub, those things don't happen to everyone. So that must have scarred you a little bit. Yeah, the whole abandonment thing has been probably one of the main themes that I've worked with in my life, through addictions, through healing. It still has funny ways of showing up. It's like part of the way that I tried to heal that as a kid was to try to be special, try to be better than everyone else. And if I was really good or really special, maybe mom wouldn't run away, maybe dad would stay home from work, he wouldn't go to Africa for work. And I was just at my mentors last week and we were talking about just the mind and how it works and I kind of chuckled. And I'm like, my mind really sneakily still wants me to be special and I've still got to stay on top of that every day. It's interesting how our coping mechanisms, they're always at work and I think our traumas, our grief, our tragedies, they stick with us. In the beginning of my book, I talk about carrying the suitcase. In my situation, it's grief, but I think we all have this bag of junk that we carry around with us. And some days it's heavier than others. I think it's always there. And sometimes it creeps to the surface a little bit more. In your teens and your 20s, you're trying to silence these feelings and also battling unworthiness, which I'm finding really interesting here in this conversation because you're just telling me how you're trying to be so special and yet you felt so unworthy. Why did you feel this way and how did you handle those feelings? Well, I think they go hand in hand. And these patterns I find adapt and change throughout early childhood. And I was trying to be special to make Mum stay. I was trying to be special to make dad stay. And when I couldn't be special enough, I couldn't do enough because dad would still go to work and mom would still have those meltdowns and hit us or lock herself in her room for the whole evening. It's like, well, it can't be them because they're the adults. And now, granted, this is five, six, seven year old me talking right now. It couldn't be the adults because that's where safety comes from, that's where food comes from, that's where structure comes from. So it has to be me. And if I can't be special enough, then I must be a loser, I must be no good. And I was really young, really young the first time I contemplated suicide, because I was like, I must be worthless, I must be no good. If Mum does this to me, if dad leaves for three, four weeks at a time and is only home for two to three days. He's leaving because I'm no good. And it sounds horrible, but there's also a beautiful aspect to that, is that I created that my parents didn't. Those horrible things that happened to me weren't my choosing, but that belief was. And because I chose that belief, that means that I'm the one that gets to free myself from it. Today, it's not up to my mom or dad. It's up to me. That is powerful, Chris, very powerful. So then you're battling between making yourself feel special and feeling unworthy. Your mental health sounds like it's not doing well if you've contemplated suicide at this point. How did this lead into drinking? Well, early on now, before I touched a drink, I used to say this all the time, four or five years ago when I was public speaking, that I knew I was an addict before I was an addict. And that's changed a bit. Nowadays I think that everyone's addicted, and we're all addicted to the mind and just our thinking processes, that how we use the mind to escape, or we use the mind to grasp or create and keeps us from feeling what's happening right now. And for me, at seven or eight years old, I was an addict to anger, because I knew inside what was happening internally was horrible. YoU felt so gross and afraid. But when I would play video games and lose and freak out, throw the remote, kick the Super Nintendo in the basement in Calgary, what happens when you have those big meltdowns? Our brain does something, releases some endorphins. You get that moment. And it was at eight years old. I was like, wow. When I freak out, I get this moment of peace, this moment of clarity. How can I push this? How can I push the limits with this, where it's okay to do this so I can get those moments? And I found I could do that in sports, I could do that in ball. If we lost a game, I was allowed to throw a little tantrum. I wasn't too actually that upset about it, but it would give me that release, that quick hit. And of course, at times you'd get in trouble for it. You get in a fight at school, but it didn't matter. It didn't matter because I got that 20 minutes of release. And that followed me into when we moved to Saskatchewan. And the first time I got drunk, I was running down the railroad tracks, Naicam, Saskatchewan with a friend, and I looked at him and I said, we've got to do this more often. And I don't think he understood why I said that. For me, I particularly didn't like the feeling of being drunk. But I knew after that first two drinks, I was like this story that I'm not safe, that I'm going to be abandoned, that I'm no good. That story is gone. Wow. And you know what? At a young age, alcohol worked for me. It did until it didn't. And that's what I didn't know, is that it wasn't going to continue to work. So that's when I mixed in alcohol and anger started to fight, and they worked until they didn't. And then it was drugs, which worked. But every time that window where they work got shorter and shorter and shorter. So then it was alcohol and drugs, then alcohol, drugs, and anger, and then it was just chaos. Then I was living back where I was at five, six and seven. Again, I'm curious, was anger the common thread through all of this? Yeah. And even in sobriety, it was probably the hardest one to brEak, because if I had to explore the anger, I would have to look what was beneath that, which was sadness. And what are good little boys not supposed to feel. They're allowed to be angry. Can't be sad, though. But would you say that the expression of your angry feelings maybe was learned from your early childhood? Yeah. I love talking about anger because I think when anger functions, like, in its purest form, it's clarity. It shows us what we're okay with and what we're not okay with. It's subtle and clear. It doesn't hurt me, it doesn't hurt you. But we're not really taught that. We're taught a type of anger that doesn't function well. It hurts me. It hurts you, it's muddied, it's big, it's not subtle. It's clouded. And that's what I was taught. And when you're told that that's okay, men, boys, they're allowed to feel angry. They're allowed to feel this. Well, then you're able to form whatever kind of belief around it you want. And for me, that was, there's nothing wrong with this. There's nothing wrong with fighting people. There's nothing wrong with going to the rider game and punching someone on the way out, that those things are normal behavior when that's absolutely abnormal. And I've seen that at home. I've seen, like, when Mum throws a chair at you for spilling milk, or when you turn the AC on in the car in the winter, when you get home, you get beat with a wooden spoon. You start to think that type of stuff is normal. Wow. I think that anger can actually be used in a healthy way. For example, when we lost our daughter in a car accident, I used my anger to push the city to erect lights around the dark part of the road where she died. Now, when I say anger, it was not yelling and screaming anger. It was the anger that I felt inside for her death. So I think that we can use anger for good, but we have to be a little bit more in tune with our emotions in order to do that. Do you agree? 100%. I think that you need to be skillful with all your emotions. I like the word functioning. I used to call it healthy and unhealthy, but again, I find that you could be on a slippery slope where people can self shame. Oh, my God. I'm using unhealthy anger. Anger to me again, I understand it when I work with it now. It is one of my greatest tools for showing me how to set boundaries. This is what I'm okay with. This is what I'm not okay with. And now I don't express those boundaries in a way I used to. I mean, in the past, it'd be like, you better listen to me. Instead, it's a grounded place in me that's quiet and calm. That's just very short and simple. I'm not okay with what's happening here. This is what I'm okay with, and I think it's a great tool for conversation. Absolutely. When did you realize you needed help, whether it was with your addiction or with your anger? And how did you go about getting that help? I think I was still in high school. I knew I was on a slippery slope then, and it wasn't long after I got out of high school. I tried quitting drinking once at 20 or 21. I started to go and see different individuals to help me with my anger. The way I was thinking, my mom, at that point, kind of right around when I graduated, was going through a bit of a healing process herself, and she would talk about all these different concepts and ideas and the different healers she would go and see. She went more of a deeper spiritual route. And me being a male, 19, in the early 2000s, was like, mom, get the heck out of here with that hippie garbage. But again, it's what planted the seeds early on, and it stayed there. And when I decided to finally quit drinking just about ten years ago after a month in AA, it was like a rocket was lit underneath me. All of that stuff came back that Mum had told me for five, six, seven years. It was like that whole concept about, oh, I'm the one responsible for my thoughts, oh, I'm the one responsible for my feelings. All that stuff just came back instantly. It was like, oh, so it really doesn't matter who I work with. In the end, I'm going to still have to look at myself. So true. So would you say that you have done more work on your own or are you still seeking assistance from professionals? I don't want to confuse anyone here because I do think there's a valuable, extremely valuable aspect of healing that's found in relationship. Gabor says this all the time. Our trauma happened in relationship and we'll find healing in relationship. And I think that we can, through relationship, find areas that make us feel safe, make us feel comfortable, make us feel accepted. And early on, while some of those traumas, while some of those wounds are so fresh that we can't see past them, that I would say a level of a relationship be that with the therapist, a mentor, a meditation teacher, a shaman, whatever route you want to go, that that's extremely valuable and important until you have the capacity to start to sit with your own stuff, which I find is kind of where I'm at now, where I still see my homeopath and I still see my mentor probably once a month. But 90% of what I'm bringing to them now is more theorizing. It's a back and forth conversation where most of my self work is probably done in the sauna in the morning while everyone's asleep, I'll go in there and I'll sit with the difficult sensations that are happening in my body and be like, okay, let's get into this. Let's see what's happening here. So a real evolution has taken place is what I'm hearing.

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Text Posts from the Kids Group: 2021, published by jefftk on November 10, 2023 on LessWrong. Another round of liberating kid posts from Facebook. For reference, in 2021 Lily turned 7, Anna turned 5, and Nora was born. (Some of these were from me; some were from Julia. Ones saying "me" could mean either of us.) Anna: Hello, I'm Mr. Hamburger. Me: It's time to brush teeth, Mr. Hamburger. Anna: I can't brush my teeth, I'm a hamburger. Me: It's still time to brush teeth. Anna: Hamburgers don't have teeth. "Anna, try bonking your head into the faucet! I tried it, and the new squishy cover works!" Last week Lily said she wanted bangs. I told her there is a three-week waiting period for any major haircut, and set a calendar reminder for us to talk about it again in three weeks. She agreed. Two days later, she asked, "If I have bangs, will all my hair be short?" I asked, "...Do you know what bangs are?" "No." We've been reading "The Boxcar Children", and the kids are excited about playing at roughing it in the woods. Lily came downstairs with a pillowcase full of stuff. "Mom, we're pretending we are some poor people and we found just enough money to buy two couches, two pillows, a cooking pot, some stuffies, and this necklace. And I had just enough money to buy this pirate ship and two dolls." "Dad, why are sponges squishy? Like mice?" Jeff: Goodnight, Anna. Anna: Oy-yoy-yoy-yoy-yoy! That's baby for "You're the best dad in the world." Woke up to Lily reading to Anna Hypothetical from Lily: "Mom, if you lived in a peanut shell and the only food you had was cheez-its this big" [holds up fingers to pea size] "and you slept in a shoe made of stone, and ten hundred children lived there, would you find somewhere else to live?" From Lily at dinner: "There is something that makes me sad. [begins singing] Fairies aren't real Magic isn't real Unicorns aren't real Santa Claus isn't real The aTooth Fairy isn't real." Lily, explaining the difference between even and odd numbers: "If they could all line up for a contra dance and they'd all have a partner, that's even." Lily: "Anna, why did you hit me with the whistle?" Anna, not wearing glasses or anything: "I'm sorry, my sight had gotten fogged up" One of Lily's favorite conversations with Anna is the "gotcha." Lily: I was talking to Dad about if we could get a pony. Do you really really want a pony too? Anna: Yeah. Lily: Well we barely know anything about ponies, and we don't have enough room! ...Anna, do you think it would be cool to be a cowgirl? Anna: Yeah. Lily: Well you would have to accept very little pay, you would have to work long hours, and you would barely even get a hut to sleep in! Lily: "I'm super mad that the Fifth Amendment is still there! Somebody definitely needs to remove that thing" ... Yesterday I explained plea bargaining, and she also thinks that's no good. Anna, immediately after we sat down to dinner: "Here are some facts about teeth. Teeth are hard white blades that grow out of these things [indicates gums]. They can cut and grind." Lily, settling down for the night with her teddy bear: "Mom, do you know what I like about Little Bear? First, he's soft to cuddle with. Second, he's an apex predator, so if monsters are real I feel like he'll protect me." Anna: "Mom, can you sing the song where there's a big fight during the night and when the sun rises he's happy because he sees the flag?" Anna: "why aren't you making my breakfast?" Me: "you haven't told me what you wanted to eat yet?" Anna: "I did tell you!" Me: "I don't remember that?" Anna: "Well, I already told you!" Me: "Could you tell me again? Anna: "I don't repeat myself" Me: "Sorry, what?" Anna: "I DON'T REPEAT MYSELF!" Anna's statements of "fact" get less factual when she's mad. I helped her order a toy this morning with her allowance, and she asked when...

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Text Posts from the Kids Group: 2021, published by jefftk on November 10, 2023 on LessWrong. Another round of liberating kid posts from Facebook. For reference, in 2021 Lily turned 7, Anna turned 5, and Nora was born. (Some of these were from me; some were from Julia. Ones saying "me" could mean either of us.) Anna: Hello, I'm Mr. Hamburger. Me: It's time to brush teeth, Mr. Hamburger. Anna: I can't brush my teeth, I'm a hamburger. Me: It's still time to brush teeth. Anna: Hamburgers don't have teeth. "Anna, try bonking your head into the faucet! I tried it, and the new squishy cover works!" Last week Lily said she wanted bangs. I told her there is a three-week waiting period for any major haircut, and set a calendar reminder for us to talk about it again in three weeks. She agreed. Two days later, she asked, "If I have bangs, will all my hair be short?" I asked, "...Do you know what bangs are?" "No." We've been reading "The Boxcar Children", and the kids are excited about playing at roughing it in the woods. Lily came downstairs with a pillowcase full of stuff. "Mom, we're pretending we are some poor people and we found just enough money to buy two couches, two pillows, a cooking pot, some stuffies, and this necklace. And I had just enough money to buy this pirate ship and two dolls." "Dad, why are sponges squishy? Like mice?" Jeff: Goodnight, Anna. Anna: Oy-yoy-yoy-yoy-yoy! That's baby for "You're the best dad in the world." Woke up to Lily reading to Anna Hypothetical from Lily: "Mom, if you lived in a peanut shell and the only food you had was cheez-its this big" [holds up fingers to pea size] "and you slept in a shoe made of stone, and ten hundred children lived there, would you find somewhere else to live?" From Lily at dinner: "There is something that makes me sad. [begins singing] Fairies aren't real Magic isn't real Unicorns aren't real Santa Claus isn't real The aTooth Fairy isn't real." Lily, explaining the difference between even and odd numbers: "If they could all line up for a contra dance and they'd all have a partner, that's even." Lily: "Anna, why did you hit me with the whistle?" Anna, not wearing glasses or anything: "I'm sorry, my sight had gotten fogged up" One of Lily's favorite conversations with Anna is the "gotcha." Lily: I was talking to Dad about if we could get a pony. Do you really really want a pony too? Anna: Yeah. Lily: Well we barely know anything about ponies, and we don't have enough room! ...Anna, do you think it would be cool to be a cowgirl? Anna: Yeah. Lily: Well you would have to accept very little pay, you would have to work long hours, and you would barely even get a hut to sleep in! Lily: "I'm super mad that the Fifth Amendment is still there! Somebody definitely needs to remove that thing" ... Yesterday I explained plea bargaining, and she also thinks that's no good. Anna, immediately after we sat down to dinner: "Here are some facts about teeth. Teeth are hard white blades that grow out of these things [indicates gums]. They can cut and grind." Lily, settling down for the night with her teddy bear: "Mom, do you know what I like about Little Bear? First, he's soft to cuddle with. Second, he's an apex predator, so if monsters are real I feel like he'll protect me." Anna: "Mom, can you sing the song where there's a big fight during the night and when the sun rises he's happy because he sees the flag?" Anna: "why aren't you making my breakfast?" Me: "you haven't told me what you wanted to eat yet?" Anna: "I did tell you!" Me: "I don't remember that?" Anna: "Well, I already told you!" Me: "Could you tell me again? Anna: "I don't repeat myself" Me: "Sorry, what?" Anna: "I DON'T REPEAT MYSELF!" Anna's statements of "fact" get less factual when she's mad. I helped her order a toy this morning with her allowance, and she asked when...

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Episode 184, Recorded 9/7/2023. Bad travel. Brian's Boys. iPhones of the future. Self-inflicted injury. Park n' (take me for a) Ride. Four Dimensional Chess. Lisa registered present. Trashy move. New Bat-trees. Contribute: feedback@talkin2todd.com

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Sir Rod Stewart has made another promise to Newstalk ZB's Mike Hosking. When the British rock icon joined Hosking, the radio host reminded him of his last time in New Zealand, where he dedicated a song to him. "You said was I coming to the show and I said I'd come to the show if you played Handbags and Gladrags and I was joking. But you did, and you dedicated it to me and that meant the world. I thought it was one of the greatest nights of my life," Hosking said. Chuckling, Sir Rod asked if there is anything else Hosking would like to hear to which he replies People Get Ready, which is a song that is performed regularly, and the artist tells Hosking he will "see you there." The 78-year-old was last in New Zealand in 2015 and is back next month for the third, and possibly final, time with shows in Dunedin, Hawke's Bay and Auckland. With a record of 250 million records sold and an entry into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Sir Rod says he and his team have their shows down to a science. "It does take a lot of planning," the London-born rocker told Newstalk ZB's Mike Hosking. "Not too much rehearsal, because we don't take years off. We played our last show only two weeks ago, so we don't need any rehearsals." Stewart prides himself on his performances and will be bringing his alter ego to New Zealand in order to give fans one last taste of his infectious live show, saying he brings as much of his personality as he can. "I'm old school, it's entertainment, people want to be entertained," he says. "I'm Mr. Razzle Dazzle, aren't I?" "I lived through the sixties and the seventies and the eighties were especially razzle dazzle, but I've always been a bit of a show off." After Australia and New Zealand, the United States and Britain are on the itinerary and while many at 78 would recoil at the thought of spending months on end at the other side of the world, Sir Rod Stewart relishes in the opportunity. "Love it! It wouldn't be doing it if I didn't love it. It's what the good Lord put me on this earth to do." The inevitable retirement rumours have swirled in recent years, with many predicting Sir Rod to hang up his microphone. He says he plans to work with a number of artists, including Jools Holland, and produce some music of some other genres and take up some new endeavours. "I just want to get away from what I'm doing, I've been doing it a hell of a long time and I love it, but I want a new challenge." In recent years he has become something of a philanthropist, having notoriously been called cheap in the past by Ronnie Wood, most recently housing a number of Ukrainian refugees who had fled the Russian invasion. "Lovely, lovely people. We've got to win this war, it'll be the end of man-kind as we know it if we don't." This is not the only example of the rock legend's generosity. In late February, he visited Essex Hospital and paid for a full day's worth of MRI scans following a phone call with Sky News, in a bid to reduce waiting times. He told Mike Hosking he had heard the effort had reduced times but 10 percent. If these are in fact Sir Rod Stewart's final shows in New Zealand they promise to be full of razzle dazzle, although fans will be hoping this is not the last time we see the famed performer on our shores. SHOW DATES: Wed 5 April - Forsyth Barr Stadium - DUNEDIN Sat 8 April - Mission Estate Winery - NAPIER Sun 9 April - Spark Arena - AUCKLAND TICKETS AVAILABLE FROM TICKETMASTER.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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[This episode was recorded live on our YouTube and Twitch stream on 13-02-23] It's Monday/Tuesday and that means it's Anglo Italian Pod time, and it's a full house as Adam, Andy and Ruairi are joined by ex-pro and friend of the show Piero Mingoia. Piero was at the San Siro to witness Milan get back to winning ways, but why did he still leave angry? We discuss the consistent inconsistency of Lazio, Rasmus, Juve getting away with one, Italiano under fire and the relegation battle is back on. Then we switch to Premier League, we start with an impressive Man United win against an improving Leeds, we talk the madness of Nathan Jones, Lopategui turning it around and of course the VAR madness across the league this weekend, then we finish with a bit of Man City talk and take a quick look ahead to the return of the CHampions League, Europa League and we forgot about the Conference League...whoops! As always enjoy the show and you can follow us on Twitter @italiananglopod Insta @ItalianAngloPod and subscribe on YouTube @TheAngloItalianPod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Make way for the Champs!!!! I know I came home with 2 titles, how about you!? Or did you end up like the coaches who got fired today and end up on “Shit the Bed”? Hopefully not and you made our final “Killed It” for the year. As we wrap up another season we like to remind people to stay tuned as we switch to our off season content and transition to Video! We do have our NFL Playoff Challenge available right now! Hit us up on the socials @4th&Dirty or email show@4thanddirty.com.

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In this episode of The Bald Brad Show, Fox News reporter Peter Doocy and Karine Jean Pierre go head-to-head over immigration and the twitter feud. The White House weighs in on hate speech and misinformation. Furthermore, A Louisiana teacher posted on Facebook how confusing students about gender identity was enjoyable. The teacher, Blaine Banghart, is a music teacher at University Elementary School in Shreveport who uses the term Mx., as opposed to Mr. or Ms. "The kids are all confused and asking why I have a mustache if I'm a girl, if I'm Mr. Banghart now, why am I trying to look like a boy, etc.," Banghart wrote. "I'm just ignoring these questions/redirecting, so I don't get in trouble."

A new story chased by our best friends at the Weekly Bugle. Written and Produced by Julie Hoverson Cast List Leona  - Robyn Keyes Theo "Smoothie" Walsh - Henry Mark Chief - Julie Hoverson Forsythe Dickman III - Mark Olson Farmer Hadley - Garr Godfrey Daisy - Cailean Evedus Bartender - Charles Austin Miller Desk Clerk - Brown Monkey's Old dude Second Demon - Sherman bear Reporters - Bryan, Wes, and Uncle Randy of Drunken Zombie, plus Brown Monkey Music by  John Woodward Editing and Sound:   Julie Hoverson Cover Design:  Les Clay   "What kind of a place is it? Why it's a familiar newsroom, can't you tell?" ******************************************************************** A Telegram ...to Satan! Cast: Leona Theo "Smoothie" Walsh Chief Forsythe Dickman III Reporters Farmer Hadley Daisy LuLu Reporters OLIVIA     Did you have any trouble finding it?  What do you mean, what kind of a place is it?  Why, it's a tabloid bullpen, can't you tell?  MUSIC Scene 1.    SOUND     PEOPLE ON PHONES, moving through the room REPORTER JUNE    How many mummies? [dubious] Uh... we can't send a photographer for less than eight. REPORTER BOB    So can we quote you on the health benefits of nude white water rafting? REPORTER KATHY    We just want to give you a chance to tell your side of the story, doctor... REPORTER FRED    And when the wax was ripped away, it left an image of jesus in your chest hair? Scene 2.    CHIEF    Shut the door. SOUND    DOOR SHUTS THEO    Where's Leona? CHIEF    She'll be here in a minute.  Wanted to say something to you first… just the two of us. THEO     [a little worried] Yeah? CHIEF    You're a cute young guy, Theo... THEO    [starting to panic] Uh... CHIEF    You seeing anyone right now? THEO    I'm kind of ...married to the news. CHIEF    I know the feeling. THEO    Uh...! CHIEF    It's a nice sentiment, but you can't let the news rule your life, sweetheart. THEO    Uh.  When is Leona gonna get here? CHIEF    What are you doing on Friday night? THEO    Uh... Uh... I ... CHIEF    Cause my niece really really needs someone to take her to her senior prom, and I figure if you're married to the news, you're about as safe as they get. THEO    [relieved] Oh!  ah!  I can clear Friday night. CHIEF    It's either you or Forsythe Dickman the third, and I really don't want that greasy bastard within a city block of my poor little Aida. THEO    Who? CHIEF    But you didn't hear that from me. SOUND    DOOR OPENS THEO    Dickman? DICKMAN    Yeah. THEO    [gasp]  Oh!  I thought it would be Leona. SOUND    DOOR SHUTS CHIEF    Smoothie Walsh, meet Forsythe Dickman the third.  His grandpa just picked up half the business. DICKMAN    Things are gonna run a little different around here. THEO    Oh.  Is that good? CHIEF    [insincere] Sure it is.  We're just tickled to death to have some new blood in at the managerial level. SOUND    DOOR OPENS LEONA    Oh. SOND    DOOR SHUTS AGAIN THEO    Leona--?  She left. CHIEF    Musta forgot something. DICKMAN    Is that Leona Pope?  [chuckle nastily]  I think she remembered something. THEO    Should I ...go? CHIEF    No, I was about to drop a lead on you.  DICKMAN    I hope you have something good. CHIEF    Oh, are you staying? DICKMAN    Gramps wants me to learn the tabloid business from the very bottom.  So yeah, I'm staying. MUSIC Scene 3.    AMB    ROOF SOUND    LIGHTER, SMOKING THEO    [off] Leona? LEONA    Are you alone? THEO    Uh, yeah. LEONA    Come on up, then. THEO    That's a little far out on the ledge, isn't it? LEONA    It's the only place for miles around that's far enough from a door to legally smoke. THEO    Oh.  [beat] We have an assignment. LEONA    We as in you and me, or is there more "we" than I'm aware of? THEO    Uh, no.  Were you expecting someone? LEONA    [sigh]  I'll come down. MUSIC Scene 4.    SOUND    IN CAR LEONA    What's the story? THEO    I was about to ask you the same thing. LEONA    [grr] The story we're supposed to go and get. THEO    Oh!  Cattle mutilation.  It's a bit of a drive. LEONA    And Dickman? THEO    No.  He's got a story of his own. LEONA    Which is? THEO    [a bit envious] The Weed-Whacker killer. LEONA    Figures.  Dickman gets the latest serial sensation and we get cow guts. THEO    Well, it's actually-- LEONA    That jackass gets everything he wants.  Almost. THEO    Sounds like you have a history. LEONA    Used to have an entire curriculum. THEO    Huh? LEONA    [getting annoyed] History.  Chemistry.  Biology...  [disgusted] Drama.  MUSIC Scene 5.    AMB    FARM LEONA    Bucolic. THEO    I've never been on a farm before! LEONA    I've worked hard to avoid them myself. HADLEY    Hallooo!  You must be the folks from the World Bugle! THEO    Must we?  Ah, yes.  We must!  I mean, that's us! LEONA    [flat] Show us the cows. HADLEY    I'm Mr. Hadley, and this is Lulu. LULU    [goat] Maaaa. LEONA    Don't try and tell me that's a cow. HADLEY    No, no.  Lulu's a goat. They're better than dogs.  They can stand guard, fetch, and they're very loyal GOAT    Maaa. LEONA    You tell him.  Show us the cows. HADLEY    She can even fetch – here. THEO    A ball?  Should I throw it? HADLEY    Nah – just hold it up.  Fetch Lulu! LULU    MAAA! SOUND    THUMP THEO    Ow. HADLEY    And now she gets the ball.  Just a little goat humor. SOUND    BRUSHING OFF, GETTING UP THEO    [sigh] Tell us all about this problem you're having with your cattles being... mutilated. LEONA    Cattle is already plural. HADLEY    Come along and you can see for yourself. THEO    Ew?  I mean - it's been a couple of days.  Won't they be a bit ... ripe? LEONA    [musing] Really quick shutter.  THEO    What? LEONA    Catches all the flies in mid-flight. THEO    Ewwww.. HADLEY    Oh, are you thinking my cows are dead?  Oh. No.  Come on. MUSIC Scene 6.    LEONA    [stunned] And WHEN did this happen? THEO    How many are there? HADLEY    Five.  Bessie, Buttercup, Wilamina, Miss Amoorica, and Fred. LEONA    You have a cow named Fred? HADLEY    She's had a hard life. THEO    And all five of them have these... HADLEY    Big tattooed triangles.  Yep. LEONA    Does it go underneath, too, or just end there? HADLEY    Nope.  Each one has her entire left flank covered in this...ink. THEO    And it's not just paint? HADLEY    Nope.  LEONA    Humh.  Punk cows.  Next thing you know, they'll be going for nipple piercings. THEO    That would really be -- LEONA    [trying not to laugh] An udder mess. THEO    Ew.  This doesn't look like something that happened overnight. HADLEY    Nope.  Someone's a-sneaking in each night and doing it. LEONA    And they got THIS much done before you noticed? HADLEY    What can I say?  I'm a right-sided milker.  MUSIC Scene 7.    SOUND    WALKING IN MUD THEO    Ah, nature. LEONA    One thing you can say for nature.  It stinks. THEO    That's the smell of life! LEONA    No, it's the smell of the cowpie you just stepped in. THEO    Ew.  Hey look!  Someone's coming! LEONA    Is it Lulu? THEO    No!  [excited] It looks like a girl! LEONA    Can't you tell?  DAISY    [off, calling]  He-ey! THEO    Hiya! LEONA    [hissed, hinting]  Interview.  Witness.  Stay on task. THEO    What? SOUND    SLAP THEO    Right.  Hello, miss--? DAISY    [running up, panting]  I'm Daisy! THEO    Yeah?  LEONA    [hissed] Does she live near here? THEO    Do you--? DAISY    I'm just one farm over. THEO    Oh.  Good. LEONA    Does she know anything about the cows? DAISY    Huh? THEO    HuH? LEONA    Tell you what.  We're gonna play blindfold questions. DAISY    That sounds like fun! THEO    What?  [muffled] Hey, what are you doing? [clear again] But I can't see anything now! LEONA    That's the idea.  DAISY    Who are you folks anyway?  I never got a chance to-- THEO    We're from the World Bugle.  Investigating the cows. DAISY    Oh!  The tattoos? THEO    Yeah.  Are they happening at your farm too? LEONA    Turn to the left, just a bit.  THEO    Huh? LEONA    You're talking to her shoulder. THEO    Ah. DAISY    Well, no, ain't no one else in the valley having the same problem.  And no one can figure out how it's happening, nohow! THEO    No one knows how he's doing it? DAISY    He?  Do you know who it is? THEO    Just reporter shorthand.  Playing the odds.  [serious sounding] Most of these kind of... uh "perps" are male.  82%, in fact. LEONA    Nice fake. DAISY    Wow! THEO    Not that we rule anyone out.  You could even be the one doing this. DAISY    Not me!  I can't even draw a cow.  [sudden interest]  Who's that? LEONA    Who?  Shit!  My turn for the blindfold. SOUND    WHIP OF FABRIC THEO    [Baffled]  Leo?  What? Why are you tying that over your whole face? LEONA    [muffled] Shut up! DICKMAN    [coming on] Finally some sign of life out here in the hinterlands. DAISY    I dunno where hinter's land is.  Is he new around here? THEO    [getting it]  Oh!  Hi, Mr. Dickman. DICKMAN    You can call me Ace, kid. THEO    [chummy] And you can call me Theo, Ace. LEONA    [muffled] "Smoothie" THEO    Shh. DAISY    Can I call you Ace too?  You look kinda familiar.  Have we ever met? DICKMAN    So, kid, who's the chick in the turban? THEO    Oh, she's my new ... intern.  Uh, she's -uh- devout.  Can't show her face. DAISY    But she had it off-- LEONA    [zhagareet - high pitched warble] THEO    [running over]  We're very equal-opportunity at the world bugle, you see.  DAISY    Say, you look kinda like Clint Eastwood.  Are you related to Clint Eastwood? DICKMAN    [ignoring Daisy] Does she speak English, at least? THEO    Only to people she's been... properly introduced to.  It's very ...protective. DICKMAN    Doesn't make for much of a reporter.  THEO    [warming to his lie] That's why she's learning to take photographs instead.  [talking loud and slow like he's talking to someone foreign] Take picture now?  Show? LEONA    [muttered and muffled] I got something to show you-- THEO    [snap] Jasmine?  Take picture! LEONA    [sort of vaguely pakistani] oh, yess.  Picture take i. SOUND    SNAP DICKMAN    Hey!  You didn't need a flash!  It's broad daylight!  Right in my damn eyes. SOUND    SNAP LEONA    Many apologies! DAISY    Wanna take a picture of me? DICKMAN    [stalking closer] Hey!  That camera - it looks kinda familiar. THEO    [covering] Oh! They all look alike. LEONA    [panicking] uh -- No more talk.  Time to pray.  SOUND    DROP TO THE GROUND LEONA    [muttering, muffled] THEO    You better not bother her now.  She gets these breaks a - a bunch of times every day.  It's freedom of religion, man. DICKMAN    I'm sure I've seen her before.  And she ain't no -- THEO    ACE!  Don't use that kind of language!  [whispered] You could get us sued! LEONA    [MUTTERS LOUDER] DAISY    Can she take a picture of ME when she gets up? MUSIC Scene 8.    AMB    QUIET HOTEL ROOM THEO    That was kind of... LEONA    Mortifying? THEO    Well...  You don't know much about other cultures, do you? LEONA    I only had to fool him, and he knows less.  [annoyed] It's kind of like if you and I ever run into a lion - I don't have to outrun the lion... I just have to outrun you. THEO    Are there a lot of lions in - [getting it] Ohhh... [moment of awkward silence] LEONA    I suppose you're wondering about all this. THEO    No. LEONA    It's the most embarrassing episode of my life. THEO    Oh.  I wouldn't want to pry. LEONA    Back when I was young and foolish. THEO    [astonished] You were young? LEONA    And that disgusting hunk of manhood swept me off my girlish feet... THEO    [getting a bit weirded out] girlish? LEONA    He was so confident... THEO    Uh, Leona... LEONA    So self assured... THEO    Come on, Leona. LEONA    And when he walked away that dark and stormy morning, leaving me lying in a puddle of my own tears...  THEO    Please stop. LEONA    [snarl] He walked away with the best scoop I'd ever had.  THEO    [relieved sigh] Oh! LEONA    That's why you can't tell him anything about our story.  Not one iota. THEO    Why would I, I don't plan to-- LEONA    He'll knock on the door any minute now. SOUND    KNOCK THEO    Wow! LEONA    Take him to the bar.  THEO    But what do I do? LEONA    Get him drunk.  Keep him talking. SOUND    DOOR CHAIN LEONA    [sharp whisper] Oh, and while you're distracting him— THEO    Distracting? LEONA    Yeah.  See if you can steal his story! MUSIC Scene 9.    AMB    BAR DICKMAN    This is the life, eh?  Just us guys.  Us reporters.  No one understands the loneliness… THEO    Uh, yeah. DICKMAN    The mantle of responsibility we don every day--   THEO    Really? DICKMAN    Our responsibility to the public!  To keep them informed.  THEO    Oh!  Is that why your – uh – family bought into the World bugle? DICKMAN    Nah.  Grandad just loves Ratboy.  THEO    Oh.  [trying to be subtle]  So...how goes it with the weed-whacker? DICKMAN    [suspicious] Hey – you trying something? THEO    No!  Just  thought… uh… I might be able to [uncertain] Help? DICKMAN    I don't need any help. THEO    But I might have heard something.  A lead. DICKMAN    [skeptical] Reeeeally? THEO    Oh, yeah.  [warming to it]  I overheard something.  Recently.  About –uh – [lost, then bright idea] about someone buying a lot of weed whackers! DICKMAN    Really?  And what could possibly make you think that he would need more than one weed whacker? THEO    He? DICKMAN    Playing the odds.  82% of these perps are male, you know. THEO    Oh, yeah.  I know. DICKMAN    [intimidating] But what made you say that? THEO    Its just what I heard!  Really! DICKMAN    [relenting]  Cuz that's a detail the police have insisted on keeping back from the public.  THEO    Oh! MUSIC HOTEL CLERK    May I help you? LEONA    [talking in a fake deep voice] Package for Mr. Dickmam.  What room is he in? HOTEL CLERK    I can accept that for him. LEONA    No. uh – it's special delivery.  From the head office. HOTEL CLERK    I can page him. LEONA    Can't wait.  Must stay… refrigerated.  Plus, he's probably out on assignment-- HOTEL CLERK    I think he's just over in the bar. LEONA    [sigh, drops the voice]  Fifty bucks? SOUND    MONEY SLAPPED ON TABLE, SCOOPED UP HOTEL CLERK    [low response] Here's the spare key.  Have a nice day! MUSIC Scene 10.    AMB    BAR THEO    --And he woke up with a donkey's head! DICKMAN    What, like in the bed next to him? THEO    No, this is Shakespeare, not the Godfather!  Like his head was a donkey's head. DICKMAN    [musing] Shakespeare WAS the original godfather.  I think you might have a story there. THEO    Still not as good as yours! DICKMAN    When you been in the biz as long as I have… SOUND    PHONE RINGS, ANSWERED BARTENDER    No, sorry.  We don't serve those here. DICKMAN    [nasty laugh] Must be talking about your “sidekick.” THEO    Ew! BERTENDER    Oh, someone NAMED Smoothie.  I'll check.  [up] Is there a-- THEO    [quick, sharp] It's for me! DICKMAN    Smoothie? THEO    Code name.  Top secret.  [to phone]  Yeah?  Yeah!  Oh yeaaaaahhhhh. SOUND    HANGS UP DICKMAN    Yeah? THEO    Yeah.  Gotta go.  The –uh- cows came home. MUSIC Scene 11.    AMB    NIGHT, PASTURE THEO    We always seem to end up outside in the dark waiting for dangerous people. LEONA    That's where the stories are. THEO    Did you find out anything? LEONA    Just that he's got nothing.  [chuckles] THEO    Isn't that bad for the paper?  I mean, they still need stories! LEONA    Puppy.  [gasp]  Look! THEO    Lights!  Is it aliens? LEONA    Coleman. THEO    Who's Coleman? LEONA    A lamp.  It's just the farmer.  He must have the same idea we do. THEO    We do? LEONA    To keep watch until the vandal shows up. THEO    Would this fall under vandalism?  Hmm…  I guess cows count as property. LEONA    Shh!  Look! THEO    He's just going in to check on them. SOUND    Mooooo THEO    That didn't sound happy. LEONA    They're cows.  They don't really “do” happy. THEO    Hey, where's Lulu? LEONA    Lulu? THEO    The goat- he said she follows him everywhere. LEONA    I dunno.  Sleeping? THEO    Let's get closer to the barn. MUSIC Scene 12.    AMB    BARN THEO    [whispering] I told you there was something wrong with a man who would leave his goat behind! LEONA    If I had a nickel for every time I've heard… SOUND    Bzz.  Mooooo! THEO    [standing up]  How dare you! LEONA    Oh, boy. HADLEY/DEMON    Who dares disturb me at my work. THEO    Uh… does he sound different? LEONA    I'll be in the bushes – uh – stall. HADLEY/DEMON    Come forward, mortal. THEO    uh-- LEONA    He means you.  [uh - pushing him] SOUND    PUSH, HE STUMBLES FORWARD THEO    [whisered] What do I do? LEONA    Interview him.  It.  Nah, think of it as a him – less scary that way. HADLEY/DEMON    What do you want? THEO    [gulp] I -- want to hear your side of the story! HADLEY/DEMON    Story? THEO    Uh, clearly you're doing something here – and very artistically, I might add – but I can't imagine a … s-something, such as yourself doing it for no reason.  You must have a … a purpose.  The people want to know! LEONA    [hissed] step to the left! THEO    Huh? LEONA    You're blocking my shot! HADLEY/DEMON    You think you will shoot me?  Muhahahaha!  Mortal bullets will have no effect! THEO    no!  no!  not shot shot.  Just picture shot. LEONA    [whispered] Stay in the light - in case he eviscerates you. HADLEY/DEMON    Pictures, yes.  I make pictures too. THEO    Right!  What are they for? HADLEY/DEMON    For?  They are a summoning!  When the ring is complete, he will come! THEO    [shock and awe] Satan? HADLEY/DEMON    [matter of fact] Nonsense, he's much too busy.  That's why I'm here.  [demony again] NO!  It is the renegade that I am here to summon.  I have been placed in his path and he will be mine!  SOUND    CAMERA CLICKS HADLEY/DEMON    [petulant]  If some people will go away and leave me to my work. THEO    maybe we can help? LEONA    [whispered] Ixnay!  Otnay our Objay! HADLEY/DEMON    Help?  You? THEO    I mean, if you will spend a little time maybe telling us more about what you're doing? HADLEY/DEMON    Hmm…. [thinks long] Which do you think is my good side? MUSIC Scene 13.    AMB    OUTSIDE, DAY THEO    We should tell him!  He must have been drugged, or delusional, or sleepwalking! LEONA    [assured]  Possessed. THEO    or sleepwalking. LEONA    Possessed makes for a better story. THEO    Oh.  LEONA    Did you have the mini recorder with you? THEO    Uh, no. LEONA    Dammit Smoothie! THEO    I did ... something else with it. LEONA    What? THEO    Let me see if it worked first. LEONA    [sigh] whatever.  What's important is to figure out what questions to ask this demon possessor when we talk to him tonight. THEO    Tonight? LEONA    Meanwhile, we can get some quality time with the girls. THEO    Girls?  You mean like Daisy? LEONA    No, I mean like Fred. MUSIC Scene 14.    AMB    BARN SOUND    Moos THEO    Oh, those girls. LEONA    Shh.  You'll put them off. THEO    What are we doing here? LEONA    Getting glamour shots.  What else?  Move that one in behind the one with the white ear. THEO    Why don't we ask farmer Hadley to help with this?  I don't know anything about cow maneuvers. DICKMAN    [off, hding]  [Laughs] LEONA    [starts to laugh, then cuts it off with a snarl] THEO    Holy cow! LEONA    Five of them.  Come out, Dick. DICKMAN    Leona?  And here I thought you'd converted. THEO    Maybe I should leave you two alone? LEONA    Yeah.  I'm a transformer.  {nyea-uh-uh-ow – transformer noise]  Just call me optimus kick your ass. THEO    Help me out, Fred,  They're not listeneing. SOUND    MOO, LICK THEO    Ew. [up]  We should go back to the – things to do – back at the hotel? LEONA    No.  I want to know why this notorious poacher is hanging around our story?  Could it be because he's stumped on his own? DICKMAN    Im never stumped.  I'm [thinks, then nasty triumph] I'm multitasking! LULU    [outside]  Maaaaa THEO    Hey guys, here comes Lulu!  Better be nice. DICKMAN    Who's LuLu?  Is she that dishy Barbie in the teensy cutoffs from yesterday? LEONA    [chuckles] Nah, she's even more perfect for you.  DICKMAN    [suggestive] Hot, stupid and has a great story? LEONA    [taking it personally]  I was never hot – I mean, I was never STUPID! SOUND    DOOR OPENS THEO    [loudly, trying to break up the fight] Oh, Farmer Hadley!  Lulu!  How nice to see you both! LEONA    Here Dickman.  Hold this.  Lulu, fetch! LULU    Maaaa! DICKMAN    What's with the ball?  Ow! SOUND    THUMP, BODY DROP MUSIC Scene 15.    AMB    BARN, NIGHT THEO    He said he'd explain the whole thing tonight. LEONA    Smacks of super villain rhetoric. THEO    Huh? LEONA    You know, all that “Before I kill you, Mister Bond” crap. THEO    Kill? HADLEY/DEMON    Oh, yes, I am here to kill. THEO    [gasp!] LEONA    [gasp] I'll be in the hayloft. HADLEY/DEMON    {chuckles]  I thought you might like a sound bite for your show. THEO    Uh, we're print news. HADLEY/DEMON    Too bad.  That would have been sweet. THEO    But we do have a website! LEONA    But he wasn't recording. HADLEY/DEMON    [disgruntled] Well, stay out of my way, then. THEO    You said tonight you would reveal all. LEONA    I'll get the wide angle lens. HADLEY/DEMON    Tonight I will return an escaped soul back to hell!!! LEONA    Is his name Dickman? HADLEY/DEMON    He's not an escapee.  But we have him on our radar. THEO    Ew. LEONA    Good. HADLEY/DEMON    No, this is a soul that escaped and is even now cutting a swath across the country! THEO and LEONA    [unison]  The weed-whacker!? LEONA    [musing] Scooping him is almost better than sending him to hell… HADLEY/DEMON    These cows are the living, breathing summoning spell.  Watch as I circle them up, nose to tail-- LEONA    Facing widdershins, I see. THEO    Huh? LEONA    Anti-clockwise? THEO    Oh. HADLEY/DEMON    It's a satanic thing. THEO    Ahh. LEONA    Omigod! HADLEY/DEMON    [slightly offended] Please! LEONA    Just an interjection.  I see it all now!  I relaly do need to get up into the hayloft! THEO    Why? HADLEY/DEMON    Why don't you both go up there and observe? THEO    Uh, okay. LEONA    Come on! SOUND    CLIMBING LADDER HADLEY/DEMON    [begins the chant]  loren ipsum dolar sit amat… THEO    What am I supposed to see? LEONA    Look down! SOUND    SNAPPING PHOTOS, THROUGHOUT THEO    Uh...Cows. LEONA    and? THEO    Oh!  Oh, wow!  When they're all in a circle like that, with the tattooed triangles on the inside, it makes-- LEONA    A pentagram.  Yeah.  Trippy. SOUND    DOOR OPENS, OFF THEO    Did you hear that? LEONA    Hear what? SIOUND    CAMERA STILL CLICKING AWAY THEO    I'll go check. LEONA    [absorbed in her work] Yeah, yeah. SOUND    CREAKING AS THEO MOVES THEO    [muttered] I think it was over … here? DICKMAN    [muffled a bit, dictating]  Investigating strange noises in the barn, hoping that the killer was hiding out, I courageously – no, scratch that – with no thought for my own safety, just the safety of the world, I pressed on. THEO    [to self] Oh, heck!  [quiet, calling]  Leona? LEONA    [snapped hiss] Busy. THEO    Oh, boy… SOUND    OTHER DOOR SLAMS OPEN HADLEY/DEMON    [Cuts off in mid-sentence]  [dramatic] You! WW DEMON    [dramatic] Yes, it is I! HADLEY/DEMON    [matter of fact] I'm here to take you home, Jerry. WW DEMON    I don't wanna. HADLEY/DEMON    Too bad.  Get in the box. WW DEMON    [huffy sigh]  Fine.  But I'm going because I want to and not because you told me to. HADLEY/DEMON    Yup.  Just like the last four times.  whatever. SOUND    SORT OF A WHISTLY NOISE DICKMAN    Is that it? HADLEY/DEMON    Yeah.   Why? DICKMAN    Seems anti-climactic. HADLEY/DEMON    Who do I look like?  Peter Jackson?  Gotta go, then.  [to Leona] One mor pic before I drop this carcass? SOUND    CLICK DICKMAN    [stunned] You! LEONA    [sneering] You!  THEO    Uh, guys--! SOUND    WEIRD SWIRLY NOISE DICKMAN    This is my story, Leo.  But I'll let you in as my photographer. THEO    Guys??? LEONA    I'll give you a shot.  But not from my camera! SOUND    WEIRD SWIRLY NOISE GETS LOUDER THEO    I'll be in the bushes. SOUND    WEIRD SWRILY EXPLOSION Scene 16.    EXPLOSION TURNS INTO "on tape" SOUND    CLICK, turns off CHIEF    [concerned] Is Leona's film okay? THEO    Oh, yeah.  It was the weirdest thing, too - no one was actually hurt, but they all had this weird blackout period.  I guess I got away early enough to miss most of it, but even I don't rmember everything on the tape. CHIEF    Waitaminute - didn't you say in there somewhere that you didn't have your recorder on you? THEO    Uh, yeah...  SOUND    DOOR OPENS, LEONA ENTERS LEONA    Here's those photos. SOUND    SLAPS THEM DOWN CHIEF    [going through]  yeah, yeah. Yeah - OHHH!  Nice goat.  Yeah, yeah.  Cute.  Holy crap! LEONA    [chuckles] THEO    Hwat - what was that? CHIEF    I take it this compromising picture of Forsythe Dickman the third has some little part in why you got his story without him arguing at all? LEONA    [overly innocent] Nah - he just admitted that it was all one story from the beginning, and since we did all the work-- THEO    [confidential]  It was really hard, getting the goat to stand still for the picture! CHIEF    you didn't- uh - I mean, that poor goat! LEONA    Nah, once we got her into the tutu - it's all in the lighting.  THEO    Was harder to dress Dickman. CHIEF    Well, get out of here and write up your story-- My personal shopper Pierre is gonna be in here any minute - Wednesday is intimates. LEONA    Going.  Now. SOUND    THEY RUSH OUT Scene 17.    REPORTER FRED    Oh, please, you're the fourth Hitler sighting this week! REPORTER KATHY    Are you sure these tiny people who appear when you drink from your magic bottle aren't just ...uh... D-Ts? REPORTER BOB    And you're willing to wear that fur suit and infiltrate the secret hideout?  Do you know the paw-shake? SOUND    HANG UP PHONE REPORTER JUNE    [excited yell]  Aliens are landing in Branson!!!  They're demanding tickets for Dolly! END

"Hi Mark, I'm Mr. Bellamy, your mom's brother. I'm really sorry about your parents. As your uncle, I'm here to comfort you and let you know that I'll take care of you."My parents had died two weeks earlier and we were sitting at their funeral service. Mom always talked about her big brother uncle Bellamy but for some reason we never visited him. Now here he was, probably the only family I had left after my parent's tragic boating accident.I tried my best to be polite to him but the truth is I was not in the mood to talk to anyone. After the funeral, uncle Bellamy and his wife Terry helped me pack. They assured me that everything was going to be fine. "What about mom and dad's stuff?" "I'll take care of that but if there's anything you need, pack it."A few hours later, we boarded a plane and I left my life behind. That was a year ago on one of the worst days of my life.The Bellamys lived in a huge estate. They owned the biggest hotel in town so money was not a problem for them.Mrs Bellamy managed the hotel and she spent almost all her time there. She was an overly stern lady and seemed to control everything around the house. I did my best to stay out of her way. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Thanks again to Chioma for talking to me today. And as this is our last episode, let me just take a moment to thank ALL of our hosts this year, Jared, Jayden, Rebecca, Maliya, Matteo, Maribelle, and Elyze. And also a big thank you to all of the students who sumbitted interviews this year. The podcast wouldn't exist without these great stories! We are all done for this year, but we will be back in 2023 with Season 5 of the SJT Immigration Podcast. Look for it starting sometime in Spring of 2023. I'm Mr. Luukkonen—thank you so much for listening. The SJT Immigration Project is a production of the Sir John Thompson Enhanced Academic Program and Social Department. Music by Evie, Byron, Tucker, and Everett. Interview today by Chioma. Find us online at anchor.fm/sjt or on Twitter @SJTPodcastECSD.

Are you willing to go from being comfortable to uncomfortable to achieve success?   Ola Dantis recounts how he moved to the US with nothing but $180 in his pocket. He started knowing nothing about real estate until he started paying attention and working hard to learn the ropes. Since then, he has amassed a portfolio of multifamily units and founded the syndication firm, Dwellynn. Ola tells us that it was not easy to get to where he is today, but that staying laser-focused on his goals has helped him succeed. Tune in and you'll surely be inspired by his story!   [00:01 - 09:45] From Having Nothing to Buying His First Property Ola looks back on his first time going to the United States Being invited on his first mastermind The importance of paying attention and taking advantage of available resources to learn How Ola was able to finance his first duplex Know about the FHA loan   [09:46 - 13:41] Making the Move to Multifamily Building cash flow as a landlord How Ola took action and found a mentor Falling victim to the shiny object syndrome What Ola's business looks like today   [13:42 - 20:10] Creating Impact While Still Being Profit-Minded The goal is not just senselessly accumulating wealth How Ola and his team are giving a house to a family in need mortgage-free through the 1HousePledge The strategies Dwellynn is currently doing to stay competitive Don't squeeze deals just for the sake of squeezing deals   [20:11 - 22:07] Closing Segment Reach out to Ola!  Links Below Final Words Tweetable Quotes   “It was my first time in America and I was like, it's beautiful down here. I'm not just saying it just ‘cause I'm just saying it, but I just want folks that were born here, that live here, that have grown up here, to just take a step back and appreciate what they have.” - Ola Dantis   “Get a mentor. Get somebody that's done whatever you're trying to do. I don't care if it's brain surgery or buying properties.” - Ola Dantis “Make sure when you choose your path, keep going on that path until you succeed. Before you start to consider other paths, make sure you succeed.” - Ola Dantis -----------------------------------------------------------------------------   Connect with Ola! Check out the Dwellynn website or type in investwithola.com to be part of multifamily investment opportunities! Follow him, too, on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.   Resources Mentioned Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki The 4 Disciplines of Execution by Chris McChesney, Jim Huling, and Sean Covey Connect with me:   I love helping others place money outside of traditional investments that both diversify a strategy and provide solid predictable returns.     Facebook   LinkedIn   Like, subscribe, and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or whatever platform you listen on.  Thank you for tuning in!   Email me → sam@brickeninvestmentgroup.com Want to read the full show notes of the episode? Check it out below: [00:00:00] Ola Dantis: You leave money on the table because you're not trying to squeeze a deal just to squeeze a deal's sake, right? Because when you do that, it's karma, I believe in this stuff, right? Because when you try to squeeze a deal as a seller, trying to sell a deal and squeeze everything, you might end up buying a deal that isn't, that is not good for your investors too. [00:00:28] Sam Wilson: Ola is the founder and CEO at Dwellynn, a multifamily syndication firm. Ola, welcome to the show.  [00:00:37] Ola Dantis: Thank you so much for having me, Sam. Appreciate it. [00:00:40] Sam Wilson: Pleasure is mine. Three questions I ask every guest who comes to the show: 90 seconds or less. Where did you start? Where are you now? How'd you get there? [00:00:46] Ola Dantis: Started with I'm a duplex. Right now, got a bunch of units under my belt. What was the last question?  [00:00:54] Sam Wilson: Where did you start? Where are you now? How'd you get there? [00:00:57] Ola Dantis: I got there by partnering, being humble, learning, moving quickly, taking action. Is that like super-duper quick, right? It's like lightning speed.  [00:01:08] Sam Wilson: I like it. No. Hey, that's great. That definitely puts the 90 seconds or less. You know, one of the things that, you know, kind of part of your story, I think that we want to hear on this episode is really kind of maybe some backstory. How long have you been here in the United States?  [00:01:24] Ola Dantis: So been in the United States now, I think probably about eight, nine years at this point. I've done a, a great lot of lived on three continents. I love to say this because I think we all forget, myself included, in this beautiful country in the United States. I've lived on three continents and this is the best one.  [00:01:42] Sam Wilson: That's awesome. That is awesome. So tell us your story. I mean, how, how did you go? You know, really? I think we, when we talked off air, you said you came to the US with nothing. So, how have you gone in nine years from nothing to now owning a ton of multifamily?  [00:01:59] Ola Dantis: Yeah. I like to tell the story the same way, my wife would disagree and say, well, we didn't come with nothing. She would say we came with like $180. I think we had when we got here. Yeah. So close to nothing, but you know, my wife basically was initially interning in Disney, Florida, Orlando, and, you know, I came to the US for the very first time and I'm a window seat guy so I remember just kind of sitting in the plane, I'm looking down to Orlando and kind of looking at the suburbia and how you have all the lines of the houses and the houses that just all symmetrical and the palm trees, they were just greenery. [00:02:41] Ola Dantis: And, and it was just my first time in America and I was like, oh, Goodness. It is beautiful down here. I'm just saying there's not just cause I'm just saying it, but I just want folks that were born here, that live here, that have grown up here to just take a step back and appreciate what they have, right? And I remember like coming down from the plane and I was like, oh my goodness. [00:03:01] Ola Dantis: Like, it is freaking beautiful in I'm in America. Like, oh my God. I think two years after that, we moved to the United States, well, we moved to Baltimore, Maryland. That's a different story for another day, but that was just kind of like my first taste of the United States. So anyway, we moved here, my wife and I, we lived in a few different cities, but we kind of settled on Maryland. [00:03:25] Ola Dantis: And I remember shortly thereafter that, you know, my wife got a job and I got a job. And then, you know, got plugged in into the American dream which is fantastic. If you don't believe me, try some other places where I've lived. You believe in pretty quickly, it was a great dream. We had jobs, my wife had a job and she had a job. [00:03:43] Ola Dantis: So I remember kind of waking up, going to work, coming back home, waking up, traffic going to work, come back home. I was like, geez, I love this dream. But there's, I mean, I mean, there's gotta be something else. I mean, if I do this for the next 30, 40 years, that's pretty monotonous. There's gotta be something else for me to do, but I didn't know what that was. [00:04:01] Ola Dantis: At the time, you know, and so in the timeline, this was like two years in America, right? The honeymoon phase. And I'd like to say it this way, success never comes in a golden box with a red ribbon around it, right? So kind of when I was like, pondering this thought, like, what do I have to do next? [00:04:19] Ola Dantis: Like, I got a phone call from a friend of mine. And he said, Hey, can you come to Dubai and meet me and help me with my business. Now this is the part I'm talking about. So pay attention. I could have said to my friend, no, not doing that. I'm not going to fly. You know, this was way before the pandemic, way before Zoom, way before, you know, so I did what every smart man does. [00:04:41] Ola Dantis: I spoke to my wife said, Hey, my friend called me as I asked me to meet him in Dubai. And obviously, now I know what, that was a mastermind, but at the time, I didn't know what a mastermind was. But anyway, she said, Hey, why don't you guys, you know, Skype? You know, this was, you know, back then Skype or, you know, just do a video call or something. Why do you have to go all the way there? And I was like, well, I told my wife, maybe I could learn something on this trip, right? Long story short, I was on the plane to Dubai to meet my friend and my friend at the time, what you know is based in the UK. And he was kind of showing me what he was doing in the UK, which was property investing, right? [00:05:18] Ola Dantis: We call it real estate investing in America and kind of helped him in that. You know, we're just like in a very standard hotel, nothing fancy, just we were there for like three days masterminding on my friend's business and I kind of helped him kind of rehab his business, you know, help them out and I was like, geez like this, guy's doing really well in the UK. [00:05:38] Ola Dantis: On my way back on the plane, I was like, I think I can do this in America, but I knew nothing about properties, right? So when I go back to America, I went to my next best friend and said, Hey, Google, what is real estate? what is real estate, right? Did a lot of Googling. [00:05:55] Ola Dantis: I saw this website kept coming up, biggerpockets.com, paid attention, went to that, you know, website, then I go plug into their podcast, starting from the bottom, literally, from the very podcast, listening to every single podcast. This is how I got started. Pay attention again, anyone listening to this, and then every guest kept saying, you know, when they ask them, what's the book that you recommend? [00:06:19] Ola Dantis: Yeah, like, Rich Dad Poor Dad. So now of course, right? Now I went to my second best friend, Amazon. Pay attention. The reason I'm saying this thing, pay attention, is those are the tricks. Those are the acts. They're very subtle. They're nuanced, but they're very important. You don't know about anything, go to Google. You live in 2022, right? You don't know how to do something, go to Amazon. Tons of books. Literally millions, maybe billions of books now, right? So you don't have any excuse, right? Came here with nothing. So that's what I'm mentioning. I'm not just telling you a story just to get long-winded. [00:06:53] Ola Dantis: I want people to pay attention, right? So got that book, read that book and I made the connection to my wake up, go to work, do it again. I was like, oh my goodness, this Robert Kiyosaki guy stole my idea and put it in the book. This is exactly what I was wrestling with, pondering. So when I read that book, it all made sense for me and two, I think, three months after reading that book, I bought my first property in America. [00:07:22] Ola Dantis: This was at that time, my wife, my then-fiancee, we're living in a luxury apartment. Obviously, I didn't know about cash flow then. So I was the one paying cash flow, you know, but the good thing was I never cared about the trash days. I never care about property taxes. I never care about escrow. Like, what is an escrow? [00:07:41] Ola Dantis: I don't even know what an escrow is, right? But I moved from that comfortable position of living in a luxury apartment building to buying a duplex in the city where I have to worry about parking my car. And now I was the landlord so I had to care about trash. I have to know what property taxes meant. I had to understand escrow. [00:08:02] Ola Dantis: I had to learn all these things, but in that being uncomfortable, brought new success for my wife and I, right? So we moved from a comfortable position to an uncomfortable position, but the magic and beauty in being uncomfortable, sort of veiled itself in new ways that you never ever imagined, right? So we bought this duplex, right? We are tenants upstairs. So this is going from pain, like, you know, 1500 a month in rent in this fancy luxury apartment to now pay next to nothing because we have tenants upstairs paying most of the mortgage. [00:08:41] Sam Wilson: Right. So you, you house hacked in a duplex?  [00:08:45] Ola Dantis: Essentially, essentially, right? Yeah. [00:08:47] Sam Wilson: That's awesome. That's awesome. Tell me how did you guys finance that first deal? If you came over here with nothing and then suddenly thinking, okay, came here with nothing. Yeah. You guys may have both had jobs. What was the financing? I think I was just curious how that works. [00:09:01] Ola Dantis: Sam, it's paying attention. Hopefully just like a lot of folks listening to this. How did you go from nothing to buying a property? Good question. Now, remember my comment about this is the best continent. This is one of many reasons. You can buy a property in the United States with 3% down. I don't care where you are, in Idaho. You're like, it doesn't matter where you are. In this country, you need 3% down, 3.5 to be precise. The FHA loan for first-time homeowners in this great country. That's what we use. And this is available to everybody in this country.  [00:09:37] Sam Wilson: Gotcha. Right. And because you were owner occupying it, you were able to get the FHA three and a half percent down. Got it. Oh, that's cool. When did you make the jump to multifamily? [00:09:47] Ola Dantis: Yeah, good question, too. So we, my wife and I, we bought this duplex. We're living downstairs. We are tenants paying. You know, and I remember, you know, getting back from work, speaking to my wife, you know, doing what lovers do at night, when you get back from work, cooking, and we got talking and I said, Hey baby like I've realized something. [00:10:06] Ola Dantis: My account just keeps growing and growing and growing because remember I was paying rent. Now I'm not. Now I have all this money. And she's like, oh my goodness, me too. So now both of us, we started kind of racking up, just cash from this slight change from paying rent to collecting rent. [00:10:25] Ola Dantis: So we were like, oh my goodness. If we did five more of these, I think it would be good. Like, literally if I, more of them, I think will be good. So that's what kickstarted our journey into family, right? And so again, during my research, I found multifamily. So started listening to another podcast as well. And there was a guest that was on that podcast. [00:10:52] Ola Dantis: And at the end, you know, you know, people say, Hey, you know, how come people get connected with this guest? How can we find, find out more about you. And the guest said, Hey, I'm going to give out my number, but of course nobody's going to call me. That guy gives his number. And obviously I wrote it down and guess what? I called him and the guy was like, um, hello? I was like, well I'm yeah. Hi, I'm Mr. Nobody,. Whatever you charge your students, I could never afford it. Again, pay attention. Success is never going to be like thrown in your face with cheerleaders screaming your name. It could be a podcast and it could be just you writing down a number and making the call. [00:11:30] Ola Dantis: That's what success looks like, right? I think in our generation, we have this like skewed version of what success should look like with the red Ferrari and the Rolex watch and all that stuff. No, that's far from what success should look like, right? So I made that call. I knew I could never afford whatever that guy was offering. [00:11:46] Ola Dantis: But I asked and negotiated, right? And I got it. So I started on that mentorship program. So in case you're still wondering what's the hack here, get a mentor. Get a mentor, get somebody that's done, whatever you, whatever you're trying to do. I don't care if it's brain surgery or buying properties, right? Find someone that is doing what you're trying to do. [00:12:08] Ola Dantis: So I did that got into the multifamily cohort. I know we've, you know, in a group where guys were buying guys on girls buying apartment buildings, I was in that group learning the ropes. Learning the ropes. And then I met another guy. I said, Hey, guess what? We can go flip a house down the road in Baltimore and make like $50,000. [00:12:27] Ola Dantis: Another hack, shiny object syndrome. Keep your focus, be laser-focused. But of course, I didn't know this then. So I said, oh, forget, it's more family stuff is taking too long. I want to buy today. So I jumped ship. I jumped ship and I went to flipping, just a couple of homes. Did not like it. I hated flipping actually. [00:12:50] Ola Dantis: I was watching Joanna Gaines and Chip and they made it look so easy on HGTV. So I thought I could do this. I thought I could do this, right? So I did, you know, flipped a few houses, made some money, but definitely not what I wanted to do, but, as one of my favorite quotes, in life, there's always a price to pay. And there are never, ever any discounts. You're going to have to pay the full price, which I did because when I went flipping, yes, I made some money. But by the time I go back with my cohort, when I went back to multifamily and my, you know, my group, you know, guys that started, you know, with me and gals, they were already buying a hundred unit apartment building, they were buying mostly unit apartments. [00:13:28] Ola Dantis: I was like, oh my goodness. I was covered in dust on a flip this tiny house in Baltimore. And, you know, I lost like a year or two just because of that shiny object syndrome. So for anybody listening to this, make sure when you choose your path, keep going on that path until you succeed. Before you start to consider other paths, make sure you succeed. [00:13:48] Ola Dantis: Success looks like closing the deal, buying a deal, going through a full circle on that deal before you start jumping, right? I was able to redeem myself, even though I did lose some years by partnering. Another hack, right? This is not buying multifamily, you know, multi-million dollar assets in America or anywhere in the world. [00:14:11] Ola Dantis: It's not a one-man show, okay? You need a team of partners, attorneys, title folks, brokers, lenders. It's just no child's play. This is like serious business. Okay. So I had to partner with people that were doing it, right, by helping them on a deal. Then that's how I got into my fourth multifamily deal.  [00:14:30] Sam Wilson: That's awesome. Choose your path and don't stray from it idea. There's a book I'm reading. I should say, just finished reading, called The 4 Disciplines of Execution. And it is the one thing they say that entrepreneurs, no matter where you are in their journey, that they all have struggled with is focus. [00:14:50] Sam Wilson: And they said the most successful people focus and they stay and they just stay in their lane and they don't wander out of it. It's something that I'm completely guilty of. And I think a lot of us are where it's like, oh, Hey, but we can do this and we can do that. I heard somebody say it and I don't know where they picked it up, but you know, he who chases two rabbits catches none. [00:15:09] Sam Wilson: And there comes a time. There comes a time, I think, in our businesses where once the people and the processes and the systems are operating without our input, maybe then, maybe then you could silo and build a different channel of business. [00:15:21] Sam Wilson: But until that one is functioning, you know, as a machine, without your input, it's probably not time to, to add a second part or a second iteration of your business. So that's really, really cool. What's your business look like today?  [00:15:34] Ola Dantis: Yes. So we're, we're growing. We've got about 200 units last year. This year, 2022, for, you know, for those who might be listening to this, in the future, we'll look into buying 600 units. [00:15:45] Ola Dantis: Then we currently have a deal on the contract. I was just telling Sam before you hit record, that's keeping me super busy. You know, the goal here isn't just the senseless accumulation of wealth. I think I like to mention that because I remember listening to podcasts when I was coming up and you get some guests and they're quite repulsive might be a strong word, but, you know, but we, this is not just get money, get money, and get money without really senselessly understanding what you're trying to do. [00:16:15] Ola Dantis: So for us at Dwellynn, that's really huge for us. We just not trying to just buy stuff and units and assets just for buying's sake. And we've been really strategic and being mindful of our impact on those we'll touch. You know, we touch constantly every day. I got to mention that.  [00:16:33] Sam Wilson: No, no, absolutely. I'm all for the accumulation of wealth, right? But it needs to be done strategically and for a reason, I mean, otherwise, if you could, I think if you accumulate wealth for wealth's sake, it's pretty empty. So, yes, that's really cool. You guys are working on Dwellynn's 1HousePledge. Can you tell me about that? [00:16:52] Ola Dantis: Yeah, definitely. That's a fantastic segue. One of the biggest, you know, things that I feel like, you know, got us placed on our hearts here, my wife and I and our team at Dwellynn, is to, you know, donate a house mortgage-free to somewhere in the world. Hopefully we, you know, the first project will be somewhere in America. Of course, people go, oh my goodness. You know, how the heck do you do that? [00:17:15] Ola Dantis: That's why it's a pledge. We don't know exactly how yet, but we're traveling to make sure that we can do that, mindfully, of course, again. This is not going to be a $1 million mansion somewhere in Calabasas and California, obviously, but that's kind of something that we're trying to achieve. [00:17:32] Sam Wilson: That's really, really cool. I look forward, look forward to following you on that. Tell us about, I mean, multifamily, you know, we have this discussion a lot. It's a tough time right now to find opportunities that pencil. And if you guys are looking to buy 600 units, what do you feel like your strategy is that gives you an edge over everybody else that's out there buying right now? [00:17:52] Ola Dantis: Just being conservative a hundred percent. That's not a massive competitive edge. You know, for any of those who are in multifamily, well, that's kind of the number one thing because of the current climate, cap rate compressing, NOI growth is being challenged, specifically with the inflation. [00:18:14] Ola Dantis: In our economy right now, the gas prices kind of really, I'm hurting the purses of those visitors of our tenants, right? So really being aware of what's going on in the market. So I think another way that we've been different is really working our relationships in the market. Getting super, super focused with our brokers, with exactly what we're looking for, the kind of returns that the equity that we're deploying is looking for, trying to get the off off, off, off, off markets from a seller that is not just trying to squeeze a deal. I read a book, one of the richest, you know, billionaires, Jorge Perez, real estate developer in Miami. And he started with nothing too, and I need to said something it's like, in the deal, he leaves money on the table, right? He leaves money on the table. Now for anybody who has been in business, you know, Sam, you know, myself, at first thought you're like, what the heck does that mean? Like, why would you do that? Sounds stupid. But, what he was basically saying is you leave money on the table because you're not trying to squeeze a deal just to squeeze a deal's sake, right? [00:19:24] Ola Dantis: Because when you do that, it's karma, I believe in this stuff, right? Because when you try to squeeze a deal as a seller, trying to sell a deal and squeeze everything, you might end up buying a deal that is not good for your investors, too. So that's kind of our philosophy. We're not trying to squeeze every deal as a seller and as a buyer. [00:19:43] Sam Wilson: I love it. I love it. That kind of goes back to the don't get rich for rich's sake philosophy. It's like, Hey, we're, you know, and all that kind of ties into an ethos that goes, okay, we're not squeezing deals. [00:19:54] Sam Wilson: We're not squeezing sellers. We're not squeezing as a buyer. It is placing tenants, not squeezing tenants. It is, but you still being focused or profit-minded. I mean, you have to be. [00:20:03] Ola Dantis: Yeah, yeah. Extremely profit-minded, I can guarantee you that.  [00:20:06] Sam Wilson: Right. Right. Yeah. There is certainly a unique, a unique balance there. Ola, I've loved learning about what it is that you're doing, where you come from, the story of, you know, coming to the United States with 180 bucks in your pocket. I think that's a story that for those of us that grew up here and just watching the economic-political landscape, the regulatory landscape, for us it's, it's really disheartening. It's like, oh my gosh, this is not working out well. And then the rest of the world comes over and is like, Hey, you have no idea what it is.  [00:20:38] Ola Dantis: Yeah, there's like gold on the streets. [00:20:40] Sam Wilson: On the streets. Right. And so, so yeah, that's a, it's always refreshing to hear that the American dream is still alive. Can still be carried out by people coming over and making it happen. [00:20:53] Sam Wilson: So thanks for sharing all your story with us today. How you guys are finding deals, discomfort, your advice on choosing paths, finding a mentor. Yeah, just staying focused. So yeah, certainly love it. If our listeners want to get in touch with you or learn more about you, what is the best way to do that? [00:21:07] Ola Dantis: Yeah. Thank you so much, Sam. If you're watching this on YouTube, it's right there. Should I say, investwithola.com. That's investwithola, O-L-A, .com. That will redirect you to the Dwellynn website and yeah, if you're also on Instagram, as much as I feel like I am lately, you know, hit me up on Instagram, Ola Dantis. There's just one of me. You can never miss me or wherever else you are online. I'm pretty ubiquitous online. So yeah, you can find me anywhere.  [00:21:33] Sam Wilson: Awesome. Yeah, we'll make sure we include all that information there in the show notes. Ola, thanks again for your time today. I certainly appreciate it.  [00:21:40] Ola Dantis: Appreciate it. Thanks so much, Sam. 

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This week we sit down with Gravel Locos founder Fabian Serralta to unpack the road to developing a stand out event.  New for this year, Gravel Locos will be adding an event in Peublo, CO in addition to the original event in Hico, TX. Episode Sponsor: Hammerhead.  Use coupon code 'TheGravelRide' for a free custom color kit and premium water bottle. Gravel Locos Website Support the Podcast Join The Ridership  Automated Transcription, please excuse the typos: Gravel Locos [00:00:00] Craig Dalton: Hello, and welcome to the gravel ride podcast, where we go deep on the sport of gravel cycling through in-depth interviews with product designers, event organizers and athletes. Who are pioneering the sport I'm your host, Craig Dalton, a lifelong cyclist who discovered gravel cycling back in 2016 and made all the mistakes you don't need to make. I approach each episode as a beginner down, unlock all the knowledge you need to become a great gravel cyclist.   [00:00:26] Craig Dalton: Have you ever thought about organizing a gravel event? I certainly have this week's guest Fabion. Serralta took that passion and idea to create an event. And created gravel Locos. The original event in Heico Texas is joined this year by a new event in Pueblo, Colorado. I sat down with Fabi and to learn about his inspiration for gravel Locos, the charitable component of what he does and the general theme of all gravel Locos events. Before we jump into the conversation. I need to thank this week. Sponsor hammerhead. The hammerhead kuru to you as raised the bar for cycling computers. You can get advanced GPS, navigation, and intuitive software right on your handlebars. In a way you never thought possible. I spent this past weekend down in Tucson, Arizona. After speaking with John from the mountain lemon, gravel grinder, a few years back, I've been itching to get out on the course. So I simply downloaded the GPS file from their website, uploaded it to my kuru to and felt super confident going out there in the back country. I've got a ton of stories about some of the snafoos. I had mechanically speaking while I was out there, but from a navigational perspective, it was spot on what I really appreciate about the crew too. And I've talked about the responsive touchscreen display before. Is that in the navigation? Once you've loaded a route in there, you get a little icon, no matter what screen you're on. saying when the next turn is coming up. It's those little touches and details that I think really setting the hammerhead crew to a part beyond that, I really got to dive into the climber feature, which is something unique and special about hammerhead. The climber feature allows you to visualize and prepare for upcoming gradient changes in real time. So, what does that mean? Basically it translates to a nice graph. On the climber screen on your crew to computer that shows you in color-coded fashion. The length to the top of the climb, both in miles, as well as elevation, and then gradient by gradient profile looks that map exactly to what you're experiencing when you're out on an adventure loop that you've never been on before. It was super useful to see, okay, this is going to be a punchy. Mile mile and a half climb. Versus at the end i discovered as it turned a corner that i was in front of a six mile climb but fortunately the gradient was pretty chill. This all translates to knowledge is power. And with the hammerhead crew too, you can get all the information available out of your GPX files. You can customize it to the nth degree. I still have a ways to go and customizing mine, but you can see the power of organizing your data right there on your computer screen. For a limited time, our listeners can get a free custom color kit and exclusive premium water bottle with the purchase of a hammerhead crew to visit hammerhead.io right now and use the promo code, the gravel ride. At checkout to get yours today, that's a free custom color kit. And a premium water bottle with the purchase of a career to. Go to hammerhead.io at all three items to your cart and use the promo code. The gravel ride. With that said let's jump right into my interview with Fabienne from gravel Locos. [00:03:40] CraigDalton.: Fabian , welcome to the show. [00:03:41] FabianSerralta: Hey, Craig. Thank you. [00:03:43] CraigDalton.: It's good to talk to you again. [00:03:44] FabianSerralta: Same here. Thank you. [00:03:46] CraigDalton.: I'm excited to learn all the things about gravel locus and, but would love to learn a little bit about your background first, just kinda what drew you into the sport originally, and then what led you to take on the huge challenge of creating an event? [00:04:01] FabianSerralta: Well, I, I would definitely say I was probably what led me to the sport was purely accidental. I I purchased a, a ranch in Oklahoma in 2012, and I remember the first time driving out there to see this ranch with the R I was following a realtor and wearing this perfectly smooth country road. And I was just thinking, this is great. I'm gonna have my road bike out here. And and as soon as we get to the one road leads to the ranch, it was this. Awful road with rocks and gravel and dirt. And I was like, oh my gosh, this is terrible. I'm not gonna be able to ride my road, bike out here. And then we're on this road. And this lady is just like flying on this road and just dusting, dirt everywhere. And then we're just flying on their road and, and it was like a 15 mile drive from on this. Awful gravel dirt road to the driveway of this ranch that I had just purchased and or I was about to purchase. And then the driveway from this road to the ranch was another mile and a half. And when we get to the ranch property in the house, I said to her. This is terrible. I'm not gonna be able to ride my bike when I'm out here. She's like, well, what do you mean? I said, I'll get a flat tire by the time I get to, to the to the main road. And she's like, well, you can just drive your bike in your car and, and go out there and just park out there. I'm like, where am I gonna park? That's like somebody else's property out there. So this is 2012. And I, so I buy this property and probably from 20 12, 20 13 until about 2015. I didn't get to ride my road bike every time that I went out there. [00:05:41] CraigDalton.: yeah. I was gonna say there wasn't a lot of options [00:05:43] FabianSerralta: Yeah. [00:05:44] CraigDalton.: of gravel bikes at that point in time. [00:05:45] FabianSerralta: Yeah. But then in 2015, I'm visiting my son in Denver. He was gonna school at the university of Denver and I just happened to go to a, a bike store. It was a, I believe it was a specialized bike store and I walk in there and there's. White and red bike Witham, and it looked like a road bike and it had these Nobby tires on it and zip wheels. And I'm like, what in the world is this thing? And the sales guy comes up to me and I'm like, what is this thing? You know? And he's looking at me like, he's like, where are you from? I'm like, well, I'm from Cuba. And he's probably thinking this guy just fell off of open a Palm or something. Cause likes a, and I'm like, what's a, you, I had idea what a. He's like, you don't know what a cross bike is. I was like, I don't know, but I want that bike. He's like, well, you gonna Doy lacrosse. I'm like, no, I bought this ranch and it has these horrible roads that are rocks. And he's like, oh, so you want a gravel bike? I'm like a gravel bike. I said, no, I want that bike. And I need you to ship it to Texas. And the guy is just like, looking me, like I'm nuts. But it was like, It looked like a road bike and it had, you know, what looked like to be mountain bike tires. And I'm like, this is it. So I purchased a bike and it happened to be on my size, a 54 centimeter. They ship it to to Texas to my local bike shop and gets over there. They had 700 by 33 C tires. I start writing it in Oklahoma and I thought was the greatest thing ever. And I was running 90 PSI on the tires, which I thought at the time was perfect. As you know, on my tubular road tires, I was running 120 PSI. And so I thought this thing was just as smooth as can be on these gravel roads. And I signed up for my first gravel event, October 1st, 2016. And I thought, Hey, you know, it was 15 miles, no big deal. I showed up at the time, I think I had 95 P assigned a rear and 90 in the front. And I thought it was gonna be very much like a road rally where you have, you know, rest stops every so many miles. And so I think I had two water bottles and, or maybe a one snack or whatever, and man, it was a nightmare. [00:07:55] CraigDalton.: Was was that in Oklahoma, the event that you signed [00:07:58] FabianSerralta: it was Texas. It was a really hilly area monster, Texas. And you know, I paid my registration fee, which I think it was, I don't know, 85, $90. And I was expecting it to be just like many of the road rallies I had done. And. You know, grass stops with bananas and oranges and cookies and pickle, juices, and Gatorade. And there was nothing. all they had was a water table. with warm water, no food. And by the end of the 50 miles, I thought I was gonna die. And with that tire pressure on those 33 sea tires. I was so beat up. I swear, I'll never do this again. I remember getting to the finish and calling some buddies. I'm like, I am never doing this again. This is horrible. Why would anybody ever do this? You know, [00:08:43] CraigDalton.: Yeah. It's, it's funny. What a difference the evolution of the equipment has made in the enjoyment of the sport. I'm with you. I, I got my first gravel bike a little bit later than the, I think back in 2016, but it was a. 2014 model year bike, 32 C tires. Fortunately it, it did have tubeless on it, but it still, like, I just felt like it wasn't that much better than Ayro bike. I had five or six years earlier, which I had pretty much quit riding because I would either flat or get the crap beat outta me every time I rode it. [00:09:15] FabianSerralta: Yeah, this, this, I mean, it was, it was ay, it was a cycle cross bike. It was specialized crux. I mean, it had great, I mean, it had zip three or threes. I was running tubes. Which was, you know, a big difference from running tubers on my other bikes road bikes. And they had ceramic red, I couldn't complain it was a great bike, but I was just running to run tire pressure, the wrong tire size. And I really didn't have any, any knowledge of, of gravel, but, you know, I did see other people running big, your tires and all that. And it, it was just this learning curve. But that first experience was horrible. And I really, I swear I never did this again. And it took a while and then I, I started learning from others like, Hey, yeah, you can't be out there running tire pressure like that. And you can't, you, you gotta run bigger tires than that. And you gotta run, you know, tube, you know, tubeless. And and you know, I, it probably took me a few, a couple of months before I even wrote again. But as I, I started getting more and more advice from others that were doing it. But it was so early on. But it was that experience that really led me to wanna have eventually at one day have a gravel event. That was a lot like a road rally, but that it was also, you know, it, it had the, it was at the time it was, you know, the dirty cancer event, the DK 200. So I wanted to have a, a DK 200 event with the pro component, but yet. Beginner friendly. So have all the support that you would need for beginners like myself or, or people just really interested in gravel. So having all the bunch of rest stops and having portable bathrooms at rest stops for the women and having sag vehicles all over the place, but yet having a ton of pros. So having, you know, an event that was a DK 200 packed with pros, but yet packed with. All the support and all the things that you are accustomed to experiencing and having at a, you know, family road, rally type event. [00:11:15] CraigDalton.: Interesting. So it sounds like, I mean, if we fast forward a few years from that original event, it sounds like you competed in a handful of events every year to try to, you know, obviously continue your enjoyment of the sport. The, the equipment had continued to evolve and, and you'd had a number of experiences at other events where you're like, I like part of what this event has done, but part of what that event has done. And you thought, well, like what if I did this on my own? [00:11:41] FabianSerralta: Yeah, look so it, the events continue. I con I would go to every gravel event that I could go to, but it just, it was, you know, you pay your 75, 85, a hundred something dollars, but. You're lucky you got a water table and it was, everything was always self support, self support, self supported, and you're paying all this money, but you're not really getting a whole lot in return. And to me, it really excluded a lot of beginners. It excluded people that didn't have a lot of bike skills or, or bike mechanic knowledge because, you know, I always say what, what makes riding gravel so great is that you're out in the middle of nowhere. , but what that's also, what makes it kind of dangerous and also kind of keeps a lot of people out of it because you know, you're out in the middle of nowhere. You don't have cell reception, you don't have convenience stores. Oftentimes you don't have many houses or you don't see a vehicle or cars don't even go come by half the time. So yeah, you're out there in the middle of nowhere, but then you don't help of neighbors and you don't have convenience stores and you don't have others to reach out to in case of an emergency or a mechanical. And I feel that that deters a lot of people from venturing and, and experiencing gravel. And as a result, you know, a lot of people miss out on experiencing gravel. So how do you bring in all those people? And for me, Is the way to do that is by bringing in all the support, the sag vehicles, aid stations, every so many miles. So for example, in gravel Locos, you have, you know, six aid stations you have 20 something sag vehicles for the women. We have portable bathrooms at all the aid stations where there is in HaCo or in Pueblo, Colorado . And that's how we take out that, that fear of, you know, Being out there in the middle of nowhere. So, but yet we still have, you know, 20 something, 30 pros out there participating just like you, we did, you know, at events like dirty cans, 200 or, you know, what was land run, you know? And I referred to them by those names because that's what I was modeling. Then. [00:13:42] CraigDalton.: I'm glad we unearthed that because I think it's important to kind of think about people's orientations as event organizers in terms of how they're gonna set up the overall experience. You know, it's one thing when you've got a, a top level pro who's decided they want to get into the event business. And oftentimes they do design events that are driven from the front. They're really a professional experience that does trickle down to the rest of us. But it's you know, it's pretty refreshing to hear you talk about. Wanting the last person in the event to have the best time possible as well as, as the first. So stepping back for a second, you, you live in Arlington, Texas, you've got property in Oklahoma. You'd experience the gravel community for a number of years. You decided, Hey, there's something missing. I'd love to highlight my perspective of a gravel event. How did you decide on, on, on Texas for the original event and what was that process like? [00:14:36] FabianSerralta: Well, I, you said it in, cause that's where I predominantly ride, you know, so I've a lot gravel. I've done gravel in California. I've done gravel in Vermont, in, in Montana. I've done gravel in Scotland. I, you know, I've, I've done gravel in other parts and, but Texas, where, where I mostly write gravel and I've done gravel all over Texas and HaCo. I remember writing and close to close to HaCo. And one of the folks that I was riding with says, man, if you like this area, You've gotta check out. Heico so I said Heico where's that? So I found it went out there and, [00:15:13] CraigDalton.: And where, where is it relative to, to the Dallas area [00:15:17] FabianSerralta: for me, it's about an hour and 20 minute drive [00:15:20] CraigDalton.: and is that to, to the east or which direction [00:15:23] FabianSerralta: I'm the guy that gets lost with Garmen. So so I'm gonna take a chance here. Say I think it's so out. [00:15:30] CraigDalton.: Okay. [00:15:31] FabianSerralta: So, yeah, I'm horrible. I'm like directionally challenged. So I get asked this all the time. Like the other day I was in Pueblo for meetings and I was meeting with the the the PBR, the folks for the professional bull riding association, which one of our sponsors in there were asking me. So which direction I, I have no idea. Here's the route, you figure it out. And really, I do get lost even with Garman. I'm that guy that I'm following route. And I always end up with more mileage. So I, up going out to HaCo. And I follow this route and it had so much more climbing, even though I am not built like a climber. I love as these challenging routes. I really love taking on routes to have as much climbing as possible. And it, even though it takes me all stinking day and HaCo has that, you know, for Texas as one of these guess that you get so much climbing and I absolutely fell in love with it. And Heico has it's heart packed. And it has a lot of beautiful canopy areas, you know, tree canopy, tree areas. It has lots of water crossings. It has. I mean, it's just a really diverse terrain. And even if it were to rain, it's so hard packed. It's it's got a lot of smooth areas. There's really nothing rough or nasty about it. It, and. Even, even if it rains it's, it's not an area that, that you get much mu much more than a couple inches of mud. So it's not like, like Mid-South where you have, you know, six inches, 12 inches of mud in your foot, you know, is, you know, foot into the mud. For example, last year in may it did run, it did rain. And so yeah, people got my, but you're talking, you know, an inch of mud, two inches of mud. Maybe two and a half. So it's not a situation that you're just bogged down and you, you have to walk, you, you can ride through it. So it it's really a, an area that you can ride it all year long rain or shine. And it was just perfect. And. I said, this is it. We're gonna do it here. So, you know, we had last year, we had three routes this year. We have four routes. Last year we had a 30 mile or a 60 and 150 something. And after our survey of the event, it was a very positive survey folks, which is absolutely thrilled with the event. But what kept coming up was have a 100 mile. I said, all right. So for 2022, we have a hundred mile as well. And it just filled up immediately. So folks really wanted a hundred. Not everybody wants to do 150 something miles, but they want it more than a 60 mile. So the hundred mile, you know, I never even thought of it, you know? So you learn, I've learned a lot, you know, I thought, [00:18:03] CraigDalton.: feel, I feel like I'm in that category where 150 mile, maybe I can muster that up once a year, if I'm lucky, but a hundred keeps me honest. I need to train for that pretty well. But I, I believe in my heart, like I can always uncork a hundred miles if I'm like relatively fit. [00:18:20] FabianSerralta: Yeah. And you know, and the hundred mile it is, it's a legit route. I mean, it's, it's over 5,000 feet of climbing and it's really a beautiful route and it, and it really incorporates all the hard climbs that are in the 150 something mile. And [00:18:33] CraigDalton.: what I, one of the things I always wanna unpack with event organizers, because I think it is a challenge depending on where you are, is okay. So you you've decided on HaCo as a, as a great riding location. But there are also logistics and permits and all kinds of things. You need to go through granted in a rural community. Maybe those are less than a more populous community, but you still need to do that. So what was that process? What was that process like for you? [00:18:59] FabianSerralta: Really easy, you know, what, what I have learned with I, you know, this is for me as a hobby and HaCo has, you know, it's really been incredibly easy. They they've really take care of all that for me. And I went in there with, you know, the understanding that, look, I'm doing this to help the volunteer fire departments. If you're willing to help me, I'm willing to do it. [00:19:17] CraigDalton.: And was that perspective, something that was already in your head. Hey, I wanna have a charitable component to the event I put on. [00:19:24] FabianSerralta: Yes. Yes. And, and if you're willing to work with me and, and take care of these things, I'm willing to do it. If you're not willing to work with me, I'm outta here. I just, you know, it's, it's one of those things that I, I don't have the time to mess with all that stuff. So if the town is willing, then I'm willing, I, if they want to put me through all these hoops and things and, and, and, and barricades and all these. All this red tape, I'm just, I'm outta here because I just don't have time for it. You know, I've got four kids and two other businesses to run. And so I was really upfront and they were really honest about it. And they just, they facilitated everything that I needed. They, they provide all the things that I needed. They provide law enforcement, they provide crowd control and barricades and they provide everything. The same thing with Pueblo, you know, they're. [00:20:09] CraigDalton.: you know, hike in the original gravel locus event. Sorry to interrupt you there for it. It took off through the gravel cycling community as a event option incredibly quickly. And there was a couple things that. Kind of at least caught my eye right off the bat, which were one was correct me if I'm wrong here. But it seemed like the registration was entirely a donation based model, which was unheard of. And two for a first year event, you had all these top pros saying I'm gonna be there. [00:20:40] FabianSerralta: Yes. [00:20:40] CraigDalton.: How did both of those things happen? [00:20:43] FabianSerralta: well, you know, it was, it was out of really, so the event was initially gonna take place in 2020 in November and I canceled it cuz of COVID, you know, so I had the Greenlight from, from HaCo, but I canceled it because of COVID. My basically, you know, I have absolutely zero connections in the bike industry. And what I tried to do was try and get the bike industry board. And the only way that I could do that was reaching out to them via Instagram and Facebook. And that really didn't really work. I couldn't get anybody to, you know, return any messages or anything, despite the amount of money that I spent on bikes. You know, I have the the record of my local bike shop for spending the most money on bicycles every year. just absurd. despite all that I couldn't get a response from anybody. So I said, you know what? I'm not gonna let that discourage me. I'm gonna have this event with, or without the bike industry. And so I said, I'll, I'll fund it. I'll do it myself, cuz I I'm gonna have this event. And this event is gonna have the component of the pros and the component of the beginners. And there is not there. Isn't gonna be a cutoff. So if folks are gonna train for the geo one fifty, a hundred fifty something miles with over 8,000 feet of elevation gain. I'm not gonna yank 'em off the course. They're gonna be out there as long as they want to be. And if they want to give up, they're gonna give up, but it's not gonna be, I'm not gonna take it away from anybody. I'm not gonna be that person. That's gonna say, Hey, you know what? You didn't make the cut off by 10 minutes or an hour or two hours. And you're off the course. Because I'm always that person, who's the last one. And you know, when I was at Ted's event in Vermont last year, I didn't make the cutoff. And when they came up to me and they, Hey, look, you, you didn't make the cutoff. I said, , we're gonna have a fricking fight. . And they said call Ted. And they did. They called Ted and it's like, leave him alone. He's fine. I I'll take care of, I'll wait for him. And Ted did. And he understands, he, he waited out there for me and I didn't make the cutoff by over an hour. And he was out there in the rain, in the cold waiting for me, everybody was gone. The whole thing was shut down. And he followed me for like the last 15 miles, cuz it was pouring rain. It was cold, but you know, he, he let me finish the, the event and to me, that's what being inclusive and, and finishing and, and you know what it's about. So to, Hey said, I'm gonna have this event regardless. So in 20 for 2021, how I was able to. Do what I did is with, like you mentioned earlier, this, this donation thing I said, you know what? Let's just, I've gotta get the attention of, of folks. Cause I don't have the support of the bike industry and I don't have name recognition and I certainly don't have, you know, experience. I've never done this before. So how do we capture attention? We're gonna do this for free. It's gonna be a free event. And, and first thing I said, all right, this event is gonna have 1200 free registrations. And what you're gonna do is it's up to you to make a donation, a direct donation to the volunteer fire department. Most folks are used to paying a hundred, something to hundred dollars or more for an event like of this caliber. Remember you have all these age stations you have. So you're getting 20 something pros. Top level pros from around the world. You're getting over five age stations, fully S stocked, 20 something, sag vehicles, portable bathrooms at all. Age stations. You're getting a draw string swag bag. Really nice. You're getting with zipper. You're getting T really nice. T-shirts you're getting purest water bottles from specialized. You're get all this swag, all this stuff for free. So, whether you give the fire station a dollar or $0, you're gonna get everything for free. So it was an honor system. And really, I think that showed people that it, Hey, this is an event that has Lawrence 10, Dan Ted king, Peter TNA, Allison Terick Jess, Sarah. You know, Colin, Strickland, you know, all these names that I, that are all of 'em are gonna be at at Unbound, all of 'em are, are all these huge events and there's no cutoff. There's all of this support that you don't get at these big events, you know, as far as aid stations and it is entirely up to me to decide how much I'm willing to pay with what I think it's worth well out of those 1200 free registrations. Less than 400 people donated anything. So that was a bit of a shock, but we still had the event [00:25:11] CraigDalton.: Yeah. And, and just to unpack that a little bit, you know, quite disappointing, obviously, that just like sort of the percentage of people that actually donated and to, to put a finer point on it, like, as you describe all the things that one would get for participating, you're talking about a hundred dollars worth of. Effort per rider to give them nutrition, to provide them porta potties, to give them swag, all those things. So it's a, it's a big proposition that I think often gets lost and and you put it in the proper context in that without someone supporting you without a, you know, a nutrition sponsor coming in and dumping. Tens of thousands of dollars worth of product on your tables. Like that's coming outta your pocket as the race organizer. And there's no way around that. So pretty incredible effort to get it off the ground. And sorry to hear that the donations were not as great as you wanted them to be, but with those donations, something great. Did material realize for the fire department. [00:26:12] FabianSerralta: Yeah. And. That that side didn't happen the way that it had. I had hope, but it, we don't really even think about it because we, at the end of the day, there were so many articles written about the event that I never expected in a million years. I honestly, I never thought that GCN would write about it. That basically magazine would write about it. That cycling news, the Velo news, all these publications wrote about it. You know, it was listed as a, as a basically magazine listed as a. Top 20 bucket list event. You, it was mentioned like 17 times in VLO news. GCN mentioned it cycling news had articles about it. These are all things that I never even consider would happen. [00:26:55] CraigDalton.: Yeah. it was absolutely incredible to reach the brand and the event got in that first year. [00:27:00] FabianSerralta: We smoking great deal on the, the fire. We were still able to buy it with the money that we raised. We, you know, we still had great registration numbers we had. And then for 2022, you know, we have over 1500 people registered and we raised enough to build a bigger fire station. So [00:27:20] CraigDalton.: That's [00:27:20] FabianSerralta: while maybe, you know, less than 400 people register out of 1200, it doesn't matter to me because cuz we still accomplished everything that we set out to do. We still got more numbers than I ever thought were gonna happen. And as a result, we, we have interest from other cities that are contacting me that wanna have events. So, you know, I, I was several cities reached out to me. Hey, can, can you do the same at our city? And it is, you know, I've had to turn down cities cuz it's just too much. You know, I've had two, two other Texas cities that I asked me to host events at their cities. And I unfortunately I've had to say no because I just don't have the time [00:27:59] CraigDalton.: Yeah. Yeah. [00:28:00] FabianSerralta: Pueblo. Against my better judgment. I was like, sure. It's you know, the, the Pueblo story. I really, really I, I couldn't say no, it's just, they they've, they've been wanting to do an event there and they even they were bidding to try and get an event and they, they lost the bidding most cities that want to do something like this. They're paying promoters to do the events there. That's one of my rules. I will not charge a city to host any event, cuz it goes completely against what I'm trying to do. So what I'm trying to do is bring money to the city and build and bring equipment and funding to the volunteer fire departments. So why would I be charging them money to host events [00:28:39] CraigDalton.: Yeah, it's super, it's super interesting. When you look at the economics of events, just events in general, how much they cost, but the economic impact to these rural communities, which in your case is very specific to raising money for these volunteer fire departments. But even beyond that, the, you know, the amount of meals purchased the amount of hotel nights, cetera. Like it's it, it has a significant impact. and, I'm super interested to get into your second event in Pueblo and learn how that happened. But one more question, just outta my own curiosity, how did you end up getting those 20 to 30 pros to come to a first year event? [00:29:15] FabianSerralta: I will see the credit to that goes to Ted king because I reached out to several pros. First was him. Via Instagram. Again, I don't have any connections or I don't really know anybody. And he was the only person that responded. And I wrote him this long thing through Instagram, direct messaging through Instagram. And I explained to him, look, this is what I'm trying to do. I'm I'm gonna have this event and it's gonna be free to everybody and gonna be up to them to donate. And this is all that they're gonna get, and this is all I'm gonna give them. And this is what I'm trying to buy a fire truck for the fire department. And I'm trying to get this many pros and he, he rides back. He's like, are you nuts? and he finally calls me. He's like, are you nuts? He's like, I'm so intrigued by this. And. [00:30:04] CraigDalton.: The idea, the idea was so crazy. He had to call and talk to the guy behind [00:30:08] FabianSerralta: That's exactly what he said. He's like, this is absolutely insane in this, but I'm so like intrigued by this and he's like, are you really gonna do this? And I said, oh yeah, I'm really gonna do this. And he's like, you know, this is how stuff gets done. You know, when, when people just take a chain and, and, and do something completely outside of the box. And, and he said, can I have two weeks to think about this? And I said, absolutely just take your time. And and he's, and he did two weeks later, he calls me back and I'm like huge fan of Ted. And, and I remember watching him in the tour de France and all that, and sure enough, two weeks later he calls me back. He's like, all right, I'm in. And. Do you have a website? No. He's like, you need a website and then he's like, what are you gonna do for registration? I don't know. I mean, he just went down this list. He's like, you gotta have registration, you gotta have this. And, and then and then he says to me and your social media post suck [00:31:11] CraigDalton.: suck [00:31:12] FabianSerralta: and he is, starts helping me, you know, he starts Giving me so much guidance and stuff like that. And he is like, and how are you gonna get ahold of all these other riders? Cause I give 'em a list. Like I want to get ahold of, of all these other riders. And he is like, I don't know. He says that, you know, let me help you. So he started really vouching for me and, and contacting them. And. And then he gave me a lot of advice. He says, you know, don't, don't do a don't, don't give money, don't do a purse, don't do this and don't do that. And, and you're gonna find that the folks that believe in what you're trying to do are gonna jump on board. And, and that's how it happened. He just, the folks that came forward are, are folks that care about what I was trying to do. And really wanted to be a part of something totally different. That was more about giving back. To communities and, and, and not so much about, you know, a big corporate event, it was more of a Grasso type thing. They, they were just interested and a lot of 'em have their own events that are grassroots focused, you know, Ted and Jess, Sarah, Sam Boardman, Laura King, and Ted, you know, all of them Lawrence Tanem has his own events in the Netherlands. Peter has his own event. So all of there's a connection amongst all of us. That have to do with our own little small events that are, they're not corporate they're just small community type events. [00:32:32] CraigDalton.: Yeah. Yeah. Amazing, amazing [00:32:34] FabianSerralta: then what would I do in return? You know, I help with the hotels and things like that and meals and stuff like, you know, that's how, what we do, you know, they, they ride for a living that's, that's, that's how they make a living. So you certainly, you have to help out in some way, you know, and you know, when with HCO helps me out with the hotel cost, so I provide them with a room and, and stuff like that. [00:32:54] CraigDalton.: Gotcha. Interesting. So now let's shift gears to Pueblo. I know you had mentioned you had a number of rural communities. See what you had done and reach out to you, but what was it about going to Pueblo in a state that you don't and you don't have property at this point? What was it about the Pueblo opportunity that said, Hey, this is the right next step for the gravel locus event team. [00:33:16] FabianSerralta: Well, I, I found out that they helped, they they've been wanting to have a gravel rent and I found out that. They had been bidding on, on, on having an event hosted there and, and they lost somebody else got the bid and that kind of bugged me. It bugged me, it bugs me that these small towns that are hurting and economically, and they're trying to bring business and they're trying to bring funds to their towns that they're, that there. Trying to get events by paying promoters and paying corporations money or offering to pay money. So that events are being hosted there. And to me, that it just doesn't make sense because if you're doing it for, for, as a business, you're making money. If, if you're hosting an event somewhere, you're gonna make money from registration, you're gonna make money from cells of, of, of, you know, shirts and, and you're making money from. Vendors and, and the bike industry's paying you per and, and, and all this stuff that I, I have, I don't have access to cause I don't have any, you know, I don't have the bike industry behind me and you know, or any of that, but you know, the, the lifetime events and the big corporate events have all of that, you know, you know, all those, you know, shaman and spa and all those companies that are, there are not there for free, you know, let's just be honest, you know, I was born at night, but not last night. So, And then to have these small towns that are struggling financially and have high unemployment paying significant amount of money for, for them to host the event there, to me that that just seemed wrong. And as a result, they, they were outted by another town and they didn't get the event. And I learned about this and I said, all right, we'll do the event there. So I met with the city I met with the mayor. And one of the questions were, well, how much are you gonna charge us to do the event here? I said zero. And I said, if I ever ask you for money to do an event here, kick me in your ass, please. I said, that's not. That goes completely against what I'm trying to do. I said, the reason I'm I'm doing these events is to bring funds to cities that are struggling financially, but also to bring funds to the volunteer fire department, because. Guess who we call when we fall and wipe out and bust our asses out, riding gravel, volunteer, fire departments, guess who's out there. That's, who's out there. You know, when we're out there riding gravel that, and all of us know this it's volunteer fire departments. We're out in the middle of nowhere and it's a volunteer fire department. It out there charge and really taking care of hundreds of, of miles. That they're covering and that's who we rely on. So if we're gonna support a, a department as a gravel community, I mean, I would think that I, you know, logically we're gonna support the volunteer fire departments in those areas that we ride. So it's not that I'm Mr. Nice or anything like that. It's just logical that we're gonna support the very same people that come to help us. And it's the volunteer fire departments in those areas that we ride. So. And I think they, they appreciate that, you know, so to charge them, it doesn't make sense. I don't think it's fair, but they do help. You know, they provide, like we said earlier, they help me with the permitting and they help me with law enforcement and they help me with barricades and things like that. So they, they do help. It's not like they're doing nothing. So it's, it becomes a, a community, a true community involved event. And we, we get that. We throw that word around all the time, community, this community, that, but when you really dig into it, poor community is paying a few hundred thousand dollars. And it's really no longer a community. Now we're talking about a service and a fees and stuff like that. But in, in our case, you know, HaCo provides all this help and volume and stuff like that. The same with Pueblo. That's. [00:37:03] CraigDalton.: think that's, you know, it's, it's in, I think it's refreshing to take that expansive view of community cuz oftentimes the gravel community, those words are thrown around a lot. Generally implying your fellow athletes, the fellow people out there riding with you. But it, it really is in these rural communities. It's the people of the community that are coming out, coming out, whether they're, you know, Manning the registration booth or Manning an aid station, or, you know, opening their doors and giving you a glass of water. If you're stuck out there somewhere like that, that really is the breadth of the community that gravel does touch in these town. [00:37:38] FabianSerralta: Oh, I mean, you better believe it. If they don't help me, I'm not doing it. mean, there's no way I, I would do it. It it's just, you know, I wouldn't do it. And they understand that and, and, and I'm really open about that. It's like, I'm not charging anything, but you gotta help me. You know, when I met with the fire department, it's like, you all gotta help me. There's, you know, I don't have, this is, you know, and I, and I say this, you know, like, My social media, it's one Cuban and an iPhone. You know, I don't have a, a, a, a crew or anything like that. It's, you know what you see on social media? It's Fabian, you know, one Cuban and an iPhone. I don't have employees. I don't have anything. It's just myself. So I, I will take all the help that I can get. And you don't need an entire staff to, to do anything like this, but you do need, you know, help and, and volunteers and, and Pueblo understands that. And HaCo understands that, you know, I'm looking at another state right now and we're looking at a third event and they understand the same thing that, Hey, we need, we want to have event grab a locus type event. We don't have, you know, a few hundred thousand dollars to. Give a promoter to bring the event here, but we do have willing bodies and people that are willing to, you know, help and, and volunteer. And, and that's the model. And, but we also like having 20 something pros and we like having the, that racing component. But yet we also want to have an environment that the Fabians that are gonna come in last know that they can train for this. And it's not gonna be taken away. They're not gonna be turned around and yanked off the course because to me, that's, I can't imagine training for something for a year. And, you know, not being a Ted king or, or, or a Allison Terick or Jess, Sarah, I'm not those folks. You know, I can't imagine training and having my family behind me and all of that support and, and the struggles of having to work other jobs and then being yanked off the course until, Hey, you know, you can't finish you because you didn't make it by 30 minutes or an hour or two hours. I cannot imagine what that feels like. And to me that just, that that's not inclusive, that that's just telling somebody you're not good enough and turn around. I, I, to me, there's no explanation that you can give me that tells me that's rational, reasonable, not even safety. What do you mean safety? There's, there's nothing. If it's a issue then guess what? You know, the amount of money that these events make, then you plant a fricking sag vehicle behind those folks to follow them till the end. What does that cost? I mean, lemme know I'll pay for it. What's the big deal. You know, and that's what we do at gravel locus. Last year, we had a vehicle sag vehicle to follow five folks, cuz it was dark. They didn't have lights. I said, well you freaking follow them. Follow 'em all the way to the end. You're gonna be their light because. Again, why would we yank somebody off the course? Now, if they want to quit, it's on them. If they want to throw in the towel, it's on them. But, and, and then the other thing that we have with our pros and, and, and they're more, and you, we don't even have to ask em and it's like, Hey, you know, make yourself available to the, to the folks, to the regular folks. And I do, there are so many selfies out there with Ted and, and kids and, and Pete. Lawrence. It's just super cool and funny as hell. Allie Terick and Jess, you know, all these young girls and, and folks that got to meet them personally. And they were out there available to all these folks, which, you know, it's, those are memories and things that you just, you know, all their fans get to meet them. [00:41:16] CraigDalton.: A hundred percent. So I guess we, you know, I feel like we've unpacked pretty completely what the gravel Locos, eco ethos is and what the experience is gonna be like on the Pueblo side. What is that terrain like? I've driven through Pueblo, but I've never, I've never put rubber on the its and trails there. What, what do you expect the courses to be like in Pueblo? [00:41:36] FabianSerralta: Oh, my gosh, it's silky smooth, but you know, it's, it's, it's so beautiful. I got to ride 23, 24 miles the other day. So we, we, we rode from the fire station. We did a loop and it was about 24 miles and about 1400 feet of elevation gain. The the main route we call it the, the GL one 50, that's just our, our, our, the, the big route is always gonna be called the gravel locals one 50, but it's really 169 miles. So you get, you get a little extra, but it's, you know, right with GPS says it's over 13,000 miles, but as we know, it's always under, it's always more than. [00:42:14] CraigDalton.: feet of climbing. [00:42:15] FabianSerralta: So I would expect just about 14,000 feet of elevation gain and, you know, it's it's for me coming from Texas, it was a little, a little harder cuz there there's that whole, you know, the altitude, but it is just so smooth and so nice. It's you know, it's hard packed also. It's it's smoother. The gravel there is it. It's just hard to explain. It's just, it's beautiful. [00:42:40] CraigDalton.: So do you imagine this being the type of event that larger groups can stay together and benefit from drafting off one another and things like that? Just given the type of terrain you're on. [00:42:48] FabianSerralta: Yeah. Yeah. It's just, I mean, it, it's hard to explain. I mean, there it's, I was, I was telling them over there, it's like, it's hard and it's definitely challenging, but you're looking at mountains and you're looking at, at all this beautiful terrain, it's really, you know, I was, I was exhausted. Again, I'm not, I'm not anybody who's in the kind of shape and certainly I've, I've gained. I, I was telling them the other day, I was like, you know, there was the COVID 19 pounds. I, I managed to, you know, I went from riding a ton of mileage every year. And when I started gravel Locos, I've gained 50 pounds in, in two years of not riding and running two businesses and gravel Loco. So. I've gotta find a way to get these 50 pounds off. So yeah, going downhill was great over there, but going up was tough, but just a scenery is just so, so interesting. [00:43:37] CraigDalton.: and are the courses punctuated by like a significant climbs? Like in terms of like, oh, you're gonna be climbing for an hour at a time. Like [00:43:44] FabianSerralta: know, gradual they're gradual climbs. There was nothing that like in HCO, you get these punchy climbs over. There's more gradual. So. You know, you can get away with with less big gears in HighCo. I tend to run bigger gears over there. You know, I didn't get in any of my big gears, you know, I, I run a 10 52 in a rear Ram and I, I wasn't using it over there because they're, they're more of the gradual climb. You kind of get into a rhythm and they're kind of, I prefer that to be honest, that you just kind of get into this groove and you get into this rhythm. Whereas high code has these. You know, we have some, some climbs that are 22% 23, and they're pretty punchy. And we have these three climbs that are back to back that we call the three bees. You can decide whatever you want to call those bees, but bitches they're rough. And then and man, those kick up into the 22, you 23, 20 4%. and it's, you know, they're kind of loose rocks and you just kind of gotta lean forward and you gotta get that big granny gear and just work your way up. Whereas in Pueblo, you don't have, I didn't experience anything like that. And, and most of what's out there is these long gradual climbs that you kind of get into a rhythm. So I prefer the, the type of climbing that they have out there in Pueblo, but they're both very, very different, very different type of riding. [00:45:05] CraigDalton.: And would you change your, your tire width from HaCo to Pueblo? Would you do [00:45:10] FabianSerralta: I think that you can. I think that at, at both, you can get away with smaller diameter tires. So I've done HaCo with 35 centimeter tires. I've done HaCo with 47. I think that in Pueblo again, we rode Pueblo last week where it had been snowing. and it was muddy, but even then, you know, I wrote it with 45 centimeters and there was folks out there running it, riding it with 30 eights and they still did just fine, but the, the Pueblo gravel is much smoother than the HaCo. And I, I can see some folks getting away with when it's dry, especially over getting away with, you know, 30 fives, [00:45:50] CraigDalton.: Yeah. [00:45:50] FabianSerralta: somes. I. [00:45:52] CraigDalton.: It's funny. It's so it's so counterintuitive to me to, and S B T gravels the same way I remember getting like my arm twisted to run 30 eights, and I was like, there's, there's no way, like I'm going to Colorado. And at home, I'm all about the 40 sevens here in Marin county, cuz it's so Rocky and but sure enough, like I definit could have ridden that as they call it champagne, gravel in Colorado on 38 with absolutely no issue. So it, it, it's quite fascinating to me and. One of the things I. [00:46:20] FabianSerralta: racers recently that are 40 threes. I haven't put 'em on yet, but they're kind of, you know, they're not slicks, but they're not Nobbies and I can't wait to try something like that. They're 40 threes. And normally in HighCo I run 40 fives or 40 sevens, but I'm looking forward to running those 43 as a whole new tire I've never used for, but I can certainly see a. And in Pueblo getting away with 38, even, even a slick or a semi slick. [00:46:45] CraigDalton.: Yeah. so, so interesting. It's obviously, it's like, it's a never ending debate and discussion about which tires to use. And I remember reading, you know, where the, when we're recording, it's the weekend of Mid-South and you know, there's a lot of people. Twisting their arms and, and twist getting all twisted inside about what tires are gonna run tomorrow or today. Excuse me. On race day at Mid-South. So always fun and appreciate the insight there. So for people looking to find out more information about the events, where can they find information about gravel locus? Why don't you tell us the, the website and the dates of the events this year? [00:47:19] FabianSerralta: So HaCo is May 14th. And Pueblo is October the first you can sign up on our website, which is www dot gravel, locos.bike. Just make sure you click the link for one or the other, or if you wanna do both I've left. He still opened. But we've got a or 1500. I haven't decided where I want to shut it down because HaCo is open to having more Pueblo is still open as well. but just all the information is on there. There's four routes for each. So there's the gravel locals, 30, the 60, the hundred. And the one 50 information about the routes is on both of them. The cause for each of the events is always gonna be a volunteer fire department. Pretty much everything you need to know about it is on the website. You'll find all the different pros that are gonna be there. We've got more pros to add to the website every day you get, you know, we get new pros that wanna come on board. As far as our sponsors there, aren't not many of them, but the, the ones that are on there, you'll find out that these are folks that are very, have been very loyal since the beginning. And if somebody wants to be a sponsor, they're more welcome. Welcome to send us a message or email us, but. We're pretty much self supported and really it's just a community thing. And, and it's really, this whole entire thing has been made possible by, by the towns and, and little businesses within the towns. Very small involvement from the bike industry. It's been a, a community thing to be on. Oh, just kind of how it worked out. [00:48:42] CraigDalton.: Amazing. Thank you so much. Thank you so much for putting so much of your heart out. there and, and making a making events that you wanted to see happen in the world. And I think it's such a sort of beneficial place for the gravel cycling community to have event organizers with that orientation and From this conversation in our earlier conversations. I know how much of yourself, both personally and financially you put on the line to create this event series. So again, for, from, for me, thank you for doing that and exciting to hear that Pueblo is going off this year and exciting to hear that yet another community has come to you and talking about like, how do we have grow Ava three. [00:49:19] FabianSerralta: Yes, we we'll release that soon. I'll let you know. . [00:49:23] CraigDalton.: Awesome. Thanks for your time, Fabian. [00:49:25] FabianSerralta: you. Thank you. So. [00:49:27] Craig Dalton: That's going to do it for this week's edition of the gravel ride podcast. Huge. Thanks to Fabion, not only for joining us on the show, but for everything he's doing around the gravel Locos series, I think he's got his heart in the right place and I've no doubt. These are some of the best gravel events out there to attend. Big. Thanks. Also to our friends at hammerhead for sponsoring the show member, you can get a free custom color kit and premium water bottle with the purchase of the new hammerhead kuru two computer, simply go to hammerhead.io and use the promo code. The gravel ride. If you are interested in supporting the show, ratings and reviews are hugely helpful as is sharing the show with other gravel cyclists. If you're able to support the show financially, simply visit buy me a coffee.com/the gravel ride. Until next time. Here's to finding some dirt onto your wheels  

In today's episode we read Chapter 7 – Pocaid - in which Magpie and Lucas arrive in the quaint little Scottish town of Pocaid, but the welcome isn't as warm as they hoped.Brought to you by: Phaeton Starling Publishing and Things with Wings Productions.The Skylark Bell official website - http://www.theskylarkbell.comThe Skylark Bell on Instagram: @theskylarkbellAuthor/Producer: Melissa Oliveri - http://www.melissaoliveri.comJoin Melissa's Patreon for early access to podcast episodes, music downloads, and more: http://www.patreon.com/melissaoliveriMelissa on Instagram: @the.mop.podMelissa on Twitter: @melissaoliveriAll music by Cannelle - http://www.cannellemusic.comCannelle on Instagram: @cannelle.musicFULL TRANSCRIPT:Things with Wings Productions presents: Episode 7 of The Skylark Bell, Wingspan. I am your host, Melissa Oliveri.  In our previous episode, Magpie had yet another strange, very realistic unexplained experience as she and Lucas were on the ferry taking them from to the island.In today's episode we read Chapter 7 – Pocaid – in which Magpie and Lucas finally arrive in the quaint town of Pocaid on the Isle of Skye, and encounter a strange reaction from the residents at the mention of Carnifex House.Now, it's time to settle in… grab a blanket, and a warm drink… and let's get started.It feels like their driver has been expertly navigating the long, winding, narrow roads forever when suddenly Magpie and Lucas find themselves driving along the coast, the salty smell of the sea drifting into the open car windows.As they come around the bend Magpie lets out a gasp, just ahead is a quaint seaside village, each row house painted a different colour, the gray of the steep cliff rising behind them creating a stark contrast despite being marred by the bright green of the odd tree. A large stone manor stands perched atop the cliff, overlooking the town and the ocean beyond.“Welcome to Pòcaid! Sure is somethin', ain't it?” says the driver, a knowing smile on his face. Clearly this isn't the first time he's seen the reaction of newcomers as they first drive into town. “That up there is Goldcrest Manor and Goldcrest Gardens, been there for centuries…” he says, nodding toward the top of the cliff. “Would you like to stop in town for a moment, get your bearings before I take you up to the house?” he asks“Getting out of the car for a moment sounds great.” Says Lucas, making eye contact with Magpie to confirm she's on board. Magpie promptly nods in agreement.The driver parks along the seaside, across from the rainbow of row houses and steps out.  Magpie and Lucas join him, the wind blowing their hair and carrying the driver's voice as the starts telling them about the town. “Along the main street you'll find the post office, Crake's general store, the gift shop… then there's The Capercaillie Art Gallery, lots of amazing artists ‘round these parts!” he says proudly. “Then if you're hungry there's the Red Kite Café, they have a great seasonal menu. Next to them are some offices – lawyers, accountants and the like – then the Whimbrel Inn, and last, but certainly not least, is the Skye Blue Bakery, it's the oldest bakery on all the island! You won't find better bread and morning buns on the mainland, that I can assure you!” The love of his land can be heard in the driver's voice, which makes Magpie and Lucas even more excited to go check everything out. They thank him and head off.“Where shall we start?!” asks Magpie“How about we go in order from left to right?” suggests Lucas“Works for me!” she says, as they start walking.A sign above the door reads “Mr. Crake's Odds n' Ends” in large bright blue letters with “General Store” printed in white underneath. A small bell signals their arrival as they step through the door. The store looks larger on the inside than they would have guessed. It clearly serves as a grocery store and pharmacy as well as providing basic household needs like towels and cleaning supplies. Then there are the “odds n' ends” mentioned on the sign – everything from horse riding boots to cat toys, tools and office supplies… this is definitely a one-stop shop! “How are you doing this fine day?” says a pleasant voice as a large man with a thick silver beard makes his way around the counter.“Hello! We're great, thank you for asking!” replies Magpie. “Anything I can help you find?” he asks. The man's demeanor and personality are so inviting they instantly make Magpie and Lucas feel comfortable. “I know the store can look a bit messy to newcomers, but I know exactly where everything is! Just last week Joe Dotterel was in here looking for a fairy castle for his daughter's birthday and guess what, I knew exactly where to find one! Poor Joe had to pick his jaw up off the floor, he was so sure he had me with that one!” The man lets out a belly laugh that echoes off the walls of the store, making some of the knick-knacks on the pegs behind him flitter back and forth.“We're actually just looking around for today,” says Lucas. “We're new here, though I'm sure you noticed,” he adds shyly.“Aye, had an inkling maybe you weren't from these parts,” says the man, his smile warm and inviting. “Well, I'm Mr. Crake, got that sign outside the door to remind me in case I forget.” He says, chuckling at his own joke, his huge hands splayed across his protruding midsection.“I'm Magpie, and this is Lucas,” says Magpie, smiling back at him.“Lovely to meet you both, and welcome to Pòcaid, I'm sure you'll find it to your liking. Will you be staying at the Whimbrel Inn?” he inquires.“No, actually, we're moving into Carnifex House,” answers Magpie “It used to belong to some ancestors of mine.”At this, the man's smile vanishes from his face and his brow furrows. “Well, it's been nice meeting you both, I'd better get on with my work,” he says, rather shortly, before heading back behind the counter to reorganize some pegs with varying office supplies.“Okay, nice to meet you…” says Magpie awkwardly as she and Lucas exchange a look of confusion and head back toward the door.“Did you see how he reacted when you mentioned Carnifex House?” asks Lucas as they step back out onto the sidewalk.“Yes, it was very strange. Maybe there's some ancient rivalry between his family and mine or something,” shrugs Magpie. “I don't want to read too much into it, I'm sure it's nothing,” she adds, mostly to convince herself.They walk past the gift shop, peering in the window to see a myriad of trinkets; local woolen goods, tartans, stuffed animals shaped like highland cows and sheep, blankets, jewelry. “Let's come back here to buy some gifts to send back home when we have more time,” says Magpie. Lucas nods in agreement. They amble past the art gallery, which is closed, its limited hours posted on a small tidy sign in the door. The Gallery's oversized display window features a large painting of a white and gray bird with black wings and red eyes. Magpie shivers slightly at the sight of it, beautiful but intimidating. Next door to the gallery is the Red Kite Café, an easel on the sidewalk boasting about the daily specials in perfect cursive handwriting. Cullen SkinkPies n' a pint – (with vegetarian options!) exclamation point, written in parenthesesfresh fish n' chips with mushy peasCarissa's famous cauliflower curryand for dessert:Cranachan with local berries & honey“I don't even know what some of those are!” says Lucas, laughing. Magpie giggles in agreement.“But I'm excited to find out!” she adds.Just then, a waitress walks up to them. “Hullo!” she says pleasantly, “will you be dining with us today?” “Not today, but we are curious, what is Cullen Skink?” asks Magpie.“And Cranachan?!” pipes up Lucas.The waitress laughs wholeheartedly “Ah! Well, Cullen Skink is a bit like chowder, but heartier and smokier… and better!” she adds with a wink, whispering to them from behind her hand,    “and Cranachan is a dessert made with berries, honey, whiskey, oats and whipped cream… it's like eating a sweet little cloud” she ends.“That all sounds wonderful!” exclaims Magpie. “If we had more time, I would take one of each of everything right now, I'm starving! But we need to get to Carnifex House before dark,” she adds.The woman immediately takes a step back, recoiling from Magpie. “Well, we'll see you some other time then,” she stutters with a forced smile before turning and walking swiftly back into the café.“What on earth…?!” says Lucas “Magpie, that's twice now… something is going on.”Magpie grabs his hand as they keep walking. They are almost at the end of the street, having raced past the office building and the inn, with only The Skye Blue Bakery left to check out. As they are approaching the door a hand appears from behind the glass and quickly flips the “open” sign to “closed”. Without skipping a beat, the shades in the windows on either side of the door drop violently. Dismayed, Lucas and Magpie glance at each other before turning back. They can no longer deny there is something about Carnifex House that the people of Pòcaid aren't telling them. Perhaps, the best thing to do at this point is head up there to find out what it is for themselves. Magpie and Lucas cross the street and walk back to the car, the driver leaning on the hood looking out at the beach. “Did you have a nice visit?” he asks.Magpie nods quietly as they get into the car. The driver revs up the engine and the car turns onto the steep, winding road that will take them up the cliff to Carnifex House.Thank you so much for listening.  Join me next week for Wingspan chapter 8, Carnifex House, in which Magpie and Lucas finally reach their destination, and lay eyes on Carnifex House for the first time.Before I go, I'd like to thank Phaeton Starling Publishing for this fantastically eerie story, as well as Cannelle for composing eerie, mood-setting music for this podcast. If you are enjoying this story, please consider leaving a rating or a review, they're both greatly appreciated. You can also support my work through a donation via your podcast provider or by subscribing to my Patreon where you get early access to episodes as well as MP3 downloads of the music, artwork, writing, recipes, and more! Checks the show notes for links.Thank youSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/theskylarkbell/donations

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Paul Casey: Goals are the gasoline that make the vision Speaker 2: Raising the water level of leadership in the Tri-Cities of Eastern Washington. It's the Tri-Cities influencer podcast. Welcome to the TCI podcast. We're local leadership and self-leadership expert Paul Casey interviews, local CEOs, entrepreneurs, and non-profit executives to hear how they lead themselves and their teams. So we can all benefit from their wisdom and experience. Here's your host, Paul Casey of growing forward services, coaching, and it could be individuals and teams to smart breakthrough success. Paul Casey: It's a great day to grow forward. Thanks for joining me for today's episode with Rich Breshears he's the owner of Breshears photography. And I asked rich, what is fun or quirky about him? And there were a lot of things, but it came down to musical instruments. So a ukulele and a tuba. Rich. Tell us about that. Rich Breshears: Oh my gosh. So you won't believe this, Paul, but I actually went to college on his full ride scholarship to play the tuba, the way a full ride scholarship. They didn't tell me that was like me. That meant I had to like play in the marching band, which is something I did not want to do. But I was a yes, I was a tuba student all the way through college. I don't know. I thought I was going to be a, like a professional to bust. So it was just really weird, but I still own a tuba. I still play it occasionally Christmas carols and crazy stuff like that. But then a couple of years ago, we were at an auction and we go to a lot of benefit office and I saw like, I just couldn't help. It was like, it was like, you know, the angels were singing and this thing was blowing on the table. I mean, it was this purple ukulele and I picked it up and I just, I was like, Nope, I outbid everybody on it. And I ended up with this purple ukulele and now I play it for my Paul Casey: That's. Awesome. That's awesome. Well, we will dive in after checking in with our Tri-City influencer sponsor, it's easy to delay answering uncomfortable questions. Like what happens to my assets and my loved ones when I die. So it's no surprise that nearly 50% of Americans don't have a will and even fewer have an estate plan, many disabled clients worry that they don't have enough assets to set up an estate plan, but there are important options available to ensure that you have a voice in your medical and financial decision-making. Even if your health takes a turn for the worst estate planning gives you a voice when your health deteriorates or after you're gone. Maren Miller Bam attorney at law is currently providing free consultations to find out more about estate planning or to book an appointment. Call Maren at (206) 485-4066 or visit Salus that's S A L U S-law.com today. Thank you for your support of leadership development in the Tri-Cities so rich. So our Tri-City influencers can get to know you take us through some of the highlights that have led you to where you are today. Rich Breshears: Oh my gosh. It's a long sorted story, but we began our business officially in, in 2000. So we're at our time. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. We got January 1st of 2000 was the beginning of our, of our journey as professional photographers. And I started out, I literally, well, backstep just a little bit. I was a social worker who specialized in geriatric mental health and was brought here to the Tri-Cities in 1992 to start the very first assisted living at Hawthorne court retirement center in Kennewick. And I had it was that. So I was promised two years here in this town and look at us 2021. And I'm still here. I, I told my wife, she said, Oh my gosh, I can't believe you're taking me there. We lived in beautiful cor d'Alene Idaho. And she said, Oh my gosh, I can't believe it. So we, we came here. Rich Breshears: I promised her two years, baby. After that two years, we're gone, we're going to get we're going to go somewhere. Cool. And the company that I was with said, well, we have places in Anaheim, California, or we have Dora, just lots of places. I really didn't want to live. So we just kept living here. And then of course changed professions in 2000 and opened our, our studio and, and, and, and then just kind of work through. It's very hard to become a professional photographer, as you probably guessed in this day and age of digital cameras and things people, a lot of times they say to me, rich, what else do you do for a living? I said, well, this is it. This is all I do. This is, this is how I feed my family, pay my mortgage, put the kids through college, do all that by the dog food while we don't have a dog anymore, but a, you know, cat food and, and all of that. Rich Breshears: And the, and I, and I, and they say, Oh my gosh, how, how they look at me? Like, I'm just crazy. Like I'm from outer space, right? And no, it's taken a long time. It's you have to build that. You have to build that up. You have to build your name in the community. You have to, you know, you just have to become some more of a local name. You have to, you know, you have to do good for people and, you know, and you know, you're in and, and have that presence in the community. And that's just what happened for us. We just, we just are who we are. Don't force it. Don't try to be something we're not. And, and if you know me very well, you know, one that's who I am is who I am. And we've just got, been really blessed. I have to tell you more than anything else, just really blessed. And over the years, we, we picked up one staff member and then we picked up on another staff member. And now we're, you know, we've got several staff, people that work under us and, and we just have a great time. We, we play, we, we have a great time as, as, as a, as a team. And I'm just lucky to be part of that group. Paul Casey: And why do you love to do you do, I Rich Breshears: Don't know, Paul, I can't tell you Paul Casey: It's a strangest thing. Rich Breshears: I there's just something about, I may be having the worst day of my life. I mean, maybe just like horrible. Like I, I have sinus problems and things like everybody does in the Tri-Cities that's normal, but I'll be, I'll be like, we're sinus headache, or I, you know, I just don't feel good or, you know, just kinda grumpy. I, you know, you know, whatever, you know, and a client will walk in the door and my lights turn my lights on and we're talking and I start taking images. And I swear to you, not even 30 seconds later, a minute later, I am just having the best day of my life. And, and I'll just be just on cloud nine. And I never thought that would ever happen for me, honestly. It's, it's, I just fall into that, into that crease. It's just like, I'm here, I'm in the I'm in that moment. And the client walks out the door and I'm like, wow, I don't have a headache anymore. I don't feel, you know, I, I feel great. I, life is good. And, and, and, and it's been that way now for 20 years. So I I'm, I don't, I can't explain. I just love what I do. I love working with people. I love finding their, their greatest moments and cherishing the most with those with them. And, and it's just, it's a blast. Paul Casey: Yeah. What's the FA shout out to the Russian olive sinus. Speaker 4: I shouldn't know right here, the here this year. Wow. Paul Casey: But what is the favorite part of the job for you? Rich Breshears: Honestly, I had a family member who, a lady who came in yesterday and picked up her portraits and she walked in the door of the lobby and we, we always, we always present your images right in the lobby when you walk in the front door and she walked in and she just started crying and beautiful lady from Yakima. She's, they've been through a lot in their lives together. And, and she walked through the door and she just started crying. She was, I can't believe how beautiful that is. I just am. That's my family. And I'm just so proud of them. And it's just so beautiful. And that's really the moment where it becomes extremely real. And yeah, I guess it's the social worker in me that kind of goes back to, you know, really cherishing those moments as families. Cause they're, they're, they're, they're short, they're very fleeting, you know, just as you know, they're just so quick. Paul Casey: Mm Hmm. So, you know, you're in your strength zone every day, which is pretty awesome. Right. There's probably some weaknesses though that you have, that you got to maybe staff around or Speaker 4: Work on, you know, or so. So Paul Casey: Where do you sabotage yourself that you have to work on? Rich Breshears: Oh man. You know, it's so funny. I'm a huge fan of Steven Pressfield, the art of war and Speaker 4: [inaudible] Rich Breshears: You very much. And you know, when he talks about resistance, you know, when he talks about things like that, and I'm just, I'm Mr. Resistance. I mean, I don't, I own it all right. I, I sabotage myself constantly. Probably the biggest thing for me is, and it's been really hard because especially in my industry, like I said, I really like being in there with the clients I've been doing all that. Like, do you know? And, you know, you can get into the Photoshopping, you can get into all this stuff and you get into the whole artsy, fartsy side of it all, and you can get really deep into that. And, and you can really trip yourself. What I found for me personally, is I have to do as very little as possible and let my staff and let my wife who actually runs the business, believe it or not, I don't run the business. Rich Breshears: Marianne actually runs the business and she's an amazing operations person. And so she actually, she and the staff actually do everything. I'm just the guy with the camera and I'm really more of a figurehead than anything, which is great for me because it allows me to play and do things like that. But boy, you do not want me making business decisions that are raising them substantial or anything, you know, I'm Mr. idea. But then I, after I get past the idea it's over, like, yeah. And even I, I, I launched an idea on the staff on Monday and they looked at me like I was insane. I mean, they literally, like, I could see the eyes roll back in the backs of their heads. And I thought, wow, I really done fast past the Mark today. You know? And then they kind of come back down to earth. I go, Oh, sorry guys. I'll, I'll, I'll step out. Now Paul Casey: You caused enough damage for one day, right? Yes. So who keeps you accountable? Who keeps you energized to keep pursuing those goals? Is it your wife? Rich Breshears: I would say, yes. We, a couple of things. One to the team, we push each other every day and that's just really normal. The other thing is, is, and I, and I can't say enough about this, but I've been a member of some form of mastermind or, or coaching process since 2004, Marianne actually bought me a coach. Cause I was really struggling back in 2004 and she, she hired a coach for me. And in, it helped immensely back then. And ever since then, I've coached with you personally, a couple of times I've been in, on the coaching end for what you do. And I have had some form of coach either in industry or out of industry or both at any given time since then. And Dan, along with the coaching and the masterminding process of, you know, you're getting into a mastermind group, those people really hold your feet to the fire. And that's, that really helps. And for me personally, having a mastermind outside my industry is extremely helpful. Paul Casey: Yeah. So tell me what mastermind has done for you. And I'm probably going to start a couple more up this year because I just love small groups and the power in a small group of, especially when the peer coaching. Right. Was, was that the benefit for you or were there even other benefits? Rich Breshears: Oh yeah, I would say, and it really it's, it is the pure coaching. It's the, you know, the peers, you know, you, you give a presentation at a meeting and, and you know, you say where you're at with things what's going on and, and people, you know, w and one of your buddies that you love and trust, you know, sitting at the table across from me, he says, rich, you said that last month, that's exactly the same. Or I've heard this same phrase out of youth three months in a row. I'm starting to get concerned about you, things like that. And it really makes, makes you step back and go, okay, I'm really causing my own problems here. I'm, you know, I'm in my own way. And, and, or I'm really hitting that, you know, that Steven Pressfield resistance factor, you know, where I'm, I, you know, I'm saying things, I'm saying words that are really starting to become evident as to where I'm really at with things. And, and then, you know, I literally, while I was sitting in the lobby waiting to, to, to catch up with you for this, all of a sudden, I get a text from one of the guys in the group saying, Hey, buddy, what's going on with this? You know, so, and it's, and it's, it's crazy because that, that, that, that real intimate relationship that you build with, with a tight knit group of people is extremely important. Paul Casey: Yeah. So try see the influencers gather some people around you that'll help you stay accountable. That'll help, they'll encourage you on your goals. Because sometimes when you're a solo preneur, or you've got a small team, you feel like you're alone, and you've got to get people wrapped around, you get out and network with other people who can you make good connections, and you never know what that, that great idea is going to come from. And that, that could be the thing. That's the turning point for you? It Rich Breshears: Really is. It really is. Paul Casey: So replenishment of energy keeps a leader or an entrepreneur at the top of their game. Rich, what do you do to manage stress? Rich Breshears: Who would you use I to break out or the tuber, right? Oh, is anybody knows me? Knows that I have a fairly large presence on Facebook. Maybe not always a positive presence, but I have a large presence ranting. Again, there goes another rich rant, but in which you'll see, like, in this last year, I would say the stress levels have been pretty high this last year, probably. But if you noticed it probably was a lot of posts of me out in the, in the wilderness out hiking way beyond the reaches of, of, of society. And I find myself heading out into the woods a lot, but heading out in or out into the desert or out into, you know, I, I, that's probably why Jesus went out there. Cause I mean, at 40 days, baby, I mean, I could've, I could've spent a lot of time out in the desert this last year and been extremely happy was always when I came back in that I was, I was stressed, freaked out. Rich Breshears: And so there's that there's that stepping away. But then the other part of it is honestly, is, is I've really gotten into meditation. You know, you call it prayer, call it meditation. Collibra, you know, whatever you want to, whatever that, you know, whatever word that fits for you, but being able to step back really center yourself and really take that time. And for me finding those triggers, when I'm, I am starting to stress, sorry, I'm starting to freak out just a little bit. Something is starting to really get in, get into me. I was starting to see some of those triggers and trying to find those triggers when I'm starting to go, who rich you're, you know, you're, you're starting to lose it, you know, and, and really stopping and taking a few deep breaths, really getting myself re-centered again, you know, and it's amazing what five minutes of just, you know, taking some deep breaths and stepping away from things that, that really helps me to get my myself back on track. Paul Casey: Yeah. I was just reading about that today. That to manage your energy, oftentimes it is just the deep breathing. It's amazing what it can do to get you back grounded once again. And it kudos for solitude too. You know, we were in this noisy society, even in COVID, we're in a noisy society with lots of stuff coming at us through news and social media, that to go out there in the, in the desert, in the mountains, there's just something that you get perspective there. Sometimes you get really creative ideas too, especially if you're a creative, that's where I get the best breakthroughs. And yeah, you just come back refreshed and ready to go at it again. Exactly. Well, before we head to our next question with rich, a shout out to our sponsor, located in the Parkway, you'll find motivation, new friends and your new coworking space at fuse. Paul Casey: Whether you're a student just starting out or a seasoned professional, come discover all the reasons to love coworking at fuse come co-work at fuse for free on Fridays in February, enjoy free coffee or tea, Wi-Fi printing conference rooms, and more, and bring a friend. If you use this, where individuals and small teams come together in a thoughtfully designed resource, rich environment to get work done and grow their ideas. Comprised of professionals from varying disciplines and backgrounds. Fuse is built for hardworking, fun, loving humans. Learn more about us@fusespc.com or stop by seven to three, the Parkway in Richland, Washington. So rich over the years, you've you brought some people on your team. You said, and who is that ideal person for you that to have on your team? What were you looking for maybe even in this community, or you think about like, who would be a great employee? Rich Breshears: Oh man. Gosh, Paul, I'm so glad you asked that we were literally working on this right now in the studio. It's so funny because we're kind of a little bit of an expansion process and we are hiring some, some various individuals, but you know, what we found is, and we are, I know it was literally having this discussion with one of my staff members say, well, she's probably one of my key people. She is one of my absolute key people. And, and she said it, and I was so great to hear her say it. She said, you know, you can really hire for the, the tasks are one thing. And a lot of people can do these particular tests. But what we're really looking for is the people with the right personality, the right attitude that fits in with the team. And we're pretty picky about who we hire on that level. Rich Breshears: We found that if you don't fit in with a team, you know, we have a real problem. So we're like I said, we're pretty picky. Very first person that interviews you when you come to work for Berkshires photography is my wife, the boss. And she meets with you very first. And she kind of goes over some real basics, the tasks and things like that. And then, then you meet with the rest of the team. All, you actually get a team interview. The, the entire, the entire team has about a half an hour interview with you and you, we just see how, how they fit when with that team. It's not really the questions that we're asking, what we're really looking for is fit and how that's, how they, we, we listen in and we kind of see, and we have, we get reports back from them. Just how did that, how did that gel, how did they, how are they jelling? And then the last person has to deal with me. So, because I'm the crazy one. So we always have one last interview with rich and that's Speaker 4: Kind of, I'm the, at least the crack head, right? Gladiator. Rich Breshears: Oh, they, they meet with me. And if they write pretty much, if they survive me, they, they, they can handle the crazy brochures. The diary that's, that's about as bad as it gets. But what we found is really is people who it EPR, sheers, photography, it's different for every industry, right? Or every business. But for us personally, people who are willing to chip in people who are willing to set their ego aside, ego is a massive issue in, especially in what we do, because people can be really proud about their work. And so they don't take. And even I tend to, I can be that way. I mean, gosh, I'm a creative for gosh sakes. You know what don't tell me my baby's ugly. You know? So, so, you know, it's one of those things where, you know, you have to be able to take input and say, gosh, what you're doing here, isn't working. We need to do something different and, and, and make that, make it, make it better. So people who are able to set the ego aside and take the input, things like that, those are really important. I have to tell you the polar some really, really bad I'm in common sensical things that I don't know, maybe aren't common sensical anymore, but I have to tell you being on time and actually showing up to work when you show up to work. I don't know if that makes sense, but if you Speaker 4: Isn't that sad that we have to say that even six, come on, you know, like, yeah. Rich Breshears: Show up to work and show up to work with you, show up to work, you know, and, and be there and be present when you're there. I can't tell you it it's, it's, it's I find it quite sad today. The people who are even in their forties and fifties, who will show up on their phone and they're literally on their phone and they've got it right in front of them while you're in the interview sometimes, or things like that. And they're just not able to, and it's, it's so sad and they might be extremely talented people, but they're not able to relate in with the rest of the team. So those are really probably the most critical thing. Paul Casey: Yeah. Yeah. Emotional intelligence. You're, you're describing interpersonal skills, presence, informality, you know, the, the ability to laugh at yourself or, yeah. I mean, when I think of photographers, I would like, I definitely want someone who is present and not other directors. Rich Breshears: Oh my gosh. Well, there's some real freaks in my business. No, no, no, no. Don't avoid it. I might be one of them where there's some people out there who is like, Holy smokes. If they ha, if that person had just old ins of, of people skills to go with their, with their incredible artistic skill, it would be amazing. Like they would kill it. They just need that little tiny bit of people skills. Paul Casey: Right. Right. Like you say, you can train the skills, but you can't train attitude. Right. So we've got to work on yourself and your own attitude and that's, what's going to make you most employable. So you've got to think strategically, do you, are you part of that, looking at the big picture of the business, is that, is that mainly your wife? Do you have team meetings together? How do you, how do you look for a long-term impact for your business? Rich Breshears: That's exactly what we do. So Marianne and I, of course, we work together. We play together, we sleep together 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. It's pretty impressive. I know you do this at home. Do not go into this one lightly folks. It's, it's dangerous. And she lets me live, which is really impressive. I, I, she has not fired me or kill me. And so, so the, I have to say, so that's what we do. We, we get together at least once a quarter, we do a massive step away for about five to 10 days every year. At the very beginning of the year, we retreat just the two of us. We get away. There's a huge international conference for photographers that happens somewhere in the world every year in January. And we just coincide our board meeting with that particular week. Rich Breshears: So we step away and we do some really deep dive into what, what is the drive for? What are we doing this year? What's going to happen this year? Where are we headed? And then we come back and we strategize with the team and we start to actually break that out and, and start actually how one gets the team. Buy-in because, cause like I told you, rich comes up with some pretty crazy ideas from time to time. So it to get some team buy in, where are we going to really head with things and, and, and there is a team going to buy into this. And then, and then beyond that, we start to actually, you know, break it down into tasks. And, and then we, we started working on scrims about maybe four years ago and working in scrum. So Paul Casey: Tell everybody what a scrum is. I've read about this. Rich Breshears: Yeah. So working in scrums is, is something that's really high in the technology world. They do this a lot, but we break tasks into, into a two-week period. So what can you get done in two weeks? And so we break it down, break it down, break it down until we can get just a little bite size pieces that people can do. And each one, every Monday morning, we break down our scrums into every Monday we say, okay, this is where we're at in this scrum. This is where we're at in this scrum, this, this project is going on. Where are we at? You know, this brochure, this website, whatever, wherever we're at, working on whatever special tasks we're trying to do for, for development of the company, we break down into those pieces. And then we, we, we just farm that out to each other. Everybody just takes a different task that in their specialty and we just kind of go from there. And, and at the end of two weeks, you look at it and if you got it done, you got it done. If you didn't get it done, it's nobody's fault. Probably other things came up maybe at night, not be important anymore, which happens occasionally because rich has some pretty crazy ideas. And then the third thing is as well, maybe it was just too big of a job. We need to break it down into smaller pieces again. Yeah. Paul Casey: Yeah. And I, I think that's the definition of overwhelmed is not broken down into small enough pieces. So, so that often is, and that doesn't mean you're a failure. That just means your brain couldn't take that in and that big of a chunk. Oh yeah. But I really love how you said you tried to go to a conference every year. You probably get fresh ideas there. And of course I know you've got a lot of awards there too. Congratulations, by the way, along the way that's been pretty cool, but also tying a retreat, a staff retreat to that for strategic planning for the year, a kudos to you for that, I think more, more teams and businesses need to get away more often for that, that change of place. The change of pace leads to a greater perspective. Rich Breshears: Exactly. You're I think you hit it on the head there. It's I think so many times the one thing we need to do is to stop and take a little bit of a step back, a little bit of a break. And then all of a sudden, you free up your mind to, to actually see what you were missing. You're able to go, Oh, that's the piece of the puzzle that we are missing all along. We didn't think about that, you know, but, and it can be just an over the craziest thing. Yeah. I, I, I, I read a book and I'm so sorry. I think it was maybe in one of two tools of the Titans or something like that from Tim Ferris. But about every 45 minutes, you should take a break, no matter task, you're on whatever you're doing, but it's that same concept of, you know, every so often you just need to really step back and just go, Whoa. Okay. Where are we at? What's frustrating me. Ah, wait a minute. Just to get away from it for a while and then come back out. Paul Casey: Yeah. I think that's called the Pomodoro technique where you go for X number of minutes and then you have to take a break and you can just set this little tomato timer in it. It goes off and reminds you to take breaks because most of the people I coach don't take enough breaks. So I'm glad you say slid that in there. Cause that's a, that that is huge to stay fresh and leadership. So with your, with your team and maybe I'll change this question a little bit of with your customers, what do you do to wow. Your customers? So you make even more of a difference or there's some little things that you and your team do to really hit it out of the park. Rich Breshears: Hm. Probably the number one has another great question. But one of the things that we do is we've really carved a specialty when you and I met long time ago. Paul Casey: Oh my God. A leadership group. Yes. Rich Breshears: It was kind of like a sort of a mastermind Paul Casey: Was, was leadership is action. It was called jazzy jigs. Rich Breshears: Well, long time ago, the anyway, one of the things I found was that the best thing to do is to really strike that for a second. What was the question? Why were your customers? Oh my gosh, thank you. Paul Casey: He can, he's going to edit it. Yeah. Rich Breshears: One of the things that we found way back then was that we have to start specialist specializing. We have to actually bear down on one thing that we do and we do it really well because when you and I met Claire back then I was doing everything for everyone. Okay. If you call me and you said, Oh, I've got this, this makeup bottle that needs to be photographed. This is a little product photograph. Can you do that? Yes, I can do that. I, you know, Kenya, can you come photograph this school dance? Yes. I'll come do that. You know, can we, can you photograph my family? Yes, I can do that. A wedding. Yes. I can do that. Oh my gosh. Yeah. I can photograph anything. You know, and I wasn't, I was photographing everything mediocre. I was doing, we as a team, we weren't doing well. Rich Breshears: We were, we were just shot gunning an octopus thing on everything out there and not really doing anything really well. And w the more we bear down on what is it that we do? What is our mission and our vision, and really focusing on that mission and vision and saying, this is the client we want to serve. This is who we serve. And this is what we do really well. And keeping that foremost in every decision we make, the more we've done that. And there's a lot of times I will have, literally, because rich has, like I said, rich has crazy brain. He does all this crazy stuff with thinking all this stuff all the time about, Oh, I could be doing this and I'll have my, one of my production assistants will come in and go rich, where are we doing this? Oh, Oh, wait a minute. Got me. You know, and I'm sometimes the worst member of this, you know? I mean, it's the, owner's going to be sometimes the worst. Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, this is so much fun. I'm going to do this. Right. Rich Breshears: And so, yes, that's, that's probably one of the biggest things that I, I find is just, we have bared down specifically on to working with families. That's our number one thing. That's, that's our mission. That's our vision. That's exactly what we do. And, and bearing down on our mission and vision like that and saying, these are our core values. These are the ways we work and saying, yes, this is what we do. And when somebody calls me and says, Hey, I need this house photographed. I go as much as I would love to. That sounds like the most. Speaker 4: It's amazing ever. I mean, Oh my gosh, I'm doing this for, Rich Breshears: I would go do that. You know? And so that's making, that's Paul Casey: Really good. It's been like a filter then for you, once you identified your ideal client, it became a filter. So you could say no to other things that you're tempted to squirrel too. Right? Rich Breshears: Exactly. Yeah. And right down to, this is how we treat clients. This is what we do. This is, this is the kind of output we, we give our clients so that they're not shorted in the end that we take really good care of each and every one of them. And it's right down to that very last thing, like I said, the most, most important thing is when that family member walks in and sees their image, that mom, she walks in her, that dad walks in and they see those images in the lobby. And you know, and we've done a really good job, you know? And that's the most important thing and everything else, all these other little fun things I want to do. Oh man. I mean, Oh, there's, there's some really cool books outside of town. I could go photograph I'm. It's not what I do. It's not, I mean, yes, that would be so much fun, but it's not what I do. Paul Casey: I think you've, you've coined the term octopus thing. Speaker 4: He made it into. I made a verb. It felt like that my new term, Paul Casey: I love your chuckling when you're listening to this because that's you and that's me. And so, yes. So you have to get clear on your values. You've got to get clear what you do the best. You got to get clear on, where you can add the most value and get the most return on your investment. So that prevents octopus thing. Speaker 4: I love it. I don't know if I can claim that term or not, but I'll tell you what that's you it's you. Right. All right. Rich, Paul Casey: A wrap up. So what advice would you give to new leaders, new entrepreneurs, anyone who wants to keep growing and gaining more influence? Rich Breshears: You know, I have to tell you the number one thing I, I, it just comes to my head is when it comes to being a new entrepreneur and one don't let anybody tell you, you can't do it because there are going to be a lot of people out there who tell you, you can't do it. Yeah. I can tell you, I am one of those people who probably shouldn't be, but can't do it. I mean, like, I mean, I was told so many times how broke I was going to be our poor. I was going to be how quick I was going to go out of business. How awful this was going to be, how nobody's a full-time photographer in this day and age, how impossible it is. And I am walking, talking, breathing here before you today because I didn't believe it. When people told me I couldn't do it. Rich Breshears: Yeah. That's number one. The second thing is, find out what you do well, and do it really well. And third is be good to yourself. Be coming to yourself. You're going to have really crappy days out there. And there's going to be times when you're really feeling beat up. And you're probably the one that's beating yourself up the most. I leave if you're like me and yeah, just give yourself some love because nobody else is going to love you as much as you do. And you're the one who has to put on your socks every morning. And, and that's, that's just the way it's gotta be. So be kind to yourself more than anything else. Paul Casey: Good stuff. Rich self-compassion is huge, especially in the land of COVID right now. So how can our listeners best connect with you? Rich Breshears: Oh my gosh. Facebook, if you're, if you're living dangerous, I'm on Insta as well. I, one of my one rich photo guy on the Insta, there's a on Facebook. It's just a rich for shares. So, you know, go search me if you feel like being that dangerous. I on Twitter, I don't follow that much, but if you do eat me, I will. I, you know, I will see it. I will, I might respond to it. I might not, but that's, that's, that's one reason photo guy as well. I'm on LinkedIn. And, and then you can always just reach me at the, at our studio brochures, professional photography.com. Paul Casey: Awesome. Well, thank you for all the contributions you make to our community. So many nonprofits, your business touches, your generosity is admirable. And thanks for all you do to make the Tri-Cities a great place. Keep leading. Well, let me wrap up our podcast today with a leadership resource to recommend it is called a it's a podcast called business, made simple with Donald Miller. He's the StoryBrand guy changed his podcast name to business, made simple, and it's little, little nuggets of good stuff. If you are running a business, there are some solo episodes where he just pontificates on an area of your business. And then he brings in some great guest experts, and he really gathered some great thought leaders in the industry. So business made simple podcast. If you're looking for some professional growth again, this is Paul Casey. I want to thank my guests. Rich Breshears from Breshears professional photography for being here today on the Tri-Cities influencer podcast. We also want to thank our TCI sponsors and invite you to support them. We appreciate you making this possible so we can collaborate to help inspire leaders in our community. Finally, one more leadership tidbit for the road to make a difference in your circle of influence. Brian costal says, if you nurture your mind, body and spirit, your time will expand. You will gain a new perspective that will allow you to accomplish much more until next time kgs keep growing forward. Speaker 2: Thank you to our listeners for tuning into today's show. Paul Casey is on a mission to add value to leaders by providing practical tools and strategies that reduce stress in their lives and on their teams so that they can enjoy life and leadership and experience their key desired results. If you'd like more help from Paul and your leadership development, connect with him at growingforwardatpaulcasey.org for a consultation that can help you move past your current challenges and create a strategy for growing your life or your teams forward. Paul would also like to help you restore your sanity to your crazy schedule and getting your priorities done every day. By offering you this free control my calendar checklist, go to WW dot, take back my calendar.com for that productivity tool or open a text message two seven two zero zero zero, and type the word growth Paul Casey: Tri-Cities influencer podcast was recorded at fuse SPC by Bill Wagner of safe strategies.

Plenty of topics to make calls about in this week's episode of I'm You! I'm Madonna, Stevie Wonder wanting to move to Ghana, and Mr. Potato Head getting cancelled to name a few!!! Enjoy this episode as we call out all this BS!!

After a peaceful weekend we go into Monday full tilt crazy. My friend Jason came over to talk about his girlfriend. Tony came over to talk divorce and Baby Mama is back with a touch of crazy.

High there, oh ye faithful listeners! WELCOME TO EL PASO'S BEST MF'N PODCAST! R SQUARED. NOW WITH 87% MORE Z! Worry not! This week's episode is late, but better late than never! More rescued audio goodness, as I fix my funky fresh fly DO! Anyway, this is another thought to be lost audio of what is EPISODE 41! Recorded in late September 2020! FLY AND FRESH! So revisit the start of fall with me oh audio voyeurs and voyeurettes. Pre election, pre 2021, pre winter. Lots to talk about. Namely cops, helicopters, and snakes! THE MARK of Z has returned! New pod art just in time for FEBRUARY! New episodes return next month! For now venture through the looking glass, and ask yourself WHAT'S MY NAME?! I AM THE ONE WHO PODS! You're GODDAMN RIGHT! Love it or hate it, here it is. Take notes! SO MUCH but yet never enough!  This one literally came down to the wire! The intro is COB, but additional tunes were intended for this one. Polished and fresh off the edit! Loving the new red thumbnail! As always, I keep it succinct with regards to books, rasslin, TV, movies, books, and of course some stories of yesteryear. I won't spoil much here other than to say, keep the plays and listens going and thank y'allz kindly Spite listens and plays welcome! It's the pod you can't stop listening to! I'm not surprised! It's just so much fun to walk through memory lane with your humble host and narrator! Look at this funky hair! LOOK AT IT! It's so rad! Allow me to send an audio rocket into your ear holes! I may not be a trained broadcast veteran, no erudition and pronunciation lessons, hell ENGLISH is my SECOND language, but here I am, front and center, just like you like it! Let's look in....shall we? Imagine if you will.....as you peer into....THE ROMAN ZONE! You have just entered the ROME ZONE! HAHA All roads lead to ROME! N'Cest Pa? I think this is true. Lots of love to the homies in this episode, so thank you all for listening and keeping it going. I'll be back on SUPER SUNDAY! Hopefully ready to rock your ears off! This is still EL PASO'S BEST PODCART, bar none! THANK YOUSE for the reviews and the plays the downloads the listens the streams! Fuck Soundcloud! I'm MR (ear) PLOW, THAT'S MY NAME, THAT NAME AGAIN is MR (ear) PLOW! You know my name, so gimme my money! But in all honesty, kick back, listen, love it, and enjoy! ROMIEZ in the front, ROMIEZ in the back. Listening north, south, east, west, LOVE YOUSE ALL! AL RATO VATOS Y HYNAS! ORALE! MUCH LOVE to every ear hole in the land!--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/roaming-reignz/message

This one's a little late because we were gonna take the Christmas one off, but we came back for you. This is more of a laid back cool guy episode, but we do touch on the brief history of the KGB and the USSR in relation to their own imperialism forcing the hand of everyone else, Christmas movies, YHWH Incel Penguin, the Nashville bombing, Make-A-Wish for Child Prostitutes, and how predicting how events will unfold seems to ultimately poison people to ever admitting you were right and they'd prefer to live in an insane world than admit you're not insane. Also some Covid/Vaccine stuff, you probably know what the take is but come along for the ride anyway. And yeah the title is a reference to The Maxx, nerd.

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On this week's show Billie and River discuss: Billie's relationship woes, MLK JR. vs. BEYONCE & A lyrical breakdown Joe's "All The Things ( Your Man Won't Do) S.M.H. - Social Media Hijinks (28:14) - Antonio Brown Throws A Bag Of Dicks At Ex- GF - $50 HAIRCUT!? - Selena Gomez & Justin Bieber Begging for Streams Twitter: @nicelyPod IG: Pod2MeNice FB: PodToMeNice Keep sending us your questions by emailing: AskThePointPod@gmail.com Don't forget to rate, review, listen on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify or your favorite podcast app. Hosts: Billie Twitter: @BLKTEDDYRUXPIN  Instagram: theblackteddyruxpin River Twitter: @RiverCarpeDM Instagram: river_carpe_dm Fred Twitter: @FredMacJr_FTL Instagram: fredmacjr --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/podtomenice/support

Episode 55 previews the STACKED UFC 245 Card featuring THREE Title Fights in Las Vegas PLUS detailed breakdowns of the 135lbs matchups and how it impacts Aljamain's future, GDR Training with her Mom, Nunes Time, Cage/Clinch work in the 145lbs Title Fight, Steve Lee Tap Machine and MORE!  Remember Weekly Scrappers.... “It Is What It Is” (00:00:00) - TWS OPENING MONOLOGUE (00:00:58) - UFC Coming to the Sterling Household (00:01:55) - UFC 245 Undercard Breakdown (00:03:00) - “Yoel Romero Strong” (00:04:00) - Main Scraps: Petr Yan (-500) vs Urijah Faber (+350) (00:12:48) - Main Scraps: Marlon Moraes (-200) vs Jose Aldo (+160) (00:24:58) - Main Scraps: Amanda Nunes (-300) vs Germaine de Randamie (+230) (00:28:45) - “It's Nunes' Time” ~ Steve Lee (00:30:35) - Feedback From Friends In Camp...GDR Trains With Mom! (00:31:25) - Main Scraps: Max Holloway (-175) vs Alexander Volkanovski (+145) (00:36:45) - “I Always Go Back to Douglas vs Tyson...” ~ Aljo (00:37:15) - That's Why It's Hard To Bet On Fights! (00:41:18) - Aljamain “The Black Hawaiian” Sterling - “The Best Is Blessed Bruddah” (00:42:40) - Keys To Victory for 145lbs Title Fight (00:43:20) - Cage Work, Elbows, Reach Advantage in Clinch Work (00:44:20) - Main Scraps: Kamaru Usman (-190) vs Colby Covington (+155) (00:46:30) - Reviewing Previous Fights from Usman and Covington (00:47:08) - “Virtually Identical” (00:50:20) - One Of Those Fights You're Just Happy It's Happening (00:50:55) - Main Event: WHO YOU GOT? (00:55:38) - “They Haven't Fought Anyone Like Each Other” (00:57:00) - Steve Lee Taps To The Funkmaster (00:57:58) - “I'm Mr. Feeny, Always On The Fence...”   LIKE - RATE - REVIEW - SUBSCRIBE - SHARE WITH FRIENDS! (or...SPINNING BACK FIST...WIPSHHHH)    Powered by Everlast!   Thanks for tuning in! www.AljamainSterling.com www.Everlast.com www.drinkhydrocanna.com www.Manscaped.com

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此处无法上传视频，关注笨笨口语微信公众号，每日笨一句1019期即可收看详细分解的句子视频点 餐（W: Waiter G: Guest）W: Good evening,madam and sir.Do you have a reservation?晚上好，先生女士，请问你有预订吗？G: Yes,I'm Mr.Johnson.我是Johnson.W: This way, please, Mr.Johnson. Here is your table. Is this all right? 这边请，Johnson.先生。这是你的座位，可以吗？G: Thank you.It's nice,indeed.谢谢，非常好。W: My pleasure.Here's the menu.(After a while)Are you ready to order now，madam and sir?不客气，这是菜单。（一会儿后）你们准备点菜了吗，先生女士？G:No,we are still looking at the menu.You see,this is our first trip to China.Will you recommend us some Chinese dishes? 还没，我们还在看菜单呢。你看，这是我们第一次来中国，你可以给我们推荐一些中国菜吗？W: How much would you spend?你大概消费多少钱呢？G: I don't care about money.I'd like to have some good dishes of Chinese characteristics. 钱不是问题，我想要一些好的有中国特色的菜。W: Yes,sir.Let me introduce you to some specials.好的，先生。让我向您介绍一些特色菜。

此处无法上传视频，关注笨笨口语微信公众号，每日笨一句1019期即可收看详细分解的句子视频点 餐（W: Waiter G: Guest）W: Good evening,madam and sir.Do you have a reservation? 晚上好，先生女士，请问你有预订吗？ G: Yes,I'm Mr.Johnson.我是Johnson. W: This way, please, Mr.Johnson. Here is your table. Is this all right? 这边请，Johnson.先生。这是你的座位，可以吗？ G: Thank you.It's nice,indeed.谢谢，非常好。 W: My pleasure.Here's the menu.(After a while)Are you ready to order now，madam and sir?不客气，这是菜单。（一会儿后）你们准备点菜了吗，先生女士？G:No,we are still looking at the menu.You see,this is our first trip to China.Will you recommend us some Chinese dishes? 还没，我们还在看菜单呢。你看，这是我们第一次来中国，你可以给我们推荐一些中国菜吗？ W: How much would you spend?你大概消费多少钱呢？ G: I don't care about money.I'd like to have some good dishes of Chinese characteristics. 钱不是问题，我想要一些好的有中国特色的菜。W: Yes,sir.Let me introduce you to some specials.好的，先生。让我向您介绍一些特色菜。

配乐：《Deep East Music - Pixie Dusting》笨笨口语四步法Ben's Four Steps第一步：音节分解第二步：逐个单词第三步：连读分解第四步：一气呵成Are you ready to order now？你们准备点菜了吗？NO.1音节分解（多音节词详细分解，方便读音与记忆）双音节词rea-dy：/ˈre-di/adj. (形容词）准备好的双音节词or-der：/ˈɔ:də/ →/ˈɔ:(r)-də(r)/（红色音标部分为实际美语发音）（有r字母就卷舌）v. (动词）点，叫（饭菜等）NO.2逐个单词（标准美音慢速朗读，讲解拼读、音标、词法、语法）Are you你ready准备好的to order点餐now现在拼读与音标拼读or元音字母组合/ɔ:(r)/ 例词：order（or-der） 点餐orphan（or-phan）孤儿pork（单音节）猪肉scorch（单音节）烧焦词法与语法无NO.3连读分解（连读略读，全面分解，真正说出一口流利美式英语）连读to order→to orderto (/w/)order略读无NO.4一气呵成（慢速朗读，反复收听，大声模仿，脱口而出)Are you ready / to order now？你们准备点菜了吗？英英解释单词学英语思维（既然是英英解释，不再提供中文翻译）order：点，叫（饭菜等）；订购When you order somethingthat you are going to pay for,you ask for it to be brought to you,sent to you, or obtained for you.点餐（W: Waiter G: Guest）W: Good evening,madam and sir.Do you have a reservation?晚上好，先生女士，请问你有预订吗？G: Yes,I'm Mr.Johnson.我是Johnson.W: This way, please, Mr.Johnson. Here is your table. Is this all right? 这边请，Johnson.先生。这是你的座位，可以吗？G: Thank you.It's nice,indeed.谢谢，非常好。W: My pleasure.Here's the menu.(After a while)Are you ready to order now，madam and sir?不客气，这是菜单。（一会儿后）你们准备点菜了吗，先生女士？G:No,we are still looking at the menu.You see,this is our first trip to China.Will you recommend us some Chinese dishes? 还没，我们还在看菜单呢。你看，这是我们第一次来中国，你可以给我们推荐一些中国菜吗？W: How much would you spend?你大概消费多少钱呢？G: I don't care about money.I'd like to have some good dishes of Chinese characteristics. 钱不是问题，我想要一些好的有中国特色的菜。W: Yes,sir.Let me introduce you to some specials.好的，先生。让我向您介绍一些特色菜。

配乐：《Deep East Music - Pixie Dusting》笨笨口语四步法Ben's Four Steps第一步：音节分解第二步：逐个单词第三步：连读分解第四步：一气呵成Are you ready to order now？你们准备点菜了吗？NO.1音节分解（多音节词详细分解，方便读音与记忆）双音节词rea-dy：/ˈre-di/adj. (形容词）准备好的双音节词or-der：/ˈɔ:də/ →/ˈɔ:(r)-də(r)/（红色音标部分为实际美语发音）（有r字母就卷舌）v. (动词）点，叫（饭菜等）NO.2逐个单词（标准美音慢速朗读，讲解拼读、音标、词法、语法）Are you你ready准备好的to order点餐now现在拼读与音标拼读or元音字母组合/ɔ:(r)/ 例词：order（or-der） 点餐orphan（or-phan）孤儿pork（单音节）猪肉scorch（单音节）烧焦词法与语法无NO.3连读分解（连读略读，全面分解，真正说出一口流利美式英语）连读to order→to orderto (/w/)order略读无NO.4一气呵成（慢速朗读，反复收听，大声模仿，脱口而出)Are you ready / to order now？你们准备点菜了吗？英英解释单词学英语思维（既然是英英解释，不再提供中文翻译）order：点，叫（饭菜等）；订购When you order somethingthat you are going to pay for,you ask for it to be brought to you,sent to you, or obtained for you.点餐（W: Waiter G: Guest）W: Good evening,madam and sir.Do you have a reservation?晚上好，先生女士，请问你有预订吗？G: Yes,I'm Mr.Johnson.我是Johnson.W: This way, please, Mr.Johnson. Here is your table. Is this all right? 这边请，Johnson.先生。这是你的座位，可以吗？G: Thank you.It's nice,indeed.谢谢，非常好。W: My pleasure.Here's the menu.(After a while)Are you ready to order now，madam and sir?不客气，这是菜单。（一会儿后）你们准备点菜了吗，先生女士？G:No,we are still looking at the menu.You see,this is our first trip to China.Will you recommend us some Chinese dishes? 还没，我们还在看菜单呢。你看，这是我们第一次来中国，你可以给我们推荐一些中国菜吗？W: How much would you spend?你大概消费多少钱呢？G: I don't care about money.I'd like to have some good dishes of Chinese characteristics. 钱不是问题，我想要一些好的有中国特色的菜。W: Yes,sir.Let me introduce you to some specials.好的，先生。让我向您介绍一些特色菜。

配乐：《Deep East Music - Pixie Dusting》欢迎点赞，赞赏，转发，评论！【愚人节，吃我一招】愚人节，愚你同乐！参与游戏！最高赢取88元红包大奖！长按上面图片进入笨笨口语公众号菜单输入关键字：愚人节3点 餐（W: Waiter G: Guest） W: Good evening,madam and sir.Do you have a reservation? 晚上好，先生女士，请问你有预订吗？ G: Yes,I'm Mr.Johnson.我是Johnson. W: This way, please, Mr.Johnson. Here is your table. Is this all right? 这边请，Johnson.先生。这是你的座位，可以吗？ G: Thank you.It's nice,indeed.谢谢，非常好。 W: My pleasure.Here's the menu.(After a while)Are you ready to order now，madam and sir?不客气，这是菜单。（一会儿后）你们准备点菜了吗，先生女士？G:No,we are still looking at the menu.You see,this is our first trip to China.Will you recommend us some Chinese dishes?  还没，我们还在看菜单呢。你看，这是我们第一次来中国，你可以给我们推荐一些中国菜吗？ W: How much would you spend?你大概消费多少钱呢？  G: I don't care about money.I'd like to have some good dishes of Chinese characteristics. 钱不是问题，我想要一些好的有中国特色的菜。W: Yes,sir.Let me introduce you to some specials.好的，先生。让我向您介绍一些特色菜。Are you ready to order now？你们准备点菜了吗？免费教材领取：《纯正美语拿起就会》PDF教材及MP3录音全集（共194M）领取方式：进入“笨笨口语”公众号输入关键字“口语高手”即可获取下载链接本书着眼于老外日常使用频率*高的口语句和原汁原味的本土会话再现，层层解析中，将汉语与英语的逻辑思维不断切换，不断转换，通过有效的句型、会话练习，让英语脱口而出真正地成为一种自然状态。本书语言简练，纯正地道，取材广泛，句型经典，会话生动，讲解翔实，并融合了英语语言的实用性、多样性、灵活性，涵盖了生活与职场的诸多方面，学以致用，让读者跟老外聊天也能口若悬河！你的一个赞赏，可以让我高兴很久很久...欢迎点赞，赞赏，转发，评论！长按图片识别小程序赶紧试试！

配乐：《Deep East Music - Pixie Dusting》欢迎点赞，转发，评论！3点 餐（W: Waiter G: Guest） W: Good evening,madam and sir.Do you have a reservation? 晚上好，先生女士，请问你有预订吗？ G: Yes,I'm Mr.Johnson.我是Johnson. W: This way, please, Mr.Johnson. Here is your table. Is this all right? 这边请，Johnson.先生。这是你的座位，可以吗？ G: Thank you.It's nice,indeed.谢谢，非常好。 W: My pleasure.Here's the menu.(After a while)Are you ready to order now，madam and sir?不客气，这是菜单。（一会儿后）你们准备点菜了吗，先生女士？G:No,we are still looking at the menu.You see,this is our first trip to China.Will you recommend us some Chinese dishes?  还没，我们还在看菜单呢。你看，这是我们第一次来中国，你可以给我们推荐一些中国菜吗？ W: How much would you spend?你大概消费多少钱呢？  G: I don't care about money.I'd like to have some good dishes of Chinese characteristics. 钱不是问题，我想要一些好的有中国特色的菜。W: Yes,sir.Let me introduce you to some specials.好的，先生。让我向您介绍一些特色菜。Are you ready to order now？你们准备点菜了吗？

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8 AM - 1 - National Review's Kevin Williamson talks about his op-ed: "Yale's Idiot Children". 2 - More with National Review's Kevin Williamson talking about his new book: "The Case Against Trump". 3 - The News with Marshall Phillips. 4 - Mister Thrump, Carly, and green rooms.